Background
Gilman Bigelow Howe was born on April 29, 1850 in Marlborough, Massachusetts as one of two sons of Silas and Ann Gilmore (Snell) Howe.
Gilman Bigelow Howe was born on April 29, 1850 in Marlborough, Massachusetts as one of two sons of Silas and Ann Gilmore (Snell) Howe.
Howe was a direct descendant of John Howe who arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 from Brinklow, Warwickshire, England and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Howe was also a descendant of Edmund Rice another early immigrant to Sudbury, and John Biglo of Watertown, Massachusetts. From 1900 to 1922 he was in the employ of the United States government in the Department of Interior and the Department of Commerce.
He served as the President of the National Genealogical Society in 1922.
Howe died 11 January 1933 in Washington, District of Columbia and he was buried in Northborough, Massachusetts.
He lived for a time in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts and spent much of his life living in Northborough, Massachusetts serving as town clerk for 12 years and as a member of the town’s Board of Assessors for eight years. Howe was a Mason for 50 years, a member of the Knights Templar, and a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.