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Charles Henry Howard Collection,
1808-1957 (bulk 1852-1910).
1.0 linear foot.
Catalog Number: M90
Series List:
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Agency History / Biographical Note:
Charles Henry Howard (Bowdoin 1859) was a Bvt. Brig. General who
saw action at Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and
Chattanooga, and in command of the U.S.C.T. training camp at Beaufort,
S.C. After the war, Howard served in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands, as Inspector of Schools for South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida, and Assistant Commissioner for the District
of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
For five years he was Western Secretary of the American Missionary
Association. He served as editor-in-chief of
the Advance, a Congregational journal (1871-1881) and controlling
editor of Farm, Field and Stockman, later Farm, Field and
Fireside (1885-1905). Howard, the brother of Oliver Otis Howard,
held several special appointments including Government Inspector of
Indian Agencies under Presidents Garfield and Arthur and Western Editor
and Business Manager of the National Tribune (1885).
Howard (1838-1908) married Mary Catherine Foster of Bangor in 1867,
and had five sons and two daughters.
Scope and Content:
Letters, articles, addresses, diaries, etc., consisting of more
than 325 items. The collection also includes material on the Civil
War, on his experiences at Kent's Hill School, and on Howard himself.
The bulk is family correspondence, but the collection also includes
letters from William Jennings Bryan, Horace Bushnell, Henry Morton
Flagler, James Longstreet and Elihu Root. This collection complements
the papers of Howards's brothers, Oliver Otis Howard and Rowland Bailey
Howard.
Provenance:
Cite as: Charles Henry Howard Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions: None.
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