Piscataquis County Maine Deaths

PISCATAQUIS COUNTY MAINE
DEATH NOTICES

AN OLD SETTLER DIES

ARTHUR F. HOWARD PASSES AWAY IN MINNESOTA SOLDIERS HOME AT AGE OF SIXTY YEARS
WAS FORMERLY SHERIFF OF MILLE LACS COUNTY AND HELD OFFICE FOR NINE SUCCESSIVE TERMS

Arthur F. Howard, one of Princeton's old settlers, died at the Minnesota soldiers' home, of which he had been an inmate for about a month, on December 7, and the remains were brought to Princeton on the following day. Mr. Howard for a period of nearly three years suffered from a cancerous ailment which the skill of the best physicians failed to check, and to this disease his death is directly attributable.

Arthur F. Howard was a native of Brownsville, Piscataquis county Maine, was born on December 12, 1846, and was one of a family of eleven children. On December 24, 1863, he enlisted in the maine heavy artillery and received an honorable discharge on September 11, 1865. In the same year he came to Princeton and engaged in the lumber business. In 1872 Mr. Howard went to California and followed the same occupation there for about two years, when he returned to this village. He married in 1877, Miss Loretta Morehouse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Morehouse, and of the union three sons were born, viz., A. Clement, Claude (deceased) and Charles C.

Mr. Howard was elected nine successive times to the office of sheriff of Mille Lacs county. He was a member of the G.A.R. and of the Masonic and Pythian fraternities. Funeral observances were solemnized at the family residence on Sunday, Rev. Heard officiating, and at the grave, C.A. Jack read the impressive rites of the Masonic order.

[source: The Princeton Union, Princeton MN, December 13, 1906 edition]

HOWARD, CAL

One of the pioneers of the vicinity, Cal Howard, died Monday at his home in Wyanette at the age of 69. While Mr. Howard has been troubled for about twenty-five years with a fever sore on his right leg, his final sickness was of short duration, lasting less than a fortnight and was probably caused by blood poisoning resulting from the ulcer. The funeral occurred yesterday at his late home and the interment took place at the King cemetery in Wyanett. Mr. Howard leaves a wife and two married daughters to mourn his loss.

Mr. Howard was born in Brownville, Piscataquis county, Maine, in April 1830. November 14, 1881 he enlisted in the Eleventh Maine volunteers and served until the following June when he was discharged. In 1865 he came west settling first in Spencer Brook and afterward removing to his late homestead, where he has resided for the past twenty-four years. He was a man of steadfast principles and will be mourned by a large circle of friends and acquaintances among whom he was highly respected.

[source: The Princeton Union, Princeton, MN, November 23, 1899 edition]

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