. Baird's history of Clark County, Indiana. united in the holy bonds of wedlithe union being blessed with two children, H. Curtis and Bvron agedtwelve and ten years, respectively. CAPT. EDMONDS J. HOWARD. Captain Edmonds J. Howard, president of the Howard Ship Yards Cpany, was born at Madison, Indiana. March 14, 1.^40. His father was tlilate Captain James Howard, the founder of the famous Howard yards, wsketch appears elsewhere in this volume. His mother was Rebecca Barn: ra native of Hamilton county, Ohio. The family located permanently at Jeffersonville in 1S4S. where the was engaged in
. Baird's history of Clark County, Indiana. united in the holy bonds of wedlithe union being blessed with two children, H. Curtis and Bvron agedtwelve and ten years, respectively. CAPT. EDMONDS J. HOWARD. Captain Edmonds J. Howard, president of the Howard Ship Yards Cpany, was born at Madison, Indiana. March 14, 1.^40. His father was tlilate Captain James Howard, the founder of the famous Howard yards, wsketch appears elsewhere in this volume. His mother was Rebecca Barn: ra native of Hamilton county, Ohio. The family located permanently at Jeffersonville in 1S4S. where the was engaged in boat building, and here the son grew to manhood. He re-ceived his education in the public and private schools of Louisville, and after-wards attended the Kentucky Military Institute at Frankfort, Kentucky. Before he had become of age he had entered business life, and foilhis fathers example had turned to the river. In i860 he went to the Sou ?• ? / r & ? 1 >: : ?- ? ? .. RESIDENCE OF CAPTAIN E. J. HOWARD, TORT o^^A^ bairds history of co., ind. 465 and served as clerk on a steamboat running- up Ouchita river. Here the break-ing out of the War of the Rebellion found him. and realizing the need of hispresence at home he severed his connection with the boat and started Jeffersonville after many difficulties he entered the employ of theUnite! States government as a clerk in the Ordnance Department, but re-mained there but a short while, leaving to become connected with his fathersyards. His career in the boat building business has not been one of easy suc-cess, but rather a fight to master the business from the first to the last began as an apprentice and learned every department of boat building byactual contact with the work. In 1865 the firm of James Howard became • Howard & Company, by the addition of John C. Howard, a brother,and Edmond? J, Howard, Tn 1876, upon the death of his father, he boughtall of his fathers interest in the
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