WARNER HOWE, Shenango, Pennsylvania.
Warner Howe was but 16 years of age when the government made its second call for troops in 1861, and, fired by the patriotism that burned in every manly breast in those stirring times, he enlisted in the 8th New York Volunteer Infantry on July 28, 1861. He served with this regiment for one year, and was then transferred to the loth United States Regular Infantry under General Hancock. Mr. Howe participated in the battle of Gettysburg and many of the other decisive contests between the blue and the gray. He was badly wounded at the battle of Petersburg, and did not entirely recover for upwards of a year. As soon, however, as he was able to shoulder his musket, he was back in the service and remained until the end of the war, being mustered out at Washington in June, 1866.

Mr. Howe was born in Rochester, New York, April 19, 1845, and is the son of David Howe a farmer now residing at Batavia, New York. He left school at the age of 13 and engaged in the carriage-building trade until his enlistment in 1861. After returning from the war he was immediately employed by the Erie as a shop hand at Meadville. In 1867 he was advanced to fireman, in which capacity he served efficiently for eleven years, being promoted to engineer in 1878. For the next eleven years he ran an engine in the freight service. being advanced to a passenger run in 1889, since which time he has run trains 6 and 11 between Shenango and Leavittsburg.

Mr. Howe was married on July 3, 1868, to Miss Sarah B. Ames, daughter of David B. Ames, a farmer of Batavia, New York. Seven children have been born to them, five of whom are dead. Those surviving are Harry F., aged 29, a fireman on the Erie, and Edwin, aged 14, who is attending school. Mr. Howe is a charter member of Lodge No. 43, B. of L. E., and is also affiliated with Council 78, Royal Arcanum. He stands high in the esteem of his superiors on the Erie and is a citizen of integrity and worth. Mr. Howe has experienced but one wreck during his career, that being caused by a collision btween his train and a runaway engine. He was seriously hurt, being laid up seventeen weeks on account of his injuries.

Excerpted from: "American Locomotive Engineers, Erie Railway Edition," H.R. Romans Editor; Crawford-Adsit Company Publishers, Chicago, IL 1899.

From the May, 1916 issue of the Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Obituaries, P. 414:
Meadville, PA, March 10, 1916, of Bright's Disease, Sister Sarah D. Howe of G.I.A. Division 78, aged 64 years. Carried one (insurance) certificate dated July, 1891, payable to Warner Howe, husband.