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(VIII) Captain Alfred, second son of Isaac and Abigail (Clark) Ames, was born in North Haven, September 7, 1809, and came to Machias before 1836. He was one of the original founders of the Congregational church, donating twenty-five dollars towards the erection of the edifice known as the Union Meeting House. He followed the sea, and was master of a ship. He married Mary Keller; children: John K., Benjamin Frank- lin, Napoleon Bonaparte, Martin, Van Buren and Maria Louisa.
(IX) Hon. John K., oldest child of Cap- tain Alfred and Mary (Keller) Ames, was born in East Machias, November 2, 1831, and died March 22, 1901. He was a lumber oper- ator on an extensive scale, and a merchant. He was selectman for thirty years, chairman of the board for the latter half of time; was a member of the Maine senate 1893 to 1897, and collector of the port of Machias at the time of his demise. He married Sarah (Al- bee) Sanborn. Children: I. Edwin G., lives in Seattle, and is manager of the Puget Lum- ber Company; 2. Anna M., married Fred H. Peavey, and lives in Sioux City, Iowa. 3. Julia P., married R. C. Fuller, of the Fuller Iron Works, Providence. 4. Frank Sanborn. 5. Alfred Keller. 6. Lucy T.
(X) Captain Alfred K., younger son of John K. and Sarah (Sanborn) Ames, was born September 4, 1867, at Machias. He was taught in the public schools of his native town, followed by a classical course at Provi- dence, Rhode Island. He became a clerk in the lumber firm of John K. Ames, in 1886, and remained with him until the business was taken over in 1899 by the Machias Lumber Company, of which corporation he is general
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manager. He is a Republican, and a Uni- versalist. He was appointed by Governor Hill captain of Company M, Second Regiment Maine National Guard, which position he re- signed in 1904. Captain Ames married Nel- lie E., daughter of J. Murray and Alma (Gor- don) Hill, of Calais, Maine. One child blesses the union : John Keller, born May 20, 1907.
In reference to the Sanborn line, which is interlaced into the Ames ancestry in the ninth generation, we find by family documents and biblical records, these revelations :
(1) Lieutenant John Sanborn was born in 1620, in England, and came to this country, dying October 20, 1692. His marriage was with Mary Tucker.
(2) John (2), son of Lieutenant John (I) and Mary (Tucker) Sanborn, was born in 1649, and died November 10, 1723. He mar- ried Judith Coffin.
(3) Enoch, son of John (2) and Judith (Coffin) Sanborn, was born in 1685, and mar- ried Elizabeth Dennett.
(4) Enoch (2), son of Enoch (I) and Elizabeth Sanborn, was born June 28, 1724, and married, December 3, 1747, Mary Mor- rill.
(5) William was a son of Enoch (2) and Mary (Morrill) Sanborn.
(6) Cyrus, son of William Sanborn, was born November 28, 1801, and died in 1888, having just passed his eighty-seventh year. He married Susan Gardner, who died Decem- ber 25, 1886. Their daughter, Sarah Albee, married Hon. John K. Ames.
LOUD Benjamin Cross Somerby, young- est son of Abial and Rebecca (Merrill) Somerby, sister of Jane (Somerby) Loud, and a descendant of an old and honored family of Maine, was born in Portland, Maine, February 1, 1817, died Feb- ruary 3, 1903. He attended the public schools of his native city, and early in life became a clerk in a dry goods store. In 1849 he en- tered the employ of the Canal National Bank, resigned the cashiership at age of seventy, when he was made a director, in which ca- pacity he served until his decease. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Republican Club, Unitarian church (First Parish), and of several other clubs and orders. He married Jane Stetson, who died in 1886, at which time his niece, Miss Ade- line B. Loud, assumed the care of his home at 204 Spring street, Portland, where she is liv- ing at the present time. Mr. and Mrs. Som-
erby had three children, all of whom died young. The following resolutions prove con- clusively the esteem in which Mr. Somerby was held at the Canal National Bank :
"At a meeting of the directors of the Canal National Bank of Portland, held February 7, 1903, at their banking room, it was voted : Whereas on the fourth day of February, Ben- jamin C. Somerby, one of the directors of this bank, died at the age of eighty-six years and three days, the President and Directors of the Canal Bank wishing to put upon the records of the Board their high sense of his long, faithful and upright service, do adopt the fol- lowing memorial :
"Mr. Somerby entered the service of the Canal Bank as a clerk in 1849. After serving as clerk and teller for fourteen years, he was, in 1863, made the cashier, and performed the duties of this its most important office for twenty-four years when he resigned, and was immediately chosen a director which he held until his death. His service to the Bank cov- ers a period of more than fifty-three years, almost two-thirds of the life of the Bank. When he began the founders of the bank were still directing its affairs. When he died, he was associated with a third gen- eration in its government. The entire his- tory of the Bank with its transactions of more than half a century were familiar to him, which united to his long experience made him of great value to the Bank and to the Board. He possessed in an eminent degree those qual- ities which especially fitted him for the offices he filled. To an integrity that was beyond temptation he united a zeal that made his duty to the Bank his highest enjoyment. To a most exacting attention to duty he added an unfailing courtesy of manner that never gave an offense. His ripe experience and sound judgment guided by the purest principles made his actions and opinions of great value to his associates. The Canal Bank will place his name among its most faithful servants who have done so much to establish its char- acter and maintain its usefulness in the finan- cial world.
"Attest :
E. D. Noyes, Secretary."
Richard Nichols, immigrant NICHOLS ancestor, was born in Eng- land, and settled first at Ips- wich, Massachusetts. His name appears in general court records as early as 1640, and he was one of Major Dennison's subscribers in 1648. His wife Annis (Agnes) was admitted to the church at Reading, Massachusetts, from
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the church at Ipswich, in 1666. He died at Reading, November 22, 1674, and his wife in 1692. Children: I. John, see forward. 2. Thomas, born about 1655. 3. James, married Mary Poole. 4. Mary. 5. Joanna (or Han- nah). 6. Richard, married Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Mary Damon.
(II) John, third son of Richard and Annis Nichols, was born in Reading, Massachu- setts, in 1651, and married Abigail, daughter of Deacon Thomas Kendall; she was born in 1655. He settled in the west parish of Read- ing, and had issue: John, Richard (died young), Richard, Thomas Kendall, James, Nathaniel, Abig, Samuel, Benjamin and Jo- seph. They both died in 1721, he seventy and she sixty-six.
(III) Samuel, sixth son of John and Abi- gail (Kendall) Nichols, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, in 1696, and died in 1810. The name of his first wife was Rebecca, and that of his second Abigail. Children: Samuel, Abigail, James, and others.
(IV) Captain Samuel (2), eldest son of Samuel (I) and Rebecca Nichols, was born in Reading, in 1723. He removed to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and subsequently became a first settler in Royalsborough, now Durham, Androscoggin county, before 1780, on lot No. 80, and built his cabin where is now Prescott Strout's apple orchard. He was a master ma- riner. Captain Nichols believed in the Gospel according to Methodism, converted to that faith under the evangelical labors of Rev. Asa Heath, an ancestor of Hon. H. M. Heath, of Augusta. He married, rather late in life, at Cape Elizabeth, Rebecca Wimble, born No- vember 7, 1748. Children: Thomas, Betty, Samuel, Sarah, James, William, Mehitable, John and Lemuel.
(V) Lemuel, last son of Captain Samuel and Rebecca (Wimble) Nichols, was born in Durham, Maine, April 27, 1792, and removed to Lisbon Falls, where he was a farmer, lum- berman, and inn-holder. He resided for a time in New York state, and there kept a tavern. He was of the Methodist persuasion. He attained the great age of ninety, dying in Bangor. He married Sally Merrill, and had a son, Lemuel.
(VI) Lemuel (2), son of Lemuel (1) and Sally (Merrill) Nichols, was born in Lisbon, Maine, June 25, 1828. He received his early education in Augusta, Harmony, and Bangor, and set out to earn his own living at ten years of age as chore-boy on a farm, then as hostler and stage driver on the line between Bangor .and Brownsville. He was an industrious
youth, economical in his habits, and saved his wages. He made an engagement with Thomas Norcross & Sons as manager of their Bangor and Moosehead stage line. We next find him in Guilford, Maine, as village inn-keeper. About this time he bought his first horse, and has since owned thousands, and one hundred at a time, being one of the leading horse men in the state. In 1857 he bid off the mail con- tract between Bangor and Moosehead, and he has taken many government mail contracts over the entire country, subletting the same to others. About this time he conducted the Parker House, at East Corinth, Maine, and built a fine, spacious public hall which bears his name, and was an ornament to the village and a great accommodation for public gather- ings. In 1864 he sold his hotel interests and other business and removed to Newport, Maine, where he bought the Shaw House. In 1866 he came to Bangor, becoming proprietor of the O. M. Shaw livery, hack and sale sta- ble, and also the old City Hotel, now the Nichols House. This same year he took up his residence in Dexter, Maine, and there en- gaged in the livery business for five years, at the expiration of which time he once more adopted Bangor as a residence, and eventually acquired the Fisher House stables, which he conducted till his death. He was in the habit of attending upon the worship of the Baptist church, aiding materially toward its support, though not a member of any religious sect.
Mr. Nichols married Martha Ann Edmunds, daughter of Elauson and Philena (Chandler) Edmunds, who was born in Farmington, Maine, in 1830. Children: I. Frederick W., born September 10, 1852, died February 20, 1891. 2. Minnie F., born September 29, 1844; married Charles Hathaway, of Boston. 3. Charles W., born October 14, 1857; lives in Bangor. 4. Henry L., born February 26, 1854; resides in Garland, Maine. Elauson Edmunds, Mrs. Nichols' father, was born September 28, 1801, and Mrs. Edmunds, nee Chandler, was born January 25, 1804. The subject of this memoir died May 4, 1905. He was one of the old-time whips of Maine in the days before the iron moguls. He was a gen- tleman of the old school, now rapidly disap- pearing, and brought to us the manners and customs of colonial times which had been transmitted to him and through him to us. Strange as it may seem to relate, and the in- stances are exceedingly rare in his line of business, nevertheless it is strictly true, he never indulged in intoxicating liquors of any kind, and never used tobacco in any form.
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PARCHER original settlers of York county the Parcher family was established in Pepperellborough (now Saco) at an early period, antedating the American revolution by many years, and the name appears in the town records from the year 1747 to the present time.
(I) Elias Parcher was born in Pepperell- borough, August 20, 1747. The christian name of his wife was Olive, who according to the records, was born October 24, 1753, and their children were: I. Anna, born Sep- tember 23, 1772. 2. Asa, August 3, 1774. 3. Daniel, January 15, 1777, died young. 4. Mary, March 23, 1779. 5. George, see suc- ceeding paragraph. 6. Daniel, March 25, 1784. 7. Betsey, March 27, 1786. 8. Pa- tience, August 5, 1789. 9. Sally, January II, 1792. 10. Elias, November 23, 1794. The mother of these children died January 16, 1795.
(II) George, third son and fifth child of Elias and Olive Parcher, born in Pepperell- borough, September 18, 1781, died in Saco in 1852. His intention to marry Eunice Gould was published July 15, 1803, and they were married October 2, of that year. She bore him children: I. Samuel, born July 5, 1804. 2. Daniel, December 20, 1806. 3. Sally, December 27, 1808. 4. Oran, May 8, 18II. 5. Jane, May 18, 1815. 6. Olive, Au- gust 21, 1817. 7. Eliza, October 21, 1819. 8. Ruth, December 23, 1822. 9. George, see next paragraph. 10. Franklin, September 18, 1829.
(III) George (2), fifth son and tenth child of George (I) and Eunice (Gould) Parcher, born in Saco, March 10, 1825, died April I, 1908. He was reared upon a farm and fol- lowed agriculture to some extent after at- taining his majority, but much of his time during his active period was devoted to the public service, in which he attained an hon- orable record. Prior to the incorporation of Saco as a city he was a member of the board of selectmen, and under the municipal govern- ment served upon the board of assessors for several years. He also represented Saco in the lower branch of the state legislature two terms, and for a period of fourteen years he was an inspector of customs in Portland. In politics he was a Republican. He is a Master Mason, affiliating with Saco Lodge, No. 9. He was a member of the Cutts Avenue Free Baptist Church. He married Emma Chase, born in Scarborough, Maine, November 5, 1827. She became the mother of eight chil-
dren : Olive, Georgia, Jennie, Sumner Chase, Octavia, Clarence, Eva and Bell, the last- named of whom died in infancy.
(IV) Sumner Chase, eldest son of George (2) and Emma (Chase) Parcher, was born in Saco, December 3, 1853. He was educated in the Saco public schools, including the high school, and after concluding his attendance at the latter he was engaged in teaching for one year. At the age of eighteen he obtained a clerkship in the Biddeford postoffice, where he remained for two years, and in October, 1873, he entered the York National Bank, Saco, in a similar capacity. In 1882 he was advanced to the position of assistant cashier, and from 1892 to the present time he has served with ability as cashier of that institu- tion. For the past eighteen years he has been a member of the board of directors, and for the same length of time has served as a trus- tee of the Saco and Biddeford Savings Insti- tution. For seventeen years he has been a director of the Saco Mutual Fire Insurance Company; is also a trustee of Thornton Academy and of Laurel Hill cemetery. Po- litically he acts with the Republican party, and has served as a member of the board of aldermen for four years. He is a member of Saco Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; York Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Bradford Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 4; a thirty-second degree Mason; and Saco Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Cutts Avenue Baptist Church.
In 1874 Mr. Parcher married Ida M. Stock- man, daughter of John W. and Adelia F. ( Morse) Stockman, of Biddeford. She is probably a descendant of John Stockman, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who was married there May 10, 1671, to Mrs. Sarah Bradbury (nee Pike), daughter of Major Robert Pike and widow of Wymond Bradbury ( see Brad- bury). Mr. and Mrs. Parcher have two chil- dren : Carl C., born May 9, 1876, and Lucia M., born November 27, 1884. Both are grad- uates of Thornton Academy. Carl C. Parcher pursued a commercial course at the Burdette Business College, Boston, and is now clerk and collector for Messrs. J. G. Deering & Sons, wholesale and retail lumber dealers, Biddeford. He married Reta M. Proctor, daughter of Thomas D. Proctor, of Saco, and has one son, Clifford R., born September 8, 1900. Lucia M. Parcher possesses musical talents of a high order which were cultivated at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. She is now the wife of Fred H.
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Dow, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a manu -- 24, 1832, died October 22, 1889. James Nutt facturing confectioner, whose specialty is the Utopian brand of chocolates. They have one son, Harold Parcher.
The family of Rich was very nu-
RICH merous in the vicinity of Truro and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the early history of that place, and many of them were mariners. The first of the family was Richard Rich, who was a mariner, and the first record of him is when he removed from Dover, New Hampshire, to Truro, in 1681 being made a freeman; he died in 1692.
(I) Lemuel Rich, with his wife, Elizabeth (Harding) Rich, removed from Truro, Mas- sachusetts, to Gorham, Maine, about 1762, and he and his wife died in the same month, March, 1791, both being between eighty-five and ninety years of age. He is undoubtedly a descendant of Richard Rich, who was in Truro in 1681, but the descent has not yet been traced. His children were: I. Ezekiel, born November 25, 1738. 2. Lemuel, 1740. 3. Samuel. 4. Martha, December 2, 1744. 5. Zephaniah, baptized February 8, 1747. 6. James, born April 2, 1749. 7. Deliverance. 8. Mary. 9. Sarah, November 23, 1755. IO. Joel. II. Barnabas. 12. Amos, May 17, 1759. (II) Samuel, third son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Harding) Rich, was born about 1742, in Truro, Massachusetts, and probably removed to Gorham, Maine, with his father, in 1762, a few years later removing to Machias, Maine. He married (first) Sarah Fogg and (second) Sarah Bracy, and had children as follows: I. Samuel, born October 9, 1778. 2. Lemuel, June 10, 1780. 3. Ezekiel, 1784. 4. Betsey, married Micah Jones Talbot. 5. John. 6. James. 7. Joseph, born January 5, 1790. 8. Daniel F., born July 10, 1792. 9. Sally, September 10, 1794. 10. Ruth, July 5, 1797.
(III) Joseph, sixth son of the seven sons of Samuel Rich, was born January 5, 1790, and December 13, 1828, married Nancy Wood. Their children are: I. James Alonzo, died April 5, 1837. 2. Ruth Elizabeth, born April 14, 1831, married Jonathan Glover. 3. John Joseph, born February 6, 1833, died April 6, 1834. 4. John Joseph. 5. James Alonzo, born April II, 1838. 6. William Kilby, born Feb- ruary 24, 1841.
(IV) John Joseph, third son of Joseph and Nancy (Wood) Rich, was born March 4, 1835, at Pembroke, Maine, and died March 5, 1866. He married, September 10, 1858, Be- linda, daughter of James Nutt, born March
was born in 1797, in Whitefield, Maine, and married Sarah Brown, by whom he had nine children. John Joseph and Belinda (Nutt) Rich had two children: I. William James, born June 28, 1859. 2. Laura Nutt, born Feb- ruary 16, 1861, married George M. Spofford, now living in Ayers Village (Haverhill), Massachusetts.
(V) William James, the only son of John Joseph and Belinda (Nutt) Rich, was born June 28, 1859, at Pembroke, Maine, and at- tended the public schools of his native town until 1877. He then entered the Maine State College, class of 1880, though he did not grad- uate, but entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which institution he graduated in 1884. He spent some time as assistant to the professor of mining and metal- lurgy at the Institute, from 1886 to 1889 he was assistant chemist at the Cambria Steel Works at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and then was employed at the office of Locks and Ca- nals, at Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1889 he was appointed fourth assistant examiner at the United States patent office in Washing- ton, being appointed from Lowell, and now holds the position of principal examiner. After locating in Washington, he entered the Georgetown University, from which he re- ceived the degree of LL. B. in 1898, and was admitted to the bar of the District of Colum- bia, and in 1899 received the degree of LL. M. In 1902 Mr. Rich took a special course at the George Washington University, covering the laws regarding patents. He is an able mem- ber of his profession, and is well fitted for his special line. He belongs to the University Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, to the Maine Society of Washington, to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and to the Masons. November 6, 1889, he married Mary Elizabeth McDonald, and they have had four children : I. Donald Upton, born Au- gust 26, 1890, in Washington. 2. Malcolm Nutt, born October 19, 1893, in Washington. 3. Katharine Mary, June 12, 1895, in Prince George county, Maryland. 4. Norman Pres- cott, October 5, 1899, in Washington, died July 5, 1901, at Cape May Point, New Jersey.
JEWELL The family of this name early settled in New England to es- cape the religious persecution. they were compelled to suffer in England. Many individuals of sterling character traced their descent to the immigrant ancestor. The name expresses fondness and preciousness
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and some one who was very fond of its first- born called him "jewel" to represent their feelings toward him. The Jewells were of fighting revolutionary stock and stood by their country in its hour of need.
(I) Thomas Jewell was of Braintree as early as 1639. His will was dated April 10 and probated July 21, 1654. His widow, Grizell Jewell, married (second) March 9, 1656, Humphrey Griggs, who died in 1657. She survived him. Children of Thomas and Grizell Jewell were: Thomas, Joseph, Na- thaniel, Grizell and Marcy.
(II) Thomas (2), eldest child of Thomas (I) and Grizell Jewell, was of Hingham and Amesbury. He removed to Amesbury about 1687, and lived in that part of the town now South Hampton. He married, October 18, 1672, Susanna Guilford; children : Mary, Thomas, Ruth, Hannah (died young), John, Hannah, Samuel and Joseph.
(III) John, fifth child and second son of Thomas (2) and Susanna (Guilford) Jewell, was born in Hingham, June 29, 1683. He went with his parents when four years old to Amesbury, where he ever after resided. He married, January 9, 1702, Hannah Prowse, born in Amesbury, March, 1676, daughter of John and Hannah (Barnes) Prowse. Chil- dren : Abigail, Thomas, Hannah, John and Barnes. Hannah (Prowse) Jewell married (second) September 19, 1715, Peter Thomp- son.
(IV) Thomas (3), second child and eldest son of John and Hannah (Prowse) Jewell, was born in Amesbury in 1704, and died in the town of his nativity. He married Judith Lancaster, February 19, 1732; children : Henry L., John, Sarah, Judith, Hannah and Ann. Mr. Jewell married (second) Marion
(V) Henry L., eldest son and child of Thomas (3) and Judith (Lancaster) Jewell, was born in Amesbury, December 19, 1732, and died in South Hampton, New Hampshire. He once lived in the vicinity of Concord, New Hampshire. He served in the army around Quebec, and was wounded in the leg in that engagement. He married Sarah Gould; chil- dren : Henry, Enos, Joseph and Thomas. His widow accompanied Henry and Enos to Litchfield, Kennebec county, Maine, where she married, and her death occurred at Hallowell at an advanced age.
(VI) Enos, second child and son of Henry L. and Sarah (Gould) Jewell, was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1759. He resided in Ogdensburg from 1796 to 1800, returned
there in 1804 and his death occurred there in 1831. He married Deborah Hall about 1780; children: Sarah, Deborah, Enos, Susannah, Edward, John, Rebecca, Susannah, Salathiel, Ivory, Enos, Mary, Samuel and Deborah.
(VII) Enos (2), fifth son and eleventh child of Enos (I) and Deborah (Hall) Jew- ell, was born in Amesbury, January 4, 1784. He was one of the early settlers of Canaan, Somerset county, Maine, where he cleared wild land, cultivating it and making it highly productive; he followed farming as a liveli- hood throughout the active years of his life. He married (first) in 1807, Fannie, daughter of Elder Fairbanks, of Winthrop, Maine. Married (second) March 28, 1847, Irene Bean. Children : Catherine, Anson, Syl- vanus, Elijah, Fanny, Clarissa, Henry, Alfred, Albert, Mary, Enos, George Washington and Rufus Moody.
(VIII) Rufus Moody, youngest son of Enos (2) Jewell, was born in Canaan, Maine, December 27, 1828. He received a common school education, was a farmer and speculator, engaging some years in the produce business, a Republican in politics and a Universalist in religion. He resided at Waterville and Fair- field, Maine. He married (first) in Skowhe- gan, Maine, Marcia Whitman, who died 'in Waterville, 1862. Children: Rosanna, Wal- lace H., Albert. Married (second) Laura Wyman, of Kingsbury, Maine; children : Emma and Fred. Rufus Moody Jewell died at Fairfield, Maine, November 22, 1868.
(IX) Albert, youngest son and child of Rufus Moody and Marcia (Whitman) Jewell, was born in Skowhegan, Maine, July 11, 1854. He was educated in the common schools of Canaan, Waterville and Benton. He was em- ployed for some years in the saw mill of E. J. & G. W. Lawrence, of Fairfield, and was eventually made superintendent of the entire business. In 1895 he established a plant in Fairfield for the manufacture of shipping crates, known as the Albert Jewell Crate Man- ufactory, and in 1906 admitted to partnership his son, Ralph A. Jewell. They employ about thirty hands, and their average output of crates amount to 450,000 annually. Mr. Jew- ell is a Republican, an attendant of the Uni- versalist church, and a member of Siloam Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Fairfield; Teconet Chapter, St. Omar Com- mandery, of Waterville; Kora Temple, Mys- tic Shrine, at Lewiston ; Eastern Star of Fair- field. Mr. Jewell married Myra, daughter of Freeman and Harriet (Osborn) Reynolds, of Winslow. Children : Blanche, Catherine, Net-
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