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L. Fickett of Portland, city electrician of the city ; they have one son: John Roberts, b. July 4, 1906. Ralph Waldo, b. Nov. 3, 1882; is employed by the N. E. Telephone Co. Joseph Edward, b. June 9, 1884; died Oct. 18, 1885. Ruth Elden, b. July 28, 1885; married Sept. 26, 1907, Alfred Day Venus, of New York. Leona Earl, b. Oct. 10, 1891; resides in - -
5. Eleazer K., b. May 13, 1828; married Jan. 6, 1867, Mrs. Olive (Tibbetts) Green of Harrison. He was a shoemaker; they had one son, Ernest Freeman, b. July 17, 1867; married Etta Jackson of Gorham, N. H .; had four children: Joyce Augusta, Nathan- iel Eleazer, Margie Evelyn and a baby, unnamed. Eleazer Whitney died Jan. 22, 1880.
6. William Lyman, b. June 12, 1832; married July 3, 1854, Maria Simpson of Cambridgeport, Mass .; they had one daughter, Lizzie Emma, b. Aug. 2, 1866; married Elmer Willison of Cambridgeport; lives in that city; has a summer residence on the shore of Long Lake in Harrison Village.
7. Mary Elizabeth, b. Jan. 25, 1836; married Oct. 10, 1866, John H. Caswell of Bridgton. (See Caswell family.)
8. Irene I., b. in Springfield, July 29, 1838; died May 6, 1846.
EUNICE, daughter of Enoch, b. in Gorham, May 30, 1807; married Mar. 4, 1824, Simon Newcomb of Buxton and had issue. She died Aug. 29, 1856.
ELEAZER, b. in Gorham about 1809; died at sea in 1829; unmarried.
WILLIAM, b. in Harrison; married Agnes Smith of Lee; they had three sons and one daughter-names and births unknown.
JOHN, b. in Harrison and died young.
ELI; no date of birth or residence.
Moses, Richard, Samuel, sons of Moses and brothers of Enoch of Harrison; no data. Molly, daughter of Moses ; married Lemuel Rounds and moved to Ohio, about 1800.
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Betsy; married Jonas Cates and moved to New York. Lucy; married John Greenlaw of Brownfield. Susanna ; married Seth Carsley, Ist. (See Carsley family.) Sally ; married Rev. Joseph Phinney of Harrison. (See Phinney family.)
CHARLES SUMNER WHITNEY.
Charles Sumner Whitney has had a business career de- serving of extended mention. He was, in boyhood, inured to farm life and working in many places in many kinds of business. He was for several years in the employ of a cattle drover in the town, during which he had a good share of "knocking about," and roughing it generally. It must be said that in all his experiences of that rude kind of life, he was honorable and faithful to his employers, and rendered excellent service, sometimes under very unpleasant circumstances. He, quite early in life, developed a taste for working in the logging and general lumbering business, and a capacity for operating and trading successfully in different kinds of lumber. On September 1, 1888, he made the first deal of importance, which was an introduction to a series of business contracts and operations which have, to the present time, marked him as possessing the qualities of a leader and master of men and of industrial enterprises almost unexcelled in their scope and variety by any ever before attempted in the town. It was on the date men- tioned above that he contracted for a lease of the saw mill of the firm of Philander Tolman & Co., with all its ap- purtenances and requisite water power for the term of one year. That contract was the first of a number of leases and purchases of mill properties situated on the out- let of Anonymous Pond, and experiences of successes and reverses in business, sufficient to prostrate with discourage- ment and despair, a man of less vigor of ambition and hope- fulness.
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Mr Whitney has exhibited a recuperative faculty that has been very surprising and gratifying to his many friends, who have implicit faith in his business talent and in his personal integrity, and in spite of destruction of his manu- facturing plant and valuable properties of furniture and stock worth $50,000, and of other heavy financial losses, in the few years past, Mr. Whitney is seen, the day after the great fire of 1907, calmly and courageously clearing away the wreck of his sawmill in preparation for rebuild- ing that and others for the rehabilitation of his extensive lumber and manufacturing trade. Now, looking backward to the scene of the destruction of the great chair factory, box and shoe block factories and sawmill, it is a wondrous transformation scene from the black desolation of one year ago to the present of great buildings and busy mills full of whirring machines, making money for the owner, and for the compensation of the skilled laborers who operate them.
As an item of present history, it is deemed proper to show the latest exploit of Mr. Whitney by a brief description of the great barn he erected during the last year. It is located on the site of the late chair factory-the former wire factory building of P. Tolman & Co. The dimen- sions of the building are as follows: Length, one hun- dred feet; width, thirty-six feet; length of post to eaves twenty feet; height of basement, twelve feet; tie-up for cattle on main floor, sixty-two and one-half feet long, will accommodate six yokes of oxen and five cows; five horse stalls, four feet wide, each. The basement floor is con- creted throughout heavily. There is a large watering tank for stock, in the basement, with a constant supply of water from the lake. There is a silo, twelve feet in diameter, eighteen feet high, with capacity for twenty-six tons of ensilage. Another silo is to be installed the present year. The contents of a full silo is estimated to feed seven cows, forty pounds each per day, for six months. In one end,
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on the main floor, are to be two finished rooms for family use, and one finished room in basement. There is to be this year, cooking apparatus for steam cooking of feed for hogs, etc., of which there are several breeding animals
of -- There is a Westinghouse motor for cutting ensilage and operating hay fork and electric lighting is obtained by a dynamo located in the sawmill, nearby. The building is thoroughly boarded and covered with metallic sheathing, rendering it comparatively fire-proof externally. This latest establishment is only one of numerous innova- tions and useful improvements introduced by Mr. Whitney in the course of his business career.
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WILLARD FAMILY.
Two families of this name have long lived in Harrison, and are yet represented by descendants living in Bridgton and in Westbrook or Portland. SAMUEL WILLARD settled early on the farm now owned by James Fleck, and raised a family of eight children. His wife's family name is not known. Mr. Willard was a leader in public affairs and was the first town clerk, and chairman of the first board of selectmen in 1805. He served as town clerk con- secutively for eight years and was elected to the offices of selectmen and town treasurer, at different times during the first twelve years, and as moderator and treasurer in 1818-19-20. He was many years a Justice of the Peace, acquiring the title of "Squire Willard" by which he is remembered to the present time. His children were :
CYNTHIA, b. July 14, 1804; married Alonzo Robbins of Waterford, June 11, 1829; died June 19, 1830. They had a daughter, Cynthia Robbins, no further record.
IDA, b. May 2, 1806.
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DORLISKA, b. June 14, 1808; married Lovell Chadbourne (See Chadbourne family.)
SARAH, b. Mar. 12, 18II.
SAMUEL S., b. July 10, 1813; lived in Westbrook.
ELIZABETH, b. July 2, 1816.
REBECCA, b. Mar. 12, 1819; married Daniel Mayberry, Apr. 19, 1840; she lived long in Harrison, where her husband was a very active business man, and where her children were born and raised. Mr. Mayberry moved, late in life, to Deering and was in trade in Portland a number of years in the sixties.
GEORGE, b. Apr. 24, 1823 ; died Oct. 25, 1832.
Samuel Willard, Esq., died March II, 1849.
BENJAMIN WILLARD, probably a cousin to Samuel, Esq., also settled early in Harrison, on the farm now occu- pied by Karl Whitney, near the "Floral Lawn" farm of Mr. William H. Briggs. He married Sarah -, June 16, 1805. Children :
OTHO, b. Mar. 7, 1806; died in childhood.
EUNICE, b. June 6, 1809; died -, unmarried.
SARAH, b. Apr. 28, 1813; died Oct. 6, 1815.
NANCY, b. Dec. 21, 1818; died Feb. 28, 1823.
NANCY, b. May 14, 1823; died Sept. 10, 1825.
Mr. Benjamin Willard died in Harrison Mrs. Sarah Willard died in 1876, aged nearly one hundred years.
WITHAM FAMILY.
The families of this name who have lived in Harrison are descended from THOMAS WITHAM, an early comer to the Massachusetts Colony, who died at Cape Ann, in 1653. The descent from Thomas is traced through several
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generations of families of the Witham name who have lived in New Gloucester, whose ancestors came from Cape Ann. The first one who lived here was
JEREMIAH, who located a short distance south from the homestead of Nathan Carsley, the pioneer, at the corner of the road leading to Scribner's Mills. He married Polly Bennett. He sold his farm to his brother Daniel and moved to Poland. His children were: Isaac, Jacob, Ira, Ebenezer, Jeremiah, Sarah, Mary, and others who died in infancy.
DANIEL, brother of Jeremiah, married Elizabeth Knight. He was a farmer and a good citizen; noted for being very corpulent, one of the largest men ever seen in town. Their children :
I. Tamson, b. Dec. 31, 1810; was a teacher in the common schools and a woman of decided Christian character. She was long an esteemed member of the Free Baptist Church. She married Spofford In- galls as second wife; they had one daughter, So- phronia Emma, who married Smith Gilkey, Aug. 27, 1875; their children were: Lillian Georgia, b. Nov. 4, 1876; married Mar. 13, 1895, Edward Green- leaf Emerson of Harrison; they reside in South Waterford. Mr. Emerson is proprietor of the for- mer Dudley's water power and mills on Bear River, and engaged extensively in the manufacture and trade in lumber; also a farmer. Carrie Bell, b. Sept. 1, 1878; married Oct. 1, -, John Gibson of Gorham, Me.
2. Sophronia, b. Dec. 12, 1812; married Spofford In- galls for his first wife, 1848; she died in a few years after marriage.
3. Charlotte, b. July 5, 1814; married John Lakin of Harrison. (See Lakin family.)
4. Nancy, b. Dec. 20, 1815; married Porter Barker of Bridgton.
5. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 7, 1817.
6. Daniel, Jr., b. Oct. 23, 1818; died young.
7. Abner K., b. Mar. 23, 1820.
8. Susan, b. Sept. 13, 1822.
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9. Clarinda, b. Feb. 10, 1824.
IO. Mary, b. Dec. 15, 1825.
II. Charles W., b. July 18, 1827.
ISAAC, married Sally Tracy; lived near the home of Dea. Seth Carsley, the present Roberts residence; no particu- lars.
JACOB, married Hannah Harmon.
SALLY.
LUCY.
LYDIA, married Leander Harmon of Harrison. (See Har- mon family.)
PATTIE, never married.
IRA, died young.
EBENEZER, died young.
JEREMIAH ; no other account.
MARY; died young.
MOSES WITHAM, a native of New Gloucester, born May 6, 1823, settled here about - -. He married Mary Pride, born December 15, 1825, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth K. Witham, and raised a large family as follows :
LAURA ETTA, b. Mar. 20, 1848; died Jan. 25, 1908.
GEORGE LINCOLN, b. Jan. 31, 1850; died Nov. 8, 1870.
JOSEPH WARREN, b. Dec. 23, 1852; married May Matilda, b. Nov. 29, 1857, daughter of Joseph Warren and Eliz- abeth Earle Dudley. Children: They have one daughter, Maude Elizabeth, b. Mar. 15, 1878. Mr. Witham is a merchant and resides at North Bridgton.
BYRON COLBY, b. Jan. 7, 1855; resides in Westbrook, Me. JOHN FREMONT, b. Aug. 22, 1856; married Nov. 12, 1880, Cora Bell, daughter of Franklin and Elizabeth J. (Hall) Chute. Their children :
I. Lester Franklin, b. June 26, 1881; married Mary Bell Wood of Buckfield. Children: Lawrence John, b. Dec. 19, 1904. Willard Wood, b. Aug. 7, 1906.
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2. Leroy Clayton, b. Aug. 15, 1882; married Florence Purington of Westbrook. They have one daughter, Dorothy Ellen, b. July 29, 1906.
3. Florence; married Walter Dyer of Otisfield; chil- dren: Shirley Witham, b. Apr. II, 1905. Maurice Blenn, b. Sept. 24, 1906.
ELIZABETH ELLA, b. Apr. 19, 1858.
ANNA FLORENCE, b. Jan. 9, 1861 ; died May 6, 1862.
ANNIE MAY, b. Nov. 25, 1862; died July 23, 1903.
WILBUR CURTIS, b. Jan. 21, 1864.
WESLEY ELLSWORTH, b. May 23, 1867; resides in West- brook, Me.
GEORGE WILLIS, b. June 13, 1871 ; died Sept. 13, 1871.
WOODSUM FAMILY.
This was a truly pioneer family in Harrison. Berwick, York County, was the place of their first settlement, whence came JOHN WOODSUM (born in Berwick), before 1800, and settled. He was a builder and helped erect some of the finest frame houses in town. He was chosen surveyor of lumber at the first town meeting held after its incorpora- tion. He was married to Rebecca Kimball, probably of Berwick, before coming here. He died March 17, 1820; she died October 3, 1862. They had ten children, born as follows :
POLLY, b. in Berwick in 1797; married Lebbeus Caswell, son of Simeon, the pioneer, Oct. 24, 1820, and settled in Harrison. (See Caswell family.)
DAVID, b. in Harrison (then Otisfield), Oct. 14, 1801 ; mar- ried Eliza (Walker) Howard, widow of Joshua Howard (See Howard family), and settled near the head of Anonymous Pond. Mr. Woodsum was a man of most kindly traits of character; though uncultured in the learning and society manners of the gay world, he was a shrewd, good manager of his own affairs and was
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greatly beloved as an honest, trustful and trusty neighbor and townsman. He was so original in uttering impromptu expressions on many occasions, that they are often re- peated to this day, and perpetuate his reputation as a man of genuine wit and wisdom. "Uncle David" was possessed of positive ideas on the subject of religion, preaching the gospel and some of the popular methods of trying to win the impenitent to conversion, and he has been known to call those methods in question by illus- trative arguments quite as effective as they were amusing to those who heard them. He died in 1882.
JOHN, b. in Harrison, Sept. 3, 1805; died Apr. 9, 1882; married Chloe, daughter of Joshua and Chloe (Edson) Howard of Harrison, Jan. 1, 1834; he was a farmer by occupation, and spent his life on an excellent farm near the head of Anonymous Pond. Their children were:
I. Susan Augusta, b. May II, 1834; married Ist, June 21, Sigmund Backman; lived in Farmington and Harrison, Me. Their children were: Leah, b. Mar. 17, 1852; married Mar. 13, 1869, Fred A. Ring of Harrison; died in Bridgton, Sept. 22, 1873. Her- man Sigmund, b. Nov. 27, 1855; married Cynthia Smith of California; went to California in 1871, and lived for a time at Riverside; since then has settled in Poplar, Tulare County. Howard Sidney, b. July 5, 1861; was educated in the public schools and in Bridgton Academy; was of an excellent moral character and life; went to California in Feb., 1882; married Addie Dale of Poplar, Tulare Co., Cal. ; they had three children: Effie, Charlie and Mabel ; he was a member of the Board of Education of Tu- lare County ; he was an architect and builder, and was killed by falling from a building, Aug. 6, 1906. Cora Gretchen, b. Mar. 9, 1865, in Harrison ; grad- uated from Bridgton Academy in 1882; was a teach- er in the public schools in Maine until 1890. She went to California in 1891, and in the same year was mar- ried to John Griffith of Bakersfield, Cal .; they had children : Leah Zada, b. in California, Sept. 3, 1892; is a student in Bridgton Academy. Frank Howard, b. Oct. 22, 1897, in Bridgton, Me. Mrs. Cora G. Griffith married 2d, Edgar L. Mayberry of Bridg- ton, Dec. 21, 1902. They reside in North Bridgton.
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Mrs. Susan A. Backman married 2d, John Dudley of Waterford, Me., born Jan. 17, 1837; died Aug. 23, 1873.
2. John Edwin, b. June 28, 1836; married Frances El- len Foye of Portland, Dec. 9, 1875; children: Jo- seph Edwin, b. Feb. 13, 1877. Grace May, b. Feb. 13, 1879. John E. Woodsum was a member of the 8th Vt. Regt. of Inf., serving in the department of the Gulf, during the Civil War. He is a skilled mechanic; resides in Portland.
3. Silas Blake, b. Jan. 22, 1839; he enlisted and was mustered into the U. S. volunteer service in the Civil War, Nov. 15, 1861, in Capt. Moses M. Robinson's Co. G, 12th Regt. Me. Inf., and served honorably as corporal until attacked by disease. He was sent to military hospital in New Haven, Conn., where he died Aug. 22, 1863.
4. Elias Howard, b. July 14, 1841 ; he was possessed of fine mechanical and inventive genius, was a mill- wright and machinist, and was the author of several valuable inventions upon which letters patent were granted by the U. S. Patent office. He was em- ployed as an engineer and skilled machinist by the proprietors of the Norway shoe factory a number of years, and owned a handsome residence in that village, where his children were born. He married Mary, daughter of Parker Lakin of Harrison. Dec. 25, 1869, Mr. Woodsum moved to Portsmouth, N. H., where he was employed as engineer in a large shoe factory; he was killed July 29, 1893, by a boiler explosion. They had two sons: Arthur; a graduate of Norway high school, Bridgton Academy, and School of Technology in Boston; succeeded his father as engineer in Portsmouth, N. H. Bertie, married Pearl Morgan of New Orleans and resides in that city; they have one son.
5. Chloe Jane, b. July 7, 1844; died Nov. 24, 1862.
6. Daniel, b. Mar. 12, 1847; married Frances D., daugh- ter of Stephen T. and Catherine (Brown) Whitney of Harrison. He was a skilled machinist and engi- neer, and in company with his brother, Frank M., invented a superior type of turbine water wheel in
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their early life. They worked at Harrison a few years in a machine shop, and subsequently went to New Hampshire, and built several steamboats to run on Lake Sunapee, owning the line for transpor- tation of passengers and freight and for excursion use on that fine lake which is surrounded by several fashionable summer resorts. They had a son: Silas Melvin. He was a brilliant scholar ; graduated from Bridgton Academy in 1889; studied law in New York. He was obliged to go to Denver, Colo., on account of ill health, but finished his law studies there and was admitted to the Bar. He died in Denver in 1900. He married Miss Estelle Hubbard of New York, a fine singer in New York and Phila- delphia churches. She died in A second son, Edgar, b. Feb. 13, 1877, lives with his mother in Newport, R. I., unmarried.
7. Frank Melvin, b. Sept. 10, 1849; married Jessie Young of Sunapee, N. H .; he is, the same as his brother Daniel, an accomplished machinist and me- chanical engineer and joint owner of steam naviga- tion on Lake Sunapee.
8. Marietta, b. Feb. 2, 1852; died in May, 1852.
9. Clarence Stevens, b. June 9, 1856; married Nov. 17, 1875, Alice R. Kimball of Waterford; died Aug. 2, 1877; they had a son, Walter, who is a govern- ment engineer on the Panama Canal.
ARTEMAS, b. Jan. 13, 1807 ; married Nancy Baker of Water- ford; settled first in Otisfield on Oak Hill and after- ward moved to South Harrison as a farmer ; he was an excellent man as neighbor and townsman; he died in the West. Their children :
I. David, b. in 1830; married Araxzene, daughter of Phineas Thompson of Harrison. They had a son, David, b. Apr. 17, 1855, who is in the service of the Panama Commission.
2. Mary Louisa, b. in 1833; died in 1849.
3. Rebecca, b. in 1875. She was a well educated woman and a popular and successful teacher in the public schools.
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4. Nancy, b. in 18 -; married ----- Emery in Lewiston, Me. They had one son, Herbert; he died in a western State. There were several boys who died young.
5. Ellen, b. about 1840; married Mark Wetzler of Rickendorf, Germany; they resided many years in Norway, Me., where he died Nov. 27, 1908, aged 76 years. They had one daughter, Rose, who married Henry Thurston of Portland, where they reside. They have two children: Herbert and Roland.
ABIGAIL, b. Oct. 25, 1808, in Harrison; married Luther Willoughby of Holderness, N. H. She died July 10, 1883. REBECCA; married Edward Scribner of Gilead, Me.
BENJAMIN FOSTER, b. May 10, 1813; married Abigail Lin- nell of Otisfield; settled on a farm in the Woodsum dis- trict as a farmer and lived there until his death, which occurred in 1878. His widow died in 1880. Their chil- dren :
I. John Linnell, b. Apr. 8, 1840; married in 1872 Mary Flint of Sweden and settled in Oxford, Me. They had two children : Cora, and a son. They live in Norway, Me.
2. Evalina, b. Oct. 14, 1841; married Thos. A. Wilbur of Freeport. She died Nov. 17, 1874.
3. Benjamin F., b. Aug. 29, 1843; died Jan. 26, 1861.
4. William L., b. Feb. 7, 1848; died Aug. 21, 1865.
BRACKETT, b. Jan., 1815; married Lucind Lombard, daugh- ter of Abraham and Thirza (Moors) Lombard of Otis- field. Mr. Woodsum was a good farmer and an enter- prising citizen. He moved to Minnesota in- and set- tled on a beautiful farm in Mankato in that State. He was successful in his farming in the West. They had two children: Sumner, b. July 2, 1848. Emeline, b. June 4, 1850. The parents are deceased. The children reside in Washington, near Puget Sound.
DORCAS A., b. in Harrison; married Dana Towne of Bos- ton. They have two children: Walter, b. in 1853, and Annie.
SARAH K., b. Dec. 21, 1819; married Dec. 21, 1845, Albert Hamlin of Waterford, b. Nov. 20, 1816. Their children, born in Waterford:
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I. Harriet, b. Sept. 13, 1846; married G- W. Mor- gan, Sept. 13, 1871. They reside in Auburn, Me.
2. Semantha, b. Apr. 4, 1848; married T- C. Bell, of Waterford, Oct. 23, 1877; 2d, married Joshua Bennett of Bridgton, Me.
3. Ann Maria, b. Feb. 3, 1850; married O- G. Fish, July 8, 1874; they reside in Lowell, Mass.
4. Mary, b. May 23, 1852; married R- P. Bean, Mar. 27, 1873; they reside in Littleton, Colo.
5. Walter Keyes, b. Oct. 27, 1854; married Sept. 9, 1878, Clara J., daughter of Eben and Jane M. Bell of Waterford. Their children: Alice May, b. Sept. 30, 1879; has a liberal education ; in Bridgton Acad- emy two years; graduated, A. M. from Maine Wes- leyan Seminary and Woman's College; took part of college course in Boston University ; graduated from Posse Gymnasium, Boston ; post graduate one year ; she is now preceptress and teacher of oratory and gymnastics at Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Wo- man's College, Kent's Hill, Me. Jennie Bell, b. June 30, 1884; is devoted to musical study and practice ; has had good instructors, and one year in N. E. Conservatory of Music, Boston. She is an accom- plished pianist and is a choir singer. Flora Ger- trude, b. June 28, 1884; married Willard W. Ab- bott of Waterford; he is a prominant farmer, dairy- man and has served several terms as Master of Bear Mountain Grange. Mrs. Abbott is much interested in Grange work and has served in an official position. Carrie Augusta, b. Apr. 30, 1886; educated at Bridg- ton Academy; she is an expert accountant and is bookkeeper and cashier in the business office of her father; she is also a pianist and singer. Albert Wilton, b. Nov. 9, 1890; is a student at Bridgton Academy.
Mr. Hamlin is a man of cultivated intellect and versatile tastes and capabilities. He received his educational train- ing in the public and select schools of his own town. In his early married life, he lived several years in New Ha- ven, Connecticut, where he was employed in the wheel
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department of the carriage manufactory of Henry Hook & Company. In 1882-1883, he was a member of the South Waterford Wheel Mfg. Company. He was also proprietor of a flourishing wool carding business which is in opera- tion at the present time. In 1889, he became proprietor of the Waterford Creamery Company, at South Waterford, which has been in successful business ever since, making at height of the season, about 1,000 pounds of the finest quality of butter per day. He is also proprietor of an ex- cellent trade in flour, grain and feed for domestic animals. Mr. Hamlin is one of very few, now living, of the charter members of Bear Mountain Grange, located at South Wa- terford. He is a worthy member of Mt. Tireum Lodge, F. & A. M., of Waterford, also of Valley Spring Lodge, Knights of Pythias, South Waterford. He is one of the founders of the Waterford Dairy Testing Association, for ascertaining by scientific tests, the capacity of the indi- vidual cows in a herd of dairy cows for producing material for profitable butter making. This Association is com- posed of farmers in this and adjoining towns, and promises to become one of the best of the new century innovations on old, obsolete methods of dairying. Mr. Hamlin is al- ways a supporter of the church and other religious insti- tutions, but is non-sectarian. In politics, he is a Repub- lican of the Abraham Lincoln school. He is prominently interested in affairs of his town, and has held public offices of trust. Mrs. Clara J. Hamlin is a most worthy wife and helpmate of her husband; a skilled housewife, and equally interested in promoting the advancement of all causes for the betterment of society. She has for a number of years past, held the office of Worthy Secretary of Bear Mountain Grange, with great efficiency.
6. James B., b. Mar. 14, 1857; married Mar. 12, 1884, Addie, daughter of John and Margaret Atherton of Waterford. He was a man of fine intelligence, a successful farmer, possessing excellent judgment in business and public affairs, for which he was se-
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lected to serve the town in public official station. He died Feb. 18, 1907. Mrs. Addie Hamlin, his wife, predeceased him in 1904; they had one daughter, Bessie May, b. June 4, 1888.
7. Cora J., b. Dec. 1, 1859; married William F. Bell of Waterford, May 14, 1879; they reside in Egan, South Dakota. G. F.
MEMORANDA.
Concerning families, persons and events of interest to Harrison people.
SAMUEL J. EMERSON died January 18, 1899, aged fifty-four years. Sarah E. (Witham), his widow, died January 25, 1908, aged fifty-nine years, ten months. Mr. Emerson was an honored member of Co. H, 12th Maine Infantry in the Civil War.
REV. JAMES PRENTISS RICHARDSON, first min- ister and pastor of Congregational Church. He preached the sermon at the dedication of the present church building, December 29, 1836. He preached in Harrison about three years. He was born April 20, 1797. He died in Gray, Maine, November 16, 1862. He was learned in theology, and was one of the most eloquent and graceful orators the Maine pulpit has ever known. To listen to his reading of one of the psalms of David, or a hymn from "Watt's and Select," was a delight, even to the boy of ten, who pens this note in the first year ayont the eightieth of his age.
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JOHN E. DUNNELLS, M. D. He came from New- field, Maine, to Harrison. He married Mary Elizabeth Russell of Bethel, born October 9, 1824; died February 9, 1895. Dr. Dunnells was born November 3, 1818; died January 3, 1867. They had two children: John, and Mary Elizabeth, who married Newell A. Trafton (See Trafton family). Dr. Dunnells was a learned and successful phy- sician ; possessed of tender, kindly sensibilities, a neighbor- ly quality that rendered him popular in social and political circles. He was a State Senator from Cumberland County in -.
DAVID FROST, a native of Norway, died June 26, 1876, aged sixty-six years, three months. Nancy (Whitney) Frost died Dec. 8, 1903, aged 86 years, eight months, eight days. She was a daughter of Benjamin Whitney of Bridg- ton, and sister of Jonathan Whitney of Harrison. They were very excellent and lovable neighbors and esteemed members of the Free Baptist Church. Mr. Frost was a well educated man, and a very intelligent student of the scriptures. He was a pillar of strength in the church and Sunday-school. He took much interest in the prosperity of the public schools and served the town on the School Committee from 1864 to 1870. Their daughter, Susanna O. Frost, died April 19, 1887, aged forty-seven years. Another daughter married and lived in the State of Con- necticut. D. Anson, only son, died in Harrison, August 12, 1868, aged fourteen years.
BENJAMIN RICH died October 14, 1858, aged eighty- six years, seven months. Rachel, wife, died May 5, 1869, aged ninety-four years. Henry, son, died April 15, 1879, aged seventy-seven years, nine months, twenty-three days; unmarried. Joseph Fogg, who married Sarah S., daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Rich, died November 15, 1827, aged thirty-two years. Sarah S., wife, died January 28, 1877,
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aged seventy-three years, five days. Charles S. Fogg, son, died July II, 1860, aged thirty-eight years. George H., son of Charles and Melissa Fogg, died April 9, 1856, aged one year, seven months, nineteen days.
SIMEON WHITNEY died December 4, 1894, aged eighty-five years, eight months. Joan, his wife, died Sep- tember 8, 1873, aged seventy years. Marshall Whitney, their son, born 1825, died in Harrison, in 1871.
JONATHAN SPRINGER died February 16, 1845. Olive, wife, died January 27, 1857, aged eighty-four years. They had a son, George Washington, a bright, enterprising business man, well known in Harrison, before his removal to another town. Mary, married Peirce Scribner (See Scribner family.) ) Betsy, daughter, always lived at home unmarried. She died August 30, 1850, aged fifty-four years. The Springers were good neighbors and noted for their intelligent and quaint humor.
JOSEPH GILKEY, born in Gorham; died April 2, 1857, aged sixty-nine years, nine months. His wife, Mary, died December 28, 1878, aged seventy-six years. Their eldest son, John, lived many years in Portland; was a car- penter and builder. Charles and James B., who had been to California, were both lost at sea on board the steamer Central America, September 12, 1857. Charles was twenty- seven years and eleven months old, and James twenty-six years. Edward K. died January 3, 1862, aged twenty-four years, ten months. He was a corporal in the 15th Maine Regiment of Infantry at that time in camp at Augusta. Reuben died January 6, 1878, aged thirty-two years. Har- riet B., who married Holt, died March 7, 1893, aged sixty-six years. There were Susan and Smith-de- ceased.
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STEPHEN WATERHOUSE, a native of Poland, Maine, lived many years in Bolster's Mills. He was a blacksmith by trade and a very industrious and thrifty man. He owned several tracts of land in Harrison and Otisfield, which he cultivated successfully, raising excellent crops of corn, potatoes and hay. He always had a herd of four or five good cows and had abundance of milk and home-made butter. Mr. Waterhouse was a man of active piety, a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a class leader many times ; a daily reader of the scriptures and supporter of the family altar. His house was the home of hospitality. His first wife and mother of all his chil- dren, was Lydia Hicks, daughter of Asa Hicks of Nor- way. She was a most excellent wife and mother, faith- ful and untiring in all domestic and neighborly relations. She died October 9, 1856, aged fifty-two years, eight months. Mr. Waterhouse married subsequently, Miss Sarah D. Stockman, who was a most worthy and beloved wife and mother to the orphan children. Stephen Waterhouse died in Oxford, October 17, 1871, aged sixty-six years, eleven months, twenty-three days. Mrs. Sarah D. Waterhouse died February 26, 1877, aged seventy-one years, seven months. Children of Stephen and Lydia Waterhouse: Harriet Newell, died January 4, 1844, aged seventeen years. George Osgood, died May 28, 1848, aged eighteen years, nine months. Elizabeth Reed, died November 24, 1851, wife of Granville Fernald (See Fernald family). Amanda, married Charles Merrill of Waterford. They had a son, Charles, also a daughter, Flora. Amanda died April 12, 1884, aged forty-eight years, five months. Luella died March 27, 1858, aged twenty years, ten months. She was the first wife of Almore Haskell. Matilda, b. September 16, 1842, married Samuel Porterfield Stuart (See Stuart family). She resides in Medford, Massachusetts, with her eldest daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Harris.
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