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ley is successfully conducting the business left by his father, having a commodious residence, a fine barn, and a large amount of stock. He is recognized as a keen, wide-awake man, well endowed with the progressive spirit and te- nacity of purpose that is sure of winning the best results. He married Miss Louise Hart, of New Hampshire, and has four children - Marion, Carrie Abbie, Sidney Harold, and Eveline Louise. Roscoe Damon Perley, a young man of good mental attainments, gradu- ated from the Harvard Medical School with the class of 1896, and is now one of the staff of the Boston City Hospital. His success thus far as a practitioner gives flattering prom- ise of a brilliant career in the future. Miss Carrie S. Perley, who is living at the family home, has studied music with private tutors in Boston, and is an accomplished and talented artist in her chosen profession.
ON. CHARLES O. BAILEY, of Newbury, son of Willian P. and Ursula (Larkin) Bailey, is a de- scendant in the eighth generation of one of the three brothers - John, Richard, and Josiah Bailey - who came from England in 1635. His ancestors were prominent in the old Co- lonial days, both as citizens and as soldiers. The family traditions tell of seven members who fought in the War of the Revolution. The Baileys were farmers for many genera- tions. On the mother's side Charles O. Bailey is descended of Thomas R. Larkin, who loaned to Paul Revere the horse on which the latter made his famous ride. His paternal great-grandfather owned a large tract of land in what is now West Newbury. His grand- father, Joseph Bailey, who died in 1865, is remembered by his townspeople as "a fine old gentleman."
William P. Bailey, the father of Charles O., was born in Newbury, June 17, 1842. He was in business in Haverhill for many years. In 1862 he enlisted in Company K, Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment, and was with Gen- eral Banks in the assaults on Port Hudson and in the battle of Plains Store. After more than two years of active service he re-enlisted in the Seventeenth Massachusetts, unattached company, stationed at Salem. He married Ursula, a daughter of Samuel R. Larkin, of the old manufacturing firm of Larkin & Mor- rill. They have four children, the eldest of whom is Charles O. His twin brother, J. Ed- mund, who died at the early age of seventeen, just after passing his examinations for Har- vard, was a graduate of the Putnam Free High School at Newburyport. Maud C., who mar- ried M. B. Bailey (no relation), now resides at Topsfield, Mass. Grace L. married How- ard F. Morrill, the junior partner of Larkin & Morrill.
Born in Newbury, January 24, 1863, Charles O. Bailey was educated at the Putnam Free High School, Dummer Academy, and Bryant & Stratton's Business College. In 1884 he entered into partnership with his father. Under the firm name of Bailey & Co. they did business for ten years in Haverhill, residing during this period in Newbury, Mass. In 1894 he and his father went into business in Newbury, under the same firm name. He was Selectman in the years 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1895; and during the last two years he was the chairman of the board. He has served for nine years on the School Board, and in 1896 he was an alternate delegate from the Sixth Congressional District to the Republican National Convention held at St. Louis. A member of the State legislature in 1895, he represented the double district comprising Newburyport, Newbury, Ipswich, and Rowley.
HENRY C. KING.
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He was re-elected in 1896, and in 1897 was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, repre- senting the Third Essex District. In both branches he served on the more important committees.
Mr. Bailey is a member of the C. C. Dame Lodge of Masons of Georgetown; of the Sons of Veterans; the Junior O. U. A. M .; and the I. O. O. F. In 1884 he married Elizabeth T. Brickett, of West Newbury. They have one son, Harold L., a bright, active lad, ten years of age, and said to be a "chip of the old block." An ardent sportsman, Mr. Bailey, in the midst of his active public life, still finds an occasional opportunity to slip away with rod or gun.
ENRY C. KING, a prominent mer- chant and manufacturer of Law- rence, residing at 266 Andover Street, was born at Tunbridge, Vt., August 30, 1852. A son of Nathaniel King, he is a grandson of the Rev. Nathaniel King, who was a well-known preacher in the early part of the century, and in many ways a man of note. The Rev. Mr. King was of remarkable phy- sique, standing six feet, two inches, and weighing two hundred pounds. Physically built upon a noble plan, his moral nature was correspondingly large. In the olden time, when ministers labored solely for the good they might do in their Master's vineyard, he always preached without any stated compensa- tion. He married Lydia Noyes, of Vermont, and on the farm to which he took his bride 'their thirteen children were born and reared. The latter were: Dilly, Lydia, Hannah, Harty, Abigail, Nathaniel, Eliza, Sally, Daniel, Philip, Nancy, Harvey, and Aaron. All of these sons and daughters married and reared families, one having brought up a fam-
ily of ten children. The father attained the age of eighty years, and the mother that of ninety-one.
Nathaniel King was born in 1805, either in Tunbridge or Northfield, Vt. Brought up to farming, he followed it until about fifty years of age, serving for a time as Assistant Judge of the local court. His first wife, whose maiden name was Hunt, bore him six chil- dren, of whom four sons grew to maturity, and two are now living. The latter are: Simeon, of Plymouth, Vt .; and Orlando, of Lawrence, Mass. His second wife, Rebecca F. Whitney King, was born at Tunbridge, Vt., daughter of Aaron and Betsey Whit- ney. The children born of this union were : Amanda, who lived but ten years; and Henry C. King.
Upon leaving the district school when thir- teen years old, Henry C. King became a clerk in the general store of his uncle in Tunbridge. After six years, in which he gained valuable experience, he came to Lawrence, and for six months thereafter was a salesman for Shattuck Brothers. He then accepted a position with M. & H. D. Manahan, who had a large gro- cery store. Having purchased this store in 1882, he has conducted it successfully since, adding a line of provisions, wood, coal, hay, grain, lime, cement, and other articles. To meet the demands of his present business he employs from thirty to forty men. He has also large interests in other enterprises. In December, 1893, he became one of the incor- porators and a third owner of the D. W. Pin- gree Company, which is doing a general lum- ber business, daily cutting about twenty-five thousand feet of lumber to be used in its box factory. In 1894 he was made the treasurer and general manager of the Dillon Machine company, which is carrying on a lucrative business. He is likewise the treasurer of the
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American Mason Safety Tread Company, which manufactures a metal matting for stairs and thresholds from corrugated steel or iron with a lead filling. This matting, for which a great demand is anticipated, has already been adopted for use in the United States navy and the government buildings in Wash- ington. Also, Mr. King is the president of the Lamson Store Equipment Company of Lawrence, having offices in Boston, Mass .;
Politically, Mr. King affiliates with the Re- publican party, but has never been an aspirant for official honors, his time, outside of his business, being entirely given to his home and family. Fraternally, he is a Mason, belong- ing to Grecian Lodge and Bethany Command- ery, K. T .; and to Monadnock Lodge and Kearsarge Encampment, I. O. O. F. He is a member of the Congregational church, and when its present house of worship was erected he was chairman of the Building Committee. He was married October 17, 1876, to Nellie F., daughter of Milton, and Mary Abbott, of Lawrence. Mr. Abbott, who was a mer- chant in this city, died at the age of fifty years. Mrs. Abbott and four of her sons are still living. Mr. and Mrs. King have three children - Carl, Philip, and Helen. Carl and Philip, respectively aged eighteen years and sixteen and a half, are attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Helen is a win- some child of eleven years.
RANCIS PROCTER, the senior men- ber of the firm Procter Brothers, pub- lishers of the Cape Ann Advertiser and Gloucester Daily Times, was born in Glouces- ter on March 16, 1833, son of Francis E. and Ann (Allen) Procter. His immigrant ances- tor was John Procter, who arrived with his family from England on board the "Susan and
Ellen" in 1635, and settled in Salem. John Procter (second), who was born in England in 1633, was tried with his wife for witchcraft ; and he was executed at Salem, August 19, 1692. Benjamin Procter, the next in line, died in Salem in 1720. He left a son, John, aged fifteen years, who married Lydia Waters, and died in 1771. Joseph Procter, son of John and Lydia, removed from Danvers, and settled in Gloucester on March 3, 1768, there estab- lishing the fish business which is still carried on by his descendants. He was also inter- ested in other enterprises, and was one of the prominent residents of his day and an active business man. He married Elizabeth Epes, through whom the Procters of Gloucester are descended from the Rev. Francis Higginson, the first minister in Salem, and related to the descendants of Colonel Prescott of Bunker Hill fame, as well as to William H. Prescott, the historian. Joseph and Elizabeth Procter had a large family of children. Among them was Daniel Epes Procter, grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Francis E. Procter, the father, who was a sea captain engaged in the South American trade, died at the age of forty-two years. He married Ann Allen, daughter of Thomas Allen, of Gloucester, and a descendant of the Rev. John White, who was ordained to the ministry here April 21, 1703, and served as pastor of the First Parish for fifty-eight years.
After the death of his father, Francis Proc- ter, at the age of thirteen years, assisted in the support of his two brothers and widowed mother, who shortly afterward lost her eye- sight. He attended the public schools when the opportunity permitted. The necessity of helping to keep the homestead and support the family prevented him from learning a trade, which could yield little or no income during an apprenticeship. His first effort in this di-
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rection was to borrow a dollar of his mother, and buy thirty-three copies of the Flag of our Union, at that time a favorite weekly, and dis- pose of them. Little by little he added to his stock of newspapers and books until he ob- tained a good business foothold. Then, in 1854, he and his brother, George H. Procter, formed the firm of Procter Brothers, which has since advanced rapidly in prosperity and importance. Their enterprise now embraces printing and publishing, besides an extensive business in books, stationery, newspapers, and miscellaneous fancy goods. The firm started in a store fitted up under the old homestead. This was destroyed by fire on February IS, 1864; but they immediately rebuilt, erecting the substantial Procter Building known as the Old Corner, and still occupy the same location. In 1858 the senior partner, assisted by his brother, launched his first newspaper venture, which consisted of a monthly sheet. This was soon enlarged, and, as the Cape Ann Adver- tiser, in 1856 was issued weekly. In 1888 they established the Gloucester Daily Times, which is now in the full tide of success as the result of the liberal and progressive methods of Francis Procter, the general manager, and George H. Procter, the editor.
Francis Procter is the chairman of the Gloucester Board of Trade, and of the Commit- tee on City Improvement, and a director of the Co-operative Bank. He was a delegate to the first Free Soil Convention ; was Town Auditor in 1861; Warden of Ward Four; and a mem- ber of the Board of Aldermen in 1876. He is now one of the Park Commissioners and the secretary of the board. He married M. Melissa Rice, a native of Marlboro, Mass., daughter of Solomon Rice. She is a grand-daughter of Thomas Rice. Mrs. Procter is the mother of three children, namely: Frank R., born in 1857; William A., born in 1860; and Mary
Melissa, born in 1873. Mr. Procter is widely known among editors and publishers, having been the secretary of the Massachusetts Press Association for two years, its vice-president for five years, and its president for three years. He has also been a frequent delegate and member of the Executive Committee of the National Editorial Association Convention, contributing papers on advertising for the past fifteen years, and as such has been an extent- sive traveller over various sections of the United States, extending also, in one of its excursions, as far as the City of Mexico. He spent the winter of 1879 and 1880 at Ber- muda to recover his broken health, and also was a member of the first Raymond excursion across the continent to California in 1881. He is a Master Mason, and was secretary of Tyrian Lodge for two years. He is also a member of the Independent Christian Society, and was chairman of the Parish Committee for seven years.
APTAIN BENJAMIN A. FOLLANS- BEE, a well-remembered master
mariner of Amesbury, son of Benja- min and Elizabeth (Kenney) Follansbee, was born in Pittston, Me., December 25, 1816. The paternal grandfather, Benjamin Follans- bee, was a pioneer ship-builder on the "Back Landing " on Powow River at Amesbury. The father settled at Pittston, on the Kennebec, in 1896, and became a pioneer ship-builder of the place. His ship-yard was on the site of the present great houses of the Knickerbocker Ice Company. He had extensive business inter- ests. While an active member of the Congre- gational church, he held very liberal views. An able public speaker, and appearing fre- quently before his townspeople, he exercised much influence with them. He married
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Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Kenney, of Hallowell, Me., who was a soldier in the Revolution. Her sister, Mrs. Hannah Robin- son, died at Augusta in August, 1897, in the one hundred and third year of her age.
Captain Follansbee spent almost his entire life upon the sea, making frequent voyages to foreign shores in the command of ships owned in part by himself. The three quickest trips made by clipper ships were sailed by the "Greenfield " under his command. A short time before the Civil War began he retired from a seafaring life, and opened a store in Amesbury. The hearty, genial captain, too liberal for a successful storekeeper, could not refuse people credit for the necessities of life; and, accordingly, he found the venture anything but profitable after a trial of two years. The life was also dull for him, whosc temperament called for energetic action, to which he had been so accustomed. The result was that he went to sea again. In the winter of 1872 he was lost off the coast of England in the ship "Sardis." Captain Follansbee circumnavi- gated the globe several times, and visited all the principal ports of the civilized world. He was accompanied by his wife when he went to China and to some other countries. On one of his voyages, and while in port at Yokohama, his entire crew, with the exception of the mate, mutinied. He was compelled to put them in irons, and did not release them until the vessel was on the high seas. At the time the New York papers contained an extended account of the incident. During the Civil War he was shut up in Singapore Harbor for several months, fearing capture by the "Alabama," which was there at the same time. The only serious mishap that befell the Captain through- out his entire career was the loss, off the New Jersey coast, opposite Long Branch, of the "Tartar," a new ship built at Portsmouth,
N. H., on her maiden trip from England to New York, under his command. Among the other vessels commanded by him were the "Skylark " and "Uncowah." His reputation was that of an able and successful navigator, and he was widely known to ship-owners and seafaring men.
In 1843 Captain Follansbee married Miss Aphia Ann Russell Tyler, of Amesbury, who now resides in this town with her daughter. His children are William Tyler and Alice Cushman. William Tyler Follansbee, who is a carriage-maker of Amesbury, married Miss Annette Pettingell. They have a daughter, Helen Leslie, eight years of age. Miss Fol- lansbee, a graduate of Bradford Academy, is the present librarian of the Amesbury Public Library, which position she has held for sev- eral years past. She is connected with the Elizabeth H. Whittier Club and various other social literary societies of the town.
RANK SAVAGE, the efficient chair- man of the Amesbury School Board, was born in Boxford, Mass., on Sep- tember 2, 1833, son of Johnson and Mary (Hardy) Savage. Johnson Savage, son of a sea captain, was a carpenter by trade, and re- sided during the greater part of his life at Boxford, where he died at the age of fifty-six years. By his wife, Mary, who was born in Georgetown, there were five children - Will- iam Johnson, Frank, Leonard, Mary J., and Sarah. William Johnson has been the master of almshouses in various places, including those of this State at Ipswich, Topsfield, and Boxford. He is now in poor health, and re- sides in Georgetown. Leonard enlisted in 1861, in the Thirteenth Massachusetts Vol- unteer Regiment, and served for three years in the Civil War. When this term expired,
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he re-enlisted, was shortly afterward captured with a part of his regiment in the Shenandoah Valley, and was sent to Salisbury Prison, where he died of starvation. Mary J. married Mr. O'Dowd, and lives in Amesbury. Sarah, the youngest daughter, now a widow, married a Mr. Emerson, and made her home in Brad- ford, where she still resides.
When nineteen years of age, Frank Savage entered Atkinson Academy, where he spent three years in preparing for college, teaching school for a part of the time. In 1859 he en- tered Dartmouth College, graduating there- from with the class of 1863. Subsequently he taught school at Haverhill for some time, was a teacher in the public schools of Ames- bury for two years, and for three years was principal of the high school at Bradford. He spent the following three years teaching in the Reform School at Westboro, and for the next ten years was the principal of the Salis- bury High School. About fifteen years ago the delicate state of his health obliged him to retire from the teaching profession. Since then he has served for twelve years on the School Board of Amesbury, being for the past ten years the chairman of the board. He is a member of the Democratic Town Committee, and at one time was the Democratic candidate for State Representative. His popularity was attested by the fact that he lacked but twenty- two votes to secure his election in a strong Republican district. He is a member of Powow River Lodge, No. 90, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled all the chairs; and is con- nected with the Essex County Teachers' As- sociation, one of the oldest societies in the State.
In 1873, March 27, Mr. Savage married Anna M. J. Lawrence, a daughter of the Rev. John J. Lawrence, of New York State. Mr. Lawrence was one of the early missionaries
sent out by the A. B. C. F. M. to the Madura Mission, where, after spending twelve years in his high calling, he passed to his reward. Mrs. Savage, who was born in Hindostan, was brought to America in infancy by her mother, who taught school successfully in Troy, N. Y ., and other places. Mrs. Lawrence afterward carried on a flourishing boarding-school in Ballston, N. Y., until loss of health compelled her to retire. She could not be prevailed upon to accept the help to which she was en- titled from the A. B. C. F. M. Mrs. Savage received her education at Mount Holyoke Seminary, graduating in 1866. She taught school successfully until the time of her mar- riage, the most of these years having been spent as teacher of a high school in Tecumseh, Mich. She has, until recently, taken an ac- tive part in the work of the Union Evangeli- cal church. Her only daughter, Miss Ethel A. Savage, an energetic and capable young lady and a graduate of the Newburyport Train- ing School, has been a successful and popular teacher in the Amesbury schools since she was eighteen years old.
DWARD A. LANE, a prominent busi- ness man of Manchester and secretary of the School Board, was born in Annisquam, a part of Gloucester, Mass., on December 4, 1847, his parents being Allen and Charlotte (Sargent) Lane, both natives of that town, and both representing old Glouces- ter families.
Mr. Lane passed the early part of his life at Annisquam, and attended the public schools there. At the age of sixteen he began learn- ing the painter's trade, with E. L. Cook, of Gloucester, with whom he worked six years; and soon after reaching his majority he en- tered into partnership at Lanesville with Al-
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bert Lanc, under the firm name of Albert Lanc & Co. At the end of about two years he came to Manchester, and started a business for himself, this being in March, 1872. He carries on the painting business in all its branches, his contracts in most cases includ- ing painting, glazing, sash, blinds, and paper- hanging. He employs on the average thc ycar round a force of twenty-five men, in busy times the number rcaching as high as fifty. Mr. Lane has finished the greater part of the finc summer residences in and about Manches- ter-by-the-Sea, and has had several large con- tracts in different places in the State, also in the White Mountain region of New Hamp- shire. For ten years prior to 1896 he had an office in Boston, and did a large amount of work in Boston, Brooklinc, and Cambridge. At the present time he has an office and store at Hamilton; and since September, 1896, he has built up quite an extensive trade in that growing town.
Although well occupied with his own busi- ncss affairs, Mr. Lane has found some time to devote to the interests of the town and of his fellow-citizens. He has served one term as Selectman, and has been for several years an active and efficient member of the School Committee. Hc belongs .to the Congrega- tional church of Manchester. Of a social temperament and interested in fraternal organizations, he is a member of Magnolia Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being Past Grand of the same and present treasurer; also member and Past Master of North Shore Lodge, American Order of United Workmen.
Mr. Lane has been twice married. His first wife, Amanda Sargent, of Annisquam, Mass., bore him three children: Grace G., a graduate of Smith College, in the class of 1894, now a teacher in the high school at Fal-
mouth, Mass .; E. Percy Lane, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, in the class of 1898; and Henry Phillips, who died at the age of sixteen months. Mr. Lane's second wife, Annic E. Leighton, of Hopkinton, Mass., is the mother of a daughter, Annic L. Mr. Lane is a pop- ular man in his town, and carries on a very successful business. . He has the full confi- dence of the public at large and of his numer- ous patrons.
LEXANDER CALDWELL, the senior member of the firm Alexander & George J. Caldwell, distillers, is one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Newburyport, where he was born and where he has always made his home. He represents the third generation of his family in this city, being a son of Captain John Cald- well, who was a lifelong resident, and grand- son of Alexander Caldwell, of Scotch-Irish stock, who came here a young man in the latter part of last century from Dunbarton, N. H.
The Caldwells in earlier times were strict Calvinists. They have all the Scottish char- acteristics of industry, frugality, and integ- rity. From the History of Dunbarton, N. H., wc learn that a James Caldwell and a Samuel Caldwell were among the original grantees of that town in 1752; also that Thomas Cald- well, a kinsman of the Caldwells of New- buryport, distillers, removed from Litchfield, N. H., to Dunbarton, and there became a wealthy farmer. Thomas died in 1816, aged eighty-three, having been born in 1733 in Ire- land - if we mistake not - son of Alexander, first (clscwhere recorded as born in 1690), who a few years later emigrated with his family, and settled in New Hampshire, prob- ably at Litchfield. David S. Caldwell, of
ALEXANDER CALDWELL.
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Newbury, it is stated, was a grandson of Thomas Caldwell.
Alexander Caldwell, second, as we may call him, the grandfather above mentioned, was a native of New Hampshire, son of an immi- grant (as appears from the family tradition that he had a brother born on the passage). Coming to Newburyport when a young man, he was promptly warned away outside the limits of the town, as was customary in those days on the advent of strangers. He had, however, come to stay, and he found employ- ment in a distillery. Later he built the dis- tillery which is now carried on by his descend- ants, and which has been owned and conducted by the family for over a hundred years. He married Mary Warner, of this city. His death occurred in 1832, at the age of eighty- five years. Some two years before this the business had passed into the hands of his son John, formerly a sea captain. John Caldwell was born in 1783, and died in 1859, the town by that event losing one of its most respected citizens. He had several brothers, nearly all of whom were engaged in the distilling busi- ness. The following is a brief record: Jo- seph ran a distillery in Portsmouth; James was a dry-goods merchant on State Street, Newburyport; Alexander, who was a wealthy distiller of New Orleans, La., died during the Rebellion; Abner was a distiller in Dover, N. H., and later was engaged in com- merce on Ferry Wharf; and William was in the business at New Orleans and later in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Wheelwright. At one time two of the brothers conducted a distillery at Norfolk, Va. Distilling was carried on by the family simul- taneously in five States of the Union. All the brothers were active members of the Pres- byterian church.
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