HOWE, Il EN RY (1816-931. An American his torian and publisher. horn at New Haven. Conn.. son of Gen. Ilezekinh Howe, the publisher. He entered the publishing business in 1839, and in 1810 began his historical research in Ness' York and Ness' Jersey. together with John W. Barber. Ile made like studies in ()hie, sketching old land marks and interviewing old settlers. Soon after the publication of his work in Ohio he removed to Cincinnati, where be published subscription books for nearly thirty years. In 1878 he re turned to Ness. Haven, but in 1885 went hack to Ohio, prepared a second edition of his history of that State, and entered the publishing business again. He wrote: Eminent Mechanics (1838) : Historical rolleetions of Yew York (1841), of Yen' (1843), and of Ohio (1847 and 1891 ) ; The threat West (1851) ; Trarris and A (1 Ventures of Celebrated T•arelers ( 1853 ) ; Life and Death of the Ocean ( 1855) ; and Achierements of Americans (1858) : Our Whole rountry (1861); Times of the Rebellion in the West (1876) ; Over the World (1883) ; Outline History of Yew Haven (1884) ; and New Haven Elms aml Greens (1885).
HOWE, ,Toth (1630-1705). A Puritan clergy man, ealled the Platonic Puritan. He was horn May 17.1630, at Loughborough, in Ieieestershire. Ile studied both at Cambridge and Oxford, and after preaching for some time at Winwiek, in Lancashire, and Great Torrington. in Devon shire. he was appointed domestic chaplain to Cromwell in 1656. He held the same position under Richard Cromwell, but in 1659 returned to Torrington, where the position he had held dur ing the Commonwealth made him an object of close suspicion to the Government. The Act of Uniformity ejected him from his parish (1662), and he wandered about preaching in secret till B371. when he was invited by Lord Alassereene,
of Antrim Castle, in Ireland, to become his do mestic chaplain. There he began his greatest work, The Good Jlan the Liring Temple of God (1676-1702), which occupies one of the highest, places in Puritan theology. In 1676 he became pastor of the dissenting congregation in Silver t:treet, London. In 1677 he published, at the request of Robert Boyle, The Reconcilableness of God's Prescience of the Sins of Men with the Wisdom, of Ms Counsels and Exhortations; in 1881. Thoughtfulness for the ;Borrow; in 1682, Self-Dedication; in 1683, Union Among Protes tants; and in 1684, The Redeemer's Tears Wept Over Lost Souls. In 1685 he was invited by Lord Wharton to travel with him on the Conti nent ; and, after visiting the principal cities, in 1686 he settled, owing to the state of England, at Utrecht. In 1087 King James's "Declaration for Liberty of Conscience" induced him to return to England. and at the revolution the next year he headed the deputation of dissenting clergy men when they brought their address to the throne. Besides smaller works, he published, in 1693, Carnality of Religious Contention; in 1694-95. several treatises on the Trinity; in 1699. The Redeemer's Dominion Oyer the Invisi ble World; and he continued writing till 1705, when he published Patience in Esrpectation of I"uture Blessedness. He died in London. April 2, 1706. His works have been several times re printed. For his life, consult: Rogers (London, 1879). and Horton ( lb., 1896).