The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-27

Last week General Howard was in
Ontario delivering his lecture On "Ab-
raham Lincoln" His last public ap-
pearance was at London; Ontario, on
Sunday night. On Monday he returned
| to his home in Burlington and was ap-
parently in his usual good health. Last
night, while sitting in a chair at his
home he was attacked by heart disease
and was dead when a physician reached
the house. The exact time of death was
1920 .. m. -.
Including General Howard's services
| in the Indian wars. he was probably in
more engag ements than ony other off
Ger in the United States army. He was
born in Leeds, Maine, Novem Der 8, 1880.
How He Became Teetotaler.
| Howard was graduated froli Bow
dom college before he was 10 years old.
While there he became engaged to his
future wife, then a girl of fourteen, the
daughter of Alexander P. Waite of Port
| land, Me. A classmate had. disgraced
| himself in a drunken spree and the re-
Eorts made young Howard the offender
The parents of Miss Waite were strictly
| temperance people, and believing How
ard guilty forbade him the house, and
| for months he was banished without
knowing the cause of the change of SEN
timent The guilty young man heard of
the. injustice done to his comrade and
brought about a reconciliation. How
ards suffering during that time, it is
| Qasred
strong drink that he never. touched it
again. Even on his way to the front,
when a number of the best citizens of
New York gave him a farewell dinner
at the Astor House, he refused to drink
wine. There had been much wine served,
and when it came Colonel Howard s
time to respond to the toast in his
honor he arose. and taking up a glass
OF water said:
Gentlemen, our country is in danger.
| T OF 10 70 In d,.+xy
| true beverage of a soldier is cold wa
ter. In this 1 pledge YOU
Shot Twice in Arm.
He went to the front and commanded
| a brigade of New England troops in
General Heintzelman's division at the
first battle of Bull Run. Before the
close of the war he had taken part in
twenty-five engagements. At the bat
tie of Fair Oaks. June 1, 1852 while
leading a charge with part of his bril-
gade across the enemy'S line, he was
wounded twice, first by a ball through
4 the forearm and then by one that
struck the elbow and lodged near. the
shoulder, shattering the bone That
was about II O'Clock in the morning
At 5 o'clock that evening the arm was
amputated in the field hospital. In
speaking of this incident in the military
career of the Christian soldier General
John r. Brooke said:
II remember Howard coming back
that day through my lines after mis-
dash to relieve French. His arm was
dangling, but he was calm and I'M
ruff1ed, although he must have been in
agony. 1 told him that I had orders tt
fall back, but wanted to know If in his
opinion it would not be better to &C
forward and attempt to relieve the
| right BY all MEANS he said, and
that was the last 1 saw of Howard I'M
/ til he had recovered and was put il
command of the Second division and Of
the Second army corps, (which he com
manded at Fredericksburg in Deem
Der, 1862"
Psalm Singing Commander.
When he commanded the Eleventh
army corps, which was made up o.
foreigners, mostly Germans, many &C
counts were received from the front il
which the psalm singing soldier was
held up to ridicule but these reports
came from the worst element in the
service and had no effect on the con-
duct of Howard, who always found
time for religious services and never
t began an important move without ask
8 ing the aid of God. He was asked
once by civilian:
rs there not much prejudice among
soldiers against the Christian in the
military service2"
"Oh. no." said General Howard; "or
the contrary, the soldiers all things
equal, relied more upon the man who