Howell

to 1877; an incorporator of the New Orleans Art
Association, and its first president; and a mem-
ber of the Chamber of Commerce and the Board
of Trade. He was appointed an administrator of
Charity Hospital by Gov. F. T. Nicholls, and
while holding the position, introduced the system
of competitive examinations for resident stu-
dents. He was also appointed president of the
first New Orleans civil-service board, by Mayor
Walter C. Flower, in 1897; was one of the in-
corporators of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Hospital, and a trustee until his death; an orig-
inal member of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, and its legal advisor; and a
member of the American Bar Association, and
its president in 1898. He was an Episcopalian
and for many years served as vestryman of
Christ Church Cathedral. He died in New Or-
leans, and after temporary interment there, his
body was taken to Canandaigua, N. Y. He was
survived by his wife, formerly Frances A. Grid-
ley, of New York, and by three children.

[Sources include: Report of the Thirty-Second Ann.
Meeting of the Am. Bar Asso. . . . ipop (1909) ; Re-
port of the La. Bar Asso. -for 1909 (1909) j^the Am.
Law Rev., Jan.-Feb. 1909; Report of the Adj. Gen. of
the State of Kan. for the Year 1864 (1865); D. W.
Howe, Howe Geneals. . . . John Howe of Sudbury and
Marlborough, Mass. (1929) ; Times-Democrat (New
Orleans) and the Daily Picayune (New Orleans), Mar.
18, 1909; alumni records of Hamilton College and the
records of the University of Louisiana (Tulane Uni-
versity),] M.J.W.

HOWELL, DAVID (Jan. i, 1747-July 30,
1824), Rhode Island jurist, member of the Con-
tinental Congress, was born in Morristown, N,
J., the son of Aaron and Sarah Howell. He re-
ceived his early education at Hopewell Academy,
Hopewell, N. J., under the supervision of the
Rev. Isaac Eaton, a Baptist clergyman who was
the first of that denomination to establish in
America a school for the higher education of
young men. From Hopewell Howell went to the
College of New Jersey, from which he was grad-
uated in 1766. At the Academy he had been a
fellow student of the brilliant James Manning
[q.v.], and the latter, who had recently assumed
the presidency of ,a new Baptist college in Rhode
Island, now invited Howell to share the task of
teaching with him. Howell accepted and thus
began with Brown University, which was then
known as Rhode Island College, a connection
which, under varying relationships, was to last
throughout his life. It 1769, after three years
as tutor, he was given the degree of A.M. and
appointed professor of natural philosophy and
mathematics. In addition to these subjects,
which he was engaged to teach at a salary of £72,
he also taught French, German, and Hebrew.
He had need to be a scholar of varied abilities,

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since for some years Manning and he were the
only members of the college faculty. He con-
tinued as professor until 1779, when, owing to
the Revolutionary War, all college exercises were
temporarily suspended.

In 1768 he had been admitted to the bar, and
in the field of law, which he now entered, he was
destined to become exceptionally successful.
Rhode Island College gave him the degree of
LL.D. in 1793, and from 1790 to 1824 he bore
the title of professor of jurisprudence, but in
point of fact he did no more teaching nor lec-
turing. He continued to be intimately interested
in the welfare of the institution, however ; from
1773 to 1824 he was a member of the board of
fellows, and he was secretary of the corporation
from 1780 to 1806. After Manning's death,
Howell acted for a brief time (1791-92) as presi-
dent ad interim, and on several occasions he
presided at college commencements. He was a
tall, handsome man of imposing bearing, an ac-
complished scholar, an excellent public speaker,
and possessed of a brilliant wit, all of which
attributes contributed to his preeminence as a
lawyer. He was associate justice of the supreme
court of the state from 1786 to 1787, attorney-
general in 1789, and United States judge of
Rhode Island from 1812 to 1824. From 1782 to
1785 he was a member of Congress under the
Confederation, and he was appointed by Presi-
dent Washington a boundary commissioner in
connection with the Jay Treaty of 1794. His
particular concern in this matter was to assist in
determining the true course of the St Croix
River. On Sept. 30, 1770, he was married to
Mary Brown, a daughter of Jeremiah Brown,
one of the early pastors of the First Baptist
Church of Providence. They had five children,
one of whom, Jeremiah, became a United States
senator.

[The Biog. Cyc. of Representative Men of R. 7.
(1881) ; R. A. Guild, Life, Times, and Correspondence
of James Manning, and the Early Hist, of Brown Univ.
(1864) and Hist, of Brown Univ. with Illustrative
Documents (1867) ; Biog. Directory Am, Cong. (1928) ;
G. S. Kimball, Providence in Colonial Times (1912) ;
W. C. Bronson, The Hist, of Brown University, 1764-
1914 (i9i4)J E.R.B.

HOWELL, EVAN PARK (Dec. 10, 1839-
Aug. 6, 1905), editor, son of Clark and Effiah
Jane (Park) Howell, was born in Warsaw, Ga.,
and died in Atlanta. He traced his ancestry back
to John Howell, who received a land grant in
Virginia in 1639 and whose descendants moved
to North Carolina not later than 1743. Clark
HowelTs father, Evan, settled in Georgia when
Clark was about nine years old. Until 1851
young Evan lived on a farm, and then moved
with the family to Atlanta. He went to school,

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