Biographical Sketch of G. S. Howard, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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G. S. Howard, farmer, was born in Cole county, Mo., in 1837, and is a
son of William and Urana (Roberts) Howard, who were born in Tennessee,
but were reared and married in Cole county, Mo.  The father was a farm-
er, and served in the late war in McClurg's company, and died in 1874.
His children are as follows: Charlotte (Hasty), Elvira (Bench), Eliza-
beth (Starks) and G. S.  The latter was reared on farms in Cole and
Benton counties, and when eighteen years of age began working for him-
self as a farm hand.  In 1860 he married Miss Lucy Wisdom, who was born
in Camden county, Mo., and a daughter of Pollard and Charity (Mashburn)
Wisdom, natives of North Carolina, and by her became the father of the
following children: William J., Mary F. (Hicks) and Virginia A.  The 
mother of these children died in 1874, and three years later Mr. Howard
wedded Mrs. Marilla J. (Roney) Huffman, a daughter of Thomas G. and
Elizabeth Roney, of Tenn., by whom he is the father of four living
children: Effie C., Edna E., Ernest B. and Fred.  This wife died on the
29th of February, 1888.  In 1862 Mr. Howard enlisted in Company G, of
the Missouri State Guard, and was discharged in 1865.  When first marr-
ied his entire property consisted of one horse, but he rented land for
about ten years, and in 1870 purchased the farm he had been renting, 
and in 1883 bought the farm where he is now living, giving for it 
$2,100 in cash.  He is now the owner of 320 acres of land, mostly good
bottom land, on the Little Niangua River, about 175 acres of which are
under cultivation.  He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential
vote for Breckinridge in 1860.

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