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(VI) Edward Cooke, eldest son of Joshua Franklin and Harriet Fabians (Porter) Strout, was born in Jay, Maine, November 16, 1854. He was educated at the public schools of Jay, Wilton Academy, Kent's Hill, and was grad- uated A. B. from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in the class of 1886, and M. A. three years later. For three years
he was engaged in the Utah Mission of the Methodist Episcopal church, and subsequently came to Boston University and took the regu- lar theological course, graduating with S. T. B. in 1892. He joined the Maine Conference, and was for five years the pastor of the School Street Methodist Episcopal Church at Gorham, Maine. His next charge, 1897-1901, was the School Street Church at Saco, Maine, after which he was transferred to the New Hamp- shire Conference, and settled over the Baker Memorial Church at Concord, New Hamp- shire, where he remained for six years. His last charge, in 1907, was the Main Street Church, Nashua, New Hampshire, where he still remains. Rev. Mr. Strout is unmarried. He is a member of the Wesleyan Alumni As- sociation, Boston, Massachusetts, and A. D. P., Middletown Chapter.
STROUT Enoch Strout was born in Lim- ington, Maine, and settled in Wales, this state, in 1796-97. He was a commissioned officer in the revolu- tion and obtained the rank of captain, being first captain of militia in Wales. He married Mercy C. Small, and had in all ten children, six born in Limington and four born in Wales, Maine.
(II) Ebenezer, youngest child of Enoch and Mercy C. (Small) Strout, was born in Wales, Maine, 1802, where he lived until about 1836, when he removed to Topsham, Maine; in 1841 he went to Portland and resided there until his death in 1880. He was a trader by occupation. He married Hannah Cushing, of Durham, and had but one child, Sewall Cush- ing, whose biography next follows.
(III) Judge Sewall Cushing, son of Eben- ezer and Hannah (Cushing) Strout, was born in Wales, Androscoggin county, February 17, 1827. In 1834 he removed with his parents to Topsham, and after attending the public schools was sent to Mr. Baker's private school in Brunswick. In 1841 the family removed to Portland, where Sewall C. entered high school and began preparation for college. Failing health compelled him to leave school, and he then entered mercantile life as a clerk in the employ of David J. True, a dealer in dry goods, with whom he remained one and one-half years. In his otherwise unemployed hours during this time he read law, and in 1846 became a student in the office of Howard & Shepley, the former of whom was subse- quently a judge of the supreme court of Maine, and the latter a judge of the United States cir- cuit court. In October, 1848, Mr. Strout was
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admitted to the bar of Cumberland county, and entered upon the practice of law at Bridgton. April 1, 1854, he returned to Portland, and after a year's practice alone, formed a partner- ship with Judge Joseph Howard, who had retired from the bench after one term. The firm of Howard & Strout continued until June, 1864, when it was dissolved. Mr. Strout con- tinued alone until June, 1866, when he and Hanno W. Gage became partners under the firm name of Strout & Gage. In 1880 Fred- erick Sewall Strout, the eldest son of the senior member, was admitted to the firm, which thereupon became Strout, Gage & Strout. This was continued until the death of Frederick, March 14, 1888, and soon after that his younger brother, Charles A., was ad- mitted, the firm name remaining the same. Under this name the firm continued until Mr. Strout took his place on the bench of the supreme court. From that time until the death of Mr. Gage, January 4, 1907, the firm was Gage & Strout. Mr. Strout, though not a col- lege man, is perhaps no less successful as a lawyer on that account. Ever of an indus- trious and studious bent of mind, he has ap- plied himself to the study, not only of the law, but of general literature, until he is classed among the brilliant attorneys and scholarly men of Maine. From the beginning he has had a large practice in the higher grades of business. He has taken part in many im- portant cases beyond the limits of the state, and thoroughly versed in the literature of the day has been well and favorably known as one of the leading lawyers of the Maine bar. While at the bar he was a representative law- yer, both in the state and federal courts, and did not allow himself to deviate from his pro- fession by entering politics or business enter- prises. Adhering to general practice, he never made any specialty, but was considered an all- round lawyer, preferring, perhaps, the civil to the criminal side of the court. His jury argu- ments combined plausibility as well as intelli- gence of thought and clearness of statement. His perfect self-possession, freedom from tem- per and irritability, and his agreeable and en- gaging manners made him a difficult but never disagreeable opponent. A Democrat from the time of attaining his majority, Mr. Strout has never been a partisan, and the only municipal office he ever held was that of alderman, which he filled for one year. When Judge Lowell resigned from the United States circuit court, the bar of Maine almost unanimously recom- mended Mr. Strout to fill the vacancy, and although the appointment went to another
state, it was the ardent wish of all who knew his ability and fitness that he might succeed to the position. In the meantime his associates of the Cumberland bar elected him president of that organization, in which position he served from 1884 to 1894. Maine, though strongly Republican, long ago adopted the policy of appointing one member of the su- preme judicial bench from the minority party. Its first appointment of this kind was the late Artemas Libby, and upon his death in March, 1894, by almost unanimous voice, Mr. Strout was called to succeed to the vacancy. He was appointed April 12, 1894, and began his duties on the 24th of the same month. There he served as associate justice for fourteen years, retiring in April, 1908, and during that time he officiated in such manner as to reflect honor upon himself and maintain the high reputation that members of this high tribunal have from its establishment sustained. He is now eighty- one years old, yet remarkably well preserved and vigorous both mentally and physically for one of his age. In his retirement from official position he takes with him the respect of his associates, the lawyers and the laity of the state of Maine, whose interests he has faith- fully and successfully guarded. Upon his re- tirement from the bench he entered upon the active practice of law at Portland in partner- ship with his son, Charles A., under the firm name of Strout & Strout. Sewall Cushing Strout married, in Portland, November 22, 1849, Octavia J. P., daughter of Elias and Eliza Shaw, of Portland. They had five chil- dren : Anna Octavia, Louise Blanche, Fred- erick Sewall, Joseph Howard and Charles Au- gustus. Anna O. is single. Louise B. mar- ried Franklin Gibbs, since deceased. Freder- ick, deceased, married Mary Elizabeth Hig- gins. Charles A. is the subject of the next paragraph.
(IV) Charles Augustus, youngest child of Judge Sewall C. and Octavia J. P. (Shaw) Strout, was born in Portland, July 12, 1863. He attended the public schools, fitted for col- lege in the private school of Cyrus B. Varney, and entered Bowdoin College in 1881. In his freshman year one of his eyes was injured by a lump of coal thrown through his window by one of a party of hazers, and he was un- able to continue his course. He read law in the office of Strout, Gage & Strout, was ad- mitted to the bar April 25, 1885, and began practice by himself. In 1888 he succeeded his brother Frederick S. as a member of the firm of Strout, Gage & Strout, which was later changed to Gage & Strout. The firm of
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Gage & Strout ceased to exist January 4, 1907, and since that time C. A. Strout has practiced alone, a worthy representative of a business established by leading lawyers of the state more than fifty years ago. Mr. Strout is an active Republican, finding both employment and recreation in politics. He was a member of the common council in 1890-91, and during the latter year presided over that body. In 1893 he was elected alderman from ward six and served one term. In 1900 he was elected city solicitor and held that office three terms. He is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 17, Free and Accepted Masons; Green- leaf Royal Arch Chapter, No. 13; Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 25, Knights of Pythias, and Lodge No. 188, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the following named clubs : Cumberland, Portland, Athletic, Lin- coln and Country. He married, June 7, 1893, in Portland, Jennie May, born in Portland, daughter of Micah and Mary Ann (Whitney) Higgins, of Portland. (See Whitney VIII, Higgins VIII.) They have one child, Sewall C., born March 21, 1894. Mrs. Strout is a sister of Mary Elizabeth (Higgins) Strout, widow of Frederick S. Strout.
MORSE This is a name conspicuous in American and English annals, and has been traced with toler- able accuracy to the time of William the Con- queror. The line herein followed begins definitely in Essex, England, and was brought · to America early in the seventeenth century.
(I) The first known was the Rev. Thomas Morse, of Foxearth, in the county of Essex, England.
(II) Samuel, son of Rev. Thomas Morse, was born in 1585, and embarked for New England at London in 1635. He settled first at Watertown, Massachusetts, and soon re- moved to Dedham, and subsequently became one of the original settlers of Medfield, where he died April 5, 1664. His wife Elizabeth probably died the next year. Their children were: John, Daniel, Joseph, Abigail, Sam- uel, Jeremiah and Mary. All were born in England, and emigrated with their parents.
(III) Joseph, third son of Samuel and Eliz- abeth Morse, was born in 1615, and was about twenty years of age when he came with his parents to America. He removed from Wa- tertown to Dedham, where he was granted twelve acres of land, 18, 6 mo. 1636, and was received into the church September 19, 1639. He died before November, 1658. He mar- ried, in Watertown, 1, 7 mo. 1637, Hannah
Phillips, who married (second) November 3, 1658, Thomas Boyden. She died October 3, 1676, in Medfield, Massachusetts. Children of Joseph Morse : Samuel, Hannah, Sarah, Doro- thy, Elizabeth, Joseph and Jeremiah.
(IV) Joseph (2), second son of Joseph (I) and Hannah (Phillips) Morse, was born July 20, 1649, in Dedham, and died February 19, 1718. He settled at Bogistow, on the west side of the Charles river, about 1670, and was one of the signers of the petition for the in- corporation of the town, serving on various committees ; was captain of militia, moderator, selectman and representative, and was a large landholder. He married (first) Mehitable, daughter of Nicholas White; (second) Han- nah, daughter of Robert Babcock, of Milton; (third) Hannah, widow of Joseph Dyer, of South Weymouth. Children : Mehitable (died young) ; Joseph (died young) ; Elisha, Joseph, Mehitable, James, Hannah, Sarah, David, Isaac, Keziah and Asa.
(V) James, third son of Joseph (2) Morse, was born July 1, 1686, in Dedham, and re- sided in Sherborn, where he died June 15, 1725. He married, January 5, 1708, Ruth Sawin, who died January 12, 1774. Children : Thomas, Ruth, Deborah, James and Abraham.
(VI) Thomas, eldest child of James and Ruth (Sawin) Morse, was born December 5, 1709, in Sherborn, and died January 7, 1783, in Dublin, New Hampshire. He removed to the last named town in 1762. He was a shrewd and successful business man and was much respected for his high principles. Be- fore the revolution he was offered a captain's commission in the King's service by Governor Wentworth, but refused it and sent three of his sons as soldiers to the colonial army dur- ing the revolution. He married Mary Tred- way, of Framingham, who was born May 16, 1718, and died December 25, 1776. Children : Mary, Ruth, Reuben, Rachel, Silence, Abi- gail, Thomas, Sarah, Ezra, John, Jonathan, Hannah and Amos.
(VII) Reuben, eldest son of Thomas and Mary (Tredway) Morse, was born June 21, 1742, in Sherborn, and died August 27, 1810, in Dublin, New Hampshire. He was a soldier of the revolution, participating in the battle of Ticonderoga, was a member of the Congrega- tional church, and filled various official sta- tions in his home town. He married, June, 1678, Abigail Mason, who died July 13, 1822, having survived her husband nearly twelve years. Children: Patty, Reuben, Hannah, Benjamin, Persis, Bela, Ebenezer, Abigail, Asa and Sarah.
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(VIII) Persis, third daughter of Reuben and Abigail (Mason) Morse, was born April 28, 1779, in Dublin, and married April 28, 1799, Daniel (3) Clary, of New Ipswich, New Hampshire (see Clary III).
The "History of Sutton, RICHARDSON Massachusetts," fails to give the name of the im- migrant ancestor of the Richardson family of that town, nor is their line of descent to be found in the various genealogical records rel- ative to the posterity of the founders of the name in America, of whom there were several. The Richardsons of New England are mostly the progeny of three brothers-Samuel, Ez- ekiel and Thomas, who were among the orig- inal settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1638, and the Sutton family is undoubtedly descended from one of these immigrants.
(I) Jeremiah Richardson, of Sutton, was married in that town, March 23, 1758, to Abi- gail, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail (Wy- man) Gowing, and reared two sons: Benja- min and Jeremiah.
(II) Benjamin Richardson, eldest son of Jeremiah and Abigail (Gowing) Richardson, was born in Sutton, July 28, 1760. He was married, in Westboro, Massachusetts, October 14, 1784, to Martha Forbush, of that town. They resided in Sutton, where Benjamin fol- lowed the blacksmith's trade. Their children were: Edward, see succeeding paragraph; Ebenezer, born March 7, 1787; Jeremiah, Sep- tember 20, 1797; Pliny, April 6, 1800; Patty, April 27, 1802; Abner, April 22, 1804; Cath- erine, July 1, 1806.
(III) Edward Richardson, eldest child of Benjamin and Martha (Forbush) Richardson, was born in Sutton, September 3, 1785. In early life he came to Maine, first settling in Bethel, and in 1823-24 he removed to Milan, New Hampshire, locating on Milan Hill. He was an industrious farmer and took a prom- inent part in public affairs, serving as one of the first selectmen and continuing in that ca- pacity for several years. He died an octo- genarian, March 24, 1872. September 27, 1812, he married Charlotte Ellis, born in Sut- ton, July 30, 1791, daughter of Abel and Je- mima Ellis, of that town. Abel Ellis died March 4, 1843, aged eighty-eight, and Jemima died February 17, 1844, aged sixty-four years. Children of Edward and Charlotte (Ellis) Richardson : Abel Ellis, see next paragraph ; Asa Forbush, born May 1, 1818; Martha Ma- ria, born October 4, 1819; Silence Leland, born September 24, 1821 ; and Pliny Warren,
Lucy Twitchell, Ebenezer Andros and Louise Cole, the dates of whose birth do not appear in the records at hand.
(IV) Abel Ellis Richardson, eldest child of Edward and Charlotte (Ellis) Richardson, was born June 23, 1813. His boyhood and youth were spent in attending the district school and assisting in carrying on the home- stead farm, but when a young man he learned the stone-cutter's trade, which was subse- quently his principal occupation. Although slightly beyond the usual age of enlistment, he enrolled himself as a private in Company A, Fourteenth Regiment Maine Volunteer In- fantry, for service in the civil war, and while in the army he contracted fever and ague from which he never fully recovered. For a num- ber of years he was a resident of Saco, whence he removed to Kennebunk, where he died July 26, 1878. Politically he acted with the Republican party. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at West Kenne- bunk. He married Ann Evans, of Milan, who died in 1899. Children: Mary; Caroline E .; Roswell M .; Charles E .; Isabella M .; Estelle C .; Asa Atwood, who will be again referred to; and Sarah E.
(V) Asa Atwood Richardson, third son and seventh child of Abel E. and Ann (Evans) Richardson, was born in Saco, No- vember 12, 1863. He was educated in the public schools of Kennebunk. Having decided to take up the study of law, he became a stu- dent in the office of W. L. Dane, of Kenne- bunk, and after completing his legal prepara- tions was admitted to the York county bar in 1896. Opening an office in Kennebunk, he has ever since conducted a general law busi- ness in that town, and is now well advanced in the legal profession. Allying himself with the Republican party upon attaining his ma- jority, he has figured quite prominently in the public affairs of Kennebunk, having served as tax collector for five years, as chairman of the board of selectmen in 1900 and 1901, and again in 1907. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, and a past master of York Lodge; affiliates with Mousam Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Myrtle Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Baptist church.
In 1887 Mr. Richardson married Emma Garvin, daughter of Sylvester and Mary (Day) Garvin, of Kennebunk. She died March 2, 1889, leaving one son, Ira W., born January 28, 1888, and is now a student at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, preparatory to entering the medical profession. November
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12, 1891, Mr. Richardson married for his second wife, Etta A. Currier, daughter of Cyrus M. and Louise Currier, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Of this union there are no children.
WHITNEY This word designated a place for no one knows how long before it was adopted as a personal name. The parish of Whitney, in the western part of Herefordshire, near the con- fines of Wales, lies in the valley of the river Wye, which is there a mountain torrent, sub- ject to sudden and violent floods. This cir- cumstance affords a probable explanation of the name Whitney, which may be derived from the Anglo-Saxon words hwit, signifying "white," and ey, meaning "water," the literal signification of the term being "white water." The record of Whitney in Herefordshire is found in Domesday Book, which was com- piled between the years 1081 and 1087. In the distribution of land among the followers of William the Conqueror, Whitney, was one of nine tracts granted to Sir Turstin, com- monly known as "Turstin the Fleming" and "Turstin De Wigmore," the son of Rolf. He married Agnes, daughter of Alured De Merle- berge, one of the great barons of the realm, who settled on her, with other land, the Pen- combe estate. To Sir Turstin and Agnes were born two sons, Eustace and Turstin, the elder succeeding to the paternal estates by primogeniture. Eustace's son, or grandson, some time between 1100 and 1200, Anno Dom- ini, engaging in the border wars, built a stronghold and took up his residence at Whit- ney, and following the custom of the times took the surname (or addition ) De (of) Whit- ney, as one of his neighbors gained that of De Clifford, and another that of De La Hay. The first mention of a De Whitney in any record now extant is that of "Robert De Wytteneye," in the "Testa de Nevill," in the year 1242. There are numerous records relating to Rob- erts' son, "Sir Eustace De Wytteneye," and from the latter down an authentic account can be given of each head of the family in the long line. In the offices of sheriffs of their county, knights of the shire in parliament and justices in the commission of the peace, the name Whitney may be traced in Herefordshire from the twelfth century, when the name orig- inated, to the time of George III, 1799.
(I) Thomas Whitney, a descendant of the Whitneys of Whitney, from whom the Whit- neys of this account are descended, is known
to the following extent: On May 10, 1583, Thomas Whitney obtained from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster a license to marry Mary, daughter of John Bray, in which he is described as "Thomas Whytney of Lambeth Marsh, gentleman," and on May 12th the marriage ceremony was performed in St. Mar- garet's. Lambeth Marsh is a name still ap- plied to a locality near the Surrey end of Westminster bridge. In 1611, as the records show, Thomas Whitney paid the subsidy tax, and December 6, 1615, he was appointed ex- ecutor of the will of his father-in-law, John Bray, late deceased. In the record of the lat- ter, as in the marriage license, he is described as "gentleman." September 25, 1869, he buried his wife, and in April, 1637, he died. The children of Thomas and Mary (Bray) Whit- ney were: Margaret, Thomas, Henry, Arn- waye, John, Nowell, Francis, Mary and Rob- ert.
(II) John, fifth child and fourth son of Thomas and Mary (Bray) Whitney, was born in England in 1589. He received for those days a good education in the famous West- minster school, now known as St. Peter's Col- lege. He was baptized in St. Margaret's, the parish church, standing in the shadow of the famous "Abbey," the 20th day of July, 1592. February 22, 1607, he was apprenticed by his father to William Pring, of the Old Bailey, Loudon. The latter was a "freeman" of the Merchant Tailor's Company, then the most fa- mous and prosperous of all the great trade guilds, numbering in its membership ·distin- guished men of all professions, many of the nobility and the Prince of Wales. March 13, 1614, John Whitney became a member of this guild, soon after married and took up his resi- dence at Islesworth-on-the-Thames, eight miles from Westminster. Later he lived in Bowe Lane. In April, 1635, with his wife and sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas and Jona- than, he registered as a passenger in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," Roger Cooper, master, which soon after sailed for America. His ar- rival in this country is supposed to have oc- curred in June, 1635. He immediately settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he pur- chased a homestead of sixteen acres and made it his permanent place of abode. Before 1642 the town had granted John Whitney nine other lots of land amounting to one hundred and ninety-eight acres. He also made several pur- chases of land, and aided all his sons in their settlements. He was admitted freeman March 3, 1636; was appointed constable of Water-
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town by the general court, June 1, 1641 ; select- man, 1638 to 1655, inclusive, and town clerk, 1655. He died June 1, 1673, aged seventy- four. He married (first) in England, Elinor, whose surname does not appear. She was born in 1599, and died in Watertown, May II, 1659. He married (second) in Watertown, September 29, 1659, Judith Clement. She died before her husband. His nine children, all by the first wife, were: Mary, John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, Jonathan, Joshua, Caleb, and Benjamin, whose sketch follows.
(III) Benjamin, ninth child and eighth son of John and Elinor Whitney, born in Water- town, June 16, 1643, died in 1723, aged eighty. He appears first in York, Maine, as a wit- ness to an agreement by John Doves. He was at Cocheco, Maine, near Dover, in 1667- 68. April 13, 1674, the selectmen of York laid out to Benjamin Whitney ten acres of land. In 1685 Benjamin Whitney, of York, sold "a certain tract and parcel of land which I have improved, possessed, and have builded a small tenement upon planted and lived upon these several years," which was granted by the town of York in 1680, and ten acres granted by the town of York, 1674, as above stated. April 5, 1670, John Whitney deeded to his son Benjamin his homestead of seven- teen acres and appurtenances thereto, in con- sideration of the said Benjamin's taking care of him during the remainder of his life. March 9, 1671, with the consent of his father, he sold this property to his brother Joshua for £40. · After his second marriage, 1695, Ben- jamin lived on land belonging to Harvard Col- lege, which he leased of Governor Danforth, in Sherburn, Massachusetts. He married, prob- ably at York, Maine (first), Jane, who died November 14, 1690. He married (second) April 11, 1695, Mary Poor, of Marlboro. The children by the first wife were: Jane, Timothy, John, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Benjamin and Joshua; and by the second wife: Mark and Isaac.
(IV) Nathaniel, fourth child and third son of Benjamin and Jane Whitney, born in York, Maine, April 14, 1680, died in Gorham, Maine. He probably resided in the place of his nativity until after his marriage, when he removed to Gorham. In 1703 he was a member of the military company of York, commanded by Captain Preble, for defence against the Indians. In 1708 Nathaniel Whit- ney, weaver, of Kittery, bought of Johnson Harmon and Mary, his wife, a certain piece of salt marsh and thatch ground in York, com-
monly known as the Sunken Marsh. Novem- ber, 1715, Nathaniel Whitney, of York, weav- er, and wife Sarah, sell for four score pounds to Joseph Harris one-half the tract of land known as the sunken marsh, having sold the other half to John Stagpole. In 1717 Na- thaniel Whitney purchased twenty acres of land of John Racklift and a small orchard on the southeast side of York river, for £20. He married, in York, Maine, Sarah Ford, born in York. Their children were: Lydia (died young), Lydia, Nahum, Nathaniel, Abel, Sarah, Isaac, Amos and Joanna.
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