The Portland daily press., 1892-01-27
OBITUARY..
David B. Kicker.


was attacked with the grippe, which al
forwards developed into pneumonia
from which he died yesterday morning
at o'clock.
MI. Kicker was born in South Water
boro, Dec. 81, 1928, and was therefore
few days over SO years of age at the tune
| of his death. He moved to Portland,
young man, twenty-four years OF age,
and became clerk for II. H. Hay. Al
the breaking out of the war he became
attached to the commissary department.
and was later given commission on the
staff of Gen. Robinson of the regular
army, as commissary, and attached 10
the Army of the Potomac. When he re-
tired from the army it was with the rank
of Brevet Major.
At the close of the war he entered into
the wholesale flour business, in Calf
Block, with Mr.. Savage under the firm
name of Savage & Kicker. Later he was
in business with Jonathan Eastman un-
der the firm name of d. B. Kicker 81 Co.
For the past fifteen years he had not
been engaged in very active business ow-
ing to serious operation he underwent
| from which he had a miraculous re-
covery. He was Republican and had
represented Ward One in the Common
Council. He was interested in mining,
at the time of the Maine mining excite
ment, and was president of mining
company. Lately he was president of
the Casco Loan Company. AT the re-
union of the Army of the Potomac in
this city Major Kicker was prominent on
the committee of arrangements.
Major Kicker married Miss Sarah Cum
mings who survives him. He was a
member of the First Baptist Society and
for some time superintendent of the
Sunday School.
Christopher Dyer.
Mr.. Christopher Dyer, one of Deering's
oldest and most respected citizens, died
Monday night. He was s3 years of age
and leaves one son, Whitman Dyer, and
two daughters. He was engaged in the
merchant tailoring business on Middle
street, in this city for over forty years.
Two years ago Mr.. Dyer fell and injured
his spine and since that time had been
obliged to use crutches.
Rev. Rowland 3. Howard, ID. d.
The Rev. Dr. Rowland Bailey Howard,
secretary of the American Peace Asso-
citation and a younger brother Of Gen. O.
o. Howard, died in Rome, Italy, recent
ly. DR.. Howard was born in Leeds in
October, 1885. He received a collegiate
education at Bowdoin and studied law in
the Albany Law School. He then took
up the study of theology, and was at
| various times the pastor of churches in
Harpswell and Pennington, Me-, Prince
ton, ILL.,, Orange, N. j., and Rockport,
Mass.
The subject of international arbitration
as means of averting war possessed a
deep interest for him, and he left his
pastoral charge in Rockport to accept the
secretaryship of the American Peace
Association in Boston, and to his chosen
work he devoted the remainder of his
life. He became editor of ssThe Amer
lean Advocate of Peace and Arbitration"
in the columns of which he spoke strong
ly for arbitration in the settlement Of
the Chilian affair.
A short time ago he went to Europe to
attend the International Peace Congress
in Rome. He labored arduously during
the entire session of the congress, and
after it's adjournment was compelled to
take to his bed. DR.. Howard's condi-
ton improved steadily under DR.. Young
until Sunday. On Saturday an operation
was performed for the removal of an
abscess, which resulted in great loss of
vitality on the part of the patient.
L. S. McCorrison.
Mr.. LutherS. McCorrison, a prominent
citizen of North Baldwin, was buried
last Saturday from his home at North
Baldwin. He was for many years one of
the most prominent citizens of the town.
He was selectman about 1880; and for
about ten years treasurer of Mt. Etna
Grange. and agent of the Grange store.
He was prominent Republican, for
many years a member of the town COM
mittee. He was also one of the trustees
of the North Baldwin Methodist church,
of which he was an active member. He
leaves a widow and two daughters, one
of them Mrs. E. A. Carteret of West
brook. Ex-Deputy Sheriff W. S. Nc
Corrison of Buxton is a brother.
Hon. Nathaniel Wilson.
! Hon. Nathaniel Wilson, an old and
prominent citizen of eastern Maine, died
Sunday at his home in Orono, after an
illness of about week from influenza.
Mr.. Wilson was admitted to the Kenne
bee county bar in January, 1884, and on
the 18th of the same month went to
Orono to settle, where he has since re-
sided. He has been prominently identi-
fed with every interest of the town, hold
ing nearly all the offices in it's gift; repre-
senting his constituency in the legisla--
ture, where he served with marked
, ability on the judiciary and other inn
portant committees. He was interested
to quite an extent in temperance work,
and has been grand worthy patriarch of
the Sons of Temperance of the country.
His political views were always very de-
cided. He was originally a strong Wing,
but upon the decline of that party, he
gradually became allied to the Demo-
cratic party, and until his death was one
of it's ablest members in his section.