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Luther Franklin, son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Miller) Mckinney, was born near Newark, Ohio, April 25, 1841, and received his earlier education in the common schools of Newark and in private and high schools in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and his higher education at St. Lawrence University, in Canton, St. Law- rence county, New York. In the latter insti- tution he fitted himself for the ministry of the Universalist church, and received his diploma and degree there in the year 1870. In the same year he came to Maine and in August
began the pastorate of the Universalist society and church in Bridgton, remained there until 1873, then went to South Newmarket, New Hampshire (now Newfields), and took charge of the church in that town during the next two years. In 1875 he was called to the church in Manchester, New Hampshire, and filled the pastorate in that city for the next ten years. Before beginning his university course, however, Mr. Mckinney enlisted, in August, 1861, in Company D of the First Ohio Cav- alry, served with that command under Gen- erals Thomas, McCook and Sherman until February, 1863, and then much to his own regret was discharged on account of disabili- ties. He himself had enlisted more than half the men of his company, and was its sergeant, and it was his earnest hope that he might be able to continue with them to the end of the term of enlistment, but by reason of sickness contracted in the service he was compelled to accept an honorable discharge and return home. Afterward for a time he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Newark, then sold out his business and taught school in Ohio and Iowa. Mr. Mckinney is a Democrat in poli- tics, but never took an active part in political matters until 1884, when, much against his will, he was the nominee of his party for a seat in the lower house of the national con- gress, but was defeated in that Republican stronghold. In 1886 he was again nominated and was elected, notwithstanding the normal Republican majority against him in the dis- trict. He was elected again in 1890. In 1892 he was nominated by the Democratic state convention as its candidate for the governor- ship of New Hampshire, and while he was defeated at the polls, the fact that he fell short of election by only two hundred and seventy- two votes in that almost overwhelmingly Re- publican state was to him a source of much gratification as an expression of the esteem in which he was held by the people of the state. In the same year he was appointed by Presi- dent Cleveland envoy extraordinary and min- ister plenipotentiary to the Republic of Co- lombia, South America, and represented the United States government in that foreign state during the next four years; and when Mr. Mckinley succeeded Mr. Cleveland in the presidency he urged Mr. Mckinney to retain his post under the new administration, but the incumbent felt it his duty to decline the prof- fered office, and therefore returned to private citizenship in Bridgton, Maine, where he has since lived.
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Mr. Mckinney would have preferred to aban- don public life and engage in mercantile pur- suits, but it was not a long time after he had located in Bridgton that he was again pressed into party service in a political campaign where it was hoped that his personal popu- larity, high character and known qualifications for high public office might turn the scale of doubtful contest. He first ran for congress in this state as the candidate of the Democratic party against Thomas Benton Reed, the Re- publican nominee, and afterward against a man of such political strength as Amos L. Allen. In both contests Mr. Mckinney was defeated, the normal opposition against his party being too great for even him to over- come; and no Democratic candidate in Maine ever could beat "Tom" Reed, that mighty giant of republicanism, and Allen was the peer of Reed with Maine Republicans.
Having given his party long and faithful service, often at the sacrifice of personal inter- ests, Mr. Mckinney retired from active par- ticipation in politics and devoted his attention to other employments. In 1898, in company with P. P. Burnham, he engaged in the dry goods business in Bridgton, continuing about two years, then sold out and acquired a con- siderable interest in the Bridgton Furniture Company, with John Roes and Byron Kim- ball. Soon afterward he bought Mr. Roes' share in the concern, and upon the death of Mr. Kimball purchased his interest in the busi- ness. As now constituted the officers of the company are Mrs. F. L. McKinney, president ; Mr. Mckinney, treasurer and manager; and Harry McKinney, secretary.
During all the years of his political activity Mr. Mckinney never has relaxed his earnest devotion to the church and has given to it at all times the same attention and service as when he was its pastor in various fields. In 1903 he went to Brooklyn, New York, re- mained there a year and a half in building a parish house. In 1901 for one year was pastor of the Universalist church in Kansas City, and during his residence in Bridgton he supplied the pulpit of his church in that town. Mr. Mckinney has again entered the ministry and assumed charge of the Universalist church in Gardiner, Maine. His business in Bridgton is under the charge of his son, Harry W. Mc- Kinney. His interest in public affairs also has continued, although the offices in which he has recently served have been local rather than general in character. He has been selectman of Bridgton, and in 1906 represented his town in the state legislature, in the house serving
on the committee on libraries and on pensions, and also on the special committee appointed to arrange for the celebration of Longfellow's birthday. Mr. Mckinney is a Mason, mem- ber of Oriental Lodge, F. and A. M., Oriental Chapter, R. A. M., and Oriental Commandery, K. T., all of Bridgton; a member of Louis Bell Post, G. A. R., of Manchester, New Hampshire ; and a member of Ridgley Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Manchester. In Odd Fellow- ship he has been elected to the exalted office of grand master of the Grand Lodge, jurisdic- tion of New Hampshire, and grand represent- ative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, and is member of Wonalancet Encampment of Man- chester.
On August 1, 1871, in Bridgton, Mr. Mc- Kinney married Sharlie Paine Webb, daugh- ter of Josiah and Elizabeth (Witham) Webb, of Raymond, Maine. Two children have been born of this marriage : I. James Franklin, born in Bridgton, November 7, 1872. Having graduated from Manchester, New Hampshire, high school, he entered St. Lawrence Uni- versity, Canton, New York, and graduated from that institution in 1895. He then en- tered the law department of the University of Maryland, made the course of that cele- brated school and graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1897. He is engaged in active general practice in New York City in part- nership with Comptroller Grout, a leading pub- lic man in New York municipal political life. Mr. Mckinney married Jessie Hanna, of Den- nison, Texas, and has one child, Robert Frank- lin Mckinney, born January 14, 1902. 2. Harry Webb, born in Manchester, New Hampshire, January 14, 1878. He was edu- cated in Manchester, in St. Johns College, Washington, D. C., and in a military academy in Pennsylvania. He went to South America with his father and now is engaged in business as secretary of the Bridgton Furniture Com- pany.
This name is not a common DENNEN one in this country, and it seems to be confined, in the earlier generations at least, to the neighbor- hood of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where we find it spelled Denen, Denin, Dinnin, Den- ning and Dinning. Nicholas Denning seems to be the first American ancestor of whom we have any record, and he was at Gloucester in the early part of the eighteenth century. His son, Nicholas (2), received a grant of land there in 1724, and in 1725 this son, with his wife Elizabeth and daughters Margaret
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and Hannah, were baptized in that town. Nicholas (2) Denning was married to a sec- ond wife, Mrs. Ann Fuller, on January 14, 1732, and a son, Nicholas (3), was born Oc- tober 12, 1732. The only Samuel Denning recorded was born in 1707, the son of William and Hannah ( Paine) Denning, and probably the grandson of Nicholas (1). He could hardly have been the Samuel Denning of the following line, because he would have been too old for a revolutionary soldier. There is little doubt, however, that the Maine branch is de- rived from the Massachusetts stock; but the imperfection of the records renders it impos- sible to give the exact relationship.
(I) Samuel Dennen was a revolutionary soldier, and died at Minot, Maine. The Mas- sachusetts Rolls say that Samuel Dennen, a seaman, was in the list of prisoners sent from Halifax to Boston in the cartel "Swift," Sep- tember 30, 1778, according to the return made by Thomas Baildon, commissary of prisoners. (II) Simeon, son of Samuel Demfen, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 10, 1771, and died at Shirley, Maine, in 1848 or 1849. Simeon Dennen, with his elder brother George, moved to Pigeon Hill, in Poland, Maine, in 1792. He lived in various places in the town till 1830, when he and a part of his family moved to what is now the town Shir- ley. near Moosehead Lake, where some of their descendants are now living. He served in the war of 1812 as a volunteer, as did also his sons Simeon Jr. and Peter. About 1793 Simeon Dennen married Rebecca Chickering, of Hebron, who was born March 18, 1774. There were twelve children: I. Simeon (2), whose sketch follows. 2. Peter, born April 7, 1796. 3. Frederic, November 16, 1798. 4. John, September 19, 1800. 5. Levi, March 16, 1803. 6. Liford, February 16, 1805. 7. Elena, October 19, 1807. 8. Rebecca, December 20, 1809. 9. Lydia, March 29, 1811. 10. Joseph, March 17, 1813. II. Lois, November 16, 1817. 12. Otis, May 9, 1820.
(III) Simeon (2), eldest child of Simeon (I) and Rebecca (Chickering) Dennen, was born at Poland, Maine, October 4, 1794, and died at Oxford, April 12, 1869. During his early life he was a farmer, but later moved to Oxford, where he became a millman, lumber merchant and manufacturer. On September 14, 1823, Simeon (2) Dennen and Sally Ryer- son, of Paris, were published; Dennen was living at Hebron, Maine, at the time. They had four children: I. Nelson, who died in in- fancy. 2. John W., born April 1I, 1827, served in the Fifth Maine Battery. 3. Keziah, April
9, 1830. 4. William W., whose sketch fol- lows.
(IV) William W., third son of Simeon (2) and Sally ( Ryerson) Dennen, was born at Oxford, Maine, June 5, 1837, and was edu- cated in the common schools of his native town. At the age of eighteen he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for six years. When the civil war broke out he en- listed in Company K, First Maine Volunteers. August 22, 1861, he enlisted in Company K. Seventh Maine Volunteers, was promoted to rank of corporal, and discharged for disability, July 25, 1862. He returned to Oxford and engaged in farming, which he followed for eight years. About 1870 he became interested in the manufacture of paper, and for several years was engaged in the building and equip- ment of mills. In 1883 he came to East Poland and built the mill of which he has been super- intendent ever since. The establishment em- ploys about forty men. Mr. Dennen is a Re- publican in politics, and served as representa- tive in 1890-91, and as selectman in 1896-97. He is a member of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, has filled all chairs in the Knights of Pythias, is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and also of the Grange. On Harris Hill, William W. Dennen married Marie B., daughter of Ebin and Mary ( Ste- vens) Maxwell, of Excelsior No. 5, Dead River. Children: I. Addie O., born Septem- ber 8, 1867, was drowned near her home at Kent's Hill, September 27, 1903 ; she was mar- ried to Professor J. O. Newton, of Maine Wesleyan Seminary ; children : Max, Rownald and Robert. 2. Charles E., July 11, 1869. 3. William W., June 18, 1875. 4. Ansel C., July 18, 1880, graduated from Bowdoin Col- lege in 1905; is now in charge of a large leather board mill in Herkimer, New York; married Elizabeth H. Cuskley, June 24, 1908.
SEIDERS The plantation of Broad Bay, now Waldoboro, Maine, was settled by German immigrants of the Lutheran faith. The first settlement was made in 1740-42, and additional colonists followed in 1748-53. They were induced to come to this country by General Samuel Wal- do and later by his son. Colonel Samuel Waldo. They were promised one hundred acres of land each, subsistence for at least six months, and other important benefits. Under these promises during the years mentioned, it is probable that at least fifteen hundred set- tled at Broad Bay. They suffered extreme hardships and privations, having been landed
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in a wilderness and having little or no means of subsistence of their own. Their sufferings were, in a great measure, due to the fact that the promises made to them by General Waldo were not carried out. In 1745-46 the settle- ment was completely wiped out by the In- dians. For three years it remained desolate. Many of the inhabitants with their families joined the Louisburg Expedition, some fled to neighboring settlements, while others were killed or taken in captivity to Canada by the Indians. At the close of the fifth Indian war those who survived the Louisburg Expedition, with those who returned from captivity, and from neighboring places, renewed their set- tlement at Broad Bay. These colonists suf- fered much greater hardships even than the first settlers of Massachusetts, but Germanlike, they adhered to their undertaking and finally built up a settlement, which in 1840 exceeded any other in numbers and prosperity then in the present territories of Lincoln and Knox counties. From these colonists have descend- ed many whose names have appeared in the professions, in commercial affairs, and in act- ive public service.
(I) Conrad Seiders came to the plantation of Broad Bay in 1748 and brought with him his son Cornelius, who was then but eight years old. The name of Conrad Seiders ap- pears on the records of the town of Waldoboro in later years. Cornelius, his son, married Elizabeth Leistner, daughter of Charles Leist- ner, General Waldo's agent. Their grave- stones, now standing in the Old Meeting House Cove burying ground, near Dutch Neck, alone identify that old burial place. A number of children were born to them, name- ly : Jacob, Henry, Philip, and daughters.
(II) Jacob, son of Conrad Seiders, married Mary Given and they resided in Waldoboro during their lives. The following children were born to them : Henry, Francis, John, Ed- ward, Ambrose and Reuben, sons; and Jane, who married Charles Little, and Elizabeth, who married Ezra I. Wall, daughters. John resided on the home farm at Waldoboro until his decease. Edward and Ambrose in their early twenties went to New Orleans and the latter never was heard from afterward. Ed- ward was in the Texan war and afterward settled at Austin, Texas, where he died a few years since, leaving a family, all sons, who have largely settled in Texas. Reuben grad- uated from Bowdoin College and married Su- san Austin, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He taught at Cambridge for some years and after- ward graduated from the Divinity School at
Harvard College and became a Unitarian clergyman. The two daughters, Jane and Elizabeth, lived and died in Augusta, Maine, leaving families.
(III) Henry, first son of Jacob and Mary (Given) Seiders, was born in Waldoboro in 1798. Before reaching his majority he went to Thomaston, Maine, where he worked in the ship yards. In 1837 he moved to the town of Union and settled there on a farm, where he lived till the close of his life in 1881, aged eighty-three years. He took great interest in both political and religious matters, and was active in building the first Congregational church in that place. In 1827 he married Mary Whiting Starrett, of Warren, who was born December 24, 1808, daughter of John and Margaret ( Fitzgerald) Starrett, of War- ren, Maine. John Starrett was a descendant of Colonel Thomas Starrett, who was active in public affairs of Warren, and who was a descendant of William Starrett, who came from Scotland to Pemaquid and from there joined the Waldo colony located in the town of Warren in 1736. Children of Henry and Mary W. (Starrett) Seiders: 1. John Henry, died in infancy, April 5, 1832. 2. Mary Jane, born in 1829, married Captain Oliver J. Star- rett, of Warren, and died on passage from New Orleans to Liverpool in 1855. Their only issue, Mary Alice, deceased in childhood. 3. Margaret S., born in 1837, married Charles G. Snell, of Waldoboro, and is now living at Portland. widow. Their only issue, Henry Seiders Snell, deceased in childhood. 4. Jo- seph Henry, born in 1836, died of yellow fever at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1857, unmarried. 5. Edward, born in 1838, was engaged in sea- faring life, and as mate of a vessel on passage from New York to New Orleans, was lost at sea in 1863, unmarried. 6. Emerson, born in 1839, was lost on Lake Erie in 1864, unmar- ried. 7. Sarah L., born in 1842, single, now lives in Portland, Maine. 8. George M., re- ceives extended mention below. 9. Frederick A., born in 1848, is now living on the old homestead at Union. In 1871 he married Sarah Jane Linscott, of Palermo, to whom there have been born four children, all living, to wit: Harold Latimer, Conrad Arvidson, Carl Frederic and Clarice Hayes.
(IV) George Melville, eighth child and fifth son of Henry and Mary W. ( Starrett ) Seiders, was born in Union in 1844. His early educa- tion was obtained in the public schools of that place. September 10, 1862, when attending the high school, he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-fourth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and
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was made a corporal. The company rendez- voused first at Augusta, then at East New York, Long Island. Later in the fall the regi- ment was transported on the "Lizzie South- ard" to New Orleans. After remaining there for a few days it was encamped for some weeks at Bonnet Carre, above New Orleans, and later joined the forces then besieging Port' Hudson. While at Bonnet Carre, Mr. Seiders had an attack of typhoid fever and a relapse therefrom, and after recovering joined his reg- iment at Port Hudson. In the meantime Vicks- burg was besieged and taken, and also Port Hudson shortly after. The regiment returned home via the Mississippi river and Chicago, and was mustered out of service at Augusta, August 25, 1863.
After the war Mr. Seiders returned to Union and remained on the home farm un- til he attained his majority, then he went to Portland, where he obtained employment in the machine shops of Charles Staples & Son, where he remained some months. Having a desire to obtain a better education, he left the workbench in 1866, attending two terms at Kent's Hill Seminary, and subsequently continuing and finishing his preparatory course for college at Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, Maine. He entered Bowdoin College in the class of 1872. During his preparatory and college courses he paid his way by teaching in district schools and academies. He gradu- ated with the degree of A. B. and later re- ceived the degree of A. M. After his gradu- ation he was immediately appointed principal of Greeley Institute, Cumberland Center, Maine, which position he occupied two years, during which time the institute enjoyed a larger degree of prosperity than it had ever before or has since. At the close of his serv- ices at Greeley Institute he was elected sub- master of the high school at Waltham, Mas- sachusetts, where he taught one year, when, having received an advantageous offer. he ac- cepted a professorship in the Episcopal Acad- emy of Connecticut at Cheshire, Connecticut, where he taught during the school year of 1875-76. While there he took up the reading of law, and in July, 1876, entered the office of Thomas Brackett Reed, at Portland, and there continued the study of law. In October, 1878, Mr. Seiders was admitted to the bar and took desk room with Hon. F. M. Ray for a few months, when he returned to Mr. Reed's office and remained in association with him until Mr. Reed moved to New York in 1901. In Jan- uary, 1893, Mr. Seiders and F. V. Chase, Esq .. formed a co-partnership under the style of
Seiders & Chase, which continued until Jan- uary, 1901. In 1883 he was appointed as- sistant counsel for the United States in the Alabama Court of Claims, and acted in that capacity during the continuance of the court.
In 1885 he was elected county attorney for the county of Cumberland and again in 1887, serving two terms. During his services aş county attorney many important cases were tried by him, including murder cases. After having completed his services in that capacity he was engaged in both civil and criminal practice. He defended two murder cases which perhaps excited as much public inter- est as any that have been tried in the county of Cumberland. During the period when Mr. Seiders was reading law and for two years after his admission to the bar he lived in the town of North Yarmouth, where he was elect- ed representative to the Legislature of 1878 on the Republican ticket by the classed towns of Yarmouth and North Yarmouth. Although he had not been admitted to the bar, he was appointed on the judiciary committee and others of importance. He took up his resi- dence in Portland in 1880. In 1892 he was elected to the State Senate and served on the judiciary and other important committees. Two years later he was re-elected and was unanimously chosen president of that body.
His business methods, prompt and courteous rulings, and impartial dealings in public af- fairs secured for him strong support, which in 1901 was the means of his being elected attorney general of the state. He was re- elected in 1903, serving two full terms. His administration of this office was highly com- mended. In 1898 he was elected a member of the Republican state committee, and served in that capacity until 1905. Mr. Seiders has been attorney for and officially connected with many corporations. From his youth he has been a member of the Congregational church. He is a member of Bosworth Post, G. A. R., of the Cumberland Club, and of Bramhall League, all of Portland.
He married, November 24, 1874, Clarice Small Hayes, who was born in North Yar- mouth in 1854, daughter of Isaac S. and Asenath ( Batchelder ) Hayes, of North Yar- mouth. They have three children, all living : Grace Ruiten, born 1875; Mary Asenath, born 1877; and Philip Reed, born 1885. Grace R. married Dr. Phillip Webb Davis in 1903. They have two children, Mary Louise, born 1904, and Katherine, born 1906.
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The Wingates of England
WINGATE are an interesting and profit- able family to study, and it has always been the ambition of the Wingates of America to secure an unbroken chain to connect the two families, but up to this time the missing links have not been restored, and only in an indirect way can the relationship be established. In view of this it is not our purpose to regard the English family, but to name the progenitor of the family in America and to trace from him the subject we have in hand.
(I) John Wingate, American progenitor of the Wingates of New England and of the northwest, if not of the entire family in Amer- ica, came to New Hampshire from England when an independent young man with no re- sponsibility of family or relatives. He was credited with being in the service of Thomas Layton, who located at Hilton's Point, now known as Dover Neck, New Hampshire, as early as 1658. Thomas Layton gave him a consideration for services already rendered, or to be rendered, twenty acres of land in the Neck, and the selectmen of the town thought it expedient to grant him an allotment of twenty acres immediately adjoining that given him by his master. He thus became an im- portant yeoman or farmer in the colony. He built a house and established a homestead which has been handed down from generation to generation in uninterrupted succession, even to this day. In early records his name is writ- ten "John Winget" and there appear various other spellings of the name. He married. after securing a homestead, Mary, daughter of Elder Hatevil Nutter, a stern and exemplary Puritan, and they had two children : Anne, born February 18, 1667, and John, July 13, 1670. His wife died, and about 1676 he mar- ried as his second wife Sarah, widow of Thomas Carney, by whom he had five chil- dren, as follows: Caleb, Moses, Mary, Joshua and Abigail. John Wingate died December 9, 1687.
(II) John (2), eldest son of John ( I) and Mary (Nutter) Wingate, was born in Dover. New Hampshire, July 13, 1670. As the eldest son, he inherited the homestead and it was his home during his entire life. He com- manded a company of militia in the expedi- tions to Port Royal, 1707-10. His wife was Ann, and after she had borne him twelve children, and he had left her a widow, she married, December, 1725, Captain John Heard. The children of Captain John and Ann Win- gate were: I. Mary, born October 3, 1691.
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