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REV. CASSANDER CAREY SAMPSON
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retained her health and mental faculties to a remarkable degree up to within a few days of her death, which was caused by injuries received in a fall.
Howard L. Sampson, oldest son of Thomas and Harriet (Cary) Sampson, was for twenty-two years a clerk and partner of his father, was his successor in business, and continued in the mercantile business at the old stand of "T. R. Sampson & Son," until his retirement in 1892. He was for many years a great sufferer from rheumatic troubles, which left him in a somewhat crippled condition, thus preventing him from entering into active business. He was appointed to the position of Town Clerk when it was vacated by the death of his father, and has continued in the position to the present time, or twenty-two consecu- tive years, there never having been an opposing candidate at any election.
Cassander C. Sampson, youngest son of Thomas R. and Harriet (Cary) Sampson, graduated from Bridgton Academy in 1868, from Bowdoin College in 1873, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1878, having in the mean- time taught school for two years. At Bowdoin College he was in the same class with Hon. George M. Seiders, and Isaac L. Elder, Esq., of Portland. After graduating in 1878, he entered at once into the ministry, preaching a year at Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire. From there he went to Pembroke, New Hampshire, where he preached for five years. In 1885, he accepted a call from the Con- gregational Church at Tilton, New Hampshire, and has been located there since that date.
He is a frequent visitor to his native town where he is deservedly popular. He usually spends a few weeks dur- ing each summer with his brother at the old homestead in the Village. He has made an important contribution to this book, the Centennial Sermon, delivered at the Congregational Church on the Sabbath before the Cen-
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tennial Celebration being the production of his pen. He very kindly gave permission to publish, and furnished corrected copy. It fills a gap in the religious history of this town which the editors would have found it difficult to bridge over without it. He also delivered a very able address at the Centennial Celebration, which attracted much attention, but, unfortunately, no report was made of it.
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SCRIBNER FAMILIES.
The first of this name who settled in Harrison was SAMUEL SCRIBNER, who settled on the western side of the hill now known as "Summit Hill"-formerly Scrib- ner's and Burnham Hill. He married Hannah Watson. Samuel Scribner died June 8, 1837, aged sixty-eight years. His wife, Hannah, died January 27, 1857, aged seventy- eight years, eight months. They had eight children :
SALLY, b. Feb. 7, 1798; married Capt. William P. Harmon of Harrison, July 5, 1818.
BUCKNELL, b. Apr. II, 1799; married Oct. 11, 1820, Nancy Dawes of Harrison. They had one child :
I. Mary D., b. Aug. 25, 1822; married Reuben Hobbs (see Hobbs family).
Mrs. Nancy Scribner died Oct. 3, 1823. He married 2d, Sarah Bucknell. Their children:
I. Sarah B .; died Apr. 25, 1844.
2. Maria; married Edwin Bucknell and had children.
3. Elizabeth; no record.
Bucknell Scribner died Sept. 11, 1859.
MARY, b. Nov. 25, 1800; married Mar. 26, 1818, James Chadbourne of Harrison. (See Chadbourne family.)
LUCY B., b. Nov. 23, 1802; married Foster Cummings. (See Cummings family.)
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EDWARD, b. Feb. 14, 1806; died in infancy.
SAMUEL, b. Feb. 14, 1806, twin to Edward; married Sept. 22, 1830, Betsy, daughter of Enoch Spurr of Otisfield, b. Dec. 27, 1804, in Otisfield; lived long in Harrison, and moved to Lewiston and settled and died there, Nov. 30, 1871. Their children, born in Harrison :
I. Cyrus E., b. Jan. 24, 1831; married Mary Thomp- son of Bingham, Me. They had one son : Ernest V. He is a physician and is superintendent of the In- sane Hospital in Worcester, Mass.
2. Annie, b. Aug. 3, 1833 ; died in Harrison at 10 years of age.
3. Abbie Maria, b. Nov. 26, 1836; married Francis Blake Caswell of Lewiston, Me. (See Caswell fam- ily.) She died Sept. 26, 1899.
4. Samuel J., b. May 27, 1841 ; married Ist, Mary Ben- son ; married 2d, Hannah Hill; they have one daughter, Blanche, b. - , 1869; married Albert Murch of Lewiston; they had two children: Leroy; lived only one year. Effie, b. Sept. 1I, 1902.
5. Margaret, b. July 20, 1844; died in childhood in Lewiston.
Mrs. Betsy (Spurr) Scribner died January 6, 1889, aged eighty-four years.
MARIA, b. Jan. 8, 1810; married John Caldwell of Paris, June 3, 1829.
DAVID, b. Jan. 18, 1820; married Rebecca Sawyer; they had three children :
I. Kimball; who married Hattie Caldwell of Paris.
2. Ann; who married Daniel Scribner of Ridgeway, Pa.
3. Ella; who married Edward Moody of Lewiston, Me.
COL. EBENEZER H. SCRIBNER, born in Waterboro, Maine; came to Harrison and settled about 1797-8; mar- ried Phebe Kimball of Bridgton; moved to Waterford, thence to Raymond; to Portland, and finally emigrated to
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the West, where he died. He was a man of much note in business affairs while in Maine. They had one son :
BENJAMIN KIMBALL, b. in Harrison, June 3, 1811.
WILLOUGHBY SCRIBNER, son of Edward Ist, came from Waterboro and settled in Otisfield, where he lived to be one hundred and five years old. He married Molly, daughter of George Peirce, first settler of Otisfield and set- tled in the south part of the town on the "River road." He died February 27, 1824. His widow died May 20, 1838. Children :
PEIRCE, b. Sept. II, 1797; married Mary, daughter of Jonathan Springer of Harrison, Feb. 10, 1824; and died Oct. 8, 1831. His widow died Apr. 29, 1870, aged 70 years. Their children were: Deborah and Julia.
ALVAH, b. in 1805; married Jane Phinney of Harrison, June 10, 1827; she died Oct. 13, 1844; he died Dec. 19, 1862.
DEBORAH, b. in 1809; died Mar. 12, 1826.
EDWARD SCRIBNER of Waterboro, married Molly (Wentworth) Ricker. He died March, 1804. Children :
DAVID, b. 1795; married in 1822, Althea Haviland; she died in Feb., 1843. He married 2d, Mrs. - Whitmore. Children :
I. Charles, b. in 1823.
2. Mary, b. in 1825.
3. Albert, b. in 1827.
4. Sarah, b. in 1829.
5. Francis, b. in 1831.
6. James, b. in 1833.
7. Octavia, b. in 1835.
8. David, b. in 1837.
REBECCA, b. in 1796, died unmarried.
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DEBORAH, b. in 1799; married Newell Nutting of Otisfield. Her children, born in Otisfield were: Danforth Grov- enor, who married Martha, second daughter of Dea. John Hancock of Otisfield, who moved to Litchfield, Me. Peter, and Josiah Perkins, who was for years a minister and successful preacher of the Freewill Baptist Church in Me. He married -, and resides in Washing- ton, D. C. They have a son who is a prosperous phy- sician in New Hampshire.
SARAH, b. in 1801; married Benjamin Sanborn of Web- ster.
MARGARET, b. in 1804; no further record.
CLEMENT SCRIBNER, son of Edward, Jr., of Otis- field, born February 18, 1799; married Chloe Wardwell of Otisfield, born June 20, 1803 ; moved from Otisfield and set- tled on Burnham Hill, near the Summit Spring House. Their children were:
MARTHA W., b. Apr. 6, 1824, in Otisfield; married Jacob H. Burnham of Harrison. Mr. Burnham died June I, 1853. Mrs. Martha Burnham died June 12, 1896. (See Burnham family.)
JAMES, b. in Otisfield, Apr. 12, 1828; died Mar. 12, 1851.
MARY, b. Apr. 12, 1830; married Benjamin Skillings of Harrison. (See Stuart family.) ยท
ERI; birth unknown; settled in Harrison; married daugh- ter of Edwin Chute of Otisfield. Their daughter mar- ried Frank Foster of Harrison. Mr. Scribner was a union soldier, a member of Co. B, 23d Regt. Me. Inf .; resides at Harrison Village.
CLEMENT SUMNER, b. Apr., 1840; died Apr. 10, 1844.
ELIJAH SCRIBNER, son of Daniel, who settled in Otisfield in 1799, was born January II, 1800. He married Dorothy, daughter of John and Dorcas (Stevens) Piper of Otisfield, b. May 25, 1800. He was a practical mill-man
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from boyhood. In the early years of their married life, they resided at Holden's Mills on the Outlet of Saturday Pond, where some of their children were born. They moved to Harrison about 1852 and Mr. Scribner, in com- pany with his eldest son, Cyrus, purchased the saw mill and water power, with a tract of land adjoining, of Worthy C. Barrows. That saw mill and the dam and bridge were erected in 1847-8. Children :
CYRUS, b. Aug. 12, 1825; married Aug. 12, 1866, Hannah Elizabeth Prince of Oxford, Me. Their children, born in Harrison :
I. Nellie Jones, b. June 18, 1867; married June 6, 1894, Gardner Howard Rankin of East Hiram, Me. Chil- dren : Dorothy Hope, b. Mar. 23, 1897. Lucian Scribner, b. July 3, 1898. Elaine, b. May 17, 1901.
2. Bourdon Cushing, b. Feb. 16, 1869; resides at East Hiram; unmarried.
3. Jesse Prince, b. Sept. 20, 1870; married June 29, 1899, Berdina Georgia Whitman of Otisfield. Chil- dren: Edward Jesse, b. Nov. 15, 1900. Georgia Ellen, b. Jan. 15, 1902. Mary Elizabeth, b. Oct. 23, 1906.
4. Eugene Arthur, b. Nov. 10, 1877; died Oct. 3, 1899. ELEANOR REED, b. Jan. 26, 1828; married Daniel Jones. She lived in Norwell, Mass., many years, and died there Feb. 28, 1901.
DANIEL, b. Mar. 18, 1830; married Ann Scribner of Har- rison. Has lived many years in Ridgeway, Pa.
IRENE BARROWS, b. Oct. 18, 1832; married Ist, John Tur- ney ; 2d, Martin S. Curtis ; they reside in Norwell, Mass. LYDIA JANE, b. Jan. 14, 1838; died Mar. 27, 1861.
ELIZA SHURTLEFF, b. Oct. 18, 1839; died Mar. 3, 1864. BOURDON, b. Jan. 14, 1848; he was a soldier boy, enlisting at the age of 18 in Capt. Almon A. Fogg's Co. H., 17th Regt. Me. Vol. Inf. and was mustered into the U. S. service, Aug. 18, 1862. He was in service continuously fifteen months, participating actively in the battles of
MRS. DOROTHY SCRIBNER May 25, 1800 - March 3, 1901
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Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and on other fields in Vir- ginia. He was with his company in an engagement at Orange Grove, Va., one of a series of battles fought Nov. 26 to 28, 1863, under the name of the battle of "Mine Run," and was instantly killed by a shot through the head, Nov. 27, 1863.
Deacon Elijah Scribner was, from his early life, a mem- ber of the Free Will Baptist Church of Otisfield until his moving to Harrison, when he united with the Harrison church. He was distinguished among professors of re- ligion for his strict piety and devotedness to religious duty. His house was a "house of prayer," and his life was an example of Christian uprightness. He died October 13, 1876.
Mrs. Dorothy Scribner was one of eleven children by the first wife of Dr. Piper, her father. After her death, he married Mrs. Annie B. Thurston, widow of Jacob Thurs- ton of Otisfield, by whom he had six children, making a family of seventeen by both wives. She was married to Mr. Scribner in 1823, by Rev. Josiah G. Merrill of Otis- field. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her birth, May 25, 1900, all her living children were present at the old home of the family at Scribner's Mills, Harrison. They were: Cyrus, of Harrison; Ellen and Irene of Nor- well, Massachusetts, and Daniel of Ridgeway, Pennsylva- nia. Three grandchildren and two great grandchildren were also present. There were no special exercises. A poem was contributed by Granville Fernald of Washington, D. C., inscribed to Mrs. Scribner. Her faculties were remarka- bly preserved, she being able to go about the house freely, write letters, and made two quilts only a little while before and her memory and recognition of friends were perfect and unimpaired. Her father lived to be ninety-seven, and her grandfather to one hundred and three years of age. She went to live with her grandfather, Jonathan Piper, at the age of ten years, and to her last days had vivid rec-
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ollections of hearing him relate stories of his army life in the war of the Revolution which were thrilling to hear ; and he, at one time, said: "Don't ever let me tell of those things, Dolly, they make me feel so bad." Mrs. Dorothy Scribner died March 3, 1901, aged one hundred years, nine months, eight days.
CYRUS SCRIBNER'S SONS.
Cyrus Scribner, at the age of sixty, after thirty years of active and successful business, lumbering and farming, ceased to exercise his personal oversight to those familiar interests, and resigned them into the hands of his two sons, Bourdon, sixteen, and Jesse, fourteen years of age. These boys were brought up in close acquaintance with all the various branches of lumber-sawing from log to finish, and so level-headed and capable, that they took up the work and all the responsibilities devolving upon them, as the natural successors to their father, and in all matters of buying, selling and manufacturing, have from that time, now twenty-five years, continued as sole owners and man- agers of the milling properties and business of Scribner Brothers, at Scribner's Mills, Harrison. The scope of the lumber trade under their management has greatly in- creased, so that the amount of business at the home plant represents only a part of the lumbering business in which these ambitious young men are engaged. During the last twelve years, they have operated extensively in the manu- facture of spool stock from white birch, staves from oak and long lumber from pine, hemlock and spruce, in Nor- way, Rumford and Hiram. In 1907, they purchased a valuable timber tract in Hiram of 2,800 acres, belonging to the Hiram Lumber Co., Inc., and under the same "style" they are operating the large lumber mills, also purchased from said former company, with very promising success.
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The prosperity in business and the honorable career of Scribner Brothers in all their enterprises and under all their connections with other parties, is a source of the highest gratification to all their townsmen and acquain- tances everywhere. While the lumber business at Scribner's in Harrison goes briskly on with a home demand for all its products under the management of Jesse, the mills of the Hiram Lumber Company at East Hiram, managed by Bourdon, are busy and prosperous. It is all very encourag- ing as an example of the tact, shrewdness and persistency of two straight, young Maine boys.
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SMITH FAMILY.
Of the several Smiths-good and true men and women who have lived in Harrison, our ideal as a subject of local history is "Deacon" LEWIS SMITH. He was not deacon of any church, I think-just plain Deacon, because he was so sober, sincere and dependable in every way. The place of birth of Mr. Smith is not known; but he was born about January, 1798, as he died December 28, 1872, aged seventy-five years. He married Jemima Packard, born in 1800, believed to have been a daughter of Jonathan Pack- ard, one of the earliest settlers before 1800. She was a woman of excellent traits of character and greatly esteemed as a neighbor and friend. She died in Harrison, July 15, 1869, aged sixty-nine years. Mr. Smith was the first tav- ern keeper in town. (See Hotels, p. 213 to 217), and for many years after retiring from that business, lived in the house now owned by Henry Haskell, and worked in a shop, near his house, as a wheelwright. He was a good workman at his trade. The children of Lewis and Je- mima Smith were:
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EUNICE; who died young.
LEWIS, JR., b. June 10, 1829. He was educated in the common school and at Bridgton Academy. He early learned the cabinet makers' trade with Benjamin Clark in Harrison Village, and for many years thereafter worked successively in Harrison, Lancaster, N. H., in an organ factory in Worcester, Mass., at the celebrated furniture works of Walter Corey, Portland, and in Bridgton, Me. It was after a lengthy and successful career in the fur- niture trade in Harrison, that he moved to Bridgton in 1868, and erected a large mill on one of the lower water- powers of Stevens' brook, near the Forest Woolen Mill.
Here he installed machinery for sawing, planing and do- ing a general business of manufacturing sash, blinds, doors and other building material, staves and furniture and had at the same time, an undertaking establishment. His brother, Aaron Smith, was his partner in business a number of years during this period. In 1887, Mr. Smith erected a large building near Pondicherry Square, for a general repository of fine furniture and house furnish- ings, in which enterprise he was prosperous and success- ful to the period of his death, Jan., 1899, at the age of 70 years. He was, during his whole life, a model of uprightness and industry in business, and for thirty years to the date of his death, he was one of the most promi- nent factors of the business and social life of Bridgton. He early in life embraced religion and joined the Con- gregational Church in Harrison. He transferred his membership in that church to the Ist Congregational of Bridgton, in which he was promoted to the office of Deacon, which he worthily held to the time of his de- cease. He was, for years, a worthy member of Cumber- land Lodge, I. O. O. F., and of Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M., of Bridgton. Mr. Smith married in Harrison, first wife, Susan C. Brickett of Stow, Me., by whom he had two daughters:
I. Lelia Augusta, b. Feb. 8, 1859; educated in the pub- lic and high schools of Bridgton and has been many years employed as a clerk in a famous school-book emporium in Boston, and is now in the employ of the Fiske Teachers' Agency in Boston.
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2. Celia Agnes, b. June 13, 1860; educated in the pub- lic schools of Bridgton; married Apr. 16, 1884, Wil- liam H. Thaxter of Portland. Their children are : Roger Lewis, b. May 1, 1886. Helen Gerrish, b. July 3, 1887. Frederic Smith, b. Apr. 1, 1895; died Apr. 14, 1895. William Hooper, b. Sept. 27, 1896; they reside in Portland.
HARRIET, b. Jan. 2, 1832; married William Fred LeBaron; she died in Harrison, Sept. 14, 1859; they had two chil- dren, born in Harrison :
I. Lizzie; died in infancy.
2. Emma Frances, b. Apr. 27, 1859; married Arthur Hersom and resides in Dorchester, Mass .; their chil- dren : Fred; died young. Edith Frances; resides with parents. Gladys LeBaron. Ellsworth Fogg. The last two died young.
AARON, b. Mar. 2, 1834; resides in Hampstead, N. H .; he married Ist, Adelaide Maynard, daughter of Moses W. and Martha (Brigham) Maynard, b. in Leicester, Mass., Aug., 1833; married in Worcester, May 1, 1861; she died in Worcester, July, 1865; he married 2d, Jan. 27, 1870, in Lawrence, Mass., Mary (Storey) Fuller, b. in Dunbarton, N. H., Mar. 12, 1837 ; she was daughter of Jared and Thankful (Storey) Fuller. Children, born in Bridgton, Me. :
I. Harriet Davenport Fuller, b. Feb. 1, 1872; died in Bridgton, June II, 1874.
2. Elizabeth Fuller, b. June 9, 1877; resides with her parents.
Aaron Smith enlisted as a private in Capt. John W. Em- erson's Co. E, 42d Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteers, September 30, 1862, to serve nine months. He was discharged August 20, 1863. He re-enlisted as a private in Capt. J. O. Bemis' Co. D, 14th regiment of Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers, August 9, 1864, to serve to close of the war. He was discharged June 17, 1865, at Fort Richardson, Virginia. Mr. Smith was, before the war, employed in various machine shops in Massachu-
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setts, and as partner of Lewis Smith, Jr., his brother, in Bridgton, Maine, in conducting their large manufacturing business.
EZRA CAREY, b. Nov. 28, 1835; died Nov. 20, 1867; un- married; he was a merchant's clerk in Harrison, and later employed on a railroad as a trainman in Massachu- setts.
EMILY JANE, b. Aug. 5, 1838; died Mar. 5, 1864.
SPRINGER FAMILY.
JONATHAN SPRINGER and family lived many years in a house next east of the homestead of Samuel Walker, the residence of Charles Lincoln Walker, where the family of Henry Whitney are now living. The children of Mr. Springer, so far as is known were:
GEORGE WASHINGTON, a bright and enterprising business man, who left Harrison in his early manhood.
MARY; married Capt. Peirce Scribner, and after the death of her husband, lived in Harrison Village in a house near the foot of the "great hill." She was a woman of fine intelligence and of high Christian character. She was a member of the Free Baptist Church of Harri- son.
BETSY, 2d daughter, was much esteemed in her neighbor- hood for many good traits of character. She was never married.
STANLEY FAMILY.
Three brothers by this name, born in Limington, Maine, settled and lived many years in Harrison and were among the substantial and best respected families of the town.
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EDWARD STANLEY, born in Limington, Maine, Sep- tember 14, 1791, married Roxana, born February 29, 1792, daughter of Enoch and Abigail Wight Spurr of Otisfield. He was a member and Deacon of the Congregational Church of Harrison, and held important civil trusts in town. They had nine children : Benjamin; two daughters named Harriet ; two sons named Grinfill, all died in childhood.
SAMUEL, lived to manhood in Harrison; married Betsy Russell of Bethel; they had one son, Ossian, b. in Har- rison ; lives in Bethel.
EDWARD PAYSON, b. in Harrison ; married Clara, daughter of Josiah A. and Miriam Stuart of Harrison. He moved to the West and lived in California.
JULIA A., b. in Harrison, July 5, 1829; died Oct. 18, 1847. MARY, b. in Harrison; removed to Bethel with the family of her brother Samuel and married Carter of Bethel. She is deceased. Deacon Edward Stanley died Dec. 22, 1870. Mrs. Roxana Stanley died Feb. 10, 1863.
JOHN STANLEY, born December 25, 1798; married Eunice Wentworth, daughter of Wm. H. Wentworth of Lim- ington, Me. He died March 16, 1872. She died September 30, 1886. Their children were:
SARAH BOOTHBY, b. Sept. 15, 1820; married William W. Wentworth, Mar. 25, 1840; Mr. Wentworth was a farm- er and blacksmith. Their children were:
I. William Henry, b. July 20, 1841; married Nov. 22, 1862, Mary C. Bean, daughter of Richard Bean of Otisfield.
2. John Stanley, b. Mar. 25, 1843; married Jan. 1, 1870, Almeda E. Lakin, daughter of Thos. P. and Isabel (Ridlon) Lakin of Harrison. Their children: Les- ter Mclellan; b. Jan. 2, 1871; resides in Harrison ; is a carpenter by trade; unmarried. John E., b. Apr. 27, 1880; graduated at Bridgton Academy in class of '99, as Valedictorian ; entered Cornell Uni- versity same year; took a scholarship by special examination, over twenty other candidates ; prepared
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for the bar at the Boston University Law School; is a practicing lawyer in Boston.
3. Eunice, b. Feb. 20, 1845; married Apr. 13, 1863, Daniel Thompson of Harrison. Children: Freder- ick W., b. Sept. 1I, 1863. Herman, b. Jan. 10, 1866.
4. Albion C., b. Jan. 6, 1847; married Married 2d, Mary Lord of Parsonsfield, May 15, 1864; their daughter, Mary Lillian, b. Oct. 25, 1865, in Parsons- field ; married and had children.
5. Sarah M., b. Apr. 4, 1849; died Sept. 12, 1868.
ROXANA, b. Apr. 15, 1822; died Apr. 3, 1894, unmarried.
BENJAMIN STANLEY, born July 26, 1799; married October 16, 1829, Lydia E. Thompson, born January I, 1805. Mr. Stanley lived many years in Harrison until his enlistment in the service of his country during the Civil War. He enlisted at the age of forty-three years in Cap- tain William W. Whitmarsh's Company G of the 29th Regiment Maine Volunteers, and was mustered into the United States service, December 16, 1863, at Augusta, Maine. The regiment, commanded by Col. George L. Beal of Norway, served in the Department of the Gulf, and was in the Red River expedition in 1864. Comrade Stan- ley died on Steamship "Catawba" on her voyage conveying troops from New Orleans to New York and about two days from the latter city, June 27, 1864. Mrs. Lydia Stan- ley died November 22, 1889. Their children were:
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. Dec. 5, 1830; married Elizabeth Graves of Athens, Me. She died in Harrison, July 19, 1905. Their children :
I. Frances Lydia, b. Dec. 19, 1851 ; resides at parental home.
2. George Franklin, b. Dec. 10, 1853; married Sept. 24, 1876, Ella Burke of Rowley, Mass., b. Feb. 9, 1858. They have one son, Arthur Penrhyn, b. June 21, 1877. He is a graduate of Bridgton Academy, and is in the railroad business as station agent ; also express agent
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at the Harrison station of the Bridgton & Saco Valley R. R.
HARRIET, b. Oct. 27, 1832; married Nov. 25. 1852, Rev. Isaac Penington Roberts. He was many years a circuit preacher in the East Maine Conference. He is now su- perannuated and, with his wife, resides in Boston. They have one son, Leslie Manter, who is a business man in New York City.
CYRUS KING, b. Feb. 10, 1835; died in Chicago, Sept. 14, 1904.
LYDIA, b. Mar. 4, 1839; died Feb. 28, 1855.
MARTHA LOUISE, b. Apr. 18, 1841 ; married Joseph Frank- lin Wight of Boston, in Harrison. Mr. Wight is a mem- ber of the firm of Wight Brothers in Chauncy street, Boston. They reside in Wellesley, Mass.
STROUT FAMILY.
ALMON AUGUSTUS STROUT was born in Liming- ton, York County, Maine, May 8, 1835. He was the son of Elisha and Mary (Hagan) Strout, who were both na- tives of Limington. His paternal ancestors were English emigrants, who located at, or near, Cape Cod, and later settled in the section of the country about Portland, Maine. His mother was a daughter of Walter Hagan, a prominent resident of Limington, whose ancestors settled in Scar- boro. They were descendants of the O'Hagan family of Brehons, or lawgivers, formerly of the north of Ireland.
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