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In 1838, the family bought a farm in the western part of Bridgton, and moved there to live. There Mr. Strout spent the early part of his life, attending the common schools during the winter months. At an early age he was ambitious for greater things than he could find at home on the farm, and at the age of sixteen he began to prepare
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for a more thorough education. His mother was as anx- ious as he that he should have every opportunity, and it was largely due to her encouragement and vigilant efforts in his behalf, that he was able to so successfully carry out his plans. Teaching between terms, he completed the course at North Bridgton and Fryeburg Academies, and then entered the office of Joel Eastman at Conway, New Hampshire. For ten months he studied law with Mr. Eastman, and then entered the office of Howard & Strout of Portland, where he found as fellow-student, Eugene Hale, later United States Senator from Maine. With Mr. Hale he was admitted to the Bar February 13, 1857. He first located at Harrison as successor to the office and professional practice of Hon. Harrison Blake. Here he entered at once upon a large and lucrative practice and won considerable reputation as a successful advocate in jury cases.
Very soon after Mr. Strout came to Harrison there was a great revival of interest in agricultural matters, it being about the time that the first fair was held, and of the sub- sequent movement for the formation of a Farmers' Club. Mr. Strout kindly gave all possible assistance in the mat- ter, and when the movement started his office was for a time made its headquarters. He was the first Secre- tary of the Club, and several pages of the first book of records are in his handwriting. He was chairman of the committee to draft a constitution, and the instrument gives ample evidence that it was drawn by a practiced hand. The records show that he was a frequent attendant at the meet- ings, and an active participant in the discussions. He served the Club as Secretary through 1859 and 1860, after which his law practice became so extensive that he was obliged to de- vote his time to that to the exclusion of all minor matters.
In 1863, he left Harrison and returned to Portland, where he succeeded to the law business of Shepley & Dana,
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and in 1866, he entered into partnership with Hon. George F. Shepley, which partnership continued until Gen. Shep- ley was appointed United States Judge in June, 1869. Mr. Strout continued his practice alone until 1873, at which time the great increase in the business caused him to form a partnership with George F. Holmes, under the firm name of Strout & Holmes.
His industry and marked ability, together with his as- sociation with such men as Gen. Shepley, caused him soon to make his way to the front of his profession, and to rank as a learned and successful lawyer. He was appointed general counsel for the Grand Trunk Railway for New England in 1882, and held that position till the time of his death. He was also made counsel for the Boston & Lowell road in 1884, and continued as such until the road was absorbed by the Boston & Maine.
In January, 1889, Mr. Strout formed a partnership with his assistant counsel for the Boston & Lowell, Mr. William H. Coolidge, and opened an office in Boston under the firm name of Coolidge & Strout. In January, 1895, his son, Henry F. Strout, was admitted to partnership in this firm, and in 1897, Mr. Strout severed his connection with the firm and entered into partnership with C. A. Hight of Portland, who had been associated with him for some years in his railroad law work.
Politically Mr. Strout was early affiliated with the Doug- las wing of the Democratic party, and took an active part in the presidential campaign of 1860, speaking several times in Harrison and the vicinity. These were probably his "maiden" political speeches, and those who heard them remember that they were able and convincing. At the be- ginning of the War of the Rebellion he identified himself with the War Democrats, laboring for the preservation of the Union. Finding himself at the next presidential election very largely in accord with Republican policy he
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voted for the re-election of President Lincoln, after which he continued during the remainder of his life to work for the Republican party, taking an active part in many of the campaigns.
He acted as assistant counsel for the United States for the distribution of the Geneva award, and several times as senior counsel in important cases. His legal and polit- ical experience increased rapidly, and in 1879, he was elected as Representative to the State Legislature from Portland, but was deprived of his seat upon the pretext that, although election returns showed his majority to be more than six hundred votes, they also contained the words, "scattering, forty-three votes." In the sharp contest caused by this decision Mr. Strout took an active part, acting as chairman of the committee representing the Republican members of the Legislature, to draw up the statement of their side of the case, in preparation for its submission with interrogations to the Supreme Court. When the issue was brought before the Court its opinion sustained the Republicans in their side of the case, and Mr. Strout met with the hearty approval and recognition of his valuable services by his constituents, as he was again nominated in the campaign of 1880, and elected by a decisive ma- jority, and re-elected in 1881. While in the Legislature he took a very active part in all legislative matters, serving as chairman of the judiciary committee.
Unremitting attention to business finally caused him to suffer from physical exhaustion, and on March 14, 1898, he left Portland for California, with the hope that a change of climate might bring a renewal of good health. When he had journeyed as far as El Paso, his condition became so serious that his wife and son returned with him as soon as possible to Boston. There he hovered between life and death at his quarters in the Hotel Touraine. A few days before his death he had seemed to rally, and his relatives and many friends began to hope that he might still recover,
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but a sharp relapse came, and they were pained and shocked to hear of his death on April 19, 1898. The entire com- munity suffered a great loss, for his genial disposition had won him a host of friends, and his reputation as one of the most successful leaders in his profession was wide- spread. It can be truly said that Maine has never produced a man of greater ability, especially as an advocate before a jury.
As a political speaker, Mr. Strout was almost without a superior, his speeches being keen, logical, and convincing. In his early days he spoke in Harrison in behalf of Stephen A. Douglas as a presidential candidate, and men of all parties were ready to allow that his speeches were among the best that were heard in the vicinity, showing remarkable promise on the part of a young man. Most certainly that promise was fulfilled. Time went on, and the re- markable changes and mix-ups in the political world caused Mr. Strout to cast his fortunes with the Republican party, and one of his greatest efforts was delivered at Harrison, at the time when the Greenback party was at the height of its career, the speaker appearing as the advocate of the Republicans against the assaults of that party. He was very popular in Harrison and vicinity, having made hosts of friends in all parties when practicing law there at the outset of his career. A great audience was present, made up from all parties. Mr. Strout came before his hearers without any "flourish of trumpets," and spoke to his friends and former townsmen as "man to man." The speech was delivered in Mr. Strout's best style, and contained nothing to offend the bitterest partisan, being calm and candid, and remarkably free from anything offensive to those who had been his former political opponents. It was a logical pre- sentation of the issues of the day from the speaker's stand- point, made in such a way as to claim the closest attention of all, no matter whether they agreed with the speaker's conclusions, or not. The questions that were before the
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public were discussed in such a way as only a keen and witty lawyer could do it, and the whole speech was un- equalled as an effort to convince Democrats that it was their duty to cast aside all former questions that had divided the two "old parties," and to "join drives" with their old opponents in opposition to the new party that was asking for the suffrages of the people. If I mistake not, this was the last time that the famous lawyer appeared before a Harrison audience, and most certainly there was nothing transpired on the occasion to lessen the respect that Harrison people had always entertained for the great advocate, the foundation of whose career was laid in their town. Harrison feels proud of the fact that he was for a time one of its citizens, and closely identified with its interests. His success in after life, and the great fame which he won as a lawyer never caused him to forget his early friends in Harrison, and a resident of this town was always sure to receive a cordial greeting from him.
Mr. Strout was a prominent Mason and Knight Temp- lar. He was survived by his wife, who was Miss Mary Sumner, and his son, Henry Francis Strout, who was born March 3, 1867. Mrs. Strout, who was the daughter of Samuel R. Sumner, of the famous Sumner family whose home was in Grand Rapids, survived her husband but a few years.
The above sketch of Mr. Strout, excepting two par- agraphs, was written under the personal supervision of Mr. Walter Higgins of Washington, D. C., a relative of the subject and a close personal friend during his whole lifetime. (EDITORS. )
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STUART FAMILY.
This family is represented in Harrison by four brothers, Joseph, Wentworth, Solomon and Josiah Alden Stuart, and by two sisters, Hannah and Achsah. They are descend- ed from DUNCAN STUART of Scotland, who settled in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, as early as 1656. A daughter was born to him there in 1658, and in 1659, he removed to Newbury where all his other children were born. In 1680, he settled in Rowley, Massachusetts, where he died August 30, 1717, about one hundred years old. His widow, Ann Stuart, died July 9, 1729, at Rowley. Duncan was a ship carpenter. He had six sons of whom but three left male children, James, Samuel and Ebenezer. Later generations spell the name Steward, Stewart, or Stu- art. Children of Duncan : Katherine, born June 8, 1658, in Ipswich. Martha, born April 4, 1659, in Newbury. Charles, born June 5, 1661 ; died May 8, 1689. Elizabeth, born November 2, 1662; married Sylvanus Wentworth. James, born October 8, 1664; died September 17, 1750. John, born March, 1664; died December 23, 1756. Han- nah, born 1667; married 1685, Colin Fraser. Henry, born May 1, 1669; died young. Samuel, born 1672. Ebenezer, born 1676; died April 30, 1749.
Samuel, the sixth, great grandfather of the present gene- ration of Stuarts, was the ninth child of Duncan, the pioneer, from Scotland. He settled in Wells, Maine, about 1700. He was a housewright and millwright by trade. He built the first parsonage in Wells in 1726, and it was still standing in 1875. He had seven children born in Wells: Samuel, Joseph, John, Zebulon, Jeremiah, Dorcas, Amos. Joseph 2d, son of Samuel and Dorcas, married in 1729, Mary, daughter of Captain Samuel and Martha Went- worth Lord. Joseph and Mary settled in Berwick, where he died in 1734, aged twenty-seven years. He left two children, born in Berwick: Wentworth, born October 20, I73I. Dorcas, born in 1733; died young.
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Captain Wentworth Stuart was the only son of Joseph and Mary Lord Stuart. His father died when he was not yet three years old, and he was brought up in the family of Captain Peter Grant of Berwick, who became his step- father by marriage. When of age, he went to Falmouth, where his "intentions of marriage" with Susanna Lombard of Gorham, were published January 19, 1753. They were married in Gorham, February 4, 1753. Susanna Lombard was born in Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, August 4, 1734; daughter of Solomon and Sarah (Purington) Lom- bard.
Captain Wentworth Stuart was very prominent in Gor- ham affairs. Town clerk, representative to the General Court in Boston and as a soldier in the French and Indian Wars. At the outbreak of the Revolution, he was com- missioned Captain. He died in the service, near Boston, April 17, 1776, of smallpox. His widow married second, March 4, 1779, William Wood of Gorham. The children of Captain and Susanna (Lombard) Stuart, all born in Gorham, were: Mary, born January 20, 1754; married July 13, 1770, John Green of Gorham. Susanna, born May 21, 1757; died January 4, 1758. Joseph, born April 3, 1759. Solomon Lombard, born February 3, 1762; died in infancy. Sarah Purington, born June 28, 1764; mar- ried, 1781, Ebenezer Phinney of Gorham. Dorcas, born June 8, 1766; married August 6, 1787, Peletiah McDonald of Gorham. Susanna, born April 1, 1768; married Jan- uary 4, 1786, Francis Brooks of North Yarmouth. Went- worth, born August 17, 1770; married November 4, 1790, Hannah Shaw of Standish. Solomon Lombard, born Feb- ruary 24, 1773; no further record. Anna, born Oc- tober 31, 1775; married November 17, 1791, Nathaniel Stevens, Jr., of Gorham.
Joseph Stuart, oldest son of Wentworth and Susanna (Lombard) Stuart, in the fifth generation from Duncan, the Scotchman and pioneer, of Ipswich, was born in Gor-
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ham, Maine, April 3, 1759; married at Gorham, Sep- tember 30, 1779, Hannah Smalley; was lost at sea from the schooner "Martha," off Cape Ann, February 15, 1802. His wife died July 17, 1819, aged sixty-one. Joseph Stuart served in the Revolution, and was a fifer in his father's company. Children of Joseph and Han- nah (Smalley) Stuart: Wentworth, born September 26, 1790; married Mercy Hall. (See Hall family.) Ach-
sah, born June 8, 1793; married Richard Fogg of Har- rison ; she died -- -. Solomon, born April 22, 1796; married June 19, 1817, Mary Hall (See Hall family). Josiah Alden, born April 20, 1798; married April 24, 1825, Miriam Rich of Harrison, born May 20, 1800; died January 20, 1879.
The genealogy of the families of the four Stuart brothers who settled in Harrison are given as follows :
JOSEPH STUART, born July 1, 1780; married Nancy Lombard of Gorham. Their children :
FANNY, b. Aug. 8, 1805; married Merrill Skillings of Harrison, b. Sept. 28, 1803; their children were:
I. Eliza Ann, b. Oct. 13, 1825; married William C. Hobbs. (See Hobbs family.)
2. Harriet Emeline, b. Nov. 14, 1829; , married Oliver Danforth Hancock of Otisfield, Oct. 8, 1855; he died Aug. 6. 1901; their children are: Albion Mer- rill, b. Jan. 7, 1855. Harriet Henrietta, b. Oct. 4, 1856; married Willis Abbott of Otisfield; they have one daughter, Sadie E., married Edward E. Jillson and lives in Portland. Mrs. Harriet H. Ab- bott married for 2d husband, Fred L. Knight of Otisfield. Orin, b. Apr. 11, 1863. Both sons are unmarried.
3. Merrill Ambrose, b. Apr. 2, 1831 ; married --; they had two sons, Clarence and William; both died young.
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4. Benjamin S., b. Aug. 26, 1833; married 1857, Mary, daughter of Clement and Chloe Scribner of Har- rison ; children : Sumner, b. Feb. 12, 1858. Fanny, b. Mar. 24, 1861. Clara Eliza, b. Dec. 2, 1866.
5. Sarah, b. Dec. 24, 1834; married Albion Whitman Weston of Otisfield; he died -; she died Jan. 30, 1903.
6. Martha Caroline, b. Aug. 14, 1835; married George B. Dorman of Harrison; they resided for years at Bolster's Mills, and moved to Auburn in -, where he was engaged in the grocery business. Mrs. Dor- man died Feb. 28, 1907. Mr. Dorman survives her.
7. Isaac Stuart, b. Dec. 19, 1847; married Alma, daugh- ter of Charles and Emily Edwards of Otisfield. She died Oct. 26, 1896. Their children: George Dorman, b. Oct. 4, 1880; married Ethel Irene Ken- dall of Gorham, N. H., b. June 22, 1885; children : Alma Arvesta, Stuart Kendall, Mary Winnifred, Leona Ethel. Charles Whitman, b. Feb. 24, 1871; married Edith May Polland of Harrison, b. in Peru, Me., Feb. 17, 1881; reside at Bolster's Mills.
Merrill Skillings died March, 16, 1874. Fanny, his widow, died Nov. 8, 1875.
SAMUEL, eldest son of Joseph, b. Apr. 9, 1809; married Apr. 14, 1832, Hannah D., daughter of Isaac and Anna (Whitney) Hall of Harrison (See Hall family), and settled at Stuart's Corner, East Harrison, near Crooked River. He was a man of excellent character, trained to farming and other habits of industry, and was noted for his public spirit and his devotedness to the princi- ples of temperance and public morality. He was a cap- tain in the State militia and an honored member of Crooked River Lodge, F. & A. M. His death occurred Oct. 3, 1888. His wife died Dec. 24, 1868. Children of Capt. Samuel and Hannah D. Stuart :
I. Albert H., b. Jan. 4, 1833; married Hannah Towne of Norway; lived many years in the "Yagger" neighborhood of that town, and died there Mar. 25, 1897. He was for years a travelling dealer in tin- ware and other domestic merchandise.
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2. Angeline, b. Mar. 16, 1835; married Cyrus Chap- lin of Naples. They reside at Welchville, Oxford. (See Chaplin family.)
3. Wentworth, b. Mar. 31, 1837; married Ist, Zilpha Caswell of Harrison; 2d, Catherine Haskell of Har- rison; settled in Oxford and died there Sept. IO, 1900. He served in the Civil War in Co. H, 17th Me. Inf.
4. Samuel Porterfield, b. Aug. 14, 1842; in his youth he was a talented musician, and in the early part of the Civil War, he enlisted as a musician in Capt. Almon A. Fogg's Co. H, of the 17th Regt. Me. Vol. Inf., serving faithfully until he was pros- trated by a serious illness and sent to a military hospital in Washington. He was soon detailed to a clerical position in the Adjutant General's office of the War Department where, after securing his discharge from the military service, he was appointed to a clerkship. While there, he married Matilda, youngest daughter of Stephen and Lydia Water- house of Bolster's Mills, b. Sept. 16, 1842; they settled for a time in South Paris, afterward per- manently in Oxford. Here he was a successful farmer and was, in recognition of his fine clerical ability, employed for a number of years as book- keeper and paymaster of the Portland Packing Com- pany in their Mechanic Falls factory. He also served his town as selectman under successive elec- tions, until his death, which occurred on Apr. 12, 1894. Mr. Stuart was of unblemished character, kind and gentle in deportment, an enthusiastic mu- sician and beloved by a wide circle of friends and townspeople. He was a charter member of Thomas A. Roberts Post, G. A. R., Department of Maine, at Oxford Village. Children of Samuel P. and Matilda W. Stuart: Gertrude, b. Mar. 4, 1868 ; mar- ried Frank Elden Harris of Mechanic Falls, Me .; they reside in Medford, Mass .; children: Irma Ger- trude, b. Mar. 20, 1904, in Medford, Mass. Stuart Farnham, b. Jan. 28, 1906, in Medford, Mass. Lulu Harriet, b. May. 2, 1873; died Dec. 5, 1901; mar- ried Horace Arthur Holmes of East Machias; they settled in Oxford; their children are: Bessie Stu-
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art, b. Aug. 2, 1895. Gladys Mae, b. Dec. 12, 1897. Mattie Arlene, b. Jan. 29, 1901. Maude, b. Mar. 26, 1878; married Edward Spring Fuller of Oxford, Feb. 13, 1899; their children: Marion Stuart, b. Sept. 9, 1899. Harry Porter, b. Aug. 15, 1901. Marjorie, b. Feb. 13, 1905; died Jan. 18, 1906; they reside in East Oxford, Me.
JOSHUA B., b. in Gorham, Me., Mar. 14, 1811; died in Deering, Mar. II, 1897; he married Caroline, daughter of Asa Hicks of Norway, Me., b. in Greenwood, Me., Oct. 16, 1851, died in Norway, Feb. 8, 1853; they had eight children :
I. Frances Ellen, b. in Norway, May 9, 1836; married George Robbins of Casco (Webb's Mills) ; they had eleven children; no record of them.
2. Abby M., b. in Otisfield, Nov. 27, 1837; married Chas. Johnson in 1867; died in Deering, Dec. 12, 1900. Their children were: Carrie E., b. in 1865. Charles F. Mildred and Martie.
3. Talbot Gay, b. in Harrison, June 9, 1840; died in Waterford, June 8, 1892; he served as a musician in Co. K, 5th Regt. Me. Inf., in the Civil War; had four children : Harry, Nellie, -, Frank.
4. Martha, b. in Harrison, Aug. 18, 1842; married Converse Robinson of Richmond, Me .; resides in Cambridge, Mass.
5. Grinfill B., b. in Harrison, Dec. 30, 1845; married Kate Barker of Bethel, Oct. 10, 1868, b. Jan. 1, 1846. They had a daughter, Olive M., b. July 8, 1876; died Apr. 24, 1904.
6. Whitfield, twin of Grinfill, b. Dec. 30, 1845; married Clara Knight of Paris; children : Mabel. Blanch- ard. Madge, b. Mar. 4, 1877, in So. Paris. Charles, a dentist in Bethel. Ruth, b. Feb., 1900.
7. Henry W., b. Feb. 17, 1848, in Harrison; married Mary Elizabeth Bennett of -, Oct. 22, 1873 ; they reside in Portland.
8. Lydia J., b. in Norway, Oct. 25, 1850; died at Nor- way, July 15, 1851.
ABIGAIL, b. May 3, 1813; died unmarried, Nov. 20, 1833.
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GEORGE W. B., b. Mar. 31, 1816; married Mary Ann Sar- gent of Otisfield, b. Jan. 2, 1824; children :
I. Lafayette, b. in Otisfield, June 30, 1847; died in Jefferson, N. H., in 1861.
2. Juliette, b. in Otisfield, Nov. 18, 1848; married H. H. Knoppe; resides at Port Orange, Fla.
3. William A., b. Apr. 25, 1851; died in Gorham, N. H., May 25, 1875.
4. Flora A., b. June 9, 1853; married Ist, Lorenzo D. Higgins of Bangor, Me., in 1872; children: Wal- ter B., b. Dec. - , 1892; married Arvilla D. Brooks of Gray, Me. Minola J., b. Oct. - , 1894; she died Flora Higgins married 2d, William B. Kendall of Bethel, Me., 1894. Children: Ethel Irene, b. June 22, 1885; married George D. Skil- lings, Jan. I, 1903. (See Stuart-Skillings family.) Winnifred M., b. - 1888; married Sept. 12, 1902, Harry B. Snowman of Portland. Flora A. Kendall married 3d, in 1896, Frank Stearns of Wa- terford, Me.
5. Joseph H., b. Sept. 30, 1855, in Bethel, Me .; mar- ried Oct. 25, 1873, Mary E. Whitman of Paris, Me., b. Apr. 13, 1857; children : Herman H., b. Jan. 20, 1880. William E., b. Aug. 26, 1881. Grace Mary, b. June 16, 1885. Leona DeAlbra, b. Feb. 16, 1889.
Joseph H. Stuart lives at South Paris, Me. He is a civil engineer by profession, and a publisher of atlases, maps of States, counties and townships.
6. Frederic G., b. Nov. 24, 1857, in Gilead, Me .; re- sides at Seabreeze, Fla.
ESTHER, b. Feb. 20, 1817; married Isaiah Bonney, Mar. 18, 1838. Children: William. Emily. Mary Abby; mar- ried George Peaco of Otisfield. Nancy; married Mer- rill Peaco of Otisfield. Henry; married Fannie Hoyt of Bridgton; lives in New Gloucester, Me. John; is in the employment of a large ice corporation in Boston. Angeline ; married George W. Rounds of Bridgton.
ACHSAH, b in Harrison, Feb. 20, 1819; married Mar. 14, 1842, John Dolloff Burbank of Gorham, N. H., b. Jan. 25, 1813; died Mar. 4, 1865. Their children :
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I. Helen M., b. Dec. 14, 1842; died Apr. 7, 1862; un- married.
2. Annette, b. Apr. 24, 1845; married Winfield S. Pot- ter of Fryeburg, Me., Oct. 29, 1871 ; he died in Gor- ham, Feb. 26, 1900. Their children: Isabel A., b. Dec. 29, 1873; married George M. Watson of Gor- ham, N. H., Jan. 1, 1895; they had one child, Harold Watson, b. Jan. 10, 1906; died in infancy. Jose- phine E., b. Aug. 13, 1876; married Fred P. Wat- son of Gorham, Jan. 2, 1898; they have one child, Carl Watson, b. Nov. 18, 1901. Perris W., b. Feb. 22, 1884; married Alfred A. Swift of Gardiner, Me .; they have one child, Alberta W., b. in Gorham, July 14, 1908. Frank W., b. Apr. 24, 1887; unmarried.
3. Edwina C., b. Apr. 10, 1848; married Jan. 6, 1878, Walter G. Buckley of Auburn, Me .; they have one daughter, Abbie Ann, b. at South Paris, Me., Sept. 23, 1878; unmarried.
4. John C., b. Apr. 20, 1851, at Chatham, N. H .; mar- ried Abba E., daughter of David and Mary (Guptill) Potter of Chatham, N. H., Nov. 6, 1874. She was born in Fryeburg, Me., Oct. 13, 1856; their children are: Amy May, b. in Gorham, N. H., Feb. 2, 1876; not married. George Lyman, b. July 30, 1877; died Sept. 5, 1877. Ada Annette, b. Nov. 13, 1880; died Feb. 8, 1881.
5: Ann, b. in Gorham, Sept. 26, 1853; unmarried.
6. Franklin P., b. July 25, 1855; married June 18, 1877, Ella, daughter of Jerrie H. and Lucetta (Swan) Winslow of South Paris, Me .; he died in Gorham, N. H., Nov. 20, 1906; they had one son, Frank W., b. in South Paris, Mar. 6, 1888; he was drowned in Lake Auburn, Me., June 21, 1906.
7. Lillian, b. Aug. 9, 1856; married Wilton Juan Cole of Stark, N. H., b. Dec. 21, 1854; their children : Alna Woodbury, b. in Stark, Nov. 24, 1886; mar- ried Daisy M. (Lang) Cole of Milan, N. H., Apr. 13, 1906, b. Jan. 15, 1886. Marion Ruth, b. Jan. 10, 1891; unmarried.
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