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G. S. Howard, farmer, was born in Cole County, Mo., in 1837, and is a son of William and Urana (Roberts) Howard, who were born in Tennessee, but were reared and married in Cole County, Mo. The father was a farmer, and served in the late war in McClurg’s company, and died in 1874. His children are as follows: Charlotte (Hasty), Elvira (Bench), Elizabeth (Starks) and G. S. The latter was reared on farms in Cole and Benton Counties, and when eighteen years of age began working for himself as a farm hand. In 1860 he married Miss Lucy Wisdom, who was born in Camden County, Mo., and a daughter of Pollard and Charity (Mashburn) Wisdom, natives of North Carolina, and by her became the father of the following children: William J., Mary F. (Hicks) and Virginia A. The mother of these children died in 1874, and three years later Mr. Howard wedded Mrs. Maxilla J. (Roney) Huffman, a daughter of Thomas G. and Elizabeth Roney, of Tennessee, by whom he is the father of four living children: Effie C., Edna E., Ernest B. and Fred. This wife died on the 29th of February, 1888. In 1862 Mr. Howard enlisted in Company G, of the Missouri State Guard, and was discharged in 1865. When first married his entire property consisted of one horse, but he rented land for about ten years, and in 1870 purchased the farm he had been renting, and in 1883 bought the farm where he is now living, giving for it $2,100 in cash. He is now the owner of 320 acres of land, mostly good bottom land, on the Little Niangua River, about 175 acres of which are under cultivation. He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Breckinridge in 1860.