Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Howard, David Millington 1843 - 
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Author: James L. King (1905)

HON. DAVID MILLINGTON HOWARD.

    HON. DAVID MILLINGTON HOWARD, one of the well-known citizens and most
extensive stock-raisers and successful farmers of Rossville township, Shawnee
County, a resident of section 3, township 11, range 13, and the owner of 1,600
acres of land, was born in 1843, at Shaftsbury, Vermont, and is a son of Jared
and Mary (Matteson) Howard.

    The Howard family is a very old and honorable one in Vermont, where it has
flourished for generations. Otis Howard, the grandfather of our subject, was
born there and lived on his own large estate, agriculture and stock-raising
having been the family occupations up to the present time. His children were:
Rachel, Jared, Rebecca, Jacob M., Polly and Mercy. Jacob M. Howard was a very
prominent man in Michigan and served several terms as a Representative and for
nine years as a member of the State Senate.

    Our subject came to Kansas in 1872, accompanied by his parents, who settled
in section 3, township 11, range 13, in Rossville township, Shawnee County, on a
tract of 67 acres. Until 1876 he engaged in general farming and then became
interested in stock-raising, adding large tracts of land and introducing a fine
herd of Shorthorn cattle. On his great 1,600-acre farm he now keeps some 600
head of these valuable cattle and his stock farm is noted all over the State.

    In 1870 Mr. Howard was married, in Shaftsbury, Vermont, to Chettie A.
Stanley, who was born in Vermont and is a daughter of Joseph and Jane (Fuller)
Stanley, and a granddaughter of Benajah Stanley, a prominent man of his day in
Vermont.

    In addition to his extensive business interests, Mr. Howard has been closely
identified with public affairs since he came to Kansas. In political sympathy he
is a Populist and by that party was elected to the State Legislature in 1890 and
approval was shown of his course there by his reelection in 1893. He is a
fearless, out-spoken man, who having settled convictions is not afraid to live
up to them. Fraternally he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and belongs also to the
Knights and Ladies of Security.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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