Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 116

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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and wood business, engaged in the window glass trade, which they sold to an excellent ad- vantage to the United States Glass Company. They also owned a gas supplying business which they sold to the Standard Oil Company. They still conduct the Blaisdell Machine Com- pany at Bradford, Pennsylvania, where they manufacture air compressers and engines used in house cleaning plants familiarly known as the vacuum process. The brothers are also largely interested in southern pine and cypress, owning large tracts of timber lands in the southern and gulf states. In speaking of the successful issue of all their undertakings, Mr. Blaisdell gives equal credit to each of the brothers, and states that their different busi- ness interests have been conducted individually without friction or serious differences. Mr. Blaisdell is a member of the Maine Society of the City of New York. He was initiated into the Masonic fraternity through Howard Lodge, No. 69, of Winterport, Maine, passed the council and chapter degree, and was in- stalled in Claremont Commandery, Knights Templar. On removing to New York he af- filiated with De Witt Clinton Commandery, of Brooklyn, and the Mecca Temple of the Mys- tic Shrine. He resides at 1075 Bushwick ave- nue, Brooklyn, New York.

Mr. Blaisdell married (first) Miss Mitchell, daughter of Captain Orin Mitchell, of Rock- land, Maine, who served through the civil war and was discharged in 1865 with the rank of captain, having held that position in the Maine Volunteers. Two children were born of this marriage: Charles Orin, born in Brooklyn, New York, June 8, 1879, and Sarah Ann, born in Brooklyn, New York, October 15, 1880, married George Bell, of Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Blaisdell married (second) Cordelia Bruce, daughter of David Bruce, the typefounder, of New York City, whose father, one of the earliest typefounders in America, sold to Horace Greely the type he first used in printing the New York Tribune.

(For ancestry see preceding sketch.)

(III) Silas Canada Blais-

BLAISDELL dell, son of Eben Ferren and Nancy (Chase) Blais- dell, was born in Winterport, Waldo county, Maine, May 20, 1856. He received his prim- ary and secondary school training in the pub- lic schools of Winterport and Hampden Acad- emy, Hampden, Maine. He matriculated at the University of the City of New York, then located on East 26th street, New York City, in 1879, and during his first year was ap-

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pointed, after a competitive examination with over eight hundred students, assistant demon- strator of anatomy in the college faculty, and won the silver medal awarded to the united classes. In the sophomore year he was awarded the gold medal, the first and only time in the history of the university that these medals had been awarded to a first-year and second-year man. In his senior year he gained honorable mention, with the refusal of a hos- pital appointment. These honors came to a young man who came out of a Maine district school, with only a short period of study at a Maine academy, and this handicap to be re- moved only by persistent hard work in classes where most of the students were regular grad- uates from high schools or preparatory acad- emies. He graduated with the class of 1881- 82 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For twenty-two years he served as demon- strator and lecturer on applied and compar- ative anatomy in the University of New York, as lecturer on regional anatomy in the New York College of Dentistry, and at the present time (1909) is surgeon-in-chief of the Eastern District Hospital, borough of Brooklyn, New York. For many years Dr. Blaisdell has de- voted considerable time to operations on the skull, gaining a wide and varied experience among the hundreds of cases he has handled, and has prepared and read many papers on the subject. In 1900 he read a paper before the Kings County Medical Association, in which he set forth his new ideas, and out of the four or five hundred physicians and surgeons not one sustained the method introduced by him, but at the present time nearly every emi- nent surgeon in the country has adopted his method and is using the special instruments invented by Dr. Blaisdell. He also read an interesting paper on the same subject before the Bellevue Alumni Association in 1907. Dr. Blaisdell enjoys the distinction of being the first and only surgeon in the world who suc- ceeded in successfully stitching the auricle of the heart, having put three stitches therein, the operation being performed in the presence of a dozen physicians, the patient recovering. The celebrated Dr. Von Bergman of Ger- many declared that the operation never had and never could be performed. Dr. Blaisdell is a member of the American Medical Asso- ciation; Kings County Medical Society, Brooklyn, New York; the Brooklyn Medical Society ; the Brooklyn Surgical Society; the Hanover Club, the Sewanaka Boat Club, his membership in the latter being honorary. He was made physician to the Mutual Aid Soci-

ety of Brooklyn. He married, January 29, 1883, Ella Rebecca, daughter of Elanson Fisher, the portrait painter. Dr. Blaisdell has his office and residence at 500 Bedford ave- nue, Brooklyn, New York.

WILSON Wilson was a common name in the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, England, but branches of family were also seated in Cum- berland, Westmoreland, Worcester and Cam- bridge counties, and even extended across the Scottish border. The records show various forms of this name: Wilsonne, Wylsone, Wylson, Wylsonn and Wilion. One branch at a very remote period was established at Pen- rith, county Cumberland, where the Parish Register, 1556-1600, showed one hundred and twenty entries of this name, an evidence that they had been located in that vicinity for gen- erations.

(I) The first from whom a connected line can be traced was William Wilson, who re- sided in Dunnington, Lincolnshire, England.

(II) William (2), son of William (I) Wil- son, was in Boston, Massachusetts, as early as 1635. He had a wife Patience, who died in 1663.

(III) Joseph, son of William (2) and Pa- tience Wilson, was born 1643, in Boston, and was at Andover, Massachusetts, as early as 1670, and died there in 1718. His wife was Mary Lovejoy, born 1652, died 1677. They had sons John and Joseph.

(IV) Joseph (2), second son of Joseph (I) and Mary (Lovejoy) Wilson, born 1677, in Andover, settled in Bradford, Massachu- setts, as early as 1728, and removed thence to Haverhill in 1742. He married Marah Richardson, born 1677, daughter of Lieuten- ant James and Bridget (Hinchman) Rich- ardson, of Andover.

(V) James, son of Joseph (2) and Marah (Richardson) Wilson, was born 1703, in And- over, and settled in Methuen, Massachusetts, as early as 1729. In 1751 he removed to Pel- ham, New Hampshire, where he married Mar- tha Gage, born 1703.

(VI) Joseph (3), son of James and Martha (Gage) Wilson, was born at Pelham, 1735- 1740. He married Abigail, daughter of Jo- seph and Abigail (Nourse) Butler, who was born September 2, 1742. Children: I. Jo- seph Butler, born April 19, 1762, married Phoebe Wyman. 2. Benjamin, October 30, 1763, died young. 3. Thaddeus, February 18. 1765. 4. Nabby, December 19, 1766; mar- ried James Butterfield. 5. Lydia, May 2.

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1768; married William Webster. 6. "Life" (Eliphalet) (Capt.), 1770; married, October 5, 1797, Mrs. Sarah Jameson, and died Feb- ruary 5, 1811 ; children : Abigail, born 1798, married, 1823, Robert Wyllis, of St. George; Captain Life (2), September 22, 1799, mar- ried 1823, Eliza Watson, moved to Illinois ; Sarah, 1801, married Captain Samuel Hinck- ley ; William, 1803, died 1812; Alma, married Captain George M. Jameson; Joseph, 1809, died 1812. 7. David, March 30, 1771 ; mar- ried Sybil Abbott. 8. Billy, March 7, 1773; married Benjamin Hamblet. 9. Hulda, Octo- ber 3, 1775; married Joshua Coburn. IO. Benjamin, May 30, 1880, married

Alds. II. Cyrus, March 3, 1884, married Bowers.

(VII) Thaddeus, third son of Joseph and Abigail (Butler) Wilson, was born at Dracut, Massachusetts, February 18, 1765. He mar- ried (intentions), December 3, 1795, Dolly, daughter of Nehemiah and Sarah (Whiting) Flint, of Dracut, who was born July 29, 1773. Her great-great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Flint, of Salem, Massachusetts, was active in King Philip's war, 1675, "was much re- spected and of commanding influence." Thad- deus Wilson resided with his family at Dra- cut until his removal to Newcastle, Maine, in 1807. His children were: Dolly F., Charles, Josephine, Oliver and Sylvia, all born in Dra- cut, and Alfred, born at Newcastle.

(VIII) Alfred, fourth son of Thaddeus and Dolly (Flint) Wilson, was born July 20, 1809, and died January 28, 1882, in Sheepscott. He attended the public schools until about the age of nineteen years, when he began learn- ing the carpenter's trade with his father and eldest brother. As a young man he continued working with them as a journeyman, and sub -. sequently went to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he was employed at his trade and was subsequently in Methuen, Massachusetts. For a time he was employed at piano building in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and returned to his native town in the spring of 1841. Here he erected a workshop, in which he constructed many articles out of wood. He was a very fine workman, and beside making wheels, con- structed extension tables, wardrobes and vari- ous articles of common use. He thus main- tained himself until old age compelled his re- tirement from labor. He married (first) Feb- ruary 6, 1838, Mary C. Simpson, and (sec- ond) Eliza A. Given. Children, all by her, were: Mary Ellen, born October 30, 1841, married George C. Mahoney ; George Alfred,

April 2, 1843; Clara C., February 1, 1845; Arminta G., June 6, 1848.

(IX) George Alfred, only son of Alfred and Mary C. (Simpson) Wilson, was born April 2, 1843, in Newcastle, Maine, where he received his primary education. He was sub- sequently a student at Lincoln Academy, and in his twentieth year went to Grand Haven, Michigan, where he was employed for two years in a large mercantile house. Thence he went to New York, where he took up the study of dentistry in the New York Dental School, graduating with the degree of D. D. S. in 1870. Since that time he has been stead- ily engaged in the practice of his profession, and has been for some time located on West Thirty-sixth street, where he has an extensive business, taking the entire time of himself and his son. Dr. Wilson has been somewhat active in social matters, was for many years a mem- ber of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and is a member of the New York Athletic Club; Hempstead Bay Yacht Club; Unqua Yacht and Camera Clubs of New York, and is a trustee of the Maine Society of New York. He is an earnest Republican in political prin- ciple, and affiliates with Continental Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of New York City. He married, October 15, 1868, Laura T., daugh- ter of Samuel and Hannah (Hall) Merrill, the former a farmer of Nobleboro, Maine, where he was born October 25, 1845. Chil- dren: I. Maud Merrill, born June 7, 1870, is wife of Grant Stewart. 2. George Alfred. D. D. S., July 9, 1873; is associated with his father in business. 3. Laura Marion, Septem- ber 18, 1882, is wife of J. Parmly Paret.

DARLING The original Darling family settled at Cape Cod, Massa- chusetts, and the branch from

which the Maine line to which the Auburn members belong had for their ancestor John Darling.

(I) John Darling was a native of Cape Cod, and when grown to manhood became a sea captain of some considerable note. He mar- ried a Miss Murtch.

(II) John (2), son of John (I) Darling, the Cape Cod progenitor, was born in 1800, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. When a small boy his father removed to Jay, Maine, where he attended the schools of that day. When old enough he learned the shoemaker's trade. In 1822 he married Elizabeth Goding, born in 1800 at Jay. They both died in 1888, about four weeks apart, in Auburn, Maine, where

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they had resided since 1849. They were the parents of eleven children, including a son named Veranus.

(III) Veranus, son of John (2) and Eliza- beth (Goding) Darling, was born at Jay, Maine, in 1828, and obtained a common school education such as the schools of that day af- forded. When old enough he learned the popular trade of his times-that of a shoe- maker. Subsequently he engaged in the lum- ber business, and became an extensive oper- ator at Rangley Lakes. He also carried on a large stock farm, in which he was highly successful in producing fancy grades of stock. He married Martha, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth (Ridley) Bickford. Children : Charles and John, born at Bowdoin; Benja- min, Lillian, born at Rangley; Veranus S. and Arthur, born at Bowdoin.

(IV) Veranus S., son of Veranus and Martha (Bickford) Darling, was born No- vember 14, 1876, at Bowdoin, Maine. He received a thorough business education, and in 1899 opened a bicycle repair and sale shop, which he operated until 1900, then moved to a store building on Court street, and added sporting goods. In 1904 he established an au- tomobile business and the following year built a garage. In 1907 he sold his store, finding it impossible to attend to that and his rapidly increasing automobile trade. He is of the "Darling Automobile Company," which con- cern has, by careful business management, de- veloped until they have several branch places of business throughout the state of Maine, do- ing a business of one hundred thousand dol- lars in 1907. Mr. Darling married, June 25, 1902, Florence, daughter of George M. Roak; one son, Elmer R. Darling, born May 27, 1903.

ULMER From the Fatherland came John Ulmer in 1740 to Broad Bay, now Waldoboro, Maine. He was a leading man in civil, military, and ec- clesiastical affairs in the infant settlement at the mouth of the turbulent Penobscot. With him came his son John, a lad of four sum- mers.

(II) Captain John (2), son of John (I) Ulmer, was born in Germany in 1736. He re- moved from Waldoboro to what is now the city of Rockland, then an unbroken forest, and was a large landowner. He was the first to burn lime in that section, now so famous for its inexhaustible lime quarries, which indus- try was exploited by General Knox. John was a large shipowner and builder, and

launched the first vessel from Rockland. He cut and shipped lumber in his own boats, nav- igated by himself. He was a lay preacher at the Broad Bay religious meetings, which were held in his log cabin. Though a very pious man, he had a little of the unregenerate Adam left in his constitution, and the story goes that in the midst of one of his religious ex- hortations he perceived that his potato patch was in danger from hogs. He suddenly broke out, "Donner !" and "blitzen !" "Yacob, Yacob! Dare de tam hogs in de potatoes. Run! run!" . He was a pretty shrewd calcu- lator, and made a discriminating selection of quarry, soil, and seashore when he purchased his farm. The Ulmer descendants as much as any others have been instrumental in creating the present prosperous city of Rockland, and have contributed not a little to its material de- velopment. With that city's constant and steady growth the Ulmers have prospered, too, and become well-to-do citizens. Some built mills, some went into navigation, and some run lime kilns, but all have flourished. Captain John married Catherine Remilly, who was born in mid-ocean during the passage of her parents to this country. Their children were : George, Mary, John, Margaret, Matthias, Mary, Philip, Sarah, Martin and Catherine.

(III) Matthias, third son of Captain John (2) and Catherine (Remilly) Ulmer, was born in Rockland, Knox county, Maine; died April 8, 1841. He married Betsey Demuth ; children : Catherine, Sarah, Eunice, Jennie, Ephraim, Susannah, James A., Eliza, Mary Ann and Matthias.

(IV) Major James A., second son of Matthias and Betsey (Demuth) Ulmer, was born in Rockland; died in 1887. He was in- terested in the lime rock quarries. He mar- ried Catherine Black; children : Frederick Thomas, Caroline B., Matthias, Martha L. and Violetta. He married (second) Phebe (Car- riel) Morse, and she was the mother of Ma- tilda M.

(V) Frederick Thomas, eldest son of James A. and Catherine (Black) Ulmer, was born September 28, 1827, in Rockland, Maine ; died December 14, 1893. He received a prac- tical education, and became interested in the limestone quarries with his father, and upon the latter's death succeeded to the business. In 1889 he sold out to the Lime Trust and was not again engaged in active business. He was a regular attendant of the church and gave liberally of his means toward its support. He served one year in the city councils, but

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he was not a politician in the usual sense of the word, but believed in good government, the honest enforcement of the laws, and the election of capable men to office. He mar- ried Mary F., daughter of Obadiah Morse, January 19, 1851 ; children : Ralph Rising and Nellie G.

(VI) Ralph Rising, son of Frederick T. and Mary (Morse) Ulmer, was born January 4, 1864. He was a pupil in the public schools of Rockland, with additional courses at Kent's Hill, and the Maine State College at Orono. A law student in the office of B. K. Kalloch, he was admitted to the Knox county bar at the September term, 1887. Ralph possessed the qualifications that go to make the suc- cessful lawyer, and was thorough, careful, ac- curate, and of unyielding perseverance. Courteous to his opponent, but solicitously re- gardful of his client's rights for which he strenuously contended. He was elected to the office of clerk of court for Knox county in 1888 by a large majority over a very popular opponent. Esquire Ulmer was made trial justice of Rockland in 1891. When the bat- tleship "Maine" sank into the mud of Havana harbor, Judge Ulmer was captain of the Til- ton Light Infantry of Rockland, and he with his entire company went to Augusta and en- listed to revenge the Spaniards, becoming part of the First Maine Volunteer Infantry, in which Captain Ulmer was promoted to be major. The regiment went into camp at Chick- amauga, and there Major Ulmer contracted typhoid malaria and was furloughed home, where he died. In his death the army has lost one of its most promising officers, the court a most efficient official, and the bar one of its ablest and most highly esteemed members. At a session of the supreme judicial court held at Rockland, September term, 1898, the follow- ing is a portion of the resolutions adopted at that time by the bar association : "That Major Ulmer was a steadfast friend, an hon- est lawyer, an efficient public servant, a gal- lant soldier, a patriotic citizen, and an upright man, and that his comrades in the field and camp, those who have had fellowship with him in social and religious life, and particu- larly his brethren at the bar, while they ac- knowledge that the decrees of the Great Judge of all the earth, though inscrutable and always wise, nevertheless cannot but deeply grieve that the kind heart of the strong man is still, and the sincere friend, true brother, and prime companion removed from our association, that we express our pride in the patri- otic spirit which led him to give his

life to the service of his country, and feel that the bar is honored by the repu- tation he made as a courageous soldier and an officer whose skill and judgment was acknowledged by his brother officers, and whose capacity and devotion to the welfare of those whom he commanded, endeared him so highly to them." Major Ulmer married An- nie Cooper, June 13, 1888.

Samuel Brown, born in Dan- BROWN vers, March 17, 1776, was un- doubtedly a member of the Brown family of Danvers, that owe their ex- istence to the father of the four Brown broth- ers : Hugh, Samuel, John and Christopher, who came to Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1629, and settled in the southern portion of the town of Salem, established January 28, 1752, as the district of Danvers, and June 16, 1757, organized with a regular town govern- ment. The district embraced the middle parishes in Salem as Salem Village, and con- sequently took in the first church established in Salem, August 23, 1630. He died in 1685. Of these brothers, John was apparently the leader, as he was made a freeman May 2, 1638, and was a ruling member of the church. He had sons baptized in the church as fol- lows: John, who died in infancy, September, 1638; James, June 7, 1640; Jacob, and Sam- uel, March 13, 1642; Nathaniel, July 28, 1644 ; John, the second child of the name, May 18, 1645. This line would give Samuel, 1776, in the sixth generation from John, the progeni- tor, assuming it was John of the four broth- ers that was the progenitor, as we know he had a large family of sons and daughters and that each generation presents the name Sam- uel.

(VI) Samuel, a direct descendant in the sixth generation, of one of the four immi- grants bearing the names of Hugh, Samuel, John and Christopher Brown, Salem Village, 1629, was born in Danvers (Salem. Village) March 17, 1776. He was brought up as a farmer, and after his marriage to Ruth Hor- ton, of Danvers removed to Blue Hill, Han- cock county, Maine, where he was apparently a leading citizen, and when the new meeting

house was completed, September II, 1797, to take the place of the one in which the church was organized in 1772. Samuel Brown had the seventeenth choice of pews at the sale, and selected pew number four, priced at fifty- two dollars, with premium of five dollars and fifty cents for his choice. In the war of 1812 he did military service, at the time Castine

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was occupied by the British for nearly a year. He died on his farm in Orland, Hancock county, not far from Blue Hill, in 1855, hav- ing nearly reached the sixtieth year of his age. His widow died in Portland, Maine, at the age of ninety-three years.

(VII) Samuel Peters, son of Samuel and Ruth (Horton) Brown, was born in North Blue Hill, Maine, December 9, 1816. He re- sided in Orland, Maine, for some years, and during the time represented that district in the state legislature. In 1861 he removed to Washington, D. C., having been appointed navy agent at Washington by President Lin- coln. He was married, in 1840, to Charlotte Metcalf, daughter of Horation Mason, of Or- land, Maine. Her father was born in Prince- ton, Massachusetts, in 1775, and died in Or- land, Maine, in 1858. He married Nancy Prescott, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and died in Orland, Maine, when fifty-nine years of age. Her grandfather, Thomas Ma- son, was a revolutionary patriot, and saw mil- itary service at Lexington and Bunker Hill, and as a lieutenant in Cushing's Massachu- setts regiment.

Mrs. Samuel Peters Brown (Charlotte Met- calf Mason) died in Orland, Maine, in 1858. She was the mother of twelve children, six of whom were living in 1896. Of these chil- dren: (1) Austin Peters Brown, born in North Blue Hill, Maine, December 5, 1843; he received an excellent school training, and was graduated at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. He lived in Wash- ington, D. C., after 1863, and was engaged with his father in furnishing the government with army supplies, and after 1885 in the real estate business. He married (first) Carrie Bell, who was the mother of his first two chil- dren-Arthur and Mabel. In 1879 he married Cornelia Carr, daughter of Warren Brown, of Brooklyn, New York, a native of Portland, Maine, and by this union four children were born, two of whom, Clifford Hudson and Gladys Austin, reached maturity. 2. Frank Mason, married Minnie Ward, of Chicago, Illinois. 3. Helen Mason, married Elias Thomas, of Portland, Maine. 4. Hattie Mason, married John M. Morton, oldest son of Oliver P. Morton, United States senator from Indiana. 5. Julia Frances, married Sam- uel F. Mattingly, of Washington, D. C. 6. Henry Ward, married Pauline McCollough, of San Francisco, California. 7. Chapin (q. v.). The father of these children married as his second wife, in 1859, Harriet Grendle, of Cas- tine, Maine; children: I. Charlotte Metcalf,

married Frank B. Conger. 2. Samuel Peters Jr., married Marion Kirkpatrick. 3. Minnie G., unmarried. 4. Philip S., unmarried; a captain in the United States Marine Corps. 5. Blanche B., unmarried. 6. Anna May, married Charles W. McDermott. 7. George G., unmarried.

Mr. Brown was one of the members of the Board of Public Works of the District of Columbia for several years. This body of men, selected by President Grant, were more instrumental than any other in starting the improvements which have made Washington the most beautiful city of the United States. He was also engaged with his son, Austin P. Brown, as a government contractor in Wash- ington, furnishing government supplies to the United States army, which business, although very extensive and involving large sums of money, each year, finally proved disastrous, and he lost his entire fortune.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 116

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