{{Short description|American clubman (1862–1904)}} {{Infobox person | name = Thomas H. Howard | image = | birth_date = {{birth date|1862|12|06}} | birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1904|06|04|1862|12|06}} | death_place = Hyde Park, New York, U.S. | alma_mater = | parents = Ezra Williams Howard<br>Elizabeth Stuyvesant Neilson Howard | spouse = {{marriage|Rose Anthony Post<br>|January 19, 1892}} | children = Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard<br>Thomas Howard Howard | relations = }}
'''Thomas Howard Howard''' (December 6, 1862 – June 4, 1904) was an American clubman who was prominent in New York and Newport society during the Gilded Age.
==Early life== Howard was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 6, 1862.<ref name="1894Sons">{{cite book |title=Yearbook |date=1894 |publisher=Sons of the American Revolution New York State Society |page=138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjISAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138 |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> He was the son of Ezra Williams Howard (1818–1869), a graduate of Brown University (where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi)<ref name="ADP1870">{{cite book |title=Catalogue of the Alpha Delta Phi Society |date=1870 |publisher=Executive Council of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity |page=[https://archive.org/details/cataloguealphad02phigoog/page/n254 241] |url=https://archive.org/details/cataloguealphad02phigoog |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> and Harvard Law School,<ref name="HLaw1920">{{cite book |title=Quinquennial Catalogue of the Law School of Harvard University |date=1920 |publisher=The School |page=124 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lNMAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA124 |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> and Elizabeth Stuyvesant (née Neilson) Howard (1828–1902). Among his siblings were Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard (who died young), John Neilson Howard (a real estate dealer), Ezra Williams Howard (who also died young), and Marion Clifford Howard.<ref name="McGill1949">{{cite book |last1=McGill |first1=John |title=The Macgill-McGill family of Maryland: a genealogical record of over 400 years beginning 1537, ending 1948 |date=1948 |publisher=McGill |page=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTg3AAAAMAAJ |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> After his father's death, his mother donated $2,000 towards the erection of St. John's Memorial Church in Parsons, Kansas, which was organized in June 1874.<ref name="Case1893">{{cite book |last1=Case |first1=Nelson |title=History of Labette County, Kansas: From the First Settlement to the Close of 1892 |date=1893 |publisher=Crane |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyoflabette01case/page/319 319] |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoflabette01case |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
His maternal grandparents were John Neilson and Margaret Ann (née Fish) Neilson. Through his maternal grandmother, he was a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director-general of New Amsterdam, as she was the daughter of Nicholas Fish and sister of Hamilton Fish, who served as governor of New York, a U.S. senator, and U.S. secretary of state.<ref name="StNick1905">{{cite book |title=The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: History, Customs, Record of Events, Constitution, Certain Genealogies, and Other Matters of Interest. V. 1- |date=1905 |publisher=Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJM-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15 |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Through his maternal grandfather, he was a descendant of Col. John Neilson, an officer in the Revolutionary army and a founder of Rutgers University.<ref name="SAR1894">{{cite book |title=The Sons of the American Revolution: New York State Society, 1893-94 |date=1894 |publisher=Republic Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/sonsamericanrev00revogoog/page/n167 137] |url=https://archive.org/details/sonsamericanrev00revogoog |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
==Career== After marrying Rose, Howard became involved in business and served as the manager of Hyde Park, the estate of his wife's uncle (by marriage), Frederick W. Vanderbilt located in Hyde Park, New York, and built between 1896 and 1899.<ref name="1904Attack"/> While Vanderbilt was building his home, he also built a large home for the Howards near his home, that today is known as the Howard Mansion.<ref name="SR1904">{{cite book |title=Social Register, Summer: Contains the Summer Addresses of Residents of New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and Baltimore |date=1904 |publisher=Social Register Association |page=187 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oP5BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA187 |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> The mansion, a two-story, six-bay, eclectic dwelling built of uncoursed fieldstone, was designed by architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White. In 1901, a two-story Tudor-style carriage house was built that features a two-story, polygonal bay with a polygonal roof.<ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=2010|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Howard Mansion and Carriage House|date=January 1993|accessdate=2010-10-24|author=John A. Bonafide|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016161350/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=2010|archivedate=2012-10-16|df=}} ''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=2011|title=Accompanying five photos}}</ref>
===Society life=== In February 1892, Howard and his newly married wife were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in ''The New York Times''.<ref name="McAllister1892">{{cite news|last1=McAllister|first1=Ward|title=THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED {{!}} WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/16/108210917.pdf|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 February 1892|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Patterson2000">{{cite book |last1=Patterson |first1=Jerry E. |title=The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age |date=2000 |publisher=Random House Incorporated |isbn=9780847822089 |page=218 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLwMAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=13 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.<ref name="Keister2005">{{cite book|last1=Keister|first1=Lisa A.|title=Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way|date=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521536677|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dAtJf1hmAUC&pg=PA36|accessdate=20 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> According to ''The New York Times'', Howard, a member of the prestigious Knickerbocker Club, was one of the "best known men in New York society and the leader of many cotillions."<ref name="THHObit1904"/>
In Newport, Rhode Island, the Howards stayed at Rough Point, the Vanderbilt cottage designed by Peabody & Stearns and owned by Rose's aunt and uncle and completed in 1892.<ref name="Society1904">{{cite news |title=Society AT HOME AND ABROAD |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/06/05/101343951.pdf |accessdate=9 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 5, 1904}}</ref>
==Personal life== On January 19, 1892, Howard was married to Rose Anthony Post (d. 1949),<ref name="MrsHObit1949">{{cite news |title=MRS. THOMAS H. HOWARD RITES HELD IN NEW YORK {{!}} Kin of Former Colonists Was Sister of Mrs. Louis S. Bruguiere |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/16372813 |accessdate=9 December 2018 |work=Newport Mercury |date=8 Apr 1949 |page=3 |language=en}}</ref> who was known as "Miss Spriggie Post",<ref name="1892NYTWedding"/> at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City.<ref name="1892NYTWedding">{{cite news |title=SOCIETY TOPICS OF THE WEEK. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/01/24/104115625.pdf |accessdate=9 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=January 24, 1892}}</ref><ref name="1892Wedding">{{cite news |title=WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOCIETY |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/79111209 |accessdate=9 December 2018 |work=The Sun |date=January 24, 1892 |page=6 |language=en}}</ref> Rose was the daughter of William Post and Rosalie DeWolfe (née Anthony) Post and the sister of William Post and Margaret Van Alen Bruguiére (who married James Laurens Van Alen, a grandson of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor in 1900).<ref name="MVABObit1969">{{cite news|title=Mrs. Louis S. Bruguiere Dies; Leader of Society in Newport; Second Invitation to Visit Her Was Viewed as Hallmark of Acceptance in Colony|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/21/77320724.html?pageNumber=47|accessdate=18 September 2017|author=Nemy, Enid|work=The New York Times|date=January 21, 1969|language=en}}</ref> Rose was also the niece of Louise Vanderbilt (née Anthony),<ref name="1904Attack">{{cite news |title=HIGHWAYMEN ATTACK SLEIGH. Mrs. F.W. Vanderbilt's Niece One of Party Which Foils Robbers. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/02/26/101387338.pdf |accessdate=9 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=February 26, 1904}}</ref> as Rose's mother and Louise were both daughters of Charles Lee Anthony, a successful dry-goods merchant in New York City. Together, they were the parents of:<ref name="THHObit1904"/>
* Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard (1897–1988),<ref name="ESHKObit1988">{{cite news|title=Elizabeth S. Kean, 90, Mother of Governor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/29/nyregion/elizabeth-s-kean-90-mother-of-governor.html|accessdate=11 January 2015|work=New York Times|date=29 January 1988}}</ref> who married U.S. Representative Robert Winthrop Kean (1893–1980).<ref name=Cook>{{cite news|last1=Cook|first1=Joan|title=Robert W. Kean, 86; Formerly in House; Jersey Republican Won Reputation as Expert on Social Security|newspaper=New York Times|date=24 September 1980|accessdate=11 January 2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/24/archives/robert-w-kean-86-formerly-in-house-jersey-republican-won-reputation.html |quote=Robert Winthrop Kean, a former United States Representative and for years a leading figure in Republican politics in New Jersey, died Sunday in St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J., from a heart attack. He was 86 years old and lived in Livingston.}}</ref> * Thomas Howard Howard (b. 1899)
Howard died in Hyde Park on June 4, 1904.<ref name="THHObit1904">{{cite news |title=Thomas H. Howard |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/06/07/106734639.pdf |accessdate=9 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 7, 1904}}</ref> His widowed wife, along with her aunt, remained prominent in Hudson Valley society, and Rose was a friend and member of the same sewing circle as Sara Delano Roosevelt, the mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also lived along the Hudson River in Hyde Park.<ref name="Felzenberg2008">{{cite book |last1=Felzenberg |first1=Alvin |title=Governor Tom Kean: From the New Jersey Statehouse to the 911 Commission |date=2006 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=9780813539867 |pages=6–7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2X0aA2HViB4C&pg=PA6 |accessdate=9 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Rose died at her home, 1115 Fifth Avenue (the southeast corner of East 93rd Street and Fifth Avenue) in New York City in April 1949.<ref name="MrsHObit1949"/>
===Descendants=== Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was the posthumous grandfather of six; three boys: Robert Kean, Hamilton Kean and Thomas Howard Kean (b. 1935), who served two terms as the governor of New Jersey, and three daughters, Elizabeth Kean, Rose Kean and Katharine Kean. He is also the great-grandfather of Thomas Kean, Jr. (b. 1968), who was the minority leader of the New Jersey State Senate.<ref name="ESHKObit1988"/>
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