Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 444
WILLIAM D. HOWARTH

William D. HOWARTH, was born in Harrison County in January, 1865, and has been a constant resident of the county ever since. He clerked for KILBER Bros., at Woodbine for about eight years and then formed a partnership with W. J. CALLENDER, in the grocery business. He was married to Miss Cora McGARVER, of Shelby County, Iowa, in 1884. By this union two children were born�Bessie and Harry.

Edward HOWARTH, father of our subject, was one of the early settlers of Harrison County; he came in the autumn of 1851, and settled in what is now Douglas Township. His mother died when he was a small boy and he lived with his father, Daniel HOWARTH, until he was sixteen years of age, and then went to work by the month.

Daniel HOWARTH entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in Douglas Township, which his son Edward purchased of his father in about 1866.

Edward was born in Athens County, Ohio, in 1837, and came to Harrison County with his father Daniel, in 1851. Edward married Betty C. ARMSTRONG of Harrison County, in 1864, and they are the parents of seven children�William D., Fannie B., Cora E., Sylva V., Luettie O., Albert E., and Florence M.

Mrs. Edward HOWARTH was born in Illinois, in June, 1846, and came to Harrison County, with her father's family, who located in Six-Mile Grove, where she remained until the date of her marriage.

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