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new directions to the world's thoughts. The tendency of his mind seemed in early life toward the natural sciences, and stimulated and encouraged by his elder brother, Dr. Ben- jamin Lincoln, he seemed likely to devote him- self to the service of the community where he lived, in the profession of a physician. But his health was always delicate; he was un- ambitious of wealth or of reputation, and he shrank with instinctive delicacy from the com- petitions and antagonisms in which all the honors of a professional career must be won. Mr. Lincoln entered heartily and with char- acteristic ardor of feeling into all the great political and reformatory questions of his time. Originally a Whig, and speculatively a Federalist, he succumbed to the masterly persuasions of that eloquent pioneer of abo- litionism. Ichabod Codding. Rarely writing for the press and still less frequently attempt- ing a formal speech, Mr. Lincoln's activity in disseminating on the community where he lived ideas and principles favorable to uni- versal liberty, was not the less efficacious. With singular unanimity his family and fellow townsmen came to his way of thinking, and have ever remained steadfast in their integrity. He watched with intense anxiety the changing fortunes of the great war, to which he would cheerfully have contributed his own life; and through the reconstruction period, results which seemed to satisfy the very champions of freedom did not quite satisfy him. Upon religious subjects and personal religion, Mr. Lincoln was always reticent. His habitual tone of mind was singularly reverent and de- vout. His life-long habit was to participate with his neighbors in the external service of worship. His most intimate friends did not know to what extent, if at all, his speculative opinions upon matters of faith differed from those of the friends in whose worship he decorously joined. How profoundly religious his character was, every one noted, who recog- nized the high standard of integrity, by which he regulated his own thinking and living, the magnanimous patience with which he had borne the several sorrows, and the rounded symmetry into which he had wrought a per- fected manhood."
Thomas Lincoln married (first) Emma Johnson ; (second) Mary Eastman. Children by first wife: Emma, Edith and Arthur Tal- bot. Child by second wife: Edmund.
(VIII) Dr. Arthur Talbot, only son of Thomas and Emma (Johnson) Lincoln, was born at Dennysville, Maine, September 16, 1856. He was educated in private schools in
his native town, and in Boston, and entered Amherst College, graduating in the class of 1879 as Bachelor of Arts. He took a pro- fessional course at the Harvard Medical School, class of 1883, but being in Europe, did not receive his degree of Doctor of Medicine until 1889. Dr. Lincoln spent six years in post-graduate study and hospital practice in Europe. Returning to the United States, he pursued the practice of his profession in his native town and elsewhere. For the most part he spends his time with his dogs and gun in the contemplation and enjoyment of nature in her varied manifestations, which his ample means, liberal education and cultivated mind enable him to do in his old ancestral home, with a most charming environment in the Maine woods. Dr. Lincoln married, in New York City, February 19, 1889, Anna Max- well, daughter of Captain Henry Rolfe and Jessie (Andrews) Brown. Her father, who was a sea captain, and one of the family of Browns of Providence, Rhode Island, died August 21, 1907. His wife was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1831, and the parents were in that port when Mrs. Lincoln was born. Much of Mrs. Lincoln's early life was spent in California, but she received hier education in Europe and has traveled extensively in foreign lands, meeting her husband for the first time in Vienna. She has one brother. Henry Rolfe Brown Jr., of Providence, and had one sister, Jessie E., who died July 9, 1906, in Boston; she was the wife of Charles E. Allen, of Belfast, Ireland, of the Allen Steamship Company.
LINCOLN There is no doubt that some, if not all, of this name in America descend from the English branch settled in Hingham, Norfolk county, England, for more than a century be- fore the emigrants came over. The name is said to be derived from Linan, abbreviation of the name of the Roman colony Lindum which was on the site of the present city of Lincoln, and from coln from Colonia. The meaning of the word Linunt is "flax," and thus Lindum and Lincoln are interpreted by one authority to mean "a flax country." Upon the records, this family name assumes many forms. Lincon varied with the terminations : coln, kon, koln, and Linckhorn, or Linckhoorn. The early form in America was Linkon. The parish register of St. Andrews' Church in Old Hingham, England, it is said, contains many of the names common to the Lincoln families of this country.
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(1) Thomas Lincoln, the emigrant, born about 1603, came from Norfolk county to Massachusetts, 1635, and first settled at Hing- ham, where he was granted land in 1636. He was called "Thomas the Miller," to distinguish him from three others ( known as Thomas the Cooper, Thomas the Weaver and Thomas the Husbandman) who bore the same name and came at an early date. In 1649 he moved to Taunton, Massachusetts, where he is recorded as having "Faithfully followed his calling." He returned to Hingham for his family in 1652, and was proprietor of the mill at Taun- ton until his death, which occurred at Hing- ham, February 1I, 1684. His will is dated August 28, 1683, in which he calls himself "eighty years or thereabouts." He married (first) presumably in England, name of wife unknown, and (second) December 10, 1665, Elizabeth Streete (widow of Francis), whose maiden name was Harvey. The estate of "Thomas the Miller" was valued at two hun- dred and five pounds, eight shillings. Chil- dren were, by first marriage: I. John, born in England, married Edith Macombes, of Marshfield, and had: i. John, born 1665; ii. Thomas, 1667, married Edith (Esther), daughter of Samuel Smith; iii. Mary, 1679, married Nathan Shore (Shove) ; iv. Daniel, 1685, married (first) Abigail Nichols, (sec- ond) Mrs. Hannah Knapp; v. Josiah, married Jane 2. Thomas, born in England, baptized in Hingham, 1637. 3. Samuel, born in England and baptized in Hingham, 1637; married Jane ; and had: i. Samuel, born June 1, 1664; died aged seventy-five; ii. Hannah, married Samuel (Daniel) Owen ; iii. Tamson, married Jonah Austin Jr .; iv. Elizabeth, married William Briggs; their chil- dren were Ebenezer ; Rachel, married Thomas Randall ; John; Thomas, born 1683 ; and Dan- iel, who married Susannah 4. Mary, baptized at Hingham, October 6, 1642, mar- ried (first) William Hack and (second) Rich- ard Stevens (and had children William Hack, Richard Stevens, Nicholas Stevens, Mary Stevens, Thomas Stevens, Tamson Stevens, and Nathaniel Stevens). 5. Sarah, baptized in Hingham, December, 1645, married Joseph Willis, of Taunton, and had Joseph and Thomas.
(II) Thomas (2), second son of Thomas (I) Lincoln and first wife, was born in Eng- land, and baptized in Hingham, February, 1637-38, by Rev. Peter Hobart. He went with his father to Taunton in 1649. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Jonah and Constance Austin, who came from Tenterden, county
Kent, England, in the "Hercules." Thomas Lincoln was a husbandman, and sold to Dan- iel Cushing, of Hingham, October 11, 1662, the lot given him by his father (Thomas Lincklon), which was granted the latter by the inhabitants of Hingham ( Suffolk Deeds, iv. 65). He died about 1694, as in that year his property was distributed to his chil- dren. In the deed he is styled "Thomas Grand Senior." The children of Thomas and Mary were : I. Mary, born May 12, 1652. 2. Sarah, September 25, 1654, died young. 3. Thom- as (3), April 21, 1656. 4. Samuel, March 16, 1658, married and died carly, as his father in 1694 devised property to "Samuel's daugh- ter, Lydia, when eighteen." 5. Jonah, July 7, 1660, will probated in Bristol, November 30, 1072, or 3, 1712; leaves one-third of property to wife and two-thirds "to children of sister Mercy Caswell." 6. Sarah, born July 7, 1660. 7. Hannah, March 15, 1663. 8. Constant, May 16, 1664-65, married William Briggs Jr. 9. Mercy, April 3, 1670, married William Caswell, of Taunton. 10. Experi- ence, whose brother Thomas' son, Nathaniel, directed by will that his wife should "care for Aunt Experience and give her decent burial."
(III) Thomas (3), eldest son of Thomas (2) and Mary (Austin) Lincoln, was born in Taunton, April 21, 1656, and was a soldier in King Philip's war. The record is that on March 10, 1675, Thomas Linkon ( with others), under the lead of Lieutenant Robert Barker, was "find eight pounds, the amount of his pay, for breaking away from the army." He mar- ried (first) Mary, daughter of Richard and Abigail Stacy. Her father died in 1687, and Thomas Lincoln was appointed administrator of his estate. He married (second) Novem- ber 14, 1689, Susannah, daughter of Samuel Smith; she was born January 25, 1664. The date of his death is not known. It is shown by deed of March 3, 1711-12 that he had a "son Nathaniel," and he probably had also Thomas and Jonathan.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of Thomas (3) and Mary (Stacy) Lincoln, was born in Taunton about 1684. In the military forces he ranked as sergeant. His will directs that "my grand- son, son of my son Nahaniel Linkon, shall have my gun, powder horn, bulletts, shott and all appurtenances belonging to military accoutre- ments." He married Alice, daughter of Cap- tain John and Alice (Shaw) Andrews. He was engaged in the milling business, con- ducting a grist mill, while Captain Andrews attended the sawmill. He died March 22, 1761, and his will was probated May 9, 1761.
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Children: I. Nathaniel, born 1725. 2. Icha- bod, 1727, died September 26, 1768; married Hannah -, born 1731, died October 26, 1821; they had Ichabod, born March, 1750, married Ingalls; Rufus, born Novem- ber 10; 1751, married Lydia Sprague; Pru- dence, died unmarried; Asa, born December II, 1756, married Mary Morris; (second) Betsey Howard; Hannah, born 1758, married Jonathan Morris, brother of Mary ; Celia, born 1760, married Robinson; (second) Sampson Mason, and Nathaniel, born 1762, married Susan Burt. 3. Alice, married Ben- jamin Briggs, of Rehoboth. 4. Mary, married Peter Pratt, of Taunton. 5. Constant, mar- ried Samuel Torrey, of Taunton. 6. Martha, married Richard Liscombe. 7. Susannah, mar- ried George Burt, of Taunton.
(V) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Nathaniel (I) and Alice (Andrews) Lincoln, was born in Taunton, about 1725, married, October II, 1743, Elizabeth, daughter of Increase Jr. and Mehitable (Williams) Robinson. They re- moved to Rehoboth, where he purchased a house of Nathaniel Cobb, December 27, 1750. He removed to New Braintree probably in 1759, thence to Petersham, 1778, as shown by deeds. The traditional record concerning his death is that "he went from Petersham to New Marlboro, where his wife died, and he then for a time lived with his son, Stephen, at Oakham, but removed to Attleboro, where he died aged about eighty." But no records are found to confirm this statement. Children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth were: I. Nathan- iel, born in Taunton, tanner of Braintree, mar- ried Ruth Delanoe, of Oakham, removed to Sag Harbor, Staten Island. 2. Sophia, born in Taunton, probably married February 6, 1766, Joseph Parker Jr., of New Braintree, moved to Kingston, Vermont. 3. Rachel, born in Rehoboth, June 15, 1749, married, New Braintree, July II, 1771, Henry Chase Jr., of Petersham. 4. Stephen, born December 3, 175I, settled at Oakham. 5. Lemuel, born at Rehoboth, April 16, 1754, lived at Martha's Vineyard. 6. Loved, born at Rehoboth, Au- gust 26, 1758, settled at Lewiston, Maine, married twice; second wife, Betsy Hodgkin, of Lewiston; he served in the revolutionary war, died in Lewiston, April 9, 1850. He had a large family : Charlotte, married a Thomp- son; Nathaniel, settled in Bath, Maine; Cy- rus, lieutenant in war of 1812, lived at Bath, Maine; Betsy; Lurany; Sally; Levi; Rufus; and two children who died young.
(VI) Stephen, second son of Nathaniel (2) and Elizabeth (Robinson) Lincoln, was born
in Rehoboth, December 3, 1751, and settled in Oakham. He had removed with his father to New Braintree and learned the tanners' trade. He served in the revolutionary war from August, 1778, to February, 1779, in the Rhode Island campaign under Sullivan. He married, at Oakham, Lydia, daughter of Lieu- tenant Ebenezer and Hannah (Parlin) Foster. The tradition is that his first home at Oakham was a log house built on Bogel Hill. He bought, March 6, 1783, an estate of ninety- two acres; in 1787 added fifty acres more to his possessions, which the following year were increased by twenty-five acres and in 1790 by twenty-four acres additional. It is recorded that he "built a large house in 1784 after the fashion of the day, which is still standing." This was at the foot of the hill on the top of which his father-in-law, Lieu- tenant Foster, lived and where his wife Lydia was born. He also built a tannery nearly op- posite where it is said he concealed money in an old shoe in the chimney when General Bur- goyne's army were barracked at Rutland, nearby. He was a member of Oakham Con- gregational Church and June 17, 1779, was appointed chorister. In 1781-92-98 he was surveyor of highways; warden in 1784; se- lectman 1791-98. He was a tall man, of imposing appearance, and his wife was small. He died at Oakham, March 16, 1840, and his wife died April 8, 1839, both buried in the cemetery at Barre Plains road about two miles from Oakham. It is worthy of note that they numbered sixty-five grandchildren. Their children were: I. Abner, born February II, 1780. 2. Hannah, September 25, 1781, mar- ried Amos Hunter. 3. Lydia, March 2, 1784, married Adin Davis. 4. Lucy, October 23, 1786, married Enoch Goodale. 5. Eliza- beth, September 7, 1788, married Luther Hun- ter. 6. Levi, November 3, 1790. 7. Stephen, November 29, 1792. 8. Sarah, May 19, 1795, married Loren Haskell. 9. Justus, May 20, 1797. 10. Mary, December 17, 1799, died unmarried at Elizabeth, New Jersey, Novem- ber 7, 1882. II. Louisa, February 3, 1803, married Abram F. Robinson.
(VII) Justus, fourth son of Stephen and Lydia (Foster) Lincoln, was born in Oakham, May 20, 1797. He was married in Boston, November 24, 1823, to Maria Watson, daugh- ter of Dr. Watson, born in New York City, August 18, 1799, died at Rutland, September 28, 1842. They lived for a time at Dorchester and moved thence to Worcester in 1827, where they resided several years. Before 1833 they went to Hartford, Connecticut. In early life
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he was a gold beater by trade, but later took up farming. He was much interested in mu- sic and was well known as a singer and a teacher. For several years he was leader of the choir of Old South Church, Boston, and served in the same capacity in several other churches. Children: 1. William Henry, born August 19, 1825. 2. John Kent, July 5, 1828. 3. Maria Louisa, March 17, 1831, married Rufus B. Miles. 4. Albert Watson, June 2, 1833. 5. Charles Davis, December 26, 1836.
(VIII) John Kent, second son of Justus and Maria (Watson) Lincoln, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, July 5, 1828, died in Bangor, Maine, May 20, 1887. He was married in Biddeford, Maine, September 4, 1851, to Olive Fairfield, daughter of Ivory and Lydia (Stone) Dame, of Saco, born in Biddeford, August 26, 1830, resided in Ban- gor, Maine. Dr. Lincoln studied dentistry in early days, and practiced in Biddeford, Au- gusta and Bangor. Later he took up the study of theology and was graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1862, and the same year, September 30, was ordained minister. He enlisted in October, 1862, in the Twenty-second Regiment, Maine Volun- teer Infantry, and was appointed chaplain of the regiment. He met with an accident in July, 1863; was thrown over a precipice, fall- ing forty feet and fracturing his skull, from the effects of which he never recovered, al- though he lived for twenty-four years after- ward, but was compelled to abandon the min- istry. The children of John Kent and Olive F. (Dame) Lincoln were: I. Ellen Maria, born in Biddeford, October 23, 1854, died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April II, 1893. 2. Mary Emma, born in Augusta, December IO, 1856. 3. Frederick Dame, born in Ban- gor, January 3, 1862. The maternal great- grandfather of these children was Thomas Dame, who married Abigail Goldthwaite, wid- ow of Benjamin, who was harbor master un- der George III, along the coast extending from Nova Scotia to North Carolina.
(IX) Frederick Dame, only son of John Kent and Olive F. (Dame) Lincoln, was born in Bangor, Maine, January 3, 1862. He was educated in the public and high schools of Bangor and entered business at fifteen years of age with the Union (Marine) Insurance Company of Bangor, and later was employed in the office of Washington Mills Company, Lawrence, Massachusetts. When the treas- urer's office was moved to Boston, he was placed in charge of that as manager, and in 1896 was transferred to their New York office.
as office manager. In 1899, when the Amer- ican Woolen Company was formed, he became the office manager and secretary of the New York Company, which position he occupied in 1907. He married, September 17, 1904, Blanche Horton Boardman, of Bangor, who died December 19, 1906, leaving one child, Samuel Boardman Lincoln, of the tenth gen- cration, born August 5, 1905, now living at New Rochelle, New York.
GOOLD Nearly a score of immigrants of this name came to New England in the first century of its settle- ment. The original name was Gold and the additional letter was a question of fancy.
(I) Jarvice Gold came to America with the family of Clement Bates, in the ship "Elizabeth," Captain William Stagg, and took an oath in London, April 6, 1835, and his age is given as thirty years. The party brought a certificate from the justice and the minister of the parish of All Hallows. Lydd, county of Kent, England. They probably sailed that month and were with Parson Peter Hobart's company in the settlement of Hingham, Mas- sachusetts, that year. He was granted a home lot of five acres July 3, 1636, but removed to Boston before 1646, where he died May 2, 1656, aged fifty-one years. His wife's name was Mary, whom he married about 1644, and they were designated, in the records, as of the church of Hingham. She was alive March II, 1649, but he outlived her. He was a cord- wainer and they had at least two children : John, born July 28, 1646; and Joseph, March II, 1649, who died before 1656.
(II) John, eldest child of Jarvice Gold, was ten years of age at his father's death, and married, August 21, 1673, Mary, a daughter of Robert Crosman, a prominent settler of Taunton, Massachusetts, where they lived and where he died December 14, 17II, aged sixty- five years. He was a cordwainer and was a trooper in Captain Edward Hutchinson's com- pany in King Philip's war, 1675, and was in the first squadron of the military company at Taunton, in 1682. Their children were : Mary (died young), John, Hannah, Joseph, Nathaniel, Mary, Jabez, Benjamin and Eliza- beth. In this family in this third generation the name was changed to Goold, which spell- ing should be adhered to by their descendants.
(III) Joseph, son of John Gold, born about 1680, went to Kittery, Maine, where he mar- ried, about 1705, Bethiah, daughter of Will- iam Furbush, the first of the name in the town which is now that part called Eliot. Jo-
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sephi Goold was a weaver and was a soldier in Captain Thomas Leonard's company in Colonel Nathaniel Byfield's regiment in 1700. He died May 10. 1762, aged about eighty-two years. Their children were: Mary, Bethiah, William, Samuel, Joseph, Hannah and Sarah. The son Joseph Jr. was a selectman and served with Sir William Pepperell at the siege of Louisburg in 1745, and he had five sons in the revolutionary army. There are numerous descendants.
(III) Benjamin, younger brother of Joseph, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, about 1693. He went to Kittery, Maine, about 1713 and married, February 9, 1716, Rebecca, a daughter of Daniel and Dorothy ( Prav) Fur- bush, who was a niece of his brother Joseph's wife. He was a cordwainer and a farmer. Rebecca Furbush was born in Kittery, now Eliot, April 19, 1694, and died in 1782, aged eighty-eight years. They bought land at what is now Goold's Corner, in Eliot, Maine, in 1719, and this land was occupied by them and their posterity one hundred and seventy- eight years. They were Quakers. He died in 1781, aged about eighty-eight years. He was a soldier in Captain Noah Emery's com- pany, October 15, 1754. Their children were : Benjamin, John, Sarah, Samuel, James, Na- thaniel, Daniel and Mary.
(IV) Benjamin (2), eldest son of Benja- min and Rebecca (Furbush) Goold, was born at Kittery, now Eliot, November 27. 1717, and married, in 1744, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Ferguson, of the same town. He was a cordwainer and a good farmer and served in Captain Noah Emery's company in 1754, a corporal under same captain in 1759, and also in Captain Charles Frost's company in 1762. He died in March, 1806, aged over eighty- eight years. Their children were: Abigail, John, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Daniel (a revo- lutionary soldier), Alexander (a revolutionary soldier), Phoebe and Mary.
(V) Benjamin (3), third child of Benja- min (2) and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Goold, was born at Kittery, now Eliot. September 15, 1747, and was a Quaker. He went to Wind- ham, Maine, in 1774, and married, December 24, 1775, Phebe, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Gray) Noble, of Gray, Maine. Her father was a descendant of Thomas Noble, the emigrant, and he served in the army at Louisburg in 1745 and 1758, and in the ex- peditions to Canada in 1757 and 1759, and at the siege of Boston in 1776. He enlisted January 6, 1777, in the Eleventh Massachu- setts Regiment, under Colonels Ebenezer Fran-
cis and Benjamin Tupper, for three years, and was killed at the battle of Saratoga, October 7, 1777, aged fifty-four years. His two sons served in the army. Benjamin Goold was a cordwainer and a thrifty farmer. He served his town as highway surveyor, assessor of taxes and as collector. He died at Windham, November 12, 1807, aged sixty years. His wife was born at New Milford, Connecticut, May 15, 1749, and died at Windham, Feb- ruary 19, 1817, aged sixty-seven years. Her great-grandfather. John Noble, was the found- er of New Milford, Connecticut. Their chil- dren were: Simeon, Nathan, Daniel, Betsey, Mary, Ezra (died young), Ezra, two chil- dren who died in infancy, and Abner.
(VI) Nathan, second child of Benjamin (3) and Phebe (Noble) Goold, was born in Windham, Maine, April 10, 1778, and married first, March 13. 1803, Miriam, daugh- ter of John and Sarah Swett, of Windham, who died February 15, 1805, aged thirty-three years. They had two sons, John and Benja- min. He married second, December 27, 1807, Betsey, daughter of James and Edna (Knight) Gowen, of Falmouth, afterwards Westbrook, Maine. Her father was born in Kittery and represented Falmouth, Maine, in the general court in 1810, and was a descendant of Will- iam Gowen, who married Elizabeth, the daugh- ter of Nicholas Frost, the first settler of Eliot, Maine, May 14, 1667. Betsey's children were: William, Miriam and Nathan, all of whom married. Nathan Goold, senior, was a respected and honored citizen of Windham, serving the town in several capacities. He was a justice of the peace, chairman of the selectmen eight years, and represented his town in the general court in 1816. He was captain of the town military company and saw service at Portland in 1814. He was a delegate to the Brunswick Convention in 1816, organized the first Sunday school in his town and died April 5. 1823, aged almost forty-five years. His wife, Betsey, was born in West- brook, May 15, 1781, and died in Windham, October 22, 1866, aged eighty-five years. She was a woman who was equal to her responsi- bilities and her name is revered by her de- scendants.
(VII) William, the first child of Nathan and Betsey (Gowen) Goold, was born in Windham, April 13, 1809. and married. Sep- tember 9, 1834. Nabby Tukey, the daughter of Seth and Nabby (Tukey) Clark, of Port- land, where she was born May 27, 1816. Seth Clark was a soldier of the war of 1812, and a much respected citizen. Her mother was a
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granddaughter of Jolin and Abigail (Sweet- ser) Tukey, of Portland, the first of that name of his family in America, in 1744, who had four sons in the revolutionary army, one of whom, Stephen, was her grandfather. She liad three ancestors in the expedition to Louis- burg in 1745. Her father was a descendant of Lieutenant William Clark, one of the first settlers of Dorchester and Northampton, Mas- sachusetts, whose name is still revered in their history. Her paternal great-grandfather was Colonel Samuel How, of Belchertown, Massa- chusetts, who was a captain at Crown Point in 1755 and 1756, also in the expedition to capture Fort Ticonderoga in 1757. He was a delegate of the Provincial congress in 1774 and 1775 and was in the congress at Concord, Massachusetts, when the men and means were voted for the beginning of the revolution. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the Lexington alarm, and in January, 1776, was chosen colo- nel. He had four sons in the army and was one of the most prominent and useful citizens of his town. Ezra Clark, Seth Clark's grand- father, took an active part in the revolution at Northampton and had five sons in the army. Nabby Tukey Clark was a descendant of John Winter, Rev. Robert Jordan, John Robinson Jr. and Colonel Ezekiel Cushing of Cape Eliza- beth, Maine. She was a woman of strong character, charitable and interested in the welfare of others. She died at Windham, Sep- tember 27, 1897, aged eighty-one years. Will- iam Goold learned the trade of a tailor, a business he carried on many years. His school education was very limited. He resided both in Portland and in Windham, where he was a respected citizen, representing the latter in the legislature and his county in the senate of the state. In 1873 he was elected a mem- ber of the Maine Historical Society, became the corresponding secretary and was a mem- ber of the standing committee. The fourteen papers read before the society by him show the range of his knowledge and must remain a valuable addition to its published collections. He did much newspaper work of historic na- ture and was the author of "Portland in the Past," a volume of 543 pages, a most valuable addition to Portland's written history. He was the historian of Portland in his time, was quiet, modest and retiring in disposition, ex- ceedingly observant, with a tenacious memory, and had a great store of knowledge relating to the early history of Portland. His narra- tions were always spirited and enterprising. His children were: I. Mary Elizabeth, who married George H. Harding, in 1869, and died
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