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DRUMMOND The name suggests men of science, theology, engi- neering skill and poetic genius in Scotland. In current encyclopedias we find Henry Drummond F. R. S. E. F. G. S. LL. D. (1851-1897), theologian and scientist ; Thomas Drummond ( 1797-1840), inventor of the Drummond Light. William Drummond, of Hawthorndale (1585-1641), poet, friend of Ben Johnson and author of "Notes in Ben Jonson's Conversation."
(I) Alexander Drummond, progenitor of the Drummonds in America, and either a na- tive of Scotland who migrated to the North of Ireland, or born in Ireland of Scottish parentage, was a Scotch Presbyterian by faith and inheritance, and came to America with a family of grown up children, fully imbued with the religious views of that sect, and a number of grandchildren, in 1729, to gain that freedom that neither Scotland or Ireland af- forded, and located in Georgetown, Maine. He buried his wife in Coppa, Ireland, before he undertook this journey to and settlement in the New England states. His life in George- town was of short duration, as he died there in 1730 at an advanced age.
(II) Patrick, son of Alexander Drummond, was born in Coppa, Ireland, June II, 1694, and came with his venerable father and sisters to Georgetown, Maine, in 1729, and he married as his second wife Susanna, daughter of the Rev. Robert Rutherford, a Scotch Presby- terian clergyman, who was a pioneer preacher of that denomination to settle in Maine east of the Kennebec river, and of the same fam- ily that gave to Scotland Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), the theologian, controversialist, silenced for preaching against the Article of Perth, and banished to Aberdeen, 1636; Rec- tor of St. Andrews University, and commis- sioner to the Westminster Assembly.
(III) John, son of Patrick and Susanna (Rutherford) Drummond, was born in
Georgetown, Maine, September 27, 1744, mar- ried Mary, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Stinson) McFadden, and they had children. The father died in Georgetown, September 10, 1771.
(IV) John (2), youngest son of John (I) and Mary (McFadden) Drummond, was born in Georgetown, Maine, April 13, 1772, a posthumous son. He, with his brother, Ruth- erford Drummond, were brought up by the widowed mother, residing in Georgetown un- til after he became of age, and on June 10, 1793, they sold their real estate in Georgetown to Alexander Drummond, and they sought a new home near Seven Mile Brook, in Anson, and there the boys, Rutherford and John, cleared a farm, planted a large field of corn which gave great promise of an abundant crop, but on the night of August 31, 1794, it was killed by an untimely frost. This so dis- couraged the young farmers that they aban- doned their farm and returned down the river to Vassalboro, where Rutherford purchased a farm on July 24, 1795, it being the most north- ern farm in Vassalboro, next to the Winslow line on the river road, and here Rutherford lived for many years and most of his children were born on the farm. John went beyond the boundary line that divided the towns of Vas- salboro and Winslow, but on the same river road, and purchased the Parker farm, about one mile up the river from his brother, and he lived there many years, but later bought a place three-quarters of a mile north on the same road, where he died December 24, 1857. He had married December 2, 1795, Damaris, daughter of Colonel Josiah and Silence (How- ard) Hayden, and fifth in descent from Rich- ard Williams, one of the principal founders of Taunton, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Febru- ary 18, 1775, and died in Winslow, Maine, September 3, 1857, but little more than three months before the death of her husband. Chil- dren : Clark, Charles, Robert R., Mary, Sibyl, John W., William E. and Manuel S.
(V) Clark, oldest son of John (2) and Damaris (Hayden) Drummond, was born July 5, 1796, on his father's farm on the Ken- nebec river, at Winslow, Maine, and he was educated in the district school and worked on his father's farm. He married, June 5, 1821, Cynthia, daughter of Captain Mordecai and Sarah (Burgess) Blackwell, born in Sand- wich, Massachusetts, January 9, 1799, and on "The Old Farm" in the town of Winslow, Maine, ten children were born, named in the order of their birth: Myra V., Micah B., Jo-
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siah Hayden (q. v.), John Clark, Cynthia A., Everett Richard (q. v.), Sarah B., David H., Caroline R. and Charles L. Drummond. Be- sides carrying on the farm Clark Drummond engaged in the occupation of lumberman, and when a young man he purchased "The Old Farm," which was the birthplace of three gen- erations of the Drummond family. Clark, his son Joseph H. and his daughter Myra S., also his daughter Sarah Jenkins, and two of the children of Sarah. Clark Drummond died on "The Old Farm" in September, 1888, after living on the same farm and in the same house for ninety-two years and two months. His wife died on the same place February 8, 1868, twenty years before his death. He was en- sign of the militia company of Winslow, and was drafted for service in the war of 1812, and he served for sixty days, being mustered at Augusta, and ordered to Edgecomb, where he was discharged. He was a pensioner for ten years; served for many years as justice of the peace and as a selectman of Winslow.
(VI) Josiah Hayden, second son of Clark and Cynthia (Blackwell) Drummond, was born in Winslow, Maine, August 30, 1827. He graduated at Waterville College, A. B., 1846, and received from his alma mater, then Colby University, the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1871. He was a lawyer; representative in the Maine legislature for three terms; speaker of the house for two terms; state senator; at- torney general of the state four terms, 1860- 64; grand master, grand high priest, grand master (Council), and grand commander (Commandery) Knights Templar of the state of Maine; as a Free and Accepted Mason he was general grand high priest of General Grand Chapter, U. S. A .; general grand master, Grand Council, U. S. A., and grand commander of Supreme Council, Thirty-third North Masonic Jurisdiction, U. S. A., for twelve years, chairman of committee on for- eign correspondence of Grand Lodge of Maine twenty-seven years. He married, December 10, 1850, Elzada Rollins, daughter of Benja- min and Lucetta (Foster) Bean, of New York. He is the author of "Maine Masonic Textbook for the Use of Lodges."
(VI) Everett Richard, fourth son of Clark and Cynthia (Blackwell) Drummond, was born in Winslow, Maine, September 14, 1834. He attended the public school of Winslow, Vassalboro Academy, Waterville Academy and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kents Hill. He studied with his brother, Josiah H., in a law office in Waterville, and was admitted to the bar of Kennebec county in 1858. He
joined his brother in forming a partnership, and they remained together in Waterville in the practice of law up to 1860, when his brother removed to Portland, and he soon after formed a partnership with E. F. Webb, which was continued up to 1863. His fellow citizens elected him to the office of city councilman and three years to the board of aldermen, and two years served as president of the board. He served as treasurer of the Waterville Savings Bank from 1874; was made a trustee of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kents Hill in 1874, and has served as treasurer of the semi- nary since May, 1897. In 1867 he joined other leading Methodists of the city of Waterville in organizing a Methodist church, and he was superintendent of the Sunday school 1867-85; trustee and treasurer of the church from its organization, except three years of the time as treasurer, and treasurer of the Sunday school since 1885. He became by right of inheritance of Colonel Josiah Hayden a mem- ber of the Sons of the American Revolution, Maine Society, and he was initiated into the mysteries of Masonry in Waterville Lodge, and served as secretary of the lodge for sev- eral years, and was standard bearer of the Grand Lodge of Maine for two terms. He married, December 26, 1859, Aubigne M., daughter of Benjamin W. and Lucetta (Fos- ter) Bean, of New York, and their children were: I. Viola B., born in Waterville, March 3, 1862, married Robert Scott Thomes, and lives in Portland, Maine. 2. Clark W., De- cember 6, 1863, married Anna Marie Veth, and left a daughter, Hildegarde Veth. He died February 27, 1899. 3. Albert Foster, May 26, 1866, received his school training in the public school of Waterville, the Coburn Classical Institute, and was graduated at Colby College, A. B., 1888; was clerk in the Waterville Savings Bank, of which his father was treasurer, and on May I, 1898, was elected assistant treasurer. The children of Albert Foster and Josephine (Prince) Drummond are: Louise, Prince A., Katherine S., Clark and Everett R. 4. Aubigne Ellen, November 22, 1868, married Elwood T. Lyman and re- sides in Warwick, Rhode Island, with their children : Everett L., Elwood A., Sidney P. and Howard Wyman of the eighth generation from Alexander Drummond, the immigrant ancestor of the Drummonds of America.
It is a matter of history that BUTLER Nicholas Butler, the ancestor of all of the name on the island, was a resident of Martha's Vineyard as early
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as 1662, when with some twenty others, Nich- olas Norton among them, he formed a band for defence against the Gay Head Indians, a fierce and warlike tribe who were accustomed to commit depredations of rapine and murder upon the defenceless inhabitants. Families of the name were numerous in the early settle- ment of the island, but the connecting links in the line of descent from the immigrant have not been secured for all the various branches.
(I) About the middle of the eighteenth cen- tury, Benjamin and Elijah Butler are found. residents of Martha's Vineyard, but what ties of relationship existed between them is not known. Benjamin Butler always resided upon the island and died there in 1821 at an ad- vanced age. He was the father by a first mar- riage of Benjamin Butler ; of Mehitable, who married Jonathan Pease; and of others. And by a second marriage, with Sarah Gould, of Ephraim G. Butler; of Sarah, who married Joseph Francis ; Simeon, who married Abigail Norton and settled in New Vineyard; and of Hannah and William, who died unmarried.
(II) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) Butler by a first marriage, was born at Mar- tha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 1748, and died in Avon, in February, 1828. He re- moved to Farmington, Maine, in 1790, and purchased of Joseph Sylvester river lot No. 23, east side, the same long owned and occu- pied by Thomas Hunter Esq. By trade he was a house carpenter and took lead in build- ing the first dwelling houses upon the river. He had charge of framing the Center meeting house in 1803, and was the contractor for building the first bridge erected upon the river. It was opposite the Center Village and was completed in 1808. He married, in 1769, Amy Daggett, and had thirteen children, ten of whom were born on the island and three in Farmington: I. Nancy, born February 2, 1770, married, March 4, 1805 (pub.), David Paine. 2. Amy, February 10, 1772, died Feb- ruary 24, 1772. 3. Mary, March 1, 1773, died May 17, 1773. 4. Mary, August 30, 1774, died April 12, 1844; married, December 24, 1800, Elisha Bradford. 5. Benjamin, August 30, 1776, married (first) December 24, 1800, Huldah, daughter of Joseph Bradford; mar- ried (second) November 1, 1847, Mrs. Kath- erine L. Johnson, widow of Thomas Johnson. He was captain of artillery and selectman of his town in 1818. 6. Zimri, October 25, 1778, died October 29, 1778. 7. Ebenezer Cheney, April 8, 1780, went to the province of On- tario in 1824, where his death occurred; mar- ried, March 12, 1802 (pub.), Betsey Johnson.
He possessed great physical strength and many stories are still told of his wonderful power and agility. 8. Ralph, September 27, 1782 (see post). 9. Melindy, February 5, 1786, died in 1836; married, January 12, 1804 (pub.), James Paine. 10. Levina, December 28, 1788, died January 18, 1790. II. Levina, April 20, 1791, died April 25, 1791. 12. Lovey, April 19, 1792, died in 1838; married, May 11, 1809, John Paine, of Anson. 13. William, October 10, 1795, died April, 1849; married, April 23, 1818 (pub.), Betsey, daughter of Captain David Davis, of Industry.
(III) Ralph, son'and eighth child of Ben- jamin (2) and Amy (Daggett) Butler, was born on the island, Martha's Vineyard, Sep- tember 27, 1782, and died Phillips, Maine, June 6, 1868. He removed to Farmington, Maine, and first lived on river lot No. 2, east side, and removed thence to Avon in 1815. He married, November 10, 1806 (pub.), Mary Stevens. Their children were: William O., Whiting, Lorenzo, Harrison, Ralph, living in Dorchester, Massachusetts, aged ninety-seven years; Caroline, Mary, Benjamin, Melinda, Emily, Nancy.
(IV) Benjamin (3), youngest son of Ralph and Mary (Stevens) Butler, was born in Phillips, Maine, March 10, 1828. He received a good common school education, became a school teacher and taught in Franklin county, Maine, for sixty terms. But during the greater part of his life he has been occupied with farming. He served as selectman of Avon for a period of from thirty to forty years. Since the organization of the Repub- lican party he has been its loyal supporter and served as representative in the legislature in 1875. He married, 1857, Susan H. Badger, born in Falmouth, Maine, in 1833, died March 10, 1900. Mr. Butler now lives with his son in Phillips, Maine. His children: I. William B., born May 7, 1858, treasurer of the Phil- lips Hardware Company, Phillips, Maine. 2. Whiting L., April 12, 1860, engaged in the lumber business in Rangeley. 3. Ida M., March 12, 1862, now lives on the old home- stead. 4. Frank W., October 4, 1864. 5. Amos K., May II, 1867, lawyer, engaged in practice in Skowhegan, Maine. 6. Ernest C., March 17, 1872, lawyer, in partnership with his brother in Skowhegan. 7. Frank Webster, October 4, 1864 (see post).
(V) Frank Webster, son of Benjamin (3) and Susan H. (Badger) Butler, was born in Phillips, Maine, October 4, 1864. He attended school at Phillips and later the state normal school at Farmington, where he graduated in
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1887. He taught school for three years, one year in Aroostook county, and two in Frank- lin county, and in 1888 took up the study of law in the office of P. A. Sawyer in Phillips. In August, 1889, he went into the law office of J. C. Holman in Farmington and in 1890 was admitted to the bar. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Farmington. For seventeen years he was register of the probate court, to which office he was elected in 1890. In politics he is a Republican and for four years was a member of the Republican state committee. Mr. But- ler is prominent in fraternal circles, a member of Alpha Lodge, K. P., of Farmington ; Maine Lodge, No. 20, F. and A. M., of Farmington ; Franklin Lodge, No. 44, R. A. C .; Jeptha Council, No. 19; Pilgrim Commandery, No. 19; Kora Temple of Lewiston. In his religious faith Mr. Butler is a Unitarian. He married, October 2, 1891, Alice E., daughter of Joseph and Sarah G. Harmon Smith, of Marshfield, Maine. Their children are Frances Alice, born August II, 1900; and Benjamin, August 7, 1905. Four of the ancestors of Mrs. Butler came over in the "Mayflower," viz .: John Til- ley and his wife Elizabeth, their daughter, Elizabeth Tilley, and John Howland, who married Elizabeth Tilley. Her great-great- grandfather, Captain Stephen Smith, was an officer in the revolutionary war.
BUTLER The bearers of this well known name have been distinguished in the various professional walks of life, and have served their country well and faithfully in military and political affairs.
(I) Rev. Benjamin Butler was born in Windham, Connecticut, April 9, 1729, and died at Nottingham, New Hampshire, Decem- ber 26, 1804. He was graduated from Har- vard College in the class of 1752, and settled in Nottingham in 1758, becoming the second minister of the Congregational church. He re- ceived a settlement of three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, and a salary of three hundred and fifty-one pounds sterling. After officiating for a period of twelve years he requested his dismissal, con- sidering that his tastes and feelings were not adapted to the work. It is related that upon retiring from the pastorate and designing not to preach any more, he committed his manu- script sermons to the flames, remarking that "they gave more light then than ever before." His residence was situated where now stands the house of Colonel Joseph Cilley, and he
continued to reside in Nottingham and held the office of justice of the peace until his death. He married Dorcas, born May II, 1729, died April 19, 1789, daughter of Henry and Mary (Platts) Abbot, and a descendant of George Abbot, who emigrated from York- shire, England, about 1640, lived for some years in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and was one of the first settlers of Andover in 1643. He was a proprietor and lived and died on the farm now owned by John Abbot. The chil- dren of Rev. Benjamin and Dorcas (Abbot) Butler were: Henry, Benjamin, Benjamin, Mary, Elizabeth, Dorcas, Jemima and James Platts. The famous General Benjamin F. Butler was a nephew of Rev. Benjamin, and Hon. James H. Butler, of Nottingham, and General James H. Butler, of Bangor, Maine, are among his grandsons.
(II) General Henry, eldest child of Rev. Benjamin and Dorcas (Abbot) Butler, was born November 27, 1754, died July 20, 1813. He served during the war of the revolution, was afterward major-general in the militia, justice of the peace, and in 1810 was a mem- ber of the state legislature. He married (first) April II, 1776, Isabella Fisk, born August 2, 1757, died in January, 1808. They had chil- dren : Isabella, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Henry Jr., Sarah Cotta, Dorcas, Ward Cotta and Samuel Abbot. Ebenezer lived on the square, kept a tavern, and was a member of the legis- lature. His son, James Henry, succeeded his father on the homestead and was a representa- tive for the town in 1842-43; in the militia he served as aide to Major-General Pillsbury and also to Major-General Gale, and in 1852 was appointed associate justice of the court of common pleas for Rockingham county, holding this office until the form of the court was changed. General Butler married (second) March 22, 1810, Ruth Parsons.
(III) Henry (2), third son and fourth child of General Henry (I) and Isabella (Fisk) Butler, was born June 30, 1783, and lived at first in the square, later removing to Maine. He married (first) October 1, 1808, Abigail Ford, by whom he had children: Isa- bella Fisk, Elizabeth Norris, Mehetable Ford, Sarah Ann, Abigail Ford and Harriet. Mrs. Butler died June 7, 1817, and Henry Butler married (second) March 12, 1818, Nancy Hersey, and by this union had children: Mary Frances, Henry Abbot, Calven Luther, Har- rison Hersey, Jacob Tilton and James Harri- son.
(IV) General James Harrison, son of Henry (2) and Nancy (Hersey) Butler, was
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born in Athens, Maine, May 24, 1830. Ac- quired his education in the common schools and Newport Academy. He was clerk in Bangor postoffice at the age of sixteen, after- ward was clerk in a hardware store in Boston two years, came back to Bangor and engaged in the hardware business there. A few years later the Market Bank was organized, and he was appointed its first cashier, performing these duties until obliged to resign on account of failing health. In 1859 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the militia by Governor Lot M. Morrill. He was elected by the legis- lature major-general of the first division of the state militia, 1861, under the administra- tion of Israel Washburn Jr., and was active in recruiting, forming and forwarding rein- forcements during the late war. In June, 1863, he bought the farm known as the Captain Wheeler place, of the late Mr. H. Willey, and moved to Hampden, Maine. He represented Hampden and Veazie in the legislature of 1872, was elected treasurer and collector of Hampden in 1888-89-90. He was a prominent Mason and became a member of Rising Virtue Lodge, F. and A. M., of Bangor, in 1853; also a charter member of St. Andrews Lodge; Royal Arch, Mount Moriah Chapter, 1855; Knight Templar, St. John's Encampment, 1865. Since residing in Hampden he took an active part in Mystic Lodge, F. and A. M., in the councils of which he was much missed. When the board of trustees of the Academy was reorganized in 1886, he was chosen presi- dent and has taken an earnest and active part in every undertaking which contributed to the prosperity and advancement of its in- terests. He died in La Fayette, Indiana, in 1901. He married, June 22, 1852, Fannie M. Crosby, daughter of the late Timothy Crosby, of Bangor. Their children were: I. Mary F., born August 2, 1854, married Professor A. E. Rogers, of Orono, Maine, November 25, 1880, died May 17, 1886. 2. Maria Crosby, March 12, 1856, died July 13, 1856. 3. Frederick Haywood, July 30, 1858, married Blandina D. Atwood, of Hampden, October 29, 1888, died March 6, 1901. 4. Timothy Crosby, July 15, 1862, died March 5, 1878. 5. Harry, May 14, 1868.
(V) Harry, son of James H. and Fannie M. (Crosby) Butler, was born in Hampden, Maine, May 14, 1868. He was educated in the local. schools, the Hampden Academy, and was graduated from the University of Maine with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1888. He was then engaged in teaching in the Hampden Academy for three years, entered
the medical school of the University of Penn- sylvania, being graduated in 1895. After serving for a year in hospitals he began the practice of his profession in Bangor, Maine, and has followed this successfully up to the present time, making a specialty of eye, ear and throat diseases. He is a member of the American Medical and Maine Medical asso- ciations, president of the Penobscot County Medical Association, 1908, and is affiliated fraternally with the St. Andrews Lodge, No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons, and Mount Moriah Chapter, No. 6, Royal Arch Masons. He is a member of the Tarratine and Madaca- wando Clubs. Dr. Butler married, August 25, 1897, Caroline C., daughter of Dr. L. Norris, of Hampden, and they have two children : Harry, born July 12, 1898, and Theodore Herrick, August 27, 1902.
BUTLER The family herein traced may have been connected with the previous one founded by James Butler, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, but im- perfect records render it impossible to make this certain. The family tradition makes the progenitor John Butler, who came to America from the Island of Guernsey, England, with his sons Philip and John, settling on Cape Ann. The inconsistency of tradition is illus- trated by the fact that this same account makes his wife come to this country when young and settle in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The follow- ing at least is certain.
(I) John Butler resided in Newbury, Mas- sachusetts, and was a ship carpenter, living at Cape Ann. His wife, Hannah (Heard) But- ler, had the following descent :
(I) Edmund Heard, of Claxton, county Norfolk, England, married Sarah Wyatt, of Assington, England.
(2) Luke, son of Edmund and Sarah (Wyatt) Heard, came to Massachusetts, lo- cating first in Newbury, whence he removed to Salisbury, and thence to Ipswich, where he died in 1647, leaving two sons, John and Ed- mund.
(3) Edmund (2), son of Luke Heard, settled in Ipswich and was married in 1672 to Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Warner, and they were the parents of six children.
(4) Nathaniel, son of Edmund (2) and Elizabeth (Warner) Heard, was born Sep- tember I, 1685, probably in Ipswich. He married Agnes Hunt, the bans of their mar- riage being published September 10, 1709, and they were the parents of five children : John, William, Elizabeth, Sarah and Hannah. The
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last named became the wife of John Butler as above noted. In 1756 John Butler conveyed lands in Newbury, and in 1768 again deeded lands. In 1752 he received a deed of land from his widowed mother, Sarah Butler.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) and Han- nah (Heard) Butler, was born 1751 in New- bury and died in 1835. In 1789 he was re- siding in Nottingham-west, now Hudson, New Hampshire, and probably passed much of his life in that town. He married Abigail Brown, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who was born 1756 in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and died in Newbury in 1830. Both were members of Dr. Spring's Congregational church. They were the parents of nine children, namely: John, died in infancy ; Elizabeth, Hannah, Abigail, Sarah Ann, John, Charles, Mary and Nathan- iel. Only two of the sons grew to maturity, John and Nathaniel.
(III) Rev. John (3), second son of John (2) and Abigail (Brown) Butler, was born April 13, 1789, in Nottingham-west. Before he was fourteen years of age he experienced religion, and his intention of entering the min- istry was early formed. In 1806 he was bap- tized and united with the Baptist church in Newbury. In 1827-28 he delivered astro- nomical lectures at many points in Maine, in- cluding Wayne, Livermore, New Gloucester, Bowdoinham, Mount Vernon, Fayette, Mon- mouth and North Yarmouth. His active min- isterial work covered a period of thirty-nine years. His first pastorate was for the Baptist church at Hanover, Massachusetts, from 1810 to 1824, being ordained at the age of twenty- one years, first pastor of the church. In 1824 he removed to Waterville, Maine, where he had charge of a school for one year, preach- ing in various places during this time and baptizing sixty persons. He was installed as pastor of the Baptist church at East Winthrop, Maine, May 1, 1825. For seven years he lived in the parsonage attached to this par- ish. From 1831 to 1837 he was settled at North Yarmouth, Maine, and for nearly two years of this time was agent of the Maine Baptist Convention, traveling over five thou- sand miles in one year. On account of fail- ing health he resigned this office, and from 1839 to 1849 resided most of the time in Hal- lowell, Maine, and was employed as an evan- gelist. In 1827 he was elected a trustee of Waterville College and attended every annual meeting for many years. He delivered the charge of ordination on numerous occasions where candidates were inducted into the min- istry. In 1831 he was appointed trustee of the
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