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H. and Phebe ( Cummings) Bailey, of Yar- mouth, and a descendant of Priscilla ( Alul- lens) Alden, wife of John Alden, a "May- flower" Pilgrim, through Sarah ( Alden) Bass (II), Sarah (Bass) Thayer (11I), Peter Thayer (IV), Phebe (Thayer) Cummings (V), Phebe (Cummings) Bailey (VI). Chil- dren of Thomas S. and Harriet ( Bailey ) Pul- len are: I. Ilarriet L., marricd Hiram C. Vaughan, a surgeon in the United States navy. 2. Stanley T., see forward. 3. Emma Char- lotte, widow of Charles H. Dennett, of Ban- gor, Maine. 4. Clarence Edgar, a civil en- ginecr of note, at one time filled the office of surveyor-general of New Mexico. 5. Fred Herbert, served in the United States navy in the Spanish war, and died on board the "Reso- lute" while in the service.
(II) Stanley Thomas, second child and eldest son of Thomas Stanlcy and Harriet (Bailey) Pullen, was born in Guilford, Au- gust 6, 1843. When he was two years of age his parents removed to Dover and there he was reared, receiving his education in the public schools of Dover, Foxcroft Academy, and Colby University, graduating from the latter in 1864. In the following autumn he became principal of the Foxcroft Academy, serving in that capacity one year. At the expiration of that time his father died, and he relinquished his position to assume the management of his father's estate. Later he began the study of law in the office of Augus- tus G. Lebroke, of Foxcroft, pursuing the same two years, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He practiced his profession in Fox- croft until 1869, when he removed to Portland and became law partner of Hon. Percival Bon- ney, this connection continuing up to 1872. Mr. Pullen then purchased the Portland Press, of which he was chief owner and editor for about eleven years. This was the leading paper in the state of Maine, having a daily and weekly edition, always a foremost factor in state politics, as well as a power for good along other lines. In 1886 he formed a part- nership with Frank C. Crocker, and became a member of the New York Stock Exchange, conducting business under the name of Pul- len, Crocker & Company, continuing the same until 1894, when Mr. Pullen settled perma- nently in Portland. In 1896 he had arranged to form a partnership in the stock exchange business with Edmund C. Stedman, the banker poet, a long-time close friend. A few days before he was to go to New York to assume the new position, a malady of the eyes de- veloped, resulting in a serious impairment of
vision, so that he was unable to fulfill the engagement with Mr. Stedman.
Mr. Pullen is a Republican in politics, and has taken some part in public affairs. He was a representative in the Maine legislature for one term, 1874-85, but refused a second nomination on the ground that holding public office while in office interfered with the edito- rial independence. While in the house he was an active worker and speaker, and was a mem- ber of the judiciary committee. He was ap- pointed surveyor of customs in Portland, Maine, 1878, retiring in 1880, and while serv- ing in that capacity established the rule of counting passengers on excursion boats in order to ascertain that these were not over- loaded. He has always taken a keen interest in educational matters, serving for a number of years as a school committeeman of Port- land and for twenty years was a trustee of the state normal schools. He had charge of the building of the normal schools at Gorham, and at various times has visited the other normal schools in the state, located at Castine and Farmington, in which institutions he is especially interested. He was a dclegate to a number of national conventions at Chicago and Cincinnati. He is an attendant of the First Parish Church (Unitarian), and for eleven years was superintendent of the Preble Chapel Sunday school, a mission institution. Although not a member of any church, he is interested in religious and benevolent work.
Mr. Pullen possesses a highly sympathetic nature, is a lover of animals, and has always been a believer in the inculcation of the prin- ciples of justice in all things. In 1872 he joined the Portland Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals, which was incor- porated under the general laws of Maine by a petition from Benjamin Kingsbury Jr., and other citizens of Portland. The first president of the society was Woodbury S. Dana ; Henry Bergh, of New York, headed the list of vice- presidents ; and the officers were Stanley T. Pullen, recording secretary; Joseph W. Sym- onds, treasurer : William L. Fitch, agent. At a regular meeting, May 22, 1872, the society was organized and a code of by-laws adopted. The succession of presidents of the society has been as follows: Woodbury S. Dana, 1872; Nathan Cleaves, 1876; Charles Mc- Laughlin, 1879: M. G. Palmer. 1886; Nathan Cleaves, 1889: Stanley T. Pullen, 1891, the present incumbent of the office. The society, appreciating in the development of its work the need of authority which should extend throughout the state, in order to protect ani-
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mals from maltreatment and neglect, decided in May, 1891, to unite with the State So- ciety, with headquarters at Portland ; holding itself in readiness to extend its aid, sending its agents to any part of Maine, as may be necessary, and having local officers appointed in different parts of the state. In the brief time since this union of two societies took place the great usefulness of this fusion has been proved. The following abstract of work for the year ending January 1, 1907, is com- piled from reports of agents throughout the state : 517 cases investigated ; 704 animals not properly cared for; 138 unfit for work; 14 abandoned; 138 destroyed; 38 beaten or whipped : 30 overdriven ; 27 overloaded; 66 driven galled or lame; 77 not blanketed; 15 over checked; 23 cases prosecuted ; 21 con- victed. In this showing, President Pullen re- marks: "The number of cases during that year was considerably less than in the year preceding, while the number in 1905 was less than in 1904, and this in view of the fact that there has been an increase in the list of agents, with no diminution of vigilance and activity. Up to the time of the organization as a state society, in 1891, the society had very little to do with the question of the island sheep, be- cause the few that were kept on the islands of Casco Bay were usually under observation of their owners, who at the approach of cold weather removed the animals to their home farms. When the field of work was extended beyond Portland and its immediate vicinity, the society began to receive complaints that the sheep on islands to eastward, among these Monhegan, were suffering for food, care and protection from the weather. The agent en- tered immediately upon an investigation of the matter, visited Monhegan, examined the locality and the condition of the sheep, made inquiries of the residents and ascertained that the complaints were well founded. He then had interviews with the owners, who agreed to furnish proper shelter and food for the sheep. This agreement was not satisfactorily carried out ; and in the summer of 1896 other complaints were made to the society, and while the owners did not attempt to make a defense of their conduct before the court, when the opportunity was offered them, a communica- tion afterward appeared in print, apparently inspired by them, in the nature of an apology. The result of the Monhegan case settled the matter in general for the islands to the west of Penobscot Bay. To the eastward of Penob- scot Bay, however, a long contest awaited the society: Between the Penobscot river and
New Brunswick lie many islands, at that time generally occupied by sheep. The sheep own- ers were numerous and well organized, and contested every step of the society both in and out of court. The good work finally ac- complished by the society can be seen from the following, which is taken from President Pullen's address of 1907 :
"In regard to our old problem of the care and protection of the sheep on the islands of the Maine coast, I have in general only good things to say. The organized opposition of sheep owners has practically ceased and the leaders of the resistance have declared their purpose of complying with our requests and obeying the laws of Maine as to the provision of shelter and food for the unfortunate ani- mals which have attracted so much interest and sympathy, not only in our own state, but throughout the country. In fact, one of the most persistent and defiant opponents of our efforts has assured our agent that his con- troversy with us is ended, and that he has come to believe that our work has been not only for the good of the sheep, but also for the good of the sheep owners, and that we have henceforth only to announce what we want and that he and his associates will cor- dially accede to our propositions. He fur- ther said that they had become satisfied that our prosecutions were not persecutions, and that he is heartily in accord with us."
Mr. Pullen is a member of the Masonic Order, holding membership in the lodge and Royal Arch Chapter, of Foxcroft. He is also a member of the following named clubs: The Cumberland, in Portland, and the University and Players, in New York. Previous to the trouble with his eyes, Mr. Pullen took a keen interest in his club membership. He has trav- eled extensively, and enjoys a wide acquaint- ance with men of note. He was of the party with President Grant on his cruise on the Maine coast, during the administration of President Grant, and was the guest of Presi- dent Porfirio Diaz, of Mexico.
Mr. Pullen married, September 8, 1894, Elisabeth Cavazza. a native of Portland, Maine, daughter of Charles and Anna (Da- veis) Jones. Charles Jones was born April 16, 1804. in Portland, died December 16, 1859. He came from a seagoing family who were traders in the Mediterranean Sea. Mr. Tones was a leading man in Portland in his day, and was largely instrumental in the wel- fare and upbuilding of that city. He served as president of the Gas Company and man- aging director of the Portland Company, of
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which concerns he was also the practical founder and organizer. lle was a man of genins, capable of turning his hand to many things, was of highly artistic temperament, a successful business man and financier of no mean ability. Mrs. Pullen has attained emi- nence in literature, both prose and verse. Be- side a large number of articles, stories and poems in the magazines, she is the author of two volumes : one of sketches, "Don Finimon- done," and the other a novel, "Mr. Whitman," both stories of South Italian life. Her poems 011 the occasions of the placing of the Long- fellow statue and of the celebration of the Longfellow centenary, the ode sung at the City Centennial and the verses for the unveil- ing of the monument at Valley Forge to the Maine soldiers of the revolution, were written upon invitation of the committees in charge.
PRESSEY The name of Pressie, as it was formerly spelled, has been common in America since the middle of the seventeenth century, being first found in Massachusetts, part of the family later removing to New Hampshire, and fol- lowing the enlarged area of settlement, some of them settling in Maine. It is recorded in Hosmer's "History of Deer Isle" that "the name of Pressey was originally Percy, as ap- peared from what was known as a coat-of- arms which was kept in the family many years at Deer Isle." The first war in which they took part was King Philip's war, and they bore themselves with credit in the revo- lution, also in the war of 1812, and the war between the states. One of the name fell in the battle of Antietam, and is buried in the National cemetery there.
(I) John Pressey was born in 1638, in England, and emigrated to this country in 1650, when twelve or thirteen years of age, which journey was made in the company of Major Robert Pike, in whose house he lived many years in Salisbury, Massachusetts. In 1664 he bought land in Salisbury, and he there took the oath of allegiance December 20, 1677. He and his son John took part in King Philip's war, serving under Captain Turner. and May 18. 1676, took part in the "Falls Fight," for which service the general court granted each one a township of land, as near as possible to the scene of conflict. When Susanna Martin, of Amesbury, was tried for witchcraft. John Pressey testified against her. November 4, 1663, he married Mary Gage, and their children were: John,
born October 1, 1664; Mary, November 30, 1665; and William.
(11) William, second son of John and Mary (Gage) Pressey, was born January 12, 1671, and died October 19, 1737; in the records he is called "snow-shoe man." He married Su- sanna, daughter of John and Esthier ( Martin) Jameson, and they had John and probably others.
(III) John (2), son of William and Su- sanna (Jameson) Pressey, was born Decem- ber 2, 1691, and died December 13, 1737. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Ephraim and Elizabeth (Colby) Weed, and they had eight children, as follows: Jolm, born 1714; Moses, 1715; Aaron, 1718; Joseph, 1720; Benjamin, Elizabeth, Paul and Jonathan.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) and Eliza- beth (Weed) Pressey, was born in 1714 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and by 1735 had removed to Sandown, New Hampshire, and married Mary Chase. He and his son Charles were in the revolutionary war, serving in "Rogers Rangers." Deer Island, Maine, was first settled about 1762, and in 1766 John Pressey deeded his land in Sandown, New Hampshire, to his son Charles, whose de- scendants still own the homestead and have for nearly two hundred years. He removed to Deer Isle, Maine, with three other sons and two daughters. He had seven children, namely : Charles, Elijah, John, Paul, Chase, and two daughters. One daughter married Ambrose Colby, of Deer Island, and the other married Nathan Johnson, of the same town.
(V) Elijah, son of John (3) and Mary (Chase) Pressey, settled at Ware, New Hampshire, and married a lady by the name of Blaisdell, by whom he had four sons, and possibly daughters, although there is no record of them. His sons were Moses, Benjamin, Jacob and John. His sons all moved to Maine, settling finally: Jacob in Mercer, where he died; Benjamin, who was born in 1764, set- tled in Waterville, where he died; Moses and John in Stark, where some of their descend- ants now live; Moses died in Stark. Benja- min married and has one son, George W., and several daughters, one of whom married a Lewis, of Waterville, and one a Mr. Con- nor: lived in Farmington; had families. George W. married Phebe Woodcock, and had three sons and three daughters ; the sons were : George W. Jr., Henry and J. Manly ; George W. Jr. married, moved to Hammondton, New Jersey. later to Newport News, Virginia : his daughters are not married; the sons, B. J.
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and brother are dentists, one at Newport News, the other at Hampton, Virginia; chil- dren of both are girls. Henry married and had several children; lives now in Nebraska ; one son, Alfred, a lieutenant in navy. J. Manly inherited old homestead in Water- ville : married ; died young.
(VI) Jacob, third son of Elijah Pressey, was born at Ware, New Hampshire, and "was a private in muster and pay roll of Lieutenant Nathaniel Tibbetts' company, Major William Lithgow's command, detached with guards on seacoast." He moved first to Wiscasset, Maine, and lived there some years. In 1806 he moved to Mercer. His sons were: Isaac, Thomas. Alfred and David, and one daughter, who married Asaph Works, of New Sharon. Her descendants now reside there. His sons Isaac. Thomas and Alfred were in the war of 1812. Thomas and Alfred lived to receive pensions for their services. Isaac married, and was in trade in Mercer; he died while yet a young man, leaving a widow and one daughter. Alfred married and had two sons, Isaac and Cyrus, and five daughters; Isaac moved to Stamford, Connecticut ; Cyrus mar- ried Ann Hussey, of Rome, lived and died in Mercer, had a family of children ; the daugh- ters of Alfred married in different states, and their descendants are scattered. David mar- ried Lovina Landers. His son Sumner lives on old homestead in Mercer. Has two sons, one living with him; the other, Charles, mar- ried and lives on a farm adjoining on Pressey road in Mercer.
(VII) Thomas, son of Jacob Pressey, was born in 1790, at Wiscasset, Maine. He was a farmer, and soldier in the war of 1812, serving in the Fourth Regiment Infantry, United States Regulars. He married Elvira Lindsey, and their children were: I. Warren Ethelbert, born January 14, 1827, mentioned below. 2. Francis G., deceased ; lived in Waterville ; was conductor on the M. C. R. R. ; had one daugh- ter. Leora, who married Herbert Holland, of Massachusetts, and who now lives in Water- ville. 3. Elizabeth B., deceased; she married Sanford Crowell, of Smithfield, who died on Ship Island, Mississippi; was a soldier in the Thirteenth Maine; married (second) Daniel Stevens ; had one son, Fred Stevens, who mar- ried and has a family of sons and daughters. 4. Keziah H., married Edgar J. Riker, who resides in Lewiston ; had one son, Warren E., married : no children ; druggist. One daugh- ter, Emma J., married Fred Merrill and lives in Brockton. 5. Melzar L., resides in Lewis- ton ; married and has three daughters, one of
whom, Nettie, married Charles Potter, re- sides in Brunswick, and has a daughter and son. The daughter married, has children, and resides in Brunswick. The son is still young and unmarried. 6. Charles D., married Ruby Hutchins, moved to Bangor, and is a man- ufacturer ; had two sons, Wilmer and Frank; Wilmer was a physician; died young; Frank married, lives in Bangor, is a civil engineer, and a graduate of the University of Maine; he has two children, a son and daughter. 7. Maria, deceased ; she married Gorham Carr ; no children. 8. Laura A., married Eli Wells; they live on the old homestead; had one daughter, Georgia A., married Rev. Herbert Mank, a Congregationalist : minister in Law- rence, Massachusetts ; has two daughters, Helen and Edith, now at Holyoke College, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Warren Ethelbert, eldest son of Thomas and Elvira (Lindsey) Pressey, was born January 14, 1827, at Mercer, Maine, and attended the public schools, after which he spent three summers fishing at Grand Banks, Maine, in the winter teaching school. He then spent some time at Lowell, Massachu- setts, learning the trade of machinist, and in 1851 removed to California, where he spent eight or nine years teaching school, and be- came interested in mining. While there he was a captain in the Fifth California Infantry Regiment. In 1865 he returned to Maine, where he settled in Lewiston and engaged in the boot and shoe business. In 1872 he was a representative in the Maine legislature from the city of Lewiston, and held several offices in the city government of Lewiston. In 1881 he removed to Washington, where he spent two years in the forty-seventh congress, as doorkeeper in the house of representatives. In 1883 he was a messenger of the United States senate, and in 1898 was made assistant post- master of the senate, which position he ably filled and now ( 1908) holds. He married, January 4, 1863. in California, Annie Rhoda, daughter of Albert H. and Mary Jane (John- son) Iris, of Biddeford, Maine. and they have three children, namely: 1. Ethelbert Lindsey, born July 24, 1864, was with the Union Pa- cific Railroad in Boston, and died in 1893. He married Minnie H. Bosworth, of New Hampshire. 2. Charles Francis, born Sep- tember 9, 1866, is a hotel manager and resides at Washington, unmarried. 3. Henry Albert.
(IX) Henry Albert, third and youngest son of Warren Ethelbert and Annie Rhoda (Irish) Pressey, was born September 24, 1873, grad- uated from Columbian University at Wash-
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ington, with degree B. S., and after an ex- amination for the revenue cutter service of the United States, entered same for one year, after which he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, graduating from same in 1896. He took a post-graduate course at the George Washington University (the name of which has been changed from Columbian), of Washington, and received the degree of Ph. D. in 1903. He spent five years as professor of civil engineering in the George Washington University, and is now estab- lished as a civil engineer, with an office in Washington. He married Perley Fitch, of New York, and they have two children : Henry Albert Jr., born July 19, 1905, and Warren Fitch, born July 17, 1907. Perley (Fitch) Pressey is the daughter of Colonel Butler and Anna ( Moffat) Fitch.
GODING This family is of English lin- eage. Though the ancestry of the first emigrant to America has not been traced in the mother country, yet there is some reason to suppose he was from the county of Kent. The surname, a cor- ruption apparently of the Anglo-Saxon God- win, may be rendered "a friend of God." Its varying forms as found in the records of the seventeenth century are Godding, Godden, Godyn, Goddin, Goddyn and Gauden.
(I) Henry Goding was master of the ship "Abigail," which in 1628 brought Governor Endicott and his colony to Salem. His name occurs the following year on the records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in connection with payment for freight carried by his ves- sel; but whom he married, or whether, in- deed, he ever became a permanent resident, is not known. His children were William and Henry.
(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (I) Goding, was born in 1642, and April 7, 1663. mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Beers; he died October 13, 1720. His early life is unknown to the present day, other than that he learned the art of cloth weaving. The first appearance of his name in the colonial records is his marriage at Watertown, in 1663, and a few months later, October 29. 1663, record is made of his hav- ing received from the town authorities remun- eration for dressing Hugh Parson's leg. In 1667 he gave money for repairs on the town schoolhouse, and he with others is a defend- ant for allowing his cattle to graze over the range without paying the herdsman, and is ordered to pay his share to the selectmen.
June 12, 1681, Widow Ruth Bloyce (also spelled Bloys and Bloice), daughter of Hugh Parsons, granted him land formerly belong- ing to her father, taking up a permanent resi- dence with his family, and remaining there until her death; this land consisted of four acres, and July 19, 1698, the town voted that this land should be legally confirmed to him or his heirs by the town within a year after the death of the Widow Bloyce. Three years before his death he sold these four acres for twenty-five pounds. His wife's death preceded his own. Their children were : Timothy, born May 8, 1664, died unmarried, 1723; Elizabeth, born November 8, 1667, mar- ried John Morse Jr., and had no children; and Henry.
(III) Henry, second and younger son of Henry (2) and Elizabeth ( Beers) Goding, was born in 1669, in Watertown, Massachu- setts, and died in 1746. He leased the four acres which had belonged to his father, and after occupying same several years, purchased them for fifty pounds, receiving deed thereto May 10, 1728. He appears from his will to have accumulated considerable property, which he bequeathed to his children. The only office we find record of his holding was that of tithingman, to which he was chosen in 1724. March 26. 1701, he married Mary Pease, of Cambridge. Their children were: I. Mary, born October 18, 1701. 2. William. 3. Henry, born October 28, 1704; married Elizabeth Holden. 4. Samuel, baptized March 16, 1706; married Mary Boyce. 5. Elizabeth, baptized June 23, 1708; married John Batherick. 6. Thomas, baptized October 1, 1710, probably died young, as he is not mentioned in his father's will. 7. Abigail, born 1713; became Mrs. Wheeler. 8. John, baptized September 18, 1715. 9. Hannah, baptized May 20. 1716; married Isaac Child. 10. Dorothy, baptized October 20, 1717; married John Gleason.
(IV) William, eldest son of Henry and Mary (Pease) Goding, was born April 24, 1703. He lived in Watertown, where he owned at least two separate tracts of land which he sold in 1752 and in 1761. He was assessed in Medford in 1728, and therefore must have owned some property there. The Watertown records mention his election as fence-viewer in 1743, and in 1749 his loss of three children by diphtheria. He married (first) 1731, Martha, daughter of Peter and Rebecca Spooner, born March 6, 1715, died July 1, 1749; and (second) October 8, 1753, Mercy, widow of Daniel Stearns, who died in 1767. His children, all by his first mar-
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irage, were: I. Martha, born June 30, 1732; married Daniel Peirce, of Waltham, Massa- chusetts. 2. Rebecca, born July 19, 1734, died September 22, 1749. 3. William. 4. Jonathan Coolidge, born January 31, 1739; married Hannah Larned. 5. Joanna, born April 21, 1741, died July 5, 1749. 6. Peter, born July 29, 1744, died July 8, 1749. 7. Henry, born November 13, 1746, died September 8, 1749. 8. Spencer, born June 28, 1749.
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