Alice HOWLAND

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• Census: 1855, Living with parents in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts

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

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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 Alice Augusta GIFFORD on 18 Oct 1854. Alice (daughter of Shubael Henry GIFFORD and Lucy Augusta CLARK) was born on 18 Oct 1836 in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died on 14 Oct 1883 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Congregational Church Cemetery, New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachustts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Shubel H. Gilbert and Lucy A.
• Census: 1850, Living with parents in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1855, Living with husband in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1865, Living in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1870, Living with mother in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1880, Living with mother in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts