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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01085 7743
BIOGRAPHIES
OF
GUILFORD
SANGERVILLE
ABBOT and PARKMAN MAINE
BY FRANK W. KENISTON 1942
PRESS OF MERRILL & WEBBER COMPANY AUBURN, MAINE
1638304
Frank Williston
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EXPLANATION
Guilford Biographies begin on page 7 Sangerville Biographies begin on page 95 Abbot Biographies begin on page 101 Parkman Biographies begin on page 107
All places named in this book are in the State of Maine unless otherwise stated.
In presenting this modest book to the public, my greatest wish for it is : that all dates and the spelling of the names of all persons and places shall be found to be exactly as they were given to me. Errors of any other nature, of which there will be some, are re- grettable, but comparatively unimportant.
I started out hoping to get a book of nearly 100 pages, feeling that I would not be justified in presenting less; and while my efforts would be focused on getting biographical items, I doubted if I could get more than enough to fill sixty pages. Therefore, it was expected that it would be necessary to fill in 30 or 40 pages with history and other material. But you have responded so freely with biographical or statistical items-whichever one chooses to call them-that you will find more than 100 pages covering about 350 families with reference to over 2500 persons. Several in- quiries were made as to the selling price of the book, and the price quoted was based on the printer's estimate for what I supposed would be not exceeding 100 pages. And so, to incorporate any history worth-while would increase the cost of the book beyond what I felt able to bear.
Therefore, I have decided to let the title, early selected, be a true index to its contents. There are, however, about three exceptions.
Considerable more time and work has been required to get even this small volume into shape than many might suppose, but I wish to say that the uniform patience and courtesy of all the many individuals contacted has been appreciated.
There ought to be a history of Guilford and this immediate area written. but it will require considerable time and research work to do it as it should be, and to half do it would be very unwise. If circumstances permit, I shall be glad to get some facts together, that some more capable person may have the advantage of in the days to come, in preparing a really interesting detailed history of the local field.
This book is whole-heartedly dedicated to the memory of all men and boys who have, or later may go from the area covered by this book, to serve in World War No. 2.
FRANK W. KENISTON.
GUILFORD BIOGRAPHIES
ANSON A. ADAMS, night watchman, son of Samuel C. and Mary M. Leeman Adams was born at Abbot, July 27, 1878. May 4, 1905 married Miss Edith D. Works daughter of Charles and Maria J. Cousins Works, born at Abbot, Mar. 28, 1881. Children, Rexford C., Kezar Falls, Lucile, now Mrs. Nelson Conn, Davisville, R. I., Wilda, now Mrs. Her- bert Goodwin, Brunswick.
DWIGHT E. ADAMS, son of Leslie J. and Althea Huff Adams, born at Guilford, Sept. 23, 1911. Graduated from the Uni- versity of Alabama in 1935. July 16, 1933 he married Miss Wilma E. Dexter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Dexter, born at Sangerville, Apr. 23, 1914. Mr. Adams is a success- ful insurance salesman at Milo.
LESLIE J. ADAMS, was born at Wellington, Aug. 3, 1875. On Sept. 12, 1900 he married Miss Althea G. Huff of Wel- lington, born July 2, 1878. They were in Massachusetts until 1905, when they came to Guilford, where Mr. Adams has been in the livery and public car business ever since. Children, Edwin M., born May 20, 1907, and died March 28, 1931; Marjorie H., now Mrs. Earle T. McNaughton of New York, born Mar. 25, 1909; Dwight E., an insurance man at Milo, born Sept. 23, 1911. The latter graduated from the University of Alabama in 1935.
LESLIE C. ADKINS, painter and Duco finisher, born at At- kinson, Sept. 21, 1888, son of Henry S. and Eliza Parker Adkins. In 1917 he married Miss Ethel Hanson of Green- ville, and she died May 1, 1925. By this union there were two daughters; Nathalie, married Lawrence Parsons, and Cornelia, married Mr. Clark. Sept. 1926 Mr. Adkins mar- ried Miss Marie Weston of Willimantic. Children, Rupert, Beverly, Winston and Irving.
ANNA STEVENS ALDRICH, younger daughter of Zebulön G. and Sara Huntington Stevens, born at Guilford, May 22, 1880. Graduated from Guilford High in 1898. Sept. 10, 1903 mar- ried Frank Shaw Aldrich of Providence, R. I., born Oct. 24, 1879. Mr. Aldrich is a machinist. Children, Sally Marcia, born Jan. 9, 1918. She graduated from Colby College in 1939, and from the Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School, and now is secretary to the Dean of Women, Colby College, Waterville.
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ALBERT ALLEN, was born at Wellington, Oct. 7, 1841 and died at Wellington, Sept. 13, 1896. His parents were George and Mary Curtis Allen. Feb. 3, 1864 he married Cordelia C. Irish of Union, daughter of Lewis and Sophrona Sprague Irish of Sprague's Mills. Albert and Cordelia Allen had three children, (1) William, born Oct. 28, 1864, married Mabel Pease, and they had three children, Albert, Doris and Ruth. William died at Pittsfield, Nov. 25, 1910. (2) Mary, born Apr. 17, 1868, married Allen W. Hayden of Brighton. (3) Tilla, born Mar. 7, 1872, married Bert Drew of Wellington. Albert Allen and son William, under the name of A. Allen & Son did an extensive business in and around Guilford as cattle drovers and buyers in the eighties and nineties. Albert Allen was a volunteer in the Civil War, Co. F., 20th Maine. He served in the Maine Legislature in 1877 and 1889, and William Allen served there in 1903. After Albert Allen died Mrs. Allen moved to Sangerville and erected a home, accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. Allen W. Hayden. Mrs. Cordelia Allen died at Wellington, July 12, 1925.
ARTHUR M. AMES, oldest son of Melvin M. and Nellie E. Smith Ames, born at Guilford, Sept. 19, 1913. Graduated from Guilford High in 1930. On Mar. 21, 1936 he married Miss Geneva Moulton of Sangerville, who was born June 3, 1917. Children, Mary Ellen, born Jan. 1, 1937; John Owen, born Oct. 8, 1938. Mr. Ames was a woolen mill man until he commenced driving the mail and express truck nearly four years ago.
FRANK T. AMES, son of the late George H. and Lillian M. (Lane) Ames, born at Blanchard, Jan. 12, 1882. Republican. Protestant. Attended the public schools. Sept. 28, 1906 he married Miss Ada I. Lord and she was born Nov. 1, 1889. They have two sons, Clayton L. and Gerald L. Mr. Ames was a spinner in Sangerville woolen mills for fourteen years before he established his present lunch business in Guilford in 1933.
MELVIN M. AMES, cemetery caretaker, was born at North Anson, May 12; 1879, son of Elijah and Angelia Burns Ames. June 17, 1911 married Miss Nellie Smith, daughter of John T. and Marie E. Vielle Smith, and born at Parkman, Jan. 25, 1891. Children, Kathleen V., married Neill Marshall, Harold O., Arthur M., Morris F. and Robert P.
BYRON P. ANDREWS, was born at Detroit, Dec. 17, 1874, son of Rev. A. P. and Sylvane Harding Andrews. Sept. 30,
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1909 married Miss Alice S. Heath of Stockton Springs, daughter of Frank and Edith Heath, and born at Penobscot. They have two sons, Frank B. and Orman E., both married and living in Los Angeles, Calif. While working in the Piscataquis Woolen mill at Guilford, he was tutored by Dr. Chas. Logan to allow him to enter Bucksport Seminary, and he attended that institution. Following that, he was nine years with the Boston Elevated Ry. Co. and Gilmore Elec. Co. of South Boston, having charge of both steam and electric equipment for the latter concern. Attended New England School of Engineering and passed the State examination as engineer. Went to California in 1903 and worked for P. E. Electric Ry. Co. and L. A. Ry. Co's, as power house and sub station operator until 1906. Went to Old Mexico in 1906 and was foreman for the London Exploration Co. Next went with the Mex. Mines of Eloro Co. and was in full charge of all electric equipment and machinery. Was ordered out of Mexico by the U. S. Government in 1914. Then in Maine and California until 1916 when he left for Chile, South America, and was with the Chile Exploration Co. until May 1921. Came up to Peru with the Cerro DePasco Mining Co. until 1922, then returned to California. Was with the Bureau of Power and Light for fourteen years, and he is now with the Califor- nia Ship Co., and living at home in Gardenia, on an extensive plot of land bought in 1904. Mr. Andrews has a sister, Mrs. Alice Lane, living in Guilford, and at the time he needed such oversight, she was a real mother to him. While yet in his teens he made the plans and had considerable to do with their execution in the building of the home which she now occupies. Mr. Andrews has another sister, G. Florence Williams, living in Calgary, Canada.
MRS. BEATRICE BLAKE APPLEBEE, daughter of George and Mary Dyer Blake was born at Fort Fairfield, May 21, 1903. Aug. 6, 1921 she was married to Hugh L. Applebee, a farmer, born to William H. and Addie Grover Applebee, Oct. 16, 1893. Mr. Applebee died Sept. 11, 1938. They had Robert H., graduated from Guilford High in 1941, now mar- ried and lives in South Portland ; and Felicia J. in school.
HARTWELL W. APPLEBEE, millman, was born at Guilford, Jan. 12, 1905, son of Hartwell W. and Addie Grover Apple- bee. July 27, 1940 he married Ruth Woodbury, widow of the late Orman L. Woodbury. She was born to Eugene and Mattie Evans Shaw at Monson, Mar. 15, 1906. No children.
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WILLIAM HARTWELL APPLEBEE, farmer, was born at Lincoln, Jan. 10, 1870, only child of Levi and Annie Applebee. He came to Guilford when thirteen years old, and Nov. - , 1889 married Miss Addie Grover, daughter of Sewell and Annie Morgan Grover. She was born at Guilford, 1868, and died at Guilford, Sept. 15, 1932. Children, Earl ; Hugh, died Sept. 12, 1938; Barbara, married Ray Wise; Hartwell, Vera, married John Fitzsimmons, Pittsfield.
WILLIAM PARKER APPLEYARD, born in Bradford, Eng- land. Worked in his father's woolen mill until he came to America in 1856, in a sailing vessel landing at Castle Garden, New York City. Later he settled in Dexter, Maine, and there married Miss Ann Sumner Drake, a Yankee, of Elliottsville, but whose English ancestry is established back to AD 1260. She died in Dexter village in 1870 and was buried there. Two children were born of this union, viz .: a son William Appleyard, now living; and a daughter, Allie Appleyard who died in 1895 and buried in Dexter. William Apple- yard Sr., came to Guilford in 1874, and leased the first woolen mill built in Guilford village, on the present site of the Oldtown Woolen mill, and later bought and operated it until 1877, then leased it to the Piscataquis Woolen Co. Mr. Appleyard died in Guilford village in 1908 and is buried in Dexter. William Appleyard, his son, now living, married Miss Addie Adams Sampson of Sebec and Pittsfield, and two children were born to them, and all lived in Guilford for many years. Mrs. Appleyard died in Worcester, Mass., in 1930 and the remains were brought to Guilford and rest in Elmwood Cemetery. Their children, viz. : William Sampson Appleyard, was born in San Francisco, Calif. He now lives in Burling- ton, Vt., and is President and General Manager of the Ver- mont Transit Co., and of the Burlington Rapid Transit Co. And Miss Iva Anne Appleyard lives in Worcester Mass. Miss Appleyard is a Tax Consultant, and maintains offices in Bos- ton, Mass.
JOHN J. BACKUS, son of John J. and Sarah Dean Backus was born at Boston, Mass., Nov. 5, 1878. June 1, 1910 he married Miss Dora Edith Wise, only daughter of William E. and Lillian Sears Wise, and she was born at North Guilford, Feb. 20, 1890. They have no children. Mr. Backus was a track- man on the Bangor & Aroostook R. R. for some years before retiring in 1932.
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KENNETH H. BADGER, son of Ray and Inez Coombs Badger, was born at Parkman, Dec. 7, 1910. Aug. 27, 1936 he mar- ried Miss Margaret L. Leighton of Sangerville, born to Nor- ris S. and Flora Steeves Leighton, Sept. 10, 1913. Mrs. Badger graduated from Sangerville High in 1931 and from Bangor Maine School of Commerce in 1935. Mr. Badger is a millman, and Mrs. Badger is employed in the office of the Guilford Trust Co.
RAY A. BADGER, woolen mill employee, was born at Willi- mantic, March 29, 1885, son of Mellen and Elizabeth Howard Badger. June 2, 1910 he married Miss Inez Coombs, daughter of William and Irene Packard Coombs, and born at Parkman, Aug. 8, 1892. They have one son, Kenneth and he married Miss Margaret Leighton. The family moved to Guilford in 1930.
PHILIP L. BAKER, woolen mill spinner, son of Peter and Sophia Pooler Baker, was born at Milford, Dec. 10, 1886. Nov. 27, 1912 he married Miss Ida G. Smith, born to Edmund P. and Augusta A. Gilman Smith, Jan. 31, 1890. They have no children of their own, but have brought up from early childhood two motherless children, Mrs. Baker's brother, Dana E. Smith, and nephew, Edmund Bennett.
SARAH É. BARNES, was born at Corinna, Dec. 16, 1877, daughter of the late Asher and Frances Whitcomb Smith. Dec. 14, 1901 she was married to John J. Barnes, a millman, who was born Jan. 10, 1874. After a long illness, Mr. Barnes died at Guilford, Sept. 10, 1930. They had no children. He was a worthy member of the Masonic, Eastern Star and Re- bekah Lodges of Guilford.
WILLIAM L. BATES, for nine years has been rural mail car- rier from Guilford postoffice over the route through Guilford, Willimantic, Monson and Abbot. He was born at Abbot, Sept. 21, 1910, the son of Andrew L. and M. Gertrude Stew- ard Bates, and graduated from the University of Maine in 1931. May 23, 1936 he married Miss Betty M. Drake, daughter of Mae McKusick and the late Martin E. Drake. She was born July 25, 1912 and graduated from Castine Nor- mal School in 1931. They have a daughter, Judith Anne, and a son, John William.
CLAIR H. BEARCE, a lumberman, a member of the firm of Davis & Bearce who supply the birch for the Hardwood Prod- ucts Co., came here from Oldtown in 1938. He was born at
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Abbot, Apr. 2, 1899, son of Vate L. and Ida Hutchins Bearce. June 20, 1928 married Miss Sherley Gray, born at Wytopit- lock, Mar. 23, 1909, daughter of Wilbur and Orpha Gray. Children, Ardelle, Marilyn and Althea. Mr. Bearce belongs to the Masonic Lodge.
CECIL P. BENNETT, farmer, served eighteen months overseas in World War One, Co. F, 103rd Inf., 26th Division. He is the son of Freeland and Lilla Harriman Bennett and was born at Guilford, May 5, 1898. May 29th, 1930 he married Sebyl Stevens Brooks, daughter of Edward and Isadora Stevens and was born at New Sharon, Mar. 20, 1902. By former marriages, Mr. Bennett has a daughter, Lillian M. and Mrs. Bennett has Dora P., now Mrs. Raymond Lawrence, and Alice D., now Mrs. Clifford Stevens.
CHARLES SUMNER BENNETT, a direct descendant of two of the very earliest families of the town, was born at Guilford, Oct. 2, 1867, son of the late Charles Bion and Sarah Herring Bennett. He is a member of the Universalist church, Masonic bodies and Odd Fellows Lodge. He has conducted a jewelry and Optometrist business on South Main St., since December 1894 ; and has this year been elected Town Clerk for the 45th consecutive time. Mr. Bennett first married Clara Eton Brown (born Dec. 29, 1870) on June 28, 1900. She died in Ashland, Mass., Feb. 25, 1911. On June 9, 1914 he married Miss Blanche Scales who was born at Guilford, May 30, 1883. The latter was the only daughter of the late John and Harriet Mudget Scales of Guilford.
FRANK E. BISHOP, woolen mill weaver, son of Peter and Lydia Burns Bishop, born at Kingman, May 22, 1882. Feb. 22, 1912 married Miss Emma A. French, daughter of Albert and Joann French and born June 26, 1892. They have one son, Manuel F., and he married Miss Hattie Fogg of Chester, and they have two sons, Robert and Carroll. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have also brought up two of Mrs. Bishop's nieces, Grace and Gladys French.
WALTER G. BLAKE, was born at Oakland, May 17, 1892, and came to Guilford in 1918 to accept a position in the insurance office of Straw & Martin. Since 1936 he has conducted an insurance business under his own name. On Aug. 12, 1924 he married Miss Frances Whiteside, a former Guilford school teacher, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas and Marie Davis
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Whiteside. Children, Thomas G., 1925 and Frederick O., 1928. Mr. Blake is past Master Mount Kineo Lodge F. & A. M. 1932-1933, Past Noble Grand of Odd Fellows, 1941. Member of the Eastern Star, Member of Guilford Methodist Church, Deputy Sheriff 1928-1938, Tax Collector Guilford, 1928-1936. Local Commander American Legion Post of Oakland, 1920, Piscataquis Commander American Legion, 1933, Secretary, Guilford Chamber of Commerce 1940, Mem- ber of the Republican State Committee 1934, Secretary & Treasurer Guilford Athletic Assn. 1939 to date, Treasurer Guilford Fair Association 1939 to date, Chief Clerk, Selective Service (since fall of 1940. Mr. Blake's war record follows :
From Office of the Adjutant General, Augusta, Maine,
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that it appears from the rec- ords of this office that Walter G. Blake enlisted April 14, 1914, in Hosp. Corps Detachment National Guard, State of Maine. Hon- orably discharged June 20, 1916. Enlisted in Company H, Second Infantry National Guard, State of Maine on June 21, 1916. Appointed Corporal May 17, 1917. In Federal Service Mexican Border from date of enlistment to Oct. 25, 1916. Reported for Federal Service World War Apr. 13, 1917. Served in Company H, Second Infantry, Company H, 103d Infantry. Honorably dis- charged to accept commission May 13, 1918. Second Lieutenant 312th Infantry to discharge. Overseas: Sept. 25, 1917 to May 23, 1919. Engagements: St. Mihiel; Meuse Argonne; Defen- sive Sector. Gassed Oct. 15, 1918. Honorably discharged May 29, 1919.
Enlisted July 3, 1926 in Company L, 103d Infantry for three years. Commissioned First Lieutenant to rank from July 10, 1926. Federal recognition July 23, 1926. Transferred to Maine N. G. Reserve, January 11, 1927. Resigned and honorably dis- charged Jan. 28, 1931.
MILTON G. BRAGDON, oldest son of the late Jason M. and Cora E. Augustine Bragdon, was born at Dexter, Nov. 6, 1885. Married Evelyn Lufkin of Winterport, April 1935. No children by this union. Mr. Bragdon has four children by a former marriage: Marguerite Priest of Rumford, Beulah Troy of Guilford, Milton Jr., of Monticello and Von- nie Bird of East Holden. Mr. Bragdon has supervised the Gulf Oil business for J. E. French & Son, Guilford, for several years.
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CHARLES F. BRALEY, optometrist, came to Guilford in 1917. He is the son of Edwin and Elizabeth Foss Braley and was born at St. Albans, July 19, 1872. Sept. 14, 1898 he married Miss Blanche M. Littlefield, born to Byron and Jennie Littlefield, Oct. 21, 1876. They have one daughter, Doris E., a public school music teacher. She graduated from Guilford High in 1919, and married Harold Howe.
MRS. NANCY WATSON BRAZIER, daughter of John and Hannah Galusha Watson was born at Parkman, Aug. 24, 1864. June 10, 1888 she was married to Wesley D. Brazier a brick mason, and born at Monson, June 16, 1864, the son of Daniel and Elvira Spaulding Brazier. Mr. Brazier died at Guilford, June 13, 1940. They have no children. Mrs. Brazier lives in Guilford village, and her brother, Elwin, retired, makes his home with her.
ROY BRIER, woolen mill superintendent, was born at Hud- dersfield, England, Nov. 5, 1869, son of George and Martha Brier. In 1892 he came to the United States settling first in Philadelphia, Penn. Dec. 28, 1896 he married Miss Laura Shaw, born to George and Mary Shaw at Philadelphia, June 16, 1870. They have a daughter, Mary, a teacher of French in the Middleboro, Mass. High School; and a son, George Willard Brier, a woolen mill official. Mr. and Mrs. Brier came to Guilford in 1941 and reside on Oak St.
HOWARD S. BROWN, woolen mill man, son of John and Nellie McKusick Brown, was born at Parkman, Mar. 31, 1893. June 26, 1920 he married Miss Priscilla M. Parker, born at Guilford, Aug. 25, 1897, the daughter of Stillman L. and Mabel T. L. Richardson Parker. They have no children.
ELTON BURGESS, farmer-millman, is a fixer at the Dum- barton Mills, Sangerville, son of Fred and Mabel Drake Bur- gess, born at Guilford Center, Apr. 13, 1901. June 26, 1923, he married Miss Eva P. Crabtree, who was born at Easton, Jan. 11, 1903, daughter of Charles W. and Minnie P. Clark Crabtree. Children, Glen Elton, born July 22, 1924, Irwin Charles, born Nov. 18, 1927, and Avis Minnie, born Apr. 22, 1930. Mrs. Burgess graduated from Foxcroft Academy in 1922. For the past seven years she has been Deputy of the State Grange, and both have served as Master of Valley Grange. They are Baptist, Republicans.
DENNIS S. BURNS, woolen mill loom fixer, was born at Ab- bot Village, July 30, 1894, the son of Calvin and Margaret
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Burns. He married Miss Doris Bennett, daughter of Stan- ley and Lizzie Bennett, and she was born Feb. 24, 1896. They have no children.
HARRY A. BUTLER, son of Henry and Ella Dunning Butler, was born at Ripley, Feb. 21, 1872. He came to Guilford in 1892 and learned the plumbing trade, and then worked for Messrs. Page & Spearing Co. for fourteen years. Mr. But- ler married Miss Cora Alden of Guilford and in 1905 they went to Los Angeles, California. For the past eighteen years he has conducted a plumbing business there under his own name; is well located and enjoys good health. Mrs. Butler died at Los Angeles on Nov. 4, 1939.
HARRY W. BUTLER, guide and millman, was born at San- gerville, Nov. 12, 1876, son of Webster and Mary Water- man Butler. Nov. 5, 1929 he married Mrs. Edith M. Badger, widow of the late John A. Badger. No children by this union.
MRS. ISABELLE G. BUTTERFIELD, only daughter of the late Perley and Susie Whitcomb Smith, born at Guilford, July 12, 1881. Married David R. Butterfield of Lincoln, July 29, 1905. He died Nov. 23, 1927. Children, Reginald, born Mar. 7, 1907, Althea M., born April 21, 1909, and Ida M., now Mrs. Ellsworth Greenleaf of Foxboro, Mass., born Sept. 13, 1916. Mrs. Butterfield graduated from Guilford High in 1900; is a member of the Methodist church, Golden Link Rebekah Lodge, the Guilford Alumni Association and Valley Grange. She had an unmarried brother, Charles, born at Monson, Feb. 25, 1879, and died at Guilford as a result of accidental injuries Nov. 3, 1925.
JOSEPH OSHEA BUZZELL, son of Oshea and Salome Drew Buzzell, was born in Wellington, Feb. 21, 1880. He opened the first garage in Guilford equipped for heavy repairing and over-hauling of automobiles. This was in the Spring of 1911, and there were only thirty-five automobiles in Piscataquis County at that time. There was only one grade of gasoline used in those days, and garages had only one gasoline pump which pumped one gallon of gas at a time. Mr. Buzzell was noted throughout the State as an authority on automobiles. He and the late Clarence M. Drew conducted the first Ford Agency, selling the first Model T Fords in Guilford and vicinity ; he also had the first Buick and Reo Agencies in town. He was a member of Mt. Kineo Masonic Lodge No.
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109. He retired from business in 1936 and died at Guilford, Nov. 28, 1941. His father, Oshea, was born at Wellington, Sept. 30, 1837, son of James, born June 13, 1791, and Betsey Hanson Bussell, born March 6, 1792. The early way of spelling the name was "Bussell". James and Betsey, with their elder children, came from Wakefield, N. H., to Welling- ton in 1828. They were the first Baptist people in Welling- ton. James Bussell was a descendant of Isaac who came from England to Salisbury, Mass., in 1640. Oshea Buzzell enrolled as Private in Company F, 20th Regiment of Maine Volunteers, Aug. 12, 1862. He was wounded in battle and by reason of his wounds was honorably discharged from the service June 2, 1865. He married Salome Agnes Drew of Parkman. Mr. Buzzell died in Guilford, July 3, 1910. Salome Agnes Drew, Joseph's mother, was born in Parkman, Apr. 12, 1845, daughter of Joseph and Charlotte McKusick Drew. She died at Abbot, Jan. 21, 1932. Joseph Drew came to Parkman from Limerick, in 1833. He was born Dec. 18, 1807 and died at Parkman, Jan. 18, 1880. He was a descendant of William Drew who was born in Devonshire, England, in 1627, and rated at Oyster River, N. H., in 1648. The English Drews claim descent from Drogo, Son of Maleur le Pons, an uncle to William the Conqueror. Joseph Drew's wife, Charlotte McKusick, was born in 1809, and died at Parkman, July 22, 1893. The first reunion of the descendants of Oshea and Salome Buzzell was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Andrews, Dover-Foxcroft, Aug. 30, 1942. There are fifty-two descendants now living, including three sons, James, Willis and Lewis; and one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Brown. Joseph O. Buzzell married Linnie Irene Somes, who was born in Rockport, Mass., Sept. 30, 1889, the daughter of Albert C. and Nellie Hamilton Somes. She was associated with the late Joseph O. Buzzell during the twenty-five years he was in the automobile busi- ness. She was sole manager of the Guilford Theatre on Elm St., which she opened in Nov. 1924, and a few years later she installed the first "Sound System" to be used in Guilford-or "talking pictures" as they were called in those days. Mrs. Buzzell took an active part in town affairs; is a Past President of the Helping Hand of the Methodist church; also is a Past Noble Grand of the Golden Link Rebekah Lodge No. 37, being elected to that office three different times. She is a descendant of Edward Doty who came on the Mayflower, and Faith Clark Doty; also of William Sherman who came to Plymouth, Mass., from Eng-
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