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HOWLAND, Frank George

1st Biography of Frank George HOWLAND

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 212-213 
(portrait p 212)

Frank George HOWLAND, of Barre [Washington County, Vermont], was born 27 
August 1863 in Boston [Suffolk County], Massachusetts, son of George and 
Angelina (BUSZELL) HOWLAND. His father's employment was that of farmer and 
auctioneer, and he has been a resident of East Montpelier [Washington County, 
Vermont] since April 1866. He has been the incumbent of several important 
town offices and was sent to the Legislature in 1882. Frank G. HOWLAND 
pursued the usual course of instruction in the public schools and then 
graduated from the Vermont Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Montpelier, in the 
class of 1884. Republican; represented the town of Barre in the Legislature 
of 1892, and served creditably as a member of the committee on banks. Was 
elected teller of the National Bank of Barre on 16 February 1885, and two 
year later was promoted to cashier; he was largely instrumental in securing 
the charter for the Barre Savings Bank and Trust Company, which commenced 
business 27 February 1893, and of which institution he is treasurer. He is 
considered in the community in which he resides as an active, energetic, and 
efficient man of business; shrewd, intelligent, and honorable in all his 
transactions. On 29 March 1888 he [Frank G. HOWLAND] was united in marriage 
to Mary, daughter of Sidney and Irene A. (HEATH) WELLS, of Barre [Washington 
County, Vermont].



2nd Biography of Frank George HOWLAND

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, p 230

Frank George HOWLAND, banker, Barre [Washington County, Vermont], was born 27 
August 1863 at Boston [Suffolk County], Massachusetts, son of George and 
Angeline (BUZZELL) HOWLAND. Educated in the public schools of East 
Montpelier, and Montpelier Seminary 1884. Was teller at the National Bank of 
Barre 1885; cashier January 1887; president 1907 and since. Was 
incorporator of Barre Savings Bank and Trust Company, 1893, and treasurer 
since its organization; incorporator Barre and Montpelier Traction and Power 
Company, and served as its treasurer several years; incorporator People's 
Lighting, Heating and Power Company, and was its treasurer several years; 
trustee French's Barre Library; incorporator and president of the Granite 
Mutual Insurance Company; trustee of Barre City Hospital, and one of the 
founders. In whatever assembly he is found, Mr. HOWLAND represents the solid 
sense of the meeting. Republican; represented Barre in the Vermont 
Legislature 1892; has been chairman of the Republican city committee for the 
past ten years; justice of the peace for the past twenty years; was senator 
from Washington County 1906, served as chairman of committee on banks. Has 
been a member board of civil authority for more than twenty years, its 
chairman most of the time. Episcopalian; is vestryman and warden of the 
Church of the Good Shepherd, Barre; was lay deputy to general convention at 
Richmond, Virginia, in 1907. In 1888 Mr. [Frank George] HOWLAND married 
[Miss?] Mary WELLS of Barre [Washington County, Vermont]; they had one 
daughter, Doris Irene, who died in infancy.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly