Hovey
EDMUND OTIS, an American geologist; born in New Haven, Conn., in 1862. He graduated from Yale in 1884, and afterward studied in Germany. He served as principal and superintendent of schools for several years and in 1886 was appointed assistant in the mineralogical laboratory of the Sheffield Scientific School. He left this to become principal of the Waterbury, Conn., high school, serving until 1892. In 1894 he was appointed assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History and in 1910 was made curator of the Geological Department of that institute. He was assistant of the United States Geological Survey in 1890 and again from 1901 to 1906. He published many papers on geological subjects and technical journals. He was also the author of "Martinique and St. Vincent" (1902); "1902-1903 Eruptions of Mt. Pelée" (1903). He was a member of many scientific societies.
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Howard
Henry, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547). He was the grandson of the Earl of Surrey who won the victory at Flodden Field. He enjoyed the favor of Henry VIII for some years but after a time, being suspected of treason, he was imprisoned in the Tower, tried, condemned, and beheaded. Surrey was a friend of Sir Thomas Wyatt, and the two made a study of Italian poetry and borrowed therefrom the sonnet, which they adapted to English verse. Surrey was the first writer of English to make use of blank verse, translating two books of Virgil's Aeneid into this form of poetry. In 1557 the poems of Wyatt and Surrey were published in Tottel's Miscellany.
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Howard
one of the oldest families of England. The principal are: THOMAS
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Howard
CATHERINE, 5th wife of Henry VIII.; born about 1520, was the daughter of Edmund Howard, 3d son of the second Duke of Norfolk. She was married, in 1540, to the king; but two years afterward he sent her to the scaffold under pretext of unfaithfulness.
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Howard
LELAND OSSIAN, American entomologist; born in Rockford, Ill., in 1857. He graduated from Cornell University in 1877 , graduate courses at Georgetown University. He was appointed assistant entomologist in the Bureau of Entomology in 1878 and was appointed chief of that bureau in 1894. He was honorary curator of the Department of Insects from 1895 and was consulting curator of in the United States National Museum the United States Health Service from 1904. He was permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he was a member of many foreign and American scientific societies. His published writings include " The Insect Book" (1902); "Mosquitoes of North America" (1912); together with many pamphlets and monographs.
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Howard (Earl of Surrey and third Duke)
Earl of Surrey, and third Duke of Norfolk, an eminent statesman and naval and military commander, distinguished at the battle of Flodden, 1488- 1554. EDWARD, a younger brother of the preceding, and admiral of England, killed in action with the French in 1512. HENRY, Earl of Surrey, eldest son of Thomas, the first polite writer of love verses in the English tongue, beheaded on a charge of high treason, 1516-1546. HENRY, 2d son of the poet, and Earl of Northampton, a man of letters, implicated in the murder of Overbury, 1539- 1614. CHARLES, known as Lord Effingham and Earl of Nottingham, and grandson of the Duke of Norfolk, commander of the channel fleet on the invasion of England by the Spanish Armada, 1536- 1624. THOMAS, Earl of Arundel, Arundel, and earl marshal in the reign of Charles I., diplomatist and antiquary, died 1646. HENRY, his 2d son, and 6th Duke of Norfolk, by whom the Arundelian marbles, collected by his father, were presented to the University of Oxford, about 1668. CHARLES, 11th Duke of Norfolk, and formerly Earl of Surrey, known as a statesman in opposition to Lord North and Pitt, 1746-1815.
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Howard (ERONSON an American playwright)
ERONSON, an American playwright; born in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 7, 1842. He was connected with several newspapers in New York City, 1867- 1872. Among his successful plays are: "Saratoga" (1870); "The Banker's Daughter" (1878); "Young Mrs. Winthrop" (1882); "The Henrietta" and "Met by Chance" (1887); "Shenandoah" (1889); "Aristocracy" (1892); "Peter Stuyvesant" (with Brander Matthews); etc. He died Aug. 4, 1908.
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Howard (FRANCIS a British artist He)
FRANCIS, a British artist. He was born in 1874, and was educated at St. Edmund's and St. Augustine's Roman Catholic colleges, and in Germany, at Geneva and Paris. Studied art in Paris and London; was art critic of "Weekly Sun"; and organized in 1898 International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers. He was art chairman at Jamestown Exposition in 1907, and from that year to 1920 has organized many art exhibitions, in which he has been represented. His publications include: "Illustrated Catalogue of the Second National Loan Exhibition" (woman and child in art), and a large number of biographical and other catalogues.
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Howard (II)
OLIVER OTIS, an American military officer; born in Leeds, Me., Nov. 8, 1830; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1850, and at the United States Military Academy in 1854; served in the Seminole War; was instructor in mathematics at West Point, 1857-1861; entered the Civil War as colonel of the 3d Maine Regiment; commanded a brigade at Bull Run , July 21, 1861; became major-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862; commander of the Department of Tennessee in 1864; commissioner of Freedman's Bureau, 1865-1874; peace commissioner to the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, 1872; brigadier-general in 1864; major-general , U. S. A., 1886; and was retired Nov. 8, 1894. He lectured and wrote: " Nez Perces Joseph"; "Life of Zachary Taylor"; "Isabella of Castile"; "Fighting for Humanity"; etc. He was personal military adviser of President McKinley in the American- Spanish War (1898). He died in 1909. institution in Birmingham, Ala.; founded
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Howard (JOHN an English philanthropist)
JOHN, an English philanthropist; born in 1726. His father, a wealthy London tradesman, died when his son was about 19 years of age, and left him an independent fortune. In 1756 Howard undertook a voyage to Lisbon to view the effects of the recent earthquake. The vessel in which he embarked being captured , he was consigned to a French prison. The hardships he suffered and witnessed first roused his attention to the wrongs of prisoners. In 1773 he resolved to devote his time to the investigation of existing abuses in the management of prisons. He visited most of the English county jails and houses of correction, and in March, 1774, he laid the result of his inquiries before the House of Commons. În 1775 and 1776 he visited many Irish, Scotch and continental prisons , and published the result of his investigations . In 1789 he published an " Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe." He died of fever in Cherson in South Russia, in 1790.
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