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GRANVILLE FERNALD
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of a painful accident which occurred about 1862, she was made a cripple for the rest of her life, which disability she bore with serene patience and fortitude. She died at her residence in Scribner's Mills, August 23, 1883. Cap- tain Otis Fernald died at Bolster's Mills, May 24, 1889, aged eighty-seven years, twenty-two days. The children of Otis and Sally W. Fernald were:
GRANVILLE, b. Jan. 23, 1828, in Otisfield; married Ist, Elizabeth Reed Waterhouse, daughter of Stephen and Lydia (Hicks) Waterhouse of Harrison, b. Nov. 15, 1831 ; died Nov. 23, 1851. They had a son, George Grovenor, b. Apr. 24, 1851; died Oct. 23, 1851. He married 2d, Mar. 26, 1854, Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Charles and Sally (Barbour) Walker of Harrison, b. Apr. II, 1828; died Jan. 6, 1908. (See Walker family.) Their chil- dren were:
I. Amy Elizabeth, b. in Harrison, July 26, 1855; mar- Lewis F. Dudley of Waterford; they resided first, in South Waterford; removed in 1879 to Glendale, Md .; after a few years, settling at Takoma Park, D. C .; their children are: Annie Maude, b. in Water- ford, Apr. 23, 1877; died in Glendale, Md., in 1880. Florence May, b. in Waterford, Apr. 28, 1879. Charles Fiske, b. May 22, 1880. Lewis Free- man, b. July 25, 1881. Fred William, b. Mar. 4, 1883. Frank Howard, b. Dec. 16, 1885. Amy Eliz- abeth, b. Apr. 30, 1887; died in Takoma Park, D. C. Ella Marie, b. Nov. 2, 1889. All the above named children of Amy E. and Lewis F. Dudley, excepting two, were born in Maryland, Virginia, and in Dis- trict of Columbia, and all excepting two, deceased, reside in Washington, D. C.
2. Ellen May, second daughter of Granville and Eliza- beth E. Fernald, was born in Harrison, June 1, 1859 ; married J. Frank Howard of Waterford, Sept. 9, 1879, and resides at South Waterford.
Granville Fernald was bred to the farm, but since the age of fifteen has followed several useful occupations. He worked at the building trade with his father, a number of
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years. He was educated in the common and high schools of his town, and at Bethel Academy, where he was teacher of penmanship in 1850. About 1851, he took up the house and carriage painting business which he carried on a num- ber of years in Harrison, Otisfield, Bridgton and adjoin- ing towns. From 1854 to 1862, he served as assistant clerk in the office of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, in Portland (including one legislative term of service in 1858, in the office of the Secretary of State in Augusta as en- grossing clerk). In September, 1862, he enlisted as a member of company B, 23d Regiment, Maine Infantry, in which command, and in the Veteran Reserve Corps of the Volunteers (by appointment of the president) he served successively and in two commissions as Second Lieutenant and Captain, respectively, until July, 1864, when his ser- vice as an officer of Volunteers terminated by resignation and honorable discharge from the service.
Captain Fernald has had a varied career since the close of the Civil War. His activities have been devoted at different times to farming, in which the subject of practi- cal fruit culture received some special attention. For twen- ty years of the period, ending 1886, he was much engaged in teaching classes in vocal music, operating successfully in many of the principal towns in Cumberland, Oxford and Androscoggin Counties. For twenty years ending in 1906, he resided in Philadelphia and Washington, District of Columbia, during about ten years of which time, he was in the civil service of the War Department and Department of the Interior, respectively. He has, from quite early in life, been addicted to the habit of writing for the local and State newspapers-The Portland Transcript, The Bridgton News, Lewiston Journal and Norway Advertiser, as news reporter and has been an occasional contributor of sketches of persons of note and of historic events for the Evening Star and Daily Post of Washington, the Boston Globe, Jour- nal, and of articles and poems for the American Citizen
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of Boston and other dailies and weeklies. His other literary work is in the line of addresses before various societies and a notable pamphlet on the "First Defenders" of the national capital, in 1861. His latest work has been as as- sistant compiler of the Centennial History of Harrison, Maine.
OSBORNE, second son of Otis, b. Aug. 24, 1829; married Nov. 23, 1856, Hannah E. Stockman of Harrison; she died in Otisfield, Sept. 1, 1862; they had a son, Gustavus Stockman, b. Nov. II, 1857, in Otisfield. He had few advantages for education besides those afforded by the common schools of the rural districts in Maine and a limited time in the Mechanic Falls high school. While residing in Portland in the early 70's, he entered the law office of Mattocks & Fox as office boy, errand boy, general utility boy, and from that time his practical acquaintance with the profession commenced, which, com- bined with his gradual introduction to the theory and science of the law by study of the standard text books on the subject, enabled him to graduate at the age of 21, as a capable and well equipped lawyer. He married Sept. 24, 1878, Gertrude Whittier, daughter of Joseph H. and Eliza R. (Witham) Buckman of Portland, b. Aug. 12, 1857. Their first child, Frank Osborne, was b. in Port- land, June 25, 1880. In 1882, Mr. Fernald moved with his family to Minnesota and located at Brainard, in Mar. of the same year. In 1883, he became local attorney for the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. In 1890, he was appointed to the legal department of the company, acting as special counsel, with office in St. Paul with supervision of the tax and real estate business of the company and right-of-way to the Pacific Coast. He remained in the service of the N. P. R. R. Co. fifteen years at St. Paul; in all twenty- three years. In 1905, he came into the service of the Pullman Car Company, as Assistant General Solicitor, at the company's office in Chicago.
1. Frank O., eldest son of Gustavus and Gertrude Fer- nald is a graduate of the University of Minnesota in civil engineering, and has been since then in the ser- vice of the Northern Pacific R. R. Co., as engineer of construction and as assistant to the chief engineer. He resides at Livingston, Montana.
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2. Robert Witham, second son of Gustavus, b. in Brain- ard, Feb. 6, 1886, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and a law student in University of Chi- cago.
Osborne Fernald married January -, 1860, for second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Abigail (Wales) Kennard of Bridgton. They resided principally in Boston, West Medford and in Portland. Mr. Fernald's occupation was carpenter and contractor for building. He was for fif- teen years a solicitor for life insurance under C. F. Dunlap, agent for Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. He was wide- ly and very favorably known as an upright and thoroughly honest man, had a large circle of acquaintances and loyal friends. His death occurred August 12, 1906. Mrs. Eliz- abeth Fernald survives him and resides in Woodfords, Port- land.
ELI, 3d son of Otis, b. Sept. 20, 1831, was a bright school boy, and became, early in life, a proficient penman and bookkeeper, serving in that capacity for Sanborn & Car- ter, booksellers and publishers in Portland, several years in the 50's. He was subsequently appointed accountant and paymaster of the Hill Manufacturing Company of Lewiston. He married, Nov. 22, 1855, Sarah Capen Cobb of New Gloucester. They had a daughter, Nettie Florence, b. Nov. 26, 1858, in Lewiston. Eli's death oc- curred in Lewiston, Sept. 1, 1861. Mrs. Sarah C. Fer- nald subsequently became the wife of Lewis Wight of Portland, of the present firm of Wight Brothers of Bos- ton. Miss Florence Fernald resides in Brookline, Mass., as the inseparable companion of her mother and step- father, who are both invalids.
NATHANIEL SCRIBNER, 4th son of Otis, was a farmer boy until past his majority. He was a number of years in the tinware trade and hack driver in Portland and vi- cinity; afterward for about twenty-five years, in the livery stable business of the firm of Fernald & Sawyer of Portland. His connection with that firm ceased in 1895. He married Aug. 1, 1860, Frances O. Strout of Limington, Me., b. Dec. 29, 1838. They had a son,
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Charles Otis, b. May 5, 1862; died Sept. 23, 1862. Mrs. Frances O. Fernald died Feb. 13, 1863.
Nathan S. Fernald married 2d, February 2, 1864, Susan J., daughter of Greenleaf and Anna Wiggin of Portland, born January 23, 1844. Children :
I. Fred Lincoln, b. Apr. 15, 1865; died Feb. 15, 1868.
2. Herbert Jaques, b. June 2, 1867; married Oct. 23, 1890, Annie Laurie Tuthill of Moravia, Cayuga Co., N. Y., b. June 1, 1865. Children : Hector Tuthill, b. Sept. 5, 1897. Annie Laurie, b. Jan. 1, 1903 ; they reside in Moravia, N. Y. Mr. Fernald is a commer- cial traveller from New York City.
3. Annie Eloise, b. Oct. 14, 1868; died Oct. 20, 1869.
4. Arthur Burr, b. Nov. 5, 1870; married Feb. 4, 1896, Grace B. Wetmore of Glenn's Falls, N. Y .; no chil- dren; they reside in New York City; he is a sales- man in the employ of Rogers, Peet & Co.
5. Alice Marie, b. June 15, 1874; she is an accomplished stenographer and is employed by the Fidelity Trust Company of Portland; is unmarried.
FOGG FAMILY.
MOSES FOGG, the father of the large and well-known Harrison family of that name was born in Scarborough, February 15, 1782. He came to Harrison about 1830, or before. He married Sally Brackett of Gorham, born Au- gust 15, 1788. Eight of their children were born in Scar- borough, as follows :
MEHITABLE, b. June 18, 1811; married Ist, Gershom Win- ship of Otisfield; 2d, - Duganne; she died in 1878.
JAMES B., b. Apr. 5, 1812; married Ruth Carsley of Bridg- ton; died Sept. 27, 1842; his wife died Nov., 1845. Their son, Francis B., b. in 1842, died in 1900.
ANNA, b. June 14, 1814; married James Goff of Auburn; she died Oct. 21, 1889.
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JONATHAN, b. June 29, 1816; married Harriet Plaisted of Harrison; they lived many years in Bridgton, where Mr. Fogg was one of the proprietors of the large Bridg- ton Tannery; he died Oct. 31, 1889.
ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 1, 1818; married Orin Storer of Florence, Mass. She died Sept. 2, 1875.
JOSEPH, b. Aug. 8, 1820; married Elsie Estes of Bethel, b. in Bethel, July 6, 1826; they settled in Harrison Vil- lage, where their children were born:
I. James Gilbert, b. Mar. 25, 1850; married Carrie Brooks of Otisfield; children: Frank, Cora, May, Clifford. Frank married Nellie Davis of Bridgton. They have two children: Gladys and Edna. Cora married George Barrett of West Paris. May mar- ried Olie E. Payne of Weld, Me.
2. Lizzie, b. May 8, 1852; married John B. Tibbetts of Harrison; they have one son, Walter W., b. Mar. 29, 1878.
3. Alfred, b. Oct. 1, 1854; married Ora Lovejoy of Bethel; they have one child: Carrie. They reside at Rumford Falls, Me.
SARAH, b. July 12, 1822; married James Thyng of Win- chester, Mass .; she died Mar. 5, 1890.
DAVID, b. Jan. 8, 1825; married, Jan. 26, 1856, Maria Fitch of Bridgton, b. in Bridgton, June 22, 1832; Mr. Fogg died Jan. 7, 1885. Their children :
I. Richard W., b. Aug. 8, 1858; married, May 23, 1881, Minnie M. L. DeWitt, b. in Windham, Aug. 4, 1861. Children: Prentiss H., b. in Harrison, Feb. 2, 1884. Zilla M., b. in Harrison, June 13, 1889. Villa M., b. in Harrison, Feb. 5, 1892. El- mer W., b. in Harrison, Sept. 12, 1897.
HARRIET, b. in Harrison, June 23, 1831 ; married Henry Symmes of Winchester, Mass .; she died Feb. 16, 1888.
FRANCES H., b. June 17, 1833; married Marshall Gibbs, of Bridgton; they have long resided in the vicinity of Norway Village, Me. Their present address is South Paris, Me.
MELINDA, b. Oct. 12, 1836; married Plummer Libby of Harrison ; died Jan. 21, 1894.
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FOGG FAMILY NO. 2.
JOSEPH FOGG came from Limington to Harrison ear- ly, and settled near Island Pond, near the home of Robert Lamb. He married Lydia They had children, be- lieved to have been born in Limington :
JOHN W., b. Mar. 27, 1803; died Feb. 22, 1887; he mar- ried Cushman of Oxford, Me .; lived near foot of Burnham Hill in Woodsum neighborhood, Harrison ; they had children :
I. James Addison, b. Dec. 22, 1834.
2. Sarah, b. in 1836.
3. Levi, b. in 1838.
4. Emily ; married Elias I. Fogg; 2d, - Stevens.
HANNAH, b. Jan. 25, 1805; died June 18, 1896; married ; she died June 18, 1896.
ELIAS, b. Dec. 31, 1806, settled on Gilson Hill, on the farm owned by Cyrus Haskell for many years, and where Wil- liam Haskell now lives. He married - Rich of Har- rison. They had one daughter: Adaline, who married Charles Gilson. They moved South.
OLIVE, b. - , 1814; died young.
JAMES W., b. Mar. 23, 1812; died Oct. 4, 1865; he mar- ried Mary, daughter of William and Sarah (Hobbs) Brackett of Harrison; she died Mar. 28, 1878; their chil- dren were:
I. George Sumner, b. July 4, 1838; died Oct. 7, 1887 ; married Georgianna Hall of Waterford, Nov. 18, 1869. They had one daughter: Berthie, b. Sept. 7, 1871; married George N. Anthoine, Oct. 22, 1890; they have one daughter : Faith Fogg, b. Oct. 7, 1900.
2. Mary Francia ; married Sewell Millett of Water ford ; their children; Lizzie E. Mary M .; married Wm. J. Peircy ; children: Harold Millet, b. Nov. 16, 1886. Hattie, who married Frank L. Parker. Sybil Arvesta ; unmarried.
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FOSTER FAMILY.
BENJAMIN FOSTER, who settled in Otisfield about the beginning of the last century, was the third son of Asael Foster who came from Danvers, Massachusetts, to Bridgton, Maine, in 1772. "He (Asael) built the first frame' house in Bridgton and his wife was the first married woman who settled in that town." (See Ridlon's history of Harrison.) Benjamin, a Harrison pioneer, purchased land of Major Thomas Perley, bordering on Crooked River, and established a good homestead. He married Nancy Veasey of Denmark. He planted twelve acres of corn on burnt land, the first year of his residence in the new settle- ment. Some years afterward, he had a small grocery and variety store which was continued for years, being distin- guished as the first store in the town. Many interesting reminiscenses and amusing anecdotes have been preserved concerning the customs of that time in which Captain Fos- ter's store and the old-time river drivers, as well as other frequenters of the primitive grocery, have a conspicuous part. Captain Foster's residence was a little way south of the present site of the Methodist Episcopal Church in South Harrison, on the road leading to Edes's Falls in Naples. Here he raised a family of six sons and two daughters.
AMOS P., b. in Otisfield, Oct. II, 1804; married Ann Knight, daughter of Stephen and Ann (Huston) Knight of Otisfield. He was a farmer, living many years on the "Pond road," a half a mile south of the famous home- stead of Col. Amos Thomes and family. Mr. Foster and wife were excellent citizens and greatly esteemed for their social and neighborly qualities. They had children :
I. Benjamin; married Susan E. Clark; settled on the homestead of his father and had two children, Rose and Clara.
2. Abigail; deceased in childhood.
3. Ann; lived at home with her parents; unmarried ; deceased.
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4. Katherine; married S. Dexter Andrews of Otisfield; resided at Spurr's Corner, Otisfield, a number of years, afterward moved to Norway.
BENJAMIN S., b. June 25, 1806; married Esther Cushman, Jan. 15, 1832 ; settled in Harrison, on the paternal home- stead and died there April 14, 1867. They had three sons :
I. Cyrus K., b. Jan. 12, 1832; married Mary E. Mer- row, Nov. 12, 1860; settled in Harrison, and had children : Cora E., b. July 17, 1861. George F., b. Jan. 14, 1864. Nellie W., b. Aug. 28, 1865, and an infant child; all deceased.
2. Ezra T., b. May II, 1834; married Marilla Merrow, I861 ; no children.
3. Charles W., b. Feb. 3, 1836; married Frances A. Libby, daughter of Amos and Jane (Phinney) Lib- by, Feb. 8, 1859; settled on the homestead of his father ; removed to Bridgton; was a carpenter by trade; in his mature years, he became a preacher in the Free Baptist Church, in which his labors were useful and acceptable wherever he preached. He was stationed at Phillips, Me., a number of years but removed to Massachusetts and died in Cotuit, Mass. They had children: Susie S., b. June 25, 1865. Charlie, b. Oct. 10, 1866. Nellie L., b. July 20, 1868, and Walter. Charles was killed in a rail- road accident in Massachusetts.
ABIGAIL L., b. May 25, 1808; no other information.
THOMAS V., b. Dec. 17, 1810; married Ist, Mary Ann, daughter of Elder Clement Phinney, June 8, 1828; 2d, Alwilda G. Foster, Nov. 29, 1850. His children, all by first wife, were:
I. Stephen ; married Emma Robinson; deceased.
2. Emeline; married Purington of Lynn, Mass ; deceased.
3. Abigail; married Eben Leach of Portland.
4. Adaline; married Augustus Barker.
5. Martha; married Frank Rowell of Harrison.
NANCY, b. Aug. 25, 1813; no further record.
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LOWELL VALENTINE, b. Aug. 7, 1815; married Ist, Julia E., daughter of Peirce and Polly (Springer ) Scribner of Harrison; 2d, Ellen, daughter of Stephen and Susanna (Carsley) Blake; 3d, Susan, daughter of Simon New- comb, and widow of Calvin Dawes. Children of Lowell and Julia E. Foster :
I. Joseph, b. Mar. I, 1843; married Hannah Edson of Harrison.
2. Albert, b. July 9, 1845 ; died Jan. II, 1847.
3. Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1847; married Edward Hamblin of Portland; resides in State of Washington.
4. Albert, b. Mar. 29, 1851; no further record.
5. Frank G., b. Jan. 9, 1854; married Ist, Helen New- comb of Harrison. They had one son, Edward F., b. Feb. 4, 1877; resides in Olympia, Wash .; unmar- ried. Frank G., married 2d, Mrs. Addie Ward ; their children : Perley R., b. May 14, 1901. Myrtle H., b. Feb. 14, 1906; they reside in Harrison.
6. Helen M., b. Dec. 16, 1857, daughter of second wife of Lowell. She resides in Olympia, Wash .; unmar- ried.
7. Lelia, b. May, 1874; daughter of third wife of Low- ell; married Augustus Baine; live in Portland.
GEORGE F., b. in 1817; married Ann Osgood of Bridgton. He was a prominent merchant in Harrison (See "mer- chants") for years. He was noted for his honorable character and urbanity of manners, and was successful in business. He removed to Portland about 1860, and was in the wholesale flour business for many years. They had children: Clinton, Arthur, Rose, and Emma; all except Rose died in infancy. Rose was born in 1851 ; married Joseph L. Whitmore, who was in the lumber business in Portland. Mr. Foster and Mr. Whitmore removed to Pasadena, Cal., in 1887, where they invested in timber lands, mines, etc., and Mr. Foster was president of a street railroad. He died Dec. 6, 1893. Mrs. Fos- ter died in 1887.
JOSEPH, youngest son of Benjamin, died in early manhood.
G. F.
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GRAY FAMILY.
ALBERT GRAY was born in Hiram, Maine, Jan. 2, 1816. He married Phidelia C., daughter of Abram and Mary (Coleman ) Savage of Bridgton, Dec. - , 1841. Mr. Albert Gray died September 26, 1891. Mrs. Phidelia Gray died June 18, 1893. Their children :
NAPOLEON, b. Jan. 12, 1843, in Naples ; married June 13, 1870, Mercy Adams, daughter of Francis H. and Martha (Mayberry) Whitman of Harrison. He fitted for col- lege at Bridgton Academy, and graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1867. He studied law with Hon. C. A. Chaplin of Harrison, and with A. A. Strout of Portland, and was admitted to the S. J. Court of Maine in Cumberland County and to the courts of Massa- chusetts at the Suffolk Bar in Boston. He settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., and had a successful professional ca- reer. He died in Brooklyn, Feb. 25, 1899. Mrs. Mercy Gray resides in Harrison.
ISABELLA AUGUSTA, b. in Naples, March 2, 1845. She was educated in the common schools, and at Bridgton Acad- emy and a select school in Portland. She adopted the teaching profession, and taught many years in the public schools of Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota. In 1893, she retired from the educational field, and has resided since then at Mechanic Falls, Me., and in Boston, until her marriage, June 25, 1906, to Samuel H. Dawes of Harrison.
ALBERT, JR., b. May 30, 1847, in Naples. He was edu- cated in the common schools, at Bridgton Academy, and graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1870. He was a professional teacher, and principal of acad- emies and high schools in Northboro, and Bolton, Mass., and in Morris, N. Y. He married Mary Eliza, daughter of Francis H. and Martha Whitman of Harrison, Dec. 25, 1873. He died Jan. 20, 1893. Mrs. Mary E. Gray resides with her sister in Harrison Village.
SOLON, b. in 1849; died in infancy.
ELMER, b. July 3, 1851. He had a good Academic educa- tion and attended Bowdoin Medical School, but did not
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graduate. He attended a school of instruction in clin- ical studies in New York and was attending physician about one year in a New York City Hospital. He prac- tised with much success in Auburn, Me., and in Edgar- town, Mass. He married Lydia Cushing of Boston, June 14, 1882. They had two sons, Elmer Cushing and Sidney Weston. Elmer is a lawyer in Beacon St., Boston. Sid- ney resides with his mother in Dorchester, Mass. Dr. Gray died in Edgartown, Oct. 25, 1891.
FRANK ORLIN, b. Aug. 26, 1853, in Naples. He had the advantages of the public schools, several terms at Bridg- ton Academy and Norway Liberal Institute and adopted a mercantile career. He was a partner of Freeland H. Ricker in the large village store at Harrison for a number of years, and has been in a successful business for nearly three years in Boston. He married Mame J., daughter of John W. and Mary (Purington) Caswell of Harrison. They reside in Boston.
ALBERT GRAY, SR., was a farmer and lumberman. He was a very competent surveyor of lumber and an expert explorer and judge of timber standing in the forest. He was employed by the State for a time, as an explorer of the public lands of Maine in Aroostook County. He repre- sented the town of Naples in the Legislature and in public town offices and as representative to Legislature, and as State Senator from Cumberland County.
ANSEL GRAY, (brother of Albert Gray) b. in Naples, Jan. 25, 1820, married Mrs. Emeline Brooks, Oct. 20, 1860, in Naples. He died Feb. 17, 1895. She died June 17, 1888. Their son, Eugene D. Gray, b. Sept. 16, 1863, married Jennie E., daughter of Charles and Sarah Dunn of Buckfield, Dec. 14, 1889. She died May 17, 1890. He married for second wife, Nettie Berry, daughter of Wallace and Jennette (Lord) Berry of Denmark. Their children are: Laurence Berry, b. May 2, 1899. Donald Walker, b. Apr. 30, 190I.
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JAMES GRAY came from Beverly, Massachusetts and settled first in Bridgton. He was a shoemaker. He came to Harrison with a large family and settled early in the last century on the Pond road near James Watson, the pioneer. His first wife was Mary Stickney; second, Polly Lewis. Children :
JAMES, married Hannah Thorn and settled in Sebago.
NATHANIEL, settled in Danvers, Mass.
MARY, married Freeman Whitney (See Whitney family). JOSIAH, married Eunice Fuller ; lived and died in Danvers, Mass.
EBEN, lived many years in Harrison and died here. Never married.
WILLIAM, married Mary Newcomb of Harrison, Sept. 19, 1830; settled near the Center schoolhouse in the New- comb neighborhood. They had two sons, Samuel and Mellen. Mr. Gray was a farmer. He migrated in 1870, to Illinois. His subsequent history is unknown. He was of excellent character and a worthy member of the F. W. Baptist church. Mrs. Mary (Newcomb) Gray died Mar. 26, 1864, aged 55 years, 10 months. Another son, Fran- cis F., died Apr. 24, 1853, aged 19 yrs .; and a daughter, Eliza Ann, died Oct. 13, 1857.
ยท IRENE, married Ebenezer Ingalls of Bridgton, who lived many years on the Portland road in the Stickney or Kil- born neighborhood. She resided during her last years, in the family of her daughter, Mrs. Edward A. Gibbs at Bridgton Center.
HANNAH, married John Merrow of Eaton, N. H.
SAMUEL GRAY, born March 9, 1807, married Eliza- beth Cummings of Harrison, daughter of Thomas Cum- mings, the pioneer. She was born December 21, 1811, and died August 15, 1857. Mr. Gray married 2d, Fidelia Caswell, May 12, 1868. They had one daughter, Eliza-
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beth P., born October 4, 1869. Mr. Gray settled and lived on a farm on the Pond road, and erected a brick dwelling house. He subsequently moved to Harrison and erected a good house and stable on an excellent site opposite the Congregational church, now owned by John C. Edgerly. He was always noted for his industrious and thrifty habits, and for superior judgment in matters of business. He ac- cumulated a handsome property; was interested in mer- cantile and lumbering business and invested considerably in timber and woodland. He died February 21, 1872. His widow subsequently married Samuel H. Dawes of Harri- son (See Dawes family).
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