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(III) Henry, son of John (I) Maddocks, was born in Watertown, October 18, 1698. He came to York county, Maine, settling first in Berwick, but låter removed to Kennebunkport, where he was accidentally killed October 8, 1750.
(IV) Pelsgrave Maddox, spelled thus in Bradbury's History of Kennebunkport, was a son of Henry Maddocks, and resided in that town. He married Mary Huff.
(V) Palgrave Maddocks, son of Pelsgrave Maddox, was born in Kennebunkport, 1781. When a young man he went to Cape Newagen Island (now Southport), Lincoln county, and purchased of Samuel Pierce a large tract of land, including a well-known land mark called "Dogfish Head," which was undoubtedly a favorite resort for the aboriginal inhabitants of that vicinity. This property has ever since
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remained in the family's possession. Here he engaged in the fishery industry, establishing the business.
The earliest mention of TREFETHEN one of this name is that of Henry Trefethen, who was of New Hampshire in 1687. Like nearly all names beginning with tre, pol, pen, it is of Cornish or Welsh origin. The Trefethens of Maine seem to have been settled in the state for years prior to the time any record of them has been found. Henry Trefethen, Josiah Starling and Oran Hall were the original pur- chasers of Monhegan Island in Casco Bay from the government, owning it in equal parts.
(I) George Trefethen, the first of the line herein treated of whom we have definite in- formation, was a son of Harry and Jemima (Starling) Trefethen. He was born May 29, 1800, died March 26, 1870. He followed the occupation in which the family has become successful and widely known, and was a fish- erman and curer of fish. In politics in his later years he was a Republican. He married (first) Sarah Thompson, born September 19, 1801, died May 26, 1856. Children : I. Jo- seph, born February 7, 1824, died August II, 1888. 2. Eunice, March 16, 1826, died March, 1905; married (first) Thomas A. Marshall; (second) Andrew Weever. 3. Sarah Ann, July 2, 1828, died July 16, 1869; married Le- ander Moore. 4. George, whose sketch fol- lows. 5. Lucretia, November 26, 1834, mar- ried Rufus Pierce, of Monhegan Island. 6. James H., February 14, 1838, died September 8, 1869. 7. Clarissa, March 2, 1841, married William H. Pierce. 8. John W., May 3, 1843. 9. Elial, April 20, 1846, died October, 1871. IO. Newell F., whose sketch follows. Mr. Trefethen married (second) Jane Stone. Chil- dren : Lettie, Georgia, Dexter and Villa.
(II) George (2), son of George (I) and Sarah (Thompson) Trefethen, was born on Monhegan Island, August 20, 1831, died Feb- ruary 15, 1894, at Peak's Island. He acquired the education which his day, time and environ- ment demanded, and then took up the family occupation and a place in the lobster shop, in the employ of N. T. Trefethen, the principal part of his life. In politics he was a Republi- can, and for years filled the office of town clerk of Monhegan. He was a member of the Advent Church, and was for many years affil- iated with Ancient Brothers Lodge, No. 4, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Portland. He married, September 26, 1852, Susan W. Starling, born on Monhegan Island, April 17,
1834, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Welch) Starling. Children of Joseph and Susan Star- ling: James, Josiah, Nancy, Fannie, Lucinda, Susan W. and Helen. Children of George and Susan W. Trefethen: I. Albertina B., born October 9, 1853, married Frank Starling. 2. Julia E., September 6, 1857, married Henry T. Skillings; Julia E. is deceased. 3. Mary Liz- zie, September 17, 1862, married Alonzo E. Drown and had Julia T., born June 25, 1884, Angie F., September 9, 1888, and Edith M., February 19, 1891. 4. Nellie C., April 12, 1867, married Oscar C. Randall, November 21, 1888, and had Walter Trefethen, born July 20, 1898. 5. Walter Sherman, mentioned be- low.
(II) Newell Fales, tenth and youngest child of George (I) and Sarah (Thompson) Tre- fethen, was born on Monhegan Island, April 8, 1848, died March 26, 1904. He early went fishing along the coast as an employee and later engaged in business for himself as a dealer in lobsters, on a small scale, about 1873. He was successful in this and having a keen eye for business and forecasting the time when every available spot in and about Portland would have a much enhanced price for build- ing purposes, he engaged in the real estate business, buying property in South Portland and on Peak's Island, which is now worth many times more than he paid for it. In common with the others of his line in Port- land, he believed in protected industries, and a strong central government, and to secure these things he steadily voted the Republican ticket. In religious belief he showed his inde- pendence of thought and action by leaving the Congregational church to join the Methodist. He married, on Monhegan Island, Georgie A. Davis, who died in 1903; they had two chil- dren: Leslie, deceased, and Fannie, who is residing with Walter S. Trefethen.
(III) Walter Sherman, only son of George and Susan W. (Starling) Trefethen, was born in Peak's Island, July 31, 1869. After leav- ing school he became a bookkeeper for W. S. Jordan & Company, and was employed there thirteen years. In 1898 he went to the assist- ance of his uncle, Newell F. Trefethen, who was carrying on a large trade in lobsters and other shell fish and also in the real estate busi- ness. 'As N. F. Trefethen gave much of his time to his real estate enterprise the principal care of the lobster business was soon left to Walter S. Trefethen, under whom the trade grew until the house became one of the largest exporters of lobsters in the state. On the death of his uncle, 1903, W. S. Trefethen suc-
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ceeded to his holdings, and is to-day promi- nent in business, the owner of much property on Peaks Island, and is treasurer and manager of the Welch Land Company. Mr. Trefethen was made a Free Mason in Hiram Lodge, No. 180, in 1907, and has since that time become a member of Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter, No. 13; St. Alban Commandery, No. 8, Knights Templar ; Portland Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters; and Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Knights of the Mystic Shrine. He married, June 6, 1894, Ellen L., born in Peak's Island, October 30, 1871, only child of Charles and Mary (Welch) Adams, of Port- land. Children : Eleanor A., born November 28, 1901; Walter Sherman, January 8, 1904.
DANA It has often been said with great truthfulness that the members of the Dana family have rendered their country important services along more distinct lines than have the bearers of any other name on our shores. This is clear from a hasty glance through any cyclopedia or book of reference, for there is a large cluster of shining names of those who were eminent journalists, authors, like Richard Henry Dana, neurologists, mineralogists, statesmen and jurists, theologians, military officers, marine and figure painters, and hundreds of others who were as successful and faithful in their line of work for the good of mankind. And the great reason of their success is an "open secret" to all who read these life histories with any degree of care. These men and women often possessed talents of a very high order; had opportunities to secure the best educations which could be had in their day, and occupied many other "high vantage grounds." But after all it has been their untiring industry that has made them powers for good. They have chosen a life-work and followed it with all the strength within them. All their suc- cesses, as well as every barrier to their progress, have only been counted a stone or boulder, from which they could see more clearly how to achieve still greater strength and wisdom for their work. This inheritance has been so strong in most of the Danas that it needed but slight urging for any child that bore this name of worth. This corner stone of success is seen clearly in the Danas of Portland, Maine, who have applied themselves to many very useful lines of business when observers shook their heads in warning, and who have followed this work on the wharves of the city, in its strong schools, the mills of
its suburbs, and wherever they have chosen to work, with a steady, daily, hopeful industry that has uplifted from the sloughs of "luck and idle dreaming" scores who are now doing loyal and painstaking work. Such examples as those of the Danas cannot be praised too much or prized too highly by those who have the good of their state and country at heart.
(I) Luther Dana was born in Natick, Mas- sachusetts, in 1792, and died in Portland, Maine, in 1870. He came to Portland when a young man, and continued there in business as a ship chandler and wholesale grocer all his life. He built up a very large trade, and was known far and wide as one of the most up- right and successful business men of the state. Though looking after every detail of his large commercial trade in the most painstaking man- ner he found time to be of great help and in- fluence in political matters, being a staunch Republican. He was never induced to take an office, though this was often urged upon him by his many friends who so much ad- mired his enthusiastic and well-balanced work. He also never allowed these matters or any routine of his business to interfere with his duties to the church. He was one of the founders of the High Street Congregational Church in Portland, which has been such a source of blessing to scores of people. He married Louise Kidder, and the following chil- dren were born to them: Nathaniel H., de- ceased; John A. S., resides in West Paris, Maine; Louise O., deceased ; Mary L., resides at West Paris; Luther W., resides in West Paris; Woodbury K., resides in Westbrook; Frank J., lives in Denver, Colorado; Rev. Samuel H., D. D., pastor of Congregational church, Exeter, New Hampshire; Henry O., deceased.
(II) Woodbury Kidder, son of Luther and Louise (Kidder) Dana, was born in Portland, June 7, 1840, and resides in Westbrook. He was educated in the schools of Portland, and in Lewiston Falls Academy. When he left school he went to work in the mills at Lewis- ton, and except during the civil war period, has ever since followed the manufacturing business with great skill and success. In 1866 he established his mills in Westbrook for the manufacture of cotton warps. The firm was styled Dana & McEwan, and later W. K. Dana & Company, and was thus known until 1892, when it was incorporated as the Dana Warp Mills. Mr. Dana was then made its treasurer and has held the position to the pres- ent time. He is widely known in manufactur- ing and business circles, and is recognized as
Woodbury Kidder Dana,
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one of the forceful men of the state in such relations, and his services to his community have been of the broadest usefulness. Of great importance to Westbrook are his great Dana Warp Mills, which stand as a monu- ment to his effort, and an illustration of his capability, foresight, ingenuity, enterprise and perseverance-brought by him from a small beginning to a plant of forty thousand spin- dles, soon to be supplemented by an addition of twenty thousand spindles. To him is due the establishment of the electric lighting plant, which he personally operated for some years and until it was entirely effective. The city is also largely indebted to his enterprise and en- ergy for the best school building now in use, and an efficient sewerage system. For three terms he rendered faithful and intelligent serv- ice to the city as a member of the board of aldermen.
Mr. Dana enjoys widespread acquaintance and personal popularity throughout the state in Grand Army circles, his civil war record being most creditable. He enlisted at Lewis- ton, August 12, 1863, for a period of three years, and was mustered into the service of the United States at Augusta, November 13, 1863, as a private in Company K, Twenty- ninth Regiment, Maine Volunteers. The regi- ment left for the front January 31, 1864, ar- riving at Portland the same day, and on Feb- ruary 2 sailed for New Orleans, Louisiana, · where it reported to General N. P. Banks and was by him ordered to Franklin, and assigned to the Second Brigade, First Division, Nine- teenth Army Corps. The regiment was active during the Red River expedition, and partici- pated in the battles of Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864; Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, April 9; Cane River Crossing, April 25; Al- exandria, April 26; and Mansura Chalk Plains. On July 6th the regiment embarked on steamer for Fortress Monroe, thence moved to Washington City, and subsequently took part in the battles of Opequan (or Win- chester), September 19; Fisher's Hill, Septem- ber 22; and Cedar Creek (the scene of "Sheri- dan's Ride," so graphically versed by T. Bu- chanan Read), October 19. Mr. Dana was for a portion of his service period on detached duty as ordnance sergeant, and in the com- missary department. For a short time he was invalided, in the Patterson Park and Chest- nut Hill hospitals. At all other times he was with his regiment; and although then a de- tached service, bore a soldierly part in the bat- tles of Sabine Cross Roads, Cane River and Mansura Chalk Plains, and for this gallant
conduct was promoted to corporal and hospital steward, in which posts he acquitted himself most creditably. He was honorably dis- charged at Charleston, South Carolina, August 22, 1865, the war being over. He is a com- rade and past commander in Cloudman Post, No. 100, Grand Army of the Republic, West- brook. In 1907 he received strong support for the position of department commander in the state encampment of the order.
At the Department Encampment held in Lewiston, June 10, 1908, Comrade Dana was elected department commander, and his elec- tion and the subsequent proceedings were so conducted as to form a unique and most hand- some tribute to his worth as a veteran and a man. In an eloquent address, General Charles P. Mattocks placed Mr. Dana in nomination, and it was feelingly seconded by ex-Governor Robie, who said that in a long and intimate acquaintance he had always found Mr. Dana ready to advance the best interests of the state and nation by earnest and constant work, and that his military life during the civil war dem- onstrated that he was active and efficient, al- ways ready to do his full duty. Hon. George D. Biober, John E. Warren and other speak- ers followed in similar vein, and when the re- sult was announced, Commander Dana made a grateful and graceful address of acceptance. Mr. Dana is a staunch Republican, and active in support of his party, yet without self-seek- ing ambition, and has sat as a delegate in vari- ous conventions. In Masonry he has attained to the commandery degrees; he is a helpful member of the Congregational church.
Mr. Dana married, August 2, 1869, Mary Little Hale, daughter of Samuel T. Pickard, of Auburn, Maine. Their children are : Lou- isa W .; Hannah Little, married F. H. Swan, of Providence, Rhode Island; Philip, of whom further ; Ethel May; Helen P .; Luther, re- sides at Westbrook, married Mary Deckrow ; and Mary Hale, married Edward Abbott, of Auburn.
(III) Philip, son of Woodbury K. and Mary Little Hale (Pickard) Dana, was born in Port- land, August 3, 1874. He graduated from the Westbrook high school, and received his de- gree of A. B. from Bowdoin College in 1896. He then went to Philadelphia, where he stud- ied in a technical school for one year, return- ing to Westbrook and taking a position in his father's mill. In 1898 he was made superin- tendent of the Dana Warp Mills, and is a stockholder and a member of the board of trustees. He is a Republican in politics, has been a member of the school board and of the
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Westbrook board of aldermen. He married, November 21, 1908, Florence Hinkley, of Portland.
At the time of the settle-
NORWOOD ment of New England, a branch of the Norwood fam- ily lived in the parish of Lechampton, about eight miles from Gloucester, England. The pedigree of this family is traced for several centuries. A Francis Norwood, probably near relative of the American immigrant, died there in 1682, aged eighty-two years.
(I) Francis Norwood, the immigrant, was born in England, and settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts. His marriage is recorded at Gloucester, and that date is the first known of him in this country. His first grant of land was at Goose Cove, March 18, 1664. Subse- quently he had other grants, and by purchase he became the owner of several six-acre lots near Pigeon Cove.
His will was made January 23, 1706, and proved March 21, 1709, bequeathing to "his loving wife Elizabeth" two pounds ten shil- lings yearly as long as she remained his widow, eight bushels of Indian corn, two bushels of malt, 140 pounds of pork, two barrels of good cider, and apples for her own spending, both winter and summer, one cow to give her milk for her own use, five cords of firewood, and part of his dwelling house and bedding. "The cider to be made good and winter apples to be good and brought into ye cellar in time con- venient before frost do hurt either ye apples or cider." He also gives his wife "two chests, one of which is made in Windscot fashion, which came from Linn (Lynn) and ye other chest that my wife had when I married with her." To his son Thomas he bequeathed be- sides what he had already given him in money and other pay, two shillings in money and his wearing clothes. The reason he gave him no more he says was that Thomas went from him at twelve to his grandfather Coldam at Lynn, and was settled by his grandfather and himself in housing and land in that town. He gave land to his son Francis; to son Joshua sixty acres at Pigeon Cove and elsewhere, pro- viding he pay to his sister Deborah twenty pounds and his sister Abigail fifteen pounds ; to Mary Sargent twenty pounds; to Deborah Haraden twenty pounds, and to Abigail Nor- wood twenty pounds; to his youngest son Caleb certain lots of land, on one of which his brother Stephen had built a house; to grand- daughter Elizabeth, daughter of son Stephen Norwood, deceased, five pounds ; to sons Fran-
cis and Caleb his dwelling house and other property, neat cattle, horses, kine, sheep and swine and these two sons were appointed ex- ecutors of his will. Children: I. Thomas, born December 10, 1664; settled in Lynn ; married Mary Stevens, daughter of Deacon James Stevens, January 24, 1693; resided at Goose Cove. 2. Francis, born December 9, 1666; mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth, born February 17, 1669. 4. Mary, born March 7, 1672; married Samuel Sargent. 5. Stephen, born November 24, 1674 ; left a daughter Eliz- abeth. 6. Deborah, born September 4, 1677; married Benjamin Haraden. 7. Hannah, born November 8, died December 25; 1679. 8. Joshua, born February 27, 1683; resided at Gloucester. 9. Caleb, born August 12, 1685; died in Gloucester, leaving a number of chil- dren. Io. Abigail, born January 30, 1690.
(II) Francis (2), son of Francis (I) Nor- wood, was born December 9, 1666. He settled in Gloucester. He married, first, Mary Stev- ens, daughter of Deacon James Stevens, Jan- uary 24, 1693. He probably lived a retired life at Goose Cove, taking no part in public affairs. He married second (intention dated September 12, 1726) Mrs. Esther Foster, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Children: born at Gloucester : I. Francis, born April 1, 1695; died June 25, 1714. 2. Mary, born Novem- ber 3, 1697. 3. Francis, born December 16, 1700; died November, 1724. 4. Lucy, born October 20, 1703. 5. Stephen, born February 21, 1706; died March 18, 1711. 6. William, born April 4, 1708; married Judith Wood- bury. 7. Jonathan, born January 14, 1712; mentioned below. 8. Son, born and died April 13, 1715.
(III) Jonathan, son of Francis (2) Nor- wood, was born January 14, 1712. He mar- ried Elizabeth Children, born in Gloucester : I. Francis. 2. Esther. 3. Jona- than. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Susanna. 6. Abraham. 7. Ebenezer. 8. Mary. 9. Gustavus. IO. Samuel, mentioned below. II. Judith. 12. Judith. 13. Zaccheus.
(IV) Samuel, son of Jonathan Norwood, was born in Gloucester, about 1750. He set- tled in York county, Maine. Among his chil- dren was Nathaniel, mentioned below.
(V) Nathaniel, son of Samuel Norwood, was born in 1776, died September, 1846. He married Jemima Donnell, of York, Maine, born 1776, died 1848. They lived at York, Maine. Children : Francis R., William, Sam- uel, Mary Jane, Henry D., mentioned below ; Charles.
(VI) Henry D., son of Nathaniel Norwood,
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was born in York, Maine, 1813, died in 1882. He attended the district schools of his native town. Though fond of mechanics and skill- ful with all kinds of tools, he remained a far- mer all his life, owning a large and excellent farm in York. He was a Whig in politics be- fore the formation of the Republican party, to which he afterward gave his allegiance. He served as deacon of the Congregational church for many years. He married, in the fall of 1837, Mary Parsons, born in York, July 22, 18II, died March, 1903. Children born at York: John E., mentioned below; Lucy E., born in May, 1844.
(VII) John E., son of Henry D. Norwood, was born at York Harbor, Maine, December 4, 1838. He attended the public schools of York and various private schools, and worked in his youth on the farm. He left home to learn the trade of carpenter at West New- bury, working for a time as journeyman at the same. About 1866 he went to Dorchester, Massachusetts, and engaged in the cabinet making business. He subsequently formed a partnership with Luther Crosby under the firm name of Norwood & Crosby, and engaged in the furniture and cabinet making business, the firm conducting an extensive business, being equipped with the best and latest machinery in use at that time, the partners being skilled mechanics, and they were enabled to give em- ployment to a large number of hands, thus making it one of the chief industries of the section in which they were located. In 1876 Mr. Norwood sold his interest in the Dorches- ter plant and moved to York Harbor, where he engaged in the contracting and building business, in which he was eminently success- ful. Later he engaged in the hotel business at York Harbor, his place being known as the "Norwood Cottage," and in this as in his former ventures he was successful, his house being patronized by the best class of people, among them many of note, including General Banks and Bishop Paddock, of Boston, the latter every year during his stay holding service each Sunday at the Norwood Cottage, these services being attended by many citizens and guests of York Harbor and highly appre- ciated. Since 1901 Mr. Norwood has devoted all his time to the care and improvement of extensive real estate investments in York, he being the owner of several cottages which he rents to summer residents. The farm on which his father and grandfather lived has been divided into house lots, and is now the site of some of the finest residences in York. In 1907 Mr. Norwood built a handsome, mod-
ern house, where he now resides, situated in about the center of the old Norwood farm, on the line of the Atlantic Electric road.
In politics Mr. Norwood is a Republican, but he has never sought or accepted public office. In religion he is a Congregationalist. He is a mechanical genius, and has much abil- ity as a musician, his favorite instrument being the violin, of which he is a master. He has in his possession an exceedingly valuable and rare violin which was made in 1710 by the noted Carlo Antonio Festor, of Italy. The violin is now valued at more than one thou- sand dollars; its richness of tone is not only charming, but really wonderful. He also has two violins which are superb specimens of his mechanical skill-one is a .model of a violin made in 1750 by the world-famed Guadginni, a pupil of Stradivarias, and the other is mod- eled from a violin made by Stradivarias in 1704. Mr. Norwood takes much pleasure in manipulating these instruments, which are ex- ceedingly rich and charming in tone, especially when in the hands of their owner, who is a most skillful violinist.
Mr. Norwood married, in the fall of 1866, Ellen L. Scofield, born in August, 1842, daugh- ter of Oramel B. and Frances (Gates) Sco- field, of Morristown, Vermont, and grand- daughter of Peleg Scofield, one of the pioneers in Vermont.
Brian Pendleton was born PENDLETON in England in 1599 and came to this country in or before 1634, with his wife Eleanor and chil- dren Mary and James. He was admitted free- man in the Massachusetts colony September 3, 1634, and settled at Watertown, where he was selectman in 1635-37 and representative to the general court 1636-38. In the year last mentioned he and several others settled the boundary of the town of Sudbury and in 1640 he was appointed by the general court to train the military company of that town. He returned to Watertown in 1640 and was again representative in 1647-48. On March 20, 1648, he sold his real estate in the town to Robert Daniel and in the same year purchased six hundred acres in Ipswich. In 1651 he be- came interested in the plantation of Sudbury Bank, now Portsmouth, and was appointed associate judge to hold court in that place. He represented the plantation in the general court in the years 1654-58-60-61-63. In 1663 he was one of the commissioners chosen to enforce the navigation laws on the Piscataqua, Isle of Shoals, and other points adjacent. He
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