Whitman-King-Pierce County WA Archives Biographies.....Howard, Robert C. February 18, 1895 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 178-179
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     ROBERT C. HOWARD has achieved success as manager at Portland for the well 
known Chicago house of Felt & Tarrant, makers of comptometers. His success has 
been based on the character of the service which he renders, for, in addition 
to selling comptometers, he conducts an efficient school for instruction in 
the use of this valuable office appliance. Mr. Howard was born in Colfax, 
Washington, on the 18th of February, 1895, and is a son of George P. and Emma 
Keller (Harmon) Howard. His father was born in Woodstock, Ohio, and came to 
Portland in a very early day. Subsequently he located at Colfax, Washington, 
where he has lived continuously to the present time, and is now serving as 
justice of the peace. His wife was the first white child born at Port Gamble, 
Washington, and her father, was a pioneer of Washington, and was 
superintendent of the first state hospital for the insane. She passed away in 
July, 1928, aged seventy-three years.

     Mr. Howard received his early education in the public schools and 
graduated from Washington State College in 1917. He then enlisted for service 
in the World war and, after completing his training, was commissioned a first 
lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment, Ninety-first 
Division. He served overseas for ten months and on his return home was 
honorably discharged. He resided in Seattle, Washington, until 1920, when he 
went to Tacoma as local manager for the Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company, 
serving in that capacity until 1923, when he was transferred to Portland as 
manager and has been very successful in building up the business in this 
district. He maintains a school for comptometer operators, from which he 
graduates about one hundred students a year, the course requiring from eight 
to ten weeks. Good comptometer operators are always in demand and the 
graduates of his school have no difficulty in securing positions.

     On October 12, 1921, Mr. Howard was united in marriage to Miss Margaret 
Bell, of Seattle, Washington, who was born in Alaska, a daughter of R. B. 
Bell. She is a graduate of the Annie Wright Seminary, at Tacoma, and the 
University of Washington and she established and for several years had charge 
of Mr. Howard's comptometer school. Mr. Howard is a stanch republican in his 
political views and has evinced a keen interest in matters pertaining to the 
welfare and progress of his community, so that he has earned a reputation as a 
public-spirited man and enjoys the respect of all who have come in contact 
with him.

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