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He married (first) Susie, daughter of the
Rev. Jolin Wilde. She died in 1872, leaving two children-Julia M. and James M. Spear. He married (second ), in 1875, Sarah F., wid- ow of Major Samuel T. Keene, comrade of Colonel Spear in the army, and who was killed in the battle before Petersburg in 1864, while standing by his comrade's side. By this sec- ond marriage General Spear had two chil- dren.
The children of General Ellis and Susie M. (Wilde) Spear were: I. James M., who be- came associated with his father in the prac- tice of law in Washington, D. C. 2. Julia M., became the wife of William F. Boyd, of Sa- guade, Colorado. The child of Sarah F. Keene by her first marriage was Marion P., who became wife of Rev. Arthur M. Little, of Peoria, Illinois. The children of General Ellis and Sarah F. (Keene) Spear were: 3. Edwin Ellis, born in 1877, an attorney-at-law in Bos- ton, Massachusetts. 4. Arthur Prince, born in 1879; an artist in Boston. These children were of the seventh generation from John Spear, the Woburn immigrant.
BERRY The Berry family is of ancient English origin. The best author- ity gives the derivation of the name as from the word "Bury" or "Borough" (a place of safety, of defense), and the spell- ing of the name in England, in fact, is more common Bury than Berry. The Manorial residence in many parts of England is the "Bury" from which the names Berry, Berri- man, Burroughs and Barrows are derived. The name Adam de la Bury is cited as an in- stance of the name in the earliest history of surnames in England. The fact that one Eng- lish family used the barberry as an emblem on its coat-of-arms does not explain the origin of the name, though it is quite probable that in this instance the name suggested the barberry as a symbol. There have been families of title bearing this surname in England, Scotland and Ireland for many centuries. The name is very common in Devonshire, England. Some of the family seats were at Teddington, county. Bed- ford ; Molland, county Devon ; Berry Narborn, East Leigh, Lobb, etc., in Devonshire ; also in Oxfordshire, Lancashire, Bedford and Nor- folk.
(I) William Berry, the immigrant ancestor of Alfred H. Berry, of Portland, is presumed to have descended from the Norfolk family, mainly Captain William Mason, whose native place was in Norfolk county. It may, how- ever, with equal reason be assumed that Wil- liam Berry was from the south of England,
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for Captain Mason was for many years the governor of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire, whence came the names of Ports- mouth. New Hampshire, which he founded and owned. It was in Mason's Portsmouth home that the Duke of Buckingham, the royal favorite and Mason's patron, was assassinated in the summer of 1628 by John Felton. The death of his patron, however, did not end Mason's favor with King Charles, who had already granted more than one New England Patent to him and his friend, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and would have put them in command of all England, to the detriment of the Massa- chusetts Puritans, had not Mason died in De- cember, 1635, just as the measures of the court and the English prelates were about to take effect. Mason was a native of King's Lynn in Norfolk, born December II, 1586. He en- tered Oxford in June, 1602, but never gradu- ated. He became a merchant and shipmaster before 1610. He had lucrative offices at New- foundland and in New Hampshire. He had grants of land between the Naumkeag river and the Merrimac under the name of Mariana, March 9, 1622 ; a second patent from the coun- cil of New England was granted August 10, 1622, to Mason and Gorges, covering all the land lying on the sea coast and for sixty miles inland, between the Merrimac river and the Kennebec, and this was called the province of Maine. Seven years later, November 7, 1629, Mason was granted all that part of the prov- ince of Maine lying between the Merrimac and the Piscataqua; this he called New Hamp- shire. Ten days later a much larger tract, called Laconia, and supposed to extend to Lake Champlain, was granted to Mason and Gorges. By 1632 Mason had become a mem- ber of the council for New England, which made all these grants and many more to other persons, and he was expending much money in taking possession of his lands in New Hampshire. As early as 1623 David Thom- son, a Scot, took possession of a grant made to him in 1622. He was not long after the Pilgrims at Plymouth. William and Edward Hilton settled on a grant at Dover in 1623. There were settlers in various places in New Hampshire on the coast when Captain Mason's first colonists came over in 1631. The names of the forty-eight men who, with "twenty-two women and eight Danes," were sent to take charge of his property and make settlement, have been preserved. There were mechanics for building the Manor House in which Mason was to rule New England. Large and small houses were built and Portsmouth soon be-
came a flourishing colony. Mason was nomi- nated by King Charles as vice-admiral of New England and was preparing to go out to his colony when he died. Under the original name of Strawberry Bank this settlement, planned and executed by Mason and his agents, among those four dozen pioneers, included all that is now Portsmouth, Rye, Newcastle, Newington and Greenland. In all of these towns later we find descendants of William Berry. The Church of England was established and a pas- tor in charge, Rev. Richard Gibson, as early as 1640, when all the rest of New England seemed destined to be exclusively Puritan in religion.
William Berry seems to have been one of the chief men of the colony. When the Glebe Lands were deeded the seals were placed op- posite the names of Berry and John Billing, though there were twenty of the early set- tlers whose names appear on the document, in- cluding the governor, Francis Williams, and his assistant, Ambrose Bibbons. This deed, dated 1640, represented a parsonage for the parish and fifty acres of Glebe Land, twelve of which adjoined the house lot. Some of the land was on Strawberry Bank creek and can doubtless be located by survey to-day. The parsonage and Glebe lands were deeded to the two church wardens, Thomas Walford and Henry Sherburne, and their successors. The document calls the twenty signers the "prin- cipal inhabitants" of Portsmouth. Although Captain Mason expended large sums of money upon Strawberry Bank of Portsmouth, when he died the men in his employ were left with wages unpaid and the future uncertain. The property was then divided among Mason's creditors, and the settlement at Portsmouth was soon in much the same condition as the other settlements of New England. William Berry received a grant of land on the neck of land on the south side of Little river at Sandy Beech at a town meeting at Strawberry Bank, January, 1648-49. Sandy Beech was the early name for what is now Rye, New Hampshire, but Berry lived only a few years afterward. He died before June, 1654, and his widow Jane married Nathaniel Drake. William Berry had three sons, perhaps other children, viz .: Joseph, who is living in the adjacent town of Kittery, Maine, in 1623, and John, see for- ward.
(II) John, son of William Berry, was born about 1630, probably in England. He was the first settler in the town of Rye, then called Sandy Beech, on his father's grant of land there. He married Susannah and
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their children were: 1. John Jr., born Jan- uary 14, 1659. 2. Elizabeth, married John Locke. 3. William, settled at Newcastle, mar- ried Judah - , and they had Nathaniel, born February 13, 1689; Stephen, January 18, 1691 ; William, November 18, 1693; Jeremiah, March 8, 1695; Frederick, January 15, 1699; Abigail, March 15, 1700: Jane, January 26, 1702. 4. James. 5. George, see forward. ( The History of Rye is authority for the parentage of all but George, who hailed also from Rye, and must be included among the children of John Berry, the head of the only family of this name in the town. See Par- son's History of Rye. New Hampshire, and Dow's History of Hampton, New Hamp- shire.)
(III) George, son of John Berry, was born in 1674. at Rye, New Hampshire. He lived at Rye, finally settling at Kittery. He mar- ried, at Hampton, New Hampshire, January I, 1702. Deliverance Haley, daughter of An- drew Haley. The children of George and De- liverance Berry were: I. George, see for- ward. 2. Deborah, married, October 22, 1730, William Walker, of Kittery, Maine. 3. Eliza- beth, married, October 22, 1730, Tobias Fer- nald. 4. Mary, married, October 3, 1741, Samuel Lunt Jr. 5. Josiah, married, 1740 (published December 20), Mary Hidden.
(IV) Major George (2), son of George (I) Berry, was born at Rye, New Hampshire, or Kittery, Maine, 1706. He removed from Kit- tery, where he was brought up, to Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, in 1732. He became the proprietor in Falmouth of Berry's Ship- yard and was evidently a shipwright by trade. He was major of the regiment of that vicinity in the Indian fights that were frequent during his younger days, and during the French and Indian war in the fifties. He married, Jan- uary II, 1726-27, Elizabeth Frink, daughter of George and Rebecca (Skilling) Frink ( see Old. Eliot genealogies). The children of George and Elizabeth Berry were baptized at Kittery, though some of them were born at Falmouth. viz .: I. George, born May 12, 1728, died young. 2. Joseph, March 30, 1729, died young, probably. 3. Elizabeth, Decem- ber 6, 1730. 4. George, April 8, 1732, mar- ried Sarah Stickney and they had children : Deacon William, Levi, George (see History of Paris, p. 510). 5. Joseph, September 26, 1740. 6. Burdick, married Sally and had eight children. 7. Lieutenant Thomas, see forward.
(V) Lieutenant Thomas, son of George
(2) Berry, was born at Falmouth, Maine, in 1745. He was an officer in the revolution, and late in life drew a pension of twenty dol- lars a month from the government. He was elected adjutant of Colonel Jacob French's regiment, of Bristol and Cumberland counties, and he took part in the siege of Boston. He was stationed on Walnut Hill. Later in the year 1776 he was lieutenant in Captain Rich- ard Mayberry's company of Colonel Ebenezer Francis's regiment. He resided at Brunswick and Portland, Maine, and at Rockland, where he died January 27, 1828, at the age of eighty- three years. He married, at Brunswick, Maine, August 15, 1773, Abigail Coombs, and their children, all born at Portland, Maine, were: I. Samuel, born May 4, 1774, see for- ward. 2. Lydia, August 14, 1776. 3. Joshua, March 4, 1779, married Fannie Coombs, lived and died in Portland. 4. Thomas Jr., May 26, 1781, married Burgess, lived and died in Brunswick, Maine. 5. George, August 14, 1783, named for his grandfather Berry, lived and died at Topsham, Maine, leaving a large family. 6. Abigail, April 26, 1785, married Josiah Haskell, settled in Rockland, Maine, died November 1, 1853. 7. Jeremiah, Septem- ber 8, 1787, removed from Falmouth to Thom- aston, Maine, in 1812; married Frances A. Gregory, April 27, 1815 ; settled at Rockland; was a mason, innkeeper, and successful busi- ness man ; died March II, 1857, at the age of seventy, leaving four sons and one daughter. He was a soldier of the war of 1812. 8. Jo- seph, September 20, 1789, married (first) Abi- gail Coombs, March 12, 1815; (second) Jane Ann Creamer, December 18, 1845; resided at Thomaston, a mason by trade; died May 29, 1845, aged sixty-six. 9. Betsey, 1791. IO. Benjamin, May II, 1796, married, at Bruns- wick, Dolly Murray, December 21, 1820; died at. Rockland, Maine. June 27, 1856.
(VI) Samuel, eldest child of Lieutenant Thomas and Abigail (Coombs) Berry, was born in Portland (Falmouth), Maine, May 4, 1774, died at Georgetown, May 18, 1851. He was an active. good-natured, and energetic man. a mason by trade. He married (first) Mary (Polly) Gould; (second) a Miss Hub- bard, of Massachusetts, who died September 26, 1818; (third) Hannah Small, of Phipps- burg, a daughter of Samuel Small, a soldier of the revolutionary war; (fourth) a Miss Oliver. The children of Samuel and Mary (Gould) Berry were: Samuel, Joseph, Joshua and John. The child of Samuel and his second wife was Jane. The children of Samuel and
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Hannah (Small) Berry, his third wife, were : Betsey, Mary, Lydia, Curtis and Stephen De- catur.
(VII) General Joseph, second son of Sam- uel and Mary (Gould) Berry, was born in West Bath, 1797, and died in Georgetown, October 26, 1872. He was named for his Grandfather Gould, the father of Samuel Ber- ry's first wife. He first learned the trade of stonemason from his father, with whom he worked much in early life, erecting govern- ment lighthouses along the New England coast. He then engaged in milling and ship- building, in which he was successful, soon be- coming a large builder and owner. He built ships in Bath and at other points on the Ken- nebec, as well as at Robin Hoods cove at Georgetown. In fact he was the first man who owned and cleared a ship in his own name from the port of Bath. He had an extensive business, not only in shipbuilding, but in lum- bering and trade. He was widely known as General Berry, receiving his title from his command in the state militia, to which he was elected by the legislature in 1839, at the time of the notable "Aroostook War." He was a man of fine physical appearance and of excep- tional force and energy. In 1857 he was ap- pointed collector for the port of Bath by Pres- ident Buchanan and served three years. About the same time he was also a member of the legislature for several sessions. He married (first) Nancy Lee, by whom he had two sons, James Langdon and Alfred Lee. He married (second) 1824, Harriet Oliver, of George- town, daughter of David Oliver, and had ten children.
(VIII) Alfred Lee, son of General Joseph and Nancy (Lee) Berry, was born in George- town, April 8, 1820, and died October 29, 1856. He was a very active and successful business man, associated with his father in his various enterprises. He served his town as state senator at Augusta and was aide to Gen- eral Joseph Berry with the rank of colonel. He married Mary E. White, who was born in Georgetown, Maine, July 16, 1820, daughter of James McCobb and Elizabeth (Pattee) White, of Georgetown, Maine, and by the marriage had: I. Alfred Henry, mentioned below. 2. Harriet Ann, married Edwin A. Potter, of Chicago. 3. Alice M., died at the age of thirteen years. 4. Lena T., married Walter P. Bancroft, of Portland, Maine. 5. Frank Lee, married Sara Wilson.
(IX) Alfred Henry, eldest child of Alfred Lee and Mary E. (White) Berry, was born in Georgetown, September 9, 1844. Educated
in the common schools and at the State Acad- emy at Lewiston. From 1867 he was asso- ciated as employe and in partnership with C. J. Walker, under the firm name of C. J. Walker & Company, wholesale dealers in boots, shoes and rubbers. In 1889 he founded the A. H. Berry Shoe Company, manufac- turers and wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, of which he is still the active head. Alfred Henry Berry married, July II, 1871, Frances Fisher Crosby, who was born in Arrowsic, Maine, May 4, 1847, daughter of William L. and Martha (Fisher) Crosby, of Arrowsic, Maine. Three children were born of this marriage, only one of whom, Harold Lee, survives.
(X) Harold Lee, only surviving child of Alfred Henry and Frances F. (Crosby) Berry, was born in Portland, August 26, 1877. He acquired his education in the public schools, in the Columbian Academy, Washington, D. C., from which he graduated in 1897, and at Bowdoin College, where he received the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts in 1901. Imme- diately after completing his college course he took up his work with the A. H. Berry Shoe Company, of which he is a director and has since contributed his labors for the success of that concern. He is a Republican, and has served two terms in the city council in 1907- 08. While in college he became a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He is a member of the Cumberland and the Country clubs. Harold Lee Berry married, in Portland, Au- gust 28, 1905, Violetta Lansdale Brown, born May 14, 1883, daughter of John Marshall and Alida Catherine (Carroll) Brown, of Port- land (see Brown.) They have one child, a daughter, Martha Carroll Berry, born October 13, 1908.
(For preceding generations see William Berry 1.) (V) George (3), son of Major
BERRY George (2) Berry, was born April 8, 1732. He married Sarah Stickney. Children: I. Deacon William, men- tioned below. 2. Levi. 3. George. Probably others.
(VI) Deacon William, son of George (3) Berry, was born in Falmouth, July 30, 1753, and was one of the early settlers of Buck- field, Maine. He was a deacon in the Baptist church and a much respected citizen. He mar- ried, August 4, 1774 (by Rev. Ephraim Clark), Joanna Doane, born March 3, 1753. (See Doane.) Children: 1. Polly, born February 22, 1775-76, died December 28, 1837 ; married, October 22, 1795, Luther Whitman. 2. Levi,
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April 28, 1777, mentioned below. 3. Dorcas, June 16, 1779, died May 24, 1867; married, March 10, 1799, Jacob Whitman Jr. 4. Jo- anna, March 11, 1781, died December 27, 1864; married (first) Samuel Briggs; (sec- ond) Rev. Nathaniel Chase. 5. William, April 17, 1783, died March 1, 1848; married De- borah Drake. 6. Betsey, June 1, 1785, died April 13, 1859; married James Ricker. 7. George, July 30, 1787, died October 1, 1859; married Sally Swan. 8. Obadiah, March 2, 1790, died March 1, 1875; married Abigail Ricker. 9. Sally, June 9, 1792, died April 17, 1820; married, March, 1814, Tobias Ricker Jr. 10. Remember, December 22, 1794, mar- ried John Swett. 11. Zeri, November 1, 1797, died April 19, 1885; married Abigail Turner. Deacon William Berry died October 1, 1817; his wife, Joanna Berry, died August, 1825.
(VII) Levi, son of Deacon William Berry, was born in Falmouth, April 28, 1777, died in Smyrna, Maine, February 6, 1854. He married Louisana He settled in Woodstock, Maine, in 1811, and his home was near the West Paris station. Children: I. Levi, born June II, 1801, mentioned below. 2. Louisa, April 9, 1803, married John Lap- ham. 3. William, April 5, 1805, married Sally Lovejoy. 4. Leonard, February 25, 1807, mar- ried Hannah Pool. 5. Aurelia, April 29, 1810, married Elijah Swan Jr. 6. Abigail, October 2, 1819. 7. George R., October 8, 1823. 8. Cordelia, August 17, 1829, married Abel Ba- con.
(VIII) Levi (2), son of Levi (1) Berry, was born June II, 1801, in Paris, Maine; died June 16, 1873. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and was engaged in the lumber business and in farm- ing with his father at Paris until 1844. He removed to Smyrna, Maine, where he was in the lumber business and conducted a large farm and a hotel until his death. He married (first ) September 29, 1822, Polly Hammond, who died September 27, 1859. He married (second) Apharinda, daughter of Hiram Eat- on. Children of first wife: I. Thaddeus C. S., born August 24, 1823, mentioned below. 2. Lydia Jane, August 9, 1826, married (first) November 17, 1844, Oliver H. Perry; (sec- ond) December 29, 1859, William H. Wins- low ; child of first husband, Gussie Perry, who lives with her mother in Houlton. 3. Peleg H., May 10, 1829, married, April 17, 1850, Caroline K. Estes; children: i. John E., of Houlton ; ii. Laura E., now deceased ; iii. Ad- die, now deceased; iv. Frank P., of Houlton ; the father died February 8, 1898. 4. Arabella
R., December 29, 1831, died February 7, 1841. 5. Andrew J., February 25, 1834, married, Oc- tober 30, 1855, Julia E. Estes; children : i. Oliver H., of Duke Center, Pennsylvania; ii. Minnie Feeley, of Malden, Massachusetts; iii. Julia, of Malden ; iv. Fred L., now deceased ; Andrew J., now resides at Duke Center, Penn- sylvania; his wife died in 1907. 6. Eliza D., August 16, 1836, married, February 6, 1853, Ivory Coolbroth; (second) January 11, 1860, William Jordan; (third) Rev. Philip Wheeler ; children of first husband: i. Ella Coolbroth, living in Illinois; ii. Jesse Coolbroth, de- ceased. 7. Samuel H., June 21, 1838, married, April 27, 1869, Nellie S. Anderson ; children : i. Walter P., deceased; ii. Leonard P., lives in Houlton. 8. Mary Arabella, February 15, 1842, married, April 26, 1859, Isaac L. Adams, who died at Smyrna, April 6, 1908; children : i. Charles Adams, deceased ; ii. Frank Adams, of Oakfield, Maine; iii. Lizzie Porter, of Smyrna; iv. Levi Adams, of Oakfield; v. Su- san Adams, of Oakfield; vi. Belle Adams; vii. Lemuel Adams; viii. Jennie Adams; ix. Henry Adams, of Smyrna. 9. Levi H., July 7, 1845, married Annie Bickford; children : i. Herman ; ii. Nellie; iii. Carrie; all living in or near Glenwood, Minnesota. Children of second wife: 10. George Alfred, November 13, 1860. II. Charles H., August 4, 1862, mentioned below.
(IX) Dr. Thaddeus C. S., son of Levi (2) Berry, was born August 24, 1823, in Bethel, Maine. He attended the public schools of his native town and later studied medicine. He practiced medicine in Houlton and vicinity until 1896, when he removed to Denver, Colo- rado, where he lived and practiced until his death in August, 1908. His residence and office was on South Twelfth street in that city. He married Susan A. Oakes, born May 30, 1826. Children : 1. Augustus Henry, born at Smyrna, April 19, 1844, mentioned below. 2. Charles L., February 10, 1846, died about 1880. 3. Francis S., January 27, 1848, died April 14, 1885. 4. Lillian A., March 24, 1854, died January, 1891. 5. Hiram Oakes, January 28, 1856.
(X) Augustus Henry, son of Dr. Thaddeus C. S. Berry, was born at Smyrna, April 19, 1844, died February 5, 1905. He was edu- cated in the public schools. He was a lumber- man and miller by trade, and worked in vari- ous sawmills at Smyrna, then removed to Minnesota, where he continued in the same line of work. He then returned in the seven- ties to Houlton, Maine, and worked in the same line of business there. In 1895 he and
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his son established the firm of A. H. Berry & Sons. The firm dealt in meats, provisions and groceries of all kinds and enjoys a large patronage. Since the death of the senior part- ner the business has been incorporated under the name of the A. H. Berry & Son Company. The business was located in the present store in 1901, having outgrown the original quar- ters in the Merritt Block. The company now has two thousand feet of floor space at the store at 70 Main street. Mr. Berry was a well-known and highly esteemed citizen, a hard worker, earnest, energetic and honorable in all his dealings. In religion he was a Bap- tist: in politics a Republican. He married Hannah A., daughter of Isaac and Catherine (Gilman) Barker, of Houlton, Maine. Chil- dren : I. Isaac (twin), born July 4, 1868. 2. Thaddeus C. S. (twin), July 4, 1868. men- tioned below. 3. Catherine, married Rev. John F. Tilton, of Saco, Maine.
(XI) Thaddeus C. S., son of Augustus H. Berry, was born in Maine Prairie, Minnesota, July 4. 1868. When very young he removed with his parents to Houlton, Maine, where he received his education in the public schools. He learned the trade of brick-making and followed it for four years, but he preferred a mercantile life, and became a clerk for the firm of E. Merritt & Sons, of Houlton, gro- cers. Later he was for four years in the em- ploy of J. A. Millard, dealers in fruit, at Houlton. In partnership with his father, he established his present business in Houlton in 1895, under the firm name of A. H. Berry & Son. The store was originally at 3-5 Water street. In 1901 the present store was leased in order to provide for the necessities of a growing business. The firm was incorporated in January, 1908, under the name of A. H. Berry & Son Company, with Mr. Berry as president, treasurer, manager and principal owner, Myron E. Pratt, clerk. The company deals in meats, groceries, provisions, vegeta- bles, fruits, etc. The company has a high reputation for progressive methods, square dealing and enjoys a large and constantly in- creasing patronage. Mr. Berry is one of the foremost merchants of this section and well known throughout the county. He is a mem- ber of the Houlton Baptist church, of which he is one of the deacons and the treasurer. In politics he is a Prohibitionist. He married, July 4, 1888, Elizabeth J., born in New Brunswick, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Carney) Carroll. Children, born at Houl- ton : I. Anna, C., November 4, 1889. 2. Dora
A., August 20, 1895. 3. Thaddeus Carroll, February 27, 1897.
(IX) Charles H. Berry, son of Levi (2) Berry, was born in Smyrna, August 4, 1862, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. In his early life he was em- ployed as clerk in the drygoods store of Simon Friedman & Company, of Houlton, Maine, and as clerk in a shoe store in the same town. In 1893 he embarked in the livery and board- ing stable business and became a prominent dealer in horses. In 1899 he devoted him- self exclusively to his sales department, giv- ing up the livery stable. He buys and sells a large number of horses in Boston and Buf- falo, as well as in Houlton and vicinity, mak- ing a specialty of western stock. His place of business is a new block on Bangor street, which he erected in 1906. He carries a large stock of carriages, blankets, robes, whips and other supplies for the horse and carriage trade. He has accommodations for forty horses at his stable. He has an average sale of three to five hundred horses a year, amount- ing in value to about a hundred thousand dollars. He owns and conducts three large farms also, one in Hodgdon and one in Houl- ton, the other in Linneus. He grows annually one hundred and fifty tons of hay and more than a thousand bushels of oats. Mr. Berry is conceded to be one of the best judges of horseflesh in the county of Aroostook. He is of pleasing personality and has a host of friends. He is a self-made man, of large in- fluence and exceptional business ability. He is a member of the New England Order of Protection ; of Houlton Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 835, and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married, Sep- tember 20, 1885, Ella, born in Monticello, Maine, daughter of Hezekiah and Cylista (McDonald) White. Children: I. Charles Harry, born September 1, 1887, married, Sep- tember 1, 1907, Beulah Syphers, of Houlton, Maine. 2. Ralph L., November 29, 1890. 3. Claire C., January 30, 1893. 4. Beatrice E., April 19, 1898. 5. Olin L., August 2, 1900. 6. Alice M., February 26, 1903. 7. Marion E., born September 30, 1906.
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