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(IX) Leroy L., eldest child of Horatio and Clara E. ( Milliken) Hight, was born in Saco, November 27, 1864, and educated in the pub- lic schools of Saco and Portland, making his preparatory studies at Portland high school. In 1882 he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated with the class of 1886. He then read law in the office of Hon. William
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L. Putnam, of Portland, and was admitted to practice in 1892. Immediately after that he opened an office and has since devoted his at- tention principally to railroad and corporation law. For a series of years he was master and instructor of the classical department of the Portland high school, and filled that position until he resigned. 1899. Beginning with 1900 he has been a member of the school committee, declining further nomination in 1908. He has membership in the Harvard and Cumberland clubs. In politics he is a Republican. He married, November 26, 1888, Clara Paguet Webster. Children: William, Leroy S. and Richard.
MORSE James Morse was born in New- burg, Penobscot county, Maine, in 1837. In early life he was a farmer in Newburg. In 1870 he went to Texas and from there to Nebraska, going to New Mexico in 1897, and is now residing in San Antonio, Texas. During these years he was a railroad contractor, which occupation he is still engaged in. He married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Washburn and Grace ( Matthews) Newcomb, of Newburg. One child, Charles Washburn, of whose life the next sketch treats.
(II) Charles Washburn, only son and child of James and Mary Elizabeth (Newcomb) Morse, was born January 2, 1859, in New- burg. His mother died when he was but eight months old and he was taken and reared by his grandparents Newcomb. He remained in that home until he went west. The country school, those nurseries of democracy, was the place of his education. The boy Morse worked at farming until he attained his majority and then embarked in the hay and potato business. Going to Denver and Leadville, Colorado, he scored a success there, but sacrificed his Colo- rado prospects and returned to Maine. He temporarily lived on the old Newcomb home- stead in Newburg, coming to Bangor in 1891, and engaged in the wholesale horse business. He handles about a thousand horses yearly, buying in Chicago and Buffalo. During the past year he has made twenty-eight trips to the west for horses. He owns for his own personal tise several high-blooded animals which have won ribbons at horse shows. Dex- ter, which won the championship over all other entries in the horse show at Bar Harbor in 1905, and Baxter, who was another winner at the same show. Torrisdale (raised by Colo- nel Morrell, of Pennsylvania, sired by Red Wilkes, and cost seventy-five thousand dol-
lars), is owned by Mr. Morse, and also Search Light, a family horse, which won the blue ribbon and cup at Chicago horse show prior to Mr. Morse obtaining her. He is an ex- cellent authority on horse flesh both for ex- hibition and speed, while as a buyer and sales- man he has few equals. Starting in life with- out capital Mr. Morse has reached a success only attained by men of sterling merit and business ability. Honorable and fair in all his dealings, he is a good type of the energetic American business man, genial and friendly in his manner. Mr. Morse has made friends all over the country. He made one trip to Eng- land with a string of trotters that he disposed of in Liverpool at a satisfactory profit. Since then he has exported other lots of horses to the same market. Bangor Lodge, No. 244, B. P. O. E., counts him as one of its valuable members. He is Independent in politics.
He married Effie A., daughter of Howard and Olive Nealley, in 1880. and they have one child, Agnes, who married Henry Stoddard Lancaster, formerly of Worcester, Massachu- setts ; they have one child, Dorothy Morse Lancaster, born July 28, 1908.
KNIGHT Storer Seth Knight, father of Dr. Charles Storer Knight, one of the successful practicing physicians of Portland, was born in Scarbor- ough, Cumberland county, Maine, July 12, 1841, died in Portland, Maine, August 18, 1890. He enlisted his services in defense of his country, and served the flag he loved until disabled from active service by the wound re- ceived by the explosion of a shell at the battle of Cedar Creek. The following is a copy of the war record of Mr. Knight: "It is hereby certified, That it appears from the records of this office (Adjutant General's), that Storer S. Knight, a private in Company B, Tenth Regiment of Infantry Maine Volunteers, was enlisted on the ninth day of August, one thou- sand eight hundred and sixty-two and was mustered into the United States service as a private at Portland, Maine, on the ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two for three years unless sooner dis- charged. Transferred to Company D, Twen- ty-ninth Regiment of Infantry Maine Volun- teers, on the thirty-first day of May, 1864, as a private. Mustered out and honorably dis- charged from the service of the United States, as a private the 14th day of May. 1865, at Baltimore, Mld. by reason of Orders War Dept., reducing the Army. Said Storer S. Knight was born in Scarborough, County of
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Cumberland, State of Maine, a resident of Portland, Maine, age 21, height 5 feet 5 inches, complexion light, eyes black, hair brown, occu- pation, when enlisted, a clerk. Remarks : Wounded at Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864."
Upon his return from the army, Storer S. Knight accepted a position in the government service, and for many years served in the ca- pacity of clerk in the post office at Portland, later being engaged in the railway mail service. He was active and energetic, taking a keen interest in public affairs, and in 1886 wa., nominated and elected to the office of register of deeds of Cumberland county, giving effi- cient and capable service for a period of four years. In politics he was a Republican. He was a fine speaker, possessing the gift of fluency of speech, and his services were in great demand on occasions of note. He was also a very interesting lecturer, especially on the subject of United States postal service. He was a deep thinker, a man of scholarly at- tainments, being well read on a variety of sub- jects, and was also a great student of nature. loving the woods and streams, especially the latter, he being an enthusiastic fisherman. He was a member of Bosworth Post, No. 2, of Portland, in the affairs of which he took a keen interest. He was one of the best known temperance workers in the state; was an active Knight Templar, and at the time of his de- cease was the grand chief templar of that order. He was highly respected in the com- munity in which he resided, and his death was a source of regret to a wide circle of friends who admired his many admirable character- istics.
Storer S. Knight married, June 2, 1869, Helen E., born September 15, 1839. in Port- land, Maine, daughter of Captain Charles H. and Katherine Sawyer (Mariner) Greene, of Portland, and widow of George Leavitt. Cap- tain Greene was a son of John and Elizabeth (Horton) Greene, of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt had one child, Captain George B. Leavitt. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Knight : I. Charles Storer, see forward. 2. Katherine G., born June 11, 1874, married William S. Dresser, one child, Helen Knight Dresser, born May 19, 1904: they reside in Portland. 3. Herbert Carr, born September 26, 1878, mar- ried Lizzie Hovey ; they reside in Portland.
Charles Storer Knight, eldest child of Storer Seth and Helen E. (Greene) (Leavitt) Knight, was born in Portland. Maine, Sep- tember 16, 1872. He was educated in the public schools of Portland and at Westbrook Seminary, graduating from the latter insti-
tution in 1890. Two years later he matricu- lated at Harvard College, from which he grad- uated four years later with the degree of Doc- tor of Medicine. From July, 1896, to Janu- ary, 1898, he was house physician and surgeon in the City Hospital in Boston, the following eight months was house physician at Boston Lying-In Hospital, and from that time to 1899 was assistant superintendent of City Hospital, these positions giving him a diversified knowl- edge of disease and its treatment, and thus aid- ing materially the course pursued at college. The following two years he was engaged in the practice of medicine in the city of Bangor, but in 1902 he established himself in Portland. where he has a large clientage and a constantly increasing business. He is a member of the Portland Medical Society, Cumberland Medi- cal Society and the Maine Medical Associa- tion. He is a Republican in politics, and a Universalist in religion. He is social and fra- ternal and belongs to the following named organizations : Deering Lodge, No. 183, Free and Accepted Masons ; Rocky Hill Lodge, No. 51. Knights of Pythias; Woodford Com- mandery, No. 235, Golden Cross : Court No. 1151, Independent Order of Fore:ters.
Dr. Knight married, June 1, 1905, in Au- gusta, Maine, Marion Ethel Clark, of Augusta, born February 17, 1882, daughter of Hiram and Flora Augusta (Allen) Clark. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Clark: 1. Georgia, married Frank Dyer, of Augusta, Maine, and has one child, Helen. 2. Allen, married Bertie Moody, of Gardner. Maine. 3. Marion Ethel, men- tioned above. 4. Edwin, died young. Dr. and Mrs. Knight have a daughter, Dorothy Leav- itt, born May 23, 1906.
George O. K. Cram, a successful
CRAM business man of Portland, and a representative in the fourth gen- eration of this branch of the Cram family in the city of Portland, all having resided on State street, where he was born, is a man of marked business ability and strict integrity, and he has given his time and influence in favor of the advancement of all great moral questions, always aiding in all public efforts which have contributed to the educational and business prosperity of his native city.
(I) Nehemiah Cram. the first of this family of whom we have definite information, was born in Portland, Maine. He was educated in the schools of that city, and later he be- came a member of the firm of Cram & Cahoon, this connection continuing for many years. He purchased a house at 156 State street, and
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in 1836 sold it to Ether Shepley, and in this house the High Street Congregational Church was founded. Mr. Cram was a believer in the doctrines of that denomination, and his political allegiance was given to the Repub- lican party. He married (first) a Miss Morse ; (second) a Miss Martin. Children: Nehe- miah Pinkney, Latinus, Nathaniel Octavius, Calvin H., Charles E. and Susan.
(II) Nathaniel Octavius, son of Nehemiah Cram, was born in Portland, 1813, died in March, 1894-95. His education was acquired in the schools of his native city, and upon at- taining manhood turned his attention to a mercantile career, following the vocation of commission merchant, dealing in corn and to- bacco from Virginia. He was a man of stand- ing and character, and consequently was chosen for positions of trust and responsibility. among which was that of director of the Casco Bank, in which capacity he served for many years, and a member of the board of alder- men, which office he filled acceptably and cred- itably. He married Mary Rebecca Ball Kit- tredge, born in 1821, died in 1861. Children : I. George O. K., see forward. 2. Nathaniel G., born May 25, 1846, married Sarah Choate, of Portland; one child, Mary, who died un- married. 3. Grace Mary, born January, 1855, married Henry A. Smith, of Boston ; children : i. Eleanor K., married David Settlemeyer, of Illinois ; one child, Eleanor; ii. Marion K., married Edgar Paul Jones, of Boston; one child ; iii. Hammond, unmarried.
(III) George Octavius Kittredge, eldest child of Nathaniel O. and Mary R. B. ( Kit- tredge ) Cram, was born in Portland, January 2, 1844. He was educated in the public schools, and graduated from the high school, class of 1861. In August of the same year he took a clerical position with Chase Brothers & Com- pany, importers of West India goods, remain- ing for a period of six years. He then be- came an office salesman for the Forest City Sugar Refining Company, in 1867, and in due course of time his diligence and faithfulness to the interests of the firm was rewarded by promotion to the office of treasurer. In 1887 the company was merged into the trust known as the American Sugar Refineries Company, and at this time Mr. Cram and George S. Hunt formed the firm of George S. Hunt & Cram, sugar brokers and agents in Portland for the American Sugar Refineries Company, which relation continued until 1896, when Mr. Hunt died and was succeeded in business by his son, Arthur K. Hunt. For three decades Mr. Cram owned and lived in the square brick
house at 92 Spring street. His church con- nection is with St. Luke's Cathedral, in which he has served as vestryman for a quarter of a century. He casts his vote as an independ- ent Republican. He has always refused office, his only service aside from that of vestryman in St. Luke's Cathedral having been member of the executive committee of the Cumberland Club for two terms of three years each. He has attained high rank in the Masonic frater- nity, being a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the following named organiza- tions of that order : Ancient Landmark Lodge, Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter, Portland Coun- cil, Portland Commandery, and all the bodies of the Scottish Rite.
Mr. Cram married ( first), in Portland, Sep- tember 13, 1871, Ellen H., daughter of St. John and Susan ( Hopkins) Smith; she died in November. 1899. Children : 1. Susan Hop- kins, born June 30, 1872, married, June 3, 1903, Dr. William Pearce Coues, of Boston ; one child, William Pearce Jr. 2. Elinor Kit- tredge; born January 22, 1875, married, May 27, 1903, Harold Everett Sanderson, of Chi- cago ; children : George Kittredge and Edward Cram Sanderson. Mr. Cram married (sec- ond), July 3, 1901, Etta Estabrook, of Lex- ington, Massachusetts, daughter of Joseph and Mary Estabrook, and granddaughter of the Rev. Joseph Estabrook, pastor of Congrega- tional Church at Acton, Massachusetts, during the revolutionary war, and his name is carved on the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument at Acton, Massachusetts.
GILBERT The family of Gilbert has been represented for several genera- tions in the great lumber dis-
trict of Eastern Maine, where by an energetic struggle its members have attained promi- nence as lumbermen.
(1) Thomas Gilbert, of Orono, has spent his life in the lumber business, in which he has accumulated a large property. He mar- ried first, Esther Cordelia Lyshon, who was born in Hudson, Maine, June 2, 1845, daugh- ter of Ephraim and Mary (Townsend) Ly- shon, of Hudson, who died January 31, 1894. They were the parents of ten children: Fred A., Albert A., Edith, Charles E., Gracie, Thomas H., Frank Y., Eugene C., Daisy A. and Alice M. He married second, Vesta (Thibadeau) Atwell, widow of Edward At- well, daughter of Peter Thibadeau. She has one child, Marion, by Edward Atwell.
(II) Dr. Frank Yuba, fifth son of Thomas and Esther C. (Lyshon) Gilbert, was born in
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Thomas Gilbert
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Orono, March 28, 1878. After a year of pre- paratory work at the University of Maine he entered Bowdoin College in 1897, and gradu- ated from its medical department with the de- gree of M. D. in 1901. After graduation he became assistant physician at the Butler IIos- pital, a private asylum for the insane, at Provi- dence, Rhode Island, where he spent a year. Following this he was house surgeon to the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary at Portland, Maine, one year. In August, 1903, he opened an office in Portland for the exclusive treat- ment of diseases of the eye, car and throat, and has since devoted himself to that line of work with distinguished success. He is eye and ear surgeon to the Portland Charitable Dispensary and assistant surgcon at the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is a member of the Cumberland County Medical Association, the Maine Medical Association, the American Medical Association, secretary of the Maine Academy of Medical Science, member of the Maine Eye and Ear Association, the New York Medico-Legal Association, and the Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngo- logical sections of the American Medical As- sociation. Among the clubs of which he is a member are the Portland Medical, the Practi- tioners, the Portland Athletic, and the Coun- try. He is also a member of Theta Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Kappa Society, of which he is primarius. Politically he is a Republican, He attends the Congregational church, and is a member of the State Street Parish Club.
Dr. Frank Y. Gilbert married, April 18, 1906, Florence Cook, who was born Decem- ber 12, 1880, daughter of Charles Cook. ( See Cook V.) They have one child, Frances, born April 29, 1907.
Thomas Gardner, immigrant GARDNER ancestor, was born about 1592 and came to New England in 1624. He sailed from Weymouth, England, and received an appointment from the Dor- chester Company. Farmer states that he camne from Scotland, but there seems to be no rea- son for believing this, and the supposition is much more reasonable that he came from Dor- setshire or the neighboring county of Somer- set. He was the overseer of the plantation at Cape Ann, which was abandoned on account of the poor soil, and removed to Salem. In 1636 he was admitted a member of the First Church at Salem, and was admitted a free- man May 17, 1637. He was deputy to the general court the same year. He held many offices in the town, being constable, fence
viewer, highway surveyor, juror and assessor, and often on important committees. He re- ceived many grants of land in Salem and owned much real estate. He married (first) probably Margaret , who united with the First Church in Salem in 1639. He mar- ried ( second ) Damaris Shattuck, widow, who was admitted to the First Church in 1641. She had several children by her first husband. She was a Quaker and was before the court several times for attending their meetings, and for absence at her own church, and was fined for the offence. She died November 28, 1674. Thomas Gardner died December 29, 1674, and was buried in the Gardner burying ground, by the side of a "young tree" which he had chosen as his resting place. His will was dated De- cember 7. 1668, and proved March 29, 1675. Children, all by first wife: I. Thomas, born in England, died 1682; married (first) Han- nah -; ( second) Elizabeth 2. George, born probably in England, died 1679; married (first) Eliza Horne; (second) Mrs. Ruth Turner: (third) Mrs. Elizabeth Stone. 3. Richard, died January 23, 1688; married Sarah Shattuck. 4. John, born 1624, died May, 1706; married Priscilla Grafton. 5. Samuel, born 1627, mentioned below. 6. Jo- seph, died December 19, 1675; married Ann Downing. 7. Sarah, died April 5, 1686; mar- ried Benjamin Balch. 8. Miriam, married John Hill. 9. Seth, baptized December 25, 1636, died April 17, 1707; married (first) Joshua Conant ; (second) December 1, 1659, John Grafton.
( II) Samuel, son of Thomas Gardner, was born in 1627, according to his depositions made in 1666 and 1670. Others made a few years later make the date of his birth as late as 1629 or 1630. He was admitted a freeman May 12. 1675, and served the town in nearly every office. He was surveyor and overseer and ap- praiser of many estates. He served as jury- man, coroner, constable; was selectman in 1676-77-80-81-82-83-84-86-87-88-89. He was deputy to the general court several times. On January 27, 1672, he was empowered "to build a pew from the middle of the North window to ye stayers on the East Syde of the North Doer." He was on a committee with two others to build a house for the town "which may serve for a school house & Watch house & towne house of the timber of the old meet- ing house, according as the timber will bear." After the death of his father Samuel pur- chased nearly all the real estate which his father had owned, and which had been sold by the heirs. Among the pieces of land ac-
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quired at this time was the burying ground. Samuel Gardner was obliged to prove his title to this plot, as John Pudney buried his dead there and Samuel brought action against him for "taking downe his fence & goeing into his incloafed land & there digging a grave when filled by the plt : & that contrarye to his exprefs order, when in doeing, and then forceably burying theire dead & heare of making re- turne." He won the case, and replied to John Pudney's "Reasons of Appeal" as follows : "had the now plaintiff bin half as Bufy about Payeing the damage or studieing Peafe as hie hath ben in studieing Crittiks & Joaking Lan- guage ; & undervalluing testimonies he might have faved the Court a great deale of trouble & himself a great deall of time." Samuel Gardner .married (first) Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth White. She died Septem- ber 12, 1675, and he married (second), Au- gust 2, 1680, Elizabeth Paine, widow. She evidently died before he did, as he did not mention her in his will. His will was dated October 2, 1689, and proved October 11, 1689. Children, all of first wife: I. Mary, born Au- gust 5, 1658, died April 3, 1661. 2. Eliza or Elizabeth, May 30, 1660, died October 14, 1678. 3. Mary, June 29, 1662, married Jo- seph Henfield. 4. Margaret, July 14, 1664, died March 25, 1689; married, June 3, 1685, Deliverance Parkman. 5. Samuel, June 9. 1666, died June 10, 1683 ; died of a fever while a student of Harvard College. 6. George. January 28, 1667, died September 5, 1668. 7. Jonathan, July 18, 1669, died about 1693. 8. Hannah, April 16, 1671, died January 4, 1703- 04; married Major William Gedney, May 7, 1690. 9. Abel, mentioned below.
( III) Lieutenant Abel, son of Samuel Gard- ner, was born in Salem, September 1, 1673, died November 10, 1739. He was buried in the old Gardner burying-ground. He was a tanner by trade and a farmer. He lived in the old homestead occupied by his father and grandfather, which stood on the present cor- ner of Central and Elm streets, Peabody, which at that time was Salem. He was promi- nently identified with town affairs and held many offices. He was surveyor, constable, se- lectman, on the jury, and on important com- mittees. In 1711 he was one of the contribu- tors to the South Parish meeting-house. In the same year he was one of the petitioners for a schoolhouse which was the first to be established in the present town of Peabody. He owned much valuable land in and about Peabody. He married (first) Sarah, daughter
of Israel and Elizabeth ( Hlathorne) Porter. Her father and mother were the leaders of the attempts to save the life of Rebecca Nurse, and their names stand on the Rebecca Nurse mon- ument at Danvers, at the head of the list of those who, at the peril of their lives, tried to save her from martyrdom. She died Septem- ber 24, 1728, aged fifty-three years, and he married ( second) in 1731 Sarah King, of Salem, the intention being published June I of that year. His will was dated January 12, 1737, and proved November 19, 1739. The value of his estate was one thousand nine hun- dred and ninety-three pounds, seventeen shil- lings. Children, all by first wife: 1. Samuel, born March 7, 1695-96, baptized September 27, 1696; married, 1719, Sarah Adams. 2. Jonathan, February 23, 1697-98, died Novem- ber 27, 1783; married (first) December 2, 1725, Elizabeth Gardner; (second) January 8, 1755, Mary Avery, widow. 3. Thomas, February 21, 1699-1700, died April 13. 1700. 4. Elizabeth, March 30, 1701, married, No- vember 30, 1721. John Waters. 5. Thomas, baptized October 14, 1705, mentioned below. 6. Israel, baptized October 5, 1707. 7. Sarah, baptized May 21, 1710, married Joseph Os- born. 8. Abel, baptized May 10, 1713, mar- ried, August 16, 1734, Nathaniel Waters. 9. Joseph, baptized September 28, 1718, married, September 29, 1741, Mehitable Pope.
(IV) Thomas (2), son of Abel Gardner, was baptized October 14, 1705, and lived on the ancestral farm in what is now West Pea- body. He was a farmer and wheelwright. He served as constable in 1737-38-39, and was on the jury frequently. He was frequently em- ployed by the town in work upon the high- ways. He received from his father half the farm of one hundred and twenty acres, and bouglit much more land. He married, Febru- ary 13, 1728, Eunice, daughter of John and Mary Waters. He died about 1753, intestate, and his son Thomas was appointed adminis- trator of the estate. Jasper Needham was ap- pointed guardian of Israel and Sarah, two minor children, and Ebenezer, another minor child, was under the guardianship of Jonathan Gardner. Children and dates of baptism: 1. Eunice, August 31, 1729, married, December 23. 1753, Jonathan Tucker. 2. Thomas, Feb- ruary 13, 1731-32, died September, 1788 ; mar- ried November 13, 1755, Mary Buffington. 3. Mary, July 14, 1734, died March 11, 1812; married, July 30, 1756, Humphrey Marsh. 4. Ebenezer, September 4. 1737, mentioned be- low. 5. Sarah, July 6, 1740, died October 29,
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