CAPT. RICHARD HOWE, -- born in St. Marys Co., Md., March 8, 1799; father dying April 10, 1810, in 1812            carne with mother to Franklinton, opposite Columbus, Ohio; here he was adopted by Lucas Sullivant, a wealthy resident of Franklinton, who, besides giving him a good education for those times also taught him the art of surveying; at 21, surveyed and located a road from Columbus to Cincinnati; in 1824, was selected as a member of the Board of Engineers to survey and locate the Ohio Canal, removing to Akron in 1829, where, as president of the board and resident engineer of the Northern division, he was in the continuous employ of the State until his resignation, in 1850, to go to California, where, in 1851, he was appointed Dept. U. S. Surveyor to run     the meridian-line from Mount Diablo to the Bay of Monterey; from 1863 to 1865, was employed by the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis R. R. to superintend the building of a bridge across the Ohio River at Steubenville, at which time the portrait accompanying this sketch was

liken. Capt. Howe was an early and earnest friend of education in Akron, liberally aided all of her early church enterprises, was one of the trustees for the erection of the court house and jail in 1840; village councilman in 1854, 1855) and 1860. September 25, 1827,    Capt. Howe was married to Miss Roxana Jones who bore him eight children, five of whom survived him -Henry W. Howe. Esq., now of Ira, Northampton township; Charles R., who died December 7, 1875; Nathan J., now of Chicago; Emily B. now Mrs. J. A. Ingersoll, of Chicago; Mary Anna now Mrs. John Wolf, of Akron. Capt. Howe died March 19 1872, age 73 years and 11 days. Mrs. Howe dying February 14, 1875, years, 1 month and 10 days.

Fifty Years and Over Of Akron and Summit County,  Samuel A. Lane