founder and for some time president of the Metaphysical club in Boston, and published a sketch of the Concord school of philosophy, also “Stray Chords” (Boston, 1884), a volume of poems. In December, 1870, she married Michael Anagnos, who succeeded her father as superintendent of the Perkins institution. — Their son, Henry Marion, mining engineer, b. in Boston, Mass., 2 March, 1848, was graduated at Harvard in 1869, and at the Massachusetts institute of technology in 1871. His attention was then turned to mining engineering and metallurgy, and he has had charge of various works in the United States and Canada. Mr. Howe is an active member of the American institute of mining engineers, was its vice-president in 1879-'81, and has been a manager since 1886. His publications, consisting of professional papers, have been contributed to the transactions of the mining engineers, and treat principally of the metallurgy of iron, steel, copper, and nickel. He has also written valuable treatises for the “Bulletins of the U. S. Geological Survey,” such as “Copper Smelting” (Washington, 1885), and “Metallurgy of Steel” (1887). — Another daughter, Maud, author, b. in Boston, Mass., 9 Nov., 1855, married in February, 1887, John Elliott, an English artist. She has published “San Rasario Ranch” (Boston, 1884); “A Newport Aquarelle” (1885); and “Atalanta in the South” (1886).
HOWE, Timothy Otis, senator, b. in Livermore. Me., 24 Feb., 1816 ; d. in Kenosha, Wis., 25 March, 1883. He received a common-school education, working on a farm during his vacations. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Readfield. He was an ardent Whig and
admirer of Henry Clay, and in 1840 was in the legislature, where he was active in debate. Impaired health occasioned his removal to Wisconsin in the latter part of this year, and opening a law-office in Green Bay, then a small village, he continued his residence there throughout his life. He was an unsuccessful candidate for congress in
1848, and two years afterward was elected circuit
judge. The circuit judges were also judges of the
supreme court, and during part of his term he
served as chief justice of the state. Resigning his
judgeship in 1855, he resumed his profession, and
was an efficient Republican speaker in the canvass
of 1856. In the trial that was held to ascertain
whether William Boynton or Coles Bashford was
lawful governor of Wisconsin, Mr. Howe appeared
as Bashford's counsel and gained his case, and his
success largely increased his reputation. In 1861
he was elected U. S. senator as a Republican, serv-
ing till 1879. During his long career he served on
the committees of finance, commerce, pensions, and
claims, was one of the earliest advocates of univer-
sal emancipation, and in a speech in the senate on
29 May, 1861, advocated in strong terms the negro-
suffrage bill for the District of Columbia. He also
urged the right of the National government to es-
tablish territorial governments over the seceded
states. He made able speeches in 1865-'6 against
the policy of Andrew Johnson, and voted in favor
of his impeachment. He supported the silver bill
in 1878, denounced President Hayes's policy re-
garding civil-service reform in the southern states,
and opposed the anti-Chinese bill. On the death
of Salmon P. Chase, President Grant offered Judge
Howe a judgeship in the supreme court, which he
declined. He had left the senate when the third-
term question came up, but favored the election
of Grant, and in 1880 spoke strongly in its sup-
port. In 1881 he was a U. S. delegate to the In-
ternational monetary conference in Paris. In De-
cember, 1881, he was appointed postmaster-general
by President Arthur, and, although his term of
service was little more than a year, a reduction of
postage was effected, postal-notes were issued, and
reform measures urged with great force.
HOWELL, Arthur, a preacher of the Society
of Friends, b. in Philadelphia, 20 Aug., 1748 ; d.
there, 26 Jan., 1816. In 1779 he was acknowledged
as a minister by the monthly meeting of the Phila-
delphia Friends, and is described as " remarkable
for spiritual mindedness, and the gift of prophecy."
When in, the preaching-gallery he always sat with
his hat drawn over his face, and the upper part of
his outside coat elevated to meet it, isolated from
all earthly things. Many anecdotes are related of
his strict integrity in business. On one occasion
he purchased a cargo of oil on a rising market, and,
after selling it at a higher rate than he anticipated,
he paid the person from whom he had bought it
an additional dollar on each barrel. During the
fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia he rendered
valuable assistance in nursing the sick and bury-
ing the dead. Although credited with supernatural
powers of divination, he was simple and prudent.
HOWELL, David, jurist, b. in New Jersey, 1
Jan., 1747; d. in Providence, R. I., 29 July, 1S26.
He was graduated at Princeton in 1766, and, re-
moving to Rhode Island, was appointed professor
of mathematics and natural philosophy in Brown
in 1769, also holding the chair of law from 1790
till 1824. In the interval he filled the several of-
fices of member of the Continental congress in
1782-'5, attorney-general in 1789, judge of the su-
preme court, commissioner for settling the bounda-
ries of the United States, and district attorney, and
from 1812 until his death was a district judge of
Rhode Island. Brown gave him the degree of
LL. D. in 1793. Judge Howell was distinguished
for wit, learning, and eloquence, and was a forcible
political speaker. — His son, Jeremiah Brown,
senator, b. in Providence, R. I., in 1772 ; d. there
in November, 1822, was graduated at Brown in
1789, studied law, and was admitted to practice.
In 1810 he was elected to the U. S. senate as a
Federalist, and served from 1811 till 1817. Dart-
mouth gave him the degree of A. M. in 1791.
HOWELL, George Rogers, b. in Southamp-
ton, N. Y., 15 . June, 1833. He was graduated at
Yale in 1854, and, after spending several years in
teaching and in studying, he entered the Prince-
ton theological seminary, and was graduated in
1864. When engaged in ministerial work in
western New York, he was invited to deliver the
address at the celebration of the 225th anniversary
of his native place in 1865. At the close of this
celebration he was requested by many of his towns-
people to prepare a history of this town. He pub-
lished "The Early History of Southampton, L.
I., with Genealogies" (New York, 1866; 2d ed„
Albany, 1887). In 1872 he was invited to take an
office in the New York state library, to become
familiar with its wants and its mode of adminis-
tration, preparatory to becoming librarian when
that post should become vacant. He has pub-
lished historical and scientific pamphlets, and has
written much for the newspapers. He published
several papers in the " Transactions of the Albany
Institute," including "Linguistic Discussions."
" The Open Polar Sea," and " Heraldry in America."
HOWELL, James B., senator, b. near Morristown, N. J., 4 July, 1816; d. in Keokuk, Iowa, 17 June, 1880. His father, Elias, removed with his family to Ohio in 1819, and, settling in Licking county, was state senator, and in 1830 a member of congress. James was graduated at Miami uni-
