Centennial History of Washington County, Indiana, Its People, Industries
and Institutions, Warder W. Stevens. With Biographical Sketches of
Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old
Families. Illustrated 1916, B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis,
Indiana. Breckinridge County.

Samuel B. Howard was born in Breckinridge county, Kentucky, February 2,
1850, the son of Huston and Elizabeth (Herron) Howard.  Huston Howard was
born on the banks of the Juniata river, in the state of Pennsylvania,
Setpember 25, 1809, the son of James and Margaret Howard, natives of
Scotland and Pennsylvania, respectively. James Howard came to America when
he was quite young and finally settled in Nelson county, Kentucky, where
he engaged in general farming for the remainder of his days.
     Huston Howard was four years of age when he moved, with his parents,
from his home in Pennsylvania to Nelson county, Kentucky, where he was
educated and where he became a farmer, living in Nelson county for some
time and then moving to Breckinridge county, securing land near
Hardinsburg, where he engaged in general agricultural puruits for the
remainder of his days.  Huston Howard died in March, 1876.  Mrs. Elizabeth
(Herron) Howard was born on May 15, 1815, and died in 1882.  Huston Howard
was a prominent man of his community, having been a member of the
constitutional board of Kentucky, and a citizen who had an important part
in the public and political affairs of Breckinridge county.  The elder
Huston was a stanch abolitionish and was active in the efforts of the
Republican party of his day.  Huston Howard and his wife were devout
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, Mr. Howard having served his
denomination as a class leader and as superintendent of the Sunday school
for many years.
     Huston and Elizabeth Howard were the parents of the following
children:  Mathias Miller (deceased), Henry M., William, Jesse, Samuel,
Mitchell (deceased), Joseph, Emeline, Lillian (deceased) and Sallie.
     Samuel B. Howard, after his early education in the common schools of
Breckinridge county, Kentucky, remained on the home farm until he was
twenty years of age and then moved to Perry county, Indiana, and spent
about three years as a student of rudimentary medicine, at the drug store
of his brother, Mathias.  Later, Samuel B. Howard went to the state of
Kansas, where he lived for three years and then returned to Indiana and
located at the village of Lake, in Spencer county, where Doctor Howard
engaged in the practice of medicine for more than a year, after which he
moved to the town of Kossuth, Washington county, in 1877, Samuel B. Howard
at this place formed a partnership with Doctor Tucker.  Three years later,
Doctor Tucker moved to Salem, Washington county, and Doctor Howard then
took charge of the work at Kossuth, now being engaged in the practice of
his profession at that place and in the county adjoining in Washington and
Jackson counties.  In addition to his medical work, Doctor Howard cares
for the activities on his farm of sixty-three acres, in Monroe township,
the work on which is done by a son, Harvey, who is a specialist in
horticulture.  The farm of Doctor Howard produces some of the choicest
products of the community, fine qualities of fruit being one of the chief
crops.
     On December 24, 1878, Samuel B. Howard was married to Levina Elliott,
a native of Washington county, and the daughter of John and Amanda (Denny)
Elliott.  To the mariage of Samuel and Levina Howard have been born three
children:  Bertha, who is the wife of H. E. Ward, secretary of the Ross
Gear Company, of Layafette, Indiana, and to whom have been born three
children, Helen, and Mildred and Gertrude, twins; Ralph B., who was
educated in normal methods at Valparaiso University, and who for some
years has been a teacher in the schools of Missouri and in Washington
county, Indiana, and Harvey E., who is graduate of the same high school,
was a teacher in various schools of the community, and who now lives on
the home farm. 
    Dr. Samuel B. Howard is a member of the Washington County Medical
Association and is a member of the Indiana State Medical Association.  In
politics, Dr Samuel B. Howard is a Republican.

Howard Herron Tucker Jackson-IN Elliott Denny Ward Ross
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PA Scotland Hardinsburg-Nelson-KY Perry-IN KS Lake-Spencer-IN
Kossuth-Washington-IN MO

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