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(IV) John (2), son of Colonel Samuel Thaxter, was born in Hingham, January 6, 1693-94, died April 6, 1733. He was a farmer. He resided on South street, opposite Thaxter's bridge, and his house is still standing, and is occupied by the Catholic priest. He married, January 15, 1718-19, Grace Stockbridge, of Pembroke, born 1700, daughter of Deacon Jo- seph and Margaret (Turner) Stockbridge. She married (second) January 25, 1740-41, Samuel Lincoln. Children, born in Hingham : I. Hannah, January 27, 1719-20, married, April 24, 1738, Francis Barker. 2. John, No- vember 22, 1721. 3. Joseph, August 22, 1723, mentioned below. 4. Grace, July 18, 1725, married, February 12, 1745-46, Henry Per- kins. 5. Elizabeth, December 29, 1727, died July 3, 1728. 6. Benjamin, April 29, 1729, died May 12, 1729. 7. Benjamin, June 7, 1730. 8. Elizabeth, September 6, 1732, mar- ried, May 14, 1752, George Lane.
(V) Captain Joseph, son of John (2) Thax- ter, was born in Hingham, August 22, 1723, died October 12, 1808. He was a farmer and lived on North street, near Hobart's bridge.
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He was deacon of the First Church and was selectman from 1752 to 1764, inclusive. He was constable in 1745. He married, Decem- ber 8, 1742, Mary Leavitt, born in Hingham, August 3, 1724, died July 30, 1790, daughter of Hezekiah and Mary (Beal) Leavitt. Chil- dren, born in Hingham: I. Joseph, April 23, 1744, graduate of Harvard, 1768; chaplain in the army and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. 2. Leavitt, February 28, 1745-46, died June 6, 1752. 3. Joshua, August, 1747, died Septem- ber 21, 1747. 4. Joshua, March 10, 1749, mentioned below. 5. Caleb, April 18, 1751, died unmarried, November 12, 1828. 6. Mary, April 8, 1753, died young. 7. Leavitt, Sep- tember 28, 1754. 8. Mary, October 6, 1756, married, November 19, 1781, William Tid- marsh. 9. Hannah, September 20, 1759, died June 12, 1781. 10. Sarah, November 30, 1761, married, December 6, 1781, David An- drews. II. Chloe, September 15, 1765, died October 8, 1765.
(VI) Joshua, son of Captain Joseph Thax- ter, was born in Hingham, March 10, 1749, died at Portland, Maine, September, 1827. He was a baker by trade and resided principally in Boston, although the births of his children are recorded in Hingham. He resided on Neal street, was in good circumstances, and owned considerable land in that vicinity. He mar- ried (first) May 12, 1769, Mary Hersey, bap- tized in Hingham, March 18, 1753, died March, 1803, in Boston, buried in Hingham, daughter of Joshua and Mary (Lincoln) Her- sey. Married (second) Mrs. Ruth Brown in Boston. She died in 1833. Children: I. Arathusa, born January 10, 1770, died at East- port, Maine, February 3, 1847. 2. Joshua, January 16, 1772, died January 25, 1791. 3. Rachel, November 30, 1773. 4. Joseph, Sep- tember 30, 1775, married, October 26, 1797, Lucy Sprague. 5. Martin, February 16, 1778, resided at Portland, Maine. 6. Charles, Jan- uary 2, 1780, resided at Portland. 7. Hannah, July 6, 1782. 8. Mary, September 23, 1784. 9. Royal, July 23, 1786. 10. Sidney, June 7, 1788, mentioned below. II. Sally, May 4, 1791. 12. Joshua, September 19, 1793, died young.
(VII) Sidney, son of Joshua Thaxter, was born June 7, 1788, in Hingham, died on Neal street, Portland, Maine, 1823. The house is still standing. He was a baker by trade. He married, 1812, Mary Small, of Gray, Maine.
(VIII) Sidney, son of Sidney Thaxter, was born February 8, 1815, in Gray, Maine, died November 14, 1898, in Portland, Maine. He settled in Portland, and married Sophronia
Chase, who was born January 1, 1817, died April 16, 1887, daughter of Abner and Abi- gail (Hooper) Chase, of Limington, Maine. Children : I. Mary A., born October 17, 1837, married Rev. Francis N. Peloubet, of Au- burndale, Massachusetts. 2. Sidney Warren, mentioned below. 3. Sarah H., July 13, 1841. 4. Albert H., August 20, 1843. 5. Frederick W., August 14, 1845, died February 13, 1847. 6. Alice Maud, October 1, 1847, married Ed- ward G. Wyman, of Bangor, Maine. 7. Ar- nice B., July 18, 1851, died October 24, 1900. 8. William Hooper, January 8, 1854. 9. Lou- ise G., September 16, 1858 (Mrs. George S. Payson, of Portland).
(IX) Major Sidney Warren, son of Sidney Thaxter, was born in Bangor, September 8, 1839. He attended the public schools of his native city and entered Harvard College, where he was graduated in the class of 1861 with the degree of A. B. With many of his classmates he responded to the call of Presi- dent Lincoln for troops to support the Union, and he was mustered into service at Bangor as first lieutenant of Company A of the First Maine Regiment. The regiment was ordered to Washington, March 14, 1862, as part of the First Battalion. He was promoted to the rank of captain, March 24, 1862. The active ser- vice of the company began March 29, 1862, when with other companies of the regiment, it was ordered to Harper's Ferry to assist in guarding the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He went to the Shenandoah Valley with his company under orders of May, 1862, to join the command of General Banks, and on May 24 took part in his first engagement when Ashby's troop, a division of Stonewall Jackson's army, was encountered at Middle- town. A squadron of Maine and Michigan cavalry under the command of Captain Thax- ter fought and routed a Confederate troop at Milford, thirteen miles from Fort Royal, on July 2, and his company took part in the bat- tle of 'Sperryville, July 6, and on August I joined the Army of Virginia under General Pope, and was stationed at Culpeper, August 5. Captain Thaxter and his men took part in the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, and was under a heavy fire all day; in the second battle of Bull Run, August 29-30. During the Antietam campaign the first regiment had an advance position and on September 12 met General Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, repulsed the enemy and took possession of Frederick City, Maryland. His regiment became the provost guard of that city. December 13 he was in the battle of Fredericksburg. The entire
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Union cavalry force was organized under Gen- eral Stoneman as the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac and the First Maine be- came a part of the First Brigade, Third Divi- sion, under the command of Colonel Judson Kilpatrick in May, 1863, and took part in Stoneman's raid, the first great achievement of the Union cavalry. He took part in the battle of Brandy Station in the Gettysburg campaign, June 8, 1863, and on June 18 fol- lowing was promoted major of his regiment. An oil painting of a charge of his regiment at Brandy Station hangs in the hall of Bosworth Post, Grand Army, at Portland. General Kil- patrick called this charge one of the best ever made. At Gettysburg his regiment was with Gregg on the right of the Union army and aided in the successful movement that pre- vented Stuart from making havoc in Meade's rear at the time of the historic charge of Gen- eral Pickett. In October, 1863, he was with his regiment when it was directed by General Gregg, under instructions from General Meade, to ascertain the meaning of Lee's ad- vance. Major Thaxter had a narrow escape from capture while on this duty. About two miles from Warrenton, a Confederate camp was discovered by a scouting party and Major Thaxter volunteered to discover who were in the camp. Cautiously approaching on his horse he came at length to two soldiers asleep. His "Hello, there!" "What regiment?" brought no response. Moving on to a single sleeper, he asked the same question and re- ceived the answer: "The Twelfth." "The Twelfth what?" asked the major. "The Twelfth Virginia, you fool," came the re- sponse. Major Thaxter had the information he was seeking and lost no time in getting away. In Sheridan's raid Major Thaxter was wounded, May 12, 1864, but recovered suffi- ciently to take command of the regiment on June 24, and he remained in command during the movements on the right of the army in July and August at Deep Bottom, Ream's Station and Stony Brook. His term of en- listment expired October 19, 1864, and he had received orders to take charge of the men whose term of service had also expired and who were about to return home, when the movement made by General Meade, October 27, at Hatcher's Run, was undertaken for the purpose of getting possession of the Boynton plank road. Major Thaxter volunteered and served as aide-de-camp on the staff of Colonel Smith, then in command of the brigade. In that engagement Major Thaxter had four horses shot under him, and at the close of the
war he received a medal from congress for gal- lantry in this battle.
After the war Major Thaxter returned to his native city and engaged in the grain and flour business, continuing there until 1874, when he came to Portland and embarked in the same line of business under the firm name of Sidney W. Thaxter & Company, continuing active in the management of his business to the end of his life. He took rank among the foremost business men of the city and stood high in the esteem and confidence of his townsmen. He became a member of the Mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, May 3, 1882, and served the Maine Commandery as commander and for several years was on the staff of the commander-in- chief of the order. He prepared three able papers to read before his commandery and they were published in the proceedings of the organization. He was interested in history and a firm patriot. He was a member of the Maine Historical Society, the Portland Fra- ternity Club, the American Historical Society, president of the board of directors of the Maine General Hospital, president of the Har- vard Club of Maine, president of the Economic Club of Portland. In politics he was a Repub- lican, in religion a Congregationalist. He died at his home in Portland, November 10, 1908, after a long illness. He married (first) Laura Farnham, of Bangor, born March 22, 1844, died at Portland, June, 1880. He mar- ried (second) June, 7, 1882, Julia St. F. Thom, born in Brooklyn, New York, April 17, 1854, daughter of William I. and Julia St. F. Thom. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Thaxter are: I. Sidney St. F., born March 4, 1883, gradu- ate of Harvard College in 1904 and of Har- vard Law School in 1907, was admitted to the bar in that year and is a member of the law firm of Thaxter & Holt of Portland. 2. Philip Reynaud, May 20, 1885, died May 15, 1886. 3. Alan, October 1, 1887, was educated at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and is now with the business house of Sidney W. Thaxter & Company. 4. Langdon Thom, June 12, 1889, a student at Williams College.
MANN The surname Mann, originally written with a single n, can be traced in Germany to a very re- mote period. It first appears in the English records soon after the Norman conquest, the Domesday Book of 1086 stating that "Willel- mus filius Manne" (William the son of Man), was a landholder in the county of Hants. At a subsequent period the name became a prom-
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inent one in England, and its bearers were numerous. Burke's General Armory men- tions fifteen Mann families, and describes the coat-of-arms of each. For a long period the king's private secretaries were selected from a family of this name, which was also the fam- ily name of Lord Cornwallis, the British com- mander at Yorktown. At least two of this name were among the original founders of New England: Richard, who settled in Scit- uate, Massachusetts; and William of Cam- bridge, who was the progenitor of what is known as the Wrentham branch of the family. Both were immigrants from England. Others of this name are to be found in the early rec- ords of Boston, Lexington and Rehoboth, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; also in Virginia, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, some of whom were natives of England, while others were descended from English immi- grants. From the period of the American revolution the name on this side of the ocean has been almost universally spelled Mann. It is to be found in the muster rolls of the Con- tinental army, and during the past century a goodly number of its bearers attained promi- nence both in professional and business life. The Maine family, a brief record of which is about to be given, belongs to what is known as the Portsmouth branch, the posterity of Peter Mann. In his work entitled "A Record of English Manns," Joseph B. Mann states emphatically that this family is not descended from Richard Mann of Scituate, already re- ferred to, and he classes Peter (I), its first known ancestor in America, among the un- identified Manns, but this assertion is not con- clusive, as there is some slight evidence to show that its immigrant ancestor might have been the Scituate settler, who came from the county of Kent.
(I) Peter Mann was residing in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, in 1726, and June 12 that year married Elizabeth Kennard, a de- scendant of Edward Kennard, who came from Kent county, England, about 1660, was an early settler in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and one of the founders of the first church in that place.
(II) Peter (2) Mann, undoubtedly a son of Peter (I) and Elizabeth (Kennard) Mann, conducted a barber's shop in Portsmouth, which stood in the immediate vicinity of the present Athenaeum. Prior to the nineteenth century the village barber was not confined only to shaving and hairdressing, but was frequently
called upon to perform minor surgical opera- tions, and was a very important man in the community. The Portsmouth records state that in 1770 he had an apprentice named Sam- uel Chandler, who subsequently figured in some sensational robberies committed in the town. Peter Mann owned and occupied a double house located on Paved street, near the Parade, and in addition to his own place of business he owned two other buildings, one of which was used for a schoolroom, while a sign over the door of the other informed the hungry and thirsty that pies, cake and ale were sold there. Peter Mann died in Portsmouth, December 26, 1793. December 13, 1750, he married Sarah Card, who died in Portsmouth, November 28, 1764, and August 27 of the fol- lowing year he married (second) Elizabeth Emery, of Portsmouth. Her death occurred March 10, 1792. The children of his first union were: I. An infant, born September 17, 1751, died unnamed. 2. Elizabeth, born Octo- ber 10, 1752. 3. Thomas, born October 17, 1754; died November 15, 1800. 4. Peter, born May 14, 1756; died February 15, 1798. 5. Peter, born December 8, -. 6. Sarah, March 25, 1759. 7. Benjamin, July 8, 1761. 8. Peter, March 8, 1764. Those of his second marriage were: 9. Elizabeth, born June 20, 1766. 10. William. II. Joseph, April 22, 1769. 12. John, March 27, 1771. 13. Mehitable, May 10, 1773; died February I, 1808. 14. Patience, born 1774; died August 12, 1796. 15. Hannah, born December 17, 1775; died September 15, 1783. 16. Thomas, born September 5, 1777. 17. --- , August 1, 1779; died August 29, 1783. 18. George Gaines, born January 10, 1782 ; died August 25, 1783.
(III) William Mann, second child and eldest son of Peter (2) and Elizabeth (Emery) Mann, was born in Portsmouth, January 22, 1768. He married Susanna Hanson, of Dover, who died October 28, 1833. Information at hand states that he married for his second wife Nancy Pray. He owned a farm and lum- ber mill in Shapleigh, Maine, and lived there. Neither the place nor the date of his death appears in the records examined, nor is there any reference to his occupation ; his children were: I. Rebecca, born June 22, 1702; mar- ried James Davis. 2. George Gaines, born December 5, 1795; married Hannah Abbot. 3. Statira, born October 6, 1798; married Mr. Tibbetts. 4. Homer, born 1801; died in in- fancy. 5. William, born May 5, 1805; mar- ried Sophia Nickerson. 6. Joseph, born July 30, 1809; married Mrs. J. Knowles. 7. Mi-
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randa, born December 30, 1809; married Mr. Abbott. 8. Mary, born August 23, 1812; died in infancy.
(IV) William (2) Mann, third son and fifth child of William (I) and Susanna (Han- son) Mann, was born in Shapleigh, Maine, May 5, 1805. When a young man he went to Penobscot county, Maine, and established him- self in the drug business at Bangor, in which he was succeeded by his son William E., who is again referred to. Among his neighbors and business associates he was familiarly known as Dr. Mann, and he exemplified to a high degree a type of citizenship well worthy of emulation by the youngest business men of to-day. Dr. Mann died in Bangor, October 19, 1885. On January 3, 1834, he married Sophia Nickerson, who was born in that section of the township of Brewer, later divided, and is now Holden, December 26, 1807, daughter of Thomas Nickerson. She bore him four chil- dren : I. Augusta Sophia, born November 24, 1834; married Artemas Putnam Harden, and had three children: Grace Helen, Edward Howe and Leon Dale. 2. Frances Ellen, born July 9, 1837, died July 7, 1841. 3. William Edward. 4. Helen Sylvina, born April 20, 1845 ; married a Mr. Jackson for her first hus- band, and (second) H. M. Childers.
(V) William Edward Mann, third child and only son of Dr. William and Sophia (Nickerson) Mann, was born in Hampden, December 13, 1841. After the completion of his education he acquired a thorough knowl- edge of the drug business under the direction of his father, who later admitted him to part- nership, and he eventually became sole pro- prietor of the business. For many years Mr. Mann owned and conducted the City Drug Store in Bangor, an extensive wholesale and retail establishment, and at one time he tran- sacted the largest wholesale drug business in Eastern Maine. In 1884 he sold his estab- lishment in order to devote his entire atten- tion to his lumbering operations, in which he had previously engaged, and he subsequently became an extensive operator and manufac- turer.
On June 4, 1867, Mr. Mann married Miss Caroline Augusta Bragg, who was born in Bangor, June 9, 1843, daughter of Isaac Meigs and Sarah Ann (Babcock) Bragg, of that city. She is a descendant in the sixth generation of Thomas Bragg, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, and the following is a brief ac- count of her ancestors :
(I) Thomas Bragg and his wife Mary, said
to have been emigrants from England, set- tled in Attleboro about the year 1730.
(II) John Bragg, son of Thomas and Mary, was born January 20, 1717 ; went to Attleboro with his parents, and there married Miss Pat- ten.
(III) Nathaniel Bragg, son of John, was born in Attleboro, February 19, 1743. He married a Miss Moore.
(IV) Isaac Bragg, son of Nathaniel, was born in Attleboro, September 6, 1780; became an early settler in China, Maine, and died there August 4, 1844. He married Hannah Meigs, who was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, October 17, 1778, daughter of Nathaniel Meigs. Her death occurred in Bangor, Octo- ber 16, 1852. She was of the seventh genera- tion in descent from Vincent Meigs, who came from Dorsetshire in 1635, settling in Guilford, Connecticut, and from the line of descent is through John (2), John (3), Ebenezer (4), Ebenezer (5), and Nathaniel (6) Meigs, who was a revolutionary soldier. Isaiah and Han- nah (Meigs) Bragg were the parents of seven children : I. Elijah. 2. Caroline. 3. Emeline. 4. Isaac Meigs. 5. Norris Hubbard. 6. Emily Ann. 7. Flavilla Taber.
(V) Isaac Meigs Bragg, third child and second son of Isaac and Hannah (Meigs) Bragg, was born in China, Maine, November 16, 1812. Having completed his education at the academy in his native town, he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Orono, Maine, but two years later, about the year 1834, he estab- lished himself in the grocery and West India trade. Some years later he became a lumber commission merchant, shipping manufactured lumber to both foreign and domestic ports, and was the first to ship extensive cargoes from Bangor to Liverpool, Bremen, and other Eu- ropean markets. His sterling ability and con- scientious business methods enabled him to acquire wealth, and the declining years of his life were spent in retirement. In politics he acted with the Republican party from its for- mation, and served in both branches of the city government. He was a member of the Second Congregational Church, and a trustee of the Bangor Theological Seminary. Mr. Bragg died in Bangor, February 17, 1891 ; on May 2, 1841, he married Sarah Ann Babcock, of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, who died March 22, 1849, aged thirty-seven years eleven months twenty-six days. She was the mother of two children : I. William Augustus, died in in- fancy. 2. Caroline Augusta, who became the wife of William E. Mann, as previously stated.
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For his second wife Mr. Bragg married Au- gusta Haywood Taylor, daughter of Abner Taylor, a pioneer Bangor merchant. Of this union there is one daughter, Florence Eleanor, who is now the wife of James Cushman Buz- zell, of Bangor.
(VI) Roland William Mann, only child of William Edward and Caroline Augusta ( Bragg) Mann, was born in Bangor, July 3, 1868. He pursued his preliminary studies in the Bangor public schools, entered Bowdoin College, and took his degree with the class of 1892. Shortly after graduating he entered the investment banking business in Boston, where he is now located. On September 25, 1894, he married Miss Mary Emerson Young, of Brunswick, Maine; their children are: I. Stephen Jewett Young. 2. Mary Caroline. 3 William Meigs. 4. Kenneth Dudley.
WISE Several immigrants named Wise came from Old England to the shores of New England in the early settlement of this country. Which one of these was the first settler is not certain. Thomas is mentioned of Saco in 1636, but is not heard of again. Humphrey was in Ips- wich in 1639, and had a wife and children. Joseph of Ipswich is mentioned in 1640. Nich- olas was a freeman of Massachusetts in 1645, but there is no further mention of him.
(I) Joseph Wise, immigrant ancestor of the Wises of this sketch, is first mentioned in the will of George Alcock made in December, 1640, and there the testator speaks of him as his servant. Nothing of his antecedents is known. Savage thinks he may have been brought to America by Alcock when he came the third time from England in 1636. He was a butcher late in life, and died September 12, 1684. He married, December 3, 1641, Mary Thompson, perhaps the daughter of William Thompson, of Braintree. She died August 4, 1693. She was a member of the first church of Roxbury, whose record shows that Joseph and Mary (Thompson) Wise were the parents of seven sons and four daughters, who were baptized in the following order: Joseph, Jere- miah, Mary, John, Henry, Bethia, Katherine, Benjamin (died young), William, Benjamin and Abigail.
(II) Rev. John, fourth child and third son of Joseph and Mary (Thompson) Wise, was baptized August 15, 1652, and graduated from Harvard College in 1673. After leaving col- lege he preached at Bradford, and went from that place as chaplain to a company of sol- diers in King Philips war, in January, 1676.
This company, under command of Major Treat, was ordered to Nowagansett. He de- clined an invitation to settle and preach at Hatfield in 1677-78. In 1679 he took the oath of fidelity. He was highly recommended by the general court and went to Ipswich, where he was ordained August 12, 1683, and preached in a new parish called Chebacco, now Essex. In town meeting, August 23, 1687, he advised the town not to comply with Gov- ernor Sir Edmond Andross' order for raising a tax of a penny on a pound, without the au- thority of the people's representation. This is the first expression on these shores of that doctrine, "No taxation without representa- tion," which afterward became the watchword of American patriotism: John Wise stated the issue clearly and forcibly : "Let us not pay the tax, because it has not been imposed by our representations;" and the town unani- mously adopted a declaration to that effect. This occurred ninety years before the Declara- tion of Independence. For this bold act John Wise, with five of his fellow townsmen, was put in jail in Boston, kept there many days, and the Chebacco pastor was fined four hun- dred dollars, put under five thousand dollar bonds to keep the peace, and deposed from the ministry. Subsequently, with other princi- pal men who acted with him, he made conces- sion for such opposition to the government, and was permitted to resume his parochial du- ties. He was one of the representatives from Ipswich who met in Boston to reorganize the legislature after the administration of Andross was overthrown. He was appointed December 24 of the same year with the selectman of the town according to order of the general court to draw up a narrative of the late governor's treatment of himself and other Ipswich in- habitants. This narrative, like others of the kind, was forwarded to England to substan- tiate the charges against Andross. About this time Mr. Wise deemed it his duty to prosecute Chief Justice Dudley for denying him the right of a hearing under habeas corpus pro- ceedings, while in prison. In compliance with the request of the legislature, July 5, 1690, he went as one of the chaplains of the ill-con- cocted expedition of Sir William Phipps against Quebec. In 1705 it was recommended by the Boston clergymen as an association to other similar bodies to consider the proposal for "Standing Councils," etc. This was a scheme of the Mathers to introduce an oli- garchy into the New England church. Mr. Wise led the opposition to this proposition, and after a long and bitter struggle defeated
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