History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 593.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

REV. WM. J. H. HOWE; Georgetown; was born in Clinton County, Ohio,
near Wilmington, in 1843; he received a thorough academic education at
Wilmington, and attended Butler University, Indiana (then "North Western").
At the age of fifteen he began speaking in public on various special
subjects.  He took an active part in the Fremont campaign, speaking at
mass-meetings at that early age; in the campaign of 1860, for Lincoln and
Hamlin, he took an active interest.  He began the study of law at seventeen
and pursued it for several years, but never entered regular practice.  In
1872 he withdrew from the Republican party, and was identified with the
rise and organization of the National Greenback party, being a delegate to
the Toledo Convention from the 5th Indiana District in 1875, which
organized that party; in 1878 he withdrew from politics. He united with the
Christian Church at the age of nineteen, and in 1865 he began preaching;
he was made State Evangelist under the missionary organization of the
State, and traveled continually for one year.  He then located with the
church at Centreville, Ind., of which for one year he was pastor; then he
accepted a call to the pastorate of the Christian Church at Corry, Penn.,
serving a year, where he accepted a call to the First Christian Church of
New York City, serving a year.  Business matters requiring his attention
and presence in the West, he served his connection with the New York
church and located in Wayne Co., Ind.  He then evangelized for four years
in different parts of the State.  In 1873 he went to Union City, Indiana,
and filled the pulpit of the Christian Church a year.  In 1874 he was
called to the First Christian Church of Chicago, Ill., but resigned in a
short time on account of ill health in his family.  He returned to Wayne
Co., Ind., where he evangelized until the close of 1878.  In January,
1879, he began his labors as pastor of the Christian Church of Georgetown,
Ky., and has since continued.  During his ministry over 4,000 persons have
been added to the church.  He refused the nomination of the National and
Democratic parties for Congress for the Fifth Indiana Dist., because  he
felt that his duty lay in following the ministry; this nomination was equal
to an election.  The Christian Church of Georgetown is the mother of the
reformation.  In 1868 he married Miss Mary Scott, of Wayne Co., Ind.

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