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Rowland Bailey Howard Papers, 1808-1937 (bulk 1848-1892).
4.25
linear feet.
Catalog Number:
M92
Series List:
- Correspondence, 1897-1937, 0.75 linear feet
- Articles and Addresses, Family and Biographical Material, 1854-1927, 2.25 linear feet
- Diaries and Journals, 1808-1891, 1 linear foot
- Clippings, 1859?-1930?, 1.0 linear foot
- Photographs, 0.25 linear feet
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Agency History / Biographical Note:
Rowland Bailey Howard (Bowdoin 1856), a Congregational minister, was a member
of the U.S. Christian Commission during the Civil War; an associate editor
and contributing correspondent of The Advance, a Congregational
journal, from 1875 to 1884; and Secretary of the American Peace Society from
1884 until his death.
Howard graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1860 and served as
pastor to Congregational churches in Farmington, Maine (1860-1870),
Princeton, Illinois (1870-1875), East Orange, New Jersey (1875-1879), and
Rockport, Massachusetts (1879-1884). Howard married twice. His first wife,
Mary Ellen Patten of Bath, died in 1871, leaving three children. Howard was
married again, in 1873, to Helen J. Groves of Farmington. They had a son and
a daughter. Rowland Bailey Howard died in 1892 in Rome, Italy.
Scope and Content:
Letters, diaries, journals, pamphlets, sermons, clippings and speeches from
the personal papers of Rowland Bailey Howard. Although comprised primarily of
family letters, correspondents also include Andrew Carnegie, George Frisbie
Hoar, John Brown Russwurm and Theodore Dwight Woolsey.
This collection complements the papers of Howard's brothers, Oliver Otis Howard (Bowdoin 1850) and Charles
Henry Howard (Bowdoin 1859). Rowland Bailey Howard's Bowdoin diploma can be found in
Class of 1856 records.
Cite as:
Rowland Bailey Howard Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special
Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions:
None.
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