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Bank and of the Granite National Bank, and trustee of the Augusta Trust Company. He is a member of Augusta Lodge, F. and A. M.
Governor Burleigh married, June 28, 1863, Mary Jane, born in Linneus, Maine, November 9, 1841, daughter of Benjamin and Anna (Tyler) Bither. Her father was the son of Peter Bither, a native of England, who died in Freedom, Maine, and who served in the American army in the revolution. Benjamin Bither was in the service in the war of 1812. Children : 1. Clarence Blendon, born at Lin- neus, Maine, November 1, 1864, graduate of Bowdoin College in the class of 1887, married Sarah P., daughter of Hon. Joseph H. and Nancy (Fogg) Quimby, of Sandwich, New Hampshire ; children : i. Edwin Clarence, born in Augusta, December 9, 1891; ii. Donald Quimby, born in Augusta, June 2, 1894. 2. Caroline Frances, born at Linneus, July 23, 1866, married Robert J. Martin, M. D., of Augusta, whose father, Dr. George W. Martin, was a leading physician of that city ; Dr. Rob- ert J. Martin was drowned June 16, 1901, while attempting to rescue a drowning girl; they had one child; Robert Burleigh Martin, born September 3, 1888. 3. Vallie Mary, born at Linneus, June 22, 1868, married Joseph Williamson Jr., of Augusta, son of Hon. Jo- seph Williamson, of Belfast, Maine ; children : i. William Burrill Williamson, born Novem- ber 20, 1892; ii. Robert Byron Williamson, born August 23, 1899. 4. Lewis Albert, born at Linneus, March 24, 1870, graduate of Bow- doin College in 1891 and Harvard Law School in 1894, is practicing law in Augusta with his brother-in-law, under the firm name of Will- iamson & Burleigh ; was city clerk of Augusta ; and at present writing (1909) is a mem- ber of the Maine House of Representatives; married Caddie Hall, daughter of Hon. S. S. Brown, of Waterville, Maine; child, Lewis Albert Jr., born July 20, 1897. 5. Lucy Emma, born in Bangor, February 9, 1874, married Hon. Byron Boyd, ex-secretary of state and now ( 1908) chairman of the Republican state committee ; son of Dr. Robert Boyd, of Lin- neus; children: i. Dorothy Boyd, born No- vember 12, 1895; ii. Robert Boyd 2d, born June 25, 1902; iii. Mary Edwina Boyd, born December 21, 1903; iv. Richard Byron Boyd, born December 10, 1904; v. Edwin Burleigh Boyd, born December 12, 1905. 6. Ethelyn Hope, born in Linneus, November 19, 1877, married, April 20, 1904, Dr. Richard H. Stubbs, son of Hon. P. H. Stubbs, of Strong, Maine.
(IX) Clarence Blendon, eldest child of Hon.
b. B. Burleigh
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Edwin Chick Burleigh, was born November I, 1864, in Linneus, Maine, and educated in the common schools of Bangor and Linneus, and New Hampton Literary Institute, graduating in 1883. He then entered Bowdoin College, from which he graduated with the class of 1887, after which he became editor of the Old Orchard Sea Shell, which was published by the Biddeford Times until the close of the beach season, when he returned to the city of Au- gusta, where he purchased an interest in the Kennebec Journal in 1887. In 1896 he was elected state printer, which office he held until 1906. During the years 1896-97 he was presi- dent of the Maine Press Association. He has been president of the Augusta City Hospital since its establishment; was member of the board of assessors in 1897; president of the Augusta board of trade in 1899-1900; chair- man Republican city committee since 1902. He is the author of the following works : "Bowdoin '87, a History of Undergraduate Days," "Camp On Letter K," "Raymond Ben- son at Krampton," "The Kenton Pines" and other works. He is a member of Augusta Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons . Chushuc Chapter, No. 43, Royal Arch Ma- sons ; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, Augusta, and the Maine Consistory, thirty- second degree, Portland, Maine; also is iden- tified with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, Knights of Pythias, and is a charter member of the Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks. In religious affiliations he is a member of the Congregational parish. Mr. Burleigh was married, November 24, 1887, to Sarah P. Quimby, born May 22, 1864, in Sandwich, New Hampshire, daughter of Jo- seph H. and Nancy P. (Fogg) Quimby. Their children are: Edwin C., born December 9, 1891 ; Donald Q., June 2, 1894.
(IX) Lewis Albert, son of Hon. Edwin Chick Burleigh, was born in Linneus, Maine, March 24, 1870. He attended the public. schools of his native town, at Bangor and Au- gusta, graduating from the Cony high school in 1887 and from Bowdoin College in 1891. He studied his profession in the Harvard Law School, where he was graduated with the de- gree of LL. B., in 1894. In the same year he was admitted to the bar of Kennebec county, and in October of that year engaged in practice in partnership with his brother-in- law, Joseph Williamson. The firm has taken a leading position among the lawyers of the state, doing a general and corporation busi- ness. Mr. Burleigh is a Republican in poli- tics, and has been city clerk of Augusta, and
at present writing (1909) is a member of the Maine House of Representatives. He is a member of the board of education of Au- gusta ; in 1903 was appointed one of the three United States commissioners by Judge Clar- ence Hale, of the United States district court, to succeed W. S. Choate, and in 1907 was re- appointed to this responsible office. He was a director of the Augusta National Bank until it went into liquidation. Mr. Burleigh is very prominent in Masonic circles. He is a past master of Augusta Lodge of Free Masons; member of Cusuhue Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons ; of Council, Royal and Select Masters ; of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, and has attained the thirty-second degree in Ma- sonry. He is a member of Kora Temple, Or- der of the Mystic Shrine, Lewiston. In 1907 he was master of the Lodge of Perfection. He is also a member of Augusta Lodge of Odd Fellows ; of Augusta Lodge, Knights of Pyth- ias; of the Ancient Order of United Work- men, and of Augusta Lodge. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a Congre- gationalist and a member of the prudential committee of the Congregational church. He married, October 18, 1894, Caddie Hall Brown, born in Fairfield, Maine, April 22, 1871, daughter of Hon. S. S. Brown, of Waterville, Maine (see sketch). They have one child, Lewis Albert Jr., born July 20, 1897.
DUNN The family of Dunn settled in southwest Maine many years ago, and the name of Jonah Dunn ap- pears often in the histories of the towns lying along the course of the Saco river. Several Dunns were men of prominence there.
(I) Jonah Dunn lived in Cornish, York county, Maine, where he was selectman, 1806- 08-09-15; there he married and his children were born. In 1826 he removed with his fam- ily to Houlton. Their journey was made in the winter and part of it lay over the frozen surface of the Baskehegan river to its head, where, leaving it, they pursued the remainder of their journey through woods, guided by spotted trees. He was a Friend, or Quaker, a man of good education, with a clear head and a keen power of discernment. He held the office of justice of the peace and made many conveyances and other papers requiring legal form. He was familiarly known as Squire Dunn. He always used the words thee and thou when addressing another per- son. About the time of his settlement at Houlton, the British military authorities of New Brunswick were bullying the settlers on
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American territory, and this soon became un- bearable. At this juncture, when the settlers had passively borne British insults for some time, Jonah Dunn said: "This state of things must not and shall not continue. The federal power we will invoke, and it shall all be known that the United States of America can protect its subjects and its territory." He wrote sev- eral communications to the papers of Maine re- hearsing the situation, and calling upon the people to give expression to their feeling upon the subject. In the settlement he first men- tioned the subject to John Hodgdon in his office, and wished a petition to congress drawn asking that Houlton be made a military post, and that an appropriation be made for the support of the same. Colonel Hodgdon drew up the petition, and it was numerously signed. This was probably in 1827. In response to this petition a military post was created at Houlton, a garrison established, and British interference with the settlers was forever ended. He married Lydia Trafton, who died in Houlton. His death occurred in Augusta. (II) Charles, youngest child of Jonah and Lydia (Trafton) Dunn, was born in Cornish, December 13, 1813, died in Houlton, Novem- ber, 1897. He went with his father and fam. ily to Houlton in 1826. He was fond of horses, which he managed with skill, was a fine reinsman and handled four or six horses as well as men usually handle one. He estab- lished lines of transportation in different di- rections from Houlton, and for twenty-eight years carried the mails from that place to ali points north. In connection with his mail. service, he did a large express business, and carried many passengers, especially during the war. In 1868 others underbid him for carry- ing the mail, and he sold the successful bid- ders his entire outfit and retired from active life. From that time he lived quietly in Houl- ton, speculating in farms. He was a staunch Democrat, but supported the war measures of the government. He married, in 1859, Lydia Cloudman, born in Saint David's Parish, New Brunswick, 1833. died in Houlton, June 20, 1861, two years after her marriage and eleven days after the birth of her only child. She was the daughter of James Cloudman, of Wake- field, New Hampshire, and granddaughter of Gilman Cloudman. Her mother was Hannah (Foster ) Cloudman, of Saint David's Parish, daughter of George and Cynthia (Chase) Foster, and granddaughter of Colonel Benja- min Foster, a hero of two wars, a soldier in Pepperell's army at the capture of Louisburg, and the companion of O'Brien in the capture
of the "Margaretta," at Machias, at the begin- ning of the revolution. James Cloudman was left an orphan at a tender age, and was brought up by his grandfather, who lived at Horne's Mills, Wakefield, New Hampshire At eighteen years of age he went to the lum. ber regions of St. John, in New Brunswick Subsequently he settled on a farm at Oak Bay, in St. David's Parish. Hearing of the fertile country of the Aroostook, he went there on a tour of observation in 1844, and the next spring moved to Presque Isle, where he farmed continuously till 1883. He was a suc- cessful farmer, and made a specialty of raising fine beef cattle. He sold this farm in 1883 and went to the village south of Presque Isle, where he afterwards resided. He died in Port- land, at the residence of his grandson, Charles Dunn Jr., in 1892. He was six feet four inches high, straight, lean, strong as a giant and weighed two hundred pounds. His wife, Han- nah Cloudman, died in 1889. Charles Dunn married (second), 1868, Jennie, widow of George Bagley and daughter of George and Cynthia Whidden, of Presque Isle.
(III) Charles (2), son of Charles (I) and Lydia (Cloudman) Dunn, was born in Houl- ton, June 9, 1861, and was educated in the common schools and the Ricker Institute where he prepared for college. He then began the study of law in the office of General Charles P. Mattocks, and was admitted to the bar in 1885, after three years' study. He en- tered upon the practice of his profession, which he followed seven years in Portland. In 1892 he was a member of the city council. In 1892 he was attacked by an illness which rendered him an invalid for nine years, during which time he was engaged in out-of-door employ- ment. Recovering his health in 1901, he re- ceived the appointment as deputy from Sheriff Pearson, who died in 1902, and was succeeded by Mr. Dunn, who served out the remainder of the term, about one year. On leaving office he became special agent of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, of New York. He was afterward a candidate for the office of sheriff on the Independent Democratic ticket and was defeated. He was master of Portland Lodge, No. I, Free and Accepted Masons, in 1895; is a member of Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter, No. 13, of which he has been an officer for two years past; and Portland Council, Royal and Select Masters. Charles Dunn married, in Portland, November 21, 1888, Grace Eliza- beth, born in Portland, November 2, 1862, daughter of Mark and Elizabeth ( Pote) Wal- ton. Mark Walton was a designer of furni-
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ture, and for thirty years was in the employ of the widely known firm of Walter Corey. His father, Mark Walton Sr., came from the Isle of Shoals, and was brought up by Judge Sewell, of York. Mark Walton Jr. died about 1864, and his wife died in 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn are members of the Baptist church. They have one child, Esther Cloudman, born May 6, 1891, now in the third year of the Portland high school.
Herbert S. Dyer, only son of Ste-
DYER phen K. and Emily (Jordon) Dyer, was born in Portland, May 6, 1858, and died at Madrid, December 20, 1907. He was educated in the public schools, graduating from the high school in the class of 1876. He soon afterward went to New York City, where for about twelve years he was employed by the E. S. Higgins Carpet Company as a house salesman, and later with Arnold, Constable & Company, in the whole- sale carpet department. During his employ- ment his health failed to such an extent that it was impossible for him to continue, and from the nature of the trouble, which was caused by overwork and close confinement to business, it became necessary for him to take to horseback-riding as an exercise. This sug- gested to him the institution of a riding- academy, and he established the Belmont Ri- ding Academy, and conducted it for some time with success. He went into other ventures, and about 1892 returned to Portland. to, en- gage in various patent enterprises, the first being that of the Brooks Arms & Tool Com- pany. This was operated for some time, and then he became interested in other matters. About 1900 he engaged in the life insurance business, for which he was fitted by nature to perfection, and in which he made a remarkable success. He became state agency director for the New York Life, from which he changed some time afterward to the John Hancock, for which he was also state agent. A few years ago he became the local representative of the New York banking business of Kountze Brothers, and was with that concern at the time of his death. He had been from his youth an enthusiast in geology and mineralogy, and had always evinced an interest in the minerals of this state. He labored long and earnestly before the state board of trade and the legislature for an appropriation for a state mineralogist and for a survey of the state to determine the location and approximate ex- tent and value of its mineral wealth. He was a member of the common council in 1898-99,
and was president of that body during his second term. He was a Republican in politics, and was an active candidate for postmaster, to succeed the late Clark H. Barker. For some time he had been one of the most energeticmem- bers of the board of trade, and was one of its directors and a member of the committee on entertainment. In 1907 he introduced at a meeting of the board a resolution favoring legislative action which should lead to the adoption of uniform couplings for hydrants throughout the state. He and his family for years before his death were connected with the High Street Congregational Church circles, and there, as in other associations, Mr. Dyer was always of assistance in the time of need. He was killed by the accidental discharge of his rifle. Mr. Dyer was well known and uni- versally respected and liked. He was full of energy, a man of force of character, which gave him great influence in board of trade mat- ters and on public questions. In social circles he left a vacant place than can never be filled. Possessed of an unusually bright and cheery nature, people turned to him as flowers to the sunshine, and his presence at any affair was always an inspiration. To know Herbert S. Dyer was to love him, and to have the privi- lege of his friendship was to have a strong arm to lean on. He was a thoroughly unselfish friend, who was never weary of welldoing. In social life he gave that which is a rare thing to find, a friendship on which one could al- ways rely.
He married, July 6, 1880, Elizabeth, a native of Portland, daughter of John and Mary ( Har- ris ) Bradford. Mr. Bradford was a well- known spar-maker in Portland. Children: I. Helen M., married Walter Elden Smart. 2. Edith Bradford. 3. Hamilton H., a student in the high school. 4. Jeannette.
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HEATH in New England, although the Heaths have not been a prolific family. The name comes here from England, the mother country, and was planted on this side of the Atlantic ocean some time previous to the middle of the seventeenth century. John Heath, brother of the immigrant, appears to have received greater attention from chron- iclers of the family history, but it is doubtful if he occupied a higher station in early town affairs than his brother. Both are frequently mentioned as Heth, but similar errors on the part of town and parish clerks are not infre- quent, and they need not be surprising when we consider the very limited education of
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those of our New England ancestors who came here to dwell among Indians, in a wil- derness region, without more than the plainest coniforts of life, and when schools for sev- eral years were almost unheard of.
(I) Bartholomew Heath, brother of John above mentioned, was first of Newbury, Mas- sachusetts Bay colony, and afterward of Hav- erhill, where the greater part of his life was spent. Savage says he was born about 1600, but other authorities say, with more accuracy, that he was born about 1615; and he died in January, 1681. Chase, in his "History of Haverhill," says that in 1645 "considerable land was this year granted to individuals west of Little river, on the Merrimack, and Hugh Sharratt, Bartholomew Heath, James Fiske and John Chenarie had liberty to lay down their land on the plain, and have it laid out over Little river, westward." In 1646 he owned lands which were estimated as of the value of one hundred and forty pounds, and when plans were made for another distribu- tion of the town's territory, called the "second division of plough-lands," Bartholomew Heath was allotted lot number four. He was one of the signers of the petition praying that the penalty imposed on Mr. Pike on account of his religious exhortations be remitted him, and in this and many other respects he appears to have been a leading man in the town. In 1665 with one Andrew Grealey he entered into an agreement with the town to set up and keep in repair the corn mill, operate it, and in con- sideration of the expense they might be put to in placing the mill in repair, the town voted them the right "to have so much privilege of the land in the street on both sides of the brook at the end of Michael Emerson's lot as may be convenient to set up another mill on, or any other place on the town's land"; and the town did also "engage that no other man shall set up a mill or mills upon any land that is the town's, with any order from the town." In other words the town ordered that Barthol- omew Heath and Mr. Grealey have an ex- clusive mill privilege in Haverhill, and it may be said here that they carried on this business for several years, to their own profit and to the great convenience of the inhabitants. Mr. Heath's wife was Hannah, daughter of Joseph Moyce, and she died in Haverhill, July 9, 1677. There does not appear to be any record of their marriage, and from the fact that they had a son Samuel, whose name is not given among their children born in Newbury or Haverhill, it may be assumed that they mar- ried in old Guilford, Surrey, England, whence
they came to this country ; and it is probable that this son Samuel either remained in Eng- land at the time of his father's immigration or subsequently returned there, married and lived there some years before coming over again. As shown by the Newbury, Haverhill and other records the children of Bartholomew and Hannah ( Moyce) Hleath were Samuel, John, Joseph, Joshua, Hannah, Josiah, Elizabeth (died young). Benjamin and Elizabeth. John, the second child, was born in 1643, and Eliza- beth, the youngest, was born September 5, 1658.
(II) Samuel, son of Bartholomew (I) Heath, was born in England, married there, and had children, among them a son John.
(III) John, son of Samuel Heath, was born in England, married there, and lad children, among them a son Bartholomew.
(IV) Bartholomew (2), son of John Heath, was born in Surrey, England, in 1710 and came to New England in 1737. This is stated on the authority of a private family record, and from the same source it is learned that this Bartholomew was the son of John, and that John was the son of Samuel, and that Samuel was the son of the first Bartholomew. The last mentioned Bartholomew Heath mar- ried twice, and by his first wife had one child ; by his second wife he had nine children. Soon after the death of his first wife he settled in Sharon, Connecticut, married his second wife there and raised a large family of children. His sons were Bartholomew, Thomas, Oba- diah, Joseph, John, Hezekiah and Daniel. De- scendants of Hezekiah are now living in Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, and so late as 1831 Thom- as and Obadiah were living on the old farm in Sharon, and in the old house which their fa- ther had built over a century earlier.
(V) Bartholomew (3), son of Bartholomew (2) Heath and his first wife, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut. and was an infant when his mother died. He married Ann Millard, born in East Haddam, Connecticut, near Hart- ford, and by whom he had three children: I. Asa. 2. Nathan, who cared for his mother after the death of her husband. She lived to the good old age of ninety-nine years. 3. Oliver, who entered the profession of law, went to England and settled in Liverpool.
(VI) Rev. Asa (I), son of Bartholomew (3) and Ann (Millard) Heath, was born in Hillsdale, Columbia county, New York, July 31, 1776, and married, March 26, 1801, Sarah Moore, whose great-grandparents came from Londonderry. Ireland, and her grandfather was born on board the ship in which they
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came to this country. They had the grant of Cape Elizabeth, but not liking it exchanged it for a township of land in New Hampshire, now the town of Derry. Rev. Asa and Sarah (Moore) Heath had two sons, Asa and Jon- athan, and six daughters.
(VII) Asa (2), son of Rev. Asa (I) and Sarah (Moore) Heath, married (first) Mar- garet Boynton and (second) Mary Clary. He was a physician by profession, a Methodist in religious preference, and a Republican in poli- tics. His children were Flavius, Margaret, Alvan M. C., George, Adelia, Mary, Martha, Genevieve, Olive and Eva.
(VIII) Alvan M. C., son of Dr. Asa (2) Heath, was a printer by trade and newspaper editor by principal occupation ; a soldier of the civil war and was killed in battle at Freder- icksburg, December 13, 1862. He married Sarah H. Philbrook, daughter of Milton and Ora (Kendall) Philbrook, and by whom he had four children : 1. Herbert M., born Au- gust 27, 1853. 2. Willis K., February 12, 1855. 3. Dr. Frederick C., 1857, now a physi- cian in active practice in Indianapolis, Indiana. 4. Dr. Gertrude E., January 20, 1859, engaged in medical practice at Gardiner, Maine.
(IX) Herbert M., lawyer, son of Alvan M. C. and Sarah H. ( Philbrook) Heath, was born in Gardiner, Maine, August 27. 1853, and was educated in the public schools of that town, graduating from the high school in 1868, and at Bowdoin College, where he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1872. After leaving college he devoted the next four years chiefly to pedagogical work and during the latter part of that period took up the study of law. In the fall of 1872 he was appointed principal of Limerick Academy, Limerick, Maine, remained there one term, and from the beginning of the school year in 1873 until the close of the session in 1876, he was principal of Washington Academy at East Machias, Maine. In August, 1876, he was admitted to practice in the courts of this state, and since that time has been a member of the Augusta bar and has always held a standing of enviable prominence in all court and professional cir- cles throughout the entire state. Few lawyers have more extended acquaintance than he, and few indeed are they who have given more faithful service, whether as a lawyer at the bar of the courts or a public servant in the dis- charge of official duties. Mr. Heath is a Re- publican in all that the name implies, and while active in politics was recognized as one of the leading men in the councils of the Re- publican party in the state. His political career
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