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7. Sarah Maria, b. Apr. 22, 1845; died Oct. 26, 1855.
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8. Emily Jane, b. Aug. 6, 1852; married to Stephen W. Taylor of Byron, Me., Mar. 10, 1873, in North Bridgton, Me., by Rev. Nathaniel Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were both school teachers before their marriage. After that event, Mr. Taylor studied dentistry and has practiced that art for many years. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Taylor : Richard Thomas, b. Jan. 28, 1874. George Austin, b. Mar. 27, 1875. Infant, deceased June 10, 1876. John Stephen, b. Jan. 29, 1878. James Arthur, b. Mar. 4, 1881; mar- ried Sept. 25, 1907, Myrtilla L. Smith of Dixmont, Me .; they have a son, b. Dec. 21, 1908. Sarah Mir- iam, b. May 15, 1883. Virgil DeWitt, b. Mar. 18, 1885. Victor Royal, b. Nov. 18, 1887; died Jan. II, 1898. Asaph Warren, b. Mar. 16, 1900. Thurlow, b. Jan. 20, 1895. Robert Clement, b. Jan. II, 1893. Asaph Warren, b. Mar. 16, 1900.
Mrs. Abbie Trafton, Ist wife of Geo. W. Newcomb, died in Bridgton, October 22, 1891. Mr. Newcomb mar- ried for second wife, Elizabeth M., daughter of John and Charity (Davis) McRoberts of North Baldwin, Maine. Mr. Newcomb, after a lengthy residence in his na- tive town, during which he was considerably identified with the business and public affairs of the town, removed in -- , to Bridgton, where for about - years, he owned and managed a large livery stable. He has been for a number of years past, engaged in lumbering business in several counties of the State.
SIMON NEWCOMB, born in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, about 1773; married November 20, 1794, Sally Moody in Bux- ton, Maine; removed to Harrison in 1804. Mrs. New- comb died November 26, 1836, aged sixty-three years, nine months. Mr. Newcomb died in 1861, in the home of his grandson, James R. Newcomb. Simon, second son of Si- mon, born June 6, 1803; married May 4, 1822, Eunice Whitney, daughter of Enoch, who was eldest son of Moses Whitney, a pioneer settler. Their children were :
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JAMES Ross, b. June 26, 1824; he was a carpenter and carriage maker ; married Dec. 1, 1849, Mary G., daugh- ter of Henry and Hannah Rand; moved to Monroe, Me., and settled there; had three sons: Albert, Frederick and George.
ANDREW HOBSON, b. June 20, 1826; was a carpenter ; mar- ried Eliza F. Evans, who died in 1859. He married 2d, Jan. 1, 1865, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Hannah W. Chadbourne; resided in Newburyport, Mass,
SUSANNA CARSLEY, b. Dec. 6, 1829; married Calvin Dawes, who died in 1860; married 2d, Warren Purinton ; 3d, in 1870, Lowell V. Foster ; she had by first husband, two children: Elvie F. and Charles Edgar; by second husband, one son: Henry Lemont.
ELEAZAR WHITNEY, b. Oct. 16, 1831 ; he was a carpenter ; married Apr. 28, 1856, Ellen, daughter of James and Ruth (Wentworth) Brown of Brownfield, Me .; lived in Brownfield and Harrison. He served as a private in Co. B, 23d Me. Inf. in the Civil War, from Sept. 29, 1862, to July 13, 1863; he lived in Marblehead, Mass., in I865; Chicago, 1868; Plattsmouth, Nebr., 1869, and has been since in Soldiers' Home, Los Angeles, Cal.
ABIGAIL LEWIS, b. Mar. 16, 1833; married Albert Bassett of Amesbury, Mass .; died Apr., 1869; had daughters ; Agnes and Adelaide.
SARAH, b. Mar. 30, 1835; married June, 1856, Simon Pur- rinton of Harrison; resides there; no children.
ALBERT, b. June 16, 1839; died Aug. 6, 1846.
MARIA CARSLEY, b. Sept. 5, 1840; died Sept. 12, 1849. ALANSON MELLEN, b. Sept., 1844; died July 20, 1849. RHODY ANN, d. Sept. II, -.
EMILY JANE; died Sept. 25, 1849.
ALBERT MELLEN, b. Sept. 5, 1848.
Mrs. Eunice (Whitney ) Newcomb died August 29, 1856. Mr. Newcomb married 2d, Mary Richards, by whom he had children as follows :
EUNICE ANN, b. Oct. 20, 1858.
ELLA NORA, b. Jan. 7, 1860; died July 15, 1864.
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GEORGE W., b. Sept. 23, 1862 ; died July 10, 1864.
SIMON OSGOOD, b. Dec. 29, 1863 ; died July 8, 1864. ELLA ISABEL, b. Dec. 19, 1865.
NATHAN CARSLEY, b. Sept. 9, 1866.
NORA MELVINA, b. Jan. 19, 1868.
ELBRIDGE E., b. July 31, 1870; married Nellie, daughter of John and Mary Kilgore of Waterford, Me. They have one son, Walter Newcomb.
PEIRCE FAMILY.
The name of Peirce in the annals of Otisfield and Har- rison has been distinguished for its intimate connection with the social, business, and political advancement of those towns during a period of more than one hundred years. The American ancestor of this line was John Peirce, (or- iginally spelled "Pers"), a weaver by trade, who emigrated from Norwich, Norfolk County, England, in 1637, and settled in Watertown, in the colony of Massachusetts.
GENERATIONS.
I. JOHN PEIRCE.
2. ANTHONY PEIRCE, born in England, 1609.
3. JOSEPH PEIRCE, son of Anthony.
4. JOSEPH, JR., son of Joseph, was born Oct. 2, 1669, died March 3, 1753.
5. GEORGE, son of Joseph, Jr., was born Feb. 2, 1696; had nine children; died in Weston, Mass., Dec. 22, 1750.
6. GEORGE, JR., son of George, was born in Watertown, Mass., Feb. 14, 1734. He was the first settler of Otisfield, and married Deborah Tarbelle. They had four children.
7. OLIVER, son of George, Jr., was born in Groton, Mass., July 22, 1767. He married Susanna, or "Sukey" Haskell, daughter of William Haskell of Gorham, and in 1825, settled in Harrison, where he resided during the remainder of his life.
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The following is an extract from "A Record of the Posterity of John Pers, an early inhabitant of Watertown, in New England," by Frederick Clifton Peirce, Worcester, Mass., published in 1880:
"The name Peirce - or Pierce, as the name is more commonly spelled-is undoubtedly derived from the French name Pierre, or Piers, of considerable antiquity - 14th cen- tury.
"Prof. James Mills Peirce of Harvard University sup- poses the name was in old times pronounced as pear, heir, and their. Robert of Woburn, and John of Watertown, wrote Peirce, though John himself appears to have signed his will Pers, or Perss, in an antiquated hand resembling German script. The inventory of the estate shows its value to have been 271 pounds, 7 shillings.
"George Peirce of the sixth generation was born Feb- ruary 14, 1734, married January 17, 1757, to Deborah Tar- bell, who was born 1730, and died June 1, 1801. * * * He moved from Groton to Otisfield, Me., in 1775. He was called a 'Housewright.' Mr. Peirce was Proprietor's Agent of the town of Otisfield for many years. He was a real business man of the old school, and dis- tinguished himself in his day for his enterprise, honesty, and suavity of manners. He was capable of transacting any business in legal form; he acted among the early settlers as a physician and surgeon, and could write as plain as print. * * A shadow fell over his pathway in after years. While engaged upon the frame of a build- ing, a Scotchman named McIntosh became enraged be- cause he opposed his associating with his daughter, and attacked him with an axe. Mr. Peirce in self-defense struck him with a heavy mallet, and killed him. In con- sequence of this tragedy, Mr. Peirce was thrown into 'Port- land Gaol,' in 1789, and after a while was tried for murder, and acquitted. A book was written by him while in prison, the composition of which gives evidence of a master mind. * *
* He was interested in the sale of proprietors' lands, and carried forward several heavy suits-at-law for trespass for them."
OLIVER PEIRCE, son of George Peirce, Jr., married Susanna, or "Sukey" Haskell, in 1794, and first settled
OLIVER PEIRCE, EsQ.
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in Otisfield, on a farm of three hundred acres, lying on the highlands to the east of, and a half mile from Bol- ster's Mills, where they resided for a few years, and where the first six of his children were born. He purchased a large farm at the foot of Long Pond, and moved there in July, 1809, carrying his goods to North Bridgton, and thence by water in "Andrew's Ark," a boat propelled by horse power. In 1815, he returned to his farm near Bol- ster's Mills, and proceeded to erect a large dwelling house, and several spacious barns for the big crops of hay and grain produced, and for the shelter of the large stock of cattle and sheep raised and kept by this ambitious and thrifty pioneer farmer.
The traditions of that period are eloquent in the de- scriptions of the great teams of fat oxen, and the extensive operations of Esq. Oliver Peirce in logging in the pine forests, and in many business transactions that increased his wealth and importance as a leading citizen of the town. He bought three thousand acres of wild land in what was later Otisfield, Harrison, and Naples, largely covered by a heavy growth of timber, that in succeeding years was cut and hauled to the landings on Crooked River and Long Pond, to be driven down those waters to the thriving lumber mills on the Presumpscot, and which be- came in the form of manufactured lumber a large part of the product of the virgin lands of Cumberland County, that added to the early commercial importance of Port- land as a port of shipment to the cities of the South, and of the West Indies.
Of the various tracts of land owned by Esq. Peirce, was one of two hundred acres in Harrison known as the "Twin Lots." In 1824, he came to Harrison and cleared thirty-seven acres upon which he raised the next year, twelve hundred bushels of corn. The same year (1825), he gave to his two eldest sons, George and Haskell, his
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fine farm in Otisfield, richly equipped with its commo- dious dwelling and outbuildings, neat stock, and appur- tenances for farming, and removed to his new farm in Harrison. Here he repeated his building operations of his Otisfield residence, and in a year or two found himself and family again located in a fine mansion, and with several large and convenient barns and outbuildings. Here he continued to thrive in worldly matters, showing re- markable activity and ability in the acquisition of prop- erty of many kinds. He was one of the Justices of the Peace for the county, and as such magistrate was often required to perform important legal services for the cit- izens of the town. He also held other honorable public positions with distinguished credit and ability.
Esq. Peirce gave to each son and daughter at their marriage, or before, out of his ample wealth, a good en- dowment of land for a complete homestead, and had in reserve a large property in lands and money. He died in Harrison, January 5, 1849, aged eighty-one years. His widow died on August 22, of the same year.
EIGHTH GENERATION.
Oliver and Sukey (Haskell) Peirce had nine children, as follows :
A son that died at birth.
MARY, b. Sept. 16, 1797; married Shepherd Hawk of Minot, in Otisfield, Sept. 23, 1819; died Feb. 4, 1888.
GEORGE, b. in Otisfield, July 2, 1799; married Caroline Farnsworth, in 1824; died in Harrison, Aug. 3, 1886. DEBORAH, b. in Otisfield, Aug. 8, 1801; married Henry Roby in Otisfield, Oct. 14, 1824; died July 4, 1832.
HASKELL, b. in Otisfield, Sept. 28, 1803; married Beulah Burnell of Otisfield, and, for second wife, Margaret Remick of Kittery; died in 1867.
A son who died at birth.
HON. GEORGE PEIRCE
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OLIVER, JR., b. in Otisfield, May 2, 1810 ; died Feb. 12, 1828.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. in Otisfield, May 10, 1813; mar- ried Abigail Burnham of Harrison, May 14, 1840; died
THOMAS TARBELL, b. in Otisfield, Sept. 3, 1817; married Lydia Jane Pratt of Paris ; died Jan. 8, 1875.
MARY PEIRCE, second child of Oliver and Sukey Peirce, was born in Otisfield, and married Shepherd Hawk of Minot. They settled on the farm which was the gift to Mrs. Hawk from her father, adjoining his own home- stead on the south, it being the farm where M. R. Wilbur now resides. Mr. Hawk was a tanner by trade, but gave up that business for farming, in which he was successful and prosperous. In the year 1853, Mr. and Mrs. Hawk, with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus P. Houghton, removed to Wisconsin, and settled in Osh- kosh, where Mr. Hawk died August 1, 1882. Mrs. Mary (Peirce) Hawk died in Oshkosh, February 4, 1888, aged eighty-nine years, five months. She possessed much vigor of health, and had the full use of her mental faculties to the close of her long life.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawk had four children, as follows:
GEORGE B., b. August 10, 1820; died May 12, 1827. EMELINE, b. Nov. 21, 1823; died Oct. 5, 1832.
SUSAN P., b. August 28, 1828; died August 15, 1832. ARVESTA, b. Oct. 28, 1830; married Cyrus P. Houghton, and resided for a number of years with the parents of Mrs. Houghton on their farm in Harrison, and emi- grated with them to Wisconsin. To Mr. and Mrs. Houghton, several children have been born in their wes- tern home, and one daughter, Mrs. Flora (Houghton) Steers, resides in Oshkosh at this writing.
GEORGE PEIRCE, third child of Oliver and Sukey Peirce, was born in Otisfield, July 2, 1799. He was edu-
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cated in the common schools, and in his boyhood worked on the home farm, and became well skilled in the pursuits of his father. He married Caroline Farnsworth, sister of Dr. Samuel Farnsworth of Bridgton, in 1824. They settled in Otisfield on the fine farm of three hundred acres, given to 'him and his brother Haskell, with excellent build- ings, and all the appurtenances of a homestead.
Mr. Peirce, from his early manhood, was noted for great activities in many business enterprises. He was in trade for a time at Bolster's Mills - then called "Pinhook." From 1828, for two years he was turning huge pine logs into lumber in his saw-mill at "Horsebeef Falls," on the Pre- sumpscot, in Gorham. The year 1830, found him finally settled at Harrison Village - then, and for many years afterward, known as "The Flat." He built a saw mill on Crooked River in Waterford in 1831. The same year he engaged in trade with his father and brother Haskell, in the building on the principal corner of Main Street, known ever since as the "Peirce Store." In 1832, he built the storehouse at the wharf, owned years afterward by Thomas R. Sampson. That storehouse was the first building ever raised in town, of any size or importance, without liquor. As he would furnish no "rum," he was compelled to hire men to raise the building. Among those whe refused to assist in the "raising" (because liquor was not to be fur- nished) was a minister of the gospel.
The same year (1832), Mr. Peirce erected the large and handsome dwelling house and other buildings for his residence (now the residence of Joseph Pitts), where he ever afterward lived till his death. That was the second building raised in Harrison without the use of intoxicating liquor.
From 1839 to 1846, Mr. Peirce was "lumbering" for himself and others on the Androscoggin, Kennebec, and Pe- nobscot rivers. From 1849 to 1853, he was operating a line of stage coaches from Fryeburg and Bridgton to
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South Paris depot. While thus engaged he was mainly instrumental in causing the location of a new road from "Hall's Corner" in East Harrison to the Norway road in Otisfield, and another road from the Norway road to a point in North Oxford on the Grank Trunk Railroad, for the purpose of shortening the distance of travel by stage to the point of connection with the railroad. He sold his stage property, in 1853, to Walker & Gage.
Mr. Peirce was one of the largest owners of the stock of the Steamer "Fawn," the first steamboat to ply upon the waters of the Sebago and Long Lake route. He negotiated the sale of engine and boiler of the "Fawn," which were carried to Moosehead Lake for use in a new steamer there. This transaction occurred about 1857.
Mr. Peirce's retirement from business life did not re- lease him from participation in the strife between the political parties of that day. He was a prominent factor in the brilliant campaigns from the organization of the Republican party in 1855, for many years. He was elected Representative of his district (Harrison and Baldwin) in 1861, and in 1865 represented the Republicans of Cum- berland County in the State Senate. In 1857-8, he was a member of the Executive Council of Governor Lot M. Morrill.
Mr. Peirce, though educated and accustomed to the usages and influences of earlier times when the use of intoxicants was universal in our society, was an early con- vert to the principles of Total Abstinence, and was ever a resolute and consistent defender of his faith. He as- sisted in organizing the first Harrison Temperance So- ciety in 1831, and in 1840, was very prominent in the Washingtonian reform movement, and later a leading mem- ber of the Harrison Temperance Watchmen Club. In 1874, he joined the Harrison Reform Club, known also as the "Gospel Temperance Reform" movement, and la- bored zealously for spreading the benefits of that crusade
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against alcoholic drinks in his community. In 1885, he received an honorary membership in the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union.
Mr. Peirce held important offices in the old Militia of Maine; was a Justice of the Peace for forty years ; a Coroner five years; and for nearly all his life was a practical land surveyor, having extensive knowledge of the lands and private estates of the citizens of his town.
In 1860, he was chosen as one of the Trustees of Bridg- ton Academy, an institution in whose welfare he was deeply interested. He was subsequently elected to the position of President of the Board, and had the honor of presiding at the great "Reunion of the Alumni" held on July 12, 1882. He was a most active member of the Board, and never failed to attend to the duties of the position, unless prevented by illness. It is related that on the day of one of the annual meetings, a pouring rain prevailed all day, and not even the members who resided in the immediate vicinity had the courage to put in an ap- pearance. But a little thing like a rain storm did not deter Mr. Peirce from attending to the duties of a po- sition which he had accepted, and he braved the elements, rode to North Bridgton, and at the appointed hour was present and ready to attend to business. Not another mem- ber of the Board was present, and, after waiting a suita- ble time, Mr. Peirce availed himself of the right given to a number that was less than a quorum, and adjourned the meeting to a stated day. After his death in 1886, Hon. Edward F. Brown of New York was chosen as his suc- cessor.
For many years Mr. Peirce was a member of the Congre- gational Church of Harrison, and labored with all his char- acteristic zeal for promoting the spiritual and temporal advancement of his beloved church and parish. To the end of his earthly life no better friend of the town and village of his residence ever existed. He died, after a lin- gering illness, on August 3, 1886.
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Mrs. Caroline Farnsworth Peirce was a woman of rare excellence of character. She was much beloved for her kindness of heart, and her abundant deeds of practical benevolence. She died September 5, 1871.
DEBORAH PEIRCE, fourth child of Oliver and Sukey Peirce, was born in Otisfield, August 8, 1801, and married Henry Roby (son of Rev. Thomas Roby) in Otisfield. October 14, 1824. They had four children as follows : SAMUEL S., b. Sept. 9, 1825. He emigrated to Wisconsin in 1850, and settled in the new town of Menasha. He resided there over fifty years, and was a leading citizen, distinguished for his enterprise and success in business, and the accumulation of property. He was honored several times by election to positions of trust and re- sponsibility in municipal affairs, and was much inter- ested in Free Masonry. He married Melinda Beedle, Sept. 27, 1854. They had one child, a daughter, Frankie. Mr. Roby died Jan. 3, 1901.
CAROLINE F., b. July 17, 1827; died June 8, 1871, un- married.
OLIVER PEIRCE, b. in 1829. He adopted a mercantile ca- reer early in life, and was employed first in the store of Wyatt Turner at Bolster's Mills; then in follow- ing years in Portland, Ogdensburg, N. Y., New Or- leans, and at the beginning of the Civil War he was in Cincinnati, O. His patriotic spirit impelled him to vol- unteer for the defense of his government, and he was very soon enrolled as a member of the body-guard of Gen. George B. McClellan in the campaign of 1861, in West Virginia, in which he served as first sergeant of his company. The term of his enlistment (three months) having expired, upon his muster-out of service he was appointed and commissioned by the Governor of Ohio, as Captain of Company A, of the Fourth Reg- iment Volunteer Cavalry of that State. He served with his regiment in the successive campaigns of the army in Kentucky, Tennessee, and other States of the South until 1864. Much of his service was in the "Army of the Cumberland" under Gen. George H. Thomas. He
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was promoted to the rank of Colonel of his regiment. In his whole army career he was distinguished for military capacity, gallant conduct in action, and for his notable patriotism and loyalty to duty. He retired from the service in November, 1864, after more than three years of constant campaigning, and soon went to San Fran- cisco, where he received an appointment in the U. S. Custom House at that place. He served several years as Inspector of Customs, and was afterwards in the dry goods business in that city until his death, which was by suicide during an attack of temporary insanity, March 16, 1874.
THOMAS FRANK, b. Jan. 17, 1831, lived with his parents till manhood, worked several years at a mechanical trade at Harrison Village, and in 1853, went to Oshkosh, Wis., and was interested in pine timber lands with A. M. Thomes, and in mining at Pike's Peak, Col. In 1861, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and joined the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, in which his brother Oliver had a command. He served as Sergeant of a company, Commissary Ser- geant of his Regiment, and was promoted to 2nd and Ist Lieutenant in succession, and to Captain of Co. G, Dec. 9, 1864. He was killed in the battle of Selma, Ala., April 2, 1865.
Deborah Peirce Roby died July 4, 1832. She was a woman of very lovable character, deeply religious, and was a member of the Congregational Church. An interest- ing incident is related, in which she became greatly con- cerned for the conversion of her father, who, although esteemed as a man of good character, was much addicted to the habit of profanity. It was during a season of re- ligious revival, and Mrs. Roby, with two other women of the church, besides exercising other influences towards accomplishing the object of their desires, spent an entire night in prayer in behalf of her father. He was converted, became a Christian, and united with the Congregational Church, September 9, 1832.
Henry Roby married for his second wife, Martha C. Cary of Harrison, September 24, 1834. They had four children :
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SARAH J., b. Feb. 17, 1836; married James W. Weston, Jan. 19, 1863. She died July 24, 1863.
HENRY C., b. Jan. 9, 1838; married Caroline M. Burnham, daughter of Sumner Burnham of Harrison. They lived on the Roby homestead for years, and later removed to Norway Village, where they resided until their removal to Lincoln, Neb., where they still reside.
JOSEPH E., b. Aug. 12, 1845; died Apr. 28, 1846.
MARTHA H., b. Jan. 11, 1848; married Silas Bullard, a lawyer, of Harrison, March 23, 1871. They emigrated to Wisconsin, and settled at Menasha, where they con- tinue to reside.
Henry Roby, senior, died August 27, 1861. Martha, his widow, died January 1, 1868.
HASKELL PEIRCE, fifth child of Oliver Peirce, was born in Otisfield, September 28, 1803. He married Beu- lah Burnell, daughter of Dr. Sereno Burnell of Otisfield. They settled in Otisfield, and removed to Harrison Village in 1832. Mrs. Peirce died in Harrison, December 6, 1834. Mr. Peirce removed to Boston in 1844, thence to Charles- town in 1846. He was engaged in business in Boston. He married for his second wife, Margaret Remick of Kit- tery. He resided in Charlestown until their removal to Kittery in 1857, where Mr. Peirce was in the service of the government till he was seized with the illness which resulted in his death in 1867. Margaret, his widow, died June 14, 1879.
Haskell and Beulah Peirce had three children, as fol- lows :
SUSAN MARIA, b. in Otisfield, Apr. 28, 1829; died in Charlestown, Mass., Aug. 19, 1847.
CYRUS H., b. in Otisfield, May 17, 1831 ; married Josephine Strickland of Livermore, Me. They have two daugh- ters, Beulah and Elizabeth. Cyrus resided in Boston
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and Charlestown till 1855, when he went to Oshkosh, Wis., and was in mercantile business, and in steamboat- ing, for several years. In 1861, he went to Cincinnati, and enlisted in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry. That is how three patriotic Harrison boys became members of a fa- mous fighting regiment of the "Buckeye" State, under one of Uncle Sam's most renowned commanders. Cyrus served as Quartermaster Sergeant a short time, and was subsequently promoted to 2nd and Ist Lieutenant in Co. G, commanded by his cousin, Thomas F. Roby (Capt. "Frank Robie," as it appears in the Ohio War Records). He resigned his commission for reason of impaired health, Feb. 5, 1864. Since the war, he has been in mercantile business in Boston, residing in Somerville.
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