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(V) Henry B., second son and child of John P. and Mary A. (Norton) Pennell, was born in Westbrook, April 18, 1858. He at- tended the public schools until he was four- teen years of age, and then entered the em- ploy of Locke, Twitchell & Company, dealers in dry goods, with whom he remained for five years. At the age of nineteen he became book- keeper for the firm of W. F. Phillips & Com- pany, wholesale druggists, and served with such acceptability that at the end of five years he was received as a member of the firm. In 1884 Charles Cook, Edward S. Everett and Henry B. Pennell formed the firm of Cook, Everett & Pennell, wholesale dealers in drugs and medicines, paints, oils and varnishes. Mr. Pennell is a prominent and successful business man, and is a director of the Chapman Na- tional Bank. In politics he is a Republican of the stalwart type. He worships with the Congregationalists. He married, January 19, 1883, Grace Woods Fribley, born Marion, Ohio, September 18, 1861, daughter of Jacob and Harriet (Conklin) Fribley. They have one child, Henry Beaumont, born March 1, 1887, now a student in Williams College.
(III) Clement (2), second son of Clement
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(1) and Ruthı (Riggs) Pennell, settled in Gray, Maine, where he cleared the forest and reared a family.
(IV) Clement (3), son of Clement (2) Pen- nell, was born May 16, 1791, in Gray, and died September 22, 1862, in Portland, where he spent most of his life. He married, No- vember 15, 1815, Fannie Poland, born March 13, 1796, died December 27, 1876, near the close of her eighty-first year. They were the parents of twelve children, all except the first born in Portland, namely: Albert, Benjamin P., Charles S., Clement, Richard C., George W., Frances E., Charles J., William H., Ed- ward F. (died young), Edward G., Wood- bury S.
(V) Richard Cobb, fifth son of Clement (3) and Fannie (Poland) Pennell, was born No- vember 15, 1823, in Portland, Maine, and set- tled early in life in Lewiston, same state, where he died August 15, 1898, in his seventy-fifth year. He married, May 20, 1846, Cornelia Barnes, born December 26, 1822, who died July 4, 1902. She was a daughter of Cornelius and Lydia ( Hersey) Barnes. Mr. and Mrs. Pennell were the parents of three children : William D., born May 21, 1847 ; Cornelia B., November 1, 1848, married George A. Chan- dler, of Lewiston ; and Adelaide C., May 7, 1854. married Woodbury Pulsifer.
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(VI) William Dwight, only son of Richard C. and Cornelia ( Barnes) Pennell, was born May 21, 1847, in Portland, Maine, and was sixteen years of age on the day following his arrival in Lewiston with his parents, where lie has since resided an active citizen, having at heart the best interests of the city and its people. Shortly after his arrival there he found a position as a bobbin boy in the Porter (later Continental) mill under Mr. Rhodes A. Budlong, who observing the careful industry of the boy became interested in him and caused him to be advanced through various depart- ments to higher positions, which he filled most satisfactorily. He finally left the Porter mill to take a position as draughtsman in the office of the Franklin Company with the Hon. A. D. Lockwood, where he was employed three years, until 1869, when he was appointed pay- master at the Lincoln mill. In November, 1872, he was made superintendent of the latter mill, in which capacity he gave such satisfac- tion that the members of the firm selected him, in November, 1879, as agent for the company. He remained in this office until September, 1886, when he accepted the office of manager for the Franklin Company. Later he became, in addition, manager of the Union Water
Power Company. As manager for the Frank- lin Company Mr. Pennell pursued a progress- ive policy, advanced the company's interests in Lewiston and Auburn, so that many im- provements were made and new building sites opened to the public, and heightened its gen- eral popularity and prosperity to a great ex- tent. These positions he resigned in Febru- ary, 1890, to become agent for the Hill Manu- facturing Company upon the resignation of Josiah G. Coburn, who retired after thirty-six years of careful management. Mr. Pennell was well equipped in technical skill, business training and intellectual strength for this re- sponsibility, and attained a high position in manufacturing circles and in the public regard. In politics he is an active supporter of the Re- publican party, has been a frequent delegate to conventions, chairman of city, county and district committees, and in general a valuable worker along advanced party lines. His offi- cial services may be enumerated as follows : City auditor, 1870-71; member of common council, 1874; president of the board of alder- men, 1875-76-77 ; elected water commissioner, 1880, for six years, re-elected for an addition- al term of six years, 1886; twice chairman of the board of water commissioners. On Jan- uary 15. 1878, he introduced the measure pro- viding for the construction of the Lewiston water works. In 1881 he was elected to fill the vacancy in the state legislature caused by the death of I. N. Parker, and in 1883-84-85 lie was a member of the state senate. In 1883 he introduced and carried through an act pro- hibiting the sale of the deadly toy pistol that occasioned so many deaths among boys, and his interest in this matter was warmly ap- proved by all the newspapers. The senate of 1885 was one of more than usual ability, with many members experienced in legislation, keen debaters, sound thinkers and earnest men, and it was complimentary indeed to Mr. Pennell that although the youngest member of the senate, with one exception, he was chosen its president, receiving every vote in that body, and through his efficient service became uni- versally esteemed and honored by that body and political circles in general, and won praise from even the opposition press. He was also a member of the executive committee of the leg- islative reunion held at Augusta, Maine. Mr. Pennell was active in other fields of useful- ness also, having been trustee of the Manu- facturers' and Mechanics' Library Association ; an officer of the State Agricultural Society ; trustee of the Androscoggin County Agricul- tural Society ; and the conspicuous success of
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the centennial celebration of Lewiston and Auburn in 1876 was largely due to his man- agement. Mr. Pennell is president of Central Naine General Hospital which is located at Lewiston, and is also president of the Lewis- ton Public Library. For many years he has been an earnest member of the Pine Street Congregational Church, chairman of its pru- dential committee, and a participant in the various church and parish activities. He has also been eager in advancing the work of the Young Men's Christian Association. Since he joined the order in 1874 Mr. Pennell has been prominent in Masonic circles, and has taken all the degrees through the thirty-second. He married, June 22, 1869, Jennie A., daughter of Wingate and Eliza W. (Foss) Linscott. Mr. Linscott, a native of Chesterville, became a resident of Boston, where Mrs. Pennell was born. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Pennell: Dwight R., Fannie C., married Laurance H. Parkhurst, of Boston, who is with the firm of H. W. Poor & Com- pany, bankers ; children : Marjorie and Dor- othy P. Parkhurst. Maude Robie, married Millard F. Chase, who is manager of Dodd- Mead & Company's publishing establishment ; child, William Pennell Chase.
(III) Jeremiah, eldest child of Clement (I) and Ruth (Riggs) Pennell, was born about 1750, probably in Stroudwater, and settled in Gray, Maine, where he was a farmer. He married Charlotte Cummings.
(IV) Jeremiah (2), only child of Jeremiah (1) and Charlotte (Cummings) Pennell, was born March 12. 1820, in Gray, and passed most of his life in that town, where he died October 29, 1882. He was but a boy at the time of his father's death and was compelled to take up active life at a very early age. His limited education was such as the public schools of his native town afforded, and he settled in that town as a farmer. He married (first) Fannie Doughty, who died within a short time, leaving no issue. Married (sec- ond) Clara Webster, who was the mother of a daughter Alice who became the wife of George Fuller, of Tremont, Maine, and is now de- ceased. He married (third) Elizabeth Dough- ty, born in Gray, whose children are accounted for as follows: I. Fannie D. McConkey, who resides in Gray. 2. Clara W. Dow, resides in Gray. 3. Walter J., mentioned below. 4. George H., resides in Portland. 5. Dr. Edgar L., resides in Kingfield, Maine. 6. Cora B. True, lives in Buffalo, New York. 7. Stephen R., a resident of Rumford Falls, Maine. 8. Hattie W. Ross, resides in East North Yar-
mouth, Maine. 9. Percy H., resides in Worces- ter, Massachusetts. The mother of Elizabeth (Doughty) Pennell was Esther Pennell, the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Pennell.
(V) Walter J., eldest son of Jeremiah (2) and Elizabeth (Doughty) Pennell, was born October 2, 1863, in Gray, Maine, and began his studies in the public schools of that town. He was afterward a student at the Greeley In- stitute at Cumberland and Nichols Latin School of Lewiston, and entered Bates Col- lege. Before he had completed the course in the latter institution the death of his father in- terrupted his progress, and he was obliged to devote some time to teaching school in order to continue his studies. During vacations he was employed in hotels, and in this way ob- tained the necessary funds to continue his own education. After one year in Bowdoin Col- lege he entered the medical department of the University of Vermont at Burlington, where he graduated with the class of 1891. He sub- sequently pursued a postgraduate course in New York, giving special attention to the eye, ear, nose and throat, and settled in the prac- tice of his profession at Auburn, Maine, ma- king a specialty of the organs just above named. In 1905 he went abroad and pursued his investigations in the treatment of the eye in the Royal Infirmary in Scotland and the Morefield Hospital in London, also observing in France, Germany and Switzerland. Return- ing to his home, he resumed his work of ocu- list and aurist of the Central Maine General Hospital, and also oculist at Bates College. Dr. Pennell is not only active in his profes- sion, but is also prominently identified with the social life of his home city, and participates in the work of numerous fraternal organiza- tions as well as medical societies. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Maine, the Androscoggin and the O. A. Horr Medical societies, and the Medical Re- search Club. He has attained the thirty-sec- ond degree in Free Masonry, through the Scot- tish Rite, and is a member of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Grand Lodge in the Knights of Pythias, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is also identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Improved Order of Red Men, and the Golden Cross. Dr. Pennell is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Congregational church. He married, Novem- ber 30, 1891, Lelia, daughter of Cyrus and Sarah (Rich) Goff. Children: Helen, born January 8. 1894. Byron P., December 10, 1900. Florence, May 27, 1903.
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The name Dudley has been con-
DUDLEY spicnons in both old and New England for centuries. The house of Dudley is one of the noblest in the mother country. For more than five hundred years, the Dudleys of England have lived in castles and filled high places in the government of the country. Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, a son of the Duke of Northumber- land, was born about 1530. He held several high offices. Edmund Dudley was speaker of the Commons in 1594. Lord Guilford Dud- ley married Lady Jane Grey in 1553, and was beheaded with his wife in 1554. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, born in 1502, son of Edmund Dudley, noticed above, was lord high admiral in the time of Henry VIII. Many other English Dudleys attained distinction. The American Dudleys are descended from the English line, but the relationship has not been traced. The American families have produced many distinguished soldiers and patriots.
(I) Governor Thomas Dudley was born in Northamptonshire, England, in 1576, son of Captain Roger Dudley, a warrior. Captain Roger Dudley flourished in the time of Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth's famous Earl of Leicester, and appears to have been one of the soldiers sent over by the Queen to aid Henry of Navarre to establish his throne, and to have fallen in the famous battle of Ivry, which Macauley describes in his picturesque poem. The Dudleys of the Dudley castle were ever inclined to military life. Captain Roger seems to have belonged to that branch of the family. Roger's wife was probably of a re- ligious family and became a noted Puritan. She was a kinswoman of Augustine Nicolls, of Faxton in Northamptonshire, a judge of the common- pleas and Knight of the Bath, who finally became keeper of the great seal to Prince Charles. Thomas Dudley came to Mas- sachusetts with John Winthrop, Sir Richard Saltonstall and other prominent men, in the "Arabella," and landed at Salem, June 12, 1630. The "Arabella" was a ship of three hundred and fifty tons burden, and sailed from Yarmouth near the Isle of Wight, April 8. 1630, with fifty-two seamen and twenty-eight guns. Peter Milbourn was master. Thomas Dudley, then about fifty-four years old, had been chosen deputy governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in England. Mr. Winthrop was the governor and was to supersede Governor Endicott. Some of the principal families of colonists went to Charlestown and formed a church there of which Mr. Dudley was the second member. Some of the leading mem-
bers of the colony having agreed to make Cambridge the chief town of the colony, Thomas Dudley, Simon Bradstreet, Daniel Dennison and most of the leaders, built their dwellings there. They called the place New- town, and the city of Newton still retains the name. After expending much time and money in laying out, building and fortifying the town, Governor Winthrop concluded to settle in Bos- ton, which greatly disappointed the other col- onists. Mr. Dudley was especially offended, and April, 1632, resigned his office of deputy governor, but his resignation was not accept- ed and he was prevailed upon to retain his office. Mr. Dudley soon sold his Newtown es- tate to Roger Harlakenden, and removed to Ipswich with his son, Rev. Samuel Dudley, General Dennison, Simon Bradstreet and others. "At a General Court of Assistants, held at Boston, June 5. 1635, two hundred acres of land was granted, on the West side of Charles River, over against the Newton, to enjoy to Thomas Dudley, Esq., Deputy Gov- ernor." At the court holden at Boston, April I, 1634, there were five hundred acres of land granted to Thomas Dudley, Esq. Deputy Gov- ernor Dudley and Governor Winthrop owned adjoining lands in Concord, Massachusetts, and the town historian, Mr. Shattuck, says there are two rocks standing between their lots, called "The Two Brothers" in remem- brance of the fact that they were brothers by the intermarriage of their children. Their lots were divided by a little brook, still to be seen near Carlisle bridge. "At a General Court held at Newton the second day of the ninth month, 1637, the deputy, Mr. Dudley, hath a thousand acres of land granted to him where it may not prejudice any plantation granted, not any plantation to be granted without lim- iting to time of improvement." This land was taken by Mr. Dudley in Concord. He also had various grants of small amounts in Ips- wich, the largest being of one hundred acres. Thomas Dudley was chosen governor in May, 1634, and re-elected three times afterward, 1640, 1645, 1650; and was deputy governor thirteen years. When not governor, he was generally deputy governor, but sometimes as- sistant. He held that office five years. He was the first governor chosen by deputies elected by the freemen and sent from all the towns in the colony to constitute the general court of elections. Before this time, 1634, the court of assistants chose the governor and dep- uty governor. Perhaps this plan was adopted by his advice. It was at this session that a military commission was established with al-
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most unlimited authority and Mr. Dudley was made the head of it, having for his associates Winthrop, Humphrey, Haynes, Endicott, Cod- dington, Pynchon, Nowell, Bellingham and Bradstreet. Governor Dudley vigorously op- posed Rev. John Cotton when the latter preached that the secular government ought to be subservient to the priesthood. He held that the civil authority should rule over the churches as well as over the military organiza- tions and everything else. One thing not to his credit, but probably the result of influences he could not contrive, a matter of creed, was his aid in the persecution of Anne Hutchinson, whose mind was one of the brightest and purest in New England ; but he was not gov- ernor when Roger Williams was banished, nor when Mrs. Hutchinson was convicted of her- esy, nor when the Quakers were hanged. In 1636 Mr. Dudley was made one of the com- mittee of twelve whose labors resulted in the organization of Harvard College, and it was while governor that year that he signed the charter creating that great school. At the gen- eral court held March, 1644, Thomas Dudley was chosen and admitted sergeant major gen- eral of the colony; this being the first time such an officer had been chosen. He had many friends among the religious and conservative classes, but the delinquents and vicious greatly feared him. Mr. Dudley was a man of very ample means for that time and among those people, and dealt largely in real estate and loaned much money on mortgages. In 1642 he bought the right of the Indians to one thou- sand five hundred acres of land on the south- east side of the Concord river. Governor Thomas Dudley wrote his will with his own hand and dated it April 13, 1653. He died at Roxbury, July 31, 1653. There was a great funeral for that early era, the most dis- tinguished citizens were his pall-bearers; the clergy were present in great numbers and he was buried with military honors. He was buried in the east graveyard, not far from his house, where his tomb may yet be seen on the highest ground. Historians all agree that Governor Dudley, the Pilgrim, was perfectly honest though blunt and severe. Mather says he was a man of sincere piety, exact justice, hospitality to strangers and liberality to the poor. He was not behind his times. He was older than most of the Pilgrims but not more benighted or old-fashioned. Considerable has been said about the old Pilgrim's accomplish- ments. He could read French and Latin and had several books in these languages. He had read some history and poetry, but he knew
little of the best ancient or modern literature, and probably nothing of profane philosophy. Which of the Pilgrims did? He knew how to say what he wished to express, and was a very practical matter-of-fact man. Cotton Mather says he was a good poet, and some of his verses had been admired in King Janies' time.
Governor Dudley married (first ) Dorothy, whose name is unknown. She was a gentle- woman of good family and estate, from North- ampton county, England. Dean Dudley, from whose history of the Dudley family the facts in this account of the Dudleys are principally gleaned, says, "It is exceedingly provoking to most readers and nearly all the descendants" that many biographers, like Cotton Mather, thought it sufficient to say of a wife, "She was a Smith," or "his wife was a good and in- dustrious woman by the name of Betsy." Dor- othy Dudley died of wind colic and was buried at Roxbury, Massachusetts, December 27, 1643, aged sixty-one years. Governor Dudley married (second), April 14, 1644, Catherine Hackburn, widow of Samuel Hackburn, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and daughter of a Dighton. She survived the governor and mar- ried (third), November 8, 1653, Rev. John Al- lin, of Dedham, by whom she had three chil- dren. By wife Dorothy, Governor Dudley had five children : Samuel, Anne, Patience, Sarah, Mercy. By the second wife, Catherine, three children : Deborah, Joseph and Paul.
(II) Rev. Samuel, eldest child of Governor Thomas and Dorothy Dudley, was born about 1610, in England, and died at Exeter, New Hampshire, February 10, 1683. He passed the first twenty years of his life in England, in the society of people of intelligence and po- sition. Though not bred at the university, his education had not been neglected, and as early as 1637 he was spoken of as qualified for the clerical office, and in 1649 is said to have preached at Portsmouth, though it is not known that he was settled in the university before he went to Exeter. For the preceding twelve years he had resided at Salisbury, Mas- sachusetts, where he had repeatedly served as a delegate to the general court, and for two years had held the office of assistant. It is evi- dent that such a man was a great acquisition to the little community of Exeter. He re- ceived a salary of forty pounds a year and the use of a house, cowhouse and some land. The language of Mr. Dudley's contract im- plies that the church which was formed in Mr. Wheelwright's time had, in the seven years when it was destitute of a regular pastor, lost its organization. Whether the desired oppor-
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tunity for gathering a new church occurred during Mr. Dudley's ministry, the books of the town do not show. June 26, 1650, it was ordered by the town that Francis Swain have twenty shillings for his pains and time "in going into the Bay to receive Mr. Dudley his pay"! This undoubtedly refers to that clause of Mr. Dudley's contract that provided that his salary might be paid in "English com- modities." Those were only to be procured from some trader in "the Bay," as Massachu- setts was continuously called ; and, no doubt, Mr. Swain had been employed by the town to make inquiry there for some person who was willing to exchange those commodities for lumber or such other products as the town could furnish ; within six weeks from the time of his new settlement the new minister had induced the people to vote to find a new meet- ing house. This was June 26, 1650. Before Mr. Dudley had lived a year in the town he had so won the favor and confidence of the people that they volunteered to defend his reputation when it was assailed by the tongue of slander. In 1657 the people of Portsmouth made Mr. Dudley an offier of the pastorate of their town and he thought favorably of ac- cepting it; but his townsmen made so strenu- ous a protest that he remained and spent the remainder of his life with them, at the smaller salary. The people were not ungrateful, as the numerous grants of land and privileges from time to time made him by the town bear testimony. March 28, 1662, it was ordered that for every thousand of heading and bar- rel staves that were got out, there should be eighteen pence allowed to the town's use, "that is, to the ministry." April 25, 1664, it was voted that Captain John Clark's mill should pay five pounds annually to the public min- istry. And on the same day, it was determined that a "lean-to" should be added to the meet- ing house, with a chimney which should serve as a watch-house. In July, 1671, the minis- ter's salary was increased to sixty pounds and he was required "to gather up the rate him- self." There was no visible sign of failure of the powers, physical or mental, of Mr. Dud- ley as he drew on to old age. When he was sixty-nine, he was appointed one of a com- mittee for the equal distribution of public lands, a duty which no feeble man would have been selected to perform. And during the four years of life which still remained to him, we do not learn that his natural force had abated, or that he failed to minister acceptably to the wants of his people. He died at Exeter, Feb- ruary 10, 1683, aged seventy-three. In his
death the people of the town suffered a serious loss. He had become to them, in his thirty- third year of service, much more than a re- ligious teacher. He was an important mem- ber of the civil community, an intelligent farmer, a considerable mill owner, a sound man of business and the legal adviser and scrivener of the entire people. The town in- trusted him with its important affairs, and he in return was the staunch defender of its in- terests. It is true he always had a sharp eye to his own advantage, but he had a large fam- ily to provide for, and he was never accused of wrong or dishonesty. He was a gentleman of "good capacity and learning" in his profes- sion, and a sincere and useful minister. For- tunate was it for Exeter that in its feeble state it was favored with the counsel of a man of such goodness, wisdom and practical sagacity. Mr. Dudley's remains rest in the neglected burying ground just south of the gas house on Water street, and no doubt beneath a stone slab from which the inscription has disap- peared.
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