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Note: 1880 census - Nebraska, Clay Co., Harvard village: Howard, Isaac D., 40, Physician and surgeon, b NY
Sarah E., 38, wife, b. Penn. Fred B., 12, son, b. Penn. Biography http://www.nebraskagenealogy.com/clay/Clay%20County%20Library/vol_02_hamilton_clay_counties/302_blank_303.htm Google Books.
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofhamilto02burr/historyofhamilto02burr_djvu.txt
FRED B. HOWARD The value of the local newspapers in the upbuilding of the best interests of any community is universally conceded. The rule is that good papers are found in good towns, inferior journals in towns of stunted growth and uncertain future. It is not so much a matter of size and of excellence as adaptability to the needs of the locality in which it is established. The Clay County Sun, which Fred B. Howard of Clay Center is the owner and editor, has an excellent circulation and is a leader in the work of progress and improvement in the county. For the past ten years Mr. Howard has been active in his present connection and his friends are manifold. Starting from the printing trade he has progressed in orderly manner through every phase of the newspaper business until he now heads an organization of his own. In Harvard he received his first newspaper training, entering the printing office of a paper there, and after that time he worked on different metropolitan papers. As a citizen he is no unthinking "booster", but is at all times a supporter of Clay Center`s best interests and the steady growth of that place is due to such men.
FindAGrave.com Fred B. Howard, former publisher of the Clay County Sun at Clay Center, died at his home there Sunday at the age of 70 years.
Death resulted from a throat ailment for which he recently underwent an operation at Rochester, Minn. His condition had not been considered critical. Mrs. Howard found her husband dead in his bedroom.
Fred Howard was the son of a pioneer Clay county (sic) physician, the late I.D. Howard of Harvard. He was a pharmacist at Harvard and Thedford before taking up newspaper work.
He and a partner, Fred Ojers, purchased the Sun in May, 1911. In September of that year Howard bought Ojers' interest.
His outstanding loyalty to the home town and a rare ability to analyze men and situations, and the firm conviction to do his duty as he saw it, made Howard's paper an outstanding one. He sold the paper to Don Searle in 1937.
Surviving are his widow and five children: Mary Ann, Freda Beth, Fred Dixey, Ruth and John.
Funeral services were held at the home in Clay Center beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. G. L. Birch, pastor of the Congregational church, in charge. Interment was made at Clay Center.
The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, February 23, 1938
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