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SULLIVAN HOWARD

Retired Farmer, Kewanee; born in Temple, Hillsborough Co. N. H. June 30, 1806; came to this county Nov. 14, 1836; Rep; Cong; owns 220 acres in Burns Tp; married Elizabeth Bailey Little, in Hollis, N.H. June 9, 1831; moved to Mason Village, N.H. same day; Mrs. Howard was born in Salem, N.H. Jan. 16, 1807; has had nine children, six living; their names are. James Sullivan, born in Mason, N.H. April 21, 1832, now living in Oregon; Horace M. born in Wethersfield, Ill. Dec. 16, 1837, now resides in Chicago: Henry, born in Kewanee, March 16, 1840, present residence Red Oak. Iowa; Mary Elizabeth (now Mrs. J. C. Gridley), born in Wethersfield, May 25, 1842; Hattie L. (now Mrs. Zachariah Squires), born in Kewanee, March 28, 1844; Mattie C. (now Mrs. C. W. Wells), born in Kewanee, April 4, 1847: Nannie A. was born in Kewanee.. Sept. 11, 1849; Almeron Reed; she died May 22, 1874; Capt. Howard was first Justice of the Peace in Wethersfield Tp; before coming to Illinois

Capt. Howard built a goodly share of Mason Village, N.H; was Military Captain there; there were but about twenty inhabitants in Henry County when he settled here; for a great many years he was the principal carpenter in the county; built the first court house at Cambridge, in 1844. when there were but three cabins in the village; the court house is the same now used by the county; was associated with Ralph A.Tenney in the publication of the first newspaper published in Kewanee, about the year 1855; the Capt. bought the farm where Kewanee is now located, and, associating two other gentlemen with him, laid out the town originally; built and owned the Kewanee House in 1854, before the railroad was built; for several years was engaged in general merchandising, lumber, and grain business; retired from that business in 1861, and devoted his attention to farming, stock buying, and feeding, being the owner of large tracts of land in this vicinity; in consequence of ill health he was compelled to retire from active labor in 1873; he is now a Director of the First National Bank of Kewanee; has been identified with the bank in that capacity since its first organization.

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