Biography of H. M. Howser - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 77

H. M. Howser, of the mercantile firm of H. M. Howser & Co., general
merchants at Cleveland, is a native of this county, having been born
here on March 19, 1862. His parents, John T. and Sarah L. (Phyfer)
Howser, were natives of North Carolina. Besides the subject of this
sketch, they are the parents of seven other children, all living in
this State but one, who resides in Oklahoma. Mr. Howser, Sr., is a
planter by occupation. Came to Arkansas from Mississippi in 1860, and
settled at Lewisburg. He has always been active an enterprising man;
has held the office of Constable, and both he and wife are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Our subject was educated at
Quitman, Ark., and at the age of 20 years began life for himself by
teaching school, and followed that occupation for two years. He then
began clerking, which he followed till 1885, when he engaged in
business for himself, with a capital of $1500; the firm now have a
capital of over $7000, and do a most encouraging annual trade, which
is rapidly increasing in volume. He was married November 23, 1882, to
Miss Zora Nichols, a native of Mississippi. To this union have been
born four children: Gertrude, Luther and two who died in infancy. Mr.
Howser is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Royal Arch Mason,
Cleveland Lodge, No. 473, of which Lodge he is the Secretary. Mrs.
Howser is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr.
Howser, though a young man, is proving by his shrewdness and
enterprise, his title to be classed among the leading merchants of the
county.