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Introductory to this work, we state some facts of private history. In the year 1831, Mr. John W. Barber of New Haven, Ct., prepared a work upon that our native city, which combined history, biography and description, and was illustrated by engravings connected with its rise, progress and present condition. I ts success suggested to him the preparation of one, on a similar plan, relative to theS tate. For this object he travelled through it, from town to town, collecting the materials and taking sketches. After two years of industrious application in this, and in writing the volume, the Historical Collections of Connecticut was issued, a work which, like its successors, was derived from a thousand different sources, oral and published. As in the ordinary mode, the circulation of books through the trade, is so slow in progress and limited in sale, that no merely local work, however meritorious, involving such an unusually heavy outlay of time and expense as that, will pay even the mechanical labor, it, as well as its successors, was circulated by travelling agents solely, who thoroughly canvassed the state, until it found its way into thousands of families in all ranks and conditions, in the retired farm-house equally with the more accessible city mansion. That book, so novel in its character, was received with great favor, and highly commended by the public press and the leading minds of the state. It is true, it did not aspire to high literary merit: the dignified style, the generalization of facts, the philosophical deductions of regular history were not there. On the contrary, not the least of its merits was its simplicity of style, its fullness of detail, introducing minor, but interesting incidents, the other, in its stately march, could not step aside to notice, and in avoiding that philosophy which only the scholastic can comprehend. It seemed, in its (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Henry Howe was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1816. He was the son of Hezekiah and Sarah (Townsend) Howe and a descendant of James Howe, who was admitted freeman of Roxbury, Massachussets, in 1637 and later settled at Ipswich. Henry's father, a bibliophile, published the first edition of Webster's dictionary and conducted a bookstore which was a favorite resort of Yale professors and other scholarly men.
When John Warner Barber's Connecticut Historical Collections (1836) came into his hands, he decided that he would like above all things to dedicate his life to making such records. In 1839 he published Eminent Americans, then after several distasteful months in Wall Street, he joined forces with Barber in 1840 in compiling the Historical Collections of the State of New York (1841).
Sometimes riding, usually walking, Howe "zigzaged from county-seat to county-seat, collecting material and taking sketches. " In the same year, 1841, he published Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics. In 1844 Howe and Barber published Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey, followed in 1845 by Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia.
Ohio next attracted Howe's attention. There he made contacts with earlier historians and pursued his studies as before. Sometimes sitting upon a snowbank he would sketch a distant view of a town; sometimes working in the middle of a street he would cause the bystanders to inquire what he was doing. Local chroniclers and pioneers opened up to him their recollections; strangers sent in reports; and with such warm cooperation the first edition of his Historical Collections of Ohio (3 vols. ) was published in 1847.
In September 1847 Howe married, and thereafter he was for thirty years a citizen of Cincinnati. During this period he compiled and published Historical Collections of the Great West (1851); The Travels and Adventures of Celebrated Travelers (1853); Life and Death on the Ocean (1855); Adventures and Achievements of Americans (1859); and, with Barber, Our Whole Country (2 vols. , 1861), reprinted in part as All the Western States and Territories (1867). Owing to the outbreak of the Civil War Our Whole Country was a financial failure, but Howe, assigning his property to his creditors, carried on the subscription book business with moderate success and in 1867 published The Times of the Rebellion in the West. In 1878 he removed to New Haven, where he continued his literary work, but he had long expressed a desire to bring his Historical Collections of Ohio down to date and in 1885 he returned to the West. By this time the book had become a matter of state interest.
When the exhaustion of Howe's private resources left him with a large deficit after the publication (2 vols. , 1890 - 91) of the Centennial edition, his son, Frank Henry Howe, who had been his father's assistant, secured an appropriation of $20, 000 from the legislature for the purchase of the copyright and plates of the Collections. Unfortunately, however, this reward for his long labors came only after Howe, suddenly stricken by paralysis, had passed away.
Any estimate of Howe's work must involve a consideration of the fact that Howe preceded the modern school of scientific historians. The blending of geography, biography, economics, arch'ology, and history in his kaleidoscopic picture of progress entailed inevitably a superficial treatment of his subjects and laid him, in spite of the precautions which he took – especially in his later books-somewhat open to error. Nevertheless the original drawings and photographs, the quoted narratives and first-hand anecdotes, preserve much picturesque and illuminating material. It is doubtful, moreover, if any later specialized scholar has elicited warmer tributes from all classes of people than this pioneer state chronicler.
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He had a picturesque figure with his piercing dark eyes, high brow, and flowing hair.
In September 1847 Howe married Frances A. Tuttle of New Haven, Connecticut.
