Edwin B. Howard (1847-1935)

HOWARD, LYBARGER, SMITH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/20/2021 at 14:10:52

From Nevada Evening journal June 3, 1935 (page 4)

E. B. Howard Dead and Burial Sunday Afternoon at Ames

Special to the Journal.
Ames, June 3--Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon for E. B. Howard, 87, who died at his home here early Saturday. The services was in charge of Rev. Walter Barlow of Collegiate Presbyterian church and burial was in the Ames cemetery.

Death was very sudden, he having been in his usual health until Friday evening and the death early Saturday.

Mr. Howard, a native of Ohio, where he was born July 2, 1847, had been a resident of Iowa since 1853, when he came to West Branch with his parents.

Later he located over north of Marshalltown where he lived and acquired a large tract of land.

He came to Ames in 1899 and was identified with the building of apartment houses out in Campustown and other improvements here

He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Smith who kept his home for him, as well as two sons, Edwin R. of Eagle Lake, Texas, and Alva L. of Sioux City.

The first move west from Ohio was with his parent to Cedar county, Iowa, in 1853. Two years later the family moved to Marshall county and settled in Liberty township on land which has been owned and farmed by members of the family since that time. It is now in the possession of a nephew, James R. Howard II.

Edwin Howard attended West Branch academy where he was a schoolmate of former President Herbert Hoover's parents. He also attended the University of Iowa.

He married Emily F. Lybarger at Hampton in 1880. They located in Bangor township where Mr. Howard acquired a large tract of land. In 1898 he retired and moved with his family to Ames.