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REENLEAF LAWRENCE, president of the Lawrence Brothers' Corporation, lumber manufacturers, South Gardi- ner, is a native of that town. He was born September 9, 1835, son of Charles and Eleanor (Morrill) Lawrence. His father was also born in South Gardiner, and his mother was a na- tive of Winthrop, Me. His paternal grand- father, David Lawrence, was an early settler in South Gardiner, removing thither from Little- ton, Mass., in 1768 (History of Gardiner). The family is probably of English origin. Charles and Eleanor Lawrence were the parents . of eleven children, five of whom are living, namely: Hiram, who resides in South Gardi- ner; Greenleaf, whose name begins this sketch; Eleanor, a resident of Deering; Annie, wife of Wallace Brower, of New York City; and Dru- silla, wife of F. L. MeGowan, of Boston, Mass. The others were Samuel M., Sherburn, Abner C., Dolly M., Laura A., and Charles, Jr. The latter was associated in business with his brother Greenleaf, and at the time of his death, which occurred in October, 1901, was serving as Rep- resentative to the Legislature.
employed for a number of years in rafting logs on the Kennebee River. For about thirty years he has been engaged in the lumber manu- facturing business in Gardiner as a member of the firm (now corporation) of Lawrence Brothers. Since the concern was incorporated, he has been its president, and his son, Harry B. Lawrence, secretary and treasurer.
Some two years ago Mr. Lawrence removed from South Gardiner to Gardiner, where he resides, at No. 76 School Street. As a suc- cessful business man and public-spirited citi- zen he is highly esteemed, and his efforts in developing the industrial resources of the city are fully appreciated. Politically, he acts with the Republican party, but in local issues is inclined to support the Prohibitionists. He is a member of the Congregational church.
Mr. Lawrence married Miss Helen F. At- wood, daughter of the late George M. Atwood, of Gardiner. Her father served as Colonel of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Maine Volunteers, during the Civil War, and was at one time Adjutant-general of Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Law- rence are the parents of six children, namely -- Wallace S., Harry B., Ralph G., Edith M., Blanche D., and Guy W. Harry B. is secre- tary and treasurer of the Lawrence Brothers' Corporation, as previously mentioned. Edith M. is the wife of Dr. F. E. Stroud, of Gardiner. Blanche D. is the wife of J. W. Rafter, of Ran- dolph, Me.
ORACE WESLEY GREELEY, of the 019 firm of Ayer & Greeley, coal and wood dealers, Oakland, Me., has been a resident of Kennebec County from his birth, which occurred December 30, 1857, at Mount Vernon, near Readfield.
He is a son of John Wesley and Martha (Bart- lett) Greeley, both natives of Mount Vernon. The birthplace of his paternal grandfather was Readfield (about nineteen miles from Oak- land), where the Greeley ancestors were early settlers. The family is of so-called Scotch-Irish origin.
In the summer of 1858 Mr. Greeley's parents removed to Belgrade, about six miles from their
Greenleaf Lawrence was reared and educated in South Gardiner. In early manhood he was | former home, and in 1870, when he was in his
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thirteenth year (or in 1871), they came to Oak- land. Here he attended the public schools, in- cluding the high school.
For twenty-five years John W: Greeley was travelling salesman for the Dunn Edge Tool Company of Oakland. One term he served as Selectman of the town. His years now num- bering more than three-quarters of a century, he is still active, attending regularly to his duties as president of the Cascade Savings Bank of Oakland.
The partnership formed in 1882 by Horace W. Greeley and W. M. Ayer for the purpose of dealing in coal and wood has lasted more than twenty years, and the firm of Ayer & Greeley continues to conduct a thriving trade. This business, however, is far from absorbing the whole attention of the junior partner, the subject of this sketch. For sixteen years, or since 1887, Mr. Greeley has served as auditor and pay- master of the Somerset Railway, and for severe years he has been a director of the Messalonske National Bank of Oakland, of which he is now vice-president. He is a director and one of the chief promoters of the Oakland Woollen Company, having served as chairman of the committee which raised in Oakland fifty thou- sand dollars by stock subscription, to establish the plant, which is now in running order, manu- facturing worsted goods. He has served the town of Oakland as a Selectman continuously from the time of his first election, in March, 1899, being now (April, 1903) chairman of the board. He is a Republican in politics and highly esteemed as a citizen of public spirit, interested in the welfare and progress of the community.
He is well advanced in Free Masonry, being a member of Messalonskee Lodge, No. 113, A. F. & A. M .; Past High Priest of Drummond Royal Arch Chapter of Oakland: and also a member of St. Omer Commandery, No. 12, of Water- ville.
Mr. Greeley married January 27, 1885, Nellie E. Otis, a native of Oakland, daughter of Ben- jamin F. Otis, formerly for many years a well- known dry-goods merchant in that town. Mr. and Mrs. Greeley have one son, Arthur Madison, born October 17, 1894, who is now attending school in Oakland.
ELSON DUDLEY GORDON, postmas- ter at Readfield Depot and an ex- member of the Maine House of Representatives, was born in Read- field, April 2' 1846, son of Stephen and La- vinia (Sherburn) Gordon. His grandfather, Daniel Gordon, who came from Scotland, was an early settler in Readfield, where his father. Stephen Gordon, above named, resided during his entire life, ich terminated in the fifties of the nineteenth century. His maternal grand- father, Captain Thomas Sherburn, a well-known resident of Readfield in his day, came from the Province of New Brunswick; and his daughter Lavinia, who was born in New Brunswick. and is now in her eighty-fourth year, has re- sided in this town from her childhood.
Left fatherless at the age of eight years, and being one of a large family of children who were dependent upon their mother for support. Nelson Dudley Gordon went to Vassalboro. Me .. to live with Alvin Marshall. He remained for some years, and in his youth worked as a farmer's assistant. He subsequently found employment at an oil-cloth factory in Read- field, and later on in similar factories at Bev- erly, N.J., and at Norwood, Mass. Return- ing to Maine, he engaged in 1877 in general mercantile business at Readfield Depot as a member of the firm of Morrill & Gordon, which existed for twelve years. At the expiration of that time Mr. Morrill sold his interest to E. W. Henry, and the firm name was changed to its present style of Gordon & Henry. This firm carries the usual miscellaneous stock to be found in a first-class country store, in addi- tion to which it deals in lumber, coal, fertil- izers, and so forth, transacting an extensive and profitable business.
For several years Mr. Gordon has acted as postmaster at Readfield Depot, his last ap- pointment bearing the date of January 25, 1901. . He has long occupied a conspicuous place in local public affairs, having served as a Selectinan for a number of years, a portion of . which time he was chairman of the board, and as Town Treasurer for eight years. He repre- sented the towns of Readfield, Mount Vernon, and Fayette in the lower branch of the State Legislature during the session of 1899. For
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some years he has been a member of the Re- publican Town Committee. He is well ad- vanced in the Masonie order. being a Past Worshipful Master of Lafayette Lodge, Read- field, and a member of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, of Augusta. His religious affiliations are with the Friends' Meeting at Winthrop Centre.
Mr. Gordon married Miss Mary M. Henry, daughter of Jonathan T. and Alice (Carter) Henry, of Beverly, N.J. Their children are: Alice E., wife of Henry J. Sherman, of Mount Holly, N.J .; Laura E., who is residing in Port- land, Me .; Julia L., Nelson T., Alma R., Ralph N., Blanche A., Margaret E., and Harvey C., who are residing at home.
AVID FARRAR, who for nearly a quarter of a century was Treasurer and Collector of Taxes of the city of Lewiston, was born in Lisbon. Me., on April 5, 1825, son of James and-Emily (Hamilton) Farrar. He is in the sixth gen- eration from the immigrant John' Farrar (or Farrow in early records) and his wife Frances, and in the fifth generation from their son Nathan2, who was baptized in Hingham, Mass., in 1654, and died in 1715. Nathan's first wife was Mary Garnet, or Gardner, of Hingham. Their son Jonathan,3 born in 1689. married in October, 1714, Joanna, daughter of. Thomas and Joanna (May) Whiton, of Hingham. They had a son John, who was baptized in Hingham, Mass., in May, 1724. He came to Maine, and settled in North Yarmouth, where he died May 25, 1803, aged eighty-one. He was married on June 21, 1747, in North Yar- mouth, to Jael Stubbs, who was born Decem- ber 26, 1724, and died October 9, 1809. Their son John,5 grandfather of David Farrar, was born in North Yarmouth, and was baptized there on November 17, 1754. He carried on farming in North Yarmouth, in Durham, Me., and in Lisbon. He was married on Septem- ber 20, 1781, to Hannah Shaw, his second wife.
Captain James" Farrar, fifth son of John and Hannah and father of David, was born in North Yarmouth on August 21, 1794, and died
in Lisbon on June 26, 1878. He was a prom- inent farmer and an active man in public affairs. For many years he was moderator of the town meeting. He also served as Se- lectman, as Assessor, and as captain of the militia. His wife, Emily Hamilton, was born in York County, and died in Lisbon on No- vember 29, 1831. She was the mother of three sons and three daughters. Of these. Mary Jane,7 David7 and Emily are the only ones living.
David Farrar in his early years attendsi the public schools in Lisbon, and later those in Topsham, Me. After leaving school. he worked at farming for a while, but later went to Boston, where he remained for a year, work- ing at the Perkins Institution for the Blind in South Boston, under Dr. Samuel Griller Howe. Following this, he returned to his na- tive State, and for two years worked at farm .- ing in Topsham. He next opened a store in Saco for the sale of millinery and fancy goods. and from 1851 to 1858 he carried on the same business in Lewiston. In 1860 he was chosen Collector of Taxes for Lewiston. This was the beginning of a long period of useful public service for Mr. Farrar. After he had been Collector for three years, he was chosen Treas- urer, and for years he held both offices. For twenty-one years he was Collector, and for twenty-three years Treasurer, by his fidelity to his trusts winning the confidence of every man in the city. He was in the State Legis- lature as Representative in 1872, and he kas served the city of Lewiston one year as Mayor. Since 1SS1 he has lived quietly at his present home. He still carries on some farming. an i the fine large orchard on his place is an evi- dence of his care and his interest in horti- cultural matters.
Mr. Farrar was married in 1850 to Lucy W. Purinton, who was born in Bath, now West Bath, on August 13, 1823, and died June 4. 1896. She was the daughter of Joshua and Sarah (White) Purinton. The Purinton family is said to have come originally from France. A "Robert Purington" is mentioned in Hoyt's Salisbury as having been a member of the church in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1640. The rec- ords of Truro, Mass., show that Deacon Heze-
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kiah Purington was living in that town in the . early part of the eighteenth century, and that he died January 8, 1717, in his forty-second year. His wife's name is not given.
Mrs. Farrar's grandparents were John and Margaret (Coombs) Purinton. John Purin- ton was the son of a Hezekiah Purinton, who married Isabella Smalley. Mr. and Mrs. Far- rar have had seven children-Florence E., Ella J., Clarence D., Ernest H., Grace H., Fred T., and Alice E. Florence E. was born in Saco on May 22, 1851. Ella J., who was born in Lewiston on June 11, 1854, married Albert M. Ricker, of South Dover, Me. She has no chil- dren. Clarence D. was born in Lewiston on June 14, 1856. He married on October 17, 1882, Lizzie E. Brown, who was born in Sherbrooke, P.Q., July 20, 1858. They have two children: Lucy E., born September 25, 1887; and Arthur Clarence, born April 3, 1893. Ernest H. was born on January 20, 1859. He married Florence Grace Hare, of Kansas City, Mo., and has one child, Frank Knight, who was born in Kansas City on November 18, 1893. Grace H., who was born on May 1, 1862, is unmarried. Fred T. died in infancy. Alice E. was born on October 8, 1865, and died, unmar- ried, January 14, 1902.
LARENCE DENTON PAYSON, Reg- ister of Probate for Knox County, Maine, elected in 1900, and now serving his third year in that office, is a native of Thomaston, and representative of a family that has resided in Knox County nearly one hundred and fifty years, he being of the fifth generation of Paysons in Maine, his children of the sixth. The first three gen- erations of his paternal ancestors lived and died in Massachusetts. The line is: Edward,1 Ephraim,2 Ephraim,3 Samuel,+ John,5 Hatevil," Charles W., Clarence Denton.8
Edward Payson, his immigrant progenitor, was an early inhabitant of Roxbury, and be- came a member of the church, Rev. John Eliot, pastor, about the year 1634. He had eleven children, all by his second wife, Mary Eliot, whom he married in 1642. She was a daughter of Bennet Eliot, of Nazing, Eng-
land, where she was baptized March 11, 1620, and sister of the apostle to the Indians. Be- fore the birth of his three younger children, Edward Payson is said to have removed to Dorchester.
Ephraim2 Payson, baptized February, 1659, died in 1732: he married in 1684 Catherine Leadbetter. Their son Ephraim,3 born in 1693, married Judith, daughter of Desire2 Clapp (Roger1). of Dorchester, and his wife. Sarah Pond. As Ephraim, Jr., son of Eph- raim and Judith Payson, was born in 1718, the marriage of the parents probably took place in 1717. Another son, and the next in the line of Paysons now being traced, was Samuel,4 born to Ephraim and Judith Payson in Stoughton (formerly a part of Dorchester, Mass.), in March, 1734-5.
Samuel+ Payson and Sarah Noyce (or Noyes), both of Stoughton, were married January 4, 1760. (Canton, Mass., Records.) Samuel Payson, of Stoughtonham, was captain of a company that marched in the alarm of April 19, 1775, and was in service eight days. He appears on the regimental return of Colonel Joseph Read's regiment, May 18, 1775, as captain of a company of fifty-seven men in camp at Roxbury, and on another record as captain in the same regiment, August 1, 1775; enlisted April 18, 1775, service three months; town to which he belonged Stoughtonham. (Massachusetts Archives, Revolutionary Rolls.) A list of the "Boston Tea Party," published in 1835, contains the name of Joseph Payson, also a descendant of Edward Payson, of Rox- bury. ("Tea Leaves of 1773," by Francis S. Drake.)
Captain Samuel Payson, whose wife was Sarah Noyes, immigrated with his family to Maine, lived for a time in Warren, Knox County, and then removed to the neigli- boring town of Hope. His children, named in the History of Warren, were-Samuel, Jr., John, Sarah, Milly, Eunice, Charity, and Noyes.
John5 Payson, born March, 1764, married Mary Libby, and resided at Warren, Me .: he died in January, 1853, from the effects of a fall on the ice. His wife was a daughter of Major Hatevil Libby, of Warren (James,
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Captain Jolin,3 John2 1), and his wife, Jane Watson.
The children of John and Mary Payson were-Sarah, Hatevil, John, Jr., Jane, Mary, James, Samuel, Isaac, Life, Barbara, Re- becca, and Elmira.
Hatevil6 Payson, born in 1790, married Margaret C. Woltz, of Waldoboro, Novem- ber 20, 1815. He died April 12, 1854: his wife died September 15, 1874. They had eight children-Harriet G., Antoinette, William, Charles W., Henry, Nancy L., Sarah A. C., Benjamin B. - William Payson, eldest son of Hatevil, died of fever while in his country's service, at Mound City Hospital, Ill., August 5, 1863.
Charles W. Payson, their second son and fourth child, was born in Warren, February 13, 1824: he died January 15, 1873, in Ba- ramsville, Va., where he was engaged in cutting timber. He was a shipbuilder in Thomaston. He married November 29, 1852, Mary Fogler, of Waldoboro, Me. They had four children, of whom the survivors are -- Angie W., Clar- ence Denton, and Charles C. Angie W. is the wife of William E. Perry, of Somerville, Mass., and mother of two children, Harold and Mary.
Clarence Denton Payson was educated in his native place and at a commercial college in Portland. After completing his course of study he went to New Orleans, La., and for about a year worked in a ship chandler's store. Returning then to New England, he was employed as discount clerk in the Pacific National Bank of Boston up to the time of its failure. A Western journey followed, and for a brief period before his home coming he was engaged as book-keeper for the water company in Tombstone, Ariz.
His next undertaking was a business ven- ture on his own account, the manufacture of cigars in Boston, to which he devoted his energies and capital for nine or ten years. As a change from city life, he spent two and one- half years in farming in Thomaston, and after that made a prospecting tour of a few months in the Cripple Creek region, Col. Preferring to make his home in New England and near the scenes of his boyhood, in 189S he returned
once more to Thomaston. In 1900, again in 1902, and for the third time in 1903, he was elected Assessor of Thomaston; and in Sep- tember, 1900, he was elected Register of Pro- bate for.Knox County for a term of four years. Both these important positions he is now (1903) filling. In polities he is a Democrat. He belongs to the I. O. O. F., being a member of Oasis Lodge, No. 46, of Somerville, Mass., where he resided when he was in business in Boston.
Mr. Payson married November, 1886, Geor- gianna Cushing. They have three children: Clarence Earl, born in Thomaston, September 12, 1887; Charles Sumner, born in Somerville, Mass., October 15, 1889; and Rachel Annette, born in South Thomaston, December 15, 1894.
IRAM HALL CRIE, of Rockland, has been actively identified with the mer- cantile interests of this city for up- ward of forty years, and is now carry- ing on a lucrative business as head of the firm of H. H. Crie & Co. He was born at Matinicus, Me., March 7, 1826, a son of Ebenezer Crie. He is a grandson of John Crie, a Scotsman, who came here during the Revolutionary War, a soldier in a Scottish regiment, the Seventy- fourth Scotch Infantry, which was commanded by Colonel John Campbell, and was stationed at the fort in Castine. (A more extended history of the founder of the Maine family of Cries may be found on another page of this work, in connection with the sketch of Reuben Frederick Crie.) John Crie married Mary Hall, and Ebenezer Crie, the father of Hiram H., was one of their five children.
Ebenezer Crie was born in Matinicus, Me., January 2, 1790, and lived there, making fish- ing his business, until 1839. He then removed his family to Owl's Head, where he was oc- cupied as a merchant and fisherman. : Later he removed to Liberty, Me., where he pur- chased a farm, and devoted himself to agri- cultural pursuits until his death, September 25, 1SS1. Ilis first wife, Sally Burgess, whom he married May 6, 1813, died April 10, 1846. Her father, Ezekiel Burgess, died February 25, 1839, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His
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wife, Lydia Eldredge, died May 28, 1853, aged eighty-eight years and nine months. Ebenezer Crie married, second, Mrs. Rosanna Kallock Hathorn, who died December 9, 1837. His chil- dren, twelve in number, were all born of his first marriage. The seeond and third, who were twins, died in infancy; and Henry A., the tenth ehild, born in 1831, died in 1834. Nine grew to maturity, namely-Almira T., John C., Susan I., Samuel B., Rufus Y., Hiram H., Esther E., Mary J., and Margaret E. Almira T., born March 25, 1814, married Tolman Young, and died January 3, 1903. She was the mother of six children, of whom two, Elonia Camson and Joseph A., are now living. John C., born Janu- ary 12, 1818, married, first, Julia Spear, by whom he has one child living, John L. Crie. He married, second. Jane Weed. Susan I., born November 20, 1819, died February 27, 1894. She was the wife of Isaae Tolman and . the mother of Mrs. Floretta Tolman Crie, wife of Reuben F. Crie. Samuel B., born February 9, 1822, married Sally Sinclair, and died February 19, 1851, leaving no children. Rufus Y., born September 25, 1821, married Harriet E. Tolman, and died October 29, 1894. They had one daughter, Lillian, who is not living. His widow now resides in Rock- land, Me. Esther E., born December 15, 1828, married, first, Josiah I. Brown, and second, Ransom N. Fisher. She died in November, 1891, leaving no children. Mary J., born January 5, 1835, married Henry Kelley, of Unity, Me. They have four chil- dren, namely ---- Herbert L. and Edbert (twins), Carrie E., and Lillian C. Margaret E. (de- ceased), born March 5, 1837, married Charles Stilphin, and had two children, Ada and Edgar, neither of whom is now living. Edgar Stilphin married Mary Plummer, and, dying, left two daughters, Eveline and Flossie.
Hiram H. Crie went with his father to Owl's Head and from there to Liberty, Me., where he worked on the farm. Seven years later he caine to Rockland, and secured employment as a clerk in the hardware and general mer- chandise store of A. H. Kimball & Co. In 1860 he started in business on his own aceount, open- ing a store for the sale of general merchandise, including groceries and hardware, and has
since been engaged in mercantile pursuits. Reuben Frederiek Crie, and also Rufus Y. Crie, were at one time in partnership with him. and later his son, R. Anson, was admitted to the firm. Since that time the business has been conducted under the present name of H. H. Crie & Co. In his political affiliations Mr. Crie is a Republican, and at one time was a member of the city Board of Aldermen. For more than twenty-five years he has served as Deacon of the First Baptist Church, of which he was also treasurer for thirty-five years. ar i to which all of his family belong. Modest an i unassuming in his manner, conservative in his opinions, and honest in his dealings, he is held in high respect by all who know hin .. and is numbered among the leading business men of Rockland.
On November 8, 1849, Mr. Crie married Abby J. Trafton, who was born February 6. 1524. and died October 26, 1893. She was a daugh- ter of Joseph and Mary (Gordon) Trafton. Mary Gordon's father, James Gordon, married. May 3, 1792, Mary Creighton, who was born February 27, 1774. Her father, Daniel Creigh- ton, one of the first Scotch-Irish settlers of War- ren, Me., was killed by the Indians at the old fort in Thomaston, Me., during the war of 1774. Mr. and Mrs. Crie were the parents of seven children, five of whom died leaving no issue. Two are now living, namely: Alzira L .. born October 6, 1850: and Rufus Anson, born June 14, 1854. Rufus Anson Crie married January 1, 1876, Ida E. Shepard, who was born June 21, 1856. Their only child, Kelley B. Crie, born August 14, 1879, married June 20, 1901, Grace Getehell, and has one son, Hiram Hall Crie, born February 5, 1903.
MARSHALL WESTON, farmer and surveyor, in former years County Commissioner of Kennebec County. Maine, is a native of the town of Belgrade, where he now resides. The farm he owns and occupies is the one on which his' father, Cyrus Weston, settled in 181S. His paternal grandfather, William Weston, was an early settler of Norridgewock, Somerset County. Me.
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Cyrus Weston, son of William, was born in Somerset County near the close of the eigh- teenth century. A soldier in the War of 1812, he was still a young man when he came to Belgrade and took possession of the farm above mentioned. He was industrious and thrifty, and made good improvements on his property. He had learned surveying in his youth, and he was often employed in sur- veying land. For a number of years he served as Selectman of Belgrade. He married Leafy Wing, of Fayette, Me., and was the father of eight children, namely-Llewellyn B., Ann C. W., Elethear A., Camilla E., Horatio G., C. Marshall, Sylvina E., and Betsy E.
Cyrus Weston died in 1879, aged eighty- nine years; and his wife, Leafy W., died in 1SS4, aged eighty-eight.
Cyrus Marshall, the sixth child, was born October 4, 1834. He was educated in the public schools and at Titcomb Academy, then a flourishing institution of learning at Bel- grade Hill. He was fond of school work, and for many years after finishing his course of study at the academy he was engaged in teaching in the common schools. Practical surveying he early learned in going out with his father when thus engaged: and he has continued to follow the profession more or less down to the present time, being recog- nized as an expert surveyor. His farm of two hundred acres is devoted to the cultiva- tion of various crops and to stock raising. An extensive apple orchard is not the least valuable part of his property.
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