Background
Howe was born to Samuel William Howe and Mabel Dudley in Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New New York
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In 1804 the family moved to Ovid, New York and 1811 relocated to Upper Canada, living a few miles west of Niagara Falls. During the War of 1812 Howe joined the United States. Army in Batavia, New New York After the war, Howe became involved in the newspaper business, working at the Buffalo Gazette in Buffalo, New York, the Erie Gazette in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the Cleveland Herald in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1822, he moved to Painesville, Ohio and began publishing the Painesville Telegraph.
Under Howe"s editorship, the Telegraph had a strongly abolitionist editorial perspective. Howe"s home was used as a station on the Underground Railroad, assisting fugitive slaves.
On January 11, 1831, Howe wrote a letter to West. West. Phelps, a newspaper publisher in Canandaigua, New York, asking about the origins of the new religion. After leaving the newspaper, Howe remained a publisher and a manufacturer of woollen goods.
Howe considered himself to be a skeptic on religious matters.
