Walter Howe (May 3, 1849 – August 22, 1890)[1] was an American lawyer and politician from New York .
Early life
May 3, 1849 in Manhattan. He was the eldest child of Ann Elizabeth (née Massie) Howe (1824–1901) and Augustus Howe (1819–1888), a successful merchant who left the family in affluent circumstances. His siblings included Sarah Massie Howe, architect Augustus Howe Jr.,[2] Nicholas Murray Howe, Anne (née Howe) Hurin, and Albert Howe.[3] 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.[1]
"As a friend and former fellow-legislator of Walter Howe, I am unwilling to let his death pass without expressing in some public way my sense of what the city of New-York owes him. Although a man keenly appreciative of artistic and literary work, and himself fond of using both pen and brush, the services by which he especially rendered the city his debtor were done in public life."[9]
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:
Howe drowned on August 22, 1890, while bathing at his summer residence (the former Glover Cottage which was next to Mayor Hewitt's cottage) on Beacon Hill near Castle Hill beach in Newport.[1] After a funeral conducted by the Rev. George W. Douglass of Washington, Howe was buried at Island Cemetery in Newport.[15] After his death,[16] his widow remarried to Dr. Arnold Hague, a well known geologist, in November 1893.[17] She died in Washington in January 1922.[18][19]