Background
Samuel was born at Belchertown, Massachussets, in 1785. He was the youngest of the six children of Dr. Estes and Susanna (Dwight) Howe.
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Samuel was born at Belchertown, Massachussets, in 1785. He was the youngest of the six children of Dr. Estes and Susanna (Dwight) Howe.
Educated in the Belchertown public schools and in the New Salem and Deerfield academies, he entered Williams College as a sophomore and was graduated in 1804. He immediately entered the law office of Jabez Upham of Brookfield and in 1805 attended the Litchfield law school in Connecticut.
After a period spent in the law office of Judge Theodore Sedgwick of Stockbridge, Massachussets, he was admitted to the Berkshire bar in 1807 and began his practice in Stockbridge. Shortly after his marriage, Howe removed to Worthington, Hampshire County, Massachussets, where in the following years he built up an excellent practice and acquired a high reputation in his profession. In 1812-13 he served in the Massachusetts legislature as a representative from Worthington. He removed to Northampton in 1820 to become the law partner of Elijah Hunt Mills. In July 1821 he was appointed associate justice of the newly established court of common pleas for the commonwealth and this office he occupied with distinction until his early death at the age of forty-two.
In 1826 was chosen by the legislature to fill a vacancy as trustee of Amherst. In association with his law partners, Mills and John Hooker Ashmun (later professor at the Harvard Law School), Howe opened in 1823 a law school which was organized on the plan of that at Litchfield and acquired a reputation not inferior to that of the older institution. The method of instruction combined formal lectures and recitations with familiar conversation and discussion between instructors and students. Filled with an admiration and love for the science of jurisprudence, Howe possessed a zeal and enthusiasm for his subject which made him an excellent teacher and attracted many students to the school.
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Outside the field of the law Howe distinguished himself in public affairs principally in connection with the Unitarian controversy which came to a head in the Northampton Congregational Society in 1824-25 over the question of ministerial exchanges. This led the liberal minority, of which Howe was a leader, to form a separate society, with Unitarian tenets, as the Second Congregational Church. Reared in the orthodox Calvinistic faith, Howe was brought to an acceptance of Unitarian beliefs through the influence of his second wife and other liberals and, it is reported, by the careful study of James Yates's Vindication of Unitarianism (1816).
He was elected in 1823 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In September 1807 he married Susan, daughter of Gen. Uriah Tracy of Litchfield. Howe's first wife died in 1811, leaving two children. In Octotober 1813 he married Sarah Lydia Robbins, the daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Edward Hutchinson Robbins of Milton, Massachussets, by whom he had five children.