Sedgwick-Harvey County KS Archives Biographies.....Howard, J. E. 1848 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   J. E. Howard, of Wichita, Kan., is one of the millers of Wichita, commencing
business about fifteen years ago, when milling Kansas hard turkey wheat was
drawing the attention of the world to Kansas as a great wheat producing state.

   The first export bill of lading out of Wichita on a car of Kansas flour was
put through one of the Wichita banks by the Howard Mills Company in 1895, or
soon thereafter, when their mill was located on East Murdock avenue. Their
business has expanded by virtue of the high grade of flour produced by them
until in 1900 the present plant of 300 barrels capacity was erected on West
Douglas avenue. There the company's brands have grown in favor and are sold at
nearly all points within fifty miles of Wichita.

   Mr. Howard is a native of the state of Ohio, where he was born the 3d of
March, 1848, and is a son of Jeremiah E. Howard, Jr. Mr. Howard's education was
acquired in a common school in Ohio. He moved to Burrton, Kan., the fall of
1874, and resided there until 1901, when he moved to Wichita, Kan., and has
resided there since that date.

   Mr. Howard married Ellen Hicks, of Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1869. They have
three children, C. R. Howard, an officer and one of the active managers of The
Howard Mills Company; Fannie A. Howard, who resides at home with her parents,
and Florence Howard, who is married and lives in the city.

   Mr. Howard is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the A. O. U. W. He has been
president of the Chamber of Commerce, also of the Wichita. & Southwestern Fair
Association, county commissioner, and has been president of the Associated
Charities since its organization ten years ago, excepting about eighteen months.

   He was one of the first to stir up public interest in the commission form of
government. His great hobby has been freight rates and the removal of
discrimination against the transportation interests in southwestern Kansas, and
until the final consummation of what is known as the Hepburn Law was enacted he
was a member of the executive committee of the National Interstate Commerce Law
Convention and at its dissolution at the enactment of the above law Mr. Howard
was vice-chairman of the organization.

   This organization had 400 and over commercial organizations throughout the
United States, all working under the direction of this committee. This
organization was the only one in active operation and did so much to bring
pressure on congress to enact favorable legislation for the shipping interests.


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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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