Henry Howard

Henry Howard (March 8, 1833 – May 24, 1894) was a banker and businessman, and served as the mayor of Port Huron, Michigan, and in the Michigan state legislature.

Biography Henry Howard was born March 8, 1833, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of John and Nancy Hubbard Howard. The elder Howard was a grocer and hotelier in Detroit, but the 1834 cholera outbreak convinced him to move his family to Port Huron. Once in Port Huron, John Howarn entered the lumber trade and eventually built three sawmills in the city. Henry Howard joined his father's business, and the two were partners for 26 years until John Howard's retirement in 1877, the couple had six children, only two of which outlived them: He ran for state senate, but was defeated by William M. Cline. He served as Regent of the University of Michigan from 1891 until his death in 1894. understandable confusion of the two. Bingham correctly differentiates the two men in his thumbnail biography.