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(IV) Elisha, eighth child and third son of Michael and Bethia ( Hatch) Ford, was born in Marshfield, in 1696, and died in 1758. He married, 1719, Elizabeth Oakman, who died in 1768. Their seven children were: Lemuel, Patience, Jerusha, Priscilla, Elisha, Isaac and Tabitha.
(V) Elisha (2), fifth child and second son of Elisha (1) and Elizabeth (Oakman) Ford, was born in Marshfield, in 1734. He married Elizabeth Tilden in 1759, and they were the parents of Elisha, John, Joshua Tilden, and probably others.
(VI) Joshua Tilden, son of Elisha (2) and Elizabeth (Tilden) Ford, was born in Marsh-
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Thomas and Lydia ( Richardson ) Cummings, was born in Ipswich, February 12, 1741, and died March 27, 1806. He lived with his grandfather, Captain Joseph, until the death of the latter in 1794, and then became heir to all his real estate. He was a soldier in the revo- lution and sergeant of the company which marched from Topsfield under command of Captain Stephen Perkins in consequence of the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; and perhaps saw other service. Thomas Cummings married, April 16, 1763, Lois Boardman, of Topsfield, who died December 6, 1792. He married ( sec- ond), September 3, 1797, Elizabeth Perkins, of Topsfield, who died December 6, 1825. His children, all by first wife, were: Jonas, Joseph, Thomas, Nathaniel, Daniel and John Board- man.
(VII) Daniel, fifth of the six sons of Thom- as (2) and Lois ( Boardman) Cummings, was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts, April 10, 1774, died in Freeport, Maine, August 2, 1854. He went to Freeport in the Province of Maine in early life and lived there more than half a century. He was a strong old-time Baptist, a carpenter, church builder and farmer. He married Elizabeth Knowlton. Their intentions of marriage were published January 29, 1797. She was born December 19, 1773, died July 6, 1862. Children : Clarissa, Elizabeth, John Boardman, Perley Dodge (died young), Thomas, Freeman Gridley, Perley Dodge, Louisa Dodge, Daniel, Mary Hyde and Jo- seph Porter.
(VIII) Daniel (2), sixth son of Daniel ( I) and Elizabeth (Knowlton) Cummings, was born in Freeport, October 11, 1812, died May 2, 1883. He was a carpenter, lumber dealer and building contractor. He lived in Port- land from about 1836 till his death. Several of his brothers were engaged in the same line of business that he was. September 15, 1841, he married Frances W., daughter of Aphsah Roberts, a boat builder of Portland. She was born June 22. 1817, died about 1855. Chil- dren : George Henry and Mary Adelaide. He married (second), 1860, Martha Brock, who died December, 1872.
(IX) Dr. George Henry, only son of Daniel (2) and Frances W. (Roberts) Cummings, was born in Portland. April 4, 1850, died there August 22, 1903. He graduated from the Portland high school in 1868, Bowdoin Col- lege, 1872, entered the Maine Medical College (Bowdoin) 1872, and attended there the next two years, and in 1875 took the degree of M. D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. After completing his med-
ical course, he returned to Portland and that was the field of his labors as long as he lived. For some years much of his time was devoted to obstetrics and the diseases of women. He was a good physician and a skilful surgeon, and in later life gave particular attention to surgery. In 1890 he became adjutant surgeon to the Maine General Hospital, and in 1895 one of the operating surgeons to that institu- tion, retaining that position as long as he lived. He was city physician in 1880 and 1881, and was a member of the board of health nine years, resigning in July, 1902. It was while he was a member of the healthi board that the small-pox epidemic broke out in Portland. In that troublesome period Dr. Cummings ren- dered valiant service to thousands of people, going to the office of the board in the city building every day for many weeks and vacci- nating with Dr. H. P. Merrill, his associate, throngs and throngs who went to him for that purpose. His energies were undoubtedly se- verely taxed during this small-pox epidemic, and this strain with his large private practice in all probability resulted in breaking down a physical system which up to that time had been well nigh perfect. Dr. Cummings had not been in the best of health for several months, and during that time he had com- plained of weakness of the heart. Shortly be- fore his death he had been particularly busy, and to secure a little relaxation from profes- sional cares he took a trip with two of his friends, Dr. C. W. Bray and Philip I. Jones, and went on the steam yacht "Maitland" of the former to Booth Bay, in the vicinity of which he died suddenly of acute indigestion. Dr. Cummings stood high in his profession and was a favorite with the physicians of Portland. He was a member of the Cumber- land County Medical Association, Portland Medical Association, and the American Acad- emy of Medicine. He was a member of An- cient Landmark Lodge, F. and A. M., of which he was made a life member October 19, 1875. He was also a member of the Portland Club and the Portland Yacht Club, in the circles of both being a familiar figure. He was an at- tendant of the State Street Congregational Church, and was one of its liberal supporters. Dr. Cummings and his family had for several years resided in a beautiful home at 699 Con- gress street.
George H. Cummings married, in Bruns- wick, June II, 1879, Anda Celestia, born on shipboard, near the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean, daughter of Captain William Merritt and Harriett Maria (Melcher) Otis. ( See
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Otis.) Children of Captain William M. and Harriett M. (Melcher) Otis were: Jamies Snow, married Annette Whittier ; Harriet Ma- ria ; Anda C., mentioned above ; W. Ella, and Albert Henry, married Alice Dyer. To Dr. George Henry and Anda C. (Otis) Cummings was born one child, George Otis, July 31, 1891, now a student in the Portland high school.
The Otises mentioned below have descended from John Otis, who was born in Barnstable, Devonshire, England, 1581, and came to Hingham, New England, and drew house lots with first division of lands in that town, 1638. I. Samuel Otis went from Massachu- setts to Nova Scotia, 1761-64, and settled at what is now Yarmouth. He was a member of the committee appointed by the council of the province to divide the forfeited lands in the township of Yarmouth under the act of August, 1761. His name appears in a list of settlers in the township of Yarmouth fur- nished to the government by John Crowley in 1764. It is remarkable that he is the only one of the whole fifty-three who has the title of "Esquire" attached to his name. He was the only person there who owned a vessel. His family consisted of seven persons. He seems to have returned to the Province of Massachu- setts Bay about 1765 and settled on Katteerine Island, now Rutherford Island, in the town of Bristol, which island was conveyed to him by Thomas Droune, of Boston, probably in 1788. May 2, 1775. he was chairman of the commit- tee of safety and in that capacity addressed a letter to the provincial congress which is on file in Boston. He was appointed to present a petition to the general court, January 31. 1782. His will was made August 28, and proved October 26, 1805. He married, at Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Patience Sherman, probably a daughter of Ebenezer and Wait Sherman. She died in 1828. Their children were: Samuel, Wait, Ebenezer, David, Thank- ful, Patience, Anna, Sarah and John.
2. Samuel (2), eldest son of Samuel ( I) and Patience (Sherman) Otis, removed from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and settled at St. George, Thomaston, Maine, or near there. Samuel Otis was in Cushing in 1794, and later, prob- ably, lived on Harpswell Great Island. He married Mercy Williams, of Harpswell. Their children were: James, Samuel, Rebecca, Bet- sey, Reuben, Hannah and Sally. James is men- tioned below. Samuel, of Topsham, was in the Harpswell company in the war of 1812-1814. 3. James, eldest child of Samuel (2) and Mercy (Williams) Otis, was born March 26, 1788. James Otis, of Brunswick, was a sol-
dier in the war of 1812, in Captain Richard T. Dunlap's company in 1814. He married, in 1813, Betsey Snow, born June 12, 1792. Her parents were John Snow, born October 28, 1762, and his wife, Thankful (Purinton) Snow, born June 24, 1766, and married Sep- tember 22, 1786. Their children were: Pris- cilla, Jesse, Betsey, Fanny, Abner, Isaiah, Jane and Mary. The grandparents of Betsey Snow were Isaac Snow, born May 18, 1736, and his wife, Elizabeth (Larrabee) Snow, born June 10, 1737, and married August, 1757. Their children were: Jesse, Mary, John, Sam- uel, William, Benjamin, Stephan, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Isaac. The children of James and Betsey ( Snow ) Otis were: William Mer- ritt, James, Harvey Snow, Caroline Maria, Al- bert Curtis, Reuben Henry and Edwin Francis.
4. Captain William Merritt, son of James and Betsey (Snow) Otis, was born in Bruns- wick, January 4, 1814, and at this date, 1908, is living at Brunswick in the enjoyment of his physical and mental faculties, at the age of ninety-four. He was a captain for forty-three years, and sailed to ports in nearly every civil- ized country in the world. He married, 1839, Harriet Maria Melcher, born December, 1812, died June, 1853, daughter of Josiah and Nancy Melcher, of Brunswick. Four chil- dren were born to them: James Snow, Har- riet Maria, Anda Celestia, W. Ella. Anda C. was born on the Indian Ocean, near the Anda- man Islands, and married Dr. George H. Cummings. (See Cummings IX.) Captain Otis married (second), 1857, Harriet W. Barion ; one child, Albert Henry Otis.
CUMMINGS The present sketch treats of a line of descendants of John Comins, whose sur-
name in later generations took the present form, Cummings. John Comins lived in Wo- burn, Massachusetts, where by wife Mary he had: Jolm (died young), Mary, John, Kath- erine, Jacob, Josiah, Stephen and James, all born between September 15, 1692, and May 7, 1705. Of these Jacob was the father of Lem- uel, one of the first settlers of Charlton, Mas- sachusetts. One of his sons was William, of Parkman, Maine, it is said.
(I) John Gilman, second son of William and Deborah (Harris) Cummings, was born in Parkman, Maine, June 22, 1829, and after acquiring his education started in life as a school teacher and taught several terms in the vicinity of his home. About 1860 he engaged in the stove and tinware business in Bidde- ford with George West, under the firm name
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Thomas and Lydia ( Richardson) Cummings, was born in Ipswich, February 12, 1741, and died March 27, 1806. He lived with his grandfather, Captain Joseph, until the death of the latter in 1794, and then became heir to all his real estate. He was a soldier in the revo- lution and sergeant of the company which marched from Topsfield under command of Captain Stephen Perkins in consequence of the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; and perhaps saw other service. Thomas Cummings married, April 16, 1763, Lois Boardman, of Topsfield, who died December 6, 1792. He married ( sec- ond), September 3, 1797, Elizabeth Perkins, of Topsfield, who died December 6, 1825. His children, all by first wife, were: Jonas, Joseph, Thomas, Nathaniel, Daniel and John Board- man.
(VII) Daniel, fifth of the six sons of Thom- as (2) and Lois (Boardman) Cummings, was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts, April 10, 1774, died in Freeport, Maine. August 2, 1854. He went to Freeport in the Province of Maine in early life and lived there more than half a century. He was a strong old-time Baptist, a carpenter, church builder and farmer. He married Elizabeth Knowlton. Their intentions of marriage were published January 29, 1797. She was born December 19, 1773, died July 6, I862. Children : Clarissa, Elizabeth, John Boardman, Perley Dodge (died young), Thomas, Freeman Gridley, Perley Dodge, Louisa Dodge, Daniel, Mary Hyde and Jo- seph Porter.
(VIII) Daniel (2), sixth son of Daniel (1) and Elizabeth ( Knowlton ) Cummings, was born in Freeport, October II, 1812, died May 2, 1883. He was a carpenter, lumber dealer and building contractor. He lived in Port- land from about 1836 till his death. Several of his brothers were engaged in the same line of business that he was. September 15, 1841, he married Frances W., daughter of Aphsah Roberts, a boat builder of Portland. She was born June 22, 1817, died about 1855. Chil- dren : George Henry and Mary Adelaide. He married (second), 1860, Martha Brock, who died December, 1872.
(IX) Dr. George Henry, only son of Daniel (2) and Frances W. (Roberts) Cummings, was born in Portland, April 4, 1850, died there August 22, 1903. He graduated from the Portland high school in 1868, Bowdoin Col- lege, 1872, entered the Maine Medical College (Bowdoin) 1872, and attended there the next two years, and in 1875 took the degree of M. D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. After completing his med-
ical course, he returned to Portland and that was the field of his labors as long as he lived. For some years much of his time was devoted to obstetrics and the diseases of women. He was a good physician and a skilful surgeon, and in later life gave particular attention to surgery. In 1890 he became adjutant surgeon to the Maine General Hospital, and in 1895 one of the operating surgeons to that institu- tion, retaining that position as long as he lived. He was city physician in 1880 and 1881, and was a member of the board of health nine years, resigning in July, 1902. It was while he was a member of the health board that the small-pox epidemic broke out in Portland. In that troublesome period Dr. Cummings ren- dered valiant service to thousands of people, going to the office of the board in the city building every day for many weeks and vacci- nating with Dr. H. P. Merrill, his associate, throngs and throngs who went to him for that purpose. His energies were undoubtedly se- verely taxed during this small-pox epidemic, and this strain with his large private practice in all probability resulted in breaking down a physical system which up to that time had been well nigh perfect. Dr. Cummings had not been in the best of health for several months, and during that time he had com- plained of weakness of the heart. Shortly be- fore his death he had been particularly busy, and to secure a little relaxation from profes- sional cares he took a trip with two of his friends, Dr. C. W. Bray and Philip I. Jones, and went on the steam yacht "Maitland" of the former to Booth Bay, in the vicinity of which he died suddenly of acute indigestion. Dr. Cummings stood high in his profession and was a favorite with the physicians of Portland. He was a member of the Cumber- land County Medical Association, Portland Medical Association. and the American Acad- emy of Medicine. He was a member of An- cient Landmark Lodge, F. and A. M., of which he was made a life member October 19, 1875. He was also a member of the Portland Club and the Portland Yacht Club, in the circles of both being a familiar figure. Ile was an at- tendant of the State Street Congregational Church, and was one of its liberal supporters. Dr. Cummings and his family had for several years resided in a beautiful home at 699 Con- gress street.
George H. Cummings married, in Bruns- wick, June 11, 1879, Anda Celestia, born on shipboard, near the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean, daughter of Captain William Merritt and Harriett Maria ( Melcher) Otis. (See
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Otis.) Children of Captain William M. and Harriett M. (Melcher) Otis were: James Snow, married Annette Whittier ; Harriet Ma- ria ; Anda C., mentioned above ; W. Ella, and Albert Henry, married Alice Dyer. To Dr. George Henry and Anda C. (Otis) Cummings was born one child, George Otis, July 31, 1891, now a student in the Portland high school.
The Otises mentioned below have descended from John Otis, who was born in Barnstable, Devonshire, England, 1581, and came to Hingham, New England, and drew house lots with first division of lands in that town, 1638. I. Samuel Otis went from Massachu- setts to Nova Scotia, 1761-64, and settled at what is now Yarmouth. He was a member of the committee appointed by the council of the province to divide the forfeited lands in the township of Yarmouth under the act of August, 1761. His name appears in a list of settlers in the township of Yarmouth fur- nished to the government by John Crowley in 1764. It is remarkable that he is the only one of the whole fifty-three who has the title of "Esquire" attached to his name. He was the only person there who owned a vessel. His family consisted of seven persons. He seems to have returned to the Province of Massachu- setts Bay about 1765 and settled on Katteerine Island, now Rutherford Island, in the town of Bristol, which island was conveyed to him by Thomas Droune, of Boston, probably in 1788. May 2, 1775, he was chairman of the commit- tee of safety and in that capacity addressed a letter to the provincial congress which is on file in Boston. He was appointed to present a petition to the general court, January 31, 1782. His will was made August 28, and proved October 26, 1805. He married, at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Patience Sherman, probably a daughter of Ebenezer and Wait Sherman. She died in 1828. Their children were: Samuel, Wait, Ebenezer, David, Thank- ful, Patience, Anna, Sarah and John.
2. Samuel (2), eldest son of Samuel ( 1) and Patience (Sherman) Otis, removed from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and settled at St. George, Thomaston, Maine, or near there. Samuel Otis was in Cushing in 1794, and later, prob- ably, lived on Harpswell Great Island. He married Mercy Williams, of Harpswell. Their children were: James, Samuel, Rebecca, Bet- sey, Reuben, Hannah and Sally. James is men- tioned below. Samuel, of Topsham, was in the Harpswell company in the war of 1812-1814. 3. James, eldest child of Samuel (2) and Mercy (Williams) Otis, was born March 26, 1788. James Otis, of Brunswick, was a sol-
dier in the war of 1812, in Captain Richard T. Dunlap's company in 1814. He married, in 1813, Betsey Snow, born June 12, 1792. Her parents were John Snow, born October 28, 1762, and his wife, Thankful ( Purinton) Snow, born June 24, 1766, and married Sep- tember 22, 1786. Their children were: Pris- cilla, Jesse, Betsey, Fanny, Abner, Isaiah, Jane and Mary. The grandparents of Betsey Snow were Isaac Snow, born May 18, 1736, and his wife, Elizabeth (Larrabee) Snow, born June 10, 1737, and married August, 1757. Their children were: Jesse, Mary, John, Sam- uel, William, Benjamin, Stephan, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Isaac. The children of James and Betsey ( Snow) Otis were: William Mer- ritt, James, Harvey Snow, Caroline Maria, Al- bert Curtis, Reuben Henry and Edwin Francis.
4. Captain William Merritt, son of James and Betsey ( Snow) Otis, was born in Bruns- wick, January 4, 1814, and at this date, 1908, is living at Brunswick in the enjoyment of his physical and mental faculties, at the age of ninety-four. He was a captain for forty-three years, and sailed to ports in nearly every civil- ized country in the world. He married, 1839, Harriet Maria Melcher, born December, 1812, died June, 1853, daughter of Josiah and Nancy Melcher, of Brunswick. Four chil- dren were born to them: James Snow, Har- riet Maria, Anda Celestia, WV. Ella. Anda C. was born on the Indian Ocean, near the Anda- man Islands, and married Dr. George H. Cummings. (See Cummings IX.) Captain Otis married (second), 1857, Harriet W. Barion ; one child, Albert Henry Otis.
CUMMINGS The present sketch treats of a line of descendants of John Comins, whose sur- name in later generations took the present form, Cummings. Jolin Comins lived in Wo- burn, Massachusetts, where by wife Mary he had : John (died young), Mary, John, Kath- erine, Jacob, Josiah, Stephen and James, all born between September 15, 1692, and May 7, 1705. Of these Jacob was the father of Lem- uel, one of the first settlers of Charlton, Mas- sachusetts. One of his sons was William, of Parkman. Maine, it is said.
(I) John Gilman, second son of William and Deborah (Harris) Cummings, was born in Parkman, Maine, June 22, 1829, and after acquiring his education started in life as a school teacher and taught several terms in the vicinity of his home. About 1860 he engaged in the stove and tinware business in Bidde- ford with George West. under the firm name
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of Cummings & West. He enlisted as a pri- vate September 9, 1862, at Biddeford, in Com- pany I, First Maine Cavalry, and was mus- tered into the United States service October 13, 1862. May 2, 1863, he was taken prisoner at Louisa Court House, Virginia, and held at Belle Isle prison until May 19, of the same month, when he was exchanged. Rejoining his company September 12 following he kept with it until January 6, 1864, when he was captured by Mosby's guerillas ncar Warrenton and- taken to Libby prison, Richmond. Feb- ruary 23, 1864. he was exchanged and again shared the fortunes of his command until Oc- tober 27, 1864, when he was wounded in an engagement at Boydton Plank Road, Virginia, but recovering from his injury remained with the regiment until the end of the war, when he was mustered out of the service. Soon after he returned to Maine he became assist- ant overseer in the Pepperell Mills at Bidde- ford and held that position until his death in 1888. He was a Republican. He was a mem- ber of Sheridan Post. G. A. R., of Biddeford, and served several terms as chaplain. For many years he was a deacon of the First Bap- tist Church in Biddeford, and served many terms as moderator of the parish. John G. Cummings married, December 25, 1859, at Biddeford, Theodate, born in Ossipec, New Hampshire, November 30, 1837, daughter of Samuel and Theodate (Lang) Tasker, of Os- sipee, the former a native of New Durham and the latter of Rye, New Hampshire. The par- ents of Theodate Lang were John and Mercy (Drake) Lang. Children: I. Jennie L., died at the age of seventeen. 2. John Ernest, born in Saco in 1862, graduated from the Saco high school in 1880; Colby College, 1884; Newton Theological Institution, 1887 ; and received the degree of D. D. from Colby College in 1904; in 1887 he went as a Baptist missionary to India and has remained till the present time ; he has the supervision of the Henzada mis- sion district in Lower Burma, which is under the charge of the American Baptist Missionary Union ; is a member of the English govern- ment board in Henzada ; and is a trustee of the Baptist College at Rangoon, India ; he married (first), in 1887, Rena A. Webster, of Bakers- field, Vermont, who died in Henzada, 1896; (second) in 1896, Dora Roberts, daughter of Rev. William H. Roberts, a Baptist Mission- ary in Burmalı; he had by the first wife three children : John Webster, Stanley Walter and Bessie Margaret ; by the second wife: Robert, Ruth, Roger, Caroline Green and William Henry. 3. Abraham L. T., mentioned below.
4. Isabel M., was graduated from Saco high school and attended Farmington Normal School. She married Samuel W. Buker, of Biddeford, who died in Somerville, Massachu- setts, in 1903 ; they had two children, Samuel and Ilelene. 5. Lora G., a graduate of Colby College, class of 1893, taught in Skowhegan, Maine, and Bakersfield, Vermont; married Edgar P. Neal, of Litchfield, Maine, who grad- uated from Colby College in 1893, and is now principal of the high school at West Boylston, Massachusetts ; they have three children : Ar- thur Merrill, Alfred Cummings and Lora Ger- trude. 6. Gertrude F., a graduate of Saco high school, teaches n Saco. 7. Nettie, died young.
(II) Abraham Lincoln Tasker, second son of John G. and Theodate (Tasker) Cummings, was born in Saco, February 13, 1865. He ac- quired his education in the common and high schools of Saco, and then took a place on the Biddeford Times, doing mechanical, repor- torial and editorial work successively. He was president of the York County Wheelmen and several years secretary-treasurer of Maine Division, League of American Wheelmen. In 1894 he was appointed western Maine cor- respondent of the Boston Herald and did the work incident to that place, in Cumberland and York counties, for thirteen years. He is a Republican. In 1894 he was elected alderman of Biddeford. In 1897 he removed to Port- land. He was clerk of the Portland common council from 1901 to 1906. In 1903 he was appointed deputy collector of internal revenue and served until 1907. In 1907 he was elected city clerk of Portland. He is a member of Deering Lodge, No. 183, Free and Accepted Masons ; Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter ; Port- land Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar ; and Maine Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree. He is also a member of Fraternity Lodge, No. 6, Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, of Portland, and Mavo- shen Lodge, No. I, Knights of Pythias, of Biddeford; and the Portland Club. He and his family attend the Congregational church. Abraham L. T. Cummings married, in Bidde- ford. September 3, 1889, Angie Fidella, born in Biddeford, August 29, 1867, daughter of Charles A. and Susan Nason ( York) Morton. (See Morton VIII.)
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