Person:Frances Howe (3)

From the chapter entitled "Jefferson Township" by Rev. B. C. Megie, D. D. in the book "History of Morris County, New Jersey, 1739-1882", published by W. W. Munsell & Company, New York (1882), reprinted by the Morris County Historical Society, Morristown, New Jersey (2000), Page 230. "The children of Freeman Wood were: William F. [sic: "J."] Wood, who married Miss Frances P. Howe, was a paymaster in the army with the rank and pay of major, and resides in Hartford, Conn. . . Record received from Anthony L. Troha Sept 2009.

Copied from Encyclopedia of Connecticut biography:genealogical-memorial. . . , Volume 2 by Samuel Hart, American Historical Society. Available at google.books. "Edmund Grant Howe married Francis Kies, daughter of Samuel and Pamela (Davis) Kies. Her mother, Pamela (Davis) Kies, was born at Charlton, Massachusetts, March 4, 1778, died June 24, 1824. Five children were born to Edmund Grant and Francis (Kies) Howe: Edmund Miner, deceased; Charles Grant, deceased; Frances Pamela, married William J. Wood, deceased; George Summer, deceased; and Daniel Robinson, of further mention."

"Representative Citizens of Connecticut Biographical Memorial, Deluxe Edition", edited by Samuel Hart, published by The American Historical Society, New York (1916). Pages 282 - 283 contain a biographical outline of Major William Jackson Wood, which concludes [on Page 283]: "Major Wood married, in 1866, Frances P. Howe, a daughter of Edmund Grant and Frances (Kies) Howe, residents of Hartford, where the former was at one time president of the National Exchange Bank. Major and Mrs. Wood had one child: Ethel, now Mrs. Herbert I. Thomas, of Ottawa, Canada."

Oscar Burton Robbins' book "History of the Jackson Family", page 18 mentions a confusing bit of info that is only resolved by finding the above records. The record of page 18, paragraph (a): "William Jackson [Wood] m. Frances M. Woods, who had one child, Maria Howe, who d. Oct., 1869." As this record was found first, it needed more research and Anthony L. Troha provided the above citations.

1. ↑ Grant, Arthur Hastings. The Grant family: a genealogical history of the descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn., 1601-1898. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
   pgs 308-309.
2.   Halsey, Jacob Lafayette; Francis Whiting Halsey; and Edmund D. (Edmund Drake) Halsey. Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton, Long Island, 1591-1679: with his American descendants to the eight and ninth generations
   431.
3.   Hart, Samuel, and American Historical Society (New York). Encyclopedia of Connecticut biography, genealogical-memorial: representative citizens. (Boston, Massachusetts, United States: American Historical Society, 1917-1923).