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(V) Abner, youngest child of Jonathan (2) and Deborah (Balch) Dodge, was born in Beverly, March 27, 1755, died January 28, 1839; married (first) October 16, 1777, Eleanor Dodge, of Beverly, died July 24, 1780; married (second) October 25, 1781, Elizabeth Sears, who lived to the age of ninety-two years, and is said to have drawn a pension of ninety-six dollars a year to the time of her death for services of her husband in the revolutionary war. Abner Dodge was a mason in Beverly, and a landowner; he sold to Isaac Woodberry, carpenter in Ipswich, ten acres in Beverly, September II, 1792, sale in-
cluding his house and barn, consideration £210; same day he sold to William Sears, cooper, of Beverly, half of a ten acre lot in Wenham, and house on Prison lane, Salem ; also to Isaac Woodberry one pew on main aisle of Upper Parish meeting house, Septem- ber 12, 1792, for £20; and his interest in es- tate of his "honored mother, Deborah Dodge, deceased," to William Sears, for £80. This was preparatory to removing to the wilds of Maine, where he located at Bridgton, then in the wilderness, where he carved a farm out of the woods, and cultivated a productive farm until his death. By his second wife he had six children, born in Beverly, Massachu- setts, and the following born in Bridgton, Maine: I. Benjamin. 2. Job, June 7, 1795, died April 27, 1864. 3. George. 4. Char- lotte.
(VI) Caleb Abner, son of Abner and Eliza- beth (Sears) Dodge, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and in 1792 went with his father and family to Bridgton, Maine, where father and son became early settlers in Cum- berland county, then a wilderness. In 1816 he removed to Burnham, Waldo county, where he was a farmer, lumberman, served as town collector, and died in 1820. He married a Perley.
(VII) John Perley, son of Caleb Abner Dodge, was born in Bridgton, Maine, 1810, died in Benton, Maine, 1878. He was six years old when his father removed the family to Burnham, and he was there brought up, acquiring a full knowledge of farming and lumbering. In 1833 he removed to Clinton, Kennebec county, where he was engaged in the calling named. He married, 1837, Ro- sanna Richardson, a native of that part of Clinton now Benton; she was born in 1810, in Clinton, daughter of William and Hannah (Wilson) Richardson; her father was ensign in the war of 1812, was of the sixth genera- tion from Thomas Richardson, one of the earliest settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts. She died in 1867, in Benton, Maine, and Mr. Dodge married (second) 1871, Mrs. Sarah Libby, of Unity, Maine. Children of Mr. Dodge, by first marriage, born in Benton, Maine: I. Howard Winslow. 2. Hobart Richardson. 3. John Orin. 4. Lottie Louise, married George W. Plaisted, of Everett, Massachusetts. Hobart R. and John O. Dodge became lumbermen in Pennsylvania, and both served in the civil war.
(VIII) Hon. Howard Winslow, eldest child of John Perley and Rosanna (Richardson) Dodge, was born in Benton, Maine, February
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16, 1838. He was reared on the parental farm, and educated at the public schools and Sebas- ticook Academy. As a young man he engaged in lumbering, at times in business for himself, at other times for others, or with partners. From 1867 to 1870 he was in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in the employ of William E. Dodge & Company, of New York, in their extensive lumber plant at that place. For a time he was engaged in buying sheep in Can- ada, for the Brighton (Massachusetts) and the Maine markets. In 1871 he engaged in a mercantile business in Clinton, Maine, which he conducted successfully for a period of thir- ty-two years, having various partners-in the firm of Hunter & Dodge, later with Dodge & Jaquith, for twenty years; and still later Dodge & Cain. In connection with his gen- eral mercantile business he was engaged in shipping produce. His business career has been one of marked success, testifying at once to his ability, integrity and enterprise, and he has ever enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. He has been entrusted with the settlement of large estates from time to time, and his continuous employment in various positions of trust has furnished addi- tional evidence of the estimation in which he is held. He has served as a notary public since 1883; has served as town clerk, mod- erator, treasurer, for eight years as select- man of Clinton, and formerly selectman of Benton. He was three times the unsuccessful candidate for state senator, county commis- sioner and high sheriff, his party being in a hopeless minority, and he a staunch Demo- crat. In 1885 he witnessed the inauguration of President Cleveland-the first Democratic president since he came of voting age. He has been a trustee and treasurer of the Brown Memorial Library since its establishment ; was one of the organizers and a trustee of the Waterville (Maine) Trust Company ; and was a trustee of the Nobleboro Camp Meeting As- sociation. He has been vice-president of the Clinton Board of Trade, and also of the State Board of Trade. He was made a Mason Feb- ruary 2, 1864, in Star of the West Lodge, of Unity, Maine; was demitted to Sebasticook Lodge in 1872; took the Royal Arch degree in 1870, in Dunlap Chapter, at China, Maine ; was knighted in De Molay Commandery, at Skowhegan, Maine, in 1872; and was a char- ter member of St. Omer Commandery, at Waterville, Maine. In 1867 Mr. Dodge be- came connected with the Good Templars, and has been constantly active and prominent in advancing the cause of temperance and total
abstinence, and has served as worthy chief templar of Kennebec county, and state deputy of the grand lodge.
Mr. Dodge married, December 5, 1885, Cora Ada, born in Clinton, Maine, January 26, 1856, daughter of Charles and Olive (Berry) Jaquith. Her father was born in Bloomfield, Maine, now a part of Skowhegan, July 3, 1831, son of David and Sally (Young) Jaquith. David Jaquith was a son of Andrew, who came from Massachusetts to Maine among the pioneers, served in the war of 1812, and of revolutionary descent. Sally Young was born in Madison, Maine. Olive Berry was a daugh- ter of Eben Berry. Children of Howard W. and Cora Ada (Jaquith) Dodge: 1. Charles Everett, born September 30, 1886, graduate of Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill, and a teacher by profession. 2. Lottie Myra, August 6, 1887, graduate of Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville ; married, August 6, 1907, George N. Wakely, of Clinton. 3. Alice Olive, December 21, 1888, graduate of Coburn Classical Institute. Mr. Dodge and family at- tend the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has long been a working member and offi- cer, and his benefactions to religious and benevolent organizations have been liberal and continuous. He was made a lay delegate to the East Maine Conference in May, 1908. On January 5, same year, at the one hundred and sixth anniversary of Brown Memorial Metho- dist Episcopal church, Mr. Dodge was se- lected to deliver the historical address, and he presented a carefully prepared and perma- nently valuable history of that body, his effort being most favorably commented upon by the press throughout the country. Mr. Dodge and wife are both active members of the Grange, and he is press correspondent.
PITMAN The name Pitman is said to be derived from residence in the neighborhood of a pit, and the patronymic is found among very early Eng- lish records. Johannes Piteman is mentioned · in the Hundred Rolls, 1273. A family of Pit- man has been seated at Dunchideockhouse, county Devon, for several generations, and is recorded in the parish registers from the year 1552. Geoffrey Pitman was sheriff of Suffolk county in 1625, and Pitman is also found in Yorkshire pedigrees. There are at least two entirely distinct coats-of-arms in England, showing that the different families must have had a separate origin. In New England we find seven early settlers of the name scattered among the different states. Thomas Pitman,
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born in 1614, settled at Marblehead, Massa- chusetts; and Mark, born in 1622, settled in the same place. William Pitman, born in 1632, made his home at Oyster River, now Durham, New Hampshire. Nathaniel Pitman settled at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1639, Jo- seph, at Charlestown in the same state in 1658; and Jonathan at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1681. Perhaps the most romance gathers about Henry Pitman, who about 1666 was one of the first settlers at Nassau, New Provi- dence, one of the Bahama Islands. He built a house, planted fruit-trees, and made great improvements, dwelling there about fifteen years. He died about the time of the fishing for the Plate wreck, when Sir William Phipps was trying to recover the treasure wrecked in a Spanish vessel. Henry Pitman's house was burned in the depredations of enemies ; but his son John, born in 1663, afterwards came into possession of the plantation and im- provements. He built himself a house, estab- lished a shipyard, constructed several vessels, and lived on the island till the taking and burning of New Providence by the French and Spaniards in July, 1703. He moved to other islands in the same group, and finally, in 1710, came to New England and settled at Newport, Rhode Island. He left five sons, who married and had children; so that a nu- merous progeny can trace their descent to Henry Pitman, of Nassau. It has not been possible to connect the following line with any of these early settlers; and it may be derived from a more recent immigrant.
(I) John Pitman was born at Concord, New Hampshire, in 1797, and died in 1837. His father's Christian name is unknown, but he was one of several Pitmans who saw service in the revolution. As no Pitman appears on the list of revolutionary soldiers from Con- cord, New Hampshire, it is inferred that the senior Pitman must have been living in an- other town, or possibly another state, at the time. John Pitman had two elder brothers, David and Samuel, and their mother was a . Carlton. When a young man John Pitman moved from Concord to Bartlett, New Hamp- shire, where he was a farmer and lumberman, and built several mills. He married Abigail Carlton, daughter of Woodman Carlton, a rev- olutionary soldier ; Mrs. Woodman Carlton lived to be one hundred and three years; at ninety-five she was very active. Children : Hazen, Abiah, David C., John, Woodman C. and Abigail. None of these is now living ex- cept Woodman C., whose sketch follows.
(II) Woodman Carlton, son of John and
Abigail (Carlton) Pitman, was born at Bart- lett, New Hampshire, January 2, 1822. He was educated in the common schools of his native town and at Bartlett Academy, after which he taught school for a short time at Center Bartlett. He then went to Lowell, Massachusetts, and worked at odd jobs and farming for a while. Returning to Bartlett, he worked in a mill for a year. At the age of twenty-two he began working on the construc- tion of the Concord and Montreal railroad, at Concord, New Hampshire, and soon had charge of a crew of men. He went west and was conductor on Michigan Central railroad for a year. He contracted some of the work on the Maine Central railroad between Water- ville and Bangor, and engaged in railroad con- tracting until 1867. During this time he built for the European and North American rail- road a line of track from Benham to the sea- shore, constructing the work by means of his own cars and engines. He still kept up his railroad connection after 1867 by getting out telegraph-poles and railroad-ties during the winter, but in summer he imported flour and other goods from Canada, sometimes bringing in as many as a thousand barrels at a time. Mr. Pitman was the first to bring flour from Canada to Maine. In 1892 he re- tired from active business. He attends the Unitarian church, and in early life belonged both to the Odd Fellows and the Masons, but withdrew from these organizations at the time of his marriage. Mr. Pitman is passing a serene old age, and at eighty-seven years is still fairly active, interested in passing events, and thoughtful of the present generation. He is a member of the Madockawanda Club and enjoys there a social hour with old-time friends.
In 1857 Woodman Carlton Pitman married Fannie Fuller, daughter of John Fuller. of Carmel, Maine : she died in 1890. Their three children died in infancy.
The Olivers of New England OLIVER are descendants of the Olivers of Lewes, Sussex, England, from which place Thomas Oliver came with his wife Anne and children in 1632, and settled in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. The family is undoubtedly of Scotch origin, and one Rev. Andrew Oliver came from Scotland to Londonderry, New Hampshire, about the middle of the eighteenth century, and in 1795 removed to Otsego county, New York, where he was pastor of the Reformed Dutch church of Springfield. Others of the name have come
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to America from time to time, but the only early New England immigrants appears to have been Thomas and Anne Oliver, Boston, 1632. The most noted of the name in New England was Peter Oliver, a graduate of Har- vard, A. B., 1735, A. M., 1773, D. C. L., Ox- ford, England, 1776; lived in Middleburgh, Massachusetts, who was chief justice of the supreme court of judicature for the province of Massachusetts, 1771-75; was a Loyalist and returned to England in 1776, upon the evacu- ation of Boston by the British troops, and died in Birmingham, England, October 13, 1791.
(I) John Oliver was born in Phippsburg, Maine, in 1788. He went to Winnegance, Maine, when a young man, and established a general merchandise store which he conducted during his entire life. His wife, Catharine Oliver, bore him eight children, the eldest son receiving his father's name. John Oliver Sr. died in Phippsburg in 1858.
(II) John (2), eldest son of John (I) and Catharine Oliver, was born in Phippsburg, April 4, 1820. He received his educational training in the local school, and when a man became an employee in the mills at Phipps- burg and received promotion in the business, continuing at the same occupation during his lifetime of active work. He was a member of the Baptist church. He married Elsie, daughter of Isaac Marr; children: Lucretia, Cleveland Marr, Camalia, Charles W., Kather- ine, Chester, George, Emma and Wilbur Car- ter.
(III) Wilbur Carter, youngest child of John (2) and Elsie (Marr) Oliver, was born in Phippsburg, February 29, 1860. His education was obtained in the public schools of his na- tive town and at Bath, to which city he moved at the age of eleven years. Although desirous of a liberal education, he, like many another who has made a success in the financial world, was compelled by circumstances to relinquish his cherished hopes, and at the age of fifteen he began to struggle in the great workshop, the world, entering a grocery-store as clerk, and there obtained his first experience in deal- ing with men. - After some time he relin- quished this occupation and went to Gloucester, Massachusetts, where for two seasons he was employed as fisherman, after which he re- turned to Bath and entered the employ of the Torry Roller Bushing Works. In that con- cern he familiarized himself with every detail and thus became well equipped to enter upon a business which under his control has grown and to-day is one of the valued enterprises of
Bath. In 1883 Mr. Oliver established the business of galvanizing iron in Bath, under the firm name of The Bath Galvanizing Works, of which he is sole proprietor and owner. At first he began in a modest way ; at the present time ( 1908) his works are established at the corner of Vine and Water streets ; it is a well-equipped plant, where he is able to carry on a very profitable and grow- ing business which extends to all parts of Maine. The extensive building of torpedo- boats for the United States government at the Bath shipyards demanded larger vats, in or- der to take in the larger parts of the boats re- quired in the galvanizing process, and by the expenditure of thousands of dollars he met the demand and thus largely increased his business and its profits.
Mr. Oliver is a very active and enthusiastic supporter of the administration and of the Republican party in general. His good work as a local politician was recognized in 1904 by his election as a member of the common council of Bath from the second ward; in 1906 he was elected alderman from his ward and in the board was recognized as a superior presiding officer, and he has been for two years president of the board; he is now in the direct road to the office of mayor, having been considered an available candidate ever since he became president of the board of al- derman, and in 1908, at the party elections in March, he was the unanimous choice of his party for the office, but he persistently de- clined the nomination. He is now serving his second year as chairman of the Republican city committee. He is also active in Masonic circles. He is a member of Solar Lodge, No. 14, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Montgomery and St. Bernard Royal Arch Chapter, No. 2; Dunlap Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 5, of Bath; Maine Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Port- land; Mystic Shrine and Kora Temple, of Lewiston. He is also a member of the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 934, of Bath; the Improved Order of Red Men, Sagamore Tribe, No. 64; Arcadia Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 12, of Bath.
Mr. Oliver is greatly interested in every- thing pertaining to the welfare of the city of Bath, and is ever ready to do what he can to better her public institutions. In 1906 he was instrumental in causing an investigation of the Bath City Alms House and to improve its condition. By his untiring zeal and per- sistency along these lines, the mayor's atten- tion was elicited and as a result many well
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needed improvements were made and many of the unfortunate poor of Bath are receiving that attention which is rightfully theirs, through the thoughtfulness and persistency of Mr. Oliver. In recording the achievements of successful men, one naturally looks for the cause of such success and then point it out for coming generations to emulate. Persistency, attention to detail and strict honesty are usu- ally the salient features in a successful career, and these stand out prominently in the busi- ness life of Mr. Oliver. Starting out to fight the battles of life at the tender age of fifteen, without a dollar or influential friends, and at- taining affluence at the age of forty-eight is a record of achievements which are worthy of the highest commendation, and will stand out as a living monument to those qualities, which are truly American.
Mr. Oliver married, November 9, 1881, Esther, daughter of Arthur Gibbs, of New Brunswick; children : I. Arthur, born May 2, 1883, married, in 1904, Eleanor, daughter of Charles and Mary Dane, and they have two children: Warren and Evelyn Oliver. 2. Wilbur C., died in infancy.
The pioneer family of this GREENLEAF name has existed in New England well on toward three hundred years, and in that time has pro- duced many scions who have honored their progenitor and gained places of credit among their fellow citizens. Several have been dis- tinguished in war and not a few have proved efficient instructors. The great majority of the race have been sturdy, honest toilers and law-abiding citizens, whose labors have helped to make a great nation.
(I) Edmund Greenleaf, common ancestor of the Greenleafs of New England, born in 1573, baptized January 2, 1574 (O. S.), died March 24, 1671, aged ninety-eight. He was evidently an Englishman, and was by trade a dyer. He came to Massachusetts about 1635, with a wife and children-five says Sav- age, nine says the compiler of the Greenleaf genealogy. He was one of the original set- tlers of Quasca Cunquen, afterward New- bury, Massachusetts, where each of the first settlers was granted a house lot of at least four acres, with a suitable quantity of salt and fresh meadow. In addition to this he had a grant of twelve acres, which shows him to have been one of the eighteen principal pion- eer settlers. To the other grantees the num- ber of acres varied from ten to eighty. June 15, 1638, "The court having left it to the
liberty of particular townes to take, order, and provide, according to their discretion, for the bringing of arms to the meeting house, it is for the present thought fitt and ordered that the town being divided in four several equal parts, sayd part shall bring compleat armes according to the direction of those whom the town hath appointed to oversee the busynesse in order and manner as followeth; namely, John Pike, Nicholas Holt, John Baker, and Edmund Greenleafe being appointed as over- seers of the busynesse, are ordered to follow this course namely : They shall give notice to the party of persons under their severall divisions to bring their armes compleat one Sabbath day in a month and the lectureday following, in order successively one after an- other, and the persons aforementioned shall cause every person under their severall divis- ions to Stand sentinell at the doores all the time of the publick meeting every one after another either by himself in person or by a sufficient substitute to be allowed by the over- seer of the Ward. And, further, it is ordered that the sayd overseers shall diligently mark and observe any that shall be defective in this respect, having careful warning, and they together with the Surveyor of the arms shall collect or distrain twelve pence for every de- fault, according as hath been thought fitt by order of the court in this case provided." He was made a freeman March 13, 1639, in June following was ordered to be ensign for New- bury, and in 1644 was head of the militia under Gerrish. July 15, 1648, Lieutenant Ed- mund Greenleaf was allowed to keep an or- dinary. About 1650 he removed to Boston, where he was admitted inhabitant September 27, 1654. He was a man of much more than ordinary means and mental qualifications, and was an efficient and leading citizen of New- bury, in whom his fellow citizens reposed trust and confidence. He married (first) in England, Sarah Dole, perhaps a sister of Rich- ard Dole. The date and place of her birth are unknown. She died in Boston, January 18, 1663. He married (second) Mrs. Sarah Hill, daughter of Ignatius Jurdaine, of Exeter, England, widow, first of a Mr. Wilson, second of William Hill, of Fairfield, Connecticut. She died in Boston in 1671. The children of Edmund and Sarah (Dole) Greenleaf were: Enoch (died young), Samuel, Enoch, Sarah, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Judith, Stephen and Daniel.
(II) Stephen, fourth son of Edmund and Sarah (Dole) Greenleaf, born about 1628, baptized at St. Mary's August 10, 1628, died
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December 1, 1690. He came to America with his parents and resided at Newbury until his death. He was one of the company of twenty persons formed by Thomas Moey, 1659, who purchased the Island of Nantucket, and hav- ing an equal share. The island is fourteen miles long and three and one-half miles wide, and the price paid for it was £30 and two beaver hats. Mr. Greenleaf was admitted free- man at Newbury, May 23, 1677. He was a religious man, a member of the First Congre- gational church in Newbury, to which he was admitted December 6, 1674. He was represen- tative in the general court 1676-86, and a member of the council of safety, 1689. His will was made December 25, 1668, and pro- bated February 12, 1691. He married (first) November 13, 1651, Elizabeth, daughter of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, of Newbury. She died November 19, 1678. He was married (second) March 31, 1679, by Commissioner Dalton, to Mrs. Esther (Weare) Swett, daughter of Nathaniel Weare and widow of Benjamin Swett, of Hampton, New Hampshire. She died January 16, 1718, aged eighty-nine years. The ten children of Stephen Greenleaf, all by his first wife, Elizabeth, were: Stephen, Sarah, Daniel, Elizabeth, John, Samuel, Tristram, Edmund, Mary and Judith.
(III) Captain Stephen (2), eldest son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Coffin) Greenleaf, born in Newbury, August 15, 1652, died in Newbury, October 13, 1743, aged ninety-one years. He was the first grandchild of Tris- tram Coffin, and well remembered his great- grandmother and lived to see his great-grand- children. He was a prominent man in public affairs, and famed for his services in the In- dian wars. He was known as the "great In- dian fighter"; and while the public records of the Indian troubles of those days are meagre in their accounts, family tradition has handed down through the generations, and the records bear evidence of, some of that service. In the town records he was distinguished as Cap- tain Stephen. Robert Pike thus writes in 1690: "Capt. Pierce, Capt. Noyes, Capt. Greenleaf, and Lieut. Moores, with the rest of the gentlemen of Newbury ;- whose assist- ance, next under God was the means of the preservation of our towns of Salisbury and Amesbury, in the day of our distress, by the assaults of the enemy." In 1675-76 he was one of the selectmen of Newbury. August 25, 1675, he was wounded by the Indians. In 1689 he was appointed agent of the state to treat with the Indians at Pennacook. May 18,
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