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THIS VOLUME CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF

LEADING CITIZENS OF

OXFORD AND FRANKLIN

COUNTIES

MAINE

"Biography is the home aspect of history"

BOSTON

Biographical Review Publishing Company
1897

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PREFACE

IN all thi> wide cartli theiv i'n nothiiiL;- else so interestini; and ini|)i)rlaiit as himian
life; and the liistorx' of iiulixidiKd lives is recognized a>, at its best, one of the

most attractive and \aluahle forms of literature. It hehoox'es e\ery generation
to write its own records, to leave behind its own memorials. l he present \olume of
local bio^'raphies, carefnlh' prejiared fmm materials jui-nished 1)_\' the patrons of the
work, is issued bv the publishers in the confident hope that it will pvowi satisfactory
as the fulfilment of promise and a work of ])ermanent \-alue. These paL!;es treat of
earnest toiler^ of to-dav and of _\-esterday, workers with hand and brain, who have
been ku'^elv instrumental in the industrial, social, and |)olitical de\elo|)ment ol
Oxford and I'"ranklin Counties — men and women who, taking lite in "earnest,"
ha\'e made "footprints on the sands of time." The conquests here recited are of
mind o\er matter and circumstance.

To preserve the memorv of local worthies, as well as of national celebrities, is
to foster home ties, local attachments, and patriotism, and to encourage ^ood citizen-
ship. I'urthermore, to borrow the words of an eminent speaker, " W hale\er fame
"■reat achievements ma\- bestow, whatever honors the world mav ,L;i\'e, it is ever the
most cherished hope of every seeker after fame and fortune to be kindl}- ivmembered
and lovinglv honored on the spot which gave him l)irth."

niO(;kAriiicAi, Rk\ikw I'Liii.isuiNc Comi'.v.w.

FEliRlARV, lSy7.

HERRICK C. DAVIS.

BIOSRAPHIGAL.

ON. HERRICK C. DAVIS,

..^ , ^ _ attorney at-law and Judge vi
<^^M I ^ the Municipal Court of Nor-
way, Oxford County, Me.,
was born in tlie neighboring
town of \Voodstoci<, on, No-
vember 5, 1833, a son of Ben-
jamin and Ruhamah (Chase)
Davis, and is a representative
of the third generation of his
famih' in this vicinity.
His p.iternal grandfather, Aaron Davis,
came from Salem, Mass., to Poland, Me.,
Androscoggin County, and there bought and
cleared a tract of land, but subsequently re-
moved to Woodstock, where he was one of the
most energetic and progressive men of his day
and the owner of four hundred acres. He had
previously served as a private during the Rev-
olutionary War. His wife was Thankful, a
daughter of Stephen Strout, a farmer who
lived and died in Penobscot County. Mr. and
Mrs. Aaron Davis had eleven children — Han-
nah, Aaron, Thankful, Sally, Polly, Phftbe,
Benjamin, Eliphalet, Eliza,' Nehemiah, and
Julia. Grandfather Davis lived to the age of
eighty-two, but his wife died younger.

Benjamin Davis, son of Aaron, was an ex-
tensive land-owner in Woodstock, and cleared
his own farm. In pcditics he was at first a
Democrat, but he affiliated with tlie Repidili-
cans after the formation of that party. He was
prominent in town affairs, efficiently serving
in different offices, including that of Select-
man. He married Ruhamah Chase, daughter
of the Rev. Stephen Chase, a Baptist minister
who was the first Town Clerk of Woodstock,
and they became the parents of ten children,
namely: Richard L., who died at the age of
nine years; limeline: Herrick C. : Benjamin;

.Stephen; Ruhamah; Xehemiah; Cyrus;
I'lmma J. ; and Henry. The ]iarents gave their
spiritual influence and material aid to the
Methodist l{piscopal churcli.

Herrick C. Davis, aftoi' obtaining his com-
mon-school education in Woodstock, pursued
a course of study in some of the higher
branches of learning at the Norway Liberal
Institute. He then placed himself in the
ranks of the world's toilers with hand and
brain, working for some consiilerable time at
the carpenter's trade, meanwhile keeping his
intellectual powers in a state of healthful
activity by teaching school for ten winter
terms. He subsequently read law with (ien-
eral J. J. Perry, of Oxford, and, after his ad-
mission to the bar of Androscoggin County in
1862, began jiractice at Bryant's Pond.
While in that place, where he bought a fine
residence, he su])plied the Grand Trunk Rail-
road with wood. Ten years later, being
elected Registrar of Probate for Oxford
County, he closed his successful legal business
and career in Bryant's Pond, and took up his
residence at Paris Hill. Having filled the
office of Registrar creditably for twenty con-
secutive years, in January, IiSqs, Mr. Davis
was appointed Judge of the Municipal Court,
and removed to Norway. Wherever he has
lived, Mr. Davis has shown himself a public-
spirited citizen. He here takes an active in-
terest in town affairs, as formerly in Paris,
being a desirable acquisition.

In politics Judge Davis is a stanch Republi-
can ; and while a resident of Woodstock he
held various town an<I county offices, serving
as Assessor, Overseer of the Poor, a member
of the School Board, and Selectman, simul-
taneously, for several years. Mr. Davis was
also Town Treasurer, and in 1864 he was

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elected Representative to the State legislature.
During the late war he acted as paymaster for
the government, settling the claims of soldiers,
widows, and orphans. Fraternally, he is a
member of the Jefferson Lodge, A. F. &
A. M. ; Past Grand Master of Mount Mica
Lodge, No. 17, Independent Order of Odd
I'"ello\vs; and also Past Chief Patriarch of the
W'ildey Encampment of Norway.

The maiden name of his wife, to whom he
was married nn December i, 1850, was Lucy
M. Felt. Her father was Jeremiah l'\dt, a
resident of Woodstock, Mc. Mr. and Mrs,
Davis have two children — Samuel V. and Car-
rie. The son resides in South Paris, and the
daughter is at home with her parents.

ILLIAM C. CHAPMAN is one of
the representative farmers of O.Nford
County, owning a fine estate of a
thousand acres and a beautiful home at the
foot of the mountain, facing the Androscoggin
Rivei', in the town of (iilead. He was born in
Newry, this county, November 13, 1S42, a
son of Granville and Eliza (Chapman) Chap-
man. Granville Chapman, who was a son of
George W. and Polly (Greenwood) Chapman,
both natives of this county, was born in (iilead
and reared on a farm, receiving a common-
school education. When a young man he was
engaged for some time as clerk in Portland,
but he devoted the greater part of his life to
the pursuit of agriculture in Gilead and
Newry. A stanch Republican, he took an
active and intelligent part in town affairs, and
served as Selectman both in Gilead and
Newry. He died at the age of eighty-one.
Mrs. Granville Chapman was born in the town
of Pethel, this county, being a daughter of
Timothy Chapman. She lived to be fourscore
years of age. She and her husband were the
jxirents of eight children, two of whom are
living: William C. ; and Agustus F. , a mem-
ber of the firm of T. A. Chapman & Co., of
Milwaukee, Wis.

William C. Chapman accpiired his education
in the common schools of Gilead and at Bethel
Academy. He has never been away from the
homestead for any length of time; for he
learned the secrets of agricultural success

when a boy, and, inheiiting the farm «n his
father's death, has continued to develoj) its
resources. His broad acres include fertile
meadows and wide' stretches of upland pasture,
and he raises bountiful crops and a large
amount ot live stock. His house and barn are
among the best in O.xford County, and his
whole domain bears the stamj) of affluence and
thrift. In 1.S71 Mr. Chajiman was united in
marriage with Martha, daughter of Alger Bald-
win, of North Stratford, and si.x children have
blessed their union — Hannibal H., a student
at Colby College ; Alger 11, who died at the
age of nineteen; Marion K. , who is attending
Smith College, NorthamiJton, Mass. ; and
Granville, Cecil F., and Christie, children at
home. In [jolitics Mr. Chajiman is, like his
father, a Republican. He is well 'known
throughout this section, ami is \er\' |)0])nlar
socially. His family are members of the Con-
gregational church.

H.XRLES M. RICHARDS, an es-
teemed resident of Jay, Franklin
County, e.\tensi\'ely engaged in
farming and fruit growing, was born
in Temple, Me., January 23, 1834, son . of
Moses A. and Judith (North) Richards. Both
his parents were natives of Temjile. His pater-
nal grandfather, Mitchell Richards, who was a
Revolutionary soldier and ]iarticipated in the
battle of Bunker Hill, leaving Massachusetts,
his native State, became an early settler in Tem-
ple, where the rest of his life was passed upon a
farm cleared by him from the wilderness.

Moses A. Richards resided upon the home-
stead farm until he was fifty years old. He
then went to East Templeton, Mass., and there
resided unti.1 his death in March, 1894. By
his wife, Judith, he became- the father of ten
children, of whom five are living. These are:
Charles M., the subject of this sketch; Lovell
A., who resides in California; Leonard M.,
now of Fort Fairfield, Me.; Daniel F. , who
resides in Worcester County, Massachusetts;
and Georgiana, the wife of Wilbur Potter, of
the same county and State. The others were :
Eunice, Ora, Noah, Alvin, and one child who
died in infancy. The mother died in Worces-
ter County, Massachusetts, in 1S63.

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Charles M. Richards attended the common
schools of Temple. At the age of fifteen he
began life for himself as a farm assistant.
After following that occupation for four years
in Temple, Farniington, Me., and Wilton,
N. n., he went to Templeton, Mass., where he
was employed in a chaii' factor}' for several
years. In 1866 he returned to Maine, and,
settling in Wilton, resided there for two years.
He then moved to his present farm in jay,
formerly known as the Bass place, where he
has since carried on general farming and fruit
growing with remarkable success. His prop-
erty, which is desirably located, consists of
sixty acres of fertile land, well adapted to the
raising of staple products and fruits.

On August 19, 1855, Mr. Richards wedded
b'rances D. Dillingham. She was born
March i, 1836, in Temple, daughter of Reu-
ben and Mary L. (Clough) Dillingham, natives
respectively of Fairfield and Alna, this State.
Reuben Dillingham subsequently became a
prosperous farmer of Temjile, and there with
his wife resided for the rest of his life. Mr.
and Mrs. Richards have had three children,
namely: Ola, born December 4, 1861, who
married l''rank B. Small, and resides at the
homestead; Nellie F.., who died at the age of
six years; and another child who died in in-
fancy. In politics Mr. Richards holds him-
self independent of parties. His natural abil-
ity and industrious habits have placed him in
a comfortable position, and his many com-
mendable cpialities are duly appreciated by
all w'ho know him.

IDWARIJ W. PENLEY, a wealthy
farmer of Greenwood township, was
born December 12, 1845, in Paris,
this county. His great-grandfather, Joseph
Penley, who came from England, was the
founder of the family. The grandfather, Jo-
seph (second), removed from Auburn, Me., to
Paris, this county, and was there engaged in
farming during his remaining years.

James F. Penley, the father of Edward W.,
was born and reared in the town of Paris. He
was a farmer by occupation, and had a good
homestead,' situated about three miles from
the villaiie of South Paris, where he carried

on mixcil husbaiulry until his death, Novem-
ber 25, 188S. He married Loduska Swan, a
native of Paris, who died in 1879, leaving six
children, as follows: Edward W., the subject
of this sketch; John L. , a farmer, living in
Paris township; Charles R., also residing in
Paris, who married Jennie Iloldcn: Lucotta,
who is the wife of Eilwin Chase, of I.ynn,
Mass.; Almon J., who marricil I'^stelle Chase,
and owns and occupies the okl homestead in
Paris; and Luella, the wife of A. L. Dyer, of
Lynn, Mass.

Edwartl W. Penley received his elementary
education in the common schools of Paris and
the academy at South Paris. With the excep-
tion of a year or two spent as a brakeman on
the Grand Trunk Railroad, running from
Portland, M-e., to Island Pond, Mr. Penley
has followed agricultural pursuits on the farm
where he now lives, and has been closely
identifietl with the highest interests of his
adopted town. He is the possessor of seven
hundred acres of land, much of it in high
cultivation. Besides carrying on general
farming he raises some stock, and keeps a
dairy of twelve or more cows. He is a thor-
ough-going farmer, skilled in all branches of
agriculture, and has met -with the success due
to a man of his energy and ability. He is
very prominent in local affairs, and is at the
present time serving as Chairman of the Board
of Selectmen, of which he has been a member
for eight years Politically, he is a true-blue
Republican, faithful to the interests of his
party, which has this year, 1896, elected him
to the State legislature. Socially, Mr. Penley
is a member of the West Paris Lodge, No. 15,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of West
Paris; of the Daughters of Rebecca Lodge,
No. 42, of the same place; and of the grange
at Norway.

Mr. Penley was married December 20,
1868, to Miss Abbie Richardson. She was
born October 30, 1854, in Greenwood town-
ship, on the farm of her parents, William and
Hannah (Barrows) Richardson, both natives
of Oxford County, born respectively in Green-
wood and Albany. Mr. and Mrs. Penley are
the parents of twelve children, of whom the
following is recorded: Vina R., born October
31, 1870, died October 8, 1873: Angle E.,

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born April 30, 1S72, is a teacher in the ])ub-
lic scliools; Hannah R.. born May 24, 1874,
died May 6, 1875; Walter E., born April 29,
1876, assists his father on the farm; Lula M.,
born I'ebruary 15, 1878, also teaches in the
]>ublic schools; Lester H. was born January
I, iS8o; Frederick R., August 20, 18S1;
Alice, July 21, 18S3; Blanche, March 22,
1885: Joseph Irving, September 8, 1886;
Leona Belle, July 20, 1888: and Marion,
June I 8, 1895.

/^Filbert WARDWELL, chairman of
y '*) I the Board of Selectmen of Albany,
Me., was first elected to that office
in 1862, and has been honored with re-election
at intervals several times since. He was born
in this town, August 11, 1828, the son of
Colonel Isaac and Mary (Adley) Wardwell.

Colonel Isaac Wardwell was born in Otis-
field, Me., and was engaged in farming in
that town in his youth, leaving there at the
age of twenty-one to locate in Albany. Here
he took up a tract of unimproved land in the
southern part of the town, and, clearing a
farm, improved and developed it into a valua-
ble homestead, following the pursuit of agri-
cuItLue until his death, January 24, 1837.
He was one of the leading men of the place in
his day, an officer in the State militia and a
member of the Albany Board of Selectmen.
His wife died in 1869, at the advanced age of
eighty si.v. She was the mother of ten chil-
dren, of whom only the two youngest-born are
living. These are: Charles A., who married
Miss Abbie Witham, and resides with his wife
in Biddeford, Me. ; and Gilbert, the subject
of the present sketch. The departed are the
following: Mary, who was the wife of Luther
Bisbec; Dorcas P., wife of Hiram Stone, who
also has passed away; Betsey F. , who was
twice married, her first husband being Abner
Holt, her second Perley French ; Sallie, who
was the wife of the Rev. Marcus Wight; Isaac,
who married Miss Sarah King, now deceased ;
Jacob, whose wife, Martha Lovejoy, survives
him, living with one of her daughters in Mas-
sachusetts ; Emmeline, who was the wife of
Dr. Stejihen Coburn ; and Harriet, who died
in infancy.

Gilbert Wardwell was left fatherless when
he wa.s' eight years of age. He received a
common-school education, helping about the
farm between school times until he was si.\-
teen ; and then he began to wcjrk for wages as
a farm hand. He was employed in this way
for several years, spending one year in Lancas-
ter, Mass. ; and he also taught during the win-
ter terms, taking charge of schools in Milan,
N.H., and North Norway and Albany, Me.
About 1 85 1 he settled on the farm where he
now resides; and in 1862, answering his coun-
try's call, he left his pleasant home and en-
listed in the Federal army. He was enrolled
as a private, September 10, 1862, in Company
C, Twenty-third Regiment, Maine \'olunteers,
under Colonel W. W. \'irgin antl Captain
C. H. I'rince, which, during the greater part
of its ten months' period of service, was nn
picket duty along the Potomac River, guarding
the fords. The thrilling experience of e.xiKis-
ure to the fire of lurking Confederates is re-
called by the poet's lines:

'• All quiet along the Potomac to-night.
E.xcept now and then a stray picket
Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro.
By a ririeman hid in the thicket.'"

Unscathed at the end of his term of enlist-
ment, Mr. Wardwell received his discharge at
Portland, Me., July 15, 1863, and again took
up the work of agriculture. He has a well-
improved farm of one hundred and thirtv-five
acres, and has been very successful in his
chosen work. Mr. Wardwell is a memljer of
Round MoLintain firange of Albanv.

On Ma\- II, 1851, he was married to Rhnda
Jane, daughter of Jacob and Betsey Robbins.
She was born in North Yarmouth, Me., May
26, 1826. Her mother died when she was a
child; and her father, who was a farmer, took
the little girl to Guilford, Me., remaining a
few years and then returning to North ^■ar-
mouth. He died at the home of his son-in-
law. Mrs. Wardwell died June 10, 1888.
She was the mother of five children, namely:
Isaac and Jacob, twins; Nellie Augusta; Am-
brose; and luigene A. Isaac Wardwell has
been twice married, his first wife being Lilla
G. Flint, and his second, Frances H. Brown.
Jacob died at the age of twenty-two, leaving

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a widow, Martlia I.. Morrill, who is now
living with her third husband in Ik'thcl, Mc.
Nellie Augusta died at the age of twenty-six;
Ambrose is engaged in the manufacture of
jiaper boxes at Maltville, Conn. ; and Eugene
A. is an instrument tuner in a large organ
manufactory in Derby, Conn.

Mr. W'ardwell has voted the Democratic
ticket since he was qualified to exercise the
right of suffrage. He was elected Chairman
of the Albany l^oard of Selectmen in 1862,
1864, 1865, 1869, 1870, 1 87 1, 1872, 1875,
1877, 1878, 1881, and again in 1896; and he
served as Town Treasurer two vears.

ILLIAM HENRY McDONALD,
one of the best-known hotel men in
the State, jiroprietor of the Stoddard
House, 1^'armington, and Secretary of the Ho-
tel Proprietors' Association of Maine, was
born in North Windham, Me., May i, 1845,
son of Thomas W. and Hannah P. (Proctor)
McDonald. Mr. ^McDonald is of Scottish
ancestry.

His granilfather, James McDonald, who ])os-
sessed many of the characteristic traits and
preserved the traditions of his nationality,
served as a soldier in the Continental army
during the Revolutionary War. He was dur-
ing his life a farmer, a merchant, and a hotel-
keeper in North Windham, where he owned a
good farm; and being an able business man of
progressive tendencies he amassed a comfort-
able fortune. Though not an asjiirant for
public ofifice, he was one of the most jirominent
and influential men of his day, and was highly
respected as an honorable, upright, and high-
minded citizen. He married Rachel Webb,
and reared a family of eight children; namely,
Edward, Seth, Eli, James, Abner, Thomas W.,
Sally, and Jane.

Thomas W. McDonald, the sixth child,
being the youngest son, remained at iiome
with his parents, and after his father's retire-
ment from business took charge of the farm
and hotel property. Succeeding to the posses-
sion of the estate by purchasing the interests
of the other heirs, he conducted the hotel, and
did a large livery business for many years.
Later in life he bought the rival hotel, which

he closed up; and after that he kept the only
public house in North Windham until 1871,
when he sold the projierty and retired to his
farm, where he died of [ineumonia at the age
of sixty-seven years. He was a genial, kind-
hearted man, especially well adapted by nature
to welcome and entertain the travelling public,
with whom he was a great favorite; and he
was equally popular with his fellow-townsmen.
In local public affairs he was a jirominent
figure, serving with marked ability as a mem-
ber of the Hoard of Selectmen. He was a
Republican in politics from the formation of
that party until his death, and in liis religious
views was a Free Will ]5aptist. His wife,
who was before marriage Hannah Proctor, and
was a daughter of William Proctor, of New
Gloucester,, Me., became the mother of four
children, as follows: J-'lora J.; l.ucinda E. ;
William Henry, the subject of this sketch;
and Abbie L. Mrs. Hannah P. McDonald died
at the age of fifty-seven years.

William Henry McDonald was educated in
the ccjmmon schools of his native town and at
the Pridgton High School. /\fter the comi)le-
tion of his studies he taught school for a time;
but, as he was needed at home to assist his
father in managing the hotel, he resided in
North Windham until the property was sold,
when he secured a position as night clerk at
the St. Julian Hotel in Portland. Being soon
advanced to the jiosition of second clerk and
later to that of head clerk, he remained at the
St. Julian for three years, and then went to the
Preble House, where he acted as chief clerk
for the succeeding seven years. I'or the next
eight years he was jiroijrietoi- and manager of
the United States Hotel, Portland, which he
conducted in such a liberal and satisfactory
manner as to become one of the best-known
and most popular landlords in Maine, a fact
which was amply attested by the numerous
commercial men and other travellers who
made the United States their headquarters
while in Portland; and the high reputation
he acquired there was sufficient to ensure
his future success wherever he might choose
to locate.

After leaving the United States Hotel, Mr.
McDonald was clerk at the Ottawa House on
Cushing's Island for one season, the following

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siniimcr acting in the same capacity at tlie
Fisi< House, Old Orchard Beach; and in 1.S88,
cciminf; to I'armington, he leased the Willows,
which had previously been a large private
boarding-school. Remodelling the interior
and putting in modern conveniences, he fur-
nished it throughout, and conducted it success-
fully for five years as a summer hotel. On
May 8, 1893, Mr. McDonald leased the Stod-
dard House at 20 Broadway. This centrally
located hotel he has completely refitted and re-
furnished, introducing modern conveniences in
the way of heating, bath, and other accommo-
dations; and his thirty-eight well-ventilated
rooms are occupied the year round. Con-
nected with the Stoddard is a first-class livery
stable, which affords commercial men the
means of reaching those of their customers who
are not accessible by rail; and the great po]ni-
larity of Proprietor McDonald causes many of
them to make his house their centre of opera-
tions while in this coimt}'.

Mr. McDonald wedded lunnia Davis, daugh-
ter of Lemuel and Abbie I. (Larrabee) Davis,
the former of whom was a shoemaker by
trade; and both were natives of Limington,
Me. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have been the
parents of six children, as follows: Frank S. ,
who was born January i, 1874; Edith, who
died in infancy, March 18, 1877; Howard,
who was born May 22, 187S; George, who was
horn April 19, 1891 ; Philip H., who was born
October 29, 1883; and Arthur L., whn was
horn January i i, 1885.

In the various fraternal orders to which he
belongs Mr. McDonald is a general favorite,
being a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge,
No. 17, A. F. & A. M., of Portland; Har-
mony Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, of the same city; and Bramhall Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, of which he is Fast Chan-
cellor, and has occupied the other important
chairs. He is a member of the Grand Lodge
of Maine, and since residing in Farmington
has served as District Deputy. For the past
eleven years he has acted as Secretary and
Treasurer of the Hotel Proprietors' Association
of Maine.' Politically, he supports the Repub-
lican party, and in his religious views is a
L'uitarian. Mrs. IMcDonald is a Congrega-
tit)nalist.

WILLIAM W. WATSON, a bo.x man-
ufacturer and mill owner of Water-
ford, was born in this place, Febru-
ary 2, 1 84 1, son of Samuel S. and Harriet A.
(Anthoine) Watson, the former of Waterford,
the latter of Windham, Me. His grandfather,
Ebenezer Watson, who was also born in
Waterford, and spent his life in this town,
followed the occupation of farmer.

Samuel S. Watson learned the shoemaker's .
trade in his youth, and followed it for a while;
but in the later years of his life he devoted
his energies to general farming. He resided
in the eastern part of the town, and was for
many years a well-known figure there, living
to the advanced age of eighty-two. His death
occurred in 1886, and that of his wife in 1878.
Their children were: George L., who died in
October, 1895; William W., the subject of
this sketch; Mary Louisa, now residing in
Worcester, Mass. ; Lucy E., the wife of
Churchill Leary, of Shelburne, N.H.; John
N., residing in Worcester, who married Miss
Tammy Griffin; Charlotte Elizabeth, the wife
of Louis Holden, of Otisfield, Me.; James
N., living in Worcester, who married Miss
Emily Leary; and Charles W'. , a resident of
Westbrook, Me.

William W. Watson attended a common
school until he was fourteen years of age.
After that he was first employed in a bucket
factory in South Waterford. He had spent
six years here when, on October 16, 1861, he
enlisted for service in the Civil War in
Company G, Twelfth Maine Volunteers, under
Colonel Chapley and Captain M. M. Robin-
son. In the course of the three years he
spent in the army he participated in the siege
of Port Hudson, in the battle of Winchester,
and in several skirmishes. At Ship Island
he received a permanent injury, on account of
which he is now in receipt of a pension from
the government. Receiving his discharge at
Portland, December 8, 1S64, he returned to
Waterford, and shortly after purchased the
saw-mill which he is now operating. He
manufactures spool strips and a variety of
pine boxes, including those used for packing
salt, the most of which he ships to Boston,
Mass. Ho has invented tw'o labor-saving ma-
chines, whicli have proved great successes.

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They are a box edger and a device for cutting
box boards. Besides attending to his mill
business Mr. Watson is engaged in general
fanning to some extent. He has had some
reverses in business, but on the whole he has
been successful.

Mr. Watson was married in April, 1868, to
Marietta Hamlin, a native of South Water-
ford, born in 185 1, daughter of George K.
Hamlin, who was a farmer. Mr. Hamlin and
his wife are buried in Waterford. Mr. and
Mrs. Watson have two children — Edith May
and Harry W. The daughter, born 1874, who
is a graduate of Douglass Seminary, and later
attended the North Bridgton Academy, has
taught school, and is now resting at home;
Harry W. was born in 1879, and is a graduate
of North Bridgton Academy. When Mr.
Watson was first qualified to vote he joined
the Democratic party. He subsequently be-
came a Republican. Though he was never an
office-seeker, he was appointed Postmaster of
Waterford village, under President Harrison,
and served efficiently for four years. He is a
member of Harry Rust Post, No. 54, Grand
Army of the Republic, of Norway village; of
No. 133, A. F. & A. M., of Waterford City;
and of Oxford Lodge, No. 61, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of North Waterford.
Mr. and Mrs. Watson attend the Universal ist
church in South Waterford.

tion

-OHN HENRY MILLETT, widely and
favorably known as one of the substan-
tial farmers of Oxford County, is pros-
perously engaged in his cho.sen occupa-
in the town of Norway, where his birth
occurred April 4, 1825. His parents, Colonel
John and Abigail (Parsons) Millett, were both
lifelong residents of Norway. The former
died here, June 3, 1875, aged eighty-four year.s,
and the latter August 29, 1865, in the seventy-
second year of her age.

Colonel Millett, who was a representative of
the fifth generation in descent from the emigrant
ancestor, Thomas Millett, an early settler in
Massachusetts, received his military title dur-
ing the War of 1812, although he never took
part in any of the battles, his regiment going
only as far as Portland. He was by occuijation

a farmer and dmver. He and his wife had a
family of eight children. The eldest, a daugh-
ter Dorothy, married Thomas Cousins, of Po-
land, Me. ; and both she and her husband are
now dead. Martha, who died in 1852, was the
wife of Otis True, of Norway; and Abigail is
the wife of E. C. Jackson, a farmer living in
Norway. John Henry is the special subject of
this sketch. Jonathan Sawyci', the next son,
died in California. The sixth cliild, Mary
W. P., who died some time since, was the wife
of A. F. Jackson of this town. Isaac P. and
Joel, who were twins, are deceased.

John Henry Millett, the firstborn son, is
the only one of the four now li\ing. He re-
mained a member of the parental household
throughout his childhood and youth and during
a short ]3eriod of his early manhood. (lold
being discovered in California in h'ebruary,
1848, he shared in the excitement that fol-
lowed, and with his brothers staitcd for that
"El Dorado of the West," going directly to
Sacramento, where he tried mining for two
years. Not being very successful in his search
for the jirecious metal, he retLUMied to Norway
and engaged in farming, convinced that "there
was no place like home." After his marriage
he bought the farm he now occupies, and
which by his persistent efforts has become in
point of improvements and equipments one of
the finest in the town. Pie owns about five
hundred acres of land; and with the assistance
of his sons he carries on general farming, and
is also engaged in stock raising and dairying.
A part of the cream is sold in the village of
West Paris, while in the home dairy Mrs.
Millett makes butter and cheese.

Mr. Millett was married November 25,
1858, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Rice, who was
born December 6, 1S27, in Waterford, this
county, where her grandfather, I^ben Rice,
Sr. , was a pioneer settler. Her parents were
I^ben Rice, Jr., a lifelong resident of Water-
ford, and his wife, P^lizabeth P'rye, who was a
native of P^yeburg, Oxford County. During
the first sixteen years of their wedded life Mr.
and Mrs. Millett became the parents of six
children. • With two of these little ones they
were soon called to part, namely: Harry, born
May 16, 1865, who died at the age of nine
months; antl I'rances Allen, born December

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II, 1867, who died July 19, 1X68. The four
who grew to maturity and are now living were
well-educated, completing their studies in the
high school. The following is a hrief record:
Mary A., born in i860, is her mother's helper
at home; Jonathan S. . horn August 15, 1862,
and John Henry, Jr., horn March 25, 1869,
assist their father in the care of the farm;
and -Sarah Elizabeth, born September 22,
1872, is engaged in teaching in the town of
Norway.

Mrs. Millett is a communicant of the C\)n-
gregational church. Mr. Millett and all his
famil\- are members of the Norway Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry. A Democrat in politi-
cal affiliation, he cast his first Presidential vote
in 1852 for the Democratic nominee, Franklin
Pierce, who received the election.

FRAN'CIS GOULD PUTLKR,

tor many years one of P'armington's
most noted citizens and enterprising
business men, died at his residence
in this town, December 6, 1891. He was
born in Farmington, March 3, 181 1, son of
Francis and Mary (Blackstone) Butler, and
w'as a great-grandson of Benjamin Butler, a
native of Martha's \'ineyard, who made his
home at lulgartown in the eastern jiart of the
island.

There his son, Ephraim, Mr. Butler's grand-
father, was born, December g, 1758. F^phraim
Butler began to follow the sea in his youth,
shi|)ping before the mast. After a time, find-
ing that his education was not sufficient to in-
sure promotion, he returned home, and applied
himself to study, pursuing a thorough course
in mathematics and navigation. Upon its
completion he became mate of a whale-ship
under Captain Trowbridge, later serving in the
Continental forces, both naval and land, in the
Revolutionary War. After the close of the
struggle for independence he acted as a pilot
along the coast of Massachusetts and Maine;
but, having drawn a tract of wild land situated
in the town of New Vineyard in the District of
Maine, he decided to settle there. He began
the task of clearing it off in 1792, taking up
his residence with his family in Sandy River
townshiii, from which place they remo\'ed the

following year to their new home in the wil-
derness. He improved his grant into a good
farm, and, selling the property in 1801, set-
tled in Farmington, where he resided until his
death, which took place April 3, 1832. He
married Lovie Sherman Lease, who was born
in 1759, and they reared a family of seven
children; namcl)', Jeremiah, Francis, Oliver,
Betsey, Lovie, Abigail, and \\'illiam. Mrs.
Lovie S. Butler died in 1843.

F'rancis Butler, the second of the four sons,
who has already been mentioned as the father
of P'rancis Gould, was born in New \'ineyard.
Me., October 12, 1782. Possessed of an en-
ergetic nature, he began life for himself when
a mere lad ; and for several years he resided
with hi's Uncle Josejih in Portland. Upon his
return to Farmington he engaged in mercantile
pursuits, carrying on a general store in F"air-
banks \'illage from 1827 to 1832; and, besides
owning and operating mills and cultivating
several farms, he was extensively engaged in
buying cattle for the Brighton market. He
was one of the most stirring and successful
business men of his day; and in public affairs
he displayed the same activity and tact which
characterized his private business operations,
serving as a member of the Board of Select-
men from 1829 to 1834, Town Treasurer in
1835, and as Representative to the legislature
in 1823. He died January i, 1845. For his
first wife he married Mary Blpckstone, who
died in 1823, aged thirty-seven year,s, leaving
two children, namely: P'rancis Gould, the
subject of this sketch ; and Mary Jane, born
August 29, 1822, who married Deacon R. Cut-
ler, and died within a year or two, the mother
of a son, who did not long survive. l^y his
union with Rebecca Knowlton, his second
wife, h'rancis Butler had three children,
namely: Caroline E., who was born March 28,
1828; Hiram A., who was born August 29,
1831 ; and Margaret J., who was born March
10, 1836.

F"rancis Gould Butler, the eldest son of
Francis Butler, acquired his education in the
common schools and at the P"armington Acad-
emy. While still a youth he was for a time
employed as a clerk in the store at P'armington
P"alls; and as he grew older he became of val-
uable assistance to his father, whose business

'im. iJaiu\

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enterprises were widely scattered. l''()r a slu)rt
time he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Bos-
ton ; but, not finding indoor occupation congen-
ial, he returned to Farmington, and availed
himself of the advantages of his practical
knowledge of surve3ing to busy himself in
the open air. Aside from being employed by
residents of this town and its vicinity to settle
disputed boundary lines, he was commissioned
as a land surveyor by the State ; and nearly
if not quite all the government hinds in this
part of the county were located and set off
either by him personally or under his di-
rection.

The exceedingly able and business-like
manner in which be settled his father's estate
won fi)i- him a high reputation as a financier;
and his fellow-townsmen, seeing in him a man
abundantly qualified to administer public
affairs, secured his valuable services by elect-
ing him to the Board of Selectmen and to the
post of Town Treasurer, also to other local
offices. He was a member of the legislature
in 1S54, and on account of the illness of the
sjieaker was chosen Speaker//?; tciu., a posi-
tion which he ably filled for nearly the entire
session; and in 1S56, which was the last year
in which the Democratic party was in the ma-
jority in Maine, he was a member of the State
.Senate. Mr. Butler also served as Clerk of
Courts, as High Sheriff of I'ranklin County,
and for many years was a delegate to the local
and State conventions of his party. He was
an accomplished parliamentarian and a skilful
presiding officer, having the ability to state
clearly and conci.sely the question for debate;
and the forcible arguments be used in sustain-
ing a point which he had undertaken to cham-
pion were the means of weakening his oppo-
nents and winning many votes to the sup]3ort
of his cause.

He was instrumental in securing the incor-
])oration of Franklin County, thus making
Farmington a shire town; and he also worked
diligently and subscribed generously toward
bringing the town into connection with the
railroad system of the State. In 1859 he was
chosen a Trustee of the Franklin Academy,
being a member of the last board of govern-
ment of that institution ; and he rendered val-
uable aid in bringing about the measures

whereliy it was bantled over to the .State in
return for the establishment here of the first
Normal School in Maine. In 1X61 he became
President of the Sandy River National Bank,
being also appointed Treasurer of the County
Savings Bank; and he not onlv handled
the affairs of these institutions with prudence
and -sagacity, [ilacing them ujion a firm
basis, but his private operaticms were alwa3's
of such a nature as to prove beneficial to the
general business interests of the town.

Deeply interested in the growtli ami devel-
opment of Farmington, looking upon its ad-
vancement as a [lart of the histor)- of Maine,
in 1882 Mr. Butler began the task of com-
piling a biographical and genealogical history
of the town, which he completed in 1885.
This work, U'hich contains si.\ hundred and
eighty-three pages of valuable records, dating
from 1776 and relating to the early explora-
tions and settlements, family histor)-, early
military o]ierations, church annals, mechanical
industries, railroads, and other matters of deep
concern to the residents here, is profusely
illustrated and had a large circulation in this
locality. It is now especially prized by those
fortunate enough to possess a co]n', as the re-
maining one thousand volumes of the issue
were destroyed by the conflagration which oc-
curred here in 18S6. The Butler homestead
was also swept away by that disastrous fire,
but was immediately replaced by a more mod-
ern and commodious residence, which is with-
out doubt one of the finest in the coimt)'. Mr.
Butler led a regular and exceedingly tem|)erate
life, his health remaining good up to the ill-
ness which resulted fatally. He died as be-
fore mentioned, leaving an honorable record
as a legacy to his posterity, his untiring laliors
in behalf of the general community forming a
bright s]iot in the history of the town be loved
so well.

On July 23, 1842, Francis CkjuUI Butler
was united in marriage with Julia Wendell,
who survives him. She was born in b'arming-
ton, July 20, 181 5, daughter of Thomas and-
Flizabeth (b^aton) Wendell, the former of
whom was in his day one of the energetic
farmers and prominent residents of this town.
Thomas Wendell was born in Marblehead,
Mass., July 13, 1770, and was a son of Thomas

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WemlL'll, Sr. , of that town. In 17S6, at the
age nf sixteen years, young Wendell, who had
Ijreviously followed tlie sea as a cabin boy,
came to Farmington, where he learned the
carpenter's trade; and in early manhood he
bought a tract of wild land, which he cleared
into a good farm, thus establishing a com-
fortable home f(jr his family. Jlis upright,
manh' principles, earnest piety, and strict
adherence to habits of temperance caused him
to lead a most exemplary life. He died of old
age, November ig, 1862. He served as Se-
lectman during the years I So- and 1808; and,
when the academy was built, he not only
assisted in its erection, but subscribed liber-
ally toward its endowment. In religious
\'iews a Congregationalist, he was one of the
princi|xil promoters of that church in this
town; and he acted as clerk of the parish for
many years, or until his death. He married
]'"lizabeth Eaton, and had a family of eleven
children, of whom Mrs. Julia 15utler is the
only survivor. Mrs. ISutler has been the
mother of four children, as follows: Mary
I'llizabeth, who was born May f), 1S43, and
died May 21, 1S58; Julia Page, who was born
December i, 1S47, and died September 11,
1 851; Apphia -Stanley, who was born A]3ril
II, 1851, and died October i, i860; and
Carrie Frances, who was born April 30, 1855,
married Charles F. Thwing, President of
Adeibert College, Cleveland, Ohio, and has
three children — Mary \'k, b'rances 1!., and
Apphia.

Mrs. l?utler, who enjo\s unusually good
healtii for one of her years, has been a leading
spirit in religious w-ork in this community,
iiaxing throughout her active life assisted the
various societies connected with the Congrega-
tional church, both b)- liberal contributions
and personal services. Her deeds of kindness
and unostentatious charity have endeared this
estimable woman to the hearts i<i hei' many
friends antl acquaintances.

'OHX C. GERRV, for some time a
member of the State legislature, a cus-
tom-house official, and Dejuity Sheriff
of O.xford and Cumberland Counties,
was loiiir an esteemed and influential citizen of

South Waterford, Me., where his widow and
daughter are still socially prominent. He was
born in Waterford, November 25, 1808, the
son of Peter and Polly (Cutler) Gerry. His
father was a native of Harvard, Mass., his
mother of Sudbury, Mass.

Nathaniel Gerry, father of Peter, spent his
life in the old Bay State, his birthplace being
Stoneham, and his place of residence for many
years the pretty country town of Harvard.
Peter Gerry, who was born in 1776, settled in
the south-west [lart of Waterford in 1797. He
devoted much of his time to agricultural
labors, but worketl also at his trade of shoe-
making. An intelligent man who took an
active interest in public affairs, he was elected
to the State legislature and served for four
terms. He died June 16, 1847, having sur-
vived his wife, who breathed her last on
March 16, 1830, seventeen years. Their five
children, who have since joined them in the
world beyond, were: Mary; John C. , afore-
named; Roland H. ; Abbie; and Pllbridge.

John C. Gerry was reared on a farm, and in
the years of his mature manhood followed the
pursuit of agriculture on an extensive scale.
He was also interested in trade, and for thiee
years was a member of the firm of Gerry &
Turner, marble dealers, of Portland, Me. In
politics he took an active ]5art, voting the
Democratic ticket; and his ability and ster-
ling character won the respect and confidence
of his fellows, who elected him to a number
of offices. He was Town Treasurer of Water-
ford eight years, was Deputy .Sheriff of ()xford
and Cumberland Counties for one or more
terms, occupied a seat in the legislature in
185 I, and was in the customhouse four \ears.
In the latter part of his life, his health being
pool-, he retired from business and public
affairs, living quietly in the village of Water-
ford until his death, November 19, 1887. Mr.
Gerry was well known in Oxford and Cumber-
land Counties, and had a host of friends.

He was married March 15, 1847, to Nancy
W. Sawin, daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Temple) Sawin. She was born in Waterford,
November 30, 1S19. Her jxirents were na-
tives of Sudbury, Mass. They lived for a
while after they were married at Waterford
[•"lat. Me., Mr. Sawin being driver and. agent

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of the stage-coach iimniiii^" hctween WatcrlOrd
Flat and Portlancl. About 1824 he removed
to Freeport, Me., where he was stage agent
until 1S42; and after retiring from business he
lived with his daughter in Waterford until his
death on September 8 of that year. Mrs.
Sawin died at the home of her daughter in
1S49. She was the nmther of thirteen chil-
dren, only two uf whom are now living,
namely: Jane, who resides in Hyde Park,
Mass. ; and Nancy W., Mrs. Gerry. The
others were: Iktsey, Phcebe, William, Julia,
Harriet, Lyman, Jabez, Mary A., Mary A.
(second), Lydia, and one who died in infancy.
Seven children blessed the union of Mr. and
Mrs. Gerry, the record being as follows: John
Melville, who lived but three years; Mary
Elizabeth, wife of C. C. Briggs, a resident of
Pittsburg, Pa., employed in the iron and steel
works; Josephine, residing with her mother
on the homestead in Waterford; Anna Sin-
clair, wife of John Haynes, a music dealer
living in Mount \'ernon, N. Y. ; Helen, who
died at the age of thirty; Roland, in Pittsburg,
Pa. ; and John Cutler, who lived but ten years.
The children who grew up were well educated,
attending Bridgton Academy and taking high-
school courses. Mrs. and Miss Gerry exer-
cise a graceful hospitality at their pleasant
home in South Waterford villase.

lUGENE NELSON, a retired manufact-
urer of Waterfortl, now engaged to
some extent in market gardening,
belongs to one of the oldest families in New
P^ngland. The son of Chaplin and Emily
(Hicks) Nelson, he was born in Waterford,
April 9, 1849. He is descended from Thomas
and Joan Nelson, Thomas being the ancestor
of the Nelsons in Maine, New Hampshire,
and the northern part of Massachusetts.
Thomas Nelson was one of the tvventy-seven
friends that emigrated with the Rev. Ezekiel
Rogers from Rowley, Yorkshire, England, in
December, 1638. In the spring of 1639 this
party settled on land situated between Ipswich
and Newbury, Mass., subsequently known as
"Mr. Rogers's Plantation," but named Rowley
by the General Court in the following Septem-
ber. Thomas Nelson, who was one of the

able men of his time, was made a freeman
May 23, 1639, was Deputy to the General
Court in 1640 and 1641, and in 1643 was
chosen chairman of a committee to make a
survey of the town, and lay out and register
house lots. In October, 1644, he was author-
ized to join persons in marriage within the
limits of Rowley. In January, 1644, the
town granted to him thirty-six acres in the
"Mill Field," ten acres of which were de-
signed to encourage him to build mills. Eu-
gene Nelson's grandparents, Moses and Hitta
(Pingrec) Nelson, were the first of the family
in Waterford, to which they came from
Rowley, and where Moses devoted the last
years of his life to agriculture.

Chaplin Nelson was born in Waterford, and
was employed there in his youth as a sur-
veyor. He was later engaged in the sale of
general merchandise in the village of Water-
ford. His death occurred at the age of thirty-
five. His wife, a native of Westbrook, Me.,
who was afterward married to D. W. Noble,
of Waterford (also deceased), died in 1881.
By her first marriage she had four children,
namely: Georgia A., born February 16, 1846,
the wife of Cyrus .S. Tucker, of Norway:
Llewellyn K., born June 23, 1847, a book-
keeper in Leadville, Col.; Eugene, the sub-
ject of this sketch; and Charles W. , born Sep-
tember 21, 1850, a resident of New York
City, and engaged in the railroad business.

Eugene Nelson received a good education,
attending the common schools near his home
and Bridgton Academy. At the age of nine-
teen he obtained employment as clerk in the
office of the water department at Boston,
Mass., where he remained a year. Returning
then to his native place, he was engaged in
the manufacture of woodenware in Waterford
City for two years. Subsequently in the
village he developed a large business in gen-
eral manufacturing, and became one of the
prominent men in the place. He retired from
active business some time ago. It was, how-
ever, impossible for a man of his disposition
to remain entirely unoccupied, so he turned
his attention to market gardening, in which
he has since found recreation and some profit.
In October, 1871, he was united in mar-
riage with Miss Lottie M. Stanwood, who was

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horn in l^oston, Mass., February 2, 1853.
I Icr parents, who are living on the Stanvvood
homestead in Waterford, are Albert and
Matilda (Morse) Stanvvood, the former a na-
tive of Nevvburyport, Mass., and the latter of
Waterford. They have five children, namely:
Albert E., born November 10, 1S73, now in
Britlgton, Me.; Edward C, liorn June i,
1875, in Portland, Me.; ICthel M., born May
I, 1877; Bertha S., jjorn July 28, 1883; and
Charles M., born January 13, 1887. The
three last named reside with their parents.
Mr. Nelson takes an active interest in poli-
tics, voting the Democratic ticket. He has
served on the Township Committee for a num-
ber of years, and has held the office of Super-
visor of Schools three years. He is well
known and highly esteemed in the vicinity of
his home.

k.ASTUS T. AHBOTT, of I-armington,
I'^ranklin County, Me., who was for-
merly identified with the saw-mill
business in this section of the State, and is
now a successful agriculturist, was born in
Milan, N. H., October 17, 1849, son of hh-as-
tus I. and Eydia (Eckley) Abbott. His pater-
nal grandfather was Luther Abbott, a resident
of Lancaster, N.H. ; and that town was his
father's birthplace.

luastus I. Abbott in early manhood learned
the wheelwright's trade, in which he became
exceedingly proficient, and was known as one of
the best workmen in this locality. Settling
in Milton riantation in this count)-, he engaged
in iiperating saw-mills, also owning some valu-
able farming lands, which he carried on with
])rosperous results. Later, from Milton he
moved to Rumford T'alls, Oxford County,
where he is now residing, and is the proprietor
of saw-mills. He is an active and very capa-
i)le business man, whose enterprising spirit
has been jirodiictive of excellent financial
results; and he is to-day among the most useful
and progressive citizens of Oxford County.

ICrastus T. Abbott, to whom was given his
father's name with a distinctive midille initial,
ac(|uired the princiiial part of his education in
the schools of Oxford County; anil when his
studies were finished he besran work with his

father, first as a wheelwright and later as a
mill-man. ]5eing a natural mechanic, he took
up the business of filing and fitting saws, in
which he became an expert, and continued thus
employed for several years, being frequently
called to different localities for the jjurpose of
jnitting in order and adjusting mill saws. In
conipany with his father he bought a small
farm in Franklin Plantation; and, after remod-
elling the buildings and otherwise improving
the property, he sold it and purchased the
J. Butterfield farm of one hundred acres, situ-
ated in P"armington, where he has since
resided.

Mr. Abbott's first wife, Josephine Wayman,
daughter of Thomas Wayman, of I'eru, Me.,
died at the age of- twenty-one, leaving one
child — Alva ¥.., who died when he was four-
teen years old. His second wife, Edith,
daughter of Robert Townsend, of Oxford, died
at the age of nineteen; and he subsequently
married Mrs. Lottie Decker Butterfield, his
]5resent wife, then the widow of the late
Luther W Butterfield, who was a son of John
ISutterfield. Her first husband died April 21,
1879, aged twenty-nine years, leaving one
daughter — Florentine J. Butterfield, who was
born September 28, 1876. Mrs. Abbi)tt is a
daughter of Joshua and Rachel (Bishoj))
Decker and grand-daughter of Joshua and
Fanny (Piper) Decker, of La Grange, Penob-
scot County, Me. The grandfather was a
prosperous farmer and large land -owner of that
town, and both he and his wife lived to reach
a good old age. Joshua Decker, the younger,
Mrs. Abbott's father, who was born in La
(jrange, servetl as a jirivate in Company P",
lughth Regiment, Maine Volunteers, for
three years during the war of the Rebellion.
He died at the age of fifty-two. His wife,
who survives him and is now seventy-seven
years old, has been the mother of nine chil-
dren, three of whom died voung. The
living are: Horace; Elbridge; Loren ; Al-
freda ; Lewellyn ; and Lottie, who is now Mrs.
Abbott. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott have an
adopted daugliter, Gertrude May, who was born
March 30, 1S94.

In politics Mr. Abbott is an active supporter
of the Republican party, and during his resi-
dence in Oxford County he served as a member

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of the ]5oard of Selectmen of the town in whieh
he lived. He is prominently connected with
Franklin Lodge, No. 58, Independent Order
of Odd FeIlow.s, in which he ha.s filled mo.st of
the important chairs. Mr. Ahbott and his
wife attend public worship at the Haptist
church.

'AMUKL B. WATERMAN, a

worthy and representative citizen
of O.xford, O.xford County, Me.,
was born in Turner, Androscoggin
County, on April i, 1826, the son of (iuy H.
and I'^sther (Brown) Waterman. His father
was a native of the town of Greene, not far
from Turner; and his mother was born in
Oxford.

Guy B. Waterman spent the most of his
active life in Turner and O.xford as a hard-
working farmer, but his last few years were
passed in the town of Durham. At one time
he owned land that he cultivated in the town
of Turner, and later on he leased land. He
married Esther Brown, and five children were
born to them, namely: I-.sther E., now the
wife of Mr. Freeman Greenough, and living
with her husband in the city of Portland, Me. ;
Samuel B. , of whose life further particulars are
to follow; and Ruth, Eucinda, and Lizzie, all
deceased. Mr. Guy B. Waterman was a Uni-
versalist in religious belief and first a Whig
and then a Republican in politics. Tie died
at the age of seventy-five years.

Samuel B. Waterman grew to maturity in
the town of Oxford, where he received his edu-
cation in the public schools. Starting in life
for himself, he first engaged in farm work, but
■ soon left that occupation to become a travel-
ling salesman. Lie continued on the road for
fifteen years, part of the time being engaged
in selling powder for Hubbard & Marble. In
1854, moved by the desire to settle down,
establish a home, and enjoy its comforts, he
bought the farm where he now resides. Here
he has lived ever since, leading the quiet life
of a farmer.

He was married in 1853 to Miss Sarah A.
Millett, the daughter of Edmund C. and Sally
(Greenlief) Millett. Mrs. Waterman was
born on July 29, 1834. Her father was a

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leading farmer of Miuol,
County, where he was one of the most promi-
nent citizens. He lix'cd there all his life,
and died there at the ripe old age of eighty-
eight years, his wife being fi\e years younger
at her death. They were both members of the
Baptist church. Mr. Millctl was a stanch
Republican in ])olitics. He and his wife
were the parents of eight children, of whom
seven are now living, namel\': William G.,
a farmer of Minot; Sarah A., Mrs. Waterman;
Mrs. Harriett E. Spurr; Mrs. Abnetla I'".
Burroughs; Mrs. Emma I''. V'arnev ; Miss
Ella J. Milfctt; and Mrs. Mary E. Carr.
The one that died was a girl, h'rances Ellen.

Mr. and Mrs. Waterman have two sons —
(.'barles J'", ami b'red .S. Their only daughter
died in iiif;rncy. Charles V.. Waterman was
born in (Ixford, March 2, 1859. He is a
newspaper man, and is one ot the owners of
the Mechanic Falls J.i;ii;iT. He married
Miss Clara ¥.. Garland. l-"red S. Waterman,
who was borji in O.xford, September 13, 1864,
is unmarried, and lives at home with his father
and mother, and helps with the farm duties.

Mr. Wateinian has made many improve-
ments on his place during the torty years and
more of his occupanc)'. He has now a fine
farm of one hundred acres, the homestead be-
sides outlying land, with convenient buildings,
all in good repair, and the whole jiresenting
a thriftful appearance indicative of careful
industry and sagacious management. Mi'.
Waterman and his wife are energetic and stir-
ring people, and all they possess and enjoy
they have their own hands and brains to thank
for. They are as well liked as they are well
known. They are liberal in religious views,
and attend the Universal ist church. In poli-
tics Mr. Waterman is a strong Keiiublican.
He has been a .Selectman of the town for two
years, and has also held several minor offices,
proofs of the confidence and fi iendship of his
fellow- townsmen.

,HARLES M. MILLl'lR, a well to-do
farmer of Wilton, l'"ranklin County,
Me., and a representative of an old
family of this town, was born in
Wilton, October 6, 1850, son of David and

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Abigail (Johnson) Miller. His grandparents
were David and Betsey (Pierce) Miller, who
came from Fall River, Mass., to Wilton, and
settled on the John Miller place. An account
of the family, which is of early Colonial ori-
gin, will be found in a sketch of Gilbert
Miller.

David Miller, the N'ounger, son of the ]jio-
neer, was born in ^\'ilton on July lo, 1815.
As a means of earning a livelihood and sup-
porting his family, he devoted his energies,
and with success, to general farming. When
somewhat past middle age, he bought the
David Macumber farm, where he resided for
thirty-one years. He died May 10, 1893.
Iksides attending to his farm work, he was
pr(jminent in public affairs, serving as a mem-
ber of the Board of Selectmen and as Ta.x Col-
lector for several terms, also as a County Com-
missioner; and in politics he acted with the
Republican party. His first wife, Abigail
Johnson, who was a daughter of Charles John-
son, of Harpswell, became the mother of seven
children, namely: Hattie; Charles M., the
subject of this sketch; William H. J. ; Jennie
l*". ; Isaac ; Frederick M. ; and Mary L. Mrs.
j\bigail Miller died at the age of thirty-six
years. Da\'id Miller married for his second
wife Sybil Talbot.

Charles M. Miller began his education in
the public schools, and finished his course of
study at the Wilton Academy. At the age of
twenty he started in life for himself as a rail-
road lirakeman in Massachusetts; and a year
later he entered the service of the old Metro-
])i)litan Street Railway Company of l^oston as
a conductor, remaining in their employ for
three years. Returning to Wilton, he was for
the next seven years engaged in farming with
his father; and he then bought the property of
one hundred acres known as the Colonel Har-
pus farm, which he now owns. He has greatly
increased the productiveness of the land,
which is now ca]iable of yielding large and ex-
cellent crops, and during the present year he
has erected a new stable and carriage house.
He keeps a herd of twelve Jersey cows for
dairy purposes, and aside from carrying on this
farm he has since the death of his father taken
entire charge of the homestead property.

(.)n April 13, 1874, Mr. Miller married

Lucinda Rich, daughter of Josiah and Lucy
(Baker) Rich, of Wellfleet, Mas.s. Mr. Rich
followed the sea until his retirement, and he
died at the age of fifty-nine years. His wife,
who lived to be sixty-nine, was the mother of
five children, namely: Theodore; Zerua ;
Sarah J.; Lucinda, who is now Mrs. Miller;
and Ftta. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two
children: Leita J., who was born IVLirch 10,
1878; and Alice M., who was born A]3ril 8,
1 88 1, both now attending the \\'ilton
Academy.

In politics Mr. Miller is a Republican.
He is connected with Williamson Lodge, In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and with the
Foresters; and in his religious views he is
liberal.

LONZO FELT, a well-known resident
of Bryant's Pond, in the town of
Woodstock, Oxford County, Me., is
a native of this place, born Septem-
ber II, 1833, a son of Jeremiah and P'liza
(Perkins) Felt. His father came here in the
year 1816, and took hold of the farm on which
his son now resides, and which then consisted
of about one hundred acres. He lived here for
the remainder of his life, dying April 30, 1879,
at the age of eighty-two years. His wife died
in 1875, 3t the age of seventy-seven. They
had ten children, of whom five still survive,
namely: Lucy M., wife of Judge H. C.
Davis, of Norway, Me. ; Mehitabel, the
w^dow of John Hathaw-ay, of Woodstock;
Mary P., who is the wife of Consider Farrar,
of W'oodstock ; Sibyl ]., who married S. L.
Russ, who was a Selectman of the town of
Woodstock for a period of fifteen years ; and
Alonzo.

Alonzo I'elt has spent his life up to the
present time on the old homestead which was
also the scene of his birth. He received his
education in the public schools of Woodstock.
Subsec|uently devoting his attention to agri-
culture, he has worked hard and prospered
accordingly. He has increased the size of
his farm to three hundred and fifty acres, more
than three times its origii>al extent. He has
also made many improvements, adding new
buildings ami [iractically rebuilding the old

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ones. It is one of the most lieaiitilul pieces
of property in this section, heing finely situ-
ated on a hill.

Mr. Felt was married December 14, 1864,
to Emily J. Bryant, a daughter of Dustin
Bryant, of Greenwood. lie has two children
— Archie D., born June 8, 1876, is now a
student at Hebron Academy, having previ-
ously passed through the common schools and
high school ; Lena May, born September 6,
1872, educated in Norway, Me., resides at
home and follows the occupation of a teacher
in the schools of her native town. Mr. Felt
is a stanch Republican politically, and relig-
iously is a member of the Society of Friends.
He belongs to West Paris Lodge, No. 15,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of
Franklin Grange, No. 124, of Bryant's Pond.

"ENRV W. COY, one of the most
prominent farmers and business men
of Oxford, Oxford County, Me.,
was born in the neighboring town
of Minot, Cumberland County, on March 22,
1838, son of Nathan and Julia Ann (Buck)
Coy.

Nathan Coy was born in Minot, April 14,
1793; and his wife was born in the town of
Norway, Me., December 29, 181 1. He
learned the blacksmith's trade during an
apprenticeship of seven years in Norway vil-
lage; and he subsequently followed his trade
in connection with farming, spending nearly
all his active life in his native town. He
was a hard-working man always, and made
what he had by continuous toil. He died at
the age of fifty-six years, being drowned while
trying to save a boy's life, thus nobly risking
and, as it proved, sacrificing his own in the
attempt. He held liberal views in religion,
and in politics he was a Democrat. His wife,
who was an earnest member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, outlived him many years,
attaining the age of eighty-four. They were
the parents of six children, four of whom are
now alive, namely: Henry W., whose name
stands at the beginning of this sketch; Oliver
B. , also a farmer of Oxford; Helen, unmar-
ried, residing in the town of Oxford; and
Nathan, a passenger conductor on the Grand

Trunk Railroad, who married Marion Ross,
and makes his home in (lorham, N.ll. The
two other children were: Clementine, who
died at the age of twenty years; and Hattie,
who married l'"red Cushman, and tlietl at the
age of thirty years.

Henry W. Coy, the first mentioned of the
three sons, came to Oxford at an early age,
and was here educated in the pulilic schools,
and has since devoted himself to agriculture.
.Starting with a small farm of sixty-five
acres, he engaged in general husbandry and
stock raising, also dealing in wood and lum-
ber; and by dint of tireless industry and good
business faculty he has accumulated a hand-
some property, being the owner of twn hun-
dred and sixty-six acres of land with substan-
tial and convenient buildings.

He was married in the year 1S70, on the
last day of October, to Eliza Wight, a native
of Gilead, Me., and the daughter of Caleb
and Fanny L. (Burbank) Wight. She was
born on December 4, 1840. Her father and
mother were natives of Gilead, Mr. Wight
being a good and successful farmer, and was
a Republican in politics. He died at the age
of eighty-four years. His wife died at the
age of sixty-nine. Both belonged to the
Methodist Episcopal church. They were the
parents of nine children, all of whom are now-
living — Eliza, Mark, Diana, p]li, \'esta,
Caleb, Mina, Thomas, and John.

Mr. and Mrs. Coy in the first fourteen years
of their married life became the ixuents of
five children, of whom three are now living,
namely: Mildred W., who was born on Au-
gust 31, 1871, and is now the wife of Daniel
Barnes, of Andover, Me., a trader; Howard O. ,
who was born August 26, 1880; and Mary B.,
born May 10, 1884. Emily Coy, who was
born on July 11, 1872, died in .Seiitember of
the same year; and Fanny, who was born
August 27, 1876, died on March 11, 1879.

Mrs. Coy belongs to the Methodist Episco-
pal church, and her husband is liberal in
religion. In politics Mr. Coy is a Republi-
can. He has served as a -Selectman for three
years, also as one of the School Committee
for the same period of time, being still a mem-
ber of the Board. He has been eminently
successful in life, and is one of the best estab-

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lishcd men in a business wav of the whole
county. He is a great dairyman, as well as
a general farmer, owning and running one of
the largest dairies in the town.

^^-yjl.AS K. KING, President of the
S. K. King Company of Welch-

^^ — ' \'ille, Oxford Count}', was born in
Skowhegan, Somerset County, Me.,
March 14, 1847, son of John A. and Hannah
(Howley) King. His father, who was a mer-
chant, died when fiutv-five years old, his wife
surviving to the age of sixty-five. She was
the mother of two children, of whom Silas
K. only reached maturit}-.

.Silas K. King grew to manhood in Cumber-
land and Oxford Counties, Maine, and was
educated in the common schools. In 1867 he
started as a merchant upon a small scale,
opening a store at Welchville; and the busi-
ness has since expanded into its present large
proportions. In i S96 the .S. ]i. King Com-
pany was organized and incorporated with Mr.
King as its President; George L. Wilder,
Vice-President; and Roscoe F. .Staples, Sec-
retary and Treasurer. The company, which
has among its stockholders several Portland
and Auburn merchants, deals extensively in
general merchandise, including drj' and fancy
goods, furniture, hardware, agricultural tools,
groceries, meats, boots, shoes, rubbers, and,
in fact, everything from a cradle to a casket.
The concern has wide-awake men at its head,
and its methods are thoroughly indicative of
New England enterprise. Air. King is highly
respected both as a merchant and as a private
citizen. He was married Januar\' 23, 1879,
to Florence S. Holmes.

He is a Repulilican in politics, and from
i(S83 to 1889 was Postmaster here. He is
connected with the Masonic Lodge at Me-
chanic Falls, and is liberal in his religious
views.

kAI.PIl .S. FRKKMAN, a retired
farmer spending the closing years of
his long and busy life at his pleas-
ant homestead in the town of Nor-
way, Oxford County, was jjorn December 17,

1S17, in Minot, Me. He comes of substantial
Mas,sachusetts stock, his grandfather, Chandler
Freeman, having been a native of Duxbury,
Plymouth County, that State. He was a
farmer by occupation, and, when a young man,
came to Maine, locating in the town of Minot,
where during the remainder of his life he
was numbered among the prominent citizens.
He was an active worker in religious circles,
and for many years was Deacon of the Minot
Congregational Church.

Samuel Freeman, son of Chandler and father
of Ralph S., was a native of Minot, where he
spent his early years. Later on he worked for
a time in the eastern part of the State; but
subsequently removed to Hebron, this county,
where he was successfully engaged as a tiller
of the soil until his death. His wife, Eliza-
beth Bradford, also a native of Minot, bore
him ten children, briefly mentioned as follows:
Jonathan Bradford died at the age of twenty-
one years; Samuel lived until seventy-nine
years old; Tristram died in Portland, Mich.,
in April, 1895; Ralph S. is the direct subject
of this sketch; John S. was accidentally
drowned in Massachusetts; Mary B. married
William Berce, of Auburn, Me., and neither
is now living; TZlizabeth died in infancy;
Edward P. died in California; Chandler died
in Colorado; and Joseph is now residing in
Atkin.son, N.H. These children, with the
exception of Chandler, who was a college
graduate, acquired their education in the dis-
trict schools of their native State.

Ralph S. Freeman, whose personal history
is now to be outlined, lived beneath the ]«-
rental roof-tree until attaining man's estate,
when he started in life for himself, having in
the next few years a varied experience and
seeing much of oui- country. Going first to
Massachusetts, he worked for two years in a
boot and shoe factory in North Bridgewater,
now known as Brockton, at bottoming boots.
He next went South, he and his brother Tris-
tram being hired by a business firm to sell a
new kind of oil-cloth. After spending a week
in Georgia, Mr. P'reeman went to South Caro-
lina, where he travelled six months, visiting
nearly every district in that State. Then
taking a team he drove across the country to
the town of Portland, Mich., where he had a

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brother living, for whom he worked at carpen-
tering the succeeding three years. Going
thence to Ohio, Mr. Freeman located on the
Miami River, near Dayton, and, building an
elevator for storing corn for the distiller}-,
stayed there four months. He then resumed
bis trade of a carpenter, working at it two
months in Cleveland and then in Detroit,
Mich., where he assisted in erecting several
houses. Continuing to reside in Detroit for a
while longer, he worked at steamboat building
in the shipyard for a time, and was afterward
employed in the vicinity of the Lakes, between
Buffalo and Cleveland and in Canada above
Montreal for several years.

Being there taken sick so that he could not
work for one winter, Mr. I-'reeman returned
to Maine; and for three years he had the man-
agement of the parental farm in Hebron.
During this period he was married, and for a
time thereafter he was engaged in farming in
that town. .Subsequently purchasing a farm
on Brighton Hill, he built a house and re-
mained there a year. He then bought the
well-known Glover farm in Hebron, abt)Ut a
mile from the academy, which he occujned
about a year before selling it. Mr. b'reeman
then came to Norway, and in September of that
year, 1853, bought the old Crockett farm, for-
merly owned by his father-in-law. He has
since made this his home, carrying on general
farming and working somewhat at his trade.
In the mean time he has spent two years or
more from home, having rented his farm one
year while he worked at his trade on the He-
bron chapel; and from November, icS6i, until
the following April he was in Cuba, where
he worked in repairing railroad bridges. Be-
sides his well-improved farm of one hundred
and thirty-five acres, Mr. Freeman owns other
land in Oxford County, making a goodly es-
tate accumulated by his untiring industry.
He is now enjoying the fruits of his many
years of successful activity, having given up
the management of his valuable farm to his
son, Charles E.

Mr. Freeman was married December 31,
1849, to Miss Sarah Crockett, who was born
on the present homestead, April g, 1821, a
daughter of the late Joshua and Judith (Pike)
Crockett, lifelong residents of Norway. Mr.

antl Mrs. I'reeman have four chikhen; namely,
Harriet ('. , .Sarah Alice, Charles I-]. , and
Henry H. Harriet C, born October 17,
1850, is the widow of Isaac Merrill, and now
lives with her parents. Sarah A., born Janu-
ary 18, 1854, is the wife of Clarence R. Mer-
rill, who is engaged in the grain, lime, and
cement business in Manchester, N. H. Charles
Iv, born August 19, 1857, now having charge
of the homestead, is a man of jirominence in
the town, anil in 1892 served as .Selectman.
He was married November 13, 1886, ,to Miss
Ada Merrill, daughter of George Merrill, a
millwright in Norway. She died July 19,
1895, leaving three children — Lucy C,
Ralph M., and Sarah Alice. Henry H.' Free-
man, born May 9, 1862, married Lena S.
Buck, and is now living in Manchester, N. H.,
engaged in the same business that his brother-
in-law is. Politically, Mr. Ral[)h -S. P'reeman
is a stanch Republican in ])olitics, as is his
son, Charles F. Socially, he is one of the
charter members of the Norway Grange; and,
religiously, both he and his estimable wife are
members of the Univcrsalist Church of Norway.

ALTER !•;. HOLMES, one of the
foremost residents of ().\ford, Me.,
his native place, is a graduate of
Bowdoin College and a teacher by profession,
but now devotes himself chiefly to town affairs
and official duties. He was born on July 31,
1846, son of Ebenezer R. antl Louisa Abigail
Fuller (Rawson) Holmes, and is a worthy
representative of one of the oldest families of
this vicinity.

His paternal grandfather, James Holmes,
w^as born at Plymouth, Mass., on August 8,
1759. In early manhood seeking a new home
in the deep woods of Maine, he became one of
the first settlers of O.xford, buying up a tract
of wild land, clearing it, and living thereon
all the rest of his life. He left his mark in
this section — that of an honest, strong, hard-
working man and a true patriot, he having
served as a brave young soldier in the Ameri-
can Revolution. His wife, Jerusha Rawsmi,
who was born in -Sutton, Mass., on October 13,
1769, was the daughter of Ebenezer Rawson,
a worthy farmer of that town. James and Je-

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rusha (Rawson) Holmes were the parents of
nine children, eight sons and one daughter, of
whom but one is now alive, the daughter.
They were: James S. ; Salmon; Cyrus; Job;
]{benezer R. and Eleazer A., who were twins;
Jcrusha; John S. ; and Freeland. Jerusha
Holmes married a Mr. Rawson, and lives in
]5rooklyn, N.Y. James Holmes died in (Ox-
ford on April 13, 1827. His wife died on
June 12, 1848, in the same town, when nearly
eighty years of age.

Ebenezer R. Holmes, the fifth son, as here
recorded, was born at O.xford on January 9,
in the year 1802. He grew to manhood on
the old farm in the town of his birth. He
had always intended to study the ]irofession
of the law; but, as his father and mother be-
came less and less able to take the proper care
of the farm, and his brothers and sister were
away from home, he considered it his duty to
remain there. -So he ended by giving up his
life to farming. By means of hard labor and
sagacious management he was able to bring
the old farm up to the standard of the best
in the whole county. He took great interest
in the breeding of fine cattle, in which pur-
suit he was very successful, making a spe-
cialty of Herefords. He was one of the first
farmers in the State to deal in full-blooded
cattle. His farm consisted of about three
hundred acres, and was considered one of the
best in the town.

In religious faith Mr. Ebenezer R. Holmes
was a liberal. His political views were those
of the Republican party, with which he was
connected from the date of its formation. He
held office as Selectman for a number of
years, and was Chairman of the Board for a
great part of that time. He was also the
Town Agent, and he served as a Representa-
tive to the State legislature in 1850. He
always took an active part in any movement
that was going on tending toward the improve-
ment in any way of his town or toward the
weal of his fellow-citizens.

He married Louisa Abigail Fuller Rawson,
who was born in Paris, Me., on February 5,
1807. They became the parents of five chil-
dren, of whom four are now living, namely:
Louise S., born on February ig, 1838, and
Lyman R., born July 14, 1840, both residing

at the old homestead in O.xford; Walter E.,
the date of whose birth is mentioned above,
and a sketch of whose career begins with the
next paragraph; and Florence S., born De-
cember 10, 185 1, who married S. E. King,
a merchant, and resides in Oxford village.
George F. , the second son, born November 5,
1844, graduated from Bowdoin College in
1866, and was a lawyer of Portland. He
died on March 6, 1892. Ebenezer R. Holmes
died on I-'ehruary 19, 1S90. His wife sur-
vives him, and lives at her home in Oxford,
now at the advanced age of nearly ninety years.

Walter E. Holmes acquired his elementary
education in the public schools of Oxford,
fitted for college at Hebron Academy and at
the Edward Little Institute in Auburn, Me.,
and entering ]5owdoin pursued the full course,
and was graduated in 1S70. P'or a number of
years thereafter he devoted himself to teach-
ing. He was at one time for the period of
two years an instructor in a business college
of Oshkosh, Wis. ; and after that he came
back to the old home farm in (Jxford. Soon
he removed to Welchville, and went into trade
for a few years. His health, however, began
to fail him; and he was obliged to give up
such active business and take to something
more quiet and less wearing in its effects.
He has served as Selectman for one term, as
Town Treasurer for three years, as Collector
for four years, as Supervisor of Schools two
years; and he is now in his second term as
Notary Public.

He was married on May i, iSSi, to I-llba A.
Potter, who was born in Oxford on January
II, 1S61, daughter of William and Mary E.
(Starbird) Potter, of the same town. Mr. and
Mrs. Holmes have two children: Mabel J.,
who was born at Oxford on March 14, 1883;
and George E. R., who was also born at Ox-
ford, January 21, 1888. Mr. Holmes and his
wife are earnest and active members of the
Congregational church at Oxford village.
They are widely known and enjoy the respect
and good-will of a large circle of friends and
acquaintances, Mr. Holmes being a gentleman
of scholarly attainments and an interesting
conversationalist. In political affiliation he
is a strong Republican, as his father was
before him. He is also a member of the

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A. I-". & A. M, Paris Lodge, No. 94. at
South Paris, Me.

)N. ANDREW S. IIAPGUUD, a
popular citizen of Waterford, O.xford
County, Me., now serving as a Rep-
resentative in the State legislature,
was born here November 11, 1841, son of
Thomas and Jane (McWain) Hapgood. His
grandfather, Hezekiah Hapgood, was the first
of the family to come to Waterford. They
settled on a farm north-east of Waterford l'"lat
and there made his home until on account of
advanced years he gave up active work and
went to live with one of his sons in Fryeburg,
remaining there until his death.
' Thomas Hapgood, son of Hezekiah, was
born and brought up in Waterford. He be-
came a farmer and trader; and after his mar-
riage he followed agricultural jnu'suits in his
native town until 1845, when, removing to
Gorham, N. H., he there engaged in trading
and in farming, and also managed a grist-mill.
v\bout three and one-half years later he re-
turned to Waterford, and here devoted himself
to farming for a like period. He next mi-
crated to Brasher Falls, N. Y., where he car-

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ried on a saw and grist mill tor eighteen
months, after which he went to Bangor,
Franklin County, N.Y., and again engaged in
trade for about six months. Going from there
to Brandon, in the same county, in northern
New York, he resumed his early occupation of
farming, to which he gave his attention for
two year-s, and then came back to Waterford
and conducted the saw and grist mill business
until his death, which occurred in December,
1864. Mrs. Jane McWain Hapgood, his wife,
who was born in Putney, Vt. , died in 1859.
Thev were the parents of five children —
David T., who died in 1883 ; Laure Jane, who
died at five years of age; Lura A., wife of
Sylvanus W. Cobb, now residing in Durango,
Col. ; Andrew S. ; Charles Henry, whose
death occurred in 1866. Those who grew to
maturity were given a common-school and
academic education.

In 1862, at twenty-one years of age, Andrew
S. Hapgood, whose youth had been passed in
the different places where his parents had

made their home, went to Mendocino County,
California, and engaged in the saw-mil! busi-
ness, which he followed for two years. He
then went to Idaho Territory for a change,
and was employed there in mining for a year
and a half, after which lie returned to Water-
ford and took charge of the old Hapgood Mills,
his father having died. Some time after he
sold the grist-mill, but still comhicts the saw-
mill, and is doing a successful business, his
attention being chiefly given to his mill, al-
though he also owns forty acres of farming
land. On May _5, 1861, he was mustered into
the United States service; but during the
three months that he was out his company was
not called into active service, and he took no
part in any engagement.

On July 7, 1870, Mr. Hajigood was married
to Miss Irene Willard, of W'aterford. She
was born December 14, 1845, a daughter of
P^ben M. and Hannah (Barker) Willard, her
father having been a native of Waterford, and
her mother of Lovell, in the same county.
Mr. Willard was successfully engaged in
farming here throughout his life. Mrs. Irene
W. Hapgood died P'ebruary 12, 1S95; and Mr.
Hapgood was again married August 9, 1896,
to Lavinia G. Willard, of North Newry, Me.

Mr. Hapgood has always voted the Republi-
can ticket. He was elected a member of the
State legislature in 1894, and is now (1896)
serving in his second year. He has been
for several years Chairman of the Board of
Selectmen in Waterford. P'raternally, Mr.
Hapgood is connected with No. 132, A. F.
& A. M., of Waterford; Oxford Podge, No.
30, Independent Order of Odd P'ellows, of
North Waterford ; Harry Rust Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, of Norway, Me. ;
Oriental R. A. Chapter, of Bridgton, Me. ;
and Portland Commandery, Knights Tem-
plars, No. 2.

-f^TON. ALBION P. BONNFY is a rep-
L^-l resentative of one of the old and

ji g I respected families of Buckfield, in

^•"^ the eastern part of Oxford County,
Me., that have followed the jiursuit of agri-
culture for generations. In early manhood he
had a number of years' successful experience

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in school teaching, but has since devoted him-
self to his hereditary occupation and to the
public service. He was born on the farm
where he now lives, which has been in the
family for more than a century. May 22, 1826,
a son of James and Bethany (Keen) Honney.

His great-grandfather was James Bonney, of
I'embrcjke, Plymouth County, Mass. ; and his
grandfather, who also bore the name of James
Honney, was born in that town in 1764. This
second James l^onney purchased the homestead
in ]?uckfield in 1789. At that time most of
the land in this vicinity was unredeemed from
the wilderness, was covered with heavy tim
ber, and abounded in wild game. Mr. l^on-
ney's home was one of the first in the locality.
His first claim was one hundred acres, Snd he
afterward added to it until his property em-
braced over three innuhed acres. He died in
l-iuckfield at the age (jf seventy-two. His
wife, Sally Glover, who was a native of Pem-
broke, Mass., also attained a ripe age. Two
of their children attained maturity — James,
the tiiirij of the name; and .Sally, who died at
the age of thirt)'-three.

James Bonney, son of James, second, ami
Sally (Glover) Bonney, succeeded his father
as owner of the homestead, and devoted his
days to the pursuit of agriculture. He was
a man of strong character and good physical
development, and held the rank of Colonel in
the old State militia. Active in public affairs,
he was identified in the latter part of his life
with the Republican party; and he served
the town in different offices, holding that of
Selectman for a number of years. He died
at sixty-four years of age, and his wife lived
to be si.xty-seven. She was a daughter of
Lemuel Keen, a Revolutionary soldier. P^ive
children were born to Colonel and Mrs. James
Bonney, namely : Albion P. ; Sarah ¥.. , widow
of Daniel B. Bonney, of Buckfield ; and Bet-
sey B. , Josiah K., and Andrew J., deceased.

Albion P. Bonney, already introduced as
the subject of this biographical sketch, ac-
quired his education in his native town, com-
pleting his course of study in the high school.
In early life he taught school some forty terms,
at the same time managing the home farm,
which eventually became his by inheritance.
This farm now covers two hundred acres, and

much of it is devoted to general cro|is. As a
farmer Mr. Bonney has been very successful,
his judgment being good, his methods pro-
gressive, and his industry unfailing.

He was married in May, i S48, to Miss
Mar'y A. Irish, who died in 1862, leaving
three children, one son and two daughteis.
Two of these are living, namely: Frank J.,
a dentist of Auburn, Me., who has one daugh-
ter, Ella M. ; and limma P., wife of Herbert
E. Bonney, of Bath, Me., who has three chil-
dren — Mary A., Albion P., and Mildred.
The other daughter, Ella 1"., wife of William
S. Thorne, died childless. In 1863 Mr. Bon-
ney married Mrs. Ellen T. (Teague) .Shaw,
widow of Wilson Shaw. By this union be
had one child — Nellie L., wife of P'red W.
Keen, of Aubiu'n, Me., and mother of one
daughter, Plazel B. The second Mrs. Bonney
died in March, 1865; and on June 3, 1866,
Mr. Bonney contracted a third marriage with
Miss Abbie Tuell, a native of Sumner, Me.
He has no children by this union.

Mr. Bonney has been a Rejniblican since
the formation of the party; and he attended
the first Republican convention held in Paris,
Oxford County. He has been on the Board of
Selectmen many years, and has served as
Town Treasurer and in minor offices; and in
1885-86 he represented Buckfield in the State
Senate. As an Odd I'ellow he is a memlDer
of Nezinscott Lodge, No. 104, of Buckfield.
In religious matters he is liberal. One of the
(dd citizens of the town, he is a well-known
figure in J^uckfield, and is one whose opinion
is considered valuable in matters of public
import.

RANK P. TVLI^R, an enterprising
farmer and li\'e-stock dealer of New
Sharon, P^ranklin County, Me., was
born in this town, January 30, 1865, son of
Zebulon and Julia (Rigg) Tyler.

Zebulon Tyler, who formerly resided in
Chesterville, moved in 1852, with his family,
household effects, and live stock, to New
Sharon, where he purchased the Isaac Ames
place, consisting of one hundred and fifteen
acres. He made various improvements upon
the farm, set out an orchard of one hundred

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fiuit-trccs, and was a successful general
farmer. As he advanced in pros[)erity he
added fifty acres of land to his original jjin-
chase ; and he continued actively engaged until
his death, which took place, from heart
disease, in August, 1892, while he was at work
in the field. A highly respected and useful
citi/.en, he supported the Repuhlican ])arty in
politics, and was a Methodist in his religious
helief. Mis wife, Julia, whom he married
March 8, 1849, was a daughter of S. T. Rigg,
a blacksmith of New .Sharon. She became
the mother of eight children, namely: Lew-
eilyn S. ; George H. ; Sarah ]•:. ; Addie Min-
nette; liliza A.; Joseph A.; Frank 1'., the
subject of this sketch ; and Hattie Z.

Frank P. Tyler was educated in the cnmmon
schools of New Sharon and Farmington. At
the age of twenty-one he became his father's
hired assistant upon the home farm. He sub-
sequently succeeded to the ownership of the
property, and has since conducted it with
energy and success. He has also a wide repu-
tation as a dealer in live .stock, which business
is a source of considerable profit to him; and
this together with his farm occupies his entire
time and attention. In politics he \otes with
the Republican party, and his religious opin-
ions are broad and liberal.

ISAAC P. BEARCE, one of the largest
fruit growers of Hebron, ().\ford County,
Me., and a veteran of the Civil War,
was born upon the farm he now owns and
occupies, March 30, i S44, son of Sylvanus
R. and Ann O. (Barrows) Bearce. Gideon
Bearce, his paternal grandfather, was an early
settler and prosperous farmer of Hebron. He
li\ed to an advanced age, and accumulated
considerable property, owning at the time of
his death three good farms.

Sylvanus R. Bearce, son of Gideon, was
born in Hebron in 1804. Having been reared
to agricultural pursuits, he settled upon the
farm where his son, Isaac P., now resides;
and for quite a long period he was one of the
stirring and successful men of this locality.
He died at the homestead in October, 1891,
having passed the last years of his life in re-
tirement. In politics he was a Republican,

and in his religious faith he was of the liberal
type of Christians. His first wife, whose
maiden name was Olive I'ackard, liore him
four children; and his second wife, Ann O.
Barrows, who was born in this county in 1825,
became the mother of si.\ children, making a
family of ten. Of these, seven are now
living, namely: Caroline, who is the widow
of liliphalet Bray, late of Ivist O.xford ; Irene
B. , wife of Lewis Clark, of Chelsea, Mass. ;
Isaac P., the subject of this .sketch; \'ictoria,
who is now- the widow of Reuel Barrows, and
resides in Chelsea, Mass. ; .Sylvanus, a jjros-
perous farmer of Hebron village, who was born
in 1849; Alice, wife of Wallace Cushman, of
Auburn, Me. ; and W. Scott, who resides with
his brother at the homestead. The others
were: Olive,- who died in 1862, aged twenty-
two years; Maria; and Albert W., who died
aged twenty-five years. Mrs. Ann < ). Barrows
Bearce died May i, 1890.

Isaac P. Bearce, whose ])ersonal history is
now in order, jiassed his childhooil and later
youth as a member of the parental iKJUsehold,
obtaining his education in the town schools
and the Hebron Academy. He assisted his
father in carrying on the farm until July 16,
1862, when he enlisted as a prixate in Com-
pany E, Sixteenth Regiment, Maine Volun-
teers; and after the battle of Antietam he was
sent to the hospital in Washington, D. C. ,
.suffering from the effects of long continued
e.xposure. Being honorably discharged from
the service in the succeeding Decend)er, he
returned home and remained here until 1866,
when he went to Black Hawk City, Col.,
where for a short time he was engaged in
mining. Again returning to Hebron, he took
charge of the home farm, thenceforward caring
for his iiarents during their declining years,
and subsequently continuing his residence
here permanently. .Since succeeding to the
ownership of the property, which originally
contained one hundred acres, he has added to
it by purchasing an adjoining tract; and now,
owning about one hundred and forty acres, he
makes a specialty of raising apples, pears,
plums, together with currants, gooseberries,
and other small fruits, having twenty acres
devoted to this profitable industry.

On January i, 1873, Mr. Bearce was mar-

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ried to Miss Ella F. Marshall, who was born
in Hebron, April i6, 1S48, daughter of Will-
iam T. and Mary E. (Packard) Marshall.
William T. Marshall was formerly a prosper-
ous farmer and stone mason of this town, and
is now residing in Auburn, Me. His wife
died at the age of fifty-nine years. Mr. and
Mrs. Rearce have a family of four daughters,
namely: Agnes M., who was born April 9,
1874; Lizzie M., who was born May 19,
1878; Mabel C. , who was born July 17, 1880;
and Cordelia E. , who was born February 11,
18S3.

Mr. Bearce is a charter member of Hebron
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, with which his
wife also is connected ; and he is a comrade of
A. A. Dwinal Post, No. 3, Grand Army of
the Republic, of Mechanic Falls. Industri-
ous and capable, a successful general farmer
and horticulturist and a worthy citizen, he is
highly esteemed by his fellow-townspeople.
In politics he acts with the Republican party;
and both he and Mr.s. l^earce attend the Bap-
tist church, to the support of which they are
generous contributors.

LBERT THOMPSON, a partially dis-
abled veteran of the Civil War, who
is now engaged in the peaceful pur-
suit of husbandry in Farmington,
Franklin County, Me., was born in Norridge-
wock, this State, March 19, 1839, son of Silas
and Maria (Hussey) Thompson. His grand-
father, Asaph Thompson, ]\I.D., son of Silas
Thompson, first, and Sybil Pease Thompson,
came from Halifa.x, N.S., and, settling in
Maine, became a noted physician in his day.
He had a large and profitable practice, which
he attended on horseback, and continued active
until his death, which took place at middle
age. He married Polly Wood, who died at
the age of fifty-five years; and her children
were: Adasa, Silas, Mary, Persus, and Asa.

Silas Thompson, the second of the name,
son of Dr. Asaph Thompson, inherited the
Norridgewock homestead, and was there en-
gaged in general farming until his death,
which took place at the early age of thirty-
four years. He voted with the Democratic
party in politics, and he was liberal in his re-

ligious views. His wife, Maria Hussey, a
daughter of James Hussey, was born in Water-
ville, Me., August 17, 181 3. She became
the mother of two children — Albert and
Louise. Mrs. Maria H. Thompson is still
living, and resides with her son, whose per-
sonal history is here briefly outlined, as fol-
lows :

Albert Thompson acquired a practical edu-
cation in his early years, and after his father
died he remained at the homestead with his
mother until they sold the property. Remov-
ing to Farmington, they purchased the elder
Joe Russell place of one hundred acres, built
a new house, rebuilt the barns, and increased
the productiveness of the soil. P2nlisting as
a private in Company L, First Maine Cavalry,
on October 17, 1861, Mr. Thompson was
mustered into service on November i of the
same year; and, re-enlisting on December 28,
1863, he was promoted to the rank of Ser-
geant. In an engagement fought at St.
Mary's Church he received a severe wound in
the right shoulder, which has caused him
more or less trouble ever since, preventing
him from attempting any very laborious em-
ployment. He was honorably discharged and
mustered out, after having served three years
and nine months, and returned directly to his
home in Maine. He now receives a pension
from the government.

By his union with his first wife, who was
before marriage Ellen Butterfield, and was a
daughter of Isaac Butterfield, Mr. Thompson
had one son, Frank. His second wife, Ella
J. Stevens, daughter of Paul Stevens, of Oak-
land, Me., died at the age of thirty-nine
years, leaving two children, namely: Arthur,
who was born March 18, 1S84; and Edna L.,
who *was born August 16. 1S91. Politically,
Mr. Thompson is inclined to favor the Demo-
cratic party. On religious subjects his views
are liberal.

ISAAC ROUNDS, M.D., the leading
physician, as well as the oldest, in
Paris, the shire town of O.xford County,
Me., was born in Danville, now the
.southern part of Auburn, Me., September 1 r,
1S42, son of Nathaniel and Susan A. (l.ibby)

N. DAYTON BOLSTER.

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J'ldLinds. His grandfather, Joseph Koiinds,
]5robably a native of Buxton, Me., after resid-
ing for a time in Gray, Cumberland County,
settled in Danville, where he died at an
age between sixty-five and sixty-seven years.
He was a farmer in good circumstances. His
wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Small,
died in i S64, at the age of eighty-eight years.
Their children were : Nathaniel, Joseph, l^liza,
Leonard, Ora, Margaret, Cushman, and James.

Nathaniel Rounds, who was born in the
town of Gray in ALiy, 1803, followed farming
as his chief occupation, and also undertook
occasional orders for stone work. He eventu-
ally removed to Danville, where he purchased
land, on which he resided until his death,
which took place in March, i8<S4, at the age
of eighty-one years. He was twice married.
His first wife, Pauline Pciley, of Gray, died
in early womanhood, leaving three children —
Samuel P., William H., and Charles 11 By
his second mariiage he was united to Susan A.
Libby. Her father was Deacon David Libby,
a prosperous farmer of Poland, Me., Andro-
scoggin County, and the son of James Libby,
who served his country as a private in the
Revolutionary War. The death of Mrs. Susan
A. Libby Rounds occurred in i<S53, when she
was forty-four years old. She was the mother
of seven children; namely, David L. , Joseph,
Isaac, Pauline P., Huldah K., Aha L., and
Cyrus, the last of whom died young.

Isaac Rounds received his early education in
the Danville schools, and pursued his aca-
demic course at the Ldward Little Institute and
Maine State Seminary. On-July 17, 1862,
he enlisted in Com|)any D, Seventeenth Reg-
iment, Maine X'ohmteers, for service in the
Civil War, and subsequentl)^ fought in the
battles of P'redericksburg, Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, Locust Grove, the Wilderness, the
winter's siege of Petersburg, and Little
Sailor's Creek. In the battle of the Wilder-
ness, on May 6, 1864, he received a fracture of
the skull; and afterward, April 6, 1865, he
was wounded at Little Sailor's Creek. He
was the first descendant of his mother's grand-
father, James Libby, to shed his blood for his
country. On receiving his discharge, June 7,
1865, he returned home and resumed his school
work. Later he began reading medicine, and

in 1873 he was graduated from the medical
department of ]5ow(ioin College. He com-
menced practice in Lewiston ; but in the fall
of the same year he came to South Paris,
where by his professional skill, sujjplemented
by many admirable traits of character, he has
since securely established himself in the confi-
dence and esteem of the community. Having
earned the reputation of a successfid practi-
tioner, he has built up a practice corresjiond-
ingly large and lucrative. On October 4,
1874, he was united in matrimony with Lydia
A. Haskell, daughter of Jasper and .Sally V.
(Thurston) Haskell, the father a native and
a farmer of Danville. Dr. and Mrs. Rounds
have two children, namely: Susan L., born
August 25, 1875, now an assistant teacher in
the Paris High School; and l^'rank W. , born
November 23, 1882, still attending school.
Dr. Rounds can always be counted on for aid
in enterprises designed for the benefit (jf the
town. He helped to build the Independent
Order of Odd P'ellows Block by purchasing a
share of the stock issued for that purpose. He
has also materially aided in establishing the
Paris Manufacturing Company, which has been
of so much advantage to the town. The etlu-
cational interests of the town have likewise
received much attention from him, as he at
one time rendered good service as School
Agent, and was a member of the School Com-
mittee for three years. He is a charter mem-
ber of Mount Mica Lodge and Aurora Lncamp-
ment, Indejiendent Order of Odd l'"ellows, all
the chairs of which he has successively filled;
and of the William Kimball Post, \d. 148,
Grand Army of the Republic, holding at pres-
ent the rank of Past Commander. The family
residence, as well as the Doctor's office, is at
2 Main Street, a handsome dwelling, with its
beautiful lawn and tasteful carriage house,
erected by the Doctor in 1886.

1^1 DAYTON ]50LSrP:R, principal of
the firm N. D. Bolster & Co. of

South Paris, Me., is one of the
leading business men of Oxford
County. He was born in Rumford, Me., May
22, 1850, son of Otis C. and Maria (Virgin)
Bolster, anil is a direct descendant of Isaac

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Bolster, a native of England, who settled in
Uxbridge, Mass., in 1732, and was the founder
of the family in this countr)'.

His son, also named Isaac, who was born
April 28, 1737, served as a private in some of
the Colonial wars, and subsequently fought in
the Revolution. He was one of the minute-
men who marched to Concord on April 19,
1775. Later in the contest he was a Lieuten-
ant in the company of Captain John Putnam,
under command of Colonel E. Learned ; and
still later he was commissioned Captain. He
was one of the original settlers of the town of
Hebron, this county. In 1784 he moved to
Paris, where he died in 1825, at the age of
eighty-eight years. His wife, Mary Dwin-
nell, whom he married July 24, 1761, in Sut-
ton, Mass., died August 4, 18 14. Their chil-
dren were: Hepsibah, Abraham, Isaac, Jr.,
David, and Solomon. He took for a second
wife late in life a Miss Cary, of Turner, Me.,
but had no children by this union.

Isaac Bolster, Jr., who was born at Sutton,
Mass., May 12, 1769, was the grandfather of
N. D. Bolster. He settled on a part of a
large tract of land taken up by his father,
built a house with barns, and started a store,
which he carried on until his death in July,
1835, ^t the age of si.xty-si.x years. His wife,
Hannah Cushman Bolster, daughter of Gideon
Cushman, born April 16, 1777, bore him ten
children; namely, Alvan, Isaac, Gideon, Otis
C. , William, Hannah, Lyman, Louisa, Levi,
and Ruth.

Otis C. Bolster, the fourth son as here
named, who was born in Paris, Me., Septem-
ber 25, 1 80 1, when fifteen years old went to
work for his uncle, Francis Cushman, at Rimi-
ford, remaining until his majority. Shortly
after he opened a store in that town, and con-
ducted it successfully until November, 1836,
when it was accidentally blown up, his little
son, then eight years old, being killed by the
explosion. The disaster was supposed to
have been caused by his son and another boy,
while playing with fire on the top of a keg
of gunpowder. Mr. Bolster rebuilt the store,
and resumed business. On October 23, 1852,
his residence was destroyed by fire. After
this he removed to Paris, bought the old brick
store on Market Square, and there engaged in

the same business until his death on Novem-
ber 9, 1 87 1, at the age of seventy years. He
was highly esteemed for his genial traits and
strict integrity. He was twice married. His
first marriage, on October 28, 1827, united
him with Dolly B. Keyes, who was born in
1806, daughter of Francis Keyes. She died
in 1840, having borne him four children —
Horatio A., Henrietta L., Mellen E., and
Freeland K. His second marriage, performed
May 14, 1 84 1, was contracted with Maria
C. L. V^irgin, daughter of Peter C. Virgin, of
Rumford. She died May 19, 1887, having
borne him five children, namely: William
H.; Dolly M. ; Norris Dayton, the special
subject of this sketch, to be further mentioned
in the next paragraph; Sarah V.; and Mari-
etta.

N. Dayton Bolster, having received his cle-
mentar)' education in the primary and gram-
mar schools of his native town, subsequently
completed the course of the Paris High
School, where he was graduated. Thereupon
he entered his father's store as clerk, and con-
tinued to serve in that capacity until his
father's death. Succeeding then to the pro-
prietorship of the store, he conducted it with
success for five years, when he sold the build-
ing to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
After this he took charge of the grange store,
subsequently buying the stock and building,
and carrying on the business on his own ac-
count, in company with C. A. Robertson. At
the end of two years he bought Mr. Robert-
son's interest, and thereafter for thirteen
years he managed the business alone. In
1893 he took E. N. Haskell into a partner-
ship, which has lasted since. The establish-
ment has been much altered since it first came
into Mr. Bolster's possession, and it is now
the largest general store in the county. It is,
however, none too large for the business trans-
acted there, which has grown to dimensions
unsurpassed in any other part of the county.
Two floors and a basement are entirely occu-
pied. Everything in general demand is kept
in stock. Besides the usual goods compre-
hended under the head of groceries, there are
sold crockery, paints and oils, hardware, boots
and shoes, carpets, and other things too nu-
merous to mention. Only a man possessed

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of a genius ior business can conduct such a
place.

Mr. Bolster was married to Mis.s Ada May
Morton, daughter of John J. and Hannah
(Morse) Morton, of South I'aris, on October
25, 1883, and has become the father of four
children, namely: Elsie M., boin December
I, 1886; Morton v., born July 4, 1888; Ruth
M., born April 18, 1S93; and Philip C, born
April 17, 1895. Mr. liolster has always
shown himself warmly interested in the wel-
fare of the town, generally taking a prominent
part in most enterprises designed to advance
it, and holding considerable stock in the man-
ufacturing firms of Paris. He and his wife
are attendants of the Congregational church in
Paris, where he is serving as clerk. He was
Town Treasurer from 1877 to 1894, and he is
Past Grand and Noble Grand of Mount Mica
Lodge, No. 17, and Aurora Encampment, No.
23, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The
family occupy the residence, 2 High Street,
which has been Mr. Bolster's property for
some time.

-OHN D. JENNINGS, a prosperous
farmer and real estate owner of New
Sharon, in the southern part of Frank-
lin County, Maine, was born in the ad-
joining town of Farmington, April 12, 1827,
son of Asa and Betsey (Rotch) Jennings.
His grandfather was Eliphalet Jennings, an
Englishman who enlisted in the Continental
army in 1775, and served seven years in the
Revolutionary War. Receiving a land war-
rant for one hundred and sixty acres, he set-
tled in Farmington soon after the close of
hostilities, and, clearing a good farm, resided
there for the rest of his life. His wife's
name was ISetsey, and she reared a family of
five children, as follows: Rufus; Asa; I^liph-
alet; David; and Reuben, who served as
Captain of a company in a regiment of infantry
during the Civil War.

Asa Jennings, the second son of Eli]:)halet,
was born and reared to manhood at the home-
stead in Farmington. In 1828, the year after
the birth of his son, the subject of the present
sketch, he moved to a farm of seventy-five
acres at Week's Mills, New Sharon, where he

was engaged in tilling the soil for the rest of
his life. He died here in 1843. His wife,
Betsey Rotch, became the mother of eight
children; namely, William R., George W.,
Frank S., John D., Lydia, Adeline, Mary,
and Olive.

John D. Jennings was one of the four sons
born to his parents. He jiassed his boyhooti
in attemling the common schools of VVeek's
Mills antl learning to work on the home farm,
also enjoying, no doubt, the various healthful
sports and pastimes dear to the heart and
strengthening to the muscles of the coinitry-
bred youth. I'rom the time he was okl
enough to take up the work of life in good
earnest until he was twenty-six years old he
was employed on neighboring farms. He
then joined the general rush for the gold fields
of California which began in 1849. Staking
off a claim in Matalon Gulch, he engaged for
a time in mining on his own account, later
working for a mining company; and, after
staying on the Pacific Ct)ast for four years,
he came back to New Sharon. The following-
year he again set out for California; but,
changing his mind on reaching New York
City, he once more returned to New Sharon,
where he has since remained. Resuming his
former occupation of tilling the soil and rais-
ing stock, he applied himself energetically to
business, and by steadily pursuing a policy of
thrift and progress has accumulated a good
estate, owning besides his homestead an ad-
joining farm of one hundred and sixty acres, •
two other farms in this town, and some |)ro]i-
erty in ChesterviUe. He keeps a flock of two
hundred and twenty-five sheep, seven standard-
bred cows, and has an orchard of five hundred
grafted fruit-trees.

On January i, 1859, Mr. Jennings married
for his first wife, Hannah M. C. Thomas, who
died April 25, 1862; and on July 22. 1863,
he was united in marriage with Ellen I-". Cut-
ler, daughter of Josiah Cutler, of Strong, Me.
By this union there are seven children, as fol-
lows: Alice, who was born January 7, 1864;
Nellie, who was born January 24, 1865;
George H., who was born December 10, 1866;
John William, who was born March 21,
1869: Asa A., who was born January 6, 1871 ;
Bessie, who was born .September 28, 1873: and

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Mary K. , wlio was born July 30, 187X. I'olit-
icall)', Mr. Jennings is a Democrat; and he
attends the Methodist I^piscojjal churcli.

iICMMOND ISROTIIKRS, Edward F.
and Henry L. , who carry on large
saw and grist mills in Oxford vil-
lage. Me., are enterprising and alert
young business men; and tlieir energetic ef-
forts to maintain and still further develop the
industrial rest)urces of this town are greatly
appreciated by the general community. .Since
the establishment of their business enter[)rise
in I S90 they have remodelled and enlarged
the mills, putting in new machinery, and now
have a full and complete equipment for both
the grain milling department and the manu-
facture of lumber and building materials of
every description.

Edward 1'. and Henry L. Richmond are the
sons of Albion K. and Harriet (Whitney)
Richmond. The father was born in Jay,
Franklin County, Me., in 1834. Having
learned the mason's trade when a young man,
Mr. Albion K. Richmond has for many years
been a well-known and reliable contractor and
builder, and aside from his regular calling has
gained a wide reputation as a manufacturer of
Richmond's patent derricks. He has been a
stirring and successful business man of South
Boston, Mass., where he still resides, when not
occupying his summer home in ().\ford, and
still retains his customary energy and acti\'ity.
In politics he acts with the Ivepublican party,
and he is liberal in his religious views. He
and his wife, Harriet Whitney, who was born
in Charlestown, Mass., in 183S, have five
sons, as follows: Warren A., who was born in
O.xford, Me., in 1859; Henry L. and Ed-
ward F., the subjects of this sketch; I. Tracy,
who was born in South I-ioston in 1873; and
Carl D. , will) was born in South Boston in
1881.

Henry L. Richnmnd, one of the proprietors
of the aforesaid mills, was born in C).\ford,
Me., in 1861. He acquired a good practical
education, and in young manhood exhibited a
natural aptitude for business pursuits, which
was the foundation of the sterling aljility he
has displayed in placing the firm of Richmond

lirothers ujion its present secure footing, giv-
ing them a deserved [jrominence in business
circles here. He is connected with a lodge of
Odd Fellows in South 13oston.

Edward F. Richmond was born in Oxford,
August 20, 1864. Having acquired his edu-
cation in the public schools of South Boston,
he learned the mason's trade under his father's
direction, and followed it steadily for a num-
ber of years. In 1890, as already noted, he
engaged in business with his brother, Heniy
L. Richmond, establishing in Oxford the fiim
which has since conducted a large and profit-
able business, and to whose success he has in
a great measure contributeil. In politics he is
a Republican; and in religion he belongs to
the liberal type of Christians, he and his
wife attending the Universalist church.

He was married on September 14, 1895, to
Louisa Robinson, daughter of the late Joseph
and Frances A. (Lewis) Robinson. Her
father, who was the founder and President (jf
the Robinson Manufacturing Company of Ox-
ford, Me., was born in Yorkshire, England,
May 9, 1 81 2, son of James and Mary (Aspin)
Robinson. He was one of a family of six
chiUlren, the others being: James; George;
I{lizabeth; Rachel; and Mary, now Mrs.
Wood, of Lawrence, Mass., who is the only
survivor. Joseph Robinson learned the dyer's
trade of his father, and after becoming an ex-
[lert in his calling and filling a responsible
position in a large concern in England until
1849 he emigrated to the United States.
First settling at Ballardvale, Mass., he had
charge of dye works theie for several years,
later filling positions in the same capacity at
Rochester," Wolfboro, and Milton Mills, N.H.

Coming to Oxford in 1858, he, in company
with John Hall, engaged in manufacturing.
A short time later he bought his partner's
interest; and in 1862, associating himself with
H. J. and ]■". O. Libby, he established and in-
corporated the Robinson Manufacturing Com-
]iany. From a small beginning tjie concern
ad\'anced steadily through his business al}ility
and careful management to its present large
proportions and excellent business standing.
The entire jjlant and equipment was erected
and supplied under his sujiervision. The
main building, which is a four-stoi\' brick

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structure, contains sixty-seven looms, employ-
ing an average of one hundred and fifty men
the year round. Their output, which consists
of dress goods, suitings, and repellents, is sold
all over the United States.

The great amount of energy Mr. Rohinsun
displayed as president of the corporation, to-
gether with the deep interest he took in all
matters relating to the improvement of the
village and the general welfare of the commu-
nity, gained for him the sincere respect and
genuine admiration of his fellow-townsmen;
and his death, which took place March 6,
1895, was regretted by all. In politics he
supported the Republican ]iart\-. In his relig-
ious views he was a Congregationalist, and he
was a member of the Masonic fraternity.

In 1833, while still residing in England,
Mr. Robinson was united in marriage to Fran-
ces A. Lewis, who was born in Yorkshire, No-
vember 16, 1 8 14. She became the mother of
six children, as follows: Mrs. Mary I'arrott,
of Oxford ; Mrs. Frances Andrews, of Port-
land ; Louisa, Mrs. Richmond; Mrs. .Salina
Carr, John li, antl Albert Vl. Robinson, all
of Oxford. Mrs. Frances A. Ri)binsi)ii died
November 9, 1S90.

The Robinson Manufacturing Company- is
still doing an extensive business upon the
lines so admirably mapped out and adhered to
by its founder. Its present official force con-
sists of J. B. Robinson, President ; !■". A.
Libby, Treasurer; and A. K. Rol^inson,
Asent.

|ZRA MARSHALL, of Hebron, Me., a
self-made man, starting in the world
with five dollars, has accumulated a
valuable property and won the respect that
honest success always brings. He was born
in Hebron, September 24, 182S. His parents
were Aaron and Bethan}- (Hum pus) Marshall,
the former also a native of Hebron.

His pa.ternal grandfather, David Marshall,
was one of the pioneer settlers of Oxford
County. He served for some time in the
Revolutionary War, participating in the battle
of Bunker Hill; and it is supposed that he
located in Bethel, Me., about 1781. His
first wife lived but a short time after marriage.

His second wife, whose maiden name was
Lucy Mason, accompanied him in his quest for
a home in the wilderness, meeting the vicissi-
tudes of pioneer life with courage and endur-
ance. With a young family the couple trav-
elled to Bethel, the wife making her way on
snowshoes with a child in her arms, the hus-
band also carrying a child and at the same
time drawing a small hand-sled on which weie
the cooking utensils. He had jjurchased four
hundred acres of land in Bethel, and there he
built a log house and lulled late and early
clearing his farm; while his wife was no less
busy than he, [lerforming the manifold duties
of a country housekeeper and family nn ther
in those pioneer days.

At the time (if the fanmus Bethel raid, about
1782, when fhe Indians descended on the little
settlement, iJavid Marshall and his family
spent the night in the woods, hidden by a
large log. In the morning, as soon as he was
sure that the savages were gone, he returned
to the house, packed up what loose things he
could carry, and started for New Gloucester,
where he expected to find a ])lace of security.
Mrs. Marshall was not well ; and the horrors
of the Indian raid had affected her so that she
was taken seriously ill, and they were oliliged
to stop on the way, finding refuge in a settler's
house, she being the first white woman that
ever visited the town of Paris, Me. As soon
as she was able to proceed, they resumed their
journey. At New Gloucester they made a
short stay; and then Mr. Marshall inirchased
a piece of land in Minot, where they lived for
a while. His next move was to a farm near
Mechanic Falls, which he thought was State
land; but it belonged to the Little family, and
a lawsuit fcjl lowed, in which Mr. Marshall
was beaten. Once more ciimpelled to move,
he settled near where his grandson, Moses
Marshall, is now living; and there his days
were ended in peace and prosperity. He
owned in Hebron one hunilred acres of land
and the mill i)rivilege; and, building a grist-
mill, he conducted a thriving business.

Mr. David Marshall was a man of unusual
energy and determination, as will have been
seen, and allowed no difficulties to turn him
aside from the way to success. He died on
his Hebron farm at the age of seventy-seven.

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II is wife, notwithstanding all the hardships
and anxieties of her life, lived to be seventy-
two. They had a family of eleven children:
David; Asahel ; Lucy; Walter; John;
Moses; Aaron; Nathan; Miriam; Theresa,
who died yoimc; ; and a child who died in
infancy.

Aaron Marshall, the seventh-born, spent his
life in Hebron, on the farm now owned by his
son Ezra. He was an industrious and ener-
getic man, and as a farmer was \ery success-
ful. In politics he was originally a Whig
and later a Republican. He died at the age
of seventv-three, his wife having been called
to rest in her fifty-ninth year. Mr. and Mrs.
Aaron Marshall were members of the Baptist
church. Seven children were born to them,
as follows: Silas S. , who died at the age of
twenty-one years; Sarah H. (deceased), wife
of Charles Cobb, Esq., of Poland, Me.; Will-
iam T. , a stone cutter, now retired, residing
in Auburn, Me. ; Alden B., a retired carpen-
ter in Newton, Mass.; Cordelia B. , wife of
Hiram Everett, of Hebron Corners; Ezra, of
Hebron; and Horace B. , a Baptist clergyman
in Amherst, N. H.

Ezra Marshall, the subject of this sketch,
acquired his education in the common schools
(jf Hebron. At the age of eighteen, with
scarcely five dollars in his pocket, he started
to make his own way in the world, going to
Massachusetts, where he worked for three
years as a farm hand. He then returned to
his native town, and at the age of twenty-five
he took charge of the family homestead.
With characteristic perseverance and industry
he developed the home farm, materially in-
creasing its value, and in course of time
bought more land, so that now the homestead
covers three hundred acres, besides which he
owns other real estate. He is one of the most
e.xtensive farmers in Hebron, and in fruit cult-
ure especially he has achieved marked suc-
cess. Though Baldwins are his sta[)le orchard
product, he has thirty different kinds of apples
and a variety of small fruit. His buildings
also rank among the best in the town.

On October 2, 1856, Mr. Marshall was
united in marriage with Eliza M., daughter of
Joseph and Miriam (Marshall) Irish. She
was born in Hebron, March 2, 1S27. I""ive

children have brightened the home of Mi', anil
Mrs. Marshall — Persis, who died Ajiril 29,
1890, wife of Sherman Merrill and mother of
four children — Alice 'M., Grace, Alma M.,
and Ered S. ; Alma H., who did not live to
be four years old; Charles A., born October
28, 1861, a farmer, unmarried, who li\es with
his parent.s ; Adelaide I., born January 9,
1864, who is the wife of Llewellyn Keene,
a farmer of Hebron, and is the mother of four
children— Delia M., Mary I., Nellie M., and
Ezra AL ; and Fred H., born July 24, 1S67,
who married Miss Abbie L. 15. Hibbs, and is
a farmer, living with his father.

Mr. Marshall votes the Republican ticket.
He is a member of l-^vening Star Lodge,
No. 147, A. F. & A. M., of Buckfield. In
religious matters b<_)th lie and his wife are
liberal.

Y^TON. JARVIS C. MARBLE, who is
L^-l now' spending the closing years of a
Jis I ^o^g '"'"^1 bu.sy life in retirement at

^^"^ his beautiful home in Paris Hill,
O.xford County, was a conspicuous factor of the
mercantile and manufacturing circles of this
locality for more than half a century. A son
of Nathan and Mehitable (Ereeland) Marble,
he was born on Bethel Hill, in the town of
Bethel, Me., May 24, 1821.

His father was born June 29, 1778, in .Sut-
ton, Mass., that town being also the native
place of his mother, whose birth occiuTed
September 10, 1780. Nathan Marble and his
wife settled in the town of Bethel soon after
their marriage ; and there the former was em-
ployed as a farmer, harness-maker, and saddler
until his death, which occurred at a compara-
tively earl)- age, November 6, 1826. He
stood in a foremost position among the stirring
and progressive citizens of the comitv, and for
many years was Captain of a comjjany of the
State militia. Of his union with Miss I-'ree-
land eleven children were born, the following
being their names and respective dates of
birth: James P., November 25, iSoo; Ste-
phen >}., December 25, 1802; Palmer M.,
November 12, 1805; Nathan M., March 5,
1S08; Mehitable M., May 9, 18 10; Ereeland,
November 12, 181 2; Elizabeth B. , July 24,

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1815; Franklin, October 37, iSi8; JarvisC,
May 24, 1821; Nancy J., August 22, I1S24;
James K., May 8, 1827. After the death of
her husband the mother, who lived until April
25, 1S74, became the wife of ]^lijah Burbank.
She was a member of the Congregational
church, of which the father, who was liberal
in his religi(!us belief, was a regular attend-
ant. In politics he was a stanch Democrat.

Jarxis (.'., the ninth child, whose career is
here to be traced, attended the common schools
of Bethel until eleven years of age, when he
was obliged to give up his studies and com-
mence life for himself. He first worked for
a year as a clerk in the store of L. C. Crocker,
of ]>uckfield, receiving for his services his
board and clothing. Going thence to Portland,
he worked a while for a Mr. Capen, who, in
addition to his board and clothing, paid him a
small compensation in money. Mr. Marble
subsetjuently became a clerk in the establish-
ment of L. C. Carter, of New York Cit\', who
received him as a member of his family,
giving him board and clothes, and sui^plying
him with a liberal amount of money for other
expenses. Here he acquired a thorough
knowledge of the mercantile business as it was
conducted in those days, his initiatory experi-
ence with Mr. Carter being of inestimable
value to him in after years. Early in 1842, a
few months prior to his marriage, Mr. Marble
came to Oxford County, locating first in the
village of Paris, where he and his wife subse-
quently lived three years before coming to
their present estate, which at his ad\'ent was
in its original wildness.

Mr. Marble began clearing and imi)roving
his land, in the work succeeding so well that
he has now one of the finest and most attrac-
ti\'e homesteads in this section of the State.
The first two years of his residence in Paris he
worked as a clerk for Hiram Hubbard, whom
he subsequently bought out; and fur a few
3'ears thereafter he was engaged in mercantile
business on his own account. In addition to
his store in Paris he jnit in a stock of general
merchandise at North l^uckfield, and for some
time conducted the two stores, having a lucra-
tive trade. With sagacious foresight Mr.
Marble at length bought out .Sweat & Co. 's
powder factory, which he managed in connec-

tit)n with his other business. Disjiosing of
his stores, he afterward confined his attention
to the manufacture of powder, erecting a
second mill at Platteville, Wis., and another
at Camden, Me. ; and during the war he sup-
plied the government with a large amount of
high grades and othei- powder. After the
close of the great confiict he movetl his powder
works to Canada, where he received the con-
tract for supplying the Canadian government
and the Hudson Bay Company with powder.
In his manufacturing business he was very suc-
cessful, running for a time four factories, in
which he employed a large force of men.

In 1885 he disposed of his jiowder, confin-
ing his attention to the bark business which
he had previously established; and since
giving that up he has lived retired. He has
accumulated a go(jd property, and besides his
own handsome dwelling has erected two fine
residences for his children, who live near him.
Politically, Mr. Marble is an earnest and lo\al
member of the Republican party, and takes an
active interest in town and county affairs. He
was a member of the State legislature in i860,
and for three subsequent \'ears; and for two
years he was County Treasurer. Religiously,
both he and his wife are strong Universalists,
being among the leading members of that
church, anil contributing liberall}' toward its
suj^port.

On Octol)er 24, 1842, Mr. Marble was mar-
ried to Mary R. Hubbard, who was born at
Paris Hill, Me., November 25, 1821, a daugh-
ter of Russell and Eunice (Stowell) Hubbard.
Her grandfather, General Levi Hubbard, was
born, reared, and married in Worcester, Mass.
He and his bride, Mary Hcmenway, then but
fourteen years of age, came directly t(j Paris,
and here began housekeeping in a log cabin,
which was situated in a small clearing made
in the dense wilderness. Over their heavily
timbered land bears, deer, and wolves roamed
at will; and the Indians were in strong evi-
dence. General Hubbard cleared and im-
proved a good homestead, and became one of
the foremost men of this vicinity, serving in
various town offices, and in the years from
1812 until I 814 inclusive as a member of Con-
gress. He was liberal iti his religious belief
and a valued member of the Universalist

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church. Jlis wife nindc during her mnrried
life five trips on horseback tt) Worcester, her
early home. The}' had two children, namely:
Oliver, who was killed when a young man by
the falling of a tree; and liussell, Mrs.
Marble's father. General Hubbard died in
1.S36, and his wife in 1844.

Russell Hubbard was born in Paris, I\Ie.,
and here siient his life, d_\ing l-'ebruary 15,
1856. His wife was also a lifelong resident
of this town. She bore him five children, as
follows: Columbia, born November 18, 1S09;
Hiram, born September 28, 181 1; Oliver,
born November 19, 1813; IJaniel S., born
October 17, 1816; and Mary R., now Mrs.
Marble, the latter and her brother Hiram
being the only ones. living. Mr. and Mrs.
Marble have had four children, the following
being their record: Mar}- H., born February
10, 1844, married Dr. A. S. Thayer, of Port-
laml, and died December 5, 1875; Elmer H.,
who was born November 9, 1846, and died
November 8, 1893, married Ella Smith, and
was for some time connected with his father
in the powder business; Lizzie H., born
March 23, 1849, is the wife of Orlando A.
Thayer, of Paris; and Fannie F., born Febru-
ary 3, 1S54, is the wife of Jolin Pierce, a
jeweller in South Paris, but living with Mr.
and Mrs. Marble. :Mr. and Mrs. Marble have
si.v grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

JDWIN 15. HATCH, a retired farmer of
Chester\ille, Me., and a veteran of the
■■"^ Civil War, who is now serving as
Postmaster, was born in Wilton, Franklin
County, Me., September 19, 1838, son of
Joseph and Zoa (Keyes) Hatch. His paternal
grandfather was Cyrus Hatch, a native of
Martha's Vineyard, who, when a young man,
settled in Wilton as a pioneer. He bought
one hundred acres of wild land, a portion of
which he cleared for agricultural purposes;
and he resided there for the rest of his life.
He married, and reared a family of four
children; namely, Cyrus, Joseph, John, and
Zoa, each of whom lived to be eighty years
old and over.

Joseph Hatch, the second son, was born in
Wilton, and was a lifelong resident of that

town. He was an honest, hard-working
farmer and a worthy citizen, who gaineil the
respect and esteem of his neighbors and fel-
low-townsmen. He died October 16, 1888,
aged eighty-four years and ten months. In
politics he was a Republican and in his relig-
ious views a Methodist. His wife, who was
before marriage Zoa Keyes, was a native of
Wilton. .She became the mother of five chil-
dren, three of whom are living, namely:
Charles B. , who is residing at the homestead;
B. Frank; and PLdwin B., the subject of this
sketch, who is the youngest son. The others
were: Hiram M. and Mary E. Mrs. Zoa K.
Hatch passed away from earth at the age of
fifty-two years and nine months,

Edwin B. Hatch duiing his boyhood and
youth remained at home assisting on the farm
and attending the town schools, and at the age
of twenty he pursued a course of study for one
term at the Maine State Seminary in Lewis-
ton. I'or a short time after that he was em-
ployed as a farm assistant by Squire Hill, who
lived in the vicinity of Great Falls, N.H. ;
and from there he went to Bedford, Mass.,
where he remained for si.\ months. He then
went to Boston, and shipped on board a fish-
ing-smack for a season's cruise; and in the
following year, 1861, he made a voyage to
PLngland and Ireland as a sailor on board a
merchant vessel. In 1862 Mr. Hatch enlisted
as a private in the I'irst Massachusetts Com-
pany (Governor Andrew's) of Sharpshooters,
with which he went to the front, and took ])art
in the battle of Fredericksburg and all other
engagements fou""ht bv the Second Army
Corps until June 2, 1864, when he was taken
prisoner at Pleasant Ridge, Va. He was first
confined in Libby Prison, later being sent <"o
Pemberton, after which he was repeatedly
moved from one place to another, being im-
])risoned successively at Andersonville, Milan,
Savannah, Thomasville, Selma, Ala., and
Danville, Va., where he was held until
paroled on June 3, 1865. After his discharge
from the service he followed various occupa-
tions in Boston and Wilton, Me., until 1874,
when he bought a farm of one hundred and
thirty acres in Chesterville, where he has
since resided. As an industrious general
farmer he has succeeded in accumulatiufr con-

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siclcrable property. He continued to till the
soil diligently until 1891, when he sold his
farm and bought his present homestead, con-
sisting of a comfortable residence and five
acres of land. He also owns a valuable tract
of woodland in this town and an interest in
the homestead farm in Wilton.

I\Ir. Hatch and Velora 11. White, dau.^liter
of R. White, were married on November 25,
1X74, and enjoyed a wedded life of nearly
twenty years. Mrs. Hatch died September
2/' 1 8931 leaving no children.

In politics Mr. Hatch is a Democrat; and
in September, 1893, he was appointed Post-
master at Chesterville, which position he
still holds. His war record is an honorable
one; and, as a stirring, progressive, and use-
ful citizen, he is widely known and highly re-
si)ected. Mr. Hatch attends the Methodist
EpiscojDal church. It is worthy of note that
eleven representatives of the Hatch kindred
served in the Rebellion, and returned to their
homes; and of these seven are still livimr.

XJV/UAAAM V. CALDWI-:LL, a suc-
fs\l cessful farmer and respected citizen
of the town of O.xford, Me., was
born April 28, 1840, on the ancestral farm on
which he now lives. His great-grandfather,
John Caldwell, settled on the estate when this
portion of Maine was wild and almost unpopu-
lated, and those who dared to encroach upon
the hitherto undis|)uted d(jmain of the deer,
heaver, bear, and wolf that abounded in the
Maine forests had to endure the ]iri\-alions of
pioneer life and accustom themselves to con-
stant dangers. Quite a number of Massachu-
setts people received grants of land in the
District of Maine as rewards for military ser-
\ices in the Colonial wars, and the sturdy sol-
diery and their sons were quite equal to cope
with the vicissitudes of frontier life. John
Caldwell, like most of the settlers of his day,
was thrifty as well as brave, and planted a pos-
terity here which is still marked by the same
traits of character possessed by their ancestors.

He left a son, who bore the name of Will-
iam, born October 11, 1775, who grew up to
be a stirring and industrious farmer, passing
his entire life on the Oxford farm. He mar-

ried Nancy Woodward, May 2, 1799. Miss
Woodward was born January 27, 1781, and
was therefore a bride at eighteen years of age.
William Caldwell was a member of the Meth-
odist church, and was successively identifieil
with the Whigs and the Republicans in politi-
cal affiliation. He died on November 19,
1862, aged eighty-seven years, and was fol-
lowed four years later by his faiihlnl wife,
who passed away June 30, iS(]f). 'I'hcv were
the [larents (if four children, namely: Zenas,
born March 31, 1800; Leonard, born January
30, 1803; Merritt, born November 29, 1806;
and Nancy, born April 5, 1809.

Leonard Caldwell, the second son of Will-
iam, followed in the steps of the two jirevious
generations and became a practical farmer.
As the toilsome years went on, his means
increased until, besides being the i)r(iprict(ir of
the old Caldwell homestead, he was the owner
of much additional property. At his death he
left an estate of three hundred acres of land,
improved by cultivation and many new build-
ings, among them the substantial dwelling,
which was one of the best in its time and is
still a comfortable and attractive residence.

Leonard Caldwell married Miss Hannah
Farrington, May 29, 1831. Six children
were the fruit of this union, namely: Emily
C, born May 28, 1833, who died Januarv 13,
1855; Leonard A., born October 14, 1834,
who was a soldier in the Federal ranks during
the late Civil War, aiul died while in service,
on June 17, 1863; I'llen C. . born January 11,
1836, who became the wile (it fames ( ).
Thompson, and now lives in Virginia, where
Mr. Thompson edits a paper called the Mouii-
iain Eclio; Zenas M., born August 5, 18^7,
who died August 16, 1839; William F. , born
as before mentioned, April 28, 1840; and
Annah E. , born February 21, 1848, who mar-
ried Dr. George Kejsoc, and resides in Hloom-
ington. 111., where she practises the same pro-
fession followed by her husband.

William F. Caldwell is now the only sur-
vivor of the three sons. He passed his youth
in his native locality, receiving his education
in the schools of O.xford and Hebron. After
leaving school he, with hereditary instinct,
turned his attention to agricultural ])ursuits,
in which he is still actively engaged. He

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iKiw owns and carries on an excellent farm of
two hundred and thirty-five acres, and is ac-
coimted one of the best farmers of Oxford.
February i8, 1862, was the date of his mar-
riage with Miss Mehitable D. Winship, a na-
tive of ()tisfield, where siie was born February
23, i.S'40.

Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell ha\e had se\en chil-
dren, namely: luiiily .A., born January 30,
1864, who died January 10, 1878; Adelbert
I-"., born Ma)- 8, 1.S67, now engaged in teach-
ing; Minnie B., born October 18, 1868;
Annie C, born July 19, 1871 ; Willie L.,
born December 24, 1874; Guy H., born No-
vember 24, 1880, who died February 27,
18S5; and Cornelia K., born March 30,^1884.

Mr. Caldwell and his wife are allied in a
common religious faith, both being members
of the Methodist E]iiscopal Church of Oxford,
in which Mr. Caldwell has always been an
active worker. He is a stanch Republican
in political fellowship, and has held, besides
various minor offices, that of Selectman. He
has also been active in promoting educa-
tional progress in his town and county. Mr.
and Mrs. Caldwell are prominent members of
society in their town, and their charming
home is a hospitable rentlez\-ous for their large
circle of friends.

bfKANK VV. OSBORNE, one of the
p^ most enterprising and progressive
though one of the youngest farmers of
Farmington, Me., was born in Marshfield,
Mass., Sei)tember 22, 1864. He is the son of
George T. and VVilhelmina (Wilson) Osborne,
both of Marshfield. George T. Osborne was a
shoemaker Ijy trade, and at the time of the
war he was one of the large contingent of
New England "knights of the last," who
fought under the banners of the Union. He
served a year in the Forty-third Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers, and returned home
with a shattered constitution, d)'ing at the age
of twenty-nine. He left a widow and two
children — Eleanor W. and Frank W. Mrs.
George T. Osborne, who is now fifty-one years
of age, is living with her son.

Frank \V. Osborne left home at the age of
eighteen to battle with the worki and make his

fortune. Of strong constitution and progres-
sive nature, he adopted the pursuit with
which he was most familiar, agriculture; and,
saving his earnings, he began to invest in real
estate. In company with Ira Blanchard he
bought the Johnson farm, an estate of one
hundred and fourteen acres in Farmington;
and the partners remodelled the buildings, and
engaged in general farming with such enter-
prise that they achieved marked success. In
1891 Mr. Osborne purchased Mr. Blanchard's
interest, and became sole proprietor; and the
business continues to prosper under his able
management. Besides attending to the cult-
ure of garden produce and general crops he has
a fine dairy of twelve handsome Jerseys. He
is a typical New Englander, pushing and
thrifty; and his success has won the admira-
tion and respect of his townsmen. In politics
he is independent, in religious matters liberal.

ACCHEUS A. DYER, a successful
farmer and sterling citizen of New
Sharon, Franklin Count)^ Me., was
born in this town, June 2, 1819.
He comes of an English family of ancient
and honorable name, his direct ancestor. Sir
James Dyer, having been Speaker of the House
of Commons and Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Fleas in the year 151 i. Mr. Dyer's
grandfather came from Truro, Cajse Cod, to
New Sharon, about one hundred years ago, and
took up a tract of wild land of a hundred acres
in extent. Clearing ten acres and building a
log house during the first year, he moved his
family into their new home the ensuing winter.
The original tract of land owned by this first
representative of the name in this State is now
known as the farm of Benjamin C. Roby.
Here the Cape Cod emigrant lived to a re-
markable old age, dyijig, in the home he had
fashioned so long ago, in his ninety-second
year. His wife also lived to a green old age,
for both came of hardy Ca]ie Cod stock.
They were the parents of ten children — Reu-
ben; Christopher; (iideon B. ; James; Henry;
John; Nathaniel; Hannah; one who died in
infancy; and a daughter (whose name cannot
now be ascertained), who mariied Cajitain
Small, of Truro, Mass. Christopher, the

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second-born son, became a man of prominence,
holding the office of Town Clerk for forty-
three years.

Gideon B. Dyer, father of" Zaccheus A., was
born on Cape Cod and was but eight years old
when his father moved from Massachusetts to
Maine. On coming of age he bought a tract
of one hundred acres of land, which is now
known as tiie Hamlin place. Extending the
boundaries of his estate, later on, by the addi-
tional purchase of two hundred and twenty-five
acres, he became one of the most successful
farmers of the locality. He faithfully dis-
charged all the duties of citizen.ship both in
peace and war, serving as a private during the
War of 1812, and receiving a land warrant for
his services in that short but lively struggle
with (ireat Britain. He was Town Treasurer
for some years. Religiously, he was con-
nected by membership with the Free Baptist
Church. On July 7, i.SiS, he wedded Mahala
Sleeper, of Loudon, N.ll., who was born in
1797, and died in 1857. .Si.x children were
born to them — Zaccheus A., Mahala S. , Bar-
low, Abigail -S. , Hannah A., and Samuel .S.

Zaccheus A. Dyer, the special subject of
this memoir, was educated in the common
schools and at the Higii School of New
Sharon. He remained under the parental roof
until he had reached his twenty-sixth year,
when he bought fifty acres of land and began
his career as a farmer. By careful manage-
ment and judicious investment he increased
both the extent and value of his property until
it now includes three hundred and twenty-five
acres of well-cultivated land. In 1852 he
built a new dwelling-house on his estate,
which he still occupies. Besides holding
many minor offices, Mr. Dyer has most ca-
pably filled several positions of trust and
honor, among them that of Deputy Sheriff, in
which he served from i860 to 1870, and Sher-
iff, holding the latter office from 1870 to 1876.
He was a member of the legislature of 1878
and 1879, representing the people of New
Sharon with intelligence and fidelity. He has
also served as Selectman of the town for one
term. He is a Republican in political affilia-
tion, and a Free Baptist in religious faith.

March 23, 1843, was the date of his mar-
riage with Miss Emily K. Cram, who w^as born

in 1827, a daughter of (ieneral \'arnum Cram.
F^ive children were the result of this union :
Francette A., born August 27, 1845, died
February 3, 1846; Augustus E., born June
23, 1847, married Miss ICmilv Pottle, and is
now the foreman of a shoe factory in Manches-
ter, N.H. ; Roland H., born September 23,
1S50, married, is a merchant antl hotel jirojiri-
etor in South Dakota; Milton H. , born Octo-
ber 7, 1852, died Sei)tembcr 30, 1880; War-
ren C, born .September 21, 1855, manied
Miss Churchill, and is now a jirominent man
in Boulder, Boulder Count}', Col., where he
holds the important and somewhat dangerous
office of Sheriff. Mrs. I'jnily Cram Dyer
died in i860, at the age of thirty-three years.
(^n April 30, 1861, Mr. Dyer formed a second
marriage with Miss Mary H. (lillman. This
lady, who was born in 1820, was the daughter
of Samuel Ciillman. She died in 1892, leav-
ing no children. Two years later, June 23,
1894, Mr. Dyer was again married. The
present Mrs. Dyer was a Miss Affie Collins in
her maidenhood, a daughter of John Collins
of Starks. She was born in 1824, and was a
widow when married to Mr. Dyer, her first
husband having been Mr. Benjamin Bradford.
Mr. Dyer is a member of the Masonic (Jrder,
belonging to I<"ranklin Lodge, No. 123, A. !•".
& A. M., in which he has filled all the chairs
except that of Master. His eldest son is also
a Mason, having attained the thirty-second de-
gree in that ancient society.

I-:V. STEPHEN D. RICHARDSON,
a well-known clerg)man of Oxford

is V County, whose home is in Hebron,
and who is Secretary of the Hebron
Academy Board of Trustees, of which he has
been a member some twenty-one years, is a
native of this town. He was born May 24,
1S25, son of Adam and Margaret (Crooker)
Richardson.

Adam Richardson was born in Pembroke,
Mass., May 24, 1781. A blacksmith by
trade, he was also a com])etent farmer, and
was a very industrious man. He died in
Buckfield, December 28, 1843, survived by
his wife Margaret, who was born in Buckfield
in 1783, and was called to rest at the age of

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seventy-four. They were the parents of ten
children, namely: Susan, born February 7,
iiSo6, who died in 1864; Margaret, born Feb-
ruary 3 1, icSo.S, now a resident of Otisfield,
Cumberland County, Me. ; Winslow, born Oc-
tober I, 1810, who died in 1886; Adam, born
July 18, 1812, who died in 1887; Rosella,
l)orn March 22, 1815, who died in 1867; Pa-
tience C. , born August 22, 1817, now residing
in West Minot, Me. ; Mary F. , b(Jrn January
I, 1820, who died in 1889; Lemuel C. , born
August 23, 1822, who died in 1854; Stephen
D., the subject of this sketch; and Rachel C,
born September 16, 1827, now residing in
West Minot, Me. The first four were natives
of Hartford, Me., and the last six were natives
of Hebron. Mr. Adam Richardson was a
Whig in political preference. In religious
matters he was liberal.

Stephen D. was next to the youngest-born of
the parental household. He grew to manhood
in Hebron, and here received his early educa-
tion, fitting for college at Hebron Academy,
where he was assistant teacher in 1851 and
1S52. He spent five years in Lawrence,
Mass., employed as clerk in the Boston &
Maine car shops, and then entered on his
ministerial work after about six months'
study of theology with the Rev. C. Parker.
His first pastorate was at Manchester. Me.,
where he had charge of the Baptist church for
ten years; and the fi\-e years following he was
at Fayette Corner. In 1875 he was installed
as pastor of the Bai)tist church in Hebron,
which was under his able direction for twelve
years ; and later he was pastor at Tenant's Har-
bor, Me., three years. On account of his wife's
feeble health he was then compelled to retire
from active pastoral work, though supplying
pulpits at intervals. Since living in Hebron
he has supplied the church at Ikickfield for
a year, the one in East Sumner for four years,
also, in connection, the church at West .Sum-
ner two and a half years, besides supplying
for short periods churches in the surrounding
towns. As a pastor he has been very popular
and successful ; and he is still a very busy
man, active in ministerial work, and perform-
ing many important duties as Secretary of the
Board of Trustees of Hebron Academy.

This institution, which has been recently

endowed and made a fitting-school for Colby
College, with the addition of a handsome new
building, Sturtevant Hall, is one of the best
schools of the kind in the State, the tuition
fees being very reasonable, considering the
advantages offered. An able corps of teachers
give instruction in Greek and Latin, moral
science, history, Fnglish language and liter-
ature and Biblical literature, the natural and
physical sciences, mathematics and book-keep-
ing, elocution, music, painting, and jienman-
ship; and a fine gymnasium, heated by steam,
supplied with baths, and furnished with all
necessary gymnastic apparatus, helps to de-
velop the bodily strength and elasticity re-
quired to keep pace with mental growth.
Circulars containing full information in regard
to the academy are in charge of the Principal,
William E. Sargent, A.M., and the Secretary,
the Rev. S. D. Richardson.

On April 15, 1855, Mr. Richardson was
united in marriage with Miss Lizzie J. Mar-
shall, who was born in Hebron, June 4, 1832,
a daughter of Moses and Ruth (Whittemore)
Marshall (both deceased). Mr. Mar.shall,
who was born in Bethel, Me., was a mill-
wright. Mrs. Richardson died in Hebron,
June 29, 1894, after a long period of invalid-
ism, leaving one son, Albert Marshall Rich-
ardson. He was born in Manchester, Me.,
P'ebruary 28, 1863, fitted for college at
Hebron Academy, and was graduated at Colby
University in 1886. Though qualified to
teach, and having had two years' exj)erience as
an instructor in Wayland Seminary, Washing-
ton, D.C., his taste is for mechanical work;
and he has given some attention to the ma-
chinist's trade. He returned to Hebron at
the time of his mother's death, and has since
made his home in this town. At present he
is employed in Dr. Marshall & Dunham's
splint manufactory in Portland, Me. In poli-
tics a Republican, he has been elected to a
number of town offices, and, having served for
two years as School Supervisor, is now Town
Clerk and Treasurer. He married Rosa,
daughter of H. A. Cushman, of Hebron, and
has two children — Norman C, born in
Waterville, April 12, 1892; and Albert M.,
born in Hebron, July 27, i8g6.

The Rev. Stephen D. Richardson has long

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lieen prdinincnt among the Republicans of
his district. In 1869 he represented the town
of Manchester, Me., in the State legislature;
and he has been School Supervisor for twenty-
three years, filling that office in different
towns. He is now the stated sui)pl\- and act-
ing pastor of the Baiitist church in Peru, Ox-
ford County.

To the entl of his life he will d(iubtless re-
call among his most vivid remembrances his
e.xperiences while at the front during the war
of the Rebellion, when he rendered valuable
services to his country and the cause of hu-
manity as a delegate of the Christian Commis-
sion, assigned to duty in the Shenandoah \'al-
ley, \'irginia. He was for several weeks at
Harper's Ferry, but most of the time at Win-
chester, then the headquarters of the Middle
Division, Veteran Corps, under General Sheri-
dan, followed by General Hancock. He w^as
there when the war closed, in charge of the
Commission rooms, and was in Washington at
the time of President Lincoln's funeral.

ISAAC A. I). BLAKi:, ^LD., of Wil-
ton, a well-known physician of the ho-
UKijpathic school and a veteran of the
Civil War, was horn in Lisbon, i\Ie. ,
December 24, 1833, son of Zebulon and .Sarah
A. (Durgin) Blake. His grandfather, John
Blake, was an Englishman w'ho emigrated to
America in Colonial times, and served as a
soldier in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War. After the close of the
war John Blake settled upon a tract of wild
land in Maine, where he cleared a good farm,
and thereafter resided upon it until his death,
which occurred when he was eighty years old.
He married Mercy Dean, and she lived to
reach the advanced age of ninety-four years.
Her children \yere — John, Sally, William,
Polly, Zebulon, and Susan. ^

Zebulon Blake, Dr. Blake's father, who w^as
also a native of IJsbon, followed agriculture
during the active period of his life. In 1S35
he moved to Detroit, Me., where he tilled the
soil of a good farm until his retirement from
active labor. Selling his property in Detroit,
he removed to Penobscot County, where he
lived till 187J. Lie then moved to Wilton.

Here he spent the rest of his life, and he died
at the age of ninety-one years. His wife,
Sarah, bore him ten children, of whom John
W. died in infancy, and three others before
I'eaching maturit}'. The rest were — Abbie,
Lliram W. , Isaac A. D. , Jane, Nellie, and
John W. (second). The mother lived to be
eightv-four \'ears old.

Isaac A. I). IMake acquired his early educa-
tion in the schfiols of Detroit, Me. He sub-
sequently attended the Hampden Academy
and the East Maine C'onfercnce Seminary at
]?ucks]iort. Me. After stud)ing medicine with
Dr. Hamilton of Hartland, he attended the
Homctopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio,
during the year 1858-59, and the Pennsyl-
vania Medical I'niversity during that of 1860-
61. He gradliated from the latter institution
in 1861, and began the practice nf his profes-
sion in Philaiiclphia. A short time after leav-
ing college he enlisted for service in the Civil
War, being commissioned .Second Sergeant of
Companv D, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Penn-
sylvania- X'olunteer Infantry, with which he
served as Sergeant and Lieutenant until his
discharge on April 8, 1864. He afterward
re-entered the army as .Surgeon of the Seventy-
third Regiment, Pennsylvania \'olunteers, and
served until the close of the war. During the
interval that elapsed between his first discharge
and his re- enlistment, he practised medicine in
O.xford, Pa., After the war he located in
North Carmel, Me., where he had a large prac-
tice f(n- three years. On account of his wife's
health he then moved to Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J., where he resided until 1880.
Returning to Maine in that year he located in
Wilton, where he has since practised with suc-
cess. For some years he was able to with-
stand the fatigue and exposure of a country
physician's practice; but the long rides, to-
gether with his increasing w-eight, acting on
a constitution weakened by four years' expos-
ure in the war, finally caused sjiinal and heart
troubles. These infirmities compelled him to
give up his outside patients, and confine him-
self to his office practice. Soon after estab-
lishing himself here he bought the Dunn home-
stead on Main Street. This he has since re-
modelled into a handsome residence in which
his office is located. He is still the regular

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jihysician of many prominent families in
W ilton.

In 1864 iJr. ]5iake was united in marriage
to Mary H. Hill, of Philadelphia. She is a
daughter of James Hill, an Englishman, and
a shoemaker by trade. Dr. and Mrs. ]^lake
have had four children, as follows: Florine,
who died before reaching maturity; another
child who died in infancy; Alfred C. ; and
Louisa. Alfred C. graduated from the Wil-
ton Academy in 1891, and entered Colby Uni-
versity, class of 1895. His failing eyesight
compelled him to leave at the end of one year.
He has since been engaged in teaching, and
is now Principal of the High School at Vance-
boro. Louisa is now the wife of the Rev.
Charles H. Williams, a Baptist minister, and
has one son, Charles Spurgeon. In politics
Ur. Blake is an Independent Republican. He
is connected with Williamson Lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is
Secretary. Both he and Mrs. Blake are mem-
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

TT^HARLES W. FLINT, a retired farmer
I V^ of .Sweden, Oxford County, Me., and
^^is^^ a veteran of the Civil War, was
born upon the farm he now owns and
occupies, August 7, 1 S26, son of Xathaniel and
Rebecca (Ingalls) Mint. Mr. Flint's parents
were both natives of Bridgton, Me., his pa-
ternal grandfather, James P'lint, w^ho was born
in Reading, North Parish, now North Read-
ing, Mass., having come to Maine and settled
upon a farm in that town in 1776. He was
a son of Captain John Flint, grandson of Eb-
enezer, and great-grandson of George and
Elizabeth (Putnam) PMint, all residents of the
North Parish of Reading. George I'lint,
known as Sergeant P'lint, w^as the second son
of Thomas PTint. who settled in Salem, Mass.,
before 1650. (See P'lint Genealogy.)

Nathaniel I'lint, son of James, resided in
Bridgton until after his marriage, when he
moved to Sweden and settled upon a tract of
wild land. P'or some time he occupied a log
house, but after clearing off a large part of his
land he erected a set of frame buildings. He
continued to reside here until his death,
which took place in 1875. His wife, who

was before marriage Rebecca Ingalls, became
the mother of eight children, seven sons and
one daughter, as follows: Rebecca, who mar-
ried Jonathan Whitney; Nathaniel; Reuben
I.; John; Benjamin; Charles W. ; Samuel;
and Marshall — of whom the only survivor is
Charles W., the subject of this sketch. Mrs.
Rebecca Ingalls P'lint died in June, 1870.

Charles W. Flint received a common-school
education in his boyhood, and had the addi-
tional advantage of one term at the high
school. He resided at home assisting his
father upon the farm until he was twenty-one
years old, when he married and settled upon
a piece of agricultural property in the south-
east part of this town. Six years later he re-
turned to the homestead; and, after caring for
his parents during the rest of their lives, he
inherited the estate. Mr. P'lint's life, how-
ever, has not all been spent in the peaceful
pursuits of husbandry. Responding to Presi-
dent Lincoln's call for troops to defend the
imperilled Pinion, on September 29, 1862, he
enlisted as a private in Company B, Twenty-
third Maine Volunteer Infantry. The regi-
ment was commanded by Colonel Virgin ; and
Company B, which w-as originally commanded
by Captain Little, w-as afterward led by Cap-
tain WinthrofD C. Plall. They were assigned
to do general duty in the vicinity of the Po-
tomac River, where Mr. P'lint's health became
permanently injured through long-continued
exposure; and after his discharge in Portland,
July 5, 1S63, he returned to Sweden, where
he resumed farming. He has improved the
farm by clearing off considerable woodland,
thus adding to its tillage area ; and in connec-
tion with general farming he has conducted
lumbering operations during the winter sea-
sons. He now owns, besides the home farm of
one hundred and twenty-five acres, a tract of
fifty acres, situated in another part of the
town, together with considerable wikl land.
Since his retirement from active labor the
farm has been managed by his son.

Mr. Flint has been twice married. His
first wife, whom he wedded P'ebruary 3, 1848,
was before marriage Sarah ¥. Stearns. She
was born in Lovell, Me., May 2, 1826, daugh-
ter of General Solomon and Sarah (Heald)
Stearns, the former of whom was a prosperous

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fanner of that town. She ilied July 2, 1S53,
leaving three children, namely: Charles F.,
who was born January 9, 1849, married Jennie
Harmon, of Bridgton, and now lives in West
Sterling, Mass. ; Solomon S. , who was born
August 13, 1850, married Emma Hubbard, of
Worcester, Mass., and now resides in that
city; and Benjamin W., who was born Decem-
ber 14, 1851, married Mrs. Abby Weeks, and
is now residing in Chatham, N. H.

On May 20, 1855, Mr. Flint married his
present wife, whose maiden name was Jane M.
Bennett. She was born in Freedom, N.H.,
March 24, 1836, daughter of William and
Charlotte (Bennett) Ik-nnett. Her father,
who was a native of Bridgton, was a house
carpenter, and followed his trade in Freedom,
Sweden, and l?ridgton. He died in his native
town. His wife, who was born in Freedom,
N.H., spent her last days in Massachusetts.
To Mr. and Mrs. Flint have been born thir-
teen children, of whom a brief record may
here be given, as follows: Nathaniel F. was
born May 8, 1857, and died December 15,
1858; Sarah J. was born October 5, 1858, and
is the wife of J. Frank l^ryant, of West
Bridgton; William M. was born June 7, i860,
married Nellie Pike, and resides in Sweden;
John B. was born February 19, 1862, is a
prominent young man of the town, and has
always resided at the homestead; George A.
was born July 14, 1864, married Ada Dawes,
and now lives in Harrison, Me. ; Marshall I.
was born November 12, 1865, and died .Sep-
tember 29, 1872; Eben I. was born June 23,
1867, and is now living at home; Lilly M.
was born September 6, 1869, and is the wife
of Wilbur D. Moulton, of this town ; Joseph
was born April 30, 1S71, and died October 8,
1875; I{liza A. was born December 3, 1873,
and is living at home; Royal N. was born
June 12, 1877; Alfonzo F. and Alonzo J.,
twins, who were born September 12, 1878,
are residing at home.

In politics Mr. Flint is a Republican. Ik-
sides holding some of the minor town offices,
he has ably served as a member of the Board
of Selectmen for several terms, was Super-
visor for a number of years, and has been a
member of the School Board. He is con-
nected with Cumberland Lodge, Independent

Order of Odd I-'ellows, of Bridgton, and was
formerly connected with the grange in this
town. Mr. and Mrs. Flint are members of
the Free Baptist church.

MADISON LUDDI'lN, one of Can-
ton's successful farmers, and well
kiinwn thiciughout tiiis section as a
skillnl musician, was born upon the
farm he now owns and nccuiiies, November
20, 1S45, son of Jacob and Jane C. (Wilson)
Ludden.

Mr. Ludden's granilfathci', Jacob I.utldcn,
first, was an early settler in Turner; but in
1817 he moved from that town to Canton,
where he settled upon a small farm located
near the Di.vfield line. He worked at black-
smithing and farming here for many years,
and also took a [jrominent part in public af-
fairs, serving in the House of Rei)resentatives
when the Maine legislature met in I'oitland.
He died in 1837, aged si.xty years. In poli-
tics Grandfather Ludden was a Democrat, and
in his religious views he was a Universalist.
His wife, Lydia Soule, lived to reach a good
old age. She was the mother of eleven chil-
dren, namely : John ; Temperance ; Aaron, who
died at the age of fourteen ' years ; Lydia;
Jacob; Daniel; Luther; I-"lora ; Phcebe ; Pere-
grine; and Manderville T.

Jacob Ludden, sec(.)nd, the fifth child, was
born in Turner, January 14, 1814. In young
manhood he learned the blacksmith's trade,
which was his principal occupation through
life; and after his marriage he settled upon the
old Wilson farm in Canton. A man of con-
siderable energy and ability, he took a ileei)
interest in educational affairs. He dietl June
20, 1886. In politics he was a Democrat,
and in religion a believer in the doctrine of
universal salvation. His wife, Jane C. Wil-
son, whom he married in 1834, was born upon
the farm where her son now resides, August
10, 1820, daughter of Goin and Sally (Cool-
idge) Wilson. Goin Wilson was a native of
Poland, and was a Democrat in politics.
Settling in this town, he cleared from the wil-
derness what has since been known as the
Goin Wilson homestead. Both he and his
wife, Sallv Cot)lidge, who was born in Canton,

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lived to reach the age of eighty years. Mrs.
Jane C. Wilson Ludden survives her hu.sband,
and resides at the homestead with her son,
J. Madison, the subject of this sketch, who is
the only one of her children living. The
others were: Gowen W. , who died December
3.S, 1868; Sarah J., who became the wife of
W. J. Nalley, and died November 27, 1891 ;
and Linus C. , who died August 17, 1863.

J. Madison Ludden was educated in the
town schools and grew to manhood upon his
present farm in Canton. He has given his
attention to various occupations, but chiefly
to general farming and blacksmithing. His
property, which he inherited from his mother,
consists of about one hundred and twenty-five
acres of fertile land. P'or the past twenty-five
years he has been a member of Towle's Or-
chestra, in which he plays the clarionet; and
his musical ability has been not only a source
of pleasure, but very profitable to him.

By his first wife, Flora L. Kidder, whom he
w^edded on July 4, i86g, Mr. Ludden had one
daughter — Electa L., who died at the age of
nearly three years. Mrs. Mora L. Ludden
died June 7, 1886; and on August 29, 1887,
Mr. Ludden married for his second wife Mrs.
Nellie A. Caswell, who was born in Liver-
more, August 16, 1850, daughter of Amasa
Phillips. There are no children by this mar-
riage. By her union with her first husband,
Albert Caswell, Mr.s. Ludden has two daugh-
ters: Mabel R., wife of Fred C. Berry; and
Nellie A. Mr. Ludden's nephew, Charles
L. Small, resides with him. A worthy rep-
resentative of one of the early settlers here,
Mr. Ludden enjoys the esteem and good will
of all. In politics he is a Democrat, and has
served as a Selectman and in other town
offices. He is a member of Canton (irange,
Patrons of Husbandry; and he and Mrs. Lud-
den attend the L'niver.salist church.

jjrosperous
butcher of

(-(jifESSE Y. SIMMONS, a
fanner and commission
I'armington, Franklin County, was
born in Kingfield, this county, Decem-
ber 16, 1839. 1^6 is a son of Daniel and
Beulah (Winter) Simmons, and a grandson of
Muses and Betsev Simmons. Moses Simmons,

who was a hard-working farmer, settled at an
early date on a farm in Kingfield, and there
reared a family in comparative comfort. He
lived about seventy years, and his wife lived
seventy-five.

Daniel Simmons was born April 8, 1812.
Having inherited one-half of the home farm
in Kingfield, he erected on it a set of build-
ings, and afterwards lived there until 1854.
In that year he sold the property and moved to
New Portland, Me., purchasing there one hun-
dred and forty acres of land. On this property
he has made many improvements. He subse-
quently purchased other land in the north part
of the town. In the w'inter of 1896 he sawed
and chopped for the stove si.xteen cords of
wood, finishing on his eighty-fourth birthday.
At this writing he has a patch of corn planted,
to which he is giving especial care. He has
been a Republican since the formation of the
party, and he -served as Selectmen of New
Portland for a number of years. In religious
belief he is a Universalist. His wife died in
1886, at the age of si.xty-eight. Their chil-
dren were — Betsey W., born Ajiril 16, 1838;
Jesse v., the subject of this sketch; Moses,
born December 29, 1843; John W. , born
April 21, 1846; I^lmer W., born October 31,
1849; Lettice, who lived but three years; Or-
lando, born December 24, 1853; Orrin W.,
born September 12, 1856; and Alice K., born
March 14, 1861.

Jesse \'. Simmons acquired his education
in the jniblic schools. While yet a mere lad
he began to earn his living as a clerk in a gro-
cery and provision store in Lewiston, Me.
After some years he had saved enough from
his wages to purchase the homestead in New-
Portland. After carrying on general farming
here for ten years, he sold the place and once
more engaged as clerk. Some time after, he
purchased the place of J. Landers in Farming-
ton, and in 18S8 he erected a slaughter-house.
He has been employed occasionally in Farm-
ington also as clerk; but his principal occupa-
tion is butchering stock and sending to the
city markets for the farmers. He has a good
farm, where he raises some general crops.

On July 5, 1875, Mr. Simmons was united
in marriage with Lydia M., daughter of Wins-
low and Mary (Small) Small. Her father

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was a son of David Small, a farmer of ^Au-
burn, Me., who settled in Gray, this county,
where he died at the age of seventy. David
Small's wife lived to be about fourscore, and
her children were — Winslow, Charlotte, Cyn-
thia, Nancy, and Margaret. Winslow Small
was born in the town of (iray, and reared to
agricultural pursuit.s. In his earl)- manhood
he was engaged in teaming, but he eventually
bought the homestead. /After managing this
for some time, he sold it antl purchased a large
farm in the town of Rennford, Oxford County,
which was his home in his last years. He
died July i, 1885, aged seventy-nine years,
and his wife passed away in her seventy-sixth
year. Their children were — Nathaniel, Mras-
tus, Andrew, John, David, Hannah, Lorena,
Thomas, Lydia, Mary, and Royal. In ])olitics
Mr. Simmons is a Republican; in religious
belief, a Universal i.st. Mrs. Simmons is a
member of the Free Will ]5aptist church.

ARON O. CORB]{TT, who is success-
fidly tilling the soil of a productive
farm in Paris, O.xford County, was
born in Farmington, Me., August
26, 1856, son of Moses and Funice (Tarbox)
Corbett.

Moses Corbett, who was born in .Strong,
Franklin County, Me., was a farmer and a
useful citizen of his town. Strong and ener-
getic, he was well adapted to his calling,
which he followed until his death, which took
place when he was sixty-seven years old. His
wife, luniice, who was a native of Limington,
Me., became the mother of three children —
Aaron O. ; (icorgietta, wife of William Foster,
of Paris; and Bertha J., wife of Lester M.
Turner, of Huckfield, Me. Mrs. Moses Cor-
bett still survives, and resides with her daugh-
ter in Buckfield.

Aaron O. Corbett grew to manhood in
P'armington and Hebron, Me. ; and his educa-
tion was acquired in the district schools.
When a young man he engaged in shoemaking,
which occupation he followed in Auburn, Me.,
for eight years. He then bought a farm of
sixty acres in Hebron, which he carried on
for a time; but in 1878 he sold it, and, corn-
ing to Paris, purchased his present farm of

two hundred acres. He is one of the rising
and progressive agriculturists of this section,
having been successful from the start. He
devotes his attention to general farming and
dairying, besides raising a large annual crop
of hay. November 29, 1875, Mr. Coriiett
married Nancy D. Verrill, of Minot, Me.,
daughter of George and Nancy (Da\'is) \'er-
rill. Mrs. Corbett's [jaients weie natives of
Minot, where her father was a prosperous
farmer. Neither is now living. Mr. and
Mrs. Corbett have had seven children, as fol-
lows: Julia M., Fred H., Isabella M., Grace
E., Howard K., Millard L., and George W.
The last named died at the age of five years.
Mr. Corbett is indejiendent in politics and
liberal in his religious views. Mrs. Corbett
attends the Methodist lijiiscopal church.

AVID G. PRIDE, of Waterford
township, is a good representative
^J of the sturdy, thriving agricult-
urists of Oxford County. He was
born November 23, 1824, on the farm where
he now resides, son of Josiah and Sophia
(Fairbanks) Pride. His paternal grandfather,
Benjamin Pride, was a pioneer of Waterford,
whither he came, accompanied by his son
Nathaniel, from Cumberland County. ■ On
his arrival here, Benjamin Ijought some land,
and on it established the first saw-mills seen
in this vicinity. From that time until his
death, in 1832, he was engaged in farming
and manufacturing lumber.

Josiah Pride, born in Falmouth, Me., was
reared in this town. After his marriage with
Miss Sophia Fairbanks, a native of Berlin,
Mass., he settled on the homestead now owned
and occupied by his son, David G., and in
its improvement was busily engaged until his
demise, January 3, i860. His wife, who dieil
March 27, 1858, bore him five children, of
whom the following is recorded: Edwin F.,
formerly a mason at Naples, Me., was born
August 18, 1820, and died October 14, i88g;
Charles F., born June 14, 1822, died Septem-
ber 3, 1822; David G. is the subject of this
sketch; Sophia A., born July 2, 1832, married
Leander G. Stone, and lived in Waterford
until her death, March 12, 1872; and William

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VV., born June 7, 1S37, married Rachel Hall,
and now lives in Norway, this county.

David G. Pride received his early education
in the district schools. Beginning while still
very young, he assisted his father in clearing
and improving the home farm. Including the
ancestral homestead to which he succeeded, he
is now the owner of three hundred acres of
land. He has managed his property with
ability, carrying on general farming, dairy-
ing, and stock raising. In politics he is a
stanch Democrat, and he is one of the most
highly esteemed residents of the county. He
served as Selectman of Waterford in 1883 and
1884.

On May 19, 1852, Mr. Pride married Miss
Martha Marston, who was born May 28, 1833,
in the adjoining town of Norway. She is a
daughter of Hrackett and Sarah (Hall) Mars-
ton, natives of Falmouth, Me., who became
residents of Norway, where they owned a farm.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Pride are:
Charles A., born May 30, 1853, who married
Rose A. Marston, of Albany, this county, and
is now a farmer of Norway village: Clarence
H., born July 9, 1857, who married Lillian
Johnson, assists his father in the management
of the farm, and has been Chairman of the
Waterford Board of Selectmen for the past five
years: Lizzie B. , born November i, i860,
who is the wife of Horace Mixer, of Norway
village; Grace M., born June 15, 1865, who
lives with her parents; Frank D. , born July
24, 1 87 1, who died March 12, 1872; and D.
Loring, horn May 10, 1874, who also lives at
home.

[(7)^l"0RACE L. STANLEY, who owns
and cultivates one of the best farms
in Chesterville, I-'ranklin County,
was born in this town, March 14,
1857. He is a son of George W. and Mary
D. (Jewell) Stanley, and is a descendant of
an early settler of Winthrop, Me., his great-
grandfather, Aden Stanley, who fought for
American Independence at Lexington, Bunker
Hill, and elsewhere, having been one of the
first to locate in that town. Aden Stanley was
a carriage-maker Ijy trade, as were all of his
sons. He lived to the advanced age of ninety-

two years. His son, Lemuel, the next in
line to the subject of this sketch, was both a
native and a lifelong resident of Winthrop.
Besides carriage-making he was engaged in
farming. He was an upright, conscientious
man, thrifty and industrious, and was a promi-
nent figure in the community in which he
lived. In his religious opinions he was a
Congregationalist. He married Mehitable
Gilman, a native of Norridgewock, Me.

George W. Stanley, father of Horace L.,
was born in Winthrop, October 28, 181 5. In
early manhood he learned the carriage-maker's
trade. .Shortly after his marriage he moved to
Norridgewock, where he conducted business
for ten years; and then, in 183-2, he came to
Chesterville. Purchasing a lot in the \illage
he built a large shop, and, engaging in the
manufactiu-ing of carriages, did a flourishing
business until 1S65, when he retired from that
enterprise and bought the farm of one hundred
acres which is now owned by his son. In
1876 he erected a new residence, fashioned
somewhat after the Queen Anne style, and
subsequently used the old house for a shop.
He carried on general farming very success-
fully until his death, which took place August
9, 1890. He was a man of good business abil-
ity and of great personal worth. He took a
lively interest in public affairs, and as one of
the leading citizens of the town he was highly
respected. Originally a Whig, he entered the
ranks of the Republican party at its formation.
In his religious affiliations he was a Free Will
Baptist. His wife, Mary D., whom he mar-
ried May 4, 1842, was a daughter of Robert
and Nicy (Grover) Jewell. Her father was a
native of Fox Island, Me., and a son of James
Jewell, who came from England. Robert
Jewell, who was twice married, became the
father of twelve children, and Mr. Stanley's
mother was the second daughter by his second
union. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Stanley be-
came the parents of ten children, as follows:
Cyrus A., born in 1S43; Allen F., born in
1844, died in 1863, while serving in the army;
Mary F., born in 1S46; Sarah E., born in
1848; Annette, born in 1850, died in infancy,
all the foregoing being born in Norridgewock;
George E., born in 1852; Addie J., born in
1854; Horace L., whose nativity is clsewliere

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GEORGE W. STANLEY.

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given; Lizzie S. , born in 1859; and Mdwarci
R., born in 1863, the last five being natives of
Chesterville. A portrait of the father of this
worthy family is presented in connection with
this article.

Horace L. Stanley acqnired the elementary
branches of his education in the common
schools, and completed his studies at the
Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kents Hill. At
the age of nineteen he began his independent
career, finding work as a farm assistant, and
was thus employed until attaining his major-
ity. P'roni that time until he was twenty-five
he assisted in carrying on the home farm. He
then went to Boston, where he remained si.\
months, at the end of which time he was called
home on account of serious injuries sustained
by his father as the result of being thrown
from his carriage. He has since resided here,
taking charge of the homestead and having
cared for his father during his last days. In
1893 he received from his mother a full title
to the property, including the stock, imple-
ments, and machinery. This farm not only
occupies a beautiful location, but is one of the
most fertile and productive in this section. It
includes a fine orchard of grafted fruit trees,
and is fully sujsplied with all modern improve-
ments. At present there are upon the place
five splendid Jersey cows and three fine horses.
As an energetic and thoroughly practical
farmer Mr. Stanley is a distinct .success.
Having advanced rapidly to a position of prom-
inence among his fellow-townsmen he is re-
garded by them with respect and esteem. In
politics he acts with the Republican party, and
his religious opinions are broad and liberal.

jUFrANK L. WATSON, a successful
1^ farmer and prominent resident of
Hiram, O.xford County, Me., was born
upon the farm he now owns and cultivates, in
this town, March 28, 1837, son of Walter F.
and Ruth (Hubbard) Watson. Mr. Watson's
farm was cleared from the wilderness by his
great-grandfather, who came to Hiram in

1779. John Watson, Mr. Watson's grand-
father, .son of the pioneer, was born here in

1780, and died here in 1863, having resided
upon the homestead property during his entire

life. His wife, whose niaiilen name was Abi-
gail l'"oss, died in Hiram in 1870. She was
the mother of si.xteen children, of whom the
only survivor is Seviah, the youngest, now the
wife of Chauncy R. Berry, of Deering, Me.

Walter V. Watson, son of John Watson, was
born at the homestead in Hiram; and, with the
exception of five years spent in the mining
districts of California, he resided here and
tilled the soil throughout the active jiericd of
his life. He died July 4, 1880. His wife,
formerly Ruth Hubbard, a native of Berwick,
Me., was the mother of four children, as fol-
lows: Francis, who died at the age of two
years; I""rank L., the subject of this sketch;
Zilpha, wife of Charles W. Deering, a pros-
perous farmer of Gorham, Me. ; and Arabella,
wife of Fdwin Woodman, a machinist of Bid-
deford, Me. Mrs. Ruth H. Watson, surviving
her husband but a short time, died in October,
1880.

Frank L. Watson acL|uired his elementary
education in the common schools, and pursued
a more advanced course of study at the Lim-
ington Academy. At the age of si.xteen he
left home and went to Biddeforil, Me., where
he was emidoyed ujion a farm for two years;
and he then returned to Hiram. He took
charge of the home farm during the last three
years of his father's absence in California, and
has since continued to manage the property.
He owns one hundred acres of desirable laiul,
which is well adapted to the raising of staple
jjroducts, such as hay, corn, and potatoes; and
he ships a great deal of milk to Portland. He
also does quite a large business as a dealer in
mowing machines and agricultural implements.

In May, 1856, Mr. Watson married Char-
lotte Evans, a native of this town. Her par-
ents, Oliver and Mary (Locke) Fvans, who
were prosperous farming people of Hiram, are
no longer living. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have
had si.x children, namely: Cora, who was born
September 16, 1857, married Cieorge R. Clem-
ens, of Hiram, and died at the age of thirty-
seven years; Mary E. , whose birthday was the
Fourth of July, a year or two later, and who is
now the wife of Charles 1-". Wakefield, a
farmer in California; Charles W. , who was
born February 26, 1865, and died October 9
of the same year; Charles Walter, who was

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born Octcibcr i, 1867, and diecl in July, i8<S4;
John F., who was born September 25, 1869,
and is assisting iiis father in carrying on the
farm; and Eunice B., who was born October
23, 1 87 1, and died February 21, 1892.

A Democrat in politics, Mr. Watson has
been [iromineiitly active in local jniblic
affairs, having served as Chairman of the
Hoard of Selectmen, Town Treasurer, and Col-
lector for several years. He was made a
Mason in 1865 in Mount Moriah Lodge, A. F.
& A. M., of 13enmark, Me. As a citizen of
worth and abilit)', he is highly esteemeil by
his fellow-townsmen.

\ ^ I farmer of New Sh?
^— ^ this town, October

/ fjTTT R 1 1 A M B A K V. R, a prosperous

iaron,\vas born in
13, I 81 5, son of
i'llisha and Lydia (Winslow) Baker. Mr.
Baker's grandfather, I'rince Baker, who was
horn in 1742, moved with his father from
Damariscotta, Lincoln County, to New Sharon
when he was a young man. With three others
Prince Baker bought the township, which,
when sold, realized but twelve cents per acre.
He died in Mercer, Somerset County, in 1829,
at the age of eighty-seven years.

Elisha leaker, Mr. Baker's father, was born
in iJamariscotta, January 31, 1777. His boy-
hood was passed upon his father's farm, and he
acquired his education in the common schools
of New Sharon. When a young man he
bought a farm of one hundred and fifty acres,
situated on the Sandy River Road, and con-
ducted it for several years. He finally tradeil
it to his father for the present homestead,
where he resided until his death, which oc-
curred in 1 86 1, at the age of eighty-five years.
In politics he was a Republican, and in his
religious belief he was a Free Will Baptist.
During the War of 181 2 he reported for ser-
\ice at Hallowell, where he was detained
but a short time. He afterward received
from the government a warrant for one hun-
dred and sixty acres of land. His wife,
Lydia Winslow, who spent her childhood on
the coast of Maine, near Boothbay Harbor,
at a later date came to Industry with her
father. .She had ten children: namely. Ex-
perience, Nicholas W., Betsey, Sumner, Abel,

Russell, Gorham, Gardner, and two others who
died in infancy.

Gorham Baker acquired a common -school
education. Upon reaching his majority he
began to work as an assistant upon the home-
stead farm. Since succeeding to the property
he has made various improvements, increasing
the acreage by the purchase of more land,
which now amounts to one hundred and sixty-
six acres. On December r8, 1839, Mr. liaker
wedded Harriet Stowers, daughter of John
Stowers, of I'armington, this county. She
has had seven children — Katherine K., F'lisha
G. , Benjamin F., Mary E., John M., Amos
L. , and Hattie F. Katherine E. , born in 1841,
married Jason Lufkin, of Champlain, Minn.,
and has had two children, namely: Edwin B.,
now deceased, who was born July 5, 1869;
and F'rank B., who was born March 27, 1871..
Elisha G. , born in 1842, served three years
in the Sixteenth Regiment, Maine Infantry,
during the Civil War, anti is now a blacksmith
in the village of New Sharon. Benjamin !•".
was born in 1844. Mary E. and John M.,
twins, were born in 1849. The latter died in
infancy. Amos L. was born in 185 i. Hattie
F., born in 1858, is now the widow of the late
Theodore T. Prince, and resides at the home-
stead. She has three children, namely:
Blanche E., who was Ijorn March 26, 1S80;
Nina M., who was born May 25, 1884; and
Mildred T., born January 3, 1894. Mr. Bakeii
is highly respectetl by his neighbors, and is
regarded as one of the most successful farmers
of this locality.

KRANCIS MARION NOBLE, a prac-
tical and progressive farmer at Noble's
Corner, Norway, Me., was born in this
town, March 31, 1845. His paternal grand-
father, Nathan Noble, second, born near Port-
land in 1761, was a son of Nathan, first, a
native of New Milford, Conn. Grandfather
Noble and his wife, Hannah Hobbs, reared a
large number of children, among them being
Nathan, Jr., the father of the subject of this
sketch.

Nathan Noble, Jr., was engaged in agricult-
ural pursuits in North Norway for several
years, but later opened a store of general mer-

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cliandise at what is now known as Noble's
Corner, the place having been named in his
honor. After continuing in mercantile busi-
ness for some years, he sokl out his store and
resumed farming, in which he was engaged
until his demise, March 31, 1883. His wife,
whose maiden name was Mary Jordan, was
born in Otisfield, Cumberland County, Me.,
and dieii I''ebruary 16, 1890, in the town of
Niu'way. They had ten children, eiglit of
whom are now deceaseil, namely: Isannali C. ,
who married in 1843 Uriah Holt Upton; Cor-
delia D., who niarrietl Simon Hukins; Eliza-
beth A., who was the wife of the late Moses
Harmon; Gilbert, who died at the age of
twenty-one years; Aurelius C, who married
Elizabeth McAllister; Caroline, who married
Nathaniel G. Frost, of Oxford village; Martha
J., who died in 1888; and Mary Ellen. The
survivors are: William H. and Francis Mar-
ion. William H. Noble, now living with his
brother, married the late Julia Boothby. He
served bravely in the late Rebellion, being
a member of Company G, One Hundred and
Tenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and later of
Company G, Twenty-ninth Maine Volunteer
Infantry, and at the battle of Cedar Creek lost
his right arm, for which injur\" he now re-
ceives a pension.

Francis Marion Noble, whose course in
life is now to be briefly set forth, was the
Jenth and youngest child of his j^arents.
When but a stripling of si.xteen years, he en-
listed in his country's service, joining Com-
]iany G, Fourteenth Maine V'olunteer Infantry,
under Captain Cheney and Colonel Nickerson.
He was mustered in at Augusta, Me., when he
went to Ship Island, and then to New Orleans,
going from there to Baton Rouge, where they
met a body of Confederate troops, under com-
mand of Colonel Breckinridge, with whom
they had a pitched battle, August 5, 1862.
In the summer of 1863 he was engaged in the
siege of Port Hudson, La. Crossing the
country to Petersburg, Va., the regiment was
with Sheridan's forces in the Shenandoah \'al-
ley, where they remained three months, taking
an active part in various engagements. While
there Mr. Noble received a serious gunshot
wound, which necessitated his being taken
to the McClellan Hospital in Philadelphia.

Five months later he rejoinetl his regiment at
Savannah, Ga., where he was stationed until
the close of the war. He was not in any
battle after the one at Winchester, where he
was wounded. On August 25, 1865, he re-
ceived his discharge at Darien Ridge, Geor-
gia. On being mustered out of service, Mr.
Noble returned to his native place, and soon
afterward bought his present farm, consisting
of one hundred and eighty acres, on which he
has faithfully labored. I'"ortune has smiled
on his undertakings, his estate being finely
improved, and much of the land under cultiva-
tion. He carries on the various branches of
general agriculture, paying some attention to
dairying, and being quite an extensive stock-
raiser.

On SepteuTber 17, 186S, Mr. Noble married
Miss Myra Pike Hall, who was born March 4,
1850, in Norway,- daughter of William and
Mary I'. (Towne) H.ill, both natives of this
town, the father being a well-known farmer.
He died in 1856. Mrs. Hall died on Novem-
ber 12, 185S. Mr. and Mrs. Noble have five
children, as follows: Frank G., born July 25,
1869; Fred H., born March 23, 1873; Nathan
A., born October 28, 1876; Willie M., born
June 12, 1 886; and Lona E., born February
7, 1888. Frank G. Noble, now a farmei- in
Norway, married Emma L. Symonds, and they
have one child, Dora Frances; and Fred H.
Noble, also a Norway farmer, married Chris
B. Tubbs, and has one child, a daughter, Ca-
lista Marion.

In politics Mr. Noble is a steatlfast Repub-
lican, and takes an intelligent antl active part
in town affairs. F"rom 1883 until 1886 he
was a member of the Board of Selectmen, and
he has also served the community in minor
official capacities. He is a member of the
Norway Grange, Patrons of Husbandry: and
of the Henry Rust Post, No. 54, Grand Army
of the Republic, of Norway. Mr. Noble and
his family attend the Congregational church.

EORGI<: HENRY BILLINGS, a re-
tired jeweller, who has a very pleas-
ant home in South Waterford vil-
lage, O.xford County, Me., was born in Water-
ford, May 26, 1837, the only son of George

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C. and Rebecca (Whitcomb) Billings. 11 is
father was born in Waterford, his mother in
Sweden, Me. His paternal grandfather was
Daniel Billings, a Massachusetts man, who
settled in Waterford. George C. Billings
was a carpenter, and followed his trade in
his native town. He died in Lowell, Mass.,
in June, 1841 ; and his wife passed away in
1847. They had but two children — George
Henry, of South Waterforil ; and Sarah E.,
born May 26, 1839, now the wife of Charles
Gibbs, an ice dealer of Bridgton Centre, Me.
George Henry Billings, the subject of this
sketch, received a limited common-school
education, being left fatherless at the tender
age of four years and motherless before he
entered his teens. When only si.\ years of
age he was put out to work on a farm in ()tis-
field, where he remained until nineteen. The
two years ensuing he was employed as clerk
in a store in Waterford City; and he then re-
turned to farm work, which he followed until
the second year of the Civil War. July 17,
1S63, he enlisted in Company F, Ninth Maine
Regiment, under Colonel Granger and Captain
Barrows; and he was two years in active mili-
tary service, participating in the siege of
Fort Fisher, the battle of the Wilderness, and
the protracted siege of Petersburg. Although
the rebel bullets touched him not, he suffered
severely from the physical strain caused by
forced marches and camping in malarial dis-
tricts in Virginia and North and South Caro-
lina; and when his term of service was ended
his health was very nearly destroyed. He was
discharged at Raleigh, N.C., in August, 1865,
and after his return to his native place was in
ill health for three years, unable to do any
kind of work. After that he learned the jew-
eller's trade, in following which he has had a
variety of experiences. He was in the employ
of William H. Nevers for several years, then
managed a store of his own in Harrison vil-
lage. Me., for two or three years. The ten
years that followed he worked at his trade in
a ]iawnship in Boston, Mass.; and, if he were
gifted with the pen of a Dickens, he would
have many strange stories to relate concerning
the pieces of jewelry that received new leases
of life from his deft fingers. His ne.\t field
of labo.' was in Aldrich, Minn., where he was

also employed in a general store, and was
Postmaster four years. From Aldrich he re-
turned to Boston, remaining two years, and
finally settled in Waterford City, Me. Though
at present practically retired, he still works a
little at his trade He has never fully recov-
ered his health, and is now in receipt of a
pension from the government on account of
his military service.

Mr. Billings was married December 22,
1892, to Mrs. Lillie K. Plummer Horr, who
was born in Brighton, Mass., November 6,
185 1. Her parents, Charles and Laura
(Smith) Plummer, moved to Waterford when
she was an infant. Her father was a native of
this town, and was engaged here for years in
the pursuit of agriculture. He died in Febru-
ary, 1895. Her mother, a native of Cam-
bridge, Mass., is living in Cornish, Me., with
two of her daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Plummer
had seven children — Nellie and Nettie (de-
ceased); Lillie E., Mrs. Billings; Annie,
with her mother in Cornish; Augusta, Post-
mistress of Waterford City, widow of Charles
Young, Jr.; Nellie, also living with her
mother; and Susia, wife of Percy Bailey, a
clerk in a store in Harrison village. Me.
Mrs. Billings's first husband was Freeman F.
Horr, a native of Waterford, the son of Daniel
Horr. He died April 30, 1889, leaving one
child, Loise Plummer Horr, who is the wife
of M. M. Grimes, Postmaster at West Med-
ford, Mass.

Mr. Billings votes the Democratic ticket.
While in Aldrich, Minn., he served as Town
Clerk, Assessor, and Justice of the Peace.
He is a meriiber of Bridgton Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, of Bridgton, Me. ;
and he and his wife belong to Bear Mountain
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Waterford.

IVERETT A. CHANDLER, a stirring and
capable young business man, who has
recently settled in Wilton, Me., on
the farm which he bought of his father about
three years ago, is rapidly making for himself
a record as one of the most successful farmers
of this town. He was born in Perkins Planta-
tion, Franklin County, December 25, 1861,
son of Augustus M. and Martlia (Richards)

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Chandler, and is a descendant of Culonial an-
cestry, who were early ])ioneers in develiiiiing
the agricultural resources of the State of New
Hampshire. Later generations of the family
have heen likewise em])loyed in the I'ine Tree
State.

Mr. Chandler's great-grandparents — I^ben
and Damaris (Howe) Chandler, the former of
wlioni was born in Wilton, N. H. — remo\'ed
l)revious to 1830 to the town of Temple, in
this county, where Eben Chandler constructed
a log house upon a tract of wild land. He
cleared and improved a good farm, upon which
he realized a comfortable prosperity as the re-
sult of his energy and perseverance, and both
he and his w^fe lived to reach an advanced age.
Their children were — Ebenezer, Luke, John
P., James, Flummer, Rodney, and Eliza.

Luke Chandler, the second son of L]ben, and
the next in this line, was born in Wilton,
N.H. Coming to Tem])]e in 1S32 he bought
and cleared a tract of unim])roved land located
in the neighborhood of his father's farm; but
after tilling the soil with energy and success
for forty years, he sold the farm in Temple, in
order to pass his last days in his native State,
and, returning thither, purchased a homestead
which he occupied for the rest of his life.
He died at the age of seventy-four years. He
married Rebecca Melendy, who lived to be
eighty-three years old, and was the mother of
twelve children, namely: Luke V. ; Augustus
M. ; Abigail, Perham ; George P.; Melvina
and Elvira, twins; Rebecca J.; Sumner 15.,
B. Laforest ; Augusta; and Adah.

Augustus M. Chandler, second of the twelve,
was born in Wilton, N.IL, I""ebruary 16, 1830,
and grew to manhood in Temple, Me. Pos-
sessing an unusual amount of energy and am-
bition in his youth, he had previous to attain-
ing his majority bought and begun improve-
ments upon a tract of wild land in Perkins
Plantation, where he erected a house, and
cleared a considerable space for tillage pur-
poses. He cultivated this farm for twenty-
eight years, at the expiration of which time he
sold the property, and, removing to Wilton,
Me., bought the Harwood farm, which he im-
proved by remodelling the buildings and other-
wise enhanced its value. In 1893 he sold the
property to his son, Everett A., and purchased j

for a residence the !•'. I'aine house on Depot
Street, where he is now enjoying the rest and
freedom from care to which his long and use-
ful period of activity so justly entitles him.
Although the effects of a laborious life have
in a measure impaired his physical condition,
he is otherwise bright and active, and still
occupies a prominent position among the lead-
ing residents of this town. He has rendered
his share of service in town affairs, and is held
in hearty respect and esteem by his fellow-cit-
izens. In politics he is a Republican. He is
a member of the Methodist Plpiscopal church,
and is connected with Williamson Lodge, No.
20, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His
first wife, Martha Richards, died at the age of
thirty-six years, leaving five children, namely:
Calista R. ;■ M. Rebecca ; PIverett A., the
subject of this sketch; lillsworth R. ; ;nid
Charles V. For his second wife he married
Mrs. PLlvira Russell, born Tuck, daughter of
James Tuck, of Farmington, Me.

I^lverett A. Chandler in his early years at-
tended the district schools and the Wilton
Academy, acquiring a good practical education.
At the age of twenty he went to Nashua,
N. H., where he was employed in a sash and
blind factory for three years, and he then be-
came interested in a livery business there.
Trading this a short time later for a milk
route, he leased a dairy farm, and for the suc-
ceeding three years retailed an average of two
hundred quarts of milk per day, a part of
which was ]irodiiced upon his farm and the re-
mainder was bought of his neighbois. Selling
out his milk business he went to lioston,
w'here he was for some time engaged in trade,
and he later gave his attention to the brass
polishing business, which he carried on with
success for seven years employing several
hand.s. In 1893 he bought his father's farm
of one hundred and twenty acres in Wilton,
P"ranklin County, Me., together with the old
town house and lot which he now uses for stor-
age purposes, and, removing to Wilton in
1895, he began the work of imjiroving and cul-
tivating his farm. Thus far during the pres-
ent year, 1896, in addition to the usual work
of planting and harvesting, he has erected a
new stable and carriage house, also raised his
barn and built on an addition. His dairy is

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])robal)l\' unsuriMssed in this vicinity, as he
keeps twenty head of fine Jersey cattle.

On .April 30, i8go, Mr. Chandler was mar-
ried to Nellie M. Howes, daughter of William
and Dora (Tarcher) Howes, the former of
whom is a retired farmer. Mrs. Chandler has
six briithers; namely, Herbert M., John C,
William H., .Maurice J., Charles E., and
Harry M. Howes; and two sisters, Gertrude
L. and ]\Iaud S. Howes. Mr. and Mrs.
Chandler have two children, as follows: Clyde
Roy, who was born August 16, 1892; and
Madeline Marie, who was born September 4,
1895. Politically, Mr. Chandler acts with the
Republican party. He is cimnected with the
Patrons of Husbandry, and both he and Mrs.
Chandler are members oi the Methodist Epis-
copal church.

ILLIAM W. WHITMARSH, pro-
prietor of the Elm House, Norway,
w-as born here. May 27, 1835, son
of John and Charlotte (Stevens) Whitmarsh
and grandson of Ebenezer and Mary (Hum-
phrey) Whitmarsh. Ebenezer Whitmarsh, a
native of Bridgewater, Mass., was among the
first to settle in the town of Norway, purchas-
ing a tract of new land, which he cleared and
brought into a good state of cultivation. He
followed farming throughout the active years
of his life. To him and his wife, Mary
(Humphrey) Whitmarsh, there were born two
sons and three daughters; namely, Betsey,
John, Thomas, I'olly, and Lydia.

John Whitmarsh, the eldest son of Eben-
ezer, was born in Norway, August 20, 1793.
He learned the trade of carpenter, which, with
farming, he followed until he reached middle
age. He then went to North Norway and
opened a jewelry store. After conducting
this for a short time he came in 1856 to Nor-
way, and built a store on the site of the pres-
ent Opera House Block. Here he carried on
a very successful business in jewelry and sil-
verware for over a score of years, retiring
from active business at the end of that time.
He bought the Bacon house on Cottage Street,
wdiich has since beea known as the Whitmarsh
stand. He served for a time as Selectman of
the town and in a number of minor offices,

' and he was a communicant of the Congrega-
tional church. The following children were
born to him and his wife, Charlotte: Martha
S., Olive H., William W., and \'ictoria A.
He died on January 2, 1880.

William W. Whitmarsh was the only son
of his parents. He was educated in the Nor-
way schools. After leaving school he worked
at carpentr}' until 1S61. Enlisting May 27
of that year in Company G, First Maine Regi-
ment, he was made Sergeant of the company.
On October 4 following he was created Sec-
ond Eieutenant of Company G, Tenth Maine
Regiment; and seventeen days later he was
advanced to the rank of 1^'irst Lieutenant.
On May 8, 1863, he was discharged with the
regiment. He re-enlisted December 16, 1863,
in the Twenty-ninth Maine Regiment, receiv-
ing the Captaincy of Company G, and served
imtil March 3, 1866, when he resigned. Soon
after returning home Mr. Whitmarsh pur-
chased the Eim House, which has borne that
name since its doors were first thrown open to
the public in 1846. He has remodelled it,
built an addition,^and refurnished it, so that
at the present time there are twenty-four
finely arranged sleeping-rooms, fitted up in a
homelike manner, with every convenience for
the comfort of the traveller or boarder. Mr.
Whitmarsh has the reputation of being one
of the most obliging and entertaining land-
lords in the county, and of keeping a first-class
house.

Plans for the advancement or improvement
of the town of Norway have always interested
Mr. Whitmarsh. He was one of the pro-
moters and is a stockholder and Director of
the corporation that erected and own Norway
Opera House. He is also financially inter-
ested in the Norway water works, of which
he has been Treasurer and superintendent.
For eight years he held the office of Town
Clerk, in 1885-86 he was a Representative to
the lower house of the State legislature, and
during the past ten years he has been one of
the County Commissioners. His political
principles are those of the Rej^ublican party.
He is Past Grand of Norway Lodge, No. 16,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Past
Chief Patriarch of Wildey Encampment, No.
21, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and a

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comrade of Harry Rust Post, No. 54, Grand
Army of the Republic, in all the offices of
which he has served.

On September 22, 1868, Mr. VVhitmarsh
was joined in marriage with Miss Martlia C.
]51akc, who was born August 29, 1846, in
15ethel, Me., daughter of Jonathan and Eliza-
beth (Crockett) Blake. Her father was a
l)rosperous farmer. Of the three children that
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Whitmarsh,
Lizzie C, the first-born, whose birth occurred
November 9, 1872, is living. She is now the
wife of M. \V. Sampson, of Norwa}'. Charles,
born May 20, 1878, died June 10, 1878. The
third child died in infancy.

UGUSTUS N. FRENCH, M.D., of
Norway, is a successful and jjopular
physician. He was born here, June
21, 1845, son of Washington and
Mary (Henley) French. His great-grand-
father, James French, a native of Andover,
Mass., came from there to Norway in 1798,
and took up a tract of new land, on which he
built a log liouse. In his early days James
French engaged in teaching, and also worked
at carpentry. He married Miss Abigail
F"letcher, who bore him nine children;
namely, James, Jacob, Abigail, Esther,
.Sarah, Charles, George, Alice, and Clar-
issa. Ill jiolitics he was a Democrat, in his
religious belief a Methodist. He was over
ninety years of age at his death. His son,
James French, Jr., who was born December
19, 1785, inherited the homestead, and be-
came a large land-owner and farmer. He
and his wife, Annis (Whitney) French, lived
to a good age. They were the parents of ten
children — George, James, Washington, Perley,
Martha, John A., Martha A., Moses O., Will-
iam P., and Moses. All lived to marry; and
it may be mentioned that the eight sons at
tended their father's funeral, when it was ob-
served that time had silvered their heads.
The father was a Democrat and a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church.

Washington F'rench, who was born in
Norway, May 16, 181 3, purchased a farm in
North Norway, where he resided until 1847.
He then removed to Albany, Me,, and pur-

chased a farm of four hundred acres, and was
extensively cngagetl in farming and lumbering
up to the time of his death, March 10, 1887.
His wife, Mary Henley French, born Febru-
ary 13, 1823, died in March, 1875. She was
a daughter of Jeremiah ami Mary (Blanchard)
Henley. It is a matter of family history that
her father was brought to Norway in an ox
cart about a century ago, when only eighteen
months old. She bore her husband seven
children — Harriett R., George W., Augustus
N., Mercy K., Gilber H., M. Kstella, and
Edwin I^. The father was a member of the
Congregational church, and in politics he was
a Republican.

When but two years old, Augustus N.
French removed with his parents to Albany,
Me., so that his early education was obtained
in the Albany schools. He subsequently at-
tended the Norway Liberal Institute, which
was at tliat time in charge of Professor George
F. Leonard. After leaving the institute lie
engaged in teaching school for si.\ years. He
then began the study of medicine with A. M.
Peables, M.D., of Auburn, Me., who at that
time had an office in Norway. He also at-
tended the Maine Medical College, from
which he was graduated in June, 1871. In
September of that year he located at Lovell,
Me., succeeding Dr. J. L. Bennett. Having
practised there for fourteen years, in the
course of which he acquired a large patronage,
he came to Norway in August, 18S5. Here
he has been still more successful. He pur-
chased the Dr. Pike place, which was burned
in 1894. Since then he has erected a three-
story, seventeen-rooin house, fitted up in
modern style, and lighted by electricitx'.

On New Year's Day, 1874, Dr. French was
married to Miss Malinda Bassett, a daughter
of Joseph Bassett. .She died in October,
1876, leaving one child, Liitie Ma\-, who was
born December 27, 1875, and has since gradu-
ated from Colby Lhiiversity. Dr. French
afterward entered a second marriage, con-
tracted with Miss Nellie E. Fox, a liaughter
of Edward l^^j.x. They have one child living,
Eva M., born February 2, 1884. Addie M.
died at the age of seven 3'ears. Dr. French is
a Democrat. He served as Supervisor of
.Schools for three years. He is well known

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in Masonic circles, being a Past Master of
Mount Tirnu Lodge, A. F. & A. M.: a mem-
ber of Oriental Chapter, Royal Arch Masons;
of Oxford Council, Ro\'al and Select Masons;
and of Lewiston Commandery, Knights Tem-
plars. He has also affiliation with Lewiston
Lodge of Perfection, Auburn Council of
Princes of Jerusalem, Chapter of Rose Croix,
and ALaine Consistory, thirty-second. He is
Past Grand and Noble Commander of Reiser
Valley Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, and has filled the different chairs in
Pennesseewassee Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
and in Norway Commandery, United Order of
the Golden Cross.

'SA W. DUTTON, Justice of the
Peace, one of New Sharon's most
respected citzens, occupies a pleas-
ant residence at Four Corners,
situated on elevated ground overlooking the
town. He was born in New Sharon, which
lies in the south-eastern part of Franklin
County, Maine, on February 25, 1833, a son
of Asa and Lucy (Spaulding) Button.

His father, Asa Dutton, was born in Anson,
Somerset County, on February 25, 1797, and
was an infant when his parents moved to
Starks, a few miles south, where, as he grew
up, he attended the common schools. At an
early age he went to Norridgewock, and en-
gaged in harness-making and farming, being
employed there by Squire Danforth. Pur-
chasing a tract of one hundred acres in New
Sharon shortly before his marriage, and mov-
ing on to it very soon after that event, he
built a house and barns, and cultivated quite
a large portion of the land, conducting his
harness-making business at the same time, for
he was a man of great energy. He was in
political affiliation a Whig and afterwards a
Republican, and in his religious faith a Con-
gregational ist.

He was married to Miss Lucy Spaulding,
of Norridgewock, on March 25, 1821, and in
the ensuing nineteen years they became the
parents of eight children, namely: Lucy S.,
born January 19, 1822, and now the widow of
Cephas C. Buck, of Strong, and residing in
New Sharon; Sarah W., born November 18,

1823, who died June 15, 1875: Asenath 11,
born September 26, 1825, living at the old
homestead in New Sharon; Annette B., born
May 17, 1828, who died August 24, 1873;
Sophia, born March 28, 1830, who died May
16, 1855; Frances M., born September 4,
1838, who died September 23, 1861 : and
George, born March 23, 1840, who married
Miss Lida Hill, of Charlestown, W.Va., and
is now a resident of Allegheny City, Pa.

The father's namesake, Asa W. Dutton,
spent his boyhood on the home farm, and
was educated in the common and high schools
of New Sharon. At twenty years of age he
found employment on the Atlantic & St.
Lawrence Railroad, now known as the Grand
Trunk Line. For a season he remained in
its employment as a section hand, returning
then to New Sharon, and securing work dur-
ing the winter in the harness shop of Josiah
Flint. In the following spring he went to
Cape Elizabeth, where he worked in the steam
saw-mills of the Speare Brothers until the
autumn, when he again returned to his home,
going to Mercer some time later. In Mercer
he plied his old trade of harness-making, re-
maining there until spring, when he removed
to Haverhill, Mass., and was employed by
Bodfish & Dickey in a steam saw-mill. In
the fall he went back to New Sharon, where
he formed a partnership with Horace N.
Plummer in the harness-making business. In
the following year his connection was dis-
solved, Mr. Dutton being subsequently em-
ployed by Mr. Plummer for a year.

He now took up a branch of his trade, that
of carriage trimming, of which he made an
immediate success. So well did he do his
work that he soon had the largest trade in this
line in this section of the State of Maine.
For a quarter of a century he carried on this
lucrative business, increasing his finances
each year. In 1866 Mr. Dutton bought a
farm of one hundred and fifty acres, to which
he moved. He lived there only two years,
however, as he sold the property at an ad-
vance, the investment having been a wise
one. In the fall of 1868 he purchased his
present residence at the "Four Corners," as it
is called.

He was united in marriage with Miss Mary

ASA W. DUTTON.

lUOC.RAI'lllCAL REVIKW

J. Lancaster, a ilaughter of Thomas Lancaster,
of New Sharon, on the 2i.st of December,
1858. Mr. and Mrs. Dutton have one child,
a daughter, Winnie F., born March 6, 1863,
in New Sharon. Miss Dutton was graduated
from Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female
College in 1883, with the degree of Bach-
elors of Arts, having taken a full college
course, and three years later she received the
degree of Master of Arts. Since the comple-
tion of her education she has spent most of
her time at home with her parents, though fin-
several terms she has taught in the district
schools.

Mr. Dutton now holds the office of Justice
of the Peace, and does a general law business,
mostly in the Probate Courts. He was Town
Treasurer one year, and was Chairman of the
Board of Selectmen in i8go and 1893. He is
a Congregationalist in religious belief, and is
a strong Republican in political convictions.
He has won for himself the esteem and respect
of all who know him and his measure of wordly
success is due to his industry and ability.

RANCIS H. HOLDKN, who, after
a number of years' experience in
Western farming, is now extensively
engaged in agricultural pursuits in Farm-
ington, Franklin County, Me., was born
in Lunenburg, Mass., March 26, 1826, son of
William Warren and Sophia (Adams) Holden.
Mr. Holden's father was a native of Shirley,
Mass. He was born December 9, 1797, and
learned the carpenter's trade in young man-
hood. Later removing with his family to
Weld, Franklin County, Me., he bought a
farm, and carried it on in connection with his
trade until his death, which took place April
II, 1862. He was an able mechanic, a suc-
cessful farmer, and a useful citizen. In his
last years he acted with the Republican party
in politics, and in his religious views he was
a Methodist. His wife, formerly Sophia
Adams, who was born in Massachusetts, Feb-
ruary 23, 1798, became the mother of four
children, as follows: Elbridge P., who was
born November 3, 1821 ; Francis H., the sub-
ject of this sketch; William Milo, who was
born March 3, 1834: and Sophia E. , who was

born April 22, 1842. Mrs. Soiihia Atlams
Holden died February 22, 1868.

Francis H. Holden was the second-born son
of his parents. He acquired in his youth a
common-school education, and for some time
in early manhood he followed the sea, engaged
in the coasting trade. He was also emplo)'etl
in the factories of Massachusetts, and worked
at the carpenter's tratle with his father, always
being able to earn a good living at whatever
he undertook, and giving [)eifect satisfaction
to his employers. He accompanied his par-
ents to Weld, and, buying a farm of eighty
acres in that town, occupied himself with its
management for five years, at the exjjiration
of which time he sold the property, and, re-
moving to Temple, continued to till the soil
there for the same length of time. He then
migrated to Kossuth County, Iowa, where he
bought one hundred and si.xty acres of land,
and carried on general farming with good re-
sults until the present vear, 1896, when he
returned Ivist. Shortly after the arrival of
the family in Maine, Mrs. Holden purchased
the Ahnon Dyer farm of two hundred and
eighty-five acres, which is one of the best lo-
cated and most elesirable estates in the town of
Farmington, and here they are already en-
gaged in conducting various branches of farm-
ing industry with their accustomed energy and
success.

Mr. HoUien and Rebecca Ivxdes, daughter
of Joseph and Hannah (Staples) Fades, were
married on November 15, 1854. Her father
was born in Stoddard, N.H., -September 10,
1783, and her mother was born in Durham,
N. H., March 2i<, 1786. Joseph Fades was
one of the early setters and progressive farmers
of Temple. He and his wife reared a family
of seven children, as follows: Hannah B., who
was born June 27, 1813; Joseph J., who was
born June 23, 181 5; Gideon, who was born
October 22, 1818, and died August 31, 1819;
Elizabeth, who was born August 22, 1820;
Mary, who was born November 26, 1822;
Catherine, who was born February i, 1S25:
and Rebecca, now Mrs. Holden, who was born
August 28, 1826. Mr. and Mrs. Holden have
four children, namely: Charles H., who was
born January 28, 1856, and Matilda F. , who
was born A]iril 9, 1858, both of whom are

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living at home; Josepli E., wlio was born De-
cember 30, 1861, and also resides witli his
parents; and Elizabeth S., who was born Oc-
tober 21, 1865, and is now the wife of Frank
Rizner, a prosperous agriculturist of Farm-
ington.

In politics Mr. Holden is a Republican, and
in his religious views favors the Free Will
Baptist church. Mrs. Holden is a Congrega-
tionalist.

-AMES L. CHASE, of Paris, a good
representative of the younger genera-
tion of agriculturists in the county,
was born in Portland, this State, June
II, 1861, son of William and Ellen (Eaton)
Chase. Timothy Chase, his paternal grand-
father, who was a native of Falmouth, Me.,
became a pioneer settler of Oxford County.
He came here from Yarmouth, and, after
working at the mason's trade for several years,
returned to Portland. Thirty years after, he
again came to Paris, where he subsequently
died at the age of seventy-five. His first
wife, Eucy (Porter) Chase, who was born in
Falmouth, died in Portland, at the age of fifty
years. His second marriage was contracted
with Eucy Chase Doble. He reared the fol-
lowing children, all by his first wife: Sewall,
Mary Ann, Susan N., Hannah, lulward, Will-
iam, Anna P., and Granville N. Susan N.
and Edward are living, the latter a resident
of Portland.

William Cliasc was born in Paris, Novem-
ber I, 1820. He was reared and educated in
Portland, and was afterward one of its most
substantial business men. He was an exten-
sive importer of sugar and molasses for thirty
years. In 1870, retiring from commercial
life, he returned to Paris, and here purchased
the old Hanibal estate. Here he lived until
his death, March 12, 1876, caused by an acci-
dent, in which he was run over by cars, and
lost both his legs. He was held in high esti-
mation as an honorable, straightforward busi-
ness man and a loyal citizen. In politics he
was a Republican. He was a member of the
Congregational church, toward the support of
which he was a generous contributor. His
connection with fraternal organizations was

limited to membership in the Ortier.of Odd
Fellows. His wife, Ellen, a daughter of
George and Elizabeth (Trowbridge) Eaton,
was born July i, 1820, in Portland, where the
marriage was performed November 2, 1843.
They became the parents of ten children, two
of whom are now living, namely: Edwin A.,
born in Portland, now a real estate dealer in
Dedham, Mass. ; and James L., the subject of
this sketch.

James E. Chase was educated in the schools
of Portland and Paris Hill. Since his early
manhood he has devoted his attention to agri-
cultural pursuits. In addition to other prop-
erty he has a fine farm of sixty acres, beauti-
f Lilly located, and commanding an excellent
view of the White Mountains. He carries on
general farming, hay and apples being his
principal crops, and is .somewhat engaged in
dairying, keeping from ten to twelve head of
full-blooded Jerseys. His house is a popular
resort for boarders from the city during the
summer season. Each year the applications
to him for rooms far exceed the number of
guests that he can accommodate. He enter-
tains his hoarders in a most genial and gener-
ous manner, making the house so pleasant for
them that all are glad to come again. One
family has spent fifteen ■ consecutive summe'rs
with him.

Mr. Chase was married January 17, 1883,
to Anna P. Rawson, a daughter of Job H. and
the late Mary E. (Garland) Rawson. Mr.
Rawson, born in Paris, September 30, 1833,
was for thirty years the proprietor of the stage
line running to South Paris, and was for many
years in a mercantile business. He is now
living in the village of Paris, where he is ac-
tively engaged as a veterinary surgeon, and in
preparing the medicines, ointments, etc.,
used in connection with his business. Mrs.
Rawson, who died in Paris, January 5, 1887,
was born April 8, 1829, in Pyron, this county.
They had five other children; namely, Samuel
H., Fanny, Nellie H., Charles, and Hiram J.
After the death of his first wife Mr. Rawson
married Mrs. Martha Weeks, of Paris. In
politics he is a Democrat and in religion a
Universalist. Mr. and Mrs. Chase have three
children — William H., born March 20, 1887;
Eouisa E., born December 11, 1889; and

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Susie T., Ixjrn August 7, 1890. Three otliers
are deceased, namely: Mary K. ; and two that
died in infancy. Mr. Chase is an earnest
supporter of the Republican party. Both he
and his wife are liberal in their religious
beliefs.

■OllX Y. WOOD, a wealthy farmer and
fruit grower in the town of Buckfield,
was born August 16, 1842, in Hart-
ford, this county, son of Charles and
Sarah (Thurlow) Wood, respectively natives
of Gorham and Hartford. His grandfather,
Charles Wood, Sr., was one of the early set-
tlers of Gorham, whence he afterward re-
moved to Hartford, dying in the latter place
at a good age. Four of Grandfather Wood's
children grew to maturity, but all have now
passed away. Charles Wood, Jr., the young-
est son, was a good, jjractical farmer, and
spent the active years of his life in Hartford.
He died at the home of his son in Ruckficld,
aged eighty-six years; and his wife died aged
about fifty years. They were members of the
Free Will Baptist church at Federal Corners.
In politics he was first a Whig and later a
Republican. They had a family of seven
children, four sons and three daughters. The
daughters and one son are living, namely:
Mary, the widow of Nathan Sampson, and
now a resident of Aroostook County; Ruth T.,
who married William Woodbury, and resides
in Turner, Me. ; Amanda M., the widow of
John S. Drake, of Auburn, Me.; and John Y.,
the subject of this sketch. The deceased chil-
dren were: Albion, Charles V., and George
H. George H. served as a soldier in the
Civil War, and was accidentally killed while
on his way home.

John Y. Wood, the youngest child, grew to
manhood in Hartford, receiving his education
in the common schools of that town. In 1864
he enlisted in the Thirty-second Maine Regi-
ment, Company E, under Captain Keyes, and
was in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsyl-
vania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. He
served until the close of the war, receiving an
honorable discharge in July, 1865. He then
returned to his native town, and up to 1879
was engaged in carrying on the old homestead

farm. On lea\-ing there, he moved to his
present farm in Buckfield, containing two hun-
dred and sixty-two acres, where he is engaged
in general farming, fruit growing, and dairy-
ing. He has about ten acres planted with
fruit, inchuling apples, plums, and cherries;
and in his dairy he keeps from thirty to thirty-
five head of full-blooded and grade Jerseys.
The rich meadow lands, well filled barns and
storehouses, together with the neatly kept
buildings and surroundings, all give evidence
of intelligent management and unstinted
labor.

In October, 1865, Mr. Wocjil married AI-
mira S. Young, who was born in Hartford,
daughter of Joseph Young. Three children
were born to them, as follows: George V.,
Herbert H., alid one who died in infancy. By
his second marriage, contracted with Mary
Phillips, there came four children — Edwin J.,
Forrest P., Mary li., and May. May died at
the age of eight years. In his religious views
Mr. Wood is liberal. He is a Republican in
politics, and has membership in Nezinscott
Lodge, No. 104, Independent Order of Odd
F"ellows, of Buckfield; and in Turner Grange,
of Turner, Me.

|OSCOE F. STAPLES, Secretary and
Treasurer of the .S. K. King Com-
pany, Town Treasurer and Post-
master of Oxford, was born in this
town, January 19, 1859, son of John G. and
Sophia (Woodsum) Staples. His father, who
was born in Oxford in 18 18, during his active
life was an energetic and industrious farmer.
His mother, a native of Falmouth, Me., born
in 1822, died at the age of fifty-three years.
Of her nine children, Roscoe F., the subject
of this sketch, is the only one living.

Roscoe F. Staples acquired his education
in the district schools and at the Oxford High
School. Having completed his studies in
1873, he entered the store of Silas E. King as
an employee. For nearly twenty-five years
he was in Mr. King's employ, rising to the
post of confidential clerk, and gaining the
confidence of his employer by his business
ability and integrity. When the S. ¥.. King
Company was formed in 189(1. he was ap-

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pointed the Secretary and Treasurer of the
corporation, Mr. King being made President
and George L. Wilder \'ice-President. The
S. E. King Company, which includes among
its stockholders several wholesale merchants
of Auburn and Portland, conducts a large
general store. Mr. Staples"s long connection
with the business enables him to fill his re-
sponsible position with ability. The com-
pany deals in merchandise of nearly every de-
scription, having ample facilities for supply-
ing promptly such articles as are not in their
stock. The establishment is divided into de-
jjartm-^nts, which include groceries, hardware,
dry goods, farming implements, flour, grain,
and feed. The purpose of the management is
to supply every article necessary for domestic,
agricultural, and mechanical use.

On January 27, 1879, ^^^- Staples was
united in marriage to Mattie L. Everett, who
was born November 30, 1858, in Casco, Me.,
daughter of Henry R. and Sarah E. Everett.
He has one son, P'verett C, who was born
March 29, 1880. In public affairs Mr.
Staples is very prominent. He was for one
year a member of the Board of Selectmen.
He is serving his fourth term as Town Clerk,
his third year as Town Treasurer, and he has
been Postmaster and Justice of the Peace for
the past seven years. His political princi-
ples are Republican. He is a niemi^er of the
Masonic fraternity, being connected with the
Blue Lodge at Mechanic h'alls. He has also
affiliation with Golden Rule Lodge, No. 7^,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Lewis-
ton ; Pennesseewassee Lodge, No. 18, Knights
of Pythias, of Norway, Me. ; and Maple
Lodge, No. 180, New England Order of Pro-
tection, at Welchville. In their religious
belief I\Ir. and Mrs. Stajiles are Baptists.

ILLIAM I. SARGENT, a prosper-
ous farmer of Madrid, Franklin
County, Me., and a descendant of
one of the pioneer settlers, was born in this
town, June 6, 1839, son of Isaac and Hannah
(Davenport) Sargent. Mr. Sargent is of Eng-
lish descent. His grandfather, John Sargent,
who was a native of New Hampshire, came to
Maine when a young man, and lived upon the

coast for some time before coming to Madrid,
where he was one of the first to take up land.
He cleared a farm, and resided here until his
death, which took place when he was seventy-
three years old. He reared a family of four
children, none of whom are living.

I.^aac Sargent was a son of John Sargent.
He was born in Damariscotta, Me., and came
to Madrid with his parents at the age of
four years. Having grown to maturity, he
followed agricultural pursuits during the ac-
tive period of his life, and was well and favor-
ably known as an able, industrious farmer, and
a worthy, upright man. He lived to be
seventy-four years old. In politics he was a
Democrat, but never interested himself in
public affairs, beyond casting his vote. His
wife, who was before marriage Hannah Daven-
port, became the mother of four children, all
of whom are living in Madrid, namelv: Jo-
seph D. ; John; William I., the subject of
this sketch; and Sybil A.

William I. Sargent was educated in Madrid,
and at an early age began to assist in carrying
on the home farm. Eventually succeeding to
its ownership, he has given his attention to
the cultivation of general farm produce, in-
cluding wheat and herd's grass seed, and the
raising of excellent cattle and sheep. His
property, which consists of one humlred and
forty-three acres, is reganled as one of the
best located and most productive farms in
Madrid.

Mr. Sargent and his wife, Vesta Lufkin, of
this town with whom he was united in mar-
riage on March 2, 1S62, ha\e reared a family
of nine children, as follows: George E. , born
December 28, 1863, who is married and lives
in Madrid; Herman O. , also of Madrid, who
on November 29, 1894, married Ora B. Will-
iams; Charles A., who married Grace V..
Davis on January 16, 1895, and resides in
Fitchburg, Mass. ; Samuel J., who on Novem-
ber 13, 1892, was united in marriage with
Gertrude E. Monroe; Ada, wife of S. Gross,
of Jay, Me. ; and Mary E. , William I., Anna
B. , and Nettie A., all living at the parental
home. In politics Mr. Sargent is a Demo-
crat; and he has rendered able service to the
town as Highw^ay Surveyor. The family at-
tend the P"ree Will Baptist church.

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George K. Sargent, oldest son of William
I. Sargent, was born in Madrid, December
28, 1863. He attended school in Madrid,
Phillips, and Rangeley, and, since completing
his studies, has given his attention to agri-
cultural pursuits at the homestead. On Sep-
tember 19, 1887, he was married to Dora B.
Welts, of Madrid, who has become the mother
of two children, namely: Carl E., aged nine;
and Harold E. , aged five years. In politics
he votes with the Democratic party. He has
served upon the School Board four years and
uijon the Board of Health for three terms. He
is an active and progressive farmer and one of
the leading young men of Aladrid.

A M U E L A. B U M P U S, an es-
teemed resident and farmer of the
town of Paris, was born in this
]ilace. May 2, 1828, a son of Na-
thaniel and Elizabeth (Warren) Bumpus. His
paternal grandfather, Morris Bumpus, was
iDorn and reared to man's estate in Taunton,
Mass. After the close of the Revolution, in
which Morris Bumpus was an active partici-
pant, he settled in the town of Hebron, this
county, becoming thereby one of its earliest
pioneers. The district was then in its origi-
nal wildness. Game of all kinds was abund-
ant, and the Indians far outnumbered the
white settlers. The nearest market and mill
were thirty miles distant. In going to the
latter, the round trip was made on foot by a
trail marked by blazed trees; and the grist
was carried on the back. Grandfather Bumpus
cleared a good farm from the wilderness, and
lived here until his death, at the age of
eighty-five years. His wife, Huldah, attained
the same venerable age. They had nine chil-
dren, seven of whom reached maturity;
namely — Morris, Nathaniel, Samuel, Jesse,
Daniel, Martha, and Eliza.

Nathaniel Bumpus was the second son born
to his parents. He learned the blacksmith's
trade when a young man, and afterward fol-
lowed it in conjunction with farming. Re-
moving from Hebron, the place of his nativ-
ity, to Paris, he settled in the south-eastern
part of the town, and purchased a farm, which
he managed successfully for many years.

Here both he and his wife tlied, in the eighty-
sixth year of their respective ages. He was
a Democrat in politics antl in religion a sin-
cere Universalist. His wife, who was a na-
tive of Buckfield, Me., bore him nine chil-
dren, of whom si.\ are dead; namely, Morris,
A.xel, lithel W., N. Grecnleaf, John, and
Jane. The survivors are: Phcebe, the widow
of Orra Hall, of South Paris; Huldah, the
wife of Erastus Cummings, of West Paris;
and Samuel A., the subject of this sketch.

Samuel A. Bumpus was educated in the
common schools of Paris and at the Hebron
Academy. At the age <>f twenty years he
went to Massachusetts, where he spent the
succeeding five years in a woollen-mill.
During the ne.xt si.x years he was engaged in
the same occupation at South Paris. In all
he was employed eleven years in the mills,
having served for eight years of the time in
the capacity of foreman. By eccmomical man-
agement he saved much of his earnings, and
in 1859 he bought the farm where he now
resides. His first purchase of one hundred
and forty acres of land has been increased to
two hiuidred acres, and has been much en-
hanced in value by improvements. He pays
especial attention to fruit growing, his vines
and orchards yielding a large supply of fruits
that grow in this northern climate. His
taste for this branch of industry may have
been inherited from his grandfather, who
planted on his wild land in Hebron the first
orchard seen in that town. Mr, Iknnpus is
a member of the Paris Lodge, No. 44, Patrons
of Husbandry. In politics he is not a party
man, but votes for the best men and measures.
Both he and his wife are Universalists.

Mr. Bumpus was married November 16,
1854, to Julia A. Harriman, who was born
January iS, 1834, in Litchfield, Me Her
father, Levi Harriman, after spending his
entire life in Litchfield on the farm where he
was born, died January 21, 1855, aged sixty-
one years. He was one of the most respected
farmers of the place and an active member of
the Whig party. His wife, in maidenhood
Mary Hale, who was born in Richmond, Saga-
dahoc County, in 1S07, and died June 16,
1882, had eight children, three of whom are
now living. These are: Julia A., now Mrs.

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Bunipus; Mrs. Luclla AI. Googin, of Litch-
field; and George VV. Harriman, of Brighton,
Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Bumpus have three chil-
th"L-n, namely: Ella E., born August 21, 1S56,
who is now the widow of Edgar A. Tapley,
and with her two children — Herbert W. and
Edgar A. — lives at Quincy, Mass. ; George
F., born F"ebruary 11, 1858, who was married
December 29, 1885, to Georgia .Stewart, and
now lives in Brighton, Mass. ; and Carrie L.,
born March 25, 1867, who lives with her
parents.

/^TeORGE BERRY, who has spent his
\ '*) I long and useful life of nearly four-
score years in the town of Paris, has
been actively identified with the agricultural
interests of 0.\ford County, and has materially
assisted in maintaining its reputation as a
superior farming region. He was born May
25, 18 1 8, in the town where he now resides,
son of William and Deborah (Drake) Berry.

William Berry was born April 16, 1783,
and, when a young man, settled in Paris, Me.,
coming here when the country was new, find-
ing his way by means of marked trees. With
the energy and vigor of the true pioneer he
felled the trees from a portion of the timbered
land that he bought, uprooted the sod, and
was thereafter successfully employed in till-
ing the soil, living here .until his death,
March i, 1848. Deborah Drake was born
January 30, 1786, and died in Paris, Decem-
ber 6, 1857. Both she and her husband were
Baptists in religion; and in politics he was
at first a Democrat, but in his later years he
affiliated with the Republicans. They had
the following children : Scillman, Harvey,
Mary, George, Sarah, William, Olive, Elveci,
and Zeri. Mary, George, and Zeri are the
only ones now living.

George ]5erry, here numbered as the fourth
child of his parents, was reared and educated
in Paris, obtaining in his early years a fair,
common-school education and a practical
knowledge of agriculture. He began earning
his own living when but a youth, for several
years working for the neighboring farmers,
who at first paid him for his services twelve
ilollars per month. By prudence and economy

he was enableil to save a portion of his wages
each season, in the course of time having a
sufficient sum to warrant him in buying a
farm, on which he was engaged in his chosen
occupation for many years. In 1874 he sold
that property, and purchased his father's
homestead. He now owns about one hundred
acres of choice land, on which he has made
the more valuable of the improvements. A
self-made man, having steadily climbed the
hill of success by his own industrious efforts,
Mr. Berry is now numbered among the well-
to-do farmers of this vicinity, owning other
i-eal estate besides his well-appointed farm.

Mr. Berry has been twice married. His
first wife, whose maiden name was Melissa
Buck, died in 1847, having borne him two
children, namely: Cynthia, wife of Addison
Abbott, of North Paris; and a child that died
in infancy. On January 7, 1850, Mr. Berry
married Mary Hannah Marshall, who was
born in this town, April 9, 1831. Her father,
Nathan Marshall, was a son of David Mar-
shall, who emigrated from Scotland to
America in Colonial days. David Marshall
married Mary Mason, and settled first on land
in Bethel, Me., but was compelled to leave
that place on account of trouble with the
Indians. His wife was the first white woman
to spend a night in the town of Paris. Re-
moving to Hebron, he became identified with
the leading business interests of the town,
building saw-mills, a grist and shingle mill,
and a carding machine. He served in the
Revolutionary War, and was at the battle of
Bunker Hill. He assisted in building the
Baptist meeting-house of Hebron, he and his
wife being among the original members of the
church. Each lived to the age of fourscore
years. They had twelve children, nine of
whom grew to maturity; namely, David, Wal-
ter, Miriam, Lucy, John, Nathan, Asahel,
Aaron, and Moses.

Nathan Marshall, the fourth son as here
mentioned, Mrs. Berry's father, was born in
Hebron, January 16, 1795. In his early man-
hood he was interested in milling with his
father. In 181 8 he came to Paris, and, pur-
chasing the farm now owned and occupied by
his son, Samuel D. Marshall, was thencefor-
ward engaged as a farmer and blacksmith

*8ll -^aiUh.

^.)r

JOHN A. ROBERTS.

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until his ilcatii, at the age of sixty-eight years.
His wife, whose maiden name was Zilpha
Dunham, lived to the age of seventy-six
years. Mr. Marsiiall was a stanch abolition-
ist, and he was a Deacon of the Free Will
Baptist church; while his wife was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church. They
had five children, two of whom are living —
Samuel D. and Mrs. Berry. The others are:
Nathan I.., Eleazer D., and Hiram D.

Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Berry ten
ciiildren have been born, as follows: Nathan
L., who is deceased; Eleazer, also deceased;
George W. ; Frederick L. ; Frank E. ; Edwin
R.; Ella Z. ; Hiram M. ; Jennie E., who
died in i8S6, aged eighteen years; and Clara.
In politics Mr. Berry has always been identi-
fied with the Republican party since its forma-
tion. Both he and his wife are active mem-
bers of the Free Will Baptist church. Mr.
Berry is not connected with any of the social
organizations of this locality, but Mrs. Berry
is a member of the West Paris Grange.

rrs^l"ON. JOHN A. ROBERTS, of Nor-
way, Me., State Senator, recently
elected, is a gentleman of liberal
education, a lawyer by profession,
also a practical farmer, and has had much ex-
]5erience in the conduct of local public affairs
and in the leadership of social organizations.
He was born in Gardiner, Me., on September
lO, 1S52, son of John M. and Mary E.
(Potter) Roberts. His paternal grandfather
was Simon Roberts, who settled in Water-
boro. Me. He was a successful farmer; and
he also followed the trade of carpenter and
joiner, accumulating quite a large property.
He lived to be seventy-three years of age, but
his wife died at the age of sixty-nine. Their
children were: May, Esther, John M., Syl-
vester, Abigail, lilmira, and Betsy.

John M. Roberts, the father, afore-men-
tioned, was a native of Waterboro, born on
June 25, 1828. For some time in his youth
and early manhood he worked in a saw-mill,
eventually running a mill until his marriage,
when he bought a farm of one hundred and
sixty acres in Andover, Me. He built a new
house, remodellina; the barn: and he and his

worthy helpmeet are tliere living at this day
in the enjoyment of good health. They have
had four children — one who died an infant;
John A.; Arthur M.; and Augustus F., de-
ceased. Mr. John M. RoJDerts is a man of
prominence in the Republican party antl in
the Congregational church.

At the age of eighteen, after being gradu-
ated from the high school, John A. Roberts,
the special subject of the present sketch, en-
tered the Oxford Normal Institute at South
Paris, Me., and fitted for college, matriculat-
ing at Bowiloin College in 1873. He was
graduated in 1877. During his college
course and for several terms thereafter Mr.
Roberts taught school, subsequently reatling
law with M. T. Ludden, of Lewiston. Being
admitted to "the bar of Oxford County in the
fall of 1878, he began practice in Mechanic
Falls; but a year later, his health having
failed, he was obliged to seek life in the open
air. In 1880 Mr. Roberts bought the Henry
Pike place on the west side of Norway Lake.
Here he still lives and manages the farm,
though since 1890 he has been employed as
book-keeper in the oiifice of C. B. Cummings
& Sons. The estate is beautiful for situation,
and the buildings have been remodelled and
improved until it is a model country home.

Politically a Republican, Mr. Roberts has
shown marked ability in the management of
town affairs, officiating as attorney for two
years, as President of the public library, and
as superintendent of schools. In 1893 and
1894 he was a Representative to the State
legislature, and in the autumn of 1896 was
elected .State Senator, a merited honor, as he
is untloubtedly well qualified for a seat in the
upper house. Fraternally, he is promi-
nently connected with the order of Patrons of
Husbandry, having been Master of Norway
Grange for six years, being now Master also
of the county grange, and Overseer of the
State grange, elected in December, 1893, and
re-elected in 1895. In 1893 he was elected
President of the Oxford County Agricultural
Society, and in 1895 he was re-elected to this
important post.

On August 24, 1 88 1, Mr. Roberts was
united in marriage with Miss Carrie Pike, a
daughter of Henry and Sarah E. (P^orbes)

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Pike and a member cif one of the leading
families in the town. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts
have one child, Thaddeus B., who was born on
November 20, 1884, and is now a promising
lad of twelve vears.

Me.

-O.SEPH W. MINI'S, of West Farm-
ington, the proprietor and manager of
one iif the largest department stores in
Franklin County, was bom in Hartford,
March 6, 1850. He is a son of Hiram
H. and Fanny (Woodsome) Hines, a grandson
of Hollingsworth and Ruth (Hall) Hines, and
a great-grandson of Richard and Abigail (Jen-
kins) Hines. The children of his great-grand-
parents were — Hollingsworth, John, Thad-
deus, Polly, Abigail, Chitman, Prudy, and
Richard. Hollingsworth Hines was born in
Buckfield, ^le. , August 12, 1781 ; and his wife
was born in the same place, P^ebruary 17,
1788. Their children were — Enoch, Barnum,
Hiram H., I'hrebe, Calista, Mary, Joseph,
Sarah, P'mily, Clara, Zilpha, and Plnoch H.

Hiram H. Hines, a native of Bu.xton, Me.,
was a man of large stature. During his early
manhood he taught school in winter, working
at farming in the summer. Having saved a
considerable part of his earnings, he in time
was able to purchase a farm in Hartford. Soon
after he started a store, which he managed for
eighteen years. He then sold his Plartford
property, purchased a large farm in Buckfield,
and carried it on for fifteen years, conducting
a store for a part of this period also. At the
end of that time he retired from active work;
and, selling his farm, he purchased a home in
Lewiston, Me., where he quietly jjassed his
declining years, dying at the age of seventy-
seven. He was an active Republican. While
living in Hartford he was elected to the State
legislature, and ser\-ed the town as Selectman
and Treasurer. His wife met her death in
1867, the result of falling down stairs, being-
then sixty years old. Both were members of
the P'ree Will Bajitist church. They had
eight children, of whom two died in infancy.
The others were — Rufus, Nancy, Catherine,
Washington B., Joseph W. , and Calista E.

Joseph W. Hines received a good practical
education in the schools of Buckfield, at He-

bron Academy, and at Bates Commercial Col-
lege at Auburn, Me. He was subsequently
emjjloyed as clerk in his father's store until
March, 1876, when he formed a partnership
with A. ¥. Gammond ; and the)' purchased the
stock in trade of 1{. Searles, and started in
business in the building at West Farmington,
of which a lease was taken. The venture
proving very successful, they afterward bought
the building. In 1882 he purchased his part-
ner's interest; and, before the railroad was
l)uilt through the northern part of the county,
he had probably the most extensive produce
trade in this section. When the railroad
changed the conditions of traffic, he met the
change with a new line of goods to suit. He
now has a large and varied stock, comprising
groceries, dry goods, crockery, ready-made
clothing, boots and shoes, paints and oils — in
fact, everything found in a general store. He
occupies two buildings for the sale of his
goods, besides large storehouses. His trade
has increased greatly since he started, and he
has been obliged to enlarge the original
building.

On December 25, 1877, Mr. Hines was
united in marriage with Miss Emma H.
Dodge, daughter of Andrew and Jessie Dodge,
of West F"armington. Three children have
blessed his union — Hiram P^arl, Ralph G.,
and Joseph W. In politics Mr. Hines is a
Rejiublican. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason, and belongs to Maine Lodge, P"ranklin
Chapter, the council, and P'armington Com-
mandery. On religious subjects he holds lib-
era! views. He has a handsome residence on
Water Street, which was formerl)- known as the
Ira Russell place. The house has been re-
modelled since it came into his possession.

(^7X ^'^^^^^ CASWELL, a prosperous gen-
eral farmer of Waterford, now serving
as Third Selectman, is a native of
Winthrop, Me., born July 14, 1828.
Richard Caswell, his father, was born in
Mansfield, Mass., April 27, 1792, son of
Bowden Caswell, who was engaged in farm-
ing in Mansfield until his latter days, which
were spent with his son in Winthrop, Me.
Richard carried on farming in Winthro|) up

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t(j 1840, at which time he rcmiivcd to Mercer,
Me., and was there engaged in farming until
his death on July 20, 1858. Ho married
Miss Sarah Hodges, who, born in Norton,
Mass., March i, 1794, died August 3, 1865.
They were the parents of seven children,
namely: George, born April 25, 1820, who
died June 11, 1889; Almon, born April 28,
1S22, who died November 12, 1892; Har-
riett, born April 9, 1S24, now the wife of
Stephen Messer, of Madison, Me., who died
August 5, 1896; Charlotte, born April 17,
1826, who died February 13, 1847; Albert,
the subject of this sketch; Edward, born July
9, 1 83 1, living in Lynn, Mass., who married
Miss Nancy L. Sanford, now deceased; Susan
H., born March 23, 1835, who died Septem-
ber 16, 1868.

Albert Caswell receivetl his education in
the common schools of Mercer, Me. At the
age of twenty-one he went to Belgrade, Ken-
nebec County, to accept the position of station
agent on the Maine Central Railroad, which
he afterward held for nineteen years, giving
the utmost satisfaction. In 1872 he went to
Lewiston, Me., where he remained for four
years, conducting a shoe business. From
Lewiston in 1876 he came to VVaterford, and
settled on his present farm in the southern
part of the town. He now owns about sev-
enty-five acres of land, which he devotes to
general farming and dairying.

On July 10, 1854, while in Belgrade, Mr.
Caswell was united in marriage with Miss
Mary F. Swan, of Conway, N.H., where her
birth occurred May 8, 1831. She died March
18, 1864, leaving five children, two sons and
three daughters. These were: Ellen IVL,
born October 6, 1855, who is now the wife of
B. F. Yeaton, of Stark, Me. ; Charles Dud-
ley, born March 8, 1857, who married Miss
Fannie Dyer, and is now living in Holbrook,
Mass. ; Alice Josephine, born February 27,
1859, who died February 6, 1883; Albert
Danforth, born June 10, i860, who married
Miss Mary E. Varney, and is now living in
Lebanon, Me. ; and Mary Swan, born January
8, 1862, who married George Yeaton, and
lives in Ik'lgrade, Me. On November 6,
1864, Mr. Caswell was married a second time
to Miss Mary P. Swan, of Waterford, who was

born November 3, 1836, daughter of Thomas
and Eliza (Sanderson) Swan. Her father was
born in Waterford September 11, 1810, and
followed farming here throughout the active
years of his life. He also engaged in the
stone cutter's trade, and superintended the
building of the roads in Oxford County. He
ilied April 15, 1896, aged eighty-five years.
Mrs. Swan, who was born in Sweden, Me.,
and became a resident of Waterford while
young, died January 6, 1878. Mrs. Caswell's
children are: Byron Sanderson and Fannie
Eliza. The son, born Sejitember 24, 1865,
married Miss Sadie Low, of New Bedfiud,
Mass., and is now living in Boston, Mass. He
is an electrician of that city. l<"annie Eliza,
born October 7, 1866, conducts a dressmaking
shop in Harrison village, and makes her home
with her parents.

The citizens of VVaterford have shown their
appreciation of Mr. Caswell's sterling charac-
ter and ability by electing him to various po-
sitions of trust and responsibility. He now
holds the office of Third .Selectman, to which
he was elected in March, 1896. Li 1867 and
1868 he represented Belgrade in the .State
legislature. His political ]")rinciples are
Democratic. He is a member of Relief
Lodge, No. 108, A. F. & A. M., in Belgrade;
and of Oakland Chapter, Royal y\rch Masons,
of Oakland, Me.

TEl'HEN D. flUTCHINSON, a
venerable antl valued resitleiit of
■' ' Paris, bearing with ease antl dig-
nity his burden of fourscore and
four years, has the distinction of being tlie
oldest man actively engageil in business in
Oxford County. He was born -September 25,
181 2, in the neighboring town of Hebron,
son of Stephen and Asenath (Gilbert) Hutch-
inson, both natives of the State, born res|iec-
tively in Gorham and Leeds. His grand-
father, a native of Massachusetts, served in
the French and Indian War, and afterward
went to Nova Scotia, where he lived for a
time. Returning to the States, Grandfather
Hutchinson settled in Gorham, Cumberland
County, purchasing a tract of timber land,
from which he cleared a homestead. lie

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labored with the courage and perseverance
characteristic of the sturdy pioneer, and also
served as local preacher of the Free Will
Baptist denomination. His children were:
Josepli, Lydia, Samuel, Stephen, Betsey,
Daniel, Henry, John, and Rebecca.

Stephen Hutchinson was a farmer through-
out his life. When a young man he came
from Gorham to this county, first locating in
Hebron and afterward in Buckfield, where
he died at the age of seventy years. He was
an unswerving Democrat in politics. At first
his religious faith was that of the Free Will
Baptists, of whose church at Hebron he was
a member; but later he became a Universal-
ist, and belonged to that denomination at the
time of his death. He was Selectman for
many years, and also filled less important
oflices.' His first wife, Asenath (Gilbert)
Hutchinson, died at the age of forty-six
years, leaving six children — Stephen D.,
Chandler, Horace, Mark, Albion P., and Bet-
sey. Betsey died in infancy. Of the num-
ber, Stephen D. and Albion P. are the only
survivors. After the death of his first wife
the father married Jeanette Alden, daughter
of Benjamin Alden, a Quaker. By this mar-
riage there were four children — Jeanette,
Angusta, Vesta, and Aseneth. Of these the
eldest and youngest are living.

Stephen D. Hutchinson grew to man's estate
in Buckfield, obtaining his education in the
district school, and at home evenings by the
light of pitch pine knots. He first worked at
harvesting for one William Loring, receiving
a third of a dollar per day for his labor. In
1835 Mr. Hutchinson entered into a partner-
ship with H. H. Hutchinson, Jr., with whom
he conducted a mercantile business in Buck-
field for five years. In 1840 he leased a farm
in the same town, and for a few years carried
on general farming. At the same time he
added to his income by taking boarders in
the summer season and teaching school dur-
ing the winter terms. In 1845, having been
elected Registrar of Deeds of O.xford County,
he removed to Paris, the county seat, and for
eleven years retained that ofifice. He next
embarked in mercantile business at Paris Hill
with Frank Bates, with whom he was asso-
ciated two years. In 1S60 he established his

present store, which he has since successfully
conducted, building up a good local trade.
Mr. Hutchinson was married in June, 1835,
to Mary Atkinson, who, born in Alinot, Me.,
September 17, 1808, died at Paris Hill, July
18, 1874. She bore him five children — Mary
Annette, John R., Winfield S., George W.,
and Kate W. John R., who was born April
II, 1840, died March 2, 1896. Mr. Hutchin-
son has witnessed many changes throughout
this locality, and has contributed his full
share as a good citizen toward the development
of his native county. While living at Buck-
field he served as Town Clerk and as a member
of the School Committee. He is a firm ad-
herent of the Democratic party.

C\RLFS A. .Axn GEORGE W.
A'HIBLEY are well-known and ex-
ceedingly prosperous business men
of East Wilton, Franklin County,
Me., the former of the mercantile firm of
Whibley & Brown, and the latter an exten-
sive manufacturer of tinware ami a dealer in
stoves, hardware, paints, and oils. These
successful merchants are «ons of the late
George and Julia A. (Morrison) Whibley.

George Whibley, their father, who was for
some years engaged in trade here, was born in
London, England, August 2, i8ig. When a
young man he emigrated to the United States
with the view of obtaining a livelihood in a
country where the opportunities for acquiring
wealth were more equally distributed than in
the Old World. After his arrival on these
shores he served an apprenticeship at the car-
penter's trade, upon the completion of which
he began work as a journeyman in Skowhegan,
Somerset County, Me. Having no friends or
relatives in this country, he was obliged to
make his way wholly through his own ability
and perseverance, which he eventually suc-
ceeded in accomplishing by a strict adherence
to principles of honesty and the faithful dis-
charge of his duties as a workman; and when
he had thoroughly mastered the trade in every
detail he became ambitious to advance. Es-
tablishing himself in Skowhegan as a con-
tractor and builder, he soon had a large and
profitable business under his control; and dur-

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ing his residence in tliat tnwn he erected man}'
of the principal buildings standing there
to-day. As he advanced in years he grew stout
of figure, which prevented him from climbing,
as required in the work of construction ; and,
being obliged upon this account to relinquish
the pursuit of his calling, he settled in Madi-
son, where he was engaged in mercantile busi-
ness until i860. In that year, removing to
East Wilton, he bought of John Perley the
building now owned and occiqiied as a place of
business by his son, Charles A. ; and ]nitting
in a full stock of goods he conducted iluring
his remaining days the largest general store in
this section. His death took place July 21,
1879. His wife, Julia A. Morrison, who was
born December i, 181 5, was a daughter of
Mary and John Morrison, of Farmington. She
became the mother of four children, as follows:
Elizabeth, who was born November iS, 1846,
and died September 13, 1866; George \V. and
Charles A., who are the subjects of this
sketch ; and Amerilla, who was born May 8,
1857, and died September 30 of the same year.
Mrs. Julia A. Morrison Whibley died Novem-
ber 13, 1895, at the age of eighty years.

Charles A. Whibley was born in Skowhe-
gan, Me., November 3, 1852. After finishing
his education he began working as a clerk in
the store, remaining in chat capacity until his
father's death, when he purchased the business,
which he carried on alone for about si.xteen
years. In 1.895 he formed a ])artnership with
E. B. Brown, his present business associate.
The firm of Whibley & Brown carry the
largest stock of general merchandise, including
groceries, grain, feed, crockery, and other
wares, to be found in this section.

Charles A. Whibley wedded Rose E. Brown,
daughter of Almon H. and Sylvia (Gould)
Brown. By his honorable business methods
Mr. C. A. Whibley has gained the confidence
of his numerous patrons, and has attained
merited success. Besides his mercantile in-
terests he owns one-half of the late Fred Gor-
don farm. He is a member of Williamson
Lodge, Independent Oi'der of Odd Fellows, is
independent in politics and liberal in his. relig-
ious views.

George W. Whibley, the elder of the two
brothers, was born in East Madison, Me., De-

cember j8, 1X48. He accpiired betimes a
good practical education, and while still in his
youth began to learn the carpenter's trade.
Not liking that craft, howe\er, he relinquished
it and learned the trade of a tinsmith; and
after working as a journeyman for ten years he
bought the .Macomber place in this town,
where he fittetl up a small shop. Manufactui-
ing tinware during the winter, he travelled
through the countr\' with a jiedler's team,
selling" it in the summer season. Two years
later be rented the luastman store, which he
stocked with a full line of stoves, general hard-
ware, paints, oils, and \'arious other articles of
merchandise, in which he has a good trade.
Aside from this he manufactures tin pails and
pans, keejaing a team upon the road ; and he
also is engaged in setting up furnaces and con-
ducting a general plumbing and roofing busi-
ness.

George W. Whibley married Elzoda Ma-
comber, daughter of David and Hannah G.
(Allen) Macomber, highly reputable and well-
to-do farming peo]:)le of this town. Two chil-
dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Whil>-
ley, namely: Clai'cnce M., who died at the
age of si.x montlis; and (ieorge M., whose
birth occurred on (Jctober 13, 1881.

|^y^:RSIAN V. EVERETT, of Hebron,
' ' a veteran of the Civil War, now en-
gaged in general farming antl fruit
growing, was born in Hebron, July
5, 1847, son of Hiram M. I':verett. Mr.
I'Lverett is a descendant of John I'^verett, a
Frenchman by birth, who accompanied Gen-
eral Lafayette to America, and served during
the Revolutionary War in the Continental
army, losing an arm in the struggle. John
Everett afterward settled among the pioneers
of Norway, Me., where he died at an advanced
age. His wife, who was probably the first
school teacher in Norway, reared three chil-
dren — John, Su.sannah, and Peter. Peter
Everett, the grandfather of Persian V., was
born in Norway, and was for many years a
prosperous farmer of that town. His last days
were passed in Poland, Me., where he died at
the age of seventy-four years. He married
Charlotte Parkhurst, who reached the age of

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sixty-three years, and had eleven children,
five of whom are living.

Hiram Millett Everett was born in Norway,
November 2, 1818. While still young he
learned the cooper's traile, which he followed
during the winter season until he was twenty-
six years old, spending the summer season at
farm labor. With his savings he then bought
his father's property in Norway. Afterward
he resided for short intervals in Poland, East
Hebron, and Minot Corners. He learned the
trade of a shoemaker in the last-named place,
and subsequently worked at it in Hebron,
where also, having bought a farm, he culti-
vated it until his death in April, 1893. In
politics he was a Republican, and he held for
several years the offices of Constable and Col-
lector. In religious faith he was a Baptist.
Of his four children the only survivor is Per-
sian \'., the subject of this sketch. The
others were: Anna Delphina, Justin, and
Anna Bethany. The mother is still living,
and resides in Hebron.

Persian \'. Everett passed his boyhood in
Hebron. At the age of seventeen, while
attending the academy, he enlisted as a pri-
vate in Company A, Thirtieth Regiment,
Maine Volunteers, with which he served dur-
ing the last years of the Rebellion. After he
was honorably discharged in 1865, he resumed
his studies at the academy for a time, and
then engaged as a general storekeeper in
Hebron. At the end of three years he sold
his business; and, after working in a shoe
factory for six and a half years, he went to
Auburn, Me., where he engaged in the same
business. In 1879 he moved his family to his
present farm. He spent about fourteen years
in Auburn, after which he returned to Hebron,
where he has since resided permanently. As
a general farmer he has been quite prosperous.
He now owns one hundred and fifty acres of
fertile land, which he devotes to tiairying and
fruit growing, while he makes a specialty of
breeding fine horses.

On February 19, 1868, Mr. Everett wedded
Ella H. Haskell, of Paris, Me., daughter of
Joel and Margaret D. Haskell. i\Irs. Everett
lias had four children, as follows: Minnie,
who married O. W. Fernald, resides in Ber-
lin, N. H., and has one daughter, Marion P.;

Ernest L., who died at the age of two years;
Charles H. and Margaret L. , who both re-
side with their parents. In politics Mr.
Everett is a Republican. He is a comrade of
Post No. 3, Grand Army of the Republic, of
Mechanic Falls. Both he and Mrs. Everett
attend the Baptist church, of which she is
a member.

■JiYOSKJ'H TREFETHEN, one of Wilton's
able farmers and a well-known citizen,
was born on Monhegan Island, Me.,
September 22, 1833, son of Henry and
Ann (Baxter) Trefethen. The family is of
French origin, and descends from early set-
tlers upon the coast of Maine, who were mostly
seafaring men and fishermen.

Mr. Trefethen's father was reared a fisher-
man, and in early manhood he engaged in fit-
ting out vessels for the cod-fishing banks. He
later became the owner of several vessels, and,
erecting a fish-house on ]\Ionhegan Island,
where he received, cured, and prepared the
fish for market, conducted a very profitable
business for many years. His death occurred
at the age of eighty. He was three times mar-
ried, and by his union with .Ann liaxter, his
third wife, had three children, of whom the
first-born, a daughter, died in infancy. The
others were: Joseph, the subject of this
sketch ; and Abraham Baxter. Mr. Tref-
ethen's mother married for her second hus-
band George Eegrow, and, removing to Wil-
ton, died here at the age of about seventy
years.

Joseph Trefethen, the elder of her two sons,
was reared and educated in Wilton. In young
manhood he bought a farm of one hundred and
thirty acres, which he improved; but after oc-
cupying it for some time he exchanged it for
a smaller piece of property located nearer the
village. This farm he has also improved,
increasing its productiveness, and making va-
rious alterations in the buildings; and in con-
nection with tilling the soil he has worked at
the carpenter's trade to some extent.

On March 12, 1854, Mr. Trefethen was
united in marriage with Susan B. Webster,
who was born in Wilton, June 29, 1831,
daughter of Thomas E. and Lois (Scales)

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Webster. Mrs. Trefethen's father was a
native of VVeare, N. H. He settled in Wilton
when a young man and became one of the most
energetic and progressive farmers of his day.
The present Webster homestead, which is one
of the best estates in town, was cleared and
improved by him. He was a man of much
political prominence and social worth. He
died in 1.S70, aged sixty-three years ; and his
wife died at the age of fifty-four years. .She
was the mother of six children, namely: -Susan
B. , who is now Mrs. Trefethen ; Annie M. ;
Henry, who is a leading farmer of this town,
and occupies the homestead; \'olina M. ; \'a-
nander; and Octavia C.

Mr. and Mrs. Trefethen have six children,
as follows: Henry E., Professor of Languages
at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill,
who was born June 10, 1855, married Alice
Porter, and has six children — Evangeline,
Henry P., M. Louise, Webster, Ruth, and an
infant; ImccI E., a resident of Wilton, who
was born March 19, 1857, married Addie M.
Bump, and has seven children — LaviniaA.,
Verner A., Harry J., Miriam E., Leon 15. ,
Lawrence W., and Irene E. ; PLlla S. , who was
born November 7, 1858; Annie, who was
born March 22, 1861, and is now the widow
of C. L. Snow, who died in i8g6; William J.,
M.D., a graduate of the Baltimore Medical
School, who was born October 20, iH6(\ mar-
ried Sarah Smith, and is now a practising
physician of New Portland, Me. ; and Mel-
vina, who was born January 12, 1871, married
Herbert J. I'.llsworth, and has two children —
Vivian and Jennie.

In politics Mr. Trefethen is a Republican,
and in his religious views he is liberal. He
is a member of Williamson Lodge, Indepen-
dent Order of Odd P\dlows, and of the en-
campment.

^HARLES T. MELLEN, who was a
lifelong resident of the town of Paris,
was born at Paris Hill, November
20, 1820, son of Alanson and Mary
(Bisco) Mellen. Alanson Mellen was born in
Hopkinton, Mass. In his early manhood he
removed to this town, where he was engaged
in mercantile ])ursuits many years. He sub-

sequently made his home on Paris Hill, where
he died December 9, 1851. I*'or more than
thirty consecutive years he was Registrar of
Deeds, and he was Town Clerk for a long
term of office. In religion he was very lib-
eral, while in politics he was a stanch Demo-
crat. His wife, Mary, who spent her life in
this town, and died March 12, 1826, had six
children, as follows: Leonard, born in 181:;,
who died in 1843; Jonas B., born in 1814,
who died in 1824: Eunice E. , born in 1816,
who died in 1893; Mary M., born in 1818, who
died in 1844; Charles T. , the subject of this
brief sketch; and George L., born in 1823,
who is the only one now living.

Charles T. Mellen grew to man's estate in
his native town, acquiring his education in
the public schools. He worked with his
father in the Registry of Deeds for several
seasons, and was subsequently Postmaster at
Paris for several years. In politics he was an
active member of the Democratic party and
in his religious views was liberal.

Mr. Mellen was married June 7, 1855, to
Lucretia Jackson, who was born in the village
of Paris, September 29, 1S24, daughter of
Joseph and Lucretia (Brett) Jackson. Her
paternal grandfather, Lemuel Jackson, was the
first person to settle and erect a house on Paris
Hill. He cleared a good homestead, on which
he and his wife, previously Miss Willis, spent
their last days in the ]ieaceful occupations of
farm life. Joseph Jackson, who was also a
farmer by occupation, after his marriage
bought the farm where his son's widow, Mrs.
Hiram Jackson, now lives. Here he and his
wife spent the rest of their lives, he dying at
the age of fifty-five years, and she at the ven-
erable age of eighty-six. He was liberal in
his religious belief, while she was a member
of the Baptist church. They had four chil-
dren — Eliza, Hiram, Lucretia, and Isabelle.
Lucretia, now Mrs. Mellen, is the only sur-
vivor. Mr. and Mrs. Mellen have had two
children — Charles J. and Mary I. Charles
J., born p-ebruary 20, 1857, was engaged in
teaching until his accidental death by drown-
ing while skating, December 17, 1881.
Marv L, born May 2, i860, has always lived
at home. She was employed in the Registry
of Deeds for thirteen years, but is now Post-

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mistress at Paris, which ajipointment she re-
ceived in November, 1S93. The father died
February 21, 1893. A man of sterling, up-
right character, he was highly esteemed
throughout the district. Mrs. Mellen and her
daughter attend the Universalist chtirch.

4^ 9 ^■»

^/T I'l''^^'-*-'^ S. BEAN. — Striking in-
stances of individual enterprise set-
ting in motion wide circles of in-
dustrial life are found here and
there in the State of Maine. The town of
West liethel, Me., largely owes its present
[irosperity to Mr. A. S. Bean, a self-made
man, who has developed the lumber industry
here to colossal proportions, established a
large and prosperous general store, stimulated
the building interest by erecting cottages for
his employees, and increased the attractions of
the place as a summer resort by buikling a
tirst-class hotel, beautifulh- situated. Be-
sides these local interests Mr. Bean is con-
nected with financial enterprises in other parts
of the State, and what he touches seems
always to succeed. He was born in Bethel,
January iS, 1846, and is a son of the late
Daniel F. and Polly P. (White) Bean.

The Ik'ans are one of the old established
families of New England. Daniel F. Bean,
who was a native of Bethel, spent his entire
life in this town, attaining the advanced age
of eighty-four years. He was a well-to-do
farmer, and dealt largely in cattle. His wife,
who was born in Gilead, this county, died at
the age of seventy-five. • Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
F. Bean were members of the Congregational
church. They were the parents of six chil-
dren, namely: Roy, who died at the age of
fifty; Emily J., who was called to rest in her
thirty-si.xth year; A. S., the subject of this
sketch; P'annie E., wife of Thomas B. Mor-
rill, of Charlestown, Mass. ; Susie E., wife of
Fred W. Perkins, of Worcester, Mass. ; and
Daniel F.

A. S. Bean accjuired a common-school edu-
cation in his native town. He displayed
some ability as a financier in his youth, man-
aging quite a business in eggs and poultry;
and when he was twenty-one years old he en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits in West Bethel.

After trying this a year he went to California,
but six months' residence in that State de-
cided him that he could do better at home.
Returning, he jnu-chased the store in West
Bethel which is now under his charge, and
which under his able management has aggre-
gate sales of over fifty thousand dollars a year.
He owns twenty thousand acres of timber land
in this vicinity, on which are seven mills,
four run by steam, three by water. Of these
five are birch-mills and manufacture spool
stock, and two are saw-mills. He sells quan-
tities of timber from his land for outside
manufacture, cutting in one winter four mill-
ion feet, two million of which he shipped to
Scotland, and eight thousand cords of pulp
wood for the Rumford Falls mills. He has
lately shipped five million feet of spool stock
to Scotland. He owns mills in different parts
of this county, and has an interest in a bobbin-
mill in Shelburne, N.H. Mr. Bean has a
large number of men in his enii^lo}'; and the
cottages which he has built, uniformly
painted, make a very pretty village at West
Bethel. About three miles away is a charm-
ing little pond at the foot of Pine Mountain,
and here Mr. Bean has made such improve-
ments as have developed the place into a beau-
tiful summer resort. He owns several large
farms, including three hundred acres of grass
land, from which he annually cuts hundreds
of tons of hay; and he has the best farmer's
barn in Oxford County.

Mr. Bean was married November 14, 1871,
to Miss Lucinda Mason, of Gilead, this
county, daughter of Moses and Martha
(Walker) Mason. It is a notable fact that
the wife's influence has much to do with mak-
ing or marring a man's career. Mrs. Bean is
always alive to her husband's best interests,
and her intelligent co-operation smooths the
road to success.

In politics Mr. Bean favors the Republican
side. He has been Postmaster of West Bethel
for twenty years, holding his office under both
Republican and Democratic administrations.
Though not a church member, he is in sym-
pathy with religious enterprises, to which he
liberally contributes. There has never been
a church in West Bethel, the efforts, made
]3rincipall_\' b\- some devoted Christian women,

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to raise funds to build one having been unsuc-
cessful; but the need of a house of worship
will soon be met, for Mr. Bean is erecting a
substantial edifice, which he intends to pre-
sent when finished to the struggling little so-
ciety. One of the wealthiest men in the
county, he does not hoard the jiroperty which
he has worked hard to accumulate, but contrib-
utes freely toward all worthy enter[5rises;
and his large-heartedness and fine social qual-
ities have drawn to him manv friends.

ILLIAM M. GREENE, who until
1 892 had been an esteemed farmer
of Norway township for more than
twoscore years, was born February 11, i<Si9,
in Portland, Me., son of Captain William M.
and Hannah R. (Gould) Greene, both natives
of Cumberland County. His father was for
many years captain of a vessel, but he eventu-
ally settled in Portland, where both he and
his wife spent their closing years.

Mr. Greene was bred and educated in Port-
land, and was there employed for some years
as a clerk in a grocery store. Inheriting his
father's love for the sea, he subsequently
became master of a vessel. He was engaged
in seafaring for more than thirty years, during
which he visited many parts of the globe. He
was shipwrecked twice, the last time in De-
cember, 1S48, when he lost "everything."
Not discouraged by this misfortune, however,
he continued in his calling until 1850, some
two years after his marriage. Mr. Greene
then came to Oxford County, locating in
North Norway. Here he purchased land,
erected a row of buildings, and was afterward
engaged in tilling the soil and working at
the carpenter's trade for five years. Moving
in 1855 to the western part of the town, he
bought a farm, on which he lived for twenty-
two years, successfully engaged in agricult-
ure. Selling out there, he bought the pres-
ent home farm occupied by his widow and her
son, and here lived until his death, which
occurred July 21, 1892. This farm is located
near the centre of the town, and contains
forty-two acres of land, well suited for grazing
and dairy purposes. Mr. Greene was a stanch
adherent of the Republican ])arty. He was

a member of the Congregational church at Nor-
way Centre, to which his widow still belongs.
On August 27, 1848, Mr. Greene was mar-
ried to Miss Abiah L., born in Norway, Jan-
uary 26, 1829, daughter of Edmund and
Annie P. (Lovejoy) l-'rost. Her parents
were esteemed farming peojjle of Norway,
where they spent their last years. Her
mother came here from Andover, Mass.,
where she was born and educated. Mr.
Greene's children are: I'^rank 'P., born No-
vember 14, 1849, who married Mary A.
Parker, of Waterford, this county, and is now
a carpenter in Norway; Herbert W., born
June 15, 1855, who married Alfretta Keith,
and is now engaged in the grocery business
at Boston, Mass. ; lulmond V. C, born May
22, 1859; and-I'LIfannah, born April 25, 1S68,
now living at home, who is a trained nurse.
Edmond F. C. Greene has had charge of the
home property for some years, his father's
health having been jjoor a long time before
his demise. He carries on general farming,
paying a good deal of attention to his dairy.
He sells cream throughout the county, and
likewise deals largely in stock. In politics
he is a Republican, and has held several of
the minor offices of the townshi]^. He is a
member of the grange at Norway village, and
is an active worker in the Second Congrega-
tional Church. On the maternal side he is
descended from a Revolutionary hero, his
mother's grandfathei', Jacob Frost, who re-
ceived a bullet wound in the hip at one of the
battles in that famous struggle, and was after-
ward pensioned.

^OHN STE\'ENS, one of the worthy and
respected residents of the tcnvn of
Paris, where he has lived for nearly
thirty years, was born January 22,
1818, in China, Kennebec County, son of
Daniel and Almira (Stevens) Stevens. His
grandfather, Thomas Stevens, served three
years in the Revolutionary army, participating
in the battles at Brandywine, Monmouth, and
other engagements. Thomas subsequently
removed to this county, locating at Paris,
where for the rest of his life he worked at
the carpenter's trade and at farming.

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Daniel Stevens, a son of Thomas, was
born in Worcester, Mass., where his father
was then living. He came with his parents
to Paris, where he resided in his early life.
After receiving; a j^eneral education he studied
me.liciuc, and in due time began the practice
(if it. Shortly after he settled in China, Me.,
which was then in its infanc)', and was there
engaged in his profession until his death, at
the age of si.xty years, having been successful
and popular as a physician. He was a public-
sjiirited and patriotic citizen, and served in
the War of 1812. A man of jirominence in
his adopted town, he was a Selectman and
Trustee of the Academy. He was an active
member of the Baptist church, in which he
frequently preached. His first wife, Almira,
who was born in Paris, died in China, aged
thirty-two years. She was a daughter of Cyp-
rian Stevens, a pioneer physician of Paris,
and one of its prominent early settlers. His
second wife, whose maiden name was Sally
Stimpson, lived to the age of forty-two years.
Daniel Stevens became the father of seven
children by his first marriage and of five
more by his second. (3f the whole number
two are living, namely: John, the subject of
this sketch; and Thomas, a ranchman of
California. Of the others, four reached ma-
turity; namelv, -Stowell, Harriet, Mar\-, and
Jane.

John Stevens remained under the jiarental
roof-tree until nineteen years of age. He then
went to Old Town, Penobscot County, where
he obtained employment at cutting logs in
winter and working in a saw-mill when not
otherwise engaged, his compensation being
ten dollars a month. He subsequently worked
for other people for twenty-five years before
settling in life for himself. Being prudent
and economical, he accumulated some money,
with which in 1863 he bought fifty acres of
land in China, where he carried on mi.xed
husbandry four years. Coming then to Paris,
he purchased his present farm, containing sev-
enty-five acres of land. Here he has made
many of the improvements, and has since
carried on general farming and fruit growing
with marked success, of recent years hiring
most of the manual work done.

Mr. Stevens was married in November,

1866, to Mrs. Sarah (Buck) Merrill, who was
born in Norway, this county, December 18,
1824. She is a daughter of Jared M. and
Sally (Stevens) Buck. By a [srevious mar-
riage, contracted with Charles Merrill, who
died, she had one child, Charles D. Merrill,
v/ho died at the age of twenty-two years. The
•only child born to Mr. and Mrs. Stevens was
a girl, Sarah L. , who lived but seven years.
In politics Mr. Stevens is a stanch Republi-
can, while regarding religious matters he
holds liberal views. He has served his fel-
low-townsmen in several of the minor offices
of his district, and is a member of the South
Paris Grange.

UGKNE M. DUDLEY, the enterprising
and popular proprietor of the Lake
House at Waterford Plat, was born
in Bridgton, this State, June i, 1854. He
is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Earle) Dud-
ley, both natives of Maine, the former born
in Waterford, the latter in Plymouth. Joseph
Dudley lived in his native town until after
his marriage with Elizabeth Earle, when he
established a home in Bridgton. He was a
competent farmer, and was engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits in Bridgton up to the time of
his death, August 20, 1876. His wife passed
away in September, 1890. They had seven
children, namely: Ada, the wife of Sumner
Spurr, now of Otisfield, Me. ; Eugene M.,
the subject of this sketch; Mary, in North
Bridgton ; Walter and Albert, residents of
Harrison, Me.; Nellie, now deceased; and
P'red, residing in Hollis, N.ll.

Eugene M. Dudley received a common-
school education in his native town. At the
age of fourteen he obtained employment as a
weaver in a woollen-mill of Bridgton. Sub-
sequently he set about learning the tinsmith's
trade in Cornish, Me.; but, after six months
of his apprenticeship had expired, he took a
position in a harness shop, where he continued
employed about three years. He then opened
a harness shop of his own in Harrison, Me.,
where he conducted a successful business for
ten years, accumulating sufficient money to
start in hotel keeping. He did this by pur-
chasing the Lake House, an old and famous

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hostelry. Since then he has made many im-
provements in the building and surroundings,
developing the place into a model summer
hotel. While it is open all the year round,
its most prosperous season is the vacation
time. Mr. Dudley has a good livery in con-
nection with the hotel. He also owns a farm
of seventy-five acres, one of the best estates
in the locality. An alert and enterprising-
man, one who does well whatever he under-
takes, he also seems to have the enviable
faculty of making and keeping friends.
Under his management the Lake House has
attained a remarkable degree of prosperity,
and his fame as a host has spread through
Oxford and Cumberland Counties.

Mr. Dudley was married February 14,
1882, to Judith C, daughter of Edwin Jack-
son, a farmer now living in North Bridgton,
Me. Mrs. Jackson died some time since.
Mrs. Dudley, who is a native of Springfield,
Me., has two children — Guy E., born March
II, i8iS6; and Annie L., born October 6,
1889. In pcditics Mr. Dudley is a stanch
Democrat. He belongs to. one social organ-
ization, the Independent Order of Odd Fc]-
lows, being a member of Ossipee Lodge, No.
54, of Cornish, Me. He is one of the self-
made men of 0.\ford County, having won his
way from a hard-working boyhood to a matu-
rity of established prosperity.

)/lLLIAM A. BOYINGTON, a well-
i! known and resjiected resident of
New Sharon, Franklin County, was
born in Stark, Me., November 30, 1828, son
of John S. and Jane (Witham) Boyington.
His grandfather was William Boyington, a
native of Wiscasset, Lincoln County, from
which place he removed to New .Sharon abt)ut
the year 17S0, being one of the first three
settlers of the place. Here the grandfather
bought about one hundred and si.xty acres of
land, built a log cabin, and cleared a patch of
about ten acres, wliich he forthwith proceeded
to cultivate. His children were: Jeremiah,
William, Joshua, John .S. , Benjamin, Re-
becca, Susan, Sally, and Martha.

John S. Boyington was born in New .Sharon
in 1 80 1, and was educated at the common

schools of the town. ^\t a maturer age he
learned the trade of barn building, and this
he carried on tor a numbei" of years in connec-
tion with larming. When twenty-four years
old he went to Stark, antl there bought a farm.
I'his he sold in 1837, and mo\-ed back to his
native town of New .Sharon, where he pur-
chased annther farm of sixty acres in extent.
Here he was engaged in general farming for
the rest of his life, which closed in 1855,
when he was fifty-foLU' years old.

He was joinetl in matrimony with Jane
Witham, a daughter of Jesse Witham, of Fair-
field, Me., and by her became the father of
eight children, six of whom are living. They
were — Jesse, William A., Samuel, Leonard,
Elizabeth, I\Iary J., Perluma, and R. Frances.

William A." J5oyington spent bis early boy-
hood on his father's farm in -Starks, and re-
ceived his early education in the same town.
He went with his father to New .Sharon in
1837, and attended school there until he was
eighteen years of age. 15eginning then, he
worked with his father on the home farm until
he attained his majority- After this he was
employed on adjoining farms and in logging-
camps until he was twenty-four. After his
marriage he took the farm of Almond Saunders
for a year, at the end of which he moved with
his wife to Lewiston. Here he worked for
another year, hauling wood on contract from
the forest with his own oxen. During his
second sunimer at Lewiston he hel]3ed to haul
the stone with which the new coint-housc and
jail of the town were built. A short while
after he returned to New Sharoi-i, where he
bought a farm of forty-five acres, which he
successfully conducted for five \'ears. Then
he sold it, and bought the place where he now
lives. He tore down all the old barns that
stood ujion this property, and built more com-
modious ones. He also made considerable
impro\'ements in the residence, including the
flagging of his cellars and laying pipes from
his well into the house. The place is now
one of the finest and most modern estates in
this part of the county. He has carried 01-1
general farming for many years. Owing to the
fact that he has removed all rocks and stones
from the land, the farm is easily worked. Pie
owns eight head of handsome cattle and a large

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flock of sheep, fie also moves and builds
barns, a business at which he is an expeit, and
which brings him a good income.

(_)n November 30, 1853, his twenty-fifth
birthday, Mr. l^oyington married Miss Ada-
line .S. Gordon, daughter of Ithiel Gordon, a
farmer of New .Sharon. Like his father he is
a Republican in politics. His religious faith
is that of the Free Will Baptists. He has
been a notoriously hard-working man all his
life, and all his success is due solely to his
own efforts.

SA PACKARD, a well-known farmer
and carpenter, residing in Greenwood
township, was born here, June 19,
1830, son of Asa Packard, Sr., and
FLleanor (Bradbury) Packard. His paternal
grandfather, James Packard, who came from
Bridgewater, Mass., was the first of the family
to settle in this locality. After carrying on
farming here for a few years. Grandfather
Packard removed to the adjoining town of
Norway, where he spent his last days.

Asa Packard, Sr., was born and reared in
Oxford County. In his younger days he
worked at the shoemaker's trade, but afterward
turned his attention to agriculture, buying
the farm on which his son Asa now lives.
He subsequently moved to Harrison, Cumber-
land County, where he died June 17, 1870.
His wife, in maidenhood Eleanor Bradbury,
who was a native of Norway, died in 1857.
She bore him ten children, namely: James,
who died in infancy; Malinda, who died at
the age of seventy years; James (second), now
engaged in farming in Norway; Nathaniel
Morrill, who died at the age of twenty-three
years; Charles, also deceased; Amos, an
attorney-at-law, who resides in Baltimore,
Md. ; Asa and Eleanor, twins, the former
being the subject of this sketch, and the
latter the wife of Henry Porter, of Norway
township; George, who lives in Bridgton,
Me. ; and Henry C, w-ho is a resident of
Harrison, this State.

Asa Packard acquired his education in the
common schools of his native town. In his
early manhood he worked as a farm laborer
in Paris township. Going thence to Hing-

ham, Mass., he was employed with his father
for a time in that village. Soon after his re-
turn to Greenwood he married and settled on a
farm, where for ten years he was successfully
engaged in agriculture. He then bought his
present estate, containing one hundred acres
of land. It lies in Norway and Greenwood
townships, the residence being within the
limits of Greenwood. Mr. Packard carries on
general farming and dairying, and is some-
what interested in poultr)' raising. He
learned the carpenter's trade when a young
man, and has worked at it more or less
during his life. In 1878 he built his jiresent
comfortable and convenient dwelling. Polit-
ically, he is a strong advocate of Democratic
])rinciples. He belongs to the Independent
Order of Odd P'ellow^s of West Paris and to
the Patrons of Husbandry of Norway.

Mr Packard was married I'ebruary 27,
1855, to Miss Sarah E. Doughty, who was
born March 25, 1835, in Greenwood township.
Her parents. Major Charles and Jemima
(Young) Doughty, were lifelong residents of
this town, where they were engaged in farm-
ing. Mr. and Mrs. Packard have four chil-
dren; namely, Frank .S., Emma, Dora A.,
and Edward D. Frank S., born April 21,
1857, married Lizzie Fogg, of Norway, and
they live on the home farm; Emma, born
March 7, 1859, is the wife of P'rank H. Hill,
a barber in West Paris, and has one child,
Dora Irene; Dora A., born No\-ember 16,
1 86 1, died at the age of eighteen years; and
Edward D., born February 27, 1863, married
Elvesa D. Curtis, and they also, with their
little son, Elmer D., live on the home farm.

TOWNE, who has been
closely identified with the agricult-
ural interests of Norway township
throughout the greater part of his
acti\e life, was born February 17, 1829, on
the farm where he now resides. His father,
Daniel Towne, was a son of Peter Towne,
who was a farmer and a lifelong resident of
Andover, Mass. During the Revolutionary
War Peter Towne was a teamster in the army,
and received a serious injury while serving
in that ca]mcity.

BlOGRAPil IC AL KKVl K\V

Daniel Townc was born and eilucatcd in
Andovcr, from which place he came to Ox-
ford County in 1808. lie settled in the
northern part of Norway township, where he
cleared and improved a homestead, worked at
the blacksmith's trade, and lived here until
his death in 1859. He married Susan Gur-
ney, a native of Minard, Me., who, having
survived him a few years, died in l'"ebruary,
1865. Their eight children were: Daniel G.,
who was a successful physician of Lowell,
Mass., and died in Lovell, Me.; I^'annie, who
is the widow of P. D. Judkins, and lives at
Newtonville, Mass.; Abiah, who is the widow
of Louis Frost, and resides in Lowell, Mass. ;
Honor P., who married JoLd W. Chadbourn,
of Waterford, Me., both now deceased; Jona-
than G., who married Abbie Crockett, also
both deceased; Ksliburn !'., now a resident of
Mississippi, who married the late Caroline
Dresser, of Lovell, this county; Rollin, the
subject of this sketch; and Andrew Jackson,
who died at the age of ten years.

Rollin Towne acquired his education in the
district schools of Norway, and on the home
farm obtained a practical knowledge of agri-
culture. On attaining his majority he went
to Milford, Mass., where he worked at farming
for a year. His services being needed at
home, he returned there; and from that time
until the death of his parents he cared for
them, at the same time conducting the farm.
He has since assumed possession of the home-
stead property, which contains seventy acres
of land, and is in a fine condition, owing to
his diligent and persevering efforts. Mr.
Towne did much of the manual labor himself,
working early and late, until 1880, since when
rheumatism has obliged him to depend largely
upon hired help. He has been a stanch Re-
publican since casting his first Presidential
vote for Franklin Pierce in 1852. He has
never been an office-seeker, but has served in
several of the less important town, offices,
l^oth he and his wife attend the Congrega-
tional church near their home.

On September 26, 1852, Mr. Towne mar-
ried Miss Nancy J. Hayes, who was born Jane
7, 1830, in Poland, Me., which was also the
birthplace of her parents, Isaac and Martha
(Swett) Hayes. After working for many

years at the carpenter's trade in Poland, where
he resided until '1864, Mr. Hayes purchased
a farm in Greenwood towushij), and lived there
for ten years. Coming then to Norway, he
was engaged in general farming for some time.
Subsequently he removed to Lewiston, this
State, and there lived with a daughter until
his demise in 1884. He had surviveil his
wife, who passed away in 18S0. Mr. and
Mrs. Towne have si.\ children, namel)-:
Charles H., who married Lillian Bai'stow, and
is overseer of the Bates Mills at Lewiston;
George R.. who died at the age of twenty-
four years; Carrie I., who is the wife of Sam-
uel J. Caldwell, the manager of a large stable
at South Boston, Mass. ; Fannie !•'., the wife
of Horace G. Dinsmore, an enterprising-
farmer of Norway township; William P""rank,
who married Nellie Merrill, of Gardiner, Me.,
and is now running a milk wagon in Arling-
ton, Mass. ; and Emma E., the vvife of Gilbert
LJpton, of Tulare, Cal., where he has a large
ranch.

^^HARLES E. PERKINS, an enter-
I kJ prising young farmer of New Sharon,
V^lj, was horn at the family homestead

in this town, July 16, 1866, son of
Samuel F. and Annette (.Smith) Perkins. His
grandfather, .Samuel Perkins, who was a native
of Woolwich, Me., came here from that town
and bought the land now owned by his grand-
son. This property Samuel cleared and im-
proved into a good farm, which he cultivated
with industry during the rest of his active
period. His last days were spent in this town,
where he died in i86g, aged sevent}'-nine
years.

.Samuel V. Perkins, who was born in Wool-
wich, June I, 1825, accomjianied his parents
to New Sharon, being then fifteen years old.
Beginning at the age of seventeen, he assisted
on the farm until 1862. In that year he en-
listed as a private in the Twenty-eighth Regi-
ment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, and after-
ward served one year in the Civil War. After
returning to civil life he resumed his former
occupation. At his father's death he suc-
ceeded to the homestead, and conducted it
prosperously until a year previous to his death,

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when he sold it to his son and retired from
active labor. He tiled I'ebniary 27, 1S89,
aged sixty-four years. In politics he acted
with the Reimblican party, while his religious
beliefs were those nf a liberal. His wife,
Annette, whom he married December 21,
1863, was born in New Sharon, June ti, 1836,
daughter of William and Mary (Dyer) Smith,
both natives of this town. She became the
mother of three children, as follows: Mary
C, born October 11, 1864, who married Cory-
don Bailey, of Industry, and has three children
— Charles, Leon, and Clarence; Charles E.,
the subject of this sketch; and Lura M., born
August 25, 1873, who married Frank M. Teb-
betts, of Norway, Me., and has one son, Ray.
Mr. Perkins's mother is still living, and re-
sides with her son at the homestead.

Charles K. Perkins was educated in the
schools of New Sharon, and was reared to farm
life. He has always resided at the homestead,
which he now owns, having purchased it from
his father, as already stated. The farm is
well located, and takes rank among the most
productive in this part of the county. Besides
raising the usual crops, he cultivates an or-
chard containing seven hundred grafted fruit-
trees, and keeps a large flock of coarse-wool
sheej), four head of cattle, and three excellent
horses. Since taking possession of the prop-
erty he has improved the buildings and much
increased the fertility of the soil. Progressive
and enterprising, he is constantl}' alert to avail
himself of all opportunities for advancement.
In politics Mr. Perkins takes an indei)endent
course. He is regarded as one of the rising
young men of this town.

|HESLP:Y H. FERNALD, of Albany,
Oxford County, Me., is one of the
representative citizens of the town,
who by toiling industriously from
early boyhood has attained prosperity and po-
sition. He was born in Lincoln, Mc. , March
18, 1833, the son of George VV. and Mary
(Kneelanil) Fernald.

George W. Fernald, who was a native of
Lincoln, Me., and in early manhood was there
engaged in farming, removed from Lincoln
to Albany when his son, Chesley H., was

about five years old, settling on a farm in the
southern part of the town. At the time of
the Civil War he left his pleasant home and
family for the disease-breeding fields of the
South; and he )iever greeted his wife and
children again, for he was taken ill in the
army and ilied. His wife breathed her last
in Albany, Me. Seven children were born
to this couple, namely: Chesley H., whose
name a]5]3ears at the head of the present
sketch ; Nancy Jane, widow of Clark C.
White in Raymond, N.H. ; Oliver N., who is
in the shoe business in Danvers, Mass. ;
George W., a dentist, in Bethel Hill village.
Me. ; Julia E., who was born April 9, 1850,
and died December 3, 1867; Hersey E., an
engineer in PennsyLania; and an unnamed
child, who died in infancy.

Chesley H. Fernald in his boyhood re-
ceived a limited conmion-school education.
He helped about the home farm in early man-
hood, and remained in his native town until
1876, when he went to Milton, N.IL, staying
there three years, engaged in making shook;
and he was subsequently in Ebensburg, Pa.,
seven months, engaged in the same intlustry.
He then returned to Albany, where he has
since resided; and in 1880 he erected a saw-
mill near his home, forming a partnership
with Parker N. Flint. The firm makes a
specialty of spool lumber, and has a growing,
prosperous business. Mr. Fernald is exten-
sivelv engaged in farming, owning some five
hundred acres of land, much of which is
highly improved, and also raising live stock.
A hard-working and persevering man, he has
added to his property little by little until he
has become one of the foremost manufacturers
and real estate owners in the town of Albany.

He was married on November 22, 1855, to
Elizabeth J. Meader, of Stoneham, this county,
the daughter of George P. and Martha (Cross)
Meader. George P. Meader, who was a Mas-
sachusetts man, settled in Stoneham at an early
day, and was there engaged for years in the
pursuit of agriculture. He died in 1S93, and
his wife also has passed to the world beyond.
Mr. and Mrs. Fernald have two children —
Alton, the elder, born October 12, 1859, who
lives with his father, married Miss Lydia Mar-
shall; Nellie A., born in September, 1862, is

CHESLEY H. FERNALD.

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the wife of Parker N. Flint, Mr. l''ernaUrs
business partner. Mr. Fernald is a Republi-
can, and though he is not an office-seeker, he
served as Third Selectman of Albany one year.
He is a member of Oxford Lodge, No. 6i,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of North
Waterfortl.

FIVER P. FARRINGTON, a well-
known horse dealer of Oxford County
and an influential citizen of the town
of Greenw^ood, was born September
1 6, 1851, in Andover, Me., son of Samuel
F'arrington, Jr. His grandfather, .Samuel
P'arrington, Sr., who was born and reared to
man's estate in Stow, this county, subse-
quently became a resident of Andover, where
he cleared and improved a homestead, living
there until his demise. Grandfather Farring-
ton's wife, whose maiden name was Dresser,
had four children; namely, Matilda, Hannah,
Abigail, and Samuel, Jr. Hannah became
the wife of Lorenzo Hanson, of Andover.

Samuel Farrington, Jr., who died in 1862,
was a native of Andover, where he owned a
farm for many years. P'rom childhood he had
a strong tendency toward religious work, and
for many years travelled throughout his native
State as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal
denomination, preaching in the country towns.
He married Susanna Coffin, a native of Milan,
N.H. She survived him, and is now the wife
of John Abbott, a retired farmer of Bethel,
this county. Her children by Samuel Far-
rington are: Jennie, the wife of Calvin San-
born, of Bethel, Me. ; Oliver P., the subject
of this sketch; Abbie, the wife of Gilbert
Coffin, living at Locke's Mills, this county;
Charles, a resident of Brockton, Mass. ; and,
Earl P., a farmer, living at Greenwood, who
married Mabel Herrick. By her second mar-
riage she has one child, Morton T. Abbott.
Oliver P. Farrington attended school until
eleven years old, when, his father dying, he
began to fight life's battles by himself. Until
seventeen years old he worked on neighboring
farms, and then went to Locke's Mills, where
he obtained a position in the spool factory,
and for ten years or thereabout was engaged
in turning spools. He has continued his resi-

lience at this place, but has since been en-
gagetl in horse dealing and general farming.
He owns a fine farm of one hundred and forty
acres in Bethel townshii), where he raises
many horses of the Patchen stock. In his
speculations, which have been very successful,
he deals in all breeds. A lover of horses and
well acquainted with their characteristics, he
has little trouble in breaking and training
them, developing their good qualities, ami
controlling their refractory tendencies.

Mr. Farrington was married August 18,
1878, to Miss Alice M. Crooker, who was
born in Bethel, this county. She is a daugh-
ter of Washington anil Serena (Bartlett)
Crooker, lifelong members of the farming
community of Bethel. In politics Mr. P"ar-
rington active-ly supports the principles of the
Democratic party. He has served acceptably
in many of the local offices, including that of
Collector, which he held for three years. He
is now a member of the Board of Selectmen.

'^OHN O. STAPLES, one of the prosper-
ous general farmers of Temple, I'rank-
lin County, was born April 6, 1827,
ujion the farm in this town now occu-
pied by his brother, Gideon K. Staples, son
of Gideon and Sarah (Oakes) Staples. His
grandparents, Gideon and Susannah (Staples)
Staples, who originally resided in Dover,
N.H., moved from there to Maine, first set-
tling in North Berwick, and later removing to
Temple. The township was l)ut thinh' settled
when they arrived here. They settled upon
the hill where their grandson, Gideon K. , now
resides; and there Grandfather Staples cleared
a good farm from the wilderness. He died
here aged seventy years. His wife lived to
the age of ninety-eight. Their children were:
Susannah, Nathaniel, Gideon, Susannah (sec-
ond), Susannah (third), Betsey, Gideon
(second), Hannah, William, George, Daniel,
and Joanna.

Gideon Staples, Mr. Staples' s father, was
born in Dover, N.H., December i, 1785.
When a young man he bought and cleared
one hundred and sixty acres of land adjoining
his father's property, and also worked at the
carpenter's trade. His land was originally

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covered with pine and spruce timber. He
took advantage of the fact by building a small
saw-mill on the creek near by, and manufact-
uring from this timber the material for a
frame house, which is still standing. He
tilled the soil successfully for many years.
When not needed at home it was his halnt to
go to tlie coast towns and engage in the work
of a ship-carpenter. His last job at the car-
|K'nter"s trade was the construction of the
frame of the house now occupied by his son,
Gideon K. His death occurred here in No-
vember, 187.2. His wife, Sarah, who was a
daughter of John Oakes, became the mother of
seven children; namely, Hannah B. , Mary
M. , Gideon K., Sarah 1'., Eleanor, Jotham S. ,
and John O. She died January 19, 1877.
Hoth parents were members of the Congrega-
tional church.

John O. Staples acquired his education in
the district school. When old enough to be
of use he began to assist upon the farm. He
resided at home until he was thirty-one years
old, and then bought the Lock farm of one
hundred and si.xty acres, where he has since
lived. l^eginning improvements soon after
taking possession of the property, he set out
an orchard of three hundred trees, the most of
which were grafted, rebuilt the barn and
other out-buildings, and in 1869 erected his
present residence. He has been quite suc-
cessful in raising abundant crops of an excel-
lent quality.

On November 29, 1858, Mr. Staples wedded
Cordelia Cook, who was born in Madrid, Me.,
daughter of Nathaniel and Matilda (Doyen)
Cook, the former of whom was a carjjenter and
a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Sta]jles have had
three children, as follows: William, who died
in infancy: Eva C, born February 26, 1865,
who married Henry C. Norton, and has one
daughter, Blanche I., whose birth occurred
September 10, 1889; and Blanche E., who
died at the age of si.xteen years. Both parents
are members of the Congregational church.
In politics Mr. Staples is a Republican.- He
served the town as a Selectman for six years
and as head of the School Committee for
eleven years. He takes a warm interest in all
matters relating to the general good of the
community.

■s^OSHUA C. HEALD, who, in com-
pany with his brother, conducts a saw-
mill and block manufactory at North
Buckfield, was born in Buckfield,
March 24, 1830, son of Washington and
Eliza (Allen) Heald. His grandfather, Ben-
jamin Heald, who was a native of Massachu-
setts, served in the Revolutionary War when
he was seventeen or eighteen years old. Ben-
jamin moved from Carlisle, Mass., to Sumner,
this county, of which place he was a pioneer.
He tilled the soil of a good farm with in-
dustry for many years, was one of the first
saw-mill operatives in Sumner, and died there
in 1842 at a good old age. The maiden
name of his wife was Rebecca Spaulding.

Washington Heald was born in Sumner in
1803. In young manhood he began to work
in the mills in his native town. In the course
of time he became an expert mill man, and
subsequently, in 1835-36,- having settled in
Buckfield, he built the saw and grist mills at
North Buckfield. A stirring, energetic busi-
ness man, who did much toward developing
the industrial resources of this locality, he
carried on a thriving business until his death,
which occurred when he was seventy-four
years old. He was a Democrat in politics,
and held the appointment of Postmaster here
for several years. His wife, I'-liza, who was
born in Plymouth, Mass., became the mother
of nine children, six of whom are living;
namely, George W., Joshua C, Caroline D..
Benjamin F., William P., and Enos D. The
others were: Betsey, Rebecca, and Eliza Jane.
The mother reached the age of eighty-three
years. Both parents attended the Universal-
ist church.

Joshua C. Heald was educated in the dis-
trict schools, and grew to manhood in Buck-
field. When a mere boy he began working in
the mills with his father, acquiring a general
knowledge of every part of the trade. At the
present time he is one of the best all-round
mill men and one of the finest wood turners
in this section of the State. He and his
brother, Benjamin F. Heald, succeeded to the
ownership of the mill property, which they
now carry on, making a specialty of producing
blocks of a superior quality, and doing an ex-
tensive general saw-mill business. On Octo-

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ber 22, 1854, I\Ir. Healtl wedded Olynthia
A. Swallow, wiio was born in Buckfield, No-
vember 12, 1S35, daughter of Larnard and
Drusilla (Keen) Swallow. Mr. Swallow was
an industrious farmer of Buckfield, which was
his native place: and he died at the age of
fifty-four years. His wife, who was born in
Sumner, lived to be eighty-two years old.
Mr. and Mrs. Heald have had si.x children,
as follows: Fred E., born July 25, 1855, who
is married, lives in North Buckfield, and has
one daughter, Nellie M., born September 25,
1895; Clinton .S., born June 10, 1858, who
died November 19, 1862; Anna R., who,
born May 18, 1861, died October 1, 1S91,
having married C. A. Bonney, of West Sum-
ner, b)' whom she had one daughter, M. Eliza-
beth, born August 24, 1887; Preston C, born
December 19, 1864, who is a miller at North
Buckfield; Harry M., born December 14,
1870, who is now a student of the Maine
Medical School at Pirunswick; and Isa Maud,
born July 5, 1873, who is an accomplished
teacher and musician, and resides at home.
In politics Mr. Heald is a Democrat, and
has served with ability as a member of the
Board of Selectmen for one term. The saw-
mill and block factory conducted by him and
his brother constitute the leading industry in
this vicinity. He is counted among the prom-
inent and representative residents. ]5oth he
and Mrs. Heald are Universalists.

-QHN W. BENNETT, one of the larg-
est lumber dealers in the State of
Maine, present Postmaster at Gilead,
O.xford County, his place of residence,
has carved his fortune with his own hands;
and his career strikingly illustrates what may
be accomplished by persevering and honorable
ambition. He was born in Portsmouth, N.H.,
March 28, 1847, and is a son of Stephen and
Sarah A. (Berry) Bennett.

Stephen Bennett, his father, was born in
Stanstead, Canada, but was reared and edu-
cated in Wakefield, N.H. In early manhood
he settled in Portsmouth, opening a carriage
shop, which he operated for a great many
years, winning fair success. In 1863 he re-
moved to Jefferson, N.H., where for some time

he was engaged in carriage work and also in
farming; and in 1881 he jnirchased a farm in
Gilead, Me., on which he is now living, hav-
ing attained the advanced age of eighty-two
years. In politics he is a stanch Republican.
His wife, who was born in Milton, N.H., is
an esteemed member of the Methodist- Epis-
copal church in Gilead. l~ive of the seven
sons born to Mr. and Mrs. Bennett dietl
young. Of the living, John W. is the
younger. The other, Albert, is a farmer in
Gilead.

John W. Bennett acquired the greater part
of his education in the common schools of
Portsmouth. He started to earn a livelihood
when nineteen years of age, and worked for a
few years in a starch factory. In 1872 he set-
tled in Gilea'd, and engaged in the lumber
business, establishing the nucleus of his pres-
ent colossal trade. Two years later he opened
the general store which is still operated in
his name, and which is now one of the largest
and best-equipped stores of the kind in this
section. He now owns two thousand acres of
land in Gilead, a part of which is undei' culti-
vation and part grass lanil, about one hundred
and fifty acres in New Hampshire, large tracts
of pine timber in Alabama, and has mining
interests near Helena, Mont. He buys and
sells a great deal of pulp timber, logs, cord
wood, and hemlock bark, and owns four saw-
mills in this county and New Hampshire.
He makes a specialty of spool stock, shipping-
great quantities to Bowling, Scotland, and is
one of the largest handlers of that kind of
lumber in the State, buying a great deal from
other manufacturers. He also manufactm-es
hard-wood shook for sugar hogsheads, which
he ships to the West Indies.

On August 10, 1886, Mr. Bennett was mar-
ried to Miss Laura J. Nuttnall, of Manistee,
Mich. One daughter has blessed this union,
Mildred E. As one of the trustees of the
large estate of his wife's father in Michigan,
Mr. Bennett has cares in addition to those of
his own business interests, which he manages
with equal efificiency and promptitude.

A Republican in politics, he served two
years as Treasurer of Gilead, but has de-
clined to serve again in public office, his busi-
ness requiring all his attention. As a Mason

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he belongs to Blazing Star Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., of Rumford, Me.; and as an Odd
Fellow he is a member of Mount Abram
Lodge of Bethel, Me.

ILLIAM S. SEWELL, a lumber
dealer and bridge builder of Keith's
Mills, Franklin County, was born
in Chesterville, June 5, 1824, son of Oliver
and Betsey (Sylvester) Sewell. The Sewell
family is of Puritan origin. Its founder, who
was Mayor of Coventry, England, came to this
country at an early date in the Colonial
period. The descent comes from him, through
his son Henry, John, Nicholas, and Henry, to
the Rev. Jothani .Sewell, grandfather of Will-
iam S. Sewell.

The Rev. Jotham Sewell, born in York,
Me., January 1, 1760, was at an early age
thrown upon his own resources. Although he
learned the mason's trade, he was desirous of
entering the ministry, and saved his earnings
in order to defray the expenses of his educa-
tion for that calling. He attained his wish,
and was ordained an evangelist, January iS,
1800. His labors were begun in Chesterville,
Me., and were afterward continued in various
Congregational churches in New England and
the Southern States. Returning finally to
Maine, he settled upon Locke Hill, in the
town of Chesterville, where he bought a tract
of land mostly in a wild state. He was suc-
cessful in converting this into a good farm,
and subsequently erected upon it a set of sub-
stantial frame buildings. The rest of his ac-
tive period was passed in the avocations of an
industrious farmer, and he died at the ad-
vanced age of ninety-one years. In ]iolitics
he supported the Whigs. His wife, who
reached the age of sevent}', gave birth to
twelve children; namely, Oliver, Nathan,
Jotham, Henry, Jennie, Julia, .Sarah, Mary,
Otis, Rachel, Betsey, and David.

Oliver Sewell was born in Chesterville,
July 10, 1788. He acquired a good educa-
tion, became a land surveyor and a general
conveyancer and writer of deeds, which occu-
pations he followed for several years. He also
worked for some time at the carpenter's trade.
Later in life he bought a farm of seventy acres

in his native town, and thereafter conducted it
with success until his death, which occurred
May 29, 1861. He was one of the most
prominent citizens of Chesterville in his day.
The town enjoyetl the benefit of his services
as Selectman for twelve years. He was also
Town Clerk for a time, and he represented his
district in the legislature, hi politics he fol-
lowed the majority of the old Whig element
into the ranks of the Republican party at its
formation. He was a member of the Congre-
gational church, and acted as a Deacon for
many years. His wife, Betsey, who was born
in 1788, bore him si.\ children; namely, Har-
riet G. , Eliza J., Maria, George O., Calvin
D., and William .S.

William S. Sewell was educated in the town
schools. He remained with his parents at the
homestead until his majority. After serving
an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, he
has followed it as a journeyman more or less,
in connection with other lines of business.
Some time ago, with funds saved from his
earnings, he bought an interest in a mill.
He has been engaged in repairing mills and
in bridge building. He has built several
well-known bridges in this part of the county,
including the Red Bridge in Farmington, two
at Fairbanks, and one at Russell's Mills.
For some time past he has given his attention
to the lumber business, keeping in his yards
at Keith's Mills a good supply of all kinds of
manufactured stock for building purposes. In
1857 he erected his present comfortable resi-
dence and spacious barns.

On January 14, 1858, Mr. Sewell wedded
Augusta P. Allen, daughter of Reuben and
Joanna (Harris) Allen. Mrs. Sewell's grand-
father, William Allen, who was a native of
Massachusetts, and served as a soldier in the
Revolutionary War, settled at Poland .Springs,
Me., where he reclaimed a farm from the
wilderness. He was an extensive farmer and
a progressive citizen, and he lived to be
eighty-seven years old. He married Peggy
Woodworth, who was seventy-five years of age
when she died. Their children were: John,
Reuben, Zadock, William, Peggy, and Mary.
Reuben Allen, Mrs. Sewell's father, born in
Poland Springs, inherited the homestead con-
taining one hundred and twentv-five acres.

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and became a prosperous general faiiner. In
politics he was a Whig. In his religious con-
victions he was a Congregationalist, and he
died at the age of fifty-five years. He mar-
ried Joanna Harris, and reared, besi'dcs Mrs.
Sewell, six other children; namely, Charles
G., John H., Mandana, Sarah W., Samuel C,
and Abbie A. The mother lived to be
seventy-three years old. Mr. and Mrs.
SewelTs children are: Cora M., a music
teacher, who resides at home; and Nettie,
who is also engaged in teaching. Mr. Sew-
ell's political sympathies are given to the Re-
publican party, and he takes a liberal view
of religion. He has been one of the most
stirring and energetic business men in this
locality.

KEWIS M. MANN, the proprietor of the
wood-working mills at Paris and West
^ Milton, was born in Jaffrey, N.H.,
December 6, 1848, son of Tulwin
and Caroline M. (Sibley) Mann. Edwin
Mann, who was born in Troy, N. H., Septem-
ber 20, 1S20, was for some years the owner of
the Mountain House in Jaffrey, N.II. He-
sides conducting this establishment he was
also engaged in farming and manufacturing.
After a time he retired from the hotel busi-
ness, and gave his exclusive attention to his
manufacturing enterprise in Troy, whithei' he
removed with his family. He was acciden-
tally drowned at his mills in 1S56, leaving a
widow and four children. Enterprise and
business ability were his distinguishing char-
acteristics. In politics he supported the
Whig party. His wife, Caroline, who was
born in Troy, September 3, 1827, had four
children, namely: Melissa, the wife of John
Beals, of Leominster, Mass.; Lewis M., the
subject of this sketch: Ella C, who is now
the widow of William F. Reed, and resides
in Somerville, Mass. ; and Walter E., who
died at the age of thirty-nine.

The subject of this sketch, Lewis M. Mann,
acquired his education in the schools of Troy.
Since young manhood he has been identified
with his present business. He began by mak-
ing pail handles by contract in Troy. He
entered upon his first business venture in

1870 at Norway, Me., by engaging in the
manufacturing of pail handles and clothes-
pins, which he carried on for two years.
Then, moving to Snow's l'"alls, tliis county,
he continued the enterprise there for two years
more, after which he removed to West Paris,
this county. In 1S80 he again changed his
location, going this time to Milton I'lantation,
where, in company with his bi'other, the late
Walter IC. Mann, he carried on jjusincss until
1892. He then re-established his business in
West Paris, and since his brother's tieath in
1894 he has conducted manufactories in both
places. Besides his specialties, clothes-pins
and pail handles, he turns out other wooden
articles. In 1895 thirteen hunclred cords of
white and yellow birch and poplar were used
in the production of boxes alone; and his two
mills, which employ thirty hands, finished and
shipped an output of twenty thousand dollars'
worth of goods during the same year. The
mills are equipped with the latest imjiroved
machinery. That in the West Paris plant
includes apparatus of his own invention. A
progressive and energetic business man, he is
much esteemed by the residents of Paris.

On November 19, 1872, Mr. Mann was
united in marriage to Mary A. Towne, who
was born in Norway, Me., in 1847. S'"'^ died
March 31, 1893, leaving two sons, namely:
Arthur L., who is now attending Bryant &
Stratton's Business College; and lidwin J.,
who is a student of the Slate college at Orono,
Me. Both in society and business circles Mr.
Mann is very ])opular. In being a self-made
man his success in life is particularly merito-
rious. He is a Republican in politics, is con-
nected with the lodge of Odd Fellows in West
Paris, and attends the Universalist church,
as did his late wife. The family occupies a
ver}' pleasant residence in West Paris.

/§Yo

FORGE W. THOMAS, a successful
\ '*) I farmer of Oxford, was born in He-
bron. Me., June 12, 1S32, son of
George W. and Margaret A. (Blankenberg)
Thomas. The family descends from Colonial
ancestry. Holmes Thomas, the grandfather
of George W., was born in Plymouth, Mass.,
June 12, 1755. He served as a soldier in the

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Continental army during the Revolutionary
War, afterward receiving a pension in recog-
nition of .his services. About the year 1788
he settled upon one hundred and sixty acres
of vviUl land situated in the south-east part of
Oxfiird, which was then in the township of
Hebron. Having cleared a farm, he culti-
vated the land and made shoes until 18 12.
He then sold his property and moved to Dix-
field, Me., where he cleared and improved
another farm from the wilderness. He spent
his last years at the home of his son, George
\V. Thomas, Sr., where he died March 26,
1856. I le was a sturdy and industrious man,
who attained prosperity through hard work;
and he was a Deacon of the Baptist church.
On July 10, 1777, he married Susannah
Churchill, who was born January 19, 1758.
She reared eleven of her twelve children,
none of whom are living, and died September
ig, 1839.

George W. Thomas, Sr., was born in Ox-
ford, April 20, 1801. I-"ollowing the occupa-
tion of farmer, he spent the most of his life
in Kast Oxford, where he owned a good farm
of eighty acres, lie was widely and favorably
known throughout this locality as one of its
most prominent and useful residents; and his
death, which took place August 17, 1876, was
the cause of general regret. In politics he
was originally a supporter of the Whigs; but
he joined the Republican party at its forma-
tion, and adhered to its principles throughout
the rest of his life. In religious belief he
was a Baptist, and for many years was an ac-
tive member of that church. His wife, Mar-
garet, who was born in Portland, Me., March
15, 1808, became the mother of ten children,
all of whom are living. They are: George
W., the subject of this sketch; Simeon P.,
who was born November 6, 1S33; Cyrus, who
was born April 20, 1835; William W., who
was born June 4, 1838; Helen M., who was
born December 28, 1840; Mary C. and Robert
C, twins, who were born I'ebruary 10, 1S43;
John 1-"., who was born Juni; 24, 1845; Ade-
laide C, who was born September 6, 1847;
and Lenora, who was born September 20,
1851. The mother died January 14, 1886.

George W. Thomas attended the district
schools of his native town. When seventeen

years old he began earning his living by work-
ing in a stone quarry for his uncle, William
Thomas, receiving fifteen dollars per month
for his services. From 1 849 to 1870 he fol-
lowed various occupations in Massachusetts
and elsewhere, his last employment, previous
to his return to Maine, having been that of
ship calker. At this he worked all along the
coast from Portsmouth, X.H., to Brooklyn,
N.Y. Having saved a considerable portion
of his earnings, he in 1872 bought his present
farm in Oxford. He has one hundred acres
of well-improved land, desirably located and
exceedingly fertile. Here he carries on gen-
eral farming, keeps several cows, and sells
milk and cream to good advantage.

On November i, 1858, Mr. Thomas was
united in marriage to Abbic P. Thayer, his
first wife, who was born in Oxford, June 17,
1838. She died October 22, 1863, leaving
one son, Elmer I^. The latter, who was born
July 8, 1S61, married Minnie Wormwell, and
is now clerk at Swett's Hotel in Portland.
Mr. Thomas's present wife, Nancy S.
(Dresser) Thomas, whom he wedded Octo-
ber 9, 1876, was born in Stoneham, Me., Jan-
uary 4, 1835. She has had one child, Abbie
M., who, born January 4, 1878, died January
28, 1896. Mr. Thomas is connected with the
Masonic fraternity, being a member of South
Paris Lodge, No. 92. In politics he is a Re-
publican. An able and progressive farmer,
he is held in high regard by the cnmiuunit\'.

LI COOK, formerly a well-to-do farmer
of New Sharon, was a native of Bruns-
wick, Me., where he was born in the
year [810. His father, Eli Cook, Sr., served
for eight years and eight months in the Con-
tinental army, directly under General Wash-
iilgton, and was wounded several times. Set-
tling at Brunswick immediately after the war,
Eli, Sr. , resided there until he reached middle
age. He then moved to a farm of one hundred
and thirt}'-five acres in the town of New
.Sharon, where he passed the rest of his life.

Eli Cook, Jr., was a youth when he accom-
panied his parents to New Sharon. He was
reared to agricidtural pursuits, and subsequently
began life for himself when a young man.

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liulustriuus and cnt;ri;etic, he was able b\' fann-
ing to accumulate a cunsidei'able amount of
j)ropei"ty before his death on December 22,
1 89 1, at the age of eighty-one year.s. He was
highly respected, and served with ability as
Road Surveyor for a number of years.

In February, 1838, he was united in mar-
riage with Margaret J. Johnson, who survives
him. -She was born in Harpswell, Me., on
April 14, 1818, daughter of Cajitain Isaac antl
Ik'tsey (Nichols) Johnson. Her grandfather,
also named Isaac, who was a sailor and was
lost at sea, left a family of five chiUlren,
among whom were Margaret and Jane. Cap-
tain Isaac Johnson was born in Harpswell, and
in early life began to follow the sea. Becom-
ing a capable ship-master while still a young
man, he was engaged in the West India trade,
in which he realized a good fortune. He
owned the ship in which he sailed, together
with the large farm in Harpswell, which was
carried on by hired assistants. He died at the
age of thirty years. His wife, Betsey Nichols,
w'hom he married in 1S17, became the mother
of two children, namely: Margaret J., who is
now Mrs. Cook; ami Harlow, who died young.

After the settlement of the estate, follow-
ing upon her father's death, Mrs. Cook re-
moved with her mother from Harpswell to
Portland, where she was educated. .She first
met Mr. Cook while upon one of her visits to
her aunt, Lucy Lake. She has had eight chil-
dren — Isadore, Adeliza, Alphonso B. , Ella
H., Scott F., Howard C, Addie O. , and p:tta
J. Isadore successively became the wife of
Charles O. Lortl, of \Vashington, D. C. , and
lulwin M. Truell. FHla H. Cook married for
her first husband Henry VV. Richardson, and
for her second Wallace W. Campbell, of Fo.\-
croft, i\Ie., and had five children. Addie O.
became the wife of Albert S. U]iham, a pros-
perous agriculturist of Farmington. Etta J.,
born May 7, 1858, at the homestead, where she
is now residing, married on July 3, 1879,
F'rank Collins, of this town, wlio is carrying on
the farm successfully. Mr. and Mrs. Collins
have two children, namely: Bertha M., who
was born November 8, 1880; and Olan T. ,
who w-as born July 4, 1895. Mrs. Cook re-
sides at the homestead, and is widely known
and respected throughout this district. She

has a large circle of friends, who, knowing her
worth and many admirable ([ualities, entertain
for her a sincere affection.

XRV JOHNSON BANGS, one of
le most enteiprising and successful
tradesmen of Norway, O.xford
Count)-, Me., a leading dealer in
groceries and provisions, was born in Wayne,
in this State, on (October 20, 1869, son of Rob-
ert and Sarah (iilson (Jdhnson) Bangs. The
paternal grandfather nf Mr. Bangs was Syl\'a-
nus Bangs, born in JUixtun un June 17, 1780.
He married Ann;i Fogg, who was ten years
younger than himself, having been born in 1790.

Their son, Roljert Bangs, w^^s boiii in
Wales, Me., <)n April 15, 1827. He learned,
when he had arrived at an age of maturity, the
trade of blacksmithing, which he carried on in
his native town for some time. In cnnnection
with this he aisii learned the art nf building
wagons, by which he maile quite a good deal
of money. After some little time he sold out
and moved to Wayne, wheie he worked at
making shovel handles for ;i number of x'ears.
Then he came to Norway, wheie he finalh'
settled, carrying (jn his old business (jf black-
smithing in the heart of the village, in
Crooke's shoj:), until his health gave way under
the stress of hard work. He purchased a home
on Water Street, and also built a tenement-
house there.

On October 7, 1853, he married Mrs. .Sarah
Johnson, the widnw nf a ])idniinent citizen,
and the daughter ot Homan Gilson, of Wayne.
Three children were the result nf this mai'-
riage — Jutlson, born March 16, 1856; Sumner,
born September 22, 1859; ami Henry Jolinson,
born October 20, 1869. Robert Bangs was a
Republican in i)r)litical principles, and in re-
ligious faith a Baptist. He was a very hard-
working, earnest man, and thoroughly deserved
the measure of success that he attained. He
died in the year 1893. His wife followed him
two years later, at the age of si.\ty-nine years.

Henry Johnson Bangs, the latest-born nf
their three sons, received his early education
in the public schools of Norway, and then went
as a boy clerk into the grocer's store that
he now owns and runs. At that time it was

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in the pcjssessiiin of and managed by I'. H.
Noyes, who shortly after sold out to A. C.
Green. Both of his employers found the
young clerk faithful almost to a fault, a first-
class salesman, and alwaj's ready and anxious
to do what was required of him. He stayed
on with Mr. Green, ofificiating as his clerk
until 1 891, when he bought out his employer,
and immediately enlarged his ])lace. He ac-
tjuiied the stores adjoining on each side and
reconstructed them, fitting them up in the best
possible manner for his own business. The
one on the south side of his old shop he rents.
In the Frost Corner store on the north side he
has made extensive improvements. Mr. Bangs
has so extended his patronage with the sensible
increasing of his stock in trade and the added
facilities for the better advantage of his cus-
tomers that he now keeps two clerks to assist
him, and also has found it necessary to get a
delivery wagon. He carries an excellent line
of groceries, provisions, antl crockery.

He is undoubtedly one of the most alert,
active, and cajKible young business men in
the county, and has earned all his prosperity
with the labor of his own hands and brain.
His integrity is unquestioned. Mr. Bangs and
Miss Minnie C. Dean, the daughter of Ro-
manzo Dean, of Buckficld, Me., were married
on January i, 1890. They have two children
— Mildred, born May 7, 1S91; and Helen
Vaun, born July 13, 1894.

Mr. Bangs is a Republican in politics, and
takes a genuine interest in the important issues
of the day, being always willing and anxious
as a citizen to do the best he can to promote
the common weal. He was elected Town
Treasurer in March, 1896. He is a member
of the local lodge of Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and is a communicant of the
Baptist church. He and his wife are promi-
nent, not only as church people, but also as
factors in the social circles of Norway.

-|^1':NJAMIN TUCKI'R, a prominent
''^N. agriculturist and extensive land-
\\^ J holder of Oxford County,' Maine,
proprietor of Norway Lake Milk
Farm, was born March 11, 1831, in Buckfield,
only a few miles from his present jilace of resi-

dence. He comes of Massachusetts ancestry,
his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Tucker,
first, having been born and bred in Canton,
Norfolk County, in that State. I*"rom there he
came to the town of Norway, Me., about the
year 1800. He was a harness-maker by trade,
and, having opened a shop in the village, con-
tinued in business until his demise.

15enjamin Tucker, second, son of the first
Benjamin, worked at harness-making in his
early years, and eventually succeeded to the
entire business of his father, which he contin-
ued at the old stand throughout his years of
activity. He married Miss Sarah Millett, a
native of Norway, and the following children
were born to them : Benjamin, third, the spe-
cial subject of this sketch ; Melissa, who died
in 1866; William, a harness-maker in Marl-
boro, Mass. ; Angel ia, widow of the late James
M. Favor, living in Norway village ; Cyrus S.,
who is engaged in harness-making in Norway
village, and of whom a brief sketch may be
found elsewhere in this volume; Henry, a har-
ness-maker and dealer in carriages in Logans-
port, Ind. ; and Mary Alice, widow of Frank
Oxnard, of Norway village. The father died
in 1876, and the mother has also deijarted this
life.

Ikmjamin Tucker, the third of the name,
acquired his education in his native town, con-
cluding his school life at the village academy.
Naturally energetic and ambitious, he was
habitu.ally employed in his later youth at some
profitable labor; and for seven years after at-
taining his majority he was engaged in freight-
ing between Norway and South Paris. Soon
after his marriage Mr. Tucker bought a farm
in the neighboring town of Waterford, where
he carried on general husbandry for fifteen
years or more. In 1875 he returned to Nor-
way, and here bought his present homestead
property, which is beautifully located near Nor-
way Lake. This estate contains about two hun-
dred and thirty-five acres of land, and in addi-
tion Mr. Tucker owns six hundred acres of land
in Waterford and seventy-five acres in the town
of Oxford. He carries on general farming,
but makes dairying his specialty, keeping on
an average forty milch cows and selling milk
daily to regular customers in Norway village.
Politically, Mr. Tucker is a stanch Republi-

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can, actively working for the best interests of
his paity. While living in Watcrford he
served as Selectman two years, and he has held
the same office in Norway one year. Frater-
nally, 'he is a member of Oxford Lodge, A. V.
& A. M., No. iS, of Norway, and of the
grange. Patrons of Lliisbandry, of Norway vil-
lage. Of Hear Mountain Grange of Watcrford,
instituted in 1874, of which he was a charter
member, he was elected tirst Master; and he
has kept his membership in tlie order ever
since. Religiously, he and his wife may he
classed as liberal Christians, attending the
Universalist church.

On December i, 1858, Mr. Tucker married
Miss LLannah E. Merrill, who w-as born in
Gray, Me., on November 15, 1S35, a daughter
of James IL and Mary (Bodge) Merrill, both
natives of Gorham, Me. Mr. Merrill was an
overseer in a woollen-mill in Gorham for man)'
years, and was also during the course of his
life connected with mills in different parts
of the State. He finally established himself
in mercantile business in Norway \-illage,
where both he and his wife spent their closing
years. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have si.\ chil-
dren — Fannie M., Frank L., Arthur, Ada U.,
Alton B., and Wilbur M. The two elder
children and the youngest two are at home.
Arthur Tucker, a can-maker by trade and the
manager of a corn-canning factory at Strong,
Me., married Miss Effie Marston. Ada LL,
now living in New York City, is the wife of
Edwin Stiles, a F'ree Baptist missionary, who
is devoting himself to his work in India.
Alton B. Tucker is an insurance airent.

YgTlRAM RAMSDELL, of Farmington,
l-^-| one of the oldest and most extensive

|ls I ch-y-goods dealers in Franklin
' County, was born in this town,
February 12, 1829, son of Abner and Hannah
(Corbett) Ramsdell. Mr. RamsdelFs great-
grandfather, Kichard Ramsdell, was a resident
of Truro, Mass. ; and his grandfather, Abner
Ramsdell, was born in Truro in 1758. About
the year 1796 the grandfather came to Farm-
ington, and purchased the Church Brainard
River lot. No. 38, on the east side, which is
now owned by Mr. Manter. He died Septem-

ber 4, 1S02. His wife, whose maiden name
was Jerusha Collins, survived him many years,
and died in 1857, at the age of eighty-three.
Their ten children were severally named:
Richard, Rcliecca, Jerusha, Abner, John,
Benjamin, WilHam, James, Sarah, and
Joanna.

Abner Ramsdell, the father of Hiram, who
was born in Truro, November 17, 1795, was
brought to I'armington by his parents when
an infant. In early manhootl he settled at the
homestead, where for many years he was suc-
cessfully engaged iji the manufacture of brick.
He finally retired from that business, and
moved to Farmington village. Here he built
a house, in which he dwelt for the rest of his
life, and died April 22, 1884. He was an
able, energetic, and exceedingly prosperous
business man and a worthy, upright citizen,
who gained the respect and esteem of his fel-
low-townsmen. His wife, Hannah (Corbett)
Ramsdell, whom he married February 15,
1819, was a daughter of John Corbett, of this
town. She became the mother of eight chil-
dren; namely, Cyrus C, Angeline, Sylvester,
Hiram, Abner C. , John C. , Joel W. , and
.Sarah H. She had attained an advanced age
at her death.

At the age of thirteen Hiram Ramsdell went
to live with his brother-in-law, I'eter P. Tuffs,
with whom he remained until he was twenty-
one years old. He obtained his education in
the district school and at the Farmington
Academy. During the two years succeeding
the com]3letion of his studies he was engaged
in teaching school and assisting his brother
Cyrus in brick-making and farming. He then
went to Columbus, Ohio, and was employed
there as an assistant in an asylum until failing
health caused him to seek some out-door occu-
pation. With this object he went to Jasper
County, Iowa, where he took up a large tract of
land, and was engaged in farming and school
teaching for seven years. In that time he
erected a good set of buildings upon his farm.
After regaining his health he decided to re-
turn once more to his native State. There-
upon he sold his property, and came back to
Farmington. In 1863 he and W. H. Hutchin-
son bought a half-interest each in the old
Cutler store, and together conducted it for si.x

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years, whcti his associate sold out to iTim.
At a later tlate he admitted H. H. Rice as a
partner, but after some years became again
the sole proprietor. Since 1876 he has occu-
jjied iiis present store in Belcher Block, hav-
ing two entrances, one on Main Street and the
other on Broatlway. l^he establishment em-
braces probably the largest amount of. floor
space used in similar enterprises in this
county. It is heavily stocked with a varied
line of dry goods, including cloaks and dresses.
Ranisdell's Dry-goods Store is widely known
throughout a broad district, with Farming;-
ton for its centre, as a reliable and satis-
factory place to deal with. By closely adher-
ing to the rule of showing courtesy and an
accommodating spirit to all, and seeking his
profit by quick sales, the proprietor has
amassed a handsome fortune. He has also
dealt in real estate quite extensively.

On May 28, 1867, Mr. Ramsdell wedded
Sarah C. Boardman, daughter of Melzer and
Sarah (Da\^is) Boardman. Mrs. Ramsdell,
from her own choice and a natural aptitude
toward business pursuits, ably assisted her hus-
band in his business. She is an accomplished
saleswoman and a general favorite with cus-
tomers. Their residence, which is situated at
the corner of High Street and Broadway, is a
fine brick structure built by Cyrus C. Rams-
dell in 1858. Since it came into his posses-
sion, Mr. Ramsdell has remodelled the house;
and he has otherwise improved the estate by
purchasing and beautifying the adjoining
land. He has also dealt in real estate quite
extensively, and his many profitable transac-
tions have brought him into prominence as
one of the most wealthy and influential capi-
talists here. Politically, he is a firm believer
in Republican princii)les, supporting that
party with vigor. Both he and Mm. Ramsdell
attend the Congregational church.

iHARLES B. ATVVOOD, a leading
merchant and prominent resident of
^ Buckfield, Me., in the south-eastern

part of O.xford County, was born in
this town, April 8, 1825, son of Nathan and
Ruth H. (Rogers) Atwood. The family is an
old and highly reputable one in these parts,

Mr. Atwood's father, who was born in Liver-
more, Me., in the adjoining county of Andro-
scoggin, in May, 1800, having become a stir-
ring and successful business man of Buckfield.

Commencing life for himself at an early age
as clerk in a general store carried on Ijy
Deacon Barrell in Livcrmore, Nathan Atwood
came to Buckfield when he was twenty-one
years old, and for a short time was employed
in the same capacity by a Mr. Phelps. In
company with Zadoc Long he ne.xt went into
business for himself, later conducting the
store alone; and, finally selling out, he was
engaged in the cutting and sale of wood for
fuel purposes, until his buildings were de-
stroyed by fire. Once more entering mercan-
tile business, he continued in trade for some
time, or until his retirement. He died in
Buckfield at the comparatively early age of
forty years. He acquired a wide reputation as
an able and upright business man and a
worthy citizen. He supported the Demo-
cratic party in politics, and in his religious
views he was a LTniversalist. His wife, Ruth
H. Rogers, who was born in Berwick, Me.,
May 17, 1797, became the mother of five chil-
dren, of whom the only survivor is Charles B. ,
the subject of this sketch. His sister, Helen
M., was the mother of George M. Atwood,
one of the proprietors of the Oxford Dcdio-
crat. Mrs. Ruth H. Atwood li\-ed to reach
the age of eighty-seven years.

Charles B. Atwood resided at home and at-
tended school until he was in his twelfth year,
when he shipped as a cabin boy on board the
whaling-vessel "Columbia," commanded by
Captain Thomas R. Hussey. The "Colum-
bia," which was fitted for a two years' cruise,
sailed from New York, September 26, 1836,
and on December 25, 1838, was wrecked on
the coast of Chile, both ship and cargo becom-
ing a total loss. Happily rescued from the
fury of the waves, young Atwood was on Jan-
uary 3, 1839, placed on board of the ship
" Kdward Ouesnell," of Fall River, which
was homeward bound ; but, strange to say, on
May 9 of the same year that ship and cargo
met a similar fate six miles west of Mon-
tague, L.I., eleven of the twenty-three souls
on board being drowned. Reaching home on
June 26, 1839, after passing through a series

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of disasters quite sufficient, one would tliink,
to deaden his ardor for sea life, he remainetl
on shore until 1841, when he shipi)ed as a
harpooner 011 the bark "Minerva," of New
Bedford, Captain Horton, for a whaling; voy-
age in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Re-
turniui;' after a successful cruise of twenty
months, he next made a voyage to the west
coast of South America on board the brig
"Samos," of Salem, Mass., Captain Horton;
and, after coming back with a cargo of giuino,
he went to Africa and up the Congo River
with Captain Wood on another Salem bark,
the "Seamen," which returnetl alter a voyage
of eight and one-half months'. His last voy-
age was as second mate of the bark "T. O.
Brown," Captain Horton, bound from Port-
land, Me., to Cienfuegos, Cuba. Arriving in
Philadelphia in 1846, the cruise having been
a prosperous one, he relinquished a seafaring
life. Returning to Buckfiekl, he on Septem-
ber 5 of that year engaged with a partner in
mercantile business, later carrying on trade
alone until 185 i, when he went to California,
vk'here, however, he did not long sojourn.
From the time of his leaving the Pacific Coast
till 1884, with the e.\ce]3tion of about eight
months, in which he was engaged in business
in Chicago, he conducted mercantile enter-
prises in Portland and Auburn, spending five
years in each city. Since 1884 he has carried
on a successful business at his present stand
in Buckficld, being now in partnershij) with
his son, under the firm name of C. B. .Atwood
& Co. They have a large and well-stocked
general store, which receives a most liberal
patronage from the people of this town and
the out-lying districts.

On August 20, 1847, .Mr. Atwood was
united in marriage with Juiiily I). Irish, who
was born in Buckfiekl, June 27, 1827, daugh-
ter of Joshua Irish. Six children have been
born to them, namely : Horace, Charles, and
Harold, who are no longer living; Sarah E.,
wife of John H. Moore, of Buckfiekl; Fred
H., a member of the firm of F. H. Atwood &
Co., grocers and provision dealers of Rumford
Falls, Me. ; and Edwin F. , who is in company
with his father.

Energetic, capable, and accommodating,
Mr. Atwood is highly esteemed and respected

by his fellow-townsmen; and his success in
business is the just reward for honest dealing.
Socially, he is very popular with a large circle
of friends and acquaintances; and he is a
charter member of livening Star Lodge, A. ¥.
& A. M., ot this town. In politics he acts
with the Republican party, and both he and
Mrs. Atwood attend the Universal ist church.

f^^TKORGE B. RICP:, a prominent citi-
V ;5T zen of Waterford, Me., and a mem-
^— -^ her of one of the first families of the
town — first in standing as well as in point ot
settlement — was born in Waterford. October
30, 1 841. His parents were Eber, Jr., and
Pllizabeth (Frye) Rice. His paternal grand-
father, liber 'Rice, who was born in North-
boro, Mass., was one of the ])i(ineer settlers
of Waterford, making a clearing in the wil-
derness and developing a homestead. He
worked early and late to improve the property,
undergoing all the hardships of frontier life,
and carrying his corn and rye ten miles to the
mill to be ground. He was one of the wealth-
iest and ablest men of the town, a justice of
the Peace, and was known as Squire Rice.
He died in 1853. His wife, Rebecca, was a
native of Massachusetts. Five children were
reared by this couple; namely, Betsey, Eber,
Jr., Rachel, Samuel, and Sophia, all of whom
have passed to the world beyond. Betsey was
the wife of Asa Foote, Rachel, who always
made her home in the house where she was
born in 1794, was a teacher in her youth, and
was widely known and esteemed. .She was a
lady of more than ordinary intelligence, and
toward the close of her long life no one was
better known in this part of Oxford County
than "Aunt Rachel Rice." She lived through
the changes of over a century, passing away
January 24, 18035.

Her brother, Eber Rice, Jr.. was likewise a
native and lifelong resident of Waterford, and
from the time of his marriage until his death,
which occurred on the 23d of December, 1863,
was engaged in farming near the homestead.
He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth
Frye Rice, a native of Fryeburg, this county,
who passed away on March 13, 1880. She
was the mother of nine children, namelv:

io8

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lohn I'., born Decembc-r 14, 1S24, a farmer
and spool manufacturer of Waterford village,
who married Miss Mary Ann Irish; Sarah F.,
born June 26, 1826, who died September 19,
1827; Sarah E., born December 6, 1827, wife
of John Henry Millett, of Norway, Me.;
Harriet 1,., born December 14, 1829, now
living in Albany, iVIe., widow of Joseph L.
Rand; William R., born March 29, 1832, a
resident of Albany; Mary A., born April 12,
1834, who died September 12, 1834; Isaac
F., born July 12, 1S35, who died March i,
1838; Charles H., born August 26, 1837, who
married Elizabeth Green, and js living on the
homestead in Waterford; and George B., the
subject of this sketch.

George B. Rice in his boyhood received a
common-school education, remaining in his
native town until twenty-one years of age.
In 1862 he went to Boston, Mass., where his
first position was as coachman in a private
family. He was engaged in that capacity for
a year and a half, during the year following"
was employed as conductor on the Metropoli-
tan Street Railroad, Boston, and the two years
ensuing was driver for the Adams E.xpress
Company. About 1869 he returned to his na-
tive town, settling on the old Rice farm, where
he is now living. This is a fine estate of
about a hundred acres, all improved; and Mr.
Rice has achieved marked success as a farmer.
He has a number of cows, and manages a
small dairy business.

Mr. Rice was married October 15, 1868, to
Harriet E. Marsh, of Boston, who was born
December 14, 1843, the daughter of Rufus C.
and Sarah (Choate) Marsh. Rufus C. Marsh
was a well-known citizen of Boston, where he
was superintendent of hacks and carriages for
over thirty years. He died in that city, July
4, 1883. His wife is now living with a son
in Waltham, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Rice have
five children, as follows: Mary E. , born Sep-
tember 8, 1869, wife of Llewellyn Millett, of
Waterford; Rufus, born May 30, 1871, now
in Windsor, \'t. ; Lillian G. , born May 21,
1873, wife of George W. Kneeland, a mill man
of Newry, Me. ; Vernon W. , born May 7,
1875, employed in a mill in Shelburne, N. H. ;
and Florence E. , born July 29, 1877, who has
not yet left the shelter of the parental roof.

Mr. Rice votes the Republican ticket. He
and his wife are active members of the Con-
gregational church in North Waterford vil-
lage, of whose Sunday-school he was superin-
tendent for eight years. He is an industrious
and law-abiding citizen, and has the regard of
all who kncjw him.

irx AVID W. BRESSON, an industri-
I J ous and highly respected resident of'
^J^Sy I'armington, was born July 5, 1828,
in East Strong, now West New
Vineyard, Me., son of James and Elizabeth
(Hall) Bresson. His grandfather, James
Bresson, who was a native of Ireland, emi-
grated to America, and settled at Martha's
\'ineyard, Massachusetts, where for a time
he followed agricultural pursuits. Grand-
father Bresson subsequently moved to West
New Vineyard, and there partially cleared a
new farm. He spent his declining years with
his children, living to the age of seventy.
His wife, in maidenhood a Miss W'eston,
who was born in Ireland, died in 1820, aged
thirty-eight years, carried off by the epi-
demic known as "cold fever" that then pre-
vailed in Maine. She and her husband reared
seven children; namely, James, Beter, Thurs-
ton, Hiram, Leonard, William, and Betsey.

James Bresson, Mr. Bresson's father,
bought the homestead. Finding, after giving
a fair trial, that it was not what he wanted, he
sold it again, and purchased a tract of one
hundred and fifteen acres of land, which was
covered with heavy timber. This farm, which
is now owned by IC. Mosher, he cleared and
improved into a state of cultivation, and
erected on it a good set of buildings. In
1837 he sold it, and moved to a farm in New
Sharon, where he resided two years, after
which he returned and bought the Butler
place, located one mile from the village. He
sold that property in 1854, and went to
Strong, from which place he moved to a farm
near Franklin Bridge. In this last place he
continued occupied in farming until old age
compelled him to retire. In politics he was
in his early days a Democrat, but later became
a Republican. His religious belief was the
Methodist creed. His first wife, Elizabeth,

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who was born March 2^, 1787, died November
8, 1856, leaving five children, namely: Rachel
F. , who was born July 16, 1812; Mary H.,
who was born October 27, 18 14; Harvey T. ,
who was born June 9, 1S20; I'riscilla B., who
was born January 26, 1824: and David \V., the
subject of this sketch. The father's second
marriage was contracted with Rhoda Harding.

After acquiring a good practical education,
David W. Presson was engaged in agriculture
in this locality until 1854. In company with
a party composed of M. Homer, M. Leak, N.
Bean, and others, he then went to Eureka,
Cal., and engaged in mining. In 1861 he re-
turned East, and, settling in Farmington,
bought the Church propert)-, comprising a
pleasant residence and a corner lot on Cottage
Street, and has lived there since. He is now
well established in the business of painting
and paper-hanging, at which he does a large
amount of work annually, employing a great
deal of help. Still strong and vigorous,
he has not been obliged to remain indoors two
days in succession for fifty years. His politi-
cal principles are Democratic, while in relig-
ious belief he is a Unitarian.

On February 27, 1859, Mr. Presson wedded
Dorris Pettengill Hillman, who was born Feb-
ruary 18, 1833, daughter of Alexander and
Thankful (Pettingill) Hillman. Mrs. Bres-
son's grandfather, Uriel Hillman, with his
family, moved in 1807 from Tisbury, Mass.,
to Farmington, where he was a prosperous
farmer. Her father, a native of Tisbury,
born February 4, 1804, was one of the largest
and most progressive agriculturists of this
county. Her mother, who was born in 1805,
died in 1851, leaving six other children;
namely, Uriah, Abel, Isaiah, Gilbert, Alex-
ander, and Elizabeth A.

Mr. and Mrs. Presson have had four chil-
dren, namely: Mary Pllizabeth, born February
10, i860, who died June 9, 1868; Lillie
Belle, born September 4, i86i, who died
March 14, 1862; George McLellan, born
August 4, 1864, now proprietor of a flourish-
ing jew^elry store in Farmington, who married
Genevieve Huston, and has two children —
Dorris M. and Cora P. ; and Alexander Hill-
man, born January 16, 1873, who is now an
assistant in his brother's store.

HARLES H. GEORGE, a leading
resident of the town of Hebron, Ox-
ford County, Me., and a veteran of
the Civil War, was born in Plym-
outh, X.ll., September 3, 1834, son of
William and Mary (Darling) George. His
grandfather. King George, was an early settler
in Plymouth, where he owned and cultivated
for many years a good farm. He died there
at the age of about eighty-seven. In his re-
ligious belief he was a Congregational ist, and
in politics he supported the Whig party. The
maiden name of his two wives was Eaton, he
having married sisters. He reared four sons;
namely, Asa, David, Eaton, and William,
afore-mentioned as the father of Mr. George,
of Hebron.

William George was a native of Plymouth,
and there grew to manhood. Having a natural
genius for mechanical pursuits, he became
very skilful in general handicraft. The
greater part of his industrious life was jiassed
in his native town: and he was well known
and highly respected as a worthy, upright
citizen. His wife, Mary Darling, who was
born in Campton, N.H., became the mother of
nine children, namely: Daniel, the first-born,
who died in infancy; William; Washington;
Asa K. ; Charles H.; Daniel E. ; Mary E. :
Martha A. ; and Joseph P.

William George married Harriet Thayer, a
native of Oxford County, Maine, and died No-
vember 16, 1849, leaving one daughter, Wil-
hemina. Washington George died in 1859,
aged twenty-nine years. Asa K., who resides
in Rumney, N.H., and is reporter for the Plym-
outh Record, married Abbie Mansfield; but
she and her five children are no longer living.
Daniel E. George was born March 26, 1837,
and is now residing in Natick, Mass. In
1 861 he enlisted in Company D, First Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, with which
he served during the Rebellion, taking part in
many of the most important battles from the
first Bull Run fight to the time of his dis-
charge in 1864. He is now an express mes-
senger on the Boston & Albany Railroad.
In politics he is a Republican; and he has
been Commander of Wadsworth Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, No. 63, of Natick,
Mass. He was married September 19, 1857,

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to Adeline Rockvvood, who was born in Sher-
born, Mass., March 3, 1837, and has had
three children, namely: Hattie E. ; Emma
]\I. : and Leonard F., who died at the age of
eighteen months. Mary E. George first mar-
ried Henry Dakin, by whom she had one
daughter, Geddie. She afterward became
Mrs. Woodward, and is now a widow, residing
in Natick, Mass. Her daughter, Geddie O.,
is now Mrs. George Howe. Martha A. George
married Frank P. Simonds, a caterer of
Chicago, 111., and has had two children, of
whom the survivor is named George. Joseph
P. George, a carpenter of Pasadena, Cal.,
married Clara Cushman, a native of Auburn,
Me., who has departed this life. She was the
mother of five children, namely: Minnie;
Herbert; Fred; Edna; and Frank, who is no
longer living. Mrs. Mary D. George lived to
reach the age of sixty years.

Charles H. George, the fifth son, is the
special subject of this biography. He was
educated in the schools of Plymouth, and at
an early age began life for himself. Going
to Massachusetts, he resided successively in
Boston and Natick, and was engaged in the
express business and shoemaking until i860,
when he removed to Hebron, Me., which has
since been his place of residence. In August,
1862, he enlisted as a private in Company E,
Sixteenth Maine \'olunteers, and, going to
the front with his regiment, was in active ser-
vice until, having lost the use of his right arm
at the battle of l-^edericksburg, he was honor-
ably discharged in February, 1863. Return-
ing to Hebron, he engaged in agricultural
pursuits, and has steadily advanced in pros-
perity, owning at the present time a valuable
farming estate, consisting of one hundred and
eighty acres, lying within the limits of Ox-
ford, Paris, and Hebron, on which he has
made various improvements, including the
erection of new buildings. Besides giving his
attention to general husbandry, he takes care
of an orchard embracing eight acres of choice
apples and smaller fruits, the shipment of
which is the source of considerable profit; and
he also runs a well-equipped dairy. In pub-
lic affairs he has for many years been one of
the leading spirits in the town, having served
with abilitv as a member of the Board of Se-

lectmen for three years, as Constable for some
time, and as Collector and Deputy Sheriff for
ten years. He is a Republican in politics.

On November 25, 1854, Mr. George was
married to Ruth A. Gurne}', who was born in
Minot, Me., December 6, 1S38, daughter of
Samuel and Lucy Gurney, of that town.
Mrs. George has been the mother of five chil-
dren, as follows: Arthur E., who was born
March 13, i860, is married, and carries on
mercantile business and farming in Hebron;
Herman E., who was born March 8, 1865,
married Alida Graves, and is now a carjienter
of this town; Nettie P'rances, who was born
October 30, 1868, and died January 24, 1870;
Minnie B., who was born January 7, 1879,
and Gertie M., who was born December 13,
1 88 1, both of whom are residing at home.

In business and in fraternal circles Mr.
George is both prominent and popular. He
is at the present time Secretary and Treasurer
of the Patrons of Husbandry Mutual Fire In-
surance Company, with which he has been
connected for thirteen years; is a member of
South Paris Lodge, No. 92, .A. F. & A. M. ;
and is a comrade of W. K. Kimball Post, No.
94, Grand Army of the Republic, of South
Paris. For thirteen years he has been Master
of Hebron Grange, No. 43, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, with which his wife is also connected;
and IVIrs. George is a member of the Baptist
church.

ALTER NICHOLS, a retired busi-
ness man and highly esteemed resi-
dent of F"armington, was born in
Searsport, Me., December 14, 18 12, son of
James and Nancy (Fowler) Nichols. His
great-grandfather, who wvts a native of Ire-
land, settled in Londonderrv, N. H., among
the early pioneers, and cleared a farm, which
was located upon the site of the present vil-
lage. James Nichols, the grandfather of
Walter, was born in Londonderry in 1733.
He inherited the homestead, and followed gen-
eral farming during the active period of his
life. He was a man of unusual physical
strength and one of the most energetic and suc-
cessful farmers of his day. He died in 1S18,
at Searsport, Me. His first wife, in maiden-

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hood Dinah Woodhur}', tlicd leaving six chil-
dren — William, David, Annie, James, Wood-
burn, and Thomas. His second wife, Hannah
Cadwell before marriage, bore him seven chil-
dren — Alexander, Samuel, Hannah, Dinah,
Nancy, Mary, and Margaret.

James Nichols, Mr. Nichols's father, also a
native of Londonderry, born March 3, 1766,
settled in Searsport when a young man, bought
a farm of one hundred acres, and was there-
after profitably engaged in its culti\'ation
until stricken with typhoid fever, which
caused his death in 1833. He possesseil the
characteristics of the early pioneers, and was
in consequence able to make progress in the
face of difficulties that would conquer weaker
men. In politics he united with the Whig
party, and he was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church. His wife, Nancy, became
the mother of ten children, who were: Will-
iam, James, Nancy, Jane, Abigail, Wood-
burn, Rufus, Walter, John l-"., and Betsey A.
She attained the age of sixty-six years before
her death.

In the district school Walter Nichols made
the most of his opportunities for obtaining an
education. Afterward by his personal efforts
he became proficient in some of the higher
branches. In young manhood he engaged in
teaching, and successfully followed that pro-
fession for ten winters. In that time he had
charge of some of the schools most difficult to
manage in his locality. Having learned the
house carpenter's trade, he worked at it in
the summer season, holding the position of
foreman for ten years, when on account of
failing health he was obliged to abstain from
laborious occupation. By this time he had
accumulated some capital, which he invested
advantageously in Western lands. In 1868
he and Mr. Morrell bought a half interest each
in the water-power privilege of Farmington
Falls, and engaged in the manufacture of
spools. A short time after, he sold his inter-
est in the factory and removed to Farmington
village. His residence having been burned
in the fire of 1886, he bought the Captain
Chi Ids house on Main Street, and remodelled
and enlarged it, making of it the commodious
and fine-a])pearing dwelling that has since
been his home. In Farmington for a consid-

erable period after his arrival he was [irofitably
employed as a surveyor of land. He retired
from that business in favor of the more active
aspirants of a younger generation.

In 1.S50 Mr. Nichols wedded Rosina
Witham, a daughter of John A. Witham, of
Starks, Me. Mrs. Nichols has had three
children, namely: Elaora, who is the wife of
J. M. S. Hunter, editor of the I'^armington
Chiviiicli\ and has one daughter, Mabel E. ;
Albion, who died at the age of six years; and
John W. , a practising physician of this town.
In jiolitics Mr. Nichols is a firm supporter of
the Republican party, with which he has been
united since its formation. His religious
faith is that of the Adventists. He is re-
garded by his fellow-townsmen as one of the
most able and successful business men and
financiers in this part of the State; and the
prosperity which has resulted from his busy
life of industry and toil is amply merited.

John W. Nichols, M.D., was born in Sears-
port, August 4, 1859. He fitted for his col-
legiate course at Wendell Institute, and, after
graduating from Bowdoin College with the
class of 1881, was for a short time employed
by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in
Minneapolis, Minn. Deciding to adopt the
medical profession, he subsequently pursued a
thorough course of instruction at the Maine
Medical School in Brunswick, from which he
graduated in 1887. Excluding two years
spent in Montpelier, \'t., he has since prac-
tised continuously in Farmington. On June
7, 1892, he was united in marriage with
Bertha E. Johnson, daughter of George W.
Johnson, of Industry, Me. He is a Republi-
can in politics. He has served with ability
as superintendent of public schools in this
town, and he is a member of the Maine State
Medical Association. As a physician he is
held in high esteem by the entire community;
and, socially, both he and Mrs. Nichols are
very popular.

(JOSHUA JONES McAllister, late

an enterprising farmer of Stoneham,
Oxford County, Me., who died on the
1 2th of October of the present year
(1896), was born in Lovell, an adjoining town

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of the same county, June 6, 1849. He was a
son of Josiah H. and Nancy (McKeen) McAl-
lister, and was the eighth in a family of eleven
children. The father, who was a native of
Lovell, passed there all his days in pursuit of
the honored vocation of farming, being also
employed somewhat as a mechanic. His wife,
whose maiden name was Nancy McKeen, was
born in Stoneham, Me. She died in 1858,
and he in 1868, having survived her about
a decade.

J. Jones McAllister remained at the old
homestead until he was about eighteen years of
age, when, on the death of his father, he went
to work as a farm hand in Bethel, Me. He sub-
sequently continued that form of employment
on various farms in Bethel for four years,
after which he returned to Lovell, and worked
in a saw-mill until his marriage in 1878.
He then took up his residence at Stoneham,
and, having purchased the old McAllister saw-
mill, he was occupied for four years in the
manufacture of staves and spool stock. Re-
moving his mill to Albany, Me., he engaged
in business there for ten years, and then
moved it back to Stoneham, where he estab-
lished the mill permanently. From that time
on he gave his attention to husbandry and
milling, sawing shooks and spool stock for
the firm of l^Uiot & Bartlett, of Lynchville,
Me. At the time of his departure Mr. Mc-
Allister owned a farm of three hundred acres,
besides almost a thousand acres of wild land.

On October 13, 1878, Mr. McAllister mar-
ried Miss Nettie A. Bartlett, a native of
Stoneham, where she was born January 9,
1859, to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Bartlett. Her
father was a farmer of that place, but now re-
sides at Naples, Me. The union of Mr. and
Mrs. McAllister was blessed in the birth of
seven children, as follows: Clinton B., Albert
J., Clarice, Harold Leroy, Ella May, Lynn
A., and Lyde Dell, the last two being twins.

Mr. McAllister affiliated with the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows, being a member
of Kezar Valley Lodge, No. 66, of Lovell.
Politically, he was found in the ranks of the
Republican party. In religious faith and fel-
lowship he was connected with the Congrega-
tional Church of Stoneham, of which his wife,
who survives him, remains a valued member.

Mr. McAllister was always a hard-working
man, and his diligent efforts were crowned
with a gratifying degree of success. Well
known throughout the community, he com-
manded the respect and confidence of all. He
has left his children the inheritance of a good
name.

ENRY D. HAMMOND, one of the
foremost of the younger agricultu-

.9 I rists of the town of Paris, Me., is

prominently identified with the
business, educational, and social interests of
this section of Oxford County. A son of
Henry E. and Adaline M. (Chase) Hammond,
he was born June 7, 1857, in the house where
he now resides. This homestead was re-
deemed from the forest by his great-grand-
father, Benjamin Hammond, Jr., who came to
Paris from New Gloucester, Me., at an early
day, when settlers were few and far between,
and the woods that surrounded the log house
which he erected in a small clearing were
filled with wild animals. He was the eldest
son of Benjamin Hammond, Sr. , a soldier in
the Revolution, who accjuired more than a
local reputation as a hunter and Indian scout.
After residing here a few years, the pioneer
replaced the log house, which was the
birthplace of his three elder chiklren, by the
present substantial residence. liight children
were born to him and his wife, Rebecca
Smith Hammond; namely, Rebecca, Esther,
Benjamin (third), Moses, Sally, I^zra, Olive,
and Bela, all of whom, with the exception of
one, married and reared families.

Ezra Hammond, born May 21, 1796, who
was the sixth child and third son, was the
next in line to own the homestead. He was
an industrious and progressive farmer and a
worthy citizen. With the exception of four
years in which he resided in Andover, Mass.,
in order to educate his children, he here spent
his entire life. He died March 22, 1863.
Ezra Hammond was a Democrat in politics,
and in religion both he and his wife were
Baptists. Her maiden name was Betsey
Towne. She was born in Albany, Me., in
1806, and died in March, 1876. The record
of their three children is thus given: George

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v., bum June 16, 1825, lives in Paris; Henry
E. was born September 12, 1827; and Will-
iam G., born May 4, 1830, lives at Paris
Hill.

Henry E. Hammond was the second son of
Ezra. He acquired his education in the dis-
trict schools of Paris and at Phillips Academy
in Andover, iVIass. During his early man-
hood he taught school nine winter terms, and
from the age of twenty-one years until the
present day has had charge of the home farm.
He has worked with untiring energy in con-
tinuing the improvements begun by his father
and grandfather, and has watched with gratifi-
cation its gradual development into one of the
finest and most productive pieces of farming
property in this vicinity. At the same time
he has not been unmindful of the interests of
the public, having served his fellow-citizens
with ability and fidelity in the office of Ti)wn
Clerk fifteen years, as Selectman two years,
as Representative to the State legislature in
1870 and 1 87 1, as Trial Justice, and as Crier
of the Court thirty years; and he is now
Deputy Sheriff of Oxford County. Although
fast approaching the milestone marking his
seventieth year, his mental vigor is unim-
paired, and his usefulness unabated. He was
at one time President of the Oxford County
Agricultural Society, and is now a Trustee of
the South Paris Savings Bank. In politics
he is a Republican, and he is an attendant of
the Baptist church.

The imion of Henry K. Hammond with
Adaline M. Chase, who was born in the neigh-
boring town of Sunmer, May i, 1831, was
solemnized September 7, 1851. They have
four children living, namely: Addie I., born
July 7, 1852, who is the wife of J. A. Kim-
ball, of Boston, and has one child, Henry S. ;
Alice K., born March 24, 1854, who lives in
Paris; Henry D., the special subject of this
sketch; Lizzie P., born November 24, 1861,
now the wife of Erederic V.. Shorey, of Gor-
liam, N.H., having two children — P"rances
H. and Stanley K. Their fifth and youngest
child, named Charlie, born May 27, 1871,
died September 13 of the same year.

Henry D. Hammond completed his educa-
tion at the Oxford County Normal Institute at
South Paris, being there fitted for a teacher;

and for ten years he was engaged in that pro-
fession. Continuing his residence on the
Hammond homestead, he now assists his
father in its management. They have two
hundred and sixty-five acres of land, on which
they carry on general farming on an extensive
scale after progressive modern methods; and
they occupy a deservedly high position among
the leading farmers of the county. Politi-
cally a stanch Republican, Mr. Hammond
has filled most acceptably the office of Select-
man for six years, having been Chairman of
the Board two years ; and one year he was
superintendent of the School Committee. He
is H member of Hamlin Lodge, No. 31,
Knights of Pythias, of South Paris; of Paris
Grange, No. 44.; and is Vice-President of the
Oxford County Agricultural Society. He is
likewise \'ice-President and a Trustee of the
Paris Hill Academy.

Mr. Hammond was first married on Septem-
ber 15, 1885, to Ella L. Dudley, who died
July 26, 1886. On August 29, 1887, he mar-
ried her sister, E. Gertrude Dudley, who was
born in Paris, August 29, 1867, a daughter of
J. Smith and Lydia H. (Stearns) Dudley.
Mr. Dudley was born in Woodstock, May 8,
1827, and died in Paris in February, 1883.
Mrs. Lydia H. Dudley was born in Paris,
June 2, 1835, a daughter of William and
Joanna (Porter) Stearns. After the death of
her first husband Mrs. Dudley married Jairus
Keith Hammond, who died February i, 1892.
A sketch of his life will be found on another
page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond
have no children. Both are liberal in their
religious belief.

ISAAC H. BERRY, Chairman of the
Board of Selectmen of Denmark, Oxford
County, was born here, January 12,
1857, son of Isaac and Emily (Fuller)
Berry. Mr. Berry's grandfather, Henry
Berry, who was a native of Middleton, Mass.,
born October 3, 1779, settled upon a tract of
wild land in Denmark, and cleared the farm
now owned by his grandson. He afterward
resided there until his death, which occurred
November 11, 1836. By his wife, .Sally
(Jewett) Berry, he became the father of four-

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teen children; namely, Mial, Catherine,
Henry, Elias, Isaac, Joseph, Ruth, Lorenzo,
Patience J., Sarah S., Ann Bixby, Mial (sec-
ond), Aaron R., and Amos S., none of them
now living. The mother died June i, 1852.

Isaac lierry was born in Denmark, Septem-
ber 6, 1803. In June, 1836, he took charge
of his father's farm, and subsequently suc-
ceeded to its possession. He resided all his
lifetime at the homestead. In addition to
conducting the farm he surveyed timber, and
engaged quite extensively in lumbering. He
was quite prosperous both as a farmer and a
business man; and he died August 26, 1880,
leaving the reputation of an upright and
worthy citizen. His wife, Kmily, born in
Hampton, Conn., January 15, 1813, became
the mother of eight children, as follows:
Laura, who was born October 12, 1836, and
died April 22, 1848; Mial, who was born Jan-
uary 8, 1840, and died September 19, 1855;
Jared F., of this town, who was born Septem-
ber 21, 1842, married Lydia Bucknell, and
has two children — Bertha M. and Mary
Helen; Mary A., who was born January 12,
1845, married James A. Head, of Denmark,
and has four children — Gertrude J., Eva
Maud, Owen Berry, and PLthel M. ; William
W., depot masterat Perley's Mills, born May
9, 1S48, who married Nettie S. Lord, whose
birth occurred in September, 1873, and has
one daughter, Nettie M.; Lorenzo, who was
born July 7, 1851, and died August 7, 1858;
John P. P., who was born December 13, 1854,
and died August 7, 185S; and Isaac H., the
subject of this sketch. The mother, now
eighty-three years old, is a member of the
Congregational church, and resides with
Isaac H.

Isaac H. Berry acquired a common-school
education. His early manhood was spent
working upon the neighboring farms and in
the lumber-mills. After his marriage he took
charge of the homestead farm which he now
owns. While he does considerable logging
during the winter season, he devotes the
greater part of his time to agriculture. The
farm contains one hundred and forty acres of
well-located land, and produces large crops of
hay, corn, and potatoes. On it is a fine
orchard having several choice varieties of

apple-trees. The proprietor also owns six
hundred acres of land located in Cumberland
and Oxford Counties.

On October 15, 1874, Mr. Berry wedded
Mary A. Lord, a native of Fryeburg, Me.,
who was born December 14, 1856, daughter of
William and Mary A. (Potter) Lord. Mr.
Lord, who was born in Alfred, Me., moved
after his marriage to Lovell, Me., and then
to Denmark, where he now resides with his
daughters. His wife, now deceased, was a
native of Bridgton, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Berry
have two children, namely: Emily Fuller,
who was born October 25, 1875, and is now
a teacher; and Mary A., born August 16,
1879, who was engaged in educational work
for some time, and who on November 8, i8g6,
married Irving K. Ingalls, of this town.

Mr. Berry takes an active interest in politi-
cal affairs. He has been a member of the
Board of Selectmen for the past ten years, and
he is at the present time Chairman of that
body. The Republican Town Committee also
avails of his services as Chairman. He is a
member of Mount Moriah Lodge, A. F. &
A. M., of Denmark; of Denmark Lodge; the
encampment at Bridgton, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows; and of Hiram Lodge,
Knights of Pythias. An able and progressive
business man and one who takes an earnest
interest in the general welfare, he is highly
regarded in the community.

/pTKORGE G. WHITMAN, an exten-
\ I^^T sive farmer of Sumner, Oxford
County, and a veteran of the Civil
War, was born in Woodstock, Me., May 13,
1S41, son of Zeri B. and Mary (Dale) Whit-
man. Joshua Whitman, his great-grand-
father, was one of the first settlers of Buck-
field, this county. Jacob Whitman, a son of
Joshua and grandfather of George G., was a
native of that town, an "industrious farmer,
and a well-known local preacher of the Calvin-
ist Baptist doctrine in his day. He died in
Hebron, at the advanced age of ninety years.
Zeri B. Whitman was a native of Woodstock,
born in August, 1807. He learned the car-
penter's trade, which he followed in connec-
tion with farming during his active period.

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He moved from Woodstock to Hebron, where
he subsequently died at the age of fifty-seven
years. He was an active member of the Cal-
vinist Baptist church and a teacher in the
Sunday-school for a long period. In his later
years he gave his political support to the Re-
publican party. His wife, Mary, who was
born in Norway, Me., May 3, 181 1, became
the mother of nine children, two of whom are
living. These are: Frank M., a lawyer of
Haverhill, Mass. ; and George G. , the sub-
ject of this sketch. Mr. Whitman's mother
lived to the advanced age of eighty-three
years.

George G. Whitman grew to manhood in
Hebron, and accpiired his education at the
academy in that town. On October 7, 1861,
he enlisted as a private in Company K, Fifth
Regiment, Maine Volunteers, under Captain
H. T. Buckman, of Mechanic Falls. During
his three years of active service in the Civil
War he participated in the second battle of
Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Fred-
ericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, and
Winchester, and was honorably discharged in
1864. After hi.s return from the army he was
encratred as a contractor in the shoe manufact-
uring business at Haverhill, Mass., for eight
years, when, his health becoming poor, he
bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres
in Paris, Me., where until 1885 he followed
the more healthful employment of tilling the
soil. In i88g he moved to Sumner, where he
now owns two hundred and seventy acres of
desirable land, constituting one of the largest
farms in this vicinity. Here he carries on
general farming and dairying, and keeps from
si.\ to ten full-blooded and graded Jersey cows.
He has made various improvements upon the
land and buildings, which are in iirst-class
condition; and his energy is fast bringing him
to the front rank among the well-to-do agri-
culturists of the neighborhood.

On November 15, 1872, Mr. Whitman
wedded Amanda E. Hill, who was born in
Conway, N.H., daughter of Wentworth and
Asenath Hill. The only child of the union,
Fred A., was born in- Paris, February 18,
1882, and is now attending Hebron .'\cademy.
In politics Mr. Whitman is a Republican.
He is connected with South Paris Grange,

Patrons of Husbandry, and is a comrade of
William K. Kimbalf Post, No. 148, Grand
Army of the Republic, of South Paris. Both
he and Mrs. Whitman are libeial in their re-
ligious views.

DELBERT ELROV DEAN, a promi-
nent and influential farmer of Paris,
Oxford County, was born April 25,
1S54, in the neighboring township
of Peru, son of Edmund Sylvester and Hannah
(Brown) Dean. His great-grandfather was
one of the very earliest settlers of Paris. His
grandfather, Edmund Dean, wh(j was born
here, and was a Democrat in politics, married
Esther A. Allen, a native of Hartford. Both
the grandparents lived a full century, were
liberal in their religious creed, and active
members of the Universalist church.

lulmund Sylvester Dean, also a native of
Paris, born February 5, 1820, was here reared
and educated. Arriving at the years of ma-
turity, he started for Boston, where he worked
at the carpenter's trade nearly ten years. Re-
turning then to his native county, he there
carried on general farming for three years.
After this he purchased a farm in Peru, where
he remained until 1856, when he again be-
came a resident of Paris. While living in
Buckfield, he married Hannah Brown, of
Turner, Me., where her birth occurred Febru-
ary 6, 1830. ]5oth are now living in South
Paris, retired from active work. They have
six children — Nellie E., Adelbert P2., Palmer,
Georgia A., Albert E. , and Isa B.

Adelbert Elroy Dean was but two years of
age when his parents brought him to Paris.
He received his education in the schools of
this town and at the Oxford County Normal
Institute. During the first ten years of his
business life Mr. Dean worked in the shoe
factory of B. F. Spinney & Co., of Norway,
Me., being "second hand" in the stock de-
partment. Receiving a fair compensation for
his labor, he was able to save enough of his
earnings to buy and stock his present farm in
1892. The estate contains one hundred and
sixty acres. Besides general farming Mr.
Dean ia engaged in dairying, keeping graded
Jersey cattle. By his energy, ability, and

if,

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push he has won a prominent position among
the agriculturists of this section of the county.
In religion he is a Universalist and in poli-
tics an unswerving Democrat. He was Super-
visor of Schools in Paris from 1886 until
1888. An esteemed member of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows, he belongs to
Norway Lodge, No. 16, Wildey Encampment,
No. 21, and Wildey Canton, No. 8, of Norway.
He has also affiliation with the Paris Grange,
No. 44, Patrons of Husbandry.

On F"ebruary 22, 1881, Mr. Dean married
Mary A. Hussey, daughter of Samuel A.
Hussey, prominently identified with the social
and official life of Waterford, Me., where he
resides. Mr. and Mrs. Dean have three chil-
dren, namely: Arthur E., born June 21,
1883; Henry A., born August 27, 1888; and
Myrtle, born June 13, 1895.

^Crr)/lLLIAM MORRI
Yfe\/ ington's retired
*^ '^ was for many ye

LISON, one of Farm-
business men, who
j'ears identified with
the lumber manufacturing industry of this lo-
cality, was born upon the site of his present
residence, October 8, 1821, son of John and
Sarah (Tufts) Morrison. The Morrison fam-
ily, which is of Scotch-Irish stock, descends
from Robert Morrison, a native of London-
derry, Ireland, who emigrated to America
during the Colonial jjeriod, and settled at
Bridgewater, Mass., where he followed the
trade of a general mechanic. His son, Will-
iam, Mr. Morrison's great-grandfather, mar-
ried Sarah Montgomery, by whom he became
the father of four sons — William, Robert,
John, and James.

William Morrison, Mr. Morrison's grand-
father, who was a blacksmith by trade, resided
for a time in Middleboro, Mass. From there
he came to the District of Maine in 1805,
making a settlement in Farmington, wher'e he
bought two hundred acres of the Sewell tract.
Here he cleared a farm, erected a large house,
spent the remainder of his life occupied in
farming and working at his trade, and died at
the age of seventy-seven years. He was a
man of great physical strength and energy.
He took a broad and liberal view of religious
subjects, while in politics he supported the

Whig party. In 1772 he married Hannah
Benson, with whom he reared a family of
seven children — Robert, William, John,
Sally, Betsey," Hannah, and Jane. The
mother, who attended the Baptist church,
reached the age of seventy-seven years.

John Morrison, who was born in Massachu-
setts, March 3, 1784, assisted his father in
clearing and improving the farm. He subse-
quently inherited the property; and he became
very prosperous as a general farmer and lum-
berman, owning a half-interest in the saw-
mills at North Chesterville, then one of the
principal industries in this locality. He was
a member of the Board of Selectmen for the
years 1821 and 1822, and he served with abil-
ity in other town offices. He maintained a
lively interest in public affairs and in the in-
dustrial development of the town until his
death, which occurred in 1857. He was a
Universalist in his religious belief, and he
contributed generously to relieve the necessi-
ties of the poor and needy. His wife, Sarah,
who was a daughter of Francis Tufts, Jr.,
became by him the mother of seven children;
namely, Sarah, John B. , William, Hannah,
Robert M., Benjamin F. , and Elizabeth C.
She died in 1852, aged fifty-five years.

William Morrison acquired his education in
the town schools, and subsequently learned
the trade of a blacksmith. He inherited
thirty acres of the homestead property and
the old family residence that stood on it. In
1848 he replaced the residence with a more
modern and spacious dwelling. In the same
year he bought an interest in the North Ches-
terville mills, and engaged in the manufacture
of lumber. The enterprise was profitable to
him and beneficial to the work-people of this
locality. He displayed excellent business
ability, and' gained in his dealings the reputa-
tion of an honorable and upright man. His
prosperity continued unabated throughout his
long period of activity. Since his retirement
he has passed his time pleasantly at his farm,
which he enlarged some years since by the
purchase of adjoining land. He still superin-
tends his farm, is remarkably well preserved
and healthy for one of his years, and is a most
entertaining conversationalist. He attends
the L^niversalist church, and is a member of

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Franklin Lodge, No. 5.S, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows.

On December 12, 1S48, Mr. Morrison
wedded Mrs. Esther H. Woodworth, who was
born January 3, 18 18, daughter of Stephen
and Esther (Harris) Allen. She died July
13, 1862, leaving two sons, as follows: Will-
iam H., born November 4, 1850; and Joseph
A., born October 10, 1S52. William H.
Morrison, who completed his classical course
at Tufts College in 1875, graduated from the
Divinity School connected with that institu-
tion in 1S78, and is now a Universalist minis-
ter in Manchester, N.H., married Alice N.
Bickford, and has two children — Grace and
Harry. Joseph A. Morrison, who is now a
jeweller in I'ittsfield, Me., married Anna
Ney, and has three children — Elmer J.,
Esther, and Robert W.

.HANDLER GARLAND, Deputy
-^ Sheriff, and a popular resident of
Paris, Oxford County, was born on
Paris Hill, November i, 1850, son
of John L. and Clara (Rawson) Garland, and
grandson of John L. Garland, Sr. His father
grew to manhood in Andover and Rumford, this
county, acquiring his education in the com-
mon schools of these towns. When a young
man he came to Paris, purchased a farm, and
by his industry and upright dealings became
a successful agriculturist, and earned the re-
spect of his townsmen. He was a Republican
in politics, and filled a number of the minor
town ofifices. He died on March 15, 1893.
His wife, Clara, now living with her son,
bore him four children, two sons and two
daughters. These were: William E., who
died at the age of seventeen years; Clara E. ,
who is the wife of Charles E. Waterman, the
editor of the Mechanic Falls Ledi^cr ; Chand-
ler, the subject of this sketch; and Mrs. Belle
M. Merrill.

After acquiring his education, which was
completed at the South Paris Normal School,
Chandler Garland entered the printing-office
of the O.xford Democrat, and there spent three
years. The business proving uncongenial to
his tastes, he then abandoned it; and, in com-
pany with S. U. Hawkes, under the firm name

of Hawkes & Garland, he started a mercantile
business at Paris, and continued it for six
years with good success. Mr. Garland then
removed to Cambridge, Mass., and openetl a
grocery store. This he sold out after two
years, and came to South Paris as book-keeper
for the Paris Manufacturing Company. He
was with this firmsi.x years, when the state of
his health obliged him to seek outdoor em-
ployment. In 1888 he was appointed Deputy
Sheriff, in which capacity he received charge
of the county jail, then, together with the
court-house, located at Paris Hill. In addi-
tion to these duties he also discharged those
of Ta.x Collector and Constable for six years.
He has been in charge of the new court-house
and jail at South Paris since they were
erected, proving himself by his able and care-
ful management the right man for the place.

On May 20, 1876, Mr. Garland was united
in marriage with Miss P"lora E. Whitternore,
daughter of Albion A. and Sophia (Cole)
Whittemore. Her father is a well-known
blacksmith and farmer of Paris. Mr. and
Mrs. Garland have three daughters, namely:
Minnie J., born September 29, 1878; Alice
M., born April 14, 1881; and Mabel S., born
February 18, 1883, who died May 25, 1884.
Mr. Garland adheres to the Republican prin-
ciples in which he was reared. He also con-
tinues in the religious faith of his father,
being, like him, a communciant of the Baptist
church. He is a member of Mount Mica
Lodge, No. 17, Independent Order of Odd
P'ellows, of South Paris.

HARLES EDWIN DVICR, keeper of
the jail and janitor of the Franklin
County court-house at Farmington,
was born in New Sharon, Me., No-
vember 5, [850, son of Dr. Parmenas and
Hannah W. (Baker) Dyer. Dr. Dyer was
born May 20, 1822, in Corinna, Penobscot
County. Ambitious to attain a useful posi-
tion in life, he eventually accomplished his
aim through his own personal exertions. By
observing the most rigid economy he managed
to complete his preparatory education. Then
he studied medicine with Dr. Hill, of
Augusta, and graduated from the Maine Med-

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ical School at Brunswick in 1846, having paid
his expenses with the earnings derived from
such work as he was able to obtain. The
first five years of his professional life were
passed in New Sharon. He then moved to
Lewiston, where for a time he was engaged in
editing a newspaper published in Auburn, on
the opposite side of the river. After the
office with its contents was destroyed by fire,
he removed to Leavenworth, Kan., where for
the succeeding six years he practised medicine
and surgery, and acted as a government agent
in looking up farming lands. In 1861 he re-
turned East, and, settling in F'armington,
successfully followed iiis [profession until his
death, which occurred in 1891. His reputa-
tion was that of a skilful and reliable practi-
tioner. He is remembered by his numerous
patients in this locality, who were benefited
by his careful treatment. In ]3olitics he was
a Democrat, and in religious belief he was a
Unitarian. His wife, whom he wedded in
1847, is a daughter of Colonel D. J. Baker,
of New Sharon. Her children were: Charles
E., the subject of this sketch; and Frank,
who married Josie Farrington, and resides in
Livermore Falls. She still survives her hus-
band.

Charles Edwin Dyer acquired the principal
part of his education in the schools of I-'arm-
ington. After completing his studies he
began life for himself as a workman in a
tannery. At a later date lie became a clerk in
a grocery store. Afterward going to Auburn,
he was for a time employed as clerk in a
hotel. Returning to this town subsequently,
he resumed clerking in a grocery store, where
he continued engaged until September 15,
1890. He was then appointed keeper of the
jail. Supreme Court messenger, and janitor of
the Franklin County court-house, positions
which he has since filled satisfactorily. The
county jail, a securely built structure, erected
in 1887, is carefully kept with a due regard
for the health of the inmates, among whom
best of order is maintained. The court-house,
which was built in 1885, under the direction
of Messrs. F. \V. Patterson, J. Chick, and
Samuel K. Wellman, County Commissioners,
also shows evidence of the care and attention
it receives at .Mr. Dyer's hands.

On January 22, 18S7, Mr. Dyer was united
in marriage to Ella L. Perkins, daughter of
Orrin Perkins, of Carthage, Me. He is an
Odd Fellow of high standing, being Past
Grand of P^ranklin Lodge, No. 58, and Past
Chief Patriarch of the Sandy River Encamp-
ment, No. 9. In politics he is a Republican.
He attends the Baptist church, of which he
has acted as usher for the past twelve years.

/STeORGE H. EASTMAN, an enter-
\ '*) I prising and prosperous farmer and a
prominent citizen of Lovell, Oxford
County, Me., was born in this municipality,
March 9, 1850, his parents being Isaac and
Katherine (Page) Eastman.

His father was a son of Phineas Eastman,
an agriculturist of Lovell, and was one of a
family of nine children. Isaac Eastman after
his marriage settled in the southern part of the
tow-n of Lovell, where he carried on farming,
and also engaged in Numbering, until his de-
cease. He married Miss Katherine Page, a
native of Burlington, Me. ; and they became
the parents of four children — George H.,
Mellen, Alva, and H. Walter. Mellen East-
man married Miss Nellie M. Gerry, and they
now reside with his mother on the old home-
stead at South Lovell. Alva wedded Miss
Alice Eastman; and they now make their
home at St. Cloud, Minn. He is a promi-
nent man of that city, and is the editor ami
proprietor of the St. Cloud Journal Pirss.
H. Walter Eastman still resides in his native
town, and is engaged in general farming.
Mr. Isaac Eastman passed away in December,
1895.

George H. Eastman grew to manhood on
the paternal estate, obtaining his education in
the common schools of Lovell and in the
Bethel and Fryeburg Academy. At the age of
twenty-one he began to teach ; and for about
six years he had charge of the district scliooLs
in Lovell, North Waterford, and Fryeburg.
During that time he married; and soon after
he assumed charge of the homestead of his
father-in-law, which was known as the
Pottle farm. On this estate, now embrac-
ing about two hundred and twenty-five acres,
which he has very much improved during his

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proprietorship, he is successfully engaged in
general agricultural [nirsuits, devoting less at-
tention, however, to stock raising and dairy-
ing than to the cultivation of the land.

On November 14, 1874, Mr. Eastman mar-
rietl Miss Lizzie M. Pottle, a native of Lovell
and one of the five children of the Rev. John
S. and Mrs. Nancy II. (Hamblen) Pottle, to
whom she was born May 17, 1851. Mr.
Pottle was a native of Stratham, N.H., and
his wife of Limington, Me. Prior to his
marriage he removed to Stoneham, Me., where
he resided about four years, changing his
home then to Lovell, settling on a farm near
the centre of that town. He conducted hus-
bandry thereon until 1850, when he located on
the estate now occupied by his son-in-law,
Mr. Eastman, and on which he resided until
his decease. The Rev. John S. Pottle and his
wife became the jxirents of five children,
namely: Albanes M.; Lizzie M., now Mrs.
Eastman; P"rancina; Lydia H. ; and Carrie
M. Albanes M. Pottle, who still resides in
Lovell, and is engaged in farming and teach-
ing, married for his first wife Miss Nellie H.
Heald, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abel
Heald, of Lovell, and after her death wedded
Miss Mary Heald, a native of Lovell ; Francina
Pottle is now the wife of C. Adelbert Heath,
who is a dealer in dry goods at Brayton, la. ;
Lydia lives at Lovell as the wife of Henry W.
Palmer, who prosecutes there farming and car-
pentering and also the blacksmith trade;
Carrie is now Mrs. Ezra Heald, whose hus-
band is a farmer of Stow, Me. Mr. Pottle de-
parted this life on January 10, i8g2. His
wife still survives, residing with her daughter,
Mrs. Eastman.

Mr. Eastman is one of the most influential
citizens of Lovell, though he has never been a
solicitor for public ofifice. He takes a leading
part in town and county enterprises, and is an
earnest advocate of every wise project looking
to the welfare and advancement of the com-
munity. For two years he officiated as Super-
visor in Lovell. Mr. Eastman is in affiliation
with Kezar Valley Lodge, No. 66, of the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, located in
Lovell. His political views bring him into
fellowship with the Republican party, to
which he has always given his allegiance.

Both he and his wife are members of the
Christian Church of Lovell Centre. Mr.
Eastman is of a genial disposition, and he
commands the respect and confidence of a
broad circle of acquaintances.

r^TARLAN P. DENNISON, of South
r^\ Paris, Me., the Treasurer of the

|ls I Paris Manufacturing Company, is

one of those men who have made
American enterprise proverbial throughout the
world. He is a native of Freeport, IVIe., born
April 10, 1849, son of Joseph and Caroline
(Blackstone) Dennison. Joseph Dennison
was a leading farmer of P"reeport, where he
died in 1862, when fifty-eight years old. His
wife, Caroline, bore him five children, of
whom one died in infancy. The others, who
all attained maturity, were: Hannah, Ann J.,
Harlan, and Lucilla. The mother lived until
I 89 1, reaching the age of seventy-two years.

Harlan P. Dennison, left fatherless at the
age of thirteen, was then obliged to aid in
maintaining the family by going to work in a
shoe factory. Possessed of a natural aptitude
for any mechanical labor requiring skill, he
learned the trade quickly, and was soon earn-
ing wages that caused him to be looked to as
the chief support of his mother and sisters.
Subsequently, becoming expert in the work of
all the departments, he demanded and ob-
tained the highest remuneration paid. When
thirty years old he joined the firm of Denni-
son & Lamont, manufacturers of boots and
shoes in Freeport. Shortly after he bought
out his partner, and conducted the establish-
ment alone for a brief period. Then he took
R. A. Lewis into partnership, the business
being carried on for four years under the name
of Dennison & Lewis. Again he became
sole proprietor by purchasing his partner's in-
terest; and in the ensuing years he made
shoes, principally ladies' hand-turned shoes,
at the rate of thirty-five thousand pairs per
year. In 1891 he came to South Paris to
settle, as e.xecutor, the estate of his father-in-
law, who had recently died. This work
brought him into relations with the Paris
Manufacturing Company, of which the father-
in-law had been a shareholder at his death to

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the amount of eighty-four thousand dollars,
and finally led him to abandon the manufact-
ure of shoes and invest largely in that com-
pany's stock. At the same time he took up
his residence in South Paris. In the follow-
ing year he was elected Trustee of the com-
pany, and thenceforth he became more and
more identified with its interests.

The business of the company was first
started in 1S70 at Paris Hill, under the man-
agement of H. F. Morton and G. B. Crocker,
with capital raised by the people of the town.
In 1883 a new and more commodious building
was erected in South Paris, and the plant re-
moved hither. Two years after it was de-
stroyed by an accidental fire, but no time was
lost in rebuilding. The structure covers an
area of thirty-nine thousand square feet, has a
height varying from one to two and a half
stories, and is furnishetl with the best and
most improved machinery, all of which is
operated by steam-power. In tlie large store-
house adjoining and in several others in the
village the manufactured goods are kept in
readiness for shipping. Over two hundred
hands are employed, including a number of
the best mechanics in special departments.
The articles made here are hand-carts, car-
riages, sleds, sleighs, desks, chairs, step-
ladders, and so forth, for which the timber is
bought in the log, and afterward cut and kiln-
dried on the premises. It is claimed that no
other factory in the country produces these
goods in such large quantities or of so high a
quality. The company supplies an extensive
territory, within which it fears no competi-
tors. Every year for some time past it has
been obliged to run the factory for a season at
night as well as day to keep even with its
orders.

In 1872, October 2, Mr. Dennison was
united in matrimony with Miss Esther Gush-
ing, daughter of Gharles and Martha (Brewer)
Gushing. Mr. Gushing, who was a native of
Freeport, in his youth learned the trade of
carpenter and joiner, which he followed for a
number of years. Subsequently he became
associated with the firm of Briggs, Gushing
& Means, of Ereeport, with whom he built
several noted vessels, including the "Nor-
wegian,'" "Oasis," "John De Ca.ster." "Gen-

eral Eairchilds," and the "Wilna." He con-
tinued in the ship-building business until
1885, when he retired from active occupation.
He first became interested in the Paris Manu-
facturing Gompany in 1878. Afterward he
continued to buy shares until he was the larg-
est stockholder of the company. He died in
1892, aged seventy-two years. Mr. Dennison
and his wife have three children, namely: H.
Walter, born June 27, 1874; Gharles P. and
Martha E. (twins), born September 18, 1878.
H. Walter Dennison married Madge Stuart,
and is the book-keeper of the Paris Manufact-
uring Gompany. Both parents are members
of the Baptist church. When a resident of
Freeport, Mr. Dennison was Selectman of the
town for a time. He is Ghancellor Gom-
mander, Hamlin Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
and Treasurer of the local Board of Trade.

EZEKIAH G. MASON, an e.x-
soldier of the Army of the Republic,
who at the close of the war with
the South gladly exchanged rifle and
cartridge-box for plough-share and spade, and
was thereafter for a number of years actively
engaged in farming in the town of Mason, is
now virtually retired from active pursuits.
He was born here, March 2S, 1835, his parents
being Artemas and Betsey (Bartlett) Mason.

Artemas Mason was a native of Gilead, O.x-
ford Gounty, and spent the early years of his
life on a farm in that town. Goming to
Mason when a young man, he purchased a
farm, on which he spent the remainder of his
life. Naturally energetic and industrious, by
careful management he was able not only to
support his family in comfort, but to lay by
for the days of enforced idleness. From the
formation of the Republican party he was one
of its stanch supporters. He served as Select-
man of Mason several years. His wife, whose
maiden name was ]?etsey Bartlett, was born
in Gumberland Gounty, Maine. P'or her first
husband she married Hezekiah Grover, who
died leaving her with two children — Amos
A., residing in Norway; and Mehitabel J.,
wife of E. G. Wheeler. Three children were
born of her union with Mr. Artemas Mason,
of whom Minerva Ann died at twentv-eiirht

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years of age, and Francis at seventeen, the
only survivor being Hezekiah G., of this
sketch. Artemas Mason died at eighty-three
years of age, and Mrs. Mason in middle life.
Both were members of the Congregational
church.

Hezekiah G. Mason lived at home until
some time after the outbreak of the Civil
War. In 1863 he enlisted in the Seventh
Maine Battery, with which he went out as a
private, and was gone about two years, most
of the time being spent in Virginia, the seat
of many of the severest battles of the war.
Among those in which he participated were
the battle of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor,
Petersburg, and Spottsylvania, besides many
smaller engagements. At Petersburg he was
wounded in the left hand, and for two months
he was in the hospital at Washington. At
the close of the war Mr. Mason returned home,
and engaged in agriculture on the farm where
he has since resided. He has, however, re-
cently sold the farm to his son-in-law, Ernest
Morrill: but he continues to live here, having
laid by ample means for all his requirements.

On January 2, 1861, Mr. Mason was married
to Miss Susanna Watson, of Norway. She
died January 20, 1879, leaving three children,
namely: Luella, wife of Rufus Morrill, of
Norway Lake, Me.; Willard H.; and 15etsey
B., the wife of Ernest Morrill. The Republi-
can party has in Mr. Mason a loyal supporter.
He is a member of Pleasant Valley Grange of
West Bethel and of G. Brown Post, No. 84,
Grand Army of the Republic, of Bethel.

JDWIN SAWYER, an ex-member of the
Maine legislature, now living in retire-
ment at West Farmington, was born
July 5, 1 83 1, in Temple, this county, son of
Nathaniel and Polly (Richards) Sawyer. Mr.
Sawyer's father, who was a native of Hancock,
N.H., resided there until he was eleven years
old, when he accompanied Thomas Russell
to Temple, and worked for him as a farm as-
sistant for ten years. He then entered the
employ of Benjamin Abbott, with whom he
remained for the same length of time. After
that he purchased a tract of land that included
three small clearings, and engaged in farming

on his own account. In time, ijy perseverance
and hard work, he became the owner of three
hundred acres of fertile land, most of which
was cleared for tillage purposes. Through his
unabated toil and the assistance of his sons he
accumulated a competency sufficient to insure
a comfortable subsistence for his declining
years. He passed his last days in retirement,
and died at the age of eighty-five years. Be-
sides an unusual amount of energy he pos-
sessed extraordinary physical strength. He
has left a monument of his industry in a stone
wall sixteen feet broad and five feet high,
which still stands upon the farm. His kind
and agreeable disposition, besides endearing
him to his family, made him a general favorite
with his neighbors. In politics he supported
the Democratic party, while his religious
views were liberal. His wife, Polly, who was
a daughter of Mitchell Richards, bore Iiim
nine children; namely, Mary, Pamelia, Leon-
ard, Albion K., Abiel, Sophia A., Dennis,
Edwin, and Phirilla. All of them attained
maturity, and several are still living. The
mother died at the age of seventy years.

Edwin .Sawyer was educated in the town
schools. At an early age he began to assist
his father in carrying on the farm. He re-
sided with his parents until he reached the
age of twenty-seven years, when he bought a
farm of one hundred and sixty acres in his na-
tive town. Here he entered upon the life of
an independent farmer with a spirit of deter-
mination that foreshadowed the success he has
achieved. He set out a fine orchard, com-
pletely remodelled the buildings, and made
other improvements which greatly added to
the convenience, as well as to the value, of
his property. For many years he was con-
sidered one of the ablest and most successful
agriculturists in the town of Temple. In poli-
tics he is an active supporter of the Republi-
can party, and his prominence in public
affairs has been the means of creating for him
an extended acquaintanceship throughout this
section of the county. For ten years he
served as a member of the Board of Select-
men. He was Town Treasurer for eight
years; and he represented his district with
marked ability in the legislature during the
years 1879 ^"^ 1880.

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On March 27, 1S59, ^^^- Sawyer wedded
Aphia J., daughter of Warren and Lucy
Voter, who represented an old and progressive
family of Farmington. Mrs. Sawyer, who iias
in a great measure contributed to her hus-
band's advancement, is the mother of four
children, as follows: George E , born January
16, i860, who died June 3, 1865; Persia E.,
born September 3, 1861, who is now the wife
of Charles R. Hall, an extensive farmer and
stock dealer of Wilton, and has two children
— Edwin S. and Orie L. ; Ernest G., born
February 17, 1867, who died July 18, 1873;
and Bernice E., born May 20, 1876, who is
now the wife of Charles B. Goodwin, of
Livermore F~alls. Retiring from active labor
in 1896, Mr. Sawyer sold his property to Mrs.
Harriet F. Cony, and moved to West Farm-
ington, where he bought the Greenwood stand,
one of the best and most desirably located
residences in the village. Here he is passing
his time in comparative leisure after a busy
and successful career. He has always pos-
sessed a robust constitution; and, with the ex-
ception of rheumatism, contracted through hard
work, he enjoys good health, and is as active
as a much younger man.

"ENRV W. PARK, a prosperous mer-
chant in the village of Mexico, Ox-
ford County, Me., is widely and
favorably known in these parts,
having long been prominent, not only as a
successful business man, but as a political
leader in the Republican ranks and as one of
the town officers. He was born in Dixfield,
the town adjoining Mexico on the east, on
March 13, 1834, son of Isaac and Emeline
(Smith) Park.

Isaac Park was born at the residence of his
parents, near the corner of Franklin Street,
Boston, Mass. After attending school in
that city until he was fourteen years of age,
he went to Newton, Mass., to learn the trade
of carpenter. Going with his employer soon
after to Paris, Me., he there remained until
the completion of his apprenticeship, when he
removed to Dixfield, to work at his trade.
He served as Captain of the old .State militia,
and officiated for nearly twenty years as

Sheriff, being subsequently a member of the
legislature. In politics he attained honor
and distinction in the ranks of the Demo-
cratic party. Captain Park was a public-spir-
ited citizen and a man of liberal views, being
in religion a Universalist. His busy career
was ended by death at the age of fifty-seven.
His wife, Emeline, who shared his cheerful
religious faith, was a daughter of John Smith,
of Readfield, Kennebec County, Me. She
died at the home of her son, Henry W. Park,
on January 28, 1878, at the age of seventy-two
years.

Henry W. Park was the eldest of the three
children born to his parents. He spent his
early life at home, attending the common
school and later the high school in the vil-
lage until the age of fifteen, and during the
next three years being employed in his father's
general merchandise store in Carthage, Frank-
lin County, Me. When he was eighteen he
went to Boston, there serving four years as
salesman in a clothing house. After his
father died he returned to Dixfield, and
worked at the carpenter's trade till 1859, -when
he came to Mexico, and rented a farm. The
following year he moved to Mexico Corner,
where he now resides. In March, 1S61, Mr.
Park purchased the store that he now- owns,
continuing in trade until the early part of
1S64, when he sold out and went to Washing-
ton, D.C. , where he served as clerk of the
Ordnance Department until the close of the
war. Returning to Mexico in July, 1865, he
bought back his old store at the corner, and
revived his trade, which is now (1896) in a
flourishing condition.

In politics Mr. Park is a decided Republi-
can, ever alive to party interests. His high
standing in the estimation of his fellow-citi;
zens is shown by his frequent election to
important offices. He has served as Crier of
the Courts four years, Selectman of Mexico
three years. Town Treasurer twenty-five con-
secutive years, and in 1875 he was Represent-
ative to the State legislature. He has been
for twenty-one years a member of Blazing Star
Lodge, No. 30,' A. F. & A. M., of Rumford
Falls; and he is a charter member of Tuscan
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd F"ellows, of
Dixfield, which he named at the time of its

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organization. Besides being a store-keeper,
Mr. Park is an active temperance worker and
an able correspondent of the local papers. It
is hardly needful to add that he has an exten-
sive acquaintance and a large circle of excel-
lent friends.

Mr. Park has been three times married.
His first wife, I':ilen R. Phelps, of Dixfield,
with whom he was united in June, 1857, died
in August, 1X62, leaving two children — Al-
bert Dexter, who is now Register of Probate
for Oxford County: and Henrietta, who mar-
ried John ]'.. Richards, and resides here. His
second wife, formerly Miss Ellen C. Reed, of
this place, whom he wedded on July 3, 1865,
died in January, 1875, leaving one son, Ellery
C, who became a lawyer in Bethel, Me. The
maiden name of his present wife, to whom he
was married in August, 1875, ^^''^s i*2nna L.
Gleason. F"our children have been born to
them, namely: Helena O. and Lucy E., both
of whom are teachers; and Henry \V. , Jr.,
and Eva Grace, who are still at home. .Mrs.
Park is a native of Mexico, Me.

-ERE H. WINSLOW, a retired farmer
and cattle dealer of South Paris, Oxford
County, Me., was born in the town of
Paris, January 18, 1823, son of Jacob
and Betsey (Pratt) Winslow. Mr. Winslovv's
father was a native of Fryeburg, Me., where
lie was brought up in the family of a Mr.
Hutchins; and in young manhood he settled
upon a tract of unimproved land in Paris. He
cleared a portion of his property into a good
farm, which he cultivated during the rest of
his active period. His wife died in 1869;
and he spent his last days at the home of his
son, Luther P., where he died in 1877, aged
eightytruine years. He was an energetic,
hard-working man: and he was highly re-
spected as a worthy citizen. In politics he
was originally a Democrat, later supporting
the Republican party. He was an attendant
of the Methodist Episcopal church. His
wife, Betsey I'ratt, was a daughter of Luther
Pratt, who came from Middleboro, Mass., to
Paris, and was among the most enterprising
and progressive of the early settlers of this
town. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Winslow had

three children, namely: Luther P.; Albert;
and Jere H., subject of this sketch, who was
the youngest-born.

Jere H. Winslow resided at home until he
was nineteen years old, when he went to Mas-
sachusetts, and engaged in farming and team-
ing. Being a strong and capable man, he re-
ceived good wages wherever he worked, always
giving satisfaction, remaining in one place
until a better one presented itself; and by
carefully saving his earnings he at length
amassed a sufficient sum to make a start in
life for himself. His father being already
well advanced in years, Mr. Winslow re-
turned to his native town to care for his par-
ents, and here engaged in farming on his own
account. He advanced rapidly in prosperity,
from time to time adding more land to his
possessions; and he improved the homestead
farm by rebuilding the house and erecting two
new barns. Dealing in cattle was his prin-
cipal pursuit for many years; and in that
business he realized financial success, buying
good stock, and selling it on time to farmers
in this vicinity. He has also carried on lum-
bering operations to some extent with profit-
able results, and, being naturally of a stirring
and energetic disposition, has never lost an
opportunity to advance his material interests.
Besides his original estate he bought two other
farms.

In 1877, selling his farms in Paris, with
the intention of retiring permanently from ac-
tive labor, he bought the Samuel Deering
place, situated on High Street in .South Paris;
and he has since enlarged and remodelled the
buildings, and otherwise improved this prop-
erty. He has erected two houses upon his
large lot here for investment purposes, one
double and the other a single tenement, which
yield him a good income. His early-ac-
quired habits of activity preventing him even
now from being idle, he still keeps bu.sy at
some useful employment. During the past
winter, 1895 and 1896, he sawed and pre-
pared seventeen cords of wood, "just to pass
away the time," as he expresses it. It is
scarcely needful to say that he enjoys good
health. He has considerable capital invested
in financial enterprises, has been a Director of
the Paris Savings Bank and a Trustee of the

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Oxford County Fair, and is well known as one
of the substantial residents of this section.

On May i, 1853, Mr. VVinslow was united
in marriage with Lucetta M. Swan, a daugh-
ter of William, Jr., and Hannah (Locke)
Swan. Mrs. Winslow's father was born in
Paris, May 18, 1792, and, when a young man,
settled upon a farm in Woodstock. He finally
returned to his native town, where he long
continued to till the soil. His death took
place at the advanced age of ninety-one
years. He was held in high esteem by his
fellow-townsmen as an active, intelligent, and
progressive citizen. He married Hannah
Locke; and their children were: Lodiska,
Urania, Lucetta E., William R., Leander S.,
Lucetta ]\L, and Hannah E. The mother
died at the age of si.xty-one years.

Mr. and Mrs. Winslow have had three chil-
dren, as follows: Ella J., who was born Feb-
ruary 10, 1856, married Franklin Burbank,
an architect and builder, and has one son,
Frank W., born March 6, 1886; Lizzie A.,
who was born July 19, 1859: and Nellie, who
was born February i, 1867, and died July 1,
1889.

As a man of good judgment in financial
matters and of recognized integrity, Mr. Wins-
low commands the esteem and confidence of
his fellow-townspeople; and he has been
employed to settle several estates. In poli-
tics he has always been a Republican since
the formation of the party, and both he and
his wife are Methodists in their religious
views.

lAI'TAIN SILAS D. PERHAM, of
Farmington, Me., a progressive and
prosperous farmer, was born at his
present home, August 6, 1814, the
son of Silas and Hannah (Jennings) Perham.
He is of the fifth generation of his family in
this country, the first having jjeen represented
by John Perham, an Englishman, who settled
in Chelmsford, Mass., and whose son, John,
Jr., was Captain Perham's great-grandfather.

The next in line, Lemuel Perham, fourth
son of John, Jr., was born near Dunstable,
Mass., in 1727. He served in the French
and Indian War and the RevoUrtionarv War

while living in Massachusetts; and shortly
after the close of the Revolution he accom-
panied his son Silas to Farmington, where he
died in 1795. His wife's name was Mary
Butterfield. .Silas Perham, Captain Perham's
father, was born in Dunstable, Mass., P"ebru-
ary 10, 1770. In the spring of 1787, when
only seventeen years of age, he took up lot
No. 24 in the township of Farmington, the
site of Captain Perham's present home, made
a clearing, built a log house, and planted a
crop. The following winter he returned to
Massachusetts for the rest of the family ; and
the father, mother, and children made the
long journey hither on a sled, with one pair
of oxen and a horse. They were twenty-three
days on the way, stopping in woods to cook
their simjjle meals, which, perchance, w-ere
often augmented by a fresh-caught fish or
some wild game. There were few roads, and
the route was mostly traced by blazed trees.
We can imagine the pride of the youthful
pioneer as the little caravan drew up at last
before his log cabin, and gazed with delight
on what he had accomplished, and the sense of
restful ownership with which they slept that
night under the primitive roof. Father and
son were soon busily at work, felling the
heavy hemlock, maple, and beech, some of
which they burned to enrich the ground; and
before long they had one of the best farms in
the township. Silas Perham was a carpenter
by trade, and in course of time he erected
frame buildings in place of the early log
house and barn. He was a man of large,
strong frame, and was a tireless worker. P'or
some years he was connected with the militia,
and commanded the North Company of Infan-
try. In politics he was a Democrat, in relig-
ious belief a Free Will Baptist. He died at
the age of seventy-four. His wife, who was a
daughter of Eliphalet Jennings, of I-^arming-
ton, died at the age of fifty-one. They had
two children — John F., born April 11, 1808,
who died in California in 1880 ; and Silas
D., of P'armington, now to be further men-
tioned.

Silas D. Perham received a good education
in his childhood and youth, attending the
public schools and Farmington Academy.
He remained on the home farm, and proceeded

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with the work of its development, clearing the
land from which his father had cut the timber,
and evolving valuable pasture and tillage from
rough fields. He set out a fine orchard; and
he also purchased more lanil, so that his estate
now includes two hundred acres. In 1865 he
built a large house, and he has also erected a
fine barn. Probably no man in Farmington
has labored harder or longer than Captain
Perham ; and \'et in his eighty-second year he
is straight as an arrow, and is still at work.

He was married February 2, 1837, to Mary
Ann, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hobbs, of
Industry, Me. P'ive children blessed this
union, namely: Hannah, born January 20,
[838, whose filial love and devotion have kept
her in the home of her infancy, caring for her
father and mother in their declining years;
Joseph H., born October 17, 1842, who mar-
ried Miss Mary S. Norton, and is a prosperous
citizen, owning a farm in this town; Geor-
giana, who lived but two years; Silas A., who
died in infancy; and Silas F., born July 11,
1850. Mrs. Mary A. Perham died May 13,
1874, aged si.xty years. In early life Captain
Perham was a Democrat ; but when the Re-
publican party was formed he was one of the
delegates to the convention at Strong, and
since that time he has supported the Republi-
can platform. In religious belief he is a I'ree
Will Baptist.

L15I0N P. MARSH, a former business
man of Di.xfield, now retired, was
burn here, August 8, 1823, son of
David and Asenath (Parks) Marsh.
The first ancestor of the family in America
was John Marsh, who emigrated from England
in 1634, and settled in Massachusetts. He
followed the trade of a wool-carder or weaver,
and died November 16, 1673. In 1635 he
married Susanna Skelton, and with her subse-
quently reared a family of eleven children.
Andrew Marsh, grandfather of the subject of
this sketch, was born in Sutton, Mass., June
2, 1769. He was an early settler of Dixfield,
where, after clearing a farm, he spent the rest
of his life occupied in its cultivation. On
April 9, 178S, he married Rebecca Stone, of
whose children by him there were reared John,

Nancy, David, Joshua, and Lawson, none of
whom are living.

David Marsh, Mr. Marsh's father, also a
native of Sutton, born May 19, 1792, was
quite young when his parents mo\ed to Dix-
field. In early manhood he engaged in log-
ging to some extent, and was also a teamster.
He eventually turned his attention to farming,
which he followed with energy and success
for the rest of his active period; and he died
February 27, 1867. He was liberal in his
views of religious matters, and in politics
he supported the Republican party in the
latter part nf his life. His wife, Asenath,
who was born April 19, 1796, bore him six
sons and six daughters, all of whom grew to
maturity. Five are living; namely, Albion
P., Liva L., Mattie L., Annette, and Ma-
tilda. The others were: Andrew, Caleb,
Leonora, Pauline, David M. , Jerome, and
Chestina. The mother died in September,
1882.

Albion P. Marsh was educateil in the dis-
trict schools, and resided at home until he
was twenty-one years old. He then went to
Rhode Island, where he was for a time em-
ployed at a chemical manufactory. From
there he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was
there similar!)- engaged with his brother,
David M.. for ten years. I<"ailing health
caused him to relinquish that occupation ; and,
returning to his native State, he became a
dealer in country produce in Weld. Having
done a large and successful business at this for
several years, he retired, and has since resided
in Dixfiekl.

Mr. Marsh has been three times mai'ried.
His present wife, in maidenhood Matilda D.
Newton, whom he wedded in 1S70, is a daugh-
ter of Burleigh and Sarah Newton, of this
town. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have had five
children — Norman D., Chestina, Harry B.,
LutieM. , and Owen. The last-named lived
but one year. In politics Mr. Marsh is a free
coinage Democrat. He has been quite promi-
nent in local affairs, having taken a deep inter-
est in educational matters, and having served
the town as Collector. He is a member of
King Hiram Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; and his
social relations are of the pleasantest char-
acter. The family occupies one of the hand-

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somest residences in the village, and its mem-
bers are respected as worthy representatives of
one of the old and reputable families.

'RED A. PORTER, Sheriff of Oxford
County, who resides upon a large farm
in Runiford Falls, was born in Rox-
bury, Me., December 30, 1850, son of Will-
iam V. and Eliza M. (Taylor) Porter. His
grandfather, F"rancis Porter, was an early set-
tler of Roxbury, where he owned a good farm
reclaimed by him from the wilderness, and re-
sided for the rest of his life. William V.
Porter, a native of Roxbury, was reared in
that place. In young manhood he went to
Boston, and was there employed as clerk in a
store for a few years. He afterward returned
to his native town, and followed agriculture
successfully until his death, which happened
when he was fifty-eight years old. He was a
Democrat in politics, and he served for many
years as a member of the Board of Selectmen
in Roxbury. His wife, Eliza, who was also
born in Roxbury, still active and well pre-
served at the age of eighty years, resides in
Rumford I'alls.

Fred A. Porter in his boyhood attended the
common and high schools of his neighbor-
hood. In young manhood he went to Wis-
consin, where he worked upon a farm for a
year. He then returned East, and, settling
in Chelsea, Mass., was there employed as a
clerk in a dry-goods store for nine years. On
account of poor health he relinquished mer-
cantile occupations, and, returning to Oxford
County, bought his present farm of five hun-
dred and fifty acres in this town, where he
has since resided. He carried on general
farming and lumbering until 1S92, when he
was appointed Deputy Sheriff. Since that
time he has devoted his attention to his public
duties. He was one of the first to clear land
upon the site of the present thriving settle-
ment of Rumford P'alls; and his property,
which adjoins the village, is now quite valu-
able.

On April 22, 1S77, Mr. Porter wedded
Mary E. Green, of Rumford, and now has two
sons — Fred A., Jr., and Charles N. In pol-
itics Mr. Porter is a stanch Republican and a

leading spirit in the politics of this locality.
He was for seven years a member of the Board
of Selectmen, and he has been Tax Collector
of the town. His appointment to the office of
Deputy Sheriff was made when the town was
incorporated, and he served in that capacity
until elected High Sheriff of the county. In
this responsible position he has shown a thor-
ough com])etence, and has given full satisfac-
tion. He is the present -Secretary of Blazing
Star Lodge, No. 30, A. F. & A. M. ; a mem-
ber of Rumford Chapter, Royal Arch Masons,
of this town; Noble Grand of Penacook
Lodge, No. 130, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows: and a member of Metalluc Lodge,
No. 99, Knights of Pythias. His prominence
in public affairs has gained for him a large ac-
quaintanceship and much popularity through-
out the county.

AGGETT BROTHERS, ALBERT
AND WASHINGTON L., enter-
prising general merchants and
prominent citizens of Strong, are
natives of New Vineyard, in P"ranklin County.
Albert was born June 13, 1827, and Washing-
ton L. was born May 6, 1835. Their parents
were Captain Plamentin and Hannah (Snow)
Daggett, the former of whom was born in In-
dustry, Me., May 5, 1795, and the latter in
New Vineyard, September 12, 1799.

Peter Daggett, the father of Plamentin Dag-
gett, was a native of Martha's \'ineyard,
Mass., where he was born January 17, 1770.
He located at New Vineyard in 1793, being
the first member of the Daggett family to
settle in this county. Five years later he
moved to Industry, where he settled upon what
is now known as the Lowell strip farm, and
erected the first frame residence in the town.
A well-to-do farmer, he died at his home in
Industry on November 5, 1833. His wife,
whose maiden name was Damaris Luce, died
August 3, 1810.

Their son, Plamentin Daggett, served as a
soldier in the War of 1812, and in young
manhood settled in New Vineyard, where he
cleared and improved a farm. He followed
agricultural pursuits in connection with the
carpenter's trade, and became identified with

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the early growth and develoj^ment of the town
and its political affairs. He held various
town offices, to which he was first elected by
the Democratic party. He later cast one of
tiie first votes in his town in favor of the Free
Soil party, and he was a member of the con-
vention which met in .Strong for the purpose
of organizing the Republican party in this lo-
cality. He was prominent in the early State
militia, in which he served for several years
as a commissioned officer; and as Commander
of the New Vineyard Light Infantry the
name of Captain Plamentin Daggett was long
a familiar one in connection with the military
affairs of Franklin Count)-. In 1.S62 he re-
moved to .Strong; and he died in this town,
March 28, 1866. In his religious belief he
was a Methodist.

His wife, Hannah Snow, who was a woman
of unusual ability and force of character, be-
came the mother of six children, as follows:
Fzekiel Snow, who was born February 7,
1833, and died February 25, 1858: Plamentin,
Jr., who was born May 3, 1825, marrietl
Nancy T. Vining, of Strong, and died Decem-
ber 12, 1884; Albert, of the firm of Daggett
Hrothers, of Strong: Oliver Cromwell, who
was born April 20, 1830, and died April 3,
1847; Washington L., also of the firm of
Daggett Brothers; and Hannah Snow, who
was born January 14, 1839, and is the wife of
George \V. Luce, a retired jeweller of Colum-
bus, Ohio. Mrs. Hannah Snow Daggett died
in 1862.

Albert Daggett, senior member of the firm
of Daggett I^rothers, acc[uired his education in
the common schools of his native town and the
high schools in this county. When a young
man he taught school for a time, and then set-
tled upon a piece of agricultural property in
Farmington. In 1863 he removed to .Strong;
and in the following year he went to Mari-
|iosa County, California, and from there to
Nevada. After spending a year and a half in
the mining district he returned to Strong, and,
in company with his brother, engaged in gen-
eral mercantile business. His business abil-
ity has been fully demonstrated; and aside
from this he possesses a natural genius for
mechanics, which he has recently turned to
good account by inventing a machine known

as the Daggett road rake. His model, which
was patented on January 28, 1896, is con-
structed for the purpose of cleaning streets
and roads and removing loose obstructions.
It is shaped like a snow-plough, but has
spring steel teeth, and is i)elieved to be the
best and most feasible machine of its kind yet
inventeil.

For his first wife Albert Daggett weddetl
Sarah M. Porter, of Strong, who died May 3,
1886. By this union there were three chil-
dren — Willie, who died at the age of two
years; Minnie W. and another child, both of
whom died in infancy. His present wife was
before marriage Ada Eldora Pottle. She was
born in Freeman, Me., December 23, 1853,
daughter of the late Jeremiah Pottle, a pros-
perous farmer of Strong and formerly a mem-
ber of the Board of Selectmen and many years
Town Treasurer. Mr. Daggett is a Republi-
can in politics, and he and Mrs. Daggett are
active members of the Methodist lilpiscopal
church.

Washington L. Daggett attended the com-
mon schools of New Vineyard, where he ac-
quired a good knowledge of the elementary
branches of learning. He later attended the
Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill,
where he pursued more advanced studies; and
for eight years thereafter he was engaged in
teaching school. During the Civil War he
was drafted for service, and, being ordered to
the paymaster's department, served in that
ofifice in Portland for some nine months. He
then taught school in Strong for one winter,
after which he entered a mercantile establish-
ment as a clerk; and a year later he. in com-
pany with his brother, bought out the business,
thus establishing the firm of Daggett Brothers.
In 1886 their store was destroyed by fire; but
a portion of the stock was saved, and, moving
into their present building, they have since
continued to do a large and profitable busi-
ness. They carry a varied line of groceries
and dry goods; and, as the\' are widely and
favorably known as honorable, upright men
and reliable merchants, they have a numerous
and steady patronage.

On September 20, 1868, Washington L.
Daggett was united in marriage with Reliance
C. Dickey. She was born in Avon, Me., Oc-

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tober zj^ 1841, daughter of the late John
Dickey, of that town, and a niece of the well-
known Major Dickey, of Fort Kent.

In politics Mr. Daggett acts with tiie Re-
publican party. He was a Representative to
the legislature in 1870, and for nine years he
served with ability as Town Clerk. He is
one of the best-known and most active mem-
bers of the Methodist Episcopal church here,
and has also acquired a high reputation
throughout the State for his interest and
efficiency in church and Sunday-school work.
He is probably the oldest Sunday-school
superintendent in Maine at the present time,
is a leading spirit in the State department of
church work, and has been President of the
Franklin County Sunday-school Association
for over ten years. For three years he has
served as County Secretary of the Maine
State Sunday-school Association, during which
time he was accorded high honor for having
furnished the model annual report. He is a
forcible speaker, and in response to urgent in-
vitations has lectured upon Sunday-school
work before county and State societies and
other important gatherings, and, aside from
his personal efforts in the churches of Strong,
has rendered much valuable aid to the work
throuiihout the State.

(5 1 HOMAS J. WHITEHEAD, who has
* I been an important factor in advancing
-^ the agricultural and educational inter-
ests of the town of Paris, is a native of the
town, having been born October 17, 18 16,
son of John Whitehead, on the farm where he
now lives. His father was born and bred in
Woodbridge, N.J., whence in his early man-
hood he came to Oxford County, seeking for
a desirable locality in which to settle. Se-
lecting the town of Paris, he purchased the
present Whitehead homestead, where w-ith his
family he lived for a number of years in true
pioneer style, depending upon the scanty pro-
ductions of the soil and the wild game of the
district for the maintenance of all. He
cleared a portion of his one hundred and fifty
acres, and engaged in general farming. He
also kept a public house in Paris for twenty
years, and was known as a genial host. He

married Mary Lovell, of Mansfield, Mass., by
whom he became the father of three children,
namely: Nancy, who is the widow of Henry
R. Weber, of Paris; Thomas J., the subject
of this sketch; and Mrs. Mary Ann Haskell,
now deceased. Both parents died on the old
homestead, the father passing away at the age
of seventy-three years, and the mother at the
age of seventy-five years. Both were liberal
in religion. In politics he was a Whig.

Thomas J. Whitehead was educated in the
schools of Paris and at the Norway High
School. Afterward he followed the profession
of teacher in this vicinity for thirty terms,
and at one time served as superintendent of
schools. Subsequently for about thirty years
he devoted a portion of his time to canvassing
the country, with considerable success, as
agent for different firms, dealing in nursery
goods or lightning rods. The old homestead
is now owned by Mr. Whitehead and his
sister, Mrs. Weber. Mr. Whitehead has a
good farm of eighty acres, a part of which he
devotes to fruit raising, his orchard being very
productive. In 1876 he invented and patented
a cooking range, which he subsequently sold
to good advantage. In the settlement of a dis-
pute between the towns of Paris and Norway
regarding a cemetery located between the two
places, Mr. Whitehead, associated with Judge
Woodbury, of Bethel, obtained a decision in
favor of Paris.

Mr. Whitehead was married April 5, 1848,
to Caroline B. Jordan, who was born in
Albany, Me., December ^5, 1.S19. She was
one of the eleven children, noted for their
musical talent, born to Timothy and Mercy
(Pike) Jordan. Of Mr. Whitehead's five chil-
dren, four have died; namely, Eugene, M.
Caroline, Herman M. , and Mary E. Gran-
ville M. Whitehead, the only living child,
born November 17, 1861, resides with his
parents, assisting in the managemeiTt of the
homestead, and also working in the Norway
shoe factory. His first wife, formerly Sadie
Stiles, died in 1893, leaving one child, Alton
Eugene, born August 30, 1891. On June 15,
1895, he entered a second marriage, contracted
with Sadie M. Chase, who was born April g,
1876, at Milton Plantation, Me., daughter of
Charles and Clarissa (Godwin) Chase, both

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of whom arc iu)\v residents of South Paris.
In politics Mr. Whitehead is a Populist, while
both he and his wife accept the teachings of
Spiritualism. They have the distinction of
being one of the oldest couples in this local-
ity, and are held in high esteem throughout
the community.

ILLIAM C. BP:AN, a progressive
farmer and one of the leading
young men of Hiram, O.xford
County, was born in Denmark, Me., October
5, 1863, son of William and Sarah Jane
(Warren) Bean. Mr. Bean's paternal grand-
parents were Abraham and Hannah (Burley)
Bean, residents of York County, Maine.

William Bean, the father, whose portrait
accompanies this biographical sketch, was
born in HoUis, Me., May 11, 1805. In 1835
he settled upon the Joshua Osgood farm in the
town of Denmark, where he engaged in farm-
ing and lumbering during the rest of his ac-
tive period. He died April 21, 1894. A
man of intelligence, energy, and public spirit,
he took a leading part in town affairs; and he
represented his district in the legislature
three terms. His first wife was Sarah F.
Blunt, who was born in Kennebunkport, Feb-
ruary 2, 1808, and died January 10, 1862.
She was the mother of four children, namely:
George R., who died in Denmark, January 30,
1896; Ellen S. ; Jane N.; and Frances Au-
gusta. William Bean wedded for his second
wife Sarah Jane Warren, who was born in
Epping, N.ll., October 15, 1829, and who
became the nrnther of two children, namely:
William C, the subject of this sketch; and
Charles R., who was born November 15,
1871, and now resides with his brother. Mrs.
Sarah J. Warren Bean died February 19,
1889.

William C. Bean was educated in the pub-
lic schools of Denmark, and resided at home
until becoming of age. In 1884 he came to
Hiram, settling upon the Morris Clark farm
of one hundred and thirty-seven acres, where
he still resides; and since taking possession
of the property he has greatly enhanced its
value by making numerous improvements.
He devotes his time to general farming, corn,

hay, and potatoes being his [jrincipal prod-
ucts; and he raises some excellent cattle for
his own use.

On October 6, 1884, Mr. Bean was united
in marriage with Victoria L. Allen. She was
born in Denmark, Me., August 9, 1859,
daughter of Hosea and Mary Jane (Hartford)
Allen. Her father was a prosperous farmer of
Denmark, his native town, where he died, July
13, 1892; and her mother, who was a native of
Hiram, is now residing in Denmark.

In politics Mr. Bean acts with the Republi-
can party. He takes an interest in the gen-
eral welfare of the comnuniity, being ever
ready to aid in town improvements; and as a
leader among the young men of this locality
he is very popular. He is an Odd Fellow
and a member of Denmark Lodge, No. 49.

AMUEL F. PERKINS, formerly a
prosperous farmer of New Sharon,
P'ranklin County, who died at his
home in this town, P\"bruary 27,
was born in Woolwich, Me., June 1,
1825, son of Samuel Ford and Sarah (Carter)
Perkins. The father, who was a native of
Woolwich, moved to New .Sharon about 1840,
and, purchasing a tract of land, founded the
Perkins estate here. He died in 1869, at the
age of seventy-five years.

Samuel F. Perkins (second) attended the
schools of Woolwich and New Sharon until he
was seventeen years old, when he began work
on the home farm. In 1862 he enlisted in
the Twenty-eighth Regiment of Maine Infan-
try, with which he served one year in the
Civil War. Returning home, he resumed work
upon the homestead farm, which he carried on
with prosperous results until one year pre-
vious to his death, when he sold the 'property
to his son, Charles E. Mr. Perkins was a
Republican in politics, liberal in his religious
views, and was a highly respected citizen.
He died, as above stated, at the age of sixty-
four years. On December 21, 1863, he
wedded Annette Smith, of New Sharon. She
was born January 11. 1836, daughter of Will-
iam and Mary (Dyer) Smith. Mrs. Perkins
has had three children — Mary C, Charles E.,
and Lura M. Mary C, who was born Octo-

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her II, 1864, married Corydon Bailey, of In-
dustry, and has three children — Charles H.,
born August 3, i,S88; Leon A., born March
15, 1.S90; and Clarence E., born in 189J.
Charles E. Perkins, who was born July 16,
1866, now owns and resides upon the home-
stead farm. Lura M., w'ho was born August
25, 1873, married Frank M. Tebbetts, of Nor-
way, Me., and has one child, Ray, who was
born December 15, 1895. Mrs. Perkins is an
active, intelligent, and highly respected lady,
one who fully merits the esteem in which she
is held by her numerous friends and acquaint-
ances.

T^HARLES B. CUMMINGS, of the
I Ky well-known manufacturing firm of
^^js C. B. Cummings & Sons, of Nor-

way, Oxford County, Me., was born
here on December 18, 1834. His parents
were Stephen and Fanny (Whitney) Cum-
mings.

His paternal grandfather, Dr. Stephen
Cummings, a native of Andover, Mass., son
of Jonathan Cummings, was a prominent phy
sician and surgeon, first in Waterford, Me.,
and later in the city of Portlantl. He died in
1854, a little past fourscore years of age. He
and his wife, Eleanor Hale, were the parents
of si.x children — Nathan, Sarah, Sumner,
Stephen (second), John M., and Fitz Henry.
The first three were natives of Waterford, the
last three of Portland. Sarah Cummings,
born in 1798, became the wife of Charles
Bradley. John M. Cummings, M.D., was
the only one of the sons who adopted the
father's profession.

Stephen Cummings, the second of the name
in direct line and the father of the subject of
this biographical sketch, was born in Portland
in 1803. When he attained his majority, his
father. Dr. Cummings, gave him one hundred
and fifty acres of uncultivated land in the
northern part of Norway, which he cleared and
sold, afterward buying the same number of
acres in Bethel, a neighboring town in the
county, where he was a resident for twenty-
five years. Later he sold that farm also, and,
buying a house in Norway village, retired
from active business. A Democrat in poli-

tics, he was actively interested in party meas-
ures until the close of his life. Stephen
Cummings married Fanny, a daughter of Will-
iam C. Whitney; and their union was blessed
by seven children — William C. W., Sumner,
Frances E., Stephen H., Charles B., John M.,
and Harriet. The father died of apople.xy on
April II, 1863, at sixty years of age; and the
mother lived to the age of seventy, her death
occurring on January 10, 1873.

Charles B. Cummings, the fourth of the five
brothers in this family, received his education
in Bethel, but in 1854 returned with his par-
ents to Norway, where without means, but
with plenty of energy, grit, and application,
he has pushed his way from the smallest be-
ginnings to his present commercial prosperity.
He was for some time in the employ of his
maternal grandfather, William C. Whitney,
and later learned the trade of cabinet-maker,
beginning business for himself in a small shed
adjoining Squire Whitman's stable, where he
manufactured the furniture with which he
went to housekeeping, also making by hand
articles of furniture, which he sold to the
neighbors. Step by step, by industry, frugal-
ity, and jjerseverance, Mr. Cummings was
enabled to enlarge his business until he at-
tained prominence in various industries. In
1 86 1 he moved his workshop to a small room
in the Hathaway Block, keeping house in the
tenement over the store. Here his trade in-
creased steadily, so that in 1865, in order to
meet its requirements, he erected the commo-
dious building now occupied by his son ant!
successor to that branch of the business.

Previous to his retirement therefrom, in
1877, he had embarked in various enterprises,
including the manufacture of clothes-pins on
a large scale at Steep Falls, besides furniture.
He carries on saw-mills at the head of the vil-
lage, manufacturing long and short lumber,
and also utilizes the same water privilege for
grist-mills. Below, on the site of the old
foundry, he has erected a commodious struct-
ure, the lower part of which is used for the
manufacture of short lumber, boxes, and
staves. The second story is used for the ex-
tensive manufacture of shoe findings, and in
this department alone Mr. Cummings employs
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twenty to twenty-five men are usually needed
in the lumber department, and for manufactur-
ing and storage he uses twenty-five buildings.
Although Mr. Cummings owns large tracts
of growing timber in this town, Oxford, Paris,
and Greenwood, he purchases large quantities
of lumber on the stump to supply his various
mills and factories. He is extensively inter-
ested in real estate, being the owner of many
valuable building lots and water privileges in
the village limits. In 1894 Mr. Cummings
was burned out; but such was his ability to
overcome difficulties that in thirty days he
was again on his commercial feet, doing busi-
ness with several men. As fast as possible
he rebuilt, putting in an eighty-horse-power
boiler, heating several blocks three stories
high from his plant. He also built a large
grist-mill and grain house, sixty-four by one
hundred feet, at the railway station, so that
freight cars can be run in and emptied.

In January, 1861, he was united in marriage
with Frances E. , daughter of Moses and Ex-
perience (Powers) Staples, of Bethel. Mr.
and Mrs. Cummings have six representa-
tives to the family name and fortune, who will
have to make tall strides in the march of life
if they keep pace with their father's speed on
the commercial highway. These children are:
Charles S. , who was born on January 26, 1862,
and married Ella H. Haskell, she being now
deceased; Stephen B., born April 27, 1863,
who married Mattie M. Jordan on February
12, 1887, and has one child, Ruth; Frederick
H., born September 24, 1865, who is a dry-
goods clerk; George I., born March 30, 1869;
Edwin S., born October 7, 1873; and P"anny
W., who was born on May 19, 1878. Four of
the five sons, or all except Frederick, are asso-
ciated with their father in business. Mr.
Cummings owns and occupies with his family
one of the finest dwellings in Norway. In
politics he is a Republican, and in religion he
holds to the liberal form of faith.

LBERT H. ADAMS, a progressive
and successful farmer, who owns and
conducts a model dairy farm in
Wilton, Franklin County, Me., was
born in this town, September 6, 1857, son of

Elbridge G. and Abby H. (Thomas) Adams.
His great -grandparents were Moses and
Martha (Kinney) Adams; and his grandpar-
ents were John and Phebe (Chase) Adams, of
Wilton.

Elbridge G. Adams, Mr. Adams's father,
was a native of Wilton, where he grew to man-
hood as a farmer. At the age of thirty years
he bought his father's farm, which he carried
on for three years; and then, selling the prop-
erty, he removed to a farm in the town of Jay,
where he resided for some length of time. In
1 88 1 he purchased the estate where his son
now resides, and erected new buildings to re-
place those which were burned. In connec-
tion with agricultural pursuits he engaged in
the corn and apple canning business, building
a factory with a capacity for packing one hun-
dred and fifty thousand cans per year. Retir-
ing from business two years later, having
accumulated a comfortable competency as the
result of his labor, he passed the remainder of
his days upon his farm in the town of Jay,
where he died at the age of sixty-two years.
His industrious and ambitious nature had
prompted him to work far beyond his physical
ability, thereby undermining his constitution;
and this was the direct cause of his death.
In politics he supported the Republican party,
and in his religious views he was a Universal-
ist. His wife, who was before marriage Abby
H. Thomas, was a daughter of Spencer
Thomas. .She became the mother of seven
children, namely: Albert H., the subject of
this sketch; Loreda M. ; Clara, who died in
infancy; Henry J. ; Cora, who did not live to
grow up; Gideon C. ; and l^^ed L. Mrs.
Abby H. Adams is still living, and is now
seventy-two years old.

Albert H. Adams was educated in the pub-
lic schools and at the Wilton Academy. His
boyhood and youth were passed upon the home
farm, acquiring practical knowledge and ex-
perience that has been of great value to him
in his chosen occupation. At the age of
twenty-five he entered into partnership with
his father in the canning business, the firm
having bought of George P3astman a piece of
land near East Wilton, upon which they
erected a large factory ; and for two years they
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Adams brand of apples and sweet corn, which
acquired a high reputation in the metropolitan
markets. Two years later he purchased from
his father the farm of one hundred acres
where he now resides, to which he has since
devoted his attention; and, as the property
lies within a valley, thus making it exceed-
ingly well adapted for dairy purposes, he
makes a specialty of this branch of agricult-
ure. He cuts from seventy-five to eighty tons
of hay annually, has excellent pasturing facili-
ties, keeps twenty-one head of high-bred
Jersey stock, which is said to be the finest
herd of dairy cows in town, and he owns si.\
horses. Mr. Adams has also been engaged in
selling the McCormick mowing machine. In
politics he acts with the Republican party.
In religious views he is a stanch Universalist.
He is connected officially with Williamson
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
is likewise a member of the Foresters and
the Patrons of Husbandry, and is recognized
as one of the leading farmers and enterprising
citizens of Wilton.

Mr. Adams married Persis Adams, daughter
of John W'. and Dorcas (Adams) Adams, rep-
resentatives of entirely different families.
Mrs. Albert H. Adams is a descendant of
Elisha Adams, an early resident of Bethel,
Me., who moved from that town to a farm in
Temple, where he passed the rest of his life.
His children were: Elias, John, Silas, Persis,
Polly, Uorcas, and Loren. Loren Adams,
Mrs. Adams's paternal grandfather, was born
in Bethel, February i8, 1803. He bought
his first real estate in Wilton when a young
man, later removing to the farm where his
son John W. now resides; and this property,
which was formerly owned by John Ditson, he
improved by erecting new buildings through-
out, increasing the fertility of the land, and
setting out a large orchard, making it one of
the best farms in this section. He married
for his first wife Ruth Libby, who was born
in 1799, daughter of Abraham Libby, and by
this union he had two children; namely, John
W. and Mary. Mrs. Ruth L. Adams died in
1837, and for his second wife Loren Adams
wedded Eliza Adkins. He died February 6,
1892.

John W. Adams, Mrs. Adams"s father, was

born in Wilton, March 5, 1835. He resided
at home, assisting his father in carrying on
the farm, later taking charge of the property,
which he now owns. He has a fine dairy, and
may be considered a model farmer. On Janu-
ary I, 1857, he married for his first wife
Ellen, adopted daughter of J. C. Phillips, of
Wilton. She died at the age of eighteen,
leaving a daughter, Ellen, who was born De-
cember 20, 1859, and married Leroy Brown.
On January 2-]^ 1861, John W. Adams wedded
for his second wife Dorcas, daughter of
Jephthah Adams; and she died at the age of
sixty-four years, leaving three children, as
follows: Charles W., who was born April 20,
1863, and resides at home; Persis, who is now
Mrs. Albert H. Adams; and Charlena R.,
who was born May 29, 1874, and is now en-
gaged in teaching.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Adams have four
children, namely: Bernard L., born October
2, 1886; Jennie M., born November 6, 1889;
Vera L. , born January 13, 1892; Merle R.,
born July 4, 1894.

ENRY SAWTN, Second Selectman of
Waterford, Oxford County, Me., has
been active in the town government
for nearly twenty years. He was
born in Waterford, May 13, 1837, the son of
Thomas and Sallie (Johnson) Sawin, the for-
mer a native of old Marlboro, Mass., the latter
of Waterford, Me.

His grandfather, General Benjamin Sawin,
who came from Marlboro, was the first of the
Sawins to locate in Oxford County. Maine.
About 1805 he settled in what is now known
as Lynchville, in the town of Albany, where
he managed a saw-mill some three years, mov-
ing then to Waterford. He cleared the farm
on which his grandson is now living, and de-
voted the rest of his life to the pursuit of
agriculture, dying in Waterford, February 9,
181 7, at the age of sixty-eight years.

Thomas, second son of General Benjamin
and Martha (Howe) Sawin, succeeded his
father as manager of the home farm in Water-
ford, and took a prominent part in town affairs,
serving on the Board of Selectmen for many
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siirviveil him a little more than eight years,
passing away October 19, 1878. They were
the parents of the following children: Mi-
randa, born October iS, 1825, who was the
wife of Captain Moses Rand, and is now de-
ceased ; Lewis H. (deceased), born August
16, 1827, who married Lydia Abbott, of
Albany, now a resident of her native town;
George, born May 29, 1830, who died at the
age of five years; Sarah Ann, deceased, born
August 18, 1833, wife of James Miller, who
is now in the West; Thomas Hubbard, born
November 27, 1835, a retired trader, living in
the village of Xorway, Me., who married
Lizzie Sampson; and Henry, the subject of
this sketch.

Henry Sawin received a common-school
education, and, while acquiring a knowledge
of the rudiments of learning, was also becom-
ing accustomed to farm labor. He was en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits in Norway,
Me., for a year, and with that exception has
spent the time since 1859 on his present valu-
able farm near North Waterford village.
With an estate of seventy acres of land, he is
engaged in general husbandry, dairying, and
stock raising, and has made many improve-
ments on his property. He is one of the lead-
ing farmers of the locality, and is agent in
Waterford for the McCormick mowers.

Mr. Sawin was married October 12, 1859,
to Maria C. Upton, who was born in Albany,
Me., and grew to womanhood in Norway, this
State. .She was the daughter of Micah and
Ruth (Abbott) Upton, formerly respected
members of the farming community of Albany,
both of whom have departed this life. Mrs.
Maria C. Upton Sawin died February 26,
1883. She was the mother of four children,
namely: Etta A., born .September 8, i860,
who died May 20, 1895, the wife of George
Cummings, a farmer in Albany; Lillian J.,
born October 13, 1864, who died ALirch 22,
1865; Harry T., born February 13, 1867, who
was married May 5, 1896, to Cora Bean, of
Albany, Me., and now lives in Windsor, Vt. ;
Agnes E. , born November 28, 1871, who re-
sides with her father on the homestead. Mr.
Sawin w-as married September 22, 1895, to
Mrs. Rowena J. Bird Holt, of Bethel, Me.,
the daughter of Lyman and Eliza (Young)

Bird. This lady was born July 6, 1843. Her
father was a farmer of Bethel, and later of
Paris, Me., where he died. Her first hus-
band, Arthur U. Holt, a farmer of Bethel,
died August 21, 1893, leaving four children
— Etta Mabel, wife of Eugene C. Holt, of
Hanover, Me. ; Llewellyn B., residing in
Andover, Me., who married Miss Adeline
Proctor; Winona L. , wife of ]5urton Patter-
son, of Hanover, Me.; and Herman li., who
is with his mother and step-father on the
Sawin homestead.

Mr. Sawin has long been prominent among
the Democrats of Waterford. He was first
elected to the office of Second Selectman in
1878, and his efficiency as a member of the
town governm,ent is such that he has been re-
elected several times. He belongs to Oxford
Lodge, No. 61, Independent Order of Odd
F"ellows, of North Waterford; also to liver-
green Lodge, No. I 5, Daughters of Rebecca,
of the same place; and he is a very popular
member of society. Mrs. Sawin is an es-
teemed member of the Ba]5tist Clnirch of
Bethel, Me.

kATIO WOODBURY, M.D., a
aiccessful physician of South Paris,
Oxford County, was born in Dan-
ville, Me., July 12, 1852, son of
William and Hannah (Sturgis) Woodbury.
His paternal grandfather. True Woodbury, who
was a native of Cape Elizabeth, this State, in
eai^ly life settled upon Vine Hill in Danville.
A farmer by occupation, the grandfather be-
came a prominent man in that town, and re-
sided there for the rest of his life. Both he
and his wife lived to be over eighty years old.
William Woodbury, Dr. Woodbury's father,
was born in Danville, Me., in March, 1795.
■He adopted agriculture as his life occupation,
and purchased a farm in his native town.
Subsequently he became the proprietor of a
store, which he also carried on for some thirty
years. His last years were spent in retire-
ment, and he died in 1864. A stanch Demo-
crat, he took a leading part in local politics.
He was a member of the Board of Selectmen
for ten years and Town Treasurer for twenty-
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of the Universalists. By his wife, Hannah
(Sturgis) Woodbury, he became the father of
four children — George William, Nathaniel,
Adelaide, and Horatio. The mother died in
1S76.

Horatio Woodbury acquired his elementary
education in the schools of Danville and at
the Auburn High School, graduating from the
latter in 1872. He afterward entered Bates
College at Lewiston, Me., where he graduated
with the class of 1876. He taught school for
the next three years, and then began the study
of medicine with Dr. Isaac Rounds, of South
Paris. Later he entered the Maine Medical
School, and, after pursuing the usual course
of study, took his degree at Brunswick. In
1882 he began practice at Wiscassett, Lincoln
County; but a short time after, desiring a
wider field, he came to South Paris, locating
at 5 Market Square, where he was welcomed
by many old friends of his student days. Be-
ginning practice here under such favoring cir-
cumstances, he was soon able to give ample
proof of his skill and professional knowledge.
He now enjoys a wide patronage as a physi-
cian, and at the same time he occupies a
prominent place among the leading men of the
town. While he is a Republican in politics,
his interest in public affairs is broad, and not
narrowed by mere party exigency. He is in-
terested in educational matters, and he helps
all practical measures and movements designed
for the moral and physical welfare of the com-
munity. He has served his fellow-townsmen
for six years as School Committeeman and
for two years as Secretary of the Board of
Health. He is connected with Androscoggin
Lodge, No. 24, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, at Auburn; with Hamlin- Lodge, No. 31,
Knights of Pythias, at South Paris; with the
order of the Golden Cross, and the New Eng-
land Order of Protection; and at present he is
Secretary of Paris Lodge, No. 94, A. F. &
A. M., and a member of its Board of Trustees.

TEPHEN CHARLES, manufacturer
of monuments, headstones, and all
kinds of marble and granite work,
whose place of business is in North
Frveburg, O.xford County, Me., was born in

Lovell, Me., April 10, 1838, son of Stephen
and Sarah (Bemis) Charles.

The family is an old and highly respected
one in Oxford County ; and John Charles, grand-
father of the special subject of this sketch,
was a jiioneer farmer of Lovell. John Charles
was born in P"ryeburg, in April, 1772, and
died in Lovell, March 17, 1831. He married,
in P'ryeburg, Hannah Carlton, who was born
in 1777, and died January 22, 1869. They
had eleven children, as follows: Stejjhen, first,
who married Sarah Bemis; John, who married
Charlotte Chandler, of Lovell ; Isaac, who
married Sarah Knight, of Sweden, Me. ; Caleb,
who married Sally Charles, of Lovell; Carl-
ton, who married Betsy Kilgore, of Lovell;
Jonathan, who married Rovvena Bannister, of
New York; Warren, who married Abbie Page;
Seth, who married Hannah Andrews, of
Lovell ; Hannah, who married James Merrill,
of Lovell ; Ruth, who married Elbridge G.
Kimball, of Lovell; and James, who married
a lady in New York.

Stephen Charles, first, son of John ami
father of the present .Stephen, was born in
Lovell, June 7, 1 7t)8. He was a farmer, and
he also carried on the lumbering business for
twenty winters. He resided in Lovell till
1847, when he removed to Fryeburg, where
he was prosperously engaged in farming until
his death, which occurred on September 5,
1855. His wife, Sarah liemis, was l^orn in
P'ryeburg, October 26, 1798, daughter of
Thaddeus Bemis, an early speculator in real
estate and an extensive agriculturist of this
town. Mr. Bemis was born in Billerica,
Mass., in 1760, and died in Fryeburg, Me., in
1843. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War. His wife, Judith Day, was born in
P'ryeburg in 1767, the first female child born
in this town. She died here in 1S43. The
children of Mr. and Mrs. Bemis were: Han-
nah, who married John Swain; Betsy, who
married Amos Andrews; Joseph, who married
Mehitabel Kilgore; Thaddeus, who married
Nabby PZastman ; Amos, who married a Miss
Whiting; Mary, who married Issachar An-
drews; Sarah, who married Stephen Charles;
Benjamin, who married Esther Webb; Judith,
who married Mason Hastings; and Isaac, un-
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Stephen and Sarah (Beniis) Charles were the
parents of eight children, as follows: Albion,,
who was born June 30, 1820, and died Septem-
ber 4, 1824; Alsina, who was born July 13,
1823, and is now the widow of IClbridge Evans,
late of Stow, Me. ; Judith 15., who was born
August 25, 1825, married Lorenzo Walker, of
P'ryeburg, and died September 13, 1855;
Sarah, who was born December 10, 1827, and
is now the wife of Joseph Pitman, a surve}'or
and farmer of Bartlett, N.H. ; Ursula, who
was born March 8, 1831, and died March 20,
1834; Diana, who was born January 12, 1835,
married Randall Hastings, of P'ryeburg, and
died March 4, 1883; Stephen, the subject of
this sketch; and Lyman R., who was born
August 6, 1840, married for his first wife Joan
M. Putnam, daughter of G. W. M. Putnam,
of Bartlett, N.H., and married second Orra
Drew, of Richmond, Me., and is now a car-
penter of P>yeburg. Mrs. Sarah B. Charles
lived to reach the advanced age of nearly
ninet_\'-two years, and died June 4, i S90. .She
and her husband were members of the Meth-
odist PLpiscopal church.

Six of these children were living when the
parents removed with their family to p'ryeburg,
Stej)hen, the younger of the two sons, being
then a lad of nine }'ears. hi the public schools
he obtained a knowledge of the common luig-
lish branches, and at home he was trained
to habits of useful industry. As his father
began to feel the infirmities of age, he grad-
ually relieved him from all cares in the man-
agement of the farm. Succeeding eventually
t(i the possession of the homestead, Mr.
Charles resided there until 1866, when he
engaged in the marble-cutting business in P^ye-
burg, where he has since carried on a profit-
able enterprise. He employs two skilled as-
sistants, besides working at the bench himself;
and he receives many orders from different
parts of this county, as well as from some of
the adjacent towns in Xew Hampshire. He
also owns and cultivates a valuable farm.

Though frequently tendered the nomination
for important offices, Mr. Charles, who is a
firm supporter of the Republican party, has
invariably declined the honor of candidacy.
He has always made it a point to attend
strictly to business; and, as he travels through

the county a great deal, he is widely and fa-
vorably known by the leading residents, who
regard him as an honorable, upright, and pio-
gressive citizen.

1-AVIS B. ANDREWS, a member of
the firm Noyes & Andrews of Norway,
was born in Otisfield, Me., January
23, 1856, son of Solomon L. and
Sarah (P'rost) Andrews. His grandfather,
Samuel Andrews, was a native of VViscasset,
Lincoln Count)-, born J'"ebruarv 8, 1771.
When a young man Samuel came to Norwa)',
and settled on P'rost Hill, v.'here he jnirchased
a good farm and was successfully engaged in
agriculture during the remainder of his life.
He married Miss Eunice P'rost, of Gorhani,
Me., and by her became the father of nine
sons and a daughter, respectively named —
John, David, Samuel, Asa, Molly, Nathaniel,
Robert, Solomon L. , Moses D. , and P^benezer.

Solomon L. Andrews, who was born in Nor-
way, August 17, 1 82 1, and reared to a farm
life, chose farming for his life occupation.
He first purchased a place in Harrison, anil
later owned and lived on one in ()tisfield. Me.
In addition to his farming he followed to some
extent the business of a drover. He married
for his first wife Miss Sarah P'rost. She died
aged thirty-three years, having given birth to
two sons and two daughters; namely, Lucy J.,
Isabelle, Bertrand M., and Lewis 1^. Isabelle
and Bertrand M. are deceased. The maiden
name of Mr. Andrews's second wife was Nancy
W. I'rost.

When si.xteen years of age, Lewis B. An-
drews, the youngest child of his parents,
began his business career as a commercial
traveller, and followed that occupation until
1876. Then he commenced clerking for S. B.
Locke & Co., who conducted a general store at
West Paris. 'Pwo and a half years later he
purchased the business of Locke & Co., and,
with A. J. Curts, under the firm name of An-
drews & Curts, carried it on for five years,
l^uying out his partner at the end of that time,
Mr. Andrews conducted the store alone for two
and one-half years. After this he sold out to
Mr. Curts, and embarked in the manufacture
of chairs, establishing the Pioneer Chair Com-

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pany, which did an extensive business for three
years, giving employment to fifty hands. Mr.
Andrews next went to Lynn, Mass., and en-
gaged in the manufacture of shoe machinery,
becoming a member of the firm of C. P. Stan-
bourn & Co. At the end of a year he sold his
interest and returned to Norway, where, in
company with F. H. Noyes, he opened a dry-
goods store, and the present firm of Noyes &
Andrews was established. In iiS94 the firm
bought the blue store and added to its stock
gentlemen's fiu'nishings and a custom depart-
ment. They are now among the largest deal-
ers in this part of the State, employing from
eight to ten clerks.

On June 17, 1S91, Mr. Andrews was mar-
ried to Miss Clara C. Cole. In politics he
is a Republican, in religious belief a Uni-
tarian. His name is enrolled with the follow-
ing fraternal organizations: Granite Lodge, No
8],, A. 1'. & A. M., in which he is a Past
Master; Union Chapter of Norway, Royal
Arch Masons; St. Auburn Commandery,
Knights Templars, of Portland; and Norway
Lodge, No. 16, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.

"ORATIO STEARNS, a model farmer,
who has a valuable farm and a very

1^9 I pleasant residence at Lovell's Pond,

was born in the town of Lovell, Ox-
fortl County, Me., July 25, 1829. His father
and mother, David and .Sarah (Andrews)
Stearns, were small children when they came
to this town with their respective parents from
Billerica, Middlesex County, Mass., not far
from IJoston.

John Stearns, father of David, was the first
of the Stearns family to locate in Lovell,
where he was one of the pioneer settlers. He
devoted the latter part of his life to clearing
and cultivating a farm in this town. David
Stearns here grew to manhood, and spent his
life engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. He
died about 1856, his wife surviving till 1861.
They weii' the parents of eleven children,
three of whom died in infancy. Of the others
the following is recorded: Stephen (deceased)
married Miss Mary Russell, and after her
death Miss Mary Gordon (deceased), of Lovell,

a daughter of Dr. John Gordon. Caleb died
in 1861; and his wife, formerly Miss Eliza
Russell, of Lovell, is now living in Lovell
Centre. Mary was the wife of Abel Heald, of
Lovell (both deceased). Timothy died at the
age of twenty-three. Mehitable is the wife of
Samuel Gilkey, a carpenter of Portland, Me.
Henrietta and Harriet were twins. The for-
mer, now deceased, married Thomas Tibbetts,
who lives in Groveton, N.H. Harriet mar-
ried Abel Heald, and is now a widow living in
Lovell. Horatio is the subject of this sketch.

Horatio Stearns in his early years received
a limited common-school education. He re-
mained with his parents, caring for them in
their old age, and after their dejjarture only
left home in answer to the call for the defence
of the Union. In September, 1862, he en-
listed in Company H, Twenty-third Maine
Regiment, under command of Captain Noyes.
Fortune shielded him from the rigors of war;
for his regiment was stationed for a while
in Washington, and then placed on guard
dutv along the Potomac. Here a soldier on
picket dropped occasionally, picked off by
the bullet of a rebel in ambush ; Init the regi-
ment engaged in no serious battle. Mr.
Stearns received his discharge at Portland,
Me., July 15, 1863, and returned home.
Selling the parental farm at Lovell Centre, to
the ownership of which he had succeeded, he
purchased a farm in Colebrook, N.H., where
he lived some four years. He then sold that
estate and bought the farm on which he now
resides, which was known as the Caleb .Stearns
place, Caleb Stearns being his brother. Mr.
Stearns owns some three hundretl acres of land,
and is engaged in general husbandry. He has
a small dairy and raises some stock. His
homestead is beautifully situated, and he takes
pride in keeping the place in such condition
that it delights the eye of the traveller.

In April, 1863, he was married to Sarah,
daughter of Samuel and Sarah Brackett. Her
father was a farmer of Colebrook, N.H. Mrs.
Stearns was born in Hillsborough. She died
in January, 1S72, leaving three children. The
eldest, George, who was born April 18, 1866,
is principal of the high school in Rumford,
Me., and is one of the prominent men of the
town, having served as P'irst Selectman and

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held (ither jniblic offices of trust. lie married
Miss Mertie A. Butters, of Stoneliam, Mc.,
and has one child, Luzetta. The second son,
Herbert, was born October 17, 1S6.S. The
third, I'^red, who was born October 21, 1869,
lives with his father, who is practically retired
from acti\-e work, leaving to him the nianai;e-
nient of the farm. He was married in -Septem-
ber, 1894, to Miss Dais)' Hall, of Lovcll, Me.,
a daughter of Isaac and Samantha Hall. Mr.
Hall also is a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Stearns have one child, -S.uah I?., born Mai'di
26, 1896. Mr. Horatio .Stearns is a stanch
Republican. He is an active worker in the
Congregational church, of which he has long
been a mcniljer. His son I'"rcd belongs to the
Sons of V'eterans of Lox'ell Centre.

ORACE I?. I'Rl'.SCOTT, a well-
known antl much ix'spected resident
of New Sharon, was born here, on
the paternal homestead, September
2, 1S12, son of Samuel and l<31iza (Ala^-hew)
Prescott. Mr. Prescott's grandfather, Samuel
Prescott, lived in New .Sharon until about ten
years before his death. lie then mo\ed to
Hallovvell, Me., where he died. On Febru-
ary 8, 1 78 I, he married Miss I5etsey Whittier,
whose children by him were: Ik-njamin, Sam-
uel, Betsey, Mary, Nancy, Warren antl Clarry.
He was a Revolutionary soldier, and he after-
ward received a pension from the government
for valuable servcies rendered in the war.
At one time he was a resilient of F'l'ping,
N.H., where his son Samuel was born. He
afterward moved with his family to Winthrop,
Me,, and a short time later to New .Slianm,
where in 1806 he and his son Samuel bnught
the present homestead. He was a strong l)e-
liever in democracy, and carried his belief
into his politics. His religion was that of
the Baptist church.

Samuel Prescott, the father of Horace B.,
received his later education in the schools of
the town. Me subsequently became a school
teacher, and was Town Clerk and Selectman
for a number of years. On October 7, iSio,
he was married to Eliza Mayhew, a daughter
of Hebron Mayhew, of Martha's Vineyard,
Mass. They had eight idiildren; namely.

Theodore, Horace B. , Irving M., Calvin S.,
Samuel 1)., Gnstavus (]., lilizabeth C, and
George 1'.. The onl_\' survivors are the subject
ot this sketch anil Gnstavus G. The latter has
been for the last forty years a resident of lios-
ton, Mass., where he is engaged in the milli-
ner}' business.

Horace H. Prescott received his education at
the public schools of his native town and at
P'armington Academy. At the age of eighteen
years he engaged in school teaching, which he
altei'ward continued for twelve years. He
then went into the lumber business in .Somer-
set and Piscataquis Counties, and followed it
for about ten years. On ( )et(iber 18, i8j;8, he
was married to Cortlelia Johnson, a daughter
of Robert Johnson, of North Yarmouth, Cum-
berland County. They had five children —
Caroline E., Henrietta C, Ellen A., Alice
A., and I.issie May. l^jlen A., who is the
only one living, married George McEaughlin,
and has two children, namely: Horace P.,
born Novi'uiber 9, 1879; and Alice May, burn
January i, 1883. Mrs. Prescott dietl SeiUem-
ber f>, 1894.

Mr. Prescott is a Reiiublican in his jioliti-
cal belief, and belongs to the Congregational
church. He has been a Justice of the Peace
for forty years and Judge of Probate for nine
years. He was elected to the State legislature
in 1850, and was a member of the Council in
1863, and again in 1869. He now carries on
general farming and stumpage. His fine farm
of three hundred and ten acres originally con-
tained but one hundred and twenty-five. Like
his father, he has a fondness for cattle; but,
unlike him, he is not a dealer in them. How-
ever, he owns a number of fine Jersey cows
and some handsome horses.

U.STIN IC. McINTIRP:, a retired lum-
berman and cattle dealer of Waterford,
O.xford County, Me., was born in North
Reading, Mass., July 22, 1837, son of
Richard G. and" |-'anny (Cross) McLitire.
Hezekiah Mclntire, Mr. Mclntire's grand-
father, who was a native of North Reading,
removed thence to Norway, Me., where he
settled upon a farm, and resided there for the
rest of his life.

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The family is evidently of Scottish origin.
There is a tradition that the Highland clan of
Maclntyre was descended from the MacDon-
alds. Sullivan's "History of the District of
Maine," published in 1795, records the fact
that, at the time of the Civil War in England
in the middle of the preceding century, Oliver
Cromwell defeated the troops from Scotland
who fought for King Charles I. in the north of
Kngland, and, taking them prisoners, after-
ward sent them to America, the " Donalds and
M'lntires" being among those thus trans-
ported. They settled in Maine, in what be-
came the second parish of York, and was called
Scotland. Rufus M'Intire, a descendant, was
a member of Congress. One Philip Mclntire
— whether of that branch of the family or not
is unknown to the present writer — was doubt-
less the progenitor of all of this name in Read-
ing, Mass., where he settled at an early date
in the North Precinct. The "History of
Reading" mentions a son, Philip, born in
1666; John, in 1679; David, in 168S; and
others. His posterity intermarried with the
Haywards, Flints, and other prominent fam-
ilies of that vicinity. They seem to have in-
herited an unusual share of martial and pa-
triotic spirit, as si.\ of the name from the old
town of Reading are recorded as having served
in the l-'rencii ami Indian wars, 1745, 1759,
and 1760, seven in the Revolution, and four-
teen from North Reading fought under the
stars and stripes in the War of the Rebellion.
Richard G. Mclntire, father of Mr. Mcln-
tire of Waterford, Me., was born in North
Reading, where in his youth he learned the
shoemaker's trade, which was his principal
occupation through life. He resided for a
while in Norway, Me., but eventually returned
to his native town in Massachusetts, where he
followed his trade for many years. Becoming
interested in the reform movements of the day,
he connected himself with a temperance society
in North Reading. His religious faith was of
the liberal type, and led him to attend the
Universalist church. He died at his home in
North Reading. June 30, 1879, survived a few
years by his second wife, now deceased, who
had no children. His first wife, Fanny Cross,
a native of Pelham, N.H., died in 1845. She
was the mother of four children, as follows:

George, who is no longer living: Justin K.,
the subject of this sketch; Fanny, who died at
the age of seven years ; and Maria, who is the
widow of John Washburn, and resides in
Boston.

Justin E. Mclntire acquired in his boyhood
but a limited common-school education, as he
practically began to support himself at the age
of seven years. For some three years the little
lad did such work as he was able to do upon
farms in Norway ; and he then learned the
shoemaker's trade, which he followed for four
years. After his marriage he settled upon a
farm in the neighborhood of his present prop-
erty. Later he went into the meat business,
opening a shop in Harrison and running a cart
ujion the road. He was thus employed for
about three years, at the expiration of which
he bought his present farm, and, continuing in
the meat trade, also followed farming for about
sixteen years. He then engaged in buying
cattle, which he shipped to Brighton, Mass.,
and was for five or six years in partnership
with Newell A. Trafton. The firm of Mcln-
tire, Trafton & Co. then began to deal in pulp
wood, which they shipped to Cumberland
Mills, a business which proved exceedingly
profitable; and, after remaining at the head of
this firm for ten years he withdrew from active
business pursuit.s, and has since lived practi-
cally in retirement. He owns five hundred
acres of land situated in Waterford and Nor-
way, and, as a means of passing his leisure
time, busies himself by cultivating a small
farm.

As a self-made man who started in life with-
out capital and with only his own energy and
ability to depend upon, Mr. Mclntire stands at
the head of an honorable class in this locality;
and his successful career is well worthy of
a much more extended account. As a wortliy,
upright, and conscientious citizen he is held
in the highest repute by the farmers and busi-
ness men of Oxford County, among whom he
has a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
He is connected with Oxford Lodge, No. 61,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of North
Waterford. In politics he supports the Demo-
cratic party, and for two years he served with
ability as a member of the Board of Selectmen.

On October 24, 1857, Mr. Mclntire was

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married to Amanda Johnson, who was born in
Norway, Sci)tcmber 17, 1S34, daughter of Ira
and Mary (Towne) Johnson, the former of
whom is a retired business man of Norway.
Mr. and Mrs. Mclntire have two children,
namely: Leslie K., who was born September
5. 1858, married J{dith R. Sawin, and resides
ill W'aterford ; and J^ertrand (i. , who was born
October 27, 1S66, married Alice Sawin, and
resides with his parents. The sons married
sisters, whose father, Thomas H. Sawin, was
formerly a prosperous farmer of W'aterford.
Messrs. Leslie K. and Eertrand G. Mclntire
are well-known cattle buyers, who carr\- nii a
large and profitable business in this county.

"ON. JAMES MORRISON.— James
lorrison was born in Madrid, Frank-
lin County, Me., March 14, 1841.
His father was Captain James
Morrison, who was born in Candia, N.H.,
F"ebruary 10, 18 14, and was a descendant of
that numerous Scotch-Irish clan of Morrisons
a part of whom migrated from the north of
Ireland, and settled in Massachusetts and
New Hampshire in the latter part of the
seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth
centuries. The immigrant ancestor of this
branch of the Morrison clan was Daniel Morri-
son, who lived in Newbury, Mass., in 1690.
His descendants afterward lived in Candia,
Kpping, TiJton, and Sanbornton, N.H., and
in Palermo and Madrid, Me. The wife of
Captain James Morrison and the mother of the
subject of this sketch was Mary Leach Doten,
born in 15uckfield, Oxford County, Me.. May
13, 1807.

Reared on the frontier of North-western
Maine, without wealth to aid or experience to
guide, James Morrison from his youth was
largely dependent upon his own resources for
any advancement beyond the sphere of ordinary
back-woods life. When he was six years of
age his parents moved into the town of
Phillips: and most of the time from then until
he was twenty-one was spent in the laborious
work of the farm and mill, with the usual
limited privilege of attending the country dis-
trict school. Always desiring something be-
yond this, he would save up the earnings from

odd jobs, and occasionally attend a term at the
village high school. No seminary was within
reach, no college opened wide its doors; and
the larger i)art of his educational capital was
acquired, unaided and alone, by "Inirning the
midnight oil."

Surmounting difficulties which would have
discouraged many, he became a very successful
teacher, and was thus engaged at the breaking
out of the war of the Rebellion. At twenty-
two he enlisted in the Second Regiment,
Maine Cavalry, and served in the Department
of the Gulf. He was at New Orleans,
Thibodeau.x, and Brashear City, La., I'ine
Barren Creek and Milton, P'la., Pollard, Ala.,
and the taking of Mobile, and was with the
cavalry detachment that led the Sixteenth
Army Corps ujj through Alabama, and occu-
pied the city of Montgomery.

Honorably discharged after the close of the
war, he came home, resumed the occupation of
teacher, and began the study of law. He was
admitted to the Franklin County bar in Se])-
tember, 1869, was superintending School
Committee, and (uie of the Selectmen of
Phillips for about twelve years, represented
the Phillips district in the legislature of
1877, was elected Senator from F"ranklin
County in 1878 and 1879, serving one term as
Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs
and one term on the Judiciary. He was ap-
pointed Judge of Probate for Franklin County
by Governor Robie in 1883 to fill a vacancy,
elected for four years in 1884, re-elected for
another term in 1SS8, again in 1892. and
again in 1896. The close of this la.st term
will make seventeen years' continuous service
as Judge. He continued in the active prac-
tice of law for about five years after admission
to the bar: but failing health, the result of
malarious fever contracted in the South, com-
pelled him to partially abandon office life and
practice. Preferring to be a live farmer
rather than a dead lawyer, he has in late years
devoted his energies to agriculture, only occa-
sionally taking an important case at law. l^y
pluck, economy, and perseverance he has suc-
ceeded where many others have failed, and
has become one of Franklin County's promi-
nent stock raisers. He is also interested to
quite an extent in timber lands.

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A thorough Republican from ;\Ir. Lincoln's
time, Judge Morrison has labored incessantly
to uphold the principles of his early and only
political faith. He served six years on the
Republican State Committee, and has since
done considerable work in the field and on the
stump. A total abstainer, he is a radical
temperance advocate, practises what he
preaches, and believes in the Maine law.

On March 14, 1871, he married Miss
Louisa 11. Chick, of Madrid. She was born
at said ALidrid, December 14, 1S50. The
result of this union is three children, namely:
two girls, Grace Winnifred, born January 25,
1872; Cassandra Mary, born September 20,
1880; and a boy, born August 10, 1884, in
the midst of the political campaign of that
year, and named for James G. Blaine.

f^-"'

EMUEL W. JACKSON, who died at
his home in I'aris, Oxford County,
J ^_U ^ Me., May 25, 1S85, is well remem-
bered by the inhabitants of the town
as a prosperous farmer and a man of sterling
integrity. He was born April i, 1818, and
was a son of Lemuel and Nancy (Foster) Jack-
son. His father was born in Paris, March 17,
1784, and his mother in Newry, Me., May 5,
1792.

Mr. Jackson's great-grandfather, who also
bore the nanie of Lemuel, was among the first
settlers of Paris, here taking up his abode in
1782, when he was somewhat advanced in
years, and had accumulated quite a little
fortune for those times, being a successful
man of business. He had previously bought
several entire proprietary rights in this terri-
tory, "No. 4," as it was known, paying for
the land in cash: and he brought with him a
considerable sum of money, fourteen hundred
dollars in silver, representing a much larger
amount in the depreciated currency of the day.
He was a great help in the new settlement.
Making subsequent purchases, he became the
largest landholder in the town, owning more
than one-eighth of the entire acreage, includ-
ing the whole site of South Paris, where he
erected the first mill in 1793. The first log
house was also built by him. His influence
was almost unbounded: and he may be said to

have been the father of the town, being in so
many respects the foremost citizen. He was
one of the seven members of the Baptist
church in Middleboro, Mass., who received
letters of dismissal to join the church in
Paris, Me. He married Jemima Sampson,
daughter of Seth and Ruth (Barrows) Samp-
son, of Plympton, Mass.

Their son, Lemuel Jackson, second, the
grandfather of Lemuel W., was a hard-work-
ing and successful farmer. He spent his life
in Paris, where he died April 12, 1S16. The
first frame house erected in town was built by
him in 1789. He married for his first wife
Susanna Hammond, and by this union had five
children — Lemuel, Jr., the third of the
name; Sylvanus; Benjamin; Charity; and
Jacob.

Lemuel Jackson, third, the father of the
special subject of this biographical notice
was a man of good business abilities. He
was engaged in general farming throughout his
life here in Paris. His wife, Mrs. Nancy
Foster Jackson, bore him seven children — ■
Charity N., Harriet S., Lemuel W., Ezekiel
C, Hannah F., Vesta H., and Abner F., the
three now living being Ezekiel, Hannah, and
Abner. Mr. Lemuel Jackson, third, died in
September, 1830; and Mrs. Jackson was mar-
ried a second time to Thomas Frost, of Bethel.
She died in i86o. In religious views the
early representatives of the Jackson family
were Baptists, and in politics they were Dem-
ocratic.

Lemuel W. Jackson, whose name appears at
the beginning of this sketch, was the third
child and eldest son born to his parents. He
grew to manhood in Paris, and was educated
in the -schools of this town. When only
twelve years old he "began to work out, and
from that time on he practically supported
himself, attending school only in the winter
months. He devoted his attention to general
farming, at which he was successful : and in
time he acquired a good property. In 1873
he purchased the farm to which he removed
three and a half years later, and from that
time forward during the remaining years of
his earthly life he was engaged in its cultiva-
tion. His death, at the age of si.xty-seven
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outside his immediate circle. As one of the
old residents of the town, an honest, upright
man, he was widely known, and was honored
and respected by all. In religion he was a
i\Iethodist, and for over forty years he was a
member of the South Paris church. Politi-
cally, he was a Republican, and a strong ad-
vocate of the temperance cause. The Jackson
homestead is now owned by his widow, who
leases it.

Mr. Jackson was first married on March 26,
1840, to Miss Hannah B. Lunt, a daughter of
John Lunt, of Woodstock. She was born in
March, 1813, and died July 29, 1868, aged
fifty-five years. Five children were the fruit
of their union, namely: Asaph K., born April
1.5, 1S41, now living in South Paris; Lewis
I.., born February 25, 1843, residing in Gor-
ham, N.H.; liliza J., born September 24,
1845, who died March 2S, 1868; Lemuel W.,
Jr., and Alice J., twins, born May 18, 1851,
the latter of whom died August 23, i860, and
the former on August 3, 1894. On Xovem-
ber 18, 1869, Mr. Jackson was joined in mat-
rimony with Miss Evelina A. Hackett, who
was born in Minot, Me., October 28, 1827,
daughter of William and Hannah N. (Brad-
bury) Hackett.

Mr. Hackett was born in Minot, Me., Sep-
tember 5, 1792, and his wife in Bowdoinham,
Me., June 23, 1795. He was a stirring, ener-
getic man, and engaged in farming and lum-
bering in Minot throughout his life. P'ive of
their nine children are living, namely: Jacob
M. Hackett, a lumberman in Augusta, Wis.;
Lucius W., a general business man of Au-
burn, Me ; lidvvin A., a farmer on the old
home place in Minot; .Samuel W., residing in
Biddeford, and engaged in the threefoTd occu-
pation of a cooper, carpenter, and farmer; and
Evelina A., Mrs. Jackson. The departed are:
Horatio N., who died in 1838, at twenty years
of age; Charles M. F., who died in 1838, at
eight years of age; F" ranees M. S., who died
in 1856 at twenty-four; and Flora R., who
died in 1867 at thirty. Mr. Hackett died at
his home in Minot, Me., November 18, 1871,
survived by his wife, who died October 28,
1873. They were Universalists in religion,
and in politics he was a Jeffersonian Demo-
crat. In early womanhood, after completing

her course of stuily in the high schocd, Mrs.
Jackson taught school for a time. Later she
engaged in the millinery business, which she
followed successfully in Biddeford for two and
one-half years and in South Paris for fifteen
years.

REICMAN ANDREWS, a successful
agriculturist and a prominent citizen of
Lovell, Oxford County, Me., was born
in this town, September 3, 1845, son of Thad-
deus B. and Hannah E. (Farnum) Andrews.
He is a representative of one of the old fami-
lies of this vicinity, his ancestors having been
among the original settlers of Lovell. They
were so numero.us at one time that there was a
school in the district where Mr. Andrews now
resides, which comprised a teacher and fort}-
scholars, all of whom were of blood relation-
ship, and most of them actual members of the
Andrews famil}'.

The paternal grandfather, Mr. P'reeman An-
drews, was Issacher, who was born in Lovell,
November 23, 1788, and here spent his life in
general agricultural pursuits. He and his
wife, Mary D. Bemis, a native of Fryeburg,
Me., became the parents of five children,
namely: Jacob, who was born September 23,
1815, and whose decease occurred December
II, 1852; Thaddeus B., born April 11, 1818;
Sallie, who was born April i, 1820; Thomas
H., born February 22, 1824; and Mason H.,
born April 17, 1832. Mr. Issacher Andrews
passed away December 2, 1870, at his home in
Lovell, at the venerable age of eighty-two
years, having survived his wife very many
years, she having departed this life October
14, 1847.

Thaddeus B. Andrews was their second son.
Having grown to manhood, he settled first on
a farm in the eastern part of Lovell; but he
subsequently removed to the estate now occu-
pied by his son Freeman, and here engaged in
husbandry during the remainder of his life.
He wedded Mrs. Hannah E. Farnum Durgin,
a native of Hiram, O.xford County, Me. She
was the widow of William Durgin, who had
lived only a short time after his marriage.
As the wife of Mr. Andrews she became the
mother of si.x children, namely: William

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Henry, who died in infancy; Freeman, of
whom further mention is to be made; Mary,
who still lives in Lovell, the wife of A. S.
Kendall, a farmer and mason; Caroline, who
is now the wife of A. D. Rowe, a husbandman
of Lovell; Saraband Hannah, who both tlied
in infancy. Mr. Thaddeus B. Andrews tlied
on May 25, 1868, at the age of fifty years, one
month, fourteen days, and his wife on April
8, 1891, aged seventy-one years, one month,
and six days.

Freeman, growing to manhood as an only
son, was early called to help his father in the
lighter labors of the farm, and for that reason
obtained but a limited education in the dis-
trict schools. He remained at home until the
attainment of his majority, when he worked
out for two months. Longer than that he
could not well be spared. He accordingly re-
turned, and assumed the management of the
homestead, caring for his parents until their
decease; and here he has ever since followed
general farming. The farm now consists of
about eighty acres, a part of which he devotes
to the cultivation of garden vegetables and a
part to stock raising and dairying. Mr. An-
drews also owns one hundred and fifteen acres
of wild land in the same township.

He was first married on November 25,
1880, to Miss Fannie Durgin, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Durgin, of Hiram, Me., to
whom she was born in Porter, November 26,
1852. Mr. Durgin was a farmer of that town.
Both he and his wife are now deceased. On
February 9, 1882, Mr. Andrews was called
upon to mourn the loss of his first wife; and
on December 3, i8gi, he wedded Mrs. Susia
Bemis Brackett, widow of Dennis Brackett,
late of Lovell, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Bemis, both of whom are still living.
Her father is a farmer of .Stow, O.xford
County, where she was born November 26,
1855. By her first husband, who died about a
dozen years after their marriage, she had three
children, namely: Nelson B., born March 30,
1875, now deceased; Bert W., born January
4, 1879, 'i"'^' who now resides with the subject
of this sketch; and James R., who was born
June 12, 1880, and who now makes his home
at the same place. The second marriage of
Mr. Andrews has been blessed in the birth of

one child, a daughter, Isabelle by name, who
was born November 2, 1892.

Mr. Andrews is one of the prominent citi-
zens of Lovell; and, though he is not an as|5i-
rant for social or political distinction, he has
served his fellows in several minor puiilic po-
sitions. In national politics he has always
been affiliated with the Republican party, of
the principles advocated by which he is a
vigorous supporter. Mrs. Andrews is a mem-
ber of the Christian Church of Lovell village.
Mr. Andrews has ever been an enterprising,
industrious man; and his efforts have been
crowned by a gratifying degree of success.
He enjoys a very numerous acquaintance, and
commands the respect and trust of all.

HARLES D. HILL, M.D., of Bethel,
Me., is an eminent and popular phy-
sician, connected with the leading
medical societies of the day. He
was born in F"ryeburg, Oxford County, Me.,
March 19, 1855, a son of Cyrus K. and Char-
lotte S. Hill, and comes of an old family, dat-
ing back to Colonial days in New England.

Cyrus K. Hill was born in Limerick, York
County, Me., and, with the exception of the
four years in which he served as a Union
soldier in the late Civil War, passed his life
in that place. He was a ]5ainter, and, besides
working at his trade, followed the pursuit of
agriculture for a number of years. He died
at the age of sixty-nine. His wife, whose
family name was Hill, but who, so far as
known, was not of his kin, was born in Chat-
ham, N.H. She lived to be seventy years of
age.

Through his mother Dr. Hill traces his
ancestry back to Peter Hill, planter, who
came from Plymouth, lingland, in 1633, and
settled on Richmond Island, belonging to
Cape Elizabeth. In 1644 he removed to
Winter Harbor (Biddeford Pool), and in 164S
he was a member of the court of Lygonia.
His death occurred in 1697. Many of his de-
scendants figured conspicuously in the early
history of Saco and Biddeford, Me. Mr. and
Mrs. Cyrus K. Hill were members of the Con-
gregational church. They reared two sons —
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real estate lirnker, residing in l-iradfonl
County, Florida.

Charles D. Hill, the younger son, acquired
his early education in the common schools and
Limerick Academy. He worked at book-
keeping three years, and then took up the
study of medicine with Dr. S. C). Clark, of
Limerick. In 1880 he was graduated at the
Medical School of Maine in Brunswick, Me.
Hefore entering on private practice Dr. Hill
had some valuable hospital experience, serv-
ing, for eight months prior to his graduation,
as steward in the United States Marine Hos-
pital service, port of Portland, and subse-
quently one year as house surgeon in the
Maine General Hospital at Portland. In Sep-
tember, 1881, he opened an office in Bethel;
and since that time his practice has yearly in-
creased. He has been surgeon for the Grand
Trunk Railroad for a nuniljer of years.

Dr. Hill is a Fellow of the Maine Academy
of Medicine, a member of the Maine Medical
Association, charter President of the O.xford
County Medical Association, and a member of
the American Medical Association, and of the
National Association of Railway Surgeons.
He is interested in politics as a Republican,
and was one of the original members of the
.South Paris LInited States E.xamining Pension
Board, with which he was connected three
years, the establishment of a Democratic ad-
ministration ending his term of service. Dr.
Hill is Chairman of the Bethel Board of
Health. As a Ma.son he belongs to Bethel
Lodge, No. 97; and he is an Odd Fellow and
a Knight of Pythias. He is a very popular
member of the community, his fine social
c|ualities, as well as his professional excel-
lence, attracting all with whom he comes in
contact. Dr. Hill is unmarried.

iKMUEL GURNEY, of Hebron, Oxford
County, an extensi\-e farmer and fruit
grower and a manufacturer of evap-
orated apple and maple syrup, was
born in West Minot, Me., March 16, 1826,
son of Samuel and Lucy (Bryant) Gurney.
Samuel Gurney was a native of Bridgewater,
Mass., who in young manhood settled in West
Minot, where he was engaged in farming upon

shares for several years. His last days were
sjient in Hebron, where he died at the age of
seventy-six years. He was an upright, indus-
trious farmer and a worthy citizen. He acted
with the Whig ])arty in politics, and he was
draftetl for service in the Aroostook War. His
wife, Lucy, who was a native <>i Hebron, bore
him eight children, five of whom are living,
namel}' : Eunice C, the wife of W. W. Hardy,
of Paris ; Ruth, the wife of Charles H. George ;
Israel R. and Augustus D., who are residing
in Natick, Mas.s. ; and Lemuel, the subject of
this sketch. The others were: Pamice,
Charles, and Ansel. The mother was about
seventy-five years old when she died. Both
parents were members of the Baptist church.
Lemuel Gurn,ey passed his youth in Minot,
where in the district school he received his
elementary education. He subsequently at-
tended the Hebron Academy for one term.
I'or a time during his young manhood he
was engaged in farming. At a later date
he went to Natick, Mass., and was there em-
ployed for several years in a large shoe manu-
factory conducted by Henry Wilson, who at
one time was a candidate of the P>ee Soil
Party for the office of Vice-President of the
United States. In 1846 Mr. Gurney returned
to Maine, and, settling in Hebron, bought a
farm of eighty acres, which forms a part of his
present property. Since then he has added to
his acreage by the purchase of more land, own-
ing at the present time some one hundrefl and
sixty-five acres. On it he erected his present
residence with other buildings, and has other-
wise greatly improved the property. His
large fruit orchard, which he has brought into
a fine condition, contains some excellent speci-
mens of apple-trees, including some samples
of grafting, besides forty different varieties of
plums and small fruits. He is quite an exten-
sive manufacturer of evaporated apple, which
finds a ready .sale in the home markets, and
makes a specialty of producing cider and vine-
gar of a superior quality, which are in great
demand. In addition he markets from three
to five hundred barrels of fancy grafted apples
annually. Upon his premises are excellent
facilities for the manufacture of maple sugar
and syrup, which he produces in large quan-
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their products, have taken several preniiunis at
the Maine State and Oxford County fairs.

On August 14, 1S53, Mr. Gurney wedded
for his first wife Calista C. Barrows, of He-
bron. She died in 1881, aged forty-six years,
three months, and twenty-three days, leaving
no children. On Januar\- 19, 1892, he mar-
ried for his second wife Mrs. Lovina J. Has-
kell. She was born in Poland, Me., January
3, 1844, daughter of Nathaniel and Keziah
(Hardy) Haskell. By her previous marriage
with Freeman B. Haskell, who died February
10, 1879, she has two children, namely: Mary
E., wife of C. D. Herrick, of Greenwood, this
county; and f^dith L. , the wife of F. .S. Pike,
of Hebron. Mr. (iurney has an adopted son,
Fred E., who was born in Lewiston, Me., in
November, 1866. He is now married, and re-
sides in this town. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gur-
ney attend and liberally support the Baptist
church. In politics Mr. Gurney has acted
with the Republican party since its formation.
He is connected with Hebron Grange, No. 43,
Patrons of Husbandry; and he has been Secre-
tary and Treasurer of both the Hebron and
State Granges. His business reputation is
high and widely extended, and he has fully
earned the success he now enjoys.

-OSEPH KEITH, a well-known wool-
carder and formerly the Postmaster of
North Chesterville, was born in this
town, February 6, 1829, son of Joseph
and Betsey (Cornforth) Keith. His grand-
father, Adam Keith, who was a native of
Middleboro, Mass., married Sally Morrison,
also a native of Massachusetts. Her father,
William Morrison, who settled in Maine in
1805, was the original possessor of the home-
stead in Farmington, this county, now occu-
pied by Mrs. J. B. Morrison.

Joseph Keith, Sr., resided with his parents
until he reached manhood, at which period he
applied himself to learn the trade of a wool-
carder and cloth -dresser. In 1S12 he went to
Unity, Waldo County, where he remained for
six years. Returning in 181 8, he settled at
the Keith homestead in Chesterville. Here
he erected a house and other buildings, placed
the land in a good state of cultivation, and

followed his trade as well as general farming
throughout the rest of his active period. He
died in 1869, aged seventy-three years. He
was a prominent figure in public affairs, serv-
ing as Selectman and Town Treasurer for
many years. He was also the first Postmaster
at Keith's Mills, a position which he held as
long as his age permitted him to serve. In
politics he was a Whig, in religious belief a
Universalist. His wife, Betsey, whom he
married in' 1820, bore him four children;
namely, Harriet, Leonard, Betsey, and Jo-
seph. She died in 1872.

Joseph Keith was educated in the common
schools of Chesterville and at the Farmington
Academy. While still a 3outh he began to
learn the trade of a wool-carder with his
father, and, becoming an expert workman,
has followed it to the present day. The old
mill, which was destroyed by fire in October,
1884, was rebuilt in the following year, and
thoroughly equipped with modern machinery.
The present carding machine has a capacity of
one thousand pounds of wool per week.
Favoring the Republican party, Mr. Keith
takes no active part in politics. For forty-
two years he was identified with the post-office
here as Assistant and Postmaster.

On January 18, 1854, Mr. Keith weddeti
Mercy B. Gale, a daughter of William R.
Gale, of Palmyra, Me., who died when Mrs.
Keith was a child. Her mother afterward be-
came the wife of A. P. Haskell, of Chester-
ville. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Keith have
reared five children, namely: William G.,
born December 22, 1855: Linton J., born
March 17, 1857; Irving E., born September
28, 1858; Leonard S., born February 7, 1862;
and Alvin H., born March 20, 1865. Will-
iam G. Keith, who is now a member of the
firm of Keith & Hiscock, hardware dealers of
East Brookfield, Mass., married for his second
wife Mildred Fay, daughter of Warren D.
Fay, of that town. Linton J. Keith, who car-
ries on the home farm, married Laura Good-
rich, daughter of David Goodrich, of Chester-
ville, and has seven children : namely, Georgie,
Harriet A., Betsey B., Pldith M., Marion G.,
Mildred, and Cony. Irving E. Keith, who
learned the tailor's trade, and became a well-
known salesman of Augusta, Me., is now trav-

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elling in the West. Alvin H. Keith, who
was for four years station a<;ent on the l^os-
ton & Albany Railroad at Ware, Mass., and
is now connected with large plumbing con-
cerns in Manchester, N.H., married Emma
Martin, a daughter of Emerson Martin, of
Manchester.

Leonard S. Keith, who is a prominent busi-
ness man and a civil engineer of Chesterville,
received his education in the town schools and
at the W^ilton Academ)'. At the age of eigh-
teen he went to East Brookfield, Mass., and
there worked at the tinner's trade for two
years. Returning then to Chesterville, he
took uj) the study of civil engineering, and
subsequently entered upon that business.
His first work as a surveyor was upon J. W.
Morse's farm in Jay, Me. Since that time
he has surveyed land in Maine, Massachu-
setts, and Florida, having remained in the
last-named State for a season. He now man-
ufactures carriage lifters and all kinds of wood
work, runs the carding and grist mills here,
and does custom sawing and planing at the
saw-mills. The present mills were erected by
him in place of the old ones which were de-
stroyed by fire in 1884; and in 1893 he built
a fine residence upon the site of the former
one, which was occupied by Jonas Davis,
while he was the grist miller at Keith's Mills.
On February 16, 1893, Leonard S. Keith
married Cora G. Fellows, of Fayette, Me., a
daughter of Eugene Fellows, whose great-
grandfather was one of the first settlers of
Chester\'ille. She has one daughter, Geneva
R., who was born June 16, 1895.

ANA O. COOLIDGK, Deputy Sher-
iff and the proprietor of a thriving
livery business in Jay, was born in
Livermore, Me., (October 12, 1852,
son of Elisha and Celia B. (Bradford) Cool-
idge, both natives of Livermore. His great-
grandfather and giandfather, Thomas and Dan-
iel Coolidge, who were natives of Watertown,
Mass., settled in Livermore in the early part
of the present century, and resided there for
the rest of their lives.

Elisha Coolidge was born and reared u]50n a
farm. From 1856 to 1859 he was engaged in

the provision business in Augusta, Me. ; but
his principal occupation was farming, which
he prosperously followed in Livermore. He
was highly respected, and he took an active
interest in the progress and development of
the town. Lie died June 29, i8g6. His wife,
Celia B. Bradford, became the mother of eight
children, as follows; ALirtha C, now residing
in Sioux Falls, .S. Dak., the widow of Joseph
M. Merserve, who died in 1861 ; Charles, a
resident of Jay, who married Angle M. Nick-
erson, now deceased; Lizzie, who died at the
age of twelve years; Edward, who died in in-
fancy; Caroline M., now living in Ja\-, tlie
widow of E. .S. Kyes, who died in Washing-
ton, D.C., in 1888; Hiram 15., a prosperous
agriculturist of Farmingtt)n, who married
Emma C. Lela'nd ; Dana O. , the subject of
this sketch; and I'rank W., who is married
and resides in Pcjrtland, Me. Mr. Coolidge's
mother died in March, 1891.

The school days of Dana O. Coolidge ended
with a course at Westbrook -Seminary. At
the age of twenty-two he went to Boston,
where he became a salesman in the cigar and
tobacco trade, and remained there for seven
years. Li the spring of 1883 he returned to
his native State, and, settling upon a farm in
North Ja\', was engaged in general farming
there for ten years. In 1893 he moved to
North Jay village, where he established him-
self in the lix'cry business, to which he has
since devoted his attention. He keejis at an
average fourteen good driving horses, with first-
class equipments. In adtlitioii to furnishing
the public with excellent turnouts, he buys
and sells good horses at every favorable oppor-
tunity.

Mr. Coolidge has been twice married. The
first ceremony took jilace June 30, 1880, while
he was residing in Boston. By it he was
wedded to Ada C. Nickerson, daughter of the
late Ensign Nickerson, of Cotuit, Mass., who
died in Jay, March 10, 18S7. His second
marriage was contracted July 3, 1891, with
lulith Idella Bean, daughter of George H. and
Augusta (Jk'an) IV'an, the former of whom is
a well-known livery man and hotel-keeper at
Jay Bridge. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge have two
children — Cordana E. and Georgia May. Mr.
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has acted as Deputy Sheriff for the past four
years. He supports the Republican party, and
is a charter member of I'>anklin Lodge, No.
94, Knights of Pythias, of North Jay, and at-
tends the Uni versa! ist church.

'AM1-:S 'SI. FARRLS, who occupies the
ohl Farris homestead in Hebron, and
is one of the most able and successful
farmers in this town, was born where
he now resides, January 26, 1837, son of Jo-
seph G. and Basha (Irish) Farris. The home-
stead was originally settled by his great-grand-
father, James Farris, who cleared a portion of
the property, and spent the rest of his life
there among the early settlers, prosperously
engaged in farming. His grandfather, also
named James, who was born upon the farm,
inherited the property, and cultivated it during
the active period of his life. He also did a
large business in cutting timber by contract.
He was a prominent man in Oxford County,
which he served in the capacity of High Sher-
iff. His death occurred when he was forty-
four \'ears old. He married Margaret Monk,
who attained the age of eighty years, and had
nine children. Of the latter, the father of
James M. F"arris was the sec(jnd-born.

Joseph G. Farris came into the world at the
homestead, and was a lifelong resident of He-
bron. He succeeded to the ownership of the
farm, which he carried on successfully for
many years, keeping the soil in a fertile con-
dition. He also had a very profitable business
as stone contractor, supplying a great deal of
material for public works. He continued in
active occu])ation until his death, which oc-
curred \\;hen he was si.xty-three years old. In
politics he was a Republican, and he was a
member of the Baptist church. His wife,
Basha, a native of Buckfield, Me., had si.v
children, as follows; Olive, Saphronia, and
Ellen, all now deceased ; Ale.xander, who is a
carpenter and resides in Minot, ^le. ; Wash-
ington, whci lives in Boston, and is also a car-
penter; and James M., the youngest, and the
subject of this sketch. The mother died at
the age of forty-four years.

James M. Farris was educated in the district
schools. In young manhood he became an op-

erative in a shoe manufactory, and continued
in that occupation for eleven years. After
his father's death he bought the homestead
property, on which since 1874 he has carried
on general farming very successfully. His
improvements, which include a new set of
buildings, have made the property one of the
most desirable farms in this section. Besides
the seventy-five acres comprising the original
estate, he owns some outlying land. On Sep-
tember 6, 1858, Mr. Farris wedded Eliza Ann
Peterson, who was born in Oxford, this
county, June 14, 1841, daughter of Andrew-
Peterson, of that town. Mr. and Mrs. Farris
have three children, as follows: Fred. J., a
resident of Minot, who is married and has two
children — namely, Ida M. and Charles; Adel-
bert L. , of Auburn, Me., who is married and
has one son, Roy; and Ada E., the wife of
B. M. Pratt, of Oxford, having tw'o sons —
namely, Harold M. and Adelbert S.

None of the many progressive farmers of this
vicinity are regarded with more respect than
Mr. F"arris. In politics he acts with the Re-
publican party, while both he and Mrs. l-"arris
are liberal in their religious views.

ENRV FOBES, who has been success-
fully engaged as a tiller of the soil
during the larger jjart of his active
life, was born ^Iay 8, 1831, in
Paris, Oxford County, Me., on the homestead
which he now occupies. His grandfather,
Daniel Fobes, was born in 1742, in Bridge-
water, Mass., and was a great-great-grandson
of John Fobes, who was one of the original
proprietors of that town.

In 1802 the grandfather removed with his
family to Maine, settling in Oxford Comity.
He bought one hundred and sixty acres of land
in what was then the new town of Paris; and,
with the assistance of his children, he cleared
quite a large tract, placing it in a state of cul-
tivation. An industrious, law--abiding. God-
fearing man, he won for himself a leading po-
sition among the citizens of the place. In
politics he was a representative Democrat and
in religion a Baptist, serving for many years
as Deacon of the first church of that denomina-
tion established in Paris. His wife, whose

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maiden iiamu was Hannah Standish, was a
direct descendant in the fourth generation of
Miles Standish, the stalwart Captain of Plym-
outh. They had the following children :
Azariah ; Daniel; Sarah; Amasa; Seth ; Han-
nah; I.uin, a soldier in the War of 1812, who
died while imprisoned at Halifax. \. S. ;
Heza ; Mehitable; and Hillings. Daniel
P'obes lived until he was about seventy-three
years old, and his widow attained the vener-
able age of ninct3'-two years.

Billings Fobes was the youngest of the
family. He was born August 7, 1792, in
Bridgewater, Mass., but from the age of ten
years lived at the present homestead, continu-
ing throughout his life in the occupation to
which he was reared. Among the substantial
improvements that he made on the farm are
numbered the present dwelling-house and
other farm buildings. He carried on advan-
tageously the various branches of general agri-
culture. In politics he was a Republican, and
in religion a Baptist. He was actively inter-
ested in military matters, being for a number
of years Commander of the Rifle Company of
the Paris militia. His death occurred in
1 866, at the age of seventy-three years. Cap-
tain Billings Fobes was twice married. His
first wife, before marriage Harriet Stevens,
was a native of Paris. She died on the home-
stead at the early age of thirty-five years, leav-
ing an only child, Henry, the special subject
of this sketch. The father subsequently mar-
ried Paulina Robinson, also of this town, who
lived to the age of seventy-seven years.

Henry Fobes grew to manhood in his native
town. He was educated in the public schools;
and he learned to work on his father's farm,
which eventually came into his possession by
inheritance. He has one hundred acres of
land, and carries on the various branches of
his industry with signal success, reaping large
crops of hay, potatoes, ctnn, and other farm
products, and in addition supporting a small
dairy and raising considerable fruit. Brought
up, as it were. Republican, Mr. Fobes has
never swerved from party allegiance. He is
connected with two fraternal orders, namely:
Mount Mica Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of South Paris; and Paris Grange,
Patrons of llusbantirv. He is a religious man

and is an active member and Deacon of the
Congregational church, both he and his wife
having united with it many years ago.

On November 4, 1S57, Mr. Fobes married
Frances P. Webster, who was born January 3,
1831, in Freeport, Me., a daughter of Captain
Ik'njamin Webster, of that town. She died
January 8, 1896, leaving three children, as
follows: Hattie S., the wife of A. W. Pratt,
formerly a sea captain, but now superintendent
of the electric railway at Orange, N.J., who
has four children — Harland A., Henry V.,
Margaret, and Ruth; Annie B. , who is the
wife of Walter H. Swett, a manufacturer of
tin cans at South Paris, and has one child,
Eva F. ; and Eunice W., a teacher.

-rp)TENRY D. PARKl'IR, a prominent
L^J farmer of Jay, was born in this town,

|l s I July 2, 1847, son (if Henry and

— ■ Nancy (Tuck) Parker. His great-
grandfather was Jonathan Parker, who moved
from Ro.xbury, Mass., to Jay; and he resided
here until his death. His grandfather, Scar-
borough Parker, who was bcun .September 3,
1767, in Roxbury, Mass., and settled in Jay in
1789, owned a farm in the south-east part of
the town, where he resided until his tleath on
May 13, 1 8 14. Scarborough Parker married
Hannah Coding, and by her became the father
of ten children, as follows: Hannah, who was
born May 27, 1796; Susannah, born August
27, 1797, who died in 1889; Joel, born March
10, 1799; Henry, born May 8, 1801; Jona-
than, born August i, 1802; Abigail, born
April 14, 1804, who died November 10, 1857;
Cyrus, born August 17, 1805, who died Sep-
tember 24, 1892; Rhoda, born June 6, 1808,
who died in August, 1889; Harriet, born May
24, iSiO; and Amos, born October 20, 181 i.
Henry Parker was born in Jay. In early
manhood he cleared and improved the farm
now owned by his son, Henry D. An indus-
trious and successful farmer and a worthy citi-
zen, he had the sincere good will of his neigh-
bors, and died I'ebruary 18, 1872. His first
wife, Nancy (Tuck) Parker, who was a native
of F"ayette, Me., died January 14, 1859. The
only child of that union is Henry D. , the sub-
jcct of this sketch. For his secontl wife lie

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wedded Mrs. Patience (Sylvester) Harrington,
of Durham, Me., now deceased, who was then
the widow of the Rev. James Harrington.

Henry D. Parker acquired a common-school
education in Jay, and resided at home until he
was twenty-one years old. He then went to
Lynn, Mass., where he was subsequently em-
ployed in a planing-mill for three years. At
the end of that time he returned to Jay, and
settled at the homestead. Since then he has
given his attention to general agriculture,
owning a farm of one hundred and fifty acres,
which he has greatly improved, and .shipping
the fruit of his large orchard to Boston. He
is also interested in the Livermore Falls Trust
and Banking Company, of which he is a Di-
rector.

On June 22, 1881, Mr. Parker was united
in marriage with Clara Grinnell. She was
born in Exeter, Me., May 19, 1851, daughter
of William and Mahala (Irish) Grinnell, who
were natives respectively of Exeter and Union,
Me. William Grinnell resided upon a farm
in E.xeter until his death, March 19, 1876.
His wife's death hajipened March 23, 1895.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker have one son, Howard
H., who was born September 19, 1S89. A
Reiniblican in politics, Mr. Parker takes an
active interest in public affairs, but has never
aspired to office. He is a member of Oriental
Star Lodge, No. 21, A. F. & A. M., of Liver-
more Falls. Both he and his wife are mem-
bers of the Methodist P^piscopal church.

jHARLES M. DORR, whose widow,
Mrs. Charlotte Morse Dorr, a native
of Waterford, owns and occupies a
very pleasant residence in South
Waterford village, Me., was at one time
prominent in the lumbering industry in the
Pine Tree State. He was born in Boston,
Mass., June 2, 1799, the son of Captain Will-
iam and Lucinda (Da\'is) Dorr, both of that
city.

Captain William Dorr, who was master of a
vessel, and spent much of his life on the high
seas, always made his home in Boston; and
he died there in 1845. His wife had gone
before him, passing away in 1843. They were
the parents of seven children — of whom the

youngest only is now living — namely: Caleb:
William; Charles M., the subject of this
sketch; Lucinda; Elizabeth; James; and
Sarah, who resides in Ro.xbury, Mass., the
widow of Edwin Lemist.

Charles M. Dorr was educated in Boston,
remaining with his parents until the time of
his first marriage, when he went to Dorchester
to live. After a residence of some years in
that place he removed to Bradley, Me., and
engaged in the lumber business. This was in
the early forties, when there was not so much
competition in that line of industry as at the
present day, and when timber coulcl almost be
had for the cutting; and Mr. Dorr accumu-
lated a fortune within the space of a quarter
of a century.

In 1865 he became a resident of Milford,
Me., retiring from active business ; and in- that
town he died, June 9, 1866. He was an ener-
getic, capable, and persevering man, never
shirking a task, no matter how heavy; and he
won the respect and confidence of all with
whom he came in contact. In politics he was
a Republican.

Mr. Dorr was married in Dorchester to
Miss Ann Morse, of Dedham, Mass., who
died in 1844 in Bradley, Me. By this union
he had si.x children — Albert H. (deceased);
Caleb Davis, a lumberman in Minneapolis,
Minn.; Ann, wife of Symond J. Murphy, of
Detroit, Mich.; Sarah E., widow of William
Garland, residing with her sister in Detroit;
William, of Milford, Me., who married Miss
Lena Doe; and Temple E., who married Miss
Malvina Eddy, and lives in East Saginaw,
Mich. On August 18, 1845, the year follow-
ing the death of his first wife, Mr. Dorr was
married in Bradley, Me., to Miss Charlotte
Morse, of Waterford, Me. She was born July
21, i8t6, the daughter of Jonathan and Chloe
(Willard) Morse. Her parents were born in
Massachusetts, the father in Stow, the mother
in Harvard. They removed to Waterford in
the early part of this century; and Mr. Morse
was here prosperously engaged in farming for
a number of years, and he was also a drover.
He died in Waterford in 1833, the year fol-
lowing the death of his wife. They were the
parents of tweh'e children, all but three of
whom died in infancy. Of these three, tlie

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eldest is Mrs. Dorr. The second, Augustus
G. , died in 1864; and the third, Sarah, who
was the wife of Dr. Z. Jodon, died July 9,
1884.

After her husband's death Mrs. Dorr went
West, and was in Michigan, Minnesota, and
Ohio for two years, visiting her step-children.
Returning to Milford, Me., she resided there
a year, and then came to her native jjlace to
spend her declining years amid the scenes
familiar to her childhood. Although Mrs.
Dorr has passed the eightieth milestone in
life's journey, she does not seem old; and her
friends are sanguine that she will spend many
succeeding seasons in her beautiful home.
She is a member of the Congregational church
in Waterford.

LVIN W. JUDKINS, a successful
blacksmith and carriage builder of
West Farmington, was born No-
vember 29, 1856, in Carthage, Me.,
son of Willard and Malissa (Mitchell) Jud-
kins. His grandfather, Phillip Judkins, who
was one of the first settlers in Carthage, mar-
ried Rachel White, and died at the age of
seventy-five, leaving seven children. His
widow's death occurred in September, 1896,
at the advanced age of eighty-seven years.
Their children were: Orrin, A.saph, Willard,
Irena, Eastman, Benjamin, and Mercey A.
Asaph was killed in the late war.

Willard Judkins learned shoemaking in
early life, and subsequently worked at it for a
while in .Stoughton, Mass. Not liking the
trade, he then turned his hand to carpenter-
ing. Some time after, a part of his father's
farm became his by inheritance; and he re-
turned home to take charge of it. He built
some new buildings on the property, and he
carried on general farming until his death in
1876. He was a Republican in politics. He
represented the town for a time in the State
legislature, and served it acceptably as Select-
man. In religious belief he was an Ad-
ventist. His wife, a daughter of Joshua
Mitchell, of Carthage, bore him si.x children.
Preston died young. The survi\-ors are:
Alvin W., Everrett P., Orrin S. , Morris T.,
and Evander C. The mother is also living.

Alvin \V. Judkins was educated in his na-
tive town. Upon arriving at maturity, he
bought his father's farm and cultivated it for
a period of four years. Selling it then, he
went to West Farmington, and took charge
of the Elm Hotel, which he ran for a short
time. After this he conducted a boarding-
house for a spell, during which he learned the
blacksmith's trade. He subsequently worked
at this craft for two years in West Farming-
ton, and then moved to Madison, Me., where
he rented a blacksmith's shop, and started in
business for himself. Some time after, he
bought a shop, which, on finding it unsuit-
able for his pur]iose, he sold. Then, in part-
nership with Mr. H. H. Steward, he bought
some land, built a first-class shop and house
on it, and was" there prosperously engaged at
his trade until 1893. In that year he disposed
of his share in the business, came back to
West P'armington, and bought a half-interest
in the Whitney blacksmith sho]x Here he
has since carried on general blacksmith work
and carriage ironing with much success, em-
ploying skilled workmen to assist him. He
also deals in wagons and in carriages. Some
time ago he purchased the fine old residence
on Water Street known as the Ed Greenwooti
estate, and has much improved it since.

Mr. Judkins was married September 17,
1880, to Miss Flora B. Hutchinson, a daugh-
ter of Reuben and Isabel (Pratt) Hutchinson,
highly respected farming people. Their four
children are: P'lorence H., born November
II, 1 881; La Forrest E. , born March 10,
18S3; Gertrude B. , born June 19, 1S89; and
Lucy W., born September 4, 1895. Like his
father, Mr. Judkins is a Republican, and in
religion an Adventist. He is also a member
of Euclid Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Madison,
and of the Ancient Order of United Work-
men.

HARLES E. WILSON, M.D., an
esteemed physician of p;ast Hiram
village, O.xford County, was born
in Limerick, Me., September 9,
1853, son of Jonathan and ElizalDeth (Cole)
Wilson. The family, which is of Scotch
origin, descends from Gowen Wilson, its

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founder in America. Moses Wilson, Dr.
Wilson's grandfather, who was a native of
Kittery, Me., settled upon a farm in Parsons-
field, Me., previous to 1800, and some years
later removed to Cornish, Me., where he re-
sided for the rest of his life.

Jonathan Wilson, who was a native of I'ar-
sonsfield, was twelve years of age when he
moved with his parents to Cornish. In young
manhood he settled in Limington, Me. At a
later date he went to Limerick, and subse-
quently to Sweden, this county, where he
died Septemi)er 3, 1890. His wife, Eliza-
beth, who was a native of Cornish, had nine
children, as follows: Harriet, born April 2,
1837, who died November 6, 1858; John,
born December 25, 1838, who died June 26,
1896; Fanny N., born April 22, 1840, who
died March 5, 1875: Moses B., born April 2,
1842, who died March 16, 1864; George F".,
born July 15, 1844, who died March 14, 1882:
Sarah E., born July 28, 1846, who died April
19, 1847; Sarah E. (second), born May 12,
1848, who died February 9, 1888; Daniel W.,
born August 11, 1850, who died October 18,
1862; and Charles E., the subject of this
sketch. Her death occurred on January i,
1892.

Charles E. Wilson received his early edu-
cation in the public schools. He subse-
quently attended the North Bridgton Academy
and Gray's Business College, for a time; and
then he fitted for Bowdoin College at the Nor-
way Institute, where he graduated as class
orator. After teaching school in Norway,
Waterford, Sweden, and Lovell for eighteen
terms, he entered Bowdoin College Medical
School, from which he graduated with the
class of 1885. Upon receiving his diploma,
he entered upon his profession at Kineo, Me.
In the following November he located in East
Hiram, where he has since resided. During
the winter of 1894-95 he took a post-graduate
course at the Post-graduate Medical College of
New York City. His practice e.xtends over a
wide circuit, including several towns in 0.\-
ford and Cumberland Counties. The duties
of Secretary of the Board of Health and of a
member of the Board of United States E.xam-
iners in pension cases are also discharged by
him. He has been a member of the Maine

Medical Association since 1886, and is also
connected with the Maine Academy of Medi-
cine and Sciences.

On June 16, 1885, Dr. Wilson was united
in marriage with Frances Ella Chadbourne,
daughter of Francis S. Chadbourne, a promi-
nent resident of Oxford, who died in 1893.
They have one son, Charlie Louville, who was
born November 10, 1886. A Democrat in
politics, the Doctor is too much occupied
with his professional duties to take a promi-
nent part in public affairs. At present he is
rendering valuable service to the town as a
member of the School Board, and he was Su-
pervisor of Schools during six years of his
residence in Hiram. He is connected with
the Masonic fraternity, being a member of
Mount Tire'm Lodge, No. 132, of Hiram; of
Aurora Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Cor-
nish. He has also membership in Hiram
Lodge, No. 16, Knights of Pythias. Dr. and
Mrs. Wilson attend the Congregational church,
and occupy an important social position in the
community.

RASTUS W. UEhlRlNG, a native of
Denmark, Oxford County, represents
an old county family. He was born
September 11, 18 19, upon the farm he now
owns and occujjies, son of Robert and Rhoda
(Whittemore) Deering. Mr. Deering's father,
who was a native of .Saco, Me., born October
22, 1789, came in 1808 to Denmark, where
he settled upon the farm which has since been
the homestead of the family. He continued
to till the soil with success during the rest of
his active period, and died June 3, 1864. His
wife, Rhoda, who was born in Hebron, Me.,
Jul\- 2, 17S8, became the mother of seven
children, of whom two are living, namely:
Erastus W., the subject of this sketch; and
Sarah Jane, who married Myron H. Mansfield,
and is now residing in Nebraska. The others
were: Deborah W. , Robert, Jairus M., Mary
J., and luuiice Eliza. Deborah W. died at
the age of seventeen, and Mary J. and Eunice
Eliza also died before reaching maturity. The
mother died August 28, 1854.

Erastus W. Deering acquiretl a common-
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at tlie homestead. Some time after his mar-
riage he went to McLean County, Illinois,
where he was engaged in farming for a year.
Returning then to Denmark he has .since given
hi.s attention to carrying on the home farm,
which he inherited at his father's death. The
property consists of two hundred acres of
desirable land, the tillage portion of which is
in a good .state of cultivation. His ])rinci-
pal crops have been hay, corn, and potatoes.
He has been exceedingly active and industri-
ous, making the most advantageous use of his
opportunities for advancement. Some time
since he practically retired from labor, leaving
the management of the farm to his son.

On March 23, 1843, Mr. Deering wedded
Joann I. Jewett, who was born in Denmark,
daughter of Daniel and Lydia Jewett, the for-
mer a thrifty farmer of this town. Born of the
marriage were four children, namely: Annie
H., who is the wife of Nathaniel Wiggin.s, of
Baldwin, Me. ; Jairus M., who died at the age
of si.xteen ; Alice A., who is now a teacher in
the ])ublic schools of Chicago; and Arthur M.,
whose birth occurred Augu.st 18, 1857, and
who is now in charge of the home farm. Ar-
thur M. married Mary S. Lowell, daughter of
Daniel Lowell, late of this town, and has five
children; namely, Jennie E. , Arthur L. , Wal-
ter P., Helen I., and Ralph O. His mother
died February 11, i860; and on October 11 of
the same year his father married for his second
wife Mary A. Jordan, who was born in Den-
mark, August 30, 1829, daughter of Mial and
Mehitable Jordan, former residents of this
town, both now decea.sed. In politics Mr.
Deering is a Republican. He has voted with
his party since its formation, but has never
aspired to public office. He is, however,
deeply interested in all matters relative to the
general welfare of the town, and is well in-
formed regarding the principal questions of
the day. Mrs. Deering is a member of the
Methodist church.

ILLIAM AUGUSTUS MANNING,
manager of the Elliott & Bartlett
spool-mills of North Waterford,
O.xford County, was born in Eaton, N.H.,
December 12, 1850, son of Dr. William A.

and Nancy (Atkinson) Manning. Dr. Will-
iam A. Manning, who was a native of Ipswich,
Mass., entered on the study of medicine in
his native town, finishing his professional
training in Philadelphia. He began practice
in Dover, N.H. Subsequently he pursued his
profession in Springvale, Me., South lk>rwick,
Me., and Eaton, N.H.; in Stoneham, this
county, where he remained several years; and
in Weld, Me., for two years. His death oc-
curred March 26, 1876, in Weld. He was
married in Eaton, N.H., to Miss Atkinson, a
native of that town, who is now living in
F:aton with her sister. They had five chil-
dren, namely: William A., the subject of this
sketch; Allegra, in I-:ilsworth, Me.; John F.,
a practising physician in F:ilsworth, Me., who
married Miss Maude Saunders; Ida H., de-
ceased, who was the wife of Dr. Charles M.
Coolidge, a physician of North Waterford;
and Hattie, who lived but three summers.

William A. Manning received a common-
school education, supplemented by one term
at the Bridgton (Me.) Academy. He left
home when about twenty years of age, going
to Albany, Me., whore he worked in the tim-
ber some two months. He then obtained em-
ployment in a saw-mill in Milton, N.H., re-
maining four months. The three months
following he was employed in a saw-mill in
Stoneham, this county. In 1S72 he entered
the employ of Elliott & Bartlett, whose favor
and confidence he won by his industry and
the conscientious discharge of his duties.' He
has now been manager and overseer of the mill
for nearly a quarter of a century. The Elliott
& Bartlett spool-mill, located at Lynchville,
about a mile north of the village'tif North
Waterford, is one of the largest and most
prosperous concerns in this part of the county.
Mr. Manning is also engaged to some extent
in farming, and owns some real estate near
North Waterford village.

He was married June 13, 1881, while on
a visit to Pittsfield, Pa., to Miss Lizzie M.
Bartlett, of that town. She was born at
Stoneham, Me. .January 17, i860, daughter of
Enoch M. and Mary (Ayers) Bartlett, both
natives of Maine, born respectively in Newry
and Stoneham. Mr. Bartlett, wiio is a farmer,
living in Naples, Me,, has been three times

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married. Mis first wife died at Pittsfield,
Pa., June 24, 18S3. His second marriage was
contracted with iVIrs. Sarah Gray, of Thomas-
boro, 111., and his third with Mrs. Sophia
Leavitt, of Naples, Me., who is still living.
Mr. Manning has four children, all natives of
North Waterford, namely: Fonti E., born
July 15, 1882; Robert L., born January 21,
1885; Mary A., born August 12, 1888; and
Arthur B., born July 4, 1891. Mr. Manning
votes the Republican ticket. He is a member
of Oxford Lodge, No. 61, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, of North Waterford village.
Keeping on friendly terms with all conditions
of men, "Gus Manning" is one of the most
popular men of the town.

LRION K. I'. JONI'lS, of Jay, Frank-
lin County, was born here, March 2,
1829, son of Hiram and Betsey
(Tuck) Jones, both natives of Fay-
ette, Me. His grandfather, Captain Sylvester
Jones, a native of Taunton, Mass., who was a
ship-master at one time, settled upon a farm
in Fayette, and resided there for the rest of
his life. Hiram Jones came to Jay in 1826.
He purchased a farm here, which he cultivated
industriously during the rest of his active
period, and died about the year 1870. His
wife, Betsey, became the mother of seven chil-
dren, namely: Mary A., who is still residing
at the homestead in Jay; Albion K. P., the
subject of this sketch; Harriet, who is now
the widow of Otis Richardson, and lives in
Livermore Falls; Albert V., who married
Jane Gordon, and occupies the old homestead;
William B., who is no longer living: Ann
Elizabeth, who married John Peterson, and
now resides in California; and Charles H.,
Ann Elizabeth's twin brother, who died in
the Civil War. The mother reached the age of
eighty years before she died.

Albion K. P. Jones was educated in the
common schools of Jay, and resided at home
until he was nineteen years old. He then
went to Lowell, Mass., where he remained for
three years employed as a watchman. In
June, 185 1, he joined a party bound for the
mines in California, and with them, on the
28th of the month, left New York City for

the Isthmus. On arriving there they crossed
to Panama in a log boat; and, after waiting in
that city seven days for a vessel, they started
on the voyage up the coast, which occupied
seventeen days, and arrived at San Francisco
on August 6. Mr. Jones went to the diggings
in Northern California, and there obtained
employment in a mine at seven dollars per
day. He lived in a hut made of brush, board-
ing himself at seven dollars per week; and his
sojourn there was productive of good financial
results. After making considerable money he
finally left the mines, and engaged in agri-
culture upon a farm in Suisun Valley for two
years. He then returned to Jay, and bought
the farm where he now resides. He owns two
hundred and forty acres of fertile land, which
he has brought to a good state of cultivation,
and much enhanced in value by erecting new
and substantial buildings.

On January 10, 1854, Mr. Jones was first
united in marriage with P2mily Bigelow, who
was born in Corinna, Me., daughter of John
Bigelow. She died November 10, 1863, leav-
ing two children, namely: F"annie, now the
wife of Albert Wing, of Fayette, Me.; and
Emma J., who is the widow of Bradford F.
Parker, and resides at the Parker homestead,
having two children — Horace A. and Brad-
ford S. By a second marriage on April 4,
1866, Mr. Jones was wedded to Mrs. Mary E.
(Reynolds) Porter. She was born in Belfast,
Me., November 25, 1830, daughter of William
and Mehitable (Trundy) Reynolds, now de-
ceased, who were prosperous farming people
of that town. In politics Mr Jones acts with
the Republican party. Both he and Mrs.
Jones are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church. They have the warm esteem and
good will of their neighbors.

-OHN WESTON, of Fryeburg, an exten-
sive dealer in live stock and one of the
largest timber land owners in Oxford
County, was born in Fryeburg, January
13, 1834, son of FZdward and Rachel (Ward)
Weston. Edward Weston was a native of
Lincoln, Mass., came to P'ryeburg in March,
1800, and settled upon the farm where his son
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cattle drover ; and for many years he carried
the United States mail from Fryeburg to Port-
land. In his day he figured prominently in
public affairs, and was Deputy Sheriff for sev-
eral years. He died April 3, 1853. His first
wife, in maidenhood Jane Webster, of Conway,
\. H., who died in 1829, bore him five chil-
dren — Ann, James, Charles, lulward, and
John, none of whom are living. I^y his second
marriage he was wedded to Rachel Ward, a
native of Concord, X. H. Her father, Jona-
than Ward, came to p'ryeburg when she was
si.\ months old, and resided here for the rest of
his life. -She became the mother of four chil-
dren, as follows: John, the subject of this
sketch; (ieorge Ward, who was an extensive
cattle dealer in South America, where he has
since died; Jane W. , who resides at the home-
stead in this town; and Edward Payson, who
married Frances Hunt, and is a general mer-
chant in Fryeburg. She survived her husband
nearly forty years, and resided at the home-
stead until her death, which occurred January
3, 1892, at the advanced age of ninety-two
years.

John Weston acquired his education at the
Fryeburg Academy. After his father's death
he began life for himself, first working in the
lumber camp.s, and later employed in handling
stone. Being a great admirer of live stock, he
naturally drifted into that business, commenc-
ing in a small way by shipping to the cattle
markets. Since then he has become one of the
largest dealers in this county. He is also
extensively interested in lumbering, and owns
over four thousand acres of timber land. This
property is located as follows: five hundred
acres in F'ryeburg; five hundred in F>yeburg
and ]5rownfield townships; three hundred in
Mason; one thou.sand in Conway, N. H. ; thir-
teen hundred in Madison and Iiaton, N. H. ;
three hundred in Bartlett, N. H. ; two hundred
in Freedom, N.H. ; and other tracts in Maine
and New Hampshire. His homestead jirop-
erty contains one hundred acres of excellent
tillage land with a substantial residence, and
occupies a pleasant location near the village of
F"ryeburg.

On January 13, 1859, Mr. Weston was
united in marriage to Abbie F. Glines. She
was born in Eaton, N. H., daughter of Thomas

Glines, now deceased, forn"ierly a prosperous
farmer of that town. She became the mother
of five children, as follows: l^dward, born Oc-
tober 23, 1859, who married Sadie Gordon, a\
native of Canada, and is now in the grain busi-
ness in ]>"ryeburg; James Herbert, born No-
vember 3, 1 861, who died at the age of two
years; Mary, born P'ebruary 9, 1866, residing ~
at home; Susan, born March 12, 1868, who is
now a teacher in the public schools of this
town; and George Ward, born Se])tember 3,
1870, also residing at home. Mrs. Weston
died May 28, 1895. In politics Mr. Weston is
a Republican, and, though actively interested
in all measures calculated to secure the party's
success, he has never sought public office.
Highly esteemed by the community, he exer-
cises a wide influence in all public niatter.s.
He and his daughters are members of the New
Jerusalem Church of Fryeburg.

LBERT GUY HOWARD, M.D., a
popular and successful physician and
surgeon of P'armington, Me., was
born in the town of Rangeley,
J-'ranklin County, October 20, 1846, the son of
(iuy C. and Mahala (Howland) Howard.

Guy C. Howard was born in the town of
Phillips, Me., and reared to farm life. His
first independent venture was the purcha.se of a
farm in his native town, which he tilled for a
few years; and then selling it he engaged in
trade and manufacturing, purchasing a store at
Bragg's Corners and also the potash-mills.
He subsequently moved to the town of
Rangeley, where he bought one hundred and
sixty acres of heavily timbered land near
Quimby Pond and erected a log house. After
clearing most of the land in the pioneer fash-
ion, he sold it at an advantage and purchased
some property in the town of Phillips. There
he remained but a short time, next purchasing
a farm in the town of Weld. In 1864 he sold
his farm and bought a house in the village of
■^Veld, retiring from active business. In 1879
his home was broken by the death of his wife;
and, selling his effects, he went to live with
his daughter in Lynn, Mass., where he died at
the age of eighty years. He had been a man
of remarkable physical vigor, and at the time

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of his death there was not a gray hair in his
head. Mr. (iiiv C. Howard was a Democrat
in his early manhood, but after the formation
of the Kejjublican party he transferred his
allegiance to that. In religious belief he was
a Baptist. His wife, who was a daughter of
l^riggs S. Howland, died in 1879, at the age
of sixty-nine. Mr. and Mrs. Guy C. Howard
were the parents of the following children:
James G. ; Briggs H. ; Abigail, who died
young; William B. ; Frank S. ; Helena M. ;
Delia R. ; Albert Guy; and Mary E.

Albert (iuy Howard, the youngest son and
the special subject of this biography, spent his
boyhood years in acquiring his education in
the public schools. After leaving the high
school he learned the trade of harness-making;
and then opening a shoj) he carried on the busi-
ness some ten years, at the same time studying
medicine under the tuition of Dr. J. J. Lin-
scott, of Farmington, and Dr. .S. P. Warner,
of Portland. He subsequently took a practical
course at the Medical Institute of Vermont,
graduating in 1881. In July of the same year
he began to practice at New Sharon, Me.,
where he remained two years, and he ne.xt
settled at Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County;
but, the salt air not agreeing with him, he re-
moved to Kingfield, where he established
himself, August 16, 1883. There he soon
had a large practice, the frequency of accidents
in the woods among the lumber camps and
mills keejiing him busy as a surgeon and phy-
sician ; and his skill and success soon gave
him a favorable reputation. On May 7, 1891,
he moved to Farmington ; and although there
were a number of old established physicians
here, he soon won his way to favor, as his prac-
tical experience in surgery especially made his
presence desirable in cases of emergency. He
has a large jiractice in Farmington and vicin-
ity, and is often called in consultation long
distances away. His residence and office are
at 22 High Street.

Dr. Howard and Miss ]{lla L. W'ilkins,
daughter of Abial and Elizabeth (Howe) Wil-
kins, of Wilton, Me., were married on April
30, 1870, and now have three children. It was
to give these children better educational advan-
tages that he removed to I'armington. The
eldest, Guy C, who was born December 29,

1873, and is at present a Junior in Bowdoin
College, has taught sixty-four weeks as first
assistant of the Farmington High School; the
next, Maud E. , who was born January 16,
1875, is a graduate of the State Normal School
at Farmington in the class of 1S94, and is now
teaching in Groveland, Mass. ; and the young-
est, Ethel L. , born December 12, 1879, is in
the classical department of the I'armington
High School, fitting for college. In politics
Dr. Howard favors the Republican party.

OHN C. PIKE, formerly a resident of
Waterford, where he will be long re-
membered as a man of sterling worth
and character and a prominent agri-
culturist, was born here, September 28, 1827.
He was a son of John and Hannah (Prince)
Pike, respectively natives of Waterford and
Massachusetts. Grandfather Pike was the
first of the name to settle in this town.

John Pike, who w^as engaged in farming
here throughout the most of his lifetime, was
one of the leading agriculturists of the town.
He subsequently removed to Sweden, Me.,
where his busy life closed. His first wife,
Hannah (Prince) Pike, died December 21,
1833; and he afterward married Miss Esther
Richardson, of Sweden, who was born May
10, 1804. The fruit of his first marriage was
four children, namely: Mary A., deceased,
born April 8, 1825; John C. , the subject of
this sketch ; Susan Augusta, born July 29,
1829, and Hannah M., born December 21,
1833, who died September 27, 1844. By his
second wife he had: Elias, born June 28,
1837, who died December 28, 1862; Alvin,
born April 28, 1841, now living in Sweden;
and Gilman, born February 11, 1S45, who
died December 17, 1862.

When seventeen years of age John C. Pike
left home, and went to California and to other
points in the W^est, where for several years,
until 1858, he was engaged in mining and
loggin<r- After his marriage he settled on
the farm now occupied by his widow, and was
there successfully engaged in general farming
until his death, which occurred December 6,
1 89 1, at the age of sixty-four years. The
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sons, contains about three hundred acres of
productive land. It came to its present
owners in a high condition.

On June 28, 1854, Mr. I'ike was married to
Miss Eliza A. VVilliard, who was born in
Waterford, August 16, 1821, daughter of
Louis and Mary (Plaisted) Williard. Mr.
and Mrs. Williard were respectively natives
of Harvard, Mass., and Gorham, Me. When
Mr. Williard came to Waterford, he settled on
the farm where his daughter, Mrs. I'ike, now
lives. She has had two sons and a daughter,
namely: Sarah M., born July 7, 1855, now
the wife of Henry Wentworth, of W'aterford ;
Bion H., born March 18, 1858, who married
Miss Edith Nevers, and is living near the old
homestead; and Ernest L. , born November
24, 1859, who resides on the homestead farm
with his mother, and is successfully engaged
in general farming, lumbering, and stock busi-
ness. The latter is now one of the leading
men of the town, a member of the grange at
Waterford, and a stanch Republican, having
always voted with that party.

/©jTo

EORGE A. VIRGIN, a lumber man-
\ •) I ufacturer of Hanover village, Oxford
County, was born here, November
15, 1851, son of Jonathan A. and Nancy K.
(Elliott) Virgin. When a young man Rufus
Virgin, the father of Jonathan A., came to
this county from Concord, N. H., and settled
in Rumford Falls. Jonathan A. was born at
Rumford Falls, and there spent his earlv
years, receiving his education in the common
schools. He began his business career as
manager of a grist-mill at Rumford Falls.
About the year 1844 he came to Hanover, and
purchased the old grist-mill and rebuilt it.
At a later date he bought the old saw-mill and
refitted it. He ran both successfully, and
carried on a successful business until about
1874, when he bought the old woollen-mill.
This he tore down, and erected the mill now
owned by his son. After renting it one year
he sold out. In i S92 he again bought the
woollen-mill, and, in company with his son,
altered it into a sawmill. He died Septem-
ber I, 1893, at the age of seventy-six years.
In politics he was an adherent of the Republi-

can party. His opinion on matters pertaining
to the public welfare was much valued, and
for several years he served as Treasurer of the
town of Hanover. Although not a member of
any church, he rendered material assistance
in the erection of the Universalist church at
Rumford Point. Nancy K. (Elliott) V'irgin,
his wife, who was born in Livermore, Me.,
died at the age of forty-five years, leaving two
sons — George A. and Rufus J. R. J. \'irgin
resides now at South Bethel, this county,
where he is engaged in manufacturing lumlier.

After attending the schools here in Han-
over, George A. Virgin took a supplementary
course at Gould's Academy in Bethel and at
Hebron Academy. After attaining his legal
majority, he rented his father's saw-mill for
a few years, 'and then bought it. He leased
the grist-mill some time later, and thereafter
conducted the two together until 1892. Since
his father's death he has purchased the new
saw-mill here in Hanover village, where he
carries on quite an extensive business in gen-
eral lumber and box manufacturing.

On May 30, 1874, Mr. Virgin was united
in marriage with Miss Emma G. Brown, who
died January 26, 1887, leaving two children
— George Lee and Dwight M. Both are now
employed with their father in the mill. In
politics Mr. Virgin is a Republican. He is
a member of Blazing Star Lodge, No. 30,
of F. & A. M., at Rumford Centre; and of
Oxford Bear Lodge. No. 54, Knights of Pyth-
ias, of Hanover.

LIAS H. MORSE, one of the most pro-
gressive farmers of Jay, Franklin
County, was born .September 7,
1830, upon the farm he now owns and culti-
vates, son of John and Sally (Monroe) Morse.
Nathan Morse, his grandfather, an English-
man by birth, after following the sea as mas-
ter of a vessel in his younger days, settled
upon a farm in Weld, Me., still owned by a
member of the family, and resided there for
the rest of his life. John Morse, who was
born in Weld, settled at the age of eighteen
in Jay upon the farm where his son, Elias H.,
now resides, and spent the remainder of his
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died February 18, 1872. His wife, Sally, who
was a daughter of Abel Monroe, a prosperous
farmer "f Livermore, Androscoggin County,
bore him six children, as follows: Sally and
Julia M., who are no longer living; Martha
M., the wife of Dr. Bartlett, of East Dixfield;
IClias, also deceased; Elias H., the subject of
this sketch; and Melvina C. , who died Novem-
ber 6, 1842. The mother's death occurred on
February 23, 1879.

Elias H. Morse was educated in the common
schools of Jay, and has always resided at the
homestead. He succeeded to the property,
which is now a well-improved farm of two hun-
dred acres. Besides the usual farm products,
he makes a specialty of raising fruit. His
prosperity has been achieved by good sense,
industry, and perseverance. On October • 8,
1857, Mr. Morse was first united in marriage
with Ann Coolage Phinney, who was born in
Jay, September 21, 1S38, daughter of Deacon
Jonas and I-:iiza (Lampkin) Phinney, late of
this town. She died May 28, 1885, leaving
four children, as follows: Mary Eliza, born
August 19, 1858, who married Wilbur Eibby,
and resides in North Falmouth, Me. ; Jona-
than Everett, born January 3, 1864, who mar-
-ried Carrie Bolster, and resides in Lynn,
Mass. ; Carrie P., born January 13, 1867, who
is now the wife of Stillman B. Harlow, of East
Di.xfield, this county; and I'.rnest Clifford,
born December 8, 1S77, who resides at the
homestead. On April 2, 1890, Mr. Morse
wedded Mrs. Eleanor (True) Ramsdell, widow
of Augustus Ramsdell. She was born in Phil-
lips, Me., January 31, 1S43, daughter of the
late Captain John True, formerly a well-known
and highly respected citizen of that town.
Mr. Morse is numbered among the stanch Re-
publicans of Jay, having upheld the principles
of that party since reaching his majority. He
has a]wa\-s given his close attention to his
farm, and is held in high estimation by his
neisrhbors and fellow-townsmen.

LBION EMERY BRADBURY, (me

)f the largest real estate owners and
most prominent residents of the town
of Canton, O.xford County, Me., was
born in l-Jyron, Me., in the .same county, on

March 8, 1822, son of Thomas and Dolly
(Morse) Bradbury. He comes of old Colonial
stock, being a worthy representative of the
family founded in America by Thomas Brad-
bur)', who emigrated from England in 1634,
and, settling in the District of Maine, became
the possessor of a large tract of land. Some
of his descendants were men of note during the
Colonial period.

i\Ir. Albion liradbury's grandfather, Daniel
Bradbury, who was a native of Buxton. Me.,
and was a Quaker, settled in early manhood in
Athens, Me., of which town he was a pioneer
farmer and one who made good progress. An
upright man and a highly respected citizen, he
labored diligently and without selfish motives
to secure the development of the town. He
died in Athens at the age of eighty-six years.
He reared a family of fourteen children, of
whom Thomas, Mr. Bradbury's father, was the
second -born.

Thomas Bradbury grew to manhood upon a
farm in tiie town of Buxton, his native place.
He early displayed a capacity for both agri-
cultural and business pursuits, and aside from
tilling the soil he became a very prominent
cattle dealer. He made his home in Byron for
a time; but on March 25, 1828, he settled in
Canton upon the farm where his son now re-
sides. He was very successful both as a
farmer and a business man, becoming one of
the wealthiest men of this town ; and he re-
sided here until his death, which took place
October 15, 1S57, at the age of sixty-six years.
In politics he was originally a Whig, but
joined the Republican movement at its forma-
tion, and was one of the first supporters of that
party in this section. His wife, Dolly Morse,
who was a native of Concord, N. H., became
the mother of four children, two of whom are
living, namely: Albion E., the subject of this
sketch; and Fannie, who is the wife of Amos
Childs and resides in Canton. The others
were: Cynthia, who died April 29, 1857, aged
thirty-two years; and Charles D. Bradbury,
M.D., a successful physician, who died in
1893, aged sixty-one years. Mrs. Dolly M.
Bradbury lived to reach the age of eighty-
seven years, and died November 4, 1882.
Both she and her husband were Universalists
in their religious belief.

ALBION E. BRADBURY.

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Albion iMiiery Hradhury accompanied his
jiarents to Canton when l)Ut six years of age.
He was educated ])aitly in the public schools
of this town, including; the high school, and
partly under the direction of a private tutor.
Having grown to manhood he .still continued
to live with his father and mother, and for
some time previous to his father's death he had
entire charge of the business affairs of the es-
tate. He now carries on general farming at
the old homestead, of which he has come into
possession, and where he has been a resident
for nearly si.\ty-nine years. His agricultural
operations are not necessarily on a very lim-
ited scale, as he is the owner of over five hun-
dred acres of valuable land. Mr. l^radbury
has, however, not confined himself to labor
in the fields, but has travelled extensively
through the United .States, visiting all notable
points of interest to an intelligent sightseer;
and he is well-informed in regard to the
natural resources and the industries of this
country. Mr. Bradbury is unmarried. In
])olitics he acts with the Re])ublican party, but
has never aspired to public office. In his re-
ligious views he is a Universalist.

OX. SAML'EL P. CUSHMAN, one
of the town fathers of Hebron, Me.,
born March 16, 1829, on the farm
which is now his home, is a son of
Ansel and Eliza (Pratt) Cushman. His grand-
father, Caleb Cushman, an active and indus-
trious farmer in his lifetime, was one of the
early settlers of Hebron. Caleb died on the
homestead at an advanced age. His family
consisted of nine children, five daughters and
four sons, all of whom have long since passed
away. Ansel Cushman spent his life on his
father's farm, and was one of the representa-
tive farmers of the town. In politics he was
originally a Whig. Upon the formation of
the Republican party he gave his adhesion to
its principles. He was a member of the Bap-
tist church in Hebron. His death occurred
in his eighty-third year, and that of his wife
at the age of eighty-two. Six children were
born to them, namely: Nancy, the widow of
the late Lauren A. Bumpus: Henry M.,
deceased; Samuel P., the subject of this

sketch; Horatio A., a resident of Hebron;
Charlotte P., the wife of Jacob M. Drew, of
Auburn; Maria I'".., now in l.os Angeles,
Cal., the widow of Henry Kicker, who died in
the late war.

-Samuel P. Cushman grew to manhootl in
Hebron, acquiring an education in the com-
mon schools and the academy. After leaving
the academy he taught school for a short time,
and then turned liis attention to agriculture on
the home farm. This property covers some
eighty acres of land, and has neat and sub-
stantial buildings, which Mr. Cushman him-
self erected.

Mr. Cushman was married Sejjtember 5,
1856, to Mary B. Cushman, daughter of Major
Albert and - Ro.setta H. ^Curtis) Cushman.
She was born in Hebron, September 7, 1833.
She has borne her husband three sons— Fred-
erick VV., Hartley F. , and Albion K. P.
The eldest, who was born December i, 1858,
acquired a good education, studying at Hebron
Academy. I-'or some time he has given his
attention to carpentry and general farming in
his native town, where he owns a farm of one
hundred acres. He is a member of Hebron
Grange, No. 43, Patrons of Husbandry, of
Hebron. In politics he is a Rei)ublican, in
religious belief a liberal. He was married
February 4, 1891, to lulith L., daughter of
Zibeon L. Packard, and has two children —
Dwight P. and Fdellc. His wife is a member
of the Baptist church. Hartley !•". Cushman,
born July 24, 1864, who is in trade in Auburn,
Me., married Miss Lillian E. Thomas. Al-
bion K. P. Cushman, born February 11, 1870,
who is as yet unmarried, and lives with his
parents, follows the pursuit of agriculture.
Mr. Samuel P. Cushman, who is a Republi-
can, has been elected several times to the
Hebron Board of Selectmen, and has served
for a number of years as Chairman of the
Board. He was Town Clerk and Treasurer
for ten years, having previously filled minor
offices. He has been a Justice of the Peace
for many yeans, and in 1874 he represented
the district in the State legislature. He is a
member of Evening Star Lodge, No. 147,
A. F. & A. M., of Buckfield, and is very
prominent in social circles. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Cushman are members of Hebron

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Grange, No. 43, Patrons of Husbandry, of
Hebron. They are also members of the Bap-
tist church at Hebron.

LFRED A. OAKES, a member of the
Board of Selectmen of Chesterville,
Franklin County, Me., was born at
the Oakes homestead, where he now
resides, April 16, 1851, son of David and
Marinda (Arnold) Oakes. Mr. Oakes is a de-
scendant of a Revolutionary patriot, his great-
grandfather, John Oakes, having been among
the minute-men who took part in the battles
of Le.xington and Bunker Hill, and died from
the effects of exposure some three months after
the last-named struggle.

The wife of John Oakes married for her
second husband Jonathan Knowlton, a native
of Massachusetts, whom she met while he was
on one of his trips to Maine, which he made
by packet from Salem, being five months on
his last voyage from that place to Hallowell.
In 1780 Mr. and Mrs. Knowlton settled upon
a tract of new land in F"armington. John
Oakes, Jr., who was born in Massachusetts in
1770, son of the first-named John, accom-
panied his mother and step-father to Farming-
ton, being, it is said, the first white boy
brought by any settler to that town. Shortly
afterward he removed to New \'ineyard : and
he eventually settled upon one hundred and
sixty acres of wild land, which he improved
into a good farm. He resided there for a few
years, and then removed to Chesterville,
where he bought of his brother Eben and John
Corbett the farm of three hundred and twenty-
five acres, which has since been known as the
Oakes homestead. A hard-working, thrifty
farmer, he survived the vicissitudes of a
I)ioneer's life, and lived to see the locality
become a thriving agricultural district. He
died at the homestead in Chesterville, Sep-
tember 7, 1839, aged sixty-nine years. In
politics he acted with the Democratic party.
He was widely and favorably known through-
out this section as Deacon John Oakes, from
his official connection with the Baptist
church. He married Wealthy Crapo, a native
of Massachusetts, who was born in 1771, and
they reared a family of eight children;

namely. Wealthy, John, Mary, David, Jere,
and Elkanah, who were born in New Vine-
yard ; and Frances and Weighty, who were
born in Chesterville. Grandmother Oakes
lived to be eighty-three years old, dying May
8, 1854.

David Oakes, Mr. Oakes's father, was born
April 13, 1802, and was the second son. His
boyhood and youth were spent at the home-
stead, acquiring a practical knowledge of farm
work and attending the district school; and
at the age of twenty-one he became his
father's hired help. On the death of his
father he and his brother John inherited the
homestead, which they carried on together till
1854, when he bought his brother's interest;
and John went to Minnesota, where he died
ten years later. Continuing to improve the
property, David Oakes became a prosperous
general farmer and stock raiser; and, as he
was especially partial to good-blooded ani-
mals, he always kept the best of horses and
oxen. The active period of his life was spent
in toiling industry. He died October 21,
1879, aged seventy-seven years. In politics
he was in his last years a Republican, and on
religious matters he held broad and liberal
views. His wife, Marinda Arnold, whom he
married in 1833, was a daughter of John Ar-
nold, of Augusta. They reared four children,
namely: David, who died at the age of twenty;
Augusta, who is living at the present time;
Alfred A., the subject of this sketch; and
John. The mother died April 5, 1855, aged
forty-two years.

Alfred A. Oakes was educated in the town
schools of Chesterville, and resided at home
until he was twenty-one years old, when he
went to Foxboro, RIass., where he was en-
gaged in the manufacture of straw hats for
three years. He then returned to the home-
stead, a third of which he inherited : and, hav-
ing purchased the interests of the other heirs,
he has since carried on the farm with energy
and success. He deals largely in stock,
keeps sixteen Durham and Guernsey cows,
sending his milk and cream to the Turner
creamery at Auburn ; and for some years he
was quite an extensive breeder of Durham
cattle for the market.

On October 17, 1875, Mr. Oakes wedded

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for his first wife Georgia A. Goodrich, daugh-
ter of David Goodrich, of Wilton. She died
March 17, 1879; and in 1885 he was united
to his ]iresent wife, who was before marriage
Brendena L. Russell, being a daughter of
Charles A. Russell, of Temple. By this
union there have been four children, namely:
Arthur A., who was born May 5. 1886; Ralph
G., who was born November 28, 1887: Percy
B., who was born October 14, i8go, and died
April 19, 1891 : and P'annie V... who was born
February 25, 1892.

In politics Mr. Oakes is an active supporter
of the Republican party, and his natural abil-
ity has placed him in a position of promi-
nence in public affairs. Besides serving in
the various minor town offices he was a mem-
ber of the l^oard of Selectmen during the
years 1881, 1882, and 1883, and has served in
the same capacity for the past three years.
He is highly esteemed by his fellow-townsmen
both as an agreeable, kind-hearted neighbor
and as an able and faithful public official.

^mo

1:0RGP: LEVITT MELLEX, a re-
\ [>) I tired resident of Paris, Me., who
^— -^ was for many years identified with
the Oxford Doiiocrat^ was born at Paris Hill,
January 28, 1823, son of Alanson and I\Iary
(Bisco) Mellen. Mr. Mellen's father, who
was a native of Hopkinton, Mass., came to
Paris at an early date in the town's history,
as agent for the Bemis family, who were at
that time the owners of a large estate in this
county.

Alanson Mellen was an exceedingly able
and upright business man. He took a promi-
nent part in developing the natural resources
of Paris, it being through his instrumentality
that the great possibilities of this town as an
agricultural centre were brought to the notice
of investors and farmers. Soon after his
settlement here he became connected with
public affairs, and his valuable ofificial ser-
vices extended through a period of many
years. For several years he was Town Clerk,
and for thirty-five or thirty-six years he was
the Registrar of Deeds of Oxford County,
being the second man to fill that position.
He was also County Treasurer for a number of

terms. A man of advanced ideas, he labored
diligently and effectively in securing the
growth and prosperity of this section of the
State, his active endeavors for the general
good of the community being maintained
until his death. He entertained broad and
liberal views upon religious subjects; and,
politicall}', he was an earnest and influential
supporter of the Democratic party, in which
he figured as a recognized leader in this county.
Alanson Mellen died at his home in Paris Hill,
December g, 185 1. He and his wife, Mary
Bisco, whom he survived some twenty-five
years, were the parents of six children, as fol-
lows: Leonard, who was born January 20,
181 3; Jonas 1^., who was born December 7,
1 8 14; Eunice- P"., who was born October 17,
1816; Mary M., who was born November 1,
1818; Charles T., who was born November
20, 1820: and George Levitt, whose birth is
mentioned above. Mrs. Mary B. Mellen died
March 12, 1826.

George Levitt Mellen, the fourth son, who
is the subject of this sketch, acquired his early
education in the district schools of his neigh-
borhood, antl advanced in knowledge and men-
tal discijiline by attending the Yarmouth and
Bridgton Academies. After completing his
studies he served an apprenticeshi]^ at the
jirinter's trade in the office of the Oxfonl
Democrat^ later being engaged at various
places, including Lowell and Boston, Mass.
While residing in the New England metropo-
lis, he, in company with Mr. C. A. Putnam,
purchased in 1849 a literary newspaper, called
the Boston M/isctmi, which they conducted for
a short time, and then sold. Returning to
Paris, Mr. Mellen early in 1850 bought a
half-interest in the Oxford Dcinocral^ the
office and publishing-room of which had been
destroyed by fire in December, 1849. Re-
establishing that journal upon a firm running
basis, Mr. Mellen, in company with George
W. Millett, carried it on until October, 1850,
when he with others purchased Mr. Millett's
interest in the enterprise. The Dcjiiocrat
continued to flourish under his management,
with Mr. Emery, of Portland, as editor, until
after the election of Franklin Pierce as Presi-
dent of the United States in 1852, when Mr.
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tired permanently from journalistic enter-
prises.

Soon after President Pierce took his seat,
Mr. Mellen was appointed United States
mail agent between Portland and Waterville,
later having his route extended to Bangor
upon the completion of the Maine Central
Railway to that city: and he continued in the
postal service until the change in the federal
administration which accompanied the elec-
tion of Abraham Lincoln in i860. He was
subsequently appointed freight and ticket
agent and depot master of the Portland &
Rochester Railroad at Portland, in which po-
sition he continued a few years. In 1868 he
formed a partnership with G. G. Waterhouse
for the purpose of opening and carrying on the
Dewitt House in Lewiston, which was at that
time one of the largest and best appointed
hotels in Maine. He was connected vvith the
Dewitt House for about si.\ years, at the ex-
piration of which time he withdrew; and after
spending two years in Pensacola, Fla., he en-
gaged with Mr. Burgess in the lumber business.
Since retiring from active business pursuits,
about the year 1878, he has resided in Paris.
On July 5, 1852, Mr. Mellen married
Nancy Norris Wing. She was born in
Wayne, Me., February 19, 1821, daughter of
James and Nancy (Norris) Wing. Her
father was born in Wayne, September 9,
1792; and his wife was born May 24, 1794.
James Wing was a prosperous farmer and
prominent resident of Wayne, being an up-
right, conscientious man, possessing intellect-
ual ability of a high order. He represented
the district which included Wayne and Leeds
in the Maine legislature during the years
1840 and 1 84 1. The date of his death was
March 20, 1864, he having survived his wife,
who died November 24, 1836. Of their six
children four are living, namely: James M.,
a resident of Wayne; Orrin, residing in Har-
vard, Mass. ; Eliza Seaver, wife of John R.
Miller, of Concord, N.H.: and Frances
Charlotte, whose home is in Paris. The
others were Mrs. Sally Wing Burgess, who
died September 2, 1874; and Nancy Norris,
who became Mrs. George L. Mellen, and died
November 8, 1890, leaving no children.

In his younger days Mr. Mellen was promi-

nently identified with local politics, which
made him an eligible candidate for public
office; and he served as Town Clerk in Paris,
and was Postmaster for two terms at different
times. Although he has not coveted political
notoriety, he has been a firm supporter of the
Democratic party since attaining his majority.
In his religious belief he is a Universalist.
He has had a long and successful career as a
business man, and is now enjoying a well-
earned period of rest and recreation at his
pleasant home in Paris, where he is regarded
by his fellow-townsmen with the utmost re-
sjject and esteem.

OLOMON S. HALL, who died at
his homestead in Waterford, Oxford
County, Me., January 8, 1896, was
identified with the agricultural in-
terests of this vicinity for nearly three dec-
ades, having removed here in 1868 from the
neighboring town of Norway, where he was
born June 10, 1821. He was the eldest son
of Jonathan Hall, and was a grandson of
Jedediah Hall, a lifelong resident of Fal-
mouth, Me.

Jonathan Hall, after arriving at man's es-
tate, left his native place and came to Oxford
County to engage in agricultural pursuits.
Buying land in the western part of Norway,
he labored with tireless energy to clear a
homestead, meeting with such success that
before his death, whose date was April 30,
1842, he had a well-improved farm. His
wife, Mary Smith, whom he had married after
settling in Norway, survived him a few years,
passing away January 18, 1845. They had
seven children, as follows: Emeline Maria,
who was born December 12, 181 8, and died in
March, 1887, the wife of Daniel Pierce; Solo-
mon S. , the special subject of this brief bio-
graphical sketch; Aaron Oliver, born P'ebru-
ary 8, 1.8.23, who died August i, 1824; Oliver
A., who was born March 28, 1825, and mar-
ried Clara A. Stanley, who has lived in Cam-
bridge, Mass., since his death, which occurred
February 6, 1890; Albert Edwin, born March
29, 1827, who died July 29, 1827; Helen,
born June 3, 182S, who died the following
day; and Albert Edwin, the second, who was

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born July 31, iSjg, and died Nov'cniljer 2S of
the same year.

Solomon S. Hall, the first-born son, grew
to maturity, and was educated in Norway, this
county, and subsequently was there engaged
in shoemaking and market gardening for a
number of years. lie resided in the village
of his native town until October, 1868, when
he purchased the old McWain farm in Water-
ford, where he engaged in general farming,
dairying, and raising garden produce until
liis decease, by good management realizing a
handsome yearly income from his well tilled
fields. Politically, Mr. Hall was a steadfast
ReiHiblican, true to the interests of his party;
and, religiously, he and his wife were es-
teemed members of the Universalist church
of Norway.

Mr. Hall was three times married. His
first wife, formerly Miss Ruth B. Smith, died
leaving no issue. His second wife, Emily A.
Warren, was born April 22, 1834, and died
August 29, 1861. His third wife, Olivia G.
Warren, a sister of his second wife, was born
September 16, 1836, antl died in June, 1894.
He had three children by his second marriage,
namely: Mary, born March 6, 1854, nt)w the
wife of G. H. Shedd, M.D., a prominent phy-
sician of North Conway, N.H., and mother of
one child, George Harold, born November i,
1882; Julia, born October 2, 1856, who died
December 24, 1S91 ; and Lizzie li., born Au-
gust 26, 1859, who lives with her brother on
the old homestead. This brother, Sidney S.
Hall, boi'n June 21, 1866, was the only child
of the third marriage of Mr. Hall. He is one
of the leading young men of Waterford, and
with his sister now owns the old farm of two
iiuntlred and thirty- three acres. They are
carrying on the various branches of agricult-
ural industry with unquestioned success, keep-
ing some stock, but making a specialty of
raising and marketing garden truck and fruit.

-OHN MINOT SOULE HUNTER,
the well-known editor of the Farming-
ton Chronicle, of Farmington, Me., was
born in this town on the 14th of De-
cember, 1846, the son of Thomas and Sarah C.
(Soule) Hunter.

The lluijter family is of .Scotch descent,
and settled in Sandy River Valley in 1767-
James Hunter, the grandfather of the editor,
was born in Bristol, Me. Later he removed
to the town of Strong, where he finally set-
tled, taking up a large tract of new land,
clearing it and building upon it. Mr. Hunter
was of a very strong constitution, and lived
to a ripe old age. His wife, Rachel Dodge,
was equal!)' vigorous. Her death at the age
of eighty-three years was caused by an acci-
dent. .She was about to step from her car-
riage at the door of her church, when the
horse, startled by the ringing of the church
bell, ran away, and she was thrown out and
fatally injured.

Their son Thomas, the editor's father, was
born on the joth of April, 1807, in the town
of Strong. Arriving at a matmx' age, he
began to earn his living by teaching school ;
but preferring a more active life, and being
possessed of considerable mechanical ingenu-
ity, he gave up this profession, and devoted
his time to various trades. Diligent and
versatile, as a blacksmith, stone cutter, car-
penter, millwright, and house joiner, he was
a skilled workman. He became a "boss"
builder in Farmington in a few years; and
several houses which he built are still stand-
ing to-day, witnesses of his skill and thor-
oughness. At one time he trtok a contract,
and erected a large sugar-mill, which was
taken to Hawaii, Sandwich Islands. He
'framed the mill in Farmington, and got it all
ready to set up, then transported it by teams
to Hallowell, where it was loaded on a sail-
ing-vessel, and thence carried to its destina-
tion. Mr. Hunter went with the mill, and
set it up on its arrival there, and ran it for
one year. At the expiration of the term of
his contract he returned to P\armington, and
followed his trade of a master builder until
his death.

He married Sarah C, the daughter of Zach-
ariah .Soule, anil by this union he became the
father of si.x children — James T., who died
in infancy; Marcia S. ; Julia -S. ; Susan C.;
John Minot Soule, of whom this short biogra-
phy is written; and James T. Mr. Thomas
Plunter was a stanch Re]jublican in his poli-
tics, and in religious belief followed the doc-

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trincs of the Congregational church, of which
both himself and wife were active and consist-
ent members.

John Minot Soule Hunter received his edu-
cation in the public schools of his native
town and at Farmington Academy. He early
in life entered upon a business career, becom-
ing a clerk in Farmington and at a later
date in Bath and i-n Boston. He continued
thus engaged until September 15, 1867, when
he enterecf the Chronicle office in Farmington,
in order to learn the printer's trade and the
profession of a journalist. .Shortly after this
he temporarily left the office of the Chronicle,
having been appointed Deputy to Andrew C.
Phillips, Esq. (then editor of the paper), who
was appointed United States Consul at Fort
Erie, Ontario. Later he resigned, and re-
turned to the Chronicle, where he became fore-
man of the office under editor A. H. S. Davis;
and, upon the sale of the Chronicle by the
latter to Captain C. W. Keyes, Mr. Hunter
became foreman and general assistant, occu-
pying those positions several years, or until
June 20, 1S77, when he removed to Portland,
where he became foreman of the Portland
Daily Press composing-room and Liter tele-
graph editor of the same paper.

In June, 1886, Mr. Hunter resigned his
position on the Portland Press, and returned
to Farmington, having bought one-half of his
old paper, the Farmington Chronicle, and
leased the other half, of Captain Keyes. F"our
months later- in the great fire of October 22,
1886 — the office and its fine machinery were
completely destroyed. The paper was, how-
ever, published regularly every week, the pub-
lishers of the Lewiston Journal generously
volunteering to print and send the papers to
Mr. Hunter, which they did for two weeks.
In the meantime he had a new office and
outfit prei^arcd, and in a little while the paper
was on its feet again. The Farmington
Chronicle is now in the fifty-seventh year of
its existence, has a circulation of about three
thousand copies, and is universally admitted
to be not only the largest but the best paper
in the county: and it ranks among the leading
weekly papers of Maine. The Chronicle al-
ways has been and still is the organ of the
Republican party in Franklin County, though

many of its firm friends and patrons are found
in all the parties. It is, perhaps, needless to
say Mr. Hunter is a Republican in politics.

Mr. Hunter was married on the 14th of De-
cember, 1874, to Miss Eldora Nichols, the
daughter of Walter Nichols, of Searsport,
Waldo County, Me. They have had three
children — John Walter, Mabel E., and
Charles W. Keyes; but only the daughter is
living, their two sons having died in infancy.

Mr. Hunter is a very popular man, not only
in his native town, but wherever he is known.
His friends and acquaintances are many, both
in the social and business world; and all
speak of him in the pleasantest manner. He
is a member of numerous societies and frater-
nities, among them being the following: Past
Master, Maine Lodge, No. 20, A. F. &
A. M.; Franklin Chapter, No. 44, Royal
Arch Masons; Jephthah Council, No. 17,
Royal and Select Masters; Pilgrim Command-
ery. No. 19, Knights Templars; Kora Tem-
ple, N. M. Shrine; Maine Consistory, An-
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite; P. N. G.,
Franklin Lodge, No. 58, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows; also P. C. P., Sandy River
Encampment, No. 9, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. He is also one of the incor-
porators of the P'ranklin County Savings Bank;
a Trustee of the Public Library, as well as
Secretary of the Library Association; and in
1894 he was appointed by Governor H. B.
Cleaves a Trustee of the Soldiers" Orphans'
Home in Bath, Me.

RTHUR E. MORRISON, Trial Jus-
tice of Rumford F'alls and an enter-
prising real estate dealer, was born
in Rollinsford, N.H., January 27,
1862, son of John W. and Abbie (Gates)
Morrison. The father, a native of Alton,
N.H., was reared upon a farm in that town.
He is now a successful stone contractor of
South Berwick, Me., an able, conscientious,
and progressive man ; and he enjoys the respect
of all with whom he has dealings. His wife
was born in Groveland, N.H., and she is the
mother of five children, as follows: George
E., who is in the marble and granite business
in Saco, Me. ; Arthur E., the subject of this

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sketch; John H., a business man of South
Berwick; Nancy, the wife of George \V. Tib-
betts, of South Berwick; and Mary Etta, who
resides at home. Both parents are members
of the Baptist church, of which the father is a
Deacon.

Arthur E. Morrison began his education in
the common schools of South Berwick. At
the age of twelve years he commenced to work
in a store, devoting to his duties therein his
mornings and evenings and the summer vaca-
tion. With his earnings here he paid his,
tuition at the Berwick Academy, from which
he graduated in 1882. In the autumn of that
year he went to liiddeford, Me., where he se-
cured a position as clerk in a dry-goods store.
A year later the firm for which he worked es-
tablished at Norway, Me., a branch store, of
which he was appointed manager; and he re-
mained in that capacity four years. He then
went to Dover, N.H., where he clerked for a
year; and in the spring of 1888 he opened an
insurance agency in Sanford, Me., remaining
in that town two years. Having sold out his
business there, he returned to Norway, and
was employed by I'reeland Howe in the in-
surance business. In 1892 this firm estab-
lished a branch office in Rumford Falls, erect-
ing the first business block on Congress
■Street, which is now the principal thorough-
fare of the town. Under Mr. Morrison's able
management the business has been placed
upon a firm and profitable basis. Since tak-
ing up his residence here he has been identi-
fied with the business develoiiment of the
town; and his ability and sound judgment
have been instrumental in forwarding several
important enterprises, which are of much ben-
efit to the general community. He was one of
the organizers of the Rumford F"alls Publish-
ing Company, of which he is a Director, was
a principal mover in the formation of the Vil-
lage Corporation, and is an incorporator and
Director of the Rumford Falls Building and
Loan Association.

On March 10, 1885, Judge Morrison was
united in marriage to Fannie Robertina
Howe, daughter of Freeland Howe, of Nor-
way. They have now two sons — Robley
Howe and Freeland John. In politics Judge
Morrison is a Republican. lie was appointed

Trial Justice here in 1892, being the first to
hokl that office in Rumford Falls. He is
connected with O.xford Lodge, No. i S, A. F.
& A. M., of Norway; and with I'enacook
Lodge, No. 130, Independent Order of Odtl
Fellows, of this town. Both he and Mrs.
Morrison are zealous workers in the Univer-
salist church. The Judge is a progressive and
active business man. His courteous and
affable manners have made him popular, and
he has already laid the foundation of a suc-
cessful career.

ARROLL E. PROCTOR, M.D., the
only physician in the town t)f Weld,
l-'ranklin County, was born in Can-
ton, Me., July 20, 1858, son of the
Rev. Roscoe A. and lietsey R. (Smith)
Proctor. On the father's side he is of Eng-
lish descent, and on the mother's side he is
of Scotch origin. The Proctor family was
founded in America by two brothers who came
from England and settled either in Salem or
Merrimac, N. H. One of the brothers was
the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Proctor.
The grandfather, Uriah A. Pmctor, was born
in Merrimac, July 18, 1791. In early man-
hood, leaving Bethel, Me., he descended the
Androscoggin River upon a raft, and settled
at Jay Bend, where he engaged in farming.
He served as a soldier in the War of 18 12.
In January, 1813, he was married in Jay by
Seth Carpenter to Abigail Fenno, who was
born in Bethel, Me., August 18, 1791. He
was a prominent man in his day in Canton,
and was a member of the Baptist church. His
children were: Mary F. , Rebecca B., Emcline
B., Oliver F. , Charles A., Uriah A., Abi-
gail, Abigail (second), Anna L. , Uriah (sec-
ond), and Roscoe A. Abigail (first) died in
infancy.

Roscoe A. Proctor was born in Hartford,
Oxford County, Me., November 10, 1833.
He became a clergyman, and preached in Can-
ton and Sumner, Me., for some time. He
was subsequently called to Rangeley, Franklin
County, where he remained eleven years.
His last years were passed in Weld as pastor
of the Free Will Baptist church; and he died
December 2, 1891. He was a Republican in

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politics, and was quite prominent in public
affairs. His wife, Betsey, whom he married
in Canton, July 20, I.S52, was born in Liver-
more, Me., in 1834. She was a daughter of
Jesse and Betsey A. (Knowles) Smith, the
former of whom was born at Moose Hill, Liv-
ermore. Me., in 1800. Jesse Smith was a son
of Deacon Jesse Smith, who was born in 1764,
and died at Moose Hill, Livermore, Me., No-
vember 18, 1843. Deacon Smith's wife, Bet-
sey A., was born in 1767, and died at Canton,
Me., aged seventy-one years. Roscoe A. and
Betsey R. (Smith) Proctor vvere the parents of
two children, namely: Carroll E. , the subject
of this sketch; and Gerry A., a merchant who
lives in Rangeley. The mother died in Weld,
June 7, 1896.

Carroll E. Proctor acquired his early educa-
tion in the common schools of Canton and at
the Hebron Academy. He began the study of
medicine with Dr. Yates, of West Paris, and
subsequently entered Dartmouth College Med-
ical School, from which he graduated with the
class of 1880. He entered upon his profes-
sion at Weld, where he has since resided.
He is the only medical practitioner here, and
attends patients over a territory within a
radius of twelve miles. On Pebruary 14,
1876, Dr. Proctor was united in marriage to
Martha E. Bradeen, daughter of Theodore
Bradeen, of Wilton, Me. Mrs. Proctor has
had four children, three of whom are living,
namely: Roscoe G. , aged nineteen, who is
fitting for college; Eva B., aged seventeen,
who is also attending school : and Bessie,
aged si.\ years. In politics Dr. Proctor is a
Republican, and has been superintendent of
schools for the past three years. He is
iiighly respected both socially and profession-
;iliy, is connected with Mystic Tie Lodge,
No". 154, A. E. & A. M., of Weld, and is a
member of the Free Will Baptist church.

'AMUEI, B. LOCKE, wholesale and
retail dealer in flour, grain, and
feed at West Paris, Me., where he
is accounted one of the most stir-
ring and enterprising citizens, was born at
Locke's Mills in the adjoining town of Green-
wood, April 18, 1840. He is the third in

direct line to bear the name Samuel B. His
grandfather, Samuel Barron Locke, first, set-
tled in Bethel, Me., about 1796. He mar-
ried Hannah Russell, of P'ryeburg, and was
the father of nine children who grew to matu-
rity, five sons — John, Luther, Samuel B. (sec-
ond), James, and Charles Russell — and four
daughters. All have now passed away.
Grandfather Locke was a communicant of the
Methodist Episcopal church and a Whig in
political affiliation.

Samuel Barron Locke, second, the father of
the special subject of this sketch, was born in
Bethel in 1801. He was a self-made man.
A millwright by trade, he became a mill-
owner; and he also followed farming to some
extent. He settled at Locke's Mills about
the year 1839. Many of the mills for miles
around were built by him, the one now con-
ducted by his son having been erected in
1857. During the last years of his life,
which were spent in West Paris, where he
settled about the year i860, he carried on a
large milling business. His death took place
in 1870. In politics he was a Republican, in
religion he was liberal. His wife, Mrs.
Lucetta Edgerly Locke, who was born in
Bu.xton, Me., in 1S06, died June i, 1888,
aged eighty-two years. Their six children
are all living, namely: Mary Ellen, wife of
C. M. Morgan, of Portland; John Locke, a
trader, residing in Fryeburg, Me.; Charles
R. Locke, a mill-owner and lumber manufact-
urer at North Chatham, N.H.; Frank I^ocke,
a millwright in Fryeburg; George W., resid-
ing in Norway, Me. ; and .Samuel B., third,
of\Vest Paris.'

Until sixteen years of age Samuel B.
Locke, third, now to be further mentioned,
lived at Locke's Mills. His education was
completed at Gould's Academy in Bethel.
He first went to work as a clerk for his
brother John, whom he afterward bought out ;
and he was then in trade here for seventeen
years, keeping a general store. After dispos-
ing of that he removed to Norway, Me.,
where he went into company with W. H.
Whitcomb, and carried on quite a large mer-
cantile business. Two years later, in 1885,
he sold out. and returning to West Paris took
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tor a number of years. He does custom ,i;riii(l-
ing-, besides keeping feed, fiour, grain, and fer-
tilizers for sale at both wholesale and retail.

Mr. Locke was first married in June, 1865,
to Miss Linnie H. Piummer, who died in
1868; and second, in 1.S75, to Miss Elva K.
Libby, who was born in Standish, Me. By
the first marriage there were no children. By
the second there are three children, a son
and two daughters. They are: Linnie E., born
March 2, 1876; Mary L. , born September 6,
1882; and Samuel B., born October 2, 1885.

Mr. Locke was elected on the Republican
ticket as a Representative to the lower house
of the State legislature for the term of 1874-
75, and served very creditably. He has also
served as Selectman of the town one term.
He is President of the Oxford County Loan
Association, and is a member of Granite
Lodge, No. 182, A. F. & A. M., at West
Paris; L.ewiston Commandery, No. 6,
Knights Templars; and of West Paris Lodge,
No. 15, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
at West Paris. His wife is a member of the
Universalist church. Mr. and Mrs. Locke
have a pleasant, attractive home, and are es-
teemed members of society.

FORGE M. ATWOOD, of Paris,
senior member of the firm of Atwood
& Forbes, publishers of the Oxford
DcDiocrat, was born in I^uckfield, Oxford
County, Me., October 6, iSdo. His parents
were William H. and fielen M. Atwood; and
it appears that they were ambitious for their
son, giving him the best educational advan-
tages within their reach.

After assimilating the benefits to be derived
from the public schools and Hebron Academy,
he entered the Law School of Columbia Col-
lege, New York, having determined to adopt
the legal profession as his life work. With
this end in view he also read law under the di-
rection of Messrs. Bisbee & Hersey, both well-
known lawyers, and was admitted to the Ox-
ford bar in October, 1885.

Very shortly afterward he purchased a half-
interest in the Oxford Democrat, associating
himself in this enterprise with Arthur \\.
Forbes, of Paris, Me., under the firm name of

.Atwood & P'orbes. Messrs. Atwood & P'orbes
have been more than ordinarily successful a.s
journalists and editors, and since they moved
their office to the Billings Block in South
Paris, have enjoyed increased facilities in their
special line of journalism. This change was
made November i, 1S95 ; and they now occupy
the handsomest newspaper ofiice in the State
of Maine.

Mr. Atwood has not confined himself en-
tirely to editorial work since his residence in
his present home, but has been actively inter-
ested in business and educational affairs, and
has filled a number of important ofifices as a
result of his energetic efforts in behalf of the
community's welfare. He was elected County
Treasurer of Oxford County in iSSS, and was
re-elected iji 1890, 1892, 1894, and again in
1896. He is also President of the Trustees of
Paris Hill Academy and Chairman of its
Executive Committee, Trustee of the South
Paris Savings Bank, and a member of the
Paris School Board. In 1894 Mr. Atwood and
Mr. John Pierce, of Paris, constructed the
Paris-Norway and Buckfield telephone lines
and exchanges, under the name of the Paris
Electric Comjjany, and now own and operate
them.

Mr. Atwocid was married to Miss Anna Har-
low, a daughter of the Hon. lilbridge G. Har-
low, of Dlxfield, April 5, 1S86. Two chil-
dren were born to bless this union: William
Fl , who.se birth date was January 9, i.SSS; and
Raymond L. , who made his advent Mav 8,
1895. A successful business career, a jiromi-
nent and honored place in the regard of his
fellow-citizens, and a happy home life leave
little to be desired by the senior member of
the editorial firm of Atwood & I-'orbes ; while
both gentlemen may justly feel that they,
through the organ of their paper, have been,
and are, able to accomplish much for the com-
munity whose best interests they ad\'ocate and
support.

RTHUR F:. FORBES, of Paris, Me.,
the junior member of the firm of At-
wood & Forbes, was born near Paris
Hill, May 30, 1862, son of F^lbridge
and Angel ine (Thayer) I'orbes. His father

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was at cine time a printer, but afterward be-
came a farmer in Paris. Mr. Forbes learned
tile printer's art in the Oxford Di-inocrat office,
working up to the position of foreman and
afterward proprietor of the paper. He was
edLicated in the public schools and at St.
Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. After
finishing his education He became engaged in
editorial work, and has been active in behalf
of the Diinocrat' s interests. Although an
unmarried man, Mr. l'\irbes is influential in
social as well as business circles, and is a
favorite in I'aris, where he has served with
credit upon the School Board. He is also
prominently identified with the Universalist
denominatiiin, and is a highly respected citizen.

(s^()H.\ JANETT MORTON, an es-
teemed resident of South Paris, Me.,
his birthplace, and conductor and
freight agent of the Grand Trimk Rail-
road between South Paris and Norway, Me.,
was bom on October 20, 1830, son of Richard
and Hannah (Perry) Morton. His father, who
is supposed to have been a native of Raymond,
Cumberlanil County, came to South Paris from
(^tisfield, in that county, two brothers, Joseph
and Lbenezer, accompanying him.

A good mechanic, Richard Morton engaged
in the manufacture of ploughs. At first, in
deference to the popular belief that iron
]iloughs were easily broken, he made wooden
ploughs furnished with steel points, the mould-
boards being of wood plated with thin strips of
sheet iron. Later he substituted a cast-iron
mould-boartl. The first plough used on many
of the farms of this county was the handiwork
of Richard Morton. After having carried on
this industry alone for a considerable time, he
entered into partnership with Hersey Brothers,
who were engaged in the same manufacture,
he taking into his special charge the woodwork
department. He continued occupied in this
way until his health failed, when he retired
from active employment, taking up his resi-
dence on a farm previously purchased by him.
Here he died "September 28, 1861, at the age
of si.xty-seven years. His wife, who was a
daughter of James Perry, survived him until
Januar}- 24, 18^17, when she died at the age of

si.xty - seven years. Their children were —
P"reeman C, James P., Angeline, Richard L.,
Ann M., John J., Newell J., and Horace J.
The father was a member and class leader of
the Methodist Episcopal church. Li his ear-
lier years his political opinions were Demo-
cratic; but, when the Republican party was
formed, he joined it, and thenceforth sup-
ported that party.

John Janett Morton, whose name occupies
the sixth place in this list, was reared and
educated in South Paris. After leaving school
he went to Roxbury, Mass., where he was em-
ployed three years, at first learning the busi-
ness of manufacturing cut nails, and then
working at that calling. Subsequently he
worked for his brother, Ereeman C. Morton,
who was a contractor and builder, until 1850.
Then he joined the crowd of gold-seekers at
that time going to California. Near Aca-
pulco, Mexico, the steamshiii "North Amer-
ica," on which he had embarked, was wrecked
on a sand-bank. The disaster caused a deten-
tion of six weeks, and obliged him finally to
ride to the next port on a mule, the distance
being eighty miles. Here he took ship
again; but before reaching his destination a
further delay was occasioned b)* the breaking
down of the engine, so that he was one hun-
dred days upon the journey. On arriving in
Sacramento, he engaged in carpenter's work
for a short time; and then he went mining,
visiting several places. Not liking his ex-
]ierience in this occupation, he at length gave
it up and returned home. -Soon after he was
appointed freight agent of the Atlantic & St.
Lawrence Railroad, now known as the Grand
Trunk Railroad. In 18S3, when the road con-
necting South Paris with Norway was built, he
received the further appointment of conductor
of the trains running upon this branch. In
both capacities he has given entire satisfaction,
alike to his employers and the public at large.
On November 11, 1856, he was united in
matrimony with Hannah B. Morse, a daughter
of Nathan, Jr., and Mary (Crockett) Morse.
Her father and mother were natives of Maine,
born respectively in Lewiston and Danville,
in the year 1788. The parents of Nathan
Morse, Jr., were Nathan and Sarah (Bacon)
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in Lcwistciii. Their son, Nathan, Jr., removed
to Danville, where he was a prosperous farmer.
When advanced in years he bought a home in
Norway, and there dwelt in retirement until
his death, which occurred in 1871, at the age
of eighty-three years. His wife died in iS6g,
having borne hirji twelve children. Of these
nine attained maturity; namely, Joseph, Sally,
Judith, lidwin, Jennie, I.ucinda, Benjamin
I". , Julia, and Hannah B. Both parents were
members of the Baptist church. In jjolitics
the father was at first a Whig and subsequently
a Republican.

Mr. Morton and his wife have had four chil-
dren, as follows: Ada May, born May 1, 1858;
Ralph W. , born October 28, 1859, who died
March 7, 1887; Harry R., born October 2^,,
1861; and Helen T., born January 17, 1869.
Ada May is now the wife of N. Dayton Bol-
ster, the leading merchant of South Paris, and
has four children — Elsie M., Morton \'. ,
Ruth M., and Philip C. Harry R., who con-
ducts the night-lunch car at Auburn, Me.,
married Mina Daicy, and has one child,
named Grace. Helen T. is the wife of George
Hargrave, of Portland. In politics Mr. Mor-
ton supports the Republican party. During
the entire period of his emiiloyment in the ser-
vice of the Grand Trunk Railroad Company
he has lost but six months on account of sick-
ness. He and Mrs. Morton reside at 29 Pleas-
ant .Street, in a house erected by him on a lot
purchased in i860. Few men of the town are
so well known and esteemed as Mr. Morton.

/^To

P:0RGK R. BEAN, who was a well-
\ •) I to-do farmer and a prominent resi-
dent of Denmark, O.xford County,
was born in Mollis, Me., July 3, 1834, son of
William and Sarah F. (Blunt) Bean. The
family was founded by John Bean, an emigrant
from Scotland, who settled in lixeter, N.H.,
antecedent to the year 1660. Mr. Bean's
grandparents were Abraham and Hannah
(Burley) Bean, both residents of York County.
Giles 13urley, the founder of the Burley fam-
ily, came from luigland and settled in Ipswich
in 1648.

William Bean, born May 1 1, 1805, in Water-
boro, York Countv, having been reared a

farmer, in 1835 settled in JJcinnark, where he
bought a large tract of land known as the
Joshua Osgood farm. Dealing extensively in
lumber, he resided here until his death, which
occurred April 21, 1894. His religious be-
lief was that of the L'niversalists. For many
years he figured prominently in public affairs,
having represented his district in the legislat-
ure for three terms. He was twice married.
PI is first wife, Sarah V., who was born J-'ebru-
ary 2, i8o8, in Kennebunkport, Me., and died
January 10, 1862, had four children, as fol-
lows: George R., the subject of this sketch;
Ellen S. , born December 13, 1838, who is
now the wife of R. G. True, a prosperous
farmer of Hiram, Me. ; JaneM., born Septem-
ber 12, 1 84 1, who successively married Al-
mond Perry and George P. Hoyt, of Baldwin,
Me., and is now a widow residing in Old Oi-
chard, Me. ; and Frances A., born September
8, 1849, who is now the wife of the Rev.
S. R. H. Biggs, a preacher and publisher of
Lincoln, Mass. The father entered a second
marriage, contracted with Sarah J. Warren,
who was born in Effingham, N. H., October
15, 1827. She died P'ebruary 19, 1889, leav-
ing two children, namely: William C, born
October 5, 1863, who married Lucy V. Allen,
and is now engaged in agricultural pursuits in
Hiram, Me. ; and Charles R., born November
15, 1871, who resides with his brother in
Hiram.

After receiving his education in the schools
of Paris Hill and Waterville, George R. 15ean
taught school in Denmark for eight years.
Throughout the rest of his life he was prosper-
ously engaged in general farming at the home-
stead. A great admirer of good cattle, he also
bred stock extensively. He died at his home,
January 30, iSg6, aged nearly sixty-two year.s.
The estate left by him comjirises the home-
stead jjroper, containing two hundred and
thirty acres; twelve hundred acres of outlying
land; and the Red Mill in Hiram, erected by
him in 1895. In politics he was an active
supijorter of the Republican party, by which
he was elected to the offices of Supervisor and
Collector. He was prominent in all move-
ments conducive to the general good, and was
highly respected by the community.

On September 26, i860, the late Mr. Be:ui

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was united in marriage with Sarah M. Jordan,
of Portland, Me., who, born June 13, 1836,
came to reside in Denmark when she was five
years old. Her parents, William M. and
Almira 1'. (Harmon) Jordan, now deceased,
were both natives of Maine, born respectively.,
ill Gray and 15iddeford. Mrs. Jordan passed
some years of her life in Brownfieki, Me. Mr.
and ^Irs. Bean have had five children, as fol-
lows: Jennie, born February 23, 1863, who
marrieil K. W. Hosworth, the ]iresent proprie-
tor of the \\cil Mill in Hiram, and has one
daughter, Ik-thesda I., born December 13,
1893; Anna Maud, born July 6, 1865, who is
now the wife of Fernando W. Witham, of
Denmark Corner; Fred Roy, born December
30, 1867, who resides at home; Mildred May,
born February i, 1870, who died December
II, 1894; and Mahlon, born August 24, 1872,
who died March 14, 1S73. The father was a
member of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 53,
A. F. & A. M. The farm is now carried on
by Fred Roy Ik-an, an intelligent and ]Uo-
gressive young man. He raises horses and
cattle, runs a dairy, and sells a large amount
of cream. Mrs. }?ean is a member of the
Universalist church. Her many admirable
(|ualities endear her to a wide circle of friends
and acquaintances..

l.APTAIN WILLIAM TRUE, a re-
tired carpenter of Farniington, Me.,
formerly a commissioned officer in
the .State militia, is one of the most
venerable and highh' respected citizens of this
town. He was born in Temple, Franklin
County, Me., June 10, 1S15, son of William
and Hannah Abbott (Russell) True. He is
a descendent of the Yarmouth Trues, a promi-
nent Cumberland County family, who settled
there at an early date in Colonial history.

Zebulon True, Captain True's grandfather,
son of William True, was born in Yarmouth,
Me., May 21, 17^)5 ; and when a young man he
resided for some time in Augusta. He served
as a private in the Continental Army during
the latter part of the Revolutionary War; and
in 1791 he settled upon lot No. 18 in Farni-
ington, which was then an almost unbroken
wilderness, but few white men living here at

the time. A few years later he sold his
Farmington property; and in 1799 he bought
another tract of wild land in the town of
Temple, where he cleared a good farm, being
one of the pioneer agriculturists of that local-
ity. He died February 4, 1830. His wife,
formerly Martha Kennedy, who was born in
Ireland, October 26, 1770, became the mother
of twelve children; namely, William, Betsey,
Zebulon, Martha, Polly, Sally, James K., Jo-
siah L. , John, Thomas, Ro.xaillany, and
Jacob B. Captain True's grandmother died
February 9, 1858.

William True, son of Zebulon and Martha
True, was born in Farmington, Me., April 12,
1789. Upon reaching manhood he cleared a
farm situated upon Porter's Hill, later selling
and clearing a part of another tract containing
one hundred and sixty acres, making two farms
which were reclaimed by him from a wild
state. From this it appears that he was a
strong, able-bodied, exceedingly energetic
man, capable of much physical endurance and
hard work. He also followed the carpenter's
trade in connection with his other labors; and
he was one of the most successful among the
early settlers of Temple, where he lived to be-
come an octogenarian. He died at the home
of his son. May 9, 1869. In politics he was
a Democrat, and in his religious views a Con-
gregational ist ; and by his industrious and ex-
emplary life he gained the respect and esteem
of his neighbors and fellow-townsrnen. He
married for his first wMfe Hannah Abbott Rus-
sell, who was born May 4, 1794, daughter of
Thomas and Phebe (Abbott) Russell. She
died March 16, 1838, leaving se\'en children,
as follows: Sumner, who was born October 6,
1 813; William, the subject of this sketch;
Hannah A., born May 22, 1817; Julian, born
March 7, 1824; Octavia, born Februar\' 4,
1828; Marilla, born June 14, 1832; and
Philip, born October 5, 1835. Captain True's
father married for his second wife Elizabeth P.
Haskell, who lived to reach the age of eighty-
one years, and died in 1880, and whose only
daughter, Octavia, was born December 3, 1839.

William True, the subject of this sketch,
attended school in his boyhood; and when old
enough he began to learn the carpenter's trade,
working with his father. At the age of

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twenty-four he settled in rhilli[)s, where he
bought a farm which he carried on in connec-
tion with his trade for tour years. At the ex-
piration of that time he sold his property, and,
moving to Worcester, Mass., worked as a jour-
neyman carpenter in that city for three years,
when his health failed. l-'or the next seven
years he kcjjt a public house, for four years
managing a hotel on the west side of the river,
and for the succeeding three years being pro-
prietor of the Blue Mountain House, which
stood upon the site now occupied by the ]jres-
ent Farmington Exchange. Retiring from the
hotel business, he bought the Butler home-
stead, which was the oldest residence in the
village, and, having remodelled it and placed
it in a substantial condition, has since resided
here. He continued to follow his trade with
energy and prosperity for several years, but
has now jiractically retired from regular labor,
although he is able at his advanced years to
spend considerable time at his bench daily.

On March 29, 1839, Captain True wedded
Mary S. Smith, who was born in Farmington,
December 19, 181 5, daughter of Samuel and
Mary (Sprague) Smith. Mrs. True died July
24, 1886, leaving no children.

While residing in Temjjle, Captain True
was prominent in the State militia, and re-
ceived his commission, the title of which he
has since borne. In politics he is a Republi-
can. For the past thirty years he has had
charge of the house of worship of the Old
.South Congregational Church, of which he is
an active member. He enjoys good health ;
and there is not a citizen here who is more
widely and favorably known than this venerable
octogenarian, or more entitled to the respect
and veneration which is extended to him by
the entire community.

lAL I'RANCISCO BRADBURY,
M.D., a brilliant young physician of
\r^ ) Norway, Me., son of one of the most
eminent medical and surgical practi-
tioners in Oxford County, was born in Spring-
field, Me., February 5, 1861. He is a son of
Dr. Osgood N. and Ellen R. (Scribner) Brad-
bury. Dr. ]5radbury's immigrant ancestor,
from whom he is eighth in descent, was

Thomas l^radbury, who was bajitizetl at Wickcn
Bonant, Essex County, England, on February
28, 1610-1 1, and in 1634 appeared in Agamen-
ticus (now York, Me.) as agent of the projiri-
etor. Sir F"erdinando Gorges.

Thomas Bradbury afterward settled in the
town of .Salisbury, Mass., and married Mary
Perkin.s, of Ipswich, who was' coinicted <if
witchcraft, but escaped execution. Thomas,
the immigrant, and his wife, Mary, had a son
William, who was a land-owner in Salisbur)-.
William Bradbury married Rebecca Maverick
(i/C(- Wheelwright), and their son Jacob mar-
ried Elizabeth .Stockman. Moses, the son of
the couple last named, settled in North \'ar-
mouth. Me., and later remo\'ed to New
Gloucester. He married Abigail I'ogg ; and
his fourth child and second son, l^enjamin,
located in 1777 in the town of Minot, An-
droscoggin County, on ]5radbury Hill. He
married Eleanor P'ellows; and his descentlants
are found in Oxford, Androscoggin, and Frank-
lin Counties.

Benjamin's son Josei_)h, who settled first in
New Gloucester, in 1790 moved to Minot, in
1794 to Poland, and in 1S07 to Norway, locat-
ing to the south-west of Pike Hill, where he
purchased- one hundred and five acres of land
of Joshua Smith. This land he cleared for
farming purposes, in the mean time working
as a carpenter when opportunity offered. He
was interested in political matters, voting with
the Whigs, and in religious progress serving
as Deacon of the Congregational church for a
number of years. He died April 4, 1836, at
the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, Tab-
itha Cotton before marriage, died in 1845.
Their children were: Charles A., .Sophia,
Ruth, Eleanor, Betsey, Jacob, Nathan A.,
Moses, and Nathaniel M.

Jacob Bradbury, last named, who was tlic
grandfather of Dr. B. F. Bradbury, was born
June 25, 1799. He inherited the homestead,
and, as a farmer, took a leading place in the
community; while as a schoolmaster he had a
long and successful record, teaching thirty-
three winters — twenty-seven winters in suc-
cession. He died in Norway, August 2, 1880.
His wife, whose maiden name was Sally K.
Ripley, was a daughter of Uriah Ripley, of
Paris, Oxford County, Me. She died October

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30, 1880. The children of this couple were
— Sabiiia E. , Matilda A., Nathan O. , Osgood
\.. Ilcnry A. M., Harriet N., Sarah A., liii-
])hcniia J., Jacob F., Nellie F., James G. B.,
and Ida K.

Osgood Nathan Bradbury, son of Jacob and
Sally K. Bradbury, was born in Norway, Octo-
ber 28, 1828. He finished his preliminary
studies at the Norway Liberal Institute, and
when he was eighteen years old took charge of
the high school of Springfield, Me. In 1852
he entered the counting-room of S. W. Pope
& Co., of East Machias, as clerk, and in 1856
went to California and into the mines. He
soon after located in .San Francisco, where he
was in business until Juh', i860. On his
return to the East he took up the study of
medicine under Dr. P. C. Jones, of Spring-
field, Me. ; and after completing the curricu-
lum of the Maine Medical School, where he
was graduated June 4, 1864, he entered the
Cony Lhiited States Military Hospital at Au-
gusta as executive officer and assistant sur-
geon. In January, 1866, he was made sur-
geon-in-charge, and was in office until the
hospital was abolished. During the ensuing
years, until 1873, Dr. Osgood N. Bradbury
conducted a successful practice as physici?ln and
surgeon at Sjiringfield, Me. ; and in that year
he moved to Norway, where he has since been
an active factor in all progressive movements.

While a resident of Springfield, Dr. Brad-
bury, the elder, was elected to the House of
Representatives, entering on his duties in
1863 ; and the two years following he was Sen-
ator from Penobscot County. He was a mem-
ber of the Committee on f^ducation for three
years, and also served on other important com-
mittees; and in 1864 he was Chairman of the
joint sjjecial Committee on the Death Penalty,
which fountl the state of popular feeling such
that public hearings were held during every
week of the legislative session. Dr. Bradbury
has been a Mason for more than forty years,
is Past Master, and has taken all the degrees
fif the York rite; and as an Odd Fellow he is
a charter member of Norway Lodge and of
W'ildey iMicampment, and has presided over
the deliberations of the lodge and encamp-
ment. He has been United States Examining
Surgeon for pensions thirteen years.

In 1886 he commenced the publication in
the Norway Weekly Advertiser of a series of
recollections; and he has broadened the scope
of his writing until it has embr.aced a careful
and extremely valuable compilation of the his-
tory of all the early settlers, extending down to
the youngest descendant. Dr. Osgood N.
Bradbury was married June 13, 1852, to Miss
Ellen R. Scribner, who was born in Spring-
field, Me., Jul\- 10, 1832. Three children
blessed their union: Nellie R., who died in
infancy; Bial F., the subject of this sketch;
and Guy, who was born March 24, 1872, and
died May 17, 1876.

Bial F. Bradbury was graduated at the Nor-
way High .School, and first took up the study
of medicine with his father. He continued
his studies in the Maine Medical School at
Brunswick, and later in Atlanta, Ga., where
his father, whose health was failing, spent a
year, and two years in South Carolina (1881-
84), with beneficial results. The young man
was graduated at the .Southern Medical Col-
lege of Atlanta, highest in his class, taking the
first prize, seventy-five dollars in gold. This
was in 1882; and in the spring of that year
he began practice in Norway, Me. Though he
had taken the polyclinic course in Atlanta, he
did not consider his preparatory studies fin-
ished; and in 1885 he pursued an advanced
course in the Post-graduate Medical College of
New York City. Since then Dr. B. F. Brad-
bury has been gradually taking his father's
place, having practised in conjunction with
him at first; and he is already one of the most
successful physicians and surgeons in the
count}'. In 1S85 he was appointed Assistant
Surgeon and First Lieutenant of the First
Regiment, National Guard of Maine; in 1894
he was promoted to the rank of Captain; antl
in April, 1896, to that of Major and Surgeon.

Dr. B. Y. Bradbury was married March 22,
1882, to Mabel F., daughter of Dr. George P.
Jones, of Norway. He has no children. In
politics he is a Democrat. The young Doctor
is a member of the Town Board of Health, and
actively interested in all projects for the im-
provement of the town. He is a thirty-second
degree Mason ; Master of Oxford Lodge,
A. F. & A. M., of Norway; has taken all
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Kora Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Lewis-
tdii ; and as an Odd Fellow he is Medical
Director of the Odd Fellows Graded Relief
Association, and a Knight of Pythias, in which
he holds the rank of Colonel and Assistant
Surgeon-general in the Uniform Rank, Maine
Brigade. In the town of Norway no man is
more ]iopnlar than Dr. Rial I', l^railbury.

ILLIAM K. COOPER, an esteemed
agriculturist of Paris, was born
here, December ig, 1855, on the
farm where he now resides. His father, Will-
iam Cooper, was also born on this homestead;
and his grandfather, Benjamin Cooper, was
one of the early settlers of the town. Benja-
min Cooper came to Paris when it was but a
mere hamlet. Buying one hundred acres of
land, he cleared a homestead for himself. A
skilful carpenter, he also assisted largely in
the building up of the place, remaining here
until his death at a good old age. He was a
man of upright principles, a stanch Democrat
in politics, and a firm believer in the Univer-
salist religion. To him and his wife, Susan
Cooper, si.x children were born, of whom but
one, Mrs. Miranda Cole, of Paris Hill, is now
living. The others were — Harriet, John,
Hannah, .Sarah, and William.

William Cooper, the youngest member of
his father's family, succeeded to the home
farm, where he was busily engaged in farming
for many years. He spent the last few years
of his life in retirement at Paris Hill, and
died there aged seventy-eight years. He mar-
ried Charity Kyle, who was born and reared in
the adjacent town of Peru. She survived him,
and is now occupying their Paris Hill home.
They had nine children, of whom two, Charles
and Albert, have joined the silent majority.
Those living are — Luella, Rowena, Herbert,
Frederick, William E., Charles, and Delia.
In politics the father was an unswerving Dem-
ocrat and in religion a faithful Universal ist.
William F. Cooper grew to manhood on the
old homestead, obtaining his education in the
district schools, and assisting in the care of
the farm. The homestead is now his property.
It is one of the best cared for farms in this part
of the county. It contains one hundred acres of

land, which yield abundant crops of hay, corn,
potatoes, and grain. Inheriting those traits
of character that distinguislied his ancestors,
Mr. Cooper has won the regard of the com-
munity. In politics he is a thorough Demo-
crat. On December 26, i.S.S'5, Mr. Cooper
married Miss Cora K. Tucker, who was born
October 2, 1862, in Buckfield, Me., daughter
of Lsaac and the late I^sther Tucker. Her
father, a farmer by occupation, still resides in
Buckfield.

^HINFAS WHITTIER, a prominent
v«^ resident of Chesterville, extensively
£> engaged in fruit growing, was born
December i, 1823, at the old Whit-
tier homestea'd in this town, son of Peter and
Deborah (Gordon) WHiittier. Mr. Whittier's
great-grandfather, Thomas Whitticr, whose
father was also named Thomas, resided in New
Hampshire. Phineas Whittier, the grand-
father, who was a native of that State, came
to Chesterville among the very earliest set-
tlers, and acquired a tract of one hundred and
sixty acres of wild land. He lived in a log
house until he had cleared and improved his
farm. Then he erected a frame dwell inc,
which he occupied until his death in 1828, at
the age of fifty years. His wife, in maiden-
hood Mehitable I'rench, who survived him
some forty years, died at the age of eighty.
Her children were: Josiah, hjioch, Peter,
Mehitable, and Lucretia.

Peter Whittier was born at the homestead in
Chesterville about the year 1800. He passed
his boyhood assisting upon the farm and at-
tending the common school. .Succeeding to
the property after his father's death, he suc-
cessfully carried on general farming fluring
the rest of his life. The old house built h)-
his father was destroyed by fire in 1845, and
in the following year he erected a new resi-
dence. All of his seventy years of life was
pas.sed upon the homestead. His wife, Deb-
orah, whom he married in 1822, became the
mother of the following children, namely:
Phineas, the subject of this sketch; Newell
G., who married Harriet Tilton ; Charles, who
died during the Civil War; Daniel, who mar-
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fancy; Eleanor G. , who married W. H. Wan-
ning; Waty E. , who became Mrs. Butterfield,
and died in 1884; and Hattie, now deceased,
who became the wife of David Thompson.
Mr. Whittier's mother died in 1867. Mrs.
David Thompson inherited the homestead; and
it is now owned b\' her son, Charles H.
Thomi)son.

I'hineas Whittier obtained his education in
the town schools of Chesterville and at the
Earmington Academy. At the age of twenty-
one he bought ninety acres of pasture land,
now a part of his ]iresent farm. On this he
erected a frame house, which is still standing,
and began life for himself. Here he was
steadily engaged in general farming until
1S54, when he went to I-"oxboro, Mass. After
sjiending about three years in that town, em-
ployed at Carpenter's bonnet factory, he re-
turned to the farm, which he has since carried
on with unusual success. His estate now con-
tains about three hundred and fifteen acres,
including tillage, orchard, pasture, and wood
land. His orchard, covering an area of eighty
acres, has si.x thousand trees, which annually
yield two thousand barrels of apples, chiefly
Baldwins. Eor the past twenty years he has
shipped all of his number one fruit to Hall &
Cole, Eaneuil Hall Market, Boston. He dis-
poses of surplus fruit by evajjorating and can-
ning, for which he has ample facilities upon
his premises. His evaporator has a capacity
of forty bushels per day. Any further surplus-
age is utilized to make vinegar. Mr. Whit-
tier has a large storehouse, whose lower floor
has space for three thousand barrels, while the
upper floor will hold five thou.sand empty bar-
rels. Upon the site of the old barn built by
him in 1848 he has erected a large modern
structure, having storage for seventy-five tons
of hay and stabling for five horses, si.x cows,
and one hundred and fifty sheep.

On August 31, 1848, Mr. Whittier wedded
Sarah Maddncks, daughter of Richard and
Esther (Knowlton) Maddocks. Mr. Maddocks
was a native of Chesterville and a son of
Richard Maddocks; and his wife was a daugh-
ter of Samuel Knowlton, of Earmington. Mr.
and Mr.s. Whittier have three children, as
follows: Emma Vodisa, born March 8, 185 1,
who married Joel Maddocks, and resides in

Eo.xboro, Mass. ; Grace, born November 6,
1858, who married Erank H. Rollins, resides
upon a part of her father's farm, ..nd has three
children — Dean W., Kenneth '.., and Ruth;
and Sarah I., born October 13, 1862, who
married Chester Greenwood, of Earmington,
and has four children — Lester, Donald W. ,
Vodisa, and Clinton. In politics Mr. Whit-
tier acts with the Republican party. Eor a
number of years he has served on the ]?oard of
Selectmen and the School Committee. In his
religious views he is liberal. His good health
must be largely due to the fact that he has not
tasted a dro]) of intoxicating liquor in his
lifetime.

^^Y^HN J. PIKE is a prosperous dairy
farmer of Eryeburg, Me., where he wa.s
born on February 17, 1833, son of
Elder John and Hannah (Hubbard)
Pike. Mr. Pike's father was a native of Cor-
nish, York County, Me. He came to Erye-
burg in 1819, and, settling upon the farm
where his son now resides, became widely
and favorably known as a Free Will Baptist
preacher. He was first commissioned a Jus-
tice of the Peace in 1821 ; and, being for many
years the only resident of the town having the
authority to witness and legalize civil acts, he
attended to all such matters, and also sol-
emnized marriage. Elder Pike died in No-
vember, 1877. He and his wife, Hannah
Hubbard, a native of Limington, Me., were
the parents of six children, as follows: Lydia
H., who was born in July, 1822, and died in
August, 1823; Lydia H., second, who was
born in 1825, and died in Wisconsin in 1893;
Hannah T. , born in 1827, now the wife of
Stephen Gowen, of Biddeford, Me. ; Dollie
M., who was born in 1829, and died on April
ir, 1883; John J., aforementioned; and an-
other child who died in infancy. Mrs. Han-
nah H. Pike died in 1881.

It was the fifth-born child that was named
for the father, and, now well ad\'anced in man-
hood's years and achievements, is the direct
subject of this biographical notice. John J.
Pike in his early years acquired a common-
school education, and after finishing his
studies he began to work ujmu his father's

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farm. He took charge of the property previ-
ous to his father's death, and eventually suc-
ceeded to the ownership of the homestead,
which consists of two hundred acres. Mr.
Pike is still actively engaged in general farm-
ing, his princ'.nal products consisting of hay,
corn, ant! potatjes; and he ]iays special atten-
tion to his dairy, keeping thirty cows and mak-
ing a hue quality of butter, which fiiuls a
ready sale in Boston and Lynn, Mass.

In 1857 Mr. Pike wedded for his first wife
Mary J. Wiley, of Fryeburg, daughter of
tlnoch W. and Miranda Wiley, the former of
whom is no longer living, and his w'ife is re-
siding in Fryeburg. By this union there were
*■ six children, namely: John W. ; Hannah H.,
W'ife of P^rank Howe, of l^oston, and Miranda
J., her twin sister, who married J. G. .Sever-
ance, of Lowell, Mass.; pjioch W., who is
living at home; Minnie IVP , who resides in
Lowell, Mass. ; and Winnie .S., her twin
brother, who is no longer living. Mr. Pike's
first wife died in 1SS3 ; and he married for his
second wife. May 20, 1885, Mrs. I'rancena B.
(Benton) Wiley, widow of .Sullivan J. Wiley,
late of this town.

In politics Mr. Pike is a Kepublican, and
though not an (3tfice-seeker he has ably filled
some of the town offices. He takes an active
interest in political afTaiis, and has never
missed a national. State, or local election
since becoming a voter. He is connected with
I'ryeburg Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and Pequaket Lodge, Knights of
Pythias. He enjoys the independent life of a
farmer,' and is regarded with the highest re-
spect by his fellow-townsmen.

iDWIN N. HASKP:LL, of South Paris,
^ a member of the firm of N. D. Bolster
& Co., dealers in general merchan-
dise and groceries, who do as large a retail
business as any similar firm in (^.xford County,
was born here on July 25, 1862, son of
Ezekiel W. and Harriet (Rideout) Haskell.

Peter Haskell, father of I^zekiel W. , was
born in New Gloucester, Me., and spent his
life in that town. He owned a farm of many
acres, and was an industrious and progressive
agriculturist. He married for his first wife

Sail)' Pulsifer, by whom he had two sons and
a daughter; namely, Jacob W. , I^zekiel W.,
and Mary P. lie marrietl foi- his second wife
Betsey Hawes, by whom he had two sons
Charles P. and 'I'liomas H. The grandparents
were conimunicants of the Congregational
church.

Plzekiel W. llaskcll, the second son. was
born in New (ilouccstcr on July ,^, 1831. .\t
twenty-seven years of age, in 1858, he came tn
.South Paris and went to work for the Grand
'Prunk Railroad. A few )'ears later he jnu'-
chased a wood-sawing machine, with which he
prepared fuel for use on the railroad, cm]ilov-
ing several men; and he carried un this busi-
ness very successfully until 1)\' the introduc-
tion of coal engines the demanil for the wood
was cut off. - He ne.xt engaged in teaming and
trucking for the Paris flouring-mill, owning
several ilranght-horses. He was carrying on
this business at the time of his death, July 5,
1871. His wife, Mrs. Harriet Rideout Has-
kell, survived hini fourteen years, dying in
1885. I^oth were earnest, devoted Christians
and communicants of the Congregational
church. Their honie was at 7 Main Street,
the residence jareviously owned by Abijah
Hall. A son and two daughters were the fruit
of their union, naniel)' : l{mma Whitman, born
April 18, i860; lulwin Nelson, liorn July 25,
1S62; and Plattie Lufkin, born December 2^,
; S64.

When eighteen years of age lulwin Nelson
Haskell left school and went to work as a clerk
for N. Dayton Bolster, continuing in that ]>o-
sition for fourteen years, during which time he
gained a practical and thorough knowledge of
the business. He was then, in i8c)3, received
into partnership by Mr. Bolster. They have
a large trade, eniploying several clerks and
delivery wagons; and in South Paris the name
of N. Dayton Bolster & Co. stands for straight-
forward business transactions. Mr. Haskell
and his sisters owii the old homestead, upon
which they have made numerous general im-
provements. He is a nieniber of the Congre-
gational church, and is connected with the
following fraternal organizations: Mount Mica
Lodge, No. 17, Independent Order of Odd
P'ellows; Hamlin Lodge, No. 31, Knights of
Pythias — both of South Paris.

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:ACHARIAH NORTON, a retired
railroad conductor of Farmington,
I'ranklin County, and a veteran of
the Civil War, was born in Phillips,
this county. Me., June 20, 1843, son of Zebu-
Ion and Abigail (Hartford) Norton. Mr.
Norton is a descendant of Zachariah Norton, a
native of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts,
who served as a Captain in the Revolutionary
War, and settled in Farmington at an early date
in the history of the town, where the records
show that he was ta.xed for a house and lot in
1798. Zachariah bought a farm located upon
what is now known as Norton I-'lats, became
one of the progressive men of this locality,
and contributed generously toward building
the Centre Meeting-house in 1803. He was
active in public affairs of both the town and
county, serving as Town Treasurer in 1805
and as Representative to the legislature in
1807. Later in life he sold his property here,
and, moving to Madison, Me., took up a
squatter's claim and became one of the leading
citizens of that town. Both he and his wife
lived to an advanced age. Their children
were: Dehave, Peter, Zebulon, Abigail, Han-
nah, Marshall, Elihu, and Abraham.

Zebulon Norton accompanied his father to
I'armington. As it was intended that he
should enter the legal profession, he was given
a good education. After studying law for a
time, he concluded that his chances for success
in life lay in another direction; and, turning
his attention to agricultural pursuits, he
bought the homestead here: The good judg-
ment and industry with which he subsequently
managed this property soon placed him among
the most prosperous residents of the j^lace.
He was one of the number who contributed
five thousand dollars for the establishment of
the p-armington Academy. He displayed his
patriotism by enrolling himself as a private
and serving in the War of 1813. After his
return to civil life he sold his property and
moved to the northern part of the town, then
to Industry, and still later to Phillips, this
county. The rest of his active period was
jiassed in Phillijos, prosperously engaged in
farming and extensive lumber operations; and
he died at the advanced age of ninety-si.x years.
His first wife, whose maiden name was Louisa

Pratt, was cut off in young womanhood, leav-
ing four daughters — Louisa, Hannah, Huldah,
and Lydia. His second wife, in maidenhood
Abigail Hartford, bore him nine children;
namely, Daniel L. ," Joshua H., Abigail,
Charlotte, Ichabod, Zachariah (first, now de-
ceased), Mary, Caroline, and Zachariah (the
subject of this sketch). She lived to the age
of seventy-si.x years.

Zachariah Norton passed his boyhood in at-
tending the town schools of Phillips. After-
ward he was for some time engaged in assisting
his father. On .September 11, 1862, he en-
listed as a private in Company D, Twenty-
eighth Regiment, Maine Volunteers, for nine
months' service, and subsequently took part in
the siege and capture of Port Hudson. When
discharged he returned home, and bought one
hundred and sixty acres of land, which in-
cluded a part of his father's propert)'. This he
sold later in order to purchase a farm of two
hundred acres in the town of Freeman. After
making some improvements he sold the latter
property also, and then removed to New Vine-
yard, Me. Here he bought another farm of
one hundred and fifteen acres, and resided on
it for five years. Abandoning agricultural life
after this, he went to L\nn, Mass., where he
entered the employ of the I^astern Railroad
Company as a switchman in their yards.
From this position he rajiidly rose in the reg-
ular line of promotion to that of conductor,
which he held until i88ci. He then resigned,
and once more took up his residence in New
Vineyard. In iSgohc moved to P'armington,
where he bought the Melvin Tufts place, a
handsome residence on Main Street, also a
village farm of forty acres, together with two
tenement-houses. Although he gives his per-
sonal attention to his property, he has practi-
cally retired from active business pursuits.

On September 11, 1864, Mr. Norton wedded
Orianna, daughter of Thomas and Harriet
(Libby) Taylor. Mr. Taylor, who in his
early life was a farmer, afterward became a
resident of Boston, where he died at the age of
forty-eight. Harriet died at the age of thirty-
five, having been the mother of four other chil-
dren ; namely, Washington L., Philena, Ros-
coe, and Charles.

Her surviving husband subsequently con-

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traded a second marriage with Maryfone
Stevens, who bore him one child, True T.
Mr. and Mrs. Norton have two sons, as fol-
lows: La Forest W. , who was born June 4,
1.S69; and Arthur R., who was born June 24,
1880. Politicall}-, Mr. Norton acts with the
Republican party. He is highly esteemed
both in business and social circles here, and
is popular among the veterans of the (irand
Army of the Republic. A fact worthy of note,
and one which he may look upon with pride,
is that representatives of three generations of
the Norton family have assisted in the defence
of their country in the three jjrincipal military
struggles fought and won by the United States.

JRA JOHNSON, a successful lumberman,
stock dealer, and general farmer of Nor-
way, O.xford County, and one of the
most prominent business men of this
town, was born at the Johnson homestead in
the north-east part of Waterford, where he
now resides, December 3, 1S38, son of Ira,
Sr., and Mary (Townc) Johnson.

The first of the family to settle in Maine
was his grandfather, Asa Johnson, a native of
Massachusetts, who served three years as a
soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was
one of the pioneer farmers of Waterford,
whither he came in 1786, and remained a resi-
dent for the rest of his life. He married
Hannah Horr, a daughter of Philip and Han-
nah (Harrington) Horr, and reared a family
of nine children, as follows: Clarissa, who is
said to have been the first white child born in
Waterford; Hannah; Asa, Jr.; Lucy; Ira,
Sr. ; Sally; Elijah; Mary; and Leonisia.
Of these none are now living, though all grew
to maturity, and were married.

Ira Johnson, Sr.. second son of Asa (ohn-
son, was born in Waterford in 1796, and was
reared to agricultural pursuits. When a
young man he bought the farm which is now
owned by his son Ira, and he cultivated the
land with profitable results for many years.
He was an able and industrious farmer and a
prominent citizen, who gained the respect and
good will of his neighbors and fellow-towns-
men. He resided at the homestead until his
death, which took place December 27, 1878.

His wife, Mary Towne, whom he married
November 20, 1828, was born in Albany, Me.,
February 14, 1809, daughter of Samuel and
Lydia (Ilolt) Towne, both of whom were na-
tives of Andover, Mass. Samuel Towne set-
tled in Albany, this State, among the early
pioneers, and became a prosperous farmer and
a leading citizen of that place, where he was
elected to serve in various town offices.

Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johnson, Sr., had a family
of eight children, as follows: Augustus, who
died at the age of fourteen months; Lydia
Merriam, now deceased, who married for her
first husband Frederick Fuller, and for her
second Samuel Hersey; Amanda, wife of
Justin E. Mclntire, of Waterford, a sketch of
whom appears elsewhere in the present vol-
ume; Ira, tlie subject of this sketch; An-
toinette, wife of David L. Merrill, of North
Bridgton, Me. ; Jerome A., who married
Fanny M. Bancroft, and is engaged in farming
in Waterford; Harriet H., wife of W. S.
Merrill, an energetic farmer of Norway; and
George Hersey, who married Sarah E. Upton,
neither of whom is living. Mr. Johnson's
mother, who is now eighty-seven years old,
resides with him.

Ira Johnson grew to manhood in Waterford,
and at the age of eighteen he engaged in fell-
ing trees, working for si,\ weeks; and his
wages were used to pay for one half-term of
school. He afterward attended the Waterford
High School for one term, and then began
work for his father at one hundred dollars
per year, with which he made the first pay-
ment toward the purchase of the homestead
property. He continued to improve the farm,
which he paid for by his own industry and
toil; and he has always resided upon it. Be-
sides conducting general farming with energy
ami success, in company with Justin VI. Mc-
lntire he engaged in stock dealing, lumber-
ing, and the manufacture of pulp wood, in
which they carried on a large and profitable
business here for several years. Mr. Johnson
has now practically retired from active pur-
suits, but still devotes considerable attention
to his agricultural interests, owning in all
about one thousand acres of land.

On December 3, 1859, Mr. Johnson married
Melissa J. Merrill, who was born in Norway,

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August 30, 1840. She is a daughter of John
and Jane (Dickey) Merrill, the former of
whom was born in Andover, Mass. ; and his
wife also was a native of that State. Coming
to O.xford County, Maine, John Merrill first
settled on a farm in Norway, afterward remov-
ing to Albany; and he finally took up his resi-
dence in Norway village, where his last days
were passed. He died in April, 1875; and
his wife died February 2"/ , 1S39. Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson have three children, as follows:
Lillian, who was born May 28, 1864, and is
now the wife of Clarence W. I'ride, a promi-
nent resident of VVaterford and Chairman of
the Board oi Selectmen of that town; Virgil
Howard, who was born June 29, 1867, married
Sophronia B. Kimball, of North Bridgton,
Me., and is now residing with his parents;
and Eva Mabel, who was born December 11,
1870, and is now the wife of Harry L.
Hutchins, a successful merchant of North
Fryeburg, Me.

As one of the most extensive farmers in this
section, upright and straightforward in busi-
ness dealings, in manners always courteous and
kindly, Mr. Johnson is widely and favorably
known. Visitors at the pleasant old home-
stead, whether friends and neighbors, or chance
acquaintances, receive a cordial welcome.

'rank \V. CHICK, a young and cnter-
])rising business man of Madrid, I'" rank-
liu County, was born here, October 8,
1862, son of Isaiah and Louisa (Moores)
Chick. The founders oi the family, which is
of Scotch origin, settled in Maine and New
Hampshire. Isaiah Chick, the paternal
grandfather of Frank W., was a native of
Ossipee, N.H., whence he came to Madrid,
where he resided for the rest of his life. In
jiolitics he was a Whig. He reared a family
of seven children, of whom the only survivors
are: Nancy, the wife of M. Philbrick, of
Houlton, Me. ; and Charles N. Chick, of
Cadillac, Mich.

Isaiah Chick was born in Ossipee, March
30, 1820. When a young man he worked
upon one of the first railroads built in Amer-
ica. At a later date he moved to Madrid, and
engaged in lumbering and trading. He also

kept a store here for more than fifty years,
conducted the hotel of Madrid for many years,
and for a long time owned and operated a saw-
mill, which was destroyed by fire on October
30, 1883. He served either as a Selectman
or Town Treasurer every year for nearly half
a century, was a Justice of the Peace for up-
ward of forty-two years, acted as Postmaster
for twenty-five years, was County Commis-
sioner for six years, and represented this dis-
trict in the State legislature for two terms.
In all these offices he acquitted himself with
distinguished ability. He was an honorable,
upright man, and had the highest respect of
his townsmen. He was an esteemed member
of the Independent Order of Odd P"ellows.
In politics he was an earnest supporter of the
Republican party from the time of its forma-
tion, and was one of the very first to uphold
its principles in this locality. His death
occurred at his home in Mach'id, March 3,
1894, when he was nearly seventy-four years
old. His wife, Louisa, whom he married
November 30, 185 1, was a native of Madrid.
She became the mother of nine children,
three of whom are living, namely: P'rank W.,
the subject of this sketch; Lura M., the wife
of William Parlin, of Weld, Me.; and Alice
M., who resides at the homestead.

After attending the public school of Madrid
for the usual period of time, P'rank W. Chick
completed his studies with a business course
at the Portland Commercial College. He
then eneaiied in business with his father, and
has since been identified with trade and the
lumbering industry here. He has rebuilt the
mill that was burned in 1883, and he is to-day
one of the most prominent and active business
men in this locality. He is a leading spirit
in public affairs. He is the Secretary of the
Republican Town Committee, is serving his
second term as a member of the Board of Se-
lectmen, and he ably discharges the duties of
superintendent of schools.

OHN SMALL, an active member of
the farming community of Greenwood
township, was born in the town of
Lovell, this State, October 13, 1855,
a son of Cyrus L. and Eunice Ann (Whit-

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more) Small. Mis paternal grandfather, also
John Small, who was a lifelong resident of
Cumberland County, in his earlier life was a
farmer in Raymond, and in his latter days was
the proprietor of a saw and grist mill in the
adjoining town of Casco.

Cyrus L. Small was a native of Raymond,
Cumberland County. While still a youth he
went West, and spent three years in Madison,
Wis. Returning then to his native State, he
learned the blacksmith's trade, and worked at
it afterward in Casco and Lovell for a year or
two. He then bought a farm in Greenwood
township, where for five years he carried on
mixed husbandry, besides running a smithy.
Disposing of that property, he bought the
homestead now owned and occupied by his son
John, and here devoted himself to general
farming until his death, which occurred Sep-
tember 14, 1883. His wife, who survived
him ten years, died August 4, 1893, leaving
five children, of whom the following is re-
corded: Evangeline, born November 26, 1854,
lives with her brothers on the old home farm;
John is the subject of this sketch; Charlotte
L., born August 6, 1864, is the wife of Fred-
erick H. Webster, living in Farmington, Me. ;
Cyrus Franklin, born May 5, 1857, is a car-
penter, and resides at Minneapolis, Minn. ;
and Charles W., born October 19, 1872, lives
on the old homestead.

John Small, until he was twenty years old,
remained with his parents, attending the dis-
trict school and helping about the farm. He
then worked at farming in West Paris three
months, after which he studied medicine with
Dr. Yates, of that place, for fifteen months.
Instead of continuing his medical studies,
however, Mr. Small worked in a number of
factories during the ne.xt few years. For six
months each he was employed in a box factory
in Norway village and in a rifle shop at Me-
chanic F"alls, Androscoggin County. From
the latter place he went to Paris Hill, this
county, to work in a sled factory. A few
months after he removed to Jackson's Cross-
ing, accepting a position in a pulp-mill, where
he remained three and a half years. The suc-
ceeding year he was employed in tin-plating
at Paris Hill, when his father's death obliged
him to return to the old homestead in Green-

wood, where he has since resiiletl. He has
one hundred and fifty acres of land, which he
successfully manages, carrying on the various
branches of general agriculture with good
financial results.

Mr. Small married Miss h'annie A. Ayer,
daughter of A. J. and Harriet M. Ayer, who
are now living on their farm near Locke's
Mills, this township. Mrs. Small is a native
of Bethel, her birth having occurred here,
June 29, i860. Mr. Small is a stanch adher-
ent of the Republican party, and has served
acceptably in several of the smaller town ofifices.
He belongs to the Mount Mica Lodge, No.
17, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
South Paris, and to the Golden Cross Lodge.
Both he and his estimable wife are members
of the Methodist I-lpiscopal church, in which
they are active and valued workers.

LISHA S. BISBEE, a large land-owner
of .Sumner, Oxford Coimty, is a repre-
sentative member of one of the oldest
and best-known families in this vicinity. He
was born on his [iresent farm in Sumner,
April 15, 1830, and is a son of Elisha and
P'anny (Bryant) liisbee. His grandfather,
Elisha Bisbee, who was born in Massachu-
setts, and served in the Revolution, after the
close of the war settled in Sumner, where he
cleared a farm. (For further particulars see
sketch of Captain Lewis Bisbee.) PLlisha
Bisbee was a blacksmith, mason, farmer — in
fact, a man who could turn his hand to almost
anything. He lived to be quite old, owned a
good farm in the southern part of the town,
and ranked among the leading agriculturists of
the time. The maiden name of his wife was
Mary Pettingill.

Elisha Bisbee, the father of Elisha .S., was
born and reared in Sumner. In early life he
followed the shoemaker's trade. Later he
settled on the farm now occupied by his son,
and achieved marked success in the pursuit of
agriculture. He gave his political support
to the Republicans, and served acceptably as
Selectman, Town Treasurer, and in other
official cajjacities. He was a Baptist in relig-
ious belief, and died at the age of eighty-
nine. He was twice married. His first wife.

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Joanna ( Stint evant) Bisbcc, bore him three
children, who have all passed away. His
second wife, in maidenhood Fanny Bryant,
was born in I'lympton, Mass., and died in
Sumner. -She was the mother of nine chil-
dren, six of whom are living, namely: Sabra
W.. the wife of Orville Robinson, of Peru,
Me.; Sophia (i., now residing in Sumner;
Jane T., the widow of James W. McDonald,
late of Peru, Me. ; Levi B., a resident of East
Sumner; Elisha S., the subject of this sketch;
and Hopestill R., now of Auburn, Me.

Elisha .S. Bisbee, who is a lifelong resident
of Sumner, has been very successfully en-
gaged in general farming since his early
years. His property, including the home-
stead formerly occupied by his father, com-
prises over two hundred acres of land. The
present residence, which was erected by him-
self, is one of the handsomest in the locality.
Mr. Bisbee was married January 4, 1857, to
Miss Martha J. Parsons, of Hartford, Me.
She died April i, 1867, leaving three children
— Lietta J., now the wife of William H.
Barrows, of Paris, Me., and the mother of
three children — Eva, Hattie, and Wilbur;
Hattie E., the wife of P"remont Hollis, of
Paris, and the mother of one son, Halley; and
Hiram S., a resident of Sumner, who married
Miss Anna E. Holmes.

IRAM THAYER CUMMINGS, a
successful and well-known farmer of

I9 y the town of Paris, Oxford County,
Me., was born April 30, 18 18, in
Gray, Cumberland County, a son of Joseph,
Jr., and Ruth (Thayer) Cummings. He is of
Scottish descent, his great-grandfather having
been born and reared in Scotland.

Joseph Cummings, Sr., the grandfather of
Hiram Thayer, was one of the very early set-
tlers of Gray, having made his way there at a
time when bears, deer, wolves, and other wild
animals alone disputed the rights of the
Indians to the larger part of the territory.
He cleared a tract of land, improving a com-
fortable homestead, but spent his closing
years in Greenwood, this county, dying at the
home of one of his sons at the ripe old age
of ninety-si.v years. He served in the Revo-

lutionary War, was a Federalist in politics,
and in religion was a Congregationalist. To
him and his wife, Patty Sargent, seven chil-
dren were born; namely, William, Lucy,
John, Benjamin, Mary, Isaac, and Joseph, Jr..
all of whom have passed from earth.

Joseph Cummings, Jr., was born in the
town of Gray, where he was prosperously en-
gaged in farming during the first half of his
busy life. In 1836 he removed to the village
of Paris, establishing himself in the mercan-
tile business, which he carried on several
years, having an extensive trade. .Selling out
his store, he resumed his former occupation in
the town of Greenwood, living there to an ad-
vanced age. He was a Republican in politics,
and was a Universalist in his religious belief,
but not a church member. His wife, whose
maiden name was Ruth Thayer, was born in
Oxford, Me., in 1799, and died in Greenwood
in 1885. They had a family of eleven chil-
dren; namely, Hiram Thayer, Tuckerbury,
Nelson, Harriet, Christiana, Joseph, Roxanna,
Orrie, Woodbury, Wellington, and Ruth.
Of these, five are living — Hiram T., Rox-
anna, Ruth, Joseph, and Woodbury.

Hiram Thayer, the eldest-born, who is the
special subject of this sketch, received his ed-
ucation in the district schools of Gray and at
Kent's Hill, where he pursued his studies two
years. At the age of eighteen he came with
his parents to Paris, and for a year thereafter
worked at anything he could find to do, having
no permanent employment. During the next
few years he worked in woollen-mills in differ-
ent places and in various capacities, being
employed in South Paris, Locke's Mills, Ox-
ford, and again in South Paris, the last time
having charge of the finishing department.
In 1851 Mr. Cummings severed his connection
with the mills, and, after spending a year in
travelling, secured a situation on the Atlantic
& St. Lawrence Railroad, now the Grand
Trunk, on which he was an engineer until
1865. Locating then in Shelburne, N.H., he
was there engaged in farming for about four-
teen years. While a resident of Shelburne
he was elected a delegate to the State Consti-
tutional Convention in 1872, and he served in
that capacity. In 1879 he removed to Paris,
and settled on the farm he now occupies.

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]ieing a man of good judgment and practical
ability, Mr. Cummings has his farm well im-
proved, and his tillage land in a good state of
cultivation. In politics he has been a Reinib-
lican since the formation of the party. In
religion he is a Methodist, and has served as
superintendent of the Sunday-school. While
in Shelburne he was active in town affairs,
and for some years was .Selectman. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, belong-
ing to Lodge No. 94 of .South Paris; and
both he and his wife are members of the local
grange. Patrons of Husbandry.

Mr. Cummings on April 30, 1840, married
I-^liza A. Cloutman, who was born in Paris,
September 29, 1821, and died in this town,
March 11, 1881. Six children were the fruit
of this union, the following being their rec-
ortl : Georgiana, born in South Paris, Novem-
ber 22, 1841, is the wife of William E.
Kellcy, of Hoston ; Wellington, born in South
Paris in March, 1844, died in Julv, 1S93;
Hannibal, born in Greenwood, April 20, 1846,
is a railway engineer in Pennsylvania; Eliza
M., born in South Paris, .September 2, 1849,
died November 9, 1853; Mary I., born in
South Paris in November, 1852, died Febru-
ary 3, 1873: and Charles S. , born in Gorham,
N.H., September 25, 1856, is pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Augusta, Me.

On September 29, i88i, Mr. Cummings
married Mrs. Mary A. Potter Ripley, widow
of Orrison Ripley. .She was born May 21,
1836, in Lee, Me., a daughter of Alexander
and Mary (Ware) Potter. Mr. Potter, a suc-
cessful farmer of Lee, was a native of Bow-
doin, and lived to the age of sixty-eight years.
His wife, a native of Topsham, this .State,
lived to the advanced age of eighty-three
years. They had a family of eight chil-
dren, five of whom have passed to the life im-
mortal ; namely, Betsey, Jane, Adaline A.,
John W., and James T. The three living
are: Alexander, a resident of Belmont, N.Y.;
Charles A., of Lee, Me.; and Mary A., now
Mrs. Cummings.

The nuptials of Mary A. Potter and Orrison
Ripley were solemnized May 31, 1857. Mr.
Ripley, a prosperous farmer during his active
life, was born March 15, 1832. He enlisted
in 1863 in Comiiany K, .Seventeenth Maine

\'(dLuitecr Infantry, and with his coniraiies ac-
tively participated in many of the important
engagements of the war of the Rebellion, and
at the battle of the Wilderness lost an arm.
He died June 17, 1872, leaving a widow, now
Mrs. Cummings, and one son, Wilson A.,
born Sepcember 21, 1858, who lives in Au-
burn, Me. Another son, William B. Ripley,
born November 24, 1868, died March 21,
1870.

OHN WHITMAN, formerly a farmer
and real estate dealer of South Paris,
Oxford County, Me., now living in re-
tirement, was bom in Hebron, this
county, December 22, 18 16, son of Calvin and
Sally (Record) Whitman. With an ancestry
extending back to the early days of the Colo-
nial period, the family is entitled to be ranked
among the oldest in New England. From
Mitchell's " History of Bridgewater, Mass.,"
we learn that John Whitman, the immigrant
progenitor, was the first Deacon of the church
in Weymouth, Mass., where he was made a
freeman in 1638, and where he died in 1692,
at the age of ninety years. He was the father
of four sons — Thomas, John, Abiah, and
Zechariah — and five daughters. Thomas and
John Whitman were among the early proprie-
tors of Bridgewater; but Thomas is said to
have been the only son of John Whitman, Sr.,
who settled in that town. Abiah Whitman,
brother of Thomas, was the father of John
Whitman, third, who lived one hundred and
five years, and is alleged to have been a very
strong and active man at the age of one hun-
dred years.

His son, Jacob, who was grandfather of the
present John Whitman, was born in l-'.aston,
Aroostook County, Me., November 28, 1753.
The mother of Jacob was his father's third
wife, and at the date of his birth his father
was aged fourscore years. Grandfather Whit-
man fought for independence in the Revolu-
tionary War. In 1780 he became a resident
of Buckfield, this county, locating close to
the line of the town of Hebron. As yet the
district had but few settlers, and the land was
still in the condition of a wilderness. In
consequence much of his labor was directed

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toward clearing a farm, and in due time he
iiad two hundred acres under cultivation. A
simple but eloquent memorial of his work is a
large block of granite, which would need a
derrick to put in place to-day, still to be seen
in the remains of an old building. Assisted
by his brothers, he placed it in the position it
occupies, remarking that it would be there for
several generations. He was much esteemed
bv his neighbors, was a Deacon of the Con-
gregational church, served the community in
sundry public capacities, and died December
29, 1842, in the ninetieth year of his age.
His wife, whose maiden name was Abigail
Packard, and who was born in 1756, died in
1837. Of their children, eight reached ma-
turity; namely, Luther, Jacob, Joseph,
Calvin, Joshua, Rebecca, Abigail, and Win-
chester.

Calvin Whitman, the fourth son, was a na-
tive of Buckfield, born May 5, 17S5. Reared
on his father's farm, he made farming the oc-
cupation of his life. After his marriage he
bought one hundred acres of land in Hebron,
took up his residence upon it, and spent the
rest of his days in clearing and cultivating the
soil. His religimis belief was that of the
Universalist church. In politics he followed
the fortunes of the Democratic party. At his
death he was nearly eighty-two years old.
His wife, whose maiden name was Sally
Record, lived to the age of ninety-six years.
They had seven children; namely, Hannah, C.
Winchester, John, Remember, Jonathan,
Jacob S., and Augustus.

John Whitman remained under the parental
roof-tree for the first twenty years of his life,
acquiring the knowledge and practical experi-
ence of agricultural operations that subse-
quently enabled him to become an expert
farmer. In 1837 he commenced to work for
the farmers of the district at the wages of
eleven dollars per month. At the time of his
marriage he bought the old homestead, and
there carried on farming until 1856. He
then sold the property, ami ])urchased the
Penley farm in the town of Paris, containing
three hundred acres. Here, after erecting a
new set of buildings, all of a first-class char-
acter, he kept a large dairy of choice cows for
several years. In 1885 he disposed of this

farm, and purchased the llersey house, at the
same time removing to South Paris. There-
after he dealt considerably in real estate.
Since his dwelling was remodelled and re-
ceived the addition of a barn, his place has
been one of the finest in the town. He also
owns some desirable land adjoining the lot on
which his residence stands, and keeps a few
select cows.

In November, 1844, Mr. Whitman was
united in. matrimony with Miss Sarah De
Albra Bumpus, daughter of Alden Bumpus, of
Hebron. Their children are: Edwin J., born
January 24, 1850, who married Miss Lizzie
Green, and is in the wholesale commission
business in Boston; E. Melvina, born June
22, 1855, now the wife of Joseph Jones, a
commercial traveller of South Paris, and
mother of two children — Edwin S. and Philip
Jones: Mary C, born April 13, 1857, who
married J. H. Stuart, a publisher of maps and
atlases in South Paris, and is the mother of
four children — Herman H., William E.,
Grace M., and Leona D. ; and Laurin A.,
born August 12, 1864, who married Miss
Mabel Murch, and is associated with his
father. Mrs. Whitman died in 1895, at the
age of seventy-one years. In religion Mr.
Whitman professes the Baptist faith, while in
politics he is a Republican. Although now
in his eightieth year he enjoys remarkably
iiood health.

EV. ABIJAH R. CRANE, D.D.,
pastor of the Baptist church in He-
bron, Oxford County, and Professor
of Literature at the Hebron Acad-
emy, was born in Wayne, Kennebec County,
Me., and is now about sixty years of age.
Abijah Crane (first), Dr. Crane's grandfather,
who was a native of Dedham, Mass., joined
the Continental army at the age of fourteen,
and served all through the Revolutionary War.
He settled in Eayette, Me., when twenty-one
years old, becoming one of the pioneers and
progressive farmers of that town, and resided
there for the rest of his life. He was a Whig,
very prominent in the community, and served
with ability in various town offices. He was
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Fayette, and acteil as its Deacon foi- many
years, and was warmly esteemed by his neigh-
bors for his manly adherence to high prin-
ciples. He reared a family of seven children,
none of whom are living.

Abijah Crane (second), Dr. Crane's father,
was born in Fayette in 1792. When a young
man he enlisted in the army for service in the
War of 1812. Upon his return to civil life
he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and con-
ducted a good farm in Fayette for the rest of
his active period. Originally a Whig, he
later acted with the Republican party, and
was a leading spirit in his locality. For
many years he was identified with the town
government. He served as a member of the
Board of Selectmen for several terms, and he
represented his district in the State legis-
lature for one term. Like His father, he was
Deacon of the Baptist church for a long
period. At his death, which occurred in his
ninety-second year, he was mourned as a
worthy, upright citizen and a Christian
gentleman. He married Harriet F'ifield, who
was born in Fayette in 1801. She became
the mother of nine children, six of whom are
living; and she died in her ninety-third year.
Abijah R. Crane acquired his early educa-
tion in the schools of Fayette, and prepared
for his collegiate course at the Waterville
Academy, now the Coburn Classical Insti-
tute. After graduating from Colby Univer-
sity with the class of 1856, he was for a time
engaged as a teacher at the liast Corinth
Academy. At the same time- he was studying
law with the Hon. George ICvans, with the
result that he was admitted to the bar in 1858.
However, giving ui) the idea of entering the
legal profession, he turned his attention to
theology, and spent three years at the Newton
(IVIass.) Theological Seminary, from which he
graduated in 1861. His first pastorate was
in Hallowell, Me., where he occupied the
pulpit of the Baptist church for thirteen years.
Upon his retirement therefrom he became
financial secretary of Colby University, which
important position he held for two years.
While so engaged, he raised the sum ■ of one
hundred thousand dollars, which was given for
educational work to the Coburn Classical Insti-
tute and the Hebron and Ricker Academies.

lie was SLdxsequently called to the pastorate of
the Baptist church in East Winthrop, Me.,
where he labored for twelve years, at the same
time having charge of the public schools
there. In 1890 he accepted the pastorate of
the Baptist church here, in which capacity he
has since labored diligently and successfully.
His influence among his congregation, and,
indeed, outside of it, is becoming stronger
every day. He is also Professor of Literature
at the Hebron Academy, in which he is
deeply interested.

On November 3, i86j, Dr. Crane was
united in marriage to Frances I\I. Derrick,
of Waterville, Me. He has one daughter,
Fanny, who is now the wife of Professor
A. H. Brainard, of Augusta, Me. In politics
he is a Republican, and he exercises a whole-
some influence in public affairs. He was a
member of the State legislature during the
years 1879 and 1880. For the past twenty-
five years he has been a member of the Board
of Trustees of Colby University, which in
1882 conferred upon him the degree of Doctor
of Divinity.

DWIN B. LUFKIN, of Weld, iManklin
County, Me., Justice of the Peace, land
surveyor and retired farmer, is a
well-known veteran of the Civil War, having
served as a private in the Federal ranks during
the greater part of the conflict, and since its
close having written a history of his regiment,
the Thirteenth ' Maine Volunteers. He was
born in the house where he now resides, .Sep-
tember 26, 1 84 1, son of George W. and La-
vinia H. (Sweet) Lufkin.

The family is of F]nglish origin; and its
founder in America was Thomas Lovekiii, who
settled in Gloucester, Mass., in 1673. His
son Benjamin was the father of Zebulon, Mr.
Lufkin's great-grandfather. Zebulon Lufkin
was born in Gloucester, and was a seafarinjr
man. He resided there until the beginning
of the Revolutionary War; and he then moved
to Durham, Me., where he lived until 1785.
His last days were passed in Freeport, Me.
His children were: Zebulon, Jr.; Sarah, who
married T. Wharf, of New Gloucester, Me. ;
Jonathan ; Ruth, who married Andrew Adams,

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of Durhnm : Aaron; Kbenezer; Joseph; Abi-
gail, who nianieil H. Richardson, of Pownal ;
Tk'njamin; Sanniul ; and Judith, who married
T. Woodman, of Minot. Zebulon Lufi<in died
October 31, 1S13, aged ninety-one years.

Samuel Lufkin, Mr. Lufkin's grandfather,
was born in Gloucester, Mass., and became
a sea captain. He settled in Freeport, Me.,
in 1790, and made foreign voyages until 1812,
when he engaged in the coasting trade. He
continued to follow the sea until disabled by
age. He died May 14, 1834, aged seventy
years. His children were: l^.Nperience, who
died in infancy; Samuel; Joshua; William
P.; Benjamin; Charles; Klmira; George W. ;
Eliza G. ; and John.

George W. Lufkin, Mr. Lufkin's father, was
born in Freeport, Me. In early life he was a
fisherman; and after learning the blacksmith's
trade he at the age of twenty-four settled in
Weld, and followed that calling here until
1859. He died December 2t,, 1884, at the
age of seventy-five years. In politics he was
originally a Democrat, but soon became a Free
Soiler. He joined the Republican party at its
organization.

Mr. George W. Lufkin first married Mary
J. Nichols, of Durham, who had two sons,
namely: George W. , now residing in Lake
Valley, N.M. ; and Samuel, a resident of
Auburn, Me. His second wife, Lavinia H.
Sweet, who was a native of Strong in this
county, became the mother of three children,
and of these two are living, namely: F^dvvin
P., the subject of this sketch; and his sister,
Abbie F. , who resides with him in Weld.

Edwin 15. Lufkin was educated in the com-
mon schools of Weld and at the Wilton High
School. In 1 861 he enlisted as a private in
Company V., Thirteenth Maine Regiment,
under Captain Isaac F. Ouinby, of Westbrook.
He was in several engagements during the Red
River campaign, including Sabine Cross-
roads, Pleasant Hill, and Cane River, and
was mustered out January 6, 1865. He then
engaged in farming at the homestead in Weld;
but about five years later he changed his occu-
pation, becoming an operator in the spool
factory, in which he worked four years. Once
more retinning to agricultural pursuits, he
continued tn till the soil until 1S88, when

failing health caused him to relinquish hard
labor; and he has since lived in retirement.

In politics Mr. Lufkin acts with the Repub-
lican party. He has filled the office of Town
Treasurer four years, and has served upon the
School Board for three years. He is a man of
literary tastes and abilities, and has contrib-
uted numerous interesting articles to the Lew-
\stnn /o//n/n/ und the Xa/ioiuil Tribune. He
is a great reader, and has quite a large library
of choice books, which enables him to pass his
leisure hours both pleasantly and profitably.
Mr. Lufkin has devoted much time to writing
a history of his regiment, which is now in the
hands of the publisher. He has been Com-
mander of a Grand Army Post, also Master of
a Masonic Lodge, and is a Knight Templar.

LBRO R. JENNESS, of Fryeburg,
O.xford County, the Secretary, Treas-
urer, and Superintendent of the
P'ryeburg Water Company, is one
of the most prominent business men in the
county. He is a native of Barton, Vt. , born
P'ebruary 13, 1836, son of John and Susan
(Twombly) Jenness, both also natives as well
as lifelong residents of Barton. John Jenness,
who was a prosperous farmer and a leading
man in that place, died in 1849. His wife,
having survived him nearly thirty years, died
in 1S78. Their children were: Albro R., the
subject of this sketch; Emeline, who is no
longer living ; Austin T., now teaming in Bos-
ton, who served all through the Civil War,
first in the Twelfth Regiment, Massachusetts
Volunteers, and later as Master of Wagons for
the Fifth Army Corps; Adeline, who is now
the widow of John Tripp, and lives at Barton
Landing, Vt. ; Martha C, who is now the
widow of Cheney Green, and resides in Cam-
bridge, Mass. ; Richard PL, who is engaged in
teaming in Boston ; and John, who is no longer
living.

Ali)ro R. Jenness acquired a limited educa-
tion in the common schools of Barton. At the
age of fifteen he went to Boston, Mass., where
he was employed in the store of S. D. Warren
& Co. for four year.s. Subsequently he gained
a footing in the teaming business, which in
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During the Civil War he had a LH)iitract with
the United States government, employing a
crew of twenty men and thirt}' horses at the
Charjestown na\'y yard, h}- which he earned
sixty thousand dollars yearly for himself and
his men. At this time he was a leading hose-
man in the Boston Fire Department, with
which he was connected four years. He con-
tinued to carry on a large and successful team-
ing business in Boston until 1875, when, influ-
enced by the favorable reports of its business
possibilities, he came to I^'ryeburg, where he
has since resided. His business enterjirises
consisted principall}' of transactions in lumber
and real estate, which were exceedingly jirofit-
able to him, at the same time that they were
beneficial to the town. These and his farm-
ing were conducted with unusual abilit}' until
some years ago, when he withdrew from them.
In 1882 he constructed the water works, and
he is now actively connected with that enter-
prise in the capacities already mentioned. He
is also Treasurer and a Trustee (if the well-
known Fryeburg Academy.

Mr. Jenness has been twice married, and
now is a widower. He attends the New Jeru-
salem Church. In politics he gives active
support to the Republican party, and he is a
firm believer in protection and sound money.
He is well advanced in Masonr\-, and is a
member of De Molay Commandery, Knights
Templars, Btjston ; and he is connected with
Pickwauket I.ntlge, Knights of Pythias, of
Fryeburg. Althougli forced to start at the
lowest round of the ladder, he has reached a
secure footing in life, and is to-dav one of the
substantial men of Frvebure-

\1-;TFR N. HASKELL, a member of
an old Maine family and one of the
largest real estate owners in Oxford
County, is extensively engaged in
lumbering in the town of Waterford. He was
born in Otisfield, Me., December i, 1822, the
son of Captain Joseph and Jerusha (Moores)
Haskell. His father was a native of Gorham,
Me., his mother of Otisfield.

Joseph Haskell was a son of John Haskell,
a Revolutionary soldier, who was wounded
three times while in the service. John Has-

kell removed from Gorham, Me., to Knox,
Me., where he died. Joseph Haskell went to
Otisfield from Gorham, Me., in 1801, or near
that date, being then about ten years old. Ik-
rode on horseback behind his uncle, CJliver
Pierce, and brought with him among other
belongings a tin box containing five dollars
in silver. The box being not quite full, the
coins rattled about, making so much noise that
his uncle made him dismount and fill the va-
cant space with leaves. He resided in Otis-
field about .seventy years, engaged, after reach-
ing manhood, in farming and trading in cattle
and horses. He was a Captain of the State
militia, and he was often chosen Constable and
Collector. Captain Haskell died in the vil-
lage of Norway, May 2, 1876. His wife,
Jerusha M(5ores Ha,skell, died there two years
later. May 8, 1878. Her father, Major Jona-
than Moores, the grandfather of Peter N. Has-
kell, was a soldier of the Revolution. He
subsequently removed from Groton, Mass., to
Otisfield, Me., being one of the first settlers
of the town. His wife. Relief Nutting
Moores, made three trijis from ()tisfield to
Groton on horseback. On the first trip she
carried her one-year-old son, who would have
been the first white child born in Otisfield had
she not been taken with an ox team to Gray to
stay during her confinement, owing to the lack
of a woman to nurse her at home. Captain
and Mrs. Joseph Haskell were the jiarents of
six children — Rhoda, Jane, Susan, and Cyrus,
all deceased; Mary Ann, widcnv of l^ben An-
drews, residing in Concord, Mass. ; and Peter
N., of Waterford, aforenamed.

Peter N. Haskell's early educational advan-
tages were limited to the common schools.
He remained at home until twenty years of
age, starting then for himself in the lumber
business near Bangor, Me. Three years later
he returned to the home farm; and about 1846
he went to .South Waterford, where he lived on
a farm some nine years. He then lemoved
to another farm in Waterford, which was his
home for twenty years; and while attending to
its cultivation he was also engaged in jobbing,
such as doing stone work and moving build-
ings, being an expert in the latter business.
His next removal was to his present home in
East Waterford village. Here he purchased

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in 1870 the saw-mil I then known as the old
Upton Mill, which under his management is
the cenii-e of a large business. His property
comprises some eight hundred acres of land,
some of which is under cultivation ; but on ac-
count of his advancing age he is not now ac-
tively engaged in farming.

Mr. Haskell was married August 5, 1846,
to Mary Green, who was born in South Paris,
Me., March 15, 1826, the daughter of Nathan-
iel \V. and Polly (Willis) Green. Mr. Green
belonged in Leicester, Mass., Mrs. Green in
Paris, Me. He was a currier, tanner, and
shoemaker; and he and his brother, Josiah
("ireen, made the first sale boot in the State of
Massachusetts, now so widely noted for its
shoe trade. Mr. Green was for a number of
years in the boot business. He and his wife
died in Norway, this county. Mr. and Mrs.
Haskell have twelve children : the eldest
child, George A., died in the army; the ne.xt
two children died in infancy; the third, Rose,
is the wife of Sewell F. Millett, of Lisbon,
Me. ; the fifth, Susan, lived but one year; and
the sixth, Frank, died in 1880. Joseph P.,
born Sejitember 23, 1858, resides with his
father, and is engaged in business. He is an
experienced mill man, having had charge of
mills in Newry and Kumford, Me. Clemen-
tine D. is the wife of H. O. Rolfe, of Kum-
ford, this county; Mary P^tta is the wife of
George Towne, of Oxford, Me. f Georgia is the
wife of E. H. Haggart, of South Paris, this
county. Tlie eleventh child died in infancy.
Pile twelfth, Andrew Johnson, resides in PZast
Waterford village, where he is Postmaster,
manages a general store, and is engaged in the
cider business. He married Miss Delia P'lint.

Mr. Haskell is a stanch Democrat. Though
not a seeker for iniblic place, he has held a
number of minor offices in the town. He is
widely known in this section of the county and
highly esteemed.

KNDON W. COUSINS, an extensive
lumber manufacturer of P'ryeburg,
Oxford County, was born in Winne-
conne, Wis., September 20, 1849,
son of Richard and Cordelia P. (Nutter)
Cousins. His grandfather, Enoch Cousins, a

nati\'e of Porter, Me., having followed the
sea ill his younger days, subsequently set-
tled upon a farm in his native town, where he
died at the age of ninety years.

Richard Cousins was born in Porter. He
learned the trade of a blacksmith, and after-
ward followed that calling in Porter until
1846. He then went to Wisconsin, and set-
t-led upon a farm in Vineland. After spend-
ing a short time there he removed to Winne-
conne, where he resumed his trade, and resided
until his death, which occurred in December,
1894. He married Cordelia P. Nutter, a na-
tive of Porter and a daughter of Charles
Nutter, a prosperous farmer of that town. By
her he became the father of si.x children,
namely: Henry A., a successful farmer of
Morris, Minn., who married Annie Shaver,
and has four children; Hendon W., the sub-
ject of this sketch; Olive Jeannette, who mar-
ried Daniel GafTner, a prosperous farmer of
Winneconne, and has one son, Richard, for
some years employeil by his uncle in Frye-
burg; Noyes Jackson, an ice dealer in Winne-
conne, who married Plattie Van Dyke, and
has one son, Archie, born in 1S88; Mary 1{. ,
the wife of William Morenus, a farmer in
Chadbourn, N.C. ; and Charles 1'^., who mar-
ried Alice Purchase, a native of Prince lid-
ward Island, and is now a member of the Port-
land police force. The mother died October
2, 1894.

Hendon W. Cousins acquired his education
in the common schools of Winneconne. When
nineteen years old he came east to Raymond,
N. H., where he was engaged in operating a
saw-mill until 1875. He then came to P^ rye-
burg, antl a short time later became a member
of the firm of Shirley & Cousins, who carrieil
on a saw-mill here. In 1888 he bought his
present mills, the business of which has since
steadily grown in importance. Here he man-
ufactures all kinds of lumber for building pur-
poses, beside shooks, spool stock, etc., which
he ships to Portland, employing an average of
fourteen men. He also does a large business
as a dealer in corn, meal, Hour, and feed,
coal, wood, and brick.

Mr. Cousins has been three times married.
His first marriage was contracted July 10,
1873, with Mary A. Parker, of Cape Eliza-

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beth, Me., who died July ig, 1S75. ]5y his
second marriage, performed June 30, 1877, ho
was united with Ella M. Heath, of Fryeburg,
who died in December, 1882, leax'ing two
children. These were: Mary E., born No-
vember 25, 1S7S; and Ralph VV., who was
born No\ember 3, 1881. Mr. Cousins's pres-
ent wife, in niaiilenhood Eliza D. Osgood,
whom he wedded October 20, iS8^, was born
in Fryeburg, May 2, 1864. She is a daugh-
ter of lilbridge G. and Emily M. (Osgood)
Osgood, who were both natives of Fryeburg,
born respectively on August 31, 1827, and
March 18, 1830. Mrs. Osgood now resides
with her daughter. Her husband died No-
vember 8, i8go. Mrs. Cousins's paternal
great-grandfather was Samuel Osgood. Her
grandfather, Asa Osgood, who married Mary
Hardy, was a well-known farmer and bridge
builder in his day. Upon the maternal side
her great-grandfather was James, known as
"straight-haired Osgood," who married Abi-
gail Evans, and for many years owned and
conducted the old Oxford Hotel in this town.
The maternal grandparents were James and
Eliza (Lovejoy) Osgood, both of whom died
in Fryeburg. Mrs. Cousins is a member of
the Congregational church.

In politics Mr. Cousins is a stanch sup-
porter of the Republican party, though too
much engrossed in business to desire or accept
office. He is a Mason of Pythagorean Eodge,
No. II, of this town. His present prosperity
is entirely due to his personal energy and
ability.

-OHN A. RICHARD.S, M.D., the old-
est and most successful medical practi-
tioner in Farmington, Franklin County,
Me., was born September 26, 1829, son
of John and Mary (Thomas) Richards. His
parents were then residing in the town of
Strong, which was his birthplace.

Dr. Richards's paternal grandfather, John
Richards, Sr., at an early age began to follow
the sea. He witnessed the burning of Fal-
mouth, now Portland, during the Revolution-
ary War, that event having occurred when he
was sixteen years old; and later in life he be-
came one of the early settlers of Durham,

Me., where he owned a good farm, u[)on which
he resided for the rest of his days. He was a
progressive, industrious, antl successful farmer
and a man of extraordinary physical jiowers,
retaining his usual strength and activity until
he was ninety-eight years old, when he be-
came somewhat crippled from the effects of a
fall. He continued to be otherwise vigorous
and healthy, possessing iierfect contnd of his
mental faculties to the last; and he lived to
attain the unusually advanced age of one hun-
dred years, eight months, and ten days. His
wife al.so lived to reach a good old age.
Their children were: John; Barzilla; Moses;
and Ira, who is still living.

John Richards, Dr. Richards's father, was
born in Durham, Me., and in early manhood
settled upOn a farm in Pliiliips, Franklin
County. Selling his jjroperty a short time
later, he removed to Strong, where he bought
two hundred acres of wiUl land covered with
heavy timber, cleared and improved a produc-
tive farm, planted an orchaixl, and erected a
good set of buildings. He was one of the
sturdy pioneers whose persevering toil paved
the way for the future development of the
vast agricultural resources of this county; and
he lived to see the work of progress attain an
advanced and flourishing condition. He held
several important town offices, supporting the
Whig party in politics until the advent of the
Republican movement, and subsequently act-
ing with that party until his death, which
took place when he was seventy-nine years
old. His wife, who was before marriage
Mary Thomas, was a native of Durham. .She
became the mother of eight children, as fol-
lows: Isaiah; James; Abbie M. ; Louise;
John A., the subject of this sketch; P21iza;
George; ami Elbridge. The children were
carefully educated, being thus enabled to fill
useful positions in life. Mrs. Mary T. Rich-
ards lived to reach the age of sixty-five. Both
parents attended the Congregational church.

John A. Richards acquired his early educa-
tion in the district schools; and, after complet-
ing an academic course, he began the study
of medicine with Dr. Edward Russell, of
Strong and later of Lewiston. He graduated
from the medical department of Bowdoin Col-
lege with the class of 1854; and, returning to

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Strong, he bought the practice of Dr. Russell,
which he maintained and increased, and con-
tinued to reside there for sixteen years. In
i.Sjfi he moved to Farmington, where his prac-
tice increased to such an extent as to necessi-
tate his covering a very wide circuit. He
act|uired and maintained an enviable reputa-
tit)n for reliability and punctuality, but
labored much beyond his strength. He con-
tinued to attenil to his professional duties
steadily and faithfully, without neglecting a
single call, no matter how great was the dis-
tance or how inclement the weather, until the
present year, when bodily injuries of a more
or less serious nature have caused him some
annoyance in pursuing his daily routine of
work. His practice in this town, although
attended with severe labor and self-sacrifice,
has been exceedingly successful, both profes-
sionally and financially; and he occupies a
position of high standing among his fellow-
townsmen, by whom he is regarded as one of
the most able physicians who ever practised in
this locality.

On June ii, 1S55, Dr. Richards was united
in marriage with Sophronia Hillman, daughter
of Gilbert R. and Mary (Pettingill) Hillman,
of Farmington. Gilbert R. Hillman was born
in Tisbury, Mass., on the island of Martha's
Vineyard, March 16, 1802, and at the age of
nineteen began to follow the sea. He became
captain of a whale-ship; and after twenty-five
years of seafaring life he relincjuished it to
become one of the early pioneers of California,
where he was for some time engaged in farm-
ing and in transporting freight along the Sac-
ramento River. He finally returned East,
and settled upon a farm in the northern part
of Farmington, where during the remainder
of his active period he displayed energy and
thrift, serving as a worthy example for others
to follow. He married Mary, daughter of
Abel and Doris (Davis) Pettingill, and reared
eight children, namely: Robert; Sophronia,
who is now Mrs. Richards; Marie; Margaret;
Rebecca; Mary E. : Gilbert R., first, who is
no longer living; and Gilbert R., second.

Dr. and Mrs. Richards are the parents of
four children, as follows: F'dward Russell,
who was born June 27, 1857, and is now pub-
lisher of the Wood River Xews-Mirror in

Hailey, Idaho; Elmer Ellsworth, an account of
whom will be found appended to this sketch;
Effie May, who was born March 16, 1866, and
is now an accomplished and successful music
teacher; and Frank Morrison, who was born
December 13, 1S68, and is now a taxidermist.

In politics Dr. Richards is an earnest sup-
porter of the Republican party; but his profes-
sional duties have always prevented him from
taking an active part in public affairs, and he
has necessarily declined the nomination to
various town and county offices. He was
formerly connected with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and he is a member of
the Unitarian church. He occupies a cen-
trally located residence at 7 High Street,
which he has remodelled, refitted, and other-
wise improved.

Elmer Ellsworth Richards, a leading attor-
ney of Farmington and a prominent member
of the Franklin County bar, son of Dr. Rich-
ards, was born in Strong, August 24, i860.
He was graduated from Bates College, Lewis-
ton, in 1880. Deciding to adopt the legal
profession, he studied law in the offices of
J. B. Severy, Sr., and J. C. Holman, Esq.,
and later at the law school of Michigan Uni-
versity. He has advanced rapidly in his
profession, having a numerous clientage, and
conducting a very successful general law busi-
ness; and in 1884 he was elected Register of
Probate for this county.

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ARSHALL SANDERSON, who,se
death occurred February g, 187S,
was for many years a conspicuous
factor of the farming and indus-
trial interests of Waterford, Oxford County,
Me. He was a man of solid worth, and ]")os-
sessed in a high degree those traits that com-
mand respect in the business world and win
the esteem and confidence of neighbors and
associates. He was a son of Joseph .Sander-
son, and was born July 10, 1821, in the town
of Sweden, this county, joining Waterford.

Joseph Sanderson, son of .Stephen .Sanderson
and the father of Marshall, was born, reared,
and married in Waterford, his union with Folly
Bryant being the first marriage of native-born
bride and groom solemnized in this town.

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He settled in Sweden, where he was engaged
as a farmer and mill operator during the larger
part of his life, although he died in Dedham,
Mass. His wife, who died in 1876, bore him
five children, namely: Joseph, who married
Mary French, of W'aterford, and was for sev-
eral years Chief of Police in Cambridge,
Mass., where both he and his wife died; Will-
iam, a lumberman and farmer, who married
Ruth Dresser, of Lovell, Me., both [massing
their last years at Pomona, Cal. ; Marshall,
who is the subject of this sketch; Charles, a
speculator and farmer living in Massachusetts,
who married Alnieda A. McW'ain ; and Mary
J., now deceased, whose husband, Oliver
Hapgood, was killed in the late Rebellion.

Marshall Sanderson, who was the third
child born to his ]iarents, obtained his educa-
tion in the comnmn schools, and from his early
years was engaged in industrial activities.
]'"rom the time of his settlement in Waterford
lie was numbered among the foremost agricult-
urists and business men of the place, his mill-
ing operations being as extensive and lucrative
as his farming interests. He was a promi-
nent memljer of the Democratic party, genu-
inely interested in the welfare of his adopted
town, which he served as Selectman several
years. He was a member of the Masonic fra-
ternity, belonging to a lodge of Waterford.

Mr. Sanderson was married November 25,
1S47, to Miss Angeline McWain, who was
born in this town, April 13, 1829, a daughter
of David and Laura (Willard) McWain, both
natives of \ew Hampshire. Her father's
birth occurred in 1784, and the mother's in
1793. Mr. McWain removed from the Granite
State to O.xford County, settling in the town
of Waterford, where he was an extensive
farmer and mill-owner, being at one time the
proprietor of a section of land in this locality.
Mr. McWain was twice married. His first
\v\{e, Hannah Hailey, of New Hampshire, bore
him four children — Jane, William, and two
that died in infancy. l^y his union with Miss
Laura Willard five children were born, as fol-
lows : David, now living a retired life in New
York, who has been twice married, his first
wife having been Melissa Potter, and his sec-
ond Mrs. Harriet Tracy, widow of Albert
Tracy, of Lewiston, Me. ; Andrew, who died

when young; Leavitt B. (deceased), who mar-
ried Lorinda Gould, and was a farmer and
mason in Milan, N. H. ; H. Angeline, who is
now the widow of Mr. Sanderson, and resides
at South Waterford; and Almeda A., now-
deceased, who married Charles Sanderson, of
Dedham, Mass.

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall .Sanderson had two
children — Leroy and Josephine A. Leroy
Sanderson, who is a prosjierous farmer and a
prominent citizen of Waterford, married Miss
P'lorence Shaw. Josephine A., who died
June 8, 1884, was the wife of Robinson
Hastings, a native of Bethel.

rpTON. TIMOTHY JARXTS CART1{R,
j-^-j iov .'Several years County Attorney of
_\js I Oxford County, Maine, residing at

— ' Paris Hill, and latei' a member of
the Twenty-fifth Congress, was born August
18, 1800, in the town of Bethel, Me., son of
Dr. Timothy and P^rances (P'reeland) Carter.
He was a descendant of the Rev. Thomas
Carter, who was the first settled minister in
Woburn, Mass. P'rom the history of that
town we learn that Thomas Carter was born in
England; was educated at St. John's College,
Cambridge; came to America in 1635, being
then a divinity student; lived for a time in
Dedham, later in Watertown ; and a church,
the First Congregational, having been gath-
ered, "with much solemnity," in Wolmrn in
August, 1642, he was ordained, and settled as
its pastor on November 22, O. S. (or Decem-
ber 2, N. S. ), of that year. He died in 1684,
in the forty-second year of his ministry, sur-
vived by his wife, Mary Daltoii, who died in
1687. They had reared six children, inchifl-
ing three sons, one of whom, named .Samuel,
received a college education.

Among the jiosterity of the Rev. Thomas
Carter living in New lingland at the close of
the century following his death, was Dr. Tim-
othy Carter, above mentioned, born November
29, 1760, who was the first of the family to
.settle in Oxford County. He began the prac-
tice of his profession in the town of Bethel in
1798. He was very successful for many years,
occupying a leading position among the promi-
nent physicians of this county; and many

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young men who .subsequent!)' acquired fame in
their profession studied with him. He con-
tinued his residence in Bethel until his death,
February 25, 1S45, retaining to the last his
active inHuence as physician, citizen, and
counsellor. Dr. Carter was a strict Congre-
gationalist in religion, and for manv years
served as Deacon of the church. In [lolitics
he was a Whig, and in his later years was a
strong advocate of the temperance cause.
For several years he was Justice of the Peace,
and in this capacity much of the legal busi-
ness of this county passed through his hands.

Dr. Carter w-as twice married. His first
wife, born September 4, 1771, was Frances,
daughter of Dr. James Freeland, of Sutton,
Mass. Her father was a surgeon in the Conti-
nental arm\' in the Revolution, and subse-
quently became a member of the Cincinnati
Society. Mrs. Frances F. Carter died No-
vember 14, 18 1 5, having borne her husband
seven children, as follows: Lawson, born No-
vember 20, 1793; Galen, born June 19, 1795;
James F., born May 12, 1797; 1 imothy Jar-
vis, the sjiecial subject of this sketch; Luther
C, born February 25, 1805; Frances F., the
only one now living, born September i, 1809,
the widow of Robert A. Chapman, of Portland ;
and Elias M., born September 10, iSii. Dr.
Carter's second wife, Lydia, daughter of Theo-
dore Russell, of Bethel, was the mother of
three daughters and tw-o sons, namely : Lydia
D., born March 22, 1S23; Sarah \V., born
May 8, 1824; Abigail A., born April 9,
1825; Theodore R. , born July 12, 1827; and
l^enjamin, born July 4, 1832. Of these three
are living — Mrs. Abigail A. Gould, of
Worcester, Mass. ; and the two sons, both
residents of Montclair, N.J.

Timothy Jarvis Carter, Dr. Carter's fourth
son, received his early education in some of
the best schools of O.xford County. He pur-
sued the study of law under Governor Enoch
Lincoln at Paris Hill, and later at Judge
Howe's Law School in Northampton, where
he was graduated in 1824. Mr. Carter then
entered the law office of F'essenden & DuBlois,
and remained with them until his admission
to the bar in February, 1827. Locating him-
self first in Rumford, Me., he practised there
for a year, then came to Paris, O.xford County,

in 1829; and from that time until his death he
was one of the most successful lawyers of this
part of the State, standing high among hfs as-
sociates. P^or several years Mr. Carter was
County Attorney; and in 1836 he was elected
a member of the Twenty-fifth Congress, in
which he served two terms, dying while in
Washington, D. C, March 14, 1838. In jjoI-
itics he was a stanch Democrat, and he was
liberal in his religious belfef.

On September 11, 1828, Mr. Carter married
Arabella Rawson, who was born in Paris, Ox-
ford County, Me., February 22, 1807, and is
still living in the house in which she first
opened her eyes to the light of this world.
Her father, Samuel Rawson, was born Septem-
ber 4, 1771, in Sutton, Mass. ; and his wife,
Polla, daughter of Dr. James Freeland, was
born in Sutton, Mass., September 17, 1778.
P^or further history of Mrs. Carter's ancestors
see the "Rawson Genealogy and Memorial."

The only child born to Mr. and Mrs. Carter
was Samuel Rawson Carter, whose birth oc-
curred June 22, 1829, in the house in which
his widowed mother now lives. This house
was built in 1789, and bought by Samuel
Rawson in 1804. Samuel Rawson Carter was
graduated at Union College, Schenectady,
N. Y., in the class of 1852, and was admitted
to the bar of Oxford County in 1854. He
took an es[)ecial interest in having that bar sup-
plied with a good law library, and was libra-
rian and member of the bar as long as he lived.
In politics he was a lifelong Democrat, firm
and unchanging in principle, also an active
supporter of every measure he thought would
benefit the farming communit\- and his native
town. He was for many years a communicant
of the Lpijcopal church and always ready to
give his best efforts to aid that church. He
devoted much of his time to scientific pursuits,
es])ecially to mineralogy and geology. He
was one of the original owners of Mount Mica,
noted for valuable tourmalines; and he left a
valuable cabinet of Mount Mica minerals, also
a large collection of other minerals and Indian
relics. Samuel Rawson Carter was an asso-
ciate member of the Boston and Portland So-
cieties of Natural History and a correspond-
ing member of the Academy of Natural Sci-
ence in Philadelphia, and received diplomas

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from biith of those societies. He was niairictl
February 26, i<S57, to Julia, daughter of the
Hon. ]{lijah L. and I{liza Choate Hamlin,
resided in Paris, and dieil A])ril 24, 1893.
His wife, Mrs. Julia Hamlin Carter, died
August 12, 1S94. The}' had i)reviously been
bereft of their son, a \'ery capable and promis-
ing young man, whose brief record follows.

Jarvis Livermore Carter, born I-"ebruar\- 11,
1858, died August 4, 1892, only child of .Sam-
uel Rawson and Julia Hamlin Carter. He
was graduated at L'nion College, .Schenectatly,
N. Y., and, having finished his education at
Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie,
N.Y. , afterward became connected as a ]iartner
with the commercial and exporting house of
W. l-:. Smith & Co. of New York City. He
was an e.xjjert accountant, and managed in a
most successful manner tlic finances of the
firm, doing the business of a million dollars
annually. He was a communicant of the
Episcopal church and, like his father, a stable
Democrat. June 12, 1883, he married Mary
Blanche, onl\- child of Cullen E. and Eannie
A. Carter, and aftei- his marriage resided in
Brookh'n, .\. \'. Jar\'is Eivernn)re and Mary
Blanche Carter were the |)arents of three chil-
dren, namelv: Julia V., born .Se]itember 5,
1884; Dorothea M., born April 8, 1887; and
Jarvis Ereeland, born Jul\' 20, 1889, who died
May 6, 1895.

These two great-grand-daughters are the
only living descendants of Timothy Jarvis and
Arabella Rawson Carter. Mrs. Carter has
preserved much interesting data lelating to
the Rawson and Carter families.

A woman of cultivated mind, well-read and
thoughtful, notwithstanding that she is nearing
the ninetieth milestone of life's journey, she
retains the capacity of her earlier years and
takes an active interest in passing events.

Some choice spirits of earth happily grow
not old, but, filled with childlike trust and
broad human sympathy, pass as cheerily down
the sunset slopes " as up the hills of morn. "

/^^TTlbERT MILEER, Sheriff of Frank-
V 5 I lin County, proprietor of the Wilton
House, and one of the most promi-
nent business men in this town, was born in

Wilton, Octolx-r 20, 1826, son of David antl
Ik'tsey (Pierce) Miller. The family is of
early Colonial origin, its founder having, no
doubt, emigrated from bjigland or Scotland;
but his name, as well as the jjlace of his na-
tivity and date of arrival in America, cannot
now be ascertained.

The first ancestor nf whom there is any
authentic knowledge was Robert Miller, who
resided in I''all River, Mass., where he fol-
lowed ship-carpentering and farming. He was
the father of seven children, including four
sons — namely, John, Job, Robert, and David
— all of whom were carpenters and farmers, and
resided upon the Taunton River. David
Miller, son of Robert and grandfather of Gil-
bert Miller, settled upon a large farm in Fall
River, which is now the property of his grand-
son, another Gilbert Miller, a cousin of the
subject of this sketch. David Miller served
as a soldier in the French anil Indian War,
and participated in the siege and capture of
Uuebec under General Wolfe. He married
Hannah Merrick, and reared a family of nine
children; namely, John, Ebenezer, Job, Isaac
M., Gilbert, David, Hannah. Abbv, and
Polly.

David Miller, son of David and Hannah
(Merrick) Miller, was born in b'all River,
February 22, 1787. While still young he
shi])ped as a cabin boy, and, later becoming
an able seaman, remained in the merchant
service for fifteen years. Tiring of sea life,
and not desiring to rear his sons in a locality
where they were liable to become sailors, he
visited his sister, Mrs. Maconiber, who was
living in Wilton, Me., and, being favorably
impressed with the country, decided to settle
here. Purchasing the Gooclell farm of eighty
acres, which he improved b)- I'emodelling the
house and erecting a new barn, he continued to
reside here until his death, which took place
March 15, 1849. The property is now occli-
pied by John Miller. Although for many
years a sailor, he readily adapted himself to
agricultural pursuits, developing a capacity
for tilling the soil and raising stock which
enabled him to attain a degree of prosperity
equal to the majority of his neighbors who
had been reared and trained to farm life; and
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communit}'. lie was a Whig in politics and
lil:)eral in religious views. His wife, Betsey
Pierce, whom he married June 20, 1813, was
born in Somerset, Mass., August 26, 1794.
She became the mother of eight children,
namely: Julia A.; David; Eliza; Betsey;
John; Gilbert, the subject of this sketch;
James C. ; and Nathan R. Mrs. Betsey P.
Miller possessed a remarkably strong constitu-
tion, and lived to reach the advanced age of
ninety-three years.

Gilbert Miller, the third son as here enu-
merated, and the special subject of this sketch,
was educated in the schools of his native
town, and resided with his parents until he
was twenty-one years old. He then engaged
in peddling confectionery, cigars, tobacco, and
Yankee notions for E. J. Smith, later repre-
senting J. Richards in the same line of trade:
and after travelling through the country with
a team for seven years, during which time he
realized good financial results, he bought a
farm of one hundred and fifty acres in the
town of Temple. Selling this property a
year later, he moved back to Wilton, where he
purchased the M. Luffkin farm, upon which
he resided from i<S57 to 1876. He remodelled
the residence, and built a new stable; and,
besides keeping well forward in the line of
progress as a general farmer, he dealt largely
in cattle, sheep, and horses, most of which he
bought in the home market. Having pur-
chased his present hotel jjroperty in 1873, he
began to manage it in 1876, coming here
with his family. Having sold his farm build-
ings with five acres of land, he still retains
the remainder of his farm, which he carries on
in connection with the house. Since becom-
ing proprietor of the Wilton House, he has
made various improvements, including the en-
largement of the building, which now contains
eighteen light and well-furnished sleeping-
rooms; and connected with it are a good stable
for baiting purposes and a spacious hall for
public use. He also owns a valuable farm of
one hundred and fiftv acres in the town of fav,
which he rents to good advantage; and, be-
sides attending to a great amount of private
business, he has been intrusted with the set-
tlement of many estates, and has held various
town offices. Mr. Miller served as Hiffh

Sheriff eight years, as Deputy Sheriff eighteen
years, and as Chairman of the Board of Select-
men for twelve years, in all of which capaci-
ties he established an honorable record as a
capable and upright jnililic official. In poli-
tics he has been a firm supporter of Republi-
can principles ever since the formation of that
party.

In November, 1852, Mr. Miller married
Martha A. Lord, his first wife, who was born
in New Sharon, October 20, 1830. She died
May 2, 1868, leaving seven children, as fol-
lows: Erank G. , who was born September 3,
1853, and died September 2, 1872; Ida M.,
who was born June 30, 1855, and married
Lester P. Hiscock, a prosperous merchant of
East Brookfield, Mass. ; Horace, who was born
December i, 1856, and died at the age of
twenty years; Clarence A., a successful livery
stable keeper of Wilton, who was born Sep-
tember 5, i860, married Emma Wilkins, and
has two children — -N. Maud and Clifford G. ;
Nathan R., who was born November 29, 1862,
married Lillian Lake, and is now assisting his
father in business; Carrie N. , who was born
April II, 1864, and is now the wife of Milton
Holmes; and Lydia E., who was born October
I, 1865, and married P'red Young, an ener-
getic miller of New Sharon. Mr. Miller's
present wife was before marriage Nellie M.
Woodbury. She is a daughter of the Rev.
J. M. Woodbury. By this union there is one
son, P'rank G. , who was born July 19, 1879.

Mr. Miller is still engaged in attending to
his business affairs, and goes about with the
activity of a much younger man. He takes a
liberal view of religious matters, and is a
member of Williamson Lodge, No. 20, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd I'ellows.

ILLIAiM EDWARD SAK(;i:NT.
Principal of Hebron Academy, in
O.xford County, was born in San-
ford, York County, Me., on May 23, 1856.

His father, the late Rev. Walter Taylor
Sargent, was born in Methuen, Mass., in
1809; and his mother, Mrs. Joan G. Quint
Sargent, was born in Bowdoinham, Me., in
1829. The Rev. Walter Taylor .Sargent was
a well-known divine in his dav, his life being

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209

devoted to preaching the gospel in many dif-
ferent localities. He died at Freeport, Me.,
in 1886, his wife having gone before him in
1885. They were the parents of nine chil-
dren, eight of whom are yet living; namely,
Mary Ellen, Maria Frances, Susan Jane,
Sarah Elizabeth, Anna Louise, Emma Caro-
line, William lulward, and Alice Crosby
Sargent.

An only son, William E. Sargent passed his
boyhood in many different towns of Maine,
as his father mo\ed from one place to another
in attending to ministerial duties, princi|ially
staying in the towns of Greene, Dexter, Rich-
mond, and Freeport. Young Sargent received
his early education in the public schools of the
towns in which he resided, and prepared him-
self for college under the supervision of the
Re\-. j. J. Hulfinch, of Freepnit, who was a
friend of his father.

He entered ]5owdoin College in 1874, and
was graduated in the class of 1S78. In April
of that year he acce])ted the position of princi-
pal of the high school of Topsham, which he
lield for a period of two years, at the expira-
tion of which time he went to Freeport, where
he had charge of the high school until 1885,
when he was called to Hebron Academy.
Here he has remained ever since.

What Professor Sargent has done for the
academy in these years must be seen to he
thoroughly understood and appreciated, but it
might be well to say a few disinterested words
on the subject. He has from the very first
given his strict attention to building up
the school in every desirable way. To-day
Hebron Academy is universally acknowledged
as one of the best fitting schools in all New
England. Its high standing is in a great
measure due to the utter devotion and strenu-
ous labor that Professor Sargent has sjient
upon the work for over a decade; and liberal
support has been accorded the dear old .school
by its numerous and generous friends, who
were influenced by the stirring appeals and un-
tiring efforts made by Professor Sargent in its
behalf and by his example of devotion and self-
sacrifice.

William F.. Sargent was married on August
20, 1S83, to Ella C. M. Hale, of My.stic,
Conn. They have no children. Mr. and

Mrs. Sargent are earnest as well as active
members of the Baptist church. In ])olitics
the Professor is a stanch Republican. He is
a member of l-'reeport Lodge, No. 23, A. F.
& A. M., at iMceport, Me., also a member of
Harraseeket Lodge, No. 30, of the Knights of
Pythias at Freeport, and of Pejepscot Lodge,
No. 13, Inde|)endenl ( )rder of Odd P\'llowsat
Brunswick.

Hebion Academy was foiiiKkd in 1804 bv
two God-fearing, strong-hearted men — lilder
John Trip|i and Deacon William Harrows.
John Tri])p perhaps was the more instrumental
of the two in the actual conception and foun-
dation of the schfjol.

■ John Tripp was born in Dartmouth, now
Fairhaven, on March 25, 1761, the son of
Jesse Tripp. In his early y(aith even he
began to show that he was destined to be a
grave and serious man, deeply religious in
thought and feeling. In 1774, before he was
fourteen years of age, he vohmtarilv connected
himself with the Second Pa|)tist Church of
Middleboro, Mass. A short time later he
went into the ranks of the Continental army,
showing decisively that he could not only
pray, but fight. He conducted himself

throughout the \vai- with the greatest heroism
and honor.

In 1787, some time after the wai-, he re-
ceived a license to ]:)reach the gospel. After
twelve years o'f wandering from ]jlace to place,
twelve years of exhausting work, both men-
tally and ]ihysically, twelve years of earnest
endeavor to do good, not one time and then
another time, but all the t.ime — in fine, twelve
years of the life of an old-fashioned Christian
preacher, bringing the gospel on foot or on
horseback through a sparsely populated coun-
try, with long distances to traverse and no
time to stay except to exhort and attemjDt to
convert, he finally settled down in Hebron,
arriving here on July 5, 1798. The journey
from Portland was made with a horse and cart
— John Tripp, his wife, and one child in
arms on the liorse, and the rest of the children,
with the household goods in the wagon. He
settled on the farm where his descendants still
live. He had married shortly after or during
the war a lady of P'rench descent named Expe-
rience Deland. She bore him ten children.

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all of whom are now dead. W'licn he came to
Hebron the whole place was new and wild.
There were no road.s, only narrow bridle paths.
The woods were full of bear, deer, fo.xes, and
other game. His first house was built of
rough-hewn square logs.

Always interested in educational matters
and expecting to spend the rest of his life
here, he with a friend. Deacon William Bar-
rows, conceived a plan for instituting a school,
as had been done long before in Plymouth,
and as quaintly expressed there "for the better
education of the youthe of the towne and the
better employement of their time."' This
scheme, planned by the two worthies in 1804,
was carried into effect in the next year, 1805;
and the first academy was erected. The first
church, which was organized with a member-
ship of thirteen persons on August 23, 1791,
was finally established in a substantial build-
ing in 1820. Of this church Elder Tripp was
a devoted supporter. His wife died on May
20. 1835. John Tripp himself died on Sep-
tember 16, 1847, after a long and useful life.
The school thu.s established for the benefit of
the generations that were to follow him has
done remarkably well in every way that he
himself wouUl have desired.

The academy itself is very advantageously
situated on high land among the picturesque
hills of Oxford County, Maine. All con-
nected with the place, the scenery, the care
exerted, the instruction, the amusement pro-
vided, all tend to give the Hebron students, as
their well-beloved principal says of them,
"a spirit that identifies them wherever you
find them. Thev have the qualities of strong,
earnest men and women. They know how to
use the shovel and hold the plough, know how
to economize. "

How the friends and benefactors of Hebron
Academy feel toward the old institution, and
what they do for it, as well as how their gifts
are received and in what spirit, is also best
shown by a few words from the address made
by Professor Sargent on the dav the class of
1896, composed of thirty strong-minded, ear-
nest boys and girls, graduated. He says of
the late Mr. Sturtevant, a dear friend of
Hebron Academy, among other things (chief
among these things being an expression of the

great thanks and the just praise due Mr. Stur-
tevant) : 'T went and saw him. Mr. Sturte-
vant in his mild way told a story or two, just
to collect his thoughts and get them down into
a crystallized form. When he got down to
business he said, 'I have made up my mind to
gi\e you ten thousand dollars to start with.'
But that was not all." And Professor Sargent
goes on to tell how he had helped them in
every way, how he had asked their plans, sug-
gested, formed new ones, and done everything
to help the school to raise all the money it
needed for improvements. At length, owing
to the generosity and efforts of Mr. Sturtevant,
and the energy and devotion displayed by Pro-
fessor Sargent, the requisite sum, and more
than that, has been raised, a sum that no great
university need be ashamed to accejjt as a gift
— fifty thousand dollars.

The academy, which is in truth what Pro-
fessor Sargent has set forth in his modest but
attractive circular, a splendidly endowed fit-
ting school for Colby University, makes an
ideal place for study. It was founded as we
know "by praying patriots of the Revolution."
Among the great names that have been in-
scribed, in the youth of their distinguished
bearers, on the roll of honor of the old acad-
emy, are those of Hannibal Hamlin, John D.
Long, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, William
Pitt Fessenden, and Senator Plugene Hale.
The academy offers- fine advantages in every
line, three courses of studv, college, classi-
cal, and pjiglish, together with year-in and
year-out de]iartments in music and ]3ainting,
and a fine gymnasium, being a few of them.

Professor Sargent is known and admired as
a most successful teacher; and his friends hope
he will remain at the head of Hebron Acad-
emy for many years to come, continuing, as
he has always done, to increase the prosperity
and renown of this ancient and revered insti-
tution.

■QHN WARD, senior member of the
firm John Ward & Co., Fryeburg,
Oxford County, manufacturers of and
dealers in carriages and sleighs, was
born in this town, August 26, 1838, son of
Jonathan Hale and Harriet (Durgin) Ward.

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His grandfnthcr, Jonathan Ward, was a clock-
maker by trade ; and many of the old and re-
liable time-pieces now doing service in Frye-
burg are the work of his hands. Jonathan
married Rachel Abbott, a native of Conconl,
N. H.; and both died in this town.

Jonathan Hale Ward, who was born in Frye-
burg, entered the lumber business in his early
manhood, and subsequently became an exten-
sive speculator in timber lands. He was also
the proprietor of the Oxford Hotel in Frye-
burg village for several years. Leaving the
reputation of an able business man, he died in
1 84 1, being then in the prime of life. The
interment of his remains was the first made in
the present town cemetery. His wife, Har-
riet, was a native of Fryeburg and a daughter
of Joshua Durgin, an early settler of this
town. Her father, a native of Massachusetts,
who was a tanner and currier, and followed
those trades in connection with farming,
passed his last days in F"r)eburg. Jonathan
Hale Ward and his wife were the parents of
four children, as follows: Fanny L. , who be-
came the wife of James F". Webster, a pros-
perous farmer of Conway, N. H., both now de-
ceased; Henry D., who is a machinist by
trade, and resides in Worcester, Mass. ; John,
the subject of this sketch; and Harriet D.,
the wife of Henry Putnam, a well-to-do
farmer of Worcester, Mass. The mother lived
to the age of seventy-six years.

John Ward was left fatherless when a mere
child. At the age of eleven he went to Rridg-
ton, Cumberland County, where he lived in
the family of Henry Smith for four years.
During the succeeding five years he resided
with Augustus Carsley upon a farm in that
town. His education was acquired in the
common schools and at the Bridgton Academy.
When at the age of twenty, he began to learn
the carriage-maker's trade with William F.
Perry, now the proprietor of a large factory in
Bridgton. After remaining with Mr. Perry
for six months he engaged with Thomas F.
Mead, under whose direction he finished his
apprenticeship. He then worked as a
journeyman for Burnham & Mead in Bethel,
Me., for two years. Coming to Fryeburg in
i860, he, in company with his uncle, com-
menced the manufacture of carriages under

the firm nLune- of A. C. & John Ward.
Three years later Thomas F. Mead bought an
interest in the business, and the firm became
known as Mead & Ward. A Hourishing trade
was carried on for four years, and B. M.
Glines then became a partner under the pres-
ent title of John Ward & Co. This firm man-
ufactures all kinds of carriages and other
vehicles, carries a varied stock of carriages
and sleighs of other manufacture, also does
general repairing and mill work.

In January, 1871, Mr. Wartl was united in
marriage to Augusta L. Mead, who was born
in North l?ridgton, daughter of Thomas H.
Mead. Mr. Mead was a successful merchant,
was very prominent in political affairs, and
served as Treasurer of Cumberland County for
several yean-s. Mr. and Mrs. Ward are the
parents of two children, namely: Augustus
H., who works in his father's factory, and is
an able machinist; and Thomas Hale, who re-
sides with his parents. In politics Mr. Ward
is an earnest supporter of Republican prin-
ciples, but has never aspired to prominence in
public affairs. He has always applied him-
self to his calling with industry, and as a re-
sult has worked his way forward to his present
business success. He has many friends both
in business and social circles, and is a mem-
ber of Pequaket Lodge, No. 34, Knights of
Pvthias.

LOXZO B. ADAMS, M.D., of Wil-
ton, a member of the United States
Board of Examiners in pension
cases, a veteran of the Civil War,
is one of the leading physicians and surgeons
of Franklin County. He was born in Wilton,
July 8, 1843, son of Charles K. aiul Julia A.
(Miller) Adams. His grandparents were
Moses and Martha (Kinney) Adams, the
former of whom was a prosperous farmer and
a well-known resident of Wilton in his day;
and the paternal and maternal ancestry of Dr.
Adams were representatives of highly repu-
table families.

Charles K. Adams, son of Moses and
Martha Adams, continued to reside with his
parents after attaining his majority, caring for
them in their declining years, and finally sue-

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ceeding to the ownership of the homestead of
one hundred and fifty acres. He was success-
ful both as a general farmer and a live stock
dealer, buying large numbers of cattle and
sheep, which he shipped and drove to Reading
and Brighton. Able, industrious, and pro-
gressive, he remodelled his residence, erected
new barns, and made other notable improve-
ments in his i)ro|ierty. Being stricken with
tyi^hoid fever, from which he was unable to
rally, he died at the age of fifty-four years.
In public affairs he was prominent and in-
fluential, having followed the majority of the
Whig element into the ranks of the Republi-
can party at its formation; and, as a member
of the Board of Selectmen and as a Represent-
ative to the legislature, he displayed such
marked ability in sustaining and forwarding
the principles of good government as to re-
ceive the hearty commendation and approval
of the voters in general, as well as his con-
stituents. His wife, who was before marriage
Julia A. Miller, became the mother of ten
children, namely: Charles N.; Josephine:
Alonzo B., the subject of this sketch; a child
who died in infancy; Abbie; Madeline;
Irandus: l{lla F. : another who died in in-
fancy; and Frank \V. Mrs. Julia A. Ailams
died of consumiJtion at the age of forty-si.x
years. She and her husband attended the
Free Will Baptist church, and were generous
contributors toward its support.

Alonzo B. Adams, the second son, the date
of whose birth is given above, acquired his
early education in the jiublic schools, where
he labored diligently with the view of subse-
quently pursuing the higher branches of
study; but at the age of nineteen his patriot-
ism overweighed his desire in this direction,
and on August 4, 1862, he enlisted as a pri-
vate in Company C, Sixteenth Regiment,
Maine Volunteer Infantry, for service in the
Civil War. On December 13 of the same
year, while participating in the battle of
Fredericksburg, he received a serious wound
just above the left ankle, which made amputa-
tion necessary; and, after passing through one
operation at Alexandria, he was in 1865
obliged to suffer the inconvenience of another
amputation. When suflficiently recovered to
resume his studies he entered the Maine

Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, where he
was graduated in 1866, and, after reading
medicine with Dr. Russell, of Farmington,
he matriculated at the Bowdoin College Med-
ical School, where he was graduated with the
class of i86g. Locating for practice in
Strong, Me., he remained there three and one-
half years, at the expiration of which time he
returned to Wilton, where he bought the prac-
tice of Dr. Peaslee, and has since resided
here. As a skilful and reliable physician and
surgeon, he has not only acquired a high repu-
tation throughout the wide section included
within his circuit, but he is frequently called
to distant parts, either to personally treat diffi-
cult cases or in consultation with other prac-
titioners; and his professional success has
been upward and onward from the commence-
ment. Soon after his establishment in Wil-
ton he bought the Hall residence on High
Street, which he has greatly improved; and in
1893 he erected upon the premises a hand-
some office and operating-room, which is fur-
nished and equipped with all modern conven-
iences.

On July 12, 1870, Dr. Adams was united in
marriage with Mary C. Fletcher, daughter of
David and Sarah (Stickney) Fletcher, of this
town. Earl Adams, one of the two children
born of this union, died at the age of twenty-
one months ; and the other, Lynne F. Adams,
who was born March 7, 1877, is now a student
at Colby University.

In the Masonic fraternity Dr. Adams is
well advanced, being a Past Master of Wilton
Lodge; a member of Franklin Chapter,
Jephthah Council, Pilgrim Commandery,
Knights Templars; and the Maine Consistory.
He is Past Grand of Williamson Lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and Past Chief
Patriarch of the encampment; is connected
with the Foresters and the Order of the
Golden Cross; and as a comrade of the Grand
Army of the Republic he has held all of the
important offices of R. C. Woodman Post, No.
18, has been Junior Vice-Commander and Sur-
geon of the department, and a delegate to the
national encampment. He holds an appoint-
ment upon the Board of L^nited States Pension
Examiners, and he acted in an important ca-
pacity in the United States census enumera-

JOHN M. STEVENS.

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tion of 1870. In politics he acts with the
Republican party, and he ably filled the office
of Town Treasurer for three years. Dr. and
Mrs. Adams are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.

OHN M. STEVENS, one of the oldest
practical farmers of Canton, 0.\ford
CoLuity, i\Ie., who is about to retire
from the toil of the fields, was born in
this town, November 25, 1826, son of Aaron
and Susan (Conant) Stevens. The farm upon
which Mr. Stevens has spent his life up to the
present time, the autumn of 1896, was cleared
from the wilderness by his grandfather, Jere-
miah Stevens; and it has been held bv the
family until quite recently.

Jeremiah Stevens was a native of Massachu-
setts, and served in the Revolutionary War.
In 1805 he came to Canton as a pioneer, and
lived in a log house until he had cleared his
farm and erected frame buildings. With un-
abated energy he continuetl to till the soil
until the time of his death, which took place
when he was si.xty years old. Me was a Dem-
ocrat in politics and a strict Baptist in his
religious views. He was the father of si.x
children, three sons and three daughters, of
whom Aaron, Mr. J. Af. Stevens's father, was
the youngest. None are now living.

Aaron Stevens was born in Methuen, Mass.
He was a small boy when he accompanied his
parents to Canton, where he eventually suc-
ceeded to the possession of the homestead.
A strong, able-bodied man, he was an indus-
trious farmer and a useful citizen. He died
in 1880, at the age of eighty-two years. In
politics he supported the Republican party dur-
ing the later years of his life, and in his relig-
ious belief he was a Universalist. He antl his
wife, formerly Susan Conant, who was a na-
tive of I5ridgewater, Mass., reared two chil-
dren, namely: John M., the subject of this
sketch ; and Susan, who is now Mrs. Stubbs,
and resides in Canton. Mr. Stevens's mother
lived to reach the age of eighty-four years,
and died in 1885.

An only son, John M. Stevens was educated
in the district schools of Canton, and grew to
manhood as a farmer. He has followed that

occupation at tlie homestead, which he in-
herited from his father, and has made a good
record for himself as an energetic and exceed-
ingly successful agriculturist. He has also
dealt in stock and horses to a considerable ex-
tent, and has accjuireil a high reputation
throughout this section ftir his honesty and re-
liability. With the intention of retiring from
active labor, he has recently sold his landed
property, consisting of over three hundred
acres, to the Portland & Rumford Railroad
Company; and the purchasers are to take pos-
session as soon as he has harvested his crops.

Mr. Stevens has never married. He is lib-
eral in his ideas concerning religious matters,
and in politics he acts with the Republican
party. He is connected with the lodge of In-
dependent 'Order of Odd F"el lows' in Canton,
and is highly respected by the entire connini-
nity as an upright, conscientious man ;uul a
worthv citizen.

HARLES P. BARTEETT, a wealthy
farmer and influential citizen of Han-
over, O.xford County, was born in
this town, August 18, 1842, son of
Stephen and Martha (Stearns) Bartlett.
Peregrin Bartlett, the father of Stephen, was
a native of Middlesex County, Massachusetts,
whence he came to Oxford County, Maine,
about the year 1793, accompanied by several
of his brothers. He purchased about three
hundred acres of land, and spent the re-
mainder of his life in clearing and cultivating
it. He died at si.xty-si.x years of age. His
son, Stephen, who was born here, became a
stirring, progressive farmer and stock raiser.
In politics he was a Democrat, and he served
in nearly all the town offices. He died at
fifty-two years of age. His wife, Martha
Stearns Bartlett, was a native of Bethel, this
county, where she resided until her marriage.
She died in Hanover when seventy-six years
old, leaving three children — Sarah, widow of
Charles Ivons, residing in Lowell, Mass. ;
Charles P. ; and Solon, a physician in Lowell,
Mass.

Charles P. Bartlett was educated in the
common schools. He has always resided on
the old homestead faim, the one purchased by

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his graiultathcr in 1793, located near Newry
on the ■An(h'oscoL;gin River. He also owns
about twenty thousand acres of wild timber
land, the greater part of which is in Oxford
County. He is one of the leading lumbermen
in the county, anil until recently was exten-
sively engaged in stock raising. On April
23, i8gi, Mr. Hartlett was married to Miss
Martha E. Hartlett, of Hanover. They have
two sons — Alton F. and Charles F. In poli-
tics Mr. Bartlett is a Democrat, and, though
declining office, exerts no small influence in
local matters, his social position and natural
ability qualifying him as a leader.

iLINTON V. .STARBIRl), an exten-
sive lumber manufacturer of the town
of Strong, and Chairman of the
Hoard of Selectmen, was born in
Freeman, Me., August 14, 1868. He is a
son of Amos IJ. and Mary J. (Gilkey; Star-
bird, natives of P'reeman, now residing in
Florida, and grandson of Moses Starbird, who
moved to Freeman from Gorham, Me., and
was a prosperous farmer through life.

Amos D. Starbird was for several years en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits and lumbering
in the town of Freeman; but he removed later
to Orange County, Florida, where he is now
residing, and is identified with the lumber
interests of that region. His wife, Mary J.
Gilkey, is a daughter of Captain John Gilkey,
who moved from Lisbon to this county when
a young man, and became a well-to-do farmer
in Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. Amos D. Starbird
have had eight children, as follows: Edwin
R., who wedded Mattie Thompson, and is now
a photographer of Brunswick, Me. ; Albert
W., who married Leola Weymouth, and is
now a photographer in Florida; Rose I., wife
(jf W. T. Hinds, a lumber operator and manu-
facturer of Phillips, Me.; Clinton \'., of
Strong, to be further mentioned in the next
paragraph; Lionel F., who died at the age of
twenty-three years: Austin C, who married
Cora Love, and is now in the lumber business
with his father in Florida; Adelbcrt M. and
I'ercivilla L., both of whom are residing in
I*"lorida, engaged in the lumber business.

Clinton \'. Starbinl acquired his education

in the common schools. At the age of twenty-
one he went to Erie County, Pennsylvania,
and worked in a grist-mill for a year. He
then engaged in lumbering, and for the next
three years contracted quite extensively for
the cutting of timber. He next operated a
saw-mill in l-'reeman, Me., where he contin-
ued in business for four years; and then re-
moving to Strong he built a mill, and engaged
in the manufacturing of lumber. Since locat-
ing here his business has developed into large
proportions, requiring additions to his plant
from time to time, in order to meet the in-
creasing demand for his products; and aside
from sawing all kinds of buikling material,
including hard-wood flooring and shingles, he
makes a specialty of manufacturing packing-
cases, which are shipped in large quantities to
Portland, Boston, and Providence, R.I. Al-
though he has met with serious reverses, hav-
ing passed through two disastrous fires, he has
recovered the lost ground, and his business,
to which he has steadily applied himself, is
now in a most flourishing condition. In poli-
tics he supports the Republican party. He
was elected a Selectman in 1894, and is now
Chairman of the Board.

On June 23, 1886, Mr. Starbinl was united
in marriage with Flora A. Kilkenney, of New
Vineyard. She is a daughter of James and
Ellen (Brackley) Kilkenney, ]3ros|ierous farm-
ing people of New X'ineyard. Mr. and Mrs.
Starbird have one son, Raymond A., who was
born F"ebruary 26, iSgi.

Mr. Starbird is Treasurer of Dax'is Lodge,
A. F. & A. M., of Strong, acts in the same
capacity for Marathon Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, and is also a member of the Order of
the Golden Cross. He occupies a [irominent
place among the business men of Franklin
County, and is universally respected and es-
teemed. Mrs. Starbird is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church.

IRAM MILLETT EVERETT, for-
merly a well-known and highly es-
l9 I teemed resident of Hebron, who

died at his home in this town in
April, 1S93, was born in Norway, Me., No-
vember 2, 1 81 8, son of Peter and Charlotte

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(Parkhurst) I-^vcictt. The late iMr. I^verett
was of French descent. His grandfather, Peter
Everett, a native of France, is said to have
accompanied General Lafayette to America
for the purpose of assisting the patriots in
their struggle for independence; antl while
serving in the Continental army he lost an
arm. Deciding to become a citizen of the
Republic which he had so gallantly assisted
in founding, he settled in Norway, Me., of
which town he was one of the earliest pioneers;
and he died at a good old age. His wife, who
was a widow Burn.s, a lady of much ability
and intelligence, is said to have been the first
woman teacher in Norway, teaching school in
her own house before school-houses were built.
She and her husband reared three children,
namely: John; Susannah; and Peter, Jr.

Peter Everett, Jr., Mr. Plverett's father, was
born in Norway, and became a sturdy, indus-
trious man and a worthy citizen. From Nor-
■ way he moved to Poland, Me., where the last
years of his life were passed; and he died there
at the age of seventy-four years. He was ex-
ceedingly prosperous, his natural ability caus-
ing him to be successful in whatever he under-
took; and he provided his large family with a
comfortable home and a common-school educa-
tion. In politics he was originally a Whig,
but in his later years he voted with the Repub-
lican party. His wife, Charlotte Parkhur.st,
became the mother of eleven children, ten sons
and one daughter; and of these five are living.
Mr. Everett's mother lived to be si.xty-three
years old. She was a member of the Methodist
]{piscopal church.

Hiram Millett I^verett passed his boyhood
in Norway, and was educated in the di.strict
schools. At the age of fourteen he began life
for himself by learning the cooper's trade,
which he followed during the winter season,
working as a farm laborer in the summer; and
he continued thus employed until he was
twenty-six years old. Being of a prudent and
economical turn of mind, he husbanded his
earnings, and bought his father's estate in
Norway, which, however, he held but a short
time. In 1844 he married Cordelia Barrows
Marshall, of Hebron. Selling his property in
Norway, he bought a farm in East Hebron,
and lived thereon for three years. From East

Hebron he moved to Poland, where he resided
for the succeeding three years, engaged in
farming; and from Poland he removed to Minot
Corner, and while living in that place he
learned the shoemaker's trade. A little later
he returned to Hebron, where he purchased a
farm and followed agricultural pursuits in con-
nection with shoemaking for the rest of his
life, which terminated at the age of nearly
seventy-five years. He left a widow, one son,
and a daughter-in-law. Industrious and an
able business man, possessing rare judgment
in regard to the value of lands, he succeeded
in accumulating a good estate, owning at one
time over three hundred acres. In politics he
supported the Republican party, by which he
was for several years elected to the offices of
Constable and Collector; and he attended the
Baptist church, of which his wife is a member.
Mrs. Cordelia B. Everett has had four chil-
dren, as follows: Anna Delphina, who was
born August 27, 1845, and died Ajjril 3, 1853;
Persian V., who was born July 5, 1847; Jus-
tin, who was born February 12, 1854, and
died April 17, 1859; and Anna Bethany, who
was born March 13, 1862, married Henry K.
Stearns, of Paris, Me., and died June 19,
1888, leaving one daughter, (Jra B. Persian
V. Everett, the only survivor of Mrs. Everett's
children, served as a private in the Thirtieth
Regiment, Maine Veteran Volunteers, the last
year of the Civil War, and is now a prosperous
farmer in this town. He married Ella Has-
kell, and has three children, namely: Minnie
L. , who is now Mrs. P'ernald, and has one
daughter, Marion Faye ; Charles H. ; and Mar-
garet L. Mrs. Everett has four grandchildren
and one great-grandchild. She still resides in
Hebron, where she is well known and highly
respected.

VRUS P. P:AT0N, Superintendent of
the Rumford Falls Light and Water

Compan)-, was born in Rumford,
Oxford County, Me., July 11, 1846.
As a son of Osgood, Jr., and Bet.sy (Putnam)
Eaton, it is evident that he is a descendant of
early New England colonists, immigrants of
the seventeenth century. Different branches
of the Eaton family have been flourishing on

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tliese shores for more than two hundred and
fifty years, and tlie same is true of the Put-
nam s.

Osgood Eaton, Sr. , who was a native of
Concord, N.H., settled on what is known as
Maton Hill, and was the first white settler in
that locality. He was an officer in the old
State militia. Osgood Eaton, Jr., son of the
elder Osgood and father of Cyrus P. Eaton,
was horn on the farm in Rumford which was
his son's birthplace, and s]ient his life there
until about fifty years old. Then, though past
the age liinit for military duty, he enlisted in
Company A, Twelfth Maine Regiment, for the
defence of the Lhiion, and was enrolled among
the musicians as drum-major. He was in
Louisiana with General Putler's army, much
of the time near New C)rleans, and died of
swamp fever. He was a stanch Republican,
deeply interested in local |iolitics, and was a
prominent member of the Methodist P]piscopal
church. His wife, who also is a native of
Rumford, and is now a bright and active lady
of fourscore, makes her home with her son,
Cyrus P. She, too, is a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church, deeply interested in
religious work.

Cyrus P. Eaton acquired a fair education
while still a member of the parental household,
attending school and doubtless making himself
useful on the farm until he was nineteen years
of age. He then left home and went to Lewis-
ton, Me., to learn the caipenter's trade, which
he followed in that cit)' about six years. Re-
turning then to his native town, he managed
a carpenter and carriage shop until 1890. In
that year he entered the employ of the Water
I'ovver Company, for whom he worked two
yeais at Rumford Falls, hax'ing charge of a
number of men who were engaged in building
ilams and in other constructive operations.
The first saw-mill in the place was erected at
this time, the lumber for the dams being sawed
there, largely under Mr. Eaton's direction.
This mill was owned by the Power Company.
In the fall of 1X92 Mr. P2aton entered the em-
ploy of the Light and Water Company, and
assisted in buiUling their jjlant ; and since its
completion he has acted as superintendent of
the works. Fully qualified for his position, he
lierforms his duties quicth' and efficiently, and

enjo)'s the confidence and esteem of all with
whom he comes in contact. Mr. Eaton owns
a farm in the township and a residence in the
village.

He was married July 13, 1888, to Mary E.,
daughter of Otis Howe, of Rumford. She was
born in this town December 24, 1850, and died
July 16, 1893. She was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and trained her
children to belief in its doctrines. She left
one son and two daughters, namely : P'rederick
O., clerk for the Light and Power Conii:)any,
and Town Clerk of Rumford I'alls; and Eva
M. and Sadie K., who are still with their
father.

Mr. Iiaton is a Republican and takes an
active part in town matters. He is a member
of Blazing Star Lodge, No. 99, A. F. &.
A. M., of Rumford P\alls; Rumford Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, of the same place; Me-
talluc Lodge, No. 99, Knights of l^ythias, of
this town; and Wawanunka Tribe, No. 41,
I. O. R. M. Though not a church member,
he regularly attends the Methodist lipiscopal
church and contributes to its support.

INA HYDE GREENWOOD, a well-
known citizen of Farmington, was
born in Bethel, O.xford County, Me.,
.September 2 1, 1824, son of Nathan-
iel and Huldah (Howe) (ireenwood. A car-
penter by trade, Mr. Greenwood for a number
of years was actively engaged as a contractor
and builder. Also at one time he was in the
corn-packing business, and more recently he
has dealt somewhat in real estate. He is now
practically li\ing in retirement.

The family trace their lineage through quite
a number of Colonial ancestors to Thomas
Greenwood, probably a native of Wales, who
was a land-owner in what is now ]5rookline,
Mass., in 166S. In 1665 he was following the
trade of a weaver in Boston, where he was
made a freeman and united with the church in
1681; and he served as Selectman, 'I'own
Clerk, and Constable. He married Plannah,
daughter of John Ward, a representative of an
early Boston family of prominence, and she
bore him two sons, namely: Thomas, who was
one of the first graduates of Harvard College,

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and became a minister in Rehobotli, Mass. ;
and John, wIid became a leading citizen of
Newton, Mass. The ne.xt in line was William
Greenwood, who was horn October 14, i68g.
On June 21, 1715, he married Abigail, daugh-
ter of John Woodward, of Cambridge, and in
1725 moved to Sherborn, Mass., where he
became a land-owner. lie was an e.\tensi\e
business man, serveil as Selectman, Town
Clerk, Representative to the General Court,
and a Deacon of the chiuxh in Sherborn, where
he died about the year 1756.

The descent continues through Joseph, his
ninth son, who was born in Sherborn, June 10,
1734, and learned both the carpenter's and
weaver's trades. After residing in Sherborn
and Holden, he moved to Dublin, N.H.,
where he attained to a high position among the
citizens of that town, serving as Selectman,
Town Clerk and Treasurer, Justice of the
Peace, and as a Representative to the first Pro-
vincial Congress of New Hampshire. In
1793 he disposed of his property and business
interests in Dublin, and removed to Bethel,
Me., where he died December 27, 1825. He
married Sarah, daughter of Josiah Greenwood,
had three sons, only one of whom reached ma-
turity; namely, Nathaniel, first, who was Z. H.
Greenwood's grandfather. The others were:
Ebenezer, who was born in 1759; and John,
who was born in 1760.

Nathaniel Greenwood, first, was born in
I7r)i; and, settling in Bethel in 1793, lie re-
sided there for many years, finally moving to
Farmington, where he died November 7, 1846.
On June 24, 1782, he married for his first
wife, Mary, daughter of Moses and Lydia
(Knapp) Mason. She died in Bethel in 1825;
and in 1827 he wedded Mrs. Abigail Irving,
of Paris, Me. He was the father of fourteen
children, eleven by his first union and three by
his second; and his three sons by his first
marriage — namely, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, and
Thaddeus — settled in Farmington.

Nathaniel Greenwood, son of Nathaniel,
first, and father of Z. H. Greenwood, was b6rn
in Dublin, N. H., December 27, 1790. His
younger days were passed in Bethel with his
father. Although his opportunities for obtain-
ing an education were limited, he succeeded
in familiarizing himself with manv branches

of stuil)' through his own efforts, and he be-
came a thoroughly capable and well-iufdinied
business man. \Vhile still in the prime of
life he settled in I'"armington, where he bought
the farm which is now owned by L. B. Manter,
and, purchasing the saw-mills at I'"armington
[•"alls, he carried im logging ojierations u|)on
an extensive scale, placing large crews of men
in the woods during the winter season; and he
als(j engaged in the manufacture of hunber.
He was the first to introduce the mariufact-
ure of hogsheatl shooks in this localit)', a busi-
ness which proved exceedingly remunerative;
and his other enterprises were equally success-
ful. His business ability was of the highest
order, his foresight and judgment being recog-
nized among his associates, who often sought
his advice' in regard to their own affairs; and
he was called u|5on by his fellow-townsmen to
serve in various offices of public trust. He
retained his customary energy and activity up
to the time of his death, which took place
April 15, 1867; and his loss was keenly felt
by the business men of Farmington, who re-
garded him with the highest respect ami es-
teem.

His wife, Huldah Howe, whom he mairied
May II, 1815, was born in Maine on Ma\' 25,
1796, daughter of Jacob and Betty (Foster)
Howe. She became the mother of ten chil-
dren, as follows : Julia, who was born March 14,
1816; Mason K., who was born July 17, 181 8;
Albert N., who was Ijorn August 14, 1820,
and died P'ebruary 4, 1888; Zina Hyde, the
subject of this sketch ; Alfred Alanson, who
was born February 25, i8;?7; Marcia A.,
who was born March 28, 1829; Ihddah |aiie,
who was born June 2", 183 1, and dietl March
28, 1885; Alma E. , who was born May 11,
1833; Charles M., who was born December
31, 1834; and Charles, second, who was liorn
P'ebruary 17, 1837. Mrs. Huldah H. Green-
wood died at the home of her son, Zina H., in
1S92. As an affectionate, self-sacrificing
mother and a kind-hearted, sympathetic neigh-
bor, her memory is dee|ily cherished liy her
loving children and large circle of friends and
acquaintances.

Zina H. Greenwood, the fourth in the family
group, now to be further mentioned, was edu-
cated in the district schools. After completing

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his studies he servcil an apprenticeship at the
carpenter's trade; and he was subsequently em-
ployed as a journeyman in Augusta, Me., until
1854, when he returned to Farmington and
opened an office for the transaction of insur-
ance business. As his health demanded out-
of-door employment, he later bought the Jesse
Butterfield farm, upon which he settled. En-
gaging as a contractor, he built several large
bridges in this county. After that, in com-
pany with B. F. Morrill, George H. Stinch-
field, and Z. A. Greenwood, he built the
Sandy River corn-packing factory, which they
carried on successfully vmtil 1892, and did
a very extensive business in canning sweet
corn, their goods commanding a ready sale in
the metropolitan markets. In 1887 Mr.
Greenwood bought nine acres of the Stewart
farm on High Street, where he erected a hand-
some residence and spacious barns. He has
subdivided a portion of the land into building
lots, some of which he has sold, and he still
has some choice sites for sale to the right
parties. He has followed his trade to some
extent during the past few years, but may be
said to have retired permanently from active
business pursuits, his easy circumstances per-
mitting him to enjoy a life of leisure.

On November g, 1849, Mr. Greenwood
wedded Emily M. Fellows, who was born in
Athens, Me., June 11, 1829, daughter of Isaac
and .Sarah (Bradbury) Fellows. Mr. and Mrs.
(ireenwood are the parents of six children, as
follows: Edward, who was born November 17,
1850, married 1-lmma R. Dutton, and has
cliarge of the Sandy River Railway shops at
Phillips, Me. ; Albert Mellen, born P'ebruary
2, 1853, who married Afifie M. Sanborn, and
is now a jeweller in Phillips; Orville S., born
July 14, 1855, who married Cora L. Prescott,
and is now carrying on a hardware and plumb-
ing business in Maiden, Mass., having three
children, namely — Mildred F. , Phil P., and
Fred A. ; Chester, born December 4, 1858,
who married Isabel S. Whittier, and is en-
gaged in the manufacture of ear protectors and
is also a dealer in mill supplies in Farmingtoi),
he and his wife having four children, namely
— Lester C, Donald \V., Vodisa E., and Clin-
ton; Lizzie A., born April 13, 1861, who
graduated from the State Normal -School here

and is now a teacher in Haverhill, Mass. ; and
Emily, born June 28, 1863, who resides in
Farmington. The last named young lady is
extensively engaged in the cultivation of bed-
ding plants, in which she has proved herself
an expert. Her greenhouse, seventy-six by
sixteen feet, built with the assistance of her
father in 1887, is the only one of its kind in
town. She is very successful in her business,
and has raised as high as eight thousand
tomato and five hundred celery plants in a
season.

In public affairs Mr. Greenwood has ren-
dered his share of service to the town, having
been a member of the Board of Selectmen
during the years 1865-68, 1876, and 1877, his
rare business ability being amply displayed in
the discharge of his official duties.

^ATHANIEL KNIGHT, formerly a
well-known and highly respected resi-

k9 V dent of Paris, was born August 10,

1801, upon the farm which he car-
ried on with prosperity for many years. His
parents were Edmund and Dorothy (Haskell)
Knight. The father was a native of Fal-
mouth, Cumberland County, born May 18,
1 767 ; and the mother was born at New-
Gloucester in the same county. May 9, 1768.

In the spring of 1799 Edmund Knight came
to Paris, where he settled upon a large tract of
wild land containing about two hundred acres.
By the fall of the same year he had made a
clearing and erected a house, which is still
standing in a good state of preservation, when
he brought his family to reside there. He
was a sturdy, hard-working man, was possessed
of the pioneer faculty of thriving under the
most adverse circumstances, and he succeeded
in establishing a comfortable home for himself
and family. Besides attending to his farm he
made ox carts and sleighs. He continued in
active occupation until his death, which took
place June 3, 1830, at the age of sixty-three
years. His wife had died June 12, 1821.
They were the parents of eight children, as
follows: Dorcas, who was born December 11,
1790; Dorothy, who w-as born September 16,
1792; Hudson, who was born August 22,
1794; Henry, who was born May 30, 1797;

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Hannah, wlin was born May 19, 1799; Natlian-
iel, the subject of this sketch ; Andrew, who
was born October 3, 1803 ; and I<;iiza, who
was born November 14, 1806.

Nathaniel Knight grew to manhood ujion
the farm, which was his home during his entire
life. His education was acquired in the dis-
trict schools. He was engaged in farming,
the cooper's trade, and made violins and
drums. The latter articles were sought for
and highly prized by the neighboring residents.
Temperate in his own habits, he was an ear-
nest advocate of total abstinence. His relig-
ious belief was that of the Methodist denomi-
nation. In politics he was a Republican,
having joined that party at its formation. He
was nearly seventy-three years old when he
died at the Knight homestead, June 16, 1874.

On November 4, 1832, Mr. Knight wedded
Martha Houghton, who was born in VVaterford,
Me., September 4, 1805, daughter of Moses
and Martha (Haskell) Houghton, early settlers
of Norway, Me. She died July 12, 1891,
having borne her husband three children,
namely: Hudson, who was born July 31, 1834;
Livonia, who was born December 13, 1835;
and Horace, who was born May 11, 1838.
Hudson, Horace, and Livonia Knight, all of
whom are unmarried, occujiy the homestead
farm, and form a very happy and contented
family. The farm of one hundred and si.xty
acres is conducted by the brothers, who make
the best use of its fertile soil by ]5roducing
large and superior crops. They enjoy the
hearty good will of their neighbors, are liberal
in their religious views, and in politics act
with the Republican party. On September
lo, 1862, Hudson Knight enlisted as a private
in Company F", Twenty-third Regiment, Maine
Volunteers, under Captain Horace Bolster, and
served in the Civil War until honorably dis-
charged, July 15, 1863. He is a comrade of
Harry Rust Post, No. 54, Grand Army of the
Republic, of Norway.

:iBl':ON LEWIS PACKARD, who
was a veteran of the Civil War and a
prominent business man of Hebron
in the early years of this decade, was
born in Hebron, May 30, 1829, son of Captain

Lewis and I^lizabeth (Webster) Packard. The
family is of Puritan ancestr\'. Its founder,
who emigrated from pjigland, landed at Plym-
outh, Mass., in 1638. Reuben Packard,
great grandfather of the subject of this sketch,
was a native of Massachusetts and a Revolu-
tionary soldier. He settled as a pioneer in
Hebron shortly after the struggle for indejien-
dence, and made the first clearing upon the
Packard homestead, which has since remained
in the family's possession. He died in He-
bron at a good old age. His .son, Ichabod,
Mr. Packard's grandfather, was also an early
settler here. At Ichabod's death the property
passed into the hands of his son Lewis, the
father of Zibeon Lewis.

Captain Lewis Packard was born in Hebron,
of which 'town he was a lifelong resident.
Aside from his prominence as a large general
farmer, he was active in the public affairs of
the town, held various important offices, and
was long identified with the early State
militia. In ])olitics he supported the Whig
party, and in his religious views was a Congre-
gationalist. He died at the homestead in
1853. His wife, whose name before marriage
was Elizabeth Webster, became the mother
of five children — P'lizabeth, Zibeon L.,
George, Hannah, and Charles. Of these the
only survivor is George, who resides in Kan-
sas. The mother died in 1879.

Zibeon Lewis Packard acquired his educa-
tion in the common schools and at the Hebron
Academy. After completing his studies lie
taught school for several terms. During the
Civil War he served as a private in the Thir-
tieth Regiment, Maine \'olunteers. Ujion
returning to ci\'il life he engaged in agricult-
ural pursuits. Succeeding^ in his turn to the
ancestral property, he displayed unusual en-
ergy and ability in its cultivation. By paying
special attention to its extensive orchards, he
became one of the leaders in the fruit-growing
industry of Hebron. His capacity for business
was of special value to the town in the admin-,
istration of the public offices he filled. He
served for a time successively as a member of
the Board of Selectmen and the Supervisor of
-Schools, and he was Town Collector and
Treasurer for fourteen years. He took an
active part in securing the erection of the He-

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broil Academy, of which he acted as a Trustee
for nian\ years; and in his day was noted for
his public spirit. He was connected with the
Masonic Lodge of Buckfield ; was a member of
Hebron Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; and a
comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic
post at Mechanic Falls. In religious belief he
was a Baptist, and politically he acted with the
Republican party. He took an earnest in-
terest in the general welfare of the town and
its institutions. His death, which occurred at
the old Packard homestead, August ii, 1893,
in his sixty-fifth year, was felt as a severe loss
to the community.

On February 10, i860, Mr. Packard was
united in marriage to pollen A. Bearce, who
was born in Hebron, March 2'], 1835, daugh-
ter of Daniel Bearce, of this town. She died
April 14, 1895, leaving four children, as fol-
lows: Bertha Lenora Packard, who studied at
the Hebron Academy, and has successfully
taught school for several terms; Ida I{llen,
the wife of Herbert T. Glover, of Hebron ;
P'dith Lulu, who married Frederick W. Cush-
man, and resides at the old homestead ; and
Jennie Webster Packard, a successful teacher
and an accomplished artist, who resides at
Hebron \illage.

/pTTT)]

IDEON KING STAPLES, for many
\ •) I years a prosperous farmer and large
land-owner of Temple, now numbered
with the silent majority, was born upon the
farm near his late residence, July 13, 1813,
and lived to pass the eighty-third anniversary
of his birth. He was a son of Gideon and
Sarah (Oakes) Staples, and grandson of Gid-
eon, Sr., and Susannah (Staples) Staples,
who removed from Dover, N.H., to North
Berwick, Me., and later to Temple. Gideon
Staples, Sr., bought two lots upon what is
now known as the Baldwin Hill farm, where
his grandson afterward lived.

When he came here there were but six fam-
ilies in the town, and the nearest trading-post
and grist-mill was at Wilton, which was
reached by the aid of a bridle path and marked
trees. Leaving his familv with a settler
named Samuel Briggs until he could provide
an abode for them, the new-comer pitched a

tent in the woods, which served as a shelter,
while he cleared seven acres of land and built
a cabin. Planting wheat and corn for his first
crop, he continued to increase his clearing
into a good farm, the site of his first abode
being now occupied by a substantial residence,
and surrounded by rich meadows and fruit-
trees. He was a man of strong frame and
robust con.stitution, capable of much hard
work. He died at the age of seventy years.
His wife, Susannah, lived to reach the ad-
vanced age of ninety-eight years. Their chil-
dren were: Susannah, Nathaniel, Gideon,
Susannah (second), Susannah (third), Betsey,
Gideon (second), Hannah, William, George,
Daniel, and Joanna.

Gideon Staples, son of Gideon and Su-
sannah, was born in Dover, N.H., December
I, 17S5. He was fourteen years old when his
parents settled in Temple; and when a young
man he bought one hundred and sixty acres of
land adjoining his father's property, which he
cleared and improved. There being a plenti-
ful supply of heavy pine and spruce timber on
his premises, he erected a small saw-mill on
the creek, the outlet of what is now known as
the Staples Pond, where he manufactured the
material for building a frame house, which is
-Still standing; and he cultivated a productive
farm during the rest of his active period. In
his younger days he worked at the carpenter's
trade when not busy with his farm work, and
for several winters he was employed as a ship-
carpenter upon the coast. His last work at
his trade was framing the house in which his
son, Gideon K. Staples, lived; and he died
at the home of his son in October, 1872. An
able and industrious farmer and a good me-
chanic, he also possessed a great deal of nat-
ural ability in other directions; and in his
eighty-sixth year he wrote a short sketch of
his life, which furnishes the material for a
portion of this article. His wife, Sarah
Oakes, whom he married when he was twenty-
three years old, she being ten days his senior,
was a daughter of John Oakes. She became
the mother of seven children; namely, Han-
nah B., Mary M., Gideon K., Sarah P.,
Eleanor, Jonathan S., and John O. Mrs.
Sarah O. Staples died January 19, 1877. The
father was originally a Whig, later supporting

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the Republican party in politics; antl both he
and his wife were members of the Congrega-
tional church.

Gideon King Staples, who appears to have
been the first-born of three sons, attended the
common schools in his boyhood, and resided
at home until reaching his majority. For the
next four years he was employed in the neigh-
borhood as a farm assistant; and he then
bought fifty acres of his father's farm, which
he ]Kud for by tilling the same and working
for farmers in the vicinity. He subsequently
l)Ought the Daniel .Staples farm of one hun-
dred and twenty acres, and still later the rest
of his father's property, making in all an es-
tate of about three hundred acres. He cleared
considerable wild land, improved what had
already been cleared, set out an orchard of
about two thousand apple-trees, mostly grafted
fruit, kept cattle and sheep, and also engaged
in lumbering to some extent. The new
house, which he erected in 1855, being de-
stroyed by fire in 1862, he immediately re-
built both residence and barns, which are of a
very substantial kind.

On March 4, 1854, Mr. Staples was mar-
ried to Fhilinda Norton, who was born Au-
gust 6, 1828, daughter of George W. and
Ruth (Rice) Norton. Mr. and Mrs. Staples
became the parents of two sons, namely :
Horace G., a prosperous farmer of Wilton,
who was born October 27, 1855, married Ada
Gleason, and has one son, l^ernard Gideon,
aged four years; and George W., who was
born July 2t„ 1857, married Effie A. Wilkins,
and resides in Hartford, Conn. Mr. Gideon
K. Staples died at his home in Temple, Octo-
ber 7, 1896, of heart failure, after a brief
illness.

In local public affairs Mr. Staples was quite
conspicuous. He served as a member of the
Board of Selectmen three years and as Town
Treasurer two years. He was a delegate and
active member at the now famous convention
at Strong, Me., at which the Republican party
was organized, and he was ever after one of its
stanch supporters. His progressive tendencies
were further evidenced by the fact that he was
a member of the Franklin Agricultural So-
ciety and of the Maine State Pomological
Society. His interest in religion was shown

by his liberal contributions toward the sup-
port of the Congregational chiuxh.

EVi McAllister, a successful

farmer and a prominent resident of
Stonehum, Oxford County, was born
in tliat town, November 20, 1832,
a son of I':astman and I'hcebe (Parker) Mc-
Allister. His father, who was the first one of
the family to reside in Stoneham, at the age
of twenty-one came here from Conway, N. H.,
his native town, and settled on a farm in the
northern part of the township, where his son,
the subject of this sketch, now lives. There
Eastman reclaimed a tract of land, on which
he was succes.sfu!ly engaged in general agri-
culture during the remainder of his life. He
married Miss Phcebe Parker, a native of
Lovell, Me.; and they became the parents of
three children — Levi, Hilton, and Mary liliz-
abeth. Hilton, who was born October 1,
1830, wedded Miss Ella McKeen, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman McKeen, of Lovell;
and they now reside with his mother on the
old McAllister homestead. Mary, born Janu-
ary 24, 1 84 1, who became the wife of Henry
C. Cobb, of Boston, Mass.. died July 2c;,
1872. The father was counted among the
prominent men of Stoneham; and he served in
several public capacities, including that of
Selectman. He died in January, 1894. His
wife, now eighty-four years old, makes her
home with her son, Hilton, at the old man-
sion.

Levi McAllister passed his youth at tlie pa-
rental home, and, together with his brother
and sister, enjoyed the educational advantages
offered by the district schools of their native
town. He helped his father in the work of
the farm until he was twenty-five years old,
when going to Boston, Mass.. he began life
for himself by engaging in teaming. This
occupation he abandoned .August 12, 1862, to
enlist for service in the Civil War in Com-
pany A of the P^ortieth Regiment of Massa-
chusetts Infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel
Joseph A. Dalton, of Salem, Mass., and Cap-
tain J. T. Lervey. He subsequently partici-
pated in the battle of Cold Harbor, and also
in that of Olustee, Fla. At the latter eno-age-

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ment Mr. McAllister's regiment covered tlie
retreat. Subsequently he was appointed train
master, and had charge of the wagons for the
entire length of the route. The regiment was
engaged in several other conflicts. While at
l-'oHy Island, South Carolina, Mr. McAllis-
ter's arm sustained an injur)- from a wagon
wheel, on account of which he now receives a
pension. lie was discharged from the service
at Richmond, V'a., June i6, i<S6s,and returned
to Stonehani. I'or some time after he was
employed on farms, and was also engaged in
lumbering. In 1872 he purchased his present
estate, known as the old Smith farm. He
afterward worked as an engineer and night
watchman in a shoe factory at Norway village.
Me., for four years. E.xclusive of that j^eriod
he has resided on the farm since it became his
]jroperty. He now owns seventy acres of
land, on which he has made all the improve-
ments. He carries on general agriculture,
and raises some stock.

Mr. McAllister has taken a prominent part
in local affairs. A number of town offices
were filled by him — that of Township Treas-
urer, which he held for several years; that of
Selectman, in which he served for five or six
years; and that of Town Clerk, the duties of
which he efficiently discharged for one year.
He belongs to the Masonic Order, being a
member of Delta Lodge, No. 63, of Lovell
village, and to the Knights of Pythias, in
Hiawatha Lodge, No. 49, of East Stoneham.
Politically, he has always maintained fellow-
ship with the Republican party. He is essen-
tially a self-made man, and he has the warm
esteem of a wide circle of acquaintances.

\C\)fALD() T. BROWN, one of the town
fathers of Waterford, Me., belongs
to an old New England family,
being the great-grandson of a Revolutionary
soldier. He was born in Waterford, October
24, 1834, the son of Thaddeus, Jr., and Ase-
nath (Nourse) Brown. His great-grandfather,
Jabez Brown, was a Lieutenant in the French
and Indian War and an Adjutant in the Rev-
olution. He was one of the original surveyors
of the town of Waterford, and Mr. Waldo T.
Brown now has in his possession the chain

used by him in 1773 in making the survey.
His son, Thaddeus Brown, Sr., who was born
in Harvard, Mass., also served in the Revolu-
tionary War. He located in Waterford in
1786, settling near Waldo T. Brown's present
farm, where he purchased quite an extent of
timbered land, and was extensively engaged
in farming and lumbering. He died in
W'aterford at an advanced age. He and his
wife, formerly Miss Mary Pollard, of Harvard,
Mass., were the parents of nine children —
Daniel, Malbory, Jabez, Susan, Levi, Thad-
deus, Jr., Mary, Mercy, and Sarah. These
have all passed to the world beyond.

Thaddeus Brown, Jr., was born September
8, 1798. He was engaged in farming during
the years of his manhood, and spent his long
life in Waterford and vicinity, passing away
October 15, 18S5. He was then eighty-seven
years of age. His wife died March 13,
1874. The younger Thaddeus, like his father,
had a family of nine children, as follows:
Theodore, deceased; Daniel, a prominent
farmer of Waterford Flat, ex-Representative
to the legislature. Justice of the Peace, and
Town Treasurer, who married Miss Mary B.
Stone; Mercy, wife of Scribner Chadbourne,
residing in Vandalia, III.; John, who lived
but three years; Mary, widow of Charles H.
Hale, at Otter Creek, Wis.; Waldo T., the
leading subject of this sketch; Ellen M., wife
of Elbridge Stone, a farmer and blacksmith of
Waterford; Myra A., wife of William H.
Bailey, a merchant of Harrison village, Me.;
and Nettie, who resides with her sister in
Otter Creek, Wis.

Waldo T. Brown acquired a fair education
in public and private schools. His father was
crippled and unable to do all the farm work;
and he remained on the homestead in order to
• help him, eventually succeeding him as man-
ager of the farm. He is now the owner of
about one hundred and seventy acres of well-
improved farm land, and is prosperously en-
gaged in general farming, lumbering, stock
raising to some extent, and tlairying, making
a specialty of cream.

He was married June 10, 1869, to Margaret
G. Plummer, of Waterford, who was born Au-
gust 26, 1834, the daughter of Samuel and
Jane (Kimball) Plummer. Her father, whose

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occupation was farming, was a nati\e of
Waterford. He died February 19, 1864.
His wife, Mrs. Brown's motlier, was born in
I'ortland, Me., but removed to Waterford with
her parents when she was eleven years of age.
Mrs. Plummer outliveti her husband many
years, passing away Mas' 25, 1888. Mr. and
Mrs. Brown have one child, Louise 'Monroe,
born May 14, 1S71, now teaching in the vil-
lage of Waterford.

Mr. Brown, who is a stanch Democrat, has
been a member of the Board of Selectmen of
Waterford for nine years, and has held minor
iitfices in the town. He belongs to Mount
Tire'm Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Xo. iy2, of
Waterford. As a fanner he is energetic and
ambitious. As a jjrominent citizen of Water-
ford he is well known and highlv resjiected.

[PHRALM H. SMITH, a respected resi-
dent of New Sharon, was born here,
May 2, 1852, on the old homestead
where three generations of his forefathers have
lived and died. His paternal grandparents,
Ephraim and I\Iercy M. (Mayhew) .Smith, came
to New .Sharon from Martha's Vineyard, Massa-
chusetts, in 1805. The grandfather bought a
farm in the locality, of about one hundred and
twenty-five acres, cleared it, and built the large
frame house in vvhich his grandson now lives.
Of his thirteen children, now all deceased,
Nehemiah was the next to the )'oungest.

Nehemiah Smith was born in his father's
house at New Sharon in 1806, and was edu-
cated in the common school of the old town.
He spent his life on this farm, and was here
married to Miss Mary B. Hawes. They had
eight children, of whom six are still living.
These are: Mercy M., born in 1836; Helena,
born in 1839; Harriette W., born in 1841 :
M. Augusta, born in 1844; Albert, born in
1846; and Ephraim, born May 2, 1852. The
deceased were: Abbie W., who was born in
iiS47; and Jarid, who died in infancy. The
father, at first a Whig in politics, upon the
dissolution of that party became a Republi-
can. He was always an active politician, and
did what he could to advance the interests of
his party and to help the country. His relig-
ious belief was that of a steadfast liberal.

liphraim H. Smith was also educated in the
common school of his native town. At the
age of sixteen, by the death of his father he
and his brother became the projjrietors of the
old farm, on the condition that he would carry
it on, taking care of his mother until her
death. This e\-ent occurred on October 2,
1S95. He bought a shoemaker's establish-
ment in 1877, and from the man he hired to
work in it learned how to make shoes. When
he was twenty-six years of age he sold out his
interest in the old homestead to his brother,
and moved to New Sharon village, where he
purchased a home, and resided for ten years.
In 1888 he purchased the homestead from his
brother, and has resided there since, carrying-
on general farming and working at his trade
of shoemaker. He has recently bought a
large house with an acre of land, situated on
the south shore of the Sandy River.

On the 2d of June, 1878, he was married to
Miss Elmira K. Brown, a daughter of Cyrus
G. Brown, a worthy farmer of New Sharon.
They have now. two children — C. Arthur,
born July 21, 1883: and Clarence B,, born
February 29, 1891. Mr. -Smith is Republi-
can in his political belief, and belongs to the
Congregational church. He has been a -Se-
lectman of New Sharon for the past four
years, and is widely known and respected.

LLIAM C. TOWLE, M.D., of

Fryeburg, one of the oldest practi-
oners in Oxford County and a
veteran of the Civil War, was born here, June
12. 1830, son of Dr. Ira and Sarah (Clement)
Towle. Dr. Towle's father, a native of New-
field, Me., was a prominent physician in his
day. After completing his medical studies he
practised for a time in Standish, Me., after
which he moved to Brownfield, this county.
In 1825 he came to Fryeburg, where he fol-
lowed his profession for nearly fifty years, and
died in 1872. He is still remembered here
as an able physician and a worthy, upright
man. His wife, Sarah, who was a native of
Fryeburg, became the mother of ten children,
as follows: Mary A., who is now the widow
of the Rev. -Samuel Souther, and resides in
Plainfield, N.J.; Abby, the widow of Chauncy

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Warren, late of Fryeburg; William C, the
subject of this sketch; Jason Whitman, who
married Emma Shaub, and is a prosperous
farmer of West Fryeburg; John, who fought
in the late war as a soldier in the Sixth Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and is now
a proof-reader for the lioston /c/z/v/rt/; Harriet
I,., the wife of Stewart Bradley, who is a
prominent attorney of Chicago, 111.; James,
who died at the age of thirteen years; and
three others, who died in infancy. The
mother died in 1875.

William C. Towle acquired his early edu-
cation at I'ryeburg Academy. In 1849 he
went to California, where he was successfully
engaged in mining for three years. Upon
his return he entered the Maine Medical
School, from which he graduated in 1855.
He began the practice of his profession in
Fryeburg, and was still here at the outbreak
of 'the Rebellion. He entered the army as
Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty-third Regi-
ment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, for the
period of nine months, and participated in the
operations conducted by the Department of
Potomac. His term of service having expired
while at Harper's Ferry, he re-enlisted in
the Twelfth Maine Regiment, with which he
served in the Shenandoah Valley under Gen-
eral Sheridan, and was present at the battles of
Winchester and Cedar Creek. Having passed
through the war without sustaining any injury,
he was mustered out with his regiment at Au-
gusta, Me., in March, 1866. He then re-
sumed his practice in Fryeburg, where he has
since continued. At the present time he is
one of the oldest and most experienced physi-
cians and surgeons in Oxford County, and his
extensive practice keeps him constantly busy.

In 1859 Dr. Towle was united in marriage
to Ann E. Warren, of Fryeburg. She is a
daughter of Isaiah Warren, now deceased, who
was formerly a well-known merchant of this
town. Dr. and Mrs. Towle have had three
children, as follows: Annie Laurie, who died
in 1879; Warren, born in 1861, who is now a
successful lawyer of Boston and State Senator-
elect for the Fifth Suffolk District of Massa-
chusetts ; and Lucia, who is the wife of the
Rev. S. T. Livingston, and resides in Will-
iamstown, Mass.

In politics Dr. Towle has been a Democrat
since attaining his majority; but, owing to his
inability to support the platform adopted by
his party at Chicago in 1896, he voted the Re-
publican ticket in the Presidential election of
that year. He was County Coroner for eight
years, has held other offices, and is an examin-
ing surgeon in pension cases. He is con-
nected with Pythagorean Lodge, Nt). 11,
A. F. & A. M., and is a comrade of Grover
Post, No. 126, Grand Army of the Republic,
of Fryeburg. He occupies a handsome resi-
dence on Portland Street, and his office is lo-
cated near the post-office in the centre of the
village. Both he and Mrs. Towle are mem-
bers of the New Jerusalem church.

town.

AMUFL B. TWITCH FLL is one
of the influential citizens of Bethel,
Me., and a jirominent factor in the
agricultural and financial life of the
He was born on the farm which now
constitutes his home, March 16, 1S29, the son
of Thaddeus and Sukey B. (Barker) Twitchell.
His grandfather, Ezra Twitchell, who was a
pioneer of Bethel, was one of the leading men
of the town, and was active in organizing the
first Congregational church built here, of
which he was Deacon a great many years.

Thaddeus Twitchell, son of Ezra, was born
in Dublin, N.H., and rcvred in Bethel, being
an infant when his parents removed to this
town. .A successful farmer, lie purchased the
land on which his son is now living, and de-
voted his life to its cultivation, dying at the
age of seventy-two. He was a member of the
old Whig party, and was one of the first aboli-
tionists in this section. A man of pronounced
ideas, with the courage of his convictions, he
was also one of the first l""ree Soil voters in the
town, onlv two others being associated with
him. He was Colonel in the militia for a
number of years. His wife, who was a native
of Bethel, died here at the age of eighty-one.
She was a member of the Congregational
church. Five children were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Thaddeus Twitchell, namely: Abigail,
who died at the age of fifty, wife of Dr. R. G.
Wiley, of Bethel; Roxanna, who passed away
when about seventy-five years of age, wife of

ANDREW J. LINSCOTT.

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Alphin Twitchell; Mary E. , who was called
to rest in her forty-first year, wife of the Rev.
David Garland, of Bethel; Susanna R., wife
of the Rev. J. K. .Mason, of Herndon, \'a. ;
and Samuel H. , of J^ethel, whose personal his-
tory brief!}- outlined is as follows.

l'",qui])ped with a good education, having
finished his schooling at Gould Academy,
Bethel, Samuel B. Twitchell started on his life
work betimes. Iking the onlv son he took
charge of the home farm, and he was also in
trade for a number of years in Bethel. In
1867 he sold his store, and he has since de-
voted his time chiefly to agriculture and the
lumber business. Mis estate comprises about
two hundred acres, and is charminglv located,
part of it lying in what is called Mayville, a
section of Bethel on the .Androscoggin River.
Mr. Twitchell is Treasurer of the Bethel
Dairy Company, President of the Bethel Sav-
ings Bank, and Treasurer of Gould Academy.
As a business man he is conservative and up-
right, and has the confidence of the coniniunity.

December 11, 1853, he was united in ma'r-
liage with Malvina A., daughter of Timothy
Chapman, one of the old citizens of Bethel
Mrs. Twitchell was an active member of the
Congregational church. She died February g,
1888, leaving the following children: Marion
B. , wife of Clarence W. Flobbs, of Worcester,
Mass.; Susie 15., who keeps house for her
father; and Florence E., also in the old home.

Mr. Twitchell takes a lively interest in local
politics, voting the Republican ticket. He
has served as Selectman and as Town Agent,
and was Ta.x Collector four years; and in
1879-80 he had a seat in the State legislature.
Though not a member of any church, he is
always ready to contribute toward worthy
enterprise.s, and believes in encouraging Chris-
tian work.

NDRKW J. LINSCOTT, a prominent
farmer and fruit buyer of Jay, and a
representative of a well-known fam-
ily of Franklin County, was born
here, November 18, 1845, son of Andrew and
Tucy D. (Butterfield) Linscott. Andrew D.
Linscott, his grandfather, who was a native of
Chesterville, Me., born September 7, 1786,

resided upon a farm in that town for some
years, and then moved to ]^i\field, where he
died September 4, 1838. He married Polly
Chancy, who was born in Dunstable, Mass.,
February 18, 1781. and died in Jav, ]'"el)ruary
16, 1861. She was the niothci- of nine chil-
dren — ■ Newton, Andrew, Abigail, (ohn,
Jacob, Josiah, Charles, Dorcas, and Daniel B.
Newton died in July, 1895; Jacob and Josiah
reside in Massachusetts, the latter in Boston;
and Dorcas is the wife nf Da\icl Holt, ol
I.yndeljoro, N.H.

Andrew Linscott. Mr. Linscott's father,
was born in Chesterville, August 10, 1810.
In young manhood he went to Belfast, Me.,
where he worked at the ship carpenter's trade
for a number, of years. Later he moved to
Dixfield, and lived there se\-eral \'ears. He
then settled upon a farm in Ja\', now owned
by his son, Andrew J., and made it his home
imtil his death, which happened A|iril 11,
1863. Lie was a member of the Board of .Se-
lectmen in Jay for a nmnber of years, served
as County Commissioner for two years, and was
a member of the legislature in 1857. His
wife, Lucy, was liorn in Falmouth, Me., Sep-
tember \2, 1810. Her father, Jonathan But-
terfield, was born in Charlestown, Mas.s. , July
-3' '773; 'Ticl her mother. Prudence (Free-
man) Butterfield, was born in Boston, (nne 19,
1 771. After their marriage they came to
Maine, first settling in Lovell, where they re-
sided until 1809; and then they moved to p'al-
mouth.' Their last days were passed ujion the
farm where their grandson, Andrew J. Lin-
scott, now resides. The father died January
21, 1863; and his wife, September 26, 1S55.
Mrs. Andrew Linscott became the mother of
si.\ children, namely: Lucy A., born Septem-
ber 24, 1833, who married John N. P'oster, and
died February 20, 1896; Mary C. , born July
14, 1835, "'ho married Llarris Morse, and now
resides upon a fruit farm in Tuttletowii, Cal. ;
Phillii) F. , born February 12, 1838, who also
resides in Tnttletown ; Daniel B. , born Se])-
tember i, 1840, who died Ja]iuary 31, 1842;
Andrew J., the subject of this .sketch; and
Ellen A., born September 10, 1848, who died
August 29, 1877. The mother is now eighty-
six years old.

Andrew J. Linscott attended the common

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schools of his native town, and was reared to
farm life. At the age of seventeen, owing to
his father's death, he was obliged to take
charge of the farm. With the exception of a
year spent in Boston, employed as a street car
conductor, he has constantly resided at the
homestead. He now ciwns one hundred acres
of excellent tillage land, which he devotes to
general farming. He carries on a dairy, and
raises hay and li\e stock; but his principal
occupation is buying and shipping apples, in
which he has served as the agent of a Boston
house for the jjast twenty-five years. The
extent of his business may be inferred from the
fact that in one season he supplied the Boston
market with twehe thousand barrels of apples.
On April 13, 1870, Mv. Linscott was united
in marriage to Hattie K. Miller, who was
born in Wiltnn, Me., December 17, ICS4S,
daughter of David and Abigail (Johnson)
Miller, both now deceased. Mrs. Linscott's
father was a prosperous farmer and a lifelong
resident of Wilton. He served successively
as Tax Collector and County Commissioner for
some time, and was Selectman for nearly
twenty years. His wife was a native of Harps-
well, Me. Fannie A., the only child of Mr.
and Mrs. Linscott, was born February 12,
1S72, and is residing with her parents. Mr.
Linscott takes an active interest in public
affairs. lie has served with marked ability as
a Selectman, and was Road Commissioner for
three years. He always votes the Republican
ticket. His jjortrait is presented witli this
brief sketch of his life.

'OB PRINCE, one of the early settlers of
Buckfield, Me., where he located about
1790, was born in Kingston, Mass., in
1765, and died in 1831. He was a
direct descendant of Fllder John Prince, of
Hull, Mass., who had been a student at Ox-
ford, but fled from the ])ersecution of Arch-
bishop Laud in 1633. Job Prince was a Dea-
con of the Baptist church, of which his wife,
Hannah Bi'yant, was a member. He left nine
children.

Noah Prince, the fourth of these, was born
in Buckfield, April 13, 1797, and lived on the
old farm till 1865, when he removed to Buck-

field village. He received only a common-
school education, but was a man of unusual
intelligence and force of character, and in re-
ligion a Baptist. He was active in politics,
and presided over the first convention held in
Maine by the Republican party, of which he
was always a stanch supporter. Besides hold-
ing minor offices, he ser\cd as State Repre-
sentati\'e and Senator, being President of the
Senate in 1841. He died in Buckfield, Feb-
ruary 14, 1872. By his wife, Sarah P'arrar,
whom he married in 1826, he had six children
— S. Louisa, Kimball N., Augusta M., Ar-
delia H., Charles IL, and Mary R., <if whom
all but the eldest are now- living.

Kimball N. Prince was born in 1N2S. In
1852 he went to New York City, where he was
engaged in business for several years. In
1 861 he entered the custom-house, filling im-
portant jjositions, and while there undertook
and perfected a system of accounts showing the
liability of the collector of the port for duties
on bonded merchandise. This had nex'er be-
fore been thought practicable at so large a port
as New York, where the balance of these
accounts averages some tweiit\' million dollars
every month. In 1889 he retired, and has
since resided in Buckfield. Mr. Prince was
married in 1854 to Miss Mary J. luiiery, who
died in 1872, leaving one child, Leonard K.,
who is at the head of the Prince & Kinkel
Iron Works of New York City. In 1874 he
married Miss Sophie E. Dana, of New York.
Both he and his wife are members of the I'res-
byterian church.

Charles H. Prince, who bears the title of
Captain, having served with honor in the
Twent)'-tlvird Maine Volunteers during the
war, is engaged in manufacturing brushes in
Buckfield, where he is Town Treasurer and
superintendent of schools. While in the
State of Georgia, where he lived for some
time, he served as Congressman and Post-
master of the city of Augusta, besides being
a delegate to the Republican National Con\en-
tions. Both he and his wife, FAUiice A. At-
wood, are members of the Baptist church.
They have had four children, of whom the
surviving son, Henry C. Prince, is business
manager of the Waterville Mail Publishing
Company, of Waterville, Me.

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/^TkORGE BURNHAM, who is one of
\ •) I the old and highly esteemed members
of the farming community of Gilead,
has been an active ])olitical worker for the in-
terest of the town at the State capitol. He
was born Febniar}- 2, 1S16, on the farm
where he now lives, a son of P. P. and Mary
(Adams) Hurnham. P. P. Burnham, who was
born in Bridgton, Ale., was one of the first
settlers in this town. lie reclaimed from the
wilderness the farm now occupied by his son,
and devoted the rest of his life to its cultiva-
tion. His wife died in Gilead. Having suc-
ceeded to the farm, George Burnham has spent
his entire life on it. In his management of
it he displayed good judgment and the right
amount of energ\-, and in other directions
he gave frequent evidence of much ability.
Though he is too feeble now to take an active
part in work of any kind, the memory of what
he has done will live long after he is gone.
Always a stanch Republican, he has served in
nearly all the town offices, discharging his
duties ably and honestly. In 1856 he repre-
sented the district in the .State legislature.
At Augusta, as well as in his native town, he
won the respect of his associates, presiding
as Chairman of important committees. It was
mainly through his influence that the appropri-
ation to build the suspension bridge across the
Androscoggin at Gilead was granted. While
not a member of any church, he has always
contributed liberally to worthy enterprises.

Mr. Burnham married Miss P'lora Burbank,
daughter of James and Susan (Ingalls) Bur-
bank. She was born in (iilead, October 23,
1823, and is now seventy-three years of age.
An intelligent and amiable lady, she is as
charming now as in her youth, and is beloved
by all who know her. Bearing the weight of
her years lightly, she rules with graceful dig-
nity over the kingdom of her household. She
has borne her husband nine children, namelv:
Mellen P., who served as a soldier in the late
war, and died at the age of forty-eight; James
v., who assists his mother in managing the
farm; Perley P., a merchant in Bridgton, Me. ;
Charles A., a newspaper man, residing in Ber-
lin, N.H. ; Mary E., the wife of Charles Gil-
bert, of Canton, Me. ; George I., a farmer,
whose home adjoins that of his parents; Mar-

tha M., a teacher at Hcikeley Temjjle, Boston;
Stella F., who died at the age of twenty two;
and Fannie R., who lived but four years.
While -Mr. Burnham's home is a very pleasant
one, it necessru'ily bears the distincti\e marks
of old age, as the land was broken by his
father over a century ago.

IRAM A. CONANT, of Buckfield,
Me., has more than one claim on ]nib-

.9 I lie interest. He is a lineal de-

scendant of Roger Conant, who in
1624 was left in charge of the Colony at Cape
Ann, Massachusetts, which afterwaril under his
leadership moved to Naumkeag, now Salem.
He is a veteran of the war, in which he re-
ceived a painful wound ; and he is a member
of the Conant Family Band, a most uni(.|ue
musical organization. Mr. Conant was born
in Turner, Androscoggin County, Me., I'"ebru-
ary 21, 1S45, a son of Everett O. and Eurania
(Turner) Conant.

Everett O. Conant, who was born in Bridge-
water, Mass., April 2, 1809, spent a great part
of his active life in Turner, Me., where he was
prosperously engaged in agricultural pursuit.s.
He was a member of the Baptist church, and
politically he favored the Republican party.
His death occurred in Turner, December 27,
1868. He was survived more than twenty
years by his wife, Eurania, who was born in
Eivermore, Me., January 25, 1813, and died
in August, 1892. Eight children com])leted
the household circle of Mr. and Mrs. l-;verett
Conant, namely: Sanford I{. , now a farmer of
Buckfield, Me. ; Howard T., a fanner of
Turner; Hiram A., the subject of this sketch;
Edwin \V. , a carriage manufacturer of Cin-
cinnati; Martha J., wife of John A. WoUmer,
of Cincinnati; .Sylvia A., who died in May,
1870; Mar)', who died in October, 1879; and
.Sarah L. , who died in January, 1S70.

Hiram A. Conant was reared and educated
in the town of Turner. He started to provide
for himself at the age of eighteen; and just
before his nineteenth birthday, February 16,
1864, he enlisted, being mustered in as a
member of Company D, Thirty-second Maine
Regiment, under Captain William R: Ham,
of Eewiston. In active service somewhat

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Dvcr a \ear, he took part in the engagements at
Weldon Knilroad and at J'oplar Grove Farm,
being wounded at the last named battle. He
was hunoiably diseharged June 2, 1S65; and,
returning to Turner, he engaged in farming,
lumbering, aii<l retailing wood. His first land
]3urchase was in Tui'ner, where he lived fifteen
years and owned at one time one hundred
acres, which he eventually sold, moving to his
])resent farm in 1S80. He now owns two hun-
dred acres in Buckfielil, and is one of the most
extensive farmers in the locality, his principal
products being fruit and hay. He also has a
choice dairy, owning from twenty ti: twenty-
five head of full-blooded and grade Jerseys.

In 1S66 Mr. Conant was married to ]<"lora
Adkins, of Turner, daughter of Martin and
Abigail Adkins. This union has been blessed
by fourteen chiklren, who are all living,
namely: Albert A., born September 6, 1866;
Everett I'-., born October 24, 1867; Ellen A.,
August 14, 1S69; Hiram \V. , May 5, 1871 ;
Walter G., October 5, 1S72; John W., July
21, 1874; George I., January 29, 1876; S_\-lvia
L., December 6, 1878; Harry L., Tanuary 11,
1880; Ida M., June 12, 1881; Charles' K,
.September 9, 1883; Sarah L. , Januar\- 21,
1886; Elorence G. , October 8, 1887; and
Lena E., January 13, 1890. Mr. Conant and
eight of his sons compose the Conant Family
Band, which is well known in the State. The
leader and cornet player, Charles, w-ho is now
twelve years of age, took an active part when
he was only nine years old. The entire family
are musical.

Mr. Conant votes with the. Republican jiarty.
He is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge at
Buckfield, and is Commander of Fessenden
Post, No. 43, Grand Army of the Republic;
and his entire family are members of Hebron
Grange, No. 300, Patrons of Husbandry. Mr.
and Mrs. Conant are communicants of the Bap-
tist chuich at Turner.

ENJAMIN ROSCOE KEYES, a
carpenter and general farmer of
Chesterville, was born in Grafton,
O.xford County, January 8, 1848,
son of Samson W. and Clarissa CButterfield)
Kcycs. Wiien he was eight years old his

father moved from Grafton to Woodstock, pur-
chased seventy-five acres of land in the local-
ity known as Hamlin Grant, and lived there
for four years. The famil\- then went to
Farmington, where the father had bought the
Green farm, containing one hundred acres,
situated on the line between Farmington and
Wilton, in the northern section. F"our years
later a third removal was made to Chester-
ville, wdiere Samson W. Keyes had purchased
the Lothrop farm of eighty acres, and where
he still resides.

Benjamin Roscoe Keyes obtained his educa-
tion in the common schools of Grafton and at
Wilton Academy. Upon reaching his majority
he went to work in a tool factory at Fayette
Mills, where he remained for three years.
He then went to Brockton, Mass., and was en-
gaged in carpentering with C. S. Johnson for
the ne.xt two years. After spending another
year in Cambridge and Somerville he returned
to Chesterville, where, living at home, he con-
tinued to follow his trade until 1880. He
then bought his present farm of one hundred
acres, formerly known as the Ricker place,
where he has since resided, and successfully
carried on general farming.

On December 18, 1880, Mr. Keyes was
united in marriage with Mary E. Hamilton,
daughter of David M. and Matilda F. Hamil-
ton. By this union there are two children,
namely: Merle R., who was born July 12,
1883: and Lester A., who was born April 26,
1889. Mr. Keyes is active and energetic, both
as a farmer and a carpenter. He is known
throughout the county as a first-class mechanic.

|ELLEN T. De SHON, a prosper-
ous farmer and a well-known resi-
dent of Peru, was born May i,
1853, upon the farm he now owns
and occupies, son of Charles V. and Janette
L. (Mitchell) De Shon. The family is one of
the oldest in Peru. Mr. De Shon's great-
grandfather was one of its early settlers; and
his grandfather, John De Shon, was a native
and lifelong resident. John De Shon, who
was an able farmer, did much toward develop-
ing the agricultural resources of the locality,
and lived to a ripe old age.

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Chark's F. Dc Shmi, also a native of Peru,
became the owner of a good farm, containing
one hundred and twenty-five acres, which he
cultivated with energy and success. He was
an influential man in the town, served with
ability as a Selectman and in other offices, and
dieil in 1892. Originally a Republican, he
was itlentified with the ("ireenback party dur-
ing its existence. His wife, Janette, who was
a native of Ruckhekl, bore him nine children,
six of whom are living; namely, Albert, Fiar-
riet, Susan, Mellen T., Ida, Lillian, Matilda,
Rosamond, and Mary. Ida married Albert B.
Griffith, a prosperous farmer of this town.
Mr. De Shon's mother still survives, and
resides in Peru.

Mellen T. De Shon was educatetl in the
schools of Peru. He has always resided on
the homestead. Succeeding to its possession
after liis father's death, he has since con-
ducted it with success. His buildings are
well kept, and the fertility of his land enables
him to raise large and superior crops.

In 1876 Mr. De Shon first wedded Ada
Marsh, who died in 1884, leaving two sons;
namely, Wallace .S. and Ellis F. In 1890 he
was united in marriage to his present wife,
Mabel C. (Kidder) De Shon, a daughter of
Philander Kidder, of Canton, Oxford County.
Horn of this marriage were two daughters —
Addie and Dot. Mr. De Shon is a Republi-
can. He is highly respected by all who
know him. Both he and Mrs. De Shon attend
the Baptist church. The family residence
occupies a delightful situation, overlooking
the Androscoggin Ri\-er and surrounded by
mountain scenery.

WARREN BUTTERFIELD, who
occupies a prominent place among the
successful farmers of Wilton, Me.,
was born upon the farm which adjoins
his present [jroperty, November 9, 1828, son
of James and Dolly (Lyford) Butterfield.

His grandfather, Isaac Butterfield, who
served as a blacksmith and gunsmith in the
Revolutionary War, removed from New Hamp-
shire to Maine a few years after the declara-
tion of peace, and bought a large tract of wild
land in the town of Wilton. He cleared a

portion of his purchase for tillage puiposes,
and lived to reach a good old age. The
maiden name of his wife was Ruth Fletcher.

James Butterfield, son of Isaac, was born in
Dunstable, now Nashua, N.H., March 17,
1791, and serveti as a soldier in the War of
1812. When a \outh he cleared a jiortion f)f
the Gardner Chase farm, upon which lie
erected a log house, and sowetl a crop of corn ;
but his tlwelling and cnvw were bunu'(l, and he
relinquished the further attempt to inii)rove
that propert)-. lie then jiurchased of .Samson
Keyes a farm of two hundred anil twenty acres
which had been partially improved, and, hav-
ing constructed a primitive dwelling, cleared
more land for cultivation. He eventually be-
came a well-to-do agriculturist, and erected a
substantiaf set of buildings. His death look
place here, October if), 1875. In p(ditics lie
originally acted with the Whig party, but
joined the Republican mo\ement at its forma-
tion; and in his religious views he was a Uni-
versalist. His wife, Dolly Lyford, who was
born August 3, 1800, daughter of Nathaniel
Lyford, became the mother of six children,
namely: Samuel, born June 6, 1821, who died
Octobers, 1842; Melinda, born PY'bruary 12,
[824, who died August 12, 1825; Daniel,
born January 7, 1825, who served as a private
in Company C, Fifty-third Regiment, Massa-
chusetts Volunteers, in the Civil War, and
died at New Orleans, Januar\- 17. 1863; J.
Warren, the subject of this sketch; I'"i-anklin,
born August 25, 1829, and died (Jctober 25,
1842; William Wallace Butterfield, a carpen-
ter and millwright of Auburn, Me., who mar-
ried April 4, 1S61, Melvina Wright, daughter
of Reuben and Mary Wright, of North Jay,
and has had three children, namely: Cora,
born in October, 1862, who dietl in May,
1863; Guy L., born October 18, 1863, now a
millwright and saw-temperer of Auburn, Me.,
who married in August, 1894, ICthel Wagg;
and Susan J., born in .September, 1865, who
died in July, 1866. Mrs. Dolly Lyford
Butterfield died December 2, 1884. She was
a Baptist in her religious belief.

J. Warren Butterfiekl was educated in the
public schools of Wilton, and in young man-
hood began to follow agricultural pursuits
upon his own account. Settling upon a farm

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ot one hundred and twenty acres, he made
various improvements upon the land and
buildings; but, after residing there for eight
years, lie sold the property and bought the
Carter farm of one hundred and twenty-five
acres. Including a part of the farm formerly
owned bv his grandfather, he now has two
hundred and seventy-five acres. This prop-
erty has steadily enhanced in value since
coming into his possession, and its thrifty
appearance shows the result of energetic and
progressive management. He has transformed
the roughly cleared land into cultivated fields,
has erected a new barn, remodelled the house,
has set out an orchard containing twenty-five
hundred grafted trees, and with the assistance
of his son has constructed a mile of smooth
roadway in order to avoid driving over a long
hill. He keeps a herd of twelve standard-
bred cattle and a flock of sheep, and his crops
of fruit and general farm products are always
large and of the very best Cjuality.

On June 2(S, 1855, Mr. Butterfield wedded
Huldah B. Sears, who was born in Sackville,
N.B., November 18, 1S35, daughter of Jere-
miah and Mary (McFee) Sears. Mrs. Butter-
field's father, who was a native of New York
State, in early manhood settled in the Prov-
ince of New Brunswick, where he became a
prosperous farmer. He lived to be eighty-
nine years old, and his wife died at the age of
seventy-eight, having been the mother of eight
children, namely: Huldah 1^., who is now
Mrs. Butterfield; Cynthia J.: Abbie; Esther;
Mary and Martha, twins; John; and Di.\on.
^Ir. and Mrs. Butterfield have had si.x chil-
dren, as follows: George Franklin, who was
Ijorn March 24, 1857, and is now engaged in
farming; I. Imogene, wlio was born June 14,
1859, married Alonzo Huntington, of Canton
Point, a blacksmith, and has four children —
namely, Earl, James (who is no longer liv-
ing), Blanche, and Fred \V. ; Siuirgeon \V.,
a carpenter and millwright, who was born
June 10, 1 86 1, married Mary Goodwin, and
has one son, Ralph W., born May 22, 1894:
.M. R. Delia, who was born March 31, 1863,
graduated from Farmington State Normal
School, class of 1890, and died October 12,
1S92; Carl R., who was born January 18,
1S72, and is now a teacher and also engaged

in agricultural pursuits; and James L. , who
was born P\'iiruary 7, 1876, and died October
23, 1876.

Mr. Butterfield is Past Master of Franklin
Grange, as is also his son, George F". ; and is
connected with the Williamson Lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, as are also his
sons, George F., S. VV., and Carl R. He sup-
ports the Republican party in politics, and his
three sons are also Republicans. Both he and
Mrs. Butterfield are members of the Baptist
church.

KREMONT S. VINING, a successful
business man and an old resident of
Phillips, is the senior member of the
firm of Vining Brothers, retail dealers in
meat, provision, and groceries in that place.
He was born June i8, 1855, son of Seward P.
and Martha C. (Thomas) Vining, natives re-
spectively of Durham and Strong, Me.

Benjamin Vining, his grandfather, who was
an enterprising farmer of Durham, did the
probate business of the town, and was often
intrusted with the settlement of estates. In
politics he was a Whig, and he lived to be
about threescore years old. Of his fourteen
children, Hiram Vining, of Weld, Me., is the
onh' one living. Seward P. Vining was en-
gaged in farming from his youth. His wife,
Martha C, bore him twelve children, of whom
ten are living. These are: Hattie K., the
widow of Mark Harding, of Melrose, Mass. :
Henry C, who resides in Haverhill, Mass.;
Hannibal H., in Phillips; Albion M., in
Manchester, N.H.; Ephraim B., in Strong,
Me.; Martha J., the widow of K. K. Sawyer,
of Phillips; Nelson E., also a resident of
Phillips: Addie S., the wife of John Mc-
Knight, of Boston, Mass.; 'Allie H., the wife
of George O. Osgood, of Waltham, Mass. :
and Fremont S., the subject of this sketch.
The father died February 4, 1893, aged
eighty-nine years.

Fremont S. Vining obtained a good educa-
tion in the common schools of Phillips and at
Milton Academy. He taught school in the
winter for five years after, while he spent the
summers employed in the express business.
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he has since conducted the store ul the I'liillips
Meat and Grocery Company, which now eni-
]iIoy three teams in delivery of their goods.

On June 25, 1888, Mr. Vining married
Ada F. Wilhird, a daughter of H. L. Wiliard,
of Acton, .Mass. In politics Mr. Vining is a
Republican. He served three years as Super-
visor of Schools in Avon.

ACA;/ILLIAM H. TRASK, a prosperous
agriculturist of Peru, was l^orn June
23, 1840, on the place where he
now resides, son of Leonard and Eunice
(Knight) Trask, natives respectively of LLirt-
ford, Me., and Peru. Osmond Trask, his
grandfather, was one of the first settlers in
Hartford, where he died at an advanced age.
About the year 1830 Leonard, a son of Os-
mond, came to Peru, and settled on the farm
now owned by William H. Trask. It was
then principally wild land, but he cleared and
improved a large part of it. His death oc-

curred here on April

1 86 1. His wife.

Eunice, after surviving him over thirty years,
died December 10, 1893. In religious faith
he was a LTnivcrsalist, and in politics a Re-
jjublican. Of his seven children, three are
living, namely: William H., the subject of
this sketch; Catherine li., the wife of Will-
iam Ouimby, living in North Turner, Me. ;
and Albion K. P. Trask, a resident of Peru.
The others were: Susan H., Orville K.,
-Sarah 1-;., and Fanny H.

During his early years William H. Trask
attended the common schools of Peru. -Since
that time he has given his attention to general
farming. For some time he has owned the
homestead farm, which contains about two
hundred and forty acres of land, one of the
largest estates in this district. Besides rais-
ing the usual New England crops he rears
some stock, and keeps a dairy of choice cows.
In September, 1861, Mr. Trask enlisted in
Company H, Tenth Regiment, Maine Volun-
teer Infantry, under Captain C. -S. Emerson,
of Auburn, Me., for service in the Civil War.
He was in the battle of Cedar Mountain,
August 9, 1862, in which the L^nion men
were victorious. A wound received at Cedar
Mountain disabled him for further service,

and in 1863 he was lu)n()ral:)lv dischargeil.
He is now an esteemed comrade of Hodge
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Canton,
Me. In politics he is a Republican, and has
served on the Republican Town Committee.
On March 6, 1882, Mr. Trask married Miss
Flora E. Philbrick, who was born Ajiril 28,
1852, in Ro.\bury, O.xford County, daughter
of Charles H. and Mary K. (Fo.x) Philbrick,
both also natives of Roxbury. Mr. Philbrick
is one of the leading farmers of that town.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Trask are:
Charles P., born in Peru, December 11,
1882; and Bert L., born here November 13,
1884. In religious faith Mr. Trask is a
Universal ist, and his wife is a member of
the P'ree Will Baptist church. Their home
is very pleasantly located in the midst of
beautiful lake and mountain scenerv.

ILTON H. MERRIAM, a prosper-
ous and progressive agriculturist of
Norway township, was born Jan-
uai)- 25, 1840, on the Merriam
homestead, which he now owns and occupies,
son of -Silas Merriam, Ji-. , and Mar)' (Coburn)
Merriam. His grandfather, Silas Merriam,
came to Norwa\- from Massachusetts in 1793.
Silas Merriam was born July 3, 1769, in the
town of Middleton, Mass., where he lived until
his departure for Norway. Here he purchased
a tract of heavily timbered land, from which
he cleared and improved the homestead farm,
and was afterward ens,ased in mixed husbaiichv
until his death, which occurred August 14,
1 S44. His wife, in maidenhood Hannah
LJjjton, was born in Massachusetts, Jul)- 15,
1779, and died in Norway, March 18, 1835.
They had four children, namely: .Silas, Jr.,
born January 10, 1800, the father of Milton
H. ; Andrew, born September 30, 1802, who
died February 17, 1824; Amos, born February
13, 1807, who married Jane Wentworth, of
Greenwood township, now deceased, and died
in 1883; and Noah, born November 21, 1810,
who went to California many years ago, and
has not since been heard from.

Silas Merriam, Jr., who was ushered into
the world on the Merriam homestead, inherited
the paternal acres, and was there engaged in

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gcncial farming throughout his life. He mar-
ried Mary Coburn, who was jjorii in Green-
wood townsliip, August 8, 1814. They had
seven children, as follows: Andrew M., born
May 14, 1S36, who died May 5, 1891 ; Olive
S., liorn July 24, 1837, now the widow of the
late John H. Hobbs, of Norway; Frederick
R., born July 26, 1838, who now lives in the
West; Milton H., the subject of this sketch;
Alma E. , born January 22, 1842, who married
Augustus Morton, of Freedom, N. H., and died
June 30, 1873, leaving one child, Delia A.,
now residing in Norway village ; Granville R. ,
born March 21, 1843, who died I-'ebruary 11,
1844; and Lawson L. R., born January 11,
1849, now engaged in the produce and butcher-
ing business in the village of Norway.
Neither of the parents is now living, the father
having died June 14, 1875, and the mother
April 21, 1881.

Milton M. ^^erriam was educated in his
native town, attending the district schools and
the village academy. After teaching school
for several terms, he forsook that occujiation
for farming. After the death of his parents he
bought the interests in the homestead of the
other heirs, and has since conducted it success-
fully. The property contains two hundred
acres of land. Me carries on general farming
and dairying after the most approved methods.
Mr. .Merriam affiliates with the Republican
p. Illy ; and, while not ambitious of oflRcial dis-
tinction, he has served the town in some of its
minor ofificcs. He is a member of the grange
at Norway village, and of the Golden Cross
Lodge, Norwa\' Commander)'. Mrs. Merriam
is a member of the Methodist E]iiscopal
church.

On January 16, 1894, Mr. Merriam was
married to .Mrs. Lucelia A. (Andrews) Cum-
mings, who was born in Woodstock, this
county, January 21, 1848. Her jxarents, Jon-
atlian and Lamelia (Durdiam) Andrew^s, re-
s()cctively natives of Paris and Woodstock, are
farming jieople, and reside on their homestead
in I'aris. IVTrs. Merriam's first husband was
iJaniel L. Cummings, who died March 23,
1880, le.iving her with one cliild, Fthelyn
A., who was born August 14, 1879. She
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
chinch.

ILA.S IL NILE.S, a well-known
merchant, farmer, and cattle dealer
of Jay, and a member of the Maine
legislature, was born here January
15, 1845, "son of Varanes and Mehitable (Har-
ris) Niles. Mr. Niles's grandfather, Jacob
Niles, was a lifelong resident of Randolph,
Mass. Grandmother Niles, after Jacob's
death, married Nathaniel Jackson, of luiston,
Mass., and came to reside in Jay in iSio.

Varanes Niles was born in Randolph, De-
cember 8, 1802. He accompanied his mother
to Jay, and resided for the rest of his life upon
the farm now owned by his children. 15esides
carrying on the farm he dealt quite exten-
sively in live stock and real estate. He died
May' 18, 1878. His first wife, Mehitable,
who was born in Greene, Me., September 10,
1803, had nine children, as follows: Eunice
A., who died October 31, 1895; Sullivan, who
is a member of the firm of Niles Brothers, pork
packers of ]^oston ; Harriet, who is now the
widow of O. G. Kyes, and resides in North
Jay; J. Harris, a member of the firm of Niles
Brothers; Louville, who is with his brothers
in Boston; ]{liza M., who resides at the home-
stead; Silas H. (first), who died at the age of
two years; Silas H. (second), the subject of this
sketch; and luigene M., who is now a wliole-
.sale and retail beef dealer at 27 l'"aneuil Hall
Market, Boston. Mr. Niles's mother died July
8, 1893, at the advanced age of ninety years.

Silas H. Niles accpiired his education in the
common schools of Jav, and the academies in
Wilton antl Livcrmore, and the Edward Little
Institute at Auburn. After leaving school he
engaged in agriculture upon the homestead
farm, where he has always resided. In 1868
he entered a mercantile business at North Jay,
as a member of the firm of Leiand & Niles.
Five years later he bought his partner's inter-
est in the store, which he has since conducted
alone. He also does a large business as a
buyer and shipper of fruit and cattle, which he
markets in Boston. ( )n his farm of three hun-
dred acres, which he has greatly improved, in
addition to the usual crops he raises some ex-
cellent stock. He is also a dealer in real
estate, owning some valuable property in the
neighboring towns. All his business interests
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In |)olitics he is an active .sn])pi)iter (it the
Republican party. Although averse to public
office for lack of time to attend to its duties,
he was prevailed upon to accept nomination for
Kepresentati\'e to the legislature in ICS94, and
was elected. Mr. Niles is unmarried. He
and his sister, Miss Kliza M. Niles, continue
to occupy the homestead. Both attend the
L'niversalist church, in the work of whicii he
takes an active interest.

IIJJAAI 11. WllITCOAIB, of Nor-
way, former!}' a merchant and real
estate dealer, now retired, is a
native of Ik^thel, Me. He was born April 24,
1840, son of William A. and Mary A. (Har-
ris) VVhitcomb. His grandfather, Abraham
Whitcomb, who was born in Massachusetts in
the year 1765, came from Harvard, in that
.State, to West VVaterford, Me., and there took
up a tract of 'wild land, which he cleared and
converted into a productive farm. Abraham
Whitcomb married Miss Sally Atherton, by
whom he had fi\'e sons and three daughters;
namely, Abraham, Isaac, Calvin, Polly, Sarah,
Joel, \Villiam A., and Betsey.

William A. Whitcomb, the seventh child and
youngest son of his parents, was born in 18 16.
His wife, Mary, was the only daughter of Caji-
tain John Harris, of Bethel, formerly of \Vest-
brook. Me. After his marriage he settled in
Bethel, inuxhasing Hotel Bethel, at Bethel
Hill, which he conducted until his death, at
the age of twenty-seven years, a victim of con-
sumption. He was survixed bv his wife and
an only son, William Henry Whitcondj. In
1S58 Willow Whitcomb was married to William
Krost, a merchant and enterjirising business
man of Norway, and the father of two children.
These children found in her a loving mother,
and in their father a wise counsellor. Mr.
Frost was one of the founders of the Norway
National Bank and later the President. In his
own business, being careful and conservative,
he acquired a comfortable fortune. Two chil-
dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Frost, but
both died in childhood. She was si.xty-si.\
years old when she died, on March 14, 1882.
William Henry Whitcomb, who was thir-
teen vears old when he came with his mother

to Norway, comjdeted in the schools of this
town the education begun in Ikthel. On ar-
riving at maidiood he, in com]xiny with Will-
iam Frost, under the firm name of Whitcond)
& Frost, started a small general store, which
subsequently became one of the largest in the
town. Upon Mr. h'rost's retirement fiom
business Mr. Whitcondj took as a inntnei-
I'". S. O.Miard. .Some years later he purchased
Mr. (Jxnard's interest ami took in Thomas
Smiley. Subsequently he disposed of his in-
terest to his partner, and retired from mei-
cantile life. His handsome residence, j.
Main Street, was built Ijy Mr. Witherell, and
with nearly all its contents was consumed in
the destructive fire of i8c;3. On that occasion
also he lost two stores and a tenement-house.
He still, owns two single and two double
houses. I'"ew, if an\-, have taken greater pride
than he in the [jrogress of the town of Norway.
He was active in the promotion and establish-
ment of the Norway Water Works, in which he
owns an interest; and he has held the office of
President since the organization of the com-
pany in 1887. He was also the largest stock-
hcdder and the chief promoter in the enterprise
of erecting the ( Jijera House Block. His in-
vestments have not been confinetl to Norwa}',
but i)rojects calculated to advance the town
have always had the preference.

In 1861 Mr. Whitcomb was married to Miss
Ivah T. Hatch, a daughter of John and pjiima
(Blowers) Hatch. Her father was born in
New Gloucester, Me., whence in 1855 he came
to Norway, and soon took his place among
its most enterprising and [)rogressive fani)-
ers. Mrs. Whitcomb, who was born ^August
18, 1842, died September I, 18^5. She left
one daughter, Lsabella, boiu July i~ , 1866,
now residing with her father. Her son, Henry
]•:., born June 24, 1S62, lived but a few
months; and another daughter, Mary IC. , born
October 5, 1864, died September 24, 1865.
In politics Mr. Whitcomb has always been
a stanch Democrat. A Republican district
elected him in 1875 to the lower house of
the State legislature. He has served the town
as Selectman and Assessor for a number of
years. He is a member of Oxford Lodge,
No. 18, A. F. & A. M. ; of Mount Vernon
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Portland; of

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I'ortlaiiil ('(iminaiKlur)', Knights Templars; a
charter member of Norway Lodge, No. 16;
and belongs to VVildey Encampment, Inde-
].)endcnt Ordei' of Odd l-"ello\vs.

(s^YOSKTH E. CONANT, a prosperous and
respected farmer of Peru, was born
October 13, iS'47, on the farm that is
still his home, son of Daniel L. and
Mary A. (l-'rench) Conant. Joseph Conant,
his paternal grandfather, came to Peru when
the town had but few settlers, and here spent
the remainder of his life, successfully engaged
in general farming. He married Miss Lucinda
Turf, by whom he became the father of nine
children, six sons and three daughters, all of
whom reached maturity. He died at the age
of sixty-five years, and she at ninety-one.

Daniel I,. Conant, who was a native of
JSowdoinham, Me., born Se]5tember 25, 1807,
spent his life on his farm. On coming of age
he purchased it, paying the balance left due
with his earnings from working out by the
month on neighboring farms. A thorough
farmer, he took jiride in his well-tilled fields.
In religion he was a Universalist, and in ]ioli-
tics a Republican. He died on July i, i8<S3,
aged seventy-six years. On May 31, 1840,
he married Mary A. P'rench, who was born
A]iril 10, 181S, in Windham, Me. By her he
became the father of four children, namely:
Harriett A., born March 31, 1S41, who died
April 17, 1869; Olive M., born January 25,
1843, who is the wife of Hiram 1{. Stillman,
of Peru; Josepli K. , the subject of this sketch;
and William H., born June 6, 1849, who mar-
ried (ieorgia Oldham, and is a tinsmith at
Rumford l'"alls. The mother resides with her
son, Joseph ¥..

After com|jleting his education, which was
acquired in the schools of Peru, Joseph E.
Conant followed the calling of teacher. He
has since been engaged in agricultural pur-
suits. To-day he is the- owner of the home-
stead farm, which he has increased to two
hundred and seventeen acres. He carries on
general farming and dairying with profit, keep-
ing eleven high-grade Jersey cows. In relig-
ious belief he is a Universalist, in political
affiliation a Republican.

On June 18, 1871, Mr. Conant married Miss
P^mma J. Shea, who was born in Rath, Me.,
-September 6, 1853. Her parent.s, Nathan and
.Susan Shea, now deceased, both attained the
age of seventy-four years. Her father was
a seafarer in early life, but his last years
were spent in farming. Of his ten children,
three are living. Mr. and Mrs. Conant have
three children, namely: George H., born Jan-
uary 13, 1874; Daniel H., born January 26,
1879; and Daisy M., born July 30, 1890. All
are living at home.

AMES W. BUTTERFIELD, of Phil-
lips, a Trial Justice of P'ranklin
County for the past twenty-one year.'i
and the Treasurer for some time of the
Phillips Savings Bank, was born here, Novem-
ber 7, 1828, son of Otis and Lovicy (Whitney)
Butterfield. 'Phe Butterfield family is of Eng-
lish origin. Mr. Butterfield's grandfatlier,
Jesse Butterfield, a native oi Tyngsboro,
Mass., and a farmer, joined the Continental
army at the beginning of the Revolution, and
served until after the surrender of Cornwallis
at Yorktown, participating in the battle of
Bunker Hill and being present at the surrender
of I^urgoyne. In religious belief Jesse Butter-
field was a Universalist. He died at F"arming-
ton. Me., at the advanced age of ninety-three.
Otis Butterfield," who was born in Farming-
ton and there grew to maturity, came to Phil-
lips in early manhood, and engaged in farming
and worked at brick masonry. A member of
the Democratic part), he was elected to a num-
ber of offices, including those of Selectn)an,
Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor. He was
a member of the Free Will Bajitist church ; and
he died October 26, 1874, aged seventy-foiu"
years. His wife, a native of F"reeport, Me.,
to whom he was married in the town of Free-
man, bore him five children. Of these, three
are living — Cordelia L., Plenry M., and
James W., all residents of Phillijjs. Of the
others, Hiram, born September 28, 1S26, a
man of strong character and jjleasing manners,
was a public school teacher in Bangor for a
number of years. He was prominent in Ma-
sonic circles, and was Master of Blue Moun-
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of his death, wliich occurred in his thirt)-iiiiith
year, he was Chairman of the ]-!oard of Select-
men of this town.

James W. Hutterfield was educated in his
native town, finishing his studies at the high
school. l''or twentv years after he left school
he was engaged in agriculture in this town.
He then abandoned that occupation in order to
give mure attention to his other interests and
to his public duties. lie has been for tweh'e
years a member of the Board of Trustees of the
l'hilli|)s Savings Bank, was the President in
iS,S6 and 1887, and has been Treasurer since
Se]itember, 1895. He was also a Director of
the Union National Bank of this place for
three years, and for the [last three years he has
been Treasurer of the Phillips Village Corpora-
tion. An esteemed member of the Republican
party, he has held the office of Town Treasurer
for eleven years; and he served as a member of
the Maine Board of Agricidture in 18S3, 1884,
and 1S85.

Mr. Butterfield was married May 19, 1862, to
Miss Mary Wright, daughter of Josiah Wright,
of Phillips. Of the children that came of
the union, a daughter, Eva L. , is living. She
is the wife of Piildreth S. Staples, of Di.xfield,
Me. Mr. Butterfield and his family attend the
Free Will Baptist church.

RLANDO H^ISH, the proprietor of a
general store in Hartford, where he
has conducted a successful business
for many years, was born in this town,
June 22, 1836, son of Edmund and Nancy
(Ricker) Irish. Grandfather Tobias Ricker
was a soldier in the Revolution, serving in
Washington's body-guard. Edmund Irish,
Sr. , the paternal grandfather, and a native of
Gorham, Me., was one of the very first settlers
in this town. He spent the remainder of his
days here, engaged in farming and clearing his
land. During the War of 181 2 he was in ac-
tive service. When he died he was eighty-
seven years of age. Bertha (Keen) Irish, his
wife, lived to be eighty-one years old. They
were the parents of five children.

Edmund Irish, who was a native of Hart-
ford, spent his life chiefly occupied in farm-
ing. Respected for the success with which

he managed his own affairs, his o|)inion was
often sought in matters pertaining to the wel-
fare of his town, and his services were availed
of in the capacities of Selectman and Treasurer.
In the old State militia he was a drummer, and
served in the Aroostook War. He was a Uni-
versalist in religious belief, and in politics he
affiliated with the Republicans. He died in
Hartford, eighty-seven years of age. His
wife, Nancy, a native of Buckfield, Me., died
at fifty-five. Of their five children Mary
Ann, who was the wife of A. P. Bonnev, of
Buckfield, died in i860, leaving three chil-
dren. The others are: Melissa B. , the wife
of George Wells, of South Weymouth, Mass. ;
James Irish, residing in Hartford: Decatur
Irish, on the old homestead in Hartford: and
Orlando, the subject of this sketch.

Orlando Irish spent his boyhood in his na-
tive town, receixing his education in the com-
mon schools. At nineteen he went to South
P'ramingham, Mass., where he learned the
trade of a hattei", and was in the employ of
George Richardson & Brother thirteen yeai's.
He then returned to Plartford, and in 1888,
with his brother James, opened a general
store, which, excluding an interval of three
years, has been profitably conducted since.
The stock comprises an excellent assortment
of goods, which are sold at very reasonable
prices.

On h'ebruary 4, 1865, Mr. Irish was joined
in marriage with Lizzie H. I'orbes, wdio was
born in Buckfield, daughter of Jonah P'orbes.
Two st)ns have been born to them, namely:
lulgar C. Irish, who marrieil Lena M. Rob-
bins, and is now a lumberman in Hartford;
and Leon O. Irish, li\'ing at home. Mr.
Irish is an adherent of the Republican party.
He and Mrs. Irish are Universalists; and he
is a member of Whitney Lodge, No. 167,
A. E. & A. M.; also of the order of Good
Templars.

■^ATHANIEL HARDING, a well-known
and prosperous resident of New
Is V Sharon, Me., was born here on the

29th of November, 1828, the son of
Nehemiah and Abigail (Ames) Harding. He
bears the name of his earliest ancestor in this

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country, Xathanicl Harding, first, who came
from England at an uncertain date, and settled
in Massachusetts.

ICphraim Harding, son of Nathaniel, first,
was the father of Nathaniel, second, who was
in the transport service tluring the Revolu-
tionary War, and who came to New Sharon
from Cape Cod in 1788, at the age of thirty-
two years. W'ith him he brought his wife,
Hannah, daughter of Lemuel Newcomb, of
Wellfleet, Mass., and three children. His
princi])al reason for migrating was to keep his
sons from desiring to go to sea. They trav-
elled by schooner to Hallowell, and from that
point journeyed on foot to New Sharon, carry-
ing what they could bring on their backs.
Upon arriving at New Sharon they made their
temporary home with Deacon Howes for the
period of one year, Mr. Harding acquiring
one hundred acres of wild land, which he
cleared and built iqion during this time. His
first house was a log cabin : but later he built
a better house a little farther up the road,
where the family lived, and where Mr. Hard-
ing carried on general farming and worked at
the trade of a cooper. He was a man of prom-
inence among his fellow-citizens, and held
several minor town offices. The date of his
death was October 6, 1834. Mr. and Mrs.
Nathaniel Harding, second, were the parents of
nine children — Jemima, Richard, and Eliza-
beth, all born in Truro, Cape Cod; Hannah;
I'luebe: luinice, deceased; Nathaniel, Jr.;
Nehemiah; and Eunice, second.

Nehemiah Harding, who appears to have
been the youngest son of his parents, was edu-
cated at the district schools of his native town
and at the l-'armington Academy. He com-
menced teaching school as soon as he had
completed his educational course and while
he was yet in his teens, teaching quite a num-
ber of terms until he was twenty-one, when he
succeeded to the homestead, and took care of
his parents for the rest of their lives. He
married Abigail, the daughter of Noyes Ames,
of Mercer. She was liorn in 1803, and died
.September 29, 1872, at the age of si.\ty-nine
years. Her husband died one year before she
did, on December 30, 1871, at the age of
seventy-five, he having been born in 1796.
They were the parents of seven children.

namely: Nathaniel, of whose life and ancestry
this is a slight sketch; Hannah: Mary R. ;
Phoebe A.; John L. ; Benjamin A. A.: and
Caroline E.

Nathaniel Harding, the first-born of the
seven, obtained his education in the common
schools of his native town of New Sharon, and
at the age of sixteen went to Hallowell to
work in a carpet factory, where he remained
for four years, his first wages being only ten
dollars a month. Coming back to New Sharon
after this experience, he learned the trade of
shoemaking, at which he worked for two years
in this town, three years in Stark, and two
years in Norridgewock. On his return 'to
New Sharon after these last five years of
absence, he bought out the shoe factory of
John Trask, where he has carried on the man-
ufacturing business ever since.

When he first started in this business .Mr.
Harding employed twelve hands. He was
burned out in 1858, and went into the general
merchandise business with George I'erkins in
a store owned by Mr. Perkins. Here he car-
ried on business for two years, until he could
make good the losses he sustained by the fire.
In 1862, however, after divitling the business
profits with Mr. Perkins, he rebuilt his factory
on the same old foundations, and employed
fifteen hands. In 1886 he again enlargeil his
factory by one-half, and took in David J.
Jordan as his partner. He now employs
thirty-five workmen. Mr. Harding built in
1890 a large three-story building, which he
rented to George H. Brown, a prominent coat
manufacturer of New .Sharon, who still does
business here.

Mr. Harding never did confine his efforts to
his shoe manufacturing alone, but has always
been active in one or more different branches
of business. During the year 1862 he was
associated with Mr. Morrill in the general
merchandise trade; and later he was with
W. W. Norcross in the same business for a
period of five years.

He is known as one of the most progressive
and energetic men in this jjart of the State, as
well in the interests of his town and his
fellow-citizens as in his own.

At one time, in order to have plenty of
water-power to run his factory with, he bought

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243

the Heard & Dyer mill, whieli he now rents
out as a shingle-mill, retaining all his rights
over the use of the water-power for purposes
of manufacturing. He owns the finest river
farm in this section of the State, and has re-
paired the old and built improved new build-
ings upon it, making it a beautiful as well as
.1 lucrative country place. His step-son, John
C'hilds, now resides on the farm. Mr. Hard-
ing also owns the old homestead of his father,
where he has set out an orchard of one thou-
sand fine young grafted fruit-trees. He is
likewise a large owner of real estate in Port-
land, Me., where lie made his first purchase in
1885, buying the double tenement-house at
155 Congress Street. Later he bought three
houses on Howard Street, also three houses on
Congress Street; and close to the last house.
No. 81, he owns a fine lot, where he is now
building a large three-story tenement-house.
Besides this amount of real estate in Portland,
he owns quite a little more in connection with
his partner, Mr. Jordan.

Mr. Harding was married on the i8th of
November, 1856, to Mrs. Naomi S. Childs,
the widow of J. H. Childs, of New Norridge-
wock — who died at the age of twenty-seven
— and the daughter of William and Abigail
(VVaugh) Hilton, of Anson. Her father was
engaged in the meat business; and he served
as Sheriff and also as Selectman, being one of
the best known and most liked residents of
the place. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton were the
l)arents of ten children — Jonas; Kethsheba;
Alden; Anson: Samantha .S. ; Calvin; James
W. ; Lucy A.; Naomi S., now Mrs. Harding;
and Sarah. Mr. Hilton died in 1S41 at the
age of sixty-four. His wife died in 1862, at
the age of seventy-seven.

Mr. and Mrs. Harding have had one child,
Lila I\L, who was born on the 2rst of Febru-
ary, 1862, and who died in 1875. Mi's- Hard-
ing has a son, John Child.s, born of her first
marriage, who is one of the most prominent
young men in the town. Notwithstanding
Mr. Harding's wealth and his high social po-
sition, he is a very modest man. He does
not go into politics, and belongs to only
one fraternal organization, being a member
of Somerset Lodge, Royal Arch Masons, at
Skowhegan, Me.

/3)K()R(;h; \V. CARROLL, M.])., nf
V ST Hrownfield, Me., though one of the
youngest physicians in the locality,
has already attained prominence, and added to
the lustre of his alma iiia/ir, the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in Hoston, Mass.
Hc-' was born on Prince hldward Island. April
7, 1 866, and is a son of Jnim and Christie
(Cousins) Carroll, both of that place. John
Carroll is in active business as a builder and
carriage-maker. He and his wife have been
blessed with a family of seven children, five
of whom are now living, all well educated.
They are: William, a carpenter residing in
Portland, who married a Miss Brundige;
Zena, wife of Arthur McDonald, of I'rince
Kdward Island; George W., the subject of
this sketch ;' John, a brakeman on the railroad;
Ida, who is with her parents; Peter, the sixth
child, died at the age of sixteen; and Minnie,
the seventh, died at the age of seventeen.

George W. Carroll left home at the age of
fifteen, and went to live with an aunt in I'orl-
land. Me. While there he worked in a (hug
store for some time, and also studied medicine
for two years: and he subsequently spent two
years in Boston engaged as clerk in a drug
store, and also employed in a hospital. In
this way he became familiar with the character
and use of drugs and medicines and the aspects
of disease; and when he entered the College
of I'hysicians and .Surgeons he had n valuable
store of practical knowledge, which materially
aided him in pursuing the college curriculum.
Receiving his diploma on December 31, 1895.
he soon had a large and lucrative practice, his
success being something unusual. Dr. Carroll
first located at Bryant's I'ond, Oxford County,
and in 1895 purchased the home in 1-irown-
field which he now occupies. He has a ri'-
markably large practice in Brownfield and
vicinity, and also carries a line of drugs and
medicines.

Dr. Carroll was married January 16, 1S94,
to Miss Dollie Frost, of Bryant's Pond,
daughter of Samuel and Alvira (Gallison)
P^rost. Mr. P'rost, who is a veteran of the
late war, has been for years engaged in farm-
ing, and is now retired. Dr. Carroll is a
stanch Republican in politics. He has an at-
tractive personality, and has made many

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fiicntls ill this section. Mrs. Carroll is a
member of tlie L^niversalist Church at Bryant's
Toncl.

'^ClLB^RIOri]-: G. WHKELKR, the owner
1^ of a fine farm in the town of Bethel,
""^^ I I "^ was born here, July 8, 1825, son of
Joseph and Olive (Gat^e) Wheeler. Joseph
Wheeler, Sr., grandfather of Elbridge G.,
born in Temple, N.H., in 1766, came from
there to Bethel in 1793. His brother, Sam-
uel, who came with him to this county, set-
tling in Gilead, was a Revolutionary patriot.
Joseph Wheeler was a native of Langdon,
Sullivan County, N. H. When but four )'ears
old he was brought to Bethel by his parents,
and the remainder of his life was passed in
this town. He engaged in farming with a
fair degree of success, and up to within three
weeks of the close of his long life of eighty-
three years was able to attend to his usual
avocations. In early life he was a Democrat
or Whig, and supported the Republican party
after its formation. His wife, who was born
in Bethel, and spent her life here, died at the
age of si.\ty-si.\ years. Her father, Daniel
Gage, a native of Concord, N. H., enlisted for
the Revolutionary W'ar at the age of sixteen,
and served five years and nine months. He
was advanced to the rank of Sergeant. Some
time after, General Washington called him
from the ranks, and publicly thanked and com-
plimented him for his bravery in picking up a
flag, whose bearer had been killed on the
field, and carrying it during the remainder of
the engagement. Soon after the close of the
war he came to Bethel, purchased a farm, and
was successfully engageil in farming through-
out the rest of his life, which lasted eighty-si.\
years. Joseph Wheeler and his wife had nine
children, all of whom except one attained ma-
turity.

Until he was nineteen years of age El-
bridge G. Wheeler lived with his parents on
the home farm, attending the district school
for the usual period. On leaving home, he
went to Abington, Mass., where he learned
the shoemaker's trade, and subsequently
worked at it for about seven years. He
then returned to Bethel, and inirchased the

farm that he now owns, flere he built a
shoe shop, and thereafter, for about thirty
years, both worked at his trade and carried on
his farm. He has added to the original farm
by the purchase of adjoining land, so that he
now has about one hundred and si.xty acres.
The property is conveniently located, being
but a mile from West Bethel. Some years
ago he abandoned shoemaking, and has since
devoted his attention exclusively to agri-
culture.

Mr. Wheeler has been twice married. The
first time was in 1S51, when he was united to
Miss Melissa Grover, of Bethel. She died in
1852, leaving one child, Ella M., now the
wife of Ralph W. Bean, a resident of Little-
ton, Col. The second mariage was contracted
in 1858 with Miss Mehitable J. Grover, of
Mason, Me. liorn of this union were a son
and two daughters, namely: Minnie E., a high-
school teacher in Edgartown, Mass: PTora
Jane, a high-school teacher in Jefferson,
N.H.; and Edward E., who died at the age of
twenty-two years, when a student of Bates
College. Mr. Wheeler, who is a Republican
partisan, takes quite an active part in local
political matters. He has served as Select-
man for five or si.x years, on the School Com-
mittee for two years, and he has been Justice
of the Peace for twenty-one years. He is a
member of Bethel Lodge, No. 96, A. F. &
A. M. ; and of Pleasant Valley Grange at
West Bethel.

ION H. PIKE, a prosperous farmer
and lumberman of Waterford, and a
native of. this town, was born March
18, 1858, son of John C. and Eli'za
A. (Willard) Pike, both also natives of
Waterford. His paternal grandparents, John
and Esther (Richardson) Pike, born in Oxford
County, were farming people of high repute.
His maternal grandparents, Lewis and Mary
(Plaisted) Willard, were born respectively in
Harvard, Mass., and Gorham, Me.

John C. Pike spent the greater part of his
life in Waterford, engaged in farming and
lumbering. In 1841 he went to California,
and worked for aljout a year at mining, in
which he was very successful: but he was

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obliged to return East on account ol liis
health, ami never fully recovered his former
vigor. lie died December 6, icSgi, aged
sixty-three years. In politics lie was always
a firm Republican, and took mucii interest in
town affairs. He was a member ot tlie
grange and an active worker in its interests.
The three children born to him and his wife
are all living. They are: Sarah M., Wiuw
H., and Ernest L. Sarah M., born Jul\' 7,
1855, is the wife of Henry Wentworth, a mill
man living in Waterford, and has five children
— John, Carrie, Ered, Ernest, and lunma.
Ernest L., born November 24, 1859, an enter-
l^rising young farmer, carries on the old Pike
homestead, is engaged in Inmbering with his
brother, and conducts a manufacturing busi-
ness in Waterford.

Bion \l. I'ike was educated in the common
schools and at Bridgton Academy. On ac-
count of his father's health he remained at
home, helping on the farm until March, 1890.
He then came to his present place, which is
known as the Daniel Green farm. Besides
attending to his farm work, for the past eight
years, in company with his brother, he has
carried on lumbering quite e.xtensively in the
northern part of Oxford County. Being a
hard worker, and having a good deal of prac-
tical sense, his undertakings have usLially
terminated successfully.

On September 22, 1889, Wr. Pike was mar-
ried to Miss Edith Nevers, who was born
March 30, 1865, daughter of Marshall and
Mary E. (Sanders) Nevers. Mr. Nevers was
born in Sweden, Me., June 14, 1825. His
wife, also a native of Sweden, died in Norway,
in 1879. He was farming in Sweden until
1885, when, with his son, William H., he re-
moved to Brown County, Nebraska. He re-
turned some time ago, and is now living with
Mr. Pike. On September 18, 1861, he en-
listed at Sweden in Company B, Twenty-third
Maine Volunteers, for a term of nine months,
at the end of which he returned home. His
health has since been greatly impaired by
rheumatism, brought on by exposure while in
the army. His other children were: Mary
and Clara, deceased; William H., who mar-
ried Miss Nellie M. Frye, and is now engaged
in farming in Brown County, Nebraska; and

Aramiiita, also deceased. .Mr. and Mrs. Pike
have six children, all living, namely: Clay-
ton, born December 15, [890; .Marion, born
in 1891 : ArdelJ, born June 3, 1892; Augusta,
born August 30. 1893; Nellie, born October
3, 1894; and John Marshall, horn December
10, 1895. In politics Mr. Pike is a loyal Re-
publican. He is an esteemed member of Ox-
ford Lodge, No. fji. Independent Oriler of
Odd I-"ellows, of North Waterford.

(5 I HOMAS CROSWELL. a former mer-

' I chant of P'armington l'"alls, now living
in retirement, was born in his present
home, November 23, 1825. He is a son of
Thomas and Mary (Gower) Croswell and a
grandson of Andrew and .Sarah Croswell.
His great-grandfather, the Re\'. .Andrew Cros-
well, who graduateti at Harvard College in
the class of 1728, was a noted Congrega-
tional minister.

Thomas Croswell, Sr., was a native of
Plymouth, Mass., born April 8, 1791. U]5on
the death of his father, being then about fif-
teen years of age, he went to live with his
brother .Samuel in Paris, Oxford County.
Afterward he lived in Mercer, Me., where his
brother Andrew was practising as a physician ;
and there, after the close of the War of 18 12,
he opened a store. In 18 16 he sold his stock
in trade; and, renting a building in P'arming-
ton Ealls, he conducted a successful mercan-
tile business for two years. At the end (jf
that time he purchased the Squire Morrill
stand, where he had commenced business, and
erected a store. Without the facilities which
make things so easy for the merchant of to-
day, and obliged to bring his goods from Au-
gusta and Hallowell by wagon, he yet estab-
lished a very large trade. Leaving an un-
blemished reputation for probit)', he died in
1879, aged eighty-eight years. His wife, who
was a daughter of James Gower, of Industry,
was about the same age at her death. They
were the parents of nine chiklren — Mary G.,
Sarah P., Thomas, Andrew C, Susan G.,
James H. G., Micah .S., Elizabeth B. , and
Hannah F.

Thomas Croswell received his book learning
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l-'armington Academy. At the same time he
was acquiring a knowledge of business in his
father's store, where he began to make himself
useful when very young. He spent his vaca-
tions in the store, and after he reached
twenty-one he did most of the buying. In
1866, with his brother Andrew C, he bought
his father's interest. Under the new manage-
ment the business went on increasing until it
reached mammoth proportions. In 188S
Thomas Croswell .sold his share to his brother,
and retired from trade. His other interests,
however, give him ample occupation for his
time. He owns a valuable farm and a num-
ber of tenement-houses, and lias dealt to some
extent in lumber.

On October 22, 1861, he was married to
Harriet J. Taylor, who was born September
10, 1830, in Danvers, Mass., daughter of John
Taylor, of Farmington. Mr. Croswell has no
children. He is active in politics as a Re-
publican, and he occupied a seat in the legis-
lature in 1872 and 1873. Roth Mr. and Mrs.
Croswell are active in the Congregational
church at I-"armington j-'alls, and contribute
generously toward its su|5port.

3^R.\ JUSTIN WARRINER, a young
I and enterprising merchant of Fryeburg,
J_ Me., was born in this town, March
27, 1864, son of Chauncey and y\bbie
Clement (Towle) Warriner. Justin Warriner,
Mr. Warriner's grandfather, was a prosperous
farmer of I'ryeburg in his day.

Chauncey Warriner, Mr. Warriner's father,
was born in Vershire, Yi. In young manhood
he learned the trade of watchmaker and jew-
eller. He carried on business in W'ashington,
I). C, and in Philadelphia until, in 1862, he
came to P'rveburg, where he resided for the
rest of his life. He died February 6, 1S84.
His wife, formerly Abbie C. Towle, who sui-
vives him, was born in P^ryeburg, and is a
daughter of Dr. Ira and .Sarah Clement Towle.
P)r. Towle, a native of Newfield, Me. , was a
well-known physician of P'ryeburg for nearly
half a century. His wife was a native of this
town. Mrs. Chauncey Warriner now resides
with her son, Ira J. .She is the mother of
three children, as follows: Mary, wife of

Charles P". Lord, a jeweller in Windham, Me. ;
lulson, who is a jeweller by trade, but is now
teaching music in Seattle, Wash. ; and Ira J.,
the subject of this sketch.

Ira J. Warriner was educated in the common
schools and at the P'ryeburg Academy. With
the exception of a year spent in Portland he
has always made his home in P'ryeburg. In
April, 1895, he formed a partnership with
P'rank A. Hill for the purpose of carrying on
the grocerv business and the manufacture of
clothing. This firm continued in business
until February, 1896, w^hen it was disscdved.
Retaining possession of the store, Mr. Warri-
ner has since conducted it alone. He occupies
spacious and centrally located quarters, which
are well stocked with a full line of staple
goods, including groceries, provisions, and
agricultural implements; and he has a large
and constantly increasing patronage.

In politics he is a Democrat, but has never
aspired to public office. He is a member of
Lodge No. 34, Knights of Pythias, and is con-
nected with the Pilgrim Insurance Company.
Mr. Warriner's mother is a member of the
New Jerusalem church, whose cheerful system
of religious faith is based on the teachings of
iMiianuel Swedenborg.

r^TON. DANIEL BROWN, wdio has
l-^-l been Town Treasurer of Waterford,
J_U I Me., for over twenty years, was

— ' born in this town, January i, 1826,
the son of Thaddeus, Jr., and Asenath
(Nourse) Brown.

His grandfather, who also was named Thad-
deus Brown, was born in Harvard, Mass. He
moved to Waterford, Me., in 1786, and, set-
tling on a farm about a mile east of Waterford
P'lat, engaged in farming and lumbering, be-
coming in course of time one of the most ex-
tensive dealers in land and lumber in that sec-
tion. He married Mary Pollard, and a family
of nine children grew up about him; namely,
Daniel, Malbory, Jabez, Susan. Le\i, Thad-
deus, Jr., Mary, Mercy, and Sarah.

Thaddeus Brown, Jr.. the father abo\e
named, was a native and lifelong resident of
Waterford; and his wife also passed her days
from birth to death in that town. They, too,

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had nine children. Theodore, the eldest, who
was born in 1824, and died in Watcrford in
i<S6i, was a Captain in the State militia. He
married Clara Bryant. Daniel, the second
son, is the sid)ject of this article. Mercy,
horn March 29, i82cS, is the wife of .Scribner
Chadbonrne, a farmer, formerly of W'aterford,
now of Vandal ia. 111. The third son, named
John, died yonng. Mary is the widow of
Charles H. Hale, late of Augusta, Wis., who
died in February, i8g6, leaving one son,
Charles. Waldo T. Brown is a prominent
farmer of Waterford, a sketch of whom appears
in this \olume. Ellen M. is the wife of EI-
bridge Stone, a blacksmith and farmer of
Waterford. Myra A. is the wife of W. H.
Bailey, a clothing manufacturer now living in
Harrison village, Me., and has two children.
Angenette, who is unmarried, lives with her
sister, Mrs. Mary Hale, in Augusta, Wis.

Daniel Brown attended the common schools
of his native town, laying up a store of knowl-
edge which served as a foundation fur the
superstructure of experience. He began to do
farm chores when a boy, and as he grew older
assumed heavier and more responsible duties.
In 1851 he came to his present home in
Waterford Flat, which was then owned by his
Uncle Daniel, a retired trader. Mr. Brown
has achieved marked success as a farmer. He
now owns about two hundred acres of land in
Waterford, which is available for tillage and
pasturage; and his sleek anil well-kept cows
produce a rich cream, for which he finds a
ready market.

Mr. Brown was married October 15, 1850,
to Miss Mary Stone, who was born in Water-
ford, December 31, 1830, the daughter of
Alonzo and Sally (Watson) Stone. Her par-
ents also were natives of Waterford. Her
father, who was a farmer, died about 1869,
and her mother in October, 1890. Six chil-
dren were born to this couple, namely: Henry
P., who died in 187 i ; Leander, a carpenter of
Waterford Flat, who married Jane Warren;
Mary, Mrs. Brown; Harriet, wife of James
Sullivan, a machinist of Dorchester, Mass.;
Charlotte M., living in Somerville, Ma.ss. ;
and Lewis F., a baker in Somerville, who
married Miss Sarah Chase.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown have two children.

The elder, Florence Agnes, who was born
January 31, 1852, is the widow of the Rev.
Orlando A. Rounds, a clergyman of the Uni-
versalist church, to whom she was married
June 30, 1875. Mr. Rounds was iiorn in New
York State, June 13, 1849. lie preached in
Bridgton, Me., two years, in I'otsdam, N.Y.,
five years, and in Utica, N.Y., five years.
He died at the age of thirty-eight, December
27, 1887, leaving three children — Lawrence
Rexford, born December 8, 1S76. a graduate
of Bridgton (Me.) Academy: Mary I-'lorence,
born October 25, 1S78, who is attending
Douglas Seminary at Waterford Flat, Me.;
and Marguerite, born June 15, 1S87, who died
April 27, 1890. Mr. Bnnvn's second daugh-
ter, Helen May, who was born January 6,
1873, is a graduate of Douglas Seminary,
Waterford, in the class of '892, and has
taught school several terms in Norway and
Waterford.

Mr. Brown has \i)ted the Democratic ticket
ever since attaining his majority. He is a
Justice of the Peace, and has held many town
offices, including that of Selectman, to which
he was elected several times, and of Town
Treasurer, in which capacity he has served for
over twenty years. He was a member of the
State legislature in 1886. His daughter,
Mrs. Rounds, is Po.stmistress at Waterford.
Mr. Brown is also prominent in local frater-
nities, belonging to Lodge No. 132, A. F. &
A. M., of Waterford; Keoka Chapter, No. 12,
of the Eastern Star. He and his family at-
tend the Universalist church.

ENRY HERBERT RICE, .senior
member of the firm Rice & Paine,
Is I and a prominent dry-goods merchant

of Farmington, was born in Strong,
Me., Sei)tember 4, 185 1, son of Richard .S.
and Susan (Lockhart) Rice. Richard Rice,
the grandfather of Henry Herbert, was a na-
tive of Scarboro, Me. He came to Farming-
ton among the early settlers, bought two him-
dred acres of new land, situated in the eastern
part of the town, and besides clearing it
brought it to a good state of cultivation. He
died in his prime at the age of thirty-six
years, and his farm is now owned by J. Par-

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ham. lie married Hannah l-iates, a native of
St. John, N.]->. , whose only child was Rich-
ard S.

Richard S. Rice was educated in the dis-
trict schools and at the Farmington Academy,
and after completing his studies he was for a
time engaged in teaching school. He served
an apprenticeshi[) to the tailor's trade; and,
after carrying on business in Greene, New
Portland, and Strong, he established him.sclf
in Farmington, where he remained for four
years. Removing then to Wilton, he was in
business there for three years. At the end of
that time he returned to this town, and, pur-
chasing a residence on High Street, resided
here until his death, which occurred when he
was thirty-si.\ years old. He was a very ca-
pable business man, and jjossessed a great
amount of natural ability. For a time he
served as Town Clerk, to which office he was
elected by the Republican party. He was a
Mason, being a member of Maine Lodge of
Farmington. His wife, Susan, who survives
him, residing with her son in this town, is a
daughter of William Lockhart, a native of
.Stuart town, County Tyrone, Ireland. She
reared two children, namely: Abbie, who is
the wife of j. H. Clifford, of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
and has two children — Charlotte S. and
Hilda R. ; and Henry H., the subject of this
sketch.

Henry Herbert Rice acquiretl his education
in the district schools, Kent's Hill Seminary,
and in the Normal School at F^armington.
After finishing his studies he entered mercan-
tile pursuits as a clerk in H. Ramsdell's dry-
goods store, where he remained until 1870.
In that year he went to Florida, where he re-
mained for some six months, occupied in
school-teaching and the lumber business. Re-
turning home in 1871, he bought a half-inter-
est in the business carried on by Mr. Rams-
dell, his former employer. This connection
had lasted ten years when he sold his interest
to his partner, and started on a visit to the
Western States with a view of settling in
one of them. He was not favorably impressed
with the country, so he returned here, and
opened a dry goods stock in the William Tar-
box store. Main Street. Under his able direc-
tion the business so increased that more space

was soon needed. He now occupies the Dol-
bier & Waugh Block, and the establishment is
the largest of its kind in Franklin County.
Besides dealing extensively in dry and fancy
goods, he has a millinery and cloak department
heavily stocked with seasonable articles and
garments, which are exceedingly attractive to
lady shop])crs. He also conducts a large
branch store in .Madison, Me., where he em-
]iloys four clerks, and does a flourishing busi-
ness. In January, 1894, he admitted F"red G.
Paine to partnership with him in the F'arming-
ton store. The firm not only maintains its
acquired prestige, but is constantly increasing
its popularity and expanding its enterprise.

On September 4, 1882, Mr. Rice wedded
Ida M. Porter, daughter of William B. Porter,
a mechanic of Elgin, Minn. Mrs. Rice is the
mother of one daughter, Bertha M., who was
born in 1884. Mr. Rice takes an active in-
terest in the general progress of the town.
He has been one of the principal [iromoters of
the Farmington water works. In politics he
is a Republican, and he served four years as a
member of the School Board. He occupies a
handsome residence on Main Street. Some
time ago he bought the H. Stewart house on
High Street, which he has since remodelled
and enlarcred.

)/lLLlAM B. LlBAROX, a prosper-
J ous anil widely-known farmer of
Lovell township, was born in
Lovell, April 21, 1829. His parents were
William and Joan (Jordan) I.rBaron. His
father was a lineal descendant, in the fifth
generation, of Dr. F'rancis LeBaron, a highly
educated young F'renchman who was wrecked
off the coast of Massachusetts in 1694, and
who settled in Plymouth, where in the follow-
ing year he married Mary, daughter of PaI-
ward Wilder. Doctor LeBaron died in 1704,
at the age of thirty-six years, having won a
high reputation as a physician and surgeon of
unusual skill. He left three sons — James,
Lazarus, and F'rancis.

William LeBaron was born in .South Paris,
Me., and lived for a while in Albany, this
.State. He moved to Lo\-ell when the jilace
was a wilderness, and was the first settler on

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tlic west side (if Kczar roiul. 1 ravel then was
extremely difficult, for several years the set-
tlers being obliged to swim their horses across
the pond in order to reach the other side. Mr.
William LeHaron was engaged- in farming in
Lovell up to the time of his death, which oc-
curred on August lO, 1863, when he was sixt)--
seven years of age. He was twice married.
II is first w'ife, Joan, the mother of his son
William B., was the daughter of a Revolution-
ary soldier, who was in the Continental army
seven years. She was born in dray. Me.,
and reared in Albany, whither her father
moved when she was a child. Mrs. Joan J.
LeBaron died September 15, 1856, aged fifty-
five years. .She was the mother of twelve chil-
dren, namely: Lvman, James, and William,
deceased ; Temperance, widow of Levi Parker,
living in .South Waterboro village, York
County; William B., the subject of this
sketch; James, James (second), Ruth, Orrin
B. , and Henrietta, deceased; Harriet, wife of
John M. Marr, of Lewiston, Me. ; and Wales,
deceased. The father's second wife was Mrs.
Phebe Jordan Rand, his first wife's sister, and
widow of Nathaniel Rand. She, too, has
passed awa\'.

William B. LeBaron was educated in the
common schools of his native town. He re-
mained on the home farm with his father and
mother until 1856, when he went to Pennsyl-
vania; and for two years and a half he was en-
gaged in lumbering in Cambria County. Re-
•turning then to Lovell he resumed his old
place, and when his parents died succeeded to
ownership of the homestead, where he now
lives. Lngaging in general husbandry he
raised snme stock, and kept a dairy, selling-
cream, and in the course of time made many
imjjrovements on the farm. He has worked
hard to attain his present prosperity, shirking
no task, howe\-er difficult, and is now enjoying
the fruit of his industry, having recenth' ilis-
posed of his land to his son, Mandel A.

Mr. LeBaron was marrictl Jidy 2 i , 1855, to
Miss Melissa Fox, a native of Ptjrter, this
county, daughter of John and Clarinda (Stan-
ley) l-"ox. Mr. Fox was born in Gilmanton,
N.H., December 7, 1795. He settled in

Lovell in 1848, and was engaged here in farm-
ing up to the time of his death, May 6, 1859.

Ilis wife was horn in Shaiileigii. Me., I'"ebruary
4, 1809, and died in Lovell, January 29, 1873.
Nine children have blessed the union of Mr.
and Mrs. LeBaron : Charles I-'remont, boiii
December 15, 1856, died in infancy; Roscoe

A., born September

i8c8, manied Miss

Lucy B. McAllister, and lives near his father;
Herbert A., born May 23, i860, married Miss
Mabel Foss, of Turner, Me., and now resides
at Rumford l-'alls, this State; Lincoln, born
July 29, 1863, met his death by diowning in
the State of Oregon, July 9, 1886; Mandel A.-,
born P^ebruary 19, 1865, is with his parents;
John F., born March 26, 1870, married Miss
Carrie B. Grogan, of Pennsylvania, and is now-
living in Rumford P'alls; Roy, born .Septem-
ber 12, 1875, is attending school in Kumfoid
Falls, tlus .State. Two younger children ilietl
in infancy. Mr. LeBaron has voted the Re-
publican ticket since he was first qualified to
exercise the right of suffrage. ?Ie and his
wife are members of the Congregational church
at Lovell Centre.

IDNEY T. BROWN, M.D., a

graduate of the Medical .School of
Maine, class of 1874, is a well-
known physician of ]Jenmark, Ox-
ford Count)-, where he holds the office of Town
Clerk. He was born in Sebago, Me., August
19, 1 84 1, son of William S. and Ada (Storer)
Brown. Dr. Brown's grandfather, John B.
Brown, who was a nati\-e of Baldwin, Me.,
settled u])ou a farm in .Sebago, where he be-
caiiie jjrosperous as an agriculturist; and he
dietl there in i 847.

Williani S. Brown, Dr. Brdwn's father, was
born in .Sebago. When a young man he
adopted the occu]iatioii of a miller; but after
following that business in his native town for
a number of years he n-ioved to Corham, Me.,
where he engaged in tilling the snil, and re-
sided there until his death. His wife, Ada
-Storei-, w-ho was a native of .Sebago, became
the n-idther of seven children, as follows: .Sid-
ne)- T., the subject of this sketch; Harley G.,
who is married and li\-es in Mount Holly,
N.J. ; Silas, who married lillen Rand, of
Brownfield, and is carrying on a butchering
business in coni-iection with farming in West

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Gorliam, Mf. ; Iixiiig ()., who died in iHiS-;
John, who is no longer living; and Othello and
Lewcllyn, who are carrying on the undertaking
business in (iorham, Me. Mrs. Ada Storer
Brown is now residing with her son in Gorham.

Sidney T. Brown grew to manhood in Se-
bago, acquiring his early education in the
common schools. On September 29, 1862, he
enlisted as a musician in Company K, Twenty-
fifth Regiment, Maine Volunteers, under Colo-
nel Franci.s Fessenden and Cajitain Asa C.
Palmer, for service in the Civil War. Nine
months later, on July i, 1863, he received his
discharge; and on September 20, 1S64, he re-
enlisted in the same capacity in Company C,
Ninth Regiment, with which he served until
the close of the war, being mustered out at
Raleigh, N. C. , June 30, 1865. His jirofes-
sional studies were begun at Denmark Corner,
and continued at the medical school connected
with Bowdoin College, where he was gradu-
ated with the class of 1874. Since settling in
Denmark in 1875, Dr. Brown has acquired a
wide reputation as a skilful and reliable physi-
cian, having built up an extensive and lucrative
practice, which he still maintains in this and
the adjoining towns.

In 1877 Dr. Sidney T. ]?rown was united in
marriage with Augusta Harriman, of Lovell,
Me., daughter of Moses and Mar\- ((iile) Har-
riman, late of that town. Politically, the
Doctor is a Republican, and has abl\- filled the
office of Town Clerk for the past eleven years.
He is connected with the Masonic fraternity,
being at the present time Master of Mount Mo-
riah Lodge, No. 56, of Denmark ; and he is
also a member of Denmark Lodge, No. 50,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Both
])rofessionaIly and socially he occupies a prom-
inent position among the leading residents of
Denmark, and is spoken of by his fellow-
townsmen with the highest regard. Mrs.
Brown is a member of the Comrregational
church.

ALEB W. CILMORE, a succe.s.sful
farmer of Industry and formerh- a
member of the Board of Selectmen,
was born in this town, August 29,
1831, son of James and Rachel (Wade) Gil-

more. Mr. Gilmore's parents were natives of
Woolwich ; and his father was born October i 7,
1798. Mr. Gilmore's paternal grandparents,
William F. and Mary (Trout) Gilmore, re-
sided in Woolwich, his grandfather being a
civil engineer and a farmer.

James Gilmore, Mr. Gilmore's father, who
was the first of the family to settle in Indus-
try, arrived in March, 1830. He bought the
l^lisha Drew farm, which is now owned by his
son, Caleb W. , and he resided here for the rest
of his life. He died August 14, 1868. In
1840 he was elected a member of the Board of
Selectmen, to which body he was twice re-
elected; and he was a Deacon of the Baptist
church in Starks. He was twice married ; and
his first wife, whom he wedded November 6,
1823, was before marriage Lucy Wade. She
was born in Woolwich, ]\Iay 21, 1795; and she
died January 21, 1S27. By this union there
were two children: Mary H., who was born
February i, 1S25, and is now the widow of
Amasa Works, who died August i, 1866; and
Luc\' \\'ade, who was born January 21, 1827,
married William B. Tibbetts, and died No-
vember 12, 1867. On September i, 1828,
James Gilmore married for his second wife
Rachel Wade, his first wife's sister, and she
became the mother of eight children, namely:
David, who was born in 1829, and died
October 29, 1S92, survived by his widow, ^Irs.
Emma Gardner Gilmore, who resides in
Sangerville, Me. ; Caleb W. , the subject of
this sketch ; Hannah Preble, who was born
August 5, 1833, and died April 13, 1857;
Betsey Jane, who was born March 25, 1836,
married Titcomb Collins, and died November
25, 1866; Johanna Payson, who was born F"eb-
ruary 29, 1839, and died I\Iarch 8, 1863 ; Will-
iam James, who was born Jul\' 12, 1841,
married Margaret Broderic, and is now a
prosperous farmer of Industr)- ; Ahner Wade,
who was born January 30, 1843, and died June

7, 1850; and Bradford, who was born Januar)-

8, 1S45, and died in 1862, while serving in
the Civil W'ar. Mrs. Rachel Wade Gilmore
died July 27, 1853.

Caleb W. Gilmore, the second son born to
his parents, James and Rachel Gilmore, ac-
quired his education in the schools of his
native town. At the age of nineteen he went

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to sea, but al'uer remaining away lioni lionic
tlirec ^ears he returned and took charge of the
farm. He has since resided here with tlie ex-
ception of a year spent in Starks, and owns
l)esides the home farm of one hunched and
twenty-two acres some valuable outlying land.
He carries on general farming, making a spe-
cialty of ]iroducing corn, hay, and ])Otatoes ;
and he also raises shee]).

On November 6, 1856, Mr. Gilmore wedded
Nancy N. Manter. .She was born in Industry,
November 25, 1831, daughter of William \V.
and Betsey W. (Norton) Manter. Her par-
ents, who were natives of this town, afterward
engaged in farming in New Sharon. They are
no longer living. Mrs. Gilmore died June i,
1895, leaving no children.

Politically, Mr. Gilmore aflfiliates with the
Republican party. He has served with abil-
ity as a .Selectman and as a member of the
School Board. He has been an active and in-
dustrious man, but of late his health is some-
what impaired as the result of overwork ; and
he emjiloys Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo L. Pomeroy
to' assist u]ion the farm and manage his
houseiiold. In his religious lielief he is a
Baptist.

RANKLIN PORTER, a well-to-do
farmer of Paris, O.xford County, Me.,
was born here, October 18, 1829, son of
John and iuuiice (Hicks) Porter. His father
was born in Yarmouth, Cumberland County,
Me., ( )ctober 7, 179.5, and his mother in the
same place, September 27, 1790. The first
representative of this branch of the Porter fam-
ily in New Plngland was Richard Porter, who
settled in Weymouth, Mass., in 1635. (A
full account of the family may be found in the
Porter Genealogy by the Hon. Joseph W. Por-
ter, of Bangor. )

Nehemiah Porter, father of John, was born
in Scituate, Mass., December 14, 1758; and
his wife, Joanna Barber Porter, was a native of
Gray, Me. They had thirteen children, and
a'll grew to maturity; namely, Sylvanus, Su-
sanna, Lucy, Lydia, Stephen, John, Charles,
Benjamin, Joainia, Mary, Leonard, William
Barber, and Rufus. None of the family now
survive. Their father, who was a hard worker

and successful fanner, died in \'arniouth at a
good age.

John Porter grew to manliood in \'armouth,
where he learned the trade of a shoemaker.
He was in the War of 1X12, and that year or
the year following he came to Paris and set-
tled on the farm where his son I'ranklin now
lives. It was then co\'ered with timber, which
he cut and sold to [jay foi- the land; and game
was plentiful. Although he came here a |joor
man and was obliged to buy his land on creilit,
he was industrious and ac<|uired consideralile
means. He was prominent in town affairs, and
the Baptist church edifice on Paris Hill was
erected by him. He dieil October 12, 1855;
and his wife, Lunice Hicks Porter, died April
II, 1886, at the venerable age oi ninety-five
years, si.x months, and fourteen days. Her
parents, Joseph and Eunice Hicks, both lived
to a good age, her father dying November 4,
1844, at ninety-seven years and four months;
and her mother Novembei' 1 8, 1834, aged
eighty-two years and four months. Mr. anti
Mrs. John Porter were consistent members of
the Baptist church. In |iolitics he was a
Democrat. They had six chihh'en, as follows;
Sylvanus, born March 31, 1817; Ezekiel L.,
born October 3, 1819, who died January 14,
1869; John B., born August 12, 1821, who is
living in Norwa\' and engaged in farming;
Harriet, born August 20, 1823, now the wife
of Solomon I. Millett, a fainier of Norway;
Joseph H., born March 4, 1826, who is en-
gaged in the real estate business in Wiscon-
sin; and l''ranklin, who is the special subject
of this biographical notice.

P'ranklin Porter, the youngest child, grew to
manhood on the old homestead. He was edu-
cated in the district schools, and at twenty-
one started out for himself as a farm laborer,
receiving but a small compensation for his ser-
vices. P"or two or three years thereafter he
was engaged in construction work on the Grand
Trunk Railroad and for one summer in Wy-
oming County, New York State, on the Alton
& Erie Railroad. He was next employed for
a year as a truckman in the city of Boston.
About the time of his father's death he re-
turned to Paris, settled up his father's affairs,
and purchased the old homestead, the place
where he now resides, and where he is success-

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fullv engaged in general farming. He owns
ail together about three hundred acres. On
the home place are good buildings and a fine
orchard set with apple and pear trees. He
enjoys well-merited jjrosperit}', having ac-
quired his ]irn|)ert\' by hard work and honest
dealings.

On September 15, 1S5CS, Mr. Porter was
united in marriage with Miss Martha M. Mil-
lett, who was born in Norwa_v, Me., March 31,
1839, daughter of Nathan and Mercy (Samp-
son) Millett. Her father, who was an enter-
prising farmer, was born in Norway in Sep-
tember, 1800; and her mother was born in the
same place in September, 1804. Mr. and
Mrs. Porter have four sons, all living: Francis
E. Porter, born October 5, 1861, is engaged
in farming with his father, married Miss Olive
Walker, and has one child — Helen M., the
only grandchild; Junot N. Porter, born May
5, 1865, is a farmer in Eureka, Wis. ; Joseph
H. Porter, born June 23, 1869, is employed on
the electric railroad in Boston; and John A.
Porter, born July 3, 1876, lives at the parental
home. Only the eldest son is married.

Mr. Porter is independent in politics. He
was Selectman for three years, and has held
other offices. Since 1862 he has been a mem-
ber of Paris Lodge, No. 94, A. V. & A. M.,
at South I'aris; is a member of West Paris
Lodge, No. 15, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows; and he and his wife are charter
members of the Patrons of Husbandry at South
Paris and charter members also of the Rebecca
Lodge at West Paris. Mrs. I'orter is a com-
municant of the Baptist chiu-ch at Paris Hill.
He is liberal in his relifiious views.

lCA;/rLLIAM U. BRETT, of South
Paris, O.xford County, Me., who has
in his day been one of the hard-
working, progressive farmers of this countv,
but is now living in comparative retirement
from business cares and the toil of the har-
vest fields, was born in the town of Paris,
November 9, 1822, son of Martin and Ruth
(Durell) Brett.

The first ancestor of the family of whom
there is any mention in Colonial history was
William Brett, a native of Kent, 1-Ingland, who

emigrated to America about 1640, and first
settled in Du.xbury, Mass. He became one of
the original proprietors of the town of Bridge-
water, Mass., where he was prominent in both
church and town affairs, often filling the pul-
pit in the absence of the regular minister; and
he was frequently chosen to represent the town
in the General Court of the colony. He died
in 1681 ; and the descent continues through
Nathaniel and Sarah (Hayward) Brett, Seth
and Sarah (Alden) Brett, to Mr. Brett's great-
grandparents, Simeon and Mehitable (Packard)
Brett, the former of whom was the first ances-
tor of the family to visit Maine. He came to
O.xford County probably upon a prospecting
tour, accompanied by his son, Amzi ; and the
latter bought a tract of wild land situated
about one mile from the ]iresent village of
South Paris.

Amzi Brett, Mr. Brett's grandfather, was
born in Bridgewater, May 3, 1762; and while
still a mere youth he served as a private in the
Continental arm)- in the Revolutionary War,
for which in his old age he received a pension.
Some years after his marriage to I'hebe Pack-
ard, which occurred in 1788, he settled in
Paris, as previously mentioned ; and with the
aid of his son Martin he built a small frame
house and cleared and improved the land into
a good farm, where he resided for the rest of
his life. He died at the age of eighty, ha\ing
survived his wife many years. His children
were: Sophia, Martin, Charlotte, Ira, and
Phebe. Mr. Amzi Brett was a member of the
Congregational church.

IMartin Brett, son of Amzi and Phebe, was
born in Bridgewater, March 26, 1794. He
assisted in clearing the homestead farm in
Paris, having accompanied his parents here
when a young man ; and, inheriting the prop-
erty, he continued to till the soil until his
death, which took place when he was seventy-
two years old. His wife, whom he wedded
January 13, 1819, was Ruth, daughter of David
Durell. She became the mother of five chil-
dren, as follows: Apphia; William D., the
subject of this sketch; Sophia P. ; Mary Ann;
and Henrv M., who served as a soldier in the
Civil War, and died at the hospital in Wash-
ington, January 16, 1864. Mrs. Ruth Durell
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William D. I^ictt. the ilatc of whdsc birtli
has been made kimwii to the reader, passed his
childhood and \onth in his native town, attend-
ing the public schools, where he acquired a
practical knowledge of the ordinary branches
of study; and he resided at home, assisting his
father in carrying on the farm, imtil reaching
the age of twenty years. He then worked for
some time in the mills, carefully saving his
earnings; and when he had accumulated a suffi-
cient sum with which to start in life for him-
self he bought the homestead property, erected
a new set of buildings, and improved the farm
generally. For many years he industriously
applied his energy and ability to agricultural
jnirsuits, which he conducted with exceedingly
prosperous financial results until 1888, when
he sold his property to a Mr. Churchill, with
the intention of retiring permanently from ex-
tensive labors. He bought the H. Richardson
place in .South Paris, where he has since re-
sided, owning a small farm adjoining; and,
to avoid irksome leisure, as an\'thing like idle-
ness is far from being congenial to his nature
while he has strength to work, he cultivates
the land.

On May 7, 1855, Mr. I^rett was united in
marriage with Ruth B., daughter of Jonas and
Abigail (Bradbury) Hamilton. Jonas Hamil-
ton was a native of North Yarmouth, Me., who
settled in Paris in 1821,. and for many year.s
drove a four-horse team engaged in hauling
freight between that town and I'ortland, the
customar\' charge being fifty cents jier hundred-
weight. After the opening of the raihva)' he
retired, and resided in Paris until his death,
which took place when he was eighty-five
ye;irs (del. His wife, who lived to be eight\'-
two, dietl in 1870. She was the mother of six
children, all of whom grew to maturity, as fol-
lows : Rachel L. ; William; Phebe Ann;
Ruth B., who is now Mrs. Brett; Jonas and
Nancy, the last named being twins.

Mr. and Mrs. Brett have had three children,
namely: Charles E., an express and freight
teamster of this town, who was born April 3,
1S56, married Jennie L. I5riggs, and has one
child, Ava; Herman 1'., foreman in a shoe
factory at Beverly, who was born November
19, 1859, married Sarah Moody, and has one
daughter, Georgia May; and Joseph W. , who

was horn l'"ebruar\' 8, 1862, and dicti June 25,
1865.

In politics Mr. I^rett is a Republican, and
has served the town well and faithfullv in some
of the imi)ortant offices. in his religious f.iith
he is a Congregationalist.

T^APTAIN CKORGP: R. Pj-RXALD,
I V-^ one of the most pron)inent business
^^(s men and influential residents nf

Wilton, an ex-.State Senator, a
member of (jovernor Robie'.s Council in 1885
and 1886, and a veteran of the Civil War, was
born in South Levant, Penobscot Count)', Me.,
June 25, 1835, son of Robert and Roxanna
(Buswell) P'ernald. Captain P^ernald is a de-
scendant ol an old New Hampshire family,
representatives of which resided in Loudon ;
and his grandfathei', David P'einakl, who
owned and cultivated a good farm in that town,
died at about middle age.

Robert P\'rnald, Captain i^'einald's father,
was born in Loudon; and in \oung manhocnl
he learned the tratle of a tanner. In earh' life
he went to Penob.scot County, Maine, where
for a time he owned and operated mills and a
tannery at P'xeter ; and he later became propri-
etor of a mill in South Levant. Besides carry-
ing on these mills he bought large tracts of
timber lanil, and was engaged in lumbering for
several years, or until his death, which took
place when he was fifty-five years old. In
politics he su])portetl the Demociatic party,
and in his religious views was a Methodist.
His wife, Roxanna Buswell, survived him
many years, attaining the age of eight}'-eight
years, four months, and eight da}'s. His
children were: Charles G. ; (jeorge R., the
subject of this sketch ; Merritt C. ; and Mary.

George R. P'ernald attended the common
and high schools, and completed his .studies at
the l-last Maine Conference .Seminary at Bucks-
port. After finishing his education he re-
turned home, and, taking charge of the home-
stead farm, carried it on until August 21,
1S62, when he enlisted for service in the Civil
War, eointr to the front as .Second Lieutenant
of Company V, Eighteenth Regiment, Heavy
Artillery. (3n PY^bruary 28, 1863, he was
promoted to the rank of P'irst Lieutenant, and

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on November ", i8(l4, was commissioned a
Captain, and scrveil as sucii until the close of
the war. During his h)ng and honorable term
of service with the Eighteenth Maine, whose
record occupies a prominent place in the his-
tory of the l\ei)elli<in, lie |)artici]xited in many
important battles, including Spottsylvania,
Petersburg, North Anna Ki\-er, Cold Harbor,
Sailor's Creek, and others, and tooi< an active
part in the campaign whicli resulted in the
surrender of (ieneral Lee at A|)pomattox Com t-
house. At tiie battle of Petersburg he re-
ceived a serious wound in tlie foot, from which
he has never fully recovered. He was mus-
tered out with iiis regiment in September,
1865.

Taking iiis father's mills after reaching
home, and adding grist-mill facilities, he op-
erated them for three years, when he sold the
entire plant and removed to Wilton, where he
has since found ample opportunities to display
his energy and business ability to profitable ad-
vantage. In 1886 he bought of Seth Bass the
Wilton grist-mill, which he has improved by
developing the water-power and putting in new
machinery; and his full equipment is kejit
constantly busy. Pie handles all kinds of
grain and feed by the carload, whicli he grinds,
and su]iplies to farmers and tlealers in Wilton
and the adjacent towns; and he also does a
great deal of custom grinding. In 1881 he
bought and built upon the A. Mosman place,
but later sold it, and, in compaii)' with 1\. C.
Fuller, purchased a saw-mill, which they im-
proved and operated for some time; and he
then sold his interest to Mr. Holt.

As a progressive citizen Captain P'ernald is
always to be depended upon for his aid and
inflLience in securing any desired public im-
provement; and the Wilton P'ire Company, of
which he is President, owes its existence and
success largely to his energy and instrumental-
ity. This movement was organized for the
]uirpose of protecting the business centre of
the town against fire; and a large sixty-horse-
power pump has been placed at the Wilton
grist-mill, where sufificient force is always
available to supjily the water for extinguishing
fires. 'Pile wisdom and success of the scheme
was fully demonstrated in July, 1896, when
the rijiparatus pmved its usefulness by putting

out a fire which originated in the Masonic
Building and threatened to destroy the entire
central portion of the village.

Captain I'ernald has been twice married.
His first wife, Jane Blake, daughter of Zebu-
Ion Blake, of Carmel, Me., died at the age of
thirty-three years, leaving one son — Gardner,
who married I'anny P'enderson. The son is
now engaged in business with his father.

Caiitain P"ernald's second wife, P^liza Wood-
bury, daughter of James Woodbury, of Dover,
Me., died in 1896, aged si.xty-three.

Politicall}', Captain F"ernald is a Republi-
can; and wliile residing in South Levant he
was three times elected a member of the Board
of Selectmen. He represented this district in
the lower branch of the legislature during the
years 1875 '"'''^l 18/6, was a member of the
State Senate for the years 1S80 and 1881, and
was appointed to serve in Governor Robie's
Council in 1885 and 1886. In Masonry Cap-
tain Fernald has advanced to the Royal Arch
degree, being a member of the Blue Lodge of
Wilton, and of the chapter in P'armington;
and he is a comrade of the Grand Array of the
Republic Post here in Wilton. As an enter-
prising, [niblic-sjiirited citizen he ranks foie-
most among the leading residents of this town ;
and his zeal for the general welfare of the com-
munity is heartily appreciated. Pie is an active
member of the Methodist Plpiscopal church.

OHN FON, Third Selectman of Lovell,
Me., a veteran of the war of the Re-
bellion, is one of the most extensive
land-owners in Oxford Count}', and has
achieved his present prosperity by persevering
application to useful labor. He was born in
Porter, Me., October 29, 1838, a son of John
and Clarinda (Stanley) P^ox.

John Fox, the father, was born in Gilman-
ton, N.H., December 7, 1795, and lived there
for a number of years. He subsequently re-
moved to Porter, where he managed a grist-
mill, and was engaged in general farming
until 1848. In that year he settled in "the
P'ox neighborhood'" in Lovell, where he fol-
lowed agricultural pursuits. Pie died May 6,
1859: and his wife, who was horn in Shap-
leigh. Me., I'"ebruary 4, I S09, died January

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257

-9-' ^'^73- I'It-'V were the parents nl' ten chil-
dren, namely: Sarah S., born Ma\- J,, 1S30,
who (lieil September J4, 184S: Nathaniel,
born I'ebruary 12, 1832, who died January 3,
1S49; Melissa, who was born iMoveniber 28,
1833, is now the wife of William Le Baron,
and lives in Lovell near her brother John;
Serena H., born October 18, 1836, who be-
came the wife of Edward Wells, and died in
September, i860; John, the subject of this
sketch; Lewis, born November 22, 1841, now
residing in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and who married for his first wife Maria
Stanley, and for his second iCllen Dale;
Jane, born in Porter, I'ebruary 28, 1844,
now the w^ife of Josiah D. Hatch, and resitl-
ing on a farm near North Lovell; Ahiry, born
I'ebruary 19, 1846, now the wife of Moses
Harriman, of Berlin, N.H.; William S.,
born July 30, 1848, in Lovell, who married
Miss Harriet McAllister, and resides in Nor-
way, Me. : Nathaniel, the youngest, born May
11, 1851, who married Miss Caroline An-
drews, and resides o4i a farm in Lovell, near
the old homestead.

John Fox, who was the second son born to
iiis parents, John and Clarinda Fox, acquired
a good practical common-school education.
His first journey from home was a long one,
taken in the eventful year 1861, when so many
stalwart sons of Maine bade farewell to home
and kindred, a farewell that for some was
final. Enlisting November 15 in Company
E, Twelfth Maine Regiment, under Colonel
George F. Shepley and Captain Enoch
Knight, he was soon in active service, and
before his term W'as finished had taken part
in twent\-seven engagements, including the
battle of Irish Bend, La., the siege of Port
Hudson, the battle of Malvern Hill, \'a., and
the battles of Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek,
and Winchester, and saw many of his com-
rades fall around him. He received his dis-
charge at Portland, Me., December 7, 1864,
and, returning to Lovell, settled on the farm
where he is now living. Since that time he
has been prosperously engaged in general
farming, and has managed a saw-mill, also
working at .times at carpentry. He owns
about five hundred and thirty acres, wild and
im]3roved land.

lie was married in iSfii to Marietta Horr,
a native of Lovell, born June 30, 1842, daugh-
ter of Josiah and Hannah C. (Heald) Horr.
Mr. Horr was born in Waterford, Me., January
29, 1804. He settled in Lovell at an. early
date on the farm now occupied b\' Mr. J'"o\,
which he cleared and developed; and he
tlied here, December 29, 1877. His wife was
born in Lovell, I^'ebruary 23, r8io, and died
here April 22, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Hurr
were the parents often children, nameK : John
1'., who was killetl October 19, 1864, in the
battle of Cedar Creek; Josiah II., Iiorn ])e-
cember 26, 1831, who dieil in .Septendjer,
i860; Isaac P., born A[)ril 13, 1834, a resi-
dent of Hudson, Mass., who married first Miss
Phiebe Hill, of Denmark, Me., and seconil
Miss Samantha Moore; Moses H., born April
12, 1836, who died December 27, 1842; l{liza
Ann, born July 20, 1839, who died March 23,
1856; Lucy IL, born July 18, 1840, who died
April 20, 1845; Marietta (Mrs. ['"ox); y\u-
gusta Maria, born A])ril 4, 1844, who dieil
July 17, 1846; Steward B., born P'ebniary
28, 1846, a resident of Waterford, Vt., who
married Miss Celia Church; and .Sarah .S.,
born May 30, 1848, now wife of Albra K.
Lord, a farmer of Lovell.

Mr. and Mrs. F"ox are the parents of seven
children — Hannah C, born February i,
1S62, who dieil April 22 of the same year;
Josiah H., born December 19, 1867, now re-
siding in Lovell, who married .Miss Martha
A. Dyer; Charles II., born Ajiril 17, 1870,
who died August 25, 1892; William .S., born
July 19, 1872, a farmer living near Lovell
Centre, wIjo marrietl Miss Corinna Lord:
John Walter, born Januai\' 2, 1874, who
married Miss Mabel (iray, of Lovell, and re-
sides with his father; and Lewis Edwin, born
February 10, 1S78, and Guy R., born June 3,
1880, both at home with their [xirents. Mr.
Fox's three sons, Josiah, William .S., and
Walter, now attend to the business at the saw-
mill.

Mr. P"ox is a stanch Republican. Though
he has never sought office he has served on
the Town Board of Selectmen several years,
and was elected Third Selectman in March,
1896. He is a member of Parker Post, No.
151, Grand y\rni)- of the Republic, at Lovell

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Centre, also of the grange of Patrons of Hus-
bandry at Fryeburg; and he and his wife are
members of the Christian church at the
Centre.

JDWAKD !•:. WITT, one of the leading
voung men of the town of Norway, Ox-
ford County, was born (Jctober i,
KS64, on the farm where he now resides with
his widowed motlier and sisters. He is of
Massachusetts ancestiy, iiis paternal grand-
father, Benjamin Witt, having been born and
bred in Lynn, Ksse.K County, that State, where
he learned the blacksmith's trade. On coming
to Oxford County, Maine, he settled in Nor-
way, near Rustville, which was named for his
uncle, Henry Rust, Esq.

The grandfather was among the early set-
tlers of this section of the comity, and the
first to set up a smithy in Norway, where he
subsequently worked at his trade and carried
on general liushaiuh}- until his death, October
28, 1842. He was four times married. His
first wife, IV-tsey Parsons, bore him four chil-
dren — John, Henry, Daniel, and Benjamin.
To him and his second wife, Lucy Cobb, two
children were born — Lucy and Betsey. His
third wife, Hannah Parsons, died leaving him
three children: Thomas, father of Edward E. ;
William; and Abigail, all of whom have de-
liarted this life. Of his union with Patty
House, daughter of L. Hathaway, of Paris,
this county, there were no chiUlren.

Thomas Witt, son of Benjamin and Ilamiaii
(Parsons) Witt, was born in Xorway, June .3,
1808, and was here educated, attending the
district school near his home and the village
high school. At the age of fifteen years he
entered the office of the Oxford Obsciver in the
village, in order to learn the printer's trade,
working there and in the Paris Hill printing-
office se\-eral years. In 1830 he went to Bos-
ton, where he was engaged on a daily paper for
eight years. (ioing thence to Richmond, Va.,
he was on the staff of the Soiitlicni Cliiirclmiaii
two years, when he returned to J-toston to take
charge of the printing-office of the Cliristian
h'rccDiau, a weekly jjaper jniblished in the
interests of the Universalist denomination by
the Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, father of .Syjyanus

Cobb, Jr., the noted writer, and of the tal-
ented artists, Cyrus and Darius Cobb. In
1845 he returned to Norway, and, buying a
farm, engaged in agricultural pursuits two
years. Desiring to resume his earlier occupa-
tion, he sold his land, and, moving into the
village, bought the Norway Adi'ertiscr, which
he published for two years. He then bought
the farm now occupied by his widow and her
children, and here, with the assistance of his
son, lulward E. , carried on general farming
until his death, October 20, 1884. He was a
man of extensive acquaintance, winning and
retaining friends wherever he went, few men
of this locality having been better known or
more popular.

Thomas Witt and Rachel Porter were mar-
ried on December g, 1845. Mrs. Witt was
born P"ebruary 11, 1824, in the town of Paris,
Oxford County, a daughter of Charles and Ra-
chel (Hamilton) Porter, both natives of North
Yarmouth, Me. Mr. Porter was a farmer by
occupation; and after his marriage he settled
in Paris, where both he and his wife spent
their remaining days, his death occurring in
his sixty-ninth year, and hers in her eighty-
fourth year. Mr. and Mrs.. Thomas Witt had
the following children: Mary Ellen, who died
at the age of fortv-two years, being the wife of
Hezekiah Brown; Charles Thomas, who mar-
ried P^lla Hathaway, and is engaged in the
milk business in Boston; p^lizabeth, living at
Leominster, Mass., the widow of George W.
P'oster; Sarah H., living with her mother and
brother on the homestead; (ieorge H., a gro-
cer in Dorchester, Mass., who married Mary
T. Baker, of I'.ast Boston; Abbie L., also liv-
ing on the home farm; Willie B., who died at
the age of nine months; and lulward Iv, the
special subject of this sketch.

Edward I{. Witt, in common with his
brothers and sisters, enjoyed in his early years
excellent educational advantages. Being the
youngest son he stayed at home after attaining
his majority, to assist his father, who was in
feeble health for some time; antl for the jnist
twelve years he has had entire charge of the
farm. He has one hundred acres of land, well
improved, and much of it through his energetic
efforts in an excellent state of cultivation.
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attractive home, which is a hos]iital:)lu centre
of social activity, its rooms ever heing o])en to
receive their many friends. Mr. Witt is a
standi l\epubiican in |)o]itics, in which lie
takes an intelligent interest, and since i <S'94
has been a meniher of the Hoard of Selectmen
of Norway. He belongs to the grange of
the I'ati'ons of Ihisbandry of Norway village.
Mrs. Witt and her daughters are members of
the Congregational church, whose house of
worshij) is located near their home.

(ctrfji.AS rowhiR.s ii.xRTi.irr'r,

iM.L)., a venerable jjliysician of ICast
Di.xfield, Me., now living in retire-
ment at his home in this town, is
widely known as one of the leading mathenia*
ticians of the State. He was born in ]^etliel,
O.xford County, Me., Februar\- 3, 1S17, son c)f
Ebenezer and Lois (Powers) Rartlett. Dr.
Bartlett's great-grandfather, an elder Ebenezer
Bartlett, was a native of Newton, Mass., where
the active period of his life was passed in till-
ing the soil. He reared a family of six chil-
dren, as follows: Enoch, Jonathan, Moses,
Thaddeus, .Stephen, and Peregrine.

Stephen Partlett, the fifth son, as the names
are here recorded, was born in Newton, Mass.
In young manhood he took up a tract of wild
land located within the Androscoggin valley
in the town of l^ethel. Me., and there cleared
and improved a farm, upon which he erected a
large two-story residence. He lived to reach
the age of seventy years. His wife, whose
maiden name was Dorcas Barbour, lived to be
eighty years old. Their children were : Eben-
ezer, F^lhanan, William, Heulah, James, Dor-
cas, Sarah, and Sophia.

Ebenezer ]5artlett, eldest son of .Stephen
and Dorcas, was reared to agricultural pursuits
in his native town. When a young man he
bought a piece of unimproved land located
near his father's property, and cleared a farm
of one hundred and forty acres. In connection
with carrying on his farm he ditl quite a jirofit-
able business in getting out and finishing pump
logs, a large number of which he disposed of
to the inhabitants of Bethel and the adjacent
towns. After a considerable period of toil-
some acti\-ity, selling his property in Bethel

he removeil to Hanover, Me., where he re-
sided a few years, and then leturning to
I^ethel bought another farm, which he culti-
vated until his retirement. His last days were
passed with his children; and he died in 1S51,
aged si-\ty-nine \cais. His wife, who was
before marriage Lois I'owei's, became the
mother oi seven childicn, namclv : Joanna;
Silas Powers, the subject of this sketch;
Ste|iheii ; l'",henezci' N. ; Lusylvia; Artemas;
and Warren. Mrs. Lois P. I'^artlctt lived to
reach the age of se\ent}'.

Silas Powers liartlett acipiired his early ed-
ucation in the public schools and at the Bethel
Academy. After completing his elementary
studies he taught school for a time; and, hav-
ing read a course of medicine with Dr. Thdmas
Roberts, of" Rumford, he subset|ucntly entered
the Maine Metlical School at ]?runswick, where
he was graduated with the class of i H4 i . Lo-
cating for practice in (iorham, N.H., he re-
mained there two years; and in 1X45 he mmcd
to East Di.xfield, where he succeedeil to the
jiractice of Dr. Z. W. Bartlett. .S(Jon after his
arrival he bought the .Samuel yXllcn property
consisting of a residence and thirty-five acres
of land, which he impro\e(l and beautified; and
there he established his home and office. Dr.
Bartlett is regarded as one of the best qualifieil
and most experienced ]jhysicians and surgeons
in this county, having enjoyed a large and suc-
cessful practice until the feeble condition of
his health prevented him from taking long
rides.

On March 17, 1X47, Di. Baitlett was united
in marriage with Martha M. Morse, who was
born February 15. 1S25, daughter of John and
Sally Morse,' of 'jay, Me. Mrs. l^ar'tlett has
had five children, as follows: I'lorus, who w'as
horn I'^ebruary 7, i84(S, married Lydia E.
Brown, who is no longer living, and he is now-
engaged in mercantile pursuits; Julia M., who
was born May 12, 1854, and died August 2<S,
1886; Silas, an ice dealer of Lewiston, who
was born January 29, 1S57, married Lucy
Page, and has one daughter, Beulah ; Addie
M., who was born Sejitemher 10, i S60, and
died May 10, 1866; and Addie, who was born
January 28, 1866, married J. K. Iliscock, of
Wilton, and died August 24, 1895.

Dr. Bartlett is a Democrat in politics. He

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has al\va}'s displayed a deep interest in educa-
tional matters, and for a number of years he
served as superintendent of schools. His
wide reputation as a mathematician has been
accpiircd by his success in soh'ing numerous
difficult ]iroblems sent to him for solution,
antl for the past fifty years he has furnished
original jiroblems to the Maine Mathematical
Almanac. Both he and Mrs. Bartlett are
.sincerely esteemed and respected by a large
circle of friends and acquaintances, as well as
by the community in general.

AIKFII-:i.D FARRAR, who is engaged
in tilling the soil of a good farm in the
town of Sumner, in the eastern part of
Oxford County, and is one of the prosperous
residents here, was born in Paris, the shire
town of the county, October ig, 1S39, son of
Hela and Lydia Farrar. An account of his
parents will be found in a sketch of Harri-
son F\arrar. which appears elsewhere in this
work.

]''airfiehl l'"arrar was educateil in the district
schools of his native town, and w'as reared to
farm life. Since becoming of age he has
given his uiiiliv'idetl attention to agricidtural
pursuits, in which by his industry and close
application to every detail- he has attained
marked success. He now owns seventy acres
of as fertile land as can be found in this local-
ity. On I'^ebruary iS, 1888, Mr. F'arrar mar-
ried Dclma L. l?uck, who was born in l^uck-
field, near b}', daughter of Henry M. and Ro^
setta J. (Doble) liuck, and a representative of
the family for w'hom the town was named.
Mr. and Mrs. F'arrar have no children. Mr.
F'arrar is a Democrat in politics, and liberal in
his religious views; and Mrs. F^arrar is a
member of the Bajitist church.

Henry Mellen Buck, Mrs. F'arrar's father,
was born in Buckfield, September 10, \^y),
sou of James and Lydia (Austin) l^uck, the
former of whom was born in Buckfield ; and his
wife was a native of Canton, Me. Mr. Buck's
great-grandfather, Jonathan ]-iuck, is said to
have been the first settler and founder of the
town of Buckfield, which was originally called
15ucktown. iM'om the then almost unbroken
wilderness he cleared a farm, upon which he

resided for the rest of his life. The jjroperty
is now owned by Elmer Austin.

Jonathan Buck, Jr., Mr. Buck's grandfather,
who was classed as one of the leading agricult-
urists of his day, was born upon his father's
farm in ]?uckfield, and passed his whole life
there, dying at the age of si.xty-seven years.
He was a Democrat in politics and a Uni\'er-
salist in his religious views. He was twice
married, and reared a family of seven cliildren,
most of whom fell victims to consumption
before reaching middle age.

James Buck, one of the seven, having a more
vigorous constitution, lived to be eighty-four
years old. He began life as a. farmer, but
later engaged in trade at North Buckfield.
The greater part of his life was spent in his
native town ; but his latter days were passed in
Paris, Me., this county. He was a well-known
citizen, a man whose honorable character won
for him the esteem and good-will of all with
whom he came in contact; and his entire life
was one' of useful acti\'ity. In his later years
he acted with the Republican jjartv in politics.
His wife, Lydia Austin, who lived to be fifty-
eight years old, became the mother of seven
children, as follows: Lorenzo J., Roscoe C,
Mrs. Mary J. Stetson, and Austin, who are no
longer living; Augustus \V. , who resides in
Minnesota, -where he is engaged in carpenter-
ing and farming; Henry Mellen ; and Hannah
C, who is now the wife of Julius A. Record,
and lives in .South l^aris, Me. Mr. Buck's par-
ents were Universalists in their religious belief.

Henry Mellen Buck, the date of whose birth
is mentioned above, was educated in the town
schools of Buckfield. When a young man he
learned the tailor's trade; and he also became
skilled in mechanical pursuits, first entering
the employ of Morton & Bates at West Sum-
ner, later engaging with the South Paris Man-
ufacturing Company. F"or ten years he carried
on his tailoring business more or less, in con-
nection with his other industrial occujwtion.
In 1879 he bought the home farm of seventy
acres, which he continued to cultivate with un-
usual activity and success till 1895, when he
sold out to his son. In 1861 Mr. Buck mar-
ried Rosetta J. Doble, who was born in Buck-
field, and is a daughter of Solomon Doble, of
that town. Mr. and Mrs. Buck have had ten

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children, live of wlioiii arc living, namely:
Delma L. , whn is nciw Mrs. I'airticltl Farrar,
of Sumner; LulicA., Mrs. Dammon ; Charles
A. ; Myrtle H. ; and I'jiiogene. The ulhers
were: Lorenzo, first; Lorenzo, second; (lai-
field ; Percy A.; and Mary lunma. In addi-
tion to the home farm Charles A. Muck has
bought other real estate in this localit)', own-
ing at the present time about one hundred and
fifty acres in nil; and he de\'otes coiisitlerable
attention to dairying.

In ]iolitic.s Mr. Buck is a Kepublican, and,
though not caring to hold office, is deeplv
interested in the general welfare and imi^rove-
ment of the comnumit}-. The family is a dis-
tinguished one in this locality, and its repre-
sentatives of the jiresent day are all filling
useful positions in life.

Al'TAIN WHJTAM K. BlCKl-ORD,

pro]3rietor of the Beal's House, Nor-
way, Me., and a veteran of the Ci\-il
War, was born in Dresden, Me.,
November 8, 1S36, son of William, Jr., and
Mehitabel (Hathorn) Bickford.

William Bickford, Jr., like his son a na-
tive of Dresden, Me., was born January 29,
1794. Upon assuming the responsibilities of
life he purchased a farm adjoining that owned
by his father, William Bickford, Sr. : and
there he spent the remainder of his days. He
became a stirring, ]5rogressive citizen and
successful farmer. During the War of iSu
he served as a private. In ])olitics he was a
Democrat, in religion a Methodist. He died
December i, 1889. His wife, Mehitabel
Hathorn liickford, born I'ebruary 9, 1800,
died in August, 1S64. They were the ])arents
of seven children, four sons and three daugh-
ters, namely: Mary C, born March 4, 1825;
Joseph T., born January 29, 1827; Maria
I.. T., born November 5, 1829; Nathaniel
H., born April 4. 1832; ]{liza A., born No-
vember 7, 1S34: William Kendall, the date
of whose birth is mentioned above, and whose
personal sketch is to follow; and Frank W. ,
born April 16, 1841.

When his school days were over, William
Kendall Bickford, at sixteen years of age,
went to Gardiner, Mc, as a clerk for Charles

Stone, with whom he remaine'd a \ear. .After
that he worked a short time in a ihy-goods
store, and then learned the tailor's trade; but,
not liking this occujiation, he went to Boston,
where for two years he had a [losition as clerk
in a shoe store. During the next two years he
was clerk m the Maini' Hotel at Damariscotta,
Me., which he subsecpu'iitly conducted for the
owners for a time. \\c was next employed
till 1862 as clerk at Knox Hotel, Thomaston,
Me. l'2nlisting in l'om[)any I, Twentieth
Maine Regiment, he served seven months as a
private, was then commissioned as Second
Lieutenant in Company H, and still later was
made First Lieutenant. In 1864 he received
a commission as Captain of Company ]•".. being
Lieutenant in command of Comjiaii)- II: and
he took part in the following battles: Antie-
tam, Chancel lorsvi lie, Gettysburg, W^ilder-
ness, Spottsylvania, Petersburg, Weldon Rail-
road, Peeble's Farm, Appomattox, \'a., I''ive
l-'orks, and l-'redericksburg, besides numerous
other engagements. He was wounded in the
left breast by a piece of shell at Spottsyl-
vania, and has never entirely recovered from
his injury. His war record is a most credit-
able and honorable one. and he h.as in his pos-
session medals bestoweil in recognition of his
bravery.

On his return to Maine he purchased in
company with ]■;. R. l-Tlis, who was afterward
succeeded by Seth O. Henderson, the Barnum
Eating-house at Portland, and conducted a
very successful business up to July 4, 1866,
when they were burned out in the big P(n-tland
fire. Mr. Bickford then went to Hudson,
Me., and bought tiie Hudson House. Two
years later he sold out, and went into the h'al-
mouth House, Portland, as clerk; and he sub-
sequently held the position of head clerk at
leading hotels in Rockland, Bangor, and
Thomaston, Me.

IMr. Bickford returned to Thomaston in Oc-
tober, 1 87 1, and openetl the Georges Hotel,
which he leased until the spring of 1877,
when he moved down town and leasi-d the
Knox House, where he remained until 1893,
when he leased the Beal's Hotel in Norway,
the largest and best equipped in Oxford
County. This house has fifty finely furnished
rooms, heated by steam and lighted by elec-

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tricity. Its patronage has been large from
the start, and its present proprietor is one of
the ablest to be found in many miles" travel.
He not only gives excellent satisfaction to his
guests, but has won manv warm friends among
the citizens of Norway.

On November i, 1-S65, Captain Bickford
was united in marriage with Miss luiima J.
Henderson, daughter ui Seth O. and Octavia
(Lovejoy) Henderson. She was born in
Calais, Me., December 2, 1845. Her father,
who was born at .St. George, September 14,
1 8 19, son of Captain Robert and Eliza
(O'Brian) Henderson, was a direct descend-
ant of Captain Thomas Henderson, one of the
first settlers of Upper St. Georges, and the
commander of a garrison and block-house in
the war of 1744. Captain and Mrs. Bickford
have had four sons and five daughters, namely:
William .S.. born in Portland, March 26,
1866; l^lla L., who was born in East Bangor,
June 27, 1868, and died May 19, 1869; Inez
M., born in Thomaston, December 13, 1871,
who died December 21, 1S72; Robert K.,
born in Thomaston, June 14, 1873, who is
preparing for a dental course; Ross L., born
in Thomaston, August 21, 1875, now a clerk
at the Beal's House; Octavia H., born in
Thomaston, August 12, 1877; Mary M., born
in Thomaston, September 30, 1879; Grace,
born in Thomaston, Eebruary 25, 1883; and
Henry Kno.x, born in Thomaston, April 27,

1889. William S. Bickford married I^uella
May Jones, of Reading, Mass., in August,

1890, engaged in the drug business until fail-
ing health led him to seek other employment,
and he is at the present time an express agent
on the Boston & Maine Railroad, Eavvrence
branch.

In political affiliation Captain Bickford is a
Democrat. He is a member of Orient Eodge,
No. 15, A. F. & A. M., at Thomaston. Both
he and his wife are communicants of the Epis-
copal church.

|11AREES E. GREEN, a prosperous
farmer and an extensive fruit grower
of Wilton, was born in the house
he now occupies, June 20, 1859,
son of Leonard F. and Mary A. (Earnum)

Green. He is a descendant of Jonas Green, a
resident of Dunstable, Mass.; and the family
is, no doubt, of early Colonial origin, though
but little authentic information can be ob-
tained in regard to its original antecedents.

The place and date of Jonas Green's brrth
cannot with certainty be ascertained, but he is
known to have lived in Dunstable; and the
principal fact concerning him of which there
is any record is that he was the father of
nineteen children, among whom there were
triplets. Their names and dates of birth are
as follows: Betsey, February i, 1760; Na-
thaniel, March 3, 1762; Jennison, March 31,
1764; Eydia, October ig, 1765; Jonas, Jo-
siah, and another child, who were born Octo-
ber 5, 1767; Abigail, .September 5,. 1769;
Rachel, July 12, 1771; Joshua, August 23,
1776; Guy, August 23, 1778; Hannah, March
I, 1780: Asa, January 31, 1782; Joshua,
March 7, 1784; Hannah, second, F^ebruar)-
19, 1786; Folly, September 2, 1788; David,
May 6, 1791 ; Rebecca, April 26, 1793; and
Nathaniel, second, July 10, 1795.

Josiah Green, the sixth child above named,
was born in Dunstable, Mass. Penetrating
the wilderness of Maine when a young man,
he became the first settler of Wilton. Erect-
ing a log cabin upon the westerly side of Wil-
ton Lake, he began the work of clearing the
land; but before he had gained much headway
his hut was burned, and he gave up the idea
of locating there. Taking up a smaller tract
near where his wife's parents had settled, he
constructed another cabin, the foundation of
which is still visible; and after clearing a
good farm he erected a set of substantial frame
buildings. He is said to have been the first
settler here who attained success in agricult-
ural pursuits beyond the ordinary pioneer; and
he was the first to raise apples in this locality,
his fruit becoming a great luxury in the neigh-
borhood. He later set out cpiite a large
orchard, and was an exceedingly energetic and
thrifty farmer, considering the limited opjjor-
tunities for advancement in his day. He dietl
in 1814, survived by his wife, formerly Lydia
Butterfield, who was born February 22, 1769,
and died in 18 19. They were the parents of
nine children, as follows: Polly, who was born
January 22, 1795; Hannah, who was born Oc-

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tobcr 6, 1796; Lydia, who was born July 15.
1799; Josiah, who was born (3ctober 2-j ,
iSoi ; Asa, who was born I'cbruary 14, 1803;
Jonas and Samuel, twins, who were born June
6, 1805: Luther, who was born May 16, 1807;
and Harrison, who was born July i, 18 13.

Jonas Green, son of Josiah and Lydia
(Buttertield) Green, was reared to farm life in
Wilton, and became one of the stirring and
progressive farmers of his day. His first wife,
who was before marriage Hannah J. Farmer,
was killed by lightning. She left two chil-
dren, namely: Leonard I-"., who was born
April 8, 1S28; and Martha K., who was born
March 17, iSji. l"or his second wife he
married Harriet Farmer, a sister of his first
wife; and by this union there was one daugh-
ter, Lydia IL, who was born March 12, 1850,
and died in infancy. Jonas (ireen wedded for
his. third wife Sarah Morrison, and his fourth
wife was Margaret Orr.

Leonard F. Green was an only son, and as
such remained at home to assist his father in
carrying on the farm. He eventually bought
the homestead, upon which he erected new
buildings; and he later purchased the property
cleared and improved by his grandfather. He
tille:l the soil with more than usual energy,
possessing one of the most desirable pieces of
agricultural property in town; and his activity
continued until his death, which took place in
October, 1884. His wife, Mary A. F'arnum,
who was born May 5, 1833, became the
mother of three children, as follows: George
K., a successful agriculturist of Farmington,
who was born December 8, 1855, married Cora
H. Allen, daughter of William N. Allen, and
has two children — Elsie M. and Edith;
Charles L., the subject of this sketch; and
Willie, who died at the age of nearly nine
years. Mrs. Mary A. F'arnum Green li\'ed to
reach the age of fifty-three years.

Charles L. Green, the younger of the two
sons who reached maturity, was educated in
the public schools and at the Wilton Acad-
emy. At the age of nineteen he commenced
teaching school, and continued engaged in
that profession for eight terms. Succeeding
to the possession of the homestead after his
father's death, he has since devoted his atten-
tion to stock farming and fruit growing. He

owns two hundred and sixty -five acres of land,
including his father's farm and the property
formerly owned by his great-grandfather, Jo-
siah Green ; and he has the largest number of
acres uniler cultivation of any farmer in town.
He keeps ;i her<l of excellent cows and a large
flock of sheep; and besides attending to his
stock and the cultixation of his crops he has
an orchard of three thousand grafted apple-
trees, one thousand of which he set out him-
self, the yield of 1896 being eight hundred
barrels.

On April 16, 1890, Mr. (ireen wedded Julia
M. Adams, daughter of Charles N. and b'lora
A. (Walker) Adams. Mrs. Green's father
was born August 3, 1840, and is now engaged
in the butchering business in Wilton. His
wife, F'lora A., is a daughter of Jeremiah and
Sally (Gould) Walker. They have had a fam-
ily of five children, namely: Harry, who died
young; llalcyone G. ; Herman C. ; Julia M.,
who is now Mrs. Charles G. Green; and
Guy W.

In jjolitics Mr. Green sujjports the Republi-
can party; and, though not an aspirant for po-
litical honor, he takes a keen interest in local
public affairs, and has served with ability
upon the .School Board. He is deservedly
popular as one of the rising young men of this
locality, and is rapidly attaining the position
of prominence to which his energy and pro-
gressive tendencies are sure to lead him. It
is worthy of note that the Green homestead,
which he now occupies, has never been out of
the Green family from the time it was first
settled by Josiah Green. It is now about one
hundred vears since.

(5 I I MOTH Y H. CHAPMAN, a farmer and

' I dairyman of Bethel, resides on the farm
-*- staked out by his grandfather in 1795.
He was born April 29, 1S18, on this farm,
son of Timothy and Betsey (Barker) Chap-
man. His grandfather, Eliphaz Chapman, a
native of Massachusetts, was a Congregational
minister. Settling on this farm in 1795,
Eliphaz soon took a leading part in town
affairs. It was he who proposed that the
place should be named Bethel when the town
was organized.

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Timothy Chapman, who was also born in
Massachusetts, had reached his ninth year when
his parents came to Bethel. His life from
that early period was spent on the homestead,
and he died there at the age of eighty-eight.
He was a member of the Congregational
church. In politics he was a Republican, but
took no active part in public affairs. Mrs.
Betsey (Barker) Chapman was born in Bethel,
and died here when about thirty-five years
old. She, too, was a member of the Congre-
gational church. Of her seven children the
subject of this sketch is the only one living.
After her death her husband entered a second
marriage, contracted with Miss Abigail Blan-
chard, of Bethel. By this union he had one
daughter, Hannah, who is now the wife of
Charles A. Chapman, of Mankato, Minn.

Timothy H. Chapman was bereft of his
mother when but one year old. He obtained
his education in the district school, and grew
to a robust manhood among the scenes of farm
life. When he was twenty-five years of age
his father gave him forty acres of land for his
own use. After living on this little planta-
tion for a number of years he returned to the
old homestead, which he inherited; and there
he has since made his home.

Mr. Chapman was married in Se]5tember,
1S43, to Miss -Sarah Newell, of Bethel, who
died in 1862, leaving five children. These
were: Jianister N. , now a farmer, residing on
the old homestead; Fannie, who died at the
age of thirty-six; Hervey W. , a Presbyterian
clergyman in Lakeport, Cal. ; Florence E.,
the wife of P. L. Watts, of Portland, Me. ;
and Alice C, the wife of William Doring, of
North Dakota. Mr. Chapman contracted a
second marriage in 1863 with Mrs. Martha B.
(Newell) Upton, widow of Tilden Upton.
She had two children by her first marriage.
By Mr. Chapman she has a daughter, Bessie
K. . who is teaching in a college in North
Dakota. A Republican in politics, Mr.
Chapman is esteemed by both parties. He
was on the Board of Selectmen two years; and
he had been Ta.x Collector for fourteen years,
when he resigned that office. The Bethel
Grange counts him among its most prominent
Patrons of Husbandry. He has been a mem-
ber of the Con2;reg;ational church since he was

a young man. He served the society in the
capacity of Deacon for more than twenty years,
and was superintendent of the .Second Congre-
gational Church Sunday-school, on the north
side of the river, for a while.

f^TuN. HiLTcjN McAllister, of

t^-l .Stoneham, Oxford County, is a
II 9 I worthy representative of two of the

^~"^ oldest and most respected families
of the vicinity. The son of Eastman and
Phoebe (Parker) McAllister, he was born in
Stoneham, October i, 1834. His grandfather,
Samuel McAllister, moved from Conway,
N.H., to Lovell, this county, when Eastman
was quite young, and settled on a farm, which
he tilled for a number of years. .Subsequently
Samuel moved to Stoneham, where he spent
the remainder of his life. His wife, also a
native of Conway, whose maiden name was
Mary Ordway, after rearing with him twelve
children, likewise died in Stoneham.

Eastman McAllister was born in Conway,
N.H. He became a resident of Stoneham
when twenty -one years of age, and two or
three years later settled on the farm now occu-
pied by his son. An enterprising and indus-
trious man, he was engaged in farming and
lumbering almost up to the time of his death,
which happened January 16, 1895. He was
then fourscore and four years of age. His
wife, to whom he was married when twenty-
three years of age, was born in Lovell town-
ship. May 15, 181 I, daughter of Joseph and
Hannah M. (Ames) Parker. Her grandfather,
the great-grandfather of Hilton McAllister,
was James Parker, of Hanover, Mass., one of
the early settlers of Fryeburg, this county,
and a member of the intrepid band who fol-
lowed the Indians from Fryeburg to Bethel on
a memorable occasion. After spending the
most of his life in Fryeburg he died in
Lovell. Joseph Parker, the maternal grand-
father, who was born in Fryeburg, after his
marriage moved to Lovell, where he was en-
gaged in farming for some time. In 1816 he
came to Stoneham, Me , taking up his resi-
dence on a farm in the northern part of the
town. Some years later he went to East
Stoneham village, where he spent his declin-

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in<; years with his chikh'cii, and tiicci in 1S64.
His wife, Mannah M. (Ames) Parker, was a
native of Tam worth, N.H. Their daughter,
Mrs. Eastman McAllister, is now living with
her son Hilton. She is a remarkably intelli-
gent lady, and, though eighty-five years of
age, is well preserved and appears much
younger. She is the mother of three children,
namely: Levi, a farmer in East Stoneham:
Hilton, the subject of this sketch; and Mary
IC, deceased, who was the wife of Henry C.
Cobb, now of Boston.

Hilton McAllister acquired his earl\- eiluca-
tion in the district school near his home in
Stoneham. He remained on the homestead,
helping his parents until about thirty years of
age. Then he worked for seven months in a
cotton-mill in Lowell, Mass., and for four
months in a cotton-mill in Lawrence, Mass.
He then returned home, and spent the follow-
ing year in lumbering near Richardson Lake,
Me. Eventually he took charge of the home-
stead, wdiich, with the many imijrovements he
has made, is now reckoned one of the most
beautiful farms in the local it)-. His real es-
tate contains about three hundred acres of
land, much of it arable. He carries on farm-
ing and dair)ing with success, and profitably
employs his winters in lumbering.

On January i, 1874, Mr. McAllister was
married to Ella M., daughter of Lyman and
Mary (Fellows) McKeen. She was born in
Lovell, March 17, 1858. Her father, who was
a farmer of Lovell, was one of the Maine vol-
unteers who died in the late war. Her mother
lives in North Lovell, and is now the wife of
Stephen Coffin. Mr. and Mrs. McAllister
have had two children. Their daughter,
Abbie \\'., who was born November 6. 1874,
died April 7, 1896. .Sidney H., their son,
who was born August 23, 1876, is still shel-
tered by the parental roof-tree. Mr. Mc-
Allister is a Republican, and takes an active
interest in politics. He has been Selectman
of the town for a number of years, has served
as Town Clerk and Town Treasurer, and he
represented the district in the State legis-
lature in 1S72. He is a Knight of Pythias,
belonging to Hiawatha Lodge, No. 49. Both
he and Mrs. McAllister are members of the
Christian church at Lovell Centre.

fERDEIL U. WIlllE, M.D., a rising
young physician and surgeon with a
large practice in East Di.xfield and
the adjacent towns, was born in Wilton, Me.,
October 13, 1866, son of lames O. and Zerua
E. (Walker) White. Dr. "White is a descend-
ant of Rand White, who resided in Spencer,
Mass., and was a millwright by tratle.

Rand White's four sons, Deacon James,
Darius, I-'rancis, and John, penetrated the
wilderness of Maine, settling upon the tracts
of wild land in Penobscot County, twenty-five
miles north of Bangoi'; but Deacon James
White, who w;is Dr. White's great-grandfather,
later lemoved to Di.xfield, O.xford County,
where he cleared and improved a large farm.
He was one of the early settlers and progres-
sive farmers of this localit)', whose efforts
served to open the wa\' for its development as
an agricultural region ; and he resided here
until his death, which took place when he was
fiftv-six \'ears old. His wife, whose maiden
name was Nancy Kenney, lived to reach the
age of seventy-six. Their children were:
Drewry C, Rand, Tamar, Julia, Nelson,
James, Nancy, Mary, Jane, and Ruby.

James White, Dr. White's grandfather, son
of Deacon James, was born near Blakesburg,
Penobscot County, Me., October 31, 1806.
He came to Oxford Count\' with his father;
and at the age of twenty-one he bought a farm
in Dixfield, upon which he made his start in
life. Later in life he owned other farms, the
largest being tlie Daniel Tucker farm of two
hundred and fifty acres, ujion which he erected
a large house and barn. Selling that propcrtv
he purchased a smaller farm, still known as
the White place, where he resided until retir-
ing from active labor in 1 S89. Since that
time he has made his home with his grandson,
Dr. White: and, although fast approaching
his ninetieth birthday, he is active, both phys-
ically and mentally, and enjoys good health.
In politics he has alwavs sup])orted the Demo-
cratic party, and in his religious views is
liberal. His wife, formerly Hannah Rich-
mond, who was a daughter of Israel Richmond,
died July 6, i88g, aged eighty-four years.
Their children were: Drewry Cummings, .S.
Lorenza, and James Oberon.

James O. White, son of James anil Hannah

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White, was born in Dixfield, July 8, 1837.
He completed his education at the high
school in Canton, and before he was twenty
years old he began to deal in live stock. Fol-
lowing that business steadily, he became well
known ajid exceedingly prosperous, and at a
later day handled both native and Western
cattle, which he shipped by the carload to the
markets of Portland and other places. He
was noted as an extensive buyer of native
cattle, and he owned a great deal of pasturage
land in different parts of the county. For
three years he was engaged in general mer-
cantile business in East Dixfield, having built
the store which is now carried on by Mr. Ire-
land ; and he owned the William Gould place
on Wilton Street. He was a strictly honor-
able and upright man, whose progressive ten-
dencies and enterprising spirit were of great
benefit to the community; and probably no
business man in this section ever enjoyed
greater popularity, or was more deserving of
the sincere esteem in which he was held.
Politically, he acted with the Democratic
party, by which he was elected a member of
the Board of Selectmen in 1879; and he repre-
sented his district in the legislature. He was
a member of W'illiamson Lodge, No. 20, In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows; and in his
religious belief he was a Universalist.

James O. White died of appendicitis, July
25, 1891. His wife, Zerua E. Walker, whom
he wedded January 8, 1863, was born in Wil-
ton, daughter of Moody and Zerua (Stone)
Walker. Her grandparents, Osgood and Polly
(Reed) Walker, who were natives of Massa-
chusetts, settled in Wilton among the early
pioneers, and resided there for the rest of their
lives. They reared a family of eight chil-
dren. Moody Walker was born in Wilton,
May 24, 1 81 5. He owns a large and produc-
tive farm located near East Dixfield, and is
one of Wilton's most prominent farmers and
highly esteemed citizens. He married first
Zerua, daughter of Ephraim Stone, and she
died at the age of thirty-three years, leaving
two children, namely: Harrison; and Zerua,
who became the wife of the late James O.
White. By his second marriage, with Mrs.
Mary H. Whiting Adams, Mr. Walker had
one son, Samuel W. Mr. and Mrs. James O.

White had four children, three of whom died
in infancy; and the only one who lived to
reach maturity is Verdeil O., the subject of
this sketch.

\'erdeil O. White began his education in
the public schools, and, after completing the
regular course of study at the Wilton Acad-
emy in 1884, he entered Bowdoin College,
where he was graduated in 1889. His profes-
sional studies were pursued at Harvard Uni-
versity Medical School, where he was gradu-
ated in 1892. He immediately located for
practice in East Dixfield, and has already es-
tablished a high reputation as a skilful physi-
cian and surgeon. In 1893 he was apijointed
a member of the United States Board of Ex-
aminers in pension cases for Franklin County.
Politically, he is a Democrat. Aside from
his professional attainments Dr. White is
highly respected and esteemed for his many
estimable personal qualities and for his abil-
ity in other directions; and he has already
laid the foundation of a useful and successful
career.

ILLIS W. WAITE, an enterprising
merchant of Dixfield, Oxford
County, Chairman of the Board of
Selectmen, was born in this town, July 19,
1859, son of Lorenzo and Sarah Waitc. His
paternal grandfather was Isaac Waite; and the
progenitors of the family, who were natives of
Massachusetts, settled in Dixfield at an early
date in the town's history. Lorenzo Waite
was born in Dixfield, and was reared to agri-
cultural pursuits. He was an able, energetic
farmer and one of the stirring men of his
locality, who availed himself of every oppor-
tunity for advancement; and, as a result, he
became prosperous and well-to-do. He scrx'ed
in the Civil War as a private in Company C,
Thirtieth Maine Regiment, Maine Volunteers;
and after his return from the army he resumed
farming in this tmvn. He died January 2,
1876. In politics he was a Republican, and
his religious views were liberal. His wife,
who was before marriage .Sarah Newman, be-
came the mother of three children : Harris N. ,
who died at the age of seventeen years; Willis
W. ; and Leroy L., who resides in Livermore

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Falls, Ale. She died at the age of forty-two
years.

Willis W. Waite pas.sed his boyhood and
youth in attending the common schools and
assisting his father upon the farm. In early
manhood he gave his attention to agricultural
pursuits, and also to the live-stock business,
which he followed successfully for several
years. In 1894 he embarked in trade, and he
has since met with an encouraging degree of
success. He deals in meats, provisions, and
groceries, of which he carries a full line; and
his store is well patronized. In iS8g he was
united in marriage to lulith Parlin, daughter
of William Parlin; and she is the mother of
one daughter, Sadie May. Politically, Mr.
Waite is a Republican. He is now serving
his third term as a member of the Board of
Selectmen and his second term as Chairman
of that body, and his valuable services to the
town in this capacity are fully appreciated by
the community.

HALL for more than two-
score N'cars was intimately associated
with the agricultural interests of
Norway. He was born May 4,
181S, in Poland, Androscoggin County, son
of Samuel and Betsey (Hall) Hall. Samuel
Hall, born April 27, 1787, in Falmouth,
Cumberland County, there married Miss Hall,
who was born in the same town, October 22,
1791. After their marriage they bought land
in Poland, wdiere they lived until well ad
vanced in years. Then they came to Norway,
taking u\) their residence on the homestead
now occupied by Mrs. Robert Hall. Here the
father died on January 22, 1859, and the
mother on August 30, 1873. They had seven
children, as follows: Mar)', born January i,
1 811; F:iizabeth W., born May 28, 1815;
Sarah, born January 28, 181 7; Robert, the
subject of this sketch ; Jeremiah, burn July 28,
1821; Albion, born October 27, 1S25; and
Cordelia, born July 26, 1827. Of these
Robert is the only survivoi". Albion was a
farmer in Norway.

Robert Hall remained beneath the parental
roof-tree until his marriage, by which time he
had acquired a complete knowledge of farming.

Soon after his marriage he bought a farm in
Norway, and thereafter lived on it for fifteen
years, successfully engaged in tilling the soil.
He then came to the present homestead, which
his father had jireviously bought, and here
spent the rest of his life engaged in general
farming anil tlairying. At his death, which
occurred P'ebruary 9, 1S82, he owned about
four hundred acres of kuul. Mr. Hall was a
strong and earnest supporter of the jirinciples
of the Democratic part)'. He was a member
of the Norway Grange. He was held in high
respect by his townsmen, whom he served as
Highway Surveyor and in other iiffices.

On December 3, 1843, .Mi', llall married
Mary Marston, who was liurn in Norway,
March 10, 1826, daughter of Brackett anil
Sarah (ILall) Marston. Her parents, who
removed to this town from i''almouth, their
native place, were here engaged in farming.
Having no offspring, Mr. and Mrs. Hall
adopted Mrs. Hall's niece, Edith W. Marston,
a daughter of Winslow B. Marston. She was
born April 2, 1864, and is now the \\\ic of
Virgil K. Dunn. Both live with Mrs. Hall,
the husband having charge of the home farm.
Mr. Dunn was born August 10, 1S64, in
Greenwood, this county, a son of Charles Ed-
ward and Rosanna (Pingree) Dunn, natives
respectively of Poland and Norway. Mr.
Dunn's parents now live on a farm in the
northern part of Norway, whither they came
from Poland. Mr. Dunn is enterjirising and
industrious, and successfully carries on mixed
husbandry, raises poultry, for which he has a
large hennery, and pays sonie attention to
dairying and stock raising. In politics he is
a strong Prohibitionist, and he is a member of
the Norway Grange. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Dunn are valued members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.

F. CONANT, of Temple, e.\-Sheriff of
I. Franklin County and one of the largest
and most successful agriculturists in
this part of the State, was born in Temple,
.September 25, 1836, son of Ephraim and V.W/.ix
(Doble) Conant.

Mr. Conant's grandfather, Ii!phraini Conant,
Sr. , was in his \ouns:er davs a trader in the

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town of Templt; when it was first settled; and
he later cleared and improved a farm from the
wilderness. The forest abounded in game,
which, with the trout antl other hsh that filled
the streams, furnished food for the early
settlers. In spite of the numerous difficulties
and hardships oi the situation, the sturdy pio-
neer cleared awa\' the forest, burned the
stumps, and saw productive fields of wheat
and hay take the place of the wilderness, as
the result of his labor. He continued to in-
crease his acreage by clearing more land,
erected frame buildings, and after a long and
successful period of activity retired. His
last days were jwssed with his daughter in
Strong, where he died at the age of ninety
years; and his wife, whose maiden name was
Joanna Staples, lived to be nearlv as old.
Their children were: Ephraim, John G.,
James, Rebecca, I'amelia, Susan, Eliza,
Sarah, Nancy, and Abigail.

Ephraim Conant, eldest son of I']phraini,
Sr. , was born in Temple in 1809; and in early
manhood he set out for himself. Taking the
advice of Scott Ellis, an extensive farmer and
large land-owner of Temple, who lived to reach
the advanced age of one hundred and three
years, he bought of him one hundred and sixty
acres of timbered land, situated just back of
where his son now resides; and, after making
a clearing and sowing a crop of wheat, he was
able by hard w^irk and frugal living to pay
for his purchase the first year, as Mr. Ellis
had predicted. Continuing to advance in pros-
]jerity, he cleared more land until he had
eighty acres under culti\'ation ; and he in-
creased his acreage by purchasing adjoining
property, including the farm now owaied by his
son, the buildings of which were erected by
him, so that his real estate here amounted to
four hundred acres. Selling this jiroperty to
his son he bought a large farm in the town of
Strong, where he resided for the rest of his
life. He was one of the stirring men of his |
day, who realized a comfortable fortune solely
through his own energy and perseverance; and,
being one of the most able citizens of the
town, he held many of the important offices.
He was an active member of the Methodist
Episcopal church until the stand taken by that
denomination ujion the anti slavery question

forced him to withdraw; and then uniting with
the Wesleyan Society he furnished liberal
assistance in building a church edifice. His
wife, who was before marriage Eliza Doble,
became the mother of nine children, namely:
Ephraim Erank, the subject of this sketch;
Clinton, who died young; Israel H. ; John
W. ; James H. ; Charles; Ella E. ; Sylvester
G. ; and Willie, who did not live to reach
maturity. Mrs. Eliza D. Conant died at the
age of sixty-one years.

Ephraim Erank Conant acquired a common-
school education in his early years, and re-
mained at home assisting his father in farming
operations until his circumstances enabled him
to purchase the property where he now resides.
Starting with the firm determination to make
his mark in life, he began by improving and
still further extending the clearing made by
his father, erecting new buildings, remodel-
ling others; and he also engaged in lumbering.
Having invested his surplus capital in real
estate, he now owns eleven hundred and fifty
acres, including a farm of one hundred and
fifty acres in the adjoining town of Avon,
which he carries on in connection with his
homestead property. He has a large orchard
of choice grafted fruit set out by himself,
keeps twenty head of cattle, six horses, and
two hundred sheep. His farms are carrieil on
according to the best modern methods, with
the view of obtaining the most profitable
results; and by steadfastly adhering to his
original purpose he has through perseverance
and good judgment fully realized his ambition.

On October 14, i860, Mr. E. E. Conant
married Eliza A. Mitchell, daughter of
Luther and Sarah (Staples) Mitchell, of
Temple. Mrs. Conant's paternal grandpar-
ents, Andrew and Susan (Weatherby) Mitch-
ell, who were both natives of Lunenburg,
Mass., became early settlers of Temple Mead-
ows, and were very prosperous farming people.
Luther Mitchell bought a farm of eighty acres
near his father's property, and followed agri-
cultural pursuits succes.sfully until his death,
which took place when he was seventy-three
years old. His wife, Sarah Staples, who was
a daughter of Samuel Staples, lived to be
seventy-six years old, and her children were:
Eliza A., who became Mrs. Conant; Augustus;

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and Melvin. Mr. and Mrs. Conant have one
daughter — Maud C, who was born June 13,
1864, and is now a book-keeper in Boston.

Mr. Conant in politics is a Republican.
For twelve years he served as Deputy Sheriff
of Franklin County and for four years as High
Sheriff. Though not a professor of any re-
ligious belief, he attends both the Methodist
and Baptist churches, and contributes liberally
toward their support. He is the largest real
estate owner in this section, and his bruad
tracts of wild land are plentifully supplied with
deer and other game.

TT^HARLKS \V. RVKRSON, Chairman
I ^yJ ,if the Board of Selectmen of Norway,
\^Hs^ was born April 7, 1830, in Paris,
this county, son of Cushman and
Lavinia (Dunn) Ryerson. Among the earliest
settlers of Maine was the Ryerson family,
which located in the south-west part of the
State. Luke Ryerson, grandfather of Charles
\V. , was one of the twenty-four children borne
to his father by his two wives. Grandfather
Ryerson was born and reared in Portland,
whence he removed tn Paris in pioneer days.
He converted a tract of wild land -into a good
homestead, and was there engaged both in
tilling the soil and teaming during the rest of
his life. His wife, Keziah (Cu.shman) Ryer-
son, was born January 16, 1772, and died
March 25, 1857. She bore him ten children,
five boys and five girls, all of whom have
passed away.

Cushman Ryerson, father of Charles W.,
was a farmer. He spent his life on the Paris
homestead where he was born. After succeed-
ing to the paternal acres he cleared a large
part of the land, lived to a good old age, and
died May 25, 1862. He successively n)arried
Lavinia and Eliza Dunn, both natives of Po-
land, Me., and cousins. By his first union he
became the father of four children, as follows:
Julia A., born June 13, 1828, who died Sep-
tember 7, 1847; Charles \V. , the subject of
this sketch; Fessenden, born December 25,
1831, who died August 12, 1847; and Alvin
M., born June 23, 1834, who married Miss
Carrie Barker, and is now engaged in the car-
penter's trade at Auburn, this State. His

second wife, whom he wedded IJecember 20,
1S35, bore him two children, namely: Eliza
L., born October 7, 1837, who died at the age
of thirty years; and Gei}rge C, born May 26,
1839.

The education of Charles W. Ryerson was
comjjleted at a high school. l'"or some years
thereafter he worked on the home farm in
Paris during the summer season, and taught
school in the winter. After his marriage he
devoted his entire time to agriculture, living
for six or more years on a farm in his native
town. At the end of that jieriod he disposed
of this estate and removed with his family to
Norway, where on November 2, 1865, he
entered upon his present farm. In the man-
agement of this property, which contains one
hundred and .seventy- five acres of land, he has
shown good judgment and has been very suc-
cessful. He carries on general farnnng, and
keeps a small dairy. Mr. Ryerson also owns
a tract of land in Waterford township. As an
adherent of the Reiuiblican party, he takes an
active interest in politics. He has been one
of the Selectmen of the town for si.x years,
being now Chairman of the Board; and he has
served on the School Board for three years. _
Also for three years he was I'resident of the
Oxford County Agricultural Society, and he
was Vice-President for one year. He was the
first Master of both the Norway and Pomona
Granges, serving four years in the latter posi-
tion. He belongs to the Norway Lodge, No.
16, Independent Order of Odd F'ellows, and to
the Wildey Encampment. Both he and his
wife are members of the Universalist church
at Paris Hill.

Mr. Ryerson was married May i, 1859, to
Miss Susan R. Marston, who was born June 7,
1835, in Norway, daughter of the late Brack-
ett and Sarah (Hall) Marston. Mr. Marston,
together with his wife, came here from Fal-
mouth, their native town, bought the farm now-
owned by Mr. Ryerson, and lived for a few
years in a log house. This he subsequently
"replaced by the dwelling the Ryersons now
occupy, and spent his last years in it. Mr.
and Mrs. Ryerson have two children, namely:
Lizzie J., born May 22, 1862, who died Feb-
ruary 27, 1865; and Lizzie C, born May 20,
1866, the wife of John P. Howe, and living on

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tlie farm with her husband, whci assists in its
management. Mr. and Mrs. Howe have had
I'oLir children — Helen, Charles C, Ora, and
Charles. Charles C. died when verv voimg-.

|HARLI>:.S M. COOLIDGE, M.D., a

popular jihysician of Waterfnrd, Me.,
was burn in Cantnii, this .State,
September 25, 1S64. He is the
son of Dr. Charles A. and Sarah Nancy (Fos-
ter) Coolidge, and a grandson of John Cool-
idge, originally from Livermore, Me., who
settled in Canton at an early date and s|ient
his life there, engaged in agriculture.

Charles A. Coolidge was born in Canton,
Me. I'or some time during his student days
he taught school in the vicinity of his home;
and after he received his medical degree he
began to practice in Weld, Me. He was sub-
sequently engaged in professional work in
North Livermore, but later returned to his
native town, where .he is now in active prac-
tice. Mrs. Coolidge is a native of Weld, Me.
She is the mother of three children : Martina
Eliza, who died in infancy; Henry E., who
.was at one time principal of the North Berwick
High School, now a practising attorney at Lis-
bon Falls, Me. ; and Charles M., who, as
already noted, has adopted his father's calling.
Henry E. Coolidge married Miss Josephine O.
Dearborn, of Canton, Me.

Charles M. Coolidge was graduated from the
Nichols Latin School of Lewiston in the class
of 1884 and from the medical department of
Dartmouth College in the class of 1887.
When ready to enter on his life work he
iipened an office in North Waterford village,
where he now resides, and in the short space
of a decade has established an extensive prac-
tice, his circuit embracing Waterford, Stone-
liam, Albany, and Lovell. Dr. C. M. Cool-
idge is widely known and highly esteemed, and
though younger than many of his confreres has
the confidence of all who know him.

He was married February 21, 1886, to Miss
Ida H. Manning, who was born in Eaton,
X.H., September 24, i860, the daughter of
Dr. William A. and Nancy (Atkinson) Man-
ning. Dr. Manning, now deceased, was one
ol the best known phvsicians of his day,

practising in Eaton, N. H., and in Stone-
ham, Me. His wife is now living in Eaton,
N.H. Mr.s. Coolidge died March 14, 1895,
leaving one child — Marion Allegra, born
April 20, I 89 1.

Dr. Coolidge is prominent among the Re-
publicans of Waterford, and has held several
offices of trust. He has served on the School
Board three years, and is now^ Supeivisor of
Schools. As a Mason he belongs to Mount
Tire'm Lodge, No. 132, A. F. & A. M., of
Waterford Flat; and as a Knight of Pythias
he is a member of Hiawatha Lodge, No. 49,
of Stoneham, I\Ie.

APTAIN EDWARD M. ROBIN-
SON, who is successfully engaged in
the furniture and undertaking busi-
ness in Phillips, his store being 3
Beal Block, was born in South Sebec, Piscata-
quis County, Me., October 21, 1S33, a son of
Benjamin Franklin and Betsey C. (Russell)
Robinson. Benjamin F. Robinson, who was
a descendant of one of Scotland's sturdy sons,
was born in Ellsworth, Me. ; and his wife, who
was of Flnglish- origin, was born in Norridge-
wock. Me. The family name was formerly
Robinston, which has been changed to the
more euphonious spelling of to-day.

Jonathan Robinson, the father of Benjamin
F., was a native of Vermont, whence he re-
moved to Maine. During his years of active
labor he followed the business of a mill-
wright, besides carrying on the farm which he
owned in Sebec. He was the father of seven
children: but of that number only one re-
mains, Paulina K., the widow of J. G. Jo_\',
of Sebec, Me. Jonathan Robinson lived to
the venerable age of ninety-six years.

During the greater part of his years of toil
Benjamin F. Robinson worked with his father
as a millwright, but finally purchased a farm
in Sebec, where he spent the remainder of his
life. Of the eleven children born to him and
his wife, Betsey, si.v are living, namely:
Leonard R., in Bath; Edward M. : Ira, in
Bath; Albert A., in California; Mary, the
widow of W. Troy, in Willimantic; and
Carrie, the wife of F. Wittum, of Gardiner,
Me. Their father dieil in 1882, aged eighty-

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two years, and their mother in I1S62, aged
fifty-six years.

lulward M. Robinson not only acquired a
practical district-school education during his
home life, but formed habits of industry,
being required to perform such tasks as
usually fall to the lot of the farmer's boy.
When he reached the age of seventeen he went
to Machias as an apprentice to his uncle, Dean
S. Robinson, a millwright, with w'hom he re-
mained four years. From about 1S54 to the
beginning of the Civil War he was employed
at his trade in different places in the Prov-
inces and in Cherryfield and Levviston, being
engaged on the Androscoggin mill in the last-
named place when the first call was issued for
volunteers to put down the Rebellion. He
responded promptly by enlisting in Company
E of the Fifth Maine Volunteers, of which
Mark H. Duunell was Colonel, E^dwin Sawyer,
of Lisbon Falls, being Captain of the com-
pany. We are indebted to the May, 1.S96,
issue of the Rtii/j^r/cy Lakes for the follow-
ing account of his war service. April 2'j,
1 861, less than two weeks after the fall of
Sumter, saw him signing the enlistment
papers as a member of Company E, Fifth
Maine \'olunteers. The regiment was mus-
tered in at Portland, Robinson being ap-
pointed Third Sergeant in Company E. (The
Captain says that no honor which has been
conferred upon him since has ever given him
the supreme satisfaction he felt at that time,
and adds that he couldn't have felt prouder if
he'd been made Brigadier-general.) August
15, I ST) I, he was promoted to Second Lieuten-
ant of Company E, for "meritorious conduct
at the battle of Bull Run." In ALay, i<S62,
he was promoted to First Lieutenant of Com-
pany C; and in March, 1863, his unflagging
bravery won him the Captainc}' of Company C.

Now Company C was made up of dare-devil
fellows, known as the " Saco roughs.'' The
men had been unmanageable from the first,
and weren't growing any better as time wore
on. Several captains of this particular com-
pany had one after another given up the task
and gone home. The bluff old colonel of the
regiment grew tired of appointing captains
for Company C after a while, and finally said,
'"Well, I'll appoint some one this time that

I'll be d d if they'll drive home": anti he

appointed Lieutenant Robinson.

The first day he took conunand, there was a
little episode which settled matters once and
for all. Company C was doing picket duty in
front of Richmond. As the column marched
along the line the three last men dropped off
at each post. The Captain toUl the men that,
after the line was covered, they could shift
around, so that comrades who messed together
might be with each other, adding that he
couldn't stop to sort them out then, with the
rebel line popping at 'em from the other side

of the river. It happened that Private ,

one of the ringleaders, was told off with two
fellows from a different mess; and he flared up
in an instant. He gave his rifle a fling toward
the river,, declaring with an oath that he
wouldn't submit to any such thir.g. Scarcely
had the rifle struck the ground when he him-
self was stretched senseless by a blow with
the back of the Captain's sword. l-'or a time
it looked as if he would die; but eventually he
pulled through, and begged not to be court-
martialled. "I won't court-martial you," said
the Captain, "if you'll settle down and behave
yourself. But remember this: I'm going to be
Captain from now on. \'ou've been Captain
long enough. " And, when he discovered that
he'd found his master, he developed into a
model soldier.

May 3, 1863, at the battle of Fredericks-
burg, Captain Robinson received three flesli
wounds, but diil not leave the company. May
10, 1864, at the Iwttle of Spottsylvania Court-
house, he was shot through both legs, and w;is
forced to go home. After remaining home
eight months he raised a new company, which
was mustered in at Augusta, and sent to the
front to join the Nineteenth Corps. This
corps was broken up, and his division sent
South, entering Savannah just as Sherman
was marching out. He was in Augusta, Ga.,
at the time Jeff Davis was hurried through the
city in the night; "and it was well for Davis
that our boys didn't know he was in the city,"
says the Captain.

After the declaration of peace Captain
Robinson was appointed Provost Marshal,
administering the oath of amnesty to those
who desired to iro into business attain, and

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aiding in many ways the war-stricken State.
He was detailed, soon after liis appointment,
to search out tlie hiding-place of a vast amount
of Confederate specie, which had been spirited
away from Richmond. The specie was found
in tobacco boxes sealed with the letters
■'C. S. A.," and amounted to fifteen million
dollars.

Fortunes were made in those after-the-war
times in ways more rapid than honest, and
the Captain had an opportunity which in the
hands of a less honest person would have
yielded mighty good returns. There was
reason to believe that a • certain ex-rebel
Major and paymaster had, locked up in his
safe, certain Confederate property; and Cap-
tain Robinson and one of his Lieutenants went
down with a detail of men to see about it.
The old Major told them that there was noth-
ing contraband in the safe, and he would
gladly open it for them but that the key was
not there. "All right," said the Captain;
"we'll have a team come up and carry the
safe down to headquarters, where 1 guess
they'll find a way to get into it."' The old
rebel saw they meant business, so he called
the Captain and the Lieutenant aside, and
said, "There is fifteen thousand dollars in Con-
federate gold and silver in that safe: and, if
you fellows will say nothing about it, you can
divide one-half of that pile between you."
"Do it, Cap'n, do it!" exclaimed the Lieu-
tenant. Hut the Captain wasn't the man to
tarnish his record and break his oath to the
government. .So the end of it was that the fif-
teen thousand dollars went to headquarters.
Following is a list of the battles in which he
took part, which form a fitting close for this
account of his military career: first Bull Run,
Va., July 21, iSCu ; West f'oint, Va., May 6,
1862; Gaines's Mill, Va., Jime 27, I1S62;
Charles City Cross-roads, Va., June 29,
1862; second Bull Run, Va., August 30,
1862; South Mountain, Md., September 14,
1862; Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862;
first P'redericksburg, V'a., December 12, 1862;
second Fredericksburg, Va. , May 2, 1863;
Salem Heights, Va., May 4, 1863; Gettys-
burg, Pa., July 3, 1863: Funkstown, Md.,
July 12, 1863: Rappahannock .Station, \'a.,

November

I 86 :

T,ocust Grove. Va., No-

vember 2j, 1863, Mine Run, Va., November
29, 1863; Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1863;
Spottsylvania Court-house, Va., May 10,
1864.

His grandfather was one of six brothers who
served in the Revolutionary War, and he him-
self is one of six brothers who went to the
front in 1861. Singularly enough, three of
tlie earlier generation were killed in service,
and but three of the later generation lived to
come home at the close of the Rebellion.

Captain Robinson was mustered out Febru-
ary 16, 1866, and soon after the close of the
war Vk'as granted a pension of ten dollars a
month, which was subsequently increased to
twenty and still later to twenty-four. The
year following his return from the war he
worked at his trade; but the wounds he had
received caused him considerable trouble, and
he gave up work as a millwright, and opened
a furniture store in Anson village. He came
to Phillips in 1872, and in company with his
father-in-law, James M. Adams, purchased
the Barden House, which they conducted for a
year or so, and then soUl it to .Sam Farmer.
He then secured work on the Beal I^lock,
which was begun about that time. After that
was completed he again took up the furniture
business, to which he added undertaking, hir-
ing a portion of the post-office building for the
purpose, but six months later removing to his
present quarters in the Beal IMock. On De-
cember 8, 1859, Mr. Robinson married Miss
Loreda M. Adams. They have one child,
Ilda M., born September i, 1S60.

Mr Robinson, like his father, has always
been a stanch Republican. He cast his first
Presidential vote for John C. I'remont. The
only town office of importance in which he has
served is that of Town Treasurer. He is one
of the Directors of the Union National Bank,
and has been for sixteen years a Trustee of
the Phillips Savings Bank. In 1862 he be-
came a member of Somerset Lodge, No. 34,
A. F. & A. M., of Skowhegan, Me., but later
took a dimit, and is now a member of the
Blue Mountain Lodge, No. 67: Franklin
Chapter, No. 19, of F"armington, Me.; Pil-
grim Commandery, Knights Templars, No.
19, of Farmington; Korah Temple, Noble
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is also a member of Mount Saddleback Lodge,
No. 92, Iiulependent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Phillips, and Chairman of its Board of Trus-
tees; a member of the Loyal Legion, State of
Maine; and of the Union Veteran League of
Levviston; likewise of Cushman Post, No. 87,
Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is
the present Commander. He is an attendant
of the Universalist church.

jHARLES li. HOLT, a prominent
member of the legal profession in
Norway and a native of Fryeburg,
Me., was born March 11, 1S35, son
of Joseph and Mehitabel (Miller) Holt, and
grandson of William and Esther (Frye) Holt.
William Holt, a native of Massachusetts,
served as a musician in the War of 18 12. He
went to Fryeburg, and purchased a farm when
that town was practically new, and continued
to live there until his death, at the age of
sixty years. His wife, P^sther (Frye) Holt,
was a daughter of Simon I'rye, and a descend-
ant of one of the pioneer families of P"ryeburg.
She taught school in her younger days. Her
children were: William H., John, Joseph,
Thomas K., Mary, Esther, and Sophia. She
lived to be seventy-seven years old.

Joseph Holt was born November 25, 1808.
He learned the trade of a tinsmith, and started
in business for himself at P"ryeburg. Subse-
quently, owing to the failing health of his
parents, he sold out, assumed their debts, and
cared for them until their death. In recom-
pense for these sacrifices he received the
homestead, which he afterward sold, and
bought a saw-mill, grist-mill, and a farm at
West Denmark. He also built a store there,
and all together did a large business. After-
ward he became the owner of three other
farms. In politics he was a Democrat, and
served the town as Selectman. His religion
was Universalism, and he was a member of
the Masonic fraternity. His wife, Mehitabel,
whose birth occurred February 17, 1812, bore
him seven sons and two daughters, of whom
Frank B. , the youngest, died when two years
old. The others, who are living, are: Charles
E. , Joseph A., Jones B., Alvah M., L. Cor-
delia, William H., Esther A., and John W.

After attending the P'rycburg ami I^ridgton
Academies, Charles I^. Holt read law with
Major D. R. Hastings, of P'rycburg, and was
admitted to the bar in March, 1861. He at
once opened an office in Denmark, where he
remained until 1873. Then he removed to
Bethel, and four years later came to Norway.
Here he entered into partnershij) with Alvah
Black, one of the leading lawyers of O.xford
County, with whom he was connected until
Mr. Black's death in 1882. Beginning in Oc-
tober of that year, he and A. .S. Kimball did
business together for three years. Since then
Mr. Holt has practised his profession alone.
During his residence in Norway he has taken
a very active i)art in the legal and financial
affairs of the town: and his counsel is sought
by a large clientage, who place implicit faith
in his legal acumen. A man of studious
habits, he has one of the largest and best se-
lected law libraries in O.xford County. Dur-
ing the Civil War Mr. Holt served as enlist-
ing ofificer. In 1864 he was appointed, b)-
General Rufus Ingalls, clerk of the Quarter-
master Department at City Point, Va. He
was among the first to favor the removal of the
County Building from Paris Hill to South
Paris. He is now one of the Board of Di-
rectors in the Norway National Bank. Since
coming to Norway he has purchased and fitteil
up a fine house on Pleasant .Street, in which
he now resides.

On May 26, 1877, Mr. Plolt was united in
marriage with Miss Lavina B. Ames, daugh-
ter of Colonel Nathaniel and Roxanna L.
Ames. Colonel Ames was born in Brown-
field, Me. On starting in life for himself he
purchased a new and practically uncultivated
farm, on which he erected a log house. Latei',
after clearing u|i a poi'tion of the land and get-
ting a start, he erected a frame house and other
necessary buildings. He was a Colonel in the
State militia. At the time of his death he
was sevent)'-four years old. His wife, who
made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Holt,
died June 19, i8g6, eighty-nine years of age.
Colonel and Mrs. Ames had a son and three
daughters; namely, Amanda M., Maria L. ,
Lavinia B., and Charles H. Mr. Holt is a
member of the Democratic County Committee.
While in Denmark he held the office of .Select-

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linn, and he has served Norway in the same
capacity since his arrival. He is an esteemed
Mason, having membership in Mount Moriah
Lodge, of Denmark; in L'nion Chapter, No.
36, Royal Arch Masons; in Oxford Council,
Royal and Select Masters, of Norway; and in
Portland Commandery, Knights Templars.

"IRAM P. KLLIOTT, of the firm of
Elliott & Bartlett, spool manufact-
urers of Lynchville, in the town of
Albany, Oxford County, Me., was
born in Salmon Falls, N.H., December 24,
1833. His parents were Russell F. and Mary
Jane (Whitehouse) Elliott.

Russell 1'. fllliott was born in Salisbury,
Mass., in March, 1812. For a number of
years he was intimately connected with manu-
facturing industries, at first as superintendent
of a large woollen-mill at Salmon Falls,
N.H., and later as superintendent of the
Hosea Crane manufacturing plant at Ports-
mouth, N.H., which had a large annual output
of underwear and hosiery; and he was subse-
quently for a long time conductor on what is
now the Eastern Division of the Boston &
Maine Railroad. The latter part of his life
was spent in retirement at F'all River, Mass.,
where he died at the advanced age of eighty-
two. His wife, a native of Salmon Falls,
N.IL, died in May, 1 8go, at the age of
eighty-one.

Mr. and Mrs. Russell V. Elliott had seven
children, six of whom grew to maturity;
namely, Anna A., Hiram P., luiiily Jane,
George, Mary K. , and Celia. The sixth
child, Celia, first, died in infancy. Anna A.
IClliott, born in March, 1S31, married Colonel
John I'. Emerson, a dry-goods merchant, who
died in 1871. She is now living in Paw-
tncket, R.L lunily Jane, born in October,
1835, married P'erdinand Reed, and had three
children. Mr. Reed and his family have all
passed to the world beyonil, the mother and
three children having died within thirteen
months. George F^lliott is in the mill with
his brother, and lives in North Waterford,
Me. He married Ella C. York, and has one
child, Wallace H. Mary K., born in June,
1S37, is the wife of George W. Wnodcnck, a

cook in Pawtucket, R. 1. Celia, born in 1842,
is the wife of I'erdinantl Tisdale, a painter of
Pawtucket, R. I.

Hiram P. I^lliott, the elder of the two sons,
was educated in the common schools of Ports-
mouth, N.H. At the age of nineteen he
began to learn the business of spool-making at
Fall River, Mass., where he worked some five
years; and the six years following he was em-
ployed in the same way in Central Falls, R.I.
He then took charge of the factory of J. K.
Malley, of which he was foreman ten \ears;
and he next started a small spool-mill of his
own at East Stoneham, Me. A year later he
removed to Lynchville, in the town of Albany,
Me., and started the mill in which he is now
interested, with Jonathan Bartlett as partner.
This venture proved very successful; and the
firm now has a large business, keeping a num-
ber of men constantly employed. They man-
ufacture spools for the noted Rhode Island
thread firm of J. & P. Coats, and have a ca-
pacity of four thousand gross or more a week.
Mr. Elliott's business career has been marked
by energy, application, and upright dealing.
Starting without capital, he has built up a
successful business, and is now enjoying the
fruits of his labor, with the esteem of all
with whom he is brought in c.^mtact.

He was married November 5, 1861, to Pris-
cilla Brownell, daughter of Edward and Re-
becca (McCumber) Brownell. She was born
September 5, 1844. ^-^'i^ child has blessed
the union of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, Mildred
T. , born May 29, 1871, miw the wife of \V. H.
Kilgore, who is. a merchant of North Water-
ford, Me, and the Postmaster of that place.

Mr. Elliott is prominent in local politics,
favoring the Democratic side. He is an Odd
Fellow in high standing, belonging to Oxford
Lodge, No. iCii, of North Waterford, Me.
Mrs. lilliott attends the Congregational
Church of North Waterford.

^m»m¥

HARLES G. SAWYER, one of Wil-
ton's most highly respectetl citizens,
whose empty sleeve attests more
eloquently than words his service
in defence of the L^nion, and recalls to memory
the dark da\'s of the Rebellion, was burn at

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the foot of Moosehead Lake in the town of
Greenville, Me., April 13, 1832, son of Isaac
and Sarah (Hayford) Sawyer. Mr. Sawyer".s
grandfather, Joel Sawyer, who was for many
years a resident of .Saco, Me., died in that
town at the age of eighty years. II is eliil-
dren were: ffenry, Ephraitn, I'dlison, !''iMnk,
Isaac, Mercy, and Ruth.

Isaac Sawyer, Mr. Sawyer's father, was i)orn
in Saco in February, 1798. In young man-
hood he worked upon the river, and, saving
his earnings, bought a homestead. Finding
that he needed more land, ami not being able
to purchase it near his native town on account
of the sharp advance in prices, he decided to
become a pioneer in the region about Moose-
head Lake, where land was cheap and of good
quality. Purchasing one-half of. a township
near the foot of the lake at twenty-five cents
per acre, he moved his family to Monson,
fourteen miles distant, where they remained
until he had provided a shelter for them in the
wilderness.

He subdivided his tract, selling a portion of
it to other settlers, and, retaining the rest for
himself, cleared and improved one hundred
and sixty acres into a good farm. .The land
proving exceedingly fertile, he till_ed the soil
successfully, also engaging quite extensively in
lumbering; and he later erected a good set of
frame buildings. He was a man of powerful
physique, and is known to have once carried
upon his back and in his hands a half-barrel of
flour, a small pig, and some [lackages of groce-
ries several miles over a narrow path from
the store to his home. In politics he was in
his latter years a Republican, and he was a
Methodist in his religious views. He lived
to reach the advanced age of nearly ninety
years. In his youth he enlisted for service in
the War of 18 12; and while destroying the
bridge at Plattsburg, N.Y., he sustained a
severe injury which caused him more or less
trouble in after life. His wife, who was be-
fore marriage Sarah Hayford, became the
mother of six children; namely, Sarah A.,
Mary J., Lewis, Maria, Charles G. , and
Susan A., all of whom grew to maturity.
Mrs. Sarah H. Sawyer lived to be seventy-
nine years old. .She was a Congregationalist
in her religious belief.

Charles (i. .Sawyer, the filth child and the
special subject of the present writing, ac-
quired a i)ractical education, although the
school facilities in the vicinit\' of his boy-
hood's home were not of the best. When a
young man he bought his father's homesteail
[)roperty, which contained one hundred and
sixty acres; and he carried it on for ten years,
during which time he cleared forty acres more
for tillage purposes, and erected a new dwell-
ing in place of the old one which had been
destroyed by fire. Selling his farm he moved
to the city of Bangor, where for a short time
he kept a restaurant, later engaging in the
meat and provision business with j. P. 'ra)'lor
until going into the army. In .September,
1864, he enlisted as a ])rivate in Company L,
Thirty-fir.st Maine Infantry, under CajJtain
D. I). Brock: and he served until the close of
the war. In the last charge in front of
Petersburg, Ajjril 2, 1865, he received a gun-
shot wound in the left ;irm, which completely
shattered the bone, making anqnitation neces-
sary; and after his discharge he returned to
Bangor.

When sufficiently recovereil to again engage
in business pursuits, he ojiened a grocery
store, which he carried on for two years; and
on selling out he bought a farm of ninety
acres, which he conductetl for five years. He
then sold his farming property, and, removing
to Wilton, engaged in the canning business,
packing in a su[)erior manner green corn,
apples, berries, beans, and lamb, employing
in the busy season as many as one hundred
hands. These goods ac([uired a wide reputa-
tion in the metropolitan markets for the high
standard of excellence which was maintained
in their production, and for ten years he car-
ried on a large and profitable business. In
connection with that he established a general
store, which he conducted upon the site of the
present town hall: and he continued in trade
until 18S3, when he sold out and retired from
business. In 1880 he bought a tract of land
situated upon an elevation near the foot of
Wilton Lake, and erecting a large two-story
house with mansard roof, together with a com-
modious stable, graded and beautified the
grounds, thus making a handsome and attrac-
tive homestead. The location is healthful.

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tlir surnuiiulings pleasant; and this estate,
which is called "The Birches," taking its
name from a beautiful grove of white birch-
trees, affords an agreeable retreat for many
city people, who avail themselves of its genial
hospitality during the heated term.

Mr. .Sawyer's first wife, formerly Huldah J.
Delano, a daughter of John Delano, of Abbot,
Me., died at the age of thirty-four years, leav-
ing four children, as follows: Lelia K. , who
was born January 6, 1857, was graduated at
the Maine Wesleyan .Seminary at Kent's Hill,
and is a teacher of French and German;
Willanl E., who was born August 23, 1859;
Ida M., who was born November 25, 1861,
and is now the wife of R. W. Poor, Cashier
of the Garfield National Bank of New York
City; and Charles E. , who was born January
7, 1864, and is now railroad station agent at
Chisholme Mills, Me. By his present wife,
Mrs. Pollen Blake Sawyer, daughter of Zebulon
Blake, of Carmel, Me., Mr. .Sawyer has no
children. In jiolitics Mr. .Sawyer supports
the Republican party, and while residing in
Bangor he served in the City Council and as
Assistant Assessor. He is a comrade of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and he and
Mrs. Sawyer are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.

Willard E. Sawyer, eldest son of Charles
G. .Sawyer, and a prominent young business
man of Wilton, was educated in the public
schools of Bangor and at the Wilton Academy.
In 1885 he opened a large store devoted to dry
goods, groceries, crockery ware, agricultural
implements, and other merchandise; but in
Februar.y, 1886, his place of business was de-
stroyed by fire. He erected another store,
and in 1893 sold it to the town for a public
building. In 1887 he bought the canning
factory carried on by his father; and, after
conducting it successfully until 1892, he with-
drew from the business. He wedded Eillian
Whittier, daughter of Daniel E. Whittier, of
Chesterville, Me., and they have had five chil-
dren, namely: Ralph E. , who was born May
28, 1885; Earl W., who was born December
17, 1886; Willard H., who was born in Sep-
tember, 1889; Gladys, who died in infancy;
and I'hilip D., who was born May 17, 1895.

Willard V.. Sawyer ami his family occupy a

handsome residence on Prospect .Street, which
he erected in 1890.

ARLTON H. WALKER, a promi-
nent farmer of Fryeburg, Oxford
County, Me., who carries on busi-
ness to some e.vtent as a lumber
manufacturer, was born in this town, April
12, 1836, son of Colonel James and Susan
(Colby) Walker. He is of substantial Eng-
lish stock, and comes of long lines of worthy
Colonial ancestry, the blood of Puritan and
Pilgrim mingling in his veins.

This branch of the Walker family is de-
scended from Samuel Walker, born in Eng-
land in 1595, who in early manhood crossed
the Atlantic, and settled in the vicinity of
Boston, Mass., his elder brother Richard,
who accompanied him to these shores, locat-
ing in York, Me. Samuel Walker, second,
son of Samuel, first, was born in Reading,
Mass., in 1643, ^"d became a resident of
Woburn, Mass., where he was a Deacon of the
church. His son Samuel, the third in direct
line, born in Woburn in 1668, who also was a
Deacon, .was the father of Captain Samuel
Walker, who was born in 1694, and settled in
Wilmington, Mass. Deacon Timothy Walker,
son of Captain Walker, was born in Wilming-
ton in 1732. He married, in 1758, P'unice
Brewster, then twenty-eight years of age,
daughter of Joseph Brewster, of Du.xbury,
Mass., near Plymouth, her father being a
grandson of Elder William Brewster, of the
"Mayflower" company, who has been called
the chief of the Pilgrims.

James Walker, son of Timothy and liunice
(Brewster) Walker, was born in Wilmington,
Mass., January 3, 1772. He was married No-
vember 20, 1794, to Anna Harnden, of Wil-
mington, born August i, 1775. It is now
nearly one hundred years since James WalkL-r
came to Fryeburg, Me., accompanied by his
wife and two children, and settled on the farm
where his grandson, Carlton H., now resides.
Grandfather Walker cleared and improved the
property; and, although meeting with the
usual disadvantages and drawbacks of a pio-
neer, among which was the total destruction
by fire of his first residence, he persevered,

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and became a prosperous farmer. He was a
man of more than ordinary intelligence, and
possessing a considerable literary ability he
wrote a history of the family. He died Octo-
ber 1 8, 1<S52, survived by his wife, Mrs.
Anna Harnden Walker, who attained the ad-
vanced age of nearly ninety-one years, her
fleath occurring March ,0, \^6G. They were
the parents of eleven children, as follows:
Anna, who was born November 3, 1795; I'^liz-
abeth, who was born December I3, 1796;
Sarah, who was born February 14, 1799, and
dietl October 3, 1885; Colonel James, who
was born March 3, 1801, and died July 16,
1 891; Rebecca, who was born February 24,
1804, and died April 15, 1826; Brewster,
who was born January 26, 1806, and died No-
vember I, 1807; Miranda, who was born De-
cember 3, 1808, and died November 4, 1881;
Samuel, who was born August 10, 181 i, and
died August 29, 1863; Clarissa, who was born
January 9, 1813; Henry, who was born July
30, 1 8 16, and with his wife, Caroline F'rye,
daughter of John Hancock Frye, is residing
in this town: and Timothy, who was born
March 3, 18 19, married Hannah Harnden, of
Denmark, Me., and, now a widower, resides
in Ouincv, Mass.

James Walker, the younger, born in Frye-
burg in the first year of the century, as already
noted, later known as Colonel James Walker,
at the age of twenty-one succeeded his father
in the management of the farm. He was mar-
ried on November 25, 1833, to Susan Colby,
a native of Brownfield, Me., born November
ig, 1803. .She was a daughter of Asa Colby,
a pioneer farmer of Brownfield, who later re-
moved to the adjoining town of Denmark,
where he passed the rest of his life. Colonel
Walker and his wife reared four children,
namely: Rebecca, who was born August 21,
1834, married John Seavey, of l^rownfield, and
died January 16, 1862: Carlton H., the sul)-
ject of this sketch; Granville, who was born
December 16, 1837, and died December 31,
1861 ; and Ann, who was born February 20,
1840, and is now the wife of William H. Tar-
box, an architect of Fryeburg. Mrs. Susan
C. Walker died November 16, 1883.

Carlton H. Walker, whose personal history
we are now to trace from his boyhood, ac-

quired his education in the common schools
and at the Fryeburg Academy, lie remained
at home assisting his father in carrying on the
farm until he reached manhood; and he then
went to l'"ryeburg village, where he was em-
ployed as clerk in a general store for two
years. Returning to the homestead he took
charge of the farm, and eventually inheriting
the jjroperty has since resided here. He owns
one thousand acres of land, ;in(l his farm is
exceedingly fertile and well im|)roved. In
connection with agricultural ])ursuits he car-
ries on a large saw and grist mill located near
his residence, doing some business in manu-
facturing lumber of all kinds.

On May 2, 1863, Mr. Walker was united in
marriage with Sarah F. Tarbo.v, who was born
in Denmark, Me., January 28, 1841. She is
a daughter of Dominicus G. and Sally (Paine)
Tarbo.x, the former of whom was a native of
Kennebunkport, and the latter of Standish,
Me. Mrs. Walker's father was a clothier by
trade, also a surveyor of lumber; and, settling
in Denmark, he operated a clothing-mill in
that town many years. He died January 22,
1886. Mr. and Mrs. Walker "have three
daughters, as follows: Flva D. , who was born
June 2, 1867, and is now supervisor of draw-
ing and teacher of manual training in schools
in Bristol, Conn.; Susan M., who was born
December 6, 1871, and is now a teacher of
oratory at the North Bridgton Academy; and
Sarah T. , who was born March 30, 1879, and is
now attending the academy here in Fryeburg.
The Misses Eva D. and Susan M. Walker are
ladies of marked ability, and have acquired a
notable reputation in educational work.

In public affairs Mr. Walker has rendered
efficient service to the town, having been
Chairman of the Board of .Selectmen several
years, and at various times the incumbent of
other town offices. In politics he acts with
the Republican party. He is acti\ely inter-
ested in the Fryeburg Agricultural .Society, of
which he has served as President and Secre-
tary; and he is a leading spirit in all measures
introduced for the general improvement of the
town. He is a Master Mason and a member
of Pythagorean Lodge, No. ii, of P'ryeburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker and family attend the
Congregational church.

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'RANK A. HILI., clothing manufact-
urer, one of the leading young men of
Fryeburg, Oxford County, IVIe. , his
nati\-c town, was born on August 14, 1866, son
of Dr. Charles K. and Susan (Osgood) Hill.
I [is grandfather, Captain Jonah Mill, who was
born in Biddeford, Rlc. , June 3, 17S4, became
a resident of Chatham, N.H., and was promi-
nent in the early State militia. He married
on April 27, 1807, Sall\' Stimson, \vho died
March 4, 1840.

Dr. Charles 1{. Hill was a native of Chat-
ham and a graduate of Jkiwdoin Ctjllege. He
first settled in North Fr_\eburg, from which
[ilace he moved to ]5ridgton, Me., where he
remained for some time; and he finally re-
moved to Fryeburg, where he resided until his
death, which took place April 16, 1884. An
able i^hysician, he enjoyed a large practice in
this vicinity; and he occupied a prominent
position in the community. His first wife,
whose maiden name was Marinda P. Wiggin,
died in May, 1863. She left one son, Charles
E., who was adopted by his aunt, and is now
a successful practising physician of Newton
Centre, Mass. He is known as Dr. Charles
E. Fessenden. Dr. Charles E. Hill wedded
for his second wife Susan O.sgood, of Fryeburg.
She was a daughter of Caleb and Dolly
(Wiley) Osgood, the former of whom was a
native of Fryeburg, and the latter of North
Fryeburg. Caleb Osgood was a blacksmith
by trade. His last days were spent in Con-
way, N. H. By this union there are two chil-
dren: Frank A., the subject of this sketch;
and Edwin Rav, who is now engaged in the
meat and fish business at Fryeburg village.

Frank A. Hill acquired his education in the
common schools and at the Fryeburg Academy.
At the age of eighteen he started in life as a
clerk in the store of Charles T. Ladd, with
whom he remained for three years; and he
then engaged for some time in the corn-pack-
ing business. He first entered the clothing
business as an employee of J. I. Greenlaw,
later filling a position with A. E. & F.
Thompson, large manufacturers of this town,
with whom he remained until 1895, when, in
company with Ira Warriner, he bought out the
above named firm. He continued the business
in connection with a general stfire for a year,

and at the expiration of that time he purchased
his partner's interest in the manufacturing
business, which he is now carrying on alone.
He manufactures coats for the Rhodes Riplc)-
Company of 72 Lincoln Street, Boston, and
employs an average of eighteen hands.

On A]iril 20, 1892, Mr. Hill was married
to Dora A. ]5rickett, who was born in Stow,
Me., May i, 1874, daughter of Gardner and
Angeline (Emery) Brickett. Mrs. Hill's
father was a native of Stow, where he was
prosperously engaged in farming until his
death, which took place in Fryeburg in Octo-
ber, 1888. Her mother, who was born in
Jackson, is still living, and resides with her.

In politics Mr. Hill supports the Republi-
can party. He is connected with Pythagorean
Lodge, No. 1 1 , A. V. & A. M. ; l-'ryeburg
Lodge, No. 49, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows; and Pequaket Lodge, No. 34,
Knights of Pythias. He takes an active in-
terest in these organizations, and may be said
to be a leading spirit in all important social
events in Fryeburg.

OSEPH C. CALDWELL, M.D., the
oldest practising physician in Buck-
field, O.xford County, was born in
Topsham, \'t., December 3, 1842, a
son of James and Nancy (Chamberlain) Cald-
well. The Caldwell family is of Scotch
origin. James Caldwell, whose birth oc-
curred at sea, was an industrious farmer, and
resided for the greater part of his life in Ver-
mont. He took a deep interest in the politi-
cal movements of his day, and belonged to the
anti-slavery party. In religious belief he was
a Presbyterian. He died at the age of fifty-
five. Mr. Caldwell was twice married, and
his second wife is now living in Topsham.
He had seven children, four of whom are liv-
ing. These are : Mary, the wife of Gustavus
Tibbetts, of Neponset, 111. ; Joseph C, the
subject of this sketch; James R., a resident of
Vermont; and Eliza, the wife of James Lang,
of Topsham, Vt.

Joseph C. Caldwell grew to manhood in
Topsham, obtaining his first knowledge of
books in the schools of that town. After
finishing his preliminary course of stud}', hav-

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2S1

ing l)(.'cn an industrious student, lie was aiale
to take up the profession of teacher, which he
foUowed successfully in his native State,
Michigan, and Illinois. In his twenty-third
year he bej;an the study of medicine, and sub-
sequentlv i)ursued it at Howdoin College, from
which he received his medical diploma in
iiSjo. In the fall of that year he started in
his profession at" Buckfield, and for over a
quarter of a century has been here engaged in
ministering to suffering humanity. Dr. Cald-
well has a large practice, and iias the confi-
dence and esteem of all who know him. Me
is a member of the State Medical Societ)-.

In December, 1870, he was united in mar-
riage with Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel
Stanwood, of Brunswick, Me She was born
April 14, 1852, and died June 7, 1888. Of
her children one, Wilbur, is deceased. The
others — Josephine, Bessie M., and Wilbur C.
— are still with their father. Dr. Caldwell
is a member of the Republican party. He is
a Mason in good standing, belonging to liven-
ing Star Lodge, No. 180. In religious
matters he is liberal. His wife was a mem-
bei- of the Baptist church.

-J^TANNIBAL G. BROWN, of the firm
L^J Hannibal G. lirown & Son, manu-

\[s I facturers of clapboards, lumber, and

^—^ wooden bicycle rims, at West Paris,
O.xford County, was born December 18, 1829,
in Plymouth, Penobscot County, Me., son of
John and lluldah (Gardner) Brown. His
grandfather, Aaron Brown, was an earl\- set-
tler of Wilton, Me., whence he subsequently
removetl to Livermore, Me., and lived there
for a number of years. Aaron Brown was an
officer in the War of 1812, and had charge of
a fort at Portland. The latter part of his life
was spent at the home of his son James, in the
town of Grafton. He lived se\-enty years : and
his wife, whose maiden name was Hannah
Thompson, also attained a good age. The
latter bore him eight children, the youngest of
whom, a daughter, Abigail, living in Port-
land, is the only survivor. The others were:
James, John, Reuben, Orrin, Larnard, Re-
becca, and Arthur.

John Brown was born in Wilton, Me. He

was a skilful mechanic as well ,is a farmer,
and followed his trade throughout the active
years of his life. He lesided for a number of
years in the towns of Liveiniore and Grafton;
but his last years were s|)ent in West Paris,
Me., and in Lrrol, Coos County, N.H. He
died at the age of eighty-seven years. In
politics he was a Republican from the forma-
tion of the party. His wife, lluldah, who
was born in Buckfield, Me., died in West
Paris, aged seventv-si.\. He was a member
of the Universalist church, and she of the
15aptist. .Sew.n chiltlren were the fruit of
their union, three of whom have |iasscd awa\.
These were: John O. A., Orrin H., and Joanna.
Orrin H.. who served in the P'irst Maine Cav-
alry during the Civil War, died from the
effects of confinement in l.ibby Prison. The
others are: Hannibal G., the subject of this
sketch; Aaron B.. a mechanic residing in
Worcester, Mass., who served in the late war
with Colonel .Shaw's Massachusetts regi-
ment; Bartlett J., a pianoforte finisher, living
in Hyde Park,' Mass.; and Miss Maria I-:.
Brown, a milliner in Boston, Mass.

Hannibal G. Brown received his rudimen-
tary education in the schools of Livermore
and Grafton, where his early years were
passed. After coming to Paris, at the age of
twenty, he attended the schools and academy
here, and acquired a good business education.
On starting out in life for himself he pos-
sessed no cash capital, and for nine years fol-
lowed various occupations. After a time he
was able to start in farming for himself, lie
l-Hirchased his first land in 1855, where the
village of West Paris now stands. The fol-
lowing year he took possession of this place,
which has since been his home: and tliere he
was actively engaged in farming np to i86c).
During the first few years he was the only
resident here in the locality. The present
owners of lots in West Paris bought them for
the most jxart from Mr. Brown. He has
furthered the building up of the village by
donating lands to induce manufacturers to lo-
cate their plants here. In 1869 he engaged
in manufacturing on his own account ; and four
years later, in 1873,. his present mill was
erected as a co-operative concern for manu-
facturing chairs. In 1877 or 1878 Mr. Brown

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with others engaged in manufacturing lumber.
This business he still continues with his son,
turning out large quantities of lumber, making
a specialty of clapboards, and planning to en-
gage more largely in making wooden bicycle
rims. They are the leaders in their line of
manufacture at West Paris.

On May 3, 1853, Mr. Brown was united in
marriage with Miss Mary Pari in, who was
born in Paris, September 25, 1S32, daughter
of Robinson Parlin. Their children are:
Edwin H., born May 26, 1856; and Jennie M.,
born July 10, 1870. Edwin H. Prown, who
is in business with his father, married Miss
Cora Judkins, by whom he has one son,
Charles H. Brown.

In town affairs the elder Mr. Brown has
always been very active. For some time he
has been Chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
During war times he held the office of Assist-
ant Assessor of Internal Revenue. Although
rejected for active service in the field on ac-
count of physical disability, he did good work,
assisting in recruiting men for the service.
He is one of the leading Republicans of Paris,
and a zealous temperance worker. From 1853
to 1875 he served as Justice of the Peace. He
is a member of West Paris Lodge, No. 15,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of
Home Commandery Lodge, No. 79, Order of
the Golden Cross, both of West Paris. In
religious belief he is a Universalist.

SA (;. ST()WP:RS, a well-known resi-
dent of New .Sharon, Me., was born
here on July 12, 1836, son of Rich-
ard and Susan D. (Follansbee) Stow-
ers. His mother was a daughter of Joshua
and Sarah Follansbee, and was the eldest of
their five children.

Richard .Stowers, the father of Asa G.
Stowers, was born April 2. 1810. During his
early years he lived in P'armington, his native
town, and was educated in the common schools.
Upon arriving at a maturer age he took up the
trade of carpentering: and after carrying it on
for some years there he went to Boston, where
he worked at his calling for twelve years more.
Later he came to New Sharon, and bought a
farm of seventy-five acres. The house built

b\' him in a handsome and substantial manner
stands to-day, very little the worse for wear.
Mr. Richard Stowers continued to work at his
trade of carpenter, together with his. farming in
his adopted place of residence, and was, quite
naturally, a very busy man. When he went
away from himie to do a job of carjjentering or
to take a trip for some other purpose, he w(.>uld
leave his son in charge of (he farm ; and thus
the young man acquired considerable experi-
ence in agricultural labors.

In politics Mr. Richard .Stowers was a
stanch Republican, and his religious views
conformed to the tenets of the Congregational
church. He had five brothers and sisters, of
whom John, Samuel, and Eben, were older
than himself, and his sisters, Sarah and Mary,
younger. Not one of these is now alive. Mr.
Richard -Stowers died at his son's farm in New
Sharon village on February 24, 1879, at the
age of sixty-eight. He and his wife, .Susan
D. Follansbee, whom he married in 1835,
were the parents of three children, namely:
Asa G., the subject of this sketch; Augusta
A., born May 6, 1839, who married J. V.
Dyer, of racing fame, and died August i,
1880: and Alifair, born October t, 1845, who
died March 17, 1847.

Asa G. Stowers spent his boyhood on the
old farm in New Sharon, and was educated in
the ])ublic schools, including the high school
of the town. At the age of seventeen he went
to California to engage in the mining busi-
ness, and remained there until he was nearly
twenty-one years of age, coming back to New
Sharon just twelve days before attaining his
majority. He attended school again for a
short time, but soon grew restless and began
to make preparations for a return to Califor-
nia: but, as he was the only son, he was
finally prevailed on by his mother to remain
at home. Soon after, his father, selling the
old homestead, bought another farm about one
mile north of the village on the Industry road.
Here he stayed for about si.\ years with his
family. Again selling out he removed to New-
Sharon village, where he became Ta.x Col-
lector, and also filled several other minor
offices. At this time his son, Asa G. Stowers,
went to the northern part of the town of New-
Sharon to live, buying a farm of one hundred

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and fort)' acres, where he settled down. 'I'liis
was in 1864. A year later he .sold out and
look up his habitation farther down the river
on a new farm of aboLit one hundred and
twenty-five acres in extent. After staying
there for three _\-ears he sold that farm and
bought the place now owned b)' Mr. 1.. A.
(jreenleaf, in New Sharon village. It was
on this [ilace that Mr. Stowers's father died.

Mr. Stowers wa.s married on Se]itendier 3,
1S62, to Miss L. Anna Hardy, the daughter
of Arnold antl Lois C. (V'aughan) Hardy, of
New Sharon. They have two children : Wal-
ter L. , born .September <S. 1865; and Mabel
.\.. born October 5, 1869.

Walter L. Stowers spent his earl\' boyhood
on his father's farm, getting his first education
in the common schools of New Sharon, later
attending the high school of the same ]ilace,
ami later still studying at Farmington, Mon-
mouth, and Lewiston. At the age of twentx'-
four he went to Nebraska, where he taught
school for the short period of six months. Di-
rectly after this he went into the emplo}- of a
large Nebraska nursery stock house, and re-
mained identified with this company for a year
and a half, travelling in the interests of the
business over almost all the western part (jf
the North American continent. He then be-
came connected with the Fidelitv Building and
Loan Association of Denver, Col., and has
since remained with them, being now the man-
ager of the field forces of the company. He
was married June 12, 1895, to Miss ^hm^ie
Coleman, of Aledo, 111. They have one
child — Ralph Leslie, born May 14, 1896.

Mabel A. Stowers, who is now the wife of
Charles H. Gordon, of her nati\e town of New
.Sharon, received her early education at the
common and high schools of that place. After
spending a season at Bar Harbor and one at
Portland, Me., she went to Boston. Mass., antl
learned dressmaking, a business which she
carried on for about two years, or until she was
married.

Mr. Asa G. .Stowers is, as was his father
before him, a good sound Republican in ]ioliti-
eal faith; and his religious belief is also like
his father's, that professed by the Congrega-
tional church. His present little competence
has been laboriously made by the exercise of

that industry, patience, and earnestness lor
which he is known and respected in the com-
munity in which he lives, and by the cheerful
co-operation and thrift of his faithful wife.

(g>r .IL'DSON BLAKb:, Chairman of the
4^ Board of Selectmen of Gilead, Me.,
yjl^V comes of two of the old families of
— ' C)xtord County, which he worthily
represents. A son of lJa\-id and Olive
(Adams) Blake, he was horn May 10, 1856,
on the farm where he now resides, once the
homestead nf his maternal grandparents,
David Blake, his father, was born in Bethel,
this countv. and reared an<l educated there.
He was a millwright, and followed his trade
for a numbcM' of years, also working at farm-
ing. In 1850 he moved to (iilead to the farm
occupied by his wife's ]iarents, which he man-
aged for tlu-m until they passed awav. The
estate then became his wife's i)roi)erty, and
Mr. and Mrs. David Blake spent the rest of
their lives here. David Blake was actively
interested in town affairs, voting always on
the Republican side. Gifted with a good
voice and a talent for music, he taught sing-
ing-school here for some time: and he led the
choir of the Bajitist church, of w'hich he w-as
a member. He died August 8. 1856.

His wife, Mrs. Olive Adams Blake, was
born on this farm. Her parents, Isaac and
Olive (Wight) Adams, were among the early
settlers of Gilead. Mr. Adams was a promi-
nent man in his day, a connoisseur in horse
flesh; and he was particularly proud of the
fact that he sold a horse to Daniel Webster.
He liveil to an advanced age. Mrs. Olive
Adams I-ilake died at the age of seventy-six.
Like her husband she was an active member
of the Baptist church. The following chil-
dren were born to Mr. antl Mrs. L)avid Blake:
Ellen i\r., wife of Boyle ChantUer, of Bethel:
David Newtt)n, a farmer of liethel: Isaac A.,
the oldest locomotive engineer on the Maine
Central Road, plying between Portland and
Waterville; Lizzie H., wife of James Hodson,
of Bethel; Eliphalet, an engineer on the
Grand Trunk Railroad, whose home is at
Islantl Pond, V' t. ; B. Frank. ]iart owner of the
old homesteatl, on which he resides; A. Jud-

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son, the subject ot this sketch; and Lillian,
unmarried, who is living with her brothers "on
tile ancestral hoinestead.

A. ludson Hlake has lived on this tarm
since birth, and has naturally followeil in
his father's footsteps. Besides attending to
the farm work, which he shares with his
brother Frank, he works in the winter season
at carriage-making and blacksmithing, having
a shop on his farm. lie is one of the promi-
nent Republicans of this county, and has been
Chairman of the town Reimblican Committee
since he was twenty-one years of age. As a
Selectman of the town he is now serving his
third term, this being his first year as Chair-
man; and he has been in office as a Justice of
the Peace for ten years. Quiet and unassum-
ing in manner. Mr. Rlake is recognized as a
man of abilit\', and has won the regard and
confidence of all who know him. He is un-
married.

md Mrs. lliggins were

Methodist l'"piscopal

/ I3)e(:)RGE ZOETII HIGGINS. M.U.,
VpT and his daughter, LELIA HIG-

— GINS, M.D., practising physicians
residing in the village of Strong, Me., are
prominent members of their profession, and
are favorably known throughout Franklin
County. Dr. George Zoeth lliggins was
born in E.xeter, Me., December 29, 1832, a
son of the Hon. Ebenezer and Ruth (Smith)
Higgins, both natives of Bucksport, this
State.

His jiarents in 1S14 settled on a tract of
wild land near the village of E.xeter, Mr.
Higgins builfling a log house. He worked
industriously to improve his claim, and in
course of time it became one of the handsom-
est estates in the county. A man of strong
character and good judgment, Ebenezer Hig-
gins served as a Representative in the State
legislature, and also as a .State Senator; and
for si.xteen years he filled the office of Deputy
Sheriff of Penobscot County. He was a mem-
ber of the Board of the Underground Railroad
at Exeter conteni|iorary with General Fesseii-
den and Stephen Thatcher. He died in 1853.
Mrs. Higgins was a very intelligent lady,
such men as Colonel F. W. Hill, of Exeter,
finding great pleasure in her friendship. She

died in 1884, Mr,
active in founding the
Church of Exeter.

They were the parents of se\en children.
The eldest, Fllijah, who was a [jrominent citi-
zen of Exeter, serving as Chairman of the
Board of Education during the war, died in
1S65: the second son, Jeremiah P., is a
farmer in 1-lxeter, Me. ; the third, F^benezer
A., who resided in Conneaut, Ohio, died at
Exetci' in 1S86: the fourth child, Harriet,
lives on the old homestead in Exeter; the
fifth, Julia, who died in 1865, was the wife of
Captain Cook, a wealthy ship-owner and
President of the National Bank of Province-
town, Mass., who also has passed away; the
sixth child, Ruth P., who is the widow of
James Grout, resides with a daughter in
Somerville, Mass. ; the seventh and youngest
is George Z. , the leading subject of the pres-
ent sketch, whose personal history follows.

George Zoeth Higgins acquired his general
education in the Bucksport Seminary and in
Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., graduat-
ing from the latter institution in 1855. Pur-
suing his professional studies at the Maine
Medical .School, he graduated in the class of
1858, and completed his preliminary training
with two terms at the Albany (N.Y.) Medical
School. He began to practice in the town of
Lubec, Me., and two years later removed to
Pembroke, this State, where he remained until
the fall of 1863. On October 28 of that year
he enlisted as Assistant Surgeon in the Fif-
teenth Regiment of Maine Volunteers; and
nine months later he was promoted to the rank
of Surgeon, and assignerl to garrison duty.
He received his discharge at Castle Garden,
N.Y., in July, 1866, and returned to his na-
tive State a skilful surgeon, schooled in the
trying exigencies of army life, and an exjjcri-
enced physician, with perception sharpened by
familiarity with disease. Settling in Lubec,
he practised there until December, 1878,
when he moved to .Strong, F'"ranklin County.
Here he has a beautiful home, and is closelx'
identified with the interests of the town.
Within call of the citizens here for nearly two
decades. Dr. Higgins has built up a large
practice, and has many patients in the out-
lying country.

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He was marrifd July 4, 1858, to Miss Kate
Ford Lamson, a native of Liibec, Me., born in
1834, dauj^hter of John L.amson, a merchant of
that town, and niece of Daniel S. l''ord, tlie
millionaire proprietor of the Yoiit/i's Loiiipan-
ioii. Mrs. Higgins's ])arents are both dead.
She has borne the Doctor two children — ■
Lelia and Albert R. The latter, who was
born in 1868, lived but four years and eight
months. Miss Lelia lliggins is a graduate of
the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia,
and gained her first experience in practical
work at the Lying-in Charity Hospital. A
remarkably intelligent lady, with a natural
gift for her work, she has a very large prac-
tice, and has won the confidence and love of
all who have claimed her services. She is a
member of the Maine Medical Association.
Dr. Lelia Higgins resides with her parents.

Dr. George Z. Higgins, who has been iden-
tified with the Republican party since he first
took an interest in politics, has held a number
of im])ortant public offices. P'rom 1S72 to
1878 he was a member of the Board of Trus-
tees of the State Reform School ; and for eleven
years he was a member of the Pension Hoard
of PLxamining Surgeons for Franklin County,
1892 being his last year of service. He is
now a member of the School Board of Strong.
A Mason in good standi'ng, he was the first
Master of George F. Davis Lodge, No. 78,
A. F. & A. M., holding his office five terms:
and as a Grand Army man he had much to do
with the organization of F.dmund B. Clayton
Post, No. 134. of Strong, of which he was
Cf)mmander two years. Dr. Higgins and
and his wife are members of the Bajitist
Church of Lubec.

'VLVANLS B. KNOX, who is re-
garded as one of the best farmers
of North P'ryeburg, Oxford County,
was born in Limerick, Me., July 7,
1821, son of Samuel and Olive (Lord) Knox.
His grandparents were Samuel and Polly
(Kimball) Knox, the former a native of
Dover, N.H., while the latter was born in
Maine.

Samuel Knox, the father of the subject of
this sketch, was born in Cornish, Me. In

earl\' manhood he took uj) the occiijiation of
farmer in Limerick, Me. In 1821 he moved
to Chatham, N.H., and there purchased a
farm, which he conducted prosperously for the
rest of his active period. He died in 1877,
aged sevent\'-nine years. 11 is wife, Olive,
who was horn in Parsonsfield, York County,
Me., was a daughter of Thomas and Sarah
Bradbury Lord, both natives of Parsonsfield.
.She hail eight children, as follows: Alonzo,
who was born in Maw 1819, anti died in
1881 ; .Sylvanus B., the subject of this sketch;
Sarah B. , who is now the widow of Samuel
A. B. P'arrington. and is living in Nortii
Fryeburg; Judith C, now deceased, who mar-
ried Francis Lord, an extensive farmer and
lumberman of this .State; Simeon 1'., who
married Sarah Bickford, of .Stow, this county,
and is now a carpenti'r of l'"armington. Me. ;
Olive L., now deceased, whu in;iiried ( )sgood
Watson, now engaged in market gardening at
Natick, Mass.; Samuel, who is also married,
and is a carpenter in Chicago, 111.; and Mary,
who married Elmer Stevens, a locomotive en-
gineer on the Grand Trunk Railroad, and re-
sides in Gorham, N.H. The mother was
eighty years old when she died in 1879. Both
parents belonged to the Metiioilist denomina-
tion.

Sylvanus B. Knox acquired his education in
the common schools, and grew to manhood
upon his father's farm in Chatliam. He as-
sisted in carrying on the homestead farm until
he was thirty-one years old, when he came
to Maine, and settled in .Stow. Here for
twenty-three years he owned and cultivated a
good farm. In 1875 he sold the property and
removed to Ncu'th P'ryebiirg, where he has
since resided. He is now the proprietoi- ol
one of the best farms in this locality. ( )n it
he raises the customary variety of crops, which
are generally of a superior quality. To his
natural energy and habits of industry must be
largely attributed his success in life.

On March 4, 1852, Mr. Knox was united in
marriage to Mary Fl. Nutter, who was born in
Porter, Me., August 24. 1834, daughter of
Charles and Dorothy (Moulton) Nutter, both
of whom were natives of that town. Mrs.
Knox's father, who was for many years a
prominent farmer of Porter, tor the last ten

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years ol liis lile was engaged in mercantile
business at Nortii l*"ryeburg, where he died
Septeniber 14, 1X74. Mis wife's death oc-
curred January 30, 1890. She was the mother
of two chil(h-en. namely: Mary E., who is now
Mrs. Knox; and Charles H., who was born
October J2, 1841, and died October 2t,, 1858.
Mr. antl Mrs. Knox have had four children, as
follows: William .M, who was born November
30, 1853, and died February 22, 1872; I'rank
H., born December 29, 1857, a prosperous
farmer of this town, who married Lizzie
Chase, of Chatham, N. H., and has one son,
Wendell H., who was born November 6, 1893:
ICmnia (3., who was born June 26, 1865, and
died April 30, 1887; and ()live L. , who was
l:)orn May 14, 1877, and is residing at home.
In politics Mr. Knox is a Republican. Al-
though an earnest supporter of the principles
of that party and a leading spirit in the local
organization, he has never aspired to public
office. He and his family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church.

■1-:NRY H. HERSEY, one of the best
known farmers of Sumner, Oxford

1.15 I County, and an ex-member of the

Maine legislature, was born De-
cember 10, 1833, upon the farm where he now
resides, son of Samuel and Polly (Bradbury)
Hersey. His grandfather, James Hersey, who
was a native of Massachusetts, and served as a
soldier in the Revolutionary War, after the
close of that struggle sold his property in the
latter State, and, moving to Maine, became
one of the earliest settlers in Minot. James
engaged in agriculture on Hersey Hill, which
takes its name from him. After residing
there until the year 1800 he came to Sumner,
where he spent the rest of his life, and died
aged about eighty-four years. He married
Althea Poole, who was born in Whitman,
Mass., daughter of Deacon Poole. She was
the mother of twelve children, and was over
eighty when she died.

.Samuel Hersey, a native of Minot, born
May 14, 1786, came to Sumner witli his par-
ents, and settled w'ith them upon a tract of
new land. This pro[)erty had been made a
good farm when it came inti.i his possession.

Here he carried on general farming, and
bought and sold cattle for many years. He
became widely and favorably known through-
out this section of the State as a drover, in
which calling he transacted a larger business
than any other person at that time. In 1855
he deeded the farm to his son, Henrv A., re-
tired from business, passed the rest of his life
in ease and comfort at the homestead, and died
November 19, 1867. In politics he followed
the majority of the Whigs into the ranks of
the Republican party. He occupied a |iosi-
tion of influence in the community as an hon-
orable, upright business man and a useful citi-
zen. By his first wife, in maidenhood F^unice
Bradbury, who was born June 9, 1788, he be-
came the father of six children, two of whom
are living. These are: Moses B. , who was
born -September 26, 1816, residing in Lincoln,
Penobscot County; and Jason, born September
20, 1 81 8, who resides in Whitman, Mass.
The others were: William R., Hiram. Sam-
uel, and Julia. The mother died May 5,
1830. The father's second wife, whose
maiden name was Polly l^radbury, was borji
July 5, 1792. She had two children, namely:
Henry B. , the subject of this sketch; and
Eunice M., born July 18, 1835, who married
A. P. Andrews, of North Paris, Me., and died
August 25, 1862. The mother died Novem-
ber 15, 1859. Both parents were members of
the Congregational church.

Henry B. Hersey is indebted to the district
school of Sumner for his early education. He
was afterward for some time engaged in
teaching school. This occupation he relin-
quished to take charge of the home farm at the
solicitation of his father, whose health was
then failing. Receiving a deed of the home-
stead in 1S55, he began a series of improve-
ments, which included the erection of a new
set of buildings. The farm, containing one
hundred and sixty acres, is one of the most
desirable pieces of property in town. On De-
cember 10, 1855, Mr. Hersey wedded Betsey
Jane Richardson, who was born in Sumner.
June 18, 1836, daughter of Lyman and Mercy
Richardson. Their children were: Louella
J., born December 14, 1856; George H., born
September 14, 185S; P'annyA., born Febru-
ary 9, iSdi; and .'\lice A., born July 24,

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1864. I.ouella J. married I-'raiik L. Warren,
of Hartford, Me., and has three chilth'en -
Mary A., Hersey, and George L. George H.,
who is the inventor of improved steam and hot-
water apparatus, married Laura E. Lynch, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., and resides in Buckfield,
Me., having seven children, namely: Herbert
C, born January 30, 1883; Raymond A.,
born October 2, 1884; Grace Z. , born July
17, 1887; Bessie W. , deceased, born Septem-
ber 28, 1889; Henry E., born November 15,
1890; George, born May 21, 1893; and Al-
bert, born March 18, 1895. Fanny A., who
attended Hebron Academy, is now a book-
keeper in Auburn, Me. Alice A. is now the
wife of Fred. A. Taylor, the steward of the
VVestboro In.sane Asylum.

Mr. Hersey was for many years a prominent
figure in the public affairs of both the town
and district. He was elected to all of the im-
portant town offices, and in 1879 he repre-
sented the district in the legislature. He is
highly respected in Sumner, with whose agri-
cultural interests he has been closely identified
since 1851. ]5oth he and Mrs. Hersey are
members of the Congregational church at East
Sumner.

k;\THAN G. MILLS, a prosperous
farmer of Mason, Oxford County, Me.,
was born on the farm that he now
owns, F'ebruary 20, 1824, son of
Cyrus and Abiah (Bean) ' Mills. The father
was liorn in Bethel, and the early years of his
life were spent on a farm and in logging
camps. Coming to Mason when a young man,
he purchased the farm that his son now owns,
and lived here for many years, finally selling
the place to his son and returning to his
native town, where he bought another farm.
He died there at seventy-six years of age. In
his younger days he was a Democrat, but he
afterward adopted the principles of the Repub-
lican party. He was an able public speaker,
and took a prominent part in local affairs,
serving several years as Selectman. He was
a patriot soldier in the War of 18 12. Abiah
Bean Mills was born in Bethel. She died
August 14, 1846, at fifty-three years of age.
Thirteen children, ten sons and three daugh-

ters, were the fruit of her union with Cyrus
Mills.

Nathan Ci. Mills was one of the ten sons
born to his ])arents. He lived at home dur-
ing his minority, then went to North Hampton,
N.H., and engaged in chopping cord wood at
forty cents per cord, working at this occupa-
tion fiu- five years. Having saved sufficient
money he then returned to Mason, and [un-
chasetl the old farm, which has since been his
home. It contains about seventy-five acres of
land, and is one of the most highly cultivated
farms in this townshiii. In addition to this
he owns about seven hundred acres of timber
and pasture land. .'Xlthough now past seventy-
two years of age he is still able to perform a
full day's labor. Mr. Mills makes a specialty
of dealijig in veal calves, handling as high as
one hundred and thirty in a year.

In September, 1849, Mr. Mills was joined
in marriage with Mrs. Mary h^. (Gordon)
Mills, the widow of his older brother, Daniel
Mills. Six children have blessed this union,
namely: Mary A., wife of Charles Dunham, a
farmer of Bethel; Eudora M., wife of Moses
M. Mason, of Gilead, Me. ; George E., a resi-
dent of Dorchester, Mass.; Bessie Alida, liv-
ing at the parental home; Ada, who died at
nineteen years of age; and Nathan E., a car-
penter in Lewiston, Me.

Mr. Mills, who is a Democrat in politics,
has served on the Board of Selectmen five
years, also as Town Surveyor. He is a mem-
ber of Mount Abram Lodge, No. 31, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Bethel:
and Pleasant Valley Grange, No. 136, Patrons
of Husbandry.

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•OSEPH S. HOUGHTON, a successful
merchant of Weld, Franklin County,
Me., and an ex-member of the Maine
legislature, was born in this town, July
9, 1S51, son of Daniel and .Sophia (Parlin)
Houghton. His paternal grandfather, James
Houghton, who was the fifth settler in the
town of Weld, cleared a good farm, upon
which he resided for the rest of his life; and
he reared a large family of children.

Daniel Houghton, Mr. Houghton's father,
son of James, w-as born in Weld, January 3,

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iSij, and was here a lifelong resident. He
was prosperously engaged in tilling the soil
during the active period of his life, and died
)unc 17, 1856. His wife, who was before
niarriage Sophia Pari in, became the mother of
three children, namely: Morence B., wife of
B. F. Mctcalf, of Auburn, Mc. : Joseph S., the
subject of this sketch; and Josephine, wife of
D. 15. Swett, of Weld. Daniel Houghton was
a member of the Congregational church, and
in politics he voted with the Whig party.

After the death of Daniel Houghton,
Sophia, his wife, married Vincent G. Parlin,
a resident of Weld, by whom she had five chil-
dren. Three of them died young, but two
livcil to reach manhood; namely, George Otis
and Abel Ezra. The former now resides at
Rumford Falls, Me. Abel l^Lzra Parlin gradu-
ated with honors at Maine Wesleyan Seminary,
Kent's Hill, Me., after which he took a course
of theology at Boston University. He was
subsequently pastor of several churches in
Maine and \ew Hampshire. He died at
Paris, Me., in January, 1S95.

Josejih S. Houghton was ed\icated in the
common schools of his native town. After
comjileting his studies he began work in a
spool factory, where he remained for nineteen
vears; and since April 1, i88g, he has been
engaged in trade at his present location. He
carries a varied line of merchandise, including
di'y goods, groceries, provisions, and other
wares, and has succeeded in establishing a
large and profitable business. In politics he
is a Republican, and takes a prominent part
in jjublic affairs. He was Town Clerk thir-
teen years, is now serving his third year as
Town Treasurer; and while representing this
district in the legislature, during the session
of 1885 and 1886, he served on the Committee
upon the Reform School. He was Postmaster
here for four years; and as Assistant Post-
master he now has charge of the office, which
is located in his store.

On October 4, 18S3. Mr. Houghton was
united in matrimony with Lizzie -Staples, a
native of Carthage, Me., and a cousin of the
Hon. Eugene Hale, United States Senator
from this State. Mr. and Mrs. Houghton
have one child living, a daughter, Madge,
aged eleven years.

Mr. Houghton is a member of Mystic
Lodge, No. 154, A. F. & A. M., of Weld.
He was Master of the lodge for two years,
served as Senior Deacon, Junior and Senior
Warden, and is a member of the chapter.
He has acted as a Justice of the Peace since
1885.

fHOMAS SWAN, for many years an es-
teemed resident of Waterford, was born
in this town, September 11, 1810, son
of Dudley and .Sallie (Green) -Swan. His
father was a farmer and a lifelong resident of
Waterford. The subject of this sketch resided
for many years on an eighty-acre farm just
west of South Waterford. Bro'ught up to
agriculture he became a practical farmer. Ik-
was also a skilled road builder, and man)- of
the best roads in Waterford were built under
his supervision. Industrious and thrifty, he
prospered; and, at his death, which occurred in
this town, April 15, i S96, he left a fair prop-
erty. Widely known, he was equally re-
spected, and was chosen by his fellow-towns-
men to serve them in various public capaci-
ties, including that of Selectman. He was
twice married, first to Miss Eliza .Sanderson,
of Sweden, Me., who died June 6, 1878.
Five children were the fruit of this union,
namely: Mary E., wife of Albert Caswell, a
farmer of Waterford, holding the office of .Se-
lectman; Nancy O., who died in childhood;
Charles, a ])hysician, resitling in Iowa;
Thomas }]., an attorney in Atlantic City, la.;
and John S., a farmer of Livingstone Countw
California. For his second wife Mr. .Swan
married Miss Charlotte H. Walker, who
survives him, and who was born in Bethel,
Me., April 12, 1832, daughter of Joseph C.
and Lucinda (Hale) Walker. Her father was
a native of Bethel, and her mother of Water-
fonl. The former, who followed farming in
Waterford for many years, died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Swan. Mr. and Mrs.
Walker had three children — Caroline M.,
who married D. B. Willis, a prominent specu-
lator and merchant of Lewiston, Me. (both are
now deceased) ; Charlotte H. ; and Columbia,
who died in infancy. Mrs. Swan's mater-
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(I'"lclcln'i) Ilalc. Oliver Hale was one of the
jjioncer settlers of Oxford County, coming
iiere when Waterford was a wilderness. He
was a trader, and conducted a store on the spot
where his grand-daughter, Mrs. Swan, now
resides. He was also engaged quite exten-
sively in farming, lie and his wife had eight
children.

-01 1\ 151.AXC11AR1), one of the best
known farmers of Wilton, I'"ranklin
County, Me., was born in this town,
August I, 1 826, son of Cyrus and
Hetscv (Floyd) Blanchard. His paternal
grandfather, Timothy Blanchard, who was a
soldier in the Revolutionary War, and served
at the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill,
removed from Billerica, Mass., to Litchfield,
where he resided for some years: and Iiis last
days were passed with his son in Maine. He
diet! at the age of eighty-four years. His
children were: Timothy, Hannah, Cyrus,
Rhoda, Reuel, Lorina, and Mary.

Cyrus Blanchard, son of Timothy, journeyed
from Massachusetts to Maine on foot : and
deciding to settle in Wilton he here bought
eighty acres of wild land. After clearing a
small space and erecting a frame house twenty
h\- twenty feet, he continued to improve the
property until, as the result of his labor, he
possessed a ])roductive farm, and his first
abode was replaced by a large and more sub-
stantial house, together with spacious barns
and out-buildings. He enjoyed a comfortable
l)rosperity as a general farmer, and resided in
W'ilton until his death, which took place
w^iien he was sixty-four years old. In his
younger days he was a Whig, later uniting
with the Republican party; and he was a mem-
ber of the Free Will Baptist church. His
first wife, whose maiden name was Chloe
Welch, survived but a short time after mar-
riage. She had one child, a daughter, Rhoda,
who died young. His second wife, formerly
Betsey Floyd, who was a daughter of Samuel
Floycl, became the mother of two children,
namely: Jessie; and John, the subject of this
sketch. Mrs. Betsey F"loyd Blanchard lived
to reach the age of seventy-five years.

John Blanchard was the only son born to

his ]iarents. As he grew to manhood in his
native town he attended the public schools of
Wilton when opjiortunity [lermitted, and as-
sisted his father in the faini duties until be-
coming of age. lie then bought sixty acres
of partially impro\-ed kuul, adjoining his
father's estate; but, after residing there for
twelve years, during wdiich time he made vari-
ous improvements, he s(dd that propert}', and
purchased the J. Maconiber farm of one hun-
dred and eight)' acres, where he has since
lived. He has spent a great deal ol time in
bringing his land uji to a high state of fei'til-
ity, has set out an orchard, keeps some extia
fine cattle and sheep, has remodelled his icsi-
dence, and besides attending to his farm has
been quite extensively engaged in lumbering.

In 1853 Mr. Blanchard wedded I'.lizabeth
Colburn, daughter of John and .Sarah Colbinn.
He and his wife have three children, as
follows: Chailes F. , a large farmer and stock
dealer of Wilton, who was horn ( Jctober \C>,
1S54, married Julia .Savage, Aud has three
children — John 1-"., Minnie, and Jeannett;
I' rank N., also a farmer and stock dealer, who
was born November 17, 1863, mai'ried Lillian
K. Adams, and lias had two children— Cala
C, who died young, and Clifford, who was
born December 8, 1894: and Annie May, who
was born May 25, 1866, marrit'd William
-Savage, and has two children — Linn .S., who
was born Decembei' 17, 181J3, and Clinton 1^.,
who was born October 24, 1895.

Although still vigorous and active, ,Mi'.
Blanchard is now resting aftei- ;i long t-areer of
useful activity, having given up the mure
laborious duties of his fai'ni to his son-in-law,
William .Savage, who resides with him. He
has voted with tlie Re]iublican party ever since
its formation, but has never aspired to public
office. In his religious faith he is a Free
Will Baptist.

JIANDLFR BROTH FRS, who, under
the firm name of G. A. Chandler &
Co., conduct a large general store
at West Sumner, Oxford County,
Me., are natives of Sumner and sons of the
late Hiram IV Chandler. Their father died
October 31, 1888. Their mother. Mi-s. Lme-

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line Culnirn Chandler, is still living at the
homestead. Their paternal grandfather, Reu-
ben Chandler, who was a shoemaker by trade,
was an early settler in Paris, this county, and
in Minot, a few miles distant, but passerl the
latter part of his life in Sumner, where he
died at the age of fifty-six years. His wife,
Abigail Harrows, lived to reach a good old
age.

Hirani B. Chandler, .son of Reuben, was
born in Minot, Androscoggin County, Febru-
ary 13, 1 8 14. He built his shops in Sumner,
and followed the trades of a cooper and wheel-
wright until about 1846, when he engaged in
mercantile pursuits, establishing and conduct-
ing for many years, or till his death, the busi-
ness in West Sumner which is now carried on
bv his sons. He was prominently identified
with public affairs, serving as Postmaster and
Town Treasurer for forty years. He was a
Republican in politics, and for many years
was an active member of the Universalist
church.

His wife, Emeline O. Coburn, whom he
married November ig, 1S38, was born in
Sumner, November 10, 18 19, daughter of
Samuel Coburn. She became the mother of
eight children. The eldest, Mary E., was
ijorn December 16, 1839, married Kingman
Gurney, and died August 6, 1862, leaving one
daughter, Flora L. , who was born May 21,
i860, and is now the wife of Elbridge S.
Tuell, having two children — Mary E. and
Emily. The second, Julia A., who was born
June I, 1841, married Horace Gurney, and
died November 22, 1864. The third, also a
daughter, Victoria A., was born February
7, 1843, and married William T. J^onney, of
West Sumner. Her children are: Corry A.,
born September 23, 1864, who married Effie
Abbott, and has one child, Elva E. ; Agnes
I^., who was born May 23, 1871: and Will-
iam A., born September 15, 1878. The fourth
was Eliza (j. Chandler, who was born January
5, 1846. and died May 26. 1870. Oscar G., the
eldest son, a resident of West Sumner, who
was born Julv 2, 1848, by bis first wife, I-HIa
Whitman, had one child, Elton, born Novem-
ber I, 1874, and by his second wife, Abbie
Farrar, a son, Leslie, born February 2, 1879.
Agnes E. Chandler, the si.xth child, was born

January 17, 185 i, married the Rev. George E.
Forbes, and died May 12, 1885, leaving one
child, Murray E. The seventh and eighth
born were George A. and Harold Chandler,
the subjects of this sketch, now to be further
mentioned.

George A. Chandler, senior member of the
firm, was born February 21, 1858. He ac-
quired his education in the common and high
schools, and after completing his studies he
taught ten terms of school. He then engaged
in the mercantile business, which since the
death of his father he has managed as the ac-
tive partner. This firm is now carrying a
large and varied line of general merchandise,
embracing unnumbered articles for domestic,
agricultural, and mechanical use; and they not
only have the most profitable trade in the vil-
lage, but supply a numerous patronage from
the adjacent towns. Mr. Chand