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From: "Genealogy of the Howland Family of America, " by Franklyn Howland,
1885:
Joseph served his apprenticeship with the comme rcial house of Benjamin
Greene & Son, and on attaining his majority went to N orwich [Conn.],
where he engaged in trade with the West India islands. He was made a
freeman of the city in 1773. Shortly after he formed a partnership wi th
Thomas Coit, under the firm of Howland & Coit, and later with John Allyn,
under the style of Howland & Allyn. In the beginning of the present
century he was in partnership with his son Joseph and Jesse Brown. Mr.
Brown conduct ed the business in Norwich, while the Howlands, in 1802, had
settled near New York. He still continued prominent in Norwich affairs,
however, being a dire ctor in several financial institutions and president
of the Norwich Insurance Co. The firm of Joseph Howland & Son were large
ship owners, possessing the ship "Centurion" and 15 or 20 brigs,
schooners and sloops. In 1808 he was mad e president of the Highland
Turnpike Co., in which position he continued unti l 1831, when the company
was merged into the Hudson River Railroad.
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