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may be said to have begun when he was a boy of thirteen years, for in 1866 and the next succeeding three years he was a page in the senate of the Maine legislature. In 1870 he was appointed assistant secretary of the sen- ate and served in that capacity through that and the next three legislative sessions. In 1878 he was elected city solicitor of Augusta and in 1879 was elected county attorney for Kennebec county, filling the latter office for three years. In 1883 he was a member of the Maine house of representatives, served until the end of the session in 1886, in all four years, and during the following four years, 1887- 1890, occupied a seat in the senate of the state. In 1883 he was a member of the com- mission appointed to revise the statutes of the state. Mr. Heath is a Mason, member of the various subordinate bodies of the craft, and of the higher bodies up to the thirty-second degree; member of the board of trustees of Kennebec Savings Bank and of the Augusta Trust Company; member of Zeta Psi fra- ternity, Bowdoin, and of the Abnaki Club of Augusta. He married at East Machias, Maine, August 27, 1876, Laura S. Gardner, born East Machias, June 5, 1855, second daughter of Daniel F. and Sarah (Lincoln) Gardner, of East Machias. Mr. and Mrs. Heath have four children : 1. Marion, born November 26, 1879. 2. Gardner K., May 29, 1886. 3. Gertrude L., twin with Herbert M., April 14, 1892. 4. Herbert M., twin with Gertrude L., April 14, 1892.
Among the chief Anglo-Nor-
KEATING mans who went with Strong- bow to Ireland and received
large grants of land were the Keatings, who settled in Wexford, and have been one of the noble families since the reign of King John, the head of the family being the Baron of Kilmananan. At the time of the first land- ing of the Keatings in Ireland, one is said to have exclaimed, after a repulse: "We will land by 'hook or by crook,' which gave the name to two points of land off which lay the boats which conveyed them. He thereupon took his battle-axe, cut off his right hand and threw it ashore. By this act he claimed to have effected a landing, and this is the origin of the Keating crest-the "Bloody Hand." Wexford was long known as Keating county. but the lands of the family were confiscated in 1798. From the original settler of the fam- ily in Ireland has sprung a numerous progeny now scattered throughout the world.
(I) Captain Richard Keating, son of Nich-
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olas and Ann ( McDonald) Keating, was born in St. Michael's parish, Dublin, Ireland, Sep- tember 20, 1813, and died in Brighton, Eng- land, October 1, 1877. At the age of sixteen he entered the service of the Honorable East India Company, and was under it at St. Hele- na from 1831 to 1844. In 1840 he was one of the guard of honor on the occasion of the removal of the body of Napoleon Bonaparte, the great French emperor, from St. Helena to Paris, by consent of the British government, at the solicitation of Louis Philippe, king of the French. He afterward volunteered into the Royal Artillery, and in 1869 was retired as a captain on half-pay, after a continuous and honorable service of thirty-eight years. He married (first), in 1846, Margaret, Kyle, who died at Portsmouth, England, December 30, 1850, aged twenty-three years. He mar- ried (second), Sophia Sarah Bennison, born January 28, 1830, eldest daughter of Henry and Ann Sophia (Earle) Bennison, of St. Pancreas, London, England. Her father was a civil engineer. Her mother was born in Winchester, Hampshire. By his first marriage Captain Richard Keating had a son, Richard B., who came to Massachusetts about the time of the breaking out of the great civil war ; he became a member of the Second Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, with which he went to the front and served with honor until the close of the war. He then returned to the United Kingdom, and finally settled in Scotland, after having served in the British army for twenty-eight years. He received from the United States a pension for disabili- ties contracted in service, and from which he died in 1900. Other children of Captain Rich- ard Keating's first marriage were: Mar- guerite. who resided with her stepmother, in Brighton, England, and who died in 1905; and Nicholas Henry, who died single, in 1891.
(II) John Bernard, only child of Captain Richard and Sophia Sarah ( Bennison) Keat- ing, was born in Plumstead, county Kent, Eng- land, October 7, 1859. During the years of his childhood and youth he resided in the island of Mauritius for five years, thence went to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, the island of St. Helena, and to Gosport, the fa- mous fortified seaport town opposite Ports- mouth, England. His schooling was finished at Cordier Hill Academy, in the Island of Guernsey, in the English Channel. He grew up in the midst of a military environment, and through that influence developed a love for the army and military affairs. After acquiring proper instruction in military science, especial-
ly in engineering, he joined the Royal Engi- neers in May, 1879, with which corps he served efficiently in Canada, at Gibraltar and Ber- muda. On account of impaired health he re- tired from the army in 1886, and in 1888 en- tered the British consular service as a clerk in Boston. There, after serving in various grades, he was called to the position of acting vice-consul, and after serving as such for six months was appointed pro-consul, and served as such for a like period. So greatly was his work in Boston appreciated that upon the death of Mr. Starr, British vice-consul at Port- land, Maine, Mr. Keating was selected from among a number of likely candidates to be his successor. He entered upon his vice-consular duties at Portland on April 2, 1895, and has now (1908) creditably occupied that position for a period of thirteen years. At the begin- ning of his term of service the office was not regarded as particularly important, and the duties of the representative of the imperial government were not onerous. To-day, how- ever, largely through Mr. Keating's initiative, the British vice-consulate is one of the busiest centers of the city, where the maritime activi- ties of the port are focussed and watched. He is a very active official, and has done much to foster friendly feelings and build up a great commerce between the United States and Can- ada and the mother country. In the Jubilee Year of Queen Victoria's reign (1897) it was largely through Mr. Keating's instrumentality that Her Majesty's ship "Pallas" entered the port and her company was entertained by the municipality. Again, during the war with Spain, the vice-consul arranged and carried through a visit of Canada's premier regiment, the Fifth Royal Scots, as the official guests of Portland, ostensibly to celebrate the jubilee of the Grand Trunk railway, but in reality to show the people of Maine that Canada was in sympathy with the United States while the war drums were beating. Several times since Canadian regiments have crossed the frontier in peaceful invasion-visits arranged by the patriotic enterprise of the vice-consul at Port- land. Finally, it was Mr. Keating who planned and carried out the impressive memorial serv- ice at St. Luke's Cathedral on the death of Queen Victoria. The legislature at Augusta was adjourned as a mark of respect and the services at the cathedral were attended by the governor, his staff and council. He was also chiefly instrumental in furnishing and main- taining a home for seamen of all nationalities, which was provided with reading room and cheerful recreations. That his efforts in this
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direction were appreciated by those who fol- lowed the sea was evidenced by their large at- tendance at the institute, which is now closed. Since his installation in office the shipping be- tween Portland and the ports of the United Kingdom has increased about five hundred per cent, a result which may without doubt be largely attributed to his zeal and influence. As a judge of British naval courts of in- quiry, Mr. Keating has shown his ability and force of character, combined with justice and mercy. His comprehensive knowledge of the laws and regulations governing in cases con- nected with shipping matters which come be- fore him for adjustment as the representative of Great Britain in a foreign port, is such as, coupled with the absolute impartiality with which his office is administered, to have earned for himself the highest respect of the shipping community. Among commercial enterprises which he has assisted may be mentioned the large importation of Welsh coal to Portland and other parts of the New England seaboard during the American coal strike; and his suc- cessful assistance in the preliminaries of the building of the second Grand Trunk elevator, at that time the second largest east of Detroit. Indeed, it may be truly said that in all he has undertaken, as a public functionary, Mr. Keat- ing has proved himself the right man in the right place, and his success has been unfailing.
On the occasion of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to St. John, New Brunswick, Mr. and Mrs. Keating were presented to him, and they were shown excep- tional honor at that time. Mr. Keating has been commodore of the East End Yacht Club, and he occupies at the present time the unique position of British vice-consul and honorary member of the Portland Naval Reserve. While commodore of the yacht club he insti- tuted the beautiful custom of strewing the sea with flowers, which is now universally carried out, thus revering the memory of the deceased seamen of the civil war, as the Grand Army of the Republic honors its soldier dead by the decoration of their graves. Twice during his residence in Portland has a British fleet an- chored in his district. At Bar Harbor, at the dinner given by the petty officers of the Amer- ican navy to the petty officers of the British navy, and to the sergeants of the British ma- rine, Mr. Keating was called upon for a speech, and in happy vein struck so responsive a chord in the hearts of his hearers that at the close of his address he was lifted on the shoul- ders of his auditors and carried about the banquet hall to the strains of "He's a jolly
good fellow." Similarly, on the last visit of the British fleet, Mr. Keating presided as chairman of the banquet given by the Ameri- can warrant officers to the warrant officers of the British navy.
Mr. Keating is a Free Mason, raised in 1885 in Broad Arrow Lodge in Bermuda, under the Grand Registry of England; one of the founders of the Civil and Military Lodge in Bermuda under the Grand Registry of Scot- land, and an honorary life member of the lat- ter lodge; a Royal Arch Mason under the Grand Registry of Ireland; and an affiliated member in Mount Vernon Chapter, Portland ; he was made a Knight Templar of St. Alban Commandery, Portland, and afterward an hon- orary member of Sussex Preceptory of Knights Templar of Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec; he is also a member of Karnak Temple, An- cient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Montreal. He is a member of the British Na- val and Military Veterans of Massachusetts, of the United States Naval Reserves at Portland, an honorary member of Bosworth Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Portland, and an hon- orary member of the British Empire Club of Boston.
Mr. Keating was married in Devonshire Church, Bermuda, July 6, 1886, to Emily Han- nah Ada Hoare, born in Queensland, Aus- tralia, 1864, daughter of Dr. John Buckler and Esther (Firman) Hoare, of Warminster, Wiltshire, England, she being a connection of the prominent Buckler family of Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Keating have had four children: I. Percy Firman, born in At- lantic, Massachusetts, March I, 1888, a grad- uate of the Bishops College School, Canada, and now engaged in the insurance business. 2. Mildred Sophia, born in Hyde Park, Mas- sachusetts, November 29, 1889, who was edu- cated in private schools. 3. Harold John Buck- ler, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, March 15, 1893. 4. Charlotte Buckler, born in Ash- mont, Dorchester, Massachusetts, July 15, 1895.
(For preceding generation see Robert Quimby I.)
(II) Robert (2), second son of
QUINBY Robert (I) and Elizabeth (Os- good) Quimby, was born in Amesbury, and resided in that town. He was given a seat in the meeting house in 1699, and was one of "the five late constables" who were prosecuted on October 18, 1708, for not ma- king up their accounts according to law. His estate was administered June 6, 1715, and divided in December of the same year. He
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had three sons and three daughters: Joseph, John, Mary, Benjamin, Hannah and Anne. (Different branches of the family spell their name Quimby and Quinby. )
(III) Joseph, eldest child of Robert (2) and Mary Quinby, resided in Amesbury and was known as "junior" until 1736, on account of an uncle who bore the same name. He married Lydia Iloyt, daughter of John (3) and Elizabeth (Challis) Hoyt, granddaughter of John (2) and great-granddaughter of John (I) Hoyt, of Amesbury. She was born June 15, 1686, in Amesbury, and was the executrix of her husband's estate, appointed September 30, 1745. The children of Joseph Quinby were: Joseph and Benjamin (twins), Ann, Hannah, Daniel (died young), Robert, Daniel and probably Mary.
(IV) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph ( I) Quinby, was born 1715, probably in Ames- bury, and settled in 1740 at Falmouth, now Portland, Maine, where he was an industrious and successful citizen, acquiring considerable property and becoming prominent in the community. After the burning of Portland, he joined his twin brother Benjamin, who was a mill-owner in Saccarappa, Maine, and there passed the remainder of his life, and died April 14, 1776. He was married (intentions published September 28, 1740) to Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Parsons) Haskell. She was born April 22. 1722, and died April 12, 1815. Their children were: Mary, Rebecca, Joseph, Sarah, Eunice, Thom- as, Mary, Captain John and Levi.
(V) Captain John, third son of Joseph (2) and Mary (Haskell) Quinby, was born May 12, 1760, at Falmouth, and died September 27, 1806, at Stroudwater. His entire life was passed in that vicinity and he was a ship- owner. Two of his ships were captured by the French in 1799. He was married, October 31, 1782, to Eunice, daughter of Joshua and Lois ( Pearson) Freeman. She was born Jan- uary 18. 1762, and died December 12, 1790. They were the parents of six children : I. Eunice, born 1783, married Ezekiel Day. 2. Thomas, September 18, 1784, died October 22, 1802. 3. Moses, April 19, 1786. 4. Levi, No- vember 12, 1787, married Mary Titcomb. 5. George, May 22, 1789, died September 21, 1790. 6. Infant, born and died in 1790.
(VI) Moses, son of Captain John and Eunice (Freeman) Quinby, was born April 19, 1786, at Stroudwater, Maine, prepared for col- lege at Philips Exeter Academy and was one of the six constituting the first graduating class of Bowdoin College in 1804. He re-
ceived his early legal training in the office of Stephen Longfellow, of Portland, Maine, and was an active and successful lawyer and the most prominent person in the community at Stroudwater, where he died May 6, 1857. He was married, December 31, 1809, to Anne Tit- comb, who was born June 17, 1789, and died April 2, 1859, daughter of Andrew Philips and Mary (Dole) Titcomb. Their children were: Andrew T. (died young), Mary Anne, Andrew T., Eunice Day, John, Almira and Thomas.
( VII) Thomas, second son of Moses and Anne (Titcomb) Quinby, was born December 15, 1813, in Stroudwater, and died there June 18, 1885. He was a civil engineer and became superintendent of the Portland and Rochester railroad and managing agent of the Saco Wa- terpower Company, which latter position he held to the end of his business career. He was married in 1835 to Jane Elizabeth Brewer, born March 22, 1819, in Dover, New Hamp- shire, and died March 3, 1903, in Portland, Maine. Their children were: Lucretia, Henry Brewer, Frederick and Thomas Freeman.
(VIII) Henry Brewer, eldest son of Thom- as and Jane E. (Brewer) Quinby. was born June 10, 1846, in Biddeford, Maine, and be- gan his education in the schools in his native town. He continued his preparation for col- lege at the Nichols Latin School in Lewiston and graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1869, with the degree of A. B .; three years later his alma mater honored him with the degree of A. M. Shortly after graduation he became identified with the Cole Manufac- turing Company, at Lakeport, New Hamp- shire, with which he has continued until the present time, having risen to the position of president and treasurer of the concern. He has taken the foremost place among the busi- ness men of Laconia. of which Lakeport is a suburb, and has filled with unfailing suc- cess numerous positions of trust. He is now president of the Laconia National Bank, one of the most successful financial institutions in that city. While he is actively engaged in busi- ness, Mr. Quinby has always had time for the encouragement of the leading and uplifting cities of the community in which he resides. He has taken an active part in political affairs, and though not a professional orator has con- tributed much by his addresses to the success of his party. At the age of twenty-six years Mr. Quinby was appointed colonel on the staff of Governor Straw and held this position two years. In 1887 he was elected representative to the general court, and served in the fol-
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lowing session, and in 1889-90 was state senator from his district. In 1901-02 he was a member of the governor's council, and was chairman of the state prison commit- tee of the council during this incumbency. He had long been a member of the board of trustees of the Asylum for the Insane, and these services made him familiar with the practical management of New Hamp- shire institutions. In 1892 the Republican party of the state chose him delegate-at-large to the National Convention at Minneapolis, and at the State Convention at Concord in 1896 he acted most acceptably as chairman. His frequent appointment on various conven- tions, on committees and on resolutions, offer a tribute to his literary ability. In recognition of his valuable public services he was selected as its candidate for the highest office in the state, that of governor, and in November, 1908, he was elected to that position. In religious matters Colonel Quinby is a Unitarian. He was married, June 22, 1870, to Octavia M. Cole, daughter of Hon. B. J. Cole, of Lake- port. They are the parents of a son and a daughter. The elder, Candace Ellen, is the wife of Hugh N. Camp Jr., residing in New York City, and has a son, Hugh N. Camp (3).
(IX) Henry Cole, only son of Henry B. and Octavia M. (Cole) Quinby, was born at Lake Village, New Hampshire, July 9, 1872. Graduated from Harvard College in 1894 and from the Harvard Law School two years later, and is now practicing law in New York City. He married Florence A., daughter of Charles W. and Amanda ( Hoag) Cole.
Sir John Leavitt was born in LEAVITT England and probably in Dor- setshire in 1608. He was of the Teutonic race, their language modified by the periods of Anglo-Saxon Old English, Middle English to Modern English usage. His advent in New England was but eight years after the "Mayflower" passengers landed at Plymouth and his first home in America bor- dered on the Plymouth Colony. He was un- disputably the first of the name of Leavitt to make a home in the New World.
(I) John Leavitt was about twenty years old when he reached the shores of the New World. He was among the first settlers of the common land known as Mattapan, which plantation, September 7, 1630, was established under the direction of the general court of the Massachu- setts Bay Colony as the town of Dorchester. John White, the first minister of the church established as the nucleus of the town, and his
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followers were mostly from Dorsetshire, Eng- land, and they gave to the new town the name of the municipal borough and capitol of the shore Dorchester, located eight miles north of the seaport at Weymouth, from which port they probably took ship for New England, and it is safe to presume that John Leavitt was a Dorsetshire man. The settlement at Matta- pan antidated the settlement of the town of Charlestowne, Watertown, Roxbury and Bos- ton, although the general court established the town government of Charlestown, August 23, 1630, and of Boston, Dorchester and Water- town on September 7, 1630, and of Roxbury, September 28, 1630. In 1633 the town of Dor- chester was described as "ye greatest towne in New England." John Leavitt appeared be- fore the general court and took the freeman's oath March 3, 1636, he having removed from Dorchester to that part of the colony which included the common lands known as Borilove, established as the town of Hingham, Septem- ber 2, 1635. He was deacon of the church for many years; was selectman of the town 1661- 63-65-68-72-74 and 1675 ; was a representative in the general court of Massachusetts Colony 1656-64, and held other offices of trust and honor in the town and colony. He was mar- ried about 1636 but the name of his wife is not recorded. She died July 4, 1646, and he married for his second wife Sarah , De- cember 16, 1646, died May 26, 1700. Deacon John Leavitt was by trade a "tayler," and died in Hingham, November 20, 1691, aged eighty- three years. The children of Deacon John Leavitt by his first wife were: I. John, of Hingham, born 1637, married Bathsheba, daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart, June 27, 1664. He died soon after, and his wife married, No- vember 19. 1674, Joseph Turner. 2. Hannah, baptized April 7, 1639, married John Lobdell, of Hull. 3. Samuel, baptized April, 1641, re- moved to Exeter, New Hampshire. 4. Eliza- beth, baptized April 8, 1644, married Samuel Judkins, March 25, 1667. 5. Jennial, baptized March 1, 1645-46, removed to Rochester, Plymouth Colony. Children of John Leavitt and his second wife, Sarah: 6. Israel (q. v.), baptized April 23, 1648. 7. Moses. baptized April 12, 1650, removed to Exeter, New Hampshire. 8. Josiah, May 4, 1653. 9. Ne- hemiah, January 22, 1655-56. 10. Sarah, Feb- ruary 25, 1658-59, married Nehemiah Clapp, of Dorchester, and as her second husband Samuel Howe. II. Mary, June 12, 1661, mar- ried Benjamin Bates, of New London, Con- necticut, October 10, 1682. 12. Hannah (2d), March 20, 1663-64, married Joseph Loring,
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October 25, 1683. 13. Abigail, December 9, 1667, married, January 20, 1685-86, Isaac Lasell.
(II) Israel, eldest child of Deacon John, the immigrant, and Sarah Leavitt, was baptized in the church in Hingham, Plymouth county, April 23, 1648. He was a husbandman by oc- cupation, and was married, January 10. 1676, to Lydia, daughter of Abraham and Remem- ber (Morton) Jackson, of Plymouth, and they had nine children, as follows: 1. John, July 6, 1678. 2. Israel, August 1, 1680. 3. Solo- mon (q. v.), October 24, 1682. 4. Elisha, July 16, 1684. 5. Abraham, November 27, 1686. 6. Sarah, February 8, 1688, married John Wood, of Plymouth, February 10, 1797-98. 7. Lydia, born 1691, married, May 23, 1712, Jon- athan Sprague, of Bridgewater. 8. Hannah, June 30, 1693, married James Hobart, Decem- ber II, 1718. 9. Mary, February 18, 1695, married Ebenezer Lane. Israel Leavitt died in Hingham. December 26, 1696, and his widow Lydia (Jackson) Leavitt, married as her sec- ond husband, Preserved Hall.
(III) Solomon, third son of Israel and Lydia (Jackson-) Leavitt, was born in Hing- ham, Massachusetts, October 24, 1682. He re- moved from Hingham to Pembroke, Plymouth county, probably at the establishment of the town March 21, 1712, when the territory in- cluded in the new town was set off from that part of Duxbury called Mattakeeset, a tract of land known as the Major's Purchase, and the land called Marshfield Upper lands of Mat- takeeset.
(IV) Jacob, son of Solomon Leavitt, was born in Pembroke, Plymouth Colony, February 4, 1732. He was married by the Rev. Samuel Leires, of Pembroke, on March 15, 1753, to Sylvia, daughter of Ichabod and Mary (Tur- ner) Bonney, of Pembroke. She was born in Pembroke, September 3, 1733, and died in Turner, Maine, December 31, 1810. Jacob Leavitt removed from Pembroke to Turner, Androscoggin county, Maine, August 6, 1778, with his wife and family of seven children, having been preceded in 1772 by his son Jo- seph, who, with Daniel Staples, Thomas and Elisha Records and Abner Phillips, became pioneers in Sylvester Town, a township grant- ed by the general court of Massachusetts in 1765 to the heirs of Captain Joseph Sylvester and his company for services rendered in Can- ada in 1690, and a lien of a grant previously made to lands in New Hampshire. These five pioneers were voted a bounty of fio on condi- tion of "completing the terms of settlement." The proprietors at Pembroke, July 19, 1774,
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