He received his M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1865. He briefly set up private practice in Philadelphia but quickly turned his interests to the coal industry and railroads. Howe died of heart disease on 1 October 1916. Scope and Contents One volume consisting of eight loose gatherings and 3 loose leaves, containing case notes on hospital patients for the years 1865-1866. Each record contains patient name, age, date admitted, history, diagnosis, treatment, result, and post-mortem findings, if applicable.
Hospital is unidentified.
Provenance Given to the College of Physicians on 27 February 1953 by Mrs. Alice G. B. Steel, her sisters and Dr. Halsey de Wolf.