Samuel howe massachusetts early pioneer
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Samuel How(e)
Samuel How(e) lived lives enough for several people in his seventy years. He was a carpenter, a soldier, a politician, father of thirteen children, a tavern keeper, and above all a wheeler-dealer. Not that it would have mattered a bit to Samuel, but he was also my 7 x Great Grandfather.
It is hard to rein in Samuel&#;s stories and concentrate on one aspect of his life. I find it pretty impressive that he was the second new world tavern keeper in the How family when you consider that he was born just twenty-two years after the Mayflower landing and only four or five years after his own father arrived on the continent.
When I wrote about his son, David How, I said that Samuel How was the Donald Trump of Colonial Sudbury. I did not mean by that he was a millionaire&#;or even the Massachusetts frontier equivalent of a millionaire&#;however he was a man who played all the angles, made friends in all the right places, and constantly finagled himself a good deal. [UPD
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Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, American Philhellene, physician, educator, philanthropist, benefactor of Greece
Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, Boston, månad Daguerreotype. Archive Hall of Fame for the Blindness Field, Louisville.
Samuel Gridley Howe () was a prominent American Philhellene, physician, lawyer, pioneer educator, and philanthropist.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a wealthy family of merchants. His grandfather Edward Compton Howe was a member of the &#;Indians&#; of the Boston Tea Party, during the American Revolution[1]. His father namn Neals Howe was a shipowner and rope manufacturer who contributed to the strengthening of the US Navy during the Anglo-American War of [2]. Additionally, his mother Patty Gridley Howe was one of the most educated women of her time[3].
Samuel Howe received his secondary education at Boston Latin School[4]. After his graduation in , at the urging of his father, he was admitted to Brown University inom
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Samuel Gridley Howe
American educator and abolitionist
Samuel Gridley Howe (November 10, – January 9, )[1] was an American physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind. He organized and was the first director of the Perkins Institution. In , he had gone to Greece to serve in the revolution as a surgeon. He arranged for support for refugees and brought many Greek children back to Boston with him for their education.
An abolitionist, Howe was one of three men appointed by the Secretary of War to the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, to investigate conditions of freedmen in the South since the Emancipation Proclamation and recommend how they could be aided in their transition to freedom. In addition to traveling to the South, Howe traveled to Canada West (now Ontario, Canada), where thousands of former slaves had escaped to freedom and established new lives. He interviewed freedmen as well as government officials in Canada.