Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Howard, E E 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 February 7, 2008, 3:56 am

Author: Past and Present Will County IL; 1907

E. E. Howard, conducting an insurance, loan and bonding business at Joliet, 
this being the oldest and largest insurance agency in Will county, was born in 
Milford, Massachusetts, September 15, 1845, a son of Samuel J. and Sarah J. 
(Brown) Howard, who were also natives of the old Bay state. The father, a 
business man there, died in the year 1863 at the age of forty-two. E. E. 
Howard was educated in the public schools of his native place and was 
afterward employed as instructor in the Sing Sing prison of New York for ten 
years. In 1876 he came to Joliet and for seven years was an instructor in the 
Illinois state penitentiary, but in 1883 resigned the position to engage in 
the insurance business in connection with H. C. Wood in the old agency which 
was established in 1856. At the death of Mr. Wood in 1890 Mr. Howard took over 
the entire business and has since continued it with gratifying success. He has 
in his possession the first register opened by Mr. Wood, more than fifty years 
ago, and he represents the following companies: Aetna, American Central, 
Franklin Home, Hamburg Bremen, Hartford, Insurance Company of North America, 
Liverpool & London & Globe, Northern, North British & Mercantile, Niagara, 
National, New York Underwriters, Pennsylvania, Providence Washington, 
Palatine, Queen, Royal, Springfield, Western, Travelers Life & Accident 
Company, United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, and New York Plate Glass 
Insurance Company. He placed the insurance of the American Steel & Wire 
Company, amounting to fifteen million dollars, until that company was absorbed 
by the United States Steel Company, which concern carries its own insurance. 
Prior to his removal to the middle west Mr. Howard enlisted for service in the 
Union army in 1864, joining the Boston fusileers, afterward one of the 
companies that formed the Fourth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. His service 
was in defense of Washington, D. C., and he was discharged in July, 1865, at 
the close of the war. While at Sing Sing prison he was one of the charter 
members that reorganized Powell post, G. A. R., and for two years served as 
its quartermaster. He was also one of the charter members that reorganized 
Bartleson post, G. A. R., at Joliet. He belongs to Matteson lodge, No. 175, A. 
F. & A. M., was its secretary, also the secretary of Joliet chapter, No. 27, 
R. A. M., recorder of Joliet commandery, No. 4, K. T., a member of the 
Oriental consistory of Chicago, in which he has attained the thirty-second 
degree of the Scottish Rite, and also a member of the Medinah Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine in Chicago. Moreover, he is identified with various social and 
civic organizations, belongs to the Union League club and to the Commercial 
club of Joliet and has taken an active interest in the public welfare, being a 
liberal contributor to many enterprises which have had direct bearing upon the 
city's development and substantial upbuilding. His religious faith is 
indicated by his membership in the Eastern Avenue Baptist church, of which he 
has been the treasurer since its organization. Mr. Howard was married, October 
31, 1866, to Miss Sarah J. Bowen, of Massachusetts, the wedding being 
celebrated, however, in New York. Their only child was killed at the age of 
eight and a half years in a railroad crossing accident, occasioned by a team 
of horses being frightened and running away. Mr. Howard is well known in the 
city where for thirty years he has made his home and where his sterling 
characteristics, as seen in business and public life and in social relations 
have gained him place among the representative men of Will county. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/howard2634nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 4.4 Kb