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Mr. Daveis became a member of the Maine Historical Society in 1828, and was after- ward chosen a corresponding member of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Societies, and an honorary member of the Historical Societies of New York and Georgia. In the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati he always felt the warmest interest, and for many years took an active part in its proceedings. Elected a member in 1809, when twenty-one years of age, as successor to his father, he was also in 1839 made a member of the Stand- ing Committee, and served thereon until 1851, when he was elevated to the vice-presi- dency. Two years later, on the death of Robert G. Shaw, he succeeded to the presidency, and held that dignity, by virtue of consecutive reelections, until his death in 1865. His new edition of the " Institution and Proceedings" of the Society was ordered to be printed in 1856. To the meetings of the General Society he was often sent as delegate, and in 1854 was elected vice-president-general-an office which he retained to the day of his decease. In 1859 he prepared a historical account of the Society for publication in Apple- ton's Cyclopedia. His memory and services were fitly honored by appropriate resolutions at the general meeting held in Trenton, on May 9, 1866, and also by the State Society at Boston.
The active career of Mr. Daveis's usefulness was suddenly arrested by paralysis on the 28th of April, 1850. Though deprived, in part, of the use of his right side, he yet recovered so far as to be able to wield his trenchant and vigorous pen, and to resume his intercourse
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with society ; but he never returned to the pursuits of his profession. On the 3d of April, 1860, his beloved wife was removed by death, after long suffering from illness and debility. For five years after that event he journeyed along life's pathway alone, bearing a constantly increasing burden of bodily infirmity, but sustaining it with cheerful resignation and Chris- tian courage. At length the goal was reached, and on the 29th of March, 1865, he went to eternal rest, from his native town and from the site of his father's old home. His span of seventy-six years had been filled with honorable usefulness, and distinguished by many patriotic and noble toils.
Mr. Daveis was a man of pronounced and forceful religious character. His faith was unquestioning, and his reverence for the things of God intelligent and profound. Of truly chivalrous nature, he thoroughly united the courage of manly energy with the purity of womanly tenderness. Such a combination naturally commanded the respect of all, and the abiding affection of those who knew him well. An untiring worker himself, he yet found time to assist others, and especially deserving young men. His manners were those of the old school, dignified, courtly, and affable ; and under any provocation were invariably those of a Christian gentleman. In social life his conversation was enriched by classical quotations and anecdotes from a copious repertory, and sparkled with genuine wit. His elegant figure, of middle height, slender and graceful, lithe and active in movement, was always a welcome accession to the best company.
Charles Stewart Daveis was married on the Ist of June, 1815, at Exeter, New Hamp- shire, to Elizabeth Taylor, youngest daughter of John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New Hampshire, and his wife Deborah, daughter of Major-General Nathaniel Folsom of Exeter. Of the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Daveis, the eldest, John Taylor Gilman, M. D., of Portland, an eminent oculist, died on the 9th of May, 1873. The second, Edward Henry, is a member of the bar in Portland, and editor of some volumes of law reports. The third, Mary Cogswell, married the Rev. David Greene Haskins, S.T.D., of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. The fourth, Anna Ticknor, married Charles Jones of Portland. The fifth, Caroline Elizabeth, died in infancy, December 14, 1827.
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AKER, HENRY K., Lawyer, of Hallowell, Maine. Born in Skowhegan then called Canaan, Somerset County, Maine, on the 2d of December, 1806.
Mr. Baker received his early literary education in the district schools of his native neighborhood, and afterward added to it largely while acquir- ing a practical knowledge of "the art preservative of all arts"-that of printing. Native ability, strengthened and disciplined by constant study, enabled him to undertake the editorial conduction of the Hallowell Gazette when only twenty years of age. Subse- quently he successfully edited the Free Press and Advocate. Preferring the profession of law to that of journalism, he began to prepare for its practice while reporting the proceed- ings of the Maine Legislature, during a dozen or more of its sessions. He studied the theory and practice of law under the direction of Judge Samuel Wells, who was afterward Governor of the State, and was admitted to the bar in 1840.
In local affairs Mr. Baker has long been influentially conspicuous. He has been an alderman of the city of Hallowell for sixteen years, and chairman of the School Committee for more than thirty years. Fidelity and efficiency in minor positions almost necessarily induced popular demand for his services in a wider sphere. In 1842, 1844, and 1854 he represented Hallowell in the lower House of the State Legislature. In 1855 he officiated as Clerk of the House of Representatives, and in the same year was appointed by Gov- ernor A. P. Morrill Judge of Probate for Kennebec County. In this capacity his admin- istration proved to be so acceptable that he was retained in it by the people for nearly twenty-six years, having been chosen by them in six consecutive elections.
Under Asa Redington and Wales Hubbard, reporters of decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, he assisted in preparing the cases for several volumes of reports. When the Statutes of Maine were revised in 1857, the revision of the School Laws by Judge Baker was adopted by the commissioners. In the revision of the statutes, effected in 1871, he revised and codified the whole body of Probate Laws.
Judge Baker has acted as treasurer of the Hallowell Savings Institution from the date of its organization in 1854 to the present time. Of the great Methodist Episcopal Church he is a valuable and valued member, and has served it in the several relations of steward, class-leader, and trustee for many years. He is also one of the trustees of the Maine Industrial School for Girls, and has held that position from 1873 to the present time.
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M OOR, WYMAN BRADBURY SEAVEY, was the son of Daniel and Rebecca Spring Moor, and grandson of Captain Daniel Moor of Deerfield, New Hampshire (who .belonged to General Stark's regiment, and was present and engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill on the 17th of June, 1775), was born in Waterville, Maine, on the 11th of November, 1811. He spent his early life in his native town, attended the town school, and had the same instruction as other children of that time. He early manifested a love of study, and gave promise of more than ordinary ability. His aspirations were such that his mother's desire was that he should have a liberal education. He was when young of a slender constitution. He had a decided will ; and where there's a will there's a way. He was sent at the early age of fourteen years to China Academy to prepare for college. His mental powers rapidly developed, and he was prepared for college at seventeen. His college course at Waterville was marked by great intellectual progress under the instruction of such scholarly men as President Jeremiah Chaplin, Professor Thomas Conant, and Professor George W. Keely, and at graduation he received the first part in his class, and delivered the Valedictory oration.
After graduation he taught one year in St. Stephen's, New Brunswick ; then returned to his native town, and read law with Samuel Wells, Esq., who was afterward Governor of Maine. In 1834 he attended the lectures at the Dane Law School, Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, where he gave his undivided attention to his studies, and enjoyed the instruction of that accomplished scholar and jurist, Joseph Story, LL.D., who, as one eminent man has said, "drew students from all parts of the country by the very attraction of his name." He was favored too while there by hearing the polished sentiments of Edward Everett on the platform, and the solid arguments of such men as Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster at the bar.
In 1835 he was admitted to the bar, and in the same year was invited by the officers of Waterville College to deliver at the Commencement an oration for Master's Degree and Valedictory of the class, as there had been trouble about the assignment of parts among the members of the graduating class. From 1835 to 1842 he lived in Waterville in the practice of his profession. As an evidence of the confidence of his townsmen in his ability, he was elected to represent the town in the State Legislature during this period, and was thought very young to be appointed to that office. An old resident who had been his predecessor in that body told him that he was but a stripling to bc rolled into the Legisla- ture. His reply was, " Well, sir, I was not rolled in on a rum-barrel."
From 1844 to 1848 he served as Attorney-General of Mainc, and filled the office with marked ability. One who became acquainted with him soon after he entered upon his profession says :
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"He came forward very rapidly ; showing a clear, discriminating mind, and more than ordinary ability. His vigorous and incisive manner, and strong, clear methods of reasoning, soon placed him among the leading members of the bar in Kennebec County, which at that time was graced by Reuel and Daniel Williams, George Evans, Frederick Allen, Timothy Boutelle, Judge Emmons, Judge Fuller, and many other able men. He had abilities and qualities, had he continued in practice, to have placed him in the front ranks of his profession in New England. He had strong aspirations for political life, and from conviction and education was an active and decided Democrat, rigidly holding to the Jeffer- sonian doctrine of a firm adhesion to the Constitution as the best guarantee of the Union."
In 1848 he was appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy in the U. S. Senate oc- casioned by the death of the late lamented John Fairfield, who had died at Washington in the previous December. His colleague, Hon. J. W. Bradbury, says : " During the time of his service in the Senate I found him an able and faithful associate, and our relations were of the most friendly character. Many important questions arose upon which the Senate was called to act-amongst them the amendment and ratification of the treaty with Mexico ; and upon every question I always found him anxious to discharge his duty as a patriotic Senator." In a communication from Hannibal Hamlin, ex-Vice-President of the United States, he says : " Mr. Moor was a man of marked and decided ability, and was justly entitled to rank with the ablest men of our State. That position was conceded to him by all persons who knew him. In all public positions which he held he discharged the duties of the same in an able manner and to the satisfaction of his friends. In his pro- fession he certainly should be placed with the most distinguished lawyers of the State." Another, the Hon. Henry W. Paine of Boston, says of him : " He was my most intimate and dearest friend. Mr. Moor was a man of strict integrity and marked ability. Had he lived a few years longer he would have been the most distinguished man in the country."
From 1847 to 1852 he lived in Bangor and vicinity in the practice of his profession, and at that time his business enterprises on the Penobscot River were quite extensive. One (H. G. O. Morrison, Esq., of Minneapolis, Minnesota) who was in the same office with him for some years, and knew his character fully, says :
"He was a remarkable man every way-physically and intellectually. His fine, tall, commanding figure, forcible manner, and intellectual face struck every one as being a man of uncommon strength of character and ability. With more power to impress his convictions upon others in his clear arguments than any man then living in Maine, he was not only a lawyer, a statesman, a steamboat and railroad man, but he was emphatically 'a man of affairs' in the broadest sense. His originality, clearness of thoughit, and power in the command of language were remarkable. His speeches and addresses were always notable for directness, often arising to impassioned eloquence that held his audience in rapt attention and admiration of his wonderful rhetorical powers."
From 1852 to 1858 he resided in Waterville, and superintended the construction of the railroad from Waterville to"Bangor. In 1859 he received the appointment from Presi-
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dent Buchanan of Consul-General to the British American Provinces, and made his home in Montreal till 1861. This was the first appointment made to this position, as the office was at that time created by the Government.
In 1861 he returned to Waterville, and was employed by the widow of the late Natha- niel Gilman, a wealthy citizen of Waterville, but who had large business interests in New York which required the settlement of the estate there, to defend her interests therein. He made a plea before the Surrogate Court which a distinguished lawyer of Bangor remarked was "the ablest argument he had heard at the bar in his practice of thirty years." The fact of his being interested in the settlement of this estate calls to mind a prophecy made by his father. When Mr. Moor, a boy, was preparing for college, Mr. Gilman met his father on the street one day, and said somewhat sarcastically, "Well, you are prepar- ing another boy for college" (as his brother Henry had graduated from college a short time before, and had then entered the U. S. Navy). " Yes," replied his father, "you will have a large cstate to be settled one of these days, and I am getting this boy ready for it"-little supposing it would ever be fulfilled.
In 1868 he purchased an estate near Lynchburg, Virginia, and removed there to engage in the manufacture of iron but was prostrated by disease soon after com- mencing operations. He was one of the many persons poisoned at the National Hotel, Washington, in the spring of 1857, and from the shock sustained in his system at that time never recovered. He died on the 10th of March, 1869, at Lynchburg, Virginia, of pro- tracted bilious disease terminating in dropsy.
Mr. Moor was married at Waterville, February 22, 1834, to Miss Clara A. N. Cook, an accomplished and intelligent lady, daughter of Dr. Daniel Cook (a graduate of Brown University in 1807), by whom he had eight children, four of whom survive him-two sons and two daughters. The eldest son resides in California, and the youngest in Loup City, Nebraska, where he is a rising lawyer. His daughters reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; one being the wife of Judge F. B. Bailey, and the other of Fredcrick Paine. Mr. Moor's domestic relations were very happy. As husband and father, he was kind, indulgent, and affectionate ; as a friend, he was hospitable, cordial, and true. His remains were brought to his native town, and laid in Pine Grove Cemetery, by the side of his wife, who some years before had preceded him to the other world. One brother and one sister are still living in Waterville, Maine, and to the latter of these we are indebted for this sketch.
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AYNES, J. MANCHESTER, of Augusta, is the son of Josiah Milliken and Bathsheba Haynes, and was born in Waterville, Maine, on the 12th day of May, 1839. He is of the fourteenth generation of the descendants of Deacon Samuel Haynes of Dover, New Hampshire, who sailed from Bristol, England, June 4, 1635, in the ship Angel Gabriel, of 240 tons, built for Sir Walter Raleigh ; and was wrecked at Pemaquid in the "great hurricane" in August of the same year. His maternal ancestor was Colonel James Waugh, who held a commission in the service of his country in the War of 1812.
The childhood of Mr. Haynes was passed almost entirely in Waterville. When about ten years of age his father removed from the village to a farm about two miles distant; and during the following six years Manchester's time was employed in laboring on the farm in summer, and attending school at Waterville Academy in the winter. In his seventeenth year he entered Waterville College (now Colby University), and graduated in 1860. Although he was unable, by reason of unavoidable interruptions, to pursue the routine methods of the institution with entire regularity, he took his degrees with the reputation of a first-class scholar and writer, and a young man of superior intellectual capacity.
Immediately after leaving college, Mr. Haynes became principal of Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Maine, and occupied that position until 1863, when he became a student in the law-office of Hawkins & Cothren, an eminent firm on Wall Street, in New York City. There he pursued his legal studies until 1865, when he was admitted to practice at the New York bar. Possessed of great intellectual vigor and a keen and discriminating mind, with quick perceptions and a comprehensive grasp, and having already acquired the habit of ready and graceful extemporaneous speaking, it is but just to say that if Mr. Haynes had applied himself to the practice of the law, and been constant to this " most jeal- ous mistress," he would have easily gained a commanding position, and ultimately achieved great eminence at the bar. But the prospect afforded by the legal practitioner's early ex- perience is less alluring than the more immediate advantages of large and successful busi- ness enterprises. Accordingly in 1866 Mr. Haynes returned to Maine, and formed busi- ness connections with some of the most energetic and sagacious men in the State, for the purpose of dealing in and operating upon timber lands, and manufacturing lumber. In 1867 he established his residence in Augusta, and from that time until 1876 he devoted himself exclusively and assiduously to his business, occupying the position of treasurer and one of the Board of Directors of the Kennebec Land and Lumber Company. But as might be expected, the people had by this time recognized his undoubted qualifications for public as well as private business, and he was that year elected, on the nomination of the Republican Party, to represent the city of Augusta in the Legislature, This was a Legis-
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lature of more than ordinary ability. It comprised some of the ablest lawyers and most experienced legislators and debaters in the State. Mr. Haynes participated in all important debates ; and in the discussion on the Usury Bill he gave such an exhaustive exposition of the principles of political economy and the laws of supply and demand appli- cable to the question, that he came per saltum to the very front rank of able debaters and wise legislators. He was re-elected in 1877, and was recognized on all sides as one of the leading and most influential members of the House. The next year he was elected to the State Senate, and then took the same relative position which he had occupied in the House. In the debate on a famous contested-clection case Mr. Haynes made one of the most powerful and eloquent speeches in behalf of a constitutional suffrage ever heard in the legislative halls of Maine.
In 1879 he was returned to the Senate and chosen President of that body. This was a revolutionary period in the political history of the Statc. The election had resulted in no choice of Governor by the people ; and by reason of the complex political situation it seemed not improbable that the president of the Senate would be required for a timc to cxercise the office of Governor. The selection of Mr. Haynes for this responsible post at such a juncture was therefore especially complimentary. Thoughtful and judicious men of all parties looked to the Senate, as the conservative branch of the Legislature, for the orderly continuance of the government under the constitution. But all apprehensions were at once allayed by the unequivocal and statesmanlike utterances which characterized the elegant address of Mr. Haynes on assuming the presidential chair. "This year," he said, " the introduction of a new theory of public policy has so far further divided the peo- ple, that a new and unusual duty under the constitution is imposed on this Legislature. It is to be hoped that in so far as this branch shares in this responsibility, its action will be so prompt and decisive, its devotion to principle so unwavering, as to afford at once a test of the strength of the Constitution and our reverence for it." Mr. Haynes had acquired entire familiarity with parliamentary law by previous legislative experience, and having a fine figure, with elegant address and manly bearing, he made one of the most accomplished presiding officers the Senate had known for many years.
In 1882 he was again elected Representative to the Legislature from Augusta, and was readily chosen Speaker of that body. In this position he exhibited the same distin- guished qualifications as a presiding officer which were observable in the Senate. In the debate on the Congressional apportionment, he came down from the chair and electrified the House by the eloquence and power of his speech in support of the bill as reported by the committee.
In addition to his Legislative honors, Mr. Haynes also occupied the position of colo- nel and aide-de-camp in 1871-2, and inspector-general in 1873, on Governor Perham's staff. He has always been an unwavering supporter of the principles of the Republican
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Party. He was a delegate to the Republican Convention of 1884, which nominated Blaine and Logan, serving in the Committee on Credentials. He was appointed one of the committee to inform the candidates of their nomination, and was made a member of the National Republican Committee for Maine for the ensuing four years. At the meet- ing of the National Committee he was selected as one of the Executive Committee to have charge of the campaign.
In the mean time Mr. Haynes had not neglected his business interests, but was achiev- ing success in all of his enterprises. He has now become one of the most extensive manufacturers of lumber and owners of timber-lands in the State ; is largely engaged in ship-building ; is president of the Haynes & DeWitt Ice Company, a corporation dealing very extensively in ice on the Kennebec River, and having branch houses in several large cities in the Union ; is president of the Kennebec Land and Lumber Company, and one of the directors of the Kennebec Steam Towage Company ; is also one of the directors of the First National Bank of Augusta. and of the Edwards Manufacturing Company, a corporation now operating the cotton-mills at Augusta.
Thus by his marked ability and unquestioned integrity Mr. Haynes has already won a position among the foremost of the business operators and public men of Maine ; and it is but a just and logical inference from the history of the past, that still higher honors await him in the future.
On the 7th of May, 1867, Mr. Haynes married Sarah Elizabeth Sturgis, the accom- plished daughter of Ira D. Sturgis, Esq., of Augusta, a prominent and well-known business man in Maine. Four children have been born to them, three of whom are now living, viz .: Marion Douglas, born January 21, 1868; Sturgis, born February 17, 1872; died January 21, 1873 ; Hope, born July 28, 1876; Muriel, born February 28, 1882.
As a citizen of Augusta, Mr. Haynes has always been vigilant in promoting the interests of his fellow-citizens with reference to all public enterprises and internal improve- ments ; ready and generous with money and service whenever properly required. In busi- ness dealings he is uniformly courteous, but quick to apprehend, and prompt and efficient to act.
In the midst of all his public duties and business cares, however, he has never forgot- ten or neglected the arts which contribute to the amenities of life, and tend to elevate its dignity and enlarge its enjoyment. His literary culture is of a superior order, and he has found time to indulge his classical tastes and gratify his love of art by a tour of observation in Europe. He has been a careful reader of history and general literature, and few are better informed in regard to the progress of society and the current events of the world.
In social life he does not " wear his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at," and resorts to none of the measures of the demagogue to win popular favor; but with agreeably discursive faculties and great facility of expression, he is an elegant conversationist, and a
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