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Summary Information
James C. Howard Papers
1813-1886, 1925
- Howard, James C., d. 1880
Wis Mss FV
1.8 c.f. (8 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Correspondence of numerous members of the James C. Howard family from several sections of the United States. Howard came from Rossie, New York, in 1836, to settle on a large farm in Milwaukee County. There are letters from his brother, Dean S. Howard, a building contractor who invented a new type of dredging machine and who worked on harbors and canals in Upper Canada, the Middle West, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Nicaragua; from his wife, Sophronia Porter; from his children and their families in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and California; and from other relatives. The letters touch on the various activities of the correspondents, their health, their financial concerns, their religious beliefs, their cultural interests, some local politics, financial panics, the California gold rush, educational facilities, scientific farming, fruitgrowing, wood conservation, spiritualism, and the final settlement of the estate.
English
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