Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 110

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896

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(IX) Percival Orison, son of Andrew Wil- son (2) Hopkins, was born at Frankfort, De- cember 6, 1874. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Frankfort, at the East Maine Conference Seminary at Rocksport, where he graduated in 1895, and at the Maine Medical College, Brunswick, where he was graduated in the class of 1901 with the degree of M. D. He began to practice his profession at Spring- field, Maine, and continued for three years. After six months in practice at Vinal Haven he came to Phillips, Maine, February 6, 1905, and has been in general practice there since. He is interested in educational affairs, and was supervisor of schools in Frankfort. He is a member of Forest Lodge of Free Masons, Springfield, and of Mount Abram Lodge, No. 69, Ancient Order of United Workmen, of Phillips. He married, June 18, 1902, Mary Sperry, daughter of Bennett and Lydia (Bright) Sperry, of Springfield. She was a graduate nurse of the Maine General Hos- pital. Her father, Bennett Sperry, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, November 25, 1828, died in Fall City, Nebraska, December 22, 1899. Her mother, Lydia (Bright) Sperry, was born at Greekville, Maine, in 1831, and is now living at Fall City, Nebraska. Other children of Bennett and Lydia (Bright) Sperry: i. Burton Sperry, married Lillie De Wold and has one child, William Sperry; ii. Ulysses Grant Sperry, married Gertrude Dare and has one son, Charles Sperry; iii. George Sperry had four children: Maud, Blanche and two others. The Sperry family came originally from Norway. Mary Sperry was born in Hamilton, Kansas; removed to Fall City, Nebraska, where she was educated in the public schools. She took the course in the State Normal School of Pennsylvania, and

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then studied nursing in the Maine General Hospital, where she received her diploma in 1901.

LUDWIG Joseph Ludwig, born in 1699, undertook to emigrate from Nenderoth, in the Province of Dietz, Germany, in June, 1753, under the aus- pices of General Samuel Waldo, and settled at Broad Bay, in the District of Maine, which place in 1773 took the name of its promoter and benefactor, and became known as Waldo- boro. Joseph Ludwig had with him his wife, Catherine Kline, and three children, together with sixty other German families. While in the English Channel the ship touched at Cowes, Isle of Wight. There Joseph Ludwig with several other passengers died, and they were buried on the coast of France, and the fatherless family with the other families, con- tinued their journey, arriving at Broad Bay on the coast of Maine in September, 1753, and established a German colony. The widow Catherine and the two sons had received a good German education, and the families were all Lutherans. The three children of Joseph and Catherine (Kline) Ludwig, were born in Nenderoth, Germany: Jacob, 1730; Joseph Henry (q. v.); Catherine Elizabeth, date of birth unknown.

(II) Jacob, eldest son of Joseph and Cath- erine (Kline) Ludwig, was born in 1730, and was baptized John Jacob. He came with his mother, sister and brother to Broad Bay, Dis- trict of Maine, in 1753, and in 1755 married Marguerite Hilt, who came over with the colonists. The two brothers selected farms on opposite sides of the Madomok river, and each became prominent in the offices of the colony and of the town they founded, which was in- corporated as Waldoboro, District of Maine, in 1773, under the direction of the general court of Massachusetts. The brothers held all the offices of trust and profit in the gift of their townsmen, including town clerk, select- man, for forty years, and both of the brothers were delegates to the general court of Massa- chusetts at various times. Jacob appears to have lived in Boston, where he enlisted into the colonial army and did service at Ticon- deroga, Crown Point and Lake George. He held the rank of orderly sergeant of his com- pany, sent to Machias, Maine, for the protec- tion of the place. He held the office of justice of the peace up to about the time of his death, which occurred in Waldoboro, January I, 1826. Children of Jacob and Marguerite (Hilt) Ludwig, born in Waldoboro: Mar-

garet, 1766;, Eva Catherine, 1768; Elizabeth, 1770; Joseph Henry, 1771 ; Mariah Catherine, 1772; Catherine, March, 1774; Jacob, 1776.

(II) Joseph Henry, second child of Joseph and Catherine (Kline) Ludwig, was born in Nenderoth, Germany, in 1740, and came with his widowed mother and brother and sister to Broad Bay, District of Maine, when thirteen years of age. He married, in 1771, Eliza- beth Kaler, a member of the colony. He ex- actly duplicated the public service rendered by his elder brother, and they were the two principal men of the time for forty years. It did not devolve in either the minister, the doc- tor or the man of great learning in the col- ony to take part in the government of the town, as was so common in other towns in Massachusetts in the early days of their for- mation, and church and state were widely di- vided in this German colony. Joseph Henry Ludwig died in Waldoboro in 1833. Children, all born in Waldoboro: I. Jacob, married Peggy Read; removed to Ohio in 1800. 2. Charles, married Susan Read ; lived in Liberty, Maine. 3. Caty, married Philip Shuman. 4. Godfrey (q. v.). 5. Polly, married Jacob Cremer. 6. Charlot, married Samuel Fish ; lived in Waldoboro. 7. Peggy, married John Moody; lived in Nobleboro, Maine. 8. Jo- seph, married Sally Spear, and (second) Sabra . Moody. 9. James, married Jane Cremer. IO. Peter, married Bathsheba Clouse, and (second) Betsey Connor. II. John, married Sophrona Pease; was killed by fall of a tree. 12. Sally, born 1792; married John Lord, a shipwright.

(III) Godfrey, second son and fourth child of Joseph Henry and Elizabeth (Kaler) Lud- wig, was born in Waldoboro, Maine, and mar- ried Jane Read. He probably was a farmer, and lived on his father's farm, as his elder brother removed to Ohio. Children of God- frey and Jane (Read) Ludwig, born in Wal- doboro: I. Aaron, married Catherine Wag- ner. 2. Serina, married Thomas Wagner. 3. Ebenezer, married Hannah Rivers; lived in St. George. 4. Catherine, married Thomas Wagner. 5. Rufus, married Mary E. Parker, of Dixmont, Maine. 6. Eliza, married James Melven, of Winslow, Maine. 7. Lemuel, born March 10, 1814; married Jane Ann Wagner, of Belmont, August 9, 1836, and died March II, 1839. 8. Alexander, married Nancy Bridges. 9. George (q. v.). 10. Martha, married Nicholas Orff. 11. Godfrey, married Rebecca Kaler ; lived in Rockport, Maine.

(IV) George, son of Godfrey and Jane (Read) Ludwig, was born in 1817. He mar-

James Munroe

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ried Sarah Richards, a descendant from Will- iam Richards, the Puritan, who came from Weymouth, England, to Weymouth, Plymouth Colony, New England, in 1648. Children : Samson, Faustina, Roscoe F. (q. v.), Claudius. (V) Roscoe Fuller, son of George and Sa- rah (Richards) Ludwig, was born in Waldo- boro, Maine, September 29, 1846. He at- tended the public schools of his native town. When eleven years of age he removed with his parents to Chelsea, Massachusetts, and was graduated at the Chelsea high school, and in 1860 removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he studied dentistry under the direction of Dr. W. W. Alport, then the best surgeon-dentist in Chicago. He supplemented this instruc- tion by attending a course of lectures at the Chicago Medical College and a full course at Rush Medical College. He was graduated at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, D. D. S., in March, 1867, and engaged in the practice of his profession in Chicago from that time, gain- ing a reputation second to no dental surgeon in the city. He patented several dental insti- tutions; became a founder of the Chicago Dental College and of the University Dental College; and was a member of the faculty of the Dental College of the University and of the American Dental College before they were absorbed by the Northwestern University. He was sent as a delegate from the American Dental Society of Chicago to the International Medical Convention at Washington, D. C., and to the one at Berlin, Germany. He served as a soldier in the civil war for nine months in 1862, and for one hundred days in the 134th Illinois Volunteer Regiment near the close of the war. This service secured to him comradeship in George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., of Chicago. He was elected a member of the Suburban Country Club of Chicago. He made his home in La Grange, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He married, in March, 1867, Emma Rich Scales, of Chicago; chil- dren, born in Lagrange, Illinois, were: Ros- cow Frost, died October 25, 1883; Daisy Emma L., Faustina L., and Leon Eugene.

Alexander Munroe, the first of MUNROE the name of whom we have definite information, was an active participant at the battle of Quebec, and subsequently came to the United States, set- tling at Springfield, Massachusetts, from whence he removed to Minot, Maine, where he turned his attention to farming, and lived there the remainder of his life. The name of

his wife was Mary Hutchinson, and they were the parents of a number of children.

(II) David, son of Alexander Munroe, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, March II, 1777, died March 16, 1827. He acquired a practical education, and in young manhood learned the trade of gunsmith, which line of work he followed for a number of years. He was an inventor of considerable note for those days, inventing several labor devices princi- pally used among the farmers in his neigh- borhood, and in addition to this was a thor- ough mechanic and a practical and successful farmer, conducting his operations on a farm in Minot, Maine. He married Ruth Niles, born April 7, 1780, died September 23, 1850. Chil- dren : I. Nathan, born March 16, 1804, died July 8, 1866. 2. Eunice, December 5, 1805. died March 23, 1867. 3. Mary, November 29, 1807, died July 5, 1828. 4. William, January 5, 1810, died July 6, 1878. 5. Jennet, Janu- ary 25, 1812, died January 19, 1892. 6. Jane, April 26, 1814, died February 20, 1887. 7. Nancy, January 15, 1816, died September 12, 1819. 8. Cynthia, February 24, 1818, died September 29, 1848. 9. Noble N., December 26, 1819, died August 26, 1886. 10. John A., October 13, 1821, died January 2, 1848. 1I. James; see forward.

(III) James, son of David and Ruth (Niles) Munroe, was born April 8, 1826, and is the only surviving member of the family. He was educated in the common schools of Minot and North Auburn. In 1839 he entered the general store of Cyrus S. Packard, his brother-in-law, and later went to South Paris, Maine, where he was employed in a general store as a clerk. In March, 1846, he was ad- mitted to the firm of Packard & Munroe (shoe manufacturers), consisting of Cyrus S. Packard and Noble N. Munroe, and the busi- ness was continued under the name of C. S. Packard & Co. until 1855, when, on account of failing eyesight, Mr. C. S. Packard retired from the firm, and the business was continued under the firm name of James Munroe & Co. In November, 1865, Henry M. Packard was admitted as a partner. The business was con- tinued until 1880, since which time he has practically lived retired.

He is interested in several manufacturing industries, serving as president of the Odell Manufacturing Company, Groveton, New Hampshire, has interests in the Brompton Pulp & Paper Company, Brompton, Province of Quebec, and is a director in the Manufac- turers' National Bank of Lewiston, Maine. Mr. Munroe has been a liberal supporter and

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attendant of the Congregational church, and in numerous ways has contributed to the wel- fare and advancement of his fellow citizens. Being a man of sound judgment and keen dis- crimination, his advice and counsel has often been sought by young men who were launch- ing out upon the business world, and the same was freely given and attended by good re- sults. Mr. Munroe's career, both as a busi- ness man and private citizen, is well worthy of emulation. He married Mary E. Young, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, April 30, 1830, died February 28, 1906, daughter of Charles P. and Elizabeth Quimby Young. Children : I. Alice, married Fred L. Dixon, M. D., now of Denver, Colorado, and they are the pa- rents of three children : Mary, Edith L., Ruth Dixon. 2. James B., of Boston, Mass.

(For ancestry see Major William Allan I.)

ALLAN (III) George Washington, son of Colonel John and Mary ( Pat- ton) Allan, was born in Cumber- land, Nova Scotia, March 13, 1776, drowned at sea, August 24, 1806. He married Mary Cutts Hart, born 1779, died 1864; three chil- dren : I. Theodore Cutts, born December 26, 1803, died 1865; married Nancy Hall and had two children, Theodore M., born February, 1844, and Mary, born April, 1847. 2. John George, April 5, 1805, died 1824. 3. Mary Elizabeth, March 15, 1807.

(IV) Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of George Washington and Mary Cutts (Hart) Allan, was born March 15, 1807, died at North Lubec, Maine, in 1892. She married Colonel George Comstock, born April 19, 1799, and had seven children: I. Hiram, born February 10, 1828, died April 30, 1900; mar- ried Mary E. Brown. 2. Mary Ardelia, De- cember 20, 1829, died August 8, 1849. 3. Ann Maria, May 21, 1832, married Captain John Albion Davis (see Davis). 4. Theodore Allan, May 3, 1834, died April 10, 1888. 5. Eurilla Elizabeth, January 8, 1838, married Alfred Small. 6. Lucia Emily, May 8, 1843, died February 16, 1878. 7. Sarah Jeannett, June II, 1845.

The family of Rice is an old one in

RICE America, coming from England be- fore 1640, and has spread out throughout the United States. It has ac- quitted itself with credit through all genera- tions. It was identified with the pioneer settlement of Maine, has numerous representa- tives still in that state, and has sent abroad sons who have reflected credit upon their an- cestry and nativity.

(I) Deacon Edmond Rice came from Barkhamstead, in Hertfordshire, England, where he was born about 1594. He was set- tled in Sudbury, Massachusetts, before 1639, being among the pioneers of that town, and was appointed in the year named to look at the plantations. He was an active, useful and respected citizen; served as deacon to the church, as selectman, and was representative to the general court in October, 1640, and again in 1643. He was accompanied on his arrival by his wife Thomazine and seven chil- dren, and two more were born on their ar- rival. She died June 13, 1654, and he married (second) March I, 1655, Mercy, widow of Thomas Bingham, of Cambridge, and she bore him two children. Late in life he removed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, where he died May 3, 1663, and his widow subsequently mar- ried William Hunt, of that town. His chil- dren were : Henry, Edward, Thomas, Mathew, Samuel, Joseph, Lydia, Edmond, Benjamin, Ruth and Anna.

(II) Henry, eldest son of Edmond and Thomazine Rice, was a native of England, born 1617, according to a statement made by him January 25, 1667, when he called himself fifty years old. He was admitted freeman in Sudbury in 1658, and resided in that town, re- moving late in life to Framingham, where he died February 10, 17II. His will had been made nearly six years at this time, and was proved nineteen days after his death. The in- ventory of his estate footed up 527 pounds II shillings. He married, in Sudbury, Febru- ary 1, 1643, Elizabeth Moore, and died August 3, 1705. Their children were: Mary, Eliza- beth, Hannah, Jonathan, Abigail, David, Thomasin, Rachel, Lydia and Mercy.

(III) Jonathan, eldest son of Henry and Elizabeth (Moore) Rice, was born July 3, 1654, in Sudbury, and died April 12, 1725, in Framingham. He resided some years in his native town, and was subsequently a leading citizen of Framingham, where he was select- man and representative in 1711 and 1720. He married (first) March 23, .1675, Martha Eames, who died February 2, 1676; (second) November 1, 1677, Rebecca Watson, of Cam- bridge, and died December 22, 1689. He mar- ried (third) February 12, 1691, Elizabeth Wheeler. His children were: Martha (died young), Jonathan, David, Anna, Henry, Mar- tha, Hezekiah, Abraham, Ezekiel, Elizabeth, Phineas, Sarah, Richard and Abigail.

(IV) Ezekiel, sixth son of Jonathan Rice, and child of his third wife, Elizabeth Wheeler, was born October 14, 1700, in Sudbury, and

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spent his life in Framingham. He married (first) June 23, 1723, Hannah Whitney, who survived less than thirty years, and he married (second) May 10, 1753, Prudence, widow of David Bigelow, daughter of Joseph and Han- nah (Provender) Pratt. Her first husband was Ebenezer Stone, who died in 1752. She was born September 22, 1698, and died about 1767-68. He married (third) about 1770 (in- tentions published November 25, 1769) Mar- garet, widow of Isaac Bond. She survived but a short time, and he married (fourth) January 8, 1772, at Sherborn, Ruth Chapin. His children were: Ezekiel, John, James, Hannah, Daniel, Richard, Martha, Urial and Moses.

(V) Richard, fifth son of Ezekiel and Han- nah (Whitney) Rice, was born October 20, 1730, in Framingham, and died at Natick, Massachusetts, January 24, 1793. He mar- ried, January 16, 1755, Sarah Drury, born De- cember 8, 1734. After the death of her hus- band she removed with her son James to Union, Maine, where she was a member of the church, and died March 28, 1821, in her eighty-seventh year. They had two children : Martha and James. The former became the wife of Samuel Gammage.

(VI) James, only son of Richard and Sarah (Drury) Rice, was born June 24, 1758, in Natick, and resided there till after his chil- dren were born. About 1806 he removed to Union, Maine, and became a member of the church there in 1808. He was elected to sev- eral offices in that town, and died there April 3, 1829, in his seventy-first year. He mar- ried, June 1, 1780, Sarah Perry, of Natick, born October 25, 1760, died September 28, 1823, in Union. Children: Sarah and Na- than D.

(VII) Nathan D., only son of James and Sarah (Perry) Rice, was born in Natick, Au- gust 29, 1784, and was about twenty-two years old when he removed with his father to Maine. He endured the hardships of poverty and a struggle with the wilderness in a cold country, and became one of the substantial farmers in his section of the state. He mar- ried (first) February 10, 1806, Deborah, daughter of Major Barzillia and Deborah (Cushman) Banister, of Framingham, Massa- chusetts. She was born there June 9, 1786, and died November 1, 1845. Major Banister was a son of Joseph and Mary Banister, of Brookfield, Massachusetts, the former a son of Joseph, of Brookfield, who was born 1765, son of Christopher and Jane (Goodwin) Ban- ister, of Marlborough. Nathan D. Rice mar-

ried (second) March 5, 1851, Abby M., widow of Joseph D. Emery, of Augusta, Maine. His children were: Harriet, Albert Perry, Rich- ard Drury, Nathan F., James Banister, Sarah, Cyrus Cushman, Elisha Esty, Lyman Lyon, Evaline and Anna Maria.

(VIII) Richard Drury, second son of Na- than D. and Deborah (Banister) Rice, was born April 11, 1810, in Union, and remained there until sixteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to the printing business at Thom- aston, Maine. He was subsequently engaged in that employment at Exeter, New Hamp- shire, and also at Boston, Massachusetts. He then pursued a course of classical studies at the academy in China, Maine, under the tui- tion of Hon. John B. Pitkin, and soon after became proprietor and editor of the Maine Free Press at Hallowell. This was an anti- Masonic paper, and continued for several years at that place. Mr. Rice removed to Au- gusta in 1836, and established a bookstore in the Whitwell Block, and sold out four years later. In the meantime he pursued the study of law under the teaching of Hon. James W. Bradbury, United States senator from Maine, and in 1840 was admitted to practice. He im- mediately entered into partnership with Sen- ator Bradbury, and engaged actively in the practice of his profession. From 1844 to 1848 he was editor of The Age, the leading Demo- cratic newspaper of Maine, in connection with his law practice. In the last-named year he was appointed by Governor Dana to the benck of the court of common pleas for the middle district of Maine, and held this position about four years, when he was promoted to asso- ciate justice of the supreme court. During eleven years he retained this position, but he resigned December 1, 1863, to engage in the railroad business, becoming president of the Portland & Kennebec Railroad Company, and active manager of its affairs.

He married (first) April 12, 1836, Anne R. Smith, of Hallowell, who died June 15, 1838; (second) November 18, 1840, Almirah E. Robinson. There was a son born of the first marriage, Albert Smith (see forward) ; and a daughter of the second, Abby Emery, born May 18, 1842, in Augusta, died February 12, 1868, in California. She married, September 17, 1863, Captain Samuel Dana, U. S. A., who served throughout the great rebellion and at its close was stationed at California. His wife's remains were brought to Augusta and deposited in Forest Grove Cemetery. Chil- dren : Elsie Winchester, and George Mur- ray.

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(IX) Albert Smith, only son of Hon. Rich- ard D. and Anne (Smith) Rice, was born April 4, 1837, in Augusta, and attended the public schools of that city, where he was fitted for college. He was a member of the class of 1856 in Bowdoin College, but did not complete the course. He took up the study of law at Rockland, and was admitted to the bar. He settled first in Union, whence he removed to Rockland, and was elected register of probate for Knox county, which office he filled for four years. In 1868 he was elected county attorney for the same county, and continued in practice there until 1885, when he retired. He died in that town in February, 1899. He was representative two terms from Rockland, and was at one time president of the State Bar Association of Maine. He was an attendant of the Congregational Church, and in political principles a Democrat. He married May 30, 1861, Frances W. Baker, daughter of Judge Henry Knox Baker, of Hallowell; children : Richard, Henry, Margaret, Merwyn Ap, Thomas B., and Frances and Ellen Adele. The first daughter died in infancy, as did also three sons. The second daughter is the wife of Carlton Farwell Snow, a retired lieutenant of the United States Navy. The youngest daughter is married, and resides at various times with her brothers and sister. The elder of the surviving sons resides in Lynn, Mass.

(X) Merwyn Ap Rice, second son of Al- bert Smith and Frances W. (Baker) Rice, was born November 8, 1867, at Rockland, Maine, and was prepared for college at Phillips Exe- ter Academy, from which he was graduated in 1886. He immediately entered Bowdoin College, from which institution he was gradu- ated in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For the succeeding two years he was a student of the Columbia Law School, New York City, and was admitted to the bar in 1892, in Rockland, Maine, and practiced there for the succeeding seven years. In September, 1899, he removed from New York City and became a member of the law firm of Hubbard & Rice. Five years later he engaged in the brokerage business, becoming partner in the firm of Hutchinson & Rice in 1908, and an- other partner was admitted and the concern is now conducted under the style of Hutchinson, Rice & Hunt, with offices located in Wall street. Mr. Rice has a delightful home at Montclair, New Jersey. He is a member of the National Arts Club. He married, Janu- ary 9, 1893, Ella Frances, daughter of Herbert J. Dow, of Rockland, Maine; children: Mer- wyn Ap, and Albert S.

This is a family very numerously BAKER represented among the pioneers of New England. Persons of this name settled at numerous points along the Massachusetts coast soon after the coming of the Pilgrims, and all or nearly all have left numerous progeny scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land, and who have borne their proportional part in the settlement and development of most of the northern half of New England.

(I) William Baker was of the Plymouth Colony as early as January 7, 1623, probably a very young man, and the records show that he made a bargain on the date above given with Richard Church, about work. He was a pump-maker by trade, but gave most of his time to carpentry after arriving in America. He was accepted as an inhabitant of the Ply- mouth Colony, November 5, 1638, but soon afterward removed to Boston, probably on ac- count of the greater demand for work in his line. He owned land in Concord, Massachu- setts, before 1665, about which time his son William came there from Charlestown to live. The father removed to that town in his old age, and died there February 8, 1679. He married (first) September 23, 1651, Mary, daughter of Edmund Eddington, who died December 12, 1655, and he married (second) April 22, 1656, Pilgrim, daughter of John Eddy, of Watertown, Massachusetts. He probably lived for a time about this date in Watertown. The inventory of his estate was filed June 17, 1679. The records show two children of the first wife and two of the sec- ond, namely: Mary, John, William and Na- thaniel.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 110

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 896

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896