William Hanson Howard

   Cause of his death was acute gastritis.

  General Notes:

Spent his boyhood in Stafford; attended Austin Academy and Commercial College at Davenport, IOWA.
First job was in the clothing business in Manchester, NH; later taken into firm. 1870 sold out to his partners and engaged in wholesale men's goods in Boston with firm of Bowen, Howard and Co. with branch in Chicago. It burned in the great fire of 1872 (Boston?) and lost all stock, book accounts and private papers. He began anew and was manager of Boston branch of R. K. Davies and Co. and then went to NYC to head a company there.Resigned there 1889 to organize Waulkenhose MFG CO where his invention of Waukenhose was mfgd. Recd medal at Chicago's World fair for his Waukenhose and honorable mention by Congress as an inventor whose genius has been advantage to the world. Also served as member of the common council of City of Boston 1879-1880.
Also 1863 commissioned a LT in NH Head Guards (named for adj-gen Natt head) reporting to Clinton, IA in charge of transportation on the Mississippi for 9 mos. He then went to Northern Nebraska and the Dakotas in the campaign against the Sioux Indians.
He and his wife lived at 40 Arlington St. in Lowell, MA.

1860 Strafford County, NH
Wm H Howard born 1843 working for a Warren Foye, age 32.

1870 -he may be the 30 year old Wm H Howard in Barrington, Strafford Co., NH in 14 June 1870. he is single and living with a 66 yr old Harriet Howard and an 11 year old Warren Howard he is living with Harriet in the 1860 census,

census 1880 Boston, Suffolk County,MA
William H. Howard age 37; importer; born NH as were his parents
Charlotte age 32 born NH as were her parents
Albert Straw age 4 born MA
William H. age 1 born MA

1900 Lowell, Middlesex, MA
Wm Howard age 57
Charlotte 52
Albert 24
William 21
Sarah 16

  Medical Notes:

source: NH's History Blog

William married Charlotte Webster Straw, daughter of Gov Ezekiel Albert Straw and Charlotte Smith Webster, on 13 Dec 1870. (Charlotte Webster Straw was born on 24 Mar 1847 in Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, died on 8 Nov 1903 in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and was buried in Valley Cemetery Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA.). The cause of her death was chronic nephritis.