Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

JOHN WOODVILLE HOWARD, physician, Butler County.  The biography of Dr. 
Howard affords another proof of what determined and persevering efforts 
may accomplish in spite of adverse circumstances and lack of influence.  
He is a self-made man, and owes his present high position solely to his 
own efforts.  He was born in Morgantown November 17, 1848.  At the age 
of eighteen he left home and worked at Borah's seven months, earning in 
that time $175.  He then went to Illinois and remained twenty months, 
earning $25 per month, and at the age of twenty-one had saved $500.  He 
served as deputy sheriff three months after returning to his old home, 
and then gratified his ambition for obtaining an education.  He remained 
at school until his means were exhausted; then taught a term of five 
months, and again took up his studies.  His subsequent school life was 
passed in alternate[ly] teaching and attending school, always paying his 
own way.  He took up the study of medicine, but when ready for a course 
of lectures, his money failed him and he was obliged to borrow.  This he 
did, Squire James, of Morgantown, becoming security, he, in turn being 
secured by an insurance policy on the Doctor's life.  He graduated from 
the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1876, and having fitted himself 
thoroughly for his profession, he began practicing in Madison and 
Morgantown, and later removed to Logansport, where he has followed his 
profession most assiduously ever since.  He is the best known and most 
successful doctor in that locality, and is the only regularly graduated 
physician who was born in the county and has always practiced there.  He 
pursued his studies at Butler County Seminary, at the college at 
Muhlenburgh [sic] and the School of Medicine at Louisville, Ky.  His 
father and mother, James and Margaret Howard, were of old Virginian 
stock, and were the parents of six children, all living in Butler 
County.  The Doctor was married March 13, 1873, to Miss Timanthus Hood, 
a native of Butler County, by whom he had one child, Eva May.  Mrs. 
Howard died March 16, 1875, and the Doctor afterward married Belle 
Harreld, youngest daughter of Robert and Eliza Duncan Harreld, of Logan 
County.  They have three children: Robert Mayburn, Rura Belle and Inez 
Lizzie.  Dr. Howard owns a fine farm of 140 acres, and a beautiful 
house, lately built in Logansport, on the Morgantown and Hartford high 
road.  At the organization of the Morgantown Deposit Bank, he was 
elected one of the directors, which position he has since retained.

Howard James Hood Harreld Duncan
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IL Logan-KY

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