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Heman Hunnewell, born in Madison, when about fifteen years old removed to Solon, and there worked at farm labor for some years. Then he engaged in farming and blacksmith- ing on his own account, continuing in these occupations thereafter until his death in 1873. He was twice married, on the first occasion to Martha Jackman, of Solon, Me., who died in 1832, leaving five children. These were : Thomas, who married Alfreda Hilton, of Solon; Betsey Ann, deceased; Joseph, who died in 1852; Heman, Jr., a farmer in Madi- son; and Hannah, the widow of Eli Jackman, residing in the village of Solon. Of the sec- ond union, which was contracted with Melinda Smith, ten children were born, namely : Sum- ner, a farmer, who lives at Forks plantation, Somerset County ; Randall F., who was killed in the late Rebellion; Ellen M. and James, who died in infancy; Calvin B., a retired farmer, residing in Kingfield, Me. ; David S., the subject of this biography ; Eben, who died in 1869; Abel J., who is a manufacturer of edge tools at Kingfield; Jennie M., who mar-
ried Seth Townsend, formerly of Solon, Me., but now of California, and died in 1870; and Martha, the wife of Charles S. Flanders, of Monmouth, Me. The mother of these chil- dren died in 1876.
David S. Hunnewell received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Solon, attending regularly until he was seven- teen years old. In 1858 he went to Califor- nia, where he spent five years with his brother, being engaged for the greater part of the time in mining and lumbering. Preferring, how- ' ever, a professional career, he returned to Solon in August, 1863, and for a time pursued his studies in the Maine Western Seminary at Kent's Hill. Afterward he attended the Maine State Seminary at Lewiston and the Portland Medical School for several terms. In June, 1866, he graduated from the Maine Medical School at Brunswick. The Doctor began the practice of his profession at Solon, Me., remaining there fifteen years. Then, having spent a year travelling in the West, he came to Madison in August, 1882, built his present home, and has remained here since. By his evident skill and close attention to his professional duties he has won the confidence and esteem of the community, and secured a large practice in Madison and vicinity. While a sound Republican in politics, he has never been an aspirant to public office, although he has served on the School Board of Solon. An esteemed Mason, he belongs to Keystone Lodge, No. 80, of Solon, and to the Royal Arch Chapter at Skowhegan; and he is a member of Indian Spring Lodge, No. 121,
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I. O. O. F., of Madison. He is liberal in his religious views, and attends the Congregational church.
Dr. Hunnewell has been three times mar- ried. His first wife, to whom he was united October 27, 1867, was Viola A., daughter of John and Lucinda (Stephens) Batchelder, early settlers of Solon, where Mr. Batchelder was for many years engaged as a tanner. She died in August, 1868, leaving one son, Olin B., who married Blanche Hilton, and now lives in Augusta, Me., where he is assistant supervisor in the hospital for the insane. In June, 1873, the Doctor married Miss Rebecca J. Rowell, a daughter of the late Elbridge and Sophia (Weston) Rowell, of Madison. She passed to the higher life in. November, 1884, leaving five children, namely: Elsie M., a teacher in the public schools of Madison ; Alice S. ; Clara E. ; Carl S. ; and Elbridge R. Dr. Hunnewell's third marriage was made in October, 1887, with Miss Elizabeth Smith, a daughter of Weston and Elmira (Sawyer) Smith, of Anson.
UFUS CAMPBELL, one of the town fathers of Kingsbury, Piscataquis County, was born in this town, May 17, 1831, son of Daniel and Ruth (Huff) Campbell. His parents were both natives of the town of Borden, Me. His grandfather, John Campbell, who was a farmer, was an early settler of Borden, and died in that town. Daniel Campbell moved from Borden to Well- ington, where he resided six or eight years.
In 1831 he settled on new land in Kingsbury, which he developed into a good farm, that is now owned and occupied by his son Aaron. He was a sturdy, industrious man, and had the respect of his fellow-citizens. In politics he was a Democrat, in religion liberal. He died at the age of forty-eight. Mrs. Ruth Campbell lived to be seventy-five years old. She was a Free Will Baptist. They had a family of eleven children; namely, Aaron, Asa, William, Alpheus, Levi, Rufus, Daniel, John, Isaiah, Charles, and Mary Ann. Asa, Levi, John, Isaiah, and Mary Ann reside in Garland, Me .; Aaron, Daniel, and Rufus, in Kingsbury; and William, in Corinna, Me. Alpheus and Charles are deceased.
Rufus Campbell grew to manhood in Kingsbury, and is the oldest living native of the town to-day. The only school in the town, when he was a boy, was held in a pri- vate house; and his educational opportunities were limited. In 1860 he took possession of his present farm, which was then in a wild state; and he has since devoted years of patient labor to its improvement. He owns one hundred acres of land and from fifteen to twenty head of cattle, and is engaged in gen- eral farming and dairying. He has worked hard to establish a home, and has a valuable farm. During the Civil War he served in the Twelfth Maine Regiment, and was honorably discharged in May, 1865.
Mr. Campbell was married in 1859 to Lydia, daughter of Benjamin F. and Mary P. (Wilkinson) Sherborn. She was born in this town, and died here in April, 1881. In July,
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1881, Mr. Campbell married Hannah Whit- man, who was born in Mayfield, Me. He has seven children, all living in Kingsbury - Leroy, Elmer, Charles, Mary E. (wife of G. S. Curtis), Manley, Ethel, and Riley M. Mr. Campbell is a Democrat, politically. He served as Town Treasurer one year, Se- lectman five years, and has been in office as Collector and Constable for a number of years. He is now serving as an Assessor, and is a member of the Board of Health. On relig- ious subjects his opinions are liberal.
A LLEN HACKETT, an extensive lum- ber manufacturer of Pittsfield, Somer- set County, son of Reuben and Re- becca (Pinkham) Hackett, was born in Strong, Me., August 29, 1835. The father, a native
of Pittsfield, resided in Strong for about fif- teen years. Though he was reared to agri- cultural pursuits, he spent the greater part of his life in other occupations, and he died here in 1892. Rebecca, his first wife, who was born in Strong, died in 1863. His second marriage was contracted with a widow, who is now residing with her daughter in Pittsfield. By his first union Reuben Hackett was the father of eight children, namely: Allen, the subject of this sketch; Emily Lepper, M.D., who is a physician in Minneapolis, Minn., the wife of Henry A. Lepper, and has six chil- dren; Augusta, who resides in Pittsfield, and is the widow of Nathan Osgood; Susan, the wife of Nathan Wright, a farmer in Hartland, Me .; Fernando, a millman in Minneapolis;
David, who died in 1871; and Etta and Ella Hackett, who are no longer living.
Allen Hackett began the struggle for exist- ence at the age of fourteen years. Having re- ceived his education, which was confined to instruction in the simpler branches of study, he became an operative in the Hathorn saw- mill in Pittsfield. Here he remained for twenty-one years, gaining experience which thoroughly equipped him for the lumber man- ufacturing business. From 1866 to 1868 he was a member of the firm of Hathorn & Hackett. In 1870 he purchased a part of the water-power privilege at Madison Bridge, where he remained for three years. Then as a member of the firm Hathorn, Foss & Co. he built saw-mills at Lambert Lake, La Grange, and Alton, and conducted them respectively for seventeen years, sixteen years, and thir- teen years. He is now operating mills in Danforth, Oakfield, and Blaine, the first of which he erected in 1873 and the others in 1 896. Hathorn, Foss & Co. are engaged ex- tensively in the manufacture of fruit boxes, which are shipped in bundles from Bangor to Italy, where they are put together and re- turned filled to this country.
Mr. Hackett contracted his first marriage in 1857 with Mary A. Spaulding, who died in the following year. On April 20, 1859, he married Tryphena Witham, of Pittsfield, whose father, Asa Witham, was an industrious farmer of this town. Mrs. Hackett has had seven children - Fred L., William, Jennie M., Willie E., Frank .A., Lillian. and Alice M. William died at the age of three
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years, and Lillian on April 6, 1891. Fred L. Hackett, who is now residing in Portland, married Fanny Perkins, of Madison Bridge, and has one son, Allen. Jennie M. is the wife of Frank Randlett, of Pittsfield. Willie E. Hackett married Ann Peterson; Frank A. Hackett, who lives in Blaine, married Georgia Murray, and has one child, Rhonello; Alice M. married Bert Spaulding, a barber of Pitts- field, and has one son. Fred L., Willie E., and Frank A. Hackett are all millmen.
Mr. Hackett has worked his way forward to his present position of business prominence wholly through his own ability and industry. Besides his mill interests he owns some valu- able property in this town, and is an exten- sive dealer in real estate. In politics he is a Republican, but business pressure has pre- vented him from taking any active part in public affairs. A member of the Masonic fraternity, he is connected with Meridian Lodge of Pittsfield. He attends the Baptist church.
LBION P. McMASTER, the president of the National Bank of Pittsfield and a prominent merchant of this town, was born in Etna, Me., February 3, 1825. A son of the Rev. Daniel and Elizabeth (Cush- man) McMaster, he comes of sturdy Scotch ancestry. His grandfather, John McMaster, who was the first of the family to come to America, located in Augusta, where he was engaged in business and subsequently died.
The Rev. Daniel McMaster, born in Au- gusta, was a preacher for sixty-four years.
Coming to Pittsfield in 1830, he remained here for about thirty years. Later he resided successively in Clinton and Etna, and he died in the last named place in 1868. His wife, Elizabeth, who was a native of Hebron, Me., died here in 1855. Their children were: Daniel A., Maria J., William H., John W., Miranda M., Job Cushman, Albion P., Sam- uel A., Levi M., and a child that died in infancy. Miranda M. died at the age of two years. Daniel A., who was a farmer through- out his active period, died in California. Maria J. married Levi J. Merrick, who was an attorney at Hartland, Me. ; and she died in Milwaukee, Wis. William H. succes- sively married Amanda Merrick and Lucinda Dennett, was a farmer in this town, and died in 1892. John W., now deceased, who was a clothier in Clinton, Me., married Mary Ann Brown, who is likewise deceased. Job Cush- man McMaster, who married Harriet Bacon, died in California. Samuel A. successively married Sarah Bailey and Sarah Woodman, all three of whom are now deceased. Levi M., who did not marry, also died in California.
Albion P. McMaster received a common- school education. He lived at home until nineteen years of age. From that time until he was twenty-two he worked at lumbering in different places. After his marriage he bought a farm in West Pittsfield, and there lived for about twenty years, carrying on farm- ing and some lumbering, and extensively en- gaged in buying and selling cattle. Selling out his farm and stock in 1866, he came to Pittsfield village, and for a year and a half
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was in company with F. D. Jenkins in a gen- eral merchandise business. He then went to Michigan, where for the following thirteen years he was engaged in lumbering, the last three having been spent at Cheboygan, Mich. In 1877 he went into the cattle business, which he followed until 1881. Then in part- nership with T. S. Dexter he conducted a general store for four years, during which time he also did some lumbering. Selling out in 1886, he associated himself with George H. Hunter in the firm of Hunter, McMaster & Co., which has since carried on a prosperous business in this village, dealing in general merchandise and extensively in flour and feed. Since 1890 he has been the president of the National Bank of Pittsfield, and since 1895 the president of the Waverly Woollen Mills.
On June 28, 1846, Mr. McMaster was mar- ried to Nancy M. Pushor, of Pittsfield, Me., a daughter of Captain David and Nancy (Chase) Pushor, both of whom were natives of Pittsfield. Captain Pushor, who was a farmer, obtained his title in the State militia. Mr. and Mrs. McMaster have two children - Har- riet and Lacitur. Harriet, who died in 1874 at the age of twenty-seven years, was the wife of Harvey Robinson, of Pittsfield, and had one child, Ina M. Lacitur is the wife of William Dobson, of Pittsfield, the well-known woollen manufacturer, and has two children - Hattie E. and Mary M. Mr. McMaster is a stanch Democrat. He has been a Selectman for sev- eral years. In 1862 and 1863 he was a Rep- resentative in the legislature. A Mason in good standing, he belongs to Meridian Lodge,
No. 125, of Pittsfield, of which he is a charter member; to the Blue Lodge, Ira Berry Chap- ter; and the Skowhegan Commandery ; and he is also a member of Phlemtoma Lodge, No. 51, and Sebastacook Encampment, No. 33, I. O. O. F. Mr. McMaster and his family attend the Universalist church.
ON. ELMER P. SPOFFORD, of Deer Isle, a prominent member of the Hancock County bar, was born at North-west Harbor, February 8, 1863, son of Frederick Pearl and Caroline E. (Haskell) Spofford. The paternal grandfather, Pearl Spofford, a native of Pelham, N. H., came to Deer Isle in or about the year 1800, accompa- nied by one Samuel Towne, with whom he formed a copartnership and engaged in trade. Afterward he and his brother Frederick be- came interested in ship-building, under the firm name of Spofford Brothers. The schooner "Shakespeare," owned by Spofford Brothers, with a valuable cargo of merchandise and with Frederick Spofford on board, was lost at sea in the year 1818. Pearl Spofford continued in trade for many years, and acquired quite a large property. He was elected Representa- tive to the General Court of Massachusetts several times, and was the first Representative from the town of Deer Isle to the legislature of Maine. The first Postmaster of Deer Isle, he held the office until the year 1845. In politics he was successively a Federalist, Whig, and Republican. He died in the year 1865, at the age of eighty-seven years.
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Frederick Pearl Spofford, the father, born at Deer Isle in the year 1819, during his active period was a successful merchant, and owned a large number of vessels. Taking an earnest interest in public affairs, he served the town in various offices. He was widely and favora- bly known as a leading business man of the county. His death occurred December 15, I870. Caroline E. Haskell Spofford, his wife, born April 3, 1823, was a daughter of Ignatius Haskell, third, and a representative of a pioneer family of Deer Isle. Her chil- dren were: Caroline Henrietta, Charles Fred- erick, Henry Courtney, George Courtney, Sarah Maria, Elmer Pearl, and Julia Haskell. Caroline, Elmer, and Julia are still living. Caroline married George Witham, of West- brook, Me. Julia is the wife of John H. Mc- Gorrill, of Clinton, Me., and has two children - Elmer Pearl and Milton Morse McGorrill.
After graduating from Westbrook Seminary, class of 1882, Elmer P. Spofford took a course of instruction under a private tutor. Previous to and during his preparation for the practice of law he taught school. Admitted to the Hancock County bar in 1886, he practised in Portland for a year. Then he removed to Deer Isle, where he has since resided. He was elected attorney for the county of Hancock in 1888 and 1890 and to the Maine Senate in 1892 and 1894. During his first term in the Senate he served in the Committee on Legal Affairs. In his second term he was elected president pro tem. of the Senate, and was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In January, 1897, he was chosen Executive Coun-
cillor for the Fifth Councillor District. Mr. Spofford is the youngest man in the State who has held so many high and responsible official positions. On June 1, 1887, he was united in marriage to Miss Leonora A. Rich, a daughter of Dwight B. Rich, of Boston. Much inter- ested in Masonic work, he is a permanent member of the Grand Lodge of Maine.
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2 of Embden, was born in this town, December 13, 1861, son of Jotham G. and Cyrena (Williams) Witham. The parents were both natives of Embden, and resided at Solon Ferry for many years, and the father is now living with his son Grant. Mrs. Witham died January 26, 1898. Jotham G. Witham married for his first wife Angeline Clark, of Embden, Me. She died leaving two sons : Mark, who died in 1896; and Manley, a resi- dent of East Madison, Me. His second wife, Cyrena, became the mother of six children : Parker, who married Carrie Hall, and resides in North Anson; Emma, who is no longer liv- ing; Dassie, who married Frank Thompson, and lives in Skowhegan; Grant, the subject of this sketch; Lura, wife of Charles Barnard, a boot and shoe dealer of Skowhegan ; and Ada Witham, who is employed in a woollen-mill at East Madison.
Grant Witham attended the public schools of his native town. He resided at home, assisting his father in carrying on the farm until 1894, when he moved to what is known as the Adams, or Hawes, farm of forty acres,
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adjoining the home farm, the two making a total of two hundred and twenty-five acres. He has already made various improvements in the property, and besides cultivating the usual crops he raises stock and conducts a dairy.
On February 1, 1890, Mr. Witham married Edna Hooper, daughter of Orlando Hooper, a prosperous farmer of Embden. The only child of this union was Leon H., who died at the age of eighteen months. The mother died April 23, 1892. On November 24, 1894, Mr. Witham married for his second wife Annie M. Thompson, who was born in Embden, August 13, 1874, daughter of Na- than and Barbara (Beals) Thompson, prosper- ous farming people of this town. She is the mother of one child, Dana Cecil Witham, born December 13, 1895.
In politics Mr. Witham is a Democrat. He served with ability as Supervisor of Schools in 1894, has been Tax Collector and Constable, and is now giving general satis- faction as second Selectman. He is a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Good Tem- plars, of Embden, and the Patrons of Hus- bandry, of Solon.
AHUM HINCKLEY, a leading busi- man of Blue Hill, Hancock County, was born in this town on October 26, 1840. A son of Jesse and Jo- anna (Johnson) Hinckley, he is descended from Samuel Hinckley, one of the early gov- ernors of the Plymouth Colony. The great- grandfather, Ebenezer Hinckley, whose father,
Shubal, fought in the French War in 1757, settled in 1766 at the Neck, on what is now called South Blue Hill, taking up Lot No. 3 and being the first of the name in this part of Maine. He served as a soldier during the Revolution, and subsequently was found frozen to death on Blue Hill Neck.
Deacon Isaiah Hinckley, son of Ebenezer, born within the Kennebec region in 1765, in a town then called Great Meadows, was brought to Blue Hill by his parents when an an infant. One of their elder children, he reached the age of ninety years. His life was passed in Blue Hill, in the northern part of which he cleared a large tract of land and engaged in farming. This place was after- ward known as the Hinckley neighborhood. Deacon Hinckley was a zealous worker in the Baptist church for many years and one of the representative men of the Baptist society in this part of Maine. He was twice married, on the first occasion to Anna Horton, who became the grandmother of Nahum. Their son, Jesse Hinckley, who was born at Blue Hill, in early life was a sailor and then a farmer. Afterward for many years he was a general trader. Actively interested in the affairs of the town, he was one of the town officers for many years, and at one time was Deputy Sheriff of the county. He died at the age of fifty-seven years. His wife, Joanna, had four children - S. Anna, Joseph J., El- dusta M., and Nahum. Anna, now deceased, was the wife of Captain Samuel Merrill, of Surry. At her demise she left four children -Jesse H., Joseph H., Isaac L., and Susan.
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Joseph J. Hinckley, who is a resident of Cal- ifornia, married Mary Coughlin, and has five children - Jesse, Anna, Joseph, John N., and Katy. Eldusta M. Hinckley is the wife of Captain John M. Merrill, of Surry, and the mother of Anna F., Samuel N., Lizzie, and John Merrill.
Nahum Hinckley received the training of the district schools, supplemented by a course of study at Blue Hill Academy. At the age of eighteen he went to California, and for the four succeeding years was engaged in mining in that State and in Nevada. Returning East at the end of that time, he opened a store in the town of Surry in company with his brother-in-law. For a time also he worked as a blacksmith. While a resident of Surry he was the chairman of the Board of Select- men, and also Town Treasurer. In 1880 he returned to Blue Hill, where he has since resided. When the copper mines were being worked here, he was foreman of the employees. He has also carried on some blacksmithing work, has been engaged to some extent in lumbering, and is at present engaged in the coal and ice business. Since his return to Blue Hill he has been closely associated with the conduct of public affairs, having been the chairman of the Board of Selectmen for ten years and County Commissioner for the past three years. He has been twice married. His first wife, in maidenhood Lizzie Tre- worgy, bore him one daughter, Lizzie, who be- came the wife of Sidney Howe, of Melrose, Mass. While preparing for a Christmas party, Mrs. Howe, in endeavoring to extin-
guish the flames which had accidentally caught her servant's dress, was fatally burned as well as the servant. Her sad death was a severe blow to the whole family. She left two young sons - Stanley and Roger. Mr. Hinckley's second marriage was made with Eva M. Tre- worgy, who has been the mother of three chil- dren - Everett J., Fanny C., and William P. In 1878 Mr. Hinckley represented this town in the legislature. He is now a member of the State Board of Agriculture. Besides being an esteemed Mason, he is one of the oldest Odd Fellows in this section, having joined the order in 1863, while he was in Cal- ifornia. His political principles are Repub- lican.
ARRISON T. BURNS, an enterpris- ing and reliable contractor and builder of Fairfield, was born in Pittsfield, Me., November 2, 1848, son of Rufus and Harriet (Winthrop) Burns. His parents were natives of Embden, Me., and the father when a young man settled upon a farm in Pittsfield. Rufus Burns died at the age of forty-five, and his wife died in 1893, aged seventy-eight years. They were the parents of nine children, namely: George, who died at New Orleans while a soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War; Ellen, who mar- ried Albert Applebee, a cloth dresser in a woollen-mill in Pittsfield; Harrison T., the subject of „this sketch; Warren, a lumber dealer residing in the State of Washington; Charles, a farmer in Pittsfield; Moses, who died young ; Moses, second, who is a carpenter
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in Pittsfield; Emma, who is no longer living ; and Rufus Burns, who married Cora Damon, and is engaged in the hotel business in Pitts- field.
Harrison T. Burns was educated in the dis- trict schools of his native town. He assisted in carrying on the homestead farm until he was twenty-five years old. Having learned the carpenter's trade, he followed it in Pitts- field for some four years; and later, coming to Fairfield, he was engaged for a time in operat- ing a large steam mill here. He subsequently established himself as a contractor and builder, which occupation he has since followed quite extensively, employing several men the year round. His ability as a workman is recog- nized by all those who have had dealings with him.
Mr. Burns married Mary Marble, of Shaw- mut, Me. She is a daughter of Eben and Lurana (Phelps) Marble, the former of whom was a teamster and a millman.
Mr. Burns is connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of Waterville. Both he and his wife attend the Universalist church.
ILLIAM DOWNS, a well-to-do farmer of Sebec, Piscataquis County, was born in Orono, Me., February 7, 1824, son of Thomas and Mary (Oliver) Downs. The father, a native of George- town, on the Kennebec River, followed lum- bering on the Penobscot River. On one oc- casion, while working in the woods, he was
seized with a violent illness that caused his death at the age of thirty-five years. His wife, Mary, born in Orono, was a daughter of Ephraim Oliver, who was an early settler in Bradley, Me. She bore him four children, namely : Mary Ann, who now resides in Ed- dington, Me., and is the widow of Joseph Johnson; William, the subject of this sketch ; Rachel, the widow of Abner Chase, late of Old Town, Me. ; and Jane, the widow of Jesse Harriman, late of Bangor. Mrs. Mary Downs, who did not marry again, lived to be seventy- eight years old. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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