From a news clipping from the Burlington Free Press, Burlington, VT Jan 25, 1960: (Excerpts quoted from much longer article) Son of General: Harry Stinson Howard, Lawyer and Businessman, Dies at 90 Harry Stinson Howard, 90-year-old lawyer, longtime justice of the peace and former owner of a real estate and insurance firm, died Saturday morning at his home, 421 Main St. He was the youngest son of Maj. General Oliver Otis Howard, a Union army commander at the Battles of Antietam, Bull Run and Gettysburg, and a friend of Abraham Lincoln. His mother was the former Elizabeth Ann Waite. Harry S. Howard was born in Washington, DC, July 25, 1869, on the campus of Howard University, which was named for his father and where the elder Howard was president. At 5 years of age, he went with his family to Portland, Ore., and lived there for 10 years during the period of his father's Indian campaigns. Moving later to Omaha, Neb, he worked for two years in a bank. When the family went to a new home at Fort Mason, Calif., he attended school and was appointed cadet captain of a company of boys in the first Regiment of Artillery of the National Guard of California. He resigned this position when his father was ordered back to New York City to take command of the Department of the East. Accepting a post in a bank, he was promoted to teller at the age of 20. In 1891 he traveled with his youngest sister through Europe, later returning to the United States where he began working for his brother, then Capt. Guy Howard, who was supervising the building of Ft. Ethan Allen. His family moved to Burlington in the spring of 1895 .... Mr. Howard studied law with H.S. Peck of Burlington and at the Law School of New York University from which he was graduated in 1899. He was admitted to the Vermont Bar in 1900. ... Until two years ago, he was a justice of the peace.... In 1904 he married Dr. Sue E. Hertz, the first woman doctor in Burlington. She died in 1956. He leaves twin daughters, Miss Harriet Howard, Burlington, and Mrs. Kenneth (Susan) Webb, Woodstock; three grandchildren, Susan Webb Hammond of Washington DC, Dr. Robert H. Webb, Palo Alto, Calif., and Martha Webb, Woodstock and one greatgranddaughter, Kristin Webb. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:30 in the First Congregational Church. Burial in Lake View Cemetery.... ----- From an internet biography: HOWARD, Harry Stinson & Oliver Otis Biography of Harry Stinson HOWARD [son of Oliver O.] Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 227 Harry Stinson HOWARD, lawyer and general insurance agent, Burlington [Chittenden County, Vermont], was born 25 July 1869 at Washington, D. C., son of General Oliver O. and Elizabeth A. (WAITE) HOWARD. Educated in the public schools at Omaha [Douglas County], Nebraska; high school, Omaha; attended University of Vermont, and graduated from law department of New York University 1899 with degree LL. B. Admitted to Vermont bar 1900. Became messenger in Commercial National Bank of Omaha at fifteen years of age; promoted to clerk; later entered the banking house of S. A. Kean & Company, New York City, reaching the position of paying teller at the age of twenty. In 1894 on his father's retiring from active military service, went with him as his secretary to Burlington and remained with him until his [Gen. Oliver O. HOWARD's] death in 1909. He then opened a general insurance agency in Burlington, meeting with success from the first. Was cadet captain of the First Artillery Regiment of the National Guard of California 1886-1887, and a member of Company K, of the famous Seventh Regiment of New York from 1889-1891. Republican. Congregationalist; deacon, First Congregational Church, Burlington. Member Sons of Veterans; Commandery of Loyal Legion; treasurer, Society of Colonial Wars in Vermont; secretary, Vermont Red Cross; secretary, Burlington Commercial Club; member Society of the Army of the Tennessee; Medal of Honor Men of the U. S. In 1904 [Harry Stinson HOWARD] married [Miss?] Sue Emma HERTZ of Burlington; they have twin daughters, Harriet and Susan.