Amador
County
Biographies
ALBION SUMNER HOWE
Albion
S. Howe, general manager of the Central Eureka Mining and Milling Company, at
Sutter Creek, is a mining engineer of marked ability and an accomplishment,
having served on large projects in various countries, and in his present
position is contributing in large measure to the success of his company. Born in Blackstone, Worcester County,
Massachusetts, on the 30th of December, 1860, he is a son of J. H.
and Emily (Spaulding) Howe, both of whom were representatives of old New
England families. When he was quite
young his father died and his mother passed away while residing in the west.
A.
S. Howe received his early education in the public and high schools of
Massachusetts, later attended the State University of Iowa, and then prepared
for his life work as a mining engineer at the Colorado School of Mines, at
Golden, Colorado. He worked at various
occupations, paying his own way through school and college, and when seventeen
years of age was a member of a surveying crew engaged in railroad
construction. After receiving his degree
as a mining engineer, Mr. Howe went to Central America in 1910 and there
followed his profession, as he did also at later periods in Cuba, Mexico, New
Zealand and Alaska. During this time he
had charge of many large projects and became interested in a large copper mine
in Cuba. Mr. Howe has done much work
along his professional line around the Bay district of San Francisco, having
been in charge of the construction of the Mt. Tamaulipas Railroad, a large pier
at San Francisco and various waterworks and other public utility plants, some
important work being done at Mazatlan, Mexico.
He came to Amador County as general manager of the Central Eureka Mining
Company in 1917 and has here added to his already high reputation as an
efficient and dependable engineer.
Mr.
Howe was united in marriage to Miss Ella Lamphier, a native of Oregon, and they
are the parents of a son, Albion L., who has taken up aviation, which he is
studying in all of its phases. Mr. Howe
supports the Republican Party and is numbered among his community’s substantial
and influential citizens.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Pages 41-42. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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