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that of his neighbors in Eastport, where he has resided since 1858, and where his genial dis- position and cordial sociability have made him a general favorite. The Captain is a Republi- can in politics, and he and Mrs. Corning are inembers of the Baptist church.
OSES EDWIN GAREY, a practi- cal and successful agriculturist of Dover, Piscataquis County, was born in Sanford, York County, March 29, 1837, son of Moses and Sarah S. (Emery) Garey. His grandfather, Ebenezer Garey, spent the major part of his life upon a farm in Sanford and his last days in Dover, where he died December 8, 1844, aged seventy years. The maiden name of Ebenezer's wife was Ruth Gowen. She died November 14, 1853, aged seventy-seven. They had ten children, all but one of whom lived to marry and rear families. None are now living.
Moses Garey, father of Moses E., was born in Sanford, March 12, 1799. He was reared to farm life, and resided in his native town until 1837, when he settled in Dover. He reclaimed the farm which his son now occu- pies, and was one of the stirring men of his day. In politics at first he was a Democrat. Afterward he acted with the Republican party from the time of its formation until his death, which occurred February 28, 1869. In relig- ious belief he was a Congregationalist. His wife, Sarah, who was born in Sanford, Decem- ber 10, 1801, became the mother of six chil- dren. Of these, three are living, namely :
MOSES E. GAREY.
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Caleb E., born in Sanford, June 7, 1834, who resides in New York City ; Moses E., the sub- ject of this sketch; and Mary E., born in Dover, June 3, 1843, who is the wife of Will- iam A. Crockett, of this town. The others were: Leander, born in Kennebunk, Me., August 27, 1827, who was superintendent of construction of N. Y. C. & Hudson River R. R. and N. Y. & Harlem, and died Novem- ber 24, 1886; Cyrus M., born in Sanford, July 12, 1829, who served in the Civil War, and died April 15, 1865, from the effects of wounds received at the final engagement at Lee's sur- render; and William E. Garey, born in San- ford, November 8, 1831, who died November 30, 1857. In his younger days William was a sailor and in the latter part of his life a machinist. Mrs. Moses Garey died March 16, 1886.
Moses Edwin Garey has resided in Dover since the year of his birth. He attended the common schools and the Foxcroft Academy, and completed his studies with a commercial course at Eastman's Business College, Pough- keepsie, N.Y. While he taught school in his younger days, general farming has been his chief occupation. After his father's death he succeeded to the home farm. The property contains one hundred and fifty acres of excel- lent tillage land, which he keeps up to a high state of cultivation. He is a member of the Congregational church. In politics he is a Republican. On September 15, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, First New York Regiment, Light Artillery, under Captain David F. Ritchie. He was before Peters- !
burg in the winter of 1864 and 1865 and at Farmville soon after Lee's surrender.
AMUEL BUNKER, a prosperous farmer, stock-raiser, trader, and dealer in real estate, is one of the leading residents of North Anson village, Me. He was born April 11, 1824, in the town of Anson, Somerset County, being the only child of Daniel and Mary (Gould) Bunker. His mother was born in New Port- land, Me. She died in October, 1825.
Elijah Bunker, the paternal grandfather of Samuel, was born in Durham, N.H., in 1772. He married Betsey Smith, who was born in Berwick, Me., in 1774, and settled in the town of Barnstead, N.H. In 1779 they came to Vienna, Me .; but in 1810 they removed to Anson, where they cleared a farm from the wilderness, reared a large family in Christian integrity, and died, one in 1850 and the other in 1851. Their children were: Reuben, Elijah, Danicl, Ichabod, Mrs. Betsey Russell, Moses, Mrs. Mary Bray, Mrs. Deborah D. Bradbury, Mrs. Sarah Smith, Mrs. Nancy Gray Williamson, Mrs. Sylvia Blackwell, and Hannah.
Daniel Bunker, father of Samuel, was one of the most progressive and honored citizens of Anson. He was for many years Sheriff of Somerset County, and, as a merchant, lumber- man, and public official, was always identified with the best interests of the town. In 1850 he removed to Fairfield, where he resided until his death, in May, 1884, at the vener-
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able age of eighty-five years. After the death of his first wife, in 1825, he married Bridget Pelton, of Anson, who died in Fairfield in 1882. Their fourteen children were: Daniel, a merchant of Chicago, who died in 1870; Mary, a distinguished teacher, who died in 1894; Mrs. Naomi Kerr, also a prominent ed- ucator, who died in Oakland, Cal., in 1888; Carolinc, who died in North Anson in 1841; Bainbridge, who died on the passage from Panama to San Francisco in 1852; Mrs. Martha Gilbreth, of Boston, Mass. ; Dumont, who was a Captain in the Nineteenth Maine Regiment, serving during the entire Civil War, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in May, 1898; Benjamin, for many years owner and editor of the Kennebec Democrat, who died in Waterville in 1895; Mrs. Elizabeth Stratton, of Fairfield; Helen, who died in 1852; Frank, an artist of great promise, who held responsible government positions, and died in Fairfield in 1870; Fred, who holds extensive stock interests in New Mexico; Caroline, an artist in Boston, who has spent much time in study abroad and has exhibited her work in the Paris Salon; Solon, who is engaged in mercantile business in Boston.
Samuel Bunker, the subject of this biog- raphy, began his long and active business career at the age of nincteen by purchasing his father's tannery and shoc shop. Later he opened a store of general merchandise in con- nection with his other interests. He has con- tinued for more than fifty years one of the most energetic and enterprising business men of the town. He deals largely in real estate,
and has built the shank factory, dam, and two finc business blocks, besides several houses in the village. He is an extensive landholder, having realty in Embden, Concord, and Lex- ington, in Somerset County, besides five hun- dred acres of land in Anson township. Hc has brought his farms under the finest culti- vation, and raises large numbers of Jersey cattle and sheep. In spite of heavy losses, he is one of the most successful business men of the whole community. As a large em- ployer of labor, he is a most helpful and use- ful member of society.
In politics he has been a stanch Republi- can, and has always been prominent in all that tended toward the public good. He served for a number of years as a Deputy Sheriff of Somerset County and during the Civil War as Deputy Provost Marshal of this district. At the age of seventy-four his vigor is hardly diminished, and he still exhibits the resolution and courage in all business under- takings that characterized his youth and have brought so high a degree of success.
Mr. Bunker was married March 28, 1852, to Miss Martha French, only daughter of Jo- seph and Abigail (Palmer) French, highly es- teemed residents of Athens, Me. After Mr. French's death in 1868, Mrs. French, who was a descendant of Governor Dudley and a woman of rare powers of mind and character, resided with her daughter till her death in 1893, at the advanced age of ninety. Before her marriage Mrs. Bunker was a very success- ful teacher. She is a woman of culture and strong character and an active worker in re-
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ligious and temperance circles, having been for many years a vice-president of the Maine W. C. T. U. Mr. and Mrs. Bunker's six children are: Nellie, the wife of E. B. Cush- man, a real estate dealer at Long Beach, Cal .; Samuel, who died in 1869; Charles, formerly a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, now engaged in insurance business in San Fran- cisco; Abbie, the wife of B. F. Weston, a large land-owner in Santa Clara, Cal .; Fred- erick, who still remains in the old home as his father's partner; and Minnie, who was graduated from the University of California, and has been a teacher in the high schools of Denver and Oakland, Cal.
[Editorial. ] A little research among the family records and printed genealogies reveals the fact, too interesting and important to be passed over unnoted in a work of this kind, that Mrs. Bunker may rightfully claim among her maternal ancestors not only Governor Dudley, mentioned above, but also Governor John Winthrop, whose daughter Mary by his first wife, Mary Forth, married about 1632 the Rev. Samuel Dudley, son of Governor Thomas Dudley. The line was thus con- tinued: Ann Dudley, born in 1641, fifth child of the Rev. Samuel by his first wife, Mary Winthrop, married Edward Hilton, Jr. (son of Edward, Sr., one of the original settlers of New Hampshire). Dudley Hilton, son of Edward and Ann, married Mercy Hall. Eliz- abeth Hilton, daughter of Dudley, married Christopher Robinson; and their daughter, Elizabeth Robinson, married in 1747 at Mil- ton, N.H., Major Barnabas Palmer, who lost
an arm at the capture of Louisburg in 1745. Dudley Palmer, son of Barnabas and Eliza- beth (Robinson) Palmer, married Abigail Pickering; and they were the parents of Abi- gail Palmer, who became the wife of Joseph French and the mother of Martha, now Mrs. Bunker.
OLONEL WALTER G. MORRILL, of Pittsfield, the proprietor of Union Trotting Park and a prominent business man, was born in Williamsburg, this State, November 13, 1840, son of Aaron H. and Eliza A. (Willard) Morrill. The father, who was a native of Sebec, Me., spent the most of his life in Williamsburg, engaged in farming, and died there in 1883. He was ac- tive in the discharge of his duties as a citizen, and served his fellow-townsmen as Selectman, Collector of Taxes, and in other important offices. His wife, who was born in Brown- ville, died in 1886. Both were attendants of the Congregational church. Their children were: Helen M., Francis B., Walter G., M. Augusta, John W., Adelaide M., and E. Leslie, all of whom were educated in the public schools. Helen M. has been twice married, successively to Richard Hughes and M. Jones. She now resides in Brownville, where Mr. Jones is engaged in the manufact- ure of slate. Francis B., who married Re- becca Lord, died in 1859. His widow resides in Maxfield, Me. M. Augusta, who married Ira P. Wing, a machinist, lives at Monson. John W., who follows the occupations of butcher and farmer, first married Nora Lord,
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of Brownville, and then a Miss Randall. Adelaide M. is the wife of F. E. Brown, of Brownville, who is now a book-keeper in Marlboro, Mass. E. Leslie, who is an en- graver, married Alice Getchell, of Sebec, Me.
Having resided with his parents until his twenty-first year, Walter G. Morrill enlisted at Brownville as a private in Company A of the Sixth Maine Regiment, under Colonel Abner Knowles and Captain M. W. Brown. After spending fifteen months with this regi- ment, which was ordered to Virginia, he joined Company B of the Twentieth Regi- ment on October 7, 1862, and thereafter served with it until discharged on June 26, 1865. Besides many skirmishes and minor engagements Colonel Morrill was in the battles fought at Ashby's Gap, Drainsville, in front of Yorktown, at Williamsburg, Gaines's Mill, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Bull Run (second time), Blackman's Ford, the two at Fredericksburg, at Chancellors- ville, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Kelly's Ford, Spottsylvania, Chickahominy, Petersburg, Yellow Farm, Poplar Grove Church, Hatcher's Run, Boydentown Plank Road, Hatcher's Run (second time), Weldon Road, Gravelly Run, Five Forks, and Appomattox Court- house. This list is a testimonial upon which any soldier might look with pride, and can- not, probably, be equalled by more than a few veterans of the late war. At the battle of Mine Run, in 1863, the Colonel was shot in the leg; at the battle of the Wilderness, on May 5, 1864, he was shot through the head
by a minie-ball; and at Boydentown Plank Road he was shot in the breast.
After his discharge Colonel Morrill bought a farm near Hampden. He had run it for a year, when he sold out. Then he opened a variety store in Brownville, which he con- ducted for another year. He then started the Highland Slate Quarry in Brownville, and sold out again at the end of a year, this being in 1868. From 1868 to 1876 he was engaged in speculating, and from 1876 to 1885 he was the landlord of the Exchange Hotel at Dexter, Me. Having sold out the hotel, he came in 1885 to Pittsfield, and bought the livery busi- ness which he manages. Subsequently he disposed of it, but in July, 1896, he bought it back, and has since conducted it successfully. He now owns seventeen horses, including the fine trotting mare, Linnie G., which has made a record of 2.20. He had previously owned at various times the following well- known racing horses: Camorse, marked 2.25 I-4; Surprise, 2.28 1-4; Plumed Knight, 26 3-4; Aroostook Boy, 30 1-2; St. Law- rence, 23 1-4; Berdan, 30 1-2; Ansel W., 26 1-4; Charlie Rolfe, 29 1-4; and Elder Boone, 2.20 1-4. In 1893 he purchased Union Trotting Park, a half-mile track, which he has since greatly improved. He devotes considerable time to the care and manage- ment of this, and intends to keep up its repu- tation as a first-class race track.
Colonel Morrill has been three times mar- ried. The first occasion was in May, 1864, when he wedded Rachel S. Carle, of Hamp- den, Me., daughter of John C. Carle, a sea
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captain. About two years after she died. The second marriage was contracted in June, 1870, with Amanda M. Berry, of Brownville, who died in 1883. The Colonel was mar- ried the third time in 1884 to Jennie W. Col- lins, of Brewer, Me., daughter of Elias B. Collins, a well-known carpenter of that town. By the first marriage there was one son, Fred C., who is now a travelling salesman in the West for R. H. White & Co., of Boston, and the father of two children - Carle and Berry. James B. Morrill, the Colonel's son by his second marriage, is a book-keeper in Sche- nectady, N.Y. Colonel Morrill is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of Dexter; of Me- ridian Lodge, No. 125, F. & A. M., of Pitts- field; of Silver Lake Encampment, I. O. O. F., of Dexter; and of Stephen Davis Post, G. A. R. In April, 1898, the Colonel was presented by Congress with a gold medal of honor, upon which is inscribed, "The Con- gress to Colonel Walter G. Morrill, Twentieth Maine Infantry, for gallantry at Rappahan- nock Station, Va., November 7, 1863."
HARLES FOLSOM-JONES, of Skow- hegan, Me., was born in Holden, Penobscot County, July 30, 1848, the son of Luther and Joanna Weeks (Folsom) Jones. He comes of patriotic Colonial stock, numbering among his ancestors in various lines early settlers in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts and Revolu- tionary soldiers. On his father's side he is of remote Welsh descent.
His paternal grandfather, who bore the name Elisha, was born April 20, 1756, in Cumber- land, R.I. Elisha Jones enlisted in the Continental army, and accompanied Arnold's expedition up the Kennebec until a portion of the command was returned. Later he was in some severe battles, including that of Long Island in August, 1776, when General Sulli- van and Lord Sterling were made prisoners. John Barrows, of Plymouth, Mass., who had a wife, Deborah, and his son Ebenezer, who married Elizabeth Lyon, of Attleboro, who came from Worcester, were ancestors of Elisha Jones. He died in Brewer, Me., July 18, 1808. His wife, Patience Fisher, was born in Walpole, Mass., September 10, 1766. She was a daughter of Isaac Fisher, whose de- scent has been traced through seven genera- tions to her English forefathers, and a grand- daughter of the Rev. Samuel Mann, whose congregation in Wrentham was broken up by the great Indian war. She died December 25, 1836, at the home of one of her sons, the Rev. Elijah Jones, in Minot, Me.
Luther Jones, father of Charles F., resided on a farm near Holden Centre, Me. He was born July 27, 1785, and died on his seventy- first birthday, July 27, 1856, at Holden. He was a stirring farmer and man of affairs, well informed upon the current topics of the day, and was a useful citizen. He was twice mar- ried, first to Lucy Nye, who died December 13, 1842, leaving several children. One son, Captain Elisha Jones, of Brewer, was killed at the first battle of Bull Run in 1861. On February 14, 1845, Luther Jones was married
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to Mrs. Joanna W. F. Stevenson, the widow of James Stevenson. Her parents were Jere- miah and Octavia (Howe) Folsom. Her maiden name was Joanna Weeks Folsom. She was born September 22, 1808, and died at Skowhegan, January 6, 1884. She was first married May 6, 1827, to James Stevenson, who was born February 19, 1803, and died - February 23, 1841, and by whom she had sev- eral children. One of these, a son, William H. Stevenson, has been for some years the publisher of The Central Law Journal of St. Louis, Mo. Charles F. was the only child born of this second union.
Through his mother Charles Folsom-Jones is a descendant in the eighth generation of John and Mary (Gilman) Folsom, who came from England in 1638, resided for some years at Hingham, Mass., and thence removed to Exeter, N.H. From them the line was con- tinued through Deacon John,2 who married Abigail Perkins, daughter of Abraham Per- kins, of Hampton, N. H. ;- Jeremiah, 3 who with his wife, Elizabeth, settled south of New Market village, N.H .; Jeremiah, Jr., 4 who was born in New Market, N. H., July 25, 1719; Levi, 5 born in 1753, who married Joanna Weeks; to Jeremiah,6 the father of Jo- anna Weeks Folsom, who became the wife of Luther Jones.
Jeremiah Folsom, Jr., great-grandfather of Mrs. Jones, "was a ship-builder, a civil officer of importance, a Captain in 1775; and as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1776 petitions for his removal, without reasons, were presented owing to dissensions among the officers, prob-
ably younger men. Some of the legislature tried in vain to reconcile the parties. He re- fused to resign or to meet them, and was dis- missed, and no charges recorded. (See Pro- vincial Papers (N.H.), vol. vii .; also vol. viii, State Papers.) He was a man not easily moved when he had a fixed opinion, a follower of Whiteficld, zealous in attending worship, and classed among the New Lights, most of whom in the end became Baptists. He was a member of the Fourth Provincial Congress, that met in Exeter in May, 1775." He died in 1802.
Levi Folsom, grandfather of Mrs. Jones, served a while in the Revolutionary army, and afterward received a pension. About two years after marriage he removed to Tamworth, N. H., and he died there June 21, 1844. He had been brought up in easy circumstances, but became poor. His wife, Joanna, was a daughter of Colonel John and Martha (Win- gate) Weeks. She was fond of books and reading, and devoted no little time and thought to the education of her children. Her father was a physician. He was a son of Captain Joshua and Comfort (Hubbard) Weeks and grandson of Leonard Weeks, who settled at what is now Greenland, N. H.
Jeremiah Folsom 6 was born September 16, 1780, and died in Skowhegan (then Bloom- field), December 14, 1859. He married April 4, 1805, Octavia Howe, who was born October 12, 1786, and died in Skowhegan, September 6, 1872. Her mother's maiden name was Puffer. Two of her brothers were captured by the Indians. The blue-eyed one
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they killed. The black-eyed one was held prisoner for years, and finally redeemed. The Puffer and Howe families were also active in Colonial and Revolutionary times.
Jeremiah and Octavia (Howe) Folsom had ten children. One of their sons, the brothers of Mrs. Jones, was Levi H. Folsom, who was a prominent citizen of Skowhegan and Bloom- field in his day, a farmer, a lumberman, and for years a Selectman of the town, whom he represented in the legislature. Another was W. H. C. Folsom, who went to Minnesota, where he was an extensive lumberman. He was the author of "Fifty Years in the North- west." (The Folsom and Weeks Genealogies have been published by the Rev. Jacob Chap- man, one of the family living at Exeter, N. H.)
Charles Folsom-Jones was nine years old when, the year after his father's death, his mother removed from Bangor to Skowhegan, the home of many members of her family. His education was begun in the public schools, where he was in advance of his fel- low-pupils of the same age. His studies were completed at Bloomfield Academy.
He joined the volunteer defenders of the Union in 1864, before he was sixteen years of age, and carried a musket in the Army of the Potomac, taking part in General Grant's cam- paigns in Virginia, from the Wilderness to the siege of Petersburg, until he was discharged in 1865. On the day after his return home he entered the insurance business as a clerk for Tilson H. Dinsmore and Manley W. Turner, who had reserved the position for
him. In 1880 he started in the business for himself, and he has since carried it on very successfully. As an expert accountant he has had something to do with the affairs of differ- ent corporations and individuals.
With the exception of short stays in the West and a residence in his youth of about a year among relatives in Minnesota, he has re- sided in Skowhegan over forty years, becom- ing identified with the town's interests and proud of its progressiveness and prosperity. He served as librarian of the public library for some thirteen years, longer than any pre- vious incumbent. He was commissioned a Notary Public before his majority, and later a Justice of the Peace and Quorum. The prosecution of soldiers' claims as attorney and the negotiation of mortgages have also occu- pied his time. He has assisted largely in naming and numbering streets, and the street map of Skowhegan was published by him. In the Grand Army of the Republic he has filled many offices, including that of Assistant Ad- jutant-general of the Department of Maine in 1892, when the organization turned out in its largest force at the National Encampment at Washington. He is also a member of the Union Veterans' Union, Somerset Lodge, F. & A. Masons; and of the Sons of the American Revolution. Three ancestors at least served in the Revolutionary War.
Mr. Jones has been married twice. His first wife was Myra Drummond Jordan, of Brunswick, born in Casco, Me., whom he married July 31, 1867. Fond of literary pur- suits, she was connected with him in the pub-
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lic library, and was the first secretary of the Woman's Club of Skowhegan. Her mother was a Woodman. Mrs. Myra D. J. Jones died January 9, 1885, much beloved by her friends and associates. He married February 3, 1886, for his second wife, Lillie Rock- efeller, of New York State, who was born May 1, 1864, and was the widow of Hardy Ropes Sewall and the mother of one child, a daughter named Pearl, born July 16, 1883. By the second marriage are two children - Roy Rockefeller Jones, born February 4, 1887, and Otto Rockefeller Jones, born April II, 1892. The family are all now living, in 1898, at "The Terraces," their beautiful home on Middle Road, a picture of which can be found among the views in the album of Skowhegan, Me.
HE M. G. SHAW LUMBER COM- PANY, of Greenville, is one of the prominent enterprises of Piscataquis County. It was originated and placed on a firm finan- cial footing by Milton G. Shaw, of Bath, who is president of the company; and it is man- aged by himself and his three sons - Charles D., Albert H., and William M. Albert H. Shaw is the treasurer of the company, and Charles D. Shaw is the assistant treasurer.
Milton G. Shaw was born in the town of Industry, Franklin County, Me., December 31, 1820. In 1845 he came to Greenville to engage in the lumber business, and for some time he was in the hotel business in com- pany with Mr. Josiah Hinckley. After that
Mr. Shaw was in lumbering, and, first found- ing the firm long known as M. G. Shaw & Sons, eventually developed the flourishing concern which bears the name of the M. G. Shaw Lumber Company, and was incorporated as such in 1897. His sons are all able busi- ness men. The lumber company of which they are members owns large tracts of timber land in the State of Maine. The lumber is manufactured in Bath, and the headquarters of the company are in Greenville. Milton G. Shaw is the president of the Coburn Steamboat Company of Moosehead Lake, of which his son, Charles D., is a director. In the fifty years of his residence in Greenville he did much toward the upbuilding of the town. Shaw's Block is one of the handsomest business structures in the village of Green- ville. While making a name in financial cir- cles, Mr. Shaw was also active in politics. He held many town offices, and represented the district in the legislature in 1859.
Mr. Milton G. Shaw is now living in Bath, Me. He was married on June 6, 1847, to Eunice S. Hinckley, who was born January 6, 1824, and died June 1, 1896. She is sur- vived by four children; namely, Charles D., Albert H., William M., and Mary E. Mel- len Shaw, an older son than either of the above named, was born May 27, 1849. From 1865 to 1871 he engaged in the lumber busi- ness with outside parties. He then became one of the firm of Shaw Brothers, consisting of Milton G., Mellen, and Charles D. Shaw, and continued in business until his death, which occurred March 3, 1880. His wife,
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