BIOGRAPHIES:  Thomas HOWARD, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Thomas Howard, farmer, P. O. Pepin, was born in Jefferson county, Pa.,
July 21, 1826, and is a son of Caleb and Fanny Howard.  At twenty-two
years of age he began working about a charcoal furnace, which he
continued for about four years.  He afterward engaged in farming, and
in 1854 came to Pepin, where he purchased a farm in 1857.  February 27,
1857, he married Mahala Kephart, who has borne him nine children: 
David D., Fanny J. (Mrs. C. Lincoln), Asa J., Maggie C. (Mrs. W. H.
McCain), William T., Mary M., Theodore C., James P. and Charles Crosby,
only six of whom are now living.  Mr. Howard purchased the farm where
he now resides in 1860.  For a number of season he operated a threshing
machine, but now leaves most of his business to his sons, who are
intelligent and capable young men.  In politics Mr. Howard is a
republican, and served the town as supervisor for three years.  Mrs.
Howard's father, David Kephart, was born in Carroll county, Md., April
8, 1792, and died at Pepin, May 1, 1882.  He served in the American
army during the campaign about Baltimore (war of 1812), for which he
received a pension and warrant to 160 acres of land.  He married Mahala
Zene, who bore him eight children, two of whom, Mrs. H. Francis and
Mrs. Howard, now reside in Pepin.  Mrs. Kephart died in Pepin in
August, 1871.  Mr. Kephart came here in 1855 and purchased a farm.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 682.


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