The Reverend Richard Lewis Howell
6th Chaplain of the New Jersey Society 1901-1910
Preceded by | Frank Landon Humphreys |
Great grandson of propositus Richard Howell. Chaplain of the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey 1901-1910. Born in Wheeling, WV on 31 Mar 1859 and died in New York, NY on 1 Feb 1901. Graduate of the University of Virginia 1879. Graduate of the Theological Seminary of Philadelphia 1882. First Rector of Saint Margarets Episcopal Church, Washington, DC 1895-1899. The richest Episcopal Rector in America. Member of the Veteran Corps of Artillery in the State of New York and the Military Society of the War of 1812. Married Gwendolen Whistler, the grandniece of artist James McNeil Whistler on 20 Feb 1905. [Sources: ; (98); (C); St. Margaret’s Church History. Pic: St. Margaret’s Church History.]
Mr. Howell was the great grandson of Richard Howell.