818 WILLIAM WIRT HOWE. 



Lessons on the Life of Paul — Boston, Unitarian Sunday School 



Society, 1885. 

 Discourses — Boston, George H. Ellis, 1893. 

 Papias and his Contemporaries — Boston and New York, Houghton, 



Mifflin & Co., 1899. 

 Paul the Apostle, as viewed by a Layman — Boston, Little, Brown & 



Co., 1906. 



W. W. Fenn. 



WILLIAM WIRT HOWE (1833-1909) 



FeUow in Class III, Section 1, 1900. 



William Wirt Howe was born at Canandaigua, New York, on 

 November 24, 1833. He was of English descent, an ancestor having 

 come to America from Warwickshire about 1630. After graduating 

 from Hamilton College in 1853 he studied law in St. Louis and began 

 to practise there, but attracted by the greater opportunities in the 

 East soon moved to New York City. At the outbreak of the civil 

 war he gave up his profession for service in defense of the L^nion and 

 became a Lieutenant in the 7th Kansas Volunteers. Throughout the 

 war he was continuously engaged in military duty and rose to the 

 rank of Major. In 1862 he was married at Utica, New York, to 

 Frances A. Gridley. 



At the end of the war Mr. Howe established himself in New Orleans 

 and resumed the practise of the law. He was appointed by General 

 Sheridan during the latter's military administration under the Recon- 

 struction Act as judge of the principal Criminal Court in New 

 Orleans, and in 1868 was appointed by Governor Warmoth to the 

 Supreme Court of Louisiana, a position which he held until 1873. Li 

 1900 he was appointed by President ]McKinley, United States District 

 Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana; he was reappointed by 

 President Roosevelt and served until in 1907 failing health compelled 

 his resignation. In 1909 Judge Howe died at the age of seventy- 

 six. He left a widow and one son, Wirt Howe, a graduate of Harvard 

 University and of the Harvard Law School. 



In his profession Judge Howe achieved success and a reputation for 

 character as well as for capacity that was rewarded by his election 



