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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 927-928
CORNELIUS HOWARD is numbered among the prosperous farmers and veteran citizens of Watterstown township, Grant county, and resides on a fine farm in section 11, which he has brought up to a good state of cultivation.
Mr. HOWARD was born in what was then Morgan (now Elliott) county, Ky., in 1847, being a son of Thomas and Nancy HOWARD, natives of Kentucky and Ohio, respectively. The parents removed from Kentucky, where their children were born, to Illinois, and after living in that State a short time they pushed further into the wilderness, and in 1863 located in Grant county, Wis. Here the mother died, but the father still survives, and resides in Kentucky. Five children were born of this union, four sons and one daughter, and all of them, except Cornelius, reside in Ohio.
Our subject was reared and educated in Kentucky, and always followed the occupation of farming, with the exception of a few years spent in working on a railroad. By his own efforts he finally amassed sufficient money to purchase his present comfortable farm. At the outbreak of the Civil war Cornelius Howard was too young to enter the service but in January, 1865, when but eighteen, he enlisted in Company E, 47th Wis. V.I., and remained until the close of the war. During his term of service Mr. HOWARD's health became seriously impaired, and he has never recovered from the effects of the hardships he suffered.
To Cornelius HOWARD and his wife, Caroline, four sons have been born: Fred, George, Charles and John, but the last three died in early childhood. Having been a good, brave soldier, Mr. HOWARD naturally takes a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the veterans, and is an active member of the G.A.R. Honest, thrifty, industrious, Mr. HOWARD has gained for himself the respect of his neighbors, and is justly regarded as a substantial man, and a good representative of the agricultural interests of Grant county.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck