Samuel H. Howes, Jr. (1842-1903) was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He worked as a section hand on the Old Colony Railroad and married Mary G. Silver in 1863. Howes served as a Private in Company E of the 43rd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Militia) during the American Civil War. He was a member of King Hiram's Freemason Lodge of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Howes was treated and healed by Janet. T. Colman, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's. He wrote to Eddy in 1884, praising her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Christian Science.

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