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Mr. Clark married Sarah F. Adams, of North Anson, Me., daughter of the late Benjamin Adams, in his day a well-known lawyer of North Anson. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Clark are Helen, Wilkie C., John M., Aleen, and Lessie B.
VORY PESE TASH, M.D., a physician and surgeon of Fairfield, Somerset County, was born in Exeter, Penobscot County, Me., June 11, 1849. His parents, John and Esther (Matthews) Tash, were both resi- cents of the Pine Tree State, the father born in Exeter, Penobscot County, Me., and the mother in the same place. Dr. Tash was reared in his native town, in the public schools of which he gained the first elements of knowledge, after- ward attending for a year the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, and in 1875 graduating from the Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield. Aber of the Board of Selectmen and at one time
Like many other young men of those and later times, he made use of the pedagogic profession as a stepping-stone to a more lucrative and per- manent occupation, teaching some twenty-eight terms in all. In the year following that of his graduation from the institute he began the study of his profession in the Medical College at Bruns- wick, Me., where he spent one year. He then entered the medical department of the Univer- sity of New York, where he remained until 1879, in which year he was graduated. After several years' practice in Corinna, Me., and in Clinton, Dr. Tash came in 1886 to Fairfield, where he has since remained. His present practice, be- sides Fairfield, embraces Canaan, Clinton, and other neighboring towns. He has shown him- self possessed of a sound knowledge of the two grand divisions of his profession, medicine and surgery, in their various branches, and has won the confidence of the townspeople and his pa- tients generally. He votes the Republican ticket, but has never held or sought public office. He is a member of the Waterville Clini- ical Society, and his fraternal society affiliations identify him with Parian Lodge, F. & A. M. at Corinna; Teconie Chapter, R. A. M., at Water- ville; and the order of Knights of Pythias.
Dr. Tash was married May 18, 1880, to Lizzie Crooker, a daughter of Hiram Crooker, who was formerly a well-known ship-builder of Stockton, but who is now deceased. He has no children. In religion both Dr. and Mrs. Tash favor Uni- versalist doctrines.
LI SNOW HANNAFORD, M.D., a well- known medical practitioner of recog- nized ability residing in Readfield, was born in Farmington, Me., June 10, 1848, son of Aaron and Calista W. (Stevens) Hanna- ford. His father was a native of Farmington, and his mother was born in Industry; Me. His grandfather, Robert Hannaford, who was an early settler in Franklin County, lived to be almost a centenarian, his death occurring in his ninety-ninth year. Aaron Hannaford was one of the leading agriculturists of Farm- ington in his day. He was also quite actively concerned in public affairs, serving as a mem-
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holding the appointment of United States In- ternal Revenue Collector.
Eli Snow Hannaford acquired his prelimi- nary education in the public schools and at the Farmington Academy, now the State Normal School. Although accustomed in his youth to assist in the daily farm duties, he found little or no attraction in tilling the soil for a permanent occupation, as his tastes were strongly inclined to a professional life. Ac- cordingly, as a means of providing the neces- sary funds with which to defray the expenses of a medical education, he taught school some sixteen terms. His elementary professional training was directed by Dr. Edmund Russell, of Farmington, afterward Mayor of Lewiston, Me., and a member of the State Senate. He was subsequently a student at the Portland School for Medical Instruction and in the med- ical department of Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1869.
Locating himself for practice the same year in Phillips, Me., he resided in that town for six years. In 1875 he removed to Readfield, where a much wider field of professional use- fulness was open to him. That he fully availed himself of the greater opportunities offered him for advancement is sufficiently attested by his long-continued residence in the town and the permanent hold he has obtained upon the confidence and good will of the entire community. While giving his attention to both medicine and surgery and having an extensive practice in each, Dr. Hannaford has become exceedingly proficient in the treatment of pulmonary affections, and in consequence enjoys a widely diffused reputation as a spe- cialist in diseases of the lungs and chest. He is greatly esteemed not only for his profes- sional attainments, but also for his social qual- ities. His advice and influence may be de- pended upon, as occasion demands, in securing public improvements or otherwise promoting the interests of Readfield and its inhabitants. He belongs to the Kennebec and Franklin County Medical Societies. In politics he is a Republican. He was made a Mason in Blue Mountain Lodge at Phillips, and is a member of Blue Mountain Lodge, Knights of Pythias, South Framingham, Mass.
Dr. Hannaford married for his first wife Ella S. Masterman, of Weld, Me. She bore him two daughters, one of whom, Iola, is now the wife of J. H. Welch, a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and a drug- gist in Atlantic, Mass.
For his second wife he married Gertrude Masterman, of Kingfield, Me., and of this union there was one daughter, who is no longer living. His present wife was before marriage Miss Ella S. Currier. She is a daughter of John Currier, of Readfield, and a descendant of an early settler in that town. The Currier family is a prominent one in this part of Ken- nebec County. Mrs. Hannaford's grandfather Currier and also an uncle on the paternal side were well-known medical practitioners of Read- field in their day.
RANK S. COLLINS, one of the leading farmers and stock-raisers of West Gardi- ner, was born in that town, July 31, 1854, son of John and Emily (Winslow) Collins. His father was a native of Litchfield Neck (now West Gardiner), and his mother was born in Falmouth, Me. His grandfather Paul Collins, who came from New Hampshire, was one of the original settlers of Litchfield Neck. John Collins, who was a prosperous farmer and business man of Litchfield Neck, was the first to conceive the idea of organizing in that local- ity a separate town, and as prime mover for the desired change he circulated the petition which resulted in the incorporation of the present town of West Gardiner. He was long and prominently identified with the agricultural and business interests of this locality, culti- vating a large farm and operating a saw-mill, and in his death, which occurred January 31, 1893, West Gardiner lost one of the foremost of its representative citizens. He is survived by his wife, a daughter (Alice M., now the widow of J. W. Larrabee, late of Revere, Mass.), and a son, Frank S., the direct subject of this sketch. Mrs. Emily Collins, now n the seventy- fourth year of her age, spends much of her time with her daughter in Revere.
Frank S. Collins acquired his elementary education in the public schools of his native
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town, and concluded his studies at the West Gardiner Academy. For some years after leav- ing school he assisted his father upon the farm and in the saw-mill. He was subsequently employed at the carpenter's trade in Boston for about seven years. For the past ten years he has given liis attention exclusively to farm- ing and stock-raising in West Gardiner. His homestead property, which is situated upon the banks of the picturesque Cobbosseecontee stream, consists of one hundred and forty acres of land admirably adapted for a stock farm, and his farm buildings are among the finest in this section of the county. In addition to cultivating the usual products of this locality, he specializes in the breeding of a superior grade of Hereford cattle, the liigh reputation of which has become widely diffused through- out the State. He is regarded as one of the most progressive farmers and successful stock- raisers in the Kennebec valley. In politics Mr. Collins is a Democrat. He is interested in local public affairs, especially in matters relative to public education, being a member of the West Gardiner School Committee. He is prominently identified with the Patrons of Husbandry, being a Past Master of Cobbossee- contee Grange of West Gardiner, and has held various official positions in Kennebec County Pomona Grange for the past eight years, and is its present Master. He is also a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the Blue Lodge in Gardiner.
Mr. Collins was first married to Miss Minnie Leavitt, of Athens, Me. His present wife was before marriage Nellie Perkins, of West Gardi- ner. Of his latter union there are two children, John L. and Karl R. Collins.
APTAIN STEPHEN B. MEADY, a retired shipmaster and old "Forty- niner," residing in Randolph, Ken- nebec County, was born in the town of Chelsea, same county, October 16, 1828, son of Alexander and Charlotte (Brown) Meady. His parents were both natives of Haverhill, Mass., the father being a son of Thomas and Hannah (Marshall) Meady, who came to America from Scotland, settling in fdren, besides Mrs. Meady, there are: Victoria
Haverhill. From that place Alexander Meady . came with his wife to Chelsea, where he re- sided for many years, or until his demise on May 2, 1851. He was engaged for the most part in agricultural pursuits, and was a promi- nent citizen of the town, which was formerly a part of Hallowell. He had seven children, all of whom were reared in Chelsea, namely --- Alexander, Mary, Thomas, Frederick, Alfred, Stephen B., and Lucy, Stephen being the only one now living.
Captain Stephen B. Meady acquired his formal education in the common schools of Chelsea, the knowledge thus gained being largely supplemented in later years by private study and experience in the affairs of life. In 1849 he made a long ocean voyage, going by way of Cape Horn to California. Here he spent some five years, being engaged for a part of the time in gold mining. Returning East in 1855, he stayed for a short time in Pittston, Me. (now Randolph), and then began seafaring life, which he subsequently con- tinued for thirty-five years. For the last twenty-five years of this time he was a master mariner, commanding various vessels, engaged, for the most part, in the Atlantic coast trade. In each vessel of which he was captain he was also' a part owner.
In 1891 Captain Meady retired from the sea after a very successful career, and has since resided in Randolph, his dwelling being located on Kinderhook . Street. He belongs to the Blue Lodge of Free Masons in Gardi- ner. In politics he is a Republican with lib- eral tendencies. He is State agent for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, in which he takes an active interest.
Captain Meady was married January 1, 1856, in Randolph to Susan A. Bailey, who was born in Pittston, Me., a daughter of Jo- seph C. and Louise (Alexander) Bailey. Mrs. Meady's father, Joseph C. Bailey, was born in Pittston, Me. He was a son of Nathaniel Bailey, Jr., and grandson of Nathaniel Bailey, Sr., who was one of the early settlers of Pitts- ton. Her mother was also a native of the Pine Tree State, her birthplace being in Dres- den, Lincoln County. Of their surviving chil-
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I., who is the wife of B. A. Cox, of Randolph; Joseph C., a resident of Round Pond, Me .; Georgie, wife of Henry O. Moulton, of Ran- dolph; and Alice, who resides in Augusta.
Captain and Mrs. Meady have two chil- dren, Frank H. and Wilbur S., both of Ran- dolph. The first, now Captain Frank H. Meady, is master and part owner of the schooner "L. C. Ballard," engaged in the coasting trade. Captain Stephen B. Meady and his wife attend the Methodist Episcopal church in Randolph. They are prompt and willing helpers in every practical movement for the betterment of the community.
OLONEL ELLIOTT COLBY DILL of Augusta, a member of the staff of Governor Hill, was born in Phillips, Franklin County, Me., December 30, 1874. His father, Harry P. Dill, was a native of Phillips; and his mother, whose maiden name was Lucy Hayes Colby, was a daughter of Thomas E. and Mary Abby (Hayes) Colby, of Nahant, Mass. Mary Abby Hayes was the daughter of Samuel Hayes, of Strafford, Vt., a soldier in the War of 1812, and grand-daughter of Robert Hayes, a Revolutionary soldier.
Colonel Dill's paternal grandfather, Major Seward Dill, was born in Lewiston, Me., Jan- uary 22, 1808. At the age of six years he re- moved with his parents to Phillips, where he became one of the best known and most re- spected citizens. His natural enterprise was usefully manifested in various business under- takings. It is said that he built more houses in Phillips than any other man. He effected a unanimity of opinion in regard to the loca- tion for a school-house, and secured the estab- lishment of the post-office in a place where it was undisturbed for many years. Deeply in- terested in the stirring politics of his day, he was strongly opposed to the extension of slav- ery, and took an active part in the organization of the Republican party, of which he was one of the earliest and ever after one of the most faithful and consistent members. He was one of the Maine delegates to the National Conven- tion in Chicago that nominated Abraham Lin- coln in 1860.
Ile was never content to play a passive rôle, but made his power and influence felt when- ever there was a wrong to be righted, a con- dition to be improved, or a worthy cause to be advanced. He held the rank of Major in the State militia till 1844. At the breaking out of the Civil War he responded promptly to the call for volunteers, organizing a company and offering his services in the field. Throughout the war he performed a useful part in caring for the sick and wounded. He frequently pre- sided at State and county conventions, and was often moderator of the town meetings. He served as Sheriff of Franklin County for four years, was a number of times appointed United States Deputy Marshal, and was Pro- vost Marshal during the Civil War. He went with his wife to California about twelve years ago, and remained a resident of that State until his death, which took place at Santa Cruz in May, 1902.
Harry P. Dill, son of Major Seward Dill and father of Colonel Elliott C. Dill, was educated in his native town and at Westbrook Seminary. He learned civil engineering, and followed the profession for several years, making his home at Phillips. A Republican in politics, he ren- dered services to his party, and was appointed, under President Hayes's administration, as United States Consul at Fort Erie, Ont. He has since held a similar office under each Re- publican administration, being now at Port Hope, Ont. He has two children: Daisy May, who is the wife of Dr. Charles E. Norton, of Lewiston, Me .: and Elliott Colby, whose name begins this sketch.
Elliott Colby Dill was graduated at the Phil- lips High School in 1890. He taught school for one winter, and then began newspaper work as correspondent of the Farmington Chronicle, later becoming local editor of the Phillips Pho- nograph. In 1902 he became connected with the Lewiston Journal, and has since served that paper in various capacities, now having charge of its State capital bureau at Augusta.
In politics Colonel Dill is a Republican. On July 30, 1900, he was commissioned. Inspector of Rifle Practice, with the rank of First Lieu- tenant on the staff of Colonel L. H. Pendall, of the First Regiment, M. N. G .; and January
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1, 1901, he was commissioned Inspector-general of Rifle Practice, with the rank of Colonel on the staff of Governor Hill. He was made a Free Mason in Blue Mountain Lodge, A. F: & A. M., of Phillips, and is a member of Tranquil Lodge, No. 29, Auburn; Bradford R. A. Chap- ter, No. 38, Auburn; and Lewiston Command- ery, No. 6, K. T.
Colonel Dill married Gertrude C. Parsons, daughter of John H. and Clara (Perry) Parsons. He has no children.
OLONEL FRANCIS KEEFE, of Eliot, Me., was born at South Danvers, Mass., November 19, 1855. He was edu- cated in the public schools. In 1872 he entered the government torpedo school, where he remained a year under the instruction of Professor Farmer. Later he was associated with John L. Lay, of Buffalo, N.Y., inventor of the Lay locomotive torpedo, having charge of the scientific apparatus. He was with this service for about twelve years, most of the time in foreign countries. In 1877 he conducted a series of experiments at Taku, China, before Li Hung Chang. Returning to America, he was sent to St. Petersburg, Russia, to exhibit the torpedo to the Russian government. While engaged on the contract in Russia, he was called to Belgium, and conducted a series of experiments at Antwerp. After a brief visit to America he returned to England and con- structed a torpedo, which was exhibited in Turkey, to strengthen the defences of Constan- tinople. He has been a member of the Maine Legislature, and is a member of the Maine Historical Society. His title of Colonel is by appointment as a member of Governor Hill's staff in 1901. He is also messenger of the Governor and Council.
UGUSTUS FREEDOM MOULTON, of Portland, son of Freedom and Shuah Coffin (Carter) Moulton, was born May 1, 1848, in Jay, Franklin County, Me.
The branch of the Moulton family of which he is a representative was founded in this country by
William Moulton, who in 1639, after a brief resi- dence in Newbury, Mass., settled at Hampton, N.H. We are indebted to a work entitled "Some Descendants of John and William Moulton, of Hampton, N.H.," compiled by Mr. Augustus F. Moulton himself, for the greater part of the dates and facts in this article, he having devoted con- siderable time to investigating the history of the family. We find that one Thomas Moulton, or De Multon, is mentioned in the Domesday Book, made by order of William the Conqueror in 1086, as having been put into possession of an estate called "Galeshore." Later another Thomas Multon, or Moulton, of mixed Norman and Saxon descent, called also De Vaux, was a resident of Gillesland, or Gilsland, in Cumber- land, and as a Crusader accompanied the warlike Richard I. to Palestine. He is mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in "Ivanhoe" and also in "The Talisman."
Nearly if not quite all the Moultons in the State of Maine are descendants of Thomas, John, and William Moulton, three immigrants, who settled first in Newbury, Mass., and subse- quently removed to Hampton, N.H. Both Thomas, who soon went to York, Me., and John, who remained in Hampton, have descendants in different parts of Maine.
William Moulton, the founder of the line under present consideration, came from Ormsby, Nor- folk County, England, with the family of Robert Page, he being then about twenty years of age. His name appears in the Hampton records at about the same time as these of John and Thomas. He married Margaret, daughter of Robert Page and his wife Lucy, and settled near them. His descendants (and those of John, who also came from Ormsby) are numerous in the vicinity of Hampton, N.H. It is not defi- nitely known what relationship existed between these three Moultons, but it is generally under- stood that they were brothers. John and Will- iam were "examined" together in England on the same day (April 11, 1637) before leaving for America, and came either on the ship "John and Dorothy," of Ipswich, William Andrews master, or on the "Rose," of Yarmouth, com- manded by a son of the same Andrews, which two ships appear to have come together. It is not certain when Thomas left England, but he
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is thought to have gone in 1635 to St. Christo- pher and thence come to New England.
The Page family landed probably at Boston, and went soon to Newbury, Mass., where they remained nearly a year, or until 1639. They then joined the new settlement called first Win- nacunnett and afterward Hampton, at which place William1 Moulton took up his permanent abode, settling quite near Thomas and Jolin Moulton. That he was a man of more than ordinary ability and force of character is evi- denced by the fact that, though coming to this country before arriving at his majority and pre- suinably bringing little with him, he was three times chosen one of the Selectmen of Hampton, and when he died, at the early age of forty-seven years (April 18, 1664), he left what was then regarded as a large estate. His widow Margaret, who had borne him eight children, subsequently · married Lieutenant John Sanborn. She died July 13, 1699. The following is a brief review of the succeeding generations to the subject of this sketch :--
Robert2 Moulton, born November 8, 1661, died October 11, 1732. He married May 29, 1689, Lucy Smith. They had four children.
Jonathan3 Moulton, youngest child of Robert,2 was born in Hampton, N.H., June 5, 1702, and died May 22, 1735. He married December 21, 1727, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Lamprey. They had four children.
Daniel+ Moulton, born in Hampton in 1731, died August 26, 1809. When he was a child of four years, he lost his father; and he was after- ward apprenticed to a man who treated him harshly. About 1745, at the age of fourteen, he ran away, and went to the new settlements in Maine, first to Saco and then to Scarboro, where he settled on the east side of Nonsuch River, near Rocky Hill. He was a blacksmith and millwright, and became the owner of large tracts of land, holding most of what is now Scarboro Corner School distriet and, it is said, about two miles of Nonsuch Meadows. He gave to each of his sons a large square house and a farm. He is said to have "bought his time" for a considerable sum from the man to whom he had been apprenticed. He is mentioned in Southgate's History of Scarboro as one of the prominent men in the town after its second
settlement. He married first, April 25, 1750, Grace, daughter of John and Grace (Pine) Rey- nolds and a grand-daughter of Charles Pine, the hunter and Indian fighter; and Pine attempted by will to entail a tract of land upon him and his issue. She died December 19, 1787, aged fifty-eight years; and he married, second, Hannah Beck Cotton, of Pepperellboro, who died Sep- tember 4, 1814, at the age of eighty. His death took place August 26, 1809, when he was seventy- eight years old. During the Revolutionary War he was a member of the Committee of Cor- respondence and Safety.
Charles Pine3 Moulton, eldest of the eight children of Daniel,+ was born July 15, 1751. He. like his father, was a blacksmith, and lived on the westerly side of Nonsuch River in Scarboro. near Rocky Hill. He married March 24, 1774, Olive, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Brackett) Fabyan, of Scarboro. She was baptized October 26, 1755. Her father, Joseph, was one of those admitted to the First Parish Church at Scarboro. May 10, 1730, and one of the founders of the Second Parish in 1744. Justice John Fabyan. born in England in 1681, was living in Newing- ton, N.H., in 1715, and was one of the signers of the contract between the parish and minister, the Rev. Joseph Adams. His wife was Mary Pickering. A funeral sermon in 1757, on the death of Mr. Fabyan (a deacon) was published. (New England Genealogical Register, vol. xxii.) After the death of Charles Pine Moulton, which occurred June 4, 1807, his widow married in 1822 Joseph Harmon.
Captain Joshua" Moulton, born August 5. 1775, was the eldest of the eleven children of Charles Pine and Olive (Fabyan) Moulton. He lived on the county road near Scarboro Corner. and was a blacksmith, tavern keeper, and large land-owner. He was also considerably inter- ested in shipping and ship-building, and was a Captain in the militia. He died February 11. 1855. His wife Lydia, daughter of Solomon Stone, was born June 16, 1780, and died July 17, 1872. They had eight children.
Freedom Moulton, third child of Joshua and Lydia (Stone) Moulton, was born October 31. 1SOS, in Scarboro, Me. He fitted for college at Gorham Academy, but on account of difficulty with his eyes was obliged to give up his college
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course. For some years he taught school in Gorham and Scarboro. After his marriage in 1842 he went to Jay, Franklin County, where he remained for eleven years, engaged in farm- ing and teaching. In 1853 he removed to Scar- boro, and purchased the Ezra Carter homestead on the Portland road, near Dunstan Corner, where he afterward resided, pursuing his old occupation of teaching a part of every year so long as he lived. Prominent in educational matters, he served on the Superintending School Committee in Jay for eleven years, and also held a similar position in Scarboro. At the time of his death he was Town Clerk. A man of marked ability and of the highest integrity, he was universally esteemed. His wife and all his children, as well as himself, were school teachers. He died July 31, 1857, at the age of forty-eight years. He married June 13, 1842, Shuah Coffin Carter, who was born December 20, 1811, a daughter of Ezra and Sarah (Fabyan) Carter. Her father, Ezra Carter, a tanner, came to Scar- boro, Me., from Concord, N.H., about 1800. The children of Freedom Moulton, four in num- ber, were: Martha Carter, Sarah Carter, Au- gustus Freedom, and Lydia Frances. Martha Carter, born April 11, 1843, died July 12, 1SS9. She married October 20, 1869, Lewis O. Hills, of Arlington, Ill., and afterward removed to Louisi- ana. She had four children: Grace Amanda, born September S, 1870, died July 20, 1SS9; Moulton Augustus, born August 28, 1874; Alida Martha, born December 29, 1875; and Louis Lenvil, born May 7, 1877. Sarah Carter Moulton, born November 3, 1846, graduated at the Portland High School in 1869, afterward taking a course in the Oswego Normal School. She was for some time a teacher, and now re- sides in Portland. Lydia Frances Moulton, born May 26, 1851, was educated at Westbrook Seminary and Oswego (N.Y.) Normal School, and is a teacher in the Jackson Grammar School at Portland, Me.
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