Professor.
Born at Hillsdale, New Brunswick on 16 October 1878, son of William Franklin Howe (1853-1929) and Maria Elizabeth Jenkins (1854-1930), he received a BA degree from Acadia University and an MA degree from Yale University. He taught at Brandon College (circa 1921) and Acadia University before coming to the University of Manitoba in 1921 and spending 22 years teaching in the Department of History. He retired in 1943 and returned to Wolfville, Nova Scotia where he taught at Acadia University (1947-1949).
He and wife Annie Elizabeth Chipman (1877-1967) had five children: Joseph Chipman Howe (1908-1908), Alice Marguerite Maria Howe (1910-1946, wife of Bob Schoenberger), Frances Mary Starr Howe (1915-1991, wife of Donald Norman McMullen), Margaret Evangeline Botsford Howe (1917-2013, wife of Harold E. Kummen), and Evelyn Esther Howe (1925-1994, wife of Noel Frizell). He served as President of the Maritime Provinces Association and United Empire Loyalists.
He died at Wolfville, Nova Scotia on 22 September 1952 and was buried at Chipman Corners, Nova Scotia.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Howe House (72 Chestnut Street, Winnipeg)
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
Birth registration [Evelyn Esther Howe], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“University notes,” Winnipeg Tribune, 3 January 1929, page 7.
Marriage registration [Frances Mary Starr Howe, Donald Norman McMullen], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Retires,” Winnipeg Tribune, 20 April 1943, page 13.
“Kummen-Howe bridal held in Toronto church Friday,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 May 1943, page 10.
“Former U of M professor dies in Nova Scotia,” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 September 1952, page 7.
Obituary [Annie Starr Chipman Howe], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 September 1967, page 29.
Frances Mary Starr McMullen, MyHeritage.
Obituary [Margaret Evangeline Kummen], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 October 2013.
Joseph Edwin Howe, Sports in Wolfville, 1870-1950, Acadia University Library, 2006.
Joseph Edwin Howe, FamilySearch.
We thank Heather Aldwyn for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 October 2025
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