Background
Jonas H. Howe was born in Petersham, Massachusetts on 28 April 1821 to Jonas Howe (1786-1865) and Arethusa (Negus) Howe (1789-1851).
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In Minnesota, Howe was a staunch abolitionist, and he served in a number of local offices including serving as an officer of the Plymouth Home Guard militia, a Justice of the Peace, and as a School Board member. Later, he was a first sergeant from 1864-1865 in Company F of the 11th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1866 he was elected to a one-year term in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1866 as a Republican from the 5th Representative District in Hennepin County.
Howe worked closely with Oliver Hudson Kelley in the founding of The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, commonly known as the Grange, and he was a frequent contributing writer to Farm, Stock and Home, an agricultural newspaper popular in the 1870s.
Howe died at his home in Plymouth, Minnesota on 1 October 1898 and was buried at Parker"s Lake Cemetery in Plymouth. Nathan Negus worked in Boston for a short time, and later in Savannah and Mobile, but he died at Petersham at the age of twenty-four.
Joel Negus"s daughter Caroline was also a professional artist, although she was perhaps better known as the wife of Richard Hildreth, the historian. Jonas Holland Howe was a direct descendant of John Howe (1602-1680) who arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 from Brinklow, Warwickshire, England and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
Jonas Holland Howe was also a descendant of Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:
Jonas Holland Howe, son of
Jonas Howe (1786-1865), son of
Benjamin Howe (1759-1838), son of
Mary Stow (1730-1794), daughter of
Elizabeth Brigham (1700-1757), daughter of
Nathan Brigham (1671-1747), son of
Mary Rice (1646-1695), daughter of
Henry Rice (1617-1711), son of
Edmund Rice, (ca1594-1663).
Politics
He was a close political ally of Ignatius L. Donnelly and was active in the formation and politics of the Populist Party.
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