Real name: Richard Edward Howard

US songwriter - b. Keene, NH, 10 Oct. 1890 - d. Brentwood, NH, 17 November 1981.

Wrote the song "I Believe In The Man In The Sky", performed by Elvis Presley.

Howard attended Keene schools, but graduated from Watertown, MA, High School. In WWI, he served as a yeoman in the U.S. Navy, then went into vaudeville. He wrote almost 150 songs, including the 1922 hit "When The Leaves Come Tumbling Down." His best-known musical work was “Somebody Else Is Taking My Place,” whose title is inscribed on his tombstone. He and his wife Loula (Cole) Howard lived in Newton, MA, before moving to South Danville, NH, in 1937.