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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyBenjamin Franklin HOWEY
(1828-1895)
HOWEY, Benjamin Franklin,
(nephew of Charles Creighton Stratton), a Representative from New
Jersey; born in Pleasant Meadows, near Swedesboro, Gloucester
County, N.J., March 17, 1828; instructed by private tutors at
Pleasant Meadows and the academies in Swedesboro and Bridgeton,
N.J.; engaged in business in Philadelphia as a flour and grain
commission merchant in 1847 and later in quarrying and
manufacturing slate; served as captain of Company G, Thirty-first
Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, from September 3, 1862, to June
26, 1863; sheriff of Warren County, N.J., from November 13, 1878,
to November 15, 1881; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth
Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); died in Columbia, N.J.,
February 6, 1895; interment in Trinity Church Cemetery, Swedesboro,
N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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