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WILLIAM D. HOWARD was born in Knox county, Ill., Feb. 29, 1844. At the age of four years his father, Stephen, who was one of the first settlers of Illinois, removed to Sebastian county, Ark., in 1848, where he remained until 1857, when he returned to Crawford county, Kan., before it was organized. His father died in Crawford county, Kan., in February, 1875, and mother in Arkansas about the year 1850. The subject of our sketch was married in Bourbon county, Kan., Feb. 25, 1866, to Amanda Cooley, youngest daughter of Judge Cooley, a pioneer of the county, and a sister of Wm. Cooley. She was born in Jasper county, May 4, 1845, and is therefore one of the first children born in the county, and has always lived in the county except when a refugee during the late war. The names of the children are Laura L., Stephen H., Charles O., William L., George W., and Fred F. Mr. Howard came to Jasper county in 1875 and resides on a farm of 120 acres in Twin Grove township, 80 acres being under cultivation. The past season forty acres were sown to wheat, averaging about 25 bushels, fifteen acres of corn averaging 85 bushels, and some oats. There are good improvements of buildings, orchards, etc. Both are members of the Christian Church in good and regular standing.