Ancestry of
Timothy Leatherman

Founder of Leatherman Tools

Orson Howe

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Timothy Leatherman — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 20 
  • Father:
  • Jaazamiah Howe 
  • Mother:
  • Lois Stevens   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1802 
  • Birth Location:
  • Granville, Washington, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • Mar 1863 
  • Death Location:
  • Kankakee County, Illinois 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Delinda Button
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Mar 1820 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wells, Rutland, Vermont 
  • Children:
  
  

  Rufus Howe

  Charles Howe (Ahnentafel No:10 )

  • Notes: 

  • At the time of his death, Orson Howe is said to have been working on a knitting-machine.

• Sources for Orson Howe

  • ¹ Portrait and Biographical Album of Johnson and Pawnee Counties, Nebraska: Containing Full Page Portraits and . . ., Chicago: Chapman Brothers (1889), 193.
  • ² Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, Marriage record for Orson How and Melinda Button.
  • ³ Howe, Daniel Wait and Gilman Bigelow Howe, Howe Genealogies: This Volume Contains the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1929), 187, 305.

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