U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Howell, John (1843-1902) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 395 John Howell, born 1843, at the old Howell homestead, son of Nehemiah and Rebecca (Limbers) Howell, was married first to Mary E. Ringer, of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1866; second, to Mary E., daughter of Robert and Emaline Brown. Children, Columbia E., Annie M., Dora May, R. B. Hayes, and an infant unnamed born in 1873. He is a Republican, a farmer and stock dealer, owning about 1800 acres, of which 450 acres are under cultivation; and he plows 150 acres annually, planting 40 in corn, 75 in wheat, and the balance in oats, buckwheat and potatoes. In one year he raised 1000 bushels of potatoes, 1050 of wheat, and 2000 of shelled corn. The stock he handles is of the improved varieties, usually 300 cattle yearly. When he was in the lumber business from 1873 to 1895, he owned two saw mills and was an exporter of lumber. His dealings in fertilizers are extensive, amounting to 300 tons a year. He lives on a part of the old home farm. He served about one year in the Union army. He has always taken an interest in the success of his political party, and has been three times nominated for office. In 1888 he was defeated by a few votes for Sheriff; in 1892 was elected, on the face of the returns, to the legislature, but was counted out on technicalities. In 1894 he was elected Sheriff of Barbour by a large majority. All of his land is underlaid with coal, there being four veins, including the Roaring Creek vein 12 feet thick. Mr. Howell was seven years post master at Calhoun, during his mercantile career. He was one of the stockholders in the narrow-gauge railroad, the first in the county. Mrs. Howell was born 1847, and her ancestors were English, her great grandfather having come from that county and settled in Pennsylvania. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH REGISTER, Barbour County, WV Page 102, No. 648 John Howell died Jan. 24, 1902 at age 59y-0m-14d Occupation: Farmer Marital-status: Married Birthplace: West Virginia Place-of-death: Baltimore, MD Cause-of-death: Diabetis Mellitus Place-of-burial: Jerusalem Cemetery ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------