Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Howard, Emmett K. 1879 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.149-150  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        EMMETT K. HOWARD is almost a life long resident of Florida, and since 
1900 he has been identified by his trade and business activity as a contractor
with the Southeast Coast. In his business he has made a specialty of concrete
construction, and is a leading contractor in that line in the City of Miami.
	Mr. Howard was born at Columbus, Mississippi, in 1879, son of LUTHER M.
and ANNA (KIRK) HOWARD, natives of the same state. His father went into the
Confederate Army from Mississippi when he was only thirteen years of age. It
was in 1880 that the family moved to Florida, locating in Sumter County, in the
northern part of the state. Here EMMETT K. HOWARD grew up in a rural district,
attended public schools, and learned the trade of bricklayer, which had been
the occupation of both his father and grandfather before him.
	Mr. Howard was one of the bricklayers who came to the Southeast Coast
in 1900 to work on the Flagler Mansion at Palm Beach. He did brick laying work
on that and other buildings in Palm Beach for nearly two years, and then, in
1902, established a permanent home in Miami. Miami was just beginning its
growth and development, and Mr. Howard has represented an important
constructive service that has made him a factor as well as an interested
witness in the development of the city from a village. He continued to work at
his trade for several years, and gradually began handling contracts and also
branched out into the manufacture of concrete building stone and has had a wide
and successful experience in every form of concrete work. For some years he was
a member of the Art Stone Company.
	In 1920 he established his present business, the Howard Construction 
Company, manufacturing of concrete building stone and contractors in concrete 
construction. The home of this business is on North Miami Avenue just north of 
Fourteenth Street. He leases business lots with a frontage of one hundred feet. 
Miami Avenue is the leading north and south thoroughfare of Miami, and 
everything points to its becoming a great business street, and property thereon 
already has an established and permanent value. Mr. Howard has probably built 
more houses of concrete construction in Miami than any other contractor. Among 
others, he erected all the concrete houses for the Brickell estate.
	He is a charter member of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers Union
of Miami. Mr. Howard married Miss HADDIE TUCKER. Their six children are EDITH,
EMMETT, LEONA, WINNIFRED, LAWRENCE and DONALD.


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