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(VI) Major Josialf, son of Simeon and (Farrar) Towle, was born at Epping, New Hampshire, in July, 1769, and died at Newfield, Maine, January 18, 1838. He mar- ried (first) Hannah Ayer; children: Ira,
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John, Josiah, whose sketch follows, William, Simeon, Mary and Hannah. Married (sec- ond) Nancy Doe; children : Caroline, Julian, George Washington, Harriet, Susanna, Char- lotte, Emeline Frances and William.
(VII) Josiah, third son of Major Josiah and Hannah (Ayer) Towle, was born in 1798, at Epping, New Hampshire, and died in 1883, at Bangor, Maine. In early life he moved to Sebec, Maine, where he kept a general store. From there he went to Howland in the same state where he had a store, hotel and also a shoe-shop, Towle & Parsons. In 1836 he moved to Bangor and went into the lumber and grocery business with Solomon Parsons, firm name Parsons & Company; later admit- ted William H. Parsons, firm name William H. Parsons & Company, and this partnership was dissolved in 1850. In 1858 Mr. Towle went into the flour, grain and feed business, and in 1860 took his son, Josiah C., into part- nership, and the firm became J. C. Towle & Company. Mr. Towle was a Republican in politics, and served in the legislature - two terms. He was a member of the Methodist church, and also belonged to the Masons. On February 3, 1825, he married Lucinda, daugh- ter of Colonel William and Polly (Learned) Morison. Children : William M., Mary L., John A., Nancy, Ellen, and Josiah Clark, whose sketch follows.
(VIII) Josiah Clark, son of Josiah and Lu- cinda (Morison) Towle, was born at Enfield, Maine, February 12, 1835. He was educated in the local schools, and in 1860 went into the flour, grain and feed business, which had been founded by his father. From 1861 to 1864 he was in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, where he bought wheat to stock flour mills, taking the entire product of the mills and paying a stipulated price for grinding. In 1889 his son, J. Norman Towle, whose sketch follows, was taken into the firm, which had already in- cluded two generations of the family. Mr. Towle is a director and large stockholder of the Bangor Publishing Company. He is a Republican in politics, and attends the Congre- gational church. On June 15, 1863, he mar- ried Kate, daughter of William and Eliza- beth Carveth, of Ontario. Children: I. J. Norman, mentioned in the next paragraph. 2. Eva C., born April 22, 1865. 3. Ida Maude, October 16, 1867. 4. Kate Lida, September 29, 1871, now Mrs. V. L. Fitzgerald, of Provi- dence, Rhode Island.
(IX) J. Norman, eldest child and only son of Josiah Clark and Kate (Carveth) Towle, was born at Port Hope, Ontario, March 14,
1864. He was educated in the public schools of Bangor, Maine, and worked for his fath- er's firm, J. C. Towle and Company, until 1889, when he was admitted as partner. Mr. Towle is also a large stockholder in the Ban- gor Publishing Company, of which associa- tion he is both president and treasurer; he is the editor of the paper which they publish, the Bangor Daily News. The first issue of the Bangor Daily News appeared June 18, 1889, under the present management. March 3, 1900, they absorbed the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier established in 1833. The News is Republican in politics and has a daily cir- culation of twelve thousand five hundred cop- ies. It circulates principally in the eight east- ern counties of Maine and is a good newspa- per property of high standing. He is a direc- tor of the Britton Leather Company, one of the board of managers of the Bangor Board of Trade, and president of the Maine Daily Newspaper Association. He is a Republican in politics, and attends the Congregational church.
On December 29, 1892, J. Norman Towle married Mary Agnes, daughter of Charles G. and Catherine Andrews, of Bangor, Maine. Children : Lillis K., born October 8, 1893, and Helen M., born May 21, 1895.
FURBER This family was among the earliest settlers of the New England colonies, and members of it are to be found at the present time throughout the New England states. The elder members of this family are buried in Newington, at the right hand side of the drive to Furber's Wharf. The path, which is now very little used, is rough, but bordered by nu- merous fine walnut trees. Across the Narrows may be seen the White House on Adams Point, once called Matthew's Neck, which was the Durham terminus of Furber's Ferry. The Furbers were always very patriotic, and fol- lowing is a list of those who took part in the war of the revolution: Thomas, William, Joshua, Richard, Eli, Levi, Moses, Benjamin, Nathan and Nathaniel. William Furber, the first of whom we have official record, was born in London, England, in 1614, and died in this country in 1699. He came to America in the ship "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked at Pemaquid, Maine, August 15, 1635, when he went to Ipswich and hired himself out for one year to John Cogswell ; was at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1637, had a grant of his home lots on the east side of Dover Neck given him in 1640, and at the same time received
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some marsh land in the Great Bay and some near Turney Point. August 19, 1647, he re- ceived thirty acres of the four hundred re- served to the town of Dover on the Newing- ton side when Dover went under the Massa- chusetts government, and was taxed in 1648. He resided at Bloody Point (Newington, New Hampshire) 1666-71. Furber's Point and Ferry were named in his honor, and he was a lieutenant in the king's service at Dover, October 22, 1677. He gave his son Jethro some land, doubtless a part of that along the Great Bay, and June 17, 1674, he gave his homestead to his eldest son, William. The records show that he had a wife, Elizabeth, and children, William, Jethro, Moses, Eliza- beth, Susanna and Bridget.
(I) Benjamin Furber, doubtless a descend- ant of the William Furber mentioned above, although the line cannot be traced with cer- tainty at the present time, was born about 1750.
(II) Jonathan, son of Benjamin Furber, was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, in 1778, and died in Winslow, in March, 1850. He removed to Winslow, Maine, in 1899, where he was a prosperous farmer and the owner of a fine farm. In politics he was a Whig, and filled the offices of constable and selectman for many years. He was an hon- ored member of the Baptist church, taking great interest in the welfare of that institu- tion. He married Mary Dempsey, born in Kit- tery, Maine, 1778, died in Winslow, 1845; children : Horace F., Mary C., George H., Eliza H., Maria H., James B., Jonathan T., Samuel B. and Francis P.
(III) Francis Pierce, son of Jonathan and Mary (Dempsey) Furber, was born in Win- slow, Maine, May 31, 1825. His education was acquired in the common schools of Win- slow, and he then engaged in the active duties of his career. During the winter months he worked in the lumber camps in the Maine woods, and in the spring and summer was en- gaged in logging on the Kennebec, Penobscot and St. Johns rivers. Upon the call of his country for volunteers he enlisted in Company H, Nineteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the following named engage- ments : Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Bristol Station, Rappahannock Station, Cul- peper, Morton Ford, third battle of Bull Run, Mine River, Gettysburg, Antietam and the battles of the Wilderness. It was during the latter engagement that he was shot through the elbow, was treated for eight days at the Fredericksburg Hospital, removed to the mili-
tary hospital at Washington, where he lay from May to August, then came to Augusta, Maine, where he remained in the military hos- pital until May 15, 1865, when he was dis- charged with the rank of first sergeant. Mr. Furber was ordained a minister of the Free Will Baptist denomination at Corinna, Maine, September 27, 1885, and preached in Corinna, Sangerville, United Plantation, East Benton, Albion, North Clinton and South Kenton. He is a justice of the peace, and was trial justice in the town of Clinton for seven years, and served many times as moderator of the town meetings. He is a member of Billings Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Clinton. Mr. Furber was married, July 11, 1847, to Dolly, born November 17, 1824, died February 18, 1905, daughter of Captain David and Dolly (Lowe) Cain, of Clinton ; children : Mary E., died young ; Eliza E., James S., George W., Jane E., Nettie and Mary.
The great Northland has con- PRICE tributed to every state in the Union of its best blood. To Aroos- took county, Maine, whole colonies have come over and by their frugal habits and the unre- mitting tenor of their industry have built up. their own fortunes and contributed to the wel- fare of the community.
(I) Charles Thomas Price, born in Cotton- burg, Sweden, in 1814, followed the sea from boyhood, dying at the age of forty. He made his home in Boston, Massachusetts, after com- ing to this country. He married Clara Au- gusta, daughter of James Blanchard.
(II) Charles Wallace, son of Charles T. and Clara Augusta (Blanchard) Price, was born in Boston, August 28, 1844. He was educated in the Boston city schools, and sailed the sea as a cabin boy at the early age of twelve, and doubled Cape Horn. The bugle blast of '6I found him studying law in Rich- mond, Maine, but he relinquished his studies and enlisted in Company D, Seventh Regiment Maine Volunteers, as a private, in August, 1861. He was with the Army of the Potomac, and February 16, 1862, was discharged for disability. Returning to his old love, the sea, he traversed the globe in a voyage occupying twenty months. He then enlisted in the United States navy, being present at both bat- tles of Fort Fisher, where he received a se- vere wound in the neck. He was also at the bombardment of Charleston, South Carolina, being discharged from service in 1865. Gal- veston, Texas, is where we next find him, em- ployed as clerk in a lumbering concern. He
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graduated from Bowdoin College in medicine in 1875, and located in Bath, Maine, thence at Virginia City, Nevada. Returning east, he lo- cated at Boothbay, Maine, later coming to Richmond, Maine, where he is now in prac- tice. He is a United States pension exam- iner, a member of the Maine Medical Asso- ciation, and the Sagadahoc Medical Associa- tion, of which he has been president. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic of Richmond, and past commander of his post, and has been on the staff of the national grand commander. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Richmond; of Richmond Lodge, No. 63, F. A. M .; of the Council and Chapter of Bath; of the Maine Commandery, Knights Templar of Gardiner; of the Maine Consist- ory of Portland, and the Kora Temple, Mys- tic Shrine, Lewiston. He married Albina C. Colbath, of Gardiner, Maine. Six children, three are living: Wallace N., Lily Pray, Daisy M., married Morris E. Ridley ; Charles Allen, deceased, held a responsible position with Gannett, of Augusta, Maine, as manager of his immense publishing house.
(III) Dr. Wallace Nathaniel, eldest son of Charles Wallace and Albina C. (Colbath) Price, was born at Calais, Maine, October 29, 1871. He was educated in the public schools at Richmond, and graduated from the medical department at Bowdoin in 1894. He is a member of the Maine Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association. He is a member of Lodge No. 63, F. A. M., of Richmond; of the Council and Chapter at Bath; Maine Commandery of Knights Tem- plar, of Gardiner ; Maine Consistory of Port- land, Kora Temple of Lewiston, and is a Knight of Pythias. He married Mary B., daughter of Timothy Moore, in 1893.
PAYNE In Westminster Abbey repose the dust, all that remains of the bodies of conquerors, sovereigns, members of royal families, statesmen, divines, authors, poets, philosophers, and other great celebrities of England. Among those celebri- ties was Lord Lieutenant Paine, as the name was originally spelled, a direct ancestor of Frederick G. Payne, of Lewiston, Maine. The roof of the abbey covers the coronation chair in which have sat the successive rulers of Eng- land during the solemnity of their inaugura- tions since Richard II instituted the custom at his coronation, June 21, 1377, and this historic chair stands upon the coronation stone brought from. Scotland by Edward I in 1274. The fu- nerals of kings and queens have been solem-
nized in its minster, and the bodies are in- terred under its walls. Besides the remains of kings and queens, that of Oliver Cromwell, who never wore a crown, but who ruled the English nation as a commoner, found sepul- ture for a time, and the ceremony of his burial was attended with the pomp and display never excelled by that accorded royalty itself. The history of the abbey is part of that of the Eng- lish Reformists, and Thomas Bilney, one of the Protestant martyrs, was arraigned before Cardinal Wolsey in the Westminster Chapter- house. The convocation announcing the su- premacy of royalty was held here, and Epis- copalians, Presbyterians and Independents. have occupied its pulpits, and celebrations have been held within its walls by the clergy of the Church of Rome.
It is no idle boast to be able to trace your lineage to a man deemed worthy to find a last resting place in the midst of a company of such notable personages. It has been given to Frederick G. Payne to inspire by martial music created in his brain and written out by his own hand the martial spirit of the militia of his adopted state, as did the cruder music that quickened the blood and kept in unison the troops commanded by his prominent an- cestors, among whom was Fitze Paine, who accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066 and assisted him in subduing the Danes and other tribes and establishing a permanent gov- ernment, and now lies buried in Battle Abbey, England, in the Norman row of warriors. In the great reformation in the fifteenth century the ancestors of the Payne family took an ac- tive part and helped plant so firmly the seed of liberalism that the fetters which had bound the minds of men for so long a time were broken forever. In 1621 one of the name landed at Plymouth Rock Colony, and so well pleased was he that in 1637 his entire family had come over and settled at Salem, Massa- chusetts. A few years afterwards one of his descendants settled on Long Island. John Howard Payne, author of "Home, Sweet Home," came from this same stock, as did also Thomas Paine, and in fact all the Paines and Paynes are of the same original stock.
(I) John Payne, who changed the spelling from Paine to Payne, was born on Long Is- land. He became a distinguished soldier in the revolutionary war under General Wash- ington, and at the time of his death was the veteran of two wars in which he fought in be- half of his country. He married Aseneth Matoon. His children included: George Washington, see forward; Andrew Jackson,
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Charles Sumner and Nancy. Charles Sumner Payne held membership in the American In- stitute of Civics as councilor for the state of Illinois. This is one of the most learned and honorable societies in the United States, those who have written their names high up among the learned and honorable being members. He secured his membership through his historical writings, as he was a profound historian and writer. His wife was a descendant of a long line of French kings, tracing back through the Angowleme -- Valor's Princess-to those re- markable persons, Charles the First of France, Charles the First of Germany, called Charles the Great, Charles the Best, who is better known to the student of history as Charle- magne, who took rank among those extraordi- nary men who, from time to time, appear to change the face of the world and inaugurate a new era in the destinies of mankind. John Payne removed from Shelter Island across the sound to Unionville, Connecticut, where his children were born and where he died.
(II) George Washington, son of John Payne, the patriot, was born in Unionville, Connecticut, 1810. He attended the district school winters and worked on the farm in summer, and on leaving school continued farm work up to 1849, when he joined the exodus of adventurous spirits who were caught in the contagious gold fever, 1849, and made Cali- fornia the mecca of their pilgrimage for gold. He joined a party who took the route around Cape Horn, and on reaching the El Dorado the conditions that he encountered did not war- rant his long tarry in the gold diggings, and he returned home by way of the Isthmus, a poorer but wiser man. He resumed farming in Unionville on his return, and joined in the general affairs of the town. He was a ready speaker and debater, and had sufficient knowl- edge of the law to dispense with a lawyer and protect his own rights in suits at law. His reputation in this endeavor lead more than one of his neighbors to declare that they "would rather have George Payne defend a case at law than any lawyer in the town." He mar- ried (first) Mary Saunders; three children, two of whom died in infancy, and Ellen, born August 4, 1849, married, April 10, 1882, Hi- ram J. Hubbard, of Bristol, Connecticut. Mary (Saunders) Payne died in Unionville, April 29, 1854. He married (second) June, 1855, Mary Jane Brackett, of Chicopee, Massachu- setts, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary ; children : Frederick G., see forward. William, died young. Lillian, married Fred Gillette and
resides in Unionville, Connecticut. Mary J. (Brackett) Payne died March 10, 1901.
(III) Frederick G., son of George Wash- ington and Mary J. (Brackett) Payne, was born in Unionville, Connecticut, April 16, 1856. He attended the public schools of Unionville, and while yet a boy displayed re- markable musical talent and aptitude to in- struct others in the proper use of band in- struments. This genius led him, at the age of fourteen, to join the band in his native town, which band he led when only sixteen years old. In 1873 he began his career as a musical director and performer, and he traveled ex- tensively and was for a time a member of the band of the Tenth Regiment, and later with the Twenty-fifth Regiment band, New York state militia, Albany, New York. He resigned from the regimental band in 1879 to assume the proprietorship of a newspaper in Thomaston, Connecticut, but becoming too ill to carry on the publishing business, he sold out his news- paper the following year and resumed his vocation as a musician, coming to Lewiston, Maine, July, 1880, in pursuit of health. In 1885, his health being restored, he added to his work the printing business in Lewiston, where he established a first-class printing busi- ness, which proved profitable and which he continued to conduct in connection with his musical composition and the directorship of musical organizations. In 1887 he organized the regimental band of the Second Regiment, Maine state militia, of Lewiston, and he later reorganized the association as Payne's Second Regiment Band and increased the instruments and members to thirty-four, and the reputation of the band became established not only in the state of Maine, but throughout the New England states. His compositions, especially of band music, came into general use through- out the country, and his orchestrations were used by the best leaders in the country. He was for eight years librarian and clarinetist in the Maine Festival Orchestra with Mr. Chap- man, also was for some time with the Salem Cadet Band, Salem, Massachusetts. In Ma- sonic work he held many official positions : Past master of Rabboni Lodge; past high priest of King Hiram Chapter; past com- mander of Lewiston Commandery, Knights Templar ; past illustrious potentate of Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine; district deputy grand master and district deputy grand high priest of the Grand Masonic bodies of Maine. He was a member of various benevolent, social and patriotic associations, and held membership
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in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Sons of St. George and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Payne married (first) April 4, 1884, Emma G., daughter of John and Zilpha (Spear) Spooner, of North Anson, Maine; one child, Marian, born March 22, 1885. He married (second) May 25, 1902, Nellie G. (Smart) Scruton; one child, Fred- erick G. Jr., born July 24, 1904.
DANA Every person of the name of Dana in the United States, entitled to the name by right of birth, is be- lieved to trace his descent from Richard Dana, the immigrant. Uniform tradition has been that the father of Richard was a native of France, who immigrated to England about 1629 on account of religious persecution. Those bearing this name have contributed to the growth and development of this country generally, and New England particularly, by their labors in divinity, law, medicine, liter- ature and the arts, sciences and industries. Among the most distinguished representatives of the name may be mentioned: The late Charles A. Dana, who made the New York Sun one of the best newspapers in the country ; Francis Dana, minister to Russia, chief justice of Massachusetts; Daniel Dana, president of Dartmouth College; United States Senator Judah Dana, of Maine; and numerous able ministers.
(I) Richard Dana, the immigrant, accord- ing to uniform tradition, came to this country from England, but whether he was a native of England or France is not known. His settlement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is fixed at 1640. In 1652, in the division of Shawsheen, he received twenty acres of land. In 1665 he was allotted twenty acres. In De- cember, 1683, in the "list of the inhabitants that doo service and pay rates and to whom lands are approportioned as followeth : Lot 21 Richard Dany, 15 acres," April 20, 1656, he made a deed to Edward Jackson of fifty-eight acres of land situated on the south side of Charles river, on the road leading from New- ton Corner to Boston, in the western part of Old Cambridge (now Brighton), now known as the Hunnewell farm. Richard Dana was elected constable in November, 1661; sur- veyor of highways, 1665, tithingman of the village, 1665; was one of the selectmen of Cambridge, and a grand juror. It has been stated that: "Richard Dana, the progenitor of the Dana family in this country, had a large estate on Market street, which street was laid
out wholly through his estate in 1656. Rich- ard Dana died April 2, 1690, of injuries re- ceived by falling from a scaffold in his barn. August 2, 1690, an inventory of his estate was returned by the widow and her son Jacob, two hundred and nine pounds, three shillings, six pence, and one hundred and one acres of land. Richard Dana married Ann Bullard, of Cam- bridge, probably in 1648. She died June 15, 17II. Their children were: John, Hannah, Samuel, Jacob, Joseph, Abiah, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Daniel, Deliverance and Sarah.
(II) Benjamin, fifth son of Richard and Ann (Bullard) Dana, was born February 20, 1660, baptized April 8, 1660, and died in Cam- bridge, August 13, 1738. He is said to have owned a farm one mile from the meeting house, on the road to Newton Corner. He and his brothers, Jacob and Daniel, owned one- twelfth part of the Mashamoquet purchase of fifteen thousand acres in Pomfret, Connecticut, which cost thirty pounds in 1686. He was tythingman in 1699 and 1701, and a surveyor in 1702. Letters of administration were granted on his estate August 22, 1738; the inventory returned August 31, 1730, mentions twenty acres of land in Newton, one hundred and sixty pounds ; personal estate about ninety pounds. Benjamin Dana married, May 24, 1688, Mary Buckminster, who survived him, and married, July 19, 1742, when eighty-four years old, it seems, Joshua Fuller, of Newton, who was then eighty-seven years old. The children of Benjamin and Mary were: Ben- jamin, Jonathan, Mary, Isaac, Joseph, John, William, Ann, Sarah and Jedediah.
(III) Isaac, born 1698, is said by tradition to have been the son of Benjamin and Mary (Buckminster) Dana. He lived in Pomfret, Vermont, and died April 21, 1767. He mar- ried Sarah, daughter of John Winchester. Their children were: Sarah, Isaac (died young), Mary, Isaac, Joanna, Elizabeth, Ben- jamin, Frances, Benoni, Lois, John Winches- ter, Bethia, Martha and Judah.
(IV) John Winchester, fifth son of Isaac and Sarah (Winchester) Dana, was born Jan- uary 6, or 29, 1740, and died in February, 1813. He resided in Pomfret, Vermont, where he held the office of town clerk and other town offices, and was representative in 1778- 80-81-92. He married Hannah Pope Putnam, daughter of General Putnam, who died April 3, 1821. Their children were: Isaac, Betsey, Benjamin, Judah, Israel Putnam, Hannah P., John W., Daniel, Sarah W., David, Eunice, Schuyler and Polly.
(V) John Winchester (2), fifth son of
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John Winchester (I) and Hannah (Putnam) Dana, was born January 16, 1777, and died in 1850. He resided in Cabot and Danville, Vermont, and was representative, councillor and judge. In 1849 he removed to South- port, Wisconsin. He married Susan, daugh- ter of Rev. George Damon, by whom he had : George Dutton, Mary Ann, Susan Elizabeth, John W. (died young), Catherine Putnam, Oscar Fingall, mentioned below ; Martha Eliza, Andrew Jackson, and John W., mentioned be- low.
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