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BENJAMIN F. HOWELL
At the age of four years Benjamin F.
Howell accompanied his parents to California, where his education was received
in the public schools of Oakland and there took his first job when he was
sixteen years old with the Great American Tea Company. He was born in Nevada, Missouri, June 22,
1871 the eldest son of William J. and Narcissa (Moore) Howell, both natives of
Missouri. William J. Howell was a
butcher by trade, who came to California in 1875 and settled in Mono County
where he conducted a wholesale and retail butcher business. He spent fourteen years in California, then returned to Nevada, Missouri, where he passed away at
the age of sixty-six years; his wife still lives there. Five children were born to them: Benjamin F.; Respino
died in 1922; William J. resides in Pueblo, Colorado; May E. is Mrs. William
Bailey, residing at Lees Summit, Missouri; Georgia is deceased. Benjamin F. Howell accompanied his parents to
Missouri in 1889 and while there learned the butcher and the carpenter trades,
both of which he followed.
On May 1, 1892 in Nevada, Missouri,
Mr. Howell was first married to Miss Iva Murray, born in Nevada, Missouri, a daughter of Joseph Murray.
Two children were born of this union, Vivian and Wanda. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Howell
was married to Mrs. Emma Clyne, the widow of Charles Clyne and the daughter of J. B. Adams. She had two sons by her first marriage, Ralph
and Earl Clyne.
In 1913 Mr. Howell brought his family to California and located at
Stockton where he has since resided and where he has followed both the butcher
and carpenter trades. In 1918 the family
home at 1727 South Stanislaus Avenue was purchased. In politics he is a Democrat and fraternally
belongs to the Moose and Yeoman lodges of Stockton.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1614. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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