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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY BY HARRY P. MAWSON .RONSON CROCKER HOWARD, founder of the American Dramatists Club, died at Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey, on the 4th of August, 1908, in his sixty-sixth year. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1842, the son of Charles Howard and Elizabeth Vosburg. The family on the father's side traces itself back to the Howards of Norfolk, Premier dukes of England. Bronson Howard's great grandfather, Seabury Howard, came to this country in the middle of the eighteenth century, an ensign in the British army; he fought in the campaign of 1759 under General Wolfe against the French, and took part in the capture of Quebec. When the colonies rose against England sixteen years later, he joined the American army, and fell, under the eye of General Washington, in the bloody apple orchard at Monmouth in 1778, fighting for the American cause. Mr. Howard's mother came of that Dutch blood which has added so much of steadfastness and solidity to the American character. It survived splendidly in her son. Charles Howard, the father of Bronson Howard, was a prosperous and well known merchant in Detroit, and mayor of the city in 1849. n appearance and CHARLES HOWARD, FATHER OF BRONSON HOWARD Photo by Randall, Detroit BRONSON HOWARD AND MARGARET ELIZABETH HOWARD, HIS MOTHER From a Daguerreotype characteristics the son resembled the father. If Charles Howard believed himself to be in the right, no matter at what personal loss, he would carry out his plans as he formed them. With Bronson Howard it was the same over again. Upon the death of Charles Howard in 1883, the common council of Detroit passed a highly eulogistic set of resolutions expressing the great loss the city had suffered through his passing away. Bronson Howard remained in Det...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217780575 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217780571 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 86 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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