William Lee Howard

[2] He attended Williston Seminary, and studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

[3] Howard was memorably described by Howard A. Kelly, in the Dictionary of American Biography (1928) as "an eccentric, irresponsible character whose native ability was wasted in a desultory, rambling life, and in neglect of those codes which society has erected as safeguards to the perpetuity of the race.

A writer of books on sex subjects, and a pamphleteer ... [he] was held to more esteem by the laity than by the profession".

[3] William Lee Howard had written in 1903 that the white race “in every aspect of the term [be] quarantined from the African.”[4] After graduation he initially spent 2 years on a whaling ship, and later became second mate on a ship in the Africa trade.

[5] He was a correspondent for the New York Herald and was involved in the search for the USS Jeannette that was lost on a polar research journey in 1879, spent some time in Siberia and reported on the Mahdist War.