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Alfred Pettis Howes, 2nd[1]

Male 1885 - 1948  (63 years)


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  • Name Alfred Pettis Howes  [1, 2, 3
    Suffix 2nd 
    Birth Abt 1885  Brooklyn, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Born 22 Jun 1885  Brooklyn, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • Book also says 21st Jun
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 13 Jun 1928  [1
    Publisher 
    Residence 13 Jun 1928  213 Ridge Road, Rutherford, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Death 21 Aug 1948  Alford, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Name Alfred Howes  [4
    Name Alfred P Howes  [4
    Died 21 Aug 1948  State Line, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Age: 63y 
    Notes 
    • Alfred a widower upon marriage to Cecile [1]
    • NY Times obit reads:
      Alfred P Howes, a publisher, dies
      Head of Trade Magazines a co-founder of Association of Textile Chemists
      Alfred Pettis Howes, president of Howes Publishing Company of 1 Madison Avenue, publisher of the American Dyestuff Reporter, The Knit Goods Weekly and The Textile Colorist and Converter, died yesterday in his home at State Line, Mass. after a long illness, according to word received here. His age was 63.
      Born in Brooklyn, the son of James T and Mark Kingsley Howes, he attended the Utica (NY) Free Academy and received an AB degree from Cornell in 1907.
      He was with various New York Stock Exchange houses until 1914, the last three years as manager of the branch office of Blyth & Bonner. He was associated with the Cheltenham Advertising Service in 1914-15 and was vice-president of the Hewitt Publishing Company from 1915-1917.
      In 1917 he organized the Howes Publishing Company.
      A member of Theta Delta Chi, his clubs included the Chemists, and Cornell of New York and the Wyantenuck Country of Great Barrrington, Mass.
      Surviviing are his widow, the former Cecile Rousseau, and a daughter, Mrs Derfla C Singleton.
    Person ID I80361  ONS
    Last Modified 6 Jul 2023 

    Father James Thomas Howes,   b. 18 Sep 1866, Utica, Oneida, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Oct 1899, Saranac Lake, Franklin, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Mother Mary Taylor Kingsley,   b. 11 Nov 1863, Utica, Oneida, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Mar 1942, Hill Sanitarium, Utica, Oneida, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 7 Oct 1884  Utica, Oneida, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F22879  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Winifred Russell Covell,   b. 5 Jan 1889, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Mar 1927, Rutherford, Bergen, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Married 18 Apr 1911  Rutherford, Bergen, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. Derfla Covell Howes,   b. 6 Dec 1914, State Line, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. James Thomas Howes,   b. 24 Aug 1916, Rutherford, Bergen, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1944, Berlin, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years)
    Last Modified 22 Apr 2021 
    Family ID F26270  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Cecile Lemay Rousseau,   b. 4 Sep 1892, Ossining, Westchester, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Married 13 Jun 1928  St Bartholomew, 108 East 51st Street, Manhattan, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Witness 13 Jun 1928  [1
    Filomena Ricciardi 
    Witness 13 Jun 1928  [1
    Walter H Williams 
    Married 13 Jun 1928  New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Last Modified 22 Apr 2021 
    Family ID F22878  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1885 - Brooklyn, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 22 Jun 1885 - Brooklyn, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 13 Jun 1928 - St Bartholomew, 108 East 51st Street, Manhattan, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 13 Jun 1928 - New York, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1405] New York City Marriages, (from m'film in New York City or Salt Lake City).

    2. [S324] New York Times, 1948 Aug 22.

    3. [S406] Howes Genealogy - used with the permission of the Dennis Historical Society, Joshua Crowell Howes, revised and extended by Col. Bob Howes, (1892, revised in 2006).

    4. [S601] Death report - mother.