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was an accomplished teacher and prepared a number of students for college. After leaving the profession of teaching he retained his in- terest in educational matters, and a number of times privately fitted young men for college or for admission to the bar. He was a mem- ber of the Maine Board of Education, 1848- 1850, in which position his experience and pro- fessional knowledge enabled him to do valu- able service. In later years, as a member of the Board of Bloomfield Academy, he was largely instrumental in bringing about the con- solidation of the Academy with the Skowhe- gan High School, a step which proved of last- ing benefit to the community. He kept up his interest also in higher education, and in forty- three years after graduation never missed at- tending his college commencement, excepting the one year he was in the South.
Desiring to enter into active business life, he began the study of the law in the office of Bronson and Woart at Augusta. He also at- tended lectures at Harvard Law School, but did not complete the course. Admitted to the bar of Somerset county in 1845, he opened a law office in Skowhegan, in company with his brother Alonzo, under the name of A. & S. Coburn. This partnership did not last long. Mr. Coburn then associated with himself Henry A. Wyman, and in company with him conducted a large practice under the firm name of Coburn & Wyman until the death of the junior partner in 1867. After this time Mr. Coburn gradually withdrew from active practice, the large business interests of his brothers A. & P. requiring much of his pro- fessional assistance, and his own private stud- ies engrossing more of his time. He acted as attorney for the Maine Central Railroad Com- pany during the years in which his brother Abner was president of the road.
Stephen Coburn was intensely interested in political affairs, having been a Whig in early life, and joining the Republican party at its organization. He did not, however, care for public position, and the only one that he held came to him unsought. In 1860 he was elected a Representative to the Thirty-sixth Congress to fill out the unexpired term of Israel Wash- burn, who was made governor of Maine. He was in Washington during the critical winter of 1860-61, and stood near Abraham Lincoln when he took his first oath of office. He was postmaster of Skowhegan 1868-1877. Amid the pressure of business Mr. Coburn found time for extensive reading and study, espe- cially in the fields of philosophy, logic and philology. He was an unwearied student, and
found his happiness among his books, and in his family. He was naturally diffident in tem- perament, and preferred retirement to pub- licity, and yet was always ready to do his duty as he conceived it, however unpleasant. He was a member and faithful supporter of the Baptist church, and always its trusted adviser. He was a strong temperance man and a pub- lic spirited citizen. He was warm hearted, generous of time and money to all who needed help, and a lover of peace. In all the rela- tions of life he bore the part of peacemaker, and exercised his fine tact, his trained judg- ment, and his large influence to restore har- mony or to prevent discord. As a lawyer he was noted for bringing about friendly settle- ments of cases whenever it was possible, and his advice was much sought by women, who felt that they could safely trust him. He died at Skowhegan, July 4, 1882.
His college classmate and lifelong friend, Rev. Joseph Ricker, wrote of him: "Stephen Coburn was one of those choice spirits that are met with only here and there in life's journey. He was honest in purpose, clear-eyed in judgment, firm in conviction, and frank in expression. What wonder then is it that he was loved and trusted as few men ever are? Without disparagement to others, I may say that his was the most unselfish life that has ever fallen under my notice. Charmingly un- conscious of his own worth, it was a pleasure to him rather than a task, to serve others."
Stephen Coburn married, in Skowhegan, June 29, 1853, Helen Sophia Miller, daughter of Rev. Charles and Susan Drew ( Thompson) Miller, who was born in Turner, Maine, March 25, 1832. º Children, born in Skowhe- gan : I. Louise Helen Coburn, born Septem- ber 1, 1856, graduated from Coburn Classical Institute 1873, and from Colby College 1877. 2. Charles Miller Coburn, born June 17, 1860, graduated from Skowhegan High School 1877, Colby College 1881 ; studied law in his father's office. He was a young man of sterling char- acter and of great promise, the last male rep- resentative in his generation of a family which had numbered nine brothers. He died at Skowhegan, July 4, 1882. 3. Susan Mary Co- burn, born October 19, 1863, died August 17, 1865. 4. Frances Elizabeth Coburn, born June 16, 1867, graduated Coburn Classical In- stitute 1887; married, July 16, 1889, Charles Hovey Pepper, son of Dr. George Dana Board- man and Annie (Grassie) Pepper. Mr. Pep- per was born in Waterville, Maine, August 27, 1864, graduated Coburn Classical Institute 1884, Colby College, 1889, and studied art in
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New York and Paris. He is an artist in water colors and oils, and has exhibited extensively both in Europe and in the United States. They lived in Paris, France, from 1893 to 1898, and now reside in Concord, Massachusetts. They have children : Stephen Coburn Pepper, born in Newark, New Jersey, April 29, 1891; and Eunice Gordon Pepper, born in Concord, Jan- uary 28, 1906. 5. Grace Mand Coburn, born September 10, 1871; graduated Skowhegan High School 1889, Colby College 1893, A. M. George Washington University 1900; married, November 18, 1896, George Otis Smith, a sketch of whom is given elsewhere. A sketch of the family of Mrs. Stephen Coburn follows.
Rev. Charles Miller was born in Auchen- bowie, near Stirling, Scotland, October I, 1794, and was the son of David and Ellen (Muir) Miller. He was educated at Stirling, and in 1819 sailed from Leith and came to Miramichi, New Brunswick. He was or- dained to the Baptist ministry in Sackville in 1820, and did pioneer missionary work in the Miramichi region for four years, which were followed by a three years' pastorate in St. John. Coming to Maine in 1826, he became the first pastor of the Baptist church in South Berwick. He had subsequent pastorates in Turner, Maine; Wenham, Massachusetts ; Boston, Cambridge ; Livermore, Maine ; Bloomfield, Farmington and Livermore Falls. In 1851 Skowhegan became his home for the remainder of his life, and after this time he was for many years a missionary preacher in the rural settlements of Somerset county. He died at Skowhegan, November 21, 1887. He was a devout and faithful minister, and filled with the missionary spirit. He married, Feb- ruary 4, 1828, Susan Drew Thompson, daugh- ter of Ira and Sophia (Drew) Thompson, of Livermore, and granddaughter of Lieutenant William Thompson, of Middleboro, Massachu- setts, who served under Washington during the siege of Boston. Her grandfather on her mother's side was Job Drew, of Kingston, Massachusetts, who was a minuteman in 1775. She was of Pilgrim stock, having Mayflower ancestry in four lines. She was born in Liv- ermore, September 25, 1805, and died in Skow- hegan, June 30, 1893. Children :
1. Abby Seaver Miller, born in South Ber- wick, February 21, 1829; married in Farming- ton, January 21, 1851, Benjamin White Nor-® ris, son of James and Mary (White) Norris. He was born at Monmouth, January 22, 1819, prepared for college at Monmouth Academy, graduated from Waterville (now Colby) Col- lege 1843, taught one term in Kent's Hill
Seminary, then went into business in Skowhe- gan. In 1849 he went to California, and re- mained a year, after which he studied law with David Kidder, of Skowhegan, and practised in company with him for a time. From 1852 to 1864 he was in the oilcloth manufacturing business in Skowhegan; 1860-1863 was land agent for the State of Maine; 1865 went South to Montgomery, Alabama, and served in the Freedman's Bureau under General O. O. Howard, with commission as major. He served as representative from Alabama to the fortieth congress 1867-69. He died at Mont- gomery, January 26, 1873. He was a genial man who had many friends, and was highly esteemed for honorable and Christian charac- ter. His widow resided in Skowhegan, where she died November 13, 1901. They had two daughters born in Skowhegan: Helen
Amelia, born November 1, 1851, married, June I, 1882, Edwin Forest Fairbrother, merchant, of Skowhegan, died Skowhegan, December I, 1888 ; and Mary Abby, born March 26, 1854.
2. Helen Sophia Miller, born March 25, 1832, married Stephen Coburn, above noticed.
3. Charles Andrew Miller, born in Wenham, Massachusetts, August 13, 1834; prepared for college at Farmington Academy, and at Bloomfield Academy, graduated Waterville (now Colby) College, 1856, studied law with his brother-in-law, Stephen Coburn; was ad- mitted to the bar 1858, and began the practice of the law in Rockland in 1859 in partnership with William S. Heath, in which he continued till 1863. He was assistant clerk in the Maine House of Representatives during the sessions of 1858 and 1859, and clerk in 1860-61-62-63. In 1863 he joined the army as major in the Second Maine Cavalry, serving till the end of the war in the Department of the Gulf. After the war he settled in Montgomery, Alabama, having charge of a plantation belonging to A. & P. Coburn, and taking active part in the poli- tics of the state. He was Secretary of State for Alabama in 1869 and 1870. Afterwards he became connected with the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad as treasurer and direc- tor, and resided part of the time in Chatta- nooga. He was chosen a delegate in 1876 to the National Republican Convention in Cincin- nati, but on account of ill health was repre- sented by a substitute. He died, unmarried, in his father's home in Skowhegan, May 7, 1877. He was a man of generous spirit and attrac- tive personality, who made many friends, by whom he was loved and respected.
4. Elizabeth Dodge Miller, born in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 19, 1836.
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She was educated at Bloomfield Academy, was preceptress of Bloomfield Academy four years, 1860-1864 ; was a member of the Skowhegan school committee 1882-1888; and was active in church and benevolent work. She died at Skowhegan, March 18, 1890.
5. Ann Eliza Miller, born Livermore, March 7, 1840, died there March 21, 1842.
6. Caleb David Miller, born in Livermore, May 28, 1843 ; married, March 14, 1871, Ara- zina R. (Pratt) Steward, born May 19, 1842, at Newport, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Burrill) Pratt. He was postmaster of Skow- hegan, 1877-1888, since when he has been en- gaged in business and agricultural pursuits. He is a prominent member of the Grange, and was president of the Somerset Agricultural Society 1906-1910. He resides in the home- stead in Skowhegan.
KINSMAN The Kinsmans are a very an- cient family in England, and the particular branch here un- der consideration traces its ancestry to one
(I) John Kynesman, 1337, of Northampton- shire, who married a daughter of Wetherall, of Lincolnshire, and had a son :
(II) Richard Kynesman, 1378, who mar- ried Joane, daughter of Sir John Dalderby, and had a son :
(III) Thomas Kinnesman, who by wife Cedon had :
(IV) Simon Kynesman (armiger entitled to coat armor. The arms of the family are a shield-per pale azure and gules, three saltires argent. Crest, a buck proper, lodged in fern vert; see description in Kinsman book), of Loddington, Northamptonshire, his son and heir ; member of parliament, 1420, in which year he obtained a license from the bishop to celebrate mass in his own mansion ; was sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1422 ; married Margaret, daughter of Lord Zouch, of Harringworth, Northamptonshire, and had a son :
(V) John Kingesman, of South Newton, Wiltshire, died 1522; married Johanna, and had a son :
(VI) Robert Kingesman, of Overton, Wilt- shire, who died 1592; married Agnes, and had sons.
(VII) Robert Kingsman, second son, of Overton, Wiltshire, who died before July 26, 1647; married and had sons Richard, Robert, Philip and Thomas, and four daughters.
(I) Robert Kingsman (or Kinsman), im- migrant, son of Robert Kingsman, of Over- ton, Wiltshire, England, was one of the pas- sengers in the "Mary and John," from
Southampton, England, for Boston, New Eng- land, in March, 1634, and arrived at port in May of the same year. He was of Ipswich in 1635, had a grant of land in 1637, and lived in that plantation until his death, January 28, 1664. The name of his wife does not appear, but he had six children, whose names are known: I. Robert, born 1629. 2. Mary, mar- ried (first) Daniel Rindge; (second) Ursuel Wardwell. 3. Sarah, married Samuel Young- love. 4. Hannah, married William Danford, and died in 1678. 5. Martha, married Jacob Foster. 6. Tabitha, unmarried in 1674.
(II) Quartermaster Robert (2), son of Robert (I), the immigrant, was born in Eng- land, in 1629, and died in Ipswich, Massachu- setts, February 19, 1712. He was admitted to full church communion in Ipswich, February 22, 1673 ; was made freeman March II, 1673- 4 ; selectman, 1675 ; tithingman, 1677; took the oath of allegiance, 1678; was made quarter- master January 1, 1684. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and took part in the Nar- ragansett expedition, receiving three pounds for his services in that campaign. With sev- eral other of the leading men of Ipswich he opposed the oppressive measures sought to be enforced by Governor Andros, and with them was made to smart under the punishment in- flicted by the magistrates under Andros' in- fluence. The penalty visited on him was that he should not bear office, and "fined twenty pounds money, pay cost, five hundred pound bond for the good behavior one year." Al- though condemned "not to bear office," he was confirmed as quartermaster in Captain Thomas Wade's company in 1691, was elected deputy to the general court in 1692, and had a seat appointed to him "at the table" in the meeting house in 1700. He married Mary Boreman, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Boreman, of Ipswich. Thomas Boreman was deputy to the general court in 1636. Children of Robert and Mary (Boreman) Kinsman: 1. Mary, born December 21, 1657. 2. Sarah, March 19, 1659. 3. Thomas, April 15, 1662. 4. Joanna, April 25. 1665. 5. Margaret, July 24, 1668. 6. Eunice, January 24, 1670. 7. Joseph, Decem- ber 20, 1673. 8. Robert, May 21, 1677. 9. Pelatiah, November 10, 1680.
(III) Thomas, son of Quartermaster Rob- ert and Mary (Boreman) Kinsman, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, April 15, 1662, and died there July 15, 1696. He took the oath of allegiance in 1678, and at his death left an estate inventoried at one hundred and forty- two pounds fourteen shillings. He married, in Ipswich, July 12, 1677, Elizabeth, daughter of
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Deacon Jolin Burnham, of Ipswich. She sur- vived him and married (second) July 27, 1700, Isaac Rindge, of Ipswich. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Burnham) Kinsman, all born in Ipswich: 1. Stephen, about 1688. 2. Elizabeth, about 1690. 3. Thomas, April 3, 1693. 4. Mary, October 14, 1694.
(IV) Sergeant Stephen, son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Burnham) Kinsman, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, about 1688, and was a weaver. In 1714 he bought a house and land of his brother Thomas Mariner, which had been given to him by his grandfather Robert, and a part of which his father, Thomas, bought of the town of Ipswich, and of which he was in possession at the time of his death. In the records Stephen is called sergeant, although the character of his mili- tary service does not appear. He died in Ips- wich, December 8, 1756. He married (first) November 24, 1711, Lucy Kimball, born in Ipswich, September 9, 1693, died February 22, 1715-16, daughter of Caleb and Lucy ( Ed- wards) Kimball; married (second) Novem- ber 19, 1716, Lydia Kimball, born September 14, 1694, probably in Ipswich, daughter of Richard and Lydia ( Wells) Kimball. Stephen Kinsman had two children by his first and four by his second wife: I. Stephen, born March 15, 1713, died young. 2. Thomas, Feb- ruary 13, 1715. 3. Stephen, March 30, 1718. 4. Samuel, baptized October 23, 1720. 5. Jeremiah, baptized May 3, 1725. 6. Lydia, baptized August 10, 1729.
(V) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (I) and Lydia (Kimball) Kinsman, was born in Ips- wich, Massachusetts, March 30, 1718, and was still living there as late as October, 1767. He married, April 10, 1739, Elizabeth Russell; children: 1. Stephen, born March 17, 1739- 40. 2. Nathan, baptized October 4, 1741. 3. Aaron, baptized August 21, 1743. 4. Isaac, baptized December 15, 1745. 5. Elizabeth, bap- tized April 10, 1748. 6. Lydia, baptized June 24, 1750. 7. Ebenezer, baptized May 24, 1752, died young. 8. Eunice, December 24, 1754. 9. Ebenezer, baptized February 17, 1758. IO. Ephraim, baptized January II, 176I. II. Sarah, baptized January 16, 1763. 12. Abi- gail, baptized January 16, 1763.
(VI) Nathan, son of Stephen (2) and Eliz- abeth (Russell) Kinsman, was born in Ips- wich, Massachusetts, and was baptized there October 4, 1741. He removed to Concord, New Hampshire, and was a hatter by trade, a farmer by principal occupation, and also practiced medicine among the families of the town. His home was at the base of Mount
Kinsman, which was so named in allusion to. him. He is known to have been a soldier of the French and Indian war in 1756, was made prisoner, and is believed to have been the Na- than Kinsman who served in the colonial army at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, from November 2, 1759, to Jannary 7, 1760. He was a private in Captain Daniel Fletcher's company, Colonel Frye's regiment. He died February 28, 1822. He married (first) Mercy Wheeler; (second) September 6, 1772, in Littleton, New Hamp- shire, Elizabeth Shattuck, died June 15, 1798, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth ( Robbins) Shattuck ; married (third) widow Chapin. He had eight children : I. Nathan, born April 22, 1762, died young. 2. Mercy, April 10, 1769, died young. 3. Stephen, August 14, 1773. 4. Peter, August 3, 1775, died young. 5. Na- than, November 14, 1777. 6. Peter, Novem- ber 23, 1779. 7. Martha, October 9, 1781. 8. Timothy, August 17, 1783.
(VII) Nathan (2), son of Nathan (I) and Elizabeth (Shattuck) Kinsman, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, November 14, 1777, and died in Portland, Maine, February 26, 1829. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1799, studied law under the instruction of Chief Justice Parker, and was admitted to the Cumberland county bar in 1803. He at once began his professional career in Portland, and from that time until his death he was recog- nized as one of the foremost lawyers of the state. His practice was very extensive, and especially so in 1807 and afterward, for he was the leading counsel in the so-called em- bargo cases, and was more employed in them than all the other lawyers in the state. In 1819 he represented the city of Portland in the lower house of the state legislature. Mr. Kinsman married, in Portland, September 26,- 1802, Eliza Dafforne, born Boston, February 14, 1781, died Portland, June 28, 1841, daugh- ter of John and Betsey (Ingersoll) Dafforne .. Of nine children born of this marriage only four grew to maturity: I. John Dafforne, born August 13, 1805. 2. Elizabeth Dafforne, January_ 28, 1807; died unmarried June 8, 1831. 3. Martha, May 18, 1809; died un- married, June 28, 1841. 4. Elinor, June 12, 1812; died March 15, 1879.
(VIII) John Dafforne, son of Nathan and Eliza (Dafforne) Kinsman, was born in Port- land, Maine, October 13, 1805, and died in Belfast, Maine, May 27, 1850. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825, and was a dis- tinguished and brilliant scholar and orator, a lawyer of remarkable ability, and a thorough gentleman. He was United States marshal
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for the district of Maine under the administra- tion of the elder President Harrison, and after- ward removed to Wisconsin and practiced his profession in that state. He was commonly called colonel, which perhaps arose from the fact that he served in command of a company of militia from Portland, possibly the Port- land Light Infantry, in what was known as the "Aroostook war." The state militia was called out by the governor is consequence of the boundary disputes between Maine and Canada and marched for some distance beyond Augusta, but no enemy was ever encountered and report has it that all concerned had a very merry time. However, the general govern- ment had plenty of land in those days, and a warrant for one hundred and sixty acres was given to his widow for said service. He mar- ried, March 9, 1830, Angela Cutter, born Portland, Maine, February 16, 1803, daughter of Levi and Lucretia ( Mitchell) Cutter (see Cutter). Children : 1. John Dafforne, born December 4, 1830, died March 16, 1842. 2. Oliver Dorrance, born February 18, 1835. The third and fourth children, both sons, died in extreme infancy.
on the scaffold. All of this was in fact done, but through Masonic intervention the victim of southern resentment was rescued from his captors and put safely aboard the first north- bound steamer. He reached Portland in Jan- uary, 1861, remained there only a short time and then went to Iowa, where formerly he had business relations. There in September of the same year he enlisted as private in Company K, Eleventh Iowa Infantry, and was mus- tered into the service. From the outset he made rapid advances in rank, from private to sergeant, to sergeant-major, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and adjutant of the regiment, captain and assistant adjutant general of vol- unteers, and was assigned to the Third Bri- gade ("Crocker's Iowa Brigade"), Fourth Di- vision, Seventeenth Army Corps, of which bri- gade he had for some time been acting assist- ant adjutant general. Later he was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel of volunteers.
During his military career Colonel Kinsman took part in the battles of Shiloh, Medon Sta- tion, Iuka, Corinth (October, 1862), Big Black River, Vicksburg, Mechanicsville, Hills- boro, Big Shanty, Resaca, Kenesaw Moun- tain, Chattahoochee River, Nickajack Creek, Atlanta, Flint River, Snake Creek Gap, Love- joy's Station, Jonesboro, Savannah, Poco- taligo, River's Bridge, Orangeburg, Benton- ville and Raleigh, including Sherman's March to the Sea and through the Carolinas. At the general muster out he was the assistant ad- jutant general of the Seventeenth Corps. He also took part in the Grand Review in Wash- ington. At the battle of Shiloh he was wounded and on the hospital and invalid list for two months, but otherwise he never was for a day absent from his post of duty during the almost four years of his army service. After the war and after a period of about thirty days spent at his old home he was as- signed to duty in the bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands in South Caro- lina, where he served as assistant adjutant general, first to Brevet Major General Rufus Saxton, second to Brevet Major General Rob- ert K. Scott, and in the early part of 1866 was transferred to that bureau in Alabama as as- sistant adjutant general to Brevet Major Gen- eral Wager Swayne. He was finally mus- tered out of service October 1, 1866, although he afterward remained as a civilian with the same duties as before until January, 1868, then resigned and went back to Iowa. In 1867 and ciated with the work of reconstruction in Ala- bama. On the final muster out he was tempted
(IX) Oliver Dorrance, son of John Daf- forne and Angela (Cutter) Kinsman; was born in Portland, Maine, February 18, 1835. He received his early education in the public grammar and high schools of his native city, in the academy at Southport, now Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the public schools of Boston, Massachusetts, and North Yarmouth ( Maine) Academy, a boarding school. He was about fifteen years old when his father died, and after that he was compelled to make his own way in life. He first found employment in dry goods stores in Portland, but soon after- ward took up practical surveying and civil en- gineering, at first in a minor capacity, but with a determination to master the profession, and it was not long before he was in charge of ex- tensive engineering operations in Maine, the Canadas, Massachusetts, Iowa and Florida. About the beginning of the civil war he was in charge of the construction work of the western division of the Florida railroad be- tween Fernandina and Cedar Keys, having been in that region since 1858. Being a north- ern man and having nothing in common with the sympathies of the southern people, it was a very easy matter for a hot-headed Florida planter to create public indignation against Mr. Kinsman, basing accusations on entirely false charges, but sufficient for the purpose of ac- . for some time afterward he was closely asso- complishing his arrest by an alleged vigilance committee and an ultimate sentence of death
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