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In 1876 Colonel Moore removed to Stev- ens' Plains, in Deering, where he had a fine residence and a large farm, both of which he greatly improved. He gave much attention to the breeding of fine horses in which he was successful. His house was finely furnished, and contained fine works of art and rare old paintings of which he was passionately fond. He acquired excellent literary taste and col- lected a large library of well selected books, being, at least on military subjects, one of the most complete in Maine. At his home it was his custom to receive with gracious welcome his numerous friends. No business cares, no matter how pressing, prevented his giving full attention to the amenities of life. Refusing all overtures for political office until 1886, he finally allowed himself to be elected to the
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state legislature as a representative from Deer- ing, by the Republican party, of which he had been a member since attaining his majority. He was representative in 1887 and 1891, and senator from Cumberland county the inter- vening term, during which time he was chair- man of the committee on railroads, rendering very efficient service in that field. Faithful to every duty and enforcing strict discipline among his men, Captain Moore was always a favorite with both his inferiors and his su- periors in rank. At the battle of Gettysburg he was in command of Company C, his cap- tain, Goldermann, being absent, wounded. The regiment, excepting the three right com- panies of which C was one, was sheltered by a stone wall in the famous "wheatfield." From this position men fought stubbornly un- til their ammunition was nearly exhausted, and were then recalled. While the fighting was at its highest point Lieutenant Moore, then commanding Company C, discovered that the right of the regiment was being exposed to an enfilading fire and at once reported the fact to the regimental commander, Lieutenant- Colonel Merrill, whereupon the three right companies were refused, to use a military term, or, to speak more plainly, were swung back at an angle with the regimental line, so as to meet the line fire. All this was done, as also the change of the entire regiment to a new line, under a heavy fire with as much pre- cision and with as little confusion as on par- :ade. Such was the discipline of those veter- ans. The desperation of the fighting can be judged from the fact that the regiment went into the battle with twenty officers, three acting officers and three hundred and fifty rifles, and in two hours of fighting had one of- ficer killed, two mortally wounded and five wounded so as to disable them from duty. Seventeen enlisted men were killed outright, and one hundred and five enlisted men wounded, only two being reported as missing in action, being a loss of over one-third of the entire command. The total loss in the Seventeenth Maine Regiment during the year by the bullet was two hundred and eight, and it seems almost marvelous that Captain Moore escaped uninjured while participating in so many actions as he did. Brilliant as was his career as a business man and close as were his friendships among business men, Colonel Moore's strongest friendships existed among those comrades with whom he served in the civil war.
"While he was a member of the legislature,
largely through his efforts, a bill was passed establishing the 'Gettysburg Commission,' a board of ex-officers of Maine regiments and batteries which participated in the battle of Gettysburg. The act carried with it an appro- priation of $15,000, afterward increased to $30,000, for the purchase of land and the erec- tion of a monument upon the Gettysburg battlefield to commemorate the services of each Maine organization participating in the battle. This commission finally succeeded in erecting the monuments provided for, and at the dedi- cation of the Seventh Maine Regiment's Mon- ument, October 10, 1888, Colonel Moore de- livered a very able and interesting address describing at length the part taken by his regi- ment in the great battle." Colonel Moore's "History of the Third Corps," a brief sketch prepared by him in 1896, is one of the most accurate published records of the deeds of that famous organization. Colonel Moore was repeatedly honored by his soldier friends. He was among the first members of the Grand Army of the Republic and Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and was a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was vice-president of the Army of the Potomac and president of the Third Corps Union, an association formed in 1863 and the oldest military organization growing out of the civil war, General Sickles, the gallant commander of the corps, being the first president of the association. General Sickles was very near the Seventeenth Maine when he was wounded at Gettysburg.
During his last illness Colonel Moore's for- titude and patience were marvelous. Under advice of physicians, neither he nor they knowing his real condition, he had decided to submit to a surgical operation. Even then, while he had no fears for himself, he long hes- itated, as he told the writer a few weeks be- fore his death, because he dreaded to cause the shock to his dear wife which would be the natural result of her fears as to the results of an operation. Fearless for himself, he was tender of the feelings of others. It is ever thus :
"The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring."
The operation was unsuccessful because it re- vealed a cause of sickness which could not be removed. He died of cancer of the liver.
Edward Moore married, April 26, 1867, Clara A. Webb, of Newcastle, who survives him. She was the daughter of Nathan and Eliza C. (Rundlett) Webb, of Newcastle, later of Portland.
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This name has been known in
MOORE England since the time (1066) when William the Conqueror came into England, bringing in his retinue Thomas de More. Since that day numerous families of Moore have appeared in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, some taking their name from the Moore on which they resided, others, perhaps from other sources.
(I) William Moore resided in Hebron, Maine, where he was a farmer. He married Betsey Cobb ; five sons: George, Ellis, Hor- ace, Hiram, Charles, next mentioned.
(II) Charles, youngest son of William and Betsey (Cobb) Moore, was born in Hebron. He was employed for years in the paper mill at Mechanic Falls, Maine. He married, at Mechanic Falls, Maine, Sarah A., died in 1900, aged sixty-five years, daughter of Luke and Sarah Dwinell, of Mechanic Falls. Children : Charles C., married Mary E. Jordan, and is now in the employ of the Tucker Printing Company in Portland. Frank I., next men- tioned.
(III) Frank Isaac, second son of Charles and Sarah A. (Dwinell) Moore, was born at Mechanic Falls, January 6, 1859, and was educated in the public schools of that place and in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He re- moved to Portland in 1873. For some years previous to 1890, Mr. Moore was in the em- ploy of Webb & Cushing, dealers in shoes. Subsequently he was connected with Chand- ler's Band and at one time was leader of this famous organization. He began reading law in the office of Arden W. Coombs, and read diligently until 1895, when he passed his examination and was admitted to the bar. From that time until the present he has prac- ticed his profession in Portland. He is a Re- publican, has been active in politics, was alder- man from ward four in Portland, 1897-99, a Democratic ward, was a member of the Re- publican city committee ten years, and its chairman in 1900, and he served as president of the Lincoln Club in 1900. He is a mem- ber of the Cumberland County Bar Associa- tion, the board of trade, and is an associate member of Bosworth Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He and his family attend the Universalist church. He is a member of Port- land Lodge, No. I, Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; is a post grand of Maine Lodge, No. I, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; past chancellor of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 25, Knights of Pythias, and is a member of Mount Vernon Lodge, New England Order of Protection.
Frank Isaac Moore married, in Rochester,
New Hampshire, June 22, 1882, Lillian D., born at Lock's Mills, Oxford county, Maine, May 6, 1859, daughter of Alonzo B. and Betsy J. (Lapham) Swan. They have one child, Ileene, born February 15, 1893, who graduated from the Portland high school with the class of 1908.
COBB Very early in the settlement of Plymouth Colony an immigrant named Cobb came to these shores and founded a family, among whose members are found distinguished lawyers, politicians, writers, doctors and merchants, and many other less distinguished but useful citizens in the humbler walks of life.
(I) Deacon Henry Cobb appeared in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in Scituate, 1633, and afterwards in Barnstable, where he was one of the first settlers. He was one of the founders of the church in Scituate, January 8, 1635, of which he was that year chosen dea- con. He probably came from Kent, England, but sailed from London. He was representa- tive in 1645, and the six years following, and died in 1679. He married, 1631, Patience, daughter of James Hurst, of Plymouth, and had born in Plymouth: John, Edward, and James; and in Scituate : Mary and Hannah; and in Barnstable: Patience, Gershom and Eleanor. He married (second) 1649, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Hinkley, and had Me- hitable (died young), Samuel, Sarah (died young), Jonathan, Sarah, Henry, Mehitable and Experience.
(II) John, eldest child of Henry and Pa- tience (Hurst) Cobb, was born in Plymouth, June 17, 1632, and married, August 28, 1658, Martha, daughter of William Nelson, and had John (died young), Samuel, Elizabeth, Is- rael, Patience, Ebenezer, Elisha and James.
(III) Ebenezer, fourth son of John and Martha (Nelson) Cobb, was born August 9, 1671. He married, 1693, Mercy Holmes, and had Ebenezer, Mercy (died young), Na- thaniel, Hannah, Sarah, Mercy, Nathan, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Job and Roland.
(IV) Nathan, third son of Ebenezer and Mercy (Holmes) Cobb, was born January 14, 1707, and married, March 19, 1733, Joanna Bennett, of Middleboro, and had William, Elizabeth, Deborah, Timothy, Nathan, Joseph, Benjamin and Nehemiah.
(V) William, eldest son of Nathan and Jo- anna (Bennett) Cobb, was born February 8, 1735, and married, December 4, 1761, Mary Pynchon. Their children were: Augusta, William, Joanna, George and Ansel.
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(VI) William (2), eldest son of William (I) and Mary (Pynchon) Cobb, was born Au- gust 15, 1764, and married Betsey Myrick.
(VII) Betsey, daughter of William and Bet- sey (Myrick) Cobb, was born August 2, 1793, and married William Moore, of Hebron, Maine. (See Moore.)
This name, undoubtedly of BICKMORE English origin, is also spelled on early records in 'this country : Bigmore and Beckmore. Through incidents of correspondence and travel about twenty-five years ago, an interesting interview was brought about between Professor A. S. Bickmore, of New York City, and Rev. Dr. W. F. Bickmore, of Kidderminster, county Gloucester, England, which revealed the fact that a large number bearing this name in Eng- land have become prominent as clergymen in the Episcopal church. Several of the sons of the family in Kidderminster were graduates of Oxford, and a nephew of Rev. Dr. Bick- more was a fellow of New College in that university. The name is also known in Sus- sex and Essex counties, and is also the name of a street in London. The late Mr. H. G. Somerby, in a communication to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (vol. ii., p. 399), gave the following item: "1635-Tho : Bigmore, aged thirty-four, dwell- ing in New England, Fether Seller, to pass to Amsterdam on his affairs." This is the earliest record of the Bickmore family in America, and the name being uncommon, there seems to be no doubt of the connection of the above Thomas with the Massachusetts line, though the records reveal nothing of the two genera- tions between the dates. Possibly they were engaged in traffic with foreign countries, which would make it the more difficult to trace them. It is quite evident from the dates that follow that records of two generations are lacking.
(I) Thomas, immigrant ancestor, was born presumably in England, in 1601, and as proved, was living in New England in 1635, "aged thirty-four."
(IV) George Bickmore, probably great- grandson of Thomas the immigrant, was re- corded in Milton, Massachusetts, and prob- ably was born as early as 1700. The church register of Milton shows that he "owned the covenant July 13, 1729," and was baptized on that date. He was evidently married at that time or before, as the following bap- tisms are recorded: "John, son of George Bickmore, April 4, 1730," and "George son of George Bickmore, June 10, 1732." The birth
of this George is elsewhere given: "George, son of George and Elizabeth, June 6, 1733," which is the only record discovered of his wife. It is known that a few years after he removed from Milton to Friendship, near the St. George river, Maine. In a list of settlers there appear the names of "John Bigmore" and "George Bigmore," as located at Medom- cook (now Friendship), which confirms the family tradition that "the ancestors lived at Friendship, on the coast of Maine." Old resi- dents of that place have pointed out the re- mains of an old cellar said to be that of the house of the first Bickmore who came from Massachusetts. It is now stated that George, senior, lived there with his sons, but it is probable that he did not live long after. His- tory states that in 1635 there were but two families living on St. George river (whose names are not given) and "there is a long silence in the records until the next century.' It is not impossible that the immigrant "Tho : Bigmore, Fether Seller," was once located in this spot, and that that fact drew his descend- ants to that locality. About 1717 a strong capacious fort was built on the east bank of St. George river, and a blockhouse erected a short distance from the fort. The large area between was enclosed by palisades, and afforded ample accommodations for a garrison of two hundred and fifty men. In the fre- quent troubles with Indians during many years, this fort and blockhouse was the only place of refuge for settlers for many miles around. It is stated that "in the war of 1755 nearly all the families of Friendship moved within this garrison." The list of settlers re- ferred to above was prepared, it is supposed, by Captain John North, some years before his death in 1763, and it is probable that the Bick- more family located here, many years prior to this date.
(V) John, eldest son of George and Eliza- beth Bickmore, was born in Milton, Massa- chusetts, and baptized April 4, 1730. There is no record to show when or where he mar- ried, and the only fact learned is that he re- moved early from Milton with his father to the coast of Maine, the present town of Friend- ship.
(V) George, younger son of George and Elizabeth Bickmore, was born in Milton, June 6, and there baptized June 10, 1732. He re- moved with his father's family, probably in early boyhood, to Friendship, Maine, and no further account is given.
(VI) Samuel, son (probably) of George, of Friendship, Maine, was born July 10, 1772,
Albert S. Bickmore
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and died May 23, 1838, in the town of St. George, to which place his parents had re- moved from some of the neighboring islands after leaving Friendship. He married, Febru- ary 9, 1796, Mary Barter, who was born December 8, 1773, and died October 8, 1856, aged eighty-two years ten months. In the family Bible the marriage of Samuel and Mary Barter is recorded Beckmore, though the descendants use the "i" instead of "e." They had seven children: Samuel, born No- vember 19, 1797; Roger, born May' 2, 1800, died June 17, 1812; Nancy, born October 4, 1802, died July 1, 1854, married January 5, 1833, to Samuel Richards (children : Mary Jane Richards, born October 28, 1833, mar- ried March 14, 1853, to Luther A. Pitcher ; John H. B. Richards, born October 9, 1835; Charles S. W. Richards, born April 19, 1838; Sylvanus G. S. Richards, born March 3, 1841); George, born April 16, 1805, died October 12, 1838; Henry, born May 17, 1808; John, born December 29, 1811; (further men- tion of John appears below); Oliver, born September 14, 1815, died May 4, 1827.
(VII) Henry, fourth son of Samuel and Mary (Barter) Bickmore, was born at St. George, May 17, 1808. He married Nancy Barter, a cousin, born on Isle au Haut. He was a ship owner and captain of St. George. Their children were: Sarah Ellen, William Henry, Theresa, Ellis and Charles.
(VIII) William Henry, son of Henry and Nancy (Barter) Bickmore, was born in St. George, Maine, September 10, 1838. Like his father, he was a ship owner and captain. He married, November I, 1865, Margaret A., daughter of Richard and Mary Ogier Martin, who was born in St. George, Maine, August 17, 1841. Their children were: Mary Emma Bickmore, born August 10, 1867, and Albert Henry. The daughter is now the wife of Frederick F. Tefft, residing at Mount Vernon, New York.
(IX) Albert Henry, only son of William Henry and Margaret A. (Martin) Bickmore, was born at St. George, Maine, October 8, 1869. He married at Camden, Maine, Octo- ber 2, 1901, Myrtle L., daughter of Thomas D. and Dora (Bragg) French, who was born November 21, 1871. He was a student at Camden high school and Colby College, grad- uating A. B. in 1893, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Upsilon fraternities. Not long after graduation he came to New York City and engaged in the banking busi- ness. He is now the head of the firm of A. H. Bickmore & Company, private bankers,
at 30 Pine street, New York. He is a mem- ber of the following clubs: Union League, St. Nicholas, Lawyers, Graduates, City, Indian Harbor Yacht, Atlantic Yacht; and the Cum- berland, of Portland, Maine. He is also di- rector in numerous corporations. Children of Albert Henry and Myrtle : Albert Henry, Jr., born in New York City, October 20, 1904; Jesse O., April 4, 1906. They are of the tenth generation from the emigrant "Tho : Bigmore, dwelling in New England," 1635.
(VII) John, fifth son of Samuel and Mary (Barter) Bickmore, was born in St. George, December 29, 1811, and married there Jane, daughter of Deacon David and Waitey (Jame- son) Seavey, of South St. George, who was born December, 1817, and died July 3, 1842. A memorial window of her father, Deacon David Seavey, and of her eldest brother, Deacon Elisha Seavey, has been placed in the Baptist church at South St. George, near Martinsville P. O., where the Bickmore fam- ily also attended service, by her son, Pro- fessor Albert S. Bickmore. Captain John Bickmore married Thankful Bartlett, daugh- ter of Dr. Charles and Elizabeth (Fuller) Stearns, of Tenant's Harbor, October 8, 1843. Children : Elizabeth Ranlet, born April 25, 1845, married Whitney Long, August 24, 1867; Emma Isora, born April 21, 1848, died June 23, 1871; Frances Amelia, born Sep- tember 20, 1851, died June 14, 1869; Harriet Antoinette, born June 22, 1855; and John Franklin, born November 7, 1863, graduated at Amherst College, 1886, married October 22, 1894, Emma Matilda Brown, of West Vir- ginia ; children: Thankful, born October 24, 1896, and John Franklin, Jr., born October 24, 1899, residence Denver, Colorado. Cap- tain John Bickmore resided at Martinsville P. O., town of St. George, until 1848, when he moved to Tenant's Harbor, an adjoining village. He was a sea captain, ship owner, and builder of the "Challenge," 1848, "Leoni- das," 1866, and others, 1863-67. He died in 1875. A double memorial window has been placed in the Baptist church at Tenant's Har- bor, of which he was an active and beloved member, bearing the following inscription : "In memory of Captain John Bickmore, died in church, January 31, 1875, aged sixty-three years. He walked with God and he was not, for God took him."
(VIII) Albert Smith, only son of John and Jane (Seavey) Bickmore, was born at Mar- tinsville, in the town of St. George, Maine, March 1, 1839. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1860, studied with Pro-
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fessor Louis Agassiz, 1860-64; (B. S. Har- vard University, 1864; Ph. D. Hamilton Col- lege, 1869, and Ph. D. Dartmouth, 1896; LL.D. Colgate University, 1905.) At the age of eight years he took a voyage with his father, Captain John Bickmore, to Bordeaux, France, which gave him the inspiration for a life of travel and nature study. While a student with Professor Agassiz he became as- sistant in the museum at Cambridge, and went to Bermuda to collect for that institution in the summer of 1862. On his return he served in the Forty-fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, October 22, 1862, to June 18, 1863, most of the time at Newbern, North Carolina. His travels have been extensive in the Malay Archipelago, China, Japan, eastern Asia, and back by the Amoor river to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin and London, from Jan- uary, 1865, to December, 1867, forty-four thousand miles in three years. In 1868 he was appointed professor of natural history in Madison (now Colgate) University, at Ham- ilton, New York; and was superintendent of the American Museum of Natural History in Central Park, New York City, 1869 to 1884. On December 16, 1873, he married Charlotte A., daughter of John M. and Isabella F. (Ran- dolph) Bruce, who was born May 29, 1845, in New York City. Their only child, Albert S., junior, was born January 12, 1875, and died September 17, 1881.
Professor Bickmore had charge of the De- partment of Public Instruction in the Amer- ican Museum of Natural History from 1884 to 1904, and is now professor emeritus. He traveled abroad at his own expense to gather data and illustrations for his lectures, from 1895 to 1904, an average distance yearly of twelve thousand miles. He has delivered, under the auspices of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to teachers of public schools, and to all citizens on holidays, four hundred and eighteen illustrated lectures (average attendance nine hundred) upon two hundred and thirteen different subjects re- lating to geography and natural history. A selection of these lectures has been repeated in each city and village of five thousand popu- lation throughout the state of New York. Professor Bickmore is the author of "Travels in the East Indian Archipelago," and of vari- ous papers on travel, published in the annual reports of the State Department of Educa- tion. He is a Fellow of the A. A. A. S .; Society of American Naturalists; Member of the American Geological and Geographical So- cieties; fellow of the New York Academy of
Science ; life fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London ( 1868) ; and is a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, Colgate University, Vassar College, and of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, New York, 1897 to 1909. At the international Exposition held in Paris in 1900, Professor Bickmore was awarded the gold medal for the superior character of the colored stereopticon slides prepared under his direction and used in his free public lectures at the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park, in New York. The American Museum owes much to Professor Bickmore, and he has been highly bronze bust of the professor, of heroic size, is now being prepared to be placed by the trustees near the entrance of the in the trustees near the entrance of the auditorium of the museum in New York, and a portrait is to be placed in the new Edu- cation Building, now in process of erection by the state at Albany. He is now engaged in preparing, at the request of the trustees, a de- tailed history, in manuscript, of the "Found- ing and Early Development of the American Museum of Natural History," in which he took an active and helpful part.
(Address : In care of the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, New York City.)
FOSTER The family tradition says that three brothers of Scotch ances- try came to this country and lo- cated at what is now Blackstone, then Men- don, Massachusetts. They did not remain in that town, and the Worcester county records furnish no trace of the family.
(I) Dexter Foster, one of these brothers, was the ancestor of the family of this sketch. Of his history nothing has been preserved.
(II) Dexter (2), son of Dexter (1) Foster, married Carpenter, and had among his children: I. Dexter, died in Rochester, New York. 2. John, died near a place called Big Rock, while on his way to California by the overland route. 3. George Hemenway, men- tioned below. 4. Hermon, born the night of his father's death; lived in Boston; had one daughter. The widow of Dexter married (second) Austin, (third) Lord, and had a son by each.
(III) George Hemenway, son of Dexter (2) Foster, was born in Belgrade, Maine. He was about two years old when his father died, and was adopted by Dr. Hemenway, and given his middle name by his foster parents. He married Judith Damren. Foster was a far- mer and hotel keeper, deputy sheriff and trial
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