Addison

HOWARD, Charles Willard

1st Biography of Charles Willard HOWARD

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 208-209 
(portrait p 209)

Charles W. HOWARD, of Shoreham [Addison County, Vermont], was born 04 
December 1846 in Windham [Windham County, Vermont], son of Willard and Sarah 
(PAGE) HOWARD. Educated at the common schools in Windham and afterward 
fitted for college at Chester Academy [Windsor County, Vermont]. Entered 
Middlebury College in 1868 and graduated with honors. In 1874 he received a 
degree from the medical department of the University of Vermont at Burlington 
[Chittenden County]. During the next year he studied medicine with Dr. EDDY, 
of Middlebury [Addison County, Vermont], and afterward, for a year, was in 
the hospital at Hartford [Hartford County], Connecticut, removing to Shoreham 
in 1875. From that time he has applied himself to his professional duties 
and built up a large practice. He has risen from the condition of a poor boy 
by steady work to that of a man of influence and repute, while he has also 
acquired some property.

Dr. HOWARD has no aspirations for political preferment, but has held several 
offices, serving continuously since 1881 as town clerk, and also as town 
treasurer. He has been honored with the town superintendency of schools 
since 1883, and has been a member of the committee on the county board of 
education. He is highly esteemed, not as a church member or society man, but 
for his true worth and high principles. He was a member of the Delta Upsilon 
fraternity during his college course, and is an attendant of the 
Congregational church. On 28 November 1876 in the town of Shoreham [Addison 
County, Vermont], Dr. Charles W. HOWARD was united in wedlock to Lottie N., 
daughter of Edwin R. and Naomi DOUGLASS. From this union is one daughter, 
Florence.



2nd Biography of Charles Willard HOWARD

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, pp 226-227

Charles Willard HOWARD, physician, Shoreham [Addison County, Vermont], was 
born 04 December 1846 at Windham, Windham County, Vermont, son of Willard and 
Sarah (PAGE) HOWARD. Fitted for college at Chester Academy; entered 
Middlebury College 1868, and in 1872 entered the medical department of the 
University of Vermont. Studied medicine with Dr. EDDY of Middlebury [Addison 
County, Vermont], and took one year of hospital work at Hartford [Hartford 
County], Connecticut. Located in Shoreham in 1876, where he has since 
practiced his profession. Republican; has served continuously as town clerk 
since 1881; was town treasurer; was superintendent of schools for eighteen 
years; was a member of the short-lived county board of education; has been 
school director nine years; represented Shoreham in the state Legislature in 
1908, being elected without a dissenting vote. Was one of the medical state 
license censors in 1903. Religious preference is Congregationalist. Member 
of Delta Upsilon fraternity, Middlebury College. In 1876 Dr. [Charles 
Willard] HOWARD married [Miss?] Charlotte Naomi DOUGLAS of Shoreham [Addison 
County, Vermont]; they have one daughter, Florence Angelia (now Mrs. Stowell 
R. WITHERELL).

Submitted by Cathy Kubly