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Mr. Barker married October 14, 1875. Mar- garet, daughter of Moses L. and Jane S. ( Hill: Appleton, of Bangor. Me. Of this union thers were two children: Lewis Appleton, the sab- jeet of this sketch; and Alice Elizabeth, born January 28. 1SS8, in Bangor.
Mrs. Margaret Appleton Barker is a descemdi- ant of Samuel Appleton, who came to Ipswich. Mass., in 1635. His son and namesake. Sanz- uel, was father of Major Isaac Appleton. who was commander of "all the troops in the time of King Philip's War." Major Appleton was father of Isaac and, through Isaac, grand- father of Deacon Isaac Appleton, who married Mary Adams, daughter of Joseph Adams. of Concord, and who died in New Ipswich, N.H .. in 1806, at the age of seventy-four years. Among the twelve children of Deacon Isaac Appleton and his wife Mary was Moses. horn at New Ipswich, N.IL., March 17, 1773. He graduated from Dartmouth College, and re- moved to Waterville, Me., where for many years he practised his profession of medicine.
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On December 6, 1801, he married Ann Clarke, daughter of Captain John Clarke, of Water- ville, who served with credit in the Revolution- ary War, fighting for the cause of American independence, and whose wife was Theresa Larch, of Vienna, Austria. Dr. Moses and Ann (Clarke) Appleton were the parents of Moses Larch Appleton, born in Waterville, February 3, 1811, who became a lawyer, and settled in Bangor, Me., and was the father of Mrs. Mar- garet Appleton Barker.
Jane S. Hill, the wife of Moses Larch Apple- ton, was a daughter of Thomas Adams and Eliz- abeth (Carr) Hill, of Bangor. Her paternal grandfather, Moses Hill, of Sherborn, Mass., was a Revolutionary soldier, serving as a pri- vate on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and later taking part in the battle of Bunker Hill. His name appears in the muster-roll of Captain Benjamin Bullard's company, regiment of Colonel Pierce, of Sherborn, Mass. . His son, Thomas Adams Hill, became a lawyer, and settled in Bangor, Me.
Elizabeth Carr, of Bangor, wife of Thomas Adams Hill, was a daughter of Francis and Mary (Elliott) Carr. Her father, Francis Carr, was a descendant of George Carr, who, in 1633, was in Ipswich, Mass., whence he removed to Salisbury, where he died in 1682. According to the Carr genealogy his descent is through James,2 as follows: James? Carr, son of George, born in Salisbury in 1650, married Mary Sears, November 14, 1677; John,3 born in Newbury in 1684, married Elizabeth Chase; James, born in Newbury, October 10, 1727, married Sarah (born in Newbury, February 18, 1731-2), daughter of Francis Follansbee; Francis5 Carr, born in Newbury, 1752. married in 1772 Mary, daughter of Ephraim Elliot, of Haverhill.
Soon after his marriage Francis Carr re- moved to Haverhill. On July 1, 1781, he was appointed Captain of the Tenth Company of the Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts. He represented Haverhill in the General Court in 1794 and other years. He was appointed jus- tice of the peace by Governor Samuel Adams in 1796 and by Governor Caleb Strong in 1803. In 1804 he removed to that part of Orrington that is now Brewer village. He was moderator of town meetings, 1805-1807, and
held many other offices. In 1806-1808 he was Representative in the Legislature. In the year last named he was appointed Justice of the Court of Sessions by Governor Sullivan. He was Senator from Hancock County, 1809 and 1810, and in 1810 he was elected by the Massa- chusetts Legislature "Supreme Executive Coun- cillor." He came to Bangor in 1811, and in 1812 was elected a member of Congress. His wife was admitted to the first church in Bangor in 1812 by letter from the church in Haverhill. She died June 25, 1819, aged sixty-three years. He survived her little more than two years, dying October 6, 1821. They had ten children.
Lewis Appleton Barker acquired his educa- tion in the preparatory schools of Hotchkiss, Hopkinson, and Phillips Andover Academy, Brown University, and the law schools of Boston University and the University of Maine, from the last of which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the practice of law in Maine in June, 1900, and immediately set about the work of freeing and clearing David L. Stain and Oliver Cromwell, indicted and convicted of the murder of John Wilson Barron on February 22, 1878, then serving a life sentence in the State Prison at Thomaston. This work Mr. Barker regarded as a duty, the defence of these men in 18SS hav- ing been practically the cause of his father's death. On October 30, 1900, he presented to the governor and council a petition for the pardon of his clients, on the ground that they were innocent of the crime by which they had been convicted, claiming that he could prove the same by newly discovered evidence.
Never, perhaps, did a young attorney under- take a more seemingly impossible cause and with less encouragement or prospect of suc- cess. Many attorneys thought it the attempt of a young man to advertise himself, while even the more charitable considered it at best the forlorn hope of a youth trying vainly to carry out his father's work. Twenty-two years had elapsed since the death of Barron. These men had been convicted by a jury after a trial occupying two weeks. A motion for new trial before Chief Justice John A. Peters had been denied. A motion for new trial heard by the law court of Maine had been unanimously
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denied by the full bench, and this trial and both motions had been conducted by eminent counsel. After an arduous hearing in 1896 on a petition for pardon conducted by the Hon. Josiah Crosby, the petition had been denied by Governor Cleaves and council.
Mr. Barker opened his case on December 19, 1900, the pardon being opposed by County Attorney Bertram L. Smith for the State. The hearing lasted late into the evening. clos- ing at one o'clock on the 20th. On Decem- ber 31 Governor Powers and couneil unani- mously granted the pardon, and on January 2, 1901, two months from the filing of the petition and six months from the date of Mr. Barker's admission to the bar, Stain and Cromwell walked the streets free men, cleared of the charge of murder.
This was the last chapter in the case, which . perhaps excited more public interest all over the United States than any other case ever tried in Maine. It was the first case in which Mr. Barker had appeared, and he gained a wide-spread reputation.
Since that time he has practised his profes- sion in Bangor. In 1902 he was nominated for the State Legislature by the Republican party. He was elected as Representative from Bangor, being the youngest member ever sent from that city, the youngest member of the seventy-first House of Representatives, and the third of his name to serve his city as a lawmaker. He was also the first practising attorney representing Bangor in either branch of the Legislature since his father served in 1SS9. He served second on the Committee on Legal Affairs and as chairman of the Com- mittee on Engrossed Bills. Mr. Barker's leg- islative service was most successful, he being at the present time recognized as one of the leading candidates for Speaker of the House in 1905, with strong support all over the State.
ON. BYRON BOYD, of Augusta, Sec- retary of the State of Maine, was born in Wakefield, Carleton County, N.B., August 31, 1864, son of Robert and Eliza J. (Savage) Boyd. His education was acquired in the public schools, at the
Rieker Classical Institute, Houlton, Me., and at Colby University (now College), Waterville, Me. From the latter institution he was gradu- ated in the class of 1SS6. The year follow- ing his graduation was devoted to teaching the high school at Bar Harbor, Me. In Janu- ary, 1889, he entered the public service of the State of Maine as a clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, being promoted two years later to the position of chief clerk, which he retained for four years (1891-95), and in the latter year was appointed Deputy Secretary of State. Elected Secretary in 1897, he has retained that office to the present time through successive re-elections. A Republican in poli- tics, he has served upon the Augusta City Committee for the past eleven years, and for a period of six years was secretary of the Re- publican State Committee.
Mr. Boyd was married January 9, 1895, to Miss Lucy E. Burleigh, daughter of the Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh, ex-Governor of Maine. Their children are: Dorothy, born November 12, 1895; and Robert, born June 25, 1902.
ON. JOSIAH MANCHESTER HAYNES, one of the foremost citizens of Augusta. was born in Waterville, Me., May 12, 1839, son of Josiah Milliken and Bathsheba F. (Waugh) Haynes. He is a de- scendant in the ninth generation of Deacon Samuel Haynes (or Haines), of Dover, N.H .. the line being Samuel,' Matthias, Samuel,3 + Timothy,5 John," Samuel," Josiah Milliken, Josiah Manchester .?
As narrated in the gencalogical volume. "Deacon Samuel Haines and his Deseendants, edited by Thomas Van Buren Haines, "Samuell Haynes was born in England in 1611. At fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to John Cogswell, of Westbury, Wiltshire, a cloth manufacturer, who owned mills in Frome, Somersetshire, a few miles from Westbury. . . . After having served nine years, he came to New England in 1635 with Mr. Cogswell, in the ship 'Angel Gabriel,' which sailed from Kings Roads, Bristol, England, June 4, and from Milford-Haven, Wales, on the 22d of the same month. This vessel, which was of two hundred
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and forty tons, had been built for Sir Walter Raleigh. After a voyage of ten weeks and two days from Bristol, coming near the coast of Maine, they anchored on the night of the 14th of August in the outer harbor of Pem- aquid, now Bristol; and there they encountered the 'Great Hurricane,' which occurred on the following day,when the storm was so severe that the vessel was driven ashore and went to pieces. Several persons perished, and much of the cargo was destroyed; yet the survivors 'saved a considerable quantity of their per- sonal effects, so that they were able to live on the shore in a tent, which Mr. Cogswell had taken with him, until the arrival of Goodman Gallup's bark from Boston, which took them, with a large portion of their possessions, to Ipswich, Mass., where Mr. Cogswell made his home."
Samuel Haynes remained with Mr. Cogswell one year, in order to complete the term of his apprenticeship. In 163S" he returned to Eng- land, and on April 1, 1638, married Ellenor Neate. On his return to this country he estab- lished a home in Northam, now called Dover Point. The records show that he was one of the signers, October 16, 1640, of what was called the "Dover Combination." He was taxed in Dover in 1648 and 1649. In 1650 he settled on a farm at Strawberry Bank, and three years- later he was one of the signers petitioning the General Court in Boston to change the name of the town from Strawberry Bank to Portsmouth. The same year he was chosen one of the Select- men of Portsmouth, to which office he was re-elected for ten successive years. Like most of the early settlers of New England, he was a man of strong religious bent, and was among those who organized the North Church in Portsmouth, of which he was ordained Deacon on the settlement of the pastor, Joshua Moody. He died at the age of about seventy-five years. Matthias2 Haynes was born in 1650 at Straw- berry Bank (afterward Portsmouth and now Greenland), and after marrying Jane Brackett, daughter of Anthony, he settled near the paren- tal homestead. He served as a juryman in 1683.
Samuel3 Haynes was born in Greenland, N.II., in 1674, and became a farmer. It is not known
whom he married. He died before reaching the age of fifty-five. He had five children.
Samuel Haynes, born in Greenland, N.H., about the year 1700, was the eldest great- grandson of Deacon Samuel Haynes, the first settler, and was the first Haynes to remove from Greenland into the wilderness. Samuel+ Haynes and his wife, Patience Piner, united with the First Congregational Church in Scarboro, Me., April 25, 1742. They were married at Newington by the Rev. Joseph Adams, an uncle of President John Adams. Samuel was Captain of a cavalry company raised to defend the inhabitants against the Indians.
Timothy5 Haynes was born in Scarboro, but settled in the "gore" in Buxton, near the Gor- ham line, where he died. He married in 1744 Hannah Bennet. He enlisted April 6, 1759, in C. E. Seillen's company, Samuel Waldo's regiment, raised by Massachusetts for the reduction of Canada.
John" Haynes spent the greater part of his life in Buxton, Me. He married Jerusha Sallas. He enlisted in July, 1775, for eight months' service in Captain John Rice's company, Colo- nel Edward Phinney's regiment, in the Rev- olutionary War.
Samuel Haynes was born in Buxton, Me., in 1772. In 1796, at the age of twenty-four, he married Mary Harmon, of Scarboro, whose `father was a Major in the Continental army. She died in 1804, and he married, second, Rhoda Libbey, of Scarboro, who died in 1807. Ile married for his third wife a Mrs. Atkinson. He died in his native town of Buxton at the age of eighty-four years.
Josiah Milliken8 Haynes was born in Buxton, Me., June 17, 1797. His first industrial occupa- tion was that of farmer; but when quite young he went to Kennebec County, where he learned the trade of blacksmith. At the age of twenty- five he married Bathsheba F. Waugh, daughter of Colonel James Waugh, of Norridgewock, Me., who held a commission in the War of 1812. They first made their home in Bingham, but later removed to Waterville, where he spent the greater part of his life. He was a very bright, genial man and a great lover of books. He died in New York City of paralysis at the age of seventy-three. His children were as fol-
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lows: Samuel, born in Bingham, September 27, 1823, married Abby Lewis, and died May 6, 1892; George, born in Bingham, November 4, 1825; Sarah E., born in Waterville, Mo., February 17, 1828, died February 15, 1867; Mary L., born January 28, 1833: Josiah Man- chester, born in Waterville, Me., May 12. 1839; Annie G., born November 14, 1844. Mary L. married, in 1853, Joseph Allen, who died in 1884. Annie G. married, in 1865, George L. Grout, and resides in Worcester, Mass.
The early life of Josiah Manchester? Haynes was passed on his father's farm, and his edu- cation was acquired at Waterville Academy and at Waterville College (now Colby College), from which he was graduated in 1860. He then became the principal of Lincoln Acad- emy at Neweastle, Me., which he left in 1863 to read law in New York City, where he was · admitted to the bar in 1865. At this pivotal period of life, special inducements acting upon a strong natural aptitude drew him from the law, to which he has never returned, in the direction of a business career.
He was soon associated with the large oper- ators who formed the Kennebee Land and Lum- ber Company, of which he was treasurer from its organization in 1866 to 1875, then becoming its president. He was the senior member of the Hayes & Dewitt Ice Company, formed in 1871, and incorporated in 1889 as a stock com- pany, of which he was made the president, and is now the chief owner. He was largely inter- ested in ship-building and extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber.
He is the president and was the promoter of the Augusta, Hallowell & Gardiner Electric Railway; is a director and was one of the builders of the Rockland & Camden Electric Railway; is owner and builder of the Augusta Opera House; is a director of the Edwards Manufacturing Company; a director of the Knickerbocker Steam and Towage Company; and a trustee of the Lithgow Library (1892).
Mr. Haynes's political record is also one of activity and influence. He was a member of the Legislature of 1876, and in its debates on the Usury Bill he attracted the favorable attention of capitalists and political econo- mists by his masterful handling of the ques-
tions of supply and demand. He was re- elected in 1877, and was recognized on all sides as one of the leading members of the House. The next year he was elected to the State Senate. where he took a similar influential position, and in the debate on the famous contested election case he made one of the most power- ful and eloquent speeches in behalf of consti- tutional suffrage ever heard in the Maine capi- tol.
In 1879 he was returned to the Maine Senate. and chosen its president in that critical period when the election had resulted in no choice of governor by the people, and it seemed not improbable that the president of the Senate would be required to exercise the gubernatorial functions. The selection of Mr. Haynes for this responsible post at such a junction was therefore, especially complimentary. Une- quivocal and statesmanlike utterances char- acterized his eloquent address on assuming the president's chair.
Mr. Haynes occupied the position of Colonel and Aide-de-eamp in 1871-72, and Inspector- general in 1873, on Governor Peckham's staff. In 1882 he was again eleeted Representative to the Legislature from Augusta, and was chosen speaker of the House, where he maintained the high reputation he had already established in the Senate; and in the debate on the Con- gressional appointment he took the floor, and made a strong and eloquent speech in support of the bill as reported by the committee.
He was a delegate to the national conven- tion that nominated Blaine and Logan in 1884. He was made a member of the Republican National Committee, and was a member of the National Executive Committee from that time until 1892. As a citizen of Augusta, Mr. Haynes has always been vigilant in promoting the interests of the people with reference to all publie enterprises and internal improve- ments, ready and generous with money and ser- vice whenever properly required. He was Mayor of the city in 1598. He has been interested in electric and gas illuminating properties in Augusta, Rockland, and several cities in the West, and is now engaged in the construction of inter-urban roads in more than one of the Western States. In 1894 he organized the
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Augusta Trust Company, of which he is presi- dent, and which has had great success in the financial world, having become quite a power- ful member of the banking institutions of the State. Thus by his marked ability and unques- tioned integrity Mr. Haynes has already won a position among the foremost of the business operators and publie men of Maine.
"In the midst of his public duties and busi- ness affairs, however, he has never forgotten or neglected the arts which contribute to the amenities of life and tend to elevate its dignity and enlarge its enjoyment. His literary culture is of a superior order, and he has found time to indulge his classical tastes and gratify his love of art by many tours of observation in .Europe. He has been a careful reader of history and general literature, and few are better informed in regard to the progress of society and the current events of the world. He resorts to none of the measures of the demagogue to win popular favor, but, with agreeably diseursive faculties and great facil- ity of expression, he is an elegant conversa- tionalist and a delightful companion among congenial friends. He was selected to deliver, but at the last moment was obliged to deeline on account of other pressing duties, the oration at the centennial celebration at Waterville, his native town, June 23, 1902."
Mr. Haynes settled in Augusta in 1867, and has since made his home in this city. In the same year he married Sarah Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Ira D. and Rebecca (Russell) Sturgis, of that city. Their children are: Marion Doug- las, born January 21, 1868, who is the wife of Daniel Caldwell Stanwood, of Boston, Mass .; Sturgis, born February 17, 1872, who died Jan- uary 21,. 1873: Hope Manchester, born July 28, 1876; and Muriel Sturgis, born February 28, 1882.
ON. CHARLES ALANSON BAILEY, Judge of the Municipal Court of Ban- gor, was born at Columbia Falls, Washington County, Me., March 10, 1838, son of Henry and Jerusha (Wilson) Bailey.
The name of Bailey, which is an ancient
and common one in England, was represented in this country among the carly colonists who left posterity. That branch of the family to which the subject of this sketch belongs was, it is believed, founded by Thomas Bailey, who was of Boston in 1643, with his wife Ruth was probably of Weymouth in 1661, and is thought to have been father of John, of Seituate.
John Bailey, according to Deane, went to Seituate in 1670, and was tenant to Captain John Williams at Farm Neek. He had eight children. John Bailey, second, son of John of Scituate, lived in Hanover, Mass., where he was Seleetman from 1735 to 1737 and a man of influence in the town. February 19, 1700, he married Abigail, daughter of Deacon Samuel Clapp. He died in Hanover in June, 1752, and his widow, March 2, 1753. They had eleven children.
John Bailey, third, lived in Hanover, and was Selectman in 1774. He was a man of business talents and considerable enterprise. He married Elizabeth Cowen, April 11, 1723, and lived on what is now Main Street. His wife died April 12 and he on September 28 of the year 1778. Their children were as fol- lows: Elizabeth, born August 15, 1727, who married Dr. Jeremiah Hall, a distinguished physician and member of the Provincial Con- gress, 1774-75; John, born October 30, 1730; Joan, or Jane, born January 20, 1732, who married Thomas Hubbard, of Abington, July 5, 1750; and Seth, born July 5, 1739.
Seth, fourth child of John, third, married first, February 11, 1762, Lydia Barstow, who died September 17, 1767; and second, July 2S, 1769, Alice Neal. Seth Bailey was one of the Selectinen of Hanover, Mass., in 1781-82. He died October 12, 1796. His children by his first wife were: Seth, baptized December S, 1762, who died December 14, 1762; Margaret, baptized April S, 1764; Seth, baptized December 8, 1765. His children by his second wife were: Alice, baptized May 27, 1770, who died in the same year; Alice (see- ond), baptized November 18, 1770, who died March 1, 1796; Lydia, 1772, who died Jan- uary 13, 1794; Joseph, born in September, died in October, 1773; Joseph, second, bap-
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tized October 2, 1774: Rebecca, baptized March 10, 1776, died July 15, 1778; Abigail, baptized June 1, 1776, died July 11, 1778; James, born November 27, 1778; Israel, Rebecca, Abigail, Lucy-all baptized October 24, 1790. Mrs. Alice Neal Bailey in 1800 was recom- mended to the church in Freeport, Me., and migrated to that place with her family. From Freeport she subsequently removed to Co- lumbia, and lived with her son James and later with his widow. She died at Columbia, December 20, 1828, aged eighty years.
James Bailey, eleventh child of Seth, of Han- over, when a young man moved from Freeport, Me., to Columbia (now Columbia Falls). He there built a fulling-mill, and followed the oc- cupation of clothier. He died at Columbia, December 20, 1821, aged forty-three years. He married Eunice Clapp, of Rochester, Mass., March 17, 1SOS. There were seven children, namely: George, born February 2, 1809, died July 22, 1809; Henry, born July 2, 1810, died July 14, 1875; Mary Ann, married Stillman Lippincott; Betsey, born December 23, 1814, died February 23, 1834; James, born July 28, 1817, died November 24, 1870; John Clapp, born July 19, 1819, died July 22, 1821; Eunice, born January 22, 1821, died May 22, 1822. His widow, who married Jotham Lippincott, died March 16, 1861, aged seventy-three years, seven months. He was a lawyer, justice of the peace, and judge of probate, and was highly esteemed as a worthy citizen, having the confidence of all who had business or per- sonal relations with him.
Henry Bailey, second son of James, was born at Columbia (Columbia Falls), July 2, 1810, and died July 14, 1875. Ile married November 6, 1834, Jerusha Wilson, who died at Machias, Me., September 8, 1902, aged eighty-eight years, seven months, and four- teen days. Their children were: Betsey, born September 5, 1836; Charles Alanson, born March 10, 1838; Sanford Hunt, born October 31, 1840; James Henry, born September 16, 1846, who died March 22, 1901: and Julia Emma, born March 22, 1853. Henry con- tinued in the business that his father had established in Columbia, that of cloth dresser.
Charles Alanson Bailey, upon completing
the usual course of study in the public schools, began to read law under Peter Thatcher, of Rockland. In February, 1864, while still under Mr. Thatcher's tuition, believing that he owed a patriotic duty to his country, he enlisted as a private in the Thirtieth Maine Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war, being honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant. He shortly became a student at the Albany Law School, where he was graduated in 1866. Admitted to the bar in the same year, he began to practise in Oldtown, Penobscot County, Me., remain- ing there until 1881. He then came to Ban- gor, where he has since followed his profes- sion very successfully. Appointed Judge of the Municipal Court of Bangor in 1901, he still retains that office. In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to Oldtown Lodge, F. & A. M. For eight years-from 1889 to 1897-he was County Attorney for Penobscot County.
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