From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 328-329 .
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


THE HOWELL FAMILY 

The Howell family is one of the oldest and most distinguished of 
American families, members of it having from time to time been very 
prominently identified with the United States army and navy, and also 
with state government.  Andrew Allen Howell, the rsubject of this 
biographical mention, was born in the state of New Jersey, July 26, 
1821.  His boyhood and youth were spent in the city of Philadelphia.  
In 1841 he removed to Uniontown, Penn., where he was engaged in the 
stage business with his uncle, Lucius W. Stockton.  In 1844, after 
the death of his uncle, he removed to Wheeling, where he continued in 
the stage business until 1847.  In the latter year he formed a 
partnership with Henry K. List and William H. Stelle, in the 
wholesale grocery business, in which he was occupied until 1859.  At 
the expiration of this time he was compelled to retire from active 
business life on account of failing health.  Mr Howell had a 
successful business career during the twelve years he was engaged in 
the grocery business in Wheeling, and his forced retirement was not 
only a misfortune to himself, but to the entire business community.  
He has been and is now associated with various important enterprises, 
being a stock-holder in the Riverside Iron works, the Benwood Nail 
mill, several different banking institutions, and a large stockholder 
in the Wheeling Bridge Co., of which he is a director.  Mr. Howell 
was married in 1848, to Miss Sarah W. Paull, daughter of Thomas 
Paull, a descendant of an old and prominent family, and an uncle of 
Judge James Paull.  Five children have been born to this union, they 
are: Allen S., living in the vicinity of Wheeling; Richard L., 
minister in charge of Grace Episcopal church, of Sandusky, Ohio, 
Thomas P., of Philadelphia, where he was recently admitted to the 
bar; William P., a student of medicine at the university of 
Pennsylvania; and Sallie P., wife of Earl W. Oglebay, of Cleveland, 
Ohio, president of the First National bank of West Virginia.  Andrew 
A. Howell is descended from revolutionary ancestry on both sides of 
his family.  His father, Major Richard L. Howell, served in the 
American army during the entire war of 1812, and was in the Canada 
campaign.  He was a volunteer on board Commodore Perry's ship in the 
victory on Lake Erie, and his brother, William B. Howell (the father 
of Mrs. Jefferson Davis), was also a volunteer on Captain Elliott's 
ship.  Richard Howell, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, 
was governor of the state of New Jersey, for seven consecutive terms.  
A photograph of the tombstone of one of his ancestors was shown the 
writer of this sketch; it was taken from the tombstone, still 
standing in a cemetery on Long Island, and shows it to be in a state 
of excellent preservation.  It is in memory of Major John Howell, who 
died November 3, 1696, aged seventy-nine years.  The coat-of-arms 
engraved on this stone is said to be among the first ever found on a 
tombstone in the United States.  After the war Major Howell was 
appointed deputy collector of the port of Philadelphia, and served in 
that capacity for twenty-six years, at which time he died.  He held 
his position under different political administrations, but his 
popularity with the merchants of Philadelphia was so great that 
public sentiment kept him in office.  Mr. Howell's mother's maiden 
name was Rebecca Augusta Stockton; her forefathers were also 
prominent during the trying days of the revolution.  Her grandfather 
was the brother of Richard Stockton, one of the signers of the 
declaration of independence, and her relatives have been honorably 
identified with the service of the nation and state to a great 
extent.  Admiral John C. Howell, a brother of Andrew Allen Howell, 
married a daughter of Commodore Stockton, of New Jersey, his cousin. 


(Linda Fluharty)