Oliver Hunt Howe (1860 - 1948)

Born 29 May 1860 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Martha Dresser (Paul) Howe — married 26 Nov 1889 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

Descendants

Died 1 Mar 1948 at age 87 in Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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Biography

Oliver Hunt Howe was born on 29 May 1860 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, the son of Elijah Howe and Julia Ann Hunt. At age 11, he attended with his father the Howe Family Gathering in Framingham, Massachusetts. As a result, in years that followed, he became the major researcher of Howe genealogy for the Abraham Howe of Roxbury line of Howe Genealogies, published in 1929 by NEHGS.

He graduated from his High School class in Dedham, Massachusetts as valedictorian in 1878. He worked as Town Clerk for Dedham in the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds from 1878-1881, and then decided to go to Medical School. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in June 1886.^[1]

He was recruited by a retiring doctor in Cohasset, Massachusetts to take over his practice, and he moved there in 1889. He married Martha Dresser Paul in Nov. 1889. They lived at 11 North Main Street in Cohasset in the center of town on the town common, where he also maintained his medical office.

He died 1 March 1948 i n Cohasset and was buried in a family plot in the Cohasset Central Cemetery (also known as Joy Place).^[2]

He kept a lifelong journal, which gives many details of his life. He records his first telephone, which had the telephone number 14. He kept that throughout his life, and passed it along to his son, Dr Henry F. Howe when the latter took over his medical practice. It had added digits by then, but was still the basic number 14.

He records buying his first car, which was put up on blocks in winter, since roads were not plowed, and horse and carriage or sleigh were much more reliable. Some years and several cars later, he records the sad moment of putting down his last horse.

In addition to being a doctor and a genealogist, he was a community leader, an author, a public speaker, a geologist, a botanist, a historian, a mountain climber, and much more. He was an innovator in many ways.

Paternal Ancestors:

Elijah Howe (27 Sep 1828 - 07 May 1898)

Elijah Howe(21 Oct 1792 - 30 Nov 1880)

Thomas Howe (07 Jul 1765 - 22 Dec 1805)

Thomas Howe (24 Aug 1735 - 23 Mar 1816)

Thomas Howe (12 Oct 1709 - abt 1791)

Isaac Howe (07 Jul 1678 - 26 Aug 1760)

Isaac Howe (24 Jun 1639 - 11 Sep 1714)

Abraham Howe (aft 1598 - bef 23 Oct 1676)

Robert Howe (bef 02 Feb 1570 - abt 1632)

Sources

1. ↑ Harvard University Directory - Page 339
2. ↑ {https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/28279471:60525 Find a Grave for Dr. Oliver Hunt Howe]

• Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, NEHGS, Boston, 1929, Vol. 2, pages 144-145

* Elias Nason, "The Howe Family Gathering at Harmony Grove, South Framingham, Thursday, August 3, 1871," Elias Howe, Boston, 1871 all pages

• Personal journal kept by Oliver Hunt Howe, in private collection of Walter Howe
• 1870 US Federal Census for Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, page 140
• 1880 US Federal Census for Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, District 513, page 9
• 1900 US Federal Census for Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, District 1029, sheet 18.
• 1910 US Federal Census for Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, District 1100, sheet 17A
• 1920 US Federal Census for Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, District 185, sheet 5B
• 1930 US Federal Census for Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, District 11-38, sheet 5A
• 1940 US Federal Census for Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, District 11-83, sheet 3A