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(For first generation see preceding sketch.)
(II) Nathaniel, third son of
WILLIAMS Richard, immigrant, and Frances (Dighton) Williams, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and bap- tized in the First Church in Taunton, No- vember 17, 1639. He married Elizabeth Rog- ers, of Duxbury, November 17, 1668. Eliza- beth Rogers was of the fifth generation from John Rogers, the martyr. This statement is disputed, however, by Josiah H. Drummond, of Portland, Maine, in his paper on "The John Rogers families in Plymouth and Vi- cinity," read before the Maine Historical So- ciety, December 19, 1895. He said in this paper that Elizabeth Rogers was the grand- daughter of Thomas Rogers, who came over in the "Mayflower." He doubts whether she was the fifth generation from John Rogers the Martyr. The children of Nathaniel and Eliz- abeth (Rogers.) Williams were: I. John (q. v.), born August 27, 1675. 2. Elizabeth, April 18, 1686, married John Macomber, of Taunton, and died May 2, 1732. 3. Na- thaniel, April 9, 1697, married Lydia King and died in 1726.
(III) John, eldest son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Rogers) Williams, was born in
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Taunton, Massachusetts, August 27, 1675, died at the homestead, August 18, 1724. He mar- ried Hannah Robinson, born in 1668, died December 2, 1757. Children: I. Nathaniel, born December 30, 1702, died December 29, 1746. 2. Silas, married Susanna Richards. 3. Timothy (q. v.), September 28, 1714. 4. Simeon, 1716, was twice married-(first) to Zipora Crane, who died May 21, 1748, at the age of twenty-four years, and (second) to Waitstill - -, who died aged ninety-seven years; Simeon died September, 1794. 5. Ex- perience, married Nathan Hodges, January 22, 1728.
(IV) Timothy, third son of John and Hannah (Robinson) Williams, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, September 28, 1714. He married Elizabeth Britten, of Raynham, January 18, 1736, lived in Easton, Bristol county, Massachusetts, and was for many years town clerk. Children: I. Hannah, born April 21, 1738. 2. Tabitha, November 17, 1740. 3. Elizabeth, March 29, 1743, died in Woolwich, Maine. 4. Timothy (q. v.), March IO, 1744, mentioned below. 5. Nathaniel, March 20, 1747, died September 23, 1799. 6. Olive, February 24, 1749, died August 20, 1772. 7. Lemuel, May 2, 1751, mar- ried Anna Woolwich, born 1762, died Septem- ber 23, 1820. 8. Sibel, April 12, 1754. 9. Anne, September 10, 1756.
(V) Timothy (2), fourth child and eldest son of Timothy (I) and Elizabeth (Britten) Williams, was born in Easton, Bristol county, Massachusetts, March 10, 1744. He was mar- ried twice. First to Miriam Thompson in 1776, and after her death, June 6, 1783, at the age of thirty-one years, he married as his sec- ond wife, January 27, 1784, Margaret Ham- bleton, of Wiscasset, Maine, born December 20, 1753. He died in Woolwich, Maine, Sep- tember 23, 1813. The children of Timothy (2) and Miriam (Thompson) Williams, were : I. Lucinda, born January 17, 1777, married, February 26, 1795, and died September 8, 1795. 2. Simeon (q. v.), born January 30, 1778. 3. Malinda, June 6, 1779. 4. Calg, De- cember 25, 1784, died June 30, 1785. The children of Timothy (2) and Margaret (Ham- bleton) Williams were: 5. James, born No- vember 3, 1786, married Elizabeth Bailey, of Wiscasset, Maine, in 1808, and died August 5, 1822. 6. John, July 11, 1788, married Mary Bailey, December 14, 1809, and died Decem- ber 29, 1838.
(VI) Simeon, eldest son and second child of Timothy (2) and Miriam (Thompson) Williams, was born in Woolwich, Maine, Jan-
uary 30, 1778; died in Woolwich, Maine, Au- gust 21, 1840. He married, in January, 1804, Lydia Young, born September 25, 1785, died at Mercer, Maine, December 24, 1855. Chil- dren: I. Timothy (q. v.). 2. Benjamin, born October 27, 1806, died July 26, 1893. 3. Seth, March 6, 1808, died April 21, 1849. 4. Silas, December 3, 1809, died May 25, 1891. 5. Warren, July 2, 1811, lived in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he died, leaving a son and daughter, now dead; his son's wife, Mrs. Charles A. Williams, being in 1908 the only living representative of the family. 6. Austin, June 7, 1813, died May 4, 1887. 7. Mary, November 1, 1815, died January 19, 1890. 8. Hartley, August 12, 1820, died August 17, 1882. 9. Simeon, September 27, 1822, mar- ried, November 27, 1860, Mary Bliss, born in Middleton, Connecticut, April 11, 1832, and their children were: Howard Sherman, Fran- cis Hartley and Adelaide Lydia, all born in New Haven, Connecticut, the respective dates of their birth being October 10, 1863, Septem- ber 27, 1865, and January 18, 1869.
(VII) Timothy (3), eldest child of Simeon and Lydia (Young) Williams, was born in Woolwich, Maine, October 17, 1804. He was reared amidst humble surroundings, the oldest of a large family made up of father, mother and nine children, eight boys and one girl, and he had few educational advantages beyond the short term of the district winter school. He had learned the lesson of frugality and the value of hard earned money, and he early be- gan to exercise the habit of saving and care- fully investing even his smallest savings. The family removed from Woolwich to that part of Thomaston which became known as Rock- land, Maine, and here young Timothy became a lime burner and the part owner of a valu- able lime quarry, from which he dug the first shovel full of material that went into the lime kiln, and this quarry became one of the most productive lime properties in the section. He was entrusted with various town and city offices, and when the town grew into a city he became a bank director and represented the city of Rockland in the state legislature for three consecutive terms. He married, July 3, 1842, Jane H. Blackington, and he erected a family residence in Rockland that has since become known as the Williams homestead. Mr. Williams died in Rockland, Maine, Sep- tember 1, 1880, and the public press on the occasion of his death summed up his estim- able worth in these words: "He was a worthy man and a prominent citizen, and his death has cast a gloom over the whole community and
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wherever he was known. Few men of his locality were better known throughout the state. The character of the man and the value of his life and services seem to demand spe- cial recognition." His funeral from the resi- dence was attended by many hundreds of the most prominent citizens of the city of Rock- land, and the services were conducted by his pastor, the Rev. William T. Stover, of the Universalist church, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Stone, of the Methodist Episcopal church, who spoke feelingly of the excellent life led by the deceased, and the good qualities of heart and mind which he possessed. He gained the title of "Colonel" for having raised a regiment for service in the Aroostook war, which regiment he commanded in camp, the war ending before it had an opportunity to engage in actual ser- vice. The children of Timothy and Jane H. ( Blackington) Williams are: I. Warren G., born May 28, 1843. 2. Mary Jane, November 25, 1845. 3. Edwin A., May 7, 1848. 4. Me- linda A., February 25, 1852. 5. Maynard Sumner (q. v.). 6. Anna L., August 1, 1861. His wife died September 20, 1886.
(VIII) Maynard Sumner, the youngest son of Timothy (3) and Jane H. (Blackington) Williams, was born in Rockland, Maine, Sep- tember 16, 1855. He was educated in the public school, and early in life worked on his father's farm and in his lime quarries, and in 1882 he left home to become a clerk in a gen- eral store in Warren, Maine. He left this position after a time, returned to his home and became assistant general agent and manager of several extensive lime quarries, besides the one on his father's farm, and in 1886 he took his father's place as agent and manager, and maintained this position and largely added to the value of the properties in which he was part owner. He finally retired from active business life, having amassed a competence, and gave his entire attention to the care of his estate. He is a member of the Universalist church; Republican member of city council two terms. Mr. Williams built and resides in one of the finest homes in this city of fine residences, and it is pointed out to visitors as the home of a self-made man of worth as well as wealth. February 13, 1888, Mr. Williams became affiliated with Knox Lodge, No. 29, Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Rock- land; Rockland Encampment, No. 36; Canton La Fayette, Patriarchs Militant. He married, March 8, 1883, Annie R., daughter of Gilman L. Ulmer; children: 1. Arthur T., born De- cember 26, 1885, died November 10, 1886. 2. Alice M., February 9, 1888, a graduate of Mt.
Holyoke College, Massachusetts. 3. Gladys M., November 6, 1892, of the Westbrook Sem- inary.
This name is derived from the an-
YORK cient city of York, the political capital of Yorkshire; as the city is old, so is the surname. The early inhabitants of New Gloucester, Maine, numbered several of the name who were active in the making of the town.
(I) Richard York was a native of England and settled in Wakefield, New Brunswick. He married Susan Gallup.
(II) Advardinis, son of Richard and Susan (Gallup) York, was born in Wakefield in 1823. In 1869 he removed to Mars Hill, Aroostook county, and engaged in farming. He was a consistent member of the Free Baptist church. He married Jane, daughter of Robert Irving. Children: R. A., John E., C. N., E. W. and Advardinis, who lives in Oregon.
(III) John E., second son of Advardinis and Jane (Irving) York, was a native of Ox- ford, New Brunswick, born May 27, 1860. He is indebted to his birthplace and to his adopted home of Mars Hill for educational equipment. Until twenty he remained on the patrimonial estate, leaving this for merchandising. He now conducts a large farm, deals in hay and potatoes, the tuber that made Aroostook fa- mous, and in partnership with H. W. Safford, conducts a carriage and harness repository. He is one of the solid, substantial men of Aroostook. He is a member of Century Lodge, No. 100, Knights of Pythias, Aroostook Lodge, No. 179, of Mars Hill, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Houlton Lodge, No. 835, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. . He married Lizzie, daughter of T. H. Banks ; children : Perley A., Ella L., Thomas D., and Frank E. Mrs. York died in 1904. He married (second) Clarinda Johnson.
Franklin Winslow Johnson, a JOHNSON prominent educator, was born in Jay, Maine, August 17, 1870. His parents were John S. and Eliza- beth (Winslow) Johnson, the former a na- tive of Deerfield, New Hampshire, and the latter of Jay, Maine.
Mr. Johnson attended the public schools of Wilton, and Wilton Academy, where he was prepared for college. He matriculated at Colby University at the age of seventeen, and was graduated therefrom in 1891, the year of his attaining his majority, with the degree of A. B., and he received the degree of A. M.
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in 1894. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and at his graduation was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society. On leaving college he accepted the principalship of the Calais, Maine, high school, and was head-master of that institution from 1891 to 1894. In the latter year he accepted the principalship of the Coburn Classical In- stitute at Waterville, Maine. He remained at the head of that celebrated school for a period of eleven years, resigning in 1905 to take up larger work in the middle west. Entering upon the position of principal of the Academy of the University of Chicago, Morgan Park, Illinois, he served in that capacity until 1907, when he was called to his present position- that of dean of the University of Chicago High School. While residing in Maine he held the position of president of the Maine School- masters' Club, and also of the Maine Peda- gogical Society, and while residing in Water- ville became affiliated with the Masonic lodge of that place. He is a member of the Quad- rangle Club of the University of Chicago, and is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. John- son married, July 15, 1896, Carolyn Mae, daughter of Captain George W. and Mary Bradford (Rideout) Lord, of Calais, Maine.
The Rice family was originally Eng- RICE · lish, but branches have lived in both the Catholic and Protestant sections of Ireland for three centuries or more. In 1890 ninety-nine births of this name were re- corded in Ireland, about half being in the Protestant counties of Antrim and Armagh. A conspicuous historical character was Baron Rice, associated with Tyrconnel in support of King James against William of Orange. After the Prince of Orange had overthrown all op- position in England, he sent Richard Hamilton to offer terms to Tyrconnel, who seemed in- clined to sumbit. But his hesitation was prob- ably to gain time. When Hamilton arrived in Dublin he failed to persuade Tyrconnel to be- tray James, but was himself easily persuaded to betray William. Tyrconnel, finding Mount- joy's presence troublesome, sent him with Baron Rice on a mission to France. Mount- joy was told to inform James that it would be useless to try the fate of war in Ireland. But Rice was instructed to get his companion placed in prison and to urge James to come over with a French force. Should he refuse, then Rice was to offer Ireland to Louis of France. Baron Rice was successful in his mission to King James.
came to Waterville, Maine, or vicinity during the revolution, from the north of Ireland. He married Morrill, probably a descendant of the family that settled early at Salisbury, Massachusetts. Children : · James, George, John, Richard.
(II) James, son of Christopher Rice, was born in Waterville, Maine, about 1790. He married Relief Young. Children, born at Oak- land, Maine: James, George, Richard, Sabas- tian, Sylvanus, Hannah, Grace, Martha, Anna, Elizabeth, Robert Dunlap, mentioned below.
(III) Robert Dunlap, son of James Rice, was born in Oakland, Maine, March 8, 1837, died in Fairfield, Maine, February 5, 1903. He was educated in the public schools. He followed farming for a calling and owned a two-hundred acre place at Fairfield. Besides his farming he manufactured potash and soap for fifteen years or more. He was a pros- perous and influential citizen. In politics he was a Democrat; in religion a Universalist. He was a member of Samaritan Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Waterville, and of Havelock Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Waterville. He married, February 23, 1870, Martha J. Tup- per, born May 17, 1848, in West Waterville, now Oakland, Maine. She is now living in Fairfield. Children: I. Edward Cannon, born May 14, 1878, mentioned below. 2. Wil- lie, born September 17, 1880, died September 27, 1880.
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(IV) Edward Cannon, son of Robert Dun- lap Rice, was born in Fairfield, Maine, May 14, 1878. He attended the public schools of his native town, and the Coburn Classical In- stitute of Waterville, where he prepared for college. He entered Colby College and was graduated in the class of 1901. Immediately afterward he began to study his profession in the law offices of Brown & Brown, where he was a clerk for three years. He was admitted to the bar in August, 1904, and opened an office in Fairfield, where he has had a large general practice. Mr. Rice is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of Siloam Lodge of Free Masons, and of Fairfield Lodge of Odd Fellows. He married, December 5, 1904, Edna M. Owen, born May II, 1880, in Winthrop, Maine, daughter of Charles E. and Nellie (Nason) Owen. Children, born in Fairfield : I. Miriam Elizabeth, November 5, 1905. 2. Robert Owen, May 6, 1908.
Frank A. Morey, of Lewiston,
MOREY. lawyer, former member of the Maine legislature and present
(I) Christopher Rice, immigrant ancestor, mayor of Lewiston, is a native of New York
Fall A. Hory.
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state, born in Keeseville, Essex county, March II, 1863, and comes of an old colonial family of New England. His early education was ac- quired in his native town, and he graduated from Keeseville Academy in 1881. In the fall of the same year he entered Bates Col- lege, Lewiston, for the academic course and graduated from that institution with the de- gree of A. B. in 1885, having attained the highest standing in modern languages. Mr. Morey's college course with the honors which accompanied his graduation are more remark- able by reason of the fact that he worked his way through from the beginning of his sec- ondary education in old Keeseville Academy to the end of the course leading to his bachelor degree; and this he did by engaging in can- vassing work during his leisure hours of the college sessions and by teaching school during the vacation intervals.
His early ambition was to fit himself for the profession of pedagogy and to that end his foundations were laid-and well laid; and while he was offered an excellent position at a tempting salary in a teacher's chair, he yielded to the persuasions of friends and turned to the profession of law. He took up the new study in the office of Mr. Hewitt, of Keeseville, a leading member of the Essex county bar, and after completing the course prescribed by the rules of the court of appeals presented himself for examination at Albany, New York, and in 1887 was admitted to practice in the courts of that state. Having come to the bar Mr. Morey returned to Keeseville and began prac- tice in partnership with Mr. Hewitt, his for- mer preceptor, and for the next three years was an active figure in court and professional circles in Essex county. In 1891 he came to Lewiston, this state, practiced alone for the next six months and then became partner with Hon. D. J. McGillicuddy under the firm style of McGillicuddy & Morey. The relationship thus established still continues and the firm and its individual members are well known in all professional and court circles in Andros- coggin county, and indeed throughout the en- tire state.
Mr. Morey was not an entire stranger in Lewiston when he became a member of the Androscoggin county bar, for he had previ- ously been known as a student in college there, a successful teacher in the public schools and his diploma from the regents of the University of the State of New York gave him at once a standing in the courts of the state of Maine, where he soon proved his worth as a lawyer
and advocate at the bar. His career has been one of gratifying success, and quite naturally, in connection with professional employments he has been somewhat closely identified with public and political affairs and has been chosen to fill a number of offices of responsi- bility and honor, and in each of them he has acquitted himself well. For two years he was city solicitor of Lewiston, and for three years also was a member of the lower house of the state legislature, in the latter body serving as a member of the committee on legal affairs, the ways and means, and the judiciary com- mittees, the committee on appropriations and also that on financial affairs. While in the house he introduced and secured the passage of the only law in the statute books relating to usury and usurious transactions within the state. Another important law which owes its enactment to him is that materially reducing the cost of collecting taxes; another is that known as the Morey amendment to the Aus- tralian ballot law, and still another providing "that all questions submitted to the people must be on a separate ballot." During his legislative service Mr. Morey did good work for the city of Lewiston in securing the char- ter for city water works, which was finally accomplished only after the measure had twice met with defeat. After his last term in the state legislature he was elected county attor- ney for Androscoggin county, and re-elected to the same office September, 1908; in 1907 was elected mayor of Lewiston, which office he still holds, being re-elected thereto March, 1908. He is a staunch Democrat.
As a lawyer he ranks with the leaders of the county bar, whether in the counsel of the office, the preparation and trial of his cases, or as an advocate before the court or the jury. He is methodical, but not laborious, aggressive in the trial of his cases, but never abusive, always shows proper deference to the court, and he never has been known. to go half pre- pared into the trial of a case. He is some- thing of a traveller, domestic and foreign, and during his travels abroad has visited the Brit- ish house of parliament and the national legis- lative houses of France; and it was he who several years ago ventured the prediction that the French republic would attempt to secure sovereignty in Morocco as a means of pos- session of Ceuta, a strategic point equal in de- fensive military operations to the British Gibraltar. Mr. Morey married, June 24, 1889, Maude E. Douglass, by whom he has one child, Ruth M., born September 11, 1892.
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(For ancestry see Samuel Packard I.)
(VI) Alpheus Spring Pack-
PACKARD ard, son of Rev. Hezekiah Packard, was born in Chelms- ford, Massachusetts, December 23, 1798, and died on Squirrel Island, Maine, July 13, 1884. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1816, standing second in his class. After leaving college he taught school in the towns of Gor- ham and Hallowell until 1819, when he was appointed tutor in his alma mater, continuing in that capacity until 1824, when he was made professor of Greek and Latin, which chair he filled uninterruptedly until 1865, although dur- ing the meantime he served in various capaci- ties. From 1842 to 1845 he was professor of rhetoric and oratory, and from 1864 until the time of his death he performed the duties of the professorship of natural and revealed re- ligion. In 1883 he was acting president of the college.
On May 16, 1850, Professor Packard was ordained clergyman of the Congregational church and during the later years of his life was chaplain of the college. In 1869 he was honored with the degree of divinitatis doctor. After 1869 he performed the duties of the office of college librarian. Professor Pack- ard was among the earliest members of the Maine Historical Society, and for forty-eight years was its librarian and curator of its museum cabinet. He also was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Historical Society, and of the London Historical Society. He was a fre- quent though not prolific contributor to cur- rent literature, and a number of his articles were published in the North American Re- view, the Collections of the Maine Historical Society, and Bibliotheca Sacra. His more am- ple works were his "Works of Rev. Jesse Ap- pleton, with a Memoir," 1836-37; and "Xeno- phen's Memorabilia of Socrates, with English Notes," 1839; and besides these works he edited the "History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches," 1882.
(VII) Robert Lawrence, son of Rev. Dr. Alpheus Spring and Caroline (Bartels) Pack- ard, was born in Brunswick, Maine, November 27, 1847, and received his early education in public schools and Phillips Andover Academy, where he prepared for college. In 1864 he matriculated at Bowdoin College, made the academic course, and was graduated A. B. in 1868. After leaving college he took up peda- gogical work and for a time held a professor- ship in the Maine State College, and in 1886 he became connected with the faculty of the
School of Mines, Houghton, Michigan. In 1890 he was appointed a special agent of the census, to visit the mining districts of the west and assist in obtaining statistics of the produc- tion of the gold, silver, lead and zinc mines. In 1899 he was appointed to the Bureau of Education, Washington, District of Columbia, where his work has been special in character, a position provided for by act of congress, his labors relating particularly to the history of education in Spanish-American countries. Pro- fessor Packard is an occasional contributor to current literature on scientific subjects.
This name is of French origin BEEDE and was originally written Beedé with an accent on the final e. The spelling has been retained by most of the fam- ily, though some of the line spell it Beedy, which accords with the English pronuncia- tion. The name is one of which the owners have reason to be proud, though it is neither one of the oldest or most numerous in this country. The early Beedes seem to be con- fined to New Hampshire, where they were among the earliest and most prominent resi- dents of Sandwich near the center of the state. and of Kingston and Fremont in the southern portion. The first American ancestor was Eli Beede, who came to this country about the be- ginning of the eighteenth century, being only sixteen years old at the time. He was the only son of a widow who lived on the Isle of Jer- sey, and he spoke the old Norman French of his people. It is said that he came over as a stowaway, and appeased the wrath of the cap- tain by repairing some damaged stockings, which were afterwards sold for full price. His story has been graphically told in verse by his descendant, Dr. Joshua W. Beede, of Auburn, Maine, from whom we quote: The method by which Eli Beede paid his passage is de- scribed :
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