CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: DANIEL HOWE (1881)

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.864 [H surnames]
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

AUBURN TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

DANIEL HOWE. farmer and miller: P. O. Tiro. Nelson S. and Sarah B. (Gunsulus) Howe were natives of the State
of New York, the former being born May 3, 1808, and the latter in 1810. They were married in Richland Co., Ohio.
Nov. 4, 1830, and to this union were born the following family: Amelia, Philanda, Alonzo and Daniel. Amelia and
Alonzo are dead. Philanda is the widow of Zedediah Morse, and lives in Auburn Township. Daniel was a young man
of considerable push and enterprise. When the war broke out, he enlisted in Company H, 64th O. V. I., and was
chosen Second Lieutenant, and during the latter part of the war was promoted to Captain. He was in some of the
hardest fought battles of the whole war, among which might be mentioned Shiloh, Corinth, Chickamauga, and
through the entire campaign of 1864, in Georgia, under Gen. Sherman. He received a severe flesh wound at
Chickamauga, from the explosion of a shell. He was married April 28, 1859, to Amanda D. Abbott, a daughter of
Rev. J. R. Abbott, of Bowling Green, Wood Co., Ohio, and by her has seven children - Flora C., born Sept. Sept
20, 1859; Adel M., born March 22, 1867; Lisle A., born May 18, 1869: Frank L.. born June 2, 1871: Earl E., born
Dec. 24, 1873; Grace E., born Dec. 24, 1876, and Addie born Dec. 22, 1878. The youngest died Feb. 10, 1879.
Flora married Isaac A. Metcalf, and lives in Richland Co., Ohio: the rest are still single, and live at home with their
parents. Mrs. Howe was born Dec. 11, 1842, Mr. Howe is a Republican in politics. Owns 50 acres of well improved
land, and also one of the best saw-mills in Crawford Co. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. at Tiro. Mr. Howe is an
honest, straight forward man, and is well respected and highly esteemed by all his friends and acquaintances.