Howard, James Enos M.D. (b. 21 MAY 1859, d. 30 APR 1934)

Note: James E. Howard practiced medicine in Allegheny County,PA prior to 1910.
From 1910 to his death he practiced in Mill Run (Fayette Co., PA)
Family lore says before becoming a doctor he was a juggler in the circus.
Author of the book "In the Beginning" published in 1916 by Roxburgh Press, Boston, Mass. LOC # BS1235.H68

Birthplace: His death certificate lists his birthplace as West Virginia (a state which didn't even exist in 1859). Census records for 1860 when he was 1, list his birthplace as Ohio. With his sister who was one year older being born in Virginia.

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1860 Census
Media: Census

Source: (Death Field)
death certificate for James Howard

Source: (Burial Field)
Death Certificate for date. Place has been visited.

Source: (Individual)
Title: Census Record
Media: Census

Occupation: Place: Physician

Occupation: Place: Doctor

Note: He served in the Watertown Company in the Narragansett Campaign
in the Great Swamp Fight at Kingston, 12/19/1675. He was twice
wounded at the Northfield Fight and again at the Turner's Falls Fight.

Occupation: Place: Blacksmith

Note: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - (the burial grounds of the Concord authors - Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott, etc.) The Benjamin plot is in the section nearest to the center of town about half-way up the knoll.

Probate Index:
Benjamin, Cyrus , Watertown, 1894, Administration
File Number:36789

Source: (Death)
Title: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910

Data:
Text: Vol. 446, p. 411

Note: They had nine children.

Note: She went by her middle name Elizabeth.

"1984 - House is still standing on Main Street, Concord, Massachusetts, where Elizabeth Heywood was born. It is next to the old Library Building which is the enlarged present library. Her father lived there, she & family lived there and her son, William Henry (my grandfather) lived there and seven of his children were born there including my father William Henry, Jr." - Evelyn Benjamin Putnam

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Concord Vital Records. p.292

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Lexington Deaths, Part II - 1854-1898. p. 410

Note: "The parents left Germany and were in the West Indies for a while where apparently their two oldest children were born. I believe they were heading for Boston when they were shipwrecked a fourth generation Meister (Rex) is living on the original homestead at present (1984) in the original house that Charles and Elizabeth built after they had outgrown two log cabins. "

Occupation: Place: Blacksmith

Note: In the 1880 census both Jennie & Sarah list their father as born in Prussia and their mother born in the West Indies. This is in contrast to the family story that the mother was also born in Prussia and only the two oldest children were born in the West Indies. [Year: 1880; Census Place: Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T9_538; Family History Film: 1254538; Page: 187.4000; Enumeration District: 362; Image: 0652.]

In the 1920 census her daughter Jennie says that she was German speaking born in Holland.

Note: Name: Prescott, Nathan P.
Residence: Westford
Date: 1892
Type: Administration
File Number: 32395

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Westford Births, p. 86

Occupation: Place: Forgeman

Note: Probate Records
Name:Prescott, Berthire
Residence:Westford
Date:1892
Type:Administration
File Number:32928

Source: (Birth Field)
Town records, Strafford, VT. In letter (response to query) dated 11 Feb 1989.

Note: Resided at Carlisle, Mass. Lived at Wheat Tavern until his wife died in 1872.
Civil War soldier. Private, 47th Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Company G,
from 16 Oct 1862--1 Sept 1863.

"John and Benjamin Webster, brothers, sons of Samuel and Lucy H. (Blanchard) Webster, came
to Carlisle, Mass., and were brought up by Mr. Cyrus Blanchard who lived on Cross St., and
had a blacksmith shop on Westford St. at the opposite end of Cross St. The granddaughter,
Mrs. Agnes G. LaFond writes as follows: "Benjamin H. Webster came to Carlisle from Concord
as a young man and resided in the north part of town. He was employed as a smith by Mr. Lee
in the blacksmith shop which still stands on the concord Road opposite the Common." (Note:
no longer standing) His father and grandfather were blacksmiths also. It was probably in 1872
that Benjamin left the blacksmith shop and moved to Graniteville where he stayed unitl his death.
He was a tool sharpener in Graniteville (Westford)."

Source of data: Adams Family by A.N. Adams, pp 161, 206.
Looseleaf notebooks, Carlisle, Mass. Gleason Public Library, vol V. pp. 32-33; Vol.
XXIII, pp. 33-35.

Source: (Death)
Title: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910

Data:
Text: Vol. 410, p. 308

Occupation: Place: Blacksmith

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Carlisle Births

Note: William enlisted in the Revolutionary War at the age of 17 at Waltham, April 4, 1781 for three years. His wife received a widow's pension W17293.

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Lincoln Deaths, p. 153

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Concord Records. p. 421.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Concord Registers - Book II. p. 256

Note: Was William's first Cousin

Source: (Birth Field)
Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass. by Henry Bond. Boston, 1860.

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Lincoln Deaths, p. 153

Note: Resided in Waltham & Ashburnham, MA, and Woodstock, VT.

Occupation: Place: Ensign