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Mr. Chaplin was very fond of athletic sports of all kinds, such as running, jumping, playing ball, and wrest- ling, and could often throw a man much heavier than him- self. Checker playing was a favorite game, and during periods of leisure he would frequently play alone for hours, studying the different moves, and becoming an ex- pert at the game. He thoroughly enjoyed fishing, and was a good shot, partridges being his favorite game. He liked pets, and was especially fond of horses, kittens, and doves. He had a great love for children, and never tired of en- tering into their games, and doing his utmost for their en- tertainment. He was tender and loving with his family, seldom or never uttering a harsh or unkind word to them.
Though clearly entitled to a pension for disabilities in- curred in the war, and not a wealthy man, he would never apply for one as long as he was able to earn his living,
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and when at last he consented to do so, it was too late, for he died before his case could be acted upon. He was quite feeble for a long time, though he carried on the business at the office long after he ought to have given up all work. He died on September 8, 1890.
The children of Caleb A. and Abigail Chaplin, all born in Bridgton, were as follows :
CLARA JANE, b. Nov. 2, 1850; married James S. Fleck of Harrison, June 25, 1874. Children: Chaplin F., b. June 18, 1875, worked on the electric cars at Westbrook for sometime, married Eva Fletcher, and now lives in Biddeford; Abby Eleanor, b. Sept. 14, 1877, married George Edwards, and lives at New Gloucester; Mar- garet, b. Aug. 14, 1882, married a Lane, and lives at Rumford Falls ; Richard H., b. Sept. 18, 1884, unmarried, and lives in Harrison; Winnifred C., b. Jan. 25, 1886, unmarried, and lives at home; Hugh, b. Sept. 1, 1892. Children all born in Harrison.
DAVID BYRON, b. July 4, 1852; died April 7, 1853. Mr. Chaplin always mourned the untimely death of his only son, though often saying that girls were not the worst property that a man could have.
ELLA E., b. March 20, 1854; married James H. Tol- man of Harrison, Nov. 25, 1877; lived in Harrison about three years, then moved to Casco, where her husband practiced law some ten years, then to West- brook, where Mr. Tolman has been Judge of the Mu- nicipal Court for fifteen years. Children given in the genealogy of the Tolman Family. Mrs. Ella E. Tolman of Westbrook, was appointed a Justice of the Peace, Nov. 24, 1866.
GENEVRA ABBY, b. Sept. 11, 1855; married James P. Lown of Harrison; lived at North Bridgton several years, and then at Harrison. A few years ago they moved to St. Mary's, Penn., where Mrs. Lown died Aug. II, 1906. Children: Caroline Isabel, b. Sept. 17, 1879, married, and lives in Penn .; Josephine, b. May 20, 1881, unmarried and is living with her father; Beatrix, b. Aug. 24, 1883, unmarried, and lives at home; Velma, b. July 10, 1889, unmarried, and lives at home. All of
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the children were born at North Bridgton, except the last who was born at Harrison.
ALMA LYDIA, b. April 7, 1858; died Aug. 27, 1858.
Mrs. Abigail M. Chaplin died in Westbrook, Maine, at the home of her son-in-law, Judge James H. Tolman.
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CHUTE FAMILY.
Two families of this name have resided in Harrison, viz. : William, and Franklin Augustine Chute. They were broth- ers, sons of William Carr Chute of Otisfield, in that part which was incorporated into the town of Naples. These families are :
WILLIAM CHUTE, born in Otisfield, October 22, 1819; married to Emily Nutting, daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Lombard) Stuart of Harrison, November 21, 1844, by Rev. James P. Richardson of Otisfield. They began mar- ried life in Naples, living there till 1866; then a few months in Norway, finally settling in the village of Bolster's Mills, where Mr. Chute died, July 15, 1883. Mrs. Chute subse- quently removed to Gorham, and spent the remainder of her life near the family of her daughter, Mrs. Rose (Chute) Johnson, where she died December II, 1897. William Chute, during his lengthy residence in Naples, became a member of Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M., of Bridgton, and was repeatedly elected master of the lodge, and was one of the most devoted and useful members. Soon after his removal to Bolster's Mills, he initiated a movement for the organization of a lodge at Bolster's Mills, which was instituted under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Maine, April 15, 1869. (See pp. 44-47.) Their children :
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JOSEPH FREELAND, b. in Naples, Mar. 2, 1847; married Lill Dresser of Bridgton, June 4, 1870. She died Apr. 14, 1897; he married 2d, Louise Merrill of Portland, June 7, 1899.
ROSANNAH, b. in Naples, May 4, 1852; died Aug. 23, 1852. ROSE, b. in Naples, Sept. 10, 1855; married Frank P. John. son of Gorham, Jan. 1, 1885.
Joseph F. Chute has been, since his early manhood, con- nected with social and fraternal organizations in honorable relations. He was the first Keeper of Records and Seals in Highland Lodge, No. 10, Knights of Pythias, of Bridgton, Maine, which office he held continuously until elected to the same office in the Grand Lodge. This office he held eleven consecutive years. He has been for eighteen years, secre- tary of the Casco and Portland Building & Loan Associa- tions, living at Woodfords, winters, and at Great Diamond Island, summers.
Mrs Rose C. Johnson, in her childhood, was noted for her fine scholarship. She was a teacher in the public schools of her own town in her sixteenth year, and taught with much success in Bridgton, Otisfield, Naples, Waterford, and Gor - ham. She was graduated from the Bridgton High School in 1875, and from Gorham Normal School in 1883. Since her marriage, she has served considerably as a substitute teacher in the Normal School. Was Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star in 1903-4, and at present is serv- ing as Lady Visitor at the State School for Boys, by ap- pointment of the Governor.
FRANKLIN AUGUSTINE CHUTE, born February 25, 1827; married September 24, 1853, Elizabeth Jones Hall of Bridgton, born April 4, 1829. Their children :
QUINCY MAYBERRY, b. Nov. 30, 1854; married Melissa Dresser Lewis of this town, Dec. 20, 1881. Children :
I. Blanche Adelaide, b. Aug. 13, 1882; married Howard Oliver Coy of Oxford, Me., July 25, 1904. Chil- dren : Velma Marion, b. May 29, 1905. Raymond Wiltsea, b. Dec. 22, 1906.
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2. Roland Hollis, b. Apr. 17, 1885.
3. Walter Delmont, b. May 31, 1891.
4. Philip Archer, b. Mar. 29, 1893.
5. Helen Myra, b. Apr. 29, 1900.
CORA BELL, b. Sept. 14, 1863 ; married Nov. 12, 1881, John Fremont Witham of Harrison. (See Witham family.)
COOK FAMILY.
OBADIAH GOULD COOK was born in the town of Casco, then a part of the town of Raymond, in the County of Cumberland, in the District of Maine, on January 12, 1815. He was the son of Ephraim and Mary (Gould) Cook. Ephraim Cook was the son of Daniel Cook and was born at Dover, New Hampshire, July 19, 1760. The father of Daniel Cook was John Cook. Both Daniel and John Cook were born in Dover, the former September II, 1732, and the latter May 5, 1692. The Cooks were Quakers, and Ephraim came with his father from Dover, New Hamp- shire to Windham, Maine, and with other Quakers, settled in the latter town.
Obadiah passed his boyhood on the farm of his father in Casco. He attended the common schools and in addition had the advantage of limited attendance at the Friends School at Providence, Rhode Island, and at Limington Acad- emy at Limington. While a young man, he taught school for a number of years and in 1840, began the study of law with Aaron B. Holden, Esq., in Casco. He was ad- mitted to the Cumberland County Bar in 1848. In 1854, as a clerk, he entered the office of the Register of Probate at Portland. At this time he was a member of the Free Soil party. In September of that year at a convention in Lancaster Hall in Portland, attended by members of the three political parties known as Morrill Democrats, Whigs
OBADIAH GOULD COOK
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and Free Soilers, Mr. Cook was nominated from the Free Soil party as Clerk of Courts. He received the coali- tion vote and was elected to the office, and re-elected again in 1857.
On December 26, 1854, he married Christiana S. Perry, by whom he had three children : Mary E., Charles Sumner and Christiana S. On March 1I, 1861, his wife died and soon after he moved to Bolster's Mills in Harrison. Here he became the owner of saw and grist mills, which he op- erated for many years. He devoted himself also to the work of his profession. During all his residence in Har- rison, he took an active and interested part in all public matters. He was a member of the Board of Selectmen for the town for the years 1864, 1874-76, and a member of the Board of Superintending School Committee for the years 1874-75-76. He was most interested in the es- tablishment and maintenance of free high schools in the town from the time they were first authorized by the law of the State and gave liberally from his private means to increase the length and efficiency of such schools. He was one of the founders of the Republican party and active- ly identified with that party until his death. Though born a Quaker, he early accepted the doctrines of the Universa- list Church, to which he adhered all his life. January 15, 1863, he married as his second wife, Lucy I. Perry, a sister of his first wife. He died in Harrison, February 3, 1894. Children of Obadiah G. Cook :
MARY ELECTA, b. in Portland, Me., Jan. 5, 1856. She mar- ried George Hazen of North Bridgton, Me., May 17, 1876. Their living children are: Bertha May, b. Dec. 21, 1878. Annie Mildred, b. June 14, 1886.
CHARLES SUMNER. (See sketch below.)
CHRISTIANA S., b. in Portland, Me., Feb. 1, 1861.
Charles Sumner Cook, the son of Obadiah Gould Cook and Christiana S. (Perry) Cook, was born in Portland,
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Maine, November 18, 1858. His boyhood was passed at Bolster's Mills in Harrison, to which town his father moved in 1861. He attended the public schools of the town and completed his preparation for college at the Nichols Latin School in Lewiston, Maine, from which he graduated in 1877. He entered Bates College the same year and grad- uated from that institution, with honors, in the Class of I88I.
After leaving college, he devoted some time to teaching. For one year he was principal of the Waldoboro, Maine, High School. Later he began the study of law in his father's office in Harrison and in December, 1884, entered the office of Symonds & Libby, in Portland, Maine. This firm was then composed of Hon. Joseph W. Symonds, ex-Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine, and Hon. Charles F. Libby, ex-Mayor of Portland. Mr. Cook con- tinued his law studies in this office and was admitted to the Cumberland County bar in October, 1886. Since that time, he has been in the active practice of his profession in Portland. In 1891, he formed a co-partnership with Judge Symonds and later (1892) the firm became Symonds, Snow & Cook, by the admission of David W. Snow, Esq., and in 1901, Symonds, Snow, Cook & Hutchinson, by the admission of Charles L. Hutchinson, Esq. The firm has always had a large and varied business, numbering among its clients, many of the large railroads and business corporations of the State.
In addition to his legal work, Mr. Cook has devoted much time to the organization and management of finan- cial and business corporations. In 1906, he organized the Fidelity Trust Company, of Portland, the charter for which he had previously secured, and has been Vice-President of this company since its organization. He is President and Director of the Brunswick Electric Light and Power Company, a Director of the Sagadahoc Light and Power Company, Director of the Atlantic Shore Line Railroad
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Company, President of the State Loan Company and of Prince's Express. For many years, he was Director of the National Traders Bank, which position he occupied until the bank was taken over by the Fidelity Trust Com- pany.
He is a Trustee of Bates College and of the Maine General Hospital and Portland Public Library. He is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, F. & A. M., a mem- ber of the Cumberland Club, Portland Club, Portland Ath- letic Club and Portland Country Club. He was a mem- ber of the Executive Council during the last administration of Governor Powers and during both administrations of Governor Hill, and acted as Chairman of that body during the first administration of Governor Hill.
October 23, 1889, he was married to Annie Jeffreys Reed, daughter of Hon. Isaac Reed and Lydia Emery (MacDon- ald) Reed, late of Waldoboro, Maine. Mrs. Cook was born August 19, 1864, and died October 25, 1903. Mr. Cook has two children, Lydia MacDonald, born Jan- uary 26, 1892, and Robinson, born January 30, 1895.
CUMMINGS FAMILY.
THOMAS CUMMINGS, born May II, 1768, came from Topsfield, Massachusetts, about 1810, and settled on the hill where the town farm is situated. Mr. Cummings de- scended from an ancient family in Topsfield, England. His wife was Abigail Foster. She died December 29, 1858. He died in Harrison, January 23, 1848. Their children were :
JONAS, b. in Topsfield, Mass., June 9, 1798; married Nancy S. Piper (b. in Otisfield, May 14, 1802), July 2, 1829. Mr. Cummings died in Harrison, Feb. 8, 1875. Mrs. Nancy Cummings died Feb. 14, 1889. The children of Jonas and Nancy Cummings were :
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I. Dorcas A., b. May 10, 1830; married David F. Carsley of Harrison. (See Carsley family.) She resides in Harrison.
2. Zibeah B., b. Jan. 27, 1832; died Mar. 22, 1850.
3. Albert F., b. Apr. 20, 1835; married Nellie Gil- creast of Andover, Mass., Nov. 29, 1866. Their children are: Milon A., b. Feb. 9, 1873, in Harrison ; married Emma O. Cotton of Hiram, Me., Aug. 21, 1889. Belle F., b. in Harrison, Mar. 12, 1885, mar- ried Frank B. Ward, Mar. 12, 1904; their children are: Albert F., b. Dec. 29, 1904. William S., b. Dec. 14, 1905. Raymond C., b. Apr. 17, 1907.
Albert F. Cummings was a soldier in the Civil War, as a private in Co. B., 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery, of Massa- chusetts, and is a member of John Logan Post, G. A. R. of Harrison.
4. George H., b. Aug. 27, 1838; married Sarah E. Fer- guson (b. Apr. 27, 1839) Jan. 4, 1864. Their chil- dren were: Isabelle F., b. Dec. 25, 1864; married Willis Lowell, May 2, 1886, and died May 21, 1898; they had one child, Maud Isabelle, who survived her, b. Mar. 22, 1892; died Dec. 29, 1899. Mary E. b. July 28, 1866; married Edward Hicks, Dec. 24, 1887; they had one child, Florence, b. Apr. 29, 1890; died Dec. 22, 1895. Frank W., b. May 31, 1868; married Lizzie M. Stone, Mar. 18, 1896; children : Ernest F., b. Feb. 7, 1897. Wallace W., b. Sept. 3, 1900. Lawrence, b. Mar. 16, 1902.
George H. Cummings is an opulent farmer, and pros- perous business man. His early mental training in the common school, supplemented by several terms at Bridgton Academy and the select High School of Miss Harriet Douglas, gave him excellent preparation for solving the many tough problems in business and politics and social life he was destined to encounter in after years. He taught several terms of district school in the years succeeding his school life. He has been repeatedly elected to serve on the Board of Selectmen of his town, and as Town Agent.
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In 1894, he was appointed by the Governor, State Appraiser of Real Estate. He was agent for the firm of Goff & Plummer, a large portion of the time for thirty years past in purchasing, surveying and driving large quantities of timber down Crooked River, across Sebago Lake and by the Presumpscot River to Middle Jam, where their mills are located. He has also been often employed as surveyor of timber by the Portland Star Match Company. Mr. Cum- mings represented his district in the Legislature of 1890-91, as a Republican. He was elected first Master of the first Lakeside Grange, and when in a few years it was obliged by adverse circumstances to discontinue its active existence, his love for the order impelled him to join the Crooked River Grange, in which he is still a most loyal and worthy member. It is his staunch adherence to the faith of the Free Baptist Church, of which he is a member since his youth, and his true fealty to the fraternity principles of the Patrons of Husbandry that constitute him a complete all-round, good citizen. It is quite supposable that being located on the central spot where the first man and woman pioneer had their primitive camp, he is a constant partici- pant of the grand, harmonizing influence of the good spirits of the blest departed who breathe their benedictions upon all faithful souls. Mrs. Sarah E. Cummings, his wife, is in all respects the worthy equal of her husband as a citizen, and in all domestic and social affairs.
FOSTER, second son of Thomas, b. Aug. 23, 1800; mar- ried Lucy, daughter of Samuel Scribner of Harrison. He resided here many years but eventually went West and settled there.
ASENATH, b. Mar. 22, 1803; married Oct. 15, 1822, Seth Carsley, 2d, and died many years ago.
ABIGAIL, b. Apr. - , 1808, married Peabody Kneeland, and had children.
LOISA, b. June 27, 1809; never married.
ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 21, 1811, in Harrison; married Samuel Gray of Harrison, Sept. 27, 1832. (See Gray family.)
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DAWES FAMILY.
The pioneer of this name in the early settlement of Harrison, was JOSEPH DAWES of Duxbury, Massa- chusetts. He settled in the town of Minot, about 1790, and in 1802, he removed to Harrison, accompanied by his son, 'Cushing Dawes and settled on a farm on the hill, a half mile east of the site of the present Harrison Village. The first wife of Joseph Dawes was Mary Cushing, prob- ably a native of Duxbury, for their first child, Cushing, was born there. She died July 22, 1789. He married for second wife, -, by whom he had two children. He died in Harrison, March 27, 1833. Children :
CUSHING DAWES, born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, August 2, 1775; married Mary Packard, born in Duxbury, February II, 1780. They were married in Minot, Maine, November 27, 1800. He settled with his father on the farm where the family have since lived. Mr. Dawes died September 13, 1853, aged seventy-seven years. His widow died May 24, 1874, aged ninety-four years. Their children : NANCY, b. in Minot, Dec. 8, 1801; married Bucknell Scribner of Harrison, Oct. II, 1821, and died Oct. 3, 1823. JOHN, b. in Harrison, Apr. 21, 1803; married May 31, 1827, Bethia, daughter of Nathan and Susie Carsley, (b. Oct. 25, 1802) and settled on his father's farın. He was a successful farmer and business man; active in promot- ing the welfare of his town in all movements for public improvement in religion, education, temperance and gen- eral morality. He was one of the original founders of the Free Will Baptist Church of Harrison, and during his whole life a faithful and consistent upholder of its faith and a liberal contributor to its support. In secular affairs, he had the respect and confidence of his fellow- citizens for his genuine candor and good judgment. In 1866, he was elected to represent his district in the Leg- islature, in which term he was instrumental in procuring an act for the addition to the territory of the town, of several lots of land from the town of Bridgton. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for a number of years
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and filled other positions of public trust with credit and fidelity. Mrs. Bethiah Dawes died Apr. 7, 1881. Mr. Dawes died Mar. 12, 1892. Children :
I. Samuel Hathorn, b. Sept, 18, 1828; married Jan. 19, 1851, Lucy Ann Adams of Harrison and settled on the homestead of his father and grandfather. He was an energetic farmer for a number of years, but eventually he engaged in the lumber trade and shook- making, operating a canal boat, etc., in which lines of business, he was successful and prosperous. In 1865 and 1866, he erected an expensive and stately set of buildings for his residence. In 1868, he com- menced an enterprise in systematic and thorough orchard-planting, in which he exercised much intel- ligence and good judgment in selection of varieties and in after culture and care. He has demonstrated how a persistent lover of the orchard and garden can succeed in the best methods of planting, culti- vation and marketing the finest quality of fruits. Mr. Dawes has been for many years a prominent member of the Maine Pomological Society, contribut- ing largely to the success of its annual exhibitions and other meetings; and has received numerous liberal and sweeping prizes from State and other societies for his splendid exhibition of apples, pears, plums, grapes, etc. He is one of the most success- ful cultivators of small fruits in the county, having a ready and increasing market for hundreds of dol- lars' worth of strawberries, raspberries, and black- berries, all of the most superb quality. The example of Mr. Dawes as an amateur fruit culturist, has, in recent years, created a wide interest among neigh- boring farmers, and an ambition to excel in those lines of farm industry; so that he may be justly regarded as one of the principal pioneers in improved methods of fruit husbandry, and a deserving bene- factor of his generation.
The homestead of Mr. Dawes, situated on the site of the original home of his great-grandfather, is one of the most elegant and complete examples of a gentleman's home existing in any of the towns in this section of the State.
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Children of S. H. and Lucy Ann Dawes: Clara, b. May 15, 1857; died Jan. 10, 1867. Annie True, b. Mar. 16, 1862; married Horace P. Seavey of Harrison, Aug. 10, 1876; died in Chicago, Aug. 18, 1889; their children: Clara Dell, b. Mar. 12, 1879, in Chicago, married and lives in that city. Edith Isabella, b. Nov. 23, 1885; married Richard Eastman, resides in Somersworth, N. H .; they had one daughter, Wilma, b. July 19, 1907. Cora May, b. Aug. 10, 1869; married Herbert R. Dennison of Norway, Me., June 25, 1890; children : Lawrence Hathorn, b. Dec. 16, 1891. Hobart True, b. Jan. 19, 1894. Clifford Dawes, b. June 26, 1897. Mr. Herbert R. Dennison is in mer- cantile business in Boston. His family reside in Harrison.
Mrs. Lucy Ann, first wife of S. H. Dawes, was a woman of excellent traits of character, an affectionate wife and mother, actively interested in the church and societies of which she was a member and genuinely esteemed by a wide circle of friends. She deceased December 24, 1892. Mr. Dawes married 2d, June 13, 1894, Mrs. Fidelia Gray, widow of Samuel Gray. (See Gray family.) She de- ceased September 9, 1905. Mr. Dawes married for 3d wife, Miss Isabella Augusta, daughter of the late Albert and Phidelia (Savage) Gray, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. (See Albert Gray family.)
2. Nancy, b. Nov. 8, 1831 ; married Galen J. Deguio of Portland, Jan. 19, 1854.
3. Silas Curtis, b. Sept. 15, 1840; married Nov. 24, 1863, Addie Frye, daughter of Col. John M. Frye of Lewiston, b. Nov. II, 1842. They had one son, John Frye, b. Feb. 27, 1865; died Jan. 20, 1902.
Silas C. Dawes was a bright and amiable man. In early life he was in mercantile business in Portland and Lewiston, Maine. Subsequently he went to the West, and was in business in Omaha, Nebraska, and in Toledo, Ohio. He finally settled in Cincinnati, and was an agent of the Union Life Insurance Co. of that city. He was killed by collision with an electric car, August 9, 1895. Mrs. Addie Frye Dawes died -, 1907.
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BELA DAWES, born January 6, 1793; married Eunice Walker, daughter of Charles and Eunice Walker of Har- rison, October 21, 1819. Their children:
ELIZA, b. Mar. 12, 1820; married Benjamin Wheeler, May I, 1849. Their children were: Eunice E., b. May 10, 1846. Andrew R., b. Oct. 16, 1848. Sophia G., b. Aug. 28, 1853. B. Willis, b. Jan. 5, 1866.
SOPHIA, b. July 7, 1822; married John Simpson of Saco; 2d, Frederick LeBarron. She died - They had one child: Emma Simpson, b. in 1851; died Oct. 21, 1856.
CALVIN, b. Feb. 5, 1826; married Susanna Newcomb, of Harrison, Jan. 4, 1853. They had one child: Charles Dawes, b.
ORIN, b. Jan. 18, 1828; died Sept. 1, 1831.
LEVI, b. May 24, 1830; married Angeline Yeaton. They had one child: Addie Etta.
ALANSON, b. June 23, 1833; married Abbie Melissa, daugh- ter of Benjamin Wheeler of Harrison. He was a farm- er and wire maker in former years. He is living at Harrison Village in excellent health, at the age of 75, working regularly as carpenter, house painter and paper hanger. Mrs. Melissa (Wheeler ) Dawes died Nov. 13, 1903. Children of Alanson and Melissa Dawes were: I. A. Leamon, b. Feb. 20, 1853; married Ella Hapgood of Waterford, Me. They had one child: Josephine May, b. Mar. 27, 1882.
2. Horace E., b. Jan. 7, 1855; died Sept. 1, 1864.
3. Emma E., b. Aug. 31, 1856; died Sept. 2, 1864.
4. John M., b. Sept. 29, 1858; married Millie Wight of Otisfield. 2d, Bertha Freeman of Worcester, Mass. Children : Horace Eugene, b. -. Alanson Free- man, b. Aug. 9, 1898.
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