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Of their four children three are now living- Charles A., Ellen F., and George H. Ripley. Ellen F. is the wife of A. B. McDonald, of |
Whitefield. Mr. and Mrs. Ripley enjoy the con- fidence and good will of their numerous friends and acquaintances, and are much esteemed in social circles.
OWARD WINSLOW WELLS, a Grand Army veteran residing in Oakland, was born in Concord, Somerset County, Me., May 14, 1838. a son of Robert and Mary C. (Sawtelle) Wells. His paternal grandfather, also named Robert, was a native of Maine and of English extraction. His maternal grandfather was Moses Sawtelle, one of the first settlers of Sidney, Me. Robert Wells, father of Howard W., was born in Alfred, Me. His wife Mary was a native of Sidney, Me. Their children were -Elvira, Clymena, and Howard W.
Howard W. Wells was eleven years old when he accompanied his parents to West Waterville (now Oakland). After graduating from the common schools he attended the high school at Lawrence, Mass. He then learned the trade of painter, which be fol- lowed thereafter for several years. In May, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the service August 14, 1862, being made Sergeant. His regiment being assigned to the Army of the Potomac, he participated in the Antietam campaign, and fought in the battle of Fredericksburg, where he received a wound which necessitated the amputation of his right leg. Receiving an honorable discharge in July, 1864, he took up his residence in Wash- ington, and here became connected with an industry which, owing to the war, was at that time in a more than usually prosperous condi- tion, the manufacture of artificial limbs. In applying himself to it, Mr. Wells showed him- self quick to grasp an opportunity, pointed out to him by his own painful experience and the needs of his crippled comrades. After- a short residence in Washington, he went to New York, and thence after a year's stay to Boston, where he remained seven years, work- ing in the same line of industry. In 1872 he came to Oakland, and was here engaged for several years subsequently in general painting.
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Afterward he went into business here as a fur- niture dealer and undertaker, at first conduct- ing the business alone, and afterward taking as partner Mr. W. H. Wheeler, the style of the firm being Wells & Wheeler. This con- nection lasted but for a year or so, after which Mr. Wells returned to his old occupation as a manufacturer of artificial limbs, which he has now carried on continuously for about twenty- five years. A skilled and scientific workman, he has built up for himself a reputation that extends practically all over the State and to many places outside of it. He served the town of West Waterville (Oakland) as Collector and Treasurer. For seven years he was a trial justice, and for the past eight years he has been a justice of the peace. In politics he is a Republican. He is a charter member of Sergeant Wyman Post, No. 97, G. A. R., of Oakland, which he served as commander; and he belongs also to Messalonskee Lodge, F. & A. M., at Oakland. His religious affiliations are with the Universalist church.
Mr. Wells married, first, Almira P. Goff, of Sidney, Me. She lived but a few months after their marriage, and in 1876 he took for his second wife Sophronia G. Oliver. Of this union there is one child, a daughter, Myra L., who is now a teacher in Sanford, Me.
UTHER GROW BUNKER, M.D., a prac- tising physician of Waterville, was born March 19, 1868, at West Trenton, Hancock County, Me., where his father, John Edward Bunker, is now living. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Alley, died at the age of fifty-five. There were eight children in the family, of whom six now survive. They are: David Wellington, who married Ida Augusta Peters, of Blue Hill (no children) ; Arabella Grow, who is unmarried; Margery Helen, wife of George E. Chapman, who has one child, George Bunker Chapman; Georgia Augusta, who married Ernest H. Kenniston, and has six children; John Ed- ward, Jr., who married Caroline Dodge, of Blue Hill, and has two daughters, Mary, and an in- fant not yet named; and Luther Grow, whose name begins this sketch, and who is unmarried.
Jolin Edward Bunker has held various town offices at different times. He lives on a farm that was cleared from the woods by his father, Dudley J. Bunker, a native of South-west Harbor, Me., who went to West Trenton with his wife, Arabella Grow, soon after their marriage. Dudley J. Bunker lived to the age of ninety- seven years. Peter Bunker, father of Dudley J. and great-grandfather of Dr. Bunker, was taken prisoner by the British in the war of the Revolution, and for some years was confined in an English prison. After his release he re- turned to his native State, Massachusetts, and later, removing to Maine, settled at Southwest Harbor, Hancock County.
The early Bunker colonists, from whom doubtless most of the New Englanders bearing this name are descended, were: George,1 of Charlestown, Mass., in 1634: George,1 of Ips- wich, who removed to Topsfield, and whose son, William,2 settled in Nantucket; and James, of Dover, N.II. An Isaac Bunker was living on Mount Desert as early as 1776, as it is on record that he was at that time one of a committee of correspondence, inspec- tion, etc.
Dr. Bunker's early education was obtained in the public schools of his native place and Blue Hill Academy. His medical studies were pursued under the instruction of his brother and at the Medical School of Maine connected with Bowdoin College, where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1892. He subsequently took post-graduate courses in Baltimore and New York City. Opening his first office and entering upon the active duties of his profession in the town of Sanford, he re- mained there a year. The next two years ho was in North Berwiek, whence in 1895 he came to Waterville. Ranking as yet among the younger men of promise, he has shown marked ability and acquired a good practice. He has also served acceptably on the Waterville Board of Health, and for several years as city physi- cian. He belongs to the Masonie order, being a member of Waterville Lodge: also to the Modern Woodmen; Havelock Lodge, K. of P., in which he has held all the chairs; and the Order of United American Mechanics. In polities he is a Republican.
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CON. FRANK KINGSBURY SHAW, Judge of the Municipal Court of Waterville since 1897, is a native of Newcastle, Lincoln County, Me. Son of the Rev. Benjamin Franklin Shaw, D.D., and his wife, Mary Jane (Pratt) Shaw, he was born January 17, 1859. His father, a Baptist clergyman, settled as pastor of different churches in Maine in his day, was born in Gorham, Me., October 11, 1814. He died in Waterville, Me., February 23, 1897. His mother, born in North Yarmouth, Me., April 7, 1821, died at Water- ville, May 10, 1900.
Judge Shaw's paternal grandparents were Josiah and Tabitha (Watson) Shaw, who were married at Gorham, Me., May 5, 1797. From a History of Gorham, Me., just pub- lished, we learn that this Josiah Shaw was baptized July 31, 1774, at Falmouth (now Portland), being a son of Josiah, Sr., and a grandson of Caleb Shaw, who moved from Hampton, N.II., to Falmouth, Me., about 1760. The Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Shaw was a son of Josiah and Tabitha (Watson) Shaw. Tabitha Watson, born at Gorham, May 16, 1779, was a daughter of John and Tabitha (Whitney) Watson and a grand-daughter of Deacon Eliphalet Watson, of Gorham, and his wife Elizabeth, who was the oldest daugh- ter of Captain John Phinney, the first settler of Gorham in May, 1736. She was sister of Colonel Edmund Phinney, who commanded a regiment in the carly part of the Revolution. Captain John Phinney was son of Deacon John3 Phinney, of Barnstable, Mass., and grandson of John2 and May (Rogers) Phinney. His grandfather, John2 Phinney, was born in Plymouth, Mass., in 1638; and his grandmother Phinney was a daughter of Joseph2 Rogers, who came over with his father, Thomas1 Rogers, in the "Mayflower" in 1620. ("May- flower Descendants," vol. iii., page 254.)
Judge Shaw's mother was a daughter of Benjamin Pratt, who was born February 13, 1786, and his wife, Betsey Safford, born August 22, 1793. The former was son of Thomas and Sarah Pratt, and the latter daughter of Nathan and Betsey Safford.
Four ancestors of Judge Shaw, namely, Josiah Shaw, John Watson, Thomas Pratt, and |
Nathan Safford, were soldiers of the American Revolution.
Josiah Shaw appears on a billeting roll of Captain David Bradish's company from May 12, 1775, date of enlistment, to date of march- ing to headquarters, July 8, 1775; also with rank of private, town of Falmouth, Me., on return of Captain Bradish's company, Colonel Phinney's regiment (probably October, 1775); also with signature on an order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, due for eight months' service in 1775, in Captain David Bradish's company, Colonel E. Phinney's regi- ment, dated Cambridge, October 28, 1775, at Fort No. 2, payable as being of Falmouth; also with rank of private on muster and pay roll of Captain William Crocker's company, Colonel Mitchell's regiment, service from March 1, 1776, to November 23, 1776, eight months, twenty-three days, stationed at Falmouth, Cumberland county; also with rank of Third Corporal on roll of Captain Abner Lowell's (matross) company, stationed at Falmouth, Cumberland County (same company reported August 11, 1777, and mustered by Colonel Noyes, sea-coast guard, roll dated July 31, 1777); also with rank of private on muster and pay roll of Captain Peter Warren's com- pany, Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's regiment, enlisted July 7, 1779, discharged September 25, 1779; service two months, eighteen days; marched on expedition against Penobscot; roll dated Falmouth, Me.
John Watson, born in Gorham, Me., Sep- tember 23, 1741, died October 26, 1834. He appears with rank of Sergeant on Lexington alarm roll, Captain Wentworth Stuart's com- pany, which marched from Gorham, April 21, 1775; service, twenty-four days; residence, Gorham, Me .; also with rank of Sergeant on a billeting roll of Captain Wentworth Stuart's company, Colonel Phinney's regiment, from date of enlistment to date of marching to headquarters, July 12, 1775, or cighty- two days; also with rank of Sergeant- on company return of Captain Stuart's com- pany, Colonel Phinney's regiment, dated Sep- tember 29, 1775, enlisted May 15, 1775: also appears among signature for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, due for eight months'
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service in 1775, Captain's Stuart's company, Colonel Edmund Phinney's regiment, dated Cambridge, October 26, 1775, at Fort No. 2, payable to Captain Stuart.
Thomas Pratt appears on muster and pay-roll of Captain George Rogers's company, Second Cumberland Regiment, in November, 1775; company detached by order of Colonel Jona- than Mitchell to work on the forts at Falmouth; service, six days; also with rank of private in a list of men raised from the militia of North Yarmouth to re-enforce the Northern army, as returned to Samuel Thompson, for Cumber- land company, dated North Yarmouth, De- cember 3, 1776: also as private on pay-roll of Captain John Wentworth's company, Colonel Gerrish's regiment of guards, stationed at Cambridge, Mass .; enlisted July 22, 1778, discharged December 1, 1778; service, four months, nine days.
Nathan Safford appears with rank of pri- vate on muster and pay roll of Captain Zadoc Buffington's company, Colonel Johnson's regi- ment; enlisted August 15, 1777, discharged November 30, 1777, at Cambridge, Mass .; service, three months, sixteen days, at North- west.
Nathan Safford, father of Mrs. Betsey S. Pratt and great-grandfather of Judge Shaw, was born in Ipswich, Mass., June 5, 1760. He died in North Yarmouth, Me., December 27, 1823. Son of Stephen4 Safford (born in 1717, died 1767) and his wife, Sarah Jarvis, he was a descend- ant in the fourth generation of Thomas1 Saf- ford, who received a grant of land in Ipswich, Mass., in 1641, and died there in 1667. The line is: Thomas and wife Elizabeth; John,2 born in 1633, and wife Sarah; Thomas,3 born in 1672, and wife Eleanor Shatswell, the last named couple being the parents of Stephen,4 above named.
Nathan Safford was of the fifth generation of the family in New England. His wife, Elizabeth Foster, who was born in Salem, March 4, 1766, and died April 1, 1826, was daughter of Captain Nathaniel+ Foster a (Abram,3 Jacob,? Reginald1).
Judge Shaw was the youngest-born and the only son in a family of four children, his sisters being: Ellen O., Maria L., and Addie F. Ellen
O. Shaw is the wife of George F. Hunt, of Newton, Mass., has no children. Maria L. Shaw, now Mrs. Frank A. Washburn, of Thom- aston, Me., has one child, Warren S. Wash- burn. Addie F. Shaw, who married Frank B. Philbrick, died in 1892. She had two children, Herbert S. and Benjamin E., the latter now deceased.
Judge Shaw was educated in Waterville, Me. He was fitted for college at the Water- ville Classical Institute, and was graduated at Colby University (now College) in 1881. He studied law in the office of F. A. Waldron, Esq., of Waterville, and was admitted to the bar in 1886. He began practice in Water- ville, and in 1892 became clerk of the Munici- pal Court of that city, receiving his appoint- ment as Judge in July, 1897, and being reappointed in 1901.
He is a member of the Masonic order, be- longing to Waterville Lodge, No. 33, F. & A. M .; Ticonnet Chapter, R. A. M., of Water- ville; Mount Lebanon Council, R. & S. M., of Oakland, Me .; and St. Omar Commandery, K. T., of Waterville. He is also a member of the D. K. E., a college society, and of the Sons of the American Revolution.
He married March 30, 1883, Miss Emma J. Smith, daughter of George Smith. Her father was a soldier. They have no children.
OSEPH G. BLAKE, treasurer of the Robinson-Blake Company of Bangor, has been for many years actively iden- tified with the mercantile interests of this city. He was born in Cumberland, Me., October 22, 1846, son of the Rev. Joseph and Hannah Little (Clark) Blake. His paternal grandfather, Dr. Silas Blake, was a son of Sam- uel+ Blake, a native of Taunton, Mass., born in 1747, who removed with his family about the year 1777 to Turner, Androscoggin County, then a part of Massachusetts.
According to a manuscript genealogy care- . fully compiled, Samuel+ Blake, of Taunton, was a son of Grinfill3 and Desire (Crocker) Blake and grandson of Edward2 and Ann (Hanover) Blake, Edward2 being the son of Samuel,1 the immigrant. Ann, wife of Ed-
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ward2 Blake, is said to have been the daughter of Ann Grinfill who fled to England from France at the time of the persecution of the Protestants.
Samuel+ Blake married, in 1769, Abigail Rickard, of Pomfret, Conn. She was born February 15, 1747, and died November 30, 1825. They had eleven children: Caleb, Samt- uel, Thatcher, Edward, Abigail, Grinfill, Silas, Joseph, John, Lydia, and an infant that was not named. Caleb, born in Taunton, Mass., in 1770, died in Turner, Me., November 5, 1801. He married, August 11, 1793, Betsey Briggs, by whom he had four children. Sam- uel, born in Taunton, Mass., September 16, 1772, married, first, Nabby Bowney, who died in early womanhood, leaving one child. He married, second, Nabby Thomas, who bore him nine children. Thatcher, born in Taunton, Mass., February 22, 1774, died in Foxcroft, Be. He married Sarah Evans, by whom he had ten children. Edward, born in Turner, Me., October 25, 1777, died in Hartford, Me., June 29, 1843. He married Sarah Harward, and had three children. Abigail, born in Turner, Me., December 20, 1779, married Michael Howland, and had two children. Grinfill, born in Turner, Me., July 27, 1781, died in Harrison, Me., August 9, 1824. His wife, whose maiden name was Eunice Cary, bore him seven chil- dren. Joseph was born in Turner, Me., June 8, 1787. John was born in Turner, Me., April 22, 1789. Lydia, born in Turner, Me., April 18, 1791, died in Sangerville, Me. On April 7, 1809, she married Gustavus Newhall, by whom she had five children.
Silas5 Blake, the grandfather above named, fifth son of Samuel, was born in Turner, April 20, 1785. He settled as a physician in Otis- field, Me., and was successfully engaged in practice for more than forty years, his death occurring February 2, 1851. On January 29, 1809, he married Sophia Cary, who was born in Williamsburg, Mass., November 16, 1785, and died in Harrison, Me., December 2, 1868. They were the parents of nine children, all born in Otisfield, namely-Susan Cary, Marcia, Silas, Joseph, Maurice Cary, Josiah Merrill, Luthier Cary, Sophia Cary, and Susan Marcia. Susan Cary, born December 10, 1809, died
February 28, 1813. Marcia, born March 7. 1811, died February 7, 1813. Silas, born April 6, 1812, was a prosperous merchant in Harri- son, Me .: he died November 19, 186S. He married Clara C. B. Richardson, a daughter of the Rev. James P. Richardson, and they became the parents of three children. Maurice Cary, born October 20, 1815, was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1838, and was after- ward admitted to the bar. He removed to San Francisco, Cal., where he attained distinc- tion in his profession, being made Judge of the Municipal and Probate Courts: he was also prominent in public affairs, and served as Mayor of the city. Josiah Merrill, born July 1, 1817, was a skilful physician in Bridetoz. Me., where he died January 8, 1859. On Oc- tober 16, 1844, he married Harriet Fitch. daughter of the Hon. Luther Fitch, of Port- land, Me. Luther Cary, born May 31, 1519. spent some years in California, and afterward settled as a farmer in Harrison, Me., living there until his death. He married Katherine Perley. who bore him one child. Sophia Cary, born April 19, 1821, died December 2, 186S. She married the Rev. Rufus M. Sawyer, Noven .- ber 27, 1851, and they became the parents ci seven children. Susan Marcia, born July s. 1823, died in Harrison, Me.
The Rev. Joseph" Blake, the second son of Dr. Silas Blake, was born in Otisfield. Me .. January 21, 1814, and died in Andover, Mass .. May 26, 18SS. After his graduation in 1\35 from Bowdoin College, he studied theology. and on March 3, 1841, was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Cumberland. Me. In 1860 he accepted a call to Gilmanton .. N.H., where he had charge of the Congrege- tional church for a number of years. On July 13, 1843, he married Hannah Little Clark. daughter of Theodore Clark, of Wells. Me. They were the parents of eight children: Maurice Benaiah; Joseph Gilman; Sophiia Elizabeth: Susan Marcia; Carrie, who died in childhood: Francis Clark; Theodore Greenleaf; and Har- riet. Maurice B., the oldest, born in Cum- berland, Me., was graduated from Amherst College in 1866. He became a lawyer. and settled in San Francisco, Cal., where his death occurred February 8, 1886. He married Martha
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Eastman, of Gilmanton, N.H., who bore him three children. Sophia E., born in Cumber- land, Me., February 19, 1849, died in Andover, Mass., March 17, 1892. Susan M., born in Cum- berland, Me., December 7, 1851, is a teacher. Francis Clark, born in Cumberland, Me., Feb- ruary 23, 1854, was a metallurgist and mining engineer: he died at Helena, Mont., February 21, 1891. In April, 1SS5, he married Winifred Ballard, of Easton, Pa., by whom he had three children. Theodore Greenleaf, born in Cum- berland, Me., November 15, 1857, died in Oakes, Dakota, May 16, 1SS1. Harriet was born in Wells, Me., February 1S, 1860.
Joseph Gilman Blake, the second son, is the special subject of this sketch. He was educated in Cumberland, Me., and Gilmanton, N.H .. After leaving school he came to Bangor, and established himself in mercantile busi- ness, being successively a partner in the large and successful wholesale houses of Wheel- wright, Clark & Co., Clark & Blake, and Einer- son, Blake & Adams Company. He is now treasurer of the Robinson-Blake Company, wholesale and retail clothiers and furnishers. He is a Republican in politics, and an active member of the Central Congregational Church, which he has served as Deacon for the past twenty years. Since 1890 he has been presi- dent of the Young Men's Christian Association of Bangor, and for many years has been a trustee of the Bangor Theological Seminary and of Good Will Home.
On June 10, 1874, Mr. Blake married Caro- line Webster Smith, who was born July 7, 1849. They had two children: Thomas Her- bert8 Blake, who was born in Bangor, Me., March 11, 1878; and Frances Webster Blake, who was born in Bangor, May S, 1885, and died August 22, 1886. Mrs. Blake is a daughter of the Rev. Thomas and Caroline Valentine (Webster) Smith, and a descendant in the ninth generation of John Webster, of Ipswich, her ancestral line being John, 123+ Andrew,5 6 Daniel, Caroline Valentine.8
John1 Webster, who came, tradition says, from Ipswich, England, settled in Ipswich, Mass., where he received a grant of land in 1634. He died before November 4, 1646. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Shats-
well, married for her second husband John Emery.
John2 Webster was born about 1632, "prob- ably in England." He married, in Newbury. June 13, 1653, Ann Batt, by whom he had ten children. The oldest, John3 Webster, born February 11, 1655-6, married, March 9. 1680-1, Bridget Huggins, who bore him seven children. John+ Webster, the second of these. was born in Newbury, November 2, 1683. He served as a soldier in Queen Anne's War. in 1702, belonging to a foot company. In 1707. he married Sarah Greeley, who bore him two children, Andrew being the youngest. An- drew5 Webster, born November 12, 1710, mar- ried, first, Mercy Clough, who died January 30, 1741. He married second, December 10. 1742, Prudence Weare. Andrew6 Webster, the fourth of a family of ten children, married. in 1766, Martha Crane, of Topsham, Me. She died in 1823. Daniel Webster was born April 10. 1776, and died in Bangor, Me., May 11. 1818. On April 10, 1802, he married Eliza- beth Boyd, a daughter of -Deacon William Boyd. She was born April 14, 1777, and died September 15, 1858. Both Daniel and his wife were admitted to the first Church of Bangor, February 8, 1815. They were the parents of ten children, among them being a son Daniel,8 who was the father of Daniel9 Webster, a sketch of whose life may be found elsewhere in this volume, and Caroline Valen- tine, who was born October 12, 1812. On February 17, 1846, Caroline Valentines Webs- ter married the Rev. Thomas Smith, who was born August 17, 1812. He died April S, 1861; and she died October 10, 1887. Their daugh- ter, Caroline Webster9 Smith, is the wife of Joseph G. Blake.
JDGAR E. NORTON, an ex-Sheriff of Ken- nebec County, now (1903) a member of the State House of Representatives, was born in Gardiner, Me., December 28, 1856. He grew to manhood in his native city, his edu- cation being acquired in the public schools. After serving an apprenticeship of three years at the machinist's trade in the shops of P. C. Holmes & Co., Gardiner, he entered the employ
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of the Richards Paper Company here, and for some time had charge of the steam plant and of' the repairing department. He then gave up his trade to accept the office of Deputy Sheriff, which he held continuously for eight years, during seven years of that period serving also as City Marshal of Gardiner. In 1892 he was elected High Sheriff of Kennebec County for the years 1893 and 1894, and in the year last named was re-elected for another term of two years. At the State election held in September, 1902, he was elected on the Republican ticket as Representative from Gardiner to the Legis- lature. He has also served for a short time as Deputy United States Marshal for Maine.
Mr. Norton has proved himself an able and conscientious public official, and as such is es- teemed by his constituents in general. He is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Margaret Patterson, of Gardiner, and they have one daughter, Jeanie H. Norton.
ONALD CRAWFORD MCILROY, of Winthrop, Kennebec County, agent for the Winthrop Mills Company, the largest firm in the country that is engaged exclusively in the manufacture of cotton warps and fine woollen bed blankets, was born in Scotland, October 22, 1853. He came to this country with his parents, John and Margaret (Crawford) MeIlroy, when he was but a mere lad.
operated the Annabessacook Mills at North Monmouth, Me. This property then came into the possession of his widow, and was carried on by lier until her death in 1901, when her three sons, Ronald Crawford, John H., and James E., became its proprietors.
Ronald C. Mellroy for several years in his boyhood lived in Hyde Park, Mass., a sub- urb of Boston, where he attended school. His education was also supplemented by a course of study under a private tutor. Returning to Rochester, he resided with his parents until 1871, when he came with them to Winthrop. He now took a course in the Dirigo Business College at Augusta. Thus equipped for the active duties of life, he became a clerk in the Winthrop Mills Company, and in this posi- tion, under his father's guidance, acquired a thorough practical knowledge of the process of woollen manufacture, and in due time be- came assistant agent of the mills. After his father's death he was appointed agent and elected clerk, and later became a director.
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