John Chase Howe (1827 - 1901)

Born 6 Nov 1827 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Gore (Ripley) Howe — married 5 Apr 1860 (to 21 Aug 1893) in Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

Husband of Mabel Allison (Yates) Howe — married 13 Oct 1897 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA

Died 25 Sep 1901 at age 73 in Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Born in Boston 6 Nov 1827. He married 6 April 1860 Mary Gore Ripley of Cohasset.^[1]They lived in Boston and had two children there. She died 21 Aug 1893. He married second 13 Oct 1897 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Mabel Allison Yates of Gloucester, daughter of William and Alice M. (Boyd) Yates^[2] and sister of his daughter's husband.

In 1859 he formed the partnership of "Howe & French," Boston dealers in paints, oils, drugs, and manufacturers supplies, and he remained head of the firm until his death He was also president of the American Writing Machine Company (manufacturing the caligraph) from 1886 to 1893. He was a director of the North American Insurance Company and the Boston Penny Savings Bank. His early efforts in realizing the value of imports led to the formation of the Home Market Club.

He died in Cohasset 25 September 1901.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Cohasset Marriages, page 20
2. ↑ “New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659–1947.” Online index and digital images. New England Historical Genealogical Society. Citing New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire
3. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, NEHGS, Boston, 1929, Vol. 2, page 133

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Notes

Note NI06399Mr. John C. Howe, of the firm of Howe & French of Boston, was my strong friend at this time, as always. I recollect he always defended me against the little petty gossip of my extravagance which came from the village. It was owing to Mr. Howe's good advice that I saved my home, for when buying it, he had insisted that I should put it in my wife's name, telling me that every man taking the chances of business should do this. After my troubles I found many of my things were already spoken for by my neighbors. One was going to have my poor old horse Muff, if sold low enough. I would have shot her first !

My friend Mr. Howe came to my help, giving me the money to compromise with my creditors. This relieved me of further trouble. If it had taken away all remembrance of this affair I would have loved my neighbors more to-day; tell me about " loving thy neighbor as thyself," go through my experience, and see if you can.

Having settled up the fan business, I now gave my attention to the fireworks trade, which had become quite small from neglect. This had now lost all its attraction for me, as there seemed little more for me to learn, and unless I was experimenting, it was dull work.From Edmund S Soper's Weymouth Ways and Weymouth People - Reminiscences, pub 1907

Well, the end came when, having a note to pay, I went after the money; I was offered a note to get discounted by my friends Howe & French. Now Howe & French were my bankers, and having implicit faith in E. S. H., they discounted all the notes brought them of the firm I was now dealing with.

Mr. John C. Howe was the friend of a lifetime, and knowing the situation, or thinking I did, I wanted him to take no more risk on my account. I told Mr. C I would take no

more notes for my friends to discount. He said, " We have no money " ; then I said that I would let the note go to protest, and it did. This was the end of the fan business as relating to myself.

My name was on notes to a large amount of the firm I had been with, and they were in all the country banks about, on my suspending business. I was blamed by that firm, as it caused their failure, and others connected with them.

The fan business was taken up by my brother Fred and Mr. Frank Allen, and after one year it proved a failure; but Mr. Allen continued in it while he lived.

Note

By marrying his daughter's husband's sister as his second wife, his daughter became his sister-in-law.