Résumé

Military Service, World War I. Howard was discharged from military service on 02/10/1919. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT. USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019, accessed 12/03/2024.)

Howard worked with Arthur Brown, Jr., on the design of Coit Memorial Tower on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA.

High School / College

Coursework, Nevada City High School, Grass Valley, CA.

Graduate, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA, 06/1912.

Coursework, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1914.

Relocation

Henry Temple Howard, the eldest son of the noted architect John Galen Howard and his wife Mary Bradbury, was born in New York, NY, on 07/15/1894. John Galen Howard moved his family from New York to Berkeley in the early 1900s, approximately 1901, when he accepted the opportunity to direct a new program in architecture at the University of California. John Galen Howard, during the period 1901-1904, continued to advertise his services in New York, although he increasingly spent his time working on designing buildings on the campus of the University of Calfiornia, Berkeley, and creating a new teaching curriculum in architecture at the same school. Henry spent his first seven years, or so, in New York City, and relocated to the verdant Berkeley landscape after that time.

In 1903, John Galen Howard completed a residence of his own design at 2421 Ridge Road in Berkeley. In 1910, the US Census indicated that John and Mary Howard, their five children and a servant, Lena Johnson (born c. 1864 in Sweden), resided at this address. The Howards lived here until this dwelling burned in the Berkeley Hills Fire of 1923.

Parents

Henry Howard's mother was Mary Robertson Bradbury (born 12/22/1864 in Cambridge, MA- d. 06/24/1963 in Palo Alto, CA) managed the household but also painted landscapes and portraits. She received instruction in painting at the Art Students League in New York, NY, and the Académie Delecluse in Paris, France. She married the architect John Galen Howard on 08/01/1893 in Manhattan.

In addition to Henry, John Galen and Mary Bradbury had four other artistically-gifted children: Robert Boardman Howard (born 1896 in New York, NY-d. 1983 in Santa Cruz, CA), became a well-known sculptor and married another noted Bay Area sculptor, Adaline Dutton Kent (1900-1957); other children included painter Charles Houghton Howard (1899-1978), artist John Langley Howard (1902-1999), and Janette Howard Wallace (born 02/23/1906 in Berkeley, CA-d. 06/22/1998 in Santa Cruz, CA).

Jannette married Ralph Whitmore Wallace (born 10/30/1904 in Brooklyn, NY-d. 12/17/1952 in Santa Clara County, CA). In 1930, Wallace worked as a bank clerk in New York City, but later US Censuses of 1940 and 1950 did not indicate a profession. This was likely because he inherited enough money from his wealthy stepfather Charles Wallace, on which to live independently. He and Janette lived for at least ten years at 340 Lowell Street in Palo Alto. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Orangetown, Rockland, New York; Roll: T625_1258; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 218, accessed 12/04/2024.)

Biographical Notes

A US passport application of 04/25/1917 indicated that Henry T. Howard was Caucasian, with a light complexion, blue eyes, blonde hair, high forehead, straight nose, straight mouth, round chin and oval face.