01634-Howard

Oliver Otis Howard, USMA 1854

8 November 1830 - 26 October 1909, age 76.

Graduated AM from Bowdoin College, 1850.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, USMA, 1857-1861.
Howard ran the Freedmen's Bureau 1865-1870.
Third president of Howard University in DC, 5 April 1869 -- 30 November 1873.
Superintendent USMA, January 21, 1881 to September 1, 1882.

When Howard returned to USMA as an "instructor" [that is the word Pappas uses, p. 313] he
intended to become a minister. Thus while at USMA he organized twice-weekly prayer meetings.

Publications:

Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, 2 Vols., New York: Baker & Taylor, 1907.
"Discipline in the Army," for a New York monthly. [Pappas, p. 313]

Obituaries:

Cullum #1634 [From 1990 Register of Graduates]
Dictionary of American Biography, vol V [have photocopy].

Portraits:

http://www.howard.edu/LongWalk/!longwal4.htm

Place of Burial:

Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Vermont, USA. Specific Interment Location: Pine Grove 1 Section, Lot 40.
Info from: http://www.findagrave.com/city/1266.html

References:

Arney, Chris, West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists, 2002.