[Jim Reising]

The Howard Family's grave site is located in Cave Hill Cemetery here in Louisville. As can be seen in the attachment the main monument is a tall oblisque on each side are engraved panels with the life history of James Howard and the shipyard. I thought maybe some of you might be interested in what the panels have to say (please forgive any typos):
Panel 1:
James Howard (1814-1876)
Founder of the Howard Shipyards, was born in Oldham near Manchester, England to John and Hartha Howard. In 1819 his parents embarked by sailing vessel for America with James and his younger brother Daniel. From Brooklyn they traveled in 1820 by wagon to Wheeling, then by flatboat to Cincinnati where John Howard. a weaver, set up a mill. James Howard was active in three of Cincinnati's flourishing shipyards. First as a jigger boy for William Gordon, carrying water and the ration of spirits to the crews at work, then as an employee of Burton Hazen and last as an apprentice ship's carpenter to William Hartshorn.
Panel 2:
He "learned the river" in 1834 as a mud clerk. Arriving at Louisville he decided to be himself a builder of boats and chose Jeffersonville Indiana as a site with a slope proper for launching. The HYPERION (1834) was his first boat. For the second, the BLACK LOCUST (1835), he was joined by a partner, David S. Barmore. In 1836 the yards were moved to Madison where James Howard married Rebecca Ann Barmore, surviving children were Martha, Edmonds, Lucy and Kate. The partners P. Emerson and James Howard were the first shipwrights at Madison, later, with its marine ways, an important center on the Ohio, here they built two barges and several steamboats.
To be continued.....