A. J. Howe M. D., of Santa Ana, was born in Vermont in January, 1850. His father, Philip Howe, M. D., is still living in this city. He moved to Illinois when the subject of this sketch was only four years old, locating in Macoupin County, where he remained until 1863. He then made a three months’ trip across the plains to this State.
Dr. Howe graduated at the State Normal School in San Francisco in 1870, and subsequently taught school in several different counties in this State, and at the same time prosecuted medical studies. In 1873 he graduated at the Medical College of the Pacific (now Cooper) at San Francisco. He served for two years as resident surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital, San Francisco, and then he came to Santa Ana. During the winter of 1880-’81 he took a post-graduate course in Chicago medical colleges and hospitals, and since then has been one of Santa Ana’s most successful practitioners.
His wife, whose maiden name was Willella Earhart, and to whom lie was married in San Francisco in 1874, is a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago, of 1886; and in 1888 -’89 she took a special post-graduate course of instruction under the celebrated Dr. R. Ludlam, of Chicago, a specialist for the diseases of women. Since living in Santa Ana, Mrs. Willella Howe, M. D., has built up a large and lucrative practice. In this family there are two children, Lulu F. and Ethel C. The Doctor has recently erected a very fine, commodious residence at the corner of Seventh and Bush streets. He has been a member of the City Board of Health, and for a year and a half was President of the city council.