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Dr. Nahum Howard, Jr. (1802-1841)


See also: Theodore B. Howard





The Story of Dr. Nahum Howard

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DR. Nahum Howard, Jr. arrived in New Salem in 1810, from Sidney, Kennebec Co., Maine and took up residence near the north end of Harbor road, on what became the residence of Mr. P. M. Darling some time prior to 1878, see 1878 History of Ashtabula Co. p. 157). Dr. Howard died in Conneaut on June 17, 1841 and was buried in Conneaut City Cemetery. He married Elizabeth Sawtelle on 16 Nov. 16, 1800, probably in Kennebec Co., Maine or perhaps in Easton, Bristil, Massachusetts. They had six children, between 1801 and 1809, while living in New England -- presumably all of them were born in Sidney. Seven more of their children were born in New Salem, beginning with Louisa, who seems to have come into the world at New Salem during the last weeks of 1810.



Where Nahum Howard lived in New Salem -- fifty years before.
(Near the intersection of Harbor and Hiler streets -- 1890s illo).


It is practically a certainty that Nahum's family arrived at New Salem near the end of 1810. In his 1833 statement to D. P. Hurlbut, he says that he first became acquainted with Solomon Spalding in December of 1810. New Salem at that time had only a handful of residents and it is unlikely that Dr. Howard could have lived there for very long without meeting the town's celebrated story-teller, Solomon Spalding. As this was the approximately the same time that Mr. Spalding is thought to have suffered a severe and disabling hernia, it is likely that their association was more than that of mere acquaintances. After Dr. Nehemiah King (who preceded Nahum to Ohio by nearly a decade), Nahum Howard was only the second physician to set up a medical practice in northern Ashtabula Co.

History has long since forgotten what caused Nahum Howard and his family to move from Maine to Ohio. His wife Elizabeth had Sawtelle relatives living there at least as early as 1805, when Daniel Sawtelle was made a trustee for Salem township. The public records of Kennebec Co., Maine show that a Nahum Howard was the defendant in Sidney, in Oct. 1819, in a case involving an unpaid debt and allegations of counterfeiting. Whether this was Nahum, Sr., Nahum. Jr., or a close relative of theirs (and how the case was decided), a cursory inspection the court records does not reveal -- but it is the last time the name "Nahum Howard" appears in the legal records of that place. Exactly what kind of a physician Nahum Howard was in Maine and in his new home in Ohio, no existing records reveal. Had he been anything other than a general practitioner, some mention of that would probably survived in the local histories.

Dr. Nahum Howard's name first appears in Ohio documents as being an eligible voter on the 1811 list of "The Number and Name of the free White Male Inhabitants above twenty one years of Age in the township of Salem in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio." Two of the last known appearances of Dr. Howard's name in Ashtabula documents is on the 1835 Ashtabula Co. Voters' List and in the 1840 Federal Census report for Conneaut (called "Salem" or "New Salem" in previous years' census records). The "Naham" Howard shown living in Conneaut in the 1850 Census list was probably his son, Nahum Howard III, who was 48 years old that year. The "Nathan" Howard mentioned in an 1883 statement made by Hiram Lake was either Nahum himself or his brother Nathan, who also lived at Conneaut. In some old reports and accounts the two brothers' names were occasionally confused.

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