YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Bought with the income of the WILLIAM C. EGLESTON FUND Tn^4j) GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF MAINE COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF GEORGE THOMAS LITTLE, A. M., Litt. D. Librarian of Bowdoin College Vice-President Maine Genealogical Society Member Maine Historical Society Honorary Member Minnesota Historical Society Member American Historical Association Member of Council, American Library Association Author "Little Genealogy" AND INCLUDING AMONG OTHER LOCAL CONTRIBUTORS REV. HENRY S. BURRAGE, D.D. State Historian Chaplain of National Home, Togus AND ALBERT ROSCOE STUBBS Librarian Maine Genealogical Society VOLUME I ILLUSTRATED LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK 1909 Copyright, 1909, LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. NeW York. Inx.'^, Bowdoin College, Brunswick. INTRODUCTORY. THE present "Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine" presents in the aggregate an amount and variety of genealogical and personal information and portraiture unequalled by any kindred pub lication. Indeed, no similar work concerning Maine Families has ever before been presented. It contains a vast amount of ancestral history never before printed. The object, clearly defined and well digested, was threefold : First. To present in concise form the history of Maine Families of .the Colonial Days. Second. To preserve a record of the prominent present-day people of the State. Third. To present through personal sketches the relation of its prom inent families of all times to the growth, singular prosperity and widespread influence of Maine. There are numerous voluminous histories of the State, making it unnecessary in this work to even outline its annals. What has been pub lished, however, relates principally to civic life. The amplification neces sary to complete the picture of the State, old and nowaday, is what is sup plied by these Genealogical and Family Memoirs. In other words, while others have written of "the times," the province of this work is to be a chronicle of the people who have made Maine what it is. Unique in conception and treatment, this work constitutes one of the most original and permanently valuable contributions ever made to the social history of an American commonwealth. In it are arrayed in a lucid and dignified manner all the important facts regarding the ancestry, personal careers and matrimonial alliances of those who, in each succeeding genera tion, have been accorded leading positions in the social, professional and business life of the State. Nor has it been based upon, neither does it minister to, aristocratic prejudices and assumptions. On the contrary, its fundamental ideas are thoroughly American and democratic. The work everywhere conveys the lesson that distinction has been gained only by honorable public service, or by use fulness in private station, and that the development and prosperity of the State has been dependent upon the character of its citizens, and in the stimulus which they have given to commerce, to industry, to the arts and sciences, to education and reli- SiE William Peppeeeli.. INTRODUCTORY gion — to all that is comprised in the highest civilization of the present day — through a continual progressive development. The inspiration underlying the present work is a fervent appreciation of the truth so well expressed by Sir Walter Scott, that "there is no heroic poem in the world but is at the bottom the life of a man." And with this goes a kindred truth, that to know a man, and rightly measure his char acter, and weigh his achievements, we must know whence he came, from what forbears he sprang. Truly as heroic poems have been written in human lives in the paths of peace as in the scarred roads of war. Such- examples, in whatever line of endeavor, are of much worth as an incentive to those who come afterward, and as such were never so needful to be writ ten of as in the present day, when pessimism, forgetful of the splendid lessons of the past, withholds its efifort in the present, and views the future only with alarm. Every community with such ample history as Maine, should see that it be worthily supplemented by Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of its leading families and prominent citizens. Such a work is valuable in its his toric utility as a memorial of the development and progress of the com munity from its very founding, and in the personal interest which attaches to the record made by the individual. Out of these considerations the authors and publishers have received encouragement and approval of authorities of the highest standing as gen ealogists, historians and litterateurs. In the production of this work, no pains have been spared to ensure absolute truth — that quality upon which its value in every feature depends. The material comprising the genealogical and per sonal records of the active living, as well as of the honored dead, have been gathered by men and women experienced in such work and acquainted with- local history and ancestral families. These have appealed with confidence to the custodians of family records concerning the useful men of preceding- generations, and of their descendants who have lived useful and honorable lives. Such custodians, who availed themselves of this opportunity of having this knowledge placed in preservable and accessible form, have performed a public service in rendering honor to whom honor is due, in preserving the distinction which rightfully belongs to the Colonial Fami lies, and which distinguishes them from later immigrations ; and in inculcating the most val uable and enduring lessons of patriotism and good citizenship. Than Maine, no other State or region ofifers a more peculiar ly interesting field for such re- '"¦" -11: - search. Its sons — "native here, Portland pkom the Bat. and to the manner born," and. INTRODUCTORY 111 of splendid ancestry — ^have attained distinction in every field of human effort. An additional interest attaches to the present undertaking in the fact that, while dealing primarily with the histoi7 of native Maine, this work approaches the dignity of a national epitome of genealogy and biog raphy. Owing to the wide dispersion throughout the country of the old families of the State, the authentic account here presented of the constituent elements of her social life, past and present, is of far more than merely local value. In its special field it is, in an appreciable degree, a reflection of the development of the country at large, since hence went out repre sentatives of historical families, in various generations, who in far remote places — beyond the Mississippi and in the Far West — were with the van guard of civiHzation, building up communities, creating new common wealths, planting, wherever they went, the church, the schoolhouse and the printing press, leading into channels of thrift and enterprise all who gath ered about them, and proving a power for ideal citizenship and good government. These records are presented in a series of independent genealogical and personal sketches relating to lineal family heads, and the most conspicuous representatives in the present generation. There is an entire avoidance of the stereotyped and unattractive manner in which such data is usually pre sented. The past is linked to the present in such style as to form a sym metrical narrative exhibiting" the lines of descent and the history of distin guished members in each generation, thus giving to it a distinct personal interest. That these ends are conscientiously and faithfully conserved is as sured by the cordial personal interest and recognized capability of the super vising editors, of prominent connection with the leading patriotic societies, all of whom have dong pursued genealogical investigations with intelligence and enthusiasm. A very happy arrangement was that which secured the services of George Thomas Little, A. M., Litt. D., as editor-in-chief. Of course, it was a physical impossibility for Professor Little to compile all the matter for this work, but his aid and assistance have been invaluable, and many articles herein are the product of his pen. Rev, Henry S. Burrage, D. D., has also been a very valuable contributor. The efficient aid of Mr. Nathan Goold, Librarian of the Maine Historical Society, is gratefully acknowl edged. His familiarity with the history of Maine and its families, and with the authorities touching the same, have been of much value, and his knowledge has been gener ously afforded at all times when called upon. The same may be said of Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Li brarian of the Maine Genealogical Old mill, sandypoint, Socicty. Other leading citizens of IV INTRODUCTORY the state have contributed aid in many ways. One of the most active and diligent writers is J. C. Jennings, Esq., a native of Wayne, Androscoggin county, whose thorough scholarship and enthusiasm and interest in genealog ical work have made his services invaluable. After two years of diligent labor, the publishers place this work in the hands of their patrons and in libraries, with the confident assurance that it will be found a valuable assistance to coming generations of the Sons of Maine, in tracing their ancestry. It is believed that it includes the main stem of the family tree of every family of any importance in Maine, and in many cases it has been practicable to carry down several lines to the present time. It has reached out to cities of the West, as well as the East, where worthy Sons of Maine are now abiding, and has brought together and made acquainted many remotely separated and divergent lines of descent from a common ancestor. In all cases, the matter for the work has been submitted in typewritten manuscript to the persons most interested, for cor rection. If, as occurs at times, a sketch is faulty or incomplete, the short coming is mainly ascribable to paucity of data, or conflicting records, many families being at disagreement with regard to given names and dates. It is believed that the present work, in spite of the occasional fault which always attaches to such undertakings, will prove a real addition to the mass of annals concerning the old families of Maine, and that, without it, much valuable information would be left inaccessible to the general reader, or irretrievably lost, owing to the passing away of custodians of family records, and the consequent disappearance of material in their possession. THE PUBLISHERS. View of Machias. Judges of Supreme Court. Old Court House, Portland, Built 1816. ADDENDA AND ERRATA Bigelow, p. 800, gen. VI.: John E. Bigelow married (second) Polly Bunker; Hiram married Hannah McPheters. In gen. VII : George Bigelow married (first) Martha (Ring) Boardman, (sec ond) Caroline Longley. P. 801, gen. VIII: Augustus W. Bigelow was a postal clerk from Bangor to Boston, from Vanceboro to Bangor, and from Farmlngton, etc.; his wife was born in Etna, Maine; Iheir daughter Anna married, October 1, 1895, Joseph E. Lamb, Bisbee, George D., p. 1347 : has served as president of Maine State Bar Association. Clarke, p. 1890, col. 2, line 2: birth of Theodore Leander Jr. should he December 11, 1903. Cleaves, Robert A., p. 97 : be died March 15, 1909, at Lafayette Hotel, Portland, and was "burled at Bridgton, Maine. Cook, p. 1902, col. I: the epitaph on gravestone of Rev. Solomon Aiken, at Hardwick, Vermont, is as follows: "In youth a Soldier of the Revolution; in age a Christian Pastor; and through life the inflexible friend of civil and religioxis liberty." Eastman, p. 586: Reference to Ebenezer (I) should read Philip (II), p. 1596. Emery, p. 951: citation at h?ad should be to John Emery (I), instead of Anthony, and William (VII), the latter on p. 1725. (VII) William on p. 951 should read (VIII) William. Fuller, p. 23, gen. VIII : for Catherine Martin, read Catherine Martin Weston. Gardner, p. 678, col. 2 : Fred L. Gardner is a past master of Crescent Lodge F. and A. M., Pembroke, Wasbiugton county ; and George R. Gardner is a past master of St. Croix Lodge, F. and A. M. Hayes, p. 1462, gen. VI: for Skillin read Skillings ; among children, for Desiah read Desire Loring. Jordan, p. 1226, col. I, parag. I : the name Rishworth is on some authorities given as Rich- worth. Lord, Thomas Bradbury, p. 2258, col. 2 : he was born in Limerick, Maine : he married, in Hiram, Maine, Clarissa, born in Hiram, daughter of John Watson. Milliken, p. 2243: in reference line at beginning, for Hoyle Milllken, read Hugh Milliken. Cakes, p. 2202, gen. V: Deacon John Cakes married (first) in 1780, Patience Nason, born June 6, 1764, died 1799, and (second) Susannah P. Staples, who died February 9, 1838. He carried on a large farm, was prominent In local affairs, especially in the church, and was an intimate friend of the well-known evangelist. Rev. Jotbam Sewall. He died March 17, 1845. Gen. VIII: children of Henry W. Cakes: Raymond Silvester, born June 23, 1887, and Wallace Tootbaker, March 12, 1890, Paul, p. 650, gen. VI : Stephen Paul was a master ship carpenter, and built a number of ves sels at Durham, New Hampshire ; was a lieutenant in Company A, under Capt. Wiggins, in war of 1812 ; he married Temperance Ellerson ; in addition to children named, they had a daughter, Harriett. Pennell, Walter J., p. 699 : he was a student at Greeley Institute, Cumberland Center, and Nichols Latin School of Lewiston, Maine, where be graduated in 1886. After two years in Bates College he entered the medical department of Bowdoin College, where he remained one year, then entered the University of Vermont, etc. In 1900 Bates College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. In addition to societies named, he is a member of the Maine Eye and Ear Association. In Masonry he is a Knight Templar, etc. His marriage occurred November 29, 1891 ; the second of his children died at the age of seven years. Perkins, p. 515, col. 2 : Mary Hawthorne Higgins, wife of Frederick C. Perkins, died February 11, 1909. Perkins, p. 1195, gen. , VIII : Aurelia Frances Perkins, who became wife of William Edward Maddocks, is an authoress of no mean ability, writing for publication many beautiful and pathetic pieces, both in poetry and prose, during the civil strife of 1861-65. Perkins, p. 1196, col. 2 : in connection with Lewis Wentwocth Perkins (III) see Chadbourne family elsewhere. Philbrook, Warren C, p. 321 : Mr. Philbrook was elected attorney general of Maine, January 7 1909, and was duly admitted and qualified as an attorney and counselor of the Supreme Court of the United States on May 3d, same year. Quimby, p. 626, Quinby, p. 1099: one family authority (Mr, Henry C. Quinby) says that the name of the founder of the family, Robert (see p. 626), invariably used the Quinby form, as indi cated by original documents on file at Salem. Massachusetts ; that his sons and grandsons' used the same form without any exception ; and that it was not until the fourth generation that the Quimby form began to appear in New Hampshire. Quinby, p. 1100, gen. VII : Moses Quinby graduated from Bowdoin College in 1806. Gen VIII Henry Brewer Quinby, name of daughter, Candace Ellen. Roberts, Hamlin M., p. 1639 : in connection see Rich family, in another place. Sautelle, William H., p. 2247, col. 2 : Mr. Sautelle is a member of Oriental Star Lodge F and A. M. ; St. Matthew's Chapter, R. A. M., and St. Omer Coramandery. K. T. ; also of Kora' Temple Mystic Shrine, Lewiston. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Universalist Child of Edwin C. and Mary (Sautelle) Goodwin: Edwin Crane Goodwin Jr., born July 26, 1908, in Dorches ter, Mass. Shepherd, p. 1555, col. 2. last parag : in connection with this see Stanwood family elsewhere in this work. Sylvei^ter. p. 303. col. 2, parag. 1 : among children, for Eliza Charlotte read Elizabeth Charlotte Verrill. Albert Edward, p. 1700 gen. VI: from records in family Bibles it is learned that his paternal great-grandfather was not Samuel Variel, but Davis Variel, who was born August 30 1759 married (first) Elizabeth Jumper, and their eldest child, Samuel, was born February 6, 1782* VI INDEX Volume I comprises pages 1-500; Volume II, pages 501-1050; Volume III, pages 1051-1650; Volume IV, 1651-2283. Note: Where the asterisk (*) appears, reference is made to Addenda and Errata page. Abbott Ancestry, 321, 323, 326, 327, 329, 330 Abiel, 323 Alonzo, 331 Arthur P,, 327 Benjamin, 326 Bijah, 330 Carroll W., 328 Edville G., 331 George, 322 Henry, 328 Jacob, 324, 32s Jeremiah, 327 Job, 327 John, Capt., 323 John, Dea., 323 Lyman, 325 Nathaniel, 323 Nathaniel, 327 Nathaniel T., 330 Natt T., 330 Walter, 329 Achorn Ancestry, 2143 Edgar O,, 2144 George, 2144 John T., 2144 Mathias, 2143 Adams Ancestry, 1308, 1944, 194s, 1948, 2138 Abraham, 1946 Abraham, Sergt., 1948 Alonzo B., Dr,, 1945 Charles E,, Dr., 1947 Charles K,, 1944 Ed-ward R., 1947 Elijah, 1309 George M., 1949 Henry, 1308 James, Hon., 1946 Jephthah H,, 1951 John, 1950 John M., 2138 John M., Col,, 2138 Lynne F,, 1945 Madeleine, 1947 Moses, 1309 Moses, 1944 Moses, 1950 Moses, Corp., 1948 Nathan, 2138 Philip, 1944 • Philip, 1950 Robert, 1948 Silas B., 1949 Silas M., 1948 Aiken, John, 995 Alden Ancestry, 121a, 2I2S Benjamin, 2125 Eleazer, 1483 Harley R., 2125 Isaac, 1214 Isaiah, 2176 John, 1212 John, 1699 John, 2125 John, Hon,, 1553 Joseph, Dea., 1483 Leonard, 2176 Nelson H., 2125 Samuel, 1213 Alexander Ancestry, 1679 David, 1680 De Alva S,, 1681 Stan-wood, 1681 William, 1680 Allan Ancestry, 1156, 2222 George W., 220 George W., 222a Herbert H., 1159 John, Colonel, 219 John, Colonel, 1157 John D., IIS9 Theophilus W., 1158 William, Maj., 218 William, Maj., 1156 Allen Ancestry, 1076, 1117, 1644 Alfred R., 1078 Alonzo P., 1078 Amos, 1 1 17 Amos L., Hon., in8 Fred J., 1644 John, 1644 Joseph, Capt., 1076 Jotham, 1 1 17 Jotham, 1644 Otis, 1077 William, 1076 William, Col,, 1077 William A., 1078 Alley Ancestry, 2018 Albion P,, 2019 Frank O., 2019 Fred J., 2019 Hugh, 2018 James, 2019 Altheam Ancestry, 993 Jethro, 993 Simon, 993 Ames Ancestry, 1841, 1990 Alfred, Capt., 1842 Alfred K,, Capt., 1842 Allison G., 1990 Anthony, Capt, 1842 George S., 1990 Isaac, 1990 Jabez, 1990 John K., Hon,, 1842 Jonathan, 1990 Mark, Lieut., 1842 Anderson Ancestry, 2235 George J,, 2236 James H., 2235 William H., 2235 Andrews Ancestry, 578, 579, 581 David, 578 Ephraim K,, 581 Jeremiah, 581 John, 579 Melville H,, 581 Percy M., 579 Simon S,, 580 Stephen, 579 Stephen, 580 Anthoine Ancestry, 1007 Isaiah G., Dr., 1008 John, 1008 Nicholas, 1007 N'icholas Jr,, 1008 Arey, Melvin F., 760 Arnold Ancestry, 1039, 1048, 2022 Ambrose, 1049 Benjamin, 1039 Ellen L. F., 1050 Harry L., 2023 Jeremiah, 1050 Jesse M,, 2023 Spencer, 2023 Stephen, 1039 Thomas, 1039 Willard B., 1050 William, 1048 Ashby, George F., 2004 James, 2003 Ashe Ancestry, 2055 John, 2056 John E., 2056 Atkins Ancestry, 924, 2004 Edwin H., 2004 Joseph C, 924 Joseph C, 925 Will C, 2004 Atwood Ancestry, 939 Abial, Lieut,, 940 Charles B., 941 Fred H., 942 Henry, 940 Nathan, 941 Samuel, Capt, 941 Austin Ancestry, 1P34 Anthony, 1034 David, 1035 Frank J,, 1036 Harry B., 1036 Averill Ancestry, 1523, 1523 Frank L,, 1523 Frederic B,, 1523 James, 1523 John, 1523 Joseph B., 1523 Moses, 1522 Moses L., 1522 William, 1522 Ayer Ancestry, 1051, 1053, 1054 Ebenezer, Lieut, 1051 Ebenezer, Maj,, 1053 Edwin W., 1054 Harry B., 1054 Humphrey, 1053 Jacob, 1054 James C, 1054 James M., 1054 John, 1051 John, 1052 Peter, Cornet, 1051 Samuel, Capt, 1051 William E., 1055 William M., 1052 B Babson Ancestry, 1330 George J., 1331 James, 1330 John W,, 1332 Samuel B,, 1332 Sivilian, Capt,, 1331 Bacon Ancestry, 529 Ebenezer, 530 Josiah, Lieut, 530 Michael, 529 William. 531 Bailey Ancestry, 2060, 2063, 2064, 2066, 2068, 2196 Abner, 2063 Adelbert W., 2197 vn VUl INDEX Bailey Family Annie N., 2070 Augustus, 2068 Benjamin, 2196 Bernard C, 206a Calvin, 2062 Charles E,, 2070 Eben M., 2064 Ezekiel, 2064 Francis H., 2070 George, 2070 Guy P., 2064 Hannah J., 2066 Helen M,, 2071 Jacob, 2064 Jeremiah, 2070 John, Dea., 2069 John, 2068 Joseph, 2066 Joseph, 2067 Joseph, Dea., 2066 Lucmda, 2063 Moses, 2065 Moses M., 2065 Nathan, 2067 Richard, 2066 Samuel D., 2062 Samuel H., 2064 Thomas, 20l5j Wesley, 2197 William, 2063, 2196 Bain Ancestry, 446 Charles H., 447 Harriet M., 447 James, 446 James, Capt, 446 Jennie S., 447 Baker Ancestry, 245, 1037, 2224 Amos, 2225 Clarence A,, Dr., 1038 Edward, 245 Henry K,, 2225 John P., 1038 Joseph, 245, 246, 2225 Prince, 1037 William, 2224 Bangs Ancestry, 2 141 Edward, 2141 Edward, Capt., 2142 James, 2143 Jonathan, Capt, 2142 Robert, 2143 William T., 2143 Barker Ancestry, 2071, 2074, 211 9 Asa, 2072 Cyrus I, 2072 Ebenezer, 2120 James, 2074, 21 19 Jonathan, 2072 Peleg, 2075 Simeon, 2120 Thomas, 2074 Thomas A., 2074 Barrett Ancestry, 243, 2026 Charles E., 244 Felix, Dr., 2026 Franklin R., 244 James, 242 John, 243 Barrett Family John, Dea., 242 John, Lieut-Col., 243 Joseph, 2026 Barstow Ancestry, 1406 George S., 1408 Joseph, Capt, 1407 Timothy, 1408 William, 1406 Bartlett Ancestry, 477, 1816, 1818, 2023 Charles S., 1819 Elhanan, 2024 Frank, 1818 Frank L., 1818 George D., 2024 Ichabod, 1819 James, 2025 Joseph, 2023 Levi, 1818 Lucius I., 1819 Malachi, 1817 Nathan, 479 Nathan, Capt, 478 Ralph S,, 479 Richard, 477 Richard, 2024 Robert, 1816 Stephen, 2023 Sylvester, 479 William, 2025 William R., 2025 William Y., 2025 Zenas W., 2024 Bass Ancestry, 1553 Joseph P., ISS3 Samuel, 1553 Samuel, Dea., 1553 Bates Ancestry, 1700, 1703 Anson, 1702 Asa B., 1703 Clement, 1701 Constantine, 1702 Henry A,, 1 702 Henry E., 1703 Baxter Ancestry, 1556 Clinton L,, 1558 Elihu, 1556 Elihu, Dr., 1557 James P., 1557 Simon, 1556 Beal Ancestry, 128 Arthur, 128 Benjamin, 129 Fred N,, 131 Nathaniel B., 130 Sheldon H., 129 William, 128 William, Col,, 128 Bean Ancestry, 438, 440, 443, 444 Charles, 445 Charles A., 446 Cotton, 445 Daniel F., 440 Elisha, 441 Emery O., Hon., 442 Ervin A., 2238 George W., 444 Henry, 439 Ivory S., 446 Bean Family James, 440 Joel, 440 John, 438 John, 443 Jonathan, Capt, 445 Joshua, 439 Levi, 443 Lewis, 444 Lewis, Capt., 444 Oliver, 441 Warren, 2238 Beane, Fred E., Hon., 442 Bechard Ancestry, 2241 Henri P,, 2241 Uldric, 2241 Beckler Ancestry, 2279 Philip C, 2279 Warren B., M. D., 2280 Beede Ancestry, 2036, 2140 Eli, 2037 Joshua W., Dr., 2037 Nathan, 2141 Phineas, 2037 Thomas, 2140 Beedy Ancestry, 2140 Harry F., 2141 Samuel H., 2141 Belcher Ancestry, 957 Clifford, 959 Gregory, 958 Samuel, 959 Samuel C,, 959 Bender, Simpson P., Rev., 760 Bennett Ancestry, 1574, 1576, 1796, 2172 Anthony, 1574 Bradford, 1576 David, Dr., 1576 Eben H,, Dr., 1796 Elmer D., 1577 Edward K, 2173 Joseph, 1575 Joseph L., 1575 Josiah, 1796 Myron E., 2173 Nahum, 1577 Nathan, 1796 Nathaniel, 2172 Nathaniel, Lieut., 1576 Peter, 1576 William, 1575 Benson Ancestry, 1937 Charles C, 1941 George B., 1941 Ichabod, 1938 John, 1937 Peleg, Dr., 1939 Seth E,, 1942 Stephen, 1939 Bergeron Ancestry, 809 Francois, 810 Louis, 810 Louis, Rev. Father, 810 Berry Ancestry, 392, 395 Alfred H., 395 Alfred L., 395 Augustus H., 396 Berry Family Charles H., 397 George, 394 George, 395 George, Maj., 394 Harold L., 395 Joseph, Gen., 395 Levi, 396 Samuel, 394 Thaddeus C. S., 397 Thaddeus C. S., Dr., 396 Thomas, Lieut., 394 William, 392 William, Dea., 395 Besse Ancestry, 1121 Anthony, 1 121 Frank L., 11 22 Jonathan B., 1121 Beyer, Henry G., 2201 Henry G., Jr., 2201 Bickford Ancestry, 1561 Anson W., 1561 Edwin W., 1561 Bickmore Ancestry, 2096 Albert H., 2097 Albert S., 2097 George, 2096 John, 2097 Thomas, 2096 William H., 2097 Bigelow Ancestry, 799 Augustus W., 801 *George, 801 James, 379 John, 378 John, 799 Billings Ancestry, 960 Adonirara J,, M. D., Hon,, 961 John, 961 Nathaniel, 960 Bird, Aaron Jr., 484 Royal, 484 Bisbee Ancestry, 1344 Charles, 1345 Ehsha Jr., 1345 ?George D., 1346 George W,, 1346 Spaulding, 1347 Stanley, 1347 Thomas, 1344 Black Ancestry, 1055, 1058, 1060, 1061 Frank S., 1056 Frederick F., 1060 Jacob, 1055 James A., 1061 John, 1058 Joshua W., 1059 Josiah, 1060 Laura M„ Dr., 1061 thomas H,, 1061 William, 1055 ^yi^iam T., 1062 Blame Ancestry, 1023 Ephraim, Col., 1023 Ephraim L,, 1023 James, 1023 James G., 1024 Charles A., 1792 INDEX IX Blair Family James, 1792 John, 1792 Blaisdell Ancestry, 2020, 2022, 2251, 2252 Daniel, 2022 David, 2021 Dummer, 2021 Eben F., 2251 Ebenezer, 2251 Elijah, 2022 Hosea, 2022 John, 2021 John C, 2022 Martin, Hon., 2022 Ralph, 2021 Sarah L., 2021 Silas C, 2252 Walter F., 2251 Blanchard Ancestry, 281, 282, 284, 285 Alvah P., 283 Cyrus, 282 Cyrus N., 282 Howard W., 285 James A., 283 Jesse, 282 John, Dea,, 261 Nathaniel, 284 Nathaniel W., 286 Ozias, 284 Perez N., 286 Sylvanus, Capt., 285 Thomas, 261, 281, 282 Thomas S., 283 Blunt Ancestry, 2131 David D., 2133 David F., 2133 John, 2132 John, Rev., 2131 Mark S., 2133 William, 2131 Boardman Ancestry, 21 18 Jonathan, Capt, 21 19 Offin, 21 19 Offin, Capt, 21 18 Thomas, 21 18 William, 21 19 Bodwell Ancestry, 777 Charles A., 779 Henry, "/"jy John, 778 John, Capt., Tjy John W., Gen., 778 William H., 779 Bogart Ancestry, 2211 Cornelius, 2211 Fred H. H., 2212' George A., 221 1 Bolster Ancestry, 569 Isaac, 569 Isaac, Capt., 569 Mellen E., 570 Otis C, 569 Bonneau Ancestry, 812 Alfred, 812 Charles, 812 Boody Ancestry, 473 David, 474 David, 1468 David A., 475 Henry H., Hon., 475 Boody Family John H., 474 John H., 1468 Robert, Rev., 474 Robert, Rev., 1467 Zechariah, 473 Boothby Ancestry, 1674 Henry, 1674 Roswell C, 1677 Samuel, Rev., 1675 Stephen, Col., 1676 Bosworth Ancestry, 1220 Arthur S., 1222 Frederic S., Capt, 122 1 Robert, 1221 Bourne Ancestry, 99a Richard, 992 Shearjashub, 992 Bowler Ancestry, 987 Ernest C, 987 Silas H., 987 William O., 987 Boyd Ancestry, 974, 1643 Alexander, 975 Andrew, 975 Byron, 1643 Richard, 1643 Robert, Dr., 1643 Samuel, 974 Boynton Ancestry, 1499 Amos, 1501 Bartholomew, 1499 George B., 1502 Joshua, 1501 Roscoe G., 1502 Stephen, 1501 Brackett Ancestry, 40 Anthony, 40 James, 1760 Joseph, 1760 Joshua, Lieut., 43 Samuel, 1758 Thomas, 44 Bradbury Ancestry, 315, "45 Bion, Hon., 317 James, Dr., 1146 James O., 1147 Jeremiah, 317 John, Elder, 317 Joseph, 317 Robert, 315 Samuel M., M. D., 1 147 Thomas, 316 William, 1535 Wymond, 1145 Bradford Ancestry, 480, Charles G., 498 Chester, 499 Ephraim, 481 Ernest W., 499 Ezekiel, 481 Gideon, 500I Herbert C, Dr., 500 John, Maj., 500 Martin, 498 Martin, 500 Phillips, 484 Richmond, Dr., 500 Royal B., 485 Samuel, 498 Bradford Family Samuel, Lieut, 500^ William, 480 William, 482 William, 483 William H., 500 Bradish Ancestry, 1435 David, Maj., 1436 Martin, 1436 Robert, 1435 Walter F., 1436 Bradley ^ Ancestry, 2128 Henry R,, 2129 Joseph, 2128 Levi, 2129 Bradstreet Ancestry, 99 Daniel, 100 Humphrey, 99 Moses, Capt, 99 Nathaniel, 100 Nathaniel, Lieut., 100 Bragdon Ancestry, 732, 7S8 Albert M,, 734 Arthur, 732 Arthur, Sergt, 733 Edward A., 733 Frederick A., 763 Frederick A., Rev., 758 Frederick E,, 758 George, 763 Josiah, Lieut, 733 William, 762 Bragg Ancestry, 1983 Isaac, 1982 Isaac M., 1982 Thomas, 1982 Brazier Ancestry, 1470 Daniel, 1471 Harrison, 1470 Joseph R,, 1471 Nellie L., 1471 Zachary H., 1470 Brewer, John S., 1516 Thomas A., 1516 Bridges Ancestry, 1601, 1604 Benjamin, 1603 Bizer, 1604 Edmund, 1601 Jeremiah, 1604 John, 1604 Joseph C, 1603 Ralph E., 1605 Robert A., 1604 Bridgham Ancestry, 1588 Albert, 1590 Dexter W., 1592 Charles B., Dr., 1591 Henry, 1588 Joseph, 1590 Percy A., 1590 Thomas S,, 1591 William, Dr., 1591 William H., 1592 Briggs Ancestry, 2242 Ansel, 2242 Daniel, 2242 Hiram C, 2242 Brooks Ancestry, 967 Albert W., 968 Joshua, Dea., 967 Brooks Family Joshua, Dea,, 968 Percy W., 968 Samuel S., 968 Thomas, 967 Brown Ancestry, 258, 259, 260, 263, 266, 272, 1682, 1800, 1998, 2153, 2156, 2190 Asaph, 259 Augustus H., 2191 Calvin S., Hon,, 259 Carroll, 271 Chapin, 2257 Charles A., 2155 Charles B., 266 Edward, 2190 Euthalius I., 262 Frank E., 2157 Frank I., Dr,, 260 Herbert L., 2155 James, 260 James, 262 James, i8oi James, 2154 James T., 1801 John, 258 John, 265 John, 272 John, 1800 John B., Hon,, 267 John I,, 272 John I., 273 John M., Gen., 269 John 0„ 2155 John W., 272 Jonas, Ens,, 264 Jonathan, 2191 Joseph, 2191 Joseph, Dea., 2154 Luke, 2156 Newell, 258 Richard, 2154 Robbins, 260 Samuel, 2154, 2256 Samuel P., 2257 Simeon, 1682 Simeon, Dr., 2154 Simeon S., 2157 , -Solomon, 1682 Stephen, 1998 Stephen O,, 1999 Stephen P., 1999 Thomas, 263 Thomas, 266 Thomas, 272 Thomas, 2156 Titus O., 267 William, 1682 Bryant Ancestry, 738 Eldridge H., Hon., 739 George R,, 738 Stephen, 738 Susan, 740 William C, 738 Bucknam Ancestry, 1031, 1032 Clarence L., Hon., 1032 Gilbert L., 1034 James M., 1032 Nathan, 1033 INDEX Bucknam Family Nathan C, 1034 Robert P., 759 William, 1033 William, Capt, 1031 Bunker Ancestry, 164S Dudley P., 1645 George, 1645 John E., 164s Luther G., the Hon., 1645 Burbank Ancestry, 10Q2 Abner, 1003 Horace H., Col., 1003 John, 1002 Elizabeth P., 1004 Burleigh Ancestry, 1088 Clarence B., 1092 Edwin C, Hon., 1090 Giles, 1088 Lewis A., 1093 Moses, Col., 1089 Parker P., Hon., 1090 Bumham Ancestry, 332, 336 Frank, 337 George, 333 John, 332 John E., 335 Josiah, 334 Mary S., 335 Perez B,, 333 Ralph F., 337 Thomas, Lieut., 336 Zebulun, 337 Burr Ancestry, 605 Charles, 607 John, 336 Johnathan, Rev,, 605 Perez, 336 Warren, 607 Burrage Ancestry, 44 Caroline, 1488 Champlin, 49 Henry S., 48 Henry S., Rev., 1488 Jonathan, 47 Josiah, 47 Leonard D., 48 Robert, 44 Thomas, 46 Thomas F., 48 Thomas J., 50 William, 46 William, 47 Butler Ancestry, 131, 1729, 1731, 1732, 1735, 1737, 2IS5 Benjamin, 1730 Benjamin, Rev., 1731 Charles H., 1737 Edmund, 1732 Edward B., 1737 Elijah, 1730 Elijah, 2156 Frank W., 1730 George H., 1737 Harry, 1732 Harry, 1740 Henry, Gen., 1731 Ichabod. 1738 James, 1735 Butler Family James H., Gen., 1731 John, 1732 John, Capt, 2155 John, Rev., i733 Joseph, Lieut,, 1736 Manly, 1736 Manly O., 1736 Moses M., Hon,, 1739 Nathaniel, 131 Nathaniel, 132 Nathaniel, 1734 Nathaniel, Rev., 1733 Nicholas, 1729, 2155 Qrville W., 1737 Ralph, 1730 Stephen, 1735 Thomas, 131 Thomas, 1737 Buxton Ancestry, 621, 653 Anthony, 622 Anthony, 653 Charles M., Hon., 623 Edward G., 622 George H., 654 Jeremiah, 622 William, 653 Byrne Ancestry, 2235 John, 2235 Byrnes Ancestry, 1648 Joseph R., 1648 Patrick J., 1648 Roger, 1648 Calderwood Ancestry, 954 Ezra, 954 George G., 955 Harry C, 955 James, 954 'Caldwell Ancestry, 1009, 1897 James, 1009 James, loio John, 1898 Joseph C, Dr,, lOio William, 1898 Campbell Ancestry, 1683, 2164 Alexander, 2164 Archibald, 2164 James, 1683 Manning S., 2165 William, 1683 William, Capt, 1683 Capen Ancestry, 8go Barnard, 8go Benjamin, 891 Charles E., 891 Lillian M., 891 Carlton Ancestry, 2075 Asa, 2076 Frank W., 2076 Ira, 2076 John G., 207s Carleton Ancestry, 1869, 1873, 1877 Amos F., 1874 Baldwin de, 1869 Carleton Family Ebenezer, 1871 Ebenezer Jr., 1871 Edward, 1870 Edward E., 1873 George, 1877 John, 1873 John, 1877 Jonathan A., 1873 Joseph, 1873 Joseph H., 1874 Oliver, 1877 Osgood, 1870 Osgood, 1872 Reuel W., 1872 Thomas, 1877 Carll Ancestry, 1514, 2161 Herbert H,, 1516 Jason S., 1515 John, 2162 Samuel, 1514, IS'S, 2161 Samuel, Lieut, 2163 Seth S., 1515 Carter Ancestry, 583, 1454 Horace B., 1455 Jacob, 582 Jacob, 583 John, Col., 1455 John W. D., 584 Samuel, Rev., 1454 Thomas, 582 Thomas, Rev., 1454 William, 1455 Carver Ancestry, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932 Amos D., 1930 Cyrus H., 1930 Edgv N., 1931 Edwin G., 1931 Eleazar, 193 1 Eugene P,, 1932 George A., 1929 Harry P,, 1931 John, 2152 John A,, 1929 Nathan, 1931 Nathan P., 1932 Robert, 1928 Wilbur J., 1930 William, 1930 Woodburn, 1932 Case Ancestry, 221 Irving W., 221 Solomon T,, 221 William, 221 Caswell, Clark R,, 2218 Elvira F., 2218 Winfield B., 2218 Catell, Charles R., 1649 Paul, 1649 Chadbourne Ancestry, 1347, 2239 Benjamin F,, 1350 Francis, 2239 Humphrey, Elder, 1349 Israel, 1350 William, 1347 William, 2239 William, Rev., 1349 Chadwick Ancestry, 277 Cyrus H., 277 Cyrus W., 278 James W., 277 John, Sergt., 277 Chamberlain Ancestry, 132 Joshua, 133 Joshua, Col., 133 Joshua L., Gov., 133 William, 132 Chamberlin Ancestry, 1991 David T. P., M, D., 1991 Don, 1992 Hiram G., 1991 Nathaniel, Dea., 1991 Champlin Ancestry, 1484 Arthur P., 1488 Augustus, 1488 Geoffrey, 1484 George P., 1488 James P., 1487 James P., Jr., 1488 James T., 1485 John, 1485 Chandler Ancestry, 1474 Joseph, 1476 TKomas, Capt., 1474 William, 1474 William, 1475 Chaplin Ancestry, 819, 841 Ashbel C, 842 Benjamin, 820 Caleb A., 842 Caleb A., Hon., 820 Huldah M., 842 Jeremiah, 819, 841 John, 842 Chapman Ancestry, 665 Charles D., 666 Harry J,, 667 Nathaniel, 666 William, Capt, 666 Chase Ancestry, 1510, 1605 Alden F., Rev,, 760 Amos, 1607 Amos, Dea,, 1606 Aquila, 1605 Daniel, 1606 George W., Dr., 1510 Jacob B,, 1510 Matthew, 1605 Cheney Ancestry, 1806 John, 1806 William, 1807 William, Col., 1807 Chickering Ancestry, 465 Jabez, Rev., 466 John J., 467 John W., Prof., 467 John W,, Rev., 466 Joseph, Rev., 466 Nathaniel, Dea., 466 Thomas, 465 Choate Ancestry, 706 Aaron, 708 Daniel L., 709 INDEX XI Choate Family Francis, Elder, 707 John, 706 Clapp Ancestry, 765 Asa, 765 Asa W. H,, 767 Mary J, E,, 768 Thomas, 765 Clark Ancestry, 84, 1880, 1884, 1886 Abraham, 1882 Charles B., 1887 David, 1885 Dennis W., 1883 Edward, 84 Edward, 1884 Ephraim, 84 Horatio, 1886 Ira, 1886 John, 1880 John McD., 1885 Jonathan, 1887 Mervin W,, 1884 Nathaniel, 85 Nathaniel, 1886 Peacallis, 1886 Peacallis M,, 1887 Pennell, 1885 Ralph H,, 2169 Samuel O,, Dr., 2169 Clarke Ancestry, 1238, 1888, 1889 Charles B., 1889 Charles D„ Col., 1888 Charles L., 1242 Daniel, 1238 Daniel, 1241 Elisha, 1889 Frank W,, Dr„ 1890 George, 1889 *James, 1890 James W., Hon., 1890 Samuel, 1239 Samuel, 1240 Samuel W., Capt., 1890 Theodore, Capt., 1890 Walter B., Hon., 1891 Clary Ancestry, 1974, 2126, 2277 Albert E., Judge, 1975 Charles H., 2278 Daniel, 1974, I97S, 2126 Daniel, Capt., 2127 Isaac B., 2127 John, 197s John, 2277 Nahum E,, 2127 Robert, 2276 William, 2126 Cleaves Ancestry, 94 Benjamin, 96 Benjamin, Lieut., 95 George, 94 Henry B,, 98 Joshua, Capt, 96 Nathan, Judge, 97 ?Robert A., 97 Thomas, 97 Thomas P., 98 Cleveland Ancestry, 1294 Frederick M., 1297 Heber H,, 1297 Joseph, 1296 Moyses, 1294 Samuel, Sergt., 1295 Clifford Ancestry, i George, i Nathan, Hon., i Nathan, Hon., 4 Nathaniel, iJca., i Philip G., 5 William H,, 3 William H,, Capt, 4 Cobb Ancustry, 12 Ebenezer, 1251 Francis, 12 Henpy, 12 Hem-y; Deacon, 2095 Henry, Elder, 1250 William, 2095, 2096 William T,, 13 Coburn Ancestry, 156, 166 Abner, Gov,, 159 Edward, 156 Eleazer, 158 Eleazer, 157 Joseph, Dea., 156 Julia L,, 166 Louise H,, 167 Philander, 165 Samuel W., 166 Samuel W., 986 Stephen, 166 Cochrane Ancestry, 793 Chauncey, 793 James, Ens,, 793 James, Maj., 793 Jasper D., Dr,, 794 John, Dea., 793 Coffin Ancestry, 709, 763 Peter, 709 Seth A,, 763 Simeon, 711 Tristram, 709 Voranus L,, Capt., 711 William H,, 763 Coggan Ancestry, 1617 Henry, 1617 John, 1617 Leonard C, i6i8 MarccHus, 1618 Colbath Ancestry, 206 Benning, 208 James, 207 Jeremiah S., 208 John, 206 Samuel, 208 Colburn Ancestry, 684 Edward, 684 Samuel, Col,, 684 Colcord Ancestry, 1188 Edward, 1 188 Frank A,, 1190 Josiah A., 1189 Melvin E,, 1190 Cole Ancestry, 749 John T., 750 William, 749 Comstock, George, Col,, 2222 Conant Ancestry, 246, 251, 255, 256 Abraham, 255 Alvah, 253 Charles, 256 Charles M., 256 Daniel, 252 Edgar F., 251 Francis A,, 251 Frederick O., 254 John, 246 John, 251 John, 253 Joshua, 256 Lot, 249 Lol, 255 Mary E., 256 Nathaniel, 252 Oliver, 251 Richard O., 254 Roger, 248 Thomas, 251 William G., 256 William H., 256 Connor Ancestry, 997 Selden, 998 William, 998 Converse Ancestry, 1865 Ed-ward, Capt., i866 Edward, Dea., 1865 John, Dr., 1867 John H., 1867 Samuel, Sergt., 1865 Cook Ancestry, 1518, 1520, 1899, igoi Charles, 1901 Charles, 1902 Charles S., 1900 Edward B., 1902 Elijah, 1519 Emery, 1521 Ephraim, 1899 George D., Dr., 1519 *George H,, 1901, 1902 Harold E., 1519 Leone R,, 1521 Obadiah G., 1900 Samuel, 1518 Samuel, 1521 Samuel, 1899 Samuel, 1901 Coolidge Ancestry, 1713 Charles A., Dr., 1713 Henry E., 1714 John, 1713 Coombs Ancestry, 1122, 1124, 1 127, 1 128 Anthony, 1123 Anthony, 1127 Arphaxad, 1 123 Charles R., 1128 Delbert D,, 1130 Fields, Capt., 1124 Henry, 1128 Hosea, 1124 James, 1129 James B., 1124 Peter, Lieut, 1123 Philip, 1 125 Coombs Family Philip H., 1125 Robert H., Capt., 1 128 William G., 1130 Cooper Ancestry, 942 Jesse, Sergt., 943 Leonard, 943 Peter, 942 Copeland Ancestry, 791 Asa, Dea., 792 Benjamin, Dea., 792 George K., 792 Lawrence, 791 Lemuel, 792 Lizzie M,, 792 Corson Ancestry, 1684 Aaron, 1684 Eri D,, 1684 George E., 1684 John T,, 1684 Samuel, 1684 Cothren Ancestry, 969 Frank H,, 970 Nathaniel, 969 William, 969 William, Capt, 969 Cotton Ancestry, 89 Benjamin R., 91 Edward C, 91 John, go John B., 91 Wilham, 89 Cousens Ancestry, 228 John, 228 Lyman M., 228 William, 228 Cousins Ancestry, 229 Ichabod, 229 John, 229 Joseph, 229 Stephen H., 230 William L., Dr., 230 Cox Ancestry, 713 Almira C, 716 Augustus F., 714 Edward W., 717 Elisha, 713 Frank W., 717 Henry P., 714 Crafts Ancestry, 2146 Francis M., 2148 Griffin, Lieut, 2146 Moses, 2148 Samuel, 2148 Selden T., 251 Cram Ancestry, 572 Andrew, 11 56 Franklin W., 574 George O. K., 673,674 Gilman, 574 Harry L., 1156 John, 572 John, 1155 Nathaniel O., 674 Nehemiah, 673 Orlando B., 1156 Stephen, Capt., 573 Wingate F., 575 Crane Ancestry, 1228, 1230 Frank T., 1229 Xll INDEX Crane Family George D., 1231 Henry, 1228 Hezekiah, 1230 John, Brig.-Gen., 1229 Rufus T., 1229 Sewall L., 1230 Crawford Ancestry, 1028, 1662 Benjamin, 1029 George, 1662 George A., 1663 James B., Rev., 759 Thomas, 1028 William H., Rev., 1663 William M., 1029 William S., 1029 Creighton Ancestry, 1274 David, 1274 James A., Capt., 1274 John jM., 1275 Cressey Ancestry, 1549 Cyrus, 1550 James, 1550 John, 1549 Mighill, 1549 Olive F., 1550 Crockett Ancestry, 1808 James, 1810 Leonard, 1810 Thomas, 1808 Crooker Ancestry, 1227 Charles, 1228 Isaiah, 1227 Jonathan H., 1228 Crosby Ancestry, 1471 Ezra, 1472 Jacob T., Rev., 1474 John S,, 1472 Sherwin, 1472 Simon, 1471 Cross Ancestry, 551 Hubert J,, 552 Sewall B., 552 William, 551 William, 552 Cummings Ancestry, 1040, 1043, 2187 Abraham, 1041 Abraham L. T,, 1044 Anda C, 1042 Benjamin, 2188 Daniel, 1042 Daniel, 2187 George H., Dr., 1042 Isaac, 1040 Isaac, Dea., 2187 John, 1043 John G., 1043 Joseph, 2188 Joseph, Capt., 1041 Thomas, Lieut., 1041 Cumston Ancestry, 1293 Charles McL., 1293 Henry Van S., 1293 John, 1293 Cunningham Ancestry, 945 Samuel, Capt., 945 Thomas, 945 William, 946 Currier Ancestry, 797 Everett B., 799 Jonathan, Sergt, 798 Jonathan Jr., 798 Richard, 797 Russell S., 799 Curtis Ancestry, 525, 2185 Alice C, 529 Cyrus H. K., 2186 Cyrus L., 2186 John, 525 John B., 526 Reuben, 2186 William, 2186 Gushing Ancestry, 1198, 1867 Andre, 1757 Caleb, Rev., 1201 Caleb, Rev., 1868 James, Rev., 1202 John, 1869 John, Rev., 1869 John W., 1202 Joseph W., 1202 Matthew, 12CO Matthew, Dea., 336 Nehemiah, 1756 Theophilus, Gen., 1756 Wainwright, 1203 William, 1199 William, 1755 William, 1867 Cushman Ancestry, 867 Ara, 868 Charles L., 868 Robert, 867 Cutter Ancestry, 172 Ammi R., Rev., 173 Elizabeth, 172 Levi, 174 William, Capt., 173 Cutts Ancestry, 934 James H., Maj., 935 Robert, 934 Thomas, 935 Thomas, Col., 1721 D Daggett Ancestry, 1543 Charles F., 1546 John, 1543 Orrin, 1546 Samuel, 1546 Samuel, Capt., 1545 Thomas, Capt, 1544 Dana Ancestry, 1954, 2046 Caroline P., 2047 John W., 2047 John W., Capt., 2047 Luther, 1954 Oscar F., 2047 Philip, 195s Richard, 2046 Woodbury K., 1954 Danforth Ancestry, 1322 Albion G., 1324 David W., 1324 Danforth Family Harland A., Dr., 1324 Nathaniel, 1323 Ralph M., 1325 Wniiam, 1322 William D., 1324 Darling Ancestry, 2176, 2254 Amos B., 2177 Eliakim, 2177 John, 2176, 2254 John A., Col., 2177 Veranus, 2255 Veranus S., 2255 Davis Ancestry, 211, 215, 216, 1874 Barnabas, 1874 Cyrus, 215 Cyrus W., Hon., 215 Dolor, 2l6 Elizabeth C, 208 Elizabeth L., 209 Frederick A., Dr., 2172 Heald, 217 James, 2170 James A., 2171 James W., 2171 John, 211 John, 215 John A., Capt., 217 Nicholas, Maj., 2H Robert, 215 Samuel G., 1876 Walter G., 213 William, 1875 William F, 1876 William G., Hon., 211 Day Ancestry, 2120, 2124 Holman F., 2121 Horace C, 2124 Isaac C, 2124 John R., Capt, 2121 Stephen, 2121 William, 2121 Dearborn Ancestry, 769 Godfrey, 769 Henry, Maj .-Gen., 770 Henry A. S., 774 Dearth Ancestry, 1332 Freeman D., 1332 Freeman D., 1333 Leonard, 1332 De Coster Ancestry, 1677 Francesco V., Capt, 1678 Samuel, 1677 Varanes, 1677 Deering Ancestry, 830 George, 830 Henry, 832 Nathaniel, 831 Dennen Ancestry, 1083 Samuel, 1084 Simeon, 1084 William W., 1084 Dennett Ancestry, 789 Alexander, 791 John, 789 Mark, 790 Dennison Ancestry, 273 David, 274 George, 274 George, Capt., 273 John, 273 William, Capt, 274 Denniston, Robert, M. D., 1256 Derby Ancestry, 587 George B., 587 Devereux Ancestry, 1643 Frank G., 1644 John, 1644 Richard, 1643 Dillingham Ancestry, 1480, 2105, 2107, 2108 Albert A., 2106 Broderick, 2105 Ebenezer H., 2107 Edward, 1480, 2107 Edwin F., 1482 Edwin L., 1483 Frederic B., 2107 Frederic H., 2107 Frederic W., 2108 Frederick H., 1483 John, 2105 John G., 2108 Nathaniel, 1482 Pitt, 2106, 2107 Theodore H., 1482 Thomas M., 2106 William, 2108 William A. P., 2106 Dinsmore, Arthur, 2174 Charles H., 2174 Luke H., 2174 Doane Ancestry, 397 Ebenezer, 398 Ebenezer, 399 Ephraim, 398 John, 398 Dodge Ancestry, 1355 Caleb A., 1356 Howard W., Hon., 1356 John P., 1356 William, 1355 Dole Ancestry, 340, 597 Amos, 597 Charles E., 598 Cyrus R., 598 Elihu, 598 John, Hon., 340 Richard, 597 Donovan, Dennis, 950 Ella H., 950 John B., 950 Dorman, Wilmer J., 961 Dow Ancestry, 288, 289, 301 Abner, 288 Elizabeth C, 302 Fred T., 289 Frederick N., 299 George S. C, 302 Huse, 2230 John, 289 Joseph, Sergt., 290 Josiah, 291 Leander A,, 289 INDEX xui Uow Family Levi, 302 Lorenzo E,, 2230 Neal, 293 Richard S., 302 Thomas, 301 William H,, 301 William M., 2230 Downes, George, 2013 Lemuel G., 2013 Drew Ancestry, 617 Jesse, 618 John, 617 Morrill N., 6i8 Drinkwater Ancestry, 623 John, 623 Joseph, 623 Thomas, 623 Drummond Ancestry, 1728 Alexander, 1728 Clark, 1728 Everett R., 1729 Josiah H., 1729 Dudley Ancestry, 700 Benj amin, 704, 705 Frank, 704 Frederic C, 705 Herbert J., 705 James, Lieut., 703 John, 70s Joseph, 703 Samuel, Rev., 701 Thomas, Gov., 700 Dunbar Ancestry, 986 Albert, 1903 Jacob, 986 Judson B., 1903 Lemuel, 986 Robert, 986 Robert W., Rev., 1903 Dunn Ancestry, 1093, 1754 Charles, 1094 Elbridge G., 1755 George B., 1755 Jonah, 1093 Peter, 1755 Dunning Ancestry, 846 Andrew, 846 Andrew, 936 James, 936 James, Lieut., 848 John, 937 Richard T., 849 Solomon, 848 William, 937 William E., 848 Dunton Ancestry, 2026 Charles R., 2027 John S., 2027 Timothy, 2026 Timothy, 2027 Durgin Ancestry, 1271 Henry I,, 1271 Job, 1271 Joshua, 1271 Dyer Ancestry, 655 Asa, 656 Christopher Jr., Lieut, 656 Dyer Family Frederick, 657 Frederick R., 657 Herbert S., 1095 Isaac, Gen., 656 Thomas, Dea., 655 William H., 657 Eastman Ancestry, 586, 1415, 1596, 1598, 1600 Benjamin, 1416 Benjamin F., Col,, 1598 Briceno M., 1599 Chase, 1598 Daniel, 1600 Ebenezer, 1596 Edward, 1598 Fred E., 1599 Jonathan, 1600 *Moses, 586 Philip, 1596 Philip, 1597 Richard, 1600 Roger, 1416 Samuel, Hon., 1417 Thomas, 1600 Tobias L., 1601 Eaton Ancestry, 221, 222, 1310, 1312 Bradley L., 222 Charles C, 224 George H., Hon., 1312 Henry F., 1312 John, 222 Jonas, 1310 Jonas, 1311 Joseph E., 222 Stephen W., 223 Thomas, 1312 Thomas H., 1313 Tristram, 223 William C, 225 Woodman S., 224 Eddy Ancestry, 2173 George W., 2173 Harry B., 2173 John, 2173 Samuel, 2173 Elder Ancestry, 1327 Isaac L., 1329 Richard J., 1328 Robert, 1327 Samuel, 1327 Eliot Ancestry, 183 Adolphus F. C, 185 Edmund or Edward, 183 Frank M., 186 Jacob R., 185 Jacob S., 185 Wyman, 185 Ellis Ancestry, 927, 1836 Columbus W., 929 Freeman, 1836 John, 928 John, 1836 Mellen F., 929 Stephen, 928 Sylvanus, 928 Ellis Family Vinal H., 929 Elwell Ancestry, 1508 ¦ Edward H., 1509 Nathaniel H., 1509 Robert, 1508 Theodore, 1509 Emerson Ancestry, 369, 879 Daniel, Rev., 370 Ezekiel, 881 Joseph, 370 Luther D., 882 Peter, 370 Thomas, 369 Thomas, 880 Walter C, 882 Emery Ancestry, *95l, 1715, 1718, 1724, 1727 Asa C, 1717 Caleb, Col., 1724 Caleb, Dr., 1725 Caleb J., Dr., 1725 Chandler S., 1725 Daniel, 1724 Daniel W., 1723 Eben H., 1717 Ernest W., 1724 George A., 1720 Hiram, 1727 Isaac, 1727 John, 1715 John, 1718 John, Lieut, 1719 Jonathan, 1722 Levi, 1717 Moses, 1719 Samuel B., 1725 Samuel B., 1726 Simon, 1727 Thomas J., 1727 Walter K, 1726 ?William, 951 William, 1723 William, Hon., 951 Zachariah, 1717 Emmerton Ancestry, 2216 Jacob P., 2218 Joseph, 2217 Thomas, 2218 Emmons Ancestry, 2236 Eliakim, 2236 John, 2236 Leonard, 2236 Willis T., 2236 Estabrooke Ancestry, 1840 Horace M., 1841 Kate C, 1841 Leverett E., 1840 Thomas T., 1840 Estes Ancestry, 418 Barzilla, 419 Llewellyn G., Gen., 419 Llewellyn W., 420 Richard, 418 Everett Ancestry, 1150 Edward S., 1150 John, 1 150 Timothy, 1150 Fabyan Ancestry, 2266 John, 2266 Joshua, 2268 George F., 2269 Francis W., 2270 Fairbanks Ancestry, 1396 Columbus, 1398 Jonathan, 1396 Joseph, Dea., 1396 Joseph W., Hon., 1398 Nathaniel, Col., 1397 Fairbrother Ancestry, 1642 Isaac, 1642 Joseph, 1642 Fairfield Ancestry,' 1197 John, 1 197 John, iigS John, Capt, 1 197 William, Capt, 1198 Farnham Ancestry, 1167 Augustus B., 1168 Henry B., 1167 John, Capt., 1 167 Ralph, 1 167 Farns worth Ancestry, 1912, 1915 Arthur L., 1916 Benjamin B., 1914 Benjamin H., 1915 Cephas, 1914 Chauncey, 1916 Jonathan, 1915 Joseph, 1912 Joseph S., igi6 Matthias, 1913 Farrington Ancestry, 1305, 1708 Benjamin, 1708 Clayton J., 1306 Daniel, 1306 Edmond, 1305 Ira P., 1306 John, 1305 Joseph R., 1709 Oliver, 1709 Oliver C, 1709 Rufus, 1306 Fassett Ancestry, 657 Edward, 658 Francis H., 658 Fellows Ancestry, 2038, 2183 George, 2039 George E., 2040 Isaac, 2184 Isaac, 'Corp., 2184 Joseph, 2039 Samuel, 2038 William, 2183 William E., Dr., 2184 Fennelly Ancestry, 923 Andrew, 923 Locklan, 923 William, Hon., 923 Ferguson Ancestry, 948, 2278 Alexander, 2278 Daniel, 948 XIV INDEX Ferguson Family Franklin A., 2279 M. Hubbard, Dr., 949 Reuben, 949 Willard B., 949 Fessenden Ancestry, 860 James D., 863 Nicholas, 861 Samuel, Gen., 861 William, Rev., 861 William P., 862 Fickett Ancestry, 629 Amos G., 630 John, 629 Oscar A., 630 Field Ancestry, 1827 Darby, 1827 George W., 1829 John, Rev., 1827 John L., 1828 Roger, 1827 Zachariah, Lieut, 1828 Zachary, Lieut., 1828 Files Ancestry, 1 183, 1613 David F., 1184 Ebenezer S. T., 1613 Samuel, 1613 Stephen, 1184 William, 1183 William, 1613 William R., 1184 Fillebrown Ancestry, 1037 James, 1037 Rudolphus, 1037 Thomas, 1037 Finson Ancestry, 1995 Ambrose, Capt., 1995 James J., 1995 Jerome C, 1996 Thomas, 1995 Fish Ancestry, 2232 Amos, 2233 Elias H., 2233 Fitz M., 1644 William G., 1644 Flanders Ancestry, 918, 919 David P,, 919 David P., Dr., 919 James D., 918 James M., 918 Joseph, 919 Louis E., 919 Stephen, 918 Fletcher Ancestry, 660, 1789 Adams, 661 Benjamin G., 1790 Francis, 1789 Furber, 1790 George H., 661 Jonathan H., 661 Joseph, Capt., 661 Joseph B., 1790 Pelatiah, Capt, 661 Robert, 660 Flint Ancestry, 1489 Ephraim, 1490 Henry B., 1490 John, Col., 1489 Thomas, Hon., 1489 Fobes Ancestry, 1533 Amasa, 1534 Charles, 1534 Daniel, Dea., 1534 Leander W., 1535 Fogg Ancestry, ig86 Hiram H., 1987 Isaac, 1987 Joseph, 1987 Samuel, 1986 Folsom Ancestry, 2181 Franklin N., 2183 John, 2181 Joseph G., 2181 Mark, 2183 Mark, Maj,, 2183 Forbes Ancestry, 1533 Edward, Dea., 1533 John, 1533 Ford Ancestry, 1039 Benjamin F., 1040 Joshua T., 1039 William, Dea., 1039 Forsyth, George, Rev., 760 Fortier Ancestry, 1829 Francis, 1829 Frederique, 1829 John L., 1829 Foss Ancestry, 2202, 2203 Alexander, 1471 Benjamin, 2203 Horatio G., 2203 James O., 2203 Jeremiah, 2203 Susan F., 1471 Willis O., 2204 Foster Ancestry, 1964, 2098 Barzillai B., Dr., 1965 Charles W., Dr., 1966 Dexter, 2098 Dexter L., 2099 Frank C, 2099 George C, 2099 George H,, 2098, 2099 Mary W., 1965 Reginald, 1964 Thomas A., Dr., 1965 Thomas D., 1965 William, Sergt, 1965 . Fowles Ancestry, 821 Alvin W., 822 Benjamin, 822 Frank R., 822 George, 821 James, Capt., 822 James, Lieut, 821 Fox Ancestry, 2102, 2104 Daniel, 2103 Frederick, 2104 James C, 2104 John, 2102, 2103, 2104 John, Rev., 2103 William O., 2103 Frank Ancestry, 554 Alpheus, 555 Melvin P., Hon., 551; Royal T., Gen., 555 Thomas, 555 Freeman Ancestry, 904, 92s Ebenezer, 926 Edmund, 904 Edmund, 925 Frederick W., 926 George G., 908 Samuel, 904 Samuel, Dea., 905 William, 907 William P., 926 Frees Ancestry, 1552 Benjamin, 1552 Benjamin M., 1553 James, 1552 Retire W., 1552 French Ancestry, 204, 2157 Edward, 204 George H., 2158 James, 2157 Nathaniel W., 205 Samuel G., 205 Sidney I., 2158 Frey, Charles H., 2239 John, 2239 Frost Ancestry, 13OI, 1530 Charles S., 1532 David, 1302 Edmund, Elder, 1530 Ephraim, 1532 Ephraim A., 1532 George, 1301 Robert 1302 William, 1302 Frye Ancestry, 14 E)ean, 15 John, 14 John M., Col,, 15 Joseph, 15 Joseph, Capt,, 15 William P., 15 Fuller Ancestry, 16, 20, 22, 25, 1776 Andrew, Rev., 19 Benjamin, 21 Caleb, 23 Daniel, 1912 Ebenezer, 25 Edward, 20 Frederick A., 23 Freeman, 1836 Henry W., Capt., 23 Isaac, 1836 James E., 22 John, 16 John, 25 John, Dea., 1835 John J., 22 Matthew, 22 Matthew, Capt., 17 Melville W., Chief Jus., 23 Peter, 19 Samuel, Capt., 1777 Samuel, Dr., 1776 Samuel, Dr., 1835 Samuel, Lieut, 18 Samuel, Rev., 1835 Samuel A,, Rev., 1778 Sidney T., 25 Fuller Family William, 1912 William O., 19 William O., 20 Fulton Ancestry, 539 Aaron J., Dr., 54O James, 539 Robert, 540 Samuel, 540 Furber Ancestry, 2042 Benjamin, 2043 Francis P., 2043 Jonathan, 2043 Furbish Ancestry, 1050 Jeremiah, 1050 Richard, 1050 Gannett Ancestry, 470 Barzillai, Maj., 471 Guy P., 473 Joseph, 471 Joseph F., 471 Matthew, 470 William H., 471 Gardiner Ancestry, 225 George, 225 John, 226 John W. T., 227 Robert H., 227 Sylvester, 225 Gardner Ancestry, 675, 680 Aaron L. R., 678 Abel, Lieut, 676 Ebenezer, 677, 2112 ?George R., 678 Herbert N., 683 Ira B., Col., 682 John, 680 John, 681 Jonathan, 681 Thomas, 675, 2111, 2112 Gamer Ancestry, 2239 Allen, 2240 William, 2240 William A., 2240 Garnsey Ancestry, 1577 Amos, 1578 Amos, Dea., 1578 Frederick A., 1578 John, 1577 Julia A:, 1578 George Ancestry, 1273 Asa, 1274 Edward P., 1274 Gideon, 1273 Gerrish Ancestry, 1260 Charles, Maj., 1262 Charles O., 1266 Everett M., 1263 Frederick H., 1266 George L., 1264 Harold S., 1263 John, Capt., 1260 John J., 1264 Leonard H., 1261 Leonard H., 1262 Lester P., 1263 Nathaniel, Capt., 1261 INDEX x\ Gerrish I'.iinily Oliver, 1265 Orvillc K., 1261 Timothy, Col., 1264 William, Capt, 1260 William L., 1266 Getcheil Ancestry, 1536 Edwin F., 1536 Gcnr) . STATE OF MAINE. 31 Prudence (Kelley) Brown, and sister of the late Francis Brown, D. D., president of Dart mouth College from 18 15 to 1820. He mar ried (second) September 17, 181 1, Sarah T. Lincoln, who was baptized in Hingham, Mas sachusetts, May 12, 1793, died April 23, 1828, daughter of John and Bethia (Thaxter) Lin coln, of Gorham, Maine, and was a descendant from Samuel Lincoln, who came from Eng land, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1637. General Benjamin Lincoln, of revo lutionary fame. Lieutenant Governor Levi Lincoln, of Massachusetts, his sons, Levi Lin coln, governor of Massachusetts, and Gov ernor Enoch Lincoln, of Maine, were de scendants of this pioneer ; and .Abraham Lin coln, president of the United States, was of the same family. He married (third) in No vember, 1828, Mrs. Eliza (Stevens) Cross, daughter of William Stevens, of Portland, and widow of Captain William Cross. She died November 2, 1865, aged eighty-three. The children born of first wife, Lydia Brown, were: Harriet, August 9, 1805, married, Au gust 29, 1829, Oliver Lincoln, of Boston, and died in 1832. Francis B., August 19, 1809, married, March 27, 1838, Martha L. Prince, of North Yarmouth. The children of second wife, Sarah T. Lincoln, were : Charles, July 30, 1812, married, September 2, 1835, Emily March. George, October i, 1816, married, April 27, 1841, Frances M. Barrett. Freder ick, whose sketch follows. (XI) Governor Frederick, youngest child of Captain 'Toppan and Sarah T. (Lincoln) Robie, was born in Gorham, August 12, 1822. After completing the usual studies at Gorham Academy, and with private tutors, he entered Bowdoin College in 1837, and was graduated with the class of 1841. After graduating he went south and for a time taught in Georgia academies and in Florida. While there he de cided to become a physician, and matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and was graduated from that institution in 1844. In April of the same year he opened an office in Biddeford, where he practiced eleven years. In 1855 he removed to Waldoboro, where he remained three years. In each of these towns his practice was extensive and profitable. Re turning to Gorham he resided there until the outbreak of the slaveholders' rebellion. June I, 1861, he was commissioned by President Lincoln, paymaster of United States Volun teers. He served in the Army of the Potomac until 1863, and was then transferred to Bos ton as chief paymaster of the Department of New England. In 1864 he was sent to the Department of the Gulf of New Orleans, where he paid the troops for a year, or until 1865. At the end of the war he returned to Maine, where he had charge of the paying off of the Maine soldiers. His efficient services were recognized and rewarded by the brevet commission of lieutenant-colonel, dated No vember 24, 1865, he being the first Maine pay master to receive brevet of that rank. He was honorably mustered out July 20, 1866, and at once returned with energy to the pursuit of peace, his course having been approved by both the government and the people of the state. In 1866 Colonel Robie was elected to the state senate, and re-elected the following year. He was also appointed in 1866 by Wil liam Pitt Fessenden as special agent of the treasury department, in which capacity he served two years. From 1868 to 1873 he was a member of the Republican state committee. He was a member of the house of representa tives eight years, and in all served ten terms in the Maine legislature. In 1872 and 1876 he was speaker of the house. He is an able parliamentarian, and discharged the duties of his position with a skill born of much ex perience and a courtesy and grace which were pleasing to all, and contributed in no slight degree to the dispatch of business that dis tinguished these periods. He was a member of Governor Washburn's executive council in 1866, of that of Governor Davis in 1880, and of that of Governor Plaisted in 1881-82. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican Na tional convention which nominated General Grant for a second term. In 1878 he was ap pointed commissioner of the Paris Exposition, and traveled extensively in Europe drring the year he remained abroad. In 1882, at the meeting of the Republican state convention in Portland, Colonel Robie was nominated for governor. At the ensuing eleclicn Colonel Robie received a plurality of about nine thou sand votes over the Democrat!': candidate. Governor Harris M. Plaisted. In 1884 Gov ernor Robie was again nominated and re elected by a majority of nearly twenty thou sand votes, which plainly showed that the firm, intelligent and business-like administra tion of Governor Robie had the full approval of his entire party and of many good citizens of other parties, who cast their ballots for him. A retrospect shows him to have been one of the most efficient and popular governors the state of Maine has ever had. In various busi ness enterprises Governor Robie has been and now is an active and powerful business factor. For many years he was a director of the Port- 32 STATE OF MAINE. land & Rochester Railroad Company; also a director of the First National Bank, of which he is now and for seventeen years has been president. In 1885 he was president of the Eastern Telegraph Company, and one time he was business manager of the Portland Press Publishing Company. He is also a director of the financial committee of the Mutual Life In surance Company. Governor Robie was raised in a community where agricultural in fluences were predominant, and his interest in the cultivation of the soil and those who carry it on has always been hearty and sincere. Not long after the grange movement was started he allied himself with it and still gives it his strong support. He was chosen worthy mas ter of the Maine State Grange in i88i, and continued in that office the ensuing eight years. Naturally he feels a deep and abiding interest in the Grand Army. He became a member of John R. Adams Post at Gorham, and has been one of the foremost to aid in the promotion of many of the wise measures undertaken by that organization. During the year 1899 he was commander of the Department of Maine of the Grand Army of the Republic. For over nine teen years he has been president of the board of trustees of the Insane Hospital of the state at Augusta. This institution has received much of his attention, and every annual report of the trustees has been written by him. While a member of the legislature the question of the location of the State Normal school came up and he was instrumental in securing its loca tion in Gorham. He has generously con tributed to its success and the trustees hon ored him by calling the handsome new dormi tory "Frederick Robie Hall," and that in scription is cut in its granite walls. Similarly, the active and permanent interest of Governor Robie in the public schools of Gorham, mani fested in a multitude of ways, prompted his fellow townsmen to change the corporation name of one of the Gorham schools to the "Frederick Robie High School." The same high qualities that made his father a leading man in the region about (jorham, have made Governor Robie one of the ablest, most pro gressive, most influential and most highly es teemed citizens of the commonwealth over whose destinies he has had the honor twice to preside. The strong character he inherits from various lines of worthy ancestors has placed him in the front rank of the patriotic, worthy and leading men of the state, and his unvarying courtesy, kindliness of heart, in tegrity, liberality, and irreproachable charac ter have made him a myriad of friends whose regard is lifelong. Governor Robie has re cently become a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Maine, tracing his descent from Richard Warren, one of the passengers of the "Mayflower," a signer of the compact, and a six year resident of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Frederick Robie married (flrst) November 12, 1847, Mary Ohvia Priest, born in Bidde ford, September 23, 1828, died November 5,. daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Em ery) Priest, of Biddeford. She was a lady of many accomplishments, unusually proficient as a pianist, and also endowed with those per sonal graces and social qualities which endear their possessor to all whom they meet. Four children were born of this union : Harriet,. Mary Frederica, Eliza and Wilham P. F. Harriet, born September 3, 1848, married Clark H. Barker, one time postmaster of Port land, now deceased. Two children were born of this marriage: Mary Olivia and Benjamin Barker. Mary Frederica, born March 3, 1852, married George F. McQuillan, a prominent lawyer of Portland ; one child was born of this marriage, Harriet R. Eliza, born February, 1856, died September 3, 1863. William P. F. is mentioned IdcIow. Governor Robie married (second) January 10, 1900, Martha E. Cres sey, born in Gorham, May 3, 1849, daughter of Alvin and Sarah (Flagg) Cressey. She had always resided on the farm where she was born, and has always been interested in agri culture and the farm is now carried on under her direction. She is a member of the Congre gational church ; the Order of the Eastern Star; the Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic ; and the Patrons of Husbandry. (XII) William Pitt Fessenden, youngest child and only son of Governor Frederick and Mary Olivia (Priest) Robie, was born in Dor chester, Massachusetts, November 5, 1863. From the public schools he went to the pre paratory school at Fryeburg, Maine, and grad uated from that institution in 1884. The same year he entered Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1889. After leaving college he assisted his father if the management of his farm in Gorham unti. 1896, when he entered the medical department of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Portland, wdiere he has continued to the present time. He resides in Gorham, Maine. He married, April 6, 1891, Flora Barton, of Cherryfield, who was born June 4, 1862, daughter of Alonzo and Mary (Pineo) Bar ton. Five children have been born of this mar riage : Mary Frederica, Frederick, Catherine STATE OF MAINE. 33 Carlton, John Waterman and Elizabeth Read. The information relating to the early history of the Robie family is due to the researches of Hon. Henry J. Roby, Sanerigg, Grasmere, England, and Ruben Edward Robie, Bath, New York. The MacQuillans were McQuillan powerful chiefs of county Antrim, Ireland, who en tered Ireland with the earliest English adven turers. The McQuillans became lords of the northern coast of Ireland, and the contiguous territory from Dunseverick Castle in the county Antrim, near the Giant's Causeway, to Dunluce Castle. Dunseverick, built according to tradition by the McQuillans, is now a heap of ruins ; and Dunluce a once strong and beau tiful fortress, is dismantled and crumbled with age. MacDonnell, a Scottish chieftain, mar ried a daughter of McQuillan, and came into possession of the Antrim territory.. King James First confirmed the title of the McDon nell to the country, and since that time a Mc- Donnel has Seen Earl of Antrim. The Mc Quillans became scattered through northern Ireland, and from there to all parts of the world. (i) John McQuillan was born in the north of Ireland, where he enlisted in the English navy. In course of time, being a man of fine physique and soldierly bearing, brave and of good habits, he was promoted to the position of a subordinate officer. He came to America in a vessel of the English navy which, after some period of naval service, he left at Port land, Maine, and settled in Gorham, Maine. He resided there many years, and died in 1811. He married (first) Abigail Cook, who died in 1794-95. He married (second) Octo ber 13, 1796, Elizabeth Brown, who died in 1797, leaving no children. He married (third) September 20, 1798, Olive, daughter of Sam uel and Mary Edwards. She died September 17, 1821. The children of John McQuillan by his first wife Abigail were: John, Rebecca and William ; and by his third wife, Olive Ed wards : Eliza, Hugh McL. and Sargent. (II) Rev. Hugh McL., second child of John and Olive (Edwards) McQuillan, was born in Gorham, Maine, July 18, 1803, and died in Casco, Maine, April 14, 1861. After the death of his father he went to live with a gentleman in Windham, Maine, who gave him a good education, and with whom he stayed until he attained his majority. Afterward he studied for the christian ministry, and was ordained a minister of the Christian Baptist church. From that time forward he was engaged in evangeli cal work until the time of his death. He was a devout man, and an earnest worker in the cause of religion. He married, at Naples, Maine, in 1842, Elvira (see Wight VI), daughter of Jonathan and Mercy (Harmon) Wight, of .Naples, Maine. She was born April 16, 1807, died in Yarmouth, Maine, November 27, 1881. Mrs. McQuillan was a woman of noble character, a companion and helpmeet to her husband, and after his death did all in her power to keep her children together, and give them the best education her circumstances per mitted. Children : Rufus H., mentioned be low ; George F., mentioned below, and Liza A., born in Naples, Maine, unmarried, and lives in Portland, Maine. (Ill) Rufus H., eldest child of Rev. Hugh McL. and Elvira (Wight) McQuillan, was born in Naples, Maine, November 18, 1844, died April 23, 1896. May 2.], 1862, at the age of seventeen years, he enlisted in Company G, First Regiment, United States Infantry, and took part in the second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, South Mountain, and the first bat tle of Fredericksburg, and was present at the siege of Vicksburg from May 19 till its surren der, July 4, 1863. During the year preceding his discharge on May 24, 1865, he was orderly to the general commanding at New Orleans. On leaving the army he engaged in the lumber business, and at different times had charge of various lumber mills in the west. In 1873 he returned to Maine, and in 1880 located in Yarmouth, where he engaged in the lumber business and also carried on a large hardware store for a number of years. In pohtics he was a Republican, and as such took an active interest in public affairs. He was deputy sher iff of Cumberland county, at Yarmouth, under Sheriff Benjamin True for two years. He had an abiding interest in Grand Army affairs, and was the first commander of W. L. Haskell Post, No. 108, at Yarmouth. In business he was a man of the strictest integrity, and in civil and social affairs was one of the best kno-w^n and highly esteemed citizens of Yar mouth. He married, March 17, 1874, Alma B. Sawyer, in Raymond, Maine, who survives him. Children : Hugh Dean, George H. and Leroy Rufus. George H. died May 14, 1903. (HI) George F., second child of Rev. Hugh McL. and Elvira (Wight) McQuillan, was born in Naples, Aprd 18, 1849. He passed his boyhood days in Raymond, where he attended the common schools, and fitted for college at North Bridgton Academy and Gorham Semi nary. In 1870 he entered Bowdoin College, 34 STATE OF MAINE. from which he graduated in 1875. In 1868 he began to teach school, and partly with the money thus earned and partly with funds sup plied by his mother, he paid his way while at Bowdoin. He took an interest in certain kinds of athletics, and was a member of Bowdoin's boating crew one year. After completing his college course he continued to teach, and for two years he was employed in high schools in the northern part of Cumberland county. In 1877 he began the study of law with Hon. Bion Bradbury in Portland, Maine, which he con tinued until his admission to the bar, October 14, 1879. He opened an office in Casco, Maine, where he practiced one year, during which time he served as town clerk and supervisor of schools. In October, 1880, he removed to Portland, and entered upon his career as a practitioner of law, in which he has achieved much success, his practice being in the local courts. He is a member of the supreme judi cial court of Maine and of the district, cir cuit, and supreme courts of the United States. Flis practice has included the ordinary class of commercial litigation, and in addition to that he has been attorney and counsellor for vari ous towns in Cumberland county. He is well known as an able, reliable and successful law yer. From December i, 1892, until May 28, 1894, he was a partner in the law with Colonel Albert W. Bradbury, the firm being Bradbury & McQuillan. On the last mentioned date this partnership was dissolved. Colonel Bradbury becoming United States district at torney. Since then Mr. McQuillan has prac ticed alone. In political sentiment Mr. Mc Quillan is a Democrat, and is one of the trusted leaders of his party. June 6, 1881, he was appointed judge advocate general with the rank of Colonel, on the staff of Governor Plaisted, and served as such until January 3, 1883. In 1882, 1886 and in 1890, he was a candidate for clerk of the courts of Cumber land county ; and in 1892 and 1896 he was can didate for judge of probate; and in each case received the full support of his party in the canvass and at the polls; but the Democratic party being in a minority, he was defeated. Colonel McQuillan is fond of the company of his books, which make a goodly library, and takes that interest in education and literature that every liberally educated man should take. He married, February 5, 1891, Mary Fred erica, daughter of Governor Frederic and Mary O. (Priest) Robie. (See Robie.) They have one child, Harriet R., bom March 14, 1894. (For flrst generation .see Thomas Wight I.) (II) Henry, eldest child of Dea- WIGHT con Thomas and Alice or Elsie Wight, settled with his parents in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1637. In the Dedham records he was called Sergeant Henry Wight. He became a member of the church August 14, 1646. He continued to reside in Dedham after his father and family had re moved to Medfield. In 1653 he was appointed to a town office in Dedham, and in 1658 he \^ as appointed constable by the general court. In 1661 he was elected selectman and held that office ten years, between that time and the time of his death, F"ebrtiary 27, 1680. In 1665 the town granted him one hundred an.l twenty acres of land, which was an unusually large gift ; but the record gives no explanation as to why it was done. February 24, 1673, Henry VVight was one of the three citizens of Dedham appointed to lay out a house lot for Rev. Samuel Mann at Wrentham, and to take care about the church lot there. He was appointed one of the executors of his father's will, by the provisions of which he received all his father's "houses and lands lying and being in Dedham." This devise included the original grant of twelve acres from the town to Thomas Wight. He died intestate, and his estate was administered by his widow and his son Joseph. His inventory amounted to £524, IS. He married Jane Goodenow, of Sud bury, about 1652. She joined the church June 12, 1653, and died in Dedham, May 16, 1684. The inventory of her estate footed £462, 8s. 3d. The children of Henry and Jane were : John, Joseph, Daniel, Benjamin and Jonathan, whose sketch follows. (Ill) Jonathan, youngest of the five sons of Henry and Jane (Goodenow) Wight, was born in Dedham, July 2, 1662, and baptized July 13, 1662. He removed to Wrentham, where he died intestate, March 20, 1719. He was married August 19, 1687, to Elizabeth Hawes. of Wrentham. She married (second) February 20, 1722, Samuel BuUard, of Ded ham. She was living at extreme old age April 2, 1764, seventy-seven years after her first marriage, as is shown by her signature to a deed of release of all her dower interest in the landed property belonging to her first husband. The children of Jonathan and Elizabeth were : Jeane, Elizabeth, Mehetabel, Marah, Jona than and Sarah. (IV) Jonathan (2), fifth child and only son of Jonathan (i) and Elizabeth (Hawes) Wight, was born in Wrentham, January 6, STATE OF MAINE. 35 1700, and died there March 26, 1773. He is called yeoman in a conveyance of land in 1764. His will was made March 11, 1773, and pro bated April 9 of the same year. Fle married, in Wrentham, February 13, 1721, Jemima" Whiting, who died June 24, 1754. He mar ried (second) December 5, 1754, widow Jeru sha George. Her will was made May 22, 1792, and was probated February 5, 1793. The children of Jonathan and Jemima were : Jonathan, Jemima, Benjamin, Joseph, Eli phalet, Elizabeth, Susanna, Timothy, Zubiah and Oliver. Those of Jonathan and Jerusha were : Jerusha and Matilda. (V) Joseph, fourth child and third son of Jonathan (2) and Jemima (Whiting) Wight, was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, De cember 29, 1729, and died in Otisfield, Maine, October 20, 1804. In 1871 he prospected at New Marblehead (Windham), Maine, where long before his remote cousin. Rev. John Wight, had settled. His movements from 1781 to the fall of 1783 are variously reported. In November, 1783, he removed with all of his family, except his son James, from Wrentham, Massachusetts, to Otisfield, Maine, where he settled on "a beautiful ridge of land near the center of the town," a portion of which is still owned by his posterity. He was a farmer and part proprietor of a saw mill upon Saturday pond in Otisfield ; and besides attending to farming and milling, he was handy in various mechanical pursuits, as the entries in his ac count book between 1785 and 1794 show. His family were an uncommonly hardy and ath letic race ; all were well educated for the times, and became well off financially. Joseph Wight married (first) in Wrentham, September 22, 1755, Abigail Farrington, of the same place, -who died August 25, 1758, aged twenty-one. He married (second) July 9, 1763, in Wrentham, Abigail Ware, born December 15, 1740, died March 29, 1799, in Otisfield. He had by the first wife two children: An in fant and Joseph ; and by the second wife seven children: Benjamin,, Abigail, James, Thomas, Nathan, Warren and Jonathan. (VI) Jonathan (3), youngest 'Child of Jo seph and Abigail (Ware) Wight, was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, September 7, 1783, died in Naples, Maine, March i, 1869. He removed in 1783 with his father, as above stated, to Otisfield, but after his marriage he bought a large estate in Naples, Maine, and resided there a long time. He married, in Otisfield, July 6, 1805, Mercy, born December 10, 1788, died February 13, 1861, daughter of Edward and Mary (Plaisted) Harmon, of Alfred, Maine. Children : Elvira, Hermon, Priscilla Loud, Abigail Ware, Edward, Tabor, Olive, David Ray, Joseph, Nathan, Mary and Addison. (VII) Elvira, eldest chdd of Jonathan and Mercy (Harmon) Wight, was born in Otis field, April 16, 1807, and married, at Naples, in 1842, Rev. Hugh McL. McQuiUan, of Windham, Maine. (See McQudlan.) It is often pleasant for a quiet New HILL England village to claim by birth right the name of one who has gained the notice and esteem of the public by his wisdom and judgment in public life and affairs. The attractive town of Eliot, on the rim of the beautiful and historic Piscataqua, has had several public characters who have given honor to this locality, which was their birthplace and boyhood home. Among them is the recent governor of Maine, the Hon. John Fremont Hill, M. D. And not only his public official life, and his energetic business career has established his name, but a very pleasant family genealogy precedes him. The name Hill begins even at the Plymouth Colony, shortly after the feet pressed Plym outh Rock. From the famed Plymouth Col ony (1630) the name was familiar in Boston, and in 1639 was known in Dover, New Hamp shire, now the city not far from the Eliot of Maine. It was the second John Hill, perhaps, who was in Dover in 1639, and in 1653, whose de scendants were known both in Dover and in Kittery, now Eliot. Joseph Hill, of the third generation, was in Dover ; a man of strength of character ; he was constable and collector of public funds. Samuel Hill, of the fourth generation, be came a citizen of Eliot. He was the eldest son of Joseph Hill. Samuel's name is his toric ; he became a member of the Society of Friends, and the Friends of that section of Eliot became renowned and left a most inter esting chapter of village story and history. Samuel (4) possessed land on the upper side of Cammocks creek, in Eliot. He married, December 23, 1721, Hannah Allen, daughter of Francis and Hannah (Jenkins) Allen, of Kittery; the names of seven children are on record : Joseph, Isaac, Simeon, Miriam, Ruth, Huldah, Jerusha. Isaac, son of Samuel and Hannah (Allen) Hill, also resided in Eliot. He married (first) Lydia, daughter of Joseph Roberts, of Dover ; she died September 17, 1769. Married (sec ond) March 24. 1773, Elisabeth Estes, of 36 STATE OF MAINE. Dover, daughter of Elijah and Sarah (Hodg don) Estes. She died October lo, 1784. Mar ried (third) March 24, 1786, Widow Lucy Hill. His children were : Samuel, Simeon, Abner, Stephen, Lydia, Hannah. (The third wife was the mother of Lydia and Hannah.) Samuel, eldest child of Isaac and Elisa beth (Estes) Hill, was born April 13, 1777, died in Eliot in 1865. He inherited his fath er's estate in Eliot and passed his life there; an honest farmer, and a much respected citi zen. His kindly face, pleasant voice and man ner are still remembered. He married, at Salem, the historic city in Massachusetts, by the Rev. Mr. Spaulding, April 28, 1799, Elisa beth Rawson. She was the daughter of John and Elisabeth (Bruce) Rawson; she was born February 7, 1776. Their children were: Joseph, Eliza, John, Stephen, Mary, Samuel, Elisabeth, Asa A., Ira, Martha Estes and William, whose sketch follows. William Hill, youngest child of Samuel and Elisabeth (Rawson) Hill, was born on the ancestral acres in Eliot, February 4, 1821, and died there, November 27, 1902, aged eighty- one years. He was a man of wealth, a person of sterling integrity, good judgment, execu tive ability and generously endowed with com mon sense. Though qualified to fill a high station in business or public life, he chose to follow in the beaten path his ancestors trod ; and was a successful and highly regarded far mer. He married, November 27, 1849, Miriam Leighton, born May 7, 1819, died No vember 9, 1876. She was the daughter of An drew P. and Sarah C. (Odiome) Leighton, \ of Kittery. Married (second) Jennie Brooks. The children of William and Miriam Hill were : Ella Bruce, John Fremont, Lizzie Rawson and Howard. Ella Bruce, born Sep tember 19, 1850, married, November 29, 1877, Homer Hobbs, of Berwick. Lizzie Rawson, born March 23, 1857, married, December 18, 1883, William L. Hobbs, of Dover. The Hon. John Fremont, M. D., second child of William and Miriam (Leighton) Hill, was born on the homestead of his ancestors in Eliot, October 29, 1855. Fle acquired his literary education in the public schools of Eliot, and in the Eliot and South Berwick academies. In 1874 he matriculated in the medical department of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, from which he graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1877. Subsequently he took a post-graduate course at Long Island Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. In 1877 he began the practice of his profession at Boothbay Har bor. Fle remained a year, then went to Au gusta, where after six months' practice he decided in 1879 to enter a more active busi ness hfe, and joined Peleg O. Vickery, of Augusta, in the publication of periodicals. In a short time he became junior partner in the firm of Vickery & Hill, one of the most suc cessful enterprises of its kind. In 1900 a sub stantial fireproof building with all modern im provements was erected in Augusta, to accom modate the large and constantly increasing business of the firm, now incorporated as the Vickery & Hill Publishing Company. Gov ernor Hill's fine executive ability and success in business led to his becoming an extensive owner and a leading organizer of electric railroad lines in Maine. From boyhood he entertained an abiding interest in politics, and early in life became an active participant in the councils and campaigns of the Republican party. In 1889 he was elected to represent Augusta in the legislature, and served on the committees on banks and banking, railroads, telegraphs and expresses. In 1891 he was re elected, and served as chairman of the com mittee on railroads. In August, 1892, he was nominated by acclamation for senator from Kennebec county, was elected and re-elected, and served in the legislature during the ses sions of 1893-95, in that capacity, being chair man of the railroad committee each term. In 1896 he was a presidential elector and in 1899 and 1900 a member of Governor Powers' council. In the latter year he was nominated for governor of Maine, and at the September election following he was elected by one of the largest majorities ever given in the state. The able and business-like address which he deliv ered at his inauguration the following January foreshadowed an administration in which the duties of the office would be discharged in a proper manner, and the close of his term showed that the people of the state had made no mistake in placing him in the gubernatorial office. The large floating debt incurred during the Spanish-American war was extinguished, and all the financial affairs of the state re ceived due attention and were in excellent con dition at the close of his term of office. In 1902 Dr. Hill was a candidate for re-election to the governorship, and his election by one of the largest votes ever cast in an off year was a satisfactory and significant indorsement of his course as an officer. His second term was a period of prosperity in the state, and when he finally vacated the governor's chair he re tired with the approval of his administration by a prosperous and contented people. Dur ing his terms of service as the state's chief ^8,^ ^c^^ STATE OF MAINE. 37 executive. Governor Hill and family resided in the Mansion on State street, in Augusta, which was for many years the home of Hon. James G. Blaine. In 1902 he built, a short distance away, on the same street, in the center of the residential portion of the city, a palatial home of St. Louis brick, with trimmings of Maine granite, which with its artistic furnishings and decorations is one of the finest residences in New England. Governor Hill is a Uni versalist in' religious faith and cotitributes generously to the support of the organization of which he is a member and also to other similar organizations. He has always felt a deep regard for his native town, and to his encouragement and financial assistance the preparation and publication of its history in 1893 is largely due. He is a member of vari ous patriotic and fraternal organizations and of several clubs, among which are : The Maine Historical Society ; the Society of May flower Descendants ; the Society of Colonial Wars; the Pepperell Society (composed of de scendants of Sir William Pepperell) ; the Abnaki Club of Augusta, Maine ; the St. Louis Club and the St. Louis Country Club of St. Louis, Missouri; Augusta Lodge, No. 141, Free and Accepted Masons ; Cushnoc Chap ter, Royal Arch Masons ; Trinity Command ery; Knights Templar; and Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine. Dr. John Fremont Hill married (first) May 19, 1880, Lizzie G. Vickery, who died April 10, 1893. She was the daughter of Hon. Peleg O. Vickery, of Augusta. He married (second) in St. Louis, April 25, 1897, Mrs. Laura Liggett, widow of Hiram S. Liggett, and daughter of Hon. Norman J. Colman, of St. Louis, who was secretary of agriculture in the first cabinet of President Cleveland. A son, Percy, was born of the first marriage, March 16, 1881, and a daughter by the second marriage, Katharine, born December 23, 1904. The ancestry of one of the most REED distinguished men Maine ever pro duced has not been traced far back. The earliest ancestor of Hon. Thomas B. Reed on the paternal side was (I) Joseph Reed, who resided on Peak's Island in Portland Harbor, where he died April I, 1852. He married, November 10, 1796, Mary Brackett (see Brackett VI), bap tized June 9, 1776, died November 13, i860, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Hall) Brack ett. Their children, born on Peak's Island, were: Mary Ehzabeth, and Thomas B., next mentioned. (II) Thomas Brackett, youngest child of Joseph and Mary (Brackett) Reed, was born on Peak's Island, August 24, 1803, and died in Portland, 1883. He married, in 1838, Matilda R. Mitchell. Children: Thomas B., men tioned below. Harriet E. S., born June, 1846, married Elisha W. Conley, manager of the Standard Oil Works, Portland. (Ill) Thomas Brackett (2), only son of Thomas Brackett (i) and Matilda R. (Mitchell) Reed, was born October 13, 1839, in a house on Hancock street, Portland, near the house where the poet Longfellow first saw the light. He attended the public schools where he prepared for college, and in 1856 en tered Bowdoin College. In his class were many students who afterward attained dis tinction. From Portland were Joseph W. Symonds, now one of the foremost lawyer? in the state, Wilham W. Thomas, now minister to Sweden, Colonel Albert W. Bradbury, John Marshall Brown, Nicholas E. Boyd and Sam uel S. Boyd. Other well known members of the class were Hon. Amos L. Allen, since rep resentative in the national legislature, Horace H. Burbank, of Saco, Abner H. Davis, and John E. Appleton, of Bangor. While he, in a measure, pursued his studies to suit himself and did not follow closely the college curricu lum, he was still at graduation among the very first in his class for the scholarship required. At commencement he delivered an oration, and the subject he chose was the "Fear of Death," and his method of treating it made a profound impression on his hearers. A classmate said of him : "It is safe to say that no young man ever departed from Bo-wdoin College leaving behind him a stronger impression of intel lectual capacity, of power reserved and hith erto unused, of ability to act a high and noble part in public life or a more universal expecta tion among teachers and classmates of great and brilliant service in the future. His old teachers at Bowdoin if they were still living would look with no surprise upon the achieve ments of his life, great and splendid as they have been." After leaving college he taught for something more than a year, being a part of that time an assistant in the Portland high school. During this time he was studying law in the office of Howard & Strout in Portland. Later he went to California, where he was ad mitted to the bar, but he soon returned to Portland. In April, 1864, he was appointed assistant paymaster in the United States navy, and attached to the "tinclad" "Sibyl," -whose commander subsequently performed the re markable task of bringing the obelisk "Cleo- 38 STATE OF MAINE. patra's Needle" from Egypt to New York City. Leaving the navy, he returned to Portland and was admitted to the bar. He rose rapidly in his profession and soon became conspicuous in his profession. His political career began in 1867, when he was elected to the Maine house of representa tives from Portland. He served on the ju diciary committee and it was largely due to his efforts that the superior court was established in Cumberland county. After serving two terms in the house he was elected to the sen ate from Cumberland county. Before his term expired he was chosen attorney general, his competitors being Harris M. Plaisted and Ed win B. Smith, both men of distinction. He was then but thirty years old, the youngest man who had held this office in Maine. Mr. Reed filled this office three years and during that time he tried many important cases. On his recommendation as attorney general the law was so changed that a wife could testify against her husband. At the end of his term of service as attorney general Mr. Reed be came city solicitor of Portland and served four years ; many important cases effecting the city's interests arose during this period. At one time Mr. Reed was associated with Manasseh Smith in the practice of law and subsequently for a time with Hon. Clarence Hale, afterwards judge of the United States district court. In 1876 Mr. Reed became a candidate for the Republican nomination to congress against Congressman John H. Bur leigh, and this marked his entry into national pohtics. The contest was a memorable one, but Mr. Reed received the nomination by a small margin and was elected by a plurality of about a thousand over his opponent, John M. Goodwin, the Democratic candidate. Un til he resigned in 1899, Mr, Reed was nomi nated by acclamation for every successive congress and elected. Mr. Blaine alone ever had so long a career in the house of repre sentatives from Maine. The house in which Mr. Reed first took his seat was Democratic and he received the treatment usually accorded new members, by being appointed on the com mittee on territories. He made his first speech in congress April 12, 1878, and its clearness and cogency gave him a high stand ing in the house. Another opportunity to demonstrate his acumen and effectiveness came when as a member of the Potter committee he took a part in the investigation of the election of 1876, during which proceeding he ex amined many distinguished witnesses. This made him known throughout the country. Four years later Mr. Reed was chairman of the judiciary committee, a position of honor and influence. The following three con gresses were Democratic and Mr. Reed had no conspicuous part except as a debater. Grad ually he worked himself up to be the recog nized leader of the Republicans on the floor. The distinction came to him simply through merit. He became the leader of the minority, because his party generally recognized that he was the man best fitted for the place. He had plenty of courage, was ready and effective in debate and thoroughly versed in the rules of the house and parliamentary practice in gen eral to which he had given special attention. Mr. Reed's leadership excited no jealousies simply for the reason that all felt he had it by right. He had not thrust himself forward, he resorted to no arts to gain it, he simply dem onstrated his capacity to lead and his party did the rest. In the forty-ninth congress his leadership was formally acknowledged by his party by conferring upon him the nomination for speaker. In the fiftieth congress he also received that honor. In 1888 Harrison was elected president and the fifty-first congress was Republican. Reed, McKinley and Can non were candidates for speaker and Reed was made the candidate of his party on the first ballot, and subsequently chosen speaker of the house. It was as speaker of the house that Mr. Reed did the act that will always be re membered as the most conspicuous one in his career. While the constitution was silent on the point it had been the practice from the foundation of the government not to count members present unless they answered to their names. The result was that frequently while there was a quorum of members actually pres ent in the house business was paralyzed be cause they would not answer to their names. There is no doubt that Mr. Reed formed a purpose to count a quorum long before the house met, and this purpose he carried out with calmness and deliberation. He first counted a quorum before the house had adopted any rules, acting under the sanction of general parliamentary law. When the house adopted its rules, one empowering the speaker to count a quorum was included and the practice was forever established that a member present is to be recognized as present for quorum purposes just as much as if he had answered to his name when it was called. There was a great clamor, and the speaker was charged with subverting, for partisan advan tage, the very foundation of the government. The matter was taken to the supreme court STATE OF MAINE. 39 which sustained the legality of Mr. Reed's pro cedure, .and what was pronounced revolution ary and subversive of the rights of the people is now acknowledged by all parties as a cor rect and sensible rule of procedure. The justice of Mr. Reed's rules became apparent at the very next congress, which was Demo cratic and adopted them in substance and ever since they have been the rules of the house of representatives. Mr. Reed's act, which now seems but a simple thing, was one that none but a man of iron will and courage that quailed at nothing could have done. The enactment of the McKinley tariff bill was the most im portant piece of legislation of the fifty-first congress and one of its effects was to tem porarily raise the prices of certain articles. This proved exceedingly disastrous to the Re publicans and the next congress was over whelmingly Democratic. In that congress Mr. Reed became the leader of the Republicans on the floor. He contrived to hold this position during the next congress which was also Dem ocratic, and he led the onslaught against the Wilson tariff bill which precipitated one of the most interesting and important tariff de bates in the history of congress. One of Mr. Reed's longest and most convincing speeches was made during this debate. In it he de fended the principle of the protective tariff and pointed out in a most effective way the danger and folly of abandoning the home mar ket and going in search of questionable foreign markets. The bill was passed and it brought to the Democrats the same kind of disaster the McKinley bill had brought to the Republicans. The congress which was elected following the passage of this bill in the midst of Mr. Cleve land's term was overwhelmingly Republican and Mr. Reed was again elected speaker by ac clamation. In 1896 Mr. Reed was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president and had much strength in the east, but the west was overwhelmingly for McKinley, who was nom inated. Mr. Reed's name was presented be fore the convention by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, and the Hon. Charles E. Littlefield, of Maine, made their seconding speech. It was said at the time that if Mr. Reed had made certain promises con cerning his cabinet appointments he might have had a much stronger following, but he absolutely refused to commit himself, prefer ring to lose the prize rather than to tie him self up with pledges in advance. Mr. Reed was elected to congress as usual in the fall and became speaker again by acclamation. The election of Mr. McKinley to the presidency made a vacancy in the chairmanship of the ways and means committee and to that va cancy Mr. Reed appointed Mr. Dingley of this state, an appointment which aroused no jeal ousies because of the conspicuous fitness of Mr. Dingley, though its effect was to give to Maine greater prominence in the house thai any other state in the Union enjoyed. The important legislation of this congress was the Dingley tariff bill which continues to be the law of the land. When the war with Spain was threatening, Mr. Reed was in the speak er's chair and used all his influence to avert it. But the blowing up of the Maine had so ex cited the public mind that a collision between Spain and the United States was inevitable, and all his efforts and those of the president and other conservative men of the government were unavailing. The war was fought to a successful conclusion. Mr. Reed had always opposed the acquisition of foreign territory. As speaker he had his name called in order to vote against the annexation of the Sandwich Islands. The annexation of the Philippines and Porto Rico was exceedingly distasteful to him and he regarded it as a proceeding fraught with danger to the future welfare of the country. His influence and his vote were always against it. Mr. Reed's career in con gress ended with the expiration of the fifty- fifth congress. In the fifty-first congress the Democrats had refused to vote him the usual resolution of thanks, but when the fifty-fifth congress expired Mr. Bailey, the Democratic leader, presented the following resolution, which was passed amid the greatest enthusi asm: "Resolved, That the thanks of the House are presented to Hon. Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House, for the able, impartial and dignified manner in which he has presided over its deliberations and performed the ardu ous duties of the chairmanship during the present term of Congress." The feeling engendered by the acrimonious debates of the fifty-first congress had passed away and all united in paying a deserved tri bute to the speaker. Mr. Reed was elected to the fifty-sixth congress, but resigned without taking his seat. For many years he had cher ished the purpose to retire from congress and practice law in New York, moved thereto largely by family considerations, but there had never come a time when he could do so with out seriously embarrassing his party. But the time had now arrived, where his work being done, and being no longer in sympathy with the policy of his party in relation to the for- 40 STATE OF MAINE. eign possessions, he saw a chance to carry out his long cherished plan of retiring to private life, and accordingly after consultation with his friends, on the twenty-second of August, he addressed to the governor a letter of resig nation. The campaign for the nomination of his successor was underway when Mr. Reed left Portland for his new home in New York. Saturday, September i6, before leaving the city, he addressed the following to the Re publicans of his district: "To the Republicans of the First Maine Dis trict : "While I am naturally reluctant to obtrude myself again upon public attention even here at home; I am sure no one would expect me to leave the First Maine District after so long a service without some words expressing to you my appreciation of your friendship and my gratitude for your generous treatment. Words alone are quite inadequate and I must appeal to your memories. During three and twenty years of political life, not always peaceful, you have never questioned a single public act of mine. Other men have had to look after their districts, my district has looked after me. This in the place where I was born, where you know my shortcomings as well as I do myself, gives me a right to be proud of my relations with you. No honors are ever quite like those which come from home. It would not be just for me to withhold my thanks from those Democrats who have so often given me their votes. This friendship I can acknowledge with all propriety even in a letter to the Republicans, for both they and you know that I have never trimmed a sail to catch the passing breeze or even flown a doubtful flag. Office as a 'ribbon to stick in your coat,' is worth nobody's consideration. That opportunity you have given me untram melled in the fullest and amplest measure and I return you sincere thanks. If I have de served any praise it belongs of right to you. Whatever may happen I am sure that the First Maine District will always be true to the prin ciples of liberty, self-government and the rights of man. Thomas B. Reed. "Portland, September i6, 1899." In New York Mr. Reed became the head of the law firm of Reed, Simpson, Thatcher & Barnum, and he resided in that city engaged in the practice of law until his death, December 7, 1902. Mr. Reed always had a great fond ness for literature, and in the midst of his political duties he found time to gratify his tastes in this direction. He was a frequent contributor to several magazines. He was also the author of a work on parliamentary law known as Reed's Rules. He was a popular after-dinner speaker and was much sought for, though he rather avoided taking part in those occasions. As a platform orator his speech was noted for its clearness and adaptability to the common understanding. He rarely shot over the heads of his audience and his humor was very taking. His convictions were strong and held with great tenacity and no one ever questioned his honesty of purpose or his thor ough sincerity. He had httle famiharity and skill in the arts of the politician, but his suc cesses all came from the strength of his in tellect and character. No one ever thought of contesting the nomination in the first district with him, and it is safe to say that he could have remained in congress up to the day of his death had he so desired. Though he had been out of public life for three years he con tinued to be one of the most conspicuous figures in the country and his words whether spoken or written always commanded the attention of his countrymen. Mr. Reed went to Washington, D. C, to attend to some matters in the United States supreme court and while there suffered from uraemic poisoning which ended his life at the Arlington Hotel a week later. He was buried in the cemetery in Portland, Maine. Thomas B. Reed married, February 5, 1870, Susan Prentice, born in New Hampshire, daughter of Rev. Samuel H. and Hannah P. (Prentice) Merrih, of Portland (see Mer rill). Of their three children the only one now surviving is Katharine, born in Portland, January 23, 1875, married, June 24, 1905, Cap tain Arthur T. Balantine, of the United States army. . The Bracketts of Portland BRACKETT descended from very an cient ancestry in New Hampshire and from forbears who settled in Portland, Maine, while it was still known as Casco. Nearly all persons named Brackett who reside in either Maine or New Hamp shire, and persons residing elsewhere whose forefathers of that name lived in either of these states, descended from the immigrant, Anthony Brackett, of Portsmouth. (I) Anthony Brackett, who tradition states was a Scotchman, is supposed to have come to Little Harbor, near the mouth of the Pis cataqua river, with the Scotchman, David Thompson, as early as 1623. His residence before 1649 is supposed to have been in the vicinity of Little Harbor and the "Piscatawa" house, on what is now called Odiorne's Point. STATE OF MAINE. 41 From 1649 until his death he is known to have lived a mile or so south of the harbor, west of Sandy beach, on or near the stream. Salt water brook, and on Brackett lane, now Brack ett road. In the year 1649 at a meeting of the selectmen, held August 13, it was voted "by common consent" to grant a lot of land to "Anthony Brakit," lying between the lands of Robert Pudington and Wihiam Berry "at the head of the Sandy Beach Fresh Reiver at the Western branch thereof." At a meeting of the inhabhants of the town held January 13, 1652, a grant of thirty acres was voted to "Anthony Brackite." March 4th following, at a town meeting, the selectmen were directed "at the next fit time" to lay out the land unto the peo ple at Sandy Beach, vid. unto William Berry, Anthony Brackit, Thomas Sevy, Francis Rand and James Johnson; March 17, 1653, a grant was made of land near Sandy beach by the people to various citizens, among whom was Anthony Brackett, "upland thirty ackers ad- jounge unto his hous and of Meadow 20 ackers more." March 20, 1656, he was granted "50 acres more land than his former grant to join with his hous and to lye in such form as it may close to his hous so that it be not in any Man's former grant." February 3, 1660, 100 acres was granted to him as the head of a family "who had come to dwell in the town." In all he was granted over two hundred acres of land. March 31, 1650, he deeded land and buildings at Strawberry Bank (Portsmouth) to William Cotton. Perhaps he had lived there before 1650. September 19, 1678, he bought land at "Sandie Beach from Henry Sher burne." Anthony Brackett was a member of the Episcopal church, and was one of the sign ers of a deed of a glebe of fifty acres to the church in 1640. He has usually been desig nated as "Anthony the Selectman." March 8, 1655, he was one of the selectmen for the en suing year. In July following he signed a warrant for collection of a ta.x to pay the sal ary of the local minister and made his mark "A." Some years later he was again chosen selectman. His name is on the e.xtant lists of those taxed to pay the minister's salary 1677- 88; the tax, eighteen shillings, which he was assessed for the year 1688, is considerable in excess of the average amount of tax paid by his townsmen for the same purpose. In 1666 he subscribed one pound ten shillings toward the support of the minister. He was one of sixty-one settlers who signed a petition in 1665 when the king's commissioners came to settle certain causes of complaint in the col onies. On this petition he writes his name. and does not make his mark, as in the former case mentioned. The settlers of New Hamp shire were not involved in any way with the Indians before 1675. During King Philip's war, which began that year, the resident tribes of New Hampshire remained on peaceful terms with their white neighbors, but the set tlements in Maine were all destroyed, and their inhabitants killed, driven away or carried captive to Canada. Thomas Brackett, son of Anthony, who lived at Falmouth (Portland) Maine, was killed in August, 1676. His chil dren were redeemed from captivity by their grandfather, with whom three of them resided for several years. In 1691 the depredations of the Indians, which had begun two or three years before in Maine, reached the settlement »at Sandy Beach. On Tuesday, September 28, 1691, a band of Indians descended on that place and killed twenty-one persons, among whom were Anthony Brackett and his wife, and captured two children of his son John Brackett. The headstones at the graves of Anthony and his wife are still to be seen on a little knoll in Rye near Saltwater brook. Sep tember II, 1691, only seventeen days before his death, Anthony Brackett made his will. He disposed of but little real estate by this in strument, as on July 20, 1686, he had deeded his farm and buildings at Sandy beach to his son John. Anthony Brackett married, about 1635, and the records show that he was the head of a family in 1640. His children were : Anthony, Elinor, Thomas, Jane and John. (II) Thomas, second son of Anthony Brackett, was probably born at Sandy beach, then a part of Strawberry Bank (Ports mouth, New Hampshire), now a part of the town of Rye, about 1635 or earlier. Soon after 1662 he removed to Casco (Port land), Maine. Little is known of him before his marriage, after which event he became prominent in the town, and was one of the selectmen in 1672. Flis mother-in-law lived with him in 1671, during which year he agreed to maintain her and in consideration received from her a deed of land. This land was situ ated on the southerly side of the upper part of the Neck, and had been occupied by Michael Milton for several years. The house stood near where the Portland gas house now is. Thomas was a prosperous and leading citizen at the time of his death. While he was in office in 1672, his brother Anthony received a grant of four hundred acres of land. August II, 1676, Indians appeared at Casco and captured Captain Anthony Brackett and his family, and then divided, a part passing 4-' STATE OF MAINI-; around Back Cove, and a part upon the Neck. The first house in the course of the latter was that of Thonia.s Brackett, on the soutlu'rly side of the Neck. Between the houses of the two Bracketts was a virgin {(.ircst. The facts, se lected from the conflicting accounts of the events of that day, sccni to be that the In dians went along the northerly side of the Neck until they had passed the farm of Thomas Brackett. In their course tlie\' met John, the son of George Muiijoy, and tinother, Isaac Wakely, and shot them. Others who were with or near them fled down the Neck to give the alarm, and thereupon the Indians retreated in the direction of Thomas llrticketl's house. That morning three men were on their way to Anthony Brackctt's to harvest grain. They probabl\' rowed over the river from I'lu- poosuck Point and had left their canoe near Thomas Brackett's house. From that place they crossed the Neck toward Anthony's house, near enough to which they went to leant of the attack by the Indians on his family ; the three hastened on to the Neck, perhaps over the course covered by the Indians, to give the alarm. On their way they heard gtiiis fired "Whereby it seems two men (perhaps Munjo)' and Wakely) were killed." Thereupon the three fled in the direction of Thomas llrack- ett's house to reach their canoe. The Indians reached the farm nearly at the same time as did the men, who saw Thomas lirackett shot down while at work in his field. Two of the men succeeded in reaching their canoe ; the third, not so fleet of foot, hid in the m;irsh and witnessed the capture of Thomas l>rackett's wife and children. The three men escaped. Among the Indians who were concerned in killing of Thomas Brackett was Megunnaway, one of the braves of King Philip, who was taken and shot by the whites the following February. All of the residents on the Neck except Thomas Brackett's family, John Mun- joy and Isaac Wakely, succeeded in reaching Munjoy's garrison house, which stood on Munjoy's hill at the end of the Neck. From there they passed over to Bang's Island, then called Andrew's Island. In this attack the In dians killed, about Casco, eleven men and killed or captured twenty-three women and children. Thomas Brackett was about forty years old at the time of his death. His wife is said to have died during the first year of her ca])tivity. Their children, as previously stated, were r.-msonicd by their grandfather Brackett. Thomas Brackett married Mary, daughter of Michael Milton. Her mother, Elizaljcth Milton, was a daughter of George Clieeve, one of the most prominent and best known set tlers of I'asco. Children of Thomas and iMary (Milton) Brackett were: Joshua, Sarah, Sam uel (probably) and .Mary. (Ill) Lieutenant Joshua, 'eldest child of Thomas and Mary '(Milton) lirackett, was born in F'almmith, fornierly Cnsco, ikiw I'lirt- land. Flis father was killed by Indians and his mother died in caittiyity while he was still a child. .After his capture with his mother, brother and sisters, ,\ugust ii, 1(17(1, he re mained a prisoner until recleemed by his grand father, with whom he \i\cA some time after returning from Canada, "rmbably not until the close of the war did he reach his L;rand- father's lioiise at Sandy beach. His mother had passed away; all the iieisonal elTccls of his father had been destroyed; the farm and large tracts on the Neck alone remained to him, and when he arrived at an ;ige to he able to cultivate and improve them, war com menced with the Indians, which, but for a short interval of peace, lasted for twont\-fivc years. Front this condition of pri\atioii and destitution he rose to become one of the i-ich- est men in the province in his day." When the war of i()S8 betjan he went to Falmouth and joined his uncle, .\ntlioiiy I'iracketl. Fle was witli ,\tithony when he fell, and look part in the battle which followed the attack. Soon afterward he returned to .Sandy brach. .-X certificate of service dated /\])ril i, Ifn)/, shows that Joshua lirackett serveil .-is a soldier in the garrison ;il ()\stei- river (now Durham), New Flatn|)sliire, fotir weeks in idijd. At times during the w.iv commencing 1701 and ending in 1715, he was in the niilitai-\- serv ice as occasion demanded, and was chosen lieutenant of a military company. During twenty-eight of the first forty-five years of his life there was continuous \v:ir with the In dians. ( )f those slain wht-im he had to mourn were his father, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, Cajjlain Anthony lirackett, uncle, Na thaniel Milton; uncle, Lieutenant Th;iddeus Clark; ;m 1703. for her second husband. Rev. Thomas Blowers, second pastor of the church at Beverly. The children of Andrew and Emma Woodbury were : Joanna, Andrew and William. (4) Captain Andrew (2), second child and elder of the two sons of Andrew ( i ) and Emma (Elliot) Woodbury, was born Novem- ^2^^^s^-^^_^ .STATE OF MAINE. 97 ber 14, 1691, and died March 7, 1757. The house he built is still standing on Dane street, Beverly. He married, August 19, 1730, Jo anna Dodge, who was styled "Madame." She died March 23, 1805, aged ninety-two. He and four of their children died of yellow fever within the space of six months. The children of Captain Andrew and Joanna (Dodge) Woodbury were : Mary, Rebecca, Rachel, An drew, Joanna, Hannah, WiUiam, Anna and Joshua. (5) Wdliam (2), seventh chdd and second son of Captain Andrew (2) and Joanna (Dodge) Woodbury, was born February 19, 1750. Fle served in the revolution. He mar ried, February 2, 1772, Susanna Boyles, by whom he had .Andrew, Susanna, William, Larkin and Caleb. (6) Susanna, second child and only daugh ter of William and Susanna (Boyles) Wood bury, was born January 11, 1781, and died February 14, 1855, aged seventy-four years. She married Benjamin Cleaves, of Bridgton, Maine. (See Cleaves.) (VI) Thomas, son of Benjamin (2) Cleaves, was born in Bridgton, Maine, June 13, 1799, died there March 21, 1881, aged eighty-one years. He was a citizen whose character and attainments won the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens, and he occu pied many positions of public trust. He was a man of great influence, rare sagacity, excel lent judgment and of the strictest integrity. He was one of the men who, as a member of the historic legislature of 1851, placed upon the statute books the world famous "Maine Liquor Law." He married, December 27, 1827, Sophia Bradstreet (see Bradstreet), born in Bridgton, November 21, 1804, died September 16, 1882, aged seventy-seven years. This lovely woman's death was sudden but calm, a fitting ending of a long and noble life. They were both members of the First Congre gational Church of Bridgton, and intimately identified with the progress and history of Bridgton. She was the daughter of Daniel Bradstreet, of Bridgton. Children: i. Rob ert A.,^born July 16, 1832. 2. Nathan, Janu ary 9, 1835. 3. Thomas P., January 7, 1838. 4. Henry Bradstreet. 5. Mary Cleaves Mason. All are further mentioned hereinafter. (VII) Robert Andrews, eldest son of Thomas and Sophia (Bradstreet) Cleaves, was born in Bridgton, Maine, July 16, 1832. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and attended North Bridgton Academy. He has always resided in Bridg ton, and was for many years employed in mer cantile pursuits, being one of the prominent merchants of the town, and identified with Bridgton's growth and prosperity. He mar ried (first) Louisa C, daughter of Royal and Harriet Senter; (second) Hattie J., daughter of A. M. Nelson, of Bridgton; (third) Abbie E., daughter of John Dennett, of Bridgton, who died January g, 1888. Children of Rob ert A. and Abbie E. Cleaves : Carrie Walker Cleaves and Royal Senter Cleaves. (VII) Judge Nathan, second son of Thomas and Sophia (Bradstreet) Cleaves, was born in Bridgton, January g, 1835. He died at his residence in Portlanl, Maine, on Monday morning, September 5, i8g2. He fitted for college at the Portland Academy, and entered Bowdoin College in 1854, graduating in 1858. Selecting the law as his profession, he stud ied with Hon. Joseph Howard and Hon. Sew ell C. Strout, and was admitted to the bar in Cumberland county in 1861. He opened an office in Bowdoinham, Maine, and subse quently removed to Portland and formed a partnership with the late Flon. Joseph How ard, and later formed a law partnership with his brother, Hon. Flenry B. Cleaves. In 1865 he married Caroline, the daughter of Judge Howard. Mrs. Cleaves died in 1875. They had no children. He was many times honored with public office, being city solicitor of Portland in i86g; representative to the legislature in 1871 and in 1875 ; judge of the probate court from 1876 to 1880; and surveyor of the port of Portland for four years. He was connected with many- business enterprises and corporations, and a director in many of the banking and financial institutions of the state. He actively practiced law for a period of more than thirty years, and obtained prominence in the profession he loved. Memorial exercises were held by the Cumberland Bar Association before the Su preme Judicial Court, and the following ap propriate resolution was adopted and placed on the records of the Court : "Resolved, That the members of the Cum berland Bar have heard with a deep sense of personal grief and loss the news of the sud den illness and death of their distinguished associate member, Hon. Nathan Cleaves, at the very summit of his professional career; that his contemporaries at the Bar during their lives will cherish the memory of his unvarying courtesy, his dignity of professional bearing and demeanor, his pure life and character, his eminent legal attainments, his fine training and capacity in all matters pertaining to his pro fession, his exceptionally good forensic judg- 98 ST.-VTE OF .MAINE. ment, tact and skill and the rare and exceUent traits and qualities of his mind and heart; and, cherishing this memory of him ourselves, we write also this brief memorial of him, that they who come after us in the profession, to a late posterity, may remember him as one of the models and ornaments of his own times." (VII) Thomas Perley, third son of Thomas and Sophia (Bradstreet) Cleaves, was born in Bridgton, January 7, 1838. He was educated in the common and high schools of Bridgton and vicinit)-, and at Oxford Normal Institute, South Paris, Maine. Adopting the law as his profession, he entered the office of Flon. Ed ward Fox and Frederick F'ox, of Portland, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He opened an office in Brownfield, Maine, and early took high rank in his profession. He has held many positions of public trust. In 1862 Mr. Cleaves was elected assistant secretary of the senate of Maine, and, re-elected in 1863-64. In 1865 he was elected secretary of that body and continued in office by successive elections for five years. He was elected senator from Oxford county, serving two terms. Recogniz ing his ability and high standing, Hon. Lot M. Morrill, senator from Maine, selected him as chief clerk of the appropriation committee of the United States senate; and Mr. Cleaves and his family removed to Washington. Through al! the successive changes in the senate of the United States, he has continued to serve in this responsible position for nearly thirty-six years, and has been closely associated with the late Senator Allison, of Iowa, Senator Hale, of Maine, and other distinguished sen ators who have served on this important com mittee. He married Elizabeth A., daughter of Russell Lamson, of Bridgton. They have two sons : Charles Russell Cleaves and Frederick Henry Cleaves. (VII) Flenry Bradstreet, fourth and young est son of Thomas and Sophia (Bradstreet) Cleaves, was born in Bridgton, February 6, 1840. He attended the public schools, and' the North Bridgton and Lewiston Falls academies. He enlisted from the town of Bridgton as a private soldier in the civil war, served in the Department of the Gulf under General Banks, was with General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, and remained in active service under General Grant until the surrender of General Lee. During his service he was promoted to first lieutenant, and at the close of the war was offered a commission in the regular army by Secretary of War Stanton. He was admit ted to the bar in 1868, practiced in Bath one year, then removed to Portland, forming a law partnership with his brother, the late Judge Nathan Cleaves. He served two terms as a member of the legislature of Maine ; was elected city solicitor of Portland; served as attorney-general of Maine for five successive years ; and was elected governor of Maine in 1892, and re-elected by nearly forty thousand majority in 1894. At the close of his adminis tration as governor, both branches of the legis lature, irrespective of party, accorded to him the unusual distinction of passing public reso lutions in recognition of his distinguished ser vices to the state, and commending his "up right, honest and dignified administration,'' further declaring "Fie retires from tne hiyh office he has so ably and faithfully filled, witli the confidence, respect and affection of the whole people." Upon retiring from the office of governor he resumed the practice of his profession at Portland. He was at once re tained as counsel by many of the leading busi ness interests of the stale, and tried before the courts many important cases, being general counsel for the Maine Central Railroad Com pany, the Washington County and the Somer set Railways, associate counsel of the Boston & Maine Railroad and attorney for various other business and financial interests. The most notable case ever tried in the state, and one that excited much interest throughout the country, was the Chandler will case, in which Governor Cleaves appeared as senior counsel for the heirs. The American Board of Com missioners for Foreign Missions, under a will executed by the testator, claimed the entire estate, nearly a million dollars, while it was claimed in behalf of the heirs that they were entitled to one-half of the estate by a subse quent codicil of the testator, though it was executed while he was under guardianship. The contention of Governor Cleaves was sus tained by the supreme court of Maine, and the validity of the codicil upheld. Governor Cleaves is intimately con.iected with many of the great business interests of the state, being a director of the Maine Cen tral Railroad Company, Somerset Railway Company, Union Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, Portland National Bank, Union Safe De posit & Trust Company, Consolidated Elec tric Light Company, president and director of the Portland Publishing Company, Eastern Dredging Company and Leadville 'Water Com pany, and associated with other financial and business institutions. (VII) Mary Cleaves, youngest child of Thomas and Sophia (Bradstreet) Cleaves, was born in Bridgton, and enjoyed the superior ^i^J;^^^^^,.^-^ Jn*,^ Ha.loncal !',Ji.Co. STATE OF MAINE. 99 educational advantages of that town, which has been noted for its advanced position in the cause of education. She was a successful teacher in the schools of Bridgton for several years ; was a member of the First Congrega tional Church, and always took a deep interest and prominent part in the social and religious welfare of the community. She resided at Bridgton with her parents, until their decease, when she removed to Portland. She married WiUiam W. Mason, President of the Port land National Bank, son of the late Jeremiah M. Mason, of Limerick. Mrs. Mason is a person of rare intellectual gifts, nobleness of character, of engaging manner and endears herself to all. The line of Bradstreet BRADSTREET sketched below is de scended from one of the earliest recorded settlers of this name in New England, his landfall being in 1634. An earlier immigrant of this name was Simon, who came over in the fleet with Winthrop, 1630, and afterward won distinction as Gov ernor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. From those two are descended most of the New England Bradstreets. (I) Humphrey Bradstreet came from Ips wich, England, in the ship "Elizabeth," Wil liam Andrews, master, the last of April, 1634, bringing with him his wife Bridget and chil dren as follows : Hannah, aged nine ; John, aged three ; Martha, aged two ; and Mary, aged one year. At that time his age is given as forty years, and that of his wife as thirty years. He settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he received a considerable grant of land on the north side of Egypt river, his being the most northerly grant made by the town of Ipswich; the northerly boundary of this farm was the southerly boundary of the town of Rowley, settled in 1639, and in 1784 the farm for the convenience of its occupants was set off from Ipswich to Rowley. From the loca tion of this farm, after the Rowley settlement, the Bradstreets were associated almost wholly with RoVley, having their membership in the Rowley church, burying their dead in the Rowley cemetery, and training with the Row ley military company. In the following lists of children, where not otherwise stated, the births are from Ipswich records and the bap tism from the Rowley church record. Hum phrey Bradstreet was made a freeman May 6, 1635, and was a representative for Ipswich to the general court in the same year ; he died in the summer of 1655. His wiU, dated July 21, 1655, proved September 25, 1655, directs, among other things, that son Moses is to have the home farm after the decease of his mother ; son John is to have the farm at Muddy river. His wife Bridget Bradstreet died in Novem ber, 1665. Her will is dated October 16, 1665. The children of Humphrey and Bridget Brad street were: Hannah, John, Martha, Mary, Sarah, Rebecca and Moses, the subject of the next paragraph. (II) Captain Moses, youngest child of Humphrey and Bridget Bradstreet, was born in 1643. He was a man of substance and in fluence, and was a captain of the military com pany. His will, dated August 16, 1690, proved September 30, 1690, mentions a ship, his home farm, lands in Haverhih and other property of his. He married, March 11, 1662, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Bridget Harris of Row ley. After her death he married (second) Sarah, widow of Samuel Prime, of Rowley, and daughter of Samuel Platts. The dates cannot be found. Samuel Prime died March 18, 1684. She died before 1697, Moses Brad- street's gravestone, the oldest in Rowley bury ing ground, bears the following inscription : HERE LYS WHAT WAS MORTAL OF ye WORTHY CAP. MOSES BRAD STREET DESEASED AUGUST ye 17, 1690, & IN ye 47th YEAR OF HIS AGE. FRIENDS & RELATIVES YOU MIGHT BEHOLD A LAMB OF GOD FITT FOR THE FOLD The children of Moses Bradstreet were : John, Moses, Elizabeth, Humphrey, Na thaniel, Hannah, Samuel (died young), Bridget, Aaron, Samuel (died young) and Jonathan. (Ill) Moses (2), son of Captain Moses (i) and Elizabeth (Flarris) Bradstreet, was born October 17, 1665 ; and died December 20, 1757. He succeeded to one-half the an cestral homestead and all the buildings there on, and was a farmer. His wiU, dated De cember 19, 1737, proved January 9, 1738, pro vides, among other things that his son Na thaniel shall have the homestead. He mar ried (first), July 19, 1686, Hannah, daugh ter of John and Jane (Crosby) Pickard, of Rowley. She was born in Rowley, and died January 3, 1737, aged sixty-seven years. He married (second), October 20, 1737, Dorothy (Sewall) Northend, widow of Ezekiel North- end, of Rowley. She died June 17, 1752. The 100 STATE OF MAINE. children of Moses and Hannah (Pickard) Bradstreet were : Elizabeth, Hannah, Bridget, Moses, John, Nathaniel (died young), Na thaniel and Jane. (IV) Lieutenant Nathaniel, seventh child and youngest son of Moses (2) and Hannah (Pickard) Bradstreet, was baptized Novem ber 18, 1705, and died December 2, 1752. He had the farm his father left, and also acquired other lands. His will was dated November 30, 1752, and proved December 25, 1752. It provides that wife Hannah shall have "that land which was in my uncle John's division ;" son Moses to have most of the estate, and so on. He married (first) April 19, 1727, Han nah, daughter of Ezekiel and Dorothy (Sew all) Northend, of Rowley. She was born January 31, 1703, and died Aprd 11, 1739. He married (second) August 15, 1739, Han nah, daughter of Thomas Hammond, of Ips wich. She was baptized in Rowley, July, 171 6, and died between October 26, 1787, the date of her will, and May 7, 1792, the date when it was proved. Lieutenant Bradstreet was the father of thirteen children. Those by the first wife were: Moses, John (died young), Han nah (died young), Hannah, Nathaniel, Ezekiel, Nathaniel (died young), and Jane. Those by the second wife were : Nathaniel, Elizabeth, John, Mary and Sarah. (V) Nathaniel (2), eldest chdd of Lieuten ant Nathaniel (i) and Hannah (Hammond) Bradstreet, was baptized June 20, 1740, and died March 28, 1806, aged sixty-six years. His home was in Ipswich, just over the Rowley line, and was formerly a Hammond place. His will was dated January 2, 1804, and probated May 7, 1806. He married, December 7, 1762, Phebe, daughter of Eliphalet and Ruth (Pick ard) Jewett, of Rowley. She was born in Rowley, Aprd 13, 1741, and. died December 18, 181 5, aged seventy-four years. Their chil dren were : Elizabeth, David, Daniel, Nathan, Phebe, Mary, Nathaniel, Sarah and Hannah. (\'Ij Daniel, third chdd and second son of Nathaniel (2) and Phebe (Jewett) Brad street, was born in Ipswich, and baptized March 13, 1768. He removed from Rowley, Massachusetts, to Bridgton, Maine, where he settled and died October 20, 1816, aged forty- nine years. His wife, Betsey A. Bradstreet, died July 2, 1831. (VII) Sophia, daughter of Daniel and Bet sey A. Bradstreet, was born in Bridgton, Maine, November 21, 1804, died September 16^ 1882, aged seventy-seven years. She married Thomas Cleaves, of Bridgton. (See Cleaves Family.) Allan Perley, the immigrant an- PERLEY cestor, was born in 1606, in Wales or England, came from St. Albans, county Herts, England, in the ship "Planter," in 1635, and died in Ipswich, Mas sachusetts, December 28, 1675. The name is also spelled Apperley (Ap, son of). He set tled first in Charlestown Milage, ^Massachu- setts Bay, in what is now called Button End, Woburn. He removed to Ipswich and later to Topsfield, ^Massachusetts, selling his house and land on High street, at Ipswich, to Walter Roper, September 3, 1652. He was admitted a freeman May 18, 1642. He died December 28, 1675. His will was made June 23, 1670, and November 16, 1671, and proved February 3, 1675-76, bequeathing to wdfe Susanna, sons John, Samuel, Thomas, Timothy; daughters Sarah and Martha; son Nathaniel deceased. He owned land at the time of his death in Es sex, Rowley and Boxford. He married, in 1635, Susanna Bokesen, who died at Ipswich, February 11, 1692. (II) Thomas, son of Allan Perley, was bom at Ipswdch in 1641 and died at Bo.xford Sep tember 24, 1709; married July 8, 1667, Lydia Peabody, born 1644, died April 30, 1675, daughter of Lieutenant Francis and ilarv (Foster) Peabody, of Topsfield. Her mother was daughter of Reginald Foster. (See Fos ter.) The line has been traced in England. Foster and Perley came over in the same ves sel from the same parish. Lydia joined the church at Rowley, was admitted by letter at Boxford, February 21, 1702-3. Perley set tled in Rowley and bought much land ; in 1687 the largest taxpayer except his brother-indaw, John Peabody. His home was on the Isaac Hale place. He was admitted freeman :\Iay 23> 1677; deputy to the general court i68g- 92-93, 1700-02; selectman i690-g4-99, 1701- 4-9; constable in 1688; juror; moderator in 1693, 1701-4-6-7-9; quartermaster of Boxford mditary company in 1688; lieutenant 1681. His home was in the town of Boxford, and May 9, 1704, he was elected on a committee to determine the town line. Children : Thomas, Jacob, Lydia, Mary, Hepzibah and Sarah. (Ill) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) Perley, was born at East Boxford, Septem ber 27, 1668 (or 1670) ; died November 13, 1745; married Sarah Osgood, of Andover, bom November 4, 1675, died at Boxford, Sep tember 23, 1724, daughter of Captain John and Mary (Clement) Osgood. Her mother was accused of witchcraft and pleaded guilty to save her life. He married (second) May 15, 1727, Elizabeth (Porter) Putnam, of Dan- STATE OF MAINE. lOI vers, who died October, 1746, wiilow of Jo seph Putnam, and mother of (jeneral -Israel Putnam. Perley was town clerk from 1712 to 1723; surveyor 1723; juror; iiKjderator 172O- 27; selectman 1697-99, 1701 -4-7-9- i4-2(j-27 ; deputy to the general cotij-l 1703-9- 18-19; schoolmaster in 1712. He was ensign of the militia company; lieutenant January 17, 1717; captain in Colonel John Appleton's regiment. Flis wiU was dated September 2t, 1745, proved November 25, following, (hildren: Lydia, Mary, Flepzibah, Moses, Sarah, Thomas. (IV) Thomas (3), sun of Thomas (2) Per ley, was boi'n at East lloxford, F'ebruary 22, 1704-5; died .September 28, 1795; married September 20, 1731, Eunice Putnam, his step sister, daughter of Joseph and Fdi/.abeth (Por ter) Putnam, and sister of ( leneral Putnam, of revolutionary fame. She was born April 13, 1710, died February 2, 1787, at East Box ford. He inherited the Cleaveland farm in 1745, and built a house on the homestead. Fle was a leading patriot during and before the revolution ; was on the committee of January 21, 1773, to consider the crisis; in 1776 on the committee to pay soldiers, and on the commit tee of safety and correspondence; later a dele gate to the st.-ite convention to frame a con stitution ; iiiodertttor of town meetings 1755- 59-6i-()3-65-68-70-72-73 ; fence viewer; hog- reeve; constable; tithingman ; warden; sur veyor; selectman and assessor 1747-54-57-60- 61-66; town clerk 1752-57; treasurer 1742-51. His daughter Fluldah, born h'ebruary 13, 1731-32, under her father's will, had a quarter of the furniture and other personal estate. She married, April 22, 1761, Joshua Cleaves, and died at Beverly, September, 1774. (See Cleaves.) From the original set- LITTLEFIELD llement of York county, Maine, up to the present time (,\, 1), 1908), the Littlefield family have resided there, and many of the name have figured prominently both in public affairs and in developin.g its a.t;ricultural and industrial interests, A sturdy, energetic people, the pa rent stock was inclined to favor free thought in matters pertaining to religion, and were staunch supporters of the theological doctrine advocated and practiced by Rev. John Wheel- right. (I) Edmund Littlefield, born in Southamp ton, England, about 1600, married Annis . (The records give iio family name.) He came to this country from Tichfield, Eng land, probably at the same time as the Rev. John Wheelri.ght, for he was one of his parish ioners at Ivxeter in I(j,^(j, and was one of the combination to whom twenty-one acres of land was assigned. In 1638 he sent l(j h^ngland for his family, and on May 16 of that year his wife Annis and six children took passa.t^e for Boston in the "IJevis" of Hampton, Cajitain Townes. The Rev, John Wheelri.^ht, owing to a religious controversy precipitated by the teachings of Anne Hutchinson, left Exeter and later went to WeUs, Maine, many of his parishioners going with him, and among them Edmund Littlefield, who in 1641, leaving Ex eter, went to Wells, Maine, where he was one of the first settlers. He was supposed to have built the first house, a saw mill and grist mill. Fle was deeded a lot of land by Sir Ferdinand Gorges in 1643, and was a leading spirit in organizing the town and promoting its de velopment. He was on the grand jury in 1645, and it is said was the richest man in Wells. lie and his sons were millmen and farmers. Fle was of fearless enterprise and sound moral principle. On account of this firm, moral character, he was appointed by the governor of Massachusetts agent for the sale of liquors in Wells, it being then of the utmost im portance that great discretion should be used in the distribution to the Indians. He w as one of the committee to settle the boundary be tween Wells and Cape Porpoise, and was elected by the people for the years 1654, 1655, 1658, 1660 and 1661 to try small cases. He died in December, 1661. Children: Francis, born 1619; Anthony, Elizabeth, John, Thomas, Mary, Flannah, Francis Jr., born 1631. (II) Francis, eldest son of Edmund Little field, Ijorn in 1619, for some cause for which no explanation is given, disappeared from his father's home about the age of six, and was supposed to have died. Francis Jr. was born about six years later, and the parents named this child Francis. In the meantime Francis the elder had come to Exeter previous to 1639, and from Exeter went to Woburn, where he married. His wife died December 20, 1646, leaving a daughter who died later, this being about five years after his father went to Wells. Soon after his daughter's death, Francis left Woburn and went to Wells also, only to find his father and family already located there. Francis Littlefield Jr. married Meribah Ward- well. Children: Joseph, born about i()52; Nathan, Jonathan, Job, David, Mary J., Jo anna, Tabitha, Flannah. (Ill) Joseph, eldest child of Francis Little field, married Jane Cole, daughter of Nicholas Cole, but died before July, i(ii)8, when the 102 STATE OF MAINE. widow married John Heard. Children: Jo seph, Meribah, Priscilla, perhaps other chil dren. Joseph was half owmer of the falls at Kennebunk, which had been granted by the town of Wells and Kennebunk. (IV) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph (i) Littlefield, married Abigail Storer, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Storer, August 4, i7og. Chddren : Benjamin ; probably other children. (V) Benjamin, son of Joseph (2) Little field, married Dorcas Black, daughter of Sam uel and Dorcas Black, of York, December 11, 1753. Child: Samuel Black. Benjamin Lit- defield was one of the substantial men of the town. His parents were familiar with the ex periences of the settlers in the times of the Indian wars, and he was taught the necessity of courage to meet the events of life and in dustry in its ordinary pursuits. Like others born in that day of hardship, he had put few opportunities for education, but he so im proved those he had and acquired so much of the rudiments of knowledge that in 1760 he was chosen the clerk of the proprietors of the township, and held that office forty-three years. He spent his life in milling and farm ing. He was the owner of the grist-mill near his house and had an interest in the saw-mill in which he found employment. He was a man of very correct habits. In 1776 and 1777 he was one of the selectmen of the town. He died October 5, 1821, at the age of ninety-one, leaving children and grandchildren (one of whom was Christopher), who have main tained an honorable standing in society. (VI) Samuel Black, son of Benjamin Lit- tletield, married Susannah Hatch, daughter of Joshua and Susannah Hatch, December g, 1802. He was one of the most prominent residents of Wells, and a deacon of the Con gregational church. He was twice married. Children, by first wife : one son, Christopher, born in WeUs, September 15, 1803. By sec ond wife : Trustam, Jonathan G., Samuel B., Susan, Sarah, Mary, Jane. (VII) Christopher, son of Samuel Black Littlefield, born in WeUs, Maine, September 15, 1803; married Sarah Gooch, daughter of John and Olive Gooch, October 17, 1826. Children : Charles Rollins, bom September 12, 1828; Abigail, Susan FL, Sarah G., Annie W., John G. Christopher Littlefield was the only child of Samuel Black Littlefield by his first marriage. His education was begun in the public schools, continued under the preceptor- ship of a private tutor, and he concluded his studies at the Hampton, New Flampshire, Academy, where he was prepared for educa tional pursuits. For many years he was en gaged in teaching, and acquired a high repu tation. As town clerk of Wells, in which ca pacity he served for many years, he displayed marked abdity, as well as a profound interest in the public affairs of the community, and as representative to the state legislature from Wells he evinced a like solicitude for the gen eral welfare of the town. He was cashier of the Ocean National Bank at Kennebunk from its organization, August i, 18.54, to December when he resigned after thirty-four I, I - - . years of continuous service. The original deed of land to Edmund Littlefield, signed by Sir Ferdinand Gorges, was in the possession of Christopher Littlefield up to the time the bank building in Kennebunk was destroyed by fire, when it was burned. Only that day it had been returned from the iMaine Historical Society, wdiere it had been loaned to copy. He was strong in his religious belief, was an earnest church member, and was deacon of both the Wells and Kennebunk Congregational church. No man stood higher in uprightness in any community, nor was mourned more greatly when he died. He died in January, 1890. (VIII) Charles RoUins, eldest child of Christopher Littlefield, married, in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Sarah D. Foss, daughter of Sdas M. and Sally Webster Foss, January 17, 1850. Chddren: i. Charles Webster, born March 13, 1855, at Amesbury, Massachusetts. 2. Arthur Gooch, born February g, 1859, at North Adams, Massachusetts, died March 5, 1901. Sarah D. Foss-Littlefield died Novem ber II, 1893. Charles RoUins Littlefield mar ried for his second wife Laura M. Went worth, daughter of Jacob and ^Mary A. Went worth, of Kennebunk, October 24, 1895. Charles Rollins Littlefield was born in Wells, September 12, 1828. His education was planned by his father, the preliminary studies in the public schools being supplemented by a period of instruction under private tuition, and further reinforced by a regular course at the South Berwick Academy in Maine, from which he was graduated. After his graduation he went to Amesbury, ^Massachusetts, where he was associated with the Powwow River Bank for nine years, when he resigned in or der to accept a position in New York City. He served during the civil war as paymaster in the army, receiving his first commission from Abraham Lincoln, with the rank of major, and later brevetted lieutenant-colonel by Andrew Johnson, who had then succeeded Lincoln as president of the United States. FIc ST.ATE OF MAINE. 103 resigned in 1866, and for seventeen years was in the Navigation Department of the United States navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hamp shire. In 1888 he was appointed cashier of the Ocean National Bank at Kennebunk, suc ceeding his father in that position, resigning January i, 1908, having held the position for twenty years. It is interesting to note that since the establishment of this bank, some fifty-four years ago, it has had but two cash iers, this position having descended from father to son. He is a member of York Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Murray Chapter, Royal Arch Alasons; the Knights Templar; Mousam Lodge, Independ ent Order of Odd Fellows and encamp ment ; the Loyal Legion of the State of Maine ; and of Webster Post, Grand Army of the Re public, of Kennebunk. (IX) Charles Webster, eldest child of Charles Rollins Littlefield, was born at Ames bury, ^Massachusetts, March 13, 1855. Sep tember 8, 1876, he was commissioned by Ulysses S. Grant, president of the United States, assistant paymaster in the navy. After three months' instruction on board the U. S. S. "Wabash" at Boston, he was ordered to the Asiatic Station, serving three years on board the U. S. S. "Palos." This station embraced China, Japan, and the islands of the Western Pacific ocean. November 13, 1879, he re turned to the United States. October 8, 1880, reported at the Boston navy yard for duty as assistant to the inspector, and on June 16, 1881, was commissioned by Chester A. Arthur, president of the United States, as passed as sistant paymaster of the navy. August 29, 1884, he was directed to proceed to the navy yard, ;\Iare Island, California, for duty on board the U. S. S. "Adams." These orders were, however, revoked, and instead, on Octo ber 13, 1884, reported at the training station, Newport, on board the U. S. S. "Saratoga." This duty consisted in yearly cruising to Eu rope for the summers and to the West Indies for the winters. On October 27, 1886, he was detached from the "Saratoga" ; March 23, 1887, ordered to proceed to New London, Connecticut, for duty at the naval station there and on April i, 1889, proceeded to League Island, Pennsylvania, for duty on hoard the U. S. S. "Yorktown." This' ship became one of the "White Squadron," going to Lisbon, Portugal, for the coronation of King Carlos, cruising in the Mediterranean, West Indies and in home stations. September II, 1891, two months' leave of absence was granted, and on June 19, 1892, he was directed to proceed to the navy yard, Washington, D. C, for duty on board the U, S. S. "Dale." In connection with this duty he had the ac counts of the torpedo boat "Gushing," and was also, September 28, 1892, directed to report to the L'. S, Fish Commissioner for orders, the "Gushing'' and Fish Commission duty requir ing a great deal of traveling. On December 25, 1892, he was commissioned by^Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, pay master of the navy. December 15, 1894, he was directed to proceed to Yokohama, Japan, for duty on board the U, S. S. "Charleston." On his arrival at Yokohama, January 28, i8g5, he was wdred to proceed to Chee Foo, China, where the ship was watching the progress of the China-Japan w^ar. November, i8g5, he was on temporary duty on the flagship "Olympia," Nagasaki, Japan, .\pril 5, i8g6, he -i.vas directed to proceed to Seoul, Korea, to assist in acquiring information of the con dition of affairs. The queen had previously been assassinated, and the king was under the protection of the Russian embassy. While there an interesting audience w as had wdth the king. July g, i8g6, he was directed to pro ceed from Mare Island, California, to Kenne bunk, r\Iaine. Reported for duty September 8, i8g6, at Hampton Roads, 'Virginia, on board the U. S. S. "Maine." His cruise of three years having expired, on February 2, 1898, he received in Havana, Cuba, orders to proceed to Kennebunk, Maine. The explo sion of the "IMaine'' occurred one week after he left the ship, in which 252 were killed at once, and eight died in the hospital later. April 12, 1898, he was ordered to Norfolk, Virginia, for duty on board the U. S. S. "Franklin," where he was wired that his commanding offi cer of the "Alaine" wished him with him on the "St. Paul," and on April 20, 1898, he was ordered for duty on board the U. S. S. "St. Paul," serving on board during the Spanish- American war, and receiving a medal from congress for services. September 6, 1898, he w^as ordered from the "St. Paul," the ship be ing turned back to the American line for pur pose of resuming her .'\tlantic passenger ser vice. October 15, i8g8, he was ordered to the navy yard, Boston, for duty on the U. S. S. "Wabash;" November 23, i8g8, the duty of the naval station. New London, in connection with Boston; May 2, igoi, to the U. S. S. flagship "Kearsarge" as fleet paymaster of the North Atlantic Station ; and on ]\Iarch 29, igo2, was commissioned by Theodore Roose velt, president of the United States, as pay inspector U. S. navy, wdth the rank of com- 104 STATE OF MAINE. mander. April 3, igo2, he was at Fort de France, Martinique, on board the U. S. S. flagship "Olympia" as paymaster of the fleet. June 20, 1902, at New York. He was there ¦shifted by the admiral with the admiral and his staff back to the "ICearsarge." During this period the ship visited Kiel, Germany, by invitation of Emperor William, receiving great honors, the Emperor being entertained on board ; thence to Portsmouth, England, where as guest of King Edward was one of a num ber of officers who attended the state ball at Buckingham and other social festivities; the Prince of Wales going to Portsmouth for luncheon on the ship. September i, 1903, he was directed to report in Washington to the paymaster general of the navy for the duty of the general inspector of the pay corps. This included visiting the stations of the Atlantic coast once in three months, and those of the Pacific coast once in six months, involving one hundred and fifty thousand miles of travel by rail in the three years and four months. On December 27, 1903, he was commissioned by Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, as pay director in the navy, with the rank of captain. Leave of absence was granted December 17, 1906, for three months, with permission to leave the United States, where he visited Egypt, Italy, France, Switzerland and England. At this time his name was presented by his friends and he was prominently mentioned as a candidate for pay master-general of the navy. Among other en dorsements to the president was one bearing the signature of every member of the commit tee on naval affairs of the senate. On April 30, 1907, he reported for duty as purchasing pay officer. Navy Pay Office, Boston, where at this time (1908) he is still in charge. (For first generation see preceding sketch.) (II) Captain John, son LITTLEFIELD of Edmund Littlefield, was born about 1625-30. He took the oath of allegiance in 1680 and lived in Wells. Fle had a grant of land with his brother-in-law John Wakefield in 164 1 from John Cleaves at the mouth of the Mousam River, where he made his home. He deeded to Francis Littlefield Sr,, his brother, half the timber and mill at Ogunquit Upper Falls, December 23, 1669 ; also land to Josiah Littlefield, August 8, i6go. Fle died at WeUs, February g, 1696-97, and his widow Patience administered the estate. He was called "Sen," in 1669 and afterward. Children, born at Wells: I. John, eldest son, married Mehit able ; died 1690. 2. Josiah, married Lydia and Elizabeth . 3. Eliab, mentioned below. 4. Son, died before 1701, leaving widow Joanna, and daughter Joanna. 5 Lydia, married Storer. 6. Deborah, married Samuel Webber. 7. Mary, married Matthew Austin. 8. Charity, married WiUiam Webb. g. Elizabeth, married Edward Beal. 10. Mercy, married Luffkin. 11. Pa tience, married James Webber. (Ill) Eliab, son of John Littlefield, was born about 1660-70. Fle settled in Manches ter, Massachusetts, probably on account of the Indian wars. He inherited much property at WeUs. He deeded, November 6, 1712, land grant of two hundred acres for building a mill at the faUs and the remains of the mill which had been burned to John Cousins. Jonathan Hammon, Samuel Wheelwright and John Bul- lard were his partners in the mdl grant and ownership. He sold land at Wells to Zacha riah Goodale, of Wells, June 15, 1715; also land formerly owned by John WeUs (his father) to George Jacobs, of York, January 18, 1 71 5-16; also the land on the northeast side of Cape Porpoise known as Barrot's farm on Millers creek, December 26, 1715, to Thomas Perkins, of Topsfield, Massachusetts; also land formerly owned by Henry Scratts, to whom it was granted March 28, i6gg, to Wil ham Sayer, of WeUs, January ig, 1715. .A.d- ministration granted son-in-law Joseph Leach, of Manchester, April 16, 171 7, and the estate was divided December, 1718. Children, the first five of whom were born at Wells: i. Eliab, born October 23, i6g7, mentioned be low. 2. Patience, August 17, i6gg, married Joseph Leach. 3. Rachel, January 31, 1700-01, died at WeUs, January 3, 1701-02. 4. Deborah, April 25, 1702. 5. Rachel, January ig, 1704- 05. 6. Ehza. 7. Abigad. 8. Sibyl, g. Lovey. The last four shared in the partition of the father's estate. (IV) Eliab (2), son of Ehab (i) Little field, was born at Wells, October 23, 1697. He shared in the division of his father's es tate and probably returned to Wells to live. We have reason to believe that he had other children besides the following: i. Eliab, liv ing in Wells in i7go, according to the census. 2. Ebenezer, mentioned below. (V) Ebenezer, son of Eliab (2) Littlefield, was bom about 1730. He was a soldier in the revolution from Wells, in Captain Samuel Sayer's company, Colonel James Scammon s regiment in 1 775 ; also in Captain James Sted- man's company in 1776. He was the only soldier of the name Ebenezer Littlefield in STATE OF MAINE. lo; Maine. In i7go, according to the federal census, he and his son Ebenezer were living in Wells. Ebenezer Sr. had two males over sixteen and one under that age in his family, besides three females. Ebenezer Jr. had a wife and one son under sixteen. ' Hence Ebenezer had at least four children, probably more than four, besides Ebenezer Jr., mentioned below. (VI) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (i) Littlefield, was born about 1760 in Wells. He married Sweat and settled in Alfred, Maine. Children: i. Horace, born Septem ber 17, 1808, died aged seventy-two years, married Mary E. Chase, of Ro.xbury, Massa chusetts, and had son Charles H. 2. Eliab, born in 1812, mentioned below. 3. Lyman. 4. Nathaniel S. 5. Roxana (probably not in or der of birth). (VII) Eliab (3), son of Ebenezer (2) Lit tlefield, -was born at Alfred, Maine, 181 2, died March 21, 1845. He was educated in the pub lic schools of Alfred, Maine. In his youth he worked on the farm. After completing his education he went to Boston as clerk in a pub lishing house. He engaged in the book pub lishing business on his own account a few years later. He was obliged by ill heahh to re tire from active business in 1841, and he died four years later at the early age of thirty- three years, at his old home in Alfred, a vic tim of consumption. He was succeeded in business by the firm of Phdip Simpson & Com pany. In politics he was a Democrat, in re ligion a Methodist. He married, 1834, Susan B. Harmon, born in Alfred, 18 12, died August 9, 1855. Children: i. Frank Harmon, men tioned below. 2. Mary Sabrina, January 8, 1839, married John Davis, a jeweler of Til ton, New Hampshire. 3. Walter Morton, March 27, 1841, married Lucinda S. Tracey, of West Buxton, May 9, 1882. 4. Clara Susan, April 28, 1843, married November 22, 1871, S. M. Came, a la\yyer of Alfred, Maine, prominent in his profession. (VIII) Frank Harmon, son of Eliab (3) Littlefield, was born in Roxbury, now Bos ton, Massachusetts, September 14, 1836. He was educated in the public schools of Alfred, Kennebunk, and the Limerick Academy. In 1857 he embarked in business for himself, es tablishing a general store in Alfred. Isaac Brackett was his partner. He retired from the firm in i85g and entered the firm of Chase, Littlefield & Company in the hardware busi ness, Portland, Maine. He remained in this business until 1866 when he sold out and re turned to Alfred, and in partnership with his brother, Walter Morton Littlefield, began business in a general store under the firm name of Littlefield Brothers and has contin ued with much success to the present time. The firm owns the large and spacious building in which the store is located, and they are well and favorably known throughout the county, being prominent in business circles and enjoy ing the confidence and respect of all their townsmen. Frank H. Littlefield is a member of Fraternal Lodge of Free Masons, Alfred. He married, November g, 1865, Laura A. Grant, born August 31, 1838, daughter of John L. Grant, of Alfred. They have one son, Harry Grant, mentioned below. (IX) Harry Grant, son of Frank Harmon Littlefield, was born in Portland, Maine, June 14, 1865. He was educated in the public and high schools of Alfred, graduating from the latter. He worked for some time in his fath er's store in Alfred, then for the Whittenton Manufacturing Company of Taunton, Massa chusetts, for two years as clerk in the counting room. He was then with the Lord Brothers Optical Company at Tilton, New Hampshire, for four years. He moved from Tilton to Alfred and became associated with his father. In politics Mr. Littlefield is a Republican and has been treasurer of the town of Alfred ; is a Congregationalist in religion. He married, September, igo4, Myra Merrill, born in Al fred, October, 1864, daughter of Dr. Frank B. and Sarah (Wakefield) Merrih, of Alfred. Her father was a prominent physician of Al fred. They have no children. (For flrst generation see Edmund Littlefield I.) (II) Ensign Francis Jr., LITTLEFIELD son of Edmund Little field, was born in Eng land about 1631. He was a carpenter by trade, and settled in Wells, where he owned a saw mill and grist mill. His will was made in 1674. His widow Meribah was living in 1677. Children, born in Wells: Joseph, Nathan, Jonathan, Job, David, mentioned below ; Mary, Joanna, Tabitha, Hannah. All were minors when their father died. (Ill) David, son of Ensign Francis Little field, was born in Wells about 1653, and was baptized when an adult in July, 1707. He re sided in Wells, and in 1713-16 owned a quar ter interest in the falls. He married, Decem ber 24, i6g4, '. Children : David, men tioned below; Eleanor, Nathan, Mary, Jere miah, Meribah, Tabitha, Ithamar. (IV) David (2), eldest chdd of David (i) Littlefield, was bom about 1696, in Wells, where he passed his life. io6 STATE OF MAINE. (V) Ithamar, son of David (2), was born in Wells, July 20, 1729. He married (inten tions dated April 10, 1745) Margaret Wil liams. He was a prosperous farmer of Ken nebunk, Maine. Among their children was Ithamar, mentioned below. (VI) Ithamar (2), son of Ithamar (i) Lit- defield, was born June 14, 1747. He was liv ing in WeUs in 1759, when he built his house opposite that of John Gilpatrick near the sec ond Mousam lot. Fle contributed shoes, stock ings and shirts to the Continental army in 1778. He served on the committee appointed in March, 1767, to carry out the vote to move the second parish meeting house. In 1784 he had one hundred and fifty acres of land, of which forty acres were planted to potatoes. He married Edna David, of Kennebunk, March 29, 1768. (VII) Obadiah, son of Ithamar (2) Little field, was born in "Wells or Kennebunk, August 29, 1777. lie married, October 28, 1802, Anna Chick, born March 4, 1782. Chddren, born at Kennebunk: i. Daniel L., mentioned below. 2. Mary. 3. Samuel. 4. Joshua C, Aprd 6, 1810, died Aprd 6, 1887. 5. Anna. 6. James D. 7. Jonas C, August 28, 1817. 8. Jerusha, May, 1820. g. Nathaniel. 10. Esther, July 13, 1826. • (VIII) Daniel L., son of Obadiah Little field, was born in Kennebunk, May 16, 1803, died October 5, i8go. He married Mary Hardy Leavitt, born December 27, 1802, died January 5, 1871. Daniel L. Littlefield was educated in the common schools in Kenne bunk. He worked first on a farm, then learned the trade of carpenter and followed this trade for some time at Sanford, Maine. In i84g he removed from Sanford to Biddeford and was in business many years as a carpenter and builder in that city. In politics he was a Dem ocrat. He was appointed deputy sheriff while in Sanford and was elected to the common council of Biddeford. He was an active and prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Children: i. Mary, born May 4, 1830, died May, 1832. 2. Violetta W., Octo ber 4, 1832, died January ig, 1859. 3. Gilman P., mentioned below. (IX) Hon. Gilman Porter, son of Daniel L. Littlefield, was born in Sanford, Maine, No vember 25, 1838. He was educated there in the public schools, and in the grammar school at Biddeford. He began to work as a boy in the office of the Saco Water Power Company, now the Saco & Pettee Machine Shops. Not liking office work he went into the machine shop to learn the trade, rose step by step to the position of overseer. He was made assistant superintendent and finaUy, in 1896, superin tendent of the shops and has filled that respon sible position since, with conspicuous ability and success. He has been with this concern continuously since 1855. Mr. Littlefield is. prominent in public life, being especially inter ested in municipal affairs. He was elected to the board of aldermen in 1882 and from time to time served in that board down to igo2;, was president of the board in 1882-83. He was president of the common council in i8g6, and was elected mayor for the year igo6 unanimously; was re-elected March, igo7, and has had an extremely successful and com mendable administration. In politics he is a Republican of large influence. Mr. Lhtlefield is a member of Dunlap Lodge of Free Ma sons, of which he is a past master ; a member of York Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Maine Council, Royal and Select ]\Iasters; Bradford Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he is past commander, and of Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, Lewiston, Maine. He is also a member of Mavoshan Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Biddeford. He is a member of the Second Congregational Church of Bidde ford. He married, August 7, 1861, Sarah Emma Berry, born May 5, 1841, daughter of Gilbert Berry, of Saco. Children: i. Sarah C, born September ig, 1863, graduate of the Biddeford high school, assistant postmaster of Biddeford. 2. Gilbert B., August 24, 1868, attended the public schools of Biddeford and graduated at Bowdoin College; now assistant night manager of the Associated Press office, Boston ; married Alice Parsons, daughter of James Parsons, of Biddeford. (For ancestry see preceding sketches.) (Ill) Josiah, eldest son LITTLEFIELD of Lieutenant John and Patience Littlefield, was born in WeUs, Maine. He seems to have been a man of prominence and activity in town af fairs, and his was the first name mentioned in the foundation of the church at Wells in 1701. At the death of his father in i6g6, it was de cided that he should take charge of his estate during the lifetime of his widow Patience, which he did and remained a short time after. In 1708, however, he was captured by the In dians and while in captivity the court ordered that his estate and children be placed in charge of Josiah Winn, who had married Lydia, his brother's daughter. The second wife of Jo siah Littlefield, not wishing to be ignored as a suitable guardian for his children, made con- j/eyuyyvi^c^////J//ia^aii WTEal'herWf. STATE OF MAINE. 107" tinuous trouble regarding the property and controversies continued in consequence until the death of Josiah, her husband, who was killed by the Indians, April 26, 1713. His widow, Elizabeth, was made administratrix of his estate. There were eight children surviv ing, three sons and five daughters; the latter married as follows : Anna married Jacob Per kins. Esther married Joseph Credeford. Sarah married James Clark. Elizabeth married Zachariah Goodale. Lydia married . The sons' names were not given in this ac count. (IV) Peter, son of Josiah Littlefield, was born in Wells, where he resided. He was one of a military company of Frankfort, Maine, who petitioned to organize a company of light infantry. Like his father, he was a very active man. He married — . (V) Nathaniel, son of Peter Littlefield, was born in Wells, and was shipwrecked in the West Indies in 1769. He married in 1750. (VI) Richard, son of Nathaniel Littlefield, was born in WeUs. He married, 1788, Ann Stevens. (VII) Theodore, son of Richard and Ann (Stevens) Littlefield, was born in Wells, May 6, 1782, died in 1863. He married Martha Hobbs. Children : Richard, Theodore, Olive E., Christopher, Woodbury, Ann, William H., Sylvester and Erros Hoag. (VIII) William Hobbs, fifth son of Theo dore and Martha (Hobbs) Littlefield, was born in WeUs, June 14, 1818, died i8gg, hav ing survived his wife. He was a Freewill Bap tist minister, and was in politics a Republican. For many years he was superintendent of schools at Vinalhaven, Maine, and was a mem ber of the building committee of Bates Col lege. He married, at Kennebunk, March 20, 1845, Mary, daughter of Paul and Dorothy (Hobbs) Stevens, who was born at Kenne bunk, August 7, 1823. Chddren: i. Leroy, born May 24, 1846, deceased. 2. Martha Ann, December 14, 1848. 3. Charles Edgar, June 21, 1851. 4. WiUiam Trafton, January 12, 1855. 5. Frank Leslie, July 23, 1857. 6. Hat- tie Prescott, November 28, 1859, deceased. 7. Arthur Stevens, April 10, 1864. 8. George Paul, February 5, 1862, deceased. 9. Mary Florence, February 18, 1868, deceased. (IX) Arthur Stevens, fifth son of William Hobbs and Mary (Stevens) Littlefield, -was born at Vinalhaven, Knox county, Maine, April 10, 1864. He was educated at the pub lic schools of his native town, Nichols Latin School and Bates College, from which institu tion he was graduated in 1887, and from Co lumbia Law School, New York City, 1889. He was admitted to the bar in December, i88g, and at once commenced practice at Rockland, Maine, where he has built up a large and lucrative law business, ranking probably the first in the county. His offices in a finely ap pointed suite of rooms are attractive and com modious. In politics Mr. Littlefield is a Re publican, representing his district in the state legislature igo3-igo5, and is a member of the city council and the school board. He is also-' a director in the Security Trust Company of Rockland. Mr. Lhtlefield is a Mason and master of Aurora Lodge, No. 50, F. and A. M.; member of King Solomon Temple, No. 8, Royal Arch Chapter ; King Hiram Coun cil, No. 6, Royal and Select Masters ; and the Claremont Commandery of Rockland. He is also a member of the Consistory of S. P. and R. S. of Portland, and Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston. On March 23, igo7, he was elected without a dissenting vote, exalted ruler of Rockland Lodge, No. 1008, B. P. O. E., which fact testified to his popularity and fitness for office. Mr. Littlefield married, at Lewiston, January 29, 1890, Rosa A., daugh ter of F. P. and Rosalba A. Weymouth, who was born in Lewiston, January 29, 1864. They have no chddren. Mason has been a distinguished MASON name in New England from the early settlement of the country, and no generation since then has been without leading citizens of this cognomen. The fam ily herein treated is one of the ancient fam ihes of York county, Maine, whose early his tory is enveloped in the dim and shadowy town and family records of HoUis, where the name has existed from the early days of pioneer set tlement. (I) Amos Mason was a' farmer of Holhs. He married there Betsey Plaisted; children: Eliza Jane, died at age of twenty-three ; Han nah Morse; Sarah G., married Mr. Palmer; Jeremiah M., of whom further; Josiah, Lo renzo; Benjamin; Dorcas Jane, died young; Catherine, died young. (II) Hon. Jeremiah Miller Mason, son of Amos and Betsey (Plaisted) Mason, was born in Hollis, Maine, March 20, 1820, and died in Limerick, March 26, i8g7. By force of cir cumstances he was denied the privileges of education in his youth, and in order to shift for himself soon became an apprentice and learned the tailor's trade. With characteris tic energy he thoroughly mastered his trade and in early manhood moved to Limerick and io8 STATE OF MAINE. engaged in business, and by close application and indomitable courage not only acquired a good elementary and business education, but became possessed of a wonderfully clear judi cial knowledge which later served him well in his active career. He soon won recognition throughout the northern tier of towns in York county, as a carefully energetic, honorable and successful man of business. For many years he conducted a general store in the town of his adoption, which, by means of his rare busi ness sagacity and spirit of fair dealing, he made a center of trade throughout the Ossi pee Valley. He was a pioneer in the manu facture of ready-made clothing when that im portant branch of industry was introduced ; and during the civil war he gave employment to a large number of skilled operatives, in this way advancing the growth and prosperity of the flourishing borough with which he had identified his fortunes. In i87g, when the vil lage of Limerick was swept by a great fire, Mr. Mason's store was destroyed ; but, not one whit dismayed, he at once rebuilt it, on the old site, and continued to do business as before. This store was conducted by him un til about the year 1888, when he disposed of it in order to devote his entire time and atten tion to other interests in which he was ac tively engaged. Having made for himself an enviable repu tation for business ability, strict integrity, in domitable perseverance, and conservatism in the conduct of affairs, Mr. Mason was chosen to fill the responsible position of president of the Limerick National Bank, the duties of which office he discharged up to the day of his death, to the entire satisfaction of the stock holders and the business public, and with credit to himself. He also served in the ca pacity of director of the Westbrook Trust Company, and as a member of the board of directors of the Portland National Bank. In addition to these engagements he was inter ested in the real estate business, and purchased as investments many tracts of state lands in the wooded section of northern Maine, and on the islands along the coast. In all enterprises which he undertook, ?\fr. Mason acted up to the strict letter of his engagements, expecting the same treatment in return from all those with whom he had dealings. In politics Mr. Mason was originally a Whig, but on the break-up of that party in 1856 he became a Democrat. When the civil war began he was classed as a "War Demo crat," but he soon came to entertain the belief that the only substantial hope for a restoration of the Union lay in the triumph of the Repub lican, or, as it was at that time termed, the "Union" party. Believing thus, he acted promptly, as was his wont, and threw in his lot with the organization which recognized Abraham Lincoln as its leader, and he felt it to be his imperative duty to take an active and aggressive part in politics. So thoroughly were his unselfish motives appreciated by his fellow citizens, and so unhesitatingly was his fitness for public service recognized by them, that political preferment came his way without solicitation on his part, and indeed sometimes against his personal inclinations. It was felt by his political associates that his name would be a tower of strength on the party ticket, and conduce greatly to its success. Mr. Alason first served the town of Limer ick as its representative in the state legislature, and in the years 1866 and 1867 represented the county of York in the same body. So well and so faithfully did he serve his town and shire that he was selected for a seat in the executive council, and held this position for four consecutive years — the first term in 1874, being during Governor Dingley's administra tion, and the others in 1875, 1876 and 1877, during the three years' incumbency of Gov ernor Connor. While he was a member of the governor's council Mr. Mason's habit of close attention to financial detail rendered him a most valuable man at the council board, and in the discharge of his duties as auditor of ac counts he saved the great sum of $200,000 to the state by his careful scrutiny of every bill which was presented for payment. Nor did Mr. Mason neglect the town's interests while engaged in state affairs; he was chairman of the board of selectmen of Limerick in 1868, and again in the years 1876 and 1877. For many years he was a trusted political leader in the county of York, and was looked up to for counsel and advice. The compass of his acquaintance was wide, and he numbered among his friends and associates many men who stood high in political life and financial circles. By them his views were eagerly sought, and his opinions about all important matters pertaining to his section of the country had great weight. His advice, so often sought, was given with circumspection and with con scientious regard for the welfare of the seek ers, and with a careful consideration of the attendant circumstances and the weighty prob lems involved. By his uprightness, his' frank ness, his probity and his loyalty to his friends. STATE OF MAINE. log he clasped his associates to by hooks of steel ; and they held not only in high esteem, but in genuine affection as well. Mr. Mason married, August lo, 1849, Mar tha Weeks, born in Buxton, It'ebruary 10, 1824, died March 23, 1891, in Limerick, daughter of William and Eliza (Bumham) Woodman, of P.uxton (see Woodman). A friend once wrote of her : "She was a woman of whom it may be truly said, 'Her price is far above rubies.' Naturally of a clear and discrimi nating mind, kindly disposition and refined taste, all the surroundings of her early years tended to cherish and develop those traits, and made her what she was, a true wife and mother. Living in circumstances where every desire of her heart of. a worldly nature could be gratified, her sensitive and retiring nature shrank from everything that had the appear ance of display, or could attract observation. Her home was the center of her cares and af fections, and by her loving ministrations and ready tact she made it a true haven of peace and rest. Here her husband, laying aside the cares and perplexities of a busy hfe could al ways come, sure of hearty greetings, sympathy and cheer ; and her children feel that here was one heart that beat only for their comfort and highest welfare." Children of Mr. and Mrs. Mason: i. Wil liam W,, of whom further. 2. Mattie B., who resides at the Mason homestead in Limerick, was educated in the public schools and Limer ick Academy of her native town. She is a lady of quiet tastes and womanly attainments, combining a thorough knowledge of the house hold science with clear business insight, en abling her to serve efficiently as an active di rector of the Limerick National Bank while managing her own estate and maintaining a home of refinement and culture. 3. Frances E., married Charles G. Moulton (see Moul ton) ; one child, Olga Frances. (Ill) William Woodman, only son of Jere miah Miller and Martha Weeks (Woodman) Mason, was born in Limerick, August 25, 1850. Fle was educated in the common schools, at Limerick Academy, and Eastman's Business College, I'oughkeepsie, New York. After com pleting his studies he devoted himself to the extensive lines of business which his father was then managing, becoming his assistant, and acquired a thorough knowledge of both business and finance. Subsequently he accepted the cashiership of the Lim erick National Bank, of which his father was president, and served in that capacity for many years. In 1889 he became vice-president of the Portland National P.ank, and in 1907 was ad vanced to the presidency of that institution. Be ginning at the very bottom round <>i the ladder, he has aclvanced steadily upward, step by step, until he is now occupying a position of promi nence; and through his entire career he has ever been looked upon as a man of integrity and honor, never making an engagement that he has not fulfilled, and standing as an exam ple of what determination and force, com bined with the highest degree of business acumen, can accomplish for a man of natural ability and strength of character. Inheriting in a marked degree the fine characteristics of his father, strict integrity, straightforward dealing, generosity and independence, he has proven himself most successful in carrying out the policies so sagaciously projected by the father whose example he emulates and whose memory he both cherishes and honors. WiUiam Woodman Mason is in full sympa thy with all the great movements of the world about him, and watches the progress of events with the keenest interest. He is a generous friend, and a warm advocate, of all those who are battling for the right, and for principles and policies for the public good, and he has a pleasing personality which has won for him a legion of friends. Like his father, he is an earnest Republican, and exercises an influ ence in the councils of his party. He has held but one official position, that of representative in the legislature, to which place he was elected in 1885 from the classed towns of Limerick and Waterloo, serving one term most efficiently and creditably. Fle is a charter member of Highland Lodge, No. 48, and a member of Fraternity Encampment, No. 32^ Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Mason married, in Portland, May, 1891, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Sophia ( Brad street) Cleaves (see Cleaves family). This pioneer famUy, mem- WOODMAN bers of which are traced in the following account, has the distinction of being descended from the first Woodman who landed on New England soil and became the progenitor of a line which now exists. The family name probably came from the occupation of him who first took it. (I) Edward Woodman, probably from Cor- shan, a village in Wiltshire, England, eleven miles from Christian Malford, came with his wife Joanna, and together with Archelaus Woodman, probably his young brother, set tled in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635. Archelaus came from England in the ship IIO STATE OF MAINE. "James" ; the name of the ship which brought Edward is unknown. Edward Woodman was jDne of the ninety-one grantees who settled Newbury, and one of fifteen of that number who was entitled to be called "Mr." He is supposed to have lived in 1681, and for years before, in what was afterward and for a long time known as ""Woodman's Lane," now known as Kent street, and situate in the pres ent town of Newburyport. March 25, 1681, Edward conveyed to his son Jonathan "My now dwelling-house, houses and barns and or chard and pasture, and all my plow land lying by and adjoining to the said houses, as also all the plow lands upon the northwest side of the street lying upon the westward side of my house, the said street being vulgarly called the Newstreet." The consideration for this con veyance was "natural and fatherly love and .affection" and "twenty pounds which is yearly to be paid during the time of my own and my wife's natural life. " Edward Woodman is not known to have had any trade. In a deed .dated 1687 he is styled husbanaman. He was a man of influence, decision, and energy, and opposed with great zeal the attempt made by the Rev. Thomas Parker to change the mode of church government from Congregationalism to something like Presbyterianism. He was made a freeman May 25, 1636; was a deputy in the general court in i636-37-3g-43; in 1638- 41-45-46 was one of the three commissioners to end small causes in Newbury, and at vari- -ous times held other offices of trust in town and state. He was one of the first selectmen of Newbury, elected in 1636, and his name heads the list as given by Coffin. Among his other commissions he had one from the state "to see people marry," of which in 1681 he speaks as follows : "An unprofitable commis sion; I quickly laid aside the worke, which has cost me many a bottle of sacke and liquor, where friends and acquaintances have been -concerned." He and his wife Joanna were liv ing in February, 1688. She was then seventy- four. He died prior to 1694, at an unknown age. Their children were : Edward, John, Joshua, Mary, Sarah, Jonathan and Ruth. Ed ward and John were born in England. (II) Joshua, third son and chdd of Ed ward and Joanna Woodman, was born in Old Newbury, in 1636; "first man child borne in Newbury" is the le.gend his gravestone bears. He took the oath of allegiance in 1678, and is then caUed forty-one. It appears that he lived in both Andover and Newbury. He owned land in Haverhill, where he buih a house be tween 1660 and 1668, and probably resided. After he was sixty years old (1698), he bought twelve acres of land of Benjamin Lowe in the tract called the freehold lots, in the up per woods, which was bounded "northerly by the highway upon the Merrimack river." By his wdl he devised his land in Haverhill to three of his sons; this included one hundred and twenty acres of the two hundred and twenty acres which his father Edward bought of Stephen Kent, November 21, 1662, and is said to constitute a part of the site of the present city of Lawrence. His wiU was made March 27, 1703, O. S., and probated July 12, of the same year. He died May 30, 1703, aged seventy-seven years, doubtless in Byfield parish, and was buried in the graveyard ad joining the parish meeting house lot, on the line between Newbury and Rowley. His grave and that of his son Joshua are still marked by the (original) small slate stones set there years ago. He married, January 23, 1666, Elizabeth Stevens, who died in 1714, daughter of Captain John and Elizabeth Stevens, of Andover. Children : Elizabeth, Dorothy, Joshua, Jonathan, a son (died young) Me- hetable, David, Benjamin, Sarah and Mary. (Ill) Benjamin, eighth child and fifth son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Stevens) Woodman, was born probably in Andover, Massachu setts, July 27, 1683. By deed dated December 6, 1706, he bought, being then of Newbury, for twenty-two pounds, of John Dummer, of Newbury, seven and one-half acres of land lying in Newbury, and there it is believed that he settled and raised his family and resided until his death. There is tradition to confirm the other evidence that this was his home, and it is known that he lived in Byfield parish in Newbury. He was a tanner, and the place has been the site of a tanyard time out of mind. He bought, March 26, 1735, a one hundred and twenty-third part of the town of Narra- gansett, No. i (Buxton). May 31, 1736, he bought one-half of an original right ; and Sep tember 29, 1745, he bought the other half of that original right ; and the same year he was one of the two who agreed to buUd each a house and clear four acres of land in that township within four years. These interests in the town he conveyed to his son Joshua, December 24, 1741, and AprU 15, 1747. He died in 1748. His will was made April 14, 1748, and probated July 4 following. He mar ried, March i, 1711, Elizabeth Longfellow, born July 3, 1688, at Newbury Falls, daughter of William and Anne (SewaU) Longfellow. "Wdliam Longfellow, the only one of the name who came to America, was born in 165 1, in STATE OF MAINE. Ill Hampshire, England. He was a man of tal ents and education, wrote an elegant hand, but was not quite so much of a Puritan as some others. He married Anne, sister of Judge Samuel Sewall, and daughter of Old Henry Sewall. William Longfellow was very im provident, and loved a frolic rather too well. Fle was what would be called, at the present day, a high buck. He enlisted as ensign in the ill-fated expedition to Canada, and was drowned at Anticosti in October, i6go, when his daughter Elizabeth was a little over two years old." Children of Benjamin and Eliza beth: Ann, Sarah, Joseph, Benjamin, Joshua, David and Jonathan (twins), Nathan and Stephen. (IV) Captain Joseph, third child and eldest son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Longfellow) Woodman, was born in Newbury, May 31, 1715, baptized June 5, 1715, and died in Hol lis, Maine, July 4, I7g6, and was buried on his own farm in Buxton. He seems to have been •a settler in Narragansett No. i (Buxton, Maine), as early as May 26, 1742, when his name is found on a petition by the then eleven settlers of the town. On account of the war between England and France in 1744, this set tlement then broke up, and all the settlers left. There is no record of any settlers in the town between this date and 1750. June 10, 1746, Joseph Woodman was the grantee in a deed wherein he is described as "of Biddiford, la borer." This deed conveyed title to him of one- eighth of a double sawmiU standing on Jor dan's creek, and on the west side of Saco river, .and known as the upper mill. February 9, 1747, Joseph Woodman and two others, yeo men, were grantees "of one-quarter part of a sawmiU standing on Saco river in the town of Biddeford, and on that part of said river known as Cole's spout." "Also one quarter part of a sawmiU near adjoining to the former higher up upon the said river, on a place known by the name of Jordan's crick ; also one •quarter part of elev.en acres of land situated m Biddeford aforesaid and adjoining unto the said two sawmiUs." These eleven acres of land are now covered by the factories and a ¦considerable portion of the city of Biddeford. Joseph Woodman returned to Narragansett No. I in 1750, and resided at Pleasant Point; his farm comprising lots 10 and 11 in range B, ¦of the first division, and his house occupying the highest part of lot 11. In 1754 the pro prietors' fort or garrison was built on lot 11, ¦close by his house. He sold this place in 1757, and from that time forward the proprietors' -records show that he was one of the most active and prominent men in the town, and the registry of deeds shows that he was at dif ferent times the owner of much real estate. As early as 1750 he built a sawmiU, the first of the kind in the town. He was captain of the first military company ever mustered in Buxton. His daughter Sally stated, in 1755, of her father: "He was a great lumberman in those days ; he used to haul lumber to Pleas ant Point and raft it to Saco. He sold his place to Cadv/allader Gray, moved to the Hol ds side of Salmon Falls, and built the first dwelling house there, and lived only three years afterwards." FloUis was then the "Plan tation of Little Falls." Joseph Woodman mar ried, in 1737, Betsey Durell, or more probably, Betsey Sewall. She died before she was twenty-one years old. Joseph Woodman mar ried, according to the town records of Read ing, Massachusetts, November 7, 1739, Cath arine Smith, of Reading, born June 20, 1721,^ daughter of Isaac and Mary Smith. He mar ried for his second or third wife, widow Cole, probably born Tarbox. He married last Reli ance Edgcomb, widow of James Edgcomb, born Thompson, a native of Brunswick. His children were : Betsey, probably child of Bet sey Sewall ; Mary, Olive, Joseph, Rebecca, James, Susanna, Nathaniel and Sally. Seven children were born by the second (third) wife ; and one of the last wife. (V) Captain Joseph (2), fourth chdd and eldest son of Joseph (i) "Woodman, was born in Biddeford, date of birth unknown, probably 1749; and died October 15, 1824, in the sev enty-sixth year of his life. Buxton was a forest when he was born and during his boy hood. He was for three months the pupil of Silas Moody, and this was all the schooling he ever had. He settled on lot 3, range A, second division, probably immediately after his marriage, and there he made his home as long as he lived. He built his first house in Au gust, 1775, while the British were cannonading Portland, and when he heard the thunder of their batteries at Buxton, wished he could have the glass they were breaking there to glaze the windows of his new house, which for want of glazing he was obliged to board up. The country was then so near its natural condition that wolves were plenty, and howled about his house at night. In 1802 he built a much more pretentious house, with a hip roof, which is still standing. He built the first saw miU on the Buxton side of the Saco river, and his cousin, Hon. John Woodman, and others built the first one on the Hollis side. He owned the land where the dam and mill 112 STATE OF MAINE. stood, and is said to have felled the first tree in clearing the ground for his improvements. He built not only the first sawmill, which was double, but three single sawmills on the Bux ton side at Bar AliUs. Before I7g8 he also built a grist mdl and a fulling mill there. A carding mill was put into the fulling mill at a later day, and is said to have been the first one in :\Iaine. A large portion of the lumber in his day went to the West Indies, and re turn cargoes were composed mainly of rum and molasses. Then every one drank rum not excepting the women and the clergy ; and Captain Woodman, being largely engaged in lumbering, not only drank it, but bought it by the hogshead for the use of his workmen and of his friends. He was the founder of the Bar Mills on the Buxton side of the river. He owned most if not all of the land where the mills and most compact part of the village now stand, and his farm lay adjacent. He ' never ceased to have a lively interest in all that related to Bar Mdls, and though an old man when the building of the first bridge there was undertaken, he was so much interested in the project that he waded into the water to help move and place the crib which was to serve as a foundation for one of the piers of the bridge. While thus engaged he bruised one of his legs ; inflammation ensued, and death was the consequence. He was an energetic, wide-awake man, of great natural abilities, who knew as much law as any lawyer of his day, it was said, and to him all the people of the neighborhood went for counsel and ad vice. In politics he was a Jeffersonian Demo crat, and capable of maintaining his side in a very spirited debate with his opponents in the Federalist party. He joined no church, but was the first in town to adopt the faith of the Universahsts. He had a remarkably fine voice, and attended Parson Coffin's church, where for many years he sang in the choir. Fle had great muscular strength, was fond of wrestling or any rough game which would test his strength and prove him master. He is said to have been a great joker and fond of convivial entertainment. He was a handsome man, handsomely dressed in the fashion of the time, wearing queue, ruffles, and so forth ; in form, noble, erect and commanding, and hav ing manners of the old school, dignified and polished. He was captain of the military com pany, and was thereafter always called Cap tain Woodman, a title which his father bore before him. A military captaincy in those days was an honored position, which he was proud to hold. W^hen in command of his com pany he dressed elegantly, wearing short clothes with silk stockings, silver knee and shoe buckles, ruffled shirt and ruffled wrist bands. He was a Free xMason, and his funeral, which was the largest ever seen in the town up to that time, was under the auspices of that body. There were about eighty carriages in the procession. He was noted for courage and perseverance, and carried through what ever he undertook. He was generally liked, and was benevolent and good to the poor. He married, March, 1773, Abigail ^Voodsum, doubtless born in Biddeford. where she was baptized May 28, 1755. and ilied at the house of William Scribner, who married her grand daughter, Abigail Wingate, December 26, 1838, aged eighty-three years and eight months. She was the daughter of ]\Iichael and Elizabeth (Dyer) Woodsum, of Bidde ford, who were married August 24, 1749. Her father's father was probably Joseph Woodsum, of Berwick, tador. Her father moved to Narragansett No. i when she was a small child, and she was taken there on a load of hay. She was a tall, stately woman, with black eyes and dark complexion, and per fectly erect, even in her old age. She was of grave demeanor, quiet, and not given to gos sip. She performed faithfully and well the duties which were incumbent upon her, and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew her. It has been written : "Her chil dren were justly proud of her as of their father, and I never saw more admiration ex pressed and more reverence manifested by children towards their parents than I witnessed in grandmother's children towards her. She would have commanded respect in any com pany." Children of Joseph and Abigail (Woodsum) Woodman, all born in Buxton: Edmund, Joseph (died young), Mary, Eliza beth, Joseph, Abigail, Wilham, Submit, Tam- son, John, James and Hannah. (VI) William, seventh chdd of Joseph (2) and Abigad (Woodsum) Woodman, was born December 17, 1787, and "died at Bar MiUs, January i, 1833. He was a lumberman, and resided at Bar Mills. He was considered a reliable and honorable man, and was beloved for his manly and social qualities. He was genial, social, fond of society and amusements, of quick and S3'mpathetic feelings, and had a merry laugh which made all those who heard it laugh also. .Ml regretted his early death. He married, July, 1815, Eliza, daughter of Aaron Burnham, of Scarborough. She died July 30, 1877. They had six children, all born in Buxton : Sarah Moody, Abigail Harris, STATE OF AlAINE. 113 Mary Jackson, Eliza Burnham, Isabella Tap- pan, and iMartha Weeks, next mentioned. (VII) Martha Weeks, youngest child of WiUiam and Eliza (Burnham) "Woodman, was born in Buxton, February 10, 1824, and died in Limerick, March 27,. 1891. She married, August 10, 1S49. Jeremiah M. Mason, of Lim erick. (See Mason.) (For first generation see Edward Woodman I.) (II) Edward (2), eldest WOODAIAN child of Edward (i) and Joanna Woodman, was born about 1628, probably in England, and was married December 20, 1653, "i Newbury, ^lassachusetts, to Mary Goodrich, Both were members of the Newbury church in 1(174, He subscribed to the oath of fidelity in 1678. His will was made December 16, 1693, and proved September foUowdng, which approximately in dicates the time of his death. His children were: iMary, Elizabeth (died young), Ed ward (died young), a child unnamed, Eliza beth, Rebecca. Sarah, Judith, Edward, Arch elaus, a daughter died sixteen days old, and Margaret. (Ill) Archelaus, third son and tenth child of Edward (2) and Mary (Goodrich) Wood man, was born June 9, 1672, in Newbury, and died there ]\Iarch 17, 1766. Fle was married about 1695, to Hannah (surname unknown), and their children were : iMary, Edward, Archelaus, Hannah, Judith, Joshua, John, Elizabeth, Joseph and Benjamin. (IV) Joshua, third son of .-Vrchelaus and Hannah Woodman, was born June 6, 1708, in Newbury, and settled about 1736 in Kingston, New Hampshire, where he died April 4, 1791. He was a man of most pious and sterling character and bore up the principles and char- ried, in iMarch, 1736, to Eunice Sawyer, born January 21, 1714, daughter of John and Sarah (Wells) Sawyer, the granddaughter of Sam uel and iMary (Emory) Sawyer, and great- granddaughter of Lieutenant William and Ruth Sawyer, pioneer settlers of Newbur}-. Of their fifteen children, three died in in fancy. The survivors were : Joshua, Eunice, John, :Moses, Samuel, Jonathan, David, Jo seph, Hannah, Sarah, iMary and Benjamin. (V) Moses, third son of Joshua and Eu nice (Sa\yyer) Woodman, was born ]\Iarch 25, 1743. in Kingston, New Hampshire, and resided for a short time in Salisbury that state. The latter returned to the neighborhood of his native place and settled in Hawke (now Dan- viUe). New Hampshire, where he died in 1824. He married, in 1777, Hannah (Pierce) Eaton, born 1751, died in August, 1850, at the age of ninety-nine years. They were the parents of: Polly, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Moses and John. (\T) Benjamin, eldest son of Moses and Hannah (Pierce) (Eaton) Woodman, was born in 1783, probably in Danville, New Hampshire, and went to LoveU, Maine, wdience he removed to Sweden, Maine. His active years were devoted to agriculture, and he maintained an intelligent interest in all that pertained to the public welfare, being an active Methodist in religion and a Whig in politics. He married Rachel Eaton ; children : Timothy, John, Abigail, Hannah, Nathan and ^Mary. (VII) John, second son of Benjamin and Rachel (Eaton) Woodman, was born 1808, in Dover, New Hampshire, and removed with his parents to Fryeburg, Maine. When seventeen years of age he went to Fryeburg, iMaine, but soon after settled in Sweden, same state, wdiere most of his life was passed, engaged in farm ing and lumbering. He was an active mem ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, in wdiich he held various official stations, and was a AA'hig and among the early supporters of the Republican party. He was a captain of militia and prominent in all public affairs. He died about 1890, at the age of eighty-two years, at Kent's Hill, Maine. He was mar ried, in Sweden, to Sarah Ann Evans, born 1810, died 1905, at the age of ninety-four years, daughter of Timothy and ^lary (Gam- mage) Evans, and granddaughter of Joshua and Rebecca Gammage. Joshua Gammage came from Scotland and fought at Bunker Hill, his weapon being a pitchfork. At the age of seventeen he enlisted under General Washington and served through the war. At the age of ninet\- years he w-ent from Frye burg, Maine, to attend a soldiers' reunion in Boston, and died soon after. John and Sarah A. (Evans) Woodman were the parents of five children : The eldest, Sarah Worth, be came the wife of Marcus Nash, and both are now deceased. Rebecca married, Simeon Charles, of Fryeburg. John Francis is men tioned at length below. Caroline Evans mar ried Edwin Lord, of Kezar FaUs, }.Iaine. James Oscar served in civil war ; died at South Windham, Maine, leaving a son George. (\TII) Rev. John Francis, eldest son of John and Sarah (Evans) Woodman, was born September 12, 1836, in Sweden, and grew up there, receiving the educational train ing afforded by the common schools, but is largely a self-educated man, having prepared himself by private study, after wdiich he took J 14 STATE OF MAINE. a course in preparation for the Methodist min istry. Meantime he worked at blacksmithing. He was made a deacon and subsequently be came a member of the Maine Conference, May g, 1875. He has served as pastor at Shap leigh, Acton, New Vineyard, New Portland, Phillips and Strong. Because of failure of his health he was compelled to abandon the ministry, and located on a farm in Oxford, Maine, where he has since resided and is a man of affairs in the community. A Republi can in pohtics, he has filled various junior offices, and is affihated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Fle married, March 28, 1859, at Raymond, Maine, Sarah Small Nash, daughter of Daniel S. and Achsah A. (SmaU) Nash. Daniel S. Nash was a farmer residing in Raymond, and had four children : Marcus, Sarah S., Samuel and Mary. Sarah S. (Nash) Woodman died before 1875, and Mr. W''oodman married (second) January g, 1875, Dorothy Melissa Ahbott, youngest child of Tobias and Dorothy (Wilson) Abbott. To bias Abbott was a farmer residing in Newfield. There were three children of Mr. Woodman's first marriage : Daniel Nash, again mentioned below ; John, died aged two years ; and Sarah Ann, wife of William H. Merchant, residing in Yarmouth, Maine. The children of the second marriage were : Alice May, Frank Evans and Ethel Hoyt. (IX) Daniel Nash, eldest son of Rev. John F. and Sarah S. (Nash) Woodman, was born March 31, 1861, in Sweden, Maine, and there passed his boyhood, but attended Kent's Hill Seminary for three years and .graduated at the Eastern Maine Seminary with class of i8gg. He was subsequently a student for two years in the medical department of Bowdoin Col lege, and studied medicine two years at the medical school connected with the Maine (jen eral Hospital at Portland. After one year at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, he was graduated in April, i8g3. He immediately began the practice of his pro fession at North Yarmouth, where he re mained four years, and has ever since been established at Yarmouthville, where he has a large and growing practice and is highly es teemed as a man and citizen. Dr. Woodman is a member of the American Medical Asso ciation, of the Maine Medical Society, and of the Academy of Medicine and Science, at Port land. He is affiliated with the Masonic fra ternity, having obtained the Royal Arch de gree, and' is also a member of the Improved Order of Redmen, and the Knights of the Golden Eagle; and of the Methodist Episco pal church. He was once active in political matters, associating with the Republican party, but in recent years has given httle attention to matters of that nature. He married, October II, i8go, Hattie Worthley KendeU, born in 1871, in Bangor, Maine, daughter of Alva and Harriett (Worthley) KendaU. Their chiF dren are: Lewis A., Edward Francis, Alfred King, Ruth Nash, Sarah Melissa, Arthur T., Ethel Maud and Alice Cynthia. (For early generations see Edward Woodman I.) (IV) Joshua (2), third son WOODM.A.N of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Longfellow) Woodman, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, Jan uary 22, 1720. Together with his brothers Joseph and Nathan he settled .near Pleasant Point, in Buxton, Maine, in 1750. On De cember 24, 1 741, his father conveyed to him one fuU right of land, being one one-hundred and twenty-third part of Narragansett No. i (now Buxton), and by subsequent purchase he acquired title to six and one-half fuU rights, or about one-seventeenth part of the entire township. It is said that he also owned still other lands than those mentioned. Ac cording to Dennett's map (1870) he settled and had his home on lot No. 22, range C, first division. Under date of Biddeford, August 21, I74g, the clerk of the proprietors of Narragan sett No. I was requested to call a meeting on the application of Robert Brooks, John Brooks, Jacob Davis, John Redlon, Thomas Bradbury, Joseph Woodman, Joshua Woodman and Amos Chase. At that time all of these men were doubtless living in Biddeford and Saco, all of which territory then was under the name of Biddeford. The year I74g seems to have been one of preparation on the part of the proprietors of the town, and from the fohow ing year (1750) dates the permanent settle ment and continuous history of the town. In 1742 a temporary settlement was made and was continued for two years, when the pion eers were compelled to abandon their lands on account of the outbreak of war between Eng land and France, wdiich of course involved their American colonies. Joseph Woodman was one of that small band of intrepid pion eers who in 1742 made the first attempt to found the town which was compelled to be abandoned two years later, but his brother Joshua is not known to have been one of them. Joshua evidently moved from Newbury to Biddeford some time during the year 1749, at the time when the proprietors were making preparations for the second attempt at perma- STATE OF :MAINE. ii: nent settlement of old Narragansett No. i. The proprietors' records show that Josluia Woodman was one of the leading men in the new region, frequently moderator of- the town meetings and his name appears often among the petitioners to the proprietors for various purposes and also among those who had occa sion to present petitions to the general court of the province; and the records bear testi mony to the fact that he was chosen to serve on committees to which were delegated im portant and responsible duties. In fact his tory establishes that Joseph and Joshua Wood man were recognized as leaders among the founders of the town. On June 27, 1765. probably on account of financial embarrass ments Joshua Woodman conveyed to his brother Stephen (then of Falmouth, now Portland) "my homestead farm whereon I now dwell, containing one hundred acres, more or less, the same being six home lots in said township, viz. : In Letter C the home lots numbered 21, 23 and 26, and in Letter D lots numbered six and seven, together with the buildings thereon standing." This appears to have been the beginning of a series of finan cial reverses which eventually resulted in the loss of a considerable part of his once large land holdings in the town. Several judgments were obtained against Joshua \\'c)odman at the June term of the court in York count)' in 1767 and several others at the June term of the court in the following year. The causes of his misforttmes are not known. He died in Buxton about the year 1800, and his wife is said to have died six years afterward. Both were buried in the graveyard at the Lower Comer, and Cvms \\'oodman, in his work entitled "The A^^oodmans of Buxton. Maine" (1872), says that the stones markuig their graves are still standing. (V) Toshua. son of Joshua Woodman, mar ried June 14. 1787, Sarah Wheeler, of Bux ton, and died Januarj- 16 (or 21), 1844. He served in the American na^-y during the revo lutionary war, was captured by the British, and confined in what was called the ^Mill prison in England: but after a time he man aged to escape by digging under the prison wall. He also was in the land service during a part of the war. and was with the army under General W'ashing^on throughout the eventful winter at Valley Forge, at which place it also is said that he was one of Washing ton's life guards. Captain Robert Wentw orth, of Buxton, is our authority for the statement "that with others he dug under the walls of the Mill prison in England and escaped to France." He remained in the latter country for some time, witho-ut money or means of any kind by the use of which he was able to return to America. However, one of his fel low townsmen, a Captain Harding, who hap pened to be in England about that time and heard of his misfortune, went to France and provided him w ith the means to get back home. His gravestone says that Joshua W'oodman died January 16, 1844, aged ninety-five years. which doubtless is an error, if his brother Ben jamin was older than himself, for their father was not married until ^lay 25, 1749. (A'l) Samuel, son of Joshua and Sarah (\^'heele^) Woodman, was bom in Buxton, Maine, August 28, 1790, and died in Portland, Maine, about 1827. He married (first) June 5. 181 5. Paulina Libby, of Gorham. Elaine, and (second) in 1821, Lj-dia Raymond. (\TI) Benjamin J., only son of Samuel and Paulina ( Libby 1 Woodman, was born in Westbrook, ]\Iaine, November 20. 18 18, and died there in 1903. He was a shoemaker by trade, and in the earlier part of his business life was associated \rith \\'illiam H. Neal. of Westbrook, in the manufacture of shoes. This was before the days of modem shoe factories. The firm of Neal & \\'oodman, as the partner ship was known, manufactured shoes largely bv hand and distributed the product of the shop through the surrounding towns with wagons. It was the custom of the "shoe team'" to call at the merchant's door and supply their wants from stock carried in the wagon driven by the salesman. The firm carried on a profit able business for many years and became large holders of real estate in the town, but finally was compelled to suspend operations during the panic and business depression of 1857. At that time Mr. Woodman disposed of hi; in terest in the concern to his partner and re moved to a farm in \\'estbrook, where he died, in his eighty-fifth year. He married, in De cember. 1840, Charlotte Babb, of Westbrook, and both she and her husband were members of the ^^'estbrook [Methodist Episcopal Church for more than half a centrry : children: Charles B., Paulina H.. Benjamin F.. Clara. Mar\- and Charlotte. ("VIII) Charles Babb. eldest son of Benja min T. and Charlotte (Babb) Woodman, was bom in Westbrook, [Maine, in 1841. anci died in that citv in August, 1901. He received his education in the common schools of his native towTi and in Gorham Academy, and for the next ten vears after leaving school was em ployed in the steward's department of different coast steamboats, three years of that period ii6 ST.\TE OF MAINE. being spent on gevernment transports during the civil war. He enlisted early in the war, but w-as not able to pass the required physical examination. At the close of the war lie re turned home, and in company with E. H. Sturgis entered general merchandizing, the firm name being Sturgis & ^^'¦oodman. In 1872 he purchased his partner's interest in the busi ness, and soon afterward gradually sold out his grocery stock and confined himself to the sale of drugs and medicines. For a number of years he w-as proprietor of the only drug store in Westbrook, and he continued in that business until the time of his death, Mr. ^^'oodman always took an active and com mendable part in public affairs. Before West brook became a city he was for many years a member of the Republican town committee and its chairman for thirteen years. For several years also he was a member of the Republican district committee of the state, having been selected for that position by the late Thomas B. Reed. For five consecutive years he was town clerk and treasurer of Westbrook, and in 1885 and again in 1887 represented Westbroo!^ in the lower house of the state legislature. .¦\.fter the town became a city he was twdce elected member of the board of aldermen, serving as president of the board during his second term of office. He was postmasten of Westbrook four years during the administra tion of President Harrison, and in April. i8gg, was reappointed by IMr. iMcKinley for another term. He died during the second term of his incumbency of office, and as an appreciation of his faithful performance of duty his youngest son, Benjamin J. Woodman, was appointed his successor ; and the son is now postmaster of the city. In 1863 Charles Babb Woodman married Clydemena Spears, of Waterville, IVIaine, and by her had six children: Charles Flarold, now dead; Alice Louise, now^ dead; Guy Perley, a business man of Brunswick, Maine; George AI,, a physician of Westbrook; Benjamin J,, postmaster of Westbrook; Philip Everett, now dead. (IX) George iM., third son of Charles Babb and Clydemena (Spears) \^'oodman, was born in Westbrook, [Maine, June 20, 1872, and acquired his earlier literary education in the public schools of that city, graduating from the hi|:h school in i8go. He then took the scientific course at the Maine Weslevan Semi nary, Kent's Hill, and was graduated from that institution in 1892. .-Vfter spending one year as clerk in his father's drug store and a hke time as reporter on the staff of the Port land Evening Express, he determined to enter the profession of medicine; and to that end he matriculated at the medical department of Bowdoin College, completed the course of that institution, and graduated wdth the degree of M. D. in 1897, cum laude, and with the honors of the valedictory. After graduating he re ceived the appointment of house surgeon to the IMaine General Hospital and remained there one year. He began his professional career at South Windham, Maine, remained there for five years, and has since practiced in his native city of Westbrook. He holds mem bership in the American Medical Association, the Maine State Medical Society, the Port land and the Westbrook Medical Clubs. He at present holds a commission from the governor as contract surseon of the National Guard of the State of Maine. He married, February 25, 1904, \Mlna Frost Newcomb, of ^^'estbrook, daughter of Erwin B. and Ellen (Pennell) Newcomb. Two chil dren have been born of this marriage : Charles B., born November 30, 1904, and George M. Jr., born jMay 6, 1907. tFor first generation see Robert Jordan I.) (II) Jedediah, son of Robert JORDAN Jordan, was born in Falmouth, iMaine, and died in 1735. He left the plantation of Spurwdnk wdth his father at the outbreak of the Indians, and setded at Great Island, now New Castle, New Hamp shire. He afterwards removed to Kittery, Maine. He made his ^yill March 6, 1729. Children, probably born at Kittery: i. Jede diah, born 1684, mentioned below. 2. Abi gail, 1687, married Daniel Robinson. 3. Kez iah, 1690, died unmarried 1737. 4. [Mary, i6g3, married John Boulter. 5. Sarah, 1696, married James Jackson : resided at Dover, New Hampshire. 6. John, 1698, married, 1737, Deliverance Reading. 7. Thomas, 1701, married, 1736, Anne Simonton. 8. Robert, 1704, married, 1727, Rachel Huckins. (Ill) Jedediah {2), son of Jedediah (i) Jordan, born in 1684, died before 1729. He settled on a part of his father's farm at Spur wink. Children: i. Israel, born 1712. 2. John, 1715, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, 1718, married, 1745, Hannah Jordan. 4. Jeremiah, 1 72 1, married Keziah Hanscomb. 5. Abigail. 1724, married Richard Clark, (IV) John, son of Jedediah (2) Jonlan. was born in 1715. He married, in 17^8, Is.i- belle Armstrong. Children : i. James, born 1740, married Lydia Barnes. 2. Lemuel, 1742, married, October 2^. 1774, [Mary Jordan. 3. Samuel, 1744, mentioned below-. 4, John, mar- STATE OF MAINE. 117 ried, March 26, 1782, Lucy Jordan. 5. Thom as, died unmarried. 6. Dorothy, died unmar ried. 7. Mary, married, February 18, 1787, Joshua Robinson. 8. Sarah, married, Novem ber 21, 1776, Robert Clark. (V) Samuel, son of John Jordan, born at Falmouth in 1744, died May 10, 1809. He was in the revolution in Captain Abram Ty ler's company. Colonel Edmund Plummer's regiment, in 1775-76. He married, February II, 1766, at Cape Elizabeth, Sarah Jackson, when they were both very young. She died at Raymond, Maine, July 29, 1804. Children : I. Polly, born October 23, 1766, died De cember 23, 1812; married, 1790, Francis Sy monds, of Raymond. 2. John, born October 23, 1768, died December 16, 1861 ; married, May I, 1792, Dorcas Davis. 3. Hannah, born 1770, died young. 4. David, born June 20, 1773, died July 3, 1850; married, 1801, Ohve Brown. 5. Samuel, born September 21, 1775, mentioned below. 6. Henry, born May 8, 1778, died March 16, 1861 ; married, first, Decem ber 8, 1803, Polly Simonton ; second, January 19, 1819, Mrs. Judith Clark. 7. Thomas, born 1780, died 1789. 8. James, born October 21, 1783. 9. Zachariah, born July 2, 1787, died July 3, 1874; married, first, June 3, 1832, Esther Merrill; second, April 21, 1840, Sa- bina Page. (VI) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Jor dan, was born at Raymond, Maine, Septem ber 21, 1775, the first lawful white male chdd born in Raymond. He married. May 21, 1797, Rachel Humphrey, born August 30, 1776, at Gray, died 1871. He was a farmer and re sided at Raymond. He died October 11, 1859. Children: i. David, born April 7, 1798, men tioned below. 2. Isabelle, born July 4, 1799, married, October 7, 181 9, Joseph Symonds, and resided at Portland. 3. Sarah, born Feb ruary 18, 1801, married, February, 1832, Thomas Wales. 4. Dr. Cyrus, born January I, 1803, graduate of Dartmouth College; mar ried, first, June 18, 1828, Elsie Wales ; sec ond, 1854, Abbie Crane. 5. Jonas, born No vember II, 1804, died June 28, 1875; mar ried, April 18, 1835, Alma J. Brackett. 6. Lydia M., bom August 5, 1810, died June 8, 1813. 7. Cynthia, born February 18, 1814, died unmarried. 8. Anson, born August 29, 1816, died March 14, 1863; married, first, July 31, 1842, Matdda Hale Porter; second, Henrietta W. Thurlow. 9. Nelson, born Oc tober 20, 1818, married, December 9, 1850, Dorcas Staples Morrison. 10. Susan, born October 18, 1820, unmarried. (VII) David, son of Samuel (2) Jordan, was born in Raymond, April 7, 1798. He at tended the town school for about six weeks each year from twelve years of age until his majority. He then went to the academy at Bridgeton for two months and to the Hebron Academy for three months. He began teach ing school when he was twenty-two years old, and taught for twenty years in different parts of the state. For several years he was a mem ber of the superintending committee in the towns where he resided. ^ He began to train with the militia at the age of eighteen, and was elected lieutenant, then captain, and became' colonel at the age of thirty-one. He was bap tized by Rev. James Libby in 1839 and united with the Free Baptist Church at Otisfield. He afterwards joined the Free Baptist Church at New Gloucester. He resided until 1836 in Raymond, with the exception of a year in New Gloucester; from that time untd 1846 in Otisfield; until 1854 in Poland, and then in New Gloucester. He married, November 2g, 1827, at New Gloucester, Thankful Clark, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Judith (Stinchfield) Clark. Children: i. Isabelle, born December 8, 1828, married, October 25, 1857, Henry Cummings. 2. Julia Clark, born May 19^ 1831, died May 24, 1831. 3. Ben jamin Clark, bom June 26, 1833, mentioned below. 4. Juliette, born December 26, 1835, married, March 26, 1861, Orin P. Nash, and resided at Biddeford. 5. Anson, born May 3, 1839, died August 19, 184 1. 6. Emeline Leach, born June 28, 1841. 7. Susan Maria, born November 12, 1843. 8. Lyman G., born March 12, 1845, mentioned below. 9. Mark F. Clark, born [March 31, 1848, married, September, 1874, Eliza Ellis DunneU, and resided at Al fred, Maine. 10. Dr. Leicester Howard, born August 18, 1850, graduate of Bowdoin Col lege, 1873 ; married, July, 1878, Josephine L. Davis. (VIII) Benjamin Clark, son of David Jor dan, was born in New Gloucester, Maine, June 26, 1833. He married, August 16, 1864, at Buxton, Ann L. Meserve, daughter of Arcades E. Meserve. Children: i. NeUie Belle, born August 20, 1865. 2. Infant, May 11, died May 12, 1867. 3. Dora, May 27, 1868. 4. Josephine, February 10, 1873, died August 19, 1873- (VIII) Lyman G., son of David Jordan, was born at New Gloucester, March 12, 1845. He graduated at Bates College in 1870, and is now one of the faculty of the college. He married, December 24, 1871, Hattie Tme Knowlton, daughter of Rev. E. Knowlton, of South Montville. He resides at Lewiston, ii8 STATE OF MAINE. Maine. Children: i. Ralph I., born May g, 1875, died January 2g, 1877. 2. Beula Claire, born June 2, 1877. 3. Mabel True, Sep tember 23, 1878. 4. Elwin K. 5. Wayne C. (For preceding generation nee Rev. Robert Jordan I.) (II) Jeremiah, youngest son of JORDAN Rev. R)bert and Sarah (Win ter) Jordan, was born at Fal mouth, Maine, about 16(33, and died in 1729. The place where he was born was the old family plantation at Spurwink, afterwards Fal mouth and now Cape Elizabeth. This estate had been inherited from the father of Mrs. Robert Jordan, Mr. John Winter, a great landed proprietor. Rev. Robert Jordan and his family lived on this place from 1648 till 1675, when the house was burned by the In dians, and they moved to Newcastle, New Hampshire, where the clergyman died four years later. The "Old Plantation" at Spur wink, containing about one thousand acres, was bequeathed to Mrs. Jordan with the pro vision that it should go to Jeremiah at her death. The son was sixteen years of age at the time of his father's decease, and he con- tipued to live with his mother at [l^ewcastle till his marriage in 1688. Soon after this Jeremiah Jordan removed to Scarborough, Maine, where he occupied the Nonesuch Farm, containing two thousand acres, which had be longed to his mother. It was here that his two children were born, and it was here that he raised the provisions that he sold to the gov ernment. The following document has been preserved: "Blackpoint, Oct. 4, 1703. This signifies that we have taken on board the Sloop Crowndhen, IMr. I'.ena. (iold, master, a thou sand and twenty nine pounds of pork which Mr. Jeremiah Jordan owner weighed by ye Governor's order to be delivered at ye stores at Great Island." Three years later a com plaint was filed at Kittery, Maine, by Pela Whittemore that the pork, through somebody's ne.gligence, "or for want of salt was much damnified so that I could never dispose of more than half of it." It is not strange that the pork was not properly salted, for on Au gust 10, 1703, Teremiah Jordan and his wife were captured by a hostile band of Indians, and on the same day, Domincus Jordan, a brother, who lived on the east side of the Si5ur- wink river, was killed in his own house, and his family carried into captivity. The children of Jeremiah Jordan, after the capture of their parents, were sent to Newcastle, where they probably remained in the care of friends till the release of their mother. After remaining three years in captivity, she was permitted to come back from Canada. Upon her^ return she made her home in Newcastle, which was probably her native place. Jeremiah Jordan was kept in Canada a number of years, part of the time with the Indians and later with the French. He was then carried to France, where he remained some years, being finally released, and returning, first to Spurwink, then to Newcastle. Owing to the exposure and hardships through which he had passed, he was not recognized by any of his friends, who all supposed he had been dead for years. He proved his identity by showing the scars on his breast, caused by fire or water when he was quite young, which were remembered by some of the family. From that time he was called "French Jeremy" to distinguish him from others of the same name. He probably re mained at Newcastle till after the death of his wife, and then accompanied his son, Jere miah (2), to Falmouth in 1725. About 1688 Jeremiah Jordan married Katherine, whose maiden name is unknown, and they had two children: Jeremiah (2), whose sketch fol lows; and Deborah, born about 1696, married James Randell, of Newcastle, New Hampshire. (Ill) Jeremiah (2), only son of Jeremiah (i) and Katharine Jordan, was born about 1693, probably on the Nonesuch Farm, at Scarborough, Maine, and he died about 1764. His parents were carried into captivity when he was ten years of age, and the boy and his sister Deborah were brought up at Newcastle, New Hampshire. Jeremiah (2) Jordan was living at Newcastle as late as 1724, and in 1728 he was living at Falmouth, now Cape Elizabeth, Maine. His first wife, who was probably the mother of his five children, may have died between those dates. About 1715 he married Catharine Randell, daughter of James Randell, of Newcastle, New Hampshire. There were five children : i. James, born 1716, married Phebe MitcheU. 2. Ehzabeth, 1719, married Moses Flanscomb, of Falmouth. .^ Jeremiah (3), whose sketch follows. 4. De borah, 1723, married Solomon Bragdon, of Scarborough. 5. Hepzibah, 1749, married Styleman Jordan, of [Newcastle, New Hamp shire. The second wife of Jeremiah (2) Jor dan was Sarah, but her maiden name is un known. (IV) Jeremiah (3), second son of Jere miah (2) and Catharine (Randell) Jordan, was born in 1721, probably at Newcastle, New Hampshire. At the age of seven, or earlier, he moved with his parents to Falmouth, Maine. He must have spent his life in that neighbor- STATE OF MAIN.E. 119 hood, as he received from his father a deed of one hundred and ninety acres of land near the mouth of the Spurwink river. The date of his death is unknown. He married Eliza beth Cox, of Beverly, Massachusetts, to whom he was published June 2, 1750. They had seven children: i. Sarah, born May 22, 1752, married William Dingley, of [Falmouth. 2. Mary, January 12, 1754, married Benjamin Staniford. 3. Lucy, February 25, 1759, mar ried John Jordan, a son of Jedediah (2), a first cousin of Jeremiah (2). 4. Nathaniel, whose sketch follows, 5. Deborah, September 23, 1763, married Noah Jordan (2) , 6. Thom as, February 18, 1769, was an invalid many yeai^, and died unmarried at the age of fifty. 7. Winter, February 12, 1775, married Lucy Richards., (V) Nathaniel, eldest son of Jeremiah (3) ma Elizabeth (Cox) Jordan, was born May 25, 1761, at Falmouth, Maine; but the date of his death is unknown. He was a farmer and lived on the old homestead at Spurwink. On January 29, 1784, he married Dorothy Jordan, daughter of Captain Joshua and Cath erine (Jordan) Jordan. (See Jordan V.) There were ten children : i . Lucy, born Au gust 7, 1784. 2. Betsey, December 15, 1785. 3. ancl 4. Wihiam and Nathaniel (twins), No vember 27, 1 79 1. 5. Sally, October 13, 1794. 6. Rufus, September 13, 1795. 7. Catharine, 1797. 8, Joshua, October 14, 1799. g. Polly, November 13, 1801. 10. Ivory, January 11, 1805. Of these children,, Lucy married Stephen Hibbard, of Freedom, and died at Norridge- wock in 1824, Betsey married David SmaU, of Scarborough, and was living in 1878 at the age of ninety-three. William is mentioned in the succeeding paragraph. Nathaniel married (first) Abigail Garcelon, (second) Alice Rowe, Sally married Jonathan McJCenney and lived at Danville. Catharine married Samuel Waterhouse, a farmer of Lisbon, and died in that town in 1840. Joshua was a trader and lumberman, and lived at Foxcroft. Fle mar ried (first) Olive Ann Duggin, of Wells, who died at the age of twenty-nine, leaving two children; (second) Martha Merrill, of Har mony, who had seven childreh. No further record is given of Polly Jordan beyond the fact of her birth; she probably died young. Ivory litred at New Gloucester, and married (first) Eliza, daughter of Solomon and Sarah (Staples) Jordan, (second) Caroline C. Dyer. Rufus lived on home farm at Cape Elizabeth ; father of Mrs. Stephen Dyer, of Portland, mother of [Herbert Dyer, of Portland, Mrs. D. Wallace Oakes, of Auburn. (VI) William, eldest son of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Jordan) Jordan, was lorn at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, November 27, 1791, and died at [DanviUe, now Auburn, January 24, 1853. I-Ie bought a tract of land in Danville, covered with heavy green timber, and built a little house there where he moved his family in January, 1822. Fle was an honest, indus trious man, and worked hard to support his ¦family. On January 24, 1821, he married Margaret Duggin, daughter of Michael Dug gin, of Cape [Elizabeth, and they had nine chil dren; I,. Olive, born January 24, 1822, mar ried Samuel R. Damrem, of Belgrade. 2. Francis Michael, January 10, 1824, married Parthenia Ricker. 3. 'William (2), whose sketch follows. 4. Margaret A., September 17, 1828, married George W. Ricker, of New Gloucester. 5, Mary Jane, June 11, 1832, now living, unmarried. 6. Nathaniel I., February 25, 1835, married Adelia S. Libby, of Dur ham. 7. Almond Libby, January 21, 1837, died in that year. 8. Susan Maria, September 10, 1838, married Edward A. Little. 9. Sarah Ellen, August 11, 1841. (VII) William (2), second son of WiUiam (i) and Margaret (Duggin) Jordan, was born November 17, 1825, at DanviUe, now Au burn, Maine, and received his education in the schools of that town. He remained on the home farm till twenty-two years of age when he went to Massachusetts, and later to New port, [Rhode Island, where he remained some time. Fle then returned to Auburn and went into business with his brother, Francis M. They afterwards took in Albert E. Frost, and changed the name to Jordan, Frost and Com pany. In 1884 Mr. Jordan began his pres ent market garden, making a specialty of strawberries and celery. He is a Republican in politics, and attends the Baptist church. On December 20, 1854, he married Caroline Cranston, daughter of Thomas' and Phebe Cranston, of [Newport, Rhode Island. They had seven chUdren : i. Mary Jane, born No vember 22, 1855, married George Strout, of Biddeford; child, Paul Strout. 2. Thomas Cranston, July 6, 1857, w£ts educated in Au- .burn, associated with his father in the market garden; married Elizabeth P. Moody, who died April 9, 1907. 3. Annie, January 23, 1859. 4. Carrie Cranston, January 6, 1862,' married George Ingersoll, of Auburn; child, Efizabeth F., a student at Bates College. 5. William F., November i, 1863, educated in public schools of Auburn, graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1885; then went to Omaha, Nebraska, and I20 STATE OF MAINE. became civil engineer for the Burlington & Quincy railroad for three years; went from there to Rochester, New York, as assistant engineer of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts burg railroad, where he remained twelve years, or until he was appointed terminal engineer for the New York Central railroad. Member of American Society of Civil Engineers, and secretary of American Encyclopedia of Biog raphy now being published. Married Mabel, daughter of Rawson and Mary ^ Smith, ot Rochester, New York; chUd, Lawrence, born October lo, 1898. 6. Ernest, May ,1, 187X, educated in the schools of Auburn and the Col lege of Pharmacy of New York City; was for some time employed with the Auburn Drug . and Chemical Company, and afterwards went to Bangor, where he remained until 1894; re turned to Aubiirn atid in 1895, in company with John Burrill, formed the firm of Bur- rill & Jordan, which continued until 1900, whe.i the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Jordan en tered the employ of Seth D. Wakefield, where he stiU remains. Married Ada M. Ham, of Boston ; children : Caroline F. and Edward M. 7. Archer, whose sketch follows. (VIII) Archer, youngest child of Wihiam (2) and Caroline (Cranston) Jordan, was born at Auburn, Maine, January 7, 1873. He attended the public schools of his native town, graduated from the Edward Little high school in 1^91, thereupon entering, Colby College, from which he graduated in the class of 1895. He then accepted the position of principal of the high school in Vanceboro, Maine, resign ing there one year later to accept a position in the Mitchell's Boys School at Billerica, Massachusetts, where he taught mathematics and science. In 1899 he entered the Univer sity of Pennsylvania and was graduated from there in 1902 with the degree of D. D. S. He began the, practice. of dentistry at Water- vide, Maine, and in' 1904 returned to Auburn and opened the office which he now occupies. He is a Republican in politics, and a Congre gationahst in religion. He is a member of the Calumet and Country clubs, also of the college fraternity, IJelta Kappa Epsilon. On October* 16, 1902, he married Ethel Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Dr. Charles E. and Emma J. (Harlow) Williams, of Auburn. (See Williams V.) ChUdren: Cranston Har low, born July 12, 1903; Archer (2), July 2q, 1905 ; Charles W., September 24, 1907. (IV) Captain Joshua, third son of Nathan iel and Dorothy Jordan, was born in 1736, at Spurwink, now Cape [Elizabeth, Maine. He seems to have resembled his grandfather Do minicus in physique, being six feet in height and of great endurance. At the beginning of the revolution he had a large family of chil dren, but he left all to fight for his country. On November 20, 1777, he commanded a com pany of men in Colonel Peter Noyes' regiment. In 1779 he had command of a company in Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's regiment. On the expedition against the enemy at Penobscot, from July 7 to September 25, 1779, his name heads the payroll as captain. [Later in life he became the owner of part of Richmond's Island, and there he lived for a number of years, dying at length in his chair. He had been afflicted with asthma for some time, so that he could not sleep in a bed. The exact date of his death is unknown. On March 24, 1763, he married Catharine Jordan, of Fal mouth, daughter of his second cousin, Rich ard Jordan, and his wife, Katharine Hans- comb. To Joshua and Catharine (Jordan) Jordan were born .eight children, and it is somewhat remarkable that six out of the eight married Jordans. i. Dorothy, mentioned below. 2. and 3. WiUiam and Joshua' (twins), born June 8, 1770, married respectively Eu nice and Abigail Jordan. 4. Daniel, Decem ber 7, 1773, married Ann McKenney. 5. . ' Ebenezer, February 9, 1778, married Polly Jordan. 6. James, August 20, 1780, married Martha Robinson. 7. Nathaniel, October 15, 1782, married Esther Jordan. 8. Catharine, November 21, 1784, married Nathaniel Jor dan, son of Benjamin and Abigail (Peables) Jordan. Ebenezer Jordan, who married, Sep tember 15, 1810, was drowned .shortly after- ;, ward, while fording the, channel betv/eeri/i Richmond's Island and the mainland. This channel, which is an easy ford in low tide, is a mile wide at flood. (V) Dorothy, eldest child of Captain Joshua and Catharine (Jordan) Jordan, was born August 29, 1764, at Cape EUzabeth, and mar ried, June 29, 1784, Nathaniel Jordan, young est son of Jeremiah (3) and^Ehzabeth (Cox) Jordan. (See Jordan V.) (For preceding generations see Rev. Rotert Jordan I.) (Ill) Dominicus (2) Jordan, JORDAN eldest son of Dominicus (i) and Hannah (Tristram) Jor dan, was born at Spurwink, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in 1683, die4 May 20, 1749. At the time of the Indian outbreak, soon after 1700, he was captured by the Indians and taken to Trois Rivieres (Three Rivers), Can ada, and held prisoner there for something Jike twelve or thirteen years before he was sue- STATE OF MAINE. 121 cessful in making his escape. While living among the Canadian Indians he became quite famdiar with the dialects of several of the tribes, and that knowledge served him a use ful purpose in later years. He returned to Spurwink in 171 5 and lived in that town dur ing the remaining years of his life. He was a very active man in' public affairs, holding sev eral important town offices and was one of the selectmen the first year after the incor poration of Falmouth, representative to the general court and major of the provincial mil itia. He also was energetic in business life and acquired a large property in lands and goods. He married, in Kittery, Joanna Bray, who survived him many years, and by whom he had seven children, all born in Spurwink : I. Dominicus, June 15, 1715, died 1786; mar ried Phebe Gray. 2. Nathaniel, December 24, 1718. 3. Clement, Aprd 24, 1720, died 1789. 4. Mary, married (first) Parker, (sec ond) Colonel Ezekiel Gushing. 5. Tristram, April II, 1726, died March 18, 1727. 6. Mir iam, married Robert Mitchell, of Kittery. 7. Hannah, March 12, 1728, married Joseph Prout. (IV) Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel, son of Major Dominicus and Joanna (Bray) Jordan, was born in Spurwink, Maine, December 24, 1718, and was one of the influential men of the province in his time. He received from his father more than four hundred acres of good land, but he himself added materially to his inherited possessions. He was lieutenant colonel of the militia raised in Cumberland county and served in the defense of the sea- coast; and his name appears on the roll of field and staff officers for the year 1779. He married, August 2, 1740, Hannah Woodbury, of Beverly, Massachusetts, and by her had nine children, all born in Falmouth: i. Tris tram, 1743, revolutionary soldier and private in Captain Joshua Jordan's company; mar ried Hannah Lassell. 2. Israel, June 12, 1745, married Susanna Jordan. 3. Dominicus, 1746. 4. Ezekiel, 1749, married, 1774, Mary Simon ton. 5. Hannah, 1752, married, 1770, Samuel HiU, of Biddeford. 6. Mary, 1754, married, 1774, Lemuel Jordan. 7. Abigail, 1756, mar- riet^l, 1778, Jeremiah Cobb. 8. Nathaniel, No- verhber, 1757, revolutionary soldier in the sea- coast defense; married, 1784, Joanna Sawyer. 9. Simon, 1763, lost at sea. (V) Dominicus (3),' son of Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel and Hannah (Woodbury) Jordan, was born at Falmouth, now Cape Ehzabeth, Maine, in 1746, died at Raymond, now Casco, March 23, 1823. He moved from Cape Elizabeth to Raymond about 1774. The name Raymond was changed to Casco in 1843. Mr. Jordan married, December 19, 1765, at Cape Elizabeth, Catharine Maxwell, who died at Raymond, September 26, 1826; children: I. WiUiam, born at Cape Elizabeth. 2. Eze kiel, Cape Elizabeth, April 15, 1770, died Casco, 1852. 3. Mary, married Richard May- bury, of Raymond. 4. Nathaniel, died June 26, 1848. 5. Hannah, died unmarried. 6. Elizabeth, died July 11, 1863: married Sam uel Knight and lived in Otisfield. 7. Cathar ine, born Raymond, married ¦ — Haskell. (VI) William, son of Dominicus (3) and Catharine (Maxwell) Jordan, was born at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and lived and died in the north part of the town of Raymond. He married Ann, daughter of Rev. Zachariah Leach, of Raymond ; children, born in Ray mond : I. Mark, September 12, 1790, died January 5, 1865. 2. Catharine, April 21, 1792, died Casco, June 13, 1871. 3. Peggy, June 2, 1794. 4. Dominicus, January 17, 1796, died Depere, Wisconsin, January 5, 1869. 5. WiU iam, March 6, 1798, died unmarried. 6. Peter, October 10, 1799, died Windham, December 18, 1873. 7. Martha, June 25, 1802, married Joseph Dingley. 8. Asa, July 10, 1804, died February 4, 1812. 9. Samuel, June 6, 1805. 10. EUzabeth K., April 19, 1807, died 1863. II. Asa, August 25, 1810. (VII) Samuel, son of William and Ann (Leach) Jordan, was born at Raymond, Maine, July 6, 1805, and died on his home farm in Deering, Maine, December 14, 1880. After the death of his father, when Samuel was about fifteen years old, he went to West brook, now the Deering district of Portland, and for the next two years was in the employ of Elisha North, a merchant of that town. After that he was a student at Hebron Acad emy, where he pursued a thorough course of study with the view of entering the United States Military Academy at West Point, New- York, with the ultimate intention of entering the army; but in deference to the wishes of his mother he abandoned that idea and turned his attention to mercantile pursuits. After leaving the academy he went to Woodford's Corners and became agent for the sale of combs manufactured by E. D. Woodford. His agency extended throughout the New England states, the Canadian provinces and as far south as Bahimore, Maryland. In 1832 he acquired a partnership interest in the business con ducted by his employer, Mr. Woodford, anH the style of the firm became Woodford & Jor dan. This relation was maintained for the 122 ST.'\TE OF MAINE. next six years and during that period the firm's business was increased by the addition of a tin manufacturing department ; and when the partnership was dissolved Mr. Jordan con tinned the manufacture of tinware in company with Gerry Cook, the firm name being Cook & Jordan. This business was continued with gratifying success for about three years, when the junior partner withdrew and purchased the farm formerly owned by Captain Thomas Seal, his father-in-law, situated in the town of Deer ing, and afterward devoted his attention chiefly to farming pursuits, although he was variously interested in other business enterprises and somewhat prominently identified with the po litical history of the county. For six years he was president of the Westbrook Bank, also a director of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad Company, now a part of the Grand Trunk system. From 1857 ^ 1861 he was postmaster of Portland, during the Buchanan administration, for Mr. Jordan was a staunch Democrat and a warm admirer of James Bu chanan. In 1848 and 1849 be was a member of the lower house of the state legislature. "Mr. Jordan was a man of more than ordinary character and force and had he been educated with a view to a public career would have been a leader among men anywhere. In mind and body he was sturdy and strong, but al ways frank and self-possessed. Tenacious of his own views and convictions, he always was manly and large-hearted in his intercourse with others — belonging to that type of men whose natures are so virile that their very faults are never despicable. His opinions were always sincerely sought in all matters of public con cern and were never for a moment misunder stood or lightly treated. He believed in the hearty and prompt contribution of individual thought to the current of public discussion, and so filled the full measure of a citizen's duty, and died in the fulness of years, beloved of family and friends ; and on every hand will be remembered as a brave, able and honest man, and a splendid type of the old New England stock which breathed into all our institutions the breath of its own courage and hopefulness." (Portland Daily News, Dec. 15, 1880.) On November 7, 1832, Samuel Jor dan married Eunice Quinby Seal, born West brook, February 4, 1808, died May 23, 1863, daughter of Captain Thomas Seal, and a lineal descendant of Sir William Pepperell through the Frost family. Of this marriage seven chil dren were bom: i. Emily F., July i, 1837. 2. Horace M., December 10, 1839. 3. Jane [Eliza beth, July 17, 1841, married, 1869, Captain James W. Thompson, an officer of a Massa chusetts regiment during the war of 1861-65, and afterward a planter in the Hawaiian islands. Mrs. Thompson died at Redlands, Cahfornia, October 27, igo8. 4. Arthur W., born January 25, 1843, a grain broker of Bos ton ; married, in 1875, Helen A. .Warren, of Deering, Maine, and had Henry Irving Jor dan, civil engineer of Portland. 5. Henry I., born June 31, 1845, died 1870, at Stillwater, Minnesota; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1863; College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1867; went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and thence to Stillwater, where he died ; never married. 6. Edward C, born March 17, 1847, graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York ; was engineer in charge of Yellowstone expedition, and Northern Pacific railway; mar ried, in 1873, Elizabeth Goddard Thomas, who died in 1874; married (second) Marcia [Brad bury, an authoress of note, daughter of the late Hon. Bion Bradbury. 7. IsabeUa Frost, born August 14, 1849, married, June 20, 1877, Fred W. Sewall, born August 10, 1850; lives at Wiscasset, Maine, and is a bank cashier; has one son, Samuel Jordan Sewall, superintend ent of the Wiscasset & Waterville railroad. (VIII) Horace Malcolm, son of Samuel and Eunice Quinby (Seal) Jordan, was born in Deering, now Portland, Maine, December 10, 1839, and acquired his earlier literary educa tion in private schools, Yarmouth Academy and Westbrook Seminary, in which he was fitted for college. In 1854 he entered Bow doin College, for the classical course, and was graduated with the degree of A. B. After leaving college he traveled somewhat exten sively for his health, and later took up the study of law wdth Mr. Justice Clifford, at Portland. In 1861 he was admitted to prac tice in the courts of this state and became a member of the Cumberland bar. In 1863 he went to New Orleans and was appointed aide- de-camp on the staff of General George F. Shepley, then military governor of Louisiana. Fle remained in the south at the close of the civU war, chiefly at New Orleans, where he was admitted to the bar and for a short time practiced law, in association with the law firm of Rouse & Grant. While there he drifted into newspaper work, and for some time pre vious to 1870 and was associate editor of the Nczv Orleans Republican. Returning to Maine in 1870, Mr. Jordan for the next two years was editor of the Maine Standard, at Augusta, and in 1872 became editor of the Portland Sunday Star. In 1873 he went into a new field and for the next five years filled responsi- ST.\TE OF MAINE. 123 ble positions on the editorial staff's of the Nczv York limes and the Brooklyn Eagle. Return ing to Boston in 1878, he took editorial charge of the afternoon editions of the Boston Globe. Later on he became connected with the Bos ton Traveller and was its associate editor from 1880 to 1887. While living in Boston iMr. Jordan was for two years secretary of the Massachusetts rapid transit commission, but otherwise devoted his attention chiefly to newspaper \york until he returned to New- York City and again became assistant eilitor of the New York Times. In 1897 he received the appointment of assistant librarian in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C, which position he still retains. Fle holds member ship in the FTniversity and National Press clubs of "\\'ashington, is quite inclined to be independent in politics and Unitarian in relig ious preference. In 1891 he married Virginia, daughter of George C. Frisbie, Esq., of Or well, Pennsylvania. She died December 31, 1906, leaving no children. (For preceding generations see Robert Jordan I.) (Ill) Captain Samuel, second JORDAN son of Dominicus and Hannah (Tristram) Jordan, was born at Spurwink in 1684. At the age of eighteen years he was carried a captive to Canada, and after living six years wdth the Indians spent one year with the French at "Three Rivers." With two other prisoners he managed to es cape, assisted by an Indian woman named Mary, and she guided them through the woods to Casco Bay. Settling at Winter Harbor, he engaged in trade, carrying on for many years the only store in that place, and as he had obtained a good knowledge of the Indian language while in captivity, he was able to render valuable services to the government as an interpreter. Subsequently to 1717 he acted as the authorized agent for the government in its transactions with the Indians, and he was also captain of the local militia company. He was a man of unusual energy and perse verance, was very prominent in civic and re ligious affairs, and a member of the Congre gational church. In 1727 he erected a sub stantial residence near Biddeford pool, which was still in a good state of preservation in 1872. Captain Jordan died December 20, 1742. He was married at York in 1718 to Olive Plaisted, daughter of James and iMary (Rishworth) Plaisted, of Brunswick, Maine. In 1744 she married for her second husband Rev. James Smith. Her death occurred in 1763. The childre'n of her first union were: Olive (who became the wife of Rev. Ivory Hovey) ; Sarah (wdio became the- wife of Rev. Samuel Flill) ; Hannah (who became the wife of Rev. iMoses Morrill) ; Samuel (w-'ho mar ried Mercy Bourn) ; Tristr;im, who will be again referred to; and iMary (who became the wife of Philip Goldthwaite, of Boston). (lA") Colonel Tristram, xoungest son of Captain Samuel and Olive (Plaisted) Jordan, was born at Winter Flarbor, May 13, 1731. He became one of the first merchants on the east side of the Saco river, at the falls, and resided in what was known as the Pepperell House. At the age of twenty-three, in 1754, he was chosen a selectman and at about the same time was commissioned a captain in the militia. In 1787 he was chosen a senator from York county to the Massachusetts general court. At the close of the revolutionary war he removed from the falls to his estate at Deep Brook, where he died November i, 1821, aged ninety years. In addition to the offices mentioned, he served as a magistrate for many years, and in 1776 was commissioned a colonel by the council of Massachusetts. In 1749 he married (first) in Berwick, Hannah, daughter of Ichabod Goodwin, bom July 24, 1730, died July 10, 1775. The Christian name of his second wife was Dorcas : their marriage occurred at Falmouth in 1778 and she died December 19, 1781. On May 21, 1784, he married (third) Hannah Frost, of Berwick, wdio died September 26, 1789. His twelve children were: i. Elizabeth, born March 2, 1 75 1, married William A'aughn, of Ports mouth; died April 5, 181 1. 2. Hannah, born December 3, 1753, died January 7, 1757. 3. Sarah, born January 19, 1756, married Colo nel Nathaniel Scammon, son of Captain Hum phrey Scammon, of Saco, and had eleven children. 4. Hannah, born April 5, 1758, mar ried, first. Captain Solomon Coit, of Saco ; married, second. Captain James Perkins, of Kennebunkport ; died i83g. 5. Olive, born June 24, 1760, married Captain Seth Storer; died August 4, 1842. 6. Tristram, born .-Vu- gust I, 1768, married Sarah Scammon. 7. Ichabod, born September 24, 1770, married [Mary Cofiin ; died May 20, 1865, aged ninety- five. 8. Mary, born August 24, 1772, married Daniel Granger, who served in the revolution ary war; died at Eastport in 1847. 9- '^^^' hitable, born July 2, 1775, died October 23, 1779. ID. Dorcas, bom in March, 1785, mar ried Edward Tucker, of Salem, Massachu setts; died March 18, 1874. 11. Samuel, born July 5, 1786, died in Alexandria, Virginia. 12. Rishworth, see next paragraph. 124 STATE OF MAINE. (V) Rishworth, youngest son of Colonel Tristram and Hannah (Frost) Jordan, bom ¦October 17, 1788, died at Saco in 1868. In 181 3 he married Mary Sawyer, born at Saco, November 14, 1790, daughter of William Saw yer. She died July 3, 1870. Their children were: i. Dorcas Olive, born September 29, 1813, became the wife of Gilbert Sawyer, of Saco, who was lost at sea November 14, 1837. 2. Sally, bom December 13, 1814, died Febru ary 6, 1823. 3. Mary, born July 28, 1817, became the wife of James Fogg, of Saco. 4. Rishworth, who is referred to in the succeed ing paragraph. 5. Henry, born December 21, 1820, married Mary A. Warren, daughter of William Warren, of Gorham. 6. William, born January 2, 1823, married Phebe C. Lord, daughter of James Lord, of Saco, and went to Iowa. 7. Sarah Jane, born January 27, 1827, married Captain [Robert Cleaves, of Saco ; died March 20, 1857. 8. Charles, born October 17, 1828, married Mary C. Cole, daughter of Ben jamin F. Cole, of Saco, and became a medical practitioner in Wakefield, Massachusetts. (VI) Rishworth (2), eldest son of Rish worth (i) and Mary (Sawyer) Jordan, was born in Saco, January 18, 1819. As a young man he was desirous of following the sea, but changing his mind he entered, as a clerk, the grocery store of Tristram Jordan, of Saco. He subsequently purchased the busi ness, which he carried on successfully for over thirty years. After his retirement from mercantile business he turned his attention to real estate, in which he was associated with Luther Bryant, of Biddeford, and was also a prominent figure in the financial affairs of .Saco, being president of the Saco National Bank. At one time he was president of the Biddeford National Bank, which through his timely aid was prevented from suspending business. In politics he was a Democrat, and resigned the office of mayor after being elected. Rishworth Jordan died March 20, igo3. He was married, AprU 3, 1851, to Mary Eliza beth HUl, daughter of Joseph Hill, of Saco. She became the mother of five children: i. Herbert, born November 6, 1851, died Au gust 29, 1853. 2. Helen A., born December 21, 1853, married, March 30, 1880, George Leonard Mason, who will be again referred to. 3. Herbert R., who wiU be again referred to. 4. Mary E., born April 30, 1864, died August 29, 1865. 5. Alfred, born January 23, 1867, died January 24, 1868. (VII) Herbert Rishworth, second son and third chdd of Rishworth (2) and Mary Elizabeth (Hill) Jordan, was born in Saco. June 28, 1857. He was educated in the pub lic schools, and began his business career in the grocery trade at Saco. He was after wards, for a number of years, engaged in the clothing business in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Returning to Saco, he be came associated with his father in the real estate business, and since the latter's death has acted in the capacity of manager of the Jordan estate. He succeeded his father as president of the Saco National Bank and is stUl the official head of that institution. In politics he is a Repubhcan. On October 20, 1879, Mr. Jordan married (first) Caroline Hooper, daughter of Gibson Hooper, of Saco. They have two children : Rishworth Pierpont, born April 13, 1887, and Elizabeth Hill, born January 2, 1890. He married (second) Annie E. Leavitt, February II, 1900, daughter of Francis W. and Sarah 0. Leavitt. George Leonard Mason, born November 26, 1852, in Saco, Maine, died March 12, 1895, in New York City, was a great-grandson of Joseph and Hannah (MiUer) Mason, who were married July 16, 1778. Joseph Mason, grandfather of George L. Mason, born Jan uary II, 1782, died 1858, married Sally Scott, born February 13, 1779, died March 13, 1848, daughter of Sylvanius and Sarah (Andrews) Scott, married October i, 1757; Sylvanius Scott was born 1732, died August 5, 1784; his wife, Sarah (Andrews) Scott, born 1739, died October 10, 1781. Dr. Jeremiah Mason, father of George L. Mason, born May 11, 1814, died September 16, 1892. He was a prominent dentist and practiced his profession many years at Saco, Maine. He was vice- president of Saco Savings Bank for several years. He married, November 17, 1841, Eliza Barron Sawyer, born January 26, 1819, died March 2, igoi, a woman of high attainments, who was active in church and benevolent work. She was a daughter of William, bom June 27, I77g, died September 28, 1853, and Betsey (Knight) Sawyer, born 1775, died De cember 18, 186.-5; they were married August ID, 1806. WiUiam Sawyer was a son of Ja bez, born 1744, died AprU 17, 1816, and Mary (Penned) Sawyer, born 1744, died March 14, 1814 ; they were married March 8, 1765. Bet sey (Knight) Sawyer was a daughter of Sam uel, born January 22, 1756, and Hannah (Whitten) Knight. George Leonard Mason attended the public schools of Saco and Bid deford, graduated from Biddeford high school, class of 1870, and from Harvard Dental School, class of 1874. He resided and prac- STATE OF MAINE. 125 ticed dentistry in Brooklyn, New York, 1874- 1880, and resided and practiced dentistry m the city of New York, i88o-i8g5. His wife, Helen A. (Jordan) Mason, was educated at the Saco high school, Berwick Academy and Abbott Academy, of Andover. She is a bril liant woman, of high attainments, and active in church and charitable work. (For preceding generations see Robert Jordan L) (III) Nathaniel, youngest son JORDAN of Dominicus and Hannah (Tristram) Jordan, was born i6g6, at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, died 1783. But little can be definitely learned of his ca reer by his descendants. In 1703, with his mother and the remainder of the children of the household, he was made prisoner by the Indians, but later redeemed from captivity, ow ing to the treaty of 1713. They returned and improved their share of the old homestead estate. Married (first) Dorothy , in 1717. Married (second) in 1741, Mary Cut- levier, who survived him, and attained the age of ninety-one years, as indicated by the slate tombstone in the cemetery at Cape Eliza beth. The children of Nathaniel Jordan were as foUows : Ebenezer, Sarah, Nathaniel, Joshua, Benjamin, Ebenezer and Solomon. (IV) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Nathan iel (i) Jordan, by his wife Dorothy, was born 1733 or thereabouts. He married, in 1756, Susannah HUl, by whom the following chddren were born at Scarborough, Maine : Abner, Ephraim, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Eliza Sarah, John H., Mary, Martha, Abigail, Han nah, SaUy. The youngest child was born No vember ID, 1774. (V) Abner, eldest child of Nathaniel (2) and Susannah (HiU) Jordan, was born 1760, at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, died at Lisbon, Maine, September 26, 1819. He served in the revolutionary army, though young at the time of that struggle for independence. In the spring of 1790, with his wife and children, he moved from Cape Elizabeth to what is now known as Webster, Maine. There he lodged in a log cabin, built two years prior by his brother. He married. May 21, 1786, Hannah Wentworth, born 1768, died August 31, 1849, at Lisbon, Maine. Their children were: Nathan B., John Wentworth, Hannah, Abner, Nathaniel, Timothy, Sarah Bartlett, Benning Wentworth and Lydia. The youngest child was born in 1813. (VI) Nathaniel (3), fifth chdd of Abner and Hannah (Wentworth) Jordan, was born January 31, 1799, on the old plantation home stead. Fle died September 11, 1856. In 1823, at Danville, he married Anna, daughter of Ebenezer Jordan (a relative far removed), by whom was born the following children : Sarah, Hannah, Silas Curtis, Mary P., Ebenezer, Lj,- dia Fi., Wentworth, Abner, Horatio Garcelon and Abbie C. (VII) Wentworth, son of Nathaniel (3) and Anna (Jordan) Jordan, was born Novem ber 17, 1837, at Lisbon, Maine, and was edu cated at the common schools of Webster. At the age of twenty years he commenced to learn the blacksmith's trade, which he con tinued to follow until he mastered it at Port land. In 1861 he went to California, where he worked at mining and the forge and anvil for four years. He then returned to Lisbon and continued to work at his trade until 1874, when he opened the "Lisbon House," a hotel which for thirty-three years was well and most favorably known for its right good cheer and the homelike hospitality extended. He mar ried Ehzabeth Knights, by whom was born two children, Joseph, who died aged six teen years, born at Iowa Hill, California, Feb ruary 17, 1864; Forrest Elmer, born October 17, 1866, at Lisbon, Maine. (VIII) Forrest Elmer, youngest child of Wentworth and Elizabeth (Knights) Jordan, born at Lisbon, Maine, October 17, 1866, ob tained his education at the schools of New Sharon and later attended the high school of Lisbon. After leaving school he worked at painting and paperhanging for a time, but later took up carpentering and followed that for three years, after which he entered the em ploy of E. H. Lunt as a clerk in a general merchandise store, where he remained about one year. He then went to Boston, Massa chusetts, and secured a position with the American Express Company, with whom he remained two years. He then became "buyer under chief warden. General Bridges, of th Massachusetts State Prison, at Charlestown, where he remained about three years. At the time of the riot among the prisoners of that institution, had it not been for the tact used by the warden, many of the prisoners would have escaped, and the death of many of the keepers would doubtless have ensued. Mr. Jordan was in the room at the hour of the outbreak, but escaped uninjured. After severing his connec tion with the prison, he was employed in the Wyman Brothers' produce market, in Boston, then entered the wholesale produce business. Later he sold the last-named business and re turned to Lisbon, Maine, and in July, igo5, purchased the grocery business of W. W. 126 STATE OF MAINE. Smith, which he has successfully conducted since. [Mr. Jordan is identified wdth the Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Modern A'N'oodmen of America. In his political aflilia- tions he is a Repubhcan, while in church con nection he is an attendant of the [Methodist Episcopal denomination. He married, Decem ber 25, 1891, Annie L., daughter of Roscoe G. and Christine (Whitney) Green, of Lis bon, [Maine. They have three children : Louise Beatrice, Marion Thelma and Kenneth N. The Jordans of the following JORDAN sketch are thought to be de scended from that pioneer clergyman, Rev. Robert Jordan, who, in 1641, was established at Richmond's Island, now Portland. (I) Joseph Jordan resided in Oldtown, Maine. In 1849 be joined the great army of gold seekers and went to California. After reaching that very remote territory he wrote that he had struck a paying claim, and as an evidence of his success he remitted to his family $1,800 in gold. This was the last ever heard of him, and wdiat his fate was has never been discovered. He married and had chil dren : Frank, a sailor, who was drowned at sea ; Annie E., married E. E. Hues, of Flaver hill, Alassachusetts ; George I. (II) George Ivory, )-oungest child of Jo seph Jordan, was born in Oldtown, [May 16, 1836. He was educated in the common schools, and at an early age learned the shoemaker's trade. In 1862 he enlisted in response to the call of the president for volunteers to serye nine months, and was a private in Captain Libby's company. Twelfth New J-Iampsiire \'olunteer Infantry, and served in the Army of the Potomac, He was for some time a mariner sailing with Captain Ivory Grant. Afterward he was employed in a woolen mill, and finaUy went into the manufacture of pick ers for use in woolen mills, and was engaged in that business until the end of his active life. In political faith he was a Republican. He was selectman, street commissioner, and filled other minor offices. He married, in Rochester, New Hampshire, January 26, 1862, Elizabeth A. Downes, born in Dover, New Hampshire, December 27, 1840, died October 13, igo4. The children of this marriage were : Clara E., Hattie J., Lillie M., Fred (died young), Frank H., Fred G. and George E. (Ill) Dr. Frank Herbert, second son of George Ivory and Elizabeth A. (Downes) Jor dan, was born in Milton, Strafford county. New Hampshire, September 13, 1S6S. From the common schools he went to the New- Hampton Literary and Biblical Institute, from which he graduated in 1S96. He then began the study of medicine, and .graduated from the [Maine [Medical College with the class of 1899. He began the practice of his profession in [Fryeburg, [Maine, soon after graduation, and remained there until November 15, 1904, when he removed to South Portland, [Maine, wdiere he has since resided, and where he now has a successful practice. He is a member of the IMaine IMedical Association, the .-Amer ican [Medical .Association, and the Portland [Medical Club. He is a member of the Bap tist church at [Milton, New Hampshire. Dr. Jordan is a Republican in politics, and has held several political offices. He was superintend ent of schools and treasurer of the fire dis trict in Fryeburg, and entered upon a term as city ph}-sician of South Portland the past year (1908), His interest in secret fraternal so cieties is pronounced, and he i-s a brother in various organizations. He is a member of Pythagorean Lodge, No. 11, Free and .Ac cepted Masons, of Fryeburg; Oriental Royal .•Arch Chapter, No. 30 ; Oriental Command ery, No. 30, Knights Templar ; and Kora Tem ple, Ancient Arabic Order of the [\Iystic Shrine, of Lewiston. .\lso Strafford Lodge, No. 2, Ancient Order I'nited Workmen, [Mil ton, New Hampshire, and John H. A^arney Camp No. 3, Sons of A'eterans, He became a member of Madockawando Tribe, No. 21, Improved Order of Red [Men, of [Milton, New Flampshire, .After i-noving to Fryeburg he organized Sabattis Tribe, No. 47, and after passing through the chairs was elected to an office in the Great Council of Maine ; afterward was elected great sachem of the Reservation of [Maine, serving in 1905-06, and for four years past has been representati^•e to the Great Council of the United States. Dr. Jordan married (first) in Farmington, New [Hampshire, June 2, 1886, Sadie S. Pinkham, who died October 5, 1903, daughter of William H. H. and Sarah (Pinkham) Pinkham, of Milton, New Hampshire. He married (second) June 27, 1907, Grace E. Wilson, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, wdio was born January 20, 1877, daughter of Thurston and Amelia Josephine ([Packard) \A^ilson, the former of whom was born Jan uary 25, 1837, and died January i, 1885; the latter was born September 14, 1847. Their children were : Mary Sherman ; Henry P., married Carrie S. Hardy; and Grace E. Dr. Jordan has no children. STATE OF MAINE. 127 The name of Williams is of WILLIAMS ancient Welsh origin, and has become one of the most prolific names in Great Britain and America. In Wales it was formerly Ap Williams, and it is worthy of note that Morgan ap Williams, of Glamorganshire, gentleman, married a sis ter of Lord Thomas Cromwell, afterward Earl of Essex, who was an ancestor of the famous Puritan reformer, Oliver Cromwell. (I) Thomas Williams, the first American ancestor of this line, came from England, Feb ruary 18, 1717, "when gooseberries were in blow," and reached Boston, April 17, 1717, "when the snow was very deep." He prob ably died at Bath, Maine, but the exact date is not known. Fle was employed in teaching Latin in Boston, and subsequently removed to Maine. Thomas Williams lived at Winne- gance in 1729, and remaining there became the first permanent settler of Bath. It is said that he was a physician, and that he often ex pressed regrets at having left England. The name of the wife of Thomas Williams cannot be ascertained, but there were at least three sons, and one daughter, who married James Hunter, of Topsham. Thomas, one of the sons, married Margaret Drummond in 1746, and was lieutenant of the Georgetown militia in 1746. Geor.ge, another son, signed a peti tion for a new parish in Georgetown in 1753, which parish afterwards became the town of Bath. The sketch of Samuel is found in the succeeding paragraph. (II) Samuel, son of Thomas WiUiams, was born about 1730, probably in what is now Bath, Maine, and died in that neighborhood about 1800. In 1761 he bought parts of lots on Sebascodigan or Great Island, Harpswell ; and he was hving at "Duck Cove" in 1799. On September 14, 1744, he married Mercy, daugh ter of Anthony and Mercy (Hodgkins) Coombs, of Brunswick. Anthony Coombs was originally from Gloucester, Massachusetts, and migrated to Falmouth, and thence to New Meadows, Brunswick, in 1739. Mrs. Mercy (Coombs) Williams died in Thomaston, Maine, in September, 1824, aged ninety-four years. Samuel and Mercy (Coombs) 'Wil liams had five sons: Samuel (2), who hved on the Island; Benjamin, Daniel and Peter, who all moved to Thomaston, and George, whose sketch follows. The name of Samuel Williams occurs twice on the revolutionary rolls, and it is thought that both father and son were in the service. Samuel Williams en- hsted June 10, 1775, and served two months and four days as a private in Captain James Curtis's company. He re-enlisted August g, 1775, and served five months and five days. A Samuel Williams of HarpsweU was sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Larrabee's company, enlist ing July 9, 1775, and serving six months and seven days. It is thought that these were father and son. (Ill) George, son of Samuel and Mercy (Coombs) WiUiams, was born at Harpswell, Maine, August 3, 1777, and died at Durham, November i, 1853. He was a carpenter and farmer, and lived most of his life in Durham, though there was a period of about twenty years, ending in 1825, when he made his home in Lewiston. About 180Q he married IMabel, daughter of Noah and Mabel (Wade) Litch field, of South Lewiston. She was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, February 29, 1780, and died at Durham, November i, 1853. Her father, Noah Litchfield, was born in Scituate, January 24, 1753, and on July g, 1778, married Mabel Wade, of Scituate, who was born June 9, 1758. Noah Litchfield was the first town clerk of Lewiston, and died November 17, 1827; his wife died July 12, 1838. Children of George and Mabel (Litchfield) Williams: i. Charles, August 17, 1801, married Eleanor Randall. 2. Samuel, December 18, 1802, mar ried Eliza F. Thomas. 3. Mary Louisa, Sep tember 2, 1804. 4. Barnard, whose sketch fol lows. 5. Lucinda, November 26, 1808, died March 13, 1810. 6. AureHa C, August 15, 1810, married James Jack. 7. Lucinda, March 30, 1812, married Joseph 'Webster. 8. Sum ner George, December 20, 1813, married Ann Wood. 9. Elvira, November 13, 181 5, married Jesse Snow. 10. Mabel Jane, November 24, 1817, married Nelson Strout. ii. Otis, Octo ber I, 1819. 12. Minerva, July 14, 1822, mar ried Jeremiah Dingley (2). 13. Vesta Ann, November 5, 1824, married Harrison Strout. (IV) Barnard, third son of George and Mabel (Litchfield) WiUiams^ was born Feb ruary 15, 1807, at Lewiston, [Maine, and died at Durham. "When a youth he r ?turned with his parents to the old home at Durham, and there he spent his long and useful life. He was a man of irreproachable character, and a good citizen. About 1840 he married Eliza beth Augusta, daughter of Jacob (2) and Abi gad (Scott) Herrick, and granddaughter of Rev. Jacob Herrick, of Durham. She was born February 9, 181 5, and died June 21, 1864. Children: i. George Jacob, born No vember II, 1842, was nine years a sailor, but died on land, being killed December 17, 1870, by being thrown from a carriage by a fright ened horse. 2. Oscar Scott, July 2, 1844, 128 STATE OF MAINE. graduated from Bowdoin College in 1870, was superintendent of schools in Dedham, Massa chusetts, at the time of his death, October 11, 1893; married, in 1871, Sylvia T. M. Brooks, daughter of Ham Brooks, of Lewiston; left several children. 3. Charles Edward, whose sketch follows. 4. Josiah Herrick, August 4, i84g, graduated from the Farmington Normal School, and while managing the homestead has successfully taught schools, and is now su perintendent of the schools at Durham; mar ried, December 7, 1872, Edith T. Norton, of Matinicus, Maine; chdd, Ralph. 5. Elizabeth Augusta, December i, 1855, died April 18, 1856. 6. Fred McClellan, January 16, 1857, married Ida F. Scamman, of Saco, and died at Lynn, Massachusetts, November ig, i8g7, leaving no children. (V) Charles Edward, third son of Barnard and [Ehzabeth A. (Herrick) WiUiams, was graduated from the Farmington Normal school and taught several years. He studied medicine at Bowdoin CoUege, and two years in a New York hospital, and has practiced at z\u- burn, Maine, for some years. On March 3, 1872, he married Emma J. Harlow, of Liver more Falls. They have two children, Ethel Elizabeth, married to Dr. Archer Jordan, of Auburn, October 16, igo2 (see Jordan, VIII) ; Edward. Colonel WiUiam Beale, progenitor, BEAL first appears at York, Maine, as early as 1653. He was from Lon don, a partner in the firip of John Beex & Company. To this company Richard Leader sold his saw mills at Piscataqua, October 5, 1653, a quarter to John Beex, of London, Eng land, merchant; a quarter to Richardson, Lon don, ironmonger; and a quarter (an eighth each) to Colonel WiUiam Beale and Captain Thomas Alderne. The other quarter he sold to Beex, Hutchinson and Alderne, February 14, 1655. (See York Deeds, folio 73-40.) Beale seems to have lived at York for a time, though we know little or nothing more about him. He was succeeded evidently by his son Arthur, mentioned below. (II) Arthur Beal, son of Colonel William Beale, was born in London about 1620 and came to York, Maine, 1655. At an early date an entrance to York river was known as Beal's Neck. Arthur Beal bought a tract of land on York river near the harbor, by deed, dated November g, 1674, near his other property. He was a fisherman by trade and owned a fish ing shallop of six or seven tons burden, June 4, 1667, when he, Richard White and Manner- ing (or .Mainwaring) Flilton, aU of York, mortgaged their real estate and personal prop erty to Francis Johnson, of Boston, for the sum of ninety-nine pounds, which was to be paid in fish, oil, mackerel or staves (barrel staves). He signed with a mark that was very like a capital "D." His son Arthur used for his mark the capital letters "A" and "B" joined in a monograph, and through this difference in the signatures we are able to distinguish the records of the two men. A bond dated No vember 10, 1674, from .Arthur Beale "Sr." indicates that the son was then of age. This bond was for fifty pounds for the purchase of a tract of land, to be paid for ten pounds in each year from 1675 to i67g. The Johnson mortgstge was discharged December 26, 1682. Children: i. Arthur, mentioned below. 2. W'illiam, mentioned below. (Ill) .A.rthur (2), son of Arthur Beal, was born about 1650 probably at York, Maine. For many ^ears he was a prominent man at York and owned much property about the mouth of the York river. He married Anne , who was probably a Hilton. William Hilton calls Beal a "brother" when deeding March 5, 1 68 1, land granted him by the town on the south side of the York river. Of course, Hil ton's wife may have been Beal's sister. Beal deeded land April 6, 1683, twenty-one acres at Brave-boat harbor near the bridge, a town grant from York. Beal and Hilton deeded three acres of land on the York river, January 16, i6g8, to Daniel Black. According to a mortgage dated December i, i6gg, to WiUiam Pepperell, Beal lived on the south side of the York river by the harbor mouth. Beal deeded land to his only son Edward February 27, 1 701 (York Deeds vii, folio 64) and finally all his lands at York including homestead April 17, 1711, shortly before his death (York Deeds vii, folio ig4). He deeded ten acres of land to William Pearse, and wife Mary, his daugh ter, January 18, 171 1, and to Elishua AUing and his wife Elizabeth, another daughter (vii, folio 2ig). Flis wiU was dated December i, i6gg, proved October 2, 171 1, and the inven tory filed September 3, 171 1. He mentions Ed ward by name and other children. Children; I. Edward, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, married Elishua (or Elisha) Allen (or Ailing). 3. Mary, married William Pearse. (Ill) WiUiam (2), son of Arthur (i) Beal, as shown by the land in his possession along side Arthur's on the south side of York river, was born about 1660-65. He married Jane Trafton, daughter of Thomas Trafton, of York, and sister of Zaccheus, Joseph and Thomas STATE OF MAINE. 129 Trafton. He must have left York at the time of King Philip's war and probably took refuge at Ipswich, where his son Obadiah remained. This family may be related to William Beal, of Marblehead, wdio had a somewhat numerous posterity. He returned to York and when his son William was of age, November 8, 1717, deeded to him ten acres on the northwest side of the lot on Fulling Mill brook extending to the Kittery line. Like all the others of the family mentioned above, whose signatures were found, he used a characteristic mark. In 1718 his son Obadiah was of Ipswich, but he deeded him ten acres at Fulling Mill brook extending to the Kittery bounds in York, Oc tober II, 1718. William and his wife Jane deeded a seventh part of a tract on York river, originally granted to his wife's family, Trafton, adjoining Edward Beal's land (formerly his father's,) A deed dated April 13, 1722, William Beal to Zaccheus Trafton, states the relation ship to the Traftons, Another seventh of this Trafton estate William Beal bought [March 31, 1724. It adjoined the old Arthur Beal estate and extended to the Kittery line, and was some of the land deeded to his sons. Children : I. WiUiam, was of age in 171 7, deeded land to Francis Carman, who married Abishag, sister of Beal. 2. Abishag, married Francis Car man. 3. Zaccheus, lived in Kittery in 1719. 4. Obadiah, removed from Ipswich, Alassachu- setts, to York, about 1720; he was in Ipswich in 1718, when his father gave him a lot of land in York and was of York when he and his wife Mary deeded this lot, November 4, 1726, to his sister Mary. 5. Mary, spinster, in 1726. (IV) Edward, only son of Arthur (2) Beal, was born in York or some town in which the family took refuge during the war, about 1675. The property he received from his father is mentioned above. He had a grant from the town of York, May i, i6g5, laid out January 19, 1699-1700, sold thirty acres on York river from this grant April 29, 1703, to Samuel Don- neU. Beal married, before 1703, Elizabeth . He mortgaged land to AVilliam Pep- pereU in 1713 and the mortgage was dis charged April 2, 1718. Beal bought twenty acres on the border of Godfrey pond, January 26, 171 7. He sold one hundred and forty- four acres of land at Beal's Neck, at the entrance of York river, January 31, 1717-18. This was near Beal's home, as stated in the deed. Ed ward mortgaged his lands again in 1721-22. He and his wife deed a house lot of six acres on York river to their son Manerin (Mainwar ing, named for Mainwaring Hilton, mentioned above) . Children of Edward and Elizabeth : I. Nicholas, given a house lot by parents Feb ruary 7, 1728, southwest side of York river adjoining the homestead. 2. Mainwaring, a mariner, born about 1700, bought land of Kent & Swett in York, June i, 1724, and received as a gift from parents February 27, 1727-28, ad joining land given by his father to Stephen Greenleaf. 3. Wife of Stephen Greenleaf. The family became well entrenched in York and York county. In the revolutionary war there enlisted from York alone Zachariah Beal, Josiah Beal, Joseph Beal, Joshua Beal and Matthias Beal, whde to the adjoining town of Kitter}' was credited Flenry and Joseph Beal, who probably resided near the line on the old Beal place. (V) Zebulon Beal, grandson of one of these mentioned above, was born in York, July 29, 1754. He removed to Sanford, Maine, where he purchased land and carried on a farm. He married, October 20, 1781, Lucy Boston, born July 4, 1760, died November 27, 1841. He died in Sanford, January 26, 1843. Chddren: Benjamin, mentioned below ; Thomas, Wood man, Olive. (VI) Benjamin, son of Zebulon Beal, was born in Sanford, August 16, 1783, died there February 6, 1866. He was a farmer and a brickmason by trade. He was a deacon in the Baptist church. He served in the war of 1812. He married, 1807, Olive Hobbs, born April 28, 1788, died July 21, 1858, daughter of Sheldon and Ruth (Stilling) Hobbs, of Sanford, for merly of Berwick. Her father was a soldier in the revolution, and marched from Kittery when a boy with Captain Ford's company No vember 5, 1775, and later was on the commit tee of safety in the war of 1812. He was son of Thomas Jr. and Mary (Abbott) Hobbs. Thomas Hobbs was also a soldier in the revo lution, a town officer of Berwick for many years and an extensive land owner. He was son of Thomas Hobbs, of Dover, who later moved to Berwick, and Elizabeth [Morrell Hobbs. Children of Benjamin and Olive Beal : I. Sheldon Hobbs, born January 13, 1808, mentioned below. 2. Susan P. 3. Harrison. 4. Theodate. 5. Horace, born May 15, 1819, a mason by trade ; married Phebe Plummer. 6. Benjamin. (VII) Sheldon Hobbs, son of Benjamin Beal, was bom in Sanford, January 13, 1808, died in Avon, Maine, January 10, 1875. He received his education in the schools of his native town. About 1832, with his wife and two children, he removed to Avon and pur chased one hundred and sixty acres of land in that part of Avon known as Mile Square. He 130 STATE OF .MAINE. settled here and engaged in farming the re mainder of his life. He married (first) in 1827, Tabitha Butler, born December ig, 1810, died April 24, 1855, daughter of Nathaniel and Tabitha (Joy) Butler. (See Butler family herewith.) He married (second) November 1,6, 1856, Anna Winship, of PhUlips, iMaine. Chddren of first wife: i. Nathaniel Butler, born March 7, 1828, mentioned below. 2. Wil son Concord, May 8, 1830. 3. Horace, born in Avon, March 13, 1832. 4. Lewis, June 13, 1834. 5. Bradford, August 4, 1836. 6. Shel don Hobbs Jr., July 12, 1839, died June 17, 1842. 7. Lura, January 5, 18^2. 8. A'elora, November 8, 1849. 9- Eldora, July 9, 1851. Children of second wdfe : 10. Daughter, Feb ruary 14, 1858, died the same month. 11. Ben jamin Franklin, June 21, 1859. 12. Albana Monteze, August 23, 1861. 13. Eulalia, Au gust 6, 1863, died May 17, i88g. (VIII) Nathaniel Butler, son of Sheldon Hobbs Beal, was born in Sanford, March 7, 1828, died March 28, i8g9. He was brought up on his father's farm in Avon, whither they had moved when he was but three years old. When Nathaniel B. was ten years old he vis- rted a neighboring farmer, who gave him a sack of apple pomace left from making cider. This pomace the boy carried home, a distance of four miles, and sowed the apple seed start ing an apple orchard which proved a valuable and productive orchard in later years. .At the age of twelve he went to work for a neighbor, John Wilbur, taking entire charge of his farm, and for a year doing the work of a man. He went to the public schools winters, being obliged to rise at four o'clock in the morning to do the work, and then walk a mile to the school house. He earh- formed the habit of total abstinence, rather unusual at that time, and never partook of liquor or tobacco during his life. At the age of nineteen he was employed by Deacon Oren Robbins, of Phillips Village, in his grist mill. Soon after his marriage he started in business for himself as a trader in general merchandise in Phillips Village. Flis health, however, compelled him to seek out door employment, and he went into the cattle business, becoming a drover. During the civil war and for many years afterward he helped to supply the Boston market with beef. He was active in the building up of the town of PhU lips, was one of its selectmen, holding the office for many years, and was deputy sheriff of the county. [He was twice drafted for ser vice in the civil war, but was unable to pass the physical examination, and was thus pre vented from serving in the army. He was instrumental in the forming of the Phillips Savings Bank and the Union National Bank, of which in 1875 he became president, and so remained until its charter expired in 1895. A year before the expiration of the charter a new bank was formed, the Phillips National Bank, and [Mr. Beal was made its first presi dent, retaining that office for twenty years. He was for many years a trustee of the Savings Bank. In 1879 ^^ '^^^ °^^ °f *^he builders of the Sandy River railroad, and one of its first presidents, holding the office until 1892. Dur ing the latter part of the time he was its su perintendent also, and to him the successful construction is chiefly due. In politics he was always a Democrat, a leader of his party in the northern part of Franklin county, though he was a believer in protection and sound money. He was twice nominated as representative to the general court, and once as senator and judge; but though he ran far ahead of his ticket, the district being strongly Republican, he was defeated. At one time, during the days of the Greenback party, three brothers were nominated from the same district on as many tickets, Nathaniel B. being the Democratic nominee, Wilson C. the Republican, and Brad ford the Greenback. Wilson received the elec tion Fle was very fond of music, and sang in the choir of the Free Will Baptist church for forty yeors. being also chorister many years. In religious belief he was a Universalist. Fle married, in 1849, Mary Robbins, daugh ter of Deacon Orren and Mary (Huntoon) Robbins, of Phillips. She was born Novem ber 25, 1828, died May g, igo2. Through her father's family, she was granddaughter of Me hitable (Ladd) Robbins, who was descended from Daniel Ladd, the immigrant, who came from London in the ship "[Mary and John," sailing January 30, 1633, and settled first in Ipswich, [Mas.sachusetts, and later was one of the twelve original founders of Havei-hill, Mas sachusetts, The Ladds can be traced to the Earls of Ladd in Norway, .A. D. 861. (See Chase's History of Haverhill.) They married into the royal families of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. One of them married Estrith, daughter of King Sweyn, of Denmark, and came with his brother-in-law, the Danish King Canute, to England, and there settled in county Kent. (See'Pelton Genealogy, Went worth Genealogy, Ladd Family, Thomas But ler and his Descendants, Huntoon Genealogy, Keary's History of Norway and the Norwe gians, etc.) Mary (Robbins) Beal's mother was granddaughter of Jonathan Huntoon, who was born in 1756, and married Hannah Chase, o?t. atnuftiet /[Su//e. ea / STATE OF MAINE. 131 July 8, 1 78 1. He served all through the revo lutionary war and died at 'Wiscasset, October 16, 1833. He was son of Samuel and Flan nah (Ladd) Huntoon. Samuel Huntoon was born at Kingston, New Hampshire, June 18, 1718, and died at Nottingham, New Hamp shire, in May, 1796. He married. May 26, 1742, Hannah Ladd, daughter of Daniel and Mehitable (Philbrick) Ladd. He was a sol dier in Captain BuUard's company. Colonel James Frey's regiment in 1775; he was son of John and Mary (Rundlet) [Huntoon; married about 1716. John Huntoon died December 8, 1778, and was son of Philip Huntoon, the im migrant, who married Betsey Flail, of Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1687. Philip Huntoon was born about 1660 and died in Kingston, May 10, 1752. Mary (Robbins) Beal was also a granddaughter of Polly (Pelton) Hun toon, whose father, Joel Pelton, was born No vember 5, 1753, in Somers, Connecticut. He served all through the revolution ; was in Cap tain Clark's company. Colonel Obadiah John son's regiment of militia ; also in Captain Brig- ham's company, in the fifth regiment Connecti- 'cut Line under Colonel Isaac Sherman. He was one of the body guard of General Wash ington and spent the winter at Valley Forge and was present at the surrender of York- town. He married, 1791, Anna Cotter, daugh ter of Timothy Cotter, of Whitefield, Maine, and died in IMadrid, Maine, March 7, 1856, aged one hundrel and three years. He was de scended from John Pelton, the immigrant, who came to Boston in 1630. Children of Na thaniel B. and Mary Beal: i. Fred Marshall, born April 24, 1855, died January 12, 1857. 2. Minnie Geneva, May 20, 1858, married June 28, 1880, J. Watson Smith; resides at St. Paul, Minnesota ; had chUdren, Harold Beal and Mary Nathalie Smith. 3. Fred Nathaniel, mentioned below. (IX) Fred Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel B. Beal, was born in Phillips, Maine, April 14, i860. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. At the age of eighteen he began his career as a railroad man, as express messenger on the Sandy River railroad, Maine, became conductor, then assistant superintend ent, later superintendent, and is now general passenger and freight agent of the consoli dated lines, which comprised six companies now known as the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes railroad. He resides in Phillips and is treasurer of the PhUlips Building Company and president of the PhUlips Hotel Company. He is a Republican in politics and in religion a Universalist. He is a member of Blue Moun tain Lodge, No. 67, Ancient Free and Ac cepted Masons, of Phillips. He married, March I, 1855, Ella Esther Harvey, born May 31, 1863, died June 15, 1893, daughter of B. B. Harvey, of Strong, Maine. Children, bom at Phillips: I. Hermia, July 29, i88g. 2. Ella Esther, May 2, i8g3. The Butler family is descended BUTLER from the ninth Duke of Or- mond. The Dukes of Ormond were created under Edward III of England, and placed over the county Palatine of Or mond, Tipperary, Ireland. They were sent from England to Ireland by Henry II of Eng land in 1 172. They were also stationed there under King John. They originally came to England with William the Conqueror, from Glanville, near Caen, France. (See American Family Genealogy, p. 31 ; also Thomas Butler and his Descendants, p. 20 and 21; also vol ume for 1848, N. E. G. & A. R. P. 355.) (I) Thomas Butler settled in Berwick, Maine, about i6go. He was the fourth son of the ninth Duke of Ormond. He had a son Moses, mentioned below. (II) Moses, son of Thomas Butler, resided in Berwick. In 1740 he was in command of a company as captain, and in 1744 recruited the Seventh Company of the First Massachu setts Regiment, which he commanded during the siege and capture of Louisburg, July 4, 1745. He was also at the siege of Quebec in 1754. He had a son Thomas, mentioned be low. (Ill) Thomas, son of Moses Butler, was an officer in the revolution in Captain Ebenezer SuUivan's company. Colonel Scammon's regi ment, stationed at Cambridge and vicinity in 1775. He had a son Nathaniel, mentioned be low. (IV) Nathaniel, son of Thomas Butler, served in the revolution when a boy. He mar ried Mercy Wentworth, a lineal descendant of Elder WiUiam Wentworth, who came from Alford, Lincolnshire, England, to Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1639. Elder William Went worth was the twenty-first descendant of Regi nald Wentworth, who was the proprietor of the Lordship of Wentworth, of Strafford, in the west of Yorkshire, in the parish of Wath- upon-Deam, nine miles from Sheffield, and thirteen miles from Doncaster, and who was living there when William the Conqueror came to England in 1066. Nathaniel Butler had a son Nathaniel, mentioned below. IV STATE OF M.A,INF:. (Y) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (i) Butler, married Tabitha Joy. He had a daugh ter Tabitha, who married Sheldon Hobbs Beal. (See Beal family herewith.) William, Count Tank- CHAMBERLAIN ervdle, of TankerviUe Castle in Normandy, who came to England with William the Con queror, was the progenitor of the Chamberlain family in England. He himself returned to Normandy, but his descendants remained in England on the land granted to them. (II) John De TankerviUe, son of the for mer earl, was lord chamberlain to King Henry I, and assumed his title as a surname. (HI) Richard, son of John, was also chamberlain to King Stephen, and the surname Chamber lain has since his day been that of his family. (IV) WiUiam Chamberlain was son of Rich ard (3). (V) Robert Chamberlain was son of WiUiam (4). (VI) Sir Richard Chamber lain was son of Robert (5). (VII) Sir Rob ert Chamberlain was son of Richard (6). The line continues: Sir Richard (VIII), John (IX), Thomas (X), John (XI), William Chamberlain (XII). The American family of which WiUiam Chamberlain was the immi grant ancestor, doubtless belongs to this fam ily, though the line of ancestry is not traced. The Chamberlain coat-of-arms: Gules, an escutcheon argent between eight muUers in orle, or. Quartering: Gules a chevron be tween three escallops or. Motto: Virtuti nihU iiivium. Seat: Dunstew in Oxfordshire, England. (I) William Chamberlain, immigrant an cestor of General Robert Horace Chamber lain, of Worcester, was born in England about 1620. His brother Thomas was one of the three original purchasers of the Dudley farm at Billerica, but he settled at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Another brother, Edmund, settled first in Woburn, then removed to Chelmsford before 1656, when he sold land at Billerica. Savage said that Edmund finally settled in Woodstock. Wniiam Chamberlain was admitted an in habitant of Woburn, January 6, 1648, and per mitted to buy land there. He removed to Billerica in 1654, about the time his brothers left that town, and spent the remainder of his life there. Fle died May 31, 1706, aged eighty-six years. Flis house in Shawshin (BUlerica) was on the farm, probably near the Woburn road, in t'he southwest part of the viUage. His name first appears on the records October, 1654, on a petition to enlarge the bounds of the town and to change the name to Bdlerica (Billerikey in original paper). A little later, when the committee on militia or dered Sergeant Hills's house to be a garrison, William Chamberlain's family was one of those assigned to it. He married Rebecca , who died September 26, 1692, in the prison at Cambridge, where she was held on the preposterous charge of witchcraft. Chil dren : Timothy, born at Concord, Massachu setts, August 13, i64g-5o; Isaac, born at Con cord, October i, 1650, died July 20, 1681 ; John, died March 3, 1652; Sarah, born at Bil lerica, May 20, 1655-56, married John Shedd; Jacob, born January 18, 1657-58, see forward; and these also at Billerica: Thomas, born February 20, i6sg; Edmund, July 15, 1660, married Mary Abbott; Rebecca, February 25, 1662, married Thomas Stearns ; Abraham, January 6, 1664; Ann, March 3, 1665-66; Clement, May 30, i66g; Daniel, September 27, 1671 ; Isaac, January 20, 1681. (II) Jacob, son of WiUiam Chamberlain, was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, Janu ary 18, 1657-58. He married Experience . Children: i. Jacob, born at New ton, Massachusetts, i6gi ; died 1771. 2. John, born i6g5, at Charlestown, Massachusetts; died 1783. 3. William, born 1697, at Cam bridge, IMassachusetts ; mentioned below. -4. Jason, born at HoUiston, Massachusetts, 1701; died 1770. 5. Ebenezer, born at West- borough, Massachusetts, 1704; ancestor of Westborough and Worcester families, as was also Jacob, his brother. (Ill) 'WiUiam (2), son of Jacob Chamber lain, was born in 1697, at Cambridge; died at Rochester, New Flampshire, in 1753. lie married, in I7ig, Mary Tibbetts. They lived at Rochester and Alton, New Hampshire. Children, all but the two youngest born at Rochester, and they at Alton: i. iMary, 1720. 2. Rebecca, 1722; died 1815. 3. WiUiam, 1725; died at Lebanon, [Maine, 1815. 4. Ex perience, 1727. 5. Ebenezer, 1729; mentioned below. 6. Dorothy, died 1825. 7. Anna, born 1733- 8. Samuel, 1735; died i8og. 9. Jacob, 1738; died 1815. 10. Ephraim, 1741; died 1814. (IV) Ebenezer Chamberlain, son of Wil liam (2) Chamberlain, was born in 1729; bap tized at Dover, New Flampshire ; lived at Cen ter Harbor, New Hampshire. He was a sol dier in the colonial wars and also in the revo lution. His sons Jonathan and Daniel were also revolutionary soldiers. He married, 1752, Lucretia . Children: i. Susan, born at Center Harbor or Rochester, in 1753. 2. STATE OF MAINE. 133 Ebenezer, 1755. 3. Ephraim, 1757. 4. Jona than, 1759. 5. Daniel, 1762. 6. John, 1768. 7. Joshua, mentioned below. (V) Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, born in 1770, went from Danvers or Cambridge, Mas sachusetts, to Orrington, Maine, about 1799, where he engaged in shipbuilding, and pros pered in this business until in the war of 1812 the English forces ascending the Penobscot river destroyed two of his ships — one lying at the dock and another on the stocks. Not able to recover his shattered fortunes here, he re moved in 181 7 to what is now Brewer, six miles further up the river, where he took up a large farm, and with his sons interested him self again to some degree in shipbuilding. His home was about half a mile above the toll bridge, where he died January 23, 1857, aged eighty-six years. He was a gentleman of the old school, a man of note, and colonel of a regiment of militia in the war with England, and for some time in command of the post at Eastport, Maine. He married Ann Gould, of Danvers, Massachusetts. She died February 19, 1831, aged sixty-eight years. Chddren: Amelia, Anna P. (died young), Thomas Gould (also died young), Anna, Joshua, Jef ferson, Ebenezer M., John Q. A., and El bridge Gerry. CVI) Joshua (2), second son of Colonel Joshua (i) and Ann (Gould) Chamberlain, was born in Orrington, September 24, 1800, and died August 10, 1880. He was a man of much strength of character. He resided in Brewer, where he was a lead ing citizen in both civil and military mat ters. He was county commissioner, lieu tenant-colonel in the militia, and held other offices. He married, October, 1827, Sarah Dupee, daughter of Billings and Lydia (Du- pee) Brastow, of Holden. She was born Au gust 23, 1803, and died November 5, 1888, aged eighty-five. She was descended from Jean Dupuis (i), born about 1660, who came from La RocheUe, France, to Boston; Massa chusetts, in 1685; Charles (2), second son of Jean, born 1695, and served in the colonial wars; Charles (3) Dupee, third son of Charles Dupuis, born 1735, served in the revolution, and in the army lists of that war the speUing of the name was changed to the present form ; Lydia (4), fourth daughter of Charles, born 1770, married Billings Brastow. Children of Joshua (2) Chamberlain: i. Joshua L., men tioned below. 2. Horace B., born November 14, 1834, died December 7, 1861 ; graduated with honor from Bowdoin College in 1857, and made a brilliant opening in [Bangor as a lawyer; married. May 11, 1859, Mary A. Wheeler, of Bangor. 3. Sarah B., born No vember 2, 1836, married July 14, 1867, Charles O. Farrington, a merchant of [Brewer ; their children are Alice M. and Dana C. Farrington. 4. John Calhoun, born Au gust I, 1838, died at Castine, August 11, 1867, of disease contracted while in the army; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859, and from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1864; was in service of the Christian Commission, and chaplain of Eleventh Volunteers in the civil war. He married, September 13, 1866, Delia F., daughter of John H. Jarvis, of Cas tine, later of Bangor. 5. Thomas Davee, April 29, 1841, was a soldier in the civil war, serv ing with great distinction in the line and on the staff, rising to the rank of lieutenant- colonel and colonel U. S. V. He married, De cember 13, 1871, Delia F. Chamberlain, widow of his brother John ; resided in New York and afterward in [Bangor, where he died August 12, 1896. (VII) Governor Joshua L., eldest child of Joshua (2) and Sarah Dupee (Brastow) Chamberlain, was born in Brewer, September 8, 1828. He received his early education in the public schools of the town and later in Major Whiting's military academy at Ells worth, Maine, where he prepared for West Point. In 1848, however, he entered Bowdoin and graduated from that college in 1852 with highest honors. He then entered Bangor The ological Seminary, where in addition to the studies of the regular course, he gave earnest attention to the Arabic and other oriental languages. During his last year here he re ceived calls to several important churches ; but on graduating he was immediately called to Bowdoin College as special instructor in some of the studies of the department of natural and revealed religion. The next year he was elected professor of rhetoric and oratory, and the year after, having been relieved of some of the duties of this chair, he was appointed also instructor in the French and German languages, which service he continued for two years, when he was elected professor of the Modern Languages of Europe. In July, 1862, he received leave of absence from the college for two years in order to prosecute his studies in Europe, but the war of secession being now serious and a call coming from the President for more troops, he immediately tendered his services to Governor Washburn for any mili tary duty for which he might be thought cap able. This was strenuously combatted by his colleagues in the coUege faculty, who carried 134 STATE OF MAINE. their opposition to the length of a formal pro test. He was offered the colonelcy of a regi ment about to be formed ; but deeming it wiser first to serve under some officer of the regular army^ he accepted the appointment of lieuten ant-colonel of the Twentieth Maine infantry, then being organized, of which Adelbert Ames, of the regular artillery, was to be colonel. He entered at once upon the organization of this regiment, receiving his commission on the 8th of August, 1862, and devoting himself to the study and practice of his duties, he completed the organization of the regiment of a thousand men, and on the 2gth of that month, it was mustered into the United States -service for three years or during the war. The command now turned over to Colonel Ames, he as sumed his place as lieutenant-colonel, and in that capacity left with the regiment on the next day for the seat of war. The regiment was assigned to Butterfield's famous Light Brigade, Morell's Division, Porter's Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and immediately entered upon the severe ex periences of the Alaryland campaign. On the forced march to South Mountain and to the Antietam battle-field, all the qu.nlities of manly endurance and pride were called into exercise. During that battle the regiment occupied sup porting positions and made movements of im portance under fire, but was not actively en gaged. On September 20 a heavy reconnais sance was made across Shepardstown ford of the Potomac in pursuit of Lee's retreating army. Here first the regiment sharply en gaged the enemy. This was a serious affair, and Colonel Chamberlain bore a conspicuous •part, being especially complimented for his courage and coolness in steadying the troops of the brigade through the treacherous ford and under heavy fire in the repulse which followed the overwhelming attack of Lee's rear guard of Hill's Corps. The regiment was held on the Antieta^m battle-field for more than six weeks, guarding the fords of the upper Potomac. This led to new experiences — especially in the line of reconnaissance and outpost duty, in all of which Colonel Cham berlain took an active part. This encampment on the Antietam, owing to the exhalations and drainage from the battle-field, brought dire disease upon the men, more than three hun dred being in the hospital with typhoid ma larial fever, and severe losses befalling the regiment both among officers and men. This opened a new field for duties of superior and commanding officers — study and practice in the care of men. Early in November the regiment rejoined the main army near Warrenton Junction, Vir ginia, and from that time actively participated in all the movements, skirmishes and camp- making, until the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13. Here Colonel Chamberlain had experiences of the most severe and testing kind, the closing of which was the withdraw ing of his regiment from the advance front line, by night, across the wdiole depth of the battle-field, and over the last pontoon bridge left for the recrossing of our discomfited army. He had an active part in all the movements of that winter, including the notorious "Mud March" and its sequel. During this winter he devoted himself assiduously to the study of his duties, having the advantage of the cir cumstance that all his superiors in command and many of his own rank were graduates of West Point. He induced the younger of them to hold an evening "school of review" in which all the points pertaining to active duties in the field were carefully gone over. There was no better scholar than Colonel Chamberlain. At the opening of the ChancellorsvUle cam- pai.gn, the regiment having been inoculated with smallpo.x by some misconduct in the medical department, and being sequestered and put into a quarantine camp by itself. Col onel Ames, having been detached as aide on the staff of the corps commander. General Meade, left the regiment so situated in com mand of Colonel Chamberlain. He immedi ately rode to general headquarters and begged to have his regiment given some place at the front, his final plea being "if we can't do any thing else, we can give the rebels the small pox !" This struck the fancy of General Hooker, and at midnight he received a dis patch from General Butterfield, chief of staff, directing him to be at Banks's and United States fords at daylight to take charge of the signal and telegraph lines from headquarters to the several stations on the field of battle, with instructions to put to death any who attempted to disturb communications. While in discharge of duty on the foUowdng day he took occasion to join in a charge then being made by his Division, in which his horse was wounded under him. On the night of the withdrawal he worked on the pontoon bridges which were broken up by the freshet, and after all our troops had left that vicinity he withdrew his command — the last on the ground. From this time on his history is part of that of the Army of the Potomac. The mere outline of it would exceed the limits al lotted here. His inherited military aptitude, ST.ATE OF MAINE. 135 strengthened by early studies, now finding ample scope in campaigning of the severest or der, brought him distinction and rapid pro motion in command. On May 20 he was pro moted colonel, and soon afterward a hundred and twenty men of the Second Maine Volun teers were transferred to his regiment. They were in a state of mutiny, owing to their not being discharged with the original two-years men, and as they had openly refused to obey orders they were sent to Colonel Chamber lain under guard of a Pennsylvania reqiment with loaded arms and fixed bayonets, with orders from the corps commander to fire on them if they refused to do duty. Colonel Chamberlain immediately rode to General Meade and got permission to manage the men in his own way. He then took off all the guard, supplied them with proper clothing and food (which had not been issued to them for three days), and assigned them to companies, without giving them any specific orders what ever, expecting them to be treated and behave like other soldiers. He found no trouble ex cept in the case of one or two who were tried by court martial, and whose sentences he afterwards succeeded in having remitted. These men of the_ Second Regiment were af terwards among his very best. At Gettysburg he was sent at the double-quick to a position of great importance and peril. Little Round Top, the extreme left of the Union lines, where for more than two hours he withstood the repeated assaults of Law's brigade of Hood's division. His ammunition at length exhausted, and for the last half-hour using that of the rebel dead and wounded on the slope he had swept repelling the third assault, nearly half his men having fallen, the situa tion was critical. A heavy force now coming on -vyith confidence of crushing his little com mand, he met with a bayonet charge, himself with the colors leading, which completely cleared the southern slope of Little Round Top, capturing four hundred prisoners — twice the number of his men. Returning to his ap pointed position, in front of which lay one hundred and fifty of the enemy's dead and wounded, he made dispositions with some re inforcements for meeting any night assault. At dark he received an intimation from his brigade commander that it was desirable to secure the heights of Great Round Top, up whose rugged slope the troops he had repulsed had taken refuge. At once he called his wearied but heroic men, and with no ammuni tion, with the bayonet alone, in the dense dark ness pressed on to the very crest of the moun tain, capturing many more prisoners. Thus that decisive part of the field was secured and held, and Lee's plan of battle changed. For this heroic conduct the Twentieth Maine re ceived the personal and official recognition of brigade, division and corps commanders, and Colonel Chamberlain was warmly recom mended by all his superiors for promotion to the rank of brigadier-general. Flis action here was recognized by the award of the Congres sional Medal of Honor, the grounds of this as officially stated : "For daring heroism and great tenacity in holding his position on Little Round Top, and carrying the advanced posi tion on the Great Round Top, in the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863." The promotion was not made; but Colonel Cham berlain was immediately placed in command of his brigade, his division commander. Gen eral Griffin, declining to receive general officers who were sent for assignment to this brigade. This he devoted himself to bring to the best proficiency. He took an important part in the Culpeper and Centerville campaigns, in cluding the battle of Rappahannock Station, in which his horse was shot under him. In No vember, 1863, being worn by long and arduous duty, the exposure of lying out in a heavy snow storm one night without shelter or suffi cient covering, brought upon him a severe attack of congestion and fever chills, and he was sent in an almost unconscious state from Rappahannock to Washington, by the only means of conveyance, a returning cattle car. After this crisis, as soon as he was able to be out, he made strenuous efforts to return to his command ; but was detailed by the Sec retary of War to serve on an important court martial sitting in Washington and afterwards in Trenton, New Jersey, where he was for some time detained. He obtained a release with much difficulty, and when the army crossed the Rapidan in May he overtook it near Spottsylvania, and finding his brigade in command of another. General Barflett, he re joined his regiment. In less than an hour he was placed in command of a "forlorn hope." Seven select regiments were led by him to a desperate charge by night on a portion of a position that had proved impregnable during the day. In this he showed great skill and achieved a remarkable success. From this time forth he held a command above his lineal rank and was put in positions of responsibility and severe tests. He had a conspicuous part in the battles of Cold Harbor and the North Anna. On June ist, 1864, General Warren, commanding the corps, made up a splendid 136 STATE OF MAINE. brigade of two consolidated brigades from the old First Corps, and a fine new regiment of veterans of Pennsylvania, and assigned Colonel Chamberlain to command it. This took him quite away from his gallant old Twentieth Maine, whose fortunes he had shared in every battle except the Wilderness. With this veteran brigade he continued the campaign, crossing the James river, and on June 17th moved on Petersburg in advance. On the morning of June i8th he carried a strong advanced position of the enemy a mile beyond our main army. In order to hold this, he established two batteries of artillery on the crest, and entrenched his lines. He was ex pecting an attack here, when he received a verbal order through an unknown staff officer to assault the main line of rebel works at Rives's salient, then strongly manned with artUlery and infantry, all within musket range of the crest he was holding. Forming his six regiments in double lines, he ordered a strong artillery fire from his guns on the crest, and under this he led the charge with his whole staff, when the terrible fire of the enemy, case- shot, canister and furious musketry, swept every one from his side, his flag-bearer was killed, his own horse shot under him, and his front line shattered. Lifting up his fallen flag, he led his troops almost to the enemy's entrenchments. At a desperate moment, wheeling to give a command, Colonel Cham berlain was shot through the body from hip to hip, severing small arteries and fracturing the pelvic bones. Balancing himself with the point of his sabre, he managed not to fall until his men had passed him in their charge, when the great loss of blood brought him to the ground. Believing the wound to be mortal, he refused to be taken from the field, until all was fairly lost. There was no hope of his life, and an obituary notice was sent lo the northern pa pers. He was, however, carried sixteen miles •on a stretcher and sent to Annapolis Naval ¦School Hospital. General Grant, without wait ing longer for the authorities to act upon previ ous recommendations, promoted Colonel Cham berlain on the field, to the rank of brigadier- general, the solitary instance in the history of our army. He was assured of his promotion before he was borne from the field, but the official order published to the army reached him after his arrival at Annapolis. The fol lowing is a copy of the order : Headquarters Army of the U. S., Special Order No. 39, June 20, 1864, Col. J. L. Chamberlain, 20th Me, Inf'ty Vols,, (or meritorious and efBclent services on the field ot battle, and especially (or gallant conduct In 4eading his brigade against the enemy at Petersburg on the 18th Inst,, In which he was dangerously wounded, hereby. In pursu ance of authority of the Secretary ot War, Is appointed Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers, to rank as such from the 18th day of June, 1864, subject to the approval of the President, U, S, Grant, Lieutenant General, For two months General Chamberlain lay at Annapolis at the point of death, and at the end of five months, and before he could mount a horse or walk a hundred yards, he resumed command of his brigade. Its position at that time was on the extreme left of our front line before Petersburg, and the duties were unre mitting and responsible. In the subsequent operations against the Weldon raUroad, Gen eral Chamberlain had an active part, being sent with his command to make proper dispo sitions by night and to keep the enemy at bay along an extensive front, while the rest of our troops destroyed the railroad. A severe snow storm and sleet added to the severities of the operation, and on the last of January, 1865, his wounds had become so aggravated that his corps commander insisted on his being sent to Philadelphia for surgical treatment. While suffering under this, and without much pros pect of permanent recovery, he received many tempting offers to leave the military service and accept positions in civil life. Wishing, however, with such strength as might be given him, to stand by his men and his country to the last, he declined these offers, stole a march upon his surgeons, and leaving his room for the first time after he had taken it, started on a painful journey to the front again, where he arrived after an absence of a month. His brigade now consisted of new regiments of veteran troops from' New York and Pennsyl vania, and his post was the extreme advance on Hatcher's Run, and in immediate contact with the enemy. On March 29 our great offensive movement commenced, and, as had before been confidentiaUy announced to Gen eral Chamberlain, he was to have the costly honor of leading the advance and opening the campaign. With his single brigade and a battery of regular artillery, he encountered the enemy on Quaker Road, their force con sisting of cavalry and infantry of Johnson's and Anderson's commands, and in number, as was afterwards ascertained, five times his own. After a long and severe battle in which at different times he had both his flanks turned, his center broken, and lost four hun dred men and eighteen officers — every one of his mounted officers, including his personal staff, being either killed or wounded, his own horse shot under him and himself twice pain fully wounded in the breast and arm — the en emy was driven from his position, which en- STATE OF MAINE. ^i7 abled the army to occupy the long coveted Boydton plank road. For conspicuous gal lantry in the action of this day General Cham berlain received from President Lincoln the brevet of major-general. Suffering from ac cumulation of wounds, he was suddenly sum moned on the second day after, to take com mand of our extreme left on the Boydton road, with two brigades and two batteries of artil lery to repel an attack which was then begin ning. Two divisions of his corps on his right were soon thrown back in great confusion from an advanced position they were endeav oring to maintain against a vigorous assault of the enemy, and while General Chamberlain was rallying these troops and reforming them in the rear of his own, he was asked by the commanding general to throw forward his command and attempt to stem the torrent then sweeping the front, and if possible regain the field lost by the other two divisions. General Chamberlain assented, and while the engineers were trying to bridge the stream in our front. he and his men dashed through it in the very face of the enemy, and gaining a foothold on the opposite steeps, drove the rebels back to the field of the former struggle. While press ing them back upon their works, General Chamberlain was ordered to halt and take the defensive as a matter of precaution. Seeing, however, that his men were much exposed, and that the enemy's strong position could be carried by a tactful maneuver, he solicited per mission to make an assault, which he did with rapid and complete success, carrying the works, capturing a battle flag and many pris oners, and effecting a lodgement on the White Oak road. At the battle of Five Forks on the foUowing day, General Chamberlain had com mand of two brigades on the extreme right — the wheeling flank. In the midst of the battle, when the rebels made a furious attempt to regain their works by a flank attack, putting m every man of his own command and a mass of skulkers and fugitives from other com mands on a new direction to break the force of this onset, he led the charge, leaping his horse over the parapet, already yvounded by a rifle baU. His command captured 1050 men, nineteen officers and five battle flags — one half the captures of the division. On the next day he was ordered to take the advance and strike the South Side railroad. Here he encountered Fitz Hugh Lee's division of cavalry, which he drove across the raUroad, intercepting a train of cars from Petersburg with several military and civil officers, and routing the enemy from the position. In the subsequent pursuit. General Chamberlain had the advance nearly all the time, capturing many prisoners and vast quantities of material. At Jeters- ville, on the DanviUe railroad, he went to the assistance of our cavalry which was severely attacked on a cross road. In the final action at Appomattox Court House, when, having marched all night, he came up with our cav alry, which was heroically holding its ground against Stonewall Jackson's old corps of in fantry, he double-quicked his men in to re lieve the cavalry, and forming under General Sheridan's eye, pushed forward against the enemy. The other troops forming on his left, the foe was driven before them to the town, when the flag of truce came in and hostilities ceased. General Chamberlain was present at the conference preliminary to the surrender, and being assigned to his old command — the Third Brigade, First Division — was appointed by the commanding general to receive with his troops the formal surrender of the arms and colors of Lee's army, April 12, 1865. Im mediately afterwards, assigned to the com mand of division, General Chamberlain occu pied a line twenty-five miles out from Peters burg on the South Side railroad for some time. This division had the advance in the triumphal entry of the army into Richmond, as also the advance of the Army of the Po tomac in the final review in Washington. When the army was broken up he received an assignment to another command intended to go to Mexico, but the active operations of the field now being over, he applied to be relieved from duty that he might have the surgical treatment which his wounds required, and was mustered out of service January 16, 1866. In the arduous and trying campaigns through which he passed. General Chamber lain made a record honorable to himself and to the state. During his period of service he commanded troops in twenty-four battles, eight reconnaissances, skirmishes without num ber, and with advance and rear guards in con tact with the enemy upwards of a dozen times. With his own command alone he fought sev eral independent engagements, every one of which was successful against superior num bers. His captures in battle number 2,700 prisoners and eight battle flags, no portion of which can be claimed by any other command. He was six times struck in action by shot and shell, three times narrowly escaping with his life. Immediately after the. surrender of the rebel army, General Chamberlain was made the subject of special communication to head quarters of the army by Major General Grif- 138 ST.'VTE t^I' MAINF fin, his corps commander, in which this officer urged General Chamberlain's promotion to the full rank of major-gencial, for distinguished and gallant conduct in the battles on the left, including the White Oak Road, Five Forks and Appomattox Court Flouse, where, says General Griffin,, "his bravery and efficiency were such as to entitle him to the highest conMiiendation. In the last action, April (), his command had the ad\'.'iiice, and was driving the enemy rapidly before it, when the an nouncement of General Lee's surrender was made." The recommendation \v,is cordially approved by General Meade and General Grant, and forwarded to Washington for the action of the government, where assurances were given that the promotion should be made. General ChamberLain w'.'is rarely absent from field of duty. Fle had but four days' leave of absence. At all other tunes when not in the field, he had been either ordered :twav for treatment of wounds, or president of a court- martial by order of the War Department. But no part of his record reflects greater satisfac tion than his relations with the men under his command. Fle made it a point of duty and of affection lo take caie of his men. He never ordered troops into positions that he had not first personally rcconnoitered, and though his losses in killed and wounded have been severe, they were ne\'cr made in relrealing. The noble and faithful men entrusted to his care never in a single instance failed to execute his orders or to carry out what they deemed to be his wishes, although unexpressed. In all the various fortunes of the field he never left one of his wotiiuled in the lines of the enemy nor one uf his dead without fitting burial. On returning to his native state and the paths of peace. General Chamberlain quietly resumed his professorship ii-i Bowiloin Col lege. He was not Ion;.;- allowed to remain there, however. Jn reco.gnition of his dis tinguished service and ability, he was elected governor of the state, by the largest majority ever given for that office. He was re-elected the three following years and left the L;tilxT- natorial office with an enviable record His administration marked an epoch in the ma terial advance of the state. Soon after leav ing the office of governor in 1871, he was elected president of Bowdoin College and dis charged the duties of that office for twelve years. He resigned in 1883, but continued his lectures on political economy until 1885 He was professor of mental and moral phi losophy from 1874 to 1879. I'l 1876 he was commissioned major-general of stale militia, and was in command at the c ipitol during the political troubles in January, 1S80, when his determined stand against minatory move ments ended the opposition of a turbulent fac tion which threatened civil war. In 1878 he was appointed commissioner to the Uniyersal Exposition at Paris, France. For his service here he received a medal of honor from the French government. In the followin.t; year the United States government published his report on the Exposition, embracing the sub ject of education in Europe, This received remarkable commendation from all quarters. In 1867 tloyernor Chamberlain received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin College, having already received the same from Pennsylvania CoUe.t^e in iRht). During the years 18S4 and 1889 he was engaged in railroad construction and industrial enter prises in Florida, In igoo he w:is appointed by President McKinley surveyor of the port of Portland, and has since filled that position. As a writer, lecturer and orator, Governor Chamberlain has no superior in the slate. He has given numerous lectures ;ind public ad dresses, with a wide range of topics. In 1876 he delivered at the Centennial h:xposition at Philadelphia an elalionile public address en titled "Maine; her place in llislnry." On in vitation Ibis was repe;iled before the Legisla ture of Maine in 1877, and afterward pub lished by the state and given wide circiilalioii. I-Ie wrote ;i reni.irhahle series of jtapers on the Spanish war, and has since given v:ilti;ible ad dresses on historic places and events in Maine, and many tributes to historic personages, the last being one on Lincoln Memorial D.iy in Philadelphia, which is eonsideri'd reniarkahle for Its truthfulness and elo(|tienee. He has held many offices of honor, among them that of president of the Webster ITistor'ieal Society, vice-president ni the American IIumien.it So ciety, president of the Society of Ilie ,\rniy of the Potomac, commander of the .Military Order of the Loval Legion of the United States, and commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in (he .state of Maine, lie is now president of the Chamberlain .Association of America, and of the Maine Branch of the National Red Cross. He is also an active member of many literary and scientific so cieties. The home of General Chamlierl.iin is in Brunswick and amid.st the classic ,shadows of Bowdoin College. It is a bisl.^ric spot, and was formerly known as the old F.alcs house built by Captain Pierce in 1820, l!y others it STATE OF MAINE. 139 has been called the LongfeUow house, as it was here that the poet brought his young bride in 1830, and for some time he made his home. Fales was the second owner of the place, and it was during his occupancy that the Long fellow occupation occurred. At that time he was professor of modern languages in- Bow doin, and in after years he was often heard to. say that those were the happiest years of his life. The property finally passed into the pos session of Rev. Dr. Roswell D. Hitchcock, and was purchased from him by General Cham berlain in 1861. At that time the present owner was the professor of modern languages in Bowdoin and his financial ability was by no means equal to his good name and high standing in the community as a man of honor. For this reason the president of the principal local bank came to him and assured him that he could have all the money he wanted, to conclude the purchase. In this manner the old house passed into the hands of the young college professor and has since been one of the most charming homes in Maine. On returning to Brunswick after the civil war, with the stars of a major-general on his shoulders, and being soon governor, he found the old house would hardly hold his visitors. It was enlarged by simply raising it and putting another story beneath it. Thus the original house remained intact, only it was one story higher, while the lower portion was built more up to date. It is now a very spa cious mansion, containing no less than twenty full-sized rooms. It is doubtful if there is another house in all Maine beneath whose roof so many dis tinguished guests have been entertained. Gen erals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McClellan, Porter, Warren, Ayers, Griffin and Howard have aU partaken of its hospitality. Its waUs have echoed the brilliant conversation of Sumner, Wilson, Schurtz, Evans, Fessenden, Bradbury, [Morrill Frye, Hale and Blaine, and others famous in our national history. Hosts of literary men have been its guests. It was here that Longfellow came in 1875 when he delivered his famous "Morituri Salutamus," and while here he occupied the same rooms that had been his in earher days. The old poet was affected to tears as the flood of tender recollections came sweeping over him. This home is filled with antique furni ture, much of which is connected with prom inent persons of the past, rare and valuable paintings and statuary, and relics of the civil war, far too numerous to be paticularized here. On the wall of his favorite office is a tapestry picture of the General's old war horse, Charlemagne, that carried him through nearly all of his battles in the civil war. Three times he was shot down, but, like his master, rallied and went on. Once on a headlong charge a bullet aimed at close range square at the general's heart was caught by his horse's neck and then struck the General a glancing blow in the left breast, inflicting a severe wound, but leaving him his life. At the close of the war the horse was brought home to Brunswick, where for many years he was the playmate of the children and pet of the fam ily. On his death the faithful animal was given an honorable burial at the General's sea side cottage, "Domhegan," in Brunswick, and an inscription cut in the rock above his grave, which is kept with loyal care. The library and study are two interesting rooms in the old mansion. Here are more than two thousand volumes of well chosen books, and by the cozy open fire the old war rior reads and meditates. There are many valuable trophies of war in this room as well as objects of literary and historic interest. Connected is a small "den" containing more books, and on the wall hangs a rebel battle flag captured by General Chamberlain in a racing charge just before Appomattox. Just above this flag is a huge cavalry pistol with a history. In the famous charge on Little Round Top, General Chamberlain was met by a rebel officer with sword and pistol in hand. One barrel was discharged full at the Gen eral's head. Although but ten feet away, the bullet missed its mark. The officer, who be longed to the Fifteenth Alabama Regiment, then rushed at the Union leader with his sword. General Chamberlain met him, and, being the more expert swordsman, soon had him at his mercy. Seeing that the case was hopeless, the confederate officer surrendered both sword and pistol to Chamberlain and gave himself up as prisoner. Many other war relics are here. The cap and sword of Gen eral Griffin, who commanded the Fifth Corps, are in this room. At the battle of Five Forks, General Griffin lost his sword, and General Chamberlain instantly rode to his side and offered him his, which was accepted and used during the remainder of the war. General Chamberlain quickly replaced his weapon by taking the sword of a fallen South Caro- hna officer, which he wore until the close of the war. Several years later General Chamberlain received his own sword and the division flag from the War Depart ment at Washington. General Griffin's cap 140 STATE OF AlAINE. and the division bugle which had sounded all the battle caUs of the war were sent at the same time to the Brunswick hero who had last commanded that splendid division. In the main library the great flag of the division hangs from the ceiUng, while on one wall is the last flag surrendered by Lee on the field of Appomattox. The personal flag of General Chamberlain, bearing the red maltese cross, is also here, dimmed by batUe smoke and torn by shell and buUet. A precious me mento is this, and even dearer to its owner than the busf of Grant, by Simmons, that stands close by. Over the fireplace in this library are the stars of the first flag of the old Twentieth Maine regiment, first commanded by General Ames and then by Chamberlain. [Here, also, serving as a match box, is the base of a shell that burst at the General's feet in the battle of Gettysburg. It was a conical shell and it shows that when it exploded five pieces flew off into the faces of Chamber lain's men. In an adjoining closet is the coat that General Chamberlain wore when he was shot through the body in front of Petersburg and promoted by Grant. Another coat bear ing the stars of a general has the left breast and left sleeve torn and shredded by shot or shell at the battle on Quaker road in the final campaign of the war. General Chamberlain married, in Bruns wick, December 7, 1855, Frances Caroline Adan-is, who was born in Boston, Massachu setts, August 12, 1826, and died in Bruns wick, Maine, October 18, 1905. She was the daughter of Ashur Adams and Amelia Wyllys Adams, of Boston, and was a lineal descen dant of Mabel Harlakenden, the "Princess of New England." The chddren of this mar riage are Grace Dupee and Harold Wyllys. Grace Dupee was born in Brunswick, October 16, 1856, and married AprU 28, 1881, Horace Gwynne Allen, who is a distinguished lawyer in BostCiU. The children are: I. Eleanor Wyllys, born in Boston, Decem ber 13, 1893 ; Beatrice Lawrence, January 24, 1896; and Rosamund, December 25, i8g8. 2. Harold Wyllys Chamberlain, born in Bruns wick, October 10, 1858, and graduated at Bow doin College in i88t ; studied law in Boston University, and successfully practiced in Flor ida for four years. He has .since interested himself in elec trical engineering and has invented val uable improvements in that line, which he is now applying in practical work in the city of Portland. When our heathen ancestors JENNINGS adopted the christian faith they assumed christian names as evidences of their conversion. On account of the prominence in the early church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the EvangeUst, the name lohanan or lohannes, afterward shortened to Ian, lohn, or John, became a favorite. When the Saxon suffix ing, signify ing son, was added, it gave the patronymic laning, or Janing, that is, John's son, which finally became Jennings, which form has pre vailed for many centuries, though its orthog raphy shows more than thirty variations in the early records of Massachusetts. The men of this race have usually been tall, strong, hardy and energetic, have taken an active part in the wars of New England and the Republic, and have been successfully engaged in many of the pursuits of peace. Fifty-five were patriot soldiers in the revolutionary war from Massa chusetts. One of the first two Englishmen who ever descended Lake Champlain was a Jennings. A colonial governor of New Jer sey, the first governor of Indiana, a governor of Florida, and other men of prominence have borne this patronymic. Several of the name settled in Massachusetts in very early times; but who was the immigrant ancestor of this family, or when or where he settled in New England, is not within the knowledge of the present generation. Freeman, the historian of Cape Cod, says : "It is impossible after much investigation, to give so satisfactory account as we would wish, of the Jennings famil}-.'' Their earliest history probably perished with the early town records which contained it. Freeman adds^: "The Jennings famdy, long time prominent and highly respectable in this town (Sandwich) have become extinct here; but lands are still called after their name." (I) John Jennings, the first of the family of whom there is authentic information, was living at Sandwich in 1667, and died there June 18, 1722, "at an advanced age." On "23, 2 month, 1675," John Jennings was among the sixty-nine residents of Sandwdch" who were able to make it appear that they had just rights and title to the privileges of the town." July 4, 1678, the name of John Jen nings was not on "the list of those who have taken the oath of fidelity." August 18, 1681, the town voted John Jennings and two others "All the bog meadow, leaving out the springs for the neighborhood," near Dexter's Island. June 25, 1702, the name of John Jennings ap pears on the "record of inhabitants of the town STATE OF MAINE. 141 of Sandwich entitled to their share in the divi sion of lands as per vote of March 24, 1702." July 16, 1708, John Jennings, Cordwainer, was appointed administrator "on all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of John Jennings your son some time of Sand wich aforesaid, mariner, who it is said died intestate." This John, born "3, 12, 1673," is said to have been a captain in the English merchant service, and to have died in foreign parts. May 15, 1690, John Jennings and Sam uel Prince were elected constables. The con stable at that time was a person of some im portance, as he was the town's financial rep resentative, being tax collector and treasurer. John Jennings held various minor town offices and seems to have been occasionally paid money by the town for various services. The fact that John Jennings was a witness to the wills of two Quakers, Lydia Gaunt, i6gi, and Isaac Gaunt, i6g8, and the further fact that the inventory of his estate shows that he had at the time of his death "Quakers' books as we suppose may be valued by that people two pounds," make it seem that he was undoubt edly one of those just men whose influence prevented any harm ever coming to the Quakers of "the Cape," though they were cruelly persecuted in some other parts of New England. John Jennings died intestate and his son Isaac administered his estate, the inven tory of which amounted to forty-five pounds fifteen shillings six pence. He seems to have been an honest and honorable man who minded his own business and was sometimes* called in to help other people with theirs. John Jen nings married (first) June 29, 1667, Susanna; (second) Ruhamah; the surname of neither be ing now known. His children by Susanna were: Remember (or Remembrance) and Ann ; and by Ruhamah : John, Isaac, Eliza beth (died young), Elizabeth and Samuel. These children, as shown by the Sandwich records, were born between September 17, 1668, and February 28, 1685. (II) Samuel, youngest child of John and Ruhamah Jennings, was born in Sandwich, February 19, 1684-85 (O. S.), and died there May 13, 1764, in the eightieth year of his age. He was impressed into the British navy, and in escaping from it had the adventure which he narrates in a letter to his pastor. Rev. Dr. StUlman, which was printed and published with the following "Advertisement" : "The writer of the foUowing Letter was a person of good understanding, of great sobriety and uprightness, and sustained a very fair charac ter to his death, which was in the year seven teen hundred and sixty-four, in advanced age. Fle bore on his body the marks of the terrible assault herein related ; the particulars of which he often repeated, and the following letter was found among his papers and is published by his son to perpetuate a remembrance of this signal Providence." The letter is as follows: "Honored Sir: According to your request, when I was at your house above a year ago, I have now taken in hand to give you an ac count of that disaster which befel me in the West Indies, which was after the following manner. It was in the year 1703, I think in the month of October, that I was impressed on board a frigate, in Carlisle Bay, called the Milford, which was a station ship for the Is land of Barbados ; and after about four or five months continuance on board said ship, I became exceedingly restless about my way of living ; and I shall give you some of the rea sons that made me so. And first, I observed that many times when men w-ere sick of fevers and other distempers, they were beaten to work, when men that were drunk were easily excused, though they were commonly a third of our number when there was work to do. And one time, being sick myself of a fever so that my legs would scarce carry me without help of my hands, I was commanded up to work; I told the officer I was sick and could not work; he said I lied, and thereupon drove me, with several others in the same condition, upon deck (some of whom died the next day), then I went to the captain and told him that I, with some others, were beaten to work, though we were sick and not able to work : He said we were rascals, and the doctor said we were not sick; whereupon we were forced to stay on deck some time, and had now and then a blow, but did not and could not work. Sec ondly, I observed that industry and idleness were equally rewarded with blows; for they would begin at one end of a parcel of men pulling at a rope, and whip tUl they came to the other end, without minding who pulls and who does not. And thirdly, I found that my continuance in such a wicked family had brought me to smack of their familiar sin, viz., swearing, though I was but very awkward at it, and my conscience would always menace me for it. And I found also that the desire of strong drink had gained somewhat upon me, though I was not drunk with it at all, and had totally left the use of strong drink before I left the ship. Now the consideration of these and some other difficulties which I found in this place I lay obnoxious to, made me un dertake that dangerous way of escape by 142 STATE OF MAINE. swimming ; for I considered the danger before I set out; but on the 26th day of March, 1704, I had drawn up a resolution that I would rid myself of this company, or lose my life when night came. I found it something difficult to get away undiscovered, there being centmels afore and abaft, with muskets loaded to shoot any one that should attempt to run away, and likew-ise a guard boat to row round the ship all night. I watched them till about ten o'clock at night, at which time, finding the centinels pretty careless, and the guard boat ahead of the ship, I went down between decks, and hav ing begged of God to carry me through that dangerous enterprize and deliver me out of those distresses, I went out of a port and swam with my shirt and breeches on right out to sea, before the wind, till I was clear of the ship and guard boat, and then turned along ¦shore awhile, and then wheeled more towards the shore, but the seas beat over my head so fast I could hardly swim, and I thought beat me more out to sea, whereupon I turned and swam right against the wind towards the ¦shore, and after a considerable time got to one of Captain Gillam's buoys, and rested myself .awhile, and if I had known the ship I would have gone on board, but I aimed to swim to a brigantine that lay in the road belonging to Boston. Then I put off from Captain Gillam's biuoy, and had not swam far before I saw a Shark just as he took hold of my left hand, he pulled me under water in a moment, at which I was very much surprised, and thought of a knife which I used to carry in my pocket, but remembered I had left it on board; then I kicked him several times with my right foot, but that proving ineffectual, I set my foot against his mouth, intending to haul my hai.d away or haul it off, and then he opened his mouth a little and catch'd part of my foot into his mouth with my hand, and held them both together. Then I cried unto God (mentally) that he would have mercy on my soul, which I thought would soon be separated from my body ; but still I did not leave off striving, but punched him with my right hand, though to very little purpose; at last being almost drowned (for I was all the while under wa ter) I had almost left off striving, and ex pecting nothing but present death ; all at once my hand came loose and also my foot, and so finding myself clear of the fish I got to the top of the water, and having a little cleared my stomach of water, I called out for help, and swam towards the nearest ship, and I quickly heard them mustering to fit out their boat, which encouraged me to continue my calling for help, thinking thereby they might find me the sooner, it being very dark; they came to me with all speed and took me into their boat, and carried me to the ship's side, where I saw they had a lanthorn, but the blood turning just at that time, caused me to be extreme sick at my stomach, and my sight also left me, but I answered Captain GiUam to many questions while I was blind; then they fastened a rope about me and hauled me into the ship and carried me into the steerage, and after a while recovering my sight, I asked if there was any doctor on board, they said yes, and pointed to Mr. Peter Cutler of Boston, he then being Captain Gillam's doctor. I asked him to cut off my mangled limbs if he saw it needful, and he spoke to the captain about it, but he would not allow of it, but sent advice to the Milford of what had happened, and the lieutenant sent a boat and carried me on board again, and the doctor being ashore, he sent for doctor Cutler and another doctor, who came on board, and after a glass of wine they ordered I should be tied, but upon my earnest solicitation they for bore to tie me, and then doctor Cutler per-- formed the first amputation, which was my arm, and the other doctor cut off part of my foot. I endured extreme pain all the while, and after they had dressed those two wounds, they dressed three other flesh wounds, which I received at the same time, and the next day I was carried on shore, where I remained wdthout appetite, and so full of pain, that I thought I did not sleep three hours in three weeks : but at last thro' God's great goodness, the pain left me and my appetite was restored, and my wounds healed wonderful fast, so that in about four months my foot was healed up, and I could go on it; but it broke out again, and I could not thoroughly heal it tiU I got home to New England. I was about nineteen years of age at the time of this disaster. I received much kindness from many gentlemen belonging to New England, as well as from those of Barbados, under those difficulties, all which I desire gratefully to acknowledge. But above all, I would acknowledge the great good ness of that God that supported me under and carried me through those distresses, and has provided for me ever since, so that neither I, nor mine, have wanted the necessary comforts of this life, notwithstanding my inabUity of body for many employments. Thus having run through the most observable passages of that disaster, I shall conclude, desiring your prayers to God for me, that so signal a de liverance may not be lost upon me ; and that I may, by believing and yielding obedience to the STATE OF MAINE. 143 Gospel of jesus Christ, become a subjec. L-i eternal as well as temporal salvation. "Your humble servant, "S.\MUEL Jennings. "Sandwich, August 8, 1716." After his return from Barbadoes, Samuel Jennings probably devoted himself to the ac quisition of a superior education in conse quence of his being maimed. He was the grammar-school master, and the records of 1710 show that he was voted twenty pounds, and it was provided that "those who send shall pay additional and board." He was "stUl em ployed" in 1712. He was selectman in 1712, representative 1714-17-21, town clerk 1721-51 (thirty years), town treasurer I7ig-5i (thirty- two years), surveyor of lands, trader and pos sessed a large estate. In 1712 the north part of the township of Falmouth included in what was called "the New Purchase," was ordered to be laid out; and "Thomas Bowerman and Philip Dexter were appointed to lay out said lands, and were to associate with them, in the performance of their duty some suitable per son. They called to their aid Mr. Samuel Jen nings of Sandwich, an accomplished surveyor and good scholar, whose able and neatly pre pared report of the proceedings amply justifies the enconium we bestow," says the historian. "In 1717, February 6, John [Bacon, agent for the town of Barnstable, presented a petition to the General Court 'for the division of the town into precincts;' and, February 10, on the peti tion of Mr. Joseph Crocker and others, Mr. Samuel Sturgis, Melatiah Bourne, Esq., and Mr. Samuel Jennings, were appointed 'a com mittee to determine the controversy and settle the bounds between the said town and the In dians,' which was accordingly done." April 4, 1718, Samuel Jennings in a deed of land to "Joseph Ney" describes himself as "shop keeper." Freeman states, "In 1764, two of the most influential and respectable citizens of the town deceased, Samuel Jennings, Esq., May 13, aged eighty, and Flon. Ezra Bourne in September, aged 88." On a well preserved slate stone in the Old Cemetery in Sandwich is the following inscription : "In memory of Samuel Jennings Esq., who having served God and his Generation with uprightness in several important trusts, deceased May 13th 1764 in his Both year. The memory of the just is blessed." The marriage between Samuel Jen nings and Remembrance Smith, both of Sand wich, was solemnized "before William Bassett, justice of the Peace, att Sandwich the 20th day of January Anno Domini 1712-13," She was the daughter of Shubael and granddaugh ter of Rev. John Smith, who was pastor of Sandwich from 1675 to 1688. Near her hus band's stone is a slate slab on which is the legend, "Here Lyes ye bo(h of Remember Jennings, aged About 28 Years Dec'd Jan'ry ye 23d 1717-18." He married (second) De borah Newcomb, who died February 10, 1753. The children of the first wife w-ere Lydia and Ruhamah, the latter a woman of fine educa tion. The children of the second wife were : Samuel, Esther and John, whose sketch fol lows: (III) John. (2), youngest child of Samuel and Deborah (Newcomb) Jennings, was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, September 3, 1734, and died in Winthrop, Maine, as stated in the Winthrop records, March 10, 1800, aged sixty-five years. He was interested with his father in shipping, and one of their ves sels was the sloop "Deborah." John used to take "negro and Indian boys and bring them up to send on whaling voyages," and was evi dently a prosperous man. But after the revo lution began he lost considerable property. He was a zealous Tory, and, history states, "was arrested and imprisoned in 1778 for disaffec tion to the popular cause." Being a high- spirited man, he determined to go to a new country. Accordingly he took his eldest son and went to Maine, then being rapidly settled. They went up the Kennebec to the Hook (now Hallowell) and thence through the woods of Winthrop (then Pondtown), inquiring of the few settlers he saw for land partly fenced by water. This he found in Wayne, where he was one of the earliest settlers. There he se lected a tract of about a thousand acres bounded on three sides by Pocasset (now Wing) and Lovejoy ponds and what has since been called from him the Jennings stream, which unites the other two bodies of water. Here he finally obtained possession of about two hundred acres bordering the stream and the Wing pond, other settlers getting the rest. Here they felled a "possession," and John re turned to Sandwich, leaving Samuel to fell more trees during the summer. The next sum mer Samuel was also sent to make further im provements. The next year John and his son John went from Sandwich and built a log house and extended the clearing. The greater part of the land John Jennings then settled on has ever since been the property of his descend ants in the male line and is now the property of Tudor G. Jennings, the occupant, and his nephew, Loton D. Jennings, a lawyer of Bos ton. This is now one of the finest farms in Kennebec county. A^estiges of the first house 144 STATE OF MAINE. and one built later and apple trees John planted are still to be seen. John probably removed to Wayne with his family in the spring of 1780. They went on a vessel to Portland, and from there John with his son Samuel ascended the Kennebec in one of his old whale-boats. From Hallowell they made their way on foot, driving before them the sheep and hogs they had brought from Sandwich. The swine were subsequently taken to an island in the Andros coggin pond in Leeds, where in the following July the outcries of the animals gave notice of trouble. The settlers living near hastened to the island and discovered that bears had killed the hogs, and escaped. From this circum stance the island has since been known as Hog Island. Having no salt, the neighbors smoked the meat of the slaughtered animals, which was a substantial part of the provisions of Mr. Jennings's family the foUowing winter. In the autumn John Jennings returned to Sandwich to settle his affairs and came the next spring to Wayne, where he lived until the latter part of 1799, when he was taken sick and carried to the home of his daughter Deborah, wife of Joel Chandler, son of John Chandler, the first settler in Winthrop Village and builder of the first mills on the stream there. The Winthrop records state that "Mr. John Jennings died at Winthrop, March 10, 1800." He was buried in the cemetery there. According to the rec ord John Jennings and Hannah Sturgis, both of Sandwich, were married by Mr. Abraham Williams, minister of Sandwich, May 13, 1759. Hannah, born June 4, 1732, was the widow of Jonathan Sturgis and daughter of WiUiam and Bathshua (Bourne) Newcomb. They had: Deborah, Samuel (see below), John, Flannah, Bathsheba, Sarah, Nathaniel (mentioned be low), and Mary — all born in Sandwich. (IV) Samuel (2), eldest son of John (2) and Hannah (Newcomb) Jennings, was born in Sandwdch, Massachusetts, November 15, 1762, and died in Leeds, Maine, March 23, 1842, in his eightieth year, tie accompanied his father on his first visit to New Sandwich and was left there to continue the work of clearing the farm which they there began, and returned to Sandwich later on foot with oth ers. The next spring he was sent back alone, to further improve the place. He boarded with Job FuUer, the earliest white settler in Wayne (1773). and exchanged work with Eben Wing. They secured only a poor "burn" of the tim ber on the ground, and the "turf" still left was deep; and they had to use the bag in which they brought their dinner to carry sand from the shore of the pond, to cover the corn they planted. Samuel soon wearied of this style of farming, and arranged with a neighbor to care for the crop, and again trudged back to Sand wich, and made the best excuse he could to his father for thus leaving the place in the wilder ness of Maine. The ne.xt spring, when the time for going to New Sandwich drew nigh, Samuel seized an opportunity when his father was away and went to Plymouth, and thence to Boston, where he met some acquaintances and enlisted on board a privateer which made a successful cruise, capturing three prizes, Sam uel returning to Boston as one of the crew of the third one. Samuel Jennings also served as a private in Captain Simeon Fish's com pany, Colonel Freeman's regiment, on an alarm at Falmouth in September, 1779. The next year he v^^ent with his father and his fam ily to Wayne. Samuel Jennings in his account of the family at this time says, "They thought it rather hard times to live on smoked meat and keep their cattle on meadow hay." In the early spring when Samuel found the neigh boring settlers could not pay in corn for cer tain utensils they had bought of his father the year before, he went to Littleborough, now Leeds, some ten mUes away, and worked a week for Thomas Stinchfield, chopping and piling logs for a peck of corn a day. On Sun day he was set across the Androscoggin pond by the Stinchfield boys in a canoe, and carried his bushel and a half of corn on his back to his home, where he and his burden were warmly welcomed by the other members of the family. On the day when Samuel completed his twenty-first year he refused to "tote" a bag of corn on his back through the woods to mill. His father was angry, disowned him, and told him to leave the place. But while the father was absent hunting that day in Port Royal, now Livermore, Samuel and his brother John seeing a bear swimming in the pond, dispatched it with an axe, dressed the carcass and hung it on a pole. The father re turning from his hunt without game and see ing the supply of meat, inquired who killed the bear. Being told that Samuel had been chiefly instrumental in kiUing bruin, he with drew his objections and the young man con tinued to live at the homestead. In 1784 Samuel, accompanied by his brother John, took up a large tract of land, mostly rich intervale, on the bank of the Androscog gin river in Leeds, where the hamlet of West Leeds now is. This is still owned by his de scendants in the male line. Somewhat later he returned to Sandwich and married. Leav ing his wife there, he went to Hallowell, STATE OF MAINE. 145 Maine, where he worked for his brolher-in- law, John Beeman, for four dollars a month. In the spring of 1787, Mrs. Jennings with her infant son, Samuel, went to Hallowell, and thence to Wayne, where she met her husband. On their journey to Leeds they crossed the Androscoggin pond in a birch canoe ; the wind blew a gale, the waves beat over the canoe, compelling the mother to sit very quiet in the bottom of the bark boat with her babe in her arms, while the father, alternately paddling and bailing, urged the canoe forward. The shore was reached at last, and at the house of Thomas Stinchfield they were warmed and re freshed, their clothing dried,. and again on foot they made their way through the woods to their home. Samuel Jennings was a wealthy and influential farmer in Leeds. He married in Sandwich, in 1785, Olive Tupper, daughter" of Enoch and Mehitable (Davis) Tupper. She was born February 16, 1763, and died April 20, 1848, aged eighty-five years. They were the parents of Samuel, who was born in Sand wich, Massachusetts, and Perez Smith, one of the earliest born yvhite children in Leeds. (V) Samuel (3), elder of the two sons of Samuel (2) and Olive (Tupper) Jennings, was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Feb ruary 7, 1787, and died at the village of North Wayne, Maine, March 2g, 1876, in the nine tieth year of his age. Leeds in the days of his boyhood was little better than an unbroken forest; there was no school until after he was twelve years old, and many children received but little book knowledge ; but he had all the school privUeges the locality afforded and ac quired a good common school education and a desire for reading, which a small library in the town afforded him some means of gratifying. He was a constant reader throughout his life, especially in his age, and became familiar with the Bible, works of history and other books. In the fall of i8og he settled on a farm on the west side of North Wayne, where the active portion of his life was spent, except six years between 1826 and 1832, when he lived on the homestead in Leeds. From 1852 to 1868 he live.I with his son Seth, and after that time on a place he bought on the north side of North Wayne. He was a liberal, social and law- abiding citizen and a man of practical sa gacity and determined will. He left a written account of the settlement of the family in Wayne and Leeds, from which much of the foregoing has been taken. For a large part of his life he was a member of, the Methodist Episcopal church, singing and playing the bass viol in the choir. He was a Whig until that party dissolved, and thereafter a Democrat. In the war of 1812 he served at Wiscasset in the coast defense. Flis health seemed to be always good, and he was never seriously ill till his last sickness. Samuel Jennings married (first) in Middleborough, Massachusetts, January 14, i8og, Phebe Morton, born in [Mid dleborough, May 15, i7gi, died at North Wayne, October 26, 1858, aged sixty-seven years. She was the daughter of Seth (2) and PrisciUa (Morton) Morton (see Morton VI), and a cousin german of Rev. Daniel Oliver Morton, the father of Levi P. Morton, late Vice-President of the United States. She was related, but more remotely, to Governor Alar- ctis and Chief Justice Marcus Morton, of Mas sachusetts. She was also a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of "Mayflower" fame, thus : Deborah, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, mar ried Andrew Ring; Mary Ring, their daugh ter, married John Morton (2) (see Morton III), ancestor of Phebe Morton. Samuel Jen nings was married (second) December 20, 1868, by Rev. J. R. Masterman, of Wayne, to Laura M. (Rackley) Gilmore, widow of Ansel Gilmore, of Turner, who survived him and died in her seventy-fifth year, while on a visit to Livermore, September 20, 1882. The chil dren of Samuel and Phebe were: i. Olive (first), born April 8, 1810, died January, 181 1. 2. Olive (second), born August 2, 1811, mar ried, January i, 1833, Captain James Lamb; died in Chesterville, December 23, i8g3, aged eighty-two. 3. Louisa, born September 14, 1 81 3, married, March 6, 1836, Captain Morton Freeman, of Middleborough, Massachusetts ; died May 24, 1844. 4. Lavinia, born June 12, 1815, died June 17, 1815. 5. Cleora, born Au gust 10, 1816, married Willard Torrey, of Dix- field, March 4, 1845, and died in Auburn, No vember 3, igoo, aged eighty-four. 6. Samuel M., mentioned below. 7. Lovias, see further. 8. Granville Temple, born September 28, 1822, died October 4, 1843. 9- Perez S., see below. 10. Seth W., receives mention below. 11. Martha, born March g, 1828, married, Janu ary 15, 1846, John H. Lord; died at North Wayne, February ig, 1854. 12. Velzora, born July II, 1833, died October 25, 1843. i3- Mary Helen, born March 30, 1837, died Sep tember 8, 1843. (VI) Samuel Morton, eldest son of Sam uel and Phebe (Morton) Jennings, was born in Wayne, March 23, 1818, and died in Wayne, September 25, 1877. He was educated in the common schools and grew to manhood a farmer. An old account book of his father shows that he worked for his grandfather Jen- 146 ST.\TE OF MAINE. nings in Leeds from March, 1832, to Novem ber 25, 1835 — almost four years. He built the house at North Wayne afterward occupied by Captain Lamb and lived in it for a time. Later he bought the homestead of his father and lived on it from 1846 to 1874, disposing of it at the latter date and living in the village. Fle was thrown from a horse in i86g and so seri ously injured that he was never afterward able to perform heavy labor. As a farmer he was diligent and successful, and ranked among the best of that class in "Wayne, which is one of the best agricultural towns in Maine. He was a Democrat in young manhood, but became a member of the Know Nothing party, and later of the Republican party, which he loyally sup ported till his death. He cast his vote for John C. Fremont for president, in 1856. He cared nothing for public office and would never allow his friends to make him a candidate for official position. He was a constant attendant an;! liberal supporter of the [Met'nodist Epis copal church, but not a member ; a man of strict integrity, and his word was as good as his bond, and either was as good as gold. He w-as a strong supporter of schools, both public and private, and gave his children opportuni ties for good educations. He was married in Portland, March 15, 1842, by Rev. Mr, Pierce, to Mary Lobdell, wdio was born in Westbrook, December 12, 1819, and died in Oakland, Sep tember 15, 1893. She was the daughter of Isaac and Charlotte (Pratt) Lobdell, of West brook (see Lobdell "VII). She was a woman vyho possessed common sense in large meas ure, was well informed on current topics, a pleasant companion, and greatly beloved by her husband and children. The children of this marriage were : i. Samuel W., mentioned below. 2. Aroline Edson, born August 8, 1844, was married to Charles A. Hall, at North Wayne, August 22, 1866, by Dr. Charles H. Barker. She died in Springfield, Massachu setts, April 19, igo3, and was buried at North Wayne. 3. Zelina Elizabeth, born July 29, 1846, was married at Leominster, Massachu setts, April 5, 1883, to Angus Dankason, by Rev. Dr. Savage. She died May 5, 1883, at Leominster, and was buried there. 4. Edward LobdeU, see below. 5. Annie May, born May 31, 1861, was married at Winthrop, Maine, November g, 1880, by Rev. David Church, to WiUiam Hurlbutt. She died at South Fram- ingham, Massachusetts, May 15, i8g2, and was buried there. (VII) WiUiston, first named Samuel WiUis- ton, eldest child of Samuel M. and Mary (Lobdell) Jennings, was born at North Wavne, [March 24. 1843, and was educated in the common and high schools of Wayne and at the [Maine Wesleyan Seminary. At seven teen years of age he left the farm, and worked at the jeweler's trade in Buckfield until April 28, 1 86 1, when he responded to the first caU for troops in the civil war and enrolled him self as a soldier. The organization which he joined had for its commissioned officers: Isaac H. [McDonald, of Buckfield, captain; John P Swasev, of Canton, now member of congress from the second district, first lieu tenant ; and Joseph Shaw, of Buckfield, second lieutenant. This company of more than one hundred men was mustered in jMay, 1861, and well drilled in camp until nearly the first of July, when on account of the state's quota be ing full, it was paid off and discharged. Young 'Jennings, stUl an.xious to render service to the country, went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he enlisted as a marine, July 9, 1861, and served till .\ugust 13, 1862. On August 22, he was detached to serve on the "Cambridge," a steam propeller of one thousand tons, which had been taken from the merchant service and remodeled for the naval service. Her crew now consisted of one hundred and thirty-five officers and men, and her armament of four eight-inch guns, one twenty- four pound rifle gun and a thirty-two pound Parrott rifle gun, said to be the first Parrott giui mounted on shipboard. The two rifle guns were of long range, as subsequent service proved. The "Cambridge" went into commission August 29, and sailed for Hampton Roads, Virginia, September 4, 1861. She was assigned to the blockading squadron, and captured many blockade runners. In February she joined the "Congress" and "Cumberland" at Newport News to guard the mouth of the James river and was at Hampton Roads March 8, 1862, when the famous rebel ram "[Merrimac" at tacked the federal fleet there, and took part in that celebrated battle which revolutionized modern naval warfare. He was one of the crew of the after pivot gun and was in the fight from start to finish. Three of the gun crew. Midshipman Gushing (who later, as Lieutenant Gushing, blew up the "Albe marle"), J. H. Woods and Frank A, Kelley, W'cre wounded. Between March 10 and 17 while at sea, Mr. Jennings wrote an account of the battle to his mother, in wdiich he says of the "Cambridge" : "She is cut up badly, both in her hull and top hamper, with her timbers stove in on her portside, her bowsprit gone close to her figure-head and her after pivot gun split at the muzzle by a sheU." Contin- STATE OF MAINE. 147 uing he says: "I should like to go ashore once more, as I have not been for about seven months." This letter was written while en route to relieve the "State of Georgia," then at Beaufort, North Carolina, which went north to coal. The "Nashville," a well-known Con federate blockade runner, was in Beaufort harbor when the "Cambridge" arrived, but es caped from one of the unguarded entrances to the harbor the following night. In May the "Cambridge" was ordered to Baltimore for re pairs. A month after arriving there Mr. Jen nings was transferred to the "Alleghany," where, after serving a month, he was dis charged on surgeon's certificate, for disability incurred while in the line of duty. He re turned to Wayne, where he remained until Au gust, 1864, when he enlisted in the quarter master's department, L^nited States army, and went from Boston, Massachusetts, to Nash- viUe, Tennessee, and served as a member of the guard on various government steamers on the Cumberland and Ohio rivers. Just before the battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864, he was one of the many armed and sent for ward from the levy to take part in that en gagement. He was under command of Gen eral Donaldson and stationed on the right wing of the army in the rifle-pits on the turn pike where he remained four days, during two of which he was engaged in the fighting. Dur ing the most of this time rain fell heavily and fiUed the entrenchments knee-deep with mud and water, and as those who had been brought off the ships had neither overcoats nor blank ets their condition was of the most serious character. To alleviate his discomfort in some degree, Mr. Jennings went over the breast works in the night and secured a pair of blank ets one of the enemy had no further use for. The utter rout of the rebel General Hood and his forces, relieved the Union army of further need of the aid of those of Mr. Jennings's class, and in February, 1865, he was dis charged by reason of expiration of service, and returned to Wayne. In the summer of 1863 he apprenticed him self to the shoemaker's trade. After the war he spent two years at Middleborough, Massa chusetts, and then a year at Kent's Hill, Maine, and then removed to North Wayne. He was a shoemaker .and dealer in boots and shoes from the time he went to Kent's HiU till he lost his store at North Wayne, by fire, in 1889. He then gave up the shoe business, and for about a year was an insurance solicitor. In 1885 he was appointed agent of the North Wayne Water Power Company, and filled that place three years. From 1891 to the present time he has been superintendent of the North Wayne Tool Company and agent of the North Wayne Water Power Company. In political faith he is a consistent Republican. He was postmaster at North Wayne for terms of two and four years, was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Garcelon in 1879, and has ever since fiUed that office ; was a member of the legislature i894-g6, and was a member of the Republican town committee ten or fifteen years. For four or five years past he has been a notary public, and since his appointment as justice of the peace he has prepared deeds conveying nearly all the real estate in the vicinity of North Wayne. He has been ad ministrator of many estates and has assisted many executors of wills and administrators in the discharge of their duties, and performed many marriage ceremonies. In the compila tion of the History of Wayne he was promi nent, and had charge of the preparation of the town's military history. In all matters of pub lic benefit, both secular and religious, he has borne an ample share of the expense. In 1880 he was made a Mason in Asylum Lodge, No. 133, Free and Accepted JMasons, and served as secretary of that body continuously from the following election tUl i88g. He is a member of Starling Grange, No. 156, Patrons of Hus bandry ; and also of Lewis H. Wing Post, No. 167, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was commander one year. Williston Jen nings was married June i, 1870, at Kent's Hill, by Rev. Dr. Weber, to Melora Elzada Faunce, of Wayne, who was born at North Wayne, January 15, 1847, daughter of Sam uel and Mary E. (Currier) Faunce. Of this^ marriage was born one child, Charlotte Mor ton, November 9, 1872. She married (first) August 8, 1 891, Otis Howard Nelke, of Wayne, son of Solomon A. and Pamelia (Ray mond) Nelke. He was born in Wayne, Feb ruary 18, 1864, and died December 30, 1895, leaving one child, Gladys Leone, born July 29, 1895, who resides wdth iMr. Jennings. Char lotte M. married (second) November 14, i8g8, at Lewiston, George R. FlaU, and lives in Lew iston. (VII) Edward LobdeU, second son of Samuel M. and Mary (LobdeU) Jennings, was born at North Wayne, April 14, 1850, and died in Waterbury, Connecticut, November 6, 1908, and was buried at Hyde Park, Massa chusetts. He was educated in the public schools and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary. In June, 1870, he went to Boston and spent the' , William Jewett Farley F[sq., a graduate of llowdoin Ctdlege, class of 1821-1, and ;i lawyer of Thomaslon, IMaine. She dietl wthoiit issue, in May, 1S27. (VI) Joseph (2), eldest .son of President McKeen, was horn March 12, 1787, and died December 2, 1865. He was a ])nimineiit busi ness man of lirnnswick. Though not a grad uate of the college he was connected with its administration from early manhood, serving as overseer from 1813 to 182c), and as treasurer from t82() tUl his death in 18(15. To his abil ity, shrewdness and integrity the institution owes much, lie was cashier of the Union Bank from i85() till its reorganization as a national bank, and then served as its presi dent. He was a director and trustee of the Kennebec & Portland Railroad Company, and for some time its treasurer. Well read in .several deparlmeiils of literature and especially versed in biblical history titul geography, he received the honorary degree of A. M. from. Bowdoin in t8..|3. A member of the First Parish Church, he was esiieeially iiniminent in the work of its Stinday school, and occa sionally conducted religious services in adjoin ing comniunilies. He was "a marked man, of clear intellect, of decided oiiinions, of an energy appalled by no dinieiillies, of uniiues- tionetl sincerity, of great liberality and kind ness of heart." Mr. McKeen married, June 17. 1828, Eliza beth I'^arlev, horn April 0, 1810. in Walilo- boro, Maiiie. and ; for many years a most highly es teemed" teacher of luiglish hlerature in the Hrtinswick high school, and sub.sequently at Miss Porter's school at ]''armington, Coniiec- ticiil ; died unmarried, (,)ctober 3, 11)07, at Farmington. 2. Joseph, bom October 15, 1832, died January 15, 1881. 3. Nancy Dun- lap, born (V-lober 2},. 1837, diet! /Vugust it;, iSS'v 4. lames, Ihuii December 5, 1844. 5. Alit-e Farley, bom April 18, 1855. Nancy, datighler of President McKeen, marrieil. May 21, 1821, David, son of John ami Jeanette (Dunning) Dunlap, who was born Jantiary 21, 1778, at Brunswick, and died there l'"ebrti;iry 5, 1843. He was a prominent and successful niercliant, represented Ihe town in the general cotirt of Mas.saclui.setls and in the Maine legislature for several years, He was .-in overseer ot Uowdoin College for nearly thirty years, and a member of the American Hoard of t'onuuissioners for For eign Missions. "Highly respecletl as a citi zen, he was noted for his charities to benevo lent objects." His wife survived him six years, dying Mtiy 15, i84(). I'.eside a son wdio died in childhood, they had .Mice McKeen Dunlap, bom .'\ugusl 1, 1827, died Sepleinber 15,1905. (Vi) John (2), second son of President McKeen, was prepared for college under the tuition of Rev. Jonathan IXUis, of Topsham, and graduated at Bowdoin in iSti. HI health interfered with his plans for professional study, and he sellled in Brunswick, being en gaged pari of the lime in trade, but chiefly as an agent tind ;uliuiiiistral(-ir of eslales. Ho served as postmaster ftir one term, as town clerk for twenty-three years, and was county C(-iiiimissioncr in 1838. As secretary of the hoanl (d" overseers from 1831) tUl his death, he maintained a close connection with the il> slitulion whose graduates lie knew so well. By nature and training an antiquarian, he be came one of Ihe founders and most valued members of the Maine Historical Society. Its collections and the pages of several town his tories hear evidence lo his indnslrious re searches. "A Scotch Presiiylerian in matters of faith, he adhered with vvonderful tenacity to the doctrines of his church, bul as e-Kcmpii- fied in ids life lliey were divesled of aU their rigor and sharpness." 1 le married, Novemhor STATE OF MAINE. 179 30, 183 1, F^rances, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Giddings) 'Toppan, who was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, November 13, 1792, and died at Brunswick, October 27, 1881. Their only child, Frances Ann McKeen, was born August 5, 1833, and resides on McKeen street, Brunswick, Maine. To her the writer is indebted for much^ assistance. (VI) James ^3), youngest son of President McKeen, was graduated at Bowdoin in 1817, and entered upon the study of medicine, com pleting his course at Harvard in 1820. He settled at once at Topsham, where he was a successful practitioner for half a century. From 1825 to 1839 he was professor of ob stetrics in the Medical School of Maine, and during the last two years was also lecturer upon medical theory and practice. During his professorship he made the tour of Europe, studying in dift'erent hospitals. Of his ex periences in Dublin anecdotes are told which iUustrate the courage, the persistence and the enthusiasm which were prominent traits in his character. Fle was to the close of his life an earnest student, being interested not alone in medicine but in natural science and liter ature. "-'Vniong the citizens of Topsham no one will be longer or more dearly remem bered than he of whom it has been said that ''upon his good name no stain ever rested.' Dr. IMcKeen married (first) Sarah Jewett Farley, born December i(), 1799, died March 26, 1831 ; (second) June 3, 1834, Octavia Frost, born May 2, i8og, died Septeniber 4, 1890, His only child, Alice, died Deceinber 24, 1825, aged six months. (VII) Joseph (3), eldest son of Treasurer McKeen, graduated at Bowdoin in 1853, at tended lectures in New York City and at the Medical School of Maine, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1856. He at once set ded in the practice of his profession in Tops ham, being associated for many years with his uncle, Dr, James McKeen. He was in terested in the public schools of the place and served on the school committee and as super visor with acceptance. Possessed of a good voice and a fine musical taste, his services of song in church choirs will be long remem bered by those who enjoyed it. Dr. McKeen married, March 12, 1862, Frances Caroline, daughter of Smith and Tamson Chase, who survived him, dying October 12, igo6, at Brunswick. Their children, born in Topsham, were: i. Sarah Jewett, born .\pril 16, 1863; married Llewellyn R. Call, of Richmond, Maine, and died February 19, 1903. 2. Jo seph, born March 21, 1878; is in the hard ware business at Brunswick, Maine. Nancy Dunlap McKeen, daughter of Treas urer McKeen, married July 25,'i86i, Charlton Thomas, son of Joseph J. and Mary Sinton (Miner) Lewis, wdio was born February 25, 1834, at West Chester, Pennsylvania, and died May 26, 1904, at Morristown, New Jersey, Dr. Lewis graduated at Yale University in 1853, was for a few years a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal church, then professor of languages at the University of Illinois, and acting president of Troy University (New York). In 1864 he settled in New York City and engaged in the practice of law, attaining a high reputation as an authority on insurance law. He was a most brilliant and versatile scholar, edited Harper's "Latin Dictionary," translated Bengel's "Gnomon of the New Tes tament," and wrote a "Histor\- of Germany," besitles numerous essays, poems and addresses. In 1870-71 he was managing editor of the New York Post. Fle received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from New York Uni versity, 1877, and of Doctor of Laws from Harvard in 1903. Mrs. Lewis died at Nor folk, Connecticut, August 19, 1883, leaving four children: i. Joseph Mcl-Cecn Lewis, born June 26, 1863, at Brunswick, graduated at Yale in 1883, studied at Berlin and Athens, was tutor at Yale, and died April 29, 1887, at Morristown, New Jersey, leaving an enviable reputation for scholarship and ability. 2. Charlton Miner Lewis, born IMarch 4, 1866, at Brooklyn, New York ; graduated at Yale, 1886; at Columbia Law School, i88g ; prac ticed law in New York City, i88g to 1895; instructor in English at Yale I'niversity, 1895- 98, securing the degree of Ph,D, in the latter year ; Emily Sanford professor of English Literature at Yale since i8g.g, and author of numerous books. Professor Lewis married, June 16, 1903, Grace FI. Robbins, of St. Paul, Minnesota. 3. Elizabeth Dike Lewis, born August 13, 1873, at Bethel, Maine; graduated at Smith College in 1895, recei\'ed the degree of A. M. in 1898; married June 30, 1904, Professor Clive Day, Ph.D., of Yale PTniyer- sity; they have one daughter, Margaret, born October 5, 1905. 4. Mary Sinton Lewis, born September, 1876, at New York City; was educated at Smith College, class of 1897; married, October 17, 1907, Captain John Leitch, of Dundee, Scotland. (VII) James (4), youngest son of Treas urer McJxcen, was born Deceinber 5, 1844; graduated with honors at Bowdoin. 1864: i8o STATE OF MAINE. studied law in the office of his brother-in- law, Charlton M. Lewis, in New York City, was admitted to the bar in 1866, and, with the exception of a year spent in Europe, dur ing which he attended lectures on jurispru dence and political economy at Paris and at Berlin, has been • engaged in the successful practice of his profession in New York City, residing in Brooklyn, where he also maintains a law office. Fle was appointed by Governor Rooseveh a member of the commission to revise the charter of "Greater New York," served as assistant corporation counsel, was the candidate of the Republicans for justice of the supreme court in 1903, and was asso ciate counsel with Governor Hughes in the insurance investigation of 1905. Fle is now the legal adviser of the Mutual Insurance Company of New York. Mr. McKeen has been actively interested in education, serving as a member of the Brookh'n education board, as trustee of the College of the City of New York, and of the Packer Collegiate Institution, and as an overseer of Bowdoin College since 1886, Fle received the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 1900. On retiring from the presidency of the Hamilton Club, the leading social organization of Brooklyn, whicli he had held for ten years, a fellow member charac terized him in these phrases : "A logician with a capacity for eloquence, a man with humor without malice or a tinge of vulgarity, pos sessing decision of character without stub- borness of opinion, too learned for over confi dence, too just for arrogance, too fair for dic tation and too wise for vanity." ^dr. McKeen mdrried, in 1871, Mary Ellen, daughter of Joseph J. and Mary S. (iMiner) Lewis. Their summer home is at Jewell's Island, on the JMaine coast. Their children, besides a son that died in infancy, are three daughters, all born in Brooklyn: i. Helen Jo sephine, graduated at Bryn Mawr, 1900; studied law at Berlin and New York City, received the degree of LL.B. at New York University, igo5, and was admitted to the bar in 1906. 2. Elizabeth Farley, graduated at Bryn Mawr, 1901 ; studied at Oxford and engaged in literary work. 3. Anna Lewis, graduated at Bryn Mawr, 1904. Alice Farley [McJCcen, daughter of Treas urer IMcKeen, married Frederic Livingston Scott, a merchant of Farmington, Connecticut. Their only child is Elizabeth McKeen Scott, Alice McKeen Dunlap, daughter of Nancy (AfcKcen) Dunlap, married, October 15, 1850, Charles Jervis, son of Nathaniel and Eliza beth (Gardiner) Gilman, who was born at Exeter, New Hampshire, February 26, 1824, and died at Brunswick, February 5, 1901. Mr. Gilman was educated at Philhps Academy, Exeter, and the Harvard Law School, and received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth CoUege. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, but did not practice his profession after he removed to Brunswick in 1850. He was prominent in political affairs, served in the Maine legislature in 1854, was a member of congress in 1857-59, and a dele gate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in i8(5o. Mrs. Gilman died in Sep tember 15, igo5, in the mansion built by her grandfather in which she had dispensed a gracious hospitality for half a century. Their four children, all born in Brunswick, are: i. David Dunlap Gilman, born July 26, 1854; graduated at Bowdoin, 1877; for many years paymaster of the Cabot Ivlanufacturing Com pany. 2. Elizabeth Jervis Gilman. 3, Charles A. Gilman. 4. Mary Gardiner Gilman, libra rian of Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Maine. (Ill) John, second son of James Mc Kean, was born about 1675, in Ireland, and prepared to go to America with his elder brother James, but died a short time previous to the embarkation. His widow Jeanette, with her three sons — James, Robert and Sam uel — and her infant daughter Mary accom panied her brother-in-law James Mc Kean and his family to America in 1718 and settled in Londonderry, New Flampshire, where she had a lot assigned to her. She afterwards mar ried Captain John Barnett, one of the early settlers of the town. Her sons were the progenitors of the [McKeans of Deering, An trim, Amherst and Nashua, New Hampshire and Cherry \'alley. New York. John, the first, was the ancestor of [McKeans of Nova Scotia. Robert, the second, settled in Penn sylvania, was engaged in the French and In dian wars, promoted to the rank of major, and was captured and put to death by torture. He spelled the name [McKean, and descendants of that name are located in Cecil, Maryland, and also in Huntington and Bradford counties, same state. Samuel, the third, is subject of the next paragraph. Mary, the youngest, mar ried her cousin John McKean, previously men tioned in this article. (IV) Samuel, third son of John McKean, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, or vicinity, and came to this country wdth his mother and her other children in 17 18. He married Ag nes , and settled in Amherst, New Hampshire. Children: i. Flugh, was killed STATE OF MAINE. i8i by Indians in the old French war. 2. John, massacred at Fort William Henry in the F'rench and Indian war ; the Indians thrust pitch pine skewers into his flesh, then lighted them and burned him to death. 3. Robert set tled in Cherry VaUey, New York, and be came a "captain of renown" ; also killed by Indians during the battle at Wyoming, Penn sylvania. 4. James, married Jane Scott Mc Kean; settled at Amherst. 5. Samuel, men tioned below. 6. William, married Ann Gra ham; settled in Deering, New Hampshire; among their eleven children was William Mc Kean Jr., member of the state senate, 1844-45. 7. Mary. 8. Martha, g. Agnes. 10. Jane. (V) Deacon Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) McKeen, was born in Amherst. He lived in early life at Amherst, then at Windham, New Hampshire, and finally settled at Bel fast, Maine, where he became a leading citi zen, town officer and deacon of the church. He married Janet, daughter of Hugh Gra ham, a direct lineal descendant of Graham, Earl of Montrose, supposed to be James Gra ham, the fifth earl, and twentieth in line of descent from William de Graeme, who lived in the reign of David I of Scotland, or James, Duke of Montrose, who is the twenty-sixth chief in authentic record, according to Mclan. (See Graham family.) Two of their sons set ded in Acworth, and the father, while living with them in his old age, died there in 1784. ChUdren: i. Hugh, soldier in the revolution and a pensioner; married (first) Dan- ford (or Danforth) ; married (second) Mary Gregg ; children : Samuel, Hugh, D. Danford, Wdliam, J. Calvin, Solomon ; Mary, married P. Clark; Joanna, William. 2. John, soldier in the revolution, and a pensioner late in hfe; married (first) Mary Gregg, (second) Mar tha Dunn ; children : Samuel, John, Hugh, Betsey, Samuel. 3. Samuel, married Jane Ayres. 4. Ephraim, mentioned below. 5. Isaac, married (first) Martha Drew; (second) Betsey Cogswell, of Castine, Maine, and she died in 1856, aged eighty-six. 6. Abner. 7. Janet or Jane, married Jacob Fames ; seven children. 8. Nancy. g. Martha, married Samuel True, of Searsport, [Maine. 10. Kez iah, married Joseph Ayres, brother of Sam uel's wife. (VI) Ephraim, son of Deacon Samuel (2) McKeen, was born in New Hampshire, in 1766, and died in Belfast, Maine, in 1848. He married Lucy Ayres, of Merrimac, New Hampshire. They had ten children, of whom but five lived to maturity : I . Nancy, born 1801 : married William Ryan, of Belfast, Maine; died February 9, 1883; children: i. Ann Maria, born July 25, 1820, died 1822; u. Charles F., born November 13, 1822, died young; iii, William Henry, born June 21, 1824, married Sarah Cunningham; iv. Lucy E., born December 24, 1825; died 1828; v. Benjamin Franklin, born January 5, 1828, married Sylvia Ames ; was lost in the wreck of the "Central America," off Virginia, on his return from California ; vi. Lewis H., born November 26, 1829, married Martha Esther Hopkins, and had five children: Edwin, born 1845, byes in East Boston; Adelaide, born 1857; Maria, born i860, hves in Boston; Alice, born 1862 ; [Mary, born 1873, bves in East Boston; vii. George F., born February 11, 1831 ; married March 10, 1862, Ellen P. Mad- dock (their three children reside in Belfast, Maine: LUlian V., born October 19, 1864; Lucy E., born October 19, 1864; Franklin G., born August 6, 1866) ; viii. Thomas E., born January 13, 1833, married Lydia S. Wyman, and died January, 1863, son Thomas E., born March, 1863, resides in Lowell. 2. Joseph, born July 17, 1805; mentioned below. 3. Lucy Maria, married Samuel Hanson ; had four sons and two daughters : Ephraim, a mariner ; Clarence Hanson ; Robert Hanson, died in Belfast ; Mary Hanson, married John Pierce, and lives in Portland, parents of Dr. Thomas Pierce, of California; Lucy Hanson, married Parsons, of New York. 3. Betsey, married Josiah Curtis, of Swanville, Maine, October 26, 1834 ; children : i. Frank Curtis, born October 31, 1835, married Kate Hinckley, of Monroe, Maine, November i, 1864, and has two daughters: Rose and Blanche; ii. Prescott, born June i, 1837; mar ried January i, 1867, Amanda Young, of Searsport, and had one son Leroy, married Lillian Snyder, of Colorado ; iii. Americus J., born AprU 15, 1839, resides at Montville, Maine; iv. Mahlon, born March 4, 1841, mar ried, November, 1866, EUen Brown, of Burn ham, Maine, and has three sons and two daughters; v. Almeda, born February ig, 1844, married George Flanders, of Boston ; vi, Maria, born August 17, 1846, married Sep tember 12, 1866, Samuel Logan, and has a son. Dr. Charles Logan, who married Jennie Farnsworth, of Vermont; Maria married sec ond, Sumner L. Warner, of Dexter, Maine; vh. John, born 1852, died July 5, 1865; vhi, Edward, born May 16, 1854, married Eva Cox, of Montville, and had two sons: Cas sius S. and Stanley. 4. John, married Elsie Gilbreth, of Belfast ; children : i. Alice, mar ried WiUiam Card, died at age thirty years: 1 82 STATE OF MAINE. ii. Esther, born September 6, 1822, married September 2, 1840, flilton Wyatt, of Dan vers; died February i, 1887; chUdren: 1. George F. Wvatt, born July 16, 1842 ; it. John M. Wyatt, born April 30, 1844; iii. Tinkham H., born May 5, 1846, died aged seven; iv. Alice J. Westcott, born September 30, 1848, resides 5g3 Broadway, Brooklyn; v. Lizzie [M. Mugridge, born January 21, 1851, resides 27 Bowdoin street, Boston ; vi. Charles W., born [May 12, 1854; vii. Tinkham H., born March 21, '1856; vin. Emma H. Johnson, born April 2, i85g.) iii. [Martha, married D. A. HartweU; children: George A., of Minnesota, and Car rie L., of [Massachusetts; iv. Lucy, married Lyman B. Goss, in 1847, and had ten children (Emma A., resides at 14 Austin street, Charlestown ; Kate F., married B. S. [Mars- ters, and have: Florence AI. [Mar^ters, born November i, 1883, and Harold H. Marsters, born June 21, 1886; Lyman E., of Chicago; Irving v., grocer, Franklin Falls, New York, marrfed Flora B. Whittier, and has two chil dren : Bernice L., born July 13, 1886, and a son born December 31, i8g2; Maud McKeon Goss, married S. D. Hedge, in 1885, and had one chUd, Alice M., born December 18, 1887, residing in Brockton, Massachusetts). (VII) Joseph, son of Ephraim McKeen, was born in Belfast, July 17, 1805, and died [March 13, i860. He had a common school education, and learned the trade of stone ma son, following his trade as -well as farming for his occupation. In politics he was a Demo crat. He married, December 29, 1825, Eliza Holmes, of Machias, Maine, born December, 1804, and died October 16, 1887. Children: I. Ephraim, born October 13, 1826, married Sarah J. Nickerson, of Swanville, November 23, 1851 ; died August 29, i86g; children: i. Isaac, born April 28, 1853, married Flora [Morrill, of Swanville, March 21, 1877 (chU dren: Perley C, born November 2g, i8g7; Ephraim L., born March 23, 1881 ; Grace [May, born May 21, 1887) ; ii. Joseph F., born Jan uary 23, 1855, died AprU 2g, 1857; iii. Melissa J., born May 13, i85g; iv. Roscoe D., born January 8, 1866, married Nettie S. Adams, of Lincolnville, December i, i8gi ; he has been principal of Danforth high school, superin tendent of schools at Bridgewater, [Massachu setts, and Haverhih, New Hampshire; v. John A., born October 21, 1867, ^ stone cutter, of SwanviUe. 2. James F., born September 4, i82g; died December 21, 1832. 3. Hazael H., son, born October 27, 183 1 ; married August 21, 1852, Amanda Flarris, of SwanviUe ; "live in Belfast; children: Clara, born 1853, mar ried George Maker, lives at Concord, [Massa chusetts, and has three children ; ii. Ada, born 1855, married Albert Linnekin, lives in Bos ton; iii. Fred, born 1858, married Etta Wil son, who died leaving three children ; iv, Nel lie, born i860, married WiUiam Blazo, and lives in Belfast; one daughter; v. Eliza, born 1862, married Frank JeUison, of Brooks, [Maine, reside in Belfast ; four chUdren : vi. Jo seph, bom 1864, married Almira Sholes ; sons, Harold and Lloyd ; vii. Ralph, born 1868, lives at Belfast; married [Mrs. Eaton, two boys; viii. Mary A., born 1871, married George Havener, two sons, Rex and Ivan, lives at Belfast. 4. James F., born July 17. 1834; mentioned below, 5. Eliza [\I., born Decem ber 4, 1836; died July 2, 1858. 6. Joseph Al bert, born at SwanviUe, September 29, 1839; died at sea, September 8, 1875, on schooner "WiUiam Frederick," of which he was master ; married Annie L. Burgess, of East Belfast, chUd : Florida B. 7. Rhoda M., married AVill iam J. Dennett, lived in Boston, died a year after her marriage. 8. Emma F., born De cember 7, 1843 ; married James H. Perkins, May 22, i86g; chUdren: i. Albert H. Perkins, born February 25, 1870; ii. Rena, born No vember 22, 1874; in. Amy, born [March 24, 1881, died February 22, 1885. g. Fred .\., born May 21, 1851 ; died October 3, 1857. (VIII) James Franklin, son of Joseph [Mc Keen, was born in Belfast, July 17, 1834. He had a common school education and wdien a young man went to sea. He enhsted Sep tember 10, 1862, in Company I, Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment, in the civil war, and was mustered in October 3 following. He was in the campaign in Louisiana with his regi ment, and took part in the battle of Port Hud son and also of Irish Bend. He was mustered out August 17, 1863, and again became a mariner. He rose to the rank of master mari ner and fifteen years was captain of a vessel. For seven years he commanded the "Annie L. [McKean." He buih the "NeUie S. Picker ing" and was master of her for eight years. being engaged in the shipment of hard pine from [Maine to various ports along the coast He retired from sea life in January, i8g2, and since then has made his home on a small place in Belfast, [Maine. He is a Republican, and has been a member of the common council and also of the board of aldermen of Bel fast. Fle is a member of Timothv Chase Lodge, F. and A. [\I., Belfast; of Corinthian Chapter, R. A. IM. ; of King Solomon Coun- cU, R. S. M.; of Thomas H. MarshaU Post G. A. R., Belfast. ST.-\TE OF MAINE. 183 He married, [May i, 1866, Julia G., daugh ter of George .\nson and Susan Kalock AIU- ler, of Belfast. George Anson JMiller, her father, w-as born in Belfast, in 181 5, and died there March 5, 1871 ; married, 1840, Susan Kalock, who was born at St. George, Maine, in 181 3 and died in Belfast, in 1874. He was a farmer and shipwright. Children of George A. and Susan Miller : i. Sheridan F. [Miller, killed at battle of ChancellorsvUle, cap tain of Company K, Fourth Maine Regiment, [May 2, 1863, serving in corps of General Dan iel E. Sickles ; ii. Julia G. Miller, married James F. IMcKeen, as stated ; iii. Samuel Weir Miller; iv. Nancy [Miller; v. Ada S. MUler (twin) ; James [Miller. Samuel Weir [\Iiller, father of George Anson Miller, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, of which his ancestors w-ere early settlers; mar ried April 23, 1809, Nancy Brown ; children : i. George Anson [Miller, mentioned above ; ii. Samuel Freeman Miller; in. Stephen V^eir [Miller ; iv. Charles H. MiUer ; v. Justin G. MiUer; vi. [Matilda M. MiUer; vii. Wales L. [MUler. Captain and [Mrs. [McKeen have no children. The Eliots, Elliots and Elliotts of ELIOT New England and their descend- • ants in every section of the United States and Canada have reason to claim to have come from one of the notable immi grant progenitors whose descendants have be come unusuaUy dlustrious : John Eliot, of Roxbury; Ebenezer Eliot, of Newton; Ed mund Eliot, of Salisbury ; or Andrew Eliot, of Beverly. They were all Puritans. From An drew of Beverley we have Andrew Eliot (1718-78), pastor of the New North Church of Boston, 1743-78, and who declined the presidency of Harvard College, of which he was a graduate in 1737, when elected to that office in 1773; Charles William Ehot, presi dent of Harvard, 1 869-1 gog; Samuel Eliot (i73g-i82o), founder of the Eliot chair of Greek Literature at Harvard, through a gift of $20,000 made anonymously ; president of the [Massachusetts Bank, and prominent Bos ton merchant; Samuel Eliot (i82i-g8), the eminent author, educator and benefactor ; Samuel Atkins Ehot (i7g8-i862), mayor of Boston, representative and senator in the L^nited States congress, treasurer of Harvard College and pubhc benefactor. Then we have an almost as iUustrious line of eminent de scendants for John Eliot (1604-go), the pioneer missionary to the Indians, who came to Boston in 1631, wdth Winthrop, and from Ebenezer of Newton and Edmund of Salis bury. (I) Edmund, or Edward Eliot, as the name is sometimes written, was born in England about i62g, and came to America with the early patrons of the company of the ]\Iassa- chusetts Bay, of wdiich John Humphrey and John Endicott, the two most prominent of the six patentees of the territory extending from the Atlantic to the western ocean, and in wddth from a line running three miles north of the [Merrimac to one running three miles south of the Charles rivers. The company was ruled by a governor and thirteen council ors for fifty-five years. The year of Edmund Ehot's departure from England or arrival in the [Massachusetts Bay Colony has never been fixed, and the first record w-e have of him is in 1652, when he was taxed in the town of Salisbury, and was a husbandman in the west ern portion of the town known as Salisbury, New-town, which was granted the privileges of a town May 23, 1666. He received by grant of land in the original town of Salis bury in 1654, i65g and 1662, and when Salis bury New-to-wn became corporate [May 23, 1666, his property was within the bounds of this town and additional grants were made to him in 1666 and 1668. On Alay 28, 1668, it was decided by the" general court that "Salis bury newtown * * * may be called Ernes- bury," and was in the act of incorporation dated [May 27. 1668, spelled Amesbury. He was made a freeman of the new tow^n of Amesbury by taking the oath of allegiance m 1677, and the last record of his life was m 1680. when he is named among the residents. His wdll bears date February 26, 1675, and was probated [March 17, 1684, which date ^ gives the approximate time of his death ac- cordincr to the lapse of time ordinarily ob- served^between the death of the testator and the proof of his wiU December, 1683, or Jan uary 1684. The will also gives evidence of his s'ervice in the Indian wars, as he recites the reason for making it "when he was going to the war." He names his wife Sarah and son John as his legatees, and in case of the death of both that his property was to go to his nearest relatives in England. The,inven- tory of his estate amounts to £480 and up wards, which amount made him a relatively rich man. He married, in i65g, Sarah, daugh ter of Tared and [Margaret Haddon, of Salis bury New-to\yn, born January 15, 1640, She became the mother of one child, John Ehot (q y ) bv her first husband, and after his death in 1684, she married (second) a Young- 1 84 STATE OF MAINE, love, and her father made his will in 1687 and names her in the instrument, the nearest date we have by which to judge of the time of her death. (II) John, son and only child of Edmund and Sarah (Haddon) Eliot, was born in Salis bury, New-town, Massachusetts Bay Colony, September 25, 1660. He followed the occu pation of his father, and is so described as a "yeoman" at the time he took the oath of fidelity and allegiance to the government in 1677, on arriving at military age, and before reaching- his majority he was made a member of the trainband in 1680, His will was dated on February 22, 1733, and probated the fol lowing March, which would indicate that it was made on his sickbed and probably death bed. One record of his death names Febru ary 27, 1633, which no doubt is not exactly correct. He married, 1685, Naomi, daughter of Henry Tuxbury, bom in Newbury, Jan uary 18, 1667, and survived her husband, as she is mentioned in his will. The children of John and Naomi (Tuxbury) Eliot were born at the Eliot homestead in Amesbury, Massa chusetts, as follows: i. Edmund, July 30, 1686 (q. v.). 2. Sarah, October 10, 1688, married Sylvanus Carr, December 7, 1738. 3. Elizabeth, November 11, i6gi, married Ja cob Colby, December 20, 1724. 4. John, De cember 25, 1693, married Sarah Colby, Decem ber 20, 1721, and had chddren: Mary, born September 23, 1722; and John, born Septem ber 19, 1724. 5. Thomas, November 26, 1696, married Judith Worthen, December 21, 1721, and had chUdren : Thomas, born February 14, 1724; and Ephraim, born February 24, 1725 (?). 6. Mary, August 4, 1699, married Eze kiel Colby, December 24, 1724. 7. Hannah, October 7, 1702, married Robert Corn, March 16, 1732. 8. David, June 12, 1705, married Mary Carter, January 2, 1728, and late in Hfe removed to Newton, New Hampshire. 9. Naomi, May 13, 1709, married John Calfe, October 31, 1739. (Ill) Edmund, eldest child of John and Naomi (Tuxbury) Eliot, was born in Ames bury, Massachusetts, on the Eliot farm, July 30, 1686. He probably remained on the home stead by right of being the eldest son, and worked the place with his father, bringing his wife there after his marriage, January 8, 1713, to Deborah, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Blaisdell) Huntington, of Amesbury, and granddaughter of William Huntington, the pioneer immigrant who was one of the pro prietors of Salisbury. She was born Septem ber 22, 1687, in Amesbury, and bore her hus band six children. He died apparently about the time of his father's death, as Thomas Hoyt was appointed administrator of his estate, April 16, 1733. The children of Edmund and Deborah (Huntington) Eliot were born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, as follows: i. Bet ty or Elizabeth, December 25, 1714. 2. Ed mund (q. v.), November 28, 1716, married Mehitable Worthen. 3. Sarah, September 29, 1719'. 4. John, July 23, 1722. 5. Jonathan, July 31, 1726. (IV) Edmund (2), eldest son and third child of Edmund (i) and Deborah (Hunting ton) Eliot, was born in Amesbury, Massachu setts, November 28, 1716. He removed to Chester, New Hampshire, where he was a-' pioneer settler of the town, purchasing a town lot in 1747. The lot he first purchased was No. 31, and he subsequently added to his es tate by purchasing lot No. 134. He married Mehitable Worthen, who died his widow, Aprd II, 1806. He died in Chester, New Hampshire, October 8, I78g. The children of Edmund and Mehitable (Worthen) Eliot were born in Epping, New Hampshire, as fol lows : I. Jonathan, never married, was living in Epping, New Hampshire, in 1828. 2. Elizabeth. 3. Mehitable. 4. Jacob, or Daniel, never married, and lived with Jonathan in Epping, New Hampshire. 5. Sarah. 6. John (q. v.). 7. Ephraim. 8. Edmund, g. Eze kiel. 10. Nathaniel, who was a pioneer resi dent of Thornton, New Hampshire. (\') John (2), third son and sixth chUd of Edmund (2) and Mehitable (Worthen) Eliot, was born in Epping, New Hampshire, [Novem ber II, 1764. He was brought up in Epping, New Hampshire, and was married in Septem ber, J78g, to Dolly, born February 22, 1770, daughter of Gould French, of Epsom, New Hampshire. He was born August 26, 1741, and died in St. Albans, Maine, May 12, 1823. After their marriage they removed to North- wood, New Hampshire, where their children were all born, and they subsequently removed to "Dent Bennett," Cornvdle, New Hampshire, and thence to Corinna, Penobscot county, Maine. John Eliot died at Lincoln, Maine, August, 1843, and his widow in June, 1846. The children of John and Dolly (French) Ehot were born in Northwood, New Hamp shire, as follows: i. Polly (Mary), February 25, 1789; married John Bennett, in 1810, and died February 2, 1837, probably at Epsom, New Hampshire. 2. Daniel, 1794, married Edith Hayden, and died in 1846. 3. John, married Lucy Stewart, and died at sea. 4. Al phonso, married Mary Davis. 5. Rufus, mar- STATE OF MAINE. l8: ried Liddy or Lydia Hayden. 6. Gould French, September 14, 1802, married May Gardner Huntley, born June 19, 1804. 7. Thomas, died when two years of age. 8. Ja cob Smith (q. v.). (VI) Jacob Smith, seventh son and eighth child of John (2) and Dolly (French) Eliot, was born in Northwood, New Hampshire, August 10, 1808. He removed with the fam ily to Cornvdle, New Hampshire, in 18 10, .and thence to Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, in 1812, whicli was then known as Warrentown, from Dr. John Warren, of Boston, the orig inal proprietor. The place was incorporated as the town of Corinna, December 11, 1816. He was brought up in Corinna, and married there, August 12, 1832, Sarah Walker", daugh ter of William and SaUy (Moore) Moore, who was born July 31, 1813. She had four brothers : Samuel, Benjamin, Robert M. and WiUiam Moore ; and three sisters : Maria, married John Stenchfield, of Hartland, Maine ; Roxana, married , lived at Exeter, Maine; Clarinda, married Nathan J. Robin son, lived at Foxcroft, then at Corinna, and removed to New Haven, Minnesota, in 1863. Clarinda Moore Robinson died at Santa Mon ica, California, July, 1900. After the birth of their seven children they removed, in 1855, to the Falls of St. An thony, in Minnesota territory, in the new set tlement of Minneapolis, which was incorpo rated as a city in 1867, the territory having been incorporated as a state May 11, 1858. Here the family grew up with their new state and city. The children were educated in the public schools. The children of Jacob Smith and Sarah (Moore) Eliot were born in Cor inna, Maine, as follows : I. Wyman, born May ig, 1834; married, November 25, 1868, Mary E. Chase; children: i. Sarah Chase, born October 26, 1870, mar ried Frank C. Metcalf, Aprd 10, i88g (chiF dren: Frank Elliot, born July i, i8go, Allen Leonard, March 26, 1897, Mary Elizabeth, July 28, 1900, died Jtdy 16, igoi, and Vir ginia, born July 13, igo4). ii. JemieUa, born July 30, 1872 ; married Edward [Percival Loye, June 26, i8g5~ (children : Percival Elliot, born April 18, i8gg, and Jennella, January 26, igo3 ; Wyman Smith, born October 30, 1882, married Helen L. Dodson, November 4, igo7). iii. Stuart Dudley, born September 3, 1886. 2. Adolphus Fitz Clarence, born February 9, 1836, married Sarah J. Sheldon, December 25, 1871, and he died April 20, 1901. By this marriage they had one child : Leon Adolph, born November 24, 1874, died February 22, i87g. Adolphus F. C. married [Mary Hoar, his second wife ; she died January 2g, 1905. 3. EUen Artemesia, born November 18, 1838; married John M. Shaw, September 27, 1864. She died April 7, igoi, and their three children were: Mabel, born April 17, 1868, married Cavour S. Langdon; Bertha, born November 3, 1871, married Frank D. Blake- ley; John Elliot, born April 30, 1875, married Ethel Bogan, and died December 3, igo8. 4. Jacob Rinald, born February 13, 1841 ; married Annie Montgomery, October 15, 1868, and had children : Anne Montgomery, born June 19, 1870, died June 14, 1882; Byron, May 9, 1874; MiUie, born Aprd 27, 1877, died October 13, 1879; Jay Rinaldo, born August 25, 1886; Florence, born May 23, i88g. 5. Clarenda CoUista, born July ig, 1844, died September 14, 1846. 6. Sarah Carolyn, b(^rn June 23, i84g; mar ried George W. Shuman, July 22, 1868, and they had three children : Harry Wert Shu man, born January 18, 1872, married Beatrice Wallow, January 12, ig04, and had two chil dren : Frances Evelyn, bom January 3, igo5, and Harry Robert, February 18, 1906. Jesse Wyman, second son of George W. and Sarah C. (Elliot) Shuman, was born March 25, 1874, married Martha Rogers, June 23, 1903, and their third, an adopted child, Nellie Caro lyn Shuman, was born January 16, 1882, mar ried Arthur H. H. Anderson, June 12, igo2. Sarah C. (Elliot) Shuman died December 2, 1902. 7. Frank Micajah (q v.). The spelling of the name w-as changed about 1865 to Elliot. Sarah Walker Elliot, the mother of these children, died in Minne apolis, Minnesota, November 5, 1875. Dr. Elliot married (second) Esther A. Foote, March 5, 1877, from whom he was divorced in August, 1879. He married (third) Lizzie N. Van Druver, November 10. 1885, and by these marriages he had no children. He died .April I, i8g2, at Santa Monica, California. For many years, both in Maine and [Minne sota, Dr. [Elliot was a successful practicing physician of the Old Thomsonian school of practice. In 1876 he moved to California and made his home at Santa Monica. An intimate friend gives this estimate of his character. "Dr. Elliot was in many ways a remarkable man, possessed in an eminent degree of those sterling qualities of mind and character which fitted him for a pioneer, and even among a class of men who were generally distinguished for that steadiness and tenacity of purpose which insures success, he was peculiarly a 1 86 STATE OF MAINE. marked and prominent character in respect to those qualities. WhUe he made it a governing principle of his actions to stand with unflinch ing firmness for what he conceived to be his individual rights, he was ever just and lenient in his dealings with his fellows, and it was always known that his word was as 'good as his bond.' In all business matters up to the day of his death, his mind was singularly clear and lucid, and his instinct remarkably direct and unerring. He was a strong man who never failed to impress himself and his personality upon those with whom he came in contact. These qualities brought great suc cess in business, and he died possessed of a considerable estate, both in Minnesota and California. Several years ago Dr. Elliot do nated to the city of Minneapolis a valuable tract of land for a park, known as Elliot Park, one of the most beautiful and delightful re sorts in the now famous park system of that city." (VII) Frank Micajah, youngest chdd and fourth son of Jacob Smith and Sarah (Moore) Elliot, was born in Corinna, Penobscot county, Maine, March 27, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of his parents after 1855, and was prepared for college in the preparatory school of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois. He matriculated in 1874 in the Uni versity in the College of Liberal Arts, and was graduated A. B., 1877. He then pur sued a course in law, but did not take up the profession, selecting instead the real estate and loan business. He fitted himself for that business in the abstract department of the recorder's office of Cook county, Illinois, where he served as clerk up to i87g, when he resigned and formed a partnership with George Watson Smith, as Smith & Elliot. The firm conducted a real estate and loan business in Chicago up to 1881, when Mr. Smith retired and Mr. Elliot continued the business alone, and in igog he had been carrying on the business for twenty-seven years at 123 La Salle street, Chicago. He was a trustee of the village of Evanston in 1885, and when the State Bank, Evanston, was organized in i8go, he became a member of the board of directors. He was elected president of the Evanston Hospital Associa- 'tion in i8g6, and was stiU in office in igog, having served thirteen years as its president. He was also a member thirty years of the First Congregational Church of Evanston, which suburban town he made his residence from the time of his marriage in 1878. His college fraternity affiliation was the Sigma Chi, and in 1887 he was made grand consul of the fraternity. He is the author of : "His tory of Omega," a reminiscence of North western University; "Life of Governor Wdl iam H. Bissell, of Illinois," and of numerous contributions to periodical literature. His club affiliations include : The University Club, of Evanston, the Evanston Country Club, the Evanston Club, the Glen View Golf Club, and the University Club, of Chicago. Mr. Elliot was married, November 13, 1878, to .A.nna, daughter of Andrew and Lucy (Dunlap) Shu man, of Evanston, Illinois. They have no children. The Merriams are an ancient MERRIAM English house and an honor able house, and this applies to the American branches of the family as weU as to the pre-American. It is recorded that as early as A. D. I2g5-g6 one Laurence de Maryham paid taxes to Edward I, at Isen- hurst, in Sussex. Originally the surname Merriam was variously written [Meryham, Merryham, Aleriham and Mirriam. Ham, in old English, stood for house, or home, hence the name in its literal signification is merry house, happy house. It is somewhat remarkable, however, that while the Mer riams are a fairly numerous family on this side of the Atlantic, the name has become virtually extinct in the mother country. (Pope's "Merriam Genealogy.") Wdliam Merriam, immediate ancestor of the immigrant, was living in Kent, England, dur ing the early years of the sixteenth century, and was a clothier, a maker and vendor of cloths, a business which required more than an ordinary degree of intelligence on the part of its proprietor, and one which prop erly carried on yielded profitable returns. He did not come to America. The baptismal name of his wife was Sara, but her family name does not appear. Their children were Susan, Margaret, Joseph, George, Joane, Sara, Robert, and one other, a daughter who became the wife of Thomas Howe. The will of WiUiam Merriam of Hadlow, Kent, was admitted to probate November 27, 1635. (I) Joseph Merriam, immigrant ancestor, son of William and Sara Merriam, and the eldest of their sons, as mentioned in his father's will, was born probably in Kent, England, about the year 1600. Like his father, he was a clothier merchant, and there is reason for the belief that he was possessed of considerable means when he sailed for this STATE OF MAINE. 187 country, in his own .ship, "Castle of London," bringing with him a large number of emi grants. He was settled in Concord, Massa chusetts, about 1638, and soon afterward was admitted to church communion there and was made freeman. He married, in England, about 1623, Sara, daughter of John and Frances (Jeffrie) Goldstone, of Kent; all their children except the youngest were born in England ; they were : William, Sarah, Jo seph, Thomas, Elizabeth, Hannah and John, the latter of wdiom is supposed to have been born soon after the death of his father. (II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) and Sara (Goldstone) Merriam, was born in Eng land, about 1629, and came to New England in 1638 with his father. He lived first in Concord, and afterward in that part of Cam bridge which was caUed The Farms, and still later was set off for the parish and sub sequent town of Lexington. He was made freeman and admitted to church communion May 22, 1650. He became possessed of a good estate and, like his father, died in early middle life. He married, in Concord, July 12, 1653, Sarah, daughter of Deacon Gregory Stone. He died April 20, 1677, and his grave stone is the oldest one now standing in the ancient Hill burying ground in Concord. His widow died AprU 5, 1704. Their children: I. Sarah, born August 2, 1654. 2. Lydia, Au gust 3, 1656. 3. Joseph, May 25, 1658. 4. Elizabeth, May 20, 1660. 5. John, August 30, 1662. 6. Mary, June 14, 1664. 7. Robert, February 17, 1667. 8. Ruth, 1670. 9. Thom as, 1672. (Ill) Deacon John, son of Joseph (2) and Sarah (Stone) Merriam, was born in Con cord, Massachusetts, August 30, 1662, and died May 21, 1727. He removed to Lexing ton, and was one of the original members of the church there in 1676, its deacon, and fre quently its representative in ecclesiastical councils. Fle fulfilled " various other town offices, such as assessor and selectman, and became possessed of a good estate in lands. He married, November 14, 1688, Mary Wheeler, who survived him and died Decem ber 27, 1745. ChUdren: i. Mary, born Jan uary 6, 1(389. 2. A daughter, supposed to have been named Sarah. 3. Lydia. 4. John, born July 26, i6g6. 5. Ruth, baptized No vember 6, i6g8. 6. Benjamin, born January 6, 1700. 7. Jonas, February 21, 1702-03. 8. Ebenezer, [March 2, 1705-06. g. Joshua, Feb ruary 21, 1707-08. 10. William, September 24, 1712. II. Amos, July 25, 1715. (IV) Ebenezer, son of Deacon John and Mary (Wheeler) Merriam, was born in Lex ington, Massachusetts, March 2, 1705-06, and died in Oxford, Massachusetts, August 20, 1 761. He was a farmer, and lived in Lexing ton until about 1729, when he removed to Oxford. He married, first, Esther Gleason, born in Framingham, Massachusetts, April 6, 171 1, died Oxford, December 8, 1740, daugh ter of Thomas and Mary (MeUen) Gleason. He married, second, September 17, 1747, Elizabeth Locke, who died May i, 1797, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Merriam) Locke. Ebenezer Merriam had ten children, four by his first and six by his second wife : I. Ebenezer, born March 28, 1734. 2. Mary, September 13, 1735, died October 30, i74g. 3. WiUiam, June 16, 1737, died 1738. 4. Esther, April 11, 1739; married Dr. Isaac Burnet. 5. Elizabeth, June i, 1748, died June 21, 1790. 6. Jotham, August 15, i74g. 7. Phebe, January 11, 1851. 8. Jonathan, [March 22, 1753, died young, g. Ephraim, July 8, 1755. 10. Sarah, February 3, 1760. (V) Ebenezer (2), eldest son and child of Ebenezer (i) and Esther (Gleason) Mer riam, was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, February 28, 1734, and died July 16, 1795. He was a brickmaker and lived on his father's homestead. He married (intentions) AprU, 1752, Phebe Locke, sister to his father's sec ond wife. She died October 27, 1802. ChU dren: I. Mary, October 5, 1753. 2. Jesse, June 4, 1755. 3. Phebe, September 11, 1759. 4. Rachel, March 7, 1762. 5. Ebenezer, De cember 4, 1764. 6. Esther, May 10, 1767. 7. William, April 7, 1769. 8. Rhoda, May ig, 1771. 9. Joel, April 9, 1775. 10. AbigaU, AprU I, 1777. (VI) 'William, son of Ebenezer (2) and Phebe (Locke) Merriam, was born in Ox ford, [Massachusetts, AprU 7, 1769, and died in New Salem, Mas.sacliusetts, about 1816. He married (first) August 27, I7g5, Ruth Eddy, of Ward; married (second) about 1801, Lucy Hatstadt, born in New Salem, January 7, 1783, died January g, 1880, daughter of George Z. and Beulah (Martin) Hatstadt. She survived her husband and married (sec ond) Joshua Lincoln Merriam. Her father came to America during the revolution, and was a soldier in the British army. William Merriam had ten children, one by his first and nine by his second wife: i. "VVilliam Eddy, born December 15, I7g6. 2. Norman, Octo ber 2, 1801. 3. Cyrus, July 17, 1803. 4. Lewis, June 4, 1805. 5. Lucy, June 21, 1807. i88 ST.A.TE OF MAINE. 6. Ermina, October 4, 1809. 7. Lucinda E., June 30, 1813. 8. Leonard Brooks, Novem ber ig, 1816. 9. Asa L. 10. Harriet. (VII) Lewis, son of WiUiam and Lucy (Flatstadt) Merriam, was born in New Sa lem, Massachusetts, June 4, 1805, and died in Spokane, Washington, May 27, 1889. He received his early education at New Salem Academy, and while hardly more than a boy was employed as driver of the mail and pas senger stage between Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts. Later on he learned the trade of watchmaking and some time previous to 1828 established himself in business at Athol, Massachusetts. About 1833 he left Massachu setts and went to Maine, first to Bangor, and from thence soon afterward to Houlton, a gar risoned military post, and there established his home on a farm adjoining the village, and from which his children were able to attend the village public schools and academy during the winter months. Mr. Merriam is said to have been a zealous advocate of man ual training for children, and to him no home was complete without its workshop and tools of many trades. To this is mainly due the fact that all of his sons had become practical mechanics and machinists before attaining their majority in )-ears. In politics Mr. Merriam originally was a staunch Whig and afterward a strong Republican, "and such statesmen as ¦Clay, Greeley and Lincoln were his ideals of American citizenship." Mr. Merriam contin ued to live in Floulton until after the death of his wife and then went to Spokane, Wash ington, and afterward made his home with his chUdren who had preceded him there. He married, in Houlton, [February 22, 1834, Mary Ann Foss, born in Oromocto, New Bruns wick, March 29, 1813, died in Houlton, May 3, 1880. Children, all born in Houlton: i, Leonard Brooks, August 3, 1835 ; was a sol dier in the First Maine (Zavalry in the civil war, removed to Spokane, Washington; mar ried, December 15, 1858, Susan S., daughter of John H. and Dorcas B, (WiUiams) Jones. 2. Henry Clay, November 13, 1837. 3- Au gusta Josephine, December 2, 1838; married, October 11, 1867, Major WUliam L. Boyd, born May 3, 1834; major of First Maine Vol unteer Cavalry. 4. Lucy Hatstadt, October 23, 1840, died Flaynesville, Maine, Novem ber 20, 1872; married, September 28, 1864, Andrew H. Foss, of Oromocto, New Bruns wick. 5. Captain Lewis M,, April 4, 1843; (see sketch). 6. Norman James, February 25, 1844, died in Spokane, Washington, May 23, 1897; wheelwright and machinist; had charge of United States sawmills at Fort Spo kane, i882-g4, and of similar estabhshments at Sherman, Idaho, until a short time before his death; married at Haynesville, Maine, September 17, 1870, Christina Ellis, born Feb ruary 25, 1847, daughter of William Ellis. 7. William Harrison, August 10, 1846; lived many years in Houlton and removed thence to Minneapolis, Minnesota ; married, January 16, 1877, Lucy Corrine Ellis, born in New Salem, 1854, died December 15, 1877, daughter of Edward H. and Harriet E. (^Merriam) Ellis. 8, Cyrus Knapp, January 2g, 1848; graduated from Waterville College (Colby), A. B., 1875; A. M., 1882; M. D., New York University Medical School, i87g ; assistant surgeon, U. S. A., 1880-87, and assigned to Depart ment of the Columbia; stationed at Camp Chelan, White Bluffs, Fort ColvUle, Fort Couer d'Alene, Idaho (now Fort Sherman), and at Fort Spokane, Washington; was com plimented by his superior officers for his skUl and efficiency both in ordinary cases and many others of more critical nature. He has shared in the development of the city of Spo kane, where he has lived since 1877, and is engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery, a member of the hospital staff, and member of the American Medical Asso ciation. He married, June 6, ig05, Miriam Hooper, born September 13, i86g, daughter of General Thomas R. and Elizabeth (Tap- pan) Tannatt. 9. Rufus, October 7, 1851; financial agent, and lives in Spokane; mar ried (first) 1877, S. Jennie Keyes, and (sec ond) June 2, i89g, at Spokane, Bertha Mary Haskell, born December 3, 1876, daughter of William T. and Lena (Kirby) Haskell. 10. Charles, September 2, 1853, died October 14, 1856. (VIII) Major General Henry Clay Mer riam, son of Lewis and Mary Ann (Foss) Merriam, was born in Houlton, Maine, No vember 13, 1837. He graduated from Water ville CoUege (Colby) with the degree of A. B., in 1864, was elected member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received his master's degree in cotirse, and later the degree of LL.D. He enlisted for service during the second year of the war, and in August, 1862, was commis sioned captain of the Twentieth Maine Volun teer Infantry. His first colonel was Adelbert Ames, a graduate of West Point, and who was succeeded by Joshua L. Chamberlain. His brigade commander was General Daniel Butterfield, and all of these famous com manders have expressed their high estimate of General Merriam. He was brevetted for gal- ^^ ^t^ ^ ^^, STATE OF MAINE. 189 lantry at the battle of Antietam, where he made an exceptionally good record, and volunteered without promotion to organize and command a company of United States Colored Volunteer Infantry, at whose head he dis tinguished himself for gallantry, and won his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the Seventy-third United States Colored Vol unteer Infantry, which command he led in a desperate assault in the capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama, April g, 1865. Says a con temporary account: Transferred to Ne^w Orleans in the spring of 1863, he participated in the siege and capture of Port Hudson and other engagements, ending with the siege and capture of Mobile, Alabama. During his volunteer service he won three brevets and the congressional medal of honor for "conspicuous gallantry in battle," the medal ot honor for "leading his regiment over the enemy's works in ad vance of orders and at his own request." General Pyle, his brigade commander, and General Hawkins, his di vision commander, expressed their appreciation of his services in letters from which the following extracts are made : General Pile said : "Colonel Merriam commanded the Seventy-third United States Colored Infantry under me in the Mobile campaign, and siege and capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama, April 9, 1865. The regiment was one of the best in service, took a conspicuous part in the siege and capture of the fort — first breaking the enemy's lines and crossing their works — the colonel requesting the permission to advance before the order was given. For personal merit and strict attention to duty he had not a superior in my command." General Hawkins' letter was of the same general import, with this- brief addition : "In the assault of Fort Blakely his regiment bore a con spicuous part, and was the first of all the regiments, white or black, to enter the enemy's works. Colonel Merriam is a gentieman of good moral character, of ex cellent education, well read in the military profession, and judicious and zealous in all things pertaining to his duties. His regiment was always in good condition, and he has natural talents for a good soldier." As an officer of the regular army. General Merriam's record was no less praiseworthy. In i866 he was commissioned major of the Thirty-eighth Infantry, and marched with a battalion from Kansas to southwestern New Mexico in the spring of 1867 and took com mand at Fort Bayard, in the midst of Apache hostilities, and remained there for more than two years. In the early part of i86g it was proposed to transfer General Merriam to an other post, but the suggestion v/as met with a strong request on the part of the citizens of Grant county. New Mexico, that he be per mitted to remain there. In answer to this re quest. General Getty wrote that "it is not my intention to relieve Bvt. Col. Merriam from the command of Fort Bayard, nor to make a recommendation to that effect. I regard Colo nel Merriam as one of the most efficient post commanders in the district." But notwith- -standing the petition referred to. Colonel Mer riam was transferred to Texas in September, i86g, and served along the turbulent Mexican border against both Indian and Mexican ma rauders. While in command at Fort Mcintosh in 1876, he rendered most efficient service in the protection of rights of American citizens in Mexico who were constantly being sub jected to the lawless demands of Mexican plunderers ; and as an appreciation of his services in the department of Texas the civil officers and citizens of that state presented Colonel Merriam with a beautiful sword, and also presented an earnest memorial to the president of the United States, asking that he be advanced to the rank and commission of brigadier general of the American army. This memorial recites: The record of Colonel Merriam while In command of Fort Mcintosh, here at Laredo, during the year 1876, fully sustains the highest commendation that could be^ given to any one of his profession. During this time one of the periodical revolutions formerly so common in Mexico, was in progress, and the town of Nuevo Loredo, opposite this place, was taken and retaken alternately by the contending forces, each party upon taking ttie town levying a prestimo, or fine, upon its Inhabitants who had property wherewith to pay. On the 9th of April, 1876, Mr, Michael Dimond, an American merchant in Nuevo Laredo, was imprisoned by the, Mexican Federal forces, and condemned to be shot at dawn of the following day, unless he paid a fine of one hundred dollars. Mr. Dimond was not charged with any offense, and the demand was simply for so much money. He refused to pay, and ap pealing to the authorities on this side of the river for protection. Colonel Merriam crossed the Rio Grande and demanded immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Dimond, and warned the Mexican commander that the lives and property of American citizens there were not .subject to his free disposal, and that the entire force at Ft. Mcintosh would be held in readiness to protect them. Mr. Dimond was at once released. The following day the Mexicans fired across the river upon citizens here in Laredo, and Colonel Merriam si lenced them with shot and shell. On the 19th of April, Colonel Merriam prevented the collection of another fine levied upon the American residents of Nuevo Laredo by the revolutionists, who had taken the place in the mean time, and in July ot the same year Colonel Merriam ex tended the same protection against similar demands by the Mexican Federals who were again in possession of Nuevo Laredo, to prevent the robbery and murder of th« Americans there, and two weeks later he prevented the forced repayment of duties on the goods of American mcrih.ints as was demanded by the revolutionists. These acts were done for the immediate protection of the lives, liberty and property of American citizens in a foreign country. In giving this protection, Colonel Mer riam acted solely upon his own judgment and responsi bility. He had no orders from higher authority, ana had he waited for instructions the mischief would have been done. Colonel Merriam's conduct on the above occasions received the unconditional and complimentary approval of his superior officers and his government, (See also letter of General Ord, quoted in Congressional report further on.) In 1877, on the outbreak of the Nez Perces war. Colonel Merriam, having been promoted to lieutenant-colonel Second Infantry, was sent to the Upper Columbia, taking part in the Nez Perce war of 1877, the Bannock and Piute wars of 1878, and as well other import ant Indian and administrative services in that department until 1885. This particular service was made the subject of commendation in let ters written by Major General O. O. Howard, U. S. A., with recommendation for promotion, and by Senator WUson and Senator Dawes, President Henry Villard, of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and by petitions of civU offi cers and prominent citizens of the new state of Washington. General Howard wrote as follows : I go STATE OF MAINE, New Yoek, December 17, 1891. To Adjutant-Geneeal, U, S, a. : _ ,. Sik: During the year of the Nez Perce, War, 1877, the Second Infantry was transferred to my department — that of the Columbia — and participated in that campaign, and also in the Piute and Bannock War the next year. Col. H. C. Merriam was the lieutenant-colonel of the regi ment. After matters settled down he was for some time in command of the large post ot Cceur d'Alene, now called Fort Sherman ; in fact, doing the building of the greater part of that post. The appropriation was small, and therefore great economy was demanded, and skill, in pro viding for at least six companies. For administrative ability, diligence and success in that work, and in fact for all his work under my command, I have heretofore highly commended Colonel Merriam. He was next put in charge of building the new post ot Port Spokane. Here again he manifested a similar energy and ability, and gave great satisfaction in his administration of the affairs of the post; and at that time it became necessary to look beyond the post itself. He, in fact, had charge ot keeping the peace with sev eral bands ot Indians, including that of Chief Moses, The interest he took in this work, and his success have passed into the history of the Department of the Co lumbia, Certainly I can join with other officers under whom Colonel Merriam has served in saying that he has a good record and high character, and indeed I would not recommend any junior to be promoted before him. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) 0, 0, Howard, Major-General, U. S. A. I heartily join General Howard in the above recom mendation. (Signed) H. L. Dawes, U. S. Senate. As a military instructor and administrator he had certainly no superior in the army. The foUowing letters are quoted in support of this claim : Headquahtees of the Abmy. Ogden, Utah, June 13, 1895. Colonel H. C. Meeeiam^ Seventh Infantry, Fort Logan, Colorado, Colonel : The Lieutenant-General commanding the Army directs me to express to you his appreciation of the excellent condition of your command at the time of his recent visit to Fort Logan and of the great accuracy and promptness with which all the military exercises were performed. It was a great satisfaction to him to find a military command in so complete a state of efficiency. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) J, P. Sangeb, Lieut.-Col. Mil. Sec'ty. St. Augustine, Fla,, January 13, 1897. Colonel H. C. Merriam, Seventh U. S. Infantry, Fort Logan, Colorado. Dear Colonel: In reply to your letter of January 7th, I regret that I never had the opportunity of serving with you in the field or otherwise, which would have enabled me to speak more positively in respect to your qualifica tions for higher command. But I am glad to say that all the reports which came to me while I was in command of the Army were in corroboration of the opinion formed from my own observation and expressed to you in the letter I sent you from Ogdeu, Utah, June 13, 1895, I shall be glad if that letter or this can be of service to you. Fortunately ynu are still comparatively young and the record you have made both for gallantry in war and for efficient service in time of peace, ought to insure your promotion in time. I am, Dear Colonel, yours very truly, (Signed) J. M. Schofield, Lieutenant-General, retired, Washington, D. C, March 19, 1897. To THE Honorable the Seceetaby or Wae. Sir : I also recommend Colonel Henry C. Merriam to he made Brigadier-General in place of General Brooke, promoted. Colonel Merriam had a distinguished record during the war as a captain, 20th Maine, August 29, 1862. Was made Lieutenant-Colonel IJ. S. C. Infantry, May 21, 1864, and Brevet Colonel, March 26, 1865. He has been Colonel in the Regular Army since July 10, 1885, and is a very accomplished officer and gentleman of high character, a good disciplinarian, and in every way qualified tor the duties ot a Department Com mander, Colonel Merriam is the second senior Colonel in the Army. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. Nelson A. Miles, Major-General, Commanding, Promoted in 1885 to command of the Sev enth Infantry, Colonel [Merriam was trans ferred in that year to the Department of the Platte, and in respect to his service in that de partment General Brooke, U. S. A., in a letter to the Secretary of War, said : "T desire to ex press to you my opinion of the fitness for pro motion to that grade (brigadier general) of Colonel H. C. Merriam, Seventh Infantry. I have known Colonel Merriam for many years, and consider him one of the best equipped officers in the army and thoroughly well fitted for promotion to a higher grade. I would say further that I believe no abler officer could be selected." In i88g Colonel Merriam was transferred from the Department of the Platte to the De partment of Missouri, and remained on that station until July, i8g7, when he was pro moted to brigadier-general, and assigned to command of the Department of the Columbia. He organized and forwarded in midwinter most important relief expeditions to Central Alaska, where large numbers of mineral pros pectors were reported to be starving. These expeditions included the features of exploring parties and they have been continued annually, gathering important and valuable information and locating a practicable route of communi cation on American territory from Prince Williams Sound to the Upper Yukon. W^hile prosecuting this important work, war was declared against Spain, and General [Mer riam made application for active field service on April 12. i8g8, before mobilization began. Failing to secure field service, he was made major-general of volunteers, and his command was extended to include the entire Pacific coast and the Hawaiian Islands, then annexed, wdth headquarters at San Francisco. His duties and responsibilities included carrying on the difficult work inaugurated in Alaska, and also the organization, equipment and for warding of troops for General Merritt's com mand in the Philippines, a work without prece dent in our history and involving the develop ment of an ocean transport system of un equalled efficiency. Relieved from duty on the Pacific and of his volunteer rank of major-general, in 1899 General Merriam continued to exercise a ma jor-general's command — two geographical de partments. Elis most conspicuous service was STATE OF MAINE. igi in his selection to command the troops during the labor riots in the Coeur d'.-Vlene district of Idaho, within the territorial jurisdiction of another officer. His positive methods in deal ing with this insurrection caused much agita tion, but his course was sustained by the War Department and by a committee of Congress. It enabled the state authorities to give peace and prosperity to a region historically turbu lent. For this service and for his services on the Pacific coast he received the personal com mendation of President McKinley, who fully intended to promote him to the grade of ma jor-general before his retirement. He gave official assurance to General Merriam to that effect, but this temporarily failed as a result of the assassination of the President. Having reached the age limit. General Merriam was retired in November, igoi, and his promotion to major-general was provided for in the fol lowing year by an act of Congress, as follows : Mr. Dick, from the Committee on Military Affairs, sub mitted the following report to accompany H. R. 14,375 : The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was re ferred the bill (H, R, 14,375) to authorize the President to appoint Brigadier-General H. C. Merriam to the grade of Major-General in the United States Army, on the re tired list, report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it pass with amendments as follows ; On investigation, the committee find that General Mer- ' riam entered the military service of the United States as captain of the Twentieth Maine Voiunteers in August, 1862, and having distinguished himself as "an able, con scientious, energetic and gallant officer," as certified by his regimental and brigade commanders, was transferred from the Army of the Potomac to the Department of the Gulf, where as regimental commander he again won marked distinction for ability and great personal gal lantry In the sieges and capture of Port Hudson and Mobile, as certified by his brigade and division com manders. General W. A. Pile, commander brigade in the assault upon Fort Blakely, defences of Mobile, says of Colonel Merriam's regiment : "It was one of the best in the serv ice, took a conspicuous part in the siege and capture of the fort, first breaking the enemy's lines and crossing their works ; the colonel requesting permission to ad vance before the order was given." General John P. Hawkins, division commander, of the same assault, says : "In the assault of Port Blakely his regiment bore a conspicuous part, and was the first of all the regiments, white or black, to enter the enemy's works." For his volunteer service lie was made a brevet lieu tenant-colonel for gallantry at Antietam, brevet colonel for conspicuous gallantry in the assault of Fort Blakely, Alabama, and also awarded the Congressional medal of honor "for conspicuous gallantry in the assault and cap ture of Fort Blakely, Alabama, voluntarily leading his regiment over the enemy's works in advance of orders, and at his own request." Appointed major in the regular army, he won further distinction as commander in the Apache country, southern New Mexico, for which he was highly commended by Brevet Major-General G. W. Getty. Then followed a tour of eight years on the lower Rio Grande, in Texas, Of this service we quote as follows from an official letter to General Sherman by Major-General Ord, the depart ment commander : "Monterey, Mexico, September 30. 1882. "Geneeal : During the revolutionary struggles of 1876 on the Rio Grande frontier, and when, on account of the delicate and important questions likely to arise with the people and authorities of the vicinity across the river, it became necessary to select an officer of discretion and energy to command the small garrison at the town of La redo, I selected Major, now Lieutenant-Colonel, H. C. Merriam, Second Infantry, relieving the then commander. "By reference to my subsequent annual report, you will see that serious and threatening difficulties did arise at the town of Nuevo Laredo, on the Mexican side of the river, and that Major Merriam acted with energy and judgment, proving that I had not mistaken his fitness, for he proved equal to every emergency. "Should Congress authorize brevets for the display of ability and for energy under trying circumstances, I hope the claims of Lieutenant-Colonel Merriam will receive due consideration, tor, after all, it is only a slight reward, and more than deserved in his case, for such services. "I am. General, with great respect, your obedient servant, "E, 0. C. Obd, "Major-General. retired. "General W. T. Sherman, "Commanding U. S. Army, Washington, D, C. "(Through General R. 0. Drum, Adjutant-General, U. S. Army.) " Then followed eight years of arduous and most ef ficient service on the northern frontiers of Washington and Idaho, including Indian campaigns and important admin istrative control of the various Indian tribes of that re gion, resulting in their collection upon reservations. For this service General Howard accorded high official com mendation. Following the foregoing he served for twelve years as colonel of the Seventh United States Infantry in the De partments of the Platte, the Missouri, and the Colorado, winning the highest official commendations of all his commanders, viz. : Generals Brooke, Merritt, Wheaton, McCook, Miles and Schofield, all of whose reports have been examined by the committee. In 1897 he was made a Brigadier-General, and suc cessfully performed difficult and important service, in augurating relief and exploring expeditions in Alaska, while commanding Department of the Columbia, until the outbreak of the Spanish war, in 1898, when he ap pealed in vain for active field service. He was made a major-generai of volunteers, and assigned to command the entire Pacific coast, with headquarters in San Francisco. In this capacity the duty of organizing and forwarding the Philippine expedition came under his supervision and responsibility. For this work he won the official com mendation of General Merritt, commander in the Philip pines, and the personal commendation of President Mc Kinley. During the last three years of his active service he commanded the Department of the Colorado, and nearly all of that time the Department of the Missouri — fairly a Major-General's command. Finally, the committee is assured that it was the in tention of President McKinley to promote General Mer riam to the grade of Major-General before his retire ment through the expected voluntary retirement of an other officer. Of this intention President McKinley of ficially assured General Merriam, as well as others, among whom are Senator Frye, General J. C. Bates, Sec retary Root, General Corbin and General MacArthur — the latter only a few days before the assassination. The failure of the promised promotion resulted from the fact that the expected voluntary retirement of an other officer did not take place ; hence there was no va cancy. For this, and for the high appreciation of Gen eral Jlerrlam by the War Department and the President, attention is respectfully invited to the following indorse ment of the honorable Secretary ot War: "War Depaetment. "Washington, D. C, December 16, 1902. "Respectfully returned to the chairman Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, inviting at tention to the preceding indorsement hereon and accom panying inclosure therein referred to. "General Merriam was a fine officer, and the President would have been glad to promote him before his retire ment if there had been a vacancy. I do not doubt that he would be glad to do so now if the Congress would grant the necessary authority. "Blih-c Root, Secretary of War.' In view of all the facts set forth, it is the unanimous recommendation of this committee that this bill should pass as an act of justice to a most able, gallant and meritorious officer of long and distinguished service. The following act passed by unanimous vote of both houses of Congress, February 2, igo3 : An Act to authorize the President to appoint Brigadier- General H. C. Merriam to the grade of major-general in the United States Army and place him on the retired list. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives ot the United States of America in Congress as sembled. That the President be, and he is hereby au thorized to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, Brigadier-General H. C. Merriam to the grade of major-general in the United States Army and place Bim on the retired list. Approved, February 5, 1903, ig2 STATE OF MAINE. After retirement he lived for a time at Wayne, Pennsylvania, and then established a comfortable home near the city of Portland, Maine, with a winter residence in Washing ton. General Merriam is the inventor and pa tentee of the Merriam Infantry Pack, to the perfection of which he devoted much study, time and experiment. The device has won most flattering success in this country and also in Europe, and won for him a gold medal award from the French .'\cademy of Inventors. He also is the fortunate possessor of three elegant swords — one presented him by mem bers of his first command. Company H, Twen tieth Maine Volunteer Infantry; one by the American merchants of Nuevo Laredo, Mex ico, as an appreciation of his services in the protection of their lives and property, in 1876; and the third by the officers of the Seventh Regiment, on his promotion to the rank of brigadier-general in 1897, in recognition of his twelve years of service as commander of that famous body of fighters. General Mer riam is a member of the Loyal Legion, the Society of Foreign Wars, the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and the American In stitute of Civics. General Merriam married (first) January 16, 1866, Lucy Jane, daughter of Eleazer and Jane (Clark) Getcheil, of Waterville, Maine. She was drowned in a cloudburst April 24, 1870, on the Staked Plains of Texas, and with her also perished her only child. Fle married (second) in 1874, Una, daughter of John and Caroline Lucille (Lynch) MacPherson-Mac- neil, of Kingston, Jamaica. She was born September 2g, 1848. General Merriam's chil dren : I. Mamie Eugenie, born at Fort Bay ard, New Mexico, March, 1868, died with her mother, April 24, 1870. 2. Carrie Augusta, born at Fort Brown, Texas, August 2, 1875 ; married at Denver, Coloracio, April 5, i8gg, George Bart Berger, and had Merriam Ber- ger, born December 22, igoo; Margaret Ber ger, AprU I, igo2; George Berger, November 20, igo5. 3. Captain Henry MacPherson, born at Houlton, Maine, October 12, 1877; educated at Stanford University, California, at the United States School of Artillery, and the Submarine Mines; promoted captain United States ArtiUery, August 27, 1903 ; served in the Spanish, Philippine and China campaigns ; married, at Denver, Colorado, December 7, igoi, Ahce Lishman. 4. Cyrus Lincoln, born at Vancouver, Washington, December 16, 1879; graduated from Stanford University! T903; now superintendent of a large sugar and India rubber plantation in southern Mex ico. 5. Charles Bailey, born at Fort Spokane, Washington, August 27, 1885 ; educated at University of Maine ; now in the real, estate business at Spokane, Washington. 6. Kather ine Maude, born at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, April 29, 1888. (For ancestry see preceding sketch.) Major Lewis Merriam Jr., MERRIAM son of Lewis and Mary Ann (Foss) Merriam, and brother of General Henry C. Merriam, was born at the old Merriam homestead at Houlton, Aroos took county, Maine, April 4, 1843. He lived on the farm until 1853, and at the Merriam sawmill until 1862. [He enlisted for civil war service as private August 5, 1862, and was mustered into the United States service as sergeant in Company H, Twentieth Regiment Maine Volunteers, at Portland, and during the war period made a most brilliant record, serv ing in all the campaigns, battles and skir mishes of that regiment from the battle of An tietam, September 17, 1862, to the battle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, except the battle of Fredericksburg, when he was sick in Har wood Hospital, in Washington, D. C. In the first charge of the Fifth Corps at the battle of the Wilderness, on [May 5, 1864, he was captured by the enemy and taken to Andersonville prison, Georgia. This incident closed his career with that famous regiment whose name was immortalized when, under the command of the gallant Chamberlain, it brUliantly seized and successfully held, against a large superior force of the enemy, historic Little Round Top, the key to the whole posi tion of the Federal army, at the batde of Gettysburg. As the fame of this regiment be longs to each and every member of its organ ization at that time, a part is due this soldier, who was a sergeant in Company H, the left centre company, in that sanguinary conflict. His clothes were cut or pierced by the enemy's bullets three times within about as many min utes, and the beloved Steele, gallant Lathrop, his bunkmate, and brave, loyal Buck — all ser geants of this company^ — received their death wounds and lay on the battlefield, a few feet from him, giving up their life blood on the altar of their country. His last shot was fired when the muzzle of his rifle was almost against the breasts of the enemy, and when the command "Bayonets!" rang out along the line, he had no time to fix bayonet, but charged with clubbed rifle, as did many others of the command. This charge resulted in a **?%?|gT li il ^ili r STATE OF IMAINE. 193 complete victory and the capture of many prisoners, but at a fearful sacrifice, as nearly one-half of the command lay dead or disabled on the field. His experiences as a prisoner were most harrowdng. On arriving at Andersonville he was placed in charge of one hundred fellow prisoners, for wdiom he drew rations in bulk and issued to them individually. He organized a company of the ten thousand prisoners for an effort to undermine the stockade and capture the prison guard and make their escape, but they w-ere betrayed by some of their own men for an extra ration of cornmeal. He was a member of the police organized inside the stockade to break up a band of robbers and murderers among the prisoners, which re sulted in the arrest of about twenty of the hardest cases in the prison. They were turned over to the prison authorities, tried for mur der, and six were convicted and sentenced to be hanged. They were turned over to the police in the stockade, who erected a gallows and duly executed the sentence. In October, 1864, he was one of the pris oners transferred to Florence prison, South Carolina, and while en route attempted an escape wdth several others by jumping off the cars at night, but the ever-watchful guards fired upon them and also jumped from the cars and recaptured them before they could get away. At Florence prison he was again placed in charge of one hundred prisoners, for whom he received and issued rations. In No vember he escaped from Florence by passing out, as one of the paroled sergeants who were handling the rations outside the stockade, his meal sack, which he threw carelessly over his shoulder, being a successful means of passing the guard at the main gate during the hour of issuing rations. The first night he travelled in creeks and swamps in mud and water, sometimes to his waist, to break his trail and prevent being followed by the hounds, but after nearly three weeks of terrible sufifering from hunger and cold, hiding in swamps by day and travelling at night, he was recaptured on Willow- Creek bridge, near the Pedee river. South Carolina, w^hile trying to make his way to the coast. He was taken back to Florence and was very sick with scurvy and swamp fever during nearly the entire months of De cember and January, when many hundreds of the prisoners died from the same disease, his own bunkmate. Corporal Calvin E. Bates, of Company E, Twentieth Maine, losing both feet, wdiich decayed so that they were cut off at the ankles wdth a pair of scissors. A state ment and illustration of this horrible incident appeared in Harper's Weekly, of about AprU, 1865. In February, while being transferred to Salisbury prison, North Carolina, he escaped again, and with his companion, Sergeant H. A. Willis, of the First Maine Cavalry, suc ceeded in reaching the Union lines at Wil mington, North Carolina, February 22, 1865, in a starving condition. They had been hiding in the swamps near the Confederate army, in midwinter, with very little clothing and abso lutely without food for five days. They could hear the great guns down the river at Fort Fisher, and believed their friends were coming nearer each day. The night before Wilming ton was captured they crept through the Con federate lines to the city, but encountered a squad of the enemy in the suburbs, who fired upon them when they ran away, but they escaped in the darkness, and after a long detour, entered the city again on the north side. Here they questioned an old colored woman and told her they were Yankee pris oners and wanted a place to hide. She would not believe them, and said they were only rebs, trying to get her into trouble, but they might hide under the old buildings if they wanted to. In about two hours she came out again very gently and whispered: "Vou dar yit? Well, I guess you's Yanks sho nuff. De Yanks am coniiii' ober de riber, and de rebs all goin" away, takin' all de men, white and black, with them, but my ole man is hid in the swamp, and dey cain't git him. You's be mighty still and I take youse to a better place." She led them into an old storehouse with gable right up to the street, that was full of the retreating Confederate army. She put a ladder up to a trap door to the attic, and they climbed up and she took away the ladder. They found themselves in the attic of an old building wdth the roof half gone, and plenty of stars shining through, and cracks at the gable so they could plainly see and hear the Confederate troops as they were leaving the city. They were both suffering from cold, and had very often to stuff their mouths with a piece of an old quilt to keep from coughing loud enough to be heard. Early the next morning there was a commotion in the street below them, a few shots were fired, and in ten minutes they saw a squadron of cavalry coming up the street with the Stars and Stripes. Just how they got down from that old attic and out into the street, where they were furnished with hard tack and bacon by the cavalry boys, they' have never been able 194 STATE OF MAINE. to tell, but they had a confused recollection of the old colored woman singing: "Glory! Glory ! Bress de Lord ! Dey's come !" etc., etc., and a broken ladder and a light fall. They were soon comfortably located in a tobacco storehouse with a number of other escaped prisoners who had been hidden away in Wilmington for months by friends. There were a great many loyal people in Wilming ton, and the escaped prisoners were soon fur nished with good warm clothing and blankets, and the best to eat the city afforded. After about ten days recuperating they were placed on board a transport and sent to Anna polis, Maryland, where they received furlough for thirty days to visit their homes in Maine. At home both found commissions awaiting them — WUlis as first lieutenant, First Maine Cavalry, and Merriam as second lieutenant. Sixty-seventh United States Colored Troops. Merriam reported from furlough at the War Department in Washington, the day after the assassination of President Lincoln, and viewed his remains in the east room at the White House. He received orders to join his regi ment, then serving in the Department of the Gulf, via New York City and transport to New Orleans. While waiting in New York for steamer he was selected as one of the veterans to carry the banners and flags of the Union League Club at the funeral of Presi dent Lincoln in that city. He joined the Sixty-seventh U. S. Colored Troops at Port Hudson, Louisiana, May 2g, 1865, but the regiment having been depleted in numbers since the date of his appointment, no company was of sufficient strength to allow the third officer to muster. He then applied to the War .Department for authority to muster back to date of appointment, but instead of granting this request he was commissioned as of the same grade in the Sixty-first U. S. C. T., and was thereby deprived of the benefits of his first commission because he was a prisoner and unable to report for muster as required by regulations. Fle joined the Sixty-first U. S. C. T. at Minden, Louisiana, and was mustered to date May 2g, 1865, and subsequently by authority of the War Department to date IMarch 21, 1865. He was honorably mustered out at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 30, 1865, and appointed second lieutenant Sixty- fifth U. S. C. T., February 20, 1866, and pro moted to first lieutenant June i, 1866. Al though the youngest officer of his regiment, he was selected b}- General Edgerton, wdic) commanded at Baton Rouge, to command an expedition composed of a detachment of his regiment, to proceed by land to Bayou Sara, Louisiana, and break up a band of outlaws and murderers who had murdered Agent Leak, of the Freedmen's Bureau, at that place, and were terrorizing all that part of the state. The expedition of about ten days was very suc cessful, and on returning to Baton [Rouge, Lieutenant Merriam was highly complimented by General Edgerton and congratulated by his brother officers. He was honorably mustered out of the volunteer service with his regiment at St. Louis, [Missouri, January 8, 1867. He then returned to his home in Maine, where he engaged in the lumber and sawmill business with his brother Leonard uiitU 1871. He was employed as quartermaster's clerk at Forts McKavitt and Duncan, Texas, from 1871 to August, 1872. He was appointed second lieutenant Fourth U. S. Infantry, July 27, 1872, and joined that regiment at Frankforti Kentucky, and assigned to Company K; was with his company at Frankfort, Kentucky, and at Little Rock, Arkansas, tiU March, 1873^ on leave of absence in Maine till July, 1873; with company at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, and Fort Bridger, Wyoming, till January, 1875; on grasshopper duty in Nebraska,' distributing clothing and food to the people of Seward, York and Hamihon counties until May, 1875; with company at Fort Bridger until March 20, 1876. Fle was granted eight months leave of absence, and during this period occurred his marriage. It was at this time and while on this leave of absence that he appealed to Congress for an act to enable him to muster on his com mission as second lieutenant in the Sixty- seventh United States Colored Troops, which was issued to him while a prisoner, and was presented to the Congress bv the following letter : War Department, Adjutant-Genehal's Office, ,, ,., „ Washington, D. C, April 17, 1876. Hon. H. B. Benning, Chairman Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives. Dear General : Permit me to introduce Lieutenant Merriam, Fourth Infantry. He is trying to get his record corrected. It is just, but there are legal obstacles, and the case requires legislation. He is an excellent officer, and will, I hope, succeed. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) Wm, D. Whipple, A. A. G. and A. D. C. Washington, D. C, April 28, 1876, Hon. H. B. Banning, Chairman Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives. Sir: Lieutenant Merriam was a sergeant In the Twen tieth Maine Volunteers, which I commanded in the cam paigns of 1864. He was a most gallant and worthT soldier. I know personally the circumstances of his cap ture. It was in the charge of the Fifth Army Corps on the fifth day of JIay. He was in advance ot his regl- STATE OF MAINE. 195 ment, doing most valuable service in a very critical emergency, and was cut off with some others of the com mand by a flanking party of the enemy. I have the honor to be. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) Ellis Speab, Late Bvt, Brig, -Gen, Vols. The report of the Adjutant General of the army caused an adverse report from the Mili tary Committee, and Lieutenant Merriam then wrote the following personal letter to the Ad jutant General in his defence : Washington, D. C, May 10, 1876. (Personal.) General E. D. To-wnsend, Adjutant-General, U. S. A. Sir: I have the honor to submit the following reply to your letter reporting my military record to the Com mittee on Military Affairs, H. R. In your remarks on said report you do not recognize any merit in my claim whatever, and I feel that if you properly understood the case you could not fail to see some merit in it. I mclose herewith two letters touching my service and final capture while in the Twentieth Maine Volunteers. While a prisoner I did not omit any effort to escape, and recklessly exposed my life three times before I suc ceeded, as my record shows. You say there is nothing peculiar about my case. I cannot think that all who were captured were taken under like circumstances or made the same effort to escape and return to duty in the field. It is the policy of the government to encourage personal risk in the military service, not discourage it. If I had been less adventurous on that day, and less eager to do my whole duty to the country, I should have saved myself nearly a year of suffering to the very border of death, in prison, and five years of broken health after the war, and would have been mustered and paid on my commission, as I now pray to be. I admit I cannot be mustered and paid under the law, otherwise my pe tition would not be before Congress. I apply because I think my case exceptional and meritorious. It is excep tional because from its nature there can be but few in stances where soldiers were commissioned while in the hands of the enemy. It is meritorious because I was - thought to have earned the promotion, and was commis sioned by reason of doing my duty to the utmost, and re gardless of all hazard I lost. If this is not a case where equity should give what the law denies, then I do not know what equity means. The fact that there may be others who suffered like injustice hardly satisfies me In a refusal of my petition. I respectfully ask that the private letter be returned to me at 617 E Street, N. W. My excuse for writing this letter is that your remark prejudiced my case very strongly before the committee. I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Lb-wis Merriam, 2d Lieut. 4th Inft., U. S. A. (A true copy.) The following remarkable letter has been severely criticized by officers of high rank : War Department, Adjutant-General-'s Office, Washington, May 13, 1876. Lieut. Lewis Merriam, Fourth Infantry, 617 E Street, N. W., Washington, D, C. Sir: Acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst, I have respectfully to state that it is consid ered quite right that the official report from this office should prejudice your claim before the Military Committee of the House ot Representatives, as, although your con- duet was gallant and most worthy of commendation, you are certainly not entitled to the money claimed. The U. S. Government was most liberal in granting continu ance of pay to our prisoners of war, when, under old rules, pay was stopped under such circumstances as oc curred in your case. But the Regulations forbidding promotions while in the enemy's hands, were made early in the war, to secure the efficiency of regiments in the field, which required their officers with them, and yours is not by many hundreds the only case where officers and soldiers were debarred from promotion by reason or capture. The inclosures to your letter are herewith returned. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, E. D. Tq-wnsend, Adjutant-General. Returning to his command, he was on gen eral court martial duty at Fort Laramie, Wy oming, and with his company at Camp Red Canyon, Wyoming, till May, 1877 ; with com pany at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, till May 20, 1879; with company as A. A. Q. [M. and A, C. S., at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, till June, 1880, when he was promoted first lieutenant and assigned to Company A, Fourth Infantry. He was with company, A. A. Q. M. and A. C. S., at Fort Fetterman, Wyoming, till April, 1881 ; on leave of absence tUl October, 1881 ; commanding company, instructor of musketry and range officer, at the Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, till Au gust, 1883. On being relieved from duty at Fort Leavenworth, the commandant of the school forwarded the foUowing letter to the Adjutant General of the Army : Post of Fort Lea-venworth, Kansas, July 16, 1883. Adjutant-General, U, S. Army : First Lieutenant Lewis Merriam, Fourth Infantry, dur ing almost his entire tour of duty at the post, extending from November, 1881, to July 10, 1883, has been acting as Instructor of Musketry. This duty, owing to the num ber of Company organizations present, has occupied nearly all his time, although during a good share of that period he has been obliged to exercise command of "A" Com pany, Fourth Infantry, the Interests of which he faith fully attended to. As Target Officer he showed in the performance of his duty practical intelligence, matured experience, the power to impart instruction and, in fine, the essential qualities which a competent Instructor of Musketry should possess, and he labored faithfully, as siduously and efficiently with officers and men of the Command, to improve them in riSe practice. The zeal with which he prosecuted his labors, attend ing to all the details connected with the target range, deserves especial mention and praise. (Signed) B, S, Otis, Colonel Twentieth Infantry, Commanding, Lieutenant Merriam was with Company F, Fourth Infantry A. A. Q. [M., A. C. S., range officer, and instructor of rifle practice at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, till 1886. He was cham pion rifle shot of the United States army for the years 1883, 1884 and 1885, and is the owner of more flrst-class government medals, won in competition, than any other officer or enlisted man in the army. He was with com pany, instructor of rifle practice and range officer at Fort. Spokane, Washington, 1886 to 1887. He was granted six months sick leave, and ordered before a retiring board in 1888, and sick leave until retired from active service for disability contracted in line of duty, with rank of captain, June 23, 1893, and promoted to rank of major by act of April 23, 1904. During his army service he re ceived many commendatory letters from offi cers of high rank — Adjutant General H. C. Corbin; General M. I. Luddington; Quarter master General ; Paymaster General T. H. Stanton ; Brigadier General J. C. Gilmore, A. A. G. ; Brigadier General T. E. True ; Briga dier General E. V. Sumner ; General EUis 196 STATE OF MAINE. Spear, and many others. Major Merriam is a companion of the District of Columbia Com mandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and of Kit Carson Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Washington Citv. and a member of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and resides in Washington, D. C. He married, at Omaha, Nebraska, August 7, 1876, Annie Burnham, born in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, June 17, 1854, daugh ter of Lieutenant Colonel Horace Blois and Mrs. Ruth .\nn (Jackson) Burnham, her father being deputy judge advocate general United States Army. ChUdren of Major and Mrs. Lewis Merriam: i. Ruth Mary, born at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, August i, 1877; married, at Washington, D. C, June 8, 1899, Dr. Frank Hood Schultz, D. D. S. ; re side in Washington, D. C. 2. Henry Clay, born at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, December 17, 1879; graduate of Shattuck Mditary School, of Faribault, Minnesota, and is cap tain of coast artillery, U. S. A., stationed at Fortress Monroe, Virginia; married, at Man- Ua, Philippine Islands, Aug-ust 30, 1900, Bes sie Charlotte Ray, of EaribauU, Minnesota; has a daughter, Charlotte Burnham, born at Fort Sheridan, lUinois, AprU 6, 1903. 3. Hat tie Newell, born at Fort Fetterman, Wyom ing, June 15, 1881, died at ClarksvUle, Ten nessee, October, 1881. 4. Lewis Burnham, born at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, March 4, 1884; died December 2, 1884. 5. Blois Burn ham, born at Fort Spokane, Washington, Sep tember 21, 1886: drowned in Coeur d'Alene Lake, Idaho, August 20, 1892. 6. Lewis, born in Spokane, AVashington, May 30, 1893, now attending St. John's College, Annapolis, Mary land. The name appears in the rec- STETSON ords variously spelled : Stet son, Stilson, Studson, Stedson or Stutson, from the time of its first record in the Plymouth Colony in 1633. If is tradition- aUy credited with having been a Scotch family. Robert, the first of the name in America, is credited with having been a native of Kent county, England, and landing in New England in 1633. As the first settlers of Scituate were known as "Men of Kent ;" it may be that he is credited to county Kent, England, with the others, as in 1634 he received a considerable grant of land from the general court of New Plymouth Colony, at which date he must have been twenty-one years of age. The land granted him was on the North river, in the town of Scituate, where he built a home, and the land did not pass out of the family or out of the Stetson name until the widow of Charles Stetson married Clarke Sampson, of Duxbury. (I) Robert Stetson, immigrant, was an im portant man in Plymouth Colony and a useful citizen both in time of peace and of war. He took the oath of freeman in 1652 ; was made foreman of jury for laying out roads in 1653; a deputy to the general court of Plymouth Colony 1653-56; erected a saw miU in 1656; was again a deputy to the general court in 1658-59-60-61-62, and again in 1666-67, ^nd an additional deputy in 1674, on account of the immediate prospect of war with the In dians. He was a commissioner in June, 1659, with Major Josiah Winslow and Lieutenant Southworth, appointed by the general court of Plymouth Colony to view and adjust the trou blesome question of the boundary line at the time unfixed between the colonies of Massa chusetts Bay and Plymouth, finally fixed in 1664. In 1675 he was a member of the com mittee to procure clothing for the soldiers in the Indian wars, and in 1681, with Nathaniel Thomas, of Marshfield, he hired the Cape fish eries for the privilege of catching bass and mackerel. He served in the colonial militia as cornet, or flag bearer, of the first company of horse organized in Plymouth Colony, in 1658 or 1659, ^"d was a member of the councU of war in 1661 and again in 1681. He took the field repeatedly in repelling Indian attacks or the defending of settlers on the frontier. In the time of the King Philip war he was de spatched to visit Sachem Philip, and was paid for this service, according to the records, as follows: "1677 Paid Cornett Studson for his horse, time and pains forty shUlings." In 1668 he was commissioned by the general court to purchase from the Indian owners the tract of land which subsequently formed the towns of Hanover and Abington, for the use of the colony, but the title to be made in his name and some of his sons settled on these lands. The maiden name of the mother of Cornet Stetson's children is not known. In his will, made and witnessed September 4, 1702, he gives his wife's name as Mary, and it is gen erally conceded by the most careful and trust worthy genealogists that she was his second wife and the widow of John Bryant, and that he married her after 1682. His will was proven on March i, 1703, he having died February i, 1703, at the age of ninety years, and in his wiU his daughter Eunice is men tioned as Eunice Rogers, and the widow of his son John as Abigail. He evidently became STATE OF MAINE. 197 a member of the Second Parish Church of Scituate before the time he took the oath of freeman in 1652, as his first three children were brought to the church and baptized, Oc tober 6, 1645. The time of his marriage is not definitely known, but the eldest of these children, Joseph, was born in Scituate ; other children were: Benjamin, Thomas (died young), Samuel, John, Eunice, Lois, Robert and Thomas. (II) Joseph, eldest child of Cornet Robert Stetson, was born, June, 1639, at Scituate, Plymouth Colony, and was baptized in the Sec ond Parish Church, October 6, i646(?). He married Prudence , and lived a quiet life on his farm, taking part in neither the affairs of the church, town or colony. He died between 1722 and 1724. His will was dated April 4, 1722, and was probated May 8, 1724. Children of Joseph and Prudence Stetson : Joseph, Robert, Lois, WUliam, De sire, Prudence, Samuel and Hannah. (Ill) Robert (2), second son of Joseph and Prudence Stetson, was born in Scituate, Ply mouth Colony, December 9, 1670. He served his town as constable in 1722, the only office credited to him on the town records. He was evidently a man of business affairs, in addition to his cultivation of a farm. He married Mary CoUamore, of Scituate ; chil dren : Anthony, Jemima, Isaac, WUliam, Mar tha, Gideon and Robert. (IV) Robert (3), youngest son of Robert (2) and Mary (CoUamore) Stetson, was born September 3, 1710. The date of his death is not known. He was a farmer, and evidently lived on a part of the Indian plantation pur chased by his great-grandfather. Cornet Stet son, he having a farm of forty-three acres, and on it he erected a house that was still standing on the highway leading from the meeting house to Hanover and was stUl stand ing in 1900, being next to the oldest house in the town of Hanover. He sold the place to his brother William in 1746. He married, November 23, 1738, Hannah Tower, of Pem broke, Massachusetts ; children : Robert, Reu ben, Hannah, Mary, Batcheler, Caleb, Martha and Jemima. (V) Batcheler, third son of Robert (3) and Hannah (Tower) Stetson, was born in Han over, Massachusetts, December 11, 1753, and died in Greene, Maine, in 1825. He removed to New Gloucester, Maine, and in 1791 settled in Greene, locating on the place lately occupied by Reuben Stetson. He served through the revolutionary war, and in the battle of Ben nington received a charge of powder in the face. His record in the Massachusetts Rolls is as follows: Batcheler Stetson, Hanover, list of men raised to serve in the Continental army from Colonel John Cushing's (second Plymouth county) regiment, residence, Han over, engaged for town of Hanover, term, three years, also bombadier. Captain William Treadwell's company. Colonel John Crane's (ArtUlery) regiment; Continental army pay accounts for service from February 14, 1777, to December 31, 1779, reported as services twenty-four months as matross, ten months seventeen days as bombadier. He married Margaret Nash, of New Gloucester; chUdren: Hannah, Deborah, Turner and Caleb. (VI) Turner, son of Batcheler and Mar garet (Nash) Stetson, was born in Greene, in 1788, and died in the same town in 1847. He was a farmer, a man much respected and pop ular. He was a lieutenant in the militia. He married Thankful Lombard, born in 1795, died in 1848. Children : Reuben, Angelina, Han nah, Benjamin, Caleb, Melissa, Andrew Jack son, Maria, Martin Van Buren, Alfred, Alonzo Johnson. (VII) Reuben, son of Turner and Thankful (Lombard) Stetson, was born in Greene, [March 25, 1813. He followed the sea, and was mate for six years, and was the last sur vivor of the crew that took the Stevens ex ploring party to Mexico and Central America. He afterward settled on the farm upon which Batcheler Stetson first located in Greene. He married Christiana, daughter of David Tomp son. She was a woman of most attractive personality and great force of character. Their children are: Herbert Lee, WUliam Wallace, Clement Skofield and James Henry. (VIII) WiUiam WaUace, second son of Reuben and Christiana (Tompson) Stetson, was bom in Greene, Maine, June 17, 1849. His early life was passed at the family home stead and in attending the district school. He went to Monmouth Academy, and later to Ed ward Little Institute in Maine, and finally to Monmouth College, lUinois. He began teach ing at the age of fifteen years and taught some part of every year until 1895. He com menced in the district schools of Maine, and in 1868 went to Illinois, where he taught in district, normal and high schools, and finaUy became superintendent of schools. While principal in the high schools of Illinois he fitted pupils who took honors at Cornell, Har vard, Evanston and Ann Arbor, in mathe matics, the languages, literature and history, and wrote for educational journals. In 1884 he returned to Maine, and in [March, 1885, be- 198 STATE OF MAINE, came principal of Webster school in Auburn, and took charge of the Auburn schools, a position he filled for a period of ten years, at the same time lecturing on educational sub jects and writing for magazines. "As a sup erintendent of schools," says the "History of Androscoggin County," "he enjoys an enviable reputation for executive ability, a broad grasp of what should be taught, and great fertility in devising methods of instruction. He is noted not only for being abreast of the times on educational subjects but as an explorer in new fields. His annual reports, in which he has elaborated his theory of education, have received the hearty endorsements of leading educationalists." From 1895 to 1907 Mr. Stetson was state superintendent of the schools of Maine and brought to his work vigorous health, marked enthusiasm and tireless energy, great capacity for sustained effort, wide know ledge of school organization and management, quick insight into educational conditions and needs, and foresight into methods of meeting them : a large and ready fund of pedagogical laws and facts, the power to think clearly, connectedly, to right conclusions, and, withal, a terse, vigorous, graphic, ready style of ex pression in speech and writing, giving power to make others think with him and make his thoughts their own. The state reports of Mr. Stet.son have been more extensively circulated than any other similar documents in the last decade. Besides being largely copied by edu cational journals of this country, many por tions of these volumes have been reprinted in French, German and Spanish. When Mr. Stetson resigned from the responsible office of state superintendent of schools, Governor Cobb, upon accepting the resignation, desig nated June 30 as the date upon which it was to go into effect, thus keeping Mr. Stetson identified with the office until the close of the school year. The feeling of the legislature was shown by its voting seven to one in the house and unanimously in the senate, to nearly double the salary of the state superintendent. The governor, in a public letter, expressed his approval of and confidence in Mr. Stetson, concludin.g with the words : "You have done much for the cause of education in Maine, and I thank you." Though his school work made up a busy and u.seful life, the more than or dinary energy of Mr. Stet.son led him, upon taking up his residence in Auburn, to ally himself with every effort to increase the pros perity of that city, and his efforts have ma terially aided in the advancement of many important organizations. He was especially prominent in the founding of the Building and Loan Association, having charge of the meet ings which led up to its formation. It was a suggestion made by him to a newspaper re porter that kindled the flame of enthusiasm for a public library. Later he brought the subject before the Board of Trade and was matle chairman of the committee of the board on library, and it was largely through his per sistent efforts that the idea has been substan tially realized. He was one of its corporators and was elected one of its trustees. Since 1907 Mr. Stetson has devoted all of his time to writing and the lecture field. He is a polished and impressive speaker, his well- chosen words flowing gently and smoothly from a fountainhead of sound reasoning, pro found logic and wholesome thought. His elo quence is calm but inspiring, his argument, simple but convincing, his humor, plain but genuine and refreshing. He has contributed much to educational publications. Elis writing is characterized by his ability to grasp a sub ject with ease, to express his ideas with clear ness, yet in a terse and striking manner, while a fine presence and a harmonious and well modulated voice add much to his delivery. In speaking without notes he is more apt to be brief and pungent than in his more care fully prepared speeches. He is a constant student of history, philosophy and literature, and to these subjects he has devoted the greater part of a fine private library. From his interest in these branches he has always made it a point to belong to' a history and literature club, and he has formed several of these organizations. The following extract from the Ei'cning Post, of Wellington, New Zealand, is certainly of great interest: "In this revival (educational) Maine appears to lead the way. That state is blessed with an enthusiast in the person of William Wallace Stetson, superintendent of the educational de partment. He raises his voice on paper, and he sings in a way that makes the people listen gracefully. Even his correspondence paper bears signs of his belief that the care of the young is the most important national duty. On the left-hand corner of his note-paper sheet there are five statements — democratic, incontrovertible : 'The homes of Maine are domestic universities.' 'The home and the school hold the hope of the future.' 'The common school is to be the social, literary, and art center of the community.' 'The safety of the nation is not in the hands of its rulers, but in the lives of \t'^ com mon people.' 'The world's best servant STATE OF MAINE. 199 knows the past, lives in the present, foresees the future, and is ready for the next thing.' " Such appreciation from far-off New Zealand is certainly pleasant. Professor J. D. Wilson furnishes the following comments : "In 4he way of intellectual outlook and professional uplift the Kirksville Normal School of Mis souri came to high tide under the masterful sway of Hon. W. W. Stetson, the brilliant, scholarly and eloquent State Superintendent of the schools of Maine. In ripeness of scholar ship, in catholicity of spirit and in finish of culture Mr. Stetson has few equals in this country. * * * Mr. Stetson's large and last ing service to this institution and to the cause of education and the higher life in Missouri came less from his preaching and more from his personality." Mr. F. B. Arundell, a well-known author of North Carolina, wrote an appreciation of- Mr. Stetson as a speaker, from which the follow ing is taken : "He has sojourned among many peoples and has studied men and conditions everywhere his travels have led him. These experiences give him a prawer and make him a force for progress. He is one of this country's foremost educators. His educational creed is as comprehensive as the children of his coun try are numerous and his impulses are as sin cere and patriotic as the cause for which he pleads is essential and just. Dr. Stetson is a reaUy great American, and he who hears him on the rostrum, or lingers with him in social intercourse, will not only admire him but hold him in sincere and lofty esteem." He is a man of strong personality, warm heart and generous impulses, and out of he strength of his own manhood impresses him self on those with whom he comes in contact. His record as a lecturer extends over the United States and Canada, and he has been heard in many of our most famous educational institutions. Some of his principal lectures are : Some Essentials, The Natural Order of De velopment. The Literary Training of the Teacher, Reading an Unprinted Page, The Emotions as a Factor in Education, A Master's Message, Some Lessons the South May Teach Us, A Review of the Record, Historical Study for the Teacher, The Duty of the Community to the School, Lessons Taught by Leaders, The Big Four, Education Through the Study of Things, Basis of the Efficient School, One Point of View, Helping Without Hurting, In terpretation of Works of Art, The New Edu cation. Aesthetic Culture. He is the author of: History and Civil Government of Maine; Rural Schools of Maine ; Needs of Schools of Maine ; What is and Should be Taught in the Common Schools; Waste and Kindred Evils in the Administration of Public Schools ; The Public School System with Regard to Pur pose, Scope of Instruction, Organization and Present Condition; The Schools of North eastern Maine ; Sketches, Designs and Plans for School-buildings, School Yards and Out houses; What the School Should do for the Child; Suggestions on Study of U. S. History and Arithmetic ; Library and Art Exchange ; Local History and Geography and Kindred Subjects; Some of Our School Problems and State of Local Interest ; Experiment in Child Study; The School as it Was, Is and Should Be ; Words, Reading and Literature ; Improve ment of School Buildings and Grounds ; Meth ods for Elementary Schools ; Manual for Teachers ; Gains and Losses ; Educational Ideals ; Rural Communities and Centers of Populations ; The Work of a Decade ; Stand ard Schools ; To the Boys and Girls of Maine ; Crying of the Children ; Industrial Educa tion ; A Theory and a Condition ; and Thoughts by the Way. Mr. Stetson received the degree .of A. M. and LL. D. from Colby College, and the degree of LL. D. from Monmouth (Il linois) College. The home of Mr. Stetson on Minot avenue is one of the notable residences of the city, and is surrounded by handsome and well-kept grounds. He was married, July 4, 1871, to Rebecca Jane Killough, of Morning Sun, Iowa. She is a woman of education and refinement, and is active in literary and philanthropic work. (For flrst generation see Robert Stetson I.) (II) Benjamin, second son of STETSON Cornet Robert Stetson, the immigrant settler, of Scituate, Plymouth colony, was born at Scituate, Au gust, 1641, and baptized October 6, 1645. He was a deputy in the general court of Plymouth colony to 1691, and a representative in the general court of the Massachusetts Bay col ony at Boston in 1693-94-1700, the two col onies having joined in a common government with the general court to assemble at Boston in 1692. He was conspicuous in the affairs of the Second Parish of Scituate, and represented the interests of the church repeatedly before the general court. He married Bethiah , and their children were: i. Benjamin (q. v.). 2. Matthew, bom June 12, 1669, died Novem ber, 1690, in the expedition which successfully besieged Quebec under Sir William Phipps at the time that knight was high sheriff of New England colonies and before he was made the 200 STATE OF MAINE. first royal governor of Massachusetts Bay Col ony, 1692-94. 3. James, born May i, 1670. 4. Samuel, born in October, 1673. 5. Bethiah, May 14, 1675. 6. Mary, April 21, 1678. 7. Hannah, June i, 1679. §• Deborah, December 3, 1681. 9. Eunice, March, 1683. 10. Mary, born September, 1684, died young. Benjamin Stetson, Sr., died at Scituate, Massachusetts, May 4, 1711. (Ill) Benjamin (2), eldest son of Benja min (i) and Bethiah Stetson, was born in Scituate, in February, 1663, baptized May 19, 1668. He was a farmer, and also engaged in manufacturing iron as early as 1720, when the towns at annual town meeting "granted two acres of land on Indian Head River to Joseph Barston and Benjamin Stetson for the accom modation of a forge." He was a representa tive in the general court of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1700, and a man of importance in the affairs of the town. He married, Jan uary 22, 1690, Grace Turner; children: i. Matthew, bom November 5, 1690. 2. Grace, April 29, 1692 ; married (first) John Hatch, Jr., February 26, 1718-19, and on the settle ment of her father's estate she is recorded as Grace Beals. 3. Margaret, born March 30, 1694; married, November 22, 1739, James Briggs. 4. Benjamin, born July i, 1696. 5. Bethiah, born May 4, 1699; married, Septem ber 5, 1728, Nicholas Powers. 6. Leah, born May 6, 1702; married, November 16, 1732, Enoch whitten, or Whitney. 7. Abijah, born July 4, 1704 (q. v.). Benjamin Stetson Jr. died in Scituate, Massachusetts, about 1740. (IV) Abijah, youngest child of Benjamin (2) and Grace (Turner) Stetson, was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, July 4, 1704, and he was taken to the church and baptized with his sister Leah, two years his senior, Septem ber 24, 1704. He married, June 5, 1728-29, Deborah Turner, of Scituate, and they made their home in the town of Hanover after their first three children were born in Scituate. Children: i. Adam, born March 12, 17 — . 2. John, AprU 17, 173 1. 3. Abigail, November 4, 1733, died February 3, 1752, unmarried. 4. Deborah, born 1737, died 1762. 5. Prince, bom in August, 1741 (q. v.). 6. Margaret, born AprU 7, 1745; married, July 18, 1765, Job Sylvester. 7. [Elijah, born in March, 1747. 6. Zilpha, born in March, 1750; married, Oc tober 17, 1771, James Carter, and died Sep tember 21, 1776. The five children last named were born in Hanover township, Massachu setts. (V) Prince, third son of Abijah and De borah (Turner) Stetson, was born in Han over, Massachusetts, in August, 1741. He married, in 1768, Eunice Sylvester, and after his marriage lived for a time in Hanover, and then removed to Freeport, Maine, at which place he died. He was familiarly known as Captain Prince Stetson by reason of his posi tion in the militia service. Children: Sophia; Joan; Eunice T., married. May 3, 1795, Thomas Willet, of Abington, Massachusetts; Temperance, married Jacob Stetson; Nathan iel, born in 1772 (q. v.) ; P , married, and lived in Boston ; Prince, born February 28, 1780; Charles, born 1786; Sage; Joseph and Henry (twins). (VI) [Nathaniel, eldest son and fifth child of Captain Prince and Eunice (Sylvester) Stetson, was born (probably) in Hanover, Massachusetts, about 1772. He removed from Hanover to Freeport, Maine. He married, in 1793, Ruth Curtis; they had children, aU prob ably born in Freeport, Maine : Daniel, Sep tember, 1797; John; Vienna, married George Corlis ; Eunice, married John Stevens ; Will iam B. (q. V.) ; Emeline, married Frank Woods ; Clarissa, married Samuel Matthews ; Nathaniel, born 1807, died at sea, 1835. (VII) Captain 'William B., third son of Nathaniel and Ruth (Curtis) Stetson, was born in Freeport, Maine, October 28, 1803. He was a sea captain and lived in Freeport. He married, December 25, 1826, Melinda Dunham ; children, born in Freeport : WiUiam E., September 26, 1827 ; Melinda H., AprU 3, 1829; Joseph H. (q. v.) ; George W., October 18, 1832; Eliza F., May 18, 1835; Lucille E., May 8, 1841. (VIII) Joseph H., second son and third child of Captain WiUiam B. and Melinda (Dunham) Stetson, was born in Freeport, Maine, January 22, 1831. He attended schools of that town until twelve years of age, and made his first trip to sea as cabin boy in May, 1843, on the schooner "Edward and Frank." He followed the sea for seven years, first as cabin boy, later as mate, during which time he visited many foreign countries. In 1849 he returned to his home and started to learn the tinsmith trade with J. P. Weeman, remaining with him three years. He then went to Bath, where he was employed at his trade three years, and the following winter he spent in New Orleans. In September, 1857, he came to Lewiston and engaged in the hardware business with George Soule, their store being located on Main street near the bridge. In 1863 the partnership of Bean & Stetson was formed, and continued until the death of Mr. Bean in 1886. Mr. Stetson continued the busi- STATE OF MAINE. 201 ness alone under the name of J. H. Stetson & Company until 1900, when the corporation of J. H. Stetson Company was formed. In the Masonic order Mr. Stetson ranks high ; he is a member of Ashlar Lodge, having united with this order in 1868 ; of King Hiram Royal Arch Chapter ; of Lewiston Commandery ; and is one of the oldest Scottish Rite Masons now living, having taken his degrees in 1872. For thirty-four years he has been treasurer of Dunlap Council, and for thirty-one years has been treasurer of Lewiston Lodge of Perfec tion. He married, November 18, 1857, Har riet J., born April 9, 1836, daughter of Cap tain John N. and Jane C. (Trufant) Smith, of Bath, Maine. Children: i. Ella F., born September 6, 1859, died January 31, 1864. 2. George B., born September 26, 1866; resides in Lewiston, Maine ; married, October 8, 1890, Hattie J. Noble ; children : Ruth E., born Au gust 9, 1892; Joseph W., born February 14, 1894. 3. Edward S., born June 30, 1868; see forward. 4. John N. S., born August 9, 1871, see forward. (IX) Edward S., son of Joseph H. and Harriet J. (Smith) Stetson, was born in Lew iston, Maine, June 30, 1868. He was educated in the public schools, and began his business career with J. H. Stetson & Company at the completion of his studies, devoting energy and application to his yvork. In 1900 Mr. Stetson was elected president and general manager of the company, whicli position he now holds. He is a member of the Masons, in which fraternity he has been singularly hon ored. He is past master of Ashlar Lodge; was twice illustrious master of Dunlap Coun cil ; past illustrious potentate of Kora Temple ; president generalissimo of Lewiston Com mandery, Knights Templar ; member of the Elks, Odd Fellows and Calumet Club. He married, November 29, 1893, Mae L. French, and resides in Auburn, Maine. Children : Ed ward S., born February 7, 1897; Harvey L., born February 8, 1899. (See French.) (IX) John N. S., son of Joseph H. and Harriet J. (Smith) Stetson, was bom in Lewiston, Maine, August 9, 1871. He was educated in the public schools, and graduated from Lewiston high school in 1891. After leaving school he entered correspondence de partment of the Youth's Companion in Bos ton, where he remained several years. For the past four years Mr. Stetson has been as sociated with the Boston Loan Company of Boston, and at the present time (1908) is president of the Institute, a position and stand ing that tests his abihty and enterprise. He is also vice-president and treasurer of the J. H. Stetson Company. He is a member of Ashlar Lodge, the Scottish Rite, being a thirty-second degree Mason, is a member of Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, the Boston Art Club, and the American Canoe Association. He resides in Boston, Massachusetts. He married, April 18, 1900, Ethel Wyman. (For preceding generations see Robert Stetson I.) (Ill) Samuel, fourth son of STETSON Joseph and Prudence Stetson, was born in Deceinber, 1679, probably at Scituate, Massachusetts, which was the family dwelling-place for several gen erations. According to the probate records of Plymouth county, he died in the year 1761, leaving a wiU which was executed November 8, 1757. His first wife, and the mother of the seven children, was Elizabeth, whose maiden name is unknown. On January 7, 1731, Sam uel Stetson married (second) Rachel, daugh ter of Sergeant Samuel Stetson, who was liv ing at the time that her husband made his wUl. Children of first wife : i. Abner, whose sketch foUows. 2. George, born November 6, 1714. 3. Elizabeth, March 24, 1717, married Na thaniel Stetson, of Pembroke. 4. Joshua, June 26, 1719. 5. Alice, March 20, 1720, married Joshua Ripley. 6. Joseph, IMarch 25, 1724. 7. Ruth, who was called Ruth Merritt in her father's wdll. "(IV) Abner, eldest child of Samuel and Elizabeth Stetson, was born, probably at Scit uate, Massachusetts, November 3, 1712, bap-^ tized September 6, 1713, and died in Scituate, where he had spent his life, November 20, 1805. He married Deborah, daughter of Mat thew Stetson, October 7, 1762. Children: i. Deborah, born in 1763, married Abner Crook er, of Marshfield. 2. Joshua, October, 1766. 3. Lois or Louisa, 1768, married Henry Jos selyn, of Pembroke. 4. Abner (2), whose sketch follows. 5. Melzar, November 27, 1772. 6. Rogers, 1775. The youngest son was deaf and dumb; he died in October, 1843, unmarried. (V) Abner (2), second son of Abner (i) and Deborah (Stetson) Stetson, was born at Scituate, Massachusetts, in July, 1771. He was a farmer all his hfe, and in the spring of 1793 moved to Newcastle, Maine, and afterwards to Nobleboro, where he died September 13, 1846. On December 25, 1795, Abner (2) Stetson married Susanna Day, of Bristol, Maine, who died September 22, 1819. On July 15, 1820, Abner (2) Stetson married (second) Susanna Wiley, who became the 202 STATE OF MAINE. mother of one child, James, bom May 30, 1822. ChUdren of first marriage were: i. [Martha, born September 14, 1796, married James Robinson. 2. Deborah, [November 22, 1798, married Jeremiah Knowlton. 3. Abner (3), the subject of the succeeding paragraph. 4. William D., November 18, 1802. 5. Mary D., February 29, 1804, married Joseph His cock. 6. Susannah, January 19, 1806, died [March i, 1809. 7. Waterman, January i, 1807. 8. [Melzar, November 4, 1809. 9. Henry, June 2, 181 1. died September 8, 1835. 10. Benjamin D., [May 9, 1813. 11. Abigail, X'ovember 24, 1814, married Lorenzo Wright. 12. Susannah, August 11, 1817, died October 19, 1819. It will be noted that both of the children named Susannah died in babyhood ; one at the age of three and the other at the age of two years. (VI) Abner (3), eldest son of Abner (2) and Susanna (Day) Stetson, was born Janu ary 26, 1800, at Newcastle, Maine, died November 4, 1878, at Damariscotta. His early education was limited to the town schools which he attended till the age of twelve, and his subsequent knowledge was gathered by reading and observa tion. He early learned the trade of ship car penter, and afterwards became a master in that line and the founder of the firm which for many years did business under the name of Stetson & Hitchcock. Among the interest ing incidents connected with this industry may be mentioned the fact that Mr. Stetson buih the ship "Wiscasset," which brought Andrew Carnegie to this country when, an unknown boy, he set out to seek his fortune in America. If the Stetson workmanship had not been sound and trustworthy, we might have been deprived of our most generous multi-million aire and the multitudes of libraries bearing his name. Mr. Stetson gave up his ship-buUding at the breaking out of the rebellion, but he StiU retained an ownership in vessels, and he lost one valuable ship during that war. Dur ing his later years he was retired from active business. [Mr. Stetson was a man of upright character, and a member of the Methodist church. In politics he was a Whig in early life, but he became one of the earliest and staunchest members of the Republican party, and was one of the presidential electors when Lincoln was nominated in i860. Mr. Stetson belonged to Damariscotta Lodge of Masons, Alna, No. 43, of Damariscotta. He was a drummer boy in the war of 1812, and his wid ow was one of the five remaining pensioners of that war at the time of her death. Abner (3) Stetson married (first), Decem ber 13, 1821, [Mary Hiscock. Children: i. Abner, born [May 30, 1822, died June 27, 1833. 2. Everett W., born August 23, 1825, mar ried Sarah A. Knowdton, September 25, 1846; one son, Henry C. ; died April 18, 1893. 3. Joseph H., born X'ovember 25, 1828, died in Seattle, ^^'ashington, 1892; married Sarah .\. Hitchcock ; four children : Alfred, Josephine, [Mary, and a baby died at sea. 4. [Martha S., born July 20, 1830. 5. [Mary E., born Au gust 16, 1831, married Charles G. [Merry ; one son, Joseph L. S. 6. Abner Crayton, born January I, 1834, married Rachel Gammans; children: .A.bner C, Daniel R., Elizabeth; he died 1866. 7. Sarah D., married Daniel Tliombs ; children : \\^illiani and Mary ; she died 1893. Three children died in infancy. [Mrs. [Mary (Hiscock) Stetson died January 8, 1841. [Mr. Stetson married (second), July 18, 1841, Betsey, born in 1818, died September 3, 1865, daughter of Jackson and Lydia ([Mer ry) Riggs. Their children: i. Charles W., born December 26, 1842, married Sarah Bar- stow ; children : IsabeUa C, Ralph and two W'ho died in infancy. 2. Henry W., born Oc tober 15, 1844, married Isabel Curtis; one child living, Anna Louise, and son who died aged three years. 3. Frederick J., born Sep tember I, 1845, died 1901 ; married .'\ugusta E. Simmons. 4. John F., born January 23, 1847, died 1877; married [Mary [Mc[Mic'liaeI ; one child, Bessie M. 5. Wilder F., born Jan uary 23, 1849, married Bessie — ¦ . 6. Helen G., born January 17, 1851, mar ried Thatcher W. Parker ; children : Stet- married WiUiam M. Pennell (see PenneU), son, Anna C, Infant, deceased, and Curtis; died 1892. 7. Edwdn F., whose sketch follows. 8. \A'illiam A., born April 30, 1856, married [Mary A. HiU: one chdd, Marion. 9. Leida \l., born May 25, 1858, the present sheriff of Cumberland county. Mt. Stetson married (third), .¦\ugust, 1867, Susan Cushman, of Warren, Maine, who died with out issue, March 16, 1902. (VII) Dr. Edwin F., si.xth son of .A.bner (3) and Betsey (Riggs) Stetson, was born at Damariscotta, [Maine, Deceinber 21, 1853. He obtained his preliminary education at Lincoln Academy, from wdiich he was graduated in 1874. [He entered Bowdoin College, leaving at close of sophomore year to enter Harvard Medical College, graduating in 1879. I" *^^* year he went to Terre Haute, Indiana, to be gin the practice of medicine, and remained there for six years, during which time he was secretary of Vigo County Medical So- STATE OF MAINE. 203 ciety for several years, also member of Indi ana State Medical Society, Tri State and Aes- culapian Medical societies, also member and secretary of the city board of health for one term. In 1885 he returned to his home town of Damariscotta, where for nearly a quarter of a century he has been one of the leading physicians. He was a member of the United States board of examining surgeons for Lin coln county, being retired with President Cleveland's election. For the past fifteen years has been a member of town board of health. He is a member of the Lincoln Coun ty Medical Association, Maine Medical Asso ciation and the American Medical Association. He is also interested in fraternal organizations, and belongs to Alna Lodge, No. 43, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Ezra B. French Royal Arch Chapter, No. 42, of Damariscotta, of which he is a past high priest; Dunlap Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 5, of Bath; Lincoln Lodge, No. 90, Knights of Pythias, Damariscotta. He is a Republican in politics, and has served on town commit tees. He has been a trustee of Lincoln Acad emy from 1888, and now (1909) and for the past three years has been chairman of the superintending committee. On October 3, 1883, Dr. Stetson married Mary P., daughter of Rufus C. and Mary Matilda (Lunt) Chapman, of Newcastle, Maine. Children: i. Helen C, born Septem ber 6, 1884, in Terre Haute, Indiana, was educated at Lincoln Academy and at Mount Holyoke CoUege, graduating from the latter institution in 1905. Since that time she has been an assistant teacher at Lincoln Academy. 2. Rufus E., August 10, 1886, at Damaris cotta, was educated at Lincoln Academy, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1908, and is now studying medicine. 3. Grace L., July 4, 1891, was graduated from Lincoln Academy in 1909. 4. Mary E., July 15, 1894. (For preceding generations see Robert Stetson I.) (IV) Anthony, eldest child of STETSON Robert (3) and Mary (Col- lamore) Stetson, was born at Scituate, Massachusetts, September 12, 1692, and died in 1747. He lived in Scituate all his life, and was a cordwainer, the term applied to shoemakers in his day. On March 28, 1717, Anthony Stetson married Anna Smith, and they had a family of eleven children : Mary, born December 9, 1717, married (first) John Vinal, (second) James Woodward; Isaac, whose sketch follows : Joseph, February 24, 1722; Anna, June 2, 1724, married William Hayden; Charies, October 17, 1726; Ezra, September 22, 1729; Elisha, January 28, 1731 i Thomas, AprU 22, 1734; Benjamin, July 7, 1736; Abiel, October 23, 1738; Martha, Au gust 18, 1741, married Seth Taylor, of Pem broke, and moved to Chesterfield, Massachu setts. (V) Isaac, eldest son of Anthony and Anna (Smith) Stetson, was born at Scituate, Massa chusetts, October 19, 1719, and died there June 8, 181 1, much respected and beloved. On November 16, 1749, he married Ruth Prouty, of Scituate, and they had eleven children, three sons and eight daughters. The children were: Isaac, born November 30, 1750, died on board the prison ship "Jersey" ; Ruth, March 27, 1752, married John Lincoln and moved to Maine; Elizabeth, September 7, 1754, married Gershom Bowker, of Scituate; Anne, September 22, 1755, married John Mor ton, of Scituate; Eunice, May 31, 1757, died X'ovember 28, 1758; Elisha, whose sketch fol lows; Eunice, January 2, 1761, married Rich ard Boylston, of Charlestowm, Massachusetts ; Abigail, December 26, 1762, married Henry Nye, of Hingham; Mary, January i, 1765; Chloe, August 21, 1767, married Benjamin Bowker, and moved to Charlestown, !\Iassa- chuselts; David, July 7, 1769. (VI) Elisha, second son of Isaac and Ruth (Prouty) Stetson, was born at Scituate, Mas sachusetts, April 8, 1759, and died at Durham, Maine, February, 1848. He moved to Dur ham with his wife and three chUdren in 1789, and settled on the County Road. In 1784 Elisha Stetson married Rebecca Curtis, and they had eleven children : Ruth, born Novem ber 18, 1784, married Nathaniel Parker; Sally, July 20, 1786; Elisha (2), whose sketch fol lows; Stephen, May 28, 1791, married Betsey Dennison, of Freeport, and lived in Lewiston ; Isaac, March 3, 1793, married Betsey Curtis, of Boston, and lived in Pownal ; Clarissa, May 18, 1795, married Elisha Lincoln; Abigail (twin to Clarissa}, married XTathaniel Parker; David, March 30, 1798, married Elizabeth Sylvester, of Freeport, and hved in Auburn ; Mary, April 6, 1800, married Captain Na thaniel Lincoln; Charles, April 11, 1802, mar ried Elmira Watson, of Calais, and lived in Durham; Nathaniel, July 20, 1804, married Ann Osgood, and lived at Durham. (VII) Elisha (2), eldest son of Elisha (i) and Rebecca (Curtis) Stetson, was born at Scituate, Massachusetts, November 17, 1788, and died at Auburn, Maine, January 26, 1876. When an infant of one year he was brought by his parents to Durham, Maine, and there 204 ST.VTK t)l' MAINE, his youth was passctl. For several years he foUowed the sea, and after his marriage he settled in .\uburn. The growtii of th.il city enabled him to sell his land at a ,i;reat advance, and the roiuaiiuler of his life he S[)ent in .\ii- burn ill retirement. Mr. Stetson helped build the first toU bridge between Lewiston and .Au burn, antl was clerk of the company thirty years. He w:is interested in the m.inufacture of woolen goods ami in railroads. I'or sev eral years he was ;i member of the board of selectmen at ..Vtibiini, antl he was active in jmnnoling the public welfare in eveiy way. On October _'i), 1815, I'.lislui (_') Stetson mar ried (first) Pamela Haskell, of New Glou cester, IMaine. She died May 22, i8jj, leav ing three cliiklren : ICliztibelh .'V., born .Sep tember 10, 181(1, married Nathan Uriggs, of Auburn; /Mfred, horn November 5, 1818, mar rieil Eleanor Karden; ICiiieline, Octi-iber 27, 1820, died luly, i()o(). On April 5, 1823, IMr. Stetson marrieil (seeonil) Laura Hradfurd, daughter ol" Chandler and S:irali (b'tench) Bradford, of Turner, Maine. .She died June 20, i86j, leaving se\-en children: Uradford, born January 15, 1824; Pamela H., mentioned below; Laura .LJ., neceniher 8, 1827, died Au gust 10, 1831); Sylvanus C, September 28, 1829; Maria I.. C, Noveiuher 27. 1832; /Mii- gail L., Deceinber 8, 1837; l'[lislia !'[.," neceni- ber 26, 1841, died September, iSftg. (Vlll) Pamela 11., eldest daughter of Elisha (j) Stel.sdii and his second wife, l,.'iura (Bradford) Slet.snii, was born at Auhiini, Maine, h-ebruary kj, i8j(). In 1850 she was married to Howe Weeks, of Auburn. (See Weeks, 111.) This ancient and respcclalile FRENCII family established il.self in America about the end of the first decade of colonization in Massachusetts, and has furnished many valued citizens. The name comes either from a French ancestor who settled in I'.ritain and was called "tlie French" in reference to his n;itii)iialily, or from his having Hved in France. (I) Edward iM-eiich was bom about i5<)o, in England, and died December 28, 1674", in Salisbury, Massachusetts. With his wife Ann and two or more sons he came to America about 1637, ^'id received land in the first di vision ;il Salisbury, where he also bouglil land in 1642. He was a tailor by trade, and prob ably possessed means when he left England, He was a selectman in 16.-16-47-48, and his name appears on ninsl of the early town lists as "commniier," taxpayer, etc. liis will wa.s made April 10, i()73, and [iroved two years and three days later. His widow, who was probably a sister of Richard Goodale (1), died March <), 1083, in Sali.4)ury. Edward iMviich is listed among the settlers of T|)swicli in 1(137-38. His children were: Joseph, John, Sanniel and Hannah, the second born before 1633. (II) Samuel, third son and child of l'[d- wanl and .\un i''rcnch, resided in Salisbury, where he si.gned petitions in M)58, and was a ineniber of llie cliurcli in 1(177 and 1(187. He died July 2(), i(h)2, in .Salisbury. Adininistra- tioii of his est.'ile was established November 1(1, following, lie 111,'irried (jirst), June I, i(>iK|, in .^iilislniry, Abi.gail, daughter of Henry and Abigail Urowii, of Salisbury, She was born I'Vbmary 23, if),.|4, in Salisbury, and died January 11, i()8o, in that town. Samuel h'tencli's second wife was named ICsther, and she survived him. Six of his children were born of the lirsl wife and three of the second, namely: /Mii.i^.'iil, Hannah, Samuel, Henry, Joseph, Nathaniel, Joanna, John and Esther. (HI) Joseph, third son and fifth cliild of Samuel and Abi.gail ( Urovvii) iM'ench, was born about i()7(), in Salislniry, and resideil in (hat town where lie was a canlwainer. His will was made March 20, 1745, and proven September 18, i7.|(). This goes to show that he was prudent, as his will was probably made some years before his death. His wife's naijie was Hannah, as indicated by his will. Their children were: Abi.gail, Samuel, Nathaniel, l'[lizabetli and Joseph. (IV) Samuei (2), eldes( son and second child of Jo.seph and llanniih l'"rench, was born December 11, 1(11)9, in Salisbury, and lived in that (own until (be establishment of the prov ince line in 1741 threw his home into South Haniptdii, Now Hampshire, where he con tinued to reside throughout bis life. He had sons, Samuel, Henry, r.enjamiii, Nathaniel , and iirobably Siiiion, and ,1 daughter who mar ried Moses I'a.ge. Benjiiinin settled in Gil- maiitdii. (V) Nathaniel, third son of Samuel (2) French, was born in 1724, in South Hampton, and probably settled in Kingston, New Hamp shire. (VI) N;dhaniel (2), .son of Nathaniel (l) " French, was born in 1757 and died in 1799. He was a farmer, residing in Epping, New Hampshire, and served as a revolutionary soldier, enlisting June 15, 1775, in Captain John Norris' com])any. (VII) Sargent, son of Nathaniel (2)' I'rench, was horn Septeniber 11, 1781, in Ep- STATE OF MAINE. 205 ping, and died September 11, 1866. (VIII) Nathaniel Waldo, son of Sargent French, was born at Taniworth, New Hamp shire, [November 2t,. 1807, and died May 30, 1876, in Lewiston, Maine. A large part of his life was spent in Lunenburg, Vermont, where he was a merchant and farmer: His wife was Catherine Gates, born at Lunenburg, Vermont, y\pril 13, 1809, died in Portland, Maine, December 10, 1902. They had a daughter Annette and two sons, George Fos ter, and Samuel Gates. (IX) Samuel Gates, son of Nathaniel Wal do French, was born June 13, 1840. After completing his education he assisted his father in business at Lunenburg, Vermont, later going to Lewiston, Maine, where he was in the book and stationery business for several years with his brother. He married Hannah Lowell, October 19, 1865. They had Annette Eliza, Mae Louise, Infant, and Waldo Lowell. (X) Mae Louise French, daughter of Sam uel (.lates and Hannah (Lowell) French, was born June 22, 1869, in Lunenburg, A'ermont, and was married [November 29, 1893, to Ed ward Smith Stetson, of Lewiston, Maine. (See Stetson, IX.) Hannah (Lowell) French is a descendant of Percival Lowell, the immigrant (q v.), through Richard (II), Percival (HI), Captain Gideon (IV), and (V) Stephen, fourth son of Captain Gideon and Mirian-i (Swett) Lowell, was born Febru ary 19, 1703, in Newbury, and died October 27, 1776. He was a mariner. Intention of marriage was published Noveinber 18, and married December 22, 1727, to Miriam, daugh ter of Samuel and Mary CoUins, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who was born May 23, 1706, and died April 29, 1767. Their children were Stephen and Lewis. (A^I) Stephen (2), eldest son of Stephen (i) and Miriam (ColHns) Lowell, was born October 6, 1728, in Amesbury, and died June 15, 1801, in Buckfield, Maine. He sold prop erty in Amesbury to his cousin, Lewis Lowell, as "mariner," October 10, 1765, and probably removed about this time to Windham, Maine, and later to Buckfield, Maine, where he reared his family and became the ancestor of the [\linot, Maine, LoweUs. In May, 1765, whUe at Windham, they sold land on the corner of Love lane and Middle street, Falmouth, Maine. He married, December 20, 1753, Ag nes Bolton, of Falmouth, who died June 13, 1801, in Buckfield, Maine. Their children were: [Miriam W., IMolly, Thomas, Anne, Stephen and AA'illiam. (VII) William, youngest son of Stephen (2) and Agnes (Bolton) Lowell, was born May 28, 1768, in Windham, Maine, died in Minot, Maine, July 10, 1840, and was buried in Buckfield, Maine. He lived in Buckfield until 1804 or 1817, when he removed to West Minot, Maine. He was married (first) at Turner, Maine, by Rev. J. Stuckland, August 9, 1790, to [Margery Irish, who was born AprU 12, 1771, in Gorham, iMaine, and died Novem ber 12, 1812. He married (second) Mrs. Bet sey Blake Turner, who was born and died in Turner, Maine. His children were : Eton. James, Mark, Polly, Dorcas, Hon. Stephen, Hon. William, Elizabeth, Margery and Miri am. (VIII) Hon. James, eldest son of Wdliam and Margery (Irish) Lowell, was born Janu ary 5, 1792, at Buckfield, Maine, and died in Lewiston, Maine, July 27, 1858. When twenty-one years of age he removed to the new county of Lewiston, and there bought lands which afterwards became very valuable, so that by keen business foresight he became very independent, and helped very materially in the building of the city, and had a large mercantile trade. He was the first president of the Lewiston Falls Bank, now the First National Bank. He was town treasurer from 1829 to 1849, ^nd was representative of the legislature in 1838-39-41-51-52, and was state senator in 1853, with his brothers Stephen and William. In 1854 he was again in the senate with his brother VVilliam. He was very prom inent in his adopted city, accumulated quite a fortune, and was very much respected by all. He was married, May i, 1814, in Lewiston, to Hannah Paul, of New Gloucester, Maine. Their children were : Hon. Mark, James, Daniel and Vesta. (IX) Hon. Mark, eldest son of Hon. James and Hannah (Paul) Lowell, was born March 17, 1815, at Lewiston. He was educated at the academies at Hebron, Gorham and Mon mouth, Maine, and then entered into business with his father in 1837 at Lowells Corners, Maine. He was selectman in Lewdston many years, and was postmaster, and member of the Maine legislature in 1862-63. He and his brother were prominent and public-spirited men, aiding in all town and city enterprises, and he was one of the leading citizens of his town. He married (first), December 25, 1836, Ann S. T. Davis, and (second), January 13, 1847, Alma Esther Burbank. Children by first wife were : Eliza Davis, .A.manda G., Hannah, Ann C, Alma B. and Edward M. He died in 206 STATE OF MAINE. (X) Flannah, third daughter of Hon. [Mark and Ann S. T. (Davis) Lowell, was born .-\.prU 22. 1844, in Lewiston. She was married October 19, 1865, to Samuel G. French (^see French, IX), and resided in Lunenburg, Ver mont, then later in Lewiston. She died in .Auburn, Maine, December 26, 1905. The early history of the Col- COLB.\TH bath family is, like that of many another (in truth we might say, most others), shrouded in more or less of doubt and mystery. This is due pardy to the fact of few records being kept in early days ; partly to changes and wars that brought about the removal or destruction of those heads of families wdio were capable of hand ing down orally such valuable information ; and to the serious loss by fire of those books and manuscripts in wdiich matter bearing upon and relating to family, church and town his tory were recorded. Indeed, this latter cause, fire, is the fell destroyer that has blotted for ever from the pages of history important and valuable data. Southgate, in his "History of Scarborough, Maine, ""published in 1853, writes: "Several hrothers bearing the surname Colbath came from England earl\- in the eighteenth century and settled in various parts of New England." Ridlon, in his "Saco Valley Families," claims that Scotland was the country from which the early Colbaths emigrated. He writes as follows ; "The name Colbath, as now spelled in America, has undergone the mutila tion common to nearly all surnames dating from an early period. We first find it as Cal- breath, and later running through such changes as Galbreth, Galbraith, Colbraith, Kil- breth and Colbroth. The various forms of spelling may be attributed to the fancy of some cadets of the family who, as younger sons, established junior branches in new local ities ; and to such early scribes as received the pronunciation of names from men of foreign accent. The name originated in two Gaelic words, 'Gall' and 'Bhretan,' meaning 'The Stranger Briton,' or as it were, 'Children of the Briton.'" They were then evidently descendants of that great, splendid tribe of Brythorn Gauls, or, as the Romans called them, Britons, who invaded and conquered the English Isles some three hundred years before the Christian era, and gave the name of Great Britain to them for all time. Later, when the invading Saxon and Englishman came, they found in these Britons their fiercest foes. More than two centuries of the bitterest war was waged ere they were overcome, and then, only by the ever increasing hosts of the Saxon. Quoting again from Ridlon : "As intimated, the families bearing these names are of Scottish derivation. The earliest of wdiom we ha\'e found mention were Gillis- pick Galbrait (1230 A. D.) and Arthur Gal- brait (1296 A. D. ), wdio swore fealty to King Edward I. William Galbraith is mentioned as a person 'of good account' in the middle of the fourteenth century. Cadets of the fam ily early intermarried with the lordly houses of Douglass and Hamilton, and through such alliances became possessed of extensive es tates in Scotland, where they have continued. During the time of the plantation of Ulster in the north of Ireland by Scottish families (1 608- 1 620), several brothers named Cal- breath or Galbraith, who had purchased exten- si\e lands from Sir John Calyuhon, Laird of Luss, removed to that country. These lands, which were called the Manor of Corkagh, were sold in 1664, and two of the brothers, Humphrey and "William Galbraith, were re tained as agents of Bishop Spottiswood. An other of the brothers was Robert Galbraith. The present representative of the family in Great Britain is John Samuel Galbraith, [Esq., magistrate, high sheriff, justice of the peace, and doctor of laws. Heir presumptive his brother, Robert Galbraith. The family seat is Clanabogan, County Tyrone. Ireland." Nason, the biographer of Hon. Henry Wil son, late vice-president of the United States, says ; "Wilson's ancestors, the Colbaths, were of excellent stock, largely from Argyleshire, in Scotland." Burke's "Encyclopaedia of Heraldry," the great authority in such matters, gives the fam ily coat-of-arms. Bendy of six, argent and azure ; on a chief sable, three crosses patee or. The simplicity of these armorial bearings would indicate a very early date ; the use of a "chief" presupposes leadership by its bearer; and the pattee crosses point to the bearer being a participant in the crusades to the Holy Land and a member of the order of "Knights Tem plar." "And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore. The dea re remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore. And de.id, as living ever, him adored : irpon his shield the like was also scored," — Spencer. (I) So far as known, the earliest appear ance of the name Colbath in America is that of John Colbreath, who was one of the Scotch Presbyterians of the "North of Ireland," who petitioned "his Excellency Colonel Samuel STATE OF MAINE. 207 Suitt, Gov. of New England," ( Gov. Samuel Shute) "to assure his Excellency of their in clinations to transport themselves to his plan tation upon obtaining suitable encouragement from him." While many of those names writ ten nearly two hundred years ago (March 26, 1718) are nearly, some quite, obliterated, the name John Colbreath remains clear and dis tinct. The handwriting is almost identical with that of the early Colbath of Newington, now to be found upon legal papers, and gives satisfactory proof that he and George Colbath (Colbroth, or Colbreath), who was the an cestor — we believe the emigrant ancestor — of the New Hampshire line of Colbaths, were of the same family. The next appearance of the name is found in Bradford, Massachusetts. "William Nutt, Jane Colbreath, married May 30, 1723." Next we find in a journal kept by Rev. Joseph Ad ams, who was pastor of the Newington church from November 16, 1715, to the date of his death, iMay 20, 1783, this entry: "1725 Sepr 19. Mary Coolbroth owned ye Covenant and was baptized." "Item. James, Pitman, William & Joseph & Benjamin Sons & Susanna & Mehitabel Daughters wr baptized" "1728 Feb 4. "George Coolbroth owned ye Covenant & was bap tized." We have but one earlier mention of George Colbath — the taxlist of Portsmouth, for the year 1727, shows John and George Colbath as taxpaxers. As shown by an old deed, dated July 30, 1730, George Colbath bought land in Newington, of William and Abigail Cotton, of Portsmouth. .August 13, 1738, he was granted administration of the estate of his son George Colbath, Jr., in which appointment he is styled "yeoman," .April 14, 1752, he sold land in Ne\vin.t;ton "wdth the dwelling house and bam standing thereon," to his son Joseph Colbath, and his wife Alary Colbath joined in the con veyance. Thus we have positive evidence of the existence of eight persons who wore sons and daughters of (George and Mary Colbath: George, James, Pitman, AVilliam, Joseph, I'en- jamin, Susannah and Mehitable. It is believed that John Coolbroth, ancestor of the Maine line of Coolbroths (or Colbaths) who settled in Scarborough, Maine, in 1730, married Sarah Flarnim, August 17, 1732, and died September 15, 1774, was also son of Geot-oe Colbath, sen,, t-if Newington, New- Hampshire. It is of interest to note that three of these sturdy sons — Pitman, Joseph, and Benjamin — served their King, under Colonel Samuel Moore, at the sie,t;e of Loui.sburg, in 1745. Later we find one of these sons, Benjamin, a revolutionary soldier, under Colonel Nathan Hale; he died in the service of his country Alarch jo, 1778. Three sons of Benjamin- John, ageil twenty-two years; Downing, aged seventeen years ; and Dependence, aged six teen years— with their father, served their country in her hour of need. (II) James, second son of George and Mary Colbath, is thought to have been bom about 1715. His wife, Olive Leighton, was the fifth child of Thomas and Deborah Leigh ton, of Newington. Her grandfather was Thomas, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Elder Hatevil Nutter, of Dover, New Hamp shire, and her great-grandparents wa^e Joanna and Thomas Leighton (died January 22, i()7i), the English emigrants, who were mar ried probably in England. The children of the marriage of James and Olive Colbath were: Leighton, baptized December i, 1739; Independence; Hunking, February 17, 1743; Deborah, October 9, 1745; Keziah ; Winthrop (the grandfather of the late Hon. Henry AVilson), June i('), 1751 ; Amy, July 9, 1758; and Benning, born May 28, 1762. James Colbath was a prosperous citizen of Newington, and with his brothers held various offices of the town for many years. The deeds of conveyance to and from James Colbath show that, in addition to his [Newington real estate, he was for many years an extensive landholder in the town of Barnstead, New Hampshire. In the year 1748, wdth the con sent of and "humbly" recommended by all the selectmen of his town, James Colbath sent the foUowing : "To the Honorable : The Court of Quarter Sessions now setting at Portsmouth, in the Province of New Hampshire, the Humble Pe tition of James Colbath ; Shewith that your Petitioner havin.g a Gristmill near my Dwell ing house which occasions my home to be much thronged with people, which come to the said niUl, and there being no Publick house near putts me humbly requesting that the Honorable Court will allow your Petitioner the Liberty of Keeping a Public Tavern, and your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray. "Newington, March 7th, 1748-9." This petition was granted unto James Col bath, and for many years after the "Publick Tavern" was a meeting place not alone for the grist mill folk, but for political and public gatherings, proving an ornament of public util ity to the staid citizens of Newington. The 208 STATE OF MAINE. Colbath home, located near the church, has been preserved, and is pointed out as one of the famous landmarks of the town. It is two- storied and painted, and is yet in use as a dweUing house. In the year 1784-85, James and Olive, with their son Benning, removed to that part of Rochester, which is now Farm ington, and later to' Middleton, where James and Olive died before 1800. They rest in the beautiful site of the family burial ground, upon a hiUside of the Colbath farm. (Ill) Benning Colbath, born May 28, 1762, died September 27, 1824, married Mary Rol lins, born May 26, 1761, died August 9, 1825, daughter of Mary Huntress and Samuel Rol lins, of Newington. She was directly de scended from James "Rawlins" who emigrated to America in 1632, with the early settlers of Ips\yich, Massachusetts (Samuel (4), Samuel (3), Joseph (2), James (i). So favorably is the name RoUins known in New Hamp shire history that we need not dwell upon the sterling qualities of her character. She was a person of high aspirations and ideals. Her memory is sweetly sacred to her descendants, "even unto the third and fourth generation." The children of Benning and Mary Colbath were: Betsey, born May 10, 1785; Samuel, February 10, 1788; Mary H., May 6, 1791 ; Benning, November 17, 1795, died young; Benjamin R., June 6, 1799; Ephraim R., De cember 24, 1802. Benning Colbath was a man of weight and worth. In 1793 we find him one of the officials of his adopted town; and he remained in her service for more than twenty consecutive years as selectman and in the various offices in her gift. (IV) Samuel, son of Benning Colbath, born February 10, 1788, in Rochester; died Decem ber 8, 1855, in Middleton, married, June 8, 1809, Elizabeth Clark, born May 24, 1788, died December 24, 1867, buried in Middleton. Elizabeth Clark was one of those of whom it may be justly said : "None knew her but to love her, None named her but to praise." A gentle Christian woman, whose daily life was one of prayer. She was born in Berwick, Maine, eldest child of Samuel and Abigail (Hanson) Clark, and died at the home of her only son, in New Durham, New Hampshire. Her father, Samuel Clark, was born in Ber wick, Maine, May 18, 1764; married. May 23, 1786, AbigaU, daughter of Ebenezer and Marth (AVentworth) Hanson. (Martha 5, Thomas 4, John 3, Ezekiel 2, WUliam i). He died February 12, 1855, in St. Johnsbury Cen ter, Vermont. Samuel Clark was a soldier of the revolution, enlisted before sixteen years of age. May 3, 1780, and served as private in the regiment of Colonel Joseph Prime, under Captain Jedediah Goodwdn. [He received hon orable discharge N^ovember 2, 1780. It is shown by the early records of the town of Middleton, New Hampshire, that he was resi dent there as early as 1792, and was an ex tensive land holder. In 1810 he sold to Hat- evil Knight, of Rochester, one hundred and thirty acres of land in New Durham, in which conveyance he is styled "gentleman." Later he sold his homestead farm and removed to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, with his son, Nathaniel Clark. It is proudly recalled by his descend ants that on a visit to his son he made the journey from St. Johnsbury to Middleton, New Hampshire, in a sleigh, when above ninety years of age. The chUdren of Samuel and Elizabeth Colbath were : Sabrina H. and Jeremiah Smith. In 1816, directly succeeding his father Ben ning, we find Samuel Colbath one of the se lectmen of [Middleton, w^hich office he held for many years. Not alone for his public service was he honored, but for the great moral worth . of his character, his blameless life and his upright dealings with his fellow men. zr: t^,^^i!i-^M (V) Jeremiah Smith Colbath was born Jan uary 2, 1812, in Middleton, at what is now known as the "old Colbath Homestead." The house is quaint and picturesque, and is de lightfully situated, overlooking, as it does, the valley of the Cocheco river and the city of Rochester, with a fine view of the distant hills. In the occupancy of the house, four genera tions of Colbaths have preceded the present owner, Elizabeth Colbath Davis, who is of the sixth generation of Colbaths in America. The subject of this biography early gave evidence of intellectual ability and great love of study, which were prominent traits through life even to its. close. After a course in com mon school he studied under the instruction of Thomas Tash, the scholar and linguist, until he became a teacher. Being an only son, he did not long continue in this occupation; his duty call was to the farm, to comfort the de clining years of his parents. July 18, 1841, he united in marriage with Lydia MUlet Webster, of New Durham. She was a beautiful and brilliant woman, who possessed great firmness HO[ly[ESTEA.D OF OAMES AlNlD OLIVE COLBATH IN 19 00 10 0YBAR.S AFTER THEIRDECEASE (XajI-^ Xo^ /foj STATE OF MAINE. 209 and purity of mind. Like her husband, she had been a teacher in the public schools. To life's close she was to him — "The heart which like a staff was one For him to lean and rest upon. The strongest on the longest day, -V\Uth steadfast love." Lydia Millet Webster (1806-89) was the daughter of Reuben (1771-1854) and Lydia Sniidi Webster (1771-1864), of New Dur ham. Lydia (Smith) Webster was the daugh ter of Lieutenant John Smith (1732-1819), of Lubberland Durham ; whose wife was Lydia Alillet (1735-1821), daughter of Hon. Thomas Alillet, of Dover. Ebenezer Smith, who was for twenty years president of the Strafford county bar, was of the family. Lydia (Smith) Webster was born August 26, 1771, in Dur ham, New Hampshire, on the shore of the lovely sheet of water known as Great Bay. A bride at the age of twenty-two years, she left her early home with all its beautiful environ ments, to journey on horseback, with the hus band of her choice, through the wilderness, and seek a home within its depths. A wise and loving mother, around her name cling tender memories. To her quick sympathy and the efficient aid of her ever helpful hand, her neighbors turned in the hour of their afflic tions. The children of Reuben and Lydia (Smith) Webster were: John, born May 12, 1794; Stephen, July 26, 1796; Abigail, Febru ary 4, 1798; Elizabeth, December 30, 1801 ; A-'alentine S., AprU 9, 1803; Lydia M., No vember 21, 1806; and Drusilla B., January 5, 1811. Lydia MUlet Webster was distinctly of English blood, being directly descended from John Webster, born in England (died 1646), of Ipswich, Massachusetts, on the paternal side; on the maternal, from George Smith, who came from old Haugh, in Chester county, England. The military services of the family Webster are noteworthy. Two nephews — Joseph F. \A^ebster and Henry S. (Webster) WiUey, of Farmington — enlisted early and served honor ably in the late rebellion. Her brother Ste phen (3) Webster (1796- 1872), served in the war of 1812. Her grandfather, Stephen (2) Webster (1739-1827), was a revolutionary soldier from October 4, 1775, to his discharge in 1781. He was honored by an invitation to Concord, New Hampshire, at the time of the visit of General Lafayette to that city; and made the journey from New Durham on horseback, when above eighty-five years of age. This revolutionary soldier, who left the endearments of home to fight in the battles of Bennington, Monmouth, and Newtown, who gave above four years of life to aid his coun try in her struggle for independence, had for wife a member of the distinguished Choate family of .Vmerica. She was daughter of Jon athan and Elizabeth (Moody) Choate, and granddaughter of Reverend Benjamin Choate, who graduated from Harvard College, 1703; married Abigail Burnham, and settled in Kingston, New Hampshire, in 1707. Anna (or Anne) Choate was born in Kingston, De cember 20, 1751, and died October 5, 1848, in Sandwich, New Hampshire. -Stephen Web ster and Anna Choate were united in marriage in the year 1770, in the town of MouUonboro, New Hampshire. The sacrifices of this de voted wife and mother through all the changes of war, are in the hidden past; ob livion covers her anxious watching and wait ing ; but time can never rob her of the renown of her ancestry ; upon her memory radiates the honor of her husband's loyal service. Stephen AA^ebster, born in Salisbury, Mas sachusetts, was son of Stephen and Hannah (Swett) AA'ebster. He died January 20, 1827, in New Durham, New Hampshire. His father, Stephen (i) Webster, born 1712, of Salis bury, Massachusetts, was an officer in the French and Indian war. In the expedition against Crown Point (1755-56) he appears as "Captain in His Majesty's service." AVher- ever known the family AA'ebster has shown itself loyal to country, and fearless in the hour of danger. The famed Hannah Dustin was granddaughter of John (i) Webster, of Ips wich, [Massachusetts. Reuben Webster, father of Lydia Millet, was a prosperous farmer who had by energy and thrift won from the virgin forest the fer tile farm upon which he reared his ambitious sons and daughters. One child blessed the marriage of Jeremiah Smith and Lydia Millet Colbath. Beneath the roof of the cottage here shown, wdthin whose venerable walls had lived and loved, had joyed and sorrowed, four generations of her ancestors, on Friday, April 18, 1845, "^^'as born to these par ents the wished-for daughter, their only child. She was named Elizabeth Lydia, for her grandmothers — Elizabeth Clark Col bath, and L>-dia Smith Webster. Royal was her welcome, and from that hour she became the household idol. As time advanced and mentality grew she returned obedience and deep affection. The approval seen on the face of that dear mother was the law that governed her young life. When months were years, and seasons changed, and chUl autumnal 210 STATE OF [MAINE. nights came on, fires were kindled in the wide- mouthed fireplace, within the spacious sitting room. As the evening lamps were lighted, and the unbroken circle of grandparents and of parents grouped beneath the firelight glow she was gathered in her father's arms, while on her ear fell wondrous w-oodland tales — of bird or beast; of nest or lair; of babbling brook, or dark and silent river, along whose banks crept dusky forms wdth the stealthy tread of moccasine'd feet : of wigwam fires, and lurking foe, and of death of Pauqus — each so graphically told to please her infant fancy. Happy child of honored father, words may never show his worth. At two and one-half years she was carried to the district school, just beside the gateway leading to her home, where she learned to name at sight each letter of the English alphabet. As years rolled on she was kept in almost constant attendance on this and other schools, wherever she might return to her home at nightfall. At the age of twelve years she was placed under the tuition of [\Iiss Martha Stoddard, whose moral influence and rigid thoroughness of her meth ods of teaching left an impression on the mind of the youthful pupil never to be effaced. One year later she entered the select school of Miss Caroline Knight, in the village of Rochester, X^ew Hampshire. [Miss Knight, then in the prime of life, had been for thirty years a teacher. Alany an eminent man of to-day recaUs with interest hours of study under Miss Knight's tuition whUe fitting for his college course. Many an honored woman holds in grateful memory the moral and re ligious influence, the strict yet ever kindly dis cipline, of this school. Under such most ex cellent instruction, the subject of this mention, remained to the close of her educational course. Almost immediately she engaged in teaching, early in the city of Rochester", later in Farmington, and in the towns of Middle- ton, Milton, and X'ew^ Durham. It was her habit to remain for several terms, sometimes for years, in the same school. In this work she continued to the date of her marriage. May I, 1873, to Thomas M. Davis, of New- field, Maine. Mr. Davis was a man intellectu ally gifted, of wide experience and good ad dress, keen and alert in business, his judgment was unerring in his moneyed interests, ^orn September 18, 1836, in Newfield, Maine; died December 9, 1901, in Westboro, Massachu setts. FoUowing their marriage, a wdnter was en joyed in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D. C, and in travel through the "sunny South." Soon after their home coming Mrs. Davis returned to her position in the schoolroom, where she continued to the date of her father s decease, when the ever- increasing invalidism of her widowed mother and the added care of her father's estate forced her to resign the work in which she had hap pily passed so many busy hours. It is not now known by whom was erected the cottage, once the home of James and Olive Colbath, the great-grandparents of Hon. Henry Wilson, vice-president, U. S. A. The years which the Colbath descendants have owned and occupied, date well into a second century. More than one hundred years ago the first chimney of the old house was removed by Ben ning Colbath, and the one now seen erected. From time immemorial the Colbaths have been landholders : succeeding generations have been buyers until hundreds of acres are covered by the deeds of the present owner. With the turning tide in the commercial value of tim ber lands and country real estate, it has been found that profit may combine with pleasure in one's investments. At the age of twenty-six years Jeremiah S. Colbath was appointed by Governor Isaac HUl justice of the peace for Stafford county, which office, but for a lapse of some three years, he retained through life. July 2, 1861, he was appointed appraiser of state prison property, and on the same date he was appointed jus tice of the peace and quorum. His was a busy life. Much time was given to literary re search, and to preparing articles for pubHca- tion. .At his decease he left in manuscript and nearly ready for the publisher a history of his native town of Aliddleton. He engaged ex tensively in farming and was also noted as a land surveyor, to which employment he was often called. For many years he served his town as selectman ; and in eight of those years was elected chairman of the board. He was also supervisor of schools. In the year 1865 he removed from his native Middleton to the town of X^ew Durham, where he had by pur chase become the owner of a large farm. In 1866 we find him in the service of his adopted town as one of the appraisers of her real es tate. May 5 of the same year he was elected one of the investigating committee to examine her accounts. Thence on, we find him prom inently in her service, as selectman, treasurer, and supervisor of schools. At the age of sev enty years, while at Dover, New Hampshire, as foreman of the jury on an important case, he was seized with fatal illness, and died in that city, October i, 1882. Thus passed sud- L-.^ -^ tludni<7ui. '%.!¦ CC't^-Z^ STATE Ob" IV1AIN1'[. ^,, deiily from life's arlive duties, while in full comb, of S.ieo. He died July -t, 1800 and mental vi,goi, one who had ever been the soul was bin led in l.hiiington, where his sons had of truth ;inil lionnr. Kindly remembered, re- sellled. .specled ;md beloved, he sleeps with liis loved (fV) Major Nicholas, third son of l'"/.ri wile and hoiroi-e.l dead upon llie hillside .-d his Davis, w:is born in I'.iddeford Maine and early hniiie ill Middlelon, New I l;iini)sliire. b;ipli/ed there in |une 175^ 'lie .served in '¦''Hi;i'L"Ti':,li'; ?,"";,. the revol„li<,n nmier Gipciin Jeremi,-,1, Hill, Winni Houtiinoi w , ill ( oloiicl |;iiiies Scaniiiion's ( Thirlielb ) rcp-i- nlow Hoftly hi'r'o. j T i* ^\ '^S' (in«.M Hod fihovn iiieni, enlisting .-is ;i private May 4, 1775 and ..,':'" ,'X ;i;;r"^;'M,;.| ^'''"^'i"^ Iwelve weeks and five days. I iV was Ill "iKi'i. K""r of the "Old Militia." On February 15, many cases became D.ivison or simply Davis. '777, he married ( liarity, daughter of William (1) joliii Davis, of Amesbury, Massacliii and K.ichel ( lul.L;eeomli) Haley. He died .sells, is lirst inentioned in ;i gniiit of l:iiid bVbni'iry i.|, 183J. She ilied January 5, 1800. ni.'idc t(-i him by his molliei--in-lavv, Mrs. They li;id five sons ami three dMi.ghters : John, Martha Clongli, whose dau.t^liter by a former Nicliol.-is, No:ili, l'[lisli,i. Charity, Sarah, Will- iiian'iai.;e, ICli/.-ibelli ('illey, w.'is the wife of iam ;iiid rerlina. John Davis. The grant was made in Novem- (V) William, liflh son of Major Nieliolas her, 168.]. ( )f Ihe p.-ireiilage of |oliii Davis IX'ivis, w;is b(-ini in LiminL;toii, March 5, 1706. iKilliing is hiiovvii, bill it is prob;ible tli;it he He mariieil Mary, d.in.i^liler of Joseph and was eonneeled v\'ilh the l;irt;e .¦iiid numerous Lydia (Ilarnion) \V:ilei-|ionse, of .Standish, Davis fiimilies of Newbury and .Amesbury. Sepleinber J(i, 1817. She w.is deseemled from His second wife w;is l!elhi:ili, d.-iiigliter of the Hoyt, Libby, l'\'rn:ild, Ilasiy and Moses John and Mary (llaillelt) Ash, vvliom lie fatnilics. Tliey lived in Liniin.^ion. lie has married ()eli-ibei- m, 1702. In 1701 his wife heon deseiihed ;is " a man of i^reat resolution and two of Ins eliilihen were prob;ibly the ''iid loree of cli.iraeter ; ,1 judicious f.-irmer and ones who were e;ipliired by liuli:iiis, ;is re- •' respected eili/en." He died .September 17, laleil in I'ihe's joiii-ii;il. Mrs. D.-nis, ;il le.isl, 18(1 1. She died Ma\- 21), [S.71. Tlic)' had six was relnrned alive, as we find lli.-it she was liv- children. int; in Amesbury in 1707. On lune 28, 1708, (\ 1) Hon. William Goodwin, eldest son of John Davis m.arried I'[lizal)elli, d.-iugliler of William l);ivis, was bom in Limington, June Roherl lliddle, of Newlniry, preeeding the l'>, ]8j5. I le left home .it the a.ge of fourteen cereiiuiny by an .¦igreement by wliicli he deeded •"'f' came lo Porll.iiiil, where he w.is en.gaged tn her his house and land in .Aniesbiirv. The i'l the bakini; biidness for several \ears. His -t ST.ATE OF MAINE. -215 The name of Davis is a very coni- DAATS mon one all over the United States, it being almost as numer ous as Smith, Jones and Brown. It has pro duced candidates for the presidency and judges of the United States supreme court. They have fought on the water and on the land, have tracked the hiding savage in the wilder ness, and faced the foe in the bayonet charge on the open battle ground. They have never flinched, never shirked duty. The name comes from David, a Biblical name of Hebrew or igin, meaning "the beloved." (I) The commencement of the line with whicli we now. have to do may be safely set at Yarmouth, Cape Cod. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. There, Robert Davis came from England about 163S. In 1643 ^^ was on the roll of those able to bear arms. He was admitted a freeman in 1659, and removed to Barnstable about 1650. He was not a weal thy man. — --An honest good man, -\nd got his living by his labor, And Goodman Shelly -was his neighbor." His character for honesty and industry -was his legacy to future generations. His farm was on the south side of Dead Swamp, which he purchased from the Indians. The name of his wife was Ann. He died in 1693. His wUl was dated April 14. 16S8, and admitted to probate June 29. 1693. To Josiah he gave a house lot. His widow- Ann died in 1701. The fact that she refers in her will, dated Alay 5. 1699, only to the younger children yields ground for the belief that she was a second wife. The children of Robert were: De borah, Mary, Andrew, John. Robert. Josiah, -Ann, Hannah. Sarah, Joseph and [Mercy. (II) Josiah. sixth child and fourth son of Robert and -Ann Davis, was born in Barn stable in 1656. and married Ann, daughter of Richard Taydor, of Y'armouth. Children: John. Hannah, Josiah, Seth, Ruth, Sarah, Jonathan, Stephen and Aura. He had a ven ture on a trading vessel and was a man of parts. His house was named in the laying out of die county road in 1686: it stood a few- feet east of the present d-\velling of Lot Esta- brooks. His wdll was dated April 21. 1709, and the estates inventoried £^00. He was in Captain John Gorham's company in King PhUip's war. He was in the memorable battle, memorable for its brutal savagery and the stubborn valor of the colonists, fought in South Kingston, Rhode Island, in which the Narragansetts were completely routed and their power as a nation of warriors over- throwm. It was the last stand of the Narra gansetts. Xo more was heard in the midnight ¦watches of their dreadful warwhoop. (Ill) Josiah (2). second son and third child of Josiah (i) and Ann (Taylor) Davis, was bom in Barnstable, August, 1687, and married Mehitable, daughter of Edward Tay lor, of AA'est Barnstable. Children : Edward, [Mary and Josiah. (lA') Josiah (3), third chUd of Josiah (2) and [Mehitable (Taydor) Davis, was bom in Barnstable, August 2, 17 18. He married Thankful I\Iatthews in 1745; (second) Thank ful, daughter of Ebenezer and Temperance ^Ha^ys) Gorhani. He resided in the house in which his father had lived. The general court of Massachusetts re^yarded the soldiers who served in the King Philip war with grants of land in the province of Alaine. In this way Gorham in Cumberland county, Alaine, came to be settled, and was caUed "Narragansett Xo. 7," it being the seventh town granted away for this purpose. Thither removed many families from the South Shore and Cape Cod as early as 1743. and thither removed Josiah (3) with his family in 1762. " (A") John, son of Josiah (3) and Thankful (Gorham) Davis, was born in Barnstable in 1 761. He married Patience, daughter of James and Alary (Gorham-Phinney) Irish, in "1789, Her grandfather. James Irish, served under the famous Indian fighter. Colonel AA'entworth. at Penobscot Bay, Her father was also a noted fighter, and served under AA'ashington at Cambridge, Alassachusetts. John served in the unfortunate Penobscot ex pedition in Captain AIclMeUen's company. 1779. The battle of Castine foUowed. from which the Americans retired without wdnning the prize of victory. The soldiers made their way back through the wdderness to civiliza tion the best way they could, each one for himself. Thev suffered much from want of food and exposure. The famdy of John and Patience Davis consisted of Sally, Thankful, Tames. Rebecca. Temperance, Alartlia, Alary. Solomon and Cyrus. (A^I) Cyrus, youngest son and ninth chdd of John and Patience (Irish) Davis, was bom in Buxton. [Maine. He married (first) Martha Chase, bv wdiom was born to him: Cyrus •Auijustus. He married (second) Harriet A. Pra'tf children: Oscar Pratt, Edward C, Joseph B., [Martha G.. John C. and Cyras AA . (VH) Hon. Cvrus AAA. fifth son and si.xth child of John and Harriet A. (Pratt) Davis. wa- born in BuxtOn. Maine, and to its schools and Gorham Academy was indebted for his early education. He married Flora E., daugh- 2l6 STATE OF MAINE. ter of Joseph Philbrook, of Lisbon Falls, De cember 25, 1879. Children : Harold P., born March 6, 1887, and Russell Wendell, June 13, 1892. Starting in business with Hon. E. H. Banks, a dry goods merchant of Biddeford, he was later associated with S. Smith, Jr., of Waterville, in the same business. Since he has been senior partner in the brokerage and banking company of Davis & Soule, with of fices in New York, Boston, St. John and Wat erville. He is a director in many corpora tions, giving particular attention to mining and electric railroads. He is a man of sound busi ness judgment, successful in whatever he undertakes. Public-spirited, he is loyal to the interests of his adopted city and native state, than whom none of her sons are more deserv ing of recognition. A man of his stamp and character does not have to wait long without call to political duty. Accordingly in 1900 he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the lower house, and given a re-election in 1903, whicli itself shows in wdiat regard he was held by the community and how well he gave an account of his stewardship. He served on the committee of ways and means, insurance, and mercantile affairs. He was accorded at both sessions of which he was a member the honor of nomination for speaker by his party, though in the minority it was no less a mer ited compliment. Mr. Davis was the member who introduced the first resolution in regard to the resubmission of the fifth amendment, touching the manufacture and sale of intoxi cating liquor. He is a forceful speaker, and what he says carries weight. In 1903 he was mayor of Waterville, and in 1904 and 1906 was candidate for governor of Maine on the Democratic ticket. In politics he is Demo cratic, and in religion Baptist. He is a thirty- second degree Mason, past master of Water viUe Lodge, a member of Teconnet Chapter, R. A. M., No. 52, and past commander of St. Omer Commandery, K. T. Dolor Davis, immigrant of this DAVIS Davis family, was one of the most prominent pioneers of both col onies. His posterity is very numerous, and among them have been some very distin guished men, namely : Hon. John Davis, gov ernor and United States senator, and Hon. John D. Long, governor, congressman, and secretary of the navy. Dolor Davis married in county Kent, England, March 29, 1624, Margery, daughter of Richard AA'illard, of Horsemonden, county Kent, yeoman. She was baptized there November 7, 1602, and died before 1667. Accompanied by his wife, three children and Simon WiUard, his wife's bro ther. Dolor Davis came to New England and settled prior to August 4, 1634, in Cambridge. Simon Willard was one of the founders of Lancaster: he was captain of foot in 1646, major in 1654, and at his death in 1673 "the colony lost one its most distinguished mem bers.'' Dolor Davis was a carpenter and master builder. He received his first grant of land in Cambridge, June 4, 1635, and others later. Fle removed to Duxbury, August 5, 1638-39, and was admitted a freeman and granted land there in 1640. He was a residei^t of Barn stable in 1643 'ind was admitted a freeman there June 2, 1646. He was honored in Barn stable with various public offices, including those of highway surveyor and constable. He and his wife were dismissed from the Duxbury to the Barnstable church August 27, 1648. In 1656 he left Plymouth colony and returned to Massachusetts Bay, and purchased in Con cord one hundred and fifty acres with a house thereon. In 1666, however, he returned to Barnstable, and died there in June, 1673. His will yyas dated September 13, 1672, and proved July 2, 1673. It mentions sons Simon and Samuel as already having their portions; el dest son John ; son-indaw Lewis and Mary his wife ; and daughter Ruth Hall. Children : I. John, born in England about 1626, to whom was bequeathed the Concord homestead. 2. [Mary, born in England about 163 1. 3. Eliza beth. 4. Lieutenant Simon, married Mary Blood. 5. Samuel, mentioned below. 6. Ruth, born in Barnstable, March 24, 1645. (II) Samuel, son of Dolor Davis, was born in England or Cambridge about 1635. He married, at Lynn, January 11, 1665-66, Mary Meadowes, who died at Concord, October 3, 1710. He married (second) October 18, 171 1, Ruth Taylor, tvlio died August 6, 1720. He was admitted a freeman March 21, 1689-go. He settled in that part of Concord that became Bedford, and his farm was on the back road from Concord to Bedford. He divided his real estate among his sons before his death by deeds. Children: i. Mercy, born October 27, 1666, died December 18, 1667. 2. Samuel, June 21, 1669, mentioned below. 3. Daniel, March 16, 1673, married at Concord, April 27, 1699, Mary Hubbard; resided at Bedford; died February 11, 1741. 4. Mary, August 12, 1677, married, April 26, 1699, John Stearns. 5. Eleazer, July 26, 1680, married. May 7, 1705, Eunice Potter. 6. Lieutenant Simon, August 9, 1683, married, 1713, Dorothy tLr^ ozy<5B(^v-^ STATE OF MAINE. 217 ; removed to Rutland about 1720; died February 16, 1763 ; buried at Holden. 7. Stephen, March 20, 1686, married, March 26, 1713, at Concord, Elizabeth Fletcher; resided at Bedford. (Ill) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Davis, was born at Concord, June 21, 1669. He resided at Bedford and Chelmsford, and was one of the early proprietors of Town- send. He married, [March 2, 1697, Abigail Read, who died January 13, 1709. He mar ried (second) about 1710, Mary Law. ChU dren of first wife: i. AbigaU, born January 27, 1698. 2. Mary, November 18, 1700. 3. Samuel, October 3, 1703, mentioned below. 4. Jacob, July 8, 1707, settled in Lunenburg. 5. Eleazer. 6. Stephen. 7. John. Children of second wife : 8. Lydia, December 4, 1716. 9. Martha. 10. Deliverance, November 27, 1722. (IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Davis, was born at Bedford, October 3, 1703. He settled in Lunenburg, perhaps in the part that became Townsend. He was fence viewer of Lunenburg from 1731-1736, hog reeve in 1733. He seems to have been a carpenter by trade. He married (first) Sarah and (second) January 13, 1746-47, at Lunenburg, Rebecca Larkin, of Groton. He died in 1775 at Lunenburg, leaving a widow, Margaret. Children: i. Samuel, born March 20, 1730, died young. 2. Sarah, December 7, 1732, died February 10, 1737. 3. Samuel, June 7, 1735- 4- Joseph, May 20, 1738, mentioned below. 5. Submit, married . 6. Han nah, mentioned in will. (V) Joseph, son of Samuel (3) Davis, was born at Lunenburg, May 20, 1738. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Samuel Stone's company of minute-men. Colonel WiU iam Prescott's regiment, at Lexington. He served in 1776 in the Ashby company, in New York. He settled in Townsend in the part set off as Ashby, and at one time owned what is now the centre of Ashby. Later in life he removed to Maine and had a farm there. He died in Alaine. He married, at Lunenburg (intention dated October 22, 1757), November 8, 1757, Elizabeth Foster. Among his chil dren were : Reuben, born at Ashby, December 23, 1783, died December i, 1835; married Hannah Emerson "Walker. Polly, married AVheeler, and resided at Townsend. Heald, mentioned below. (AT) Heald, son of Joseph Davis, was born at Ashby, Massachusetts, in 1792, died at Lubec in i860. He was a farmer and mason by trade. He settled in Lubec, Maine, in 1818. He served in the war of 1812 and took part in the battle of Plattsburgh, New York. He married Mary Barnes, of Bath, Maine, born in 1800, daughter of Joseph Barnes, wdio was a soldier in the revolution in Colonel Strout's (Eleventh Massachusetts) regiment and was a pensioner of the United States when he died in 1836. Children : Eben Adams, Mary Ann, Frances Alaria, William H., Emily Fow ler, Sybil, John Albion, mentioned below. Joseph Barnes, of an old New England family, lived at Harpswell, Maine. He was a soldier in the revolution at the age of six teen and served three years, being mustered out at West Point; was late in hfe a pen sioner. His grandmother was of Scotch des cent. He married Lydia Thompson, whose sister Susan married a Captain Kent of the British army. Barnes and Kent both settled after the war at the Three Islands, Grand Manan, Maine. ChUdren of Captain and Susan Kent were : Jonathan, Samuel, Joseph, Polly, Hepsibah, Elizabeth, Susan and X^ancy, and both of the latter married Cheneys of Grand Manan. Barnes settled finally at Lu bec, Maine, and died there. He was buried in the Lubec burial ground. Children: i. Moriah (twin), married Thompson. 2. WiUiam (twin), died unmarried. 3. Alary, married Heald Davis. 4. John, lived in Xew York and followed the sea for a livelihood. (VII) Captain John Albion, son of Heald Davis, was bom at Lubec, April 10, 1832. He attended the public schools of his native town. He began as a cabin boy to follow the sea, then shipped as cook and finally as able seaman. He was second mate of a ship four years after he began to follow the sea in 1848, and in 1855 "^as a master mariner. For a period of forty-five years he followed the sea and he is one of the best known skippers of Lubec. He left the sea to engage in business with his son-in-law, Bion Moses Pike, of Lu bec. The firm name is Davis & Pike, whole sale dealers in cured and pickled fish of all kinds and in salt. The firm has built up a flourishing trade, shipping their goods to all parts of the country. In the civil war he was appointed an ensign in the United States navy by Hon. Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy, and from that time until 1865 he was in the service, mostly in the Farragut and AVest Gulf squadrons, in the Cape Fear district off North Carolina. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of William H. Brawn Post, X^o. 138, Grand Army of the Republic, and past commander and a member of the Alilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of America, De- 2l8 STATE OF MAINE. partment of Alaine; of Washington Lodge, No. 37, Free and Accepted Masons, of Lubec. He is a member of the Christian church. He married Ann Maria Comstock, bora May 21, 1832. Children: i. Nelson Rexford, born 1857, died 1872. 2. Lizzie Comstock, Febru ary 5, 1862, married Bion Moses Pike, of Lubec. 3. Mary Davis, October 28, 1870, married Irving "W. Case, of Lubec. According to the deductions of ALLAX antiquarians and others _ who have investigated the origin of surnames, the names AUan and Allen appear to have come from the same remote, source ; but Allen generally is given an English origin, wdiUe Allan, so far at least as it relates t.o the particular family here considered, is distinctly Scotch, and is traced to Alan, high constable of Scotland and lord of Galloway and Cun- ninghame, and who died A. D., 1234. In this place, however, no attempt is made to trace the Allan pedigree through the several generations anterior to that of the American ancestor, the period of whose life was three score years and ten, and the scene of which was laid chiefly in Scotland and British America; but there was at least one among his descendants whose life and deeds were intimately associated with the early history of America in general and the province and subsequent state of Maine in par ticular, as wdll appear to the reader of these pages. (I) Major WUliam Allan, the immigrant. an cestor and progenitor of the family here treated, was born in Scotland about the year 1720, and died in Nova Scotia about 1790. He was a gentleman of means, education and high social position, an officer in the British army, and tradition has it that his rank was that of major. Little indeed is known of his early life except what is learned from a family record in his own handwriting, and from which free quotation is made in these annals. He married, July 9, 1744, Isabella, daughter of Sir Eustace Maxwell, of Scotland, gentleman, and at the time of the birth of his eldest son was living temporarily in Edinburgh Castle, to which fortress his family with others had sought refuge during the troubles of the re bellion, and whUe England and- France were engaged in warfare both at home and in their colonies on this side of the Atlantic ocean. In 1748 the treaty of Aix la ChapeUe estab lished a temporary peace between the contend ing powers, but it was at best armed peace and one during which both governments used every means and energy to strengthen their colonial positions. On her own part the Brit ish power at once began to devise ways and means to provide for a large number of sol diers and sailors then recently discharged from home service, and to this end arranged for a system of colonization of the province of Nova Scotia, which although nominally a British province was inhabited by only a few neutral French and Indians. Liberal provis ions were made for all who would settle there, and in 1749 under the inducements then of fered Major William Allan with his wife and little son John, the latter then four years old, sailed in company with more than two thou sand others for America. It has been assumed that when William Allan came to this country he was still an officer of the British army and was on half pay. He remained in Halifax about three years and in the latter part of 1752 was at Fort Lawrence, on the neck which connects Nova Scotia with New Brunswick, .where he may have been commander, but more probably was a subordinate officer ; and he re mained there until 1759. It is beheved that Major Allan served as an officer through the French and Indian war from 1754 to .1763, when the treaty of Paris marked the over throw of the French dominion in America. About that time he received a large grant of fertile land, became a farmer, and in a few years acquired considerable wealth. His farm was cultivated chiefly by the labor of French Acadians, who became for a time servants to the conquerors of their own territory. He was a member of the colonial legislature and fulfilled the duties of several offices of trust and honor. His nine children received edu cational advantages and eventually became connected with the best families of the prov ince. In religious preference he probably was of the Church of England, and undoubt edly a man of great determination and energy. His wife died in 1767, and he married a second time, and died a few years after the close of the revolution. In a record of his family writ ten by himself he thus mentions the death of his first wife: "1767. Isabel Allan (wife of WiUiam Allan Senior), Departed this life about the Turn of the Night between the 30th & 31st of August, 5 minutes before 12 o'clock." His children: i. John, born Janu ary 3, 1746. 2. Mary, August 16, 1747, died December 22, 1747. 3. Elizabeth, December 25, 1750, married, .August 27, 1772, John George Pyke. 4. WiUiam, October 27, 1752, died October 4, 1806, married, in 1787, Sarah Dixson; removed from Halifax to Fort Cum berland. 5. George, September 30, 1754, died STATE OF MAINE. 219 May 19, 1804. 6. James, August 25, 1756, died November i, 1757. 7. Jean, AprU 10, 1759, married, February 7, 1775, iThomas Cochran. 8. Winckworth, November 21, 1760. 9. Isabel, July 23, 1762. (II) Colonel John, eldest son and child of Major WiUiam and IsabeUa (Maxwell) Al lan, was born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, January 3, 1746 (O. S.), and died at Lubec Mills, [Maine, February 7, 1805, aged fifty-nine years. The follo.wing narrative of his life is taken largely from "A Memoir of Col. John AUan," by Mr. Frederic Kidder, printed 1867. He came to Halifax, X^ova Scotia, with his parents in 1749, and October 10, 1767, mar ried Mary Patton, born February 3, 1746, died June 8, 1819. He was a representative in the provincial parliament of Nova Scotia from 1770 to 1776, when he was obliged to flee for refuge to the United States, his ideas of free dom having made him obnoxious to the Brit ish government, who offered rewards for his apprehension. He came to the states in the autumn of 1776. Proceeding to Phdadelphia, he had several interviews with General Wash ington and also waited upon congress. He was soon after appointed colonel of infantry and superintendent of eastern Indians, and throughout the war was stationed at Alachias, Maine. He remained at his post until 1783, when he commenced a mercantile business, which not succeeding well he turned his at tention to agriculture and continued in that pursuit until the time of his death. Such, then, is a very meagre glance at the career of one of the notable characters in our early national history, with none of the side lights of his eminent services in behalf of American liberty, nor of his private life as a cidzen of one of the important states of the federal union. Of his boyhood little is known, although his letters and public utterances give evidence of superior education, and it is known that he possessed a good understanding of English history, was versed in French, hav ing acquired that knowledge from the Aca dians among whom his youth was spent; and besides these he was quite familiar with sev eral of the Indian dialects, which knowledge was of much value to him in his capacity of superintendent of the eastern Indians. It is thought that some part of his younger life was spent in Boston, where doubtless under the patriotic influences of Massachusetts public men he learned the lesson which impelled his own later action ; but however this may have been the fact remains that upon his return home after a somewhat extended absence there was an estrangement between his father and himself on account of political questions, for the former remained loyal to the mother coun try during the revolution, while the son gave his greatest energies in behalf of the cause for which the American colonies were contending. About the time of the death of his mother Colonel Allan became acquainted with Mary Patton, and it is related that on one occasion she went into his father's store, with a skein of thread hanging loosely about her neck. He playfully attempted to take it off, but she re sisted and a merry struggle followed. From that time they became intimate friends and were married October 10, 1767. It is sup posed that after his marriage his father gave him a part of his large estate, and he began life in farming and mercantile pursuits. His farm, known as "Invermary," was one of the best in the counties of Cumberland and West moreland and included three hundred and forty-eight acres of land ; and besides his own dwelling it contained several country houses occupied by French Acadian families as ten ants, two large and four small barns. He also held several important public offices, among them that of justice of the peace, clerk of the sessions and clerk of the supreme court. In 1770 he was elected representative to the pro vincial assembly and held that office until 1776, when his seat was declared vacant be cause of his non-attendance. At that time his mind was made up to join the colonies in re sisting the oppressions of the mother country, and his actions and utterances impelled the provincial authorities to take measures for his apprehension on the charge of treason to the king. Thus threatened he fled to the states, but not until after he had visited the Indians and secured for the colonies the co-operation of a large number of the Mic-Mac tribe. Leav ing Cumberland early in October, 1776, he came to Machias, Maine, later went to [Boston and on Noveinber 29 started on horseback for Philadelphia, and on Sunday, December 22, dined with "Washington at headquarters. He was received by congress early in January, 1777, and gave that body a full statement of affairs in the provinces. Soon afterward he was appointed superintendent of the eastern Indians and commissioned colonel of infantry, and having received instructions from John Hancock left Baltimore for Boston, arriving in that city February 3, 1777. After he fled to [Maine the British authori ties put a price on Colonel Allan's head, of fering one hundred pounds for him "who has been deeply concerned in exciting the said 220 STATE OF MAINE. rebellion." In writing of Colonel Allan's al liance with the Americans, the historian Mur- dock says: ".As he had no New England ancestors his escapade must be attributed to ambition, romance or pure zeal for what he thought was just and right. For the feelings against the crown in Nova Scotia in 1775 were confined to the Acadian French who resented their conquest, the Indians who were attached to them by habit and creed, and the settlers who were emigrants from New England." When the British sacked Cumberland Colonel AUan's house was one of the first to be de stroyed, his wife was made prisoner and taken to Halifax and imprisoned for six months, separated from her children. She was sub jected to many insults and indignities, her finest apparel taken and worn by the wives of soldiers and paraded before her eyes. After returning to Boston Colonel Allan remained there about three months then went back to Maine and assumed the duties of his office of superintendent of Indian affairs and entered actively into all of the mUitary operations which were carried out in that region ; and from that time until the close of the war his life was one of constant motion, full of dan ger and frequently subject to covert attack from bitter enemies, whites and red men alike. He was a fearless leader and very capable officer and perhaps no one man in all the province did more than he or sacrificed more than he for the American cause ; and when peace was again restored and he gave an ac count of his stewardship it was found that his transactions were perfectly honest and his character was without blemish. After the war he returned to Boston, resigned his office and closed his accounts with the government. In 1784 he settled permanently in Maine and in the next year began mercantUe business on what was named for him "Allan's Island," near Lubec. But he appears not to have pros pered in business, for he was so constituted that it was a thing almost impossible for him to press a debtor for payment, hence his for bearance cost him considerable money, and at the end of about two years he closed out his mercantile establishment and went to Lubec MUls, where he died. In 1792 about twenty- two thousand acres of wUd land was granted him and his associates, the tract being within what now is the town of Whiting, but the soil was hard and barren and of comparatively little real value to the grantees. In 1801 con gress made him a grant of about two thousand acres of land in the then territory of Ohio, on a part of which the city of Columbus is built up, but this yielded him but little pecuniary advantage. During the later years of his life he was seri ously afflicted with bodily ailments, largely the effects of his years of privation and ex posures incident to his public service, and he died as he had lived, a courageous and hon orable man, a soldier and patriot. He mar ried, as has been mentioned, October 10, 1767, Mary Patton, who bore him nine chUdren: I. WiUiam, born Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 23, 1768, died March 6, 1814; married Alice Crane, born 1770, died 1841. 2. Mark, born Cumberland, Nova Scotia, March 31, 1770, died September 22, 1818; married Susan "Wil der, born 1774, died 1852. 3. John, born Cumberland, December 23, 1771, died October 3, 1863 ; married Mehitable Crane, born 1779, died 1846. 4. Isabel MaxweU, born Cumber land, October 23, 1773, died July 12, 1829. 5. George Washington, born Cumberland, March 13, 1776. 6. Horatio Gates, born Machias, Maine, June 13, 1779, drowned October 30, 1837; married Charlotte Crane, born West Point, New York, September 25, 1782, died December 19, 1840. 7. Anna, born Machias, April 16, 1781, died Boston, August 21, 1783. 8. Elizabeth, born Machias, April 16, 1781, died- Whiting, Maine, June 22, 1863. 9. Winckworth Sargent, born Lubec, Maine, May 31, 1788, drowned October 2, 181 1. (Ill) George Washington, fourth son and fifth child of Colonel John and Mary (Patton) Allan, was born in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, March 13, 1776, drowned at sea August 24. 1806. He married Alary Cutts Hart, born 1779, died 1864. Children: i. Theodore Cutts, bom December 26, 1803, died 1865; married Nancy Hall and had two children, , Theodore M., born February, 1844, and Mary, born April, 1847. 2. John George, born April 5, 1805, died 1824. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born March 15, 1807. (IV) Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of George AVashington and Mary Cutts (Hart) Allan, was bom March 15, 1807, died at North Lubec, Maine, in 1892. She married Colonel George Comstock, born April 19, 1799, and had seven children: i. Hiram, born February 10, 1828, died AprU 30. 1900; married Alary E. Brown. 2. Mary Ardelia, December 20, 1829, died August 8, 1849. 3- Ann Maria, May 21, 1832, married Captain John Albion Davis (see Davis). 4. Theodore Allan, May 3, 1834, died AprU 10, 1888. 5. EurUla Eliza beth, January 8, 1838, married Alfred Small. 6. Lucia Eniily, May 8, 1843, died February 16, 1878. 7. Sarah Jeannett, June 11, 1845. STATE OF MAINE. 221 Case is an ancient English surname, CASE derived it is thought from the An glo-Norman word meaning hazard and of the same class of surname as Hazard, but the more reasonable derivation is from the Latin Casa, meaning a house or cottage. The name is found in the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth century. (I) William Case, immigrant ancestor, was born in England. He came to the United States shortly after the revolution and be came a school teacher. He acquired the trade of shipwright and engaged in business at Lu bec, Maine, as a ship builder. He also kept a general store in that town. Children: i. Solomon Thayer, born December i8, 1833, mentioned below. 2. William. 3. Eben. 4. Joseph. 5. George. 6. Increase, moved to Wisconsin in 1869; he had two sons in the civil war, John W. in the Sixth Maine, who was wounded in the leg, and Alonzo, who lost an eye in the service. 7. Thomas, went to Massachusetts. 8. Samuel, went to Oregon, became an Indian agent for the United States government, and died there. 9. Mary, mar ried Dr. Frank Adams and lived in Litch field, Maine, where he died. 10. Charles, went to Washington, where he died. (II) Solomon Thayer, son of William Case, was born at Lubec, Maine, December 18, 1833, died in 1903. He married Lorena Leighton, born March 23, 1835, died June 16, 1908, at Lubec, daughter of Mark Leighton, born 1809 at Lubec, a farmer, descendant of the Leigh ton family of X^ew Hampshire, prominent from the earliest settlement at Dover and vi cinity and at Kittery, Alaine, and vicinity. Children: i. Irving AVardwell, born at Lubec, February 19, 1866, mentioned below. 2. Alary E., born January 11, 1868, married John MuhoUand, of Lubec ; chUdren : Gretchen, Francis, Lorine, Ivan M. 3. Charles Her man, born July 26, 1872. 4. Annie Baker, born January 20, 1876, unmarried, a teacher in the public schools of Haverhill, Massachu setts. (Ill) Irving Wardwell, son of Solomon Thayer Case, was born in Lubec, Maine, Feb ruary 19, 1866. He received his education in the public schools .of his native town, spent his boyhood on his father's farm in Lubec, and was for a number of years clerk in a gen eral store in his native town. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley postmaster of Lubec. and in 1903 and 1907 re-appointed by President Roosevelt. In the meantime the office has been raised from the fourth to the third class. Mr. Case has been a thoroughly efficient and eminently satisfactory public of ficer. From the time he came of age Mr. Case has been an active Republican. He has been a member of the Lubec school board from 1887 to 1897. He is a member of AVash ington Lodge, Xo. 37, Free and Accepted Masons, of Lubec; of Eastern Chapter, Royal- Arch Masons, of Eastport. He has been mas ter of the lodge and is past district deputy grand master of the second Masonic district of Maine. He is a member of Cobscook Tribe, Improved Order of Red Alen ; of the Modern Woodmen of America ; the Golden Cross and of Lubec Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he is past master. He is active in the Lubec board of trade. He is a member of the Christian church, trustee and librarian of the Lubec public library. He married, Alay i, 1899, Alary Rowena, born September 26, 1872, daughter of Captain Albion and Ann Maria (Comstock) Davis. Her father was born AprU 10, 1832, served in the United States navy in the civil war, and was a master mar iner. The name Eaton figures largely EATON in American history, and Ameri can biography limited to the names of notable personages give place to twenty-three of the names as follows : Amos Eaton (1776-1842), a noted botanist; Amos Beebe Eaton (1806- 1887), major-general United States army; .Asa [Eaton (1778-1858), Episcopal clergyman: Benjamin Harrison Eaton (1833-1904), governor of Colorado; Daniel Cody Eaton (1834-1895), botanist; Daniel Cody Eaton (1837), educator and au thor; Dorman Bridgman Eaton (1828-1899), lawyer and author; Edward Dwight Eaton (1851), president of Beloit College; George Washington Eaton (1804-1872), president Madison LTniversity, Hamilton, X^ew York; Horace Eaton (1804- 1855), governor of Ver mont; James R. Eaton (1834), educator. Lib erty, Missouri ; James AVebster Eaton ( 1857- 1901), lawyer; John Eaton (1829- 1906), edu cator; John Henry Eaton (1790-1856), United States senator; Joseph Hayward Eaton (1812- 1859), president Union University, Tennes see; Joseph Oriel Eaton (1829-1875), painter; Luciem [Eaton (1831-1890), lawyer; Samuel J. M. Eaton, D. D. (1820-1889), representa tive in United States congress; Thomas T. Eaton (1845-1907), editor and clergyman; WiUiam Eaton (1764-1811), brigadier-general United States army; WiUiam Hadley Eaton (1818-1896), clergyman and author; William WaUace Eaton (1816-1898), United States 222 STATE OF MAINE. senator; Wyatt Eaton (1849-1896), painter. (For ancestry to sixth generations see Jonas Eaton (i) on another page.) (VII) Joseph Emerson, son of Jonas (5) and Mary (Corey) Eaton, was born in Gro ton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, 1809, died August 4, 1868. He removed from Gro ton to the St. Croix region, New Brunswick, where he reached manhood and engaged with other members of the family in the lumber business, in which he was succeeded by his son, Bradley L. Eaton. Joseph E. Eaton mar ried, in 1832, Jane Wright, of St. Stephens, New Brunswick. Children: i. Charles H., a resident of Calais, Alaine ; married Sarah Keith, of Pordand, Maine. 2. Joseph E., a resident of Calais; married Alary Simpson, of Brooklyn, New York. 3. Elizabeth, married Albert Benton, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 4. Albert C, married Ella Lovering, of Houl ton, Alaine. 5. Herbert W., a resident of Calais, unmarried. 6. Bradley Llewellyn, men tioned below. Joseph Emerson Eaton married (second) Elizabeth Roache; children: 7. Mary J., of Boston, Massachusetts, unmarried. 8. William, died in infancy. (VIII) Bradley Llewellyn, son of Joseph Emerson and Jane (Wright) Eaton, was born in Milltown, St. Stephens, Xew Brunswick, December 5, 1850. He was a pupil in the common schools of St. Stephens and for five years in the excellent public schools of Boston and Andover, Massachusetts. When sixteen years of age his father died and he took his place in the lumber business on the St. Croix river, which he carried on from the city of Calais, Maine, 1866-87. He removed to New York City in 1887, and two years later became a partner in the lumber business conducted by Church E. Gates & Company, a leading firm in their line in New York City, with large yards at One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street and Fourth avenue, and Webster ave nue, near Bedford Park, in the Bronx district of Greater New York. He was made a mem ber of the Masonic fraternity, holding mem bership in St. Croix Lodge, Calais, Maine, and the Hugh de Payens Commandery, also of Calais. He is a member of Elarlem Social and Harlem Republican clubs, of the New York Yacht, New York Athletic and the Larchmont Yacht clubs. He was made a director of the Mount Morris Bank and of the Metropolitan Bank, both of the city of New York. With his family he attends the Congregational church. He married, October 10, 1872, Vash ti, daughter of Ephraim C. and Vashti Gates, of Calais, Maine. Children: i. Jane Vashti! born May 28, 1874. 2. Church Gates, Decem ber 18, 1876, died December 2, 1878. 3. F. Emerson, November 13, 1878, died October 31, 1 88 1. 4. "Grace Llewellyn, January 21, 1883. 5. Ruth Lois, October 20, 1884. 6. Walter Bradley, July 9, i?"" Whatever may have been the EATON cause of the immigration of this family from the old country, one thing is plain, that the leader was a man of conviction who acted upon his o'vn judgment. His general course of conduct from the time he left Salisbury till he died in Haverhih clearly shows that he was capable under God of being the architect of his own fortune. His autograph, his dealings in real estate, his of ficial relations in Salisbury, his breaking away from his associations there, his choice of a home in Haverhill, and finally his last wiU and testament, are so many testimonials of his in tellectual ability and moral integrity. The vari ous admirable characteristics so pre-eminent in the ancestor prevail very largely in his progeny. The general standing of the Batons-, of America to-day is such as to reflect honor on the name. (I) John and Anne Eaton with their six children came to our New England shores, like so many other families of their time, with out leaving any known record of the date or place of their arrival, or of the vessel in which they came. His name first appears on the proprietor's books of Salisbury, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1639-40. It is supposed that the family came from England, but no trace of its ancestry has yet been found. There were several grants of real estate made by the "ffreemen" of Salisbury unto John Eaton Sr. from 1640 to 1646 inclusive. One was of a house lot in Salisbury, near the present town office ; the other, supposed to be the one he lived upon, was a "planting lott containing pr estimation six acres more or less, lying tiyonye great Neck." His house was near the "great Neck bridge" on "the beach road." This homestead has never passed out of the Eaton family and is now owned by seven sisters in equal and undivided shares, under the pleas ing name of "Brookside Farm." In the spring of 1646 John Eaton was chosen grand juror, and also one of the five "Prudential men" to manage the affairs of the town. In the same year he transferred his homestead to his son John and removed with the rest of his fam ily about fifteen miles up the Merrimac to Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he spent the last twenty-two years of his life in tilling the ,STATI'; Ol" MAINI'[. 1.^ soil iiiul in luaiuifMciiiring staves. One of his entries in the records of tho town of llaverhUl is "Aniic ye wife of jolm ICaton died on the 5th (if lU'liruary, Kido." .Another, "John Eaton sen, and I'liehe Dow, wid. oC Thomas Dow of Newbury, were married ye joth of Novem ber, 1661." John ICaton Sr. died in Haverhill, Oettihcr 21), KidS, a.ged scvcnty-lbree years.- Mrs, riiebo (Dow) l'[„'itou dieil 1(172. The childrt'u of Jnliu and .\iiiie hlatoii were: John, Ann, Eli/abelli, Ruth, Tlioums ,-iiul Hosier. (II) Jolm (2), oldosl chiUl 77, and w.is a fieoin;iu in lOijo. ITo iiKirriotl, ["looouibor 14. H183, in Salisbury, Mary Im'ouoIi, daughter of Jolm and Mary (Novo,'*) I'rouoli, ami graiKlil,uiiL;htor of b'.d- ward Im'ouoIi, Iho |noneor of .Salisbury, Sho vviis born Juno 1 J, 1003. in .Salisbury, and died July l-\ "1720, hi tb.'it town. Josojih F.aton was puhlisliod Novombor 2, 1720, as iiitoudiug to nuirry Mary Worsler, of Bradford. His ohildreu wore: John (died voiiu.g), John, .Saiuuol. Joseph, Honjjuniu, Moses, Mary, Nicholas. Sarah and Jacob, (lA) Jolm (3), sooond .son of Joseph aiul Mary ( ImvuoIi) Iv.iton, was bom in Sali.shury, October 18, 1(185, rosidod in that (own throughout his lit'o, and died there March v. 174^> .Adniinistratiou on his estate was Rrantod to his .sou Jo.seph, •'cordwainor," Alay 18. 1747. \\c married (first) about 1710. Esther Johnson, of Kius^ston. Now H.unp- shire, who died lamiarv 22. 1728. Wife Ivs- llier was luiplized in the b'irst Church of Salis bury, Soplombor 8, 1723. 'John l'[aton and wife were atlmilted to (ho First Church, No vember 2(), \727. He married (second) July 2, 1728, b[liz;il)elli Hook, who survived him, and iiKinied, Doeoiiiber 2'^, I75-. Abiier Low ell. Iloyt's old families of Salisbury and Aiiiesbiiiy gives tho children of John (3) as: Joso]ili, John, Abigail, llanuali, Mary, [Moses, l'[stlior, Eli/;ibo(li, VVym;in and John; and adds "perhaps other cliildreii." (\') Wyni;iii, son of John (3) and h^stlier (Jolin.son) T'.atou, was born in .Salisbury, July, 1725, ;iiid settled in that p;irt of ITainpton, Now 1 1,'impshiro, now Soabrook, and within six miles of Ihe homestead ho made. There five .gouoratious of doscondauts have resided up to (ho present time. In 17(15 Wyman ICaton's n:uuo appe;irs on the petition to Gov ernor Wontwortb for a Presbyterian Society in ll.'inipt'on b'alls, wbieb shows that he was a fi'oelioldor and an iiiliabitant of the (own, (Al) Joliii (4), sou of Wyman ICaton. botiglil land in Htixtoii, M;iino. in 1774, from James Gray, of Salisbur\', Massachusetts, and iuo\ed lo th.'it town. \\<: married Jemima Groou .•iiiil they h;ul nine children. (ATI) Tristr.'ini, fourth child of John (4) and Jomim.'i (Green) l'[alou, was born iu Hux- ton, Maine, Decoiiibor i(>, 1781, and died there 1875. The HtiKlou (.AMitennial History says that Trislr.'im l'[aloii ;itteiuled teacher Bar nabas .Sawyer's school, which was taught in 1785, in Ivbouozor Ridlon's house, which house stood whore the house of Cajitain Lewis B. Goodwin niwv sl.iuds. In 1808 Tristram Tuiton settled on Iho place he still oeeupied in 1872. Wi: w.'is |M-osont at the raising of the first mill (a .sawmill) at the Har on the Hollis side. Air. ICnton is several times quoted by the compiler of tho (."outonuial History of Buxton, and "thoii.iib feeble in body," is said to ho "sound in mind and with a romarkably clear and dis tinct memory." Tho compiler seems to have ay.'iilod himself of all Ihe assistance this an- •ciont man could give him, wdiich without doubt was no little, but ho did not give him a sin.glo lino of a biographical sketch, though he liovotes pa,s;o after page to other men and their f;iuiilios. Tristram luiton married Betsy Woodman. (A'lll) Stophou W., .son of Tristram and Botsv (^\\'oodniaiD F.aton, was born in Bux- (011. Alaine. His first work in connection with the travoliu.g public was ui employ of the t'ltmborland and Oxford Canal Company. He was next onga.ijod as an onginoor in making tho first survey of the line of the .Atlantic &• St. 224 STATE OF MAINE. Lawrence (now the Grand Trunk) railroad. After the road was completed he filled the office of freight agent. This office he re signed in 1853 to accept a position on the Alichigan Central railroad. He remained there but a short time and then returned to Maine and became railroad superintendent at Leeds and Farmington, next filling the office of sec ond lieutenant of the Androscoggin railroad, and later he was first superintendent of the York & Cumberland. This was the last raU road office held by him. He next engaged in commercial business in Portland, and for many years was one of the prominent merchants of that city. In politics he affiliated with the Democratic party, which was then dominant in the state of Maine, and was surveyor of the port of Portland during the administration of President Taylor, serving under Collector Jewett. He was a Free Mason and prominent in the councils of the order. In 1854 he re moved from Portland to Gorham, on account of ill health of his family, though still at tending to his business in the city. He died in Gorham in 1876, aged seventy-one. Stephen W. Eaton married Miranda B. Knox, who was born in Portland; her father was a de scendant of General Knox, having been born in Bu.xton. Eight children were born of this marriage: Stephen M., Samuel K., George R., Minnie, Charles P., AVoodman S., Howard B. and Edward. (VIII) Charles Coffin, seventh son of Tris tram and Betsy (Woodman) Eaton, was born in Buxton, May 14, 1819, and died there Alarch 12, 1898. He attended the district schools and Standish Academy, afterward going into business in Portland, Maine, as general agent of the International Steamship Company and remaining there about twenty years. After retiring from active business he moved to Limington and lived there about six years, where he bought and sold timber and had an interest in the tannery business. He afterward moved to Saco, were he lived about five years, and finally settled down in Buxton on a farm, where he died. He married, in the year 1851, Esther Jane Frost, of Limington, by whom he had three daughters, Ella Frost, died 1852, aged fourteen months; Harriet Re becca, died 1870, aged sixteen years; Helen Hathaway, born 1858, is stUl living with her mother in Gorham, Maine. (IX) Woodman Stephen, fifth son of Ste phen W. and Miranda B. (Knox) Eaton, was born in Portland, October 16, 1846, and' died in Portland, August 28, 1905. His early edu cation was obtained in a private school in Portland, and later-He^tended the well-known Gorham Academy. He was seventeen years of age in 1863, and at that time he became an office assistant in the employ of the Berlin MiUs, at Berlin, New Hampshire. He after ward spent some time in Lewiston in the freight department of the Androscoggin raU road, where he acquired his first idea of rail road work, and was next called to the south and filled a position in the office of the provost marshal, X^ew Orleans, till the close of the war. When he returned to Maine he took a position with the Androscoggin Railroad Com pany and worked a year as freight checker. He left this place to take a position as freight cashier of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth railroad, remaining from 1867 to 1875. In the latter year he was made freight agent of the Eastern railroad, and in 1882 assumed the greater responsibilities of freight agent of both the«Eastern and the Maine Central. He was made general freight agent of the Maine Central railroad in 1885 and held that office until 1897. During the time he was gen- 'eral freight agent the road had a very rapid growth, and his care and responsibility in creased as the years passed. The manner in whicli he handled the business proved him to be a man of exceptional executive ability. He attended the High Street Congregational Church and contributed liberaUy to its support. In politics he was a Republican, and gave his firm support to his party, but never held a political office. He was a Free Alason and attained the thirty-second degree in that an cient fraternity, belonging to Ancient Land mark Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ala- sons ; Alount Vernon Royal Arch Qiapter; Portland Commandery, Knights Templar; Maine Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret ; and Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was a past commander of the Portland Commandery, and grand sword-beat-er of the Grand Commandery of Maine. He was also a member of Ligonia Lodge, Independent Or der of Odd Fellows, Eastern Star Encamp ment, Patriarchs MUitant, and Bramhall League, the Cumberland, the Portland, and Country clubs. Woodman S. Eaton married, in Gorham, October 16, 1866, Judith .Annette Colby, of Gorham, who was born in Water ford, Maine, 1849, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Almeda (Ballard) Colby. Four children were born to them : AVilliam C, mentioned below. Edward S., wdio died in 1895, aged twenty-four. Harry Woodman and Gertrude May, who died in infancy. STATE OF MAINE. 225 (X) WiUiam Colby, eldest son of Wood man S. and Judith Annette (Colby) Eaton, was born in Portland, January 13, 1868. After passing through the public schools of Port land, graduating from the high school in 1886, he entered Harvard CoUege, where he took his degree of B. A. in 1891. After his return to Portland he read law in the office of Charles F. Libby, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in March, 1894. Immediately there after he re-established himself in what has proved to be a successful business, devoting himself to the general practice of law rather than to any special line. He is a Republican, and has taken an active part in the affairs of his party. In 1901-02 he was a member of the city council; in 1903-04 assistant county attorney ; and in 1905-06 county attorney. June 9, 1908, he again received the nomina tion of county attorney over five other candi dates. He is a member of the Cumberland Bar Association and the American Bar Asso ciation. He was four years on the staff of Governor Powers, as senior aide-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He is as thor oughly interested in Free Masonry as was his father, and is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Mt. Ver non Royal Arch Chapter; Portland Comman dery, Knights Templar ; and Maine Consis tory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of which he is a thirty-second degree member. He is a member of the Cumberland, Portland, Athletic, Country, Elks ' and Lincoln clubs. William C. Eaton married. May 16, 1894, Marion Durant Dow, daughter of Colonel Fred N. and Julia D. (Hammond) Dow, of Portland. (See Dow XI.) They have one child, Annette Hammond, born March 13, 1898. The name may have been GARDINER derived from two Saxon words: gar, signifying a weapon, dart, javelin, arms; and dyn, sound, alarm, noise. These two Saxon words would make the name Gardyn and with the er, de noting the inhabitant of a place would be Gardyner, and by transition easUy and natur ally made into Gardiner. Or it may have come from the occupation of gardener, keeper of a garden. (I) George, said to have been a son of Sir Thomas Gardiner, Kni.ght, was admitted as an inhabitant of Aquidneck, September i, 1638. He was born in England in 1601, and died in Kings county, Rhode Island, 1679. He left six sons: i. Benoni (q. v.). 2. Henry, who died in 1744, aged one hundred and one years. 3. WUliam, who died in 171 1, at sea by the hands of pirates. 4. George, who died in 1724, aged ninety-four years. 5. Nicholas, born about 1654, died 1712. 6. Joseph. The fourteen children of George Gardiner, accord ing to Austin, were born as follows : Benoni, Henry, George, WiUiam, Nicholas, Dorcas, Rebecca, Samuel, Joseph, Lydia, Mary, Pere grine, Robert, Jeremiah. (II) Benoni, eldest child of George Gar diner, the immigrant, was born in England about 1627, and died in Kingston, Rhode Isl and, 1 73 1, aged one hundred and four years. He came to Narragansett, Rhode Island, with his parents, and took the oath of allegiance May 19, 1671, the same year his first child, William, was born of his wife Mary; their other children were : X'athaniel, Stephen, Isaac, born January 7, 1687, Bridget. His wife Mary was born in 1645, a-^d died Novem ber 16, 1729. (Ill) WiUiam, son of Benoni and Alary Gardiner, was born at Boston Neck, Rhode Island, 1671, in X^arragansett. He was known as AA'illiam Junior to distinguish him from his uncle, William Gardiner, who called himself "son of George Gardiner of X^ewport," and died in 1732. He married Abigail, born in 1681, daughter of John and Abigail (Rich mond) Remington, of Newport, King.ston, Rhode Island, and granddaughter of Edward and Abigail (Davis) Richmond. They lived on Boston Neck, South Kingston, Rhode Island, where their seven chUdren were born as foUows: i. John, born 1696, died 1770; married (first) Mary Hill, had three chUdren; married (second) IVIary Taylor, of Jamaica, Long Island, seven chiWren. 2. William, mar ried Elizabeth Gibbs, and had issue. 3. Thom as, who died without issue. 4. Sylvester (q. v.). 5. Abigail, married (first) Caleb Hazard and (second) Governor WUliam Robinson. 6. Hannah, married Dr. McSparran. .7. Lydia, married Josiah, Arnold, grandson of Governor Benedict Arnold. After the death of WUliam Gardiner, of Boston Neck, December 14, 1732, his widow married Captain Job Almy. (IV) Sylvester, fourth son of William and' Abigail ([Remington) Gardiner, was born in the family mansion at South Kingston, Rhode Island, 1708. He was sent to Boston, Massa chusetts, to attend school and prepare for the practice of medicine. He spent eight years in England and France, and returned to Boston an accomplished physician and surgeon. He practiced in Boston, where he was considered one of the ablest physicians in America. He 226 STxATE OF [MAINE. also engaged in business as an importer of drugs and became very wealthy. He became proprietor of about one hundred thousand acres of land, part of the Plymouth purchase on the Kennebec river in the district of Maine. Part of this tract of land he colonized with Germans, that settlement being known as Pownalboro, afterwards Dresden. Another chief town was Gardinerstown, afterwards di vided into Gardiner and Pittston. He was a warden of King's Chapel, Boston, and one of the founders of Christ Church there. He also endowed Christ Church, Gardinerstown, now Gardiner, Maine, with ten acres of land for a glebe and twenty-eight pounds sterling annual ly for the salary of the minister forever. He remained loyal to the mother country at the time of the Revolution. When the British evacuated Boston he was obliged to leave that city and was banished from his estate in Maine. He took refuge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and his estates in Boston were con fiscated. He removed from Halifax to Eng land. He returned to the United States in 1785, settiing in Newport, where he continued the practice of his profession up to the time of his death, which occurred in Newport, Rhode Island, August 8, 1786. He married (first) Anne, daughter of Dr. John Gibbons, of Boston, and had six children: i. John (q. v.). 2. AVilliam, wdio had no issue. 3. Anne, who became the wife of Rt. Hon. Arthur Browne, son (or brother) of the Earl of Alta- mont, and their first son, John, married a daughter of Lord Howe, and the three other children were : James, Anne Maria and Lou isa. 4. Hannah (q. v.). 5. Rebecca, married Philip Dumaresque, four chUdren. 6. Abi gail, married for her first husband Oliver "Whipple, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, and afterward a lawyer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. By her first marriage she had three children: Sylvester G., Hannah, who became the wife of Frederic Allen, a lawyer of Gardiner, Maine, and Anne. Dr. Sylvester Gardiner married (second) Love Eppes, of Salem, Massachusetts, and for his third wife, Catherine Goldthwaite. He "had no children by his second or third marriages. (V) John, eldest child of Sylvester and Anne (Gibbons) Gardiner, was born in Bos ton, Massachusetts, about the year 1731, and was drowned on his wa)' from Pownalboro to Boston in 1793. He was sent to London to be educated in the law at the Inner Temple, and he received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Glasgow in 1755. He prac ticed law in London and in AVales, and was sent by the government to St. Christophers, British West Indies, as attorney general in 1765 and he held that important government position up to 1783, when he returned to his native city and practiced law there for two or three years. His father. Dr. Sylvester Gar diner, was a large owner in the Plymouth pur chase, and became the owner of large tracts in Alaine, one hundred thousand acres of land on the Kennebec river, and he became the founder of Gardinerstown, which was after wards divided into Pittston and Gardiner. John Gardiner located in Pownalboro and he represented that town in the general court of Massachusetts from 1788 to 1793. He ac cepted the Unitarian religious view and was the prime mover in changing Kings Chapel, Boston, from the use to which it had been consecrated by the authority of the church of England and making it the home of the Uni- tartan society, but unlike the 'other Unitarian churches in Boston, Kings Chapel used the book of Common Prayer with the changes necessary to make it conform to the Unitarian faith. John Gardiner received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard Col lege in 1791. He married Margaret Harries in South AA^ales, of a very respectable family, and among their children was John Sylvester, born in Haverford West, Southern AVales, in June, 1765. Fle was brought up in the famUy of his grandfather, Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, in Boston, 1770-75, returned to England in the latter year and was a pupil of Dr. Samuel Parr, 1776-82. He pursued a course of law in Boston, Massachusetts, 1783-85, but left the law to enter the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. His diaconate was passed in Beaufort, South Carolina, as minister in charge of the parish of St. Helena, where he remained 1789-92. He was elevated to the priesthood in 1791. and w^as assistant rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Massachu-eits, 1792-1805, and rector 1805-30. Harvard hon ored him with the degree of A. M. in 1803, and the University of Pennsylvania conferred on him the LL. D. degree in 1813. He con ducted a classical school in Boston, 1792-1805, and he organized and was the first president of the Anthology Club, Boston, his term as president extending from 1805 to 1811. He died in Harrowgate, England, July 29, 1830, whUe a health-seeker in that locality. His aunt, Hannah (q. v.), became the wife of Rob ert HaUowell, and they became the parents of Robert HalloweU Gardiner (q. v.), on whom, on account of a dislike to the religious and political principles of his eldest son John, Dr. STATE OF MAINE. 227 Sylvester Gardiner in his will settled his es tate at Gardiner. (V) Hannah, fourth child and second daughter of Sylvester and Anne( Gibbons) Gardiner, was born 1744, died February 9, 1796. She married, January 7, 1772, Robert HaUowell, for whom the town of HalloweU in the district of Maine was named. They had four daughters, all of whom died unmar ried, and one son Robert, who, by the wish of his grandfather, Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, as expressed in his will, applied to the general court of Massachusetts to have his name changed to Robert Hallowell Gardiner, and the legislature of 1803 passed an act to that effect and this act gives him a place in the Gardiner genealogy. (VI) Robert HaUowell, son of Robert and Hannah (Gardiner) Hallowell, was born in Bristol, England, February 10, 1782, whUe his parents and maternal grandparents were resi dents of England. He came with them to Newport in 1785, and was prepared for ma triculation at [Harvard College, and was grad uated A. B. in 1 80 1, A. M. in 1804. In 1803 his name was changed by the legislature of Massachusetts, as above mentioned, to Robert HaUowell Gardiner. He devoted his business hours to the cares of the large Gardiner estate and in educational and church work. He was a trustee of Bowdoin CoUege, 1841-60; an honorary member of the Massachusetts His torical Society ; a Whig in national politics and a useful and greatly respected citizen of the town of Gardiner, Maine. He was mar ried to Emma Jane Tudor, and they lived in Gardiner, Maine, where nine chilclren were born as foUows: i. Emma Jane, died un married. 2. Anne Hallowell, married Francis Richards and had five sons and one daughter. 3. Robert HaUowell, born November 3, 1809, married Sarah Fenwick Jones, of Savannah, Georgia; he graduated from Harvard, A. B., 1830; died 1886. 4. Delia Tudor, married George Jones, of Savannah, and died without issue. 5. Lucy Vaughan, died unmarried. 6. John WiUiam Tudor (q. v.). 7. Henrietta, married Richard Sullivan, of Boston, and died without issue. 8. Frederick, born September II, 1822, graduated from Bowdoin, A. B., 1842; A. M. 1845; D. D. 1869; General Theo logical Seminary, New York, 1845; honorary D. D., Kenyon, 1869; Trinity, 1870; married Caroline, daughter of William Vaughan ; died in Middletown, Connecticut, July 17, 1889. 9. Eleanor Harriet. (VII) John WUHam Tudor, second son and sixth chUd of Robert Hallowell and Emma Jane (Tudor) Gardiner, was born in Gardiner, Maine, June 5, 1817, and died there Septem ber 27, 1879. He was a student at Harvard College, class of 1836, leaving college in 1835 to accept an appointment as cadet at West Point MUitary Academy. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1840, with a class rank of twenty-six in a class of forty-two, having as classmates : Will iam T. Sherman, Stewart Van Vleet, George H. Thomas, Richard S. Ewell, George W. Getty, WiUiam Hays, Bushrod R. Johnson and Thomas Jordan. He was assigned to the First Dragoons, July i, 1840, with the brevet rank of second lieutenant, and on December 31, 1840, become second lieutenant. He re ceived promotion as follows : First lieutenant, April 21, 1846; captain, October 9, 185 1 ; ma jor. Second Cavalry, October 26, 1861, and he was "retired from active service November 14, 1861, for disabUity resulting from long and faithful service and from disease and exposure in the line of duty." He served on mustering and recruiting service in the state of Alaine and as acting assistant adjutant general; as provost marshal general and chief mustering and disbursing officer at Augusta, Maine, 1861-64, and he was brevetted lieutenant col onel March 13, 1865, "for meritorious service during the Rebellion." He was married at "The Woodj'ard," Maryland, July 5, 1854, to Anne Elizabeth, daughter of John and Eliza beth (Patterson) Hays, of Carlisle, Pennsyl vania, born October 25, 1821, and their chil dren were: i. Robert Hallowell (q. v.). 2. Eleanor, June 3, 1857. 3. Anne, died in in fancy. 4. Francis Richards, born 1861, died 1880. 5. and 6. John Hays and John Tudor (twins), bom April 6, 1863. (VIII) Robert HaUowell, eldest child of Colonel John William Tudor and Anne Eliza beth (Hays) Gardiner, was born at Fort Tejon, California, September 9, 1855. He was graduated at the Montreal high school, 1871 ; Roxbury Latin school, Boston, Massachusetts, 1872; Harvard College, A. B., 1876; student in the Harvard LTniversity Law School, 1878- 80; admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880, and practiced law in Boston from that time. He l3ecame a director in the Arlington Alills ; in the Webster & Atlas National Bank; in the Cochrane Chemical Company ; in the Falls Company ; in the Shetucket Company, of which corporation he was president ; and a trustee of the Gardiner Real Estate Associa tion ; the Gushing Real Estate Trust ; the Nickerson Land Trust ; the Perry Real Estate Trust; the William Lawrence Real Estate 228 STATE OF MAINE. Trust; the Boston Real Estate Trust and of other estates and corporations. He also be came a trustee of the Wells Memorial Insti tute. He was one of the founders of the Re publican Club of Alassachusetts and served as chairman of its executive committee. He was prominent in the Protestant Episcopal church as a member of the standing committee for the dioceses first of Massachusetts and afterwards of Maine, and delegate from the latter diocese to the general convention of 1904 and 1907, and in 1904 was elected president of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, and in 1908 president of the National Conference of Church Clubs. In 1900 he made his home and legal residence at Gardiner, Maine, and his winter home is in Boston, his law office being at 713 Barristers Hall, Pemberton Square. He was married at Trinity Church, Boston, June 23, 1881, to Alice, daughter of Edward and Anne (Outram) Bangs, of Watertown, Massachusetts. The children of Edward and Anne (Outram) Bangs were: Alice, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, Au gust 14, 1857, wife of Robert H. Gardiner; Anne Outram, married Russell Sturgis ; Ed ward Appleton, Harvard, A. B., 1884; Out ram; Francis Reginald, Harvard, A. B., 1891, LL. B., 1894. The children of Robert Hallo weU and Alice (Bangs) Gardiner are: i. Rob ert HalloweU Jr., born November 5, 1882; Roxbury Latin school, 1900, Harvard College, A. B. and A. M., 1904, and Law School, LL. B,, 1907. 2. Alice, February 24, 1885, mar ried Livingston Davis, Harvard, A. B., 1904. 3. Sylvester, January 11, 1888, died May 15, 1889. 4. Anna Lowell, September 9, 1890. 5. "William Tudor, June 12, 1892. The first representative of COUSENS this family of whom there is any information was John Cousens, wdio settled in Poland, Maine, in 1798, and there lived a useful and busy life, winning the respect and confidence of all with whom he was brought in contact. Fle married Sarah Cushman, and among their children was William, see forward. (II) William, son of John and Sarah (Cushman) Cousens, was born in Poland, Maine, where he spent his active years, and where his death occurred. He was a man of sterling integrit}-, honorable in all his trans actions, and his influence was felt in the com munity in which he resided. He married Mary Whittam, who bore him one child, Ly man Munson, see forward. (Ill) Lyman Munson, only child of Will iam and Mary (Whittam) Cousens, was bom in Poland, January 10, 1840. He attended the public schools and Gorham Academy. In 1858 he entered the employ of S. M. Milliken at Minot, Maine, the proprietor of a general country store, and there remained four years. He then formed a partnership with his em ployer, the name being Milliken & Cousens, and this connection continued two years. He then formed a partnership with AVilliam H. Rounds, under the firm name of Cousens & Rounds, but after several years this connection was dissolved. Selling his interest, Mr. Cous ens removed to Portland and was in 1868 a partner in the firm of Marr, True & Com pany, but after a few years became a partner in the firm of D. W. True & Company, whole sale grocers, and in 1880 associated himself with Edward Tomlinson under the firm name of Cousens & Tomlinson, wholesale grocers, which was merged into the present firm of Milliken Tomlinson Company. In 1890 William H. MiUiken, S. AL MUliken,.L. M. Cousens and J. H. Short formed the firm of MiUiken, Cousens & Company, wholesale dealers in dry goods and manufacturers of pants and overalls, employing one hundred hands in the factory and with a force of one hundred in the main store as salesmen, clerks, &c., also as commission merchants in cotton goods. Mr. Cousens has been very successful in a financial way, and has interests in various enterprises. He is president of the Fitzgerald Land & Lumber Company, director in the Dalton Paper Mills, the Portland Nadonal Bank, the Union Safe Deposit and Trust Com pany, the Mercantile Trust Company, presi dent of Dana Warp Mills, member of Port land Club and Lotus Club of New York City, Mr. Cousens is now and has always been a Republican. He is a member of various Ma sonic bodies up to and including the thirty- second degree ; is also a member of the Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows ; is connected with the Home for Friendless Boys, the Mary Brown Home, president of the Widows Wood Society, of which he is also a trustee, and the Portland Benevolent Society and Provident Association. Mr. Cousens is recognized as a liberal and public-spirited citizen, interested in whatever promises for the public good and always ready to contribute his share of either work or means to accomplish any good end. Mr. Cousens married, December 8, 1870, Alary E. True, born in Bangor, Maine, 1846, daughter of John and Mary (Abbott) True. Five children were born of this marriage: Two daughters who died in infancy. John T, Lewis Historhcal Pulb Co rPBather.NY iMM£^' STATE OF MAINE. 229 who died at the age of fourteen years. Will iam T., who was a member of the firm of Milliken, Cousens & Company. Lyman A., who married Gertrude M. Cortland. William T. and Lyman A. Cousens are now of the firm of L. M. Cousens & Company, commis sion merchants on cotton goods. Air. Cousens and family are members of State Street Con gregational Church. There are families in America COUSINS bearing this name descended from the French family. Cous in, and from English ancestry. The English name is found in old documents spelled Cur- zon, Cozzen, Cousin, Cosen, Cousens and Cousins. In New England the two last spell ings prevail. Tradition makes these families descend from Geraldine de Curson, or Curzen, a man of Breton extraction who followed William the Conqueror into England in 1066. He was rewarded for his services by his chief with many estates, and lived on the principal one at Locking in Berkshire, and was known as Lord of the Manor of Locking. The most distinguished person of this name is George Nathaniel Curson, first baron of Kedletton, late viceroy and governor-general of India, who married an American, Miss Leiter, of Chicago. (I) John Cousins, the first settler of the name in Maine and probably in X^ew England, was born in England in 1596. He settled at West Gustigo, now X'orth Yarmouth, on an island near the mouth of Royal river, still known as Cousins' Island. He bought this land of Richard Vines in 1645. After living there thirty years he fled to "York on account of the Indian depredations committed in King Phillip's war. G. F. Ridlon Sr., in his book "Saco A^alley Settlements and Families," says of John Cousins : "He served in the assembly under Cleve in 1648, while he was deputy president of Lygonia, his name being under his mark on a decree against the Trelawny estate in favor of Robert Jordan, by which act the property of said Trelawny in this state was lost to his heirs. The date of the death of (John) Cousins has not been ascertained, but he must have survived to a great age. His descendants lived in York, Wells, Kenne bunk, Lyman, Saco, Biddeford and HoUis, and are now scattered through the state." Isaac and Thomas Cousins are believed to have been sons of John. (II) Thomas, son of John Cousins, was an inhabitant of Wells before 1670. He had a grant of land consisting of one hundred acres on Little river. Two of his children were Hannah and Ichabod. (Ill) Ichabod, son of Thomas Cousins, spent his early life in Wells, but moved to Kennebunk in 1745. He was a soldier in the old French war, and died of smaUpox con tracted while in the army. He had a log house surrounded by flankers during the In dian troubles on the coast. He married, July 26, 1 7 14, Ruth Cole, of Kennebunk. Chil dren : Catherine, Thomas, Ichabod, John, Benjamin, Samuel, Joseph, Ruth and Na thaniel. (lA') Ichabod (2), son of Ichabod (i) Cousins, was born in Wells, November 10, 1719. He was evidently a man who paid strict attention to his own affairs, held no public of fice, and seems to have left no record. (V) Ichabod (3) is said to have been a son of Ichabod (2) Cousins. He was born in Ken nebunk, and settled in the plantation of Little Falls, now Hollis, about 1780, being one of the seven purchasers of the Dalton Right, so called, whicli tract bordered on the Saco river and extended from the northwestern boundary of a "twenty-rod strip" near the brick house of "Uncle David Martin." He cleared a field and built a barn on the rear end of his lot, but afterward lived on the Bonny Eagle road, near the buryin,g ground. He married (first) Dolly Cole and by her had six children : Icha bod (4), Sally, Mary, Priscilla, Hannah and X^athaniel. Alarried (second) September 15, 1808, Susanna (Deering), widow of Tobias Lord, and mother of Abi,gail Lord, who mar ried Jeremiah Hobson (see Flobson V) ; To bias Lord, who married Adeline Hobson, sister of Jeremiah ; Mary Lord, unmarried. She bore him three chUdren : DoUy ; Fanny, born January 3, 1810, married Thomas S. Hanson, of Buxton, who died in 1837, after which she married John, son of Jabez Sawyer ; Joseph, see forward. (VI) Joseph, youngest child of Ichabod (3) Cousins, was born in Hollis, May 28, 1812, died at Steep FaUs, May 5, 1893. He was a farmer and mechanic ; a good citizen and a man of integrity who in his latter years became a member of the Free Baptist church. In politics he was a Whig until the Republi can party was formed, of which he was a staunch adherent ever after. He married, in 1837, Deborah Sawyer (see Sawyer AT). Of this union were born six children, only two of whom lived to reach maturity: i. Harriet N., born March 18, 1839, married, November 8, 1857, Charles J. F. Knapp, of Bridgton; of the three children born to them the first two 2?,0 STATE OF MAINE. were twins, one of whom died in infancy, the other, James Knapp, married Harriet Chase, who bore to him a child, now deceased ; Jo seph Knapp, the. youngest, married Florence Jones ; one child, Charles. 2. Stephen Hobson, see forward. (VII) Stephen Hobson, son of Joseph Cousins, was born in Steep Falls, December 13, 1845. He was educated at Standish Acad emy, the common schools of his native town and a school at Randolph, Massachusetts, where his sister, Harriet N. (Cousins) Knapp, then lived. In the early '60s he went to Port land, Maine, where he was in the employ of his cousin, John D. Lord, until he returned to Steep Falls in 1870 and built a store to deal in general merchandise. In 1871 he formed a partnership under the name of Cousins & Banks, with Samuel Banks, who came there from Island Pond, Vermont, and was the husband of Elizabeth, sister of Sam uel D. Hobson and daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Saw-yer, see Sawyer V) Hobson. They continued in general merchandise busi ness — grain and lumber — until the death of Air. Banks in 1886, wdien Air. Cousins formed a partnership with Gideon Al. Tucker (see Tucker ATI), who was a well-known lumber man. In 1892 they built a grist mUl run by a gasoline engine, and in 1904 they formed a corporation wdth Stephen H. Cousins as man ager, a position wdiich he still fills. He is a Republican, interested in what is for the best interests of the community, but has ever de clined to accept positions of political prefer ment. He is prominent in the work of the Free Baptist denomination .in this state, and is deacon of the church in his viUage. He be longs to the Free and Accepted Masons and the Knights of Pythias. He married, Septem ber 12, 1869, Martha Alma Hobson (see Hob son VIII). Children: i. WiUiam L., see for ward. 2. Harriette Knapp, born May 8, 1875, at Steep Falls, educated there and at Liming ton Academy ; is unmarried ; makes her home with her parents, but spends much time at the home of her brother, Dr, Cousins, in Port land. (VIII) Dr. William Lewis Cousins, only son of Stephen Hobson Cousins, was born in Steep Falls, October 2, 1870. After attendino- the public schools of his native viUa.ge, Erye"^ biirg Academy, New Hampton College and Limington Academy, he spent a year at the Maine A/fedical School, and then matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the medical department of that institu tion in the class of 1894. During the remain der of 1894 and the year 1895 he was assist ant resident surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hos pital in Baltimore. In 1895 he settled in Port land, Maine, where he became associated with Dr. Seth C. Gordon. In 1904 he established a private hospital, St. Barnabas, at the corner of Woodfords and Norwood streets, in the Deering district, which has become well and favorably known. He now makes the diseases of women a specialty and is meeting with gratifying success. He is also a surgeon of noteworthy attainments. For eight years he has been on the staff of the Maine General Hospital, four years as assistant and four years as surgeon. He has been for a long term of years consulting surgeon of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, and is instruc tor in clinical surgery in the Alaine Aledical School, having been appointed in 1906. He is a member and has been president of the Cum berland County Medical Association; member of the Alaine Medical Association, and chair man of the National Legislative Committee of that body for Maine ; member of the Cumber land Club, Athletic Oub, Portland Yacht Club and other clubs. In politics he is a Re publican, and in 1907 was a member of the Republican city committee. In rehgious belief he is a Unitarian. Dr. Cousins married, Janu ary 6, 1897, Maude McKenney, daughter of Charles and Hannah (Gordon) McKenney, granddaughter of Deacon Humphrey McKen ney, of Limington, and niece of Dr. Seth C. Gordon, of Portland. She was born July 10, 1870, in Limington, and has borne him two sons : Seth Chase, born in Portland, November 2, 1897, and McKenney, born November 12, 1 901, died the following day. These children were the ninth generation from John Cousins, the immigrant. The first Hobson ancestor of HOBSON whom we are sure is Thomas, of Yorkshire, England, who had a son Henry, who married Jane Carr, whose home was at Neflete, near AVhitgilt, in the south part of the AVest Riding of York shire. (I) William, son of Henry and Jane (Carr) Hobson, was a "merchant adventurer" of London, who fitted out and provided for the Plymouth Colony in New England. In 1652 he settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, where were born to him by his wife Ann, daughter of Humphrey and Alary Raynor, three sons: Humphrey, John and William. William Hobson, first of the name in this country, and Ann his wife, both died in 1694. ST.ATE OF AlAIXE. ^31 (II) WUliam (2), youngest son of William (l) Hobson, was iDorn in 1659, and died in 1725. He married, in 1692, Sarah Jewett; children : William, died young ; Sarah, Mary, \A''illiam, Martha, Caleb and Jeremiah. (Ill) Jeremiah, fourth son and youngest chUd of "WiUiam (2) Hobson, was born 1707, and died in 1741. Although dying young, a large measure of success enabled him to pos sess a large estate to leave to his family. He married, 1729, Jane Dresser; chUdren: Will iam, Ann, Elizabeth, Joseph and Sarah. (IV) WiUiam (3), eldest chUd of Jeremiah Hobson, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1730, and died in Buxton, where he was the oldest settler of the name, in 1827, aged ninety-seven years. He was a man of martial proclivities, and much engaged in war. In the French and Indian war he belonged to the First Cavalry Company of Rowley. He re- enlisted in 1759. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, was wounded and taken prisoner at King's Bridge by the British and carried into New York City, where he re mained a prisoner of war eleven months. He was afterwards at the surrender of Burgoyne, and had the pleasure of marching into Sara- to£;a at its evacuation. He married (first) Hannah Johnson, by whom he had two chil dren : Jeremiah and Hannah. His first wife died in 1757, and he marriel (second) in 1759, Lydia Parsons. Their chUdren were: William (died young), Joseph, Samuel, An drew and Lydia. The second wife died and he married (third) Margaret, who died in Buxton, December, 1819. (V) Joseph, second child of WUliam (3) and Lydia (Parsons) Hobson, was born in Buxton, in 1762, and died December 11, 1830. He married (first), in Buxton, January 3, 1788, Rebecca Sawyer (see Sawyer V), born July 15, 1765, who bore him ten children, nine of whom were: i. Joseph, married Mary Townsend. 2. Jabez, married Betsey Hancock (see Hancock). 3. Lydia, married James Marr. 4. Andrew, married (first) Adeline Marr, (second) Statia Hamblin, (third) Jane L. Heath. 5. Jeremiah, married (first) Abi .gail Lord, (second) Mrs. Olive MerriU. 6. Rebecca, died unmarried. 7. James, married ffirst) Climena Marsh, (second) Mrs. Sarah ^anborn. 8. Joanna, married Archibald Smith. 9. AdeUne, married Tobias Lord. Jo seph Hobson married (second) Susanna (Deering Lord), widow of Ichabod Cousins (see Cousins V), who died in i860. (VI) Jabez, second son of Joseph and Re becca (Sawyer) Hobson, was born September 4, 1790. He had much of the martial spirit of his ancestors, and was a captain in the mi litia. He was a prosperous lumber man in Buxton when he married, in 181 5, Betsey Hancock (see Hancock V), who bore him ten children, of whom the following came to ma turity : I. Sewell, see forward. 2. Rebecca, married Dr. Jaines M. Buzzed ; when thrown upon her own resources she took up the prac tice of medicine, wdiich she pursued success fully for many years. She was in every re spect a remarkable woman, and deserves a large place in the history of (Gorham, Maine, where she lived for many years, dying in 1899. 3. Eliza, married Samuel Bangs. 4. Almeda, married Ivory Harmon. 5. Ellen, married Phineas I. Paine. 6. Jabez, married Eliza J. Smith. About the year 1834 Captain Jabez Hobson moved to Steep Falls, Maine, where he was the first independent lumber op erator on the Saco river at that point, there having been previously a co-operative saw mill there owned and operated by a number of the early settlers jointly ; in fact, each man owned the privilege of operating the mill a stated number of days at a time. (VII) Sewell, eldest child of Captain Jabez Hobson, was born in Buxton, March 26, 1816, and came to Steep Falls with his father, with whom he was associated in the lumber busi ness, a calling which he foUowed until a few years before his death, which occurred at the home of his youngest son, Sewell M., at Con way, New Hampshire, June 26, 1896. He was a staunch Republican in politics, and possessed the fine physique and good looks which char acterized the Hobsons as a race, combined with an intelligence which embraced world af fairs as well as matters of local interest. He attended school at Parsonsfield Seminary, where he met and married (first), November 22, 1835, Martha A. Buzzed, daughter of El der John Buzzed, who was for sixty-five years pastor of the Free Baptist church at Parsons field. In 1799 "a periodic ministers' training school" was established in his home with El der Buzzell as dean. Largely through his ef forts Parsonsfield Seminary was estabUshed in 1832, which was the first Free Baptist de nominational school, and from which Bates College was an outgrowth. In 181 1 he gave this denomination its first periodic literature, A Religious Magazine, and he aided Colby to arran.ge the manuscript for his memoirs. In 1823 he published the fir.st denominational hymn book. In 1826 he was one of the prime movers in establishing The Morning Star. He edited and published "The Life of Benjamin 232 STATE OF MAINE. Randall," and was prominent in founding the Free Baptist Book Company. He also worked up the conditions which led to the organiza tion of the Free Baptist Foreign Mission So ciety. His forebears came from the Isle of Jersey in 1696, and settled in New Hampshire, Elder Buzzell being the first one to settle in this state[ He was the father of Dr. John Buz zell, a well-known physician of Cape Eliza beth, and of Dr. James M. Buzzell, of Gor ham, who was undoubtedly one of the most skillful surgeons of his day, and the grand father of Dr. John D. Buzzell, who was for many years a prominent practitioner in Port land. Martha (Buzzell) Hobson was born in Par sonsfield, May 16, 1816, and died at Steep Falls, October, 1855. She bore to her husband six children, two of whom died young. Those living are : I. Ethelinda, born at Steep Falls, January 12, 1837. She received her education in her native town and at Limerick Academy. She had an alto voice of unusual sweetness, and sang in the church choir for over forty years. She married, November 8, 1857, Gideon Mar shall Tucker (see Tucker VII). 2. Anna Elizabeth, born August 5, 1838. She married (first) Jack Seward, of Wake field, New Hampshire, in 1855, who died Au gust 20, 1856. She married (second) Decem ber 18, 1859, Marshall Paine, of Standish, to whom she bore three children : Adelaide Olive, born December 8, i860, is unmarried, living with her mother in Portland, Maine; Celia MitcheU, born January 3, 1862, married Walter Hamlin, August 31,^1887, and died December 8, 1891 ; Grace" Flobson, born Au gust 20, 1868, married (first) Wilbur F. Chase, September 14, 1887, who died Decem ber, 1892; she married (second) Hugh Eustis Potts, June 22, 1896; they have a "beautiful cottage on the shore of Sebago Lake, in Stan dish, where they spend their summers. 3. Martha Alma, born at Steep FaUs, May 31, 1848. She was educated in the schools of this town, and Gorham Seminary, and was married, September 12, 1869, at HUlside Manse, Cornish, Maine, by Parson Cole, to Stephen H. Cousins (see Cousins VII). She is a woman of great executive ability, and has been for a number of years at the head of the Maine Woman's Missionary Society of the Free Baptist denomination, of which she is a devoted member. 4. James Edward, born March 31, 1851, at Limerick, Maine. When quite young he went to Somersworth, New Hampshire, where he entered a dry goods store. He married, Oc tober 29, 1873, Emma Swain, daughter of Moses and Emma (Gowell) Swain, of Som ersworth, where he was for many years a member of the firm of Dorr & Hobson. To them were born children: i. Harry Ed ward, born July 29, 1874, now an electrician in Poughkeepsie, X^ew York. 2. Herbert Leon, born July 12, 1877 ; married November 4, 1904, Gertrude Abbott, of Buena Vista, Newfoundland ; to them were born two chil dren : Dorothy Emma, born August 23, 1905, and James Buzzell, born December 25, 1906. T,. Clifford Alaurice, born June 21, 1880, died May 2, 1903. Sewell Hobson married (second) Ann Thompson, widow of Levi Thompson, and daughter of Elijah and Rhoda (Parker) Emery, who lived in Windham, where she was born March, 1823, and she died in Steep Falls, Alarch, 1895, having borne him one chUd : Sewell AL, who married Orphie Eaton, of Brownfield, in 1884. They live in Conway, New Hampshire, and have one son, Rupert Jabez, who was born September 7, 1903. James Sawyer, a weaver by SAWYER trade, setded in Ipswich, Essex county, Massachusetts, in Jan uary, 1669. He was probably the son of Will iam Sawyer, who came from England in 1640. The records show that his first wife was Mar tha. In 1677 fhe Gloucester records show that a son Nathaniel was born to him and his wife Sarah, and in his will dated Alay 25, 1703, he mentions his wife Sarah and his children in the following order : My eldest son, Thomas Sawyer ; second, John ; third, Nathaniel, born 1677; fourth, Abraham, 1680; fifth, Isaac, 1684; sixth, Jacob, 1687; seventh and young est, James, i6qi, and my two daughters, Mary, wife of William Ring, and Sarah, bom 1683. (II) John, son of James Sawyer, married in 1 701 Rebecca Standford, and resided at Cape Ann, Massachusetts, until 1719, when he removed to Falmouth, Alaine. He settled on the Neck, opposite Portland, called Cape Elizabeth, and in 1719 the town granted him the privilege of the ferry on the cape side, which he kept many years. Children : John, Job, Jonathan, Daniel, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Rebecca, Bethiah. (Ill) Joseph, son of John Sawyer, was born in Gloucester, 1711, and went with his parents to Falmouth in 1719. The York county records show that he was appointed special justice of the court of common pleas. .STATE OF MAINI -A^3 December 27, 1734, April 8, 1743, special jus tice of superior court in 1749, and judge of the inferior court September 11, 1765. He married Joanna Cobb ; children : Ebenezer, Mary, Lemuel, James, Jabez, John, Rachel, Mercy and Rebecca. Joanna (Cobb) Sawyer was the daui;liter of l'[benezer and Mary Cobb, of Ca[)e Elizabeth. Ebenezer Cobb was born April 10, 1688, died ([)ctober 28, 1731. He was the son of Jonathan Cobb, born April 10, 1660, married, March i, 1682, Llope Chipman. Jonathan Cobb was the son of Elder Henry Cobb, who died in 1675, and bis second wife, Sarah (Hinckley) t[obI), daughter of Samuel EIinckle\-. Ilo])e (Chipman) Cobb was the daughter of Elder J(5hn Chipman, born 1621, died April 7, 1708, son of Thomas Chipman andIIo])e (llowland) Chipman. Hope (How- l;iiid) Chipman was the daii.gliter of John llowland, who came in the "Ma\llo\ver" and died 1673, and Eliz.ilieth (TiUey) llowland, who also came in the "Alayllower" and died in 1687. I ler father, John Tilley and his wife, who is supposed to have been a daughter of ( lovernor Carver, came over in the "Ma\no\ver" and the records show that they died in 1621. Joseph Sawyer died March 31, 1800, aged eighty-nine years. (I\') Jabez, son of Joseph .Sawyer, was born at Cape Elizabeth, 17.14. He married, March 8, 1765, M;iry Pennell, whose .grand mother was Sar;tli Sawyer, sister to Joseph Sawyer. The Rev. Paul Coffin, who was for so man)' years pastor of the Buxton Lower Corner church, united them. Jabez with his brother John went from Cape Elizabeth (o Blue ElUl, now called Sedgwick, where they resided several years on adjoining farms. When the Indians became troublesome in that locality they returned to Cape Elizabeth, and when the times became more peaceful they went to Narraganset No. i, now Buxton, and cleared adjoining farms, where they lived and died. Jabez Sawyer was a revolutionary sol dier and a pensioner. Children: i. Jabez, see forward. 2. Thomas Pennell, married Nancy Cobb, daughter of Eben and Rachel Cobb, of Cape Elizabeth ; ten children ; those who lived were: i. Eben; ii. Pri.scilla, mar ried Nathaniel Johnson, of Westbrook; iii. Mary, married Joseph Han.son, of Buxlon; iv. Syrena, married a Deering, of Buxton. 3. Joseph, married Joanna Cobb, of Cape Eliza beth ; children : i. Eliza, married Isaac Ste vens; ii. John; iii. Mary; iv. Joseph Still man; V. James; Joseph married (second) Mary Ridlon ; one .son, vi. Phineas. 4. James, married (first) Betsey Merrill; children: i. Samuel; ii. Hannah, married Christopher Dyer; iii. Mary Ann, married L. Dou.glass ; iv. Eliza, married a Douglass ; James married (second) Abigail Milliken; chUdren: i. James Thornton ; ii. Eunice, married Albert Jose ; iii. Ellen, married Jefferson Cole; iv. Rebecca, died unmarried. 5. William, married Betsey Knight, of Buxton ; children : i. Eben ; ii. William; iii. Samuel; iv. Eliza, married Jere miah Mason, of .Saco ; v. and vi. died young. 6. Eben, married Betsey Knight, of West brook; children: Jabez, Nathaniel Knight, Thomas Pennell, Lafayette, Washington, Mary Jane, Ruth Knight and John Knight. 7. Re becca (see Sawyer V and Hobson V). 8. Mary, married William Elwell, of Buxton ; children: i. William; ii. Salome, married Peter Williams, of Gorham; iii. Jabez; iv. Joseph; v. I'ollv, married Nathaniel Strout, of Raymond; vi. John; vii. Sarah, married Ste phen Brown, of Guilford, Maine. 9. Joanna, married Joseph Hanson, of lluxton; children: Moses, Joseph Sawyer, Thomas, Joanna,, married Phineas Libby, of Bu.xton, and three who died young. 10. .Sarah, married Isaac Deering, of Saco; children: i. Alary, married Eben Sawyer; ii. Ann; iii. Sarah, married Nathaniel Boothby ; iv. Jabez ; v. Joseph ; vi. Thomas; vii. David; viii. Rufus; ix. Arthur. II. Lyflia, married John Lord, of Buxton; children : Abraham, [Nathaniel and Mary Ann, married Elbrid.gc Tarbox, of Salmon FaUs. 12. Mercy, married John Knight, of West brook; children: Ruth Alden, Nathaniel, Pris cilla, died yoiin.t;-, John Adams. Jabez Sawyer died April ii), i8i6; his wife died March 10, 1814. (\') Rebecca, eldest daiicjliler of Jabez Sawyer, was bom July 15, 1765. She married Joseph Hobson (see Hobson \') and was the mother of ten children and the great-great- grandmother of Dr. Cousins through that line. (A') Jabez (2), eldest son of Jabez (i) Sawver, was born in 1768. Married, 1793, Elizabeth Elanson, of Buxton. Children: i. Jabez, died young. 2. Phineas, died young. 3. Thomas, died young. 4. Enoch, married Hannah Norton ; son Phineas. 5. .Alvin, mar ried Eliza Hanson, grandparents of Charles Moore, of Steep Falls. 6. John, married Eliza beth Smith, parents of Su.san, married Fred Abates, of Biddeford, Almeda, married Henry Anthoine, of Biddeford, and Alary, unmarried. 7. Hannah, married Samuel Hobson, parents of Samuel D. Hobson, who married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Eben (son of Joseph) and Sarah (Haley) Sawyer, of Saco. 8. Mary, married Oliver Smith, parents of Jen- 234 STATE OF MAINE. nie (Peabody), widow of John Marshall (see Tucker A"). 9. Deborah, see forward. (AT) Deborah, youngest daughter of Jabez (2) Sawyer, and grandmother of Dr. Cousins, was born in Buxton, April 20, 1816, died at Steep Falls, Alarch 12, 1899. She was mar ried in Buxton in 1837 to Joseph Cousins (see Cousins AT). The Rev. C. Wellington Rog ers, wdio was her pastor at the time of her death, said of her: "She was a mother in Israel. To her the bond of friendship was almost equal importance to the family ties, and Christian fellowship." The first record that we have HANCOCK of the Hancock ancestors in this country is in a deed re corded in Salem, Massachusetts. This states that WiUiam Hancock, WUliam Hancock Jr. and others bought land in Haverhill in 1728. (I) William Hancock, born in London derry, Ireland, probably about 1670; came to this country some time previous to 1728 and settled at or near HaverhUl. (II) WUliam (2), son of William (i) Hancock, was bom in Londonderry, Ireland, about 1707, and came to this country with his father. The first record which we have of him in Alaine is where he bought land in Nar raganset No. I, now Buxton, in 1749, where he is referred to in the deeds as "of Haver hUl." Shortly afterward he must have re moved to Buxton, as his residence, in a deed of 1750, is said to be Narraganset No. i. He was evidently a man of ability and intelligence, as his name is mentioned in connection with all the enterprises of the town until his death in 1769. He was one of the committee who built the first meeting house at Buxton Lower Corner, and called the Rev. Paul Coffin its first pastor, January 31, 1763. In 1754 the town authorized him to build a fort or garri son, and in 1760 he was one of a committee sent to treat with the general court for the settlement of the town lines. ChUdren of AVilliam and Sarah Hancock were : Mary, married John Boynton, of Haverhill, a direct descendant of the Boyntons who came from Rowley, Yorkshire, England, and settled in Rowley, Massachusetts. Isaac, see forward, and John. (HI) Isaac, son of WiUiam (2) Hancock, must have located in Buxton about the time that his father did, for he purchased his home lot, November 30, 1752, and is accredited at that date to Narraganset No. i. In 1755 he was lieutenant of the company of Captain John Lane, who became his father-in-law, as he married, December 15, 1756, his only daughter, Joanna, who bore him three chil dren : WiUiam, see forward ; Sarah, born 1763; John Lane. Joanna (Lane) Hancock was bom September 18, 1738, died October 19, 1827. She was noted for great personal beauty, superior intelligence and business abil ity. After the death of Isaac Hancock in 1764 she married John Garland, of Buxton, to whom she bore several children. She was the daughter of Captain John (2) and Mary (No- well) Lane, who were married about 1732, and had five children: John (3), born July 30, 1734, died July 14, 1822; Henry, August 19, 1737, died the same year; Joanna, above mentioned; Daniel, Alay 11, 1740, died Sep tember ii, 1811; Jabez, September 21, 1743, died AprU 30, 1830. John (3), Daniel and Jabez were captains in the revolutionary war and performed valiant service for their coun try. They had a practical military education, for their father. Captain John (2) Lane, took them with him in his expeditions against the French when they were very young, Jabez being only eleven years of age when his name first appeared on the muster roll. Captain John (2) Lane was commander at Fort [Hali fax on the Kennebec, 1743-44, and. was ap pointed in 1744 to take charge of the four companies raised in Alaine to join the expe dition against Crown Point, where he lost his life July 14, 1756. Mary (Nowell) Lane, his wife, was the daughter of Peter Xowell, of York, who married Lydia, daughter of Daniel Jenkins. Captain John ( i ) Lane came from Limerick, Ireland, settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, and was appointed commander of Fort Mary, Winter Harbor, where he died about 1717. He married, in 1693, Joanna Davidson, daughter of Daniel Davidson, of Newbury, Alassachusetts ; children : AbigaU, John (2), born at Hampton, New Hainpshire, November i, 1701, and Mary. (lA') AA^iUiam (3), son of Isaac Hancock, was born February 3, 1761, died November 19, 1836. He married, August 26, 1782, Eliza beth Leavitt, born November, 1764, died May 29, 1841, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Phinney) Leavitt, who were married Janu ary, 1756. Samuel Leavitt was born 1732, died 1797; yyas son of Joseph Leavitt, of York, who was one of three persons who built mills in 1761 on Little river in Narragan set No. I. Sarah (Phinney) Leavitt, his wife, was born Alay 18, 1734, died AprU, 1793; she was the daughter of Captain John Phinney, STATE OF MAINE. 235 the first settler of Gorham, who was born September 19, 1693, died December 29, 1784, and Martha (Coleman) Phinney, who was born March 4, 1698, died December, 1784. Captain John Phinney was the son of Deacon John Phinney, who was born in 1665, died in 1746, and Sarah (Lombard) Phinney. Deacon John Phinney was the son of John and Mary (Rogers) Phinney, who were married in 1664. John Phinney was the son of John and Chris tine Phinney. Martha (Coleman) Phinney was the dau.ghter of James Coleman, who died in 1714; he married, 1694, Patience Cobb, born in 1668, died in 1747. James Coleman was the son of Edward Coleman, who was the son of Thomas and Margaret (Lombard) Coleman. Patience (Cobb) Coleman was the daughter of Sergeant James Cobb, born 1634, died 1695, and Sarah (Lewis) Cobb, born 1643, died 1735. Sergeant James Cobb was the son of Elder Henry Cobb, who died in 1675, and Patience (Hurst) Cobb, his first wife, whom he married in 1631, died 1648. Dr. Cousins is directly descended from Elder Henry Cobb through both his first wife, Pa tience (Hurst) Cobb, who was the mother of Sergeant James Cobb, who is an ancestor of the Hancocks, and his second wife, Sarah (Hinckley) Cobb, mother of Jonathan Cobb, an ancestor of the Sawyers and Hobsons. Children of William {3) and Elizabeth, (Leavett) Hancock were: i. Isaac, married Mary Rand, daughter of Michael Rand. 2. Phineas, married Mary Bean, daughter of Stephen Bean. 3. WiUiam, married, March 30, 1805, Anna [Rand, daughter of Michael Rand. 4. John, married (first) Jane Smith; (second) Mrs. Eliza Pingree. 5. Betsey, see forward. 6. Hannah, married [Nicholas Rid lon. 7. Mercy, married Isaac Ridlon. 8. Ruth, married John Bean. 9. Pattie, married Thomas Haines. 10. Anna, married John Rand, son of Michael Rand. 11. MoUy, mar ried John Foster. 12. Joanna, married Elea zer KimbaU. There are living at Steep Falls quite a number of the descendants of Hannah (Hancock) Ridlon and two grandsons, of Molly (Hancock) Foster, John and Wilbert R. Foster, sons of John Foster, of Parsons field. (V) Betsey, daughter of William (3) Han cock, was born September 12, 1792, died April 27, 1867. She married, in 181 5, Jabez Hob son (see Hobson VI) and was the mother of Sewell Hobson, the grandmother of Martha Alma (Hobson) Cousins, and the great-grand mother of Dr. Cousins (see Cousins VIII on another page). John Tucker, one of the eariy TUCKER proprietors of Dartmouth, Mas sachusetts, is recorded as being married and having a son John. (II) John (2), son of John (i) Tucker, of Dartmouth, is recorded as being married and having a son Andrew. (HI) Andrew, son of John (2) Tucker, married Blanche Skinner and had a son John. (IV) John (3), son of Andrew Tucker, was born about 1735. He married, about 1770, Lydia Jacobs, born August 24, 1743, died Oc tober 16, 1793, daughter of Daniel Jacobs, of Salem, Massachusetts, and the sister of EUza beth, who married Captain John Endicott^ of Danvers. Children: i. John (4), born Feb ruary 24, 1771. 2. and 3. Andrew and Betsey, twins, bom Alay 2, 1773. 4. Jonathan, see forward. 5. Gideon, born Alarch 7, 1778, married Martha Hardy, daughter of Hon. Benjamin and Frances (Richter) Goodhue. 6. Marcia, born March 11, 1780. 7. Samuel D., born January 26, 1782, married, October 19, 1815, Nancy Jenks. 8. Edward, born AprU 13, 1784. 9. [Henry, born February 27, 1786. (V) Jonathan, son of John (3) Tucker, was born in Salem, Alassachusetts, March 13, 1776. He came to Saco some time prior to 1797, for in that year he formed a partnership with Samuel Cleaves, under the "name of Cleaves & Tucker. They built wharves, dealt in general merchandise and lumber, and were interested in the shipping business. It seems a strange coincidence that both Portland and Saco should have among their earlier business enterprises a Cleaves and Tucker firm, with no traceable connection between the two. Air. Tucker was prominent in all the city affairs, being one of the original stockholders in the Saco Bank in 1803, and a director from 1806 to 1 81 3. He was president of the Manufac turers' Bank from 1825 to 1832, of which he was also a director from 1825 to 1834. He was one of the incorporators of the Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution, of which he was vice-president from 1827 to 1838. He represented Saco in the legislature in 1840-41, was a trustee of Thornton Academy from 181 1 to 1861 and president of that institution from 1848 to 1859. He married, May 15, 1800, Hannah Scamman, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Jordan) Scamman. She was a de scendant of Humphrey Scamman (i) through Captain Humphrey (2) and James (3), the father of Nathaniel. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Tucker: i. Gideon, see forward. 2. William, born August 26, 1804, died Febru ary 4, 1855. 3. Henry, born December 19, 236 STATE OF AlAINE. 1805, died at Fairfield, Maine, June 5, 1874; married, September 2, 1827, Miranda Murch. 4. Nathan Scamman, bom December 27, 1807, married Syrena Babbitt, September 18, 1850. 5. Lydia Elizabeth, born December 26, 1809, died unmarried December i, 1828. 6. Sarah Martha, born June 16, 1814, died December 19, 1866; married the Rev. George Packard, May 21, 1833. 7. and 8. Hannah Alarcia and Ann Jenks, twins, born September 7, 1816; Ann Jenks died unmarried February 2, 1899; Hannah Marcia married Daniel Cleaves Jr. on her nineteenth birthday, September 7, 1835 ; she died May 4, 1886, leaving issue. (VI) Gideon, son of Jonathan Tucker, was born in Saco, Maine, June 4, 1802. He was educated in the schools of that city and Har vard College, from which institution he was graduated in 1820, when only eighteen years of age. He represented Saco in the legisla ture in 1829-44-46-50, was a member of the executive council in 1854, and a member of the senate in 1862. He was a trustee of Thornton Academy from 1840 to 1863, and a director of the Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution 1853-63. His wdfe, Sarah, daugh ter of Jonathan and Phoebe (Milliken) Alar- shall, bore him a son, Gideon Marshall, see forward, and died in 18^7. Lie married, De cember .^,0, 1847, Caroline Atchinson ; chil dren: I. Tohn. 2. Rebecci, married a Guil ford, T.. Henry, married a Knight. 4. Sarah, married Edward Garland. Jonathan Marshall, aforementioned, was the son of Captain Daniel Marshall, who married Rt'th .Andrews, November, 1774, and the grandson of Captain Daniel Alarshall, wdio married Alar)' Peabody, and commanded the brig "Leopold," which came from Nevis in 1 714 with "one passenger." He was born October 27, 1780, married Phoebe Milliken, daughter of Lemuel and Phoebe (Lord) Mil liken. Lemuel Alilliken, who was a revolu tionary soldier, was a son of "Squire" Edward and Abigail (Xorman) Milliken, of Scarbor ough, a detailed account of whose family can be found in G. T. Ridlon's Genealogy of the Milliken family. Children of Jonathan and Phoebe Alarshall : i. Lemuel, born Noveinber II, 1804, married Sarah Gowen, of Saco: moved to Steep Falls in 1849 and lived there until his death. 2. Sarah, aforementioned as the wife of Gideon Tucker. 3. Captain Dan iel, born January 9, 1808, married Charlotte ; died in Salem, AprU 9, 1900, having foUowed the sea for more than half a century ; the last twenty years of his life he spent on shore and watched wdth regret the decadence of shipping at that port ; children : i. Daniel, who resides in Michigan ; ii. George ; iii. Alonzo; iv. Martha, married George Glover; the three latter named reside in Salem. 4. John, born May 12, 181 1, married. May 7, 1837, Elizabeth Hinton, of Bloomfield, Maine. They lived in Augusta, where were born to them three children, James Hinton, Emma Frances, George Quimby, who is the only one now living, a resident of Somerville, Massa chusetts. He has one daughter Ethel. John Marshall was a unique character in the history of travel in this state, as he began driving a stage in 1829 when only eighteen years of age and before there was any railroad east of Boston or steamboat lines skirting our shores. His first long route was from Portland to Bath, after which, in 1833, he drove from Portland to Augusta. It was about this time that he carried Andrew Jackson's second in augural message from Portland to Augusta, going on horseback and changing his mount frequently. When you consider that at that time there were none of our modern methods of transmitting news — no railroads — no tele graphs—no telephones — you can imagine with what eagerness the carrier of Jackson's mes sage was awaited at Augusta, when the coun try was so agitated over the tariff and bank ing questions. In the writer's possession is the old leather wallet in which Mr. Marshall carried this message, as well as all the monies entrusted to him during his forty-three years of service. He was undoubtedly the founder of the express business in this state, as he was the original carrier of Carpenter's express, out of which grew the Adams Express Company. Banks, firms and individuals entrusted him with thousands of dollars, all of which was promptly delivered. He came into contact with all the prominent men of his time, many of whom were his lifelong friends. He was a Democrat, and punctual in his political life as in all else ; he voted at aU elections from Andrew Jackson to William AIcKinley. Dur ing the rebellion he drove from Bath to Rock land, and his last route, which he gave up in 1872, was from Damariscotta to Pemaquid. Soon after retiring he went to Steep Falls where he bought a farm on the banks of the Saco, on the Limington side, in 1879, and January 9, 1880, he married Jennie C. (Smith) Peabody (see Sawyer V), who survives him. He died June 3, 1903. 5. Samuel, born September i, 1814, was lost at sea. 6. Ruth Andrews, born in Scarborough, February 22, 1818, went to the front as a nurse during the war of the rebellion ; at the close of the war STATE OF AlAIXE. ^i7 she married Allan W. Hodgman and made her home in W^ashington where she died. 7. Martha Ann, born June 18, 1820, married John Hall, of Waterborough, and lived for many years in Merrimac, Massachusetts, where her husband was engaged in the car riage business, and where she died June 25, 1902; chUdren: Sarah, MarshaU, James, Frank and Kate. Alarshall and Frank served their country in the war of the rebellion ; Frank died while serving as chief of police of his home town. 8. William, born in Buxton, July 9, 1823, died in Biddeford, July 23, 1849. (VII) Gideon Alarshall, son of (3ideon Tucker, was born in Buxton, Alay 19, 1829. In 1848-49 he made two voyages to South America ; the first with his uncle. Captain Daniel Marshall, on the brig "Margarita," and the second with Captain George Upton on the barque "Oceania," going out of Salem, Alassachusetts, on both trips. In 1850 he went to Steep Falls, Maine, where he spent the following eight years chiefly in the employ of the Hobsons and Lords who carried on the lumber business there. In 1858 he went into business for himself, "teaming," between Steep Falls and Portland before the railroad was built. Lie enlisted, August 14, 1862, in the Sixteenth Maine Regiment of A/olunteers, Company F, and served until he was mustered out of service at Washington after Lee's sur render. He was at some of the principal battles of the rebellion, such as Gettysburg, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Round Moun tain, Antietam anl many others. He was pro moted to wagon master, then to brigade wagon and forage master. In 1866 he be came associated with Mark R. Coolbroth in the buying and seUing of timber, a connection severed only by the death of Mr. Coolbroth in 1903. In 1874 he bought out the interest of Bradbury Merrill in the A. F. Sanborn Lumber Company, and was a member of that firm until their mill burned in 1877, after which for several years Coolbroth & Tucker manufactured shook at "Moody's MiU" on Watchic brook. In 1886 he bought out the interest of the Samuel Banks heirs, and formed a partnership with Stephen Hobson Cousins (see Cousins ATI) under the firm name of Cousins & Tucker. He also by the same transaction became again a member of the A. F. Sanborn Lumber Company. Cousins & Tucker sold out their interest in this com pany in 1902. They formed a corporation in 1904 and in 1905 Mr. Tucker sold out his in terest in same. He conducted business with his son, William M. Tucker, under the firm name of G. M. Tucker & Son until 1907, when he sold out to the son. Although at this date (1909) practically retired from busi ness and nearly eighty years of age, he still has considerable timber interests, and is as active mentally and physically as many a man at fifty. He is a staunch Republican in poli tics, having been for many years a member of the town and county committees, and often a delegate to county and state conventions. He was one of the charter members of Cres cent Lodge, No. 77, K. of P., of Steep Falls, and a member of Adoniram Lodge, F. and A. M., of Limington since 1857. He married, November 8, 1857, Ethelinda Hobson, daughter of Sewell and Martha (Buzzell) Hobson (see Hobson VII). Chil dren : William Marshall, see forward ; Mar tha Hobson, see forward ; James Frederick, see forward ; John Lord, see forward ; Annie Ethelinda, see forward. (VIII) William AlarshaU, eldest son of Gideon Marshall Tucker, was born at Steep Falls, December 2, 1858. When twenty-one years of age he went in the spring of 1880 to X^ebraska, from there to Dakota, and finaUy settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was engaged in the lumber industry until 1897, when he returned to Steep Falls, where he is now engaged in the same business. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the town committee at the present time. He is also an active member of Crescent Lodge, No. 77, K. of P. He married, March 13, 1889, at Somersworth, New Hampshire, Bertha Lothrop, daughter of John and Lydia (Hanson) Lothrop. She has one sister Myra, who married J. Frank Atwood, of North Sandwich, New Hampshire, and one brother, Daniel J. Lothrop, who is a teacher in Seattle, Washington. Children of Air. and Mrs. Tucker: i. Ruth Lothrop, born in Aliiine- apolis, December 19, 1891, is now a student in her junior year at the Maine Central In stitute, Pittsfield, Maine. 2. Martha Ethe linda, born Minneapolis, September 15, 1896. 3. Alargaret, born Steep FaUs, September 6, 1901. (VIII) Martha Hobson, eldest daughter of Gideon [Marshall Tucker, was born in Steep FaUs, June 8, 1861. She was educated in the village schools, at Gorham Normal school and Limington Academy. After leaving school she taught for a number of years. She was in strumental in establishing a public library at Steep Falls, which was opened in February, 1900. She is unmarried and lives in Steep Falls with her parents. 238 STATE OF AlAIXE. (VIII) James Frederick, second son of Gideon Alarshall Tucker, was born in Steep Falls, October 8, 1865. For twenty years he was a travelin.g and a local salesman for an eastern firm wdth his office in Chicago. He is at the present time a broker there. He is a Republican in politics, and has been assessor of Lake View district in Chicago. He mar ried, June 23, 1892, at Janesville, Wisconsin, Fannie Belle Van Kirk, daughter of William T. and IsabeUe (Bostwick) A"an Kirk, of Janesville. Children : IsabeUe, born August 30, 1895, in Chicago; Racine, Alay 26, 1900, in Chicago. (VIII) John Lord, third son of Gideon Marshall Tucker, was born Alarch 13, 1868. He received his early education in the schools of his home town, after which he took a busi ness course at X^ew Hampton College, New Hampshire. He married (first) June 23, 1891, Alabel Newman, daughter of Judge T. H. X^ewman, of Burlington, Iowa, by whom he had one son, Alaurice Newman. Married (second) Genevieve Loud, at Annapolis, [Maryland, with whom he now lives in Wash ington, D. C, where he is in the advertising department of the IVashington Star. (A^III) Annie Ethelinda, second daughter of Gideon Alarshall Tucker, was born IMarch 28, 1874, at Steep FaUs. She was educated in the village schools and Limington Academy, being graduated from that institution in 1893, after which she taught music at Potter Acad emy, Sebago, and at home until her marriage, September 15, 1897, to Harry Fowler, son of Dr. W'illiam and Maria (Smith) Smith, of Cornish, Maine. Harry Fowler Smith was graduated from the Cornish high school, 1891, and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1895 with the degree of Graduate of Phar macy. He is now manager for the state of Maine for a large wholesale drug firm and lives at Portland, Alaine. Children : He.ster, born August 4, 1898, Portland; Gideon Tuc ker, November 15, 1902; Dorothy, December 26, 1903. The family of Long- LONGFELLOW fellow is of Enghsh origin, and its first rep resentative in America, from whom those of the name are in most cases descended, ap peared in Alassachusetts the latter half of the seventeenth century. The early Longfellows lived in times of trouble, and were farmers and soldiers; later generations were industrious farmers ; then came those who received coUege educations and were prominent in teaching and the law ; and then came one who was the best known and best loved poet of his age and time. (I) Ensign AVilliam LongfeUow, the first of the name who came to America, was born in Horsforth, near Leeds, in Yorkshire, Eng land, and was baptized at Guiseley, October 20, 1650. He came in youth to Alassachusetts and settled in Newbury. He was a man of ability and education, but rather improvident in his manner of life, preferring fun and frolic to work and study. As appears from a clause in Henry Sewall's will, dated August 17, 1678, William Longfellow was at that time living at X^ewbury's Falls. The clause in the wUl is as follows : "I give & bequeath to my Sonne in Law WiUiam LongfeUow & my daughter Anne his wife, during their natural life, a tract of land with the house on it com- only knowne by the name of the high field, with a parcell of meadow adjoining thereunto containing about seven or eight acres, being on the east side of the ffalls river, bounded on the southwest side with a little brooke & the great river, & the northeast side with a small .creeke & stony brooke running into it. AUso an equal part or moyty of my great meadow formerly possessed by Launcelott Granger ; And after their decease to the heires of the said Anne of her body lawfully begot ten or to be begotten, & for want of said issue to my soune Samuel Sew-all, to enjoy to him and his heires for ever." This will was not proved until May 24, 1700, ten years after the death of William Longfellow. Meanwhile the house and land had been conveyed by deed from Henry Sewall to his daughter to Anne Longfellow. Among the tithingmen ap pointed Alay 7, 168(7), "W'as "Air. Will. Long feUow." The honorary appeUation of Air. shows his social standing. In a list of the names of persons who took the oath of allegi ance in X^ewbury, in 1678, is that of William Longfellow, a.ged twenty-seven. In 1687 WiUiam Longfellow returned to England to receive what was due him apparently from the estate of his brother, at which time his father is stated to be "alive and well." After his return to Newbury, AVUliam enlisted in the expedition to Quebec, under Sir WiUiam Phipps, and was drowned at .Anticosti Island, in October, 1690. At that time he was an ensign. In 1739 a township of land on the westerly side of the Merrimack river "and northerly and adjoining to Contoocook," was granted and laid out to the "soldiers in the expedition to Canada, anno 1690," and the heirs of Ensign William Longfellow received STATJ'. Ol" MAINI',, 2.^9 a share of it. He married, Noveinber lO, 167(1, in Newbury, Anno, sister of Judge Sam uol .Sowall, and daughter of lloiiry and Jane (Uiimnior) Sowall. Tlioy had six children: WUliam Stoplion (died young). Anno, Sloiih- eii, Elizaholli and Nallian. Mrs. LongfeUow niarriod (soooiul) IMay ii, 1(192, Henry Short and had six children. She died Deeember 18, 1706. (II) Lioutouanl Stephen, third son of Will iam mikI Aiiue (vSovvall) LongfeUow, w,'is born ill Nowbiiry, Soptember 22, 1(185, aud died at. Nowbnry b'alls (Hyliold Parish) Novombor jO, 17(14, aged sovonty-iiiuo. llo w.'is a kick- siiiith and blacksmith by trade. He owned and occupied tlio house and f.'irni at Newbury Falls until his 'dotitli; January 3, 1711, he bought of his sister I'^lizjibolb all lior right ami inloi'osl "iu laud .Ljivon to said .Aiiuo, by her fallier, IToury .Sowall, in p;irticnkir the farm in Newbury known as 'ye high field'"; Doconibor 17, 1712, ho bought of liis brother Niithau all his right ;uul interest iu the same properly ; Janii.'iry 7, 1715, be bought of John luiiory and wife Mehitable, d.'iughter of Anno LoiigfoUow, all her right and inlorost in (he same properly; and Jaiiii,-ir\' (>, 172(1, he bought of his h;ilf brother ,S;iinuel .Short all his intorost iu the s.'inie property. We li.'ul a lawsuit willi ,'\br:ih.'iiii ;uid .Aiiue (.Short) Adanus re.g.'inliii.g title to tho lii.gh field, and won the suit. .Slephon Loii.gfellow's ;iccoimt book li.'is iiuiuy iiKorostiu.g outrios iu it, and his spelling is evoii more ]Melurest|iie and var ied and loss in conformity willi tho present tlay rules of ortliogi-.-ipliy tluin (h;it of his ooideiuporarios. His ,'u^-eoiiut liook now in oxis(euoo, boars Ibis iusei'i]itioii of ownership: "Sloplieii Longfellow, liis book July 1710." Auothor similar iiiseriiition io:i(ls: ".Slephon LongfeUow, his book eonst Sex .Shillings .'ind Sexponoo." t)iio charge is: "to Day's work my Solfe and 6 oxen and boy 15 — " (15 shUl ings). This eulry shows ho w;is a h'lr.go f;ir- mor as well as blaoksmilb. ,Aiio(her eiitrv is: "17.11 Willitmi .Adams 10 Shop 5 luios and 5 Wotliors Let out fore year for hnfo woll and (hen to return old Stock," The f;ict th.'it there was slavery in tho laud ap|ioais from en- trios in varittus ways on Iho p;iges of the ac count book; lino is: "Thomas Gage 1714 noiisloii one day to plant." IViuston (Bos ton) was his rtiiliaii sl'ivo. who some years later booanio n follow inomher in tho Uytield Parish church, according to this entry in Mr. Hale's b.'iptisinal rooord : "Boston, an Indian servant of 1,(, LougfoUow, Novombor h), 17-7." Iu his will dated (.\-tobor 13, 17(10. and iirovod November 2(1, 17(14, he gave to his wife Abig;iil mie-lialf of the homestead diii'ing her life, .'iiiil to his sons lulwanl ;inil Samuol, after the payment of cerlain bequests, all llie rest and residue of his estate excepting laud ;iiljoiiiiiig Iho new ])l;iiitatioii in Contoo cook, New I l;tmp.shire, Ste])lien Longfellow, llioiigb ,'i very bad speller, believed in educa tion so ]ir;ietie;illy as to send a sou to college. Sto])lien 1 .ou.t; follow UKirried .Abi.gail, a dau.gh ter (.if Rev. l'[dw.'ird Tlionq-ison, of Marsh- Held. .She died Se|)t ember 10, 1778, aged oighty-Hvo. They wore the iiarents of nine cliihli'oii: William, Ann, lulward, Sarah, Stoplion, Samuel, Abi.nail, Elizabeth and Nitthaii. (Ill) Sloiilieu (2), third son of Stephen (I) and Abigail (Thompson) Longfellow, w.'is liorii in Uylield, Massachusetts, February 7, 1723, and died at Gorhani, M:iiiie, Alay I, 171)0. Ho was ;i bright boy, and was sent lo Harvard CoUoi^o wdiere lie took his first degree in 1 7. [2, ,'iiid his second in 1745. He (au.tjht a school in A'ork, and went fri-iin there to Ealmoiilli (now Portland), Maine. The lottor from the miuislor of the town inviting him ran as follows : ".Ealmoiitb, November 5, 1744. ".Sir: A\'o nood a school-master. Mr. 1'1,'iisloil ;idyisos me of your being al liberty. If you will tiuilortake the service in this place, \'ou iii.'iy dopoiid upon our being generous and your boin.g s;i(istiod. I wish you'd come as soon as iiossible, and doubt not but you'll find things (o your eoiiteiit. "A'oiir humble ser't, "Tuos. Smith. "P S. — I wrote in the name and with the power of (bo seloctuion of the town. If you o;in't serve us, pray advise us per first oppor- liiuil)'." The salary for the first year was two hun dred pounds, iu depreciated currency. Mr. Longfellow arrived in I'almoiith. .'April 11, and o|ieiioil a school six days afterward; it was probably (ho .yranimar school. He cou- (iniied (o bo the principal instructor in the town utUil he was apiioiutod dork of the court oil the division of tho county in 1760. He held ni.'iny iinportaiU and honorable offices in Portland. We was (own clerk twenty-two \'oars; dork of tho lirsl parish twenty-three years; dork of tho proprietors of common lands for many years, and was the first (o hold tho otlicos of clerk of tho judicial courts, and register of probate for tho county, which of fices ho hold for six(oeii years. "His hand writing in beautiful character, symbolical of 240 STATE OF MAINE. the purity and excellence of his own moral character, is impressed on all the records of the town and county through many successive years." He lived at the beginning of the revolution, on that part of Fore street which fronted the beach, east of India street; his house was destroyed in the sack of the town by Alowatt, October i8, 1775, when he moved to Gorham, where he died, universally beloved and respected. His favorite reading was his tory and poetry. He married, October 19, 1749, Tabitha, daughter of Samuel Bragdon, of A^ork, Alaine, who died June 11, 1777. Their children were : Stephen, Tabitha, Sam uel, William and Abigail. (IV) Hon. Stephen (3), eldest son of Stephen (2) and Tabitha (Bragdon) Long feUow, was born August 13, 1750, in Fal mouth, and died in Gorham, May 28, 1824, aged seventy-four years. He went to Gor hani with his father in 1775. He was one of the leading citizens of Gorham ; a man highly honored and esteemed. He held many town offices ; was selectman several years ; repre sentative to the general court of Massachu setts eight years ; also senator under Alassa chusetts ; judge of the court of common pleas from 1798 to 181 1. He occupied the farm which at one time included the Stephenson farm. The rows of fine elms which border the farm, and are still known as the "Long fellow Elms," were planted over one hundred years ago, tinder Judge Longfellow's direc tion and at his expense, he paying his hired men nine pence (twelve and a half cents) above their wages for every tree which they would set out outside of their working hours. Mr. LongfeUow married, December 13, 1773, Patience Young, of York. She died August 12, 1830, aged eighty-four years. They had six children : Tabitha, Stephen, Abigail, Anna, Catherine, and Samuel. (A^) Hon. Stephen (4), eldest son of Stephen (3) and Patience (Young) Longfel low, was born in Gorham, Alarch 23, 1776, and died in Portland, August 23, 1849, aged seventy-three years. He entered Harvard College at eighteen years of age, and gradu ated in the class of 1798. He was admitted to the bar in 1801, practiced law in Portland for many years, and attained great eminence in his profession. He was distinguished not only for his large acquirements, but for his probity and uprightness, and was often called upon to exercise important trusts. He was a member of the Hartford Convention in 1814, and later was elected to congress and served one term. By overtasking his powers in the practice of his profession he was prostrated by disease. In 1828 he received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin College, of which he was a trustee nineteen years. In 1834 he was elected president of the Maine Historical So ciety. He died highly respected for his in tegrity, public spirit, hospitality and gener osity. He married, January i, 1804, Zilpah Wadsworth, a daughter of (General Peleg and Elizabeth (Bartlett) W''adsworth, of Pordand. She was born at Duxbury, Alassachusetts, January 6, 1778, and died in Portland, Alarch 12, 1 85 1, aged seventy-three years. General Wadsworth was a descendant of Christopher Wadsworth, the emigrant, of Duxbury, through John, John Jr., and Deacon Peleg, his father. He was a major-general in the revolution, and a member of congress four teen years, being a much respected and hon ored citizen of his state. He died at Hiram, Maine, Xoveinber 12, 1829, aged eighty-one years. The children of Stephen and ZUpah ("Wads worth) Longfellow were: Stephen, Henry W., Elizabeth, Anne, Alexander W., Mary, Ellen and Samuel. (VI) Henry Wadsworth, second son of Stephen (4) and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Long feUow, was born in Portland, Alaine, Febru ary 27, 1807, and died in Cambridge, Massa chusetts, March 24, 1882, aged seventy-five. His birthplace is at the north corner of Fore and Hancock streets. At the age of fourteen he gave decided indications of poetic taste, and anonymous pieces from his pen were at that time published in a Portland newspaper. In 1821 he entered Bowdoin College, though for the most part, during the first year of his coUege course, he pursued his studies at home. The class whicli he entered was noted for the intellectual brilliancy of its niembers. In it were sons of some of the choicest families of Northern New England; and among them were those who were to achieve a wide repu tation in the field of letters — Nathaniel Haw thorne, George B. Cheever, John S. C. Ab bott, and others at the bar and in political life, conspicuous among whom were Jonathan Cilley and James Ware Bradbury. Air. Long fellow graduated second in a class of thirty- seven. His theme on commencement day was "Native Writers." During his college life he contributed to periodicals of the time, and his productions were received with favor as "early blossoms" of a spring of promise. Just at the time that he was going from Bowdoin, the trustees determined to establish a pro fessorship of modern languages, and not hav- STATE OF ALAINE. 241 ing the means to obtain the services of anyone who was already eminent in this department, they determined to offer the post conditionally to the voting graduate of tlieir own college, who had already given proof of character and abUities that would enable him after proper preparation to fill the place satisfactorily. The proposal was accordingly made to him that he should go to Europe for the purpose of fitting himself for this chair, with the understanding that on his return he should receive the ap pointment of professor. It was a remarkable testimony to the impression that Longfellow- had made and to the confidence that he had inspired. Nothing could have been more de- lightftU to him than the prospect it opened. It settled the question of his career in accor dance witli the desire of his heart, and his father gladly approved. The study of law which he had entered upon was given up, and in Alav, 1826, he sailed for Europe. He spent between three and four years in Spain. France, Italy and Germany. With unusual facility in acquiring language, he faithfully and success- fuUy improved his opportunities, rare at that period, and returned to assume his duties in the college in 1829, accomplished in French, Italian and German, and subsequently added rare familiarity with more northern languages of Europe. In 1S35 he accepted the professor ship of French and Spanish languages and literature and belles lettres at Harvard. S'jb- seqtiently he again went abroad and spent two years in Denmark, Sweden. Hol land, Germany, the Tyrol, and Switzer land. His third visit to Europe -\vas made in 1S42. Air. Longfellow was highly esteemed and much respected as an instructor during the twenty-two years he served in that ca pacity. In all his years of teaching, he wrote much, his articles in the North American Re- licze giving him a very extended reputation. He made translations of various foreisrn works into English -while in Bowdoin. and a stdl greater number w-hile in Harvard, of which even the names cannot be mentioned in this brief article : and while at Harvard most of his many noted poems appeared. "In 1854 Mr. Longfellow resigned his professor ship at Harvard" (says the "History- of Bow doin CoUege." from which a large part of this article is extracted), but still continued his residence in Cambridge. In 1S37. the historic mansion, the Craigie House, became his home, noted as the headquarters of AA'ashington, and in later years the temporary residence of Presidents Everett and Sparks. Though re tired from official duties, h was not to gratify a spirit of self-indulgence. In 1855 appeared what, from its immense circulation, has seemed his most popular as it has been pro nounced his most original work, "Hiawatha." It was soon translated into German. Follow ing this came the "Courtship of Allies Stan dish," 1858; "Tales of a AA'ayside Inn," 1863: "Flower de Luce.'' 1S67: "The Xew England Tragedies." 1S6S: "Dante's Divine Comedy," a translation, 1S67; "The Divine Tragedy," 1871 ; "Christus: a Alysterv," 1872; ""Three Bocks of Song." 1S72; Aftermath." 1S74; "The Alasque of Pandora," 1875. This last contained "Alorittiri Salutamus," a poem w-hich Air. Longfellow read at the reunion of his class on the fiftieth anniversary of gradua tion. This was received with great interest at home, and was regarded in England as not inferior in conception and execution to his best. "Poems of Places." thirty-one volumes appeared between 1S76 and 1879: "Keramos, and Other Poems," 1878: "Ultima Tliule," iSSo: "In the Harbor." 18S2, published after the author's death: "Alichiel Angelo." 1S83, printed after the author's death, in the At lantic Montl'Jx. and afterward in an Ulustrated volume. "A Complete Edition of Air. Long fellow's Poetical and Prose AA'orks," in eleven volumes, was publisl^.ed in iSoo. Longfellow's works have been translated into many lan- g:i-ias;e5 and passed through numerous editions at home and abroad. "Their popularity may be judged bv the fact stated by Allibone that in 1S57 the sales of them in this country alone had amounted to 325.550. Besides those col lected in his volumes, many have appeared in periodicals, whicli have not been thus col lected. His wide culture and unwearied in dustry are manifest from their number and variety, the ric'i thought which they contain, their ccsrr.oo-olitan character, and the exquisite finish and the melody of versification -\vhich m.ark all the prcd.ictions of his pen. His translatici:? sI:ow ur.sur'-'assed faciUty in transf'.-.sing the iJ.eas and spirit of the original, and extraordinary r.tastery over the ry-thmati- cal resources cf the language. In his own and other lands, and from highest sources. his productions have received most cordial and discriminating commendation." "In iSoS and iSoo." s.ivs Appleton's '"Cyclopedia of Ameri can P.iosrraphy." "accomranied by Iiis .."a-.igh- ters. he visited Europe for the last time, and enjoyed a delightful stay in England, in Paris, and especially in Italy. Fame and the affec tion that l:;s roen:s had awakened for him. 242 STATE OF MAINE. though personally unknown, in the hearts of many in the Old World not less than in the New, made his visit to Europe a series of honors and pleasures. But he returned home glad to enjoy once more its comparative tran quillity, and to renew the accustomed course of the day. His last years were the fitting close of such a hfe." No poet was ever .more beloved than he ; none was ever more worthy of love. The expressions of the feel ing toward him after death were deep, affect ing and innumerable. One of the most strik ing was the placing of his bust in the Poet's Corner in AVestminster Abbey, in March, 1884. It was the first instance of such an honor being paid to an American poet. His bust stands near the tomb of Chaucer, be tween the memorials to Cowley and Dry- den. Henry W. Longfellow married (first) Sep tember 14, 183 1, Alary Storer Potter, daugh ter of Judge Barrett Potter of Portland. She was born Alay 12, 1812, and died at Rotter dam, Holland, November 29, 1835, aged twenty-three. He married (second) July 13, 1843, Frances Elizabeth Appleton, of Boston, born October 6, 181 7, and died a tragic death by burning, July 9, 1861, aged forty-three years. She was the daughter of Nathan Ap pleton of Boston. Their children were : Charles Appleton, Ernest Wadsworth, Frances (died young), /Alice Mary, Edith and Anne AUegra. (VI) Alexander Wadsworth, third son of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfel low, was born in Portland, May 20, 1814, and died February 14, 1901, aged eighty-six years. He was a civil engineer, and employed for years in the United States coast survey. Fle married, Augu.st 6, 1851, [Elizabeth Clapp Por ter of Portland, daughter of Richard King and Mary (Clapp) Porter, and granddaugh ter of Dr, Aaron Porter, whose wife Paulina was a daughter of Richard King, of Scarboro, sister of Rufus King, and half sister of Gov ernor WUliam King. The children of Alex ander W. and Elizabeth C. (Porter) Long fellow were: Alary Kin.g, Alexander AA/"., Elizabeth Porter, Richard K., and Lucia Wadsworth. Lucia W., married Franklin Ripley Barrett, of Portland (see Barrett VIII). She is descended through the Wads- worths from nine Mayflower Pilgrims : El der William Brewster and his wife Mary, their son Love Brewster, William MuUins and wife and their daughter Priscilla, John Alden, Richard Warren and Henry Samson. This name probably origi- BARRETT nated in Normandy, and has gone from that country to all parts of the world, particularly to Ireland and America. (I) James Barrett, born in England, about 1615, was an inhabitant of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1643, and later of Maiden, and died August 16, 1672. Charlestown rec ords show that he bought various small pieces of land. His will was probated October, 1672. His inventory dated September 18, 1672, men tions house and barn, twenty acres of woods at Spat Pond, eighteen acres upland, five acres at Stony Swamp, six acres marsh and one acre of upland at Wormwood Point. He married Hannah or Anna, daughter of Stephen Fosdyck, a carpenter who settled in Charlestown, 1635, and died May 21, 1664, She died leaving a wiU made AprU 29, 1681, and probated June 20, 1681. The children of Tames and Anna (Fosdyck) Barrett were: James, Flannah, Mary, Sarah, John and Stephen. (II) James (2), eldest child of James (i) and Anna (Fosdyck) Barrett, was born April 6, 1644. He was a carpenter and lived in Maiden. The records show that he was a landholder. He married, January 11, 1672, Dorcas, tenth child of Thomas and Elizabeth Green, of Maiden, -born May i, 1653. Her inventory, 3 (9) 1682, was £119. The children of James and Dorcas were : James, John and Jonathan. (Ill) Deacon John, second son of James (2) and Dorcas (Green) Barrett, born Mal- (len, AprU 24, 1675, died October i, 1721, aged forty-seven, and was buried on Copp's HiU. Flis estate was administered on in 1722, by Widow Rebecca. Fle was a deacon of the New North Church 1714. Deacon Barrett was married (first) by Cotton ATather, Sep tember 28, 1699, to Sarah Eustace, who died March 16, 1718, probably the youngest of ten chUdren, Her father, WUliam Eustace, is not mentioned earlier than the record of^ the birth of his child, 1659. He is named in a tax list of Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, in 1674. Fle died [November 27, 1694. His wife died June 12, 171 3, aged about seventy- four. Her gravestone is in Charlestown. He married (second), November 24 or December 24, 1719, Rebecca Wells, born 1672, died May 16, 1731, buried on Copp's HiU, Boston. (IV) John (2), son of Deacon John (i) and Sarah (Eustace) Barrett, was born in Boston, December 17, 1707. The date of his STATE OF MAINE. death is unknown. He was married by Rev. John AA^ebb, of Xew X'orth Church, February 25, 1730, to Rebecca CoUins, of Boston, who was baptized March 13, 1709. She probably died in 1765, as her wUl dated May 15, 1765, was probated in Boston in the same year. She was descended as follows : Her immigrant ancestor, (i) Henry Collins, bom 1606, died February, 1689, starchmaker, came over from London in the "AbigaU," and settled in Lynn, where he was made. freeman Alarch 9, 1637. His wife was Ann, born 1605. (2) John, son of Henry Collins, was born in 1632. (3) Daniel, son of John Collins, born Boston, Alarch 3, 1671, died October 30, 1718. He was married by Rev. John Bayley, [December 13, 1693, to Rebecca Clement, born Boston, July 10, 1678. She was a granddaughter of Augustine Clement, of Dorchester, 1636, and his wife Ehzabeth, and daughter of Samuel Clement, born September 29, 1635, who mar ried (first) Hannah English, and (second) Deborah , and their daughter, Rebecca, married Daniel CoUins, and they were the parents of Rebecca. (V) Lieutenant .Colonel John (3), son of John (2) and Rebecca (CoUins) Barrett, was born in Boston, December 7, 1731. He lived in Aliddletown, Connecticut, from about 1756 to 1773. He removed to Springfield, Vermont, and was a partisan of X^ew York in the New Hampshire grant troubles. He was commis sioned, 1775, lieutenant-colonel of the Upper Regiment of Cumberland county. He was at Ticonderoga, under command of Colonel Seth Warner, and he took part in the siege of Quebec. He died December 3, 1806, aged seventy-five, drowned in Black river. He married, in Boston, June 19, 1755, by Rev. Andrew Eliot at the New North Church, Elizabeth Edwards, born Boston, 1733, died Springfield, Vermont, August 27, 1809, aged seventy-six. She wsls the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Pullen) Edwards, of Boston. The children of this marriage wSre : John, Eliza beth, Thomas and Mary. Alary, born Octo ber 10, 1765, married Arthur AlcCleUan, of Portland, Maine. (VI) John (4), son of Lieutenant-Colonel John (3) and Elizabeth (Edwards) Barrett, bom Aliddletown, Connecticut. August 16, 1756, died Northfield, Alassachusetts, Decem ber 26, 1816. He graduated from Harvard College in 1780, was a lawyer at Northfield, where he took a leading part as a professional man and as a citizen, was representative to the general court, 1798, and selectman, 1793. His office was a favorite resort for law students. He married, October 29, 1790, Alartha, daugl ter of Obadiah Dickinson, of Hatfidd, Alass; chusetts, born Hatfield, October 18, 1761, die Pordand, Maine, Alay 29, 1827. Their chi dren were : Eliza E., Alary, Alartha D., Cha lotte Collins, Sarah Pullen, Louisa Warne John and Charles. Her line of descent traced from (i) Nathaniel Dickinson, ( Wethersfield, 1637, who was town clerk an representative of Hadley, 1659, of Northami ton, 1662, died in Hadley, June 16, 1671 His wife was Anna. (2) Joseph, son of N; thaniel and Anna Dickinson, was a freema in Connecticut, 1657, resided in Xorthamptoi 1664-74, removed to Northfield, and wi kiUed with Captain Beers by Indians Septen ber 4, 1675. His wife, Phebe Bray, was daughter of — ¦ and Phebe (Bisby) Bra; of London, who bought an estate at AA^ether; field, for his daughter and her chUdren. (3 Deacon X'athaniel, son of Joseph and Phet (Bray) Dickinson, born A[iay 20, 1670, die in 1745. He married Hannah White, boi September 6, 1679. Her grandfather, Job White, of Hartford, came in the "Lion" froi London to Boston, arriving September i( 1632. He married Alary . born i6o< came to X"'e\v England in 1634, and died bt fore her husband. Daniel, son of John an Alary White, was born in Hadley, 1662, an was a lieutenant in Hatfield, in 1690. H died July 27, 1713. He married, Novembf I, 1661, Sarah Crow, daughter of John an Elizabeth (Goodwin) Crow^ She was bor Alarch i, 1647, and died June 26, 1719. Hai nah White w^as their daughter. (4) Obadial son of X^athaniel and Hannah (White) Did inson, born Jtdy 28, 1704, died June 24, 178! aged eighty- four. He married (first), Ala 26, 1727, Alary Belding, born July 29, 175; daughter of John Belding, and (second), abot 1756, Alartha AA'aite, of Hatfield, Alassachr setts, born October 7, 1724. She was a granc daughter of Se'rgeant Benjamin AA^aite, c Hatfield, 1663, -who was killed by Indians an French in support of Deerfield to whose aid h hastened February 19, 1704. He marriec June 3, 1670, Alartha Leonard, of Springfieli daughter of John and Sarah (Heald) Leor ard. September 19, 1677, Alartha, with thre children was taken by Indians and carried t Canada. She returned next year. Josepl son of Benjamin and Alartha (Leonard Waite, was born X'ovember 11, 1688, in Hat field. He married (first), X''ovember 19, 171; Hamial Billings, who died July 15, 1716; an (second), September 22, 1720, Alary AA'arnei born August 17, 1694, died August iS, 179: 2-14 STAT1'[ Oh' MAINE. aged ninety-eight, lea\ing six cbildren, forty- five gratiilchildrcn, ninety-eight great-grand children and one great-great-granilchilil. She was descended from .Vndrew Warner, of (."am- bridge, 1(132, afterward of Elartford, one of the first settlers of Hadley, where lie ilied De cember 18, 1(184. He married (second) the widow of Thomas Selden. Daniel, .son of An drew W.-irner, was born in Hatfield, lb. m.ir- rieil (first) Mary, and (seeoiul) Martha, daughter of Robert I'.oltwood. She died Sep tember 22. 1710. Daniel (2). .son of Daniel (i) and Mary Warner, born iddf), died Alarch 12, 1754. aged eiglit)-eigbt. He resided in Hatfield, West Hartford and Hardwick, He married, December 12, i(')S8, Mary Hubbard, born April 10, iddo, gr;milil,'uiglitor of George Hubbard, win.) was born in I'[iiglaii(l about 1505, and settled in Wnlertown, Inmi whicli he removed to Wethersfield .'is earl)' as 1636, and afterward to Alilford and Guilford, ( "on- necticut. I le died J.uuinr)', 1(183. Ho married Alar)' I'.ishop, who died Sepleinber 14, ](.>/'> John, son of George and Mary (Bishop) Hub bard, and father of Mary (Hubliard) Warner, born \(),\o. died about 1705. He removed about i(>(in from Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married M;ir)', pcrlKi|is Merriam, of Con cord, who survived bim. (\'ll) ("luirles lulwards, son of John (4) and M.-irllia (Dickinson) Barrett, horn North- field, Massachusetts, Jami.'iry 4, 1S04, died Portland, Maine, J.anuary 2, 1804, aged ninety )ears. At the ;i,ge of tAvelve, his parents hav ing died, he was taken by his guardian to Portland, Maine, where he fitted for college. Graduatin.g from I'lowdoin in 1822, and sub sequently reading law, he was admitted to the bar and ))r;uiieed for a short time, lUit his forte was finance, and he gr;idually became known as one of the most eminent financiers of his day. He was president of the (anal Nation.il liank for many years and treasurer of the Atlantic & St. L;iwrenc'e railro;id, being one of the original eorpor.-itors named in the charier and (he survivor of all the others. Many of the best years of his life wore de voted to the affairs of this road. He was also a director of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth road, now a part of (he i'.oston & Alaine, for many ye;irs, becoming interested in the road in 1839, when il was in process of construc tion. He was likewise .'ictive in the councils of (he corjioration which built the canal to Sebago Lake. In polities be was a Fcfler.'dist, then a Whig, and la.stly a Republican. Though not an aspinmt to office, he .served for a while on the board , 182(1, by Rev. I'[d- ward Payson, (o Elizabeth Mary Baker, born Pordand, November ii, 1804. died Portland, Deeember 27, 1875. She was the daughter of loseidi and h'.lizaheth (I'.iekfonl) (Hale) Haker (see Baker \'I). Iho children of this marri.igo were: Charles Woodbury, Mary b[lizal)etli, John Henry, Eraiiklin Uijiley, ("ieorge Potter ;ind Joseph Haker. i. Charles W., born iSjd, married riannali V . W. West brook and they had three cliildreu : i. Mary, who mai-rid Ilcnry A. M.iriolte and had two children, Charlotte .luiI Gertrude; ii. Charles W., who died May 7, i8()(); iii. Elizabeth, married .Alexander I'[. Alacdonald, M. D., and had two children, ('h.-iilos Dongl.is and Evelyn Pilunt. 2. Mary l'[., born .\|)ril 21), i8jg, died a siiinster. May 1(1, i<)04, 3, John H,, born December 21), 1831, died ( tetober 2, 1852, a student iu A'.ale (."oUege, 4. h'lanklin R., men tioned below. 5. ( 'leorge P., buni March 24, 18-^7, died unmarried June 2, iS()6, 6. Joseph B., born i8,.|i), died iu iiif:mry. (VIII) I'"r;iiiklin l\i]iley. third son of ("liai-les E. and Elizabeth AJ, (Baker) Barrett, was born in I 'ortkuid, January 21, 1835, After attending the jiublie sehools and the old acad emy of Portl.ind, he entered I'.rown Univer sity, from which he graduated with the class of 1857. His first emploNiiient after gradua tion w;is in the oriiee of (he treasurer of the Grand Trunk railro:id, from which he subse- (|iienll\ went into ii;irtiiersliip with E. Ix. .Swan under (he lirm name of .Swan & Barred, They eng.iged in banking and brokerage, which they carried on from 1875 (0 1897, when both partners retired from business. Mr. I'l.-irntl's only emplovmeni since has been in connection with ccrl,-iin financial corporations as trustee and diieelor. His position in ihe fiiianei;il circles in I'orll.iud has been con spicuous and as sueeessful as it li.'is been prominent. In ijRoi he was president of (he Portland Savings I.ank, (he largest institution of its kind in the state and Ihe eighth ill riiiik in New England. At the present time he is a trustee of the rorlland Trust Company, and a diroelor of (he (^riii.il National Bank, each an important monetary institution. For years be was a direelor of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad Company, succeeding his father. He is a trustee of the Portland Public Library and a member of the New England Historical Genealogical Society, the Maine Hislorieal Soeiei)', ami the Maine Gene alogical Soeiely. Me was also for some time Sd'ATE OE ALAINE. -'4.^ seeretiiry and treasurer of the Maine General Hospital and treasurer of the Portland Society of Natural llistor)'. Mr. Barrett is also a member of the following- organizations : The Cumberland and the Country clubs of Port land, the University of New A'ork City, and the Union of Boston. In politics he is an Independent, in religious faith a Unitarian. I'""ranklin R. I'arrott married (first), August 15, 1872, Mary Dwight Boyd, born April 5, 1845, died March i), 1878, ikiughter of John Parker and J. S. (Dwight) Boyd; (second) Lucia Wadsworth Longfellow, born Portland, December 4. 1850, daughter of A. W. and Elizabeth ( I'orter) Longfellow, and niece of the poet, Henry W. Lon.gfellow (see Long fellow). Second to no other trade in im- B.AK1'[R portance to the human family is that of the baker ; and from the trade which from the dawn of civilization has given eiiiplo)iiient to a multitude of laborers, continuously, conies the surname which has been the appellation of some of the most prominent and useful men among the English speaking peo]de. The Haker famil)- of this sketch came early and the qualities of the early Hakors ate still prominent among their descendants. (I) l'[dward Haker was of Lynn, Massa chusetts, in 1(130, and was a farmer. March 14, 1038. he w;is made a freeman. He re- iiiin'od to Nortbanipton about 1(150, and sub- sequeiith' to L)nii and there died, March, 1087. His will was dated (.')ctober 6, 1685. He Jiad a wife Jane, who died .April g, 1693, and certainly five sons and a daughter. They were: Joseph, Tiinothy, John, Edward and Thomas ami Alary. (II) I'[ilward (2), son of I'[ilw'ard (i) and Jane Baker, was made a freeman 1691, and was an ensign iu the militia. He married, .April 7, 1(185, Alar)- Alarshall, born Alay 25, icds, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Mar shall, of Reading :itul L\-iin ; came prohahl)- iii the "James" from London, 1(135, at the ago of twent\'-two. He was a leading citizen and was representative in Ui5i)-tio-(i3-04-67-68 ; lieutenant, and perhaps captain, lie died De cember 23, i(i8i). His wife was Rebecca, who died .(August, 1(103. Their children were: Hannah, Samuel, .\hig;iil, Sarah (died young), Thomas and Rebecca (twins), Elizabeth, Sarah, and perhaps loaiiua, John, Ruth and Mary. (Ill) Edward (3), eldest son of Edward (2) and Alary ([\larshall) Baker, was of Westborough, Massachusetts, where he was settloil about the .time the town was incor porated. Daniel Warren and Edward Baker were chosen the first school committee of Westboro, October 3, 172(1, and instructed to procure a school master, which they did. He married Persis Brigham, who was' born July 10, 1703. Tier grandfather, Thomas Brigham, of Watertown and Cambridge, embarked in the "Susan and Ellen" April 18, U)25, was a freeman i()2i), and selectman. His will dated 17, 10, 1(154. was probated 25, 11, 1654. He married, about 1(137, Alercy Hurd, who survived him. She married (second) Edmund Rice, and (third) William Hunt, and died at Marlboro, December 23, 1693. Samuel P.rig- liani, father of Persis, removed from Sudbury to Marlborough, where he was town treas urer 1 699- 1 703, and selectman 1723, He was born January 12, 1(153, died July 24, 1713, He married h[lizabeth Howe, "of' Marlborough. She was born .April 5, 1(1(15, died July 26, 1739, daughter of .Abraham and Elannah (\Varil) Llowe. .Abraham Elowe, of Alarl- borougli, 1(1(10, was probably first of Roxbury. Ho died June 30. 1(103. lie married, March 2(1. 1658, Elannah AA'ard, born about 1639, died November 3, 1717 or 1718. They had eleven children. The children of Edward and Persis were: Samuel, Solomon, Persis, Abigail, Hepsibah, Elizabeth, Joseph, Lavinia, Ezra and Alary. (lA') Joseph, third son of Edward (3) and" Persis (Brigham) Baker, born Westborough, Alassachusetts, Alay ig, 1736 (?), died Lim erick, Alaine, November ig. i8n, aged sev enty-five. He married, November 15, 1758, Martha Death, born Alay 27. 1738, died Lim erick, Maine, Alay 13, iSog, aged seventy-one. The children of this marriage were : John, Salh-, Martha, TEinnah, L)-dia (died young), Persis, Edward, Lydia, Betsc)-. Joseph and Samuel. Martha Death was the granddaugh ter of Oli\-or and Alartha (Eairbanl'c) Death. Alartha Fairbank was the great-granddaughter of Jonathan Fairbank, who came over in 1(141 ; granddaughter of George Fairbank, of Ded ham, who came with his father from A^ork- shire, England : and daughter of Eliezer and Alartha (BuUard) Fairbank, of Aledford. Eliezer, born June 8. 1655, died September 19, 1741. Olixcr Death, of Framingham, Alassa chusetts, married, .April 17, 1(107. Martha Fairbank, born January 22. 1(180. died at Sherborn. She survived Oliver, who died Alarch 3. 1705. and married (second), 170S, Ebenezer Leland, of Sherborn. John Dea^h, son of Oliver and Alartha (Fairbank) Death, 246 STATE OF MAINE. born May 30, 1702, married, 1729, Hannah Morse. Martha, above mentioned, was their daughter. (V) Joseph (2), third son of Joseph (i) and Martha (Death) Baker, born 1779, died July 20, 1 81 7, aged thirty-eight. He was mar ried February 12, 1804, by Rev. Ehjah Kel logg, to Airs. Elizabeth Hale, formerly Eliza beth Bickford, of Salem, Massachusetts. She was born about 1767, and died April 14, 1819, aged fifty-two. Bradstreet Hale, of Glou cester, and "Betsy" Bickford, of Salem, were married November 30, 1792. The children of Joseph and Elizabeth were: Elizabeth Mary and Joseph Danforth. Elizabeth Bickford was descended as follows : ( i ) John Bickford, of Salem, married, about May, 1699, Rebecca Pinson, and they had George, John, Rebecca, William, Bethiah, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Pris ciUa, Mary and Sarah. (2) John (2), son of John (i) and Rebecca (Pinson) Bickford, born September 15, 1702, married, October 6, 1724, Elizabeth [Hayward. (3) John (3) Bickford, of Salem, married, July 29, 1760, at Salem, Rebecca Ruck, baptized March 2, 1740, at the First Church, Salem; died Octo ber 29, 1817, aged seventy-nine; was buried in the Eastern cemetery, Portland, Maine. Her grandfather, Samuel Ruck, of Salem, had five children : Elizabeth, Ruth, Samuel, Abi gail and John. Samuel (2), third son of Samuel (i), was baptized October 14, 1705, married, November 13, 1729, Bethiah Bick ford, of Salem, born February 2, 1708, daugh ter of John and Rebecca (Pinson) Bickford, who were married about May, 1699, at Salem, Massachusetts. The children of Samuel and Bethiah were Elizabeth (died young), Ruth, Bethiah, John, Rebecca, Abigail, Sarah, Will iam and Elizabeth. [Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Bethiah (Bickford) Ruck, was the wife of the above named John Bickford, and they were the parents of Elizabeth (Bick ford) (Hale) Baker, wife of Joseph [Baker, and they were the parents of Elizabeth Mary, next mentioned. (VI) Elizabeth Mary, only daughter of Jo seph (2) and Elizabeth (Bickford) (Hale) Baker, was born in Portland, November 11, 1804, and died there December 27, 1875. She married, March 6, 1826, Charles Edwards Barrett. (See Barrett VII.) Few families in this country CONANT can trace a longer authenti cated line than the Conants, for it extends two generations beyond Roger, the immigrant ancestor who landed on Ameri can shores in 1623. The name appears to be primarily of Celtic derivation, and in its early form of Conan, or Conon, is found among various races of Celtic origin, including the Britons, Welsh, Irish, Gaels and Bretons. Etymological research indicates that the word is the equivalent of the Welsh cun, Irish cean, Saxon ciining, German konig, Dutch honing, Swedish kommg and the Oriental khan — all meaning head, chief, leader or king. Whether the family came from the Breton or Cornish branch of the Celtic race it is impossible to say. At all events, they were settled in Dev onshire as early as the beginning of the four teenth century. In England thirty-two ways of writing the name have been found, and there are nine others in America, making forty-one in all. Some of the American forms, which in clude nine also used in England, are : Con- nant, Cannant, Connont, Connott, Connanght, Connunght, Connaught, Conet, Connet, Con- nentt, Conat, Cunnet, Cunnant, Conit, (Tonnit, and Connitt. In Devonshire, the old home of the family, though the name is written Conant, the common pronunciation is Connet or Cun net. The earliest example of the name with the final t yet found, occurs in the Patent Rolls of England in the year 1277 when there was litigation between Robert Couenaunt and Filota, late wife of Richard Couenaunt, touching a tenement in Alveton, Staffordshire. Four years later, a Robert Conet was a tenant of the manor of Horncastle, Lincolnshire. In the year 1327 Alexander Conaunt was living in the Hundred of Exminster, Devonshire. (I) John Conant, with whom the authentic genealogy of the family begins, lived in the parish of East Budleigh, England, but was probably born about the year 1520, at Gittis- ham, some ten or twelve miles northeast of Budleigh. In the thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeth (1571), he was assessed for goods of the yearly value of four pounds. In 1577 John Conant and Edmond ffowler held the office of church-warden at East Budleigh, a post of considerable importance in those days. John Conant was buried at East Budleigh, March 30, 1596. The marriage registers of this parish lack the names of women down to 1605, so it is not possible to tell whom John Conant married, and the only child recorded is Richard, next mentioned. (II) Richard, son of John and Co nant, was probably born in the parish of East Budleigh about the year 1548. In 1606 Rich ard Conant and Henry Cowden were church wardens of the parish, and in 1616 Richard Conant again filled the office. In 1630 he was ST.ATE OF MAINE. ^47 rated at two shillings sixpence, next to the highest rating in the parish. It is interesting to remember that Sir Walter Raleigh was born at Hays House in East Budleigh, and his father was one of the church-wardens in 1561. Sir Francis Drake was also connected with the parish,- and the tales of these two explorers must have had an important influ ence in leading two of the sons of Richard Conant to embark for the new world. The marriage of Richard Conant took place at Colyton, a market town of Devonshire, eight miles from East Budleigh. The quaint record reads : "Rychard Counnett, the sonne of John Counnett, of Easte Budleye, was wedded unto Agnes Clarke, the daughtr of John Clarke, senior, of Collyton, the nij daye of ffebruary, 1578." Agnes Clarke was born May 16, 1548, and her mother was Anne, daughter of WUl iam Alacye, of Colyton. After a married life of nearly fifty years, Richard and Agnes Co nant were buried the same day, Septeniber 22, 1630, and both are spoken of as persons of "exemplary piety." The inventory of the estate, which amounted to one hundred and twenty-nine pounds four teen shillings and four pence, contains some interesting items as showing how an English cottage was arranged in those days. In the HaU, among other things, were "one long tableborde, i square tableborde, 2 formes, 3 chairs and 6 joynt stools." The "new parlour" contained a feather bed, "2 feather boulsters, I yard of Blankett and coverlett," while the "old parlour" was rich in "i standing bedsted and I trundle bedsted." In the Buttery were "3 dozzen of Tranchers, 6 brasse Candlesticks, I pessel and morter," beside sundry other house-keeping furnishings. In the "Shoppe next to the [HaU" were "2 beames and skales with some brass and leadden waights" beside a counter and a chest; but the only item "in the longe Entery and in the Kitchen" reads "2 cubbords." The "brewinge House" had "3 brasse pots, 3 brasse Caldrons, skillets and a brasse ladle" besides divers other utensils ; and the Milk house had "10 brass mUk pannes" and other items. The "Weaving Shopp" had "2 old Coffers with some boards and other smaU triffells," and wag evidently a place of storage for bedding not in use. The new pariour is referred to again as containing "one sUver bowle and 5 silver spoones" and no other silver is mentioned. There is no statement regarding knives or table utensils of any kind except in the brewing-house, where "i dozen wooden dishes and one dozen of spoones," probably wooden, are enumer ated. Forks were scarcely known then. The Conants must have been people of some edu cation, because the new parlour had a "liberry table, 2 great deskes and one lesser one, one greate byble and a deske and other bookes." The contents of four chambers are disclosed. Some of the unusual items are "2 dozen of Table napkins," evidently kept for occasions of great ceremony, "2 pare verginalls," a mu sical instrument of primitive construction, "a Skaymer and cheese Racke," which might more properly belong in the buttery, and "a crosbowe and bender." The parlors were evi dently furnished with beds — a custom which obtained in many New England farmhouses well into the nineteenth century. Eight children of Richard and Agnes (Clarke) Conant are recorded: Joan, Richard, Robert, Jane, John, Thomas, Christopher, and Roger, whose sketch follows. 'The two younger brothers migrated to America; but the last record of Christopher Conant occurs in XTovember, 1630, when he was a member of the first jury for criminal trial in this country, impanelled for the trial of Walter Palmer, for manslaughter. It is possible that he may have returned to England, because if he had died in Massachusetts some record of the fact would probably have been preserved. Of the sons of Richard Conant who remained in England, John became a fellow of Oxford University and rector of St. Thomas Church, in Salisbury. On July 26, 1643, he preached a sermon before the House of Commons, which was printed by order of that body. From a rare copy which has been preserved we knowr that the title page gave the theme as "The Weal and Woe of God's People," and the discourse, which contains fifty-six printed pages, was delivered on a fast day, or day of "publike humUiation." Two of Richard Co- nant's grandsons . also entered the church. Richard (3), son of Richard (2) Conant, was graduated from Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1645, and afterwards became vicar of the church at East Budleigh; but the most noted of the family was Rev. Dr. John Conant, vice chancellor of Oxford University. He was the son of Robert Conant, and grandson of Rich ard, and was made fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, July 3, 1633. He became an eminent Oriental scholar, and was noted for being a sound and solid expositor, and "for clearing the true sense of such texts as were misinter preted by the Socinians and other heretics." Dr. Conant became rector of Exeter CoUege, vicar of Kidlington, regius professor of Di vinity, and on October 5, 1657, was appointed 2^8 STATE OF AlAINE. by Richard Cromwell to be vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. After the Restora tion he was installed archdeacon of Norwich, and finally made prebendary of Worcester. His biography indicates that he was a man of unusual character, wisdom and influence. (Ill) Roger, sixth son and youngest of the eight children of Richard and Agnes (Clarke) Conant, was baptized at AU Saints Church, in the parish of East Budleigh, Devonshire, Eng land, April 9, 1592. It is probable that he received a good education for his day, as his parents were people of substance and intelli gence as well as of exemplary piety. Roger Conant was frequently called upon to survey lands, lay out boundaries and transact public business. On January 20, 1619-20, Christo pher Conant, grocer, and Roger Conant, Salter, signed a bond for their brother John. The two signers register themselves as both of the parish of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London. Vari ous circumstances indicate that Roger was a freeman of the Salter's GuUd, the ninth of the twelve great livery companies, which would require an apprenticeship of seven years. It is probable that he remained in London about fourteen years, or until the time of his migration to America. Roger Conant reached this country in 1623, and the supposi tion is that he came over with his brother Christopher, who sailed on the ship "Ann," which arrived at Plymouth, Alassachusetts, in July that year. Roger did not long remain at the Pilgrims' town, owing to a difference in religious belief between the original pro prietors and himself. They were separatists, and he a non-conformist, or Puritan, and in 1624 he found it desirable to join some newly arrived immigrants at Nantasket, or Hull. It was probably while here that he made use of what is now known as Governor's Island, in Boston Harbor, but which at that time and for some years after, bore the name of Conant's Island. During the next winter, Rev. John White, of Dorchester, hearing of the settle ment at Nantasket, and of Roger Conant, "a pious, sober and prudent Gentleman," chose him to manage the affairs of the Dorchester Company at Cape Ann. It was soon found that this region was a poor place for planting, and many of the settlers returned to England ; but Roger Conant and a few sturdy followers decided to remain and fix their habitation at Naumkeag, now Salem. His was the first house built in that now historic town. Let us read Hawthorne's beautiful description of the scene : "You perceive, at a glance, that this is the ancient and primitive wood — the ever-youth ful and venerably old — verdant with new twigs, yet hoary, as it were, with the snow fall of innumerable years, that have accumu lated upon its intermingled branches .... Roger Conant, the first settler in Naumkeag, has built his dweUing, months ago, on the border of the forest-path ; and at this moment he comes eastward, through the vista of the woods, with a gun over his shoulder, bringing home the choice portions of a deer. His stal wart figure, clad in a leathern jerkin and breeches of the same, strides sturdily onward, wdth such an air of physical force and energy that we might almost expect the very trees to stand aside and give him room to pass. And so, indeed, they must; for, humble as is his name in history, Roger Conant still is of that class of men who do not merely find, but make, their place in the system of human af fairs ; a man of thoughtful strength, he has planted the germ of a city. There stands his habitation, showing in its rough architecture some features of the Indian wigwam, and some of the log cabin, and somewhat too, of the straw-thatched cottage in Old England, where this good yeoman had his birth and breeding. The dwelling is surrounded by a cleared space of a few acres, where Indian corn grows thrivingly among the stumps of the trees ; wdiile the dark forest hems it in, and seems to gaze silently and solemnly, as if won dering at the breadth of sunshine which the white man spreads around him." Perhaps further mention should be made of Conant's connection with Cape Ann. Although he remained there only about four years (1624-28), he was the head of the settlement. the first permanent one in Alassachusetts ter ritory, and the germ from which the Alassa chusetts Bay Colony sprung. John Wingate Thornton, in his valuable historical investiga tion, contends that Conant was the first and only governor under the Sheffield, or Cape Ann Charter, as Endicott was the first under the second and Alassachusetts Charter. Con trasting the characters of Conant and Endi cott, Thornton says : "Beside strict integrity, there was little common to them. Each was particularly fitted for the duties and periods assigned to him, and had the order been re versed the result would have been fatal. Co nant was moderate in his views, tolerant, mild and conciliatory, quiet and unobtrusive, in genuous and unambitious, preferring the pub lic good to his private interests ; with the pas sive virtues he combined great courage and an indomitable will. * * Governor Conant's STATE OF ALAINE. 249 true courage and simplicity of heart and strength of principle eminently qualified him for the conflicts of those rude days of perils, deprivation and trial. * ¦¦' Endicott was the opposite of Conant, arbitrary and sometimes violent, he ruled with a determined hand, and carried the sword unsheathed, quick to assert and ready to maintain his rights ; firm and unyielding ; * * a man of theological asperity, and bigoted." That Conant was a man of dignity and in fluence in the Salem and Cape Ann region we have ample official evidence. During the year 1634 the freemen elected twenty-four of their own number as deputies to the general court, which met at Boston, on Alay 14. This was the second representative assembly whicli met in this country, that of A^irginia being the first. Roger Conant yvas one of the deputies from Salem, and thus assisted in laying the foundation stones of our government. His name constantly appears as a member of the jury, as one of the committee to determine bounds, or in some relation to the meeting house. He was one of the selectmen in 1637- 38-39, 1640-41, 1651-52-53-54-57. Both Roger Conant and his wife were among the original members of the First Church at Salem, and in 1637 both signed the renewed covenant. In 1667 the residents of what is now known as Beverly were dismissed from the church at Salem and organized into a separate congrega tion. The name of Roger Conant is first on the list of members, and he was on the com mittee to fix the salary of Rev. John Hale. The next year the part of Salem known as Bass river, on Cape Ann side, was incor porated under the name of Beverly. The lat ter name was not acceptable to Conant, and on March 28, 1671, he drew up a petition to the "honorabel Generall Court" concerning the matter. This petition, which was signed by thirty-four others besides himself, is so quaint that a few sentences may be yvorth quoting : "Now my umble sute and request is vnto this honorabel Court onlie that the name of our towne or plantation may be altred or changed from Beuerly and called Budleigh. I have two reasons that haue moued me to this request. The first is the great dislike and dis content of many of our people for this name of Beuerly, because (wee being but a small place) it hath caused on us a constant nick name of beggarly Secondly: I being the first that had house in Salem (and neuer had any hand in naming either that or any other towne) and myself with those that were then with me, being all from the western part of England, desire this western name of Bud leigh, a market towne of Deuonsheer and neere vnto the sea as we are heere in this place and where myself was borne. Now in regard of our firstnesse and antiquity in tliis'soe famous a colony, we should uniblie request this littell priuelidg with your fauors and con sent, to giue this name abouesaid vnto our town." This petition was not granted, but it is worth recording as showing the sentiment of Roger Conant for his childhood's home, wdiich he had left nearly fifty years before. Roger Conant died X''ovember 19, 1679, in the eighty- eighth year of his age, but the place of his burial is not known. He left a will, and an estate whose inventory amounted to two hun dred and fifty-eight pounds, ten shillings. On November 11, 1618, Roger Conant mar ried Sarah Horton, in the parish of Saint Ann's, Blackfriars, London. She was living in 1666, but probably died before her husband, as she is not mentioned in the will. There were nine children by this marriage, all of whom but the two elder were born in this country. The children were : Sarah, chris tened in London, September 19, 1619, died ne.xt year : Caleb, christened May 27, 1622, in London, died young ; Lot, whose sketch fol lows ; Roger, 1626, the first white child born in Salem, Alassachusetts: Sarah, 1628; Josh ua ; Mary ; Elizabeth ; and Exercise, baptized December 24, 1637. (lA') Lot, eldest of the seven surviving children of Roger and Sarah (Horton) Co nant, was born about 1624, at Nantasket, or Cape Ann, Alassachusetts. He seems to have lived at Alarblehead as early as 1657. He was selectman there in 1662, had one cow's com monage in 1667, and in 1674 is recorded as one of the hundred and fourteen household ers. About 1666 he probably moved to Bev erly, because his father gave him a hundred acres of land there, and July 4, 1667, Lot Conant was one of those dismissed from the First church at Salem to form the church at Bass River, or Beverly. He appears to have been a man of substance ; but he did not fill so large a place in public affairs as did his father. Possibly this may be accounted for by his early death, which took place Septem ber 29, 1674, when he was but fifty years of age. He left a will, and an estate whose "sum totall" amounted to seven hundred and eighty pounds, more than three times as much as his father had, who died five years later. Seven hundred and ei,ghty pounds was a large sum to be accumulated in those days by a man who 250 STATE OF AlAINE. had reared ten children and died in middle hfe. ^ ^ About 1649 Lot Conant married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Walton, who took his degrees at Emanuel CoUege, Cambridge, in 1621 and 1625. This dergyman was set tled over the parish of Seaton in Devonshire, where his daughter was baptized October 27, 1629. It is thought that he came to America about 1635, as he was made a freeman at Hingham, Massachusetts, March 3, 1636. He settled at Marblehead as early as 1639, and was pastor there till his death in 1668. Ten children were bom to Lot and Elizabeth (Walton) Conant: Nathanid, July 28, 1650; John, December 15, 1652; Lot (2), mentioned below; Elizabeth, May 13, 1660; Mary, July 14, 1662; Martha, August 15, 1664; Sarah and WUliam (twins), February 19, 1666-67; Roger, March 10, 1668-69 ; and Rebecca, Jan uary 31, 1670-71. Mrs. Elizabeth Conant mar ried again after her first husband's death. On January 10, 1681-82, she became the third wife of Andrew Mansfield, of Lynn, whose will was proved November 25, 1683; so that her second wedded life must have been very short. (V) Lot (2), third son and cliUd of Lot (i) and Elizabeth (Walton) Conant, was born February 16, 1657-58, at Beverly, Mas sachusetts, where he lived tiU 1717, when he moved to Ipswdch. He was in Captain Jo seph Gardiner's company during King Philip's war, and took part in the attack on Fort Nar ragansett, December 19, 1675. He was ad mitted to the First Church of Beverly, March I, 1701-02, and to full communion on July 19 of that year. The date of the death of Lot Conant is not known, but his wUl was proved January 19, 1744-45, making it probable that he lived to be at least eighty-six, or nearly as old as his grandfather, the original Roger Conant. His will indicates him to have been a large owner of lands in Ipswich, Topsfield and Marblehead, and beside the real estate, five stock, household goods and other things whose value is not stated, he bequeaths sums of money amounting to three hundred and ninety pounds, old Tenor. The will is signed Lott Conant and dated January 13, 1743-44; it was proved almost exactly one year from that date. The first wife of Lot Conant was Abigail , and there were five children: Samuel, born March 30, 1687; Abigail; Jon athan ; Sarah and Roger. Of these five chU dren Abigail and Jonathan were the only ones who lived to maturity. Lot Conant married (second) Abigail Pride, daughter of John and Alary Pride, who was baptized December 12, 1686, and was admitted to the church Feb ruary 23, 1706-07. There were ten children by this marriage : Joseph, whose sketch fol lows; Ruth, Xovember 18, 1702; Joshua, De cember 2, 1704; EUzabeth, AprU 28, 1706; Joshua, October 12, 1707; Joanna, November 15, 1709; Bartholomew, February 4, 1711-12; Elizabeth, March 27, 1715; Samuel, Novem ber 18, 1717; and WiUiam, March 8, 1720. Of these ten chUdren four, Joshua, Elizabeth, Bartholomew and Elizabeth, died young. (VI) Joseph, eldest chUd of Lot (2) Co nant and his second wife, Elizabeth (Pride) Conant, was born at Beverly, Massachusetts, November 9, 1701. He was the first one of his family to move to Maine, where his de scendants have lived ever since. He was ad mitted an inhabitant of Falmouth, Maine, AprU 22, 1728, upon the payment of ten pounds. During the next three years the pro prietors assigned him forty-three acres of land in three different lots ; and on August 10, 1734, they laid out for him forty-three acres of land on the Presumpscot river in exchange for the same amount previously assigned him at Falmouth. They also gave him sixty acres on the southerly side of the Presumpscot river. He is said to have been the first set tler of Saccarappa vUlage, which he reached by going up the river in a canoe. He built his house on the north side of the river near the falls where he owned the mill privilege in common with his younger brother Samuel. From deeds still extant, it appears that he owned both saw and grist mUls. The funeral of Joseph Conant is recorded as occurring on January 2, 1765, and his death probably took place three days earlier. Mr. Conant's death w^as without doubt the direct result of the amputation of a leg, which occurred on No vember 27, 1764. Few constitutions could survive the primitive surgery of those times. On December 9, 1725, Joseph Conant married Sarah Jewett, at Boxford, Massachusetts ; she was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah Jewett, and was baptized July 12, 1702. The seven children of Joseph and Sarah (Jewett) Conant were : Hannah, born at Ipswich, Mas sachusetts, December 27, 1726; Lot, Novem ber 7, 1728, at Falmouth, [Maine, died young; Thomas, December 2, 1731, died young; Elizabeth and Sarah (twins), October 3, 1733; Bartholome-w and Joseph. (VII) Joseph (2), youngest child of Jo seph (i) and Sarah (Jewett) Conant, was born in Falmouth, Alaine, about 1738. He lived at Duck Pond in Falmouth, now West- 2a«».- STATE OF MAINE. 251 brook, till about 1810, when he moved to Lis bon in Androscoggin county, where he en gaged in the lumber business. He died June 27, 1816, at Portland, Maine, while there as witness at a trial. On June 10, 1762, Joseph Conant married Anna Shackford; and five children were born of this marriage: Han nah, married Joseph Elder; Anne, married Nathan Partridge ; Bartholomew ; Thomas, mentioned below ; and George, who died young. (VIII) Thomas, younger of the two sur viving sons of Joseph (2) and Anna (Shack ford) Conant, was born in Westbrook, Maine, in 1773, and died at Lisbon in the same state in 1854. He was a miUwright, lumberman and farmer, and lived for a time in Bowdoin before going to Lisbon. He served as cor poral in the war of 1812. On October 5, 1795, Thomas Conant married Rachael McCaslin, daughter of Oliver and — AlcCaslin, who was born at AA^estbrook in 1770, died in 1847. Eight chUdren were born of this union: Oliver, whose sketch follows ; Lot, July 20, 1797; Lydia, February 25, ; Ann, AVind- ham, October 23, 1800; Daniel, Lewiston, September i, 1803, died September 18, 1804; Daniel, Lewdston, October 16, 1805; Louise, January 6, 1808, married James Maxwell; and Elizabeth, February 18, 1812, in Bowdoin. (IX) Oliver, eldest chUd of Thomas and Rachel (AlcCaslin) Conant, was born at Fal mouth, Maine, February 20, 1796. At the age of seventeen he was a soldier in the war of 1812. Alost of his life was spent in Topsham, where he was interested in theMumber indus try, which he continued till his death, which occurred at Durham, Maine, June 11, 1867. On December 10, 1819, Oliver Conant mar ried AbigaU Field, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Nock) Field. Eleven children were born of this union, all at Topsham, Maine : Sarah W., September 19, 1820, married WUl iam Bridge, of Mechanic Falls ; Lot C, Octo ber 25, 1822, married Priscilla Harmon ; Mark P., October 19, 1824; Samuel Field, October S, 1827; James McKeen, February 25, 1830; Philena F., August 10, 1832, died January 20, 1833; Anna M., July 3, 1834, married Henry Penny; Francis A., whose sketch follows; Charles Bean, October 15, 1839; Hannah R., May 3, 1842, married George Stevens ; Mary E., .January 8, 1846, died March 2, 1875. (X) Francis A., fifth son of Oliver and Abigail (Field) Conant, was born at Tops ham, Maine, April 7, 1837, and was educated in the common schools of his native town. At the age of twenty-five he enlisted in the civil war, being mustered into Company A, Twenty- third Maine Volunteers, September 29, 1862. After his return in 1864 he engaged in the shoe business, in which he continued nearly twenty years. In 1883 he entered into the insurance business at Lewiston, which under his exceUent management has steadUy in creased in volume and prosperity. He is a man of high business integrity, who commands the respect and esteem of aU. Mr. Conant is a member of Rabboni Lodge, A. F. and A. M.; of the Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 63; of Industry Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 2; and of Custer Post, G. A. R., No. 7. Politically Mr. Conant is a firm believer in Socialistic prin ciples, and in religion he is a Free Baptist. On November 12, 1864, Francis A. Conant mar ried (first) Anna JBarker, daughter of Caleb and Statira (Hight) Barker, who was born July 22, 1838, at Athens, died January 3, 1903. Three children were born of this union : Ed gar Francis, June 26, 1867 ; Maude L., died in infancy; and Alice B., February 18, 1878. On January 12, 1905, Francis A. Conant married (second) Annie B. (EUiott) Goodwin, daugh ter of David N. Elliott, of Mercer, Maine. (XI) Edgar Francis, eldest child of Francis A. and Anna (Barker). Conant, was born June 26, 1867. He was educated in the schools of Lewiston, studied at Bowdoin Col lege and took a medical degree at Columbia University, Washington, D. C. After gradu ating from the latter institution Dr. Conant engaged in general practice in Lewiston for five years, after which he spent twelve months in Austria, taking up the study of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Upon his return to this country he made his abode in Denver, Col orado, where he is enjoying an extensive prac tice as a specialist. On September — , 1899, Dr. Edgar Francis Conant married Rose Little, daughter of Horace C. and Rose (Roak) Little, of Auburn, Maine. They have two children : Frances, born April 9, 1903, and Edward, March 6, 1907. (XI) Alice B., only surviving daughter of Francis A. and Anna (Barker) Conant, was married January, 1905, to Selden T. Crafts, of Auburn, Maine. They have one child, Elizabeth Anna, born July 13, 1906. (For early generations see preceding sketcli.) (V) John (2), second son and CONANT child of Lot and Elizabeth (Walton) Conant, was born December 15, 1652, in Beverly. He was a farmer and weaver. He settled in Beverly 252 STATE OF MAINE. on the "60 acres of upland lying near Richard Dodge's farme," given by Roger to Lot, his father, in 1666, and built 'a house there. Dur ing King PhUip's war he served in Captain Samuel Appleton's company, and on Decem ber 10, 1675, £4 i6s lod is allowed him as -wages. It is not probable that he took part in the attack on the Narragansett fort, as the men under Appleton were mostly employed in garrison duty at Hadley and Springfield. He was admitted to the First Church of Beverly, August 23, 1691. In 1692 he purchased part of the farm of his brother Nathaniel, who had moved to Bridgewater. September 6, 171 5, John Conant, of Beverly, yeoman, in consid eration of £197, sells John Chipman, of Bev- .erley, one messuage or tenement containing twelve acres. He died September 30, 1724, leaving a wUl dated September 21, 1724, and probated October 26, 1724. John Conant married, Alay 7, 1678, Bethiah Mansfield, born April 7, 1658, admitted to the First Church of Beverly November 6, 1681, and died July 2y, X720. She was the daughter of Andrew and Bethiah Mansfield, of Lynn. Children : Lot, Elizabeth, Bethiah, John, Deborah, Alary, Daniel, Rebecca, Benjamin and Jemima. (VI) Daniel, seventh child and third son of John (2) and Bethiah (Mansfield) Conant, was born in Beverly, November 19, 1694, and died in 1 75 1. He was a farmer and a mason, and lived in Beverly on Dodge street. At the time of his father's death he and his brother Benjamin seem to have occupied a house near their father's. Daniel Conant bought, June 29, 1717, fourteen acres of land in Beverly; and October i, 1719, for £170, a lot of land containing twelve acres, with a dwelling house, barn and orchard. May 17, 1730, Daniel Co nant, mason, of Beverly, buys six and one- half acres of land of Daniel [Raymond, April 12, 1750, Daniel Conant, senior, of Beverly, sells Daniel Conant Jr. "one third of a grist mill on Elwive brook." He was representa tive from Beverly to the general court two years. He died intestate, and his sons Daniel and Nathaniel were appointed administrators. May 13, 1751. He left a good estate. The intentions of marriage of Daniel Conant, of Beverly, and Lucy Dodge, of Ipswich, was published December 16, 1716, at Beverly. They were married by the Rev. Samuel Wig- glesworth, at Hamilton, January 23, 1717. .She was the daughter of Richard and [i\Iartha (Low) Dodge. Richard Dodge was born in Salem, 1643, married Mary Eaton, and died about 1734. Fle was the son of Richard Dodge, the immigrant, who died at Beverly, January 15, 1672, and Edith, his wife, who died January 27, 1678. ChUdren : Lucy, Dan iel, Mary, Margaret, Nathaniel, Hepzibah, Josiah, Elizabeth and Martha. (VII) Nathaniel, fifth child and second son of Daniel and Lucy (Dodge) Conant, was bora in Beverly, July 23, 1726, and baptized on the 31st of the same month. On May 13, 1 75 1, he was appointed one of the adminis trators of his father's estate. Between 1753 and 1768 Nathaniel Conant frequendy appears as a grantor or grantee in land transfers, and in those he is sometimes styled tanner, some times gentleman. November 22, 1755, (he name of Nathaniel Conant appears in a list of soldiers stationed at Lake George; this was in the time of the French and Indian war. About 1766, probably, he went to the province of Maine, where he became one of the pioneer settlers of the North Parish of Sanford, in York county, now Alfred. Very likely his family remained in Beverly until he had cleared land and built a home in Alfred. He purchased land freely, and soon became the largest land owner in the town. He lived in a wooden house near the mUl, which he pur chased of one Ellenwood. This mill was sit uated on the stream running from Shaker pond, and was both a saw and grist mill. Mr. Conant was also the first trader of Alfred. The town of Sanford was divided into two parishes, July 5, 1782 ; the first meeting of the North or Alfred parish was held on Tuesday, August 27, 1782, at the house of Nathaniel Conant, who, with eight others, signed the covenant. "Sanford X^orth Parish, September 29, 1783, voted to postpone erecting a meet ing-house till next spring. Mr. Nathaniel Conant then and there gave an acre of land to set the meeting-house and school house." "May 29, 1788, Chose Air. Nathaniel Conant, Dan'l Gile, and Thomas Williams a committee to Look out a man To preach amongst us in order for a settlement." "Apr. 2, 1792, at a sale of the pews Mr. Nath'l Conant bought No. 2 for £4. No. 5 for £4 and No. 18 for £4 2sh." He died January 6, 1808, and was buried in the churchyard at Alfred, where his gravestone remains. He married, December 16, 1756, AbigaU, daughter of Joshua and Hannah (Raymond) Dodge, born in Beverly, July 3, 1732. She died in Alfred, September 30, 1813. Joshua Dodge was son of Joshua and Joanna (Larkin) Dodge, and grandson of WUliam and Mary (Conant) Dodge. Han nah Raymond was daughter of George and Jerusha (Woodbury) Raymond, and grand- dau,ghter of William and Hannah (Bishop) STATE OF AlAINE. 25.^ Raymond. Jerusha Woodbury was daughter of Peter and Sarah (Dodge) Woodbury, and granddaughter of John Woodbury, the immi grant. The children of Nathaniel and Abigail (Dodge) Conant were : Lucy, Hephzibah, [Nathaniel (died young), Joshua, Xathaniel, Daniel, John and Andrew. (VIII) John (3), seventh child and fifth son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Dodge) Co nant, was born in Alfred, Maine, September 10, 1771, and died there February 27, 1850. About 1795 he moved to Kennebunk, where he engaged in trade for a short time, then returned to Alfred. He succeeded to the mUl and store of his father, at Conant's Alills (now called Littlefield MUls), and afterwards occupied the brick store near the meeting house. He was the second postmaster of Al fred, and active and -enterprising in commer cial pursuits. He married Lydia Farnum, born December 25, 1776, died Alay 28, 1842, daugh ter of Benjamin and Anna (Alerrill) Farnum, of Concord, New Hampshire. Benjamin Far num was the son of Ephraim and Molly (In galls) Farnum, grandson of Ephraim, son of Ralph, who was son of Ralph Farnum (or Farnham), the immigrant. Anna Merrill was born at Concord, December 20, 1743, daugh ter of Deacon John and Lydia (Haynes) Merrill, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Concord, New Hampshire ; her grandfather, John Merrill, was son of Nathaniel and grand son of Nathaniel Merrill, the immigrant, one of the earliest settlers of Newbury, Massachu setts. Molly IngaUs was the daughter of Henry and Abigail (Emery) Ingalls, grand daughter of Henry and Mary (Osgood) In galls, great-granddaughter of Edmund In galls, of Andover, the immigrant. Lydia, wife of John Conant, was admitted to the church about the first of October, 1807. The chil dren of John and Lydia (Farnum) Conant were: Nancy Merrill, Cyrus (died young), Alvah, Cyrus King, Lucinda, Caroline, George Dow, Lucy Maria and Lydia Haynes. (IX) Alvah, third child and second son of John (3) and Lydia (Farnum) Conant, was bom in Kennebunk, Deceinber 17, 1800, bap tized January 24, 1808, in Alfred, and died at his residence on Gray street, Portland, April 2, 1876. He was taken to Alfred by his parents when quite young. He attended the common schools of .Alfred, and Wakefield, New Hampshire, and Fryeburg, Maine, acad emies. He then enga.ged as a clerk with George and Ivory Lorti, at Kennebunk, but soon returned to Alfred and went into busi ness with his father ; this was as early as 1826. His father retired from business soon after, and Mr. Conant formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, David HaU, and later with his brother George D. In the autumn of 1838 he moved to Portland, and engaged in the wholesale grocery business with Mr. HaU, tinder tlie firm name of Hall & Conant. In 1849 his son, Richard O., was admitted to the firm, the style of which was changed to Hall, Conant & Company. Their store was at first on the northeast corner of Fore and Central (now Dana) streets, but when Commercial street was built, in 1851, they moved to the store since occupied by the firm. In 1856 Mr. Conant's son, [Richard O., bought out Mr. HaU, and has continued the business to the present time. When he first moved to Port land he lived with his -father-in-law, Richard Odell, on India street, but soon moved to State street, thence, in 1845, to Gray street, where he resided till his death. Air. Conant never sought public office, but in the old mi litia days he was commissioned captain in the second brigade of state militia by Governor Parris, in 1822; in 1842 and 1844 he was a member of the common council of Portland, and in 1849 ^"d 1850 was a member of the board of aldermen from the sixth w,'ard. In 1859 he re tired from business and devoted his time to the management of his private affairs. He was a director of the Cumberland National Bank for many years, ahd its president at the time of his death. He was also one of the first board of directors of the A^'ork and Cum berland railroad. He bore a character of strict integrity, was a consistent Christian, and a member of the State Street Congregational church. In person he was of about the me dium height, rather sparely built, and very erect. He married (first), in Conway, New Hampshire, October 30, 1826, Almira, of Conway, born in Conway, April 8, 1803, died in Portland, January 23, 1841, daughter of Hon. Richard and AloUy (Eastman) Oddl. Richard Odell was frequently representative from Conway to the New Hampshire legisla ture, and a member of the governor's councU. He moved to Portland in 1837, where he died in 1850. He was a son of Joseph and Sarah (IngaUs) OdeU; grandson of WiUiam anl Martha (CoUins) OdeU, of Andover, Massa chusetts; great-grandson of Reginald and Priscilla OdeU ( also written Wodell and Wod- huU), of Boston. Molly Eastman was daugh ter of Richard and Hannah (Alerrill) East man, granddaughter of John and Martha (Fitts) Eastman, great-granddaughter of 254 STATE OF MAINE. John and Huldah (Kingsbury) Eastman, great-great-granddaughter of John and Mary (Boynton) Eastman; and one generation further removed in line of descent from Roger and Sarah Eastman, of Salisbury, Massachu setts. Mr. Conant married (second) April 27, 1843, Judith, born October 21, 1804, daughter of Joseph Osborn, of Danvers, Mas sachusetts. She died February 3, 1857. He married (third) in Portland, July 8, 1858, Re becca P., born February 29, 181 5, died Jan uary 17, 1863, daughter of Samuel Cook, of Taunton, Massachusetts, Alarried (fourth) in Alanchester, Connecticut, September 5, 1866, Mary (Sumner) Woodbridge, who sur vived him and died in Portland; she was the daughter of Reuben Sumner, of Hebron, Con necticut, born September 20, 1816, died March 20, 1883. The children of Alvah and Almira (OdeU) Conant were: Richard OdeU and Emma Dow. (X) Richard OdeU, only son of Alvah and Almira (Odell) Conant, was born in Alfred, April I, 182S, died at his residence in Cum berland, Alaine, July i, 1894. Lie removed to Portland with his parents in 1829, and re sided in Portland and Cumberland. He was educated in the public schools and at North Yarmouth .Academy. When sixteen years of age he entered his father's store as a clerk, and in 1 849 was admitted to the firm of Hall & Conant, then doing the largest grocery busi ness in Portland. In«i856 he bought out Air. Hall, and in'' 18^9 his father retired from the business. In 1862 he admitted Mr. Sumner C. Rand to partnership, under the firm name of R. O. Conant & Company ; in 1866 the style was changed to Conant & Rand. The business was conducted by them till 1882, when Mr. Rand retired and Mr. Conant ad mitted his son, Frederick O., and Mr. Daniel H. Patrick to the firm under the style of Conant, Patrick & Company. Mr. ([[onant was a- member of the common council of Port land in 1869 and 1870, which was the only public office he ever held. Lie was a director of the Ocean Insurance Company for ten years, and its secretary three years ; was a director of the Portland & Rochester railroad two years. He was a director of the National Traders Bank from 1867 till his death, and its vice-president fourteen years ; and was direc tor and trustee of several other commercial corporations. He always took a great interest in agricultural matters, and was a director and president of the Cumberland County Ag ricultural .Society and the Maine Poultry As- sociarion. He married, in Cumberland, Jan uary 8-, 1857, Mrs. Emma (Loring) Manly, born Alay 6, 1829, died April 16, 1904, widow of Charles Manly, and daughter of Captain Solomon and Alethea (Drinkwater) Loring. Captain Solomon Loring was son of Solomon and Hannah (Davis) Loring, grandson of Solomon and Ahce (Gushing) Loring, and great-grandson of John Loring, who was the son of John, son of Thomas Loring, who came from Axminster, Devon, England, to Hingham, Massachusetts, about 1630. Han nah Davis was daughter of Timothy and Mar garet (Davis) Davis, of Amesbury, Massa chusetts, and Biddeford and North "Yarmouth, Maine. Timothy Davis was son of Thomas and Deborah (Martin) Davis. Deborah Mar tin was granddaughter of George Alartin, an early and prominent settler of Amesbury, whose widow, Susanna (North) was hanged at Salem, July ig, 1692, as a witch. Alethea Drinkwater was daughter of Sylvanus and Rachel (Sweetser) Drinkwater, granddaugh ter of Joseph and Jane (Latham) Drinkwater, great-granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Haskell) Drinkwater. Elizabeth Haskell was daughter of John Haskell, whose wife. Patience Soule, was daughter of George Soule, who came in the "Mayflower," 1620. Jane Latham was daughter of Thomas and Deborah (Harden) Latham, granddaughter of James Latham, great-granddaughter of Robert Latham, whose wife Susanna was daughter of John Win.slow (brother of Gov ernor Edward Winslow) and Mary (Chilton), his wife, said to have been the first woman to land from the "Mayflower." Richard 0. and Emma (Loring) Conant had one son Fred erick O. (XI) Frederick Oddl, only child of Rich ard OdeU and Emma (Loring) Conant, was born in Portland, October i, 1857. He was prepared for college in the public schools of Portland, and graduated at Bowdoin College, taking the degree of B. S. in 1880, and that of M. A. in 1883. In 1874 he went to Cali fornia by way of Panama, stopping at Kings ton, Jamaica, and various Mexican and Cen tral American ports, and returning overiand from San Francisco. In 1879 he went to Cuba, visited the important cities, and returned home by way of Key West, Cedar Keys, Jacksonville, Florida, Savannah, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, and "Washington, D. C. In 1880 he entered his father's store as a clerk, and January i, 1882, was admitted to partnership. Fle is a member of Casco Lodge, No. 36, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of Cumberland Chapter, No. 35, STATE OF MAINE. of Yarmouth, and of Portland Commandery, No, 2, Knights Templar. 1 le compiled "A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family in England and America," a work of six hun dred and forty pages. Pie was elected presi dent of the Maine Geuealogic;il Society in 1904, and has since filled that office. He has also served in all the other offices of this so ciety excc]it that of librarian. Fle married, in 'i'armouth, October 31, 1883, Eva MerrUl, daughter of Captain Reuben and Hannah Ehzabeth (Blanchard) Merrill, of Yarmouth. Reuben Merrill was son of William and Lydia (Sturdevant) Merrill, grandson of Adams and Elizabeth CTitcomb) MerrUl, great-grandson of James and Mary (Adams) Merrill, who were early settlers of Falmouth. James Mer rill was son of Abel, who was son of Na thaniel Merrill, of Newbury, Alassachusetts, the immigrant. Hannah Elizabeth Blanchard was daughter of Captain Reuben and Christi ana (Loring) Blanchard, granddaughter of Beza and Prudence (Rideout) Blanchard, great-granddau.ghter of Nathaniel and Bethiah (Mitchdl) Blanchard. Nathaniel Blanchard was fifth in descent from Thomas Blanchard, the immigrant ; his wife, Bethiah Mitchell, was daughter of Seth Mitchell, son of Jacob and Rebecca (Cushman) MitcheU. Jacob AlitcheU was grandson of Experience Mitchell, one of the Leyden Pilgrims, whose wife Jane was daughter of Francis Cook, who came in the "Mayflower." Rebecca (Cushman) Mitchell was daughter of Rev. Isaac Cushman, son of Thomas and Mary (AUerton) Cushman, grandson of Robert Cushman. Robert Cush man was one of the most active promoters of the migration from FloUand, in 1620, and came over in the "Fortune," the second vessel. His son Thomas married Alary, daughter of Isaac Allerton; she died i66q, the last survivor of the "Alayflower's" passengers. Frederick O. and Eva (Alerrill) Conant have four children : Elizabeth Merrill, born January 11, 1886; Persis l^oring, May 20. 1887; Richard Odell, May 31, 1888; Reginald Odell, October i, 1889, (For proi'i'dlng Ri'iieratlons see Jobn Coiinnt I.) (VI) Lot (2), eldest CONANT John (2) and Bethiah field) Conant, was born erly, June i, 1679, died Septeniber About 1716 he removed to Concord, sex county. Lot Conant, of BeveHy, acres of land in Alanchester, February . Lot Conant of Concord, yeoman, sells chUd of (Alans- in Bev- 20, 1767. Middle- _ , .. ,. bought of Benjamin Edmonds, of ANAMiham, fifteen 4. 1717. "to my father John Conant and brother Daniel Co nant, both of Peveriy" fifteen acres of land in Manchester. Other land transactions of his are on record. He married (first) May 15, i6(-)8, Martha (leaves. She was admitted to the First Church of Beverly, May 31, 1701, and died February 15, 1725, in Concord. He married (second) Susannah Clark, born AprU 29, 1689, probably daughter of Samuel and Rachel Cl.irk. Lie married a third wife Mary. The children by first wife were : Robert, An drew, William, Dinah, Ezra, John, Elizabeth, Martha and Bethia. Those of the second wife were : Ezra and Sarah. (VII) Robert, eldest son and child of Lot and Martha (Cleaves) Conant, was born in Beverly, April 26, and baptized May 7, 1699. He moved to Concord with his parents, and as early as 1726 settled in Chelmsford. About 1754 he removed to Stow, where he died Alarch 27, 1773. He was a farmer and car penter. His will was made March 25, 1773. He married (first) Esther , and (sec ond) Sarah -. His children by first wife were: Samuel, Josiah, Peter, Esther, Martha, Rebecca, Lydia and Daniel. (VIII) Samuel, eldest child of Robert and Esther Conant, was born in that part of Con cord now Acton, about 1722, and died in Stow, May 19, 1785. Pie lived in Chelmsford and Stow with his parents, and later settled in Stow, where he was enga.ged in agricul tural pursuits. He married Sarah Holman, who died February i, 1804. 'Their children were : Silas, Oliver, Samuel, John Levi and a daughter. (IX) Oliver, second son and chUd of Sam uel and Sarah (Holman) Conant, was born in Stow, about 1750. He settled first in Sud bury, and later in Weston. In 1777 Oliver Conant, of Sudbury, was in Captain Johnson Rice's company of Colonel Samuel BuUard's regiment, in the Continental army, in service three months twenty-four days in New York. January 15, 1776, Oliver Conant, of Concord, was corporal in Captain David Wheeler's com pany. Colonel Nixon's regiment, and was al lowed pay for travel to and from camp at Winter Hill. He married Thankful W. Walker, and they had : Abraham, Polly, Isaac, Thankful, Oliver, Sally, Louisa, Asa W., Jo siah and Betsy. (X) Abraham, eldest child of Oliver and Thankful W. (Walker) Conant, was born in Weston, Massachusetts, Septeniber 2, 1778, and died in 1849. He moved to Frankfort, now Winterport, Maine, about 1804, and -was engaged in farming. In 1803 he married 256 STATE OF MAINE. Thankful C. Lombard, of Truro, Massachu setts, who died about i860. Their children were : Lydia, Isaac, Amasa S., Jacob, Charies, Sarah (died young), Sarah Snow, Abraham, Thankful L. and Artemus Henry. (XI) Charies, fifth child and fourth son of Abraham and Thankful C. (Lombard) Co nant, was born in Frankfort, now Winterport, Maine, December 24, 1812. He spent his life in his native town, wdiere he was engaged in farming. He filled some town offices. He was a member of the Congregational church in early life, but subsequently became a spirit ualist. He married Hannah Weston, born in Frankfort, now Winterport, September 25, 1814, and died in Frankfort, now Winterport, September 12, 1897. She was the daughter of Amos and Mercy Weston, of Frankfort, now Winterport. Children: i. Lydia W., born Oc tober 6, 1838, married Nathan T. Woodman, October 8, 1866; no chUdren. 2. Wealtha P., August, 1840, died February 21, 1863. 3. Artemus Henry, December 5, 1842, married Maria S. McDonald, December 5, 1863 ; their only child, Fred P., died in childhood. 4. Frederick Augustus, March 29, 1845, married Minnie Heslef, of San Francisco, October 7, 1874; their children were: Charles M., Kath erine and Miriam. 5. Clara D., September 20, 1848, married George H. Clements, February 24, 1870; children: Nathan P., Fred A., died young, Charles C, LUlie W., Elmer H. and Harold W. 6. EUen Maria, August i, 1852, died AprU 4, 1853. 7. Charles M., of the next paragraph. (XII) Charles Alelvin, seventh child and third son of Charles and Hannah (Weston) Conant, was born in Winterport, June 23, 1858, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. He was a farmer untU 1883, and then established an agricultural implement and seed store in Bangor. The business was remarkably successful, and in 1906 it was incorporated as the C. M. Conant Company, Mr. Conant being made president and treasurer. The company carries a full line of everything in the way of implements required on a farm. The store is located at 194-196 Broad street; was established over a quarter of a century ago, and the products of the house are known to the farmers and gen eral merchandise dealers of the state for their reliability and high quality. Mr. Conant still cultivates and resides on his farm of two hun dred and fifty acres in Winterport. He is a member of Penobscot Lodge, No. 7, Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Bangor, and of Morning Light Grange, No. 19, Pat rons of Husbandry. He is a Republican and has held town offices. He married. May i, 1886, Annie C. Nealey, born in Winterport, October 24, 1865, daughter of Jefferson an(i Lydia A. Nealey, of Winterport. Children: Gertrude M., born August i, 1888; Viola E.,. July II, 1890; Barbara O.. September 9, 1895; Amos N., July 27, 1897; Edna, January 18, 1900; Charies Tyler, .AprU 10, 1902; Mildred A., November 22, 1907. (For preceding generations see John Conant I.) (A^III) Joshua, fourth child CONANT and second son of Nathanief and Abigail (Dodge) Conant, was born in Beveriy, AprU 7, 1764. He moved to Alfred, Maine, with his parents, and later lived in Shapleigh and Lyman, where he died October 4, 1842. Lie married Adelia GUe, of Alfred, who died in Lyman, September 30, 1842. She was the daughter of Deacon Gile, of Alfred. Their children were: Ruth, Na thaniel, Hepsibah, Theodate, Joshua, Danid, , Abigail, WiUiam Green and Thomas Gile. (IX) William Green, eighth child and fourth son of Joshua and AdeUa (GUe) Co nant, was born in Alfred, December 25, 1806, where he always resided. He was educated in the public .schools, and while yet a boy became a clerk in Deacon Kendall's store at Alfred, and after a few years went into busi ness for himself. He was a merchant for upwards of forty years, and on retiring some years before his death he was possessed of a competency including a farm upon which he lived after' giving up business. He was a member of the Congregational church. He died April, 1888, and was buried in Ever green cemetery, Portland. He married Han nah Jones Herrick, of Beverly, Alassachusetts. One child, William H., was born to them. His sketch foIlow;s. (X) WiUiam Henry, only child of William Green and Hannah J. (Herrick) Conant, was born in Alfred, Alay 20, 1830, and educated in the public schools. He was a clerk in his father's store for some time and later went to Portland, where for some years he was a clerk in the office of the Portland Press. In 1875 he was made treasurer of the Portland and Rochester railroad and served in that place faithfully for twenty-five years. He was an attendant of the Congregational church, and did many acts of charity m a quiet way. in political matters he took but little interest. He married, in Middletown, Connecticut, De cember 12, 1856. Alary Elizabeth Davis, who was born in \Venham, Massachusetts, May 2, ^f'tis Historical Pui. Co. mt STATE OE AlAIXE. 257 1830, daughter of John and Elizabeth Cogs well (Bickford) Davis, the former of Salem, Massachusetts, and the latter a daughter of Captain John Bickford, a master mariner. Captain Bickford's wife was in maidenhood Mary Ramsden. Mrs. Conant resides in Portland, where she has a handsome and finely furnished_residence. She also owns and uses as a summer home the residence erected in Alfred years ago by Senator John Holmes. This house was occupied some years by Air. and Mrs. Conant before removing to Portland. It is furnished with much antique furniture, and the interior has much the appearance of a high class residence of Colonial times. To William Flenry and Mary E. (Davis) Conant were born three children: i. Emma L., who resides with her mother. 2. Willie Green, who died at the age of fourteen. 3. Ellen Alinerva, who lived to be almost twenty years of age. Mr. Conant died February 11, 1901, and is buried at Evergreen cemetery, Port land, Maine. This name is of Norman ori- LOWELL gin, and first appears on the Battle Roll of William the Conqueror, where it is spelled Loud ; when the family emigrated to America, and for two generations thereafter, they spelled it Lowde, and it is the same as Lovell and Lowell. The word .is derived from the Latin Lupus, mean ing wolf. The family were of good position in England, and had a coat-of-arms, as well as other evidences of their high position. (I) Percival Lowell, the emigrant, was born in 1 57 1, in England, and died January 8, 1664, at Newbury, Massachusetts. He was a resi dent in England of Kingston, Seymour, Cleve- don, Portbury, Weston-in-Gardano, all of Somersetshire, also Bristol of Gloucestershire, and in 1597 was assessor at Kingston. Ele did not come to America until he was sixty- eight years of age, embarking from Bristol in 1639 on the ship "Jonathan," and settling at Newbury, Massachusetts. He was a man of unusual attainments for his day, and wrote a poem on the death of Governor Winthrop, which would not meet the standards of the present day, but shows the spark of genius which appeared later in his descendant, James Russell Lowell, and proves its author to have been well versed in ancient literature. The Lowell family came to Newbury later than some others, and had no grant at that time ; being men of wealth, they purchased land at first, but later shared in a division of land made by the town. Percival Lowell married. in England, his wife, Rebecca, who died De cember 28, 1645, at Newbury. Their children were: John, Richard and Joan. (II) John, the older son of Percival and Rebecca Lowell, was born in 1595, in Eng land, and died at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1647. His came to X^ew England at the same time as his father, bringing his wife and four children. Lie was a man of influence in the community, and had a very good education for the time. In 1640 he was made a free man, and he served as constable, as deputy to the general court and as town clerk. When he was twenty-four years of age he appren ticed himself, in England, to Richard ]3augh, of Bristol, a "glover." He married, in Eng land, his first wife, Alargaret, wdio died short ly after her arrival in New England, soon after the birth of her fifth child. He married (second) in 1639, at Newbury, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Taylor) Goodale, who was born at Yarmouth, Norfolk county, England, and died in 1651, at New bury. Children of John Lowell, by his first marriage, were: i. John, born 1629, in Eng land, died 1694, at Boston, Massachusetts; married Elannah Proctor, sister of AbigaU, who married his brother Joseph. 2. Alary, 1633, in England, married Thomas Wyburn. 3. [Peter, 1635, in England. 4. James, 1637, in England. 5. Joseph, November 28, 1639, at Newbury, Alassachusetts. By his second marriage he had: 6. Benjamin, Septeniber 12, 1642, [Newbury, Alassachusetts; married Ruth Woodman. 7. Thomas, June 4, 1644. 8. Elizabeth, February 16, 1646, married Cap tain Philip Nelson. (Ill) Joseph, son of John and Margaret Lowell, was born November 28, 1639, at [New bury, and died August 19, 1705, at Boston, Massachusetts. He removed to Boston with his brother John previous to 1661, and was a cooper. , He married, Alarch 8, 1660, AbigaU, daughter of George P. and Edith Proctor, of Dorchester, born in 1635, died June 27, 1707. Their children were: i. Joseph, born August I, 1661, at Boston, died young. 2. Hannah, Jantiary 31, 1662-63. 3. 'Joseph. 4. Abigail, February 4, 1667, died young. 5. Jaines, Alarch 27, 1668, married Elizabeth Gusten. 6. Abigail, March 9, 1671. 7. Samuel, July 13, 1678. 8. Benjamin, November 5, 1679. (IV) Joseph (2), second son of Joseph (i) and Abigail (Proctor) Lowell, was called a "mariner"" About 1726 he removed to Hamp ton, New Hampshire. Joseph and his brother James were members of "Ye Second Foot Company," of Newbury, Massachusetts, under 258 STATE OF MAINE. command of Captain Hugh Alarch. He mar ried (first) Patience , who died Janu ary 3, 1714. He married (second) Alarch 9, 1720, Sarah, daughter of Deacon James Pres cott Jr., by Ids wife Alaria, daughter of Will iam and Rebecca (Page) Alarston. Sarah Prescott was born January 20, 1701, died June 12, 1746. Joseph had children by his first marriage as follows: I. Joseph Jr., bom January 3, 1696, died July 10, 1697. 2. Abi gail, who died August 26, 1703, at Boston. By his second marriage he had : 3. Jeremiah, born April 15, 1722, at Hampton, New Hamp shire. 4. David, XTovember 19, 1723, married Abigail Perkins. 5. James. 6. Lucy, 1727, died April 21, 171 1; married Deacon Abner Sanborn Jr. 7. Alary, baptized Alay 10, 1730. (V) James, son of Joseph (2) and Sarah (Prescott) Lowell, was born October 12 or 22, 1725, and died about 1830. In 1747 he took part in the campaign against Louisburg, served twenty-nine days as private in the con tinental army, in Captain David Ouimby's company. Colonel Joseph Gale's regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign, and in 1756 took part as soldier in the siege at Crown Point, New York. Fle married, in 1747, Mary Clark, of Falmouth, Alaine, and their children were: Oliver, Sarah, Mary and Joseph. (VI) Sarah, the elder daughter of James and Mary (Clark) Lowell, was bom August 22, 1750, and died at Seabrook, New Hamp shire, December 29, 1824. She married John Brown, of Seabrook, New Flampshire. (See Brown IV.) The large number bearing this BROWN name among the pioneer settlers of New England have left a very numerous progeny. The frequent re currence of the same christian names has ren dered it extremely difficult to trace the descent of many. Happily the line herein covered is fairly complete and includes some prominent natives of Maine who have earned distinction by their own merit and ability. (I) John Brown, bora in England in 1588- 89, came to Massachusetts as early as 1635, and settled permanently at Hampton, in what is now New Hampshire, in 1639. He was granted a house lot of four acres, but soon after purchased ten acres from John Sanders, upon which he took up his residence. This property continued in the hands of his lineal descendants through seven generations. He must have been a man of much industry, for he made several additions to this tract by pur chase, and also acquired other tracts in vari ous parts of the town. He died February 28, 1687. The records show that his wife's chris tian name was Sarah. Their children were: Sarah, John, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Jacob, Mary, Thomas and Stephen. (II) Benjamin, second son and third child of John and Sarah Brown, was born about 1647, iri Hampton, and was a farmer residing in the southeastern part of the town, in what is now Seabrook, on land received from his father. He was married in 1679 to Sarah Brown, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Alurford) Brown, pioneer settlers of Salis bury, Massachusetts. She was born April 12, 1658, in Sahsbury. Their children were: William, Sarah, Benjamin, Elizabeth, John, Jacob, Stephen, Mary, Thomas and Jeremiah. (Ill) Thomas, ninth child and sixth son of Benjamin and Sarah (Brown) Brown, was born May 21, 1699, in Hampton, and resided in that part of the town now Seabrook, where he died in November, 1765. He was married May 2, 1729, to Mehitable, daughter of Joseph and Mehitable (Hobbs) Towle, of Hampton. Their sons were : Joseph, Benjamin, Thomas and John. (IV) John (2), son of Thomas and Mehi table (Towle) Brown, was born January 3, 1747, at Seabrook, New Hampshire, and died August 12, 1839. In 1769 he married Sarah, daughter of James and Mary (Clark) Lowell, born August 22, 1750, died December 29, 1824, at Seabrook. (See Lowed VI.) Their chUdren were: i. Molly, born December 14, 1771, died June 15, i860. 2. John Jr., Decem ber 2, 1775, died August 8, 1843. 3- Lowell, May 13, 1778, died August 20, 1863. 4. Sarah, Septeniber 21, 1780, died May 10, 1806. 5. Alehitable, July 31, 1783, died Oc tober 31, 1849. 6. Betsy, August 12, 1786, died Alay 15, 1865. 7. Nancy, April 29, 1789, died March 6, 1843. 8. Benjamin, September 25, 1791, died August 5, 1864. 9. NeweU. (V) Newell, youngest son of John (2) and Sarah (LoyveU) Browm, was born November 17, 1794, and died February 10, 1875. He was a farmer and large stockdealer, and lived at his birthplace, Seabrook, New Hampshire. In 1823 he married Abigail Perkins, daughter of Jonathan Leavitt, born in 1794, died in 1880. Jonathan Leavitt was a captain of ar tillery in the revolutionary war, and his son, Hon. B. B. Leavitt, won a distinguished place in political affairs of Maine. The family lived at Eastport, Alaine, and were people of edu cation and refinement. The children of NeweU and Abigail Perkins (Leavitt) Brown were: i. John Newell, married Abby Ann ST.'VTE OF MAINE. 259 Dearborn, and had two children, both of whom are dead. 2. Sarah A., unmarried. 3. Frank, married Nancy Brown and has four chUdren: i. Abby N., married George Pike, of Newburyport, [Massachusetts, n. Ida, mar ried Edward Blood, of Mendon, Massachu setts, iii. John, married May Batchelder and has three children, iv. Ellsworth, married Emma Morrell and has no children. 4. Syl vester, married Martha Clough and has two chUdren: i. Grace, married WiUiam Evans and has one daughter. Amy. ii. Lincoln, mar ried Mary Butler and has one child, Martha. 5. Calvin Smith. (VI) Hon. Calvin Smith, youngest son of Newell and Abigail P. (Leavitt) Brown, was born January 4, 1837, at Seabrook, New, Hampshire, and after attending the public schools of his native town worked on his father's farm, and taught school to secure his further education, which was largely attained through his own effort. He attended Rock ingham Academy at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, Hampton Academy of the same place. Dearborn Academy of Seabrook, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Northfield, New Hampshire, Colby Academy at New London, New Hamp shire, and in 1858 entered Dartmouth College, graduating in 1862 with degree A. B. On his graduation he enlisted for three months as private in the Seventh Squadron of the Rhode Island Cavalry, a company raised among the students of Dartmouth College and Norwich University, and with them he participated in the battle of Harper's Ferry in September, 1862, also in the battle of Antietam. [His term of service ended, he re-enlisted as captain of Company C, of the Seventeenth New Hamp shire Volunteer Infantry, where he served until the disbanding of that regiment. Upon the call for three hundred thousand men in 1864, he enlisted as a captain of infantry in the state of Maine, and soon was promoted to rank of major, subsequently being appointed ¦lieutenant colonel in command of the First Battalion of Maine Infantry Volunteers, where he served until April, 1866. After the assassination of President Lincoln, he was or dered from the Shenandoah Valley to Wash ington, and after the "Grand Review" to Georgia and thence to South Carolina, where he commanded Anderson, Abbeville, Green- viUe, Pickens and Union districts, as sub- commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau, until his discharge, and while guarding Confederate cotton' at Brown's Ferry on the Savannah mer, three of his men were killed. On re tiring from the army he resumed the study of law, which he had begun during the war, and in October, 1866, was admitted to practice in the courts of Alaine, at the Washington county bar. In December of that year he opened an office for the practice of law at St. Louis, Alis- souri, remaining there until 18.70, then spent neariy two years in mercantile business with the house of Packer, York & Company, Mont gomery county, Kansas, after which 'he spent two years as bookkeeper in the banking house of Eby & Company, Coffeyville, Kansas. In 1873 he represented Montgomery county in the state legislature; in 1876-77-78 he served as mayor of Parker, and in 1878 mayor of Coffeyville, Kansas. When he came to Wash ington his first appointment was clerk in the pension office, and after a short service there he took examination for interior department of the land office and received an appointment in the railroad division, which position he now fills. Mr. Brown has been a member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons since 1864, when he joined Eastern Lodge, X^o. 7, of Eastport, Maine. He is Independent in Religion, and a staunch Republican. He be longs to Lincoln Post, No. 3, Grand Army of Republic, of Washington, and to the Alaine Society of Washington. Mr. Brown is a use ful and patriotic citizen, and has served his country in war and in peace the greater part of his life. He married, November 15, 1871, Caroline Noyes, daughter of Samuel Wither- ell, of Eastport, Maine, born in 1842, and their children are: i. Annie Witherell, born July 30, 1874, died in infancy. 2. Sarah Witherell, September 2, 1877. 3. Edith Lilian, March 29, 1881. The ancestors of this family BROWN lived in Brownfield, Oxford county, were probably pioneers there, and the town may have been named for the family. (I) Asaph Brown, son of Silas and Judith Brown, was born January 7, 1759, in Stowe, Massachusetts, and resided there before the time of his marriage. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and in the Massachu setts Records is credited to the town of Tem pleton. His record follows : Asaph Brown, of Templeton, was a private in Captain Eze kiel Knowlton's company. Colonel Dike's regi ment ; pay abstract for travel allowance from Dorchester home dated Dorchester, November 20, 1776; also pay abstract for gun and blan ket money, etc., dated Dorchester, November 30, 1776; also same company and regiment; 26o STATE OF MAINE. service from December 14, 1776, to March i, 1777 ; also pay abstract for gun and blanket money dated Dorchester Heights, March 31, 1777. Fle settled on a farm in Waterford, Maine, and married Hannah Shaw, born in Waterford, December 22, 1763, died in Bethel, February 11, 1841, daughter of Josiah and Mary (Lamprey) Shaw, of Waterford. Their chUdren were: Abigail, Robbins, Josiah, Catherine, Asaph, Susan, Nancy and four oth ers wdio died young. Josiah Shaw, father of Alary (Shaw) Brown, was a son of Ebenezer and Anna (Philbrick) Shaw (see Shaw), and was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, January 31, 1740, and died August 7, 1810. In 1763 he removed with his family to the township of Pearsontown, now Standish, and bought lot 43. There he settled and kept the first tavern ever opened to the public in that town. He was first town treasurer of that municipality, as weU as selectman; he was a cooper and farmer. He married Alary Lamprey, of Hampton, who died January 9, 1826. They had six children: Mary, Hannah (wife of Asaph Brown), Anna, Jonathan, Josiah and Eli. (II) Robbins Brown, and his brother Jo siah [Brown, removed from Brownfield and settled in Bethel. Josiah lived in the Chandler neighborhood, and married Mehitable, a daughter of Asa Lovejoy. Robbins Brown, born April 29, 1776, died Alay 31, 1848, was a tanner and lived on Bethel HiU. He mar ried Hannah, a sister of his brother's wife. Their children were : David F., born Sep tember 28, 1812, married X'ancy Richardson ; Hannah, born [March 10, 1814, died August 17, 1823; Josiah, born June 21, 1815, married Alary A. Stevens ; mentioned below ; Mehi table, born April 13, 1819, married Eli Grover. (Ill) Robbins (2), third son of Robbins (i) and Hannah (Lovejoy) Brown, was born October 26, 1818, and died January 8, 1879. He and his brother David F. engaged in the tannery business. He was an industrious, re spectable citizen, a member of the Congrega tional church, and in politics a Republican. He married (first), July 12, 1847, Adary R. Ayer, who died December 21, 1853, leaving no child. He married (second), February 10, 1855, Ausina Barker, who was born Novem ber 14, 1829, and died May 23, 1882, daughter of Francis and Nancy H. (Ingalls) Barker, of Bethel. She descended from the immigrant as follows : James and Grace of Rowley, Massachusetts; Nathaniel and Alary; James and Sarah; James and EUzabeth; Jedediah and Sarah; Samuel and Betsey (Roger) Bar ker, who settled in Bethel in 1803, and had Francis, who married Nancy H. IngaUs, Sam uel Barker was a Revolutionary soldier. Three children were born to Robbins and Au sina (Barker) Brown: i. Fred IngaUs, born January 2, 1857, lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; married, September 16, 1880, Agnes Izella Brown. 2. [Frank I., mentioned below. 3. WUliam, born October 13, 1863. (IV) Dr. Frank Irving, second son of Rob bins and Ausina (Barker) B/own, was born in Bethel, October 27, i860. After being schooled in the public schools and Gould's Academy, he entered Bowdoin CoUe.ge, from which he graduated in 1885. He taught school in Norway, Alaine, and in Hopkinton, Massa chusetts. He began the stutly of medicine, and was graduated from the Maine Aledical College in 1891. In 1891-92 he was an in terne in the Maine General Hospital, and went thence in 1893 to Cape Elizabeth, and setded and engaged in the general practice of his profession, in which he has attained success in South Portland. He is a member of the Cum berland County Aledical Association, the Maine Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, the Portland Aledical Club, and the Athletic Club. In Free Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree, and is a member of the following organizations of that order: Hiram Lodge, [No. 180; Green leaf Royal Arch Chapter ; Portland CouncU, Royal and Select Masters ; Portland Com mandery, Knights Templar ; and Maine Con sistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. He is also a member of Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine; of Nor way Lodge, No. 16, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Lodge Bayard, No. 44, Knights of Pythias. He worships with the Congregationalists, of which denomination he- has always been a member. Dr. Brown married, in Bethel, February 19, 1896, Edith A. Philbrick, of Bethd, who was born November 27, 1863, daughter of John M. and Paulina (Fames) Philbrick of Bethel. Two children have been born of this marriage: The first child died young; Dwight Francis, the second child, was born September 3, 1905. James Brown was the emigrant BROWN ancestor of Euthalius Irving Brown, of Portland, Maine. He was born in Scotland about 1720-30. There is a tradition in the family that he was wealthy, having with him a chest of gold. Owing tO' a storm or shipwreck the gold was lost. Be- STATE OF MAINE. 261 sides the gold it is said that he had twenty fine linen shirts that were also lost on the journey over. He was a tailor by trade. He' married Hannah Blanchard, of Dunstable, Massachusetts, and their descendants have been numerous in the vicinity. Dunstable is now Nashua, New Hampshire. The Blanch- ards were among the pioneers there. Thomas Blanchard, her emigrant ancestor, came to America from the vicinity of Andover, Eng land, in the ship "Jonathan," in 1639. He settled first at Braintree. His son George was with him. He bought of Rev. John WUson, February 12, 1650-51, house and land in the south part of Maiden, Massachusetts. (Pope says he came from Penton, Hants, England.) He married (first) in England. His wife died there. He married (second) Agenes (Bent) Barnes, widow, a sister of John Bent. She died on the passage over. [He married (third) Mary . He died Alay 21, 1654. [His will is dated May 16, and was proved June 20, 1654. He made bequests to his wife Mary; to children George, "Thomas, Samuel, Nathaniel; to grandson Joseph, and to the church at Maiden. He provided that Benja min Thompson should be fitted for the Uni versity (Harvard) if his parents consent. Benjamin was son of Deacon John Blanchard. Benjamin does not appear in the list of Har vard graduates, however. His estate was ad ministered by his widow, appointed June 3, 1656. Deacon John Blanchard, son of Thomas Blanchard, the emigrant, was one of the pio neers at Dunstable, Massachusetts, now X"ash- ua. New Hampshire. He was admitted a free man in 1649. He was one of the founders of the Dunstable Church in 1685. ChUdren were : Joseph, Thomas, Hannah, born January 6, 1659; Benjamin, James, Sarah, Mary, .Na thaniel. Thomas Blanchard, son of Deacon John Blanchard, and grandson of Thomas Blanch ard, the emigrant, was born about 1670 and must have been a young child when his father went to Dunstable. He married Tabitha . She died November 29, 1696. He married (second) Ruth Adams, of Chelms ford, Massachusetts, October 4, 1698. He died March 9, 1727. In the possession of Mrs. Charies E. Wheelock, 8 Cottage street, Worcester, is a deed from Thomas to his son Thomas, dated 1721, of land in Dunstable. Children of Thomas and Tabitha Blanchard were: AbigaU, born May 5, 1694; John, Alay 20, 1696. Children of Thomas and Ruth (Adams) Blanchard were : Thomas (see for ward) ; WUliam, born 1701 ; Ruth, AprU i, 1703. Thomas Blanchard, son of Thomas Blanch ard, and grandson of Deacon John Blanchard, of Dunstable, was born August 12, 1699. He served in the Indian wars and was taken prisoner in September, 1724. He was a promi nent man in Dunstable, and held various town offices. Mrs. Wheelock has the original tax warrant for the year 1738, for the old town of Dunstable, issued to Thomas Blanchard as coUector of taxes. It shows the results of his work. It contains a full list of the taxpayers of the town. Joseph Blanchard, son of Cap tain Joseph Blanchard, who was uncle of Thomas Blanchard, heads the list. Hannah Blanchard, born about 1740, daugh ter of Thomas, married James Brown, the emigrant. Fle died in 1778. A copy of his will dated October 10, 1778, is owned by Mrs. Wheelock. It is a certified copy made soon after the wdll was proved in the ISIashua court. It should be noted that James Brown, of Dun stable, was a lieutenant in the battle of Bunker Hill, according to the history of Dunstable, and no other James Brown of the right age and description is to be found. The children of James and Hannah (Blanchard) Brown were: John; James, set tled in Waterford, Ohio (Mrs. Wheelock has a letter written by him in which he mentions the death of his first wife in 1798 and his sec ond marriage) ; Phebe; Hannah; Isaac; Dan iel; Samuel; Aaron (see forward). The wUl indicates that all but Samuel and Aaron were of age, as it specifies that the others receive their bequests, and the two youngest receive theirs when they become of age. (II) Aaron, son of James Brown, was born in Dunstable or Nashua, X^ew Hampshire, XTo vember 17, 1773. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his grandson, Euthalius I. Brown, of Portland, has the drum and drum stick he carried as a drummer in the war. He married, September 5, 1797, Hannah Proctor, daughter of Reuben Proctor, of Merrimac, X"ew Hampshire. She was bom July 13, 1778. He lived in Nashua and died AprU 24, 1844, in Canton, Maine, where he removed about 1815. He was a charter member of the Liv ermore Falls (Alaine) Lodge of Free Alasons, and was a prominent man in the order. The children of Aaron and Hannah (Proctor) Brown were: i. James (see forward). 2. Nancy, born at Dunstable, December 28, 1799, married the Rev. Bartlett. 3. Earned Small, born in Dunstable, March 18, 1801. 4. John, bora in Wilton, Maine, December 29, 262 STATE OF MAINE. 1802, married Huldah Gardner. 5. Reuben Proctor, born in Wilton, Maine, January 28, 1805. 6. Jefferson, born in Wilton, Maine, September 22, 1806. 7. Arthur, born in Wil ton, Alaine, October 15, 1807. 8. Rebecca Proctor, horn in Wilton, Maine, February 5, 1810. 9. Abigail Bigelow, born at Jay, Maine, March 29, 1812. 10. Susannah Car penter, born in Jay, Maine, July 16, 1815. 11. Hiram, born February 9, 181 7, at Jay, now Canton, Maine. 12. Orin, born October 20, 1818, at Jay, now Canton, died in Texas; he was a general in the rebellion, and stood high in Masonic circles. 13. Belinda Bartlett, born in Canton, Maine, July i, 1821. (Ill) James (2), son of Aaron Brown, was born in [Dunstable, Massachusetts, or Nashua, New Hampshire, August 5, 1798, died AprU 8, 1881, at Grafton, Maine. When a young man he came to Maine and was a pioneer in the woods of that state, being for many years well known to the woodmen and lumbermen of Maine. He was a man of fine stature, enormous strength and endurance, and thus was well equipped for the life of a pioneer. He emigrated into the woods of Oxford county, among the eariy settlers of Grafton, where he purchased a large tract of timber land._ He made the trips on foot and carried on his back part of the supplies necessary to establish his camp. He put the contents of a barrel of flour into two sacks and carried the same together with fifteen pounds of nails through Grafton Notch into the wilderness, where he erected his house and a mill, operat ing the latter for many years. He also deared the land and cultivated the same, but the greater portion of his time was devoted to the lumber and timber business, surveying timber lands, making estimates of their foot age and quality and determining their value. Fle was' a thorough woodsman, and was recog nized as an authority on all matters pertaining to woodcraft. He assisted Samuel Ames and Major Barrett, old time county surveyors to survey many of the town limits of Oxford county. He experienced all the hardships and perils of pioneer life in the Maine woods not only m Oxford county but in many other' sec tions. _ During his eariy manhood he made extensive trips into the woods of Canada on timber hunting expeditions, and met with many wild experiences, as the native lumber men were very hostile to those coming from the_ states, and many a time they had to fio-fit their way and defend themselves as best thev could. He also established a tavern on the old homestead, converting his farmhouse into a typical wayside inn, and the road which passed his house and mill became the favorite route for most of the teamsters from the woods in New Hampshire to the sea port and city of Portland. The main production of the woods was potash, which was hauled to the coast, and the teams upon their return brought rum sugar, molasses and other necessary stores. Mr. Brown resided on the old homestead unfil his decease. He was a Democrat in politics and for two years served in the capacity of county commissioner. James Brown married (first) Mary Thompson, July 4, 1824; she died April 19, 1833. Married (second) Ruth Swan, October 28, 1838; she died February 4, 1901. ChUdren of James and Mary (Thomp son) Brown were: i. James Monroe, born November 15, 1825, died September 11, 1895; married Eunice E. Frost, November 15, 1849; their child, Mrs. Charies E. Wheelock, of Worcester, Massachusetts. 2. Arthur, born September 24, 1827, died October 15, 1857. 3. Ira Bisbee, born April 5, 1829, died March 12, 1831. 4. Ira Bisbee, born June 10, 1831, died July 19, 1851. 5. WUliam Thompson, born January 16, 1833, married Esther H. Swan, June 10, 1859; he died AprU 28, 1861. Children of James and Ruth (Swan) Brown: 6. Mary T., born August 22, 1839, married George H. Otis, October 10, 1863; children: Frances Lillian, married Fred Decker, of Bur lington, New Hampshire; Arthur Monroe; Jennie M., married Harvey C. Philbrook, of Bethel, Maine ; Will Howe. 7. George MUler, born August 16, 1844, married EUa M. Briggs, March, 1864; he served as selectman of Grafton, Maine, for many years. 8. Eu thalius Irving, born November 14, 1851, see forward. (IV) Euthalius Irving, second son and third chdd of James (2) and Ruth (Swan) Brown, was born in Grafton, Maine, [Novem ber 14, 1851. He attended the schools in the neighborhood of his home, completing his studies at the age of fourteen. Having been reared in the timber regions of his native state, he was familiar with all the mysteries of the w-oods, which he explored with his father, as sisting him to survey and estimate on large tracts of timber lands, also in supervising a large force of men to secure the timber and haul it out to the stream and thence to mar ket. In this manner he acquired a thorough knowledge of all the branches of the timber business, often meeting with thriUing adven tures with bears/ panthers and deer while camping for months in the woods, and in due course of time became one of the most expert (^Lycruy^^'X^ ^ewL.L HistoT-ica.! Pub. Co STATE OF MAINE. 263 lumbermen in the country, without doubt hav ing explored more timber lands than any other man in the state of Maine. His explorations covered much of Oxford, Kennebec, Franklin and other counties in Maine, Coos county and many others in New Hampshire, Cape Breton Island, where in 1896 he covered over seven hundred thousand acres of timber land, and one hundred and fifty miles of a chain of lakes in the province of Nova Scotia. In 1876 Mr. Brown purchased stumpage in Grafton, Maine, and sold it in the log in the open mar ket at Umbogog lake and Androscoggin river. In 1886 he went into the Bear and Cambridge river districts of Maine, where he cut much lumber which he floated down the river to market, and in addition to this bought cattle of the farmers and sold them in the markets. He remained on the old home place until 1893, owning the same until a few years ago, and then removed to Rumford Falls where he built a house, being one of the first to build on the opposite side of the river; he resided there about seven years. In 1894 he explored the northern woods for the purpose of discov ering timber fit for the use of the Rumford Falls Paper Company's mills, with which he was connected for five years, serving in 1899 in the capacity of general manager. In the same year he purchased thirty-five million feet of timber on the stump on the Dartmouth College grant in New Hampshire, which he cut during the following five years and sold to the Burling Mill Company and the Diamond Match Company. In 1898 he purchased Mount Abram in company with R. L. Mel cher, and this they sold to Boston parties who failed to cut off the timber and thus forfeited their contract, and later the tract was sold to L. L. Mason, of Portland. For the past six years Mr. Brown has dealt heavily in timber land in Maine and New Hampshire, manufac turing dimension lumber and spool wood at various points in Maine. His success in busi ness has been marked, and his profits have been invested to some extent in a.gricultural lands. He is the owner of the Robinson farm in Sumner — five hundred acres — on which he raises hay, grain and potatoes; a tract of seven hundred acres of timber in Dixfield; a tract of five thousand acres in Oxford county, and for many years was the proprietor of a tavern. In politics Mr. Brown is independent, casting his vote for the candidate who in his opinion is best qualified for office, irrespective of party affiliation. He is a member of Blaz- mg Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bethd, and of Mount Abram Lodge, No. 31, Independent Order of Odd FeUows, of Bethd. Euthalius I. Brown married, at Norway, Alaine, October 13, 1885, Alfreda W. Small, born at Danville, 1854, daughter of John and Mary (Evelcth) Small. Children: i. Alary Euthalia, married Samuel Annis aijd they are the parents of one child, Alfreda Evangeline Annis. 2. Claude Irving. Mr. lirown mar ried (second) Elizabeth Margaret Dagneau, born in Lewiston, June 20, 1881, daughter of Edward A. and Lucy (ElunneweU) Dagneau. Among the many different fam- BROWN dies by the name of Brown liv ing in his country, few have a longer or better record than the line originat ing in Concord, Alassachusetts, where several generations, most of them including a Thomas Brown, have fulfilled their duties as citizens of that ancient and famous town. One of the modern and most distinguished representatives of the family is Miss Elelen Dawes Brown, born at Concord in 1857, graduated from Vas- sar College in 1878, subsequently a teacher there, and now a noted lecturer in New York City. She is the author of several books, among them, "Two College Girls," "Little Miss Phebe Gay," "The Petrie Estate" and "A CivUian Attache." (I) Thomas Browne, the ancestor of the following line, was one of the earliest immi grants of the name to the New World. He lived at Concord, Massachusetts, but where he was born or when he died we have no means of knowing. Such information as we have been able to gather has been gleaned, bit' by bit, from the scattered references in the town histories and from the vital statistics. The first clue obtainable consists in the reference to the birth of his son, Boaz, whose sketch follows in the next paragraph. From this date we infer that Thomas Browne was born in England about the beginning of the seven teenth century. The historic and famous town of Concord was founded in 1635. As was natural in a primitive settlement, no vital records were kept during the first year or two, but in September, 1639, the general court ordered that every birth, marriage and death should be recorded in the jurisdiction, and placed on file in Boston. In the office of the city registrar of that metropolis, there is now preserved a register "of the berths & burialls in Concord from the yeare 1639 vntill^ the first month 1644 according to or account," the same being returned by Simon Willard in 1644. Consulting this ancient volume, we find on the first page : "Boaz the sonne of Thomas 264 STATE OF MAINE. Browne was borne the 14° (12°) 1641." This entry is the eighth in the book, though several records of 1640 are subsequently given, show ing that Air. Thomas Browne was evidently proud of the birth of his son, and anxious to comply with the new law. There is no further record of the progeny of Thomas Browne in this volume ; but in the Aliddlesex county reg isters preserved in the office of the clerk of the courts at East Cambridge, we find "Con cord Births: Deliuered in, 1650." The thir teenth and fourteenth entries in this volume evidently refer to later children of our Thomas Browne. "Alary the daughter of Tho: and Bridget Browne, the (26) i mo: 1645. Eliezer the sonne of Tho : and Bridget Browne, the (5) mo 1649." Among other rec ords we find that in 1655, Thomas Browne, one of the proprietors of Concord, owned fourteen lots, containing one hundred and eighty-six acres. He was evidently a man of good' judgment, for on Alay 21, 1660, he was one of the committee to decide the boundaries of the thousand acre tract belonging to Alajor Willard. He took part in the Narragansett campaign in King Philip's war, and in the famous swamp fight, which culminated in the attack on the Indian fort at Kingston, Rhode Island, December 19, 1675. Thomas Browne was one of the eleven men marching from Concord, Alassachusetts, and he was one of the two from that town who were wounded. The battle resulted in the loss of eighty white men, and three hundred Indians. '(II) Boaz, eldest child of Thomas and Bridget Browne, was born at Concord, Alassa chusetts, the fourteenth day of the twelfth month (w-hich probably meant February), 1641. On November 8, 1664, he married Alary Winchat, and among their children was Thomas (2), whose sketch follows. Boaz Browne must have married a second time, for in book II of the Concord register we find this entry : "mr Boaz Brown husband to Abi gail his wife Died April ye 7th: 1724." This record is supplemented by a statement on the gravestone, saying that he died in his eighty- third year, which establishes his identity with the husband of Alary Winchat. In the as signment of the proprietors' lots Boaz Browne is credited w-ith the ownership of six lots or eighty-six acres. (Ill) Thomas (2), son of Boaz and Alary (Winchat) Browne, was born Alay 12, 1667, at Concord, Alassachusetts, and died there Alay 13, 1739. In the death record he is writ ten as the husband of Rachel, but her maiden name is not given. This Thomas seems the most prominent of the eariy generations. He must have been a man of education, for he served as town clerk of Concord from 1689 to 1701 and again from 1704 till 1710; and he began book'll of the Concord registers. On February 11, 1699-1700, he w-as one of the committee to decide the bounds between Con cord and Billerica. He probably saw some military service, for we find that on Alay 9, 1710, Ensign Thomas (2) Browne was one of the committee to decide about some matters connected with the burying-ground, probably the ancient one fronting the old meeting house on the square. On June 24, 1735, Ephraim Bro\yne drew Lot 8 in Narragansett towmship for his father, Thomas Brovme. This land is in wdiat is now the township of Templeton, Alassachusetts, and may have been a grant for some military service. Among the other children of Thomas (2) and Rachel Browne yvas Thomas (3), whose sketch fol lows. (lA') Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) and Rachel Browne, was born at Concord, Alassa chusetts, December 24, 1707, but his death is not recorded. On May 26, 1748, he married Alary Flint, of Concord, Rev. Daniel Bliss of that town officiating. Five children are rec orded : Hannah, born Xovember 15, 1750; Jonas, wdiose sketch follows ; John, July 28, 1755; Ephraim, Alarch 27, 1758; and Charles, October 13, 1760. (A^) Ensign Jonas, eldest son of Thomas (3) and Alary (Flint) Brown, was born at (Toncord, Alassachusetts, December 15, 1752, and died at Temple, X^ew Hampshire, July 31, 1834. He had a notable revolutionary record that is so interesting that we give it in his own words. The statement was made August 17, 1832, before the court of probate, then sitting at Amherst, Hillsborough county. New Hampshire. Air. Brown was seventy-nine years of age at the time, and the statement was made to enable him to secure a pension, according to the act of congress, passed on June 7 of that year. Air. Brown stated that he entered the service of the L^nited States: "That is to say, from the 1st of January, 1775. to the 1st of Alay. I was enlisted as a min ute-man (being a native and resident of Con cord, Alass.), under Capt. Buttrick, of the Militia, and trained twice a week, and with the rest of the company, kept guard most of the time over the public stores, roads and bridges in Concord. Early on the 19th of April, an alarm was given that the enemy were coming from Boston to Concord, and our company was paraded about daylight, and STATE OF AlAINE. 265 kept under arms most of the time, until the enemy arrived, and destroyed military stores and provisions, and set a guard at the Bridge, and I was ordered with others, to rout them, which we did, when several were killed on both sides, and the enemy retreated, and we pursued to Alenotoniy (West Cambridge), had various skirmishing on the road, and I returned to Concord. Capt. Buttrick went to Cambridge, and several times sent for his com pany. I went twice or three times and re turned next day. On the ist of Alay, 1775, I entered the service as a corporal, under Capt. Abisha Brown, in the regiment com manded by Col. Jno. Nickson, Lt. Col. Thomas Nickson, and Alaj. Jno. Buttrick in the Massa chusetts Line, and served eight month? at Cambridge, Charlestown, &c ; was in the battle of Bunker HiU, on the 17th of June, and was dismissed ist of January, 1776. Again the mUitia was called for, and on the ist of Feb., 1776, I enlisted a volunteer for two months, under Capt. Asel Wheeler, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Reed, in the Mass. Line, in the Brigade destined for Can ada, in which Regt was Lt. Col. Brown, and Major Fletcher. I marched from Concord to Keene, N. FL, thence by way of Charlestown, N. EL, Otter Creek, and Shrewsbury, Vt., where we took boats and went down Lake Champlain, to Ticonderoga, and joined the army under Gen'ls Gates, Arnold, and Water bury, and Gen. Brickett of Mass. was there. I was at Ticonderoga when Arnold and Wat erbury went down the Lake with a fleet of gondolas (flat-boats) which were mostly de stroyed. I remained at Ticonderoga until about the middle of Dec, 1776, when I en tered my name to serve during the war, as a Lt. under Capt. Monroe, of Lexington, Mass., and had leave to return to Concord, until caUed for. I did so, and about the middle of March, I was called upon to take my appoint ment as Lt. I obeyed the call, and went to the Capt., who told me there were others who would like to take my chance, and I resigned it, and was excused from any further service, making eight months in which I was under orders as an Ensign." It is gratifying to know that the old vet eran received an annual pension of $117.33, rated from March 4, 1831, though he lived only three years to enjoy it. Ensign Jonas Brown moved from Concord, Alassachusetts, to Temple, New Hampshire, in 1780, and the latter town was his home for more than half a century. August 10, 1784, Jonas Brown mar ried Hannah, second daughter of Alajor Eph raim and Sarah (Conant) Heald, who was the first female child born in Temple, New Hamp shire. Fler birth occurred December 2, 1761, not long after that of her cousin, Peter Heald, son of Deacon Peter, who was the first male child born in Temple. The Healds were long time residents of Concord, Alassachusetts, being descended from John Heald, who came from Berwick, England, and settled in Concord as early as 1635. Ephraim Lleald was a noted scout, hunter and explorer of the wilderness in Alaine, New Hampshire and Alassachusetts. Eight children were born to Ensign Jonas and Hannah (Heald) Brown: i. Jonas, July 18, 1785, removed to Oppenheim, New York, in 1838. 2. Charles, August 16, 1787, married Lydia Woods, and removed to Batavia, New York. 3. Ephraim, July 13, 1790, married Sarah King, of Wilton, New Hampshire, where he died in 1840. 4. Lucas, September 17, 1792, moved to Norridgewock, Alaine. 5. John, whose sketch follows. 6. Polly, Febru ary 17, 1798, married Jeremiah Cutter, of Sebec, Alaine. 7. Cyrus, December 21, 1800, married Flarriet Weston, and moved to Ban gor, Maine. 8. Thomas Buckley, Alarch 16, 1803, married Alartha Farnham, and moved to Bangor, Maine. {VI) John, fifth son of Ensign Jonas and Hannah (Heald) Brown, was born at Temple, New Flampshire, August 13, 1795, died at Exeter, Alaine, July 29, 1839. About the time of his first marriage, in 1820, Air. Brown moved to Bangor, Alaine, where he was a con tractor and builder, and also a dealer in lum ber. Fle was also city marshal of Bangor for a few years. In the spring of 1839, a few months before his early death, he moved to a farm in Exeter, Alaine. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Universalist church. In 1820 John Brown married Cynthia Barker, born 1800, died August 17, 1831. Children : Nancy, Cynthia, Amanda and John. John Brown married (second) January 11, 1832, Sarah Crosby, bom Alarch 2, 1813, died 1865, daughter of John Wheeler, of Hampden, Alaine. Children: i. Charies B., see for ward. 2. Flirani, January 17, 1834, went to California with the Argonauts of '49, and from there to AI«xico where he owned valu able mines ; it is thought that he was killed by the Indians. 3. George I., December 8, 1836, enlisted in Company B, Second Alaine Regi ment, having the rank of lieutenant; he was wounded in the leg in the Seven Days' fight and taken prisoner; he was afterwards re leased and given crutches by the Confederates, perhaps because he was a Alason ; he now lives 266 STATE OF MAINE. near Katahdin Iron Works, Alaine. 4. Henry L., 1838, lived in Louisiana untU 1861, when he moved to Wisconsin where he died ; he was an editor of a paper in Darlington, Wisconsin. 5. Wesley, August 12, 1839, enhsted in Com pany B, Second Maine Regiment, in 1861, and was shot at the second batde of BuU Run ;_ he lay on the field twenty-four hours before being removed, and died from exhaustion soon after ward. (A^II) Charles Buckley, eldest of the five sons of John and Sarah C. (Wheeler) Brown, was born at Bangor, Maine, October 4, 1832, died January 19, 1909. He was educated in the local schools of that place and taught in the winter schools. After his father's death he was made an apprentice to a carpenter, where he served for three years. In 1856, being twenty-four years of age, he went into business for himself as a contractor and builder. He soon acquired a reputation, and was entrusted with large undertakings. Some of his more important contracts include the Morse-Oliver building (one hundred and fifty thousand dollars), the Pickering, Treat and Dale buildings (one hundred thousand dol lars), the Granite Block, all of Bangor; the Fogg Memorial at South Berwick, Maine ; the famous Kineo House at Moosehead Lake, Maine; several of the state college buildings at Orono ; Bangor Opera House ; Islesboro Inn at Islesboro, and Stewart Memorial Li brary at Corinna, Maine. In 1903, after near ly half a century of active life, Mr. Brown retired from business. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the First Baptist Church. He belonged to Rising Virtue Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and also to the Odd Fellows. On June 8, 1855, Mr. Brown mar ried Araminta, born July 5, 1830, daughter of Colonel Isaac and Mary Allen, of Auburn, Maine ; she was a teacher. Children: i. Ida J., born November 12, 1856, graduated from Wellesley CoUege in 1879; retained as teacher one year, but relinquished same when called home by death of sister; taught one year in Bangor high school ; for last twelve years pro fessor in Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina. 2. Effie May, January 24, 1859, died May 23, 1880. 3. Alice Bdle, July 31^ 1861, for several years a highly successful teacher in Bangor high schools; in 1891 taught in Georgetown, Colorado; for last twelve years in charge of intermediate department and assistant in higher grades in Miss New man's private school, Bangor, Maine. 4. Sarah Nourse, January 6, 1864, graduated from Emerson (College of Oratory, Boston, also postgraduate year; taught oratory in Co lumbia Female Institute, Tennessee; Denver University, Denver, Colorado ; in WUlamette University, Salem, Oregon ; is dean of college of Oratory in Willamette University ; married, June 25, 1896, Mark H. Savage; child, Dor othy Odell Brown Savage, born November 16, 1899. 5. Bertha Louise, August 12, 1868, A. M., graduated from Colby College, 1888, with Phi Beta Kappa honors; 1889-90-91 taught in high school, Georgetown, Colorado; 1892-93-94 in high school, Somerville, Massa chusetts; 1 896- 1 908 assistant in Miss New man's private school, Bangor, Maine. The following, taken from the Bangor Daily Commercial, was written by one of the most honored citizens of Bangor: "It is fit ting that the passing from the activities of Hfe of such a man as Charles B. Brown should receive more than formal recognition because his life and character deserve prominence as an inspiration to the younger class of his fel- lowmen who have yet to make a record in civic virtue and professional uprightness re- enforced by intelligent kindliness and courtesy of demeanor. As a mechanic Mr. Brown was resourceful, progressive; he felt equal to tak ing in hand the largest building problems and he never failed to make good his contracts, whether he made money or not. His rare good judgment was frequently sought in all matters relating to construction, both by in vestors and contractors. And yet Mr. Brown was withal the most modest of men, never ask ing office. He exercised his calling in the most remote parts of the country and no blemish came to smirch his character, which is now a most precious legacy to his surviving fam Uy. In his home, his church, his city, in the circle of hosts of friends, the memory of this man, 'faithful to every trust,' shaU long re main an example and an inspiration. He was my friend. W." The genealogical records some- BROWN times refer to the family below treated of as the Lynn [Browns, as the ancestor first appears in Lynn, Alassa chusetts, to distinguish them from the many other families bearing the same cognomen, but of different origin. Members of the Port land, Maine, branch of the family have taken a very prominent part in the financial, com mercial, military and social history of the state. (I) Thomas Brown was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1628, but who his parents were is not clear. He married Mary, daugh- f/^ ^yi^ty^/^^M STATE OF MAINE. 267 ter of Thomas Newhall, who was born in 1637, and they had a large family. Three of the sons — John, Thomas and Eleazer — moved to Connecticut and settled at Stonington. The children of Thomas and Mary were : Thomas, Mary, Sarah (died young), Joseph, Sarah, Jonathan (died young), John, Mary, Jona than, Eleazer, Ebenezer, Daniel, Ann and Grace (twins) and Daniel. (II) John, fourth son of Thomas and Mary (NewhaU) Brown, date of birth unknown, with his two brothers, Thomas and Eleazer, sold their interests in the paternal estate to their brother Daniel, and removed while still in young manhood to Stonington, Connecticut, where they settled, and from them have de scended a very large progeny. John married, in 1692, Elizabeth Miner, who was born in Stonington, Connecticut, April, 1674, daughter of Ephraim and Hannah (Avery) Miner. Their children were : John, Jonathan, Eliza beth, Hepsibah, a son, Ichabod, Prudence, Jedediah, Mehitable and Mary. (Ill) Ichabod, fourth son of John and Elizabeth (Miner) Brown, was born in Ston ington, March 12, 1704. He married. May 30, 1731, Sarah Chapman, who was born in Stonington, November 25, 1710, daughter of John and Sarah (Brown) Chapman. Nine children were born to them : Ichabod Elias, Stephen, Sarah, Asa, Jonas, Micah, Andrew, Keturah. (IV) Elias, second son of Ichabod and Sarah (Chapman) Brown, was born in Ston ington, February i, 1734. He moved to Tol land, Connecticut, and to Alstead, New Hamp shire, in 1773. He married, June 16, 1757, AbigaU Olcott, of Bolton. Children: Ehas (2), Titus Olcott and Hope, all of whom moved from town except Elias (2), who occupied the first framed house in Alstead, about half a mile west of the old meeting house, and he lived in Alstead till his death in 1813. Elias (2) Brown mar ried Rebecca Keyes, of Uxbridge, Massa chusetts, and they were the parents of three chUdren, two sons and one daughter. The names of the sons were Titus and Peter Ol cott. (V) Titus Olcott, son of Elias and Abigail (Olcott) Brown, was born in ToUand, Connec ticut, August 25, 1764, and died in Norway, Maine, February 23, 1855. In 1786, or soon after, Mr. Brown settled in Lancaster, New Hampshire, and seems to have been one of the wealthier class. He lived first on what he called "Great Brook Farm," on what is now known as Otter brook. There he raised the tobacco that formed the first article of com merce shipped through the White Mountain Notch road toward the seacoast from Lancas ter. This tobacco reached the ocean at Port land. An elm tree planted by Titus O. Brown in 1795 stands on Maine street, Lancaster, to-day. For some years Mr. Brown was one of the leading business men of Lancaster, kept a stock of goods at the south end of Main street, near the south end of the bridge on the west side of the street. The building still re mains. Mr. Brown built a sawmUl, a grist mill and a fulling mill in Lancaster. By the terms of the lease of the water power, he undertook to build a sawmiU, December i, 1792, and a grist miU "with a good bolt" key December i, 1793, and a fulling mill, Decem ber I, 1794. He erected the sawmill and had R. C. Everett build a grist mill one hundred feet long and three stories high, in which was a carding and fulling mill. This mill was burned some time previous to 1800 and re built on the same site by Mr. Brown. He is said to have been engaged also in the hotel and transportation business. He accumulated property and was able to give his children a substantial education, but meeting with some reverses, he accepted an agency of parties en gaged in the land and lumber business, and removed with his family through the notch into the town of Bartlett. After a few years there he removed to Gray Corner and kept the hotel at that place. His hotel was the favorite stopping place of travelers and teamsters, and his extensive acquaintance in northern New Hampshire, a large share of whose trade and travel then came down the Androscoggin to Bethel and thence through Greenwood, Nor way and Poland by way of Gray to Portland, insured him a large share of patronage. About the year 1833, with his son-in-law, Amos Pur ington, he removed to Norway and there bought out the hotel which they carried on until about the year 1842. Mr. Brown con tinued to reside in Norway till his death. Titus O. Brown married Susannah, daughter of Isaac and Susannah (Johnson) Bundy, of Walpole, New Hampshire. She was born De cember 19, 1771, and was a descendant of John Bundy, who came to Plymouth in 1643, and later resided at Boston. The chddren of this marriage were : Frances, Susannah, Abi gail Hatch, Titus Olcott, Persis Hatch, John Bundy, Susan Johnson, Mary Ann, Elizabeth Fox and Sarah Adeline. (VI) Hon. John Bundy, son of Titus Ol cott and Susannah (Bundy) Brown, was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, May 31, 1805, 268 STATE OF MAINE. and died in Pordand, Alaine, January lo, 1881. When a mere lad he was taken by his father to Gray, Alaine, where he lived until he was nineteen years of age. Alpheus Shaw, the father of Thomas Shaw, of the firm of Shaw, Hammond & Carney, was then doing a large West India business in Portland. He stopped occasionally at the hotel kept by Titus O. Brown, and to him young Brown made known his desire to obtain a situation in the city. Mr. Shaw promised him a place in his store as soon as a chance came, and when it came he yvrote announcing the fact. The letter carrying this intelligence was always carefully preserved by Air. Brown and was among his papers at his death. Air. Brown became a clerk for Air. Shaw and not long afterward St. John Smith also entered the same store to learn the business, and although somewhat older than Mr. Brown, a strong friendship sprang up between them, which continued till the death of Air. Smith, some three years pre ceding Mr. Brown's demise. About 1828 Alessrs. Brown and Smith engaged in the grocery business on their own account under the name of Smith & Brown, on the site on .Congress street where Alorton block was years later erected. This partnership continued until 1840. The financial success of this firm was almost phenomenal. From the West Indies they imported immense quantities of sugar, molasses and rum ; the sale of the latter article was recognized in those days as a legitimate branch of the grocery business. On the disso lution of this firm, 1840, Mr. Brown went into business at the head of MerriU's wharf, in the store which in 1881, at the time of Mr. Brown's death, stood under the name of J. B. Brown & Company. While there he began to build his sugar house on the corner of York and Maple streets. Mr. Brown was induced to undertake the manufacture of sugar by the favorable representations of a Scotchman who came from Cuba and who claimed to have a thorough understanding of the business, but it proved otherwise, for after the building had been erected it was found that the Scotchman had no practical knowledge of the matter and Mr. Brown was compelled to go to New York to get a man to operate the works. It proved a success, however, and for some time Mr. Brown realized handsomely on his venture. At one time he employed over two hundred hands in the sugar house. At the time he went into this enterprise there were only two other suo-ar houses in the country. The great fire of 1866 destroyed the sugar house, which during the year had been greatly enlarged from the orig inal building, ruining in stock, machinery and building over five hundred thousand dollars' worth of property. Fortunately for him. Air. Brown, with his customary shrewdness, had insured his sugar works in English and Scotch companies, and consequently received in gold his insurance money. This he immediately in vested in rebuilding his works on the same site. In declining to avail himself of the im provements in machinery in fitting his new sugar house, Mr. Brown made, as events proved, a financial mistake. He soon found that with the old methods he could not com pete with the new sugar-refining companies which had been started in the city, and after a determined and useless struggle he closed the manufacture of sugar entirely. In 1871 he established a private banking house under the firm name of J. B. Brown & Sons, the sons being Philip [Henry and John Marshall. This banking house was first located on E.x- change street and later removed into the Fal mouth Hotel building. This magnificent hotel was completed by Mr. Brown in 1868, and on July 15th of that year, on the occasion of its opening, Mr. Brown was tendered by prominent citizens a testimonial dinner. For a time Mr. Brown lived in a house on the corner of Oak and Spring streets, opposite the residence of his former partner, St. John Smith, but in i860 he built a fine residence on the V^estern promenade, overlooking Bramhall Hill, which he named Bramhall, in honor of one of the original settlers bearing that name, and there he lived the remainder of his life. To specify the number of buildings in Port land wdiich owe their existence to Mr. Brown would not only require much space, but would be almost impossible. His reputation as a builder was early established and increased as the year passed. He was undoubtedly the largest real estate owner in the city or state. At the time of his death he was contemplating the erection of three new blocks. His tax for the year 1880, as shown by the books of the city treasurer, was more than one-thirtieth of the whole ta.x of the city, so that when it is remembered that Mr. Brown went to Port land a poor boy, in possession of no special educational advantages, his remarkable and untiring energy becomes apparent. He was every ready to aid in the promotion of any meritorious local enterprises and his sagacity and foresight were invaluable to them. He was once president of the Atlantic & St. Law- ' rence railroad, was a director of the Pordand & Ogdensburg railroad, and of the Maine Cen tral, as well as a stockholder in both roads. STATE OF MAINE. 269 At one time he had a large interest in the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Company, of New York, and was a director of the Erie railroad. He was also interested in the Port land, Saco & Portsmouth railroad. For years he had been a director in the First National Bank of Portland. He was for a long time one of the trustees of Bowdoin College and established there the Brown memorial scholar ship, which is eligible only to graduates of the Portland high school. [He was president of the Maine General Hospital. In 1843 he be came a member of Laconia Lodge of Odd Fellows. He was too much engaged in busi ness to seek political honors to which his re markable talents warranted his aspiration, but was elected to the state senate for one term. Though not a professor of religion, Mr. Brown incHned toward the Congregational faith, and was a regular attendant at High Street Church, toward the support of which he was a liberal contributor. Air. Brown was in every sense a thorough business man. His naturally keen intellect enabled him to see the end of a business enterprise from the beginning. In his death Portland lost one of the most suc cessful business men that ever lived in that city. He died from a fall wliile passing from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Clifford, to his own home just across the street. The concussion caused the rupture of a blood vessel in his head and he died a few hours later. John Brown married, in 1830, Ann Matilda Greely, daughter of Philip Greely, of Portland. Of this union were born four children : James Olcott, Philip Henry, John MarshaU, EUen Greely, who married ¦William Flenry Clifford. (VII) General John Marshall, third son of John Bundy and Ann Matilda (Greely) Brown, was born in Portland, December 14, 1838,. and died at his summer residence in Falmouth, July 20, 1907. He attended the pubhc schools, Gould's Academy, at Bethel, and PhUlips Andover Academy. He entered Bowdoin in 1858 and graduated in the famous class of i860, with Judge Symonds, Hon. Amos L. Allen, Colonel Thomas Hubbard, of New York, Judge Burbank, Saco, Ex-speaker Thomas iB. Reed, and others. He was class orator of Phillips Exeter and winner of the declamation prizes of the sophomore and jun ior years, and elected class orator on grad uation at Bowdoin. He began the study of law in the office of Hon. John Rand, but the outbreak of the civil war interfered with his plans and he left his studies to go to the front. He enhsted in 1862 and was appointed first lieutenant, assistant adjutant general, June 29, and adjutant, September i, 1862, to the Twen tieth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and served under Colonel Adelbert Ames and Lieutenant- Colonel J. L. Chamberlain, plunging into real service at once. Fle took active part in the battles of Antietam, ChanceUorsviUe and Get tysburg. When Colonel Ames was promoted. Lieutenant Brown was made captain and as sistant adjutant general of volunteers by the president to serve in General Ames' 'staff. While on the duty he served in several severe batdes, including Gettysburg. In his report of his troops at Gettysburg, General Ames thus speaks of Captain Brown : "Captain J. Al. Brown, my assistant adjutant general, rendered most valuable services during the three days' fighting; with great coolness and energy he ably seconded my efforts in repell ing the assault made by the enemy on the evening of the second." Later Captain Brown served in the far south, when General Ames was sent to that section in command of the department, taking part in the siege of Fort Wagner and the movement on Johnson's Island, and subsequently in the movements about Jacksonville. When the thirty-second Maine regiment was organized, the late Dr. Mark E. Wentworth, of Kittery, was com missioned colonel and he accepted with the condition that Captain Brown should serve as his lieutenant-colonel. Dr. Wentworth's cour age was without blemish, but his physical con dition was such that he felt it would be an impossibility for him to be sure of holding active command, and he wanted a good officer for the position to fall to if he was obliged to leave it. Lieutenant-Colonel Brown was emphatically the right man in the right place. The Thirty-second Alaine Regiment was mus tered in April 20, 1864, under the last call of President Lincoln, that of February i, 1864. It was largely made up of men who had seen service in other regiments, so that it was in a measure prepared for the duty that was thrust upon it, that of the tremendous fighting of the latter days of the rebellion when Grant was gradually hammering the life out of the confederacy. Colonel Brown found himself in command of the regiment through the sickness of Colonel Wentworth, and he fought the regiment in the battles of Totopot- omy and Cold Harbor and the preliminary movements at Petersburg. He was severely wounded in the action. He was brevetted brjgadier-general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious service in the field. On his re turn, by care, he recovered his health to such 270 STATE OF MAINE. an extent that those who knew him only late in life regarded him as a stalwart man of great physical powers, and knew nothing of the seri ous condition in which he returned from the army. He retained his interest in mditary matters to the end of his life, and was promi nent in everything of a local character for the good of the service. He was a firm bdiever in a strong national guard as one of the main steps of the nation. After his return from the army he joined the militia and served as colond of the First Regiment for a number of years. He was also appointed brigadier-general, but did not exercise the command because in his opinion there was no brigade to command. He labored long^ and patiently to bring about reforms in the national guard system of the country which are only now beginning to become apparent. He was of the opinion gained from his foreign tours of observation that the national guard system of the country must be uniform and based on the systems in vogue in Europe which link whole nations together for the common de fence by a regular system of organizations. General Brown entered the business firm of which his father and his elder brother, the late Philip Henry Brown, were members, in the sugar business, and later in the real estate and banking business. Subsequent to the death of his father, the firm changed into a corporation called the P. H. & J. M. Brown Company, which still continues in business. He lived in Portland a short time after his return from the war and he served in the common council from ward six in 1865. Later he became impressed with the future value of Falmouth Foreside and bought the large tract near Waite's Landing, where his home was and where he maintained his legal residence for nearly forty years. Ele yvas a great lover of agriculture and for years conducted large farming operations on a scale that marked him as a successful gentleman farmer. Gen eral Brown had traveled extensively in Eng land and he was imbued somewhat with the value of the English idea of large landed es tates, and his place at Falmouth was con ducted much on the same basis as one of the large English establishments. At different times he sustained large losses from fire, hav ing his barns burned and in other ways suf fering severely, so that in his later years he confined his operations within a much nar rower Emit. General Brown was one of the commissioners to the Paris exposition by ap pointment of General Grant. He was for more than twenty-five years a member of the board of overseers of Bowdoin College, and for twelve years before his death was mem ber and president of the board of trustees. He was one of the most loyal sons of old Bowdoin and was ever ready to go to hef aid in time of need. He served as a member of the legislature from the towns of Falmouth and Cumberland in 1899, and won distinction on the committee on military affairs, being really the father of the present militia law which governs the militia of the state. He also introduced and was sponsor for the law which forbids the placing of any advertise ment on the national flag, thus preserving it from desecration by enterprising tradesmen who seek to use it to push their business. He was appointed in 1898 a member of the board of managers of the National Homes for Dis abled Veterans and he had general charge of the Togus Home until his resignation a short time before his death. Early in life he be came interested in historical matters and was elected a member of the Maine Historical So ciety more than thirty years ago. He was an earnest student of history, and although his writings were few they are of great value and his services to the society were extremely valuable. He was one of the building com mittee of the Historical Library, and akhough in great measure restricted by his illness, he was able to do a great deal of valuable work toward making this building the great success that it is. He was a vice-president of the Maine Historical Society for a number of years, and was also corresponding member of some other twenty historical societies in this and other countries, and rendered valuable service to the cause of history in many lands. He was one of the original members of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and served as commander of the Maine Command ery. He was also a member of the Sons of American Revolution, of the Society of Col onial Wars and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, although he did not take a promi nent part in the work of this order for many years before his death. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Port land Army and Navy Union. He was the president of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monu ment Association and deUvered the address on the occasion of the completion and surrender of the monument to the city. General Brown received the degree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College at commencement in 1863. Aside from his business relations, his con nection with the Protestant Episcopal church STATE OF MAINE. 271 made him better known than any other thing with which he was connected. He became an Episcopalian early in life and was chosen one of the vestry of St. Luke's Cathedral many years ago. He served as a vestryman for a long time, was advanced to the position of warden, and then for a long time served as senior warden of the corporation and treas urer of the Cathedral Chapter. He was elected delegate to the diocesan convention for the first time in 1887, and after that time missed only four conventions till the close of his life, and these at times when he was either out of the country or incapacitated by illness. He served on the standing committees for years and in the intervals between the deatrh of one bishop and the election and consecra- don of another, this body acting as the eccle siastical authority, took a prominent part in the direction of affairs in the diocese. Gen eral Brown was first elected a lay deputy to the first convention in 1878, and was re-elected every three years from that time. Lie was re elected at the convention in Alay to the gen eral convention to be held at Richmond, Vir ginia, in October, and his death caused a vacancy in the body. He was a working member of the general convention for years. He served on many important committees, in cluding that on the state of the church and on canons and the prayer book. Fle was what is known as a high church man and was liberal in his support of the tenets of the faith once committed to the saints. Alany of the movements that have attained a great prominence in the church were due to him, including the creation of the Episcopate fund and other important features, (general Brown was a genial man to meet, and a charming conversationalist, although for all his social prominence he was a diffident man and ex tremely loath to put himself forward. His range of information yvas wide, his knowledge deep and accurate, and he was master of vigor ous English. About a year previous to his death, while traveling in Alexico, General Brown was stricken with what was proved to be a first shock of paralysis, and for a time his condition was considered critical. He re turned to Portland, however, and the following year went to Falmouth Foreside, wdiere he died of the shock caused by an operation for appendicitis he was compelled to undergo. John Marshall Brown married, December 18, 1866, Alida Catherine Carroll, of Wash ington, a direct descendant of Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, one of the signers of the Con stitution. She was born in Washington, April 5, 1844, and IS the daughter of William Thom as and Sally (Sprigg) Carroll, of Washing ton. Children of John Marshall and Alida Catherine (CarroU) Brown: i. Sally Car roll, born October 26, 1867, married, April 5, 1893, Flerbert Payson, son of Charles and Ann Maria (Robinson) Paysun and grandson of Rev. Edward Payson ; children : i. Alida born Jantiary 27,^ 1895; ii- Anne Carroll, October 14, 1896; 111. John Brown, October i, 1897; IV. Charies Shipman, October 16, 1898; v. Her bert Jr., March 2t„ 1902; vi. Olcott Sprigg, June 30, 1907. 2. Alida Greely, born Alay 9, 1870, died April 25, 1889, at Aloutreux, Swit- zeriand. 3. Alary Brewster, born Febrtiary 16, 1876, married, August 5, 1901, George Strong Derby of Boston, son of Dr. Hasket and Sarah (Alason) Derby. 4. Carroll, born March 19, i88i ; see forward. Danid Carroll, of Litterlonna, was father of Charies Car roll, "Barrister," of Inner Temple, London, common ancestor of both the "CarroUton'' and "Duddington" CarroUs. The latter were cousins. 5. Violetta Lansdale, born Alay 14, 1883, married, August 28, 1906, Harold Lee Berry, son of Alfred H. and Frances F. (Crosby) Berry, of Portland. (VIII) Carroll, only son of General John AlarshaU and Alida Catherine (Carroll) Brown, was born in Portland, Alarch 19, 1881. After leaving the common schools he attended the Fay School, Southborough, Massachusetts, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and Harvard College for tw^o years. Since that time he has been largely engaged in real estate and mining transactions in New Eng land and the West. In 1907 the Northeastern Paving & Contracting Company was organ ized, for the purpose of laying Hassam con crete paving in northeastern New England, and Air. Brown was made treasurer of the concern which from the start has done a suc cessful and constantly increasing business. Air. Brown is a member of Portland Lodge, No. 188, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Portland Country Club, the Portland Yacht Club and the Harvard Yacht Club, in all of which he is a well-known figure. He attends the Protestant Episcopal church. He married, September 26, 1906, in New York City, Amanda Juneman, who was born in Boulder, Colorado, 1877, daughter of Freder ick WiUiam and Pattie (Field) Juneman. Air. and Mrs. Juneman have three children : Irene, married Fay Malone ; Amanda, above mentioned ; Field, married Alarguerite Klein. Carroll and Amanda (Juneman) Brown have one chUd, Pattie Field, born August 11, 1907. STATE OF MAINE. There were numerous Brown BROWN families among the pioneer set tlers of Alassachusetts. There were three distinguished families located in one town in Essex county, and their descend ants are scattered throughout the common wealth and other states of the United States, rendering it difficult to trace distinct lines. There were, in the early days of New Hamp shire, two John Browns in Thornton, belong ing to entirely distinct ancestral lines. Some representatives of the name now use the final "e" in its speUing, which arose, without doubt, from the peculiar habit of the early New England settlers of adding that letter to any name. The name has furnished many men of prominence in the business, political, re ligious and social circles of the various states. (I) Thomas Brown, born about 1607, came from Alalford, England, and settled in New bury, Massachusetts, in 1635, and died there January 8, 1687, aged eighty years. His wife Mary died June 2, 1655. Record is found of three chUdren: i. Francis, mentioned below. 2. Isaac, married Rebecca Barley, and lived in Newbury. 3. Alary, born 1635. (II) Francis, son of Thomas and Alary Brown, was born 1632, in England, and re sided in Newbury, where he was married, No vember 21, 1653, to Alary Johnson, and both were members of the church in Newbury. The date of the death of his yyife Alary is not of record, and he had a second wife of whom little knowledge is obtainable. He died in Newbury in 1691. Six children of the first marriage are recorded : Elizabeth, Alary, Han nah, Sarah, John and Thomas. (Ill) John, elder son of Francis and Alary (Johnson) Brown, was born Alay 13, 1665, and undoubtedly passed his life in Newbury, where he was married, August 20, 1683, to Ruth Hense, born February 25, 1664, daughter of Abel and Alary (Sears) Hense, of Xewbury. (IV) John (2), son of John (i) and Ruth (Heuse) Brown, was born about 1685, in Xewbury, and made his home in that town, where he was married, January 20, 1713, to Elizabeth Dole, born August 16, 1692, daugh ter of John and Mary (Gerrish) Dole. (V) Moses, son of John (2) and Eliza beth (Dole) Brown, was born October 20, 1723, and removed from Newbury to Plym outh, New Hampshire, in 1768 or '69, and soon thereafter died. He was married in 1748 (intention published October 15, 1748), to Elizabeth Brown, born November 8, 1728, in Newbury, daughter of Thomas and De borah Brown. She married (second) Novem ber 4, 1771, Deacon Francis Worcester, of Plyinouth, born Alarch 30, 1721, in Brad ford, Massachusetts, son of Rev. Francis and Abigail (Carleton) Worcester. Deacon Worcester was one of the foremost citizens of Grafton county, and served as representa tive, councillor and delegate to the constitu tional convention. He was a sagacious leader in town, county and state affairs, and died October 19, 1800, in Plymouth. Children of Moses and Elizabeth Brown: i. Elizabeth, married David Perkins, of Campton, New Hampshire. 2. Mary, married Joseph Pulsi fer, of the same town. 3. Sarah, married Ezekiel Harding. 4. John, mentioned be low. 5. Hannah, married Rev. X^oah Worces ter, son of Captain X^oah Worcester, of Hol lis, New Hampshire. He was the able min ister of Thornton. She died November 16, 1697. (VI) John (3), only son of Moses and Elizabeth (Brown) Brown, was born Septem ber 4, 1755, in Plymouth, and resided in Thornton, [New Hampshire, where he mar ried, Alarch 3, 1785, Susanna (or Hannah) IngaUs, probably a daughter of Timothy In galls, of Chester, Plymouth and Thornton, New Hampshire. Before the close of the eighteenth century he removed to Montville, Waldo county, Maine, where he died, and he married (second) in Belfast, Maine, a widow X^esme, who bore him three sons : George, Edward and Frank. These settled at Eliza- bethport. New Jersey, and were extensively interested in real estate and building in that town. The children of the first marriage were : Charles, Aloses, Sarah, Hannah and John Ingalls. (VII) John IngaUs, son of John (3) and Susanna (Ingalls) Brown, was born October 27, 1789, in Thornton, and was a child when he removed with his parents to Maine. He enlisted from Alaine in the Hampton Infantry for the war of 1812, participating in the en gagement at Dixmont Hills and elsewhere. He married, at Albion, Kennebec county, Alaine, in April, 181 1, to Mary Warren. A daughter named Elizabeth and a son John, born of this marriage, died in infancy. Charles, the third child, was born December 10, 1818. 4. Elizabeth, Deceinber 19, 1821, married Thom as Grotton. 5. Noah Worcester, June 18, 1823. 6. William Penn, June 19, 1825. 7. John W., mentioned below. 8. Benjamin, No vember 27, 1 83 1. 9. Mary Frances, June, 1835. The last named married Abel Smiley, at Bangor, Maine, and hved in Clinton, Iowa. (VIII) John "Warren, fifth son of John In- STATE OF AlAIXE. 273 galls and Mary (Warren) Broyvn, was born May 7, 1828, in Montville, and resided for some time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whence he returned to Alaine, and settled in Bangor. He married Frances Hopkins, born in 1830, at Orrington, Penobscot county, Maine. ChUdren: i. John Ingalls, mentioned below. 2. Charles W. H., a graduate of Alaine State College. (IX) John Ingalls, son of John Warren Brown, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsyl vania, February 14, 1852. He returned with his parents from Phdadelphia, where they had lived a few years, to their former home in Bangor, Alaine, where he spent his childhood and attended the public schools. Fle also at tended Hampden Academy and the Eastern Conference Seminary at Bucksport, Alaine, for several terms, and Kent's Flill Academy. He passed the entrance examinations to Bowdoin College, but did not enter. He became private secretary to (Congressman later) Governor Plaisted, of Maine. Afterward he taught school in Hampden, Maine, for three winter terms, and in the meanwhile read layv in the office of Governor Plaisted. In 1881 he was appointed to a responsible position in the census office, and detailed for special work in various sections of the country. He con tinued the study of law in the [iSJational Uni versity of Washington, D. C, and graduated with the degree of LL.B. in the class of 1884, and was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia the same year. He took the civil service examinations for the patent office in 1885, and was appointed assistant examiner that year and made a principal examiner in July, 1908, in charge of Division No. 41. He is president of the Beneficial Association of the Department of the Interior at Washing ton. In politics he is a Republican; in relig ion a Unitarian. He is a member of every branch of Odd Fellowship, and one of the most distinguished men of that order. He is a grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., District of Columbia ; was grand master in 1898. Fle belongs to Easton Lodge No. 7, of Washington, Fred. D. Stew art Encampment No. 7, Canton Washington No. I, and Naomi Rebekah No. i. He is a member of the Sons, of the American Revo lution; of District of Columbia Rathbone Su perior Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the board of trustees of I. O. O. F. Hall, and a director of the Odd FeUows Home Association. He married, February 14, 1883, Nettie Aldea West, of Bath, Alaine, born May 20, 1859, daughter of Xathan West and Jeanette (Stetson) West, of Lewiston, Maine. They had one child, who died in infancy. Among the finest families DENNISON that first trod the sod of New England and bore a conspicuous part in subduing the savage and the establishment of the civilization of its time was that of Denison. Its representatives are now found in every part of the United States, and noted for fine minds and fine characters. The ancestor of most of those bearing the name had a romantic career, and left an in delible impress upon the formative history of X'^ew England. He was of vigorous physical as well as mental makeup, and his posterity is numerous and of credit to its noble origin. (I) John Denyson was living in Stortford, Hertfordshire, Fngland, in 1567, and died there of the plague, in 1582. (II) William, son of John Denyson, was baptized at Stortford, February 3, 1571, and married XTovember 7, 1603, Alargaret (Chand ler) Alonck. He was well seated at Stort ford, but hearing of the promise of the Xew England colonies, decided to cast his lot with the Puritans there. His eldest son, James Denyson, was a clergyman, and remained in England. The parents, with three sons — Dan iel, Edward and George — crossed the ocean in 163 1 and settled at [Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1634. They bore a prominent part in social and religious life there. John Eliot, the apos tle, was a tutor in their family. William Denison died at Roxbury, January 25, 1653, and his wife, February 23, 1645. (Ill) Captain George, fourth son of Will iam and Margaret C. (Alonck) Denison, was born in Stortford, in i6i8, and was baptized there December 10, 1620. He married, about 1640, Bridget Thompson, born September 11, 1622, daughter of John and Alice Thompson, of Preston, X^orthamptonshire, England. Bridget died in 1643, leaving daughters Sarah and Hannah, born 1641 and 1643, respectively. After the death of his wife. Captain Denison went to England and joined Cromwell's army. He was severely wounded in the battle of Naseby, and was nursed back to health by Lady Ann Borodel, at the home of her father, John Borodel. As soon as his strength was restored he married her, and in 1645 they came to New England and lived in Roxbury, Massachusetts, continuing their residence there until 1651, when they located with their famdy in New London, Connecticut. Captain 274 STATE OF MAINE. Denison distinguished himself as a soldier in the Pequot war, and again rendered valuable service to the colony after his return from England, rising to the rank of colonel. He was also prominent in civil life. His children, born of the second marriage, were : John, Ann, Borodel, George William, Alargaret and Alary. (IV) Captain WUliam (2) fourth son of Captain George and Ann (Borodel) Denison, was born in 1655, and married Mrs. Sarah (Stanton) Prentice, widow of Thomas Pren tice (2) and daughter of Thomas Stanton. Captain Denison served in King Philip's war, and died March 2, 1715, and his wife died August 7, 1713. Children: William, Sarah, George and others. (V) George (2), son of Captain WiUiam (2) and Sarah (Stanton) Dennison, was born in 1699, and died March 14, 1748, in Glouces ter, Massachusetts, where he settled early in life. He first appears of record in that town at his marriage, January 14, 1725, to Abigail, daughter of Edward and Hannah (York) Haraden. She was born in 1706, and died May I, 1753. George Dennison was one of the original proprietors of the township of New Gloucester, in what is now Maine, and also owned wild land in the present town of Freeport, where his sons, Abner and David, settled about 1757. He was a man of energy and influence and accumulated much prop erty. He sent vessels to the banks and was very successful in business, leaving an estate valued at 1,532 pounds. Children: George, Abner, Isaac, David, Jonathan, Abigail and Susanna. (VI) David, fourth son of George (2) and Abigail (Elaraden) Dennison, was born Au gust 6, 1734, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and died Alarch 5, 1799, in Freeport, Maine, where he settled about 1757. He and his brother were men of much enterprise. They built a sawmill and vessel and did a large trade in lumber, along the coast. He married, about 1757, Jenny, daughter of Joseph and Joanna ([Emerson) Haraden, bnrn October 18, 1742, died October, 1813. Children: David (died young), David, George, Jenny, Joanna, Esther, Timoth)', Lucretia, John, AJiigaU, Jo seph, Jonathan and Priscilla. (VII) George (3), third son of David and Joanna (Haraden) Dennison, was bom May 19, 1762. in Freeport, and resided in tha't town. Fle married, August 21, 1783, Dorcas Soule, born March 11, 1766, and was of the sixth generation in descent from George Soule, passenger on the "Alayflower," in 1620. Chil dren : Emerson, Betsey, George Washington, Timothy, Dorcas (died young), Bradbury, Jonathan and Dorcas. (VIII) Betsey, eldest daughter of George (3) and Dorcas (Soule) Dennison, was born December 2, 1785, in Freeport, and was mar ried August 13, 1813, to Stephen Stetson, of Durham, Maine. (See Stetson VII.) Stephen Stetson (see preced- STETSON ing sketch) was descended from Robert Stetson, the im migrant (q. v.), through Joseph (II), Robert (III) and (IV) Anthony, eldest chUd of Robert (2) and Alary (CoUamore) Stetson, was born September 12, 1693, probably in Scituate, and lived in that town, where he was a cordwainer, and died in 1747. He was married March 28, 1717, to Anna Smith. Children: Alary, Isaac, Joseph, Ann, Charles, Ezra, Elisha, Thomas, Benjamin, Abiel and Martha. (V) Isaac, eldest son of Anthony and Anna (Smith) Stetson, was born October 19, 1719, in Scituate, and resided south of George Moore's Pond in- that town, where he died June 8, 181 1. He was very much respected arid beloved. He was married November 16, 1749, to Ruth Prouty, of Scituate, who died September 18, 1805. Children: Isaac, Ruth, Elizabeth, Anne, Eunice (died young) Elisha, Eunice, Abigail, Mary, Chloe and David. (VI) Elisha, second son of Isaac and Ruth Prouty Stetson, was born April 8, 1759, in Scituate, and settled in Durham, Maine, in 1784. He was married in the last-named year to Rebecca Curtis, of Scituate. ChUdren: Ruth, Sally, Elisha, Stephen, Isaac, Clarissa and Abigail (twins), David, Alary, Charles and Anthony. (VII) Stephen, second son of Elisha and Rebecca (Curtis) Stetson, was born Alay 28, 1 791, in Durham, Alaine, where he resided. He was married August 13, 1813, to Betsey Dennison, daughter of George (3) and Dorcas Soule. (See Dennison "VIE) ChUdren: Jennet Betsey, George D., Pamelia H., EUsha and Andrew J. (\TH1 Teanette, eldest child of Stephen and Betsey (Dennison) Stetson, was born Sep tember 22. 181 5, and became the wife of Nathan A. West, of Lewiston, later of Bath, Maine. (IX) Nettie Aldea, daughter of Nathan and Jeanette (Stetson) West, was born Alay 20, 1859, in Bath, and became the wife of John I. Brown. (See Brown IX.) STATE OF MAINE. 275 Among the earliest settlers in SNOW New England were persons named Snow. Nicholas Snow was a pas senger in the "Ann," 1623, and settled in Plymouth ; Thomas was of Boston, 1636 ; An thony was of Plymouth, 1638; AVUliam was of Plymouth, 1643 ; and various others of the name were in Eastham and Woburn. The Massachusetts Revolutionary War Rolls show over two hundred and fifty enlistments under this name. (I) Richard Snow was the earliest inhabi tant bearing his name in Woburn. He was taxed there in the rate for the county, as sessed September 8, 1645, which was the first ¦ tax in Woburn upon record. In 1648 land was granted him by the town. November 19, 1656, he bought a house and twenty acres of land of George Farley, one of the original inhabitants of Woburn, then recently removed to BUlerica; and in general distribution of common lands and timber, made in 1668, he had a due proportion assigned him in the "fifth Eighth." He seems to have been an industrious, thriving husbandman, and to have maintained a respectable rank in society; but not being ambitious of honor and distinction, he never attained any considerable office either in the church or the town. In 1659 Richard Snow was dismissed from ordinary training in consideration of his inefficiency to bear arms. The History of Woburn says he died November 9, 171 1, but that must be a mis take, as the Middlesex county court records state that the will of Richard Snow was proved in 1677. Besides John and James Snow, sons apparently his, born before he removed to" Wo burn to reside, he had born to him afterwards Daniel (died young), Samuel and Zechariah. (II) John Snow, referred to above as being probably a son of Richard Snow, born before his father took up his residence in Woburn, died November 25, 1706. He had John, Zerubbabd, Timothy, Hannah, Mary, Eben ezer and Nathaniel. (Ill) Zerubbabd, son of John Snow, was born Alay 14, 1672, died XTovember 20, 1733. He married, September 22, 1697, Jemima Cut ler, and they had Zerubbabd, Josiah, Jabez (died young), Jemima, Ebenezer, John, Will iam, Abigail and Jabez. (IV) John (2), fifth son of Zerubbabd and Jemima (Cutler) Snow, was born Alarch 30, 1706. The supposition is that he moved from Woburn to the town of Rutland, Massa chusetts, a small town about half-w^ay between Northampton and Worcester, where he re sided (probably) from about 1735 to 1766. Subsequently he settled in Chesterfield, Ches hire county. New Hainpshire, where he and Moses Smith built the first sawmill erected in the town. He was selectman in 1767. The following is taken from the Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts, page 91 : "John Snow was living in Rutland, Massachusetts', in 1763, being one of the petitioners to have the town of Paxton set off from Rutland." The fol lowing is taken from the Flistory of Rutland, Worcester County, Alassachusetts, by Jonas Reid, pages 14-15: "John's oldest son War ren was evidently born before John moved to Rutland." John Snow died [May 12, 1777, in his seventy-second year. His wdfe, Abigail Snow, died March 6, 1790, in her eighty- fourth year. Their children yvere Warren, mentioned above; Zerubbabd, mentioned be low; Phebe, born Rutland, about 1746. (V) Zerubbabd (2), second son of John (2) and Abigail Snow, was born in Rutland, August 12, 1 741. He settled in Chesterfield, April, 1770, wdiere he was selectman, 1773- 74. [He diecl April 12, 1795, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. He married Alary Trow bridge, of Worcester, Alassachusetts, who died June 24, 1818, in her seventy-fourth year. Their children were : Molly, James, Lydia, Abigail, Sally, John, Jerusha and Levi. (VI) James, eldest son of Zerubbabd (2) and Alary (Trowbridge) Snow, married, 1787, Abigail, daughter of Jonathan Farr, by whom he had Eli A., Kimball, Alpheus,- Gard ner, Elijah J., Polly, Jerusha, Selina, Sally, Mary and Thirza C. ("VII) Alpheus, third son of James and Abigail (Farr) Snow, was born Alay 10, 1791, died Alay 28, 1869. - In his youth he attended school only three weeks; neverthe less, by private study he afterward succeeded in acquiring an ordinary education. He had a special aptitude for arithmetic, and it is said that even persons who ought to have been his superiors in this branch of mathe matics sought his aid in the solution of diffi cult problems. When a young man he learned the trade of blacksmith, which he foUowed for many years at the West Village. He was also engaged in farming. He was selectman 1837-39-45-49-53, and represented the town in the general court in 1849. He married, 1815, Salome Harris, born November 5, 1796, daughter of Perley Harris, who married, 1783, Abigail, daughter of Warren Snow, brother of Zerubbabd Snow. Their children were: Alinerva, Alpheus Franklin, Jude, Lucien and Bernard. (A^III) Jude, third son of Alpheus and 276 ST.ATE OF AlAIXE. Salome (Harris) Snow, was born in Chester field, New Hampshire, September 23, 1820, died in Portland, Alaine, January 6, 1867. He was a merchant of Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Alaine. He married, October 31, 1849, Lydia Augusta Hall, born January 2, 1828, died December 13, 1885, daughter of David and Nancy M. (Conant) Hall. They had four children: i. David WiUiam, see for ward. 2. Lucien, see forward. 3. Edward H., bom October 28, 1859, is connected with the drygoods firm of Eastman Bros. & Ban croft, of Portland ; resides in Portland ; mar ried, September 10, 1884, Alice G., daugh ter of AVUham Trott and Henrietta (Baker) King, for his first wife, and Mary H., daugh ter of John P. and AbigaU (Swan) Hobbs, for his second wdfe. 4. Ella Conant, born January 8, 1867, married the Rev. William James Denzilow Thomas ; children : Denzi- low and Augusta, of Washington, D. C. Da vid Hall, father of Lydia Augusta (Had) Snow, was born October 8, 1791, died April 22, 1863. He was a merchant, conducting business in company with his brother-in-law, Alvah Conant, at Alfred and Portland. He was a son of Dr. Abiel and Mary (Farnum) HaU, of Alfred. He married, December 10, 1818, in Alfred, Nancy MerriU, born in Al fred, December 27, 1796, baptized January 24, 1803 and died in Portland, November, 1865, daughter of John and Lydia (Farnum) Con ant. Children of David and Nancy M. (Con ant) Hall : Augustus, died young. Lucy Maria, died young. Marianna. Charles Co nant. Lydia Augusta, aforementioned as the wife of Jude Snow. (IX) David WiUiam, eldest chUd of Jude and Lydia Augusta (Flail) Snow, was bom in Boston, November 10, 185 1. He was brought in his childhood to Portland, Alaine, on the removal of his parents to that city. He prepared for college in the public schools of Portland, entered Bowdoin CoUege in 1869, graduated in 1873 wdth the degree of Bache lor of Arts and later became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Returning to Portland, he engaged in mercantile pursuits for about three years and then entered the law office of Hon. William L. Putnam of that city, where he read law for two years and then entered Harvard Law School for a course in special subjects. He was admitted to the Cumber land bar at the October term, 1879, and im mediately began the practice of his profession, at first in a partnership with Franklin C. Pay- son, under the firm name of Snow & Payson, and later returned to Judge Putnam's office. where, after the dissolution of the firm of Snow & Payson, he continued his practice un til Air. Putnam was elevated to the bench of the United States circuit court. The firm of Symonds, Snow, Cook & Hutchinson was then formed, the other members being Hon. Joseph W. Symonds, Charles Sumner Cook and Charles L. Hutchinson. Since its forma tion, the firm has been engaged in much of the important litigation in the state of Alaine. Mr. Snow, naturally adapted to his chosen profession, studious and energetic, has made for himself an enviable reputation as a cor poration and real estate lawyer. He is a trustee of the Portland Trust Company, a member of the Cumberland County, Maine State, American and International [Bar asso ciations. Air. Snow is well known and highly respected in his adopted city, and by his sterl ing integrity has won the confidence and es teem of his numerous clientage, professional associates and fellow citizens. Mr. Snow married, in Portland, June 18, 1885, Alartha v., born in Atkinson, X^ew Hampshire, Jan uary 9, 1855, daughter of William H. and Caroline ("Vinton) Hemenway. They have one son, Roger Vinton, born .August 11, 1890, a graduate of Portland high school, now a student at WiUiams College, class of 1912. (IX) Lucien, second son of Jude and Lydia Augusta (Hall) Snow, was born in Boston, October 21, 1854. He w-as brought to Port land, Maine, by his parents when two years old, and was educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from the high school in 1873. At the age of nineteen he entered mercantile life, and vnas with A. Little & Company, drygoods merchants, two years; Lock, Twitchell & Company, five years; and Storer Brothers, two years. In 1882 he be came a partner in the firm of H. E. Stevens & Company, iron and steel merchants. Four years later he retired from this firm and be came president of the American Cotton Com pany, of Westbrook, where he served a year. In 1887, in company with M. E. Bolster, E. P. Staples, F. W. Roberts and N. D. Smith, the firm of Bolster, Snow & Company was organized, which for twenty years carried on a wholesale trade in drygoods and men's fur nishings. This business was sold July i, 1907, to Parker, Thomas & Company, who have since carried it on. Mr. Snow always mani fested a decided aptitude for financial affairs; yyhile in the employ of others he had much more to do with the financial than the sales departments, and after becoming a partner in trade the administration of the finances of the STATE OF MAINE. 277 firm with which he was connected generally fell to him. He was president of the Port land Street Sprinkling Company, treasurer of the Baker Manifold Company, trustee of the Portland Savings Bank, of which he was also one of the incorporators, and a director in the Casco National Bank. He was a member of the Portland Athletic and Country clubs. In politics he was a Republican, one who could be relied on to vote the ticket. He was a Con gregationalist in 'religion. Air. Snow married, in Portland, February 9, 1882, Nellie Wads worth, born in Portland, August 29, 1861, daughter of Hon. Samuel E. and ZUpah (Bar ker) Spring. Child, Lucien, born Deceinber 4, 1885, graduated from Harvard College in 1907. Mr. Snow, wdio was one of Portland's most prominent merchants for many )'ears, died very suddenly at his home on Neal street, October 30, 1908, after a brief Ulness of only three weeks, from heart failure. Several immigrants of this CHADWICK name arrived very early in Alassachusetts. The first seems to have been Charles Chadwick, born 1596, who made application to the general court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay to be admitted a freeman to the town of Water- town, where he had settled, October 19, 1630. He was thirty-four years of age at the time, and at the session of the general court held on May 18, 163 1, he was duly admitted to the privileges in the government of the town and of the church of a freeman, on taking the oath prescribed by the law of the colony. He was elected selectman of the town in 1637, and many times thereafter up to 1672. He was a deputy for the town in the general court in 1657-59. He died April 10, 1682, and his wiU dated June 30, 1681, mentions his wdfe, Eliza beth (who died February 22, 1684) and his kinsmen Thomas and John Chadwick and Charies, eldest son of John. When he came from England, his wife Elizabeth, and sons John and Thomas and possibly other children came with him. Evidently his children all died before 1681, as he gave his property to kinsmen. (I) Sergeant John Chadwick, born about 1650, may have been a son of Charles Chad wick, of Watertown. He was an active and prominent citizen of Boxford, Massachusetts, where he served as selectman, and died Sep tember 2, 1707. He was buried in Bradford, where his gravestone is still found. There is no record of his children in Boxford, but some of them are known to have lived in that town or Bradford, namely : John, Abigail, Eunice, Sarah, Edmund and' Jonathan. (II) Edmund, son of Sergeant John Chad wick, was born about 1695 and resided in Bradford. He was married there December II, 1718, to Alary Kimball, of that town, daughter of Abraham and Alary (Green) Kim ball. She was born December 30, 1700, in Bradford, and their children were : Alary, Abigail, James, Samuel, Sarah, Wilham, Ebenezer, Dorothy and Elizabeth. (Ill) James, eldest son of Edmund and Mary (Kimball) Chadwick, was born Decem ber 14, 1724, in Bradford, and died in that town February 2, 1755. He married, Alarch 5, 1752, Mary Thurston, born Alarch 4, 1725, in [Bradford, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Gage) Thurston. He left two chil dren : Hannah, who became the wife of Jona than Blanchard, of Canterbury, New- Hamp shire, and Edmund. (IV) Edmund (2), only son of James and Alary (Thurston) Chadwick, was born April I, 1754, in Bradford, and settled in Boscawen, New Hampshire, where he was a deacon and prominent in civil affairs, and died August 20, 1819. He married, June 27, 1778, Susanna Atkinson, born June 15, 1758, in Newbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Joseph and Han nah (Hale) Atkinson. Their children were: Samuel, James W., Hannah, Joseph, Mary and Cyrus. (V) James W., second son of Edmund (2) anci Susanna (Atkinson) Chadwick, was born December i, 1787, in Boscawen, New Hamp shire, and settled in Hopkinton, same state. The records of the last-named town are very meager and contain little information of him. His wife Mary, surname unknown, was born June 16, 1784. They settled in Friendship, Knox county, Maine, where Air. Chadwick died February 11, 1864, and was survived nearly seven years by his wife, who passed away, December 20, 1870. Children : Isaac, born Noveinber 25, 181 1; WUliam, October 26, 1813; Oliver P., February 9, 1817; Alary Ann, July 13, 1819; Cyrus Hill, the subject of the next paragraph. (\T) Cyrus [Hill, son of James W. and Alary Chadwick, was born November 28, 1823, in Friendship, Knox county, Maine. He be came a master mariner and owner of sailing vessels wdth which he had considerable trade along the Atlantic coast and Gulf coast ports, in lumber. Having retired from the sea, he became the owner of Burnt Island, contain ing two hundred and ninety-three acres of land, on which he engaged in farming, and 278 STATE OF MAINE. kept three hundred sheep. He died there August 7, 1899. He married Nancy, daugh ter of Captain James Stone, a shipmaster and subsequently a merchant in Gushing, Maine, and his wife, Elizabeth (Seavey) Stone. ChUdren: Cyrus Warren, Thomas Hiram, James Oliver and Alton Delano. The second was master of the schooner, "Jessie Starr," and was lost at sea off Cape Flenry, March 8, 1907. The mother of these children sur vived her husband more than six years, and died October 3, 1905. (VII) Cyrus Warren, eldest son of Cyrus Hill and Nancy (Stone) Chadwick, of Gush ing, Maine, was born in Friendship, Knox county, Maine, September 30, 1846. He at tended school at Gushing, Maine, from his sixth to his eleventh year, and then went to sea with his father and became a master mari ner when he was sixteen years old. He con tinued in command of a coastwise vessel of which he was part owner, his being the schoon er "Lizzie Chadwick," named for his only child. His trips were uniformly successful and his record trip from Thomaston, Maine, to New York was made in forty-two hours and fifteen minutes. His cargoes brought into dif ferent United States ports have been esti mated to aggregate thirty million feet of yel low pine and spruce lumber. He retired from the sea, and in April, 1891, established him self at No. 30 South street in the city of New York as ship broker, in which business he became associated with Charles H. Potter, of Brooklyn, New York, the firm being C. W. Chadwick & Company. Captain Chadwick, during his active life as a master mariner, traded largely with the West Indies and Southern Atlantic and Gulf states, and owned numerous vessels which he continues to con trol even after retiring from active master ship. In 1908 he was the owner of twenty or more vessels engaged in the coastwise trade. He affiliated with the Masonic fra ternity from the time he was initiated into the mysteries of the Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Masons through Oriental Lodge, No. 126, of Thomaston, Maine. He is a char ter member of Elizabeth City Lodge, No. 114, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and a member of Ocean View Commandery, No. 233, United Order of the Golden Cross, South Portland, Maine. He became a member of the Maritime Exchange of New York City in 1894, and became a stockholder of the New York Commercial Underwriters Insurance Company in 1908. He married, July 4, 1870, Helen, daughter of Captain James and Jane M. (Steriing) Tre fethen, of Friendship, Maine, and their only living child is Lizzie Florence, born in Gush ing, Maine, June 8, 1887. The name first appears in the HANSCOAI "Records of the Governor and Company of the Alassa chusetts Bay in New England," under date of March 12, 1628, when Richard Clayton, aged thirty-four years or • thereabouts, car penter, desirous to transport himself, his wife, one daughter, his sister of fourteen years old, his brother Barnaby Clayton, aged twenty- three years, and his brother-in-law, Thomas Hanscombe, for New England in the com pany's ships, under the usual proposition, to wit : He being able to furnish forty pounds toward the charge of him and his, what shaU be wanting to company wUl upon this con dition, that upon their arrival (in New Eng land) that he shall be indebted to the com pany shall be (paid) by the labor of him self and his two servants, or brothers afore said, allowing them all three shillings the day for so long time (until) they have paid this debt and in that time finding (then) 3 persons dyet at the company's charge and while earn ing out this debt to instruct any of the com pany in the trade of a plow wright and there is land to be (allotted) to him and his, as is usual by the company orders that transport themselves: Written this 12th March, 1628. As Richard Clayton is credited to the parish of Sutton, Bedfordshire, England, it is reason able to suppose that the entire party were of that parish. (I) Thomas Hanscom, the immigrant, was born in the parish of Sutton, Bedfordshire, England, about 1623, according to a deposition made by him. Savage says he came to New England in 1629. He married. May 16, 1664, Ann, her surname not being on record. Ann Hanscom survived her husband and as his widow married James Tobey, who went to Kittery, Maine, in 1657, ami she was living there in 1720. The children of Thomas and Ann Hanscom were probably all born in Kit tery, Maine, as follows : Thomas, October 17, 1666; John, September 15, 1668; Olive, March 12, 1671 ; Samuel, April 10, 1675 ; Moses, who married Hannah, daughter of WiUiam and Hannah (Nelson) Rockliff and was in Scar borough, Maine, in 1738; Job, who married Mary GoweU. (II) Thomas (2), eldest child of Thomas (i) and Ann Hanscom, was born in Kittery, [Maine, October 17, 1666. He married as his STATE Oh" MAINI 279 first wife Alice, daughter of Richard Rogers, at whose house, knowh as No. 23, nine other families were assigned for protection in case of Indian attacks threatened in 1720. She died between 1696 and 1698, and he mar ried as his second wife, Tainseii, daughter of Richard Gowell, who adniiiiislorcd her hus band's cstale November it, 1713. In the threatened Indian attaeks ot 1720, (lie ftiiiiily of Widow Hanscom were assigned (o the house No. 12, owned by David Libby Jr., whore the family of J;uiies Sttiples was also ordered to lake refuge. "Tliom;is ~I laiiscom died intestate about 1712. IBs first five chil dren by his lirst wife wore: Thomas, born in December, 1690; Id ester, Novombor 20, 1692, married David Libby jr.; Ann, yAu.gust i(), 1694, married Daniel Fogg Jr., June 30, 1715; John, Ocl, 169(3, died November 1, 1697; Pricilla, October 26, 1796, died Jan uary, 1697. His children by his second wife were six in number, as follows: Samuel, born July 25, 1698; Mary, July 28, 1700, married ohn Merrill Jr., [Deconiber i(), 1721; Martha, September 27, 1702, married Solomon Libby, March 4, 1724-25; John, Aprd 15, 1705, mar ried Mary [Brooks; Joseph, July 13, 1708, mar ried Lydia Spinney, March 18, 1723-24; Mo ses, see forward. (Ill) Moses, youngest child of Thomas (2) and Tanisen ((jowell) Hanscom, was born March 2, 1713, in Kittery, and resided in that part of the town which is now Eliot, where he died I'^ebruary 26, 1793, in his eightieth year. He married (first) Mary, daughter of Ste phen and Mary (King) Bailey, of Kittery. She was born September 14, 1720, in that town and died about 1739. The intention of his second marriage was published August 2, 1740, the bride being Abigail, widow of John Shapleigh, a daughter of Nathan and Shuah (Heard) Bartlett. She was the mother of his children, namely: Susanna, Abigail, Anne, Nathaniel, Moses and Molly. (IV) Nathaniel, elder son of Moses and AbigaU (Bartlett) (Shapleigh) Hanscom. was born October 19, 1756, in Kittery, and resided on the paternal homestead in Eliot, where his life was spent in agriculture, and he died Feh- ruary 29, 1812. "He married (first) 1785, Molly Moody, of York, and (second) Jan uary 12, 1791, Sally, daughter of Timothy and Miriam (Furnald) Furnald, born Decem ber 13, 1764. Children of first marriage were : Moses, Mary and Abigail; of the second: Nathaniel, "[Tiraothy, Benning, John, Roger, OHver and Susannah. (V) Moses (2), eldest child of Nathaniel and A'lary (Molly) (Moody) Hanscom, was born about 1786 in Eliot, and settled in Dan ville, Maine, where he had a wife, Mary, and reared a family. (VI) Rev. Moses (3), son of Aloses (2) and Mary Ilaiiseoiu, was bom May 10, 1808, in Danville, and early decided on preparation for the ministry. He was ordained at Dan ville, A]n-il 12, i8.|2, and was settled as a pastor at Durham iu the same year. He built a house there in 1843, and contiuuoil as pastor of tho church until 1847, when he removed to Bowdoinham. lie also ]-ireacIied at llrook- lyn, Nobleboro and Friendship, and was a very successful p;istor, much .beloved by his people and was elevated to the position of elder in the llaptist church. He was very active in temperance work. He married (first) M;iry Vickery, who was the mother of : Will iam Allen, Ruel W., Moses C. and Sarah. Ele married (second) Alina Snow, of Brunswick, whose children were : Rebecca S., Ella, Mary Louise, Edwin W., Frank B., Elvira D. and Eliza G. Some of these died in infancy. The third daughter is the wife of Fred Eve- leth, a school principal in Jersey City. Ed win W. is an organist and composer of music, living in Auburn, Maine. Frank B. is in business in Los Angeles, California. The youngest daughter is the wife of Hon. George L. Record (q. v.), a prominent attorney of Jersey City. (VH) Ruel Williams, second son of Rev. Moses (3) and Mary (Vickery) Hanscom, was born January 22,' 1837, in Durham, and died in New York City, September 17, 1905. He was reared of a family in Durham and attended the public schools of his native town. "When a young man ho went to .Abington, Massachusetts, and thence to Boston, where he was engaged in the drygoods business. He enlisted as a soldier in 1863" and went out as a corporal in the Forty-third Alassachusetts Volunteers. He was wdth General Foster in North Carolina, where he received an injury in his knee and after several months' servi(:e was brought home to Bowdoinham, where his father was then living. After his recovery he went into business in Lewiston, Maine, which he conducted for two years from a sick bed, with the able aid of his wife. He con tinued actively in the wholesale fancy goods business in Lewiston and Auburn tiU failing health compeUed him to retire in 1891, as the result of the injury received in the military service. He was a prominent member of the Baptist church, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a consistent Republican in poli- 28o STATE OF AlAINE. tics. Ele married Charlotte Aloulton, daugh ter of John Henry Jackson, of Lee, Alaine, where she was born Alay 6, 1836. She was also an active worker in the Baptist church and died June 17, 1905. They were the par ents of three sons : Warren Whitmore, who is in the home office of the Equitable Assur ance Society of New York. AValter Allen, a contractor in the same city. Howard C, men tioned below. (VIII) Howard Chapin, youngest son of Ruel Williams and Charlotte Moulton (Jack son) Hanscom, was born June 12, 1875, in Auburn, Maine, where he attended the public schools and was prepared for college. Ele matriculated from Colby College in 1892 and was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1896. Subsequently he became a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, and affiliated with the Col umbia University, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1900. After the experience gained in the hospitals of New York, he be gan the active practice of his profession in that city, with an office at 231 West Ninety- sixth street, where he has ever since con tinued. While in college he affiliated with the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and is now a member of the New York State Medical Association and of the American Medical As sociation. He is a medical officer of the Na tional Guard of New York, and is assistant surgeon of the Twelfth Regiment, with the grade of captain, and a member of the Army and Navy Club of New York. He keeps in close touch with the affairs of his native city and state, and with the fortunes of the Re publican party in that state, in which he gained his early political experience. (For early generations see Thomas Hanscona I.) (IV) Aaron Hanscom was HANSCOM at least a great-grandson of the immigrant Thomas, and might have been a brother of John Hanscom, born in Elliott in 1748, who married Sarah Stacy, and whose son William was the famous shipwright and the progenitor of a numer ous family of ship builders. Aaron was among the first pioneers in Machias, Wash ington county, Maine, which was settled from Kittery, Scarboro and Elliott. In 1769 he was among the petitioners to the general court of Massachusetts to have Machias set off as an independent township. He married Sally, daughter of Joseph Seavery ; children : Na than, Aaron, Abigail, Sally, Isaac, Joseph, Lois, Sylvanus, Daniel, Thomas and Moses. (V) Sylvanus, fifth son of Aaron and Sally (Seavery) Hanscom, married Eda Averill; children : James, Luther Pike, Phebe, Eliza, Alfred and Alary Ann. (VI) Luther Pike, second son of Sylvanus and Eda (Averill) Flanscom, was born in Alachias, Maine, March 5, 1808. He was a lumberman and an old Hickory Democrat. He married Alary A. Bedell ; cbildren : Lucinda F., Elizabeth E., Elsie E., Loring Louis, Alary Al., Sylvanus L., Albara H., James A., Frank P. and Sarah E. (VII) The Rev. Loring Louis, eldest son of Luther Pike and Alary A. (BedeU) Hans com, yvas born in Crawford, Washington county, Alaine, September 19, 1839, died Sep tember 19, 1904. Ele received a classical edu cation at Washington Academy, and was or dained to the Methodist ministry. Elder Han- ' sconi was stationed at Robbinston, Pembroke, Dexter, Bath, Rockland, Thomaston, all with in the state of Alaine, and in Minnesota. He was a devoted worker in the Master's vine yard, bringing many souls into the fold dur ing a lifetime of Christian endeavor. He mar ried Sarah Brigham, of Plantation No. 14, Alaine. Children: i. The Rev. Dr. George L., pastor of the Congregational church in Jacksonville, Florida, a man of great pulpit eloquence, who has had pastorates in Roches ter, New York, and Newark, Xew Jersey. 2. WiUiam H. 3. Dr. Walter Vose. 4. Rev. Fred L., of Pittsfidd, Illinois. .A-^III) Dr. Walter Vose, third son of Rev. Loring L. and Sarah (Brigham) Hanscom, was born in Orington, Penobscot county, Maine, April 25, 1868. Walter obtained such schooling as the local schools permitted, and at the high school at Orono, Bucksport Semi nary, and the University of Alaine completed his education. He graduated from the Hahne mann Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1890, coming directly to Rockland, Alaine, to prac tice. _ He has achieved a remarkable success in his specialty of surgery, performing per haps more surgical operations than any other surgeon in the county. He conducts a private hospital in connection with his practice. Dr. Hanscom has read papers on surgical subjects before learned medical societies. He belongs to the National Homoeopathic Society, and the Maine State Homoeopathic Society. Of fra ternal organization he is of membership in Aurora Lodge, No. 50, Ancient Free and Ac cepted Masons; King Solomon's Temple, No. 8, Royal Arch Chapter; King Hiram Coun cil, No. 6, Royal and Select Masters; Clare mont Commandery of Knights Templar; the STATE OF MAINE. 281 Consistory at Portland, of Kora Temple, Alys- tic Shrine, at Lewiston, and of Rockland Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 1008. Dr. Hanscom married Abbie Fessenden, daughter of Dr. Nathan "VViggin, of Rockland, in 1888; one child, Harold N. The word Blanchard was BLANCHARD applied to an order of Friars who used to go about ordinarily clothed in yvhite sheets (French word blanche, meaning white), but a wider application of the word foUowed, and any person affecting white raiment was called a blanchard. The surname was derived doubt less from the application of the name to dis tinguish the progenitor from others of the same personal name. The family in England is ancient but not extensive. The only coat- of-arms is borne by the family in Wiltshire and Somersetshire, and slightly varied by the family at Grimmsargh Flail, Lancaster, Eng land. Arms: Gules a chevron or in chief two hezants in base a griffin's head erased of the second. Crest : On the point of a sword in pale a mtdlet. (I) Thomas Blanchard, immigrant ancestor, said to have come from Hampshire, Eng land, sailed from London in 1639, in the ship "Jonathan," with several children. There is good authority for the statement that he lived .at Penton, Hampshire, during his youth. Fle settled first in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he was living from 1646 to 1650. He bought of Rev. John Wilson and his son John Wil son Jr. two hundred acres of land with build ings on the south and west sides of the Mystic river, in February, 165 1, and removed to Charlestown in 1651. His first wife died in England. Fle married (second) in England, Agnes (Bent) Barnes, died in 1639, on the passage, sister of John Bent, who settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He married (third) Mary , of Noddle's Island, in 1663. She died in Charlestown. During the religious controversy in Alalden she sided with the or thodox Mr. Alarmaduke Alathews. The Blan- chards lived at what is now Maiden. He died May 21, 1654. His wiU, dated May 16, proved June 20, 1654, bequeathed to wife Mary and children George, Thomas, Samuel, Nathaniel ; grandchild Joseph, and to the church at Mai den, and proviiied that Benjamin Thompson should be fitted for the university (Harvard) ¦ if his parents should consent. His widow died in 1656 and her administrator was appointed June 3, 1656. Children: i. Joseph, married Mary . 2. George, born 1622; married a HUls; (second) Alary ; died at Medford, Alarch 18, 1700 (gravestone), aged eighty-four years. 3. Thomas Jr., born 1625 • married Ann ; died February, 1651, and his widow married Richard Gardner. 4. Sam uel, mentioned below. 5. Nathanid, born 1636; married December 16, 1658, Susanna Bates ; removed to Weymouth, Alassachusetts. 6. Alary, bom 1639, mentioned in will. (II) Samuel, son of Thomas Blanchard, was born in Hampshire, England, August 6, 1629, and died in Charlestown, Alassachusetts, April 22, 1707. He came to New England at the age of ten, with his parents in the ship "Jona than." He was a prominent citizen of Charles town and Alalden, and of Andover, Alassachu setts, wdiither he removed June 10, 1686. He was collector of taxes and constable of An dover, and owned large tracts of land. He married, January 3, 1654-55, i^Iary Sweetser, who died February 20, 1668, daughter of Seth Sweetser, of Chariestown. He married (sec ond) June 24, 1673, Hannah Doggett, who died July 10, 1725, daughter of Thomas Dog gett, of Alarshfield, Alassachusetts. Children of first wife: i. Jonathan, born Alay 25, 1764; resided in Andover; married May 26, 1685, Anna, daughter of John Lovejoy, of Andover; sons Jonathan, David, Jacob and Benjamin. 2. Joseph, resided in Andover. Children of second wife: 3. Thomas (q. v,), born April 28, 1674. 4. John, mentioned be low. 5. Elannah, married May 24, 1699, Stephen Osgood. (Ill) John, son of Samuel Blanchard, was born in Andover, Alassachusetts, July 3, 1677, and died AprU 10, 1750. He resided in An dover, probably near the Dr. Noyes place. He married, August 7, 1701, Alary, daughter of Simon Crosby. She died in 1748. Children: I. Mary, born August 18, 1702. 2. Hannah, October 24, 1704. 3. Rachel, February 2, 1706-07. 4. Abigail, January 23, 1708-09. 5. Sarah, June 5, 1711; died June 8, 1711. 6. Sarah, Alay 23, 1712; died AprU 16, 1713. 7. John, Alarch 15, 1713-14, died March 18, 1713-14. 8. John, February 15, 1714-15; mar ried Noveinber 29, 1739, Elizabeth Richard son; died July 27, 1756. 9. Samuel, August 17, 1717; mentioned below. 10. David, March 20, 1719-20. II. Benjamin, July 5, 1722. 12. Simon, March 16, 1725-26. (IV) Samuel (2), son of John Blanchard, was born August 17, 1717, and died March 26, 1807. He married, July 14, 1747, Mary, daughter of WiUiam Brown. She died March 5, 1811. Children: i. A'lary, born January 26, 1747-48. 2. Samuel, Alarch 6, 1748-49. 282 STATE OF MAINE. 3. WUliam, Alarch 21, 1750. 4. Sarah, Jan uary 31, 1754; married [I3enjamin Lewis. 5. Timothy, October 16, 1755; mentioned below. 6. Martha (record of baptism says Nathan), August 2, 1757; married Benjamin Blanchard, of Wilton. 7. Rhoda, November 17, 1762; married January 26, 1786, Samuel Abbott. 8. Jeremiah, July 10, 1764; married June 17, 1795, Mary Going; died May 22, 1819. 9. Ahimaaz, April 26, 1767. 10. Jonathan, Feb ruary 20, 1769. (V) Timothy, son of Samuel (2) Blanchard, was born October 16, 1755. [He was a sol dier in the revolution in Captain Jonathan Stickney's company, Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's regiment, and was wounded in the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Later in the same year he was in Captain John Flarnden's com pany, Colonel Bridge's 27th regiment. In 1780 he enlisted in the Continental army, and gave his age as twenty-four years, light com plexion, residence, Billerica. He was assigned to Lieutenant Taylor's company, Second Mas sachusetts Line, and was honorably discharged December 11, 1780. He removed from Bil lerica to Litchfield, New Hampshire, and from there to Wilton, Maine, where he died, and was buried at East Wilton. He married Mercy Kidder. Children: i. Cyrus B., born in Billerica, mentioned below, and others. (VI) Cyrus, son of Timothy Blanchard, was born in BUlerica, Massachusetts, April 29, 1783, and died July 4, 1847. He removed to Wilton, Maine, and bought what has since been known as the Blanchard farm, where he died. He married (first) Chloe Felch, of Wil ton; (second) Elizabeth Floyd, of Augusta, Maine. Children of first wife : i. Rhoda, bom June 8, 1812. 2. Cyrus, March 11, 1814. Three chUdren died young. Children of sec ond wife : 6. Child, died young. 7. Jesse, born April 12, 1819; mentioned below. 8. James, January 21, 1825. 9. John, August i, 1826. (VII) Jesse, son of Cyrus Blanchard, was born in "Wilton, Maine, AprU 12, 1819, and died August 25, 1894, on the farm where he was bom and always lived. He was educated in the public schools. He was a man of strong character and great influence in the commun ity. He was a Republican in politics, and an active and useful member of the Free Bap tist Church of East Wilton. He married, No vember 17, 1853, Phebe HoU, bom in Weld, Maine, January 26, 1829, died May 7, 1896, daughter of Nathan and Phoebe (Severy) Holt. ChUdren: i. Twin chUd, born Decem ber 20, 1856; died in infancy. 2. Luetta (twin with former), married C. R. Pease, dealer in house furnishings, Nashua, New Hampshire. 3. Edgar F., born May 19, 1862; Congrega tional minister, settled at Hudson, [New [Hamp shire; graduate of Bates CoUege and Yale Divinity School. 4. Albert E., born August 16, 1864; graduate of Bates CoUege, now a professor at the National College in Buenos Ayres, South America; married Mary L. Harding, of New Sharon ; children : i. [Euser E., born July 4, 1893; ii. Everard E., born December 16, 1896, both born at Buenos Ayres. 5. Cyrus Nathan, mentioned below. (VIII) Cyrus Nathan, son of Jesse Blan chard, was born in Wilton, Maine, October 6, 1869. Lie was educated in the public schools of his native town, at the Farmington (Maine) Normal School, the North Anson Academy and Bates College, from which he was grad uated in the class of 1892. He taught for two years in the Dexter (Maine) high school, and immediately thereafter began to read law wdth Hon. J. C. Holman, of Farmington, and after two years study was admitted to the bar, in September, 1896. He opened an office in Wilton in November following, and began to practice his profession. He has achieved a leading position in public life, as weU as in his profession. He was elected represen tative to the state legislature for 1897-98, and was state senator in 1899- 1900. From 1903 to 1907 inclusive he served on the Republican state committee. In 1906 and 1907 he was a member of the governor's councU. He is at present county attorney. He has also held various town offices in Wilton. As a lawyer Mr. Blanchard has been entrusted with many important cases and he has shown signal abil ity as prosecuting attorney. He is a member of Wilton Lodge of Free Masons; of St. John's Chapter, Royal Arch Alasons; of Jephtha Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Farmington; of Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Templar ; and of Kora Temple, Mys tic Shrine, of Lewiston, Maine. He is also a member of Franklin Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 94, of North Jay, and of Farm ington Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He is a member of the Congregational church. He married, September 19, 1901, Florence E. Noyes, born December 14, 1870, daughter of Philander and Elvira (Small) Noyes, of Wil ton. They have no children. (For preceding generations see Thomas Blanchard I.) (Ill) Thomas (2), son of BLANCHARD Samud and Hannah (Doggett) Blanchard, was born April 28, 1674, in Charlestown, and lived C '"^yn J \i/M:i-v-(.^c^<3L>».,^?\' .<=>— -t--*^ STATE OF MAINE. 283 in Andover, where he died Alarch 17, 1759. His estate was inventoried at two hundred and ninety-nine pounds, fifteen shilhngs and two pence. He married, March 12, 1699, Rose Holmes, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Arnold) Holmes, of Marshfield. She died in Andover, August 27, 1714, and he married (second) September 21, 1715, Hannah Going, a widow, of Lynn, who died June 25. 1724. He married (third) February 21, 1726, Judith (Buckman) Hills, wddow of Zachary Hills, of Alalden. [He died December i, 1767. (IV) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) and Rose (Holmes) [Blanchard, was born Febru ary 15, 1701, in Andover, and was a farmer in that town. He married, October 7, 1731, Elizabeth Johnson, probably a daughter of Francis and Sarah (Hawd-ts) Johnson. He died November 25, 1779; she died April 22, 1783- (V) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) and Elizabeth (Johnson) Blanchard, was probably born about 1770 in Andover, and died (ac cording to a family letter) when eighty years of age. The name of his wife is not learned, and the only child mentioned in the family records available is Thomas Shute Blanchard, born in 1800, which is the only clue to the approximate birth date of the father. (VI) Thomas Shute, son of Thomas (4) Blanchard, was born at Stockton (Prospect), Maine, August, 1800, and died September 21, 1841. He was a merchant mariner of Stock ton. He married, December 22, 1825, Har riett, daughter of James and Lydia ([Parker) Treat, who was born at Prospect, June 28, 1807, died at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 10, 1889. She was the great-great-great-grand daughter of Governor Robert Treat, of Con necticut. Her mother, the daughter of Ohver and Lydia (Bicknell) Parker, died at Sears port at the advanced age of ninety-six years. Her father was the son of Lieutenant Joshua Treat, who moved from St. George to Pros pect. He served as armourer 1759-74, and probably after the revolution, as he was so mentioned in important documents. He was the first permanent white settler on the Penob scot in 1759, paddling up the river in a canoe with Governor Pownall and acting as inter preter with Indians. The children of Thomas S. and Harriett Blanchard were: i. Orella, born December 8, 1826, died February 3, 1852; married Rev. Jerome Harris. 2. Maria Treat, December 22, 1828, married, November 5, 1855, Josiah French Hitchborn. 3. James Treat, January 28, 183 1, died July 18, 1857, at Havanna, Cuba; was a sea captain. 4. Lydia Levena, Alarch 8, 1833, died January 10, 1852. 5. Alvah Parker, mentioned below. 6. Susan J., July 23, 1837. 7- Sarah .A., October 23, 1839. (VII) Alvah Parker, second son of Thomas Shute and Flarriett (Treat) Blanchard, was born in Stockton, Maine, AprU 12, 1835. He married, October 9, 1859, Ehzabeth D., daugh ter of John and Ehzabeth (Dickey) Griffin, who was born July 3, 1836. He was a sea captain and ship owner. Was active in Re publican politics and served a term in the state legislature. He was one of the organiz ers of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, Xew A'ork, and a member of the Grand Army, Grant Post, Brooklyn, an honorary member ship. Children of Captain Alvah P. and Eliza beth D. Blanchard were : i. James Alvah, born Xovember 13, 1862. 2. Alildred, September 14, 1866, married, February 5, 1896, John William AlitcheU, of Port Washington, [Long Island, of the Sir Humphrey AlitcheU family of England, to whose descendants King George made a grant of lands on Long Island, the homestead being built about 1679. 3. Thom as, July 24, 1870, died Alarch 4, 1878. (VHI) James Alvah, son of Captain Alvah P. and Elizabeth D. (Griffin) Blanchard, was born in Stockton, XTovember 13, 1862. He was educated at the public schools and at times went to sea with his father. After re moval to Brooklyn, New York, he attended the schools there and later was a student at Bryant and Stratton's Business College. He entered btisiness life as a clerk in a ship broker's office. He was next employed by Legett & Brother, 301 Pearl street. New York, paint manufacturers, etc., where he remained several years, until 1889, when he established himself in business. In 1904 the business was incorporated under the name of "The James A. Blanchard Company, manufacturers of In secticides, Drugs and Grocers' Specialties," at the Cortland Terminal building, 30 Church street. New York City. Mr. Blanchard is active in Republican politics in Alount \''er- non, where he resides, and has been a mem ber of the city committee for twelve years. He has served as delegate to conventions and police commissions for two and a half years. He is also president of the Mount Vernon Public Park Association ; vice-president of the East Side Improvement Association; chair man of the board of trustees of the Universal ist church and of the building committee. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Alaine Society, and with his father was one of the organizers of the Union League Club of 284 ST.ATE OF AlAINE. Brooklyn. Air. Blanchard married, June 16, 1886, Mary E., daughter of Captain Mel bourne P. and Clara (Lambert) Smith, of Orrington, Maine, wdio was born September 25 1866. They have two children hving: Maurice Alvah, born July 26, 1887, and Edna, May 5, 1893 ; a daughter Agnes, born August 13, 1889, died December 11, 1889. (For flrst generation see Thomas Blanchard I.) (II) Nathaniel, son of BLANCHARD Thomas and Mary Blan chard, was born in 1636, probably in Andover, England, and died before 1680, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he resided most of his hfe. He married, Decem ber 16, 1658, Susanna Bates, who survived him. She married (second) in 1680, Thomas Bass. ChUdren of Nathaniel Blanchard: John, Mary, Nathaniel, Edward, Mercy and Susanna. (Ill) John, eldest child of Nathaniel and Susanna (Bates) Blanchard, was born March 27, 1660, in Weymouth, and is supposed to have passed his life in that town. He was married there in 1685. The baptismal name of his wife was Abigail, but further par ticulars concerning them are not ascertainable, beyond the fact that they were the parents of the next mentioned. (IV) Nathaniel (2), son of John and Abi gad Blanchard, was born May 19, 1701, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and removed to North Yarmouth, Maine, in 1743. In 1745 he was admitted by letter from the Weymouth church to that at North Yarmouth, and died in that town, August 15, 1773. Fle was mar ried to Hannah Shaw, who died about 1770, and they were the parents of Nathaniel, Mary, Josiah, Abigail, Ozias and others whose names are unknown. (V) Ozias, third son and ninth child of Nathaniel (2) and Hannah (Shaw) Blan chard, was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, July 31, 1742. He was a resident of North Yarmouth, Maine, and served as a soldier in the revolutionary army. He was a ser geant in Captain George Rogers' company, in the Second Cumberland Regiment, and served six days in November, 1775. This company was detached by order of Colonel Jonathan Mitchell to work on the fort at Falmouth. He was a second lieutenant in Captain John Win- throp's North Yarmouth company, of Colonel Fogg's Cumberland county regiment, as shown by list of May 9, 1776. He was also a sec ond lieutenant in Captain John Gray's com pany of North Yarmouth, commissioned Jan uary 14, 1777. He again enlisted for service July 7, 1779, under Captain Gray and Colonel Jonathan Richards, and was discharged Sep tember 12, 1779. He also served two months and six days in the expedition to the Penob scot. He married, in 1769, Alercy Soule, born November 27, 1749, in North Yarmouth, daughter of Barnabas and Jane (Bradbury) Soule. They were the parents of Samuel, Jeremiah, David, Reuben, Daniel and Olive. The descendants of Ozias Blanchard are entitled to membership in the Society of May flower Descendants, and the Sons or Daugh ters of the Revolution, Mercy Soule, wife of Ozias Blanchard, being a direct descendant on the one side of George Soule and on the other side of John and PrisciUa Alden, and the father and mother of the latter, Mr. and Mrs. MuUins, all of whom were "Mayflower" pil grims. The hne of descent is :'!. John Alden, of the "Mayflower," born in England, 1599, died at Duxbury, Massachusetts, September 12, 1687; married at Plymouth, probably in 1621, Priscilla MuUins, born in England. Their daughter Elizabeth (2), born 1623, died at Little Compton, Rhode Island, May 31, 1717, married, December 26, 1644, William [Pea- bodie, born 1620, died at Little Compton, De cember 13, 1707. Their daughter Mary (3), born August 7, 1648, married, November 16, 1669, Edward Southworth. Their daughter Mercy (4), born 1670, died 1728, married, about 1701, Moses Soule, who died 1751. Their son Barnabas (5), born 1705, died at North Yarinouth, Maine, April 8, 1780, mar ried, 1737, Jane Bradbury, born 1718. Their daughter Mercy (6), born November 27, 1749, died at North Yarmouth, Maine, married Ozias Blanchard. (See ante.) (VI) Jeremiah, second son of Ozias and Alercy (Soule) Blanchard, was baptized May 16, 1771, in North Yarmouth, and was one of the original members of the Second Church of that town, now the Cumberland Church, of which he was the third deacon. He was a member of the Alassachusetts legislature when the state was divided and Maine became an independent state ,and worked and voted for that measure. He married Dorcas Bucknam. Their children were Dorcas, Ozias, WiUiam and Ann Aurora. (VII) Ozias (2), son of Jeremiah and Dor cas (Bucknam) Blanchard, was born May 24, 1804, in North Yarmouth, Maine. He mar ried, November 13, 1828, at Cumberland, Mar tha Sweetser, born January 17, 1809, in Cum berland, daughter of Benjamin and Olive Sweetser, and they were the parents of Ara- STATE OF AlAINE. 285 bella J., Jeremiah, Henry C, Edwin B., Ann A., O. Alonzo, Martha A., WiUiam G., Alary E. and Howard W. After his marriage he moved to Blanchard, Maine, where he bought a farm, held many local offices, was a member of the house of representatives and the sen ate, where he was largely instrumental in the election of Hon. Hannibal Flamlin to the United States senate. He was too old to enlist in the military service in the civil war, but on February 28, 1864, on the recommenda tion of Vice-Presiclent [Hamlin, was commis sioned by President Lincoln captain and assist ant quartermaster, United States Volunteers, and served until August 10, 1865, when he returned to Maine and located in Dexter. Fle moved to Herndon, Virginia, in 1870. In 1876 he was a delegate from that state to the Republican national convention, where he voted for the nomination of Flon. James G. Blaine for the presidency. A great admirer of Mr. Blaine, he was bitterly disappointed at the unlooked-for defeat of that eminent statesman. (VIII) Howard W., tenth chdd and sixth son of Ozias (2) and Martha (Sweetser) Blanchard, was born January 18, 1852, in Blanchard, Maine, where his boyhood was passed on a farm. He attended the public schools at Blanchard and Dexter, Alaine, and Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, and graduated from George Washington University, District of Columbia with the degree of LL.B. in 1889. In the same year he was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, and also in Vir ginia. He was twelve years old when he left the state of Maine for Kentucky, where his father was in the military service, and re turned there in 1866, locating at Dexter, where he continued until 1869. In 1870 he located at Herndon, Virginia, and has ever since made his home in that town. He is a principal examiner in the United States pension office at Washington, and for four years, from 1896 to 1900, was detailed to assist the house com mittee on invalid pensions. He is a member of the Congregational church, and a Republi can in politics. He is a member of the Dis trict of Columbia Society of Mayflower De scendants. Mr. Blanchard married, August i, 1874, Susan KUlani, daughter of Stephen and Jemima (Bovee) KUlam, of Alonroe county, New York. Their children were born as fol lows: I. Howard Ray, July 2, 1876, died January 4, 1902. 2. William St. John, Alay 5, 1878. 3. Martha Louise, May 28, 1880. 4. Marion Jamison, AprU 3, 1885, died July 5, 1899. 5. Edwin C, March 3, 1887. 6. Mabd Elizabeth, October 30, 1893. The many branches of the BLANCHARD Blanchard famdy in Maine trace their line by clear records or strong traditions to the sturdy Thomas Blanchard, who came to Charles town, Massachusetts, in 1639, "where he might have cleare views of ye pleasant piece of salt water." Wherever the [Blanchards have set tled they have had tl^ ancestor's longing for the ocean. The Blanchard farms, if removed from the coast line, have bordered on some pond, or had a brook babbling across them, and the owners have made trips to the bays now and then, with the excuse, "I must get a taste of fish right from the water," but with the full purpose of seeing the waves toss and foam, and sailing out as far as possible from the shore. The love of the sea is just as strong in the descendants of the old family that remained in France. Francoise Blanchard, whose father thought he had trained the love of sailing out of him, made a balloon so he could navigate the air. The members of the Blanchard fam ily could never have assisted in Dresden, Litch field, Cumberland, Falmouth, Yarmouth, and a score of other places, if they had not loved the ocean and learned its great lessons of strength and victory. (I) Captain Sylvanus Blanchard, born about 1782, died in Yarmouth, Alaine, 1859. He followed the sea for many years, and was one of the most successful captains of the state of Alaine. Subsequently, desiring to follow other pursuits, he turned his attention to the building of ships of the most seaworthy type, his place of business being in Yarmouth, Maine, and the firm of Blanchard Brothers, shipbuilders, continued untU 1893, conducting a most suc cessful business, fle devoted his time and energy so thoroughly to this work that he saw many a noble ship launched from his yard, and with pleasure followed them in thought as they flitted to many far-away ports to return in safety with rich cargoes. Among the noted ships built and launched at their shipyard were the foUowing: "Admiral," "Commodore," "S. C. Blanchard," "P. N. Blanchard," "Pacific," "Peru," "P. G. Blan chard," "Star," "Detroit" and the "Sylvanus Blanchard," the latter being lost. Captain Blanchard became one of the most prominent and respected citizens of the town of Yar mouth, and was an active member of the Congregational church, working for its benefit with all the zeal which characterized his fore fathers. He married Aliss Dorcas J. Prince, a most estimable woman, a member of an old Port- 286 STATE OF AlAINE. land family. Children : i. David P., born Jan uary 8, 1806, died June 16, 1S28, while at sea on his second yo}-age. 2. Paul G., October 24, 1808, died XTovember, 1SS5. Thanksgiving day. 3. Sylvanus C, September 4, 181 1, resided in Boston, Alassachusetts, many years, died in Richmond, A'irginia, 1887. 4. Perez X"., Alay 6, 181 5. see forward. 5. Samuel Woodbury, April 15, 1818, died December 2^. 1857: he was a s'lcilful physician. 6. Dorcas J., Sep tember 23, 1822, died Alarch 7, 1S62. 7. Oliver Elizabeth, August 22, 1S26, died April 27. 1S61. (II) Perez X'athaniel, son of Captain Syl vanus and Dorcas J. (Prince) Blanchard, w-as born in Yarmouth, Alaine, Alay 6, 1815. died April 3, 1S83. He received a thorough edu cation in the common schools of his native towm. He decided to follow- agriculture as a means of livelihood, but the sea so strongly appealed to him, and his inherited tendencies being all in that direction, he abandoned his former project and embarked on a staunch ship carrying cotton from southern p.jrts to Europe, and he continued thus until 1S57. when he made his last voyage in the "Syl vanus Blanchard," taking his w-ife and son w-ith him, aforementioned as the ship wdiich was lost, he being the commander thereof. He then engaged in the shipbuilding business, under the firm name of Blanchard Brothers, referred to in the preceding paragraph. He took an active part in political aft'airs, 'casting his vote for the candidates of the Democratic party, and served in the capacity of chairman of the board of selectmen of A'armouth for a long term of years, and was a member of the state legislature tw-ice, his last term being in the years i'?75-7o. He continued active in the ranks of his party until a short time prior to his death. He was a ver}- helpful member of the Congregational church, aiding all in his power to the advancement of its^various interests. He married Cynthia S. Blanchard, nf Cumberland. ChUdren: i. Frances E., born Xovember 26, 1849, married Frank e! Oakes : they now reside in Xew-ton, Alassa- chrsetts. 2. Cynthia E., twin of Frances E. 3. Xathaniel Willis, see forward. (Ill) Xathaniel Willis, son of Perez Xa thaniel and Cynthia Stone (Blanchard) Blan chard, w-as bom in A'armouth, Alaine, April 29, 1852, Fle graduated from Xorth A'ar mouth Academy. Early in life he shipped be fore the mast, and at the expiration of six months, an officer on the ship having died, and the great abUity of young Blanchard being appreciated, he w-as appointed a third mate. On his second voyage he was appointed sec ond mate, on his third voyage promoted to mate, and on his fourth voyage was promoted to the rank of master, receiving high praise from officers, ship owners and other interested parties. He carried a cargo of lumber to Eu rope, which realized a_good profit, and then carried a cargo of coal to the ports of Peru, South America. In 1879 he conveyed a cargo of coal to China, around the Cape of Good Hope, and in 1886 carried a cargo of case oU to China and brought back a load of manilla. On his last voyage he sailed from X'ew A'ork City to China \vith a cargo of oil, bringing back from Hong Kong to Baltimore, Alary- land, a fine supply of matting. Air. Blanchard was accompanied on a number of voyages by his wife and chUdren, and whUe in China they were bereaved of two of their children — LeUa Willis and Perez X'athanid — who died wdthin a few days of one another from an epidemic. Air. Blanchard followed the sea in this suc cessful manner from 1872 until 1900, a period of twenty-eight years. Being a man of fine executive ability and sterling integrity, he has taken a leading part in the aff'airs'of A'ar mouth, and is serving- in the capacity of trustee of X'orth A'armouth Academy, and one of the overseers and treasurer of the Alorrill Alemorial Library of \'ar- rnouth. He is a Democrat in his political views, and was a candidate for representative to the Alaine legislature in 1905. He is an attendant of the Unitarian church, a member of the Blue Lodge and chapter of the Free Alasons. Air. Blanchard married, in 1874. Grace S., bom in Chicago, Illinois, Alarch 24, 1S59, daughter of Henry C. Greenleaf, of A'ar mouth, who resided in Chicago at the time of his daughter's birth, being commander of a tugboat on Lake Alichigan ; later they resided in Alilwaukee, from whence they removed to Yarmouth. Children of Air. and Airs, Blan chard: I. Leila Willis, born July 30, 1886, died m Hong Kong, China, tidy 12, 1901, aged fifteen years. 2, Perez Xathaniel, Tan- uary 14, 1890, died July 6, 1901, aged eleven years, at Hong Kong, China. 3. Reina Alay, Alay 14, 1898, at A'armouth. There is ample record that THOAlPSOX several of this name were among our earliest seven teenth century settlers. Sir William Thomp son, of England, was the owner of property about Boston, and his coat-of-arms has come dowm through many generations of fames Thompson's descendants, but patient research u<^ :^^ ^;;5^^^ STATE OF MAINE. 287 has failed to establish the exact connection between the English and American houses. Edward Thompson came over in the "May flower" in 1620; John, his brother, came over from Engl.'iiid in 1(143; Archibald Tlioni])son settled ill Alarblehead in 1637; Edward Thompson settled in Salem in 1637; Dr. Ben jamin Thompson settled in liraintree and was town clerk in i6()6, and left at his death eigin children and tweuty-eight grandchildren. (I) James Thompson was among the origi nal settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts, and settled in that part of the town which is now known as North Woburn. He came in Win- throp's great company, in 1630, and probably first settled in Charlestown. Ele was born in 1593, in England, and was accompanied 011 his journey by his wdfe Elizabeth and three sons and one daughter. He was then thirty- seven years of age, and tradition has it that he was one of the party who landed at Salem, Massachusetts, in the early part of June, 1630. His coat-of-arms is identified with that of Sir William Thompson, a London knight, and it is probable that he came from the family. With his wife Elizabeth, James Thompson was admitted to membership in the First Church of Charlestown, August 31, 1633. I" the fol lowing December he was admitted as a free man of the town. In Deceiiiher, Ki.p, he was one of the thirty-two men who subscribed to the noted town orders for Woburn. He was among the few adventurers who early pushed their way into this wilderness region. Charles- to-wn A'illage was incorporated in i(')42, under the name of )\'oburn, and it is believed that this was in memory of the ancient town of that name in Bedfordshire, England, whence some of the enii.grants probably came. James Thompson was chosen a member of the first board of selectmen, and continued to serve the town in that office nearly twenty years with brief intervals. In 1650 he was the commis sioner to carry the voles for town oftlcors to Cambridge. The exact location of his resi dence cannot be positi\-ely stated, but it is probable that it was near the junction of Elm street and Traverse. It appears by the rec ords that he w-as an extensive land owner for that time. It is probable that he disposed of most of his property before his death, as his will makes no reference to real estate. His first wife Elizabeth died November 13, 1643, and he was married (second) February 15, 1644, to Susanna Blodgett, wddow of Thomas Blodgett, of Cambridge. She died February 10, 1661. He survived his second wife about twenty-one years, and died in Wc-ihurn, it>82. Flis children were: James, Simeon, Olive, Jonathan, and possibly .-mother daughter. (II) Jonathan, youngest son of James Thompson, was born in England, probably about 1630, and was married Novemliri- 28, 1655, to Susanna Blodgett, of Cambridge, a daughter of his father's second wife, and bear ing the same name. There is good reason for believiu,g that he lived in the house built by his father, near the junction of Elm and Traverse streets, traces of whicli some of the oldest citizens of North W^oburn still reniein- .ber. It is probable that his father lived with him in his old age and bequeathed to the son his homestead. Not much is known of the personal history of Jonathan. From the town records it is learned that he was one of three teachers of schools and the first male teacher ever employed under the authority of the town. This was from 1673-75. In the year last named he and his good wife shared the respon sibility and labor, "he to tech biger children, and she to tech leser children," the two to receive one sovereign between them for their services. In subsequent years he served as constable of the town, and still later as town sexton. Ele died October 20, 169 1, and his wife February 6, 1698. Their children were : Susannah, Jonathan, James (died )'oting), James, Sarah, Simon and Ebenezer. (HI) Jonathan (2), eldest son and second child of Jonathan (i) Thompson, was born September 28, 1663, and it is belie\od that he lived in the house already designated as the probable home of his father and grand father in North Woburn. He was one of the town "tythin.g men." He was also on a com mittee in 1728 to go to the great and general court and gi\e the reasons why the petition of Goshen, or that part of Woburn whicli sub sequently became Wilmington, should not be granted. Ele was also in the same year one of a committee of nine "tij goe to the Reverend Al. Fox to see if they can make things easier with him." Ele married Frances Whitmore, a daughter of Francis Whitmore, of Cambridge. His death is supposed to h:iye occurred in 1748. Elis children were: Jonathan, Elannah, Joseph, James, Susannah. Ebenezer, Alary, Samuel, Patience, Esther, Jabez and Daniel, (lA^) Samuel, fifth son and eighth child of Jonathan (2) and Frances (^Whitmore) Thompson, was born September 8, 1705, in what is now North Woburn. About 1730, probably, he built the house on North Elm street, [North Woburn, which has been the home of six generations of Thompsons. It is not now occupied by people of the name. He STATE OF AlAIXE. w-as largely engaged in getting out ship timber for his brothers, who w-ere ship builders in Medfield. AA'hile unloading timber in the spring of 174S he received a severe injury which was followed by a fever resulting in his death, Alay 13, 174S, whUe in his forty- third year. He married Ruth, daughter of Joseph Wright, and a great-granddaughter of Captain John Carter, one of the first settlers of Woburn. They were married December 31, 1730. and she survived him more than twenty-seven }-ears, dying October 3, 1775- Their children were: Samuel, Daniel, Ruth, Abijah, Alary, Phoebe, Lois and Jonathan. (A') Daniel, second son of Samuel and Ruth (Wright) Thompson, was born in AVo- bum, Alassachusetts. Alarch 9, 1734. He was a man of warm temperament, active and en terprising. He was one of the guards to the royal governors, but w-hen the trouble began between the mother country and his own, he quickl)' espoused the side of the colonies. Upon hearing of the march of the British to ward Concord, April 19, 1775. he jumped into a saddle and hurried to the X'orth village for the purpose of arousing his neighbors. He met but one man that hesitated to follow him in the defense, and this timid fellow asked Daniel if he wasn't too hasty, and likely to get into trouble. The famous reply of Daniel as given is : "Xo ! I tell you the tyrants are on the march to destroy our stores, and if no one else opposes them to-day, I w-ill 1" Going at once to Concord, he poured his steady and telling fire into the faces of the British. AA'hen the enemy retreated, he took a stand near the road, behind an old barn, and fired diagonally through the platoons of the enemy, and his shot raked the line of the hated Eng lish terribly. Enra.ged at his deadly work, a grenadier who had watched his movements ran behind the bam and fatally shot him. The place where Daniel fell is still pointed out, and is on that part of the road from Lexing ton to Concord, and is in a protruding corner of Lincoln. A double funeral was held in the church, the other being .Asahel Porter, who was killed the same day, the Rev. Josiah Sherman delivering an able and patriotic dis course. Daniel was one of the first victims to fall in the cause of the re\-oIution. .\ mon ument has been erected to his memory on his grave in Woburn, and bears this inscription: "Here lies buried the Body of Mr. Daniel Thompson, who was slain in Concord Battle on ye 19th. of April, 1775, Aged 40 years. "Here Passenger, Confined. Reduced to dust lies -R'hat was once Religious, wise & just. The cause he engaged did animate him high, Namtly. Religion *: dear Liberty. Ste.-idy & warm iu Liberties defence, Tr-je 'to his Country, Loyal to His Prince, Though in his Breast a Thirst tor .elory flr'd, .A.ltho^eh he's gone his name Embalm'd shall be .4nd tad in Everlasting Memory." Daniel Thompson was a member of the c[iurch in Woburn, and married Phoebe Snow, who after surviving him for thirty-six years died in Baldwin. Alaine. where she was residing with her daughter. Their children were: Isaac Snow, Phoebe and Daniel. (A'l) Dr. Isaac Snow, eldest son of Daniel and Phoebe (Snow) Thompson, was bom in Woburn. June 28. 17DI. He was thirteen years old when his brave father was slain, but he -was imbued with the spirit of his sire, and vouii'^- as he was he determined to have a hand in revenging the act and upholding his country. AVhen fifteen he went to sea in an -American pri-^ateer, and being captured by a British cruiser was imprisoned at Barbadoes, but escaped bv sw-imming three miles to a French vessel. He finally reached home and read medicine with Dr. John Hay, of Read ing, and settled in practice at Pearsontown, now Standish, Alaine. He was a man of small stature, dark eomplexioned, and pleasing man ners. Like his father, he was a person of great activity and energy, with a somewhat poetic temperament as well as a fighter. FuU of kindness and generosity, he was always sunny and cheerful with his patients. In in fancy he was so small he was put into a quart measure, and w-ore his mother's ring above his elbow- when three years old. One of his first shoes was exhibited in the Boston Alu- seum as a curiosit>. Dr. Thompson married Charlotte, daughter of Dr. John Elay, his old preceptor, in 17S5. Their children were: Charlotte, Daniel, Sarah Hay Bowers, who was the mother of Alphonso Bowers, of Cali fornia, inventor of a hydraulic dredger, and Roscoe Bowers: Frances, married -Abner Dow-, elsewhere mentioned, and was grand mother of Fred T. Dow (see sketch), and John Hay. The strains of Frances Thomp son, and -Benjamin Thompson, w-ho was the celebrated Count Rumford, were collaterally connected and diverge in the fourth genera tion from James Thompson, of England and Woburn, Alassachusetts. They had a common great-.great-grandfather. Air. Dow has a let ter written by Dr. Isaac S. Thompson to Char lotte Hay just before their marriage in 1785. Abner Dow was a first settler in DOW Flintstown, now Baldwin, Alaine, about 1800, whicli was founded by the survivors of Captain Flint's company from STATE Op MAINE. 289 Concord, Massachusetts. Fle cleared a farm and was prominent in town affairs. Ele mar ried Frances, daughter of Dr. Isaac S. and Charlotte (Hay) Thompson, of Standish, Maine. She was born March 17, 1795, and was the mother of Franklin. E'rances, who married Frederick Todd. Deborah. Alonzo A., married Ophelia Cram ; children : i. Clin ton, married a Miss Getzel ; two children ; re sides in California; ii. Alfred V., resides in Eliram ; married Cassie Gray ; one son, Owen Dow, graduate of University of Maine, 1908, now teaching in Porto Rico; iii. Franklin, died young; iv. Joseph, a practicing physician in Vermont. Leander A., see forward. Deborah (Mrs. Sylvanus Yates), who died 1908, the last sqrN'ivor ; she was the mother of four chil dren : i. ETank E., married a Miss Noble ; one child, Howard Yates; ii. William, resides in Windham, Alaine ; engineer on Maine Central railroad ; iii. Charles, married a Miss Shaw, of Standish ; iv. Fanny, married Clayton Spring, of Brownfield, Alaine ; three children. Mrs. Dow was a member of the Congregational church; she died September 30, 1873. (II) Leander Abner, youngest son of Abner and Frances (Thompson) Dow, was born in Baldwin in 1832, and died in May, 1895. Ele was a farmer for a number of years, and then moved to Gorhani, Maine, where he conducted a meat market. He married Mary Ella Elaven, of liiram, Maine, daughter of Captain Haven, who was the father of three other children, namely : Abbie, married Jaines Foss and had children : Clara, deceased ; Eva, deceased ; Herbert, married Nettie Clark, of Eliram, Maine; Noah, married NeUie Lord, of Cor nish, Maine. Annie, the only survivor, mar ried Richard Flaley; now living in Sebago, Maine; no children. Octavus, the only son, served in the civil war, was captured at Port Royal and died in Libby prison. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Dow: i. Phoebe, died in youth. 2. Hattie, married WiUiam A. Foss, of Ra leigh, Massachusetts. 3. NeUie, married Fred C. Googins, manager' of the Stockholm Lumber Company, of Stockholm, Maine. 4. Fred T., see forward. 5. Laura, mar ried Lyman Perley, of R<)wle\', Massachu setts. (Ill) Fred T., the only son of Leander A. and Mary Ella (Haven) Dow, was born in Baldwin, July 23, 1867. He was instructed in the rudimentary branches in the local schools of Gorham, and graduated in the engineering department of the University of Maine in 1890. After graduation, he went with the Orono Pul]2 and Paper Company to install their plant, subsequently going into a machine shop in Old Town, Maine. In 1891 he went to the West Indies to conduct a school for colored people after the plan of the Hampton Institute in Virginia, founded by philanthropic Englishmen of Birmingham. In 1892 he went with the Gener.'d Electric ([oiiipany of Lynn as a draughtsman. From here he went to the slate of Washington as instructor in the Agricultural College and School of Science at Pullman. In 1896 he re-engaged with the Gen eral Electric Company at Schenectady, New York-, and was soon promoted to be foreman of the switchboard department, and managed the standardization of switchboards in the draughting department. While here he aided in designing about three thousand new panels and switchboards. Ele worked on the plan for an electro hydraulic and steam plant, the largest ever built, and numerous steam and electric plants. On account of poor health, he came to Bangor, Maine, in 1901, as a con sulting and designing engineer. He designed and installed for F. W. Ayer, of Bangor, a log carrier three thousand feet long, between Chamberlain and Eagle lakes. This carrier has a capacity of a million feet of logs daily. In 1904 he made a survey of the Moosehead lake region for the Kennebec Water Power Company. He prepared and originated plans for the better utilization of the water power of the Penobscot river, between Bangor and Old Town. He is a Republican. He married Marion Antoinette, daughter of Captain George W. and Sarah (Treat) Reed, of North I!ucks|)ort, Alaine, Septeniber 4, 1903, and they' have : Ruth Elaven, William Reed, James Treat and Isabelle Marion. Captain George W. Reed was killed by the British when they came up the Penobscot in 1812. The Reeds came from Alaryland, and were a seafaring family. The following sketch deals with DOW Henry Dow, of Watertown, Massa chusetts, 1637, fbe earliest settler of the name in the New World, and a line of his descendants. The Dows from the earliest times have borne an enviable reputation for energy, probity, industry and patriotism, and have contributed much to the prosperity of the nation. Fifty-five enlistments in Alassachu setts regiments during the revolution are cred ited to Dows. On account of the Dows of this line being Quakers in revolutionary times, none of them were then soldiers. (I) John Dow, the earliest known progeni- 290 STATE OF AlAIXE. tor of the family of Dow of which this article treats, born in Tylner, Norfolk county, Eng land, in 1520, died in July, 1561, between the seventh of the month, the date of his will, and the twenty-third, when it was presented for probate. From that document it is in ferred that he left three children: Thomas, John and Edith; and two brothers, WiUiam and Thomas. (II) Thomas, eldest child of John Dow, of Tylner, was afterward of Runham in the same county. The name of his wife was Margaret. To Thomas and Alargaret were born two sons, Henry and Christopher ; and two daugh ters, one of whom married Stephen Farrar, and the other a man named March Christo pher, and had nine children. (Ill) Henry, eldest chdd of Thomas and Margaret Dow, lived at Runham, where he died in Deceinber, 1612, or January, 1613. He married Elizabeth , by whom he had Thomas, Henry, Edward, Alary, Frances, and William, all of whom must have been young when the father died. (IV) Flenry (2), second child of Henry (i) and Elizabeth Dow, was born in Runham, about 1608. He married, February 11, 1631, Joan, widow of Roger Nudd, of Ormsby, in the same county. Six years later he applied for permission to emigrate to America, was examined April 11, 1637, and was granted license to depart to these shores, the docu ment being entitled: "The examination of Flenry Dowe, of Ormsby, in Noff, husband man, aged 29 years, and Joane, his wife, aged 30 years, with four children, and one servant, Ann Maning, aged 17 years, are desirous to pass into New England, to inhabitt." They settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where Henry Dow was admitted freeman. May 2, 1638. He removed to Hampton, New Hamp shire, in the latter part of 1643 or early in 1644, having previously bought of John Saun ders a dwelling house, and several tracts of land for a farm. This homestead remained in the possession of his lineal descendants till after the death of Olive Dow, of the sixth generation, daughter of John, in 1854, when it was sold and passed into other hands-. Elenry Dow was a man who possessed the qualities of leadership, as is shown by his official rec ord. He was selectman in 1651 ; deputy from Hampton to the general court of Massachu setts in 1655-56; and appointed with two others in 1658 to examine and record all land grants and highways. This last work was in terrupted by his death, April 21, 1659. Joane, or Jane, Dow died and was buried in 'Water- town, June 20, 1640. Henry married (sec ond) in 1641, Alargaret Cole, of Dedham, Massachusetts, wdio was dismissed thence to Watertown church in 1643. 'She survived him and married (second) October 23, 1661, Richard Kimball, of Ipswich. The children of Elenry Dow by his first wife were : Thom as, Henry, an infant and Joseph; by the sec ond wife : Daniel, Alary, Hannah, Thomas and Jeremiah. CV) Sergeant Joseph, third son of Henry (2) and Joane or Jane Dow, was the first of the family born in this country, the place of his birth being Watertown, and the date Alarch 20, 1639. He settled in that part of Elampton now known as Seabrook. He seems to have been active in the controversies grow ing out of land claims under conflicting char ters, having been appointed in behalf of the town to represent the inhabitants of Hamp ton upon that subject before the royal council. He was also otherwise concerned in the pub lic affairs of the little community in which he lived. Although like his older brother, "Captain" Henry Dow, Joseph was at one time connected with the military service of the colony. Ele later associated himself with the Friends or Quakers. He was then about thirty-four years old, and was among the earlier converts of the mission to this coun try of George Fox, the founder of the sect. V/ith that society this line of the family re tained its connection through several genera tions, or until it was severed by the withdraw al of General Neal Dow. Joseph was one of those who suffered from the persecutions to which the Quakers of his day were subjected, but his persistency in demanding his rights not only led to his receiving some recompense for his injuries, but to the discomfiture of the governor of the province and the better treat ment thereafter of the Quakers of the vicin ity. In 1701 he was one of the trustees to whom the land was conveyed in behalf of "all those Christian people, called Quakers, living in Hampton, to seat a meeting-house there on." Two years later, April 7, 1703, he died at the age of sixty-four years. He married, December 17, 1662, Alary, daughter of Will iam and Alary (Moulton) Sanborne, of Hamp ton, and they had twelve children : Joseph, John, Alary, James, Hannah, Henry, Jeremiah, Josiah, Thomas, Charity, Samuel and Aaron. (VI) Josiah, eighth child and sixth son of Sergeant Joseph and Mary (Sanborne) Dow, born in flampton (Seabrook), July 2, 1679, died April 18, 1718, when only thirty-nine years old. He lived in that part of Seabrook STATE OF MAINE. 291 called "New Boston." September 22, 1710, were published the intentions of marriage of Josiah Dow and Alary, daughter of James and Elizabeth Purington, of Salisbury, who were married November 7, 1710. She was a de scendant of the third generation from Robert Purington, who was a landholder in Ports mouth in 1640 and 1657. The children of this union were: Winthrop, Abraham (died young), Abraham, Elizabeth and Anna. (VII) Abraham, third son and child of Jo siah and Mary (Purington) Dow, was born May 2, 1715, and was left fatherless before he was three years old. He, like his pro genitors, was a farmer, but became quite prominent among the Friends as a preacher, and lived to be sixty-nine years old, dying in 1784. His wiU was proved February 18, 1784. He married Phebe, born June 19, 1715, daugh ter of John and Abial (Marston) Green, of Hampton. (VIII) Jedediah, second son of Abraham and Phebe (Green) Dow, born October 30, 1740, or 1 74 1, died in Weare, X^ew Hamp shire, May 10, 1826, aged eighty-five. About 1772 he moved to Weare and settled on lot 35, range 5. There he built a log house in what was then a wUderness, where he cleared a farm. To the family vocation of farming, Jedediah added that of blacksmithing. He was in the vigor of manhood when the revolu tionary war broke out. His life, with that of his father, who at the inception of that struggle was sixty years of age, covered more than a century of New England history, many incidents of which he related to his grandson, Neal Dow, and which the latter relates in his book, "Reminiscences of Neal Dow." One day Jedediah Dow was walking across a field when his dog seized his coat and began pull ing him back in so strange and unaccountable a way that he yielded his will to that of his dog and returned to his home. In making that retreat he turned and saw an Indian with a gun, move from behind a rock by which he would have passed but for the strange conduct , of his dog. Fle always afterward believed ¦ that the animal saved his life. One evening, i when the shades of night were first closing : around him, he was returning from the woods, ¦ walking with his head down, his ax under one '-, arm, and his hands in the pockets of his coat. .' Suddenly his hat was snatched from his head, ; and he saw confronting him in the narrow ^path a huge bear, standing on his hind feet, I displaying a wicked row of glittering_ teeth. .; Retreat was impossible, had he wished it, and [f there was nothing for it but to fight it out with no quarter to either combatant. Mr. Dow was a powerful man, and an experienced woodman, skilled in the use of an ax, but his quick and powerful blows delivered by that formidable weapon were for a time parried by the bear. At last the edge of the axe dis abled one of the brute's paws, and instantly another blow on the head brought him down. Afterwards the end was easy. The log cabin of Mr. Dow was succeeded by a large and excellent farm house where he spent the even ing of his days in the family of his daughter Mary. This house was not far from the Quaker church where he worshiped. Near the site of the old church repose the remains of Mr. Dow and his wife, their graves marked only, as was customary with the early Friends, by simple mounds of unhewn stones. Mr. Dow was an industrious, prudent. God-fearing man, and a good citizen. He possessed the respect and confidence of his townsmen, who elected him to the office of selectman. The name of his first wife is not known ; she was kUled by lightning a few days after her mar riage. He married (second) Dorcas Neal, born June i, 1740, died May 18, 1810. Their children yvere : Alary, Josiah, Ruth, Dorcas, Abraham, Jedediah and Jonathan. (IX) Josiah (2), eldest son and second child of Jedediah and Dorcas (Xeal) Dow, was born in Seabrook, September 27, 1766, and was taken by his parents to Weare when he was about six years old. "There, sur rounded by such influences as may be inferred from what has been written," writes his son, "he lived until he was twenty-four. He was about nine years old at the outbreak of the revolution, and to his last day remembered well the excitement attending many of the events of that war. A company of militia on its way to Boston, and which afterwards par ticipated in the battle of Bunker HUl, camped near his father's house. Some of his rela tives were among them, and they took from him the bullets he had been casting, together with the bullet-mold and what uncast lead he had. He never admitted to his son that he was intentionally furnishing ammunition for 'carnal warfare,' but Quaker and son of a Quaker, though he was, as a boy he regretted that he had not lost by the militia a sufficient number of bullets to serve his patriotic neigh bors through the battle." In his earlier days game of many kinds abounded in the forests, among such being the wUd turkey, to hunt whicli was his chief recreation. The son of a farmer on a backwoods farm, his early life was rude and laborious, but he had the requi- 292 STATE OF MAINE. site courage and determination to improve his condition, and the opportunity offering, being fond of reading, he qualified himself to dis charge all the duties of a good citizen with advantage to society and credit to himself. In summer he was an industrious worker on the farm of his father ; in winter he taught a school, in which, however, were imparted only those branches that country boys and girls of that day were expected to acquire. In 1790, soon after attaining his majority, becoming satisfied that it would be wise for him to seek another field of employment, he left Weare and moved to Falmouth, Maine, a town then adjoining Portland, and of which the latter had been a part until set off in 1786. Here he lived for about five years in a house still standing on the banks of the Presumpscot river, about five miles from Portland, just be yond the covered bridge on the Blackstrap road. He brought with him to his new home but little more than good health, a strong con stitution, and those industrious habits and simple, frugal tastes which were the natural outgrowth of parental and other influences which surrounded him in the home of his boy hood. But with what he had he engaged in carrying on in a smaU way, with a brother- in-law who had preceded him to Falmouth, the tanning business, his leisure time in win ter being employed in teaching school. After living at Falmouth six years he married and moved to Portland, where he and his wife began housekeeping. He continued the tan ning business and succeeded so well at it that four years after settling in Portland he built a more comfortable house than he had for merly occupied, and there he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. He re tained his interest in the tanning business as long as he lived. In it he accumulated a com petence sufficient for all his wants and tastes. His judgment in matters of business was sound, and often sought by his townsmen. He was for many years, from its incorporation in 1824, a director in the Merchants' Bank of Portland, resigning the position when the in firmities of age made it impracticable for him to attend to its duties. He was also in the directorate of other business corporations. Necessarily somewhat isolated during the lat ter part of his life, because of his age, he nevertheless retained his interest in current events until within a few weeks of his death. Put in possession of the facts bearing on any given business problem, he drew his conclu sions from them dearly and with sound judg ment almost to the last. Fle held some of fices, accepted from a sense of duty as burdens of which he should bear his part rather than from any desire for place or notoriety, to which he was always averse. He always took interest in political matters, voted at every presidential election, and, probably, at all others down to the first election of Lincoln. In his party affiliations he was in turn a Fed eralist, National Republican, Whig, Free Sell er and Republican. He was an earnest anti- slavery man and was actively interested in the "underground railroad," by means of which fugitive slaves, not a few of whom reached Portland in vessels from southern ports and otherwise, were taken to points where they were not likely to be captured. His home was always an asylum for such of them as needed food and temporary shelter while waiting to be escorted farther toward the north star of freedom. He was a well- read man, his favorite works being the Bible, Shakespeare, and Pope's Essay on Man. With these he was thoroughly familiar and always ready with apt quotations from either. He was clear, concise, and strong in conversation, and quick at repartee. He was a remarkably vigorous, active, and athletic man; and with his physical strength possessed also a strong will and great self-control. He died June i, 1861, at the age of ninety-four years and nine months. In all his life neither his personal character nor his business integrity was ever questioned by so much as a breath of suspi cion. He has always possessed sound health, having scarcely a sick day in his whde life, but after he was eighty years of age he fell on the ice and broke his hip, and was con fined for several months to his bed, and never so far recovered as to be able to walk with out lameness, though long after this he was about, attending to ordinary affairs. No more loving father, no more upright and honorable man, or truer Christian and patriot ever Hved. A Friend, descended from a long line of Friends, his life always conformed to their rules, which treat this worid as a vestibule to a future life. He never for a moment wavered m his fidelity to truth, and the consistency of his hfe and conversation was entirely without stain. He married, February 3, 1796, Dorcas Al len, born in Falmouth, August 28, 1773, died in Portland, July 8, 1851, aged seventy-eight years. She was the sixth of the seven chil dren of Isaac and Abigail (Hall) Allen, of Falmouth. (See Hall V.) Hatevil Hall, the bride's grandfather, then ninety-six years of age, was one of the signers of the marriage STATE OF MAINE. 293 certificate. She was of slight frame, and ap parently not strong, but was blessed with good health until her last sickness. A few years before her death she met with an accident, resulting in a broken hip and other injuries, and she was thereafter a great sufferer, but she bore aU with heroic fortitude and christian patience. She was for her time well educated, fond of reading, possessed of strong common sense and sound judgment. She was a trust ing christian woman, self-reliant and deter mined in all that she believed to be right, im pressing her character upon those with whom she came in contact. [For more than a half century she proved to her husband a faithful wife and helpmeet, a wise counsellor and trusted friend. Three children were born of this marriage : Emma, Neal, who receives extended mention below, and Harriet. Emma, born in 1800, married Neal D. Shaw, of Bar ing, Maine, and died in 1851. Harriet, 1806, was an invalid from early life, and died in 1869. (X) Neal, second child and only son of Josiah and Dorcas (Allen) Dow, was born in Portland, March 20, 1804. As soon as he was old enough he was sent to a "dame's" school, as a school taught by a woman was then called, and after attending three terms at schools of this class, he was promoted to a "master's" school. Subsequently he was taught in Master Taylor's private school, from which he was transferred to Portland Acad emy, where among his fellow students were Henry W. Longfellow and his brother Ste phen, Edward Preble, son of the famous com modore, and William Brown, who became prominent in the south. At thirteen years of age, after being some time at the academy, he was sent to the Friends' Academy in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he attended some time, and then returned to Portland and again entered the academy, and after a year there, terminated his school life in 1820, when he was sixteen years of age. He much de sired to go to coUege, for which he had fitted, but his parents so strongly opposed this idea on account of the bad influences he would be subjected to, and because they thought that a college education was a device of the adver sary, that he had to abandon the project. Their objection, based probably on the latter reason, also prevented the gratification of his desire to study law. And so after a month or so of vacation, he went into his father's tan nery to make himself generally useful in the business. At the same time, however, he de termined to supplement his school acquire ments by a regular course of reading. This he was able to do and thus gratify his great fondness for books. He read the books in his father's library, borrowed from friends and spent his spare pocket money for books. Those he thus purchased were the foundation of a library which in his age compared fa vorably in number, variety, and quality of contents with any of the private collections in Maine. The habit of reading thus begun con tinued with him through life, and made him one of the best informed men in New Eng land. Mr. Dow's earhest business venture upon his own account was in 1821, when at seventeen years of age, accompanied by his cousin, John Hodgdon, then twenty-one years old, he went to Oldtown over the established stage routes and then up the Penobscot and Mattawamkeag rivers by bateau into the wilds of Aroostook county, where they surveyed land that had been bought by members of the family in which Mr. Dow had a one-third in terest purchased by his father for him. This was the first of numerous land transactions in which he was interested, many of them of considerable magnitude and profit. These lands, in the survey of which he spent some months, included, it seems, the present towns of Hodgdon and Linneus, in Aroostook county. After completing this work he traveled to Buffalo, then in the great "West," and to Montreal, New York city, and Philadelphia, making what at that time was considered a "grand tour," at the completion of which he returned to Portland, and was taken into the tanning business as a partner by his father. This co-partnership lasted until the death of the senior Dow in 1861. The style of the firm was Josiah Dow & Son, and in 1861, when Fred N. Dow, the grandson of the original proprietor of the business, was ad mitted as a partner, the firm name remained the same. In 1874, owing to the Ulness of Fred N. Dow, upon whom the general care of the business had devolved for years, the business was closed, which by the use of in tegrity, industry, economy, thrift and good judgment had been a paying one. At the time the business closed the firm name was the oldest in the city, the industry which it repre sented having been carried on by some mem ber of the family for more than seventy-five years, during which period it had successfully weathered every financial crisis, always pay ing dollar for dollar. Besides the business of tanning Neal Doyv had time, means and credit for outside matters of more or less local im portance, and some of them proved profitable. 294 STATE OF MAINE. When twenty-nine years of age he was made a bank director, and fiUed that position by suc cessive elections for over forty years. For years he was trustee of a savings bank, and for a while president of the Portland Gas light Company. Fle served also in the direc torate of a railroad, manufacturing and other corporations. In the early days of the Maine Central Railroad Company, of which he was a director, he was actively interested in its promotion, pledging to the success of the en terprise a large portion of the means and credit at his conimand. At its inception he was solicited to accept its superintendency, but did not feel inclined to tie himself so closely to business as such a position would .demand, and declined the offer pressed upon him by his associate directors. He gradually relin quished interest in business affairs, and retired from active connection wdth corporate man agement as his time and thought became more and more engaged in the subject with which his name was so closely connected and to which he gave so much of time and strength. Indeed, after 1851, his attention was largely diverted from business, as he was absent from home much of the time subsequent to that date, including more than three years at dif ferent times in Europe, and during the war for the Union. Hence his connection with gen eral business was never after 1857 much more than nominal. After attaining his majority Mr. Dow began to take that interest in town affairs which he retained till his death. Three years earlier, at the age of eighteen, he joined the volunteer fire department of Portland, and retained con nection with it more than twenty-five years. At that time, 1822, the department was a purely voluntary and largely a social and mu tual protection organization. That old fire department did not last long after he became connected with it. Shortly after he became of age he prepared a bUl which was enacted by the legislature, then in session in Portland, under which it was remodeled. The number of men connected with the department when at its best was about seven hundred. April 3, 1827, Mr. Dow was elected clerk at the first meeting of the "Deluge company," then having among its members many of the best men of the town. He served as clerk of the company four years, when he was chosen first director, or captain, acting in that capacity until April, 1837. In that year he was made chief of the department. He took great pride in making it thoroughly efficient, and was so far successful that in after years he wrote that he thought there was none in the country in proportion to numbers and extent and quality of apparatus superior to it. Its mem bers were picked men, rigidly disciplined and finely drilled. His connection with the de partment, and especially his serving as chief engineer, had something to do with his ac quiring a measure of local influence and a personal following of young, reliable men, then and afterwards made to serve the pro motion of temperance, in which subject he was already taking an interest. It was then the custom to celebrate anniversaries and other events wdth dinners, more or less formal. Liquors were always used at these celebra tions. Mr. Dow's first speech upon temper ance was made while he was a clerk in the Deluge company, in opposition to a motion to instruct the committee in charge of the pro posed celebration to provide liquors. The company adopted his views, "so far as I am aware," he writes, "it was the first affair of the kind in Portland from whicli liquors were excluded, and naturally attracted attention and excited a great deal of comment, favorable and otherwise — at first largely otherwise — among the firemen." Through his influence, and that of others, it became the rule to ex clude liquors from the entertainments of the various companies, many firemen becoming total abstainers. Mr. Dow was "fire-chief" for a number of years, and in every way the peer of any man who ever filled that office in Portland. His temperance views antagonized the liquor element, which made strenuous ef forts to oust him from office on various charges, but he always came out victor in these contests and was sustained by the elder men when charges were brought before them. In the campaign of 1828 Mr. Dow made his first political speech, as in that election he cast his first presidential vote. Speech and vote were both for Adams. His subsequent course through life in politics shows how strongly his desire to support the right ob tained, and how little he could be controUed by party policies which he did not favor. In the campaign of 1832, though heartily opposed to Jackson, he could not favor Clay, who was a pro-slavery man ; he therefore voted for the Antimasonic candidate. In 1836 he continued his general relations with the Whig party and was a supporter of Harrison. In 1837 he sup ported the Whig candidate, Edward Kent, who was elected governor of Maine. In the memorable campaign of 1840 he entered the contest with great earnestness and enthusiasm as a supporter of General Harrison for presi- STATE OF AlAINE. 295 dent and Edward Kent for governor. Both were elected, and Mr. Dow was appointed col onel on the staff of the latter, though he had never trained in the militia. In 1844, Whig as he was on all economic and administrative questions, he would not give his vote to Clay. Dueling, slavery, the annexation of Texas, were the disturbing points, and he acted with the Abolitionists, with whose horror of 'sla very he was in full sympathy. In 1848 he favored Van Buren as the Free-Soil candidate for president. In 1852 he did what he could in Maine for the "Whig candidate. General Scott, the friend of prohibition being under peculiar obligations to temperance Whigs who had supported at the polls the Democratic candidate for governor, because he had ap proved the Maine law. In 1856 the Republi can party, of which Neal Doyv yvas a charter member, had been formed, and he favored its candidate for president, Fremont. It was dur ing this campaign that he first met, as a Re publican, his friend, Hannibal Hamlin, who had recently abandoned the Democratic party. They addressed an immense meeting from the same platform. Their presence there had more than ordinary significance, and the great ovation accorded to each by the thousands that thronged the square was not altogether personal to either. Mr. Dow was in full sym pathy with the Republican party in i860, and participated with voice and pen in the cam paign resulting in the election of Lincoln. In 1864 he favored Lincoln as a matter of course, making particularly prominent the fact that if the north re-elected Lincoln it would greatly discourage the south. From 1864 up to and including the election of President flayes in 1876, he retained his connection wdth the Re publican party and supported its tickets, state and national, rendering from time to time such assistance as he could upon the platform and through the public press, his services by no means being confined to the state of Maine. In 1880 he was nominee for president of the Prohibition party. Before the assembling of its national convention at Cleveland, Ohio, it had been intimated to him that there was a disposition to make him the nominee of that organization for president. Where it was proper for him to do so, he expressed a hope that such action would not be taken. There were several reasons for his wish that some other choice mi.ght be made, one of which was that in his entire political life his name had been used in connection with his candidacy for official position, whether with or without ex pectation of attaining to such, only as it was supposed by friends of temperance that the cause in which they and he were alike inter ested might thus be served. In this instance he believed that any other name would answer as well as his around which to rally the few who had come to regard prohibition of the liquor traffic a national issue of paramount importance, and he yvas inclined to the opinion that he could better serve the general cause if unembarrassed by even a national candidacy for office. He was, however, persuaded that others should be permitted to finaUy pass upon that question. His name was presented to the convention by Hon. James Black, of Pennsyl vania, and he was unanimously nominated. Mr. Dow did not feel at liberty to decline the nomination, and accordingly accepted. Until 1880 Air. Dovvf had uniformly acted with the Republican party, supporting its nominations and advocating its principles from platform and through the press in his own and other states. He had, however, been ' dissatisfied with the action of the party in Alaine at times with reference to prohibition, and had become so much so that, with other temperance men who, up to that time, had been stalwart Re publicans, he refused to support his nominee for governor in 1880. By 1884 he had reached an age long past that at which most men interest themselves in public affairs. His views of what was wise and expedient, under all the circumstances, led him to devote him self wholly to securing as large a majority as possible for the prohibitory constitutional amendment which was then pending before the people of Maine. He sincerely desired the election of his long time friend, James G. Blaine, who was then the Republican candi date for president, but was unable, had he been disposed, to lend active assistance in the canvass. That was the last presidential elec tion in which he took more than a passing in terest. By 1888 his old time relations with the Republican party had been completely sev ered. He voted that year, as in 1892, the na tional ticket of the Prohibition party. Neal Dow was brought up in a famdy where he learned to do right because it is right. He early saw the evils of intemper ance, and joined the ranks of those who sought to promote moderate drinking; but it soon became apparent to him that total ab stinence was the only cure for the conditions that then cursed the country. Almost imme diately after his majority he joined the Maine Charitable Alechanics' Association, and did aU he could in that body in connection with others to remove the evils of intemperance. March 296 STATE OF MAINE. 31, 1833, he assisted in the organization of "The Portland Young Men's Temperance So ciety." During the first three years of the life of this society over thirteen hundred signed the pledge, among whom was the poet, Henry W. Longfellow. Mr. Dow later became secre tary of this society. In 1834, as a delegate from this society, he took part in the first state gathering in behalf of temperance ever held in Maine. "By this time," he writes, "al most unconsciously, I had become so fully identified with the reform as to be in the way of knowing most of what was being done if not actually taking part in it. To the best of my recollection, however, my purpose at that time did not extend beyond my desire to as sist in correcting the evils apparent in the city of Pordand." About 1835 he began to feel that he had a special duty to perform in this line, that his field of labor ought to in clude the state, and the idea of prohibition was developed. February 2, 1837, Mr. Dow was one of those who formed at Augusta "The Maine Temperance Union," "upon the principle of total abstinence from aU that in toxicates." The organization of the Union may fairly be regarded as the first in the series of progressive movements resulting in the en actment, in 185 1, of what has since been known as "The Maine Law." For s, fourteen years it maintained its existence, the recog nized head of all public temperance effort in the state. Its last annual meeting was held in 1850, at which time Mr. Dow was elected its president. In the years of its existence Mr. Dow and those associated with him carried on a campaign of education and waged a cease less war against the liquor traffic. Its results are known to the present generation, but for an understanding of the early conditions, the methods of that warfare and the work neces sary to accomplish the results that finally ac crued, they can best know by reading that great record of the temperance movement in Alaine, entitled "The Reminiscences of Neal Dow." In the spring of 1841 the Washing- tonian reform, wdiich had been started in Bal timore in 18^0, reached Portland. In Alay some working men, friendly to temperance, invited many men of their acquaintance to meet at a specified time in a room occupied by Mr. Dow as chief engineer of the fire department. The meeting was a success, and in a short time from Portland Washingtonianism spread throughout the state and did much good. In 1841, following the inauguration of the Wash- ingtonian Alovement in Portland, a "Young Men's Total Abstinence Society" was organ ized. Like the Washingtonian movement, this society had its inception in the fire de partment, and it included many of the mem bers of that body. Mr. Dow did not join this society, but took an interest in inducing young men to become connected with it. In 1849 the legislature passed a bill which would en able the authorities to "ferret out and sup press the grog shops," as Mr. Dow expressed it. Governor Dana vetoed this bill. Subse quently Mr. Dow wrote a series of articles, analyzing and explaining its features. His nomination for the mayoralty of Portland fol lowed in 1 85 1, on the theory of the temper ance people that his nomination and election, because of his thorough identification with the policy of prohibition, would be of great ad vantage to the movement. The campaign was spirited, and at the election which foUowed Mr, Dow lacked eleven votes of an election. There was no choice of a candidate. Another election was held, and Mr. Dow was made mayor by a larger vote than had ever before been given to a candidate for mayor of Port land, and by a majority which had been ex ceeded but twice in its history. His election was naturally regarded as a district triumph of the temperance element of the city. He was inaugurated April 24, 1851. After redrawing the prohibitory bill whicli he had advocated before the last legislature, Mr. Dow had it introduced in the legislature, where it was passed by the two houses and received the governor's signature early in June, and thus the "Maine Liquor Law" began its existence. This legislation was far in advance of any thing of the kind previously enacted in this country, and its beneficent effects are to-day apparent in the prosperous condition of Maine people. This was a proud day for Alavor Dow, and his successful efforts for prohibitive legislation were hailed with delight by tem perance people the world over. In closing his explanation of the features of his bill to the joint special committee of the house and sen ate. Mayor Dow had closed with the pledge: "If you will enact this bill, the sun shall not rise on Portland, January, 1852, and find there a single open grog-shop." And he kept his word; long before the time then specified every dealer, wholesale or retail, had gone out of business, and no liquor selling was carried on except in a petty, surreptitious way. Over three hundred retail liquor shops and several wholesale establishments were simultaneously put out of business. Within a comparatively few months after the enactment of the Maine Law a considerable portion of the state, in- STATE OF MAINE. 297 eluding most of the larger towns, was prac ticahy free from the liquor traffic. The change for the better, substantially through out Maine, was marvelous, apparent not only in a decrease of drunkenness and of the long and varied list of disturbance, which radiate from the saloon, but in evidences of industry, thrift and material prosperity rewarding well directed labor. Mr. Dow was renominated for the mayoralty, his opponent claiming that the prohibitory law had been too strictly enforced. The Democratic vote was abnormally large, and Air. Dow was defeated. It was claimed by many, among them the Hon. W. W. Thom as, that hundreds of illegal votes were cast in opposition to Mr. Dow and caused his defeat. Neal Dow was known now throughout the land and in foreign countries as the apostle of temperance. Immediately after his defeat he accepted invitations to speak, and filled ap pointments for three months in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Mich igan, yvhere he received ovations from the temperance people. Early in January, 1853, he again left Maine and made a speaking tour, during which he addressed a committee of the legislature of Neyv York in Representatives' Hall at Albany, which was crowded. He also spoke at other points in New York, in New Jersey, and in Maryland and Pennsylvania, addressing the legislature of the last two states. Later he spoke in Rhode Island, Ohio and Michigan, flis reception in Michigan was peculiarly enthusiastic. He also made a tour in Canada which included Montreal and Quebec. In September, 1853, he was a dele gate to the World's Temperance Convention in the city of New York, a large and influ ential gathering, including dele.gates not only from many of the states of the Union and British Provinces, but from Great Britain as well. He was made president of that body. Subsequently he went to Pennsylvania, where he spent a month, constantly speaking, often twice a day, and later yet spoke for some time in Massachusetts. In January, 1854, Mr. Dow again went forth to discuss temperance and did not return to Portland till the day of elec tion of mayor. In the meantime he had been nominated for the mayoralty, and in- the spirited contest that followed his opponent won by one hundred and three votes. In 1855 Mr. Dow was nominated as the candidate of the Republicans of Portland for mayor, and his election followed. Out of a tiDtal of 3,742 votes, his majority was forty-six. His ad ministration of the prohibition law was no less strict than formerly. The opposition started an agitation which ended in a riot, bloodshed, and the death of one or more persons. Out of this grew opposition to the temperance cause in the state, and the Maine Law was repealed, then re-enacted two years later, and stands to-day as a monument to Mr. Dow and his co-laborers who never remitted their ef forts to again place it on the statute books and elect men to insure its support. Mayor Dow passed nearly four years in Great Britain. He was there from April to November in 1857; from May, 1866, to November, 1867, and again from April, 1873, to May, 1875, a few weeks only out of each of these periods being deducted for continental sight-seeing. Each of those visits was made at the invitation of the United Kingdom Alliance. That great and influential society was formed in 1853 in con sequence of the adoption of the Maine Law, to aid in obtaining similar legislation in Great Britain. Mr. Dow was informed that letters written by him, in 1852 and 1853, to prom inent and philanthropic Englishmen in their own country were useful in promoting its or ganization. The object of his visits was to explain to the English people the principles on which the policy of prohibition was found ed and show its results. Its labors were very successful, and he was everywhere received as the world's temperance leader. Want of space forbids further mention in this article of his work in Britain. The services of Neal Dow to his country men have been very justly said to be second only to those of Washington and Lincoln. He early became imbued with a desire to promote the right. The restriction of the liquor traf fic seemed to him to be necessary. He began to agitate for it, and in a few years he found himself giving almost his entire attention to it. His field widened, and his combative nature being now fully aroused, he made prohibition the mission of his life, and achieved the splen did success which is attested in the mighty temperance movement of to-day, the immedi ate origin of which can be traced back to the works of Neal Dow and his temperance work ers in Portland. He was an earnest, active and radical anti-slavery man, enjoyed the friendship and acquaintance of the leaders in that movement, and gave the abolition cause his best support. It was no more than was to be expected that he, with his well known moral and physical courage, would take an ac tive part in the war for the Union. He wrote extensively for the press of Great Britain, ex plaining the causes and object of the war, and his communications were extensively circu- STATE OF MAINE. lated throughout that country, being published in many of the leading journals of the United Kingdom, and had much to do in arousing that Union sentiment among the middle class es of the country that prevented the British government from recognizing the indepen dence of the south. In 1861 he was commis sioned colonel and raised the Thirteenth Maine Regiment and a battery of artillery for the service of the United States. He took command of the regiment, which was one of the best drilled that Maine sent to the front, and composed of as fine a lot of young men as there was in the state. There w^as no drunken ness in that regiment, swearing was prohibited, and every evening at dress parade, so long as Colonel Dow remained with it, there were re ligious exercises, singing and prayers before the parade was dismissed. He took his regiment to Ship Island, where he remained until May 19, 1862, when he received his commission as brigadier-general. He was in conimand at Ship Island for a time, and was then trans ferred to Fort St. Philip, and from thence was sent to Pensacola, where he was in command for some time. In the latter part of January, 1863, he was assigned to the command of the defences of New Orleans at CarroUton, and remained there in the discharge of the ordi nary duties pertaining to such a position untU the 2 1 St of next May. On that date, in pur suance of orders, he moved his brigade to Port Hudson, in the assault upon which a few days later he led his troops. While thus en gaged he was struck by a spent ball upon the arm, which was rendered useless by the blow, causing him to lose control of his horse. Dis mounting, he proceeded on foot until he was disabled by a rifle ball, which passed through his left thigh, two-thirds above the knee. This completely disabled him, and he was helped to the rear. In this, assault, in the expediency of which General Dow had no faith, the troops under his command behaved like vet erans, but the attack was a failure, as it was foredoomed to be. While recovering from his wounds at a house about three-quarters of a mile from his brigade encampment. Gen eral Dow was captured by a small squad of daring Confederates, June .-^o, 1863. He was imprisoned in Richmond and in Alobile a little over eight months, and was exchanged for General Fitzhu.gh Lee, Alarch 14, 1864. While being taken through the south he learned much of value to the Union cause which he communicated to the National government by means of letters written to friends in invisible ink. On his return to Portland General Dow was escorted to his home by a body of soldiers and a great throng of citizens. On the next evening he was tendered a formal welcome at the City FlaU, and responded in a speech which occupied about five columns in the pa pers. The crowd at the hall was of unpre cedented size in Portland. The general's speech was published far and wide, and he was overwhelmed with invitations to speak in aU parts of the north. These he was obliged to decline on account of the run-down condi tion of his health from the effects of exposure and hardships. After the close of the war, during which General Dow's activity for tem perance and prohibition were suspended, he resumed his labor in their behalf as soon as the attention of the people could be drawn from wholesale slaughter to their own moral welfare. Two of his visits to Great Britain were made after the war, and occupied sub stantially three years and a half. "With the exception of the time thus spent abroad. Gen eral Dow gave himself unreservedly to his chosen life work in the country until he reached the age of ninety. In the prosecution of his labors he traveled east as far as New foundland, and west to San Francisco, and his presence was a famUiar one upon plat forms in many cities between those extremes, and through his constant and voluminous cor respondence for the public press, his views upon his favorite topic and other subjects of general interest were made known to the English-speaking world. To the work of this description he added that necessary to keep himself thoroughly informed upon all im portant current events in every part of the globe. He knew no idle moments, and until the last year of his life, when he was com pelled to spare his eyes in the evening, he was constantly busy with book or pen, when not otherwise employed, whUe his varied daUy em ployments were such as would have exhausted a man of average strength, his junior by a score of years. The ninetieth anniversary of General Dow's birth, March 20, 1894, at the suggestion of Miss Frances E. WiUard, and through the co-operation with her of the tem perance organizations generally, was made the occasion for congratulations upon his distin guished services, his long life and his remark ably preserved health and strength. His home was thronged throughout the day with his fel low townsmen, and with those from distant towns and other states, who called to pay their respects. It is questionable if any other citi zen in private life, who had never held high official position, has been the recipient upon STATE OF MAINE. 299 such an occasion of so many congratulatory letters, telegrams, and cable messages as then poured in upon General Dow from every quar ter of the globe. In the evening a great meet ing presided over by the mayor was held in the City Hall, which was crowded in every part. Congradulatory speeches were made by distinguished persons and an admirer of Gen eral Dow presented an oU painting of him to the state. At this time General Dow, though wonder fully preserved in mind and body, recognized that his working days were nearly over. He continued to appear occasionaUy in public, making several speeches, in one or two in stances traveling many miles for the purpose, and speaking at some length. His last ad dress was made about a year before his ninety-second birthday. Great physical weak ness finally forced him into complete retire ment at his home, where he kept informed on current events until the last week of his life. When nearly seventy-five years of age Gen eral Dow began the preparation of an account of the growth of the cause of temperance and prohibition with which he had been identified. He worked on this as he was able in the brief and infrequent intervals of leisure which he found, until the closing months of the -last year of his life. From the amount of matter he thus prepared the book entitled "The Rem iniscences of Neal Dow, Recollections of Eighty Years," was compiled, and published in 1898. This volume gives a vivid account of the life and experiences of its author and of the men and measures which finally estab Ushed the prohibitory law. General Dow diet! October 2, 1897, in the ninety-fourth year of his age. His funeral was the occasion of another great gathering of those who wished to manifest their respect for the great prohibition leader. With impos ing ceremonies his body was placed to rest in Evergreen cemetery. A morning paper on the day following his funeral said : "Many distin guished men and women were present to do honor to General Dow's memory, but the most noticeable feature of the occasion was the very large attendance of people in aU walks of life who came to shoyv heartfelt re spect to the memory of the man who was dear to them because of the cause he championed." Neal Dow married, January 20, 1830, Maria Cornelia Durant, bom in Boston, June 18, 1808, daughter of John and Mary (Durant) Maynard. (See Ala'ynard VII.) She died in Portland, January 13, 1883. She became a member of the Old South Congregational Church in Boston at sixteen years of age, was later a member of the High Street Church in Portland, and finally of State Street Church, of which she was a member at the time of her death. She was a devout Christian and well known for her works of charity. Suffer ing and sickness among the poor within the range of her observation were never left un noticed or unrelieved by her when her assist ance would avail. She was a true wife and noble woman, a faithful temperance worker, and enhsted the aid of many other women in the cause of temperance. Nine children were born of this union. Of these Edward, Henry, Josiah, and Russell Congdon died when about two years of age, and Frank Allen died in 1865, when eighteen years of age. Louisa Dwight, the eldest child, born March 23, 1831, married the late Hon. Jacob Benton, of Lan caster, New Hampshire, where she resided tUl her death, December 7, 1895. The third child and second daughter, Emma Maynard, married William E. (5ould, of Portland, and resides in Boston. The only surviving son, Frederick N., is the subject of the next para graph. The youngest daughter, Cornelia Maria, died unmarried in Portland, October 12, 1905. (XI) Frederick Neal, son of Neal and Maria Cornelia Durant (Alaynard) Dow, was born in Portland, December 23, 1840. He was educated in the Portland Academy, the Port land high school, and the Friends' school in Providence, Rhode Island. He inherited from his father and grandfather a love for books and study, and supplemented his school course with systematic and extensive reading. At sixteen years of age he left school and took a place in the tannery established by his grand father. In this occupation he served in every capacity from apprentice to managing partner. In 1 86 1, on the death of his grandfather, Jo siah Dow, he became his father's partner, and soon afterward manager of the business, re taining that place until it was closed in 1874, on account of his failing health. In 1861, at the outbreak of the civU war, he volunteered in the first company of militia which offered its services in the state of Alaine, but, as al ready stated in this sketch, his father's en trance into the army necessitated the son's remaining at home. Mr. Dow's interest in politics, brought up as he was in the family of one of the most active of political char acters, began at an early age; and in debates in the Lyceum and in contributions to the press, his opinions found their way to the public ear and eye. His participation in actual 300 STATE OF MAINE. political campaigning began when he attained his majority, and has ever since continued. In 1867 he was chosen a member of the city government of Portland, and was re-elected in 1868. In the same year he was elected a member of the superintending school com mittee, and served thereon until 1873, when he declined re-election on account of the amount of his private business. In 1871 he was appointed aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Perham. The following year he was elected a member of the executive councU of Maine. He was re elected in 1873-74, being chairman of that body in the latter year. During his service as a member of the council he was particularly interested in the Reform School, and to his efforts, as much as to any other agency, is to be attributed the substitution of the reforma tory for the ceU and penal system, which until that time had been features of that institution. In 1874 the Republicans of Cumberland county unanimously nominated him for the state sen ate, but factional differences in the party pre vented his election. In 1876 he was appointed by Governor Dingley as one of the commis sioners from Alaine to the Centennial Expo sition at Philadelphia. In the same year he was made a member of the Republican state committee. To this place he was annually re elected up to and including the year 1892. In 1880 he was a delegate at large to the Re publican National convention at Chicago. On the retirement of James G. Blaine from the chairmanship of the Republican state com mittee, Mr. Dow was chosen chairman of its executive committee, and on the retirement of Senator Frye he became chairman of the gen eral committee. On the death of Hon. Lot M. Morrill, collector of the port of Portland, Mr. Dow was warmly recommended by the people of Portland and the state generally, without regard to party affiliations, to fill the vacancy, and receiving the appointment from President Arthur, February 9, 1883, he entered upon the discharge of the duties of the office and served until 1885, when he was removed by President Cleveland on the ground of "offen sive partisanship." Mr. Dow was one of the principal promoters of the measures in 1886, which resulted in the general organization of permanent political clubs through the country. He became the first president of the Portland Club, which was the first of its kind in the state and the second in the country. He was also the first president of the Maine State League of Republican Clubs. In the autumn of 1886 he was unanimously nominated for the legislature by the Republicans of Port land, and was elected by a larger majority than any of his associates on the ticket. He served during the session as a member of the judiciary, and chairman of the library com mittee. Two years later he was re-elected, was unanimously nominated speaker by his fellow Republicans, and elected. In 1889, when Benjamin Harrison became president, the friends of Mr. Dow began to agitate the question of his restoration to the collectorship from which he had been removed, but Mr. Dow refused to indorse any movement of that kind untU the expiration of the term for which his successor had been appointed. In October, 1890, he received his nomination from Presi dent Harrison, and was at once confirmed by the senate without the usual formality of a reference to the committee. This position he held until 1895. In 1874 Mr. Dow read law in the office of Generals James D. and Frank Fessenden, and was later admitted to the bar, but the amount of other business he had on his hands left him no time to attend to a law practice, and he gave it up. About 1886, with James G. Blaine and others. Air. Dow became interested in the Evening Express, making it an earnest Republican organ and widely ex tending its circulation and influence. He is now president of the Evening Express Pub lishing Company, a director of the Casco Loan and Building Association, president of the Portland Loan and Building Association, president of the Portland Gas Light Company, president of the Casco National Bank, presi dent of the Union Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and was formerly a director of the Portland & Ogdensbury Railroad Company and of the Commercial Union Telegraph (Com pany. Mr. Dow's many enterprises compel him to be one of Portland's busiest of business men, and few men are more constantly em ployed or make longer days than he. From his youth Mr. Dow has showed great energy of character, and as soon as he had opportu nity it became apparent that he had executive ability of a high order. These qualifications, associated with that somewhat rare quahty called common sense, made him successful. In politics his abUity was early recognized, and he became one of the foremost leaders of the Republican party in Maine. In his con duct of political campaigns in the state, espe cially in that of 1882, his aptitude for organ ization and management of details commanded the attention of all the public men of the state. As speaker of the house he enjoyed the con fidence and respect . of his associates who. STATE OF MAINE. 301 without regard to party, testified of his abil ity and impartiality as a presiding officer. Naturally retiring in disposition, his promin ence and official positions have resulted rather from force of circumstances than from self seeking. He has always refused to be a can didate for office untU his friends could con vince him that there were sound reasons for the ineffectiveness of any personal wish of himself. His loyalty to his friends would never permit any fancy of his own to inter fere with their aspirations. These considera tions have led him to refuse influential tenders of support for mayoralty, congressional and gubernatorial nominations, repeatedly urged upon him. He is a man of strong convic tions and progressive ideas on all public ques tions, and one whose integrity of character in aU the relations of life have won the confi dence of this community. But with all his po- htical activity he has never allowed political differences to disturb personal relations, and it has often been said that he has at once more earnest political opponents and friends than any other man in Portland. He has a pleasing personality, is dignified in manner, but always affable and courteous. His ten acious memory is well stored with historical facts, and has made him a man of wide and accurate information in regard to public men and affairs. He has a lively sense of humor and a ready wit which render him an agree able conversationalist and companion. As a public speaker he commands a copious fund of forcible and polished language, but depends more upon a logical statement of facts for ef fect than upon oratorical flights. In religious faith he is an Orthodox Congregationalist of broad and liberal views. At Dunstan, eight miles from Portland, Mr. Dow has a commo dious and handsomely furnished summer resi dence, where he obtains recreation. X^earby is his large farm, conducted in a systematic business-like way. Colonel Dow married, October 22, 1864, Julia D., born July 18, 1839, daughter of WiU iam and Abigail (Brown) flammond, of Port land. They have two children : William H., who is next mentioned, and Marion Durant, born August 24, 1870, who married William Colby Eaton, of Portland. (XII) WiUiam Hammond, only son of Col onel Frederick N. and Julia Dana (Ham mond) Dow, was born in Portland, Decem ber 25, 1866, and was educated in the Portland public schools and at the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, graduating from the latter school. The two following years he spent in the employ of WUliam Engel & Com pany, lumber manufacturers, at Bangor. In 1893 he became circulation manager of the Evening Express Publishing Company, of Portland, and filled that position until he be came business manager, a place he still holds. He has a live interest in politics and the mu nicipal affairs of the city, and has served three years as a Republican in the common council, 1895-98, one year of which time he was presi dent of the council. Fle was a member of the board of aldermen two years, being chairman of the board one year. He has taken a lead ing part in affairs of common interest to the newspaper publishers of the state, and is sec retary of the Maine Newspaper Publishers' Association, 1906-07. He is a member of the Maine Charitable Alechanic Association, the Portland Society of Natural History, the Port land Society of Art, the Young Alen's Christian Association, Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Portland Club, the Port land Economic Club, and the Portland Country Club. Mr. Dow married, June 16, 1897, Kate Turner, born in Pordand, January 19, 1871, daughter of Leander A. and Mary Frances (Turner) Wade, of Portland. They have two chUdren: Katherine Maynard, March i, 1900; and Neal, May 11, 1907, both natives of Port land. (For preceding generations see John Dow I.) (IV) Thomas Dow, eldest son of DOW Henry and Elizabeth Dow, was an early settler of Newbury, Massa chusetts, and one of the original grantees, a farmer, and removed thence to Haverhill, where he died May 31, 1654, at the age of about thirty-nine years. His will was made two days before his death and was proved April 8, 1656. He left a widow, Phebe, and children John, Thomas, Stephen, Mary and Martha. The widow was married November 20, 1661, in HaverhUl, to John Eaton, of Hav erhUl. (V) Stephen, third son and child of Thom as and Phebe Dow, was born March 29, 1642, in X^ewbury, and subscribed to the freeman's oath in Haverhill in 1688. He died in that town July 3, 1 71 7. His wiU was made on the first day of that month and was proved on the seventeenth. He married (first) Sep tember 16, 1663, in Haverhih, Anne Storie, of Salem, and she died February, 1715. He mar ried (second) February 7, 1716, Joanna Hutchins. She survived him more than sev enteen years, and died October 29, 1734. His children, all by first wife, were : Ruhamah, 302 STATE OF MAINE. Samuel, Hannah, Stephen, Martha and John. (VI) Stephen (2), second son and fourth child of Stephen ( i ) and Anne ( Storie) Dow, was born September 10, 1670, in HaverhUl, died June, 1743, at Haverhill. He married, December 14, 1697, Mary Hutchins. Chil dren : Timothy, Nathaniel, AprU, Elizabeth, Richard, Joanna, David, Jonathan and Ste phen. (VII) Richard, son of Stephen (2) and Mary (Hutchins) Dow, was born February 15, 1706, in HaverhUl, died 1786. He was there married, February 28, 1728, to Phoebe Heath. She was born June 25, 1705, in Hav erhill, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Brad ley) Heath. Richard Dow lived in that part of Haverhill which was cut off in 1741 from Massachusetts, and became a part of New Hampshire. The records of Salem, New Hampshire, show the births of the following children of Richard and Phoebe (Heath) Dow : Reuben, Oliver, Richard and Asa. (VIII) Oliver, second son and child of Richard and Phoebe (Heath) Dow, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, July 28, 1736, died at WaterviUe, Maine, December 18, 1824. He resided in Salem, New Hampshire, from whence he removed to Hopkinton in 1773; in 1790 he returned to Salem, and in 1820 re moved to Waterville. Enlisting in 1756, he served during the colonial wars at Crown Point and elsewhere, also during the revolu tion, and was lieutenant in Colonel Thomas Stickney's regiment in 1776; was at Ticon deroga in 1777, in Rhode Island the same year, and in 1781 was in Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond's regiment of New Hampshire troops. He held offices in Salem and Hop kinton, and joined the Congregational church in 1758. In 1766 he signed the remonstrance against the /Vnabaptists. Ele married Hannah Pattee, born December 7, 1737, died March 17, 1820. Children: Phoebe, Hannah, Oliver, EUice, Levi, Simeon, Plienie and Lavinia. (IX) Levi, son of Oliver (2) and Hannah (Pattee) Dow, was born March 25, 1771, died March 27, 1849. He married, June 19, 1801, Catherine Whipple, of Boston, who died June 8, 1818. Married (second) July 18, 1819, Elizabeth McC. Horton, of Milton, Massachu setts, who was born April 7, 1791, died Octo ber II, 1864. Mr. Dow resideil in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts, where he owned a coal and wood wharf on South street, moving to Waterville, Maine, in August, 1820. In religious belief he was a Universalist. Children by first wife : Levi, ¦Charles, William H., Thomas A., Elizabeth, Catherine, Charlotte, Charlotte Augusta. By the second wife: Mary, George Sylvanus Cobb, John Randolph, Albert Marshall and Marshall Adams. (X) George Sylvanus Cobb, son of Levi and Elizabeth McC. (Horton) Dow, was born October 24, 1821, at WaterviUe, Alaine, and died June 23, 1888, at Delaware Water Gap. He resided in Maine, Boston, Massachusetts, Davenport, Iowa, New York City, removing to Bangor, Maine, in 1879. He was engaged in the dry goods business, firm of Dow & Lyon, Bangor, untU 1852; then read law in Poughkeepsie Law School, New York; prac ticed in Davenport, Iowa, the firm being Cor bin & Dow, which was also engaged in bank ing and real estate business. Together with the late Austin Corbin, of New York, and the late Dr. Burtis, of Iowa, founded the First National Bank of Davenport, Iowa, the first bank opened under the national banking act in 1S63. He was later associated with Austin Corbin in New York from 1874 to 1879, dur ing which the Manhattan Beach hotel proper ties, the Long Island railroad, were developed by the Corbin Banking Company, which also first established the western real estate-mort gage-loan business. Mr. Dow was a Unitar ian, and a Jacksonian Democrat. He married, December 5, 1843, at Bangor, Maine, Eliza beth Charlotte, born August 29, 1825, daugh ter of Samuel and Charlotte (Heald) Syl vester. ChUdren: i. Ada Horton, born March 6, 1846, at Bangor, Maine, where she resides. Educated at private schools, including Dr. Gannett's at Boston. 2. Herbert George, born August 22, 1854, at Davenport, Iowa, died at Brooklyn, New York, March 13, 1878. He was valedictorian at Swarthmore College, in 1875, from which institution he received the degree of A. B., and was also a graduate of Flarvard University in 1877, prominent in athletics, president of the Pi Eta Club, and class-day marshal at Harvard. 3. Richard Sylvester. (XI) Richard Sylvester, youngest son and child of George Sylvanus Cobb and Elizabeth Charlotte (Sylvester) Dow, was born May 2, 1864, in Davenport, Iowa. Educated in pri vate schools and at Swarthmore Preparatory; he spent two years at Harvard Law School, received the degree of LL. B. from Boston University Law School in 1894, and is a mem ber of the Suffolk (Alassachusetts) bar. He votes with the Republican party, and attends the Unitarian church. He married, October 12, 1886, at Bangor, Maine, Abbie Jenness, daughter of James Fredand Rawson (see STATE OF MAINE. 303 Rawson), a lawyer who received the degree •of A. M. from Union College in 1884. Chil- ¦dren: i. and 2. George Herbert and Rawson (twins), born August 7, 1887, died August .21, 1887. 3. Marion, born July 17, 1888, at Bangor, Maine. 4. Dorothy, born December 22, 1890, at Brookline, Massachusetts. 5. Elsie, born January 26, 1898, at Boston, Mas sachusetts. Richard Silvester, who was the first Ameri- ¦can ancestor of Mrs. Elizabeth Charlotte Dow, ¦came from England to Weymouth and Scitu ate, Massachusetts, and died in Marshfield, Massachusetts, September, 1663. He left Weymouth because of religious views, which were considered too broad. The name of his wife was Emeline, and secondly, Naomi Tor rey, of Weymouth. John, son of Richard and Emeline Silvester, was born March 14, 1634, and died between September 12 and 20, 1706, at Alarblehead, Massachusetts. His wife's name was Sarah. Samuel, son of John and Sarah SUvester, was born in 1676, and died in 1834, being baptized October 3, 1676. His wife was Lu cretia, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Joyce, whom he married October 19, 1700, and died at Marshfield, Massachusetts. Joshua, son of Samuel and Lucretia (Joyce) Silvester, was born April 5, 1708, in [IVIarsh- field, baptized June 27, 1708, and the name of his wife was Mary. The first chUd was born at Pownalborough, now Wiscasset, Maine, in 1739- Samuel (2), son of Joshua and Mary SU vester, was born December 20, 1743, at Pow nalborough, died in 1791 ; married, April 24, 1766, Mary Horner, fle was a cordwainer, and resided at Wiscasset, Maine. WUliam, son of Samuel (2) and Mary (Horner) SUvester, was born October 5, 1766, and died September 27, 1826. He married, in 1788, Mary, daughter of Ephraim Brown, of Stowe, Alassachusetts, who was born in 1771, and died in 1847. Ephraim Brown was a great-great-grandson, on his mother's side, of Jonathan Fairbanks, of Dedham, Massa chusetts, whose house, the oldest in the coun try, StiU stands there, William resided at Norridgewock, Maine, where he held offices, being for many years a justice of the peace, was representative to the general court of Massachusetts in 1813-14-15; was selectman and assessor of Norridgewock in 1791-1802- 13. He laid out the first road to Canada through Maine ; built the first bridge over the Kennebec, October 31, 1810; joined the church in 1797; his wife in 1801. Samuel (3) Sylvester, son of WiUiam and Alary ( Brown ) Silvester, was born Deceinber 7, 1792, and died February 20, 1869. He mar ried, December 20, 1817, Charlotte, daughter of Timothy Heald, of Winslow, Alaine, wdio was born June 18, 1797, and died June 29, 1875- He was stationed at Fort Edgecomb, near Wiscasset, in the war of 1812, and held the rank of major. He was a merchant and a Congregationalist. Children of Samuel and Charlotte (Heald) Sylvester: i. and 2. Albert Gallatin and Alfred Goldburn (twins), born April 20, 1820. 3. Benjamin Franklin, De cember 24, 1821. 4. Ehza Charlotte, (Mrs. George S. C. Dow), August 29, 1825. 5. Harriet Stodder, May 8, 1831, married John W. Tufts. 6. Anna Maria, June 13, 1833, married N. H. Dillingham. 7. William Gus tavus, August 25, 1835. 8. Carolyn SawteUe, October 13, 1839, married P. R. Sabin, of Camden, Maine. 9. Frances Louise, August 23, 1843, widow of Parker Erskine; resides in Wiscasset, Alaine. Airs. Dow, Mrs. Sabin and Mrs. Erskine are the only living members of the family of nine (1908). The Rawson genealogy shows among its members Edward Rawson, last secretary of the old Bay State, and first secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and other men of prominence in Massachusetts, includ ing Dr. Freeland, serving in the American army during the revolution. Among the Eng lish ancestors was the sister of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Grindall, who was the tutor of Queen Elizabeth. James Freeland Rawson married, at Bangor, March 9, 1858, Sarah Deborah, born February 9, 183 1, daugh ter of Thomas Jenness, of New Hampshire, and Mary (True) Jenness, also of New Hampshire. They had two children : Mary Jenness Rawson, born October 16, 1859, at Bangor, and died at Boston, November 26, 1903 ; and Abbie Jenness Rawson. Thomas Jenness and Mary True were married Feb ruary 4, 1830, and moved to Bangor before 1 83 1, where he engaged in the hardware busi ness, and resided there till his death, August 5, 1864. His widow died March 16, 1892, and they had two chUdren : Mrs. James Free- land Rawson, and John S. Jenness, born Oc tober 21, 1836, at Bangor, who, after gradu ating at the Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge in 1858, with the degree of S. B., entered the business with his father, the firm name being Thomas Jenness & Son. He con tinued to reside in Bangor, unfnarried, untU his death, November 15, 1896. 304 STATE OF MAINE. Air. EUery Bicknell Crane, in RAWSON his excellent genealogy of the Rawson family in America, states that this surname was, in all probability, originally spelled Raufeson (Ralph's son). The present form of spelling was in use dur ing the reign of Richard II. The Rawson coat-of-arms, the existence of which attests the fact that the family is descended from dis tinguished ancestors, is composed of "an es cutcheon, representing the old knightly shield, the lower half (sable) black, the upper half (azure) blue ; in the centre of the shield is a castle, with four towers in gold ; crest (placed over), a raven's head, black; bearing on the neck drops of gold, one and two ; erased, on a wreath; in the beak a ring of gold. The mot to underneath, 'Laus virtutis actio', may be freely rendered, 'The deed of bravery is its own praise.' " (I) Edward Rawson, of GUlingham, coun ty of Dorset, England, born April i6, 1616, came to New England in 1636, and became one of the grantees of Newbury, Massachu setts, where he settled. His parents were people of intelligence and high standing, and his mother, who was before marriage Marga ret Wilson, was a sister of the distinguished Rev. John Wilson, the first minister in Bos ton. In addition to serving as a selectman in Newbury he was chosen town clerk, being the second to hold that office ; acted as public no tary and register, also as commissioner and attorney for the trial of small causes, and was a member of several important town com mittees. In 1638, when but twenty-three years old, he was elected a deputy to the general court, and was several times re-elected to serve in that capacity. In 1645 be was chosen clerk of the house of deputies, and from 1650 to 1686 he served with marked abUity as sec retary of the colony. His official duties hav ing necessitated his removal to Boston, he es tablished his residence in what was for at least one hundred and fifty years afterwards known as Rawson's Lane (now Bromfield street), and he died there August 27, 1693. He was actively interested in promoting the manufac ture of gunpowder in New England, and as a reward for his various public services re ceived large grants of land from the general court. Edward Rawson and his wife were among the original members of the Old South Church, organized in 1669. The maiden name of his wife, whom he married in England, was Rachel Perne, and she bore him twelve chil dren. I. A daughter, left in England. 2. Edward, graduated from Harvard* College, 1653 ; entered the ministry, and was settled in Horsmonden, county 'of Kent, England, in 1655. 3. Rachel, married William Aubrey, a merchant of Boston, January 18, 1653. 4- David, bom Alay 6, 1644; went to England. 5. Mary Perne, born May 14 or 16, 1646; married Rev. Samuel Torrey, May, 1657; she died September 10, 1692; he died AprU 21, 1707. 6. Susan, died in Roxbury, in 1654. 7. WiUiam. 8. Rebecca, born October 19, 1654, died young. 9. Rebecca, born May 23, 1656; married Thomas Rumsey, July i, 1679; died at Port Royal, 1692. 10. Elizabeth, born No vember 12, 1657; married Thomas Broughton, of Boston. II. John, went to England, and did not return. 12. Grindal, born January 23, 1658; married Susanna WUson; died Febru ary 6, 1715. (II) William, third son and seventh child of Edward and Rachel (Perne) Rawson, was born in Boston, May 21, 1651. He became a prominent Boston merchant, dealing chiefly in dry goods which he imported from the mother country, and on July 11, 1673, he mar ried Anne Glover, only daughter of .Xathaniel and Mary (Smith) Glover, of Dorchester. She was a niece of John Glover, one of the original settlers in Dorchester, and a man of prominence in the early history of the colony. In 1689 he moved to Dorchester, locating upon a portion of the "Newbury farm," inherited by his wife, and he subsequently removed to an estate in Braintree, which he purchased of the heirs of his great-uncle, the [Rev. John Wilson. This estate, which is situated in the immediate vicinity of the Neponset bridge, adjoining the homestead of the late Hon. Jo siah Quincy, he occupied for nearly forty years, or until his death, and it descended from father to son unto the fifth generation. Will iam Rawson died September 20, 1726, and his wife died about 1730, aged seventy-four years. They were the parents of twenty chil dren : I. Ann, born April 11, 1674; died in infancy. 2. WUson, born 1675 ; died in infancy. 3. Margaret, born August i, 1676; died in in fancy. 4. Edward, born September 6, 1677; died in infancy. 5. Edward, born August 29, 1678; died in infancy. 6. Rachel, born Oc tober 16, 1679; died in infancy. 7. Dorothy, born August 8, 1681 ; died September 20, 1689. 8. William, born December 8, 1682; married Sarah Crosby. 9. David. 10. Dor othy, born June 19, 1686; died young. 11. Ebenezer, born December i, 1687; died Au gust 28, 1696. 12. Thankful, born August 6, 1688; died August 21, 1688. 13. Nathan iel, born December 3, 1689; married Hannah STATE OF MAINE. 305 Thompson. 14. Ebenezer, born July 25, 1691 ; died young. 15. Ann, born August 28, 1693; died in infancy. 16. Patience, born Novem ber 8, 1694; died November 14, 1694. 17. Pdetiah, born July 2, 1696; married Hannah Hall. 18. Grindal, born August 24, 1697; died in infancy. 19. Mary, born December 16, 1698; died in infancy. One not named. (Ill) David, fifth son and ninth chUd of WUliam and Anne (Glover) Rawson, was born in Boston, December 13, 1683. He in herited and occupied the homestead, situated in that part of Braintree which is now Quincy, and was an energetic, persevering business man. His death occurred AprU 20, 1752, and his gravestone is but a few yards from the Adams tomb in the Quincy cemetery. He married Mary, daughter of John Gulliver, of Milton, and she survived him. Their children were: i. David, born September 14, 1714; married Mary Dyer. 2. Jonathan, born De cember 26, 1715; married Susanna Stone. 3. Elijah, born February 5, 171 7; married Mary Paddock. 4. Mary, born May 20, 1718; mar ried Captain Joseph Winchester, in 1745; set tled at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and had two children : Mary and William. 5. Hannah, born April 2, 1720, died July 24, 1726. 6. Silence, born June 12, 1721, died August 17, 1721. 7. Anne, born July 30, 1722; married Samuel Bass. 8. Elizabeth, born Novem ber 30, 1723 ; married Peter Adams. 9. Jo siah, born January 31, 1727; married Hannah Bass. 10. Jerusha, born December 21, 1729; married Israel Eaton. 11. Lydia, bora Janu ary 17, 1731 ; married Samuel Baxter. 12. Ebenezer. (IV) Ebenezer, youngest child of David and Mary (Gulliver) Rawson, was born in that part of Braintree which is now Quincy, May 31, 1734. When a young man he settled in Sutton, I^ew Hampshire, where he engaged in farming, and his death occurred in that town June ir, 1814. He was a vigorous his torical writer, possessing superior mental at tainments, which were fully developed by his studious habits and profound erudition, and it was said of him that "his memory was a vast storehouse of facts always at his command." In his latter years he favored the Quakers, adopting their dress and form of worship, and he named one of his sons for Alarmaduke Stephenson, a persecuted Salem Quaker, who was released from prison on a warrant signed by his distinguished ancestor, Secretary Ed ward Rawson. In 1756 he married Sarah Chase, daughter of flon. Samuel Chase, of Cheshire, New Hampshire. She died Novem ber 14, 1814. Children: i. Prudence, born December 24, 1758; married Stephen March. 2. Lydia, born AprU 23, 1760; married Dan iel BuUen. 3. Ebenezer, born December 22, 1 761 ; married Elizabeth Tailor. 4. Sally, born March 16, 1763; married Samuel Rob inson. 5. Abner, born March 2, 1765; mar ried Abigail Fuller. 6. John, born June i, 1767, died young. 7. Jerusha, born October 13, 1769; married James Holmes. 8. Samuel. 9. Elizabeth, born June 5, 1774; married Jacob Dodge. lo-ii. Alarmaduke and Niz- aula, twins, born AprU 18, 1777; Nizaula mar ried Timothy Hutchinson. 12. Alary, born July 5, 1779; married (first) Sullivan Bridg ham; (second), Thomas Brown. 13. Clarissa, born February 26, 1782. 14. Abigail, born May II, 1786; married Daniel Adams. (V) Captain Samuel, fourth son and eighth child of Ebenezer and Sarah (Chase) Raw- son, was born in Sutton, September 4, 1771, and died January 29, 1829. Learning the saddlery and upholstering business, he estab lished himself at Grafton, Alassachusetts, but in 1804 came to Maine, and settling in Paris he resided there for the rest of his life, which terminated January 29, 1829. During the war of 1812-15 he served as a lieutenant of an artiUery company engaged in the defense of Portland, and he afterwards acquired the title of captain. He was highly esteemed for his genial disposition, was of an investigating turn of mind and fond of arugment. In May, 1802, he married PoUa Freeland, born in Sut ton, Massachusetts, September 17, 1778, died August 29, 1875, aged ninety-seven ' years, daughter of Dr. James Freeland, of that town. ChUdren: i. Mary Ann, born in Grafton, Massachusetts, May 20, 1803, died July 29, ^874; married (first) Simeon Fuller, M. D., (second) James Bullock, M. D. ; settled in [Rumford, Maine. 2. Arabella, born Febru ary 22, 1807, in Paris, Maine ; married T. J. Carter; settled in Paris, Maine; died April 12, 1897, aged ninety years. 3. Abigail Adams, born in Paris, Alaine, February 5, 181 1; mar ried Henry E. Prentiss ; settled in Bangor, Alaine ; died December 30, 1898. 4. Colum bia, born February 27, 18 14, now livin.g, aged ninety-five years ; married VirgU D. Parris ; settled in Paris, Alaine. 5. Frances Freeland, born August 28, 1819. died September, 1890; married AVilliam K. [Kimball ; settled in Paris, Maine. 6. James Freeland; see forward. (VI) James Freeland, youngest child and only son of Captain Samuel and PoUa (Free- land) Rawson, was born in Paris, Maine, Oc tober 2, 1821. He was for some time a stu- 3o6 STATE OF AlAINE. dent at Waterville (now Colby) College, and after .eraduating from Pinion College in 1844 he entered the legal profession, settling in Bangor, and becoming the law partner of the late Flon. Henry E. Prentiss. He was sub sequently chosen re.gister of probate, and still later was appointed collector of customs for the port of Bangor. For many years he prac ticed his profession successfully in Bangor, and was noted for his ability, integrity and other sterling characteristics. For a number of years he was a member of the board of al dermen, and in 1877 represented his district in the Alaine legislature. March 9, 1858, he married Sarah Deborah, born February 9, 1831, daughter of Thomas and Alary (True) Jenness. of Bansror. Their children are: i. Mary Jenness, born October 16, 1859. 2. Abbie Jenness, February 16, 1865. The immiffrants of this cog- MAYNARD nomen, evidently of French extraction, 'came from Eng land to Massachusetts in the pioneer days of the colony. More than one of the name were pioneers, but from John, the progenitor of the line sketched below, descended the greater number of those now bearing the name in New England. (I) John Maynard, a native of England, came to Massachusetts and was an inhabitant of Sudbury in 163Q. He probably brought with him a wife and one child or more. He had a bouse lot of four acres on the North street near Edmund and Henry Rice. He was a petitioner for Alarlborough in 1656. He died in Sudbury, December 10, 1672. He married (second) June 14, 1646, Mary Ax- dell, probably a daughter of Comfort Starr. By the first wife he had one child John, born in Eneland in 1630. The children by the s'^r- ond wife were: Zachery, Elizabeth, Lydia, Hannah and Mary. (IT) Zachery, eldest son of John and Mary (Axdell) Maynard, born in Sudbury, Tune 7, 1647, lived and died there in 1724. He mar ried, in 1678, Hannah Goodrich, who died in 1 7 19. She was the daughter of John Good rich, of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Their' chUdren were: Zachariah, John, Hannah, Jonathan. David, Elizabeth, Joseph, Moses and AbieaU. fill) Jonathan, fourth chUd and third son of Zacherv and Hannah (Goodrich) Alaynard, bom in Sudbury, April 8, 1685, died July, 176^. T-Ie was a weaver bv trade, but fol lowed the usual custom of the day and culti vated the soil. May 29, 171 3, he bought of John Town a farm of one hundred and ninety acres on "the plain." He also bought land up as far as Ball's bridge and became an inn keeper. He married, December 10, 1714, Me hitable Needom (or Needham), of Cambridge, who died October 19, 1767. Their children were : Mehitable, Jonathan, Zachariah, John, Joseph and WiUiam. (IV) Jonathan (2), eldest son and second child of Jonathan (i) and Mehitable (Need ham) Maynard, born in Framingham, Jan uary I, 1718, died in 1782. He took the west part of his father's farm, and there erected buildings. He married (first) November 11, 1742, Martha, daughter of John Gleason; (second) Widow Sarah (Muzzey) HUl, of Sherburne. His chUdren, probably by the first wife, were : WUliam and Jonathan. (V) WUliam, son of Jonathan (2) and Alartha (Gleason) Maynard, born March 29, 1745, lived on his father's farm. He was a minute-man in 1775 ; was a lieutenant in Cap tain Drury's company of Colonel Nickerson's regiment of eight months' men ; was at the battle of Bunker Hill, was wounded there, and carried to his grave the bullet he received in the hip. He was afterwards made a cap tain and served through the revolution. He was a school teacher, and about 1788 went to South Carolina, where he "kept school," and died there. He married Mary, a daughter of Benjamin Pepper. She died March 12, 1780. Their children were : John, Martha, Mary, Benjamin, William and Thomas. ("VI) John, eldest child of William and Mary (Pepper) Alaynard, born in Framing ham, Massachusetts, October 3, 1766, died in Scarborough, Maine, September 6, 1818. When a youth he went to St. Croi.x, West In dies, and there met and married Mary Durant, who was born in the Island of St. Croix in 1 771. She was the daughter of Thomas Du rant, then in business in St. Croix. He was a lineal descendant of George Durant, who came to this country from England and settled in Connecticut in 1633. He yvas of Huguenot extraction, the family having originaUy gone to England from France. After his marriage Mr. Alaynard remained in St. Croix until 1800, and accumulated a fortune. Returning to this country with his wife and several chU dren, he took up his residence in Bulfinch street, Boston, where his wife died in 1812. In Boston Air. Maynard met with financial re verses, and was obliged to break up his home there. In 1806 he sold to William Henderson the store property by Warren's bridge, and removed to Scarboro with his family, where STATE OF MAINE. 307 he resided on a farm which had been the prop erty of his wife. (VII) Maria Cornelia Durant, chUd of John and Mary (Durant) Maynard, born in Boston, June 18, 1808, married Neal Dow, of Portland (see Dow X). The name of Libby seems to have LIBBY come to America from the west of England, probably Cornwall or Devon, and in the ancient records and in pres ent use has about the same number of varia tions in its orthography as most other sur names. The family has been distinguished rather for those substantial virtues that make their possessor happy in himself and helpful to mankind, rather than by the possession of wealth and those more showy and less laud able characteristics not unfrequently in evi dence to every observer of men. As a family the Libbeys have been respected by their neighbors as men of sterling worth, and up rightness and honesty of character. They have generally belonged to that law abiding class which forms the bone and muscle of the na tion, content to render the wise efforts of others effective by a hearty support, and will ing to concede all the glory to the leader. The family numbers its revolutionary soldiers by scores, and many hundreds risked their lives for their country in the war of the rebellion. In Maine alone there were two hundred and fifty-six enlistments. They are, as a family, very devout, and have figured much more largely in the religious than in the civil insti tutions of the communities in which they have hved. The family has abounded in christian ministers, elders and deacons, while generation after generation has died in the faith. Very few have been guUty of bringing any re proach upon the name, and even in Alaine, where the family is so numerous as to rank with the Smiths and Browns, it has been re marked by many that they never knew of a criminal or a pauper named Libby. (I) John Libby, born in England about the year 1602, came to New En.gland and was employed in the fisheries by Robert Trelaw- ney, who has a grant of land embracing Rich mond's Island and other land about Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The records of this indus try show that John Libby yvas in the employ of Trelawney four years from the summer of 1635 to the summer of 1639. He had a grant of land in Scarborough, on the bank of a stream since called Libby river, and there buUt a house. Here he is supposed to have di vided his time between fishing and agricul ture. In 1663 he is described in a document as a "planter," and in the history of Scar borough he is said to have been "for many years one of the town's principal planters." He was constable in 1664, and his name stands first of the four selectmen in a town grant bearing date 1669. In King Philip's war (1675) he lost everything he had except his plantation. Captain Joshua Scattow's diary says : "Eieht or nine deserted houses belonging to Libby and his children" were burned by the Indians September 7, 1675. John Libby and his wife and younger children were in Boston, July 10, 1677, and on his pe tition at that time his two sons, Henry and An thony, were discharged from Black Point gar rison. He probably soon after returned to Black Point, his old home in Maine, where he acquired a comfortable property, and died at the age of eighty years, fle had tw^o wives. Of the first nothing is known except that she was the mother of all of his sons except Mat thew and Daniel, end probably all his dau.gh- ters. Of the second nothing is known but her christian name, which was Mary. The chil dren of John Libby, probably all bom in this country except the eldest, were : John, James, Samuel. Joanna, Henry, Anthony, Rebecca, Sarah, Hannah, David, Matthew and Daniel. (II) Henry, fourth son and fifth child of John Libby. the immi.srrant, born in Scarbor ough in 1647, died October 2, 1732, a.ged eighty-five years. He was a man of energy and good business qualifications, and was one of the board of selectmen of Scarborough in 1686. In 1690, with Peter Hinkson and their families, he made his escape to Lynn, Massa chusetts, at the time of the Indian hostilities. He was one of the company which first at tempted to re-settle their possessions. Tradi tion says that this company made their way in a sloop from Lynn, and built a garrison on Prout's Neck, which was successfully defend ed against a force of five hundred French and Indians. Henry Libby and his sons were all present at the first town hieeting in 1720. He and John Boden were selected to show the old highways to the selectman. In September, 1728, at the age of eighty-one, he became a member of the Congregational church at Black Point, which had just been organized by Rev. WUliam Thompson. Henry Libby married Honor Hinkson, daughter of Peter Hinkson, whose plantation joined his father's. She died August 24, 1724, aged sixty. Their chil dren were : Alary, Samuel, Sarah, James, Hannah, Elizabeth, and John, who is the sub ject of the next sketch. 3o8 STATE OF MAINE. (Ill) Captain John (2), youngest child of Henry and Honor (Hinkson) Libby, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, probably soon after the year 1700. He removed with his father from Lynn to Scarborough, and settled on a farm on Oak Hill. He was unusuaUy able and energetic, and repeatedly filled the most important offices in town. He was appointed "to locate Black Point School," and "to in spect the law relative to the kUUng of Deer." He was also a surveyor of land, and succeeded in a measure to the position which his brother. Lieutenant Samuel, had fiUed. The Massa chusetts archives show that John Libby or Libbee was lieutenant of the Ninth Company of the Second Massachusetts Regiment, whereof the Hon. Samuel Waldo, [Esquire, was colonel in the army under the command of the Hon. WUUam Peppered, Esquire, for an expedition against the French settlement on Cape Breton, and commissioned February 16, 1744. Also, that John Libby or Libbee was captain in Colonel Jedadiah Bibb's regi ment in 1758 in the Crown Point expedition, serving nine months and twenty-six days. A roll dated Boston, January 10, 1759, shows "Captain John Libbee, eleven days travel from Scarborough to Boston and return, and for fifteen days expense, while making up the roll, amounting to £3, 6s 6d." His death was the result of an accident. While fishing with two others in a small boat near the mouth of the Nonesuch river, the boat was upset and all were precipitated into the water. Captain Libby, though an expert swimmer, never rose. The two others escaped, and the manner of his death gave rise to suspicion of foul play. He married (first) June 15, 1728, Mary, daughter of William and Deliverance (Tay lor) Goodwin, of Berwick. After her death he married (second) August 24, 1738, Anna, daughter of Captain Daniel and Anna (Hans com) Fogg, of Scarborough. His children by Alary his first wife were : Henry, Hannah, Lucy and Edward; those by his second wife were: Rhoda and Abner (twins), Olive, Ste phen, Moses-and Aaron (twins), Jesse, [PhUe- mon, Eunice and Seth. (IV) Stephen, fourth child and second son of Captain John (2) and Anna (Fogg) Libby, was born in Scarborough, January 13, 1743, and received a part of his father's homestead, on which he settled and was a farmer. About 1814 he went with his son John A. to Liming ton, and died there August 24, 1820. He mar ried, October 17, 1765, Margaret, born 1744, daughter of Moses Miller, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She died December 31, 1794. Their children were: Abner, Moses, Stephen, Henry, Elias, Mary, Margaret, Nicholas, and George Washington, John Ad ams, and Benjamin Franklin (triplets). ("V) Abner, eldest chUd of Stephen and Margaret (MUler) Libby, born in Scarbor ough, December 27, 1766, died there May 5, 1843. He was what would now be termed an "all-around" man ; turned his hand to any thing that required his attention, and "for many years he filled a larger place in the com munity in which he lived than probably any other of the townsmen." In his younger days he made several voyages to the West Indies, and then took up the blacksmith's trade. In 1792 or the following year he settled at Lim ington Corner, on a farm, and built a shop and for years worked at blacksmithing. Sub sequently he carried on a general store and kept a tavern. The first school in Limington was taught by him. From 1793 to 1800 he was town clerk; 1794 to 1802 selectman; 1804 to 1809 town treasurer. For about forty years he was a justice of the peace, and as there was no lawyer at tha,t place for many years, he did much business of a legal na ture. Abner Libby married, Noveinber 15, 1789, Anna Harding, born August 30, 1767, daughter of a Cape Cod coaster who settled at Mt. Desert. She died December 30, 1857, aged ninety years. Their children were: Elias, Parmenio, Stephen, Abner, Margaret,. John, Betsey, PettingUl, Charlotte Neal and Isaac Harding. (VI) Rev. Elias, eldest child of Abner and Anna (Harding) Libby, was born in, Scarbor ough, March 12, 1790, and attained manhood in Limington, where he learned the black smith's trade in his father's shop. Soon after his marriage he removed to Limington, where he carried on blacksmithing and carriage- making, and also kept a large general store. "In 1821 the Free WUl Baprists held their first meetings in the central part of Limerick, atidi- Elias Libby soon became the leader of the movement. The next year a church of thirty members was formed, and he, having been or dained a preacher, first took charge of it. He continued to be an active elder of that denom ination throughout his life. He was instru mental in establishing a paper called The Morning Star, which was published by him and others for many years in Limerick, in the interest of the Free "Will Baptists, and is still continued in Dover, New Hampshire." In en ergy, business capacity and public spiritedness he much resembled his father, and like him took the lead in public affairs, but never as- '7.^CJ ±^086494 STATE Oh" MAINE. 309 pired to office. His long life of usefulness closed at Limerick, April 2, 1871, when he was in his eighty-second year. Elias Libby married (first) November 28, 1809, Jane Jew ell, born on luix Island, August 27, 1789, died December 27, 1852. Alarried (second) Han nah McGraw. The children by his first wife were: I larrison lewell, {'"rancis Orville, Jaines Brackett, Jane F., Susan Ann, Elizabeth C, Roxanna and Elias Osgood. He had by his second wife : Georgia, now deceased. (VII) James Brackett, third son and child of Rev. Elias and Jane (Jewell) Libby, born in Limerick, August i, 18 16, died in Port land, March 26, i88g, aged seventy-three years. Fle was a clerk in his father's store for many years. Later he started in business for himself in Limerick, where he remained until 1846, when he became a member of the firm of FI. J. Libby & Company of Portland, wool commission merchants, and settled in that city. For many years he was in charge of the branch house in New York, where since 1862 most of the business of the firm has been done. 1 le was identified with many business corporations, in several of which he was a member of (he directorate, two of which were the International Steamship Company, and the Harper Manufacturing Company, fle was president of the latter. In politics he was a Republican. I'or nearly forty years he was a member of the Fligh Street Congregational Church of Portland, and was one of its most representative communicants and most liberal supporters. Fle married, April 19, 1839, at Limerick, Maine, Hannah Catherine, born in Kennebunk, August 12, 1819, daughter of Moses and Mary (Wise) MorriU (see Morrill and Wise). She died May 2, 1879. The chUdren of this union were: i. Mary Cath erine, born June i, 1840, married, June 5, 1866, Clarence Flamilton Corning, iron mer chant, Albany, New York; he died July 12, 1879. ^"e child, Floward, was born of this marriage. 2. Augustus Frost, born Novem ber \6, 1 84 1, see "forward. 3. Charles Free man, born January 31, 1844, see forward. (VIII) Augustus Frost, eldest Son of James B. and ITanu;ili C. (Morrill) Libby, was born November i6, 1841. He prepared for college in Portland high school, and graduated from Bowdoin in 1864. In the same year he went to New A^ork City and entered the employ of the firm of EL J. Libby & Company, becom ing a member of the concern in 1869, and in 1891, upon the death of EL J. Libby, became senior partner of the firm. The firm of H. J. Libby & Company was established in 1844 by Elarrison Jewell, Frances O. and James B. Libby, and they c.trried on for many years the dry goods jobbing business in Free street block, Portland, where they were burned out in the great fire nf j866. About i860 they established a house in the city of New York and became selling agents for a large number of woolen mills in Maine and elsewhere, hand ling for almost half a century the product of the Robinson Manufacturing Company, the Linn Woolen Company, the Madison Woolen Mills and others. The firm, which was once the oldest of its kind in the city of New York, discontinued business in December, 1906. Mr. Libby, being a man of clear judgment, keen discernment and business sagacity, has become prominent and well known in business circles. Fle has been actively identified as a director with the Citizens Central National Bank of New York. For a number of years he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce of New York City, and also of the Union League Club. Fle is a Republican in politics. Up to 1875 Mr. Libby made his home in Brooklyn, and during that time was an officer of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church of that city. Since that year he has been a resi dent of Summit, New Jersey, and is an elder in the Central Presbyterian Church of that place. Mr. Libby married, December 18, 1866, Flarriet M., daughter of Augustus C. and Maria T. (Curtis) Robbins, of Brunswick, Maine. Children: i. Gertrude MorriU, born November 3, 1868, died in New York City, April 10, 1872. 2. James Robbins, born April I, 1871, in [Brooklyn, died April 14, 1872. 3. Walter Gillette, born March 26, 1874, is en gaged in commission business in New York City under the name of Libby & Company. He married Alary Elizabeth Stokes, of [Phila delphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of Dr. Stokes, M. D., of that city; children: Elizabeth, Cath erine . and Walter Stokes Libby. 4. Marie Curtis, born February 26, 1878. (VIII) Charles Freeman, youngest child of James B. and Hannah C. (MorriU) Libby, was born in Limerick, January 31, 1844. After completing the course in the Portland high school he entered Bowdoin College with his brother, in i860, and graduated with hon ors from that institution in i8(')4. He read law in the office of Fessenden & Butler in Portland, and then attended Columbia Law School in New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. The two years next follow ing he spent in study and travel in Europe, pursuing his studies at Paris and Fleidelberg. Returning to Portland in 1869, with greatly 3IO STATE OF MAINE. enlarged experience and a store of useful knowledge, he became junior partner in the firm of Symonds & Libby, Hon. Joseph W. Symonds being the senior member, and began the practice of law. That firm was dissolved in 1872 by the appointment of Judge Symonds to the bench of the superior court, and the fol lowing year the firm of Butler & Libby was formed, with Moses M. Butler as senior part ner. This partnership continued till the death of Mr. Butler in 1879. Then Mr. Libby again became associated with Judge Symonds and they practiced together till 1891. Mr. Libby is now senior partner of the firm of Libby, Robinson & Ives, which was formed in 1896. Mr. Libby has been in the active practice of law in Portland for forty years, and in that time has built up a large business, having for his clients many of the foremost and wealth iest citizens and firms in the city and state. As a lawyer he has been unusually successful and takes high rank among his professional brethren. The Judiciary and Bar of New England thus alludes to his political career : "Mr. Libby is an earnest Republican and his personal popularity and oratorical gifts long ago led to his recognition as a political leader. He began his public career as city solicitor, holding that office in 1871 and 1872. In the last named year he was elected county attor ney, an office he voluntarily resigned in 1878, leaving an enviable record of duty well and fearlessly performed. In 1882 he was elected mayor of the city of Portland, and the varied and important interests of the community were never more carefully and efficiently guarded than during his administration. While Mr. Libby at this time would cheerfully have retired from public life to foUow the more congenial paths of his profession, his friends in the Republican party gave him the nomination for the state senate in 1888, and he was, of course, elected. His election for another term foUowed in 1891, in which year he was honored by his fellow legislators with the presidency of the senate, a position which he filled with dignity and courtesy. In his choice for the presidency no nomination was made against him by the opposite party, a fact for which there was no precedent." His probity of character and executive abU ity have been recognized in business circles, and he has been put in various positions of responsibility and trust. He is attorney for the First National Bank of Portland, for the Portland Trust Company, for the international and Portland and Alaine Steamship compan ies, and president of the Portland Street rail road. He was active in organizing the Maine State Bar Association, and was its first presi dent, serving from 1891 to 1895. He is presi dent of the Cumberland Bar Association, and a member of the executive committee of the American Bar Association. His interest in educational affairs has always been of an in telligent and earnest character, and its ap preciation by his feUow citizens is shown in his long period of service from 1869 to 1882 on the Portland school committee. He is now and for years has been president of the over seers of Bowdoin College. He was also a member of the Maine. State Agricultural So ciety. He was made "officer d'Academie" by the French Government by decree dated April 20, 1907. Personally Mr. Libby is a man of genial temperament and courteous demeanor. flis character is above reproach, and sterling integrity and comprehensive ability are two noticeable features in his composition. Charles F. Libby married, December 9, 1869, Alice WiUiams, born January 25, 1849, daughter of Hon. Bion and Alice H. (Will iams) Bradbury, of Portland. (See Bradbury.) Four children have been born to them, two of whom (twins), Hilda, wife of Howard R. Ives, and Bion Bradbury Libby, now survive. They were born July 26, 1886. Howard R. and Hilda Ives were married April 25, 1906, and have one child, Elizabeth, born in Port land, Maine, February 15, 1907. (For first generation see John Lihby I.) (II) Matthew, eleventh child and LIBBY seventh son of John Libby, the planter, was born in Scarborough, in 1663, and died in Kittery in March, 1741. In the times of the Indian troubles of 1690 he went to Portsmouth, and in the winter of 1699-1700 to Kittery. He built his house of hewed timber with a projecting upper story, so that in case of an attack by Indians the oc cupants of the house could shoot or scald the savages by pouring hot water on them or otherwise protect themselves from above when the enemy attempted to make their way into the lower story. In that house he lived until his death. Some time before the second or ganization of the town of Scarborough, Alat- thew Libby, Roger Deeming, John Libby, and Roger Htinnewdl went down to Black Point and built a saw mill on Nonesuch river. Mat thew Libby afterward gave his interest in that mill to his three sons, WUliam, John and Andrew. In the famUy burying ground lie Matthew Libby and his wife and five genera tions of their descendants, with nothing to STATE OF MAINE. 3" mark their graves but rough stones. He mar ried Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Andrew Brown, a prominent citizen of Black Point. She died two or three years later than her husband. Their fourteen children were : Will iam, Matthew, Mary, Rebecca, Hannah, John, Andrew, Sarah, Nathaniel, [Dorcas, Samuel, Mehitable, Lydia and Elizabeth, each of whom grew up and married. (HI) Lieutenant Andrew, seventh child and fourth son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Brown) Libby, born in Kittery, now Eliot, [December i, 1700, died January 5, 1773, in the seventy-third year of his age. He re turned to Scarborough and became one of the largest tand most successful farmers in the town, and left a handsome property. He was attentive to his own business and took no part in public affairs, the only place where he ap peared in public capacity is in 1743, when he was one of the committee of three selected "to get a schoolmaster." Whether he was in ac tual service in the Frencli war is not known, but from 1745 until his death he was known as Lieutenant Andrew Libby. He and his first wife were members of the Congregational church. He married first Esther Furber, daughter of Jethro Furber, of Newington, New Hampshire. She died October i, 1756, and he married second, in 1757, Eleanor (Lib by) Trickey, who survived him, and died Sep tember 27, 1 781. The children of Lieutenant Libby, all by his first wife, were : Andrew, Joshua, Elizabeth, Henry, Abigail, Joseph, Daniel, Edward, Sarah, Esther and Simon. (IV) Deacon Joshua, second son and child of Lieutenant Andrew and Esther (Furber) Libby, born in Scarborough, Alarch 17, 1734, died January 13, 1814, aged seventy-nine years. He learned the shoemaker's trade, but never followed that occupation. He settled on the Nonesuch river, about three miles north of Oak Hill and became an extensive and successful farmer. He built two houses, the first of which was standing a few years ago. He was not only a farmer but a ship- buUder and a West India trader, and became one of the richest and most influential men in the town. He was chairman of the board of selectmen 1792-93-94, and town treasurer from 1800 to 1813. He and his wife joined the Congregational church, February 9, 1783, and July i, 1792, he was made deacon and fiUed that position the remainder of his life — twenty-one years. He married, November 2, 1755, Hannah Larrabee, born Alay 18, 1832, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Johnson) Larrabee, great-granddaughter of William Larrabee, the immigrant. She died Decem ber 13, 1818, aged eighty-two. They had nine children : An infant, Esther, Sarah, Matthias, Lydia, Joshua, Theodore, Hannah and Sa lome. (V) Captain Joshua (2), sixth child of Deacon Joshua (i) and Flannah (Larrabee) Libby, was born in Scarborough, August 31, 1768, succeeded to his father's homestead, upon which he resided and lived the life of a contented and prosperous farmer, dying at the age of sixty-six years, October 23, 1834. Fle was a conservative man in whom his fel low-citizens reposed great confidence, and was ' selectman 1822-26-27, and was town treas urer 1817-27. He married, February 16, 1791, Ruth Libby, born October 16, 1773, daughter of Simon and EUzabeth (Thompson) Libby, of Scarborough. She died November 24, 1831. They had thirteen chUdren: Sherborn, Joshua, Simon, Johnson, Addison, died young, Addison and Hannah (tyvins), Woodbury, Francis, Matthias, Ruth, George and Esther. (A^I) Joshua (3), second son and chdd of Joshua (2) and Ruth (Libby) Libby, bora in Scarborough, July 10, 1793, died March 5, 1848. He was methodical in his habits, cau tious and economical, though living well, and passed his life on the ancestral homestead, a prosperous farmer and good neighbor, typify ing in a marked manner many of the most ob servable of the characteristics of the Libby famUy. He married, in 1816, Mary SmaU, born April 30, 1793, daughter of Captain Jaines and Mary (Fogg) SmaU, of Scarbor ough, and descendant of Francis Small, who was of Dover in 1648. She died November 15, 1849. To them were born eleven chUdren : Elizabeth M., Johnson, died young, James SmaU, Benjamin, Johnson, Sarah Maria, Emily Francis, Washington, Joshua, Mary Frances, and Reuben Crosby. (A^II) AVashington, eighth child and fifth son of Joshua (3) and Alary (Small) Libby, was born in Scarborough, March 10, 1829. He learned the carpenter's trade with his uncle, Matthias Libby, and immediately after completing his apprenticeship he removed to Portland, where he engaged in the same busi ness, which he carried on for the remainder of his life. His death occurred December 6, 1902. He married, February 22, 1854, Mary A. Dunning, born in Harpswell, December 11, 1829, died April 10, 1900, daughter of James and Abbie B. (Merryman) Dunning, of Harpswell. To them were born seven chil dren: Abbie Helen, Maria Frances, Eliza May, Joshua Clement, Hattie Bishop, George 312 STATE OF MAINE. Washington, died young, and George Wash ington. (VIII) Joshua Clement, fourth child and eldest son of Washington and Mary A. (Dun- ing) Libby, was born in Portland, August 14, 1862, and was educated in the common schools and Commercial College. June 5, 1880, he entered the employ of J. F. Randall & Com pany, wholesale grocers, for the purpose of learning the business, and remained there un til December 28, 1881. The next day he be gan work for A. E. Stevens & Company, wholesale iron merchants, and remained with that firm until December 13, 1884. Leaving them on that day, he lost no time and on the next day took a position as clerk with the Pordand Trust Company, a banking institu tion organized under state laws, and from that time to the present (1908) he has been with that institution and been steadUy advanced to his present position, being one of the active officials. His service covers a period of twenty-three years, in which he has shown a special aptitude for the work of banking in which he has been engaged, and has become a trusted officer of the company and enjoys the fuUest confidence of the large number of people with whom he has come in contact in a business way. He is a member of Atlantic Lodge, No. 81, Free and Accepted Masons, but does not belong to any other body, fra ternal or social. He is a Republican, and a member of the Congregational church. Joshua Clement Libby married, October 20, 1898, Alice MUliken, born in Portland, May 27, 1872, dau.ghter of George and Henrietta (Bar bour) MiUiken, of Portland. (VIII) George Washington, youngest son of Washington and Mary A. (Dunning) Lib by, was born in Portland, October 20, 1870. He attended the public schools, and after be ing employed in various lines of business, as sociated with his father in business, and has continued to carry on the business since the death of his father. He married, in Port land, Flavilla, born October 20, 1868, daugh ter of George Warren and Flavilla (Barker) Eddy. (For preceding generations see John Libby I.) (VII) Harrison Jewell, eldest LIBBY child of Rev. Elias and Jane (Jewell) Libby, born in Liming ton, York county, June 18, 181 1, died in Port land, April 21, 1891, aged seventy-nine years. He was educated in the common schools. When about eighteen years old he entered his father's store as a clerk, but soon engaged in business on his own account at Limerick, and resided there until 1835, when he removed to Portland, where he spent the remainder of his life. Ele first engaged in the dry goods business in partnership with John 'Williams, of Boston, under the firm name of H. J. Libby & Company. That firm continued about two years. He was a prominent citizen and closely identified with the business and financial in terests of Portland. At the time of his death he was officially connected with a large num ber of business corporations, with many of which he had been identified for years. He was president of the First National Bank, the Portland Trust Company, the Portland Street Railroad Company and the Steam 'Packet Company. He was also director and treasurer of the International Steamship Company, di rector in the Maine Steamship Company, di rector and treasurer of the Harper Alanufac- turing Company, and of the Robinson Manu facturing Company, treasurer of the Madison Woolen Company, treasurer of the Indian Spring Woolen Company, and director in the Forest City Refining Company. He was also president of the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirm ary. He was also an active partner in the firm of H. J. Libby & Company, one. of the oldest woolen commission houses in this country. The firm was established in 1844 after Mr. Libby and Air. Williams dissolved partnership, with his two brothers, Francis O. and James B., as partners, and they carried on for many years the dry goods jobbing busi ness in Free street block, Portland, where they were burned out in the great fire of 1866. About i860 they established a house in New York city and became selling agents for a large number of woolen mills in this state and elsewhere, in many of which Mr. Libby was personaUy interested. He survived all his brothers, the youngest, Jaines B. Libby, hav ing died in March of 1890, and the latter's son, Augustus F. Libby, is the surviving part ner of the firm. Mr. Libby was a man of quiet, unassuming manner, of even tempera ment, cordial and considerate in his inter course with his associates and warmly at tached to his friends. His capacity for busi ness was large and was increased by his sys tematic and quiet methods. There vvas no un necessary wear and tear of the nervous sys tem, no noise or bustle in his business life. He was always master of himself, saw clearly the end he had in view and pursued it with a direct and persistent aim. He was a man of clear judgment and marked sagacity in af fairs, prompt in action but not hasty In reach- /X / /' /' r STATE OF MAINE. 313 ing conclusions. While firm in his opinion he was tolerant of the opinions of others, and his whole life was an illustration of the refined amenities which large experience and a wise philosophy of living may produce in a bright and kindly nature. He never grew old in spirit and his years sat lightly upon him. He died as he would have wished, in the harness. Tin within a few weeks of his decease he filled the full round of his duties, never relin quishing even the details which often become irksome to younger men. In all the various experiences of life, with its mingled bitter and sweet, no murmur or complaint ever es caped him — he met all with a quiet, manly courage, with no outward expression of per turbation or discontent. One who knew Mr. Libby only in business circles knew but part of the man. To have known him well one must have known him in his own home and in the intricacies of private life. Those who knew him there can never forget the sunny, even temperament, the kindly nature and the warm and generous instincts of the man. Of him it may truly be said that those who knew him best mourn him most. In politics Mr. Libby was a Republican, but never sought or held office. He was not, however, indifferent to political issues or the course of political events. He had decided opinions on public affairs as in other matters, and believed in the full performance of political duties. Va cillation and unrest were not characteristics ¦of the man. He exercised his influence in his party from the inside rather than from the outside. In religious matters he yvas a staunch Congregationalist of the earlier type, but neither narrow nor intolerant. His religion was a part of his life, not a matter to be talked about. He died in the faith which he had early professed and which had been to him a source of comfort and strength during a long and active life. Harrison J. Libby married, in Scarboro, July 17, 1832, Margaret Agnes, born in Scar boro, November 6, 1806, died in Portland, De cember 23, 1884, daughter of Captain Stephen and Agnes (Hasty) Libby, of Scarboro. (See Libby, VI.) To them were born five daugh ters: Harriet Anna, Ernestine Lord, Marga- retta Agnes, Ellen Harrison and Julia Austin. Ernestine L. died single. Julia Austin mar ried William T. Holt and resided in Portland. She^ died December 28, 1878, in Colorado Springs. Of this marriage were born four children: Eleanor, deceased, who married Elias Thomas Jr. ; Harrison Jewell ; Julia Ag ues, who died young; and William Leland. who married Polly E. Dawson, and has o"ne child, WUliam Ldand Jr. Elarriet A., Marga- retta A. and Ellen H., all unmarried, reside in the handsome property left by their father on Congress street, Portland. (For preceding generations see John Libby I.) (H) David, sixth son of John LIBBY Libby, was born in Scarborough in 1657, and died probably in 1736. From the town records it appears that February 11, 1681, he and four others were chosen to renew the bounds between Casco (afterward Falmouth, and now Cape Eliza beth) and Scarborough, and that he received several town grants. When the town was de serted in 1690, he went to Portsmouth, where he lived about ten years. In December, 1699, he, his brother Alatthew, his brother-in-law, Daniel Fogg, Joseph Hammond and Stephen Tobey, the first three being then of Ports mouth and the others of Kittery, bought what was known as the Knowles purchase in that part of Kittery which is now Eliot. It fronted on the Piscataqua river, at the "Long Reach," about three-fourths of a mile, and stretched back into the town a long distance. The fol lowing spring they divided it lengthwise, so that each had a fronting on the river. The division line between the lands of David Libby and his brother passed over what is now known as Libby Hill. On this hill, within a few rods of each other, they built their houses. They had a lane between their lands, reaching from the river to their northeast boundary; parts of this lane are still open. David Libby lived there the remainder of his life, a farmer in comfortable circumstances. He made his wiU May 6, 1725. The amount of his inventory was £1,329, 5s. He was buried on the farm, where now lie near him five generations of his descendants. His wife's baptismal name was Eleanor. Their children were : David, Samuel, Margaret, Solomon, John, Elizabeth, Ephraim, Eleanor and Abi gail. (Ill) John, fourth son of David and El eanor Libby, was born probably in Ports mouth, New Hampshire, about 1697, and died in Scarborough, Alaine, July i, 1764. He re ceived from his father by deed of gift dated March, 1719, all his lands in Scarborough, and doubtless moved at once to his father's old home, as he was present at the first town meeting in Scarborough. Three of his sons, Alatthew, Nathaniel and Luke, he settled on parts of his homestead, and Elisha and Alli son, he gave lands in the interior of the town. 314 STATE OF MAINE. He had an extra finger on each hand, below the little finger, and from this was called, to distinguish him from the other John Libbys in Scarborough at that time, "Five Fingered John Libby." He married (first) No-vember 14, 1724, Sarah Libby, who was born in Kit tery, September 7, 1702, daughter of Alatthew and Elizabeth (Brown) Libby. (See Libby II.) After her death he married (second) January 9, 1755, Deborah Dunnivan, of Fal mouth, who probably died before him. His children, all by the first wife and born in Scar borough, were : Elisha, Matthew, Mark, Alli son, Nathaniel, Luke and John. (IV) Elisha, eldest cliUd of .John and Sarah (Libby) Libby, was born in Scarborough in 1725, and died March 18, 1791. Fle grew up in his native town and settled on land which his father gave him. He cleared up a farm, recently and perhaps now owned by Osgood Libby. He married (first) February 9, 1748, Esther Fogg; (second) November 28,^1753, Abigail Meserve, daughter of John and Je mima (Hubbard) Meserve, of Scarborough. She died June 5, 1817. His children, aU by the second wife, were : Elisha, Moses, Esther, Benjamin, AbigaU, Dorothy, Anna, Jane, Lucy, Rufus and Martha. CV) Rufus, fourth son of Elisha and Abi gail (Meserve) Libby, was born in Scarbor ough, AprU 23, 1777, and died in 1854. He succeeded to the paternal acres and spent his life cultivating them. He married (first) De cember 13, 1798, Charlotte Plummer, daughter of Jesse Plummer. She died January 26, 1825. He married (second) December 27, 1825, Esther Libby, who was born July 9, 1 78 1, daughter of Simon and Elizabeth (Thompson) Libby. (See Libby IV.) She died January 27, 1841. He married (third) 1 841, Mrs. Ann Lord, daughter of Abraham Bickford, who survived him. His chUdren, all by wife Charlotte, were : Alary, Hannah, Charlotte, Lydia, Eliza Osgood, Cornelius and Ellen. (VI) Lydia, fourth child of Rufus and Charlotte (Plummer) Libby, was born in Scarborough, January 28, 1805, and married, October 3, 1824, George Libby. (See Libby (IV) Andrew (2), eldest chUd of Lieuten ant Andrew (i) and Esther (Furber) Libby, was born in Scarborough, February 13, 1732, and first settled in the interior of the town on land adjacent to that of his brother Joshua. There he lived until 1789 when, with his four youngest sons, who were all that then re mained in his family, he moved to Gray "to settle his boys," and located on Dutton HiU, where he died February 21, 1801. He mar ried, November 16, 1755, Miriam Burns, born on the passage of her parents from Ireland to this country. She died March 13, 1827, aged ninety years. Their chUdren were: Elizabeth, Anna, Esther, WUliam, Jane, Re becca, Mary, Andrew, Joseph,' David and Simon. (V) Andrew (3), eighth child of Andrew (2) and Miriam (Burns) Libby, was born in Scarborough, May 27, 1771. As stated above he went with his father and brothers to Gray, where he was a farmer. He owned and oc cupied four different places in that town. In his old age he and his wife went to live with their son Elias in Windham, where they both died; she February 21, and he Alarch 31, 1855. He was then eighty-four years old. He married Sarah Cummings, of Gray, by whom he had eight children : Christina, EHas, Ebenezer, Joseph, Esther, Lucinda, Charlotte and Lucy. (VI) Elias, eldest son of Andrew (3) and Sarah (Cummings) Libby, was born in Gray, November 4, 1796. He removed to Windham when a young man, and a year after his mar riage settled on the farm where he spent the remainder of his life. He lived some time in what is now the porch (a little house which he hauled from a neighboring farm), and afterward built on the brick house now stand ing. He married, AprU 8, 1821, EUzabeth Hawkes, of Windham. They were the pa rents of nine children : Ebenezer H., Andrew, Elihu, Sarah P., Albert MitcheU, Lydia L., Daniel C, Rebecca H., and Hannah A., next mentioned. (VII) Hannah Allen, youngest chUd of Elias and Elizabeth (Hawkes) Libby, was born in Windham. March 29, 1838, and mar ried, AprU 14, 1863, Charles H. HaskeU (see Haskell IV), and resides on the homestead where she was born. (IV) Simon, eleventh and youngest child of Lieutenant Andrew and Esther (Furber) Libby, was born in Scarborough, June 7, 1752, and died October 12, 1826. He was a well- to-do farmer and always lived on his father's homestead. He married, December i, 1772, Ehzabeth Thompson, daughter of George and Ruth Thompson, of Scarborough, from old York. She died January 10, 1825. Their children were: Ruth, Sarah, Elizabeth, EYances, Esther, Abigail, Simon and George. (V) George, eighth and youngest chUd of Simon and Elizabeth (Thompson) Libby, was born in Scarborough, February 4, 1791, and STATE OF AlAINE. 315 died Xovember 2, 1840. He succeeded to the ancestral homestead, and he and his brother tore down the house which had been his grandfather's and built, on the opposite side of the road, the one now standing. He mar ried, October 3, 1824, Lydia Libby, who was born January 28, 1805, and died September 5, 1839. She \yas the daughter of [Rufus and Chariotte (Plummer) Libby. (See Libby VI.) The chUdren of this union were : (jCorge Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Frank lin, Alary Elizabeth, Esther Frances, John Adams, Simon, Esther Allen and Lydia Frances. (AT) Alary Elizabeth, fourth child of George and Ly-dia (Libby) Libby, was born in Scarborough, Alarch 22. 1830, and mar ried Alay 2, 1S52, John A. Tompson. (See Tompson A'lIL) (IV) Seth, ninth son and fourteenth chUd of Captain John and Anna (Fogg) Libby, was born on Oak Hill, Scarborough, Alay i, 1755. and died December 9, 1836. He lived and died on the farm where he was born. His house w-as on the post road between Portland and Boston, and in addition to carrydng on his farm he kept a tavern. He married. May 12, 1779, Lydia Jordan, who was born Alarch 22, 1763, daughter of Dominicus Jordan of Cape Elizabeth, the same known as "Old Stuff." She lived to the age of ninety-two and died October 17, 1852. Their chUdren were: Aaron, Lois, Susannah, Lydia, Anna, Phebe, Rhoda, Hannah, Jordan, Aaron, Hannah, Eunice and John. (A') Rhoda. seventh child of Seth and Lydia (Jordan) Libby, was born June 13, 1792, and married, September 23, 1819, Captain AVilliam Tompson. (See Tompson VIE) (Y) Captain Stephen, third son of Stephen and Margaret (Aldler) Libby, born in Scar borough, November 4, 1771, died November 20, 1859, aged eighty-eight years. He was a mariner for several years, but soon after his marriage settled on a farm on Oak HUl, where he was an industrious and prosperous farmer. He married, January 13, 1798, Agnes Hasty, who died Xovember 5, 1858. Their chUdren were: Harriet A., Lucinda, Benjamin Frank lin, Alargaret Agnes, Ernestine, Frances (died voting), "Harriet, Sally Alavnard, and Francis Libbv. (VI) Alargaret Agnes, fourth child of Cap tain Stephen and Agnes (Hasty) Libby, born on Oak HiU, X'ovember 6, 1806, married, July 17, 1832, Harrison Jewell Libby. (See Libby VIE) The ancient name Brad- BRADBURY bury is of Saxon origin, and is composed of the two elements brad, signifying broad, and bury, town, and was probably assumed by some one who had dwelt in the town of Bradbury. The name was restricted .in England to narrow limits, and at the time of the settlement of the first emigrants in X^ew England seems to have been confined to one parish in Derbyshire. The radiating point seems to have been OUer- set in the parish of Glossop, in the northerly part of Derby. The first mention of the name is in 1433, when there were living in OUerset Roger de Bradbury and Rodolphus de Brad bury. Neither one of these two gentlemen is claimed as an ancestor by the American Brad- burys. (I) Robert Bradbury, the earliest known ancestor of this line, must have been born as early as 1400. He resided at OUerset in Der byshire, and married a daughter of Robert Davenport (copied also Damport), of Bram hall, county of Chester. She was buried at Stansted, Mount Fitchet, county of Essex. They had two children, William and Thomas. (Il) AA'Uliam, son of Robert Bradbury, was of Braughing, in Hertfordshire, patron of the church of Westmill in Hertfordshire, in 1462. He married Alartha, daughter and co-heir of Geoff ry Rockhill, of Wormingford, county Essex. Their children were : Robert, Thomas, George, Elenry and PhUippa. (HI) Robert (2), eldest child of William and Martha (Rockhill) Bradbury, named in the inquisition of his brother. Sir Thomas, then dead, supposed justice of the assize. Isle of Ely, February 4, i486, witness to the will of George X'ichall, of Littlebury, December 2, 1484, died 1489, and was buried in the church of Grey Friars, London), is said to have mar ried Anne, daughter of Infans Wyant. They had a son AVilliam, next mentioned. (IV) AA'Uliam (2), son of Robert (2) and Anne (Wyant) Bradbury, was born in 1480. He is named in the inquisition post mortem on the estate of his uncle. Sir Thomas, in 15 10, then aged thirty-five years, to whose estate he succeeded, Lord of the Alanor of Mancendem, acquired the manor of Catmere HaU in Little- bury, county Essex, 1543, and was buried at Littlebury^ June 15, 1546. He is incorrectly said to have married Joan, daughter of Sir John FitzwUliams, Lord of Elmyn and Spots- bury, and widow of Thomas Bendish, of Bowre Hall, in Steeple Bumstead, Esq., who died in 1477, leaving issue : Richard Bendish, 3i6 STATE OF MAINE. Esq. His children were: WiUiam, Phillippa, and Matthew, whose sketch follows. (V) Matthew, youngest of the three chU dren of WiUiam (2) Bradbury, was Lord of the Manor of Wicken HaU, in the parish of Wicken Bonant, which manor he acquired by purchase in 1557. He purchased the manor of Grange in Thaxted, county of Essex, and sold it the next year. He is mentioned in the wills of his brother William and nephew Robert. He died June 19, 1585, and an inquisition post mortem was held October 26, 1587. He mar ried Alargaret Rowse, of the city of Cam bridge. Their chUdren were: William, Thom as and Barbara. (VI) WiUiam (3), eldest chUd of Matthew and Margaret (RowseJ Bradbury, of Wicken Bonant, Esq., aged forty-one in 1585, is named in the wills of his cousin Robert and brother Thomas. His own will is dated April 19, 1622, and was proved May 6, 1623. He died November 30, 1622, and was buried at Wicken. He married Anne, daughter and heir of Richard Eden, Esq., LL. D., of Bury St. Edmunds, county of Suffolk, who died and was buried at Wicken, February 8, 1612. Their children were : Matthew, Wymond, Henry, Thomas (died young), Bridget, Anne and Alice. (VII) Wymond, second son and chUd of William (3) and Anne (Eden) Bradbury, was of Wicken Bonant, afterward of the parish of Whitechapel, county Middlesex, and died in 1650. He was baptized at Newport Pond, May 16, 1574, and was of London, October 17, 1628. fle married Elizabeth, daughter of "WUliam Whitgift, and sister of the wife of his brother Matthew. She died June 26, 1612, in the thirty-ninth year of her age, and was buried at Croydon, county Surrey. Her first husband was Richard Coles, of Leigh, Wor cestershire, who died November, 1600. She married (second) Francis Gill, of London, who died in 1605; and (third) Wymond Bradbury. Their children were: William, Thomas, Jane and Anne. (VIII) Thomas, second son and child of Wymond and EUzabeth (Whitgift) (GUI) Bradbury, was baptized at Wicken Bonant, Essex county, England, February 28, 161 1, as appears by the parish register. Early in 1634, says the Bradbury memorial from which this sketch is taken, he appeared at Agamen- ticus^, now York, Maine, as the agent or stew ard of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the proprietor of the province of Maine. He was one of the original proprietors of the ancient town of Salisbury, Massachusetts, one of the earliest settlers in that place, and was one of the fore most citizens there' for a period of more than half a century. In 1640 he was made free man, held at various times the offices of schoolmaster of the town, town clerk, justice of the peace, deputy to the general court, county recorder, associate judge and captain of the military company , and always fiUed these important positions with credit to him self and satisfaction to the public. He wrote an easy, graceful and le.gible hand_, and had a clear and concise style of expression. In 1636 he became a grantee of Salisbury, and the fol lowing year was appointed first clerk of the writs in that town. He was chosen deputy to the general court in 1651-52-56-57-60-61 and 1666. In 1654-56-58-59 he was a member of various committees to settle differences con cerning lands, to fi.x boundaries and locate grants. As agent for Gorges, he executed some of the earliest deeds contained in the York county records. He died Alarch 16, 1695, aged eighty-four years or more. Thomas Bradbury was married to Mary, daughter of John and Judith Perkins, of Ipswich, in 1636. When about eighty years old (1692) Mrs. Bradbury was arrested for the crime of be witching John Carr, so that he became crazed and prematurely died. She was ably and courageously defended by Alajor Robert Pike, but she with four others was convicted. By some means she escaped punishment, but the others were executed. Her pastor. Rev. James Allen, testified of her as follows: "I, having lived nine years at Salisbury in the work of the ministry, and now four years in the office of pastor, to my best notice and ob servance of Mrs. Bradbury, she hath hved ac cording to the rules of the gospel amongst us ; was a constant attender upon the ministry of the word, and all the ordinances of the gos pel ; full of works of charity and mercy to the sick and poor; neither have I seen or heard anything of her unbecoming the profession of the gospel." One hundred and eighteen of Mrs. Bradbury's acquaintances, consisting of both men and women, gave very strong testi mony of the goodness of her character. She survived untU 1700, and died Deceinber 20th of that year. The children of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury were: Wvmond, Judith, Thomas, Mary, Jane, Jacob and WiU iam. (IX) Wymond (2), ddest chUd of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury, born April i, 1637, died April 7, 1669, on the Island of Nevis, in the West Indies, as is stated on a record made by his father and now in Essex STATE OF MAINE. 317 county archives in Salem, Alassachusetts. He married, May 7, 1661, Sarah Pike, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Saunders) Pike. She married (second) John Stockman, who died December 10, 1686, and by him she had five children. The children of Wymond and Sarah Bradbury were : Sarah, Ann, and Wymond, whose sketch foUows. (X) Wymond (3), youngest chUd and only son of Wymond (2) and Sarah (Pike) Brad bury, born May 13, 1669, died in York, Maine, April 17, 1734. He married Maria Cotton, born January 14, 1672, daughter of Rev. John Jr. and Joanna (Rosseter) Cotton. Her father was the son of Rev. John and Sarah (Story) Cotton, and her mother the daughter of Dr. Bryan Rosseter, of Guilford, Connecti cut. She married (second) John Heard, of Kittery, and died in that town January 30, 1736. The children of Wymond and Alaria Bradbury were : Jabez, Wymond, John, Row land, Ann, Josiah, Theophilus, Maria and Jerusha. (XI) Elder John, third son and child of Wymond (3) and A/Iaria (Cotton) Bradbury, born September 9, 1697, died December 3, 1778, aged eighty-one years. He was the founder of the York family of Bradbury. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, a man of much energy, prominent in town af fairs, several times a member of the provin cial legislature, ten years a member of the executive council, ami also judge of the pro bate court, fle was an ardent patriot in the time of the revolution, and it is said that on one occasion he rebuked his minister in open meeting for disloyal sentiments expressed in his sermon. He married Abigail, daughter of Lieutenant Joseph and Abigail (Donnell) Young, of York. They had children : Cotton, Lucy, Bethulah, Maria, Abigail, Elizabeth, John, Joseph and Anne. (XII) Joseph, eighth chUd and third son of Elder John and Abigail (Young) Brad bury, born October 23, 1740, died in Saco, De cember 23, 1821. Joseph Bradbury, of Pep- perellborough (now Saco), was first lieuten ant in Captain Humphrey Pike's first (Pep- pereUborough) company. Third York County Regiment, and his name is in the list of Mas sachusetts militia officers, commissioned March 27, 1776. He was also in Captain Thomas Rumney's company of the Third York County Regiment, and his name is on the list of officers of Massachusetts militia chosen to command a battalion drafted from York coun ty brigade, agreeable to order of court of Au gust 9, 1777. This regiment was raised in Biddeford, Pepperellborough, Buxton, and Little Falls to re-enforce the Northern army. fle was also captain of the first company of Colonel Cutts's (Third York County) regi ment, and his name is on the list of officers of Massachusetts militia. He was commis sioned December 14, 1779. He was a resident of Saco fifty-three years. He married Dor othy, daughter of Daniel Clark Esq. She was born in York in 1748, and died June 7, 1831, aged eighty-three years. Their children were: Jeremiah, Anna, Dorothy and Narcissa. (XIII) Jeremiah, eldest chUd of Captain Joseph and Dorothy (Clark) Bradbury, born at Saco, October 22, 1779, died in Calais, No vember, 1848. He read law in the office of Cyrus King Esq., of Saco, and subsequently in the office of Nicholas Emery, of Parsons field. He was admitted to the York county bar in 1805, and began practice in Saco. He moved to Biddeford in 1810, and two years later to South Berwick. In 181 3 he was ap pointed coUector of customs for the district of York, and in May, 181 5, moved to York. In 1820 he was appointed by Governor King clerk of the judicial courts of York county, and then he resigned his coUectorship and moved to Alfred. He was clerk twenty years, filling the position continuously untU 1841, with the exception of one year. In 1841 he moved to Calais, where he continued the prac tice of law, a part of the time as partner of George Walker Esq., until his death in No vember, 1848. He married, October 28, 1810, Mary Langdon, born in Saco, December 5, 1789. Her father was Seth Storer, of Wells and Saco. Mrs. Bradbury's mother was Olive, daughter of Colonel Tristram Jordan, who died in Saco, August 4, 1842, aged eighty-four years. Their chUdren were: Bion, Lucius, Mary Langdon, Ann Eliza, Emily, Frederick Storer (died young), Alarcia and Frederick Storer. (XIV) Hon. Bion, eldest child of Jeremiah and Mary Langdon (Storer) Bradbury, born in Biddeford, December 6, 181 1, died in Port land, July I, 1887. He prepared for college in South Berwick and Gorham academies, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1830. The foUowing year he was preceptor of Alfred Academy, and in 1832 entered upon the study of law in the office of Daniel Goodenow, of Alfred. Before the completion of his studies he went to Portland and finished them with Hon. William P. Preble, and was admitted to the York county bar in May, 1834. He began practice in Calais, and soon formed a partner ship with flon. Anson G. Chandler, which 31^ STATE OF MAINE. continued until Mr. Chandler's appointment to a place o nthe bench of the supreme court. Mr. Bradbury remained in the practice of law in Calais ten years, and in 1844 was ap pointed collector of customs for Passama- quoddy district, and moved to Eastport; he was twice reappointed. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1849-50-62. The last time he was returned he had the unusual hon or of being elected by the unanimous vote of both parties. He was a candidate for congress in 1858 and 1874, and for governor in 1863, but his party being in the minority, he was defeated. In 1856-60-80 he was a member of the National Democratic conventions. Dur ing all these years Mr. Bradbury continued in the practice of law, and always with marked success. He was a good counsellor and a brilliant advocate. In 1864 he removed to Portland, and in 1885 ^"^'^s appointed surveyor of the port of Portland, and held that office until his death. The Portland Argus con tained the following editorial on Mr. Brad bury the day following his death : "The intel ligence of the death of Bion Bradbury will be received with profound regret by men of all parties and sects. It will occasion a feeling of personal loss to more people in this state, un related to him by kinship or political ties, than the announcement of the death of any other citizen of Maine. The public service of which he was an officer, the old party in which he was born and to which he gave the best days of his life, miss a faithful servant and a bril liant chief. The State of Maine mourns the loss of a patriotic and devoted son. But be yond this and deeper than this is the sense of bereavement felt by those who had no sym pathy with his political tenets, no particular knowledge of his striking ability in the legal profession, no especial sympathy with his love for books and his thirst for knowledge. They loved him for himself; for those rare per sonal qualities that endeared him to all whom he met and attached them to him with hooks of steel. His exquisite courtesy, his manners as polished as those of a noble of the old re gime, his wide and democratic sympathy for his fellows of all classes, his willingness to lend a helping hand to those in need, and the entire absence of ostentation which marked his life and bearing — all these combined to make him a universal favorite. No one ever met him that was not touched by the grace of his greetings. WhUe his memory will be honored as a statesman by men of all political parties, as a brilliant jurist by the legal pro fession he adorned, as a man of culture by scholars, it will be held in affection by other hundreds who care little for those things, but who will long cherish the remembrance of the kindness of ,Bion Bradbury and the courtly grace of his manner. No man ever conferred a favor that so well conveyed the impression that he was asking for it." Mr. Bradbury married, October 25, 1837, Alice H., born in Waterville, Maine, Septem ber 9, 1816, died in Portland, Maine, AprU 27, 1885. She was the daughter of Colonel John son and Williams, of Brooklyn, New York, and afterward of Waterville, Maine. The children of this union were : Mary Lang don Storer, Albert WiUiams, William Dow, Bion Lucius (died young), Alice WUliams, Bion and Marcia Dow. (XV) Alice WiUiams, fifth chUd and sec ond daughter of Hon. Bion and Alice H. (WUliams) Bradbury, born January 25, 1849, married, December 9, 1869, Charles F. Libby, of Portland (see Libby VIII). This name, with its various PHILBROOK orthography: Philbrick, Philbrook, PhUbrucke, Philbrok, etc., appears in the past generations generally spelled Philbrick, yet for two hun dred years many families spelled it Philbrook, as do the families of the sixth generation, the way it is generally pronounced. In the Colon ial times the spelling is indiscriminate, and apparently taken as pronounced, using the let ters best calculated to represent the pronun ciation used. We can find no positive con nection of the first of this name in New Eng land with the famUies of the same name in England. (I) Thomas Philbrick, apparently a mari ner in England and at all events a shipbuilder, was the first of the name in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, and was born in England, the approximate date of his birth being 1583, and that of his death 1667. He came to New England from Lincolnshire with his wife Elizabeth and several children, and they ap pear on the records of the town of Watertown as early as 1636, and it is probable that mem bers of the family, especially his sons, came at various times between 1630 and 1636, and one or more may have been with the original party that made the first settlement in 1630. Bird, the historian of Watertown, locates the Philbrick homestead on the northwest corner of Belmont and Lexington streets as the town is now laid out. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth Philbrick, according to the early church and family records, were: i. James, STATE OF MAINE. 319 born in England, about 1622, married (first) Jane, and (second) Ann Roberts, sisters, and had ten children by the second marriage. He was drowned in the Hampton river, Novem ber 16, 1674. 2. John, bom in England, was a proprietor in the town of Watertown, Alas sachusetts Bay Colony, and removed to Hamp ton in 1639. He married Ann Palmer, and had seven children by the marriage ; he was drowned at sea with his wife and daughter, November 20, 1657. 3- Thomas, see forward. 4. Elizabeth, married Thomas, son of Aquila Chase, and they had five children. 5. Han nah, who was named in her father's will, made in Alarch, 1664, but of whom there appears to be no other record. 6. Alary, married Ed ward, son of Robert Tuck, of flampton, about 1648, and he had by this marriage two chil dren; some time after his first wife's death he married a second time and he died in 1699. 7. Martha, born in Watertown, 1633, married John Cass, and her grandson was the Hon. Lewis Cass, the American statesman and sol dier. Thomas Philbrick, the senior, father of these children, removed from Watertown to Hampton in 1650-51, to which place his elder sons had preceded him, and in 1661 he bought land adjoining the farms then owned by his son James and his son-in-law, John Cass, hav ing sold his estate in Watertown to Isaac Stearns. His \vife died March 19, 1663, and he made his will in Alarch, 1664, at which time he speaks of himself as "very aged," and the veteran immigrant settler died in Hampton in 1667. (II) Thomas (2), third son of Thomas (i) and Elizabeth Philbrick, was born in England in 1624, settled with his father in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1647 mar ried Anne, daughter of Deacon William Knapp, who settled in Watertown in 1630, and about 1651 they settled on land in that part of Hampton now known as Seabrook, New Hampshire, and most of the estate then purchased remained in the Philbrook family, his descendants, for two hundred and forty years. He was made deacon of the church in Hampton, in November, 1669, was selectman of the town for five years, was a representa tive in the general court and was sergeant in the mUitia company of flampton, Massachu setts, in 1693. fle had four chUdren by his wife, Anne (Knapp) PhUbrick, and she died May 17, 1667. fle married (second) Octo ber 22, 1669, Hannah, widow of John White, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and daughter of Edward and Ann French, of Hampton, and by her had three children. He died in Hamp ton, November 24, 1700, aged seventy-six. The children of Sergeant Thomas and Anne (Knapp) Philbrick, all born in Hampton, were: i. Alary, born September 11, 1651. 2. Bethia, born January 16, 1654 (there is .some doubt as to this being his daughter). 3. Jona than, born July 19, 1660, and by his wife Jane had three chddren, and died at Sahsbury, Alas sachusetts, Aprd 22, 1694. 4. Elizabeth, born 1667, died an infant the same year, probably at the time of her mother's death. The chil dren of Sergeant Thomas and Hannah (French) (White) Philbrick were: 5. Will iam, see forward. 6. Jane, married, August 17, 1700, Joseph Cram. 7. Hannah, with no dates of birth or death given. (Ill) WiUiam, eldest son of Sergeant Thomas (2) and Hannah (French) (White) Philbrick, yvas born in Hampton, New Hamp shire, July 27, 1670, was brought up on the farm of his father and continued to follow his vocation. He married, October 10, 1689, Mary, daughter of Walter Neal, of Greenland parish, town of Portsmouth, and he settled on a farm in that parish before 1694. He was made constable of the town in 1695, and with his wife joined the first church organized in Greenland in July, 1706, at the time of the establishment of the town government. They, had children, namely: i. Walter, bora in Hampton, November 10, i6go, married Eliza beth, daughter of Robert Tufton, afterward knoyvn as Mason, and had six children, and his widow married as her second husband. Rev. William Allen, of Greenland, Walter Philbrick having died in 1732. 2. Jonathan, see forward. 3. Alary, born May 20, 1702. 4. Samuel, married and lived in Greenland. 5. Olive. 6. Abigail. 7. Sarah. (IV) Jonathan, second son of William and Alary (Neal) Philbrick, of Hampton and Greenland, was born in Greenland parish, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, about 1694. He joined the church in Greenland in 1721, was both a farmer and shipwright, and a man of remarkable enterprise. He married Elizabeth and they had seven children. In 1728 he sold his property in Greenland, New Hamp shire, and removed to Arundel, York county, Maine, and thence to Saco, Maine. In 1743 he removed to "Long Ranch," on the Kenne bec river, and built a garrison house which afforded shelter and protection for four neigh boring families in the Indian wars, and he and his sons launched several ships at their yards, located where the custom house in Bath now stands. He married, probably in Maine, his second wife, Mary Springer. The 320 STATE OE AlAINE children of Jonathan and Elizabeth Philbrick were: i. Elinor, baptized 1722 in Greenwood, New Hampshire. 2. William, 1724. 3. Cap tain Jonathan, died in Clinton, Maine, 1801. 4. Priscilla, baptized in Greenwood, married John Barnes, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, and had twelve children. 5. David, baptized in 1724. 6. Abigail, baptized in 1725. 7. Deacon Joshua, born October 10, 1727. 8. Job, see forward. 9. Sarah, baptized 1731. 10. Jo seph, born about 1733. (V) Job, fifth son of Jonathan and Eliza beth Philbrick, was baptized in 1729, in the church in Greenland, New Elampshire, and when fifteen years of age was working on his father's farm in Greenland, having a compan ion and helper, an Irish boy by the name of Malony. They were plowdng in a field some distance from the house and hidden from it by an intervening woods, and while there em ployed they were surprised by a party of In dians who cut off their retreat to the house by taking a position on the direct path, and they were quickly taken prisoners and carried be yond house call and thence to Canada, where Job was held a prisoner of the tribe for some years, and on returning home he continued to work upon the farm. He was married to Mary Trufant, of Georgetown, Maine, the marriage taking place about 1752. Ele set tled first at "Long Reach," in Georgetown (afterwards Bath, Maine) and then at Vinal flarbor, where he was a farmer, carpenter and shipbuilder and lumberman. Ele also was scrivener, writing deeds, bonds and other legal papers for the early settlers of his neighbor hood. By his wife, Mary (Trufant) Phil brick, he had five children, as follows : i. Jere miah, born in Georgetown (Bath), Maine, December 8, 1752, resided on part of the homestead and helped work the f;irm, and when twenty-one years of age married Sarah, daughter of Increase Leadbetter, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, where she was born July 9, 1754. He died in Bath, September 16, 1819, and his widow survived him till February 2, 1847, when she had reached her eighty-eighth year, after having brought up ten of her eleven children and seeing them happily mar ried and blessing her with numerous grand children. 2. Mary (Molly), married WUliam Radcliff, of Thoma.ston, Alaine, and had eight children. 3. Lydia, married John Smith, of Vinal Harbor, and had one child. 4. Joel, born August 14, 1759, married, in January, 1775, Mary, daughter of Increase Leadbetter, born in Stoughton, Alassachusetts, December 12, 1 761, had fifteen children, and with the mother and five younger removed to Licking county, ([)hio, during the war of 1812, and he died at St. Albans, Ohio, September 15, 1820, and his widow near Etna, Ohio, September 24, 1850. 5. Jane, married Isaac Tolman, .she being his third wife, and she had one chUd,, Lydia Tolman, who was the twentieth child of Isaac Tolman, and she married Samuel Has kell, of Gorham, Alaine. Mary (Trufant) Philbrick died in Vinal Elarbor about 1774. After his older children were settled Job Phil brick married Dolly Hinckley, of Castine, Alaine, and removed from Vinal Harbor, Maine, and settled on one of the Islesboro group called Job's Island and his sixth child. Job Jr., was born in Castine, Maine; his sev enth chUd, and second by second wife, was Jonathan, inentioned below. The eighth child Elannah was by his third wife, Elannah (Coombes) Philbrick. He died at Vinal Har bor about 1802. There is an incident recorded of this early settler that describes a phase of life on the frontier at that time. After he had a large family to provide for, from a scant income, he was called from home on business and was detained much longer than he intended, and in his absence provisions in the household, made up of many children, fell short. The heroic mother determined not to allow her children to starve, and not knowing how long her husband might be detained, she, taking with her the oldest child, Jeremiah, then fourteen years of age, and a hand sled and a good supply of ammunition for their two guns, determined to go and hunt food. Their path was through the woods filled with snow and ice, and after following the trail four miles, they met up with a moose and she shot it, and after cutting its throat to let out the blood, the weight of the animal prevented its removal entire, she cut off sufficient to feed the children for several days and returned with it to the home she had left in the morn ing, four miles distant, and the father getting there the next day, easily brought home the remain fler of the carcass of the moose. (VI) Jonathan (2) Philbrook, fnurth son and seventh child of Job and Dolly Philbrick, was born, probably in Castine, Maine, and was a seafaring man. Elis wife was an Abbot, but her christian name is not recorded. The only child of Jonathan and -. (Abbot) Phil brick was John, mentioned below. Jonathan Philbrook died probably the same year from a fall from the deck into the hold of a vessel on which he had shipped. (VII) John, only son of Jonathan (2) and (Abbot) Philbrook, was born in Pros- ¦trvT^ STATE OF MAINE. 321 pect, Maine, December 10, 1796. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Daniel Mor gan, of Sedgwick, Maine, and he followed the sea as had his father. Three children were born to them, as follows: i. John, born in Sedgwick, July 2, 1818, and was lost at sea February 14, , when eighteen years of age. 2. Luther Groves, mentioned below. 3. Harriet E., born AprU 21, 1822, died July 15, 1872. John Philbrook died at Edenton, North Carolina, February 23, 1823, when tyventy- six years of age, and his widow at Sedgwick, Maine, August 25, 1876. (VIII) Luther Groves, second son of John and Elizabeth (Morgan) PhUbrook, yyas born in Sedgwick, Maine, March 21, 1820. He was bound out to a cabinetmaker in Castine, and after serving his time returned to Sedgwick, where he worked at his trade up to about 1854, when he went to Portland and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1856 he returned to Sedgwick and worked in that town up to 1861, when he was appointed deputy collector of customs and served in President Lincoln's administration and that of President Johnson in 1861-69, and in 1869 was transferred to Castine, the port of entry, where he served as special deputy to the collector of the port, and he was displaced by President Cleveland at the beginning of his first administration in 1881. He continued to live a retired life in Castine, where he was a trustee of the State Normal school up to the time of his death, September 10, 1892. He had served the town of Sedgwick as selectman during his residence there, and on removing to Castine was on the board of selectmen and served as president of the board. He was married July 3, 1843, to Angelia, daughter of Napthali and Abagail Coffin, of Livermore, Maine. She was born March 8, 1823, and died in Castine, Novem ber 2, 1891. The chUdren of Luther Groves and Angelia (Coffin) Philbrook were: i. Eudora G., born in Sedgwick, Maine, April 28, 1844, married Henry W. Sargent, of Sedg wick. 2. Edward Everett, born in Portland, Maine, September 21, 1854, became a physi cian and surgeon. 3. Warren Coffin, men tioned below. (IX) Warren Coffin, son of Luther Groves and Angelia (Coffin) [Philbrook, was born in Sedgwick, Maine, November 30, 1857. fle at tended the public schools of Castine, and the state normal school, also located in that town, and was fitted for coUege at the Coburn Classical Institute, matriculating at Colby University in 1878, and graduating A. B., 1882. He taught one year in Farmington State Normal school, then served as principal of Waterville high school until June, 1887. He studied law with Hon. Edmund Fuller Webb and Hon. Reuben Foster, of Waterville, Maine, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He opened an office for the practice of law in Waterville, and was made judge of the Wa terville municipal court. He represented the city in the state legislature for two terms, and was a member of the judiciary committee of the house. He also served as mayor of Wa terviUe for two years, and for several years as member of the board of education of the city. He became an effective political speaker, and was sought and held in high esteem as an orator, both on the stump and on notable public occasions. On the occasion of the cen tennial of the settlement of Waterville held in June, 1902, the choice of orator fell to him, and his oration then pronounced was widely read and gave universal pleasure and was highly praised as an oratorical effort and prized on account of its historical values. He is a member of Waterville Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, past master of the lodge, and a member of the Tacconet Chap ter and its past high priest; and has served as commander of the St. Omer Commandery, Knights Templar, and is Grand Generalissimo of the Grand Commandery of Maine. He was given the thirty-second degree in Masonry and made a member of the Maine Consistory at Portland. He also affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, and for the years 1901-02 was grand chancellor of the order in the state. He is a member of the American Order of United Workmen, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Independent Order of Foresters of America. In 1905, when the legislature cre ated the office of assistant attorney-general of the state, he was honored by appointment as the first lawyer in Maine to fill the honorable position. In January, 1909, he was elected attorney general of Maine, a position which he now continues to hold. He w-as married August 22, 1882, to Ada, daughter of Moses C. and Francina (Smith) Foster. Mrs. Phil brook was born in Bethel, Alaine, June 17, 1854. The name Abbott is derived ABBOTT through the Syriac, abba, from the Hebrew, ab, meaning father. It has been applied to the head of a religious order by various races from early times and finally became an English surname. There has been considerable controversy about the spelling of the patronymic whether with one STATE OF AlAIXE. or two t's. Alany have lield that the single let ter indicates the ancient and correct form. Historical investigation would seem to indicate otherwise. Of the two hundred and eleven Abbotts, w-liose w-ills were filed in the courts in and about London during the fourteenth, fif teenth and sixteenth centuries, one hundred and ninety-five have signed their names w-ith two t's. Alajor Lemuel Abijah Abbott, United States arm}-, w-ho has recentl}- written the valuable w-ork in two volumes on the Descend ants of George Abbott, of Rowley, finds the same proportion among the signatures of the early -\merican Abbotts, though he frankly says that he personally w-ould prefer the single t, and always supposed that it w-as the origi nal form. To come still nearer home, the pioneer Abbotts of Concord, Xew- Hainpshire, frequently used the double letter, as can be seen by their signatures (they never were obliged to make their marks) to the early provincial papers. The ancient English branch of the Ab bott family lived in Yorkshire and their arms w-ere a shield ermine, with a pale gules on which are three pears, or. Above the shield is a closed helmet, and the crest is a dove bear ing an olive branch in its mouth. The Guil ford branch in Surrey, w-hich contains the most distinguished members of the family, have arms in which the three pears are promi nent, but they are varied by the insignia of the bishop's office. The Guilford Abbotts present a remarkable record. Alaurice Abbott was a cloth w-orker in the town during the si.xteenth century and his wife was Alice Alarch or Alarsh. They were staunch Protes tants and people of undoubted respectabilitv, but their own condition gave little indication of the eminence to w-hich three of their sons w-ould attain. They w-ere all contemporaries of Shakespeare, and their talents were of the kind brought out by "the spacious times of great Elizabeth." Robert Abbott, the eldest of the six sons, became bishop of Sahsbury; George, the second (1562-1633), became lord archbishop of Canterbury, which gave him the rank of the first citizen of England ; and Alor- ris, the youngest, became a knight, governor of the East India Company and lord mayor of London. Of English Abbotts in more recent times mention may be made of Charles Abbott, son of John .Abbott, of Canterbury, who was made lord chief justice of England in 1818, and Baron Tenterden in 1827. Another Charles Abbott, son of Rev. John .Abbot, of Colchester (name with one t), was speaker of the house of commons from 1802 to 1817, when he w-as elevated to the peerage as Baron Colchester. The Abbott family in this country has produced few- people of world-wide fame, but according to Alajor Lemuel A. Abbott, pre\-iously quoted, the name has stood for "quiet dignity, consideration, kindness of heart and great suavity of manner."' Alany of the family have been fanners who lived for generations on their ancestral lands, a home- loving, law-abiding, peaceful folk; but there are maiiy^ writers, clergymen and coUege pro fessors on the list. The writers number men like the brothers, Jacob and John S. C. ; and the clergy such names as Dr. Lyman Abbott. son of Jacob. Airs. Sarah (Abbott) Abbott, of Andover, Alassachusetts, became the founder of Abbott Academy, February 26, 1829, the first school exclusively endowed for girls in the country. She was the great-great- granddaughter of George Abbott, whose line foUow-s. Among other Americans w-ho have the Abbott blood, but not the name, are Presi dent Hayes, Abbott Law-rence, minister of the Court of St. Jaines, and Bishop Lawrence, of Alassachusetts. (.1) George Abbott, the venerable ancestor of a numerous progeny, emigrated, as tradi tion reports, from Yorkshire, England, about 1640, was among the first settlers in Andover, Alassachusetts, in 1643, and a proprietor of that town. He lived and died on the farm owned (1S47) by John Abbott, the seventh in line of descent. His house was a garrison and was used as such man}- years after his death. In 1647 he married Hannah Chandler, daugh ter of William and Annie Chandler. They were industrious, economical, sober, pious and respected. With christian fortitude and sub mission they endured their trials, privations and dangers, of wdiich they had a large share. They brought up a large famil}- well and trained them in the way they should go, from w-hich the}- did not depart. George" Abbott died December 24, 1681, aged sixtv-si.x. His w-idow- married (^second) Rev. Francis Dane, minister of Andover. who died Februar\-, 1697, aged eighty-one. She died June 11', 171 1, aged eighty-tw-o. The thirteen children of George and Hannah Abbott were : Tohn, Jo seph (died young), Hannah, Toseph", George, William, Sarah, Benjamin, Tiinothy, Thomas, Edward, Nathaniel and Elizabeth. Joseph Abbott, born Alarch, 164S, died June 24, 1650, and his death was the first on the town rec ords. Joseph, born Alarch 30, 1652, died -¦\pril 8, 1676, the first in .\ndoyer wdio fell victim to Indian yvarfare. (II) John, eldest chdd of George and Han- STATE OF MAINE. 323 nah (Chandler) Abbott, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, March 2, 1648, died March 19, 1 72 1. He resided with his father in the garri son house. He was a man of good judgment and executive ability, and was employed in town business, often as selectman, and was deputy to the general court. When the church was organized in the South Parish, in 171 1, he was chosen deacon, and Mr. Phillips states that "he used the office well." Ele and his wife were respected for their uprightness and piety. lie married, November 17, 1673, Sa rah Barker, daughter of Richard Barker, one of the first settlers of Andover. She was born in 1647, 'i'S'^ February 10, 1720. Their chU dren were : John, Joseph, Stephen, Sarah, Ephraim, Joshua, [M^ry, Ebenezer and Pris cilla. One child died young. The average ages at death of the eight who survived was eighty years and three months. (Ill) Deacon John (2), eldest child of John (i) and Sarah (Barker) Abbott, was born in Andover, November 2, 1674, died January i, 1754. Ele lived on the homestead of his fath ers, "was a selectman, and a useful citizen, and a deacon of the church thirty-four years ; mild, cheerful and humble." His wife, "like Elizabeth of old, with her husband, walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless." They were faithful in com manding their household to keep the way of the Lord, and had the satisfaction of seeing them walk in it. lie married, Jantiary 6, 1703, Elizabeth Harndin, of Reading, who died Au gust 9, 1756. Their children were: John (died young), John, Barachias, Elizabeth, Abiel and Joseph. (IV) Captain John (3), second child of Deacon John (2) and Elizabeth (Harndin) Abbott, was born in Andover, August 3, 1704, died November 10, 1793. He, too, resided on the homestead of the immigrant. He inherited the character of his ancestors, and was an in fluential citizen and engaged in the town's business. He was selectman and a captain, 1754, in the Frencli and Indian war. He was a person of integrity, always acting on princi- . pie, and holding the truth and his promise sacred. "He was constant in his religious duties, reading the sacred scriptures, and hav ing prayer morning and evening." He mar ried, Septeniber 28, 1732, Phebe Fiske, of Box ford, born August 4, 1712, died in December, 1802. They had seven children : Phebe, John, Ezra, Abiel, Jeremiah, William and Benja min. Of these seven children three emigrated to Wilton, and became heads of families. John, the eldest son, inherited the ancestral farm. and had distinguished sons: John, who graduated from Harvard College in 1789 and became a professor in Bowdoin College ; Ben jamin, who took his degree at Harvard in 1788, and was fifty years principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. (V) Abiel, fourth child and third son of Captain John (3) and Phebe (Fiske) Abbott, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, April 19, 1 741, and died in Wilton, New Hampshire, August 19, 1809. He took the degree of D. D. at Harvard in 1792, and was a minister at liaverhill and Beverly. The history of Wil ton states that "he was five years a cooper in Andover. In 1764 he settled in Wilton on lot I, range 3, and on an acre previously cleared, he, in that year, built a two-story house and barn. lie married, in Andover, November 20, and moved into the new house, before its doors were hung. Ele was town treasurer in 1765; town clerk eleven years; selectman eleven years ; representative ; on the committee of safety and numerous other committees ; em ployed in town business every year more or less for forty years; captain, 1769; second major, 1776; first major, 1781 ; assistant as sessor, 1798; a justice of the peace fifteen years ; a deacon of the church sixteen years ; a guardian of orphans and helpful to the poor and needy. On the advance of General Bur goyne in 1777, among thousands of volunteers for the defense of Ticonderoga, 'two com panies, under the command of Major Abiel Abbott, of Wilton, inarched June 30, for the threatened fortress.' " Fle married, in And over, Massachusetts, November 20, 1764, Dor cas, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Ab bot) Abbot (as the}- spelled the name). She was born August i, 1744, died February 23, 1829. They had twelve children: Abiel, Jacob, Benjamin, Ezra, Dorcas, a son (born and died the same day), Samuel, Abigail, Persis, Rhoda, Samuel and Phebe. (VI) Phebe, youngest child of Abiel and Dorcas (Abbot) Abbott, married Benjamin Abbott (as they spelled the name), and re sided in Temple, IVIaine. (VII) Abigail, daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Abbott) Abbott, became the wife of Hannibal Elamlin, of Waterford, Maine (see Hamlin VI). (For flrst generation see preceding sketch.) (II) Nathaniel, tenth son and ABBtjTT twelfth child of George and Hannah (Chandler) Abbott, born July 4, 1671, died in December, 1749. Was a member of Rev. Thomas Barnard's 324 STATE OF MAINE. church, Andover. He married (first) Dor cas Hibbert, who died February 7, 1743. Their ten children were: Nathaniel, Mary, Joseph, Tabitha, Jeremiah, Joshua, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth and Rebecca. (Ill) Joseph, son of Nathaniel and Dor cas (Hibbert) Abbott, was born February 2, 1705, died August 2, 1787. He lived with his father while in .Andover -and moved to Wilton, Xew Hampshire, about 1776, and died there at the age of eighty-two years. He was deacon of the church and a man of great simplicity of manner and sound piety. For many years he tuned the song, while his cousin. Deacon Isaac Abbott, read it hne by line. He married, August 12, 1731, Deborah Blanchard, who died in July, 1773. Their children were: Deborah (died young), Joshua (died young), Bathsheba, Nathaniel (died young), Joshua, Deborah and Joseph (twins), the former born July 15, 1740, and the latter on the i6th, died young; Anna, Jo seph (died young), Flannah, Joseph, Jacob, Dorcas, Obadiah, X^athanid and Rebecca. (IV) Jacob, son of Joseph and Deborah (Blanchard) Abbott, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, March 22, 1746, and when a young man removed to WUton, New Hamp shire, where he built the first mill erected on the Souhegan river at Wilton. He repre sented the town in the general court of New Hampshire and was the first justice of the peace of the town and he served as justice of the court of common pleas and as a member of the governor's council. He removed to Andover, Massachusetts, where he was a trus tee of Phillip's Academy, and in 1797 re moved to Concord, New Hampshire, which town he represented in the general court for three years. In 1802 he went to Brunswick, Maine, and was a senator in the Maine legis lature and a member of the board of over seers of Bowdoin College. He was married in 1767 to Lydia Stevens, and they had ten children, among whom were : Lydia, married, in 1789, Thomas Russell, of Temple, Maine; Phebe, married Benjamin Abbott, of Temple, a distant relative, and became the mother of twelve children, .including Abigail, the wife of Hannibal Hamhn, vice-president of the United States, and mother of Abby, the wife of Rev. Lyman Abbott and Jacob Abbott (1776- 1849). He died in Brunswick, Maine, March 5, 1820, and his widow and five of his ten children survived him. (V) Jacob (2), eldest son of Jacob (i) and Lydia (Stevens) Abbott, was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, October 20, 1776. He re ceived a limited education judged from the point of necessity for coUege training, but was under excellent home training in the famUy of his father who was a manufacturer, jurist and legislator. He worked in his father's mill, at tended the public school, and on April 8, 1798, married Betsey Abbott, a distant kinswoman, who was born in Concord, New Hampshire, August 6, 1773, and died in Farmington, Alaine, July 30, 1846. In 1800 he removed from Wilton, New Hampshire, to HaUoweU, Maine, for the purpose of better looking after the interests of the Phillips and Weld fam ilies, who had settled on the wild lands of Maine, out of which grew the thriving towns of Phillips, Weld, Madrid, Salem, Temple, Avon and Carthage. He, during this period, made a temporary residence in Brunswick, Alaine, to give his children better educational advantages, but he removed to the town of Weld in order that he might better direct the settlement of lands he owned and those placed under his trusteeship. His influence, coupled with that of his father and other kinsmen, shaped the moral and religious character of the early settlers of the townships of PhiUips and Weld, and made them models of good citi zenship. He introduced the planting of shade trees on every street and contributed in that way to the rare beauty of the vUlage scenery. In 1836 he removed to Farmington, Alaine, where he purchased of the widow of Stephen Titcomb Jr. the estate on the southern border of the village known as "Few Acres" and in these beautiful and peaceful surroundings he passed the remainder of his life. He died at "Few Acres" in 1847, the year foUowing that in which he had followed his beloved wife to her grave, after having passed forty-eight years in her company. The children of Jacob and Betsey (Abbot) Abbott were: i. Sallucia, born in Hallowell, Maine, August 7, 1801, lived unmarried in Farmington during her en tire life. 2. Jacob, November 14, 1803. 3. John Stevens Cabot, Brunswick, Maine, Sep tember 18, 1805. 4. Gorman Dummer, Sep tember 3, 1807. 5. Clara, October 8, 1809, married Elbridge G. Cutler, and lived in Farmington. 6. Charles Edwards, December 24, 1811, graduated at Bowdoin CoUege, 1832, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1837; married Mary Spaulding; was a successful teacher in New York City and Hartford, Con necticut, and died July 24, 1880. 7. Samuel Phillips, December 8, 1814, graduated from Bowdoin, 1836, Andover Theological Semi nary, 1840, ordained to the Congregational ministry at Houlton, Maine; married Hannah isTATE OF MAINE. 325 Barker, of Nottingham, England ; conducted a school for boys, 1844-49, '¦•'"'d died June 24, 1849. (VI) Jacob (3), son of Jacob (2) and Bet sey (Abbot) Abbott, was born in HalloweU, Maine, November 14, 1803. He was fitted for college at the Hallowell Academy, and when only fourteen years old passed examination for the sophomore class at Bowdoin College, and was graduated A. B., 1820, A. M., 1823. He taught school in Portland, Maine, 1820-21, and prepared for the Congregational ministry by a few years' course at Andover Theological Seminary, during which time he taught a school at Beverly, Massachusetts. He became a tutor of mathematics in Amherst CoUege, Amherst, Alassachusetts, 1824-25, and was professor of mathematics and natural philoso phy at Amherst, 1825-29. He conducted the Mount Vernon School for Young Women, Boston, Massachusetts, 1829-32. On the for mation of the Eliot church at Roxbury in 1834 he was its first pastor, 1834-36. He began his literary career as author of the "Young Chris tian" (1832), and nine thousand copies were sold the first year, and it was read and largely circulated in England, Scotland, France and Germany. The series of four volumes as periodically issued were each equally success ful, and are said to have greatly strengthened christian faith throughout the world. In 1837 Mr. Abbott purchased the Little Blue property at Farmington, Maine, and his first modest cottage was the nucleus of the present man sion that gives dignity to the estate. Here he wrote the "RoUo Books," the "Lucy Books," and the "Jonas Books," 1837-43, and he removed to New York City in 1843, and in connection with his brothers, Gorman Dummer and John Stevens Cabot, he con ducted a school for young women in New York City, 1843-51, and he retained his- resi dence in New York after 1857 to continue there his literary labors. He did not lay aside his pen till 1872, and in that time he wrote and passed through the press one hundred and thirty books and the titles of his books issued during his lifetime, either written or compiled by him, comprise not less than two hundred and eleven titles. He made his winter home in New York City, and his summer home in Farmington, Maine, and as age advanced his winter days in New York grew shorter and his summer days at Farmington lengthened, and in 1870 "Few Acres" became his permanent residence. The ten last years of his life were spent in comparative leisure, and as his bodily strength waned, his life finaUy came to an end October 31, 1879. It is said of him as of Richter, "He loved God and little children." He married. May 18, 1828, Harriet, daughter of Charles Vaughan, of Hallowell, Maine, who was the mother of his six children, and after giving birth to the sixth child in September, 1843, she died September 12 of that year. In November, 1853, he married Mrs. Mary Dana Woodbury, who died in AprU, 1866. The chUdren of Jacob and flarriet (Vaughan) Ab bott were: Benjamin Vaughan, born in Bos ton, Massachusetts, June 4, 1830; Austin, Bos ton, December 18, 1831 ; Frances Elizabeth, Boston, May 31, 1834, died December 11, 1834; Lyman, Roxbury, Massachusetts, De- cemlDer 18, 1835 ; [Edward, Farmington, Maine, July 15, 1841 ; George, Farmington, Maine, in September, 1843, died in infancy. (VII) Lyman, third son of Jacob (3) and Harriet (Vaughan) Abbott, was born in Rox bury, Massachusetts, December 18, 1835. He was prepared for college largely by his father, and he was graduated at the University of the City of New York, A. B., 1853 ; studied law under the tuition of two older brothers, Ben jamin Vaughan and Austin Abbott, and on be ing admitted to the bar in 1855 practiced law in copartnership with his brothers, the firm becoming Abbott Brothers. He withdrew from the firm in 1857, and took up the study of theology under the instruction of his uncle, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, and in i860 was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Farmington, Maine. He removed to Terre Haute, Indiana, where he had charge of the First Congregational Church, 1860-65. He came east in 1865 to accept the position of secretary of the American IJnion Commission, organized to protect and care for the freedmen in the late slave states. He had resigned the pastorate of his church in Terre Haute, not satisfied that his field was being well worked, but on revisiting his congregation in 1866 he was convinced that his teaching had been ef fective and this knowledge induced him to ac cept the pastorate of the New England Con gregational Church in New York City, and he remained pastor of that church up to 1869. He was elected pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in May, 1.888, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Ward Beecher, and he continued as pastor of the Plymouth congregation up to November 27, 1898, when he resigned to devote his entire time to literary pursuits. Outside of his duties as pastor, he was secretary of the American Union Com mission, 1865-68; edited a department of Har per's Magazine known as "Literary Record," 326 STATE OF AlAINE. 1868-79, and edited for a time the Illustrated Christian Weekly, published by The American Tract Society, fle resigned his editorship of the Christian Weekly in 1876 to associate with Henry Ward Beecher in editing the Christian Union, published by J. B. Ford & Company, and upon the death of Air. Beecher in 1881 he became editor-in-chief of that periodical, which soon after was issued in magazine form as The Outlook, published by a joint stock com pany, in which two of his sons were associated. His first book, "Jesus of Xazareth," was pub lished in 1869. His successive books include : "Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths" (1870), "Illustrated Commentary of the X'ew Testament" (1875), "Dictionary of Religious Knowledge," collaborated with Rev. Dr. F. J. Conant (1876), "Hints to Home Reading" (1880), "How to Succeed" (1882), "Henry Ward Beecher" (1883), "A Study of Human Nature" (1886), "In Aid of Faith" (1886), "St. John" (1888), "Paul to the Ro mans" (1888), "Signs of Promise" (1889), "The. Evolution of Christianity" (1892), "So cial Problems" (1896), "The Theology of the Evolutionist" (1897), "The Life and Letters of Paul the Apostle" (1898), "The Life that Really Is" (1899), "Problems of Life" (1900), "Life and Literature of the Ancient Hebrews'' (1900), "The Rights of Man" (1901), "Henry Ward Beecher" (1903), "The Other Room" (1904), "The Great Champion" (1905), "Chrisrian Ministry" (1905), "Personality of God" (1905), "Industrial Problems" (1906), "Christ's Secret of Happiness" (1907). His interest in questions of universal human con cern is best expressed by naming the associa tions and organizations with which he is af fihated, and in the objects of which he takes a direct personal interest: American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions, Amer ican Institute of Sacred Literature, American Peace Society, American Forestry Association, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Aldin Association, Armstrong Asso ciation, New York Bar Association, New York State Historical Association, New York Asso ciation for the Blind, New York University Alumni, New York Child Labor Committee, New York State Conference of Religion, Na tional Civil Service Reform League, National Conference of Charities and Correction, In dian Rights Association, Ramabai Association, Maine Society, Religious Education Associa tion, Universal Peace Union. His theory as a political economist is the application of the relation of partnership between capital and labor maintained by a generous assistance from the general government through well directed industrial restraints and encouragement. He is a Christian Socialist, as illustrated and ex emplified in the spirit and teachings of Jesus Christ. His academic degrees are confined to those bestow'ed by his alma mater who hon ored him with that of Doctor of Sacred The ology in 1877, and that of Doctor of Laws later, Howard University, which ancient insti tution gave him the honorary degree of S. T. D. in 1890, and the Western Reserve Uni versity which made him an honorary LL.D. He was elected to membership in the National Arts Club and the Union League Club 'of Xew York, and Saint Botolph Club of Boston. Dr. Abbott was married in Boston, Alassa chusetts, October 14, 1857, to Abby Frances, daughter of Hannibal and Abigail (Abbott) Hamlin, of Alaine (see Hamlin). The six children of Lyman and Abby F. (flamlin) Ab bott were : i. Lawrence Eraser, born in Brooklyn, X^ew York, June 25, 1859, gradu ated at Amherst College, A. B., 1881, and be came an editorial and business manager on the Christian Union and Outlook. 2. Harriet Frances, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Octo ber 15, i860. 3. Herbert Vaughan, born in Terre Haute, January 3, 1865. 4. Ernest H., born in Cornwall-on-fludson, X^ew York, April 18, 1870, and became associated with the Outlook, New York City. 5. Theodore J., born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, July 20, 1872. 6. Beatrice Vail, born in Corawall- on-Hudson, New York, February 15, 1875. (For flrst generation see George Abbott I.) (II) Benjamin, fourth son of ABBOTT George and Hannah (Chand ler) Abbott, was born in An dover, Massachusetts, December 20, 1661. He married, April 22, 1685, Sarah, daughter of Ralph and Alice Farnum, who sailed from Southampton in the "James" and arrived in Boston, Alassachusetts, 1635. The Farnums were originally from Leicestershire, England. "[The farm which Benjamin Abbott made and lived on was in Andover, "near the Shoushire river." He died Alarch 30, 1703. Among their children was a son Jonathan, born 1687. (Ill) Jonathan, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Farnum) Abbott, was born in Andover, Sep tember, 1687. He married, Alay 6, 1713, Zerviah, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Bal lard) Holt, and granddaughter of Nicholas Hoh, one of the early settlers of Newburg and Andover, Massachusetts. She was born in Andover, March 24, 1689, died Alarch 26, 1768. He died March 21, 1770, aged eighty- ST.'VTE OF MAINE. 327 three. Children: i. Jonathan, born December 14, 1714, died May 21, 1794. 2. David, mar ried, 1741, flannah Chandler. 3. Nathan, 1718, died June 28, 1798; married Abigail Ames. 4. Alary. 5. Zerviah, married, 1745, Ephraim Blunt, of Philadelphia. 6. Job, Oc tober 14, 1724, married Sarah Abbott. 7. Samuel, October i, 1727, married William Stevens. 8. Jeremiah, October 10, 1733, died 1755- (IV) Job, fourth son of Jonathan and Zer viah (Holt) .\bbott, was born in Andover, October 14, 1724. He settled in Pembroke, New Hainpshire. His wife was Sarah, daugh ter of James Abbott, of Concord. She mar ried (second) Deacon Richard Eastman, of Fryeburg, Maine. The children of Job and Sarah are : i. Sarah, born 1751, married Abiel Elolt, of Temple. 2. Nathan, September 9, 1753- 3- Job, 1755, married, 1780, .Vnna Bal lard. 4. Abigail, 1757, married Stephen Dres ser, of Lowell, Massachusetts. (V) Nathan, eldest son of Job and Sarah (Abbott) Abbott, was born in Pembroke, New [Hampshire, Septeniber 9, 1753, died Alarch 5, 1801. The name of his wife is not learned, but the children, as per family record, were : Amos, Paschal, Job, Joshua, Jeremiah, Ly dia and Mary. (VI) Jeremiah, fifth son of Nathan Ab bott, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, August 15, 1790, died in Dexter, Maine, 1879. He walked with his brother, Amos, in 1820 from Andover, Massachusetts, to Dexter, Maine, looking for a mill site and purchased where the present plant now stands. It was then occupied by a small mill which was later torn down and the new mill built in 1840, known at first as "Amos Abbott & Co.," and 1899 incorporated as "Amos Abbott Co." Jeremiah married Lucy, daughter of John and Olive Safford, who was born December 30, 1802, died September i, 1861. They had three children: Job; Elannah, born 1829; Oliver A., born 1830, resided in Dexter, Maine. (VII) Job, eldest son of Jeremiah and Lucy (Safford) Abbott, was born in Dexter, Maine, December 15, 1827, died there January 10, 1903. He was educated at the town schools and the Westbrook Seminary. He taught school for a time and then entered his father's mill as wool sorter. Soon after the war he, in company with his cousin, George Abbott, son of Amos, bought out their father's interests in the mill and carried it on until it was in corporated in 1899. Job was president of the company, which position he held up to the time of his death. He was a Republican in politics and served as selectman of the town. He was active in the support of the Univer salist church in Dexter. Air. Abbott married, in 1855, Amanda Field, who survived him. Children: i. Arthur P. 2. lielen Grace, mar ried Nathan C. Buckman, of Columbia Falls, Maine, now principal of Dexter high school; have one son, Carlton Abbott Buckman. 3. Grace, who died at twenty years of age. Sev eral others who died young or in infancy. (VIII) Arthur Preston, eldest son of Job and Amanda (Field) yAbbott, was born in Dexter in 1861. He was educated in the town schools and the Institute of Technology at Boston, Massachusetts. lie then entered the mill at Dexter, wdiere he has remained up to the present time and is treasurer and man ager of the corporation. Ele is a Republi can in politics and a Universalist in religion. He is a member of the Bedivere Lodge, K. of P., of Dexter. Ele married, 1889, Flora Shaw, daughter of Shepard Parkman, of Dexter, who was born at Foxcroft, Maine. They have one son, Jere, born in Dexter, October, 1897. (For preceding generations see George Abbott I.) (Ill) Nathaniel (2), son of ABBOTT Nathaniel (i) Abbott, was born at Andover in 1696 and died in 1770, in Concord, New Hampshire. He re moved to Penacook, Alassachusetts, which was organized as a town in 1725 and became known known as Rumford, Alassachusetts, in 1730, and later as Concord, New Hainpshire, after the division of the provinces. His home was on the site of the present Congregational church. He was the first constable of Con cord in 1732-33, and was a prominent and in fluential citizen of the town. At the beginning of the French war in 1744 he was one of the famous Rogers Rangers under Major Robert Rogers, and had command of a company in the defense of the town in 1746. He was at the capture of Cape Breton in 1745 and was in many of the sanguinary conflicts on the north ern borders of the frontier, and endured al most incredible hardships. He held the com mission of lieutenant in Captain Joseph East man's company in 1755 in the expedition against Crown Point, and was lieutenant of the Rangers at Fort William Henry at the time of the massacre in 1757. He was always a brave and efficient officer, universally re spected and beloved. There is a tradition that he was a famous hunter, and on one occasion nearly lost his life by falling through the ice of Long Pond while in pursuit of a deer; and that he saved himself by striking with his 328 .ST.\TE OF Al \INE. hatchet in the rotten ice about him until he was able to drive its blade into solid ice with sufficient force to sustain his weight. 1 lo married Teiieli)])e I'.allard, of Andover; .'iiid (second) Alehitable . Cliildreu: i. Nathaniel, born March lO, 1727, mentioned below. 2. Dorcas, November 11, 1728. 3. Rebecca, May 27, 1731. 4. Elizabeth, July 1, 1733. 5. At ary, Alarch 7, 1735. (). Hannah, March 7, 173(1. 7. Ruth, January 28, 1738. 8. Joshua, Eeiiruary 24, 1740. 9. Rachel, AprU 7, 1743. 10. Jeremiali, [Pvlarch 17, 1744. it. Dorothy, Deeember 28, 1746. 12. Sarah, De cember 3, 1748, died June, 1842. (IV) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) Abbott, was born March 10, 1727, ; married H.iines .Slex'ens. (). .Susan, .September 21, i8o8 ; ni;in-ied .Mark Tarbox. 7. Stephen FlaU, October ij, 1810; married Sa rah J. Small. 8. lienjamin i'[., .Se]it ember 8, 1812; married Maliala ( ioodwin. c). .Asa, Sep tember 10, 1814; married ( )eta\'ia Goodwin. 10. I.oren, born and died iSiti. 11. I.}'ilia, 1818; married Kimball Alartin Jr. ij. llenr}', Febrtiary 8. 1823; mentioned below. (VII) Henry" (2), son of Henry (i) .Ab bott, was born in Rumford, Maine, Eebriiar}' 8, 1823. Ele received a liber;il education ami taught school in his native town, besides ;is- sisting his father on the farm. Me inherited the farm, which he made \'ery prolilable. He was selectman of the town for fourteen years, serving almost continuously as chairinan of the board for more than half of bis entire term of service. He married (first) Alarch 4, 1847, Rozell;i W. Hall, of Rumford, daughter of Daniel Hall. He m;irricd (second) Alarch 15, 1X54, Charlotte .V. Waite, ilaughler of .Aamn and Ch.'irlotte (Clieslev) Waite. Children nf fir.st wife: I. Flora l'[., born December iS, i8_|S; married ClilTord Elliott and had .Mamie and Susie Elliott. 2. \\'';ill,'iee A'l., CJcloher 4, 1852; died ( )elo1)er 24, iStq. 3. Walter (twin), Oeloher 4, 1852, married Carrie Smith. Children of second wife: 4. Cirroll Waite, August 21), 1855 ; mentioned below, 5, Rose A,, April 28, 1860; married Uev. R. E. Johonnol, of C)ak P;irk, Illinois, d, Charles EL, October 9, r86|; resides on the homestead; married, 1886, Luey Kimball and had Eveline, L'l'ilia, Madeline ami Warren, (VIII) C.'irroU Waite, son of Ilenrv (2) Abbott, was born in Rumford, M.iine, .August 2(), 1855. He w';is .'i pupil in the public schools of his native town, alU'iided the ()xfoi-d Nor mal Institute, and ,i;i-adii:iled from the Hebron (Alaine) Academy in 1877. He then taught in the Albion hi.gh school, and gave his leisure hours to the study of medicine iiiider the pre- ceptorship of Dr. George II. Wilson. He en- STATE OF AlAIXE. 329 tered the medical school of Bowdoin College in 1878, and w-as graduated with the degree of Al. D. on June 2, 1881. Ele established him self in Albion for the practice of his profes sion, and was eminently successful there for a period of twelve years from 1881 to 1893. In the spring of the latter year he removed to W'aterville, Kennebec county, where his excel lent record had preceded him, and he soon ac quired a large practice among the best fam Uies in the city of his adoption. His profes sional skill and high standing among the physicians and surgeons of the state made him an acceptable and appreciated member of the Kennebec County Aledical Society, which hon ored him with the highest office in its gift, and he has also served as president of the Alaine Aledical Society and of the \'A''aterville Clini cal Society. He has rendered efficient service in various important local offices — as a mem ber of the board of education for four years, and as chairman for one year ; and as mayor of A^''aterville in 1898. In the latter capacity he gave the city an indisputably honest admin istration, and an entirely capable enforcement of the laws governing the municipality. He declined further public honors, holding his first allegiance to his profession. He is well ad vanced in the Alasonic fraternity, affiliated with Central Lodge, of China, in which he is a past junior and senior w^arden ; Teconic Chap ter, Royal Arch Alasons, of AVatervUle; and St. Omer Commandery. Knights Templar, of Waterville. He yyas formerly a member of the Christian Church of Albion, and is now a member of the Alethodist Episcopal church of Waterville. In politics he [has always been a Republican. Dr. Abbott married, October 4, 1882, Georgia A., daughter of Dr. George H. Wilson, of Albion, his first medical instructor. Children of Dr. and Airs. Abbott: i. Henry \AlIson, AL D., born August 18, 1884, gradu ate of Alaine Aledical School, of Bowdoin Col lege, class of 1908; was appointed assistant physician at the Insane Hospital at Augusta in 1908. 2, Alary Charlotte, Alay 29, 1886, graduate of Colby College, class of ic Walter Abbott, or Abbot, the ABBOTT immigrant ancestor, settled in Exeter, New Hampshire, and was in all likelihood born about 1600 in Eng land. He was a vinter by trade, though a farmer by occupation in this country. He was first in Exeter, but soon removed to the. then adjoining town of Portsmouth, where he died in 1667. His will was dated Alay 15, 1667, bequeathing to widow Sarah, w-ho was sixty- four years of age in 1681, and probably a second wife. She married second, Henry Sherburne. Children: i. Peter. 2. Thomas, mentioned below. 3. Wilham. 4. Walter. 5. John, made his wiU Alarch 19, 1721-22, nam ing his wife Mary and children John, James (whose children were Michael, Alark and Lambeth), William Laud, Walter, Reuben, Sarah Pickering, Ruth Spriggs and Anna Bratton. 6. Sarah, married Thomas Wills. 7. Mary, married Leonard Drowne. 8. Eliza beth. (II) Thomas, son of Walter Abbott, was born in 1643, according to one deposition that he made, and according to another, in 1635, the latter probably being correct. He mar ried, before 1668, Elizabeth Green, daughter of John and Julia Green. He died in Ber wick, Alaine, Alarch 8, 1712-13. He was se lectman several times in Berwick, and ensign of his military company there. Children, prob ably born at Berwick: i, Thomas, blacksmith, married, about 1726, Elizabeth Emery, Jr. ; deeded fifty acres of land to kinsman Thomas, October 3, 1727; no children. 2. Joseph, mar ried Alice X'^ason, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Jenkins) Nason; estate was admin istered by his son Thomas in 1726. 3. Aloses, married September 11, 1701, . 4. Wal ter, mentioned below. 5. John, married Jan uary 3, 1694, Abigail Nason, sister of Alice; married second, January 22, 1716, Alartha Littlefield. 6. Elizabeth, married Thomas Butler. 7. Patience, married, 1705, William Lord. 8. Alary, married Josiah Goodrich. 9. Hannah, married Xovember 6, 1712, Humph rey Chadboume. (Ill) Walter (2), son of Thomas Abbott, was born about 1670, in Berwick, Alaine, and lived there and in Kittery, Alaine. He mar ried January 3, 1694, Elizabeth Key, daugh ter of John Key. His descendants are nu merous in Berwick. Walter, Joseph and John Abbott and nine others divided three hundred acres of land at Quamphegan, June 2, 1718. W'alter sold land in Kittery August 14, 1718. (See vol. ix., York Deeds). Children: i. Moses, born January 22, 1693 ; mentioned be low. 2. Walter, born Aprd 25, 1698. 3. Thomas, born August 13, 1700. 4. James, born April 4, 1704. 5. Sarah, born October 27, 1707. 6. Ebenezer, born February 27, 1711-12. 7. Elizabeth, born July 4, 1715. (IV) Aloses (i), son of Walter (2) Ab bott, was born in Kittery, or Berwick, Alaine, January 22, 1693. He and probably all his brothers had sons in the revolution, some hav ing grandsons also. James Abbott Jr., son of 330 STATE OF AlAINE. James, was in Lieutenant Colonel Smith's regiment in 1777, Captain Daniel Pillsbury's company, reported sick at Dunkertown, and probably died there. Walter Abbott was in Captain Philip Hubbard's company. Colonel James Scammon's regiment, in 1775; also in Captain Francis' company. Colonel Benjamin Tupper's regiment. Thomas Abbott Jr., of Berwick, was first lieutenant in Captain John Staples' (twelfth) company, second York regi ment, succeeding Captain Hubbard, resigned ; also in Captain Hamilton's company, Colonel John Frost's regiment, in 1776; in Captain John Goodwin's company. Major Daniel Little- field's regiment, in 1779. John Abbott, of Berwick, was in Captain Hubbard's company also in 1775; and was three years in the Con tinental army under Captain Dudley — 1778- 80. Theophilus Abbott was also in Captain Hubbard's company in 1775. Moses Abbott himself was a soldier in 1740 from Berwick, in Captain John Hill's company. There is a tradition that there is Scotch-Irish blood in the family. If so, Moses Abbott's wife may have been Scotch. (V) Moses (2), son or nephew of Aloses (i) Abbott, was born about 1720, in Berwick, Alaine. He was a soldier in the revolution, a corporal in Captain Daniel Sullivan's com pany. Colonel Benjamin Foster's regiment, in 1777, serving at three alarms at Alachias, Alaine. He was in the same company (Sixth Lincoln county regiment), in 1780, called out to protect Frenchman's Bay under Colonel John Allen. He had the rank of lieutenant later. (VI) Benjamin Abbott, of the Berwick family mentioned above, was born about 1770. He married Abiah , and settled in the adjacent town of Shapleigh, and cleared the farm where his descendants have lived to the present time, and where two brothers of Natt Abbott are now living. Children: i. Rufus. 2. Bijah (Abijah), mentioned below. 3. Ben jamin Jr. (VII) Bijah (Abijah), son of Benjamin Abbott, was born in Shapleigh, Alaine, about 1800. He married Dolly Weston, of Shap leigh, and lived on the homestead. Children, born at Shapleigh: i. Hannah. 2. Lovey Jane. 3. Almira Ann. 4. Dora Alay. 5. Na thaniel Thurston, mentioned below. (VIII) Nathaniel Thurston, son of Abijah Abbott, was born at Shapleigh, Maine, Jan uary 28, 1828. He married, in 1856, Susan Jane Thompson, who was born at Shapleigh, February 28, 1833. He attended the public schools of his native town. In his youth he worked on the farm with his father, and re mained on the homestead after he reached his majority and inherited it. He was a well-to- do farmer and a citizen of influence and prom inence. In politics he was a Republican; in religion a Methodist. Children, born at Shap leigh : I. Carrie Augusta, born October 6, 1859; married Stephen D. Blanchard, of Ea ton, New Hampshire, a farmer. 2. Elmer E., resides on the homestead at Shapleigh, a pros perous farmer; a deputy sheriff of the county and a citizen of some note ; married Agnes Stone; child: Malcom E., born 1895. 3. Natt Thurston, mentioned below. (IX) Natt Thurston, son of Nathanid Thurston Abbott, was born in Shapleigh, No vember 18, 1872. He attended the district school and the Lindsey high school of Shap leigh Corner, fitting for Dartmouth College, where he was graduated in the class of 1892. He was principal of the Shapleigh high school and superintendent of the schools in Shap leigh for two years ; principal of the high school at Madison, Maine, for a year ; princi pal of the Newton (X'ew Hampshire) high school two years. He studied in the Boston University, left to continue teaching for a time, and continued later at Boston University Law School, graduating in 1902. He was admitted to the bar in Alassachusetts, .Au gust 26, 1902, and to the Maine bar Septem ber 15, 1903. He began to practice in the town of Sanford, Maine, where he has had his office to the present time. He has devoted four days a week to his duties as instructor in the Boston University Law School. He has enjoyed an excellent practice, besides achiev ing much success as a teacher. His experi ence as a pedagogue has been of great value to him in his position in the law school. He has a wide acquaintance among the lawyers of New England. He is now professor of law in Boston University Law School, and chairman of the administrative board. He is a member of the Springvale Lodge of Free Masons ; Sagamore Tribe of Red Men, of San ford; and the Baptist church of that town. He married, September 5, 1898, Lulu O. Dal ton, born Acton, Maine, June 8. 1880, daugh ter of Benjamin F. and Annie L. Dalton, of Shapleigh. They have one daughter, Doro thy, born May 22, 1907. The amount of work a man ABBOTT performs and the degree of success which crowns his ef forts depend in a large measure on his natu ral aptitude for the task he selects. The prin- STATE OF MAINE. 331 cipal subject of the following sketch undoubt edly had an inherited genius for the profes sion in which he finds himself so happily and successfuUy engaged, and unrequiting appli cation to his professional duties has placed him among the leading physicians of his spe cial line. (I) Alonzo Abbott, a descendant from Sir William Chase, of Chesham, England, a mem ber of the court of King Henry the VIII, was bom in 1834, at Sullivan, Maine. The first ancestor to come to this country yvas Aquilla Chase, who settled in Alassachusetts. Alonzo Abbott at a very early age was adopted by Shimuel Abbott, with whom he grew to man hood. He was educated in the public schools and at Hamden Academy. He is by occupa tion a wholesale granite dealer, and resides in Hancock. In i860 he married Alaria B. Mer cer, who was born in 1832, daughter of Rob ert and Nancy Mercer, whose parents were of Scotch-Irish descent. Three children were born of this marriage: Nancy M., who mar ried Galen H. Young; Edville Gerhardt, who receives extended mention in the following paragraph ; Charles H., who married Flora Foss. (II) EdviUe Gerhardt, second child of Alonzo and Maria B. (Mercer) Abbott, was born in Hancock, November 6, 1871. He re ceived his early literary education in the pub- He schools of flancock and at the East Maine Conference Seminary at Bucksport, Maine, where he was graduated in 1889. For the following six years he was associated with his father and brother in the granite business, hav ing general supervision of their quarries on Mt. Desert Island. He entered the medical department of Bowdoin College in 1895, from which he graduated in 1898. Subsequently he was appointed house physician to the Maine General Hospital, where he served one year. The following year was spent in Boston and New York, studying the specialty of ortho pedic surgery. Still desirous of attaining the utmost knowledge and the greatest degree of skill in his profession, he went abroad and continued his course in orthopedics, passing one year in the Fredrich Wilhelm Univer- sitat, Berlin. Returning to the United States in 1891, he opened an office in Portland, and from that time until the present he has de voted his whole attention to the one subject of orthopedic surgery. Flis success in his profession has been remarkable and his prac tice is very large and covers an extensive field. After returning from his work in Europe, not being satisfied with his literary attainments, he re-entered Bowdoin College, pursued the reg ular courses and received the degree of Bach elor of Arts. With a further desire for a more intimate acquaintance with literature, he still continued his studies in this institution and two years later received the degree of Alaster of Arts promerito. Ele is at the present time surgeon-in-chief to the Children's Hospital; orthopedic surgeon to the Alaine General Hos pital; visiting surgeon to St. Barnabas Flos pital; consulting surgeon to the Sisters' EIos- pital, and instructor in orthopedic surgery in the Alaine Aledical School, Bowdoin College. His activities have not ended with his pro fessional successes, but he has been connected with various enterprises and has interested himself in all civic questions. He is a mem ber of several Greek letter fraternities, a mem ber of the Cumberland County Aledical So ciety, Maine Medical Association, American Medical Association, and frequently contrib utes articles to the leading medical journals of the country. Ele is also interested in busi ness affairs and his early experience has been invaluable. He is a director in the Fidelity Trust Company, member of the Board of Trade, and connected with various corpora tions. In politics, to which he has devoted considerable time with no small benefit to his party, he is a staunch Republican. Dr. Abbott married, March 14, 1891, Sara Sargent, of Prospect Harbor, born July 12, 1868. She traces her ancestry to William Sargent, of Bristol, England, whose name first appeared in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1678, on which date he received a grant of land. He married Mary Duncan, daughter of Peter Duncan, of Gloucester, June 21, 1678. They were the parents of nine children. Epes Sar gent, seventh child of William and Mary (Duncan) Sargent, born 1690, married (first) [Esther iVIaccarty, in 1720. They were the parents of nine children. Benjamin Sargent, ninth child of Epes and Esther (Maccarty) Sargent, born 1736, came to Gouldsboro, Maine. Among his children was a son Ben jamin, who married Betsey , who bore him nine children. Samuel Sargent, eldest son of Benjamin and Betsey Sargent, born May 24, 1794, married Sarah Moore, January 6, 1820, and nine children were born to them. Benj'amin Sargent, son of Samuel and Sarah (Moore) Sargent, born February 26, 1830, was a lawyer of Prospect Harbor, Maine, fle married, October 16, 1865, Frances flancock, and they were the parents of Sara Sargent, aforementioned as the wife of Dr. EdviUe G. Abbott. 332 STATE OF MAINE. The Burnhams of both Old BURNHAM and New England trace their ancestry remotely to A. D. lOio, when their ancient patronymic was de Burnham, and so continued untU A. D. 1080, when the prefix de was dropped ; and they are descended from one Walter le Ventre, who accompanied William the Conqueror into Eng land, A. D. 1066. He was cousin-germain of Earl Warren, who received from the con queror large estates which had belonged to Saxon nobles, among which was the manor of Burnham. This manor was enfeoffed by Earl Warren to his kinsman Walter le Ventre, who from that fact afterward was called Wal ter de Burnham. Such, in brief, is the origin of one of the andent famUies of England, and one which in New England dates from the early colonial period, from the year 1635, when three immigrant brothers — John, Thom as and Robert Burnham — came from England and sat down in that part of the mother town of Ipswich then known as Chebacco Parish, and which now is the town of Essex, in the county of the same name, and the colony of Massachusetts Bay. These immigrant broth ers were sons of Robert and Mary (Andrews) Burnham, of Norwich, Suffolk, England, and it is with the family and descendants of John Burnham that we have particularly to deal in these annals. (I) John Burnham is first mentioned in Ipswich in the year 1639, although he is known to have been there at least two and perhaps four years earlier. He is described as a carpenter, and his name appears in the list of those allowed to have votes in town af fairs ; and he was there in the early days when the planters were in constant fear of the Indians, and when the officers of the train band were ordered by the general court "to maintain watch and ward every day, to cause all men to bring arms to the meeting house, and see that no person travelled above a mile from his dwelling, except where houses were near together, without some arms." In 1637 John Burnham was one of seventeen young men of Ipswich who marched to Salem and there joined the forces raised in the colony to wage war against the Pequot Indians. In 1643 the town settled with the soldiers who had served against the Indians, paying "12 dollars a day (allowing for the Lord's day in respect of the extremity of the weather) and the officers dubble." For his service on this occasion John Burnham received three shillings. His name also appears in "a list of persons that have right of commonage, accord ing to law and order of the towne." John Burnham bought of Humphrey Griffin a two- acre lot, adjoining John Fawns', and sold the same to Anthony Potter, January 4, 1648. The records also show that John Burnham and his wife Mary conveyed to Samuel Ayers "a dwelling house and lot one and a half acres, which was Anthony Potter's, who bought them of Deacon Whipple, who bought them of Will iam Lampson, to whom the same was granted." According to Burnham genealogy, John Burn ham was born in 1618 and died November 5, 1694. The baptismal name of his wife was Mary, and she bore him four children : John, Josiah, Anna and Elizabeth. (II) John (2), son of John (i) and Mary Burnham, is mentioned as a voter in 1692, and in the same year is mentioned as one of the signers of the Proctor petition. Accounts of him, however, are meagre, unsatisfactory, and frequently misleading. One writer men tions him as [Deacon John Burnham, and says that by wife Sarah he had four sons, John, Jonathan, Thomas and Robert, and four daughters, Sarah, Alary, Elizabeth and Han nah. (Ill) John (3), son of John (2) and Sarah Burnham, was born in 1738, in Chebacco Par ish, Ipswich, Massachusetts, came thence to Falmouth, Maine, in 1760, and is said to have built the first wharf in the town, on the site where now stands Burnham's wharf. The old wharf was burned by Mowatt in 1775, but it was rebuilt by John Burnham, who also is said to have erected the first house in the town after the destruction of the settlement by the British, in 1775. By the burning of Fal mouth he lost five hundred and fifty-three pounds, representing the value of his property which was then destroyed. In 1780 he was a member of the first constitutional conven tion of the commonwealth of Alassachusetts, and January 23, 1786, he was one of the sign ers of the petition for the incorporation of Portland, and also was one of the founders of St. Stephen's Church. He was one of the foremost men of his time in the town, a cooper by trade and a curer and packer of fish by principal occupation. He died in Portland, of yelloyv fever, July 29, 1798. His wife was Abigail Stickney, by wdiom he had a large family of eight sons and five daughters, nearly all of his sons being seafaring men. (IV) Josiah, son of John (3) and Abigail (Stickney) Burnham, was born in Portland, Maine, January 23, 1770, and died there in 1843. For several years he was a merchant at Freeport and afterward a prosperous farmer WTBathsvNY t/. <^^y9 WTBo.th,ey¥Y Ly^i^C^(&^^ Cy^^i^r^^X^s^^'^i.^^ ,.ATE OF MAINE. 333 at Durham. In the latter town he also car ried on a coopering business and sent his wares to market in Portland. He took a prominent part in affairs of the town and served in various public capacities in Durham, where he was a surveyor of land, justice of the peace, and for several terms represented the town in the general court of Alassachu setts. In 1834 he returned to Portland and lived there untU the time of his death, less than ten years afterward. Fle married four times, his first wife being Lucy Berry, by whom he had three sons, John, Josiah and George, and two daughters, flarriet and Lucy. Harriet married Alfred Soule, of Freeport, and Lucy became wife of Perez Burr, also of Freeport. Josiah Burnham's wife Lucy died in 1808, aged forty-five years. His third wife was Eleanor Jameson, who had a daugh ter, Eleanor Jameson, who married Lieutenant Arnold Burroughs, of Boston. (V) George, third son of Josiah and Lucy (Berry) Burnham, was born in Durham, Maine, August 20, 1801, and died in Port land, October 10, 1884. He went to Port land in 1825 and in 1828 established himself in business as a cooper, in the same shop which his grandfather, John Burnham, built in 1776. Besides his cooperage he owned a fleet of vessels and engaged extensively in the fisheries and also carried on trade with the West Indies. In 1828 the governor and council appointed George Burnham to the office of inspector of fish at Portland, and he discharged the duties of that position for the next forty-four years, fle was an ener getic and successful business man, having little inclination for public office, yet in political as well as in the business life of Portland he exercised a strong and healthful influence for many years. In 1828 he married Margaret Burr, of Freeport, born May 16, 1807, died March 25, 1885, daughter of Perez and Me hitable ("Weber) Burr, of Freeport. (See Burr.) Five children were born of this mar riage: Margaret (married Louis Dennison), George, Perez B., Josiah and John E., of each of whom mention is made in this narrative. (VI) George (2), eldest son of George (i) and Alargaret (Burr) Burnham, was born in Portland, Maine, January 31, 1831, re ceived his education in the public schools of that city, and after leaving school entered the employ of George F. Lewis, the pioneer packer of hermetically sealed goods in Portland, fle apphed himself industriously to his work there for six years and during that time gained a thorough understanding of the business in every detail. In 1851 he engaged to work for one year for Samuel Rumery, and in March of the following year became a partner with his former employer, under the firm name of Rumery & Burnham. This relation was main tained until January, 1867, when the partner ship was dissolved and Mr. Burnham became senior partner of the firm of Burnham & Mor rill and began a business which since that time has become one of the largest and most suc cessful enterprises of its kind in New England, and one which for the proper conduct of its operations in its principal and auxUiary branches has for several years been incor porated under the name of Burnham & Morrill Company. As packers and distributors of their products, whether meats, fish or vegetables, the old firm of Burnham & Alorrill established a reputation for quality of goods and busi ness integrity which gave it a peculiar and fortunate standing in trade circles throughout the country, for back of the firm's representa tions was the ample guarantee of unquestioned integrity, reinforced and strengthened by the unconditional provision that damaged goods would always be replaced with perfect goods, or no payment would be received from the customer. Such was the business standard set up by the old firm of Rumery & Burn ham, and that standard always was maintained by the successor firm of Burnham & Morrill, and also by its successor, the Burnham & Morrill Company, as now known in all busi ness and trade circles throughout the world. For nearly half a century Mr. Burnham de voted his energies entirely to the advancement of his business interests, but during more re cent years he had withdrayvn somewhat from arduous pursuits to enjoy the comforts of life honestly gained and well deserved. He still re tained the presidency of the Burnham & Mor rill Company, to which he was chosen at the time of its organization, but the responsibilities of business management were entrusted to younger men. For many years also he was president of the Merchants' National Bank of Portland, and when that institution merged in the Portland Trust Company he became a member of the board of directors of the latter corporation. And besides these interests he for many years had been financially identified with various railway, water transportation and gas companies, as well as with other public utUities. He died January i, 1909. (VI) Perez Burr, second son of George (i) and Margaret (Burr) Burnham, was bora in Portland, Maine, Alay 5, 1835, and acquired his education in the public schools of that city. 334 STATE OF ALA.INE. After leaving school he was for several years employed as clerk for a wholesale grain and flour firm, and went from that position to a place in the management of the cooperage, fishing and coast trading enterprises carried on by his father and brother George. How ever, in 1861, early in the war, he enlisted m Company A of the First Alaine Infantry and went wdth the regiment to the defenses of Washington and there did guard duty until the expiration of the three months' term of his enlistment. On his return home he soon acquired a partnership interest in the business conducted by his father and brother, and wdio about that time increased their operations by becoming importers and exporters ; and the re lation thus formed was continued until 1872, wdien he withdrew and became partner in the firm of Burnham & Alorrill, of w-hich firm and its business mention is made in the last preceding paragraph. He continued actively w-ith the latter firm until 1903, and then re tired from business pursuits, although at vari ous times he has been interested in other im portant enterprises in and about Portland. He is a Republican in politics, loyal in his alle giance to party and its principles, but has taken litde active interest in public affairs, although he did serve one year as member of the board of aldermen from ward six, Port land. Air. Burnham is a member of the Cum berland and Country clubs and of the Bram hall League. He married Alargaret Elizabeth, daughter of Captain William Tritton and Alar garet Rebecca (^ Baker) Best. Her father was a master mariner living at Robbinston, Alaine. Five children were born of this marriage : Harold C, who married Alabel Earl and has one child, Perez B.. who married .A.nna Smart and has four children ; Alargaret, who died at the age of seventeen years ; George, wdio mar ried Alice Ellsworth and has one child; and Amy Jameson, who married Lowell M. Palm er Jr. and has two children. (VI) Josiah, third son of George (i) and Margaret (Burr) Burnham, was born in Port land, Maine, October 23, 1840, and died De cember 7, 1905. He was educated in the pub lic grammar and high schools of Portland and during a part of his student life was a classmate with Judge Joseph Symonds and the late Thomas B. Reed. He early became identified with the packing business in which his brother was engaged. When, the firm of Burnham & Morrill incorporated as the Burn ham & MorriU Company, May i, 1892, the original partners became members of the suc cessor company, and Perez B. Burnham and Josiah Burnham became interested as stock holders and also actively associated with the business management. From the time the company w-as organized until his death, Josiah Burnham was general manager, and also be came vice-president of the company on the death of his younger brother. He had entire charge of the packing department of the fac tory in Portland and also at several of the corn factories in dift'erent parts of the state. He possessed a full knowledge of the practical details of the business and devoted his atten tion earnestly and untiringly to the promo tion of the vast company interests involved, and wdth most gratifying success, for he was a capable, thorough and progressive business man. In September, 1802, then less than tw-entv-two }-ears old. Air. Burnham enlisted as a private in Company .\ of the Twenty-fifth Alaine A'olunteer Infantry, Colonel Francis Fessenden, commanding. He was mustered into service for nine months, September 29, 1862, at Portland, and was mustered out at that city July 10, 1863. He was a comrade of Bosworth Post, G. A. R., a Free and Ac cepted Mason, and for many years a member of the Cumberland Club. In religious prefer ence he was a Congregationalist and in poli tics a strong Republican. He was a man of culture and refined tastes, and during the later years of his life, in seasons when the demands of business were less exacting, it was his custom to travel and allow himself some rest and freedom from the responsibilities put upon him during the busier portions of the year. Indulging himself in this direction, he made several trips abroad in company with his wife, wdiose love of art and generous tastes have been shown in so many ways in Port land, and especiall}- perhaps in her commend able efforts in behalf of the decoration of the schoolrooms of the city, and whose s)'mpathies and generous disposition have been shown so unselfishly in her many charitable deeds and gifts. Mr. Burnham was a man of very quiet habits, loving home and its associations more than all else. His whole nature was generous, charitable, and his mind always turned to the brighter side of life, and he always seemed to enjoy the happiness of others and contrib uted to it in every way ; it was a real pleasure to meet him and greet him, for he was per fectly sincere in all which he said and did, not at all inclined to seriousness in social life, but of cheerful, sunny disposition, which illumined every circle he entered and gave added pleas ure to every occasion. Such was the man, and such was his nature, and the world was ()Zla ^cJ\ I 0\A/y^^; ST-\TE OF AL\INE. 335 made Fetter by his correct life and example. His endeavors in business were rewarded with gratifying success, and as he received, so also he gave, but quietly were his benefactions be stowed, in order that attention might not be drawn to himself. It was quite evident for several months previous to his death that Air. Burnham felt more than usual the exactions of business upon his strength and was con scious of the fact that his health was fast being impaired. In September, 1905, he went to Poland Spring for rest, and remained there several weeks, then returned to his home and afterward visited his office nearly every day. On the day before his death he went out for a drive, and the end came almost unexpectedly, and before the family physician could reach his bedside. The house in which Air. Burnham was born was burned in the "great fire" of 1866, and the house in which he lived during the later years of his life stood on land origi nally a part of the house lot of the pioneer Burnham family. At South Paris, Alaine, on Alarch 28, 1871, Josiah Burnham married [Mary Stone, wdio was born in Limerick, Alaine, AprU 26, 1849. Her grandfather was Joseph Stone, of Harvard, Massachusetts, w-ho mar ried Alary Tounge, and had one chdd. Elisha EuUam Stone, son of Joseph and Alary (Tounge) Stone, was bora in flarvard in Oc tober, 1824. and died in 1900. In 1850 he re moved to South Paris, Alaine, and in 1861 was appointed postmaster there. He served five terms in that office and then was appointed special agent in the mad service of the post office department of the federal government, serving until his death, in 1900. Elisha FuUam Stone married Aliriam Alarcia Townsend, born January 9, 1825, daughter of William and Sophia' (Dole) Townsend. The children of this marriage were Alary (Airs. Burnham), Georgia Washburn, William F., Lila Kent, Jessie E. and Harry B. Stone. (AT) John E., fourth and youngest son of George (i) and Alargaret (Burr) Bumham, was born in Portland, Alaine, January 31, 1843, and died in that city. He was given a good education in the public schools and grad uated from the high school. He began his active business career as junior member of the original firm of Rumery & Burnham, where he gained a thorough knowdedge of the busi ness of that house which served its useful pur pose in later years, when he w-as junior partner of the successor firm of Burnham & AlorrUl, and StiU later in connection with the greater operations of the Burnham & AlorriU Com pany, in which he w-as largely interested and of w-hich he was for many years one of the most active and efficient members, .\lthough the youngest of the four brothers who were so largely instrumental in the great enterprise now operated by the Burnham & Alorrill Com pany, John E. Burnham w-as in certain re spects the most energetic man of them all in promoting the interests of the company and in increasing its business in every direction. He possessed splendid business capacit}-, reached his decisions quickly, and his judgment w-as rarely at fault. And w-ithal, he was one of the most popular men in Portland, well known and highly respected in all business and social circles, for he was a man of unquestioned in tegrity and of the highest character. His in terest in the city and the welfare of its insti tutions was both earnest and genuine, and his name always w-as counted in the list of those who could be relied upon to give material sup port to all honest measures proposed for the public welfare. Selfishness -was a quality en tirely foreign to his nature, and he held in utter contempt all that savored of hypocrisy and sham. Air. Burnham w-as a Republican of undoubted quality-, although he never sought political preferment for himself, but few men were better informed in regard to political matters than he, and his mind was a veritable storehouse of knowledge for the free use of whomsoever felt inclined to draw on it for information, and he always was tolerant of the opinions of others when they were honestly held and presented. He was a careful student of political economy, with ample argument to support his view-s, but he never forced his opinions on others unless the occasion de manded, and when it did his hearers were fre quently amazed with the fund of facts and figures w-hich this modest and unassuming man had at command and which he could use with such telling effect. Air. Burnham was a member of the Cumberland Club, .\tlantic Lodge, Xo. 81, F. and A. AL, and of the Knights of Pythias; but aside from the Cum berland Club" he was not active in the affairs of either of the other orders of which he was a member. For a man of wealth and position, he was of remarkably quiet disposition, de voted to his family, and especiaUy to his sister, with w-hom he lived for many years and until her death. The fuU list of his benefactions probably never w-iU be known, for he never spoke of them, although they are known to have been many and frequently generous in amount. AA''ith his large wealth he was able to do good in many w-ays of which the public knew nothing, and when his benevolences were 336 STATE OF MAINE. bestowed it was through the medium of some trusted agent to carry out his instructions in such manner that the personality of the bene factor should remain undiscovered. The Burr ancestry traces from Rev. Jona than Burr (q. v.), through Simon (2), John (3), Jonathan (4) and (V) John (2), son of Jonathan (2) and Alary (Lincoln) Burr, was born in Hingham, AprU 4, 1729, and died there February 11, 1790. He was a cooper, lived on Leavitt street, and was constable of Hingham in 1767. He married, January i, 1755, Emma Gushing, born Hingham, Alarch 17, 1727, died Decem ber 21, 1805, daughter of Theophilus and Han nah ("VVaterman) Gushing. In this connection a brief mention of the Gushing family will be found of interest. Deacon Matthew Gushing, the immigrant, was born in Hingham, Norfolk, England, in 1588, came to New England with his wife and their four sons and one daughter, and his wife's sister, Frances Fircroft, in the ship "Diligent," of Ipswich, John Martin, master, and settled in Hingham. He died in 1660, aged seventy-two years. His wife Margaret, daughter of Henry Pitcher, died in 1682, aged ninety-two years. They had children : Daniel, 1619; Jesse, 1621 ; Matthew, 1623; Deborah, 1625; John, 1627. Daniel Gushing, son of Deacon Matthew and Margaret, was elected town clerk of Hingham in 1669 and served in that office until his death, in 1700. He was frequently chosen to transact important business for the town, was a magistrate and an examination of his papers shows that he was very correct and intelligent in his meth ods. He married Lydia, daughter of Edward Gilman, June 19, 1645, and had Peter, 1646; Daniel, 1648; Deborah, 1651; Jesse, 1654; Theophilus, 1657; Matthew, 1660. Theophilus Gushing, son of Daniel and Lydia, married Mary, daughter of Captain John Thaxter, and had Nehemiah, 1689; Adam, 1692; Abel, Theophilus, Seth, Deborah and Lydia. The ophilus Gushing, son of Theophilus and Mary, married, 1723, Hannah Waterman, and had Theophilus, Perez, Pyam, Emma (wife of John Burr) and James Gushing. John and Emma (Gushing) Burr had nine children, aU born in Hingham: i. John, Octo ber 9, 1755. 2. Levi, June i, 1757. 3. Gush ing, January 21, 1759. 4. Theophilus, Octo ber 6, 1761. 5. Perez, November i, 1763. 6. Laban, baptized May 26, 1765, died December, 1765. 7. Robert Waterman, (Dctober 13, 1767, died Alarch 14, 1839. 8. Emma, September I, 1769. 9. Laban, February 5, 1773. (VI) Perez, son of John (2) and Emma (Gushing) Burr, was born in Hingham, Mas sachusetts, November i, 1763, and died in Freeport, Maine, in 1836. He settled in Free- port when he was a young man and spent his life in the town. He married Mehitable Web er, and by her had three children : Perez, Emma and Margaret. Margaret, born May 16, 1807, died March 25, 1885, married George Burnham. (See Burnham V.) (For English ancestry see preceding sketch.) (I) Lieutenant Thomas BURNHAM Burnham, one of the broth ers of that name who settled at Ipswich, Alassachusetts, was a resident of the town known as Chebacco as early as 1636. He was then a youth of thirteen years and continued to reside there until his death, Alay 19, 1694, at the age of seventy-one years. He was a soldier in the Pequot expedition in 1636- 37 and again in the Indian warfare in 1643. He was a subscriber to Major Denison in 1648 and was a corporal and surveyor of high ways in 1662; sergeant in 1664; ensign the foUowing year, and lieutenant in 1683. He was deputy to the general court in 1683-84- 85. In May, 1667, he was granted the privi lege of locating a sawmill on the Chebacco river, near the FaUs, and he became an ex tensive owner of lands in Ipswich and Che bacco, which he divided between his sons Thomas and James. He was married in 1645 to Alary, daughter of John and Johanna Tut tle. She was born in 1624, died Alarch 27, 1715. Children: Thomas, John, James, Mary, Johanna, Abigail, Ruth (died young), Ruth, Joseph, Nathaniel, Sarah and Esther. (II) John, second son of Thomas and Alary (Tuttle) Burnham, was born in 164S, died January 12, 1704, in Chebacco, where he lived through life. He resided first near the head of Whittredge creek and afterwards at the falls of the Chebacco. He was appointed in 1665 to run the line between Ipswich and Gloucester and was tithingman in 1677 and 1695. I" 1689 he was proprietor of a grist mill and the owner of real estate which con tinued in the hands of his descendants down to a very recent date. He married, June 9,. 1669, Elizabeth Wells, who died in 1717. Children: John, Thomas, Jacob (died young), Joseph, Abigail, Jacob, Jonathan, David and Mary. (Ill) Jacob, fifth son of John and Ehza beth (WeUs) Burnham, was born Alarch i, 1682, died March 26, 1773, in Chebacco,. where his life was spent, fle married, Novem- STATE OF MAINE. 337 ber 20, 1704, Alehitable Perkins, who died September 6, 1769. Their sons included West- ley, Jacob, Solomon and John. (IV) Solomon, third son of Jacob and Ale hitable (Perkins) Burnham, was born in 1709, died Aprd 15, 1784. He married, November 13, 1729, Alehitable Emerson, who died Au gust 23, 1792, having survived her husband more than eight years. Children : Sarah, Solomon, Ami, Ruhamah, PhUippa, Alehitable, Thomas, Jacob (tyvins), Ephraim (died young). Alary, Ephraim and Jacob. (V) Jacob (2), youngest son of Solomon and Alehitable (Emerson) Burnham, yvas born February 2, 1752, died August 10, 1820, in Chebacco, now Essex, Massachusetts. He married, June 11, 1772, Lucy Burnham, who died Alay 18, 1844. Her parentage cannot be located ; she was, no doubt, a remote relative. Children : Ezra, Jacob, Luke R., Ephraim, Zebulun, Lucy, Rebecca, Aliriam and Susanna. (VI) Zebulun, fifth son of Jacob (2) and Lucy (Burnham) Burnham, was born in Es sex, Massachusetts, about 1780, and married Judith Andrews of the same locality. Chil dren : Judith, Zebulun, Alina, Cynthia, Amos, Ansel, Sophy, Augusta and Ephraim. (VII) Zebulun (2), son of Zebulun (i) and Judith (Andrews) Burnham, was born Au gust 6, 1812, in Essex, and resided in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he died October 15, 1848. He was a cordwainer by occupation, and died at the early age of thirty-six years. He married, February 21, 1837, Sarah D. Knowlton, born January 10, 1819, in Hamil ton, Massachusetts, and survived him nearly forty-one years, dying September 26, 1889. Children : Sarah Augusta, Ivers Smith, John Everett, Amos Perley, Calvin Foster, Otis and Frank. All of these sons served as soldiers in the civil war. (VIII) Frank, son of Zebulun (2) and Sarah D. (Knowlton) Burnham, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, March 31, 1847, and received a high school education. He enlisted in the Sixtieth Massachusetts Volunteer Regi ment, and was with his regiment until the close of the war. He also served in the United States navy on the "Vandalia," under Admiral Thatcher, fle belongs to Unity Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Eastern Star Encampment, and the Grand Army of the Republic, all of Portland. He is an orchestral leader and a teacher of the violin and cornet, having studied with the celebrated M. Arbuckle, of Gilmore's band. His pupils extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He is a Republican in politics and a Liberal in religion. He married Sarah F., daughter of Daniel O. and Alary Stanley, of Beverly, Alassachusetts; children: i. Ida F., married Frank E. Fickett, of Portland. 2. Gertrude. 3. Ralph Foster. 4. Alabel S., mar ried Frank E. Grant, of Portland. (IX) Ralph Foster, only son of Frank and Sarah F. (Stanley) Burnham, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Alarch 30, 1876. At an early age he removed with his parents to Portland, Maine. When eight years of age he began selling newspapers for Chisholm Brothers and paid his expenses while in the grammar school. Then entering the employ ment of Schlotterbeck & Foss, he paid his way through the high school. After graduating he entered the employ of J. B. Totten, where he remained until his health obUged him to leave the coast, when he came to Auburn in 1897 and bought out the drug business of B. L. Alden. In this business he is still engaged. Shortly after purchasing the business he de voted much time to experimenting with "io dides," and succeeding in filling a long-felt want in his "Sal Iodide." This met with marked success and is extensively prescribed by physicians throughout New England. He also prepared a ''Glyco-Tonic'' which with the other formalje he is developing into a worthy and profitable enterprise. It is to the study and energy of such men as Mr. Burnham that the state owes its position in the chemical as well as the manufacturing world. He is an Ancient Free and Accepted Mason, having taken all of the degrees to the thirty-second, is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and Knights of the Golden Eagle. He mar ried, October 30, 1899, Clara EUa, daughter of John H. and Eleanor (Haskell) Shaw, of Portland. Mr. and Airs. Burnham attend the Universahst church. Robert Smith, immigrant ances- SAIITH tor of this branch of the family, was born about 1623. He settled in that part of Rowley which was set off as Boxford, and was living there in 1661. He was a quiet man, but interested in anything that pertained to the advancement of settle ments in the town. He was a subscriber to the Major Denison fund in 1648. He died intest ate August 30, 1693, and his son Samuel ad ministered his estate October 3, 1698, which was valued at two hundred pounds. He mar ried Mary, daughter of Thomas French. Chil dren : I. Mary, recorded at Rowley, bom October 28, 1658. 2. Phebe, August 26, 1661. 3. Ephraim, October 29, 1663, mentioned be- 33^ STATE OF ALAINE. low. 4. Samuel, January 26, 1666. 5. Amy, August 16, 1668. 6. Sarah, June 25, 1670, died August 28, 1673. 7. Nathaniel, Septem ber 7, 1672. 8. Jacob, January 26, 1674. 9. Maria, December 18, 1677. (II) Ephraim, son of Robert Smith, was born at Boxford, October 29, 1663, and re sided at Boxford. He served in the Indian war under Governor Andros. He married, September 6, 1694, Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Perkins) Ramsddl. Children: I. Ehzabeth (twin), born March i, 1696-97. 2. Hannah (twin), Alarch i, 1696-97. 3. Ephraim, January 30, 1698-99. 4. Lydia, Sep tember 8, 1699. 5. Hepsibah, March 25, 1700. 6. Priscilla, August 14, 1702. 7. John, No vember 18, 170 — . 8. Nathan, baptized July i, 1710. 9. Daniel, baptized August 31, 1712. 10. Abijah, baptized October 24, 1714, men tioned below. (Ill) Abijah, son of Ephraim Smith, was baptized October 24, 1714, and died intestate at Leominster in 1787. He resided in Leo minster, and married, in 1738, Lydia Rogers, of Boxford, who was baptized in 1720. Among his children was Manasseh, mentioned below. (IV) Manasseh, son of Abijah Smith, was born at Leominster, Deceinber 25, 1748, and died at Wiscasset, IVIaine. May 21, 1823. He graduated at Harvard College in 1773 and for a time was chaplain in the revolutionary army. He afterwards studied law and began his practice in Leominster, and was clerk of the court there. He removed to Hollis, New Hampshire, and married there Hannah Emer son, born September 30, 1745, died April 16, 1825, daughter of Daniel Emerson. (See Emerson family.) In 1788 he went to "Wis casset, Alaine, where he resided the remainder of his life, and accumulated a handsome prop- perty. He wrote a very illegible hand, and it is said that Judge Paine, trying to read a special plea of his, was brought to a stand and scolded him heartily. Smith said that he had been, as a minister, in the habit of writing fast, which led him to be careless. Children : I. Hannah, born October 17, 1774, married, 1794, Samuel Sevey, born at Wiscasset, .April 30, 1 771, and had Hannah, Alary S., Samuel, Maria, William, Edwin S., Joseph S., Julia D., Ralph E., Manasseh, Bradbury, Theodore and Lucy S. Sevey. 2. Alary, born February I, 1776, married Ivory Hovey Jr., and had Fannie E., Ivory T., Mary fl., George W., Lucy A., Joseph S., Susan and Sarah flovey ; died at East Thomaston, Alaine, April 21, 1848. 3. Lydia Rogers, born December 15, 1777, died at Wiscasset, July 16, 1858. 4. Manasseh, born August 16, 1779, married Olivia Hovey, of Berwick, Alaine ; children : i. Child, died young ; ii. Manasseh, bom July 15, 1807; iii. Frances O., born October 15, 1809, married William T. HiUiard ; iv. Eliza W., born March 21, 1812, married Dr. J. C. Bradbury ; v. Temple H., died young ; vi, Hannah E., married Charles Woodman, of Burlington; vii. Olivia S., born February 12, 1819 ; viii. Joseph Emerson, died young. 5. Joseph Emerson, born March 6, 1782, died at Boston, Alassachusetts, March 12, 1837. 6. Lucy, born September 22, 1783, died at Wis casset, April 28, 1840. 7. Samuel Emerson, born March 12, 1788, mentioned below. 8. Edwin, born July 14, 1790, married Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Hurd, of Wal- doborough ; children : i. Samuel Emerson, born in Alva, April 20, 1821, died December 5, 1855, married Copeland; ii. Edwin J., born in Warren, Maine, Alarch 30, 1826, mar ried : — Hodgeman, of Warren. (V) Samuel Emerson, son of Alanasseh Smith, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, March 12, 1788, died March 4, i860, at Wis casset, Maine. He studied at Groton Academy and graduated at Harvard College in 1808. He studied law with Samuel Dana, of Groton, and with his brothers Manasseh and Joseph E., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, Feb ruary 25, 1812. The same year he established an office at Wiscasset, Alaine. He was active in politics, was a Democrat; in 1819 was elected representative to the general court of Massachusetts, and the next year to that of Maine, after the state had been established. In 1 82 1 he was appointed chief justice of the court of common pleas, as successor of Judge Weston. He was governor of Maine three years, 1831-32-33. During his administration the subject of the northeastern boundary was uppermost in the minds of the people. The question in controversy had been submitted to the King of the Netherlands, and Judge Preble went to the Hague to manage the cause. In January, 1831, the king rendered his award, placing the line on a ridge of high lands instead of the bed of a river, according to the language of the treaty, gave just in dignation to the people of the state, and led to a repudiation of the award. .\ long cor respondence and discussion took place bet-«'een Governor Smith and the authorities at Wash ington. The United States government was desirous of having the award accepted, and was willing to pay the state of Alaine for any loss of territory. The messages of Governor Smith in regard to the controversy were sound STATE OF MAINE. 339 and judicious, and met with popular approval. Another measure of importance was the change of the seat of government to Augusta, and the budding of the capitol. In the third year of his administration the country was dis turbed by the nullification movements in South Carohna, and the agitations concerning the charter of the United States bank, and a modi fication of the tariff. The government took a firm stand in support of the president, and says : "In this alarming crisis of our national affairs, we cannot but rejoice that the executive department of the national government, sus tained, as it is, by a vast majority of the American people, has announced its determi nation to support and carry into effect the con stitution and laws of the United States." At the expiration of his third term of office Gov ernor Smith retired to private life until 1835, when he was restored to the bench of common pleas. In 1837 he withdrew from the bench and in October of that year was appointed one of the commissioners to revise and codify the public laws. The first edition of the revised statutes was the result of the labors of this commission, fle was one of the forty-nine corporate members of the Alaine Historical Society. He married, September 12, 1832, Louisa Sophia, daughter of Hon. Henry Weld FuUer, of Augusta. ChUdren: i. Samuel Emerson, born in Augusta, August 31, 1833, died at "Wiscasset, January 21, 1881. 2. Jo seph Emerson, born March 19, 1835 (married first, Helen, daughter of William Cooper, of Pittston; second, Sarah, daughter of Major John Babson, of Wiscasset; third Amy Bowie, of Baltimore, Maryland; chUdren: i. Stuart IngaUs, died 1869, aged three; ii. Maud Fuller, married Loring Briggs, of Brookline, Massachusetts ; Ui. Joseph Emerson ; iv. Aimee, married Harold Clifton Lane, of San Antonio, Texas). 3. Henry Weld FuUer, born at Wis casset, May 6, 1837, died October 26, 1866. 4. Edwin Manasseh, born December 26, 1838; ["Captain Edwin M. Smith * * * com pleted a fuU course at Bowdoin College, after which he studied law and then finished his education by travel in Europe. Shortly after his return from abroad the war broke out, and with the ardor of a youthful nature he en listed in the conflict. He was the first volun teer from his native town. His company unanimously elected him captain, and with it he joined the Fourth Maine and fought his first batde at Bull Run. Captain Smith is said to have been one of the last officers of his regi ment to leave the battlefield, and he barely escaped with his life by the use of his revolver. Soon after he was commissioned major of his regiment, but declined the office, preferring to foUow his colonel, then made a brigadier-gen eral, upon his staff as assistant adjutant-gen eral." (From "Major General Hiram J. Berry, His Career, etc.," by Edward K. Gould, pub lished at Rockland, Me., in 1899.) He was killed in the battle of Fair Oaks, Alay 31, 1862.] 5. Benjamin Fuller, mentioned below. (VI) Benjamin FuUer, son of Samuel Emer son Smith, was born at Wiscasset, February 28, 1842, died there March 23, 1885. He re ceived his early education in the public schools of his native town, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1863. He began the practice of law in the office of Melville W. Fuller, in Chicago, being a partner with him in the firm of Fuller & Smith. Later he went to Wis casset, where he practiced his profession. In politics he was a Democrat, and was a mem ber of the governor's staff. He was county attorney, and served the town as selectman, auditor, overseer of the poor and superintend ent of schools. In religion he was an Episco palian. He married, December 25, 1866, in St. John's Church at Bangor, Marion Louise, dattghter of Daniel Mosely Howard, of Ban gor. (See Howard family elsewhere.) Chil dren: I. Howard Bainbridge, born in Chi cago, March 8, 1868, now in Germany. 2. Christine Louise, born in Bangor, October 6, 1869, died August 9, 1902. 3. Marion Stuart, born in Bangor, March 31, 1871 (married, September 26, 1906, Dr. A. Theodore Gail- lard, of Charlestown, South Carolina; resides in Atlanta, Georgia; had son Theodore Lee Gaillard, born in New York City, November 18, 1907). 4. Harold Joseph Emerson, men tioned below. (VII) Harold Joseph Emerson, son of Ben jamin [Fuller Smith, was born in Wiscasset, Maine, May i, 1877. He was sent to Ger many in early youth to be educated, and he attended Karl's Gymnasium at Suttgart and the Vitzthum Gymnasium at Dresden, Ger many. He returned to his native land in 1892 and engaged in the fire insurance busi ness in Bangor, in the office of D. M. Howard. From 1895 to 1907 he was connected with the Long Island Railroad Company in New York City. Since 1907 he has resided in the old home at Wiscasset, built one hundred and twenty-five years ago, his son being the fifth generation of the Smith family to live in it. Mr. Smith has taken an active interest in the affairs of the town and is at present on the board of selectmen of Wiscasset. He is a Re publican in pohtics and an Episcopalian in re- 340 ST.-ATE OF MAINE. ligion. He married, Alay 17, 1905, Susan Cowles, born at Chicago, November i, 1882, daughter of John Cowles and Susan Rae (Henry) Grant, of Chicago. (See Grant fam Uy.) Children: i. Marion Howard, born in New York, May 11, 1906. 2. Emerson, born in Wiscasset, October 25, 1907. The ancestry of the children of Benjamin Fuller and Marion Louise (Howard) Smith has been traced through the various lines to the following pioneers : Thomas Edmunds, of Wethersfield, Connecticut ; Griffin Graft, of Roxbury (1631) ; Thomas Gardiner, who came in the ship "Elizabeth," 1635; Rebecca Crooke (1646); Rev. Thomas Weld, of Roxbury (1632); Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn: Thomas Savage, who came in the ship "Plant er" to Boston in 1636; William flutchins, Boston, 1634; Edward Tyng, Boston, 1636; Thomas Fox, of Cambridge, died 1693; Rev. John Rogers, of Plymouth, 1635, settled later at Rowley; Hezekiah Usher, of Cambridge, died 1676; Zaccheus Gould, 1638; Edward Giles, of Salem, 1633; Job Swinnerton, Sa lem, 1637; Thomas Flagg, 1637; Michael Lef- fenwell, of Woburn ; John Winslow, married Mary Chilton; Samuel Edson, of Salem, died 1692; John Fobes, of Duxbury; Rev. James Keith, of Scotland, 1662; Richard Williams, of Taunton, 1633, cousin tO' Oliver Cromwell; Richard Holden, Ipswdch, 1634; Stephen Eos- dick, Charlestown, 1635; Samuel Packard, 1638; Thomas French, of Ipswich, 1638; John Ramsddl, of Lynn, 1630; Rev. AVUham Per kins, of Ipswich and Topsfield, 163 1; Eliza beth Wooten, of Roxbury, 1636; Jeremiah Rogers, of Dorchester, before 1672; Jabez Pears, of Dorchester, 1631 ; John Alarston, 1660; Thomas Emerson, of Ipswich, 1638; Rev. Peter Bulkdey, of Concord, 1659; Jane (Allen) Bulkdey; [Nicholas Brown, of Read ing, 1654; John Brown, of Reading, 1634; Rev. John Fiske, of Chelmsford, 1637 ; Eliza beth Clark, sister of John Clark, Newport, Rhode Island ; Joseph Emerson, of Mendon ; Cornelius Waldo; flannah Cogswell, of Ips wich; WiUiam Moody came in the ship "Mary and John" to Ipswich, 1633; Thomas Brad bury, of Sahsbury, 1639; John Perham, of Boston and Ipswich, 1631 ; Henry Sewell, 1634; Jane Dummer; Hannah Fessenden, died in York, 1723; Anthony Fisher, of Dedham, 1637; Nicholas Marriott, of Salem and Marble head, 1637; Robert Grossman, of Taunton, 1657; Gilbert Brooks, Rehoboth, 1621 ; John Bryant, Scituate, 1639; Stephen Bryant, of Plymouth, 1632; John HaU, of Charlestown, 1697; Rev. WiUiam Blackstone, 1623, the first settler of Boston ; Thomas Brown ; Thomas Edwards, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, died 1688; Edward Spaulding, of Braintree, 1640; William Simmons, of Concord, died 1672; Dolor Davis, died 1673 ; John Hall, of Dover, New Hampshire, 1694; William Furber, of Dover, 1637; .Quentin Pray, of Lynn and Braintree, 1667; John Downing, of Braintree, 1640; Henry Sewall, of Ipswich, 1634. (For preceding generations see Robert Smith I.) (V) Manasseh (2), eldest son of SMITH Manasseh (i) and Hannah (Emerson) Smith, was born in HoUis, August 16, 1779. He removed with his family to Alaine, graduated from Harvard in 1800, and established himself in Warren, where he died, a worthy and prominent citizen, in 1822. He married Olivia Hovey, daughter of Dr. Ivory Hovey, of Berwick, by whom he had eight children. (VI) Manasseh Hovey, son of Manasseh and Olivia (Hovey) Smith, was born in 1807 and died in 1865. He married Mary Alyrick Dole (see below), and they were the parents of seven children : Mary Caroline, Manasseh, Elizabeth H., Everett, Edith, Harold and Os good. (VII) Mary Caroline, eldest daughter of Manasseh H. and Mary Al. (Dole) Smith, was born in Warren, July 29, 1838, and married, November 13, 1861, Frederick Fox, lawyer, who was born in 1827, died in Portland, 1894 (see Fox IX). (VII) Manasseh (3), eldest son of Manas seh H. and Mary M. (Dole) Smith, was born in Warren, Maine, December 24, 1841, and is a lawyer. He resides at Woodfords. fle mar ried, 1 87 1, Georgiana W. Hall, of Quebec, who was born in Quebec, 1848, daughter of George B. Hall. They have eight chUdren: Mary, Gertrude, Helen, Katherine Benson, Manasseh (4), Ruth, Bertha and Ralph. Mary Myrick (Dole) Smith (see Smith VI above) was a descendant of Richard Dole (q. v.), through Richard (II), Richard (III), Enoch (IV), Amos (V), and (VI) Hon. John, fifth son of Amos and Molly (Page) Dole, was born in Shirley, in 1773. He settled in Lincoln county in the province of Maine, where he held the office of : judge of the court of common pleas, and died in 1842. He married Elizabeth Carleton, by whom he had nine children: Sullivan, Carle ton, Mary W., Nancy, Jefferson, Albert G., : William King, Elizabeth C. and Mary Myrick, ; next mentioned. J (VII) Mary Alyrick, child of Judge John ,[ STATE OF MAINE. 341 and Elizabeth (Carleton) Dole, was born in Alna, Lincoln county, Maine, in 1818, and died in Portland, 1905, aged eighty-seven years. She married IVlanasseh H. Smith (see Smith VI). John Smith came from England, SMITH about 1630, to Barnstable, Mas sachusetts, and probably died Oc tober 2, 1710, at the extreme age of ninety- six years. In 1663 he succeeded Rev. WiUiam Sargent as pastor of the Barnstable church; subsequently went to Long Island and New Jersey, and in 1675 removed to Sandwich, be coming pastor of church there 1676, continu ing until 1688, when, at the age of seventy- four, his pastorate was terminated at his own request. He married, 1643, Susanna, daugh ter of Samuel Hinckley, who was brother of Thomas Hinckley, afteryvard governor. Chil dren: I. Samuel, born April, 1644. 2. Sarah, May, 1645. 3. Eben, October, 1646. 4. Mary, November, 1647. 5- Dorcas, August, 1650. 6. John, died 1651. 7. Shubael, born Novem ber, 1653. 8. John, September, 1656. 9. Ben jamin, January 7, 1658. 10. Ichabod, January 7, 1660. II. Elizabeth, February, 1662. 12. Thomas, February, 1664; see forward. 13. Joseph, December 6, 1667. (II) Thomas, eighth son of John Smith, was prominent in pubhc affairs. He was rep resentative to the general court, 1698-99; one of the two selectmen, 1697; was town treas urer of Sandwich at time of his death, Decem ber 9, 1700. He married Abigail . Children: i. Samuel, born January, 1688, see forward. 2. John, born February 7, 1689. 3. Thomas, December 25, 1691. 4. Isaac, Feb ruary II, 1693. 5. AbigaU, January 17, 1695. 6. Rebecca, November 7, 1697, married Rev. Benjamin Fessenden. 7. Shubael, November 20, 1699. (Ill) Samuel, eldest son of Thomas Smith, is mentioned by Rev. Mr. Fessenden as "one of the heads of families" in Sandwich, 1730; litde more is known of him. He married, October 6, 1717, Bethia, daughter of Hon. John Chipman. She was of "Mayflower" de scent. Among the passengers of that historic vessel were John Tilley and wife Elizabeth, daughter Elizabeth, and John Howiand. The two last-named married, after reaching Ply mouth, and their daughter Hope married Elder John Chipman, 1646, and their granddaughter Bethia became wife of Samuel Smith. Chil dren of Samuel and Bethia (Chipman) Smith: I. Thomas, born September 17, 1718. 2. Sam uel, February 19, 1720. 3. Abigail, December 16, 1722, married Samuel Thaxter, of Hing ham. 4. Bethia, December 10, 1724, married Thomas Loring of Hingham. 5. Mary, May 8, 1727, married Calvin Gay, of Hingham. 6. John, September 12, 1729. 7. Rebecca, July 19, 1 73 1, married Elisha Bisby, of Pem broke. 8. Shubael, June 10, 1733. 9. De borah, May 6, 1737. 10. Stephen, May 30, 1739, see forward. 11. and 12. Lucy and Lydia (twins), November 3, 1741 ; Lucy died aged three weeks ; Lydia married Joseph Lor ing, of Hingham. (IV) Stephen, son of Samuel Smith, was born in Sandwich, May 30, 1739. In 1772 he removed to Machias, Maine, where a settle ment had been made nine years earlier. In 1776 he was appointed truck master to the Indians, by the provincial congress, his duties being to provision the Indians and keep them from taking an active part against the colon ists in the revolution. Next year he is known as Captain Smith of the militia, and was as sociated with Colonel John Allen, Colonel Eddy and Major Stillman in defense of the settlements in eastern Alaine. In numerous skirmishes he proved himself a good com mander, and one whom the Indians respected and obeyed. He was frequently mentioned in reports to the governor and council for his ex cellent service. In 1777, when the soldiers at Machias were suffering for supplies, he ad vanced money to pay them off, and also for blankets, of which they were in great need. These sums were afterward repaid him. His reports, now in the Alassachusetts archives, are model business documents. In 1781 he was on the committee of safety and corre spondence. He was one of the first selectmen of Machias, when the town was incorporated, 1784, and in 1790 President AVashington ap pointed him first collector of customs there. He was one of the first sixteen proprietors of the first meeting house, 1774, his subscription being the largest on the list, and a liberal sup porter of the first minister. Rev. James Lyon. He was made a Mason in St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, March 26, 1778; a charter member of Warren Lodge, Machias, 1777; its first treas urer, and to 1787, and at times advanced money to the lodge for its needs. He was a mill owner and lumber manufacturer; and partner for some years with George Stillman. He married, 1762, Deborah, daughter of Jona than and Patience Ellis, of Plymouth. He died September 29, 1806 ; she 'died Alarch 4, 1825. 'Their grave stones have recently been identified, and their descendants are caring for the graves. Children, first five born in Sand- 342 STATE OF MAINE. wich, the others in Machias: i. Stephen, born November 6, 1763, rnarried Hannah Hill; chil dren : Deborah, married Harrison Thatcher ; EUis; John Otis; Thomas; Adeline, married Simon Elwell ; Turner Nathan ; George ; Mary, married Fred Bowker, second Ward ; Coffin; Harrison. 2. Deborah, born February 22, 1766, married Joseph Wallace; chUdren: Louis J. ; John T. ; William E. ; George W. ; Elizabeth T., married Stephen J. Bowles ; Charles A. ; Deborah. 3. "William EUis, born December 8, 1767, married Hannah Lyon; children : Stephen ; Alaria, married Wilmot W. Nash ; James ; Harrison T. ; William F. Joseph Warren; Charles Edward; Henry L. Caroline. 4. Samuel, born December 28, 1769. married Sally Kelly ; chUdren : William Sally, married Nathaniel Wilson; Samuel Betsey, married John H. McAllister ; George S. ; Deborah, married Benjamin Maloon. 5. Joseph Otis ; see forward. 6. Jane, born No vember 16, 1774, married Silas Turner; chil dren : Sally, married Cyrus W. Foster ; Eliza ; Miranda, married Joshua A. Lowell ; EUery ; Rebecca, married Ovid Burrall ; Deborah, mar ried Peter S. J. Talbot; Betsey. 7. Lydia, born January 18, 1777, married Samuel P. (ilark; children : Parker ; Judith, married H. T. Smith; Deborah, married William F. Smith; Hannah ; Nelson ; Sarah ; Lydia ; Jane, mar ried Enoch Dorman, (second) Stephen Long fellow. 8. Elizabeth Otis, born August 11, 1779, married Ebenezer Inglee; children: Charles ; Anna, married Dennis Garland ; Will iam; Betsey; Jane; Lewis; John; Charles. 9. George S., born September 14, 1781, married SaUy Farnsworth; children: William B., George S., Thomas D. Four of the ancestors of Captain Stephen Smith on his mother's side came over in the "Mayflower," viz. : John and Elizabeth Tilley, their daughter Elizabeth and John Howiand. Soon after their arrival at Plymouth John Howiand married Elizabeth Tilley. Hope Howiand, daughter of John and Elizabeth, married [Elder John Chipman in 1646, and their granddaughter Bethia, daughter of the Hon. John Chipman, married Samuel Smith and was the mother of Stephen Smith. (V) Joseph Otis, M. D., son of Stephen Smith, was bom in Sandwich, Massachusetts, January 31, 1772. He resided in Addison, Maine, where he was highly regarded for his professional ability and fine personal traits of character. He married, 1804, Betsey Strout Coffin, widow of Barnabas Coffin, daughter of Jeremiah Strout. Children: i. Deborah EUis, born May 25, 1805, died February 11, 1868; married Oliver Nash. 2. Stephen, born February 11, 1807, married Almy Springer. 3. Barnabas Coffin, born January 13, 1809, see forward. 4. George Stillman, born November 27, 1812, died September 12, 1850; married Elizabeth P. Bradley. (VI) Barnabas (Toffin, son of Dr. Joseph Otis Smith, was born January 13, 1809, and died January 3, 1881. He passed the first twenty-five years of his hfe in his native town — Addison, Maine — after that residing in Weston, Hodgdon and Linneus. His busy life was devoted to farming and lumbering, and his sons were early trained to assist in the varied duties of such a life. Although he never held public office, he was a public-spirited man, and most earnest in his interest in the church and moral reforms, the cause of tem perance being especially near his heart. He married, January 14, 1834, Maria Louise Small, who died in 1864, while three of her sons were battling for the Union under Gen eral Grant, in Virginia. She was a refined Christian woman, with a calm nature, yet pos sessing great decision of character — qualities whicli descended in large degree to her sons. Children: i. Zemro A., born August 26, 1837, married Alice Robinson. 2. Joseph O., see forward. 3. George A., born September 9, 1842, killed in the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 19, 1864. 4- Su san E., born August 19, 1847, married Frank C. Nickerson. 5. Neal D., born December 21, 1853, married Mary M. "WUliams. 6. Berda, born December 9, 1857, died March 23, 1858. 7. Clare L., born September 30, i860, mar ried Fred W. Roberts. (VII) Joseph Otis, son of Barnabas C. Smith, was born in Weston, Maine, April 24, 1839, and died in Skowhegan, August 31, 1905. His boyhood and early manhood were spent in Weston and Hodgdon. He was edu cated in the common schools of those towns, and at Houlton Academy, now Ricker Classi cal Institute, and after completing his studies he taught country schools in the neighborhood of his home. He entered the army August 14, 1863, ^iid was on detached duty until May following, yyhen he joined Company C, Elev enth Maine Volunteers, at Gloucester Point, Virginia. He was promoted corporal Sep tember I, 1864, first sergeant December i following, and Alay 2, 1865, was commis sioned second lieutenant of Company F. He participated in all the battles of the regiment in 1864-65, including Bermuda Hundred, Deep Bottom, Deep Run and Appomattox. He was also with troops on duty in New York during STATE OF MAINE. 343 the presidential election of 1864. After the cessation of hostilities he was provost mar shal and assistant superintendent of freedmen for Stafford county, and subsequently assistant adjutant general of the sub-district of Essex, with headquarters at Rappahannock, Virginia. He was never wounded, but was stricken down with fever, and was a patient in the field hos pital through the greater part of October, 1864. Like most veterans, he bore the consequences of the privations and exposures of his service in after life. The watchers at his bedside dur ing his last moments, when the mind in the weakened body roved at will, learned how strong were the impressions of his army life, as words fell from his fevered lips showed that he was living over again the incidents of camp and field. He greatly prized his association " with his fellow soldiers, and attended their meetings as often as possible. He was an original member of Seth Williams Post, G. A. R., Augusta, and on removing to Skowhegan was transferred to Russell Post, of yyhich he became commander. He was a member of the Union Veteran Union, and was made colo nel of A. Lincoln Command. He was elected March 7, 1883, to membership in the Alaine Commandery, Loyal Legion, and that body published an appreciative memorial at the time of his death. For five years following his return from the army, Mr. Smith was engaged in mercan tile pursuits in Hodgdon. On September 25, 1878, he purchased the Somerset Reporter, which under a different name had been con ducted by his brother, Zemro A. Smith, ten years before. He had as partners, at different times, Edward P. Alayo and Elmer E. AIc- Neelie. January i, 1904, the last-named as sumed the financial management, Mr. Smith retaining the editorial control. This arrange ment allowed him to continue his editorial work even in failing health, and after he was confined to his house. His last contribution to the paper was an article on the late Hon. John Hay, only a few months before his own death. He impressed his personality strongly upon his paper, and made it a strong advo cate of local interests, and lofty moral and political principles. His public services were of conspicuous usefulness, and he brought to them high ability and sterling integrity. In Elodgdon, prior to 1872, he was town clerk, superintending school committeeman, town treasurer, and postmaster. In 1869-70 he rep resented Hodgdon in the legislature, and in 1872-73 was assistant clerk of the house, tak ing up his residence in Augusta the latter !¦--..— year, and lived there until 1885, except two years (1879-80) spent in Skowhegan. He was chief clerk in the office of the secretary of state, 1874-75 ; deputy secretary of state, 1876-80; secretary of state, 1881-84; state in surance commissioner, 1885-93. Regarding this service the Kennebec Journal paid him a lofty tribute, saying: "It has been given to few men to serve our state longer or in more responsible positions, and both as an official and citizen he commanded the confidence of all." His interest in politics constituted an important part of his life. He was secretary of the Republican state committee, 1876-80, when Air. Blaine was chairman ; and served on the state committe 1890-1902. His last pub lic position was that of presidential dector-at- large, 1900. As the Maine electors met before those of any other state, and Air. Smith was first to vote, he considered that he had the honor of casting the first electoral vote for Theodore Roosevelt for vice-president. Early in life he joined the Free Baptist church of Hodgdon, and later became a member of Bethany Baptist Church of Skowhegan, of which he was a deacon at the time of his death. He was affiliated with Somerset Lodge and Chapter, of the Masonic fraternity. For sev eral years he had been a director in the Sec ond National Bank. His scholarly abUity and tastes were recognized in 1893, when Colby College conferred upon him the honorary de gree of master of arts, his son, George Otis, receiving the bachelor's degree at the same time. Mr. Smith married, March 17, i860, Corde lia Smith, daughter of Daniel and Keziah (UnderhiU) Smith, of Hodgdon. Airs. Smith died in Richmond, A^irginia, November 13, 1865. One child, Eda Kezia, born Novem ber 10, 1861, married, 'November 2, 1898, Ed ward Leighton Pegram, of Decatur, Illinois. Mr. Smith married (second) November 21, 1868, Emma Mayo, who survives him; she was daughter of Rev. Leonard and Nancy (Withington) Alayo, of Hodgdon. Children of Air. and Airs. Smith: i. George Otis, see forward. 2. Josephine Withington, born June 5, 1873, married August 28, 1900, William B. Pierce, of Beverly, Massachusetts. They have tyvo children : Rachel Barron, born Jan uary 2, 1904, and Esther Alayo, born April 20, 1908. (VIII) George Oris, only son of Joseph Otis Smith, was born in Hodgdon, Feb ruary 22, 1 87 1. He graduated from Colby College in 1893, and immediately joined a United States Geological Survey field party 344 STATE OF AlAINE. working on the Alarquette iron range in Alich igan. During the next three years he took a post-graduate course in geology at Johns Hopkins University, spending one field season on the Marquette range, and another in recon naissance work in the state of Washington. On his graduation wdth the degree of Ph.D., in June, 1896, he joined the United States Geo logical Survey as assistant geologist, having taken the first civil service examination held for that position. In July, 1901, he was pro moted to geologist and in 1906 was appointed geologist in charge of petrology, with scien tific supervision of all the survey work in that department. In the course of his professional career he has worked in Michigan, Washing ton, Utah, North Carolina, the New England states. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In the course of his Washington work he made a special study of several artesian basins, and the results were published as a water-supply paper. His experience in that state also in cluded economic work in the coal fields, and the results were published in a survey report on the coal fields of the Pacific coast. In connection with a special reconnaissance along the northwestern boundary and across the Cascade range, in 1901, he made a topo graphic map upon which to record geologic observations, exact geographic locations being necessary in examining the boundary monu ments. The results of his investigations in Washington, in addition to his report on coal, were published by the survey as a report on the rocks of Mount Ranier ; in the Tecoma, EUensburg and Mount Stuart folios ; in a paper on the geology and physiology of central Washington; and in a paper on gold mining in central Washington. In addition Dr. Smith contributed papers to the bulletins of the Geo logical Society of America, and to various periodicals ; an article on the Mount Baker mining district, in the Engineering and Min ing Journal in 1902. The Clealum iron ores were described in a contribution to the "Trans actions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers," 1901. In 1900 the Geological Survey issued the Tintic special folio in which Dr. Smith described the geologic structure of a famous Utah camp. An account of the occur rence and origin of the ore bodies, the joint work of Messrs. Tower and Smith, had ap peared the year before as a report on the geol ogy and mining industry of the Tintic district. While pursuing his investigations of the areas of crystalline rocks in New Jersey, Pennsylva nia and Maryland, including the granites used as building stones, he made a special study of several minerals of economic value, includ ing molybenite. He also prepared the 1905 production reports on mica, graphite and as bestos. In addition to his geologic work. Dr. Smith served as chairman of a committee on accounting and bookkeeping, working under the direction of the committee on departmental methods, otherwise known as the Keep Com mission. This gave him opportunity to famil iarize himself with the details of departmental administration, and he also acted for several months as chairman of the committee on busi ness methods in the Geological Survey. In April, 1907, he was appointed by President Roosevelt director of the survey, to succeed Charles D. Walcott, taking the oath of office on May ist. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and of the American As sociation for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Dr. Smith married, November 18, 1896, Grace Al., daughter of Stephen and Helen (Miller) Coburn, of Skowhegan. Children: Charles Coburn, born October 4, 1897; Joseph Coburn, September 14, igoo; Helen Coburn, December 4, 1904; Elizabeth Coburn, Decem ber 3, 1907. (For early generations see preceding sketch.) (V) Stephen (2), son of Stephen SMITH (I) and Deborah (EUis) Smith, born in Sandwich, Ivlassachusetts, November 6, 1763, died in Machias, Maine, about 1830. He married Hannah Hill. Chil dren: Deborah, EUis, Thomas, Adeline, Tur ner, Nathan, George, Mary, Coffin, Harrison and John Otis. (VI) John Otis, son of Stephen (2) and Hannah (Hill) Smith, was born in Machias, Maine, in 1790, died there in 1845. He mar ried Love Scott, whose ancestors came from Scarboro, Maine, to Alachias about 1763. ChU dren : Hannah, Deborah, Theodore, Sarah, John, Nathan T., Evelyn, Delia, Harlan and WiUiam Otis. (VII) WiUiam Otis, son of John Otis and Love (Scott) Smith, born in Machias, Alaine, March 25, 1816, died there March 10, 1902. He was a lumber merchant, and belonged to the state mUitia of Maine. He married Susan C. Hoyt, fifth child of Daniel and Eleanor (Elarvey) Hoyt, and granddaughter of Daniel floyt. ([Children: i. WUliam Otis, deceased. 2. [Emeline Love, married Jonathan A. Long- felloyy ; children : Frederick Otis, William Morris, Elizabeth Mayhew and Ada Amelia Longfellow. 3. Elizabeth Penniman, married STATE OF MAINE. 345 Edgar Al. Gilpatrick, child: Roy Hawkes. 4. John Herbert, deceased. 5. Flenry Herbert, see forward. (VIII) Henry Herbert, son of William Otis ¦and Susan C. (Hoyt) Smith, was born at Machias, Maine, January 9, 1855. He re- ¦ceived his early education in the common schools of Machias and at Washington Acad emy at East Machias. Ele then entered Bow doin College, graduating as Bachelor of Arts in 1877, out of course, and in the same year .graduated as Doctor of Medicine from Jeffer son Medical College, of Philadelphia, Penn sylvania. He at once began practice in Alach ias, remaining for a period of nineteen years, after which he removed to Whitneyville, Con necticut, where he remained for four and a half years, and thence removed to New Haven, same state, yvhere he has remained in general practice to the present time (1908). He has contributed articles from time to time to vari ous medical journals of the county on medical topics, whicli were widely circulated and read with interest. In addition to his professional duties he is serving in the capacity of director of the People's Bank and Trust Company of New Haven. While a resident of Maine Dr. Smith was a member of the Maine Academy of Medicine, the Maine Medical Association and the American Academy of Medicine, and from 1885 to 1893 was secretary of the board of United States examining surgeons for pen sions. He is now a member of the Connec ticut State Medical Society, New Haven County Medical Society, New Haven Citizens Medical Society, Graduate Club of New Hav en, Union League of New Haven, and of the Connecticut Society, Sons of American Revolution. He is a member of the various Masonic bodies, including Harwood Lodge, No. 91, Machias, Maine, which he joined in 1885, arid of which he is past master; Wash ington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is past high priest ; St. Croix Council, Royal and Select Masters; St. Elmo Commandery, Knights Templar; Delta Lodge of Perfection and Deering Council, Princes of Jerusalem, of which he is past grand master. After remov ing to New flaven he affiliated with the vari ous lodges there and received his thirty-second degree. He is also a member of Pyramid Temple of the Alystic Shrine, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is a Republican in politics. Dr. Smith married, December 24, 1877, at Machias, Maine, Mary Elizabeth Longfellow, daughter of Edwin and Agnes B. (Brown) Longfellow, of Machias. Mrs. Smith died AprU 15, 1884, leaving two children: Agnes Longfellow and Philip Seabury Smith, the latter an electrical engineer. In 1897 he mar ried Julia Brown Longfellow, a sister of his first wife. One of the numerous lines of SMITH this name, whose origin has been lost in the mists and uncertainties of the past, when records were illy kept, be gins, as far as is now ascertainable, in Orring ton, Alaine. Like others of the name, the present family has been useful in clearing up the wilderness and in developing civilization in New England, and has been worthily rep resented in professional life throughout the country. (I) The present line begins with Captain Heman Smith, who was a master mariner, active in the commerce of his day. (II) David, son of Captain Heman Smith, is supposed to have been born in Or rington, Maine, where he died. The maiden name of his wife was also Smith, but no rec ord appears of the date of their marriage or her baptismal name. (Ill) Heman (2), son of David Smith, was born in Orrington, iVIaine, and in early man hood was a farmer. About 1830 he bought a farm of one hundred acres in that town, and later on engaged in dairying, and the breeding of pure-blooded Jersey cattle and fine horses. He was a member of the Congrega tional church, in which both his wife and himself were active workers. In politics he was a Whig, and became a Republican on the organization of that party, fle married, in 1833, Lydia Buffum Wheeler, daughter of Captain Simeon Wheeler, of HarpsweU. Their children were four sons and a daughter. (IV) Heman Page, son of Heman (2) and Lydia (Buft'um) (Wheeler) Smith, was born in Orrington, Alaine, December 31, 1842. He began his education in the common schools, passed through the high school, and while preparing for college the civil war began. Dis continuing his studies to enter the service of his country, he enlisted, July 24, 1862, as a private in Company B, First Regiment Maine Heavy Artillery, and was appointed corporal. At the age of twenty he was promoted to sergeant, later to orderly sergeant, and at the age of twenty-one was commissioned lieuten ant. His regiment was engaged for eighteen months in manning the fortifications defend ing the national capital. It was then equipped as infantry, and went to the front, being as signed to the Second Corps, Army of the Po tomac, and participated in the most eventful 346 STATE OF MAINE. campaigns and desperate battles of the war, including the battles of Fredericksburg Pike, North Anna, Totopotomy, the two assaults on Petersburg, the battle of Jerusalem Road, the siege of Petersburg, followed by the battle of Deep Bottom, the capture of the Weldon Rail road, the engagements at Boydton Road, Hatcher's Run, Sailor's Creek, Cold Harbor, Vaughn Road and FarmvUle, and the brilliant operations at Appomattox Court House, which marked the downfall of the Confederacy and the final victory of the Union cause. In the assault on Petersburg, on June i8, 1864, Lieu tenant Smith's regiment suffered the ex traordinary loss of six hundred and four men. The Rebellion Records show this to have been the greatest loss sustained by any regiment in a single engagement during the yvar, while the percentage of killed was exceeded in only one instance. In this assault Smith (then or derly sergeant) received a serious wound in the thigh, from a piece of shell, which con fined him for more than two months in Lin coln Hospital, Washington City. At the end of this time, and while still in a critical con dition, he was conveyed on a stretcher to the cars, and taken to Augusta, Maine, and he was there mustered out of the service of the United States, on August 21st, 1865, with the rank of second lieutenant, being even then on crutches, fourteen months after receiving his wound, and more than four months after the cessation of hostilities. After regaining his health, he entered Worthington & Warner's Business CoUege, at Bangor, Maine, from which he graduated, and for the following two years he was a tutor in that institution. For a period of five years afterward he was connected with the publish ing house of Woolworth, Ainsworth & Com pany, of Boston. For one year he was an in structor in Teachers' Institutes in the State of Massachusetts. Subsequently he accepted a position as instructor of drawing in the public schools of New York City, in which capacity he served with success for ten years. He was associated with the publishing house of Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, in the work of introducing their works on drawing in the schools of the principal cities of the country, and while so occupied was author of White's Series of Drawing Books for Public Schools, published by that firm. He also engaged in institute work, in New York and Pennsyl vania, and was frequently a lecturer on the subject of drawing, before Teachers' Insti tutes. During nine years of his busy career in this line, he was an instructor of drawing in the National Summer School for Teachers, held at Glens Falls, New York. For five years he was supervisor of drawing in the pub lic schools of Brooklyn, from which he re signed to engage in the publishing business. For a period of seven years he was vice-presi dent of the publishing firm of Richardson, Smith & Company, and in 1905 became asso ciated with the [Macmillan Company, having charge of its educational department in Greater New York. Mr. Smith is a member of the Park Congre gational Church of Brooklyn, in which he .was for thirty years a member of the board of trustees, resigning in 1907, and for the past twelve years he has been superintendent of the Sunday school of this church. He is a mem ber of the Congregational Club of New York, and one of the fifteen organizing members, and is a member of the board of managers of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union. In poli tics he is an ardent Republican, and served as president of the Sixth District Republican Association for several years. He is promi nent in various patriotic organizations — U. S. Grant Post, Grand Army of the RepubHc, of Brooklyn, of which he was adjutant for two years, commander in 1893, and in 1899 was chairman of the memorial committee having in charge the Decoration Day observances at the tomb of General U. S. Grant. For some years past he has been Patriotic Instructor of his Post, and in that capacity has been instru mental in the useful work of providing schools with war veteran speakers on patriotic occa sions, and presentation of national flags to schools on many occasions. He is also a com panion of the [New York Commandery, MUi tary Order of the Loyal Legion; and a mem ber of the First Maine Regiment Organiza tion of Veterans, of which he was vice-presi dent in 1901, and president in 1908; and a member of the Maine Society of New York. Mr. Smith married, November 13, 1867, in Brewer Village, Maine, Emily (Shedd) Hodges, daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Teb- bitts) Hodges, of Brewer. Mrs. Smith was born in Brewer Village, and was a teacher in her native state. Children of Air. and Airs. Smith : I. Ralph AVeston, born 1869; he was educated in Brooklyn ; is connected with Mac- miUan Company, publishers. New York City; married, and has three children. 2. Albert Ainsworth, born 1871 ; educated in Brooklyn; is a special agent of North River Fire Insur ance Company of Xew York City ; married, and has one child. STATE OF MAINE. 347 John Smith, immigrant ancestor SMITH of the Sudbury family, was born in England, fle was an early set tler at Watertown, Massachusetts, and was called "senior" in the records. He was admit ted a freeman December 7, 1636. His wife Isabel was buried October 12, 1639, aged sixty. They probably came over with their son John, mentioned below. His land was adjacent to that of John Benjamin in 1645. Thomas, of Watertown, was probably his son, and perhaps also Daniel and Abraham, who were brothers. (II) John (2), son of John (i) Smith, was born in England about 1620. He married, October 8, 1647, Sarah, born about 1620, daughter of Robert Hunt, of Sudbury. Chil dren, born at Sudbury, Massachusetts: i. John, February 7, 1648. 2. Robert (named for Robert Hunt), May 11, 1654. 3. Thomas, mentioned below. (Ill) Thomas, son of John (2) Smith, was born in Sudbury, July 24, 1658; married Abi gail , who died December 9, 1735. Children, born in Sudbury: i. James, No vember 15, 1670. 2. Thomas, December 3, 1679, mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Henry, December 15, 1682. 5. Abigail, July 21, 1684, died November 12, 1730. 6. Jona than, January 2, 1689. 7. Amos, January 21, 1699. (IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) Smith, was born in Sudbury, December 3, 1679, died 1718. He married Elizabeth . ChUdren, born at Sudbury: i. Zephaniah, Oc tober 29, 1705. 2. Barzillai, March 4, 1707. 3. Keziah, March 16, 1708. 4. Abigail, March 29, 171 1, died- June 21, 1713. 5. Mary, Feb ruary 23, 1713. 6. Bathsheba, June 14, 1715. 7. Elijah, April 14, 1717, was in the French and Indian war. 8. AbigaU, March 12, 1722. 9. Henry, April 24, 1724. 10. Lois, November I, 1726. II. Eunice, died 1737. (V) Wilham, son or nephew of Thomas (2) Smith, was born in Sudbury. According to the family records and traditions he was killed in an attack on Ticonderoga during the old French and Indian war. He left a widow and two children, a son and daughter. The yvidow married again, and went to Boston with her husband and daughter. The son, Isaac, is mentioned below. (VI) Isaac, son of WiUiam Smith, was born in Sudbury, June, 1752. He was brought up in the family of Peter Hey wood Sr., of Concord, Massachusetts. (See Heywood.) Peter .Heywood, his wife's brother, Joseph Weston, and their families. with Isaac Smith, were the pioneer settlers of that part of old Canaan, now Skowhegan, Maine. Peter Heywood and Joseph Weston came first in the summer or early faU of 1771 with some of the boys and bringing some young cattle. They cut hay on some of the adjacent islands that had been cleared by the Indians, built a camp and left two of the boys, Eli Weston and Isaac Smith, to spend the winter and care for the cattle. The loca tion was eighteen miles above Winslow, the nearest settlement, to which place the boys made one visit during the long winter. Hey wood and Weston returned with the rest of their families in 1772. Weston appears to have been of Groton, Massachusetts, near Sudbury and Concord, at least for a time be fore removing to Maine. As soon as the Ken nebec river opened they went up in boats and located about two miles and a half below Skowhegan Falls, near the islands, so that by cultivating the land on the islands and cutting, burning and clearing small tracts on the shore, they were able to raise a sufficient crop for their needs. Heywood's farm included the Leighton and Abram Wyman farms on the south river road, Skowhegan; Weston's was below. Isaac Smith married Hannah, born August II, 1759, at Concord, daughter of Peter Heywood. (See Heywood.) She died May II, 181 1. He married (second) — Whitman. "Isaac Smith was a hardy, rather rough, bold hunter, and a faithful worker for Squire Heywood, who imitated the old farmer in the song of 'The Farmer's Boy' that I used to hear Dr. S. A. Patten's sister sing so often." — "He gave the lad the farm he had and his daughter for a bride." The story comes down to us that the wedding was in winter and the groom was hauling wood to the house with an ox team. He was called into the house when the minister came and was married, holding his goad stick by the little end i'n his left hand, the butt resting on the floor, and wdien the ceremony was over he started for the woods for another load. Isaac died at Hartland, Maine, March 27, 1835. He and the Westons aided the Arnold expedition on its way to Canada in 1775. Children of first wife : Abraham, mentioned below ; Rhoda, Asa, Isaac, Elijah, Polly, John, Sarah, Will, Will, Stephen, Lydia. Children of second wife : Everett and a daughter. (VII) Abraham, son of Isaac Smith, was born in Skowhegan, then Canaan, Maine, De cember 29, 1775, died in the present town of Canaan, February 13, 1853. fle was a farmer and mill owner all his life in Canaan. At one 348 STATE OF MiAINE. time he owned the mill on Skowhegan Island built in 1790 by Peter Heywood. Smith him self built the first mill within the present town of Canaan. He married, October 23, 1799, Mehitable Pollard, born January i, 1784, daughter of Timothy Pollard. Her father was born in Nottingham, New Hampshire ; was a private in Captain Archelaus Towne's com pany in the Twenty-seventh Regiment of Foot in the Continental army under Colonel Bridges in 1775, during the revolution; also a private in Captain Daniel Emerson's company. Colonel Wingate's regiment, mustered out July, 1776. Timothy PoUard applied for and received a pension from the federal government for his services. His pension was granted July 29, 1818. (See Alassachusetts Archives, Eight Months Service, vol. 16, p. 48 Coat Rolls; Eight Months Service, Orders vol. 57, page file 19. New Hampshire State Papers vol. 14, p. 246-7; Provincial Papers of New Hamp shire vol. 7, p. 717, and p. 346; U. S. Pen sioners 1776-1834; Senate Papers 1833-5, vol. 8, pt. I, p. 68.) Children of Abraham and Mehitable (Pollard) Smith were: i. Timothy, died in infancy. 2. Timothy, died in infancy. 3. Hannah, bom March 22, 1805, married Moses Ricker, of Canaan. 4. Os good, April 25, 1807, mentioned below. 5. George Ulmer, June 16, 181 1. 6. Lucinda, February 25, 1816, became the third wife of Moses Ricker. (VIII) Osgood, son of Abraham Smith, was born at Skowhegan, Maine, April 25, 1807, died June 8, 1890. He was educated in the common schools of the neighborhood, and was a farmer and mill owner in Skow hegan and Canaan during his active life. He married (first) May 5, 1835, Hannah, born in Skowhegan, April 3, 1810, died March 28, 1857, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Wall) Page. Children: i. SeweU Warren, born April 8, 1836, mentioned below. 2. Mary Jane, May 23, 1838, died February 19, 1859. 3. Llewdlen Clayton, February 16, 1843, died in Washington, D. C, January 29, 1863, while engaged in the army during the civil war ; was a member of the Sixteenth Maine Volun teer Infantry. 4. Benjamin Franklin, March 31, 1845, "^isd '™ Danville prison, October, 1864, during the civil war; a member of the Thirty-first Maine Volunteer Infantry. 5. Sophronia, September 13, 1848, married, July I, 1865, John H. Wyman, son of Joseph and Polly (Snow) Wyman. Mr. Smith married (second) January 9, 1859, Philomela Pollard Gowen, born January 17, 1817, died Septem ber 7, 1903. (IX) Sewell Warren, son of Osgood Smith, was born in Cana&n, Maine, April 8, 1836. He was educated in the public schools of Canaan, Clinton and Skowhegan. He worked during his youth on his father's farm. He enlisted September 30, 1861, in Company H of the First Maine Cavalry in the civil war. While in camp at Augusta he suffered an at tack of typhoid fever, and upon his recovery he was detailed as clerk in the doctor's office in the military hospital at Augusta. On ac count of ill health was unable to continue in the service, and was discharged October 22, 1862. He foUowed his trade after returning to Skowhegan, and also farming. He went to Norwood, Massachusetts, 1872, returned in 1875. In 1897 he entered partnership with A. R. Bixby in the retail coal and wood business, and after two years bought out his partner and has since conducted the business alone with abundant success. Mr. Smith is a Re publican in politics. He is a member and has lieen commander of RusseU Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He is a prominent member of the Congregational church. He married, November 23, 1862, Ellen H., born July 9, 1843, in Bloom.fidd, now Skowhegan, daughter of Joseph and Polly (Snow) Wy man. Children: i. Lillian Clayton, born May 22, 1864. 2. (adopted) Margaret, born Sep tember 8, 1 88 1, in Winn. (For early generations see preceding sketch.) (VII) Isaac, son of Isaac and SMITH Hannah (Heywood) Smith, was born in Canaan (now Showhe- ^ gan), 1782. He married, 1804, Mary Hight. Children. i. Shepard, never married. 2. Isaac, married Levina Horn. 3. WiUiam, married Sarah Martin. 4. Joseph, see for ward. (VIII) Joseph, son of Isaac and Mary (Hight) Smith, setded in Harmony, Maine. He was a farmer, and served in various posi tions of honor and was a selectman for a con tinuous period of twenty-five years. Polid- cally he was a Republican, and in religion a Baptist. He died at the age of fifty-four years. He married Lupira Grant. ChUdren: I. Elmer, married Flora Moore. 2. Willard, see forward. 3. Clara, married Henry Bart lett. (IX) WUlard, son of Joseph and Lupira (Grant) Smith, was born in Harmony, Maine, March 29, 1852. He was educated in the com mon schools, and at Hartland Academy. Af ter leaving the academy he engaged in farm ing and in the mercantile business, first at STATE OF AlAINE. 349 Harmony and later at Hartland, where he is now located. He has served as selectman for several years, and in other local offices. He married Angle Bartlett, a native of Harmony, daughter of Henry Barttett. Chddren: i. Clyde H., see forward. 2. Clara, born 1878, died 1906; married Frank Norton. 3. Myron E., born 1880, a merchant in Hartland; mar ried Frances Hall ; one child. 4. Kleber, born 1882, a denrist ; married Mary Goodrich. The mother of these chUdren died in 1882, and Mr. Smith married second, Albra Cook. (X) Clyde H., son of WiUard and Angie (Bartlett) Smith, was born in Harmony, Maine, June 9, 1876. . He was educated at Hartiand Academy, and took a thorough com mercial course in Shaw's Business College. He engaged in the mercantile business in Hartland, which he followed with marked success until 1904, when he was elected high sheriff of Somerset county, and he withdrew from business to discharge the duties of that office. He was re-elected in 1906, and served in all two terms of two years each. In 1907 he purchased an interest in the Steward Hard ware & Plumbing Company, and became gen eral manager of that corporation. From early manhood Mr. Smith has taken an active inter est in public affairs, and has served efficiently in all the town offices. In 1898 he was elected to the legislature, being the youngest man ever chosen to occupy that important position, and acquitted himself so creditably that he was again elected in 1902. From 1904 to 1908 he served as high sheriff, as above stated, and he was the youngest man ever elected to like position in the United States. In politics he is a staunch Republican. Mr. Smith married, April 17, 1908, Edna Page, born in Skow hegan, 1884, daughter of the late flon. Ed ward Page, of Skowhegan. The earliest date to which we can SMITH trace this family is about 1710, at Colchester, Connecticut, where Benjamin Smith lived and was probably born. We find one record of a Smith in Colchester in 1709, when Samuel Smith, a justice of the peace, si.gned a document. He may have been father of Samuel Smith, mentioned below. (I) Samuel Smith, born about 1725, was married in Ashford, Connecticut, to [Mehitable Watkins. He removed thence to Acworth, [New Hampshire, in 1769, and setded at lot 9 in the fifth range of that town. Seven of his children were bora in Ashford, and one in Ac- worth: I. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Me hitable. 3. Jedediah, married Ann Gustine, and about 1795 removed to Langdon, New Hampshire. 4. Jerusha. 5. Ely, married Eunice Sawyer and lived in Acworth, where he died January 9, 1832. 6. Edward, mar ried Patty Bryant and removed to Orford, New Hampshire. 7. Ransom, married Let tice Markham, and removed to Genesee. 8. Olive, married a Dewey. (II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and Mehitable Smith, was born in 1749 in Ashford, Connecticut, and was twenty years old when he removed with the family to Acworth, New Hampshire. He taught the first public school in that town in 1773 and subsequently 'removed to Lyme, New Hamp shire, where he married Sarah Grant, fle finally settled in Fairlee, Vermont, where he was a prominent citizen. He was the town clerk thirty-five years, and was succeeded in that office by his son, Grant Smith. For six years, beginning yvith 1780, he represented his town in the state legislature. He was commissioned a captain in the Vermont militia by Governor Chittenden, June 23, 1778, and rendered efficient services. At the burning of Royalton, Vermont, his company was one of the first to respond to the call for protection. Children : Jedediah, Sarah, Grant, Lucy, Samuel and Anna. (Ill) Grant, second son of Samuel (2) and Sarah (Grant) Smith, was born Decem ber 19, 1778, in Fairlee, Vermont, and en gaged in farming in that town. He was a member of the Congregational church and a Whig in politics. For twenty years he served as town clerk and held successfully nearly aU the. town offices. Was an officer in the mUitia during all his military age, rising to the rank of captain. He was one of the Plattsburg volunteers at the time of the battle there, dur ing the war of 1812. He was married at Fair lee, September 4, 1830, to Rebecca Swift, born November 29, 1804, in that place, a daughter of Deacon Joshua and Martha (Marston) Swift, of Fairlee (see Swift VI). Children: Alary Perkins, born July 10, 1832; Myron Winslow, July 26, 1834; Harland Page, No vember I, 1836; Martha Rebecca, March 10, 1839; Henry Barry, July 4, 1840; Newton Webster, October 12, 1844; Sheridan Irving, mentioned below. (IV) Sheridan Irving, youngest child of Grant and Rebecca (Swift) Smith, was born April 16, 1847, in Fairlee, Vermont, and at tended the public schools in that town, Thet ford, and the Newbury Seminary, Newbury, Vermont. He learned the trade of machinist and worked as a journeyman at South Law- 350 STATE OF MAINE. rence, Massachusetts, for two and a half years. From 1870 to 1904 he was in the em ploy of the Passumpsic railroad, at Lyndon- vUle, Vermont, and was compelled by iU health to retire, since which time he has resided with his son in Oakland, Maine. He is a Metho dist in religion, a Republican in politics and affiliates with the Lyndonville Lodge of Free Masons. He married Carrie M. Alason, born 1854, in Fairlee, Vermont. They have two sons, Perley Grant and Benjamin. (V) Perley Grant, son of Sheridan Irving and Carrie M. (Mason) Smith, was born May 20, 1873, in Lyndonville, Vermont. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He began to work in the road depart ment of the Boston & Maine railroad. May i, 1889. Within a year he left to enter the em ploy of the American Waltham Watch Com pany of Waltham, where he was employed from September to January, 1891, when he be gan an apprenticeship in the Boston & Maine railroad shops at Lyndonville. He left the railroad machine shops January 15, 1894, to work for S. C. Forsyth & Company at his trade. He went to work in the machine shops of the Concord & Montreal railroad shops at Concord, New Hampshire, December 15, 1894, and continued until June 30, 1895, when the road was leased to the Boston & Maine, and remained with the Boston & Maine until Sep tember I, 1897, as machinist, and afterward as draughtsman. From December i, 1898, to October 15, 1901, he was a draughtsman in the Boston office of the Boston & Maine rail road. From the last date to April 30, 1902, he was a draughtsman for the Central "Ver mont railroad, located at St. Albans, Ver mont. He was draughtsman from Alay i, 1902, until September i, 1904, for the Maine Central railroad at Portland ; was promoted to the position of general foreman for the Maine Central at Thompson Point and master mechanic from December i, 1906, to May 15, 1907. He was master mechanic from May 16 to July 31, 1907, at Rumford Falls. Since then he has been master mechanic of the Som erset railroad at Oakland, Maine. In politics Mr. Smith is a Republican. He is a member of the Master Car Builders' Association ; of the New England Railroad Club of Boston. He married, August 19, 1895, Winifred Ma son, born November 6, 1873, in North Mon roe, New Hampshire, daughter of PhiUip A. and Ella Mason. Children: i. Phillip S., born June 4, 1898, in Concord, New Hamp shire. 2. Harold N., November 8, 1904, in Portland, Maine. The early immigrants to New SMITH England were mostly artisans and many of them men of little learning. That they were possessed of strong characters is evidenced in a thousand ways to the student of history. While the pen was an awkward instrument to many of them, they were industrious and conquered the wUder ness, establishing the foundation of the civili zation which we enjoy. Among the most use ful men in the colonies were the Smiths who made all the naUs used in the construction of buildings and nearly every implement of every sort employed in the rude life of the pioneers. A century previous the country people in Eng land had taken surnames and it fell out that many who were smiths by occupation took the word for a patronymic. In the midst of these, where christian names were oft repeated, it has been difficult to trace a line of descent in many cases. Robert Smith was born about 161 1, and was among the first at Exeter, New Hampshire, being a signer of the constitution in 1639. He settled in Hampton as early as 1657, ^"d died there August 30, 1706. He was by trade a tailor, but probably engaged chiefly in husbandry in that pioneer period. His wife Susanna was kiUed by lightning, June 12, 1680, and he lived a widower for more than twenty-six years. No records of the birth of his children were made, and they may not appear herein in their chronological order. They included : John, Merribah, Asa hel, Jonathan and Joseph. The family herein traced was very early located in New Hampshire, but the lack of records in the early days of Rockingham county makes it extremely difficult to trace a continuous line. (I) Nicholas Smith, who was probably a brother of other Smiths in the vicinity, was located at Exeter as early as 1658, and died there June 22, 1673, leaving real estate which was not wholly distributed among his chil dren until after 171 7. The records show that the baptismal name of his wife was Mary, and the following children are recorded in Exeter : Nathaniel, Nicholas, Anna and Theophilus. (II) Nicholas (2), second son of Nicholas (i) and Mary Smith, was born September 3, 1661, in Exeter, and was a farmer and sub stantial citizen of that town, where he died 171 5-16. Pike's Journal records under date of Sunday, September 28, 1707, "James Fer guson and his wife were slain by the Indians as they were returning from meeting. Nicho las Smith at the same time was wounded but escaped." His will is dated February 13, STATE OF MAINE. 351 1716, and was probated June 6, foUowing, in which are named: his wife Mary, sons, [Rich ard, Nathaniel, David, Nicholas, Benjamin, Edward, John, and daughters, Ann (who mar ried a Clark), Mary, Elizabeth, Patience, Comfort and Abigail. (Ill) Nathaniel, second son of Nicholas (2) and Mary Smith, yvas born September 15, 1695, in Exeter, and lived in the eastern part of the town, remote from its more populous portion. His name is not even found in the records of his time, and therefore his mar riage cannot be found. His children were : I. Mary, born December 7, 1721. 2. Na thaniel, mentioned below. 3. Patience, No vember 24, 1727. 4. David, AprU 13, 1730. 5. Elizabeth, February 24, 1732. 6. Sarah, March i, 1734. 7. Anna, May 7, 1740. (IV) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Nathan iel (i) Smith, was born July 17, 1725, in Exeter, and was a farmer in that part of his native town yvhich is now Epping, where he died December 20, 1773. No record of his marriage appears, but other records show that his wife's christian name was Mehitable, and his children born from 1756 to 1773 were: Mary, Nathaniel, Mehitable, Elizabeth, Lydia, Anna, John, Sarah, Jacob and Dorothy. (V) Nathaniel (3), eldest son of Nathaniel (2) and Mehitable Smith, was born April 8, 1758, in Epping, where his home was through life. He married Alary Parsons and they were the parents of: Parsons, born September 25, 1779, Stevens, Mary, Nancy, Nathaniel Greene, John, James F., Sarah P., and De borah, February 7, 1803. (Vii) Stevens, second son of Nathaniel (3) and Mary (Parsons) Smith, was born Sep tember 20, 1 781, in Epping, and died August 18, 1865, in Hallowell, Alaine. As a young man he went from Epping to Maine, and at the time of his first marriage, September 3, 1806, lived at Hallowell. His wife was Nancy Robinson, born October 14, 1788, daughter of George and Abigail (Everett) Robinson. George Robinson was born July 23, 1776, at Attleboro, Massachusetts, a descendant of a Scotchman who settled there about 1680, and was married there November 24, 1748. His chUdren were: David (died young), Eliza beth, George, Zilpah, Abi.gail, David and one who died in infancy. The mother of these died May 15, 1762, and Mr. Robinson mar ried (second) Zipporah Allen, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Allen, of Attleboro. She was born December 27, 1749, and was the mother of eleven children: Jane, Betsey, Molly, Nathaniel, Nathan, [Elihu, Mary, Nancy, Achsah, Amos and William Everett. Mr. [Robinson died August 19, 1812, at Attle boro. He was deeply interested in the welfare of his native country and served as an officer in the revolutionary army. Soon after his death, his widow went to reside with her chUdren in Alaine, and died at HaUowell, March 15, 1825. Stevens Smith and wife had children : Justin Ely, Samuel S., George Robinson, Nancy Robinson, Nathaniel Greene and Sylvina Lord. The mother died October 26, 1841, at Bangor, Maine, and was buried at Hallowell. Mr. Smith married (second) April 4, 1845, Mrs. Abigail Dennison, at Hal loweU, who was born January 31, 1805, and died June 10, 1881. (VII) George Robinson, third son of Stev ens and Nancy (Robinson) Smith, was born February 26, 181 1, in HaUoweU, Alaine. He married Delia B., daughter of Captain James Tarbox, a sea captain of Gardiner, Alaine. (VIII) Frederick Belcher, second son of George Robinson and Delia B. (Tarbox) Smith, was born August 14, 1839, in Bangor, and began his education in the public schools of that city. He began his book business career there in April, 1856. In 1862 he went to Chicago, Illinois, and entered the employ of S. C. Griggs & Company, publishers and book sellers, as a salesman in the retail department. His ability and strict attention to business soon gained the favor of his employers, and in 1866 he became a partner in the business and has so continued with its successors — Jansen, Mc- Clurg & Company, and A. C. AlcCIurg & Company. He is now chairman of the board of directors of the last named concern, with which he has been identified for forty-seven years, .having been more than fifty years con nected with the book trade. Mr. Smith takes an active part in the social life of his home city and is a member of the Union League, Caxton and Chicago Literary clubs ; of the latter he is one of its very early members. With ample faith in the destiny of his coun try, and faithful to the principles of the Re publican party, he takes no active part in po litical matters other than in casting his vote. He married, January 20, 1881, at HalloweU, Alice Wetmore Smith, his cousin, a daughter of Justin Ely Smith, of Hallowell, who was born January 18, 1807, the eldest child of Stevens Smith, previously mentioned. The Smiths mentioned in this ar- SMITH tide belong to an early settled Buxton family of English de scent, which was established in that town by 352 ST.ATE OF ALPINE. an immigrant who located there prior to the American revolution and subsequently re turned to England. (I) John Smith, son of the above-mentioned immigrant, was born in England and accom panied his father to America. He remained in Buxton and was one of the pioneer farmers in that section of the state. In the struggle for national independence his sympathies were with the Americans and he served as a soldier in the continental army. His name appears in the pay-roll of Captain Daniel Lane's com pany of October, 1778. In 1779 he served upon a special committee appointed by the town to investigate and report the actual ser vice in the army performed by each soldier recruited in Bu.xton. The foUowing item in the town records of that period, which is here copied verbatim, will serve as an example of the exorbitant prices the town was forced to pay for articles required by its soldiers : It was voted "to gite shoos for twenty-five dol- ars a pare and stockings for sixteen dolars a pare and shurts for twenty-four dolars a peace." In 1777 John Smith was a member of the board of selectmen. He reared a famdy in Buxton but the information at hand does not contain the maiden name of his wife or a list of his children. (II) William, son of John Smith, was born in Buxton and resided there his entire life. His active years were devoted to farming, and he was in every way an upright, conscientious and useful citizen. The maiden surname of his first wife was Hill and of his second wife was Ridley. His chUdren were : Ruth, Thomas H. and Royal, by the first marriage ; Pheobe, Mary Jane and Sarah by the second marriage. (Ill) Colonel Thomas Hill, son of William Smith, by the latter's first union, was born in Buxton, 1819. His educational opportunities were limited to the district school system of his day, but he made excellent use of the slen der advantages open to him for study, becom ing a practical, resourceful and well informed man. In early manhood he learned and ap plied himself with energy to the cooper's trade, and this he followed in connection with farm ing, making each of these occupations a source of considerable profit. He occupied the home stead property, having acquired possession of it by purchase, and he made various improve ments upon the land and buildings. Colonel Smith acquired his military title as comman der of one of the regiments composing the state militia and was a highly efficient officer. As the founder, and for many years a deacon of the Free Will Baptist church in Buxton, he exercised a helpful and far-reaching influence in the moral and religious welfare of the com munity, and in various other channels labored diligently for the general improvement of the town and its environments. Colonel Smith died in Buxton, April, 1885. He married (first) Abbie Varney; no children. Married (second) Abbie Cressey, who bore him one daughter, Mary A. Married (third) Sarah Porter, who was born at Salem, New Hamp shire, 1828, daughter of Benjamin and (Reynolds) Porter, the former of whom came to this state from Salem, New Hainpshire, and settled in Sebago. The Porters were descend ants of Robert Porter, the emigrant and the founder of the X^ew Hampshire family of that name. She became the mother of six children : I. Sarah E., born October 18, 1858. 2. Thomas V., November, 1859. 3. Harriet E., February, 1862. 4. Charles R., see forward. 5. Hurlin R., 1869. 6. A child who died in infancy. (IV) Charles Roscoe, M. D., son of Colond Thomas H. and Sarah (Porter) Smith, was born in Buxton, October 4, 1865. His pre liminary studies in the public schools of his native town were augmented with courses at the Limerick (Maine) Academy and the Co- burn Classical Institute in Waterville, from which latter he entered Bates College, Lewis- ton, and was graduated with the class of 1891. These educational advantages were obtained solely through his own individual efforts, as during the progress of his studies he met the necessary expenses by teaching school and canvassing. After leaving college he accepted the position of principal of the Buxton high school, which he retained for about three and one-half years, and was regarded as a most efficient instructor. Educational pursuits were in due course of time, however, laid aside for what was in his estimation a more attractive field of usefulness, that of medicine, and en tering the medical department of Bowdoin CoUege he was graduated a Doctor of Medi cine in 1897. Establishing himself at once as a general practitioner in Livermore FaUs he displayed to a marked degree the enthusiasm and ambition so essential in promoting rapid professional advancement, and he has ever since practised in that locality, attaining sub stantial success. His practice is at the present time both extensive and profitable, and aside from his professional ability, which is of a high order, his well-known integrity, together with his numerous other commendable char acteristics, are in no small measure responsible for the esteem and confidence in which he is STATE OF MAINE. 353 held. Shortly after locating in Livermore Falls he was chosen a member of the school board and superintendent of schools as well, retaining the latter position some three years and StiU serving in the former capacity. He is also a member of the board of health and is deeply interested in all movements relative to the improvement of public hygiene. A member of Free Baptist church and a Republi can in politics. Dr. Smith affiliates with the Androscoggin County and the Maine Medical societies ; a member of Oriental Star Lodge, F. and A. M. and the Knights of Pythias ; has occupied all of the important chairs in the local lodge of the last-named organization and served in the Grand Lodge of Maine. On August 3, 1896, he married Hadassah Good win, born May 15, 1872, daughter of Joseph A. and Addphia J. (Littlefield) Goodwin, of WeUs, Maine. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have two children : Delora Alpen and Roscoe Harwell. James Smith, immigrant ances- SMITH tor, was living in Berwick, Maine, in 1668, and had a grant of fifty acres of land in that year. He mar- 'ried Martha, born in Bristol, England, Jan uary 18, 1653, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wadel) Wills, of Exeter, England. He died in 1687, and she married (second) Chris topher Grant, and with her son, John Smith, was taken captive by the Indians, November 18, 1690, and taken to Montreal, where they were both baptized May 3, 1693. ChUdren of James and Martha Smith: i. James, mar ried Martha Bragdon and settled in York, Maine. 2. Mary. 3. Elizabeth. 4. John, mentioned below. (II) John, son of James Smith, was born July 26, 1685. He was captured by the In dians and taken with his mother to Canada, where he was baptized at Montreal, May 3, 1693. He returned and settled in Berwick, Maine. He married Elizabeth ¦. Chil dren : I. Elizabeth, born AprU 13, 1708, mar ried, January 28, 1724, Caleb Aladdox. 2. Martha, September 18, 1710. 3. Experience, December 8, 1712. 4. John, January 8, 1714, mentioned below. 5. Alary, June 8, 1717. 6. Abigail, September 18, 1719, married Thomas Thompson. 7. Joshua, E'ebruary 15, 1721. 8. Ichabod, March 25, 1724, married Sarah Chadbourne. 9. Ruth, probably died young. 10. Jane, baptized November 12, 1727. 11. Dorcas, born July 15, 1732, married Philip Yeaton. (Ill) John (2), son of John (r) Smith, was born January 8, 1714. fle settled in Ber wick, and married, November 26, 1733, Eliza beth Libby, in Portsmouth. Children: i Mary, born March 3, 1736. 2. James, Feb ruary 13, 1738, married Sarah Lord. 3 Martha, February 20, 1740. 4. Elizabeth March 25, 1742. 5. John, December 12, 1744 mentioned below. 6. Anna, Deceinber 14, 1748, died young. 7. Sarah, November 7^ 1750. 8. Ichabod, July 14, 1751. 9. Dorcas August 27, 1753. ID. Anna, July 14, 1755 II. Daniel, June 12, 1757. 12. Joshua, June 8, 1759- (IV) Captain John (3), son of John (2) Smith, was born December 12, 1744, at Kit tery, Maine. He was the first settler of the town of Waterborough, York county, Alaine, making his home from 1768 until his death, at what is known as Waterborou.gh Old Cor ner. Within two years seven other families joined him. He owned mills in the town in 1787. He was first deer-reeve and moose- reeve, surveyor of lumber and surveyor of highways, and for many years constable. (V) Peter, son of Captain John (3) Smith, settled in Waterborough on a farm and en gaged in lumbering. In 1816 he went to Alichigan, where he died over eighty years of age. (VI) Jacob, eldest son of Peter Smith, born in Waterborough, Maine, 1798, died there April 8, 1864. He was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of car penter and joiner. In his later years he was a farmer. In politics he was a Democrat; in religion a Universalist. His wife was a Free Will Baptist. He married Betsey E. Andrews, born 1800, died August, 1891, aged ninety- one. Children born at Waterborough : i. Susan, married Gerry Bates, resided in Illi nois ; children : Fred, Addie and Charles Bates. 2. Emma, married Henry Moulton, resided in Illinois ; children : Lizzie, Florence and EUen Moulton. 3. Cyrus K., deceased. 4. Sarah, married Sylvester Cook and lived at Waterborough. 5. Charles W., born Au gust 12, 1836, mentioned below. 6. John F., married Lydia Allen, sister of Congressman Allen ; children : Cora, Harry and Maud. 7. Victoria, married Bradley Stanley, of Leb anon, Maine. (VII) Charles W., son of Jacob Smith, born in Waterborough, August 12, 1836, died May 27, 1905. He was educated in the pub lic schools of his native town, and worked on his father's farm until he was of age. After working for Isaiah H. Ricker on his farm for several months he acquired a quarter interest in a small saw-mill near Waterborough Old 354 STATE OF MAINE. Corner. .A year later he had increased his interest to three-quarters and later he bought the homestead at Waterborough Old Corner and built his house on it. He entered into the lumber business and gradually increased his interests until he became one of the largest lumber dealers and manufacturers of lumber in New England. From 1868 to 1871 he took large contracts for construction of the Port land & Rochester, Boston & Alaine and Port land & Ogdensburgh railroads. In 1871 he leased saw mills at Shaker viUage, Alfred, Maine, for six years and conducted a large business. In December, 1877, he bought the steam saw-mill at South Waterborough of Downs & Johnson and manufactured stock, shocks for boxes and lumber of all kinds, em ploying thirty hands or more. He owned a mill also at Stoddard, Xew Hampshire, and large tracts of woodland. Besides his farm of one hundred and fifty acres he owned eight hundred acres of land in Waterborough and other lands in the vicinity. He admitted to partnership in 1896 his son, George H. Smith, under the firm name of C. W. Smith & Son. Air. Smith was a Republican in politics, and was selectman of his native town several years. He represented his town in the state legislature two terms (1878-79), and was state senator one year (1885), serving on the committee on interior waters. He was a Bap tist in religion and was trustee of the church at Waterborough. He was a member of Fra ternal Lodge, No. 55, Free Alasons, of Al fred. Air. Smith was shrewd, capable, en ergetic and self-reliant. He united foresight and caution, enterprise and economy, and ac quired a competence in a difficult line of busi ness. He was of strong and earnest person ality, upright in character, an honorable and useful citizen. He married Clara, born March 18. 1840, daughter of Samuel and Julia (Say- ward) Roberts. Children: i. Professor Fred L., born January 22. 1865, instructor in Greek in the Penn Charter school ; married Lizzie Wheeler, of Castine, Alaine. 2. George Her bert, born July 14, 1866, mentined below. 3. Edgar L., born May 12, 1872, now conduct ing the homestead at Waterborough. (ATII) George Herbert, son of Charles W. Smith, was born July 14, 1866, at Waterbor ough. He received his education in the pub lic schools of Waterborough and at Limerick Academy. He worked on his father's farm during his boyhood, and continued with his father after he reached his majority. In 1896 he was taken into partnership under the firm name of C. W. Smith & Son. Since his father's death in 1905 he has continued the business under the old name without a part ner. Besides the large steam mill for finish ing lumber in Waterborough he owns large tracts of woodland and cuts much timber every } ear. He is a Republican in politics and is prominent in public affairs. He has served on the board of selectmen and as supervisor of schools, as road commissioner, and in 1901 was representative to the state legislature ; he is a candidate for the state senate to succeed Hon. Fred J. AUen, of Sanford. Air. Smith is a member of Fraternal Lodge, Free Ala sons, of Alfred ; White Rose Royal Arch Chapter of Sanford ; Alaine Council, Royal and Select Alasters ; and of St. Armond Com mandery, Knights Templar, of Kennebunk. He married, June 28, 1893, Alice, born June 12, 1866, daughter of John W. and Elvira Bennett Hayes, of Tuftonborough, New Hampshire, and later of Hollis, Maine. They have no children. John Parker Smith was born at SAIITH Yarmouth, Xova Scotia. He was a barber by trade, and was in < business all his active life in Portland, Alaine. He was a Free Alason and Odd Fellow and a well-known citizen. Ele married Alargaret E., daughter of E. G. Bolton, of Portland. Children, born in Portland: i. Samuel S., Alarch 4, 1870. 2. Child died in infanc}-. 3, Payson, mentioned below. 4. Philip, March 14, 1879, died September, 1907. (II) Payson, son of John Parker and Alar garet E. (Bolton) Smith, was born in Port land, Maine, February 11, 1873. He was edu cated in the public schools of Portland, West brook Seminary and Tufts College. He en gaged in the profession of teaching; was sub- principal of Westbrook Seminary, superinten dent of schools. Canton, Maine, superinten dent of schools at Rumford, Alexico and .•Auburn, Alaine, and in July, 1907, was ap pointed state superintendent of public schools in Alaine, which position he is filling at the present time (1909). He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Tufts College in 1903, and the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Maine in 1908. He has membership and has held office in various state and national educational associations. He is a member of the Uni versalist church at Auburn, where he resides. His office is at the capitol in Augusta. He married, in 1898, Carrie E., daughter of John STATE OF AlAINE. 355 P. Swasey, representative to congress from second Maine district. Child, Norman Swa sey, born June ii, 1903. It has truly been said that to SAIITH trace the ancestry of the various Smiths would be like trying to write a genealogy of the North American In dians. When Dr. Holmes wrote of the au thor of "America," and said : "Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith," he might have applied the statement to several hundred other distinguished Smiths besides Dr. Samuel F. Smith of the famous class of 1829. One should feel proud to belong to so numerous and respectable a famUy, but one cannot help wishing that they had taken a little more pains to preserve their ancestral records. The fol lowing branch cannot be traced further than Berwdck, Alaine. Whether the} originally ¦came from Alassachusetts, or w-hether they may be connected with the New Hampshire Smiths of whom no less than nineteen diff'er- ent lines have been traced, must remain a matter of conjecture. (I) Daniel Smith was born in 1796, and died at Br-ow-nville, Alaine, AprU 2^,, 1856. .About 1820 he moved from Berwick, Alaine, to BrownviUe. It is possible that he may have been a son or other descendant of Daniel Smith, of Berwick, Alaine, who was a minute- man in 1775. About 1820 Daniel Smith mar ried Alary Stickney, daughter of Samuel (2) and Patty (Atwood) Stickney, who was born at Weare, New Hampshire, January 31, 1799, and died at Browmville, Alaine, Alarch 25, 1883. (See Stickney V.) Nine children were born to Daniel and Alary (Stickney) Smith: I. Samuel .Atwood, whose sketch follows. 2. Alary Ann. August 4, 1823, married Isaac Gould, of BrownviUe, Alaine, October 16, 1842. 3. Emeline, Alay 17, 1825, married AVUliam Alayo. Septeniber 20, 1S50; died in 1908. 4. Benjamin, April 15, 1827. died young. 5. Daniel, July 9, 1828, married Ellen Johnson. 6. Francis B., January 15, 1833, married Catherine Alorse, Alay 19, 1856; died January i, 1S59. "• Alartha E., January 16, 1835. 8. Sarah Jane, January 16, 1837, died February 14, 1852. 9. Simeon, Alay 25, 1838, died AprU 3, 1S40. (II) Samuel Atw-ood, eldest child of Dan iel and Alary (Stickney) Smith, w-as bora at BrownvUle, Alaine. October 30, 1820, He married, January 8, i860, Alartha L. Jenks, daughter of Eleazer AUey and Eliza (Bro\yn) Jenks, -\vho was born at BrownviUe, Alaine, July 4, 1836. (See Jenks, ATI.) They had three children : .Annie L., born December 14. i860; .Alley, who died in infancy; and Edgar Crosby, whose sketch foUow-s. (Ill) Edgar Crosby, son of Samuel .Atwood and Alartha L. (Jenks) Smith, was born at BrownvULe, Alaine, February 12, 1870, and was educated in the common schools and at the East Maine Seminary at Bucksport. For a time he worked in a bank and also in the office of the clerk of courts at Ellsworth, Alaine. While thus engaged he devoted his spare time to the study of law. From July, 1891, to the spring of 1892 he read law in the office of Aides "VV. Alclntosh at BrownviUe. From 1892 to 1894 he was engaged in the shoe business at BrownviUe; but he sold out this undertaking in 1894, and went back into the law office of Air. Mcintosh, where he re mained till the latter gentleman moved to Cal ifornia, when Air. Smith bought out his law library, and went into practice for himself. This was in 1895, the year that Mr. Smith was admitted to the bar. Mr. Smith continued alone tiU 1897, when he removed to Dover, and formed a partnership with Colonel J. B. Peaks. This arrangement continued tiU Jan uary, 1901, when Mr. Smith was appointed judge of the municipal court, a position which he still holds (1908). Since the partnership was dissolved. Judge Smith has continued in general practice by himself. Judge Smith is a Republican in politics, and served as a mem ber of the Republican county committee for ten years, the last two of which he has been chairman. He was tax collector for five years, and has held minor town offices. He was su perintendent of schools at BrownviUe at the time of leaving there, and has served on the school board of Foxcroft. He is a member of the Alasonic order at BrownviUe, and past master of Pleasant River Lodge. He belongs to the Piscataquis Royal Arch Chapter, and the Royal Arcanum. He attends the Congre gational church, and is corresponding secre tary of the Piscataquis Historical Society. Judge Smith is deeply interested in historical matters, and has published several valuable monographs relating to local and state affairs. He has written the "Life of Moses Greenleaf, the Alap-maker," who plotted and executed and published the first map made by an in habitant of Alaine. He has also written a Bibliography of the Alaps of Maine; and at the present time is writing a history of the revolutionary soldiers who settled in Piscata quis county.' On January 18, 1893, Judge Ed gar Crosby Smith married Harriet M. Ladd, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Chase) Ladd, 356 STATE OF MAINE. of Garland, Maine. They have one child, Martha Eliza, born May 5, 1901. The records state that Stick- STICKNEY ney is a large village on the Boston road, eight and one- half miles north of Boston station, in the soke of Bohngbroke, Union of Spilsby, Lindsley division, and diocese of Lincoln, England. From this came the surname Stickney. In the parish register of St. Mary's Church, in the parish of Frampton in the Wapentake of Kirton, Lincoln county, England, three and one-half miles south of Boston, are many rec ords of baptisms, marriages and burials of Stickneys from 1558 to 1609. The name does not appear on those records after that date. Tradition and information obtained in Eng land render it probable that the family re moved to liuU or its vicinity. (I) William Stickney, the first settler, was the ancestor of nearly all who have since borne that name in America. It is inferred from records procured in England that he vvas the William who is mentioned as baptized in St. Mary's Church, Frampton, Lincolnshire, England, April 6, 1592, and the son of Will iam Stickney, of Frampton, who was bap tized Deceinber 30, 1558, and married, June 16, 1585, Margaret Pierson, and the grand son of Robert Stickney, of Frampton, who made his will October 3, and was buried Octo ber 18, 1582. William Stickney, the settler, seems to have come probably from liuU, in Yorkshire, England, in 1637, and from the records of the First Church in Boston it ap pears that "The 6th of ye nth moneth 1638 Willyam Stickney a husbandman & Elizabeth his wife" and others were admitted ; and "The 24th day of ye 9th Moneth 1639, Our brethren Mr. Elenry Sandys, William Stickney * * * by ye Churches Silence were dismissed to ye gathering of a Church at Rowley if the Lord so please." William Stickney with his wife and three eldest children were among the original settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts. "On the 7th of October 1640 * * * WUli: Stickney were admitted freeman." In 1639 William Stickney had land allotted to him upon which he erected a house, on the corner of Bradford and Wethersfield streets. Fle was a member of an important committee in 1652 to draw up "a covenant and agreement," between the town of Rowley and the first set tlers of the Merrimack lands, now Bradford. He was clerk of the market, and on jury of trials in 1653, selectman 1656 and 1661, and in 1 661 styled lieutenant. The ancient pos session books of Rowley contain frequent rec ords of grants of land to him and from him and his wife. In the town books of Rowley it is recorded that William Stickney was bur ied January 25, 1665. Elizabeth Stickney sur vived her husband several years. The date of her death is not known. On the two hun dredth anniversary of the death of William Stickney, a granite obelisk was erected on his grave bearing the following inscription: William Stiilciiry r.nni in Fr.-in-ipton. Mii^;land, A, n., Uiti:;, Wii.s, with the -wife lOII'/.alii'th or Hosl..ri, III N. 10. In 1G38 Of Kiiwlrj- in 1(139 Whoi'i' III- illcd A. n. llli;,'-) llrc'clcil By Ills (k'Sci'Tiilaiit.s Jo.-ihih ailckncy, III- ll.isUiii. Matllu'W Adams ,Stic-km'v ot; S.-ilcni, .lii.scpl-i ll.nrv .'-!l IrUiii'V, iif BallhiKii-r, Mil. isar,. The children of William and Elizabeth Stickney were: i. Samuel, bom in England, 1633, married Julia Swan and Prudence Gage. 2. Amos, England, 1635, married Sarah Morse, June 24, 1663. 3. Mary, England, 1637, married James Borker Jr. 4. John, 1640. 5. l'".-iilli, t6.|i, married Samuel Cige, 6. Andrew, i6.:|.4, married Eilu.ih Lambert and Ehzabeth Jewett. 7. Thomas, 1646, married Mehitable Kimball. 8. bdizabeth, 1646, died December 4, if)59, Rnwdey ree., Deeember 7 Court rec. 9. Alercy, 1648, died January 14, 1676. 10. Adding, 1648, died September 17, 1660. (II) John, third son of William and Eliza beth Stickney, was born at Rowley, Massachu setts, March 4, 1640, and died in the year 1709, leaving a will which was proved' on April 4. He left real estate amounting to nearly three hundred pounds, and personal estate to the value of eighty pounds. John Stickney saw considerable military service and reached the grade of lieutenant. He was one of the twelve men impressed from Rowley, November 29, 1675, by Captain Samuel Brocklebank to serve in King Philip's war. He took part in the bloody action of December 19 of that year, and assisted in the capture of the Narra.gansett fort. Stickney was also in the fight at Sudbury, April 21, 1676, where Captain Brocklebank, whose daughter he after wards married, was slain. In 1733 there was granted to Jobn Stickney and others for their .service in King Philip's war a tract of land —"Narragansett Number i," now Buxton, ST.ATE OF AlAINE. 357 Maine. In the Boston Post-Boy and Adver tiser of November i8, 1767, Stickney's heirs and others were notified of unpaid taxes due on this land, the Stickney portion being one pound, three and one-half pence. Lieutenant John Stickney held various town offices, being selectman of Rowley in 1688-89, overseer in 1673, constable in 1694, and tythingman in 1698-99. In a deed executed in 1707, he is referred to as "John Stickney, Carpenter, of Rowley." On June 9, 1680, Lieutenant John Sticknee, as his name was usually speUed, mar ried Hannah Brocklebank, daughter of Cap tain Samuel Brocklebank. She was admitted to the church in Rowley, June 23, 1695, and according to the Byfield Church Records, she died April 23, 1749, aged ninety years. Seven children were born to Lieutenant John and Hannah (Brocklebank) Stickney: i. Han nah, July 23, 1681, married Ezekiel Sawer. 2. Elizabeth, June 13, 1684, married Richard Dole. 3. Mary, March i, 1686, married John Palmer. 4. Samuel, whose sketch follows. 5. Sarah, February 4, 1693, married Francis Palmer. 6. Jane, [November 10, 1696, mar ried John Syle and (second) Timothy Palmer. 7. John, January 23, 1699-1700, married Anna Lull. (Ill) Samuel, elder son of Lieutenant John and Hannah (Brocklebank) Stickney, was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, March 26, 1690, died there November 3, 1760, and was buried in the first burial ground of Rowley. The inventory of his estate amounted to a little more than one hundred and seventy- three pounds. In a deed of 171 5 he is re ferred to as "Samuel Stikne of Rowley, weaver." As has been previously stated, Nar ragansett XT umber i, now Buxton, Maine, was granted by the general court to the represent atives of those who were soldiers in King Philip's war. On November 17, 1735, Samuel Stickney drew lot number eleven in right of his father John Stickney. On November 15, 1715, Samuel Stickney married Susannah Perley, who was admitted a member of the First Church in Rowley, August 23, 1767, and died July 12, 1773, aged seventy-six years. Children: i. Samuel, July 25, 1716, died un married. 2. Sarah, March 31, 1719, married James Dickinson. 3. Lydia, May 27, 1721, married Thomas Smith. 4. Moses, Septem ber 8, 1723, married Sarah Graves. 5. Will iam (2), whose sketch follows. 6. Elizabeth, March 22, 1729, died on April 28 of that year. 7. Daniel, April 5, 1730, married Sarah Gould. 8. Elizabeth, April 4, 1733, married John Stickney. 9. and 10. David and Jona than, twins, born September 25, 1736. David Stickney married Elizabeth Chapman, AprU 23. 1761 ; Jonathan Stickney married Martha March. (IV) William (2), third son of Samud (i) and Susannah (Periey) Stickney, was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, August 27, 1726, and died in 1808, aged eighty-two years. He owmed the covenant of Rowley First Church, July 15, 1744, and renewed it at Byfield Church, AprU 24, 1788. In a deed of 1750 he is referred to as ""William Stickney of Row ley, laborer"; but in a deed of 1755 he is caUed a leather dresser. He saw service in the French and Indian war, serving as sergeant in Captain Joseph Smith's company, which was on duty up the river from Quebec, April to November 29, 1759. On Alarch 19, 1776, he w-as appointed by the town of Rowdey one of the committee of safety. On February 18, 1743, Captain William (2) Stickney married Atlary Sawyer, daughter of Benjamin Sawyer, of Amesbury, Massachusetts. "They had nine children: i. Amos, baptized July 22, 1744, died young. 2. Paul, February 9, 1745, mar ried [Elizabeth Pike, (second) Betsey Cheney. 3. Lucy, July 17, 1748, died young. 4. Lucy, Alarch 25, 1750, married Moses Tenney. 5. Elizabeth, December 24, 1752, married Jacob Rogers. 6. Eunice, January 3, 1754, died Au gust 21, 1756. 7. WUHam, Alarch 6, 1757, married Judith Frye. 8. Samuel (2), whose sketch follows. 9. Silas, December 2, 1764, married Betsey Thorndike, (second) Sarah Shattuck. (V) Samuel (2), fourth son of Captain William (2) and Mary (Sawyer) Stickney, was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, May 13, 1762, and was baptized at Byfield, three days later. He died at BrownvUle, Maine, Jan uary 9, 1835, in his seventy-third year. He was the first one of his line to leave his na tive town, but he moved from Rowdey to the neighboring viUage of Bradford, Alassachu setts ; thence to Weare, New Hampshire, where he lived till 1809, when he migrated to BrownviUe, Maine, where he spent the last twenty-four years of his life. Although but a boy of fifteen when the revolution broke out, he saw considerable service. On July 6, 1778, he enlisted as a fifer in Captain Simeon Brown's company. Colonel Wade's regiment, Rhode Island service. On October 14, 1779, he was sergeant in Captain Benjamin Pea- body's company. On July 31, 1780, he was in the Thirty-first Division (six months men), and marched from Springfield with Captain Greenleaf. At this time he is described as 358 STATE OF AlAINE. being "i8 years of age; ruddy complexion; stature 5 ft. 9; and from Bradford." flis last enlistment was as a fifer from Rowley, August 4 to November 27, 1781, in Captain John Robinson's company. Colonel William Turner's regiment of five months men, Rhode Island service. On Alay 11, 1784, Samuel (2) Stickney was married, by Rev. James Ghandler, to Irene Rawlings, of Newbury, Massachusetts. She died in September, 1787, leaving two children : Irene, born in Septem ber, 1785; and Samuel, born Alarch 31, 1787. On April 29, 1792, Samuel Stickney married (second) Patty Atwood, daughter of Benja min Atwood, of Bradford, Massachusetts. She survived him, and died at BrownviUe, Maine, October 2, 1845. Five years before her death she received a pension from the government on account of her husband's rev olutionary services. Eleven children were born to Samuel (2) and Patty (Atwood) Stickney: i. Martha Atwood, July 24, 1794, married WiUiam WeUs. 2. Polly, AprU 12, 1796, died in infancy. 3. Silas, July 5, 1797, drowned, unmarried, July 9, 1833. 4. Mary, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin, [February 12, 1800, died June 3, 1804. 6. Betsey, Decem ber 20, 1802, married Nathaniel P. Thomas. 7. Judith, May 24, 1805, died unmarried in 1866. 8. Simeon Atwood, October 5, 1807, married Sarah W. Gilman. 9. Daniel Worth- ley, February 10, 1810, died in infancy, ic. Louisa, March 28, 181 1, married Robert "VVells. II. Lucy Ann, October 2, 1814, mar ried Isaac Smith. (VI) Mary, fourth daughter and sixdi child of Samuel (2) and Patty (Atwood) Stickney, was born at Weare, New Hamp shire, January 31, 1799, and died at Brown viUe, Maine, March 25, 1883. About 1820 she was married to Daniel Smith, of BrownvUle, Maine. (See Smith, I.) (For preceding generations see Edmund Greenleaf I.) (Ill) John, third son of GREENLEAF Stephen and Elizabeth (Coffin) Greenleaf, was born June 21, 1662, at Newbury, Massachu setts, and died either May or June 24, 1734. He was admitted to the first Congregational Church in Newbury, with his first wife, Eliza beth (HiUs) Greenleaf, January 31, 1696. All his life was spent in Newbury, and he was .sometimes called Quartermaster John to dis tinguish him from two other John Greenleafs, his son and nephew, all of whom were living in Newbury at the same time. He must 'nave been a man of some standing, for both his marriages were to women very well connected. On October 12, 1685, John Greenleaf married Elizabeth Hills, daughter of Joseph HiUs and his second wife, Hannah ([Mdlowes) HiUs. Joseph Hills, who was born in 1602, came from Maiden, England, where he was a woolen draper, to Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1638. In 1647 he removed to the neigh boring town of Maiden, and afterwards to Newbury, where he died February 5, 1687-88. His first wife was Rose Dunster, sister of President Dunster of Harvard College. Ten children were bom to John and Elizabeth (Hills) Greenleaf: Elizabeth, July 30, 1686, married Edmund Titcomb, (second) Thomas Oakes; Jane, November 10, 1687; Judith, July 15, 1689, died September 30, 1690; Daniel, whose sketch follows; John, January 3, 1692,. married Sarah Smith; Parker, February 23,. 1694, married Mary Jacques ; Samuel, AprU, 1697, married Elizabeth Kingsbury; Martha, married a Gage and lived at Joppa, Maine; Benjamin, November 21, 1701, married Ann Hale, (second) Abigail (Moody) Greenleaf; Stephen, October 6, 1704, married Eunice "WaUis. Elizabeth (Hills) Greenleaf, the first wife of John Greenleaf, and the mother of aU his chUdren, died August 5, 1712; he mar ried (second) Alay 13, 1716, Lydia Pierce, widow of Benjamin Pierce, and daughter of Major Charles Frost, of Kittery, Maine. She died May 15, 1752, at the age of seventy-eight. There were no children by this marriage. (IV) Daniel, eldest son of John and Eliza beth (HUls) Greenleaf, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, December 24, 1690, and was drowned on Newbury bar, in January or Feb ruary, 1729. On November 17, 1710, a month before he was twenty, Daniel Greenleaf mar ried Sarah Moody, and they had eight chil dren: Elizabeth, born June 10, 1713; Martha, March 18, 1715, married Isaac Johnson; Jane, July 16, 1717, died in infancy; Sarah, July 6, 1719, married Moses Pearson, of Byfield; Da vid, July 24, 1 72 1, married Sarah Lamson; Daniel, September 20, 1722, married PoUy Bridges; Jonathan, whose sketch follows; Parker, February 21, 1725; and Mary, Sep- ternber 8, 1729. The last two children died in infancy. (V) Hon. Jonathan, third son of Daniel and Sarah (Aloody) Greenleaf, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, in July, 1723, and died there May 24, 1807. flis father was drowned when Jonathan was a little more than five years of age, and the mother was left in very destitute circumstances with a large fam ily of children. At seven years of age the boy STATE OF MAINE. 359 was apprenticed to Mr. Edward Presbury, and learned the trade of ship carpenter. In time he became a ship builder on a large scale, and ultimately acquired a handsome fortune. Mr. Greenleaf early proved himself a man of abil ity and character, and from 1768 to 1792, nearly a quarter of a century, he held some public office. September 26, 1774, he was unanimously chosen to represent the town of Newburyport in the general court. He was a member of the continental congress at the beginning of the revolution. June 12, 1786, he was made one of the governor's council from Essex, and he was elected state senator, February 11, 1788. In the Massachusetts as sembly for the ratification of the federal con stitution, Jonathan and Benjamin Greenleaf v/ere among those who voted Yea. A descrip tion of his personal appearance has come down to us, which gives a vivid portrait of a gen tleman of that day. Mr. Greenleaf was about five and a half feet in height, of spare figure, with a high forehead, a large aquiline nose, fuU, dark hazel eyes, and rather prominent front teeth, which he retained to the last. Cer tain of these physical characteristics may be called family traits, for they would apply to John Greenleaf Whittier, the poet; to [Ben jamin Greenleaf, preceptor of Bradford Acad emy from 1814 to 1836, and author of the famous arithmetic ; and to several early Green- leafs, merchants, physicians and clergymen, whose portraits have come down to us. In his later years Air. Jonathan Greenleaf wore a suit of one color, deep blue, London brown or light drab, and shoes with oval silver buckles. His head was covered by a full white wig, after the fashion of the day, and a cocked hat; and in winter he wore a drab cloth great coat or a blue coat. He was very courteous in manner, and possessed a kindly disposition. His educational advantages were limited, but he had a large share of common sense and a knowledge of human nature, and he had im proved his mind by extensive reading. He joined the church about the time of his mar riage, and for many years was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church at Newburyport. Nothing but absolute necessity kept him from public worship on the Sabbath, and he was scarce ever known to omit regular morning and evening worship. In 1744 Jonathan Greenleaf married Mary Presbury, daughter of Edward and Catherine (Pierce) Presbury, of Newbury. Mr. Presbury was the wealthy ship-builder from whom Air. Greenleaf first learned his trade. He owned the land from Ship street to the rear of the lots on Federal street, and down to Water street, and the ship yard in front, afterwards the property of Mr. Greenleaf. Nine children were born to Jon athan and Mary (Presbury) Greenleaf, of whom the first three died in infancy or early childhood. These were David, Jonathan and Mary, who were born in 1747, 1749 and 1750, respectively. Simon, bom in 1752, married Hannah Osgood, of Andover, Alassachusetts. Sarah, born May 31, 1753, married Captain William Pierce Johnson, of Newburyport. Moses, see forward. Enoch, born October 11, 1757, married Mary Stone and (second) Dor- ot'hy Ingersoll. Catherine, born November 12, 1759, married Anthony Davenport, of New buryport. Richard, born July 3, 1762, mar ried Marcia Tappan. (VI) Captain Aloses, fourth son of Jon athan and Mary (Presbury) Greenleaf, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, May 19, 1755, and died at New Gloucester, Maine, De cember 18, 1812. He was bred a ship carpen ter, but at the age of nineteen entered the American army as a lieutenant, and in 1776 was commissioned captain. In 1781 he began the business of ship-building in Newburyport in connection with his father, and from that time till the year 1790 they built twenty-two ships and brigs. In November, 1790, Captain Moses Greenleaf moved with his family to X'ew Gloucester, Maine, where he followed farming till his death. Captain Greenleaf was a member in high standing of the order of Masonry, and was instrumental in establishing Cumberland Lodge, Maine. He received his degrees in Saint Peter's Lodge, Newburyport, where he became worthy master in t*t8o. In that same year, July 6, he was made worship ful master of Washington Lodge, a travelling lodge in the revolutionary army. Older breth ren have often heard Captain Greenleaf re mark that he had many a time commanded the commanding general of the armies in the lodge meetings, for General Washington frequently attended, and always came as a private mem ber without ceremony. On September 17, 1776, Captain Moses Greenleaf married Lydia Parsons, daughter of Rev. Jonathan and Phoebe (Griswold) Parsons, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was born April 3, 1755, and died Alarch 21, 1854. Mrs. Lydia ([Par sons) Greenleaf came of distinguished ances- tTy. Her mother, Phoebe Griswold, daughter of Judge John Griswold, was descended from the Griswolds and the Walcotts, two of the most distinguished families in Connecticut, who have given to their country no less than twelve governors of states, and thirty-six 36o ST.ATE OF AlAIXE. judges of the higher courts. Five children were born to Captain Aloses and Lydia (Par sons) Greenleaf, all of whom possessed abil ity, and some of whom attained unusual dis tinction. I. Judge Moses, born October 17, 1777, died at Williamsburg, Maine, March 20, 1834; he was one of the first settlers at WUl- ianisburg, Maine, where he was for many years associate justice of the court of ses sions. He was engaged for many years in land surveying, and was probably the first au thority in his day on the interior lands of Maine and the best way of developing them. During this time he executed the first authen tic map of the state of Maine, a reduction of- which he published at Boston in 1816 in con nection with a "Statistical View" of one hun dred and fifty pages, describing the resources of the new country. In 1829 he published a new map much improved, accompanied by a "Survey of Maine" in an octavo volume of nearly five hundred pages. These works were of the utmost importance in the development of the state, and they have been commem orated in a handsome memorial volume, issued at Bangor in 1902 by Moses Greenleafs great grandnephew. Judge Edgar Crosby Smith. (See Smith, HI.) 2. Clarina Parsons, men tioned below. 3. Captain Ebenezer, born No vember 23, 1 781, died at WUliamsburg, Maine, November 29, 1851; he for many years commanded one of the packet ships from Portland to Liverpool. He finally left the sea and lived at Williamsburg, Maine, where he was employed in farming and land surveying. He was closely associated with his brother Moses in the work of map-making. 4. Pro fessor Simon, born December 5, 1783, died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 6, 1853; he was a brilliant lawyer and author of the standard work on the law of evidence in use at the present day, and also Royal and Dane professor in the Harvard Law School. He was the first reporter of the decisions of the supreme judicial court of Alaine, beginning in 1820 and continuing for twelve years. About this time Judge Story, then at the head of the Law School at Cambridge, was holding court at Portland wdien an interesting case in ad miralty came up. The judge was surprised at the erudition that Mr. Greenleaf displayed in this very peculiar system of law, which Judge Story wished to make prominent in the school, and he secured Air. Greenleafs appointment ;**^^c.^ 7^ ^^^'^-er«-<...€!-. ^*' .'-wi i'¦»^ ST.ATE OE AlAINE. 413 ciety, the Maine Genealogical Society, the So ciety of Colonial Wars, is ex-president of the Maine Society of the Sons of the Ameri can Revolution, and is president of the Bow doin Alumni Association of Portland. He oc cupies a prominent place among the literary people of Maine, and has delivered many lec tures and public addresses on historical and patriotic subjects, among which is his address at VaUey Forge at the time of placing there a tablet to the memory of the Maine Soldiers who passed the terrible winter of 1777-78 at that place. Among his published pamphlets are "Some Descendants of John and William Moulton of Hampton," '"[Trial by Ordeal," "Settlement of Scarborough," "Church and State in New England," "Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Palatinate of Alaine.'' Mr. Moulton is a member of the col lege society. Delta Kappa Epsilon, is a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and one of the trustees of Bramhall Lodge ; is also a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Mount A'ernon Royal Arch Chapter ; Portland CouncU, Royal and Select Masters ; Portland Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he has been eminent commander. He is a member of State Street Congregational Church of Portland, and of the Lincoln Club, the Deering Club, the Portland Club, the Cum berland Club and the distinguished literary society known as the Fraternity Club. (For ancestral history see preceding sketch.) Thomas Moulton, who was AIOULTON probably the immigrant an cestor of this branch of the Moulton family, was born in Ormsby, Nor folk, England, about 1614. He was one of the first grantees and settlers of Winnacunnett, now Hampton, New Hampshire, where he lived about fifteen years or more. He was in Newbury, Massachusetts, 1637; Hampton, New Hampshire, 1639; and York, Alaine, 1654. Elis wife's baptismal name was Martha, and had children: i. Thomas, baptized No vember 24, 1639, in Hampton. 2. Daniel, baptized February 12, 1641, in Hampton. 3. Hannah, born June 19, 1645, married Samuel Tilton, of Hampton. 4. Alary, born January 25, 1651, married Samuel Braglon Sr., York, Maine. 5. Jeremiah. 6. Joseph, must have been born prior to 1660 and probably died about 1720. He took the oath of office in 1681. Removed to Portsmouth, New Hamp shire. , (II) Joseph, probably the youngest child of Thomas and Alartha Aloulton, was probably born in York, about 1660, as he took the oath of aUegiance in 1681. But httle is known about him, as he was killed at an early age by the Indians. He may have been murdered in the massacre of York, June 25, 1692, but something in the records indicates that he was taken away a captive and may have perished in the wilderness, perhaps of torture. The facts in this matter are unlikely to be dis covered. He was a member of the grand jury and was a most promising citizen. The rec ords of York deeds show the inventory of his estate taken in part October 12, 1692, and a part August 29, 1693. His hfe was dearly paid for by the Indians in later years, as his youngest son was among their most implacable pursuers. He lived in the age when "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" was the rigid rule among civilized as well as uncivil ized. No record can be found of his mar riage, but the probate records settle beyond doubt the names of his four sons. They were : John, Joseph, Daniel and Jeremiah. (Ill) Colonel Jeremiah, youngest son of Joseph Moulton, was born about 1688 in York, and was one of the most eminent citizens of that town and of the entire eastern province, occupying many positions of public trust and high responsibility. His public career began at a comparatively early age and ended with his death. He was a famous scout and Indian fighter, possessed considerable military ability and was ever ready to serve the colony and his king. He was also of an eminently judi cial temperament and served his times well in many civil capacities. He was born in anxious times and narrowly escaped his father's fate when York was destroyed by the Indians. He was taken captive and with other young chil dren and some elderly women was soon re leased. He vvas brought up by his uncle, Jere miah Alouhon, and the latter's account is on record, showing the charge of 29 pounds 15 shillings "To bringing up Jeremiah, the Son of the Said Deceased, in meat, Drink, Cloth ing etc. tin he was Seven Years old; to witt four year & i Quarter." In 1772 Jeremiah Aloulton was a sergeant on scout duty and be fore the close of the year was promoted to lieutenant. He was in the first expedition at the capture of Norridgewock in January, 1722, and one of four captains to lead the second ex pedition against that place, which they cap tured and destroyed August 12, 1724. On this occasion the able and much hated French Jesuit priest, Sebastian Ralo, was slain with many of his Indian followers. This victory 414 STATE OF MAINE. was regarded as of the greatest importance since the death of King Philip, and was cele brated with great rejoicing. Shortly after the Lovewdl fight at Fryeburg, in 1725, Captain Moulton went on scout to the battlefield and returned to Falmouth on June 15 of that year. He was subsequently colonel of the third Mas sachusetts regiment and was third in command of the expedition led by General Pepperell against Louisburg, which capitulated to the colonial forces June 17, 1745. He was colonel of the first York county regiment of militia in 1757. From 1735 to 1751 he was continuously councillor, and represented York at the general court for several terms. He was also county treasurer and was appointed judge of the court of common pleas of York county, De cember 15, 1732. He continuously held this position until his death and also filled the office of judge of probate from December 20, 1745, a period of twenty years. He was appointed justice of the peace in 1724, 1728 and 1731 and colonel in 1734; he yyas also register of deeds, and his first signature in that capacity bears the date April 5, 1734, and the last April 8, 1741. He was town clerk from 1732 to 1744, was also constable and often selectman. He was treasurer and clerk of the first parish of York, holding the latter office until March 26, 1745, and resigning the former two years later. Besides the various military titles above mentioned, he appears in the records as ensign and major and had the civic titles of "Esquire" and "flonorable." He died July 20, 1765, aged about seventy-seven years. His first wife, Hannah (surname unknown), died October 26, 1760, aged sixty-six years, according to the town records. The gravestone gives the year as 1761. The headstones for the graves of Colonel Moulton and his wife in the yard at York village are elaborately carved and bear the winged cherubim's head. The in scription on the stone of the wife pays this tribute to her character: "a Gentlewoman Eminent for her Piety and for Christian and Social Virtue, Judiciously Esteemed when Liv ing and Greatly Lamented on her Death." Their children were: Jeremiah, Daniel (died young), Daniel, Hannah, Thomas, Abigail, Dorcas and Lucy. (IV) Jeremiah (2), eldest child of Jere miah (i) and Hannah Aloulton, was born January 17, 17 14, in York, and was a promi nent citizen of the town, in every way a credit to his illustrious sire. He received successive appointments as justice of the peace in 1761, 1765 and 1771, evidently reappointments, the term being four years. Ele appears in a list of men of the Blue Troop of Horse in York county in 1757 and was commissioned lieuten ant colonel in the York county militia March 10, 1762. fle was named by Sir WiUiam Pep- perrell as an executor of his will in which he refers to him as "my good Friend, Jeremiah Aloulton, Jr., esquire, sherriff -of this county of York." This was afterward revoked by a codicil "As he lives at a distance & the busi ness might be troublesome to him." He died Jtdy 16, 1777. Oh November 14, 1742, he took up settlers' lots numbered nine, twenty- one and twenty-two. At the time of his death in 1777, he owned two hundred and thirty-five acres of land in Sanford, and one-half of Chadbourne's saw mill, valued in all at one hundred pounds ten shillings. Ele vvas mar ried December 20, 1737, to Hannah, daughter of John Sayword, of York, and they were the parents of Thomas (died young), Thomas, Theodore (died ten years old), Jotham, Abi gail, Mary, Jeremiah, Joel, Theodore, Han nah and Lucy. (V) Brigadier Jotham, fourth son of Jere miah (2) and Hannah (Sayword) Aloulton, was born February 12, 1743, in York, Alaine. He became an extensive owner of land in San ford, helping to build and owning a part of the Iron Works at the Comer, and buih the first bridge across the river. He served with honor in the revolution, being chosen briga dier in 1776 by the provincial congress. He died suddenly at York between Alay 8 and 14, 1777, while at home on a furlough. He had made arrangements to remove to Sanford and had built a large house at South Sanford for a residence. This structure, afterwards moved to the corner, was known as the Nasson House. Brigadier Moulton's widow married Major Samuel Nasson and occupied it. Briga dier Aloulton married, June 10, 1765, Joanna Tilden, his cousin, and had six children: i. Jeremiah, see forward. 2. George, born No vember 12, 1767. 3. Jonathan, July 8, 1769. 4. Jotham, see forward. 5. Abigail Ruck, Oc tober 13, 1773, married a PiUsbury. 6. Rufus, October 15, 1775. (VI) Jeremiah (3), ddest child of Briga dier Jotham and Joanna (Tilden) Moulton, was born in York, Alarch 7, 1766, died Feb ruary 2, 1849. He came to Sanford when a boy, was a famer and also manufactured cloth in a miU on the site of the present Sanford Mills as early as 1810. He became one of the most prominent citizens of the town and one of Its largest land owners. He married (first) Alartha Friend, who died January 10, 1815. They had children : Jotham, Rufus, Elannah, STATE OF AlAINE. 415 George, Nancy, Abigail and Jeremiah. He married (second) February i, 1816, Mrs. Hannah (Friend) Hobbs, a sister of his first wife, born 1778, died November 25, 1869. They had children : Alary, married a Hatch, and Martha, wdio married Dr. Albert Day. (VI) Dr. Jotham (2), fourth son of Briga dier Jotham (i) and Joanna (TUden) Aloul ton, was born in York, January 15, 1771, and died in Bucksport, XTovember 2, 1857. He came to Sanford wdth his mother and step father (Major Samuel Nasson) when he was about eight years of age. During his early manhood, he was sick with consumption and apparently near the end of his life. (Dne night he dreamed that he went to Mrs. Batchelder's house across the river, and that she accom panied him out into the pasture to find a cer tain weed which he had dreamed of seeing and which would cure him. Seizing upon the dream as an omen of health and life, the in vahd went ne.xt day to see Mrs. Batchelder, told his dream, and together they sought the weed in the pasture. They found and gath ered some, and returning to his home, steeped it and he drank the extract, and recovered his health. The weed was afterwards known as "Jotham's weed." Young Aloulton read med icine with Dr. Job Lyman, of York, and in 1795, with a little box of medicine six inches square, journeyed eastward into the wilderness of Maine. fle reached Buckstown (now Bucksport), where he settled and continued practice during the remainder of his life. But few people dwelt along the river when he first located, so he went up and down the Penob scot in a birch canoe for many years, answer ing the calls of the sparsely settled country. He was a man of great integrity and benevo lence and a true Christian. He married, Oc tober 16, 1802, Mary Farrar, of Hanover, New Hampshire, and had children: Lucy, George, Jotham, Tilden and Alary. (Y) Joel, sixth son of Jeremiah (2) and Hannah (Sayword) Moulton, was born April 9, 175 1, in York, where he probably passed his life. Very little record of him can be found, but it is knoyvn that his wife's baptismal name was Eunice and they had a son, Jeremiah. (VI) Captain Jeremiah (4), son of Joel and Eunice Aloulton, was born in Sanford, December 9, 1786, and died Alay 5, i860. He married (first) Patty Harmon, of York, Maine; (second) Hannah, daughter of Rev. Moses Sweat. Their children were: Benja min, Aloses S., Silas Moody, James F., Charles J. B., George and Harriet N. (VII) Silas Aloody, third son and child of Captain Jeremiah (4) and Hannah (Sweat) Moulton, was born in Sanford, Alaine, Janu ary 6, 1821, died July i, 1904. He followed the occupation of farming throughout the ac tive years of his life. Alarried ([)hve A. Witham, born in Sanford, died 1901. Their children were: Moses Sweat, Laura J., Ben jamin Irving and Arthur. (VIII) Aloses Sweat, ddest chUd of Silas Moody and Olive A. (Witham) Aloulton, was born in Sanford, June 8, 1863. He was edu cated in the schools of his native town and learned the carpenter's trade. Later he became a contractor and builder. He formed a part nership in 1900 with Judge George Y\\ flan- son, in the wood and coal business, operating under the name of the Sanford Coal Company. This has been continued up to the present day, and they are also extensive dealers in lumber, and engaged in contracting and building. Air. Moulton supports the Republican party and has been an active factor in its councils. He served as constable for a period of fourteen years, and was deputy sheriff for a time, re signing this latter office in order to give his undivided attention to his business affairs. He has also served as a member of the board of health, and is affiliated with the following or ganizations : Alember of Preble Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Sanford; White Rose Royal Arch Chapter ; Friendship Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Spring- vale ; Alorak Encampment, of Sanford ; past chancellor of Riverside Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Sanford ; and member of the Grange at Spri'ngvale. He married, Septem ber 4, 1893, Ella Alercy Anna Bennett (Fletcher), daughter of Horace and SaUy (Colby) Haslam, of Sanford. Airs. Moulton had one child by a previous marriage : Ahce Alay Fletcher, born Alarch 18, 1881, who mar ried Eugene Whitcomb, deceased. She had one child : Arthur Elias Whitcomb, born June 24, 1899, who- lives with Mr. and Airs. Moulton, and is now in the Longfellow school. (For first generation see preceding sketcli.) (II) Jeremiah, third son of AIOULTON Thomas and Alartha Aloul ton, was born about 1657, probably in York, fle took the oath of allegi ance in 1681 and was representative in 1692. Savage states that he was a councilor, but this is probably an error, as his name does not appear in the Alassachusetts civil list for the Colonial and Provincial periods, 1630 to 1674. He died December 26, 1731, as shown by the town records. 4i6 STATE OF MAINE. He appears to have possessed a some- wdiat peppery temper in early manhood, as the records show that he was fined ten pounds Oc tober 3, 1693, and put under bonds to the amount of fatty pounds to keep the peace, for threatening with a gun in his hands to shoot a constable and justice of the peace. Despite his shortcomings, which included that of sell ing strong drink without a licence, he was a useful and trusted citizen. lie often served on the grand jury, was selectman and held other town offices, besides serving as representative to the town court. The town records generally refer to him with the respectful title of Alister, which was not in common use in those days. After his nephew, Jeremiah Aloulton, came to maturity, he was sometimes distinguished as senior. His wiU shows that he had at the time of its execution only a son and a daugh ter. His first wife. Alary (Young) Aloulton, daughter of Rowland and Joanna (Knight) Young, of York, died June 24, 1722. She was the mother of his children, fle married (sec ond) Alice (Chadbourne) Donnell, widow of Hon. Samuel Donnell, who was the councillor and judge of the York county court. Jere miah Aloulton's children were : Joseph and Alary. The latter became the wife of Johnson Harmon, of York. (Ill) Joseph, only son of Jeremiah and Mary (Young) Moulton, was born January 14, 1680, and resided in York, where he was still living AprU 22, 1724. No record appears to show his death. In one record he is given the title of lieutenant, which was probably his rank in the town militia. Ele was married December 30, 1697, to Alary Pulman, daugh ter of Jasper Pulman, of York. He was the father of these children : Abel, Abigail, Jere miah, Alary, Aliriam and Elizabeth. (IV) Captain Abel, eldest child of Joseph and Mary (Pulman) Aloulton, and twin of their daughter, Abigail, was born Alay 10, 1701, in York, and died Alarch 3, 1784, as the town records say, "in the Night." The Sec ond Parish Church records make it Alarch 4, so it is quite probable that he died after mid night, fle was a captain in the First York County Regiment, commanded by Colonel Eben Sayers, as appears of record June 25, 1776. He was promoted to major, September 31, 1779, and probably participated in the revolutionary war. He married (first) Elea nor Bane, daughter of Louis Bane, of York. She died in January, 1748, and he married (second) Mrs. Judith Cowan, their intentions being published December 30, 1794, The first wife bore him two children, John and Sarah, and those of the second wife were: Alercy, Dorcas, John, Daniel and Mary. (Y) Daniel, third son of Abel Aloulton and fourth child of hise.second wife, Judith, was born March 31, 1755, in York. Like most of his townsmen of that time, he was a farmer, and was an alert and public-spirited man. He was captain of a company of state mUitia and a soldier in the ranks of the colonial forces during the revolutionary war. He died at the age of eighty-four years. He married (first) February 8, 1776, Dorcas Holt, by whom he had children: i. Noah, baptized May 8, 1777, lost at sea. 2. Dorcas, baptized August 4, 1778, died young. 3. Josiah, baptized June 9, 1782, married Olive Lowe. 4. Henry, bap tized September 19, 1784, died young. 5. George, see forward. 6. Hannah, born Alarch 25, 1790, married Ebenezer Grant. 7. Dorcas, born [November 16, 1792, married Abel Alat thews. He married (second) Abigail Young, and had a daughter : Abigail. (VI) George, fourth son and fifth child of Daniel and Dorcas (Holt) Aloulton, was bap- dzed October 14, 1787, died Alarch, 1859. He was a progressive farmer and large land owner. In addition to the part of his father's farm which came to him by inheritance, he purchased other property, including an ex tensive river farm. He married (first) Nancy, who died in July, 1822, daughter of Ebenezer Aloulton. Their children were: i. Jonathan, died young. 2. Daniel, died in infancy. 3. Catharine, born July 24, 181 1, married, Sep tember, 1834, Thomas Witham ; died Alarch, 1854. 4. "Wdliam G., see forward. 5. Dorcas, born January 10, 1816, married John Simp son ; died November, 1871. 6. Alary, born Alay 28, 1818, married May 6, 1835, David, son of David Moulton. 7. Jonathan, born July 18, 1820, died September 12, 1880. 8. Nancy, born July 20, 1822, became the second wife of T. Witham. George Moulton married (sec ond) Alarch 12, 1823, Sally Alyrick, and had children: i. George D., born February 29, 1824, married Xancy Young. 2. David, died in infancy. 3. Sarah A., who had a twin sister who died, married Benjamin F. DoniieU. 5. Joanna, married S. G. Donnell. 6. Eben, died unmarried in i860. (ATI) William Gardner, second son and fourth child of George and Xancy (Aloulton) Aloulton, born in York, Alaine, January 12, 1814, died December 13, 1906. When quite young he learned the ship carpentering trade, and also became an expert as a wood worker. For ten years he held the position of fore man of the boat shop at the navy yard. For ST.ATIC Oh' MAINIC - 417 mnny years he wn,s emplnycd as a miUwright, bulldiiiR mills and pulliniv in wooden water wlieels and similnr contrivances, lie hinlt the first paper mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the mills in Newloii, Lower and Upper fulls, and at Franklin, New Hanipsiure. When llie niachinery of these mills was dis placed by motlern devices he erected a ear- riaKO shop and en.s^aRed in the inannfactnre of lieavy wa^'ons, and in the repair work on all .sorts of vehieios, lie attended regularly to lii.s btisiness tiiilil ninre than four .score years of ag'o. and also managed a fine farm which he nwiieil. Ills residence was luiilt by himself iu 1H.13, and is a neal and substantial dwelling, while Ihe barn and nihor farm Iniildiii.gs arc convenient and eoniinodiuiis. He upheld Whig principles tuUil the itrgani/titinn of the Republican parly, of wliieh he was a iiioinber until his death, lie was a nieiubor of the Order of the Clolden Cross, a deaeon in tlie t'hristian eluireh from 185,1 until his ileatli, and for many years eliairmaii of the pru- tleiitial eoiiitnittee. lie married, October 29, 1840, Judith, born Deoeinber j, i8i(i, died March'^o, i<)04, daughter of Dnvid Moulton. They had children: 1. Mary II., born July as, 1843. J. Judith .'X.. borii Septeniber 36, 1845. married Jaines tX Leavitt; died .August ^j, i8()i. 3, Willis G,. born Alay 3, 1848, mtimed Islla. daughter of Henry P. Abbott, 4. Allen C (A'lll) AUeu t'urtis. youngest cliil.l of Will iam (lardiier and Juditli (Moulton) Aloulton, was born iu that part of the town of York known as Cider Hill, October 10, 1^5,^ His education was aotpiired in the district schools near his home. South Berwick .'Vcadeiny and Kent's Ilill Seminary, b'or a short liiue he worked for his father in the carriage shop, then taught school for si.K winters, thou eu- f&^d in trade with his brother, tipeniug a grocery store al A'ork CvM-iier, .'Vfter "live years of sueee.ssful business they -sold the store to C, H, Junkins. and .Mleii C. went to work as a carpenter. Later he took up the study of architecture, and fm- a number of years has mauagvd successfully a business as archi tect and eoutraetor, eiveliug- some of the liuest buiUlings iu the vicinity. Spoviuions of his \wrk are; Tho Chri.siian church, which ho erected ill t8oo; Mrs, rutnam's lumdsonrte cot tage; and the fine sinunier residences (\f a number of others. His plans are laid with a view to eouveuieuce as woll as beauty, his work is always vsatisl'actory and the general effect is artistic auvl in oxoollout taste. TTis political support is given to the Ke]iuhlican party, and he has .served as town agent, and li.'is filled the ofljce of town clerk since 1894. While at N'ork Gnnier he served as postmaster under the adiuiiiislralinn of President Grant. He is 'a member of llie Clirisliau diiirch, has served on ihe pnideiilial comniitlee and as asses.sor. He bdoiigs to St. Asiiinquid Lodge, No. 198, AncieiK I'ree and Accepted Ma.sons, and is a jiast master; Kni.glits of Lylhias; has been thnaigh all the di.'iirs of the Order of the Golden Gross; and a luember of the tlr.and Gonimandery of the Stale nf Maine. He has been pivsidenl of the A'ork t'ounty Sunday Seh(iol_ .Association, and a nieuiber of the exeoulive comniitlee of the Maine Stale Sun day School As.soeialiou. He married, lunc 10, 1880, Ann I'dizabelh, dau.glUor nf liaviil and Mary G. (Eldridge) Sewall. 'Hie Sew- alls were among llie lirst families who settled in York, Mr. and Mrs. MouUon had an adopted child, Judith l\, who ilied in her sec ond year. Mrs. Aloullon is a member of the Alethodist F.piseopal church. (V\ir HiU'Osliw si><' proooillns skololi.) (VH) tieorge IX. ddesl AUUILTtW cluld of George and Sally ( M y rick) Aloulton, was born February iQ, 18J4. died in .Alfred. Maine, January 10, 1907. His early years were spent on the farm of his father, and he learned the trade of carpeulering ami also lunuse painting, following the latter occupation until within a few years of his death, when ill health com pelled him to abandon active labors. He re moved to Alfred when a }ouug man and spent the remainder of his life in that town. His religious affiliations wore with the Christian church iu York, and he was a member of the Republican party. He married Nancy Frost Young, of A'ork. now living in Alfred, born Alareli. i8j6, and kid children: Elizabeth, Nettie. Julia, Addie and Charles G. (X'llt) Charles G.. only son and fifth and youngest child of George D, and Nancy E>ost t^ Young) Moulton. was born in .'\lfred, Alaine. May ^^0. iv8a|. Ills education was acquired in the public and high .•^cliovils of Alfred. At the age of eighteen years ho wont uito the ollico of the register of deeds as dork under .Asa U Ricker and later under Justin M. Leavitt, was employed there several years. Tie superintended tho naming of the ledger index for tho register of deeds for York county, and iusiallod the present system of coutiuuons indexing in use in ihal office. He went to TJuioriek. Maine, in 1880, to take the place for .six weeks of Cashier William W. 4i8 ST.VTE OF AlAIXE. Alason, of the Einierick Xational Bank, and has been identified with the bank since that time. During the first year he acted as an accountant, and was soon elected cashier, and continues in that office ; he is also one of the directors of the bank. Since he became iden tified with the bank its assets have increased from about $150,000 to more than $830,000, and is the largest country national bank in the county or state. Ele is also identified with other enterprises, being treasurer and director of Limerick Alills (manufacturers of worsted yarns) and treasurer and a director of Limer ick Water & Electric Company, having been one of the incorporators of both corporations. He is also a trustee of Einierick Academy and of Parsonfidd Seminary. Air. Aloulton gives his political support to the Republican parly, and is a member of Fraternal Lodge, Free and Accepted Alasons, of Alfred. Ele mar ried, January 7, 1900, Frances Estella Alason, a woman of exceptional executive ability. She was educated in the Limerick schools and Limerick Academy, and was elected to suc ceed her father as president of the Limerick National Bank, of wdiich she is also a director, being the first woman to serve as president of a National bank in the Xew England states. Her father was Jeremiah A'lason, who was for many Ncars and up to his death presi dent of the Limerick Xational Bank. Air. and Airs. Aloulton have one dauiihter : Olga Fran ces, born November 11, igoo, who now attends the public schools of Limerick. It is said by antiquarians that ESTES Albert Azo II, Alarquis of Lig- uria, born about A. D. 1097, was founder of the houses of Este and Brunswick. The former was conspicuous in Italy as late as the middle of the eighteenth century, about which time its direct line failed in the death of Hercules III, he being of the twenty-second generation from Azo II. Such Is the founda tion of this ancient house. The name Este is said to have been derived from a colony planted in the seventh century of Rome, about fifteen miles south of the city of Padua, and called Ateste, or Este, which latter name the marquises of Liguria assumed in the early part of the fourteenth century. The name written Este is plural, and is userl to repre sent the whole family. Tradition has it that the name was brought into England by one Francesco, natural son of Alarquis Leonndlo, and who went first to Ber.mindy and escaped thence into England, and afterward made his home in that country. The period of his life lay between 1434 and 1444. The immi grant Estes family here about to be considered begins with Robert and Dorothy Estes, of Dover, England, whose ancestry has not been clearly settled, but concerning whose descend ants there is no uncertain tradition. (I) Richard Estes, immigrant, son of Rob ert and Doroth)', is said to have been bom 3 mo., 1647, '^nd, as stated in the records of the Friends' Aleeting in Lynn, Alassachusetts, li\ed in England until the 11, 7 1110., 1684, '"and by certificate from ye people of God in Xewington, East Kent, England, were mar ried at Dover, Xew Elampshire, 23, 4 mo., 1687, to Elizabeth Beck, Great Island (Ports mouth)." He is believed to have left the Downs, in England, in September, 1684, ar rived in Boston, Xew England, in the latter part of Noveinber, and soon went to Great island, now Portsmouth, to join his brother Matthew, who had preceded him about two years, Richard Estes was a weaver. In 1686 he had a deed of sixty acres of land in Kit tery, Alaine, and in 1692-93 was in Salem, Alassachusetts, where in i()ij4 he is called sleymaker (maker of weavers' reeds). In 1695 he was of Lynn, Alassachusetts, and bought lands there. He appears to have be come possessed of many tracts of land in Lynn and Salem, and spent the later years of his life in the town last mentioncrl, where in 1726-27 he deeded lands to his son Benjamin. Ele was of the Society of Friends, and a very devout man, upright in his daily walk. He married, at Dover, New Elampshire, June 23, 1687, Elizabeth Beck, of Great Island, born 8, II mo., 1663, probably a daughter of Henry Beck, who was an inhabitant of Dover in 1642, when he had a twenty-acre lot granted him. Richard and Elizabeth (Beck)' Estes had eleven chddren: i. A son, born and died the same day. 2. Alatthew, born June 27, 1689, dic ..,4 STATE OF MAINE. 447 several others, among them the brig "Hattie M. Bain," and the last one the brig "J. B. Brown," from wdiich he retired. He made many voyages in both foreign and domestic waters until about 1875, when he forsook the sea and bought out the ship chandlery busi ness of Perley & Russell, in Portland, wdiich he carried on ten years. He then sold out that business to his son, Charles H. Bain, and re tired to enjoy a well-earned rest. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and yyas a member of the High Street Congregational Church for years, fle married (first) Alarch 17, 1852, Alary, born on Bangs Island, Casco Bay, now called Cushings Island, July 17, 1831, died March 28, 1856, daughter of Simeon and Nancy (Adams) Skillings, the latter being a daughter of Francis and Nancy (Preble) Adams. Nancy Preble was a member of the famous Preble family. He married (sec ond) July 19, 1858, Elarriet M., born in West brook, Alaine, (October 26, 1837, only child of Ephraim Rounds, a farmer of Gorham, and his wdfe, Catherine (Alclntosh) Rounds. Ephraim Rounds, born February 12, 1804, died August 31, 1839. He married (first) Rhoda Rand, by whom he had two children — .\nn and Albion K. ; (second) July 14, 1835, Cath erine, daughter of James Alclntosh, born Oc tober 15, 1769, and his wife Alargaret (Pat rick) Alclntosh, born July i, 1775. The chU dren of first wife: Alvin T., born Alarch 6, 1853, died Augu.st 4, 1857; and Alary, Octo ber 29, 1855. Children by second wife: i. Charles H., mentioned below. 2. William, born September 8, i860, died April 19, 1863. 3. James A., professor of music ; married Lelia Virginia Foster ; one chUd, Harriet Vir ginia, born June 4, 1886, died November 29, 1901. (Ill) Charles Henry, eldest chUd of Cap tain Tames and Harriet M. (Rounds) Bain, was born in Portland, June 26, 1859, died June 13, 1905. He was educated in the pub lic schools and at Gray's Business College, from which latter institution he went as a clerk with the ship chandlery of Bain, Rus sell & Company, yvhich, became Charles H. Bain, when he bought out the old partners. Mr. Bain carried on the business for about ten years, to 1897, when he gave it up on account of failing health, and became confi dential clerk to the firm of J. S. Winslow & Company, where he was employed until about the time of his death. Air. Bain w^as a Re publican in politics and a Universalist in re- hgion. He was a member of Beacon Lodge, No. 67, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Eastern Star Encampment, Xo. 19. When a young man he was for some time a member of Company B, Portland Cadets. He married, in Portland, June 12, 1883, Jennie Stanton, born at Alinot Corner, June 30, 1856, only child of James Lewis and Sylvia ( Ben nett) Rounds. James Lewis Rounds was the son of John Rounds and grandson of William Rounds. John Rounds was born in Buxton, Alay 8, 1787, died in Portland, September 20, 1865. He married, October 27, 181 1, Dorcas Lowe, born in Sanford, Alay 21, 1787, died in Portland, January 20, 1880. They had eleven children : Mary AE, Betsey L., Abigail, Ephraim, James L., John, Greenleaf, Dorcas, Sarah AL, David and Mary L. James L. Rounds was born in Buckfield, July i, 1820, died in Portland, June 5, 1898. He was edu cated in the district schools. After working some time at the cooper's trade he became a shoemaker and followed that occupation. For four years he w-as a member of the Port land police force. He yyas a Democrat and a member- of the Temple of Honor. He mar ried, June 6, 1847, Sylvia, born in Harrison, December 15, 1825, daughter of Stanton and Jane (Patterson) Bennett. Stanton Bennett was born in Norwich, Connecticut, January 6, 1777, and died February 18, 1868. He mar ried Jane Patterson, born in Bethel, Alaine, October 28, 1781, died December 3, 1864. Charles H. and Jennie S. (Rounds) Baine bad two children : James, born July 23, 1887, died December 14, 1900, and an infant daugh ter who died May 18, 1893. (For flrst generation see Roger Shaw I.) (II) Joseph, second child and SHA\A' eldest son of Roger and -Ann Shaw, was born in Cambridge, Alassachusetts. about 1635. and died in Elampton. New Hampshire, November 8, 1721. He settled in what is now Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, where, on account of his education, wealth and fair character, he was a man of influence His name appears in a list of men eligible for council of the Province. He married, June 26, 1661, Eliza beth, daughter of William and Ann Partridge, of Salisbury, Alassachusetts. Their children v/ere: Abiah, Elizabeth, Samuel, Caleb, Jo siah, Sarah, John and Ann. (Ill) Caleb, fourth chUd of Joseph and Elizabeth (Partridge) Shaw, was born in Hampton, June 31, 1671, and was drowned March 19, 1715. He resided at Hampton Falls, sustained" the standing of his famdy. 448 STATE OF AlAINE. and was a member of the board of selectmen of the towm. He was captain and owner of a fishing vessel. His death was brought about by his being knocked overboard by the boom of his vessel. He married, in 1694, Elizabeth HiUiard, dau.ghter of Timothy and Apphia (Philbrick) HiUiard. Elis widow married (second) Joseph TUton. The children of Caleb and EUzabeth were: Rachd, John, Aphia, Josiah, Samuel, Elizabeth, Anne, Alar garet, Joseph, Ebenezer and Mary. (IV) Ebenezer, tenth child and fifth son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Elilliard) Shaw, was born in Elampton, October 7, 1713, and died in Standish, Maine, Alarch 13, 1782. He was granted two hundred acres of land and a mill privUege in Standish by the proprietors, and bought a large tract in addition. He moved into the town in 1762, and there built the first mill. He was a farmer, carpenter, cooper and millnian, and prominent in the town. He married, in Hampton, November ' 19, 1738, Anna Philbrick, daughter of Thom as and Abiah Philbrick. They were the par ents of ten children : Josiah, Abiah, Joanna, Sargent, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary, Alargaret and Joseph. (Alention of Sargent and descendants appears in this article) (V) Josiah, eldest child of Ebenezer and Anna (Philbrick) Shaw, was born in Hamp ton, New Hampshire, January 31, 1740, and died August 7, 1810. In 1763 he removed with his family to the township of Pearson town, now Standish, Alaine, and bought lot No. 43. There he settled and kept the first tavern ever opened to the public in that town. He was also the first town treasurer of that municipality, as well as selectman. By occu pation he was a cooper and farmer. He mar ried Mary Lamprey, of Hampton, who died January 9, 1826. They had six children : Alary, Hannah, Anna, Jonathan, Josiah and EU. (VI) Hannah, second child of Josiah and Alary (Lamprey) Shaw% was born in Stand ish, December 22, 1763. and died in Bethel, February 11, 1841. She married Asaph Brown, of Stowe, Massachusetts, and Water ford, Maine. (V) Sargent, fourth child and second son of Ebenezer and Anna (Philbrick) Shaw, was born in Hampton, October 23, 1745, and died in Standish, December 3, 1^23. He was a prosperous farmer and cooper, was the first constable of the town of Standish, was a revolutionary soldier, serving several years, and was selectman some years. Elis military record is given in the "Alassachusetts Sol diers and Sailors" as foUows: "Shaw, Sar gent, Pearsontown, Private, Capt. Wentworth Stewart's Co., Col. Edmund Phinny's regt; billeting allowed from time of enlistment to date of marching to headquarters, July 12, 1775; credited with eleven weeks five days aUow'ance; also, company return dated Sep tember 29, 1775, including abstract of pay due from la-st of July, 1775 : enlisted May 16, 1775." Pearsontown is the former name of Standish. Sargent Shaw was the father of fourteen children. He married (first) Sarah Knight, daughter of AVilliam and Hannah (Roberts) Knight, of Windham. Thev had Enoch and Sarah. He married (second) Sa lome (Lombard) Dorset, dau.ghter of Jedediah Lombard, of Gorham. They had four chil dren: Joseph, Abi.gail, Alary and Elizabeth. He married (third) Anna Thompson, by whom he had Anna, Elannah, Sar.gent, Peter, Salome, Eunice, Phebe and Achsah. (VI) Joseph, eldest child of Sargent and Salome (Lombard) (Dorset) Shaw, was born in Standish. October 13. I778> and died in Thorndike, August 27, 1849. He was a moral, well-educated man of good standing, a farmer and school teacher, and filled many town offices. He married Alary Blithen, of Thorn dike. Their children were: Julia Ann, AE bert, Joseph, Mary Abigail and Joseph Addi son. (VII) Dr. Albert, second child of Joseph and Mary (Blithen) Shaw, was born in Thorndike, AprU i, 1817. He practiced medi cine in Bath until the early fifties, when he .started for the gold fields of California, and was never heard from after he left the Mis sissippi river. He married, June 14, 1840, Eliza Drew\ daughter of Joseph Drew, of Newfield. She was born November 24, 1817, and died July 12, 1854. Their children were: Felicia H. and Katv (died young). (VIII) Felicia Elemans, daughter of Dr. Albert and Eliza (Drew) Shaw, was born in Thorndike, AprU ^, 184T. and married Ivory Small Bean. (See Bean VII.) The authorities on Irish gene- AIcNELLY alogy state that C o 1 1 a - d a - Criocli, who is number 85 on the "O'Hart" pedigree, had a son named Fiachra Casah, wdio was the ancestor of O'Niallain; and that this latter name has been an.sflicised Nallin, Xealan, Xeiland, Neylan, Nellan, Neyland, Xewdand, Niland, Nally and AIcNally, of which last ATcNeUy is a variation of recent date. The arms of the famUy Nealan are : Sable two unicorns passant in pale ar- STATE OF AlAINE. 449 gent horned and hoofed or. Crest : A dexter hand erect, couped at the wrist, grasping a dagger aU proper. (I) Michael McNally was either pure Scotch or Scotch-Irish, probably the latter. From the best evidence now obtainable it seems that he was born in Ireland about 1752 and came to America with his parents, sailing from Cork and landing at Philadelphia. They settled in Pennsylvania. Evidently the father was a man of some means, as Michael had a fair edu cation. The earliest knowledge we have of Michael backed by documentary evidence is the record of his enlistment in the Pennsyl vania state regiment of artillery, May 13, 1777, as a gunner. In the published rolls of the state his name appears in Captain Bernard Ronan's company of artillery. The last ap pearance of his name is January i, 1781, in connection with the revolution, when he re ceived depreciation pay. Late in life he was a pensioner and the United States pension roUs of 1840 give him as "aged 88 years." Many of his stories of army life are stiU cur rent among his descendants, wdio say that after leaving the army he served on an armed vessel, biit whether a man-of-war or a priva teer is unknown. About 1784 he came to Maine and settled in the Kennebec country, but what were his reasons for leaving Pennsyl vania and his family are not known. In 1785 he married Susan Pushaw, who was born about 1768, daughter of Abram and Margaret (Parris) Pushaw, of Fairfield, and settled in Winslow, now Clinton. Here on the banks of the Sebasticook he built a log cabin and made a home for his family. Nine children had been born when, in 181 1, the mother was taken away by death. LTpon the outbreak of the war of 1812 Michael's martial spirit was aroused, and although a man of sixty years he enhsted at Clinton, May 17, 1813, in Cap tain Grossman's company of the Thirty-fourth Regiment of United States Infantry, and marched to the frontier. He received a severe wound in the collarbone at Armstrong, Lower Canada, in September, 1813, whUe serving in a detachment under the command of Lieu tenant-colonel Storrs. He was mustered out in July, 1815. For this service he received a pension. About 1830 Alichael McNally mar ried Airs. Jane (Varnum) Harriman, of Pitts field. There were no children by this mar riage. He spent the last year of his life with his sons Arthur and William. He died in Benton, July 16, 1848, aged, it is thought, about ninety-six. He was a man of superior education and strong intellectual powers. The chUdren of Alichad and Susan were : Betsey Nancy, John, Lucy, Arthur, WiUiam, Isabel, Susan and James. (II) WiUiam, sixth child and third son of Michael and Susan (Pushaw) McNeUv, or McNally, was born in Clinton, April 24, 1799, and died in Benton, December 6, 1886. ITe settled in Benton after marriage and spent his life as a cultivator of the soil. He mar ried, in Clinton, in 1820, Martha Roundy, who was born September 13, 1803, died in summer of 1903, daughter of Job and Bet sey (Pushaw) Roundy, of Clinton. She lived to the age of _ninety-nine years and almost to the_ last retained a vigorous mind and body. It is from her recollections that most of our knowledge of Alichael AIcNeUy is obtained. On her ninety-fifth birthday, one hundred and seven of her descendants took dinner with her andwere photographed in a group. An other picture of five generations was also made, including Martha AIcNeUy, aged ninety- five years ; William AIcNeUy, ' aged seventy years; Rosina Libby, aged forty-six; Grace Hinds, aged seventy-two years ; and Alargaret Hinds, aged one year. 'The children of WiU iam and Alartha were : Henry, Isabel, Phebe, William, Hazen, Temple, Francis, Job, Mer ritt and Martha. (Ill) WiUiam (2), fourth child and sec ond son of WUliam (i) and Martha (Roundy) McNelly, was born in Clinton, May 13, 1828. He has spent most of his life farming and lumbering. In 1854 he went to California and remained there four years, en gaged in mining. Upon his return to CUnton he continued as a farmer and lumberman until 1872, when he moved to Waterville, where he worked as a carpenter in the shops of the Maine Central Railroad Company. After the death of his wife and the marriage of his children he gave up his house and went to Caribou. After his second marriage (1891) he moved to Massachusetts. A few years later he returned to Benton, and is now (1908) living there on a farm. He married (first) in Clinton, October 27, 185 1, Fanny Hodgdon, who was born July 27, 1830, and died June 5, 1885 ; she was the dau.ghter of Thomas S. and Lydia (Libby) Hodgdon. (See Hodgdon IX.) He married (second), in 1891, Mrs. Harriet (Warren) LongfeUow. His children, all by first wife, are: i. Rosina Hodgdon, born July 22, 1852, married George Libby, and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. 2. Per ley Lamont, September 8, i860, married Emma Hamilton and lives in Caribou. 3. Carrie Althea, June i, 1862, married Wallace 450 ST.ATE OE AlAINE. J. Boothby and resides in Bangor. 4. Lillian Etta, mentioned below. 5. Ada Alay, married, September i, 1868, Charles E. Alarston, and lives in Augusta. (IV) LiUian Etta, fourth child of WiUiam (2) and Fanny (Hodgdon) AIcNeUy, was born in Clinton, April ig, 1865, and married, in Waterville, April 4, 1888, Charies Addison Bean. (See Bean VIII.) The progenitor of the Hodg- HODGDON dons of Maine was the earii- est immigrant of the name in New England, and was in Massachusetts be fore the Pilgrims of the "Mayflower" had seen fourteen years in the wilderness of Mas sachusetts. Besides the form given above, the name appears in old records as Hodsden, Hodsdin, Hodsdon, and in the "Colonial Rec ords" as Hudson. (I) Nicholas Hodgdon was of Hingham, Alassachusetts, in 1635. The next year the selectmen granted him a home lot in the center of the town, and still later he was granted meadow lands elsewhere. He was made a freeman Alarch 9, 1637. About 1650 he, with others, bought large tracts of land in what is now Newton. About 1656 he sold his lands in both towns and moved to wdiat is now Kittery, Alaine, wdiere he was granted land by the town October 15, 1656, but he was already living there, as the grant was for a "lott of land above his house." At vari ous subsequent times he also received grants. At this time he lived at Quamphegan ; in later life he lived on a farm on the easterly side of the Piscataquis river, in the extreme southerly part of what is now South Ber wick. He was a prosperous farmer. The family for several generations lived the regu lar life of our sturdy ancestors, but the pub lic records give only meager facts, and the existing family records throw little li_s;lit on the earlier generations of the family. Nicho las married (first) in Hingham, about 1639, Esther Wines, who died in 1647. He mar ried (second) in 1649, EUzabeth, widow of John Needham. The dates of the birth of Nicholas and of his wifes' deaths are unknown. Nicholas and Elizabeth are probably buried in the family graveyard on the farm in Kit tery. The children of Nicholas, order and dates of birth not known, were : Esther, Ale hitable, Jeremiah, Israel, Elizabeth, Benoni (all baptized in Hin,gham), Sarah (born about 1650), Timothy, John, Joseph and Lucy. (II) Jeremiah, third chdd of Nicholas and Esther (Wines) Hodgdon, was baptized in Hingham, Alassachusetts, September 6, 1643, moved with his father to Kittery, and there received a grant of land in 1666. In this latter year he was also taxed in Dover. He moved to Fortsmouth, and finally to what is now Newcastle, New Hampshire, where he died before 1716. He married, about 1666, Anne Thwaits, daughter of Alexander and Anne Thwaits. After the death of her hus band she removed to Boston, where in 17 19 she joined the Brattle Street Church. The date of her death is unknown. The children of this union, dates of birth unknown, were: Alexander, John, Elizabeth, Nathaniel and Rebecca. (Ill) Alexander, eldest child of Jeremiah and Anne (Thwaits) Hodgdon, was bora probably in Portsmouth, New Hampshire He was a member of the church and evidently a man of intelligence and high standing in that organization, as he was one of a com mittee to obtain the services of a minister in Newington. In 1753 he sold aU his lands in Newington to his son Alexander for £1,600, and we find no further record of him in that town or elsewhere. Ele married Jane Shack ford, of Dover, New Hampshire, and they had six or more children, dates of birth un known, whose names are : Alexander, Joseph, John, Benjamin, Anna and Elizabeth. (IV) Joseph, second son of Alexander and Jane (Shackford) Hodgdon, was probably a native of Newington, New Hampshire. He resided in Newington, where six children were baptized, and moved from there, about 1737, to Scarborough, Maine. His occupation, like that of his ancestors and the great majority of American colonists, was farming. His wife Patience, whose family name is unknown, bore him six children: Patience (died young), Alexander, John, Patience, Lydia and Abi gail. (V) John, third child of Joseph and Pa tience Hodgdon, was baptized in Scarborough, July 10, 1727, and was a lifelong farmer there He married, in Scarborough, Decem ber 12, 1754, Mary McKenney, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Jimmerson) McKen ney, who was the mother of his seven chil dren, whose names are as follows : WiUiam, James, John, Jonathan, Jeremy, Hannah and Mary. (A^I) John (2), third son of John (i) and Mary (McKenney) Hodgdon, was baptized April 22, 1759, in Scarborough, where he spent his life farming. He married, in Scar borough, April 18, 1776, Katherine Harmon, daughter of William and Esther (Hoit) Har- STATE OE MAINE. 451 mon. They had William, John, Olive, Jo seph, Jane, and other children. (VII) William, eldest child of John (2) and Katherine (Harmon) Hodgdon, was born in Scarborough, November 12, 1777, and died in Milo, October, 1849. He was a farmer in Scarborough until about 1800, when he moved to Saco. He resided there until some years after the death of his first wife, when he removed to Milo, where his last years were spent. He married (first) in Scarbor ough, December 23, 1798, Mercy, daughter ¦of Nathaniel and Anna (Gould) Seavey. She was born in Scarborough, August 10, 1777, and died in Saco, August 16, 1817. ^ Some years after the death of his first wife he mar ried, in Milo, Mrs. Sands, of Sebec. His children, all by first wife, were : John, Thom as Seavey, Ebenezer, Abraham, Samuel and Sally. (VIII) Thomas Seavey, second child of WiUiam and Mercy (Seavey) Hodgdon, was born in Saco, July 2, 1801, and died in Water viUe, August 18, 1886. He was a farmer and shoemaker.. He lived in Saco until he was twenty-seven years old, and then removed to Lisbon, 1828; to Topsham, 1829; to Clinton, 1831 ; and resided in the last-named place the greater part of his life. He married, in Scar borough, February 17, 1821, Lydia Libby, who was born April 3, 1806, and died Au gust 7, 1864, daughter of David and Eliza- heth (McKenney) Libby. Their nine chil dren were: David, Elbridge G., Frederick, Fanny, George and Aaron (twins), Rufus, -Caroline A. and Emma. (IX) Fanny, fourth child of Thomas S. and Lydia (Libby) Hodgdon, was born in Saco, July 27, 1830, and married in Clinton, October 27, 1851, WiUiam (2) AIcNdly. (See AIcNeUy III.) This name is frequently found LITTLE in Great Britain, especially in Scotland, and is common in the North of Ireland. The variations in spelling in early documents are numerous and remark able. At least nine forms were well estab lished prior to 1700: Littell, Littel, Litel, Lytd, Lytell, Lyttelle, Little, Lytic and Lyttle The patronymic Lytle is rather unusual in America, but it at once recalls the gifted AA^ill- iam Haines Lytle, whose life was sacrificed for his county m 1863. His famous poem be ginning : "I am dying, Egypt, dying. Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast," is said to have been written on the eve of the battle which caused his death. Perhaps the earliest mention of the name in England is that of WiUiam Little, who was born in 1136, at Bridlington, in Yorkshire. He was a monk of Newborough Abbey, and wrote a history of England from the period from 1066 to 1 197. Some centuries later we read that El len, daughter of Sir Thomas Little, of Berk shire, married Edward Bacon, of Shrubland Hall, county Suffolk, son of Sir Nicholas Ba con, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Eng land, and brother to the famous Francis Bacon, A^iscount St. Albans. In modern times we find that a family by the name of Little has its seat at Elanvair Grange, county Monmouth, and the vice-chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster were recenth' held bv George Little, K. C. In Scotland the name is associated with the renowned patriot. Sir William Wallace, who had a nephew named Edward Little. In 1398 Nicol Little took part in one of the numerous Border wars between the English and the Scotch. Two families of the name have held more or less extended estates, one at Aleikle- dale and Langholnie in Dumfrieshire, and the other at Liberton, near Edinburgh. At some period between 1698 and 1731 William Little, of Liberton, a gentleman of ancient family, which had been in possession of the barony of Liberton for over a hundred years preceding, married Helen, daughter of Sir Alexander Gilmour, of Craigmillar, in the same county. There is some reason for sup posing that George Little, the American an cestor wdth whom the following line begins, may have been connected with the Littles of Liberton. At all events, a coat-of-arms which has been found handed down in several branches of the American family is practically the same as that of the Littles of Liberton. This escutcheon consists of a field or, with a saltire of Saint Andrew's cross, engrailed sable ; crest, a wolf's head ; motto : "Magnum in parvo" — Great in little This motto sug gests the origin of the name, which is iden tical with that of the surname Petit in France and Elein in Germany. It may be mentioned that the family does not appear to retain the personal characteristic of the founder of the house, for many of the modern Littles are of unusual length and more than average width. There were several Littles among the early settlers of this country. First of them was Thomas Little, who landed at Pl3'mouth, Mas sachusetts, in 1630, married .-Ann Warren, and died at Marshfield in 1671. Probably seven thousand descendants can trace their origin to 452 STATE OF MAINE. Thomas Little ; this line is particularly dis tinguished by the number of its clergymen. Richard Little, of New Haven, Connecticut, was a freeman in 1670 and a proprietor in 1685. George Little, of Newbury, Alassachu setts, from whom the following line is de scended, had sixty-five hundred descendants in 1880, of whom fifteen hundred lived in Alas sachusetts, and the same number in (New Hampshire ; seven hundred and fifty belonged to Maine, and five hundred to Vermont; the remainder were scattered all over this country and Canada. Until the beginning of the nine teenth century scarcely a member of the fam ily could be found beyond the limits of the four states previously mentioned. Three towns in the Union, including Littleton, New Hamp shire, have been named after founders be longing to this branch of Littles. Five col lege presidents can trace their ancestry to George Little ; and his posterity, as a whole, can boast of a record whose worth compares favorably with its length. Few names in America are more ancient and few have been more creditably borne by a multitudinous off spring. (I) George Little, who came to Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1640, is said, according to established tradition, to have resided upon Unicorn Street, near London Bridge, England. His parentage has never been traced, though the parish records of St. Olive's, Southwark, and of the neighboring St. Sav iour's, show that several families of the name lived in that region during the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. There is a tradition that George Little had a brother Thomas, who was an officer in Cromwell's navy, and gave George a deed to lands at Barbadoes in the West Indies, which was afterward stolen from him in Newbury. George Little seems to have been distinguished by that "hankering for mud," which, according to Lowell, is one of the marked characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon race. His first purchase of land occurred in 1650, yyhen he bought a freehold right in New bury; and from that time on he bought in large or small parcels, as occasion offered, till he owned some of the best land in town. He acquired a title to lands in the Quinebaug country in Connecticut, and in 1669 received a patent for eighty acres in Woodbridge, New Jersey. In July, 1668, he petitioned Sir Ed mund Andros, then governor for New Eng land, for confirmation of his title to four hun dred acres of land "on the north side of Swan Pond westward from the Saco River." George Little served several times upon juries at Ips wdch and Salem, but as far as is known held no public offices, though he was appraiser and executor of several estates, which would in dicate a reputation for integrity and good judgment. In the prolonged ecclesiasticak dis pute wdiich divided the church at Newbury for so many years he was on the side of the pas tor, Rev. Mr. Parker, but soon after the settle ment of difficulties he, with his wife, joined the First Baptist church in Boston, and in 1682 they became members of a small church of the same denomination in Newbury. It is said that Air. Little was a tailor by trade, but it is probable that he devoted most of his time in America to farming. Ele was a man of remarkably strong physique, and it is said that he could carry a- plough on his shoulder from his home to his farm on Turkey Hill — over three miles away. He was exceedingly well versed in Scripture, being able to give the book and chapter of any text that might be quoted. The house which he built in 1679 and occupied till his death, about fourteen years later, stood for nearly two centuries, or until its removal in 185 1. The exact date of his death is not known, but it occurred some time between Alarch 15, 1693, and No vember 27, 1694. He was buried in the grave yard adjoining the first church, but all traces were lost when a new edifice was erected near the spot not many years after his death. George Little married (first) Alice Poor, who sailed for New England in the "Bevis, "^ in May, 1638. The party, which included her younger brothers Samuel and Daniel, em barked from Southampton under the care of Mr. Stephen Dummer. It is thought that the Poors were natives of Wiltshire. The motto on their coat-of-arms reads : "Pauper non in Spe" — Poor not in Hope Alice (Poor) Little died December i, 1680, aged sixty-two- years. Judge Sewall speaks in his diary of caUing upon Goodman and Goodwife Little during one of his visits to Newbury, and says that she "lived in sore pain for many years before her death." Five children were born to George and Alice (Poor) Little, but two of whom survived their father. The chUdren were : Sarah, born May 8, 1652, died Novem ber 19 that year; Joseph, September 22, 1653,, died September 6, 1740; John, July 28, 1655, died July 20. 1672; Alofees, whose sketch fol lows; and Sarah, November 24, 1661, died after 1718. July 19, 1681, George Little mar ried (second) Eleanor, widow of Thomas Bar nard, of Amesbury, who survived him, dying- November 27, 1694. STATE OE AlAINE. 453 (II) Moses, third and youngest son of George and Alice (Poor) Little, was born March ii, 1657, probably at the paternal home in Newbury, Alassachusetts, where he lived till his_ death, March 8, 1691. He served in King Philip's war, and was town collector and en gaged in the settlement of estates. He died of smallpox, and it is said that the physician, while in a state of intoxication, administered a prescription which hastened if it did not cause his death. As illustrating the gross medical ignorance of the time, it may be men tioned that the patient, during his last illness, was kept in a room so heated that one's hand could not be borne upon the wall. The fact that our ancestors survived such treatment shows that they must have been made of stern stuff. The estate of "Alosis littd" (thus his signature has come down to us), was ap praised at one thousand sixty-five pounds, a very la'rge sum to have been accumulated at that period by so young a man. He was evi dently rich in flocks and herds, for no less than forty-three cows, oxen and young cattle are mentioned, besides eighty sheep, eight swine and four horses. The house seems to have been well stocked with all needful articles, and among the domestic utensils, mentioned are "smoothingers." Could they have been flat- irons? About 1679 Moses Little married Ly dia, daughter of "Tristam and Judith (Som erby) (Greenleaf) Coffin, born April 22, 1662. They had children : John, born January 8, 1680; died unmarried, March 25, 1753; Tris- tam, December 9, 1681, died November 11, 1765 ; Sarah, AprU 28, 1664, died December 10, 1710; Alary, January 13, 1686, died in June, 1761 ; Ehzabeth, Alay 25, 1688, married Anthony Alorse ; and Moses, whose sketch fol lows. On Alarch 18, 1695, four years after the death of her first husband, Mrs. Lydia (Coffin) Little married (second) John Pike, by whom she had five daughters, and one son. (Ill) Aloses (2), youngest child of Aloses (i) and Lydia (Coffin) Little, was bora Feb ruary 26, 1691, at Newbury, Alassachusetts. He lived at the old homestead till about 1730, when he bought the Turkey Hill farm of his uncle Joseph, where he remained till his death, October 17, 1780, in the ninetieth year of his age. The house where he spent the last fifty years of his hfe was a bi,g square dweUing with a chimney in the middle, an excellent type of a dignified old farm mansion. It was built before 1700, and taken down in 1859. The farm stiU continues in the possession of his descendants. According to the epitaphs in the Upper burying ground on the Plains at Newbury, Moses Little "was temperate in all things, industrious, hospitable yet frugal, a kind husband and tender father, a good neighbor, a good citizen, and while living justly sustained the first of characters — an honest man." Of his consort the stone says : "She truly answered ye wise man's character of a \''irtuous Woman ; Lived beloved and died lamented, and hath left her friends a Good hope that at the Resurrection this Dust shall spring to light with sweet surprise, and in her Savior's image rise." On February 12, 1716, Moses (2) Little married Sarah, daughter of Sergeant Stephen and Deborah (Plumer) Jaques, born Septem ber 23, 1697, died in November, 1763. ChU dren: Lydia, born August 25, 1717; Stephen, Alay 19, 1719; John, November 16, 1721 ; Moses, Alay 8, 1724; Joseph, May 29, 1726; Sarah, February 17, 1728; Joseph, April 21, 1730; Benjamin, November 4, 1732; Sarah, April 8, 1735; Mary, October 25, 1737; Paul, April I, 1740; EUzabeth, October 16, 1742. All of these children except three, the first Joseph, the first Sarah and Elizabeth, lived to mature years and reared families. The sec ond Sarah married William Pottle, who lived at Stratham, New Hampshire, and Alinot, Maine ; she brought up a family of ten chil dren and lived to be ninety-five years of age. (IV) Moses (3), third son of Moses (2) and Sarah (Jaques) Little, was born May 8, 1724, at Newbury, Alassachusetts. He was a man of indomitable energy and great force of character, and if his health had not become seriously impaired during the last years of his life, which closed May 27, 1798, at the age of seventy-five, it is probable that even greater honors and success would have fallen to his lot. He seems to have had the same desire to become a land owner that characterized his great-grandfather, the original immigrant ; and his position as surveyor of the King's Wood, which he held for several years, gave him an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with the value of such property. About 1750, in company with others, he obtained from Governor Benning Weiitw-orth a large grant of the unoccupied crovim lands lying wdthin the present limits of Vermont. In 1765, acting as agent for the proprietors of Bakerstown, he succeeded in obtaining for them from the gen eral court of Alassadiusetts, a township of land in Alaine in exchange for one previously granted and found to be within the borders of New Elampshire. By purchasing the rights of the original proprietors. Colonel Moses Lit tle and his son Josiah eventually became own- 454 STATE OF MAINE. ers of a greater part of the grant, which com prised the present towns of Poland, Alinot and a portion of Auburn. In 1768 a still larger tract on the eastern side of .'Androscoggin was granted to him and Colonel Bagley, by the Pejepscot Company, on condition that they would build roads and settle fifty families there before June i, 1774. These conditions were not fully met ; consequently the full amount of land was not received. The town of Leeds, Alaine, was first called Littleborough in his honor ; and the town of Littleton, in New Hampshire, permanently preserves his name. It was in 1769 that he began buying land in northern New Hampshire, and he afterwards largely increased his holdings in that region. Aloses (3) Little rendered important mili tary service during two wars, ranking as cap tain during the French and Indian war, and as colonel during the revolution. In 1758 he was in command of the Newbury soldiers in the expedition against Louisburg, proving him self an able officer, and gaining the devotion of his men. When the revolution broke out he was over fifty years of age, but no youth in his teens respondecT more quickly. It is said that the news of the Concord fight reached Turkey Hill at midnight, and by six the next morning Moses Little was on the road at the head of his company. He marched to the American headquarters at Cambridge, and was placed in command of the regiment raised from the northern part of Essex county, yvhich contained four hundred and fifty-six men by the middle of June. At the battle of Bunker Hill Ee led three of his companies across Charlestown N"eck under a severe fire from the British batteries and ships of war, reached the scene of action before the first charge of the enemy, and was present throughout the entire engagement. His men were posted in different places, a part at the redoubt, a part at the breastwork, and some at the rail fence ; and a fourth company came upon the hill after the battle began. Forty of his regiment were killed or wounded, men fell on either side of him, but Colonel Little himself escaped unharmed. He remained with his command in Cambridge, absenting himself only tyvo davs, when called home in August to attend the funeral of two of his daughters. He came into close relations wdth Washin.oton, wdio held him in high esteem, and mentioned him as a model to some other officers who were complaining of the character of the provisions, saying that Colonel Little had found no time to grumble at hardships of that sort. Colonel Little went with the army to New York after the evacu ation of Boston, and was present at the disas trous battle of Long Island. He held com mand of Fort Greene before the engagement,. and during it was stationed at Flatbush Pass. He also took part in the battle of Harlem Heights, but did not accompany his men in the retreat through New Jersey, being detained by sickness at Peekskill. The next winter he commanded an important encampment at the latter place, but in the spring of 1777 was. forced to return home on account of ill health. For the same reason he was compelled in 1799 to decline the commission of brigadier- general and the command of an expedi tion sent from Alassachusetts to dislodge the enemy from their position on the Penobscot. After his retirement from military service he represented the town of Newbury in the legis lature for some time, as he had done before the war. A stroke of paralysis in 1781 terminated his active career. Colonel Little was a man of high ability, with a keen knowledge of human nature and imperturbable self-possession, and had not his strength failed, which was doubtless undermined by excessive toil, he might have reached high rank among officers of the revolution. As it is, his record is one which his descendants may well cherish, as they do his sword used at Bunker Hill and his commission from the Con tinental Congress. About 1750, a few years after his marriage. Colonel Littie built the fine old mansion at Turkey HUl, Newbury, which was his home during the rest of his life, and is still occupied by his descendants. It stood just across the road from his father's, and was an ex pensive house for its day. The Littles, like most of the leading families in Newbury, were slaveholders at that time; and there is stiU extant a letter from President Eleazar Whee lock, of Dartmouth College, to Colonel Little, in relation to one Caesar, which the former desired to purchase. The document is dated May 6, 1773, and in it President Wheelock says : "I have determined to buy the Negro if he proves to be the Slave which you take him to be." ^ The clergyman goes on to say that he stands in very special and great necessity of his services on account of his principal cook's being gone, an'd offers twenty pounds, lawful money, as the purchase price Colonel Little was very successful in accumulating this world's goods, and his estate, which he dis posed of by will, was inventoried at si.xtyr-two thousand, three hundred and fifty-six dollars, a large fortune for those days. In 1743, when he was but nineteen, Moses STATE OF AlAINE. 455 Little married Abigail, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Coffin) Bailey, of Newburv, Mas sachusetts, born February 15, 1724, a twin sis ter of Judith Bailey, wdio married Aloses Little's elder brother Stephen. Mrs. Abigail (Bailey) Little died February 6, 1815, having nearly completed her ninety-first year. Moses and Abigail (Bailey) Little had eleven chU dren, all but three of whom, Alichael, Anna and Alice, hved to marry and rear families. The chUdren were: Sarah, born December 15, 1743, married John Noyes; Alichael, January 9. 1745-46, died February 15, 1745; Josiah, whose sketch follows: Abigail, AprU 2, 1749, married John Gideon Bailey; Lydia, Novem ber 24, 1751, married John Atkinson; Eliza beth, September 3, 1754, married (first) Lieu tenant John Carr and (second) Lieutenant WiUiam Wigglesworth ; Anna, March 20, 1757, died August 13, 1775; Alary, September 22, 1759, married (first) Matthias P. Saw yer, and (second) Joshua FoUansbee; Hannah, May 21, 1762, married (first) Dr. Aloses Saw yer, and (second) Colonel James Burnham; Alice, May 10, 1764, died May 6, 1765 ; and Moses, January 20, 1767, married Elizabeth Dummer and lived on a portion of the original Turkey Hill farm, where he died at the a.ge /)f ninety. Two of the daughters of this fam ily lived to good old age. Abigail died Sep tember 20, 1838, in her ninetieth year, and Mary died August 28, 1847, lacking but a month of eighty-eight. The two daughters, whose deaths on . consecutive days occurred while their father was in the army, were Sarah, died August 14, 1775, and Anna, died the day before. (V) Josiah, eldest surviving son of Colonel Moses (3) and Abigail (Bailey) Little, was born at the paternal home on Turkey Hill, Newbury, Massachusetts, February 16, 1747. Like his father, whom he strongly resembled, he was a man of great energy and business talent. He had charge of his father's real estate for many years, and the care and im provement of wild lands occupied a consider able portion of his time.' Every year until he was past eighty he used to visit his property in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, driv- in.g over the rough roads alone, even after he had lost one hand by the premature explosion of a blast in the rapids of the Andro.scoggin below Lewiston. As a proprietor and agent of the Pejepscot Company, he often had dan gerous encounters with squatters, and his journeys to these wild re.gions were fruitful of thriUing and sometimes laughable adventures. Elis influence in the legislature prevented at one time the sacrifice of state lands in Maine. Josiah Little always kept his home in New bury, and was a large owner of real estate in the business portion of X^ewburyport. Ele was also enga.ged to a considerable extent in ship ping, and at his death, which occurred De cember 26, 1830, he left a fortune of several hundred thousand dollars. Josiah Little was prominent in public affairs, and his influence in Newbury was almost un limited. Ele was representative to the general court twenty-five years, of which nineteen were in succession, and he was a member of the constitutional convention of 1820. He was an early and efficient friend of Bowdoin Col lege, as his father had been of Dartmouth. His portrait, with the heavy black eyebrows and long curling white hair, is a striking pic ture of a gentleman of that period. The clear- cut features and the direct glance of the eyes indicate a man of upright character and in domitable will, accustomed to direct large com panies 'of men; but there is a humorous curve to the mouth and a half quizzical expression ¦which portray a warm, generous heart and a knowledge of human nature in all its phases. He retained his physical vigor almost to the very last, and his death, which occurred just before he had completed his eighty-fourth year, was the result of an accident by which his thigh was broken. On Alarch 23, 1770, Josiah Little married Sarah, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Bail ey) Toppan, born Alay 27, 1748, died Octo ber II, 1823. Airs. Little belonged to one of the oldest families in Newbury. One of her great-grandfathers, Lieutenant Jacob Toppan, born 1645, married Hannah, sister of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall. Another great-grand father was Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, of Maiden, author of the "Day of Doom." Chil dren of Josiah and Sarah (Toppan) Little: Michael, iDorn Alarch 14, 1771 ; Edward, whose sketch follows; Ahce, February i, 1775; Sarah, January 16, 1 777, died on December 26 of that year; Sarah, July 27, 1779, married John Little and died Alarch 12, 1868, in her eighty- ninth year; Aloses, August 17, 1781, died March 7, 1802; Anna, November 29, 1783; Mary, Alay 4, 1786; Judith Toppan, Septem ber 5, 1788, died AprU 16, 1791 ; and Josiah, January 13, 1791. The three sons of this family who lived to grow up were all edu cated at college. Michael and Edward were graduated from Dartmouth, while Josiah took his degree at Bowdoin. .A.lice Little married Thomas Hale, of Newburv ; their eldest child, Benjamin Hale, w-as processor at 456 STATE OF AlAINE. Dartmouth College from 1827 to 1835, and president of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, from 1836 to 1858. Josiah Little, the youngest of the ten children, was evidently a public-spirited man, whose services deserve more than passing mention. He married Sophronia Balch, of Newburyport, and his hfe w-as identified w-ith that town, wdiich he repre sented in the state senate for two terms. He founded the Newburyport Public Library, and established a professorship of natural science in Boyvdoin College, of w-hich institution he was an overseer for several years. He was also a member of the Alaine Historical So ciety, and took part in the industrial develop ment of the state. He felt a deep interest in the family name, desired that his farm at Tur key Hill, whicli had been owned by five pre ceding generations, should be a place for fam ily reunions, and left a fund whose interest should be applied to the relief of any unfortu nate kinsfolk. He died on February 5, i860, without offspring. (VI) Edward, second son and child of Jo siah and Sarah (Toppan) Little, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, Alarch 12, 1773, and died at Auburn, Alaine, September 21, 1849. Ele was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and at Dartmouth College, where he took his degree in 1797. He studied law with Chief Justice Parsons, of Newbury port, where he practiced his profession for some years ; was county attorney and pub lisher of law reports for the commonwealth, and representative to the Alassachusetts legis lature for several sessions. The great fire of 181 1 caused the destruction of most of his property at Newburyport, and resulted in his removal to Portland, Alaine, wdiere he had in herited great tracts of land. He lived- in Portland, where he was engaged in the book trade, till 1826, when he removed to Auburn, where he spent the last twenty- three years of his life. The owner of a large part of the surrounding territory, he had a commanding influence in directing the charac ter and growth of the new town. He gave the land for the first church, paid one-half of the cost of the building, and for some time pro vided for the preaching largely at his own ex pense. In his youth he was inclined tow^ard the Llni- tarian side of the controversy then existing in the Congregational denomination, but after his residence in Portland, where he was a parish ioner of Dr. Pa)'son, he became a firm Trini tarian, and continued as such till the end of life. He established and endowed an academy which was in operation forty years and gained a high reputation throughout the state. Upon the change in educational conditions the grounds and a portion of the funds were trans ferred to the town, which now maintains an Edward Little High School before whose en trance stands a lifesize statue of the founder, erected at public expense. Mr. Little was no less helpful in advancing the material pros perity of the place than he was in caring for its spiritual welfare. The original owner of the water powder w-hich has since given rise to the busy manufacturing city of Lewdston, he sold at a low price to secure the introduction of outside capital. He aided every new indus try to the extent of his power, and always held out inducements to get the best class of work men to settle in the place. Although he has been dead more than half a century, his works do follow^ him. On January 10, 1799, Edward Little mar ried Hannah, daughter of Captain Thomas and Hannah (Alerrill) Brow-n, of Xewbury, born February 9, 1772, died .August i, 1828. She was of one of the oldest X^ew England families, being seventh in descent from Thomas Brcw-n, who came from Malford, En.gland, to Xewbury, in 1635. Eler father, Thomas Brown, was a pros perous sea captain, and the uncle of Dr. Francis Brown, president of Dartmouth Col lege. To Edward and Hannah (Brown) Little were born children : Thomas Brown, born No vember 4, 1799; Josiah (2), whose sketch fol lows; Sarah, October 29, 1802, died January 14, 1810; Hannah, February 25, 1804; Ed ward Toppan, September 13, 1805, died No vember I that year ; Alaria, October 22, 1806, died February 22, 1817; Eliza, September 20, 1808, died October 19, 1809; Edward Toppan, December 29, 1809; Sarah, May 18, 181 1; Aloses, June 24, 1812, died July 18 that year; Aloses, July 5, 1813, died December 2 that year. About three years after the death of his first wife, Edward Little married Airs. Hannah (.Andrews) Chase, of Portland, Alaine, widow of Tappan Chase, and daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Smith) ."Andrews. She was born June 20, 1789, and died June 14, 1868, outliving her husband nearly nine teen years. (ATI) Josiah (2), second son and child of Edward and Hannah (Brown) Little, was bom at Newbury, Alassachusetts, April 29, 1801, and died at Alount Desert, August 9, i86^. Ele w-as educated at Bowdoin College, studied law with his father, practiced his pro fession for se\-eral years at Alinot and An- STATE OF AlAINE. 457 burn, and afterwards engaged in trade and manufacturing. He was a man of exceUent judgment, exact in all his dealings and per severing in the execution of his plans. He was a firm friend of good order and good morals, took a deep interest in all measures affecting the welfare of the community, and for many years was a member of the Congregational church, to wdiose support he was a liberal con tributor. Elis kindliness of manner, sympa thetic nature and improving conversation made him a delightful companion. After a residence of many years in Alaine, where he spent most of his active life, he returned to his old home in Newburyport to spend his latter days. He died suddenly at the age of sixty-four while on a pleasure trip to Somes' Sound, Mount Desert. He was married four times. On Sep tember 2, 1822, he married Mary Holt, daugh ter of Jonathan and Joanna (Cobb) Cum mings, of Norway, Maine, who died at Minot, October 6, 1829, at the age of twenty-five years six months. The children of Josiah and Mary (Cummings) Little were: Elizabeth Mary Todd, born at Lewiston, September 24, 1823, married George Hutchins Ambrose, a lumber dealer in Chicago, and died at Bay City, Michigan, January 10, 1904; Edward, born at Lewiston, June 25, 1825, a merchant in Chicago, who died there Alarch 14, i8g8; and Francis Brown, born at Alinot, June 20, 1827, a lumber dealer in Chicago, who died sud denly at Grand Haven, Alichigan, August 29, 1904. On Alarch 30, 1830, Josiah Little mar ried (second) Nancy Williams, daughter of William and Nancy (Brooks) Bradford, who died at Auburn, November 20, 1834, aged twenty-six years seven months. Children : Alary Cummings, born in Auburn, February 19, 1831, died September 18 that year; and Josiah, September 10, 1832, a banker at Ani- boy, Illinois, who died in Chicago, Alarch 5, 1906. Josiah Little married (third) Sally, daughter of Thomas and Alehitable (Ray mond) Brooks. She was born Alay 3, 1807, at Alfred, Maine, and died at .Auburn, April 15. 1849. Children : Charles Jenkins, born April 9, 1836, a manufacturer now residing at X^ew- ton, Massachusetts ; Nancy Bradford, August II, 1838, married Francis S. Spring, of San Francisco, where she died .April 17, 1873; Horace Chapin, wdiose sketch follows. Two children named George died in infancy. On Alay 20, 1850, Josiah Little married Charlotte Ann, sister of his third wife, w-ho w-as born December 26, 181 7, and survived him, dying without children, January 26, 1898. (A^III) Horace Chajiin, third son of Jo siah (2) Little and his third wife, Sally (Brooks) LUtle, was b(.irn at .Auburn, Alaine, January 14, 1840. EIc was educated at the Lewdston Falls .Academy, and early entered upon the printing and publishing business at Portland, Alaine. For a short period the late Hon. James G. Blaine acted as editor of the newspaper issued by his firm. During the war he served as captain of Company B, Twenty- third Alaine Infantry. He was subsequently engaged in the harchvare business at Lewis- ton, Alaine. In 1878 he was appointed post master, and held that office for two terms, proving a model official. In 1888 he was chosen mayor of his cit}-, and was re-elected the following year. He had previously be come a member of a long-established insurance firm, and, declining further public office, he bought the control oj this business, to wdiich he gave his attention during the remainder of his life. Tie died Alarch 14, 1896. Captain Little was a skilled accountant, being repeat edly called upon to serve as auditor for the state and large corporations, and a most pub lic-spirited and energetic citizen. His per sonality made him one of the most popular and wddely esteemed men in the community. Gen erous, sympathetic and eminently companion able, the circle of his friends was as wide as that of his acquaintance. He was a thirty- second degree Alason, and a companion in the Alaine Commandery, Alilitary (Drder of the Loyal Legion of the LTnited States. Captain Little married, November i, i860, Rosa J., daughter of Jacob Herrick and EUen (Blake) Roak, who yvas born at .Auburn, Alay 6, 1843, and who survives him. Their si.x children : X'^ellie Roak, born at Portland, Alaine. .August 15, 1861, a graduate of Bates College in 1883, the wife of Profes.sor Charles IT. Clark, Sc. D., of Exeter, Xew Hainpshire; Nancy Brooks, born at Auburn, October 8, 1864, of the class of 1887 at Bates College, the wife of Dr. Sherman G. Bonney, of Denver, Colorado ; Jacob Roak, whose sketch follows ; Charlotte Brooks, born at Lewiston, February 12, 1872, a graduate of Bates College in 1893, the wife of Dr. Ernest A\'. Emery, of Denver, Col orado ; Rose, born .April i, 1873, the wife of Dr. Edgar Frank Conant, of Denver, Col orado; Lucy, born at Lewiston, July 13, 1879, died April 3, 1893. (IX) Jacob Roak, only son of Captain Horace Chapin and Rosa (Roak) Little, was born at Lewiston, Alaine, June 30, 1870. He was educated in the public schools of his na tive town, and was graduated from Bates Col lege in 1892. The next two years he spent in 458 STATE OF AlAINE. a banking establishment at Denver, Colorado. He then returned to Lewiston, Alaine, where he has since been a member, and is now the manager of the insurance firm of H. C. Little & Son, which has for a quarter of a century been one of the most prominent in Central Alaine Air. Little inherits his father's busi ness ability and social prominence, is a member of the A'iasons, a Knight Templar, and a Shriner ; of the Benevolent and Protective Or der of Elks ; and of the Alaine Commandery, AliUtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the E'nited States. He has represented his native city in the state legislature for four years. He married, October 14, 1896, Alabel Hill, born January 24, 1873, daughter of Henry and Henrietta .Adelaide (True) Lowell, of .Au burn, Maine (For preceding generations see George Little I.) (A^II) Edward Toppan, son of LITTLE Edward and Hannah (Brown) Little, was born in X^^ewburyport, Massachusetts, December 29, 1809, and in 1812 accompanied his father and family to Portland, Alaine, wdiere his boyhood was spent. He attended the Portland Academy, then in charge of Bezaled Cushman, and graduated in 1827 at Gardiner Lyceum., one of the earliest institutions in New England to oft'er a scien tific as distinct from a classical course of study. He subsequently pursued the study of law in the office of his father at DanviUe, now Au burn, was admitted to the bar in 1833, and practiced his profession in that city, being for several years in partnership wdth Hon. Nahum AlorriU. He was always actively interested in the welfare of the place, and the latter por tion of his life was given almost entirely to business enterprises looking to the develop ment of the water power on the Little An droscoggin river. For a score of years he was trustee and treasurer of the Lewiston FaUs Academy, established by his father. He was selectman in 1847-48-54, and served as town agent and a member of the school committee He also represented his town in the Maine legislature in 1847-55-64-66. He was one of the first directors of the Alaine Central Rail road Company and clerk of the board at his death. In June, 1859, he became judge of probate for Androsco.g.gin county, and held the office tUl January, 1864. He married (first) Melinda, daughter of Rev. Weston B. and Harriet (Wines) Adams, of Lewiston FaUs, by whom he had two sons, Edward Adams! born May 15, 1841, died AprU 14, 1876; and Weston Tappan, born April 17, 1842, died August 26, 1865. He married (second) Lucy Jane, daughter of Zeba and Lepha (Peck) Bliss, who survived him, dying April 21, 1898,. at Auburn. Their only child, George Thomas,. was born May 14, 1857. J^-idge Edward Top- pan Little died in Auburn, Maine, November 5, 1867. (VIII) Edward Adams, son of Edward Toppan and Melinda (Adams) Little, was born in Aiiburn, Alaine, May 15, 1841. He w-as educated at the Lewiston Falls Academy, now the Edward Little High School, engaged in the dry goods trade at Lewiston and sub sequently became a shoe manufacturer at Au burn. He served as a director in the First National Bank, as a trustee of the .Auburn Savings Bank, and in the city council of Au burn. He died at Washington, D. C., April 14, 1876. He married, September 6, 1864, Susan Maria, daughter of William and Mar garet (Duggan) Jordan, who survives him, re siding with her sons in New York City. Their children were : Edward Toppan, born in Au burn, Alaine, Alay 17. 1866, a graduate of Bowdoin College, A. B., 1887, A. M., i'890, LL.B. Boston University Law School, 1890, formerly a lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona, and now in the United States civil service in New York City; Horace, born October 3, 1868, re sides in New York City; and Alabdle Susan, born Alay 6, 1872, a student at WeUesley Col lege, died October 18, 1893, at Phoenix, Ari zona. (VIII) George Thomas, only son of Ed ward Toppan and Lucy Jane (Bliss) Litde, was born in Auburn, Maine, May 14, 1857. He was prepared for college at the Edward Little High School, graduated at Bowdoin in 1877. After a year of travel in Europe, he taught Latin in Thayer Academy, Braintree, Alassachusetts, 1878-82, and at Bowdoin CoE lege 1882-85. He became acting librarian in 1883, librarian and assistant in rhetoric in 1885, and since 1889 has devoted himself en tirely to the library, which during this period has more than doubled in size, and its 100,000 volumes are now stored in one of the finest college library buildings in the country. He has served as recorder of the American Li brary Association, is a member of the Ameri can Library Institute, and was appointed chair man of the Maine Library Commission in 1899 by Governor Powers, a position he re- si.gned in 1902. Air. Little has been a member of the Maine Historical Society since 1879. He is the author of "Descendants of George Little of Newbury" (1877, enlarged edition 1882) ; "Alemoriai of Alpheus Spring Pack- STATE OF AlAINE. 459 ard" (1885); "Historical Sketch of Bowdoin College" (1894), and has compiled the general catalogues and the obituary record of Bowdoin College since 1888. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from his alma mater in 1894. He married, December 18, 1884, Lilly Thayer Wright, daughter of George Homer and Sarah Ward (Weeks) Lane, of Braintree, Massachusetts, and their children are : Rachel Thayer, born October 2, 1885, at Auburn, a member of the class of 1909' at Smith College; Ruth Bliss, born April 19, 1887, at Brunswick, graduated at Bradford Academy, 1908; Edna, born and died June 12, 1889; George Toppan, born AprU 28, 1891 ; Noel Charlton, born December 25, 1895. (For ancestry see George Little I.) (IV) Stephen, second child and LITTLE eldest son of Aloses and Sarah (Jaques) Little, born Alay 19, 1719, died August 30, 1793, aged seventy- four. He lived for over twenty years after his marriage at Turkey Hill, afterwards upon a farm he owned on Sandy Lane, now North Atkinson street. He was one of the grantees of Newbury, Vermont, 1763, and also owned land in Bath and Hampstead, New Hampshire, and in Cumberland and Lincoln counties, Maine He was representative in the legis lature in 1776, and probably held other town offices. He was a man of sterling integrity, a prominent member and deacon of Dr. Spring's church at Newburyport. He married (first) June 5, 1743, Judith, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Coffin) Bailey, born Feb ruary 15, 1724, died August 19, 1764; mar ried (seconcJ) Mary Long, who died October 4, 1798, aged seventy-five years. She was the daughter of Benjamin Long. Their chil dren were: Joshua (died young), Stephen, Joshua, Abner, Judith, Temperance, David and Jonathan (twins), and Jacob. (V) Stephen (2), second child of Stephen (i) and Judith (Bailey) Little, born May 30, 1745, died July 11, 1800. He was a physician and lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. At the outbreak of the revolution he was quite prominent as a royalist, and was exiled by the state legislature, with Governor Went worth and several others. He afterward served as a surgeon in the British navy and never returned to this country, but died in London, July 11, 1800. He married Sarah, daughter of Dr. Clement Jackson and sister of Dr. Hall Jackson, both distinguished phy sicians of Portsmouth. She died at Newbury, February 13, 1806, aged fifty-eight. Their children were : Sarah, Judith, Alary, Stephen and Elizabeth. (VI) Stephen (3), fourth child and only son of Dr. Stephen (2) and Sarah (Jackson) Little, born March 26, 1774, died March 22, 1852, aged seventy-eight. He was for several years a merchant in Portsmouth, New Hamp shire, and lost his entire property in one of the disastrous fires which visited that city in the early part of the nineteenth century. In 1807 he removed to Portland, Alaine, wdiere he continued his mercantile pursuits until two or three years previous to his death, when a severe accident disabled him for active busi ness. He married, Alarch, 1797, Rebecca, widow of William Caldwell, and daughter of Isaac Dodge, of Ipswich, who died in Portland, September 23, 1847, in the seventy-first year of her age. They had chUdren : Harriet, Mary Pearson, Sarah Jackson, Hall Jackson, Ann Huntress, WiUiam Dodge, James Tucker, Francis Douglass, Isaac Prince, Charies Far ley, Rebecca Caldwell, Susan Fariey and Ed ward Payson. (VII) Hall Jackson, fourth child and eldest son of Stephen (3) and Rebecca (Dodge) (Caldwell) Little, born in Portsmouth, July 5, 1803, died in Portland, Alaine, September 30, 1864. He removed to Portland and was a dealer in stationery and manufacturer of blank books. In religion he was a Congre gationalist. Ele was a Whig until the disso lution of that party, and afterward a Repub lican. He was for a time a member of the city government. He married (first) 1827, Frances AL, daughter of Ebenezer and Hen rietta (Lowther) Sumner, who died in i860; married (second) Airs. Ellen W. Eveleth, of Windham, widow of • Eveleth, and daughter of John and Huldah (Hawkes) White. She was born 1835, died March 23, 1895, aged si.xty years. One child, Frank Hall, was born to the second wife (VIII) Frank HaU, only son of Hall J. and Ellen W. (White) (Eveleth) Little, was born in Portland, June 18, i860. He attended the public schools, was prepared for college by a private tutor, and in 1877 entered Bowdoin College, from which he graduated wdth the class of 1881. Soon after graduation he en tered the employ of Dana & Company, im porters of salt, and served them till 1886. He then went with Duncan Brothers & Company, oil dealers, remaining until 1891, when the personnel and name of the company were changed, and the F H. Little Oil Company, a corporation, was organized, with Mr. Little as treasurer and general manager. Air. Little is 460 STATE OF MAINE. a staunch Republican and served his party in the city council in 1891-92, and in the board of aldermen in 1894-95. Ele is known as an energetic and shrewd business man, and al ways alive to the business interests of the city. In 1908 he was elected vice-president of the Portland Board of Trade, of which he has been an efficient member for several years. He is a member of the .Athletic and Yacht clubs. He married, in Portland, October 19, 1882, Ella L., born in Indiana, August 9, i860, daughter of Levi A. and Lucia (Tyrrell) Gray. Mr. Gray is proprietor of Gray's Portland Business College. Three children have been born of this marriage : Lucia E., September 30, 1883; Anita G., July 6, 1885; Ruth D., April 13, 1894. (For ancestry see George Little I.) (IV) Paul Little, eleventh child LITTLE and youngest son of Moses and Sarah (Jaques) Little, was born in Newbury, AprU i, 1740. He was a goldsmith, and in 1761 went from Newbury to Falmouth (now Portland), Alaine, where he followed his trade, also engaging in com merce. The bombardment of the town by the British in 1776 destroyed much of his prop erty, his losses amounting in value to nearly seven hundred pounds, and he shortly after ward removed to Windham, Maine, where he engaged in farming. He served as a selectman in Windham, also as trial justice, and was hi.ghly respected. He died there February 11, 1818. He married (first) Alay 20, 1762, Hannah Emery, born February 12, 1744, died September 4, 1771, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Rolfe) Emery, of Newbur)-. Au gust 30, 1772, he married (second) Airs. Sarah Morton Souther, widow of Timothy Souther ; she was born in Ipswich, Alassachusetts, in 1743, and died in Windham, September 26, 1797. For his third wife he married Airs. Sarah Emerson (nee Reddin.gton), widow of Samuel Emerson, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, born March 9, 1762, daughter of Abraham Reddington, of Boxford, Massachusetts. She died May 25, 1817. In addition to three chiE dren who died in infancy, he had : Hannah and Paul, wdio were of his first union ; Alary, Timothy, Moses and Thomas, of his second union ; and Sarah, w-ho was of his third mar riage ("V) Timothy Little, AL D., second child and eldest son of Paul and Sarah N. (Souther) Little, was born in Portland, October 27, 1776. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, studied medicine preliminarily with Dr. Jewell, of Ber wick, and took his degree at Dartmouth Col lege. From about 1806 to 1824 he practiced in New Gloucester, Maine, as the leading phy sician in that locality, and removing to Port land in the latter year, he resided there until his death, November 27, 1849. He was thor oughly devoted to his profession, contributing much to its literature ; directing the preliminary studies of several students; collected a large anatomical museum, and took a profound in terest in the Maine Medical School at Bruns wick, Maine, which derived much benefit from the use of his collections and preparations. Having accepted the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, he founded a Swedenborgian church in Portland, and when occasion re quired he officiated as pastor. Dr. Little mar ried Elizabeth Lowell, of Portland, born Octo ber 10, 1777, died November 24, 1853; chU dren: I. Haller, born Alay 3, 1808; died May 19, 1876. 2. John Lowell, see succeeding" paragraph. 3. WiUiam Wallace, born Septem ber II, 181 1, died August 28, 1816. 4. Lowell, born AprU 23, 1814, died September 4, 1816. 5. Charles Elenry, born August 9, 1817; mar ried (first) Mary D. Whorf ; (second) Car rie Clark, of Dorchester, Alassachusetts; had one son by first marriage, Charles Wilkins, born February 2, 1847. Charles H. Little was officially connected with the Boston water de partment for considerably more than thirty years, serving with marked ability as cashier from the time of its establishment. (VI) Captain John Lowell Little, second child of Dr. Timothy and Elizabeth (LoweU) Little, was born in New Gloucester, April 13, 1809. When sixteen years old he entered the merchant marine service, and in the short space of seven years had advanced through the dif ferent grades to the position of master. In 1833, during his secpnd voyage as a captain, his ship was totally dismantled during a furi ous gale, and he was finally rescued by a pass ing vessel after having drifted about in mid- ocean for more than a week. A short time later, wdiile in command of another ship, he rescued a vessel's officers and crew under similar circumstances. At the breaking out of the civil war in 1861 he was in the port of New Orleans, and nothing but prompt and decisive action on his part prevented his ship from being confiscated by the Southern Con federacy. At the conclusion of that voyage he abandoned the sea. He was at one time a resident of Kennebunkport, and he spent his declining years with his son in Dorchester, Alassachusetts. Captain Little married, Sep tember 15, 1834, Susan W. Walker, of Kenne- STATE OF MAINE. 461 bunkport, and she died November 18, 1862, aged fifty-two years eight months. Children: Lucy Augusta, born June 13, 1836; Clara Greenleaf, October 6, 1838, died March 5, 1839; Sarah Gerrish, born July 3, 1840; Abba Louisa, born June 7, 1842, died September 8, 1846; George Washington, who will be again referred to, and Susan Elizabeth, born January I7> 1853. (VII) George Washington, fifth child and only son of Captain John L. and Susan W. (Walker) Little, was born in Kennebunkport, ?February 9, 1847. He began his education in the public schools of his native town; and concluded his studies at "Little Blue," a well- known preparatory school at Farmington, Maine. Prior to his majority he went to sea in the merchant service, and during his two and one-half years as a sailor made a voyage around Cape Horn to San Francisco, thence to Liverpool and back to the United States. Deciding to remain ashore, he secured a po sition in a wholesale drug house in Portland, but shortly afterward he went to Springfield, Alassachusetts, as assistant cashier in the office of the Western Railroad Company, now a part of the Boston and Albany division of the New York Central system. He was subsequently appointed paymaster of the New A'ork & New England railway, and when that corporation was consolidated with the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, he was retained in the same department, being at the present time paymaster for the entire system, with head quarters in New Haven. This position is both responsible and exacting, requiring the gen eral supervision of 'a weekly payroll containing the accounts of forty thousand employees, and ¦ his annual disbursements amount to many mil lions of dollars. Although Mr. Little's duties necessitate his presence in his office in New Haven, he prefers to reside in Kennebunkport, and the little time he is able to spare from his business he spends in his native town. Politically he acts with the Republican party. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order. On January 14, 1873, Mr. Little was united in marriage with Annie C. Burgess, of Syra cuse, New York. They have two children : I. WiUiam Walker, born October 7, 1873; was graduated from Yale University in 1895, and is a civil engineer in the service of the New York, New^Haven & Hartford railway. 2. Mary Agnes, born June 22, 1882, married, August 29, igo6, Ralph Andrews, of Kenne bunk. (For ancestry see George Little I.) TTxxrr- ^P Michael, eldest child of Lli ILL Colonel Josiah and Sarah (Top- pan) Little, was born March 14, 1771, and died March 16, 1830. He gradu ated at Dartmouth College in 1792, and was engaged in farming at Minot, Maine, where he died. He married (first) October 19, 1800, Sarah Stover, who died July 28, 1801. Mar ried (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Wallingford) Ricker. She was born November 5, 1776, and died Alarch 18, 1864. They had one child, Josiah S., next mentioned. (VII) Josiah Stover, only chUd of Alichael and Sarah (Stover) Little, was born July 9, 1801, and died April 2, 1862. In consequence of his mother's death, which occurred within three w-eeks after his birth, he was taken into the family of his grandfather, Colonel Josiah Little, of Newbury, Alassachusetts, where he grew up. He was early destined for business, but an accident befell him and he was sent to college, where he graduated in the class with Henry W. LongfeIlow^ Franklin Pierce and other brilliant men. To his studies, prepara tory and collegiate, he gave himself with an ardent and persevering ambition; nor did he fail to attain his object. To be proclaimed the best scholar in the best class that had gradu ated at Brunswick was no mean honor. Hav ing studied the usual term in the office of Fes senden & Deblois, he practiced law in Port land four years and then relinquished the profession for more active business. He re peatedly represented Portland in the legisla ture, and was twdce speaker of the house of representatives. He was also several times a candidate for congress, but failed of election, as his was the minority party. In politics a Whig while that party existed, when it broke up he preferred the Democrats to the Repub licans, but it was chiefly with raUroad enter prise that he identified his exertions and for tune and name. By appointment of the city of Portland in 1844 he was associated with Judge Preble to present to the authorities and citizens of Montreal the project of a railway communicating between that place and Port land, and when in 1848 Judge Preble resigned the presidency of the company, Mr. Little was chosen in the place and held that office seven years. It was he who first suggested to the board of directors the idea of leasing the road to the Grand Trunk railway of Canada. With all the negotiations for that lease, which proved so great a relief to the stockholders and 462 STATE OF MAINE. so beneficial to the city and state, he was from his official position intimately connected. By an accession of property at the death of his grandfather, Mr. Little was early placed at his ease, and thus missed the stimulus which might have pressed him forward to eminence in the forum, or what might have drawn him into the more dazzling and turbulent area of politics. He married, 1833, Abba Isabella Chamberlain, who was born in A^ermont, 1816, died 1893, daughter of Joseph Chamberlain, of Boston. Mrs. Little was a brilliant woman and shone much in society. One daughter was born of this union, Abba Isabella. After Air. Little's death his widow married (second) George T. Davis, of Greenfield, Alassachusetts, who served some years as a congressman from Massachusetts. Airs. Davis continued to reside in Portland after her second marriage. (VIII) Abba Isabella, only child of Josiah S. and Abba Isabella (Chamberlain) Little, was born in Portland, 1840, married Charles B. Merrill (see Alerrill A^I), and died at Portland, Alaine, in October, 1891. (For preceding generation see George Little I.) (II) Captain Joseph, second LITTLE child anrl eldest son of George and Alice (Poor) Little, was born September 22, 1653, died September 6, 1740. Captain Joseph was much more promi nent in town affairs than his father. He was tythingman in 1685, and selectman in 1692- 93, 1704-05. He seems to have always been connected with the established (Congrega tional) church, of which he and his wife were members. It was then the custom to seat the congregation according to their rank in the community, and in the allotment of seats after the erection of a new house of worship in 1700, a quite prominent one was given him. In 1688 he was taxed for two houses, twelve acres of plowed land, twelve of meadow, twen ty of pasture, two horses, one colt, five hogs, thirty sheep and thirty-two head of cattle. His lands were afterwards largely increased by inheritance and numerous purchases. He is believed to have lived at Turkey Hill from his marriage till about 1730, when he removed to the part of Newbury now Newburyport, where several of his sons were engaged in trade Ele distributed his real estate among his sons before his death, and in his will, dated January 27, 1727, and proved October i, 1740, he divides his household goods between his daughters Judith Moody and Sarah Thing, and gives one-third of the remainder of his estate to his daughter-in-law, Mary Little; one-third to his grandson, Nathan ; one-third to his grandson, Ebenezer. The latter was ad ministrator with the will annexed. The ap praisal was ii73 8s. 6d. He married, October 31, 1677, Mary, daughter of Tristram and Ju dith (Somerby) (Greenleaf) Coffin, born No vember 12, 1657, died November 28, 1725. Children : Judith, Joseph, George, Sarah, Enoch, Tristram, Aloses, Daniel and Benja min. (Ill) Deacon Daniel, eighth child and sixth son of Captain Joseph and Mary (Coffin) Lit tle, was born January 13, 1692. He early went to Haverhill, where he was engaged in business as a tanner for several years. In February, 1728, he was chosen deacon of the church. He also held several town offices. On the incorporation of Hampstead, New Hamp shire, which was originally part of ElaverhiU, he was named in the charter to call the first town meeting. He lived there till his death in November, 1777, a leading man and influen tial citizen, serving several times as selectman and moderator. ITe held for several years a magistraie's commission, did a large amount of legal business, and solemnized many mar riages. According to tradition he was noted for his extensive knowledge of the Bible. In his will, dated December 31, 1770, he gives his son Daniel £40, divides his household goods between 'his daughters Sarah Ayer, Ruth Smith and the heirs of Elizabeth KimbaU; gives a cow to each of his grandsons John and Joseph Tallant, and leaves the rest of his prop erty, real and personal, to his son Samuel. His first two children were born in Newbury, the others in HaverhiU. He married (first) in 1712, Abiah, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ayer) Clement, of Haverhill, wdio was born September 12, 1692, died August 24, 1766. He married (secpnd) February 11, 1768, Han nah Alorrill, widow of Jacob Currier, of Hampstead. His children, all by first wdfe, w-ere: Samuel, Joseph, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Abiah, Daniel, Hannah, Judith, Ruth and .'Abigail. (IV) Samuel, eldest child of Deacon Daniel and Abiah (Clement) Little, was born in New bury, April 23, 1714, died January 16, 1798. He lived in Atkinson, and soon afterwards in Hampstead, New Hampshire. In each place he was a prominent citizen. In the latter he served as selectman for several years, and was twel-ye times moderator of the annual town meeting. He was a member of the provincial congress which met at Exeter in 1775-76, and was an earnest and active patriot. He held for many years a magistrate's commission, and STATE OE AlAIXE. 463 transacted considerable legal business. He joined the First Church in Plaistow, May 22, 1737. He married (first) Hannah SeweU, and (second) December 14, 1738, Sarah FoUans- hee, born Alarch, 1721, died March 5, 1805. His children, all by second wife, were : Aloses, Joshua, Mary, Abigail, Sarah, Daniel, Eliza beth, Tristram, Samuel and Abiah. (V) Captain Joshua, second child of Sam uel and Sarah (FoUansbee) Little, was born September 17, 1741, died November 3, 1821. He served as a lieutenant in the revolutionary war at Castine and at Crown Point, and was for several years at the head of a company in the state militia. "The Alassachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution" con tains the following record : "Joshua Little. First Lieutenant, Capt. Alecres (also given Alorres) Carr's (9tli) co., 2d Lincoln Co. regt., of Mass. militia; list of officers chosen by the several companies in said regiment, as returned by Joseph North, field officer ; ordered in coun cil Aug. 23, 1776, that said officers be com missioned; reported commissioned July ( ?) 23, 1776; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Alecres Carr's detachment. Col. Joseph North's regt. ; service, I day ; detachment assisted at the retaking of the mastship "Gruell" ; roll dated Newcastle, Sept. 15, 1777; also Lieutenant, Capt. John Blunt's Co., Maj. William Lithgow's detach ment of militia; service from Sept. 10, 1779, to Nov. 10, 1779, 2 mos., at Penobscot, de fending frontiers of Lincoln Co." He was one of the first settlers in Whitefield, Alaine, and a very active business man. Ele was engaged in farming, lumbering, and owned and operated a saw mill. Lie represented the town in the Massachusetts legislature wdien Whitefield was incorporated. He died November 3, 1821. He married (first) in Brunswdck, Alaine, Lydia Brown, and (second) January 31, 1794, in Hampstead, New Hampshire, Airs. Ruhamah (Burnham) BlaisdeU, who died December, 1849, aged ninety-two. By first wife four chiE dren: Joshua, Samuel, Abijah and Daniel; by second wife, one child, Ruth. (VI) Samuel (2), second son and child of Toshua and Lydia (Brown) Little, was born September 2, 1772, died December 20, 1849. Ele was a farmer and lived in Pittston, Alaine, where he died. He married, 1799, Sally, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Piatt) Noyes, who died July i, 1836, aged fifty-eight. Children: Susan, John, Moses, David, Eh, Sarah, Samud, Mary Ann, Julia, Hannah, Syl vester. (VII) Samud (3), fifth son and seventh <:hild of Samud (2) and Sally (Noyes) Little, was born in Pittston, June 3, 181 1. He went to Whitefield in 1834, and was engaged in farming there till 1867, when he removed to Bowdoinham, where he continues to reside He is a Baptist in religious belief, a Democrat in politics, and while in Whitefield was select man, town treasurer, and held other town of fices. He married, November 21, 1833, Han nah, daughter of John and Sarah (Hutchings) Boynton, of Bristol. Children : Henrietta, Albion, ITartweU, Harriet, Lois Boynton, Celia, Henrietta .Augusta, Alelissa, .Amanda, John and Frank (twins). (ATII) Albion, second chdd and eldest son of Samuel (3) and Elannah (Boynton) Little, was born in AVhUefield, January 22, 1836. He received his education in the district schools of Whitefield and at the Alna high school. After teaching several years he went to Portland and was en.gaged as a clerk in a dry goods store. In 186 1 he entered into a partnership with his employer, and from a flourishing- busi ness they passed into the wholesale. On the retirement of the senior partner in 1872, the firm name was changed to A. Little & Com pany, under which a large and successful business has since been carried on. Air. Little is a member of the Baptist church, and in politics has always been a Republican. He has held many positions of honor and trust, served as president of the common council of Portland, and as alderman of that city. In 1877 he was appointed trustee of the state re form school, and soon after chosen president of the board, a position he filled with marked suc cess, manifesting much interest in the man agement of the school, wdiich has taken high rank among kindred institutions. He married. December 24, 1861, Sarah EUen, born in Portland, January 12, 1840, daughter of Dea con Elenry B. and Sarah (HiU) Hart. Chil dren: I. Alice Alay, born Alay 26, 1863, mar ried E. E. Davis. 2. Florence Kingman, Au gust 18, 1865, married Fremont O. Keene. 3. Albion Hart, died young. 4. Sarah Ellen, November 9, 1869, married George C. Deake. 5. Albion Henry, mentioned below. 6. Aland Garfield, September 19, 1881, married Aloulton H. Neale. (See Aldcher.) (IX) Albion Henry, fifth child and second son of Albion and Sarah EUen (Hart) Little, was born in Portland, June 21, 1876. He at tended the Portland public schools, graduating from the high school in 1895. He then took up the study of medicine, taking the course at the Maine Medical College, yvhere he received the degree of M. D. in 1899. Subsequently he took a course at the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, 464 STATE OF MAINE. which he completed in igoo. In 1905 he be gan the practice of his profession in Portland, making a specialty of diseases of the eye and ear, and has met with gratifying success. He is a member of the Cumberland County Aledi cal Society, the Portland Medical Society, the Maine Aledical Society, and the American As sociation of Medicine and Science, also of the Portland Athletic, the Yacht and Canoe clubs. Alost of the Mdchers of New AIELCHER Hampshire and many of those of Maine are descended from Edward Aldcher, who was of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1684, and died there in 1695. It is not improbable that the gallant soldier, successful merchant and distinguished citizen whose sketch follows was a descendant of the sturdy Edward of Portsmouth. Major Holman Staples, son of James EI. and Nancy (Curtis) Aldcher, was born in Topsham, June 30, 1841. He attended the district schools, and at the age of fifteen years entered Maine State Seminary, now Bates Col lege He had nearly completed the course in that institution when he enlisted, August 29, 1862, as a private in Company B of the Twen tieth Alaine A'^olunteer Infantry, and was mus tered in as a corporal. His regiment was in active service for nearly three years and he participated in some of the fiercest battles of the civil war, being at Antietam, Shepards town Ford, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the WUderness, Spottsylvania, Five Forks, Ap pomattox, and others of less note. At Fred ericksburg he was promoted on the field for gallantry to sergeant major. This appoint ment was made by Colonel Ames, who sub sequently, April 20, 1863, appointed him first lieutenant of Company F. At Gettysburg his company, which carried the regimental colors, did brilliant service in saving Little Round Top. His captain being wounded early in the battle. Lieutenant Aldcher took command of the company and was at its head when the regiment charged the enemy at this point. He was appointed by Colonel Chamberlain acting adjutant of the regiment, and thus served until the reorganization of the army by Gen eral Grant in March, 1864. Lie was then as signed to the command of Company F, and thus served through the Wilderness. In the first day's fighting at Spottsylvania he was severely wounded and was sent home to re cuperate. He returned to the front in Octo ber, having been promoted in July to a cap taincy. But on account of his wounds he was unable to perform service on foot and was assigned to duty on the staff of General G. K. Warren, commanding the fifth corps, and con tinued on the staff of General Charles Grif fin, who succeeded to the command of the corps, and then as inspector general on the staff of General Chamberlain, in which posi tion he was serving when mustered out in July, 1865. Three months before being mustered out he was brevetted major for meritorious service at Five Forks and Appomattox. In 1864, under the guns of Petersburg, he cast his first vote for President Lincoln. At the close of the war Major Melcher removed to Portland, where he continued to reside the remainder of his life. Soon after going there he became one of the firm of Churchill, Hunt & Aldcher, wholesale grocers. Air. Hunt re tiring in 1869. This firm continued till it was dissolved in 1881, and thereafter Air. Melcher conducted the business under the firm name of H. S. Aldcher & Company. The business was incorporated as the H. S. Aldcher Company, and so continues. As a business man Mr. Aldcher had few superiors. Careful and con servative in all his operations, avoiding specu lative ventures, he was highly successful, and under his personal direction his business grew to large proportions, extending over Maine and portions of New Hampshire and Vermont. He was public spirited and identified with aU the movements looking to the city's interest, the best welfare of its citizens and the pros perity of its religious and educational insti tutions and public business organizations. He was for years president of the Wholesale Grocers' and Flour Dealers' Association, was also president of the Merchants' Loan and Building Association, a director of the Cum berland National Bank, was president of the Twelfth Alaine Regiment Association, and a prominent member of the Portland Exchange and Board of Trade. He was also past com mander of Bosworth Post, registrar of the Loyal Legion, a member of the Masonic fra ternity, of the Free Street Baptist Church, and was for several years president of the Alem orial Day Commission. In 1880 he was elected to the city council, and re-elected the follow ing year. In 1882-83 he was a member of the board of aldermen. In the selection of Major Melcher, who served as the mayor of Port land in the two municipal years of 1889-90,. the city followed the example that it had taken in 1876, when General Fessenden was elected, choosing for its chief magistrate a gentleman who had made a brilliant record in the civil war. He was nominated without opposition, February 27, and on March 5 foUowing was ST.ATE OF .ALAINE. 46: elected by a vote of 3,626, and 2,244 for Mr. WUson, his chief opponent. Ele recommended that the name of Market Square be changed to Monument Square, a recommendation which was followed by the city government. On Memorial Day of this year the corner stone of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Alonument was laid with appropriate exercises. In 1890 Major Melcher was renominated, and on March 4 re-elected by a vote of 2,988 to 2,171 for his leading competitor. Captain Deering. During his administration the Fort Allen lot on the Eastern promenade was purchased at a cost of $15,000, the vicinity of the Union station was named Railway Square, and the Grand Army of the Republic held its annual meeting in Portland. During the administration of A'lajor Melcher the city debt was reduced to $340,000 and the rate of taxation fifty cents a thousand. With the exception of representing Portland in the lower house of the legislature in 1898, Major Melcher held no public office after his retirement from the mayoralty. As mayor of the city he was a conscientious, painstaking executive, devoting a great deal of his time to the public business. His administration was clean and aggressive, one of the most success ful in the history of the city. Personally May or Melcher was a modest but most delightful companion, and of him it can be said without exaggeration that at all times and at all places he was a gentleman. He was sympathetic and kind hearted, being ever ready to lend his aid and influence to a just cause. Among the members of the Grand Army he was admired and respected, especially by those of its mem bers who were his comrades in the rebellion, in which he played a brilliant and conspicuous role. Holman S. Melcher married (first) in June, 1868, Ellen M. McLellan, of Portland, who died in Alay, 1872. He married (second) May 21, 1874, Alice E. Hart, born in Portland, dau.ghter of Deacon Henry B. and Sarah (HiU) Hart,-, of Portland. The children of Henry B. and Sarah (HiU) Hart were: Henry Augustus, Sarah E. and Alice E. To Major and Mrs. Melcher was born one child, Georgiana Hill, born in Portland, married Harry Tukey Johnson. (See Little VIII, pre ceding this.) Thomas Chickering, the CHICKERING English ancestor, of whom there is record, was of Wymondhani, England, and died be fore 1538. Ele married Clare Brown. (II) Stephen, son of Thomas Chickering, resided in Wicklewood, England, and died in 1576. He married Anne or Agnes Dey. (Ill) Henry, son of Stephen Chickering, died in 1627. He resided in Ringsford, Eng land, and had a wife Alary. Children: i. Dr. Henry, born in England; was proprietor of Salem, 1639; admitted to church at Dedham with his wife, January 29, 1640-41 ; admitted freeman, June 2, 1641 ; deacon ; elected dep uty to general court, but was excused from duty, being on the ship to go to England, Oc tober 23, 1647. He was buried July 22, 1671, aged twenty-two years. In his will he be queathed to wife, Elizabeth (Hackburne) ; to kinsman, Nathaniel Chickering, living with him ; to pastor, John Allen ; to church and school of Dedham ; to son John, of Charles town. 2. Simeon, mentioned below. 3. Prob ably Francis. (IV) Simeon, son of Henry Chickering, died in 1674. He lived in Wrentham, Eng land, and married, in 1635, Prudence . (V) Nathaniel, son of Simeon Chickering, was born in England, in 1647, baptized at Wrentham, October 8, 1647, died October 21, 1694. Ele came to America, and settled first in that part of Dedham called Dedham Island, on what was later known as the Fuller place. In 1694 he removed to what is now Dover, Massachusetts, haying acquired through grant and purchase a tract of land of a thousand acres. He built a house on the site of the present homestead now or lately occupied by George Ellis Chickering. The first house was taken down in 1767 and a new one erected on the spot, which was remodeled in 1867 and is now standing. The homestead has remained in the family until the present time ITe mar ried (first) December 30, 1668, Alary Judson, wdio died soon. He married (second) Decem ber 3, 1674, Lydia Fisher, born July 14, 1652, died July 17, 1737, daughter of Captain Dan iel and Abigail (AJarriot) Fisher, of Dedham. About the year 1671 she went into the family of Rev. John Russel, of Hadley, and for a year or more waited upon the regicides Whal- ley and Goff, who had fled to this country from the wrath of Charles IE Nathaniel died Oc tober 21, 1694. Children: i. Prudence, born September 9, 1675 ; died November 26, 1675. 2. Nathaniel, born Alarch 28, 1677; mentioned below. 3. Lydia, born October i, 1678; mar ried Thomas Aletcalf. 4. Alary, born Decem ber .15, 1680; married Nathan Alden. 5. John, born November 22, 1682; died January 16, 1714. 6. .Abigail, born Alarch 29, 1684-85; died Unmarried. 7. Daniel, born July i, 1687; died February 10, 1718. 8. Samud, born Feb- 466 ST.ATE OF AlAINE. ruary 14, 1689 ; married Alary Harding. 9. Esther, iiorn Alay 7, 1694; married Ebenezer Ware. (VI) Deacon Nathaniel (2), son of Na thanid (i) Chickering, was born Alarch 28, 1677, and died at Dover, January 16, 1747. Ele resided at Dedham, and was selectman in 1733. Before the organization of the Dover church the family attended the church in South Natick, and Nathaniel was a deacon. He married, August 14, 1700, Alary Thorp, who died September i, 1715, daughter of James and Hannah Thorp. He married (sec ond) January 26, 1716, Deborah Wight, who died January 16, 1746-47, daughter of Joseph and Deborah Wight. Children: i. Nathaniel, born April 15, 1701. 2. Mary, February 25, 1703- 3- Jeremiah, Alay 20, 1705. 4. Eli phalet, November 24, 1707. 5. Hannah. 6. David, Alarch 24, 17 10. 7. Alary, August 9, 1712. 8. John, August 23, 1715; married Mary . 9. Joseph, born Alay 5, 1717; mentioned below. 10. Daniel, born December 30, 1718; married Keziah Ellis. 11. Deborah, born April 9, 1722. 12. Lydia, September 12, 1723. (A^II) Joseph, son of Deacon Nathaniel (2) Chickerin.g, was born May 5, 1717, and died XTovember 28, 1754. He had a farm on the original estate, which was later known as the Elaven farm. The house is still or was lately standing. He was in the revolution, a minute- man from Dover, in Captain Ebenezer Brat tle's company, and answered the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He married, February 7, 1744, Rebecca, daughter of Captain Josiah and Hannah (Fisher) Newell, of X^eedham. Children: i. Experience, born November 10, 1744; died September 29, 1746. 2. Rebecca, born August 4, 1746; married June 14, 1764, Lemuel Richards. 3. Joseph, born September 10, 1748; died Deceinber 4, 1754. 4. Deborah, bom June 3, 1751 ; died December 3, 1754. 5. Jabez ; see forward. (VIII) Rev. Jabez Chickering, son of Jo seph Chickering, was born at Dover, X'ovem ber 4, 1753, and died at South Dedham, Alarch 12, 1812. Lie was one of the first from the "Sprin.gfield Parish" to graduate from Har vard (iolle.ge, in 1774. Ele was the second minister of the church at South Dedham, now Norwood. He married, April 22, 1777 (in tentions datefl Alarch 28, 1777), Elannah, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Alary (Sum ner) Balch. Her father was ATr. Chickering's predecessor. Children, born in Dedham: i. Lucy, Alarch 30, 1778. 2. Joseph, April 30, 1780; mentioned below. 3. Jabez, August 28, 1782. 4. Llizabeth, June 28, 1785. 5. Thomas Balch, April 24, 1788. (IX) Rev. Joseph Chickering, son of Rev. Jabez (Whickering, was born in South Dedham, April 30, 1780, and died January 27, 1844, at Phillipston, wdiere he was buried. Lie was graduated at Harvard College, in the class of 1799, and studied theology there under Pro fessor Tappan. He was ordained minister of the Woburn church, March 28, 1804. He con tinued in this pastorate with much success. He was dismissed at his own request with the sanction of a council, April 11, 1821. He ac cepted a call to the church at Phillipston, and was installed as minister there July 10, 1822. At his own request he was dismissed July 16, 1835, on account of age and bodily infirmity. Lie continued to reside in PhiUipston to the end of his life. While he was pastor at Wo burn, one hundred and sixty-four members were added to the church, and 270 persons baptized. He married (first) 1805, Betsey White, died November 3, 181 5, aged thirty- two years, daughter of Deacon John White, of Concord. He married (second) Sarah Abbot Holt, of Albany, Alaine, daughter of Jacob and Rhoda Elolt. She was born at Andover, Massachusetts. Children of first wdfe: i. Rev. John White, born Alarch 19, 1808; men tioned below. 2. Joseph, born January 9, 1810; a mechanic of much skill; went west; married April 3, 1833, at PhiUipston, Ameline Jones. 3. Ruth, died October 27, 181 5, aged three years four months. 4. Henr}-, died No vember 14, 181 5, a.ged twenty months. Chil dren of second wife: 5. Abbot, born 1822; died June 11, 1842, aged twenty years six months. 6. Benjamin, born at Phillipston, No vember 18, 1824. 7. Betsey, died October 19, 1825, aged two da}-s. (X) Rev. John White Chickering, son of Rev. Joseph Chickering, was born at Woburn, Alarch 19, 1808: died Deceinber 9, 1880. He graduated at Aliddlebury College in the class of 1826. He was ordained pastor of the High Street Congregational Church of Portland, Alaine, and rounded out a very useful and suc cessful pastorate of thirty years in that parish. Ele W'as for many years secretary of the Alas sachusetts Temperance Society, and a strong and potent influence in the temperance move ment all his life. He received the degree of D. D. from his alma mater. He married, No vember 9, 1830, Frances E\-eline Knowlton, born 1809, daughter of Deacon Joseph Knowl ton. She died Alay 30. 1885, aged seventy-six '^oaA ^\A/V^^^^Jkji/v^-w? STATE OF MAINE. 467 years. Children, born at Bolton: i. John White, September 11, 1831; mentioned below. 2. Joseph Knowlton, 1846. (XI) Professor John White Chickering, son of Rev. John White Chickering, was born in Bolton, Massachusetts, Septeniber 11, 1831. He attended the public schools, and entered Bowdoin College on June 23, 1849. He was orator of his class in both junior and senior years; was graduated with the class of 1852, with the degree of A. B. ; was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa for high rank in scholarship, and delivered the Latin salutatory at com mencement. He received the degree of A. M. in 1855. From 1852 to 1858 he was a teacher in the public schools at Bucksport, Foxcroft, Corinna and Portland, Alaine, and at Ovid, New York. Ele decided to study for the min istry, and was graduated in i860 from the Bangor Theological Seminary. He was in stalled as minister of the Congregational Church at Springfield, Vermont. Ele resigned this pastorate in 1863. From 1865 to 1870 he was pastor of the Second Congregational Church at Exeter, X^ew Hampshire He was elected secretary of the Vermont Bible Society in 1863. In 1870 he accepted the chair of nat ural history in the Deaf Alute College at Washington, D. C, and held this professorship until 1900, when he retired from active teach ing, but still continues to lecture on pedagogy in Gallaudet College and Howard University, Washington City. He is a member of the fol lowing societies : American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Social Science Association, Philosophical Society, Anthropological Society, Biological Sqciet)-, National Geographic Society, Choral Society, Appalachian Alountain Club, Civic Centre Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Ele has con tributed liberally to various scientific periodi- ¦cals, reviews and newspapers. Professor Chickering married, December 18, 1856, Luciana Jameson, daughter of Rev. Thomas Jameson, of Gorham, Maine; she died November 9, 1893. ChUdren : John Jame son, Frances Elizabeth and Luciana. Elis resi dence is at the Portner, Washington City. (XII) John Jameson Chickering, son of Professor John White Chickering, was born in Gorham, Maine, September 27, 1857. He was graduated from Amherst College with the •class of 1879, and was a member of Psi Up silon fraternity. From 1879 to 1892 he was principal of tlie Wallack School, Washington, D. C. During several years of this time he was in charge of the department of physiology and hygiene in the National Deaf Mute (now Gallaudet) College in Washington City. He also read law, and graduated from the Colum bian (now George Washington) University Law School with the degrees of LL.B. and LL.M., and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar on examination. From 1892 to 1894 he was principal of the Columbian Uni versity Preparatory School ; from 1894 to 1898 superintendent of schools at Flushing, Long Island, New York. From 1898 to the present time he has been district superintendent of schools of New York City, Borough of Queens. Air. Chickering married, October 28, 1893, Anne E. Russell, dauc^hter of Eton. WiUiam A. Russell, of Boston, Alassachusetts. Child: John Jameson Jr., born in Boston, October 31, 1906. This name is one which has MOORE been familiarly connected with science and the fine arts for many years, and the bearers of it who emi grated to this country and their descendants have not allowed its luster to become dimmed. The members of this illustrious family came to America early in the seventeenth century. Several of their immediate descendants were in the revolutionary war, and bravely bore their share in that struggle. (I) William Aloore w-as born in North Anson, Somerset county, Maine, Alay 9, 1798, and died in 1853. His profession was that of civil engineer and architect. In his early manhood he went to the south and practiced his profession. He took up his residence first in the city of Mobile, Alabama. He planned and erected some of the finest public and private buildings in the south, where he accu mulated a large fortune. He was largely in terested in railroad and steamship lines and was an extensiAc landholder in Alabama, Texas, and other places. He owned a large number of slaves, which was necessary under the condition of affairs then existing in the country. Upon his retirement from business in 185 1 he gave them all their freedom papers, as well as a sufficient sum of money to each to give them their start in the various branches of skilled labor. Air. Aloore did not believe in slavery. He married Almeda Wyman, who was born in Skowhegan, Alaine, where her father was an editor for many years. She was a noted beauty, and miniatures of her were frequently painted by noted artists. Her brother, Hon. Asa N. Wyman, was a state senator in the legislature of Alaine, but sub- 468 ST.ATE OF ALAIXE. sequently went to the Mexican war as a cap tain. At the conclusion of that war he went from Mexico to California, and was one of the "Forty-Niners." Mr. Wyman yvas for many years editor and owner of several Cali fornia papers. He died in Washington, in 1869. (II) Elon. Edward Bruce Moore, son of WiUiam and Almeda (Wyman) Moore, was born on a farm near North Anson, Maine, December 25, 1851. He was the youngest of a family of nine. His grandfather, William Paine, of Anson, Alaine, was born in Wool wich, Alaine, November, 1760, and died Octo ber 14, 1846. He enlisted in the Continental army at the age of sixteen years, his military record being as follows : A private in Captain Wiley's company. Colonel Michael Jackson's regiment, in which he served from March 11, 1777, to December 31, 1779. He participated in the battles of White Plains, (Therry Valley, Ticonderoga, Brandywine, and many others. After his discharge from the army he was ordained in 1808 as a preacher in the Baptist church, with wdiich he was identified until his death. He traveled extensively, and was an ardent worker in the interest of his church. He was married sixty years, and was the father of sixteen children. Hon. Edward Bruce Moore was scarcely more than an infant when his father died, and his mother, in order to give her children greater advantages afforded by a new country, moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. His edu cation was acquired in the public schools of Grand Rapids, and under private tuition. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He took a two years' review course at the Na tional University Law School in Washington, D. C. His oldest brother, George Owen, after traveling extensively in foreign coun tries, also took up his residence in Washing ton, where he was secretary under the Grant administration, to the Spanish and American Claims Commission. He was honored by re ceiving his appointment from both govern ments, Spain and the United States. He, like his mother, engaged in literary pursuits. His letters in the Washington and other papers, describing his travels, were widely read and copied. Two other brothers, Heman N. and Alalcolm AL, both went into the army during the civil war, and were majors in the Fifth and Seventh Regiments of Cavalry, respectively, serving under General Custer. They were wounde(i and brought to Wash ington from the front. Their mother came on to nurse them, and finally, in 186^;, she moved with the family from Grand Rapids to Washington, where they have since lived. Edward Bruce Moore was a page in the United States senate during 1865-66, and with the exception of the few years he was away completing his education, has resided in Wash ington. He entered the service of the United States Patent Office as an assistant examiner in 1883. He rose through the various grades to law clerk to the commissioner, and prin cipal examiner, and was then sent to Europe by President AIcKinley as a representative of this government to the Paris Exposition of 1900. Upon his return from Paris he was appointed, on his record and wholly without political influence. Assistant Commissioner of Patents, which position he held until June, 1907, when he was appointed by President Roosevelt, Commissioner of Patents, which po sition he now holds. He was sent by the State Department in Au.gust, 1908, as the sole dele gate representing the United States at the In ternational Congress at Stockholm, Sweden. At the conclusion of that Congress he went to Berlin, where he was successful in nego tiating a treaty with Germany which abro gated the "Working Clause" in the patent laws of that country, for which effort he received the thanks of the Department of State, and the plaudits of the inventors, manufacturers, and exporters of the entire LTnited States. Air. Moore was appointed to all the positions be ever held strictly throu.gh merit. He is the first Commissioner of Patents in a period of one hundred and eighteen years of our Amer ican patent system wdio was promoted through merit to the head of that most important and very highly technical bureau. Air. Moore has been president of the Alichi gan State Society of Washins^:on. D. C, and is president of the District of Columbia So ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a member of the Cosmos Club, Country Club, and the Press Club of Washington. He was made an honorary member at the same time with President Taft and Senator Carter, of Montana, of the legal fraternity Phi Al pha Delta. He has a very extensive acquaint ance throughout the w^orld with scientific men and prominent men in all walks of life. Deacon John Pearson was PEARSON bom in Yorkshire, England, in 161 5, was married in Eng land, and came with his wife Alaudlen to Saugus (Lynn), Alassachusetts Bay Colony, in i6,'^7. and to Reading in 1639. He was one of the seven heads of families that formed STATE OF MAINE. 469 the First Church at Reading, and he took a prominent part in founding the town, being deacon of the church which was the basis of the town government. Deacon John and Maudlen Pearson had three children born in Lynn and two in Reading, their names in the ¦order of their birth being: Mary, Bertha, Sarah, John (q. v.), James. (II) John (2), eWest son and fourth child ¦of Deacon John (i) and Maudlen Pearson, was born in Reading, 1650 or 1653, died in 1720. He was known as Captain Pearson, and was a representative for the town of Lynn in the general court of Alassachusetts from 1702 to 1710. He married, about 1677, KendaU. ChUdren: i. James, liorn 1678, married Swain. 2. Tabitha, married Goodwin. 3. John, married Batcheller. 4. Rebecca, born 1686. 5. Ken dall (q. v.). 6. Susanna, born 1690, mar ried Gould. 7. Alary, born 1692, mar ried Eaton. 8. Thomas, born 1694. ¦9. Ebenezer, born 1696. 10. Sarah. 11. Abi gail. 12. Elizabeth. (Ill) Kendall, third son and fifth child of Captain John and (Kendall) Pearson, was born in Reading, Alassachusetts, k'jSS, died in Lynn, Alassachusetts, 1768. He mar ried — Boardman, had one child Thomas (q. v.). (lA^) Thomas, only child of Kendall and (Boardman) Pearson, ^\'as born prob ably at Lynn in 1709. Alarried Lewis, and among their children was Thomas (q. v.). (V) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and (Lewis) Pearson, was bora February 12, 1733. He enlisted in the navy and served untU November 5, 1749. He married Alartha , born .August 8, 1730. Children: i. Elizabeth, born December 7, 1748, died Alarch 24, 1749. 2. A daughter, stillborn, Aprd 12, 1750. 3. Nathaniel, August 3, 1754, died Oc tober 24, 1758. 4. Thomas, birth unknown. 5. Alartha, September 13, 1757. 6. Eunice, February 12, 1760. 7. Sarah, October 7, 1762, ¦died September 18, 1764. 8. .A son, stillborn, March 17, 1765. 9. Louis, born July 22, 1766. 10. Hannah, February 23, 1770. 11. Wood- bridge (q. v.). (VI) Woodbridge, youngest child of Thom as (2) and Alartha Pearson, w^as born Sep tember 18, 1772, died in his carriage while on his return from Swansville to his home in Morrill, Alaine, November 3, 1848. He w^as among the early settlers of Unity, Alaine; from there removed to MoiitvUle, Maine, 1814, and about 1829 took up his residence in Alor- xiU. He married Mary Whitney, born Octo ber 7, 1780, died November 29, 1861, daugh ter of Rev. John and Joanna (Fox) WhUney. Children: i. Martha, born in Unity, Alaine, June 26, 1799, died in Montville, Alaine, Sep tember 22, 1890; married, February i, 1824, William Alexander. 2. Trial, Unity, Alaine, November 6, 1800, died November 8, 1888, in MontvUle; married Alartha Witham. 3. Joanna, November 16, 1802. 4. Samuel, April 27, 1804, died in Belfast, Alaine, Alarch 18, 1897; married (first) Desire Ellis; (second) Mrs. Alary Waterman. 5. Fannie, Unity, Maine, Alarch 16, 1806, died in Swansville, Maine, January 27, 1882; married Elisha El lis. 6. Louis, Unity, Alaine, April 6, 1808, died about 1843; married Henry Warren. 7. Orrison, Unity, Alaine, June 11, 1810, died March 30, 1818. 8. Mary, Unity, Maine, No vember 22, 1812, died in Montville, Alaine; married Thomas Nickerson. 9. Jobn Charles, AlontvUle, Alaine, March 18, 1817, died July 29, 1886, in Alorrill ; married Eliza Jackson. 10. Thomas (q. v.). 11. Hannah, October 31, 1819, died in Montville, Maine, November 17, 1821. 12. Jeremiah, July 5, 1823, died in Portland Hospital, July 17, 1898; married (first) Alary Doten; (second) LTrsula Gould. (VII) Thomas, son of Woodbridge and Alary (Whitney) Pearson, was born in Mont ville, Alaine, January 4. 1819, died there Octo ber 24, 1890. He conducted farming opera tions in AlorriU, Alaine, from whence he went to Alontville and there resided on a farm the remainder of his days. He was an active member of the Alethodist Episcopal church, and a Democrat in politics. He married, Oc tober 18, 1846, Aldvina Doten, born in Waldo county, Alaine, October 28, 1831, and late in life removed to Alaplewood, Alassachusetts, where she lived with her eldest son, Joseph O. Children: i. Joseph Orrison, born De cember 22, 1847, married, Alarch 18, 1874, Mehitable Plummer, born Noveinber 9, 1849, died .August 6, 1891 ; chUdren: i. Fred Alton, born .April 23, 1876, married, July, 1904, Or- pha Hicklin; ii. Aland Aldvina, July 31, 1878, died Septeniber 20, 1880; iii. Joseph Lavell, Alarch 13, 1880, married, January 7, 1902, Eva S. 'Taylor, tw,o children : Alyrtle Flor ence, born July 17, 1904, and Alarion Eva, June 2, 1907: iv. Hattie (Drrie. Alarch 3, 1886; V. Thomas Ray, Alarch 5, 1888. 2. Lucy E., March 19, 1850, died February 28, 1854. 3. Eugene Lavell, December 10, 1853, lives in Massachusetts; married, July 31, 1884, Alar garet AIcLean. 4. Josiah Wilson, April 7, 1856, died in Providence, Rhode Island, De cember I, 1901 ; was a physician and sur- 4/0 STATE OF MAINE. geon; married, November 2t\ 1884, Carrie Crockett, one child, Keith XTdson, born Sep tember I, 1888. 5. Eddy A'ivan, Alay iq, 1861, died July 5, "1861. 6. Nelson Rich (q. v.). 7. Thomas' Norman, June 2, 1S65, was a physician in the town of Alorrill, Alaine; married, June, 1804, LUla Hatch. 8. Geor.ge Edwdn, July 31, 1867, lives in New Jersey; married, .August 2-i, 1802, Elizabeth , one child, Aladgo Afelviiia, born .'Vugust 24, 1893. Q. John A^^^O(lbrid,ge, ,\pril 21. 1871, resides in AA'aterville, Alaine; married, No vember 27. 1901, Bertha Rollins. (IX) Nelson Rich, son of Thnnins and Ald vina (Doten) Pearson, was born in Alorrill, Alaine, February 6, 1863. He attended the public schools of his native town and the academies at .Albion and China, Alaine. Lie attended the East Alaine Conference Seminary from 1886 to i8go. He began preaching and exhorting in the Alethodist cluirchos at Riple\' and Elarmony, in t88S. and was ordained a deacon b\- Bishop Andrews at Dover, Alaine, in 1890. Lie was stationed at A'anceboro and Lambert Lake in 1800-92 ; was ordained elder by Bishop Goodell at Rockland in 1892; was itinerant .q;enerally for two years at Easton, Spragues Alills, South Presque Isle, China, East A^assalboro, Rockport (four years), Cara- bou (three years), Columbia FaUs (one year), Pembroke, .SuUivan, Sorrciit(-), and was ap pointed to 'W.-ildohoro, Lincoln couiil\', in the spring of 1908. He was initiated as a mem ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Belfast ; of the Knights of Pythias at West SuUivan ; of the David A. ITooper Lodge, An cient Free and Accepted Alasons, at West SuUivan, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Carabou. J-Ie married, April 4, 1892, Emma M., daughter of Simeon EL and EJuldah (Kendall) Perkins, of South Paris, Alaine. EJuldah (KendalD Perkins was born in Beriin, New Hampshire. ChUdren: i. Ruth Hutchins, born in Easton, Maine, April 26, 189^. 2. Cari Rees Thomas, Rockport, Alaine, June ,30, i8q6, died there December 6, 1898. 3. Esther Chariotte, Carabou, October 31, 1901. The Gannett family of .Amer- GANNETT ica were from England. Two brothers and a sister were among the early settlers. Judith Gannett, a.ged twenty-six, came in the ship "Francis," of Ipsw'id-i, April 30, T634, and lived in the family of John Co.ggeshall, being admitted to the Boston church September 7, i6:>..| ; mar ried at Scituate, September 20, 1636, Robert Shelley. She was received in the church at Barnstable in 16-I4, being dismissed from Bos ton, July 14, 164.,^. Anne Shelley, sister of Robert, also lived in the Coggeshall family. Thomas Gannett appears to have come from En.gland about 1638. Ele and his brother Alatthew settled first at Liingham. In i('i42 Thomas became one of the first settlers and proprietors of Du.xbury, but in 165 1, having obtained a grant of land in Bridgewater, he became one of the first five settlers of that town, wdiere he died in 1655. He married Sarah JarmiU, who married (second) Septem ber 6, 161^5, AVilliam Saville, and (third) July 5, 1670, Thomas Faxon, both of Bridgewater, She died there in 1697. Thomas made his wdll June iq, 1655, and it was proved August 7, 1655, bequeathing to his wife and brother Alatthew, having no children. A family of this name 1i\'cd in Blandford, England, from 1580 to 1680. The surname is doubtless of French origin, though the family has been in England many centuries. (I) Alatthew Gannett, the immigrant an cestor, came with his brother Thomas men tioned above, and located first at Hingham, Alassachusetts, removing in 165 1 to Scituate, wdiere he had purchased half a share in the Conihasset lands of Anna A^inal. Lie resided at Scituate the remainder of his life and died there in 1604 at the age of seventy-seven. His will is dated Au.gust 23, 1694, and was proved November 15 of the same year. Ele Ijequeathed to his grandsons Alatthew and Jo seph the lands at r.ridgownter that he inher ited from his brother, and he gave his home stead and land at Scituate and Flingham to his son Alaltbcw. He married, probably at Hingham, Elannah .Andrews, who died at Scituate, July 10, 1700, a.ged seyeiitv-ci.ght, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Andrews. Children : i. Alatthew, had tw(i sons, Matthew and Joseph. 2. Rehoboth, settled in Morris town, New Jersey ; died without issue. 3. Elannah, married .Adams. 4. Abi';ail, married Jonathan Dodson. 5. Elizabeth, mar ried Leavitt. 6. Joseph, mentioned below. 7. Benjamin. (II) Joseph, son of Alatthew Gannclt, was born in Scituate, Alassachusetts, nbnul K'/io, and died there .August 14, 1603. ETc is buried on his farm. Ele married, at Marbldiend, Au.gust 15, 1682, Deborah Sharp, widow, daughter of TTenry Coombs, of Alariilchcad, who died in 1660, and his wife Elizabeth, who died 1.700. Elis wiiliw Deborah married (third) about 1702. Joseph ITowos, of Scitu ate She died September iq, 1728. Children' STATE OF AlAINE. 471 of Joseph and Deborah Gannett: i. Hannah, born 1684. 2. Joseph, born 1686. 3. Mat thew, born 1688, married, 1702, Alary Bacon. 4. Deborah, born 1690. 5. Joseph, born 1693, mentioned below. (Ill) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Gan nett, was born September 14, 1693, at Scitu ate. Ele inherited under the will of Alatthew Gannett, his grandfather, half of the lands of the immigrant Thomas in that town, and set tled there with his brother Alatthew,. who had the other half, in 1713. He died at Bridge- water, April 30, 1774. He married (first) at Braintree, November 21, 171 7, Hannah Hay ward, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Ho bart) Hayward, of Braintree. She was born January 22, 1693, and died at East Braintree, September 9, 1731. Air. Gannett married (second) in 1732, Hannah Brett, who died in 1777, aged seventy-eight, daughter of Na thaniel Brett. Children of first wife: i. Jo seph, born Alarch 29, 1722, mentioned below. 2. Elannah, born 1724, married Ichabod Gary. 3. Benjamin, born 1726. 4. Benjamin, born 1728. 5. Jonathan, born 1730. Children of second wife: 6. Seth, born 1734. 7. Thomas, born 1736. (IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Gan nett, yvas born in East Bridgewater, March 29, 1722. He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Abram Washburn's company. Colo nel John Cushing's regiment, in 1776 (page 250, vol. vi., "Alass. Soldiers and Sailors"). He is said to have held the rank of captain during the war. He married, June 7, 1744, Elizabeth Latham, born December 14, 1726, died March i, 1818, daughter of Charles and Susanna (Woodward) Latham. Children: i. Caleb, born August 22, 1745. 2. Elizabeth (or Betty), born 1749, married Nathan Hudson. 3. Simeon, born 1752. 4. Deborah, born 1755, married Adam Porter and removed to Cum- mington, Alassachusetts. 5. Joseph, born 1760. 6. Barzillai, mentioned below. (V) Major BarziUai, son of Captain Jo seph (3) Gannett, w^as born at East Bridge- water, June 17, 1765. He graduated from Harvard CoUege in 1785, and preached in various places. He settled in Gardiner, Alaine, then a part of the state of Alassachusetts, and became one of the leading citizens of the county, clerk of the court of sessions, county- treasurer, representative to the legislature, state senator in 1807, member of congress 1809-11. He was one of the most useful and honored citizens of the section, and held vari ous offices in the federal government and in the Protestant Episcopal church. He had the utmost confidence of everybody and was pop ular to an unusual degree for a man in public life. Later he went west, where he died in 1835. He married, AprU 30, 1797, Elizabeth Farley, born at Newcastle, Alaine, July 7, 1774, died September 18, 1845. She came of an honored and respected family, and was a woman of remarkably fine character, courage and integrity. Children, born in Gardiner : i. Edward F., born June 5, 1798, died June 26, 1826. 2. Elizabeth L., February 21, 1800, died Alay 30, 1836. 3. Alichael F., Alarch 9, 1802, died 1889. 4. Catherine, August 4, 1804, died February 2, 1861. 5. Joseph Bar zillai, July I, 180(3, died April 6, 1807. 6. Joseph Farley, mentioned below. (\^I) Joseph Farley, son of Alajor Bar zillai Cannett, was born July 31, 1810, at Augusta, died January 4, 1888. He married, Alay 19, 1833, Mary E. Patterson, who died November 25, 1873. Children: i. Charles E., born January 18, 1836, died July 18, 1867. 2. Eben F., Alay 5, 1837, died February 2, 1843. 3- Alary E., October 27, 1838, died February 14, 1843. 4. George F., Febr'uary 8, 1840. 5. Sarah P., September 15, 1841, died October 30, 1846. 6. Isabel, September 13, 1843, died January 30, 1881. 7. Addie, February 24, 1845, died Alay i, 1903. 8. Emma, December 8, 1846. 9. Joseph E., born September 17, 1848, died September 11, 1849. 10. Aliland F., Alarch 23, 1850, died Decem ber II, 1870. II. Anna E., Alarch 23, 1852. 12. WiUiam H., February 10, 1854, mentioned below. 13. Arthur H., August 6, 1857. 14. Samuel S., February 10, 1861. (A^'II) AViUiam Howard, son of Joseph Farley Gannett, was born in Augusta, Febru ary 10, 1854. On both his father's and mother's side his ancestry is among the oldest in New England and in each generation in cludes men "conspicuous for their abUity and enterprise, leaders in their respective com munities and prominent in public affairs. His grandfather, Alajor BarzUlai Gannett, a grad uate of Harvard University in the class of 1785, moved to Gardiner, Maine, where he became a man of great influence, holding various town and county offices, was a state senator and in 1807 a member of congress. His great-grandfather, Joseph Gannett, was a captain in the revolution. Through his mother, Mary E. (Patterson) Gannett, he is descended from the Pattersons and Howards, literally two of the first famUies of this city, whose progenitors were distinguished characters among the very earliest settlers of Augusta, Maine. His maternal grandfather. Captain 47^ STATE OF MAINE. Samuel Patterson, commanded one of the old- time clipper ships engaged in foreign com merce in the palmy days of the American merchant marine. Captain James Howard, Mr. Gannett's great-great-grandfather on his mother's side, was the first settler, and so to speak founder of Augusta, and as commander of Fort Weston in the revolutionary war he entertained Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold when the latter halted his army at Augusta on his ill-fated expedition against Quebec. Captain Eloward, the leading citizen, the suc cessful business man, rounded out his official career by holding the office of judge. Mr. Gannett's uncle, Hon. Joseph W. Patterson, was a leading citizen and four times mayor of Augusta, and his great-uncle, Joseph Tink ham, was harbor master of New York City; and he is related to the late Dr. George Gan nett, of Boston, founder of the Gannett in stitution for the liberal education of women, to the Rev. AV. C. Gannett, to Kate Gannett Wells, the talented writer, and to Henry C. Gannett, of Washington, D. C., now chief topographer of the United States topographic survey. His youngest brother, Samuel S. Gannett, also holds a high position in the United States topographic survey. Air. Gan nett is a member of the Society of Alayflower Descendants, and his pedigree discloses a double claim to this distinction in that he is descended in two distinct lines from two of the Pilgrim passengers of that famous ship for whom this association is named, to wdt : from Peter Brown, as well as from Mary Chilton, who, fameii as the first to step foot on Plymouth Rock, became the wife of John AA'inslow, brother of Governor Edward AVins- low. Returning to the subject of this sketch. Air. WiUiam Howard Gannett is a self-educated and self-made man. The straitened circum stances of his father rendered it necessary for him to leave school at eight years of age and go to work to assist in the support of the family of fourteen children of whicli he was the twelfth. Since that time, with his physical strength, moral character and mental talents as his only heritage, he has made his way in the world unaided. Self-reliant, cheerful, hope ful, ambitious, courageous, sympathetic, kind and charitable in the highest sense, he has attained an uncommon measure of success and won a host of admiring friends. Of keen in tellect, quick perception and natural refine ment, by self education he has attained the qualities of a cultivated gentleman. As a boy he clerked in the toy and novelty store. As a young man, in partnership with W. W. Morse, he purchased the stock and carried on the same business some years. In 1887, whUe still engaged in the same hne of business, the firm of Gannett & Alorse began the publica tion of Comfort with very smaU capital, and, of course, in a very small way at first. Mr. Alorse gave his attention to the store, while Mr. Gannett conducted the publishing busi ness, wdiich grew so rapidly under his man agement that in 1890 the circulation of Com fort had reached the million mark, and the paper was being printed on one of the largest web perfecting presses. In 1891 the business had outgrown the building and plant which Mr. Gannett had bought and fitted up on AVillow street on land originally owned by his great-great-grandfather. Captain Howarii, so for its accommodation he built a large brick block adjoining the first budding, and later on a large fireproof addition to the latter buUd- in.g. Soon Comfort's circulation reached one million two hundred and fifty thousand, the largest in the world, and has been maintained at that fi.gure ever since. The unprecedented success of this publication is not the -result of luck or chance. It is due to Air. Gannett's enterprise and keen business foresight. Com fort was designed to circulate among the plain people, and Air. Gannett seems to have an in tuitive knowdedge of their wants and how to touch a responsive chord in their hearts wherein he has laid the foundation of his achievements. He has originated and boldly put in practice new ideas and new methods which others have imitated. Alany have fol lowed where he has led. For instance, he originated the idea of printing parts of his paper in colors, and determined to do so, al though at that time there was no color press in the world that could print his paper in a month. So in 1892 he commissioned Hoe & Company, at a cost of $50,000, to design and build especially for him the first web-perfect ing color press ever attempted ; that is, a press which takes in a great roll or web of paper and running it through rapidly revolving cylin ders around which are bent the dectrotyped plates, turns out the perfect papers printed in colors, folded, cut and stitched. 'Ellis press can print thirty-two thousand sixteen-page papers an hour, or half that number of thirty- two-page papers. His million and a quarter subscribers are scattered nearly in proportion to population through all the states and terri tories in the union, and he maintains branch offices in New York, Chicago and London, England. Although the building up of Com- STATE OF AlAINE. 473 fort has been his life work, his pride and his ambition, he has also found time for the suc cessful pursuit of other avocations and civic and social duties. Mr. Gannett is a life-long Republican, and for two successive terms (1903-05) has repre sented the city of Augusta in the legislature of Maine. He is a member of the Universalist church, and chairman of its executive com mittee. He is a member of Bethlehem Lodge, Free and Accepted Alasons ; of Cushnoc Chap ter, Royal Arch Masons; of Alpha CouncU, Royal and Select Masters ; of Trinity Com mandery, Knights Templar, and of Kora Tem ple, Order of the Mystic Shrine ; also of Asy lum Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Eel- lows ; of Canton Augusta, Patriarchs Alilitant, and of the Abnaki Club, of Augusta. He is a director of the Augusta Trust Company, a trustee of the Kennebec Savings Bank, and president of the Augusta City Hall Associa tion. Ganeston Park, his beautiful suburban home, is one of the finest in Augusta. The grounds embrace one hundred and sixty acres of land partly wooded, but mostly under a high state of cultivation, the natural beauty of which has been much enhanced by artistic landscape gardening. It was once the property of AA^ill- iam Eloward, son of Captain James Eloward. The elegant and artistic modern house built by Mr. Gannett on the crest of Betsy Howard hill overlooks the city and commands a superb view in all directions. The interior is beau tifully and tastefully furnished and is decor ated by many pictures and rare curios collected by Mr. Gannett as souvenirs of his extensive travels. He has a fine stable and greenhouse in which he raises orchids and other rare exotics. Howard Hall, a spacious barn con structed of hewn pine timber which has stood on the premises for nearly a hundred years, he has transformed into a museum of colonial relics and family heirlooms. In it he has fin ished a large dance hall, with a stage for private theatricals, and here and at his house, assisted by his wife and oldest daughter, it is his delight to entertain his many friends. Gov ernors, state and federal officials and mem bers of the legislatures so frequently enter tained at Ganeston Park, are always charmed with the delightful hospitality of Mr. Gannett and his famUy. October 20, 1878, he married Sarah Neil HiU, daughter of James Hill, of Skowhegan, Maine, born July 19, 1858. Her great-grand father. General James Hill, of Newmarket, New Hampshire, was one of the leading men in the New Hampshire colony, having built the first warship at Portsmouth for the revo lutionary patriots, and served as representative to the state legislature for six terms. Chil dren, born at Augusta: i. Grace B., June 13, 1880. 2. Guy Patterson, November 27, 1881, mentioned below. 3. Florence L., June 23, 1890. (VIII) Guy Patterson, son of AA'illiam Howard Gannett, was born in Augusta, No vember 27, 1881. He was educated in the pubhc and high schools of Augusta, Phillips Academy at Andover, wdiere he completed his preparation for college, and at A^ale College. In 1902. after his freshman year, he left col lege to become associated with his father in the publishing business. In politics he is a Republican. He has been a member of the common council of Augusta from ward two. He is a trustee of the .Augusta Trust Com pany ; director of the Kennebec Light and Heat Company ; director of the Opera House Company ; president of the Alaine Power Com pany, of Norwa}-, Alaine ; director of the Nor way & Paris Street Railway ; director of the Austin Traction Company. Austin, Texas. Ele married, June 6, 1905. .Anne J. Alacomber, daughter of Hon. George E. Alacomber, of .Augusta, Maine This name, in the original BOODY .'-^nnscrit language, is supposed to have been Buddha ; in the Huns-arian or German. Budae ; in the French, Boude (pronounced Boo-day) ; and in Eng lish, spelled in all the old records and by our best scholars, Boodey. The original word Buddha signified, as used in Asia, "Divinity," or "divine knowledge." The family in this country is noted for the longevity of its mem bers, as well as for physical and mental de velopment and vigor. (I) Zechariah Boodey, ancestor of those bearing the name in America, was born in France, and died in Madbury, Cocheco (Dov er), X^ew Hampshire, about the 3'ear 1755, at an advanced age. He is supposed to have landed in Boston on a French ship, about 1695, being then about eighteen years of age. He deserted the ship, and hiding in a haymow of a cow barn, managed to escape capture until the ship had again set sail for France, living on the milk of the cows. Being of French descent, the Indians became very friendly to him, and he settled, or to use a western phrase, "squatted," on a farm of sev enty-five acres of wUd land in Aladbury, in the western corner of wdiat w^as then Cocheco. 474 STATE OF MAINE. He is supposed to have been about eighteen years of age at the time he landed in America. He married a New Hampshire woman, but her name is unknown. Their children : Eliza beth, Hannah, Charity, Sarah, Abigail, Betty, daughter (name unknown, died young), Kes- iah and Azariah. (II) Azariah, son of Zechariah Boodey, was born August 15, 1720, in Aladbury, and died February 26, 1803, in Barrington. He lived in Aladbury until 1760, when he purchased his farm at Canaan, in Barrington, where he finally settled and reared a large family. He experienced aU the trials of pioneer life, and helped by persistent effort and hard labor to make way for the civilization we now enjoy. Lie married (first) Bridget Bushbie, w-hose parents are said to have lived at the Bermudas and at Boston, and whose remote ancestor emi grated to this country in the ship "True Love," of whom w'c have the foUowing records in England: "April 8, 1637. The examination of Nich : Bushbie of Norvich, in X^orff, weauer, aged 50 years and Bridgett his wife aged 53 years with four children, Nicho : John : Abra ham : and Sarah : are desirious to goe to bos ton in New England to inhabit." His wife Bridget died in Barrington, July 30, 1785, aged seventy years. Two years later he mar ried a lady of Berwick, Alaine, name not known. Elis children, all by first wife, were : Robert, Zechariah, John, Molly, Joseph, Sarah, Hannah, Azariah and Betsey. (Ill) Rev. Robert Boodey, eldest son of Azariah and Bridget (Bushbie) Boodey, was born April 13, 1743, in Aladbury, New Hamp shire, and died in Limington, Alaine, April 21, 1814. He settled first in New Durham, New Hampshire, in 1770, holding many places of trust, and in 1772 removed to Lim ington, Alaine, wdiere he was chosen one of the first officers of that town, then new and progressive, of which he was selectman alter nately as long as he lived. AAHiile residing in New Durham he was a town officer. After many years he yvas sent for to settle a question of law regarding the correctness of one of its town lines. At the call he went some fifty miles, called for a spade, and diggin.g down came to a pile of solid pitch knots. ""There," said he, "twenty years ago, when the old line- tree at the end of its life fell, I deep planted, precisely where it lived, this pUe of pitch- knots," and turning to a young man then pres ent, said, "Thee will please remember this." It was thus that a long lawsuit was prevented, and it hath indeed been remembered. Among other things, at one time, there was complaint against an unequal taxation; an old veteran in town meeting said that they "never had had any equal taxes in Limington since the old Alinister Boodey used to guess them out." He was a clergyman of the denomination of Quakers, and in his life quakerized many of the people of Limington and neighboring towns, and was the leading spirit of that de nomination, in both New Hampshire and Maine On June 30, 1780, he and his brother, Joseph Boodey, united with Rev. Benjamin Randall in the organization of that denomina tion of worshippers known as Freewill Bap tists. They, with Nathaniel Buzzell, Judith Cartel, Alargery Boodey (Robert's wife), Mary Buzzell and Rev. Benjamin RandaU, constituted its first church, and September 2, 1780, Robert was ordained to preach and to serve as first deacon, and Joseph, his brother, and XTathanid Buzzell were sent forth as rul ing elders. Ele lived a faithful minister and exemplary townsman. He married, April 13, 1763, Margery Hill, born April 23, 1744, died in Limington at an advancecl age. Their chU dren were : Azariah, MoUy, Robert, Abigail, Sarah, John H., Betsey, Ruth, Joseph, Israel, Benjamin, Edmund and Henry H. The num ber of grandchildren was eighty-four. (I\^) John HiU, third son of Rev. Robert and Alargery (HiU) Boodey, was born Sep tember 18, 1773, in New Durham, New Hamp shire, and died July 15, 1848, in Jackson, Maine. He was a house carpenter and also farmer, and resided for some time in Liming ton, Maine, whence he removed to Jackson, Waldo county, early in the nineteenth century. He was active in town meetings and a man of influence, but never accepted any public office. In religious faith he was a Universal ist, and was respected as an upright man. He married Patience Redman, of Scarborough, Maine, and lived for a short time in that town, where their eldest child was born in 1796; chUdren: John, Isabdla, Sally, Lucin da, David, Redman, Harriet, Henry H. and Alvin. (V) David, second son of John H. and Patience (Redman) Boody, was born No vember 9, 1806, in Jackson; and died in Jack son, August, 1879. He grew up and always lived in Jackson, where he was a very suc cessful farmer. He was a man of great force of character, and exerted a wide influence in the community. He married Lucretia B. Aludgett, daughter of John and Marv (Odam)' Mudgett, of Prospect, Alaine, born February 22, 1813, died Alay, 1908. Children: Fitz- burg A., resides in Lawrence, Alassachusetts; STATE OF MAINE. 475 David A., mentioned below; Laura J., mar ried Dr. Samuel W. Johnson, and resides in Bdfast, Maine; John H., of Jackson, Maine; Napoleon B., resides Medfield, Massachusetts; Josephine, resides in Brooks, Alaine, widow of Andrew B. Fogg. (VI) David Augustus, son of David and Lucretia B. (Mudgett) Boody, was born Au gust 13, 1837, in Jackson. He attended the public schools of his native towm, and was afterward a student at Phillips-. Andover Acad emy. He took up the study of law in the office of Charles AL Brown, of Bangor, Alaine, and completed his course under Jeremiah Ab bott, a distinguished lawyer of Belfast, Alaine, where Mr. Boody was admitted to the bar! He engaged in practice in Camden and at Thomaston, Maine, and subsequently entered the banking office of Boody & AIcEeUan, in New York City, as a clerk. Here his progress was rapid, and within a year he had entered into partnership, his uncle being the head of the firm, and purchased a seat in the X^ew York Stock Exchange. For nearly twenty years he continued an active member of that body, being for a long period one of its board of governors. For some time he was presi dent of the City Savings Bank of Brooklyn (in which city he maintains his home), and the Thomas Jefferson Association; was vice- president of the Long Island Free Library. He is president and trustee of the Brooklyn Free Library, Berkely Institute, and Institute for the Blind ; vice-president and director of the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company, and Sprague National Bank; director of the Peoples' Trust Company. Mr. Boody was one of the founders of the Montauk Club, of which he is still in active membership, and is identified with the Carleton, Brooklyn, Alarine and Field Clubs, and the New England So ciety. Mr. Boody has always taken an active interest in political affairs, affiliating with the Democratic party, and has filled two offices of conspicuous importance and honor. In 1890 he was elected as representative from the Second Congressional District, in the Fifty- second congress, and resigned this office to accept that of mayor of the city of Brooklyn, to which he was elected in the fall of 1891, and served for the years 1892-93. He was the twenty^-third individual to occupy that of fice. He was active in securing many im provements in the city government, and served his constituency faithfully and with credit. Mr. Boody displays great physical and mental vigor, and is a very busy man, ^although now past the age when most men retire from business activities, having served his fellow citizens for a reasonable time, he gladly laid down the responsibihties of office in order to give the time needed to his personal affairs. His home in Berkely Place, Brooklyn, is one of the recognized social centers of the district. He married, June i, 1862, in Frankfort, Maine, Abbie H. Treat, born June 15, 1840, daugh ter of Henry and Abby Treat, of Frankfort. The family includes a daughter and four sons : Henry T., resides in Rockwell, Connecticut; Maude Louise, widow of Leon Carey, resides in Brooklyn; Charies A., president of the People's Trust Company, of Brooklyn; Alvin, of Portland, Oregon; Edgar, associated with his father in business. (V) Hon. Henry HiU, fourth son of John H. and Patience (Redman) Boody, was "born November 8, 1816, in Jackson, where his youth was passed. Ambitious and energetic, he first sought an education, as an equip ment for a life of activity. Having passed through the local schools, he fitted for college at the Bangor Classical School, and matricu lated at Bowdoin, from which he was grad uated in 1842. Immediately upon graduation he became a tutor in his alma mater, and from 1845 to 1854 w-as professor of rhetoric in that institution. Having a deep interest in human progress, and especially that of his native land, he visited AA^ashington during the spring vacation of 1854, and witnessed the passage of the "Kansas-Nebraska Bid," which exerted such a powerful influence upon the history of this nation. It was a most dra matic scene, and strongly impressed every par ticipant and witness ; to the analytical and prophetic vision of the young college pro fessor it conveyed a strong meaning. Hav ing observed the feeling prevalent among poli ticians, he was firmly convinced that the abo lition of slavery and its attendant evils could never be brought about by either of the then leading parties. Returning to his home, he at once set about the organization of the Re publican party in Alaine. Calling upon his friend. General Samuel Fessenden, he found the latter of the same mind as himself. They immediately set about consultation with their friends and found a strong feeling in favor of the movement, and steadily built up a senti ment that led to the calling of a convention early in the following year and the launching of the movement under most favorable aus pices, though a few who subsequently allied themselves with the party failed to be among its original organizers. Strange to say, Han nibal Hamlin, afterward elected by the Repub- 476 STATE OF MAINE. licans to the vice-presidency, refused to affili ate with the Republican party untU a year or two after its inception in his home state. To Mr. Boody, more than to any other, belongs the credit of organizing the party in Maine, and to this movement the state owes its recog nition by the nomination of Mr. Hamlin to the high office which he filled. The Hon. William Pitt Fessenden, son of Air. Boody's coUeague in the movement, was among the belated ones who "got in the band wagon." Resigning his chair in the college in 1854, Air. Boody en tered with spirit into political reform, and was elected in the fall of that year by a hand some majority to a seat in the state senate, where he acquitted himself wdth credit and usefulness. In the following year there was a revulsion of political sentiment, and the state was carried by the Democratic party, but the progressive movement could not be stayed, and the following year again saw Air. Boody triumphantly elected as representative of the town of Brunswick in the legislature Fol lowing this he was urged to become a can didate for member of congress in a district where election was sure, but the demands of his private business led him to decline. It was this condition that robbed the state of one of its strong leaders and led to his re moval to another state, where an entirely dif ferent career was opened to him. Having be come a holder of both stock and bonds of the Chicago, Fond du Lac & St. Paul railroad, he visited New York in 1859 to investigate the condition of the property. At a meeting of creditors and security holders of the company a few days after his arrival, he was made a member of a commitee formed to prepare a plan of reorganization. While waiting for the meeting he had examined the books and informed himself upon the situation, and the result was that when the meeting convened he was found to have a clearer idea of the situation and its probable remedies than most of the others, and the result was that the plan of readjusting the affairs of the corporation propounded by him was adopted. Immediately following this he was urged by his coUeagues to remain in New A^ork and help put his plans into practical execution. His talent for finan cial management was quickly recognized by the business world, and he was soon made a director of the railroad company and its finan cial agent. This required his residence at the metropolis, and there he still remains, with a firm grasp upon the world of finance, and though now nearly ninety-two years old and retired from active participation in affairs, he is recognized as an able adviser and respected as an active factor in the development of commercial progress. In the course of his career. Air. Boody was the agent who brought about the purchase of the Chicago & Galena Union railroad, which was united with the one formerly mentioned in founding the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, one of the giant trans portation agencies of the great west. In this undertaking he encountered severe obstacles during the uncertainties of the civil war, and sacrificed a quarter of a million dollars of his private fortune, from which his colleagues profited, with no recompense to him. During one dark day of 1863, when a war panic had demoralized AA'^all Street, he struggled all day against odds, after being deserted by some of those w^ho had led him into the move ment, but triumphed and carried through his plans to the great advantage of the properties under his guidance and of the territory served by his railroad properties. He was also active in the construction and administration of the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis railroad, now a part of the great Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system. In those days, when cap ital was not as abundant as to-day, and yvlien railroad operations were in their infancy, it required much financial acumen and foresight to carry through the operations in which Air. Bood\- was engaged. Having "won his spurs" in the arena of financial warfare, the young squire from Alaine was henceforth recognized by Wall Street as a business gen ius, and he has won rewards accordingly. For many years he was engaged in banking, and has helped many others to a foothold in the -American metropolis. His nephew, David A. Bood}-, ^^¦as associated w-ith him for some time as bookkeeper and subsequently became a partner. Another bookkeeper, Finley I. Wright, was also admitted as a partner. The founder is now retired from the business, which is continued by Boody, AIcLeUan & Company, the senior partner being the former bookkeeper. In their business office on lower Broadway, the founder of the concern is still found on every business day, active and in terested in the problems of world progress. Of democratic mind and suave manners, full of interesting reminiscences of a half-century ago, he is a most interesting conversationalist, at whose feet the youth of to-day may well sit and learn. Air. Boody married, September 3, 1846, Charlotte MeUen Newman, of Brunswick, Maine, _ daughter of Professor Newman, of Bowdoin. She vvas born July 23, 1823, and STATE OF AlAINE. 477 died in Brunswick, February 5, 1876. Two children were born of this union, Henry Phil lips and Caroline Kent. The son died at the opening of a most promising career, in his twenty-fourth year, and the daughter in her twelfth year. Having led a very active and industrious Ufe, starting with smaU opportunities, of which he made the most by the exercise of his un usual talents, coupled with hard work and prudent econoni)-. Air. Boody may look back on a career of usefulness and, though his life has been saddened by the loss of those nearest to him, is still pressing forward in the battle of life, guided by high ideals and worthy am bitions to serve the world well and fulfill his destiny. This family is one of the BARTLETT oldest of the colonial fam ilies in America, and has produced numerous representatives who have occupied positions of distinction, not only in New England, but in many of the central and western states. Josiah Bartlett, the second to sign the Declaration of Independence, was one of this family prominent during revolutionary times. There are in this country other fam ilies of the name represented, but the family here sketched is accredited with being the earliest and most prominent. The name of -Bartlett is frequently spelled Bartlet in the early records of Essex county, Massachusetts, other spellings such as Bartlit and Bartlot being sometimes found. (I) Richard Bartlett, the ancestor of the principal family of that name in America, was probably born in Wiltshire, England, about 1575. He came to America in 1635, and settled in XTewbury, Alassachusetts. He was descended from Adam de Bartlot, who with William the Conqueror came over from Normandy and fought at the battle of Hast ings, and who received grants of land at Stop- ham, Sussex. Later in the fifteenth century a castle, coat-of-arms and crest were granted to the family. The estates granted eight hun dred years ago have descended in the male ¦line of the Bartlett family to the present day. Richard Bartlett was a shoemaker, and was one of the earliest settlers of Newbury, where he died May 25, 1647, foui" "^ays after making his wUL In 1612 he purchased a "Breeches Bible," which has been preserved and is in the possession of his descendants. His chil dren were: i. Joan, born January 29, 1610, married William Titcomb before 1640. 2. John, bora November 9, 1613, died February 5, 1678. 3. Thomas, born January 22, 161 5. 4. Richard, born October 31, 1621, see for ward. 5. Christopher, born February 25, 1623, died March 15, 1669. 6. Anne, born February 26, 1625. (II) Richard (2), third son of Richard (i) Bartlett, was born October 31, 1621, prob ably in England, and died in Newbury, Alas sachusetts, 1698, his will, dated April 19, 1695, bdng proved July 18, 1698. He was a shoemaker, cordwainer and yeoman, and lived at first at Oldtown in Newbury, remov ing to Bartlett's Comer near Deer Island, at the Alerrimac river. He is said to have been "a facetious and inteUigent man"; he sub scribed to the oath of allegiance at Newbury in 1678, and was for several years a deputy to the general court. He married Abigail , who died Alarch 8, 1686. His children, born in Newbury, were: i. Samuel, born Feb ruary 20, 1645, died Alay 15, 1732; married. May 23, 1671, Elizabeth Titcomb. 2. Rich ard, born February 21, 1648, died April 17, 1724; married, November 18, 1673, Hannah Emery. 3. Thomas, born September 7, 1650, died April 6, 1689; married, Noveinber 21, 1685, Tirza Titcomb. 4. AbigaU, born March 14, 1653, died in 1723; married, Alay 27, 1700, John Emery, of Newbury. 5. John, born June 22, 1655, see forward. 6. Hannah, born December 18, 1657, died unmarried be tween 1698 and 1723. 7. Rebecca, born Alay 23, 1661, died in 1723: married, September 5, 1700, Isaac Bayley, of Newbury. (Ill) Tohn, fourth son of Richard (2) and Abigail Bartlett, was born in Newbury, June 22, 1655, died Alay 24, 1736. He was, like his father, grandfather and brothers, brought up to the trade of tanner, cordwainer, and trades akin to the preparation and manufac ture of leather. He was also an innholder in Xewbury. He took the oath of allegiance at X'ewbury in 1678, and that of freeman in Alay, 1674. He married (first) September 29, 1680, Alary Rust, who was living in 1693. Alarried (second) November 13, 1710, Dorcas Phillips, of Rowley; she died January 18, 1719. Children of firs^t wife, born in Newbury, were : I. Alary, born October 17, 1681, died Alarch 29, 1682. 2. John, born January 24, 1682, died in 1752; married (first) November 25, 1701, Prudence Alerrill, who died May 5, 1718; (second) Frances Kindrick, intention of mar riage being published June 18, 1720. 3. Mary, born April 27, 1684, died Alarch 19, 1707; married, July, 1700, John Bailey. 4. Na thaniel, born April 18, 1685, lived in Exeter, X^ew Hampshire ; married, September 22, 478 STATE OF MAINE. 1705, Meribah Littlefield, of KUtery. 5. Doro thy, born August 13, 1686, was living in 1733 ; married, June 6, 1707, John Ropes, of Salem. 6. Sarah, born November 27, 1687, died be fore 1733; married, December, 1707, Joseph Fowler, of Ipswich. 7. Hannah, born March 13, 1688, married (intention published De cember 15, 1732) Nathaniel Brown, of Wen ham. 8. Nathan, born December 23, 1691, see forward. 9. Abigail, born August 12, 1693, w-as living in 1733; married (intention pub lished September 7, 1717) Samud Goodhue, of Exeter. 10. Alice, born Alarch 18, 1694, died before 1733, probably unmarried. 11. Alary, died before 1733; married, January 12, 1722, Joseph Jacobs, of Ipswich. 12. Gideon, born about 1703, died September, 1793. 13. Seth, died in 1759; married (intention pub lished October 5, 1728) Sarah MerriU. 14. Elizabeth, married, April 13, 1725, Josiah Bartlett. 15. Rebecca, was living in 1753; married, July 15, 1725, Deacon Daniel Coffin, of Newbury. (IV) Captain Nathan, son of John and Mary (Rui;t) Barttett, was the original Bart lett to settle in that part of the province of Massachusetts Bay, now Alaine. Ele was born in Newbury, December 23, 1691, and died in Kittery, Alaine, in 1775. In 1713 he moved from Newbury to that part of Kittery now Eliot, where he built a tannery and erected a substantial brick house, making the bricks on his land bordering on Sturgeon creek. This brick house was partially destroyed by an earthquake about 1737, and Captain Bartlett built about 1740 the oak timbered two and a half story colonial house in wdiich six genera tions of the Bartlett family have been born and reared, and this house is now owned and occupied by James AA^ Bartlett. Captain Bart lett purchased in 1725 sixty acres of land at Sturgeon creek, of John AA^ittiim, for two hun dred and fifty pounds. The foUowing year he bouQ-ht twenty acres of land of Peter AVittum, paying therefor one hundred pounds. An old deed from John Heard to his son-indaw. Cap tain Nathan Bartlett, in 1725, gives him a tract of land at Third Elill with one-half part of Stoney brook and one-third part of a saw miU buih by James Emery and Major Charies Frost adding this note, "that it is to be under stood yt ye above given & granted premises are not to be reconed as any part of my daugh ter, Shuah's portion." This land and other land which he purchased became the home stead place of his descendants. He married, March 10, 1714, Shuah, born January 15,' 1694, daughter of Captain John and Phoebe (LittlefieW) Heard. Captain Heard was an old Indian fighter and companion in arms with Major Charles Frost. Children: i. Shuah, born January i, 1716, married, November 15, 1732, Dr. Edmund Coffin, born March 19, 1708, son of Hon.- Nathaniel Coffin, of X^ew- bury ; he was a practicing physician in Kit tery ; they had thirteen children. His home adjoined the Bartlett homestead. 2. Mary, born March i, 1717-18, married (first) Thomas Dennett; (second) — • Lord. 3. Nathan, born April 30, 1720, died May 7, 1720. 4. Phoebe, born May 8, 1721, married, February, 1739, John Dennett, of Portsmouth. 5. Abigail, born December 6, 1723, married (first) in 1741, John Shapleigh, son of Alajor Nicholas Shapleigh; (second) Aloses Hans com ; she died June 3, 1800. 6. John Heard, born April 8, 1726, graduate of Harvard, A.B., 1747, A. AT, 1750, the first Bartlett to graduate at Harvard, which university in 1900 had forty-seven of the name of Bartlett on its list of graduates; he married three times and was the father of eleven children ; he was a school teacher, trial justice, clerk of judicial court, and in 1757 was a heutenant in Sir AA^iUiam Pepperell's regiment, called "The Blue Troop of Horse. 7. Hannah, born Octo ber 29, 1728, married, June 9, 1745, Robert Cutts, eldest son of Alajor Richard Cutts, of Cutts Island. 8. Nathan, born November 3, 1730, died May 21, 1736. 9. James, born Alay 24, 1732, died September 17, 1738. 10. Sa rah, born December 25, 1735, died January, 1736. II. Nathan, born March 31, 1737, see forward. 12. Sarah, born May 26, 1741, mar ried, September 17, 1762, Captain John Went worth, of Kittery. (A') Nathan, fifth son and eleventh child of Captain Xathan and Shuah (Heard) Barttett, was born in Kittery, district of Alaine, in the homestead of the family, March 31, 1737, and died June 18, 1775. He was a tanner; he 'lived m his father's house. He married, June 9, 1757, Sarah, daughter of Captain John and Dorcas (Litttefidd) Shapleigh; she died December 17, 1805. ChUdren: i. Dorcas, born January 9. 1758- married, June 20, 1776, Nathan Cof fin. 2. James, born XTovember 24, 1759, see forward. 3. Shuah, born November ii"; 1761, married, Alarch 28, 1782, Stephen Ferguson. 4. Nathan, born November 21, 1763, married Abigail Staples. 5. Alice, born January 22, 1767, married GUe, of Alfred, Alaine. 6. Mary, born Alarch 16, 1768, married, No vember 19, 1799, George Libbv. 7. Lu(:retia, STATE OF MAINE. 479 born November 4, 1771, married ¦ — Hods don. 8. Sarah, January 14, 1775, married, February 19, 1795, George Frost. (VI) James, eldest son and second child of Nathan and Sarah (Shapleigh) Bartlett, was born at the old homestead in Kittery, No vember 24, 1759, and died October 30, 1836. He was a tanner by trade. He was a revolu tionary soldier, a private in Captain Richard Rogers' company. Colonel Gerrish's regiment; he was nineteen years- of -age at time of ser vice, and was on guard duty at Winter Hill, SomervUle, Massachusetts, from July 20 to December 14, 1778. He married, Alav 30, 1782, Lois, born in Kittery, May 29, 1757, died October 3, 1838, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Hill. They lived in the Bartlett homestead now owned and occu pied by James W. Barttett. Children: i. Elizabeth, baptized May 6, 1784, married, De cember 28, 1802, Samuel Shapleigh, and moved to Lebanon, Alaine ; they had seven chUdren. 2. Shuah, baptized June 21, 1784, married, February i, 1810, Andrew Emery and moved to New Portland, Maine ; they had four chUdren, among whom was Dr. Hiram A. Emery, the father of Charles G. Emery, of New York City ; she died January 30, 1844. 3. James, born June 18, 1787, died in New Pordand, March 4, 1875; married, November 28, 1814, Lucy Knowlton, who bore him three sons and three daughters ; they lived in Ports mouth, New Hampshire. 4. John Hill, born December 9, 1789, died January 21, 1878; married, February 7, 1814, Phoebe Burbank, who bore him seven sons and five daughters ; they lived in North New Portland. 5. Na than, born February 2, 1792, see forward. 6. Sarah, born July 16, 1796, died November 24, 1883; married, December 24, 1812, Hugh Kennison ; they had seven sons and four daughters ; they lived in Temple, Alaine. 7. William, born October 4, 1797, died Alarch 12, 1882; married, Alarch 11, 1824, Abigail Burbank, who bore him three sons and four daughters ; they lived in New Portland, Alaine. (VII) Nathan, third son and fifth child of James and Lois (Hill) Bartlett, was born in Kittery (now Eliot) February 2. 1792, on the old homestead and died October 15, 1865. He was a farmer, and lived in the Bartlett homestead. Ele was prominent in town affairs, serving in the capacity of se lectman. He married, December 25, 1817, Mehitable, daughter of WiUiam and Philo- melia (Webber) Emery; she died September, 1857. Children: i. Lucinda, born Alay 24, 1819, died Alay 7, 1852. 2. Sylvester, born July 4, 1822, see forward. 3. Elizabeth S., born June 14, 1824, died in Eliot, January 28, 1898; married, November 11, 1873, Edwin P. Farley, of Lockport, lUinois. 4. Sarah, born August 30, 1826, died in Lockport, Illinois, January 11, 1875; married, March i, i860, Hiram W. Emery. 5. James AV., born July i, 1828, married (first) October 24, 1861, Caro line A. Goodwin, who died March 26, 1887; married (second) October 30, 1888, Lydia E. Worster. 6. Justin S., born Septeniber 11, 1830, died January 3, 1866; married, January 12, 1857, Emily D. Shorey. (VIII) Sylvester, eldest son and second child of Nathan and Alehitable (Emery) Bart lett, was born in the ancestral Bartlett home in Eliot, Maine, July 4, 1822," and died April 24, 1901, after a brief illness. He attended the public schools of Eliot, and subsequently taught school in Eliot and Lebanon, Alaine, durin.g the wdnter months, assisting his father on the farm during the summer season. In 1855, after his marriage, he was actively en gaged for several years with his brother, James W., in a large retail meat business. Closing that about 1875 he devoted his time to his farm and other business interests. His home wfas on the site of the John Heard house and adjoining the old Bartlett homestead. The Heard family and two early generations of Bartletts are buried in an old burying ground in the field opposite the Bartlett Ancestral Home. Sylvester Bartlett was a man of keen intellect, good judgment and had a most re tentive memory. He was hospitable and so cial by nature and had a wide circle of friends. He was a Republican, and was a representa tive from Eliot to the Alaine legislature in 1895-96. He married, December 30, 1855, Clementine, daughter of John and Betsey ' (Ferguson) Raitt. Children: i. Elizabeth Mehitable, born September 21, 1857, never married. 2. John Howard, born October 29, i860, died February 5, 1863. 3. Charles Ed ward, born January 19, 1863, lives on the homestead place, and was elected to the Alaine legislature in 1909-10; he is a Republican. 4. Ralph Sylvester, born April 29, 1868, see for ward. 5. RoUa Willis, born September 2, graduated at Dartmouth College, A.B. 1894, and at Boston University Law School, LL.B., 1897; was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1897, and became engaged in the bond business in Boston, where he stiU resides. 6. Grace Isabel, born February 14, 1871, died April 28, 1874. (IX) Ralph Sylvester, third son and fourth child of Sylvester and Clementine (Raitt) 48o STATE OF MAINE. Bartlett, was born in the old homestead in Eliot, Maine, April 29, 1868. He attended the district schools of Eliot, after which he prepared for college at Berwick Academy, graduating in 1885, and at once matriculated at Dartmouth CoUege, graduating in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and re ceiving therefrom the degree of Master of Arts in 1892. He then pursued a course in law in the Boston University Law School, re ceiving therefrom the degree of LL. B. in 1892. He also added to his knowledge of law by a course of reading in the law offices of Judge Edmund H. Bennett, dean of the Bos ton Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk county bar, July 26, 1892, and admit ted to practice in the district and circuit courts of the Ignited States, November 27, 1895. He was associated with former Governor AVilliam E. Russell in the practice of law from 1892 to 1896, and on the death of Governor Rus sell in the latter named year continued the practice of his profession with offices in the Exchange Building, 53 State street, Boston, where he has since been located. He was for nine years a member of the First Corps of Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and served on coast duty during the Spanish- American war. He is a veteran member of the Cadet Corps, Spanish-American War Vet erans, and a member of the University Club. His home in Boston is at 139 Beacon street. He is unmarried. The name of Bradford is BRADFORD one of the most distin guished in the early colonial history of Alassachusetts, and the record of the Bradford family from the establishment of the Pilgrims in HoUand in 1608 to 1657 in cludes a great part of the history of the Pil grim colony. From this family have sprung nearly all of the Bradfords of New England. (I) The first of the name of whom record is known was William Bradford, of Auster- field, York.shire, England. He was buried there January 10, 1595-96. (II) WiUiam (2), son of WUliam (i) Brad ford, married Alice, daughter of John and Margaret (Gresham) Hanson, June 21, 1584. He was buried July 15, 1591, at Austerfield, Yorkshire, England. (Ill) William (3), .son of William (2) Bradford, was born in Alarch, 1590, in Aus terfield, Yorkshire, England. About 1608 he went to EloUand, and was among those who set out from England in 1620 on board of the historic "Alayflower," to settte the Pilgrim colony across the broad ocean. He was ac companied on this voyage by his wife, whose maiden name was Dorothy Alay. They were married at Ani.sterdam, December 10, 1613. She was accidentally drowned Deceinber 7,. 1620, from the "Alayflower," in Cape Cod Harbor, during the ab1;ence of her husband with an exploring party. They had one son, John, born in Holland, who was left behind; he came later and died in Norwich, Connec ticut, without issue; in J678. With the exception of five years, WUliam Bradford was chosen governor of Plyinouth Colony from 1621 to 1657, the year of his death. Lie yvas one of the most efficient in directing and sustaining the new settlement, and a yvriter of the times said of him : "He was the very prop and glory of Plymouth Colony, durin,g the whole series of changes that passed over it." Lie was married (sec ond) August 24, 1623, to Alice Southworth,. a widow, whose maiden name was Carpenter. She came to Plymouth in the ship "Anne," and was among the most highly respected resi dents, dying Alarch 26, 1670, at the age of eighty years. She was the mother of three children by her second husband : William,. Alercy and Joseph Bradford. Governor Brad ford died Alay 19, 1657, and was lamented by all the New England colonies as a common father. The bodies of himself and wife were buried at Plymouth. Governor Bradford was the only historian of Plymouth Colony, and his history is now of priceless value. His is the only grave of a "Alayflower" passenger the location of whicli is known. (lY) William (4), son of William (3) and Alice (Carpenter) (Southworth) Brad ford, was born June 17, 1624, and married (first) Alice Richards; (second) Widow Wis- wall, and (third) Mrs. Mary (Wood) Holmes. His biographer says : "Air. Bradford was,, next to Miles Standish, the chief military man of the colony. During King Philip's war he was commander-in-chief of the Plymouth forces, and often exposed himself to all its perils. At the Narragansett Fort fight he received a musket ball in his flesh which he carried the remainder of his life. In that des perate midwinter encounter, when both parties fought for their very existence, nearly a thou sand Indians fell a sacrifice, and aliout one hundred and fifty of the English were killed or wounded. In the war with the Indians Mr. Bradford held the rank of major. He was assistant treasurer and deputy governor of Plymouth from 1682 to 1686, and from 1689 to 1691 ; and in the latter year he was one of STATE OF MAINE. 481 the council of Massachusetts. His residence was in Kingston, Massachusetts, on the north side of Jones river. He died March i, 1704, and by his expressed wish was buried beside the grave of his distinguished father, on Burial Hill, in Plymouth. His children of the first marriage were : John, William, Thomas, Samuel, Alice, Han nah, Mercy, Melatiah, Mary and Sarah ; of the second marriage : Joseph ; of the third marriage : Israel, Ephraim, David and Heze kiah. The children just named, fifteen in number, are in accordance yvith the usual pub lished accounts. His grandson, Ezekiel, who removed from Kingston, Massachusetts, to Alaine, in 1782, made a statement during the latter part of his life that his grandfather William had eighteen children, three of whom died in infancy. (V) Ephraim, second of the four sons of Major WiUiam (4) Bradford and his third wife, Mary (Wood) (Elolmes) Bradford, daughter of John Wood, alias Atwood, of Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, and widow of Rev. John Holmes, pastor at Duxbury, was born in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, in 1690. He was married, February 13, 1710, to Elizabeth, daughter of Wrestling Brewster, granddaughter of Love Brewster and great- granddaughter of Elder William Brewster. The two last were passengers in the "May flower." The records of Plymouth give the name of the wife of Ephraim Bradford as Elizabeth Bartlett, but this is an error, as pointed out by Davis many years ago. Re cently the evidence was examined by an expert committee, members of the Mayflower Society, and the statement of Davis fully confirmed, that the wdfe of Ephraim Bradford was as stated above. They had ten children, five sons and five daughters. Elizabeth (Brewster) Bradford died December 5, 1741, in her fifty- first year. She was buried in the old cemetery of Kingston, Massachusetts, near the Brew- sters. The exact date of the death of Ephraim Bradford and his place of burial are unknown. His estate, however, was settled in 1746, and there is little doubt that he died that year. While a tombstone was erected to his wife's memory, there is none in the same cemetery to him. He was in all probability buried be side his wife He lived in Kingston, Massa chusetts, on land bequeathed him by his father, on the north side of Jones' river. (VI) Ezekiel, the eighth child of Ephraim an(l Elizabeth (Brewster) Bradford, was born in Kingston, Plymouth county, Alassachusetts, in 1728. He was married, in 1749, or early in 1750, to Betsey Chandler, of Du.xbury, Ply mouth county, Massachusetts. Betsey Chand ler was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Octo ber 28, 1728, and was the daughter of Philip and Rebecca (Phillips) Chandler. She was a descendant of Edmund Chandler, who was a freeman in Plymouth, 1633, thus: Philip (4), Joseph (3), Joseph (2), Edmund (i), aU of Duxbury. Joseph (3) emigrated to North Yarmouth, Maine, and died there. Ezekiel (4) lived in Kingston, Alassachusetts, on the road from Plymouth to Boston, near "Mile Brook," and here his children were born and brought up. These children were ten in num ber, as follows : (I) Ephraim Jr., born December 13, 1750, married 1777, Judith Alorton, of New Glouces ter, Alaine. They had five children. He mar ried (second) Anna AVarren, of Portland, Maine, about the year 1800. They had two children. He died December, 1817. He lived in New Gloucester, near Cobb's Bridge. (2) Deborah, born July 28, 1752, married Barnabas Winslow, of X'ew Gloucester, Maine, June 24, 1776; died 1827. (3) WiUiam (q. v.), born March 9, 1754. _ (4) Rebecca, born September 22, 1756; mar ried William True, of Minot, Maine, January 18, 1786; died September 22, 1832. (5) Jesse, born March 7, 1758; settted first on lot Number 57, in Turner, Alaine, before 1780. He married Judith Weston, of Kings ton, Alassachusetts, 1781. He was a petitioner for authority to found a Universalist church in 1803, and was selectman of the town 181 1- 12-14-15; received one vote for representative in the general court of Alassachusetts, in 181 1, having already served as coUector of taxes 1790-91, and member of the school committee 1796. Later in life he removed from lot No. 57 to lot No. 171. He buUt the first mills at Turner Center, which was for many years known as Bradford A''illage. He served in the Massachusetts mihtia in 1777, for the purpose of guarding the prisoners taken at the defeat of General Burgoyne. He died May 20, 1829. His wife Judith died November 6, 1842, They had nine chUdren. (6) Ezekiel, born December 15, 1759. He settled on lot No. 60 in Turner, Maine, in 1780; married Alary House, of Hanover, Alas sachusetts, on December 14, 1786. He pe titioned the general court of Alassachusetts for the privile.ge of founding a Baptist society in Turner, Maine, and Buckstown, Maine, June 10, 1791, and a Universalist church in Turner 48i STATE OF MAINE. in 1803. Lie died October 28, 1829, and his wife Alary died April 25, 1852. They had five children. (7) Chandler, born August 15, 1761, settled on lot No. 47, in Turner, Maine. He mar ried Sarah French, of Turner, in 1783. In 1803 he was a petitioner to the general court of Alassachusetts for the privilege of founding a Universalist church in Turner, Alaine, and was selectman in the town 1798-1801 and 1804-07. lie died in Turner, February 21, 1849. His wife Sarah died October 31, 1840. They had thirteen children. (8) Martin, born October 17, 1763; setded first on lot No. 46, and later on lot No. 62, in Turner, Alaine. Lie was married, August 16, 1790, to Prudence Dillingham, of Alinot, Maine. He w-as trustee of the Congregational society 1813-32, and known as Deacon Alartin Bradford. lie was a very prosperous farmer, owning five hundred acres of land at the foot of Brigg's Hill, along the Turner and Alinot Line. He died June 7, 1832. His wife Pru dence died September 5, 1822. They had six children. (9) Philip, born June 8, 1765; married PoUy Bonney, of Turner, April 9, 1789; died June, 1789. Xo issue. His widow married Benjamin Chamberlain, of Turner. (10) Betsey, born August 22, 1767; mar ried Daniel Briggs Jr., of Minot, Maine, Feb ruary 14, 1788; died November 2, 1815. Ezekiel Bradford, the father of these chil dren, removed from Kingston, Alassachusetts, to Turner, Alaine, with his family, in 1782, and died there Septeniber 26, 1816; his wife, Betsey (Chandler) Bradford, died October 24, 181 1. In the census of 1790, Ezekiel Bradford and his sons AA^illiam, Jesse, Ezekiel Jr., Chandler and Martin, appear as the heads of families in the towm of Turner, Alaine. On the fine Quincy granite monument, eight feet high and weighing five thousand pounds, erected near their graves in the Upper Street burial grounds in Turner, Alaine, largely at the instance and through the energetic efforts of Lieutenant Commander (now Rear Ad miral) Royal Bird Bradford, U. S. X., the following inscriptions appear : (On the face) EZEKIEL BRADFORD Great Grandson of Gov. William Bradford ot Plymouth Colony Son of Ephraim Bradford and Elizabeth Brewster Born in King.ston, Massachusetts, 1728 Died in Turner, Maine, 1816. (On the rear) BETSEY CHANDLER Wife of EZEKIEL BRADFORD Born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1728 Died in Turner, Maine, 1811. (On one side) Six ot their sons settled in Turner. (On the other side) All honor to our pioneer ancestors. (VII) AA'illiam (5), second son of Ezekiel and Betsey (Chandler) Bradford, was born in Kingston, Plymouth county, Alassachusetts, Alarch 9, 1754. He was brought up in Ply mouth county, and lived with his father until he was twenty-one years old. In 1775 he went to Alaine ; his worldly possessions, when he left his home in Kingston, were, besides some clothing, an a.x and one silver dollar. He paid the dollar for his passage in a coaster from Plymouth to North Yarmouth, Alaine, but re covered it by cutting enough wood for the coaster's return voyage. He then walked to New Gloucester, Alaine, w-here his uncle, Peleg Chandler, lived. The township of Sylvester-Canada was given to the heirs of Captain Joseph Sylvester, of Cumberland county, Alaine, and of his company, for military services in the invest ment of Canada under Sir AA^illiam Phipps in 1690, and was incorporated as the Forty-sev enth town of Maine, June 7, 1786. It was named Turner, for Rev. Charles Turner, of Scituate, Alassachusetts, who was a distin guished divine, patriot and state senator dur ing the revolutionary war. After the war he settled in Turner and died there. In 1775 the proprietors of Sylvester-Canada, who for the most part lived in Pembroke, Alassachusetts, were offering to give away lots in their town ship in Alain e, in order to induce a sufficient number of settlers to locate there to comply with the terms of their charter. Early in 1776 AA^illiam Bradford proceded to Sylvester- Canada from X^ew Gloucester, and selected town lot Xo. 56, where he built a log house and cleared some land. He returned to New Gloucester and spent the winter of 1776-77 there. Here he was married to Asenath, daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca (AA'inslow) Mason. The exact date of the marriage is unknown, but they were published November 8, 1776. In the spring of 1777 the young couple removed to Sylvester-Canada and lived there the remainder of their lives. Ebenezer Alason was a revolutionary sol dier, serving eight months in Captain Isaac Parsons' company, Colonel Prime's regiment. He was a descendant of Hugh and Esther STATE OF MAINE. 483 Mason, who came over in the "Francis," 1634, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, and the son of Jonas and Mary (Chandler) Mason, of North Yarmouth, Maine. Mary Chandler was descended from Edmund Chandler, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, thus: Joseph (3), Joseph (2), Edmund (i) ; therefore, WUliam (5) Bradford and his wife Asenath were ¦cousins once removed. Rebecca Winslow, mother of Asenath Mason, was descended from Kenelm Winslow, a brother of Edward Winslow, passenger in the "Mayflower." Kenelm came over a feyv years after Edward and settled in Alarshfield, Massachusetts. Re becca Winslow was also descended from Rich ard Warren, passenger in the "Alayflower." VA^illiam Bradford was followed to Maine, first by his brother Jesse. In 1780 his brother Ezekiel Jr. had also located in Turner. He aided in the organization of the town of Turn er under the direction of the general court of the commoiiyvealth of Massachusetts. He was made tithingman in 1788; selectman and as sessor in 1789; member of the school com mittee 1796 and 1797; town treasurer continu ously, 1791-1806 inclusive; was named a can didate for representative in the general court of Massachusetts in 1807 and 1809, and served .as selectman of the town in 1810. Lie was baptized and received into covenant relations with the Congregational church on the occasion of the second visit of Rev. Charles Turner to the settlement at Sylvester-Canada, Maine, in 1779. The first church organization in Turner, Maine, was composed of fifteen members, twelve men and three women, and their pastor. Rev. John Strickland, a graduate of Yale College, B. A. 1761, M. A. 1764, was instaUed pastor September 20, 1784, and died in 1823. At the time he took charge of the ¦church at Turner the settlement was made up of thirty families, comprising about two hun dred souls. In July, 1799, WiUiam Bradford joined Charies Turner Jr., Israel Haskdl, Jacob Leavitt, Daniel Briggs, Daniel Staples and Jabez Alerrill in a covenant ; "to take laudable care of the religious Christian education of the children, whom God hath graciously, or may give unto us." He was a petitioner for a charter for a Universalist society in Turner, which was granted by the general court after much opposition, June 9, 1804; the names of his sons William Jr. and Asa also appear on the same petition. The first Universalist church built in Turner was located on his land and near his house on the Lower street. He ¦continued to be a benefactor of this church during the remainder of his life, and his de scendants, in this particular, followed in his footsteps. Recently a stained glass window has been placed in this church in his memory and that of his son William and his grandson Phillips. William Bradford was one of the petitioners to the general court for the privUege "to seU the parsonage and school lots lying in Turner," the petition bearing the date May 28, 1802 ; on Alarch 15, 1803, he was appointed by the trustees of the church, he being one of the board, "to appraise the ministerial and gram mar school lands with reference to their sale." He was a trustee of the church society 1803-12. Notwithstanding his meagre beginning, William Bradford succeeded financially in his forest home According to a tax list of Turn er for 1794, containing seventy-two names, he paid the third highest tax ; the two paying a greater tax being Rev. Charles Turner and Charles Copeland, both among the proprietors of the town. He left a large estate to his children. He died Alay 26, 1828. His wife, Asenath, died December 25, 1833. They had two children: i. William, born August 6, 1778 (q. v.). 2. Asa, born February 4, 1780; married Betsey Bray, of Alinot, October 29, 1801. He was selectman of the town of Turner, 1821-25 and 1827-30, and a trustee of the Congregational society of Turner, 1812- 13- Asa Bradford succeeded to the home of his father on the Lower street, at the head of the Gary Hill road ; the house was large, flat- roofed and of two stories. Later he moved to the south part of the town and built a large brick house on the old county road, near Meadow Brook. He owned a great amount of pine timber in this vicinity and built a saw mill on Aleadow Brook. He brought the first piano into the town of Turner. He was said to resemble the Chandler family. He died June 22, 1863, and left a large estate. His wife Betsey died July 3, 1861. They had ten chU dren, but there are no male descendants bear ing the family name now living. (VIII) WiUiam (6), ddest son of William (5) and Asenath (Alason) Bradford, was the second white male child born in the township of Sylvester-Canada, Cumberland county, Maine, the date of his birth being August 6, 1778. He was married October 22, 1801, to Chloe, daughter of Isaac and Alary (Stevens) Phillips, of Turner, and they had nine chU dren, three sons and six daughters. Two sons and one daughter died when young. Isaac PhiUips was a revolutionary soldier and 484 STATE OF MAlNh.. served most of the time from AprU 19, 1775, to the latter part of 1778, in the Massachu setts mUitia, or Continental army. He was credited to the town of Pembroke, Massachu setts, where he was born. His father, Richard PhiUips, also marched from Pembroke, Massa chusetts, on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, in Capt. Elijah Cushing's company. William (6) Bradford was passionately fond of music, and owned the first organ brought into the settlement of Turner, which he had had built to his order in Portland, and which was kept in his house, the wonder and admi ration of his neighbors. Upon the marriage of his daughter Chloe, who played it, he had the organ removed to her new home, which he had provided, and later to the Universalist Church. He was devoted to the interests of his native town, frequently serving it in an official capacity. He inherited a large property from his father, and was liberal publicly and privately to the deserving. Si-x of his children lived to be adults, and he gave each a farm. (IX) PhiUips, son of WiUiam (6) and Chloe (Phillips) Bradford, was born in Turn er, Maine, September 28, 1816. He married Mary Brett, daughter of Royal and Polly (Reynolds) Bird, of Minot, Alay 27, 1839, and they lived in Turner, Alaine. Royal Bird, born in Dorchester, Massachu setts, December 2, 1799, was the son of Aaron Bird Jr. and his wife, Joanna Glover. Aaron Bird Jr. served as drummer at various times during the revolutionary war, covering a period of more than two years and commenc ing with the Lexington alarm on April 19, 1775. He moved with his family from Dor chester to Minot, now Auburn, Maine, in 1800, and settled on what is still known as Bird Hill, overlooking Lake Auburn. Aaron Jr., born in Dorchester, April 7, 1756, was the son of Aaron and Ann (Shippie) Bird. Aaron Bird served as first lieutenant in Captain Lem uel Clap's company, of Dorchester, during the revolutionary yirar. Lie descended from Thom as Bird, who settled in Dorchester, Alassachu setts, and joined the church there in 1642. A record of this family was published in the N. E. H. & G. Register, No. i, vol. xxv. Joanna Clover, mother of Royal Bird, was the daughter of Enoch and Susannah (Bird) Glover, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, February 3, 1756. Her father, Enoch Glover, served as a private for a considerable time during the revolutionary war, in the Dorches ter company, commanded by Captain Lemuel Clap. He descended from John Glover, who came over in the "Alary and John," arriving here May 31, 1630, and who settled in Dor chester, Massachusetts. A full account of this family will be found in the Glover Memorials and Genealogies, Boston, 1867. Enoch Glover was also a descendant of Thomas Hinckley, the sixth and last governor of Plymouth Colony. Polly Reynolds, wife of Royal Bird, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, September 16,. 1799, was the daughter of Ichabod and Polly (Brett) Reynolds. Ichabod Reynolds moved with his family from Bridgewater, Massachu setts, to Alinot, now Auburn, Maine, in Feb ruary, 1800, and settled on Briggs' Hill, near the Turner boundary line, and also near the homes of Daniel Briggs, William True and Martin Bradford. Fle was a captain of militia during the war of 1812, and marched his com pany to Portland. He was generally known, however, as Deacon Reynolds, serving as such for many years in the Baptist church now at East Auburn. His father was Joseph Reyn olds, of Bridgewater, who was descended from Robert Reynolds, of Boston, the latter made freeman and churchman in 1634. Joseph Reynolds served as private and corporal in various companies of militia during the revo lutionary war. lie married, September 17,. 1772, Jemima Perkins, daughter of Luke and Rebecca (Packard) Perkins, of Bridgewater and Stoughton, Massachusetts. Luke Perkins served as a minuteman in 1775, in a Stoughton company, commanded by Captain Peter Talbot. PoUy. Brett, mother of Polly Reynolds, bora in Bridgewater, Alassachusetts, March i, 1777,. was the daughter of Isaac and Priscilla (Jack son) Brett. She was descended from the fol lowing "Mayflower" passengers: WiUiam- MuUins, his wife Alice, and daughter Priscilla ; John Alden ; Peter Brown ; and Francis Cooke. PhiUips Bradford was prominent when a young man in the state militia. He was com missioned a captain by Governor Kent, and brigadier-general by Governor Fairfield. He was frequently a town officer, and represented his district in the state legislature. While he lived on a farm he was,"Uke his father and grandfather, always more or less financially interested in lumbering operations and the manufacture of lumber. He was over six feet in height and of military bearing. He wa's an exceUent horseman, and when mounted pre sented a fine appearance. He was universally known as General Bradford. He died July 24, 1889. His wife Mary died June 30, 1890. They are buried in Turner Village (:emetery, where rest the remains of his father and grandfather. Children of Phillips and Mary Brett (Bird) Bradford: i. Martha Rosetta '^^^^^^^-^'^^^^^^ ^*^^^^4— STATE OF MAINE. 485 torn in Turner, Maine, September 11, 1840; married June 14, 1865, Lieut.-Colonel Aaron S. Daggett, of Greene, Maine, now brigadier- general, U. S. Army, retired; and Royal Bird, born in Turner, Maine, July 22, 1844. (X) Royal Bird Bradford attended the dis trict and grammar schools of his native town, and the academies of neighboring towns. At the beginning of the civil war he was sixteen years old, and urgently requested the permis sion of his father to enlist in the Union army. Permission was refused on the ground that at the time there was a surplus of older and bet ter developed volunteers to fill the quota of the state; consent, however, was given to prepare to perform the duties of an officer yvith a view to future service. He sought an appointment to West Point from the member of congress of his district, the late Judge C. W. Walton. The latter at once promised the first vacancy, which, however, did not occur untU the sum mer of 1862. This was a great disappoint ment to the young man. On November 21, 1861, he was notified by Judge Walton that there was a vacancy at the Naval Academy to which he could be appointed immediately. "This appointment was accepted not from choice, the army being then preferred, but solely be cause it offered an opportunity to enter the service of the government sooner. After passing the required examination, young Bradford entered the United States Naval Academy, then at Neyvport, Rhode Island, November 27, 1861, as midshipman. He was first quartered on board of the old "Constitution," and there commenced his studies and first learned the routine of ship life in this historic frigate. Although enter ing two months after the academic year com menced, he had at the end of the year, June I, 1861, overtaken the regular class and ad vanced to a high position in it. During the summer of 1862, between academic terms, he was one of a large party of midshipmen who garrisoned Fort Adams, at the entrance of Narragansett Bay, for a period of some weeks, during a threatened raid by a Confederate cruiser. He also cruised on the coast in the sailing sloop-of-war "John Adams," between Nantucket Shoals and the Capes of the Dela ware. WhUe this cruise was primarily for purposes of instruction, the ship was always kept in readiness for action. The remaining three academic terms were spent on shore at Newport, in a large summer hotel which had been rented and fitted by the government for a Naval Academy so far as practicable. The large amount of scientific and astronomical apparatus, models, etc., that had been left behind at Annapolis, Maryland, when the Naval Academy was hastily moved north at the beginning of the civil war, was much missed for instruction purposes. At the end of the second academic term, June, 1863, Midshipman Bradford was granted leave for the summer to visit his home in Maine. At the end of the third term, June, 1864, he cruised oft' the coast for three months on board of the sailing sloop-of-war "Marion," armed yacht "America," and the steam gunboat "Marblehead." WhUe in the latter vessel she was sent by the navy department in search of the Confederate cruiser "Tallahassee," and at one time hopes were entertained of her cap ture. About this time, Midshipman Bradford's en tire class, feeling qualified to perform duty afloat and desiring to participate in active war service, petitioned the navy department to be ordered to cruising ships. The petition, how ever, was refused. The last academic year was concluded in June, 1865, and upon the final examination held, in addition to the semi annual examination. Midshipman Bradford was graduated No. 3 in a class of fifty-nine members. The first five of the class, when arranged in order of merit, were then desig nated "Stars," or "the five most distinguished of their class." Graduation was followed by a third cruise for instruction, especially in seamanship, navigation and steam, in the sail ing sloop-of-war "Alacedonian," and the steam gunboats "Marblehead" and "AA'innipeg." This cruise along the coast and in Long Island Sound ended at Annapolis, Alaryland, the Naval Academy meantime having been moved back to that tow^n. At .^nnapoUs there was an other examination in navigation and steam, both severe and unexpected. Five of the fifty- nine members of Alidshipman Bradford's class faded to pass this examination and were turned back to the next class. Finally, on September 25, 1865, the dass was detached from the Naval Academy and fairly launched into active service. Alidshipman Bradford's next duty was on board of the U. S. ship "Swatara," a new, fast steam sloop-of-war, built on the model of the famous Confederate cruiser "Alabama," and just completed at the AVashin.gton Navy Yard. lie reported for this service October 20, 1865. Then followed a cruise in the AA'est Indies, during which every island of any importance was v'isited. On this cruise he performed the duty of a watch and division officer, also the duty of an engineer officer. The "Swatara" 486 STATE OF MAINE. returned to the Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, in May, 1866, and on June 4 following he was transferred to the U. S. steamer "Rhode Island," flagship of the North Atlantic Station. He served in this vessel as watch and division officer, cruising along the Atlantic coast as far north as Halifax and south to the West Indies, until December i, 1866. He was then promoted to ensign, and ordered to the U. S. steamer "Iroquois," fitting out at the New York Navy Yard for the Asiatic Station. The "Iroquois" sailed from New York for Hong Kong, February 3, 1867. The cruise out was a very interesting one, the ship calling at the following ports : Guadaloupe, West In dies ; Rio de Janeiro ; Cape Good Hope ; Alada- gascar ; Comoro Islands ; Aden ; Muscat ; Bom bay ; Singapore ; and Alanila, arriving at Hong Kong on November i, 1867. After refitting, the "Iroquois" sailed for Japan and arrived at Nagasaki early in December, 1867. The Mikado of Japan at that time lived in retire ment at Kioto, the ancient capital. The coun try was practically ruled by the Shogun, called by foreigners "Tycoon" ; he resided at the great city of Yedo. Japan was then made up of a number of small domains ruled by princes caUed Daimios. Each Daimio had life and death poyver over his subjects, maintained a separate army and navy, issued such laws and regulations as he saw fit, and generally gov erned in accordance wdth the old feudal sys tem. Daimios were, however, required to pay certain taxes to the Shogun, and to live si.x months of each year at Yedo, in order to prove their loyalty. 'Eheir soldiers were hereditary fighting men, called Samurai ; they carried two swords, thrust through a girdle or sash, one short, for use at dose quarters, and the other very long and heavy, for use with both hands. Both were very sharp, and carried in wooden lacquered scabbards, hottom up, in order not to dull the razor-like edge. No professional man, farmer, artisan or tradesman could even aspire to the honor of wearing two swords. After many centuries of hermit existence, Japan had, in accordance with the treaty made by Commodore Perry in 1854, opened the ports of Elakodate in the north and Shimoda in the west to American trade. Foreigners were not permitted to visit other than open ports. Both Hakodate and Shimoda were un important villages, and the latter was soon destroyed by an earthquake. In 1859 the im portant ports of Nagasaki in the south and Kanagawa, better known as Yokohama, on an arm of Yedo Bay, were opened to foreign commerce. No other ports were accessible at the time of the arrival of the "Iroquois" at Nagasaki, and the Japanese of all classes were living in the same manner they had for cen turies. The government of Japan had agreed to open the ports of Osaka, Hiogo and Kobe, the two latter two miles apart and sixteen miles from the former, located on the inland sea, January i, 1868. To Kobe the "Iroquois" proceeded, and on the appointed day fifteen American, English and French men-of-war were there present. At noon the ports were declared open, salutes fired, ships decorated, etc. An American consulate was immediately es tablished on shore, and traders commenced at once to land with their goods from merchant ships which had assembled in readiness. The inhabitants of these ports had never before seen white people, but the lower classes were friendly and courteous. While the "Iroquois" was at anchor off Osaka, in company with three other American men-of-war, on January II, 1868, Rear-Admiral H. Ii. Bell, U. S. Navy, commander-in-chief of the American Squadron on the Asiatic Station, together with his flag lieutenant and ten seamen, were drowned while crossing the bar at the mouth of the Osaka river, by the capsizing of their boat. The admiral was at the time attempting to reach Osaka in order to take leave of the American minister previous to sailing for home Soon after the ports of Osaka, Hiogo and Kobe were opened, there were rumors that the powerful Daimios Satsuma, Choshiu and Tosa of the south, were opposed to the policy of the Shogun in opening Japan to foreigners. Satsuma's capital had been bombarded in 1863 by a British squadron on account of the mur der of an Englishman near Yokohama by his Samarai. The toyvn of Shimonoseki, on the straits of that name, in the domains of Choshiu, was bombarded in 1864 by a combined squad ron for permitting merchant ships to be fired on while in the straits. At 5 a. m., January 31, 1868, a native boat came alongside of the "Iroquois," which was then anchored off Osaka. It contained three men all dressed as boatmen; one sculled the boat, and the other two appeared to be pas sengers; the latter brought a note from the American minister to the captain. In effect the note stated that the bearers were distin guished Japanese officials who asked for shel ter for a brief period. At 8 a. m. the same morning, one of the Shogun's ships came in from Yedo, and the two officials left the "Iro quois" and went on board. Subsequently it was ascertained that one of these officials was STATE OF AlAINE. 487 the Shogun; that Osaka was being invested by hostile soldiers from the south who had defeated his troops in the suburbs, and that he desired an asylum uiitU he could take pas sage to Yedo. On February i, 1868, aU foreigners were ordered to quit Osaka, as .their safety could not be guaranteed. The "Iroquois" took on board the American, Prussian, Italian and Dutch ministers, several foreign consuls, their secretaries, clerks, interpreters, servants, etc., also some legation guards who were Shogun men, and transferred them to Kobe; the Eng lish and French officials took passage in their own ships. The following night the rebels took possession of Osaka, and thus began the "War of the Restoration," it transpiring that the Daimios of the south had undertaken to depose the Shogun and restore the Alikado to the power of a ruler de facto, which he had not enjoyed for seven hundred years. In this they were successful, although the war did not end until July, 1869, the last fighting taking place on the island of Yesso, near Hakodate, a portion of which was witnessed by the offi cers and crew of the "Iroquois." The Shogun himself retired from office soon after the Osaka affair, declining to oppose the Alikado. Thus ended the Shogunate of Japan. Some of the northern Daimios took the matter up, however, and the war was really between the North and the South. Kobe was made headquarters of foreign officials and ships. Before the port was opened, a plot of land had been cleared and graded for use as a resident section for foreigners; it was known as the "Foreign Concession." Near it the Japanese had erected a large custom house. 'Ehis was used as a residence by foreign legations. Marine guards were landed to protect it, and ships were an chored near the shore in such a manner that their batteries commanded the town. A few days after Osaka was abandoned, February 4, 1868, a body of about two hundred Japanese troops, armed yvith muskets, swords and spears, from the south, marching through Kobe en route north, fired at some spectators on the "foreign concession" ; only three or four were hit and they were not badly wounded ; one yvas an American man-of-warsman. The legation guards charged these troops on the double quick, when they scattered and ran to the hills nearby. The prearranged danger signal was made at the consulate building, and all the ships present — American, English and French — landed infantry and artiUery, took posses sion of the town and surrounded it with troops. The following night about a half-dozen Japan ese steamers at Hiogo were captured by the combined foreign forces with practically on resistance, and taken to Kobe and held there under the guns of the ships ; some of the steamers were armed. Four days later an offi cer of high rank from the Mikado's forces at Osaka came to Kobe to treat with the foreign ministers and naval forces. It was then learned that the Japanese officer who had ordered his men to fire on the foreigners had done so be cause the latter had not knelt and touched their foreheads to the ground when ordered, as the Japanese spectators had done. The foreign ministers demanded that this officer be executed ; this was agreed to, but a concession was asked and granted that he be permitted to commit hara-kiri instead, in order to save the honor of his family and prevent his estate from being sequestered. A few days later he committed hara-kiri, a witness from each na tion represented at Kobe being present. The affair took place in a temple ; the cf)ndemned officer was required to draw blood only to save his honor, which he did along the abdo men with a sharp knife while kneeling. A knife for that purpose was usually carried by a Samurai on one side of his sword scabbard. A friend stood by him with a two-handed sword, and as soon as blood appeared, severed his head from the body with a draw-cut in the twinkling of an eye. The seat of war advanced northward, and affairs about Kobe became more peaceful. The "Iroquois" was soon the only American guard- ship there. Near the end of February small pox appeared among the crew, and she sailed for Yokohama, where the English had estab lished a foreign hospital for contagious dis eases. -At this time the art of vaccination was unknown in Japan, and small-pox was prac tically epidemic every wdnter. Alany of the crew of the "Iroquois" had the disease, and three died of it ; the officers escaped probably from the fact that they were vaccinated, as they were equally exposed with the men. In the light of the present day, Japan hav ing become a great nation, this bit of personal experience of Ensign Bradford in old Japan is of interest. Ensign Bradford was promoted to master March 12, 1868, and to lieutenant ATarch 26, It should be understood that no officer can, under the law, be promoted until he is pronounced physically qualified to perform all of his duties at sea by a board of naval sur geons, and also until a professional board has pronounced him mentally, morally and pro fessionally qualified. On February 19, if 488 STATE OF MAINE. Alaster Bradford became navigator of the "Iroquois." At that time the coast of China and of Japan were without aids to navigation, such as lighthouses, beacons and buoys ; charts were imperfect, and gales, especially in winter, were frequent. During the early autumn the much-dreaded typhoon was prevalent. The "Iroquois" encountered one of these fearful storms on the coast of Japan, between the entrance to Yedo Bay and the inland sea, Au gust 20, 1869, and came near being lost. The navigator on that occasion received the special commendation of his captain for services rendered in saving the ship from being wrecked. Navigation duty in the China Sea was then particularly difficult. Both Chinese and Japanese pilots were skilful, however, and they were frequently employed when leaving or entering port. At that time it was difficult to obtain good food in J.apan. The natives lived almost ex clusively on rice and fish, the latter fresh or preserved ; the few additions to this diet were mostly in the way of relishes or sweets. They had not then, as they did later, learned to raise vegetables, fowls, cattle, etc., for foreigners. In China there was a fairly good market, but milk, butter and mutton were rarely obtained, and the era of canned food had not arrived. It was also impossible to travel much for pleas ure, especiaUy in Japan. Foreigners were not allowed outside of treaty ports without a permit from the government and the company of armed guards. Indeed, much of the time officers were required, when on shore, to wear their uniforms and carry revolvers. On November 22, 1869, Lieutenant Bradford was transferred from the "Iroquois" to the flagship of the statton, the U. S.. S. "Dela ware" The captain of the "Delaware" had been the captain of the "Iroquois," and it was at his solicitation that the lieutenant consented to prolong his service on the China statton another year. The "Delaware" was a fine new frigate of large size, with full steam and sail power, and her handsome appearance, ex cellent quarters, additional comforts and nu merous officers and men made the change at tractive On November 29, 1869, the "Iro quois" sailed for home. Lieutenant Bradford's cruise continued without material chan.ce : the flagship in time of peace generally visits the most pleasant ports, and her officers have the most interesting experience. At the close of the AVar of the Restoration, the Alikado removed his residence from Kioto to Yedo, and changed the name of the latter to Tokio. A^okohatna, probably from its close proximity to the capital, then became the favorite port of foreigners and foreign ships, and here the flagship spent considerable time. Early in the summer of 1870 the "Delaware" left Japan and sailed south ; calling en route at Hong Kong, she arrived at Singapore on June 30. This is one of the most delightful towns in the east to visit. It is the capital of the English Straits settlements and has a large official social circle. Although only a degree and a half north of the equator, a constant sea breeze prevents excessive heat ; the homes of foreigners are in the suburbs, their houses being built to guard against heat only, on small elevations and surrounded by handsome grounds. It is truly a land of fruit and flowers and perpetual summer. Here the "Delaware" awaited her relief, the U. S. S. "Colorado," Rear-Admiral John Rodgers, and finaUy, after her arrival, sailed for home Au gust 22, 1870. She called at Cape Town, South Africa, and at St. Helena, both ports of much interest, and arrived at X^ew York No vember 19. At that time the Suez Canal had not been completed, and long ocean passages were made under sail. AU were much pleased to learn that their distinguished commander- in-chief, Rear-Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, had recently in his absence been promoted to a vice-admiral. Lieutenant Bradford was de tached from the "Delaware," December 5, 1870, and ordered to his home in Alaine. Dur ing the voyage home his health had failed, though he performed all of his duties. He thought that wdth rest and the bracing climate of A'laine his health would soon be restored; on the contrary, it grewr worse, and was no doubt due to his long exposure to the un healthy climatic conditions of China. On fan- uary 21, 1870, he was ordered to the Naval Academy as an instructor, but was obliged to ask that these orders be revoked on account of his physical condition. Iiis health continu ing to fail, he was granted indefinite sick leave March 18, 1871. In Alay, 1871. he was car ried to the LT. S. Naval ElospUal at Chelsea, Alassachusetts. Here the naval surgeons would not give any hope of recovery, but nevertheless after suffering many months and becoming very weak and "emaciated, he com menced to improve, with the result that his health was sufficiently restored for moderate duty, and, upon application, was ordered. Jan uary 25, 1872, to Newport, Rhode Island, for instruction in torpedo service The successful use of torpedoes during the civil war indicated their probable use in future wars. For this reason the Navy Department STATE OF MAINE. 489 had in 1869 established on Goat Island, New port harbor, a Torpedo Station for experiment and instruction. The course of instruction in cluded practical and theorettcal work in elec tricity, chemistry in its application to explo sives, and torpedo warfare. Elere Lieutenant Bradford remained on duty until his term of instruction was completed, October i, 1872. The salubrious chmate of Newport had been very beneficial, and he was then in robust health. It was his desire to go to sea, but he had performed his duties in such a satisfactory manner that he was retained as an instructor for the following term. This was completed June 30, 1873, and on July 17, 1873, he was ordered by the Navy Department to join the U. S. S. "Wabash," flagship of the European Squadron, as navigator. A detail for duty in this squadron is usually regarded with much satisfaction, as it affords an opportunity to visit some of the most in- teresttng parts of the w^orld. Nothing unusual occurred until December, 1873, when the en tire squadron was ordered to Key AVest, Flor ida, to be held there in readiness for war with Spain over what is known as the "Vir- ginius Affair." The ".AA^ abash" arrived at Key West, January 3, 1874. The differences be tween the United States and Spain having been amicably settled, the ships of war which had gathered at Key AA^est, about forty in number, were drilled in tactical exercises, tar get practice, the use of torpedoes, etc., and then dispersed. The usual term of service of the "Wabash" at sea, without overhauling at a navy yard, having expired, the commander- in-chief, with his staff and senior officers, were transferred to the U. S. S. "Franklin," April I, 1874, and with them Lieutenant Brad ford. The "Franklin" returned at once to the European Station, and the cruise then went on as before. This ship was a very happy one, and service on her presented a great contrast to the hard duty on the China Station. In Au.gust, 1874, Lieutenant Brad ford, owing probably to long continued duty in a hot climate, had a relapse of his former illness. The admiral, on the advice of the sur geon, .eranted him indefinite leave for the pur pose of recovering his health. Then followed a journey to the Italian lakes and Switzer land. The rest, cool mountain air, delightful scenery and experience generally pleasing to the senses soon had its effect, and in six weeks he returned to his ship a.gain well. A very in teresting cruise to the Levant followed. At that time a cruise at sea for a lieutenant was usually of three years' duration ; indeed, Lieu tenant Bradford had made one in the east of four years. On Aprd 14, 1875, he was unexpectedly ordered home for duty as an in structor for the second time at the Torpedo Station. It was explained later that this or der was owing to the difficulty in obtaining officers qualified for this duty. He reported at Newport, May 20, 1875. The importance of torpedo warfare and the scientific knowl edge involved therein made it imperattve that officers of the navy, especially those who had graduated from the Naval Academy before the sciences involved had developed, should become conversant with this new branch of their profession. Then foUowed a year and eight months of patient instruction and ex periment, the former generally by lectures and the latter both laboratory and field work, mostly manual. Aluch care was necessary when experimenting wdth new kinds of ex plosives, and the demand for results was so great that there was very little leisure time. On December 18, 1876, Lieutenant Brad ford was ordered as executive officer, or sec ond in command, of the U. S. S. "AUiance," a new ship, fitting out at the Navy Yard, Nor folk, A''irginia. He reported for this duty on December 21, 1876. This was an especially good detail for an officer of his rank. The "Alliance" was commissioned January 8, 1877, but was not ready for sea until Alarch 9, when she sailed for Lisbon, Portugal. She made a full three years' cruise on the European Sta tion. Owing to the Russo-Turkish war, the first half of the cruise was spent almost ex clusively in the Levant, wdth headquarters at Smyrna, but visiting the various ports from Alexandria to Constantinople, inclusive, look ing after American missionaries and other American interests. During the summer of 1878 the ship went north as far as Havre, France, enabling her officers to visit the Paris Exposition of that year : she returned to the Mediterranean in August, however. During the summer of 1879 she went north as far as Stockholm, Sweden, and Revel. Russia, and visited all of the principal ports on the coast of Europe and some of Great Britain. The "Alliance" sailed from A-^illefranche, France, for home by way of Gibraltar and Aladdra, October 16, 1870. The passage across the Atlantic was made by the southern route under sail. She arrived at Boston on December 8, and there found orders to proceed to XTorfoIk, Virginia, where she arrived on the 14th. At the time of this cruise it was customary to have a great deal of drilling with spars, sails, boats, etc. The "Alliance" was known in this 490 STATE OF MAINE. particular as a "Smart Ship," and was rarely beaten at any form of exercise Lieutenant Bradford was detached from the "Alliance" on January 2, 1880, and for the third time or dered to the Torpedo Station as an instructor. After passing the necessary medical and pro fessional examinations, he was promoted to lieutenant-commander, to date from November 30, 1878, the day his promotion was due The duty of Lieutenant-Commander Brad ford at the Torpedo Station was much the same as before. In 1882-83, however, he was, without being detached from his station, as signed to a large amount of board and special duty, viz. : on naval regulations, rates and pay of enlisted men ; and on electric lighting of ships. On Alay 23, 1883, Lieutenant-Com mander Bradford was detached from the Tor pedo Station and ordered to the Navy Yard, New York, to superintend the installation of incandescent electric lights on board of the U. S. S. "Trenton." Although a few pas senger steamers were then lighted by electric ity, the "Trenton" was the first man-of-war in the world to be so lighted. It was believed for a long time that the shock of gunfire would break the delicate carbon filaments of incan descent lamps, and for this reason the lamps of the "Trenton" were mounted on spiral springs. Subsequently it was ascertained by trial that these springs were not necessary, and that gunfire did not materially affect incandes cent electric lamps. Lighting ships of war by electricity was an event of immense importance in connection with their efficiency and the health and comfort of the officers and crew. As kerosene and kindred liquids were never permitted to be carried by ships of war, there w;as no^ intermediate step between candles and oil for illuminating purposes and electricity. It is not too much to say that the huge, com plicated battteships of to-dav could not be effi ciently maintained or fought without electric lights on board. On June 22, 1883, Lieutenant Commander Bradford was ordered as executtve officer of the "Trenton." She was at the time fitting out for a cruise, and considered the best ship in the navy. He then superintended her prepara tions for sea in addition to the installation of dectric lights on board. The "Trenton" was placed in commission September 18, 1883. On October i, 188^, while the "Trenton" was still at the New York Navy Yard, Lieutenant- Commander Bradford was ordered by the Navy Department to AA^illimantic, Connecticut, to report on the efficiency of a Brush storage battery for electric lighting and power pin-- poses. This was the first report ever made to the department on this subject. After various trial trips along the coast, the "Trenton" saUed December i, 1883, for the Asiatic Station, via the Alediterranean and Suez Canal. The Corean ambassador to the United States and tyvo of his attaches took passage in the ship on return to his own coun try. At Marseilles, France, two electric searchlights, with dynamo and appurtenances, the first ever used in the navy, were installed on board under the supervision of Lieutenant- Commander Bradford. The ship arrived at Hong Kong, May i, 1884, calling at the fol- lowdng ports en route : Fayal, Gibraltar, Mar seilles, Naples, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Bom bay, Colombo and Singapore. Soon after her arrival, the "Trenton" proceeded to Japan and from thence to Corea to land her distinguished passengers. She became the flagship of Rear- Admiral John Lee Davis, U. S. N., at Naga saki, Japan, June 30, 1884. It had been fifteen years since Lieutenant Commander Bradford left Japan, and the changes that had occurred and progress made in the meantime were to him simply a marvel ; this was especiaUy true in naval and military matters. During the War of the Restoration the navy of Japan was made up mostly of merchant vessels with im provised gun emplacements. The officers were greatly deficient in knowledge of seamanship, navigation, gunnery and steam machinery, and the crews of ships were without uniforms or discipline. In 1884 Japan had good foreign built men-of-war that would have been a credit to any nation, also dock yards where modern ships were being built, officers and men were well dressed in neat nautical uniforms and well disciplined. AVhen war between France and China be gan in 1884, the foreign neutral ships of war were stationed, by agreement of their respect- ive_ flag officers in command, at the various Chinese ports, to protect foreign citizens and their property from the lawless acts of Chin ese mobs, so common in time of war. It fell to the lot of the "Trenton" to go to Shanghai m August, 1884. This is an exceptionally un healthy port in summer, and after three weeks' climatic exposure there, Lieutenant-Command er Bradford had a return of his former in ternal catarrhal malady originally contracted in China, necessitattng treatment at the U. S. Naval Hospital at Yokohama. He left the ship at Shanghai, .August 27, 1884, and re turned to her at Na.gasaki, November 19, 1884. The rest, cooler cUmate and hospital' treat ment were so beneficial that he was able to STATE OF MAINE. 491 again perform his arduous duties as executive officer of the Trenton. The cruise continued on the coasts of Japan, Corea and China until the spring of 1885, the ship then being at Hong Kong. With the return of hot and rainy weather, his health again failed, and he was in such a serious condition that a board of medi cal officers recommended his transfer to the Naval Hospital in California. Under orders from the admiral, he saUed by mail steamer from Hong Kong, March 24, for San Fran cisco. His departure from China was none too soon, as he was very ill en route Upon arrival in Cahfornia, AprU 19, he became an inmate of the Naval Hospital at the Mare Island Navy Yard. The fine climate of Cali fornia, with its dry atmosphere, warm days and cool nights, abundance of flowers, home comforts and companionship and good medical attendance, soon had its effect, and he com menced to improve. On June 25 he was transferred by order of the navy department to the Naval Hospital, Navy Yard, New York, where he arrived July 7, and from thence to his home in Alaine. His health had so far improved that on August 27, 1885, he yvas or dered to attend a course of lectures at the Naval War College, Neyvport, Rhode Island, on naval and mihtary strategy and interna tional law. From this duty he was detached on September 30 following, and ordered on special duty under the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, for the purpose of prepar ing a new book on naval regulations. On October 9, 1885, he was, in addition, ordered to superintend the installation of elec tric lights on board of the new steel cruisers "Boston" and "Atlanta" ; these were the first cruisers of the new steel navy to be completed, and the contracts for their construction did not include a provision for the installation of electric lights. There was so little known on the subject at the time that the location of each lamp, lighting mains, dynamos, etc., had to be personally made by Lieutenant-Com mander Bradford. For the performance of these duties he was provided with an office at Newport, Rhode Island, and an assistant. During the year 1886 he served as a member of the following naval boards : To test a new automatic electric and pneumatic steering ap paratus installed in the U. S. S. "Tallapoosa"; to test a pneumatic dynamite gun ; to test vari ous types of electric generators ; and to test various inventions applicable to the naval service. On January 6, 1887, he was ordered as "In spector of Electric Lighting of Ships of the Navy,' and took charge of the entire naval electric lighting service, personally preparing all specifications and superintending all work. Contracts were made for fighting ships build ing and already completed, and specificattons prepared to be included in the contracts for new ships. On November i, 1887, he was ordered as assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, and took up his residence in AVashington, D. C. In addition to bureau work, which had been the sole duty of one officer, he continued as inspector of electric lighting and as a member of different boards. The new book on naval regulations was at this time w^ell advanced, but not completed. During the year 1888 he served as a member of a board on pay and rating of enlisted men ; also as a member of a board of accounts of naval property. At the request of the Secretary of the Interior he was ordered to prepare plans for and superintend lighting the Interior Building at Washington by electricity. He also performed the same service for the new fireproof Broadway Thea tre building in New York City. The latter installation contained the first incombustible electric switchboard, switch bases, cut-outs, solenoids, etc., ever used in the United States. Lieutenant-Commander Bradford was pro moted to commander, March 26, 1889, having served an even tw^enty years since commis sioned as a lieutenant. He was then eligible to command third-rate ships of war. During the year 1889 Commander Brad ford's health failed, the catarrhal affection from which he had previously suffered again attacking him, no doubt due to overwork and the enervating climate of AVashington in sum mer. On November 21 of that year, by ad vice of a board of surgeons, he was ordered to the U. S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massa chusetts, for treatment. He remained there, where he had once before recovered, until AprU 21, 1890, performing by preference such duty in connection wdth electric lighting as he was able, when he was ordered to return to Washington and resume his former duties. His health was only partially restored, however, and he sought and obtained a relief from some of his arduous work. The requirements and methods of lighting ships by electricity were well established and a new inspector was or dered ; also a new assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Commander Bradford then again took up the subject of naval regu lations, a quiet and somewhat secluded office in the Navy Department being provided for this purpose. 492 STATE OF MAINE. During the years 1889 and 1890 he served on a Torpedo Board ; a board to test the new steel ship "Concord" ; and prepared plans for lighting navy yards and the capitol at Wash ington by electricity, in addition to the duties already mentioned. On May 28, 1891, he was ordered to command the U. S. S. "Benning ton," a new steel ship then being completed and fitted out at the New York Navy Yard. By this time the new naval regulations were completed, except a few chapters on naval stations and shore and staff" duties of naval officers. .-After the latter work had been done by others, they were submitted to boards and senior officers for criticism, and finally pub lished early in 1893. Commander Bradford always regarded his work on naval regula tions as among his best efforts. It involved an immense research and study of naval law, regulations, precedents, and customs of our own and foreign navies. As each paragraph was prepared, a reference was entered in a book to authorities on the subject, thereby eliminating in a measure in the eyes of others the question of personal opinion. All naval regulations must be changed from time to time to accord with changed conditions, but the ar rangement of the book remains as he prepared it- The "Bennington," after various inspections and trial trips, sailed from New York for the Chesapeake, November 19, 1891, for tar get practice. Later she joined at Hampton Roads the squadron commanded by Rear-Ad miral J. S. AA^alker, which sailed for Monte video, Uruguay, December 9, 1891, to await there the result of a threatened war with Chile. After calling at St. Thomas, St. Luda and Barbadoes, West Indies, and Bahia, Brazil, the squadron arrived at Alontevideo, January 12, 1892. Then followed in the quiet waters of the Plata river, in the vicinity of Alonte video, constant drills and target practice, in order to prepare the ships for efficient war service. The difficulties with Chile having been peacefully settled. Admiral Walker's squadron, except the "Bennington," sailed for home Alay 3, 1892, leaving Commander Brad ford, by virtue of his seniority, in command of the South Atlantic Station, wdth a total of three ships. The "Bennington" visited AlaE donado and Colonia, Uruguay, also Ensenada and Buenos Ayres, Argentina. While at the latter port. Commander Bradford received or- ders_ by cable to proceed to Palos, Spain, and participate in a celebration in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the departure of Columbus on his voyage of discovery in 1492. The "Bennington" sailed from Montevideo, July loth; she called at Bahia, Brazil, and Porto Grande, Cape de Verde Islands, for coal, en route, and arrived at Palos, August 4. The celebration lasted three days commencing August 3d. Later the "Bennington" refitted at Cadiz and proceeded to Gibraltar, thence to Barcelona, Spain, where she joined the flag ship "Newark." Together they proceeded to Toulon, France, and thence to Genoa, Italy, where both participated in a fete given by the Italian government early in September, in honor of Columbus. More than forty ships of war of different nationalities had assembled at the birthplace of the great navigator for the occasion. The festivities generally were led by the popular King and Queen of Italy in person. The senior ship of each nation was personally visited by the King and his staff, including the Crown Prince and the Grand Dukes. The United States government had invited foreign nations to participate in a naval re view to be held at New York, April, 1893, and in addition had invited Spain to bring to the review and exhibit later at the Columbus Ex position at Chicago, a duplicate of Columbus' first squadron of discovery. Spain agreed to bring the "Santa Alaria," the flagship of Co lumbus ; then the United States contracted yvith a firm in Barcelona for a reproduction of the "Pinta" and "XTiiia." Spain, in addition to the celebration at Palos in August, had ar ranged for another celebration at the same place in October, on the anniversary of Co lumbus' discovery of the western continent. Spain desired the presence of the "Pinta" and "Nina" on that occasion, with the "Santa Alaria," and to the "Bennington" was assigned the duty of taking them. She sailed from Genoa September 18, and spending a week at ViUefranche, France, en route, arrived at Bar celona September 26. The officer superin tending the construction of the "Pinta" and "Nina" had had some differences with the contractors on the subject of completion and payments ; the contractors threatened to pre vent the vessels from leaving the harbor. Com mander Bradford then placed both vessels in commission as American vessels of war, and officered and manned them from the "Ben nington." As they were the property of the government, carried guns, and were com manded by a commissioned officer, their status warranted this act. On the appointed day. STATE OF MAINE. 493 September 30, the "Bennington" sailed from Barcelona, with both vessels in tow, without interference. Calling at Gibraltar for coal and provisions, she arrived at Palos with her con sorts October 7. While at Gibraltar, the Span ish consul at that port, a scholarly man, offi cially visited the "Bennington." After paying him the usual honors, he was taken to the "Pinta," whicli he desired to see, and whicli he carefully examined. The flood of history and the decadence of Spain brought to his mind by the sight of this vessel caused much touch ing emotion. The celebration conimeiiced Oc- tnber 10, and lasted three days, the Queen be ing present. The latter gave an audience to the foreign officers. On October 12, the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of San Salvador, a fine monument of Columbus was unveiled at the Convent of La Rabida, near Palos. The "Bennington" proceeded with the "Pinta" and "Nina" to Cadiz, Spain, October 14, and remained there with them, except for two short visits to Gibraltar for coal and pro visions, until February 18, 1893. On that day the '^Bennington," with the "Pinta" in tow, and the flagship "Newark," with the "Nina," sailed for Havana ; calling at Las Palmas, Ca nary Islands, and at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, they arrived March 21. They had been preceded by the "Santa Maria," which being much larger, sailed p.art of the way. Here the "Pinta" and "Nina" were turned over to the Spanish naval authorities in order that the facsimile Columbus squadron might take part as a unit in the naval review, and be present at the Columbian Exposition in charge of the rep resentatives of Spain. This was the first in stance, so far as known, of towing vessels en tirely across the Atlantic ocean. The "Ben nington" and "Newark" sailed for Norfolk March 23, and arrived there on March 26. In AprU the "Bennington" took part in the naval exercises at Hampton Roads and the review at New York. In May she laid out a course off Cape Ann for the speed trial of the cruiser "New York," then new, and assisted at the trial. On Alay 25 she arrived at the New York Navy Yard to refit for another foreign cruise. Here she remained until July 20, 1893, when Commander Bradford was detached from com mand on account of the expiration of his cruise. lie was then granted leave, the first time for many years. On November 20, 1893, Commander Brad ford was ordered as a member of the perma nent statutory board of inspection and survey, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. The duty of this board is to appraise ships for sale, inspect and report on the condition of ships in commission, and to inspect and test new ships and ascertain if they are in accordance with the building contract. Lie remained on this duty untU June 30, 1896. During this period he was ordered to perform the following ad ditional duty. January 17, 1894, president of a board on ventilation of ships of war; Janu ary 24, 1894, member of a board on navy sig nals ; March 2, 1894, to appear before a joint congressional commission on naval reorganiza tion ; .April 12, 1894, president of a special board to report upon the condition of the bat- tieship "Indiana"; July 24, 1894, president of a board to examine and report upon the condi tion of the bottom of the cruiser "Alinne- apolis" ; September i, 1894, president of a spe cial board to report upon the condition of the battleship "Alassachusetts" ; October 23, 1894, to advise the Secretary of the Navy on the policy of removing all combustible material from ships of war ; November 26, 1894, to in spect the training ship "Essex" ; December 10, 1894, president of a board to consider what wood work in ships building may be advan tageously dispensed with, what additional fa cilities for extinguishing fire should be pro vided, and what non-inflammable and non-con ducting substitute for wood, if any, may be used ; June 8, 1895, to inspect the training ship "Essex" ; July 8, 1895, to conduct a speed trial of the trans-Atlantic American steamer "St. Louis," in accordance with the postal subsidy act of Alarch 3, 1891, said trial to take place in the English Channel or waters adjacent thereto; September 28, 1895, to conduct a speed trial of the trans-Atlantic American steamer "St. Paul," in accordance with the postal subsidy act of March 3, 1891, said trial to take place off Cape .A.nn, Massachusetts ; November 9, 1895, member of a board to re vise the signal books of the Navy ; November 16, 1895, member of a board to determine the best location of the ram on the bows of battle ships ; February 20, 1896, member of a board to determine the best location for a coal wharf at Key West, Florida ; and president of a board to examine and report upon a claim of the con tractors of the ram "Katahdin" for additional compensation for delivery. On June 30, 1896, Commander Bradford was ordered to command the U. S. S. "Alont- gomerv," a steel cruiser only two years in ser vice. This ship was attached to the North At lantic Squadron, and during the period she was under his command spent the greater part of the time on detached service in the Gulf of 494 STATE OF MAINE. Mexico and vicinity for the purpose of pre venting the departure of Cuban filibustering expeditions from that coast. The balance of the time was mostly spent cruising in squadron for tactical exercises and at navy yards under repairs. Commander Bradford was detached from command of the "Alontgomery" July 23, 1897. On September 7, 1897, Commander Brad ford was appointed by President AIcKinley, Chief of the Bureau of Equipment, Navy De partment, with the relative rank of commo dore; the appointment was confirmed by the Senate December 18, 1897, for a period of four years, and he was then commissioned. The Navy Department is divided into eight bu reaus, among wdiich are distributed the work of the Department. Chiefs of Bureaus have, under the law, the authority of the Secretary of the Navy in the performance of their re spective duties ; they also serve as technical advisers of the Secretary. Early in 1898, when war with Spain ap peared probable. Commodore Bradford re peatedly applied verbally to the Secretary of the Navy for a conimand afloat. On April 21, 1898, the day war was declared, he forwarded to the Secretary his resignation as chief of bureau, and with it a request for a command of a ship and the following correspondence took place : Washington, D. C, April 21, 1898. SiH : 1. I have the honor to transmit through you to the President my resignation as Chief ot Bureau of Equip ment. Navy Department. 2. It is tendered solely because of a desire for active service afloat. 3. I beg to express my thanks for the confidence you have placed in me during my service in this Department, and to assure you of my great personal regard. 4. I have the honor to ask for the command of an active -war ship. Very respectfully, R. B. Bradford, Chief of Bureau. The Secretary of the Navy. Washington, D. C, April 21, 1898. Sir: 1. I respectfully tender my resignation as Chief of Bureau of Equipment, Navy Department. 2. It bas been a great pleasure to serve during your administration in the above-mentioned capacity, and I beg to express my thanks for the honor conferred upon me by your appointment to such a responsible office. 3. This resignation is tendered only that I may ask for active service afloat. I have the honor to be, Sir, Very respectfully, R. B. Bradford, Chief of Bureau. The President. Navy Department, Washington, April 22, 1898. My dear Commodore ; I am in receipt of your letter, enclosing your resigna tion as Chief of the Bureau of Equipment, Navy Depart ment, and asking me to present it to the President. I appreciate that the patriotic purpose which actuates you in tendering this is solely a desire for active service afloat. I appreciate, also, the high professional spirit characteristic of the true naval officer, which has Impelled you to ask a post ot duty at the front, where the danger and the sacrifice are greatest. I sympathize with your ardor so deeply that I should cordially comply with your request if I did not feel the strongest conviction that you can in no other way render so great a service as you are now doing at the head ot the Bureau of Equipment. I need not tell you how much I rely upon your absolute Integrity, good judgment, ability and, especially, your experience there. I think you will agree with me that, at this time, It would be exceedingly difflcult, if not impossible, to fill your place- We are in a special emergency. The busl- nes.s of your Bureau has rapidly Increased. It Involves contracts, negotiations, and other business which no one could take up without embarrassment. I must, therefore, beg of you to withdraw your request that I transmit your letter to the President. With very kind regards, Truly yours, John D. Long, Secretary. Commodore R. B. Bradford, U. S. N., Chief, Bureau of Equipment, Navy Department, "Washington, D. C- Sir: W^ashington, D. C, May 3, 1898. 1. In accordance with your request, dated April 22, 1898. I hereby withdraw my resignation as Chief of Bu reau of Equipment, Navy Department. 2. I have the honor to ask that official copies of my resignation and your reply thereto may be made a part of my record. 3. I beg further to request that I may be appointed to the command of a Naval war ship at any time in the future during the continuance of tile present war, if my services in the Navy Department can be spared. Very respectfully, R. B. Bradford, Chief of Bureau. The Secretary of the Navy. At the beginning of this war. Secretary of the XTavy Long said in effect, to his bureau chiefs, "you know how to carry on this war, I do not, go ahead." He was very loyal in his support, and always gave them the credit for the success of the navy during the war. Their duties were enormously , increased and the number of their assistants decreased ; their re sponsibility was great and their work incessant. There is never any glory for a fighting man, however, except at the front. Alany officers who saw service afloat w-ere advanced, but the bureau chiefs have never been rewarded for making their success possible .\ captain of a battleship, who was advanced, said to a bureau chief after the war, "I had a picnic compared with you." The duties of Commodore Brad ford as Chief of the Bureau of Equipment were, as the name implies, to equip ships and keep them equipped ; some of the equipment supplies used are purchased and many are man ufactured at Navy Yards. Their number is so great that their names cannot even be enu merated here. As an indication of the enor mous demand upon the bureau, it may be stated that before the war the average number of nautical outfits, such as nautical instruments, compasses, charts, nautical books, etc., was twelve per year, while during the first three months of the war, one hundred and thirty- four were supplied. The supply in stock at the beginning of the war was greater than ever before ; in addition every nautical instru- STATE OF MAINE. 495 ment in the market yvas at once bought ; even junk shops were searched for old sextants and octants that could be repaired. All chronom eters that could be found and bought were ob tained, and large numbers of these and other supplies ordered by cable from London ; and home manufacturers of nautical instruments were urged to increase their output to the ut most capacity. AVhile the nautical outfits in store were once reduced to a single set, no ship was ever delayed. Coal for ships is also one of the items sup plied by the Bureau of Equipment. At the be ginning of the war, the Navy Department pos sessed no colliers, coal barges, or coal depots. A panic seized upon ship owners, and as a con sequence nearly all merchant vessels were laid up in port. Contractors for coal in various ports defaulted under the plea of no transpor tation .available The Bureau purchased coUiers and manned them wdth naval officers and men; coal barges and tugs for towing were also purchased and not a single complaint of a scarcity of coal ever reached the Navy Department during the war. At the close of the war, Commodore Brad ford was appointed by President AIcKinley, Naval Attache of the United States Commis sion to negotiate and conclude a treaty of peace with the government of Spain. This duty being temporary, it was not necessary to vacate the position of Chief of Bureau of Equipment. His testimony before the Coni- mission in Paris wiU be found in the Presi dent's Message on the "Treaty of Peace be tween the United States and Spain, Signed at Paris, December lo, 1898." Ele favored the retention of the Philippine Archipelago by the United States as a naval and commercial base, believing its possession desirable if the United States was to be in the future a world power .and share in the commerce of the East. Lie also believed that the archipelago was rich in resources and, when developed, that an inter change of products with the United States proper would be mutually advantageous. On Alarch 3, 1899, Commodore Bradford was promoted on the lineal list of the navy, to the rank of captain. On the same day under a new law, he was advanced, while Chief ot Bureau, from the relative rank of commodore to the actual rank of rear admiral. During the entire period of his service as Chief of Bureau, Rear Admiral Bradford was a member of the Board of Construction, charged with the design of all ships for the Navy There were designed during this time a total of seventy-six ships ; of these, fifteen were battleships ; eight, armored cruisers ; twelve, cruisers and gunboats ; four, monitors ; two, training ships ; and the balance, thirty- seven, were torpedo boat destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines. July 20, 1901, Rear .Admiral Bradford be came a member of the general board, upon the invitation of its President, Admiral Dewey. This board was established Alarch 13, 1900. December 18, 1901, upon the expiration of his term as Chief of Bureau, Rear .-Vdniiral Brad ford was again appointed to the same position for four years by President Roosevelt, and con firmed by the Senate. .-After serving as Chief of Bureau of Equipment a little more than six years, Rear Admiral Bradford, desiring sea service, tendered his resignation as Chief of Bureau. Iiis letter to the President and the reply, also a letter from the Secretary of the Navy after his departure from the Navy De partment follow : Washington, D. C, October 10, 1903. Sir: I respectfully tender my resignation as Chief of Bu reau of Equipment, Navy Department, to take effect Oc tober 20, 1903. AVhile I have served less than one-half of the term for which I was appointed by you, and while I appreciate the honors and responsibilities of the office I hold, yet I have been Chief of the Bureau of Equipment longer than any of my predecessors, and have had no sea service for a long time. I therefore earnestly request the acceptance of my resignation, and respectfully ask that I may be assigned to suitable command duty afloat during the balance of my service on the active list of the Navy. Very respectfully. R. B. Bradford, Chief of Bureau. The President. White House, Washington, October 19, 1903. My dear Admiral Bradford: Your resignation as Chief of the Bureau of Equipment has been received and is accepted. I appreciate the mo tives which have led you to tender it. The desire of an officer of your rank, experience and ability for a command afloat pleases me. and I am glad to learn that it is the Intention of the Secretary of the Navy to assign you to the command ot the Battleship Illinois. I was closely as sociated w-ith you while I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; I have watched your work closely since I have been President. As bureau chief you have shown signal zeal, ability and energy, as well as unswerving devotion to the public interests. You carry the same high quali ties to your nev,' station, and I wish you abundant success therein. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Rear Admiral R. B. Bradford, Chief. Bureau of Equipment, Navy Department. Navy Department, -Washington, October 21, 1903. My dear Admiral '. ., The President consents that his letter to you accepting your resignation as Chief of the Bureau ot Equipment may be placed upon the files with your record. In con veying to you this information permit me to say that I ani in hearty accord with what the President has writ ten I realize that in resigning your position as Chief of Bureau you have made serious personal sacrifices in the interests of the service as you saw it, and I sincerely hope that such opportunities for service afloat may come to you as will more than repay what you have lost. I shall miss your untiring energy, careful regard for public expenditures, and intelligent and fearless advice. 496 STATE OF MAINE. T wish for you in the staUon to which you go and In all your future service in the Navy the utniost success, and for you and yours abundant health and happiness. Sincerely yours, William H. Moody, Secretary. Captain R. B. Bradford, U S. N. 1522 P St., N. W., Washington, D. C. The administration of the Bureau of Equip ment whUe Rear Admiral Bradford was chief thereof, was especially noted for estabhshing the first United States naval coal depots ; the acquisition of the first naval colliers and coal baro-es ; and the purchase and use of coal hand ling machinery. When he left the Bureau theVe were nineteen foreign, insular and do mestic coal depots, built and building and sites acquired for several additional. A large num ber of experiments were made for the purpose of ascertaining the best coal mined in the United States for naval use. A system of making annual contracts for coal in foreign ports for the use of navy ships in time of peace at less than current rates was inaugu rated. A method of supplying ships with fresh water for boUers in time of war and peace by means of water ships, barges and boats, at greatly reduced rates, was perfected. Experi ments with wireless telegraphy were exten sively made and the system adopted for naval use. ' The use of electricity on ship board, es pecially for revolving gun turrets, was largely extend'ed. He conceived and had surveyed under his own instructions, the route for the present trans-Pacific submarine telegraphic cable and then caused the cable laying charts to be prepared. This survey was pronounced by experienced English cable engineers the best ever made. He also drew the require ments for guarding the interests of the United States in time of war in connection with this cable which had to be accepted before the sur veys were conveyed to the cable company. The Navy Hydrographic office was transferred to the Bureau of Equipment during his term of office and he secured new and improved offices and work rooms, reorganized it, enlarged its capacity and output, and made great progress in chart making and ocean surveys. "The con struction of confidential charts for war pur poses was commenced. The administration of the Naval Observatory was much improved and the work of the Nautical Almanac Office brought up to date. Perhaps the most noted change of all was the very great additions to facilities for equipment work at navy yards and stations by the construction of new build ings and .shops fully equipped with modern tools and machinery. The appropriations for the Bureau were more than quadrupled during his administration and over $37,000,000 was expended under his supervision without loss. When Rear Admiral Bradford ceased to be Chief of Bureau, he resumed his lineal rank on the Navy Register — that of captain. It is believed that the act of voluntarily relinquish ing the rank of rear admiral for that of cap tain in order that he might go to sea in com mand of a ship, constituted a precedent. In accordance wdth his yvish, he assumed com mand of the U. S. battieship "lUinois," Octo ber 27, 1893. At that time she was probably the best ship in the navy. The "Illinois" was attached to the North Atlantic Squadron and cruised from the coast of New England to the West Indies. The winter months were spent south where the squadron engaged in tactical exercises and manoeuvres. During squadron tactical manoeuvres off the south coast of Cuba, Alarch i, 1904, the steering gear of the battleship "Missouri" became disabled and she rammed the stern of the "Illinois." One of the propeller shafts of the latter ship was dis abled, and a hole torn in the port quarter; she was kept from sinking by promptly closing her water-tight compartment doors. A court of in quiry on this disaster was ordered. Not only yyas Captain Bradford acquitted of all blame, but his conduct was highly commended. This accident made it necessary for the "Illinois" to proceed to the Navy Yard at New York for re pairs. The hole in her underwater body was stopped by means of a wall built on the inside of fire brick and cement, and then braced with timbers. This having been done, she proceeded early in March under one engine, convoyed by a tug and a collier, and arrived safely off New York during a snow storm. After repairs were completed, the "Illinois" proceeded the lat ter part of Alay to Alartha's A/^ineyard Island, where she had her annual record target prac tice. In this practice she obtained the highest score of any ship in the squadron. In the meantime, the squadron of battleships had sailed from the south for the Alediterranean, and the "Illinois," after coaling, sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, June 17, to join her consorts. CaUing en route at Gibraltar, she joined the commander-in-chief at Trieste, Aus tria, July 13. A short cruise wdth the squad ron in the Mediterranean followed, and then all ships returned to the United States, calling on the yvay at the Azores. Target practice off Martha's A^ineyard Island again followed, and later the "Illinois" proceeded to the Navy Yard, New York, for docking. On November 7, 1904, after a little more STATE OF AlAINE. 497 than one year's service afloat. Captain Brad ford was detached from the command of the "Illinois'" and ordered to command the Atlan tic Training Squadron. He assumed command at Hampton Roads, A^irginia, November 8, 1904, with the cruiser "Alinneapolis" as flag ship. On November 23, 1904, he was promoted to the grade of rear-admiral, and ordered as commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Training Squadron, then consisting of eleven ships. These ships were primarily for training young seamen, but incidentally they performed a large amount of cruiser service on the Atlantic Coast, in the Gulf of Alexico and West In dies ; they also participated in the fleet manoeu vres of the North Atlantic Squadron, going south for the winter months. This duty was pleasant and interesting. On April I, 1905, the Navy Department or^ ganized the large number of ships in the At lantic into a fleet of three squadrons. While at Pensacola, Florida, Rear Admiral Bradford was detached on that date from the command of the Atlantic Training Squadron and ordered to command the third squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, with the U. S. S. "Olympia" as flag ship. On May i, following, the Third Squad ron was ordered to proceed to the West Indies on detached duty, with special instructions in connection with affairs in Santa Domingo. The Dominican Republic was largely in debt to citi zens of several foreign countries and was pay ing neither interest nor principal. Upon being pressed by the respective governments of the debtors and reprisals being threatened, an ap peal was made to the United States for aid, chiefly in consequence probably of the policy of that country to preserve the territorial in tegrity of American Republics. The United States then undertook to collect all Dominican import duties, the only source of revenue of the country, applying a portion to defray the legitimate expenses of the Dominican govern ment and the cost of collection, and forming a sinking fund with the balance to pay foreign indebtedness. It was a notorious fact that the import duties of Santa Domingo had not been honestly collected for many years and that large smuggling operations were permitted. This act of the United States was unpopular with a class of Dominican politicians who chiefly made a living by graft, and they threatened to declare war against their government. Several small uprisings had already taken place. Rear Admiral Bradford was directed to aid and pro tect the collectors of customs, to prevent revo lutions and stop the introduction of arms, am munition and munitions of war into the coun try. The latter really required belligerent rights when the arms were in foreign ships. It was to the interest of foreigners, however, that the United States should succeed in its ultimate purpose, also that good order should be maintained in Santa Domingo. Rear Ad miral Bradford did not fail to point out these facts and succeeded in carrying out his orders to the letter. While engaged on this duty he had from six to twelve ships under his com mand, lie remained in West Indian waters until January, 1906, when he proceeded to Hampton Roads with four ships that were much in need of repairs. He remained in the waters of the Chesapeake until June 18, 1906, when he sailed with four ships on a cruise to the Aladeiras and Azores. He was directed to reach Bar Harbor on his return, July 20. His four ships anchored early that morning off the mouth of Famchman's Bay, but were pre vented from entering port until the afternoon of the 23rd, on account of a dense fog. The statutory date of his retirement was July 22d, his sixty-second birthday, and upon arrivaF he received orders detaching him from command and ordering him to his home on that day, which had already passed. On account of this fact his time in command was extended until the 28th, on which day he hauled down his flag — thus terminating his active career afloat. His retirement, however, under the law, of necessity, dated from July 22, 1906. The following quotation is made from a somewhat extended notice of the retirement of Rear Admiral Bradford, which appeared in the Army and Navy Journal of August 4, 1906: "From the above outline it will be seen that Admiral Bradford's professional career has been one of manifold activities involving large responsibilities and requiring the broadest training and experience. It is a simple state ment of truth to say that he has proved equal to every task to which he has been assigned, that he has realized the highest ideals of the American Navy Officer, and that the Service which he has adorned has been enriched by his example and influence." The foUowdng is quoted from the Army and A'Ovy Register of August 4, 1906, on the same subject: "Rear Admiral Bradford, U. S. Navy, was transferred to the retired list on July 22, and has since relinquished his command afloat. No officer has gone on the retired list with a better record than does Rear Admiral Bradford. His service has been a long and distinguished one, marked by loyalty to the best traditions of the service and great industry in the performance of his duties, to whatever ofllcial task he may have been assigned. The naval service benefited materially and especially by the administration of Rear Admiral Bradford at the head of the Bureau of Equipment, where his conduct of the af fairs of that branch of the Navy Department is felt to day for the liberality, fearlessness, and determination ot the oflicer's policy. The active list of the Navy suffers a distinct loss by the retirement of Rear Admiral Brad ford." Rear Adftiiral Bradford married, when a lieutenant. May 26, 1875, at Newport, Rhode Island, Harriet Stanhope, daughter of Samuel 498 STATE OF MAINE. and Elizabeth Cornell (Stanhope) Engs, born November i6, 1847, ^t Newport, Rhode Is land. Children: i. EUse, born at Newport, Rhode Island, July 5, 1876; married, at Wash ington, D. C, January 8, 1902, to Rev. Ed ward Darlington, son of John Oliver and Katharine Lacey (Darlington) Johnson, born December 27, 1873, at Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. Children : i. Elizabeth Engs, born June 27, 1903, at Bruns wick, Alaine ii. Bradford, born April 19, 1908, at West Pittston, Pennsylvania. 2. Katharine Engs, born at Newport, Rhode Is land, August 15, 1881 ; married, at Washing ton, D. C, April 17, 1906, to Howard Angell, son of Leverett EUery and Clara (Kingsley) Brockway, born XTovember 22, 1870, at Brook lyn, New York. 3. Rose Mary, born at New port, Rhode Island, September 2, 1883. (For early generations see preceding sketch.) (A^) Samuel, son of Alajor BRADFORD WiUiam Bradford, married * Hannah Rogers, who bore him seven children. He- had the title of Lieu tenant, and lived in Duxbury, about one-third of a mile northeast from the mouth of Island creek. After filling numerous local offices, he died in April, 17 14, aged forty^-six years. (A'l) Gamaliel, third son and seventh child of Lieutenant Samuel and Hannah (Rogers) Bradford, was born in Plymouth county, Mas sachusetts, Alay 18, 1704, and died in 1778. He lived in Duxbury, from which town he was chosen a member of the governor's coun cil and judge of the court of Plymouth county. He served in the administration of Governor William Shirley during part of his term of office, and in the administration of Governor Jonathan Belcher, the service in the govern or's council being between 1730 and 1756. He married, August 30, 1728, Abigail Bartiett ; children, born in Duxbury, Plymouth county, Massachusetts: i. AbigaU. 2. Samuel. 3. Gamaliel. 4. Seth. 5. Peabody (Paybody), removed to Turner, Alaine ; married, July 29. 1788, Hannah Freeman, ceremony performed by Rev. John Strickland, pastor of Congre gational church in Turner, Maine. 6. De borah. 7. Hannah. 8. Ruth. 9. Peter (q. v.). 10. Andrew, twin of Peter, born January 2, 1745 : graduated Flarvard CoUege, A. B., 1771, A. AT. 1774, died 1837. (ATI) Peter, fifth son and ninth child of Gamaliel and Abigail (Bartlett) Bradford, was born in Duxbury, Alassachusetts, June 2, 1745. He married, at Pembroke, Plymouth county, Abigail Loring, and they removed to the District of Maine, locating at Kingsfield, and being among the first settlers of that place in 1764. The first settlers were largely from Plymouth county, and the town as first incor porated included Waterville, which was set off as a separate town in 1802. He later removed his family to Readfield, same county, and died there in December, 1833. He was prominent in revolutionary times, being a judge, and long a member of the colonial assembly. Chil dren, born in Winthrop, Alaine: i. Judith, April 27, 1770. 2. PriscUla, June 16, 1773, married William Rand. 3. Alexander, De cember 18, 1776. 4. XTathanid. 5. PoUy, married RoUins, of Winslow. 6. Bet sey, born 1785; married Joshua Alerritt, of Portiand, Alaine 7. Alartin (q. v.). 8. An- . drew, mairied .Almira Alerritt. (ATII) Martin, third son and seventh child of Peter and .\bigail (Loring) Bradford, was born in Duxbury, Alassachusetts, September 22, 1790, and died April 29, 1873. He mar ried, Alarch 22, 1813, Tyla (Emily) Hayden, born February 26, 1791, died Alay 12, 1865. He was a farmer, and became one of the first settlers of St. Albans, Somerset county, Alaine. Children: i. Charles Gamaliel, born April 28, 1814. 2. Alary H., April 4, 1816. 3. Peter A., Xovember 26, 1818. 4. .\bigail L., Alarch 8, 1821. 5. Andrew, Alarch 31, 1823. 6. Jane P., June 26, 1825. 7. James H., AprU i, 1827. 8. Anna K., June 5, 1829. 9. Olive S-, August 26, 1831-. 10. Emily A., December 30, 1833. II. Sidney K., Alay 10, 1836. 12. George S., Xovember 19, 1839. (TX) Charles Gamaliel, eldest son of Alar tin and Tyla (Hayden) Bradford, was born in A^assalboro, Alaine, April 28, 1814, and died in Detroit, Somerset county, Alay 31, 1868. He removed to Alattawamkeag, Penobscot county, Alaine, wdiere he was among the first incorporators of the town, February 14, i860, and served as selectman. He was a farmer and lumberman. He was a member of the Alethodist church. He married (first) Janu ary, 1841, Emily White, of Wayne, Alaine, who died November 23, 1842; (second), Oc tober 15, 18.50, Alary Prentiss, of St. .Albans, born in South China, Kennebec county, July 20, 1823, died at Mattawamkeag, July 13, 1867, daughter of Jesse and Alary (Varney) Prentiss. She was a descendant of A'alentine Prentiss (i), who came to Roxbury, Alassa chusetts, in 1631, through John (2), born in En.gland, A^alentine (3), born about 1680, Jo seph (4), born Alarch 26, 1747, and Jesse '^'^f ^"^ ^/^^^^^'^^^^i^i' /^ -?i\ 4 ^0 J'Bwis Historicat Puh Co ST.ATE OF AlAIXE. 499 (6), bom February 22, 17S5. who married Alary A'arney-, of China, Alaine, and became the parents of Alary Prentiss, wife of Charles Gamaliel Bradford. Children of Charles Gamaliel and Alary (^Prentiss) Bradford: i. Chester, see forward. 2. Tyla, born Alay 29. i8sO, died in 18^7. 3. Jane Prentiss, born April 3. 1858, died July '27, 188S. 4. EUza beth Alary, born August 8. iSoo; married Ar thur T. Smith, of AA'altham, Alassachusetts. 5. Ernest AA".; see forward. (X) Chester, eldest surviving son of Charles Gamaliel and Alary (Prentiss) Brad ford, was born in St. .-Vlbaiis, Alaine, AIa^- 3, 1852. Beginning in the common schools, he was otherwise self-educated. He followed various pursuits until he was twenty-four years of age, wdien he began his professional work as a solicitor of patents, devoting his spare time to the study of law, more particu larly patent law. He was soon admitted to the bar, and in 1S02 to the bar of the supreme court of the E'nited States. He has practiced his profession constantly, and is now- senior ineniber of the firm of Bradford & Hood, with offices in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a char ter member of the Columbia Club of Indian apolis, which was organized as a political club to further the interests of the late General Harrison during his presidential candidacy. tut which was developed into a permanent or ganization, and is now probably the leading club in the state. In religion he is a member of the Second Presbyterian church. He married, at Indianapolis. Indiana. December 29, 1891, Ruby S. Claypool, born near Terre Haute, Indiana, Alarch 14, 1S06. Her father. Judge Solomon Claypool, born August 17, "1S2Q, died Alarch 19', iSyS. was a member of the Indiana legislature at the age of tw-enty- seven, and circuit judge at twenty-eight, serv ing on the bench seven years. He married Hannah AL Osborne; children: Anna C. John AV., Hannah AL. Ruby S- (wife of Ches ter Bradford), Alarv Alice. Lucy G., and Eliz abeth C. Children of Chester and Ruby S. (Claypool) Bradford: Hannah Alav, born November 19, iSri3: Ruby Claypool. October II. 1805: Ernestine Ehzabeth, February 22. 1901. (X) Ernest AVilder, youngest child ot Charies Gamaliel and Alary (Prentiss) Brad ford, was born in Alattawamkeag, Penobscot countv, Alaine. Alav 2t,. 1862. Left an orphan bv the death of his parents, his mother dying July M. 1867, and his father. Alav 31, iSoS. he 'was taken bv his father's cousin, Charles Edward Cushman, to live in his family on his farm in Winslow, Kennebec county, Alaine, and remained with these relatives working on the farm and attending the district school when opportunity was aff'orded until he was seventeen years of age. when he begun an en tirely self-dependent career. He took a three years' course at Oak Grove Seminary, A'as- salboro. Alaine. where he w-as graduated in the spring of 1SS2, paying his expenses with money earned during vacations and outside of school hours in term time He removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, in Alav, 18S2, at the instance of his brother Ches ter, wdio was conducting a patent law business in that city, and w-as a clerk in his brother's office until the spring of 1SS7. wdien he pur chased a half interest in the business. During his first year in Indianapolis he took a course in law at the Central Law School of Indiana and was graduated LL.B. in .April, 1SS3. sec ond in a dass of about twenty students, com pleting a two years" course of study in one school year. He had charge of his brother's office in Washington, D. C.. at the time the partnership was formed bv Chester and Er nest Wilder Bradford as C. & E. W. Brad ford, attorneys and counseUors-at-law and patent lawyers, with offices in Washington, D. C and'indianapoUs, Indiana. In 1803 he sold out his partnership interests with his brother Chester and established a law business in AA'ashington on his own account. He was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Indiana in 1883, and the supreme court of the L^nited States in 1803. and meantime in many of the district and circuit courts of the United States. He was a charter member of the Co lumbia Club of Indianapolis. He is past grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Eel- lows in the District of Columbia, and secre tary of the General Alilitary Council, Patri archs Alilitant, I. O. O. F. : also past grand of Beacon Lodge. Xo. 15. and past chief patri arch of F D. Stuart Encampment. Xo. 7, I. O. O- E He is a member of the Society of the Alavflow-er Descendants in the District of Columbia bv right of descent from AA'illiam Bradford, he being of the eighth generation in lineal descent, and secretary of the Society- He is also past president of the Alaine .Asso ciation of the District of Columbia, and nat urally very popular among the sons and daughters of Alaine residing there. Air. Bradford never married. His office in Wash ington. District of Columbia, is in the Wash ington Loan and Trust Company's building. 500 STATE OF MAIXE. (For ancestry see William Bradford I.) (ATI) Alartin, son of BRADFORD Ezekiel and Betsey (Chand ler) Bradford, was born in Duxbury, Alassachusetts, October 17, 1763. He accompanied his parents to Turner, Alaine, where he became the owner of a farm of five hundred acres of land and was one of the leading men of the tow-n. He died June 7, 1832. He married, in 1790, Prudence Dilling ham, born October 17, 1757, died September 5, 1822; children: Alartin, Calvin, .Anna, Ezekiel, Freeman and Richmond, next men tioned. (A'lII) Dr. Richmond, youngest child of Alartin and Prudence (DUlingham) Bradford, was born in Turner, April 30, 1801, and died after a long illness, December 21, 1874. He studied medicine in Alinot and at Bowdoin College, graduating from the latter institution in the famous class of 1825 ; took the degree of M. D. in 1828, and commenced practice in Turner, after which he practiced a wdiile in Lew-iston Falls and the city of Portland, and finally removed to Auburn, where the latter part of his life was passed. In 1845 he relin quished allopathy for homoeopathy, whicli he thereafter practiced. He had a large practice, and at the time of his death was the oldest physician in the county, also one of its best linguists. He was a trustee of Lewiston Falls Academy for many years, a deacon and treas urer of the Congregational church, and a de voted Christian. He married, in Turner, Sep tember 3, 1829, Arcy Gary, born February 15, 1797, died July 5, 1855, in Portland. She was the daughter of Daniel and Alehitable (Brett) Gary, of Bridgewater. Children: i. George Richmond, born 1831. 2. Herbert Cary, see forward. 3. Clara French, born 1835. 4. Theodore Dwight, born 1838. Dr. Bradford married (second) Mary Howe, in Portland, Alaine, November 16, 1859. No chUdren. (IX) Dr. Herbert Cary, second son of Dr. Richmond and Arcy (Cary) Bradford, was born in Turner, August 24, 1833. He studied medicine wdth his father, was a student at the Aledical School of Alaine, at Bowdoin College, and at the Homoeopathic Aledical College of Philadelphia, from w-hich he was graduated in 1856. He immediately began the practice of his profession in Lewiston, where he still con tinues and where he has attained an enviable reputation. His practice steadily increased from year to year, and is now one of the largest and most select in the city, of which he is also one of the highly respected citizens. Fle is a member of Alaine Homoeopathic So ciety. He married Julia Aldinda Fales, born February 17, 1834, at Thomaston, Maine, died October 14, 1887, at Lewiston, Maine, daugh ter of Oliver and Alary (Spear) Fales, the former of whom was born at Thomaston, No vember 17, 1778, died December 10, 1858, at Rockland, and the latter born at Rockland,. Maine, January 16, 1799, died January 18, 1884, at Lewdston. Air. and Mrs. Fales were the parents of four children : Alary Thomas, Oliver Bailey, Edward S. and Julia Aldinda. Children of Dr. and Airs. Bradford: i. Car rie Adams, born June 3, 1862, resides at home. 2. WiUiam Herbert, see forward. (X) Dr. William Herbert, son of Dr. Her bert (iary and Julia Aldinda (Fales) Brad ford, was born in Leyyiston, Alaine, January I, 1866. He attended the Lewiston public school ; he received the degrees of A. B. and A. Al. from Bowdoin College in 1888 and 1891, respectively, and that of AL D. in 1891 at the Medical School of Maine, and is now practicing his profession in the city of Port land, making a specialty of surgery, in which line he is highly successful. He is instructor in surgery and clinical surgery in the Aledical School of Maine, is serving in the capacity of surgeon at the Maine General Hospital, which position he has occupied for eight years, and for seven years previously was assistant sur geon at the same institution. He is consulting surgeon to the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Children's Hospital of Portland. He is a member of Alaine Medical Association, American Academy of Medicine, Portland Medical Club, Cumberland County Aledical Association and Pathological Club. Dr. Brad ford married, at Portland, September 4, 1901, Marcia Bowman Knight, born in Portland, October 11, 1869, daughter of George H. Knight, of Portland. Children: i. William Herbert Jr., born August 19, 1902. 2. George Knight, born June 22, 1908. Dr. Bradford is a Congregationalist, and his wife a member of the Unitarian church. (For ancestry see William Bradford I.) (A) Alajor John, eldest son BRADFORD of Alajor AViUiam Bradford and . his first wdfe, Alice Richards, was born at Plymouth, Alassachu setts, February 20, 1651-52, and died at Kings ton, Alassachusetts, December 8, 1736. He was a justice of the peace, as appears by rec ord of a marriage ceremony performed at Plympton, and probably bore a part in the colonial wars. He lived a little northwest of the Kingston landing. On January 6, 1674- J.e^.is His!..3:-.c^l Put STATE OF MAIXE. 500' 75, he maried Mercy, daughter of Joseph and Priscilla Warren, born September 23, 1653, died in March, 1747, aged ninety-three years six months. Joseph Warren, father of Mrs. Bradford, was son of Richard Warren, who ¦came over in the "Mayflower." Major John .and Mercy (Warren) Bradford had children: John, born December 25, 1675; Alice, Janu- .ary 28, 1677; Abigail, December 10, 1679; Mercy, December 20, 1681 ; Samuel, whose sketch follows; Priscilla, Alarch 10, 1686; WiUiam, April 15, 1688. (VI) Lieutenant Samuel, second son of Alajor John and Alercy (Warren) Bradford, was born at Kingston, Alassachusetts, Decem ber 23, i68.-3, lived at Plympton, Alassachu setts, and died there Alarch 26, 1740, aged fifty-six years three months. He yvas often elected a selectman, and was a representative to the general court. October 21, 1714, he married Sarah, daughter of Edward Gray, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, granddaughter of Ed ward Gray, of Plympton, by Dorothy, his sec ond wife. Nine years after her husband's death, September 7, 1749, Mrs. Sarah Brad ford married William Hunt, of Alartha's A'ineyard, where she died in October, 1770, having passed her fourscore years. Children of Lieutenant Samuel and Sarah (Gray) Bradford : John, born AprU 8, 1717, died Sep tember 28 that year; (jideon, yyhose sketch foUows; WUliam, December 16, 1720, died February 16, 1724-25; Mary, October 16, 1722, married Abial Cook, of 'Tiverton, Rhode Island; Sarah, April 14, 1725, married Ephraim Paddock ; AVilliam, November 8, 1728, died at Bristol, Rhode Island, July 6, 1808; Mercy, April 12, 1731, died on June i of that year; Abigad, June 12, 1732, married Caleb Stetson and died at Plympton, July 31, 1775; Phebe, March 30, 1735, married Shubal Norton, of Martha's Vineyard ; Samuel, April 13, 1740, died at Williamsburg, Massachu setts, August I, 1813. (VII) Gideon, second son of Lieutenant Samud and Sarah (Gray) Bradford, was born October 27, 1718, at Plympton, Alassa chusetts, and died there October 18, 1793, lacking three weeks of seventy-five years. Ele was married about 1742 by Rev. Nathaniel Leonard, to Jane, daughter of Ichabod and Joanna Paddock, of Yarmouth, afterwards of Middleboro, Massachusetts. She was born August 30, 1717, daughter of Elder Thomas Faunce, the last ruling elder of the church at Plymouth. Mrs. Jane (Paddock) Bradford, -widow of Gideon Bradford, died at Plympton, Massachusetts, April 18, 1795, aged seventy- seven years seven months. Children of Gideon and Jane (Paddock) Bradford: Levi, born February 16, 1743, died at Homer, Xew York, September 5, 1822, aged seventy-nine years. Joseph, October 19, 1745, died at Washington, Beaufort county. North Carolina, August, 1787. Sarah, mentioned in next para graph. Samuel, June 20, 1750, died at Plymp ton, Alassachusetts, Alarch 26, 1835, aged eighty-five years. Gideon, May 30, 1752, died at Plympton, Alassachusetts, April 16, 1805, aged fifty-two years ten months. Calvin, July 25, 175.:^, died at Plympton, April 24, 1835, in his eighty-first year. (A'TII) Sarah, eldest daughter of Gideon and Jane (Paddock) Bradford, was born May 19, 1749, at Plympton, Alassachusetts, and died at the home of her son. Freeman (2) EUis at Carthage, Alaine, September 2, 1837, in her ninetieth year. She was married at Plympton, in 1766, to Freeman Ellis, then of that town, but who subsequently removed to Hartford, Maine, where he died Alarch 15, 1802. (See Ellis V.) It is said by antiquarians and HOLT students of the origin and signifi cation of surnames that the fam ily name Holt is derived from "a holt, or grove," at or near which dwelt some remote English ancestor. The progenitor of the American branch of the family was a pioneer settler in two towns and a man of influence among his associates. There is a tradition that the dwelling of Nicholas Elolt, the immi grant, is one which still stands on Holt's Hill, sometimes called Prospect Hill, in Andover, Alassachusetts. The descendants of the immi grant in .Andover have been noticeable for their attention to learning. The Holt family in that town included four college graduates previous to 1800. The family in this country in all its branches is very large and includes many names of considerable prominence in the town of Andover and elsewhere X^icliolas Holt w-as a passenger in the ship "James," of London, AA'illiam Corper, master, which sailed from Southampton, England, about April 16, 1635, and arrived at Boston, New England, June 3 following, after a voy age of forty-eight days. The names of forty- three male persons are found as passengers on the ship's roll, "besides the wdves and chil dren of Dyvers of them." .Among the former occurs the name of Nicholas Holte, of Rom- sey (county of Hants), England, "Tanner." L^ndoubtedly he was accompanied by a wife and at least one child. He proceeded the same 500- STATE OF AlAINE year to Newbury, where he was one of the first settlers and resided there some ten years. There he received his proportionate share of the lands allotted to each proprietor. In 1637 his name appears as one of the ten persons who in order to prevent the re-election of Sir Henry Vane to the office of governor, and to strengthen the friends of Governor Winthrop, went from Newbury to Cambridge on foot, forty niUes, and qualified themselves to vote by taking the freeman's oath May 17, 1637. This defeat was a severe blow to the pride of Sir Henry Vane. April 19, 1638, Nicholas Holt was chosen one of the surveyors of highways "for one whole yeare & till new be chosen." February 24, 1637, it was agreed that William Aloody, James Browne, Nic. Holt, Francis Plummer, Na Noyse, shall lay out all the general fences in the towne, that are to be made, as likewise tenn rod between man & man for garden plotts this is to be done by the 5tli of March on the penalty of 5s apiece." In June, 1638, all the able-bodied men of Newbury were enrolled and formed into four companies under the command of John Pike, Nicholas Holt, John Baker and Edmund Greenleafe They were required to "bring their arms compleat on Sabbath day in a month and the lecture day following," and "stand sentindl at the doors all the time of the publick meeting." The first church records of Newbury prior to 1674 are lost, and consequently the name of Nicholas Holt is not found, but it appears in the following order of the town records : "Jan. 18, 1638. It is ordered that Richard Knight, James Brown & Nicholas Holt shall gather up the first payment of the meeting house rate, & the town within one fourteen- night on the penalty of 6s 8d apiece." In 1644 Nicholas Holt was one of the ten origi nal settlers who removed their families from Newbury and accompanied their pastor, the Rev. John Woodbridge, to "Chochichawicke," now Andover. On a leaf in the town records containing the list of householders in order as they came to the town his name is sixth. He was one of the ten male members, includ ing the pastor-elect, who composed the church at the ordination of Air. John Woodbridge, October 24, 1645. May 26, 1647, he was ap pointed in connection with Sergeant Marshall "to lay out the highway between Reading and Andover, and with Lieut. Sprague and Ser geant Marshall to view the river (Ipswich River) and make return to the court of the necessity and charge of a bridge and make return to the next session of this court." At a general court held May 2, 1652, .he was ap pointed with Captain Johnson, of Woburn, and Thomas Danforth, of Cambridge, "to lay the bounds of Andover," and May 18, 1653, he was appointed with Captain Richard Walker and Lieutenant Thomas Marshall to lay out the highway betwixt Andover and Reading and at the same term of court, Sep tember 20, 1655, the committee made a report of said survey. Nicholas Holt died at Andover, January 30, 1685, aged one hundred and four years, says the record, but Coffin, with more probability, says eighty-three In his early life he carried on the business of manufacturer of wooden- ware. A few years before his death, in dis tributing his property among his children, he styles himself "dish-turner." The word "tan ner" on the roll of the ship "James" is prob ably an error of the recording official who mis took the word turner for tanner. There is no doubt but that the same mo tives that actuated the other early settlers of New England in leaving their pleasant homes in England and emigrating to this country had their due influence on him. That he was a religious man is made evident by the fact that he was one of the original members of the Andover church, and by his forsaking his. native home in England to encounter the pri vations and difficulties of the wilderness in or der that he might enjoy the privileges of wor shipping God according to the convictions of his own mind and his understanding of God's word. While honestly and conscientiously dis charging his duties in this regard he took an active part in public affairs of the town and his appointment on important committees in laying out roads and other improvements in dicates that his services were valuable and appreciated. Nicholas Holt was married in England a few years before he came to Massachusetts. The name of his wife was Elizabeth Short, of whom nothing more is known except that she died at Andover, Noveinber 9, 1656. He mar ried (second) June 20, 1658, Hannah, widow of Daniel Rolfe, and daughter of Humphrey Bradstreet. She died June 20, 1665, at Andover, and he married (third) Alav 21, 1666, Widow Martha Preston, who ' died March 21, 1703, aged eighty years. He had by his first wife four sons and four daugh ters; by his second wife, one son and one daughter. His children', born in Newbury, were: Elizabeth, Mary, Samuel, .Andy; and in Andover, Henry Nicholas, James, John and Priscilla. STATE OF AlAINE. 500" A'arious members of the Holt family re moved from .Andover, Alassachusetts, soon after the revolutionary war. in the settlement of the towns of Alaine, back from the coast. Captain WUliam Holt, of Andover, a master mariner, with his two sons, Stephen and Na- tlian, settled in Wilton and later in Weld, Alaine; the sons in 1807, and the father in 1812. The sons took up land, and were for many years fanners. Another son of Wil liam was Asa, who lived in Weld, where he died in 1825. (I) Abel Holt, supposed to have been a na tive of -Andover. Alassachusetts, lived and died in Weld. He was a farmer, and took a lively interest in public affairs and held town offices. He married (first) Lydia Pratt; children: Hubbard, Erastus, Abiah Jr., a son who was lost at sea ; Otis, Grace and Isabel. He mar ried a second wife, by whom he had two chil dren : Whitman and a daughter Lois. (II) Erastus, second son of -Abel and Lydia (Pratt) Holt, was born in Weld, in September, 1818, and died January 28, 1897, aged seventy-nine. He was a fanner and car penter, and lived for years in Portland, where he worked at his trade He married Lucinda, daughter of Ephraim and Lydia (Stiles) Packard; chUdren: i. .Artemas G., kiUed in stantly in a railroad accident in 1905. 2. Xel lie -A., married (first) a Air. Bishop, and (second) Franklin Sanborn; now- resides in Walpole, Alassachusetts. 3. Charles O., mar ried Miss Bucknell, of Canton, Alaine; lives in Lewiston. 4. Henrietta L., married Charles Glover, now deceased; she lives in Canton. 5. Emma L., deceased; married AL T. Hatch, of Hyde Park, Alassachusetts. 6. Erastus E. ; see forward. (Ill) Dr. Erastus Eugene, youngest child of Erastus and Lucinda (Packard) Holt, was born in Peru, Oxford county, Alaine, June i, 1849. He was a boy of four years when his father removed with his family to East Stoughton, Alassachusetts, and there had charge of the Alms House and House of Cor rection, and in connection with his official du ties carried on the farm connected with the almshouse property, and also performed con siderable work in' highway construction. In 1857 he returned with his parents to the old homestead in Peru, and two years later his fatlier went to California, leaving young Eras tus at home with his older brother, Artemus C. Holt, and their mother, who kept house for them while her sons did the work of the farm. In 1861 he went to Canton, Oxford county, and in .August of that year his mother was stricken ill and died. Young Holt lived with the family of his grandfather, Ephraim Pack ard, of Buckfield, until 1864, being then fifteen years old, and he then went to live in Canton with John P. Swasey and .Albion Thorne, and worked as clerk in the store of wdiich they were proprietors. During the latter part of the time young Holt was at w-ork in the store in Canton, he organized an amateur minstrel company and gave exhibitions in the district school house of the village. Soon afterw-ard he went to Lew-iston, and there found w-ork in a store kept by a Air. Pulverman, whose stock in trade comprised Yankee notions. In i8(-)6 he went to Clinton to work for .Abijah Billings, in a w-ool-carding iiiUl which was run day and night. It was here that he strapped his books at the side of the feeder of the carding ma chine, and studied them at every opportunity during the long and weary nights ; and here too he committed to memory Harkness' Latin Grammar, and when he went back to school again in the fall his classmates wondered how it was that he happened to know- so much about Latin. In 1866 he returned to Canton, and again was employed by Air. Thorne, and in 1867 he taught his first school in that town. .About this time he secured the services of a Dr. Alajor to give a course of lectures at Canton on psychology, in which he iUustrated all the features of what is known as hypnotism. -At Canton he also worked in the general mer chandise store of Hayford & Bradford, and while there in 1808 he took a rather promi nent part in amateur theatricals, on one occa sion playing Polonius to .Albion Thome's im personation of the title role of Hamlet, with Airs. D. P. Stow-dl as Hamlet's mother, and Otis Hayford as the ghost. In the same year he attended Hebron .Academy, and taught pen manship and bookkeeping. He also acted as local correspondent for the O.vford Democrat,. a Republican newspaper published at Paris, Alaine On one occasion an article written bv him, under the caption of the "Singing Alouse," was widely copied throughout the country and attracted considerable attention. The article in question had its inception in the capture by a Airs. Cooledge of a mouse which in some way was injured about the throat, causing it to make a peculiar rythmic sound. One interesting di^-ertisenlent of our young man about this time was his scheme of organizing a lottery, with the drawing set for the day appointed to decide the contest as to wdiether the town of Canton or Hartford had 500' STATE OF MAIXE. the best wrestler. However, the wrestling con test may have resulted is of little importance to our present narrative, but young Holt's lottery enterprise turned him net profits suffi cient to pay all the expenses of one term at Hebron Academy. .In 1869 he taught school at North Turner, Maine, and had classes in penmanship during the winter term. In 1870 he became a student at Westbrook Seminary, and taught penmanship and bookkeeping dur ing the spring term. During the interval of vacation he canvassed the toyvns of Cumber land and Falmouth, selling maps of the world and of the E'nited States. In the fall of 1870 he became a student at Gorham Semin ary, and also taught penmanship and book keeping during the term. In the fall of 1870 he began teaching in the Willard district at Cape Elizabeth, and continued through the winter term, at the same time conducting an evening school in penmanship and bookkeep- 'ing. In 1871 he was a student at Gorhani Seminary, and during the spring term taught the special branches referred to in the pre ceding paragraphs. In this year young Holt took up the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. J. G. Pierce, of Canton, with whom he became regularly registered. However, he continued teaching as previously, and also kept up his evening classes in penmanship and bookkeep ing. In 1 87 1 and the early part of 1872 he taught in the Ferry district at Cape Eliza beth, and afterward in the WiUard district; and in the former year also he went to Boston and became expert accountant and bookkeeper for the wholesale drygoods house of Anderson Heath & Co. In 1872 he attended his first course of lectures at the Aledical School of Alaine, Brunswick, and afterward during the same year went to Deer Island, Boston, as teacher in the City Reform School, of wdiich in the next year he became principal. At that time he suffered a serious attack of typhoid fever, but even this served its useful purpose in his own after life, for he wrote out about forty large pages of manuscript with a full account of his experiences while in typhoid delirium. In 1873 he went to Hanover, New Hampshire, and took a course in the prepara tory school of medicine of Dartmouth Medical College. In 1874 he resumed study in the Medical School of Maine, and at the same time took up especial laboratory work under Pro fessor Carmichad. In June, 1874, Air. Holt completed his second course of medical lec tures at Brunswick, and received the degree of Al. D. His graduation thesis was on the subject of typhoid fever, and in the presen tation of his argument he was able to draw largely upon his own recent experiences while suffering with that disease. His class num bered twenty-eight members, of wdiom only twenty-one were successful at the final ex aminations and received diplomas. Imme diately after graduation he was elected demon strator of anatomy in his ' alma mater, and during the same year became a member of the Alaine Aledical Association. During that summer he took a summer course at the Port land School for Aledical Instruction, later went to X'ew York City and attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, now the medical department of Columbia Uni versity. In 1875 he graduated from the Col lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and received its degree of Al. D., again presenting a thesis on typhoid fever, to fulfill the requirements of graduation. 'While in New York he also took a special course in operative surgery under Prof. Sabine, and on returning to Maine be came demonstrator of anatomy in the Aledical School of Alaine In 1875 he attended clinics at the Alassachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, and studied the ' ear under Dr. Clarence J. Blake ; and returning, was made house surgeon at the Maine General Hospital, beginning his duties there in August of that year. He made quarterly reports of all medi cal and surgical cases treated at the hospital for the year 1875, and these reports were published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. He also wrote a history of the Maine General Hospital, wdiich was published in the Portland Transcript. In 1876 Dr. Hoh opened an office at No. II Brown street, Portland, and began his career as a general practitioner of medicine and surgery. .About the same time he became attending physician and surgeon to the Port land Dispensary, was elected member of the Cumberland County Aledical Society, founded the Portland Aledical Club, served ^as demon strator of anatomy at the Aledical School of Alaine, and prosected for Dr. Thomas Dwight, professor of anatomy in that institution. .At the same time he continued his connection wdth the Maine General Hospital, to the first of August, and reports of medical and surgical cases treated there. In 1877 he read a paper before the Portiand Aledical Club on diseases of the eye, served as attending physician and surgeon to Portland Dispensary, read a paper entitled "Report on Otology" before the Maine Medical Association, yyhich was pub lished in the Transactions of that year, and at- STATE OF MAINE. 500' tended clinics at the Alanhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New A^ork, where his instructors were Drs. Agnew, St. John Roosa, David AVebster, O. D. Pomeroy and J. Oscroft Tans- ley. In the foUoyying year he attended clinics at the same famous institution, and also at the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, under Dr. Herman Knapp ; served as delegate from the Alaine Aledical Association to the meeting of the Connecticut Medical Society, and was elected a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1879 he took a special course of instruction in the laboratory of Professor Heitzmann, of Xew A'ork, at tended clinics at the Alanhattan Eye and Ear Hospital and the New A'ork Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, delivered a lecture on the eye before the Alaine Charitable Alechanics' .Asso ciation, and read a paper on "Strabismus Con- vergens" before the' Alaine Aledical .Associa tion, the same being published in the Transac tions of the .Association. In 1880 Dr. Holt became a Alaster Alason, attended clinics in X'ew York as mentioned in the last paragraph, took a second course in Professor Heitzmann's laboratory, and pre sented before the State Aledical Association a valuable paper on "Oitis Aledia Non-suppura- tiva," based on one thousand cases of diseases of the ear observed in private practice. In AprU, 1 88 1, he went to Europe and visited various hospitals in England, Ireland and on the continent, but spent the greater part of his time at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hos pital, from w-hich institution he received a cer tificate;, was elected member of the seventh International Aledical Congress, held in Lon don; made a report of the proceedings of the Congress to the Maine Aledical Association; attended special lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons by Jonathan Elutchinson; pre sented papers on "Supperation of the Aliddle Ear" and "Acute Diseases of the Ear" before the Portiand Aledical Club; lectured on the ¦eye before the Alaine Charitable Alechanics' Association, and read a paper before the Curn- herland County Aledical Society on the "Pupil of the Eye in Health and Disease." In 1882 he became a member of the Amer ican Otological Society, and read before that body a paper on "Boilermakers' Deafness and Hearing in a Noise"; also read a paper on "Diseases of the Lachrymal Apparatus" before the Maine Medical Association. This paper ¦embodied much work, as it included the views of many medical men consulted in England and elsewhere while Dr. Holt was abroad ; also prepared an article on "Acute Inflammation of the Aliddle Ear," published in the American Journal of Otology; and read before the Port land Aledical Club a paper on "Practical Points in Eye Diseases." His work for 1886 in cluded a paper on "Diseases of the Alastoid," read before the Alaine Aledical -Association and published in the Transactions; "Observa tions on the Hearing Power in Different Con ditions" ; "Report of a Case of Teratoid Tu mor of Both Auricles," haying a clinical his tory of a recurrent fibroid, papers read before the American Otological Society, and pub lished; "Commotio Retinae, or some of the eft'ects of direct and indirect blows to the eye," paper read before the .American Ophthalmo- logical Society and published, 1884; "Dif ferential Diagnosis between Conjunctivitis and Iritis," and "Treatment of Ulcers of the (Cor nea," papers read before the Alaine Aledical Association and published; "Catarrh and Its Results," paper read before the Portland Aled ical Club ; and an address on the eye at a meeting of the teachers of the public schools of Portland, 1885; "First Series of One Hun dred Cases of Cataract, with Operations,'' paper read before the Alaine Aledical .Asso ciation and published ; "Refraction of the Eye," paper read before the Portland Aledical Club ; "Does Cocaine Hydrochlorate while re lieving the pain in Acute Olitis Aledia pro long the congestion," paper read before the American Otological Society, and published; "Strabismus, its correction when excessive and in high degrees of Amblyopia," paper read before the New England Ophthalmological Society and the American Ophthalmological Society, and published ; "Present Condition of Patient from yvhom Teraloid Tumors of Both Auricles were removed in 1883," paper read before the American Otological Society, and published. In 1885 Dr. Holt was one of the founders of the New England Ophthalmolog ical Society. In 1886, "The treatment of De tachment of the Retina," paper published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology; "The importance of an Institution devoted to the Treatment of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in Maine," address before the incorporators of the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Holt founded the Alaine Eye and Ear In firmary, and became its executive and attend ing surgeon. In this year he wrote several articles which were intended to answer cer tain statements published in the Portland Evening Advertiser against organizing the in firmary, and by his argument showed con clusively why such an institution was a great public necessity. He also prepared for pub- 500" STATE OF MAINE. lication the first annual report of the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1887. "An Efficient Powder Blower," with remarks on the use of powders in the treatment of diseases of the ear, paper read before the American Oto logical Society, and published ; prepared re port of cases to and discussion of cases pre sented at meeting of New England Ophthal mological Society ; served as executive and at tending surgeon to Maine Eye and Ear In firmary and prepared its second annual report for publication. 1888, "Third Report on Tera loid Tumors of both Auricles," paper read be fore American Otological Society, and pub lished; "Glass and Glasses," paper read before Portland Medical Club ; executive and attend ing surgeon to Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary and prepared its third annual report for pub lication; member of the First Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, held in Washington, D. C. ; report of cases to and discussion of cases presented at New England Ophthalmological Society. 1889, "The Treat ment of Ulcers of the Cornea," paper read before the Maine Medical Association, and published ; "The Inefficiency of Hydrobromate of Homatropine in controlling the accommo dation of the Eye for the purpose of fitting glasses," paper read before the American Ophthalmological Society, and published; "Complete closure of both external auditory canals by bone in a patient having good hear ing power, with a previous history of Chronic Superative Otitis Media," and "Otitis Media Catarrhalis Aucta, accompanied with facial paralysis and impairment of accommodation of the eye of the affected side," paper read be fore American Otological Society, and pub lished; "The adjustment of the Eye in the act of vision," paper read before the Portland Medical Club: report and discussion of cases presented at New England Ophthalmological Society; executive and attending surgeon at Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary and prepared Its fourth annual report for publication; 1890, "The Muscles and the Refraction of the Eyes," paper read before Portland Medical Club ; address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary; elected honorary member of the Lincoln Club, Port land. 1891, advocated and secured a "Law for the Prevention of Blindness," by the legis lature of Maine, similar to that enacted'^by the legislature of New York state, Maine beino- the second state to enact such a law ; "Extrac*^ tion of foreign bodies from the Vitreous of the Eye," paper read before the American Ophthalmological Society, and published 1892, "Orbital Cellulitis," paper read before Portland Medical Club and American Oto logical Society; address at the dedication of Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary. 1893, "Re moval of steel from the Vitreous of the Eye by the electro-magnet," paper read before American Ophthalmological Society ; "Asepis in Ophthalmology," paper read before Port land Medical Society ; "Removal of the entire Auricle and a part of the lobe of the ear by the bite of a horse," paper read before Amer ican Otological Society. 1894, founded the Maine Academy of Aledicine and Science, and its official organ. The Journal of Medicine and Science, by means of wdiich the enactment of the law for medical registration was secured by act of the legislature at its session in 1895 ; editor and manager of the Journal of Medi cine and Science; "Removal of foreign bodies from the Vitreous," paper read at first meet ing of Maine Academy of Medicine and Sci ence and published in its official organ. 1895, "Laws Relating to the Practice of Medicine in the several States and Territories of the United States," compiled from various sources ; "Two Cases of Otitis Media Supperativa, with necrosis of the mastoid, operation followed by Death," paper read before American Otolog ical Society, "Relation of Modern Civiliza tion to Affections of the Eye and Nervous System, and the Relation of Ametropia to Dis eases of the Eye," paper read before Maine Academy of Medicine and Science; "Some of the practical results derived from a study of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye," published in Journal of Medicine and Sci ence; "Report of eight cases of removal of metal from the Vitreous by the electro-magnet, with a review of nine cases previously Re ported," paper read before American Ophthal mological Society. In 1895 Dr. Holt was one of the original fellows of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, editor of the Journal of Medicine and Science, and as in preceding years executive and attending surgeon at Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary. His. work for 1896 and succeeding years may be noted briefly as follows : "Review of Diseases of the Ear by A. H. Buck, M. D., New York, in the Twentieth Century Practice of Medi cine," published in the Journal of Medicine and Science; "Ophthalmology and Otology," published in the same journal ; "Otitis Media suppurative with an unusual perforation of the Mastoid," paper read before American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society at the New York Academy of Medi- - STATE OF MAINE. 500' cine. 1897, "Hygiene of Camp Life" ; "Oph thalmology and Otology," published in the Journal of Medicine and Science; "Five re cent consecutive cases of the Ear in which an extensive operation was performed on the Mastoid," paper published in the International Journal of Surgery, New York; report of meeting of the British Medical .Association held in Montreal, Canada, in September ; re-, port of cases and their discussion at the New England Ophthalmological Society; elected fellow of the American Medical .Association at its meeting in Philadelphia ; received honor ary degree of master of arts from Colby Uni versity; elected delegate fjoni Alaine Aledical Association to annual meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York. 1898, re port and discussion of cases presented at the New England Ophthalmological Society ; con tinued as in former years editor and manager of Journal of Medicine and Science; also executive and attending surgeon Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, and prepared its thirteenth annual report for publication ; discussed paper on the "Local treatment of sinuses of the ex tremities," stating that the oil of cassia dis pels the odor of iodoform ; delegate to meeting of New York State Medical Association, re sponded to a toast, "Maine," at a largely at tended banquet at Hotel Alanhattan, New York City ; at a meeting of the Aledical So ciety of the State of New York held at Al bany, by invitation opened the discussion of a paper on "The importance of early treatment of Acute Diseases of the Ear" ; became one of the incorporators of the Mercantile Trust Company, and elected a director. 1899, "Mas toiditis," paper read before American Otolog ical Society. 1900, "The Douche in the treat ment of Ophthalmia Neonatorium," paper read before the Section of Ophthalmology of the American Aledical Association at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and published in the jour nal of the association ; "Eulogy on Payson Tucker," an address delivered at the unveiling of the marble bust of Payson Tucker, which was presented to the Maine Eye and Ear In firmary by Mrs. Tucker; associate editor of the Journal of Medicine and Science; "Func tional Disturbances of the Eye," paper read before New England Ophthalmological So ciety; "Relations of Ametropia to Affections of the Eye and the Nervous System," paper read before Alaine Academy of Aledicine and Sdence, published in the Journal of Medicine and Science; "The Ophthalmometer," pub lished in the Ophthalmic Record for Novem ber. 1901, "Abraham Lincoln," address de livered at the auditorium, Portland, at the eleventh annual banquet of the Lincoln Club in observance of the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln; discussion of a paper on "A New Study in Exophthalmic Goitre," by Edwin AL Fuller, paper read be fore Alaine Medical Association; became one of the original members of the National As sociation of United States Pension Examining Surgeons. 1902, assodate editor of Journal of Medicine and Science; discussed paper on "Re moval of bits of steel from the interior of the Eye," by Dr. Myles Standish, Boston; "Na ture and treatment of Ptergyiuni," bv Dr. G. O. AIcReynoIds, of Dallas, Texas, and "Two cases of retinal detachment treated wdth sub- conjunctional injections of salt solution by Dr. R. L. Randolph, of Baltimore, Maryland," at section of Ophthalmology of the American Medical Association at Saratoga Springs, Neyy A^ork, in June. In 1902 Dr. Holt prepared a comprehensive historical and statistical account of the Port land Aledical Club, covering the entire period of its existence, from 1876 to this year. In 1903 he still occupied the chair of associate editor, and also still held the position of executive and attending surgeon to the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary, with which he had been connected from the time of its founda tion. Early in November, 1903, while return ing from Cape Elizabeth to Portland with his wife, his horse and carriage were, on account of the absence of proper lights, driven on a pile of earth in the highway, which had been placed there by workmen in the service of a telephone company, and both occupants of the carriage were thrown violently to the ground by the overturning of the vehicle, at a point in Knightville near the schoolhouse. In this accident Dr. Holt was badly injured about the head, shoulders and thigh, and was quite un fitted for any kind of work for several months, being compelled to go about with crutches, and also being afflicted with double vision by reason of the injuries to his head; but while comparatively inactive in body his mind was constantly at work, and during that time he devised a mathematical formula for the nor mal earning ability of the body. A paper in cluding this formula was read in the section of ophthalmology of the .American Medical Association at its fifty-seventh annual session in June, 1906, and is pubUshed under the title of "Physical Economies." Briefly stated, it comprises "a mathematical formula for the normal earning ability of the body by which, yyith the requisite data a person may be either 500° STATE OF AlAINE. rated, or his economic value may be ascer tained, and thereby damages to his body from injury or disease, with an indemnity to be al lowed therefor, may be determined in a man ner equitable to all concerned." This work of Dr. Holt's has attracted wide attention in pro fessional and scientific circles. It has been received with great interest in the assemblages of several of the most celebrated medical bodies in the country, and has received conspicuous attention in Europe In the same year, 1904, he was elected vice-president of the National Association of United States Pension Exam iners. Elis papers for the year include dis cussions of many important subjects by lead ing professional men, specialists and scien tists, a detail of all of whom are hardly neces sary to this narrative. On June 13 of this year President FeUows, of the University of Alaine, wrote as follows : 'Tt is my pleasure to inform you that the trustees at their recent meeting, held at the university, voted to con fer upon you for distinguished services in the field of medicine, profound scholarship, and the most noteworthy services to the public in relief of suffering, the degree of Doctor of Laws." In 1905 he became one of the mem bers of the Alaine Eye and Ear Association, the organization of which was urged by him as early as 1901. He wrote a sketch of Dr. Henry P. Merrill, of Portland, who died Alay II, 1905, which was published in the transac tions of the Alaine Aledical Association. In 1906 he delivered an address on "Physical Economics" at the Alaine Eye and Ear In firmary, discussed a paper relating to ".Affec tions of the Eye" at the June meeting of the Alaine Aledical Association, discussed a paper on"LTniocular Inflammation of the Optic Nerve and Retina," by Dr. .A. A. Hiibbdl, of Buf falo, New A'ork, also a paper on the "Use of Secondary Cataract Knife," by Aldville Black, of Denver, Colorado ; and also on "Physical Economics" by himself at the section of oph thalmology of the American Aledical Asso ciation. In 1907 his contributions to medical literature for the year included a discussion of "Body and Mind, with incidental reference to the Laws of Heredity"; the "Rational Treat ment of Nervous Diseases" ; "Psychotherapy" ; and "Diagnosis and Early 'Treatment of Mas toiditis." He also discussed a paper entitied "Premiums Paid to Experience," by Dr. E. T. Rogers, of Providence, Rhode Island, and read his own views before the section of ophthal mology of the American Medical Association at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in June of that year. Before the section of Laryngology and Otology, on the same occasion, he opened the discussion of Dr. James F. AIcKernon's paper on "Otitic Phlebitis : its symptomology, diag nosis and treatment." .At the thirty-second annual meeting of the Portland Aledical Club in this year he delivered an oration oh "Physi cal Economics and the Aleasure of Damages by Alathematics." -At the meeting of the New- England Ophthalmological Society held in Boston in February, 1908, he delivered an ad dress on subject just inentioned, discussed paper on "Bright's Disease and its ocular man ifestations," and read before the X'ational As sociation of L^nited. States Pension Examin ing Surgeons at Chicago in June, his own paper on the "Economic A-'alue of Alan and the Aleasure of Damages." At the meeting of the section of Laryngology of the Amer ican Aledical Association, held in Chicago, in June, Dr. Holt opened the discussion of Dr. Dunbar Roy's paper on "X'asal Analgesia as a prognostic symptom in Dry Catarrhal Deaf ness," and in the section of ophthalmology he discussed the paper of Dr. H. Aloulton, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the "Treatment of Strictures of Nasal Duct yvith Lead Styles." In the same year also he w-as elected delegate of the Alaine Aledical Association to the house of delegates of the American Aledical Asso ciation. We learn from these records that Dr. Holt in his childhood came in contact w-ith the un fortunate poor, w-hen his father had charge of the almshouse and house of correction in Mas sachusetts, that he became a teacher, and later principal in the Reform School for Boys for the city of Boston. He thus at tw'o different periods of his life dwelt among the poor and early became cognizant of the misfortunes of life. This no doubt caused him to have a deep feeling for those in humble circum stances, who meet with accidents and sick ness that deprive them of the means of sup port and make them dependent upon others. It was a potent influence in impelling him to found the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary. _ He taught school a portion of the time for six years, beginning at the age of eighteen, and he was in a store for general merchandise for a portion of the time for six years, acting as clerk, salesman and bookkeeper, under such men as Albion Thorne, A. M., a graduate of Tufts CoUege ; John P. Swazey, who has been electecl_ to congress from the second district of Alaine; Otis Hayford, who has served on the state board of assessors ever since it was STATE OF MAINE. 500^ organized, and Dura Bradford. As student, clerk, salesman, bookkeper and teacher he al ways strove to do his best for all concerned. He thus became well fitted to enter college, but too late for a four years' course followed by a course in the study of medicine such as he contemplated. His opportunities were all in favor of his studying law instead of medi cine, but as he had been a sufferer from ear ache and its consequent deafness in childhood, and had found by experience that doctors knew little or nothing about diseases of the ear, he determined to study medicine and make him self familiar with the best methods known for their treatment. This he knew would take much more time than that required for the general practice of medicine, hence it w-as his principal reason for not taking a four }-ears' college course. It will be seen then that Dr. Holt's own misfortune in the period of child hood and youth lead him to study medicine and practice a specialty to alleviate the suf ferings, or prevent similar misfortunes in others. Thus from this circumstance in his life is the state indebted to him for the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary. In his first year's service as demonstrator of anatomy he established the rule that no medi cal student should be credited with having dissected any part of the body unless that student had actually done so and had demon strated the anatomical structures to him or one of his assistants, one of whom was ex- Governor J. F. HiU, of Augusta. During the two years of his service as demonstrator of anatomy he prosected for Professor Dwight, who then was professor of anatomy at the Medical School of Maine, and now occupies the same position in the Harvard Aledical School. Some of these dissections were note worthy, especially one which showed the brain, spinal cord and nerves complete, and which was exhibited to the president and whole faculty of the college and preserved in the museum. Another specimen, a novelty at that time, was a solid cross section of the head from which Prof. Dwight had drawings made and upon wdiich he wrote his book on the "Anatomy of the Head." At the close of his services as demonstrator of anatomy, he attended the clinics at the Alassachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary and studied the ear under Clarence J. Blake, now pro fessor of otology in Harvard University. It was with Dr. Blake that Dr. Holt first met Professor Alexander Graham Bell, before he had invented the telephone, and when he was much interested in experiments of Dr. Blake in recording speech from the movements of the membrana tynipani incident to the sound of the voice. Dr. Holt began his services as the first reg ularly appointed house surgeon of the Maine General Hospital by making accurate records of all cases that were treated in the hospital and delivered therefrom quarterly reports for publication in the Boston Medical and Sur gical Journal, a practice which has not since been followed by any one occupying that po sition. He also wrote a history of the hos pital, which was published in the Portiand Transcript, which evinced an unusual interest in the welfare of the hospital. Dr. Holt was elected attending physician and surgeon to the Portland Dispensary as soon as he left the hospital and he served in that capacity for two years. In this year ( 1876) he, whh other physicians, founded the Portland Aledical Club, now the oldest and largest medical club in the state. He was appointed to make a re port on otology to the Maine Aledical Asso ciation for the annual meeting of 1877. This report attracted wide attention because among other things he proposed a new- method of in flating the middle ear, which method was copied into several American and foreign journals, thus giving Dr. Elolt an international reputation at once. For the next four years he attended clinics in Boston and X^ew York some portion of each year and produced papers on otology and ophthalmology that were widely discussed. In 1881 Dr. Holt went to Europe, as has previously been noted, and upon returning took up practice limited to diseases of the eye and ear, doing nose and throat practice in connection with it, however. For the next five years until 1886, when he founded the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, he devoted himself assiduously to his specialty, and built up a large and lucrative practice. During this time he had become one of the founders of the New England Ophthalmological Society, and been elected a member of the American Oto logical and Ophthalmological societies, before all of yvhich he had read papers which at tracted attention for their force and origin- aUty. The year 1886 marks an important period in Dr. HoU's life, for it was the year in which he founded the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary. It was at the end of his first decade of active practice of medicine in which he had been eminently successful and had become a very busy man. For him to embark upon such an undertaking required great courage and a sac- 500'^ STATE OF MAINE. rifice of time and money, but as he had de termined upon such a course he entered into it with all the energy and optimism at his command. He says in his address at the dedication of the new building: "WeU do I remember in December, 1885, just before Christmas, of starting out with a paper to obtain names to a petition for incorporation. It was the first step to the consummation of a purpose formed long before that time of establishing an institution of this character. The petition was wUlingly signed by all to whom it was presented and encouraging words were given to the enterprise, but it was as evident as had been anticipated that a vast amount of work lay before me, the magnitude of which, had I fully realized as I do now, might have caused me to delay my purpose longer." He knew from history and had learned from experience that those who aspire to improve the conditions of mankind have their paths beset by persecution from adversaries and by misconstruction of friends, therefore he was prepared to meet criticism and opposition which was sure to come. At a meeting held at Reception HaU, City Building, held Febru ary 15, 1886, the petitioners were incorporated under the name of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, according to the statute laws of Maine, which limits the amount of property to be held at $100,000. Nobody thought at that time that the corporation would be troubled on this account, but it proved later to be a serious thing when one of its presi dents, Mr. Ira Putnam Farrington, left it the munificent sum of twice that amount. For the first six years the infirmary was located at no Federal street, opposite Lin coln Park. From the first, economy was pro duced by allowing any spare room to be used by physicians in general practice for cases which would not conflict with those of the in firmary. Thus an income was realized from this source which materially helped to meet current expenses, and the property was bought, remodeled, an addition built, the wdiole fur nished and paid for during this time With all the changes and additions to the original house on Federal street, it did not prove satis factory, and at the end of four years Dr. Holt proposed to the trustees that the lot of land where the buildings now stand should be pur chased. This seemed as chimerical to them at that time as it would have been for the street commissioners of Portland to propose to build a bridge across the harbor. "There w-as, however, one member of the board who. though not present at this meeting, was as optimistic as Dr. Holt, namely, Payson Tucker, and to him Dr. Holt has given due credit in his dedicatory address of the infirmary and in his eulogy at the unveiling of the marble bust of Payson Tucker presented to the infirmary by Mrs. Tucker. There was such a stringency in the money market at this time, the year preceding the great panic of 1892, that Air. Tucker gave a note, instead of a check, for his subscription towards the fund to purchase the land, with a remark that it would be easier to give twice the amount under all ordinary circumstances. Under these most discouraging circumstances money was obtained, a deed of the land se cured and paid for on January 10, 1891. With the land paid for, a capital was provided with which to work, and in building with stores in the basement an income would be derived suf ficient to pay the interest on the money hired in the construction of the building. This feature of the plan enlisted the support of benevolent people, especially in a fair held in May, 1892, and the building was completed and dedicated in December, 1892, Dr. Holt delivering the principal address, from the last part of which we quote the following: "It can be as truly said of the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary on this occasion as at the dedication of the Alassachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1850, when Dr. Reynolds said o-f that institution : Tn its pres ent elevated position, with its increased capac ity for doing good, it is poorer than at any previous time. Alore capable of fulfilling the noble work of charity than perhaps any other institution, it is still itself supported by char ity. No other charity is capable of effecting the same amount of good with so small amount of means.' These institutions administer alike to the worthy and unworthy who are subjects of charity, 'For charity shall cover a multitude of sins.' However erring humanity may be, whenever and wherever one of its members is found in sickness or distress, he claims and should receive our sympathy and support. "These institutions call attention to the im portance and the proper methods of treating these affections and thus prevent long suf fering and disastrous results. Their circle of beneficence, then, is not confined to the poor alone who are immediately benefitted, but ex tends to all classes of society. The people throughout the state can well take pride and satisfaction in having a building so well de signed and so well equipped for the beneficent work it is intended to accomplish. STATE OF AlAINE. 500" "The building is completed. It is finished so far as putting together the materials of its structure is concerned, but its work, so long as the human race exists, can never be com pleted, for 'The poor }-e shall always have with you.' It wUl be a silent witness of mingled joy and sorrow. Joy for the aged whose declining years, shrouded in darkness, are restored to light; joy for the many whose sufferings are relieved, and whose minds are at rest in the assurance that all will be done for them that is possible for their relief. And sorrow for those w-hose misfortunes are be yond relief, who perhaps came too late, or expected more benefit than it would be pos sible to give. In its interior arrangement, in its outward form, in its high ideal, it speaks to-day of a purpose loftier than words can express. It speaks to-day of a capacity to do good, of its necessities with which to accom plish its work, and in its destiny it speaks to-day like the orphan, who must be clothed in the robes of charity and fed with the hand of love. May its pleadings be heard, and may it receive that support which will enable its work to be carried on to the fullest extent. "In closing, I wish to thank you for your kind attention. I wish to express to each and all my sincere thanks for the generous support which has sustained me in this great undertaking. Could the smile of gratitude be seen, the pressure of the hand be felt, and the 'God bless you' be heard from thpse who have received the benefits of this charity, they would serve as the greatest commendation of this occasion and as an expression of gratitude to those who, by their gifts, have made it pos sible. They yvould also serve to prompt the giving of that aid, so much needed at this time, to continue this charitable work in this its enlarged sphere. Let us continue to exem plify more fully that spirit so early taught us that, 'Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.' and thus learn the lesson that true happiness consists in helping others, 'that it is more blessed to give than to receive' Let our ef forts to sustain this new charity in its new- home correspond to its enlarged capacity to do good. Let us trust that ere the hands on the clock's dial shall point to the last hour of the nineteenth century, the work of this charity will have demonstrated the wisdom of its promoters in erecting this building, and that it will be recorded of them that they did their duty, their whole duty, and nothing but their duty to mankind." The law for the prevention of blindness, the passage of which by the Alaine legislature was secured by Dr. Holt, provides that if one or both eyes of an infant becomes reddened or inflamed within four weeks of its birth it shall be the duty of the midwife, nurse or per son having charge of said infant to report the condition of the eyes at once to some legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town or district in which the parents reside. Failure to comply with this law is punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months. This is not excessive when it is considered that about one-fourth of the totally blind are ren dered so by inflammation of the eyes in in fancy which is preventable when treated prop erly. it will be noted that Dr. Holt advocated a new method for the treatment of these cases, namely the douche, which consists in thor oughly syringing out the folds of the upper lids of the eyes, thereby removing the germs which cause the inflammation. Dr. Holt's papers on the removal of steel and iron from the eye attracted wide attention, as he was the first to report a series of cases to the American Ophthalmological Society success fuUy treated by this method. The Transac tion's of the society show that at first he was almost alone in this work, because he had been successful in saving e^es that w-ere often in similar cases removed by the attending physi cian or surgeon on account of danger to the other eye. When, bow-ever, the famUy physi cian or surgeon learned that the iron or steel could be removed with the electro-magnet and the sight saved, they referred such cases to the specialist, so that in after years other specialists had abundant cases to report to the society. In 1894 Dr. Holt took a large amount of additional work upon himself in founding the Maine Academy of Aledicine and Science and its official organ, the Journal of Medicine and Science, for the purpose of obtaining a medi cal registration law for the state of Alaine. Dr. F. E. Sleeper, being a member of the Legislature some six years prior to this time. had secured the passage of a medical regis tration law, but Governor Bodwell was in duced to veto the law after it had been signed by him. This lead to legal proceedings by the Maine Medical .Association to reinstate the law These efforts to restore the law faded 500- STATE OF MAIXE. and the proceedings created a good deal of feeling among the politicians against the med ical profession, so that no attempt had been made to secure another law on account of this feeling. The academy was formed on the basis that la3-men interested in medical sub jects could become members. They did so in large numbers and the passage of the present medical registration law- was secured in 1895. Thus the main object for the founding of the academy was secured wdthin a year, but the meetings of the academy were so interesting, especially to the laymen, that they were con tinued very successfully until a majority of the council thought it proper for the homeopaths to be admitted if laymen were, and upon this point a large number of the minority withdrew from the academy. -At the February meeting of the Academy, to which members of the legislature were in vited and a majority of them attended, making a meeting of two or three hundred. Dr. Holt read his paper on "Relations of Modern Civili zation to -Affections of the Eyes and the Ner vous System, and the Relation of Ametropia to Diseases of the Eyes," in which he advo cated the school physician in the following words : "Constitutional diseases affect the eyes in two ways — directly wdien the structures of the eyes are a part of the system that is involved, and indirectly when the functions of the eyes are reduced by a lowered tone of the system. Every person has a capacity for physical exer cise or mental exertion beyond which it is harmful to go, and the earlier this is learned the better it will be for the individual. Nosce te ipsum is one of the greatest and best at tainments. I do not mean that to know thy self it is necessary to study medicine for years, but to acquire that more important and prac tical knowledge of one's capacity and limita tion for the duties of life. If these are recog nized and acted upon they will guide the in dividual to early select that occupation which he is best adapted to fulfill and will enable him to acquire that mental and physical training without injury to himself, which will best fit him to fulfill the duties of his chosen occupa tion. In order to possess this attainment, ac curate observations must be begun in childhood and be carried on through school life by a new officer to be created — the school physician — who must have special qualifications for the duties to be performed. No one wiU question the absurdity of forcing or even allowing a child to attain a certain rank, or of accom plishing a certain amount of school work, at the expense of breaking down his general health or of injuring his eyes so he will be unable to use that knowledge for practical purposes. And yet this is just wdiat comes to the notice of every physician altogether too frequently. All these disastrous results could be avoided by following the advice of the school physician qualified to make observa tions and examinations of such pupils. It is evident that so much of vital importance to one's future welfare should not be left so largely to chance. But as lamentable as are these results of school life they are not nearly so bad nor so numerous as those of adult Ufe, where the individual has made every prepara tion, and has strained his eye and nervous sys tem beyond their capacity to prepare himself for his chosen occupation, only to find in a few years that his eyes give out and his ner vous system breaks down. AVhat a pitiable condition such a person is in, contending on the one hand against an affection of the eyes which has compelled him to abandon his oc cupation and yyhich tiireatens to keep him away from it permanently, and on the other hand against an impending yvant incident to this disability. It is these cases that appeal loudly for the school physician, for if school life were under proper medical supervision there would be very few- such disasters in adult life." In its truthfulness, breadth and delicate treatment of the life and character of Payson Tucker and his great assistance in founding and carrying on the work of the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirmary, Dr. Holt's eulogy at the unveiling of the marble bust of Air. Tucker presented to the Infirmary by Airs. Tucker is considered a masterpiece by those who listened to it and are critical in their judgment. We quote from it : "One of the marked traits of his character was to assist those wdio had fallen from in herent misfortunes, and many a person has cause to remember him with a grateful heart for the assistance and sympathy rendered to them in their hour of trouble, when the world seemed cold and friendless. However erring persons might be, whenever he found them in sickness or distress, he extended to them his s}-mpatliy and support. "He was fond of calling Alaine the play ground of the nation. He believed in her re sources, her fields, forests, lakes and rivers. He believed that these, with her thousands of miles of indented coast, rock-ribbed by the sea and ancient as the sun, afforded a paradise for tourists unsurpassed in all the world. He STATE OF AlAINE. 500" believed they would come in increasing num bers when the wealth of these in climate, scenery and health-giving properties was more fully realized. Hence he was intensely inter ested in the development of all parts of the state, and ready to assist any effort to make her natural resources more attractive and bet ter known to those who might seek them for health and recreation. Surely by the fruitage of his labors he made to grow two blades of grass where but one grew before. "To err is human, to forgive divine. Pay- son Tucker possessed these attributes of char acter in common with mankind. lie was in tensely human, and his good will to man was one of the conspicuous traits of his character. We must recognize, as he did, that man does not determine his own existence nor the na ture with which he is endowed ; therefore, in estiinating his achievements, we must con sider the obstacles, not only in the workk but in himself, with which he has to contend and overcome. As Winthrop sad in the celebrated eulogy of George Peabody, so we might say here of Payson Tucker with all tenderness of heart : 'A^ou rob him of his richest laurel, you refuse him his brightest crown, when you at tempt to cover up or disguise any of those in nate tendencies, any of those acquired habits, any of those besetting temptations against which he struggled so bravely and so tri umphantly.' His kindness of heart, his gen erous nature, and his achievements were so conspicuous that we are lost in the unity of their accomplishments, and the robe of char ity was so constantly a part of his daily dress that it overshadows all. "While there was no formal declaration that he -followed the precepts of Him wdiose life marked the beginning of our era, still if we are to judge Payson Tucker by the standard set by the Master, we must place him among Christians of the ideal type, for he went about doing good, and thereby derived his greatest enjoyment. "The gorgeous display of flowers at his funeral was a manifestalion of the esteem in which he was held, but as great as this dis play was — never equalled in the history of this state — we believe that if everyone to whom he had done some loving kindness had been able to place a flower around his grave, he would have slept that night within a wUderness of roses mingled with the tears from the sorrow of an equal number of grateful hearts. "If we look for the source of these traits of character, we must assume first, that he was largely endowed by nature, and second, that his early environments had much to do in de veloping them. We find him at the early age of thirteen, embarked upon a career in which he began to acquire his acquaintance with the public. This is an age in which the active mmd participates in all the affairs that tran spire within its range. He thus early in life became acquainted and impressed with the public needs. There developed a bond of sym pathy between him and the public, akin to that which exists between members of an ideal family. This bond of sympathy developed, as he grew in years, into a bond of love in serv ing the public, and endeared him to many in dividuals and the community as a whole, in which he lived, moved and had his being. ^'_'John Fiske, the profound historian and writer, was the first to point out the absolute necessity of the long period of childhood to develop and mould character, and to create that bond of sympathy and affection which ripens into love in the famUy circle, as the type of the units of an enlightened community and nation. Payson Tucker's career made him a member of the public circle, composed of dif ferent families and communities, and his con spicuous traits of character were developed along these lines. "Alaine is proud of her sons and daughters, proud of those who have linked their for tunes with hers. She is proud of those who have achieved distinction in law. medicine and in the ministry : in the arts and sciences, in literature and in the affairs of life Within her Temple of Fame, in the galaxy of her distinguished men whose worth to her people has been good and great, will appear the artist's ideal of Payson Tucker. Around his form and features yvill cluster the deeds of his useful life, making them conspicuous among the great men whose lives and character shine forever like the stars. This marble bust which gives the outlines so vividly of the classic. form and features of him whom we knew and revered in the flesh — that we almost fed him within our presence — will stand here as time goes on to remind those who knew or will learn the story of Payson Tucker's life that one of his chief characteristics was to do good to others, exemplifying the maxim while he lived that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Few men gave more in propor tion to their means than he, and in this re spect his life stands out like a beacon light to those who possess wealth, that they may be guided to follow his example and bestow their gifts while they live, and thereby derive one of the greatest enjoyments of life Soo" STATE OF MAINE. "Mr. Chairman, since beginning this eulogy, the theme has grown upon me and with me. Its foundation began in the infancy and ma tured in the manhood of my acquaintance of twenty-five years with Payson Tucker, but the thoughts which I have expressed have crystal lized into their present form within a few days amid many duties, including the cares and re sponsibilities of an exacting professional life His charity was as varied as the views of the kaleidoscope, for in whatever direction we turn to view his life, there appears a picture of his beneficence, of increasing beauty to the one that appeared before. "We are at times bewildered in tiie mystic maze of his munificence, and while we find it pleasing to follow, nevertheless, it is difficult to portray. In the labyrinth of his beneficent deeds we discern that his motto was : 'Have love ! Not love alone for one. But man, as man, thy brother call. And scatter like the circling sun, ? Thy charities on all.' "As it was my privilege to solicit his assist ance in founding this institution, it is a pleas ure to recount some of the qualities of his life, which furnished the foundation that de veloped the desire to do all he could for it while he lived, to benefit his fellow men. Of his friendship I can hardly trust myself to speak. For fifteen years he was a staff of oak in maintaining this charity, and a sense of the loss we have sustained in this work so im poverishes all I might say that silence may seem better than the failure of language to ex press it. His words were hope to the dis couraged, and a balm to the afflicted, while his sympathy gave inspiration and his kindness a silver lining to every cloud. To me his coun sel and advice were an inspiration that urged to do what seemed to others impossible, and I shaU feel that I have attempted to do my duty to his memory if what I have said on this occasion shall conduce to a fuller appreciation of our beloved president and associate^ Pay- son Tucker." Judge Joseph W. Symonds, who spoke at the unveiling of the marble bust of Mr. Tucker, said : "We have all Ustened, I am sure, with in terest and pleasure to the delightful tribute by Dr. Holt to the memory of our late dis tinguished fellow townsman and friend, Mr. Payson Tucker, and to the just and eloquent words of eulogy which have followed. I ap preciate and feel the charm of the evening thus far; I would not lessen nor mar it; and there is little, so very little, that I can even hope to add. Dr. Holt's long friendship and intimacy with Mr. Tucker, many associations which linked them closely together, espedally in the founding and building of this institution, have enabled him to sketch with a masteriy hand, in a way I do not pretend or attempt to emulate, the famUiar but striking and im pressive features of Mr. Tucker's mind and character. "No portraiture could be more perfect than that of the marble which we unveil to-night; but we can see our friend quite as clearly, quite as truly, in the eulogies as in the bust. In this work of art, by the munificence of Mrs. Tucker — and much as the Infirmary values the gift it will always have an added value as her gift — in this work of art, by her munificence, we look again upon the face we all remember so well. "Under the hand of genius the manly spirit which used to inform and inspire it breaks through the marble lines and haunts and illumines as of old, but in the words of Dr. Holt and Dr. Wright and Dr. Gordon, we seem to read the record of Payson Tucker's mind and heart. The two should go together, the eulogies and the bust, should remain to gether for all time, companion pictures, com panion portraits of Payson Tucker. So shall the generations which come after us, fre quenting these halls, reverting now and then to the history of this institution, continue to recognize him as among the foremost of its founders, and learn to know him and remem ber him as he was." In the same annual report. Colonel F. N. Dow, as president of the board of trustees of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, speaking for the full board, says : "The present seems opportune for refer ence to the great indebtedness of the Infirm ary, and, through it, of the state, to its execu tive surgeon. Dr. E. E. Holt. Fifteen years have passed since the services of Dr. Holt to this institution have been more or less ap parent to the public at large. All who know anything of the Infirmary are aware that it owes its inception to him. But only those who are thoroughly conversant with its his tory can ever know to what extent, wdiatever it is able to do for the unfortunate of the state, is due to him. It is no disparagement to oth ers wdio have been tireless in zeal and gener ous in gifts for the Infirmary, to say that during the fifteen years of its existence, as well as for its inception, the Infirmary and the charitable objects it serves are more than to any other individual indebted to Dr. Holt. His recognition of a need of a charity of the kind, and his faith in the ability and disposi- STATE OF MAINE. 500" tion of the people of the state of Maine to sustain it, supplemented by the zeal, self-sac rifice, devotion and executive force he has brought to the direction and administration of its affairs, made the Infirmary in the first in stance possible and then brought it to its pres ent high rank, where it compares favorably in equipment and useful effectiveness with any similar institution of its kind in the country. Reference is made to this fact here because Dr. xHolt during the past year has several times informaUy notified members of this board that reasonable care of his own health makes it inevitable that at no distant day he must be relieved of much of the burden which he has so cheerfully and ably borne for so many years. The trustees hope that this contem plated action may be long deferred, but in any event they deem it but simple justice to say that the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary must remain while it endures a monument to the abUity and philanthropy of Erastus Eugene Hoh." In his address upon Abraham Lincoln, de livered at the eleventh annual banquet of the Lincoln Club, in observance of the ninety-sec ond anniversary of his birth. Dr. Holt brought out an incident, an "illusion," which occurred just after his first election, due to a separation of the eyes due to fatigue, causing double vision. Mr. Lincoln told his wife about it, and she thought it was a sign that he would be elected to a second term of office, and the pale ness of one of the faces of himself as he looked into a mirror was an omen that he would not see life through the last term. Dr. Holt was the first to take up this incident m the life of Lincoln and explain- it upon ra tional grounds. It seems cruel now that it could not have been done at the time of its occurrence. , The estimate given by Dr. Holt of Lincoln s character was pronounced classical by the pa pers of the city, and the address as a whole is considered to be one of the best ever given at the Lincoln Club which has had some of the greatest orators of the day. We quote the last two paragraphs : "We doubt if there ever was created a be ing in this world, or in the worlds, if there be such of the countless millions of fixed stars, whose sympathies for his feUow creatures were greater, or who performed his duties with a higher sense of honor and justice as a ruler, than Abraham Lincoln. "His name and fame wiU last as. long as the earth revolves upon its axis in sweeping through space around the eternal sun, and thither to the tomb of our martyred Presi dent, will the people of the whole civilized world ever make their pilgrimage, to pay homage and reverence to Abraham Lincoln— the foremost man of the nineteenth century." At the twenty-sixth anniversary exercises of the Portland Medical Club, which Dr. Holt founded, it was very appropriate for him to give the history and statistics. He devised a plan for collecting statistics of the club for the twenty-six years of its existence, which shows at a glance the name of each member, when membership began, when it ceased, if it has, length of membership, the offices held, the number of meetings attended, the per cent, of meetings attended, the number and title of papers read by each member of the club, the number that each member should have read as per average of the whole number of pages read during the existence of the club by its one hundred and ten niembers, and finally when another paper was or is due from each one who belongs to the club. This paper was pub lished in the Journal of Medicine and Science and the author has had assurances that it has served as a model for giving the history of other clubs in different parts of the United States. In 1903, in consequence of an accident which disabled Dr. Holt for several months from following his vocation he had the op portunity to think upon the subject of physi cal economics. His attention was directed to this subject early in life as a teacher, but its development came with the study and practice of medicine during which he had to do di rectly with over fifty thousand case records of patients, over thirty thousand of which were made and kept of his private patients. It was in the analysis of the records of these cases in all the relations to the well being of those from whom they were made that enlisted Dr. Holt's interest in the subject of physical economics. Of the various addresses given upon physi cal economics, and papers that have been pub lished, the one read before the National As sociation of United States Examining Sur geons, to which were invited the referee and members of the bureau of pensions, at Atlan tic City, New Jersey, in June, 1904, has been of far-reaching importance. It was pointed out that the empirical methods must neces- sarUy lead to inequality and it pointed out those inequalities of pensions and showed the need of a revision of the pensions and how it could be done upon a scientific basis. Ten of the principal pensions of the bureau of pen- 500 STATE OF MAINE. sions were revised in 1905, so that now tliSse soldiers and sailors who are entitied to these pensions receive $1,968 more every year than they did in 1904. When this difference is mul tiplied by the number receiving these pensions it amounts to millions of dollars that is being paid to soldiers and sailors in consequence of the revision of the pensions according to the paper read by Dr. Holt. The paper upon this subject which attracted such universal attention was the one read be fore the section of ophthalmology of the American Medical Association at its annual session in Boston, Alassachusetts, in June, 1906. The Boston Herald published a good report of the paper, and from this and other reports made of it it was copied into a large number of papers throughout the Cnited States and foreign countries. In recognition of the importance of the subject and its scope and usefulness, we venture to quote from this paper : "An oculist, when called on to ascertain damages to the eyes from an injury, frequently meets with other disabilities of the body which occurred at the same time If he works in connection with other physicians and sur geons who are to determine damages to other parts of the body, it is highly important that there should be .standard methods of procedure which can be applied to every system and or gan of the body so that each may understand the other and work together to obtain results on a scientific basis. The object of this paper is to promulgate methods by which this may be accomplished in a manner equitable to all concerned. "The problem is a mixed one, inasmuch as we must have a method for ascertaining the economic value of a person both before and after he has been damaged from injury or disease. All recognize the importance of sci entific methods for solving this problem, but no one has had the temerity to attempt to overcome the difficulties surrounding it. It occurred to me, however, while I was disabled from an injury, received in 1903, that if, when the eyes were damaged, the remaining earn ing ability could be determined by a mathe matical formula, based on the principles em ployed in the natural .sciences in measuring any power, as has been done by Magnus''' of Germany, the principle might be utilized for the whole body. I, therefore, spent many of the long weary hours of my disability in thiiik- * "Visual Economics," by Dr. H. Magnus of Breslau, Germany, translated with additions by Dr. H. V. Wiirde- mann, Milwaukee, Wis. ing how this could be accomplished. After I had adapted the principle to the whole body, it seemed so simple that I wondered if some one had not solved the problem in a similar way. On making inquiries in connection with the reprints of my papers among many per sons 1 have failed to find any one who had solved the problem in this manner. Professor Seaver, formerly director of the gymnasium of Yale University, replied : I wish to thank you for a reprint on "Physical Eco nomics" . - which strikes me as a very valuable contribution on a subject to which I have given consid erable thought without being able to arrive at definite conclusion,s, and so I have never published anything. You have hit on a practical method of rating a man's physical utility so far as the physical side of him is concerned, as mental rating is given by intellectual tests, so that we may have a fairly accurate mathematical statement of his probable worth to society. "In the analysis of a person to determine the elements which are indispensable for his normal earning ability and which may be used as factors to express them in a mathematical formula, we find that the functions of the body in a fairly normal condition are of first im portance. This constitutes the functional abil ity of the person and the factor of first im portance in the formula. "A person would be of very little use, economically, in the world wdthout having had that training of the mind and body which would fit him to follow some occupation suc cessfuUy. This constitutes the technical abil ity of a person and the second factor in the formula. With the functional and technical ability of the first order, there is another ele ment of a person of considerable importance, namely, his ability to secure and perforin the duties of an occupation successfully. It makes no difference yvhether his services are ren dered direct to the general public or through some employer; his success depends on his ability to obtain work and to serve those who employ him. This constitutes the competing ability of a person and the last factor in the formula. Therefore, the three elements of a person which are alisolutely indispensable to his normal earning ability are, first, the func tional ability; second, the technical ability, and, third, the competing ability. This analy sis of a person includes everything needed in the performance of the duties of any occupa tion. It may, therefore, be considered com plete, and, moreover, it is in accordance with the principles employed in the analysis of any physical force by which its efficiency is de termined. The acceptance of this analysis of a person is of prime importance to an under standing of the mathematical formula for the STATE OF MAINE. 500" normal earning ability of the body, because its object is to determine the essential elements which may be used as factors in the formula." This analysis is compared with the one made to obtain a formula for electricity. "In a similar manner if we use the first let ter of the prominent word in the analysis of a person, F = the functional ; T = the technical ; C = the competing, and \l = the earning abil ity of a person ; hence E = E T C, the mathe matical formula for the normal earning ability of the body. "These three factors are not of equal value, although the efficiency of each is interdepend ent on the other, F being first in importance ; T second in importance ; whereas C is least im portant, because it depends on the other two and the conditions of the labor market. The competing ability is composed of the same ele ments as F and is modified to a similar but less extent when F is impaired. It is also modified by T and the way employers and the public consider the person, especially ^vhen he has been damaged by injury or disease. "To amplify the formula, E must be re solved into its component parts by selecting and grouping into the form of units such sys tems and. organs as are so interdependent that each is needed to insure the functions of the other in its particular unit, and these systems and organs taken together form a unit that is absolutely indispensable to the functions of the body. These units are to be regarded as fac tors of F, which when multiplied together, and by the other two factors of the formula, pro duce the composite quantity E. As much as possible, systems and organs have been se lected and grouped together as units in ac cordance with their development and asso ciated functions, it being found necessary to have four such units for the whole body, which yyhen designated by the first four let ters of the alphabet are as follows : 1 Osseous, articular, and a — ^ muscular systems, con- ' sisting of ; Circulatory and respl- b = -^ ratory systems, con sisting cf -) Digestive and genito urinary systems, con sisting of Cerebro-spinal sys tems, nerves, organs of spinal sense, con sisting of e, the bones, f, the joints, g, the muscles, h, vascular system, i, the blood, j, the lungs and their accessory organs, k, the alimentary ca nal and its acces sory organs, I, the skin, m, the kidneys with the genital organs. a, the brain, its mem branes, and its nerves, 0, the spinal cord. Its membranes, and its nerves, p, nerves and organs of special sense. Each of these units fulfills the requirements of our definition: it is composed of systems and organs so interdependent that each is needed to insure the functions of the other, and these taken together form a unit that is absolutely indispensable to the functions of the body. This being true, the value of the function of each unit may be obtained by a formula similar to that employed in determin ing the value of any physical force In am plifying E, by resolving it into its component parts, as factors, a, b, c, d, each of these vvas resolved into its component parts, as fac tors, and a = e f g ; b = h i j ; c = k 1 m ; and d = n o p. "Although it is true that scientific standards of measurement of aU the parts of the units of the body have not been determined and agreed on, nevertheless it is a self-evident fact that anything that is used must have a value placed upon it, and when this value has been meas ured, tested, compared, and estimated in a scientific manner, in a large number of normal healthy persons, and an average value ascer tained, this average value becomes a scientific standard of measurement for that particular part of the unit of the body. It is in this way that all the scientific standards of measure ment, now employed, have been determined and agreed on, and it is in this way that all the remaining ones must be established. Un til this work is consummated we shall have to employ such standards as have been agreed on, and by the same methods by which these have been obtained determine values for all the re maining systems and organs of the units of the body w-hich will eventually be accepted as scientific standards of measurement. "In ascertaining damages to the body, a physician must first determine what the im pairment of the function of the unit is, and then, b}' comparing this with the case record and the scientific standard of measurement for it, give the remaining value in the form of a fraction of the whole unit in the formula. The principles and process then are the same as those employed in determining the efficiency of any physical force It will be seen that it is the damaged functions that the physician first seeks, and not necessarily the pathology of the damaged unit. The pathology of a disability is necessary only to determine its character, wdiether transitory or permanent, serious or not, as the case may be, and should not be made the basis to determine the remain ing earning ability of the body. The earning ability is a composite quantity made up of the physiologic functions of the systems and or- 500" STATE OF MAINE. gans of the units of the body, each of which is interdependent on the other in making man the most wonderful product of nature. "In youth and the beginning of manhood, we can only rate a person according to his functional and his technical ability, but when that person has a fixed occupation we can, thereby, determine, by our formula, his earn ing abUity and his economic power in the world as accurately as we can that of any physical force. We can determine his mental ability only so far as it is manifested in his vocation and the importance placed on it as evidenced in the remuneration he receives for it. We can not figure on possible prospects of advancement, nor change of occupation. We can only figure on the actual conditions of life as they exist, and when accidents occur, caus ing damage, on the supposition that these con ditions would continue for a length of time thereafter according to the basis on which the American experience table of mortality has been constructed and on which has been estab lished life insurance — the first business of the world. "The value of the functions of the body cannot be determined, for health, like charac ter, is priceless. Even the possession of health much below any economic value is priceless, and is clung to under all conditions of priva tion and suffering. This does not affect the purpose of our formula, which represents mathematically the normal earning ability of the body. This has solely to do with the in dividual's ability to perform tertain services and to receive a specific compensation there for for the remainder of a prospective work ing life. No life insurance company would consider a risk on a man's life for an amount his business or wealth did not warrant. A can who has no income whatever and could offer no collateral would be refused a loan of money from any person, or bank, and he could not obtain money except by reasons which are foreign to the rules of business. A person with good habits and a steady occupation with a specified income would be able to hire money on that alone, in proportion to his income, other things being equal. The time is coming when the earning ability of man will be rated and will be just as valuable in the labor mar ket as in the rating of his financial ability to day in the business marts of the world. "We will now proceed to illustrate the use of the formula in the case of a young man whose eyes were severely damaged and the right hand badly burned by a current of elec tricity sufficient to kiU two men instantly. W. O'B., aged 20, mill employee, June 22, 1900, while standing on an iron platform and handling a portable electric light, received a current of electricity sufficient to throw him down instantly. Two ot his fellow -work men who saw him fall quickly went to bis aid and, in attempting to pull him away from the platform and the wire of the lamp, which was burning his hand, both were killed instantly. "Thus every step of the process to deter mine the economic value of the damage to Mr. O'B. in consequence of the injury he received June 22, 1900, has been taken with a well- defined method of procedure, as that of weigh ing or measuring of any commodity and then muUiplying the quantity by the price per unit of the standard of measurement for that com modity, in order to obtain its value. The final result then cannot be Cjuestioned on the ground of the want of care in obtaining it, it can only be c[uestioned on the ground as to whether the principles on yvhich the methods are based are correct and give results that are right and equitable to all concerned. "On both of these points we have the high est authority, for my formula for the normal earning ability of the body is based upon the principles employed in the sciences in deter mining the value or efficiency of any natural power. It was employed by Magnus in his mathematical formula for the normal earning ability of the eyes. My yvork has been to adapt these principles to the entire body by selecting and arranging the different systems and or gans according to their development and as sociated functions, that all the essential parts of the body may be grouped under four units, whicli may be used as factors of the functional ability in a practical formula as readily as though the principles were applied to but one organ at a time. "For the success and~ approval of this work, I have Cjuoted from one of the many letters which I have received, because Dr. Seaver, as he writes, has spent a large part of his life in studying the body; to develop, measure, and utilize it to the best advantage. He has writ ten one of the best works on anthropometry and physical examinations in the English language, and therefore his opinion is an au thority on this subject. "As to the method of determining the pres ent economic value of a person, I have quoted from the highest English authority, and there fore, of t1ie world, because the science of vital statistics owes its existence largely to English writers, the greatest of whom was Dr. Farr. "One important datum is lacking in the ab sence of a record of an examination of the eyes before the accident, and, therefore, we are unable to assert positively that the condi tions of his eyes, as found after the accident. STATE OF MAINE. 500" was due to the injury, but we are confident that the position taken is fully justified by the history of the case, and the nature of the in jury. "If Mr. O'B. had had a record of an ex amination of his eyes showing that they were normal prior to the accident, all doubt on this point would have been removed. This again shows the necessity of every person having a case record of his physical condition, for no one knows when he may meet with an acci dent and need it to determine just what the amount of the damage is from a given injury. If the history and examination revealed a sus picion that a part of a disability existed prior to the accident for which damages are claimed, and this should be, by further evidence in the case, established beyond a reasonable doubt, then the fact must be taken into consideration in determining the amount of the damages due to the accident. To avoid disputes and liti gations every person should have a carefully made record from repeated examinations of his body. "This would be of great value to a person, not only in case of injury, but also in the treat ment of any disease. "The progress of medicine is towards pre venting, rather than curing diseases, and in order to make this practice more complete, the time is coming when physicians will be largely occupied in making these examinations and case records, and thereby preventing rather than curing diseases. There is nothing of more importance to be instituted in the science and practice of medicine for its welfare and advancement than the carefully made records of the physical and laboratory examinations of every person. To make them more effective they should be instituted when the child en ters school, and be repeated at stated times during the whole period of school life. This would necessitate establishing a new officer, the school physician, not an inspector of the schools, but one who would take a child, analyze him, detect all abnornialties and in conjunction with the parents and other physi cians correct them during school life, and thus have the body improved with the mind, that each may help the other to the fullest devel opment. From these records data could be obtained which, when applied to the mathe matical formula for the normal earning ability of the body, and worked out according to the principles on which it is constructed, would give the rating of a child, taking into consid eration his functional ability on wdiich his technical ability so largely depends, but which has been heretofore almost entirely neglected in rating him. With this work carried out during school life, it would soon demonstrate Its own importance, by making these records of the highest value in the training of the mmd and the body, the advancement of the race, for the promotion of health and the pre vention of disease, and in furnishing data to determine damages to the body from injury or disease by the mathematical formula for the norma! earning ability of the body, in a manner equitable to all concerned." In 1907, when Dr. Holt gave his oration on physical economics at the annual meeting of the Portiand Medical Club, Dr. C. R. Burr, the retiring president, gave an address on "Personal Damages Considered from a Aled ical Standpoint." This led to a conference with Dr. Burr, who had written a treatise en titled "The Worth of Alan, Being a Treatise on Personal Damages Considered from a Med ical Standpoint." As Dr. Burr's work con tained much that Dr. Elolt had planned to in clude in his own work on "The Physical Economic Value of Man and the Aleasure of Damages,'' it led to a union of the two works in one whicli will be issued in the near future. The value of this work can hardly be esti mated at the present time, but that it is des tined to have a wide use and become a stand ard wherever and whenever the economic value of man is brought into questi(jn and the measurement of damages is sought there can be no doubt. In the paper on the "Economic Value of Alan and the Aleasure of Damages," read before the National Association of United States Pension Examining Surgeons, at Chi cago, in June, 1908, Dr. Holt gave illustrative cases showing how readily damages to the body may be determined, and also how an equitable pension may be ascertained. He supplied tables, the first of which gives the re maining earning ability when it is determined that the competing ability is damaged to same degree, or less than the functional ability. The second table gives the remaining earning abil ity when it is determined that the com peting ability is damaged to same de gree, or more than the functional ability. By these two tables the earning ability may be ascertained when it is determined that the competing ability is damaged but slightly or when it is damaged to a degree nearly total, or total. All the computations are made and given for all possible degrees of damage to the body from injury or disease, thus eliminating computations. The third table gives the loss on $1,000, wdien the com- 500' STATE OF AlAINE. peting ability has been damaged but slightly or to any degree approaching total, and total so that by ascertaining the economic value of a person from the present value of his future income by the evom table (the sixth) and then dividing this value by i,ooo to obtain the number of thousands and parts of a thousand dollars a person is worth, and finally multiply ing this by that which is found to be the loss on $1,000, in the third and fourth table, we ob tain the economic loss as readily as we obtain the amount of a town or city tax by knowing the rate on $i,ooo, and the assessed valuation of the property in thousands and parts of a thousand. Thus while the results are deter mined by mathematics and with mathematical precision, there are no more computations actually used than there are in ascertaining the tax of a person by knowing the rate of taxa tion per thousand and the number of thou sands and parts of a thousand dollars a per son is assessed. Indeed, the process is identi cal and for this reason should be readily un derstood by all who own property and pay taxes. It has been the effort of the officers of the American Medical Association to unite all the different state associations in one compact body, the units of state associations being county societies of each state. Maine was one of the last to come into this arrangement, which it did legally at its annual meeting held at Bangor in June, 1908, by a unanimous vote. By this arrangement the Maine Medical As sociation is entitled to one delegate to the house of delegates of the American Aledical Association and. Dr. Holt has the honor of be ing the first legally qualified delegate to thus represent the Maine Medical Associations. From the first paper read before the state associations in which Dr. Holt advocated new methods for the treatment of the ear which gave him an international reputation, to his last papers on physical economics and the measure of damages by mathematics which has given him a world-wide reputation, he has been writing papers in which he has advocated new methods of practice which have been ac cepted and become the common property of the profession. Few men have won higher distinction in the special departments of ophthalmology and otology. To this reputation he has added that of a philanthropist and as the field of his use fulness has expanded as a practitioner, he has sought not only to extend to the poor the full benefit of his skill and research, but to advo cate many advances for the betterment of the human race. This alone gives him an unique professional standing and would be sufficient to engage the attention of most men. But his great work has been centered in a noble char ity, the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, which stands without a parallel in the history of medicine. In a recent statement of facts in connection with an appeal for funds by the trustees for renewals and equipment, we note that during the twenty-three years of its existence it has accumulated and either now holds or has dis bursed $695,585.05 ; that over thirty thousand persons have been treated at the infirmary; that the out-patient department has had an attendance of over one hundred eighty thou sand ; that over eight thousand operations have been performed upon the eye and ear for the preservation or restoration of sight and hearing. Throughout the reports of the in firmary we discern unmistakable evidence that Dr. Holt has carried on the major part of this work, for we read in the twenty-first re port of the trustees that "A carefully tabulated estimate of the number of hours whicli physi cians and surgeons have devoted gratuitously to the upbuilding and carrying on of this charity during its existence would be equal to about the services of one professional man for the entire twenty-one years. No reference to the bestowal of time upon this charity would be complete without mentioning the fact, well known to all who are conversant with its affairs, that the Executive Surgeon has de voted a large part of his time to this charity. It was by his means, zeal, self-sacrifice, devo tion and executive force that made the In firmary in the first instance possible, and then brought it to its present high rank of useful ness. It is therefore but simple justice to re peat the words of a former President of this Board, that "the Alaine Eye and Ear Infirm ary must remain wdiile it endures a monument to the ability and philanthropy of Erastus Eu gene Holt." Dr. Holt married Alary Brooks Dyer, Octo ber 9, 1876, and the}' have six children: Lu cinda Mary-Belle, w-lio is a graduate of Smith College and of Tufts College Aledical School; Clarence Blake, who has an A. B. from Har vard University ; Roscoe Thorne, who has an A. B. A. M. LL. B. from Harvard University; Erastus Eugene Junior, who has an A. B. from Bow-doin CoUege and who is now a senior in the Medical School of Maine ; Doro thy Kent, who is a student in Aliss Alarshall's School in' Phdadelphia; and Benjamin Dyer, who is a graduate of the Portland High School and ready to enter college. :