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On June 27, 1847, nearly fifty-four years be- fore his death, he married Julia A. Kilgore, who was born in Eastport, Me., July 19, 1828, daugh- ter of Harlow and Eliza (Cochrane) Kilgore. Mrs. Taylor's father was a native of Oxford County, Maine, and her mother of Eastport. When thirteen years old she accompanied her parents to Norridgewock, where she was reared, and where she was finally married. Of her marriage with Mr. Taylor there was born one child, William D., who resides with her in Nor- ridgewock.
ERRITT A. JOHNSON, an able and 5 successful lawyer of Rockland, was born in Thomaston, Me., August 5, 1859, son of Captain Henry D. and Caroline A. (Butler) Johnson.
Captain Henry D. Johnson was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1826. When a lad of eight years, he came to America with an uncle, and during his active career was engaged in seafaring pur- suits. Shipping as a seaman, he gradually worked himself upward through all the ranks until he became master of a ship. He was a very suc- cessful navigator, and made many prosperous foreign voyages, carrying on a good business. He was a typical representative of the self-made man of this country, and was held in high esteem by all who knew him. After leaving the sea he settled in Thomaston, where his death oc- curred about the year 1868.
On November 10, 1855, Captain Johnson married Caroline A. Butler, who was born March 22, 1832. Her father, George Butler, who was
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born August 27, 1792, married February 24, 1820, Mima Robbins, of Union, Me. Her grandfather, Phinehas Butler, Jr., was born in Framingham, Mass., April 8, 175S, son of Phine- has and Bathsheba (Graves) Butler. His parents removed to Thomaston, Me., in or before 1785. Phinehas Butler, Jr., served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, enlisting at Stirlington, now Union, Me., in February, 1777, under Colonel Benjamin Burton. He married, in 1781, Milea, daughter of Oliver Robbins. settled in Thomaston in 1785, and lived to the vencrable age of ninety-four years and six months, dying September 25, 1852. Captain and Mrs. Johnson were the parents of five children, namely: Frank Henry, Merritt A., Frederick J., George B., and Maynard S. Frank Henry Johnson was born September 3, 1856, and was lost at sea in 1SS7. He married Susan S. Loring, by whom he had two children, Grace L. and Harold. Frederick J. Johnson died in infancy. George B. Johnson was born about 1863. 'He went to sea in his early life, but subsequently settled in California, where he died in 1898, leaving a widow and one child, Thelma. Maynard S. Johnson was born about 1865. He left his native State when a young man, going first to Massachusetts, thence to Tacoma, Wash., where he is successfully engaged in business. He is married and has three children.
the Maccabees, of which he is now Chief Com- mander; and to the Foresters, of which he is Chief Ranger. He was also at one time High Councillor of the State Association of Foresters.
Mr. Johnson married first, March 31, 1Ss4. Nora C. Howes. She died in 1887, leaving one child, Lewis W., who was born in Thomaston. Me., May 11, 1SS6. Mr. Johnson married second. July 9, 1902, Clara W. Gregory, daughter of George W. Gregory.
ITTREDGE CRAM GRAY, the cashier of the First National Bank of Madison. Somerset County, is a native of Mer- cer, in the same county, having been born in that town, March 5, 1856, son of Selden ant Julia (Cram) Gray. His paternal grandfather was Eben Gray, a former resident of Mercer. a native, however, of Starks. The Gray family was settled at an early date in Somerset County.
Selden Gray, who was born in Mercer. io !- lowed farming and teaching there for maty years, being a well-known and prominent citi- zen, serving as Town Clerk and as a member of the school board. His wife, Julia Crazz. mother of the subject of this sketch, was a na- tive of New Sharon, Me. Their children were Francette A. and Kittredge Cram, above name i. now of Madison.
Merritt A. Johnson attended the public schools Kittredge Cram Gray was reared in his native town of Mercer, acquiring his education in the public schools and at the Eaton Family an 1 Day School in Norridgewock, Me. He subse- quently taught several terms of school. Com- ing to Madison in 1877, he secured a position as clerk in the store of B. P. J. Weston. with whom he remained for three years, afterward returning to Mercer. There he engaged in mercantile business on his own account. and so continued for two years, at the same time serving as Postmaster. In 1SS2 he came again to Madison, and entered into mercantile busi- ness here as a member of the firm of Weston. Gray & Co., this connection lasting for about two years. For several years subsequently he was superintendent of the saw-mill and lumber yard of B. P. J. Weston at Madison. He was appointed Postmaster of Madison in of Rockland and Colby University, acquiring a good education. He subsequently studicd law with the Hon. D. N. Mortland, with whom, after his admission to the bar, in 1890, he was in partnership until 1901. Mr. Johnson has since practised alone, and has carried on a lucra- tive business and maintained a high rank in the legal profession. A stanch Republican in politics, he has filled many positions of impor- tance, and is now serving the city as Alder- man. He has been a member of the Board of Health, also one of the School Board, Super- intendent of Schools, a Trustec of the Pub- lic Library, and has served as County Attorney. He is an active member of several of the leading fraternal organizations of Rockland, belong- ing to Knox Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he has held all the offices; to the Rockland Encamp- ment, I. O. O. F .; to Lafayette Canton; to | May, 1889, assuming the duties of the office
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on July 1 following, and in this office he served continuously for a period of six years and nine months. Since February, 1896, he has filled the position of cashier of the First National Bank of Madison. He is also serving in his fourth year as Town Treasurer. He is a direc- tor in the Indian Spring Woollen Company of Madison. He is widely known as a man of sound judgment in business matters, and both on this account and because of his tried and proved integrity stands high in the confidence of . his fellow-townsmen. A Free Mason, he belongs to Euclid Lodge of that order at Madi- son. He is a member of the Congregational church, which he is now serving as Deacon.
Mr. Gray married April 22, 1885, Miss Lizzie Dinsmore, a native of the town of Anson, Somerset County, Me., and daughter of Zebina Dinsmore, now a resident of Madison, Me. Her mother, whose maiden name was Hannah Burns, was born in Embden. Mr. and Mrs. Gray have one child, Carl D., who was born September 12, 1SS6.
LONZO MICINTIRE, farmer, of Skow- hegan, a member of Skowhegan Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, was born in Norridgewock, Me., May 19, 1834, son of Levi and Judith (Woodman) McIntire. His parents were both natives of Norridgewock; and in that place, formerly the shire town of Somerset County, they spent the early years of their married life, removing thence to Skow- hegan in 1840 and settling on the farm which their son Alonzo now owns and occupies.
Levi McIntire was born May 3, 1797. He died in January, 1SS4. His wife Judith died in 1875, at the age of sixty-nine years. Levi was a son of Phineas McIntire, who came to Maine from Massachusetts, it is said, and was an early settler of Norridgewock. Phineas McIntire was a soldier early in the Revolu- tionary War, being a member in 1776, as shown by his receipts for money, one dated April 1 and the other June 6 of that year, of the com- pany commanded by Captain John Elden, of Buxton, Me. Phineas MeIntire died March 4, 183S, aged eighty-five years. He was of Scottish descent. Nine children were born
to Levi McIntire and his wife Judith, and two are now living, namely: Alonzo, the special subject of this sketch; and his sister, Mary A., widow of the late Nathan P. Woods, of Skow- hegan. Three of the children died in infancy, and one, Helen J., died December 25, 1851, at the age of eighteen months. Levi E. died January 18, 1867, aged twenty-five years; Martha A. died October 29, 1873, aged thirty- seven years; and Lydia Francis, who was the wife of Henry Hoxie, died February S, 1896, aged fifty-two years.
Growing to manhood in Skowhegan, Alonzo McIntire obtained his education in the public schools, and on the home farm acquired habits of industry and a practical knowledge of differ- ent branches of agriculture. With the excep- tion of one year, when he was a member of the firm of McIntire & Woods, paper manu- facturers of Skowhegan, and a short time in which he gave his attention to mercantile business in Fairfield, Me., he has been engaged in farming. For many years he dealt exten- sively in farm produce. Politically, he is a Republican.
Mr. McIntire married June 28, 1864, Clara A. Fletcher, of Solon, Me., daughter of Ezra M. and Mary A. (Williams) Fletcher. Her father was a native of Moscow, Me., and her mother of Concord, Me. Her paternal grand- father, Asa Fletcher, commanded a company of the State militia in the War of 1812, and in after life was familiarly known as Captain Fletcher. He was an early settler of Moscow, Me. Ezra M. Fletcher removed from Moscow to Solon about three years previous to the birth of his daughter Clara, Mrs. McIntire, which took place July 31, 1843. He died Au- gust 21, 1883, aged seventy-nine years. His wife, Mrs. MeIntire's mother, died July 27, 1SSS, at tlie age of sixty-nine. They had seven children. The surviving members of the fam- ily are: Mrs. McIntire, residing in Skowhegan; Luther W. Fletcher, of Merrill, Wis .; Ella M., wife of H. G. Foss, of Auburn, Me .; and Fred W. Fletcher, of Portland, Ore. Charles H. Fletcher died March 18, 1890, aged forty-four years; Sarah F. Fletcher died June 7, 1866, aged sixteen years; and Alberta A. Fletcher died February 16, 1892, aged twenty-eight.
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To Mr. and Mrs. McIntire have been born four children. Of these the three now living are: Everett A .; Charles E., who married Minnie M. Gould, of Skowhegan, Me .; and Essie B., who is the wife of Fred Holmes, of Chelsea, Mass. Arthur Fletcher died July 8, 1868, aged three months.
HARLES M. KALLOCH,* cashier of the Rockland Trust Company, in Rock- land, was born July 1, 1856, a son of Oscar A. Kalloch. He comes of pioneer stock, being a descendant in the sixth genera- tion of Finlay Kalloch, one of the original settlers of the town of Warren, Me. His lineage is Finlay,1 Alexander,2 Alexander,3 Silas,+ Oscar A.,5 Charles M.º
Finlay1 Kalloch emigrated from the north of Ireland with his father and his brother Daniel to Portsmouth, N.H. The father and brother subsequently removed. to Philadelphia, Pa. Finlay Kalloch married Mary Young, and came with her and her father to Warren, Knox County, Me., in 1735. Alexander2 Kalloch, who was born in Warren, Me., in 1740, and died in that town February 14, 1826, was an officer in the Revolutionary War. In the Massachusetts achives his name is spelled "Kelloch." He was commissioned Second Lieutenant July 3, 1776; later (1779) was Lieutenant in Captain Philip Ulmer's Company, Colonel Samuel Mc- Cobb's regiment, and afterward for three months, 1779-80, Lieutenant in command of a company at Camden and St. George's. He married Eleanor Gaut. Alexander3 Kalloch, born Sep- tember 26, 1770, lived in Warren until after the birth of all his children, but subsequently removed to Rockland, where he died in May, 1853, at the age of eighty-two years. The maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth Mero. Silast Kalloch was born about 1806. He carried on a successful business as a truckman in Rock- land, and was also city undertaker. On June 20, 1830, he married Mrs. Olive Robbins Maxey. Oscar A.5 Kalloch was born May 7, 1831. Sev- eral years ago he left home to go West, and was last heard of in Chicago, Ill., in 18SS. He married Abbie C. Snow, daughter of Samuel and Persis (Clary) Snow. She was born No-
vember 26, 1831, and died December 22, 1996. She bore her husband two children, namely- Charles M. and Flora A. Flora A.6 Kalloch. born June 9, 1866, is the wife of Edward M. Tebbitts; has no children.
Charles M.º Kalloch was educated in Rock- land. For three years in his early manhood he served the United States Government as Clerk of Contractors. During that time a post- office was built at Hurricane Island, Me., and the post-office at St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Kalloch was also employed as clerk by the contractor that built the Rockland post-office. From 1881 until 1889 he was in the Surgeon General's office in Washington, D.C. When the Rock- land Trust Company was organized in 1SS9. he accepted the position of cashier, which he still retains. Politically he is actively iden- tified with the Republican party, and for two years served the city as Alderman, during the last year being chairman of the board. He was made a Mason in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Kalloch married Louisa M. Crockett. who was born in Rockland, February 21, 1859. She is a daughter of the late Captain Robert Crockett, and a descendant in the fourth gen- eration of Jonathan Crockett, the line of descent being Jonathan,1 Robert J.,2 Captain Robert.3 Louisa M.+
Jonathan1 Crockett was born at Falmouth. now Portland, Me., July 2, 1741 (O. S.). On January 18, 1763, he married Elioenai Robbins. who was born April 20, 1747. She was a daugh- ter of Oliver and Elioenai (Shepard) Robbins. and grand-daughter of Ebenezer Robbins. Her great-grandparents, William and Priscilla Rob- bins, were the progenitors, so Mr. Sibley asserts in his "History of Union," of all that bear the name of Robbins in this section of Maine.
Robert J.2 Crockett, born December 3, 1782. died August 31, 1849. He married July 23. 1805, Dorcas Holmes, who was born May 26, 1786. Her father, Elijah Holmes, born in Sharon, Mass .. September 29, 1764, came to Maine when a young man, and located himself first in Union. He afterward lived in different towns in Maine and in the British provinces, eventually settling in Rockland, where he died February 10, 1839. The maiden name of his wife was Dorcas Par- tridge.
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Captain Robert3 Crockett, who was born Octo- ber 5, 1815, died in 18SS. He was engaged in seafaring during his early life, for many years being master of a vessel. He subsequently became identified with the manufacturing inter- ests of Rockland as a ship-builder, and served the city as Assessor and as Representative in the State Legislature. He was also for a number of years president of the Rockland Savings Bank. Captain Crockett married November 7, 1839, Lucy Achorn, who was born in January, 1822, and died November 6, 1896. Her father, Isaac Achorn, born in 1800, married Olive Cur- rier. He was a son of Jacob, Jr., and Margaret (Ulmer) Achorn, and grandson of Jacob, Sr., and Jane Achorn (Eichorn), who emigrated from Germany, and settled at Broad Bay, now Waldoboro, Me. Captain Robert and Lucy (Achorn) Crockett were the parents of six chil- dren, namely: Amos F., born July 16, 1840; Charles Albert, born November 16, 1842; George E., who was born July 2, 1845, and died February 13, 1858; Robert H., who was born April 29, 1849, and died of yellow fever at Kingston, Jamaica, February 16, 1868; Arthur B., born May 4, 1854; and Louisa M., wife of Mr. Kalloch. Mr. and Mrs. Kalloch have no children.
IRAM MOORE, a well-known lumber- man and agriculturist of Madison, Somerset County, Me., has resided at his present location in the village since April, 1903. He was born in Bingham, Somerset County, Me., April 5, 1835, son of Luther and Hannah (Baker) Moore. Both his parents were natives of Madison, in which town his paternal grandfather settled at an early day.
Luther Moore, after his marriage, removed to Bingham, where he made his home for the re- mainder of his life. Of his children the follow- ing survive: Nathan, who resides in Moscow, Me .; Esther, widow of the late Joseph Clark, of Carritunk, Me .; Luther L., who is a resident of Seattle, Wash .; Webster D., who lives in Madison, Me .; and Hiram, whose name begins this sketchi.
Reared in his native town of Bingham, Hiram Moore received an elementary education
in the district schools. Owing to circumstances he left the parental roof-tree at the early age of eight years, being forced, thoughi so young, to depend practically upon his own resources. During the summers he made himself useful on farms, and during the winter obtained light work in the lumber industry, thus earning his subsistence. Entering the employ of Joseph Clark, he worked for him at Moscow, Carritunk, and Bingham for seventeen years, during ten < of which he was manager of Mr. Clark's farm- ing interests. For several years (1860 to 1864) he was engaged in agriculture on his own ac- count at Fork's Plantation, Somerset County; and in October, 1865, he removed to Madison, taking up a farm here, which he carried on until April, 1903, when he took up his residence in the village. He is still interested both in agriculture and the lumber industry. He is the owner of large tracts of timber lands in North- ern Maine, and is manager of the lumber in- terests of the Great Northern Paper Company on the Kennebec River. Mr. Moore can cer- tainly claim the title of a "self-made" man. Forced in the tender years of childhood to be- come self-supporting, he was bravely fighting the battle of life at a time when the interests of most children are divided between toys and school-books; and that he has been successful in attaining a comfortable degree of prosperity argues well for his courage, self-reliance, and industry.
Mr. Moore has several times capably served in public office. In the eighties of the century lately closed he served a term of six years as a Commissioner of Somerset County, and for two years was chairman of the Board of Com- missioners. For two years also he was chair- man of the Board of Selectmen of Madison. For a number of years he has been a director of the First National Bank of Madison. Tak- ing a keen interest in the welfare and progress of the town, he heartily supports every prac- tical movement to that end. He belongs to Euelid Lodge, F. & A. M., of Madison.
Mr. Moore was married in August, 1857, to Laverna B. Chase, who was born in Solon, Me., daughter of George and Lavonia (Bosworth) Chase, of Carritunk, Me. Of this union there are three children: Fred L., who is now deceased;
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Nellie M., wife of Elmer E. Towne, who has one son, Don M., born in January, 1890; and Arthur E., who married Lena Jacobs, of Mad- ison.
OHN C. LEVENSALER, of Thomaston, cashier of the Georges National Bank of that town and former Probate Judge of Knox County, has a long and honor- able record as business man and public official. He was born in Thomaston, Me., May 7. 1835, son of the Hon. Atwood and Nancy (Coombs) Levensaler. His first ancestor in America was John Adam Levensaler, a native of Germany, who settled in Waldoboro, Me. John's son, Adam Levensaler, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Waldoboro, and lie re- sided there for some years, afterward removing to Thomaston, where he was engaged in farming. He married Mary Turner, of Waldoboro.
Atwood Levensaler, son of Adam Levensaler and his wife Nancy, was a prominent merchant and citizen of Thomaston, his native place, being also well known in other parts of the State. He represented his district for several terms in the State Legislature, and was for many years chairman of the Board of Select- men of Thomaston. He died in 1869, after a long and successful career, esteemed and re- spected by all who knew him. In politics a Democrat, he served as a member of the Coun- cil of Governor John Fairfield (1839-40, 1841- 43). His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Coombs, was born in what is now South Thomaston, Me. They reared a large family of children, of whom five are now living, namely: Mary T., wife of Thomas S. Andrews, of Thomaston; John C., whose name appears at the head of this sketch; Augusta H. and Atwood (Jr.), who both reside in Thomaston; and Nancy I., who now resides in Fort Payne, Ala., and is the widow of the late A. J. Butler, of that place (formerly of Rockland, Me.).
John C. Levensaler was educated in the public schools and at the former Thomaston Academy. In 1854 he entered the Thomaston bank as clerk, and was thus employed until December, 1855, when he was elected cashier of the Georges Bank. In 1865 the Georges Bank, hitherto a State bank,
became the Georges National Bank, Mr. Leven- saler retaining his position as cashier, which. as already stated, he holds at the present time. In 1868 he was elected Probate Judge of Knox County, and served thus for four years. Active in local politics, he has done good ser- vice for his party. He has been a member of the Thomaston Democratic Town Committee and also of the Democratic County Committee of Knox County, of which he was chairman. and was a Committeeman from Knox County to the Maine State Democratic Committee. Mr. Levensaler has also served capably in the offices of Town Clerk and Town Treasurer and Assessor of Thomaston, and at present is serving in that of Town Auditor, a position that he has held for the last fifteen years or more. He is treas- urer and a trustee of the Edward O'Brien Char- ity Fund Association, of Thomaston, and a trus- tee of the Thomaston Public Library. His secret society affiliations include membership in the A. F. & A. M., in which he has attained the thirty-third degree, belonging to Orient Lodge. No. 15, at Thomaston; Henry Knox Chapter. No. 47, of Thomaston, which he is now serving as High Priest; and Claremont Commandery. No. 9, of Rockland, Me.
Mr. Levensaler was married November 26. 1866, to Mary L. Jacobs, a native of Thomaston. Me., and daughter of Joseph Warren and Almira (Boynton) Jacobs. Of this marriage there is one child, Lizzie S., who is book-keeper in the Georges National Bank and also librarian of the Thomaston Public Library.
ILLIAM G. BUTMAN,* of Rockland. one of the most popular steamboat captains on the Maine coast, was born at Round Pond, Lincoln County, Me .. May S, 1851. His parents were John and Betsey E. (Carter) Butman, his paternal grand- parents John, Sr., and Eleanor (Leeman) But- man, and on the same side he is a great-grand- son of Hezekiah Butman, a fisherman of Marble- head, who settled in Pemegul (now Bristol . Me.
But little information as to the origin of this family can be obtained from the town records of Marblehead, which have been carefully
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examined for that purpose. These records during the early history of the town were very carelessly kept, or, rather, not kept at all, ex- cept when some family took the pains to have their dates of birth, marriage, and death re- corded, the service not being obligatory upon the town clerk. The result is that the recorded births for two hundred years-from 1650 to 1850 -are few in number, except as regards a few particular families. The name of Butman seems identical in the early records with Bootman and Boutman. No record of births in this family in Marblehead is found previous to August, 1816, when was born a John Butman, son of John and Nancy (Harmson) Butman. The · marriages seem to have been more carefully recorded, the first date being 1754. The name of. Hezekiah Butman, however, does not ap- pear anywhere on the records.
Hezekiah Butman, it is said, married a Kent, and had three children-John, Mary, and Sarah. John Butman, Sr., son of Hezekiah, worked as a stevedore in Bangor for many years. Later he resided in Bristol, where he married Eleanor Leeman, daughter of Sam- uel Leeman, of that place. They had three chil- dren-John, Albert C., and Samuel L. Albert C., who is the only one now living, married Mary Jane Oster, by whom he had no children. His second wife, who was a Rand, bore him two children, George and Rose.
John Butman, second, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bristol, Me. From early manhood he followed the sea on vessels engaged in the coasting trade, and for many years was master of his vessels. He married Betsey E. Carter, who was born on Loud's Island, off Bristol, being a daughter of William and Sarah (Hatch) Carter. Of this union were eight children, of whom four are now liv- ing, namely-William G., Aaron H., John, and Sanford. Aaron H., who has been three times married, has by his third wife, Esther Chase, of Cape Cod, one child, Adelaide. John Butman, third, married Estelle Clark, but has no children. Sanford, whose wife in maiden- hood was Kate Fountain, also has no children.
William G. Butman at an early age accom- panied his father to sea, and has since followed the marine calling. For the last twenty years
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