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Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 5           Generation 5                                       
                                         
                       +-- Abram Howe
                       |   (~1797-????)       
 Anna Catherine Howe --+                     
 (1830-1890)           |                         
                       +-- Barbara Unknown
                           (~1787_????)
                                        

Sources: ^[3][4][5]

Children

(Eight children with wife Barbara Unknown. Names of three are known; birth order of others is uncertain )

Places of Residence

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1830 United States Federal Census Shenango Twp, Beaver Co, PA pg 15. Census is not dated. Family of Abraham How: 1 male <5, 2 male 5-10, 1 male 40-50, 2 females <5, 1 female 40-50. This fits well with the Abraham Howe in the 1840 census for Armstrong Co, PA and with the 1850 census data showing Abraham, Barbara and Catherine Howe in Clarion Co, PA. There are extra children in both the early census. The direction of migration is unusual here. Beaver is west of Armstrong and Clarion counties. Also in this census: Slippery Rock Twp., Mercer Co. PA. Family of a George How age 30-40, (wife) age 30-40; 4 children: 1M & 1F aged under 5; 2M aged 5-10. This George How is likely a brother of Abram Howe. Abram had a son named Goerge who eventually resided in Mercer Co. PA. In 1930 Abram Howe was aged about 33 yrs; this George How was aged 30-40 yrs, with 4 children.
2	1840 United States Federal Census,Toby Twp., Armstrong Co. PA. No date of census given. Abraham Howe age 40-50; (wife) age 50-60; children: 1M age 5-10; 1M&2F age 10-15; 2M age 15-20. These ages accomodate the presently known family members: Abram 42, Barbara 53, George 17, Catharine 10, Samuel 9. This leaves unidentified a male 10-15, a female 10-15, and a male 15-20.
3	1850 Federal Census, Porter Township, Clarion Co. PA,pg 110, (from Ancestry.com; heading missing; no date of census) Abram How age 53, wife Barbara age 63, dau. Catherine age 20, son Samuel age 19. Abram born in PA, had a farm of 600 acres.
4	1860 Federal Census, Porter Twp., Clarion Co. PA. Abram Howe age 63, Barbara Howe age 73
5	History of Clarion Co. PA 1887, by Davis, p. xxv. Biography of George Howe, second of 8 children born to Abraham and Barbarah Howe, was born in Huntington Co. 11 July 1823; arrived Clarion Co. 1837.	(Complete text)
6	Personal correspondence of Fran Bean, descendant of Reuben Kline. Located the 1850 census record for Abram How in Porter Twp. Clarion Co. PA; noted repetition of Abram & Barbara in children's names; correspondence of calculated birth year from Catherine's census age & gravestone date & age.
7	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams, granddaughter of Winnifred May Kline.	N/A

Source Notes

• 1840 census PA, Cumberland Co. Dickinson Twp: Abram How age 40-50; 1F age 30-40; 1F&1M age 10-15; 2M age <5. The male age 40-50 is correct for what we know of our Abram Howe, and the female child age 10-15 is correct for dau. Catherine. The other ages do not match what we know of Barbara, George & Samuel. Does not appear to be the correct family.

1850 census PA, Cumberland Co., Dickinson Twp.: Abram Howe age 48, Elizabeth age 39, and 5 children including a Catherine E. age 3. This is not the same person as Abram Howe above, nor could he be his father; no apparent relationship.

• Per Robert Beals,1995 (Emlenton, PA, great-grandson of Catherine Howe), Catherine had a brother named George Howe who owned a coffee company and Catherine's husband, Henry Kline, had a brother who worked there for George for a time. (In 1995, the phone book listed a George J. Howe Coffee Co., 629 W. Main St., Grove City, Mercer Co. PA. Whether the compamy name has changed to reflect current owner's name is unknown). The History of Clarion Co., 1887, p. xxv biography of George Howe b. 1823, lists his parents as Abraham & Barbara Howe. Henry Kline & Catherine Howe named one of their sons John Abram Kline, and one of their daughters Barbara; this name repetition supports the belief that the Abraham Howe in this biography is the father of Catherine Howe. If so, the family originated, or was in Huntington County PA for a time. The 1850 census of Porter Twp.,Clarion Co., household of Abram & Barbara How, daughter Catherine's age as 20. Her gravestone lists her age as 60 yrs., when she died in 1890. This would make her 20 yrs. old in 1850.

Conjecture

• George G. Howe, relationship unknown. There is a second Howe biography, p. xxv, 1887 History of Clarion Co., of one Nelson B. Howe of Knox b. 1849. It lists his father as George C. and Barbara E. (Armstrong) Howe - so possibly a son of the George Howe above, except that it also lists his paternal grandfather as Simeon Howe, pioneer of Clarion Co. PA. It is enticing to wonder if the writer mangled the second biography, skipping a generation, assigning Barbara Armstrong to the wrong generation of Howe, etc. (See complete text) This Nelson Howe appears as an 11 year old child in the 1860 census, parents Barbara E. and George G. Howe. Nelson's brother, John F. Howe, is buried in the Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Clarion Co. PA.
  (See complate page, documents, gravestone photo for George G. Howe family)

*Venango County Records , Vol. I,1984, Venango Co. Genealogical Club, Oil City. pg. 18. Miller Farm Cemetery, Oil Creek Twp., Venango Co. "the Miller Farm Cemetery is located within the present Oil Creek State Park & includes a number of pre-oil burials...the cemetery has been badly vandalized & many stones listed below destroyed. This copy made in 1958: ...
Emily, dau. of Samuel & Sarah Howe, died July 5, 1843, (age illegible).
Rachel, dau. of Samuel & Sarah Howe, died June 10, 1848, aged 9 yr. 4 mo., 7 da.
(Note: Samuel & Sarah Howe are also buried here in unmarked graves. Samuel Howe was murdered on his farm near Pioneer in 1879.)"
Also: Venango County Genealogy Club , Fall 1989, p.5: " Aug. 12, 1878 - Mrs. Sarah Sproul Howe, wife of Samuel Howe, died on Friday night last (Aug. 9). The family are among the oldest residents of the county. Interred at Miller Farm."
Any relationship of this Samuel Howe to our Howe family above is unknown; the presence of a Samuel Howe in each was noted.

Howe Families in 1850 Census, Western PA

From the PA Census Index

• There are also a number of How and Howe families in Butler County
• The 1887 History of Clarion Co. indicates that Catherine Howe was born in Huntington Co., PA. The 1820 census for Pennsylvania lists three How(e) families in Huntington Co, headed by Martha Howe, Jacob How, and John How. Only the John How household has a male in the 18-26 range, but the 18-26 yr old is apparently John, the head of household, and thus could not be the father of our Abram Howe.
• There is a William Howe in Sugar Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA in 1820, who has a son in 10-15 yr. range. This is a little young for Abram Howe (who should be ~23 in 1820) but possibly within the error margin for census. We obviously need some additional data. EBW

Research Wishlist

• will of Abram Howe; names of other children.
• will of Simeon Howe & others, to find parent of Abram Howe.