Wesley Samuel Howard

Photographer: Howard
Ashland, Kansas

There are no two imprints alike so far on this page. Were they all the same photographer? Probably not. But the real "Eureka" photographer of Ashland, KS, has not been discovered.

This cabinet card is NOT by the photographer reviewed here.

The photographer who worked in Ashland, KS, with the studio name of “Eureka” has not been identified.

There was a photographer named Howard that worked in Ashland, OHIO. And there was Wesley Samuel Howard who worked in Ashland, OREGON.

Wesley Samuel Howard lived and worked in Paola, KS, which is over 300 miles from Ashland, KS. He became a fruit farmer in Ashland, OREGON! He’s the photographer reviewed here until the REAL Ashland, KS, photographer is discovered.
Wesley Samuel Howard
( Apr 1850 - )

1850 Apr
Wesley Howard born in New York
1880 Apr 14
Wesley Howard marries Elizabeth Gibson in IN
1880 Jun 26
daughter Hattie Howard is born in KS
1884 May
son David G Howard is born in KS

1885
Kansas State census, as photographer in Paola, KS
1889
Pueblo, CO, city directory NOT listed
1893
Pueblo, CO, city directory as photographer at 115 ½ w 4th, res same
1899
Pueblo, CO, city directory as photographer at 115 W 4th; res 117 w 4th
1900
US census Pueblo, CO, as photographer at 115 w 4th st
1900 - 1909
Pueblo, CO, city directory as photographer at 304 n Main; res 1501 Court
1910
Pueblo, CO, city directory Howard Studio now operated by Tripp and York; W S Howard listed as Moved to Ashland, OR
1910 Jun 05
US census Ashland, OR, as fruit farmer
1911 - 1912
Ashland, OR, listed as Fruit Grower at 1064 Ashland
1914 - 1916
Ashland, OR, city directory NOT listed
1920 Jan 10
US census Ashland, OR, city directory as general farmer

Wesley Howard seems to have been a photographer in Paola, KS from about June of 1880 to 1885 when he moved his studio to Pueblo, CO. He operated in Pueblo, CO from about 1889 to about 1909. He then apparently quit the photography business and moved to Ashland, OR to become a fruit farmer.

Clay Center (KS) Times - 08 Jan 1890

The above shows again that there was more than one photographer named Howard in that corner of Kansas around 1890.

Clay Center, KS, is about 165 miles from Paola, KS, and 250 miles from Ashland, KS.

photographer: Howard
Eureka, Howard and Moline, KS
example from auction site

The two cards a the right were probably finished between 1880 and 1885 while Howard was still in Kansas

photographer: Howard
Eureka, KS
example from auction site

photographer: Howard
Eureka, KS
example from auction site
(example highly restored)

photographer: Howard
115 West 4th, Pueblo, CO
example from auction site
probably finished between 1893 and 1900

reverse of card at left

The card below was finished by Howard in Pueblo, CO, at 115 w 4th, between 1883 and 1900.

Photographer: Howard, 118 w 4th
Pueblo, CO
Contributed by rfinch on Ancestry.com

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