. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. lligence, integrity, anddevotion to the best interests of his native town. Hisfarm is known as Maple Hill farm, and there he wasborn September 17, 184I0 Some of his ancestors wereextensive land owners in Marlborough, Mass., and fromthat town his grandfather, Daniel Howe, came to thissection of the country about 1780, and subsequently mar-ried Eunice, daughter of Gen. Edwards Bucknam, shebeing the first white child born in Lancaster. father, Joseph Howe, married Mahala Wood-bury, daughter of Jonathan Woodbury, of Concord, Vt.,an
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. lligence, integrity, anddevotion to the best interests of his native town. Hisfarm is known as Maple Hill farm, and there he wasborn September 17, 184I0 Some of his ancestors wereextensive land owners in Marlborough, Mass., and fromthat town his grandfather, Daniel Howe, came to thissection of the country about 1780, and subsequently mar-ried Eunice, daughter of Gen. Edwards Bucknam, shebeing the first white child born in Lancaster. father, Joseph Howe, married Mahala Wood-bury, daughter of Jonathan Woodbury, of Concord, Vt.,and settled on the farm above spoken of. Mr. Howe was the youngest of a family of eight chil-dren. His parents were most excellent people, consci-entious in their discharge of duty, and they gave theirchildren such educational advantages as their meansand the times afforded. His studies were pursued in thedistrict schools, at Lancaster Academy, and at New-bury, Vt. He taught several terms of school in winterwith marked success, and he might have become an. Joseph Drew Howe. 92 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. educator had he devoted his talents to that the exception of two or three years passed in theWest, raihoading and as a private salesman, his lifework has been on his farm, which embraces somethingmore than 150 acres, and on which is a sugar orchardof 1,400 trees, the product being mostly syrup of thefinest quality, and an apple orchard which, if not thevery best, is unexcelled in Coos county. He has a fineherd of cows of three distinct breeds, all of high grade,and with which he has experimented, weighing the milkof each cow daily, and testing it thoroughly twice amonth, and keeping a record that will be useful, asapproximating to the real value of each breed for dairypurposes, under the conditions of food and climate hereimposed. Mr. Howe has served two years as a selectman of thetown, being chairman of the board in 1893, and at thelast town meeting was chosen for an
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