Early Records In Niagara

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Is my Mary (maiden name unknown) Howard who was born in Canada circa 1791, hiding in plain sight in these records?  

Ontario, Canada's Howard Township

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So Howard Township in Kent County, Ontario, Canada, wasn't named for Martha Howard and her son, William Howard, my presumed ancestors.  Huh.  [I already knew that, though]

Rev. Howard In Peter Jones' Book

History of the Ojebway Indians: With Especial Reference to Their Conversion ...,  By Peter Jones:

The Rev. I. B. Howard was affiliated with the Rev. Dr. Ryerson, so I believe the "T.B." might be "I.B." Howard.

Grimsby Park In Canada

The camp-meeting seems to have been a prominent feature of the early religious life of Canada.  Long before there were town or villages, the scattered settlers were wont to gather occasionally in those primitive meetings.

Grimsby Park (on the banks of Lake Ontario) is one of the few survivals [in 1900], if not the only one, of the old-fashioned camp-meetings remaining in Canada (the Grimsby Camp-Meeting came into existence in 1859).

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As early as 1846 a mammoth temperance meeting was held here.  Egerton Ryerson* and William Ryerson graced the platform.

Noah Phelps, who was born in New York, was featured in the biographies. Information about Rev. Dr. John Wakefield and John Beamer Bowslaugh (the original owner of the land) was also in the book.

Grimsby Park, Historical and Biographical Sketches interested me because of an interest in ancestors who lived in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.  [See more here at the Grimsby Museum]

Rev. Isaac Brock Howard (son of William and Mary Howard, who were also my ancestors), was born in Grimsby and was Egerton Ryerson's assistant* in the early 1840's, -- was he present at the 1846 temperance meeting?   He wasn't mentioned in the book, so I'll never know.

Dr. Ryerson's Assistant

From The Story of My Life by Egerton Ryerson:

 Rev. I. B. Howard*, Dr. Ryerson's assistant at the time, has also furnished me with some personal reminiscences of his intercourse with him during the latter year of Dr. Ryerson's pastoral life. He says:--

When I was Dr. Ryerson's assistant in Toronto, upwards of forty years ago (in 1841-2), he was studying Hebrew with a private tutor. ...On those days I always dined with him; and as it was his custom to spend the hour before dinner in devotional reading and prayer, I had the great privilege of spending this hour with him in his study--and I shall never forget the sincere, heart-searching, and devout manner in which he conducted these hallowed exercises, nor the great spiritual instruction and benefit I received from them.

During that year (one of the few of his regular pastorate) I had also the privilege of frequently hearing him preach, especially during eight weeks of special and very successful revival services, which we held in old Adelaide (then nearly new and known as "Newgate") Street Church... .

*I. B. (Isaac Brock) Howard was the son of William and Mary Howard and the brother of my ancestress, Ann (Howard) Kennedy.

Satirizing Rev. I. B. Howard

When searching for relatives, even a condemnation is a welcome sight!  I. B. [Isaac Brock] Howard was the son of my ancestors, William and Mary Howard, and the brother of Ann (Howard) Kennedy.

There was an anonymous satire condemning I.B. Howard, a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada serving in Brantford, Ont. Minister identified through the letter the satirist states that the clergyman wrote to the " ...[i.e. Christian] guardian," v. 29, no. 33 (19 May 1858)--p. 31

The basis of this tale was an apparent misappropriation of an orphan's inheritance.  Aliases are used in this tale, but the "great Mufti" character wrote to the guardian, so that's who Rev.  I. B. Howard was supposed to be.

Clare Howard's Studies At Oxford

ENGLISH TRAVELLERS OF THE RENAISSANCE , by Clare Howard (1914).


Clare Howard was the daughter of Alfred Digby & Caroline Sophia (Turner) Howard and the 1st cousin (once removed) of my 2nd great-grandmother Mary Agnes (Kennedy) Powers.

The preface revealed Clare Howard's activities:

This essay was written in 1908-1910 while I was studying at Oxford as Fellow of the Society of American Women in London.

To the Faculty of the English Department at Columbia University I owe the gratitude of one who has received her earliest inclination to scholarship from their teachings.

"Beginning with the end of the sixteenth century when travel became the fashion, as the only means of acquiring modern languages and modern history, as well as those physical accomplishments and social graces by which a young man won his way at Court, they trace his evolution up to the time when it had no longer any serious motive; that is, when the chairs of modern history and modern languages were founded at the
English universities, and when, with the fall of the Stuarts, the Court ceased to be the arbiter of men's fortunes."

"These discussions of the art of travel are relics of an age when Englishmen, next to the Germans, were known for the greatest travellers among all nations. In the same boat-load with merchants, spies, exiles, and diplomats from England sailed the young gentleman fresh from his university, to complete his education by a look at the most civilized countries of the world. He approached the Continent with an inquiring, open mind, eager to learn, quick to imitate the refinements and ideas of countries older than his own. For the same purpose that now takes American students to England, or Japanese students to America, the English striplings once journeyed to France, comparing governments and manners, watching everything, noting everything, and coming home to benefit their country by new ideas."