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Levi Hersey married for his second wife Mary Jane Hersey, who was born in Minot, Me., in December, 1816, a daughter of Amos and Mary (Freeman) Hersey. Her father, who settled on Hersey Hill in Minot, came from Hingham, Mass. He was son of Amos, who was son of James, who was son of Joseph,+ (William 32 1). Amos Hersey and his wife Mary had five chil- dren-Amos, Mary Jane, John T., William, and Julia F. Mrs. Mary Jane Hersey died July 1, 1894. She was the mother of one child, Oscar H. Hersey.
Oscar H. Hersey, son of Levi Hersey by his second wife, Mary Jane, was about a year old when his parents settled in Harpswell. Here the family remained for about sixteen years, the father engaged for the most part in the work of the ministry, which profession he followed afterward in Phippsburg, Bath, Richmond, and Buckfield, to which places they successively re-
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moved. Young Oscar, after acquiring a knowl- edge of the rudimentary branches of learning in the common schools, attended successively the Bath High School and the Litchfield Academy. Subsequently entering upon the duties of a teacher, he taught school in Harpswell, Rich- mond, Hebron, and Buckfield, in all twenty-one terms of day and eighteen terms of singing school. Then on account of his health he gave up teaching, and took to the study of law under the guidance of the Hon. George D. Bisbee, now of Rumford Falls, Me. Admitted to the Oxford County bar in March, 1877, he began practice in Buckfield, where he remained till February, 1899, at that time coming to Portland, and form- ing a partnership with Judge Enoch Foster, with whom he is still associated. Active in politics, his allegiance being to the Republican party, he has done good service both to it and to the peo- ple generally as an incumbent of various offices, which he has filled in a capable and satisfactory manner. As County Attorney of Oxford County for six years he was evidently the right man in the right place. He inade a good record in 1891 as a Representative in the Legislature, and in 1893 as Senator. At the present time he is serving acceptably as an Alderman of the city of Portland. A Free Mason, he belongs to Evening Star Lodge of Buckfield, to Mt. Vernon Chapter, and to Portland Commandery, K. T. He is also a member of Nezinscot Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Buckfield.
Mr. Hersey married August 3, 1879, Ida Anna Berry, of Buckfield, Me. She was born in Au- burn, Me., August 19, 1858, a daughter of Charles H. and Cynthia (Harris) Berry, of Auburn, Me., her father, however, being a native of Buckfield. Mr. and Mrs. Hersey have three children: Au- gustus M., born in Buckfield, Me., October 30, 1880; Carrie B., born April 16, 18$3; and Avilla M., born May 20, 1891.
settling first in China, Kennebec County, and afterward in Fairfickl.
Asa B. Bates, who was born in China, Me., was four years old when he accompanied his parents to Fairfield. He grew up in the town, learning the trade of carpenter, which he fol- lowed in connection with farming. In 1863 he removed with his family from Fairfield to Oakland, where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber. He died in April, 1891. A Repub- liean in polities, he represented his district in the lower house of the State Legislature, and took an active and useful part in public affairs in general. He was one of the most prominent members and supporters of the Baptist church at Oakland, which he served as Deacon. His wife Azubah was a daughter of William Sturto- vant and a native of China, Me. They had eleven children. Four of them -namely, Herbert, Melvin, Elizabeth, and Martha-are deceased, the survivors being Ellen, Erastus W., Mabel, Mary, Henry E., Julia, and Lillian.
Ellen Bates is the wife of Gustavus Moore, of Dexter, Me. Erastus W. resides in Augusta, Me. Mabel M. is now the widow of William H. Fessenden, of Boston. Mass. Mary is now Mrs. Charles A. Whiting. of Norridge- wock, Me. Julia A. and Lillian reside in Boston, Mass.
Henry E. Bates has resided in Oakland since coming here with his parents at the age of sev- enteen in 1863. He was educated in the com- mon schools of Fairfield and West Waterville (now Oakland). In 1893 he became one of the firm of A. B. Bates & Co., founded by his father, of which he is now the senior member. The concern is in a flourishing condition, and is one of the representative business institutions of Oakland. In politics and religion Mr. Bates is his father's son, affiliating with the Republican party and being a member of the Baptist church of Oakland. He also belongs to the A. O. C. W. of Oakland. He was married January 16, 1873, to Helen Messenger, of Exeter, Me., a daughter of Hazen Messenger. She died May 6, 1898, after twenty-five years of happy married life. leaving one daughter, Lena E., who resides with her father in Oakland.
ENRY EDWARD BATES, of the firm of A. B. Bates & Co., of Oakland, lumber and box manufacturers, was born in Fairfield, Me .. April 21, 1846, son of Asa B. and Azubah (Sturtevant) Bates. He is a grandson of Constantine Bates, Mr. Bates is a man of enterprise and capacity who came to Maine from Sandwich, Mass., | in business affairs, public-spirited in matters
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relating to the interests of the community at large, and personally popular among his ac- quaintances.
EORGE WINGATE NORRIS. a former respected citizen of Momnouth, was a native of the town. Born July 20, 1826, son of Greenleaf Kibby and Hannah (Jud- kins) Norris, he was a grandson of Lieuten- ant James and Ruth (Dearborn) Norris. His grandfather Norris, a native of New Hamp- shire, settled in Monmouth, Me., at the locality now known as Norris Hill. His grandmother, Ruth Dearborn Norris, was a daughter of Simon Dearborn and niece of General Henry Dearborn of Revolutionary fame, who served as a Captain at Bunker Hill. was made Major-general in 1795, and was Secretary of War in President Jefferson's cabinet (1801- 1809).
Greenleaf K. Norris, born May 15. 1803, was Captain of Company K, Seventh Maine Regi- ment, Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Civil War. He died April 25, 1883. His name has been perpetuated on the banner of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic of Mon- mouth.
George W. Norris was one of a family of ten children. He was educated in the public schools of Monmouth, and spent his youth upon his father's farm. When about twenty years old, he became connected with a corps of civil engineers who were engaged in surveying and laying out the right of way for the Maine Central Railroad. After being thus employed for a time, he became a foreman in the construction depart -. ment of the Maine Central Railroad at the time the road was being built. Subsequently he en- tered the employ of Walter French, of Manches- ter, N.H., the well-known railroad contractor, and was engaged for a time in railroad construc- tion work in Vermont. Mr. Norris then spent some time in the West, where he was engaged in railroad construction work, during a part of this period being a member of the firm of French, Dodge & Co. This line of work he continued in the West for a number of years afterward, being one of the four best known railroad contractors in that section. From
railroad construction he passed to railroad of- eration and management, becoming assistant superintendent of the Springfield & Illinois Southeastern Railroad and afterward stor- intendent. He died in Cutler, Ohio. April 26. 1896, his funeral services and burial being in Athens, that State, where he had resided irs number of years, and where are the greatest three of his children. He was a man of many sterling qualities and high Christian character. endeared to his friends, and a strong ale. este of temperance and other reform INOV ... He commanded success in his chosen line of work, and was personally esteemed by al kis associates for his integrity, his sense of honor. and his agreeable and urbane disposition. sni beloved by his employees for his just and can- crous consideration for their interests. F .: some time he was an Elder in the Presbyteris: church in Athens, Ohio.
Mr. Norris married December 3. 1550. Elvis Amelia Merrill, a native of Monmouth. born June 6, 1830, daughter of Joseph an : Sallie (Smith) Merrill. Mrs. Norris's father was a native of Lewiston, and her mother ci Berwick. Mr. and Mrs. Norris becan .- .: parents of five children, namely: Helen E. who is the wife of Dr. W. H. Carothers, of : rose, Mass .: George Merrill, who is practi-ins law in Fairfield, Ill .: Flora Rose. who die : a: the age of four years and six months in IN: Carrie E., who died, aged fifteen months. in 1861; and Walter French, who died at the a == of seven months in 1865.
Dr. and Mrs. Carothers have a deuel ... Elvira E., born May 23, 1852, who is now IS a student in Boston University. George M-r- rill Norris was graduated at Bowdoin Cute; in the class of 1886. Ile married Mary Ale. Marston, daughter of D. E. and Ellen Mes Es Marston, of Monmouth, and has three chiffrez -Helen E., Grace A., and Ruth A.
Mrs. Norris comes of patriotic ancestry. Her paternal grandfather, John Merrill. wa- a Revolutionary soldier. Her father. Josh Merrill, a noted school-master of Wales. Me .. in his day, fought against Great Britain is. ti ... War of 1812. She now resides for a part of th .- time each year at the old Norris honestai on Norris Hill, in the town of Monmouth. B;
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right of her Revolutionary ancestry she has membership in the society known as Daughters of the Revolution.
AMES WALKER, manufacturer, a well- known and influential citizen of Gardi- ner, Kennebec County, was formerly Mayor of the city, of which he has been a resident for nearly fifty years. His birthplace was Litchfield, about ten miles west of Gardiner. Born September 24, 1834, son of Joshua and Hannah (Potter) Walker, he is a great-grandson of John Walker, a Revolutionary soldier from Arundel in the town of Kennebunkport, holding the rank of Ensign, who after the close of the war was a pioneer settler in Litchfield. Ensign John was a son of Joshua Walker, who was one of the proprietors of Kennebunk, Me., in 1728.
Captain Lemuel Walker, a shipmaster, son of Ensign John and grandfather of James. the sub- ject of this sketch, saw service in the Revolution in 1778. After his removal to Litchfield he rep- resented that town in the lower branch of the Massachusetts Legislature, this being previous to the organization of Maine as a separate State. He died at the age of about eighty-six years. The maiden name of his wife was Hannah Allen.
Joshua Walker, son of Captain Lemuel, was a farmer in Litchfield. He died in 1851. His wife Hannah, surviving him about two years, died in 1853. They had six children. In 1850 the family removed from Litchfield to Richmond, Sagadahoc County, Maine.
James Walker was educated in the district schools of Litchfield and at the Litchfield Insti- tute, where he took a partial course of study. Early thrown upon his own resources he began the work of life betimes, and in 1853 went West as far as the Mississippi Valley, making his prin- cipal sojourn in Minnesota, then a territory, whose development as an agricultural and man- ufacturing State had hardly begun. Evidently the outlook there was not sufficiently promising to induce him to remain. He returned to Maine after an absence of one year, and for several years after was engaged in lumbering.
On October 31, 1861, in the first year of the Civil War, he espoused his country's cause by enlisting in Company E, Fifteenth Maine Vol-
unteer Infantry, which regiment became a part of the Union forces in the Department of the Gulf under General B. F. Butler, being later attached to Sheridan's army. While in the Department of the Gulf, he fought at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill and in other engagements of minor importance, his service under Sheridan being in the Shenandoah Valley. He was honor- ably discharged with the rank of Captain July 13. 1866, having been previously promoted to that of Second Lieutenant.
On his return to Gardiner Captain Walker en- gaged in the industry which continues to occupy him at the present time, the manufacture of wooden boxes. His plant is well equipped with up-to-date machinery, and he employs on an average eight workmen.
Captain Walker is a member of Heath Post. No. 6, G. A. R., of Gardiner, which he has served as Commander. For two years, 1897 and 1898, he was Mayor of the city of Gardiner. He has served also on the Board of Aldermen and in the City Council. Heis now (1903) president of the Mer- chants' National Bank of Gardiner, and he is a director of many years' standing of the Gardiner National Bank. He was married August 21, 1864. to Julia Douglas, daughter of the late Annis Douglas, of Gardiner. They have two children, Charles F. and Clara E., both of whom reside in Gardiner. Charles F. Walker married Gertrude Hamilton, of Randolph, and has four children- Madeline Hamilton, Helen, James Lee, and Julia.
SAAC L. ROBBINS, a well-known business man of Lewiston, has been a resident of that town from his birth, which occurred January 2, 1868. His father, Isaac B. Robbins, born at Westminster in the township of Canterbury, Windham County, Con., Feb- ruary 3, 1836, came to Maine when he was a young man, and died in Lewiston in 1869. ..
His paternal grandparents were George W. Robbins and Julia Tanner, who, as recorded in Voluntown, Conn., "were lawfully joined in marriage in Voluntown ou the 25th day of November, 1827." They had thirteen chil- dren, namely: Russell H. (deceased), born June 10. 1830; Thomas A., born December
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15, 1831, died December 19. 1902: George .1. (deceased), born March 31, 1833; Harriet A., born in 1834; Isaac B. (deceased), whose birth date is given above; Julia E., born September 3, 1837; Asher M., born October 1, 1841; Mary E., born February 14, 1843; Martha M., born February 13, 1845: Susan E., born June 10, 1849; Archibald (deceased), born July 5, 1851; Laura I., born January 18, 1853; and Charles H., born January 18, 1855. Of these, six daughters and two sons are now living.
Martha M. Robbins married Frank Rich- mond, Mary E. married Chester T. S. Spauld- ing, and Susan E. married Henry Lester: these all live in Plainfield, Conn. Harriet married John Pellet, and Laura married Willard Baker: they live in Westminster, Conn., that town being also the home of Charles Robbins and I. Miner Robbins.
George W. Robbins died September 25, 1889. It seems probable that he was a descendant of Nathaniel Robbins, who. according to a printed record of "Early Marriages in Connecticut," was married at Canterbury, in 1734, to Phebe Varnum. A Nathaniel Robbins is mentioned in the History of Windham County, Conn., as having received in 1723 a half share of the com- mon land in Canterbury, he being one of the later settlers there. Whether the Robbins families of Windham County, Conn., in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were de- scendants of John Robbins who had land con- veyed to him in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1638, and who served as a member of the General Court in 1644. or belonged to another stock, is not known to the present writer.
Isaac B. Robbins, the father above named, was a machinist, and followed his trade for a number of years in Lewiston. He married Olive J. Alexander, daughter of Daniel Alex- ander, of Greene, Me. Five children were born of their union, and four grew to maturity, namely: Herbert, who died at the age of nine- teen years; Edward B., who died at the age of twenty-two; Frank A., born January 3, 1866; and Isaac L., the special subject of this sketch. Mrs. Olive Alexander Robbins, after the death of her first husband, married Peter Lane, by whom she had one child, Percy R. Lane, born in Lewiston.
Isaac L. Robbins was educated in the schools of Lewiston. Entering the store of J. II. Day of Lewiston as a clerk at the age of sixteen, he remained in Mr. Day's employ until he was twenty-one. He then, in 1889, started in busi- ness for himself as successor to H. W. Maxwell, dealer in wood and coal. In this business he is still actively engaged.
He married in ISSS Ethel Russell, daughter of Edwin and Euranie (Stinchfield) Russell. She was born in Danforth, Me., April 12. 1868. Her father died in Danforth. Five of his chil- dren are now living.
Mr. and Mrs. Robbins attend the Universalist church. In politics he affiliates with the Repub- lican party. He served as a member of the Common Council of Lewiston in 1894 and 1895, being president of the council in 1895. He is a member of the Ashley Lodge of Masons of Lewiston; of Mt. David Lodge, Knights of Pythias, in which he has held various offices; of the Independent Order of Red Men; of the Firemen's Relief Association, of which he is a past president; and a member for the past three years of the Firemen's Hose Company, No. 1, of Lewiston.
ON. LOUIS COLBY STEARNS, State Senator, 1897-99, now a resi- dent of Bangor and a member of the Penobscot County bar, is a na- tive of Newry, Oxford County, Me. He was born May 5, 1854, son of Thomas and Emily MI. (Rowe) Stearns. He was educated at Gould's Academy in Bethel, Me., and Colby University (now College) in Waterville, being a member of the class of 1876. He read law in the office of William C. Clark, of Lincoln, Me., and was admitted to the bar on February 29, 1876. He subsequently taught school for a few years at Springfield, Me., and also prac- tised law. Removing to Caribou, Me., in 1882, he remained a resident there for seventeen years, serving as Judge of Probate of Aroos- took County, from January 1, 1885, to January 1, 1SS9; as a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1889 and 1891; and as a member of the Maine Senate in 1897 and 1899. In May, 1899, he settled in Bangor, where he
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continues to practise his profession. His po- litical affiliations are with the Republican party. He holds memberships in the Blue Lodge, F. & A. M., at Springfield, Me .: and Saint Al- demar Commandery, K. T., of Houlton, Me.
He married May 26, 1878, Miss Celestia R. Trask, daughter of Steward Trask, of Spring- field, Me. Louis Colby Stearns, Jr., Mr. Stearns's only child, born April 25, 1880, is now a student at Colby College, class of 1903. Mrs. Celestia R. Trask Stearns died January 18, 1898, aged thirty-nine years.
The records of the Stearns family of New England cover a period of over two hundred and seventy years. Isaac Stearns, so far as known, the first of the name on American shores, came with his family in 1630, "in the same ship, as there is reason to believe," says Bond, "with Governor Winthrop, the 'Ar- bella.""'
Isaac1 Stearns married in 1622 Mary Barker, who was of the parish of Nayland, Suffolk. They brought three children with them from England, and five more were born to them in Watertown, where Isaac Stearns was one of the earliest settlers. He died in 1671, his wife in 1677.
The line of descent from Isaac to Lawyer Stearns of Bangor is through Samuel,? born in Watertown, Mass., in 1638; John,3 born there in 1677; Josiah,+ born 1704; John,5 born 1733; Thomas," baptized in Watertown, January 22, 1764; Thomas, Jr., born in Bethel, Me., January 18, 1807, father of Louis Colby.8
Samuel- Stearns married February 1, 1662-3, Hannah, daughter of William and Dorothy Manning, of Cambridge, Mass. He died in Watertown in 1683, his wife in February, 1723-4. They had ten children. John3 Stearns married February 31, 1701, Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail. (Parks) Fiske, resided in Watertown on his father's homestead, and had a family of fifteen children. Josiah+ Stearns, who succeeded to the homestead, was a farmer and blacksmith. He served as Selectman of Watertown in 1754 and 1755, the year pre- ceding his death. His first wife, Susanna Ball, whom he married December 31, 1729, was a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Fiske) Ball. She died about 1740. His second wife,
who died in 1741, was Dorothy Prentice, daugh- ter of the Rev. John Prentice, of Lancaster. His third wife was May Bowman.
Jolin5 Stearns married first, May 15, 1760, Martha, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Hast- ings) Harrington. His second wife, wedded in 1779, was Mary, daughter of Ephraim Parks, of Lincoln, Mass. He first settled in Water- town, removed thence to West Cambridge, and about the year 1798 came to Maine, and settled on a farm in Bethel. He died October 16, 1804: his wife Mary in 1818.
Thomas6 Stearns, with his brothers John6 and Henry,6 settled in Bethel, Me., about the close of the Revolution. He cleared land and engaged in farming. He married in Sep- tember, 1792, Lois Colby, of Fryeburg, Me. Born in September, 1771, she was a near kins- woman to Gardner Colby, the wealthy and benevolent merchant of Boston for whom Colby College was named. Gardner Colby, born in Bowdoinham, Me., in 1810, died in Newton, Mass., in 1879. He was a son of Josiah C. and Sarah (Davidson) Colby, his mother being a native of Windham, N.H.
As gathered from the (incomplete and un- verified) Colby Genealogical Tables, prepared by James W. Colby-the family history pub- lished by him in 1895-Lois Colby was a daugh- ter of Samuel and Sarah (Cummings) Colby, and sister to Josiah Chase Colby, father of Gardner Colby; and Samuel,5 born at Bos- cawen, N.H., in 1740, was son of Lot+ and his first wife Ann. Hoyt's "Old Families of Salis- bury and Amesbury" gives records of the early generations of the Colby family. These show that Lott was born at Amesbury, Mass., October 25, 1717, son of Abraham3 and Sarah (Buckman) Colby and grandson of Isaac2 and Martha (Jewett) Colby. Isaac2 was born at Salisbury, Mass., in 1640, being the third son of Anthony1 Colby (or Colebie), of Salis- bury and Amesbury, "planter," who received land in Salisbury in the "first division," and is said by Savage to have been "in Boston,in 1663, a church member, probably came with Winthrop." He had eight children. Lott Colby was in "Concord, N.H., as early as 1741, and died there in 1790. Seven children recorded there."
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Thomas Stearns, Jr., was the eighth in a family of ten children. Besides carrying on his farm he worked at shoemaking, as did many farmers in those days, especially in the winter season. He died in Bethel, June 6, 1SSS. His first wife, Annie Powers, of Hanover, Me., died in 1842. Ile married for his second wife in June, 1843, Emily M. Rowe, of Newry, Me., daughter of Nathan and Harriet (Dyer) Rowe .. She died in October, 1857, in the thirty-fourth year of her age. He married for his third wife Mrs. Abigail Bancroft Blodgett, of Newry, Me. By his second wife, Emily, he had six children, namely: George Lyman, born October 16, 1844, died February 17, 1845; Annie Maria, born August 3, 1846: Mary A., born October 15, 1848, died October 26, 1852: Emma Louisa, born August 20, 1850: Louis Colby, born May 5, 1854, as noted above: Nathan Augustus, born October 5, 1856. Annie Maria Stearns, the second child, married August 3, 1868, William Dexter Brown. . She is the mother of four children: Omar P., born June 7, 1869; Herbert L., born July 22, 1874; Fred S., born February 23, 1SS2; and Chester A., born Sep- tember 7, 1SS4.
Nathan Augustus Stearns married March 3, 1885, Dora M. Jackson, of Newry, Me. He has two children, Gwendolen and Karl.
LBERT BODFISH PAGE, treasurer of the Lawrence, Newhall & Page Com- pany, lumber manufacturers, whose plant is located at Shawmut in the town of Fairfield, Me., is a native of Fairfield, but had been away from the place more than a quarter of a century when he returned in 1890, and became a member of the manufact- uring firm then known as Lawrence, Phillips & Co. He was born July 21, 1850, son of Eben S. and Melinda B. (Lawrence) Page. His father, who was familiarly known as Squire Page, was a native and life-long resident of Fairfield, his death occurring in 1872. He carried on mer- cantile business, and for many years was a justice of the peace; he served also as a mem- ber of the Maine House of Representatives. He was son of Peter Page, who came to Maine from Massachusetts, and was an early settler
of Fairfield. Melinda B., wife of Eben S. Page, also belonged to a prominent family of Somer- set County, being the daughter of Elihu and Melinda (Me Kachney) Lawrence, of Fairfield.
The surviving children of Squire Page are Albert Bodfish, further mentioned below, and his elder sister, Mrs. Louise E. Newhall, widow of the late George H. Newhall, a sketch of whose life appears in this volume.
Albert B. Page received his education in the public schools of Fairfield and the Eaton School in Norridgewock, Me. In 1868, a youth of eighteen, he started in life for himself, taking up his abode in Houlton, Aroostook County, near the eastern border of the State, where for a short time he was in the livery business, after- ward for several years being connected with the hotel known as the Snell House. He was at first a clerk in the employ of the hotel-keeper. During the late years of his residence in Houlton he was engaged in the dry-goods business. For five years he was Postmaster of Houlton, and for one year he was on the Board of Selectmen. In politics Mr. Page is a Democrat. He was one of the founders of the Farmers' National Bank of Houlton.
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