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saw and grist mills there, which he operated. "While a student at Limington, overhearing his landlady mourning over the sad fate in store for her daughter, who, though a model of deportment, was not a professed Christian, he was led to examine his theology, and his sense of justice led him to embrace the Uni- versalist belief; but his early training and de- vout nature prevented him from accepting the more liberal tenets of that faith.
"Mr. Cook, even during the busiest part of his life, never lost his interest in literary mat- ters, but kept himself fully abreast .of the times. Skilled in business, he served as a member of the municipal boards of both his native and adopted towns. A firm friend of education, his experience as a teacher made him almost the ideal man for the school com- mittee. One of the founders of the Repub- lican party of Cumberland county, he never wavered in his allegiance. Although nomi- nated in 1874 to represent the Harrison, Otis- field and Casco Class, and by reason of local troubles, defeated, yet his loyalty stood the test. His official and business life left him little time for active practice in his profes- 'sion, but he was methodical in his preparation, clear and concise in his argument, and suc- cessful in gaining the confidence of his clients."
He married (first) December 26, 1854, Christiana S. Perry, born September 24, 1829, died in Portland, March II, 1861, daughter of Dan and Polly (Caldwell) Perry, of Oxford, Maine. (See Caldwell.) He married (sec- ond) January 15, 1863, Lucy I. Perry, born March II, 1821, died in Harrison June 24, 1902, a sister of his first wife. Children, all by the first wife: I. Mary E., born in Port- land, Maine, January 5, 1856; married George Hazen, of Oxford. 2. Charles Sumner, born November 18, 1858; mentioned below. 3. Christiana S., born in Portland, February I, 1861 ; resides in Harrison, Maine.
(VII) Charles Sumner, son of Obadiah Gould Cook, was born in Portland, Maine, November 18, 1858. He attended the com- mon schools at Bolster's Mills, and completed his preparation for college at the Nichols Latin School at Lewiston, Maine, from which he graduated in 1877. In the same year (1877) he entered Bates College, from which he graduated with honors in the class of 1881. After teaching a year he studied law in the office of his father, in Harrison, and completed his law course in the office of Symonds & Libby, in Portland. In October, 1886, he was admitted to the Cumberland county bar, and soon afterward became associated in business
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with Judge Joseph W. Symonds, forming the firm which afterwards became Symonds, Snow & Cook, and then Symonds, Snow, Cook & Hutchinson. Mr. Cook is an active man, whose successful conduct of cases has placed him among the foremost lawyers of the Maine bar. In addition to his professional work he has devoted much time to the organization and management of important business and financial institutions. He is president of the State Loan Company, Brunswick Electric Light and Power Company and Prince's Ex- press Company ; vice-president of the Fidelity Trust Company ; director of the Atlantic Shore Line Railway, and of the Sagadahock Light and Power Company. In politics he is a staunch Republican, and stands high among party leaders. He was elected as member of the governor's council in 1899, and was re- elected in 1901 and 1903. He served as chair- man of the council during his second term.
He married, October 23, 1889, Annie Jef- ferds Reed, born August 19, 1864, died Octo- ber 25, 1903, daughter of Isaac and Lydia Emery (Macdonald) Reed, of Waldoboro. Children : I. Lydia Macdonald, born January 26, 1892. 2. Robinson, born January 30, 1895.
The line of Cook of this article COOK came from England, but there is no record to show whence they came or when, or whether they are related to any of the many early lines of the same name. The fact that the men of this line married into representative families is evidence of their own standing, and has been the means of keeping the family stock at par.
(I) Samuel Cook, with his wife Elizabeth and several children, appeared in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1720. He removed from Salem, and had no doubt lived in this country since 1699. His youngest son was born in Newbury the year of his settlement there, and all his children probably married in Newbury. He died in 1733. His will shows him to have been a man of deep religious convictions even for that day.
(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Elizabeth Cook, married Judith Bartlett, niece of Josiah Bartlett, the second signer of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Bart- lett, father of Judith, was great-great-grand- son of Richard Bartlett, who landed at New- bury in 1635. On the maternal side, through the family names of Moody, Somerby and Emery, the descent is from the same period as that of the founders and builders of Puritan Newbury. The founder of the Bartlett fam -.
ily was the Norman Earl of Bartlet, who ac- companied William the Conqueror to Eng- land and fought with him on the field of Hast- ings. The Bartlett ancestral estate is on and near the battlefield.
(III) Charles, son of Samuel (2) and Ju- dith (Bartlett) Cook, was born in Newbury, in 1769, and moved to Campton, New Hamp- shire, with his father, who with some of his brothers settled there shortly after the revolu- tion. In 1801 he moved with his family to Greensboro, Vermont. In Campton the Cooks became numerous, there being at one time per- haps more voters of that name than of any other. Charles Cook married Elizabeth Bur- beck, daughter of Captain Edward Burbeck, of Newbury, Massachusetts. Some of the children of Charles and Elizabeth were born in Campton. Edward Burbeck, son of Colonel William Burbeck, was born in Boston, Massa- chusetts, in 1739, and was killed by lightning in Newburyport, in 1782. He was captain in his father's regiment of artillery from May, 1775, to the close of 1776. He was a member of the Boston Tea Party. He married Jane Milk, daughter of James Milk. His father, Colonel William Burbeck, was born in Boston, in 1715, died there in 1786, and was buried in Copp's Hill burying-ground. He was a civilian official in the ordnance department of the Royal Artillery, and was for many years stationed at Old Castle William, now Fort In- dependence, in Boston Harbor, until the break- ing out of hostilities at Lexington and Con- cord. He then left the British service, was appointed lieutenant of artillery June 21, 1775, and two days later colonel. He subsequently commanded Castle William.
(IV) George Henry, youngest son of Charles and Elizabeth (Burbeck) Cook, was born in Greensboro, Vermont, March 7, 181I, and died in Portland, Maine, August 12, 1894. His boyhood life and education were those of a farmer's boy on the frontier in that time and locality. He clerked in the village store in youth, and when a young man engaged in business on his own account in Craftsbury. His life was that of the village merchant and man of affairs. He was socially active, repre- sentative to the Vermont legislature, and was adjutant in the state militia. His religious life was of the stern and austere type, puritanical in its simple severity and high ideality. To him the church was a great field of labor, to which he devoted himself with conscientious and untiring zeal. He was prominent in all church activities as teacher, Sunday school su- perintendent, and as deacon. In 1849 he re-
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moved to Portland, Maine, with his family. There his business was that of a hardware man, being connected with Emery & Water- house, the H. Warren Lancey Company, and Haines, Smith & Cook. He died August 12, 1894, in his eighty-fourth year. In Portland he continued his church work, was identified with the High street Congregational Church, during Dr. Chickering's pastorate, and was Sunday school superintendent. He was also superintendent of the Sunday school at the State Reform School. He married, in 1835, Selina Atwood Aiken, born in Dracut, Massa- chusetts, January 25, 1811, died in Portland, Maine, August, 1850. Her father, Rev. Solo- mon Aiken, was a grandson of James Aiken, who came to this country with the Scotch- Irish immigrants, landing at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1720. Solomon Aiken was a soldier in the Massachusetts militia during the revolution, and shortly after the war entered Dartmouth College, graduating in 1784. As minister, he preached at Dracut, Massachu- setts, from 1785 until 1815, when he removed to Hardwick, Vermont. He was widely known as an orator. He married, in 1788, Mary Warner, daughter of Daniel Warner, of Hard- wick, Massachusetts, a soldier of the revolu- tion and of the colonial wars. She was the fifth in descent from Andrew Warner, who came to this country in 1630 with Parson Hooker's company, and was a member of the party of one hundred who with Parson Hooker founded Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636. He was a deacon of the First Church there. The children of George H. and Selina A. (Aiken) Cook were: I. Harriet Whipple, married Charles J. Frye and lives in New York City. 2. George Henry, died in his youth. 3. Selina Aiken, married Captain Rufus P. Staniels, of Concord, New Hampshire. 4. Edward Bur- beck, mentioned below. 5. Charles, mentioned below. 6. Joshua O., received a common school education, learned the oil cloth business from Charles M. Bailey, of East Winthrop, Maine, and is western manager at Chicago of the Farr & Bailey Manufacturing Company, of Camden, New Jersey.
(V) Edward Burbeck, second son of George H. and Selina A. (Aiken) Cook, was born in Craftsbury, Vermont, April 30, 1842. He at- tended the public schools of Craftsbury and Barre Academy, and in March, 1860, went to Portland, Maine, where he entered the hard- ware store of H. Warren Lancey, finding em- ployment there till 1866. In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Seventeenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, but was not accepted as a soldier.
Later he was a travelling salesman of Fletcher & Company, for several years. With Emery Waterhouse & Company he remained twenty years, twelve of them as a member of the firm. January 1,' 1893, he organized Woodman, Cook Company, of which he is treasurer and general manager. This concern employs about sixty operatives, manufactures silver plated hollow ware, and sends its products all over the country. Mr. Cook is an unswerving Re- publican. In church affiliation he is a Congre- gationalist. In 1868 he was made a Mason in Atlantic Lodge No. 81, Free and Accepted Masons; he is also a member of Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter No. 13; of Portland Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters ; and a life member of Portland Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar. Edward B. Cook married at Concord, New Hampshire, Octo- ber 7, 1869, Frances Sawyer, born in Dan- vers, Massachusetts, daughter of Moses K. and Caroline (Sawyer) Sawyer, of Danvers, Massachusetts. They have one son, Philip Howard, born in Portland, February 2, 1878. He graduated from Harvard in 1899, from Harvard Medical School in 1903, and is now a physician in Worcester, Massachusetts.
(V) Charles, third son of George H. and Selina A. (Aiken) Cook, was born in Crafts- bury, Vermont, June 24, 1845. In his fourth year his father moved with his family and household goods from Vermont to Portland, and incidents of that trip behind the little Shetland pony, a family pet, he still remem- bers. He recollects especially the ride through the "Crawford Notch" in the White Moun- tains. In his eighth year he returned to Ver- mont, and during the following nine years was with relatives in Greensboro and Hardwick, acquiring the education offered by the farm, the district school, and Hardwick Academy. During the year of 1863 he was clerk in the clothing store of Adams Kellogg, at Mont- pelier. Returning to Portland in January, 1864, he took a position in the drug store of W. F. Phillips. Early in 1865 he enlisted, joining Company D, Twentieth Maine Volun- teer Infantry, in front of Petersburg. He was at once detailed as acting hospital steward, and served in that capacity during the battles of Five Forks and Appomattox Court House, witnessing the surrender of Lee's army. The Twentieth was one of the three regiments honored by being detailed to receive the arms of the vanquished Confederates. Later it took part in the celebrated "Grand Review" of the national troops at Washington. After his re- turn to Portland he resumed his place with W.
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F. Phillips, and was admitted as junior part- ner in the firm of W. F. Phillips & Co., Jan- uary, 1868. This continued until 1884, when on account of poor health, Mr. Phillips re- tired from business, and the present firm of Cook, Everett & Pennell was formed. Its volume of business has steadily increased, ex- ceeding for many years that of any similar house in New England outside of Boston. Mr. Cook is president of the Woodman Cook Co., is a director of the Casco National Bank, and also has other interests in the commercial world; belongs to several social clubs, and is a Congregationalist and a Republican.
He married (first) September, 1874, Martha Page Bayley, born in Greensboro, Vermont, 1844, daughter of William Bayley, of Greens- boro, Vermont. She died in June, 1884, leav- ing five children : I. Alfred Page, A. B. (Bowdoin) Ph. C. (Mass. Col. Pharmacy ). 2. Selina Aiken, married Rev. Robert W. Dunbar, and has four children. 3. Florence, married Dr. Frank Y. Gilbert, and has one child. 4. Charles Bayley, A. B. (Bowdoin). 5. Irving Staniels, who died in 1884. Mr. Cook married (second) Harriet Peters Bailey, born in Portland, 1849, daughter of Joseph Stockbridge and Isabel Dicks Bailey, of Port- land. They have two children : Isabelle Bailey and Ruth Stockbridge.
Dunbar (see above) is an ancient Scottish name, and was taken from the town to become a personal name centuries ago. The family is traced back to the Earl of March, and various distinguished men have borne the cognomen Dunbar.
Judson B., son of Albert and Elizabeth (Rich) Dunbar, was born in Patten, Maine, July 6, 1848, and married at Winslow, Maine, May 10, 1871, Ella C. Clarke, born February 19, 1848, daughter of Jacob M. and Octavia (Wright) Clarke, whose children were: Tal- man, Mary A., Charles M., Robert M., and Ella C. The children of Judson B. and Ella . that time, there can be little doubt that all (Clarke) Dunbar were: Robert W., Mary E., these were his. Philip and Helen C.
Rev. Robert Wayland, eldest child of Jud- son B. and Ella (Clarke) Dunbar, was born in Portland, January 24, 1872. He attended the public schools of Portland, Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1895; and And- over Theological Seminary, from which he took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1898. March 8, 1899, he was ordained to the Congregational ministry in the Second Con- gregational Church in Chelmsford, Massa- chusetts. He was pastor of the Second Con- gregational Church there till January, 1904,
when he was dismissed to become pastor of the West Congregational Church of Haver- hill, Massachusetts, where he was installed May 3, 1904, and has since preached. He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta, a college so- ciety, and is a Republican in politics. He mar- ried, in Portland, Maine, June 21, 1899, Selina Aiken Cook, born in Portland, Maine, July 3, 1877, daughter of Charles and Martha Page (Bayley) Cook, of Portland (see Cook V). Children: Ruth, born April 30, 1900; Esther, June 7, 1903; Martha, November 25, 1904; Charles C., August 24, 1906.
MARDEN The Marden family is of Eng- lish descent. As far as pub- lished records show, the emi-
grants to this country have not been very nu- merous. Savage only mentions Richard Mar- den, who settled in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1646, and took the oath of fidelity the fol- lowing year. As far as ascertained, New Hampshire seems to have been their attractive camping ground, though some have settled in Massachusetts. Members of the present fam- ily have found homes in Rye, Windham and New Boston. They have proved themselves highly respected and valuable citizens, many of them of scholarly tastes and habits, who became college graduates, clergymen and law- yers, more than one of the latter having at- tained to an honorable distinction as judge. Some of them have been active in politics, and prominent in state and national conventions.
(I) James Marden (whose origin does not seem to have been discovered) was a very early settler in what is now New Hampshire. It is not certain whether he located in what is now Rye, or in New Castle. It is known that he had a son William, and it is probable that James, Nathan and Sarah were also his chil- dren. Inasmuch as the name was not very numerously represented in the New World at
(II) James (2), son of James (1) Mar- den, was born about 1670, and resided in New Castle, New Hampshire, where he died prior to 1726. He married, October 23, 1695, Abi- gail Webster, born May 27, 1676, in Haver- hill, Massachusetts, youngest child of Stephen and Hannah ( Ayer) Webster. (See Web- ster.) Stephen, second son of John and Mary (Shatswell) Webster, was born about 1637, in Ipswich, and resided in Haverhill, Massachu- setts, where he was a tailor, and subscribed to the freeman's oath in 1668. He died August IO, 1694, and administration upon his estate
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was granted September 26 following. He married (first) March 24, 1663, in Haver- hill, Hannah Ayer, born December 21, 1644, in Salisbury, ninth child of John and Hannah Ayer. She died June 2, 1676, and Stephen Webster married (second) May 26, 1678, in Haverhill, a widow, Judith Broad. His chil- dren, all born of the first wife, were: I. Han- nah, wife of Thomas Eaton. 2. John, resided in Haverhill. 3. Mary, wife of Jacob Whit- taker, of Haverhill. 4. Stephen. 5. Nathan. 6. Abigail, who became the wife of James (2) Marden as above noted. The children of James (2) Marden were: I. James, born September 25, 1697. 2. Stephen, subject of the next paragraph. 3. Thomas. 4. Ebenezer. 5. Rachel, married Job Chapman. 6. Abigail, born in New Castle, married (first) George Foss, (second) Nathaniel Drake. The order of birth of the foregoing is not certain.
(III) Stephen, son of James (2) and Abi- gail (Webster) Marden, was born August 25, 1699, in New Castle, and resided at Little Harbor, in Rye, where he was the owner of a ferry to Great Island, now New Castle. He was a cordwainer by trade. He married, in 1722, Charity Long, and their children, born in Rye, were : I. Hannah, March 13, 1723. 2. Benjamin, August 9, 1729, married January 31, 1754, Rachel Dowst. 3. Ruth, December 8, 1731, married October 11, 1753, Levi Tower. 4. Elizabeth, April 12, 1734. 5. Stephen, men- tioned below. 6. Abigail, July 22, 1739, mar- ried (first) Daniel Philbrick, (second) Wil- liam Davidson.
(IV) Stephen (2), second son of Stephen (I) and Charity (Long) Marden, was born September 27, 1736, in Rye, New Hampshire, and settled in the town of Chester of that state, living on lot No. 14 in the second divi- sion of lands in that town. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war in 1757, and was one of a company to garrison Fort Wil- liam Henry, on the shore of Lake George. The fort was garrisoned by about three thou- sand men under command of Colonel Mon- roe. They were attacked by a force of 9,000 men, consisting of 7,000 French and 2,000 In- dians, under Montcalm; after a terrific strug- gle lasting six days, the Americans were com- pelled, on August 9, to surrender to the French. It was ordered by Montcalm that they be allowed to go free, but in attempting to do so they were set upon by the Indians and robbed of their effects and many of them killed. Of the force from New Hampshire, eighty were killed or missing.
Stephen Marden was a petitioner for the
incorporation of the town of Raymond and subsequently removed to New Hampton, New Hampshire, where his death was caused by a falling tree in Newington, June 19, 1781. He was buried at Centre Harbor, at the head of Lake Winnepesaukee, town of Chester, New Hampshire. He married, August 28, 1760, Elizabeth Webster, who survived him and was taxed in Chester as late as 1785. All of the children, however, removed from that town. The youngest was born after the death of his father, and the widow had her troubles in sup- porting the children. They were: I. Abigail, born November 6, 1760, died January 22, 1798. 2. Martha, January 9, 1764, died August 26, 1830. 3. Josiah, born December 31, 1765, died May 23, 1857. 4. Stephen, died an infant. 5. Elizabeth, born April II, 1769, died Novem- ber 19, 1850. 6. Stephen, subject of the next paragraph. 7. Charity, born September 14, 1773, died September 25, 1797. 8. Dolly, born February 23, 1776, died March 11, 1858. 9. John, born February 18, 1779, died 1861. 10. Benjamin, born September 29, 1781.
(V) Deacon Stephen (3), second son of Stephen (2) and Elizabeth (Webster) Mar- den, was born September 23, 1771, in Chester, and removed to Palermo, Maine, in 1788. Two of his brothers, John and Benjamin set- tled there-John in 1792, Benjamin in 1800- and had adjoining farms on what is now called Marden Hill. Deacon Stephen Marden was a prosperous farmer, and had the distinction of owning the first wagon ever in the town of Palermo. He was respected for his ability and integrity, and was one of the town war- dens in 1804. The following account of the early settlement of that town was written by John Marden :
"My mother was left a widow in poor cir- cumstances, with the care of eight children, and one added to that number (after her hus- band's death by accident) on the twenty-ninth of September following. It being in the time of the revolutionary war, she had many hard- ships to encounter, having but little but her hands and good economy to support her fam- ily, yet she bore her trouble with a good de- gree of christian patience. In the year of 1783 a treaty of peace was signed between the United States and Great Britain which gave her some relief. In the year 1790 my eldest brother Josiah moved her and the younger part of the family to the town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, where she spent the re- mainder of her life in comfortable circum- stances. Her death occurred November 3, 1830, aged about ninety-one years.
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"January, 1793, I came into the district of Maine, at the age of fourteen years, in the county of Lincoln (now Waldo), and took up my residence at a place called the Great Pond settlement, at the extremity of Sheepscot Pond. I had many hardships to encounter, being the only youth in the place. The nearest mill was twelve miles, through a lonely wood, with but little better than a foot path and spotted trees. Yet with pleasing prospects I looked forward to the time when this good land would be settled ; when school houses and mills would be built and roads made, and this wilderness would become a fruitful field. I took great pleasure in visiting my friends in New Hampshire once in every three years, although I had to travel the distance of two hundred and twenty miles on the frozen ground in the month of November or Decem- ber.
"I worked with my brother, Stephen Mar- den, until I was twenty-two years of age, when I bought the farm on which I now live ( 1855) with the barn then built and a log house thereon. April 23, 1801, I was united in mar- riage with Mary Bagley, of Liberty, Maine, and moved onto the farm that spring, with a pleasing prospect of enjoying happiness. For three or four years we were favored with good health and our crops came in bountifully, and all things bespoke of prosperity.
"January 22, 1805, I was severely wounded by the falling of a tree. Then my sufferings were very great. Yet my mind was happy in the Lord, and I could truly say, 'Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him.' On the third day of February I had my left leg ampu- tated above the knee, which was very expen- sive at that time, so that my future prospects of happiness in this world began to decay. In April following we chose our town officers for the first time. I took a part with them in col- lecting taxes and serving precepts, etc. This year with the past will long be remembered as a season of great religious excitement in this town and vicinity. A Baptist church was organized that season, and many were added thereto. Where I reside is about twenty miles northeasterly of Augusta, then called Port Weston. The inhabitants east and north of my residence were but few at that time. Several small settlements were made in the woods and generally called after the name of the first settler or by the old Indian name of ponds and streams. The land was very good for crops of corn and rye. Each settler made his choice for a farm. No taxes were called for at that time. There were no framed build-
ings east or north of my residence for the space of twelve or fifteen miles, and three or four miles to the south and west until the next April, 1793, when two barn frames were put up, to the great joy of the settlers, but more so to the owners." He describes the growth and development of the town and state, giving a good picture of the pioneer days. "These settlers were all laboring men, engaged in their several occupations, such as clearing land, raising crops, putting up buildings, and fences in the summer and fall. In the winter and spring all engaged in lumbering, hunting and sugar-making, which was much of it done in the forest at that time. These settlers were all very poor, but as 'happy as clams' and as friendly to each other as monkeys." Of his fellow pioneers he writes (1855) : "The few that are left are worn down with age and in- firmities too numerous for me to name : some with the loss of sight and hearing ; some with the loss of their limbs; some with palsied hands; and others with general debilities, etc. And but very few, if any, are able to take care of themselves, but have mostly given them- selves up to the care of their children or grandchildren or the town to provide for them."
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