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Joseph Barron (1787-1865) had located prior to 1816 on Lot 106 by the Anson line. The family was from Concord, Mass. Joseph and a brother, William (1784-1816), bought land at Norridgewock, where William was run over by a cart loaded with lime and killed. Joseph married Rachel Quint (1791- 1882), daughter of John of Anson, in 1812 and they resided at Madison a few years before moving to Embden. They had seven sons who were :
Levi Barron (1813) who possessed Lot 129 on Foss Hill about 1850 and in 1879 was a resident of Lewiston. His children were Eliza J. (1838), Alvin J. (1840), Chandler H. (1845), Mary F. (1847) and Lydia Q. (1854).
George Washington Barron (1815), whose wife was Betsey Savage. Their daughter, Augusta (1847-1921), was born at Embden, married (1) Osgood Willey, who was drowned with their son in the Kennebec River July 4, 1877, and (2) John Turner of Skowhegan. Their daughters were:
Mrs. R. L. Sheaff and Mrs. Walter Ward of Nashua, N. H. Mrs. Turner died at Gardiner where she had been living with her son, George Willey.
J. Wilson Barron, son of George W. Barron, located at Dexter and was cashier of the Savings Bank there. On Washington's birthday, Feb. 22, 1877, the bank was closed but the cashier was there attending to private business. Late that day Col. W. G.
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Morrill, of Pittsfield, found him bound and gagged. Barron survived but a few hours. The mystery of his death, whether by murder or suicide, has never been satisfactorily solved. Ten years later David Stain and a man named Cromwell were arrested, tried and convicted for the murder. This was largely on a "confession" by Charles Stain, a son of David when in jail for misdemeanor. After a few years David Stain and Cromwell, who had been sentenced to prison for life were pardoned, through the efforts of Josiah Crosby, Esq., of Dexter. J. Wilson Barron, Jr., son of the cashier was a dentist at Camden where he died in 1928.
William Barron (1818-1895) married Mary Elder (1815- 1891) in 1845 and came into his father's farm. He was col- lector and constable of Embden in 1864 and 1865. William's children were identified with the scholarly interests of the com- munity. The oldest, J. Frank Barron (1852-1923), married Olive Jackson an estimable Embden woman, now at Sanger. Calif., on a fruit ranch with her son, Fred C. Barron. The oldest daughter, Eldora, married in 1876 Josiah Holway of The Forks. Ruth E., her sister (Mrs. Will P. Forsythe), also made her home at The Forks. William Henry Barron (1858-1905) another son, lived in Embden for a time. The two daughters, "Dora" and Ruth, were widely known school teachers. Dora was mistress of five Embden schools between 1866 and '70, starting the first year in her home district No. 7 and continuing in the Wentworth (No. 8), Dunbar and Holbrook districts. Frank Barron resided across the road from his father on part of Lot 107 where his son and daughter-in-law Wallace and Daisy (Young) Barron now live. Frank's oldest son Herbert A., called Bert (1874-1921), occupied the farm that his great-grand- father, Joseph Barron, cleared. Frank's other children were Elsie M., who married Wilbert Walker and lives at Clear Lake, Calif .; Daisy D. (1886-1920), who was Mrs. Everett Berry ; Fred C., resident of Sanger, Calif., soldier in the World War with service overseas; and Etta W. (1884-1921), a graduate of the Farmington Normal school and a teacher in California where
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she died. Daisy and Fred Barron were graduates of Anson Academy.
Darius Barron (1825),, a resident of Embden in 1851 who dicd at Quincy, Mass .; Ellit F. (1828) ; Henry (1831) and John (1834-1914) were four younger sons of Joseph and Rachel Bar- ron. John dwelt at Madison. Darius lived at Anson. The chil- dren in these families make a considerable group, many of whom reside in Somerset towns.
The lower farm (No. 107) in the middle tier of the Soule purchase and on the Anson line, was subdivided and had divers owners. Parts of it were sold under the hammer for debt and there were family tragedies in that connection. David Albee, veteran of the War of 1812, appears to have been the first settler on the eastern part now owned by Wallace Barron. Albee sold this part of 60 acres for $400 on June 18, 1816, to Benjamin Gould of New Portland, his wife's uncle. A few years afterward, when David Albee was ill in Boston with tuberculosis, Benjamin Gould deeded the property back to him. Then Robert Quint of a Berwick family that was closely associated by marriage with the Barrons, got this 60 acres and 40 acres off the Joseph Barron farm No. 106, by purchase from Widow Dolly Soule in 1827. The following year Quint conveyed both properties to Isaac Ford.
Gould hill where stood the Gould residence was on the west part of No. 107 farm. Benjamin Gould in 1799 bought 88 acres in New Portland, south of Seven Mile Brook and in 1816 had sold it to Daniel Streeter, of Norridgewock. Then Benjamin came to Embden. His brother-in-law, Alfred Walker, who had been his neighbor in New Portland, purchased the west half of Lot 107 and there Benjamin resided for some years. The title to the property, however, was soon transferred to Benjamin Gould, Jr., a son. He, in turn, was long a resident there following his father. Elder Benjamin, Jr., sold to Bowdoin Caswell. Before many years the land was abandoned for farm- ·ing and by 1890 Brown and Hilton of North Anson owned it as a pasture.
(TOP LEFT) WILLIAM BARRON. ELI C. WALKER WILLIAM H. MCKENNEY
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Elder Benjamin, Jr., bought other parcels within the Soule purchase. He enlarged his home farm in 1829 by paying Widow Dolly Soule $60 for the adjoining east part of Lot 136. In February, 1832 he bought a gore of 37 acres out of Lot 132, a mile northward. This was south of the Abel Cleveland cross road, where John Wentworth (1847-1917) subsequently resided. In Wentworth's day there was a near-by orchard bordered for some distance along the road with a beautiful hedge of wild roses. It extended almost to the top of the hill and to the Asher Cleveland-George W. McKenney farm buildings. The rose bushes which were an annual delight to the entire neighborhood are hardly traceable now in the roadside shrubbery. They have gone as have the luxuriant elderberry bushes that flourished in the Francis Burns pasture a quarter of a mile westward.
Elder Benjamin was a young man at the time of these trans- actions. Something of his later career in middle Embden and of his family life there has already been described. He had several brothers, whose boyhood outlook, like his own, had been from the modest eminence of Gould hill by the present Barron cross road. Samuel G. Gould (1795-1876), who married Mary Weathren in 1817, was probably the oldest of these. John G. Gould, who married Mrs. Sally Morton in 1845, was probably another brother.
But there were two who, like Elder Benjamin, became prominent in the town and had farms within the Soule Pur- chase. One was Nathaniel W. Gould (1804-1881), apparently the third oldest of the family. He married Sophronia Getchell (1806-1898) and for some time resided with his brother-in-law Amaziah on the Getchell farm (Lot 135). Nathaniel moved to Freeman, a popular town with the Goulds, then back to Embden on Lot 131 which he purchased of his brother William, and finally to Hallowell where both he and his wife lived out their allotted years. The late Col. Edmond E. Gould (1844-1919), a valiant soldier in the Civil War was their son. His varied career covered some years as a merchant at Hallowell. He also labored extensively as an evangelist and toward the end of his life was a newspaper writer at Madison. Shortly before his
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death at Anson village he wrote of the home in his native Emb- den as follows :
"I remember my boyhood days there on the farm (Amos Hilton place). I have in mind the old brick oven, the tin baker used in front of the fireplace for baking bread, the old cellar broom with which my mother used to sweep the floor, the flax wheel, the old spinning wheel. How often I watched her spin- ning yarn and weaving cloth for her children's clothing! How well I remember seeing father and mother dip candles in the evening, having the old tin lantern with a candle for a light!"
His parents sold their Embden farm in 1852 and moved to Anson. From there Edmond enlisted with the 21st. Maine Regiment when 16 years of age. That was for nine months but he re-inlisted from Norridgewock in the 31st. Maine and served till the end of the war. Taken ill with typhoid fever on the battlefield in front of Petersburg, he lay on the ground for four days. His health was shattered when he reached home and he was a great sufferer for the remainder of his life. This fact did not deter him from many activities. He conducted patriotic services in the public schools ; provided a male quartette for the Soldiers Home at Togus and organized the Somerset Veterans' Association of which he became president. At Madison he was a justice of the peace. After his death a friend said he had been "a very useful citizen, gifted, gracious, witty and sanely but eminently patriotic." He married Mrs. Annie T. Adams in 1906. Philena Gould (1827) his sister 17 years his senior, became Mrs. Daniel F. Steward in 1851. They dwelt on the Ephraim Ward farm in Anson, just below the Embden line, but sold to Robert Keef and thereafter resided at Portland. Nathaniel Gould's other children were Albion K. P. Gould (1832) and Laurinda (1839).
William W. Gould (1806-1887) made the beginning of the Amos Hilton farm (Lot 131) by paying Daniel Steward, trader, $200 for the eastern half of it in 1829. Steward got it in 1824 from Alfred Holbrook about the time that Holbrook moved a half mile eastward on the cross road and Holbrook got it from Benjamin Cleveland (1798-1870), son of Abel. Then in 1831
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William Gould paid Widow Soule $100 for the west half of Lot 131 and a year later paid her $25 more for a gore of 13 acres made by the cross road, which was opposite a part of Lot 132 that his brother Elder Benjamin was just purchasing.
On this Amos Hilton farm which he had combined to include 113 acres William Gould resided for several years. He eventually bought the 37 contiguous acres from Elder Benjamin, Jr., and in April 1836, sold it all to his brother Nathaniel. William Gould was thrice married. His first wife was Nancy Hill of Calais whose brothers went to Chicago where they owned the Mattison House destroyed by the great fire of 1871. After that they built and owned the Clifford house. His second wife was Clarissa Jewett (1812-1877) whom he married in 1847, a daughter of Pioneer Nathan Jewett of Solon and an aunt of the late Lyman C. Jewett. Their youngest child was Nancy Gould who married John T. Parlin and is now with her children in Colorado. William Gould's third wife was Mrs. Sarah A. Cilley, his first wife's sister. His only surviving son was Warren H. Gould (1836-1893). He married Charlotte Allen.
William went to Concord about 1836 when he sold his farm to Nathaniel. The regard in which all three brothers were held is evidenced by their frequent selection for town offices between 1829 and 1852. William was collector of taxes and constable in 1830, '34 and' 35. Elder Benjamin, Jr., held the same offices in 1832, was second selectman in 1829, '35, and '36 and town agent in 1848. His brother Nathaniel was surveyor of highways in 1838, third selectman in 1842; town meeting moderator in 1847, town agent in 1851 and '52.
There were two sisters of these Embden Goulds. Olive Gould, named for her mother, married Samuel Jordan in 1832. Sybil Gould, named for her grandmother, Mrs. Stephen Walker, eleven years later married Holland Wait. A committee of the quarterly meeting at Anson on Sept. 15, 1843, exonorated Sybil in some petty contention, not clearly specified in the records. It was part of the procedure at the Old Brook meeting house where many of this Gould family both from Embden and New Port- land worshipped.
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There were seven lots in the western tier of the Soule pur- chase from No. 130 on the north to No. 136 on the south, all in the seventh range. Deacon Joseph Walker established his domi- cile on Lot 136. Immediately north of him was Nathaniel Getchell on No. 135. The town in 1829 accepted the survey of a road 172 rods long and three rods wide in from the cross road for Nathaniel's son, Amaziah, but the next year voted to make it a bridle path. Apparently Nathaniel claimed Lot 134, which in 1824 he had quitclaimed together with 50 acres of his No. 135 to Amaziah and to his son-in-law Nathaniel W. Gould. The proprietor's claim to No. 134 seems to have been resisted, for on July 15, 1835, Widow Dolly Soule conveyed it and three properties north of it to Benjamin Pierce for $187.50. The three other farms were No. 133, the east half of No. 132 (the Fred Getchell farm of recent years) and No. 130 (the William McKenney place). Within a fortnight Benjamin Pierce, then a relatively large land owner on Gordon hill, sold Nos. 132, 133 and 134 to Deacon Joseph for $287.50. This made a profit to Pierce of farm No. 130 and $100. It was a big transaction and a handsome profit for that day. Deacon Joseph in June, 1829, paid Mrs. Soule $200 for No. 105, which was north of Joseph Barron. With this and his home farm and the three above mentioned, Deacon Joseph's holdings were quite 500 acres - a quarter of the entire Soule purchase. Years later his son, Calvin Walker occupied Lot 105, but another son, Samuel A. Walker had a house on one corner. John Mullen is the present owner.
North of Calvin Walker's place was the early homestead (Lot ! 104) of Timothy Williams from Woolwich. By the 1840's it had passed to Randall F. Durrell and his wife, Mary, daughter of Elias Cleveland who owned the Mill farm No. 103 next north. But Timothy Williams in the meantime had acquired the hill farm No. 109, where he built a brick house and planted one of the best orchards in all Embden. Timothy at one time also owned a mill on Hancock stream. He and his wife, Jane, reared a large family as follows : Hamden T. (1828), Sidney M. (1830), Setira (1831), Adaniram (1833), Diedama E. (1837), Sarah J.
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(1839), Thomas A. (1841), Thaddeus (1843), Mary M. (1845) and Francis Ann (1849).
The McKenneys, an old and industrious family from Wool- wich, had settlers in the Soule purchase. David G. McKenney (1818-1873) and his wife Sarah (1814-1905), a daughter of Capt. Joseph Knowlton, first of Freeman and then of West Embden, lived on Lot 111, south of the cross road and bisected by the pioneer road from the Nahum Eames place, above men- tioned. Just below David on Lot 110 lived his brother, Wise- man McKenney (1827-1900). Their sister Lucy (1821-1887) was Mrs. Asher Cleveland. There were other brothers - James, Jr., (1816), Abraham (1828), whose wife was Mary A. Bailey of Anson ; George W. McKenney who in 1869 married Rufina Albee a woman affectionately remembered ; John W., a twin brother of David; Benjamin C. (1818) who also resided on Lot 111 in 1869 ; and Jesse (1832). Abraham was an Embden tax-payer in 1850; George tilled the Asher Cleveland farm. All were children of James McKenney (1791-1848) and of Sarah Wright (1794- 1866). James was born at Anson, lived at Woolwich from the time of his marriage in 1816 to about 1830, when he brought his family, that then included all but two of his children, to Emb- den. James and his wife both died in that town. His father was also James McKenney who had come to Anson in the 1780's and in 1791 was resident on Lot 2 north of Seven Mile Brook. He sold this in 1795 to Joseph Walker from Woolwich. Samuel McKenney owned 100 acres east of James, while in 1792 Charles and William McKenney had right of preemption to 100 acres each.
The McKenneys were of Scotch origin. Several of the Emb- den descendants were good mechanics. David G. McKenney, a stone cutter and carpenter, came to Embden in 1824 and returned to Anson in 1867 when brother Benjamin took over his farm. Their children were Joseph K. (1843) who married Alvina Withee and resided at Madison ; William H. (1845-1913) ; Winfield S. (1847) who married Myra Washburn Oct. 2, 1870, and dwelt in Cherry Valley, Ill .; Hannah K. (1851) who was
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Mrs. Owen Hooper of Madison; and Elizabeth (1854-1882) Mrs. Sylvester Jackson of Embden.
William H. McKenney, a highly esteemed man, was the last of his family in the town. He enlisted Sept. 10, 1861, in Com- pany A, 28th Maine Regiment. His anecdotes of the military service were much quoted. The Methodist class at the Holbrook schoolhouse recognized him as leader. He was town treasurer in 1883 and '84. His farm was No. 130, just northwest of his father's place, and there he erected a stone house, still in a fine state of preservation. In 1864, after William had come home from the Army Caroline P. Howe (1844-1913) of Strong, his cousin and a granddaughter of Capt. Joseph Knowlton, was en- gaged by David McKenney to teach the summer term of school. In 1867 she and William were married. Walter C. McKenney their only child, himself a former teacher of the school where his mother taught, married Emma Mayo and lives in Anson near Seven Mile Brook on the farm (No. 2) where his great-great- grandfather James made the first clearing and built the first log cabin. Melvin W. Farmer, first selectman of Embden, is the pres- ent owner of the William McKenney place.
Another old-time family in this part of Embden was the Copps. Jonathan Copp, resident on Foss hill, was the head of this household. He was in Embden before 1830, which year he was a school agent. It is claimed that he returned to Wakefield, N. H., and is the same Jonathan who was born there in 1775, died there in 1858 and lies in Lovel's burying ground. His name disappeared from the Embden tax lists not long after 1840. Capt. David Copp, father of Jonathan of Wakefield, was a prom- inent resident there during the Revolution.
Amos Copp (1809-1871), a son of Jonathan, married at Gar- diner in 1824 Elizabeth Eldridge (1804-1882) and shortly there- after settled on Lot 119 in Embden. This was close to the west shore of Embden pond. His sister, Esther P. Copp, in 1832 mar- ried Joseph Lonnell of Madison. Amos and Elizabeth (Aunt Betsey) Copp were the parents of a large family that helped fill the schoolroom of the 1840's and on in the No. 10 district. There were sons George W .; Henry C. (1834-1916) ; Nathan W., who
ON THE ROAD TO LAKE EMBDEN. LOOKING THROUGH A CLUMP OF MAPLES (TOP) THAT FRONT THE RESIDENCE (BOTTOM) OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. STILLMAN A. WALKER (CENTER)
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married in 1869 Emma J. Stevens of Mt. Vernon; Calvin F. (1841-1862) a union soldier, who died in Louisiana; and Reuel. Abraham Walker and Amos Copp were neighbors by the Emb- den shore. Henry in 1855 married Ann Walker and George in 1863 married Martha Walker, both Abraham's daughters. Han- nah Copp, a daughter of Amos, married in 1848 Eben J. Walker, a brother of Abraham. Mary A. Copp, another daughter of Amos, was the wife of John Williamson (Wimp) Moulton. Not long after the marriages of Henry Copp, Williamson Moulton and Eben Walker, their three families were resident upon Lot 113 subdivided into as many tracts with houses and barns. "Wimp" Moulton's place was the central one, shaded by a great balm in gilead tree. All these buildings were abandoned and razed many years ago and Lot 113 was joined with Lot 112 to make the farm of the late Stillman A. Walker. The latter lot was purchased by Daniel Steward of Dolly Soule July 15, 1835, and soon sold again to Samuel Walker. He had a log cabin there and dug a well that still supplies good drinking water. Samuel after some years sold this to his nephew, Solomon, who substituted for the cabin a frame house that was moved across the ice on Embden pond from below Mullen cove. This house, now about a century old and somewhat remodeled, was imme- diately behind the Walker residence but for thirty years it has been at the foot of the hill by the lane out of the highway.
Upon the death of her husband "Aunt" Betsey Copp removed to a small house across the road from the Walker lane, just mentioned. "Aunt" Copp's house finally was turned into an apple cannery. Henry Copp in the course of some years trans- ferred his large family to Lot 111, the David McKenney place. After another period he moved to the farm below, which was the Wiseman McKenney place. It is now occupied by Walter Copp, Henry's youngest son. Henry's family was the last of his time in Embden, although most of his many children, also, es- tablished themselves elsewhere. His daughter Lettie is the widow of Fred Collins, a successful mechanical engineer of Providence. Her sister Ella was the mother of George Viles, manager of the Madison branch of the Augusta Trust Company.
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Mrs. Mabel Copp Hooper of Madison is one of the youngest daughter of Henry and Ann (Walker) Copp.
The Holbrooks, too, were out of this section of the Soule pur- chase. Alfred Holbrook and his wife, Louisa, having lived on the east part of Lot 131 from 1823 to 1831 bought the farm where the cross road turns northward and then eastward near the town house. This was south of Daniel Goodwin. Their six children - Lewis, Horace, Abel, John, William Harrison and Rosanna - married and lived close by. Rosanna was the wife of Daniel Goodwin and had two children : Joanna (Mrs. Frank Green) and Jacob, now of Solon. The blacksmith shop of Horace Holbrook was within a stone's throw of Goodwin's house; Lewis lived in the century-old frame house by the road up to Stillman Walk- er's. Four of the Holbrook boys were soldiers in the Civil War. John was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, where, in defiance of warnings, he raised his head above a fortification. Alfred Holbrook (1799-1871) when an old man, married (2) Susan Burns (1820-1894) the youngest daughter of pioneer Francis. They had a son Orin B. (1867-1928) of East New Portland. Orin Holbrook married Floretta E. Welch (1873-1920). Lee Welch Holbrook of Somerville, Mass., is their only child.
The Fords over on the hill by the town house were decidedly a part of this friendly, old-time neighborhood. Isaac, oldest of the family, originally spelled his name Foard. He was in Embden by 1825 on part of the Joseph Barron tract (Lot 106). His brother Ira Ford came to town about 1840. Three of Ira's children were Orrin P. (1837), Almeda (1841) and Ira, Jr., (1844). Ira Ford lived in the 1830's on the farm where the present town house stands but sold it to Daniel Goodwin. Isaac Ford's family included : Joshua Q. (1822). Barzilla (1824), Hannah (1820), Orson (1826), Sarah J. (1828), Sylvester (1832), Robert (1834) and Adeline G. (1838). Of all these Barzilla and his family remained permanently in Embden. Bar- zilla's farm was No. 79, south of Ira and bordering the Sand pond. Of his two daughters, Sarah in 1882 became Mrs. Men- dum Salley of Embden, afterward of Skowhegan and then of Old Orchard where she died childless in 1924. Ada Ford, his
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younger daughter, was Mrs. Charles Russell of North Anson. They resided twenty years at Dexter until his death in 1920. His widow also went to Old Orchard and died there childless.
The mother of these Ford daughters was Rachel Jane Dag- gett, daughter of Matthew and Dorothy (Cleveland) Daggett. She first married in 1848 Anson Denico, a storekeeper at Vas- salboro whither he and his brother, Benson, had come from Scot- land. After his death Mrs. Denico and her two children - Llewellyn and Ellen - returned to Embden where in 1857 she married Barzilla Ford. ""Lewel" Denico (1852-1899), lame in one leg, was a local character. He died on the Calvin Walker farm. Ellen Denico married Harrison Holbrook, son of Alfred, in 1865. They lived till her death ten years later on the left of the road in Black hill and afterward over on the Canada Trail. Will Holbrook, one of their two children, has been many years the RFD carrier out of North Anson on the route up through the Soule purchase and around into New Portland. Will's son, Alfred - named for his great-grandfather - grad- uated from the University of Maine in 1925 and took up gov- ernment work in Massachusetts. Dorothy Holbrook, daughter of Harrison and Ellen, became Mrs. George Manley Dudley and her daughter, Eva, is Mrs. Joseph L. Bachelder of Bingham.
Harrison Holbrook was long a familiar figure on the road from Embden mills to North Anson. He hauled thousands of loads of lumber to "the Village." He had two daughters by a second marriage. One of them is Mrs. Clifford Clark of North Anson.
William Quint, from North Berwick, was tilling an Embden farm south of Seven Mile Brook as early as 1813 and was one of Embden's selectmen in 1820-'21-'27. That was before the tri- angle of land there was set off in 1828 to the town of Anson. Nahum Quint, his brother, and Jeremiah Thompson, his broth- er-in-law, were William's near neighbors. William's first wife was Betsey Grant. When he came to Embden he brought with him his second wife Anna Hurd. They had a son William (1813- 1892) who remained as a boy at North Berwick. Then he joined his parents and lived with them in Anson (Embden till 1828).
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