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(III) Elvington .Palmer, second child of Palmer O. and Mary J. (Todd) Spinney, was born in Georgetown, June 30, 1868. He fitted for college in the schools of Lewiston and Brunswick, took his bachelor's degree at Bow- doin with the class of 1890, and as his health had become somewhat impaired, at the conclu- sion of his college course he went to Wiscon- sin to recuperate. During his year's residence in the west he taught school, and upon his re- turn to his native state devoted a similar pe- riod to teaching at the Paris Hill Academy. From the latter place he went to Alfred as principal of the high school, and taking up the study of law while residing in that town he was admitted to the bar in January, 1895. In the following February he established himself in practice at North Berwick, and has ever since resided there, making excellent profes- sional progress, and in addition to conducting a profitable general law business has served as attorney for the town for a period of six years, also acting in a similar capacity for South Berwick, Wells and York. In politics he is independent. He is a member of Eagle Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
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Columbian Encampment, Canton Columbia and Ray of Hope Lodge of Rebeccas, all of North Berwick, and also of the local grange. At Bowdoin he affiliated with the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He attends the Free Will Bap- tist church.
October 30, 1895, Mr. Spinney was joined in marriage with Grace E., daughter of Caleb U. and Susan P. Burbank, of Alfred. They have two children, Dorothy B., born Novem- ber 6, 1899, and Leon Leslie, born August 19, 1903.
WAITE The New England Waites have not been an especially prolific family, although during the sev- enteenth century no less than ten immigrants of the surname were settled in the several plantations east of the Hudson river previous to the year 1665; and if we may accept the conclusions of students of the history of the European branches of the family, the Waites and Waytes may be said to be one of the most ancient families in England, where it was found seated soon after the Norman conquest. Then the name appears to have been borne only by persons of rank, courtiers and retain- ers of the sovereign, princes, knights, and others who had won distinction in the wars. But in the generations following down through the centuries from the time of the Conqueror to the early years of the seven- teenth century, the surname passed through many changes in form of spelling, and those bearing it so increased in numbers that they became well scattered throughout the kingdom and were found in some parts of Wales. The several chroniclers of Waite family history have given us descriptions of its coat-of-arms : Argent, chevron gules between three bugle- horns stringed sable, but these arms are said to have been taken from those entitled to bear them on account of the part taken by Thomas Wayte, who, in 1649, as one of the judges, signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I., and who himself was brought to the scaffold by Charles II. The earliest im- migrant ancestors of the Waite surname in America were Richard, Boston, 1634, marshal of the colony of Massachusetts Bay ; Gamaliel, brother of Richard, Boston, 1634; Richard, Watertown, 1637, ancestor of the family, treated in these annals ; Thomas, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1639; John, Malden, 1644: Alexander, Boston, 1637; Thomas, Ipswich, 1658; John, Windsor, Connecticut, 1649; Ben- jamin, Hatfield, Massachusetts, 1663; George, Providence, Rhode Island, 1649.
(I) Richard Waite, immigrant, born in England, 1608, came to New England in 1637, and settled in the plantation at Watertown. He is first mentioned in that year, when he be- came one of the proprietors of Watertown by purchasing all the lands and rights of John Doggett, one of the original grantees of the town, including six acres in the West Plains, on which he built his homestead. His house stood at what is now the northwest corner of Lexington and Warren streets, Watertown. In the same year also he received a grant of sixty acres, being the fourth lot in the seventh division of "Beaver Brook Farm Lands." He was made freeman of Watertown in March, 1637-38, purchased additional lands there in 1652, and died January 16, 1669, aged about sixty years. He married in 1637, Mary -, born 1606, died January 1, 1678-79. Children : I. Stephen, born February, 1637- 38, died nine days old. 2. John, May 6, 1639 (see post). 3. Thomas, March 3, 1640-41, died January 3, 1722-23. 4. Joseph, 1643, died January 3, 1722-23 ; removed to Worces- ter, 1675, and soon afterward to Marlborough.
(II) John, son of Richard and Mary Waite, was born in Watertown, May 6, 1639, and died August 24, 1691 ; married June 13, 1663-64, Mary, daughter of George and Mary Wood- ward, of Watertown. She was born August 12, 1641, died August 23, 1718, in that part of the town called Weston. Children: I. John, May 26, 1665, died October 12, 1665. 2. Mary, October 9, 1666, died November 24, 1690; married John Randall. 3. John, December 27, 1669, died June 24, 1722. 4. Sarah, October 26, 1672. 5. Amos, June 4, 1679-80 ( see post). 6. Rebecca, married, 1706, John An- derson.
(III) Amos, son of John and Mary (Wood- ward) Waite, was born in Watertown, Janu- ary 4, 1679-80. He removed to Framingham, and had his home in the north part of the town. He was constable there in 1728, and is mentioned at one time as of Natick. He married, in August, 1701, Elizabeth, daughter of John Cutting. locksmith, and granddaugh- ter of Richard Cutting, wheelwright, of Wa- tertown, who came from England in the "Elizabeth" in 1634 and settled at Watertown. Children : I. Elizabeth, born January II, 1701-02 ; married Moses Parker. 2. Susanna, October 20, 1704. 3. Amos, December 7, 1727 ; was an alarm soldier of Grafton in Cap- tain Samuel Varrin's company, 1757. 4. Ezekiel, September II, 1710, died Wardsboro, Vermont. 5. John, June 7, 1713 (see post). 6. Josiah, February 19, 1715-16.
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(IV) John (2), son of Amos and Elizabeth (Cutting) Waite, was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, June 7, 1713, and is men- tioned as of Framingham in 1757 and 1761, and of Worcester in 1764. In Framingham he had his home near his father's house. April 26, 1757, he was enrolled in Colonel Joseph Buckminster's regiment. Subsequently he re- nioved to Mason, New Hampshire, and was one of the principal farmers of that town, and his name appears on the tax list there as late as 1779. He married (first) October 18, 1739, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Graves. She died May 27, 1796, and he married (sec- ond) October 5, 1796, Lucy Farmer. Chil- dren : 1. Hannah, born in Framingham, July 16, 1740. 2. Sarah, March 17, 1741. 3. John, November 15, 1744 (see post). 4. Daniel. May 28, 1748, died at Brandon, Vermont, about 1826. 5. Elizabeth, baptized May 3. 1752. 6. Ruth, baptized August 30, 1755. 7. Martha, baptized August 30. 1755.
(V) John (3), son of John (2) and Han- nah (Graves) Waite, was born in Framing- ham, November 15, 1744. He removed to Spencer, Massachusetts, in 1774, and in the following year enlisted as a soldier of the revo- lution, his service being as follows: Private Captain Ebenezer Mason's company of min- ute-men in Colonel Jonathan Warren's regi- ment, which marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775 ; service, ten days ; private Cap- tain Joel Green's company, Colonel Ebenezer Leonard's regiment ; muster roll dated Au- gust 1, 1775; enlisted May 4, 1775; service three months five days; private Captain Jo- siah Waite's company, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flagg's division of Samuel Denney's Worcester county regiment ; marched August 21, 1777, discharged August 23, 1777 ; service five days, including two days (forty miles) travel from home; company marched to Had- ley on an alarm to the northward. After liv- ing for a time in Sutton and Worcester, Mas- sachusetts, John Waite removed to Mason, New Hampshire, and spent the remaining years of his life in that town. He married, in Worcester, December 24, 1772, Rachel, daugh- ter of Samuel Birch, of Sutton. He married (second) October 5, 1796, Lucy Farmer, who died at age of one hundred two years. His children : I. John. 2. Amos, born Mason, July 8, 1785, died Weston, Vermont, August 25, 1852. 3. Daniel (see post). 4. James. 5. Sumner. 6. Sally.
(VI) Daniel Waite, son of John and Rachel (Birch) Waite, was born in Mason, New Hampshire, March 16, 1789, and died August
5, 1855. He was a soldier of the war of 1812- 15, and held a commission as ensign ; and after the war was made major-general of militia. Previous to the Morgan excitement and dis- appearance he was a prominent Mason. He married, May 28, 1815, Cynthia Read, born in Rockingham, Vermont, July 29, 1788, died July 18, 1880, aged nearly ninety-two years. Children: I. Martha Elvira, born Chester, Vermont, September 8, 1816; married Janu- ary 4, 1841, Franklin C. Spaulding. 2. Otis Frederick Read, March 3, 1818 ( see post ). 3. Albert Scripture, born in Chester, April 14, 1821; lawyer; married (first) at Acworth, New Hampshire, October 23, 1850, Caroline, daughter of Seth Arnold, (second) at Alstead, New Hampshire, June 2, 1854, Harriet E., daughter of Ahijah Kingsbury. 4. Sarah Au- gusta, April 22, 1823, died Boston, May 2, 1856. 5. Daniel Harkness, born Chester, 1824, died April, 1837.
(VII) Major Otis Frederick Read Waite, son of Daniel and Cynthia ( Read) Waite, was born in Chester, Windsor county, Vermont, March 3, 1818, learned his trade as practical printer in New York city, then returned to New England and became , foreman in the office of the Cheshire Republican, in Keene, New Hampshire, continuing in that capacity from 1838 to 1847. Here he laid the founda- tion of his future career as a successful news- paper man, and from the composing room of the Republican went to the higher position of editor and publisher of the Spirit of the Times, which soon afterward merged with the Amer- ican View. Later on he was made associate editor of the Springfield Republican, one of the leading newspapers of New England, and perhaps the very first in point of literary ex- cellence ; and still later he published the Berk- shire County Eagle, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1854 Mr. Waite became owner and editor of the National Eagle, Claremont, and con- tinued its publication five years, until April, 1859. For four years he was associated editor of the American Stock Journal. published in New York city, and he also compiled the Nete Hampshire Register during three years.
In course of his newspaper work Mr. Waite had acquired an extensive acquaintance throughout the state, and in 1856 and 1857 he was engrossing clerk in the New Hampshire legislature, and state insurance commissioner for a term of three years, beginning in 1859. In April, 1861, he was appointed by Governor Goodwin recruiting officer for Sullivan county. New Hampshire, and soon afterward became military secretary to the war committee of the
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governor's council, the duties of which office he performed through Governor Berry's ad- ministration, and rendered efficient service to the state in the organization and equipment of regiments and companies and their prompt transportation to the front. Thus for many years Mr. Waite was a public man in New Ilampshire, and was regarded as one of the best practical newspaper men in the state. Soon after the war he was appointed to write and compile the work, "Claremont War History," following this with his "New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion," works which proved of much value, and which always have been re- garded standard authorities on the subject treated. Another of Mr. Waite's contributions to current literature of New England is "East- man's Standard Coast Guide Book," of which he was author, and still another, although local in character, is his "Early History of Claremont," a virtual reproduction of an ac- count read by him at the meeting of the New Hampshire Historical Society in September, 1891. He was actively and for a long time identified with the militia organizations of New Hampshire, a member of the famous Keene Light Infantry, later its quartermaster, and still later, by successive promotions, ad- jutant and major of the Twentieth regiment of New Hampshire militia. In 1845 he was brigade inspector. Originally he was a Whig in politics ; became a Free-Soiler, and was an original Republican.
Major Waite married at Keene, New Hampshire, September 10, 1843, Mary E. Barker, born Auburn, New York, May, 1823, daughter of David Barker. Children : 1. Mary Augusta, born Keene, November 2, 1844, died November 29, 1844. 2. David Sim- mons (see post). 3. Clara Simmons, March 16, 1848; married April 24, 1872, Luther M. Lovell, of Worcester, and had Hiram, Polly, Martha and Annie. 4. Ellen E., August 22, 1849; married, November 25, 1875, Henry Sabin, of Boston. 5. Daniel, July 19, 1851 ; farmer ; married, May 17, 1876, Sarah A. White, of Bridgewater, and has one son, David S., now of Portland, Maine. 6. Annie Eliza, December 22, 1855. 7. Caroline Long, born Claremont, New Hampshire, March 8, 1858, died May 28, 1858.
(VIII) David Simmons Waite, son of Ma- jor Otis Frederick Read and Mary E. (Bar- ker) Waite, was born in 1846, and, like his distinguished father, learned the printer's trade, completing his apprenticeship when he was seventeen years old; but later on, in 1867, after working for a time on the Boston Her-
ald, and in the employ of Alfred Mudge & Son, he turned to mercantile pursuits, and three years afterward, in 1870, founded the business ever since carried on under the style of Bates Street Shirt Company, and which in its special manufactures has grown into one of the largest establishments of its kind in all New England. The company incorporated in 1906, with Mr. Waite as its president and treasurer. He is a director of the Manufac- turers' National Bank of Lewistown, a Tem- plar Mason, and in many other ways is closely identified with the business and social life of the city of Lewistown.
On March 30, 1870, Mr. Waite married Jo- sephine Louisa, daughter of John Turner Stanton, of Norwich, Connecticut. Children : I. Parker, born May 27, 1876. 2. John Tur- ner, born August 12, 1877; married Inez Gil- man, daughter of A. W. Gilman, of New York city, and has two daughters, Virginia G. Waite, born February 18, 1898, and Josephine Louise Waite, born December 25, 1908.
CARLL This name, of which there were not many representatives in the early colonial days, appears to be of German or Dutch origin. However this may be, there were members of this family in Cumberland county, Maine, prior to the revo- lution, who showed great bravery in the de- fense of the rights of their adopted country.
(I) Samuel Carll was a resident of Scar- boro, Cumberland county, Maine, where he died May 13, 1785. He married Esther -, who died May 17, 1785. They raised a large family.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Samuel (1) and Esther Carll, was born in York, Maine, March II, 1747, died January 11, 1828. He served as a private in the Continental army during the revolution, participating in the battle of Bunker Hill. Some of his accoutrements, in- cluding his gun and powder-horn, are still in the possession of members of the family. Soon after the close of the struggle for indepen- dence he settled in Waterboro upon a large tract of wild land which he cleared for farm purposes, and the remainder of his life was spent in that town. He was one of the early pioneers in that section, and labored indus- triously to open and develop its natural ad- vantages as an agricultural district. He sup- ported the old Whig party in politics. He mar- ried, September 12, 1771, Sarah Burbank, born in Scarboro, March 10, 1749, died March 29, 1820. They had seven children. Members of the Free Will Baptist church.
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(III) Samuel (2), fourth child of Na- thaniel and Sarah (Burbank) Carll, was born in Scarboro, October 5, 1781, died in 1865. While he was yet an infant his parents re- moved to Waterboro, where he was reared to farm life and he followed that occupation throughout his active years. His natural in- telligence and sound judgment in all matters relating to public affairs led him into prom- inence. He not only served as a member of the board of selectmen, but acted as moder- ator at town meetings for twenty years in succession. In his younger days he united with the Whig element in politics, but joined the Republican movement at its organization and earnestly supported its principles during the remainder of his life. He married (first) Charity Hamilton and had children: I. Lou- ise, widow of Hosea Merrifield. 2. Mercy, married Robert Huntress. 3. Olive, married Thomas Goodwin. 4. Nathaniel, married Clarissa Smith. 5. Mary, married Rufus Mc- Kenney. He married (second) Rhoda Hunt- ress, daughter of William Huntress, of Water- boro. Their children were: I. Seth S., see forward. 2. John S., born August 4, 1822, married Susan Roberts, of Waterboro, and had children: i. Ada F., married Dr. Walter J. Downs, has children: Joseph, Carll S. and Grover C .; ii. Warren R., married Lucy Davis, of Massachusetts; iii. Walter B., twin of Warren R., married Dora Ricker, of Wa- terboro, and has children: Irving and Arthur C .; iv. Everett C .; v. Samuel J .; vi. Eugene H .; vii. John S. Jr. 3. Harriet C., born Au- gust 17, 1824, married Samuel Jameson, of Providence, Rhode Island, and has children : i. Mary B., married Bart Bragg, of Orange, Massachusetts; ii. Carll S., married Linneth Clark, of Orange, Massachusetts, has two chil- dren : Ralph and Florence; iii. Harry, mar- ried Helen Pratt, of Braintree, Massachusetts, iv. William C .; v. Lulu, married Stephen Holmes, of Natick, Massachusetts, and has children : Robert, Max and Marjorie. 4. Jason L., born July 16, 1826, married Me- linda Burnham, of Waterboro, and has one child, Alice, who married Henry Lee, and has children : Harry, John and Richard. 5. Frances M., born May 27, 1829, married George W. Whipple, now deceased. 6. So- phronia, born August II, 1832, married Rufus D. Chase, deceased, and has one daughter, Fanny. There were three other children.
(IV) Seth S., eldest child of Samuel and Rhoda (Huntress) Carll, was born in Water- boro, Maine, January 22, 1820, died November 19, 190I. He learned the trade of brick-
laying when a young man and followed this occupation from 1841 until 1853. With the exception of these years he has always resided in Waterboro, and since 1853 has devoted his attention to cultivating the farm he owned and occupied. He enjoyed a long period of prosperity as the result of his untiring energy, and was regarded by his fellow townsmen as one of the leading and most successful farm- ers in the district. Politically he was a Re- publican, and as a member of the board of se- lectmen rendered much valuable service to the town. He married, November 20, 1853, Jo- anna Smith Roberts, born in Waterboro, 1837, daughter of Benjamin Roberts. Their chil- dren were: I. Sidney B., born April 28, 1855, married, November 27, 1881, Joanna R. Thing, of Waterboro, and has children : Elwin S., Clarence T. and Arlene. 2. George W., born August 7, 1857, married, November 9, 1886, N. Alice Libby, of Limerick, and has children : Francis W., Madge M. and Earl C. 3. Curtis S., born February 12, 1861, died November 17, 1895. He was a very success- ful merchant of South Waterboro, was post- master and county treasurer for four years, and was an intelligent, well conducted young man, esteemed and respected by all. He mar- ried, December 24, 1884, Jennie P. Sargent, of Portland, and left one daughter, Florence S., born May 22, 1890. 4. Lizzie E., born May 15, 1864, married Willis Coffin. 5. Jason S., see forward. 6. Rhoda M., born June 3, 1872. 7. Herbert H., see forward.
(V) Jason Seth, fourth son and fifth child of Seth S. and Joanna Smith ( Roberts) Carll, was born in Waterboro, July 7, 1868. He was educated in the district schools of his native town, and during the whole course of his busi- ness life has been associated with his brother, Herbert H. For a time they worked in cul- tivating the farm, later owning a farm which they sold in 1900 and went into trade. They opened a general store in Waterboro Village and disposed of this in 1903 and bought out the grain business of James P. O'Brien, which they enlarged considerably and have carried on successfully since that time. In addition to this they have an extensive canning plant, ad- joining the grain mill. in which they can ap- ples. corn, baked beans, pumpkin, squashes and clam chowder. During the busy season they employ forty hands. They are also engaged in the lumber trade. They are members of En- terprise Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Waterboro, and of the Grange at South Waterboro. They are attendants at the Baptist church and are Republican in poli-
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tics. Jason S. was town collector in 1893, town treasurer in 1894-95, and again in 1906-07. Fle served as a member of the county committee during the unfinished term of his brother, Curtis S., mentioned above, and later two full terms. He married, May 24, 1892, Annie C., daughter of Asa Libby, of Limerick, and has had children: Harold C., born August, 1804, died at the age of six months : Hazel B., May 25, 1896; Crete M., September 9, 1900; Belva C., December 24, 1907.
(V) Herbert Hobbs, youngest child of Seth S. and Joanna Smith ( Roberts) Carll, was born in Waterboro, September 14, 1875. For details of his career see Jason S. above. He married, February 10, 1904, Cora A., daughter of Arthur A. Brown, of Deering, Maine, and they have children: Wilmer E., born Febru- ary 19, 1905, and Marion E., June 24, 1907.
Thomas Andrew Brewer was BREWER born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 15, 1793, settled in the district of Maine, and died in Calais, Wash- ington county, Maine, September 5, 1861. He married, July 25, 1824, Eliza Todd, born in Cherryfield, Washington county, Maine, No- vember 30, 1796, died in Calais, Maine, in March, 1863. Children, born in Calais: I. Thomas Child, April 30, 1825, died September 17, 1826. 2. George James, November 7, 1826: enlisted as a private in the First Maine Heavy Artillery, Company L, was promoted June 25. 1864, to second lieutenant and was honorably discharged ; participated in the bat- tles before Petersburg, June 15 to 19, 1864, when the Union losses were 9,964 killed, wounded and missing ; his regiment went into the battle 1,200 strong and come out with 400 effective men : he was twice wounded in the arm and chest by gunshots; after the close of the war he was given a position in the post- office department in Washington, where he died September 3, 1899; married (first) Hat- tie H. Russell, November 21, 1872; she died childless, December 15, 1873; married (sec- ond) Laura Finley, who died childless in 1892. 3. Caroline Augusta, May 31, 1828, died June 26, 1905; married, June 13, 1848, Smith Tink- ham. 4. Susan Maria, January 1, 1830, mar- ried, December 5, 1855, Frederick G. Balkam ; two children : Smith T. and Fred G. Balkam ; Mr. Balkam died April 20, 1858, and Mrs. Balkam died December 27. 1896. 5. John Stephen. see forward. 6. William Norton.
John Stephen, son of Thomas Andrew and
Eliza (Todd) Brewer, was born in Calais, Maine, December 12, 1831. He attended the public schools at Calais and Robbinston, Maine. lle was a clerk in a store in Robbinston, where he received a thorough business training, as it was a general store and dealt in all the commodities needed in a frontier town. He left Robbinston in 1849 to take a clerkship in a store in Eastport, Maine, and in 1852 located in Chicago, Illinois, where he was employed for a short time by John H. Kinzie, the second white man born in the future city of Chicago, who had literally grown up with the place. He became connected with the railroad business in 1852 in the office of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad Company as assistant secre- tary of the corporation and purchasing agent for the road, which positions he held for twelve years, 1852-64. He was a member of the board of trade of Chicago, 1864-68, and in 1868 established himself in the railway supply business and he was still in that business in 1908, with forty years of earnest work. In the prime of his life he was affiliated with the leading clubs of Chicago, but relinquished club life for the quiet found at home. He was instrumental in founding, with the co-opera- tion of Mr. W. H. Arnold, the organization known as "Sons of Maine" in Chicago; the first meeting for the purpose being called by them at the Palmer House in Chicago in 1877, and the name first adopted "Sons of Maine" was subsequently changed so as to include the "Daughters of Maine." At the first meeting the Hon. Thomas Drummond, United States district judge, was elected president and Mr. Brewer the first secretary of the society. He served as a trustee and treasurer of the Unity Church Society of Chicago for a number of years, he having united with the Unitarian church. His political preference was the Re- publican party, but he was not an office seeker or a political office holder. He married, De- cember II, 1855, Helen Maria, daughter of Leonard and Ann Shaw, of Eastport, Maine, and their children, all born in Chicago, Illi- nois, in the following order, were: I. Frank Endicott, born June 15, 1860, died March 17, 1870. 2. Robert Todd, June 13, 1863, mar- ried, in 1902, Paula F. Seckel, no children. 3. Helen Augusta, February 1, 1867. married Dr. Randolph Brunson, of Hot Springs, Ar- kansas, May 8. 1897, and their children are : Catherine and Dorothy (twins) and Francis Atherton Brunson.
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