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resigned his seat in the United States senate, and March 4, 1861, he took his seat as presi- dent of the United States senate and ably pre- sided over that body during the first four years of the eventful civil war. The wisdom of his party, in convention assembled in 1864, decided to give the vice-presidential nomina- tion to the south and President Lincoln on his second inauguration offered to Senator Ham- lin the portfolio of the United States treasury, which cabinet position he declined, and when Lincoln was assassinated, President Johnson made Senator Hamlin collector of the port of Boston, but he resigned the lucrative office in 1866, as he was not in political accord with the president. The legislature of the state of Maine elected him to the United States senate in 1869 for the fourth time, and in 1875 for the fifth time. Having served in the United States senate for twenty-five years and as chairman of the committees on commerce, post- offices and post roads and of foreign affairs, he declined re-election to the senate in 1881, and President Garfield gave it to him to select his choice of three important missions, Ger- many, Italy and Spain, and Senator Hamlin went to Spain, but found it advisable to resign the mission in 1883. He was a founder of education, served as regent of the Smithsonian Institute, ex-officer 1861-65 and by appoint- ment 1870-82, and he was for a time dean of the board of regents. He was a trustee of Colby University, 1857-91, and that institu- tion conferred on him the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1859.
He married (first) December 10, 1833, Sarah Jane, daughter of Hon. Stephen and Sally (Stowell) Emery, of Hallowell, Maine. She died in Hampden, Maine, April 17, 1855, and on September 25, 1856, he married his deceased wife's half-sister, Ellen Vesta, daugh- ter of Hon. Stephen and Jeannette (Loring) Emory. He died at a public entertainment at the Tarratine Club rooms, Bangor, Maine, July 4, 1891, the third citizen of the United States who had held the office of vice-president of the United States to die on the nation's birthday. The children of Hannibal and Sarah Jane (Emery ) Hamlin were: I. George Emery, born September 30, 1835, died July 14, 1844. 2. Charles, September 13, 1837. 3. Cyrus, April 26, 1839. 4. Sarah Jane, Jan- uary 7, 1842. 5. George Emery, February 24, 1848, died September 6, 1849. By his sec- ond wife, Ellen Vesta (Emery) Hamlin, he had: 6. Hannibal Emery (q. v.), August 22, 1858. 7. Frank, September 26, 1862, men- tioned below.
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(VIII) Charles, second son of Hannibal and Sarah Jane (Emery) Hamlin, was born in Hampden, Maine, September 13, 1837, grad- uated at Bowdoin College, A. B., 1857, A. M., 1860. Major of Eighteenth Maine Volunteers, 1862, brevet brigadier-general, United States Volunteers, 1864, for his bravery on the bat- tlefield of Gettysburg. He was acting adju- tant general of the second division, third corps, Army of the Potomac, and saw service at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, Kelly's Ford, November 7, 1863, Locust Grove, November 29, 1863, Mine Run, May 8, 1864, and the battles of the Wilderness following. He re- signed his commission in the United States Volunteer Army, September 13, 1865, prac- ticed law in Bangor, Maine, was city solicitor, register in bankruptcy, United States commis- sioner and reporter of the decisions of the su- preme court of Maine. He was representative in the state legislature, 1883-85, and speaker of the house, 1885. He served as chairman of the executive committee of the Gettysburg commission from Maine, commander of the Maine Commanding Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, president of the Eastern Maine General Hospital and author of "Insolvent Laws of Maine" and co- editor of "Maine at Gettysburg." He mar- ried, November 28, 1860, Sarah Purington, daughter of Dixey W. and Sarah ( Purington) Thompson, of Topsham, Maine.
(VIII) Cyrus, third son of Hannibal and Sarah Jane (Emery) Hamlin, was born in Hampden, Maine, April 26, 1839. Attended Hampden Academy and Colby University, but left college to study law; practiced in York county courts, and in 1862 was made aide-de- camp on the staff of General John C. Fre- mont, and for bravery at Cross Keyes, Vir- ginia, received the commendation of his com- mander. He was colonel of the Eighteenth United States Colored Volunteers and com- manded a brigade in the Department of the Gulf. He received promotion to brigadier- general of volunteers, December 3, 1864, com- manded the district of Port Hudson, 1864-65, and was brevetted major-general of volunteer, March 13, 1865. He helped to reconstruct the government of the state of Louisiana, and was a practicing attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he died August 28, 1867. General Cyrus Hamlin married, October 12, 1862, Sarah, daughter of True and Sarah Sanborn, of Prospect, Maine. She died in Port Hudson, Louisiana, July 14, 1863, leaving no issue.
(VIII) Hannibal Emery, son of Hannibal
and Ellen V. (Emery) Hamlin, was born in Hampden, Penobscot county, Maine, August 22, 1858. He was a pupil in the public schools of Bangor, Maine, and was fitted for college at Waterville Classical Institute, now the Co- burn Classical Institute, and he was graduated at Colby University, A. B., 1879, and at the Boston University, LL. B., 1882. He pursued a course in law in the Columbia University Law School, Washington, D. C., 1879-80. He was admitted to the bar of Waldo county, Maine, in 1883, and began the practice of law in Ellsworth, Maine, in January, 1883, as the junior member of the law firm of Hale, Emery and Hamlin. The elevation of Mr. Emery to a justiceship of the Maine supreme judicial court, in the fall of 1883, changed the name of the firm to Hale & Hamlin, and they added to their law office in Ellsworth one at Bar Harbor. The firm of which Hon. Eugene Hale, United States senator from Maine, is senior partner was augmented in 1900 by Henry M. Hall becoming junior partner. From inheritance and choice, Mr. Hamlin is a stalwart Republican. He served his native state as a representative in the state legislature, 1893-95, and in 1895 represented the house as chairman of the judiciary committee. He was made a state senator in 1899 and was presi- dent of the Maine senate in 1901. He was judge advocate-general on the staff of Govern- or Llewellyn Powers, 1899-1901, and on the staff of Governor John Fremont Hill, 1901- 04. He was one of the three Maine commis- sioners on uniformity of legislation, appointed in 1895, and the commission is still in force. In 1904 he was appointed one of the three Maine delegates to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis, and in 1906 was appointed one of the three Maine dele- gates to the Divorce Congress that met in Washington and Philadelphia. In January, 1905, he was elected attorney-general for the state of Maine for the year 1905-06, and January, 1907, was re-elected for the years 1907-08. Mr. Hamlin has not married.
(VIII) Frank, son of Hannibal and Ellen V. (Emery) Hamlin, was born in Bangor, Maine, September 26, 1862. He attended the public schools of Bangor and was prepared for college at the Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. He matriculated at Har- vard in 1880 and was graduated A. B., 1884. Was in the employ of the Chicago and North- western railroad at Chicago for one year. He then took up the study of law and entered the School of Law of Boston University, where he graduated LL. B. 1888. He settled in Chi-
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cago, Illinois, in the practice of law, having been admitted to the Illinois bar in 1888. He first was a clerk in the offices of Flower, Remy & Holstein, 1888-90, and in 1890 formed a partnership with John F. Holland, as Hamlin & Holland. 1892 the firm, by the addition of a partner, in the person of William C. Boyden, became Hamlin, Holland & Boyden. In 1898 a friendly reorganization of his firm was ef- fected and a partnership with Byron Boyden, who had been associated with him in the office of the corporation counsel of the city of Chi- cago, was then formed, under the firm name of Hamlin & Boyden, which is still in existence, with law offices at 107 Dearborn street. While practicing in all the courts of Cook county, the state of Illinois, and the United States district, circuit and supreme courts, he became some- what of a specialist in the direction of munici- pal corporation law. He served as assistant corporation counsel for the city of Chicago, 1895-97, as attorney for the Lincoln Park com- mission 1901-07, and as attorney for the civil service commission of Chicago during a part of the year 1907. He is also attorney for the board of education of the city of Chicago. His club affiliation in Chicago includes the University, Chicago, Marquette, Harvard and other clubs. He served as president of the Harvard Club, 1900-0I. His religious affiliation is with the Unitarian denomination. He was still a bach- elor in 1908 and as he grew older he became more like his father in physical features, which fact was often spoken of by elderly men who had been intimate with his father in Washing- ton during the civil war, when in the senate or presiding over that body.
(VI) Major Hannibal, eleventh child of Major Eleazer and Lydia (Bonney) Hamlin (twin of Cyrus), was born July 21, 1769, in Pembroke, and was a boy of seven years when his parents moved to Harvard, where he be- came a teacher. He went to Waterford, Maine, about 1796, settled on lot 8, range 4, and was active in the incorporation of the town; was both moderator and selectman 1804-6, representative 1809-10, and also served as high sheriff of Oxford county. His mili- tary title came from service in the militia. He was made a Mason November 12, 1804, in Oriental Lodge, No. 13, A. F. and A. M., Bridgton, and was active in promoting culture in the backwoods. The Bible was read daily in his home, and the Sabbath strictly observed. Before his marriage he had built a house and barn, but he did not live many years to enjoy his home. He died September 8, 1811, and
was laid away in the ancient burying ground at Waterford, where his family rests. He mar- ried, January 16, 1800, Susannah, daughter of Colonel Francis Faulkner, of Acton, Massa- chusetts, born February 21, 1772. She is spoken of as "a beautiful and charming woman." Children : Susan, Emerson Faulk- ner (died young), Rebecca Faulkner, Win- throp, Emerson Faulkner, Hannibal and Cy- rus.
(VII) Hannibal, fourth son of Hannibal and Susannah ( Faulkner) Hamlin, was born January 30, 1809, at Waterford and was less than three years old at the time of his father's death. He resided with his mother on the homestead and was early made acquainted with the labors necessary on a farm. As soon as he was old enough, he managed the farm. In 1840 he removed to Union, Maine, where he was a merchant for two years. Thencefor- ward he resided in the vicinity of Boston until 1861, when he went to Washington to take a position in the United States Treasury De- partment. He died at Washington, Novem- ber 13, 1862. He was a man of exemplary Christian character, with literary tastes and modest nature. Some of his literary produc- tions were published in Boston papers and at. the dedication of the Congregational Church at Temple, Maine, in 1840, two hymns com- posed by him were sung. He was married, February 5, 1835, at Temple, to Abigail, daughter of Benjamin and Phoebe ( Abbot) Abbott. She was born June 20, 1815, at Tem- ple.
(VII) Abby Frances, daughter of Hanni- bal and Abigail (Abbott) Hamlin, was born October 22, 1837, in Waterford, and was mar- ried October 14, 1857, to Reverend Doctor Lyman Abbott (see Abbott VII).
(For preceding generations see James Hamlin I.) (III) Deacon Ebenezer, fourth
HAMLIN son of James (2) and Mary (Dunham) Hamlin, was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, July 29, 1674. He was an active man in community affairs, and occupied the old farm with his father at Coggin Pond. He removed to Rochester, Massachusetts, now Wareham, and was one of the original members of the church there and was appointed deacon in 1705. In 1742 he became one of the early settlers in Sharon, Connecticut, living where George Skinner now resides. He married Sarah Lewis, of Barn- stable, April 4, 1698. Children: Ebenezer, Mercy, Hopestill, Cornelius, Thomas, Isaac
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and Lewis. He married (second) Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Arnold, of Rochester, Mas- sachusetts.
(IV) Lewis, sixth son of Deacon Ebenezer and Sarah (Lewis) Hamlin, was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, January 31, 1718. He removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, about 1740. He married Experience, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Hinckley) Jenkins, of Barnstable. Children : Sarah, Nathaniel, Lew- is, Sarah, Mary, Philemon, Mercy and Perez. On the night of the great earthquake in 1755, he arose clad only in his night garments, and as a result thereof contracted a severe cold and died in December, 1755. His widow mar- ried a Mr. Holbrook; she died in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, November 24, 1794.
(V) Nathaniel, eldest son of Lewis and Ex- perience (Jenkins) Hamlin, was born in Le- banon, Connecticut, November 20, 1741. In 1759 he assisted in building boats in Albany, New York, and on Lakes George and Cham- plain for General Amherst's expedition. From May, 1760, to 1761 he served as a private in Captain Bassett's company of Chillmark, Mas- sachusetts, and in Colonel Nathaniel Wing's regiment, seeing hard service at Nova Scotia. He was one of the garrison who, under the direction of a company of sappers and miners sent out from England, blew up the fortifica- tions of Louisburg. Mr. Hamlin removed to Wellfleet, then to Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, in 1763, and to Oxford, same state, 1778. While there he officiated as tax collector. In 1782 he removed to Hallowell, Maine, where he worked as a housewright, and in 1795 he made that town his permanent abode. At Au- gusta, Maine, he labored as a joiner and made wooden clocks, spinning wheels and sleighs. The lot on which the present Kennebec granite courthouse stands was the site of his home. Through his long life he was a man much looked up to for counsel and advice in public matters, and his great skill as a mechanic made him much sought after in that line. He married, December 5, 1762, Sarah Bacon. Children : Theophilus, Mary, Olive, Louis, Sarah, Perez, Nathaniel and Lot. Mr. Ham- lin died in 1834, and his wife died at Sidney, Maine, on Independence day, 1830.
(VI) Perez, third son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Bacon) Hamlin, was born in Shrews- bury, Massachusetts, October 1, 1777. Like his father he was a housesmith. He came to Augusta, Maine, in 1794, subsequently taking up his residence in Sidney, Kennebec county, Maine. He married (first) Anna, daughter of John and Betsey ( Bean) Prescott, of Read-
field, Maine, who was originally from Epping, New Hampshire. Children : Charles, William, Olive, Reuel and Anna. He married (second ) Betsey Crommett, of Sidney. Child, Eliza- beth. He married (third) Sarah Kendall. Children : Fanny, Sarah W., Almira and Mary Ann. Perez Hamlin died in Augusta, Sep- tember 7, 1860.
(VII) William, second son of Perez and Anna (Prescott) Hamlin, was born in Au- gusta, Maine, December 8, 1801. He lived in Sidney, where he followed the occupation of his forefathers, housesmith, and was also a farmer. He removed to Wisconsin subsequent to his marriage and the birth of his children. He married Paulina Bacon. Children: Wel- lington Bacon, Albion H. P., Caroline Ann, William Augustus, Melvin Orlando, Mary Elizabeth, Joseph Perez, Mary Paulina, George Henry, Solomon Alfred, Henry Harrison, John Carter and Prince Edward.
(VIII) Wellington Bacon, eldest son of William and. Paulina (Bacon) Hamlin. was born in Sidney, Maine, September 1, 1824, and his death occurred there May 2, 1885. Like his father he was a carpenter, was a Universalist in religion and a Republican in politics. He married Philena P. Robinson. Children : Delwin A., Almeda C., George H., Willie, Fred O., Mary E. and Jennie.
(IX) George H., second son of Wellington Bacon and Philena P. (Robinson) Hamlin, was born in Sidney, Maine, November 18, 1850. He fitted for college at the Waterville Classical Institute, and graduated from Maine State College (now University of Maine) in 1873, with which institution he was connected as instructor and professor of civil engineer- ing until 1898, also serving as treasurer of the university for several years. He is general manager of the Marine Railway & Lumber Company of Brewer, Maine, owns and oper- ates a lumber mill at Winn, Maine, and has extensive real estate interests. He is a Free and Accepted Mason. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Bos- ton Society of Civil Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Arts of Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He has been in the active practice of his profession until within the last few years, when his vari- ous business enterprises have taken the greater part of his time. Professor Hamlin married Annie M., daughter of Gideon Mayo, of Orono, Maine. Children: 1. Henry Mayo, born November 28, 1881, died January 28,
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1886. 2. Laura, September 7, 1883, died Feb- ruary 13, 1886. 3. Charles M., March 5, 1885, a graduate of Brown University, and a lumber salesman. 4. George Harold, Septem- ber 29, 1888, now in Phillips Andover Acad- emy.
Of the several distinct families of COBB New England origin bearing this surname, none is larger in point of numbers or more productive of distinguished men than that which claims as its progenitor Elder Henry Cobb, of Barnstable, Massachu- setts. He is believed to have come from the county of Kent, in England; and it has been claimed by one genealogist, apparently with- out documentary evidence, that he was con- nected with the landed family of the same sur- name which then had its seat at Cobbe Court in that county. There does seem reason, how- ever, to assert that he became a Separatist in early youth, and was a member of the much persecuted congregation to which Rev. John Lothrop ministered in London before crossing the Atlantic.
(I) Henry Cobb was living at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1632, at Scituate in 1633, and settled finally in Barnstable in 1639, where he died in 1679. In 1634 he and his wife were dismissed from the Plymouth church, and became, with others, original members of the church at Scituate. Here he was chosen a deacon in 1635, and the town historian re- cords that "he was a useful and valuable man." At Barnstable, whither he removed with his pastor, Rev. John Lothrop, he was senior deacon or ruling elder for forty-four years. He built two houses on his home lot of seven acres, the first apparently for temporary occu- pancy, the second of stone, as a place of refuge from the Indians, should they prove hostile. His "great lot" of sixty acres was especially adapted for grazing, and was sim- ply sufficient for the "one cowe and two goates to him in hand payd by Manasseth Kempton" in partial return for his lands at Scituate. He also had two lots in the "common field" oc- cupied for planting lands. He was a town officer, a member of its most important com- mittees and a deputy to the colony court in 1645-47-52-59-60-61. He married (first) Pa- tience Hurst, who died in May, 1648; and (second) Sarah, daughter of Samuel Hinck- ley, whose deatti occurred shortly after his own. He had by the first marriage: John, James, Mary, Hannah, Patience, Gershom and Eliezer ; by the second: Samuel, Jonathan.
Sarah, Henry, Mehitable, Experience besides two that died in infancy.
(II) Jonathan, son of Elder Henry and Sarah ( Hinckley) Cobb, was born April 10, 1660, at Barnstable, Massachusetts. He mar- ried, March 1, 1682-83, Hope, widow of John Huckings, and daughter of Elder John Chip- man. In 1703 he removed to Middleborough, Massachusetts, and thence to Falmouth Neck, now Portland, Maine. His children were Sam- uel, Jonathan, Ebenezer, Joseph, Lydia and Gershom.
(III) Samuel, son of Jonathan and Hope (Chipman) Cobb, was born April 6, 1686, at Barnstable, Massachusetts. He married Abi- gail Stuart, at Middleborough, Massachusetts, and removed to Maine in 1717, and built the second house at Purpooduck, opposite Fal- mouth Neck. The following year, however, he removed and made his home on what is now Congress street, near the head of India street. He was a ship carpenter, and was for many years an active and influential man in the af- fairs of the town, having sustained the offices of clerk, treasurer and selectman. He died in 1766. His children were: Chipman, Ebenezer, Samuel, Peter, Hope and Hannah.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Abigail (Stuart) Cobb, was born about 1720, and is referred to in Smith's Journal as Cap- tain Cobb, evidently to distinguish him from his father, who was generally known as Deacon Cobb. Like him he was largely en- gaged in shipbuilding both at Portland and at what is now Falmouth. He and his wife, whose maiden name is believed to be Ingersoll, had two children : Samuel and William.
(V) Samuel (3), son of Captain Samuel (2) Cobb, is the father of the Edward, Samuel and Francis Cobb who in February, 1806, con- veyed to Jonathan Moody "part of our honored Grandfather, Samuel Cobb, late of Falmouth, home estate except one-half of the ship-yard given to our uncle William Cobb." They were joiners or housewrights, and united in other deeds of real estate in Portland.
(VI) Francis Cobb, believed to be the Fran- cis mentioned above (the unfortunate destruc- tion of the probate records of Cumberland county prevents a more definite assertion), married Jane, daughter of Captain Ambrose and Fanny ( Campbell) Snow, of Thomaston. He was a ship joiner, and one of the first settlers at Cherryfield, Maine. He himself died at Boston, in 1817. Among his children were Mary and Francis.
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Jane (Snow ) Cobb, was born February 23, 1818, at Cherryfield, Maine. His father died a few weeks previous, leaving the family in narrow circumstances. The mother succeeded, however, in bringing up the children with the ordinary comforts and advantages of the time and place. After obtaining a common school education the youngest son was for two years in the family and store of Mr. Hawley, a mer- chant at Cherryfield, and then for a year with Mr. Morse, of Machias. The latter's kindness he never forgot, and would often recall the suit of broadcloth and the fur hat which he received from him, despite his youth. In Au- gust, 1834, he became a clerk in the store of his uncle, Thomas A. Snow, at Thomaston, Maine, where he remained nearly four years. At this period Rockland was a small village known as East Thomaston. Here, a youth of only twenty, Mr. Cobb began business for himself in March, 1838, in a small store on the corner of Maine and Limerick streets. He soon sold out, and, entering into copartner- ship with I. K. Kimball, conducted for five years a general merchandise store, carrying the largest stock of goods in the place. He continued in the same line of business for twenty years, sometimes in partnership with others, sometimes alone. Meanwhile Rockland had been growing rapidly. It was set off from Thomaston in 1848, and became a city in 1850. Mr. Cobb was not only enterprising in busi- ness, but displayed wonderfully accurate judg- ments in investments. His ventures generally proved profitable and he accumulated property rapidly. His firm began to engage in the man- ufacture of lime and in shipbuilding. In 1859 the cutting of granite was added to its enter- prises, and quarries were opened at Spruce Head. In 1871 the Bodwell Granite Com- pany was formed, and Mr. Cobb became its treasurer. This company obtained valuable government contracts and also did a lucrative general business. In 1870 the Cobb Lime Company was formed, composed of the largest firms then engaged in the lime business. Mr. Cobb was the first president and held this office till his death. As early as 1845 he built his first vessel, the "Mary Langdon," which was still afloat and owned by him at the time of his decease. Under the firm name of Cobb, Butler & Company he was largely interested in the building, repairing and sailing of ves- sels. He was also president of the Rockland Savings Bank, a director in the Rockland National Bank and the Knox and Lincoln railroad. In politics he was a Republican, and naturally exercised great influence. He was
nct, however, active in practical politics, and rarely would accept office for himself. He represented Rockland in the state legislature of 1860 and 1861, served as city councilman in 1865, as alderman in 1866-67-68 and 1870. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions in 1876, 1880 and 1884, and a presidential elector in 1876. As a leader in great corporations and a potential factor in the political party dominant in the state, he was often the target for spirited if not bitter attacks, but no man ever breathed an aspersion or a suspicion against his personal character for integrity and honor. All accorded him the noble qualities, the intellectual force, and the sturdy manhood which his long life in the community had revealed. He died of paraly- sis, at Portland, Maine, December 2, 1890.
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