The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-19
BIOGRAPHICAL,

L.
Jonas H. Howe was born in Peters
ham, Mass. April 29th, 1921. His
father Jonas Howe who was for
many years treasurer Of the town
and was elected a member of the
state legislature in 1915, married
Miss Arethusa Negus the eldest of a
family of 16 children, the youngest of
the family Caroline married Richard
Hildreth and was an artist of great
taste and talent on her way from
Rome to Naples. after Mr.. Hildriths
death, was taken in the cars with
the cholera and died in the hospital
within twelve hours after reaching
Naples.
The subject of this sketh had on
his fathers side two great uncles by
the name of Howe and three by the
name of Holland; on his mothers one
great OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Negus and
three uncles by the name of Gould
fine looking men, all six fOOters his
grandmother said 1t may have been
through sisters prejudiced eye
moistened with parting tears as she
saw them marching away that made
them look to her as ''three beautiful
looking young men in the prime of
life as you would see among a thou
sand.' According to tradition there
must have been 4S feet of great
uncles in the aggregate risked there
lives for "liverty and independence"
to say nothing of the brave and wit
ty Irishman-Major Negus who was
no pygmy. If such list of ancestors
would not make man a patriot,
what would be the use of having
ancestors anyway? Mr.. Howe was
brought up on farm and owing to
sickness and a feeble constitution
was unable to secure the full benefit
of the district school and to make up
for this deficiency was sent to school
in Hardwick and put under the tut
tion of Rev. John Goldsbury who
succeeded in rousing latent ambi-
tion for knowledge, he later went to
Deerfield academy where he stayed
two terms at New Salem academy
the same length of time.
He went to Boston where he stayed
two winters, devoting his time to
drawing and painting, and met Miss
Marguerite Swindell, whom he mar
ried in 1916, and in 1854 came to Min
nesota and settled on claim in
what is now Plymouth township, his
wife following him the next spring
with her five small children, without
male escort. In 1854 he enlisted in
Co. f, 18th MINI. Vol. Inft., was ap-
pointed 1st Sergeant and served until
discharged in July, 1865.
The same year he was elected rep
resentative for Hennepin county as a
republican, to which party he re-
NAMED faithful adherant until the
greenback party was started, when
he became bewildered as to whether
he had become a "turn-coat" and
abandoned his principles, or whether
the republican party had deserted its
principles and gone in for spoils,
Doodle, and the interests of the plu-
tocrats. After a close and exhaust
i've study Of political economy he con-
cluded the party had left him, and
that he had not left the principles of
Lincoln and his compatriots.
And since then the only thing left
for an honest man, lover of his
country to do was to fall in line with
those who believed that class legisla-
tion had nearly obliterated from our
government liberty and the rights of
man, and put in place of them mo-
nopoly and the almighty dollar, and
even that must be made of the same
yellow metal that Aaron made his
calf of, and start new party whose
corner stone should be ''equol rights to
all and special privileges to none" Hence
the interest he has taken in the up
building of the peoples party, believ-
ing it to be the party of the future
and the near future at that-the one
that will usher in the Coming Nation
and answer that part of the Lords
Prayer: "Thy kingdom come, thy will
be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Populist Governor Waite, of Col
orado in his address to the 10000 peo-
pie who crowded Colosseum hall at
the opening of the great Colorado
silver convention:
eff the money power shall attempt
to sustain it's usurpatiOn by the
strong hand we will meet the issue
when it is forced upon us, for it is in
tinitely better that blood should flow
to the horses bride rather than our
national liberties be destroyed. /" -
Rob hen house and you are fined
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