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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

C. H. C. HOWARD.
    C. H. C. Howard, engaged in the insurance business at Beebe, is a
representative of ancestral lines that can be traced back in New England to the
year 1640. It was in that year that Thomas Howard landed in this country and
established his home at Norwich. Connecticut. The line comes on down through
Benjamin and Thomas to William Howard, the great-great-grandfather, who was a
native of Massachusetts and was killed at the battle of White Plains, while
serving in the Revolutionary war. His son, Abel Howard, was a native of
Sturbridge. Massachusetts, and was the father of Dr. Abel Howard (II), who was
born in Hartford, Vermont, and who wedded Mary E. Hunt, a native of Connecticut,
and they became the parents of eight children: Abel T., Mary E., George A.,
Julia A., George, Austin, Sophia and Elizabeth. The last two named are still
living. The first of this family, Abel T. Howard, was the father of C. H. C.
Howard. He married Anna H. Cutts and both were natives of Vermont, the former
born in West Hartford and the latter in North Hartland. In the maternal line the
ancestry can also be traced back to a remote period. The grandfather, Hampden
Cutts, was a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was a graduate of Harvard
University. He exerted a widely felt influence over the history of his state,
serving as probate judge for many years and also as representative in the state
legislature. He was descended from Robert Cutts, a native of England, who on
crossing the Atlantic in 1B40 settled at Kittery, Maine. The line comes on down
to Richard (I) and Richard (II), who was a major in the War of Lewisburg in
1745. He was the father of Samuel Cutts, who in turn was the father of Edward
Cutts, a native of Kittery, Maine. The last named was the father of Hampden
Cutts. who wedded Mary P. S. Jarvis, who was also of notable New England
parentage, her father, William Jarvis, serving for eight years as American
consul at Lisbon, Portugal.

    It will thus be seen that C. H. C. Howard is descended from distinguished
ancestry in both the paternal and maternal lines. His parents were teachers of
liberal education and broad culture. The father was graduated from Dartmouth
College, while the mother was a graduate of the Tilden Ladies' Seminary at
Lebanon, New Hampshire. At their marriage they began teaching, becoming teachers
in high schools and later in the Glenwood Collegiate Institute at Matawan, New
Jersey, where they remained until 1872. They afterward removed to Brooklyn, New
York, and Mr. Howard taught in private schools for some time. He devoted the
last ten years of his life to envelope manufacturing. He was born in 1830 and
died in 1899, while his wife, who was born in 1835, departed this life in 1S89.
They were consistent members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Howard was also
identified with the Masonic fraternity. To him and his wife were born seven
children, three of whom died in infancy, the others being: C. H. C.; Mary, the
wife of R. W. King of Montclair, New Jersey; Charles T., who is connected with
the city department at Los Angeles, California; and Eliot, an electrician of
Brooklyn, New York.

    C. H. C. Howard was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, September 5, 1862. Having
acquired a public school education he later attended the Adelphi Academy at
Brooklyn, New York, and for five years was assistant librarian in the Astor
Library of New York city. He came to Arkansas in 1890 for the benefit of his
health and entered newspaper work at Beebe, where for ten years he was editor
and publisher of Current Topics, which was afterward merged into the White
County News and for a year he remained as editor of the latter publication. He
then sold out and was employed as a bookkeeper in Beebe, while later he took
over the fire insurance business and is now representing nine different
companies. In this connection he has gained a good clientage and his business is
one of large extent.

    On the 12th of September, 1894, Mr. Howard was married to Miss Effie M.
Bartley, a native of Fulton, Missouri, and a daughter of S. N. and Virginia
(Berry) Bartley, who were also natives of Fulton. The father became a merchant
of Beebe and also assistant cashier of the Bank of Beebe. He was likewise
prominent in public affairs, serving as mayor of the town and as treasurer and
recorder at different times. He died October 1. 1915, at the age of seventy-two
years, his birth having occurred in 1843 and he is survived by his wife, who
still makes her home in Beebe. Their daughter, Mrs. Howard, however, departed
this life November 1, 1915, leaving a son, Elwin who is pursuing a scientific
course in the Westminster College of Fulton, Missouri.

    Mr. Howard is a member of the Christian church and his political belief is
that of the democratic party. He served for four years as city recorder of Beebe
and is an honorary member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, also a
corresponding member of the Maine and Vermont Historical Society and the New
England Historical and Genealogical Society. He is likewise thus identified with
the Essex Institute of Salem, Massachusetts. He has recently published a history
of the Cutts family, also of the Sparhawk family and a history of the Pepperrell
family. He also wrote the Pepperrell portraits and a small pamphlet of the life
and public service of General John W. Phelps. His authorship includes a volume
entitled Brattlehoro in Verse and Prose and he has in manuscript the history of
the Carter family. His life has been cast in harmony with the records of an
honored ancestry. In both lines he comes of families of strong intellectual
force and high ideals and-he has ever proven a worthy scion of his race.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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