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Benjamin Weathern died March 12, 1834, leaving a memory honored by all. His wife, formerly Susanna Blackstone, who was born in 1760, died in 1837, surviving him four years. Their one son, Benjamin, Jr., was born September 4, 1791, and was his father's successor. He enlarged the boundaries of the farm, and put up more buildings; and, after the burning of the barn in 1818, he built a new one. On November 1, 1818, he married Susan, daughter of Eliphalet and Jane (Plum- mer) Reed. Mrs. Weathern was born in 1797, and died in 1882. Benjamin Weathern, Jr., died in 1846, after a long and useful
career. He and his wife were the parents of nine children - Joel, born March 30, 1820; William H., born January 12, 1823; Eliph- alet R., born March II, 1825, now residing on the old homestead, who married Augusta A. Tufts, and is the father of three children - Benjamin F., Harrison P. T., and Jennie A. ; Benjamin F., born May 30, 1827; Susan Jane, Mrs. Craig, born April 11, 1831; George D. and a twin infant, born October 28, 1833; S. Augusta, born July 6, 1835; and Moses L., born February 9, 1840.
Mrs. Susan Weathern Craig is a woman of influence in this community, where for many generations her own name, as well as that of her late husband, has been widely known and uniformly respected.
RED F. BARTLETT, the leading jeweller of Rumford Falls, Oxford County, was born in this town, Febru- ary 12, 1852, son of Jonathan A. and Harriet Bartlett, both natives of Rumford Centre.
Jonathan A. Bartlett has spent his entire life in this town, engaged in portrait-painting and farming. He is now seventy-nine years of age, and is living on a farm near the centre of the town, where he has made his home dur- ing the past fifty years. Mrs. Bartlett died at the age of seventy-five. She was a kind friend and obliging neighbor.
Fred F. Bartlett was educated in the com- mon schools of his native town. He remained on the home farm until he was twenty years of age. He then began to learn the jeweller's trade in Lewiston, Me., and he subsequently
filled a responsible position in a large jewelry store in Boston for two years. In 1892 he opened a jewelry store in Rumford Falls, the first of the kind in the place, which now has a prosperous and growing business. He is es- sentially a self-made man, his success being attained by his own unaided efforts. He does not "believe in failure." He says, "With good health and plenty of push, almost any one can make a success of life." He is now tak- ing a course in an optical college, and will soon have "Doctor " prefixed to his name. At present he is a busy student, and is never without a book on some scientific work. A large collection of such works is among his most valued possessions. He believes the field of effort and the possibilities of achieve- ment are boundless.
Mr. Bartlett was married in 1879 to Miss Edna F. Thomas, of East Rumford, Me., who died in 1882, leaving one son, Fred F. In 1888 he entered a second marriage, contracted with Miss Sadie Warhurst, of Lewiston, Me. Mrs. Bartlett is gifted with a voice of rare compass and purity, and sings a great deal in public. She is organist of the Methodist Episcopal church, being at the same time a member of the society. Her union with Mr. Bartlett has been blessed with one child, Anna M., a beautiful girl, who took the first premium contested for by eight hundred chil- dren at the Lactated Food competition, the selection being made from portraits sent to the Food Company. Mr. Bartlett has been affiliated with the Masonic order for twenty- three years, belonging to Blazing Star Lodge, No. 30, of Rumford Falls. He is also a member of Pennacook Lodge, No. 130, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of the same place; of the Good Templars, the Foresters, and the Order of the Golden Cross.
ATHANIEL BUTLER BEAL, the leading business man of Phillips, and one of the best financiers of Frank- lin County, was born in Sanford, Me., March 7, 1828, eldest child of Sheldon Hobbs Beal and Tabatha (Butler) Beal. When about three years of age his parents purchased in the town of Avon one hundred
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and sixty acres of land for a farm, on what is now known as the "Mile Square." Here the family moved with their two children, Na- thaniel and Wilson, and built for themselves a home.
The primeval forest was in time converted into productive acres, and the rocky hillsides into pasture lands. When Nathaniel was a lad of but ten years he visited a neighboring farmer, some four miles distant, and was given the apple pomace left from making cider. This pomace he took home in a sack, slung over his back, carrying it through the woods to his home, where he sowed the seed thus obtained, and started an apple orchard, which in after years proved very productive and valuable.
At the age of twelve Nathaniel went to work for a neighbor, John Wilbur, taking the entire charge of his farm, and for a year performed the work of a man. His education was ob- tained in the country schools, which he at- tended winters, arising at four o'clock in the morning, and doing the chores around the house and barn, before walking a mile through bleak winds and deep snow to attend school. For recreation and amusement an occasional attendance at a "muster," a paring-bee, a husking, or a barn-raising, sufficed in those days. Upon one occasion, while attending a raising in which the whole neighborhood was present, including the parson, the ardent spirits were freely imbibed by the crowd, both old and young, except young Nathaniel, who stoutly refused to partake, preferring rather the criticism of his companions. This trait of total abstinence, unusual at that early day, has remained a prominent feature of his char- acter, he having never partaken of tobacco or liquor in any form.
When about nineteen years of age he went to work for Deacon Orren Robbins, of Phillips village, where he preformed the duties of miller in the custom grist-mill. When twenty-one years old he was married to Miss Mary Robbins, daughter of Deacon Orren Robbins, his employer, and he soon started in business for himself in the village of Phillips as a trader in general merchandise. His busi- ness was a prosperous one, and for several years he continued as a merchant, but failing
health finally compelled him to seek a less sedentary occupation, and one giving better opportunities of open-air exercise. He ac- cordingly went into the cattle business, be- coming a drover; and during the Civil War, and for many years afterward, he helped to supply the Boston market with beef.
The Phillips Savings Bank and the Union National Bank of Phillips owe their exist- ence to Mr. Beal's energy and enterprise. In '1875 he became the President of the Union National Bank of Phillips, and so re- mained until its charter expired in 1895, mak- ing a record unsurpassed by any, and equalled but by few, the bank during all those years having lost but sixty-five dollars. One year before the expiration of the charter of the Union National Bank, a new bank, known as the Phillips National Bank, was organized, and Mr. Beal was made its first President in 1894, which office he still holds. He was also for many years one of the Directors of the Savings Bank of Phillips.
In 1879 he was one of the builders of the Sandy River Railroad, and one of its first Presidents, which position he held until 1892. During the latter part of this period he was also its superintendent as well as its Presi- dent. In the discouraging work of raising extra funds for the building of the road and placing of the bonds, it was Mr. Beal who led the way to a successful conclusion, and the unprecedented prosperity of the road is due chiefly to him. Before the Civil War he was one of the leading town officers, serving not only as County Deputy Sheriff, but as First Selectman, and as such continuing most of the time for thirty years. He has paid more money in taxes than any other past or present resident of Phillips. He was twice drafted in the Civil War, but was unable to pass a satis- factory physical examination, being thus de- barred from serving his country in the great struggle for the preservation of the Union.
In politics he was always a Democrat, a Pro- tectionist, and a sound money man, a leader of his party in the northern part of Franklin County. He was twice nominated as Repre- sentative to the legislature, and once as Sena- tor and Judge; but, though he ran far ahead of his ticket, the district being strongly Repub-
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lican, he was defeated. At one time, during the days of the Greenback party, three of the brothers were nominated from the same dis- trict on as many tickets, Nathaniel being the Democratic nominee, Wilson the Republican nominee, and Bradford the Greenback nomi- nee. The second brother, Wilson, received the election. In religious opinions he is in sympathy with the Universalists, although a constant attendant at the Union church, and one of the strongest supporters of the Free Will Baptist church, whose chorister he has been for many years, and in the choir of which he has sung for more than forty years.
A thoroughly self-made man, progressive in his ideas, kind and generous to the poor, ever ready to help in any good cause, eager to pro- mote the public welfare, and strictly temper- ate, he is honored and respected by all.
Mr. and Mrs. Beal are to-day living in the house they were married in, the one he pur- chased of Deacon Orren Robbins, his father- in-law, and which has never been owned out- side the family. This home has since been as thoroughly modernized as could be done by preserving some of its original features. There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Beal three children - Fred Marshall, who died when an infant; Minnie Geneva, born May 20, 1858, married June 28, 1880, to J. Wat- son Smith, now a resident of St. Paul, Minn., has two children - Harold Beal and Mary Nathalie; and Fred Nathaniel, born April 14, 1860, the present superintendent of the Sandy River Railroad, who resides in Phillips, married March I, 1885, Ella Esther Harvey, who died June 15, 1893, and their children were: a son who died in infancy, Hermia, and Ella Esther.
Mr. Beal is a descendant of some of the earliest settlers of Massachusetts and Maine, and can trace his ancestors back through an unbroken line to the time of William the Conqueror.
He is a grandson on the maternal side of Nathaniel Butler, who served in the Revolu- tionary War when a mere boy, a great-grand- son of Thomas Butler, an officer who served in the Revolutionary War in Captain Ebenezer Sullivan's company, stationed at Cambridge and vicinity in 1775 in Colonel Scammon's
Regiment, a great-great-grandson of Moses Butler, of Berwick, who in 1740 was Captain of a company, and in 1744 recruited a com- pany, which was the Seventh Company of the First Massachusetts Regiment, which he commanded during the remarkable siege and capture of Louisburg, July 4, 1745. He was also at the siege of Quebec, 1754.
Mr. Beal is the sixth descendant of Thomas Butler, who settled in Berwick, Me., about 1690, and who was the fourth son of the ninth Duke of Ormond. The Dukes of Ormond were created under Edward III. of England, and placed over the County Palatine of Or- mond, Tipperary, Ireland. They were sent from England to Ireland by Henry II. of Eng- land, I.172; were also stationed there under King John. They originally came to Eng- land with William the Conqueror, from Glan- ville, near Caen, France. (See "American Family Genealogy," page 31 ; also "Thomas Butler and Descendants," pages 20, 21; also volume for 1848, N. E. G. and A. R., page 355.) Mr. Beal, through his grandmother, Mercy Wentworth Butler, is the eighth de- scendant of Elder William Wentworth, who came from Alford, Lincoln County, England, to Exeter, New Hampshire, 1639. Elder William Wentworth, the emigrant, was the twenty-first descendant of Reginald Went- worth, who was the proprietor of the lord- ship of Wentworth, of Strafford, in the west of Yorkshire, in the parish of Wath-upon- Dearn, nine miles from Sheffield and thirteen miles from Doncaster, and who was living there when William the Conqueror came to England, 1066.
Mr. Beal is also a descendant of Sheldon Hobbs, who marched from Kittery when a mere lad, in Captain Robert Ford's Company, November 5, 1775, and served during the Rev- olutionary War, and later was on the Commit- tee of Safety in the War of 1812. Sheldon Hobbs was son of Thomas Hobbs, Jr., and Mary (Abbott) Hobbs. Thomas Hobbs was also a soldier of the Revolutionary War. a town officer of Berwick for many years, and an extensive land-owner. He was son of Thomas Hobbs, of Dover, who later moved to Berwick, and Elizabeth Morrell Hobbs.
Tabatha Butler, wife of Sheldon Hobbs
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Beal, was the ninth child of Nathaniel and Tabatha (Joy) Butler. She was born Decem- ber 19, 1810, in Sanford, Me. Her parents were married February 3, 1791. Her father, Nathaniel Butler, was born July 5, 1762, and died November 25, 1841. He was son of Thomas Butler and Bridget (Gerrish) Butler, and was a merchant in Sanford, Me.
Thomas Butler was born in Berwick, May 27, 1733. He married March 10, 1757, Brid- get Gerrish. He was a soldier and officer in the Revolutionary War, as was also his son Nathaniel.
Thomas Butler was the third son of Moses and Mercy Wentworth Butler.
Moses Butler was born in South Berwick, July 13, 1702, and married Mercy Wentworth, of Dover, N.H. He was second son of Thomas and Elizabeth Butler, of Berwick, Me., the emigrant who came to Berwick about 1690, and who was born in the year 1674 in Ireland. He was a fine scholar, and, being the only one in Berwick who had a good knowledge of Latin, he was appointed by the town as teacher. He was elected to office more than thirty-five times during his life. He was possessed of ample means, owned much land, and was owner in the mill in Quamphegan. He was a descendant of the ninth Duke of Ormond of Ireland.
Mrs. Mary (Robbins) Beal, wife of Na- thaniel Butler Beal, is also a descendant of some of the earliest settlers of New England. Her mother, Mrs. Mary (Huntoon) Robbins, who is now living and in her eighty-sixth year, is a grand-daughter of Jonathan Huntoon, of Wiscassett, Me., who was born in Kings- ton, N.H., 1756, and who married Hannah Chase, of Edgecomb, Me., July 8, 1781.
He served all through the Revolutionary War, entering the service from New Castle. He died in Wiscassett, October 16, 1833. He was the son of Samuel and Hannah (Ladd) Huntoon. His father, Samuel Huntoon, was born in Kingston, June 18, 1718, and died at Nottingham, N. H., May, 1796. Samuel mar- ried May 26, 1742, Hannah Ladd, daughter of Daniel and Mehitable (Philbrick) Ladd. Samuel Huntoon was a soldier in Captain Bullard's Company, Colonel James Frey's Regiment in 1775. He was a son of John and
Mary (Rundlet) Huntoon, who were married about 1716, and the former of whom died De- cember 8, 1778. John Huntoon was a son of Philip Huntoon, the emigrant, who married Betsey Hall, of Exeter, N.H., in the year 1687. He was born about 1660, and died in Kingston May 10, 1752.
Mrs. Beal is also a grand-daughter of Polly (Pelton) Huntoon, whose father, Joel Pelton, was born November 5, 1753, in Somers, Conn. He entered the Revolutionary War at its com- mencement, and served until its close. He was in Captain Clark's Company, in Colonel Obediah Johnson's Regiment of Militia from Connecticut, was also in Captain Brigham's Company, in the Fifth Regiment Connecticut line, under Colonel Isaac Sherman. He was
one of the body guard of General Washington, spent the winter at Valley Forge, and was present at the surrender of Yorktown. Hc married Anna Cotter, daughter of Timothy Cotter, of Whitefield, Me., in 1791, and died March 7, 1856, in Madrid, Me., aged one hun- dred and three years. He was descended from John Pelton, the emigrant, who came from England to Boston in 1630.
Mrs. Beal is also a grand-daughter of Mehit- able (Ladd) Robbins, who was descended from Daniel Ladd, the emigrant, who came from London on the ship "Mary and John," Janu- ary 30, 1633, and settled first in Ipswich, Mass., and later was one of the twelve original founders of Haverhill, Mass. The Ladds can be traced to the earls of Ladd in Norway, A.D. 861. (See Chase's "History of Haver- hill.") They married into the royal families of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. One of them married Estrith, daughter of King Sweyn, of Denmark, and came with his brother-in-law, the Danish King Canute, to England, and there settled in Kent County. (See "Pelton Genealogy," "Wentworth Gen- ealogy," "Ladd Family," "Thomas Butler and His Descendants, " "Huntoon Genealogy," Keary's "History of Norway and the Norwe- gians," etc.)
Sheldon Hobbs Beal, eldest son of Ben- jamin and Olive (Hobbs) Beal, was born in Sanford, Me., January 13, 1808. His carly years were spent in Sanford, where he received his education. He married Tabatha Butler,
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daughter of Nathaniel and Tabatha (Joy) Butler, in 1827; and about 1832, with his wife and two young sons, he moved to North Franklin County, and purchased of the town of Avon one hundred and sixty acres of land in that part of Avon known as the "Mile Square." Here he built a home, and began farming, experiencing all the hardships and trials commonly endured by pioneer farmers in those days. Seven other children were born to them in this new home, four sons and three daughters.
The names of their children were as follows : Nathaniel Butler, the special subject of this sketch; Wilson Colcord, born in Sanford, Me., May 8, 1830; Horace, born in Avon, Me., March 13, 1882; Lewis, born in Avon, June 13, 1834; Bradford, born in Avon, Au- gust 4, 1836; Sheldon Hobbs, Jr., born in Avon, July 12, 1839, died June 17, 1864; Lura, born in Avon, January 5, 1842 ; Velora, born in Avon, November 8, 1849; Eldora, born in Avon, July 9, 1851.
Mr. Beal was a hard working, honest farmer, and by careful management, industry, and thrift, with the aid of his sturdy sons, he was able to amass a considerable fortune. On April 24, 1855, his wife died, and November 16, 1856, he married Anna Winship, of Phil- lips, Me., by whom he had four children, one son and three daughters, namely: an infant daughter, born February 14, 1858, died in February, 1858; Benjamin Franklin, born June 21, 1859; Albana Monteze, born Au- gust 23, 1861 ; Eulalia, born August 6, 1863, died May 17, 1889. Mr. Beal died in Avon, Me., January 10, 1875.
Benjamin Beal, oldest child of Zebulon and Lucy (Boston) Beal, was born in Sanford, Au- gust 16, 1783.
He was educated in Sanford, and lived there all his life. August 16, 1807, he was married to Olive Hobbs, born April 28, 1788, daughter of Sheldon and Ruth (Stilling) Hobbs, of Sanford, formerly of Berwick. Benjamin Beal was a farmer and brick mason by trade. He served in the War of 1812. There were born to Benjamin and Olive Beal six children, four sons and two daughters. He died in Sanford, Me., February 6, 1866, and his wife, July 21, 1858. Their children
were: Sheldon Hobbs, Susan P., Harrison, Theodate, Horace, and Benjamin.
Zebulon Beal was born in Old York, Me., July 29, 1754. He married Lucy Boston, Oc- tober 20, 1781. From Old York he moved to Sanford, where he purchased land, and be- came a farmer. He had four children, three sons and one daughter - Benjamin, Thomas, Woodman, and Olive. Zebulon died in San- ford, January 26, 1843, aged eighty-eight ; Lucy, his wife, who was born July 4, 1760, died November 27, 1841, aged eighty -one years.
APTAIN PETER PARKER TUFTS, Town Treasurer of Farmington, Me., was born in this town on March 28, 1812, son of Francis, Jr., and Mary (Parker) Tufts. He is a grandson of Francis Tufts, Sr., and Sarah (Blunt) Tufts, and is of the sixth generation in descent from Peter Tufts, who was born in England in 1617, and emigrated to Massachusetts in the year 1638 or thereabouts. Peter Tufts married Mary Pierce; and their son John, who married Mary Putnam, was the father of Benjamin Tufts, the third in the line of descent.
Francis Tufts, Sr., son of Benjamin and Hannah (Turner) Tufts, was born in Medford, Mass., on July 21, 1744. In 1775 he moved to Nobleboro, Me., with a few of his neigh- bors, and five years later he came to Farming- ton, travelling through the woods by means of a compass part of the way, and following faint trails. Here he bought lot No. 45 on the east side of the Sandy River, in what was then called Sandy River Township, and settled down to the long and arduous labor of clearing the land and planting crops. In 1783, three years after he had himself arrived there, he removed his family from Damariscotta, the journey taking four days to accomplish. His children he brought in panniers or baskets on horseback. Several years later he went to Boston in company with Samuel Butterfield. and negotiated for the purchase of the township.
He built about this time a saw-mill, the first mill in the place, and later sawed out the timber to construct for himself a new frame dwelling-house, which was one of the first
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erected in the town. This was built in 1791. In the year 18to this progressive farmer estab- lished a small brick-yard on his premises, and went to work and built a brick mansion to live in, very naturally also one of the first of its kind in the town. He was during the latter portion of his life a lay preacher, and went about the country expounding the word. On one of his trips he came across a negro slave, of pure African blood, named Cæsar, and Mrs. Barus, his owner, gave him to Mr. Tufts. Mr. Tufts took him away when he went home, and kept him the remainder of his life. He was the only negro in Farmington at that time. Francis Tufts, Sr., was one of the ruling Elders of the Free Will Baptist church, and was universally liked and respected. He reared nine children, to whom he left the heritage of an honored name.
His son, Francis, Jr., the father of Captain Tufts, was born in Medford, Mass., on May 5, 1769. At the age of twenty-two he decided to settle down on a farm for himself, so he bought of Isaac Teague, river lot No. 37, east side. The farm's first owner, Eli Brain- ard, had started to clear it, and had built on it a log house, which afterward burned down, and Mr. Teague had built another. Francis Tufts, Jr., was a well-known citizen of Farm- ington. Inheriting from his father a progres- sive spirit and strong will, he achieved suc- cess in his - line of effort. He died in very good circumstances in 1825, on the 20th of January. His wife, Mary Parker, born in Dunstable, Mass., December 12, 1771, died on the 5th of April, 1851. Their children were: Mary ; Sarah; Francis, who died quite young ; another Francis, who was born after- ward and lived; and Peter Parker, the subject of this sketch.
Peter Parker Tufts was but twelve years old when he lost his father. He received a lim- ited education in the district school, taking care to improve every opportunity that offered itself to him. When he was twenty years old he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the State militia, and the next year he was promoted to the Captaincy of a company. He received an honorable discharge when he was twenty-five. For some years he and his brother Francis carried on the old home farm together, their
father having willed the property to them, making a certain legacy payable to the two sisters. In 1838 they divided the estate. Captain Tufts then built on his part of the farm, and here he has lived ever since. Al- though his farm consisted of only seventy-five acres, not very large in comparison with some other farms in the same section, it compares favorably with any in productiveness and gen- eral natural beauty.
Captain Tufts has been married three times. His first wife, with whom he was united on February 25, 1841, was Angeline, the daugh- ter of Abner Ramsdell, born January 21, 1823. She died April 16, 1863, leaving five daughters, namely : Augusta A., born April 18, 1843, who married E. R. Weathern ; Emily J., born August 1, 1845, who married first E. E. Richards and second Deacon Charles Coburn; Mahala R., born April 12, 1848, who married William H. Pearson ; Flora A., born May 21, 1850, married to G. A. Brooks, who died June 25, 1885; and Leonore M., born July 25, 1854, who died July 28, 1876, the wife of I. C. Richards. Captain Tufts' second wife was Abby D. Richards, the daughter of John Richards, of Strong, Me. They were married on the 20th of September, 1864. She was born in Phillips, May 25, 1826, and died September 8, 1869. She had no children. His third wife, Rebecca L. Rackliff, the daughter of Benjamin R. and Rachel Oliver Rackliff, is now living. She was born in Industry on the 21st of May, 1834.
Captain Tufts served as a Selectman of the town of Farmington in 1846 and 1847. In 1847 he was elected Town Treasurer, and, with the exception of a few years, has filled that office ever since, including the last twenty-two consecutive years. In politics he is a strong Democrat. He was for twenty-five years an officer of the Agricultural Society of Farmington, and is yet, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, an active and successful farmer on the finest river farm in the town. He is known and admired as a worthy and pro- gressive citizen and one of the most faithful officers the town has ever had, and his long tenure of office is a proof of the perfect confi- dence his fellow-citizens have in his integrity and ability.
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