Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 682.
 
E. W. HOWELL

     resides about six miles south from Richmond, at the present time, and was
born in Jackson county, Oregon, on December 27, 1860. He is the owner and
operator of a fine saw mill and shingle mill, where he resides. The former has a
daily output capacity of ten thousand feet and the latter is a well equipped and
first-class plant. Mr. Howell does a good, large business  in lumbering and is
known as one of the progressive and substantial business men and citizens of
Wheeler county. His father, Maurice Howell, was born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and
came across the plains in 1852. He was a veteran of the Rogue River war, and
died in 1873. He had married Catherine Clayton, who was born in Ohio and crossed
the plains with her parents from Iowa, in 1852. She is now living in Ashland,
Oregon, in the same vicinity where she first settled. Our subject received his
early education; from the public schools and then completed the Ashland normal
course. He labored industriously in the summers and spent the winters in
studying. In this way, he secured a good education through his own efforts,
since his father died when he was about ten years of age. In June, 1884, Mr.
Howell located permanently in the territory now occupied by Wheeler county and
engaged in lumbering. At first he worked for wages until he had the business
well learned, then in 1894 he leased a mill in the Winlock neighborhood and
operated the same for three years. In 1899, he came to his present location,
where he completed the mill which he still operates. He has a good trade in
lumber and has assisted very materially in building up the country by his
manufacturing. At Eagle creek, in Clackamas county, Oregon, on October 22, 1884,
Mr. Howell married Miss Maud M. Bates who was born in Missouri, on November 19,
1866, and reared in Clackamas and Multnomah counties, Oregon. Her father, Edwin
Bates, crossed the plains in 1871, and is still living in Clackamas county. Our
subject's brother, Frank E. Howell, was a very bright and promising young man
and enlisted in Company L. Second Oregon Volunteers to serve in the Philippine
Islands. He was actively engaged in the campaign with his command until the
regiment was discharged from further service, when he entered into business
about sixty miles from Manila. He was later taken sick there and returned home,
but never recovered, and his death occurred in Ashland on November 30,  1900.
Another brother our subject, Maurice Howell, enlisted in Company M, Second
Oregon Volunteers, and served during the entire struggle in the islands. His
honorable discharge occurred at San Francisco, but he had contracted disease in
the service from which he never recovered, his death afterward occurring on
August 17, 1903.
     Mr. Howell is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. the K. P. and the A. 0. U. W.,
while in politics he is a good, strong Republican and takes a keen interest in
the campaigns. Mr. Howell is an Oregonian by birth as well as by choice, and
believes that his state has one of the greatest futures of any part of the
northwest. He has labored assiduously to develop and build up and is rightly
classed as one of the pioneers of tins country.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.