Amador County Biographies

Albion S. Howe

Submitted by Kathy Sedler 

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	Albion S. Howe, general manager of the Central Eureka Mining and 
Milling Company, at Sutter Creek, is a mining engineer of marked ability and 
accomplishments, having served on large projects in various counties, and in his 
present position is contributing in large measure to the success of his company. 
 Born in Blackstone, Worcester county, Massachusetts, on the 30th of December, 
1860, he is a son of J. H. and Emily (Spaulding) Howe, both of whom were 
representatives of old New England families.  When he was quite young his father 
died and his mother passed away while residing in the west.
	A. S. Howe received his early education in the public and high 
schools of Massachusetts, later attended the State University of Iowa, and then 
prepared for his life work as a mining engineer at the Colorado School of Mines, 
at Golden, Colorado.  He worked at various occupations, paying his own way 
through school and college, and when seventeen years of age was a member of a 
surveying crew engaged in railroad construction.  After receiving his degree as 
a mining engineer, Mr. Howe went to Central America in 1910 and there followed 
his profession, as he did also at later periods in Cuba, Mexico, New Zealand and 
Alaska.  During this time he had charge of many large projects and became 
interested in a large copper mine in Cuba.  Mr. Howe has done much work along 
his professional line around the Bay district of San Francisco, having been in 
charge of the construction of the Mt. Tamalpais Railroad, a large pier at San 
Francisco and various waterworks and other public utility plants, some important 
work being done at Mazatlan, Mexico.  He came to Amador county as general 
manager of the Central Eureka Mining Company in 1917 and has here added to his 
already high reputation as an efficient and dependable engineer.
	Mr. Howe was united in marriage to Miss Ella Lamphier, a native of 
Oregon, and they are the parents of a son, Albion L., who has taken up aviation, 
which he is studying in all of its phases.  Mr. Howe supports the republican 
party and is numbered among his community’s substantial and influential 
citizens.
 
History of the Sacramento Valley, California By Mj. Jesse Walton Wooldridge Page 41-42.
The Pioneer Historical Publishing Co., Chicago (1931)