He then married Katherine Winslow, who lives with his two daughters (Mrs. Dorothy Congdon and Mrs. Henrietta Howard-Moineau); three step-daughters, two step-sons, 13 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
[1] Howard joined the Department of Botany at Rhode Island State College, Kingston in 1932 and worked as a professor of plant pathology until 1971 when he retired.
[2] He published several papers about his research findings, always kept a high passion for the fungi and was a very active and interested member of the Mycological Society of America during his professional life.
One of his main contributions was related with myxomycete biological life cycle in which he demonstrated that mitosis in plasmodia is essentially synchronous, occurs only in growing parts, and is of short period.
He continued his research of myxomycete plasmodia and he did a postdoctoral fellowship during two years at Harvard University with the mycologist William Henry Weston.