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Blanche Russell Howland was born 29 September 1872 in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts to Frank H. Howland and Caroline D. Chapman.1 She had one known brother, Cyrus, who was born in 1871.2
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As a child, Blanche lived at 152 Grinnel Street in New Bedford with her parents and brother and attended Fifth Street Grammar School.3 Blanche attended New Bedford High School and, in 1887, was a member of the Plantagenets society; she is fifth from the right in the photograph.4
Blanche graduated in 1890 from New Bedford High School.5
Blanche attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts from 1892-1894.6 In 1900, Blanche was teaching music and living with her parents, brother and sister-in-law, Cyrus and Maude, and her aunt, Anne Chapman, at 39 Waumbeck Street in Boston.7 Blanche’s father, Frank H. Howland, died in 1905.8
After her father’s death, Blanche lived with her mother in Boston, working in the oil business.9 Blanche’s mother, Caroline Denham Chapman Howland, died at the age of 85 on 12 February 1930 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.10
Blanche lived in Cambridge, then Boston, then Brookline until her death on 20 June 1947 in Brookline at the age of 74.11 Blanche Russell Howland is buried in Friends Burying Ground in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts.12
Endnotes
1. New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Births Register 1872, p. 142, no. 254, Blanche R. Howland – Corrected, 31 Sept 1872. Parents: Frank H. Howland, born in New Bedford, and Caroline D. Chapman, born in New Bedford. Father’s occupation: Clerk.
Also, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Births Register 1872, p. 106, no. 254, Blanche R. Howland, 31 29 Sept 1872, Corrected vol. 49, p. 93. Parents: Frank H. Howland, born in New Bedford, and Caroline D. Chapman, born in New Bedford. Father’s occupation: Clerk.
Middle name of Russell listed in Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of New Bedford, with the Superintendent’s Annual Report, for the Year 1890, (New Bedford : Mercury Publishing Company, 1891, p. 23, New Bedford High School Graduating Class of 1890, Blanche Russell Howland.
2. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Taunton, Bristol County, Standard Certificate of Death, no 472, Cyrus C. Howland, 23 Feb 1920. Birth: 19 Mar 1871, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Parents: Frank H. Howland, born in New Bedford, and Caroline D. Chapman.
Note: Page by by search of 1871 New Bedford Birth Register; very few March entries, none found for Howland male birth.
3. 1880 U.S. census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 117, page 278A (stamped) 17 (penned), dwelling 166, family 185, Frank H. Howland household.
Address: 152 Grinnel Street
– Frank H. Howland, age 35, salesman of oil, born in Massachusetts
– Carrie D., wife,age 35, born in Massachusetts
– Cyrus C., son, age 9, born in Massachusetts
– Blanche R., daughter, age 7, born in Massachusetts
Also, “Admission to the High School,” newspaper article, The Evening Standard (New Bedford, Massachusetts), 10 July 1886, p. 5, col. 3.
4. “New Bedford High School Plantagenets in 1887, New Bedford, MA”; photograph held by the New Bedford Free Public Library photograph collection, New Bedford, Massachusetts; published online at Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collection Online.
5. Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of New Bedford, with the Superintendent’s Annual Report, for the Year 1890, (New Bedford : Mercury Publishing Company, 1891), p. 21-23, New Bedford High School Graduating Exercise, 27 June 1890, Blanche Russell Howland.
Also, “New Bedford High School Class of 1890”; photograph held by the New Bedford Free Public Library photograph collection, New Bedford, Massachusetts; published online at Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collection Online.
6. Wellesley College Record 1875-1900 (Wellesley, Massachusetts), p. 165, Blanche Russell Howland.
– Howland, Blanche Russell. 1892-1894. Address, 39 Waumbeck Street, Boston, Mass.
7. 1900 U.S. census, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 1483, ward 21, page 6B, dwelling 76, family 79, Frank H. Howland household.
Address: 39 Waumbeck Street
– Frank H. Howland, age 54, married 29 years, born Oct 1845 in Massachusetts, oil broker
– Caroline D., wife, age 54, married 29 years, born Dec 1845 in Massachusetts, 2 children born, 2 living
– Cyrus C., son, age 29, married 1 year 5 months, born Mar 1871 in Massachusetts, civil engineer
– Maude M., daughter-in-law, age 27, married 1 year 5 months, born Jan 1873 in Massachusetts, 0 children born
– Blanche R., daughter, age 27, single, born Sept 1872 in Massachusetts, music teacher
– Anne D Chapman, sister-in-law, age 62, single, born Aug 1837 in Massachusetts
– Betti Daniels, age 20, single, servant
8. “Frank H. Howland,” funeral notice, Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, Massachusetts), 26 Apr 1905, p. 16, col. 5.
“Frank H. Howland,” obituary, The Evening Standard (New Bedford, Massachusetts), 26 Apr 1905, p. 8, col. 6.
Also, headstone reads: Frank Hathaway Howland / Born/ 10th mo. 7. 1845 / Died/ 4th mo. 1905
Find A Grave, memorial 89312852, Franklin Hathaway Howland (1845–1905), Friends Burying Ground, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
9. 1910 U.S. census, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 1590, ward 21, page 14B, dwelling 192, family 262, Caroline D. C. and Blanche R. Howland.
Address: 5 Howland Street
– Caroline D. C. Howland, lodger, age 65, widowed, born in Massachusetts, 2 children born, 2 living
– Blanche R. Howland, lodger, age 37, single, born in Massachusetts, occupation oil broker
Also, 1920 U.S. census, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 332, ward 12, page 7B, dwelling 95, family 155, Caroline D. and Blanche Howland.
Address: 28 Moreland Street
– Caroline D. Howland, lodger, age 74, widowed, born in Massachusetts
– Blanche Blanche, lodger, age 32, single, born in Massachusetts, occupation manager oil company
10. “Mrs. Caroline Howland” obituary, The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 13 Feb 1930, p. 23, col. 7.
Also, headstone reads: Caroline Denham Chapman Howland / Born/ 12th mo. 19. 1845 / Died / 2nd mo. 12th 1930. Find A Grave, memorial 120547158, Caroline Denham Chapman Howland (1845–1930), Friends Burying Ground, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
11. 1930 U.S. census, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 43, page 3A, dwelling 2, family 108, Blanche Howland household.
Address: 410 Memorial Drive
– Blanche Howland, age 57, single, born in Massachusetts, secretary brokerage
– Mrs. Nellie Ladd, partner, age 63, widowed, born in New Hampshire
Also, 1940 U.S. census, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 15-212, page 64A, dwelling 210, Blanche Howland.
– Blanche Howland, age 67, single, born in Massachusetts
Also, “Blanche Russell Howland,” obituary, The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 22 June 1947, p. 40, col. 3.
12. Headstone reads: Blanche Russell Howland / Daughter of / Frank and / Caroline Howland / 9th mo 29th 1872 / 6th mo 20th 1947.
Find A Grave, memorial 120549193, Blanche Russell Howland (1872–1947), Friends Burying Ground, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts with headstone photo.
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