Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1890 — JUDGE HOWARD DEAD. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE HOWARD DEAD.

Sketch of the Well-Known Michigan Lawyer and Pioneer. Flint (Mich.) dispatch: Judge Summer Howard died Sunday after nearly a year of feeble health. He was born at Brockport, N. Y., in 1835 and came to Michigan with his parents in the following year. He learned the prlpter's trade, but left it an early age to become a lawyer. In 1858 he was elected prosecuting attorney or Genesee county. During the rebellion he served in the Second Michigan Infantry. In 1876 he became district attorney in Utah, where he assisted in convicting John D. Lee for complicity in the Mountain Meadow massacre. In 1882 he served as Speaker of the Michigan Legislature and in 1884 he was appointed Chief, Justice of Arizona. In 188* he returned to Flint and resumed his law practice.