New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-03
OBITUARY..
SENATOR j. NJ. HOWARD.

Ex-senator Jacob M. Howard who has been
for few days suffering from partial stroke of paraly
sis died at his home In Detroit, Mich yesterday Mr..
Howard was born In Shatsbury VT, July 10, 1905, and
enjoyed educational advantages not usual TO the youth
Of his day. He was edueateda the excellent Academies
Of Bennington and Bratteborough, whence he grad
uated in 1890 with marked honor, conspicuous alike
for natural parts and solid scholastic acquire
ments Upon leaving school, he studied law
for q few years, maintaining himself meantime
by teaching Massachusetts, academy His
profession well acquired he removed in 1884, to the Ter
iory OF Michigan admitted to the Bar and at once
took high rank as able practitioner and acute
sttutiona eIpounder In 1858 he sent to the new
State Legislature where he made marked success in
shaping the machinery of the incpent Commonwealth.
From post Of arduous honor he promoted to the
National Congress- and served with great ability on sew
eral important committees. Here he continued until
1854 when he elected Atorney-General OF Michigan,
from which office he was elected to the United States
Senate in the dark days OF 1862.
Aside from his active participation in the measures
OF the session. Senator Howard found time carry for
ward the great civic achievement OF the century-he
Pacific Railroad.
The bill for the great charter had laborousy bated
through the House. by the Irresistible ardor of Thaddeus
Stevens and when 1t to the Senate Senator How
ard was made Chairman of the Special Committee on
the Pacific Railroad and series Of vigorous speeches
and reports aroused the Senate and the country TO the
practicaby and vast importance OF the design At the
end OF his term 1865 he reelected for six years
which expired on the h Of March last In 1865 the hon
orary degree Of LIZ D. conferred upon Senator How
ard quite as much as recognition of his general liter
AIRY accomplishments his conspicuous legal eruditon
MRS. PHEBE RILEY.
Died. on the 18th Of March, after short i'll
ness Mrs PHEBE RILEY at the residence OF her daugh-
ter Mrs Dr. Murdoch in Urbana, Ohio at the advanced
age Of "a years.
Mrs Riley came OF good old Puritan stock, being the
daughter Of Mr.. Hosea Miller, Of Middletown Conn.
stanch patriot OF the Revolutionary War She was
born Jan 80 17 her childhood passing amid the turbu
lent scenes incident to the forming Of great nation
many of which thrilling adventures came fresh to her
mind during late struggle with another and greater
despotlsm. In 1907, she married to Capt James
Riley whose shipwreck Off the coast of Africa in the
brig Commerce in the year 1876 and subsequent suffer
ngs while held as slave by the Arabs in the Desert OF
Sahara were familiar to every at the time. After
that terrible disaster Capt Riley determined to quit the
sea- and from that period the course of Mrs. Reys life
is so interviewer with her husbands that sketch
| ING taken large contracts from the L. s. Land
| Department for surveying the NORTHWESTERN part
OF Ohio and Northern Indiana, removed ms 1ahy IOI
NewYork City and settled IN Van Vert County Ohio on
the St. Marys River then almost an unbrOken forest anu
much inaccessible than our remotest
This frontier life continued cight years wheh lhe
climate being unfayorable TO his constitution tLey re-
turned to NeT,1ork CITY where t ,y teSae $50 nce
that event, Mrs Riley has lived with her children (Who
endeared herself to all with whom she came III contact
Possessing remarkable memory and ondness Tor read
ding her mind became store house OF useu knoweuge
and entertaining story By happy IrOYluenee sue dc
tanned her eyesght to the very last ana WIS III te la
tice OF reading daily, particularly in the Bible winch lat
ter regularly lerused from the beginning TO ne end
She early united with the Congregational Church. and
throughout herong and eventful life delighted in Chris
| tian charities.