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(III) Matthew (2), eldest son of Matthew (I) and Elizabeth (Swan) Harriman, was born January 26, 1673, and died October 28, 1743, aged seventy. He lived on the Mill farm near Kingston line, and was a member of Lieutenant-Colonel Saltonstall's command, which was constantly armed, equipped and ex- ercised. By order of the general court, Jan- uary 19, 1710, he, with others, was supplied with snow-shoes for use in military excursions in winter. He was a petitioner for a school house in the northwestern part of town, be- tween Hoghill and Brickkiln bridge. Also a petitioner to settle fifty or sixty acres called Bare Meadow for use of the minister. He was a remonstrant against dividing the com- mon lands, and agreed to take for his share about eight acres. At the time of settling the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in 1741, the line ran so as to place Matthew in New Hampshire. He married, in 1700, Martha Page, by whom he had Joseph, Stephen, Moses, Joshua, Nathaniel, Philip, Mehitable, Elizabeth, Mary and Lyman.
(IV) Stephen, second son of Matthew (2) and Martha (Page) Harriman, was born in 1703, died in 1760. He owned the covenant and was baptized October 10, 1726, and was admitted to the church December 31, 1727. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war and served at Louisburg, 1845-46, in Cap- tain Thomas Cheney's company, Colonel John Choate's Eighth Massachusetts regiment. He married (first), at Plaistow, December 25. 1723, Patience Roberts ; and (second), March 10, 1743, Elizabeth Griffin. The children by the first wife, Patience, were: Stephen, Ed- mond, Hannah, Mehitable, Susanna, Ebenezer, Asa and James. Those by second wife, Eliza- beth, were: Hannah and Elizabeth.
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(V) Asa, seventh child and fourth son of Stephen and Patience ( Roberts) Harriman, was born in Haverhill. March 5. 1737. He stated to Otis Harriman, when an old man, that he was a member of that famous band of Indian fighters called "Roger's Rangers." In January, 1762, a petition was signed by about three hundred and fifty persons, one of whom was Asa Harriman, asking the general court of Massachusetts that six townships be laid out on the l'enobscot river for settlers. This pe- tition was approved March 2, 1762. In June, 1764, Asa Harriman and his family were "warned out" of Plaistow, New Hampshire, after having resided there about eight weeks. In December, 1767, Asa Harriman was one of the signers of a petition to annex the north parish Haverhill to Plaistow. In the spring of 1768, probably, he moved to Bucksport, Maine, where in 1775 he is mentioned as one of the twenty-one families of the town. In the Penobscot Expedition, which covered the at- tack and defeat at Castine, Asa Harriman was a lieutenant in Captain Ebenezer Buck's com- pany of Volunteers, Colonel Josiah Brewer's regiment, General Lovell's brigade. He en- tered service July 30, 1779, and was discharged August 14, 1779; also enlisted September, 1779, as a private in Captain Ebenezer Buck's company, Colonel Josiah Brewer's regiment. These companies must have been stationed at Camden. In 1781 Ezekiel, Peter and Asa Har- riman moved from Buicksport to Orland. There Asa was afterward appointed surveyor of lumber. He died in Prospect, November 29, 1823. Otis Harriman describes him as in his age a tall, powerful man, straight as an ar- row and of pleasing manner. His anecdotes of his French and Indian war experiences were many and his coming a delight to the younger element. Asa Harriman, of Haverhill, mar- ried (first), September 4, 1760, Elizabeth Todd, of Plaistow, New Hampshire. Their children were: Joshua Jewett, Asa, James (died young). James, Benjamin Buck, Joseph Kimball, Susannah and Elizabeth. He mar- ried (second) Widow Abiah (Goodell) Per- kins, of Kittery. Their children were: Ste- phen, John, Edward, Thomas and Samuel.
(VI) Joshua Jewett, eldest child of Asa and Elizabeth (Todd) Harriman, was born in Haverhill. Massachusetts, May 20, 1762. He enlisted at Hampstead, New Hampshire, July 4. 1780, in Captain William Scott's company, Colonel Henry Jackson's Ninthi Massachusetts regiment. This regiment was enlisted for gar- rison duty at West Point. Joshua J. and fam- ily lived at Oak Bluff, Bucksport, whence he
moved to Orland and then to Prospect Ferry, where he built what is now the James Pierce house, the oldest dwelling in Prospect. He died March 2, 1823, and was buried in the old cemetery at Prospect Ferry. He married Bet- sey Keys, of Orland, in 1786. She was born March 2, 1770, and died February 16, 1843, daughter of Captain Samuel and Thankful ( Hunt) Keys. She is described as a tall, black-eyed, stately woman. Captain Keys re- moved from Milton, Massachusetts, and set- tled in Orland in 1768 and died in 1814. He commanded the first continental company raised on the east Penobscot, 1776. He was active in plantation and town affairs, and rep- resented the district in the legislature at Bos- ton. After the death of Joshua J., Betsey mar- ried (second), December 3, 1827, Samuel Harding. The children of Joshua J. and Bet- sey were: Daniel H., Eliakim (died in early life), Nelson Todd, Barbara, Hannah Keys, Joshua, Jewett, Dearborn, Deadama, Samuel Keys and Eliakim.
(VII) Eliakim, youngest son of Joshua J. and Betsey (Keys) Harriman, was born in Orland, December 12, 1789. He settled in Freedom, was a farmer and lumberman, and was killed by a falling tree, July 16, 1816. He married Rebecca Ellis, by whom he had two children : James C. and Willard Pope.
(VIII) Willard Pope, the second of the two sons of Eliakim and Rebecca ( Ellis) Harri- man, was born in Freedom, July 1, 1814, and died Belfast, January 19, 1878. He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Waldo county in 1860, was a Republican, and active and stic- cessftil in law and politics. He was deputy sheriff of Waldo county, representative from Waldo in 1848, Belfast, 1870, and state sena- tor. 1854. He married, October 30, 1839, Mary Ann Ellis, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann (Ginn) Ellis, of Brooks, Waldo county, Maine. Their children were: Mary Ann, Jo- seph, Willard, Amanda Maria, James Sumner, George Frank and Sarah Benson.
(IX) George Frank, fifth child of Willard P. and Mary Ann (Ellis) Harriman, was born in Waldo, September 16, 1852. He was educated in the public schools of Belfast and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, the East Maine Conference Seminary, the Maine Cen- tral Institute and Bowdoin College, gradu- ating from the last-named institution in 1875. He spent the following year at the Boston University Law School, from which he grad- uated in 1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar the same year. Immediately after- ward he entered the office of Francis S. Hes-
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seltine and began the practice of law. Two years later he removed to Belfast, Maine, and there practiced his profession until 1882, when he removed to New York city, where he con- tinued in his profession as a member of the firm of Harriman & Fessenden until 1905, and since then has been alone. Mr. Harriman has inherited the energy, industry, probity, and many other good qualities of his ancestors, and by a strong, sustained effort has attained an honorable position at the bar and has a handsome practice. He is a member of the Bar Association of New York City, the Uni- versity Club, Manhattan Club, and is a trustee of the Maine Society of New York.
He married, August 5, 1903, Mattie H. Du- mont, born April 18, 1873, daughter of John Ludlow and Sarah Rogers (Trott) Dumont, of Brooklyn, New York.
This name was very STOCKBRIDGE early implanted in East- ern Massachusetts and has been continuously represented in that colony and the state and has numerous repre- sentatives scattered over the country. It was early identified with the state of Maine, and its bearers have usually been found as worthy and desirable citizens of the communitics in which they live. The name is of English or- igin as are most of those first planted in New England. The family has been noted for its identification with military affairs, and for its musical and literary ability. Many of them were skilful not only as vocalists but as in- strumental performers. One of the best known teachers of music in Portland for many years was Mr. Will Stockbridge, still pleasantly re- membered by many. The mother of Anna Louise Cary, the famous contralto singer. was a Stockbridge. In literary fields, various mem- bers of the family have achieved distinction. Among these may be mentioned Dr. John Cal- vin Stockbridge, of Providence. One of these, the wife of Professor Thomas Rich, of Bates Theological Seminary, Lewiston, was a fre- quent contributor to periodical literature and published many books mainly of purely literary nature. Her nephew, George I.I. Stockbridge, has also been a contributor to the New England Magazine, Harpers and Belford's magazines, and others, and is the author of a work published in 1891, entitled, "Balder the Poet," which has received very favorable mention from many men of high literary taste.
(I) John (1) Stockbridge was among the
passengers in the ship "Blessing," which came from England to Massachusetts in 1635. At that time his age was twenty-seven years, and he was accompanied by his wife. Ann, aged twenty-one years, and a son, Charles. The wife became a member of the church at Scitu- ate, Massachuetts, July 16, 1637. John Stock- bridge was a wheelwright, and settled in Scitu- ate very soon after his arrival. His wife Ann died before 1643, and in that year he married the Widow Elizabeth Sloan, and his third wife was Mary She survived him, and was married, April 8, 1660, to Daniel Herrick. John Stockbridge's will was dated September 4, 1657, and proven on the thirteenth of the following month, which indicates the time of his demise. At that time he was a resident of Boston. Beside the sons who came with him from England, he had a daughter Han- nah, baptized September 24, 1637. and Eliza- beth, July 10, 1642, in Boston. She probably did not live long, as Elizabeth, the daughter of the second wife, was born 1644; Sarah, 1645; and Esther, 1647. The third wife bore him one daughter, Mary.
(II) Charles, eldest child of John and Ann Stockbridge, was aged one year when the fam- ily came from England to America, in 1635. He was a wheelwright and resided in Boston. His wife's name was Abigail, and they were the parents of Charles (died young), Abigail, Charles, Sarah, Thomas, Elizabeth, Joseph, Benjamin and Samuel. He resided part of the time in Charlestown and in Scituate, and died in 1683. His widow subsequently became the wife of Amos Turner.
(III) Benjamin (I), fifth son of Charles and Abigail Stockbridge, was born October 9. 1677, and resided upon the paternal homestead in Scituate, Massachusetts. He was married in 1701 to Mary Tilden, but a complete record of their children is not found.
(IV) Dr. Benjamin (2). son of Benjamin (I) and Mary ( Tilden) Stockbridge, was born in 1704, in the Stockbridge mansion at Scituate. He married Ruth Otis, daughter of Job Otis, and resided in his native town. He had two sons who survived to rear families, namely : Benjamin and Micah. He was prepared as a physician under the instruction of Dr. Bulfinch, of Boston, and was the second regular prac- titioner to settle in Scituate. He is mentioned in history as "an enlightened benefactor of mankind," and taught many students in medi- cine. His practice was widely extended, and he was frequently called in consultation over a region reaching from Falmouth to Worcester
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and Ipswich. He was a man of wit and good taste, accomplished in literature and gifted in music.
(V) Micah, second surviving son of Dr. Benjamin and Ruth ( Otis) Stockbridge, was born 1734-35, and resided in Hanover, Mas- sachusetts. Ile married Lydia Winslow, a de- scendant of Governor Josiah Winslow, being. according to tradition, a daughter of John Winslow, whose father was Isaac. Their chil- dren were : Micah. John and Keziah.
(VI) John (2), second son of Micah and Lydia ( Winslow) Stockbridge, was born Au- gust 17. 1757, in Pembroke, Massachusetts, and died in Byron, Maine, August 23, 1820. He was a soldier in the revolution, serving seven years and five months, enlisting at the age of seventeen years, returning to his native place after the struggle. He was married March 9, 1786, to Mary Dillingham, also a native of Hanover, who died at Byron, 1841. She was a daughter of Captain Samuel Dil- lingham, of Hanover. Soon after his marriage he removed to Freeport, Maine, where he taught school and was also interested in ship- building with his two brothers who had pre- ceded him. He finally settled down to farm- ing, and in 1801 removed to Dixfield, Maine, where he engaged in that occupation during the summer and continued to teach school in winter. He was a skilful surveyor and was often employed by the state of Massachusetts to survey lands in the wilds of Maine. During these labors he found a location which very much pleased him, in the remote region then known as township No. 8 at Swift river. Here he passed the remaining years of his life. He had three sons: John, William and Edward, and daughters Polly and Mary.
(VII) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and Mary (Dillingham) Stockbridge, born August II, 1787, at Freeport, died at Byron, Novem- ber 25, 1855. He was fourteen years of age when his father left Freeport, and was at that time fitted for college, but the change in the life of the family prevented his fulfilling a strong desire to devote himself to books, and. like his father, he became a farmer. A com- munity soon grew up in the new town upon Swift river, and became known as Byron. John Stockbridge was a man of great influence in all the region. In that primitive locality there were few men of education and he was called upon to do much of the business of the region. He was made trial justice of the peace under William King, and held the office nearly all his life. For many years he was first se- lectman of the town, was also its treasurer, and
much of the time clerk. Because of the lack of any settled clergyman, he performed the marriage ceremony for a large part of the sons and daughters of his townsmen for many years. The Baptist church was early organ- ized in the town, and for thirty years he was its clerk, and for a long period of time was a member of Blazing Star Lodge, A. F. and A. M. He is described as a modest man, possessed of great charm in conversation, and tradition still tells of his wonderful tenor voice and musical talent. He was a skilful player on the violoncello and was a teacher of both instrumental and vocal classes. He was mar- ried at Turner, Maine, in 1809, to Ann Leavitt, born March 20, 1787, of that town, died at Au- burn, Maine, February 19, 1870. Their chil- dren were: Lebbeus, Abijah William, Sarah, Olive, John Calvin, Mary Ann, Caroline Web- ster, Joseph Townsend and Columbus Ameri- cus.
(VIII) John Calvin, third son of John (3) and Ann (Leavitt) Stockbridge, was born February 12, 1812, in Byron, and was for a great part of his life a farmer and man of af- fairs. He inherited the military spirit of his ancestry, and his descendant still preserves his commission dated July 15, 1837, his ensign in Company H. of the First Regiment, Second Brigade, Sixth Division of the militia of the state of Maine, to take rank from the seven- teenth day of June preceding. He received an honorable discharge in the same rank October 28, 1841. During this service he was at Au- gusta with his regiment, to take part in what was expected to be a war between England and the United States over the boundary line between Maine and Canada. The dispute was settled by arbitration, and there was no mili- tary action in the matter. The episode is known in history as Madawaska war. Mr. Stockbridge was possessed of excellent musical ability, and while residing at Canton Point, Maine, it was his custom to gather about him a number of people for the singing of hymns on Sunday evenings; being better equipped musically than the others, he was naturally the leading spirit of these meetings. He died July 21, 1865. He was married in 1834 to Bernice Austin, born June 17, 1817, in Canton, Maine, died in St. Louis, Missouri, March 8, 1891, daughter of Abiathar and Susanna (Harlow) Austin, the latter a daughter of William and Susanna (Young) Harlow, of Buckfield, Maine. Susanna Harlow (Young) Austin was a native of that town and died in Byron, September 8. 1853. William Austin was a native of Canton, a son of Peter Austin, who
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was a native of Methuen, Massachusetts, and his wife, Mehitable (Gage) Austin, who died in Phillips, Maine, October 4, 1873. John
Calvin Stockbridge's children were: John Abiathar, Virgil Demetrius, Victoria Bernice, Winfield Scott, Napoleon Bonaparte, Eudora Josephine, George Herbert and a daughter who died in infancy. The second and fourth sons were soldiers in the civil war, the former being an adjutant of the second District of Columbia volunteers, and the latter a lieu- tenant in the same regiment. He was after- wards a soldier in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth New York Regiment, which was engaged in the assault on Fort Fisher in Gen- eral Butler's company. At that time Napoleon B. Stockbridge received a severe wound from which he suffered all the remainder of his life, until he died in 1906, in Lewiston, Maine.
(IX) George Herbert, youngest son o John Calvin and Bernice (Austin) Stock- bridge, was born December 28, 1852, in Mex- ico, Maine, near the junction of the Swift and Androscoggin rivers. He attended the Lewiston high school, and Maine State Semi- nary, and entered Bates College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1872. Three years later his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. For some years he engaged in teaching, and was connected with the high school at Eastport for four years and also with the Richmond high school and Lyndon Academy at Lyndon Center, Vermont. He passed the years from 1876 to 1879 as a stu- dent at Leipsic University in Germany, his leading ambition being at that time to pre- pare himself for a literary career. From 1879 to 1880 he was a tutor at Amherst College, and subsequently became assistant professor of Latin and German at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, Baltimore, Maryland. In 1881 he took a position in the United States patent of- fice at Washington, where he continued until 1884. For the next two years he engaged in the practice of patent law, making a specialty of cases in the United States patent office, and since 1886 has been engaged in this profession in New York City. He is a life member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. For the last ten years his labors before the patent office have been used in the interests of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company and the Cooper-Hewitt Electric Company.
He married, in Washington, 1884. Elizabeth Reyburn, daughter of Dr. Reyburn, who was one of the physicians in attendance upon the
martyred President Garfield. She removed with him to New York and died there April, 1891, leaving no issue. He married ( second ) September 25, 1895, at Washington, Louise Adele von Rodenstein, of German parentage. They have a daughter, Dorothy Bernice, born June 28, 1896, and another daughter, Marion Elizabeth, born two years later, died at the age of three years.
Among the early American HUBBARD names this has been found in many parts of England for centuries before any American settlement by white people. It was widely distributed in England and is traced to the Norman Con- quest, though not in its present form on its ar- rival in England. Like thousands of the best known of our names to-day, its transition from the French form has greatly changed its spell- ing. The newness of surnames in use among the common English people at the time of the Puritan emigration to America, as well as the absence of settled rules for English spelling among the immigrants, also caused strange metamorphoses in our American names. There were some of the name very early in this country, among them George Hubbard, who came to America about 1633 and first located in Concord, Massachusetts, whence he shortly removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut. An- other early bearer of the name was William Hubbard, who was at Ipswich, Massachusetts, about 1635. He had a son Richard, born about 1631, who is noted as a resident of Ips- wich.
(I) Cornet Richard ( 1) Hubbard, born be- tween 1630 and 1634, may have been the Richard Hubbard above alluded to as a resi- dent of Ipswich, but there is nothing to prove the connection. Richard Hubbard was men- tioned at Exeter, New Hampshire. in 1636, and was probably a short time at Dover, fol- lowing 1638. Cornet Hubbard was at Salis- bury. Massachusetts, in 1665, and for some time later, being made a freeman there in 1690 and was admitted to the Salisbury church in 1693. In 1697 he went to Fort Hill in Boston, and resided there until after 1706, in which year, on March 24, he deeded a part of his house there to his son. He was repre- sentative to the general court from Salisbury in 1694-95, and returned to that town in his old age, dying there June 26, 1719, being at that time close to ninety years of age. He was married before June 8, 1666, to Martha Allen, who was born in 1646, in Salisbury, daughter of William and Ann ( Goodale) Al-
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len, of that town. She was a member of the church there in 1687, and died October 4, 1718. Their children were: Mary, John, Dorothy, Joseph, Judith, Comfort, Jemima, Kezia, Rich- ard and Eleazer.
( 11) Lieutenant John ( I), eldest son of Cornet Richard (1) and Martha (Allen) Hubbard, was born April 12, 1669, in Salis- bury, and died August 1, 1703, in Kingston, Nen Ihampshire. He was admitted to the Salis- bury church, August 1, 1703, and removed to Kingston about a year after that. He was married in 1688 in Salisbury to Jane Collens- by. She was admitted to the Salisbury church February 5, 1699, and dismissed thence to the Kingston church, September 26, 1725. Their children were: John and Richard (died young ) ; Jarem, Mary, Richard, Martha, Jane, Ann, Keziah and Dorothy.
(III ) Captain Richard (2), eldest surviving son of Lieutenant John and Jane ( Collensby ) Hubbard, was born December 27, 1696, in Salisbury, and was but a small child when his parents removed to Kingston, where he remained through life and passed away. He was married (first), December 27, 1722, at Salisbury, to Abigail Davis, daughter of Elisha and Grace (Shaw) Davis. She died Septem- ber 25. 1733; he married (second) Abigail Taylor, who died December 9, 1768. The chil- dren of first wife were: Dorothy, Elizabeth, Martha, Abigail, Grace (died young) and John. Those of second wife were: Mary, Grace, Anne, Margaret, Raymond, Benjamin, Sarah and Jedediah.
(I\') John (2), eldest son of Richard (2) and Abigail ( Davis) Hubbard, was born April 12, 1733, in Kingston, where he grew up and became a leading physician of the town. In 1784 he removed thence to Readfield, Maine. and there ended his days. He was married April 30. 1754. to Joanna Davis, who died in 1807 in Readfield. She was probably a daugh- ter of Timothy and Judith ( Pettingill) Davis, of Salisbury and Kingston. He was born Oc- tober 22, 1737, in Amesbury. It is possible that she may have been the Joanna Davis who was born July 16, 1731, in Amesbury, daugh- ter of Francis and Joanna (Ordway ) Davis.
(V) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and Joanna (Davis) Hubbard, was born September 28, 1759, in Kingston, and had attained to man's estate at the time he removed, with his father, to Readfield. Under the instructions of his father. he was fitted for the practice of medicine and began such practice in New Hampton, New Hampshire, but soon after re- moved to Readfield, where he was very suc-
cessful as a healer, and died April 22, 1838. Fle married Olive Wilson, who was born 1761, in Brentwood, New Hampshire, and died Octo- ber 20, 1847, in Readfield. Their children were : Olive, Sophia, Mary, Nancy, John, Thomas, Eliza, Velina, Cyrus, Greenleaf, Joanna and Sarah.
(VI) Jolin (4), eldest son of John (3) and Olive (Wilson ) Hubbard, was born March 22, 1794, in Readfield, died in Hallowell, Maine, February 6, 1859. When he had attained the age of sixteen years, he had made the best use of the advantages afforded by the district school of his home town, and had spent ten months in high school. Being blessed with great physical strength, he was very useful in the work of the home farm, but was deter- mined to secure an education, and devoted every spare hour to study, to that end. Soon after he had attained the age of nineteen years, having expressed a desire to start out in the world for himself, his father gave him $15 and a horse. He rode to Hanover, New Hamp- shire, in order to learn the requirements for entering Dartmouth College, and having learned this he proceeded to earn the funds necessary to carry him through that institution. Coming to New York, he engaged as tutor in a private family and was here enabled to give some time each day to study. In one year he was able to pass the examination for admis- sion to the sophomore class at Dartmouth in 18[4; he graduated in the class of 1816, with high rank, being especially efficient in math- ematics. Soon after this he became the prin- cipal of the Academy at Hallowell, where he taught two years and applied his earnings to the payment of debts incurred while pursuing his college course. He then went to Dinwiddie county, Virginia, where he had received flat- tering inducements to teach in the academy, and remained two years. Having already gained some knowledge of medicine through association with his father, he decided to take up the practice of the healing art, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1822, after pursuing a two years' course. He decided to begin the practice of his profession in Vir- ginia, where he had made many warm friends, and remained there seven years, pursuing his labors with gratifying success. He then spent some time in hospitals and post-graduate stud- ies in Philadelphia and located permanently at Hallowell, Maine, in 1830. Here he attained a high standing in his profession and as a man of high character. He was possessed of a very strong physique, and his large experi-
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