Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06
From the Burlington Free Press ]
Daniel Dyer Howard.

The death of one 80 well known here
and so intimately connected with Bur-
| lington interests and people, and who was
among the public benefaotors of our
place, deserves more than passing no.
tice.
Daniel Dyer Howard was the second
son (Sion E. being the eldest) of "Unole"
John Howard, of respected memory; and
through him and Mrs. John Howard,
whose maiden name was Hannah Earl,
was directly descended from Roger Will
liams and Philip Sherman and Samuel
Dyer, we'll known names in the early his
tory of Rhode Island. He was born in
Pittstown, N. Y, July 81, 1901, and was
thus in his 10th year at his death He
was a clerk on board the Lake Champlain
steamer "Pb9nix," when it burned in
the broad Lake on the Sd of September,
1919; and though youth of IL he dis
tinguished himself on that trying occa-
sion by his coolness and efforts to save
life and property. He was subsequently
teller in the Bank of Burlington. A
while after he built the store on Church
street, opposite the Bank, now occupied
by Moneys shoe store. In this be COM
menced mercantile business on his own
account hnt left IL for the calling :.
which his father had acquired his wide
reputation, and for which his own execu-
tive talent and genial qualities so we'll
fitted him. He first kept the hotel in
Keeseville, then one in Troy, n. Y, and
then became proprietor of the Exchange
Hotel in New York city. He next, in
comp my with his brother John, bnilt and
kept the Howard Hotel This when
opened was the hotel in New York, and
under the able management of the
Towards it because one of the most
popular hotels in the country. Mr..
Daniel Howard subsequently, built and
kept the Irving House in the
same city His last hotel enterprise was
the Hoffman House, which he leased of
the owner of the property, fitted it up
and furnished it, and opened it in 1863.
All of these enterprises were profitable
and in them Mr. Howard acquired for
tune. After selling the Irving House Mr..
Howard came back to his old home in
Burlington, and purchased the Captain
Lyon place on College street, now Mr..
Burton's which he remodeled and made
one of the most elegant residences in Bur-
lington. He soon after purchased and
rebuilt the fine place on the corner of
College and Green streets, now owned
and occupied by his brother-in-law, Mr..
A. G. Spear.
Mr.. Howard was one of the victims of
the famous National Hotel disease or
poison, which created such excitement In
1857. He was stopping at the National
Hotel in Washington, narrowly escaped
death from the disease, and never recover
ed from it. His bodily infrmities could
hardly impair much less destroy the
energy of his mind, and but few days
before his death be was planning a re-
turn to Burlington, intending to erect
here this summer two handsome resi-
denoes in the style of Swiss chslets, on
the lot owned by him on futile street,
south of Mial Davis.
Mr.. Howard married Miss Della Car
penter, daughter of Col. John Carpenter
of Hoosick, N. Y. Their only child was
daughter, Fanny, who married DIR.
Theodore S. Evans, of Paris. Two years
ago this summer Mr.. Howard went abroad
mainly to try the effect of some of the
warm baths in France, by which he was
benefited. He spent the last year with
Mrs. Howard, his brother John and Mr..
and Mrs Evans in France and Egypt and
Switzerland, spending the winter at
Geneva, where he died. A despatch from
Mr.. John Howard brought to his relations
here word of his death, but without par
ticulars. His remains will undoubtedly
be brought to this country for burial
Mr.. Howard was a man of marked quail
ties; he was a man Of great enterprise and
activity, and of a courteous and kindly
address which won him many friends
| He never forgot face, and few men had
q uidar circle Of acuuaintauceship. He
loved Burlington and Burlington people.
He gave literally to the College, to St.
Paul's church, and to other public inter
ests and benefactions, and he died respec-
ted and esteemed by all who knew him.