Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1909 — Gen. 0. 0. Howard Died Tuesday at Burlington, Vt, [ARTICLE]

Gen. 0. 0. Howard Died Tuesday at Burlington, Vt,

Gen. Oliver O. Howard, ffne of the last of the commanders of the Union army durjng the civil war, died at his home in Burlington, Vt., Tuesday uight. Gen Howard was 79 years of age. He has been a lecturer for many years, his leading lecture being about Abraham Lincoln. Gen. Howard had a brilliant war record and was one of the founders of Howard University at Washington for the education of colored men.