Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Cumberland County, Maine, Part 46

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Publication date: 1896
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Lyman Beecher Chipman, born in Poland,

Me., May 15, 1806, was a farmer by occupa- tion. He was engaged in his calling in Po- land for a few years after his marriage, and then came to Raymond, where he purchased the farm that is now owned by his son. A large part of the land being then covered with timber, he engaged in lumbering extensively, and also found it profitable to manufacture axe handles. He was Selectman of the town for a number of years, and died here, February 18, 1875. His wife, Mary, was born in Poland, March 18, 1808. She survived her husband a little over a year, dying on October 4, 1876. They had six children, as follows : Anna M., born January 23, 1832, who is the widow of Freedom Nash, of the firm of F. & C. B. Nash, and resides in Portland, Mc. ; Dorothy Jane, born January 12, 1835, who is the wife of Benjamin F. Milliken, of Bridgton, Me. ; Susan M., born April 1, 1836, who married H. H. Ricker, and is living in Portland ; Orrin G., born August 2, 1837, who married Miss Mary Jane Mason, of Raymond, and lives in Deering; Daniel H., the subject of this sketch; and Ella Grace, born November 26, 1851, who died September 26, 1853.

Daniel H. Chipman received a good practi- cal education in the common schools of Cum- berland County. He remained with his parents until their death, when he purchased the old homestead, of which he had had charge since his marriage. This place has since been his home, and he has successfully conducted there a general farming business. Besides large quantities of such staple products as hay, grain, vegetables, and fruit, he raises a con- siderable number of cattle, horses, and other stock. He owns about nine hundred acres of land, and is one of the most extensive farmers of Raymond.

On October 2, 1865, he was married to Miss Emma Brown, who was born in Gray, this county, May 6, 1845, daughter of Andrew and Sallie (Russ) Brown. Her father, who was a native of Gray, was profitably engaged in farming in that place until about three years prior to his death, when he removed to Raymond. He died here on March 29, 1883. Mrs. Brown was born in Strong, Me. She survived her husband about a year, and died in Raymond on April 1, 1884. Mr. and Mrs.

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Chipman are the parents of three children, namely : Fred Jackson, born February 24, 1871, who is engaged in the dental business at Portland, is well known as a cornetist, and who married Miss Mattie Manchester, of North Windham, Me .; Guy Wilbur, born July 15, 1880, who is a student at Pennell Institute in Gray, Me. ; and Angie Margaret, born August 1, 1881, who is a good pianist, and lives at home. The three children re- ceived a good education.

Mr. Chipman is a stanch Republican, but has never been an aspirant for office. He is a member of Presumscot Lodge, No. 127, A. F. & A. M., of Windham, Me .; also of Hawthorne Lodge, No. 16, Knights of Pythias, of Raymond. He and Mrs. Chipman are reg- ular attendants of the Universalist church, in the work of which she takes especial interest.

PENCER ROGERS, a prominent contractor and builder of Portland, was born in this city, December 18, 1832, during the second Presiden- tial administration of Andrew Jackson. His parents were Spencer and Emeline (Green)

Rogers. His maternal great-grandfather, Samuel Green, on March 10, 1763, married Jane Gustin, grand-daughter of Jean Gustin. The latter arrived in Falmouth from France in the year 1681, and left the town when it was destroyed the second time by the Indians. He returned in 1716, and died there in 1718. Samuel Green fought for independence in the Revolution. His son, Samuel (second), the grandfather of Spencer Rogers, Jr., was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Margaret Webber, of Harpswell, this county, and died in Portland in 1834.

Spencer Rogers, Sr., a mariner, was born in North Carolina. While serving as mate on board of a vessel, he was probably lost at sea, leaving a widow and two children. The chil- dren were: Mary E. and Spencer. Mary E. Rogers successively married Robert Walker and James Moody, of Standish. The mother, Mrs. Rogers, married for her second husband Dana Runnels, of this city, and had six chil- dren - three sons and three daughters.

Spencer Rogers at the age of thirteen

began to serve an eight years' apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade; but after a period of five years struck out for himself as journey- man, working at ship. joinery, although his specialty was house finishing. In 1860 he began contracting and building, which he has continuously followed ever since. He gives employment to from eight to thirty-eight men, and in the amount of business and the quality of his work he has no rival. Many of the prominent city buildings, including two fire stations, the two principal grammar-school buildings, and the new armory, have been erected by Mr. Rogers. He is a real estate owner, all of his property being self-acquired, and much of it built and improved for himself.

In 1853; when Mr. Rogers first voted, he was a Republican; but, after Horace Greeley became prominent, he joined the Democratic ranks. He is a member of the Democratic City Committee. He has been connected with the Fire Department for twenty years, filling every position within the organization. Mr. Rogers is a member of the Maine State En- graving Company, and also belongs to the Maine Lodge and Eastern Star Encampment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

On Christmas Day, 1856, he married Miss Justina Walden Mansfield, a native of Portland, daughter of Edward Mansfield, an old resident of Portland, who belonged to a family of Salem, Mass. Mrs. Edward Mansfield before marriage was Miss Anna Walden, a sister of Captain Green Walden, of the revenue service.

Of the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, but six are now living, namely : Ed- ward E., who married Miss Hattie Hayes, and is in business with his father; Anna, the wife of Charles B. Haskell, of this city ; Frederick G., who married Miss Gertrude Tucker, and resides in Portland; Mabel, who is Mrs. Charles B. Tucker, of Boston; Mil- dred; and Bessie Rogers. The family attend the Congress Square Church.

Whether serving as contractor and builder, as Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, in the city offices, or in the Odd Fellows Lodge, Mr. Rogers has always had the entire confi- dence and respect of his fellow-townsmen. His push and energy in the business world

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must enhance his enjoyment of his pleasant home at 135 Park Street, where his wife and children are the centre of interest.

SAAC F. QUINBY was born in Fal- mouth, Me., now Westbrook, on May 26, 1818, and has continued a resident of the place, being one of the most highly es- teemed citizens. He has for years been en- gaged in the real estate business. Son of Joseph, Jr., and Eliza (Bailey) Quinby, both formerly of Falmouth, he represents the third generation of his family born in the State of Maine.

His great-grandfather, Benjamin Quinby, was born in America, and with a brother, Joseph, first visited the locality of Falmouth in quest of "King's masts "; that is, he was commissioned by the King of Great Britain to take any tree suitable for a mast for one of the King's vessels, no matter where the tree might be. Being pleased with the country, he settled in Falmouth ; and there his son Joseph, the grandfather of Mr. Isaac F. Quinby, was born. He engaged in farming in Falmouth, and when the trump of war was sounded left his growing harvests for the field of battle, serving as a Colonel in the Continental army, appointed by Washington. He lived to see the new republic firmly established and to cast many votes in the interest of the Whig party. He died in Gray, Cumberland County, in 1806. Joseph Quinby, Sr., married Miss Azuba Partridge, of Falmouth, and reared a large family.

Their son, Joseph Quinby, Jr., was born in Falmouth, Me., in 1791. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, and worked at it for a short time; but in 1807 the Embargo Act caused such an unsettled state of affairs in the country that he could not obtain steady employment in his chosen occupation ; and, purchasing some horses, he engaged in carry- ing merchandise between different points. He travelled as far east as the Provinces and as far west as New York, and was often gone three months at a time. After the War of 1812 he obtained work as a carpenter and joiner in Westbrook and Portland, and fol- lowed his trade up to the time of his death, in

1838. During the War of 1812 Mr. Quinby belonged to the minute-men who held them- selves in readiness to defend Portland in case of an attack. In politics he was a Jefferso- nian Democrat. His wife, Eliza Bailey, who was born in Falmouth in 1792, was a daughter of Joseph Bailey. She died in Falmouth in '1874. Six children were born to them, two of whom are now living - Isaac F., the sub- ject of this sketch; and Martha A., wife of Josiah Knight, of Kingston, N. H.

Isaac F. Quinby received a good common- school education in his native town. He learned the joiner's trade with his father, and after finishing his apprenticeship worked for a year making furniture, at the end of that time resuming the work of his trade, which he followed for about sixteen years. From the time of his majority he had taken an active interest in politics as a Republican, and he was elected Treasurer of Cumberland County . for 1860-61. He gave his whole attention to the duties of this office during the first year of his incumbency ; but in 1861, after the" battle of Bull Run, he advertised his intention of going to war, asking all who were willing to accompany him to call at his office.

As a result he recruited a company of one hundred and three men; and, resigning the treasurership, he enlisted as a private in the Thirteenth Regiment of Maine Volunteers, under Neal Dow, of Portland, who was com- missioned Colonel. Mr. Quinby was enrolled in Company E, and was afterward commis- sioned Captain. The regiment went to For- tress Monroe and was there divided up, Captain Quinby's detachment being assigned to Fort St. Philip, to aid General Butler's expedition against New Orleans. Embarking on the steamer "Mississippi," the brave volunteers had a narrow escape from an inglorious death. Through the carelessness of the Commander, the steamer struck a reef in Frying-pan Shoals, and soon began to fill with water, although the pumps were worked vigorously. Finally, with a piece of a sail over the hole, the steamer was kept above water until the passengers were taken off by another vesse !. At Fort St. Philip Captain Quinby was taken ill with swamp fever, and on his recovery, being too weak for action, returned home. He had en-

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listed for three years, but his sickness reduced his term of service.

When his health was in some degree re- stored, he engaged in the real estate business; and some of the finest residential parts of Westbrook owe their existence to his enter- prise. Purchasing large tracts of land, he has been instrumental in clearing and improving them and covering them with comfortable dwellings. He still retains his interest in politics, and not long since was sent on a special mission to the legislature to prevent the division of Westbrook, which he accom- plished. In 1844 Mr. Quinby was married to Catherine G., daughter of Ephraim Brown, of Parsonsfield, Me. Two children have blessed their union, namely: Mary, wife of Charles Quinby, of Westbrook; and Ellen, wife of Henry H. Hawes, of the same place.

. Mr. Quinby belongs to Temple Lodge, No. 86, A. F. & A. M. He joined the Odd Fellows when about twenty-one years of age; but the Lodge of which he was a member dis- banded for some reason, and he has never become affiliated with another. On the sub- ject of religion he holds liberal views.

EORGE H. GREEN, Chairman of the Board of Selectnien of Otisfield, was born in Otisfield, November 22, 1855, son of John and Elizabeth M. (Knight)

Green. His grandfather, Hezekiah Green, also a native of Otisfield, was a well-to-do farmer. John Green, who was born Septem- ber 20, 1811, also followed the plough. He settled on the farm now owned by his son, which afforded him and his family a comforta- ble living, and died August 18, 1895. His wife, who was born December 4, 1812, laid down the burdens of life June 16, 1886. They wcre the parents of six children, as follows : Edmond M., born August 25, 1844, who died January 8, 1869; Merrill K., born July 20, 1847, who married Belle Holden, of Otisfield, and now lives in Boston, Mass. ; Mary E., born June 4, 1850, the wife of Edwin J. Whit- man, residing now with her husband in Somer- ville, Mass. ; Joseph K. and William C., twins, born September 23, 1852 (the former married Lillian Newton, of Worcester, Mass., and

now lives in that city, and the latter Eliza Ripley, of Oxford County, and lives in Sag Harbor, N. Y.); and George H., the subject of this sketch.

George H. Green received his early educa- tion in the common schools of South Paris, Me. After leaving school, he ably assisted his father in the work of the farm until the death of the latter. Then he took full charge of the "old Green homestead." Both father and son have greatly enhanced the value of the property by substantial improvements. Mr. Green owns one hundred and seventy-five acres of land, and raises a variety of crops, but makes a specialty of hay, potatoes, and small grain. He has a choice dairy, averaging four- teen cows, the staple product being a rich cream. Mr. Green is a well-read man. He taught school in his youth, and his agricultural work is carried out with method and intelli- gence. He is an important member of the Grange at Bolster's Mills.

May 1, 1879, Mr. Green was united in marriage with Miss Lizzie Buck, a native of Harrison, Me., daughter of Henry Buck, a well-to-do farmer of Harrison. Five children have been born of the marriage. These were: Bertha I., Philip K., Charles H., Howard B., and Ellen C. All these children are with their parents, and are receiving the best possi- ble educational advantages.

Mr. Green has been a stanch Republican since he was first qualified to vote. He was elected to the legislature in 1887, and has been a member of the Board of Selectmen five years and Chairman two years. He takes an active interest in educational matters, and has long been a member of the School Com- mittee. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bolster's Mills, Me. They are highly esteemed in the com- munity, and occupy a leading position in Otis- field society.

MMI WHITNEY, senior member of the firm of Kendall & Whitney, one of the oldest and best-known firms of Portland, was born in Cumber- land, Me., February 13, 1833, son of Ammi R. and Hannah (Hall) Whitney. Ammi R.

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Whitney also was a native of Cumberland, where he likewise grew to maturity. He moved to Falmouth in 1833, and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death, December 14, 1851. His wife, who was a daughter of Robert Hall, one of the early farmers of Cumberland, died August 2, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney were members of the Baptist church. They reared the fol- lowing children: Robert H., a farmer now living on the homestead at Falmouth, formerly a member of the well-known firm Grenville, Griswold, Whitney & Co. of Boston, now Whitney & Clough ; Ammi, whose name heads this article®; James H., a farmer in Falmouth ; Ervin T., in business at the Suffolk Market, Boston; Susan P. Curtis (deceased), who was the wife of Gorham R., a farmer in Falmouth ; and Mary E., wife of K. Watts, of Falmouth.

Ammi Whitney was an infant of six weeks when his parents removed to Falmouth. He remained on the farm until twenty years of age, in the mean time acquiring a fair education in the common schools of the town. He then went to Boston and entered the employ of the old firm of Parker & White, dealers in seeds and other agricultural goods. He spent nearly six years in this employment, returning to Portland in 1858, and forming a partnership with Hosea Kendall in the same kind of busi-

ness. The firm bought the remains of the old agricultural warehouse of James E. Robinson, which had been in the receiver's hands, and first opened a place of business under the old City Hall, occupying two stores. Their trade increased to such an extent that within a short time they were using all the space under the City Hall, comprising five stores. In 1888 Mr. Whitney erected a brick block at the corner of Temple and Federal Street, one hun- dred and thirty-seven feet by one hundred, and three stories higli. Of this block the firm now uses a part of the ground floor, measuring seventy-five feet by one hundred, and all the rooms above. Established in 1858, the firm of Kendall & Whitney is one of the oldest and most reliable in Portland, and has the most extensive business of the kind east of Boston. For the past twenty-five years Mr. Whitney has also owned and operated a large plant for the manufacture of tubs and woodenware at

"Duck Pond," Westbrook, which gives con- stant employment to fifty men. He is a Director of the Casco Bank, one of the most solid financial institutions of Portland; a Trustee of the Old Men's Home; Vice-Presi- dent of the Governing Board of the Eye and Ear Infirmary, in which he has been actively interested since its establishunent ; and an ex- tensive owner of real estate, both business and residential. Essentially a self-made man, he has attained prosperity by the exercise of natural business talent, a conservative judg- ment, and a scrupulous probity in business as well as in all other relations.

On October 10, 1860, Mr. Whitney was united in marriage with Emily S., daughter of Samuel Haskell, one of the leading hotel men of early Portland. Mr. Haskell was the proprietor of the Elm House, which formerly stood on the site of the present store of Ken- dall & Whitney, and in which Mrs. Whitney was born. He was afterward host of the American House. Toward the close of his life he retired from business, and died at Cape Elizabeth. Five children blessed thic union of Mr. and Mrs. Whitney. They were : Alice P. ; Kate D. ; Samuel H., now in busi- ness with his father; Joseph W; and Emma H., who died in infancy.

Politically, Mr. Whitney favors the Demo- cratic party. He attends the Unitarian church. His home, one of the handsomest residences in the city, built by him in 1878, is situated at the corner of Neal and Spring Streets.

RANVILLE A. CUSHMAN, a well- to-do agriculturist of North Bridg- ton, this county, was born July 16, 1821, in the village where he now resides. His father, George W. Cushman, was a native of Massachusetts, coming to Cumberland County when a young man. He was a shoe- maker by trade, and made that his chief occu- pation throughout his life. Of his union with Miss Phœbe Warren ten children were born - Hiram, Mary O., Catherine W., George W., Elkanah A., Granville A., Phoebe, Sarah, Matilda, and a daughter that died in infancy. Granville A. Cushman spent the years of

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his boyhood and early manhood in this village, acquiring the rudiments of his education in the district school, this having since been largely supplemented by extensive reading. On reaching man's estate, he left home, enter- ing a furniture factory, where he was employed for the next nine years. Going then to Worcester, Mass., he worked at the carpenter's trade two and one-half years, afterward estab- lishing himself in business at Orneville, this State, where he was engaged in the manufact- ure of furniture for over five years. Mr. Cush- man then began the manufacture of excelsior, which he continued for nine years. Returning in 1880 to his early home, he here purchased one hundred and thirty acres of land, located near the Highlands, and has since been prosper- ously engaged in general agriculture, having his home, however, in the village. Mr. Cush- man is highly esteemed throughout this com- munity, his practical interest in everything pertaining to the public weal having materially aided in advancing its prosperity. Politi- cally, he is a sound Republican, and was four years Selectman - in 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1889. He served also in the same capacity and for the same length of time while a resi- dent of Orneville. For some years Mr. Cush- man's father and brother were Trustees of the North Bridgton Academy.

Mr. Cushman was united in marriage, in 1849, with Miss Mary K. Webb, and their happy wedded life has been hallowed by the birth of seven children - Frank A. ; Ida W. ; Clara W. ; Albert C .; Charles G. ; Kate; and Frederick F. - the last named being no longer living.

EWIS W. MOULTON, a progressive agriculturist of Standish, Cumberland County, residing at Sebago Lake, was born in this town, February 28, 1852. He is a son of the late Ebenezer Moul- ton, and is the direct descendant of an early settler of New England, being eight genera- tions removed from the emigrant ancestor, John Moulton, who was a native of England, born in 1599.

Coming to America in the seventeenth cen- tury, John Moulton located in Hampton,

N. H., being one of those to whom the grant of the town was made in 1638. He was one of the foremost men of the new settlement, and was chosen its first Deputy, or Represent- ative, in 1639, to the General Court in Boston. He died between January 23, 1649, and Octo- ber 1, 1650, leaving a widow, Anne, who died April 12, 1668, aged sixty-nine years. They were the parents of seven children, Henry, the succeeding ancestor, being the first-born.

Henry Moulton was married November 20, 1651, to Sobriety Hilton, a daughter of Ed- ward Hilton, of Dover; and, of the six chil- dren born to them, Josiah, the next in line of descent, was the third in order. He was born April 26, 1662, and was twice married. His first wife died leaving one child. His second wife, Elizabeth Worthington, bore him eight children, Worthington, progenitor of Lewis, being the youngest son. He also was twice married. Ilis first wife, with whom he was united on October 9, 1735, was Abigail, daughter of Corporal Jonathan Moulton. She

bore him two children. After her death he married March 8, 1739, Abigail, daughter of Peter Garland; and their only child, Peter Moulton, was baptized June 14, 1742.

Peter Moulton married Joanna Shaw; and of the ten children born of their union Simon, grandfather of Lewis, was the eldest. Simon Moulton, born April 15. 1766, first married Abigail Plaisted, who was born November 4, 1768, and by whom he had nine children. Of his union with Elizabeth Walker there were no children.

Ebenezer Moulton, a native of Standish, son of Simon and Abigail P. Moulton, was born June 21, 1803. His principal occupa- tion through life was farming, although he was a mechanical genius, and in early life worked at carpentering and masonry, and also wrought somewhat at the cooper's trade. In 1850 he was engaged in mercantile business at Sebago Lake, continuing until 1855, when his store was burned. For several years thereafter he carried on the lumber business at the same place in company with Josiah Moulton, Henry M. Chadbourne, and T. M. Bradbury. The last years of his life he spent on his farm in the place of his nativity, dying

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here, September 27, 1885. He was one of the leading men of the town, serving as Selectman many years and representing his fellow-citi- zens in the State legislature, being elected on the Democratic ticket, which he uniformly supported. He married Elizabeth D., daugh- ter of Benjamin Blake, of Limington, Me. ; and their family circle consisted of five chil- dren, the following being a brief mention of the four elder: Elizabeth, born January 27, 1832, has been twice married, her first hus- band having been Justis Cannell, and her second Daniel Ward, of Standish ; John P., born December 11, 1833, married Sarah Ward, and died in 1886, leaving two children - Addie and Gilbert; Simon, born April 27, 1837, married Frankie J. Lewis, and had three children ; Lydia, born September 24, 1847, is the wife of George W. Ward, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and has three children.

Lewis W., the youngest child of Ebenezer and Elizabeth D. Moulton, finished his educa- tion at the Westbrook Seminary, and after- ward was engaged for eight or ten years in teaching during the fall and winter terms in the schools of Gorham and Standish. He was employed for a year as a clerk for Jordan, Marsh & Co. in Boston. Returning then to Standish, Mr. Moulton was appointed in 1884 a railway mail clerk, running from Bangor to Boston, being afterward promoted to the office of chief clerk of the railway mail service, with headquarters at Portland. A year later he went to Dakota, where he remained a year as book-keeper for G. W. Ward, a con- tractor and builder, in 1890 returning to the parental homestead, which he has since suc- cessfully managed.

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Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Cumberland County, Maine, Part 46

Author: Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Boston : Biographical Review Publishing Company Number of Pages: 722

Author:
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Boston : Biographical Review Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 722