Henry Stark Howland (2 August 1824 – 28 January 1902) was a businessman and founder of the

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in 1873. Howland was born in 1824 in

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to William Howland and moved to

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to join his brother

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in 1840 and settled in Lambton Mills, Ontario. Howland acquired a grist mill, sawmill, and general store in

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in 1852 who eventually entered in political life. Howland spent the 1850s and 1860s in

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, becoming postmaster, town councillor and reeve. In 1864 he moved to

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, where he later began a business known as H. S. Howland, Sons and Company. He was one of the founding partners of the

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in 1867 and left to help found the rival Imperial Bank. Howland died in 1902 while serving as the Imperial Bank's president.

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