Charles Miller Howell cash book, scrapbook and other material, approximately 1835-1876.

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Charles Miller Howell cash book, scrapbook and other material, approximately 1835-1876.

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Cash book and scrapbook containing newspaper articles, engravings, invitations, tickets, and other items documenting the expenses, activities and interests of Charles Miller Howell. The cash book records daily expenditures from June 4, 1858 to August 13, 1860 and includes transactions with many of Lancaster, Pennsylvania's most prominent citizens. The scrapbook contains poems, short stories, news articles, and cartoons clipped from a variety of newspapers including The Olio, The Inquirer and Daily Courier, The Philadelphia Saturday Chronicle, and Alexander's Weekly Messenger. The scrapbook and its accompanying material also contain engravings of works of art and of illustrations to news stories, invitations and tickets to social events and meetings, a manuscript translation of a ballad by Friedrich Schiller, two handwritten poems, a drawing, memorabilia and a manuscript resolution of the Columbia Hose Company. The newspaper articles and accompanying materials cover a wide variety of topics, but Howell's interest and involvement in firefighting and in the activities of fire companies is evident in the selection of some newspaper articles as well as in the invitations and tickets to events sponsored by the Columbia Hose Company and the Empire Hook and Ladder Company.

2 volumes, 26 folders.

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7598769

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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Columbia Hose Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Empire Hook and Ladder Company (Lancaster, Pa.)

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Howell, Charles Miller, 1814-1903.

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Charles Miller Howell was a marble manufacturer and businessman from 1843 until his death in 1903. He was born in Philadelphia on April 24, 1814 obtaining his education in local schools and at the Plainfield Academy in Connecticut. From 1828 to 1837 he served as an apprentice to a marble mason. He set up his own business in 1838 in Philadelphia without much success. In 1843 Howell relocated to Lancaster and began manufacturing marble. He was member of the Lancaster City Council for many years an...