Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 88

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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(X) James Carter, eldest son of William O. and Mary G. (Carter) Fox, was born in Port- land, April 1, 1864. He was admitted to the bar in the state of Maine in 1895, since which time he has been constantly engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he now takes high rank. In 1892 he was admitted to the bar of the state of Kentucky; in 1894 to the bar of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; 1899 to the United States circuit court. In 1892 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and in 1894 the degree of Master of Laws. In politics he is a Republi- can; in 1900 he was elected member of the Portland city council, and in 1904 was placed on the Republican city committee. Following is a list of the organizations to which he be- longs, and the date of joining the same : 1880, Portland High School Cadets; 1885, Portland Yacht Club ; 1886, Young Men's Re- publican Club; 1887, Portland Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; 1890, Lafayette Royal Arch Chapter, Free and Accepted Masons; and the National Rifles; 1891, Columbia Com- mandery, Knights Templar; 1893, Sons of the American Revolution ; 1894, Sons and Daugh- ters of Maine, District of Columbia; 1895, Cumberland Bar Association ; 1896, Green- leaf Law Library Association; 1898, Maine State Bar Association and Portland Rifle Company ; 1899, Society of Colonial Wars and Portland Gun Club; 1900, Cumberland Club; 1901, Lincoln Club; 1902, Sons of the Amer- ican Revolution, Society of National Rifles,


Veteran United States Revolutionary Associa- tion ; 1903, Society of Mayflower Descendants; 1904, United States Rifle Association, Uni- versity Club, National Marksmen's Reserves, Economic Club; 1905, Greenleaf Law Library Association, of which he is clerk and treasurer ; 1906, National Geographical Society; 1907, Portland Esperanto Society, American Bar Association, and the Portland Country Club.


(For ancestry see preceding sketch.) (VIII) John (4), third son of John FOX (3) and Sarah (Fox) Fox, was born about 1784, and married Lucy Ann Oxnard.


(IX) Frederick, son of John and Lucy Ann (Oxnard) Fox, was born in Portland, Novem- ber 3, 1827, and died June 5, 1894. He at- tended the public schools, from which he went to Portland Academy, then under the charge of Principal Haskins, and was also a short time at North Yarmouth Academy. He en- tered Bowdoin College, in the class of 1848. Among his classmates were Dr. Charles S. D. Fessenden, of the United States hospital ser- vice ; Dexter A. Hawkins, of New York; Rev. Dr. S. J. Humphrey, Samuel F. Humphrey, of Bangor; Professor F. B. Sewall, Professor Egbert C. Smyth, of Andover ; Professor Ben- jamin Stanton, of Union College, and Charles Amos Washburne, of Livermore Falls, at one time minister to Paraguay. After graduation Mr. Fox studied law with his brother Edward, in Portland, and after his admission to the Cumberland bar the brothers formed a partner- ship under the style of E. & F. Fox, having their offices at the head of Union street, on Middlesex street. After some years continu- ance the partnership was dissolved on account of the necessity that took Edward Fox away to accompany his wife, whose health was bad at that time. Frederick Fox and Colonel Charles B. Merrill then became partners under the firm name of Merrill & Fox. This partner- ship continued until just before the return of Edward Fox. Then the Fox brothers resumed practice under the old firm name and con- tinued till 1866, when Edward Fox, who had meantime been appointed and filled the office of judge of the superior court of Maine, was ap- pointed judge of the United States district court. After that time Frederick Fox devoted himself almost entirely to business before the probate court and the care of estates, having the reputation of a man of the highest probity and especially skillful in the management of trust funds. It is impossible to estimate the number of estates in his charge, but the amount


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of property involved must have amounted to a large sum. He was the surviving legatee of the great Walker estate, and by virtue of his office built the elegant structure in Westbrook that was passed over to the city of Westbrook in December, 1893, for the purposes of a li- brary. Frederick Fox, together with Albert B. Stevens, was appointed executor of the large estate of Joseph Walker, of Portland, who died June 6, 1891, leaving property valued at $700,000 or $800,000. Mr. Stevens died the next September, and Mr. Fox, assuming the whole burden of executorship, paid the debts of the estate and the several legacies provided for by the will and then had in his hands a residue of about $225,000, which he claimed was to be distributed under the provisions of the 37th Clause of the will. This clause pro- vided that such residue of the estate should be used, as the trustees saw fit, for the causes of education and benevolence, and for the promotion of public associations for that pur- pose. The trustees were not to be restricted in their work. The heirs contested this disposal of the residue of $225,000 and the case was tried, resulting in the victory of the defendant trustee, and he was therefore left in charge of the large sum of money to dispose of as he should see fit, according to the provisions of the will. After the death of Mr. Fox this money was distributed among the following in- stitutions forming a permanent fund for their support : The Portland Public Library, the Westbrook Public Library, the Maine His- torical Society and the Portland Manual Train- ing School.


Politically Mr. Fox was never a seeker after office. He was a Republican more than any- thing else, and as a Republican was a mem- ber of the common council of 1869-70 and 1870-77, being president of that body in the latter term. In. 1871 he was an independent candidate for mayor, and in 1880 the Demo- cratic candidate against William Senter, re- ceiving 2,117 votes to his opponent's 3,354. In early life he was interested in the militia, and was a member of Major G. M. Smith's com- pany, commissioned with the rank of major. Mr. Fox served as trustee of Evergreen ceme- tery at two different periods, the last of which terminated in 1894. He took great interest in Portland's beautiful burying ground, and much of its beauty was due to his painstaking care. He was a well-known Mason of high degree, and a member of the following bodies of the Masonic order: Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery, Consistory, in which he attained the thirty-second degree. In the years of his


long and useful life Mr. Fox filled a large place in Portland. To dwell entirely on the fact that there were confided to him heavy trusts, that at times he would have the settle- ment of fifteen or twenty estates upon his hands, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, would be to ignore the many delight- ful traits of character which his friends knew and appreciated so well, and which appeared in a yet stronger light when contrasted with some eccentricities. He was a man of the kindliest nature and a cordial hater of all shams, whether in political or social life. His benevolence was perennial; he was one of the firmest friends of the Gospel Mission; few, if any, knew the extent of his benefactions. He had a keen sense of honor, was a congenial companion and one of the most entertaining of men. He was stricken down by paralysis or heart trouble in the public library at West- brook on the day that building was turned over to the city of Westbrook. He lingered until June 5, 1894, and quietly passed away.


Frederick Fox married, November 13, 1861, Mary Caroline Smith, who was born in War- ren, July 29, 1838, daughter of Manasseh H. and Mary M. (Dole) Smith, who survives him. (See Smith VII.) Two sons were born of this union: Frederick, 1862, and John M., 1865; both graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the former in 1885 and the latter in 1887.


(For first generation see Edward Dillingham I.) (II) John, younger son DILLINGHAM of Edward and Drusilla Dillingham, born about 1630, in England, married, March 24, 1651, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Feake. He was a marine commander, and died May 21, 1715, at Harwich, Massachusetts, where his widow died December 15, 1720.


(III) John (2), son of John (I) and Eliza- beth (Feake) Dillingham, was born 1663, probably in Harwich, and died September II, 1746. His wife Lydia, who died September 9, 1760, was probably a daughter of Isaac Chapman. Children: Lydia, Hannah, Re- becca, Abigail, John, Thankful and Sarah.


(IV) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and Lydia (Chapman) Dillingham, was born 1701, and resided at Taunton, Massachusetts, where he married, July 24, 1721, Pricilla Burt, of that city, who died early in 1726. He married (second) before the close of that year, Esther Paul, of Taunton.


(V) Broderick, only child of John and Pricilla (Burt) Dillingham, was born in Taun-


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ton, and resided at Falmouth, Massachusetts. The Revolutionary rolls dated at Tarpaulin Cove, Dukes county, Massachusetts, gave his service as a soldier : first, a private in Captain John Graniss's company, enlisted July 4, 1775, and served to December 31, same year, being credited with six months thirteen days, on the Elizabeth Islands; second, as a member of same company, marched February 5, 1776, and served twenty-five days to February 29, 1776. Nothing further appears in the Revolu- tionary records of the state concerning him, but the family tradition states that he was made a prisoner and died in an English prison in 1779-80. He married Elizabeth Pitts, and had a son and daughter; the latter died in infancy.


(VI) Pitt, only son of Broderick and Eliza- beth (Pitts) Dillingham, was born December 19, 1772, in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and died February 4, 1829, at Augusta, Maine. He settled in that town in February, 1805, and was a school teacher and a merchant, and served many years as deputy sheriff and jailer. He was moderator of that town for three years, selectman four years, and representa- tive in the legislature in 1817-19. He was a man of fine literary taste, and had the largest library in the town of Augusta during his time. His first wife, Elizabeth Hatch, died June 15, 1818, and he married (second) Feb- ruary 28, 1821, Hannah B. Aldrich. Children of first marriage: I. Joseph Pitt, born No- vember 24, 1794, died April 12, 1854. 2. Wil- liam Henry, born May II, 1798, died Wood- ville, Mississippi, April 22, 1857. 3. Albert Addison, born June 8, 1800, died January 12, 1830. 4. Hannibal, born February 17, 1802, died October 8, 1830. 5. Eliza Pitts, wife of James B. Hall, of Augusta, born May 22, 1804. 6. Charles G., born October, 1806, died young. 7. Ann, born April 8, 1808, died young. 8. Ann Catherine Gove, born Septem- ber 15, 1809, died 1831. 9. Margaret Bridge, born October 19, 1811, died 1832. 10. Mary, born October 28, 1813, died 1832. Child by second wife: Edward, born December 12, 1821, died young.


(VII) Albert Addison, third son of Pitt and Elizabeth (Hatch) Dillingham, born June 8, 1800, died January 12, 1830, leaving two children : William Addison Pitt and Elizabeth B. The latter became the wife of Dr. Albion Townsend, of Augusta.


(VIII) "William Addison Pitt Dillingham, born September 4, 1824, in Augusta, Maine, graduated from Harvard Divinity School 1847, and was settled over the Universalist So-


ciety in Augusta at the age of twenty-three. He took a prominent part in politics. In 1864 and 1865 he represented the town of Water- ville in the legislature, and the last year was speaker. He was special agent for the treas- ury department in Mississippi after the civil war, also one of the original trustees of the Maine State Agricultural College. He took a deep interest in agriculture and education, and all public enterprises, giving them his strong and earnest support. He had a fine farm in Sidney (the original Townsend farm), where he was living at the time of his death, and which he had cultivated for many years. He was a man of marked ability and thorough uprightness of character." (Kennebec Jour- nal, April, 1871.)


He married Caroline Price Townsend, of Sidney, Maine, born 1816, died September 23, 1870, in Sidney. She was a lineal descendant of Daniel Townsend, who came from Massa- chusetts to the Kennebec region and received a grant of lot 18 in Augusta, in August, 1764. His wife and seven children came from Mas- sachusetts after he had made a home, travel- ing all the way in a canoe. They lived in a log house on the west side of the river, and for many years after Howard's Mills were built on the east side, Mr. Townsend was em- ployed there. Daniel (2), son of Daniel (I) Townsend, was born in Massachusetts, and resided in Augusta. He was a revolutionary soldier, and died of camp fever near Ticon- deroga. He was the father of Dodivah Town- send, whose daughter, Caroline P., became the wife of William A. P. Dillingham.


Four children were born to William Addi- son Pitt and Caroline Price (Townsend) Dil- lingham: I. Mary Elizabeth, born in 1848, died young. 2. Thomas Manly, born in 1850. 3. Pitt, born in 1852. 4. Mabel Wilhelmina, born in 1864.


(IX) Thomas Manly, eldest son and sec- ond child of William Addison Pitt and Caro- line Price (Townsend) Dillingham, entered Dartmouth College in 1869, and graduated from the Boston University School of Medi- cine in 1874. He began the practice of his profession in Augusta, Maine, and moved in 1889 to New York City, where he is still prac- tising. Dr. Dillingham is ex-president of the International Hahnemannian ยท Association, member of the New York, Massachusetts and Maine Homoeopathic Medical Societies, and of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. He is a member of the Dartmouth Chapter of the Beta Theta Phi Society of New York. member and president of the Swedenborgian


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Society of New York, member of the City and Republican clubs. In 1897 he married Har- riet Ashby Carlton, of Boston, daughter of Samuel A. Carlton, Esq.


(IX) Pitt, second son and third child of William Addison Pitt and Caroline Price (Townsend) Dillingham, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873, and from Har- vard Divinity School in 1876. He was first settled over the Unitarian Society in Charles- town, Massachusetts. He later removed to the. Buffalo (New York) Unitarian Society, remaining until 1894, when he resigned his position to take charge of the Calhoun Colored School, which was so successfully established some years before by the youngest child of the family, Mabel W., and where she died in 1894, the result of her efforts in behalf of the colored race. Pitt Dillingham married Florence Batchelder Bell, daughter of Dr. James B. Bell, of Boston, and has two living children: William Pitt, born February 14, 1890 (Harvard, 1911), and Pauline Bell, born May 10, 1899.


(For preceding generations see Edward Dillingham I.) (III) Edward (2), elder DILLINGHAM son of Henry and Han- nah (Perry) Dillingham, was born in Sandwich, where he passed his life and died March 29, 1739. He married, September 26, 1695, Abigail Nye. Children : Hannah, born July 12, 1696; Abigail, Febru- ary 26, 1699; Simeon, September 24, 1700; Edward, mentioned below; Mary, October 22, 1705; Experience, March 9, 1708; John, No- vember 14, 1710; Deborah, June 7, 1716.


(IV) Edward (3), second son of Edward (2) and Abigail (Nye) Dillingham, was born March 12, 1704, in Sandwich, and resided there. The christian name of his wife was Elizabeth, and they had children: Cornelius, born May 25, 1724; Sylvanus, November 17, 1725; Stephen, April 23, 1727; Remember, December 17, 1730; Ignatius, mentioned be- low ; John, June II, 1738.


(V) Ignatius, fourth son of Edward (3) and Elizabeth Dillingham, was born April 16, 1732, in Sandwich, and resided in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He married Deborah Gifford, and had children: Samuel, Remember, Con- tent, Lydia, Stephen, Edward, Ruth, William and Joseph.


(VI) Samuel, son of Ignatius and Deborah (Gifford) Dillingham, was born about 1754, and settled in Freeport, Maine. No record of his marriage appears. He had sons: Samuel, Stephen, Edward and Meletiah.


(VII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Dil- lingham, was born in 1789 in Freeport, and died there in 1841. He was a blacksmith by trade, and spent his entire life in the town, where he was treasurer from 1810 to 1813. The family was identified with the Congrega- tional church. He married, December 22, 181I, Patience, daughter of James and Joanna (Hamlin) Bacon. Children : Samuel J., George Bacon, Charles Thomas, Ebenezer Hamblen, Joseph Edward, Albert Rose (died young), and Albert Watson Rose.


(VIII) Ebenezer Hamblen, fourth son of Samuel (2) and Patience (Bacon) Dilling- ham, was born about 1820 in Freeport, and went south as a young man where he was for many years a stevedore, loading ships with cotton for shipment to the north. He was an ardent Democrat in political principle and a Universalist in religious faith. He married Eliza Catherine Bailey, and they had a son and a daughter: Frederic Bailey and Ann Katherine. The last named is the widow of Charles D. Clarke, now residing in Portland.


(IX) Frederic Bailey, only son of Ebenezer Hamblen and Eliza C. (Bailey) Dillingham, was born April 10, 1848, in Freeport, and was reared in the village of Freeport, where he was employed for many years as a salesman in the store of Gore & Davis. He subsequently went to Boston, where he was engaged in the real estate business. For some time he oper- ated an express line between Jamaica Plain and Boston, and is now again engaged in the real estate business. He is a member of the Masonic order and a Universalist in religious faith. He married Sophia Higgins Merrill, born April 19, 1849, in Freeport, daughter of Josiah Higgins and Catherine (Pote) Mer- rill. Children: I. Frederic Hamblen, men- tioned below. 2. Herbert, born October 14, 1872, now connected with the Far- rington Company of Boston, manufacturers of steel cases for small articles of everyday use. He married Augusta Carr, of Portland, and has a daughter, Margaret. 3. Alice Catherine, June 23, 1875, wife of Frank S. Winslow, of Freeport, and has a son Arthur. 4. Mabel Eliza (twin of Alice Catherine), wife of Charles Porter, of Kellogg, Idaho. 5. Helen Merrill, October 11, 1878, a teacher in a model school at Salem, Massachusetts.


(X) Frederic Hamblen, eldest child of Fred- eric Bailey and Sophia H. (Merrill) Dilling- ham, was born November 17, 1871. He at- tended the public schools of that town, gradu- ating from the high school in 1890. As a boy he was employed in the same general


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store where his father had been employed, the owners after 1883 being Gore & Davis, and later Edmund B. Mallett, Junior, who was young Dillingham's employer. Soon after at- taining his majority, he entered the employ of Joseph Breck & Sons of Boston, the largest seed and agricultural implement establishment in New England, and remained in their em- ploy for a period of seven years. He began as a local salesman and was rapidly promoted un- til he had charge of the poultry and incubator departments at the time he left this establish- ment in 1901. At that time he took charge of the New York branch store of the Cyphers Incubator Company of Buffalo, New York, which position he still retains, having become in the meantime a stockholder and director of the company. Mr. Dillingham is a man of genial nature and fine address and has made and retains some strong friendships in the na- tional metropolis. He is a Republican in poli- tics, a member of the local lodge of the Im- proved Order of Red Men at Freeport and of the Royal Arcanum at Ridgewood, New Jer- sey, where he resided for some time. His home is now in Mont Clair. He is a member of the Essex Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Club, being one of its executive committee and of the Maine Society in New York. His fam- ily is identified with the Baptist church at Mont Clair. He was married February 4, 1899, in the Tremont Temple at Boston by Dr. George Horace Lorimer to Evangeline John- ston, born October II, 1870, at Black Cape, Bonaventure county, Province of Quebec. She is the third daughter of Thomas Johnston, a farmer of Black Cape, and his wife, Catherine (Henderson) Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. Dilling- ham have three children: Frederic Johnston, . born September 16, 1899; Catherine Evange- line, March 13, 1901, and Florence, March 5, 1905.


(For early generations see preceding sketches.) DILLINGHAM (VI) William, fourth son of Ignatius and De- borah (Gifford) Dilling- ham, was born about 1770, at Cotuit, near Fal- mouth, Massachusetts, and as a young man removed to Brunswick, Maine. He was mar- ried in Freeport by Rev. Alfred Johnson, April 17, 1792, to Hannah Griffin. She was prob- ably a daughter of Moses Griffin, baptized July 19, 1761. Children : William, Sewell, Diana and John Griffin. He married a second time, and had two children by the second marriage. (VII) William (2), eldest son of William (I) and Hannah (Griffin) Dillingham, was


born July 2, 1796, in Portland, and married (first) in 1825, Sarah Hall, who was a mem- ber of the Church of England. He was dis- owned by the Quakers for marrying outside of the Society, but continued to use their garb and speech, and attended their meetings until his death in 1867. The latter part of his life was passed in Saccarappa, now Westbrook, Maine, where he was the village blacksmith. Children : 1. Latinus Charles, resided in Bid- deford. 2. John Griffin, mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth, died a spinster in Somersworth, New Hampshire. 4. Aretas Henry, born 1833, died in Springvale, Maine; he left issue : Louis H., now residing in Somerville, Massa- chusetts ; Martilini, wife of Clarence B. Good- win, of Springvale, Maine; and Cora B., now of Gorham, Maine. 5. Hannah Griffin, mar- ried George Baxter, and died in California, in 1866. 6. Maria, married Rev. Warren E. Emery. All the sons were soldiers of the civil war. Mr. Dillingham married (second) late in life, Sarah Hutchinson, by whom there was no issue.


(VIII) John Griffin, second son of William (2) and Sarah (Hall) Dillingham, was born September 4, 1829, in Portland, and passed his childhood at Saccarappa. As a young man he went to Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was a telegraph operator in the service of the Eastern railroad in that city, during the early part of the civil war. After the battle of Get- tysburg, in 1863, he enlisted in Company G, Thirty-second Regiment, Massachusetts In- fantry, and went into camp at Liberty, Vir- ginia. He participated in the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House, being wounded in the third day of fighting at Spottsylvania, and died in the military hospital at West Philadelphia, in June, 1864. In 1859 he married, at Newton, New Hampshire, Fanny S. Welch, born February 28, 1838, in Jefferson, Maine, daughter of Paul and Lois (Glidden) Welch.


(IX) Frederic William, only son of John Griffin and Fanny S. (Welch) Dillingham, was born January 10, 1860, in Newburyport, and was educated in the public schools of that town. He became a telegraph operator, like his father, and was employed in many cities throughout the country. He was chief oper- ator and afterwards manager of the telegraph office at Norfolk, Virginia, and left this posi- tion to become confidential clerk in a promi- nent cotton house. In 1886 he went to New York to accept a similar position with the cot- ton exchange house of Hubbard Price & Com- pany. In 1890 he was admitted to partner-


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ship in the establishment which is now con- ducted under the style of Hubbard Bros. & Company. He is a member of a number of clubs, including the New York Athletic ; Cres- cent Athletic; Aurora Grata Masonic, and Bergen Beach Yacht clubs. He is a past mas- ter of Aurora Grata Lodge, No. 756, F. and A. M., and a past officer of the Grand Lodge of New York; past high priest of Constella- tion Chapter, No. 209, Royal Arch Masons, and present representative of the Grand Chap- ter of Georgia, near the Grand Chapter of New York. He is an officer of the Scottish Rite, and a member of the Knights Templar and Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was for many years an elder of the Bedford Pres- byterian Church of Brooklyn, and president of its board of trustees. He married, July 5, 1882, Nellie A. Richards, of Portland, Maine, daughter of Horace and Adeline ( Blackstone) Richards of that city. Children: I. Charles Emery, born June 30, 1883, died May 11, 1889. 2. Frederic William, born December 9, 1892. 3. Edna, November 1, 1894. The first was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and the others in Brooklyn.


PROCTOR Ancestors of the New Eng- land Proctors were early ar- rivals in Boston, and partici- pated in the original settlement of several im- portant outlying districts. Descendants of the original immigrants penetrated into remote re- gions, becoming original settlers in territories which afterward acquired dignity of state- hood, and not a few of them went beyond the limits of New England into the great west, where their posterity are still to be found. The Proctors were patriotic during the revo- lutionary war and that of 1812-15; loyal to the Union in the memorable civil strife of 1861-65; and in addition to their honorable military services they have acquired distinc- tion in civil life. The family is of English origin, and the name is first met with in the records of Norfolk, where as early as the four- teenth century they were closely allied by in- termarriage with the celebrated Beauchamps, which was the family name of the Earl of Pembroke. Among the landholders mentioned in these records are Sir William Beauchamp Proctor and his son George, who inherited in turn an estate which had been granted origi- nally by Sir John, Earl of Pembroke, to his cousin, William de Beauchamp, who died in 1378. In searching for Proctors in other parts of England, we find it recorded in "A History of Northumberland," published at Newcastle-




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