Anthony Howells

Anthony Howells

Signature of Anthony Howells

Anthony Howells (born April 6, 1832 in Dowlais , Wales , † November 17, 1915 in Cleveland Heights , Ohio ) was an American businessman and politician ( Democratic Party ). He was a member of the Ohio General Assembly and was Treasurer of State of Ohio from 1878 to 1880 .

Career

Anthony Howells was born during the reign of William IV in Glamorgan , one of the traditional counties of Wales . His father was the Superintendent of Mines in the area. Anthony Howells visited the few free schools in its Town and at the age of 12 years for a year a private school in Llandybie ( Carmarthenshire ). After that he worked in the mines. At the age of 14 he decided to emigrate to the United States . Howells worked in the mines until he was 18, 1850. Then he sailed to America. Upon arrival, he immediately moved to Youngstown, Ohio.

In Youngstown, Howells began working in a coal mine owned by David Tod , the future governor of Ohio. In the spring of 1853 he moved to California to make his fortune there. The following spring, 1854, he returned to Youngstown and worked in the mines again until the fall of 1855. Howells was to work suffering in the mines and thus opened a grocery store ( grocery and commission house ), which he ran with the exception of 1865-1869, when he coal mining in DuQuoin ( Illinois pursued). In 1869 he was offered a stake in and a management position at two mining mines in Massillon, Ohio. The Howells Coal Company ended up employing 600 people.

Howells ran for the post of Treasurer of Mahoning County in 1866 and for the 9th District in the Ohio Senate in 1868 . He suffered defeat in the mostly Republican districts on both occasions . In 1875 he ran unsuccessfully at the Democratic State Convention for the nomination for the office of Treasurer of State. He was then nominated by his party to Treasurer of State in 1877 and was elected for a two-year term in the election that followed. In his re-election in 1879, he suffered a defeat.

In 1886 Howells was appointed postmaster of Massillon, but resigned from that post after two years. In the presidential election in 1888 he was nominated as an elector for the Democratic State Convention , but the state fell to the Republicans in the election. In 1889 he was elected to the Ohio Senate for the 21st District. The district consisted of Stark Counties and Carroll Counties . He then sat in the Senate from 1890 to 1891. In his re-election in 1891, he suffered a defeat to a Republican.

President Grover Cleveland appointed him US Consul in Cardiff, Wales , in 1893 , where he represented the United States for the next four years. In 1901 he was nominated for the post of lieutenant governor of Ohio, but then suffered a defeat in the following election. Then he withdrew from politics.

Howells sold his mining company in 1901 and began building the Hotel Courtland in Canton, Ohio in 1902 , which was completed in 1905. He lived there for three years before moving to Cleveland, Ohio. He died on November 17, 1915 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and was then buried in the city cemetery in Massaillon.

Howells joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) in 1887 and the Knights of Pythias in 1888 . He also belonged to the Welsh Irorites . In 1854 he married Elizabeth James († 1890). The couple had three sons and a daughter.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Danner, John: Old Landmarks of Canton and Stark County, Ohio, BF Brown, 1904, OCLC 79257924 , pp. 396-400
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Portrait and Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio , Chapman Brothers, 1892, pp. 513-515
3. ^ Manual of Legislative Practice in the General Assembly of Ohio , Westbote Company, 1917, p. 247
4. ↑ ^{a b} Representative Citizens of Ohio, Memorial Biographical pp. 417-419 (Cleveland 1917)
5. ^ Anthony Howells in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved June 14, 2015.