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(For ancestry see John Whitney I.)
WHITNEY (III) John (2), second son of Benjamin and Jane Whit- ney, was born about 1678, in York, Maine, and is found of record at the age of twenty-three years, with his brothers Nathaniel and Timothy, as members of the military company commanded by Captain Abraham Preble, of York. "This company comprised the flower of York, and the young men of that date." He owned property ad- joining that of his brother John; in 1739 he settled in New Meadows, Maine, and subse- quently resided at Lisbon Falls. He married Letty (or Lettis) Ford, of York; children : Mary, Samuel, Elizabeth, Hannah, Mercy, Mehitable, John and Benjamin.
(IV) Benjamin (2), youngest child of John (2) and Letty (Ford) Whitney, was born May 22, 1725, in York, Maine, and settled on Little River, in Lisbon, same colony. He was part owner of the first grist mill there, and during his lifetime was a miller. He served as a soldier of the revolution, and died No- vember 8, 1797. He married Mercy Hinckley, of Brunswick. There are conflicting accounts as to his children, but the following is prob- ably the correct list: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Nathan, Benjamin, Joseph, Samuel, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Joseph and Isabel.
(V) Jacob, third child of Benjamin (2) and Mercy (Hinckley) Whitney, was born June II, 1763, in Lisbon, Maine, and was a soldier of the revolution, as was his father. He resided at Phillips, Maine, and died there in May, 1846. He married Hannah Mills, and their children were: Samuel L., James M., Christopher A., Josiah S., Mary M., Pa- tience, Joseph and John.
(VI) Christopher A., third son of Jacob and Hannah (Mills) Whitney, was born April 3, 1793, at Phillips, Maine, and inherited the military spirit of his father and grandfather. He served as a soldier in the war of 1812 and resided at Phillips until 1866, when he re- moved to Greenfield, Wisconsin. His last days were spent at Tomah, Wisconsin, where he died August 23, 1869. He married, June I, 1823, Adeline Howard, who survived him about fourteen years, dying at Black River
Falls, Wisconsin, in 1883. Children: Sam- uel, Benjamin, Rufus C., Louise, Naomi, Ed- ward and Lucette.
(VII) Benjamin (3), second son of Chris- topher A. and Adeline (Howard) Whitney, was born April 2, 1828, in Phillips, Maine, and resided first at Phillips, subsequently in Lin- coln, Maine, and at Tomah, Wisconsin, where he died in 1868. He married Huldah Sweet- ser Whitney, daughter of Andrew Whitney, of the sixth generation of American Whit- neys. She was born September 7, 1835, in Phillips, Maine, and survived her husband nearly eleven years, dying at Tomah, Wis- consin, May 7, 1879. They had two sons : Al- mont Benjamin "and Charles Alvano. The older was born June 23, 1856, and died July 7, 1880.
(VIII) Charles Alvano, younger son of Benjamin (3) and Huldah S. (Whitney ) Whit- ney, was born October 21, 1860, in Boston, Massachusetts and received very excellent ed- ucational advantages. He was two years a student at Christ Hospital School in England, and of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, received the degree of Doctor of Med- icine from the medical department of Bow- doin College in 1889, and immediately pur- sued the post-graduate course of one year in New York City, and two years abroad. He practiced his profession for two years in Bos- ton, after which he came to New York, and has been actively and successfully engaged in that city ever since, making a specialty of heart and lung diseases. For six years he was lec- turer at the New York Polyclinic, and is now visiting physician of the New York Lying-in Hospital, and Northwestern Dispensary. He married, June 4, 1886, Bell Armstrong, of Boston, and they are the parents of one child, Lloyd Whitney, born August 10, 1888.
The immense number of the descendants of John and Elinor Whitney is indicated by the fact that this individual is numbered on the family genealogy 8,822, being of the ninth generation in this country. Mrs. Bell (Arm- strong) Whitney was born September 27, 1861, daughter of Thomas Ainsley and Sarah Sophia Armstrong. She was educated in pri- vate schools at Boston and abroad, and is president of the Morse-Broughton Company, president of L'Art de la Mode, and makers of dress patterns, and importers. She is a frequent contributor of short stories, essays, reviews, and other articles to various periodi- cals. She is a member of the Society of Amer- ican Authors, National Society of New Eng-
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land Women, American Academy of Political and Social Science, and also of the Lyceum Club of England.
(For preceding generations see . Anthony Ames I.) (IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jona- AMES than (1) and Hannah (Trouant) Eames, was born in Marshfield, and married there, in 1713, Rebecca Stanford. Children : Jonathan, born 1715; Isaac, 1717; Lydia, 1721; Rebecca, 1727.
(VI) Thomas, undoubtedly a son of either Jonathan or Isaac Eames, was born about 1740, in Marshfield, and settled in Islesboro, Maine, about 1748. He located at Gilkey's Harbor on the southwest side of Long Island, where he purchased, July 13, 1784, from Sam- uel Turner, and previous occupant, lots Nos. 12, 13 and 14, amounting to three hundred fifty acres, the purchase price being $420. A part of this he subsequently sold to his son Jabez and to other purchasers. In 1787 he and his son Jabez signed a petition, and both spelled the name Eames. The spelling in pres- ent use by the family-Ames-was, however, adopted very soon after. Thomas Ames be- gan preaching as an itinerant Baptist minister about 1794, and in 1804 he was ordained as pastor of the Baptist church at Islesboro, and continued in this charge until 1809. He was considered "a worthy acceptable preacher." His home in Islesboro occupied an ideal site, and commanded a view which has been said by many to be fully equal to that of the Bay of Naples. In 1815 he sold this and moved to the town of Hope, on the mainland, and died in Appleton, Maine, February 10, 1826. He was married (first) January 9, 1764, by Rev. Appleton Wales, of the Second Congre- gational Church, to Rebecca Harnie, of Marsh- field, who died June 28, 1808, aged sixty-six years. He married (second) August 13, 1809, Mrs. Lucy Comstock, and (third) August 28, 1812, Mrs. Lucy Jordan, of Thomaston, Maine. Children, all by first marriage : Mercy, Jabez, Thankful, Sally (married Joshua Pendleton), Lydia, Rebecca, Betsy and Luther.
(VII) Jabez, eldest son of Rev. Thomas and Rebecca (Harnie) Ames, was born in Marshfield, and died January 21, 1829. He was a farmer and ship-owner. Jabez mar- ried Jane, daughter of John Gilkey Sr., who died March 11, 1851. Their children, all born in Islesboro: Jane, Grace, Jabez, Betsey (married December 26, 1814, Captain Gields Coombs Jr.), Lerrity (Charity), John, Cather- ine, Susan, Isaac and Louisiana.
(VIII) Isaac, third son of Jabez and Jane (Gilkey) Ames, was born in Islesboro, No- vember 18,. 1806. He was, like his father, a farmer and ship-owner, and resided in the town of Northport, at Lincolnville, Maine. He married Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin Tarbell, of Islesboro. Children: I. Rebecca Jane, deceased. 2. John Calvin, deceased. 3. Mary Elizabeth, wife of Henry N. Carver ; re- sides in Brooklyn, New York. 4. Frank B., deceased. 5. George Sylvanus, mentioned be- low. 6. Sarah Maria (Mrs. Roscoe P. Gil- key); resides in Brewer, Maine. 7. Rosilla Clementine, widow of Sanford Parker; re- sides in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. 8. El- wilda, married Abraham Dow, both deceased.
(IX) George Sylvanus, third son of Isaac and Rebecca (Tarbell) Ames, was born in the town of Northport, where he now resides, on the paternal homestead. During his active life he was a farmer, and, like most men of that community, often went to sea. He mar- ried Zilpha A., daughter of Allison and Sarah (Ackley) Parker. Children: I. Waldo Em- erson, deceased. 2. Orren Ether, born March, 1857 ; is a boat builder and blacksmith at Lin- colnville. 3. Allison George, mentioned be- low. 4. Roscoe Conklin, died young. 5. Les- lie Delmore, October, 1867, keeps a general store at Lincolnville. 6. Carrie Martha, June, 1870; is wife of Dr. Prince E. Luce, of Bel- fast, Maine. 7. Robie Frank, June, 1885; re- sides on the homestead in Northport.
(X) Allison George, son of George S. and Zilpha A. (Parker) Ames, was born at Lin- colnville, Maine, June 28, 1860, and was edu- cated in the public schools at Lincolnville and Northport. From the age of sixteen, 1876-83, he followed the sea, since which time he has been in business in New York. He was en- gaged in ship chandlery in South Brooklyn, New York, for several years, and has been since May 16, 1892, shipping agent and steam- ship contractor, located on South street, New York City. Mr. Ames has always taken an interest in politics, and served several years on the old Republican ward committee, Queens county, also two years on the assembly dis- trict committee, and one year on county com- mittee. In 1907 he ran for alderman in the sixty-ninth District, Borough of Queens. He is a Mason and a Shriner, member of Kismet Shrine of Brooklyn ; was formerly a member of the Third Ward Republican Club, Borough of Queens, and of the Flushing Association. He was also treasurer of the Upper Flushing Improvement Association, of which he was one of the organizers. His summer home is
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at Setauket, Long Lsland. He has dealt much in Long Island real estate, and is now interested in oyster planting at Greenport. He is an organizer and stockholder of the Setau- ket Spring Water Company, of which he was president until January, 1909. Mr. Ames married, November 16, 1884, Anna M. Busch, of Brooklyn, New York. They have two chil- dren : George Parker, born September 6, 1885, and Grace Evelyn, August 9, 1888.
According to a family CHAMBERLIN tradition the Chamber- lains and Chamberlins are of French descent. This conclusion de- rives its origin from the alleged fact that one Jean de Tankerville, a native of France, was appointed chamberlain to the King of England in the latter part of the sixteenth century, and it is asserted that his official title was adopted as a surname by his descendants. It is still further claimed that John Chamberlain, son of Jean de Tankerville, came to New England and settled in Boston. There were several early immigrants of this name, and their pos- terity, which is quite numerous, have two forms of spelling it, viz .: Chamberlain and Chamberlin. Henry Chamberlin was a pas- senger from England in the ship "Diligent" in 1638, settling in Hingham, Massachusetts, and William Chamberlin, presumably a relative of Henry, was in 1648 residing at Woburn, whence he removed to Billerica in 1653. The York county Chamberlins mentioned below are in all probability descended from one of these early Massachusetts settlers. Chief among these who have brought honor and distinc- tion to the Maine family of this name is Gen- eral Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who at- tained the rank of major-general in the civil war; was governor of Maine from 1866 to 1871; president of Bowdoin College from the latter year to 1883; and is a writer and lec- turer of national reputation. One of the first settlers in Lebanon, Maine, was William Chamberlain, who went there from either Massachusetts or New Hampshire. He pur- chased a tract of land covered with timber, which he proceeded to clean off as rapidly as possible, and through the severest kind of hardship and toil he replaced the wilderness with fields of grain and other products of civil- ization.
(I) Deacon Nathaniel Chamberlin, a de- scendant of the above mentioned pioneer, was born in Lebanon, September 10, 1783. His long and useful life, which covered a period of eighty-six years, was spent in his native
town, and the active portion of it was devoted to farming. He was one of the leading men of Lebanon in his day, representing his dis- trict in the state legislature in 1842, and ac- tively identified with the Congregational church, of which he was a deacon for many years. His death occurred in 1869. He mar- ried Abbie Jones, born in Lebanon, July 24, 1793, and their children were: Lewis, Na- thaniel, Clarissa and Hiram G. .
(II) Hiram G., youngest son of Deacon Nathaniel and Abbie (Jones) Chamberlin, was born in Lebanon, September 30, 1814. He was a lifelong resident of Lebanon, a very successful farmer and an excellent business man. The farm which he occupied for more than fifty years was purchased by him in 1838, and is now, or was recently, owned by his son, John R. Chamberlin. He was not only a conspicuous figure in local public af- fairs, serving as a member of the board of se- lectmen and in other town offices, but could always be depended upon to assist in fostering the general interests and progressive tenden- cies of the community, and was in every way an upright, loyal and useful citizen. His views upon the slavery question naturally led him into the ranks of the Republican party at its formation, and he maintained his allegiance to that political body for the remainder of his life, which terminated June 30, 1889. His re- ligious affiliations were with the Congregation- alists, and he was an active church member. Mr. Chamberlin married Elizabeth W. Rol- lins, and she survived him a few years, dying at the age of eighty-three. They were the parents of two sons: John Rollins, born Sep- tember 12, 1841, and Dr. David Taylor Par- ker.
(III) David Taylor Parker, M. D., young- est son of Hiram G. and Elizabeth W. (Rol- lins) Chamberlin, was born in Lebanon, No- vember 21, 1846. His early education was acquired in the district schools and at the West Lebanon Academy. His professional prepara- tions were completed in the medical depart- ment of Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated in 1872, and locating in Farming- ton, New Hampshire, he was for about six years associated in practice with Dr. Parker of that town. In 1878 he removed to Dover and established himself as a physician in that city. While residing in Farmington he repre- sented that town in the New Hampshire legis- lature for the year 1876, was a member of the Dover school board for three years, served as county physician from 1882 to 1886, and acted as a justice of the peace. In politics he sup-
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ported the Republican party. In 1873 he joined the New Hampshire Medical Society and was its president in 1889. In addition to belonging to the various Masonic bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree, he affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men, the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, Royal Society of Good Fel- lows and the Bellamy Club, and was active in church work. As both physician and citizen he stood high in the estimation of all with whom he came in contact, and his untimely demise, which occurred July 27, 1892, was universally regretted. September 7, 1873, Dr. Chamberlin was united in marriage with Idella Roberts, born June 30, 1855, daughter of David S. and Sabrina (Lord) Roberts. She died December 4, 1881. She became the mother of two sons: Harold Malcom, born May 9, 1878, died June 27, 1879, and Don.
(IV) Don, youngest son of Dr. David T. P. and Idella (Roberts) Chamberlin, was born in Dover, August 30, 1881. His studies in the public schools were supplemented with a com- mercial course at Gray's Business College, Portland, from which he was graduated in 1900, and entering the store of Frank M. Lowe & Company in that city as a clerk he remained there for some time. Mercantile pursuits proved unattractive to him, however, and sev- ering his connection with the Portland concern he purchased a large farm in Kennebunk, whither he removed. He also became local manager for Kennebunk and vicinity for the E. A. Strout Real Estate Agency, and for a time attended to the duties of that position in conjunction with farming, but for the past four years has given his attention exclusively to the real estate business. June 27, 1908, he was appointed notary public. His political affiliations are with the Republican party. He is a member of Mousam Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Pine Tree En- campment. On April 6, 1900, Mr. Chamber- lin was united in marriage with Annette C., daughter of John P. and Ruth A. Howes, of Providence, Rhode Island. Of this union there is one son, Don, born December 3, 1902.
So far as can be ascer- SKOLFIELD tained, there is but one family of the name in this country. Possibly it may belong to the class of Whitefield, Littlefield, Butterfield and the like, which are formed from the common noun field modified by a characteristic prefix.
(I) Thomas Skolfield, the first of the name of whom we have any knowledge, was an offi-
cer of King William's army in 1690, when King James was driven from Ireland. He was granted a tract of land in that country for his services, and made his final home there. He had four children: Thomas (2), whose sketch follows; George, Elizabeth and Susan. All of these but Elizabeth migrated to Amer- ica in the early part of the eighteenth cen- tury. George settled in Philadelphia, while Thomas (2) and Susan migrated to Maine, where the latter married John Orr.
(II) Thomas (2), eldest child of Thomas (I) Skolfield, was born in Ireland in 1701, and died at Brunswick, Maine, January 6, 1796. He received a liberal education at Dub- lin University, and soon after graduation mi- grated to America with the Orr family. He remained in Boston with the Orrs, and taught a Latin school until about 1742, when the Orr family decided to move to Maine, and Thomas (2) Skolfield and his sister Susan came with them. He and the Orrs bought about three hundred and fifty acres of land on which Thomas Skolfield settled, and they paid for it eighty-five pounds, old tenor. Mr. Skolfield was a prominent man in town affairs. On May 22, 1777, he was chosen as an officer em- powered to receive recognizances. In 1779 he was on the committee to affix the price of commodities sold in the town. He was on many committees to draw up resolutions dur- ing the revolution, though his age, nearly sev- enty when the war broke out, prevented him from taking part in the struggle. He was town clerk from 1752 to 1761, and again in 1763-65. For twenty-three years he was on the board of selectmen, and a greater part of the time was chairman. His period of ser- vice extended from 1744 to 1749, 1752 to 1754, 1756 to 1762, 1765 to 1767, 1772 to 1775, and again in 1782. He married Mary Orr about 1737, and they had eleven children : I. Rebecca, born July 8, 1737. 2. Richard, Sep- tember 6, 1738. 3. Clement, June 1, 1740. 4. Anne, May 18, 1742, married Robert Spear (2). 5. Thomas, June 8, 1744, married Ann Anderson. 6. Mary, February 10, 1748, mar- ried Captain Robert Given. 7. Stephen, July 8, 1751. 8. Martha, March 19, 1753, married Lewis Simpson. 9. John, June 13, 1755. IO. Joseph, March 1, 1757. II. William, August 27, 1760. Mrs. Mary (Orr) Skolfield died August 1, 1771, aged fifty-seven years, but her husband survived her a quarter of a century, living to be nearly ninety.
(IV) "Master" George, as he was com- monly called, was a grandson of Thomas (2) and Mary (Orr) Skolfield. He was born at.
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Harpswell, Maine, in July, 1780, died March 13, 1866. Owing to the lack of records, it is not known which of the seven sons of Thomas (2) Skolfield was his father. George Skolfield began to build vessels when about twenty-one years of age, and during his life- time built nearly if not quite sixty sea-going craft. These were all of the best quality of material and workmanship. At the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest men in Brunswick, and his money had all been ac- quired through his own exertions and busi- ness ability. He was a man of kindly dis- position and a very hospitable disposition, and he was never happier than when his friends fairly overran his house. He was a man of strong impulses and sternly resolute in the discharge of what he believed to be his duty. Nobody ever questioned his scrupulous hon- esty in all of his dealings with his fellow-men. "Master" George Skolfield married
and among their children was Robert, whose sketch follows.
(V) Robert, son of "Master" George Skol- field, was born at Harpswell, Maine, 1824, and died at Brunswick, Maine, 1889. He had a common school education, and followed the sea most of his life, being captain of a vessel for many years. After leaving the sea he went into the shoe business in Brunswick, but during his later years was without active oc- cupation. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Congregational church. About 1860 Captain Robert Skolfield married Lydia A. Curtis, born at Harpswell, Maine, March, 1841. They had four children : Henry B., Alice C., married E. T. Little, of New York City; Albert, and Ezra B., whose sketch follows.
(VI) Dr. Ezra Byington, youngest son of Robert and Lydia A. (Curtis) Skolfield, was born at Brunswick, Maine, September 17, 1873, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. He attended Bowdoin Col- lege for two years and then entered the med- ical department from which he was graduated in 1899. After graduation he held a position at the Maine Central Hospital for one year ; at the Soldiers' Home at Togus, Maine, for four years; and at the Hospital for the In- sane at Augusta for two years. In 1906 Dr. Skolfield moved to Charleston, Maine, where he is now engaged in the practice of his pro- fession and is also health physician. He be- longs to the Maine Medical Association and to the American Medical Association, and is a member of the Grange, Charleston. He is prominent in Masonic circles, being a member
of the United Lodge of Masons, Saint Paul Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, at Augusta ; and of Kora Temple at Lewiston. He is a Re- publican in politics. Dr. Skolfield married, June 6, 1906, Mabel L. Chandler, born at Manchester, New Hampshire, daughter of Fremont L. and Louise M. (Willett) Chand- ler, who are now living at Swampscott, Mas- sachusetts.
STOWELL This name is found in the early New England records with many spellings, such as Stoel, Stoyel, Stowel, and in recent usage has taken the form of Stowell. Many still retain the old spelling as first above given, but the form as here used is in most common use. The family was very early implanted in New Eng- land, and has spread from that cradle of American citizenship throughout the United States, and is especially numerous in all of the north half. It has had honorable representa- tives who have been conspicuous in public life, and its bearers have done credit to the name.
(I) Samuel Stowell, immigrant ancestor of nearly all bearing the name in this country, was born in England, in 1620. As nearly all the settlers of Hingham, Massachusetts, came from Hingham, England, it is probable that that was the native place of Samuel Stowell. He settled in the latter place in 1647, and was one of the proprietors of the town, where he died November 9, 1683. He was a weaver by trade, and had a homestead on Fort Hill street. He married, October 25, 1649, in Hingham, Mary, daughter of John and Frances Farrow, and she married (second) October 10, 1689, Joshua Beal. The will of Samuel Stowell was proved June 30, 1684, and the inventory of his property showed a value of 185 pounds one shilling two pence. Children : I. Mary, born October 16, 1653; married, February 25, 1683, John Garnet. 2. Samuel, July 8, 1655; resided at Hingham. 3. John, March 15, 1658; also resided in Hing- ham. 4. David, mentioned further below. 5. Remember, April 22, 1662 ; married March 16, 1688, Thomas Remington. 6. Unnamed child, died sixteen days old. 7. William, January 23, 1666. 8. Israel, died young. 9. Israel, Au- gust 10, 1670; settled in Newton. 10. Eliza- beth, June 7, 1673; married, December 14, 1699, George Lane. II. Benjamin, June 8, 1676; resided in Hingham.
(II) David, third son of Samuel and Mary (Farrow) Stowell, was born April 8, 1660, in
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Hingham, and removed to Cambridge, Massa- chusetts. He left that town after 1724, and settled in Newton, Massachusetts, where he died. He was a weaver by occupation, al- though at a great age, being known as "Old Stoel." He married, in Cambridge, April 7, 1695, Mary Stedman, who died September 27, 1724. Children: 1. David, who had two wives : (first) Elizabeth, (second) Patience, and died at Newton, in October, 1724. 2. Benjamin, died at Newton, November 29, 1729, unmarried. 3. Samuel, a school teacher residing at Watertown; died 1748. 4. Ruth, married an Osborn. 5. John, mentioned be- low. 6. Mary, married a King.
(III) John, fourth son of David and Mary (Stedman) Stowell, was probably born in Wa- tertown, where his father lived in 1690. He settled in Watertown, and was a constable there in 1737. Previously he lived at Newton, and bought land on the Boston road in that town in 1719, removing to Watertown after 1723. He was the owner of land in Stur- bridge, which he sold October 26, 1742, and another parcel in the same town, sold Decem- ber 2, same year. It was probably at this time that he removed to Worcester. He was a resi- dent of that town in 1744, when he sold more land in Sturbridge to his son-in-law, David Curtis, of that town. He bought his first land in Worcester in 1743, and the records of mort- gages show that he was the owner of land there in 1746-54-57, and July 18, 1759, he deeded his homestead at Worcester to his son Benjamin, who had contracted to support his father during the remainder of his life. He died in Worcester, in 1762, and his eldest son was the administrator of the estate. As he had disposed of most of his property during life, the estate at this time was very small. He married, November 1, 1722, Sarah Ford, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Children, all born in Watertown, except the eldest: I. Sarah, August 14, 1723, in Newton, married David Curtis, at Sturbridge, 1744. 2. John, 1726, died at Petersham, Massachusetts, where he settled early in life. 3. James, resided in Wa- tertown. 4. Benjamin, mentioned at length be- low. 5. Hezekiah, December 25, 1732; re- sided in Worcester. 6. Jerusha, February I, 1735. 7. Jemima, baptized March 6, 1737. 8. David, April 6, 1740.
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