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Judge Bailey was married February 1, 1871, to Frances E. Davis, a native of Old- town, Me., daughter of John T. and Harriette J. (Moore) Davis and grand-daughter of Jack- son Davis, of Oldtown. Mrs. Bailey died in February, 1889, at the age of forty-five years. She had borne her husband seven children -Taber Davis, Harriette, Bessie, Charles W., Marian and Helen (twins), and Lucy.
Taber D. Bailey was educated in the pub- lic schools of Bangor, including the high school, and at Bowdoin College, where he was grad- uated in 1896. After a course of law study under his father's instruction, he was ad- mitted to the bar in 1898, and began practice in his father's office in Bangor. He has made rapid strides in his profession. He was a member of the city government, 1899, 1900, and 1901, in the year last named being presi- dent of the Common Council. Elected City Solicitor in 1902, he has held that office up to the present time. He married Lelia M. Mc- Donald, of Bueksport, Me., but has no ehil- dren.
The Davis family, of which Mrs. Bailey was a member, was founded at an early date by John Davis, of Gloucester, Mass., who had
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in succession two wives, Alice and Frances, their surnames not being now known. His son, Jacob Davis, married at Gloucester, January 30, 1661, Elizabeth Bennett. They had nine children.
Aaron Davis, son of Jacob, was born in Gloucester, Mass., November 2, 1678. He died April 24, 1718, aged thirty-nine years. His wife's first name was Hannah.
Abel Davis, son of Aaron, born at Glouces- ter, July 10, 1712, married Sarah Millet, the date of whose birth was February 29, 1712.
Daniel Davis, son of Abel and Sarah, born at Salisbury, February 7, 1750, married Mary Collins, who was born in Gloucester, March 1, 1756. They were the parents of Jackson Davis, Mrs. Bailey's grandfather, who was born in Lewiston, Me., February 24, 1778, and who died in Orono, September 6, 1826. Jackson Davis married in Portland, July 5, 1804, Mrs. Lydia Morrill, widow of Levi Mor- rill and daughter of John and Elizabeth Taber. She was born in Vassalboro, September 9, 1780.
ANIEL EDWARD MARSTON, M.D., well known for many years as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the State, was born in West Gardi- ner, Me., May 13, 1836. He died after a long illness at his home in Monmouth, Kennebec County, April 14, 1894. He was the youngest son of Captain Daniel and Nancy (Freeman) Marston, both natives of the Pine Tree State, who carried on a farm at West Gardiner. The father, Captain Daniel Marston, was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and was called upon to fill some of the more important town offices, which he did with zeal and ability. His title of Captain was gained in the State militia, of which he was a useful member. For twenty years he served as postmaster of West Gardiner.
Daniel Edward Marston was essentially a self-made man. He prepared for college at Litchfield Academy, and read medicine with Drs. Cyrus Kindrick and Stephen Whitmore, of Gardiner, and E. P. Peaslee, of New York, who was in his day the most eminent gynecol-
ogist in this country. He was graduated in 1859 from the medical department of Bowdoin College, and for the next year and a half was on the surgical staff of the hospital on Black- well's Island, New York, now known as the New York City Hospital. In 1860 he was honored with the ad cundem degree by the New York Medical College. Subsequently returning to Maine, Dr. Marston settled in Monmouth, where, and for miles around, he was for thirty-four years the leading physician and surgeon. In 1862, the year after his marriage, he volunteered his services as surgeon, and joined the medical staff of the Army of the Potomac. Rapidly failing health, however, compelled him to re- resign after three months' service. One of these months was spent on board transport steamers, which received the wounded after the Seven Days' battles before Richmond. Afterward he served in Fortress Monroe and in hospitals in Baltimore.
Dr. Marston was a member of the Kennebec County Medical Association, was vice-presi- dent in 1883 of the Maine Medical Association, and held positions on committees of impor- tance in the American Medical Society, to whose annual convention he was frequently a dele- gate from the Maine Medical Association. He was one of the corporators of the Maine Gen- eral Hospital, and always took a deep interest in the prosperity of that institution. He was also solicited to become one of the incorporators of the Central Maine General Hospital at Lew- iston. Dr. Marston not only manifested con- spicuous ability in his profession, but was well known in business circles as a successful finan- cier. He was interested in various enterprises requiring large capital, and was one of the few early and constant believers in the future pros- perity of the Maine Central Railroad, purchas- ing largely at different times of the road's stock. His business acumen was united with the strictest integrity; and, while working successfully for his private interests, he never forgot the rights of others. This quality, to- gether with his kind heart, his great force of character and untiring industry, made him universally loved and respected. The Lewiston Journal said of him: "He was possessed of fine social gifts, and endeared himself to all who had
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dealings with him. He was a philanthropist in the truest sense of the word. His heart went out toward his patients, and melted at the sight of sorrow and suffering. He was ever giving something for the needy. His charity practice was large, and his Christianity knew no creed. He was every ineh a man, and the highest tribute to his worth is the grief of those who knew him best-his thousands of patients, who so often profited by his kind- ness, and whose fortunes he was always ready and eager to advise." The Doctor was a prom- inent member of the Masonic order, belonging to the Monmouth Blue Lodge, the Lewiston Chapter, and the Lewiston Commandery, Knights Templar. His funeral was the ocea- sion of the most notable gathering that had oc- curred in the town for very many years, calling together people from widely separated sec- tions in a common tribute of affection to the memory of a noble man .. Among the conspic- uous mourners were members of the Lewiston Commandery, in full regalia, who came by spe- cial train, and did escort duty during the ser- vices. The Rev. Mr. Hayden, of Augusta, paid an eloquent tribute to the Doctor's mem- ory, in which he said that, though the deceased was not a member of the visible church, he had written his name in the Book of Life in deeds and good works.
Dr. Marston was married April 28, 1860, to Ellen Elizabeth Meserve, of Richmond, Me., a daughter of William and Rebecca (Chandler) Meserve. Her father was a native of Scarboro, and her mother of New Gloucester, Me. Dr. and Mrs. Marston had four children who grow to maturity-Dr. Edward P., Nellie E., Mary A., and Dr. Daniel W. Mary is the wife of George M. Norris, an attorney of Fairfield, III. A brief account of Dr. Marston's two sons will be found in the two succeeding articles.
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EDWARD PITT MARSTON, M.D., son of Dr. Daniel E. and Ellen E. (Meserve) Marston, was born in Monmouth, Me., July 4, 1862. Hc acquired his general education at Monmouth Academy and Bates College, Lewiston, and pursued his professional studies at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in ISS4. He |
has since been engaged in successful practice in his native town. He is a thoroughly wide- awake physician, keeping in close touch with the most advanced progress of present-day medical science, as well as surgery, and to him has been transferred much of the great popu- larity enjoyed by his father, the late Dr. Daniel E. Marston, subject of the preceding article. He has served as president of the Kennebec County Medical Society, and is a member of the Maine Medical Association. He is identi- fied with the Masonic order, including Knights Templar and the Mystic Shrine, and in pol- ities is a Democrat. He has served for six years as a member of the Board of Health of Monmouth, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Cumston Free Public Library of Monmouth.
He was married September 21, 1897, to Lilla A. Masterman, daughter of the Rev. J. R. Masterman, of Readfield, Me. He has one child, Marguerite A.
DR. DANIEL WILLIAM MARSTON, of New York City, who died of pneumonia at Niagara Falls, June 9, 1901, while en route as delegate to the meeting of the American Medical Association, to be held at St. Paul, Minn., where he was to read a paper, was the youngest man ever asked to address that body. Born June 3, 1875, he was a son of the late Dr. Daniel E. Marston, of Monmouth, Me., and a brother of Dr. E. P. Marston, now practising in that town.
Seldom has so young a physician achieved an eminence in an important specialty of our profession, and so quickly achieved a reputa- tion which reflects credit upon him.
That perseverance, patience, and ability which enabled him to acquire eminence in medicine while still a young practitioner was shown forth in his student days. Obliged by sickness, for Dr. Marston was never a strong man, to relinquish his studies in the Medical School of Maine, he held firm in his purpose to acquire a medical education, and was finally graduated at Bellevue Medical Col- lege in the class of 1896. In the same year he received an appointment in the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled in New York City.
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Dr. Marston must have shown especial adap- tability and skill in this work, for soon we hear of him as an instructor in orthopedic surgery in the New York Post-graduate School and visiting surgeon to several hospitals. During Dr. Phelps's absences in Europe and later in China, he chose Dr. Marston to take charge of his practice, a position which he filled with entire satisfaction.
At the time of his death Dr. Marston had risen to an honorable place in the profession, and had, withal, developed unusual literary talents. He had been a contributor to many medical journals, and had recently written papers which were printed in the Philadelphia Medical Journal, the New York Medical Jour- nal, the Medical News, the Georgia Journal of Medicine and Surgery, the American Journal of Surgery and Gynecology, the Post-graduate, and the Journal of Medicine and Science.
It is no disparagement of others to say that few young physicians of twenty-six, even in the best of health, possessed the ambition and energy, joined to a keen intellect and rare in- tuition and rounded out by a kind-hearted, affectionate, sympathetic nature, which enabled Dr. Marston, in a few short years and unaided by influential friends and a strong "pull," to rise to a position of eminence in his profession rarely achieved, even by those of middle age.
Of this young physician it may truthfully be said that "while his profession was an honor to him, he honored his profession as well"; and the respect and esteem in which he was held by all who knew him is ample proof that even in the brief life allotted to him he suc- ceeded. (Journal of Medicine and Science, Portland, August, 1901.)
Dr. Daniel W. Marston was a member of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
He was one of the most active of the alumni in organizing the Monmouth Academy Alumni Association in. 1896. As a student before engag- ing in the study of medicine Dr. Marston was a special correspondent on several leading Maine. and Massachusetts papers. A versatile writer -flattering inducements were offered him to continue in Journalistic life, but the desire to emulate his father caused him to give up gen-
cral newspaper work for the profession of medieine.
OHIN VEASEY LANE, A.M., journalist, now postmaster of Augusta for the official term beginning February 1, 1902, is a native of New Hampshire. His birthplace was the old Lane homestead in Chichester, Merrimack County, where his father, Joshua Lane, was born, and where his widowed mother still lives.
Mr. Lane traces his ancestry on the paternal side to William Lane, of Boston, 1650, whose second wife, Mary Brewer, was the mother of William, Jr., born in Boston in 1659, who settled in Hampton, N.H. From William Lane, Jr., and his wife, Sarah Webster, the line continues through their son, Deacon Joshua, born at Hampton in 1696, and his wife, Bath- sheba Robie; Ebenezer, born in 1733, and his wife, Huldah Fogg; Deacon Ebenezer, born in Hampton, 1764, who married Sarah Por- kins, of Hampton Falls, and died in Chichester in 1844; Ebenezer, Jr., born in 1796, and his wife, Naney Goss; to Joshua, above named, born January 16, 1821, John Veasey Lane being of the eighth generation of this branch of the Lane family in America.
Sarah Webster, wife of William Lane, Jr .. was the daughter of Thomas Webster, of Hamp- ton, and an eller sister of Ebenezer, great- grandfather of the eminent statesman, Daniel Webster.
Joshua Lane was a lifelong farmer in Chi- chester. He served the town in several offices, and was its Representative to the State Legis- lature in 1859 and 1860. He died March 9, 1901, at the age of fourscore years. He mar- ried December 26, 1860, Sarah E. Veasey, daughter of Coker Veasey and his wife, Susan Smith Page, of Deerfield, N.H., and grand- daughter of Joshua Veasey, a veteran of the Revolution, and his wife, Mary Fifield. Two children were born to them: John V., the sub- jeet of this sketch; and Susan H., born Sep- tember 30, 1867, now residing in Boston, Mass.
John Veasey Lane, born November 18, 1861, passed his boyhood on the home farm. After attending the common schools he entered Pen-
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broke Academy, Pembroke, N.H., completing his college preparatory course at the New Hampton Literary Institute in 18S2.
He engaged in business for a year, and en- tered Bowdoin College in the autumn of 1883, graduating in the class of 1887, teaching sev- eral terms of school meanwhile. In Decem- ber, 1887, after one more term of teaching, he came to Augusta, and entered the office of the Kennebec Daily Journal as city editor, later becoming night editor and associate editor. His connection with that paper lasted ten years, or till his appointment as assistant postmaster at Augusta. He entered upon the (luties of that position February 1, 1898, Walter D. Stinson being postmaster. His appoint- ment by President Roosevelt for the term be- ginning February 1, 1902, Mr. Stinson having died near the close of the preceding term, was in the approved line of civil service promo- tion, and was without opposition, all the lead- ing citizens, irrespective of party, being upon his petition.
Since taking up his residence in Augusta, Mr. Lane has served three years in the city gov- ernment, both in the Common Council and on the Board of Aldermen. He belongs to> the Masonic fraternity, being a member of the Blue Lodge, the Chapter, and the Com- mandery.
Mr. Lane married September 5, 1889, Susan A. Gallagher, daughter of Michael Gallagher and his wife, Sarah Vallie, of Presque Isle, Me. They have no children.
C TON. GEORGE E. MACOMBER, a for- mer Mayor of the city of Augusta, is one of the best known business men of Maine, being connected with several of the leading insurance companies of New England, New York, and Philadelphia.
Born in Augusta, June 6, 1853, son of George W. and Hannah J. (Kalloch) Macomber, he is a descendant in the eighth generation of John1 Macomber, who was admitted a freeman and enrolled in the militia of Taunton (Mass.) in 1643. The line of descent is John,123 Na- thaniel,+ George,5 6 George W., George E.S
The family is of Scottish origin, belonging,
as stated in a history of the clans, to the Me- Konochie branch of the Campbells. . As the story is told, Archibald Campbell Me Konochie. of Komber, saved the life of King Robert II. of Scotland (fourteenth century) by shooting an arrow through the head of a wild boar that was attacking hin For this valiant deed the king changed the family name to MeKomber. now Macomber, a . bestowed on his deliverer a coat of arms and a erest, thus described in heraldlie terms: arms -- argent, three right hands cut off at the wrist, holling bunches of arrows (of proper color), in chief, and in the base the imperial crown of Scotland, surrounded by a border of the Campbell colors, of eight bars. black and gold; crest -- a boar's head torn off. having an arrow through it. of proper colors. Motto, His nitimur et namitur.
Besides John, of Taunton, there were two other early Macomber immigrants, namely: William, of Duxbury and Marshfield, who left descendants; and Thomas, of Plymouth, who left none. Tradition says the three were brothers, and can .: from Scotland: John' Macomber received permission to build a mill in Taunton in 1659. He died before 1690. and his property was divided Between his daughter. Mary Staples, and his son John. The fact that the second John Macomber signed a deed with his father in 1672 shows that he was then of age. He served in the military campaigns of 1680 and 1700, also in the one of 1691.
He married in 167> Anna, daughter of Will- iam and Anna (Hailstones Evans. Her father was enrolled in the Taunton militia in 1643. His wife was probably the daughter of William Hailstone, who was one of the first purchasers of Taunton in 1637.
John' Macomber was impressed to serve as a soldier in Queen Anne's War mn 1701 and again in 1711. His first wife, whom he married in 1707, was Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Roger-) Withins. His second wife. whom he married in 1233, was Mrs. Lydia King Williams, willow of Nathaniel Williams. Johne Macomber died in Panton in December. 1747. His will na mots tate children, all by his first wife. Her father, who was baptized in 1611, was son of Richard Williams, of Taunton, Mass., and a grandson .: William and Jane
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(Woodward) Williams, of England, the Williams family being of Welsh origin. Richard, above named, who was born in Huntingdon, England, January, 1606, was, it is said, a distant kinsman of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America in 1636, and has been called "the father of Taunton." The Williams family of Angusta, Me., are among his descendants. He married Frances Dighton, of So' "setshire, England, a daughter of John and Jane (Basset) Dighton. and sister to the second wife of Governor Thomas Dudley. Richard Williams was a Deacon in the Taunton church, and for thirteen years a Deputy to the General Court of Ply- mouth Colony. He died in 1693.
Elizabeth Rogers, wife of Nathaniel Williams, was a grand-daughter of Thomas Rogers; who came to America in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and died the next year. Her father, John Rogers, who came later, settled in Duxbury, and was Deputy to the General Court in 1657. He married April 16, 1639, Ann Churchman, probably daughter of Hugh Churchman, of Lynn, Mass.
Nathaniel+ Macomber, born February 9, 1709, the eldest child of John," married Pris- cilla Southworth, and had six children.
George5 Macomber, born July 7, 1740, was the second child of Nathaniel.+ He performed patriotic service in the war for independence. The following is his record in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," vol. x .:-
George Macomber, Taunton, Corporal of Capt. Oliver Soper's Co., Col. Timothy Walker's Regiment: enlisted May 2, 1775; service 3 months, 6 days. Also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, Nov. 1, 1775; also Sergeant in Capt. Joshua Wilbore's Co., Col. Geo. Williams' Regiment, service 25 days, on the alarm at Rhode Island, Dec. 8, 1775, in- cluding travel (54 miles) to Warren via Reho- both and home; also, Capt. Josiah King's Co., Col. Geo. Williams' regt .; service 32 days; Company marched from Taunton, Sept. 29, 1777, on a secret expedition and was discharged Oct. 29, 1777 : also, Capt. Nathaniel Snow's Co., Col. Geo. Williams' regt., engaged June 22, 1779; service 23 days; Company marched from Taun- ton to Raynham and served under Gen. Sul-
livan in Col. Wade's regt. at Providence, R.I .: also, Capt. Josiah King's Co., Col. John Daggit's regt., entered service Aug. 25, 1778; discharged Sept. 1, 1778 ; also, Capt. Rufus Barney's Co., Col. Carpenter's regt .; service 4 days; Company detached and marched to Tiverton, R.I., July 28, 1780, to serve for 6 days; also, Capt. Joshua Wilbore's Co., Col. Mitchell's Regiment: com- manded by Lt. Col. James Williams, service eight days: marched to Tiverton ou an alarm of Aug. 2. 1780.
George? Macomber married January 17. 1767, Susannah Paul, who was born January 16, 1746-7. Of their twelve children the sixth, George" Macomber, Jr., born September 17, 1772, died January 31, 1830. He married September 17, 1801, Anna Harkiss, who was born October 24, 1782. They had six children.
George W. Macomber, born September 26, 1807, third child of George" married first, July 25, 1832, Sarah P. Ripley, who was born May 31, 1809. His second wife was Hannah Kal- loch, of Warren, Me. They had three children, of whom the only one now living is their eldest, George E.S Macomber, whose name begins this sketch.
George E. Macomber was educated in the public schools, including the high school of Augusta. Immediately after graduating he went to work in a store, where he gained his first industrial experience. Subsequently he was clerk for six years in the Augusta post-office under Postmaster H. H. Hamlin, and here he acquired his first knowledge of general business methods, as well as of State and local politics. At the age of twenty-two he entered the fire in- surance business. By energy and perseverance he soon built up one of the largest and most flourishing local agencies in New England, which is still carried on under the firm name of Ma- comber, Farr & Co., Mr. Macomber being the senior member. In 1885 Mr. Macomber entered the employment of the Granite State Insurance Company, to take charge of their interests in Maine; and since that date, although the com- pany was a new one, he has built up for them the second largest fire insurance business in the State. For a few years he travelled for the company, adjusting losses and supervising the business all over New England. Several years
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later he assumed charge of the Maine business of the Insurance Company of North America, under the New England management of C. C. Kimball & Co., of Hartford, Conn .; and he still retains his connection with this concern.
At an early date Mr. Macomber became in- terested in electricity for motive and illuminat- ing purposes. As treasurer of the Augusta, Hallowell & Gardiner Railroad, he raised the necessary funds for the building of that road, which, with the help of his associates, he car- ried through to completion. Subsequently other street railways and lighting companies were successfully launched by him, he devoting so much time and study to the proper methods of developing such properties that he is now regarded as an expert therein. He is presi- dent of the Rockland, Thomaston & Camden Street Railway and of the Knox Gas and Electric Light Company, and is a director of the Granite National Bank and a trustee of the Kennebec Savings Bank of Augusta.
In politics Mr. Macomber is a steadfast Re- publican. He served as an Alderman of Au- gusta in 1885. He was elected Mayor of the city in 1SS7, and was re-elected in 1SSS and again in 1889. His term of office was marked by an able and business-like administration of public affairs, and won the hearty approval generally of his fellow-citizens. In 1896 and 1898 Mr. Macomber served in the State Legislature, being a valued member of the Committees on Rail- roads and Insane Hospitals.
Mr. Macomber was married January 24, 1877, to Sarah V. Johnson, who was born in Eden- burg, Pa., March 31, 1857, her parents, Hiram and Elmira (Mills) Johnson, being originally from Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Macomber have two children : Alice Hamlon, born in Augusta, Me., March 17, 1878; and Annie Johnson, born in Augusta, December 4, 1882.
town, Mass., his line being Thomas,1 'Henry,2 Daniel,3 Rev. John, + John,5 Edward," Edward," Hezekiah,8 Frederick W.9
Thomas1 Wight emigrated from England, and settled in Watertown, Mass., prior to 1636. He died in Medford, Mass., March 16, 1673-4. ITis wife Alice or Elsie died July 15, 1665.
Henry2 Wight settled as a householder in Dedham, Mass., in 1637, and served as a con- stable in 1658. He died February 27, 1680, on his Dedham homestead. He married, about 1652, Jane Goodnow, who was born in Sudbury, Mass., and died in Dedham, Mass., May 16, 1684.
Daniel3 Wight, a lifelong resident of Ded- ham, Mass., was born November 24, 1656, and died May 1, 1719. He was made a freeman on May 15, 1690: and he served for two years as Selectman, being first elected to the office in 1712. On February 17, 1686, he married Ann, or Hannah, Dewing, who was born in Dedham, May 6, 1666. Her father, Andrew Dewing, died in Dedham, May 10, 1725.
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