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(V) Elbridge, son of John (2) Gray, was born in Paris, Maine, January 28, 1817, and died September, 1893. He was educated in the common schools there, and followed farm- ing in his native town all his life, on what is
known as the Lethbridge place. He was con- stable of the town and collector of taxes for several years. He married Abigail Leth- bridge, who was born in Paris, December IO, 1815. Children, born in Paris : I. James Madison, April 1, 1837; died December, 1842. 2. Dexter, June 28, 1838; died from wounds received in civil war; married Carrie Knee- land, of Prospect, Massachusetts. 3. Salina, December 18, 1854; died October, 1860. 4. William L., May 7, 1848; married Julia M. Morse ; mentioned below. 5. Rhoda, June 20, 1853; died June 28, 1853. 6. Mary K., Sep- tember 18, 1854; married Frank Robbins. 7. Infant, December 14, 1856, died young.
(VI) William Lethbridge, son of Elbridge Gray, was born in Paris, Maine, May 7, 1848. He attended the public schools of his native town and during his youth worked on his fa- ther's farm. When but fifteen years old he entered the army, enlisting in Company F, Twenty-third Maine Regiment, Captain Bol- ster, re-enlisting in Company D, Thirty-second Maine, and served through the civil war to its close. He took part in the battles of Gettys- burg and Spottsylvania, where he had the clothes stripped from his back by a shell, and in many other battles and engagements. After the war he took up a farm in Aroostook coun- ty, and conducted it for about five years. The next ten years he spent on the homestead at Paris, and then moved to a small place on Paris Hill, and entered the employ of the Paris Manufacturing Company and Mason Manu- facturing Company, continuing with the latter concern to the present time. In politics Mr. Gray is a Republican. and in religion Uni- versalist. He is a member of William K. Kim- ball Post. G. A. R. He married, in 1866, Julia Matilda Morse, born July 10, 1850, daughter of Carleton Morse, of Woodland, Aroostook county, Maine, and of Dixmont. Children : I. Dexter W., born May 26, 1868. 2. Walter L., born January 24, 1870. 3. Roscoe, born April IO, 1873. 4. Charles A., born April 12, 1878. 5. Carlton, born January 5, 1880; died Febru- ary 16, 1903. 6. Carrie A., born September 18. 1883. 7. Ralph E., born January 4, 1890. 8. Marion I., born August 10, 1897.
(VII) Walter Llewellyn, son of William Lethbridge Gray, was born in Paris, January 24, 1870. He attended the public schools of his native town and Hebron Academy ( Maine) and Colby College, where he was graduated in the class of 1895. During the next three years he was a teacher in the Bridgton high school, studying law at the same time in the office of James S. Wright, of South Paris, and
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later in the office of George A. Wilson. Hc was admitted to the bar February 18, 1899, and began the practice of his profession in asso- ciation with Judge George A. Wilson, of South Paris, under the firm name of Wilson & Gray. This partnership continued until the death of Judge Wilson in 1906. Since then Mr. Gray has had no law partner. He has been highly successful in his profession and has held many positions of honor and trust in the community. He was superintendent of schools in Paris in 1895-6-7-8 : representative to the legislature in 1905. serving on the committee on legal af- fairs while in the legislature. He was ap- pointed referee in bankruptcy for Oxford county, February 13, 1906. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Paris Lodge, No. 94. F. and A. M .; of Oxford Chapter, R. A. M .. of Norway ; of Oxford Council, R. S. M., of Norway ; of Oriental Commandery, K. T., of Bridgton, and of Kora Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston. He also belongs to Hamlin Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is past master of the Masonic lodge, and has been elected to the various chairs in the other orders. He is a member of the college fraternity D. K. E. of Colby College. He married, June 14, 1899. Madge Shirley Wil- son, daughter of George A. and Annie L. ( Blake) Wilson, of Paris.
GRAY The pages of history arc brightly starred with the names of members of the Gray family who were very successful along many lines of work for the good of humanity. The stars which mark such names as that of our famous botanist, Dr. Asa Gray, are large and radiant. Their radiance and cheer was gladly hailed in many far-off places. Whoever has marked the many pil- grims who stand by such graves as that of Dr. Gray in Mount Auburn. or that of the author of "The Elegy of the Country Churchyard," understands fully that no multiplied years with their shadows can ever change, except to make brighter, the light which these men of heroic mould gave to their day and generation. One of the prominent Gray families of the Pine Tree State was directly descended from Ed- ward Gray, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, who first married Mary Winslow, the daughter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow. A fam- ily of a sturdy origin was early on the banks of the Kennebec river, while the Grays of Topsham, Maine, and vicinity, claim a Scotch- Irish ancestor of noblest type. But whatever the ancestry of these various Gray families, all are characterized by a deep religious spirit, an
aptitude for many kinds of worthy work, and the diligence to follow their chosen labor with a result which means work in which all men can trust. Though never office seekers, they have been given important places of trust in the communities where they have dwelt, and their faithful discharge of every duty placed before them has been like that on the articles which they wrote, or the business blocks or cosy homes which they builded.
(I) Isaac Gray moved from Windham, Maine, to Naples, Maine, in 1824, and died in that town, December 30, 1850. Hc was a man of great industry and uprightness of charac- ter. Though a very successful farmer, he had much skill in the use of tools. He married Mary Jordan, who died at Naples, July 5, 1852, aged sixty-nine years. Children : I. Isabella Gray, who died at Naples, Maine, July 28, 1844, aged twenty-six years and nine months. 2. Arthur Gray.
(II) Arthur, son of Isaac Gray, was born at Windham, Maine, November 28, 1822, died at Westbrook, Maine, December 28, 1884. He was educated in the schools of Naples. He learned the carpenter's trade early in life, and became very successful in his work. With the exception of a short time which he occupied in farming, his life was spent as a carpenter and builder. He gave his whole time and care to all work which was entrusted to him. In politics he was one of the sturdy Democrats who worked faithfully for the ideas in which he believed. His conscientious political work was so much admired by all his townsmen that he received many votes from those who did not agree with him in many ways, whenever he was a candidate for office. He served his town as selectman for a number of years, and held other offices, discharging his duty in each in the most careful and painstaking manner. It was with deep regret that his townsmen saw him move to Westbrook, Maine, in 1872, as he had lived in Naples over twenty-four years. Mr. Gray married, March 4, 1849, Margaret Wyer, born at Orr's Island, Maine, February 26, 1822: she is a woman of great activity and of excellent memory for one of her years. She was the daughter of James S. Wyer, of Orr's Island, Maine, and of Elizabeth (Dun- ning) Wyer, of Harpswell, Maine, and thus a descendant of two of the strongest old families of Harpswell. She was descended from the Wyer ancestor who came from Scotland to Charlestown, Massachusetts, at an early date. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gray : I. Valentine, born December 12, 1849, is foreman in a paper mill at Livermore Falls, Maine; is
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married and has three children. 2. Windsor Gray, died young. 3. Alvah, died at ten years. 4. Minot Dunning, born February 26, 1857, conducts a paper machine at Berlin, New Hampshire; married Ellen Josephine Babb, born at Newton Center, Massachusetts, De- cember 25, 1858; three children. 5. Arthur Ethelbert, a contractor, painter and paper- hanger at Cumberland Mills, Maine ; married Mary Ellen Smith, born at Pembrooke, Maine, March 21, 1861; two children. 6. George Brinton McClellan, mentioned below.
( III) George Brinton McClellan, son of Arthur and Margaret ( Wyer) Gray, born in Naples, Maine, October 9, 1863, resides at Westbrook. He studied in the schools of Naples and North Bridgton, and in Westbrook high school. At the age of sixteen years he learned the carpenter's trade, and commenced working with his father, thus doing his tasks in the most faithful and conscientious manner, which won the praise of all that knew him. When he began to build houses for sale he found ready markets for all such work. He is now a well-known contractor and builder. under the firm name Gray & Hewston. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1894 he was elected to the Westbrook board of aldermen, serving three terms. For two years he was chairman of the board of assessors. In 1905 he was appointed collector and treasurer of the city of Westbrook, and had held this office ever since. He is a man held in the very highest esteem by all his townsmen. He is a Mason, being a member of the lodge, chapter and council of Westbrook. Is also a member of the Red Men Lodge, of the Golden Cross, and of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a very faithful member of the Methodist Epis- copal church in Westbrook, being its treasurer and one of the trustees. Mr. Gray married, June 8, 1889, Amy Farley Garland, born at Shirley, Maine, February 12, 1868, and studied in the schools of Shirley and Westbrook. She is the daughter of Washington Garland, de- ceased, and Frances E. (Winslow) Garland, who now resides at Westbrook. Children : I. Marcia Evelyn, born Westbrook, December 19, 1890. 2. Albert Leroy, born Westbrook, November 24, 1894.
GRAY This is an English family, the earliest representative of whom was George (I) Gray, who came from England to Stark, Maine, prior to the revolutionary war. He there resided and reared a family.
(II) George (2), son of George (1) Gray.
was born 1785 and died 1868. He took an active part in the development of the section of Maine in which he resided, and was hon- ored and esteemed by all with whom he was brought in contact. He married Margaret Dinsmore, born 1794, died 1869, and they reared a family of eleven children : Joshua, Calvin, William D., Rachel, Edwin, Betsey, Gardner, Rebecca, Benjamin D., Paulina D. and Albina.
(III) Joshua, eldest son of George (2) and Margaret ( Dinsmore) Gray, was born at Stark, Maine, November 14, 1814, died in Gardiner, February, 1901. In 1844 he came to Gardiner and engaged as clerk for two years for a firm composed of Bradbury T. Dinsmore, of Anson, Richard and William Clay, Charles and George Moore, lumber manufacturers, and later purchased the interest of George Moore in the sawmill. In 1848 Richard Clay died and the firm was dissolved, the business being purchased and carried on by the firm of Henry T. Clay & Company. Mr. Gray purchased an interest in what was first an oakum, then a starch mill, and later converted into a shingle and clapboard mill, and business was conducted under the firm name of Gray & Townsend; the mill was destroyed by fire. About that time the firm of J. Gray & Company was formed, composed of Joshua Gray, John Frost and Bradbury T. Dinsmore, who leased on the river below the railroad a steam mill, which was burned after being operated for a period of four years. His special business, however, was that of lumbering, and in this industry he was an acknowledged leader in his section of Maine. He purchased in 1870 what was known as "dam number two," paying for the same twenty-two thousand dollars. He immediate- ly rebuilt and enlarged the plant, and in 1876 admitted his son George into partnership un- der the firm name of J. Gray & Son, and in 1890 another son, Charles H., was admitted as a partner and the style of the firm became Joshua Gray & Sons, which obtains at the present time, although the senior partner is now deceased. He was one of the original directors and president of the Oakland Manu- facturing Company, manufacturers of doors, sash and blinds and hard pine lumber. For many years he was a director, also president, of the Kennebec Log Driving Company. He was one of the organizers of the Oakland Na- tional Bank, of Gardiner, serving as president from 1871 until his death. Mr. Gray's fellow citizens early perceived that the clear judgment and unswerving honor constantly apparent in the management of his own affairs would be
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invaluable in the public service, and according- ly in 1867 he was made a member of the city council of Gardiner, alderman in 1868, and in order to fill a vacancy was the same year ap- pointed mayor, being re-elected in each of the three ensuing years ; while mayor he was twice chosen to the state senate, serving in 1869-70. As a mayor he was popular, and with his good business judgment his administration was one which witnessed many needed improvements made in his municipality, for which the citizens of later years were much indebted.
Mr. Gray married, June 25, 1849, Ploma Morrill, daughter of Ephraim Currier, of Nor- ridgewock, Maine. Mrs. Gray died in Gardi- ner, 1904. Their children were: 1. George, born November 22, 1850, mentioned below. 2 Fred, born May 9, 1852, educated in the pub- lic schools and Tufts College, pursued a course of civil engineering, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he has since followed that pro- fession. 3. Charles H., born October 4, 1858, mentioned below. 4. Harriet C., born August 17, 1862, educated in the common schools, Oread Institute, Worcester, Laselle Seminary, and a private school conducted by a Miss Pratt ; married Benjamin B. Clay, of Gardiner, Maine ; now residing in Boston, Massachusetts. (IV) George (3), eldest son of Joshua and Ploma M. (Currier) Gray, was born in Gar- diner, Maine, November 22, 1850. He at- tended the public school of his native place, worked in his father's sawmill up to the time he was eighteen years, and then, although a minor, was made a partner with his father, the firm name being J. Gray & Son, and as the other son, Charles H., came into the firm it became J. Gray & Sons, which firm became widely known throughout the state of Maine, as well as in more remote sections of New England. George had charge of the mills, and Charles H. the office, and both being practical men the business of the firm increased con- stantly with the passing years. The mills of the firm were destroyed by fire April 23, 1906, and since that time they have been extensively engaged in lumber operations in northern Maine in addition to looking after their real estate holdings in Gardiner, which are both ex- tensive and profitable. After the death of his father, George Gray succeeded him as presi- dent of the Oakland Manufacturing Company. and director of the Oakland National Bank and the Oak Grove Cemetery Company. Mr. Gray is a member and trustee of the Universalist church, serving as president of the board of trustees, a charter member of Knights of
Pythias of Gardiner, and is a staunch adherent of the principles of the Republican party.
Mr. Gray married, September, 1874, Fannie S., born in Gardiner, Maine, daughter of Ben- jamin F. and Rosilla (Hutchinson) Johnson. They are the parents of one son, Frank L., born January 1, 1876, educated in the public school, held a clerical position for about five years in the firm of J. Gray & Sons, and in 1904, in company with Guy A. Hildreth, es- tablished the Gray-Hildreth Company, dealers in grain and produce, purchasing the good- will, stock and plant of the Bartlett-Dennis Company. Mr. Gray serves as the managing partner, and they are now in receipt of an ex- tensive and profitable trade. He is a member of the various bodies of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, including the Mystic Shrine. Frank L. Gray married, December, 1903, Ethel W. Fleck, who was a teacher in the schools of Augusta, and they are the parents of two children : George, born January 1, 1905, and Robert, born December 2, 1907.
(IV) Charles Henry, son of Joshua and Ploma M. (Currier) Gray, was born at Gar- diner, Maine, October 4, 1858. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native place, was engaged as clerk in his father's business, was received as a partner in the firm in 1890, continuing until the present time, as narrated in the sketch of his brother, George Gray. Like his father, he has taken an active part in poli- tics and has been closely identified with every interest and issue of the Republican party, both state and national. He has served on and is secretary of the city committee, member of the county committee and in numerous ways advanced the interests of his party, always standing firm for good government. He is the treasurer of the Gardiner Public Library, and one of the directors of the Gardiner high school.
RIDLEY The Ridley family is of very an- cient origin. Sieur de Ridel, whose name appears on the roll of Battle Abbey, the earliest record of the Normans who came with William the Con- queror, is said to have been the ancestor of all branches of the family which subsequently set- tled in England and Scotland. The surname appears on the Domesday Book in a variety of forms, such as Ridel, Ridle and Ridell. The name is supposed to be a place name from a place in Scandinavia called Rugdal, that is Ryedale, the valley of Rye. Members of this Norman family settled in Yorkshire, England,
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and named their landed possessions Ryedale. There are about sixty variations of spelling, among the most common being Riddell, Rid- dle, Ridlon and Ridley. The family has many coats-of-arms, borne by different branches.
(I) Magnus Redlon, or Ridley, was born in Shetland, on the north coast of Scotland, in 1698. Tradition says that he was impressed into the service of the British navy, and desert- ed when the ship landed at York, Maine, in 1717. He married, at York, in 1720, Susanna Austin, born November 23, 1701, died 1730, widow of Ichabod Austin and daughter of Matthew Young. He married ( second) Mas- sie, daughter of Abraham Townsend. He pur- chased in 1719 a tract of land in York, twenty- two acres lying between the Saw Mill and Fall Mill brooks. He was called laborer and yeo- man. On February II, 1728, he and his wife Susanna sold this land to Jedediah Preble, and removed to Biddeford, where he bought land and built a house. After the death of his first wife he sold this property to Amos Whitney, September 22, 1730, including the movable goods in the house, which stood on the east side of the Saco river. He bought from Abra- ham Townsend, father of his second wife, land in Scarborough, on the north side of Little river, called the Rogers Gore. In 1742 his name appears on a petition respecting the set- tlement of lands in Narragansett No. I, now Buxton, Maine, and he was probably a land- owner there. He built his house on what was called Rendezvous Point, and it was strongly fortified. He was a charter member of the first church at Saco, Maine. His will was dated December 10, 1766, and the inventory of the estate was made in 1773. He died in 1772, aged seventy-eight years, and is buried near his own house, with his wives. Magnus Redlon was a noted scout during the Indian wars along the coast. He furnished many masts, which were shipped to England. It is said that the Indians called him the "white scout with yellow hair." Children: I. Susan- na, born in York, Maine, March 4, 1721, died aged six weeks. 2. Ebenezer, York, February 13, 1723, married, August 8, 1751, Sarah Young ; his descendants have always spelled their name Redlon. 3. John, York, March 21, 1726, married, October 9, 1749, Saralı Brooks. 4. Matthias, September 19, 1728, mentioned below. 5. Daniel, York, May 4, 1730, married, 1751, Patience Sands. Children of second wife: 6. Abraham, Pepperellborough (now Saco), Maine, August 10, 1733, died unmar- ried in 1798. 7. Jeremiah, Saco, November 4, 1736, married, March 2, 1760, Bethesda Town-
send ; died June 25, 1816. 8. Jacob, Saco, May 14, 1740, married in August, 1762, Elizabeth Young; drowned in the Saco river, April 25, 1765.
(II) Matthias (1) Redlon (Ridley), son of Magnus Redlon, was born in York, Maine, September 19. 1728. He removed when a child with his parents to Pepperellborough. He settled at Saco Ferry on a part of his fa- ther's estate, remaining until 1761, when he re- moved to Buxton, Maine. He owned here lots 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 in Range D of the first division of Narragansett No. I. He received a part of the homestead from his father in his will. He sold his land in Buxton, March 16, 1786, to Samuel Scammon for two hundred and forty pounds. He was living in Little Falls Plantation (now Hollis), in 1787. He bought a large farm on the Saco river, and built a small house, where he carried on shoe- making, did lumbering, and kept a small gen- eral store. He owned part of a sawmill on Moderation Falls, which he sold July to, 1795. He then joined with his sons in business in their saw and grist mills, where he worked several years. They made shingles, tubs, pails, etc. He and his sons were employed several weeks of each year in the ship yard of Coffin & Deering at Saco Ferry. The Ridley gen- ealogist says : "He was of medium height, had broad shoulders and a very short, thick neck ; his cheek bones were high; nose large and fleshy ; mouth and chin broad ; upper lip wide and full ; hair and beard sandy ; eyes gray and deep set ; brows thick, long, and outstanding ; forehead broad, jetting and wrinkled." He died suddenly about 1810, and was buried on a high knoll between the river bank and the estate of Nathaniel Haley, now or lately the pasture of Martin Foss. He married, Decem- ber 29, 1748, Rachel, daughter of Robert Edgecomb, of Saco. She survived her hus- band and died, aged over ninety, and was bur- ied by his side. Children: I. Matthias, born in Saco, February 4, 1749-50, mentioned be- low. 2. Rachel, October 10, 1751, married, April 29, 1773, Daniel Field ; was a pensioner of the revolution; died at the age of ninety- six. 3. James, December 10, 1753, married Hannah Cozens; died September 12, 1812. 4. Thomas, December 28, 1755, married, January 24. 1779, Martha Merrill ; was in the revolu- tion. 5. Mary, June 2, 1758, burned to death in the house of James Edgecomb, April 10, 1767. 6. John, November II, 1760, married, December 15, 1779. Abigail Holmes; died in 1866, aged one hundred and six years three months; soldier in the revolution. 7. Abra-
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ham, September 21, 1763, married, August 23. 1786, Patience Tibbetts ; died October 9. 1852. 8. Judith, September 21, 1763 (twin) ; mar- ried. November 29, 1787, Nathaniel Townsend. 9. Jacob, May 12, 1766, married. December 19, 1793. Mary Townsend ; died December, 1817. IO. Magnus, Buxton, Maine, October 3, 1769, married, February 21, 1793, Eleanor MacAr- thur : died 1852. II. Sarah, March 26, 1772, married, August 19, 1797, Nathaniel Wood- man. 12. Hannah, April 4, 1775, married, No- vember 14, 1799, Magnus Redlon, her second cousin ; died 1817.
(Il1) Matthias (2) Redlon (or Ridley). son of Matthias (1) Redlon, was born in Saco, Alaine, February 4, 1749-50, died in 1840. He settled on a part of the homestead at Saco. about a half mile north of the road corner at the homestead belonging to Lewis McKenney. He was in the revolution, a corporal in Cap- tain Jeremiah Hill's company. Colonel James Scammon's regiment, the Thirtieth Regiment of the Massachusetts Foot Guards. He was in Arnold's expedition to Quebec; enlisted May 3, 1775, and was in the expedition to Ti- conderoga and Crown Point. He sold his lands at Saco and Buxton about 1812 and re- moved to Wayne, Maine, where his sons had settled. He died in Turner, Maine, at the home of his daughter, and was buried in the family cemetery at Wayne. near the brick house built by his grandson, Daniel Ridley. In all the Saco records his name is spelled Redlon, but his gravestone is marked Ridley. His chil- dren in Wayne changed their name to Ridley, but two sons who settled in Hollis, Maine, and Clarendon, Vermont, still retained the original spelling. He married (first), September 6, 1772, by Rev. John Fairfield, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Daniel Field, of Buxton. He married (second) Dorcas (Carter) Williams, widow. Children of first wife, born in Saco: I. Daniel, April 4, 1773, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, August 22, 1774, married, August 23, 1804, Polly Ridlon, his cousin. 3. Jonathan Fields, September 15. 1776. 4. Dorcas, November 2, 1777, married, February 11, 1811, Samuel Leavitt. 5. John, September 12, 1779. 6. Pa- tience, June 10, 1785, married. November 10. 1816, Benjamin Libbey; died 1867. Children of second wife: 7. Betsey, May 28, 1789, mar- ried David Creach; married (second) Benja- min Young. 8. David, April 20, 1791, died October 3. 1846. 9. Mary, August 3, 1794, married Alvin Swift. 10. Sally, May 28, 1798. married Billings Hood ; died June 3, 1873. II. Rachel, September 28, 1801, married, Novem- ber 27, 1821, Otis Hood; died June 3, 1864.
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