Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Howe, Daniel S. 1848 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Daniel S. Howe, who is counted among the successful business men of Wichita,
Kan., is a native of St. Lawrence county, New York. He was born in 1848 and is
the eldest of a family of three children born to William S. and Eliza (Stratton)
Howe. The father was a native of the Green Mountain state an<J settled in St.
Lawrence county, New York, in 1842. He was a carpenter and contractor and a
successful business man. He was descended in direct line from John Howe, who
settled in Plymouth in 1623. Daniel S. acquired his early education in the
schools of St. Lawrence county and later was graduated from the Eastman
Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and in 1866 went to St. Joseph, Mo.,
where, for three years, he was engaged in the fire insurance business. Returning
to St. Lawrence county, New York, in 1869, he lived there three years, engaged
in the dairy business, and then, in 1872, went to Boston, where he dealt in
horses, cattle and hogs. From 1885 till 1896 Mr. Howe was employed traveling
through the central western states as buyer for the Erie Preserving Company, of
Buffalo, N. Y., and then took up his residence in Wichita, his present home.
Here he has devoted himself to loaning money on city property, exclusively, with
eminent success. He is an active member of the local lodge of Independent Order
of Odd Fellows.

   In 1869 Mr. Howe married Miss Abbie Brown, a daughter of Mr. Tyler Brown, of
St. Lawrence county, New York. Of four children born to them, William T. lives
in Spokane, Wash.; Leland M. resides in Chicago; Mabel is married to Mr. Leon
Courser, and Bernice is the wife of Mr. Louis Stark, and both live in St.
Lawrence county, New York.

   In 1901 Mr. Howe married Mrs. Jennie Myers, of Kansas City, and they have a
beautiful home at No. 1218 Bitting avenue, Wichita.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

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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