Gustavus
A. Henry
"Gus" Howard
Joshua E. Howard Wyatt T. Cutler The
Howard
clan seems to have left North Carolina and migrated to Robertson
County,
Tennessee, early in the 1800s. Wiley
William Howard married Aurora O.
"Anna" Johnson (1816–1884) in Tennessee on February 9,
1838. They
were farming in Texas, at Sherman in Grayson County, by 1860. Wiley
died before
1870. Wiley
and Anna
had three known children: Gustavus
A. Henry "Gus" Howard
(1847–1904); Joshua
E. Howard (1850–1935); and Florence Miranda Howard
(1854–1931). Gus
and Florence
married siblings. Florence
married Wyatt T.
Cutler (1851–1915) in
1874. The wedding of Gus
and Laura Alenda
Cutler (1861–1925) took place in
1881. Thus the Howards
and the Cutlers
became closely linked. Gus married a woman named much later, in
1898, Joshua married a woman named Frances L. or "Fannie." Wyatt and Laura Cutler were two of the eight children of Dr. Thomas Nicholson Cutler and Emeline Cartwright Cutler. Dr. Cutler had three more children by a second wife, Almira Jack. The doctor received his medical training at Allspath Medical College in New Orleans and served the Confederacy in the Civil War. He trained as a minister and settled in Grayson County, Texas, where he preached for thirty years at the Primitive Baptist Church in Tioga. He died in Tioga in 1896. The Sunday Gazetteer By 1887, both Joshua Howard and Wyatt T. Cutler had left their Sherman farms and were living in nearby Denison, a rowdy railroad boom town. That year, the Denison City Directory listed Wyatt as city marshal. He was living at 331 West Bond Street; presumably Florence was with him. Wyatt's younger brother, "Tom" Cutler, was in Denison, too, operating Cutler's Saloon at 126 West Main Street. He lived at 721 West Chestnut. 1887 Denison City Directory
Still single in 1887, Joshua E. Howard had two businesses in downtown Denison. In partnership with Dr. Daniel H. Bailey, "physician and surgeon," he had opened the Bailey & Howard drug store at 406 West Main. Bailey, who was official City Physician, had his office and residence above the store. He and Joshua advertised that Bailey & Howard Drugs, as "The Leading Druggists, carry a large assortment of Wall Paper, Decorations, Paints, Oils, &c." In addition, with George McLagan, Joshua had formed Howard & Company, real estate agents, at 118 West Main. Joshua was living at 811 West Chestnut.
Four years later, in 1891, the City Directory found Gus H. Howard in Denison, too. Living at 501 North Fannin Avenue, he and partner Christopher G. Kircher owned the Buck Horn Saloon at 117 West Main. Dr. Bailey and Joshua Howard had gone separate ways. Dr. Bailey had teamed up with Samuel W. Culpepper to run the drug store, now in a new building next door at 408 West Main. The doctor lived and saw patients upstairs. Apparently Joshua Howard had decided to stay behind at 406 West Main and focus on his real estate and insurance business, in partnership with Thomas E. Reardon. Having married Fannie in 1898, Joshua lived at 527 West Woodard Street. Reardon boarded with the R. S. Legate, longtime head of First National Bank. 1891 Denison City Directory
1896 Denison City Directory In 1896, Gus was
proprietor of the State National
Exchange Saloon at 302 West Main, next door to the State National Bank;
he was
living at 112 West Gandy. Working with Gus at the
saloon were Wyatt
Cutler and
his son Roscoe.
Howard
& Reardon's basic business remained stable, allowing Joshua
to partner with Gus
to operate Howard Race Track beyond the city limits
on East Main Street. Joshua
boarded at 317 West Crawford Street. The 1900 Census reflected changes in Wyatt T. Cutler's life. His experience as city marshal and city councilman had led to a post as "district judge." He had also moved to an uptown address, 1021 West Woodard Street. There were seven children at home. One, son Roscoe, continued working as a bartender. 1901 Denison City Directory In 1901, the City Directory showed Howard & Reardon holding steady. Gus was not working, and wife Laura was offering furnished rooms in their home at 230 West Gandy. That year, Wyatt was justice of the peace for Denison's Precinct No. 2, with an office upstairs at 302 West Main. Roscoe lived with his parents and worked as a bartender at Michael Sweeney's bar, a center of local politics since the days when Justin Raynal held forth at the same location. 1903 Denison City Directory 1905 Denison City Directory
408 West Main Street continued to be a drug store for many decades. Burtis Drug ca. 1970 RESOURCES "Bailey
& Howard Druggists" sign on one wall of the loft at 408 West
Main Street, ca 1998. Drug Store of D. H. Bailey, 408 Main Street." Robinson, Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p]: Means-Moore Co., [ca. 1909]. Page 37. "Office of Howard & Reardon, Real Estate, Insurance and Collection Agents, 406 West Main Street." Robinson, Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p]: Means-Moore Co., [ca. 1909]. Page 52. Sherman History Denison History Bancroft Transcriptions, 1877 Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |