Walter Howe

Walter Howe (May 3, 1849 – August 22, 1890) Nicholas Murray Howe, Anne (née Howe) Hurin, and Albert Howe. Another sister, Lavinia Taylor Howe, was the wife of William Travers Jerome, the New York County District Attorney from 1902 to 1909. After his father's death, his mother resided at the family homestead in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In 1885, he ran for the New York State Senate, but was defeated by Democrat William C. Traphagen. Howe was succeeded in his Assembly seat by fellow Republican Robert Ray Hamilton (son of Gen. Schuyler Hamilton; grandson of John Church Hamilton; and great-grandson of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton). In 1888, Mayor Abram Hewitt appointed Howe to serve as a member of the Aqueduct Commission of the City of New York.

After his death, his friend and former legislator Theodore Roosevelt (who had yet to become New York's Police Commissioner, Governor, or President) penned a tribute to Howe, writing:

Personal life In 1873, Howe was married to Mary Anne Bruce Robins (1850–1922), a daughter of George W. Robins and Margaret (née Bruce) Robins. Together, they lived at Madison Avenue and 34th Street in Manhattan and were the parents of two sons:

Ernest Howe (1875–1932), a Connecticut State Assemblyman and State Senator who was editor of the American Journal of Science who married Anne Wilson (1880–1963), the first Republican state central committeewoman from the 30th Senatorial District after passage of the Women's Suffrage Amendment. Walter Bruce Howe (1879–1954), an international lawyer who married noted composer and pianist Mary Carlisle (1882–1964)

He was a member of the Union League Club (where he served as Secretary), the Commonwealth Club, After a funeral conducted by the Rev. George W. Douglass of Washington, Howe was buried at Island Cemetery in Newport. After his death, his widow remarried to Dr. Arnold Hague, a well known geologist, in November 1893. She died in Washington in January 1922.

Descendants Through his son Ernest, he was posthumously a grandfather of Walter Howe (1907–1966), who served as Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives and President Eisenhower's Ambassador to Chile from 1958 to 1961, and Margaret Bruce Howe, the founder of the Prospect Press in Hartford who became the wife of Herbert L. Crapo, editor of the Litchfield Enquirer.

Through his son Walter, he was posthumously a grandfather of three, Dr. Bruce Howe, Dr. Calderon Howe, and Molly (née Howe) Lynn.