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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        by Arthur St. Clair
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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       JOHN HOWARD, retired, is a native of Fayette County, Penn., and was
       born March 3, 1799; at a very early age, his parents came to Ohio
       and settled at Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., and he grew up in that
       county. After reaching manhood, he came to Michigan Territory, in
       1821 ; he came in a small schooner to Detroit; at that time Walk-in-
       the-Water was the only steamer on all the lakes. Mr. HOWARD located
       in Detroit and engaged in the grocery trade; after being there a few
       years, he was united in marriage, June 2, 1825, to Miss NANCY
       HUBBARD, a daughter of JONATHAN HUBBARD, of Hartford, Conn., who was
       of English descent. He came to Detroit in 1811, when his daughter,
       Mrs. HOWARD, was only six years of age. She was in Detroit during
       the war of 1812, and has a distinct recollection of many of its
       horrors and atrocities. She remembers Gens. PROCTOR and Hull - the
       headquarters of HULL were near where they lived. Mrs. HOWARD
       remembers when a party of Indians came to their house to massacre
       the family, but through the courage and presence of mind of her
       older sister, who spoke French, they escaped. She has witnessed the
       war dance of the Indians over the scalps they had taken from the
       Americans. She used to carry things to hospital for the sick and
       wounded soldiers. Her mother used to save all the money she could to
       buy white prisoners from the Indians to save their lives. Mrs.
       HOWARD is, perhaps, the oldest resident of the State now living. In
       1834, on account of the breaking-out of the cholera, Mr. and Mrs.
       HOWARD left Detroit and came up Black River, where he had a small
       mill four miles above Port Huron, and remained there until 1839,
       when they moved here, into what was then a very small village. he
       opened a hotel in what is now known as the Thompson House. Some five
       years later, he and Mr. CUMMING SANBORN built a saw-mill where the
       depot now stands. After a few years, Mr. HOWARD and his son built a
       mill, and they continued in the lumber business for twenty-six
       years, until four years ago, when Mr. HOWARD retired, after an
       active business life of sixty years - an honored citizen, and one of
       the oldest residents of the State.

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