Ebenezer Howe, son of Ebenezer Howe and Sarah Rice (source: Howe genealogy, no sources listed), born 21 April 1773 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; Dr. Ebenezer Howe (physician and Mason of the Ancient Landmark #17 in Portland, Maine) died 15 June 1841 in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA.

Ebenezer Howe married Catherine Spring on 02 February 1802 at the First Church Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA; religious celebrant: Rev. Daniel Marrett; source: Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder.

Catherine Spring, daughter of Jedediah Spring and Elizabeth Saltmarsh (source: Howe genealogy, no sources listed), born c. 1780 Standish, Cumberland Maine (source for Maine: 1850 US Census, source for Standish, Cumberland: 1897 MA death record for Albion Parris Howe, and, see Note 1 below), USA; Catherine Spring Howe died (as a result of an accident, duration: 20 days) in March 1860 in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA; source: US Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1860.

Note 1: Catherine Spring's father, Jedediah Spring, moved to Maine in 1763; Source: The Bridgeport Telegram, Saturday, March 29, 1924; "In the summer of 1763, Mr. Nathaniel Smith moved his family into Fryeburg (Maine); ... On the 20th November of the same year, Messrs... and Jedediah Spring moved into Fryeburg, from Concord in New Hampshire, through a rough, hilly country, uninhabited for 50 or 60 miles."; source for history: From the commemoration sermon, delivered by the Rev. Mr. (unreadable) Symmes, published according to Act of Congress; Printed at Fryeburg by and for Elijah Russel, 1799.

Ebenezer Howe and Catherine Spring had:
1 Elizabeth Howe (born 24 September 1802 in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA; married Lewis McMillan Spring, son of John and Olive Spring, (1804-20 May 1851 MA), Elizabeth Howe Spring died in 1849 MA;

2 Col. Marshall Spring Howe (born 12 January 1804 in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA; (source for January: General Catalogue of Non-Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine, 1794-1915, The Record Press, Brunswick, Maine, p. 520); married, first, Anna Timothy Cleland Howe Doggett, daughter of John C. Cleland and Maria Holland, (26 June 1822 Jamaica, Greater Antilles West Indies-09 January 1892 Duval county FL), and married, second, Almedia Moore Price Howe (c. 1836 LA; no further data after 1870 US Census); Marshall Spring Howe died 08 December 1878 in Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, USA; no known burial site);

3 Sarah Rice Howe (born 08 January 1806 in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA; Sarah Rice Howe died in 1807 ME; source: Family Data Collection: Deaths);

4 Greenleaf Howe (born 05 April 1807 in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA; married, first, on 17 January 1832, Mary Dennett, daughter of Samuel Dennett and Mary "Polly" Lowell, (1806 ME-04 December 1893 MA; Mary Howe buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA; Ash Avenue; Plot 3842); Greenleaf and Mary Dennett Howe divorced in 1860 ME; Greenleaf Howe married, second, Emeline Eunice Merrill Howe, daughter of Abel Merrill and Lois Harding, (1815-1889; divorced 1871 ME); Greenleaf Howe died (heart disease) on 28 December 1872 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; buried, 12-30-1872, Mount Auburn Cemetery; Ash Avenue; Lot 3842);

5 Mary Ann Howe (born 11 January 1811 in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA; married Simeon Coffin Clement, Esquire, son of Jacob Clement and Phoebe Coffin, (14 February 1805 in ME-15 October 1842 ME); Mary Ann Howe Clement died 25 January 1887; source: Saco Valley Settlements and Families; Wolfeboro Public Library);

6 Leander Marrett Howe (born 18 July 1815, died in 1815, in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA); and

7 Brevet Major-General Albion Parris Howe, son of Ebenezer Howe and Catherine Spring, born 25 March 1818 in Standish, Cumberland, Maine, USA (source for 25 March 1818: tombstone, 1897 Cambridge Tribune obituary, and 27th Annual Reunion of the Association and Graduates of the US Military Academy, West Point, New York; Albion Parris Howe; #1066; class of '41); Promotions, brevets and commands: First Lieutenant, 18 June 1846; Captain, 02 March 1855; Major, 11 August 1863; Commissioned Lieutenant Colonel 20th Infantry, 28 July 1866; declined Lieutenant Colonel 2nd Artillery, 10 April 1879; Colonel 4th Artillery, 19 April 1882; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, USA, 13 March 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services during the war (Civil War); Brevet Major General, US Volunteers, 13 July 1865, "for faithful and meritorious services." In addition to his artillery regimental commands he commanded the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, 2nd and 3rd Brigades, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps; On the death of President Lincoln, he was selected as one of the twelve general officers of the Army and Navy to act as a guard of honor to escort the remains (of the President) from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois; Albion Parris Howe was one of the military commission which tried the conspirators who took part with Wilkes Booth in the attempts made upon the lives of members of the Cabinet and in the killing of Lincoln; source: 1897 Cambridge Tribune, obituary; Albion Parris Howe died (a few minutes after 9:00 AM on Monday morning; source: 27th Annual Reunion of the Association and Graduates of the US Military Academy) on 25 January 1897 at his home on Concord Avenue, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; Brevet Major General Albion Parris Howe re-interred (see Note 1, below), 11-12-1923, Mount Auburn Cemetery; Goldenrod Path; Lot 6547.

Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915; Albion P. Howe, male, born c. 1821; birth place: Standish, Maine; death date: 25 January 1897; death place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; age at death: 76; father: Ebenezer; mother: Catherine Spring; died of general failure; cremation at Forest Hills; military officer; father born Sturbridge (Massachusetts); mother born Standish (Maine).

Note: Correctly Albion Parris Howe was born in 1818 and died at age 79.

Note 1: Albion Parris Howe was probably originally buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, as they handled his cremation in 1897. He was re-interred, in 1923, at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Albion Parris Howe married Elizabeth Law Mehaffey on 17 February 1859 in New York City, New York, USA; Elizabeth Law Mehaffey, daughter of Andrew Mehaffey and Elizabeth H. McPherson, born 03 June 1838 Pennsylvania, USA; Elizabeth L. Mehaffey Howe died 22 December 1921 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Elizabeth M. Howe interred Mount Auburn Cemetery; Goldenrod Path; Lot 6547).