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lived and died at Turner, Maine. 5. Mar- shall, resided at Porter, Maine, and Conway, New Hampshire ; was killed at sea from a fall in the war of 1812; children : i. Sarah H., died January 14, 1870; married, April 24, 1824, Judge Dana; ii. Alexander, born August 28, 1801, at Hiram, died November 29, 1883 ; mar- ried, July 18, 1826, Nancy Fly ; iii. Olive, born 1804; iv. Abigail; v. Hannah, married Isaiah Tripp, and lived in Brownfield, Maine; vi. Daniel, died in Gorham, Maine. 6. Jesse, in- herited the property of John McIntire, his wife's father, resided at Hiram; children : Joseph. John, Esther, Jane, Olive (married Sewall Gilpatrick, whose son Joseph was colonel of a Georgia regiment in the Confed- erate army). 7. Phebe, born about 1794; married Ezekiel Wood, of Brownfield, Maine.
(VI) Joseph (2), son of Joseph ( I) Lewis, was born in Sanford (?), Maine, in 1762 or September, 1764 (?). He moved to East Conway, New Hampshire, with his brother Marshall. In November, 1800, both signed a remonstrance against the incorporation of the Baptist Society in Conway. He enlisted in the war of 1812, and on foot started for home on a furlough. He stopped at the Fitch Tav- ern in Baldwin, complained of being ill, and asked for a drink of water. Several days af- terwards he was found by the roadside, where he had died, perhaps of a shock of some kind. He was buried in West Baldwin. He deeded land in Fryeburg, July 16. 1803, after going to Conway. He married ( first ) Elsie Minnie Heath, who died in child-birth, about 1802. He married (second) Elizabeth Layman, born 1782. died July 5. 1849. aged sixty-seven years. She married ( second ) Moses Pettee, who died November 20, 1843. agcd ninety-three years, seven months, eleven days. She had brothers Joseph. William and Josiah, of Eaton. New Hampshire, and three sisters. Children, born at East Conway. New Hampshire: 1. Elsie, born June 20. 1803: died October 23. 1891 : married Edmund Wentworth : children : Elizabeth L., John Layman, Sarah A., James E .. Marcia A .. Almira C., Martha S. and Charles Henry. 2. Jacob, mentioned below. 3. John, November 12, 1806; married Me- hitable Harriman ; died June 10. 1883. 4. Sallie Hobbs, October 21, 1808: mar- ried Sylvester Abbott, June. 1833: died
July 23, 1888. 5. Almira Kingsbury, July 25, 1810: married - Carr ; lived Garland, Maine.
(\'Il) Jacob, son of Joseph (2) Lewis, was born in East Conway, New Hampshire, Oc-
tober 25, 1804, and died there July 4, 1871. He married at Denmark, Maine, December 18, 1828, Abigail Coolbroth, born February 4, 1807, died January 24, 1881, daughter of Dan- iel and Elizabeth Coolbroth. (See Colbath. IV,) He was a farmer and merchant at East Conway during his active life. In politics he was a Democrat in his earlier years, but was a Republican from the time of the birth of that party ; held various town offices, and was twice elected as one of the town's representa- tives in the legislature; in religion he was a Universalist of strong convictions.
Children, born at East Conway: I. Joseph, born August 23, 1829, died unmarried, May 14. 1849. 2. Charles, October 20, 1831 ; enlisted in Company F, Thirtieth Maine Regiment, Cap- tain Prince, Colonel Francis Fessenden, of Portland, and served a year and a half, from early in 1864 to August, 1865, in the civil war ; married. January 14, 1869, Shuah Walker Far- rington. 3. Alonzo Freeman, June 14, 1834; educated in the public schools and fitted for college. but troubled with his cyes cut short his schooling; learned the trade of tailor, which he pursued for a while at Fryeburg, afterwards at the same place becoming a mer- chant. and still later engaging in the insur- ance business ; well known as a student and as a writer on matters pertaining to local history, genealogy and subjects of interest to anti- quarians : during the last twenty years of his life he collected a mass of data relating to the Lewis and Coolbroth families, and intended to publish the results of his researches; in 1882 he and his brother. Calvin Winfield Lewis, published "Newly Discovered Fourth of July Oration by the Illustrious Orator and Statesman, Daniel Webster." and "The Illus- trated Fryeburg Webster Memorial"; in 1902 published "Fryeburg Webster Centennial, celebrating the coming of Daniel Webster to Fryeburg one hundred years ago to take the Principalship of Fryeburg Academy," and, in 1904. "Festival of the Fryeburg Septuagin- arians born in 1834: held at Fryeburg, Maine, August 9, 1904." He was a member of the Web- ster Historical Society of Boston ; was a mem- ber of the Swendenborgian church, to which he left a bequest ; died, unmarried, September I, 1906, his death being caused by a fall during the fire which the preceding day devastated Fryeburg village, where he lived. 4. Harriet Maria. March 23. 1839: died at Santa Rosa, California. February 1, 1905: married June 13. 1867, at San Francisco, California, Samue! Wilson Coolbroth; children: i. Cora Leigh
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Coolbroth, born May 8, 1868; ii. Harry Wilson Coolbroth, born August 28, 1869; family re- sides at Santa Rosa. 5. Nelson, May 20, 1843; died at Marshfield, Oregon, 1899; served nine months in the civil war in Com- pany H, Twenty-third Maine Regiment, under Colonel William Wirt Virgin; settled in Marshfield, Oregon, when a young man, and followed farming; married Sarah Thomas , children : Walter and Clarence. 6. Calvin Winfield ; mentioned below.
(VIII) Calvin Winfield, son of Jacob Lewis, was born in East Conway, October 27, 1846. He attended the public schools of his native town and of Chatham, New Hamp- shire, and Fryeburg, Maine, fitted for college at Fryeburg Academy, and in 1870 graduated with high honors at Dartmouth College. For a year thereafter he was a school teacher. He then studied law and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, but never practiced. In 1874 he entered the newspaper profession, and was on the staff of the Boston Herald from 1876 to 1893, when he resigned to devote his time to business interests. He has been an inde- fatigable student from early youth, and though most of his writing has been the anonymous work of the journalist, his standing in his profession and occasional contributions over his own name have made him more than a local reputation for literary ability and scholarly at- tainments. He is a Republican in politics, and holds liberal views in religion. He married, January 10, 1877. Sarah Webster Dowe, born in Groton, Grafton county, New Hampshire, August 18. 1838, daughter of David and Salome (Webster) Dow ; her father was born in Rumney, New Hampshire, in 1806, died in Norwich, Vermont, in 1879; her mother was born in Danville, Vermont, April 23, 1809, and died in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1. 1907. Mrs. Lewis was educated in the schools of her native town and in the ladies' seminary at North Granville. New York. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have no children.
(The Thompson Line.)
Robert Thompson was the immigrant an- cestor of the family in America. He was in Durham, now Dover, New Hampshire, as early as 1635, and Thompson's Point, just south of the mouth of the Cocheco river, was named for him. He was taxed in Dover in 1648, and witnessed a deed in 1652.
(II) William Thompson, according to the family tradition, was the son of Robert Thompson. In 1656 he received a grant of
land in Dover, "beyond Cocheco Log Swamp," and October 15, 1656, a short way below the mouth of Sturgeon creek, a grant in Kittery which was originally assigned to John White. He probably married a daughter of John White, and in 1659 was. presented at York court "for rebellion against his father and mother-in-law." He died in 1676, and his es- tate was appraised at fifty-two pounds and eighteen shillings. He left twenty-three acres of land, a house and orchard in Kittery, and fifty acres in Dover. Children: 1. John, born 1659 ; married Sarah Woodman. 2. William, 1661 ; married, probably, Mary Lovering. 3. Robert, 1664; "lived with Tobey Hanson at Dover." 4. James, 1666; married Elizabeth Frye. 5. Alexander, 1671 ; mentioned below. 6. Judith, 1675.
(III) Alexander, son of William Thomp- son, was born in 1671. He had a grant of land in Kittery in 1694, and died July 13, 1720. He married Anna, daughter of Thomas Curtis, of York, Maine. She was the admin- istratrix of her husband's estate, appointed October 4, 1720. Children : 1. Elizabeth, mar- ried John Allen, of York. 2. Abigail, mar- ried John Garry or Geary in 1720. 3. Ben- jamin, born October 14, 1702; married, in 1726, Hannah Smith. 3. John, December 30 1704; mentioned below. 4. Samuel. April 6, 1707 ; married, 1730, Hannah Brackett, of Ber- wick. 5. Joseph, May 13, 1711; married, 1733. Mary Welch, of York. 6. Jonathan, May 1, 1713; married, 1737, Dinah Thomp- son, his cousin. 7. Curtis, June 2, 1715 : mar- ried. 1740, Daniel Junkins. 8. James, died October 22, 1724.
(IV) John, son of Alexander Thompson, was born in Kittery. December 30, 1704. He settled in Sanford, Maine, after the birth of his children. He married (intentions dated December 7. 1728) Priscilla, daughter of Stephen and Mary ( Tucker ) Davis, of Haver- hill. Massachusetts. Children, born in York. Maine : 1. Anna, January 7, 1731-32. 2. John. October 26, 1733. 3. Jesse. 4. Priscilla. 5. Naomi. 6. Olive, March 17, 1747-48: mar- ried Joseph Lewis (see Lewis, V).
(The Colbath or Coolbroth Line.)
The surname Colbath is the most common form of the ancient Scotch Galbraith. It is also spelled Calbreath, Coolbroth, Colbroth. Colbath, Kilbreth, Galbreth. Galbraith, etc .. and branches of the same family in this coun- try have followed these different forms of spelling. The name originated in two Gaelic
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words, Gall and Bhretan, meaning the stran- ger Briton. The family seat was in Dumbar- tonshire and Stirlingshire, Scotland, before the year 1250, but in later centuries has been numerous in other parts of Scotland. They were evidently descendants of the great tribe of Brythorn Gauls, or, as the Romans called them, Britons, who invaded and conquered England three hundred years before the Chris- tian era and gave it the name of Great Britain. Gillispick Galbrait is mentioned in Scottish annals in 1230, and Arthur Galbrait as swear- ing fealty to King Edward I. in 1296.
The first of the family in the Ulster prov- ince of Ireland, settled by the Scotch in 1610 and later, were Humphrey and Robert Gal- braith. In 1662 they held an estate of a thousand acres, originally granted to Sir John Colquhoun. in the precinct of Portlough, county Donegal. In 1664 they sold this estate back to Sir John Colquohoun, son of the Laird of Luss, and were afterward agents of Bishop Spottiswood and doubtless the ancestors of the Scotch-Irish families of Galbraith. The pres- ent representative of the family in Ireland is John Samuel Galbraith, magistrate, high sher- iff, justice of the peace and doctor of laws. The family seat of this branch is now at Clan- bogan, county Tyrone, Ireland. In 1890 there were fifteen births in Galbraith families in Ireland, thirteen of which were in county An- trim. The Adair manuscript published in Hanna's Scotch Irish (p. 365, vol. II) shows that during the war in 1644 Humphrey Gal- braith was active in the Presbyterian faith and work in county Derry, and mentions a Major James Galbraith. The Galbraiths were Highlanders, and Humphrey Colquohoun, of Luss, Dumbartonshire, was a Highland chief. The Galbraith coat-of-arms is: Bendy of six, argent and azure, on a chief sable three crosses patee or.
(I) John Colbreath was in all probability the ancestor of the American families of Col. bath and kindred names. He was one of the Scotch Presbyterians of Antrim and London- derry who signed the petition to Governor Samuel Shute, of Massachusetts, for land for a home in New England, March 26, 1718. While many of the petitioners did not come in person. most of their families were repre- sented. The first of the Scotch-Irish repre- sented by these petitioners came in the fall of 1718, and settled the following spring in York county, Maine, at Nutfield (or Londonderry), New Hampshire, and at Worcester, Massa- chusetts, and formed the nucleus of an im-
portant addition to the population of the New England colonies. A group of towns in south- ern New Hampshire and western Massachu- sets was founded by these immigrants and by their friends and neighbors who came dur- ing the next few decades. We have no proof that John Colbath came himself, but the rec- ords indicate that two sons and several daugh- ters settled in New England. The Kilbreths of Maryland are descended from Thomas Kil- breth, born 1760 in Londonderry, Ireland, set- tled in Baltimore. The name was Galbraith in the old country, however. Children : I. Jane, or Jean, came probably with her brothers to Lon- donderry, and the first record of the name is found as of her marriage, May 30, 1723, to William Nutt, of Londonderry, New Hamp- shire, at Bradford, Massachusetts, the records of Londonderry showing that both lived in that town. (They traveled to Bradford, an adjacent town, to be married by Rev. Thomas Symmes, a former pastor.) 2. George, men- tioned below. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, married at Portland, 1725, Joseph Richards. 5. Susanna, married, October, 1730, Thomas Follett, of Portsmouth. 6. Agnes ( ?), married Deacon James Moor, of Deerfield. New Hampshire.
(II) George, son of John Colbath, was born about 1700 in Ulster, Ireland. He came to this country about 1723, and settled in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire. John and George Colbath appear in the tax list of that town in 1727. He owned the convenant and was bap- tized at Portsmouth. His wife Mary owned the covenant and was baptized February 14. 1728. Children were also baptized, as fol- lows : James, Pitman, William, Joseph, Benja- min, Susanna and Mehitable. George, prob- ably his eldest son, died in 1738, and his father was appointed administrator, August 13, 1738. He sold his house, barn and land to his son Joseph in Newington, formerly part of Ports- mouth, April 14, 1752. Children : I. George, married at Newington, November 28, 1734. Elizabeth Hight, and died 1738. 2. James, married Olive, daughter of Thomas and Deb- orah Leighton, of Newington, granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Nutter) Leighton and great-granddaughter of Hatevil Nutter, of Dover, and Thomas and Joanna Leighton. the immigrants ; children : i. Leighton, baptized December 1, 1739: ii. Independence: iii. Hunking, born February 17, 1743; iv. Deb- orah, born October 9, 1745; v. Keziah; vi. Winthrop, born June 16, 1751 (whose son Winthrop was father of Jeremiah Jones Col-
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bath, who changed his name to Henry Wilson and was vice-president of the United States in Grant's second term) ; vii. Amy, born July 9, 1758; viii. Benning, born May 28, 1762.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) Colbath, settled in Scarborough, Maine, and married there, August 17, 1732, Sarah Harmon. She was doubtless his second wife, for his son John married sixteen years later. Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Abigail, married at Scarborough, April 19, 1759, Asa Libby. 3. George, married, in 1762, Rebecca Millikin. born November 14, 1741, and lived to the age of one hundred years; had twelve children. (See Saco Valley Families.) 4. Joel. 5. Samuel, married Betsey Marr, of Scarborough, and settled at Buxton. 6. Stephen. 7. Lem- uel, a soldier in the revolution ; Lemuel mar- ried Mary Crockett and settled in Rome, Maine; had a son James, born October II. 1790, at Bristol, Maine, married Mercy Fol- som. 8. Peter, a soldier in the revolution ; married Hannah Libby : Peter settled at Frye- burg, Maine; children : i. Joel, born March 8 1772; ii. James; iii. Abner; iv. Abigail; v. Hannah; vi. Susan ; vii. John. 9. Lydia, mar- ried at Scarborough, January 23, 1777, Daniel Moses. 10. James, born 1753; soldier in the revolution ; killed in the first naval affair of the war at Machias, June 12, 1775.
(III) John (3), son of John (2) Colbath, was born about 1723-25, in Ireland or Ports- mouth. He married, August, 1748, Elizabeth, (Milliken ) Wilson, daughter of Samuel, son of John and Elizabeth ( Alger ) Milliken : born 1729; married (first) Samuel Wilson, killed in the French and Indian war about 1755. He married (second) Betsey Foss, and lived in Dunstan parish (Scarborough) and Buxton, where he died. He lived in a small house of two rooms on the Buxton road to Elden's Cor- ners, and was buried in the family lot on the farm. Children, born in Scarborough: I. James. 1757; soldier in the revolution in the continental army from Buxton. 2. Daniel, mentioned below. 3. Anne, married, January 9. 1782, Isaac Berry. 4. Samuel, married Betsey Marr, born in Scarborough in 1762, died February 20, 1847; settled in Buxton ; he was drowned in Saco river at Moderation Mills. 5. Joseph, married, June 19, 1785, Abi- gail, daughter of George Coolbroth; resided at Buxton, and removed to Porter, Oxford county ; son William was father of King Colbath, the violinist. 6. Benjamin (twin), born August 30, 1768; married, October 7, 1794, Elizabeth Fenderson, born May 1, 1774,
died May 9, 1836; children: i. Sophia, born January 27, 1795, died July 14, 1853; ii. Eliza. born April 17, 1798; iii. Royal B., born May 8, 1800; iv. Ivory F., born November 10, 1803, died January 12, 1807; v. Mehitable F., born July 16, 1808, died April 21, 1826. 7. Ebe- nezer (twin), born August 30, 1768, died Jan- uary 13, 1842 ; was in business with his brother Benjamin below Coolbroth's Corner in Scar- borough ; married (first) April 20, 1798, Me- hitable Tarbox; married (second) August 8. 1810, Nancy Patten Ayer, born November 28, 1781, died January 25, 1840; children of first wife: i. Jonathan M., born March 1, 1799, merchant ; ii. Rufus Burnham, died young ; children of second wife : iii. Mehitable Tarbox. born December 10, 1816; iv. Mary Burnham. born May 10, 1818; v. Martha Burnham, born February 12, 1820; vi. Rufus, died young. 8. Dorcas, married Isaac Milliken.
(IV) Daniel Coolbroth, son of John (3) Colbath, was born in Scarborough about 1759. He married, December 18, 1781, Elizabeth Harmon, born November 28, 1764, died July 20, 1853, at the home of Amasa Lucas, Hart- ford, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Small) Harmon. Her father was born in 1721 at Scarborough ; married, October 21, 1743, Eliz- abeth Small. Samuel Harmon, father of James, settled at Black Point, Scarborough, in 1727; children: i. Nathaniel Harmon, born 1709) (these dates are conjectural ) ; ii. Mercy Harmon, born 1710; iii. Samuel Harmon Jr., born 1711 ; iv. Sarah Harmon, born 1713, mar- ried, August 7, 1732, John Colbath, mentioned above ; v. John Harmon, born 1716, married, November 2, 1743, Mercy Halsey ; vi. William Harmon, born 1719, married, June 9, 1740. Esther Sibley ; vii. James Harmon, born 1721 married, October 27, 1743, Elizabeth Small: viii. Esther Harmon, born 1723, married, March 29, 1753, Jonathan Milliken: ix. Eliz- abeth, born 1728, married, May 23, 1754, Ed- ward Milliken; x. George, born July 15, 1730, married, November 26, 1760, Mercy Foss.
Children of James and Elizabeth (small) Harmon: i. Anna, born August 27, 1744; ii. Dorcas, born August 12, 1746, married, Oc- tober 22, 1764. Jonathan Harmon ; iii. James, born February 28, 1748; iv. Elizabeth, born May 14, 1751, died January 18, 1760; v. Anna, born October 8, 1753; vi. Abner, born May 15. 1756, married Anna Potter ; second,
Mclellan; vii. Moses, born May 29, 1759; viii. Joel, born September 26, 1761 ; ix. Eliza- beth, mentioned above; x. Joshua, born July 27, 1767 ; xi. Isaac, born March 31, 1770, mar-
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ried, December, 1790, Sarah Milliken; xii. George, baptized April, 1775.
Daniel Coolbroth settled at Coolbroth's Cor- ner, Buxton, and was a soldier in the revolu- tion from that town. His name appears on a list of the continental soldiers from Buxton dated August 26, 1777, signed by the select- men of the town. Late in life he was a pen- sioner on account of his revolutionary serv- ice. He was also in the service in the war of 1812. He settled in Buxton, and later in Den- mark, Maine, and died there at the home of Seth Fogg, his grandson. He followed the trade of wheelwright for many years, making sleds, clapboards and shingles as well as wheels, etc, and was a skillful mechanic at other trades as well. He lived in a log house about a mile from the corner, toward Fryeburg, lo- cating there about 1815. Some of his de- scendants used the spelling Kilbreth. He was of large physique, weighing two hundred and forty pounds. He died November 13, 1833. aged seventy-four years. Children: I. Betsey, born February 12, 1784, died March 14, 1840; married, January 8, 1807, Ezekiel Fogg. 2. James, born April 5, 1786, in Buxton, died March 24, 1860; married Rebecca Johnson, of Limington, Maine, born June 16, 1787, died March 23, 1860; children: i. Lucinda, born at Limington, April 7, 1806, married Asa Co- burn; ii. Martha, born at Hartford, April 23. 1808. died August 21, 1880, married Rev. George Briggs, and had Elizabeth, George llenry and Abby A. Briggs; iii. James Jr., born October 11, 1810, died November 28, 1879, married Almira A. Griffin, who was bap- tized at Turner, Maine, when ninety-five years old, born at Hallowell, September 7, 1808, daughter of William and Nancy ( Hoyt) Grif- fin : she taught thirty-seven different schools, and was much beloved by her pupils (had children : James, Edward and Frank L. Kil- breth) ; iv. William Johnson, born January 22. 1813, died January 24, 1858, married Abby Hanscom, and had Martha J., Sarah Augusta and Henrietta : v. Sullivan, born January 25. 1815. died December 15, 1889, married Sarah 1. Wadsworth, and had George H., Emma A., Charles F. and Nellie S .: vi. Nancy L., born March 27, 1817, married Amos Colby, of Gray, Maine, and had Mary, James H., Hattie and Charles ; vii. Dennis, born August 5. 1819, died June 1. 1887. married Sarah Bartlett ; viii. Joseph A., born April 24, 1822, died June 17, 1869, married Eunice E. Lane, and had Annie M. and Elfred Leslie ; ix. Rev. Daniel H., born March 3, 1824, died June 18, 1893, married
Sohila A. Fuller, and had Clara G. and Percy H. 3. Sarah, born June 22, 1788; married Peter Byther. 4. Nancy, born December 12, 1792, died April 4, 1885, in Hartford ; married Amasa Lucas, a native of Carver, Massachu- setts, died March 29, 1870; children: i. Silvia Lucas, born 1814, died 1863; ii. John A. Lucas, born May, 1816, died at Hartford, June, 1880; iii. Amasa Lucas, born May 5, 1818; iv. Daniel Lucas, born 1820, died 1822: v. Betsey Lucas, born 1823; vi. Samuel Lucas, born 1827; vii. Nancy J. Lucas, born 1835. 5. Benjamin, born January 19, 1793, died June 14, 1795. 6. Asa, born June 16, 1798; died at Pembroke, Massachusetts, May 12, 1874; married Jane Tyler, born May 12, 1802, died at Pembroke, May 8, 1866; children : i. Child, born and died August 21, 1821; ii. John Wilson, born at Buxton, May 19, 1823; iii. Daniel (twin), born May 19, 1823; iv. Greenleaf (twin), born September 8, 1824: v. Freeman (twin), born September 8, 1824, died young. 7. Levi, born October 31, 1801 ; died July, 1802. 8. Dorcas, born September 30, 1804; married John Bartlett, born in Pembroke, Massachu- setts, November 25, 1784, died at Hartford, Maine, September 12, 1874 ; had four children. 9. Abigail, born February 4, 1807; died at East Conway, New Hampshire, January 24. 1881 ; married Jacob Lewis. (See Lewis, VII.) 10. Samuel, born April 4, 1809, shoe- maker by trade: married, January 6, 1835, Syrena Stetson, born October 18, 1809, died at Canton, May 13, 1882, daughter of Elisha Stetson ; children: i. Elizabeth A., born Sep- tember 19, 1837, married, May 3, 1856, America B. Benson, born in Paris, Maine, Oc- tober 21. 1832, and had six children; ii. Cyn- thia M .. born July 12, 1839, married, May 30. 1858. Gilbert Tilton, and had two children : iii. Lucius L., born April 29, 1843, married, October 7, 1866, Clara A. Swan, born in Hart- ford, Maine, February 3, 1846; (children : Es- tella S., born November 15, 1867, married, March 2, 1885, Abram Marston ; Maurice De- Witt, born July 9. 1873: Willie, born August 3. 1875).
Among the noted and praise-
DODGE worthy types of manhood whose career has brightened and blessed his fellowmen, none rises to a more truly noble and lofty attitude than an honored son of the "Green Mountain" state, of whom the sub- joined notice and genealogical sketch is written. With such an abundance of real facts from which to draw, one scarcely knows which to
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select for record use and which to leave un- employed. The subject of which we write is
Thomas H. Dodge, who has been an active, brainy, never-stand-still character, whose ca- reer, now well nigh spent by the coming-on of old age, will for generations yet to come be kindly remembered for the work he had so intelligently wrought out with his own brains and willing hands. While some men achieve great names by military fame ; some by states- manlike lives ; others by money-making traits alone, this gentleman has made for the world a true pattern for any young man who wishes to improve his time and make good use of the opportunities with which he finds himself en- vironed, upon his advent into the world. In this man one finds a study, which to fully comprehend needs to be re-enforced by a knowledge of his noble ancestry-noble not in a sense of handed-down "royalty," but of that sturdy self-making, self-denying, painstaking sort of which most truly great men are pro- duced.
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