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Mr. McIntire married Maud Parkman, of Solon, daughter of Absalom and Hannah Parkman. Her father, who was a hardware dealer, died in 1885. His widow is now re- siding here. Mrs. McIntire is the mother of three children : Guinevere, born May 7, 1888;
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Edward L., born September 4, 1890; and Clare, born July 3, 1895.
Politically, Mr. McIntire is a Republican. He has advanced in Masonry as far as the Commandery, and is also connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is one of the stirring and successful business men of Solon, and his personal qualities make him very popular in this community.
AJOR CHARLES H. B. WOOD- BURY, Town Treasurer of Dover and one of the best known mer- chants in Piscataquis County, was born in Durham, Me., May 15, 1823, son of James and Rebecca (Sydleman) Woodbury. The paternal grandfather, Ebenezer Woodbury, who was born in New Salem, N. H., in 1760, served under General Gates in the Revolution- ary War, and was present at the surrender of General Burgoyne. He was one of the early settlers of Durham, where he cleared new land and passed the rest of his life industri- ously engaged in farming, attaining the age of seventy-five years. His wife, Betsey, who was born in 1755, died in 1828. They were the parents of several children, including two sons, of whom James was the youngest.
James Woodbury was born in Durham, June 8, 1793. He began life as a farmer in his native town, where he tilled the soil for a number of years. Moving to Dover about the year 1825, he continued in that useful calling for the rest of his active period, He was
drafted into the United States army, and saw active service in the War of 1812. In poli- tics he was in his later years a Republican. In religious belief he was a Free Will Bap- tist. He died in September, 1872, in his eightieth year. Rebecca, his wife, who was born in Durham in 1795, became the mother of eight children, three of whom are living, namely: George S., a prosperous farmer of Dover; James, a retired merchant of Bangor; and Charles H. B., the subject of this sketch, who is the youngest. The others were: John S., Eben, Edward E., Mrs. Eliza Fernald, and Mrs. Rebecca Wyman. Mrs. Rebecca Woodbury died June 8, 1867, aged seventy- two years.
Charles H. B. Woodbury was taken by his parents to Dover in his infancy, and his edu- cation was there acquired in the district schools. When sixteen years old he secured employment as clerk in a general store kept by George W. Sawyer, for whom he worked four years. At the end of that time he be- came a partner, and was associated with Mr. Sawyer until 1861. In 1864 he purchased his present place of business, which was built in 1828, and is one of the oldest mercantile stands in town. He has since carried on a thriving trade in groceries, making a high reputation among his fellow-townsmen and the wholesale merchants of Bangor, Portland, and Boston. In public affairs Major Wood- bury is conspicuous for his long-continued service, having, with the exception of three years, been Town Treasurer of Dover since 1846. He was first appointed Postmaster by
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President Zachary Taylor in 1849, holding the office for four years. Again appointed by President Lincoln in 1861, he retained the position until 1885. He was elected Repre- sentative to the legislature in 1862, and he has ably filled several other elective offices. He was but twenty years old when he was commissioned Major in the State militia.
Major Woodbury contracted the first of his two marriages on February 1, 1849, with Elizabeth Tower, of Foxcroft. She died in 1852, leaving no children. On September 15, 1854, he married her sister, Lucinda B. Tower, who was born in Peacham, Vt., June 29, 1829. She is the mother of one son, William C., born in Dover, December 15, 1857, who is now the treasurer of the Piscat- aquis Savings Bank. William C. Woodbury married Martha Fogler, of Rockland, Me., and has one daughter, Pauline. Politically, Major Woodbury is a Republican. Both he and Mrs. Woodbury attend the Congregational church.
HARLES C. MORRISON, M.D., a prominent and popular physician of Bar Harbor, Hancock County, son of John T. and Lucy (Carr) Morrison, was born July 12, 1856, at Mariaville, Me. The paternal grandfather, Joseph Morrison, about a century ago removed from Canaan, Somer- set County, to Ellsworth. In 1810 he took . up a tract of unbroken land in Mariaville, and with the endurance and perseverance charac- teristic of the early pioneers reclaimed a farm from the wilderness, and there spent the
remainder of his long life of eighty-one years. The Doctor's maternal grandfather, Joseph Carr, was likewise one of the pioneers of Mariaville, to which he removed from York County in 1810 or soon after. He, too, lived to a ripe old age, and at his death left a large family of children.
Charles C. Morrison won distinction as a scholar while a pupil in the district school, which he attended during the fall terms only, his services being needed on the home farm in seed-time and harvest and in the lumber woods during the winter. In his early youth he became intimately acquainted with every branch of agricultural industry. At the lum- ber camps he was intrusted with the super- vision of driving the logs down the river, hav- ing charge of the men and horses employed. Desirous, however, of further research in the world of knowledge, he earned sufficient money by teaching to pay his way through the Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield. At the age of twenty-four he began to read medicine with Dr. Haines, of Ellsworth. A short time later he entered the Hahnemann Medical Col; lege in Philadelphia, from which he was grad- uated with honors, March 13, 1883. A few weeks later, on May 2, he located at Bar Har- bor, where he introduced the practice of homœopathy. Successful from the first, his services were soon sought by the leading fam- ilies on the island; and through the influence of Dr. William Todd Helmuth, a celebrated homœopathist of New York, he secured a large proportion of the patronage of the sum- mer residents.
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In 1886 and 1887, when the real estate values in Bar Harbor became inflated, the Doctor, tempted by a few profitable transac- tions, made heavy purchases of land, giving notes and mortgages as securities. To his surprise and sorrow the land boom broke in IS88, and left him worth less than nothing by ten thousand dollars. With true New Eng- land pluck, however, he determined that no person should lose through his folly. To this end he thereafter worked every day in the year, denying himself vacations and recrea- tions of all kinds, and in a comparatively few years he had paid every cent of his indebted- ness. In that period he also disposed of some of his property to good advantage, so that he can now pursue the even tenor of his way without embarrassment, assured of a good in- come independent of his profession.
The Doctor is a stanch Republican in poli- tics. When but twenty-one years old he was chosen Selectman and Supervisor of Schools in Mariaville, positions to which he was re- elected each year that he remained there. Prominent in the Masonic fraternity, he is a Royal Arch Mason of Mount Kebo Chapter, and a Knight Templar of St. John's Com- mandery in Bangor. He is also an Odd Fel- low, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Patriotic Sons of America and of the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters. Outside the secret organizations he belongs to the Village Improvement Association of Bar Harbor and the Maine Homoeopathic Society. On Octo- ber 20, 1890, he married Miss Ida Conners, of Bar Harbor, in the presence of six hundred
of their friends at the St. Sauveur Hotel. The Doctor and Mrs. Morrison have three children; namely, Charles C. Morrison, Jr., Mildred C., and John Moulton. They but re- cently returned from an extended trip through Europe, and are now pleasantly anticipating a visit to Egypt and the Holy Land in the near future.
HARLES H. GIRDLER, an ener- getic and progressive agriculturist of Mercer township, Somerset County, and the efficient chairman of its Board of Se- lectmen, was born December 4, 1846, in Waterville, Me., son of the late John S. Gird- ler. The father, who was born in Manches- ter, Mass. spent the early years of his life in that town, and there learned the hatter's trade. In 1840 he settled on a farm in Waterville, Me., where he carried on farm- ing and worked at his trade for some years. On December 16, 1863, he became a resident of Mercer, moving at that time to the farm now owned and occupied by his son, Charles H. Here he was engaged in tilling the soil and improving the property until his demise, De- cember 1, 1887. His wife, born in Berwick, Me., whose maiden name was Phebe C. Page, is still an active woman though seventy-eight years old, and resides on the homestead in Mercer with her son. Her children were: Abbie E., Charles H., and James I. Abbie E., born May 23, 1843, is the widow of the late Francis B. Mosher, and lives in Oakland, Me .; and James I., born June 15, 1851, who died April 14, 1893, married Miss Abbie N.
CHARLES H. GIRDLER.
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Morrill, of Belgrade, Me., whose death oc- curred on December 7, 1894.
Charles H. Girdler attended the district schools in his youth, assisting bis father in the labors incidental to farm life in the long vacations. When twenty years old he began working for a clothing manufacturer in the village of Mercer, remaining with him three
years. Upon his marriage, at the solicitation of his father, he took charge of the home farm, where he has since resided. He has one hun- dred and twelve acres of land, well improved, and is carrying on general agriculture and dairying with success. For the past eleven years he has served the town as Selectman, being for ten years of the time the chairman of the board. He was also Tax Collector for four years, and the librarian of the Mercer Public Library for seven years. While a stanch supporter of the Republican party, he takes much interest in politics. September 12, 1898, he was elected a Representative to the Sixty-ninth Legislature of Maine. An esteemed Odd Fellow, he belongs to Quinne- bassett Lodge, No. 109, of Norridgewock. He is one of the leading Masons of this locality, being a member of Lebanon Lodge, No. 116, of Norridgewock ; of Somerset Chap- ter, R. A. M., of Skowhegan; of Somerset Council and of De Molay Commandery, K. T., of Skowhegan.
On October 5, 1870, Mr. Girdler married Miss Fannie S. Hoyt, who was born in Vienna, Me., August 28, 1848. Her father, Noah Hoyt, who was a native of North Vienna, when a young man began farming in
the town of Vienna, and resided there until his death, in 1879. He married Sophia Hoyt, of Rochester, N.H., who died in 1880. They had a family of eight children; namely, Esther, George, Paulina, Noah, Upham, Fannie S., John, and Mary. The two last named are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Girdler have one child, Bertha M., now a compositor in the office of the Lewiston Journal and the wife of Dana F. Aubin, who is a motorman on the electric railway in Lewiston. Both par- ents are members of the Baptist Church of Norridgewock, and are active in denomina- tional work.
FRANKLIN DOW JENKINS, an en- terprising clothing merchant of Pitts- field, was born in Vassalboro, Me., Decem- ber 30, 1831, son of Moses and Sarah (Frye) Jenkins. His great-grandparents were Jabez and Elizabeth (Dennett) Jenkins, residents of Kittery, Me. Jabez, Jenkins, second, the grandfather, who resided in North Yar- mouth, Me., and on March 24, 1784, married Elizabeth Varney, of Dover, N. H., had a family of six children, namely : Deliverance, born September 14, 1785; Stephen, born July 6, 1788; William and Moses, whose birth dates have not been preserved; Jabez, born June 16, 1799, who died in 1892; and Isaac Jenkins, born March 24, 1802, who died in Vassalboro in 1885. Deliverance married George Parker, and resided in Vassalboro. She had two children - George H. and Emily. George H. left home when young. Emily
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married Henry Dudley, and had four sons - George E., Henry W., Howard, and Elwood Dudley. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley moved to Cañon City, Col., in 1876. Stephen Jenkins settled in China, Me., and reared a family. William Jenkins, who acquired considerable reputation for physical strength, died in the British Provinces. Jabez Jenkins, third, died in 1892, and Isaac died in Vassalboro in 1895.
Moses Jenkins, who was born in North Yar- mouth, having resided in Vassalboro for some time previously, removed in 1840 to Detroit, Me. He was at different times engaged in farming, brick-making, and shoemaking; and he died in 1854. His wife, Sarah, was a native of Vassalboro. Their children were : William Henry, Mary A., Sarah M., Moses Carey, Franklin D., and Ebenezer Frye. William Henry Jenkins, who married Eliza- beth Small, was a tanner and shoemaker in Detroit, Me., where he died in 1862 or 1863. Mary A. Jenkins married for her first husband Gorham H. Moores, a native of Vassalboro and a miner, who died in California. She then married C. F. Anderson, a machinist, and now resides upon a farm in Salem, Ore. By her first husband she has one daughter, Flora, who married a Mr. Hall, a hardware merchant in Oakland, Cal. Her son Fred was born of the second marriage. Moses Carey Jenkins died in 1894, and Ebenezer Jenkins died young. The death of Mrs. Sarah Jenkins occurred in 1846.
Franklin Dow Jenkins was educated in the common schools and the Westbrook Seminary. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in
Detroit. Later in the same capacity he was employed in Plymouth, Me., for some time, and for several years in Bangor. After coming to Pittsfield in 1858, he was associated with W. K. Lancey in conducting a variety store for four years, at the end of which time he sold out. In 1865 he engaged in a general merchandise business in the store he now occu- pies, having as a partner Albion P. McMasters. A year and a half later he bought his associ- ate's interest, and thereafter carried on the store until 1871. In that year he bought a farm in Kenduskeag, which he afterward culti- vated for the succeeding twenty years. Since August, 1891, he has conducted a flourishing trade in clothing, gentlemen's furnishings, hats, caps, bags, trunks, etc., at his former place of business in this town. He is also a director of the Waverly Woollen Mills.
On March II, 1858, Mr. Jenkins was joined in marriage with Helen M. Jerrard, a daugh- ter of John and Jane Jerrard, the former of whom was an extensive farmer and lumberman of Plymouth. Mrs. Jenkins has had eight children, namely : Alice M., born December 20, 1858, who married Alvah H. Cornforth, a merchant in Pittsfield, and has two children - Vera Louise and Una; Annie H., born April 10, 1860, who is now a book-keeper and resides at home; Louise A., born December II, 1861, who is now an artist in oil painting and crayon work, and resides in Augusta, Me. ; Vernon F., born March 25, 1863, who died August 15, 1884; Willie E., born June 29, 1864, who died on September II of the same year; Frederick A., born January 22, 1866,
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who married Elizabeth Avery, of Augusta, and is now a teacher in Dallas, Tex. ; Bertha Lee, born September 1, 1871, who is now the wife of Leon L. Libby, a shoe merchant of Pitts- field, and has one daughter, HIelen M .; and Ralph Dow Jenkins, born December 9, 1877, who was drowned in this town April 16, 1897. The latter, a bright and promising young man, assisted his father in business, and was a mem - ber of the Universalist church choir. In poli- tics Mr. Jenkins is a Republican ; and he has served the community for some years as Town Clerk and Treasurer, as well as in other offices. In Masonry he has advanced to the Royal Arch degree; and he was the second Worshipful Master of the Blue Lodge here and the first King in the chapter. Both he and Mrs. Jen- kins are members of the Universalist society ..
OBINSON TURNER, of Guilford, the proprietor of the Turner House, one of the best and oldest hotels in Piscataquis County, was born here, March 17, 1834, son of Howard and Betsey E. (Sargent) Turner. The early immigrant ancestor set- tled in Marshfield, Mass., in 1632. General Turner, from whom was named the town of Turner, Me., was the father of Abial, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. The grandfather, also named Robinson Turner, was a carpenter of Turner, who spent his life in Oxford County, and died there at the age of ninety-two years.
Howard Turner, son of Robinson, born in Turner, May 12, 1812, came to Guilford when
but three years of age with Mr. Ezariah Barker. After finishing his school education he was engaged in the mill business both here and in North Guilford, and was afterward interested in farming. In 1863 he bought the Franklin Hotel in Guilford, now called the Turner House, which has been in the family for many years. In religion he accepted the Universalist belief. He was a Democrat in politics, and he held office in the town for many years, serving as chairman of the Board of Selectmen. At his death in Guilford, on March 6, 1874, he left a widow and four chil- dren. The widow, Mrs. Betsey E. Turner, is a native of Gloucester, Mass., where she was born, August 6, 1813. She now resides with her son Robinson in Guilford. The children were : Robinson, Julia L., Zadoc L., and George H. Julia L., who became the wife of Mr. Daniel Crockett, died in March, 1884, at the age of forty-eight years. Zadoc L., born in August, 1838, now a resident of Guilford, is interested in the woollen-mills of the place, and also in agriculture. George H., born De- cember 2, 1859, is a member of the firm of H. Douglass & Co., general merchants.
Robinson Turner received his education in Guilford and at Waterville, Me. He spent the years of his early manhood in the mines of California, going there in 1864. Returning to his native place ten years later, he and his brother, Zadoc, in 1874 became the joint pro- prietors of the Turner House. In the winter of 1878 Mr. Robinson Turner bought the entire property, which he has since carried on independently up to the present time. Mr.
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Turner has enlarged the buildings, and by putting in all the modern improvements he has made the old house one of the most com- fortable and attractive in the county. In 1874 Mr. Turner married Mrs. Alma Clark Lis- comb, who was born in Skowhegan, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have no family. Mr. Turner is politically a Democrat. He is a Mason of Kineo Lodge at Guilford and Piscataqua Chap- ter, and a member of Good Cheer Lodge, No. 37, I. O. O. F. He is one of the oldest resi- dents of the village and the owner of a well- ordered and popular house.
ANIEL K. WILLIAMS, one of the representative farmers of Embden and a Civil War veteran, was born in this town, November 18, 1840, son of John and Belinda (Wells) Williams. His grand- parents, Jacob and Joan Williams, made their way to Embden from Massachusetts through the wilderness in 1790. Here Jacob cleared and improved a farm, upon which he resided for the rest of his life. He died July 12, 1814, and his wife on October 8, 1844. They were the parents of fifteen children, all now deceased; namely, Caleb, Daniel, John, Richard, Isaac, Elsie, Ebenezer, Keziah, Cyrus, Francis, Sukey, Jacob, Chandler, Ephraim L., and Susan.
John Williams, father of Daniel K., was born in Massachusetts in 1784. When a young man he cleared from a wild state the farm his son now occupies. He also culti- vated other farms in this town during his long
period of activity, and died October 14, 1867. He was twice married. By his first marriage, which was made with Sally Maynard, there were four children - Mary, Johanna, Sarah, and Howard, none of whom are living. Be- linda Wells Williams, a native of Concord, Me., became his second wife and the mother of seven children. Of the latter, the only sur- vivor is Daniel K., the subject of this sketch. The others were: Kingman, Melissa, Fanny, Cyrus, Palmer A., and Adelaide. The mother died March 22, 1885.
Daniel K. Williams passed his youth in attending school and asisting his father upon the farm. On September 16, 1862, he en- listed as a private in Company A, Twenty- eighth Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel E. W. Woodman and Captain Seth T. Hutchins. He participated in the siege of Port Hudson, the engagement at Donaldson- ville, and several skirmishes in Florida. After he was discharged from the army at Au- gusta, August 31, 1863, he resided at home for about a year, and then purchased his pres- ent farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, known as the Dr. Salvage farm. Here he has since given his attention to general farming, stock-raising, and dairying. The fertility of his land attests the excellent husbandry it has received at his hands; and new buildings have taken the place of the old ones, which were destroyed by fire in 1880.
On February 12, 1864, Mr. Williams was joined in marriage with Margaret Berry, who was born in Embden, Me., August 6, 1846. Her great-grandfather, Benjamin Berry, was
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a soldier in the Revolution; and her grand- father, Levi Berry, fought in the War of 1812. Her parents, Michael and Abigail (Burns) Berry, respectively natives of Embden and Lexington, Me., are still residing here. The only break in their family so far was the death of Mrs. Williams's younger sister on May 12, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have had six children, namely : Charles L., now a miner in Boulder, Col .; Chester K., born October 28, 1872, who was formerly a teacher and superintendent of schools in this town, and is now teaching in Carritunk, this county ; Cora V., born July 15, 1874, who is the wife of Fred Murphy, an operative in a woollen- mill in East Madison, Me .; Olen E., born July 10, 1876, who was accidentally killed in the woods, December 30, 1890; and Palmer A. and Guy F., respectively born on May 14, 1878, and June 24, 1884, both of whom are at home. In politics Mr. Williams is a Re- publican. He is a member of Keystone Lodge, No. 80, F. & A. M., of Solon, and a comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic Post at North Anson. An interesting relic in his possession is a Masonic document one hundred and twenty years old.
ACOB W. STUART, senior member of the firm J. W. Stuart & Son, gen- eral merchants at Machiasport, Wash- ington County, was born in this town, Febru- ary 22, 1828, son of James and Jane (Palmer) Stuart. The grandfather, James Stuart, a native of the north of Ireland and of Scotch
parentage, emigrated to St. John, N.B., from which place he came to Machiasport, and re- sided here for the rest of his life. He was exceedingly pious and a strict follower of the old Covenanters.
James Stuart, who was born in New Bruns- wick, having accompanied his parents to Machiasport, there learned the ship-carpenter's trade, which he followed for the rest of his life. He was a Deacon of the Congregational church. Jane Stuart, his wife, a daughter of Jacob Palmer, of this town, became the mother of ten children; namely, Charles, James, Jacob W., Francis N., Jotham S., Joseph Al- bion, Hannah Jane, John, William Jasper, and Abigail. Of these, Charles, James, John, and William J. are no longer living. Will- iam Jasper Stuart, who served in the Civil War as Lieutenant of a New York artillery company, and who was wounded, having spent a furlough of sixty days at home, returned to the front, and was never heard from after. Hannah Jane is the wife of John Dow, of Brockton, Mass. ; and Abigail married Still- man Armstrong, who went to California and has never been heard from since his departure.
Jacob W. Stuart acquired a common-school education. After learning the ship-carpenter's trade with his father, he followed it for four years. The succeeding eight or ten years were spent as a sailor in the merchant marine, where he worked his way from the forecastle to the quarter-deck, and became a master mariner. Subsequently, abandoning the sea, he engaged in ship-building, constructing about a half-dozen vessels under contract in the
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course of some years. In 1872 he established himself in trade as a general merchant. He had carried on a profitable business alone until 1887, when his son, Morrill N., was admitted to partnership, forming the firm J. W. Stuart & Son. By his marriage with Tryphosia Marston, a daughter of Elisha Marston, of this town, he has three children - Morrill N., Belle, and Kittie M. Kittie M. is now the wife of Warren F. Pope, of East Machias.
ENRY M. RICHARDSON, the pro- prietor and owner of Hotel Richard- son at Sebec Lake, was born in Garland, Me., December 15, 1839, son of Ed- ward and Hannah (Mason) Richardson. The father, a native of Wayne, Me., in early life settled as a pioneer in Garland. In 1842 he moved to Atkinson, where he was engaged in farming for the rest of his life, and died at the age of fifty-seven years. Hannah Richardson, his wife, became the mother of several chil- dren, six of whom grew to maturity. Of the latter, three are living, namely: Betsey, who resides in Sebec, and is the widow of C. F. Rankin; Moses, a resident of Atkinson; and Henry M., the subject of this sketch. The others were : Lyman E., who died at the age of thirty-eight ; Charles S., who died at fifty- four; and Hannah, who married W. T. Kent, and died at the age of forty-five years. The mother died in Sebec at the age of sixty-three. Both parents were members of the Free Will Baptist church.
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