Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 85

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896


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(V) Isaac, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Ford) Whitney, was born in York, Maine, March 9, 1720. He lived in York till 1752, and then bought a house and lot in Saco. He resided in Buxton in 1775, but died at the house of his son Henry in Freeport, in 1800, aged eighty. He married (first) February 25, 1743, Sarah, daughter of Dr. Crosby. He was married twice afterward, but the name of neither wife is now known. His children were: Lucy, Phinehas, Isaac, Hannah, Steph- en, Jonathan, Timothy, Barnabas, James, Mary and Henry.


(VI) Stephen, fifth child and third son of Isaac Whitney, was born in Saco, Maine, March 19, 1755. The date of his death is not known. He was in the revolutionary army, serving in the Rhode Island line, and was granted a pension April 18, 1818. He resided in Gorham and Bridgton, Maine. He married Martha (Patty) Irish, born August 28, 1761, died in 1836, aged seventy-five. She was the daughter of Colonel James and Mary Gorham (Phinney) Irish, and sister of General James Irish. They had one child Stephen, the sub- ject of the next paragraph.


(VII) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (1) and Martha (Irish) Whitney, born in Gorham, Maine, May 5, 1799, died in Auburn, Maine, December 25, 1885, aged eighty-six. He re- sided at Mechanic's Falls, and the latter part of his life resided in Auburn. He married (first) Abigail Mayberry, who died April 18, 1857; (second) Catherine Cloudman, who died January 8, 1887. His children by first wife were: Lewis, William, Ablion, Mary Anne, Charles, Joseph, Sarah.


(VIII) Mary Anne, fourth child and first daughter of Stephen and Abigail (Mayberry) Whitney, was born in Raymond, Maine, March 9, 1827, died in Portland, Maine, March 4, 1908. She married, in Lewiston, Maine, April 30, 1846, Micah Higgins, of Cape Elizabeth. (See Higgins VIII.)


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(For preceding generations see Richard Higgins I.)


(V) Reuben (2), son of Reu- HIGGINS ben (1) Higgins, was born January 24, 1739, and resided in Truro. He married Mercy, whose surname is unknown, and who died January 6, 1784. Their children were: Hannah, Reuben, Syl- vanus, Eleazer, Micah and five daughters.


(VI) Micah, youngest son of Reuben (2) and Mercy Higgins, born in Truro, Massa- chusetts, July 16, 1775, died in Cape Eliza- beth, Maine, July 9, 1838. He married Mary Grey Blair, born in Stroudwater, near Port- land, December 18, 1779, died in Cape Eliza- beth, January 6, 1874, aged ninety-five years. She was the daughter of John and Jane (Mil- ler) Blair. John Blair was a native of Aber- foyle, Scotland, and came to the vicinity of Portland. The children of Micah and Mary G., all born in Cape Elizabeth, were: Jane M., Mary G., John, Jefferson, Reuben, Elizabeth H., Arthur M., Emerson and Micah. Each of the first five and the youngest of these lived to be upward of seventy-four years of age.


(VII) Micah (2), youngest child of Micah (I) and Mary G. (Blair) Higgins, born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, January 22, 1822, died April 18, 1901, aged seventy-nine years. At fifteen years of age he went to Bangor and there learned the art of making edge tools. When he was twenty-one years old he re- turned to Portland and conducted a business for himself for twelve years in partnership with a Mr. Libby, under the firm name of Higgins & Libby, gaining a reputation as a maker of edge tools. Poor health compelled him to give up this business, and in 1857 he became a purser in the employ of the Portland Steamship Company, and filled that position until 1894, a period of thirty-seven years. He married, in Lewiston, Maine, April 30, 1846, Mary Anna Whitney, born in Raymond, Maine, March 9, 1827, died in Portland, Maine, March 4, 1908. She was the daugh- ter of Stephen and Abigail (Mayberry) Whit- ney. The children of this union were: Sam- uel C. S., Mary Elizabeth, Edwin Roscoe, Ada Almena, William Weeks, Jennie May and Frederick Augustus.


(VIII) Jennie May, sixth child of Micah (2) and Mary A. (Whitney) Higgins, born in Portland, Maine, married, June 7, 1893, Charles Augustus Strout. (See Strout fam- ily.)


John Moore, immigrant ancestor MOORE of most of the families of this name in Middlesex and Worces- ter counties, Massachusetts, was born in Eng-


land. He settled first at Sudbury, Massa- chusetts, where he bought in 1649, of Ed- mund Rice, a house and land in what is now Wayland. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Philemon Whale, of Sudbury. He took the oath of fidelity July 9, 1645. He died January 6, 1673-74. His will, dated August 25, 1668, proved April 7, 1874, bequeathed to wife Elizabeth; children: John Moore, of Lancaster ; William; Jacob; Joseph ; to whom he left the homestead; Benjamin; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Rice; Mary, wife of Daniel Stone ; and Lydia, wife of James Cutler. His wife was executrix of his estate; she died De- cember 14, 1690. Children, all born ine Sud- bury: I. Elizabeth (perhaps in England), married Henry Rice. 2. John. 3. William, born about 1640; bought land in 1664 in Sud- bury. 4. Mary, born September 8, 1641 ; mar- ried (first) Richard Ward; (second) Deacon Stone. 5. Lydia, born June 24, 1643 ; married in May 3, 1684, -; and (second) June 15, 1665, James Cutler. 6. Jacob, born April 28, 1645; married Elizabeth Loker. 7. Jo- seph, born October 21, 1647; died January 2, 1725-26. 8. Benjamin.


(II) Benjamin, son of John Moore, was born in Sudbury, December 13, 1648. He was a farmer in Sudbury. He divided his land between his sons William, Edward, Hezekiah, Uriah and Peter, in 1726. He married, No- vember 11, 1686, Dorothy Wright, who died October 20, 1717. Children, born in Sudbury : I. Dorothy, September 18, 1687. 2. Abigail, December 2, 1688. 3. Prudence, July 14, 1690; died young. 4. William. 5. Peter. 6. Ed- ward, mentioned below. 7. Hezekiah, Sep- tember 13, 1696. 8. Uriah. 9. Comfort, Feb- ruary 8, 1703; her brothers William, Edward, Hezekiah and Uriah deeded land to Caleb Johnson for care of her. 10. Prudence, July 22, 1704; married December 18, 1732, Mark Vose. II. Benjamin (?), married Zerviah Moore.


(III) Edward, son of Benjamin Moore, was born in Sudbury ; married there, February 19, 1722-23, Keziah Goodnow. Children, born in Sudbury: I. Nathan, May 25, 1725; men- tioned below. 2. Sarah, June 23, 1728; died May 28, 1733. 3. Persis, September 25, 1732; married, November 16, 1752, cousin Ashbell Moore. 4. Elijah, August 6, 1735. 5. John, June 1, 1738. 6. Sarah, February 17, 1741. 7. Dorothy, June 17, 1743; married, Septem- ber 16, 1762, Ebenezer Woodis.


(IV) Nathan, son of Edward Moore, was born in Sudbury, May 25, 1725. He married (first) July 23, 1744, Agnes Bolton ; (second)


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Abigail Parmenter. His estate was admin- istered in 1776, and the heirs mentioned were John, Joseph, Abigail, Jonathan, Thomas ('Middlesex probate 10, 944). Children, born at Sudbury : I. John, June 6, 1745. 2. Jo- seph, August 1, 1747; mentioned below. 3. Sarah, September 2, 1750; died before 1776. 4. Luther, June, 1753. 5. Nathan, March 6, 1762. 6. Jonathan, April 14, 1764; died Sep- tember 19, 1841. 7. Sarah, September 10, 1766. 8. Abigail, July 9, 1768. 9. Aaron, April 1, 1770. 10. Thomas.


(V) Joseph, son of Nathan Moore, was born in Sudbury, August 1, 1747. He was sergeant in the revolution, in Captain Moses Stone's company, Lieutenant Colonel Ezekiel Howe's regiment, on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; perhaps the same Joseph Moore who was in Captain Ebenezer Buck's company, Colonel Josiah Brewer's regiment, in 1779, in the Penobscot expedition. After the revolution he settled at Madison, Maine, and died there in 1804. He was a prominent citizen, and a major in the militia. He mar- ried Martha Children, born in Sud- bury: I. Anna, February 9, 1768. 2. Lydia, born October 3, 1770. 3. Joseph, September 2, 1775; mentioned below. 4. Lydia, January 26, 1777. 5. Patty, January I, 1779. 6. Thomas, October 13, 1780.


(VI) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Moore, was born in Sudbury, September 2, 1775. He went to Maine with his father, and settled at Madison. He married Rachel Brown. Chil- dren : Sally, Polly, Luther, John B., Joseph and Aaron.


(VII) Luther, son of Major Joseph (2) Moore, was born at Madison, Maine. He removed to Bingham, Maine, and died there. He was a shoemaker by trade, and operated a private shop in Bingham and Moscow, Maine. The greater part of his life was passed in Bingham. He was a Whig in politics in early life, a Republican in his later years. Children : I. Sarah Baker, born June 24, 1811. 2. Abi- gail French, March 17, 1813. 3. William, Au- gust 14, 1816. 4. Nathan, May 30, 1818. 5. Esther Clark, May 7, 1820. 6. Naomi Moore, May 16, 1822. 7. Cyrus, July 1, 1824. 8. Lucinda Benjamin, September 1I, 1826. 9. Luther L., July 19, 1828. 10. David W., April 22, 1830. II. Hannah, May 21, 1832. 12. Hiram, April 5, 1835. 13. Benjamin F., No- vember 30, 1836.


(VIII) Hiram, son of Luther Moore, was born at Bingham, Somerset county, Maine, April 5, 1835. He received his early educa- tion in the district schools of his native town.


He left home at the age of eight years, how- ever, and since then has been dependent upon his own labor and resources. During his boy- hood and youth he worked during the sum- mers on various farms, and at lumbering in the winters. For a period of seventeen years he was in the employ of Joseph Clark at Moscow, Carrituck and Bingham, and during ten years was manager of his employer's farm- ing interests. From 1860 to 1864 he had a farm of his own at Fork's Plantation, Somer- set county, Maine. In October, 1865, he re- moved to Madison, and took up a farm, and lived there until April, 1903, when he removed to his present home in the village of Madison. Notwithstanding his age, Mr. Moore is vigor- ous and strong, enjoying good health. He retains his interests in extensive agricultural and lumber districts in northern Maine, hav- ing an interest in about eighty thousand acres. He is the manager of the lumber interests on the Kennebec river, of the Great Northern Paper Company, which has mills at Madison, as well as at Millinocket, Maine. Mr. Moore has been prominent in public affairs. During the eighties he was for six years a county commissioner of Somerset county. He was for two years chairman of the board of select- men of Madison, and is a director of the First National Bank. He is a typical self-made man. By his own efforts chiefly he secured his education outside of the schoolroom, and by industry and frugality in early life he se- cured the nucleus of the wealth he has accu- mulated by shrewd investment and careful management in later years. He possesses a full share of the pluck, energy, courage and self-reliance demanded of a lumberman in his hazardous enterprises. Mr. Moore commands the confidence and respect of all his towns- men and business associates. He attends the Universalist church, and is a member of Eu- clid Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons.


Mr. Moore married, August, 1857, Laverna B. Chase, born at Solon, Maine, daughter of George and Laverna (Bosworth) Chase, of Carrituck. Children: I. Fred L. 2. Nellie M., married Elmer E. Town, son of Don W. Town. 3. Arthur E., married Lena Jacobs, of Madison.


This name came into England MOORE with William the Conqueror in 1066. Thomas de More was among the survivors of the battle of Hastings, October II of that year, and was a recipient of many favors at the hands of the triumphant


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invader. All the antiquarians of Scotland and the authorities on genealogy are agreed that the name of Dennis-toun, of Dennis-toun, ranks with the most eminent and ancient in the realms of the United Kingdom. It certainly dates back to 1016, and probably earlier, and Joanna or Janet, daughter of Sir Hugh de Dangieltown, married Sir Adam More, of Rowallan, and became the mother of Elizabeth More, who in 1347 married King Robert II of Scotland, from whom sprang the long line of Stuart monarchs. Another Janet, about 1400, married her cousin, Sir Adam More, of Ro- wallan. This motto has been preserved by the Dennis-touns : "Kings come of us; not we of kings." The name of Moore has been nu- merously borne in England, Scotland and later in Ireland, representatives of this family hav- ing filled distinguished positions in the United Kingdom, and several of them occupied seats as members of parliament. They have also been eminent in military affairs. Richard Moore came in the "Mayflower" to Scituate, Massachusetts, and the name is common in the records of Plymouth, Newbury and Salem, the earliest settlements in the state. In the time of James I the Moores of Scotland were strict Non-conformists, consequently their re- moval in great numbers from Scotland to Ire- land in 1612 is easily accounted for. They belonged to the sect of Friends, and this ex- plains their predominance in the colony of William Penn. Bearing on its roll of mem- bership such men as Sir John Moore and Tom Moore, the poet, it has just reason to be proud of its lineage. Somebody has said that in hunting out a pedigree one is as likely to find a scaffold as a crown. Not so in the case of the Moores, the record that is revealed to the patient delver after genealogical data is an honorable one indeed. Surnames originated some centuries after the Norman Conquest, and the idea was to distinguish a man by the appellation he bore. For instance, one was called Mr. Rock because he lived near a rock, and in this way would come Mr. Moore, inas- much as he lived on or near the moor, which means a tract of wild land. The name is scattered all over the United States, and in Maine there are several ancestral lines in no way connected with each other except by in- termarriage. The branch with which this sketch has to do was an industrious, peace- loving race, strong in the characteristics of their people, but when soldiers were needed they quickly sprang to arms in the common defence of their afflicted country. They are one of the families that helped to place the


old Pine Tree State high among the family of commonwealths. A rigid search of the sources of information only meagerly assists us to the truth about the forbears of John Moore, but discoveries of facts and events uphold us in the belief that


(I) William Moore, who came over from England prior to 1652, and settled in York, Maine, was the American ancestor of this line. He submitted to the Massachusetts gov- ernment in that year when Maine was united with the Bay State colony. In 1680 he took the oath of allegiance. His wife was Doro- thy -. He made his will March 31, 1691, and it was recorded June, 1691, and the in- ventory returned 1691, so it is presumable that he died in that year. His children were: John, Elizabeth, Robert, William, Eleanor, Ann, Mary and Thomas.


(II) John, eldest son of William and Doro- thy Moore, married Martha and left children : John, Samuel and Marcy. His will was probated July 7, 1713.


(III) John (2), eldest son of John (1) and Martha Moore, married Sarah and had children born in York as follows: Robert (died young), Jonadab, John, Edward, Rob- ert, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, Abigail and Mary. His will was probated April 2, 1736.


(V) John (3), who was a son of one of the sons of John and Martha Moore, was born in Old York, Maine, June 25, 1748, died in 1823, at Parsonsfield. He removed first to Scar- borough, Maine, and thence to Parsonsfield, of which he was a pioneer settler. He served in the army' of the revolution with his two brothers, Abraham and Isaac, both of whom were killed in the battle of Monmouth. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he re- turned and built a log house on his clearing. It was not until he built a frame house that he brought home a bride. His brother Eben purchased Lot No. 16 in the same range. He was a very successful farmer and added to his holdings until he became an extensive owner of Parsonsfield real estate. He raised five hundred bushels of corn on burnt land in a single year. He married, in 1787, Anne Milliken, a woman of rare ability and great force of character. Their children were: Isaac, Sarah, John, Samuel, Jane, Harvey, Ira, Charles (Joseph, Benjamin and Asenath, trip- lets), Benjamin (died young), Mary Ann and Benjamin.


(VI) Ira, son of John (3) and Anne (Mil- liken) Moore, was born January 19, 1801, at Parsonsfield, and died there March 28, 1865. He received the rudiments of his education in


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the schools of his native town, supplemented with training at Limerick Academy. He taught school in "Parsonsfield, Newfield and Durham for several years. He operated a general store in Lisbon and Durham, then removed to Freeport, where he bought a farm and from there returned to Parsonsfield, to the farm that his father settled and cleared, re- maining there until his death. He was a Jack- sonian Democrat, and had served on the school board of his native town. He married, April 15, 1853, Martha Doe, daughter of Colonel and Mary (Sanborn) Doe, of Parsonsfield. Their children were: Martha Ann, Mary Au- gusta, John Fairfield, Charles H., Frank Gil- bert and Ira Alfred.


(VII) John Fairfield, eldest son of Ira and Martha (Doe) Moore, was born November 7, 1840, at Freeport, and removed to Parsons- field when a small boy with his parents. He was educated in the schools of Parsonsfield, and at North Parsonsfield Academy. He has been a farmer all his life. He went to San Francisco in 1863, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, remaining in the Golden State three years. While there he was engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, drove a team some in the city, finally returning by the same route by which he went to Parsonsfield. He bought the old homestead owned and occupied by his father and grandfather and it is still in his possession. He lived upon it until November, 1905, when he bought a place in Newfield vil- lage, where he now resides. Otherwise than farming and real estate business, he is presi- dent of the Limerick mills. He is of strong Democratic proclivities. He is a member of Willow Brook Grange, No. 552, of Newfield. He married March II, 1868, Anna F., daugh- ter of Samuel Merrill, of Parsonsfield. Their children are: I. Carrie, born December 4, 1868. 2. Ira Howard, whose sketch follows. 3. Maud Sanborn, born September 1I, 1882, whose education is due to the public schools of Newfield, Limerick Academy, Laselle Sem- inary and the Boston Conservatory of Music. She is now a teacher of music in the Parsons- field Seminary at North Parsonsfield.


(VIII) Ira Howard, only son of John Fair- field and Anna F. (Merrill) Moore, was born in Newfield, August 21, 1874, and received his primary education in the Newfield com- mon schools, and was graduated from Gray's Business College at Portland, Maine, in the class of 1895. After graduation he assisted his father on the patrimonial farm. He has recently installed a plant for the manufacture of lumber and shingles in Newfield Village,


which now engages his whole attention. He belongs to the Democratic party, and is active in its councils. He married, October 26, 1898, Marguerite, daughter of Dr. Frank W. Smith, of Newfield, and they have one daughter Lu- cille, born September 23, 1900.


Few names in British history are MOORE more distinguished than the one at the head of this article. Sir John Moore, the celebrated general, was born in Glasgow, and lost his life in Corunna, Spain, while at the head of the British army; Thomas Moore, a native of Ireland, was one of the most gifted poets of his time; Edward Moore, James Moore, and Thomas Moore (of Stake-Next Guildford) made themselves places in the field of literature. John Moore, born in Stirling, Scotland, was a physician and writer of distinction; John Moore, born at Gloucester, England, 1733, became Archbishop of Canterbury, and Sir Jonas Moore was the English mathematician and author of scientific works.


(I) William E. Moore was born in a small town in the North of Ireland in 1810. When young he came to America and lived in Free- port, and later in Portland, Maine, where he spent the remainder of his life in the tailoring business, and died in 1842. He married, in Portland, Agnes A. Mackie, who was born in Portland in 1811, daughter of Andrew Mackie, a Scotch sea captain. They were the parents of six children: Agnes, Ellen, Mary, Louise, Edward, Lemuel ; the widow married (second) William Golding, one child, William Golding ; she died in 1889.


(II) Edward, son of William E. and Agnes A. (Mackie) Moore, was born in Freeport, Maine, February 13, 1838, and died in Port- land, January 27, 1899. He attended the school from the time he was five until he was eleven years of age, in Portland, and then went to sea as a cabin boy. At the age of fifteen he left the sea and began to learn the trade of pattern making and followed that employment two years. From seventeen to nineteen he followed last-making in St. John, New Brunswick, and then returned to Port- land and started a factory for the manufacture of lasts on his own account, conducting this enterprise until the summer of 1861, when, being a patriotic citizen and an able-bodied young man, he left a profitable business and responded to his country's call to arms, and enlisted as a private soldier and assisted in recruiting men for the Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventeenth Maine regiments. August 18,


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1862, he was commissioned second lieutenant of Company H, Seventeenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and remained continuously with that regiment until it was mustered out of the ser- vice in 1865. He was promoted to first lieu- tenant of Company C, March 3, 1863, and became captain of that company just a week later. He was brevetted major, and March 13, 1865, lieutenant-colonel of United States Volunteers for gallant and meritorious services during the war, and was mustered out of service June 4, 1865. The Seventeenth was one of the fighting regiments of the civil war commanded by Colonel Chamberlain for a long time, and always to be depended on. Colonel Moore took part in the following battles : Fredericksburg, Virginia (December II-15, 1862) ; The Cedars, Virginia (May 2, 1863) ; Chancellorsville, Virginia (May 3-8, 1863) ; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 2-3, 1863); Funkstown, Maryland (July 12-15, 1863) ; Wapping Heights, Virginia (July 22- 23, 1863) ; Auburn and Bristol, Virginia (Oc- tober 14, 1863) ; Kelley's Ford, Virginia (No- vember 7, 1863) ; Locust Grove, Virginia (November 27, 1863) ; Mine Run, Virginia (November 28-30, 1863) ; Rapidan, Virginia (February 6-7, 1864) ; Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia (May 14-16, 1864) ; Freder- icksburg Pike, Virginia (May 19, 1864); North Anna River, Virginia (May 23-26, 1864); Pamunkey River, Virginia (May 26- 28, 1864) ; Tolopatomy, Virginia (May 28 to June 2, 1864) ; Cold Harbor, Virginia (June 2-12, 1864) ; Petersburg, Virginia (June 16- 20, 1864) ; and Siege of Petersburg (June 20, 1864, to February 25, 1865), during which he took part in the battles of Jerusalem Plank Road (June 22-27), Deep Botton (July 27- 28), Explosion of Mine (July 30), Strawberry Plains (August 14-18), capture of Confeder- ate picket line in front of Fort Sedgwick (September 26), Preble's Farm (October I- 2), Fort Sedgwick (October 10), Boydton Plank Road (October 27-28), Weldon Rail- road (December 7-II), and Dabney's Mills (February 5-7, 1865). He also took part after the surrender of Lee's army in the march to Washington, and the Grand Review of November 23, 1865. While in the service he participated in thirty-six engagements. His health was seriously impaired by his cam- paigning and he did not engage in business for two years after returning home.


The first enterprise with which he became connected was the building of the Knox & Lincoln railroad, in the work of constructing which he was one of the chief sub-contractors,


and had a great deal to do with its success- ful completion. After finishing this he per- formed similar work on the Sugar River rail- road in New Hampshire. This was in the year 1868-69. He next turned his attention to submarine work, for which he developed great aptitude, and in which he achieved some notable success. He was engaged in this business on the Atlantic coast from 1869 to 1874. In March, 1875, he visited the Pacific coast and removed for the United States gov- ernment the Noonday Rock, thirty feet under water and situated some twenty miles off Cape Reese in the Pacific Ocean. In this work Colonel Moore used for the first time nitro- glycerine. With one and a half tons of it, which he manufactured on the coast expressly for the purpose, a singularly small quantity for the magnitude of the work, he caused the rock to disappear in a moment and forever. It was done with one wire, the water itself supplying the return current, and is justly regarded as one of the notable engineering feats of the time. In January, 1877, he formed a partnership with Augustus R. Wright, of Portland, under the firm name of Moore & Wright, and they did millions of dollars' worth of work in submarine contract- ing, dredging and so on, in nearly every harbor on the coast. They took the contract to build the famous Louise docks and embankment (named after Princess Louise) for the Can- adian government at Quebec, the largest works of the kind on the continent. This led to a celebrated lawsuit, but the contractors finally secured their pay for their part of the work. From 1877 till a short time before the death of the senior partner, the firm was continu- ously engaged upon large contracts for pub- lic works.




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