Background
Howells was born in Penmark, Wales and was christened at Street Donats on 18 September 1816.
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Career
Howells became a storeowner and was financially successful. Foreign a brief period of time he was a Baptist missionary in Brittany, where he learned to speak French. He was baptized by Dan Jones.
He preached first in Le Havre, where he baptized Augustus Saint d"Anna as the first French convert.
They were joined by William C. Dunbar a Scottish convert who had been sent to France via the Channel Islands to aid in the missionary work. In 1849-1850, Howells briefly returned to Wales three more times, each time returning to France to continue his preaching.
They sailed from Liverpool in March 1851 and arrived in Council Bluffs, Iowa in June. Howells opened a store in Council Bluffs and grew sick and died there in November.
