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How did chief joseph dieEarly Life
Oliver Otis Howard was born on November 30, 1830, at Leeds, Maine. He was the oldest of three sons of Rowland Bailey Howard and Eliza Otis Howard. Howard’s father, who was a farmer, died in 1840 when Howard was nine years old.
His mother remarried two years later.
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Military Academy Cadet
As a youth, Howard attended Monmouth Academy and North Yarmouth Academy before enrolling at Bowdoin College in September 1846 at the age of fifteen. During Howard’s last year at Bowdoin, his uncle, Congressman John Howard, attained an appointment to the United States Military Academy for his nephew.
Howard entered the Academy in the autumn of 1850 and graduated four years later, ranking fourth in his class of forty-six cadets.
U.S. Army Officer
After graduating from West Point, Howard received a brevet commission as a second lieutenant of ordnance on July 1, 1854.
Following a summer vacation, he reported for duty at Watervliet Arsenal near Troy, New York.