Early Life
James L. Howard was born in Windsor, Vermont, the son of Reverend Leland Howard. He received an academic education and started working as a clerk in New York at the age of fifteen. In 1838, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he started working in the manufacturing business on his own account in 1841, with his partner Hurlburt, he manufacturing carriage and saddle hardware. They soon added the manufacture of furnishings for railway cars. Howard soon bought out his partner and the company was named James L. Howard & Company in 1876. He was also president of the Hartford City Gas Light Company, director in the Phoenix National Bank, the Traveler’s Insurance Company, the Hartford County Fire Insurance Company, the Retreat for the Insane, the Farmington River Power Company, and several other manufacturing companies. Additionally, he was on the board of directors of the New York & New England Railroad Company. The James L. Howard & Company still exists under the name of 1846.
Howard was married, June 1, 1842, to Miss Anna Gilbert, daughter of Joseph B. Gilbert of Hartford.
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