Sullivan-Wayne County PA Archives Biographies.....AVERY, Howard D. 1839 - living in 1899
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  HOWARD D. AVERY is prominently identified with the cultivation of the soil in
  Sullivan County, Pa., and if the owner of a handsome farm located near Eagles
  Mere, in Shrewsbury township. He was born in Sullivan County, N. Y., April 4,
  1839, and is a son of John F. and Hannah (Lukins) Avery.
  
    John F. Avery was born in Plainfield County, Conn., from which place he moved
  to Sullivan County, N. Y., where for six years he followed his trade as a
  watchmaker, jeweler and silversmith; he then became a resident of Wayne County,
  Pa., where he worked at his trade several years, but was obliged to give it up
  on account of his eyesight failing him. Farming then became his occupation,
  which he successfully continued until his death, which was in the fall of 1872.
  He was married to Hannah Lukins, a native of Philadelphia, and she passed from
  this life at Scranton, Pa., in the fall of 1894. This union resulted in the
  birth of eight children, as follows: Mary, who is the widow of H. W. Mitchell
  and resides in Americus, Kans.; John T., who died in Minnesota in 1874; -Acidic,
  the widow of Thomas Young, who now resides in LeRoy, Minn.; Frank H., who died
  in Minnesota in 1885; Howard D., our subject; Linnie, the wife of R. Y. Mitchell
  of Findlay, Ohio; Nellie, joined in marriage with H. P. Woodward, an editor
  residing at Scranton, Pa.; and Richard L., who lives at Chicago, Ill.
  
    Howard D. Avery attended the district schools and remained under the parental
  roof until the breaking out of the Civil War, when, on September 6, 1862, he
  enlisted in Company I, 84th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., serving under Cols. Bowman and
  M. Opp and Capt. John R. Ross of Wayne County. This company took part in all the
  engagements of the Army of the Potomac, which included the notable battles of
  Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and Petersburg,
  Va., and was close to Gen. Lee when that famous soldier surrendered. After peace
  had been restored our subject received an honorable discharge at Harrisburg,
  Pa., June 5, 1865. Returning to his home in Wayne County he began tilling the
  soil, remaining there until 1873, when he removed to Sullivan County, and
  located on his present farm; with the exception of four years which were spent
  in farming in Morgan County, West Virginia, our subject has remained on his
  present farm up to the present time. He owns fifty rich and fertile acres of
  land and has made all the improvements himself, as when he first took possession
  of the land it was covered with a dense forest, that has since been entirely
  cleared away. Our subject is a hard-working man, is enterprising and
  industrious, and his duties to the public are performed in such a manner as to
  make him hosts of friends.
  
    Mr. Avery, on August 27, 1862, wedded Victoria E. Mitchell, born in Wayne
  County, Pa., June 7, 1841, and a daughter of Rev. John T. and Elmira (Wheeler)
  Mitchell; her father was a Baptist minister and he and his wife are now
  deceased. Our subject and wife were blessed by the birth of four children, as
  follows: Howard E., who died aged twenty-three years; Laura E., died aged twelve
  years; Arthur L., a contractor, builder and painter at Williamsport, Pa., who
  was joined in marriage with Phoebe Roller; and Friend, who assists his brother
  at Williamsport, and also attends commercial school there. Politically Mr. Avery
  is a strong Prohibitionist; socially, he is a member of Simmons Post, G. A. R.,
  of Sonestown; religiously, he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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