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Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor

Edgar Watson Howe (May 3, 1853 – October 3, 1937),^[1] was an American novelist and newspaper and magazineeditor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He was perhaps best known for his magazine, E.W. Howe's Monthly, which he wrote from 1911 to 1933. Howe was well traveled and known for his sharp wit in his editorials.

Personal life

Howe was born May 3, 1853, in Wabash County, Indiana, in a community now known as Treaty.^[1] His father was Henry Howe, a farmer and Methodist circuit rider,^[2] and his mother Elizabeth (Irwin) Howe.

Howe spent most of his childhood in Harrison County, Missouri, where his family moved when he was 3,^[3] first to Fairview,^[a] and then to Bethany around 1864.

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Howe's father was a vocal abolitionist,^[b] opposing slavery on religious grounds. When the Civil War broke out, Henry Howe joined to fight for the Union. Returning to Misso