Adam HOWDER
- BIRTH: 16 DEC 1807, New York
- DEATH: 29 MAR 1871, Reading, Hillsdale Co., MI
- BURIAL: APR 1871, Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Co., MI
Father: Christian HOWDER
Mother: Mary HOUSTATER
Family 1: Adeline HARWOOD
- MARRIAGE:
- CHILDREN:
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_Christian HOWDER _|
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|--Adam HOWDER
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| _Adam HOUFSTATER _______|
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|_Mary HOUSTATER ___|
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|_Elizabeth Katherine //_|
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Notes
Updated October 2, 2005. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):
(1) 1830 Census, Cambria, Niagara Co., NY
(2) Application for probate of the last will and testament of Christian
Howder, Niagara Co., NY, May 28, 1832.
- Resident of Niagara County, NY in 1832.
(3) Michigan Census, 1827-70 Record via Ancestry.com
- Name: ADAM HOWDER
- State: MI
- County: Hillsdale County
- Township: Petitioner
- Year: 1834
- Database: MI Early Census Index
(4) 1850 United States Census for Michigan, Hillsdale Co., the Village of
Hillsdale: Household 83; December 18, 1850.
Adam Howder is head of household, married to Adeline [Harwood] Howder.
He is 43 years old, and a hotel keeper with real estate valued at
$3,000. He was born in New York. Adeline's sister Salina Harwood is a
resident, as is Adam's nephew Christopher J. Dickerson (listed as
"Dickinson"), along with about 20 other hotel lodgers.
(5) 1860 United States Census for Michigan, Hillsdale Co., Cambria Twp.
(Sylvanus Post Office): Page 213; August 10, 1860.
Adam Howder is head of household, married to Adeline [Harwood] Howder.
He is 53 years old, born in New York, and is a farmer with real estate
valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $380. Adeline's sister
Salina Harwood is also a resident.
(6) Michigan Business Directory, 1863 via Ancestry.com
- Hillsdale, page 340: "The first settler was Adam Howder, who erected a
log house in 1837, on site of present fair ground. C. W. Ferris, J. P.
Cook and Henry Waldron came in the same year, and built in the immediate
vicinity of Mr. Howder."
- Reading, page 454: "Howder Adam, hotel."
(7) 1870 United States Census for Michigan, Hillsdale Co., Reading Twp.
(Reading Post Office): page 41; dwelling 366; family 377; July 20, 1870.
Adam Howder is head of household, married to Adeline (Harwood) Howder.
He was born in New York, is 63 years old and is a hotel keeper with real
estate valued at $3,600 and personal estate valued at $2,300. He is
eligible to vote. Adeline's sister Selina is also a resident, as are
various waiters, servants and other hotel staff.
(8) Michigan State Library, Pioneer Record for Christopher John
Dickerson, submitted by Vivian Lyon Moore, Oct. 19, 1949.
Came to Hillsdale in 1835; tavern keeper; second settler in Hillsdale;
buried Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsdale, MI (date of birth provided on his
tombstone).
(9) Sketches of Old Hillsdale, Historical and Genealogical, Volume II.
Vivian Lyon Moore, for the Daughters of the American Revolution library.
(undated, probably 1940's), pages 85-87.
Came from Lockport, NY to Hillsdale, MI to look after the interests of
Greenman, King, and Budlong [land speculators of the Hillsdale Company].
1835 - built log house on what became Hillsdale Fair Grounds; first
tavern keeper in town; 1838 - new structure "very spacious" 28X40 ft &
two stories tall with ballroom; 1841 - town growing in other direction so
built new tavern called "Hillsdale House" which became very well known;
served as sheriff in 1845 and 1847; yet another tavern called "Howder
House" in Reading; died Mar. 29, 1871 & buried with wife and wife's
sister in Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsdale.
(10) There is a "Howder Street" in Hillsdale, Michigan named after him.
(11) Mathews family records, November 29, 2001.
- Adam Howder is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Co.,
MI (section 15, row 9).