Howe, Milton G., Papers 1844-1900

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Howe, Milton G., Papers 1844-1900

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Comprised of correspondence, financial and business documents, orders, records, circulars, muster rolls, reports, inventories, newspaper clippings, drawings and maps, and photographs, the Milton G. Howe Papers, 1844-1900, document Howe’s career as a civil engineer, as a captain in the 1st Battalion of Engineers in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and as a landowner in Houston.

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Howe, Milton G., 1839-1902

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Born in Texas, Milton Grosvenor Howe (1839- 1902), studied civil engineering at Dartmouth College before becoming employed in railway construction. Howe worked in Illinois until the outbreak of the Civil War, after which he joined the Confederate Army as a captain in the 1st Battalion of Engineers. After the war, Howe became chief engineer and superintendent for the Texas Central Railroad. In 1873, he married Jesse Wade Briscoe (1845-1920), with whom he had one child, Joseph Milton ...