Howry

[she] should be entirely expelled" (Northen,
post, I, 178). Upon the conclusion of peace,
Howley returned to the South, became chief jus-
tice of Georgia (1782-83), and died in Savannah
in December 1784.

[See W. B. Stevens, A Hist, of Ga., vol. II (1859) J
C. C. Jones, Biog. Sketches of the Delegates from Ga.
to the Continental Cong. (1891) ; W. J. Northen, Men
of Mark in Ga., vol. I (1907) ; Hugh McCall, The Hist,
of Ga. (2 vols., 1811-16) ; Biog. Dir. Am. Cong. (1928).
In the Observations Rowley's name is spelled without
an e. Elsewhere it appears as it is given here,]

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HOWRY, CHARLES BOWEN (May 14,
i844-July 20, 1928), jurist, born in Oxford,
Miss., was the son of Judge James M. and
Narcissa (Bowen) Howry and was descended,
through both parents, from Revolutionary fami-
lies of Virginia and South Carolina. His father
was a prosperous lawyer and a founder of the
University of Mississippi. Howry at the out-
break of the Civil War was a student at the Uni-
versity of Mississippi, but in March 1862 he put
aside his studies to enlist as a private in the Con-
federate army. He participated in nine battles
(Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Peachtree
Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, and Franklin) and
many skirmishes; by 1864 he had risen to the
rank of first lieutenant of Company A of the
2Qth Mississippi Infantry and had fought with-
out injury until the battle of Franklin, when he
was severely wounded. Upon his return to Mis-
sissippi, he completed his academic and legal
education at the University (LL.B., 1867) and
settled in Oxford, where he practised law and
assisted in the reconstruction of his state. Elect-
ed to the lower house of the state legislature in
the autumn of 1880, he served four years, then in
April 1886 he was appointed United States dis-
trict attorney for the northern district of Mis-
sissippi, a post which he held through the first
administration of President Cleveland. As a re-
ward for his services as Democratic national
committeeman during the presidential campaign
of 1892, Cleveland offered to appoint him to a
mission to South America but he declined the
offer. He was then offered, in August 1893, an
appointment as assistant attorney-general of the
United States in charge of the defense of the In-
dian depredation claims. Howry accepted this
post and removed to Washington where he was
to remain for the rest of his life. Four years
later, on Jan. 28, 1897, Cleveland appointed him
an associate justice of the Court of Claims.

Howry's work as an associate justice of the
Court of Claims, which extended over a period
of eighteen years, was marked throughout his
tenure of office by his detailed learning in the

Howze

general field of Anglo-American law and in the
special jurisprudence of the Court, which his
earliest opinions displayed. By temperament he
was naturally industrious and his decisions are
frequently monographs on points of special
knowledge sometimes remote from the law. He
delivered many notable decisions, of which per-
haps the most important are those rendered in
the French spoliation claims, the Chickasaw land
case (Ayres vs. United States and Chickasaw
Nation, 42 Ct. Cls., 385), and the concurring
opinion in Lincoln vs. United States (50 Ct. Cls.,
70) in which the wide extent of his knowledge
of the Civil War is evident President Wilson
twice offered Howry the chief justiceship of the
Court of Claims, but Howry each time refused to
accept it because of an attached condition requir-
ing him to retire on attaining an eligible age. He
voluntarily retired, however, on Mar. 15, 1915.
The remainder of his life was devoted to a gen-
eral practice of a consulting and advisory na-
ture. He was married three times: to Edmonia
Beverley Carter, on Jan. 14, 1869; to Harriet
Holt Harris, on July 21, 1880; and to Sallie
Behethaland (Bird) Smith, on July 25,1900. He
had seven children by his first two marriages.
All of his life he remained a stanch Presbyterian
and Democrat, a conservative and an advocate of
sound money. He was of small stature and had a
delicate constitution. He died of heart failure in
Washington, in the early morning of July 20,
1928, and was buried at Oxford, Miss.

[See Who's Who in America, 1928-29; the Confed.
Veteran, Oct. 1928. 50 Ct. Cls., xv; 66 Ct. Cls., xxxiii;
E. T. Sykes, "Walthall's Brigade/' Miss. Hist. Spc.
Pubs., Centenary sen, vol. I (1916); and the Evening
Star (Washington, D. C), July 20, 1928. Howry's de-
cisions are reported in 32-50 Ct. Cls.} 55, C

HOWZE, ROBERT LEE (Aug. 22, 1864-
Sept 19, 1926), soldier, was born at Overton,
Rusk County, Tex., at a period of the Civil War
when the name of the Confederate leader filled
the hearts and minds of the Southern people. His
parents, James Augustus and Amanda Hamilton
(Brown) Howze, sent their son through Hub-
bard College, from which he graduated in 1883.
He entered West Point the same year and was
commissioned a second lieutenant of cavalry five
years later—one year of ill-health extending the
usual academic period, A natural love and un-
derstanding of horses carried him soon after his
graduation to the 6th Cavalry at Fort Wingate,
N, Mex., and thereafter, until appointment as a
general officer many years later, he passed
through all grades of the mounted arm, reaching
a colonelcy, May 15, 1917- W^6 sti11 a lieu~
tenant, he participated in the Brule Sioux Indian
campaign of 1890-91 and was awarded a medal

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