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HON. DAVID MILLINGTON HOWARD.
Hon. David Millington Howard, one of the well-known citizens and most extensive stock-raisers and successful farmers of Rossville township, Shawnee County, a resident of section 3, township 11, range 13, and the owner of 1,600 acres of land, was born in 1843, at Shaftsbury, Vermont, and is a son of Jared and Mary (Matteson) Howard.

The Howard family is a very old and honorable one in Vermont, where it has flourished for generations. Otis Howard, the grandfather of our subject, was born there and lived on his own large estate, agriculture and stock-raising having been the family occupations up to the present time. His children were: Rachel, Jared, Rebecca, Jacob M., Polly and Mercy. Jacob M. Howard was a very prominent man in Michigan and served several terms as a Representative and for nine years as a member of the State Senate.

Our subject came to Kansas in 1872, accompanied by his parents, who settled in section 3, township 11, range 13, in Rossville township, Shawnee County, on a tract of 67 acres. Until 1876 he engaged in general farming and then became interested in stock-raising, adding large tracts of land and introducing a fine herd of Shorthorn cattle. On his great 1,600-acre farm he now keeps some 600 head of these valuable cattle and his stock farm is noted all over the State.

In 1870 Mr. Howard was married, in Shaftsbury, Vermont, to Chettie A. Stanley, who was born in Vermont and is a daughter of Joseph and Jane (Fuller) Stanley, and a granddaughter of Benajah Stanley, a prominent man of his day in Vermont.

In addition to his extensive business interests, Mr. Howard has been closely identified with public affairs since he came to Kansas. In political sympathy he is a Populist and by that party was elected to the State Legislature in 1890 and approval was shown of his course there by his reelection in 1893. He is a fearless, out-spoken man, who having settled convictions is not afraid to live up to them. Fraternally he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and belongs also to the Knights and Ladies of Security.