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Show HE WAS ONE OF PIONEERS IN BUSINESS Reese Howell, the pioneer business man who died yesterday atternoon at 3 o'clock, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1848 and crossed the plains to Utah with his mother in 1851. driv-! driv-! in gan ox team. In 1 8G9 he was married to Jennie Chaplow and four children were born I William C . May Josephine, James Al-' Al-' hert and Martha Willams The daugh. ters died, but he is survived by his son and wife, one brother. Congressman Congress-man Joseph Howell of lxgan. and one sister, Mrf Anne H. Burt of Brlghnm I City For a time after his arrival In T'l.ili. Mr. Howell lived with his mother moth-er in WeUsvllle until ins marriage v linn he moed to Kelton, Utah, and I engaged in the freighting business Then- were no railroad through that part of the country and all transporting trans-porting was done by wagons and teams From this he drifted to the mercantile business. He came to Og- den in 1 S82 and bas resided here' I since Shortly after his arrival here, he I became associated with H C. Tave l in business under the firm name of T.iey & Howell, hut later he purchased pur-chased the Interests of Mr Tavey and conducted the store under his own nome Iater his son William 0. How. ell became associated with the fath-ler fath-ler and the firm name was changed to' ! R sse Howell Sons. Mr. Howell always had been progressive pro-gressive and was a firm believer In j j i ho cltv of Ogden. A loer of his 'home, he cared to go out but little and OOUld regularly he found at home af-, tei his duties had been finished in I the store He belonged to but one j fraternal organization, the Roval Arcanum Ar-canum and was a member of no par-1 tlcular church. |