Husband Alfred Howell, Esq. 1
Born: 1825 - Philadelphia, PA 2
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Father: Benjamin B. Howell ( -Abt 1841) 2
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Marriage: 1853 2
Wife Elizabeth Jennings Dawson 1
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Died: 1869 2
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Father: George Dawson ( -Bef 1882) 3 4 5
Mother: Mary Kennedy ( - ) 4 5
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1 F [Unk] Howell 2
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Died: 1878 2
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2 M George D. Howell 2
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General Notes: Husband - Alfred Howell, Esq.
He was born of Quaker stock, both his paternal and maternal ancestry tracing their lines through the time of William Penn back for an indefinite period among the Quakers of Wales. His father, then a merchant, removed with his family from Philadelphia to New York City in the year 1830-31, where young Howell was sent to preparatory school, and eventually, at the age of fourteen, entered Columbia College, and there continued until well advanced in the sophomore class. Meanwhile his father had quitted merchandise and entered upon the development of iron and coal industries near Cumberland, Maryland, having enlisted with himself several English capitalists. Having occasion to visit England on business, he took passage, in March, 1841, on board the ill-fated ocean steamer "President," which foundered at sea, no tidings of her or any of her human cargo having ever been had. The sudden and great calamity of the loss of his father necessitated young Howell's withdrawal from college, after which he soon entered as a student at law in the office of Graham & Sandfords, counselors-at-law and solicitors in chancery, a distinguished firm, the Sandfords afterwards having been both elevated to the bench. With these gentlemen, and their successors in partnership with Mr. Graham, Messrs. Murray Hoffman and Joseph S. Bosworth (both subsequently becoming judges), Mr. Howell remained till 1845, enjoying the good fortune of the eminent tutelage of this remarkable combination of legal talent, when he migrated to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and finished his legal studies in the office of his uncle, Joshua B. Howell, then a leading lawyer, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. In 1851 he entered into partnership with Mr. Howell, and continued with him until the autumn of 1861, when Mr. Howell, having raised the Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and being commissioned its colonel, entered into the war of the Rebellion, wherein he became exceptionally distinguished, and was killed near Petersburg, in September, 1864, by being thrown from his horse in the night-time.
After Col. Howell's entry into the army, Alfred Howell succeeded to the business of the partnership, and thereafter continued the practice of the law, conducting a large and laborious business with fidelity to his clients, earning honorable distinction and a goodly fortune.
He was more or less engaged in business enterprises, among which may be mentioned the projection, in 1866, about what was then known as Dawson's Station, on the line of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, of a village, later incorporated as the borough of Dawson, on a tract of land there lying, and of which he about that time came into possession. He caused the tract to be duly surveyed and laid out into building lots, and so conducted his enterprise as in the course of a few years to erect a prosperous and desirable village, with churches, public schools, etc., upon what was before, and but for his business foresight and energy would have remained, merely an uninhabitable portion of an old farm. He occasionally engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, particularly dealing in coal lands, with profitable results, and taken active part with others in supplying the county with local railways, which have been the means of developing the treasures of rich coal-mines.
Mr. Howell became a communicant, in his early manhood, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and continued active connection there-with, and occupied the position of senior warden.
He and his wife had six children.