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George Edwin Howard, consulting engineer, Butler, Pennsylvania, is a successful man in his profession and well known in Butler. He was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, December 21, 1871, and is a son of Edwin J. and Sarah F. (Rice) Howard. Edwin J. Howard was a son of Judge Caleb Howard, a prominent manufacturer, and a resident of Delaware, Ohio. For a time Edwin J. Howard engaged in business at Cuyahoga Falls, later removing to Butler, where he was secretary of the Standard Plate Glass Company. He died in 1911 and is buried at Cuyahoga Falls. There were three children in the Howard family: George Edwin, the subject of this sketch; Miss E. P. Howard, lives at Orlando, Florida; and Mrs. E. D. Sperry, Coquille, Oregon. George Edwin Howard attended the public schools of Akron, Buchtel College (now Akron University), and was graduated from Cornell University in 1893, with the degree of Mechanical Engineer. After leaving college he came to Butler, where he was master mechanic of the Standard Plate Glass Company, later being promoted to assistant superintendent. He remained with this company from 1893 until 1900, when he went to Saginaw, Michigan, and was engaged in the designing and construction of the plant of the Saginaw Plate Glass Company, now a part of the General Motors Company. He served as superintendent of this plant for eight months. From 1903 until 1922 he was general consulting engineer for the glass industry all over the world, with the exception that in 1912 he was chief engineer for the H. L. Dixon Company of Pittsburgh, glass works and engineering contractors. In 1904 Mr. Howard purchased the Butler Brick and Tile Company, and became treasurer and general manager of the concern. He managed this in conjunction with his other business. In 1919 he organized the Howard Automatic Glass Feeder Company, to lease and develop his patents. This was later consolidated with other companies and is known as the Hartford Empire Company of Hartford, Connecticut, with offices in Butler, Pennsylvania, and Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Howard is consulting engineer for the company. In 1901 Mr. Howard was married to Miss Jean Campbell, a daughter of T. Chalmers and Juliette (Estepp) Campbell. Mr. Campbell was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and was the son of James Campbell, who was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and came to Butler about 1840, where he engaged in the mercantile business for a number of years. T. Chalmers Campbell attended the public schools, Witherspoon Academy, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He pursued and completed his law studies under Col. John M. Thompson and Samuel and W. S. Purviance, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1860 he was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County and practiced there until 1872, when he located in Butler, Pennsylvania. For the first five years he was associated in practice with J. D. McJunkin, under the firm name of McJunkin & Campbell, which partnership was later dissolved. In 1873 Mr. Campbell married Juliette D. Estepp, of Allegheny. To George Edwin and Jean (Campbell) Howard three
children have been born: Juliette, a graduate of St. Mary’s School, and
Miss Niel’s School, of Boston, Massachusetts; George Edwin, Jr., a student
at Cornell University; and James Oliver Campbell Howard, a student. History of Butler County, Pennsylvania, Historical Pub. Co., 1927, Pages 781-783. View image of this page of the book online - Free Trial More Butler County History Books Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors. View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com .
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