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JDWARD BENJAMIN MACALLISTER, LL.D., lawyer, of Rockland, is one of the younger members of the Knox County bar, having been admitted to practice in 1893. He was born in South Berwick, York County,
December 30, 1864, son of Edward and Vesta A. (Ricker) MacAllister. His paternal grand- father, Joseph McAllister, was born in South Thomaston, Me., September 1S, 1794, being the son of John McAllister, who with his wife settled on a farm in South Thomaston before 1792. The family is of Scottish origin.
Joseph McAllister spent forty years of his active life in Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick, engaged in lumbering. Returning to Maine, he settled in Rockland, and was a truck- man. He died in February in the year 1863. His wife, Anna, he married in Nova Scotia. They had several children.
Edward MacAllister, son of Joseph and Anna, was born about the year 1840. It is thought that his birthplace was South Thomaston. He was a travelling salesman, his home at one time being in South Berwick. He died in 1SS2. His wife, Vesta A., was born in Lebanon, Me. Her father, Samuel Copp Ricker, born in Lebanon, Me., in 1SOS, died in Corning, N.Y., in 18SO. He was a son of Elijah Ricker. His mother's maiden name was Hannah Copp. She wasa daughter of Samuel Copp, one of the earliest settlers of Lebanon, a Lieutenant in Captain Drew's company, of Colonel Evans's regiment, of the Continental army, and the first Representa- tive to the Massachusetts General Court from Lebanon.
Samuel Copp Ricker married Annis Perkins Briggs, a native of Maine and daughter of Rufus. and Elizabeth (Torcey) Briggs. Born in 1812, she died in 1882. Her maternal grandmother was Mrs. Mary Morgan Torcey (wife of Dr. Gideon Torcey). The History of Kennebec County, Maine, states that Dr. Gideon Torsey caine from France, and was a surgeon in the French and Indian War; that he married and settled in Gilmanton, N.H. His son, John Atkinson Torsey, removed to Monmouth, Me. He was the father of Henry P. Torsey, LL.D., D.D., born in 1819, who for thirty-eight years (1848-86) was the principal of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill.
The boyhood of Edward B. MacAllister was spent with his parents in New York State, his father attending to business as a travelling salesman, and he pursuing his studies, element- ary and advanced, in different schools. De-
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ciding at length to fit himself for the legal profession, he read law in the office of Con- gressman Charles E. Littlefield at Rockland, was admitted to the Knox County bar in 1893, and has been engaged in practice in Rockland ever since.
In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. He has held offices in the city govern- ment. He is a member of the Knox Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Rockland.
Mr. MacAHister married in 1893 Miss Emma Belle Pottle, a native of Camden, Knox County, Me., and daughter of Jeremiah G. and Adresta (French) Pottle. Mr. and Mrs. MacAllister have two children, Edna Belle and Laurence, both born in Rockland.
ARVEY LYSANDER JEWELL, M.D., of Bangor, where he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profes- sion for upward of thirty-five years, or since 1867, serving for three years as city physician, is a native of the town of Lincoln in the same county of Penobscot.
Born October 2, 1841, son of John Milton and Lucy Ann (Richards) Jewell, he is a lineal de- scendant in the ninth generation of Thomas Jewell, who in 1639 was granted twelve acres of land at Mount Wollaston, incorporated in 1640 as Braintree. The line is: Thomas,1 Thomas,2 John,3 Thomas,' Henry L.,5 Henry,6 James,7 John Milton,8 Harvey Lysander.9
The will of Thomas1 Jewell, of Braintree, was dated "10th, 2nd month, 1654." He must have died not long after, as administration was granted to his widow Grisell on the 21st of July follow- ing. He left three sous-Thomas,2 Joseph,? and Nathaniel .?
Thomas? Jewell lived for some years in Hing- ham. He married October 18, 1672, Susannah Gilford, and about the year 1687 he removed from Hingham to Amesbury, Mass. A num- ber of years later, when the boundary line be- tween the State of Massachusetts and New Hampshire was settled, that part of Amesbury was included in New Hampshire, and it has since been a part of South Hampton, N.H. Jolin3 Jewell, born May 20, 1683, married Jan- uary 9, 1702, Hannah Prowse, by whom he had
five children. Thomas4 Jewell, the second born, and the eldest son, married (intentions published February 19, 1732) Judith Lancaster. Henry L.5 Jewell, born December 19, 1732, and so named in the Amesbury records, married Sarah Gould, and is said to have settled in the vicinity of Concord, N.H. He was wounded in the leg in the old French War that resulted in the capt- ure of Quebec by General Wolfe in 1759, and he died of measles after his return. He had four children: Henry," born March 5, 1753; Enos,6 born in 1754; Joseph,“ born in 1759; and Thomas.6
After his death his widow, with her sons Henry6 and Enos, removed to Litchfield, Me., where she married Joseph Huntington. She died in Hallowell at an advanced age.
Henry6 Jewell died in Litchfield August 20, 1827, in his seventy-fifth year. His wife was Sarah Greeley. They had eleven children- Mary, William, Joseph, Betsey, Sarah, Henry, Lydia, James, Gould, Martha, and Stephen- the eldest, Mary, born January 3, 1773; the youngest, Stephen, born March 3, 1798.
James' Jewell, the eiglith child, born Decem- ber 18, 1788, married first June 6, 1809, Hannah C. True. His second wife was S. C. Severence. He had nine children: Hiram Washington, born February 9, 1811; Harvey B., April 3, 1813; Oliver Hilton, June 10, 1815; John Milton (the Doctor's father), born March 25, 1817; Joanna Brown, August 29, 1819; Sarah C., August 15, 1821; William True, August 9, 1823; Martha W., May 8, 1825; Nancy J., December 30, 1828.
John Milton Jewell and Lucy Ann Richards were married in August, 1840. She died De- cember 6, 1897; he died November 30, 1896. They had five children: Dr. Harvey Lysander, of Bangor; Garaphelia Aubine, born October 9, 1843; Francis Richards, born November 17, 1846 (now deceased): Hannah C., born Octo- ber 24, 1849, died in 1851; and Lucy Grace, born October 3, 1S60.
Garaphelia Aubine, the second child, married Elisha A. Clifford, of Bangor. Lucy Grace . married Charles P. Webber, of Bangor, an extensive lumber dealer. (See biographical sketch of Mr. Webber and M. S. Clifford in this volume.)
At twenty years of age, in 1861, Harvey
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Lysander Jewell, having received his education in the Lincoln public schools and Lincoln Acad- emy, began the study of medicine under the instruction of his uncle, Dr. Oliver H. Jewell, of New London, Conn .; and in 1862 he attended lectures at the Metropolitan Medical College.
In the meantime the War of the Rebellion was raging in the South, there was continuous need of recruiting the patriotic forces assembled for the defence of the Union, and in 1863 he enlisted as hospital steward in the Fifteenth New York Cavalry. Taken prisoner on June 19, 1864, he was confined in Andersonville and other prisons six months and one week. After his release by exchange of prisoners, he remained in the army until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged in May, 1865. In the autumn of that year he entered Michigan Uni- versity, at Ann Arbor, Mich .; and later he stud- ied at the University of Vermont in Burlington, from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1876. He also attended medical lectures elsewhere.
He began the practice of medicine in the town of New Haven, in the State of New York, where he remained for two years, and then removed to Worcester, Mass. In 1867, as noted above, he settled in Bangor. He was married in Boston, April 13, 186S, to Helen M. Tufts, of Worcester. His large practice is sufficient evidence of his skill and success in his profession.
A Republican in politics, he has served on the Common Council of the city of Bangor for three years, and on the Board of Aldermen two years. He is a Free Mason of Bangor Lodge, and a Knight Templar, belonging to Saint John's Commandery of Bangor.
ALVIN AUGUSTUS COLE, a prosper- ous merchant of Hallowell, Kennebec County, was born in this town, March 12, 1840, son of Calvin A. and Susan (Evans) Cole. His parents were both natives of Hallowell. His maternal grandfather was an early settler in this place, as was also his father's father. His mother's father, Daniel Evans, was a farmer in Hallowell, and also was well known as the proprietor of a horse ferry across the Ken- nebec River at this point.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools and at Hallowell Academy. In his nineteenth year he began industrial life as clerk for Francis J. Day, then a well-known grocer at Mr. Cole's present location, Nos. 120 and 122 Water Street, Hallowell. Mr. Cole remained in the employ of Mr. Day for four years, after which he became his partner, the style of the firm being Day & Co. In 1SS4, on Mr. Day's retirement, Mr. Cole became proprietor of the business, which he has conducted successfully up to the present time. Besides groceries he carries crockery and glassware, plated ware, feed, cutlery, and chinaware. He is also the Hallowell agent for the Eastern Steamship Com- pany, until recently known as the Kennebec Steamship Company. Mr. Cole has achieved business success through his own ability, which has ever been associated with the strictest in- tegrity. He is publie-spirited, manifesting an intelligent interest and often taking useful ac- tion in local affairs, in which he shows the same careful judgment that has marked his business career. For three successive years he served as Alderman of Hallowell. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the local Blue Lodge.
Mr. Cole was married in 1859 to Nancy Wood- ward, a native of Augusta, Me., and a daughter of William and Nancy (MeDavitt) Woodward. He has four living children: Charles A., now a resident of Boston, Mass .; Clara A., wife of F. G. Carter, of Hallowell, Me .; Mary E., wife of Walter Wood, of Boston, Mass .; and Harold A., who resides in Hallowell.
Mr. Cole is one of the oldest merchants still doing business on Water Street, and is respected both by his business associates and by the com- munity in general. He has a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Mrs. Cole died Janu- ary 4, 1899.
ILTON SHERBURNE CLIFFORD, attorney and counsellor-at-law, Ban- gor, is a native of Penobscot County, his birthplace being the town of Lineoln, about forty-five miles in a northerly direction from Bangor. He was born April 6, 1871, son of Elisha Ayer and Gara-
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phelia Aubine (Jewell) Clifford. His father came to Maine from Rumney, Grafton County, N.H .: his mother was born in Lincoln, Me. Mr. Clifford was named for his two grandfathers, Sherburne Clifford and Milton Jewell.
The immigrant progenitor of this branch of the Clifford family in New England was George Clifford, who is spoken of in Dow's History of Hampton, N.H., as having come from the par- ish of Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England, prob- ably with his wife Elizabeth and son John. to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1644. That George Clifford was a resident of Boston in the preceding year is shown by the fact that at a general town meeting held on November 27, 1643, he was appointed town drummer (Record Commissioners' Report, vol. ii.). In the "History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company," formerly the "Military Company .of Massachusetts," he is mentioned as one who became a member of the company in 1644, and was a member of the First Church in Boston in 1643.
From Boston George Clifford removed to Hampton, N.H. His son John,2 born in Eng- land in 1614, was married three times, and was the father of Israel,3 who married Ann Smith in 1680, and resided in Hampton. Isaac' Clifford, born in Hampton, May 24, 1696, son of Israel,3 married Sarah Healey in Chester, N.H., and eventually settled in Rumney, N.H. The History of Chester states that Isaac' Clif- ford had ten children, and mentions nine, one being Sarah, who married Sherburne Rowe, of Candia, another, Nathaniel,5 who settled in Rumney.
Nathaniel5 Clifford, born in Rumney, N.H., in 1750, married Ruth Garland, of Candia, N.H. One of their sons was Deacon Nathan" Clifford, born in 1778, who married Lydia Simp- son, and was the father of Nathan? Clifford, sometime Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Sherburne® Clifford, uncle to the late Judge Clifford, was probably a native and life-long resident of Rumney, whether older or younger than his brother Nathan" is not known to the present writer. He married Jane Ayer, daugh- ter (or grand-daughter?) of Elisha Ayer of Newfield, Me., for whom they named their son,
Elisha Ayer Clifford, father of Milton Sherburne Clifford, of Bangor. Mrs. Jane Ayer Clifford was sister (or aunt?) to Hannah Ayer who be- came the wife of Judge Nathan7 Clifford, Han- nah being a daughter of James Clifford, son of Elisha.
Elisha Ayer Clifford lived for some years in Newfield, York County, Me., before settling in Lincoln. Mr. Clifford and his wife Garaphelia have four children-Alice Gertrude, Milton Sherburne, Ella Grace, and Fred Harvey.
Mrs. Garaphelia A. Clifford is sister to Dr. Harvey L. Jewell and Mrs. Charles P. Webber. both of Bangor, the three being the surviving children of John Milton and Lucy Ann (Rich- ards) Jewell, formerly of Lincoln, Me. John Milton Jewell, born March 25, 1817, died in 1896, was a descendant in the eighth generation of Thomas' Jewell, who died in Braintree, Mas- sachusetts Bay Colony, in 1654. Thomas' Jewell is on record as having received a grant of land at Mount Wollaston (now Braintree) in February, 1639 (O. S.). The line descended through his son, Thomas,? who married in 1672 Susannah Clifford; John,3 born in Hingham in 1683, who married at Amesbury in 1702 Han- nah Prowse: Thomas,' born 1707, who mar- ried Judith Lancaster ; Henry L.,5 born 1732, who married Sarah Gould, and settled in New Hamp- shire; Henry,6 born in 1753, who married Sarah Greeley, and was the father of James,7 born in 17SS, who was the father of John Milton Jewell. James? Jewell married first, June 6. 1809, Hannah C. True, and after her death mar- ried a widow, Mrs. S. C. Severence. John Milton® Jewell was the fourth born of his nine children. (For further ancestral history of the Jewell family see sketch of Charles P. Web- ber on another page.)
Milton Sherburne Clifford was graduated at Bowdoin College in the class of 1893. He sub- sequently read law in the office of General H. L. Mitchell, of Bangor, and was admitted to the bar in February, 1896, and has been en- gaged in the practice of his profession in Bangor . ever since. He is a Republican in politics, but has taken no very active part in political cam- paigns. He was a member of the Water Board of Bangor in 1900 and 1901, and is now (1903) serving in that capacity. As a Mason he belongs
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to St. Andrews Lodge of Bangor. He was mar- ried June 27, 1895, to Angela Godfrey Clifford. They have had three children: Phyllis, born 1896, died 1896; Beatrice, born May 4, 1897; and Eleanor, born January 6, 1900.
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HARLES PRESCOTT WEBBER, of Bangor, an extensive dealer in lumber, is a native of the town of Ripley, Somerset County, Me. His father, John Prescott Webber, was born in New Port- land, Me., in the same county, June 23, 1832, being a son of Israel and Hannah (Prescott) Webber. Israel Webber was born in 1785, son of David and Ellis (Smith) Webber, who married in 1775, and settled at Edgecomb, Me. David, born about 1745, was son of Payson Webber, who settled at New Portland, and afterward removed to Squam Island, now Westport ("Genealogical Sketch of the De- scendants of Several Branches of the Webber Family," by A. Button, 1878). So far as the present writer is aware the antecedents of Payson Webber (though he is supposed by some to have been a grandson of Wolfert Web- ber, Jr., an early Dutch immigrant) are unknown. Conjecture has been busy over the origin of the family in America. It remains for the future painstaking investigator to discover the facts.
Israel Webber was a seafaring man for many years, serving in the merchant marine. Event- ually he gave up ocean voyaging, and made his home successively in Somerset and Penob- scot Counties, Maine. He died in North Ban- gor in 1868, having outlived his wife, Hannah Prescott Webber, six years. She was born in 1789, daughter of the Rev. John and Mehita- ble (Morrill) Prescott. Her father, born in 1753, was a Baptist clergyman, and a descend- ant in the fourth generation of James' Pres- cott, of Hampton, Hampton Falls, and Kings- ton, N.II., the founder of this branch of the family in New England. James1 Prescott mar- ried in 1668 Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Boul- ter. Their son John,2 born in 16S1, married Abigail Marston, and was the father of Jede- diah3 and grandfather of the Rev. John+ Pres- cott, above named. Jedediah3 Prescott, born
in 1719, married Hannah Batchelder. who was born in 1720, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Davis) Batchelder. Her father was son of Nathaniel Batchelder, of Hampton. by his second wife Mary, widow of John Wyman and daughter of the Rev. Thomas Carter. the first settled minister of Woburn, Mass. Na- thaniel3 Batchelder was a grandson of the Rev. Stephen1 Bachiler, the founder of Hampton. N.H.
John Prescott Webber was the fourth son and eighth child of his parents. He married first, in March, 1851, Miss Anne Sophia R.ob- inson, daughter of the late Hon. Bradbury Robinson, of East Corinth, Penobscot County. Me., at one time State Senator for that district. Three sons were the fruit of this union, namely: Charles Prescott, of Bangor, born in Ripley. Somerset County, Me., December 23. 1:52: Franklin Roscoe, born March 17, 1856: and Frederick, born in 185S, who died at the age of six years. Mrs. Anne S. Webber, the mother. died in Bangor, August 9, 1869. John Pres- cott Webber married for his second wife. Octo- ber 12, 1871, Caro Holman. daughter of Eben Blunt, Esq. Of this union also there were three children: June, born December 5. 1ST4: John Prescott, Jr., born January 13. 1579: and Channing, born January 9, 18S1. John P .. Jr., and Channing are now deceased. Mr. Webber married for his third wife Minnie S. Peters, who bore him two children, Gladys (deceased) and Ralph B.
Charles Prescott Webber, eldest son of John Prescott Webber, began his education in the schools of his home town, and later attended Hebron Academy at Hebron, Oxford County. Me. He married March 18, 18SO, Lucy Grace Jewell, daughter of John Milton Jewell and his wife, in maidenhood Lucy Ann Richards. Her father, born in Litchfield, Kennebec County. died in Lincoln, Me., November 30, 1896. Her mother, a native of Boston, Mass., died Decem- ber 6, 1897.
John Milton Jewell was a descendant in'the eighth generation of Thomas Jewell, an early settler of Braintree, Mass., the line being: Thomas,1 Thomas," John,3 Thomas," Henry L .. 5 Henry," James. John Milton.8 The records of Boston show that on the twenty-fourth day
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of the twelfth month, February, 1639 (O. S.), there was granted to "Thomas Jewell of the Mount (Wollaston) milner, for three heads, twelve acres upon the covenant of 3 c. per acre." (By " three heads" is meant that he had three in his family. "Milner" for miller.) . The set- tlement known as Mount Wollaston was in- corporated as Braintree in May, 1640. Thomas1 Jewell, of Braintree, died in 1654. He had three sons-Thomas, Joseph, and Nathaniel- and three daughters-Hannah, Grisel, and Mercy. His widow, whose name was Grisel, married for her second husband Humphrey Griggs.
Thomas2 Jewell married October 18, 1672, Susanna Gilford. Their children, born in Hing- ham, were-Mary, Thomas, Ruth, Hannah, John, and Hannah, second. About the year 1687 he removed with his family to Ames- bury, Mass. On the settlement of the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire, that part of Amesbury in which he set- tled was included in the latter State, being a part of the present town of South Hampton, where some of his descendants still live. John3 Jewell, born in 1683, married at Amesbury, January 9, 1702, Hannah Prowse, daughter of John1 Prowse and his wife, Hannah Barnes. They had five children-Abigail (Abial), Thomas, Hannah, John, and Barnes. Thomas,+ born at Amesbury, September 10, 1707, married Judith Lancaster (intentions published Feb- ruary 19, 1732). Henry L.5 Jewell, born De- cember 19, 1732, married Sarah Gould, and is said to have settled in the vicinity of Con- cord, N.H. He served as a soldier in the French and Indian War of 1759, and was wounded in the leg. He died of the measles about the year 1762. He had four children-Henry, Enos, Joseph, and Thomas. His widow, with her sons, Henry and Enos, removed to Litch- field, Kennebec County, Me. She there mar- ried Joseph Huntington, and, living to an ad- vanced age, died in Hallowell, Me.
Henry" Jewell, born in New Hampshire, March 5, 1753, eldest son of Henry L. Jewell and his wife Sarah, died August 20, 1827, at Litchfield, Me. Ile married Sarah Greeley, and, if birth dates are correct, was a father before he was twenty years old. His first
child was a daughter. After her came four daughters and six sons, eleven children in all. The following is the record: Mary, born in Janu- ary, 1773; William, born September 10, 1776; Joseph, December 14, 1778; Betsey, March 9, 1780; Sarah, April 14, 1782; Henry, July 25, 1784; Lydia, August 14, 1786; James, Decem- ber 18, 1788; Gould, January 26, 1790; Martha, November 14, 1796; and Stephen, March 3, 1798. Henry Jewell died in Litchfield, Au- gust 20, 1827. James Jewell, his eighth child and fourth son, married first, June 6, 1809, Hannah C. True, and after her death married for his second wife Mrs. S. C. Severence, a widow. His children, nine in number, were born as follows: Hiram Washington, February 9, 1811; Harry B., April 3, 1813; Oliver Hilton, June 10, 1815; John Milton (father of Mrs. Webber), March 25, 1817; Joanna Brown, August 29, 1819; Sarah C., August 15, 1821; William True, August 9, 1823; Martha W., May 8, 1825; Nancy Jane, December 30, 1S28.
John MiltonS Jewell and Lucy Ann Richards were married in August, 1840. They became the parents of five children, namely: Harvey Lysander, born October 2, 1841 (a sketch of whose life appears on another page of this volume); Garaphelia Aubine, born October 9, 1843; Francis Richards (deceased), born November 17, 1846: Hannah C., born October 24, 1849, who died in 1851; and Lucy Grace, born in Lincoln, Penobscot County, Me., Oc- tober 3, 1860, who is now the wife of Charles Prescott Webber, of Bangor.
Mr. and Mrs. Webber have four children, namely: Charles Jewell, born December 9, 1881, who is a student at Harvard College; Anne Robinson, born August 5, 1883, now in a Boston art school; Franklin Roscoe, born February 26, 1891; and Lucy Richards, born September 30, 1893-all natives of Bangor.
HARLES O. WADSWORTH, City Clerk of Gardiner, Kennebec County, Me., . was born in Gardiner, September 8, 1839, son of Moses Stevens and Marga- ret Osgood (Knox) Wadsworth. His paternal grandfather, Moses Wadsworth, was for many years a resident of Litchfield, Me. According to
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the Wadsworth genealogy, he was of the sixth generation of his family in New England, being descended through John,5 George,' Ebenezer,3 Samuel,2 from Christopher' Wadsworth, who came from England, and settled in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, in 1632.
Moses Stevens Wadsworth was born in Ken- nebec County in 1814, son of Moses Wadsworth and his wife Hannah Stevens. He was a car- penter by trade, and spent much of his life in Gardiner, where he served in the city govern- ment and as chief engineer of the fire depart- ment. His wife Margaret was a native of Gar- diner. They had four children -Charles O., Fred A., Margaret E. and Elnora H.
Charles Osgood Wadsworth acquired his edu- cation in the Gardiner public schools. On June 12, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company B, Sixteenth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry; was mustered into the United States service August 14, 1862, and with the Army of the Potomac participated in a number of notable engagements, among them the battles of Fred- ericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania, and the siege of Peters- burg. In the last named, on June 21, 1864, Mr. Wadsworth was so severely wounded in the right leg as to necessitate its immediate amputation. After spending some time in the Stanton Hospital, Washington, D.C., he was transferred to the general hospital at Augusta, Me., his confinement embracing in all a period of one year. He was honorably discharged from the service in September, 1865, and has ever since resided in his native city, devoting his attention chiefly to clerical work. For twenty-two years he held the post of librarian of the Gardiner Public Library. In March, 1878, he was elected City Clerk. This office, together with that of Clerk of the Board of Aldermen, he has held continuously to the present time, performing the arduous duties thereof in an efficient and business-like manner. He has also served for a number of years as secretary of the Oak Grove Cemetery Associa- tion.
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