When Hiram Ruggles Howard was born about 1821, in Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Matthew Munson Howard Esquire, was 27 and his mother, Harriett Nichols, was 19. He married Nancy Harrison on 22 September 1873, in Wolfe Island, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Elizabethtown, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1881. He died on 30 August 1898, in Lyn, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77.