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ence and great energy of body and mind soon placed him in a commanding position among the citizens of his state. It was not an uncom- mon occurrence for him to drive seventy-five miles to visit a patient or attend consultations with other physicians.
It was but natural that a man of his powers should be called upon to engage in public service outside his great humanitarian work of healing the sick. He was a strong adherent to the principles of the Democratic party and ever gave it his unqualified support. In 1843 he was elected to the state senate, and during the session of the following winter served with distinction and was chairman of a committee to which was referred the bill designed to obstruct the operations of the Fugitive Slave Law. This bill was killed in the upper house. Dr. Hubbard became the candidate of his party for governor in 1849 and was elected over his Whig opponent, E. L. Hamlen. Next year he was again elected, being opposed by William G. Crosby. At this time the beginning of the political year was changed, and the state gov- ernor was continued without election until 1852. In that year Governor Hubbard was reelected, but through the revolution of po- litical sentiment the state caused his defeat by his opponent in the last previous election, al- though Governor Hubbard received a plural- ity of a popular vote. The election being thrown into the legislature was carried by the Whigs after a severe contest. During his offi- cial services, Governor Hubbard was active in the establishment of various beneficent insti- tutions, such as a reform school, an agricultu- ral college and a female college ; and suitable appropriations were made for the support of academies and colleges. He was active in ne- gotiating the movement for the purchase of lands within the state owned in common or severally by Massachusetts and Maine, and was authorized by the legislature to act in the mat- ter. In 1852 he signed the first act known as the Maine Liquor Law. This caused much dissatisfaction in his own party and was prob- ably the cause of his defeat in the subsequent election. He was ingenuous in the discharge of all duties, regardless of the comments of friends or foes. Every cause which seemed to him calculated to advance the social or moral welfare of the people received his ear- nest support. In 1859 he was appointed a commissioner in the Reciprocity Treaty be- tween the United States and Great Britain, and aided in the settlement of some trouble- some fishery questions. The death of his son, who was slain in the attack on Port Hudson
in May, 1863, cast a shadow over his last years. While he lived to see the suppression of rebellion, the entire restoration of peace be- tween the North and South, which he greatly desired, was not fully accomplished during his useful life.
He was married in Dresden, Maine, July 12, 1825, to Sarah Hodge Barrett, of that town, who was born March 4, 1796, in New Mil- ford, Maine, the eldest daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth (Carlton) Barrett, of Dresden and New Milford, and granddaughter of Ma- jor Barrett, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, a minute-man of the revolution. Their children were: Hester Ann, Virginia Hamlin, Emma Gardiner, John Barrett and Thomas Hamlin. One of the daughters died in Virginia, and the elder son was slain, as above noted, while a soldier of the civil war.
(VII) Thomas Hamlin, youngest child of Dr. John (4) and Sarah H. (Barrett) Hub- bard, was born December 20, 1838, in Hallo- well, and received his preliminary education in his home town, fitting for college at the acad- emy there. He entered Bowdoin College in 1853 and graduated four years later, with distinction. Having decided upon the practice of law, he pursued the course at the Albany Law School, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Maine in 1859. A year later he went to New York, and during the winter and spring of 1860-61 continued his studies at the Albany Law School. He was admitted to practice in the courts of New York, May 4. 1861, and in the fall of the succeeding year returned to his native state, to offer his serv- ices in suppressing rebellion. He was mustered into the services of the United States, Sep- tember 29, 1862, as the first lieutenant and adjutant of the Twenty-fifth Maine Volunteer Infantry. His term of enlistment concluded July 11, 1863, and during this period he served with his regiment in Virginia, acting a part of the time as assistant adjutant-general and brig- adier. After the regiment was mustered out he assisted in recruiting the Thirtieth Regi- ment of Maine Volunteers and was com- missioned its lieutenant-colonel, November 10, 1863. Proceeding with his regiment to the Department of the Gulf, he served through the Red River campaign and was in command of his regiment in the battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisana, leading it in the battles of Cane River Crossing and Marksville. He aided in the construction of a dam across the Red river at Alexandria, which was the means of saving a fleet of Federal gunboats, and received es- pecial commendation for this service in the
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reports of .Admiral Porter. He was instru- mental in procuring the rapid passage of the army over the Atchafalaya river, May 18, 1804, when its progress had been checked by the destruction of bridges. A line of trans- ports was anchored in the river and served for a bridge for the army, over which they passed in safety. He was commissioned colo- nel of the Thirtieth Maine Volunteers, May 13. 1864, and was mustered into the United States service, that rank, June 2 of the same year, in Louisana. lle was present with his command in Virginia in the autumn of that vear, and the regiment became a part of the Third Brigade, First Division of the Nine- teenth Army Corps. At different times dur- ing that year, or the following, he was in command of the brigade and served in the Shenandoah Valley in the fall of 1864, with John Sheridan's army. He was ordered with his command to Savannah, Georgia, June 7, 1865, and there presided over a board to ex- amine officers of the Volunteer Forces who desired to enter the regular service. Colonel Hubbard was commissioned brigadier-general by brevet to rank from July 13, 1865, and was mustered out of the service soon after that date. In the fall of that year he engaged again in the practice of law in New York City, and was for some time a partner of Charles A. Rapallo, afterwards a judge of the court of appeals. For many years one of the leading law firms of the metropolis was that of Butler, Stillman and Hubbard, which had a large clientage, and conducted many cases involving great financial interests. Mr. Hub- bard's aptitude in corporation law and his great energy and ability secured him a high position in his profession, and also as a finan- cier. The natural result is that his recent years have been devoted chiefly to the man- agement of large corporations, chiefly those operating railroads. He was president of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Com- pany, and of several of its subsidiary lines in Texas. He was vice-president of the South- ern Pacific railroad and president of various companies connecting with that system in California and Oregon. He is a director of numerous financial and business corporations, including the Wabash Railroad Company, and is recognized as a leader among the financial operators of the American metropolis. Mr. Hubbard served as a vice-president of the as- sociation of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Union League Club of this city. He is a trustee of Bowdoin College, and a mem- ber of numerous societies, including the
Maine Society of New York. He has never sought for political honors. Mr. Hubbard was married, June 28, 1868, to Sybil A. Fahne- stock, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Three of their children are now living, namely: John, Sybil E. and Anna W.
CAPEN Family history is the root of local history ; the family is the unit of the state; and "history is phi- losophy teaching by example." Hence we can- not easily overestimate the value of preserving the record of its doings and its traditions, In this way alone we discover the real source of our state and national development and meas- ure our comparative position in the brother- hood of nations. The family acting in unison was a definite force in religion, politics, or sectional issues and war itself; the hereditary impulse to follow in the footsteps of an old sire. We speak of a Methodist family, or a Whig family, or a Tory, and in the halcyon, child-bearing days the tribe from grandsire to grandson, with its ramifications, was a power- ful and numerous ally in behalf of the cause it espoused, and commanded immediate re- spect. In those times family councils were held to predetermine action on current mat- ters. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." The strength and influence of the Capen line was attained and maintained by their concert of action.
(1) Barnard Capen was born in England in 1562 and died in Dorchester, Massachusetts, November 8, 1638, and is the patriarch of the family. He was probably the oldest among the early emigrants to come to America, being at the time over seventy. We can imagine the courage, the fortitude and the sacrifice of the old man braving the dangers of the unknown Atlantic and the hidden, relentless foes of the forest in the eventide of life. Old ties sun- dered, old associations broken and all that he held dear surrendered. Barnard Capen was granted land in Dorchester in 1633. His gravestone is supposed to be the oldest in New England. He married, in 1596, Joan, daughter of Oliver Purchase. Children : Ruth, Su- sanna and an only son, the stem from which all Capens in United States spring.
(II) John, son of Barnard and Joan ( Pur- chase) Capen, was born in England, January 26, 1612, and died in Dorchester, April 6, 1692. He was deacon in the church, select- man sixteen years, deputy to the court re- peatedly, thirteen years town recorder, and wrote more in the records in a fairly legible hand than any other who held the position.
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He is styled captain by local historians and it is supposed he commanded a troop of local militia. By trade he was a shoemaker. His house stood on the corner of Pleasant and Pond streets. Deacon Capen married (first) Redigan Clapp, October 20, 1637. She died December 10, 1645. He married (second) Mary, daughter of Deacon Samuel Bass, of Braintree, Massachusetts. Children of first wife: Joanna, John ; of second wife : Samuel, Barnard, Mary, Bernard, Preserved, Joseph, Hannah and Elizabeth.
(III) Samuel (1), oldest horn of John and Mary (Bass) Capen, was born in Braintree, July 29, 1648, and died in Dorchester, May 19, 1733.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Ca- pen, was born in Braintree in 1686 and died in 1757.
(V) Josiah, son of Samuel (2) Capen, was the father of Josiah, mayor of Watertown in 1783; Samuel, Benjamin, Jonathan, Lemuel and Polly.
(VI) Benjamin (1), third son of Josiah Ca- pen, was born in Watertown. He enlisted in the Lexington alarm roll of Captain Maynard's company and Colonel Gardner's regiment on the alarm, April 19, 1775, and was credited from Watertown. He was also of Captain Stern's company to reinforce the army at the taking of Dorchester Heights in March, 1776. The baptismal records discover two sons, Alexander and David.
(VII) Alexander, first born of Benjamin (1) Capen, was born in Watertown, January 30, 1779, and died at Eastport, Maine, Novem- ber. 1873. He left his father at the age of fourteen and learned the joiner's trade, after- ward enlisting when nineteen as a drummer in the United States army, and was stationed at Portland, Portsmouth, Newport, Pittsburg and Kaskaskias, near St. Louis; received his discharge there and returned to his home in Portland, where his father seems to have settled. The journey occupied two months of constant traveling. In 1809 he came to East- port, Washington county, then beginning to attract attention as a desirable location. Mr. Capen erected a house there in 1811, in which he always afterward lived, in which four of his family were born, in which he died and which is still standing, the old Capen home- stead. Alexander was an industrious, quiet, unassuming, temperate Christian, held in high esteem by those who knew him, living to the grand old age of ninety-five; indeed, he was a grand old man, possessing some of the traits of Uncle Barnard, the head of the house. He
married Jane Kenwood, of Portland, Massa- chusetts, at Newport, Rhode Island, March 5, 1799, and she died September 22, 1848. Chil- dren : Alexander, John, David, Edward, Charles, Elizabeth, Jane, Benjamin and Mary Ann.
(VIII) Benjamin (2), sixth son of Alexan- (ler and Jane (Kenwood) Capen, was born at the old homestead in Eastport, December 8, 1813, and died there October 30, 1894. He was a carpenter, contractor and farmer. He married Martha Tucker, born March 8, 1820, which was the natal year of the old Pine Tree state, and died August 7. 1858. Children : Edward, Elthea, Martha Ellen, Andrew Tuck- er and Benjamin Franklin. His second wife, Rebecca (Leach) Capen, was the mother of Charles Elmer and Everett Lincoln.
(IX) Charles Elmer, first son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Leach) Capen, was born in Eastport, September 5, 1861, amid the excite- ment of the civil war and the day before General Grant won the battle of Paducah. After receiving a public school education, he traveled extensively in this country. He en- tered into the sardine-canning business and finally turned his interests over to the Seacoast Canning Company, of which he was manager. He is now president of the Independent Can- ning Company. It owns and operates two of the largest canning plants in the United States, packing and shipping one hundred and fifty thousand cases per year, one hundred cans in a case. Mr. Capen is to the sardine trade what the Havemeyers are to sugar, An- drew Carnegie to steel and the Armours to beef. Eastport is at the head and front of the business in this country, and Mr. Capen is at the tip top and pinnacle of it all. He owned the Eastport Lighting Company and trans- ferred same to the Eastport Electric Company, of which latter he was general manager. He is vice-president of the Eastport Savings Bank and a director in the Frontier National Bank. He is a Republican in politics ; he is a member of the school board, of which he was chairman, a director of the public library, board of aldermen and was made chairman of the committee to build the Eastport gram- mar school. He is broad and liberal in his religious and philosophical views. Mr. Capen was at one time a member of Company I, Sec- ond Regiment, Maine National Guard. He belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks of Eastport and trustee of the same.
Mr. Capen married Lillian M., daughter of John B. and Augusta Harrington, of East-
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port. Children : lloward B., Fred A., Ralph, Oscar E., Ada S., Arthur R. and Charles D., and they are all at school, except Ralph, who (lied in infancy.
This is one of the most dis- WEBSTER tinguished names in the an- nals of New England, having been especially honored by that distinguished patriot and statesman, Daniel Webster. It has furnished many good citizens who, though not nationally known, like their compatriot and relative, have supported the cause of human liberty in all struggles, and performed well their part in the various walks of life. Not all the Websters in New England are of one stock. though all are of good stock. The present line, which descends from John, of Ipswich, has furnished many good men of local prominence in pioneer days and later times, several of them being college graduates. The line herein traced has no known connec- tion with the Daniel Webster family.
(I) John Webster came from Ipswich, Suf- folk county, England, to Ipswich, Massachu- setts, where he was made a freeman in 1635. He died about the year 1646, and his family afterward removed to Newbury. His wife was Mary Shatswell. They had four sons and four daughters, as follows: Mary, John, born 1633; Hannah, Abigail, Stephen, Elizabeth, Israel and Nathan. On October 29, 1650, John Web- ster's widow married John Emery, of New- bury, and she died April 28, 1694.
(Il) Nathan (I), youngest child of John and Mary ( Shatswell) Webster, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1646. He settled in Bradford, where he died in May, 1694. He was married June 30, 1673, to Mary, born December 9, 1648, daughter of John Hazel- tine, of Haverhill. She was admitted to Brad- ford church from Haverhill in 1682. Their children were: John, Mary, Nathan, Joanna, Abigail, Israel and Samuel. Joanna married Richard Bailey (See Bailey III).
(III) Nathan (2), eldest of the three chil- dren of Nathan (1) and Mary ( Hazeltine) Webster, was born March 7, 1679, and was one of the proprietors of Chester, New Hamp- shire. He removed to that place about 1729, and owned two home lots, Nos. 71 and 72, and resided on 72. That Nathan Webster was a man of ability and standing, and an active, efficient and highly respected member of the church, is evident from the fact that the rec- ord shows him to have been chosen selectman in 1729-38-42-50-51-57-61-63-66-70-71. At a town meeting in August, 1739, "Voted that
Capt. Sam Ingalls, mr Nathan Webster, and mr John Talford Shall be a Committee to take bonds of the Inhabitants of Rumford (now Concord) for the making and maintaining a good soficient Roads for Passing Massibeecik Pond toward their town, agreeable to their proposals made to us, and to Enter into bonds to them to make and maintain one on this side, and over the said pond, as good." At the town meeting held January 15, 1730, he was appointed on a committee "to treat with the Rev. Mr. Moses Hale, and to acquaint him with what ye town hath done, and to in- vite him into the work of ye Ministry among us in Chester." He was subsequently twice appointed on committees for similar purposes, and was a member of the committee appointed to build the meeting-house.
By his first wife Martha, Nathan Webster had the following named children: Daniel, Nathan, Stephen, Abel and Mary. He was married (second), August 3, 1738, to Mary (Stevens) Godfrey, whose first husband was Thomas Sargent, and hier second, Peter God- frey. She was a daughter of Deacon Thomas and Martha ( Bartlett ) Stevens, of Amesbury, and survived her third husband several years, dying May 24, 1766.
(1\') Nathan (3), second child and son of Nathan (2) and Mary Webster, was born in Cliester, July 1, 1715, dicd 1794. He was a farmer and lived on house lot No. 117. In the year 1764 he was one of the three chosen by the town as a committee to settle about highways in Raymond and make return. He signed the association test in 1776. Chase's "Ilistory of Chester" states that: "At the September term of the Superior Court, 1771, Andrew Jack, Nathan Webster and John Ro- bie, the selectmen of Chester, were indicted because Chester, having more than 100 fam- ilies, had no grammar school. At the March term, 1772, Jack and Webster were tried and fined fio, and cost taxed at £7. 12s. 4d." This does not imply that Nathan Webster, the an- cestor of many college graduates, living in a community now so intelligent, was opposed to the outlay of money for the support of schools. On the contrary, the financial conditions were such that the men of that community did not feel able to bear the burden of schools, and had voted to secure the selectmen from fine for failing to act. He married, February IO, 1742, Martha Blaisdell, and they had eleven children, all but two of whom died young. Those who grew up and had families were : Nathan and Moses.
(V) Nathan (4). third child of Nathan (3)
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and Martha ( Blaisdell) Webster, was born in Chester, November 19, 1747, and resided on the old homestead. He married, May 8, 1771, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Sarah ( Healy ) Clifford, of Candia, and granddaugh- ter of William Healy. Isaac Clifford was the son of Samuel Clifford, of Kingston, and Mar- tha Healy, his wife, was the daughter of Will- iam and Mary (Sanborn) Healy, formerly of Hampton Falls. The children of Nathan and Elizabeth Webster were: Josialı, Sarah, Mary, John Ordway, Nathan, Elizabeth, Martha, Huldy, Susanna and Hannah.
(VI) John Ordway (1), second son of Na- than (4) and Elizabeth (Clifford) Webster, was born in Chester, New Hampshire, Sep- tember 30, 1777. "Being one of a large fam- ily," says his daughter, Priscilla Sewall Web- ster Page, in her "Personal Reminiscences," "I suppose his early life was spent very much like that of other farmer's sons in that primi- tive age. I think he was always rather deli- cate in health, and was not at all fitted for the laborious New England life." About the year 1800 he became a merchant in Vassalboro, Maine. For some years he had as a partner Philip Colby, who afterwards studied for the ministry, and was pastor of the First Congre- gational Church of Middleboro, Massachu- setts, for more than thirty years. The two partners married sisters. Mr. Webster was selectman of Vassalboro in 1814, and in 1815 was appointed justice of the peace. The lat- ter year, or early in the next, he removed with his family to Gardiner, Maine, and became engaged in the cotton trade with the south, where he spent several winters at different times. In October, 1823, he went south for a protracted stay, for which he was destined never to return. All that is known of this last period of his life is thus told by Mrs. Page, in the book already referred to. "In the au- tumn of this year, 1827, my brother Sereno returned from the South, bringing the wel- come news that papa would follow in the spring .... A letter was finally received from papa saying he had disposed of his re- maining cargoes of cotton, realizing a consider- able sum of money, and taken passage in a steamer soon to sail from Mobile, down the river-the first stage of his journey home. Six anxious weeks passed by, and then a few lines were received, penned in an unknown hand, bearing the painful announcement of my father's death. He had been too ill to sail in the steamer, had remained at a boarding- house on shore, where, five days later, he had breathed his last. Nothing more did we hear
of this sad event, not an article belonging to him nor one dollar of his money was ever sent to us. Several months after a stranger called on my mother, said that he had known my father, and had visited his grave before leaving Mobile." The date of his death was February 3, 1828. John Ordway Webster married, November 25, 1802, Rebecca Guild Sewall, of Augusta, Maine. She was the daughter of Thomas and Priscilla (Cony) Sewall, and was descended from Henry Sew- all, of Newbury, Massachusetts, who emigrated in 1634, and was the progenitor of the fa- mous Sewall family of New England. Two other of her immigrant ancestors were John Coney, Boston, 1649, and John Guild, of Ded- ham, Massachusetts, 1636. She was a person of splendid physique and of great energy of character. Her husband's death left her in straitened circumstances, but she proved equal to the task of rearing her large family. Brighter days, however, were in store for her. Her brother, Thomas Sewall, M. D., had be- come an eminent physician in Washington, D. C., and as the daughters reached a suitable age they were received into his family, where they were educated, and they all made ad- vantageous marriages in Washington or its im- mediate vicinity. In March, 1830, the family moved to Augusta, Maine. The latter part of Mrs. Webster's life was spent with her daughters in Washington, where she died, March 31, 1870, in her ninetieth year. John Ordway and Rebecca Guild Webster had nine children, two of whom died in infancy. The others were: I. Mary Clifford, born Decem- ber 2, 1803, married Anthony Holmead. 2. Sereno Sewall, born November 28, 1805. 3. Emeline Colby, born May 24, 1808, married Harvey Lindsly, M. D. 4. John Milton, born April 3, 1812. 5. Nathan, born April 7, 1816. 6. Harriet Colby, born May 10, 1818, married Rev. Peter Parker. 7. Priscilla Sewall, born January 18, 1823, married Professor Charles Grafton Page.
(VII) John Milton, second son of John O. and Rebecca (Guild) Webster. was born in Vassalboro, Maine, April 3, 1812. As has al- ready been stated, his parents moved to Gar- diner in 1815, and in March, 1830, his widowed mother, with the younger children, removed to Augusta. Mrs. Page, in her "Personal Reminiscences," thus mentions the latter re- moval: "During the following winter it was decided that we should move to Augusta. My grandparents were so advanced in years that it seemed most desirable for them to be with my mother, their only remaining daughter. My
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two brothers, lads of fourteen and nineteen years of age, wanted employment, and the town of Gardiner offered nothing suitable for them. Brother Milton was fond of study, and ouglit to have received a liberal education, but suchi was not easily obtained in those days; so after a few years at the district school, and a term or two at the Lyceum, a farm was de- cided on, Nathan being smart, active and ener- getic, but caring little for books. Accordingly, our small estate in Gardiner was disposed of, and a farm purchased at Augusta, one and one-half miles from the village. To this my grandparents removed, and arrangements were made for us to follow somewhat later." The farm referred to was on the east side of the Kennebec river. On it was a large, two-story house, which had the distinction of being the first framed house built in Augusta. It was known as the "Great House," and was erected by James Howard in 1770. It is no longer standing, having been destroyed by fire several years ago. The farm appears to have belonged to Dr. Thomas Sewall, of Washington, D. C., whose generosity to his sister's family has al- ready been mentioned. On his death, in 1845, it became the property of John M. Webster and his brother Nathan. The former sold his interest in 1846, and purchased another farm in Farmington, Maine, where he and his fam- ily resided until 1856, when he returned to Augusta and opened a store at a locality known as Pettingill's Corner. He continued in this business until age and infirmity compelled him to relinquish it. In the fall of 1890 he took up his residence with his son Henry in Gar- diner, Maine, where he died April 1, 1891. Mr. Webster was appointed justice of the peace in 1837, the only public office which he ever held. He was of a retiring and reticent nature, and retained through life his fondness for reading and meditation. He naturally possessed a strong constitution, but suffered much from ill health. From early manhood he was a member of the Congregational church. In poli- tics he was a Whig, and afterwards a Re- publican. He was decided in his anti-slavery sentiments, and refused to follow his party in supporting General Taylor for the presidency on the ground that he was a slave-holder. He married, April 3, 1841, Sarah Hayes Hussey, of Dover, New Hampshire. She was the youngest of the eleven children of Elijah and Jane ( Bickford) Hussey, of Dover, and was born April 19, 1814. Her parents were Quakers, but she became a Congregationalist. She was descended from Richard Hussey, who settled in Dover about 1690, and whose great-
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