Louis Orrin Howard

Background

Howard, Louis Orrin was born on February 27, 1884 in Thompson Connecticut. Son of Mart A. and Azora (Cummings) Howard.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1907, Mechanical Engineering, 1909.

Career

Instructor ore treatment and metallography, Case School Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, 1909-1911. Manager Philadelphia syndicate, later organized as Radium Company of America, Green River, Utah, 1912. Associate editor Salt Lake Mining Review, 1913-1914.

Consulting practice, 1913-1917.

Erected mill for Edison Tungsten Mines, Lucin, Utah, 1916. Professor mining and metallurgy, State College of Washington, 1917-1926, also dean School of Mines and Geology.

Acting professor metallurgy, South. Dakota State School of Mines, Rapid City, 1926-1927.

Same at University of Idaho, Moscow, 1928-1929.

Consultant mining and metallurgical engineer since 1927. Unemployment relief work with Red Cross, County Welfare Board, and National Reemployment Service as supervisor, welfare commissioner and manager respectively, 1932-1934. Chief engineer Whitman County Wheat Production Control Association, 1934-1935.

Private practice since 1936.

Wage, social security, unemployment and tax consultant since 1937. Executive secretary War Price and Rationing Board, Pullman, since October 1942.

Achievements

• Louis Orrin Howard has been listed as a noteworthy mining engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Sigma Tau, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, phi Kappa Phi, Theta Xi. Club: Harvard.

Connections

Married Muriel Burnet Crawford, August 28, 1908. Married second, Nellie Barker Jacobs, November 25, 1925. Children: Lydia Wadsworth, Betty Burnet, Louise Orrin, Muriel Crawford, Sylvia May.

Father:

Mart A. Howard

Mother:

Azora (Cummings) Howard

Spouse:

Nellie Barker Jacobs

Spouse:

Muriel Burnet Crawford

child:

Betty Burnet Howard

child:

Muriel Crawford Howard

child:

Louise Orrin Howard

child:

Lydia Wadsworth Howard

child:

Sylvia May Howard