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Howland, Weston

Inventor; born about 1816; was a cabin-boy on a merchant-ship early in life, and rose to the command of a vessel. He afterwards left the sea and became a ship chandler and commission merchant, and remained in this business till 1860, when he began the manufacture of oil. He was the first in the United States to discover a method of refining petroleum. Mr. Howland was a member of the New Bedford board of aldermen in 1866, and collector of the port of New Bedford in 1886-90. He died in Fairhaven, Mass., May 19, 1901.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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