<center>Howell Photos</center>

The M.T. Howell store as it was around 1901.
On the left is Mr. Howell who came to Baker County from Mount Olive, NC and is reputed to have brought the first sawmill into the county. Around 1894 he bought the Darby-Savage House (known later as the "Hardware Brown House" and opened this store selling general merchandise. Note the bedstead in the left window. The young man in the center, framed in the doorway, is the late Duncan Rhoden, a junior clerk. The white-shirted gentleman at the right was also a clerk, the hard drinking and buggy-for-hire, Bob Rogers. Mr. Howell with his son, Thad L., later founded the Bon-Howell Lumber Company in Jacksonville in 1912.

Emma (Barfield) Howell and Marshal Howell with son Ralph ca 1900

L-R Thad, Dan, Ralph, Mae (Howell) Powers & Merle Howell

 Floyd Howell
Floyd Howell
1925

 Floyd Howell
Floyd Howell, Mae Wester & Arch McLean

Minnie Howell
Minnie Howell
1921

Thad Howell
Thad Howell

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