Howe, John Homer (1822-73) U.S. soldier and jurist, born in New York. Howe practiced law in Ohio and Illinois. He commanded the 124th Illinois Volunteer Regiment at Vicksburg (1863), where a detachment he led earned the nickname “the Mad Moles” for tunneling under Confederate works. After the Union victory he administered the occupied area, and left the army in 1865 as a brevet brigadier general. Later President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Howe chief justice of the Wyoming Territory, where he impaneled the first women on a jury in the United States.
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