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 HOWLAND

HOWRY

Pl\-mouth colony iu 1637. He was buried Feb. 25, 1673. His second son, Jabez, removed to Bristol, and the youngest son of Jabez, born in Bristol, was the father of Joseph who died in 177-4, and grandfather of John Howland, the historian. John was apprenticed to a iiairdresser in Provi- dence in 1770, and in that position made the acquaintance of the leading citizens of the place and discussed with them the current topics of the day. When the minute-men of Rhode Island wei'e organized he enrolled as a member, and performed his first duty at Newport in September, 1775. He then served for one year in the regiment raised by the general assembly. He fought by the side of Washington at Trenton Bridge and at Princeton; was a member of the expedition un- der General Spencer in 1777, and in 1778 served under General Sullivan in his effort to dislodge the British from Newport. He was married, Jan. 28, 1788, to Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Carlisle, and great-granddaiighter of James, brother of Benjamin Franklin. He was town auditor, 1803-18, and town treasurer, 1818-32. He was a member of the Rhode Island Historical society from soon after its organiza- tion, and its president, 1833-54. He was made an honorary member of the Royal Society of North- ern Antiquarians of Denmark in 1835. He was an active organizer of the Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers, Feb. 27, 1789, and was for eighteen years its secretary and for six its president. He was also active in the founda- tion of the public school system of Rhode Island; was a member of the school committee for twenty years, and an early member of the Rliode Island Peace society. Brown university conferred on him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1835. Edwin M. Stone wn-ote his Life and Recollections (1857), See also Discourse on the Life and Times of John Howland, delivered before the Rhode Island His- torical society by Edward B. Hall, D.D., Feb. 6, 1855. He died at Providence, R.I., Nov. 5, 1854.

HOWLAND, Robert South worth, clergyman, was born iu New York city, Nov. 9, 1820; son of Gardiner G. Howland. He was graduated at St. Paul's college in 1840 and at the General Theo- logical seminary in 1845, having meantime spent one year in assisting Bishop Kerf oot in organizing St. James's college, Maryland, and a year and a half in travel in the east. He was ordained a deacon in 1845 by Bishop Brownell, and priest in 1846 by Bishop Ives. He was assistant at St. Luke's church. New York city, 1846; rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, 1847-68, which originated in a Sunday-school, and of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, 1868-85. which latter par- ish Jie organized, contributing largely from his private fortune to the churcli building on Fifth avenue. He received the degree of D.D. from

Columbia in 1863. His wife, Mary Woolsey, is the author of the poem Requiescam, also known as Li the Hospital, the authorship of which was for a long time unknown. Dr. Howland died in Morristown, N.J., Feb. 1, 1887.

HOWLEY, Richard, governor of Georgia, was born in Liberty county, Ga., probably in or near Savannah, about 1740. He was a lawyer of stand- ing and a representative from his county in the legislature of the colony. On Jan. 4, 1780, he was inaugurated governor of Geoi-gia and was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1780-81. While holding the governorship he had to remove the seat of government outside the colony, which was in possession of the British, and with his council, secretary of state, state treasurer and several militia and Continental officers he held a council near Augusta and fled to North Carolina with the archives of the state and a large quan- tity of paper money. Tiiis currency had so de- preciated that his expenses to Philadelphia as a delegate cost the state lialf a million of dollars. While in congress, fear that that body would de- liver the territory of Georgia over to tbe British rather than defend it, led Governor Howley to write a remonstrance signed by the Georgia dele- gates, which was published in Philadelpliia in 1781. He died in Savannah, Ga., December, 1784.

HOWRY, Charles Bowen, jurist, was born at Oxford, Miss., May 14, 1844; son of Judge James M. and Narcissa( Bowen) Howrj^; grandson of the Rev. Daniel Howry and of Charles Bowen, and a descendant of Virginia and South Carolina fami- lies of Revolutionary stock. His first ancestors in America came to Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and the Bowens bore a conspicuous part in the battle of King's Mountain. He en- tered the University of Mississippi, leaving his studies at the outbreak of the civil war to enlist as a private in the 29th Mississippi infantry of the Confederate army. He was promoted 1st lieu- tenant before the close of the war. He served in the battles of Cliickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Frank- lin, and was severely wounded at the last-named. He was graduated from the law department of the Universit}^ of Mississippi in 1867 with the de- gree of LL.B. and began the practice of law. He declined the appointment of state attorney of Mississippi, offered him by Governor Alcorn in 1870; was a representative in the Mississippi state legislature in 1880-84; was U.S. district attorney, 1885-89; a member of the Democratic national committee, 1891-96; assistant attorney- general of the United States, 1893-96, and asso- ciate justice of the U.S. court of claims from 1896. He was elected a member of the American Bar association and of the Mississippi Historical