BIOGRAPHIES:  Caleb HOWARD, Ella, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Caleb Howard, retired, P. O. Ella, Pepin county.  This venerable
gentleman was born near Providence, R. I., April 8, 1801.  His paternal
grandfather's name was also Caleb, and his father, Oliver Howard, was a
Revolutionary soldier and was born in the state of Maine.  The latter
married Miss Tabitha Howard, who bore him ten children, of whom our
subject was the youngest, and while yet a boy was often employed in
gathering bayberries, from which tallow was made.  The nearest school-
house being five miles distant, his education was considerably
neglected, still he managed to become a very intelligent man.  He
married, about 1822, Miss Fannie, daughter of Thomas and Phoebe A.
Crosby, and nine children were born to them:  Frances (Mrs. Steward),
Thomas, Phoebe A. (Mrs. S. Hilliard), Charlotte (Mrs. J. Hilliard),
Amanda (Mrs. Ghagan), Jerusha (Mrs. J. Postelwaite), Oliver, John S.
and Emeline (Mrs. P. N. Tuttle).  Soon after his marriage Mr. Howard
removed to New London, Conn., and thence to Jefferson county, Pa.,
where all his children were born.  He was engaged in farming and
lumbering there until 1855, when he removed to Pepin and preempted a
farm there, upon which he continued to reside until 1879, since which
date he has lived with his daughter, Mrs. Postelwaite, in Frankfort
township.  May 9, 1889, he and his posterity were called to mourn the
loss of the partner who for so many years had shared his joys and
sorrows, Mrs. Fannie Howard having expired at that date.  Upon his
ninetieth birthday Mr. Howard had the pleasure of meeting his assembled
children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, by whom he is tenderly
revered in his declining years.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 450-451.


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