TOWN OF HOWARD. 



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Collectors. 

 Marvin GofF. 



B. 0. C. Sharp. 

 Lewis Spaulding. 

 Hiram Goff. 

 John Briscoe. 

 Byron Bennett. 

 John Briscoe. 

 Philip P. Bennett. 



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Wm. H. McKibbin. 

 P. P. Bennett. 



Supervisors. 



1865 Alkali Bennett. 



1866 " " 



1867 A. M. Cole. 



1868 Alkali Bennett. 



1869 Aaron McConnell. 



1870... " " 



1871 " " 



1872 John G. Sharp. 



1873 " " 



1874 Josiah House. 



1875 " " 



1876 J. C. Hoagland. 



1877 " '' 



1878 George Bennett. 



1879 William H. Willis. 



MILITARY RECORD. 



During the great crisis that was pending before the 

 breaking out of the Rebellion of 1861, the citizens of 

 Howard watched with bated breath the then pending issues. 

 They could not believe that these sister States seriously 

 meditated on the dissolution and destruction of the nation 

 and cradle of liberty, but thought that when the political 

 canvass had passed, reason and justice would prevail, and 

 peace sit enthroned, as it had for nearly a century past. 

 They, like all others, have seen their mistake ; and when 

 the news, wafted, as it were, by the wings of the wind, 

 came to their ears, the hardy sons of toil came from the 

 farm, the workshop, and in fact from every branch of in- 

 dustry, with alacrity, in response to the nation's call ; and 

 Howard, unlike most of other towns, filled up her ranks 

 with her own hardy and willing sons. Howard was called 

 upon under the different calls to furnish men, and the fol- 

 lowing are the names, as far as the writer has been able to 

 procure them : 



First Lieut. Benjamin N, Bennett, Alonzo Van Wie, Martin Iliggins, James 

 Van Wie, Valencourt Allen, Horace Bennett, David Sharp (died), H. G. 

 Preston, Saul A, Alden, Gilbert Alden, Ira Bennett, Byron Bennett, 

 Henry Cummings, Daniel Gray, Nelson Higgins, Joseph Hand, David 

 Hecox, Frank Keyser, Robert McBeth, Horace M. Meeks, Edgar J. Phil- 

 lips, Denzel Phillips, John Quigley (died), Lewis P. Russell, Nathaniel 

 Searls, John Vancampen, Adolphus Welch, Henry Willis, Webster W. 

 Wagner, Chapin C. Morgan, Edward Morgan, Henry Manhart, George 

 Elliott, Samuel Taylor, James A. Derby, Edward Graves, Wm. Patterson, 

 Charles Hammus, Samuel Hall, Russell Taylor, Lafayette Taylor, Benja- 

 min Willeon, Asa Wilson, Hendrick Rathbun, Isaac Rathbun, David 

 Hamilton, Charles Alden, John Mills, Lyman Westcott, William Edson, 

 Durand Duntpn, Eugene Dunton, Gilbert Dunton, Asa Keyser, William 

 Graves, Warren Keyser, Deloss Goff, Sidney Mesick, Abel N. Brown, 

 Henry Palmer, Stephen Peterson, Edwin Preston, Nathan B. Graham, 

 Hiram Goff, David Wells, David Cole, John Swain, G. Searls, Austin Cou- 

 ncil, Capt. Richard Towle, Dennis Morris, Henry Sprague, Andrew 

 Sprague, William Hammond, Enos Allen, Ansel Oxx, James Cooper, Jos, 

 Dunn, Nelson Danes, Eugene Danes, George Shearer, Robert Shearer, 

 Stewart, William R. White, John C. Hoagland, William H. Marge- 

 son, Reuben W. Van Pelt, Cranson Hagadorn, George Norton, R. W. 

 Welch, Patrick Dillen, Timothy Dillen, Michael Hammers, James Baker, 

 Alvin N. Baxter, William A. Wales, Henry Johnson, Ansel T. Wilson, 

 Patrick Watson, David Nipher, George R. Deloss, Herman L. Allen, 

 David Bennett, Luther Waters, Daniel W. Sabin, Ira Stephens, Scott Mc- 

 Kinney, Herbert M. Horton, Alanson Horton, John Swain, Alexander 

 Magill, Sylvester Shearer, James Dempsey, Henry Brasted, James M. 

 Willis, Henry W. Stephens, Josiah Hiler, John Cochrane, Henry Groose- 

 phend, John Hallett, S. S. Mulliken, William Coats, William Chose, 

 Andrew De Grafif, James Cochrane, N. B. Grames, D. W. Dart, Webster 

 Sharp, James E. Borden, James McChesney, Erastus Hawley, George 

 Searls, Leroy D. Goflf, John W. White, Joseph Fox, Abraham Russell, 

 Albert Pierce, B. Rice, William Dyke, Joseph Hyler, Dennis Morris, 

 Luther Stewart. 



The number of killed and mortally wounded, and those 

 who died in the service, the writer has been unable to 

 ascertain^ but they were quite a large number. During the 

 Rebellion, quite a number of public meetings were called 

 to take measures for the adoption of the best measures to 

 fill the diff*erent quotas, and make provisions for poor fami- 

 lies whose fathers and sons went into the service. A reso- 

 lution was passed that a committee be appointed to look 

 after the families of the soldiers, and see that they did not 

 suffer for necessaries of life. The committee consisted of 

 John R. Parkhill, Alonzo Graves, Alkali Bennett, and 

 Andrew Stewart. The ladies of Howard, soon after the 

 breaking out of the Rebellion, formed a Ladies' Aid Society, 

 for the purpose of co operating with the the Sanitary Com- 

 mission of the nation. Not only did they aid the great 

 commission, but they sent box after box of necessaries to 

 the front to their fathers, sons, and husbands, to cheer and 

 comfort them in their work. There was a War Committee 

 appointed by the people, consisting of Aaron McConnell, 

 Alonzo Graves, and Albert T. Parkhill, with full powers to 

 take such measures as they deemed proper and most ex- 

 pedient to raise money and men in the interest of the town, 

 and how well they discharged their trust is manifest by the 

 result. 



The town of Howard, during the Rebellion, raised the 

 following sums of money as a town, by the issuing of town 

 bonds, and private subscriptions, as soldier bounties : 



Amount raised in 1861 $10.00 



'' " 1862 1674.00 



" " 1863 369.86 



'' '' 1864 650.00 



'' " 1865 318.86 



Total amount raised by the town $3022.72 



In addition to what was raised by the town, there was 

 raised upon the credit of the town, in Steuben County 

 bonds, the sum of $42,450 : 



Amount raised for the year 1864 $13,800 



" " " 1865 28,650 



Total amount raised by county bonds $42,450 



The interest raised on account of the indebtedness for 

 the Steuben County bonds was, 



For the year 1865 $1127 



" '' 1866 3505 



Total interest up to 1866 $4632 



There was interest paid subsequent to 1866, amounting 

 to about $1000. 



During the struggle to maintain the honor and integrity 

 of the nation, the town of Howard very early in the con- 

 test took a loyal attitude, and maintained it through the 

 great struggle, and she will ever be ready to make any 

 sacrifice that may be required of her to maintain the 

 nation's honor. 



