Santa Cruz County History - People

Old Soldiers: Santa Cruz County Civil War Veterans
by Robert L. Nelson

HOWE, SAMUEL (1830-1913)

Unidentified Newspaper Contributed by Phil Reader

Another Old Vet is Dead

Samuel Howe, an old Union soldier of the Civil War, and for twenty seven years a resident of Santa Cruz, answered the final call Tuesday afternoon at his home at 127 Market St. He had been in feeble health for some time. He leaves a wife, well advanced in years and quite feeble, and a son John Howe the carpenter now resides in Watsonville.

Deceased was born in Hornsville, N.Y. November 11th, 1830, and as a young man became a millwright. He enlisted in the union army in the Civil War in March 1864, and received an honorable discharge in the spring of 1865.

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