I am searching for the Howard College where William Howard (1828 in England-1890 in Texas) was educated.
He lived with the Rev. A. P. Repiton family in Wilmington, NC as a young man and attended HOWARD COLLEGE - graduating in 1852 with a BA and MA in 1854. (Source: Joseph E Early, Jr., A Handbook of Texas Baptist Biography.)

He eventually was ordained a Baptist minister and pastored in Alabama, then went to Texas for mission work after the Civil War and served in several pastorates and Baptist leadership until his death in 1890.

I do not find any reference at a Howard College on-line or in North Carolina college/university histories. Any idea where and when this college existed?