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Mr. Dearborn is a member of Messalonskee Lodge, F. & A. M., of Oakland; and Samaritan Lodge, No. 39, I. O. O. F., of Waterville.
REDERIC HOWARD SMALL, of Ban- gor, was born in Portland, Me., August 2, 1839, a son of William and Sarah Barnes (Hatch) Small. He is of the seventh generation of his family in New England, being a lineal descendant of Francis Small, who was living in Dover, N.H., in 164S. The following is a brief record of his ancestors :--
Francis1 Small was born in 1627. He was in Kittery, Me., 1668, and died in Province- town or Truro, Cape Cod, in 1713. His wife Elizabeth was born in 1634. Her maiden name is thought to have been Leighton. Samuel .? son of Francis, was born in Kittery in 1666, and died after 1737. He married Elizabeth,
the widow of James Chadbourne and daugh- ter of James Heard, of Kittery. Samuel Small, born in Kittery, April 17, 1700, married Anna Hatch, daughter of Captain John Hatch. of Portsmouth. Their eldest son. Samuel Small, born in Kittery, May 26, 1718, married Dorothy Hubbard, February 16, 1741-2. in Scarboro. Subsequently he removed to Lim- ington, Me. ("Old Kittery and her Families. ")
Williams Small, born June 8, 1759. married first, January 7, 1782, Mary March. He married secondly, November 1, 1795, her sister, sarah March. They were daughters of Samuel March. of Scarboro, Me., who was a member of the Provincial Congress and Lieutenant Colonel of the Eighteenth Continental Regiment.
William“ Small, born in Limington in 1797. died January 14, 1879. His marriage to Sarah Barnes Hatch occurred November 25. 1:21. She was a daughter of Walter and Marcia G. (Capen) Hatch. Her father came to Maine from Hingham, Mass., shortly after the Revo- lutionary War, and settled in Limington. Ha
was closely connected with the Cushings and other prominent Hingham families. Mrs. Sarah B. Small died July 28, 1887, having sur- vived her husband eight years. They were the parents of eleven children-William Ed- ward, Charles, Henry, Francis, Hellen, Frederic H., Louise, Howard M., besides three others who died very young.
Educated in the schools of Portland. Fred- eric H. Small became connected with rail- road enterprises as the chosen field of his in- dustrial activity. For some years he was in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railroad. hoti- ing successively various positions of trust. Subsequently he was in the service of the Cans- dian Pacific Road, and at the present time he is treasurer of the Penobscot Central Electric Railway, of Bangor, Me. He married October 12, 1875, Sallie Johnson Winslow Veazie. daughter of Jones Perkins Veazie by his first wife, Mary Jane Winslow.
Mrs. Small is a worthy and prominent rep- resentative of an old New England family. founded by William Veazie, of Braintree. Mass .. who, in 1644, married Elinor, daughter of the Rev. William Thompson. The lineage is: Will- iam,1 Solomon,2 Samuel,3 the Rev. Samuel."
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John,5 General Samuel," Jones Perkins, Sallie J.8 The following is a brief record of the progen- itors in direct line :-
Solomon2 Veazie, son of William and Elinor, married Elizabeth, daughter of Morton Saun- ders, November 23, 1680. Their son, Samuel Veazie, married February 5, 1708, Deborah, daughter of Nathaniel Wales. The Rev. Sam- uel+ Veazie, son of Samuel and Deborah, was born in Braintree, Mass., January S, 1711. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1736, and was ordained minister of the church at Dux- bury, Mass., October 31, 1739. Embracing the doctrines of Whitefield, he preached them with much fervor and persistence. After much trouble and fatigue of body and mind, he was beaten in a law-suit that lie had brought against the town, and on April 18, 1750, was dismissed by the church, as advised by a council of churches, who heartily joined with his own church in recommending Mr. Veazie to the work of the gospel ministry. While this con- troversy was going on at Duxbury, he seems to have been preaching at Hull, and was installed minister of the church there, April 11, 1753. Dismissed from the church at Hull in 1767, in the same year he went to Harpswell, Me. He died in January, 179S. He was twice mar- ried, first in Duxbury, August 6, 1742, to Deb- orah Sampson, who was probably the daugh- ter of George Sampson, born March 1, 1725. She died in Hull, August 22. 1755. He mar- ried for his second wife, in Hull, about 1756, Sarah Jones, who was living in Harpswell in 1787. He had in all eight children.
John5 Veazie, son of the Rev. Samuel by his first marriage, was born August 7, 1746, and baptized in Hull, August 10. He was an in- habitant of Falmouth (Portland), Me., July 6, 1769, and a town officer March 26, 1771. He was a hatter by trade. His homestead was on Middle Street, where he died August 6, 1806. He married October 16, 1768, Rachel Jones, probably of Hull, who was born November 5, 1747. They had eleven children.
General Samuel" Veazie, born probably at Falmouth (now Portland), April 22, 1787, settled in Topsham, Me., when about twenty- one years of age, establishing himself in the business of lumbering and ship-building. He
built many vessels and carried on a pro-per- ous trade with the West Indian ports. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, going out as Captain of the Topsham militia, and being raz - idly promoted until he was made a General. In 1826 he bought the Jackson Davis Mills and privilege at Oldtown, and afterward ali the water-power on the west side of Oldtown Falls. He moved to Bangor in 1832. HA was sole owner of the Penobscot boom, which he carried on for several years, annually rostis the greater part of the product of lumber cu: on Penobscot waters. He was for a time :he sole owner of the Bangor & Penobscot Rail- road. He was also the principal owner of the Veazie Bank, and had other large property interests. In 1837 he was an Executive Coun- cillor, and he also served as Alderman and in other official positions. In 1854 he moved to the town of Veazie, which was formerly a par: of Bangor, but which was incorporated into a town in 1853, and named for him. Here he died March 12, 186S.
He first married in Topsham, July 3. 1509. Susannah, daughter of Gideon and Mary Per- kins) Walker, born March 29, 1792. She was admitted to the first church in Bangor by a letter from the church in Topsham, January 23, 1834. She died June 27, 1852: and be married for his second wife, May 17. 1859. M.s. Mary C. Blanchard, of Stockton, who died in Boston, January 7, 1886.
Jones Perkins' Veazie, eldest of the three children of General Samuel Veazie by his first wife, was born in Topsham, June 2, IS11. az : died February 16, 1875. He married first. on January 27, 1835, Mary Jane Winslow. of Top- sham. She was born June 29, 1810, and died February 13, 1863. He married second. No- vember 28, 1867, Susan B. Townsend, who was born April 17, 1839. By his first wife he had three children, as follows: Samuel Jones. born in Bangor, Me., June 15, 1839, who died in Bangor, February 16, 1895; Edward Winsloww. born March 5, 1849, in Bangor; and Sakie Johnson Winslow, born October 23, 1551. who married, as above mentioned, October 12, 1 75. Frederic H. Small. By his second wife also he had three children: Wildes P. W .. bora April 3, 1870; Louise L., born May 4, 1\72:
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and William S., born September 29. 1874. Wildes P. W. Veazie married January 1, 1892, Mary E. Morgan, and has two children: Wildles T., born November 28, 1893; and Doreen, born May 14, 1896. Louise L. married June 24, 1903, T. Lloyd Hollister of New York City, N.Y.
ELEG NEAL BARSTOW, a retired merchant of Gardiner, Kennebec County, and an old "forty-niner," was born in Litchfield, this county, November 26, 1827. His parents were Joseph C. and Betsey (Neal) Barstow, the father a native of Hanover, Mass., and the mother of Litchfield, Me.
William Barstow, the founder of this branch of the Barstow family in New England, came to this country in 1635, and in 1649 settled in that part of Scituate, Mass., which is now Han- over. He is mentioned in the "History of Ship-building on North River" (Mass.) as the "pioneer" of that industry in Hanover, many of his descendants engaging in the same business.
Joseph C. Barstow, who died in the nineties of the last century, was a prominent citizen of Litchfield, where he served for a number of years as a justice of the peace. John Neal, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one of the early surveyors of Litch- field.
Peleg N. Barstow when fourteen years old left the parental roof to live with his unele, his mother's brother, the Hon. John Neal, who was one of Litchfield's most prominent citizens. He remained an inmate of his uncle's house until reaching the age of seventeen, and then, coming to Gardiner, began an apprenticeship to the trade of mason and bricklayer, which lasted four years.
The end of this period was contemporary with the beginning of the rush to California for gold, and like many others young Barstow was ex- cited by the accounts of the wonderful discov- eries of the precious metal on the banks and in the beds of the streams of the far-away territory. Nothing would content him but to try his luck with the throng of gold seekers, and accordingly in 1849 he sailed from Bath, Me., on board the
brig "Maria," landing in San Francisco after a voyage of one hundred and sixty-three days. having rounded Cape Horn. Going to the mines in the northern part of the territory. he remained there for nearly four years, meet- ing with the usual alternating experiences of success and disappointment of the average miner. Realizing at last that fortune's great prizes were bestowed but rarely and capriciously. he returned home with such wealth as he had been able to accumulate, making the return trip by the Nicaraguan route.
Shortly after his arrival in Maine he engaged with a partner in the grocery and grain business. both wholesale and retail, in Gardiner, the style of the firm for several years being Bartlett. Barstow & Co. The firm subsequently became Barstow & Steward, and after several years more Barstow & Nickerson, under which name it was continued until- Mr. Barstow's retirement in 189S. Since then Mr. Barstow has been engaged to a certain extent in agriculture.
A Republican in politics and taking an active interest in local affairs, he has served as a mem- ber of the City Council of Gardiner, and has in various ways proved himself to be a useful and reliable citizen. His success in life may be ascribed to his own qualities of enterprise and perseverance, with an understanding that has never let the former degenerate into rashness nor the latter into obstinacy.
Mr. Barstow married Elizabeth P. Steward. who was born in Gardiner, Me., a daughter of James and Sarah (Sargent) Steward. Her father was at one time Representative from Gardiner in the State Legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Barstow have six children-Alice E .. Nathaniel C. (now cashier of the Oakland Na- tional Bank of Gardiner), Mary L., George B., Joseph C., and James S.
ILLIAM HOWARD GARDINER. of Camden, Me., albeit a native of Philadelphia, is a scion of New England colonial stock, dating back to within five years of the time of Governor Winthrop's arrival in Boston, his immigrant progenitor, George Gardiner, having been admitted an inhabitant of Aquidneck, R.I., in 163S. Born
PELEG N. BARSTOW.
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May 22, 1850, son of Edward and Sophia (Miff- lin) Gardiner, William Howard Gardiner is of the ninth generation of his family in Amer- ica. Himself learned in the law, he numbers among his eight ancestors in the male line- namely, George,1 of Aquidneck: Benon ??: Will- iam3; Dr. Sylvester+: John5; the Rev. Dr. John Sylvester John"; William Howard; and Ed- wards-a skilful physician of the eighteenth century, a doctor of divinity, an attorney- general of the British West Indies, and an eminent member of the Suffolk (Massachusetts) bar.
The first three generations lived and died in Rhode Island.
Sylvester+ Gardiner was born in North Kings- ton, R.I., June 29, 170S, son of William3 and Abigail (Remington) Gardiner (see Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island" and Arnold's "Vital Records," volume v.). He was educated abroad, studying medicine in London and Paris. Returning to New Eng- land he settled in Boston, and devoted himself to the practice of his profession and the busi- ness of importing drugs, in both of which call- ings he was successful. Inheriting a goodly amount of property from his father, he thus came in time to be possessed of a large estate. Early in the latter half of the eighteenth cen- tury he was the chief promoter of the settle- ment of the Kennebec Valley, putting new life into the enterprise of the Proprietors of the Kennebec Purchase as soon as he joined the organization, having acquired one-eighth ownership therein in 1753, when he became permanent moderator of the company. A man of uncommon zeal, ripe judgment, great business talent, and a powerful "interest in the growth of the country," he instituted prac- tical measures, expending his money freely in clearing land, laying out farms, building houses and mills. He was the founder of the town of Pownalboro, now Dresden, in the northern part of Lincoln County, and of Gardiner (for- merly called Gardinerston) and Pittston in Kennebec County, and was the means of in- ducing many settlers to come to these and other places, as Winslow and Swan Island, where he built dwelling houses. The pro- prietors recognized his services by liberal grants
of land: he acquired other tracts. and was thus owner at one time of five hundred thou- sand acres in Maine. He built and endowel St. Anne's, now Christ Church in Gardiner. and also St. John's Church, Pownalboro. of which the subject of this sketch is at present Senior Warden. A devout Anglican in religion and a Loyalist, he left Boston with the British army in March, 1776. Acte: the return of peace he came back to his native land, and resided in Newport. R.I .. until his death in August, 1786. in the seventy- ninth year of his age. Dr. Gardiner hai six children-John, William, Anne, Hannah. Re- becca, and Abigail-all by his first wife. Anne Gibbons, daughter of Dr. John Gibbons. c: Boston. (For further account of Dr. Gardi- ner, his benefactions to the church. his fami- ily, his will, and his epitaph, the reader is re- ferred to the History of Gardiner and Pittston. the History of the Church at Narragansett. az : the Life of the Rev. Jacob Bailey.)
His son William died unmarried. His daugh- ter Anne married John Brown, second son of the Earl of Altamont, now Marquis of Sice and lived abroad. Hannah, his fourth chili. married Robert Hallowell, and was the mother of Robert Hallowell, Jr., whose name. in order that he might come into possession of the es- tate left him by his grandfather, was changed by act of Legislature to Robert Hallowell Gardiner. Rebecca Gardiner married Philis Dumaresq, of Boston; and Abigail married Oliver Whipple.
John Gardiner, Dr. Gardiner's eldest son. bom in Boston in 1731, became a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, and practised at Westminster: he was counsel for the celebrated John Wilkes. In 1768 he went to St. Christopher's. West Indies. having received from the crown the appoint- ment of Attorney-general. After the close of the war of the Revolution he returned to Boston. He was a liberal-minded man. in religion a Unitarian, and in politics a Whig. Settling in Pownalboro, now Dresden. Me .. on the estate bequeathed to him by his father. he represented that town in the General Cour: of Massachusetts from 1789 until his death in 1793, when the packet on which he was sailing from Pownalboro to Boston was lost with all
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on board. His wife, Margaret Harries, was of Haverford, West, South Wales, and their children were Anne, John Sylvester John, and William. John Gardiner, when member of Massachusetts Legislature, became distinguished for his advocacy of certain law reforms, and thus he was known as the Law Reformer. He also advocated the removal of restrictions on theatres.
The elder son, the Rev. John Sylvester John Gardiner, D.D., born in Wales in 1765, died in England in 1830. After studying law under his father, he studied theology, and became assistant of Dr. Parker at Trinity Church in 1792, and on Dr. Parker's death rector thereof. For thirty-seven years, as testified by Phil- lips Brooks, "he was the best known and most influential of the Episcopal ministers of Boston. His broad and finished scholar- ship, his strong and positive manhood, his genial hospitality, his fatherly affection, and his eloquence and wit made him through all those years a marked and powerful person, not only in the church, but in the town."
The Rev. Dr. Gardiner married Mary How- ard, daughter of Colonel William and Martha (Howard) Howard, of Augusta, Me. Her pa- ternal grandfather, James Howard, who came from Ireland, was the first settler at Cushnoc (now Augusta). Hle commanded the fort in the French and Indian War. Lieutenant Sam- uel Howard, brother of James, was the father of Martha, who married her cousin, Colonel William Howard. Margaret Lithgow, wife of Lieutenant Samuel Howard, was a daughter of Colonel William Lithgow. The Rev. Dr. Gardiner and his wife Mary had three children -- William Howard, Elizabeth, and Louisa. Louisa Gardiner married John P .. Cushing, of Watertown, Mass.
William Howard Gardiner, born in 1797, educated by his father and at Harvard College (class of 1816), read law in the office of Harri- son Gray Otis, was admitted to the bar, and practised his profession in Boston, being one of the foremost lawyers in the city in his day. He died in 1880. His wife, Caroline Perkins, whom he married in 1823, died in 1867. She was a daughter of the Hon. Thomas Handasved Perkins, merchant and philanthropist of Boston,
liberal benefactor of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind (named in his honor), a large contributor also to the Massa- achusetts General Hospital, the Boston Athe- næum, and the Mercantile Library. His daugh- ter Mary, sister of Caroline, married Thomas G. Cary, of Boston, and was the mother of Mrs. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz.
Edward Gardiner, born in 1825, was the second son of William H. and Caroline (Perkins) Gardiner, and the eldest who left issue. He resided in Boston. As a church architect he designed and supervised the erection of many churches in different parts of the country, and, although he died a young man in 1859, he had gained high standing in his profession.
He married in 1849 Sophia Harrison Mifflin, of Philadelphia, daughter of Samuel and Eliza- beth (Davis) Mifflin, and grand-daughter of Colonel Turbutt and Sarah (Mifflin) Francis. Her father's name, originally Francis, was legally changed to Mifflin. Sarah Mifflin, wife of Colonel Francis, was the daughter of Sam- uel+ Mifflin (Jonathan,3 John,2 John1). John1 Mifflin, with his son John,2 came from Wilt- shire, England, to America before 1679. They each had a grant of one hundred and fifty acres of land on the banks of the Schuylkill, Pennsyl- vania, now included in Fairmount Park, Phila- delphia. Mrs. Sophia Harrison (Mifflin) Gar- diner died in 1889. She was sister to the late Dr. Charles Mifflin, of Boston, father of George H. Mifflin of the publishing firin of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Five children were born to Ed- ward Gardiner and his wife Sophia; and four -William Howard, Eugenia, Edward G., and Elizabeth-are now living. Elizabeth is the widow of Glendower Evans. Edward Gardi- ner, second, married Jennie, daughter of Sam- uel Hooper, and resides in Boston.
William Howard Gardiner, of Camden, the elder of the two sons, was educated in the pub- lic schools of Boston. After leaving school he read law with his grandfather, for whom he was named. Later he spent several years abroad. He has never practised his profes- sion or engaged in business. For some years, or since 1889, he has made his home in Camden. In 1878 Mr. Gardiner joined the Pennsylvania militia as a Lieutenant in the Third Infantry,
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and later served as Regimental Adjutant and Assistant Inspector-general of Brigade. In 1898 he raised the first provisional company for the war with Spain. While Mr. Gardiner was brought up a Democrat, and was for many years a member of his town committee, the nomination of Bryan and Sewell upon the free silver issue in 1896 caused him to sever his con- nection with that party. He became secretary of the State Committee of the Gold Democratic party, was a delegate to the Indianapolis con- vention of that year, and was very active in the campaign, making a number of speeches and contributing largely to the political literature of the period.
In 1898 he formally joined the Republican party, and has since taken an active part in politics. He has never held office, but has taken a prominent part in local affairs, serving upon many important committees; and he is the author of many pamphlets and newspaper contributions upon public questions.
In 1901, his town having no Representative in the Legislature, he was elected at a town meeting to spend the winter at Augusta and further the application of the citizens of his town for a municipal water charter, which, while it failed to become law, was the fore- runner of the many charters which have since been granted.
At twenty-three years of age he married in 1873 Helena Lawrence Baird, of Philadel- phia. He married secondly, in 1890, Tita, daughter of Joseph Butler, of Castle Rhebbin, County Kildare, . Ireland, and grand-daughter of the last Duke of Ormond and also of Lord De Courcy, of Kinsale. He has three children by his first wife. They are: William Howard, Jr., born in Boston, March 14, 1875; John Pennington, born in Philadelphia, March 18, 1876; and Edward Carey, born in Phila- delphia, November 14, 1878. In 1899 William Howard, Jr., married Amelia, daughter of John W. Candler, of Brookline, Mass. A daughter, Evelyn, was born of this union, March 25, 1903. John Pennington Gardiner served with credit in Roosevelt's Rough Riders (First United States Volunteer Cavalry) in the war with Spain.
The arms of the Gardiner family are as follows: -
"Or, on a chevron gules two lions counter- passant of the first between three griffins' heads erased azure. Crest: A Saracen's head couped at shoulders; cap or, wreathed gules and azure. Motto: Pro patria mori."
OHN SCOTT, in 1903 serving his eighth term as chairman of the Board of Se- leetmen of Pittston, Kennebec County. was born in this town, February 29. 182S, son of John and Thankful (Eastman Scott. On the paternal side he is of Scottish descent. His grandfather, Daniel Scott, was an early settler in Pittston. John Scott, Sr .. who was a native of Wiscasset, Me., and a soldier in the War of 1812, accompanied his parents to Pittston when a young man, and devoted the active period of his life to tilling the soil. He died in April, 1887. His wife, Thankful Eastman Scott, was a native of Pittston. They had five children. The four now living are: Elizabeth, who married Cap- tain Leander Cox; Mary, a resident of Pitts- ton; John, the principal subject of this sketch. and Laura, wife of Sumner Smiley, of Frank- lin, Mass. A daughter named Nancy died in infancy.
John Scott, the direct subject of this sketch, grew to manhood upon the farm he now owns and occupies. He obtained his education in the Pittston public schools, which at that time did not afford the intellectual advantages offered to the youth of the present day. Leav- ing home at the age of twenty years, he went to sea. Finding himself, however, unfitted for a seafaring life, he decided to seek his fortune in California, whither he went from Boston by the way of Cape Horn in 1852. reaching San Francisco after a voyage of one hundred and twenty-seven days. After re- maining upon the Pacific coast for four years. he was compelled to return home owing to impaired eyesight. and for the succeeding eight years he resided in Pittston. In 1$62 he returned to California by the Isthmian route. and was engaged in lumbering there for four years. From 1867 to the present time he has resided at the homestead in Pittston, giving his principal attention to general farming. He
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is the owner of one hundred and fifteen aeres of desirably located land, the tillage portion of which is in a good state of cultivation. Po- litically, Mr. Scott is a Republican, and is now serving his tenth year as a Selectman, hav- ing been chairman of the board continuously since 1895. Needless to say, his able services in behalf of the town's public affairs are widely recognized and appreciated.
On January 17, 1859, Mr. Scott married Miss Mary Catharine Emery, daughter of Jonas and Eliza (Boynton) Emery of Buxton, York County, Me. Their children are: Eva Eliza, Frederick Emery, Charles Walter, and Burton Wales Scott. Eva Eliza is the wife of Alvin Cutts, of Pittston. Frederick Emery and Burton Wales also live in Pittston, and Charles Walter Scott is a resident of Chelsea, Mass.
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