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Sydenham Howe, the ninth of eleven children of Hon. Joseph Howe and Catherine (McNab) Howe, was born 3 March 1843 at Halifax, N.S. He served as a cadet and midshipman in the Royal Navy from 1855 to 1860 when he became invalided. Shortly afterwards, Howe obtained a position in the Nova Scotia civil service. He was private secretary to his father, 1869-1870 and was appointed dominion auditor for Nova Scotia in 1870, an office he held until its abolition in 1887. In the same year of his appointment, he married Fanny Westphal (McNab) (d. 1883), daughter of James Burroughs Davis McNab and Sarah (Currie), on 26 April 1870 at Dartmouth. They had six children: Mary Emilie, P. Westphal, Joseph, John, Sydenham, and Myrtle. Howe later became an agent at the Union Bank in Halifax and Sherbrooke. In 1898 he was transferred to Kentville. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Historical Society and served as its recording secretary, 1890s. He died 14 April 1929.