Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume II, Part 30

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry S. (Henry Sweetser), 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 736


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(VIII) Ether Shepley, youngest child of William and Catharine (Boothby) Paul, was born February 8, 1838, in Buxton, and re- ceived his primary education in the public schools of his native town, and he was subse- quently a student at the Limerick and Gor- ham academies. His attention being very early turned to business, his education as sup- plied by the schoolroom was necessarily limited, but being a man of keen perception and a careful reader, he has come to be a very widely informed and highly respected citizen and business man. At sixteen years of age he became a clerk in a dry-goods store at Saco, Maine, and remained there about two years, being compelled to abandon the close appli- cation necessary in this occupation, on account of poor health. After recuperating some by rest during the summer, he taught a country school in the succeeding fall and winter, and


this continued for three successive years, and acquired considerable reputation as a manager of turbulent schools. In the summers between he was engaged in the lightning-rod business near Boston, and after attaining his majority went back to the dry-goods business, engaging as a salesman with his former employer, at Saco. In 1860 he removed to Lewistown, where he was similarly employed until 1867. In February of that year he engaged in busi- ness on his own account, at the same location now occupied by the firm of E. S. Paul & Company, which has long been one of the leading stores of Androscoggin county. When he first began business he had a partner, Abel Goddard, the firm being known as Goddard & Paul. In December, 1872, he purchased his partner's interest in the business, and it has ever since been conducted under the style of E. S. Paul & Company. The concern now occupies a block which was constructed by Mr. Paul in 1874 in Lewiston. In 1885 Mr. A. W. Fowles and Mr. Paul's son, William Paul, were admitted as partners : four years later the former retired, and a younger son, Samuel, was made a member of the firm. Since Feb- ruary, 1892, the general management of the establishment has been in the hands of the sons, and the senior Paul has retired from a working partnership, though still retaining his interest, and giving his attention to other con- cerns in which he is an interested and leading spirit. For twenty-five years he was manager of the dry-goods business, and the credit and standing of the firm has always been among the best. Since 1899 E. H. Perry has been asso- ciated as a partner and has charge of the cloak, suit, fur and millinery department.


Since 1885 Mr. Paul has been a trustee, and has been for many years vice-president of the Androscoggin County Savings Bank. His home is in the city of Auburn, adjoining Lew- iston, and he is reckoned among the influential and useful citizens of that city. He has fre- quently been called upon to serve the munici- pality in various official capacities. In 1876 he was alderman, and was a member of the school committee in 1880-81, and for many years following, and in 1893 was a member of the board of water commissioners. He is ac- tively identified with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of Lewiston Commandery, Knights Templar, and is a member of the Calumet Club, of Lewiston, of which he was president in 1891-92-93. He is active in the support of his religious faith, that of the Con- gregational church, and equally urgent in sus- taining his political principles, as exemplified


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by the Republican party. He married, March 24, 1859, Harriet H., of Buxton, Maine, daughter of Deacon Washington Haskell, of that town. She was born March 30, 1840, and is the mother of five children: William Am- brose, Walter Everard, Samuel Merrill, Jen- nie Catherine and Grace Isabella.


(IX) William Ambrose (2), elder son of Ether S. and Harriet H. ( Haskell) Paul, was born June 3, 1860, in Saco, Maine, and was primarily educated in the schools of Auburn and spent nearly one year in Bates College. His attention was early turned to the business of his father, in which he became an active partner, as above related. When about nine- teen years of age he went to sea, and sailed from New York in the ship "Eric the Red," of Bath, Maine. This vessel was wrecked at Cape Otway, near Melbourne, on the coast of Australia. Returning to his native place, he was for about twelve years a member of the National Guard of Maine, entering as a private and rising through the successive grades of second and first lieutenant to captain. He was first lieutenant-in the First Maine Heavy Ar- tillery which served in Cuba, and was subse- quently commissioned a captain in the Twenty- ninth Regiment, United States Volunteers, commanding Company L of that regiment, and served two years in the Philippines. He mar- ried, February 24, 1885, Anna Maria Harris, daughter of Henry and Abby ( Harris) Hatch, of Mercer, Maine. She was born December 22, 1861, died September 10, 1887, leaving two children : Harriet Catherine and Lena Isabel, the latter born September 8, 1887. Mr. Paul married ( second) January 3, 1903, Elizabeth Jane Vie IIntchins, daughter of Henry and Mary Anne ( Plummer) Vie, of Nelson, New Brunswick. She was born April 15, 1875.


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( IX) Walter Everard, second son of Ether S. and Harriet H. (Haskell ) Paul, was born September 14, 1861, in Auburn, and graduated from Harvard College in 1883. Three years later he graduated from the medical depart- ment of the same institution and has been for seventeen years located on Beacon street, Bos- ton. He is a specialist in nervous diseases, and devotes much time to investigation, the result of which is given to the profession in various publications from his pen. Ever since his location in Boston lie has been a member of the medical staff of the Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital.


(IX) Samuel Merrill, third son of Ether S. and Harriet H. ( Haskell) Paul, was born Oc- tober 1, 1864, in Auburn, and was educated in the public schools of that city and Bryant


and Stratton's Business College, of Boston. Since leaving school he has been engaged in business with his father and brother, as above noted, and has been for some time the active head of the house. He married, October 18, 1893, Ella Theodate, born December 13, 1864, daughter of Theodore and Ada Hannah (Rose) Plummer. They are the parents of Ether Shepley (2), Dorothy and Theodore.


The ancestor of the Sale family of SALE New England was one of those immigrants who reached these shores so early in the settlement of the coun- try as to be called "pioneer": and the history of the family includes the entire period of the English occupation of New England from the day the Pilgrims landed, except fifteen years.


(I) Edward Sale, whose name is also spelled Seale, or Saile, probably came from London, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, in the "Elizabeth and Ann," in 1635. At that time he was twenty-four years old. He was made a freeman November 2, 1637, but must have belonged to another church than Salem. He was of Rehoboth in 1644. His wife's name was Elizabeth.


(II) Ephraim, son of Edward and Elizabeth Sale, was a member of the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company and its lieutenant. He died December 2, 1690. His first wife was Alice ; the second, Mary, daughter of Hopestill Foster. She survived him, and married, De- cember 10, 1691, Samuel Ward. His children by Alice were: Samuel and Nathaniel ; and by Mary : Mary, Hepzibah, John and Thank- ful.


( III ) John, son of Ephraim and Mary ( Fos- ter ) Sale, was born January 17, 1687. He married Ann Townsend, daughter of Penn Townsend. Esq., and they had four children : John, Rebecca, Sarah and Penn Townsend. He married ( second), April 16, 1742, Huldah Belknap, of Chelsea, who was living at the time his will was made.


(IV) Deacon Jolin (2) Sale. son of John ( I) and Ann (Townsend) Sale, born March 22, 1728 (O. S.), died April 20, 1804, aged seventy-five years. He married, April 7, 1752, Saralı Floyd. Their eight children were : Ann, Sarah, John, Penn Townsend, Ephraim, Mary, Sarah and Rebecca.


(V) Colonel John ( 3), son of Deacon John (2) and Sarah ( Floyd ) Sale, born August 3, 1757, died September 1, 1835, aged seventy- eight years. Ile married (first), November 29, 1757, Deborah Hobart, who died December 18. 1804. aged thirty-one years. Their chil-


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dren were: James Penn ( died young), Sarah Floyd, James Penn and Jane Bailey. Colonel Sale married (second ), April 1, 1809, Hannah Butterfield, who died February 27, 1853. aged seventy-five years. The children by this wife were: Frederick, Almira, Louisa, Mary, Eme- line, William, Cornelia, John and Ephraim.


(VI) John (4), eighth child and third son of Colonel John ( 3) and Hannah (Butterfield ) Sale, born November 27, 1820, died Chelsea, April 29, 1886. For many years he compiled and published the Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop Directory. He married (first), March 24, 1846, Julia Parson Dyer, born Raymond, Maine, June 11, 1826, died Chelsea, Massachu- setts, September 30, 1852, aged twenty-six years. She was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah ( Parsons) Dyer, of Raymond. Mr. Dyer resided in Buckfield and then removed to Hartford, where he died. The children of John and Julia P. (Dyer) Sale were: John Addington, George Frederick, Thomas Dyer, George Francisco. John Sale married (sec- ond), November 26, 1856, Mary Jane Leavitt, by whom he had five children : Charles Leav- itt, Alice Bell and Annie May (twins), George Frederick and Albert Plumb.


(VII) Thomas Dyer, third son and child of John and Julia P. (Dyer) Sale, was born in Chelsea, January 25, 1851. His mother died when he was twenty months old, and he was taken to Hartford, Maine, where he was brought up in the family of his grandfather. Thomas Dyer. After leaving the public school he fitted for college at Westbrook Seminary. Subsequently he taught school for five years to obtain means to continue his studies. In 1883 he entered the sophomore class at Bates Col- lege, and graduated A. B. in the class of 1886. Immediately after graduation he made a tour of the United States, going west to the Pacific coast, and returning before the end of the year. After serving as a reporter on the Portland Evening Express, in April, 1887, he formed a partnership with William H. Smith, editor and publisher of the Odd Fellows' Register, under the firm name of Smith & Sale. Mr. Smith died in 1890, since which time Mr. Sale has conducted the business alone. Mr. Sale is a Republican, and always loyal to the party, but he has always declined any offer of a politi- cal office. He is a member of Monami Lodge, No. 40, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Eastern Star Encampment, No. 2; Canton Ridgely, No. I, and a member of the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment of Maine ; Ty- rian Lodge, No. 73, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter, No. 13,


Portland Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters. In the Masonic bodies Mr. Sale has never held any office. He is a member of Munjoy Lodge, No. 6, Knights of Pythias, also a member of the Grand Lodge of this Grand Domain. A member of Windsor Castle, No. 1, Knights of the Golden Eagle, and also of the Grand Castle of Maine. He is a char- ter member of Cogowesco Tribe, No. 5, Inde- pendent Order of Red Men, and of the Grand Council of Maine. A member of Beacon Com- mandery, No. 98. Knights of Malta, and is grand recorder of this jurisdiction, including the states of Maine and New Hampshire ; also a member of the New England Order of Pro- tection, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of quite a number of other fraternal or- ganizations which is not necessary to enumer- ate here.


Mr. Sale married, December 19, 1887, Lizzie Jane Strout, born Durham, Maine, March 30, 1860, daughter of George W. and Harriett (Roake) Strout, of Durham. Mr. Sale resides in Portland, Maine.


As early as 1637 Anthony Bux- BUXTON ton settled in Salem, Massachu- setts, and two years later Thomas Buxton was of the same town. Clem- ent Buxton was of Stamford in 1650. De- scendants of these earlier settlers are scattered over New England, and one branch of the family has long been resident in Maine. The Buxtons of Maine were well represented in the revolutionary armies, and some of them were commissioned officers.


William Buxton was born in Albion, Maine, February, 1816, died in Gorham, Maine, April I. 1890. He left Albion at the age of fifteen, and went to Cumberland, Maine, where he learned the trade of carpenter, which he fol- lowed until 1852, when he went to California by a sailing-vessel, and remained in that then remote corner of the earth three years, en- gaged at his trade. He then returned to Maine by the Panama route, and engaged in con- tracting and building at Gorham. He spent a few years in that business; was then superin- tendent of the Gorham Powder Works for fif- teen years; subsequently was a merchant at White Rock, Maine, for about fifteen years. Hle married, May 14, 1838, Althea, born in Cumberland, February 28, 1816, daughter of Levi and Julia (Lane) Lang. She died July 24, 1888. Of their six children, two died in infancy, and the others were: 1. Julia L., mar- ried James H. Hall and resided in Portland ; their only child, Bertha L., married Arthur H.


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Mckeown. 2. George Herbert, mentioned be- low. 3. Walter S., married Lizzie Bolton ; two children : Gertrude L. and Marion A. 4. Francis W., died at age of eight years.


George Herbert, eldest son of William and Althea ( Lang) Buxton, was born in Cumber- land, September 30, 1847, and was educated in the public schools, Gorham Seminary, Bry- ant, Stratton & Gray's Business College. In 1866 he entered the employ of the wholesale grocery firm of Churchill, Hunt & Melcher, later Churchill & Melcher, then H. S. Melcher & Company, which was incorporated in 1896 as H. S. Melcher Company, H. S. Melcher, president ; George H. Buxton, vice-president and business manager, and A. T. Simpson, treasurer. In 1905 Mr. Melcher died, and Mr. Buxton was made president, and has since held that position. Mr. Buxton is a member of the Chestnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee. He is a Republican, and was a member of the city council from ward three in 1886-87. He is a member of Atlantic Lodge, No. 81, Free and Accepted Masons, and is its treasurer ; member of Mt. Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, No. 1 ; Portland Council, No. 1, Royal and Select Masters ; and Portland Commandery, No. 2, Knights Tem- plar. He is also a charter member of Unity Lodge, No. 3, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and of Eastern Star Encampment, No. 2. George H. Buxton married, at Portland, January 21, 1875, Nellie F. Chamberlin, of Portland, born in Portland, March 9, 1852, daughter of Captain William M. Chamberlin, a master mariner engaged in foreign trade, who was born in Scarboro, Maine, 1814, died in 1856. Captain Chamberlin married Ellen Bryant, born in Portland, September 15, 1818, died January 10, 1899. The children of this union are: William Herbert, George Freder- ick and Alice Mabel. George F., born Febru- ary 8, 1878, married Mildred McClintock, and has two children, George McClintock and Da- vid Everett. Alice M., born December 6, 1880, married Charles Everett Boynton; two chil- dren : Annie Ruth and Everett Buxton.


Frederick Wilson, of Derry, WILSON New Hampshire, was a de- scendant of the pioneer stock of Shapleigh, Maine. He married Eunice Low, of Wells, Maine; children: Simon, Lovey, Dolly and Timothy.


Timothy Wilson, M. D., son of Frederick and Eunice (Low) Wilson, was born in Shap- leigh, Maine, June 26. 1809, died April, 1880. His early education was acquired in the schools


of his native town, and there he developed into manhood. In the early twenties he was agent for a Salem, Massachusetts, firm at Majunga, Madagascar. He studied medicine at Bow- doin and Dartmouth colleges, receiving his diploma from the former institution, and en- tered upon the practice of his profession at Ossipee, New Hampshire. He practiced for a time in Sanford, and then established him- self permanently in Orleans, Massachusetts, where he was highly successful. He was a member of the Barnstable County ( Massachu- setts ) Medical Society. He was a Republican both before and during the war, and an ardent Abolitionist. He married Mary B. Kimball, who was also a descendant of the early settlers of Shapleigh. Children : Charles, who became a dentist ; Mrs. J. Wentworth ; John, a resident of Boston ; Frank, see forward.


Frank, youngest child of Dr. Timothy and Mary B. ( Kimball) Wilson, was born in Or- leans, Massachusetts, September 1, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, then attended Harvard College, being graduated from its Law School in 1877, and admitted to the bar the following year. He read law in the office of the Hon. Increase S. Kimball, and opened a law office in Sanford in 1878. He has since that time been actively engaged in his profession, in which he has been decidedly successful. He is a staunch supporter of Republican principles, and has been a member of the Republican committee of Sanford for many years, and the chairman of that body for some time. He has served his town as a member of the board of select- men, and has been chairman for some years. He was register of probate for York county from 1885 to 1900, and is a charter member of the Sanford Loan & Building Association, which was incorporated in 1890. He is a mem- ber of Preble Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Sanford ; White Rose Royal Archi Chapter; St. Amand Commandery, Kenne- bunk, Maine; Maine Council, Saco; Kora Temple, Lewiston ; and Maine Consistory. He married (first) November 16, 1880, Abby J. Hobbs, daughter of Benjamin F. Hobbs, of Somersworth, New Hampshire. She died Sep- tember 15, 1891, leaving one child : May, born Marchi 7, 1885, educated in Sanford and at Roxbury high school, Boston, Massachusetts. He married ( second), November 17, 1892, Alice L. Pike, daughter of Ivory H. Pike, of Shapleigh, Maine. Children : Robley C., born 1898; Donald M., September 9, 1901; and Milton G., January 10, 1904. Both children were born in Sanford, Maine.


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SEARLE The ancestry of the Searles of Massachusetts and Maine was settled in Massachusetts at an early date. Andrew Searle was born in Eng- land in 1616, and later came to Massachusetts and resided in Ipswich, or Rowley, perhaps both, and is said to have been at Kittery, Maine, in 1668. There he was clerk of the writs, but later returned to Rowley, and died November 7, 1670. Andrew, probably a son of the preceding, lived in Kittery in 1674-76 and after. Descendants of the immigrant An- drew still dwell in Rowley.


(1) Joseph Searle was for many years a carpenter and contractor in Boston, and built many of the business houses in that city. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1785, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1839. He married Mary Stockwell, of Boston ; children : Elizabeth, George W., a lawyer in Boston : John P., a shoe-dealer in Lowell, and Charles J.


(II) Charles Joseph, son of Joseph and Mary (Stockwell) Searle, was born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, June 23, 1828, died in Portland, Maine, December 23, 1903. He was in the United States navy during the Mexican war, and went to the gold-fields in California in 1849. In 1851 he settled in Lowell, Massa- chusetts, where he was a machinist, and later a constable of Middlesex county. He married, in Lowell, Massachusetts, Angeline, born in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Will- iam and Hannah (Burtt) Scarlett. Children : I. Frank W., mentioned below. 2. Charles J. Jr., married Martha H. Stanyan and has one child, Harold. 3. Elmer E., died at three years of age.


(III) Frank William, eldest son of Charles J. and Angeline (Scarlett) Searle, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, September 8, 1854. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, and after being graduated from the high school he was assistant city clerk of Lowell for ten years. In 1887 he matriculated at the Medical School of Maine (Bowdoin College), from which he was grad- uated in 1889. He began the practice of his profession in Freeport and continued there till 1892, when he removed to Portland and opened an office in the eastern section of the city. In 1897 he removed to the vicinity of the Maine Eve and Ear Infirmary, with which he became connected, and of which he has been secretary since 1897. In 1901 Dr. Searle was elected superintendent of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, and has held that position to the present time. For eight years he was


editor of the Journal of Medicine and Science, the only medical journal ever published in Maine. Ile has always been interested in music, and for several years before he studied medicine he was a professional musician, being a member of the best local orchestras in both Lowell and Portland. He is a charter member of the Kotzschmar Club, one of the most prominent musical organizations in Maine. He is also librarian of the Maine Academy of Medicine and Science, clerk of the Portland Medical Library Association, a member of the American Medical Editors Association, the Maine Medical Association, the Maine Acad- emy of Medicine and Science, the American Medical Association and the Portland Medical Club. He is also a Free Mason, and has mem- bership in the following named divisions of that order: Ancient Landmark Lodge, of Portland; . Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter ; Portland Council ; Portland Commandery, Knights Templar. He affiliates with the Re- publican party, and is an attendant of the Con- gregational church.


Frank W. Searle married, in December, 1889, Janet, of Portland, daughter of Archi- bald and Elizabeth ( Gow) Johnson, of Rob- binston, Maine. Dr. and Mrs. Searle have no living child.


There are several coats-of-arms in DYER the English branches of the Dyer family, and while these arms and the crest are entitled to be worn appropriately by the American Dyers, the customs of our people oppose such indulgences. The arms of the Dyer family of the branch considered in this place is a plain shield, surmounted by a wolf's head, a reproduction of which appears on a tombstone in the Copps Hill burying- ground, Boston. The surname Dyer undoubt- edly is of English origin, and is believed to have been first applied in allusion to the occu- pation of the persons on whom it was be- stowed. There may have been and doubtless were many persons in diverse localities en- gaged in the occupation from which the name is derived, hence it cannot be argued that all Dyers are descended from the same ancient ancestral head.


(I) Deacon Thomas Dyer, immigrant an- cestor, was born in England. The record of the Dyer family is to be found there as early as 1436. The Dyer coat-of-arms was a plain shield surmounted by a wolf's head. Thomas Dyer came from England in 1632, and settled soon afterward in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman there, May 29.


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1644. He was a cloth-worker by trade. He also was an innkeeper in Weymouth, and was one of the leading citizens of his day. He was deputy to the general court in 1646 and four years afterward. He was deacon of the Wey- mouth church, and held various town offices. He died November 3, 1676. His will was dated November 3. 1676, and proved Novem- ber 13, 1676. He bequeathed to his wife fifty pounds and the estate of her former husband at Medfield. He bequeathed to his children named below, to his grandchildren, to his pas- tor, Mr. Samuel Torrey, and to the Weymouth church. His estate was valued at two thou- sand one hundred and three pounds. The widow. Elizabeth, in her will, dated November 20, 1678, proved January 31, 1678-79, be- queathed to her sons, Abraham and John Harding, daughter, Elizabeth Adams. daugh- ter Prudence, sou, Josepli Dyer, and three grandchildren. Thomas Dyer married first (Agnes) Reed, who died December 4, 1667. He married (second) Elizabeth (Adams) (Harding) Frary, widow successively of Abra- ham Harding, of Medfield, and of John Frary Jr. She died 1678-79. Children, all by first wife: I. Mary, born July 3, 1641, married Samuel White. 2. John, July 10, 1643. Thomas, 1645, died young. 4. Abigail, 1647. died March 13, 1717-18; married Jacob Nash. 5. Sarah, 1649, imarried Jolin Roggles. 6. Thomas, May 5, 1651. 7. Joseph, November 6, 1653 (twin), married Hannah Frary. S. Benjamin (twin). November 6, 1653. 9. Will- iam, mentioned below. 10. Elinor, about 1660. (II) William, son of Deacon Thomas Dyer (1), was born about 1658, at Weymouth. He married Joanna Chard, born August 17, 1667. Children : 1. William, born March 23. 1693, died 1750. 2. Christopher. 1701, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, married Jane Stephens. Probably others.


(III) Christopher, son of William Dyer ( 2), was born at Weymouth in 1701. He settled in the adjacent town of Abington. He married, November 27, 1725, Hannah Nash, who died in 1760, daughter of Ensign James Nash. Children : 1. Mary, born 1728. 2. Hannah. 3. Christopher, mentioned below. 4. Sarah. 5. Jacob. 6. Betty. 7. James, born about 1743. died October 1, 1843, aged one hundred years ; married Mercy Small.




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