Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Howard, Jacob M. 1842 - 
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COL. JACOB M. HOWARD, owner of the Howard House, and other property in the village
of Litchfield, including his beautiful residence, Lake Side, on the shores of the
lovely Lake Ripley, received his military title for services rendered in the Union
army during the late war. He came to Meeker county in 1867, and purchased a farm in
the town of Greenleaf, where he remained until 1872, when ho removed to Litchfield
and erected the first independent elevator on the line of this railroad. He was
engaged in the dual occupation of buying and shipping grain and carrying on his farm
until 1S79, when he sold the latter. In 1880, he erected the Howard House at an
outlay of some $19,000, which he has always leased. In 1886 he purchased forty five
acres of land on the banks of Lake Ripley and erected his family mansion, one of the
most beautiful in this section of the State. In 1887 he retired from the grain
trade, and contents himself with looking after his other interests and affairs.

   Colonel Howard is a native of Detroit, Mich., born July 16, 1S42, and is the son
of Hon. Jacob M. and Catherine (Shaw) Howard. The father of our subject was a lawyer
by profession, a native of Vermont, who had settled in Detroit in 1836, and for
twelve years was one of the United States Senators from Michigan. Mrs. Catherine
Howard, the mother of the Colonel, was a native of Massachusetts.

   The subject of this personal history received his primary education in the
schools of his native city, and at the age of sixteen entered Union College, at
Schenectady, N. Y., where he passed some three years. In the spring of 1S62 he
enlisted as a private in Company F, Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, but for gallant
and meritorious conduct was rapidly promoted from rank to rank, until he became the
assistant Adjutant General at the headquarters of the Twenty-third Army Corps, then
under command of Major-General Hartsuff, with the rank of Lieutenanf-Colonel. In
this position he served until the close of the war, after which he went into the
wholesale grocery business in Chicago, but two years later, his health failing, he
gave up that line of trade and came to Meeker county, as above stated.

   The Colonel, who is active and enterprising, is always foremost in any movement
that is likely to accrue to the benefit of the community. He was one of the
principal organizers of the Woolen Mill Company, and was the first president of the
board of directors, He is a stockholder in the Creamery Association, and
vice-president of the company. He was elected mayor of the city of Litchfield in
1885, and served one term, but has but little political aspiration. The Colonel is
an influential member of Frank Daggett Post, No. 35, and of the Litchfield Dramatic
Association, of which he was one of the originators.

   Col. J. M. Howard and Miss Emma Pennoyer were united in marriage in October,
1868. The lady is a native of New York State, and is the daughter of Truman
Pennoyer, of Meeker county.


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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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