Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-20 | Page 13 | Orson Howard, Leading Utah Scientist, Dies

ORSON HOWARD, LEADING UTAH SCIENTIST, DIES Well Known Educator Succumbs at Home Here After Long Illness; Was Member of "U" Faculty Dr. Oraoq Howard. II years old, former member of the University of Utah faculty, well known Utah educator edu-cator and scientist and th first graduate from Iowa college, dial today to-day at bis horns, T street, lie was aallv of stall Lake. He had been 111 for several ieara following a physical breakdown while en-raxed en-raxed aa den of tha school of aria and sciences at th University of Utah. ... Dr. Howard was a student at the tTnlverslty. of Utah from 1175 to 1171.. He obtained his H. 8. and A. M. degrees at Iowa college, the first J In 1171 and the latter a ahort time snerwsrd, Uuring 1171 and 18S0 hs acted as principal of the preparatory prepar-atory school at th University of Utah, later becoming head of the department of natural science, where he served from l4 to 10. Shortly sftsr 110, Dr. Howard left the Utah Inatltullon and went east. He graduated from the Belle, vue Hooplal Medical college. New Tork City. In H2. and later became head of the Seaside laboratorlee of Johne Hopkins hospital at Leland Stanford unlverolty, California. He wee a member of th University of California school In 102 and subsequently sub-sequently practised medicine in this rltv from the latter part of l01,to 107. In 1KT he again became affiliated af-filiated with the University of Utah. ! Surviving th educator are his wife and two children. Mrs. Ssdls Tripp Howard, tho wife, resldee st lb B street home. Mrs. Htsnley W. Mobioua. daughter, reslnee st rloo. Utah, and tha son, Fenton L Howard, lives In Chicago, where he Is encaged In th work of electrical elec-trical engineering.