Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Howd, Walter S. December 16, 1829 - 
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WALTER S. HOWD, flour and feed merchant at Millbrook village, was born in 
Canada, Dec. 16, 1829.  His 

parents, Samuel B. and Lovinda (Gould) Howd, natives respectively of New York, 
settled in Canada, finally 

returning to New York, where the mother died and the father married again.  He 
located at Syracuse, N.Y., 

for a time and afterward went to Kansas and Missouri, where he died at the age 
of 74.

When 14 years old Mr. Howd was apprenticed to learn the trade of molder, at 
which he served two and 

one-half years.  He was afterward occupied about the same length of time as 
clerk in a grocery, when he 

resumed his trade, but was obliged by illness to quit it and seek other means 
of obtaining a livelihood.  

He was employed for some time in a grocery at Cleveland, and in the summer of 
1855 came to Gratiot Co., 

Mich., where he bought 200 acres of land under the "Gradation Act."  After 
clearing 30 acres of this land 

he sold out and purchased a similar farm in the southern part of the same 
county, in order to secure for 

his children the superior educational advantages of that section.  Three years 
later he sold again and came 

to Mecosta County, where he entered a claim of 160 acres of land in the 
townships of Millbrook and 

Wheatland under the provisions of the Homestead Act.  This he sold, and 
invested his money and interest in 

the mercantile business and located at Millbrook, where he is carrying on a 
flourishing trade.

In politics Mr. Howd is a Republican.  He has been Probate Judge four years 
and served 12 years as Justive 

of the Peace.  He belongs to the Order of Masonry, and is a member of the 
fraternity of Odd Fellows.  He 

was married in Cleveland, O., to Louisa M., daughter of Samuel Pease, a native 
of the State of New York.  

Mrs. Howd died in Gratiot County, leaving three children:  Levant P., Martha 
E. and Albert J.  Mr. Howd was 

married in Gratiot County, to Almira, daughter of Benjamin Hawkins, and their 
three children are:  Francis 

A., Mry and Sarah R.  Mrs. Howd belongs to the M.E. Church.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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