BIO: Frank A. HOWE, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 905 & 906.
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  FRANK A. HOWE, hotel proprietor at Winburne, Pa., has been a resident of 
Clearfield county all his life, his family being among the early settlers.  He 
was born at Clearfield, September 2, 1875, and is a son of John W. and Maria 
(Dolan) Howe.
  John W. Howe, who has been engaged in a mercantile business at Morrisdale, 
Pa., for the past eighteen years, was born in Clearfield county in 1849, a son 
of Sirene Howe, who once was sheriff of Clearfield county.  Mr. Howe resided at 
Clearfield for some years and moved from there into Girard township and from 
there to Morrisdale.  He married Maria Dolan, who was born in county Down, 
Ireland, in 1852, and was brought to America and to Clearfield county by her 
parents.  Five sons and three daughters have been born to them, namely:  Frank 
A.; Edward C. and Harry C., who are in the hotel business together at 
Morrisdale; Paul, who is associated with his father; Fred, who is a successful 
physician at Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Maggie, who lives at home; Lucy, who is a 
graduate of the Philadelphia High School; and Annie, who is a student in the 
Morrisdale High School.
  Frank A. Howe obtained his education in the public schools of Girard township 
and a Catholic school at Frenchville and later in the Pelton school at 
Morrisdale.  Afterward he worked for his father first as a clerk and later at 
teaming at Shaft No. 2, for four years.  Mr. Howe then embarked in the hotel 
business, first at Blue Ball, in Boggs township, where he conducted the 
Enterprise Hotel for twenty months.  He then sold his interest and went to 
Morrisdale, where he followed teaming for two years.  In 1905 he came to 
Winburne and erected the Winburne Hotel making the plans and laying it out 
himself.  It is a handsome three-story building, containing forty-six rooms and 
with probably the finest bar and other equipments of any public house in 
Clearfield county.  It is modern in all its appointments and caters to the best 
trade, offering every comfort and convenience desired by the traveling public.  
Although Mr. Howe was obliged to borrow the capital with which to build his 
house, he had provided for every emergency with business foresight and has made 
his undertaking a great success.
  Mr. Howe was married, September 28, 1898, by Rev. Father Whyner, at St. Agnes 
Roman Catholic church at Morrisdale, to Miss Marguerite Stephenson, a daughter 
of Peter Stephenson, and they have five children:  John W., Jr., Thomas, Gerome, 
Cecelia and Irene.  Mr. Howe and family are members of the Catholic church.  In 
politics he is a Democrat.  Mr. Howe is a popular citizen, a man of pleasant, 
genial manner and takes a hearty interest in all that concerns the general 
welfare of this place.