Edward Slauson HOWLAND

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Grocery business
• Census: 1910, Living in Oakland, Alameda Co., California
• Occupation: 1910, Salesman - Grocery
• Census: 1920, Living in Oakland, Alameda Co., California
• Occupation: 1920, Guard - Government Shipping

Edward married Johanna Anna GRIMME on 22 Oct 1891. Johanna was born on 23 Oct 1870 in California; died on 1 Jun 1941 in Alameda Co., California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Emmabelle HOWLAND was born on 12 Jul 1892 in California; died in 1963; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda Co., California.
2. Matie Mary HOWLAND was born on 10 Apr 1895 in Oakland, Alameda County, California; died on 8 Jan 1988 in Alameda Co., California.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Pardon S. Howland and Lydia Church Parker
• Census: 1855, Living with mother-in-law in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1865, Living with mother in law, Lucy Gifford, in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1870, Living in San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California
• Occupation: 1870, Typographer
• Census: 1900, Living in Oakland, Alameda Co., California
• Occupation: 1900, Photographer

Notes:

Name:
San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 69, August 8, 1900: "Howland ? In Oakland, August 6, 1900, Benjamin F., beloved husband of Mary S. Howland, and father of Mrs. C.S. Warner, Mrs. J. Green and Frank, Wesley, Edward, Benjamin, Charley and Laura Howland, a native of New Bedford, Mass., aged 72 years 5 months and 5 days.

"Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services this day (Wednesday), at 10:30 o'clock, at his late residence, 624 Ninth street, Oakland. Interment Mountain View Cemetery."

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As a boy he went to sea with his father, and rose to be a captain, retiring in 1851, at the age of twenty-three. Subsequently he took up gold-mining in California and Oregon. He and his partner established a store in Jacksonville, Ore., about 1856, and operated a pack train of fifty mules between that mining town and Crescent City, Cal. they had many narrow escapes from hostile Indians. Captain Howland afterwards engaged in quartz mining in California, and later was a photographer in Syracuse, New York, and San Francisco.

Benjamin married Mary C. SLAUSON on 10 Dec 1865. Mary (daughter of Wesley Henry SLAWSON and Helen FLETCHER) was born on 14 Aug 1837 in Homer, Cortland Co., New York; died in 1925 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda Co., California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with father in Homer, Cortland Co., New York
• Census: 1855, Living with father in Cortlandville, Cortland Co., New York
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Oakland, Alameda Co., California
• Census: 1910, Living with daughter Laura Curtis in Oakland, Alameda Co., California
• Census: 1920, Living with daughter Laura Curtis in Glendale, Los Angles Co., California