Jonah Howe

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| state_house1 =Massachusetts

| district1 = Shrewsbury, Worcester

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| birth_date ={{birth date|1749|1|2}}

| birth_place = Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

| death_date = {{death date and age |1826|7|2|1749|1|2}}

| death_place = Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

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| profession = lawyer, state legislator

| parents = Daniel Howe and Eunice (Taylor) Howe

| spouse = Prudence (Bowker) Howe (m. 1771)
Candace (Allen) Howe (m. 1819)

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| residence =Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

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Jonah Howe (1749–1826) was a lawyer and farmer from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.{{cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10178.html |title= Gardner Howe (1759-1854) in Howe Family of Massachusetts | publisher= Political Graveyard | accessdate= 24 May 2012}}Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2011. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations, Edmund Rice (1638) Association. (CD-ROM)

Personal background and family relations

Jonah Howe was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on 2 January 1749 to Daniel Howe (1727-1750) and Eunice (Taylor) Howe (1729-?). He was a lawyer. Jonah Howe, Esq married Prudence Bowker (1751-1795), daughter of Lt. Charles Bowker and Eunice Stone, on 4 July 1771 at Shrewsbury. On 4 June 1819 he married Candace Allen in Shrewsbury. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the Shrewsbury, Worcester District. Howe died at his home in Shrewsbury on 2 July 1826.

References

Category:Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Category:1749 births

Category:1826 deaths

Category:People from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Category:19th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court