Howard, John W.

HOWARD

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 15:14:57

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.595

HOWARD, JOHN W., Indianola, was born in Preston county, West Virginia, in 1832, and was raised a farmer until sixteen years of age; he then learned the carpenter's trade, and worked for some years as a journeyman carpenter; he came to this county in 1854, and worked at his trade as contractor and builder, and has followed, it in all, thirty years; he owns 260 acres of land; he has held offices of assessor, justice of the peace, and is the present mayor of the city; he married Miss F. E. Fortney in 1855; she was born in West Virginia, and died in 1868; he married for his second wife Mrs. M. E. Lyon in 1870; she was a native of Bloomington Indiana; has four children by his first marriage: Ida, Silas E., Ella O. and Minta J.; one son John, by second marriage; Mrs. Howard had two children by a former marriage: Frank H. and Laura E. Lyon.