Howard, John Franklin jun.1862-12.sep.1927 USA NY, Clinton - Castile (bur Perry)
poet, lyricist, teacher, Shakespearean reader in opera houses, 1900 he was boarding with his wife and son at a hotel at 286 Pleasant Street in Boston Malden Massachusetts, he gave numerous Shakespeare recitals (all from memory) throughout the USA and Canada, 18.jan.1899 recited Hamlet at GAR Hall in Fitchburg Massachusetts, 15.jan.1902 recited 'Twelfth Night' at Congregational Chapel in North Adams Massachusetts, 17.jan.1907 recited 'Hamlet' at the Presbyterian Church in Piqua Ohio, 21.jan.1909 recited 'Julius Caesar' at the Carnegie Library Auditorium in Moberly Missouri, 12.feb.1914 recited Hamlet at Christian Church in Massillon Ohio, 17.jan.1922 recited Macbeth at St Mary's Hall in Kingston NY, 1909 still living in Boston, 1910-1920 he resided at 82 Clarke Street and Upper Lake Road in Castile, Silver Lake Assembly NY, 1910-1915 with his niece schoolteacher Florence Lillian Gowan (Canada, Rockburn 4.dec.1885- ; 1919 married the eight year younger Harry Wilber Seward), buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Perry NY ; son of farmer Junio Howard (NY Clinton, Churubusco 14.may.1824-3.dec.1906 NY Franklin, Malone) and Diana Whipple (1834-) ; 25.dec.1884 in Norfolk NY he married Shakespearean reader Carrie Genevieve Bidwell (NY, Norfolk apr.1865-13.aug.1932 Massachusetts, Provincetown) by 1910 they were divorced ; son John Stanley Howard (NY, Pitcher 28.dec.1885-29.apr.1946 NH, Portsmouth)