Son of Ithamar and Mary (Gibbs) Howard.
Married to Minerva Shirey on March 26, 1884 in Fontanelle, Iowa.
Frank came from Fontanelle, Iowa in 1884 with his bride of one month to Pawnee City, Nebraska where they lived in a log cabin on his father's farm northeast of town until they bought Henry Aiken's Homestead where they raised their four children. In 1906 they moved to the north end of town where they built a home and large barn across the street where Frank sold horses and mules.
(Pawnee Library, book of obits in the Pawnee Republican.)
TABLE ROCK ARGUS, Friday, June 15, 1917.
Frank Howard, the horseman of Pawnee City, was a business visitor in Table Rock on Friday of last week. Fifty-two years ago last Sunday, Mr. Howard, then a small lad of five years, camped in a tent near the site of the old Table Rock. In the party were the parents of Mr. Howard and their seven children and the family of an uncle, composed of the parents and five children. The party had traveled from Illinois by wagon, and they decided to remain here. Frank grew to manhood, developed a love for and a keen knowledge of horses, and engaged in the horse business and is today one of the best known and largest buyers and shippers of horses in the middle West. In the early days the family underwent the privations and hardships incident to a new country and like their neighbors were very poor, even the bare necessities of life being very hard to get many times.
(Posted courtesy of the Table Rock Historical Society.)
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COURIER TRIBUNE, Seneca, Kansas, Wednesday, April 25, 1923.
DEATHS
In the passing of Frank Howard, pioneer resident and veteran horse dealer of Pawnee City, this section loses one of its oldest and most progressive citizens and the community loses a "boaster" who always had a good word and a convincing argument for the community in which he lived for over a half century.
Few men had done more for the horse raising industry than did Mr. Howard during his forty years as a dealer, and no one has done more for a county in encouraging the breeding of better stock than did he.
Coming here in pioneer days at the age of five years, he grew up with the country, and had a prominent part in the development of the agriculture and live stock interests of the section. He lost no opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of improved live stock to the farmers and stockman of the community.
Mr. Howards death, while he was still in his prime of life, is a blow to the community which will be felt more and more as the days and years go by.
Mr. Howard died at eleven o'clock on the morning of April 11th. He leaves a wife whom he brought a bride to Pawnee City, thirty-nine years ago, two daughters and a son. Mr. Howard was well known in Nemaha county and carried away the prizes at the horse shows held in Seneca years ago.
Married to Minerva Shirey on March 26, 1884 in Fontanelle, Iowa.
Frank came from Fontanelle, Iowa in 1884 with his bride of one month to Pawnee City, Nebraska where they lived in a log cabin on his father's farm northeast of town until they bought Henry Aiken's Homestead where they raised their four children. In 1906 they moved to the north end of town where they built a home and large barn across the street where Frank sold horses and mules.
(Pawnee Library, book of obits in the Pawnee Republican.)
TABLE ROCK ARGUS, Friday, June 15, 1917.
Frank Howard, the horseman of Pawnee City, was a business visitor in Table Rock on Friday of last week. Fifty-two years ago last Sunday, Mr. Howard, then a small lad of five years, camped in a tent near the site of the old Table Rock. In the party were the parents of Mr. Howard and their seven children and the family of an uncle, composed of the parents and five children. The party had traveled from Illinois by wagon, and they decided to remain here. Frank grew to manhood, developed a love for and a keen knowledge of horses, and engaged in the horse business and is today one of the best known and largest buyers and shippers of horses in the middle West. In the early days the family underwent the privations and hardships incident to a new country and like their neighbors were very poor, even the bare necessities of life being very hard to get many times.
(Posted courtesy of the Table Rock Historical Society.)
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COURIER TRIBUNE, Seneca, Kansas, Wednesday, April 25, 1923.
DEATHS
In the passing of Frank Howard, pioneer resident and veteran horse dealer of Pawnee City, this section loses one of its oldest and most progressive citizens and the community loses a "boaster" who always had a good word and a convincing argument for the community in which he lived for over a half century.
Few men had done more for the horse raising industry than did Mr. Howard during his forty years as a dealer, and no one has done more for a county in encouraging the breeding of better stock than did he.
Coming here in pioneer days at the age of five years, he grew up with the country, and had a prominent part in the development of the agriculture and live stock interests of the section. He lost no opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of improved live stock to the farmers and stockman of the community.
Mr. Howards death, while he was still in his prime of life, is a blow to the community which will be felt more and more as the days and years go by.
Mr. Howard died at eleven o'clock on the morning of April 11th. He leaves a wife whom he brought a bride to Pawnee City, thirty-nine years ago, two daughters and a son. Mr. Howard was well known in Nemaha county and carried away the prizes at the horse shows held in Seneca years ago.
Son of Ithamar and Mary (Gibbs) Howard.
Married to Minerva Shirey on March 26, 1884 in Fontanelle, Iowa.
Frank came from Fontanelle, Iowa in 1884 with his bride of one month to Pawnee City, Nebraska where they lived in a log cabin on his father's farm northeast of town until they bought Henry Aiken's Homestead where they raised their four children. In 1906 they moved to the north end of town where they built a home and large barn across the street where Frank sold horses and mules.
(Pawnee Library, book of obits in the Pawnee Republican.)
TABLE ROCK ARGUS, Friday, June 15, 1917.
Frank Howard, the horseman of Pawnee City, was a business visitor in Table Rock on Friday of last week. Fifty-two years ago last Sunday, Mr. Howard, then a small lad of five years, camped in a tent near the site of the old Table Rock. In the party were the parents of Mr. Howard and their seven children and the family of an uncle, composed of the parents and five children. The party had traveled from Illinois by wagon, and they decided to remain here. Frank grew to manhood, developed a love for and a keen knowledge of horses, and engaged in the horse business and is today one of the best known and largest buyers and shippers of horses in the middle West. In the early days the family underwent the privations and hardships incident to a new country and like their neighbors were very poor, even the bare necessities of life being very hard to get many times.
(Posted courtesy of the Table Rock Historical Society.)
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COURIER TRIBUNE, Seneca, Kansas, Wednesday, April 25, 1923.
DEATHS
In the passing of Frank Howard, pioneer resident and veteran horse dealer of Pawnee City, this section loses one of its oldest and most progressive citizens and the community loses a "boaster" who always had a good word and a convincing argument for the community in which he lived for over a half century.
Few men had done more for the horse raising industry than did Mr. Howard during his forty years as a dealer, and no one has done more for a county in encouraging the breeding of better stock than did he.
Coming here in pioneer days at the age of five years, he grew up with the country, and had a prominent part in the development of the agriculture and live stock interests of the section. He lost no opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of improved live stock to the farmers and stockman of the community.
Mr. Howards death, while he was still in his prime of life, is a blow to the community which will be felt more and more as the days and years go by.
Mr. Howard died at eleven o'clock on the morning of April 11th. He leaves a wife whom he brought a bride to Pawnee City, thirty-nine years ago, two daughters and a son. Mr. Howard was well known in Nemaha county and carried away the prizes at the horse shows held in Seneca years ago.
Married to Minerva Shirey on March 26, 1884 in Fontanelle, Iowa.
Frank came from Fontanelle, Iowa in 1884 with his bride of one month to Pawnee City, Nebraska where they lived in a log cabin on his father's farm northeast of town until they bought Henry Aiken's Homestead where they raised their four children. In 1906 they moved to the north end of town where they built a home and large barn across the street where Frank sold horses and mules.
(Pawnee Library, book of obits in the Pawnee Republican.)
TABLE ROCK ARGUS, Friday, June 15, 1917.
Frank Howard, the horseman of Pawnee City, was a business visitor in Table Rock on Friday of last week. Fifty-two years ago last Sunday, Mr. Howard, then a small lad of five years, camped in a tent near the site of the old Table Rock. In the party were the parents of Mr. Howard and their seven children and the family of an uncle, composed of the parents and five children. The party had traveled from Illinois by wagon, and they decided to remain here. Frank grew to manhood, developed a love for and a keen knowledge of horses, and engaged in the horse business and is today one of the best known and largest buyers and shippers of horses in the middle West. In the early days the family underwent the privations and hardships incident to a new country and like their neighbors were very poor, even the bare necessities of life being very hard to get many times.
(Posted courtesy of the Table Rock Historical Society.)
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COURIER TRIBUNE, Seneca, Kansas, Wednesday, April 25, 1923.
DEATHS
In the passing of Frank Howard, pioneer resident and veteran horse dealer of Pawnee City, this section loses one of its oldest and most progressive citizens and the community loses a "boaster" who always had a good word and a convincing argument for the community in which he lived for over a half century.
Few men had done more for the horse raising industry than did Mr. Howard during his forty years as a dealer, and no one has done more for a county in encouraging the breeding of better stock than did he.
Coming here in pioneer days at the age of five years, he grew up with the country, and had a prominent part in the development of the agriculture and live stock interests of the section. He lost no opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of improved live stock to the farmers and stockman of the community.
Mr. Howards death, while he was still in his prime of life, is a blow to the community which will be felt more and more as the days and years go by.
Mr. Howard died at eleven o'clock on the morning of April 11th. He leaves a wife whom he brought a bride to Pawnee City, thirty-nine years ago, two daughters and a son. Mr. Howard was well known in Nemaha county and carried away the prizes at the horse shows held in Seneca years ago.
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