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(II) James, eldest son of Thomas and Eliza- beth Philbrick, was born about 1622. He mar- ried (first) Jane, daughter of Thomas Rob- erts, and (second) Ann Roberts, her sister, and by the second marriage had nine children, as follows: I. Bethia, married Caleb Per- kins. 2. Captain James, Junior. 3. Apphia, born March 19, 1655, married Timothy Hil- liard. 4. Esther, born March 1, 1657, married (first) Joseph Beard, and (second) Sylvanus Nock. 5. Thomas, born March 14, 1659, mar- ried Mehitable Ayres. 6. Sarah, born Febru- ary 14, 1660-61. 7. Joseph, born October I, 1663, married Triphena Marston. 8. Eliza- beth, July 24, 1666. 9. Mehitable, July 19, 1668, said to have married Timothy Hilliard after the death of Apphia, her sister.
(III) Captain James (2), eldest son of James (I) and Ann (Roberts) Philbrick, was born July 13, 1651, and died in 1723. He was a mariner and resided at Hampton, where he married, December 4, 1674, Hannah, daughter of Isaac Perkins, born February 14, 1656. She died May 13, 1739. They resided on the home- stead, and had eight sons and three daughters. Their children were: Hannah, born in 1676, married Stephen Sanborn ; Daniel, 1678; Jona- about 1689; Abigail, born June 25, 1692, mar- ried (first) Ensign John Sanborn, and (sec- ond) Lieutenant Thomas Rawlins; Ebenezer ; Apphia, born April 8, 1685; Isaac, August 5, 1688, married Mary Palmer; James, born about 1689; Abigail, born June 25, 1692, mar- ried Thomas Haines; Deacon Joseph, born February 5, 1694, married (first) Ann Dear- born, (second) Elizabeth Perkins, (third)
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Sarah Nay; Nathan, born August 19, 1697, married Dorcas Johnson; and Mary, born 1701, died in 1721.
(IV) Ebenezer, third son of Captain James (2) and Hannah ( Perkins) Philbrick, was born October 29, 1683, and in 1743 removed to Rye, New Hampshire, where his will was proved December 31, 1760. He married Bethia Moulton, and they had four children, all born at Hampton: James; Ruth, baptized October 13, 1717; Bethia, born June 8, 1719, in 1755 was not married ; and Ebenezer, born May 27, 1721, married Hannah Moulton, and in 1760 was a cordwainer at Rye.
(V) James (3), elder son of Ebenezer and Bethia (Moulton) Philbrick, was born June 2, 1714, at Hampton, went to Deerfield, in 1770, and in 1795 sold to his son Nathan "Deer Thatch Ground" in Rye, New Hamp- shire, and died in 1796. He married (first) Elizabeth Rand, and had thirteen children, and married (second) Sarah Rand. (There is some discussion over whether he married both Elizabeth and Sarah, or married only one of them, and which one.) His children, born in Portsmouth or Rye, New Hampshire, were : James, born August 29, 1736-37 ; Sarah, 1738; Elizabeth, May 22, 1739; Jonathan, 1740; Mary, 1742; Titus, 1744, removed to Mount Vernon, Maine; Nathaniel ; Nathan; Ruth; Joseph ; Benjamin; Anna ; Stephen, born May 16, 1763, married Betsey Folsom.
(VI) Nathan, fifth son of James (3) and Elizabeth (Rand) Philbrick, was born April II, 1749; he was a joiner, and resided at Deer- field, New Hampshire, where he died Decem- ber II, 1824. He married Gertrude, daughter of Matthew Harvey, of Nottingham, and they had eight children, born at Deerfield: Nathan; Jonathan, born September 6, 1778, married Abi Woodman; Hannah, born June 30, 1781, died 1799; Rev. Peter, born October 9, 1783, a Free Baptist minister, married Betsey Dud- ley; Joseph, born November 16, 1785; Su- sanna, December 23, 1788; Levi, May 3, 1793, and John, who died at the age of eight years.
(VII) Nathan (2), eldest son of Nathan (I) and Gertrude (Harvey) Philbrick, was born May 23, 1776; he was a farmer, and about 1800 removed to Mount Vernon, Maine, where he died September 30, 1854, a man who had made his presence felt and regretted by the whole community. April, 1802, he married Sally, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Phebe (Chapman) Sherburne, who died June IO, 1846, and they had six children : I. Sally, born January 30, 1803, married Thomas Snell. 2. Susan, born February 28, 1805, married
David M. Greeley, of Mount Vernon. 3. Han- nah S., born August 1I, 1809. 4. Harriet, born July 1, 1813, married Aaron S. Lyford. 5. Mary Jane, born December 7, 1816, married Joseph Blake. 6. Philena A., born November II, 1818, married James G. Patterson.
(VIII) Hannah S., third daughter of Na- than (2) and Sally (Sherburne) Philbrick, was born August II, 1809, married December 31, 1833, Joseph, son of Dr. Nathaniel and Annie (Armstrong) Hopkins. (See Hopkins, VII).
VARNEY About the year 1650 William Varney and his wife Bridget came from England and settled in the plantation at Ipswich in the colony of Massachusetts. Little is known of this pro- genitor of a now numerous and very re- spectable family of descendants except that he lived for a time at Ipswich and died in Salem in 1654, about four years after his arrival in this country. His widow Bridget afterward removed to Gloucester and died there October 25, 1672. Children : Rachel, Humphrey, Thomas and Sarah.
(II) Humphrey, son of William and Bridget Varney, lived for a time in Gloucester and was of Dover, New Hampshire, as early as 1659. He married Sarah, daughter of El- der Edward Starbeck. Of their children, John Riley, born in Dover, became one of the most eminent physicians of his day. Ebenezer be- came prominently identified with the civil and military life of New Hampshire. Sarah mar- ried Jeffrey Parsons, of Gloucester. Rachel married William Vinson, of Gloucester. These sons-in-law, Jeffrey Parsons and William Vin- son, were among the foremost men on Cape Ann, pioneers there and in many ways con- cerned in the affairs of the town.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Humphrey and Sarah (Starbeck) Varney, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, and like his father became a man of influence and substance. During the Indian troubles which accompanied the wars between the English and French powers his house was strongly fortified and called Varney garrison house, and history states that it fre- quently afforded safe refuge for the families of the locality against the incursions of marauding Indians.
(IV) John, son of Ebenezer Varney, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, about 1701, and married, in 1723, Sarah Robinson.
(V) Timothy, son of John and Sarah (Rob- inson) Varney, was born in Dover and re- moved in 1783 to Windham, Maine. He mar-
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ried Joanna Kennard; children : Ichabod, Ezra, Michajah, Patience, Hannah, Samuel, Abijah, married Lydia Kennard and had a son Joel (see sketch).
(VI) Ichabod, son of Timothy and Joanna ( Kennard) Varney, was born in Windham, Maine, and afterward removed to Topsham, Maine. Hle married, February 3, 1785, Abi- gail Conant ; children: 1. Hannah, married Benjamin Hodges, of Hallowell, Maine, for many years proprietor of the Hallowell House ; children : Caroline Hodges, born March 10, 1816, and George Winslow Hodges, Novem- ber, 1818. 2. Patience. 3. Samuel. 4. Enoch.
(VII) Enoch, youngest child of Ichabod and Abigail (Conant) Varney, was born in Saco, Maine, in 1787, and was a lumberman by occupation. He was a soldier in the war of 1812-15. His wife, whom he married in Saco, June 18, 1815, was Mary, daughter of William Getchell, of New Meadow, Maine. He was a soldier of the revolutionary war and in 1776 was second lieutenant of the Sixth Brunswick company of the Second Cumber- land county regiment. His father, Captain John Getchell, was an officer of the British army during the French and Indian war and afterward became one of the first settlers of Brunswick, Maine. Children of Enoch and Mary (Getchell) Varney: I. John, born in Saco, Maine, 1815, drowned 1825. 2. James, born in Saco, 1817, died January 2, 1890, mar- ried (first) Elizabeth Gore Wing, of Bruns- wick, Maine; children: i. Louisa Evelyn, married, January 13, 1866, Edward Gardiner, of Fultonville, New York; ii. James Henry ; iii. Sarah Adelaide; iv. Vesta; v. Samuel Wellington, married, January 6, 1899, Lulu Thomas, of Boston; vi. Susan Jeanette, born June 23, 1854, married, October 12, 1875, Dr. William Craige Burke, of South Norwalk, Connecticut ; vii. James Arthur, born March 14, 1857, married, 1879, Cora Kennison, of Bath, Maine. James Varney married ( sec- ond) Harriet Boynton Williams, of Topsham, Maine; children : i. Elsie Nora ; ii. Kingsbury Melvin, married Lizzie Fuller, of Brunswick; iii. Julia; iv. John Henry; v. Wiley Rogers Varney. 3. Tristram Hooper. 4. William Henry. 5. Joseph. 6. Melissa A. 7. Court- ney. 8. Lizzie. 9. William Wilson, married Rebecca Crawford, of Bath; was a lumber- man for several years and later moved to a farm and became an extensive dairyman and milk producer in West Bath; children: i. Lunette, died young ; ii. Leola, married Edwin Brown, of Bath; iii. Margaret Lunette, mar- ried Edward Alonzo Stevens, of Bradford,
New Hampshire, and died in August, 1907; children : Ralph Alonzo, Roy Oscar and How- ard . Edward Stevens. iv. Howard Eugene, married Mattie Clark, of Bath; v. Lizzie Melissa, married Milton Montgomery (one child, William Montgomery, born Westboro, Massachusetts). 10. Ann Eliza, married Rob- ert C. Coombs, of Lisbon, Maine ; children : i. Edward Coombs, died young; ii. Lizzie Coombs, married Frank Purrington, of Bath (had Carlos Walter Purrington) ; iii. Charles Albert Coombs, married Rhoda Perry (had Charles and Margaret Coombs) ; iv. Fred Manley Coombs, married Clara Fisher, of Bath (had Edward and John Coombs) ; v. Carlos Ball Coombs, married Ella Cameron (had Adelaide Coombs) ; vi. Walter Merton Coombs. II. Elizabeth Wing, born in Bruns- wick, married Carlos E. Ball, of Acworth, New Hampshire, and lives in Malden, Massa- chusetts ; child, Blanche Evans Ball, married, April 21, 1897, Edmund Alfred Hopkins, of Chelsea, Massachusetts (had Edmund Ball Hopkins, born in Malden, March 27, 1900).
(VIII) Joseph, son of Enoch and Mary (Getchell) Varney, was born in Topsham, Maine, February 22, 1824, and died in the city of Bath, February 8, 1900. When he was an infant his parents removed from Topsham to Brunswick, where he attended school and afterward set up a small fruit and confection- ary store. In this business, however, his profits were less than he had hoped to realize, so he gave up the store and went to work at log driving on the Androscoggin river. For a time he had charge of the drive, and it was while at this employment that he saved the lives of two men, at the peril of his own, by jumping into the river and bringing them safely to the shore. Later on he engaged in making box shooks for the Cuban and West Indies trade. In 1853 Mr. Varney went to North Bath and became a member of the firm of Adam, Lemont & Company, lumbermen and manufacturers of lumber, and continued in that firm until 1864, when he purchased the interests of his partners and became sole pro- prietor of the business, and from that time Varney's mills did the largest lumber business on the Kennebec river for many years. He employed at times as many as fifty men, and made long and short lumber, house frames and ship timber, and shipped the manufactured product of his mills in his own vessels to Bos- ton, New York City and other principal mar- ket ports. He also built up an extensive local trade, and as his mills were about three and one-half miles from Bath he established an
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extensive lumber yard in that city in 1885. In 1894 his mills were destroyed by fire and in the following year he retired from active busi- ness pursuits, having accumulated a com- fortable fortune in real estate, houses and other valuable and paying property. Mr. Var- ney died February 8, 1900. He was a strictly temperate man in all of his habits, always straightforward in his extensive business deal- ings, sincere and conscientious in his devotion to the First Baptist church, liberal in his dona- tions for church support, and generous in the distribution of his charities. In every way he was an honest and honorable man, and was highly esteemed in the city and locality in which so many of the years of his life were spent.
In 1847 he married (first) Melinda J. Bishop, of Brunswick, who died June 26, 1860. He married (second) in 1862, Julia A. Wil- liams, of Topsham. Four children by his first and eight by his second marriage: I. Mary Melinda, married Charles Bowker, of Phipps- burg, Maine, and had Clarence Murray, of Portland, Ethel Maud Doughty of Yarmouth, and Joseph Varney Bowker, of Portland. 2. Joseph Murray, of Bath, married Melvina Hasson and had Mattie Melinda, deceased ; Oma Viola, deceased; Irvin Clifford, Jennie Morse, Josephine Melvina, Edwin Fuller, de- ceased. 3. Edward Bishop. 4. Hattie Ken- dall. 5. Annie Elizabeth, deceased. 6. Corrie Helen. 7. Nellie Maude, deceased. 8. Clara Adela. 9. Ralph Waldo, deceased. IO. Ger- trude Williams, deceased. II. Melinda, de- ceased. 12. Alice Edna.
(For preceding generations see William Varney I.) (VI) Abijah, son of Timothy
VARNEY Varney, was a pioneer farmer, lumberman and mill-owner, resided at Windham, Maine, married Lydia Kennard.
(VII) Joel, son of Abijah Varney, was born January 6, 1809, and was a prosperous farmer at Windham, Maine. He married, September 25, 1836, Jane, daughter of James and Mercy (Hawkes) Lowell, who was born November 26, 1815, at Westbrook, Maine, and died at Brunswick, Maine, October 28, 1867. (See Lowell, VIII.) The children of Joel and Jane (Lowell) Varney are: I. Lois Winslow, born August 25, 1837, at Windham, died July 26, 1853; she married Dr. H. D. Torrey, of Massachusetts. 2. Colonel Almon Libby. 3. Edward Lowell, born August 23, 1842, was a non-commissioned officer in the Sixteenth Maine Infantry Regiment, was
made prisoner of war at the battle of Gettys- burg, and spent some time in Libby Prison Hospital, where he suffered and died for his country December 10, 1863. 4. Elma Dora, born November 3, 1850, married, September 6, 1892, Alfred Mordecai, a colonel in the ord- nance department of United States army, who is now on the retired list as brigadier-general.
(VIII) Colonel Almon Libby, eldest son of Joel and Jane (Lowell) Varney, was born April 5, 1839, at Windham, Maine, and grad- uated from Bowdoin College in 1862 with de- gree A. B., three years later having degree A. M. conferred on him. In 1861, while still at college, he was appointed first lieutenant in the Thirteenth Maine Regiment, the commis- sion being dated December 9, 1861. Under command of General Butler and later under General Banks, he with his regiment served at various points in the Department of the Gulf, among them Ship Island, Texas, Louisi- ana (Red River Campaign ), and finally in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. In the summer of 1863 he acted as judge advocate of a gen- eral court martial in New Orleans, in Decem- ber of that year and January of the next he filled a similar position at Decrows Point, Texas, and again at the headquarters of the Nineteenth Army Corps at Alexandria, Louisi- ana, in June, 1864. In December of the same year he was president of a military commis- sion acting at Martinsburg, Virginia, for the trial of citizens charged with giving "aid and comfort to the enemy." Colonel Varney's ap- pointment in the ordnance corps dates from February 15, 1865, when he was commissioned second lieutenant, since which time he has served successively at Clinton, Iowa ( where he received the arms of the returning Iowa Vol- unteers ) ; Watervliet Arsenal, New York; Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts; Chey- enne, Wyoming; Leavenworth Arsenal, Kan- sas; Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois; was chief ordnance officer on staff of Major General Pope, commanding department of Missouri; again at Watervliet Arsenal, New York; again at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois; and again at Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts. From 1892 till 1899 he was in command of the arsenal at Indianapolis, Indiana, then went to San Antonio, Texas, where he remained until 1903, when he reached the army age limit of sixty-four years, and was retired. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, and while in Indianapolis was a member of the New Eng- land Society of Indianapolis, and the Indian- apolis Literary Club. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advance-
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ment of Science. Colonel Varney has trav- elled extensively, and has lately returned from Africa. He married, May 9, 1866, Hannah Josephine, daughter of James and Mary A. (Shattuck) Gibson, born January 22, 1843, at Winchester, Massachusetts, and their chil- dren are: I. Gordon Edward, born February 26, 1867. He married Katherine, daughter of the late Edward B. Porter, of Indianapolis, Indiana. Edward B. Porter was son of the late Governor Albert G. Porter, of Indian- apolis, who was United States minister to Italy. Gordon E. and Katherine ( Porter ) Varney have three children : Gordon Edward (2d), Edward Porter and Josephine. 2. Theo- dore, born January 27, 1874, is a graduate in the class of 1894 in electrical engineering course of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. He married Elizabeth Phylisana, daughter of Augustus I. Lyon, of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and they have no children.
(For preceding generations see William Varney I.) (III) Joseph Varney, son of
VARNEY Humphrey Varney, was born in Dover, October 8, 1667. He married Abigail -. Among his children were : I. Jedediah, mentioned below. 2. Mary, married, June 30, 1736, Samuel Varney, son of Ebenezer, and her cousin. Perhaps others.
(IV) Jedediah, son of Joseph Varney, was born about 1705 : married, February 24, 1729- 30, Elizabeth Hanson. He was a member of the Society of Friends, Dover, as were his father and probably all others of the family for several generations. Children, born at Dover: I. Abigail, married James Hanson. 2. Jedediah, mentioned below. 3. Ebenezer. 4. Thomas. 5. Nicholas, removed to Fal- mouth, now Portland, Maine. 6. Susanna, born 1744, married Benjamin Astin (Austin). 7. John. 8. Hanson. 9. Isaac, born June, 1752. 10. Hannah, born August 20, 1754, died young.
(V) Jedediah (2), son of Jedediah (I) Varney, was born in 1732 in Dover, died there January 25, 1799; married Mary, born about 1732, daughter of Tobias and Judith ( Varney) Hanson. She died at Dover in 1798. (See Hanson IV.) Among their children was Jedediah, mentioned below.
(VI) Jedediah (3), son of Jedediah (2) Varney, was born about 1760; removed to Nine Partners in November, 1801. Lived around Berwick and Scarboro. Children : John, Levi, Ezekiel, David, Peace, Thankful,
Comfort, Ascenath (Moore), Sarah ( Hard- ing), Hannah.
( VII) Jedediah (4), son or nephew of Jede- (liah (3) Varney, was born in 1782 in Wind- ham, Maine, died in Lowell, Maine, 1878. He married (first) a Miss Jellison; (second) Elinor Mac Pheters, a widow, December 20, 1822. Isaac Varney, of Windham, perhaps a brother, was a soldier from that town in the war of 1812. Jedediah settled in Lowell, Maine. He was a farmer, a Republican and a Quaker. Children by first wife: Mary Jane, William and David. By second wife: John M., born June 6, 1823; Jedediah, March 4, 1825; Isaac C., January 4, 1827; Levi L., February 27, 1829; Joseph C., December 24, 1831; Stephen H., February 9, 1833; Lydia M., April 25, 1835 ; Samuel J., May 5, 1837.
(VIII) Jedediah (5), son of Jedidiah (4), Varney, was born in East Lowell, then known as Cold Stream Plantation, Maine, March 4, 1825. He received a common school educa- tion. He worked with his father lumbering and farming and remained on the homestead. He was engaged in lumbering and farming all his active years. His farm is about half a mile from his father's farm, where he was born. He is a Republican in politics; he has been postmaster of the town of Lowell and many years was selectman. He is a member of Eckutarsis Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and has been its master. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, April 20, 1853, Mary Jane Cummings, of Lin- coln, Maine, born August 31, 1828, died July 23, 1900, daughter of James and Mary Jane (Annas) Cummings. Children, born at Low- ell : I. George I., born July 13, 1854, engaged in the manufacture of fishing rods at Mon- tague City, Massachusetts; married Mary H. Porter ; children : i. Lucinda B., married Jar- vis Edwards, of Greenfield, Massachusetts; ii. Vivian V., died in 1888; iii. George I. 2. Na- than H., born May 24, 1856, has the home- stead at East Lowell; married Lucinda Cum- mings; children : Ida Lutina, Jesse, Rose, died 1901 ; Ora, Clyde ; child died in infancy. 3. Arthur Eugene, born May 1, 1860, resides in Aberdeen, Washington; married Amanda E. Witham ; children : Ada Ella ( Mrs. Hop- kins) and Merle. 4. Ada Ella, born June II, 1866, died September 15, 1869. 5. Fred Lord, mentioned below.
(IX) Dr. Fred Lord, son of Jedediah (5) Varney, was born in East Lowell, July 10, 1873. He was educated there in the public schools, at Lee Normal school, at the Ricker
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Classical Institute, at Houlton, Maine, and at the State Normal school of Farmington, where he was graduated in 1900. He attended the University of Maine also for one term. He taught in the public schools of that neigh- borhood for nine years, twenty-seven terms in all, with marked success. He taught in En- field, Passadumkeag, Lowell, Strong, Madrid, Winthrop and Greenbush. He then read med- icine with Dr. L. M. Howes and was gradu- ated at the Maine Medical College, Brunswick, Maine, in the class of 1907 with the degree of M. D. He took a post-graduate course in the Tufts Medical School of Boston, and settled for the practice of his profession in Monson, Maine, in 1907. Dr. Varney is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Lodge of For- resters, Shirley, Maine; of the Lake Hebron Camp of Woodmen of Monson; of Juanita Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Monson. He is a member of the Free Street Baptist church of Portland. Most of his ancestors were Quakers. He is unmarried.
(For preceding generations see William Varney I.) (III) Ebenezer, son of Hum-
VARNEY phrey and Sarah Varney, re- sided in Dover. He married Mary Otis, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Pitman) Otis, and granddaughter of Richard Otis, who was killed at the capture and de- struction of the garrison at Dover under Ma- jor Richard Waldron in 1689. In 1696 he took possession of the "Hill" (the Otis es- tate), which his wife inherited. She bore him thirteen children: Mary, Sarah, Stephen, Abigail, John, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Thomas, Judith, Samuel, Martha, Paul and Anne.
(IV) Ebenezer (2), third son and sixth child of Ebenezer ( I) and Mary (Otis) Var- ney, was born in Dover, March 21, 1704. He was married in 1729-30 to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Hanson. Mrs. Var- ney's mother was the Elizabeth Hanson, an ac- count of whose captivity is given in Belknap's History. Ebenezer and Elizabeth were the parents of ten children : Abigail, Judith, Ebe- nezer, Thomas, Nicholas, Susanna, John, Hanson, Isaac and Hannah.
(V) Isaac, sixth son and ninth child of Ebenezer (2) and Elizabeth (Hanson) Var- ney, was born at Dover in 1752, died in 1826. He was married in 1781 to Lydia Rogers. His children were: William, Aaron, Mehit- able, Timothy and Mary.
(VI) Timothy, third son and fourth child of Isaac and Lydia (Rogers) Varney, was born in Dover, 1793, died in Kennebunk, 1861.
As a youth he assisted his father in carrying on the homestead farm in Standish. He sub- sequently worked at the blacksmith's trade and was also employed in the mills at Dover. He was called to Kennebunk to assist in con- structing mills, and after their completion he engaged in business for himself, establishing a plant for the manufacture of plows and agricultural machinery. He conducted that business successfully for the remainder of his life and was succeeded by his sons. In politics he was in his last years a Republican. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He married Mary Southwick, a native of Massa- chusetts, and she became the mother of four children : Elizabeth, Lydia, George and Isaac.
(VII) Isaac (2), youngest child of Tim- othy and Mary (Southwick) Varney, was born in Kennebunk, July 19, 1839. He was reared and educated in his native town, and at an early age he began to familiarize him- self with both the industrial and business de- partments of his father's factory. In 1861 he and his brother succeeded to the business un- der the firm name of G. and I. Varney, and in addition to agricultural implements they manufactured fine hardware. This partner- ship continued for eighteen years, and in 1881 Mr. Varney entered the employ of the Amoskeag Corporation in Manchester, New Hampshire, as a machinist, remaining there for six years. Removing to North Berwick in 1887, he re-established himself in business, erecting a machine-shop and subsequently a mill for the manufacture of lumber, box- shooks and boxes, under the firm name of Isaac Varney & Sons. This business devel- oped into an extensive and profitable enter- prise, and in 1905 a stock company was or- ganized and incorporated as the Isaac Varney Sons Company. In politics Mr. Varney is a Republican. In his religious belief he is a Congregationalist. On October 29, 1862, he married Phebe E. Buffum, daughter of Cyrus and Lydia (Estes) Buffum, of North Ber- wick. Her father, born October 19, 1800, died October, 1842, was a farmer and a dealer in real estate. Cyrus and Lydia Buffum were the parents of seven children : Edward, Charles, Samuel, Maria, Louisa, Phebe E. and Hannah. Mrs. Varney's great-grandparents were Samuel and Hannah ( Varney) Buffum, and she is a descendant in the eighth genera- tion of Robert and Tamsin Buffum, who came from England about the year 1638, and set- tled in Salem, Massachusetts.
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