- FREDERICK HIRAM HOWE, one of the successful and prosperous
business men of Janesville,
- Wis., has attained to the position he holds through years
of persistent effort in the line of his native talents and in
furtherance of an honorable and worthy purpose. A native of
Cleveland, Ohio, he was born on March 8, 1858, and is a son of
Francis and Martha HOWE. He acquired the ordinary common school
education in the district schools of the neighborhood, where
he lived in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and there
grew to manhood on a farm. Beginning in 1878, when he was twenty
years old, and continuing until 1879, he traveled through Ohio
selling goods for Messrs. Moyer Brothers, dealers in tin and
hardware at Cleveland. From 1880 to 1884 he traveled in the
interest of the Brooks Oil Company, of Cleveland, and during
the next ten years was similarly employed with the Globe Oil
Company, of that city. Closing his affairs in Cleveland in 1895,
he removed to Janesville, Wis., where he has since been connected
with the Rock River Cotton Company, engaged in the manufacture
of cotton goods. In all his dealings Mr. HOWE is known for his
prompt, honorable and straightforward methods, and in every position
of responsibility to which he has been called he has shown himself
capable and trustworthy, and wherever known none stands higher
in public esteem than he. He is a man of pleasing personality,
sociable and genial, and is identified with several fraternal
organizations, being a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a member
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
- On December 21, 1881, Mr. HOWE married Miss Jennie M. BRAGG.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. II"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, pp. 932-933.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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