Howard Family Collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Howard Family Collection, 1912-1946, Ms2023-067, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 oversized folder
Abstract:
This collection contains a diploma and certificates given to Warren Weston Howard (1889-1970), who graduated from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) in 1912 and from the National Guard of the United States Army and of the State of Florida in the 1920s. The collection also contains a certificate to Vada Howard (1905-1980) for her service to the United States Army in 1946 and an undated crest from Virginia Military Institute. Warren Howard graduated from VPI with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1912 and became an instructor of mathematics at VPI in the 1950s. He married Vada Juanita Winfrey in the 1940s. Vada Howard provided meritorious service to the U.S. Army during World War II.
Language:
The material in this collection is in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Howard Family Collection, 1912-1946, Ms2023-067, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains a diploma and certificates given to Warren Weston Howard, who graduated from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in 1912 and from the National Guard of the United States Army and of the State of Florida in the 1920s. The collection also contains a certificate to Vada Howard for her service to the United States Army in 1946 and an undated crest from Virginia Military Institute.

Biographical / historical:

Warren Weston Howard was born to William and Rosa Weston Howard on June 18, 1889, in Hampton, Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1912. Howard served in the United States Army during World War I. He graduated as Captain from the United States Army Infantry School from a National Guard program in 1926 and was appointed to First Lieutenant in the Florida National Guard in 1927. According to the 1950 census, he lived in Houston, Textas, where he was an inspector for a manufacturer of oil field tools. He was an instructor of mathematics at VPI from 1955 to 1960.

Warren Howard first married Daisy Skipper on December 3, 1921, in Washington, D.C., and they divorced in 1929 while living in Dade County, Florida. He next married Mary Louise Monfort (1896-1938) on April 24, 1931, at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Finally, Howard married Vada Juanita Winfrey (1905-1980) in the 1940s. Vada provided meritorious serivce to the U.S. Army during World War II. The couple moved to Houston, Texas, by 1950.

Howard died on July 21, 1970, in Radford, Virginia, and is buried alongside Vada Howard in Westview Cemetery, Blacksburg, Virginia.

External sources:

U. S. Federal Census, 1910-1950

"Warren Weston Howard", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74334957/warren-w-howard, accessed on July 10, 2023.

"Warren Weston Howard" entry in the North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/3259446:60548, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.

"Warren Weston Howard" entry in the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/2332897:9278, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.

"Warren Weston Howard" entry in the U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/22101022:6482, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.

"Warren W Howard" entry in the District of Columbia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1810-1953, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/141039:61404, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.

"Warren Weston Howard" entry in the Florida, U.S., Divorce Index, 1927-2001, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/513334:8837, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.

"Vada Juanita Howard" in the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/932183:9278, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.

Acquisition information:
The Howard Family Collection was acquired by Special Collections and University Archives prior to 2015.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Howard Family Collection was completed in July 2023. Additional description was completed in October 2024.

Arrangement:

The Howard Family Collection is arranged in chronological order.