Cyrus Lewis  HOWARD

Biography
Carpenter, contractor and Builder. Spent most of his life living in Maine, but lived for a while in Lowell, Mass., at 92 years old, was the last living member, out of 69, of the Joseph E. Colby Post, No. 41, Grand Army of the Republic, of Rumford, Maine. He was a member of the Swift River Grange, No. 107 at Mexico, Maine for 35 years. When Cyrus was 82, the G. A. R. hall at Rumford Center, Maine, was destroyed by fire. He took the $800.00 insurance received from the hall, and solicited subscription which raised the amount to $3000.00, with which he had a fine memorial monument erected in memory of the heroes of the Civil War. He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and told with pride of voting a Republican ticket for every president since. He recalled working his first job at the age of 10, gathering potatoes at 10 cents a day. An account of his 92nd birthday was broadcast that morning from Station WCSH in Portland, Maine. Newspaper clipping relating his 92nd birthday,...Read MORE...