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Thomas J. Howell (botanist)
Thomas Jefferson Howell (October 8, 1842 – December 3, 1912) was an American botanist from Oregon.〔Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435〕 Howell is considered one of the top three self-taught botanists of his era for the Pacific Northwest; the other two being Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf and William Conklin Cusick.
==Personal life==
Howell was born in Cooper County, Missouri on October 8, 1842.〔Ornduff, Robert, ("Thomas Jefferson Howell and the First Pacific Northwest Flora" ), ''Kalmiopsis'' (Volume 15), Native Plant Society of Oregon, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, pp. 32–41, 2008.〕 He came west with his parents, Elizabeth and Benjamin Howell, and his four siblings in 1850.〔 The Howells took up a Donation Land Claim on Sauvie Island in 1854.〔 Howell was largely self-taught, and only had six months of formal schooling. His father was a doctor who had taught him some Latin and science, but he mostly educated himself while farming along the Clackamas River after leaving Sauvie Island.〔〔 He owned several grocery stores in the Portland area over years.〔 He served as the first post master of the Willamette Slough post office on Sauvie Island starting in 1873. He later served as the first postmaster of Creighton post office in Oak Grove, Oregon, beginning in 1904.〔 Howell married Effie McIlwane in 1892.〔 The Howells had two sons, Dorsey R. Howell (born in 1894) and Benjamin A. Howell (born in 1904). Howell died on December 3, 1912 in Woodstock, Oregon (now a neighborhood in southeast Portland).〔
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