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tionary army at the age of eighteen, from Wareham, for three years' service in Captain Joshua Eddy's company, General Bradford's regiment, Massachusetts line, and was hon- orably discharged at West Point, April 19, 1780. He settled in Oakland, Kennebec county, Maine; this town was in the district first known as Taconet, afterwards as Kings- ford, and came within the limits of the town of Winslow, and when Waterville was cut off from Winslow it became West Waterville and finally Oakland. When Lot Sturtevant set- tled there it was a wilderness, with no roads, and it was his custom to carry corn on his back in a bag to Waterville, whence he pro- ceeded by canoe to Gardiner to have it ground. His long service as a soldier had inured him to hardships, and he was cheerful in enduring the privations of a pioneer region while cut- ting out for himself and his posterity a farm and home. He married Elizabeth Bessie, born October 3, 1764, died January 13, 1833.
(VI) Reward, son of Lot and Elizabeth (Bessie) Sturtevant, was born in Oakland, then West Waterville, on his father's estate at the gateway of Messalonskee Lake, and passed his life as a farmer in that town, where he died in 1845. He married Ann, daughter of John Hesketh, who came from England and settled in Hallowell, Maine; he was prob- ably a cotton spinner and was attracted thither by the mills at that point. Children of Reward and Ann Sturtevant : Martha J., Margaret, John H., Robert, Reward A., Jo- seph E., Henry W., Frances M., Mary Eliza- beth, Ellen, Charles B.
(VII) Joseph E., son of Reward and Ann (Hesketh) Sturtevant, was born November 16, 1830, at a place known as Ten Lots, in the town of Oakland. He was a mechanic and farmer, a Baptist in religious faith, a Repub- lican in politics, and an exemplary and re- spected citizen. He married, in 1858, Jose- phine Ham, who died in 1867. Two children : Elmer W., born November 4, 1861, and Etta Belle, born July 24, 1865. He married (sec- ond) March 29, 1868, Ellen E. Hayden, born in Winslow, Maine, November 9, 1840, daugh- ter of James and Charlotte (Parker) Hayden. Two children: James Edwin, born April 16, 1873, and Charles Alton, see forward. Jo- seph E. Sturtevant died January 12, 1902, and was buried in Oakland, Maine.
(VIII) Dr. Charles Alton, second son of Joseph E. and Ellen E. (Hayden) Sturtevant, was born March 27, 1875, in Oakland, Maine. He acquired his education in the public schools of his native town, was a student of
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Coburn Classical Institute, and spent one year at Colby University. He pursued the study of medicine in the medical department of Boston University, from which he was graduated in 1899. For a little less than a year he prac- ticed his profession in Somerville, Massachu- setts, and was subsequently a surgeon in the United States army for three and a half years, being stationed a part of the time in the Phil- ippine Islands. He is now engaged in pro- fessional work at Manchester, New Hamp- shire. He is identified with the leading clubs of that city, including the Intervale Country and the Derryfield clubs. He is a member of the New Hampshire Homoeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homoe- opathy. He is a Republican in politics. He married, January 12, 1904, in Hamburg, New York, Hattie (Spencer) Rehm, of Buffalo, New York, who was born September 29, 1872, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Two children : Edwin Rehm, born October 18, 1904, and Harriet, May 2, 1906.
NUDD The name of Nudd is most un- usual in this country, and the only extended line seems to belong to Hampton, New Hampshire, where eight gen- erations of the family have lived. The first American ancestor was Thomas Nudd, son of Roger of England, who came to this country in 1637, and settled at Hampton in 1643-44. There is nothing to show that the following line is descended from Thomas Nudd, of Hampton ; but such is probably the case unless the members are derived from a more recent immigrant. This branch appeared in North- field, New Hampshire, in 1799, and the his- tory of that town says that they were of Scotch descent.
(I) Joseph Warren Nudd was born in 1769, and lived in the southerly part of North- field, New Hampshire, close by the Canter- bury line. He died in 1822 at the age of fifty- three years. On December 3, 1811, Joseph Warren Nudd married Judith Arlin, and they had six children of whom we have records of but four : I. Erastus Nudd, probably the eldest child, owned charcoal kilns on the south- erly side of Bean Hill in Northfield, and ex- ported the product to Concord. He married Catherine Reardon, and died at Lancaster, New Hampshire, May 29, 1897. 2. Almira Nudd married Luther Rogers, and lived in Loudon, New Hampshire. 3. Narcissa Nudd, born October 2, 1817, was married on October 16, 1832, to John Dalton, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. 4. Levi Chase Nudd, see suc-
ceeding paragraph. After the death of Joseph W. Nudd his widow married Hiram Kimball for her second husband, and there were three more children: I. Laura, married Andrew Grover, of Canterbury. 2. Charles, who was killed by a railroad accident on his way home from the civil war. 3. John Kimball, born in 1833, who lived at New Hampton, New Hampshire.
(II) Levi Chase, son of Joseph Warren and Judith (Arlin) Nudd, was born at Northfield, New Hampshire, in 1818, and died at Laconia, that state, in 1900. At about the age of nine years he was adopted by Joseph Clisby, of Holderness, with whom he lived till he was nineteen. He early learned the blacksmith's trade, and later that of a brick mason. He became a contractor, building railroads and various public buildings. He erected the
Pemigewasset House at Plymouth, New Hampshire, one of the famous White Moun- tain hotels; and he was also employed at the navy yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts. About 1844 Levi Chase Nudd married Mary Mooney Baker, daughter of Knowlton K. and Betsy Baker, of Ashland, formerly a part of Holderness, New Hampshire. Two children were born to Levi Chase and Mary M. (Baker) Nudd: Helen M., born in Framing- ham, Massachusetts, in 1845, married Joseph Jameson, of Taemia, New Hampshire. She is now deceased; and Charles H., whose sketch follows. Mrs. Mary (Baker) Nudd died in Quincy about 1873.
(III) Charles H., only son of Levi Chase and Mary Mooney (Baker) Nudd, was born at Ashland, New Hampshire, March 28, 1854. His education was acquired in the common schools of Ashland, Tilton Seminary and Guilford Academy at Laconia, New Hamp- shire. His parents moved to Boston, Massa- chusetts, and Charles H. engaged with E. F. Messenger & Company, dealers in dry goods and notions, as entry clerk. After a short period he represented the firm as traveling salesman throughout New England, remaining with them until 1873, but continued for vari- ous concerns as salesman for thirty odd years. About 1898 he engaged in the insurance busi- ness. Since 1900 he has been state manager of the United States Health & Accident Com- pany. Fraternally he is a member of Ridgley Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Lewiston Lodge, No. 371, B. P. O. E., and a member of the Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Nudd married (first) in 1876, Georgetta S. Smith, of East Boston; she died in Man-
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chester, New Hampshire, in 1887, leaving one child, Chandler B. Nudd, now of Lowell, Mas- sachusetts, who married Mae Luke, of St. Albans, Vermont, and has one child, Helen M. Nudd. Married (second), June 6, 1889, Nellie A., daughter of William H. and Ann A. (Wentworth) Dale, of South Paris, Maine, and granddaughter of Dr. Isaiah F. and Ruth E. (Page) Wentworth.
The Wentworth ancestry begins with Regi- nald Wentworth I (q. v.), and continues :
(XXII) Benjamin, youngest of the ten children of Elder William Wentworth, of Dover, New Hampshire, was born about 1675, and was probably the son of a second wife, whose name has not been preserved. There is a tradition that she was very young at the time of her marriage, which took place when the Elder was somewhat advanced in years. Benjamin Wentworth died in the summer of 1728, according to the following item taken from the New England Journal of August 5: "We are informed that some days ago, Mr. Benjamin Wentworth, riding over a bridge (otherwise called the boom) in the river in Cocheco, N. H., fell into the said river, where both he and his horse were drowned." Ben- jamin Wentworth inherited his homestead from his father, it being part of the Elder's large tract. There is a deed recorded at Exeter, May 9, 1693, where the Elder was then preaching, which states that he "Do giue and grant unto my son Benja Wentworth of Cochecho all that Corn that he hath sown and planted this year in my home lott and the black cow that he hath made choyce of and the Land yt my son Sylvanus Wentworth lieued uppon." This homestead was about two miles northeast of Cochecho Falls, Dover, and east of Garrison Hill. It remained in the posses- sion of the family as late as 1878. Benjamin Wentworth was constable of Dover in 1711- 13, and surveyor of highways in 1703-17. About 1697 Benjamin Wentworth married Sarah Allen, whom tradition says came from Salisbury, Massachusetts. She was born in 1679, came to Dover in 1697, probably at the time of her marriage, and died at the home of her grandson, Bartholomew, July 12, 1770, at the age of ninety-one years. Benjamin and Sarah (Allen) Wentworth had twelve chil- dren : William, born August 14, 1698; Sarah, April 16, 1700, married Deacon Daniel Plum- mer, of Dover; Tamsen, January 4, 1701, married Aaron Riggs, of Gloucester, Massa- chusetts ; Benjamin, December 5, 1703; Eben- ezer, whose sketch follows; Susannah, Decem- ber 9, 1707, married Stephen Hartford, of
Rochester, New Hampshire; Joseph, Decem- ber 22, 1709; Elizabeth, June 8, 1712, married John Yeaton, of Newcastle, New Hampshire; Dorothy, July 26, 1714, married her cousin, Ezekiel Wentworth; Martha, July 15, 1716, married Hayes; Abra, February 14, 1718, married William Chadwick, of Somers- worth, New Hampshire; Mark, May 30, 1720.
(XXIII) Ebenezer, third son of Benjamin and Sarah (Allen) Wentworth, was born at Dover, New Hampshire, September 9, 1705, and died some time after 1773. He was a cordwainer, and lived at Great Falls, now Somersworth, New Hampshire. He was twice married, but the nine children were all by the first wife. About 1728 Ebenezer Went- worth married Sarah, daughter of John and Deborah (Church) Roberts, who was born February 18, 1708-09, and died February 10, 1770. Their children were: Sarah, born Feb- ruary 6, 1729, married Samuel Twombly ; Benjamin, July 30, 1731; Ebenezer, August 14, 1735 ; Deborah, April, 1738, married Jona- than Twombly ; Stephen, April 1, 1743; Mary, about 1744, married (first) Ebenezer Cole, of Somersworth, (second) Benjamin Preble, of Ossipee, (third) Anthony Emery, of Bartlett, all in New Hampshire; Aaron, July 13, 1745; Nicholas, whose sketch follows; Elihu, No- vember 7, 1751. Some time previous to 1773, Ebenezer Wentworth married Mrs. Elizabeth (Monroe) Young, who died about 1790. Her first husband lived and died at. Rochester, New Hampshire.
(XXIV) Nicholas, fifth son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Roberts) Wentworth, was born September 7, 1748, probably at Great Falls, New Hampshire, and died at Effingham, New Hampshire, January 30, 1840. He was a resi- dent of Berwick, Maine, at the time of his marriage, had removed to Rochester, New Hampshire, in 1774, and afterwards lived at Milton, Conway and Effingham, all in the Granite State. On September 9, 1771, Nich- olas Wentworth married Patience, daughter of Ezekiel and Martha (Lord) Wentworth, of South Berwick, Maine. She died at Con- way, New Hampshire, October 24, 1827, in her seventy-ninth year. The twelve children of Nicholas and Patience ( Wentworth) Went- worth were: Stephen, born February 12, 1772; Ezekiel, May 2, 1774; Edmund, Feb- ruary 5, 1775; Phineas, March 5, 1777 ; Paul, whose sketch follows; Enoch, October 22, 1780; Levi, about 1783; Daniel, January 12, 1785; Martha, died in childhood; Mary, died in childhood; John, died in infancy; Sarah, August 5, 1793, married (first) Deacon John
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Wentworth, (second) Rev. Enos G. Page, both of Effingham, New Hampshire.
(XXV) Paul, fifth son of Nicholas and Pa- tience (Wentworth) Wentworth, was born October 23, 1778, probably at Milton or Con- way, New Hampshire. He lived in Conway and died there July 18, 1849. In October, 1805, he married Eunice, daughter of Josiah Forrest, of Eaton, New Hampshire, who was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, April 17, 1787, and died at Conway, New Hampshire, May 9, 1867. They had eleven children: Richard Odell, born January 14, 1807; Sarah Thompson, March 28, 1808, married Josiah Merrill; Harriet Newell, May 14, 1809, mar- ried Warren Gannett, of Tamworth, New Hampshire; Isaiah Forrest, whose sketch fol- lows; Thomas, November 9, 1812; Rosetta, March 9, 1814; Lucy, January 9, 1816, mar- ried (first) David Harvey, (second) Warren Gannett ; Ephraim Foster, December 9, 1818; Eunice, December 2, 1820, married Josiah Merrill, of Lovell, Maine; Paul, September 12, 1823; and Nancy Merrill, December I, 1824.
(XXVI) Dr. Isaiah Forrest, second son of Paul and Eunice (Forrest) Wentworth, was born February II, 18II, at Conway, New Hampshire, and died 1877. He was a physi- cian at Milan, near the line of Dummer, New Hampshire. On November 28, 1837, he mar- ried Ruth Elizabeth Page, of Conway, New Hampshire, who was born July 24, 1818. They had eight children : Ann Augusta, mentioned below; Thomas, born February 26, 1845, served in the civil war from 1863 to 1865, married Eldora Perkins; Frances Helen, May 8, 1846; Elizabeth, September 27, 1848, mar- ried Solon Robinson; Isaiah, November 6, 1850; Addie, March 6, 1855; Rosetta, March 26, 1857; Frank, July 30, 1860.
(XXVII) Ann Augusta, oldest child of Dr. Isaiah Forrest and Ruth E. (Page) Went- worth, was born at Conway, New Hampshire, January 6, 1841. In 1861 she was married at . Berlin, New Hampshire, to William H. Dale, born June 20, 1837; they lived at Minot, Maine. Their daughter, Nellie A. Dale, mar- ried Charles H. Nudd, of Auburn, Maine. (See Nudd, III.)
ESTABROOKE Professor Horace Melvyn Estabrooke, one of the leading educators of the State of Maine, is of the second generation of his family in the United States, his father, Leverett E. Estabrooke, being the first to cross the border from New Brunswick, that prov-
ince which has given to Maine and other states so much of their best blood. The fam- ily name has various spellings, but all evolved from East Brook, meaning "the man who lived on the east side of the brook."
(I) Thomas Turney Estabrooke was born in Blackville, New Brunswick, in 1792, and died in 1823. He married Tane Monroe, who was of Scotch descent. Their children were Eliza, Louisa, Leverett E., and Francis. After the death of Mr. Estabrooke his widow mar- ried for her second husband, Francis Pette- grew Hunter, by whom she had several chil- dren, the only one of whom living in 1908 was George Hunter, of Houlton, Maine.
(II) Leverett E., eldest son of Thomas Turney and Jane (Monroe) Estabrooke, was born October 27, 1823, in Blackville, New Brunswick, where he received his early edu- cational training. In 1831, when he was eight years old, his mother, with her children by both marriages, removed to Hodgdon, Maine, where young Leverett attended the public schools and acquired the usual education there afforded. As a young man he followed lum- bering in the woods and on the river, taking contracts for log deliveries to the Bangor mills. He was a man of excellent business qualifications, and performed much public ser- vice. He was the first selectman of the new town of Linneus, Maine, and served as a mem- ber of the board for a number of years; he also served for many years as town clerk and justice of the peace-in fact, most of the offi- cial business of the town was transacted by him or under his supervision. Late in life he removed to Smyrna, where he served as se- lectman and member of the school committee. He was provost marshal during a portion of the civil war, having charge of drafted men and substitutes from the time of their enroll- ment until their muster into the service of the United States. He discharged every duty with ability and fidelity. His religious affilia- tion was with the Baptist denomination, and he was a very active member of the Free Baptist church. In politics he was a staunch Republican. He was a lead- ing member of the Sons of Temperance and the Good Templars, and was earnest in aiding the weak and misled in the way of a Christian and temperate life.
Mr. Estabrooke married, September 26, 1847, Lucinda Homestead Young, born November 28, 1826. She was a member of the Free Baptist church. Children: I. Horace Mel- vyn; see forward. 2. Alice Julia, born De- cember 15, 1850; married Henry O. Nicker-
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son, of Houlton, Maine. 3. Arthur E., born October 20, 1853. 4. Charles R., born March 14, 1858. 5. Evelyn Norah, born June 20, 1860. 6. Walter F. P., born August 20, 1862. 7. Lydia Jane, born October 14, 1865. Mr. Estabrooke died in Smyrna, Maine, Septem- ber 12, 1898; his wife survived him, and died in Hodgdon, Maine, August 12, 1902.
(III) Horace Melvyn, eldest child of Lev- erett E. and Lucinda H. (Young) Esta- brooke, was born in Linneus, Maine, January 20, 1849. His education began in the com- mon schools, and he took a four years' col- lege preparatory course in Houlton Academy. In 1872 he matriculated at the University of Maine, from which he was graduated in 1876 with the degree of B. S. He subsequently spent two years in study under the direction of the Illinois Wesleyan University, and in 1891-92 attended the Emerson School of Ora- tory in Boston. He taught district schools while attending college, and after graduation taught in Maysville, Oakland, the Clinton high school, the Dennysville high school, the Pembroke high school, and was first assistant in the Gorham normal school. . Since 1891 he has been connected with the University of Maine as professor and head of the English department, and teacher of literature. His training and natural love for English litera- ture made him a high authority in pedagogy as applied to the teaching of that branch of the higher education, and as a master in the lines of English poetry, especially in the works of Poe and Tennyson. He was widely known as a popular and successful platform lecturer on "Poets and Poetry," "English Fiction," and kindred subjects exemplifying English literature. His ability as an elocutionist added largely to his success as a lecturer, as well as a speaker on patriotic occasions, notably as a Decoration Day orator. While a devoted member of the Republican party he steadfastly declined all requests to serve as a political speaker, or to accept any political office. He contributed numerous articles on professional topics to educational and literary magazines and other periodicals, and was the author of several poems and prose pieces of fiction. He had unusual talent as a musician and com- poser of music, and his songs and sacred com- positions were widely published. He was the author and composer of the "University Hymn," which stands as a memorial to him in the hearts of the students and alumni of his alma mater. In his professional line he served as secretary and treasurer of the Maine Peda- gogical Society from 1886 to 1891 ; as vice-
president, 1893-94, and as president 1894-95; and he was for several years general chair- man of its committee on instruction. He was also a member of the American College and Educational Society, of the American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science, and of the Twentieth Century Club of Bangor. His . service to his alma mater, outside of his pro- fessional connection, was as a member of the Alumni Association, of which body he was president, 1891-95. In 1883 the University of Maine conferred upon him the degree of M. S., and in 1891 Bowdoin College gave him the honorary degree of A. M. In religion he was a Congregationalist.
Professor Estabrooke married, July 24, 1880, Kate A., daughter of James T. and Melinda R. Clark, of Tremont, Maine. Chil- dren: I. Elizabeth Read, born December 25, 1886, in Gorham, Maine; educated in schools of Orono, from which she graduated, subse- quently attending the high school at Bangor and the University of Maine, from which she graduated with the class of 1908, and is now teacher of English in the Orono high school. 2. Carl Bertrand, born December 13, 1888, in Gorham; graduate of Orono high school; matriculated at University of Maine in 1906, and in 1908 left college for one year to teach in a government school in Porto Rico; is now in junior year in University of Maine. 3. Marion Corthell, born 1890, in Gorham; grad- uate of Orono high school; now in freshman class in University of Maine. The children are all fitted or fitting for the profession of teaching, so successfully filled by the father, and are recognized as a family of exceptional talent.
His sudden death, caused by an accident, occurred on October 31, 1908. A memorial service was held for him by the faculty and students of the university, and the tribute given to him there was only one of the many expressions of the love felt for him by every- one with whom he was connected.
AMES The escutcheon of this family was argent on a bend sable, three roses in a field. The English representa- tive of the race in the eighteenth century was Joseph Ames, a bibliographer and antiquary, son of a naval commander. William Ames was a dissenting clergyman of the established church, who was driven to Holland. His de- scendant came to this country and was the corner stone of the Bridgewater branch, from which we have Fisher Ames, the Federalist statesman, Governor Oliver Ames, of Massa-
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chusetts, Oakes Ames, the congressman and financial supporter of Lincoln in the troublous times of '61, but whose life was singularly un- fortunate in one of those ugly things, an anti- climax. Among the peers of the name in America to-day are Bishop E. R. Ames, of the Methodist church, a native Ohioan, and Pro- fessor J. B. Ames, of Harvard University. A living English representative is Hon. Hugo Ames, author, journalist and diplomat.
(I) Captain Anthony Eames (as it was then spelled) was born in Dorsetshire, England, about 1595. He came to America, and settled in Marshfield, Massachusetts. The forename of his wife was Margorie, whom he married in England. He died in Marshfield, in 1686.
(II) Lieutenant Mark, son of Anthony and Margorie Eames, was born in England in 1620, the year of the Plymouth pilgrimage, and came over with his father. He, too, re- sided in Marshfield, and married Elizabeth -, in Hingham, Massachusetts, March 26, 1648. He died in Marshfield, in 1693.
(III) Jonathan, son of Lieutenant Mark and Elizabeth Eames, was born at Marshfield in 1655, and died there in 1724. He married Hannah Trouant, of that town.
(IV) Jedediah, son of Jonathan and Han- nah (Trouant) Eames, was born at Marsh- field, in 1685, and died there about 1738. He married Mary, daughter of Tobias Oakman.
(V) Jedediah (2), son of Jedediah (I) and Mary (Oakman) Eames, was born in Marsh- field, and married, in 1752, Bertha Tilden, He had John Tilden, and other issue.
(VI) Mark was the son, we conclude, of Jedediah (2) and Bertha (Tilden) Eames. He changed the spelling of the name by drop- ping the vowel "e." He removed to North Haven, Knox county, Maine, and took up a large tract of land, dying in that town. He married Priscilla Howland, who was the mother of his children: Mark, Rev. Benja- min, Experience, Anna, John, Isaac, Abraham and Hezekiah. He married, after the death of Priscilla, Rebecca Crosbery, of North Haven. Mark was, we infer, a brother of that Elder Thomas Eames, of Isleborough, Maine, an itinerant Baptist preacher, who also hailed from Marshfield. Mark was an uncle to Tilden Ames, who was a neighbor of Dan- iel Webster, and although a plain farmer, the great statesman held him in high esteem. At the Revere House, in Boston, Tilden called to see Webster, and the clerk dismissed Mr. Ames rather curtly, as, being plainly dressed, he thought Mr. Webster would not care to see him. The God-like Daniel was in the next
room and heard Mr. Ames's inquiry. He rushed in, taking him by the arm, walked up and down the corridor with extreme cordial- ity, to the great discomfiture of the humiliated clerk. The great expounder loved his Marsh- field neighbors, and greeted them wherever he met them. Major-General Adelbert Ames, who was governor of Mississippi, and a United States senator, was a great-grandson of Mark, and, like another Maine man, Ser- geant S. Prentiss, infused "down-east" ener- gies and abilities into that land of cotton and cane brakes.
(VII) Isaac, sixth son of Mark and Pris- cilla (Howland) Ames, was born in North Haven, July 6, 1784, and died March 10, 1854. He married Abigail Clark; children: Cap- tain Isaac, Alfred, Benjamin, Priscilla, Charles, Warren and Susan.
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