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12. Lydia (twin), September 28, 1801, married Daniel True ; died February 6, 1875.
(IV) Deacon Daniel (I) Redlon (Ridley ), son of Matthias (2) Redlon, was born in Saco, Maine, April 4, 1773. He settled on a farm adjoining that of his father. Some time after 1800 he sold his Saco farm and removed to Wayne, Maine, then changing his name to Rid- ley. He was a deacon of the Free Will Baptist church. He died at Wayne and was buried near his residence. He was above medium height, broad-shouldered and compactly built. He had the quick-tempered nature of the Red- lons. He married (first) Williams, daughter of his father's second wife. He mar- ried (second), June 2, 1822, Mary McKenney, of Saco, who died in 1872 at an advanced age. She was blind several years. Children, all by first wife, the last two born in Wayne, the others in Saco: 1. Sally, November 30, 1793, married, February 27, 1812, Benjamin Mc- Kenney. 2. Matthias, February 28, 1795, mar- ried, February 4, 1818, Nancy Pratt ; died 1875. 3. Martha, February 9, 1798, died young. 4. Jonathan, February 15, 1801, mar- ried Louisa Marston. 5. Daniel, September 27, 1802, mentioned helow. 6. Captain Benjamin, June 20, 1804, married Eliza Jenkins ; married (second) Abiah 7. Pelina, Marclı 7, 1807, married, 1827, Charles Graves. 8. Mary, April 4, 1809, married Naaman Bishop. 9. Betsey, August 20, 1811, married Hamilton Gould. 10. Jannes, July 27, 1814. 11. Jerome, December 29, 1816, married (first) Anna Pea- cock: (second) 1845, Mary Davis ; died 1875. (V) Deacon Daniel (2) Ridley, son of Dan- iel (1) Ridley, was born in Saco, Maine, Sep- tember 27, 1802. died February 20. 1850. He settled in Wayne, Maine, where he had gone with his parents in 1812. He worked for Ste- phen Boothby and received land for payment. He cleared a farm, and by great energy and perseverance lie acquired a large and hand- some estate. He built a brick house, but did not live long afterward. He married (first) Sally Winter ; (second) Rebecca Graves, who died February 27, 1871. Children of first wife, all born at Wayne, Maine: I. Paulina, De- cember 13, 1828. married Joseph Lovett. 2. Silas C., April 3, 1830, died November 10, 1870. 3. Joseph W., July 9, 1832, married Mary A. Robbins ; was in the civil war. 4. Betsey, February 28, 1833, married Theodore B. Knox. 5. Joshua G., May 30, 1834. 6. Jerome R., March 22, 1835, married Clara Knowlton. 6. Charles G., October 3, 1837. married Vienna Melissa Goodwin. 7. Sarah, October 4, 1838, unmarried. 8. Jason Maxim.
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March 15, 1841, mentioned below. 9. Dean K., January 12, 1843, unmarried. Io. Lee S., December 24, 1844. Child of second wife: II. Horatio N., March 11, 1848, resided at North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
(VI) Jason Maxim, son of Deacon Daniel (2) Ridley, was born in Wayne, Maine, March 15, 1841. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and during his youth worked on his father's farm until he was sixteen years old, when he worked one season for Charles Graves, a farmer of the vicinity. He left home at the age of twenty and worked two years on the farm of C. War- ren at Westborough, Massachusetts. He re- turned to Wayne, and in 1870 entered the em- ploy of Holman Johnson, manufacturer of shovel handles, of Wayne, and became a skill- ful mechanic in this line of work. After ten years in this factory he removed to Lima, Ohio, where for a short time he was employed in the same kind of work. Since 1880 he has held a responsible position in the shovel handle factory formerly of the firm of Marshall & Wason, then of C. M. Marshall, and finally of the Ames Shovel & Tool Company. In poli- tics Mr. Ridley is a Democrat. He is a men- ber of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Wayne. He married Abbie L., born Jan- uary 3, 1850, in Leeds, Maine, died 1888, daughter of Isaac and Abigail (Knapp) Stinchfield. Child, Charles Adelbert, men- tioned below.
(VII) Charles Adelbert, son of Jason Max- im Ridley, was born in Leeds, December 15, 1867. He attended the public schools at Wayne, the Wesleyan Seminary of Kent's Hill and the Waterville Classical Institute, now Co- burn, and the Shaw Business College of Port- land, Maine. He then came to Oakland, Maine, in the employ of the. shovel handle manufacturers, where his father was employed, and has remained with this concern to the present time. Since 1898 he has been in part- nership with F. W. Flanders in a retail dry goods store at Oakland. In politics he is a Democrat and has been chairman of the board of selectmen for two years. He is a member of Messolonskce Lodge of Free Masons; of Drummond Chapter, No. 27, Royal Arch Ma- sons; of Mt. Lebanon Council, Royal and Se- lect Masters, Oakland. He is past master of the lodge, past high priest of the chapter, and is at present master of the council. He is past chief ranger of Independent Order of For- esters ; member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, No. 6; of Cascade Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Oakland, and member of the
degree of Honor. Mr. Ridley is interested in public affairs and has given freely to support every movement for the welfare of the town.
Perhaps the earliest form of EMERSON this name in England is "Richardus fil. Emerici," from the writs of Parliament of the thirteenth century, at which time modern surnames were in progress of formation. It was the son of Emery, a form introduced into England by the Normans from the continent, where, as Americ, Emeric, Almeric, Almaric and Eimer- ic, it had a wide early use, and whence, in its Italian form, Amerigo, it gave a name to the New World. Emery's son became Emmeris- son, Emmerson, Emberson, Imeson and Emer- son.
Heintzel, the best authority, derives the name Aimeric, in its eldest form Haimericus, from the old Teutonic, Haim, meaning house, dwelling or estate, and Riks, meaning rule, power, kingdom (Gothic, Haims and Reiks). He translates Haims as dorf or village, and Reiks as maechtig or mighty, and compares it with rex, rego, so that the word had perhaps the meaning of village ruler. It has become Heinrich, Henry in one direction, and Aimeric, Emery, Emerson in another.
The Emersons in England seem to have sprung from that Aimeric, archdeacon of Car- lisle and Durham, 1196-1214, and high sheriff of Northumberland 1214-15, who was the nephew of Bishop Philip, of Poictou, Prince Bishop, of Durham, 1195, and previously cler- icum et familiarem of Richard, Cœur-de-Lion. Both the bishop and archdeacon had married before they took orders in the church. This descent explains the long connection of the Emersons with the bishopric of Durham. We find the name on record in the Richmond Domesday Book, and it may thus have had an independent origin in Yorkshire. Johannes Emeryson is the first on record to use the name in its completed form. Willelmus Emerisson, possibly the younger brother of the above, was mentioned in the Durham Cursitor Rolls as a juror of Middleham in 1351. Robertus Em- erisson or Emeryson is mentioned in Hatfield's Survey, taken about 1380. When Bishop Nev- ille came to the throne of the Durham bishop- ric, 1437 to 1457, a Robert Emerson was ap- pointed bailiff of Walsingham and park keeper in the Weardale. Emersons were long settled at Eastgate as hereditary keepers of the Wear- dale forests for the bishops of Durham. They became a clan and their servants took their name. thus accounting for the different social
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positions of various branches of the name both in England and among the Emersons of Amer- ica. It has been the uniform tradition that the Ipswich Emersons came from Weardale, but there is in this country no documentary evidence of the fact.
(1) Thomas Emerson, immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Emerson family, was probably born in Sedgefield parish, Durham county, England, and died at Ipswich, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony, May 1, 1666. Tradition says he came from England in the ship "Eliza- beth Ann" in 1635. It is certain he was at Ipswich as early as 1638, when he had eighty acres of land granted him adjoining that of Goodman Muzzey. This must have been the farm conveyed by Thomas Emerson, the baker, to Joseph Jewett. In 1638, Samuel Greenfield, a weaver, who had married Susan- na, widow of Humphrey Wise, of Ipswich, conveyed a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, formerly the property of Wise, to Thom- as Emerson. This was the Turkey Shore farm, which remained in the family for several gen- erations. Thomas Emerson was a commoner in 1641, and in 1646 was one of the "seven men" to whom was committed the fiscal and prudential affairs of the settlement. He was granted land by the proprietors and enjoyed large possessions. There is a record that he lost a yoke of oxen by their backing off a bridge, for which he claimed damages and received the money. He made his will in 1653. added a codicil in 1660, and it was probated in May, 1666. He married Elizabeth
who was named executrix in the will in 1653 and carried it into execution in 1666. Their children were: 1. Elizabeth, married John Fuller, and resided in Ipswich. 2. Thomas, married Elizabeth -, and died in 1653. 3. Joseph, see forward. 4. John, born 1625, died December 2, 1700; married Ruth Sy- monds, and resided in Gloucester, Massachu- setts. 5. James, who is said to have returned to England in 1653, but there is no proof that he ever came to this country. 6. Nathaniel, born 1629, died December 29, 1712; married (first) Saralı -, ( second) Lydia and resided in Ipswich. 7. Sarah, died An- gust 12, 1640.
(II) Joseph, second son and third child of Thomas and Elizabeth Emerson, born in Eng- land about 1620-21, died at Concord, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony, January 3, 1680. Of his education nothing is known, but it is believed that he was educated in England. He may, however, have studied in Harvard, as he was in Ipswich as early as 1638, and was admitted
a freeman there, December 19, 1648. He preached at York, Maine, the same year, being a minister of the standing order of Puritan clergymen. He was a resident of Wells, Maine, in 1653, taking the freemen's oath July 4, and was an inhabitant when the commis- sioners took the submission of the people, the court being held in his house. He favored the submission of Massachusetts in 1651-52, and was evidently a leading spirit of the party. He soon lost his hold on the affections of the people of Wells, owing undoubtedly to the po- litical dissensions which disturbed the church. After Mr. Emerson left the church in Wells its membership dwindled to two families, and they quarreled. This was about 1664 and he became the first minister of Milton, but upon asking for an increase of salary he was dis- missed. He was settled in Mendon, December 1, 1669, where he remained until the town was destroyed by the Indians during King Philip's war, after which he retired to Con- cord, where he died. Joseph Emerson married (first ) Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Margaret Woodmansey, the former a school- master of Boston. They had children: Jo- seph, who married Mary James, see forward. He married (second), December 7, 1665, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, of Concord, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, D. D., first minister of Concord. She was born 1638, and died September 4, 1693, wife of Captain John Brown, of Reading. Their children were: I. Lucyan, born October 2, 1667, died 1740 ; married, May 15, 1683, Thomas Damon, and resided in Reading. 2. Edward, born April 26, 1670, died May 9, 1743; married, January 27. 1697, Rebecca Waldo, and re- sided in Chelmsford, Newburyport and Boston. 3. Peter, born 1673, died 1751 ; married, 1696, Anna Brown, and resided in Reading. 4. Ebe- nezer, died 1751 ; married (first) Bethia Par- ker; (second) Mary Boutwell; the names of his third and fourth wives have not been pre- served; he resided in Reading. 5. Daniel, married, May 19, 1709, Jane Armitage, and resided in Boston.
(III) James, second son and child of Joseph and Elizabeth (Woodmansey) Emerson, born at Wells, Maine, died at Mendon, Massachu- setts, 1756. His name does not appear in the will of his grandfather Thomas, 1653, and the presumption is that he had not been born at that time. He resided in Ipswich and Mendon, Massachusetts, where he was a tailor and farmer. According to deeds from Josiah Thayer, of Mendon, and other deeds, he ob-
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tained the Mendon homestead, which remained in his branch of the family for several genera- tions. In 1718 James Emerson, "Taylor," conveys "in consideration of ye love, good will and natural affection which I have and do bear unto my beloved son Joseph Emerson of Red- ding" seven and one-half acres of land in Men- don. James Emerson married Sarah
born in 1663, died at Mendon, October 13, 1732. Their children were: I. Elizabeth, born March 6, 1687, died 1760; married, 1708, Jo- seph Taft, and resided at Uxbridge. 2. Sarah, married, November 4, 1709, Daniel Hall, and resided in Sherborn. 3. James, born March 13, 1692, died after 1747; married, February 21, 1722, Saralı Lock, and resided in Uxbridge. 4. John, see forward. 5. Joseph, born December 18, 1696, died 1745; resided in Reading and Falmouth. 6. Ebenezer, born 1698, died after 1747; married Elizabeth Walcott, published February 20, 1730, and resided in Attleboro. 7. Nathaniel, born August 19, 1701, married Joanna - , and resided in Mendon.
(IV) John, second son and fourth child of James and Sarah Emerson, born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, June 9, 1694, died at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 1780. He was a blacksmith, surveyor and considerable land holder, and re- sided in Mendon and Uxbridge. He married, November 23, 1721, Mary Rice, of Reading, who was probably the granddaughter of Nich- olas and Sarah Rice, of Reading. Nicholas Rice had been a dweller on one of Governor Bellingham's farms, and his wife was the un- fortunate woman denounced during the witch- craft excitement in 1692 and committed to prison in Boston. The children of John and Mary (Rice) Emerson were: I. John, born September 6, 1722, married, February 27, 1745. Mary Wood, and resided in Uxbridge. 2. Thomas, born February 2, 1725, died Oc- tober 13, 1796; married, November 25, 1748, Abigail Marsh, and resided in Uxbridge. 3. Mary, born September 17, 1730, died young. 4. Luke, born October 14, 1733, died Novem- ber 4, 17 -; married. April 30, 1755, Ruth Emerson, and resided in Rochester, Vermont. 5. Ezekiel, see forward. 6. Sarah, born Jan- uary 14, 1740, married (first), January 1, 1763, Thomas Sabin, and resided in Mendon, Mas- sachusetts ; (second) November 29, 1764, John Haskins, and resided in Providence, Rhode Is- land. 7. Phebe, born August 17, 1743, married John Hurlbut, published December 1, 1759, and resided in Uxbridge. 8. Hannah, born March 29, 1747, married Matthew Darling, published October 29, 1767, and resided in
Mendon. 9. James, mentioned in his father's will of 1768.
(V) Ezekiel, fourth son and fifth child of John and Mary ( Rice) Emerson, born in Men- don, Massachusetts, February 14, 1735-36, died in Georgetown, Maine, November 9, 1815. He was graduated from the College of New Jer- sey (Princeton), then at Elizabethtown, in 1763, immediately applied himself to the study of theology, and the following summer com- menced preaching at Georgetown, the earliest town east of the Kennebec river. For thirty years prior to the coming of Mr. Emerson, a church had been maintained there under the care of the Boston Presbytery, but it had fallen into decay. Mr. Emerson's preaching was agreeable to the people and they gave him a call for settlement, which he accepted July 1, 1765. Covenant engagements were subscribed to by Mr. Emerson and eight members, and on July 3 he was ordained by a council; in September the remaining members of the for- mer church united with the reorganized body. Soon after this settlement there was a great re- ligious revival in Georgetown, and Mr. Emer- son remained happily and peacefully with the people for about fourteen years, when the revo- lutionary war broke out. He removed with his family up the river to Norridgewock, where he remained until May 1, 1783. The country was then at peace, and he resumed his minis- terial labors at Georgetown and continued to discharge them steadily and faithfully until 1810, when, his mental powers becoming im- paired, he found it necessary to retire. Rev. Mr. Emerson preached a sermon at the ordina- tion, August 17, 1796, of Rev. William Riddel, at Bristol, Maine, reported to have been the same he preached in 1775, when Rev. Mr. Urquhart commenced his ministerial labors in Bristol. The following record appears on the book of an upper Kennebec town: "Canaan, 16 Feb., 1786. I have received of the town of Canaan the full of all accounts for ministerial services done among them from the beginning of the world untill this time-I say received by me. Ezekiel Emerson." Rev. Mr. Emerson married, March 27, 1760, Catherine, born March 8, 1732, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Mary (Rawson) Dorr, and they had children : I. Phebe, born July 30, 1761, died June 19, 1829; married Josiah Heald, and resided in Norridgewock, Maine. 2. Ezekiel, born July 6, 1763, died 1809; married - Fish, and resided in Norridgewock. 3. Hawley, see for- ward. 4. Calvin, born January 9, 1769, died November, 1827: married Elizabeth Pattee,
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and resided in Fairfield, Maine. 5. Luther, born September 26, 1772, resided in Ohio. 6. Eusebius, born August 21, 1774. 7. Susanna, born December 13, 1776, married, March 5, 1795. Charles Witherell, and resided in Nor- ridgewock. 8. Mary, born July 17, 1778, died May 17, 1838; married John Tozier and re- sided in Fairfield. 9. Elizabeth, born May, 1780, died July, 1789.
(VI) Hawley, second son and third child of Ezekiel and Catherine (Dorr) Emerson, born in Georgetown, Maine, December 7, 1766, died in Norridgewock, Maine, January 6, 1844. He married Rachel Lennon and had children : 1. Catherine, born June 13, 1796, died May 6, 1890; married William Morse, and resided in Bath, Maine. 2. Mary, born February 10, 1798, died May 17, 1846; married Joseph Tarr, and resided in Georgetown. 3. Rachel, born June 24, 1800, died January 9, 1862 : mar- ried Robert Blake, and resided in Salem, Maine. 4. Julia Ann, born February 7, 1802. died March 5, 1880: married (first) Laban Lincoln, (second) Oliver Talpey. and resided in Hallowell, Maine. 5. Margery, born April 3, 1805, married Philander L. Bryant, and re- sided in Wayne, Maine. 6. Elizabeth, born September 24, 1807, died March 3, 1843 ; mar- ried Charles Loring, and resided in Norridge- wock. 7. Diantha, born March 11, 1811. died November 12, 1840. 8. Thedosia, twin of Diantha. died October 16, 1841; married Jo- seph Nash, and resided in Montpelier, Ver- mont. 9. Rebecca C., born June 24, 1812, died October 20, 1839: married E. P. Nash, and resided in Montpelier, Vermont. 10. Luther Dorr. sec forward. 11. Nancy, born January 31, 1818, died April, 1850.
(VII) Luther Dorr, only son and tenth child of Hawley and Rachel (Lennon) Emerson, born in Georgetown (now Arrowsic), Maine, April 9, 1815, died in Oakland ( formerly West Waterville), Maine, October 28, 1893. He was born when Georgetown was a noted ship-build- ing place, six yards being maintained, and many noble vessels launched from the town. Young Emerson remained at school until he was sev- enteen years of age, when he went to Dedham. Massachusetts, and there found employment in a woolen mill. After a brief experience at Quincy, Massachusetts, in a general store, he returned to Georgetown. He completed his education at the Bloomfield and Farmington academies when his parents removed to Nor- ridgewock. He remained there until 1842, and then commenced working in the scythe shop of S. Hale & Company at West Water- ville, and two years later was employed by
R. B. Dunn, of North Wayne, in the same business. He continued with him until the Dunn Edge Tool Company bought out the Oakland shops, when he returned and prac- tically took charge of the business. He acted in this capacity until 1865, at which time the firm of Hubbard, Blake & Company was formed, with which Mr. Emerson continued for five years. The firm of Emerson, Stevens & Company was organized in 1870, Mr. Em- erson being made treasurer and becoming a half owner in the business. They manufac- tured scythes and axes on an extensive scale, and these had a large sale throughout the west and northwest. Mr. Emerson was a director in the Messalonskee National Bank from the time of its organization and finally its presi- dent. Socially he was a most genial man, with a warm, kind heart, who never turned any needy one away empty-handed and whose deeds of charity were performed modestly and quietly. One of his most prominent charac- teristics was his love for old Maine history and antiquarian research. In these respects he was very well informed and a member of the Maine Historical Society. He married, 1852, Dulcina Minerva, born in Fayette, Maine, May 12, 1825, daughter of Reuben and Mary (Tuck) Crane. They had children: I. Alice Maria, born September 15, 1855, resides in Oakland, Maine. 2. Walter Crane, see for- ward.
(VIII) Walter Crane, only son of Luther Dorr and Dulcina Minerva (Crane) Emerson, was born in Waterville, Maine, that part now Oakland, January 18, 1863. His early educa- tion was acquired in the schools of Water- ville and the Waterville Classical Institute, and he was graduated from Colby College in 1884. He then formed a connection with The Port- land Press as night editor, later, 1889, becom- ing part owner and associate editor of The Portland Advertiser, which connection was continued until 1901. He was one of the Washington correspondents of The New York Herald from 1901 to 1905. In the latter year Mr. Emerson returned to Maine to take charge of the business at Oakland, being the principal owner, still, however, retaining his residence in Portland. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1893 was a member of the house of representatives from Portland, serving one term and declining renomination. He com- menced a successful career as a political cam- paign speaker in 1892, speaking in the state that year and in 1894. Two years later he made a campaign speaking tour under the di- rection of the National Republican committee
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in New York and the Middle States. In 1900 he was on a campaign tour for the National committee, being for two weeks in company with President Roosevelt, who was at that time governor of New York and a candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States. In 1908 Mr. Emerson was a candidate for the Republican nomination for congress in the first district of Maine, being defeated by the in- cumbent, Representative Amos L. Allen. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society, the Cumberland Club and Country Club of Portland. He has a summer residence at Squirrel Island, Maine. Mr. Emerson mar- ried, September 30, 1886, Janet, of Waterville, daughter of George and Mary (Taylor) Milli- ken. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson have one child, Janet.
HARRIMAN The brothers, Leonard and John Harriman, were the pioneer immigrants of that surname in New England. Leonard is the an- cestor of most of the Harrimans of Massachu- setts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and John of those of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.
(1) Leonard Harriman was born in Rowley in Yorkshire, England, in 1622, and died in Rowley, Massachusetts, May 26, 1691. He and his brother John came to America in 1640 with twenty or thirty families under the guidance of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. These colo- nists were a Godly people and shared their property in common for about five years. Leonard was admitted freeman of Rowley in 1647. In the same year he bought of John Todd the house lot laid out to John Spofford on Bradford street, now corner of Bradford and Common streets. He was a farmer and mechanic, being a maker of looms. His shop is supposed to have been on the nearby brook and to have been operated by water power. On an ancient tax list of a date before 1664, he is recorded as taxed eight shillings nine pence. His will, dated May 12, 1691, was proved September 24, 1691. His wife Mar- garet died October 20, 1676. The children of Leonard and Margaret were: A daughter, John. Matthew, Hannah, Caleb, Jonathan and Mary.
(II) Matthew (I), third child and second son of Leonard and Margaret Harriman, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, June 16, 1652, and died in Haverhill in 1726. He is mien- tioned as building a house previous to 1675 on land the ownership of which did not en- title its owner to the rights of common. He
voted on the placing of a new meeting house, June, 1683, and on the moving to a new meet- ing house in the winter of 1698. He is men- tioned as living at Fishing river in a house next that of Thomas and Hannah Dustin, which is on the east side of Little river, near Primrose street. He married (first), Decem- ber, 1672, Elizabeth Swan, of Haverhill, born September 30, 1653, daughter of Robert Swan, a soldier of King Philip's war, and Elizabeth (Acie) Swan, of Haverhill, and granddaughter of Richard Shaw, of Rowley, a soldier of King Philip's war. He married ( second) Mary Ca- dle, born January, 1678, and married about 1716. The children of Matthew and Elizabeth were: Matthew, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, Abigail, Mehitable, John, Leonard, Nathaniel, Richard and Abner.
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