Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Howell, W. B. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 October 25, 2008, 12:52 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Howell, W. B., Herkimer, was born in Herkimer. He received a good education in the schools of the village, and served an apprenticeship with his father in the furniture and undertaking business, finally succeeding him in 1866, and has since carried on an extensive concern with marked success. He has served the village as trustee, president, supervisor, etc., and is a member of the Electric Light and Water Commissions. Mr. Howell is also identified with the Masonic fraternity, having been master and past district deputy. He is also identified with local, social, and benevolent institutions. He married Miss Mary S. Green, a daughter of Zenas Green and a descendant of General Herkimer. They have no family. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/howell519gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb