Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1903 — OLDEST LIVING MINISTER NEARS THE CENTURY MARK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OLDEST LIVING MINISTER NEARS THE CENTURY MARK

Rev. William Howe, D, D., of 910 Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge, Mass., is 97 years old. It is believed

that Dr. Howe Is the oldest living clergyman In this country. For a man of his age he is reniarkab'.e active. Only a few weeks ago Dr. Howe officiated at the funeral of J. S. Paine, the well known furniture manufacturer. Dr, Howe observ-

kev. wm, nowg,, td his 93th holiday last year by preaching for fifty minutes without notes at the Broadway Baptist Church. Cambridge. lie was born in Worcester, and received an academic education in Amherst academy. He graduated from Colby University, then named Watervllle College, in 1833, .‘and from the Newton Theological Seminary In 1836. Following his studies at Newton he established a circuit of eight mission schools in Boston. One was in a sail loft on Commercial street, from which developed the Baptist Bethel on Hanover street. From another mlssion bh Friend street came the Union Baptist church. Dr. Howe was ordained to the ministry at Dr. Malcom’s church, then on Federal street, now the present Clarendon Street church. From 1863 to 1870 he was pastor of the Broadway Baptist church, Cambridge. He was one of the originators of the Boston Associated Charities, and was a member of the Boston School Board.