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of his wife he lived with his son, John Stew - art, in Barton, Vermont, where he died at the age of ninety-three years, the time of his death being about 1851.
(II) Allan (2), second son and fourth of the seven children of Allan (I) and Mary (Berry) Stewart, was born in Dunstable, New Hampshire, April 22, 1788. He was brought up on his father's farm in Ryegate, Vermont, and aided his father in building his new house in 1806. He was married, in July, 1809, to Mary, daughter of Alexander and Jean ( Allen) Miller. She was born in Ryegate, Vermont, February 15, 1789, and after their marriage they remained in Ryegate until 1815, and three of their children were born there. They re- moved to Canada in 1815, where Mr. Stewart kept a grocery store in a small settlement near Quebec for four years, and their daughters, Adeline and Margaret Allen, were born in Canada. In 1819 he returned with his wife and three remaining children to Ryegate and re- sumed farming on the farm now owned by Mr. Exley at South Ryegate, Vermont, build- ing a log house a little south of the present building. Of their children: John Crawford, born in Ryegate, January 30, 1810, died there January 9, 1814; Jean, July 17, 1811, died in Canada. April 30, 1816; Mary, March 20, 1814, married John Conant, of Lowell, Mas- sachusetts. and died in April, 1853; Adeline, born in Canada, May 30, 1816, married (first) Morrill Ingalls in 1840, and ( second) an Ab- bott, of Rumford, Maine, and died in that place January 31, 1874; Margaret Allen, May 22, 1818, married Horace W. Stevens, of Wal- pole, New Hampshire, and died October 3, 1894; Jane Allen, born in South Ryegate, April 18, 1820, married Norman Harris, and died in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 16, 1844; Alexander Miller, June 17, 1822, died October II, 1832; Allan, August 4, 1824, married Ce- cilia S. Egbert, of Rochester, New York, had three children, and with his brother Duncan purchased the farm of their father, immedi- ately after the death of their mother, and built the house and barn now standing. Allan
Stewart Jr. died September II. 1874; Duncan (q. v.) ; Eliza, January 1, 1828, died Novem- ber 20, 1851 ; Nancy Miller, March 21, 1830, died September 10, 1848; Lillias Miller, Sep- tember II, 1832, married Horace WV. Stevens, of Walpole, New Hampshire, and died No- vember 28, 1863. Mary (Miller) Stewart, the mother of these children. died April 27, 1848, and after her death Allan Stewart, the father, married Sarah Scales, of Peachanı, Vermont, and built the house now owned by O'Rourke.
John La. Stica
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opposite Quint's Mill in Ryegate, Vermont, where he died August 9, 1873.
( HI) Duncan, ninth child, son of Allan (2) and Mary ( Miller ) Stewart, was born in South Ryegate, Vermont, February 4, 1826, and was brought up on his father's farm. He had lit- tle "book learning," and after the death of the mother, April 27, 1848, with his brother, Allan Jr., purchased his father's farm and lived there until 1860, when he removed to Topsham, where he bought a farm on George Hill, now owned by Duncan Mckay, which farm he sold in 1866 and engaged in merchandising in partnership with Jacob Mills Jr., in Topsham Village, Vermont. He continued this business alone and with partners at different times up to 1880, when he retired and lived upon a farm which he purchased in Topsham, up to the time of his death. September 10, 1882. He was a Republican, and for several years served as one of the town auditors of Top- sham, and as town clerk, and he was a ruling elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Scotch Church in Topsham. He was married Sep- tember 20, 1849, to Margaret, daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth (Leitch) Ritchie. She was born in Kilmalconn, Renfrewshire, Scotland, October 29, 1830, and came to America with her parents and other members of the family in 1844, making the voyage across the ocean in a sailing vessel, making the passage to New York in six weeks, and during the voyage her mother died on ship- board of ship fever. Her two older brothers, Duncan and William, two younger sisters, Elizabeth and Jane, made up the family, and on reaching New York they sailed up the Hudson river and by Hudson and Champlain canal and lakes George and Champlain to Burlington, Vermont, where members of the Leitch family, to which her mother belonged, met them, they having preceded the Ritchie family to America, and then lived in Danville, Vermont. Archibald Ritchie, her father, pur- chased a farm in South Ryegate, Vermont, and died there in 1846, and his daughter assumed charge of the household, although but fifteen years of age, and continued in charge up to the time of her marriage, September 20, 1849, to Duncan Stewart. After the death of her husband, September 10, 1882, she sold the farm in Topsham, lived with her sister Eliza- beth, who had married John Johnston in South Ryegate, and in 1884 removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, and lived with her daughter, Mary Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Charles B. Sturte- vant. On the death of Mrs. Sturtevant, June 3, 1898, she removed to York, Maine, and kept
house for her son, John Conant Stewart, up to the time of her death, September 23, 1905. The children of Duncan and Margaret ( Ritchie) Stewart are: John Conant (q. v.) ; Archibald Ritchie, April I, 1852, died Decem- ber 15, 1864; Mary Elizabeth, May 19, 1858, married October 9, 1883, at Topsham, Dr. Charles B. Sturtevant, of Manchester, New Hampshire, where she died June 3, 1898, leav- ing her husband and two daughters, Florence Anna Sturtevant, born April 4, 1886, and Edith Margaret Sturtevant, born April 7, 1890, both graduates of the Manchester high school and of Bradford Academy.
(IV) John Conant, eldest son of Duncan and Margaret ( Ritchie) Stewart, was born in Ryegate, Vermont, June 19, 1850. He at- tended school at Topsham and the Caledonia County Grammar school, Peacham, and was graduated at Dartmouth College, A. B. 1873. During his college course he taught school in York, Maine ; Lexington, Holmes county, Mis- sissippi ; North Berwick, Maine ; and Brewster, Massachusetts. He began the study of medi- cine in the office of Dr. Jasper J. Hazen, of York, Maine, completed his course in the med- ical department of Dartmouth College, and re- ceived the degree of M. D. and the honor of valedictorian in 1876, receiving his master de- gree from Dartmouth in June of the same vear. He managed a lumber wharf at York Harbor, Maine, 1874-76, and practiced medi- cine in York, Maine, 1876-87; was a frequent contributor to medical journals, especially the results of original research in the prevalent diseases of diphtheria and consumption. He conducted the old mail route from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Cape Neddick, Maine, with a partner, and established a line of Con- cord coaches that were finally replaced by the York Harbor and Beach railroad, of which he was an original surveyor, one of the chief contractors, an incorporator of the company, and for the first four years a director and clerk of the corporation. He organized the S. S. S. Building Association in 1883, and has been its only president, and since 1895 has also been treasurer of the corporation. In 1888 he began the study of law in the office of Moses A. Safford, of Kittery, Maine, and these studies were interrupted after fourteen months by business responsibilities he had as- sumed, but he completed his law studies in the office of Hon. Horace H. Burbank, Saco, Maine, and was admitted to the bar of York county in June, 1895, when he formed a part- nership with Judge Burbank, which was dis- solved in December of the same year. In
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1889 he organized an establishment for the manufacture of bricks and lumber with Jotham P. Norton as partner, and in 1891 sold his in- terest to Mr. Norton and organized the Orient Mutual Life Insurance Company, of which he was president and medical director for four years, when it was consolidated with two others as the Maine Mutual, in which corpora- tion he declined a directorship. He was secre- tary and general manager of the Hamilton Brokerage Company, and of the National Fidelity Company, Maine corporations, doing business in Boston, Massachusetts, and he was entrusted with winding up their affairs. From 1891 to 1894 he was vice-president of the York County Horse Breeders' Association. He became a director of the York County Na- tional Bank in 1902, and was elected vice-pres- ident in 1903 ; has been president of the York Printing Company since its organization in 1902, and of the York Realty Company, which he organized, since 1903; director and treas- urer of the York Corporation Trust and Law Company since its organization in 1903 ; presi- dent of the Maravilla Copper Company, Ari- zona. 1904-05, a director of its successor the Mineral Mountain Copper Company, 1905-06, and in 1906 he organized the Lone Star Con- solidated Copper Company which secured con- trol of the Mineral Mountain property and of the Chase Creek Copper Company of Clifton, Arizona, making the Lone Star owner of over two thousand acres of rich copper lands in the Gila Mountains, and he resigned the presi- dency of the Lone Star Company at the close of its first year's existence to accept the presi- dency of the Arizona and Boston Smelting and Reduction Company, organized to treat the ore mined by the Lone Star and other cop- per companies in that section of the Gila Mountains. In 1906 the brick and lumber business he organized in 1889 was incorporated as the Norton Brick Company, and he became president and principal owner of the stock of the corporation. He is also treasurer and di- rector of the Atlas Manufacturing Company, Hampton, New Hampshire. In January, 1896, he opened a law office in York Village, and he has since practiced in the State and United States courts. He is a trustee and the treas- urer of the Children's Heart Work Society of Maine, and a director of the Christian Civic League of Maine. The social, patriotic, pro- fessional, scientific and fraternal societies of which he is a useful working member include : The York Association, of which he was presi- dent, 1882-83 and 1888-93; Peacham Acad- emy Alumni Association, of which he was a
trustee 1897-1906; the Boston Association of Alumni, of which he was vice-president 1902- 03; Old York Historical and Improvement So- ciety, of which he was vice-president 1904-08; Maine Historical Society ; Maine Society Sons of the American Revolution; Ranger Section No. 17, United States Naval League; Paul ' Jones Club of Portsmouth; National Geo- graphical Society ; American Academy of Po- litical and Social Science ; Portsmouth, Straf- ford County, and Maine Bar Association ; Lincoln Council No. 6, Junior Order United American Mechanics, serving 1896 and 1897 as state councilor for Maine, and 1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901 as representative in the Nation- al Council ; Royal Arcanum ; Workmen's Ben- efit Association; Ancient Order of United Workmen; Grand Lodge of Maine, Knights of Pythias; Good Templars from 1885, and chairman of the committee on enforcement of the prohibitory law 1888-90, resulting in the organization of the People's Prohibitory En- forcement League of Maine, organized in 1891, of which he was president during its ex- istence, 1891-94, when it was succeeded by the Christian Civic League. His Masonic honors date his initiation in St. Aspinquid Lodge No. 198, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, where he filled all the chairs except that of master. In 1882 he joined Agementicus Commandery No. 191, United Order of the Golden Cross: in 1883 he entered the grand commandery of Maine, served as grand com- mander in 1886, entered the supreme com- mandery in May, 1887, at the New York ses- sions, where he was elected supreme treasurer, but resigned before assuming the duties, and was again elected representative of the grand commandery of Maine, and at the Bar Harbor session he was elected supreme herald, served by re-election four years, when he became chairman of the supreme trustees, and resigned in 1901 to take the office of medical director of the order, and by virtue of this supreme position he is a member of the National Fra- ternal Congress. In local, state and national politics he has always acted with the Repub- lican party, in which he has been an acceptable campaign speaker, but has declined the nomi- nation for representative in the state legisla- ture several times when the nomination meant an election ; declined to be a delegate to the National Convention of the party in 1888, and at three county conventions the candidacy for sheriff, and at two the unanimous nomination as county attorney. He refused the Prohibi- tion nomination for governor of Maine, and has forbidden his name in a like connection
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on several Republican state conventions. He did serve as deputy sheriff of York county 1883-88, and as state senator 1891-92, when he was chairman of the joint committee on temperance and a member of the joint com- mittee on banks and banking, labor, on con- gressional apportionment, and on engrossed bills. He was secretary of the Republican county committee in 1880; chairman of the county convention 1898, and chairman of the committee on resolutions of every county con- vention since 1888 with two exceptions. He was commissioner from Maine to the Pan- American Medical Congress at Washington, D. C., 1893; represented it in the National Temperance Congress, Philadelphia, 1894, and has served locally as notary public, justice of the peace, member, secretary and chairman of the board of health, town physician, fence viewer, superintending school committeeman, constable, collector of taxes, town agent, mod- erator of town meetings, town treasurer, &c., &c. Mr. Stewart never married; address, York Village, Maine.
DOLE The name of Dole is believed to be of French origin, and may have been derived from the ancient city of that name. There is evidence that it was brought into England at the time of the Nor- man conquest, and was then written De Dole.
(I) The emigrant ancestor of the New Eng- land Doles, and in fact of nearly all who bear the name in America, was Richard Dole, son of William and grandson of Richard Dole, of Ringworthy, near Bristol, England. He was baptized in Ringworthy, December 31, 1622 (O. S.), at an early age was apprenticed to John Towle, a glover of Bristol. In 1630 he accompanied the Towle family to New Eng- land, and in 1639 went with them to New- bury, Massachusetts, continuing in their em- ploy as a clerk for some time after their set- tlement in that town. Being a young man of activity and enterprise, he embraced the first opportunity to engage in business for himself, and became a prosperous merchant and an extensive landowner. He left at his death, the date of which is unknown, an estate valued at eighteen hundred and forty pounds. His first wife, who died November 16, 1678, was Han- nah (Robie) Dole, of Newbury. His second wife was Hannah, widow of Captain Samuel Brocklebank, of Rowley, Massachusetts. His third wife was Patience (Walker) Dole, of Haverhill, same state. His children were: John, Richard, Anna, Benjamin, Joseph, Will- iam, Henry, Hannah, Apphia and Abner.
(II) Richard (2), second son of Richard (I) and Hannah (Robie) Dole, was born September 6, 1650, in Newbury, and died there August 1, 1723. He resided on a farm near his father, and was buried in the oldest bury- ing-ground of Newbury. He married Sarah, daughter of Captain Stephen Greenleaf, and they were the parents of: Richard, Elizabeth, Sarah, Ann, John, Stephen (died young), Stephen, Joseph and Mary.
(III) Richard (3), eldest child of Richard (2) and Sarah (Greenleaf) Dole, was born April 28, 1678, in Newbury, and resided in Rowley about 1715. He married first, April 3, 1706, Sarah Ilsley, who died February 20, 1708; he married second, August 14, 1709, Elizabeth Stickney, born June 13, 1684, daugh- ter of John and Hannah ( Brocklebank) Stickney, and granddaughter of William and Elizabeth Stickney, pioneers of Newbury. His children included : Enoch, Edmund, Moses, Sarah, Stephen and Amos.
(IV) Enoch, eldest child of Richard (3) Dole and only child of his first wife, Sarah (Ilsley) Dole, was born January 20, 1708, in Rowley, and about 1749 settled in Littleton, Massachusetts. He was married November 13, 1729, to Rachel Jewett, born January 30, 1709, in Rowley, the second daughter of Aquila and Ann (Tenney) Jewett, the grand- daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Law) Jew- ett, and great-granddaughter of Deacon Maxi- milian and Ann Jewett, pioneer settlers of Rowley. Both were dismissed from the Row- ley church to the Littleton church October 15, 1749.
(V) Amos, second son of Enoch and Ra- chel (Jewett) Dole, was born January 12, 1733, in Rowley, and was yet a child when his parents removed to Littleton. About 1750 he settled in Shirley, Massachusetts, but must have returned to Littleton, where his third son was born. He married, May 29, 1755, Molly Page, of Groton, born November 15, 1734, in that town, daughter of John and Mary (Parker) Page, and granddaughter of Jonathan and Mary Page. Their children were : Lemuel, Benjamin, Amos, Mary, Ra- chel, Enoch, Lucy, Sarah, John and Benja- min.
(VI) Amos (2), third son of Amos (1) and Molly ( Page) Dole, was born September 19, 1759, in Littleton, and died July 20, 1832, in Hampden, Maine. His name appears very frequently in the revolutionary rolls of Massa- chusetts, being credited sometimes to Shirley and sometimes to Groton. He was among the minute-men who responded to the Lexington
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alarm, April 19, 1775, serving eight days as a private in Captain Henry Haskell's company of Colonel James Prescott's regiment. He again enlisted April 26, 1775, and served until August Ist of that year, in Captain Ephraim Richardson's company, Colonel Asa Whit- comb's regiment. He was again in the service at Prospect Hill, October 6, 1775. He was at Cambridge in 1776, as a private in Cap- tain Job Shattuck's company, Colonel John Robinson's regiment. In a roll of Captain Blood's company, Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment (Sixth Middlesex), dated Littleton, September 17, 1777, he is credited with services in the continental army. He appears on the pay-roll of Captain Munro, Colonel Bigelow's regiment, as having enlisted March 12, 1777, and served to December 2, same year. He again enlisted March 2, 1778, and served until December 31, 1779, during which time he was in service at Stillwater and Val- ley Forge. He was discharged January 10, 1778, and re-enlisted for three years March 12, of the same year. He appears to have been in the hospital at Brooklyn in March and April, 1778, and is reported ill at other times. A pay-roll is extant showing his services from April 19, 1778, to the last day of the same year. He enlisted in 1780, in Putnam's Fifth Massachusetts regiment, and held the rank of orderly sergeant. He also served in the first company of Vose's Massa- chusetts regiment. It is known that he drew a pension for his revolutionary service. He was present at the capture of Burgoyne and participated in the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey. Sergeant Dole married, September 8, 1785, Martha Hewes, and they were the par- ents of four children : Elihu, Sophronia, Ann and Amelia R.
(VII) Elihu, only son of Amos (2) and Martha (Hewes) Dole, was born January, 1787, at Orrington, Maine, and died in South Brewer, same state, July 21, 1852. He was a mill and lumberman, and was a communicant of the Methodist church. In politics a Whig. He married, in 1816, Dorcas (Fernald) Brewer, born in 1787, in Kittery, Maine, died in South Brewer, 1848, widow of Francis Brewer, of South Brewer. Children: I. Cy- rus R., see forward. 2. Henrietta, born Jan- uary 24, 1831, in South Brewer, married, March. 1851, William Hewes, of Hermon Pond ; children : i. Willis, born September 29, 1852 ; ii. Charles E., June 28, 1854; iii. Julia E., March 14, 1856; iv. Myra A., April 7, 1859, died October 27, 1877 ; married second, in 1861, George W. Chase, of Hermon Pond ;
children : v. Lizzie, born May 20, 1863, died February 7, 1865; vi. George, September 9, 1864, died December 3, 1864; vii. Nellie Burr, August 23, 1866, died November 14, 1905; viii. Hattie, May 6, 1869, died November 23, 1869. 3. A daughter who died in infancy.
(VIII) Cyrus Rufus, son of Elihu and Dor- cas (Fernald) (Brewer) Dole, was born April 9, 1825, and died July 17, 1900. He was a carpenter, and spent most of his life in Brewer and was a descendant of the Brewer family for whom the city was named. He possessed some musical gift and sang in the church choir. He married, January 11, 1853, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Timothy and Hannah (Copeland) Stone, who was born December 24, 1831, and who survived him (1908). Children: I. Charles Edmund, see forward. 2. Frank Brewer, September 15, 1858, married, November 5, 1890, Lydia Flora, daughter of Silas and Lydia Mars (Gardiner) Hamilton, of Brewer, and grand- daughter of Aaron Hamilton, of Gardiner, Maine. An only child, George Raymond, born September 27, 1891, died November 31, of same year. 3. George Addison, June 23, 1860, died December 20, 1880.
(IX) Charles Edmund, eldest son of Cyrus Rufus and Mary Elizabeth (Stone) Dole, was born in Brewer, January 14, 1856. He was educated in the local schools and was engaged in farming until 1873, when he en- tered the employ of the Bangor Gas Light Company, in Bangor, remaining until he started out in business for himself as a gen- eral electrical contractor. In connection there- with he has a large store for the sale of elec- trical supplies. His business has been chiefly in the city of Bangor and vicinity. In politics Mr. Dole is a Republican, and was a member of the city council of Bangor, representing his ward for two terms. He is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, a member of Saint An- drews Lodge, F. and A. M .; Mount Moriah, R. A. C .; Bangor Council. R. S. M .; St. Johns Commandery, K. T .; Eastern Star Lodge of Perfection; Palestine Council, Princes of Jerusalem; the Bangor Chapter Rose Croix; Maine Consistory, S. P. R. S., of Portland; and the Mystic Shrine, Kora Temple, Lewiston, Maine. Mr. Dole married, December 3, 1889, Florence, daughter of An- drew and Martha (Robertson) Watters, of Brewer, formerly of Calais, Maine. On the maternal line she was of Scotch descent, tra- cing ancestors to Aberdeen, Scotland, and said to be related to Ann Robertson, the mother of Gladstone. Mr. and Mrs. Dole have chil-
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dren: I. Florence Margaret, born February 12, 1892. 2. Charles Edmund, December 8, 1893. 3. Robert Alden, February 16, 1899. 4. Alexander Watters, July 8, 1902.
MILLIKEN The numerous derivations given by different scholars for the surname Milliken are
as numerous as the variations in spelling. As in the case of many other surnames, it may be true that all the authorities are right, for there are many branches of this family, and there is no indication that all were from a common stock. The family mentioned in this sketch was certainly Scotch, and for that matter most of the American families bearing this name in its varied forms are descended from the Scotch settlers in the north of Ire- land, or from the Scotch immigrants who came direct from Scotland. The family his- torian favors the conclusion of James Mili- ken, of New York, who was convinced by exhaustive research that the family was of
- Saxon-Norman origin, spelling their naine originally Millingas, meaning mill-manor, or manor on the hill, and evidently a place-name of very ancient date. Passing from Saxony to the Netherlands, we find the name spelled at an early date Millinga, Milligen and Millin- gen, the latter being the name of a village in the Netherlands. As early as 1273 a John Mulkyn, said to have been from the Low Countries, was in Suffolk, England. Barber, in his book on "British Family Names," gives Miliken, or Milecan, as Flemish, meaning the diminutive of Miles, a personal name. There seems to be no proof that Milliken and Mulli- gan are the same surnames. O'Hart, in his "Irish Pedigrees," states that Mulligan is anglicized for an Irish name, O'Maolagain. The earliest immigrants to America were probably Roman Catholics, coming with Lord Baltimore to Maryland. The Mullikens of Virginia were Episcopalian and certainly not Scotch. There are many of the family in Pennsylvania, where numbers of Scotch-Irish settled, and related families are found in all the neighboring states and to some extent in all parts of the country. A coat-of-arms long in possession of the descendants of Samuel Milliken, of Scarborough, Maine, of the fam- ily given below, is said to have been three castles in a blue shield, and tradition further states that a Sir Hugh Milliken was knighted for his valor in taking three castles, and the castles commemorated his exploits. The fol- lowing coat-of-arms is as close to complying with the story as one usually gets in the
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