HoTwe, Joseph, a Congregational minister, born at Killingly, Connecticut, January 14, 1747, was edu- cated at Yale College, where he graduated in 1765, the first in his class. By recommendation of the president of his college he was appointed principal of a public school at Hartford, at that time the most important in- stitution of that class in the colony. He was licensed to preach in 1769, and was appointed tutor at Yale in the same yciir. He held this position, preaching quite frequently, uritil called to the New South Church, Bos- ton, in 1772, where he was ordained May 19, 1773. At the outbreak of the Revolution (1775) he fled to Nor- wich, where he remained only a short time, as his health had become enfeebled. He went to New Haven, and on liis return stopped at Hartford, Avhere he died, Aug. 25, 1775. — Sprague, A nnals of the A merican Pulpit, i, 707 sq.
Ho"we, Josiah, an English divine of the 17th cen- tury, born at Crendon, Bucks County, was educated at Oxford, and obtained a fellowship at Trinity College, of that University, in 1637. He found great favor with Charles I, at whose command he was admitted to the degree of bachelor of divinity in 1646. After the ruin of the royal house he was ejected from his fellowship, but was restored to his preferment after the restoration of the monarchy. He died in 1701. See Wood, A then. Oxon. vol. iii ; Gorton, Biog. Diet, ii, s. v.
Ho'we, Nathaniel, a Congregational minister, was born in Ipswich, Mass., Oct. 6, 1764. He graduated at Harvard College in 1786, and was ordained pastor at Hopkinton Oct. 5, 1791, where he labored until his death, Feb. 15, 1837. He published An Attempt to prove that John's Baptism was not Gospel Bapii.-<iii, h lug <i Reply to Dr. Baldwin's Essay on the same Siihj< li (isJO) : — A Catechism with miscellaneous Questions, a ml a Chapter of Proverbs for the Children under his jwi'ochial Care. See Sprague, Annals, ii, 307; North American Revieic, iv, 93-97.
Ho-well, Horatio S., a Presbyterian minister, bom near Trenton, N. .T., in 1820, was educated at Princeton College, and the L'nion Theological Seminar^-, N. Y. In 1846 he was ordained ]iastor of East Whiteland Church, Pa. He subsequently became pastor of the Church at Elkton, INId., and at the Delaware Water Gap, Pa. While he was laboring at this latter place the Rebellion broke out. He at once entered the army as chaplain of the 90th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. His reputa- tion as chaplain was pre-eminent for ardjiious, zealous, and judicious devotion. He was killed at the battle of
Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.— Wilson, Pres. Hist. A Ima- nac, 1864.
Ho-well, Lawrence, a distinguished Nonjuror, was born soon after the Restoration, about 1660. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he gradua- ted B.A. in 1684, and^M.A. Ln 1688. Having entered the Church, he was ordained in 1712 by the nonjuring bishop. Dr. Hickes, who had taken the title of suftragan bishop of Thetford. He soon after published a pr.m- jihlet entitled The Case of Schism in the Church of Eng- land truly stated, for which he was committed to Nc\\- gate, convicted, and condemned to three j^ears" impris- onment, besides whipping, a fine of £500, and degrada- tion. This latter part was remitted him, however, by the king. He died in Newgate in 1720. Whatever his errors, the punishment appears to have been dispropor- tionate to his offence. He was a man of extensive learning and great capacity. He wrote Synopsis Cano- num S.S. Ajiostolorvm et Conciliorum CEcumenicorum ct Pi-ovincialium ah Ecclesia Grceca receptorum (1708, fol.) : —Synops. Canon. Eccles. Lett. (1710-1715, fol.) -.—A View of the Pontificate from its supposed beginning to the end of the Council of Trent, etc. (Lond. 1716, 8vo) -.—Desidc- rius, or the original Pilgrim; a divine Dialogue (from the Spanish) (Lond. 1717, 12mo) : — A complete History of the Holy Bible, with additions by Rev. Geo. Burdcr (Lond. 1806, 3 vols. 8vo) : — Certain Queries p7-oposed by Roman Catholics, etc. (Lond. 1716) ; etc. — Darling, Cy- clopcedia Bibliograp)hica, i, 1563 ; Hook, Eccles. Biog. vi, 199 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. xxv, 313 sq. (J. N.'P.)
Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford, D.D., a
prominent Baptist preacher in Tennessee, Avas born in Wayne County, North Carolina, March 10, 1801. He pursued his literary and theological studies in Colum- bian College, also the study of medicine, but without in- tending its practice. With this preparation, he entered upon the duties of the ministrj^ in the Episcopal Church, of which his family v.ere communicants; but, quite un- expectedly to his friends, he soon joined the Baptists, travelling fourteen miles to reach the nearest Baptist church for this purpose, Feb. 6, 1821. Five days after-' wards he received license to preach the doctrines of the Baptist Church. At Washington he performed, in con- nection with his theological studies, the duties of a city missionary, and for a year after the completion of his course he was a missionary' in Virginia. He then accepted a call to the pastorate of the Cumberland Street Eajitist Church in Norfolk. He was ordained Jan. 27, 1827. A revival immediately followed, as the fruits of which he baptized about 200 within a few months. His labors continued here for eight years. In 1834 he removed to Nashville, Tenn. The First Baptist Church had been dispersed by the Rev. Alexander Campbell and his dis- ciples, but under IMr. Howell's labors it was revived and built up. He established, and for some time edited a religious newsjiaper. He exerted more influence in the support of missions than any other minister of the denomination in Tennessee. After the organization of the Southern Baptist Convention, he was elected and re-elected its president. In 1850 he removed to Rich- mond, Va., where, in aeldition to the charge of a church, he was a trustee of Richmond College, and of the Ri( h- mond Female Institute, a member of the Southern I5ap- tist Foreign Mission, Publication, and Sunday-school Boards, and of the Virginia Baptist Mission and Educa- tional Board. In 1857 he yielded to an urgent call to reoccupy his former field of labor in Nashville. There, besides efliciently promoting all the State Baptist organ- izations, he was, by appointment of the Legislature, a trustee of the Institutiem for the Blind, aiid in other ed- ucational trusts. His labors were arduous; in addition to which, he performed a considerable amount of literary work, including some of his most useful books. He died in 1867, greatly honored and lamented. Dr. Howell was a man of commanding jiresence and dignified address, warm and genial in his manners. His labors as a