Gardner Howe


Gardner Howe was a farmer from Dover, Vermont and member of the Vermont House of Representatives, serving in 1816 and 1823.

Personal background and family relations

Gardner Howe was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts to Jotham Howe and Priscilla Howe. He was a farmer in Dover, Massachusetts and served in the Continental Army during the Revolution. On October 29, 1789 he married Abigail Sherman of Grafton, Massachusetts. In 1816 he was elected to a one-year term in the Vermont House of Representatives, and he was re-elected in 1823. Howe died at his home in Dover on July 4, 1854. Howe was a direct descendant of John Howe, who arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 from Brinklow, Warwickshire, England and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Gardner Howe was also a descendant of Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows: