Robert Pickrell Howard

Background

Howard, Robert Pickrell was born on March 18, 1905 in New Providence, Iowa, United States. Son of James Raley and Anna (Pickrell) Howard.

Education

Bachelor, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 1927.

Career

Writer, Associated Press, various cities, 1927-1942; writer, Chicago Sun, 1942-1944; writer, Chicago Tribune, 1944-1956; bureau chief, Chicago Tribune, Springfield, Illinois, 1957-1970.

Achievements

• Robert Pickrell Howard has been listed as a noteworthy Historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Illinois: A History of the Prairie State

    (Book by Howard, Robert P.)

  • Illinois; a history of the Prairie State,

Membership

Chairman Illinois State Museum Society, Springfield 1971. President Illinois State History Society, 1983. Board directors Abraham Lincoln Association 1977-1985.

Connections

Married Eleanor Grace Nee, January 14, 1934 (widowed 1971). Children: Jane Temple, Ann Howard Condon. Married Elizabeth Thomas Appel, August 5, 1972.

Father:

James Raley Howard

Mother:

Anna (Pickrell) Howard

Spouse:

Eleanor Grace Nee

Spouse:

Elizabeth Thomas Appel

child:

Jane Temple Howard

child:

Ann Howard Condon Howard