Life
Howden was born in Prestonpans, East Lothian, in 1832, the son of James Howden and his wife, Catherine Adams, and was educated at the local parish school. His first marriage was to Helen Burgess Adams, and his second to Allison Moffat Hay, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. His two wives both predeceased him, and he died in Glasgow in 1913.
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