An American Family History

Reading Howell

Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania was established on September 20, 1787 as a large region of Central Pennsylvania. It was previously part of Bedford County and the earlier Cumberland Region.

Reading Howell was born in 1743 in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He was the son of Daniel Howell and Julianna Holcomb.

He married Catharine Yerkes.

Clarissa Julianna Howell,
Harriet Ann Howell (married Joseph Montgomery),
Henrietta Maria Howel (married John James Wheeler),
Courtland Daniel Howell (married Eliza McEuen)
John Fisher Howell,
Edward Yerkes Howell,
Rebecca Howell,
Catharine Augusta Howell (married Thomas Flourney).

During the Revolution, he was quartermaster of the second regiment, Hunterdon County militia and was later commissioned deputy-quartermaster-general of the Continental army.

In 1789, he was appointed to explore the rivers in Delaware and Lehigh Counties.

In 1792 he mapped Pennsylvania.

In 1804 he was appointed surveyor of Philadelphia.

Reading died in Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1827.

Pennsylvania is one of the 13 original states and was originally founded in 1681 as a result of a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake.

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