Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor.  Washington: West of the 
Cascades.  Vol. I.  Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917.  p. 
452.

(Note: this biography was taken from the memoirs of William West, 
written about 1913, before his death).

	HORACE HOWE:  "Horace Howe of the Cowlitz prairie 
was another sturdy old pioneer, who took an active interest in public 
affairs.  He located on the lands of the Hudson Bay Company farms 
before the award had been paid by the Government, and when 
notified to leave by a certain time, or take the consequences, he told 
them to come at any time, as his rifle was in good order, and that the 
sights on it were properly adjusted.  His early life had been spent as 
a flat-boat man on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, before the days 
of steamboats, and in times when every man depended on his native 
courage and strong right arm, as ample protection in all 
emergencies.  In 1863 some of the Hudson Bay Company's barns at 
the Cowlitz farms had been burned.  The newspaper in Olympia had 
censured Mr. How as having taken a part in causing incendiary fire.  
Mr. Howe, on hearing of the accusation, at once went to Olympia 
and in an altercation with the editor, Mr. Kendall, during which he 
used his horsewhip, was short down by Mr. Kendall, but 
recovered.
	"Mr. Howe served the county in public capacities and was 
county commissioner for several terms, had a quick ready wit and 
resolute will.  I remember the following incident of his quick 
repartee: Mr. Howe, Mr. Fay and Mr. Ingalls were the county 
commissioners, and I was county clerk and auditor.  Mr. Howe was 
at that time seventy-five and Mr. Fay about forty-five.  One morning 
we were standing on the porch outside the courthouse.  Mr. Fay 
turned to Mr. Howe, saying, 'How old are you, Mr. Howe?'  Mr. 
Howe replied, 'Seventy-five.'  Mr. Fay remarked, 'Well, I wish 
that I may be as good a man as you are when I get to be your age.'  
The reply from Mr. Howe came sharp and quickly: 'Well, if you 
are, you will have to improve wonderfully.'
	"Mr. Howe had read law and often took cases before the 
justices of the peace, and often won his cases against regular 
practicing lawyers.  He was a ready speaker, and could see as far 
into a legal millstone or knotty question of law as most of the trained 
lawyers.
	"On one occasion he was defending a client before a local 
justice, and the plaintiff's attorney had come from the capital city 
and had brought with him a bulky assortment of law books, from 
which he read a number of extracts to prove his side of the case, 
claiming that they were precedents of the old English common law, 
when he was interrupted by Mr. Howe, who appealed to the court, 
saying that this country was not now under English law, that we had 
fought against English laws, that we had suffered, bled and died 
fighting against English laws, and had won out, and asked that no 
more of the English common law be read in court.  Whereupon the 
justice at once ordered the plaintiff's attorney to close his books, 
telling him that he had been trying for an hour to befuddle the mind 
of the court, by reading decisions of law emanating from a foreign 
jurisdiction, and that he would near no more of them, and the case 
was according decided in favor of the defendant."


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