Eugene Everett Howe of Franklin Township, N.J., died May 6 in Chapel Hill. He was 95.

He was born on a farm near Keats, Kan., and received bachelor's and master's degrees from Kansas State University. He received a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1940. He was a research chemist for Merck & Co. Inc. for 35 years before his retirement in 1975. At Merck he was director of nutritional research and worked on isolating and synthesizing amino acids, for which he was awarded 18 U.S. patents.

In the 1960s he was a member of President Lyndon Johnson's scientific advisory committee on nutrition and was an advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development, monitoring U.S.-sponsored nutrition projects in Taiwan and Thailand.

He was the founding president of the Meadows Foundation to preserve historic properties in central New Jersey, including the Blackwells Mills Canal House on the Delaware and Raritan Canal. He was chair of Franklin Township's conservation commission from 1970 to 1973 and a member of the Franklin Township Board of Education from 1964 to 1966.

A memorial service is planned for June at Middlebush Reformed Church in Somerset, N.J.

Survivors include a son, Dan Howe of Chapel Hill; a daughter, Jeannie Bosa of New Hampshire; a step-daughter, Jane Ryan of New Jersey; a brother, Daniel Howe of Kansas; and four grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to Blackwells Mills Canal House, 598 Canal Road, Somerset, N.J. 08873