Lawyer
Centurion, 1892–1907
Born 24 October 1829 in Danvers, Massachusetts
Died 24 April 1907 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried North Burial Ground
, Providence, Rhode Island
Proposed by Joseph H. Choate and Payson Merrill
Elected 5 November 1892 at age sixty-three
Supporter of:
Century Memorial
Joseph Wilkins Howe had been a member of The Century for fifteen years when he died at the age of seventy-eight [sic: seventy-seven]. A graduate of Dartmouth and a lawyer by profession, he was successful in many walks of life. His ancestry was of the very earliest New England stock, and his interests were almost co-extensive with the world of commerce, reaching to the farther orient. Of broad sympathy, artistic temperament, and genial personality, he led a life full and rich in its attachments and duties.
William Milligan Sloane
1908 Century Association Yearbook
