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Frank Maynard Howe

Born Arlington, Massachusetts in 1849. Father was Andrews Howe of Townsend, Massachusetts, a descendant of the old lines of Howes who settled in New England in the colonial days. His mother was Clara B. Tucker of Pepperell, Massachusetts. Educated in public schools, Cotting Academy in Arlington.

At the age of 19, he began work as an assistant in the atelier of Ware & Van Brunt. He attended a course in architecture taught by William Ware at MIT. He was made a partner of Van Brunt in 1881 when Ware left to found a school of architecture at Columbia University in New York.

Died in 1909.