Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Dr. J. S. Howland
J. S. HOWLAND, M. D.
Dr. J. S. Howland, a physician near New California, was born in Brown
County, Ohio, January 28, 1843, and is a son of Jonathan and Eliza J.
(Stewart) Howland, of Brown County; his father's parents were Ichabod
and Eliza (Beam) Howland, pioneers in the above county in which they
and the father of our subject died ; his mother resides at Somerville,
this county. He is the third child of a family of ten children, nine of
whom are living. His boyhood was principally passed in the counties of
Pendleton, Lewis and Mason, in Kentucky, but he received the rudiments
of his education at Winchester, Ky, which was more fully developed at
the Lebanon (Ohio) Normal School. October 8, 1862, he enlisted in
Company F, Seventh Ohio VolunteerCavalry, and served with distinction
under Gens. Gilmore, Burnside, Sherman and Thomas, and participated in
the battles of Somerset, Knoxville, Bean Station, Rogersville, Blaines
Cross Roads, Peach Tree Creek, Resaca, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin,
Nashville, Ebenezer Church, Selma, Ala. and Columbus, Ga. He served in
succession, Corporal, Quartermaster Sergeant, Duty Sergeant, Chief
Clerk in Commissary Department, and Chief Issuing Clerk in the Post
Commissary Department. The latter place he filled at Atlanta from April
1, 1865, till his discharge July 11, the same year. He then came to
Fayette County, where his parents had moved while in the service, and
in 1868 embarked in teaching, which he followed till 1875, when he
turned his attention to medicine. He read three years with Dr. A. J.
Richardson of Somerville, and took a course in the Miami Medical
College of Cincinnati. In February 1877, he located at New California,
and has since been successfully engaged in the practice of his
profession. January 16, 1868, he was married to Miss Louise Edgington,
a daughter of Jesse Edgington, by whom he has had three children-Orlie,
Irene and Jesse. Dr. Howland and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He is connected with the I. O. O. F. and G. A.
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