Congressman Joseph Howells

Congressman Joseph Howell By Preston D. Richards, of the General Board, Y. M. M. I. A.

Congressman Joseph Howell was born in Brigham City, Utah, February 17, 1857, and died in Logan, Utah, July 18, 1918. He attended the common schools and completed the full course at the University of Utah. He was three times elected a member of the Territorial Legislature and served one term in the State Senate. He is spoken of now, by those who were associated with him in the State and the Territorial Legislature, as one of the most able and far-seeing legislators our State has ever had. To him is due the credit for the establishment of the Agricultural College, at Logan. Seven times the people of his State, whom he loved, and to whom he was ever true, elected him to represent them in the Congress of the United States, of which he was a member continuously from March 4, 1903, to March 4, 1917. While a member of Congress he succeeded through his unostentatious but earnest, intelligent and persistent work, in securing legislation pertaining to mining and agriculture, which has helped to give the West its present splendid position in the Nation. To him perhaps more than to anyone else is due the credit for the establishment by the Government of the Bureau of Mines and to the passage by Congress of the Three-hundredtwenty-Acre Enlarged Homestead Act. It has been justly said of him, that he knew personally more Bureau and Division heads in the various Executive Departments in Washington, and was better known by them than any other man in Congress. No man in Congress held a more envied place in the esteem and respect of his associates. Through his splendid abilities and the exemplary life of himself and family, for fourteen years in the Nation's Capital, he did a great deal toward placing his people right before the world. He was honored and respected by all who met him and loved by all who became acquainted with him. During that time his home in Washington was a Mecca for Utah people. He was for a time a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Utah, and was until his death a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brigham Young College. For two terms he was mayor of Wellsville, Utah, and for many years he was Counselor to Bishop William H. Maughan,

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HON. JOSEPH HOWELL |

I Bern, Brigham City, Utah, February 17, 1857; died, Logan, Utah, July 18,1918 |

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