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( V) Captain Stephen, second son and fourth child of Jedediah and Abigail ( Hooke) Cram, was born September 14, 1768, in New Hamp- shire, probably at Weare. He lived in Deer- ing, that state, at the time of his marriage, and afterwards at Francestown. He held a captain's commission in the militia. On June 22, 1790, he married Sarah Lewis, eldest child of Deacon David and Lydia (Clough) Lewis.
She was born August 20, 1771, at Frances- town, and they had seven children: I. Lewis, born November 24, 1790, was a fifer in the war of 1812, and married Martha K. Brad- ford. 2. Daniel, born April 22, 1794, gradu- ated at Dartmouth College in 1812, and died October 14, 1814. 3. Levi, born April 7. 1797, married Mary L. Plummer, and died at Ban- gor, Maine. 4. Mary, born December 17, 1803, lived in Manchester, New Hampshire. 5. George Green, born May 23, 1806, married Rebecca H. Bradford, and lived in Frances- town. 6. Laura, born March 14, 1809, mar- ried Henry B. Hall, and lived at Bethel, Maine. 7. Gilman, see forward. Captain Stephen Cram, the father, died at Frances- town, New Hampshire, May 2, 1853.
The United States army claims among its distinguished general officers Thomas Jeffer- son Cram, born in New Hampshire in 1805, a graduate of the United States Military Academy, appointed from New Hampshire, his native state, and commissioned second lieu- tenant U. S. A. in 1826. He remained at the academy as assistant professor of mathematics, 1826-29, and as full professor of natural and experimental philosophy, 1824-36. He re- signed from the army in 1836, to take up the business of civil engineering in connection with railroad-building which he carried on successfully 1836-38. He re-enlisted in the army in 1838, was made a member of the topographical corps and given the rank of captain. His service was largely in survey- ing the territory west of the Mississippi river and laying out army routes. In 1845 he was sent into Texas as a member of the military reconnaissance party, to determine the con- dition of the routes of travel incident to a proposed army movement against Mexico. then harassing the people of the independent states of Texas. This duty accomplished, he was made chief topographical engineer of the newly formed Department of the Pacific, and he remained on that duty 1855-58. He was promoted to the rank of major in August, and to that of lieutenant-colonel in September. 1861, and served on the staff of General John E. Wood, in command of Fort Monroe and the Department of Virginia 1861-62, and was transferred with General Wood to command the middle department, with headquarters at Baltimore, Maryland, after the final surrender of Norfolk, Virginia, May 8, 1862, and he remained on the staff of Wood, who had been made a major-general, May 16, 1862, up to the transfer of that officer to the command of the Department of the East, with headquarters
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at New York, in January, 1863, leaving that post on March 3, 1863, to resume his place in the engineer corps. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in November, 1865, and he was breveted brigadier and major-general in the regular army for services during the civil war. He continued in the service up to Feb- ruary 22, 1869, when lie was retired by reason of age limit, and he took up his residence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he died, December 20, 1883.
(VI) Gilman, seventh child and fifth son of Steplien and Sarah (Lewis) Cram, was born in Francestown, New Hampshire, June 21, 1811, and died in Bangor, Maine, June II, 1896. Ile resided in his native town until he found employment, as a young man, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1844 he removed to Bangor, Maine, and became a bookkeeper for Pendleton & Ross, a well-known firm of ship chandlers and tugboat managers. He afterward engaged in the lumber business, his particular line being manufacturing, which he carried on in Bradley and in Brewer. In his later years he conducted a commission busi- ness in Bangor. He was a sworn sealer and surveyor, and for fifty consecutive years was a notary public. He had been a prominent business man, and was very highly respected by all who knew him. He was one of the oldest citizens of Bangor, and an excellent ex- ample of what good and regular habits of life will do for a person, for his eighty-five years sat as lightly upon him as the years of many men of twenty, or even thirty years younger than he. His health remained good until a few months before his death. He at- tended to his business as usual up to about three weeks before his demise, when he took a severe cold which ended his life. From 1850 to 1855 he was a regular attendant at the First Parish Church, and from the or- ganization of the Republican party he was a sterling and staunch Republican. He mar- ried Elizabeth A. Linnell, born in Gorham, Maine, November, 1825, and died May 19, 1899. She was the daughter of Elisha Lin- nell, of Gorham. The children of Gilman and Elizabeth A. Cram were: 1. Charles, who died young. 2. William, who died young. 3.
Franklin W., who is mentioned below. 4. Frederick, who died unmarried. 5. Mary. 6. Nellie, who married Charles Gould, of Ban- gor, and is now deceased. 7. Alice, who mar- ried - Keene and resides in Bangor.
(VII) Franklin Webster, third son of Gil- man and Elizabeth A. (Linnell) Cram, was born in Bangor. Maine, June 21, 1846, and
educated in the public schools. He entered the service of the Maine Central Railroad at Ban- gor, October 1, 1860, and worked as a freight- porter until 1867. From the latter date until September, 1870, he was assistant agent for the company at Bangor. Ile then became agent for the European and North American Railway Company at Bangor, and filled that position so satisfactorily that in January, 1872, he was promoted to general freight-agent of that road, and served the company in that capacity until the following September, when he became assistant superintendent and subse- quent general freight-agent for the company, and he discharged the duties of that position until October, 1875. He was general super- intendent of the road 1875-82, when he re- signed to become general eastern freight-agent of the Maine Central railroad and general manager of the Katahdin Iron Works rail- way, serving in the double capacity until June 1, 1885. At that date his term of service as general manager of the New Brunswick rail- way began, and continued until July 1, 1890. From March, 1891. he has been general man- ager of the Bangor & Aroostook road. From 1895 to September, 1900, he was also vice- president of the same road, and since Septem- ber. 1900, has been president of the road. He is also president of the Northern Maine Sea- port Railroad Company, general manager of the Aroostook Construction Company, which built the Bangor and Aroostook and Northern Maine Seaport roads : president of the North- ern Telegraph Company; president of the Bangor Investment Company. His interest in public affairs caused him to accept membership in the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and in the Civic Federation of New England. He is also a member of the Maine Genealogical Society. In politics he is a Republican.
His life has been devoted to successful rail- road work, in which he has been a most in- dustrious and energetic toiler, and to him more than to any man northern Maine owes its development in commerce. agriculture and manufactures. He is alert, courteous, ap- proachable and highly esteemed by his fellow townsmen and by a large circle of business acquaintances throughout the United States who are allied with the railroad interests of the country. We learn from one of the most prominent railroad men in the United States, who visited the great system of the Bangor and Aroostook railroad by invitation of Percy R. Todd, general manager of the system, and spent four days in going over the entire route
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and into the rich region made accessible to commerce by its construction, as follows : "I have but one criticism to make adverse to the perfect construction and equipment of the en- tire system, and the single fault can be reme- died at an expense of not over five hundred dollars." A New York man making a tour of the system reported substantially as fol- lows: "When Mr. Cram leaves this earth he will leave behind him an accomplished work of more worth to the state of Maine than any other single individual in New England." He adds : "Mr. Cram is the John J. Hill of the east with the sting left out," which remark he in- terpreted as meaning that he had done more for the northeast than Hill had done for the northwest, but all without the domineering spirit that accompanied the work of Mr. Hill. The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company has constructed more than four hundred miles of permanent road-bed, and equipped it with steel rails and all the accessories of the high- class railroad built for heavy traffic, and all this within the actual borders of the state. No other system in the state exceeds its mileage, and none in the country exceeds the commer- cial wealth embraced within the reach of its lines. His plans, as carried out for securing a deep-water terminal not affected by the cli- mate or hindered by accumulated ice that blocks the navigation of the Maine rivers, are extensive to the extreme. From the main line above Bangor he caused to be built a double- track railway that parallels the Penobscot river and reaches Searsport, on the Atlantic Ocean, a distance of sixty miles. This line affords an unobstructed outlet to the sea, and was completed in the spring of 1906. It was at once put to use for the transportation of lum- ber from the interior of the state for the con- struction of an immense system of docks and warehouses and wharves, said to be the largest in the world, surpassing any terminal facilities of railroad traffic either in Boston or New York. Lumbermen are afforded storage fa- cilities at little expense, which enables them to hold or reship the product of their mills in the interior of the states as the market dic- tates, and they secure in this way low freight- rates, irrespective of season. The piers al- ready built and in use are respectively 1,760 and 1,600 feet in length. The cost of con- struction of the railroad along the river to render the seaport available was four million dollars, and the terminal improvements already constructed at the harbor have been made at a cost of four million dollars more. Promi- nent shippers and lumber-dealers consider
their interests to have been greatly protected by this enterprise on the part of Mr. Cram, and they pronounce the road to be the most substantial and best equipped of any in the state, if not in New England. It serves as an outlet to the great unexplored and unavailable wealth of soil and forest of the northern counties of the state, and the potato industry alone easily furnishes the working capital necessary to its maintenance. In 1896 Aroo- stook county produced 40,000 bushels of po- tatoes, which found buyers at an expense that almost used up the entire proceeds of the crop in transportation to market. In 1908 20,000,- 000 bushels were carried cheaply to market, and afforded a large profit to the farmers, as they have been shipped from Searsport district by water to Boston, Philadelphia and Balti- more at low freight rates. One vessel-load was sent to Cuba, and found a profitable mar- ket. One thousand carloads of seed-potatoes were sent by sea to the Carolinas, and one trainload went to Texas by water. Scotland called upon Maine for seven steamer-loads of basswood spools, to be used in the thread manufactories of that country, and two ship- loads of orange-box shooks were sent to Italy. This is but the beginning of the great indus- tries this road and seaport has opened to the world. Over forty lumber-mills are now lo- cated directly on this great line, and these will be duplicated many times as the necessity of feeders reach out from the main line into the forests on either side. The monument Mr. Cram has built is one that is marked on every side with the inspiring word, "Prosperity." His investments will pay not only a large divi- dend to himself and to his heirs, but even larger to the population that will make homes and cultivate farms all along the route after the wealth of the forests have given place to the wealth to be wrested from the virgin soil that repays the husbandman so handsomely for his labor. There will be in the state of Maine no envious eyes turned toward the wealth accumulated by Mr. Cram, as he has merely blazed the pathway in the wilderness that the seekers after wealth only need to follow to be equally prosperous.
Mr. Cram was married in September, 1872, to Martha Cook, daughter of William P. and Phebe (Cook) Wingate, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Their only child, Wingate Franklin, was born in Bangor, Maine, and he is of the eighth generation from John Cram, the emigrant, 1639.
(VIII) Wingate Franklin, only child of Franklin Webster and Martha (Cook) ( Win-
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gate ) Cram, was born in Bangor, Maine, De- cember 4, 1877. He was prepared for college in private schools in Bangor, at Phillips' Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1894-95, in a private school in Lexington, Massachu- setts, 1895-96. In the fall of 1896 matricu- lated at Harvard University, and he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1900. Ile then took a one year's course in law at Columbia University, New York, and in 1901 returned to his home in Bangor, Maine, where he engaged in the business of railroading, in connection with the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Cmpany, of which his father is presi- dent.
Edward Spalding came
SPAULDING from England with Sir George Yeardley in 1619
( approximately ). There is documentary evi- dence in the records of the Virginia Colony that Edward Spalding and his family were fully established in the colony in 1623, as in the "Lists of the Living and the Dead in Vir- ginia, February 16, 1623," page 37, under the caption, "Att James Citie and within the Cor- poration thereof." Edward Spalding u.vor Spalding, puer Spalding and puella Spalding are recorded between the names Mr. Cann and Capt. Hartt above, and John Helin uror Helen, puer Helin and infant Helin below. Apparently these formed a single household. On page 53, in the same list, the name of Edmund Spalden appears under the caption, "More att Elizabeth Cittie." It is supposed that Edward and Edmund emigrated together about 1619, and that Edmund joined the Mary- land Colony under Lord Baltimore, and be- came the progenitor of Maryland branch, while Edward went to Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1630.
(I) Edward Spalding, with his wife, Mar- garet, and daughter, Grace, were in Braintree before 1643, as their son, Benjamin, was born in that year. Grace, the daughter, was buried in 1641, and his wife, Margaret, died in 1640. Edward Spalding was made a freeman in 1640. As the original settlers of Braintree were from the old English counties of Lincoln- shire, Devonshire and Essex, and as the laws of the colony forbid Irish emigration, it is very probable that the Spaldings were Eng- lish. When the town of Chelmsford was in- corporated, in May, 1655, Edward Spalding was an inhabitant of that plantation, he prob- ably settling there in 1653, as he was chosen a selectman in 1654, and the next year his name is on a petition to extend the boundary
of the town to the Merrimack river. Among the proprietors of the "New Field" in 1669 were Edward Spalding, Sr., Edward Spald- ing, Jr., and John Spalding. The children of Edward and Margaret Spalding, all born in England, were: John, Edward and Grace. After the death of his wife, Margaret, in 1640, he married Rachel -, who is named in his will, and their children were: 1. Benja- min, born April 7, 1643. 2. Joseph, October 25, 1646. 3. Dinah. March 14, 1649. 4. An- drew (q. v.), November 19, 1652. He died February 26, 1670, and his widow died soon after.
(II) Andrew, youngest of the seven chil- dren of Edward Spalding, the immigrant, and child by his second wife, Rachel, was born in Chelmsford, Middlesex county, Massachu- setts Bay Colony, November 19, 1652. He married Hannah, daughter of Henry Jefes, of Billerica, April 30, 1674. He was a deacon in the church at Chelmsford, and succeeded by the will of his father to the paternal estate. Children, born in Chelmsford : I. Hannah, who died March 10, 1677. 2. Andrew, born March 25, 1678. 3. Henry (q. v.), November 2, 1680. 4. Jolin, August 20, 1682. 5. Rachel, September 26, 1685, married Samuel Butter- field, December 7, 1703. 6. William, August 3, 1688. 7. Joanna, October 8, 1689-90, mar- ried Joshua Fletcher. 8. Benoni, February 6, 1691. 9. May. December 5, 1695, died July 18, 1698. Andrew Spalding died in Chelms- ford, Massachusetts, May 5, 1718.
(III) Henry, second son and third child of Andrew and Hannah ( Jefes) Spalding, was born in Chelmsford, November 2, 1680. He married, probably in 1703, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Thomas Lund, of Dunstable, Massachu- setts. now Nashua, New Hampshire. Thomas Lund, Lun or Lunn, was a soldier, and his son, Thomas, was killed by the Indians, September 5, 1724. Henry Spalding died in Chelmsford, April 4, 1720, and his widow, with Richard Stratton, a neighbor, settled his estate. Chil- dren, born in Chelmsford : 1. Henry, Novem- ber 22, 1704. 2. Thomas, July 30, 1707. 3. William, March 17, 1711. 4. Leonard (q. v.), December 1, 1713. 5. Ebenezer, May 29, 1717, and as no mention is made of him as settling his father's estate, he probably died young.
(IV) Leonard, fourth son of Henry and Elizabeth (Lund) Spalding, was born in Chelmsford, December 1, 1713. He married Elizabeth - -, and had eight children. He lived in Chelmsford, and died there in Febru- ary, 1758. In his will he mentions his widow,
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Elizabeth, and his children, Sarah, Abel, Es- ther and Lucy, under fourteen, and Rachel and Thankful, over fourteen. His widow mar- ried for her second husband Dr. Ezekiel Chase, and she died in Buckfield, Maine, in 1799, aged eighty years. The children of Leonard and Elizabeth Spalding were: 1. Benjamin (q. v. ), born February 5, 1739. 2. Elizabeth, December 29, 1740. 3. Rachel. 4. Thankful. 5. Sarah. 6. Abel. 7. Esther. 8. Lucy, who married William Spalding ( 1759-1825), of Carlisle, April 6, 1779, and they had seven children.
(V) Benjamin, eldest child of Leonard and Elizabeth Spalding, was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, February 5. 1739. He re- moved to Buckfield, Maine, in 1776, where he was a pioneer settler and leader in the im- provements made in the town. He removed part of his family there in 1778, when the place had only two or three families. He mar- ried in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, November 29, 1764, Patty Barrett, born January 31, 1740, died in Buckfield, Maine, October 4, 1819, having been a widow eight years, her husband having died October 14, 1811. Children: I. Patty, born in Ashby, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 14. 1765, married Joseph Robinson, March 2, 1784. 2. Rebecca, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, November 10, 1766, married Benjamin Heald, who died October 12, 1841 ; she died June 10, 1858. 3. Benjamin (q. v.), August 15, 1768. 4. Leonard, February 13, 1770. 5. Elizabeth, January 18, 1772, mar- ried John Fletcher, of Sumner, Maine. 6. Esther. Buckfield, Maine, October 28, 1775, married Alexander Thayer, of Paris, Maine. 7. Abel, October 15, 1777. 8. Stephen, An- gust 13, 1782. 9. Thankful. August 16, 1787, married Caleb Cushman, of Paris, Maine.
(VI) Benjamin (2), oldest son and third child of Benjamin ( I) and Patty ( Barrett) Spalding, was born in Chelmsford, Massachu- setts, August 15, 1768. He was for many years representative from Buckfield, Maine, to the general court of Massachusetts, and to the leg- islature of Maine after it became a state. He also served as county commissioner, selectman and justice of the peace, and was one of the best esteemed men of the town. He married (first) Myrtilla, daughter of Increase and Re- becca Robinson, of Sumner, Maine, October 15, 1790. She was born December 12, 1770, died October 1, 1816, after having given birth to seven children. Mr. Spalding married (second). November 6, 1817, Mrs. Mary (Sturtevant) Bumpus, of Hebron, Maine. She was born September 12, 1777, in Ware-
ham, Massachusetts, died in Buckfield, Maine, June 24, 1845. Mr. Spalding died February 18, 1858. The children of Benjamin and Myr- tilla ( Robinson ) Spalding were: 1. Increase, born October 2, 1791. 2. Lupira, February 17, 1794. married William Cole, of Buckfield, Maine. 3. Jonas, April 22, 1796. 4. Adrian, July 1. 1800, died March 4, 1825. 5. Axel, February 17, 1803. 6. Sidney (q. v.), Jan- uary 20, 1807. 7. Melissa, January 22, 1809, died August 18, 1831. The children of Ben- jamin and Mary (Sturtevant) ( Bumpus) Spalding were: 8. Dastine, January 15, 1819. 9. Ozen, born December 2, 1821.
(VII) Sidney Spaulding, as the name is now spelle 1, fifth son and sixth child of Ben- jamin and Myrtilla ( Robinson) Spalding, was born in Buckfield, Maine, January 20, 1807, died there April 1, 1881. He married Eliza Green, daughter of William and Hannah At- wood, of Livermore. Maine, August 10, 1834 ; children, all born in Buckfield, Maine: I. Mary, 1835, died August 18, 1835. 2. Benja- min, June 15, 1836. 3. Cyrus Cole, February 18, 1838. 4. William Cole (q. v.), June 18, 1841. 5. Flora Augusta, February 20, 1846. 6. Florence Atwood, January 26, 1855, mar- ried, May 24, 1877, C. Childs.
(VIII) William Cole, third son and fourth child of Sidney and Eliza Green (Atwood) Spaulding, was born in Buckfield, Maine, June 18, 1841. He was brought up on his father's farm, and when he reached his majority re- moved to Fort Fairfield, where he engaged in the hardware business. He married, July 25. 1865, Lovina Jane, daughter of John Sterling. of Halifax. Nova Scotia, the marriage being celebrated at Fort Fairfield. Maine, and in 1867 they made their home in Caribou, Aroos- took county, Maine, where he continued the hardware business. He was made a director of the Aroostook Trust & Banking Company from its incorporation, a trustee of the Uni- versalist church, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a director of the Bangor & Aroostook railroad. Mrs. Spaulding was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 14, 1842, died March 31, 1904. Children: 1. John Sterling, born July 21, 1869, died in Caribou, Maine, December 15, 1896; married Harriet Louise, daughter of William and Elizabeth Burpee, of Fort Fairfield, Maine, November 29, 1892 ; no children. 2. Atwood W. (q. v.).
(IX) Atwood W., second son of William Cole and Lovina Jane (Sterling) Spaulding, was born in Caribou, Aroostook county, Maine, January 6, 1873. He attended the public school of his native town, and was
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graduated at Columbia Institute, New York City, a department of Columbia University, in 1892, and on his return to Caribou he entered into the hardware business with his father, as a partner. In 1897 he was made military secretary on the staff of Governor Llewellyn Powers, and his position gave him the direc- tion of the Maine volunteers enlisted for the Spanish-American war. He was initiated in the Order of Knights of Pythias through membership in Lyndon Lodge, No. 46, and in the Patrons of Husbandry through member- ship in Caribou Lodge, No. 138. The Ancient Order of United Workmen have his support and sympathy, he being a member of Arctic Lodge, No. 71, and the Masonic fraternity have him as a member through his initiation in the mysteries of the order by Carbon Lodge. No. 170, Aroostook Council, No. 16, of Presque Isle, Garfield Royal Arch Command- ery of Caribou. St. Aldemar Commandery, No. 17, of Houlton, and Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, Lewiston, Maine.
ANDREWS In the annals of New Eng- land the name Andrew ap- pears in many variations, among which are: Andress, Andrews, An- dries, Andross and Andrus. Some of those who came early spelled their name Andrew, but later generations have extended it to An- drews. William Andrew, mariner, was of Cambridge, where he was made freeman as early as 1634. Edward Andrews was of New- port, 1639, Francis was of Hartford, 1639, and Henry Andrews was one of the original purchasers of Taunton, Massachusetts. He was representative in 1639 and the four years next following, and died in 1652. He is chiefly known from his will, made March 13, 1652, and probated February 10 following. He built the first meeting-house in Taunton. His wife was Mary. In his will he mentions children : Henry, Mary, Sarah and Abigail. The widow, in her will of February 14, 1654, calls herself forty-three years old, and speaks of Sarah as little. Henry (son) was killed by the Indians in King Philip's war, and al- though descendants are said to be numerous, no account of marriage or name of wife or children is known.
(I) David Andrews, the first of the line herein treated of whom we have definite in- formation, was born in Taunton, Massachu- setts, May 23, 1736. He married, May 14, 1768, Naomi Briggs, by whom he had Ed- ward, Abiezer, Rhoda and David. After mar-
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