When George Fenton Howard was born on 4 May 1856, in College Hill, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, his father, Stephen Fenton Howard, was 28 and his mother, Joanna Urmston, was 28. He married Alice M. Long on 8 November 1874, in Butler, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Warren, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Harlan Township, Warren, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 29 June 1927, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
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Harlan Township was organized in 1860. It was created by the Ohio General Assembly by the Act of March 16, 1860.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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