HOWARD
HOWARD
was with General Gates at the disastrous bat-
tle of Camden, Aug. 6, 1780. The same year he
joined the army under General Greene, and his
bayonet charge at the battle of Cowpens secured
the defeat of the British forces. It is said that
he received the swords of seven British officers,
who surrendered to him during the engagement.
Congress ordered a medal struck and presented
to him for his bravery. He was at the retreat at
Guilford Court House, March 15, 1781, and at the
battle of Hobkirk's Hill, April 15, where he suc-
ceeded to the command of the 2d Maryland regi-
ment. His command was reduced to thirty men
fit Eutaw Springs, and as their only surviving
officer he made a final charge, and fell severely
wounded. He was married, May 18, 1787, to
Peggy Oswald, daughter of Judge Benjamin and
Mary (Galloway) Chew. He was a delegate to
the Continental congi'ess, 1787-88; governor of
Maryland, 1789-92, and was U.S. senator as suc-
cessor to Richard Potts, resigned, 1796-97, and
for a full term, 1797-1803. President Washing^
ton invited him into his cabinet as secretary of
war in 1796, and in 1798 selected him as one of
the major-generals in the army organizing in
anticipation of war with France. In 1814 he
prepared to take the field, and when the national
capital was in the hands of the British he op-
posed all arguments looking to a capitulation.
In 1816 he was the candidate of the Federalist""
party for Vice-President of the United States,
and received twenty-two electoral votes. His
son, John Eager Howard, served in the war of
1812, and with his three brothers was at the bat-
tle of North Point, Sept. 12, 1814; and his grand-
son, John Eager Howard, served in the Mexican
war, and was first on the walls at the storming
of Chapultepec. Another son, George Howard
(q.v.), was governor of Maryland; another son,
Benjamin Chew (q.v.), was a representative in
congress; another son, Charles, was graduated
at St. Mary's, Baltimore, was sometime presi-
dent of the Baltimore and Susquehanna railroad;
afterward president-judge of the Orphans' court;
in 1860 was president of the board of police com-
missioners of Baltimore, and was married to
Elizabeth Phoebe, daughter of Francis Scott and
Mary T. (Lloyd) Key. Governor John Eager
Howard died at " Belvedere," Md., Oct. 12, 1827.
HOWARD, Joseph, Jr., journalist, was born in
Brooklyn, N.Y., June 3, 1833; son of John T.
and Susan (Raymond) Howard, and grandson of
Joseph and Anstiss (Smith) Howard, of Salem,
N.Y., who removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1820.
Joseph, Jr., was a student at Farmington, Conn.,
and entered Rensselaer Polytechnic institute,
Troy, N.Y., in the class of 1857. He entered
journalism as a contributor to the New York
Times in 1860 over the signature " Howard," and
attended and reported for that paper the national
conventions of that year. He was war corre-
spondent of the Times in 1861, and reported from
the Virginia battlefields the two great battles of
that year. He was city editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle and of the New York Sunday Mercury in
1862, and became a regular contributor to news-
papers and magazines in New York and Boston.
In 1864 he wrote and published what purported
to be a proclamation from President Lincoln,
calling for 500,000 men to arrest the rebellion, but
what was intended as a burlesque was taken
seriously by the government, and Mr. Howard
was arrested and incarcerated in the U.S. prison,
Fort Lafayette, for fourteen weeks, when he was
released without trial. He was immediately
made official recorder of the Department of the
East, and as such served at the trials and at-
tended the execution of Captains Young and
Kennedy, of the Confederate States service. In
1866 he resumed his connection with the New
York Times, and in August, 1868, became man-
aging editor of the Democrat, then first published
by " Brick " Pomeroy in New York city. On
Jan. 1, 1869, he became editor of the New York
Star, of which he became publisher and subse-
quently proprietor. In 1875 he became con-
nected with the New York Sun, and in 1876, with
the New York Herald, and he remained on the
Herald staff ten years. In 1886 he established
himself as an independent journalist and his
contributions, known as " Howard's Column," ap-
peared regularly in the New York Press, the
Boston Globe, the New York Recorder, and the
prominent newspapers of the nortliwest. He
also gave some time to lecturing, his subjects in-
cluding Reminiscences of Journalism, Cranks,
and People I Have Met. He was one of the
founders of the New York Press club, of which
he was president five years; a member of the
Boston Press club and of the Philadelphia Jour-
nalists; and president of the International League
of Press Clubs. He was married, in 1856. to Anna
S., daughter of Dr. Samuel Gregg, of Massa-
chusetts, and their oldest daughter, Grace, estab-
lished a mission for Indian girls in Dakota, which
was successful.
HOWARD, Leiand Ossian, entomologist, was born in Rockford, 111., June 10, 1857; son of Ossian Gregory and Lucy Dunham (Thurber) Howard^ grandson of Calvin and Sarah (Gregory) Howard, and a descendant of William Hay ward, or Howard. He was a student at Cornell uni- versity, 1873-78, where he was graduated B.S., 1877, and M.S., 1883. As an undergraduate he worked with Professor Comstock in the depart- ment of entomology, and from 1878 to 1886 was an assistant entomologist in the department of agriculture, Washington, D.C. He was made
