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Mr. and Mrs. Dunning are members of Wins- low Grange, No. 320, Patrons of Husbandry; and he belongs also to Waterville Lodge, No. 33, F. & A. M.
ORACE PERKINS is a native of Penob- scot, Hancock County, this State. Born in 1839, son of Daniel M. and Olive (Wight) Perkins, he is now one of the two survivors of a family of six children, the other being his sister, Mrs. Susan M. Tib- betts, of Chelsea, Mass.
Mr. Perkins is a direct descendant of John Perkins, who came from England to Boston in 1630, later removing to Ipswich, which was the home of several successive generations of the Perkins family.
His paternal grandfather, Thomas Perkins, followed farming and lumbering at an early day in Washington County, Maine, living suc- cessively in Harrington and Addison. Later he removed to Penobscot. His wife was Clar-
issa Nash, of Addison. They had ten children, of whom two are now living, namely-Mrs. Abbie Babson, of Penobscot, and Mary H. Augustus died in February, 1903, aged eighty- two years.
Daniel M. Perkins, above named, was born in Harrington in 180S, being the eldest child of Thomas and Clarissa (Nash) Perkins. In early manhood he was engaged in trade, for twenty-five years he was a school-teacher, and later in life a farmer in the town of Penobscot. He died at the age of sixty-nine years. in 1ST7. His wife Olive, who was born in 1811, survived him a number of years, dying at seventy-eight, in 1889. She was a daughter of John Wight and his second wife, Olive Wescott. John Wight was sergeant-major in Captain Henry Burbeck's (for name " Burbeck " see " Massachu- setts Soldiers in the Revolutionary War," vol. 2. Company, Colonel John Crane's Regiment of Artillery, and fought in several battles of the Revolution. Soon after the close of the war he removed from Massachusetts to Penobscot. Me.
Horace Perkins was educated in his native place and at Blue Hill Academy in the neigh- boring town of that name. Shipping before the mast at the age of seventeen, for about nine years after leaving school he followed the sea. His first voyage was from Castine to St. John. and thence to Liverpool, England. On the return voyage the vessel was cast away on the Nova Scotia coast, about twenty-one miles from Liverpool in that province. In his third year of sea-faring he became a mate, in which capacity he shipped on various barks and brigs. From 1862 to 1865, when he retired from the sea, he was master of a vessel, the " Ann Carlet." and made voyages to the West Indies and other foreign parts. Engaging in trade in the au- tumn of 1865 in Penobscot, he resided there with his family, carrying on a large retail busi- ness in general merchandise until 1897, when he removed to Waterville, his present place of abode and business. For some time he was in the real estate and insurance business, in partnership with Mrs. A. M. Drummond, the firm of Drummond & Perkins continuing in existence until April, 1902. Since that date Mr. Perkins has been alone as a dealer in real
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estate. He has been in the city government three years, one year as Alderman and two years as Councilman. In politics he is a Republican. He was made a Mason in Castine Lodge, No. 4, A. F. & A. M., and was one of the organizers of Rising Star Lodge of Penobscot, of which he was Master. He is now. a member of Water- ville Lodge.
Mr. Perkins was married in 1862 to Addie M. Norton, of Blue Hill, Me. She died in Decem- ber, 1865, and he married in 186S her sister, Augusta A. Mr. Perkins has three children, one by his first marriage and two by his second. The eldest, Lillian A., is now Mrs. George G. Babson, and the mother of one child, a son, Horace P., born at Foxcroft, Me., in 1SSS. The second daughter, Florence M., was educated at Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and is now a teacher in the high school at Arlington, formerly West Cambridge, Mass. The third and youngest child, Carroll N., born in Penobscot in 1880, is a graduate of Coburn Classical Institute, and now (1902) a Junior in Colby College. He intends to study law. Both Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, also their son, are members of the Baptist church. Carroll N. is a Royal Areh Mason and member of Zeta Psi Fraternity.
ENRY NATHANIEL FAIRBANKS, a prominent citizen of Bangor, is gen- eral agent for the State of Maine of the Connecticut Mutual Life In- surance Company. He was born in Wayne, Me., October 24, 1838, son of George W. and Lucy (Lovejoy) Fairbanks. He is a direct descendant in the eighth generation of Jona- than Fairbanks, one of the earliest settlers of Dedhanı, Mass., the line being: Jonathan,1 John,2 Deacon Joseph,3 Joseph,+ Joseph," Colonel Nathaniel," George W., Lieutenant Henry Nathaniel.8
Jonathan1 Fairbanks was born in England prior to 1600. He came to Massachusetts with his family in 1633, and settled perma- nently in Dedham, where he resided until his cleath, December 5, 1668, his wife, Grace Lee, surviving him a few years.
John2 Fairbanks, the eldest son, came into possession of the Dedham homestead, which was bequeathed to him by his father. The old house is still standing. In 1641 he mar- ried Sarah Fiske. She died "26:9: 1683." As the year then began in March, the month was November.
Deacon Joseph3 Fairbanks, born in 1656, passed his entire life in Dedham, his death occurring June 14, 1734. His wife Dorcas, to whom he was married in 1683, survived him, dying January 9, 1738.
Joseph+ Fairbanks was born in Dedham, April 26, 1687. On May 3, 1716, he married Abigail, daughter of John and Sarah Deane, of Dedham. She was born June 12, 1694, and died December 31, 1750.
Joseph5 Fairbanks was born in Dedham, May 21, 1717. He engaged in farming, first on the ancestral farm, afterward in Wren- tham, and later at Winthrop, Me., where he died November 27, 1794. On April 18, 1744, he married Frances, daughter of Joseph and Experience (Bennett) Esty, of Stoughton, Mass.
Colonel Nathaniel6 Fairbanks was born July 15, 1754, in Dedham, Mass. He died at Wayne, Me., March 27, 1838. Emigrating to Maine in early manhood, he was closely identified with the interests of the town of Winthrop for a number of years, becoming a man of influence and serving in various official posi- tions. He was for nine years a member of the General Court of Massachusetts. In 1775, upon receiving news of the fight at Lexing- ton, he, with eighteen others, hastened to the headquarters of the Continental army at Cambridge, Mass. Enlisting in Captain Samuel McCobb's company, Colonel John Nixon's regiment, he went with Benedict Arnold's famous expedition to Quebec. Upon the return of Colonel Enos' command to which he belonged, young Fairbanks took part in the siege of Boston, and at the request of his offi- cers, served six weeks after his term had expired His name appears on the Coat Rolls. In 1788 he received a captain's commission from Gov- ernor Hancock, and subsequently was made commander of a regiment, being the first man in Winthrop to be honored with a colonel's
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commission. On October 12, 1778, Colonel . Fairbanks married Susanna Metcalf, who was born in Wrentham, Mass., May 27, 1759, and died in Franklin, Mass., September 24, 1791. She was a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Haven) Metcalf. The Colonel married for his second wife, January 1, 1793, Lydia, daugh- ter of Jacob and Anna (Waterman) Chipman and a descendant of John Tilly and Isaac Allerton, also of John Howland, Mayflower passengers. She was born in Halifax, Mass., January 11, 1767, and died in Wayne, Me., August 23, 1855. Jacob Chipman, her father, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, going from Halifax, Mass., and while confined in prison contracted small-pox, from which he died. His father, who was a soldier in 1740, also gave up his life for his country, dying in the West Indies, while with his regi- ment on a disastrous expedition against the Spanish.
George W. Fairbanks was born August 5, 1803, in Winthrop, Me., and died October 13, 1888, in Oakland, Me. He was brought up in the town of Wayne, where his parents settled when he was a boy. He subsequently engaged in farming with much success. He taught school for a number of years, and was also a famous teacher of singing-schools. He was highly esteemed as a citizen and as a man, and served in various public offices. He was commissioned justice of the peace in 1830, and was chairman of the Wayne Board of Selectmen in 1870, 1871, and 1872. On April 1, 1828, he married Lucy Lovejoy, who was born in Wayne, November 29, 1805, daughter of Collins and Sally (Pettingill) Lovejoy. She died in Oakland, Me., November 27, 1883. She was a descendant of John Lovejoy, immi- grant, one of the early settlers of Andover, Mass., her line being John,1 Christopher,2 Heze- kiah,3 Captain Hezekiah,+ John," Collins," Lucy." John1 Lovejoy died in Andover, Mass., in 1690. His son Christopher2 was the father of Hezekiah,3 who married Hannah Austin July 16, 1722. Captain Hezekiah+ Lovejoy, son of Hezekiah,3 was born in Andover, Mass., October 29, 1729, and died in Amherst, N.H., April 6, 1793. On April 9, 1751, he married Hannah Phelps, of Andover. John5 Lovejoy was born
in Amherst, N.H., September 24, 1751. IIe enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and "marched from Amherst for Ticon- deroga on the alarm" in 1777. His certifi- cate of service is now in the possession of Lieutenant Fairbanks. Some time after his marriage to Martha Odell, September 24, 1751, he removed to Fayette, Me. His son, Collins,6 was born in Amherst, N.H., November 22, 1782, married Sally Pettingill, of Duxbury, Mass., March 16, 1805, at Duxbury, Mass. Their daughter, Lucy, became the wife of George W. Fairbanks. April 1, 1828. Collins Lovejoy died in Wayne, Me .. February 7, 1855. Sally, his wife, born in Duxbury, Mass., September 3, 1784, died in Wayne, Me., August 18, 1863.
Henry N.8 Fairbanks was brought up on the home farm in Wayne, and was an early attendant of the district school. After com- pleting his course of study, he taught school for a time, and at a later period he was em- ployed in a seythe factory at Oakland, Me. The breaking out of the Rebellion being fol- lowed by the President's call for troops to defend the Union, he enlisted on April 26, 1861, in Company G, Third Maine Volunteer Infantry, and served with his regiment about fourteen months. Upon leaving the army he entered the employ of John P. Squire & Co., Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, and while there enlisted as a volunteer in Company C, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, and as- sisted in suppressing, July 15, 1863, the draft riot in that city. In November, 1863, he en- listed in the Thirtieth Regiment, Maine Vet- eran Volunteers, and was appointed First Sergeant of Company E. On April 9, 1864, lie was promoted to the rank of Second Lieu- tenant. He served in the Red River expedi- tion under General Banks, and was wounded at the battle of Monett's Bluff. He was after- ward with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, and served with his regiment until mustered out, August 20, 1865.
In 1866 he entered the employ of the Adams Express Company in New York City, remain- ing there until the summer of 1867. In Au- gust of that year he began work as a solicitor for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
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Company, of Hartford, Conn., with head- quarters for the ensuing three years at St. John, N.B. From 1870 until 1872 he was State Agent for the same company at New- ark, N.J. In 1872 he accepted his present position as general agent for Maine and the Lower Provinces, with headquarters. at Bangor.
Mr. Fairbanks has been actively identified with municipal and State affairs since coming to this city. For three years he was a member of the City Council, being its president in 1881-82. In 1892 he was chairman of the Republican City Committee, in that year was elected to the State Legislature for two years, and in 1894 he was re-elected. During both of his terms as Representative he served on the Committee on Mercantile. Affairs and In- surance, and was chairman of the Committee on Pensions, 1893, and chairman of the Com- mittee on Mercantile Affairs and Insurance, 1895, on the part of the . House. He is promi- nently connected with the Masonie fraternity, being a Knight Templar and a thirty-second degree Mason. He belongs to the G. A. R., and is a member of the Loyal Legion.
Henry N. Fairbanks married October 24, 1867, in Farmington, Me., Abby Annah, daugh- ter of Philip and Esther H. (Allen) Wood- worth. She was born in Jay, Me., April 1, 1845. Lieutenant and Mrs. Fairbanks have had three children, namely-Philip Sheridan,? Hiland Lockwood,? and Nora Lucy.9 Philip Sheridan9 Fairbanks was born at Farmington, Me., November 1, 1869, and died December 31, 1876. Hiland Lockwood Fairbanks was born at Farmington, Me., September 21, 1871. He received his Bachelor's degree at Bowdoin College in 1895, and subsequently entered the Harvard Law School, where he was gradu- ated in 1900. Since his admission to the Maine bar he has practised his profession in Bangor. He married December 10, 1902, Mary E. Seavey, daughter of Paul R. and Susan A. (Files). Seavey, of Bangor. Nora Lucy Fairbanks was born in Bangor, June S. 1879, a graduate of Bradford, Mass., Academy, 1900. On September 11, 1902, she married Alfred K. Bennett, of Camden, N.J., son of Volney G. and Emeline (Davis) Bennett.
OSHUA B. MAYHEW, of Readfield, is a substantial representative of the agri- cultural interests of Kennebec County. He was born in the village of New Sharon, Franklin County, Me., February 19, 1831, his parents being Ephraim and Abigail S. (Bullen) Mayhew. He is a grandson of Major Francis Mayhew, a native of Martha's Vine- yard, Mass., who removed from that place to New Sharon, Me., in 17SS, and whose military title was derived from the State militia. The Mayhews are said to be of English origin. Ephraim Mayhew was born in New Sharon. and rose to be a man of prominence in the town. Like his father, he took an active in- terest in military affairs, being connected with the cavalry arm of the service, in which he also rose to the rank of Major. Early in the town's history he owned the water power and mills. He died October 1, 1874. His wife, like him- self, was born in New Sharon. Her uncle, Philip Bullen, with his father, were officially connected with some of the early surveys on the east side of the Kennebec River, opposite Augusta and Gardiner, and were well-known and prominent citizens in their day in Pittston. Me. They made the original surveys under government supervision for the laying out of the towns of Pittston and Hallowell, when the country was practically a wilderness. Ephraim and Abigail S. Mayhew were the parents of nine children, of whom two are now living. Joshua B. and Augustus V. Those dead are Mary B., Mary E., Francis, Charles F., Helen T., Ann S., and Luella.
Joshua B. Mayhew was reared to man's es- tate in his native town of New Sharon, attend- ing the public schools of the village, including the high school. He followed the occupation of teacher for three terms in Franklin and Ken- nebec Counties, and then, soon after reaching his majority, engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes in New Sharon, in which busi- ness he continued for a number of years. In 1869 he came to Readfield, and has been since profitably engaged here in agriculture, horti- culture, and dairying. His farm contains two hundred and twenty-eight acres of well-culti- vated land, together with substantial and com- modious buildings, its appearance indicating
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that comfortable prosperity usually associated with intelligence and thrift throughout the agricultural districts of New England.
On October 18, 1865, Mr. Mayhew married Emily A. Bass, a native of Wilton, Me., and daughter of Deacon Seth Bass, of that place. Mrs. Mayhew's father, a life-long resident of Wilton, died in 1882. Her mother, in maiden- hood Nancy Russell, who was a daughter of Abel and Nancy Clemens Russell, is also deceased.
Mr. Mayhew has served the town of Read- field for three terms as Selectman, for one terin being chairman of the board. He was for- merly for several terms Town Clerk of New Sharon. In politics he is a Republican. He and Mrs. Mayhew are both members of Read- field Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, which he has served as chaplain. Mrs. Mayhew, who was educated in the common and high schools of Wilton, Me., and at Mount Holyoke Seminary, taught school in Franklin County and in Massa- chusetts for some years previous to her mar- riage. She is a lady whose bright mental and social gifts serve to increase the attractiveness of the home. Both she and Mr. Mayhew are members of the Congregational church, and are popular in Readfield society.
OSEPH E. BRIGGS, of the firm of C. M. Bailey's Sons & Co., oil-cloth manu- facturers, Winthrop Centre, was born in Manchester, Me., February 22, 1840, son of Ezra and Phebe (Goddard) Briggs. His father, a native of Winthrop, was born in 1803, and his mother was born in what is now West Gardiner, Me. His paternal grand- father, who was a member of the society of Friends, settled in Winthrop at an early period in the town's history. In early life Ezra Briggs followed the tanner's trade, but later he engaged in agricultural pursuits in Hallowell, Me. Thence he removed to the State of Iowa, where he resided for the rest of his life, which terminated in his seventy- ninth year.
Born and reared upon a farm, Joseph E. Briggs acquired his elementary education in the Manchester public schools, and concluded
his studies at Oak Grove Seminary, Vassal- boro, Me. Upon leaving school, he turned liis attention to agriculture. After his marriage he entered the employ of C. M. Bailey, the well-known oil-cloth manufacturer at Win- throp, and subsequently became superintend- ent of the plant at Winthrop Village. Some years later he was admitted to partnership, and took charge of the factory at Winthrop Centre, formerly called Baileyville, where he has ever since remained, devoting his untir- ing energies to the welfare of one of the most important industrial interests in this part of the State. This factory employs a force of about fifty operatives, and its products have always maintained a high reputation.
In politics Mr. Briggs is a Prohibitionist, and at one time was a candidate for the State Senate. He is a birthright member of the so- ciety of Friends, and an elder in the Friends' Church Meeting. His long and able service as a prominent factor in the industrial develop- ment of Winthrop, combined with his interest and influence in the moral welfare of the com- munity, has gained for him the respect and con- fidence of his fellow-townsmen.
In September, 1866, Mr. Briggs married Miss Emma S. Bailey, daughter of C. M. and Sopliia D. (Jones) Bailey, of Winthrop.
AMUEL CURRIER, a prosperous and public-spirited citizen of Hallowell, who follows the combined occupa- tions of fariner and coal merchant, was born March 10, 1837, son of Samuel and Eunice (Mace) Currier, and is of the third gen- eration of his family in Kennebec County. His father was born in New Hampshire, while his mother was a native of Kennebec County, Maine. One of his great-grandfathers on the maternal side served in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel and Eunice (Mace) Currier, who resided in Hallowell, Me., were the parents of five children, namely-Alexander, Augustus N., Samuel, Judson, and Carrie, Samuel being the only one now living.
Samuel Currier, the direct subject of this sketch, was brought up in his native town of
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Readfield, Kennebec County, Me., and was educated chiefly in the public schools of Hal- lowell, including the high school. He began farming on his own account in his twentieth year, and has since been closely identified with agricultural pursuits in this vicinity. Dur- ing this period he has also been engaged for the last eighteen years in the coal and wood business. For twelve years he was proprietor of the famous Pine Grove Stock Farm at Hal- lowell, formerly owned by ex-Governor Bod- well, of Maine, which is among the best known stock farms in the State. Mr. Currier is now the owner of the Pleasant Valley farm, of about two hundred and twenty-five acres. For sev- eral years he served in the city government of Hallowell, as a Councilman or an Alderman and he has also been Overseer of the Poor and Street Commissioner. In politics he is a Re- publican. He is a member of the Methodist church, which he has served as treasurer, and he belongs to the order of Knights of Pythias. Mr. Currier married in 1857 Lucy Johnson, of Augusta, Me., daughter of Hiram and Polly (Stevens) Johnson. He has shown diligence and ability both in public office and in his own private business concerns, and is widely re- spected by the citizens of Hallowell. Mr. and Mrs. Currier are popular in social circles. They have had four children, none of whom are now living.
J OHN T. BOWLER, of Bangor, was born in Levant, Me., July 20, 1852, son of Lorenzo A. and Mary K. (Chase) Bowler. He is of English ancestry. His great- grandfather, William O. Bowler, emigrated from England to America during the Revo- lutionary period, and settled in Palermo, Waldo County, Me., where all of his children were born. The second child of William O. Bowler was Stephen, the grandfather of John T. Stephen Bowler was a farmer in Palermo, and held various local offices. He married Susan Longfellow, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Greeley) Longfellow, and reared five children, namely -Joel, Nathan, Stephen, Lorenzo A., and George W. (Further ances- tral history may be found elsewhere in this
volume, in connection with the sketch of James H. Bowler.)
Lorenzo A. Bowler was born in Palermo, Me., January 27, 1825, and died in Bangor, Me., January 29, 1896. In his early manhood he worked as a mill man on the river; but not content with that occupation he bought a farm in Cambridge, Me., and lived there a year. Coming then to Penobscot County, he purchased a farm in the town of Levant, where he resided a number of years. Besides cultivating the soil and raising stock, he was extensively en- gaged in buying and selling cattle, and also did a large insurance business, representing some of the more prominent New England companies. He became one of the foremost citizens of the town, serving as Tax Collector and Selectman, and as Representative to the State Legislature in 1865 and 1866. Remov- ing to Bangor in 1872, he engaged in the in- surance business in this city to some extent, although much of his time was necessarily devoted to the care of his own private inter- ests. He married Mary K. Chase, who was born February 23, 1829. They became the parents of three children, namely -- John T., and Edgar S. and Ebenezer L. (twins). Edgar S. Bowler, born July 20, 1858, married Alice Woodbury. He died October 23, 18SS, leav- ing no children. Ebenezer L., born July 20, 185S, died February 29, 1864.
John T. Bowler was educated in the district schools of Levant, East Maine Conference Sem- inary in Bueksport, the Hampden Academy, and the Maine State College at Orono, where he was one of the pioneer class. On attain- ing his majority he went to Boston, Mass., in search of remunerative employment, and for two years worked for Clark Brothers & Co. Returning to Maine in 1874, he settled in Ban- gor as clerk for A. E. Hardy, then Register of Deeds of Penobscot County, and remained with him until 1882, with the exception .of two years, during which he was engaged in mercantile business. In 1882 Mr. Bowler was elected Register of Deeds, succeeding his former employer, and has since continued in this office. Politically he is a Republican, and fraternally he is a member of Rising Virtue Lodge, F. & A. M., of Bangor; St. John's Commandery,
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No. 3, K. T .; and Mount Moriah R. A. Chapter, No. 6; and of Penobscot Lodge, No. 7, I. O. O. F., of which he is a P. G. and for ten years was secretary. He is also a member of Katahdin Encampment, No. 4, I. O. O. F., of which he is a P. C. P.
Mr. Bowler married first, November 6, 1881, Fannie L. Lewis, daughter of Aaron and Rebecca R. (Tilton) Lewis. She was born in Kendus- keag, Me., July 20, 1854, and died December 30, 1SSS. She left one child, Mary S., born January S, 1884. Mr. Bowler married for his second wife Hannah Lewis, a sister of his first wife. Born March 20, 1861, she died January 21, 1897, leaving two children, namely: John Edgar, born December 27, 1895; and Hannah, born January 5, 1897. In September, 1899, Mr. Bowler married Grace N. Danforth, daugh- ter of G. F. and Josephine A. (Cook) Danforth. She was born June 29, 1872. They have one child, Leslie J., born January 28, 1902.
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