Biographical sketches of representative citizens of the state of Maine, Part 29

Author: New England Historical Publishing Company, Boston, pub
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 998


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On the settlement of this long fight with the government Mr. Grant purchased the old Rich place in Farmingdale, on the banks of the Kenne- bec River, in full view of the old location on Bowman's Point, occupied by his grandfather from 1796. Here he intends to spend the re- mainder of his life.


Mr. Grant's children by his second wife are: Nora Claire Grant, who was the wife of William Powell Rice, of Washington, D.C .; and Vaughan B., who with his wife Lillian resides in Farming- dale. Mrs. Rice has one son, Vaughan Manning Rice, born in Aberdeen, Washington State. Sep- tember 12, 1890. Mr. Grant's son by his first marriage, Samuel C. Grant, married Fannie King, of Chicago, and has resided for twenty years in Peoria, Ill., where he is connected with the firin of Colburn, Birks & Co., whole-


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sale druggists. Mr. Grant is a member of the Episcopal church. In politics he is a Republican.


EWIS ALDEN GOUDY, general man- ager of the Northeastern Telephone Company of Portland, Me., was born in Woolwich, Sagadahoe County, Me, in 1849. Son of Alden and Augusta P. (Soule) Goudy, he is evidently of the fifth generation of the family founded by Amos Goudy, Sr., who came from Old York, Me., and settled on the eastern bank of the Damariscotta River, oppo- site Pleasant Cove.


Amos Goudy was the first bearer of this sur- name in Lincoln County, Me. He engaged in fishing and in lumbering. He built and oper- ated a saw mill, long known as Goudy's Mill. He came to his death by drowning near his home. His body, being recovered, was laid to rest under the green sod on the hillside. His wife's name, it is thought, was Mercy Clark. He left two sons, namely-Amos and John. The printed volume of "Lincoln Probate Records" contains the following :-


" Amos Goudy or Goudey, late of Harrington (now Bristol), Mercy Goudy of Harrington, widow, administratrix, 21 May, 1765. Mercy, guardian to Bette, minor daughter, 18 Sept. 1765. Inventory, 16 July, 1765, £420; 3; 4. Account filed 28 September, 1765."


Amos2 Goudy, born in Bristol, Me., in Octo- ber, 1744, son of Amos, died June 22, 1824, was Sheriff of Lincoln County in 17SS, and probably in earlier years a "man of much intelligence and firmness." His wife, Sarah Clark, born in 1745, died in 1834, as testified by J. M. Goudy in 1872 (History of Bristol and Bremen, page 378).


Amos Goudy, of Bristol, was on the Commit- tee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety in 1776, 1779, and 1781. In vol. vi., "Massa- chusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolu- tionary War," are these record: "Amos Goudy, 2d Lieut. Matross co., Col. Jones's (3d Lincoln Co.) regt. Mass. Militia; list of officers, commis- sioned May 23, 1780." Other spellings of the name are noted, as Goody, Gody, Goudey, Gowdey, etc.


"John Gowdey, Bristol. List of men raised to serve in Continental army. . . . Order of Coun- cil, Nov. 1777, joined Capt. Davis's Company, Col. Wiggleworths regt."


A James Gowdy (also spelled Goudy), of Danvers, saw brief terms of service in 1775 and 1779. He may have sprung from the same family as Amos and John.


Amos? Goudy, the third of the name in direct line, married Rebecca Church, and resided in Bristol, Me. They had three sons-Albert, Alden, and Edwin-and five daughters-Nancy, Jane, Harriet, Diana, and Ahnira. The only one of these children now living is Albert.


Alden Goudy was born in Bristol, Me., March 22, 1821; he died in Westbrook, Me., in 1897, aged seventy-six. He was educated in Lincoln Academy, and in his early manhood he taught school. Afterward for a long period he was engaged in the dry-goods business in Boothbay, Me. Later he travelled in the interests of a commereial house in Portland, and subsequently for eleven years he resided in Thomaston, and kept a boot and shoe and gentlemen's furnish- ing store, eventually removing therefrom to Westbrook, where he engaged in the same line of trade, and where his remaining years were spent. He was a Republican in politics, and while residing in Boothbay he served as a Seleetman and in the State Legislature. He was a member of several societies, among them being one of the first temperance organiza- tions ever formed in Maine. He married in Woolwich, Me., February 4, 1848, Augusta P. Soule, daughter of David F. Soule and his wife Elizabeth. Her father, born in Woolwich, Me., in 1795, son of Samuel Soule, was a descendant in the seventh generation of George Soule, who came in the "Mayflower," and landed on Plym- outh Rock in December, 1620. The line of descent is: George1; John,2 born about 1632; Joshua,3 born 1681; Deacon Ezekiel,4 born February 17, 1711; John3; Samuel6; David. F.7


George1 Soule married Mary Becket, and set- tled in Duxbury. John2 Soule married, in 1678, Mrs. Esther Nash Sampson, widow of Samuel Sampson and a daugliter of Samuel Nash. John3 Soule married Joanna Studley.


Deacon Ezekiel' married in Duxbury, January 4, 1733, Hannah Delano. They removed to


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Woolwich, Me. Their children were-William, Lucy, Lydia, Amasa, Hannah, John, Deborah. Mrs. Hannah Delano Soule died at Woolwich, Me., September 25, 176S. According to the Delano genealogy she was a daughter of Jona- than Delano, Sr., of Duxbury, in whose will, 1765, she is mentioned as Hannah Soule.


David F. Soule married Mrs. Elizabeth Mac- Murphy Dole, widow of Cyrus Dole, and daugh- ter of Archibald and Elizabeth (Holbrook) Mac-Murphy. Her father, said to have been a native of Scotland, settled in Woolwich, Me., when a young man.


Alden and Augusta P. (Soule) Goudy had six children, Lewis Alden being the first born (he has one brother, Frank, and one sister, Harriet, now living). Harriet R. (first), Lizzie Soule, and Edward L. died in childhood. Frank Goudy, born in Boothbay, Me., married Nellie Pike, of Portland, and has two children, John P. and Genevieve.


Lewis Alden Goudy was educated in the pub- lic schools of Boothbay and Bath, Me. In his early manhood he was employed for a while on the Maine Central Railroad, and afterward as accountant for a wholesale flour and grain house in Portland. Subsequently for seventeen years he was engaged in the manufacture of biscuit and confectionery, being the head of the firm of Goudy & Kent, which after his re- tirement was merged in the National Biscuit Company. Energetic and progressive, he has been identified with various enterprises tend- ing to promote the business prosperity of the city, and for some time he was vice-president of the Portland Board of Trade. During the Spanish-American War he was very active in sending supplies to Cuba for the reconcentrados. His political affiliations are with the Republi- can party. For some years he was a member of the city government of Portland and was largely instrumental in securing competition in elec- tric lighting for the city. He was also an Overseer of the Poor. He was the pioneer in the installation of the Automatic Secret Service Telephone System. This system of telephony is installed in Portland and other cities in the State of Maine; also in a number of cities in New Hampshire.


Mr. Goudy married February 5, 1873, Annie


J. Ayers, daughter of Joseph and Harriet (Beal) Ayers. They have four children-Annie Louise, Isabelle Augusta, Ellen Chase, and Aliee Dins- dale.


Mr. Goudy is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, also a member of the order of K. P. He is a member of the American Independent Telephone Asso- ciation.


ANIEL ARTHUR ROBINSON, A.M., M.D., a practising physician of Bangor, is well known and influ- tial in the educational field as well as in medical circles, being one of the board of overseers of Bowdoin College and a member of the School Committee of the city of Bangor. He is a native of Penobscot County and mem- ber of an old family, having been born June 22, 1850, in East Orrington, where his paternal grandfather, Elisha Robinson, settled about the year 1800, removing from Wrentham, Mass.


Elisha Robinson was a native of Attleboro, Mass. He died in Orrington, Me., in 1842, aged eighty-two years. His father was Samuel Robinson, of Attleboro, doubtless a descend- ant of George1 Robinson, of Rehoboth, Mass., who married June 18, 1651, Johanna Ingra- ham. Daggett's History of Attleboro states that six Robinson brothers came to Attleboro from Rehoboth before 1730. A Samuel Rob- inson, of Attleboro, and Mary Cooper, of Re- hoboth, were married in November, 1726. (Rehoboth Records.)


Elisha Robinson, the Doctor's grandfather, for many years was a Selectman of Orrington. His wife, a well-educated woman for those days, taught school. Her maiden name was Sally Cobb. She became Mrs. Robinson, April 18, 1798. When a young man Elisha Robin- son served two terms of enlistment in the war of the Revolution. He enlisted March 3, 1781, in Captain Samuel Fisher's company for service in Rhode Island; also enlisted Au- gust 20, 1781, in Captain John Lincoln's com- pany, Colonel Joseph Webb's regiment; dis- charged November 29, 1781. The town to which he belonged was Wrentham, Mass. (Massachusetts State Archives.)


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Harrison Robinson, the Doctor's father, was born in East Orrington, Me., April 26, 1813. In 1838 he went as a substitute in the ranks of a military company that marched from East Orrington northward for the protection of the New England boundary, but learned on reach- ing Bangor that the " Aroostook War. " so called, was over. By trade a brick mason, a black- smith, and wheelwright, he was also a wood- turner and an inventor as well. He invented turning by a pattern, and the Hunton governor for use on steam engines. The position of engineer on one of the monitors was offered him by Vice-President Hamlin, who was an intimate friend. This position, however, Mr. Robinson did not accept. Genial and kindly, he was much beloved in his home town of East Orrington, where he was familiarly known as "Unele Harry." When the Mormons came there to proselyte he was chosen to convey to them the decision of the citizens. They might preach, "but if they made a single convert they would all be tarred and feathered and ridden on a rail out of town." For many years Mr. Robinson was employed as an ex- pert machinist for Hinckley and Egery, of Bangor, travelling to different parts of the country, setting up machinery in mills. Later he was millwright and. engineer of the Burnet- tizing Mill in Bangor. A blow on the head from an iron hook swinging from a shaft, fract- ured his skull and caused his death November 12, 1SS2.


He married April 14, 1848, Mary Adeline H. Clement, daughter of Obadiah and Phebe (Kezar) Clement. Her father, who was for many years a farmer in Brownfield, served in the War of 1812. He was born in Warren, N.H., February 10, 1776, son of Colonel Oba- diah and Sally (Batchelder) Clement. Colonel Obadiah Clement, Dr. Robinson's maternal great-grandfather, a cooper by trade, was born in Kingston, N.H., February 19, 1743 (O. S.). He removed to the town of Warren in 1772 from Sandown, N.H. At Warren he built a log house of unusual size and finish, and in it kept the first tavern in Warren. He served for several years as a Selectman, being on the first board elected, August, 1779; was also constable and six years Town Clerk. In Feb-


ruary, 1780, he was commissioned Captain of the Ninth Company, Twelfth Regiment of Militia. He subsequently rose to be Colonel. By his first wife, Sally Batehelder (born June 30, 1747, died January 1, 1786), whom he married August 27, 1765, he had eight chil- dren, and by his second consort, Sarah Baker. married in 17SS, he had five.


Obadiah Clement, the younger, died at the age of seventy-seven in 1852. Phebe Kezar. who became his wife in 1805, was a daughter of Lemuel and Annie (Clark) Kezar. The maiden name of her maternal grandmother was Anna Hale.


Harrison Robinson and his wife, Mary Ade- line, were the parents of six children, namely: Daniel Arthur, the eldest, whose birth date is above given; Franklin Clement, born April 24. 1852, at East Orrington; Walter Augustine. at East Orrington, December 15, 1854; Julia Augusta, at East Orrington, December 1S. 1856; Mary Clement, March 24, 1865, in East Orrington; and Alice Maud, born August 11. 1870, in Bangor, Me.


Franklin Clement Robinson, A.M., a grad- uate of Bowdoin College, class of 1873, is now one of the faculty, professor of chemistry and mineralogy. He married Ella Marie Tucker. daughter of George E. and Anna Marie (Still- well) Tucker, and has three children: Clement Franklin, born March 27, 1882; Dwight Still- well, born August 2, 1885; and Arthur Lincoln. born February 4, 1SS7.


Walter Augustine Robinson, A.M. (Bow- doin College, 1876), is a teacher in the Boston Latin School, and resides in Arlington. He married Florence L. Warren, of Fryeburg. Me., daugliter of Otis and Maria L. (Eastman Warren; has one child, Warren Eastman, born May 7, 1890.


Julia Augusta Robinson married Alvah H. Sabin, and had one child, Arthur Sabin, born August 27, 1879, who died at the age of four years. The mother died February 12, 18$4.


Alice Maud Robinson, the youngest of the family, married John Sanford Shepard. Sep- tember 18, 1895. She is the mother of two children Robinson, born in Bangor, August 23, 1896; and John Sanford, born September 15, 1901.


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At the age of seventeen Daniel Arthur Rob- inson, having obtained his elementary educa- tion in his native place, went to Bangor to com- plete his preparation for college. He was graduated from the Bangor High School in the summer of 1869, and in the fall he entered the Freshman class of Bowdoin. He there took his Bachelor's degree in 1873, subsequently receiving the Master of Arts in course. He taught school successively in Hampden, Or- rington, Brewer, and Bangor, up to ISTS, when he became assistant professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College, being also a director of the college gymnasium. Later he pursued the course of study at the Medical School of Maine, under the trustees and overseers of Bowdoin College, and received his medical diploma in 1SS1. He took unto himself a wife the same year, and, establishing his home and opening his office in Bangor, entered upon the duties of his profession, in which he has been continuously active and notably suc- cessful, mindful, too, of his obligations as a citizen, one having at heart the higher interests of the community. He has been a member of the School Board for twenty years, and its chairman fifteen years. He is a United States pension examiner. First elected an overseer of Bowdoin College in 1889, he is now serving on that board.


He is a member of the American Academy of Medicine; of the Maine Medical Association, of which at one time he was president: of the Maine Academy of Medicine and Science; and of the Penobscot Medical Society. He is a member of Rising Virtue Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Bangor, in which he has passed through all the chairs, and belongs also to the Commandery and the Council. He belongs also to Bangor Lodge, I. O. O. F .; and to the order of Knights of Pythias, having held all the chairs of Norum- bega Lodge, K. P.


In politics a Republican, Dr. Robinson was on the staff of Governor E. C. Burleigh in 1SS9- 92, with the title of Surgeon-general and rank of Colonel.


He married in 1881 Lettie Harlow, of Brewer, Me., daughter of Elbridge and Hulda D. (Dearth) Harlow. Dr. and Mrs. Robinson have four children: Fannie Harlow, born August 5, 1884;


Julia Augusta, February 2, 1886; Harrison Leonard, January 25, 1889; and Dorrice Clem- ent, March 30, 1891.


TORACE FRANKLIN HANSON, M.D .. well-known practising physician of Ban- gor, Me., and a veteran of the Civil War, was born in Springfield. Penob- scot County, Me., November 10, 1837, son of John Hanson and his wife, Pauline Harmon. and the second of a family of three children, of whom he is now the only survivor. His de- ceased elder brother, Cyrus, left children. His sister Elizabeth died without issue.


His father, John Hanson, was a native of China. Kennebec County, Me., being the only son of Elihu and Rachel (Fox) Hanson and a grand- son of Caleb Hanson, of that town. The History of Kennebec County, published in 1892. states that Caleb Hanson settled in China in 1802. going there from Sanford, Me. His wife's name was Judith.


Doctor Hanson's earliest ancestor in Maine in the direct male line bore the name John. and was a member of the Society of Friends. He settled in Old York.


Elihu Hanson and his wife Rachel had six children, John, of China and Springfield, Me .. being the only son. The daughters were-Mrs. Mary Day, Mrs. Mercy Goddard, Mrs. Judith Lowell, Mrs. Lydia Kimball, and Mrs. Jane Meader. Mrs. Judith Lowell, the third daughter. now (1903) ninety-two years of age, is the only inember of Elihu Hanson's family now living.


Dr. Hanson's father was by trade a tailor and he followed that calling for some years in his native town of China, Me .; later, being partially disabled by rheumatism and hip com- plaint, he gave it up, and at one time was keeper of the toll-bridge at Lisbon, Me. In Spring- field he cleared the farm on which his children were born. Removing from that place to Har- rison when his son Horace was about two years old, he died there in 1840, the year following. He was thirty-six years old.


His wife Pauline, mother of his children. died in 1883, at the age of seventy-four. She was born in Harrison, Me., and was the daughter of Naphtali Harmon (son of Rufus Harmon.


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of Sanford, Me.) and his wife Polly Nason. Naphtali was a descendant of Captain John Harmon, of York, Me., a noted Indian fighter in colonial times in Maine, the leader of many expeditions against the savage foe. He com- manded forces at the destruction of the Norridge- wock tribe of Indians.


Mrs. Pauline Hanson, some years after the death of her husband, married again, and re- moved to Lee. Her son Horace there attended the State Normal School (the first one in Maine), and was graduated in the class of 1860. He taught school from the time he was seventeen till he was twenty-three, remaining a resident of Lee. In May, 1861, he joined the patriot forces assembling at the call of President Lin- coln to defend the' Union, he and his former school chum, George Fields, being among the first to enlist as privates in Company H, Sec- ond Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry. He was in every battle in Virginia from first Bull Run, in July, 1861, to Chancellorsville, May, 1863, and at the expiration of his enlist- ment was discharged as a Sergeant, and came home. Designing afterward to re-enlist, he was appointed First Lieutenant in the Thirty- first Maine Regiment. Ill health caused him to change his plans. Unable to go South and engage in active service in camp and field, he became a nurse under Dr. Bradbury, a surgeon of the Cony United States Hospital in Augusta, Me. He was there seven months, and besides attending to his duties in caring for the sick and wounded soldiers, he began the study of medicine. After leaving the Cony Hospital, he attended a course of lectures at the Medical School in Brunswick, Me., then studied in the Portland Medical School, at Portland, Me., and finally went to Berkshire Medical College in Pittsfield, Mass., where he was graduated in 1866. He forthwith opened his office, and began the practice of his profession in Burling- ton, Me., remaining there for three years. Dur- ing the next four years he was in Amherst, Me., where he had a larger field. After taking a post-graduate course in the Medical School of Maine and in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., and for some months being a private student of Dr. William W. Green in surgery, in 1873 Dr. Hanson settled in Bangor,


where he has been continuously active in the duties of his profession for a period of thirty years.


While living in Burlington and later in Am- herst, he served on the School Committee. For several years he acted as port physician at Bangor. Appointed pension examiner in 1890 under President Harrison's administra- tion, he held that position till 1893, when, under President Cleveland, he was removed. He was reappointed by President Me Kinley, and at the present time, 1903, is president of the Board of Examining Surgeons at Bangor. He was a member of B. H. Beale Post, G. A. R., and surgeon of that post for some years. At the present time, March, 1903, he is surgeon of the Hannibal Hamlin Post, G. A. R., of Bangor. The Doctor has given considerable attention to valuable minerals in Maine, and is now the owner of a quarry of rare, orna- mental stone-a species of hornblende syenite- at Ilermon, Me., which he discovered, and which has been named "Hansonite," after the discoverer. It is stated by expert mine- ralogists that there is no other stone of like character either in the United States or Canada.


OSEPH H. SAYER, agriculturist and stock-raiser of Belgrade, Kennebec County, was born in Wells, York County, Me., September 29, 1834. His parents, both natives of Wells, were Jotham and Mary (Hill) Sayer. The father, a soldier of the War of 1812, was a son of Nathaniel Sayer, who also was born in Wells, of which town the family were early settlers. The Sayers are said to be of English origin.


Jotham Sayer removed from Wells to Bel- grade in 1853, and subsequently became a prom- inent citizen of this town, where he died in 1865. He and his wife Mary were the parents of seven children - Isabel, Nathaniel, John, Joseph, Charles, Mary, and An.


Joseph H. Sayer was nineteen years old when he accompanied his parents to Belgrade. After living here for a number of years he removed to Readfield, Me., where he remained for twenty years, engaged chiefly in agriculture. He then resided for a short time in Augusta, whence he


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went to Industry, Me. There he purchased a seven hundred acre farm, and engaged in gen- eral agriculture and in the breeding of cattle and sheep. In 1898 he came to Belgrade, where he has since resided, successfully following the same occupation. For a while he served the town of Industry as Selectman. He also worked on Dix Island and Spruce Head, Knox County, nine years as teamster and stone-eutter.


Mr. Sayer is a Democrat in politics. Public- spirited and industrious and progressive, he commands the respect and confidence of his fel- low-townsmen. He married for his first wife Mary Kimball, of Belgrade.


In 1877 he married for his second wife Mrs. Millia A. Prescott, widow of the late William Prescott, of Manchester, Me., and daughter of J: and Millia Sanford. Mrs. Sayer has one son by her first marriage, Alvah C. Prescott, who now resides in Belgrade. He married Emma Johnson, and they have a son, Joseph S., who is now thirteen years old. .


INCOLN A. BARTLETT, recently ap- pointed Deputy Sheriff of Kennebec County, has been engaged in general mercantile business in Belgrade for fifteen years or more, and is now (1903) serving his third term as Postmaster of that town. He was born in Belgrade, July 13, 1866, son of Greenleaf G. and Elizabeth (Hill) Bartlett. Belgrade was the birthplace of both his parents. His father, a lifelong resident of Belgrade, an industrious farmer, was son of Peter Bartlett, who was an early settler in the town. He was of old colonial stock of English origin.


-Lincoln A. Bartlett in his early years was a pupil in the public schools of Belgrade. After- ward he attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, and qualified himself to be a teacher. He subsequently entered upon the duties of that profession, not, however, with the inten- tion of making it his life work, but using it, as many others have done, as a stepping-stone to another and more congenial calling. In 1887, at the age of twenty-one, he started in business as a merchant at Belgrade Depot, where he has been known front his boyhood up, and where, as noted above, two previous generations bore the


family name. That he has applied himself dili- gently and sagaciously and with good results is shown by his uninterrupted continuance in trade in the same store to this day, and also by the branch store that he opened at Belgrade Lakes in 1900, and which he still owns and con- duets. He was first appointed Postmaster in 1SSS, under President Harrison, and was re- appointed in 1897. This position he still holds. His appointment as Deputy Sheriff bears date January 1, 1903, the present year. Politically, he is a Republican. He belongs to the Belgrade Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.


He married August 15, 1893, Mary S. Yeaton, daughter of Leander and Olive W. (Cummings) Yeaton, of Belgrade. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have one child, a daughter, Bertha E.


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OHN KIDDER FOY, a respected citi- zen of Gardiner, Kennebec County, who has taken an active part in public affairs, was born here November 13, 1827, son of John L. and Dolly (Blake) Foy. On the paternal side Mr. Foy is of Scotch ancestry. His maternal grandfather, John Blake, who died in Gardiner, Me., in 1848, at the age of ninety years, was a Revolutionary soldier, tak- ing part in the fight at Bunker Hill when a youth of seventeen. John L. and Dolly Blake Foy had nine children, namely-Mary M., Eliz- abeth B. and Martha L. (twins), Harriett K., Susan S., John K., William W., Dolly A. E., and Charles W.




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