BIO: Charles J. HOWELL, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 283-284. 
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  HOWELL, REV. CHARLES J., Harrisburg, Pa., was born August 15, 1855, 
in Dutchess county, N.Y., and is the son of Charles J. and Mary M. 
(DuBois) Howell.  The maternal grandfather was born in Dutchess county 
and came of a Huguenot family.  He served as a trustee of Vassar 
College, was president of the First National Bank of Poughkeepsie, 
N.Y., and also manager of the Hudson River State Hospital. His wife was 
born January 30, 1859, at Fleming, N.Y.  The father, Charles J., was in 
business at home until twenty-two years of age, when he began work on 
Wappinger's creek, about three miles from New York City. He married 
Miss Mary M. DuBois, daughter of Cornelias and Julia A. (More) DuBois.  
Their children are Charles J., Cornelias and Lydia H.  The father was 
an elder in the Presbyterian church at the time of his death.  His wife 
survives him.  Charles J., at the age of fifteen, removed with his 
parents to Lebanon, where he served as clerk with Lobenstein & Co. for 
two years.  His education began in the private schools, and then he 
attended the River View Military Academy for two years.  In 1880 he 
entered Annistor's College, New Jersey, where he graduated in 1884.  
One year later he took a course in the Princeton Theological Seminary 
and later a three years' course in a similar seminary in New York, 
where he graduated in 1888.  Entering the ministry in 1888, he took 
charge of a Presbyterian church for three years, and in 1891 received a 
call from LaGrange, a suburb of Chicago, which he accepted and remained 
several years.  In December, 1894, having a call from a congregation in 
Harrisburg, he returned east, and now serves the Pine Street 
Presbyterian church as its assistant pastor and is meeting with much 
success. 
  Rev. Howell was married at Albany, N.Y., to Miss Cornelia N. Griggs.  
Before entering the ministry he taught a district school one term, and 
two years in the River View Academy, N.Y.