Guthrie-Muscatine-Polk County IA Archives Biographies.....Howe, William Edwin 1849 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 9, 2007, 12:39 pm

Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

REV. WILLIAM EDWIN HOWE, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Guthrie
Center, Iowa, is a native of Clarion county, Pennsylvania, born in West Freedom,
August 30, 1849. His early years were spent in his native county and when a
youth of sixteen he came with his parents to Muscatine, Iowa, where he soon
afterward secured a position as deputy in the post-office, and served as such
four years. During the time he served in the post-office he made up two years'
preparatory study in Greek and Latin, and in 1876 he entered Garrett Biblical
Institute, where he graduated May 5, 1879- receiving the degree of B. D.
Previous to deciding upon his life work, Mr. Howe spent one year in the study of
law at Muscatine. In 1880 he was admitted to the Des Moines Conference, and his
first appointment was at Altoona, where he served as pastor one year. Afterward
he filled appointments successively at Carlisle, two years; Farmer City, one
year; Hamburg, three years; Sidney, three years; Shelby, two years; and since
1892 has served as pastor of his present charge at Guthrie Center.

   Mr. Howe is a man of strong individuality and is thoroughly in earnest in his
work. As a temperance worker and an advocate of all moral reforms he is as
radically in earnest as he is in the spread of the gospel, and his labors at the
various stations where he has been located have been attended with success.
During his pastorate here at Guthrie Center he has had over two hundred
accessions to the church. The Methodists at this place erected their house of
worship in 1891, at a cost of about $12,000, and they own a parsonage which is
valued at $1,500.

   Of Mr. Howe's family history we would also make mention in this connection.
His parents were the Rev. Jared and Mary Ann (Young) Howe. His father was a
native of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, born in the year 1812. At about
the age of thirty-five years he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, joining the Erie Conference, and to the work of the ministry he devoted
the rest of his active life. After his removal to Iowa he retired, sustaining a
supernumerary relation to the conference. He died at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in
December, 1871. His wife survived him until December, 1883. The Howes are of
Scotch origin, have had among their ranks many professional men, and have been
noted for longevity. The Young family, of which Mrs. Howe was a member, are
descended from the Irish, and they are an exceptionally long-lived family,
averaging seventy years: Rev. Jared Howe and his wife had five sons and three
daughters, all of whom are living, namely: Morrison Y., a prominent educator,
having been principal of the First ward school in Muscatine, for nineteen
consecutive years; John E., one of the leading architects of Muscatine; Jennie,
a resident of that place; Simeon K., an attorney of Kansas City, Missouri;
Horatio S., an architect and builder; William E., whose name appears at the head
of this review; Luella H., wife of John S. Lyon, a contractor and builder, now
in Texas; and Leona E., assistant principal of the Muscatine high school. Two of
the sons, Simeon K. and Horatio S., were Union soldiers in the Civil war.

   The Rev. William E. Howe was married in Muscatine, Iowa, September 16, 1880,
to Miss Adda Boydston, a native of that place and a daughter of James and Mary
Boydston. Mr. and Mrs. Howe have had four children,-Mary Myrtle, Edwin Raymond,
Mabel Estelle and Robert Edmund. All are living except Edwin R.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/guthrie/bios/howe91gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/

File size: 4.6 Kb