Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume II, Part 49

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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an infant. 6. George William, born August 28, 1847, married ( first ) Flora More and had daughter, Annie, who married L. J. Coburn, of Mystic, Connecticut ; and son John, who died in childhood ; married ( second ) Mary A. Hazeltine and had three sons: Harry H., Ed- ward and Donald W. Morgan. 7. Manley Richards, born November 1, 1850, see for- ward. 8. Emma A., born March 16, 1854. married Albion W. Ellis, of Guilford, vice- president of Guilford Trust Company ; had two children : Myra A., married Clarence M. Drew and has two children : Ellice A. and Stephen A. Drew ; J. Stephen, died in infancy.

( III ) Manley Richards, fourth son of John and Eliza (Herring) Morgan, was born in Guilford, Maine, November 1, 1850, died Sep- tember 18, 1908. He was educated in the town schools and the Bangor Commercial Col- lege. He was employed by Daniel P. Wood in the shoe business at Bangor for eight years. In 1875 he went to Colorado and engaged in sheep raising with T. H. Orcutt, which busi- ness he followed for about eight years. In 1882 he removed to Hillsboro, North Dakota, and engaged in general merchandise business under the firm name of Morgan, Anderson & Company. He was appointed assistant post- master and later filled the office of postmas- ter until 1887, when he sold out his business interests and resigned the postmastership. In company with H. W. Davis, present treasurer of Guilford Trust Company, Mr. Morgan then formed a banking business at Church Ferry, North Dakota, and also carried on an extensive lumber business. He was president of the bank, but in 1893 he sold out his North Dakota interest and returned to Guilford, Maine, where he was identified with the First Nation- al Bank as director and president. In 1906 the bank was changed from the First Na- tional to the Guilford Trust Company, M. R. Morgan, president ; A. W. Ellis, vice-presi- dent ; H. W. Davis, treasurer. Mr. Morgan was also largely interested in the mills of his town and in the wild lands. He held large farming interests and raised blooded horses and thoroughbred sheep. Mr. Morgan was a Mason, member of Mt. Kineo Lodge, Guil- ford; Piscataquis, R. A. M., Dover ; and Saint John's Commandery, Knights Templar, Ban- gor. In politics he was a Republican, and was connected with the Hammond Street Congre- gational Church of Bangor. "The sudden death of Manley R. Morgan, September 18, 1908, caused deep and general sorrow and all felt that the town had lost a useful, valuable and benevolent citizen and they a genial and

well-beloved friend. For years Mr. Morgan had been a leader in every movement touching the uplift of his village and town. He was one of the most generous supporters of all the public institutions, and a liberal subscription in behalf of the public library, now being erect- ed, honors his memory. He was a generous patron of the church and all its benevolences." Mr. Morgan married, July 3, 1889, Lillian, daughter of John T. Cole, of Kenduskeag, Maine ( see Cole, VII). One child was born to them, Ruth, May 22, 1893.

COLE There were numerous early immi- grants in New England bearing this cognomen and their descendants have spread throughout the United States, and have borne their part in the general develop- ment and progress of the nation. They have occupied conspicuous positions upon the bench, in the medical profession, in the pulpit and in the various lines of industry practiced by the American people.

(I) William Cole was born about 1580 and was past middle life when he arrived in Amer- ica. He was probably a follower of Rev. Wheelwright and very likely accompanied him on the journey to this continent. He is found of record as early as January 23, 1627, where he had a grant of a house lot of two acres at Mount Wollaston, near Boston. He was in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1639, and the next year in Hampton, New Hampshire. In June of that year he was granted forty acres in the last-named town and had one share of the commons there in 1646. He seems to have re- moved to Wells, Maine, while still retaining his ownership in Hampton. He appears to have been constable in Wells in 1645 and sub- scribed to the oath of allegiance to the Massa- chusetts Colony in 1653. He returned to Hampton in his old age and died there May 16, 1662, in his eighty-second year. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Doughty, of England. No record shows her death. He had a second wife, Eunice, who was a reputed witch and who survived him until October, 1680. His children included : John, Nicholas, William and undoubtedly sev- eral others.

(II) Nicholas, son of William and Eliza- beth (Doughty) Cole, was born 1636, as shown by a statement of his age thirty years later. He resided in Wells and Kittery, Maine, and signed a petition to Cromwell in 1656, and was constable at Kittery in 1658. In 1664 he was appointed to operate a ferry for Cape Porpoise. A record of three of his children is

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found. namely Nicholas, Jane and Ann. Doubt- less there were several others. but the destruc- tion of early dates in the section where he lived and the general confusion of authorities in that early period makes it impossible to identify them.

(III) Thomas Cole, born about 1668 and resided in Kittery, was without much doubt a son of Nicholas Cole. He married Martha, daughter of Christian and Hannah Remick, who was born February 20, 1669. The date of her death does not appear, but Thomas Cole had for a second wife Lydia who administered his estate in 1725. His children were : Daniel, Hannah, Abner, Asahel, Remick, Jerusha, Charity, Abel and Robert.

(IV) Abner, second son of Thomas and Martha (Remick) Cole, was probably born in 1700. He was married October 13, 1731, to Patience, daughter of John and Margaret (Shepherd) Spinney. She was born Decem- ber 3, 1713, and was therefore a little past eighteen years old at the time of their mar- riage. Both died in 1791 in Kittery. Their children were: Abner, Mary, Samuel, Tim- othy, Josiah, Joseph, Obadiah, Susannah and Eleanor.

(V) Obadiah, sixth son of Abner and Pa- tience (Spinney) Cole, was born January 12, 1749, in Kittery, and settled in Cornish, Maine, where he was a taxpayer in 1794. All the town records succeeding that year were de- stroyed by fire in 1865 and this makes it im- possible to learn anything of the wife and children of Obadiah Cole.

(VI) Robert Cole, who was undoubtedly a son of Obadialı Cole above mentioned, was born May 15, 1785, in Cornish, Maine, where he passed most of his active life, and died April 15, 1831, in Levant, Maine. His wife, Nancy (Thompson) Cole, was born November 13, 1790, died October 7, 1864, in Cornish. Their children were: Augustus, Benjamin T., James, Robert, Nancy, Elizabeth, Sarah, John Thomp- son, Isaac T., Olive, Harriet and Caroline.

(VII) John Thompson, fifth son of Robert and Nancy (Thompson) Cole, was born A11- gust 8, 1822, in Cornish, Maine, and died in Kenduskeag, same state, December 13, 1890. When he was but two years old the family moved to Levant and afterward Kenduskeag, where the remainder of his life was spent. He was educated in the public schools and at Charlestown Academy, and learned the trade of carpenter. He was the owner of a small farm which he cultivated in connection with building operations. He was a Congregation- alist in religion and a Republican in politics.

During the civil war he enlisted as a soldier, but was rejected because of some physical im- perfection. He was married in 1846 to Abby Given Simpson, and they were the parents of eleven children, eight of whom survived. Lucy Robinson, the eldest, is the wife of Walter Berry, of Bangor, Maine. Annie and Ada were twins, the latter dying in infancy. The former is now deceased and was the wife of Charles Gilman, of Brownville. Junius Mel- vin resides in Bangor. Lewis Simpson died in childhood. Lillian receives further men- tion below. Isena is Mrs. Willis Goodwin, of Charlestown, Maine. Fred Lincoln and John Butler reside in Kenduskeag. Ernest Luville is a citizen of Everett, Massachusetts, and Ethel May has her home in Kenduskeag.

(VIII) Lillian, fourth daughter of John T. and Abby G. (Simpson) Cole, was born Oc- tober 31, 1854, in Kenduskeag, and received a liberal education. She was married July 3, 1889, to Manley R. Morgan, of Guilford, Maine (see Morgan III), and has a daughter, Ruth Morgan, born May 22, 1893, who is a student at the Guilford high school. For thir- teen years previous to her marriage Mrs. Mor- gan was a teacher in the public schools of Bangor.

THOMPSON The Thompsons have long been considered one of the most sturdy, honest, witty, patriotic, and talented families of the old Pine Tree State. They have always wanted "to have and to hold some spot of God's green earth," and the study of hundreds of these acquisitions fail to show the slightest trace of any of them using unfair means in their eager quest. They made grand records as farmers, scholars, soldiers, writers, lawyers, &c., &c. Many of the family are widely scattered over the West, and often bear the happy praise, "Transplanted Pines of Maine !" Alonzo Thompson of Denver, Colorado, has well written :

"The guidance of Hope is the star on our way. A beacon of light which points to the day Whose curtain ne'er falls in the gloom of the night, We follow it still, and the pathway is Right !'

(I) William Thompson is said to have come from England in 1633, and had lands granted to him at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1656, and also at Kittery, Maine, where he made his home for twenty happy years, and was highly respected for his energetic work on his farm and in every cause of righteousness and truth. He is said to have married a daughter of John White, a woman of noble and helpful char- acter. Children: 1. John, who married Sarah

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Woodman. 2. William, who married Mary Lovering. 3. Robert. 4. James. 5. Alexander, who married Anna Curtis, of York, Maine. 6. Judith, a child of two years when her fa- ther died in 1676.

(II) James, son of William Thompson, was born in Kittery, Maine, in 1666, died in ad- vanced age at New Meadows, near Brunswick, Maine. He was "lame and impotent" in his early years, but grew to a sturdy manhood. Ile married, at Dover, New Hampshire, March 3, 1700, Elizabeth Frye, daughter of Adrian Frye, one of the earliest and most prominent settlers at Frye's Point, Kittery. Maine. She was a woman of great strength and ability. Children : 1. Judith, who married John Smith, of York. 2. Alexander, who married Mary Grover, of York. 3. Captain James, who mar- ried Reliance Hinkley, Mrs. Lydia ( Brown ) Harris and Mary Higgins. 4. Cornelius, who married Hannah Smith. 5. Sarah, who died in infancy. 6. Mercy, who married Mr. Aus- tin and Mr. Judkins. 7. Joseph, who married Mary Hinkley. 8. Dinah, who married Jona- than Thompson. 9. Benjamin, who married Abigail Philbrick. 10. Sarah, who married a Mr. Scammon. II. Mary, who was called Marcial in some of the older records. 12. Richard, who left a large family of sons and daughters at Kennebunk, Maine. 13. Eliza- beth, who died in infancy.

(III) Cornelius, son of James and Eliza- beth (Frye) Thompson, was born in York, Maine, October 14, 1709, died at New Mead- ows, near Brunswick, about 1792. He was a very hardy, honest and industrious man, and of great help in the community where he lived. He served in the Indian wars, 1757, in Captain John Getchell's company, with Alex- ander, James and Samuel Thompson. In 1741 he owned some two hundred acres of land at New Meadows, and his large house there was famous for its kindly hospitality. He married Hannah Smith, of York, Maine. Children : I. Thomas, who moved to Plattsburg, New York, and died at Norway, Maine. 2. Olive, who married Joseph Allen, of York. 3. Eunice, who married Abijah Richardson, and had a very large family at Litchfield, Maine. 4. Amos, who settled in Bowdoin. 5. Martha, who married her cousin, Jonathan Thompson. 6. Colonel Joel, an ardent soldier in the revo- lutionary army, and a representative to the state legislature for many years; married Martha Cotton, daughter of Rev. Thomas Cot- ton, and had a large and very influential line of descendants. 7. Richard, a revolutionary soldier residing at Wells: married Elizabeth

Ricker. 8. Robert, "a sterling man with ster- ling descendants," who married Ruth Thomp- son. 9. Phineas, who was a brave soldier on a United States man-of-war.

( I\') Amos, son of Cornelius and Hannah ( Smith) Thompson, was born at Brunswick, September 2, 1749, and died in Bowdoin, Jan- uary 6, 1835. He made a fine farm in the midst of the heavy forests, and was a man of untiring zeal and of the sturdiest uprightness. Some of his letters which are still preserved show him to have been a very scholarly man for the times in which he lived. He was a faithful soldier in the revolutionary war, and marched with General Arnold from Maine to Quebec for the purpose of capturing that city. "When he was eighty years old he was as straight and active as a man of thirty." He married, October 15, 1774, Hannah Wooster, born at Falmouth, Maine, died in Bowdoin, January 25, 1835, aged eighty-four years, her death occurring shortly after that of her hus- band, with whom she had lived for sixty years. Children: I. Betsy, who died in infancy. 2. Abel, who settled near Belleville, Illinois. 3. Annah, who married David Haynes. 4. Eu- nice, who married Ahizer Purinton, of one of the strong old Maine families. 5. Phineas, a very successful farmer at Bowdoin. 6. Esther, who married Caleb Barker and removed to Illinois. 7. Abijah, who married Rachel Wood- ward and lived in Bowdoin. 8. Beulah, who married William Moseley. 9. Lois, who mar- ried Levi H. Pratt. Io. Sybil, who lived in Brunswick, with her husband, Unight Mariner.

(V) Abel, son of Amos and Hannah (Wooster) Thompson, was born in Lincoln county, Maine, died in Randolph, Illinois, Sep- tember 17, 1818. He joined the Methodist church when he was a young man, and was ever a steadfast Christian. He was highly re- spected by all who knew him. He removed from Maine to Illinois, in the autumn of 1816. His noble wife, Mary (Haynes) Thompson, was descended from the two strong old Massa- chusetts families of Haynes and Howland. The long line of descendants bear the fine characteristics of these parents. Children : I. Betsy, who married Ezekiel Allen. 2. Hannah, who married Ezekiel Grover and always re- sided in Bowdoin. 3. Mehetable, who married Samuel Phillips. 4. Amos, who lived to be nearly ninety-four years of age. 5. Eleanor, who married John Alexander. 6. David Haynes, who was unmarried. 7. Abel, a very energetic farmer and carpenter.

(VI) Amos (2), son of Abel and Mary (Haynes) Thompson, was born in Bowdoin,

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April 26, 1807, died in Portland, Oregon, at the home of his son, Charles H. Thompson, April 13, 1901. He was one of the most noble and upright men of his generation, his long life being filled with successes and generous words and gifts which were almost innumer- able. He was a patriot of the truest type, and was three times elected to the legislature of Illinois. The Oregonian of Portland, Oregon, well said, "Probably no voter who cast his bal- lot for Mckinley and Roosevelt in Oregon, November 6, 1900, has a longer or more inter- esting record than Amos Thompson, who went to the polls with his sons Charles H. and Cy- rus. Thus assisted, he was able to walk most of the way. Ile first voted for Jackson in 1828, and has thus cast nineteen ballots for presidents. He was well acquainted with Stephen A. Douglas and Lincoln." The Hon- orable L. D. Turner, of Belleville, Illinois, in his masterly oration at the funeral of Amos Thompson, gave this sketch of one portion of his wonderful career: "At the early age of ten years we find him an orphan boy in a new country, among strangers, homeless, friendless, and penniless. Twenty years thereafter we find him in possession of a home and family, friends in numbers, and pennies in goodly quantity. And yet another twenty years and we find him comfortably located and pleasantly situated, but 'still achieving, still pursuing,' his name extending, his influence widening, his friends increasing, public confidence placed in him, and his voice is heard advocating the cause of the people in the legislative halls in this great and growing state. And in yet an- other twenty years we find him deprived of his wife, but he is not homeless now, for to him sons and daughters were born, and the un- speakable love with which he loved his wife was not buried in the cold earth with his life- less body, but it lived on, and passed over into and strengthened his lasting, living love for his children, and, though there was one vacant chair, the home circle was not broken and he was not homeless, for his erstwhile home was their home, and their future homes were his home. And in this same twenty years not a friend that he had made was lost, not a friend- ship was broken-but each one became a better friend-and to this circle numberless others were added. And in this same twenty years not a penny earned in youth was lost in wild speculation or gambling adventures, but the penny once earned was judiciously invested and its increments added thereto. And yet, with all these things accomplished, he is not yet fifty years old and he lives yet nigh an-

other fifty years before he passes into another life ; and he goes on making new friends, and never losing an old one, does public service in many official ways, helps the needy. From his lofty mountain height of success he could take a retrospective view of the past, and could readily see and learn whom to help, when to give, and where to give. His charity was great, and it was not heralded in the public press. Of the poor of our city of Belleville he was ever mindful, and was always willing to give liberally. With the Woman's Relief Corps lie was prodigal. To them he would give fifty dollars, then the same sum, and then double his gift."

The Belleville, Illinois, Weekly Advocate said, among many glowing tributes: "On the death of his parents, Amos Thompson found a home with a neighbor named Fowler. He then became an apprentice to John Stuntz, tanner and furrier, who sent him to school, and with whom he remained until he was twen- ty-one years old. He then learned the car- penter's trade with Mr. Fowler and worked at it for about twenty years. In 1829 he as- sisted Mr. Fowler in building the Belleville Court House. In the early thirties he began purchasing real estate and soon became the owner of large landed interests in Saint Clair county, Illinois, and in Missouri. After his marriage he was a farmer until 1852. In 1863 he sold his farm, and retired from active labors, making his home with his children. He was one of nature's noblemen, gracious and generous to all, and possessed of a high and noble character. He was a Democrat at first, but became a Republican when that party came into power." The Saint Louis Post Des- patch well said: "Amos Thompson did not like deatlı-bed bequests or post-mortem settle- ments of estates. When he amassed any con- siderable amount of money he would divide it among his sons and daughters, only reserving enough for his own needs. It was a pleasure to see them enjoy the benefits of his labors and good management.'

Amos Thompson was a great reader, and all his letters and writings were marked with great literary strength and interest. He wrote an account of the removal of his father to Illi- nois which has been very widely copied and admired. He married, in May, 1831, Irene Moore Charles, born in North Carolina, Sep- tember 14, 1809, died at Belleville, Illinois, January 15, 1852, being a woman of many superior qualities, and was a descendant of several of the strongest and most patriotic families of the south. Children: I. Alonzo.

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2. Mary Eleanor, who married Hon. Theoph- ilus Harrison, of Belleville, Illinois, a very ex- tensive manufacturer of agricultural ma- chinery, and he and his wife are people of rare kindness and generosity, as are the two daughters. 3. Josephine Bonaparte, who be- came the wife of John D. Truett. 4. Cyrus, who for many years has been treasurer of the Harrison Machine Works, at Belleville, Illi- nois, and who was for some time accounting and warrant clerk in the state auditor's office, Jefferson county, Missouri. He has made ex- tensive travels abroad, has always been a sturdy Republican and has for some time been postmaster at Belleville. Ile married (first) Anna Sophronia Dolph, and (second) Louisa Cornelia Boone, a descendant of the famotis Daniel Boone. Children, William A., Theophi- ilus Charles and Lucy Alice. 5. Eugene, who died in infancy. 6. Charles Haynes, a very successftil real estate, loan, investment and ticket broker in Portland, Oregon; married Anna B. Holbert.

(VII) Alonzo, son of Amos and Irene Moore (Charles) Thompson, was born in Belleville, Illinois, February 22, 1832, and has for some time been a very highly respected citizen of Denver, Colorado. He also resided at Maryville and Saint Louis, Missouri, and he was state attditor of Missouri from January I, 1865, to January 1, 1869, and he also held sev- eral other offices of honor and trust. He has always been a true patriot and Republican, and took a very active part in the civil war, helping to raise a strong regiment in north- western Missouri, and serving as a scout at various points in that state. lle represented Nodaway county in the state legislature for a term of two years. For several years he has been a very large and successful real estate broker. He graduated from Mckendree Col- lege, Illinois, where he was a student of marked ability, and was one of the founders of the Platonian Society there. Since then he has read and traveled extensively, and is a very scholarly man, having written some verse of helpful tone and good quality. In his tipright- ness of character, his clear views of life, his great generosity, as well as in many other strong points, he greatly resembles his father. He always has taken a deep interest in his- torical matters pertaining to the old Pine Tree State. He married (first), December 6, 1857, Mary Visonhaler, born at Maryville, Missouri, September 21, 1836, died March 1, 1877, a woman of fine qualities. He married (sec- ond), April 12, 1880, Mary F. Adams, born in Racine, Wisconsin, February 26, 1847, died

April 13. 1881. There were no children of this marriage. He married (third), October 30, 1881, Mrs. Annie Elizabeth (Heard) Jones, born in Mississippi, January 13, 1851, and stttdied in the Crawford Female Institute and in the Chester Female Institute; she was the daughter of Christopher Columbus Heard. Children of first marriage were: I. Hattie Irene, born November 5, 1858, resides at Ne- vada, Vernon county, Missouri; she was a fine sttident in several important schools, the last one being Brooker Hall, Media, Pennsyl- vania : she married, October 27, 1881, at Mary- ville, Missouri, Edward P. Lindley, born at Monticello, Missouri, April 25, 1851 and is a very successful lawyer having studied in sev- eral schools and colleges, and graduated from the Saint Louis Law School in 1877. Chil- dren: i. Mabel, who studied in Saint Louis College ; James Johnson, a very sticcessful sttt- dent in the Indiana Military Academy and in Missouri State University, and is now second lietitenant in the Second Regiment Infantry, Missouri National Guards; ii. Eleanor; iii. Mary Catherine. 2. Fannie, born August 31, 1860, died December 10, 1860. 3. Elmer Ells- worth, born December 6, 1861, died August 10, 1887, a successful real estate dealer, who stud- ied in Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachu- setts, and in Yale College: resided in Saint Louis, Missouri, and married, June 4, 1887, Adele Picot, of Saint Louis ; no children. Child of third wife: 4. Alonzo Heard, born Janu- ary 6, 1883, who is a very faithful helper with his father in the real estate business at Den- ver, a young man of sterling qualities, and a graduate of the Northwestern Military Acad- emy of Illinois.

The McDonalds and the McDONALD MacDonalds are both an- cient Scotch families, al- though many who bore these names came to New England from Ireland, where their an- cestors had taken refuge about the beginning of the seventeenth century. The names appear in New Hampshire between the years 1720 and 1750, and from that province in later years their representatives became scattered through- ott that and the neighboring province of Maine. The immigrant ancestor of the partic- ular family sought to be treated in this place is not definitely known, and so near as can be determined at this time the first of its rep- resentatives of whom there appears to be any published record are found in the towns of Penobscot, Buickport and Belfast, in Maine. There is a belief, however, on the part of some

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of the McDonalds that Laughlin McDonald was progenitor of the family here treated, but while there are accounts of him as a soldier of the French wars and also of his appearance in Bucksport, there does not appear to be any record of his marriage or the names of his children. He was a Scotchman by birth and ancestry, and is said to have lived to attain the remarkable age of one hundred and ten years. When a boy he entered the British army and came to America with a Scotch regiment to fight against the French. He was at the siege and capture of Louisburg in 1757, and two years afterward was with Wolfe at Quebec. Soon after the erection of Fort Pownall in Maine, he came to Bucksport, later went to Belfast, where according to the records he was admitted townsman in 1803, and where he died in July, 1825. Granting accuracy to the statements regarding his age at the time of his death, he must have been born in 1715. The suggestion has been made that he probably was grandfather of the earliest known ancestor of the family here treated, but there is no positive evidence by which that fact can be established.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume II, Part 49

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

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