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→Early life and background
By 1839 in his early twenties, Howe was admitted to the Kennebec County bar and began practicing law alongside Lot M. Morrill, a future U.S. senator from Maine.<ref name=p90/> Two years later, he married Linda Ann Haynes, and the couple had two children.
By 1839 in his early twenties, Howe was admitted to the Kennebec County bar and began practicing law alongside Lot M. Morrill, a future U.S. senator from Maine.<ref name=p90/> Two years later, he married Linda Ann Haynes, and the couple had two children.
===Religion===
According to professor Victor B. Howard:<ref>Victor B. Howard (2021), [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Religion_and_the_Radical_Republican_Move/tgQaEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=timothy+o.+howe+unitarian&pg=PA14&printsec=frontcover Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870], p. 14. ''Google Books''. Retrieved November 21, 2022.</ref>
{{cquote|Howe was a sincere and devout Unitarian. In his letters to his daughter Grace, which were filled with religious sentiment, Howe expressed his belief in the justice of God and discussed Unitarian sermons by various sermons. He opposed the annexation of Texas, endorsed the principles of the Wilmot Proviso, and was an early advocate of universal emancipation and black suffrage.}}
==Political ascension==
==Political ascension==