Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Howells, John 1861 - living in 1899

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JOHN HOWELLS has for several months held the responsible position of

inside-foreman at the Hickory Ridge Colliery, and he has performed his duties in

such an able and commendable manner that he has won the esteem and good will of

his employers as well as of his fellow workmen. He has had a thorough training

in mining affairs, having followed that business all his life. Mr. Howells is a

native of England, having been born in South Wales, near the town of Tenby,

September 28, 1861. His parents, Thomas and Mary (Nicholas) Howells, never cared

to come to America, and our subject made his home with them until he was

twenty-one years of age. They had the following children: William, George, John,

Adah, Lewis, Thomas, Sarah, Benjamin, and Elizabeth. In religious belief they

were faithful members of the Baptist Church. At the age of ten years Mr. Howells

began working around the mines, continuing until he immigrated to America in

1883, when he located in Coal township and began work as a laborer around the

mines, later becoming a miner. He was then promoted to the position of fire-boss

and so faithfully filled his position that he was again promoted to assistant

inside foreman, and in March, 1898, he accepted the position of inside-foreman.

His entire attention is given to mining business in which he has been very

successful.



   Politically Mr. Howells is an unswerving Republican and takes an active

interest in all of the affairs of that party. He is also ever ready to assist in

all matters which tend to advance the welfare of the community. He was joined in

wedlock with Alice Thomas, a daughter of William Thomas, and they are the

parents of six children, namely: Thomas: William, deceased; Edith May; Earl;

Benjamin Norman; and an infant. Socially our subject is a member of Mount Tabor

Lodge, No. 125. I. O. O. F. of Shamokim, Pa.; and Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. &

A. M.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)



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