HOWES, PHILIP

HOWES, WATERS

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 10/4/2001 at 08:42:49

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P.
Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

PHILIP HOWES, proprietor of Howes' Nurseries and Gardens, Camanche avenue; is a native of England, and came to America when only 6 years of age; he lived in Schuylkill Co., Penn., until 1849, then lived in Indiana three years and returned to Pennsylvania, and, on the 2d of March, 1852, he married Esther Waters, and they came to Chicago the same year; he lived there and in Aurora, Ill., until 1855, and was in the employ of the C., B. & Q. R. R. he came to Clinton in 1859 and ran on the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad; he continued in the train-service of the railroad until June, 1872, when he gave it up and engaged in the fruit and nursery business; he owns thirty-six acres of land, finely improved with fruit and ornamental trees and small fruits. Mr. Howes was left an orphan at an early age, and had to depend upon himself; he began railroading in 1849, and has succeeded by his own efforts; has held the offices of Town Trustee and Alderman. They have nine sons and two daughters-Edward M., Archie F., Thomas, William, Philip, George W., Richard N., Benjamin, John Lewis, Elizabeth and Esther.