Howard (KATHLEEN an American opera)
KATHLEEN, an American opera singer; born in Canada of English parents. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States. She studied in New York and Paris and began her career as a church singer in New York City. After studying opera in Germany she first appeared appeared in Metz, where she at once gained recognition. She sang in other opera companies in several other cities in Germany and in London. She was leading contralto of the Century Opera Company in New York in 1913 and and again in 1914-1915. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Co. from 1916. an 77, and took post-
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Howard (SIR HENRY a British diplomat)
SIR HENRY, a British diplomat. He was born in 1843, and became attaché in the diplomatic service in 1865. In 1869 he was promoted 3d secretary, in 1873 2d secretary, and in 1885 1st secretary. He became secretary of embassy in 1890, minister plenipotentiary in 1894, and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in 1896. He has served in the United States, the Netherlands, Guatemala, Greece, Denmark, China, Russia, and France. He received the Jubilee Medal in 1897 and the Coronation Medal in 1902. In 1896- 1908 he was British minister at The Hague and Luxemburg. During the European War he was sent as minister plenipotentiary in British mission to the Pope, remaining from 1914 to 1916.
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Howard College
a coeducational tist Church; reported in 1919: Profesin 1842, under the auspices of the Bapsors and instructors , 12; students, 422; president, T. H. Eagles, A. B., A. M. tional non-sectarian institution in Wash-
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Howard University
a coeducaat the close of 1920: Professors and inington, D. C.; founded in 1867; reported J. E. Rankin, D. D., LL. D. structors, 50; students, 1,565 ; president, can editor and author; born at Treaty,
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Howard, John
John (1726-1790), an English prison reformer. He was born near London and inherited considerable property from his father. In 1736, the year of the great earthquake at Lisbon, he set out to visit that city. His vessel was taken by a French privateer. Ere his release he underwent hardships in French prisons. In 1773 he was made sheriff, that is to say, a judge of his native county and devoted himself to the reform of prisons. He visited the chief prisons of Great Britain , Ireland, and the continent, and published an account of what he had seen. He died in the southern part of Russia from the effect of a fever caught from a patient. He was not a man of great ability, but he is remembered in England for his services in the cause of humanity.
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Howe
how, Elias (1819-1867), the inventor of the American sewing machine . He was born at Spencer, Massachusetts, and died in Brooklyn, New York . His father was a farmer and a miller. Young Elias worked for his father on the farm and in the mill, and attended district school in the winter time. He learned the trade of a machinist. He patented his sewing machine in 1846. He visited England and took out a patent there. he was for a number of years poor, even destitute, and embarrassed by numerous lawsuits. About 1854 his rights under the patent were accepted by various manufacturers, who paid him a royalty, and he became a wealthy man. Nevertheless, he served as a private soldier during the Civil War, and, at a time when it was not known whether the general government was able to pay its debts, he invested his available money in United States bonds. By all accounts, he was a worthy, industrious, patriotic, inventive man. Howe was by no means the first to work at the general problem of a sewing machine, nor, indeed, was he the first to invent a possible contrivance. His inspiration came in the form of the thought to place the eye of the needle in the point, to thrust the thread through the fabric instead of drawing it after. With this idea in mind the rest was easy. See Sewing Machine
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Howe
ELIAS, an American invenor; born in Spencer, Mass., July 9, 1819. 1846, and was for several years involved He constructed a sewing machine in in expensive and harassing lawsuits to establish his right to reap the benefits of his own ingenuity . He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1867. American lawyer and public official; born
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Howe
JOHN IRELAND, an American inventor; born in Ridgefield, Conn., July 20, 1793; was at first a physician, but in 1830 invented a pin-making machine. This he perfected later and revolutionized the pin manufacture with it. He died in Birmingham, Conn., Sept. 10, 1876.
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Howe
EDGAR WATSON, an Ameri- Ind., in 1854. He was educated in the common schools of Missouri, and at the age of twelve entered a printing office. He was publisher and owner of several papers and at last became proprietor of the "Atchison Daily Globe," which he made one of the most widely quoted papers in the United States. He. continued in this capacity until 1911, when he became editor and publisher of "E. W. Howe's Monthly." He was the author of "The Story of a Country Town"; John Whitlock"; "Daily Notes of a Trip "A Moonlight Boy"; "The Confession of Around the World"; " Country Town Sayings "; and "The Blessing of Business." tor;
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Howe (II)
FREDERIC CLEMSON, an in Meadville, Pa ., in 1857. He graduated from Allegheny College in 1889, and took post-graduate courses at Johns Hopkins University. He afterward studied in Germany and studied law at ELIAS HOWE New York Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and practiced in Cleveland, O., until 1909. From 1911 to 1914 he was director of the People's Institute of New York City, and from 1914 to 1919 was Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York. While holding this position he was severely criticized for his leniency in relation to the deportation of anarchists and other undesirable aliens. He was the author of "Socialized Germany" (1915); "Why War" (1916). He also contributed much to magazines on economic subjects.
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