Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume I, Part 74

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 802

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Nancy, Achsah, Amos and William Everett. Mr. Robinson died August 19, 1812, at Attle- boro. He was deeply interested in the welfare of his native country and served as an officer in the revolutionary army. Soon after his death, his widow went to reside with her children in Maine, and died at Hallowell, March 15, 1825. Stevens Smith and wife had children : Justin Ely, Samuel S., George Robinson, Nancy Robinson, Nathaniel Greene and Sylvina Lord. The mother died October 26, 184I, at Bangor, Maine, and was buried at Hallowell. Mr. Smith married (second) April 4, 1845, Mrs. Abigail Dennison, at Hal- lowell, who was born January 31, 1805, and died June IO, 1881.

(VII) George Robinson, third son of Stev- ens and Nancy (Robinson) Smith, was born February 26, 1811, in Hallowell, Maine. He married Delia B., daughter of Captain James Tarbox, a sea captain of Gardiner, Maine.

(VIII) Frederick Belcher, second son of George Robinson and Delia B. (Tarbox) Smith, was born August 14, 1839, in Bangor, and began his education in the public schools of that city. He began his book business career there in April, 1856. In 1862 he went to Chicago, Illinois, and entered the employ of S. C. Griggs & Company, publishers and book sellers, as a salesman in the retail department. His ability and strict attention to business soon gained the favor of his employers, and in 1866 he became a partner in the business and has so continued with its successors-Jansen, Mc- Clurg & Company, and A. C. McClurg & Company. He is now chairman of the board of directors of the last named concern, with which he has been identified for forty-seven years, having been more than fifty years con- nected with the book trade. Mr. Smith takes an active part in the social life of his home city and is a member of the Union League, Caxton and Chicago Literary clubs; of the latter he is one of its very early members. With ample faith in the destiny of his coun- try, and faithful to the principles of the Re- publican party, he takes no active part in po- litical matters other than in casting his vote. He married, January 20, 1881, at Hallowell, . Alice Wetmore Smith, his cousin, a daughter of Justin Ely Smith, of Hallowell, who was born January 18, 1807, the eldest child of Stevens Smith, previously mentioned.

The Smiths mentioned in this ar- SMITH ticle belong to an early settled Buxton family of English de- scent, which was established in that town by

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an immigrant who located there prior to the American revolution and subsequently re- turned to England.

(I) John Smith, son of the above-mentioned immigrant, was born in England and accom- panied his father to America. He remained in Buxton and was one of the pioneer farmers in that section of the state. In the struggle for national independence his sympathies were with the Americans and he served as a soldier in the continental army. His name appears in the pay-roll of Captain Daniel Lane's com- pany of October. 1778. In 1779 he served upon a special committee appointed by the town to investigate and report the actual ser- vice in the army performed by cach soldier recruited in Buxton. The following item in the town records of that period, which is here copied verbatim, will serve as an example of the exorbitant prices the town was forced to pay for articles required by its soldiers: It was voted "to gite shoos for twenty-five dol- ars a pare and stockings for sixteen dolars a pare and shurts for twenty-four dolars a peace." In 1777 John Smith was a member of the board of selectmen. He reared a family in Buxton but the information at hand does not contain the maiden name of his wife or a list of his children.

(II) William, son of John Smith, was born in Buxton and resided there his entire life. His active years were devoted to farming, and he was in every way an upright, conscientious and useful citizen. The maiden surname of his first wife was Hill and of his second wife was Ridley. His children were: Ruth, Thomas H. and Royal, by the first marriage ; Pheobe, Mary Jane and Sarah by the second marriage.

(III) Colonel Thomas Hill, son of William Smith, by the latter's first union, was born in Buxton, 1819. His educational opportunities were limited to the district school system of his day, but he made excellent use of the slen- der advantages open to him for study, becom- ing a practical, resourceful and well informed man. In early manhood he learned and ap- plied himself with energy to the cooper's trade, and this he followed in connection with farm- ing, making each of these occupations a source of considerable profit. He occupied the home- stead property, having acquired possession of it by purchase, and he made various improve- ments upon the land and buildings. Colonel Smith acquired his military title as comman- der of one of the regiments composing the state militia and was a highly efficient officer. As the founder, and for many years a deacon of the Free Will Baptist church in Buxton, he

exercised a helpful and far-reaching influence in the moral and religious welfare of the com- munity, and in various other channels labored diligently for the general improvement of the town and its environments. Colonel Smith died in Buxton, April, 1885. He married (first ) Abbie Varney ; no children. Married (second) Abbie Cressey, who bore him one daughter, Mary A. Married (third) Sarah Porter, who was born at Salem, New Hamp- shire, 1828, daughter of Benjamin and

(Reynolds) Porter, the former of whom came to this state from Salem, New Hampshire, and settled in Sebago. The Porters were descend- ants of Robert Porter, the emigrant and the founder of the New Hampshire family of that name. She became the mother of six children : I. Sarah E., born October 18, 1858. 2. Thomas V., November, 1859. 3. Harriet E., February, 1862. 4. Charles R., see forward. 5. Hurlin R., 1869. 6. A child who died in infancy.

(IV) Charles Roscoe, M. D., son of Colonel Thomas H. and Sarah (Porter) Smith, was born in Buxton, October 4, 1865. His pre- liminary studies in the public schools of his native town were augmented with courses at the Limerick (Maine) Academy and the Co- burn Classical Institute in Waterville, from which latter he entered Bates College, Lewis- ton, and was graduated with the class of 1891. These educational advantages were obtained solely through his own individual efforts, as during the progress of his studies he met the necessary expenses by teaching school and canvassing. After leaving college he accepted the position of principal of the Buxton high school, which he retained for about three and one-half years, and was regarded as a most efficient instructor. Educational pursuits were in due course of time, however, laid aside for what was in his estimation a more attractive field of usefulness, that of medicine, and en- tering the medical department of Bowdoin College he was graduated a Doctor of Medi- cine in 1897. Establishing himself at once as a general practitioner in Livermore Falls he displayed to a marked degree the enthusiasm and ambition so essential in promoting rapid professional advancement, and he has ever since practised in that locality, attaining sub- stantial success. His practice is at the present time both extensive and profitable, and aside from his professional ability, which is of a high order, his well-known integrity, together with his numerous other commendable char- acteristics, are in no small measure responsible for the esteem and confidence in which he is

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held. Shortly after locating in Livermore Falls he was chosen a member of the school board and superintendent of schools as well, retaining the latter position some three years and still serving in the former capacity. He is also a member of the board of health and is deeply interested in all movements relative to the improvement of public hygiene. A member of. Free Baptist church and a Republi- can in politics. Dr. Smith affiliates with the Androscoggin County and the Maine Medical societies ; a member of Oriental Star Lodge, F. and A. M. and the Knights of Pythias ; has occupied all of the important chairs in the local · lodge of the last-named organization and served in the Grand Lodge of Maine. On August 3, 1896, he married Hadassah Good- win, born May 15, 1872, daughter of Joseph A. and Adelphia J. (Littlefield) Goodwin, of Wells, Maine. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have two children : Delora Alpen and Roscoe Harwell.

James Smith, immigrant ances-

SMITH tor, was living in Berwick, Maine, in 1668, and had a grant of fifty acres of land in that year. He mar- ried Martha, born in Bristol, England, Jan- uary 18, 1653, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wadel) Wills, of Exeter, England. He died in 1687, and she married (second) Chris- topher Grant, and with her son, John Smith, was taken captive by the Indians, November 18, 1690, and taken to Montreal, where they were both baptized May 3, 1693. Children of James and Martha Smith: I. James, mar- ried Martha Bragdon and settled in York, Maine. 2. Mary. 3. Elizabeth. 4. John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of James Smith, was born July 26, 1685. He was captured by the In- dians and taken with his mother to Canada, where he was baptized at Montreal, May 3, 1693. He returned and settled in Berwick, Maine. He married Elizabeth Chil- dren : I. Elizabeth, born April 13, 1708, mar- ried, January 28, 1724, Caleb Maddox. 2. Martha, September 18, 1710. 3. Experience, December 8, 1712. 4. John, January 8, 1714, mentioned below. 5. Mary, June 8, 1717. 6. Abigail, September 18, 1719, married Thomas Thompson. 7. Joshua, February 15, 1721. 8. Ichabod, March 25, 1724, married Sarah Chadbourne. 9. Ruth, probably died young. IO. Jane, baptized November 12, 1727. II. Dorcas, born July 15, 1732, married Philip Yeaton.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) Smith, was born January 8. 1714. He settled in Ber-

wick, and married, November 26, 1733, Eliza- beth Libby, in Portsmouth. Children : I. Mary, born March 3, 1736. 2. James, Feb- ruary 13, 1738, married Sarah Lord. 3. Martha, February 20, 1740. 4. Elizabeth, March 25, 1742. 5. John, December 12, 1744, mentioned below. 6. Anna, December 14, 1748, died young. 7. Sarah, November 7, 1750. 8. Ichabod, July 14, 1751. 9. Dorcas, August 27, 1753. 10. Anna, July 14, 1755. II. Daniel, June 12, 1757. 12. Joshua, June 8, 1759.

(IV) Captain John (3), son of John (2) Smith, was born December 12, 1744, at Kit- tery, Maine. He was the first settler of the town of Waterborough, York county, Maine, making his home from 1768 until his death, at what is known as Waterborough Old Cor- ner. Within two years seven other families joined him. He owned mills in the town in 1787. He was first deer-reeve and moose- reeve, surveyor of lumber and surveyor of highways, and for many years constable.

(V) Peter, son of Captain John (3) Smith, settled in Waterborough on a farm and en- gaged in lumbering. In 1816 he went to Michigan, where he died over eighty years of age.

(VI) Jacob, eldest son of Peter Smith, born in Waterborough, Maine, 1798, died there April 8, 1864. He was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of car- penter and joiner. In his later years he was a farmer. In politics he was a Democrat; in religion a Universalist. His wife was a Free Will Baptist. He married Betsey E. Andrews, born 1800, died August, 1891, aged ninety- one. Children born at Waterborough: I. Susan, married Gerry Bates, resided in Illi- nois; children: Fred, Addie and Charles Bates. 2. Emma, married Henry Moulton, resided in Illinois; children: Lizzie, Florence and Ellen Moulton. 3. Cyrus K., deceased. 4. Sarah, married Sylvester Cook and lived at Waterborough. 5. Charles W., born Au- gust 12, 1836, mentioned below. 6. John F., married Lydia Allen, sister of Congressman Allen ; children : Cora, Harry and Maud. 7. Victoria, married Bradley Stanley, of Leb- anon, Maine.

(VII) Charles W .. son of Jacob Smith, born in Waterborough, August 12, 1836, died May 27, 1905. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of his native town, and worked on his father's farm until he was of age. After working for Isaiah H. Ricker on his farm for several months he acquired a quarter interest in a small saw-mill near Waterborough Old

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Corner. A year later he had increased his interest to three-quarters and later he bought the homestead at Waterborough Old Corner and built his house on it. He entered into the lumber business and gradually increased his interests until he became one of the largest lumber dealers and manufacturers of lumber in New England. From 1868 to 1871 he took large contracts for construction of the Port- land & Rochester, Boston & Maine and Port- land & Ogdensburgh railroads. In 1871 he leased saw mills at Shaker village, Alfred, Maine, for six years and conducted a large business. In December, 1877, he bought the steam saw-mill at South Waterborough of Downs & Johnson and manufactured stock, shooks for boxes and lumber of all kinds, em- ploying thirty hands or more. He owned a mill also at Stoddard, New Hampshire, and large tracts of woodland. Besides his farm of one hundred and fifty acres he owned eight hundred acres of land in Waterborough and other lands in the vicinity. He admitted to partnership in 1896 his son, George H. Smith, under the firm name of C. W. Smith & Son. Mr. Smith was a Republican in politics, and was selectman of his native town several years. He represented his town in the state legislature two terms (1878-79), and was state senator one year ( 1885), serving on the committee on interior waters. He was a Bap- tist in religion and was trustee of the church at Waterborough. He was a member of Fra- ternal Lodge, No. 55, Free Masons, of Al- fred. Mr. Smith was shrewd, capable, en- ergetic and self-reliant. He united foresight and caution, enterprise and economy, and ac- quired a competence in a difficult line of busi- ness. He was of strong and earnest person- ality, upright in character, an honorable and useful citizen. He married Clara, born March 18, 1840, daughter of Samuel and Julia (Say- ward) Roberts. Children: I. Professor Fred L., born January 22, 1865, instructor in Greek in the Penn Charter school; married Lizzie Wheeler, of Castine, Maine. 2. George Her- bert, born July 14, 1866, mentined below. 3. Edgar L., born May 12, 1872, now conduct- ing the homestead at Waterborough.

(VIII) George Herbert, son of Charles W. Smith, was born July 14, 1866, at Waterbor- ough. He received his education in the pub- lic schools of Waterborough and at Limerick Academy. He worked on his father's farm during his boyhood, and continued with his father after he reached his majority. In 1896 he was taken into partnership under the firm

name of C. W. Smith & Son. Since his father's death in 1905 he has continued the business under the old name without a part- ner. Besides the large steam mill for finish- ing lumber in Waterborough he owns large tracts of woodland and cuts much timber every year. He is a Republican in politics and is prominent in public affairs. He has served on the board of selectmen and as supervisor of schools, as road commissioner, and in 1901 was representative to the state legislature ; he is a candidate for the state senate to succeed Hon. Fred J. 'Allen, of Sanford. Mr. Smith is a member of Fraternal Lodge, Free Ma- sons, of Alfred; White Rose Royal Arch Chapter of Sanford; Maine Council, Royal and Select Masters; and of St. Armond Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Kennebunk. He married, June 28, 1893, Alice, born June 12, 1866, daughter of John W. and Elvira Bennett Hayes, of Tuftonborough, New Hampshire, and later of Hollis, Maine. They have no children.

SMITH

John Parker Smith was born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was a barber by trade, and was in

business all his active life in Portland, Maine. He was a Free Mason and Odd Fellow and a well-known citizen. He married Margaret E., daughter of E. G. Bolton, of Portland. Children, born in Portland: I. Samuel S., March 4, 1870. 2. Child died in infancy. 3. Payson, mentioned below. 4. Philip, March 14, 1879, died September, 1907.

(II) Payson, son of John Parker and Mar- garet E. (Bolton) Smith, was born in Port- land, Maine, February II, 1873. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Portland, West- brook Seminary and Tufts College. He en- gaged in the profession of teaching ; was sub- principal of Westbrook Seminary, superinten- dent of schools, Canton, Maine, superinten- dent of schools at Rumford, Mexico and Auburn, Maine, and in July, 1907, was ap- pointed state superintendent of public schools in Maine, which position he is filling at the present time (1909). He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Tufts College in 1903, and the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Maine in 1908. He has membership and has held office in various state and national educational associations. He is a member of the Uni- versalist church at Auburn, where he resides. His office is at the capitol in Augusta. He married, in 1898, Carrie E., daughter of John

e denge A. South.

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P. Swasey, representative to congress from second Maine district. Child, Norman Swa- sey, born June II, 1903.

It has truly been said that to

SMITH trace the ancestry of the various Smiths would be like trying to write a genealogy of the North American In- dians. When Dr. Holmes wrote of the au- thor of "America," and said: "Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith," he might have applied the statement to several hundred other distinguished Smiths besides Dr. Samuel F. Smith of the famous class of 1829. One should feel proud to belong to so numerous and respectable a family, but one cannot help wishing that they had taken a little more pains to preserve their ancestral records. The fol- lowing branch cannot be traced further than Berwick, Maine. Whether they originally came from Massachusetts, or whether they may be connected with the New Hampshire Smiths of whom no less than nineteen differ- ent lines have been traced, must remain a matter of conjecture.

(I) Daniel Smith was born in 1796, and died at Brownville, Maine, April 23, 1856. About 1820 he moved from Berwick, Maine, to Brownville. It is possible that he may have been a son or other descendant of Daniel Smith, of Berwick, Maine, who was a minute- man in 1775. About 1820 Daniel Smith mar- ried Mary Stickney, daughter of Samuel (2) and Patty (Atwood) Stickney, who was born at Weare, New Hampshire, January 31, 1799, and died at Brownville, Maine, March 25, 1883. (See Stickney V.) Nine children were born to Daniel and Mary (Stickney) Smith : I. Samuel Atwood, whose sketch follows. 2. Mary Ann, August 4, 1823, married Isaac Gould, of Brownville, Maine, October 16, 1842. 3. Emeline, May 17, 1825, married William Mayo, September 20, 1850; died in 1908. 4. Benjamin, April 15, 1827, died young. 5. Daniel, July 9, 1828, married Ellen Johnson. 6. Francis B., January 15, 1833, married Catherine Morse, May 19, 1856; died January 1, 1859. 7. Martha E., January 16, 1835. 8. Sarah Jane, January 16, 1837, died February 14, 1852. 9. Simeon, May 25, 1838, died April 3, 1840.

(II) Samuel Atwood, eldest child of Dan- iel and Mary (Stickney) Smith, was born at Brownville, Maine, October 30, 1820. He married, January 8, 1860, Martha L. Jenks, daughter of Eleazer Alley and Eliza (Brown) Jenks, who was born at Brownville, Maine, July 4, 1836. (See Jenks, VII.) They had

three children : Annie L., born December 14, 1860; Alley, who died in infancy; and Edgar Crosby, whose sketch follows.

(III) Edgar Crosby, son of Samuel Atwood and Martha L. (Jenks) Smith, was born at Brownville, Maine, February 12, 1870, and was educated in the common schools and at the East Maine Seminary at Bucksport. For a time he worked in a bank and also in the office of the clerk of courts at Ellsworth, Maine. While thus engaged he devoted his spare time to the study of law. From July, 1891, to the spring of 1892 he read law in the office of Miles W. McIntosh at Brownville. From 1892 to 1894 he was engaged in the shoe business at Brownville ; but he sold out this undertaking in 1894, and went back into the law office of Mr. McIntosh, where he re- mained till the latter gentleman moved to Cal- ifornia, when Mr. Smith bought out his law library, and went into practice for himself. This was in 1895, the year that Mr. Smith was admitted to the bar. Mr. Smith continued alone till 1897, when he removed to Dover, and formed a partnership with Colonel J. B. Peaks. This arrangement continued till Jan- uary, 1901, when Mr. Smith was appointed judge of the municipal court, a position which he still holds (1908). Since the partnership was dissolved, Judge Smith has continued in general practice by himself. Judge Smith is a Republican in politics, and served as a mem- ber of the Republican county committee for ten years, the last two of which he has been chairman. He was tax collector for five years, and has held minor town offices. He was su- perintendent of schools at Brownville at the time of leaving there, and has served on the school board of Foxcroft. He is a member of the Masonic order at Brownville, and past master of Pleasant River Lodge. He belongs to the Piscataquis Royal Arch Chapter, and the Royal Arcanum. He attends the Congre- gational church, and is corresponding secre- tary of the Piscataquis Historical Society. Judge Smith is deeply interested in historical matters, and has published several valuable monographs relating to local and state affairs. He has written the "Life of Moses Greenleaf, the Map-maker," who plotted and executed and published the first map made by an in- habitant of Maine. He has also written a Bibliography of the Maps of Maine; and at the present time is writing a history of the revolutionary soldiers who settled in Piscata- quis county. On January 18, 1893, Judge Ed- gar Crosby Smith married Harriet M. Ladd, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Chase) Ladd,

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of Garland, Maine. They have one child, Martha Eliza, born May 5, 1901.

The records state that Stick-

STICKNEY ney is a large village on the Boston road, eight and one- half miles north of Boston station, in the soke of Bolingbroke, Union of Spilsby, Lindsley division, and diocese of Lincoln, England. From this came the surname Stickney. In the parish register of St. Mary's Church, in the parish of Frampton in the Wapentake of Kirton, Lincoln county, England, three and one-half miles south of Boston, are many rec- ords of baptisms, marriages and burials of Stickneys from 1558 to 1609. The name does not appear on those records after that date. Tradition and information obtained in Eng- land render it probable that the family re- moved to Hull or its vicinity.

(I) William Stickney, the first settler, was the ancestor of nearly all who have since borne that name in America. It is inferred from records procured in England that he was the William who is mentioned as baptized in St. Mary's Church, Frampton, Lincolnshire, England, April 6, 1592, and the son of Will- iam Stickney, of Frampton, who was bap- tized December 30, 1558, and married, June 16, 1585, Margaret Pierson, and the grand- son of Robert Stickney, of Frampton, who made his will October 3, and was buried Octo- ber 18, 1582. William Stickney, the settler, seems to have come probably from Hull, in Yorkshire, England, in 1637, and from the records of the First Church in Boston it ap- pears that "The 6th of ye 11th moneth 1638 Willyam Stickney a husbandman & Elizabeth his wife" and others were admitted ; and "The 24th day of ye 9th Moneth 1639, Our brethren

* Mr. Henry Sandys, William Stickney *

by ye Churches Silence were dismissed to ye gathering of a Church at Rowley if the Lord so please." William Stickney with his wife and three eldest children were among the original settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts. "On the 7th of October 1640 * Willi : Stickney were admitted freeman." In 1639 William Stickney had land allotted to him upon which he erected a house, on the corner of Bradford and Wethersfield streets. He was a member of an important committee in 1652 to draw up "a covenant and agreement," between the town of Rowley and the first set- tlers of the Merrimack lands, now Bradford. He was clerk of the market, and on jury of trials in 1653, selectman 1656 and 1661, and in 1661 styled lieutenant. The ancient pos-

session books of Rowley contain frequent rec- ords of grants of land to him and from him and his wife. In the town books of Rowley it is recorded that William Stickney was bur- ied January 25, 1665. Elizabeth Stickney sur- vived her husband several years. The date of her death is not known. On the two hun- dredth anniversary of the death of William Stickney, a granite obelisk was erected on his grave bearing the following inscription :

Willlam Stickney Born in Frampton, England, 1 A. D., 1592. Was, with the wife Elizabeth Of Boston, in N. E. in 1638 Of Rowley in 1639 Where he died A. D. 1665 Erected By his descendants Josiah Stickney, of Boston, Matthew Adams Stickney of Salem, Joseph Henry Stickney, of Baltimore, Md. 1865.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume I, Part 74

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 802

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 802