HOW LAND, William Ware

[s. 333] : Born in West Brook field, Ma ., on the 28th of February, 1817. His father was the fifth generation from John How land, who was one of tlie first band of Pilgrims who sailed in the Mayflower. Mr. How land graduated from Amherst College in 1841, and from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 184.5. He reached Jaffna, Ceylon, early in 1846 as a mi ionary of the ABCFM, and was located at Batt i cotta, where he a isted in teaching a select cla in the seminary for young men, but he gave most of his time to preaching in the vernacular and in village work. In 1868 he moved to Till i pally, and for ten years had charge of the vernacular training and theological institution. After the death of “Father Spauld ing” in 1873, Mr. How land became the senior mi ionary in the American Mi ion in Ceylon. He also succeeded to the title “Father,” and even to-day, among both mi ionaries and natives. Christian and Hindu, he is reverently known as “Father How land.” For fifteen years he was located at Oodooville and had charge of the station where he died August 26, 1892, after nearly half a century of life and labor among the Tamils of Jaffna, making only one visit to the homeland during the period. Mr. How land married Mi Susan Reed in 1846, herself a trained educator. Four of their children entered mi ionary service under the American Board. Dr. How land was preeminently an evangelist and preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 333