Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-08

lPCISu W Nly COIl1llCb Oh mLeT-
ests. He intends to separate
himself from the boards OF va.
lrious organizations on which hi
lis serving and to divorce himself
as much as possible from hi,
business interests.
| He intends to give his full
time to District affairs.
He said ne has no statement
to make at this time on his
attitude toward any public prob
lens. In fact, he made it cleal
he intends te approach the jok
with mo fixed determinations.
Instead. he said, he will meet
the problems with an open minc
and study them.
II his duties demand-as they
probably will-that he present
the key to the city to visiting
dignitaries, he win be able tt
make the presentation speech ir
the tongue of those recipient,
from Spanish and French
speaking countries. He also
reads Portuguese but does moi
speak it.
Knows Tax Law
! He is lawyer, with Specia
experience in financial and Ia,
matters. He is a businessman
who knows the problems of man
aging property. He has an en-
thusiasm for good music. al
Though he plays no instrument
and admits he cannot carry {
tune. He has been secretary o
the National Symphony Associa
ton and is a former member o
its board. He is now in tina
category Of supporters Of the
orchestra known as sponsors.
Mr.. Karrick is the next thing
to q native Washingtonia HI
was born in Boston but has livet
here since he was 8. and he. wen
Ito school here.
He is president Of the Fidelity
storage Co.. which his father
founded in 1905. That company
also manages the Karrick Prop
erties--seven apartment houses
and two business buildings
which Mr.. Karrick and hi
brother, James L. Karrick. jr.
toWn.
Fidelity and Karrick Propertie!
together employ about 100 per
sons. One of Mr.. Karrick'I
pleasant duties was to procure
100 or more turkeys to present
employees at Christmas time.
Born in 1893
! Mr.. Karrick was born on jun
Il8, 1893. His father was Jane:
IL. Karrick, and his mother wa:
Henrietta Louise Brewer. Tit
Karricks were a Kentucky fam
lily, the Brewers New England.
ers, and Stockbridge. Mass, wa!
the meeting ground.
Henrietta Brewers grandfath.
Ter was Josiah Brewer of Berk-
shire, Mass. a Yale graduate
who went to Turkey as a mis-.
sionary in 1880. Her grand
mother was Emilia Field, a mem.
Der Of the numerous and far
ranging Field family of Stock
bridge. The first of the Field!
ARRIVED in Boston in 1929, the
first of the Brewers in 1910.
| Illness and i'll fortune harassec
1.-THE first James L. Karrick. HI
brought his family from Boston
to Washington in 1899 to star
anew. He founded the Fidelity
Storage Co. and acquired TIT
first of the properties to which
his sons have added. He bull
the Fidelity Storage Building
at 1920 U street NV.
The Karricks did not come
here as strangers. Mrs. Kar.
rick's father was David JOSIAH
Brewer, a justice of the Suprem,
Court. He had been born IL
Smyrna. the son of the Yal.
graduate missionary. He hae
had a law career in Kansas anC
was Judge of the Kansas Su,
Ipreme Court. President Benja,
min Harrison appointed him t.
the Supreme Court and he tool
his seat on January 6. 1890.
Justice Brewer played his par
as a member of the Washington
community and was president o.
the Associated Charities of hi.
day. The Brewers lived at 1872;
Sixteenth street NV.
The family also included a sec.
ond member of the Supreme
Court--Stephen johnson Field
He was Justice Brewers uncle
and David Karrick's great-great
uncle. He had Joined the gole
rush to California in 1849, hac
been elected to the Supreme
Court of California. He wa.
named to the United States Su.
preme Court by President Lin.
coin in 1853.
Young David Karrick went tt
the old Dennison School on s
street NV, and then to tn,
Friends School. Then he wen
to Yale-there had been Brewer!
at Yale since the 1700s-and was
graduated in 1914. Next he at.
tended George Washington Uni.
versity Law School, graduating
in 1917.
He Gets Into Service
World War I was on by then
The young lawyer went to For
Myer and tried to enlist. He wal
turned. down because Of made
quate vision. Later he talked hi
a