Marshall Otis Howe (1832 - 1919)

Born 4 Oct 1832 in Wardsboro, Windham, Vermont

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Died 13 May 1919 at age 86 in Newfane, Windham, Vermont

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Biography

Born in Wardsboro, Vt., 4 Oct. 1832; married 15 Rug. 1866, Gertrude Isabel Dexter, daughter of Avery Joseph and Mary (White) Dexter of Wardsboro, Vt. He studied law, but was compelled on account of ill health, to abandon that profession. He bought the Reuben Taft farm in Newfane, Vt., and moved there in March 1867. He was Superintendent of the Schools in Wardsboro for two years, and in Newfane for nine years, a Justice of the Peace for many years, was representative to the State Legislature in 1882, Agricultural editor of the Vermont Phoenix 1880-1890; supervisor of the U. S. Census for the District of Vermont in 1890. He was living in Newfane, Vt., in 1904.^[1]

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1. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Vol. 1, John of Sudbury and Marlborough, NEHGS; Boston;1929;), p339