History of Belvedere, (Montgomery County) Maryland United States of America

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Benjamin Chew Howard, representative, was born at" Belvedere ", Baltimore county, Md., Nov. 5, 1791; son of the Hon. John Eager and Peggy Oswald (Chew) Howard. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1809; A.M., 1812. He practised law in Baltimore county, and in 1814 organized a company of volunteers, which he commanded at the battle of North Point, Md., Sept. 12, 1814. He was a presidential elector in 1828, and a representative in the 21st and 22d congresses, 1829-33, and again in the 24th and 25tb congresses, 1835-39. He was chairman of the committee on foreign relations and drew up the boundary report. He was reporter of the supreme court of the United States, 1843-62, and a delegate to the peace conference of 1861. In 1861 he was a candidate for governor of Maryland on the Democratic ticket, but withdrew his name at the last moment to prevent a disturbance. He was married to Jane Grant Gilmor. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1869. He published: Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of the United States from 1843 till 1855 (1855). He died at Belvedere, Md., March 6, 1872.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Belvedere, (Montgomery County) Maryland

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