The Republican journal., 1913-12-25
munity and was universally respected.

late Joseph +. Hall and father-ln-law OF
our worthy fellow-citizen. DR.. Richard
Moody. He was a native of Methuen,
Mass. In 1906 he left his native town
and came to Camden; he went thence to
Hope, where he was residing when he
was elected Register of Deeds for the
new county of Waldo, in 1928. He then
came to Belfast, and for most if not all
of the remainder of his life occupied the
house on Church street, corner Park
street, now owned by Marley E. Dodge.
He held the office of Register, and that OF
County Treasurer with slight Interrupt
tions. for about twenty years. Soon
after coming here he became member
of the First Congregational Church and
always took a deep interest in the well
fare of that Society. He was promln-
ent member Of the Masonic Fraternity
and at the time of his decease was u. u.
G. Master OF the 9th District. He was
buried with the rites and ceremonies OF
the Order; no man, probably, ever led
life more in conformity to its precepts
than he did. In the performance of his
duties as public officer he was eminent
ly faithful; he was an upright man, an
exemplary and useful member of society.
Capt David Whittier, who died Octo-
Der 18th, aged sixty-one, was the son OF
Thomas Whittier, ESQ.,, whose name has
frequently appeared in these annals. He
commenced following the sea- as a
profession, in early life and was for many
years a successful and skilful shipmas-
ter. He abandoned that vocation about
1921 and ever after made this his place
of permanent residence. The only voy-
age he made after that time was to
Jacksonville, Fla, then an almost I'M
known region. In 1922 he built the brick
block on Main street, known as Whit
tiers Block; large and notable enter
prise for that day. He engaged in
mercantile business soon afterwards with
his brother-in-law, Captain, now Rear
Admiral Joseph Smith of the U. S. Ma
Wy; the name of the firm was Whittier
and Smith. In connection with their
mercantile business they established
livery stable and were the first to bring
to this place mine passenger coach,
Capt Smith having been called to active
service retired from the firm, and new
firm was formed under the name of
Whittier and Patterson, consisting of
Capt. W. and Edward Patterson, which
was dissolved about 1881. With that ter
minated Capt. Whittier's active connec-
ton with trade, although he still contin-
ued to occupy as an office and counting
room the store now occupied by A. j.
Hartman and Company
He was a ind-hearted, benevolent
man. He was the organizer of an assoc
iation formed here in 1926: called the In
FAINT School Society, the object of which
was to maintain school for children be-
tween the ages of three and seven, and
to furnish tuition gratuitously to all
whose parents were unable to pay for it.
The school continued to flourish for many
years under his fostering care.
He was an ardent politician, and never
fiinched from the expression of an opin-
ion or the performance of an act which
in his Judgment duty demanded. Natur-
ally Of ardent temperament, and fear
less in giving utterance to his sentiments.
it was not strange that he should incur
he hostility of those who were equally
ardent and of different political procllvi-
ties; but to his credit be it said, he never
forgot his friends in futile attempts to
conciliate his foes. 1t was sometimes
said of him that he was arbitrary ard
over bearing; but it was never said of
him that he failed in the performance of
any Christian duty to the poor and affilct-
ed or was faithless 10 his friends. Cap
tain Dave, as he was familiarly called,
left many such by whom he is still kind
ly remembered.
Nathaniel Wilson, native OF this
town, son of Col. Jonathan Wilson of
whom frequent mention was made in our
earliest chapters, died at the fremont
House in Boston on the 9th of October
in his fifty ninth year; his remains were
brought here for lpterment. At the
time Of mis- decease he was a purser in
the navy; an office he had held for more
than twenty years. He was lieutenant
in the army in the war of 1872, was in
several engagements with the enemy,
particularly at the battles of Stone Mill
and Plattsburg, where he won the repu-
tation of an intrepid and gallant soldier.
At the close of the war the regiment to
which he belonged was disbanded, and
he was appointed to place in the Gus
tom-hou at New Orleans. He remain
ed there until he was appointed Purser,
in 1929. He was on the East India sta
ton in the Constellation. and returned
short time before the commencement of
the war with Mexico, when he was Or
dered to the Gulf on the flagship Cum
berland. At the close Of the war he was
stationed at Portsmouth, N. H., from
which post he had been recently relieved
at the time of his death.