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lumbering in company with Mr. Eveleth.
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then became possessed of a half-interest in the general store of John H. Eveleth & Co. in Greenville, which he has retained up to the present time. £ For years he has been sole manager of this store. He is also interested in
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lumber. He owns stock in the Moosehead Navigation Company, in which he is a di- rector, and has the management of two steamers on the lake. A self-made man, who has worked his own way to prosperity and in- fluence, he has the respect of his fellow- townsmen, and is one of the most popular citi- zens of Greenville.
Mr. Folsom was married May 10, 1865, to Abbie S., daughter of Jacob and Rachel (Packard) Blanchard, of Blanchard, Piscataquis County, Me. He has five children - Arthur L., Mabel G., Lizzie M., Gertrude M., and Malcolm B. Politically, Mr. Folsom is a Republican. He has been first Selectman of Greenville for fifteen years, and has also served as Town Treasurer, besides filling other offices. He belongs to and is Master of Co- lumbia Lodge, F. & A. M., of Greenville, and is also a member of Moosehead Lake Lodge, No. 46, A. O. U. WV., of Greenville. He at- tends the Union church in this town.
EORGE AUGUSTUS WHEELER, M. D., a prominent physician of Cas- tine, Hancock County, for nearly thirty years, and a veteran of the Civil War, was born in Standish, Cumberland County, July 26, 1837. By both of his parents, Amos Dean and Louisa A. (Warren) Wheeler, his genealogy is traced to the beginning of the Colonial period. Among his ancestors were John and Priscilla Alden, of whom the Doctor is a de- scendant in the seventh generation. On the paternal side he is a descendant of George
Wheeler, from whom the line comes through Thomas (first), Thomas (second), Thomas (third), Amos (first), Amos (second), and Amos Dean Wheeler. His paternal great- grandmother, Mary Belcher Henshaw, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bass) Hen- shaw, by her mother was a grand-daughter of Samuel and Mary (Alden) Bass and a great- grand-daughter of John and Priscilla Alden, the "Mayflower " Pilgrims. Louisa A. War- ren Wheeler was a daughter of Elijah and a grand-daughter of Ebenezer Warren.
Having completed his preparatory studies at the Topsham Academy, George A. Wheeler graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1856 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He subsequently began the study of medicine at the Harvard University Medical School, received his degree of Doctor of Medicine at the Maine Medical School in 1859, and in the same year was honored by his Alma Mater with the degree of Master of Arts. After en- tering upon the work of his profession at Fal- mouth, Me., he soon moved to Orland, this county, and practised there until 1861, in which year he removed to Presque Isle, Aroos- took County. In July, 1862, he joined the Union's defenders as Sergeant of Company G, Eighteenth Regiment, Maine Volunteers. Detached from the Eighteenth in the follow- ing October, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of United States Volunteers, and a short time later was placed in charge of the general hospital at Annapolis Junction, Md. In March, 1864, he was promoted to the rank of surgeon, and afterward served in the Ninth
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Army Corps in various responsible capacities, including that of its medical director. After the capture of Petersburg he was ordered to superintend the transportation of wounded sol- diers to City Point, Va., was subsequently despatched to Louisville, Ky., and thence to Jeffersonville, Ind., where he remained until mustered out in July, 1865, as Brevet Lieu- tenant Colonel. After his discharge he worked at his profession for a short time in Alberton, Md. From that place he went to Washington, D.C., where he became surgeon for the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen, was surgeon of the hospital at Arlington for a year, and assistant surgeon at the Campbell Hospital for the same length of time. After a short stay in Topsham, Me., to which he re- turned from Washington, he removed to Old Town, Penobscot County, where he resided until 1870. Since that year he has been a resident of Castine. In politics he is a Re- publican. He was the chairman of the School Committee from 1875 to 1887 and again in 1890; and he has been the chairman of the Board of Selectmen since 1892.
On February 17, 1864, Dr. Wheeler was united in marriage with Mrs. Margaret La- vinia Dorsey, a daughter of John F. and Eliz- abeth Harvecotter, of Maryland. The Doctor and his wife have had six children, three of whom are living, namely: Louise, the wife of Boyd Bartlett, of Ellsworth, Me .; George Dean; and Clarence Albion Wheeler. The others were: Mary Charlotte, Katherine Irene, and Harvey Haskell Wheeler. Mrs. Wheeler's daughter by her first husband,
Elizabeth Dorsey, took the name of Wheeler, and married Frederic L. Smith, of Water- boro, Me. Dr. Wheeler is a member of the Maine Medical Association and the Maine Historical Society, and he has been the presi- dent of the Hancock County Medical Associa- tion. He belongs to Hancock Lodge, F. & A. M., and Hancock Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and he was District Deputy Grand Master of the Fourth Masonic District succes- sively for the periods 1882-84 and 1890-91. He is also a member of Massasoit Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and of Hancock Grange, Patrons of Husbandry ; and he is a comrade of Charles H. Stevens Post, G. A. R. Besides writing various articles upon timely topics, contrib- uted to the medical journals, he compiled a History of Castine, Brooksville, and Penob- scot in 1874; was associated with his brother, the late Henry Wheeler, in writing the His- tory of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, issued in 1876; and has recently published a book entitled "Castine - Past and Present."
RANK W. HOVEY, a leading lawyer of Pittsfield, Somerset County, for- merly County Attorney, was born on Bear Island, N.B., March 9, 1863, son of William and Elizabeth (Brown) Hovey. His grand- father, Edward Hovey, a native of Maine, who died in 1894, went to New Brunswick when his son William was quite young, and settled near St. John, where he carried on farming and lumbering. Edward's wife, in maiden- hood a Price, bore him six children - James,
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Grace, Ivory, William, Polly, and George. James, who was a farmer of this State and who married Margaret Dow, received an in- jury that made him an invalid for some years before his death, which occurred in 1892. Grace, who resides in Carroll, Me., married Gideon Morse, a leading lumberman of that town. Ivory, who went to California in 1849, still resides in that State, engaged in mining. Polly, now deceased, married William Cliff, a lumber dealer, who is now retired and lives in Boston. George, the youngest child, is also deceased.
William Hovey, born in Houlton, Me., ex- cepting a brief stay in Bear Island during his childhood, before 1870, has resided in his na- tive town all his lifetime. His principal oc- cupations have been farming and lumbering. Elizabeth, his wife, who was a native of Bear Island, died in September, 1895. Their chil- dren now living are: Frank W., Emma J., James F., Sarah Anna, Clara Eldora (Mrs. Burbank), Sarah Gertrude (Mrs. Hagerman), Grace, and Mabel. One other child, Ivory, died in infancy. Emma J. married J. M. Hill, a furniture dealer of Houlton, Me. She has three children - Harry, Clyde, and one other, an infant. James F., who married Ella McIntire, of New Brunswick, is clerk in a mercantile house, and resides in West Somer- ville, Mass. He has one child, Margaret. Sarah Anna, now Mrs. George Hagerman, who resides on the old Hovey farm at Houlton, has four children. Grace is a school teacher in Houlton. Sarah G. is a teacher. Mabel re- sides with her brother, Frank W. Hovey.
After attending the public schools of Houl- ton for the usual period Frank W. Hovey completed the course of the Maine Central In- stitute, and graduated in the class of 1884. For the following three years he was a stu- dent in the law school of Boston University, and in 1887 he was admitted to the Cumber- land County bar at Portland. Shortly after he settled in Pittsfield for the practice of his profession, spending the first year in partner- ship with J. W. Manson. He represented the town in the Maine legislature of 1889-90, and in the legislature of 1895-96 he occupied a seat in the upper house. From 1891 to 1895 he was prosecuting attorney for Somer- set County, in which capacity he tried many important cases, and with such efficiency and skill that he did not lose a single one of them. For many years he has been the superintend- ent of schools, and since 1894 he has been the chairman of the Republican Town Com- mittee.
Fraternally, Mr. Hovey is a member of Phlentoma Lodge, No. 51, I. O. O. F., of Pittsfield; and of Sebastacook Encampment, No. 53, in all the chairs of which he has served. He is a leading member of the Free Will Baptist church. Taking much interest in historical research, he is also an associate of the Maine Historical Society. At the present time he is engaged in writing a his- tory of Pittsfield and the adjoining towns, which he expects to finish this year. On June 3, 1887, he was united in marriage with Ger- trude Sawyer, a daughter of Captain C. H. and Etta H. (Farnham) Sawyer, both natives of
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Pittsfield. Of his two children, Ruth, born August 5, 1893, died in 1895. The other, Byron Price, was born November 17, 1894.
ON. CHARLES A. SPOFFORD, a retired lawyer of Deer Isle, Hancock County, and an ex-member of the Maine Senate, was born in the town of Deer Isle, January 12, 1822. A son of Pearl and Sarah (Averill) Spofford, he is a descendant of John Spofford, a pioneer of Rowley, Mass. This ancestor married Elizabeth Scott, and had a son, Samuel Spofford, who was made a freeman in 1684, and occupied the homestead jointly with his brother John until his death, which occurred in January, 1744, at the age of ninety-one. On December 5, 1676, Samuel Spofford married Sarah Birkbee. Their son, Samuel, Jr., whose name appears on the list of tax-payers of Boxford, Mass., in 1714, was united in marriage with Sarah Stickney on June 17, 1717. Thomas Spofford, son of Samuel, Jr., and his wife, Sarah, was married on December 5, 1750, to Roxbee Moody, and settled in Andover, Mass., where she was ad- mitted to the First Church on December 3, 1758. Thomas, Jr., son of the above named Thomas and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married Esther Pearl, and settled in Pelham, N. H., where he died about the year 1830.
Pearl Spofford, son of Thomas, Jr., and his wife, Esther, was a native of Pelham, whence he came to Deer Isle in the year 1800, and settled at North-west Harbor. He was for
many years engaged in the shipping business in company with his brother Frederic, who was lost at sea in the "Shakspeare," one of their vessels. Pearl Spofford was at one time a large land-owner, but in his later years he became the victim of unforeseen reverses. He was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts in 1817, 1819, and 1820, and he represented his district in the first session of the Maine legislature in 1821. He died in 1865, aged eighty-seven years. Sarah, his wife, a native of Topsfield, Mass., whom he married in 1818, became the mother of eight children ; namely, Frederick P., Charles A., Edwin B., Sarah H., George W., Eliza A., William H. H., and Henry C. (A genealogy of the descendants of John and Elizabeth (Scott) Spofford, who are quite numerous, was compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Spofford, of Groveland, Mass., and published in Boston in 1888.)
Charles A. Spofford graduated from Bow- doin College with the class of 1846. Be- ginning his legal studies with Ruggles & Gould, of Thomaston, Me., he completed his preparatory course with C. J. Abbott, of Cas- tine, and was admitted to the Hancock County bar in 1857. He had already acquired con- siderable notoriety as a politician, having been a member of the Maine House of Repre- sentatives in 1849, Deputy Collector of Cus- toms at Castine from 1850 to 1853, a State Senator in 1854, and the Speaker of the House in 1857. Afterward he ably performed the duties of Attorney for Hancock County, was at one time the Democratic candidate for Con-
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gress from his district, was again a member of the State legislature in 1883, and was Col- lector of Customs at Castine during President Cleveland's first administration. As a lawyer he deservedly ranks among the leaders of his profession in this State. At the present time he is the president of the Hancock County Bar Association. Failing health caused him to retire from practice some time since, and he is now residing at his old home in Deer Isle.
On June 12, 1856, Mr. Spofford was joined in marriage with Lucretia A. Haskell, a member of one of the best known families of this locality. She became the mother of three children: Henry P. A., born on Deer Isle, March 8, 1858; Charles W., who died young ; and Vinnie R., who married Allison K. Warren, of Stonington, and has one son, Charles D. S. Warren. Henry P. A. Spof- ford completed his education at the Castine Normal School. After teaching school for a time he engaged in trade at Deer Isle, and has since carried on a flourishing business. He married Julia Higgins, who was born and reared in this locality. In politics he is a Democrat, and he served as Postmaster dur- ing both of President Cleveland's administra- tions. He belongs both to the Masonic fra- ternity and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
HARLES B. McINTIRE, of Solon, a retired business man and formerly Representative to the legislature, was born in Bingham, March 24, 1831, son of
Washington and Betsey (Spaulding) McIntire. His father, a lifelong resident of Bingham, was one of the leading farmers of that town. Washington McIntire served as Deputy Sheriff for over thirty years, and was a mem- ber of the Board of Selectmen for a number of terms. He died in June, 1865. His wife, Betsey, who was a native of Norridgewock, became the mother of thirteen children, six of whom are living, namely: David, a retired farmer of Solon; George, who resides in Skowhegan; Jonah, a retired farmer and prominent resident of Solon; Harlow, who re- sides in Stillwater, Minn .; Charles B., the subject of this sketch; and Caroline, wife of Benjamin Gleason, of Oakland, Me. The others were: Heman, Cyrena, Betsey, Obed, Obed (second), Orin, and another child who did not reach maturity. The mother died in 1872.
Charles B. McIntire's boyhood and youth were spent in attending school and assisting his parents, with whom he resided until he was twenty-two years old, in carrying on the home farm. He then purchased a farm in his na- tive town, which he cultivated industriously for some years. Subsequently he engaged in mercantile business and lumbering. For twenty-five years he kept a general store in Solon, which he gave up in 1892, in order to devote his entire attention to his lumbering interests and his saw-mill in Mayfield. He continued thus occupied until 1894, when he retired from active work, having lost his right hand through an accident.
In 1858 Mr. McIntire was united in mar-
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riage with Lucy E. Williams, daughter of Zachariah Williams, a farmer of Embden, Me. Mrs. McIntire has had one daughter, Etta E., who was born in 1859, and died at the age of five years.
Mr. McIntire served with ability as a mem- ber of the legislature in 1883, was Postmaster of Solon for four years, and has held other public offices. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a Master Mason, a member of Keystone Lodge of Solon. In religious belief he is a Methodist.
B ENJAMIN F. BARTLETT, a well- known lumber dealer residing at North New Portland, Me., was born in Minot, this State, on October 20, 1820, son of John H. and Phoebe (Burbank) Bartlett.
John H. Bartlett, his father, who was born in Eliot, Me., on December 9, 1789, was a cloth-dresser and wool-carder by trade. Com- ing to New Portland, he built a carding-mill, but soon removed to Monmouth, and later to Minot Corner, where he built another mill. Returning to New Portland in 1833, he bought a grist and saw mill here, which he sold to Benjamin and another of his sons. Building a saw-mill for himself, for about five years he was engaged in operating it. He then retired from active pursuits, and lived quietly with his children. Mr. John H. Bartlett was known throughout the county as a successful business man and a patriotic citizen. He never sought office, but was always ready to give his services whenever needed for the wel- fare of the public. His death occurred on
January 22, 1878. His wife, Phoebe, to whom he was married in 1814, was born in Freeport, Me., on October 18, 1789, and died on July 30, 1871. She was the mother of twelve chil- dren; namely, Mary, Lois H., Phoebe A., John B., Benjamin F., James P., Josiah D., Lavina M., William Pitt, Edwin, Willard W., and Abbie E.
Mary, who was born on December 21, 1814, married Orrin Hall, of Anson, Me., and died September 19, 1842. Lois H., who was born on February 28, 1816, and is now residing with her sister, was twice married, the first time to Benjamin Pierce and the second time to J. M. Hilton. Phœbe A., who was born on December 2, 1817, and married George C. Bartlett, died on October 10, 1880. John B. was born on February 3, 1819. He married Sarah E. Stackpole, and was engaged in mill- ing interests up to the time of his death, which occurred May 31, 1872. James P., who was born on May 29, 1822, is a farmer residing in this village. He married first Abbie Mclaughlin, of New Portland. After her death he married Miss Angie Safford, of Lexington, Me .; and for his third wife he married Mrs. Elizabeth H. Butterfield, of Waterville, Me. Josiah D., who was born on March 9, 1824, married Eliza T. Firth. He is a prominent citizen of Waterville, Me., and a leading farmer. Lavina M., born on July 26, 1827, is now Mrs. Sydney Sherman, and resides in Sharon, Mass. William Pitt, who was born on September 13, 1829, married Hattie Hart. He is now a very prominent attorney of Eau Claire, Wis. Edwin, who was
BENJAMIN F. BARTLETT.
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born on September 3, 1831, died on Septem- ber 16 of the same year. Willard W., who was born on March 22, 1833, enlisted in the late Civil War, was shot, and died from the effects on August 19, 1864. Abbie, who was born on October 10, 1838, is now Mrs. George Shapleigh, of Lebanon, Me.
Benjamin F. Bartlett remained with his parents until he reached his majority. He then became interested in a saw-mill and in lumbering, and when twenty-five years of age he, with his brother above referred to, pur- chased the saw-mill. He has since operated the mill. He carries on a large trade in lum- ber, buying timbered lands and clearing them.
Mr. Bartlett has been twice married. His first wife, whom he wedded on March 17, 1846, was Aurelia Richardson, of New Portland village, daughter of Eben Richardson, a prom- inent mill-owner. She died on February 22, 1888, having been the mother of one child, a daughter, Mary A., who was born on Janu- ary I, 1847. Mary A. Bartlett married H. A. Plummer, of New Portland, a lumber dealer and mill-owner. She died in 1879, having been the mother of two children : Frank L., now deceased; and William P., who is in the insurance business at Waterville, Me. Mr. Bartlett was married the second time to Mrs. Abbie E. Libby, widow of David F. Libby, of Portland, who was a livery man of that city, and daughter of Greenleaf Wiggin, of China, Me., and his wife, Ann B. Batson, of Addison, Me. Mr. Wiggin was a ship-carpenter. By her first husband Mrs. Bartlett had three children, namely : Carrie E.,
who married Charles A. Norris, of Fall River, Mass., and died August 10, 1896; George F., who is deceased; and Willie R., who married Inez Harper, and now resides in Portland, where he is employed as a moulder.
In 1889 Mr. Bartlett was appointed by Gov- ernor Burleigh as a member of the State Val- uation Commission to regulate the assessable value of land and property of the State, and he subsequently held that office until 1891. He has served the town as Selectman. In politics he is a Republican but not a place- hunter. Mrs. Bartlett is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
A NDREW J. JORDAN, a leading drug- gist and apothecary of Orland, Han- cock County, was born at Sandy Point, in the town of Stockton, Waldo County, Me., May 31, 1844, son of Andrew J. and Mary C. (Eldridge) Jordan. His father, a native of Stockton, was a sea captain, who died in comparatively early life; and the mother was a daughter of Ebenezer Eldridge, of Bucksport. The subject of this sketch was their first-born child, and is their only sur- vivor, two others having died in infancy.
Andrew J. Jordan was educated in the pub- lic schools of Bucksport, Me. In 1864 he established himself in the drug business at Orland village, and his store has since been the main source of medical supplies in this locality. He carries a full line of drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, fancy goods, and sundries, and he is widely and favorably
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known as a reliable pharmacist. Mr. Jordan married Miss Frankie M. Partridge, daughter of Isaac Partridge, of Orland; and the only child of this union died in infancy. Mr. Jor- dan cast his first Presidential vote for Gen- cral U. S. Grant in 1868, and has since con- tinued to vote with the Republican party.
R EUBEN D. GILMAN, of Foxcroft, an enterprising lumber manufacturer, was born in Norridgewock, Me., April 10, 1829, son of David and Lucy Gil- man. His parents were natives of Gilmanton, N.H., which was named for one of his ances- tors, and the family is of English origin. Colonel Edward Gilman, great-grandfather of Reuben D., served in the Revolutionary War, and was a prominent citizen in his day.
David Gilman, Reuben D. Gilman's father, came to Maine from New Hampshire, settling first in Norridgewock, Somerset County, and removing to Foxcroft in 1837. He engaged in farming and lumbering, and proved himself an able business man. In politics a Whig, he took a prominent part in local affairs. In his religious views he was liberal. His death occurred in 1852. He was the father of nine children, of whom four are living, namely : Lucy Dinsmore; Reuben D., the subject of this sketch; Amasa; and Mary. The three first named reside in Dover; and Mary, now Mrs. Wood, in Madison, Me. Mrs. David Gilman, the mother, is no longer living.
Reuben D. Gilman's education was begun in the common schools and supplemented by
a course of study at the Foxcroft Academy. In 1851 he went to California, making the journey by way of the Isthmus, and remained there some years, meeting with very fair suc- cess as a miner. Returning home in 1855, he engaged in the manufacture of lumber, includ- ing all kinds of building material, and has since followed that business in connection with farming. His mills furnish employment to a large number of men. As a business man he is energetic, far-sighted, and success- ful. In politics he supports the Republican party, but because of the demands made upon his time by his factory and farm he has never been able to take any active part in public affairs. He is connected with the Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to the lodge in Dover, and has served the order as State Deputy. He attends the Congregational church.
In 1856 Mr. Gilman was joined in marriage with Helen Tolman, of Milo, Me. ; and Mrs. Gilman has been the mother of three children - David, Eugenia, and Agnes. David died at the age of five years. Eugenia married David P. Ayer, of Pennsylvania. Agnes is the wife of the Hon. Willis E. Parsons, one of the most prominent citizens of Foxcroft and a leading member of the Piscataquis County bar.
S . M ILLIAM S. MILLER, D.D.S., a rising young dentist of Fairfield, residing in Benton, was born in Searsport, Me., April 25, 1864, son of the Rev. Nathan and Rosetta (Stacy) Miller. The father, who
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was born in Maine of German ancestry, was a Methodist preacher attached to the East Maine Conference, and was pastor successively of churches in Garland, Searsport, and Abbot. He died in 1876. Rosetta Stacy Miller, his widow, who was a native of Benton, Me., married for her second husband Eugene Holt, a prosperous farmer of Clinton, Me. The Rev. Nathan Miller was the father of two children: Horace S., who married Abbie King, and is a dentist in Sanford, Me .; and William S., the subject of this sketch.
William S. Miller attended the common schools until he was twelve years old, at which time he left home to start in life for himself. Subsequently, however, he pursued further a course of study at the Coburn Classi- cal Institute at Waterville. He worked upon a farm, clerked in a store, canvassed, and, in fact, for some time turned his hand to any honorable employment that came his way. Having finally decided to enter the dental profession, he pursued the necessary studies, first under Dr. Smith, of North Anson, and later at the Haskell Dental School, Chicago, Ill. Locating for practice in Fairfield in 1886, he has since succeeded in building up a large business, and is now obliged to employ an assistant. Dr. Miller married Edith M. Hodgkins, daughter of James Hodgkins, a master carpenter of Benton. He has one child, Horace Leland, born in June, 1891. A Republican in politics, the Doctor takes no active part in public affairs beyond casting his vote. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being a member of
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