William H. Howard (b. 1874 - d. 1929)
MSA SC 5496-041398
Lawyer, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Biography:
William Henry Howard was born February 10, 1874, in Annapolis, MD to James E. Howard (born c. 1854), a waiter, and Eliza Howard (born c. 1856), a nurse. The Howard family were mulattoes who lived free prior to the end of the Civil War. As a youth, Howard and his parents lived with his paternal grandmother on Market Street in Annapolis. He married Amanda Isabelle Stewart (born c. 1882) on June 3, 1903 in Baltimore, MD. William and Amanda parented one child, Evelyn Alsop Howard, who was born in 1905. William and his family lived with his parents, James and Eliza, at 59 Northwest Street in Annapolis, MD from at least 1910-1927.
Howard began his career as a school teacher. Howard was admitted to the Maryland bar on January 29, 1901. He was a Litigant in Howard v. Myers, Supreme Court of the United States 238 U.S. 368; 35 S. Ct. 932; 59 L. Ed. 1349; 1915, which was argued November 11, 1913, and decided June 21, 1915.
William Howard died on August 21, 1929, at Crownsville State Hospital,
and is buried at Brewer Hill Cemetery in Annapolis.
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