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Charles Howard was born August 7, 1804, in Chenango County, New New York
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His family moved to Portuguese Jervis, New New York When Charles Howard was an adult he moved to Sackets Harbor, New York and worked as a schooner captain. He later joined the firm of Alvin Bronson and Company (later Bronson, Crocker, and Company) as a shipping and forwarding commission merchant, and moved to Oswego, New York, to represent to firm.
The couple had two children: Mistress
William J. Waterman and well-known dramatist Bronson Howard. Howard was simultaneously president of the Farmer"s and Mechanics Bank and the Peninsular Bank, and in 1848 he was elected mayor of Detroit.
The Panic of 1857 caused the failure of the Peninsular Bank, and in 1858, Charles Howard moved to New York City. There, Charles and Sebre Howard opened the business "Howard Brothers, Firearms," which was in business from 1863 to 1874.
