Captain Evan Park Howell was born at Warsaw, Milton County, Georgia, December 10, 1839, and died in Atlanta August 6, 1905. He moved with his Father to Atlanta when about nine years of age, and continued to live there the rest of his life.  He attended a field school at Warsaw and later a private school in Atlanta until 1855, when he entered the Georgia military Institute at Marietta.  After two years at GMI he read law at Sandersville, Georgia, until 1859 when he entered the Georgia University Law School at Athens.  The following year Mr. Howell graduated from the law school and began the practice of law in the office of James S. Hook, a prominent lawyer at Sandersville, but his legal career was interrupted by the outbreak of hostilities between the South and North. Evan P. Howell enlisted at once with the Washington Rifles which were organized at Sandersville, and was elected Orderly Sergeant.  During their first year of the War he was service in the army of Northern Virginia, under Jackson, and upon the expiration of his team of enlistment, returned to Sandersville.  There, with Captain Robert Martin of Augusta, he organized a Light Battery of Artillery which became known as Martin's Battery.   Evan P. Howell served as first Lieutenant of the battery and later as Captain in command at which time it became known as Howell's battery. The battery occupied particularly conspicuous positions in the Battle of Peachtree Creek, July 19, 1864, and the Battle of Atlanta. Following the fall of Atlanta Captain Howell and the remainder of his batter were ordered to Macon to recruit and to reorganize.  Subsequently they retired to Fort Hawkins and were there when Lee's surrender terminated the War Between the States.   After the war, Evan P. Howell returned to his father's home on 'Howell Mill Road", near Atlanta, and for two years engaged in saw milling on his father's lands between Peachtree Creek and the Cattahoochee River. Lumber at that time was in great demand for the reconstruction of Atlanta, which had been sorely ravaged by the battles that had been fought there. In 1867, Captain Howell accepted a position as sole reporter of the daily Intelligence in Atlanta, and located there with his wife and two small sons, soon becoming the city editor.  Atlanta at that time had begun to prosper again, and the Captain Howell, realizing the opportunities which lay before him resumed his practice of law. Cincinnatus Peeples, a prominent lawyer of Forsyth, Georgia, having moved to Atlanta, entered the law partnership of Peeples and Howell with Captain Howell.  He later became Solicitor-General of the Atlanta Circuit, and was elected state senator from the Atlanta District for three terms from 1878 until 1882.   Between 1878 and 1892 he was a delegate to most of the national conventions of the Democratic Party.  In 1887 he bought the majority interest in the Atlanta Constitution, giving up the practice of law to become the editor-in-chief to that paper which he conducted with great ability and success until he retired in 1897.  He was the leading force in the Atlanta Constitution; in the location of the capital at Atlanta; in the establishment of the first cotton exposition, president of the company that built the New Kimball Hotel in Atlanta in 1883, and in numerous other enterprises of a varied nature. He was a member of the state capital commission, which with a legislative appropriation of $1,000,000 in 1884, completed Georgia's present Capitol Building within the appropriation.  His foresight, his stalwart integrity, his versatile ability and enduring courage won for him a respected place in the business world and the high esteem and devotion of many friends and acquaintances throughout the South.