HOWE
HOWE
one appeal at the close of the Franco-Prussian
war in 1870. She was president of the Woman's
branch of the New Orleans exposition, 1884-85,
and was elected vice-president of the American
Authors' guild in 1898. She preached in Eonie,
Italy, Santo Domingo and from Unitarian pulpits
in the United States, and lectured before the
Concord School of Pliilosophy. Of Mrs. Howe's
family, the well-known Sam Ward of New York
and Washington society was her brother; the
elder of her sisters was the wife of the sculptor,
Thomas Crawford, and the mother of Francis
Marion Crawford, the novelist; her youngest
sister married, in 1846, Adolph Mailliard, whose
father was administrator of the American estate
of Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain; her
daughter Julia Romana was a distinguished
•educator; Iier daughter Laura E. Richards be-
came a well-known autlior; her daughter Maud,
also an author, was married to John Elliott, the
artist; her daughter Florence became a writer
on social topics, and her son Henry Marion
acquired a wide reputation as a writer on iron and
steel manufacture. Her poetical works include:
Passion Floicers (1854); Words of the Hour
(1856); Later Lyrics (1866); Froiti Sunset Ridge
(1898). Her plays include: The World's Own,
acted at Wallack's theatre, 1855, and Hippolytus, a
tragedy never produced, written for Edwin Booth
in 1858. Her prose works include: A Trip to
Cuba (1860); From the Oak to the Olive (1868);
3Iodern Society (1881); Life of Margaret Fuller
(1883), and a volume of essays entitled: 7s Polite
.Society Polite? (1898); and she edited: Sex and
Education, a reply to Dr. Edward H. Clarke's
" Sex in Education" (1874). She was associate
editor of the Woman's Journal and contributed
to the various reviews and magazines.
HOWE, Mark Antony De Wolfe, first bishop of Central Pennsylvania and 99th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Bristol, R.I., April 5, 1808; only child of John and Louisa (Smith) Howe; grandson of Capt. Perley and Abigail D'Wolf Howe and of Stephen and Ruth (Bosworth) Smith; great-grandson of the Rev. Perley Howe; of Mark Antony and Abigail (Potter) D'Wolf, and of Samuel and Eliza (Drown) Smith; and a descendant of James Howe, who came in 1637 to Roxbury, and in 1638 settled in Ipswich, Mass., and of Richard Smith, who settled in Bristol, R.I., in 1680 and was clerk of the town. Bishop Howe's grandfather, Capt. Perley Howe, an ardent patriot in the American Revolution, was impoverished by investing in Continental money and spent his last days as a ■teacher in Hartford and Weathersfield, Conn. His father, John Howe, was born at Killingly, Conn., July 5, 1783, was graduated at Brown in 1805; admitted to the bar in 1808, practised law
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in Bristol, Conn., 1808-41; was a state represent-
ative for several years; collector of customs,
1841-45; farmer, 1845-53; died at the home of
his son. Bishop Howe, in Philadelphia, Pa., March
14, 1864. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was a
pupil of the village
school; attended the
villageacademy which
was taught by two di-
vinity students of
Bishop Griswold, one
of them the Rev.
Stephen H. Tyng;
and received his final
preparation for col-
lege at Phillips acade-
my, Andover, Mass.,
and under private tui-
tion at South Kings-
ton and Taunton. He
entered Middlebury
college in 1824 and
in 1826 changed to Brown, where he was gradu-
ated, A.B., 1828; A.M., 1831. He was usher
in the Adams school, Boston, 1828, and head
master of the Hawes school, South Boston, 1829-
30. He was confirmed in St. Matthew's church,
South Boston, by Bishop Griswold in 1830; was
a student of theology under the Rev. Mr. Bristed
in Bristol, 1830-31, and tutor in Brown univer-
sity, 1831-33. He was ordained deacon in January,
1833, and priest in February, 1833, by Bishop
Griswold. He was assistant and rector of St.
Matthew's church. South Boston, Mass., 1832-33;
rector of St. James's parish, Roxbury, 1833-34;
of Christ church, Cambridge, 1834-35; and of St.
James's church, Roxbury, 1836-46. He served
as associate editor of the Christian Witness,
Boston, 1834-45; declined a call to St. Paul's
church, Louisville, Ky., 1845; and was rector of
St. Luke's church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1846-71.
He was a candidate for election for bishop coad-
jutor to Bishop Potter of Pennsylvania in 1863
and a deadlock in the contest between him and
Dr. Stevens was decided by lot in favor of the
latter. In 1865 he was elected missionary bishop
of Nevada, which diocese included Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona, but declined the office. In
November, 1871, he was elected bishop of the
newly erected diocese of Central Pennsylvania
and was consecrated in St. Luke's church. Phil-
adelphia, Dec. 28, 1871, by his uncle. Bishop
Smith, of Kentucky, assisted by Bishops McIIvaine,
Lee, Potter, Clark, Bedell, Kerfoot and Morris.
In 1884 he was given a coadjutor in the person of
Bishop Rulison. He was a deputy to the general
convention, 1850-71; secretary of the house of
clerical and lay deputies, 1850-53; trustee of
Brown university, 1873-90; a fellow of Brown
