Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 89

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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on-Tyne, by Andrew Reid & Company, that a family of that name was established at Shaw- don, in Yorkshire, at the beginning of the six- teenth century, through the marriage of Wil- liam Proctor, of Nether Bordley, to Isabel, daughter of John Liburn, of Shawdon. Early in the emigration period which began about 1629, four of this name were known to come to New England-John, Richard, George and Robert. Whether they were near relatives or not is now impossible to determine, but there is some evidence to show that they were de- scendants of the above named William of Nether Bordley, and it is quite reasonable to infer that the latter was descended from old Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, of Norfolk. These immigrants landed in Boston between 1635 and 1643. John Proctor, aged forty years, sailed from London in 1635, on the "Sarah Ellen," with his wife and two chil- dren, settling first in Ipswich and subsequently in Salem. His son John and the latter's wife were both convicted of witchcraft in 1692, and the husband was executed, but the wife es- caped the death penalty. Some of their de- scendants are now residing in Boston. Rich- ard Proctor settled in Yarmouth, Massachu- setts, and there disappears wholly from the records. George Proctor located in Dorches- ter, and there reared a family. The branch of the family coming directly within the prov- ince of this sketch, is a line of descent from Robert, through the latter's son James.

(I) Robert Proctor, earliest American an- cestor of the families mentioned in this sketch, first appears in this country in Concord, Mas- sachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1643. In 1653 Robert Proctor, in connection with Richard Hildreth and twenty-seven oth- ers, petitioned the general court for a grant of land six miles square, "to begin at Merri- mack river at a neck of land next to Concord river, and so run by Concord river south, and west into the country to make up that cir- cumference or quantity of land as above ex- pressed." The petition was granted. In 1654 Mr. Proctor removed to the new plantation which was organized November 22 of that year as a town under the name of Chelmsford. The first four or five of his children were born in Concord, and the others in Chelmsford. He died in Chelmsford, April 28, 1697, leaving lands to some of his children, and having al- ready granted other lands to six sons. His widow administered on the estate. He mar- ried, December 31, 1645, Jane, oldest daugh- ter of Richard Hildreth, of Concord and Chelmsford, the ancestor of the Hildreths in

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America, who died at Chelmsford in 1688. Children : Sarah, Gershom, Mary, Peter, Dor- othy, Elizabeth, James, Lydia, Samuel, Israel and Thomas.

(II) Peter, second son of Robert and Jane (Hildreth) Proctor, was born in 1652, in Con- cord, and was among the purchasers of the Indian Plantation land, residing in Chelms- ford, Massachusetts, where he died August I, 1730. He married, January 30, 1689, Mary, daughter of James and Rebecca Stevenson Patterson, who was born August 22, 1666, and died October 12, 1724. Their children were: Robert, Rebecca, Peter, Mary, Esther, Joseph and Ezekiel.

(III) Ezekiel, youngest child of Peter and Mary (Patterson) Proctor, was born Novem- ber 19, 1709, in Chelmsford, and resided in Westford, Massachusetts, until old age, when he removed to Hollis, New Hampshire, to be near his children, and died there February 21, 1777. He married, October 24, 1734, Eliza- beth Chamberlain ; children : Ezekiel (died young), Abigail, Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph, Sa- rah, Abigail, Ezekiel and Esther.

(IV) Ezekiel (2), youngest son of Ezekiel (I) and Elizabeth (Chamberlain) Proctor, was born August 5, 1735, in Westford, and was a soldier in the French and Indian war, under Captain Daniel Fletcher, Colonel John Cummings' regiment. Soon after 1770 he moved to Hollis, New Hampshire, and there his last five children were born. He married, May 16, 1760, Elizabeth Proctor of Dun- stable, whose parentage does not seem to be of record. Their children were: Ezra (died young), Elizabeth, Ezekiel (died young), Mary, Ezekiel, Joseph, Abijah, Hannah (died young), Ezra, Hannah and Esther.

(V) Joseph, fourth son of Ezekiel (2) and Elizabeth (Proctor) Proctor, was born June 19, 1770, in Westford, Massachusetts, and grew to maturity in Hollis, New Hampshire. About the time when he attained his majority there was a considerable migration from the section where he lived to the wilds of Maine, the land having been spied out by soldiers who had served in Maine during the revolution. There does not seem to be any record of his marriage or children. . It is probable that he found a wife after he removed to Maine, as he does not appear in the records of Hollis at any time, and he was probably father of

(VI) Joseph (2) Proctor, who was a resi- dent of Winslow, Maine. There does not seem to be any public record of his career. The family record shows him to be the father of

(VII) Jeremiah Goodwin, born in Winslow, Kennebec county, Maine, about 1810-20. He was a mason, learning the trade in Winslow and Waterville, and after working for a time as a journeyman became an extensive contrac- tor and builder, besides carrying on his farm in Winslow. As his business as contractor and builder increased, he changed his residence from Winslow to Waterville, where he was a member of the Methodist church. He was a Republican in party politics, but did not aspire to office. He married, about 1840, Mary McCauseland, of Canaan, Maine; children : George O., Homer C., E. Frank, Robert L., William B., Charles, Lucy H., Abby F., Mary and Mattie.

(VIII) Robert Lincoln, son of Jeremiah Goodwin and Mary (McCauseland) Proctor, was born in Waterville, Maine, October 28, 1848. He was educated in the public schools of Winslow, and learned there the trade of mason and brick layer, as an apprentice to his father. He then removed to Brookline, Mas- sachusetts, where he worked as a journeyman mason for four years, when he returned to Waterville, where he became a general con- tractor and builder, and in 1900 his extensive business was incorporated as the Proctor & Bowie Company, and the corporation did a large hardware, lumber and brick trade, be- sides being general contractors and builders. On the election of officers to govern the cor- poration, Mr. Proctor was elected president and general manager. He was prominent in the civic government of the city of Waterville, was elected a member of the city council by the Republican party, and after a term of years in that office was promoted to the position of alderman, and also served in the fire depart- ment of the city as a member for many years. He is an attendant of the Unitarian church, and his fraternal affiliation is with Haverlock Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Waterville. He married, November 20, 1870, Anna, daughter of John and Julia (Page) Wendum, of Bos- ton, Massachusetts; children: Elizabeth and Lottis J. Wendum.

Maine is a good state to emi-

WISWELL grate from. It was a rib taken from Massachusetts, and it is natural that the old stock, strength- ened and revitalized by a tarry in Maine, should drift back to its cradle land. Back to the sod of their forefathers went Andrews and Long to achieve seats in the gubernatorial chair. To New York went the federalist Rufus King, the peer of any of his contemporaries.

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To Mississippi went the deformed and crip- pled Prentiss, an active and alert mind in a weak body. To the prairies of Illinois went Chief Justice Fuller. To the United States army went Major-General O. O. Howard, greatest of those from Maine to engage in the moral and rhetorical combat and gunplay waged against African slavery. To the world of literature went the Abbot family, and the world of humor, Bill Nye and Artemus Ward, who learned his first "drawing lesson," as he says, over the bridge that spans the little river near his old home at Waterford. Maine is also a good state to emigrate to, brains are always sure of recognition. From the little state of New Hampshire came three of her governors, Wells, Kent and Plaisted, as well as Judge Clifford and the gifted William Pitt Fessenden. From the Keystone State came the magnetic Blaine. So from other states have come families whose names have not been written, it is true, in great deeds or ren- dered on history's page, but who have mod- estly upheld the honor of the old Pine Tree state and labored to maintain her high posi- tion in the galaxy of states. The Wiswells have been less assuming than some others, and have not run a publicity bureau to cry their worth, but they have striven mightily and thriven exceedingly well, and their worthiness is apparent to all. Wiswell and Wiswall were early interchangeable patronymics. The name comes from Weisweil, a town on the Rhine in Germany.

Thomas Wiswall, born in England, came to this country in 1635, residing at Dorchester, Cambridge and Newton, Massachusetts. He died December 6, 1683. In 1642-44 he was selectman, and in 1664 was made elder of the church. He was a useful man in every de- partment of church, social and civic life. In 1669 he was appointed to catechise the youth on the south side of the bridge. A pond in Newton near where he lived perpetuates his name. The Christian name of his wife was Elizabeth, and he married (second) Isabella, widow of John Farmer. She died May 21. 1686. Children, probably by the first wife : Enoch, Esther, Rev. Ichabod, Noah, Mary, Sarah, Ebenezer and Eliza.

Enoch, eldest son of Elder Thomas and Eliz- abeth Wiswall, was born in 1633. His name is spelled in the early York deeds as Wiswell. He was a tanner, and was the first of the name to come to Maine, settling at North Yarmouth, where he purchased three hundred acres on the Harrisickett river. He is the beginner of the strong and influential Wiswell family, and

married Elizabeth, daughter of John Oliver, the scholar of Boston, and had: John, Enoch, died young; Hannah, Oliver, Elizabeth, Es- ther, Susannah; Enoch, died young; Mary, Samuel, Enoch and Ebenezer (twins).

(I) Edward S. Wiswell first appeared in the history of Machias in 1836. In that year he subscribed toward the building of the Union meeting house. He is a descendant of the Enoch of North Yarmouth, but the interven- ing connections have not been brought down sufficiently clear to enable us to state definitely the exact relationship. He left two sons- Alpheas and Elbert Edwin.

(II) Elbert Edwin, son of Edward S. Wis- well, was born October 19, 1844, in Machias. He was a shipsmith by trade, and conducted a hardware and plumbing business in Machias. He married Emily Talbot Gardiner.

(III) Carl Gardner, only son of Elbert Ed- win and Emily T. (Gardner) Wiswell, was born in Machias, February 2, 1876. He was taught in the schools of his native town, sup- plemented with a classical course at Washing- ton Academy, where he prepared for college. Entering the University of Maine, he gradu- ated with the class of 1898, with the degree of B. M. E. He went into the service of the Mckay Lasting Machine Company at Bev- erly, Massachusetts. In 1899 he returned to East Machias, and was taken into the business with his father, under the firm name of E. E. Wiswell & Son. He is a Republican in his political affiliations, and has been town treas- urer, superintendent of schools, and selectman. He attends the Congregational church, and is secretary and treasurer of the Sunday school. He is active in fraternalism, a member of Warren Lodge, No. 2, of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, East Machias, of which he is worshipful master, this being the second oldest Masonic lodge in the state; of Warren Chapter, No. 56, Royal Arch Masons, of East Machias; was accorded the Knight Templar degrees in St. Elmo Commandery, No. 18, received into the Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, in Flora Temple. He is president of the Washington Academy Alumni Associa- tion. He married Grace A., daughter of Charles E. and Annie Martin, of Whiting, Maine, on January 4, 1905. They have no children.

Mr. Wiswell's mother comes from Thomas Gardner (I), who sailed from Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England, in 1623, with fourteen others, in a small vessel fitted out by "The Western Adventurers," and landed at Cape Ann. He was to oversee the planting in the

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colonies, and for that reason has sometimes been called the first governor of Massachu- setts. In 1626 those who remained of the colony removed to "Nahum Keike," the aboriginal name of what was afterwards Sa- lem, Massachusetts, named, it is said, by this Thomas Gardner. Of the Gardners in Eng- land very little is known, but it was a Dorset- shire family for three centuries prior to 1600. Thomas was a member of the general court in 1637, and was very prominent in town' affairs throughout his life, and had extensive grants of land in Salem and Danvers. He married Margaret Fries, in England, and (second) the widow Demarias Shattuck, who died Septem- ber 28, 1674, and he the following October.

(II) Samuel, son of Thomas and Margaret (Fries) Gardner, was born about 1627. He was a merchant in Salem, and a member of the board of selectmen when the deed of the land where the city of Salem now stands, was given to the Indians in 1686. He was a mem- ber of the general court in 1681-82-85. He married Mary, daughter of Elizabeth ( Her- bert) and John White, a granddaughter of John Herbert, mayor of Northampton, Eng- land. After her death he married the widow Elizabeth Paine. He died October, 1689, eight children surviving him: Jonathan, Joseph, Thomas, Abel, Samuel, Elizabeth Waters, Sa- rah Osborne and Mary Waters.

(III) Abel, fourth son of Samuel and Mary (White) Gardner.

(IV) Thomas, son of Abel Gardner, was baptized October 14, 1705. He died in 1753, with the following survivors : Eunice, Thomas, Mary, Ebenezer, Sarah and Israel.

(V) Ebenezer, second son of Thomas Gard- ner, was born September 4, 1737, a potter by trade, residing at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He received a grant of land in "Ark-Paque," Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, from which the Acadians had been expelled. On the breaking out of the revolution he remained loyal to the colonists, and was a member of the committee of safety, who went to Boston to urge an energetic campaign to protect the faithful in the provinces. For this reason, shortly after his return he was obliged to flee the country, his wife and family follow- ing, suffering fearful exposure and hard- ships, to Machias, Maine, in 1776. For his patriotic services he received a grant of one thousand acres of land in 1785, near Bangor, Maine. He built a home at Machias below "The Falls," and married Damaris, daughter of Nathan and Susannah Merrill, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. She died February 5, 1837,

a nonegenarian, and he November 21, 1832, almost a centenarian. The family consisted of nine children.

(VI) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (I) and Damaris (Merrill) Gardner, was born January 21, 1763. He was a farmer, and lived at Hadley's Lake, Maine, and married January 21, 1803, Sally, daughter of William and El- len (Dillway) Albee. She was born Novem- ber 12, 1783, and died August 25, 1875, hav- ing completed ninety-two years. He died Feb- ruary 5, 1859. Children : Susannah, Thomas J., James A., Ebenezer, Thaxter, Lucinda, Lydia, Henry A., Raymond, Cyrus S., Julia R. She is now living, and the grandmother of Carl G. Wiswell. She married a Thomas Gardner, and became the mother of Edward P., and Emily Talbot, who married Elbert E. Wiswell, and was the mother of Carl Gardner Wiswell, of this sketch.

All the American Sanborns SANBORN are descended from three brothers who settled in Hampton in 1639. The surname is derived from the Anglo-Saxon words Sand and Burn (a stream), evidently a place-name before it became a family name, and it seems probable that the English progenitors who first used Sambourne, the original form of Sanborn, as their surname, were in Sambourne, in Wilt- shire. The earliest mention of the name in England, in 1194, gives it de Sandburne, but as early as 1330 it is commonly spelled Sam- borne and Sambourne, and since the four- teenth century these two forms have been the accepted spelling in England, the only two sur- viving branches in that country using them. The American progenitors spelled the name Samborn and Samborne, but gradually the name has been changed to Sanborn, the form accepted generally by almost all of the Amer- ican descendants. In Illinois it is spelled San- born, and in Michigan, Sandburn.

The Sanborn or Sambourne coat-of-arms : Argent, a chevron sable, between three mullets gules, pierced or. Crest : A mullet as in the arms. The Sambourne ancestry has been traced by V. C. Sanborn, compiler of the gene- alogy, to Nicholas Sambourne, of Wiltshire, in 1320. Nicholas Sambourne was born about 1320; probably held the fourth part of a knight's fee in Biddestone, St. Nicholas, Wilt- shire; represented Bath City at the parlia- ment held at Westminster November 3, 1391. His son, Nicholas Sambourne Jr., was born about 1350, held the fourth part of a knight's fee, mentioned above; was in parliament in

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1393-94; married Katherine, youngest daugh- ter and co-heir of Sir John Lushill, or De Lusteshull, who was connected with the House of Lancaster. A grandson, Walter Sambourne, born 1420, held Fernham and Lushill 'manors, but probably lived at Southcot House, near Reading, Berkshire ; married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Drew, of Seagry, Wilt- shire; she died in 1494, and her will is extant.

Nicholas Sambourne, son of Walter and Margaret Samborne, was born about 1450, and made his home in Mapledurham, Oxford- shire; married Elizabeth, daughter of John Brocas, of Beaurepaire, Hampshire; descend- ant of an ancient and honorable family, from which she inherited considerable property, in- cluding Timsbury, which the Sambornes oc- cupied. Timsbury House, now the most an- cient Samborne residence in England, is cele- brated for the interesting and artistic Tudor architecture. The house to-day is practically unchanged since 1542 except for minor alter- ations and repairs, and the loss of one wing by fire. The probable line of descent from this Nicholas to the American immigrants is given by the family historian as: Nicholas Samborne, born 1500; Edward, born about 1550; William, married Anne Bachiler, and was of Brimpton, Berkshire, in 1616, their sons Lieutenant John (mentioned below), William and Stephen being the three Ameri- can immigrants.

(I) Lieutenant John, son of William and Anne (Bachiler) Sanborn, of England, was born in England, in 1620. He appears in Hampton in 1640, when he was granted a house lot and tract of land there. He was a man of prominence in Hampton, was select- man many years; was often on committees to examine grants and establish boundaries ; was many times on the jury, and foreman of the grand jury in 1676; was ensign of the Hamp- ton company in 1677, and commissioned lieu- tenant October 15, 1679; was representative to the general court in 1685. He was one of the sufferers in the Cranfield and Mason per- secutions, and was imprisoned for resisting the claims of Mason. He died October 20, 1692, and his estate was inventoried November 2, 1692, at two hundred ninety-four pounds fourteen shillings. He married (first) Mary, daughter of Robert Tuck, of Gorlston, Suffolk and Hampton, New Hampshire. She died December 30, 1668, and he married (second) Margaret, widow of William Moulton, and daughter of Robert Page, of Ormsby, Norfolk and Hampton, New Hampshire. Children of first wife: I. John, born about 1649; see for-

ward. 2. Mary, born 1651, died 1654. 3. Abi-

gail, born February 23, 1653; married Ephraim Marston; died January 3, 1743. 4. Richard, born January 4, 1655; mentioned elsewhere. 5. Mary, born 1657; died 1660. 6. Joseph, born March 13, 1659. 7. Stephen, born 1661 ; died 1662. 8. Ann, born Novem- ber 20, 1662; married Samuel Palmer; died October 4, 1745. 9. Dinah, married James Marston. IO. Nathaniel, born January 27, 1666. II. Benjamin, born December 20, 1668. Child of the second wife: 12. Captain Jonathan, born May 25, 1672.

(II) John Sanborn, son of Lieutenant John Sanborn, born about 1649 at Hamp- ton, New Hampshire, died September 23, 1727. He was admitted a freeman April 25, 1678. He married, November 19, 1674, Ju- dith Coffin, born December 4, 1653, died May 17, 1724, daughter of Tristram Coffin, of Newbury. Children: 1. Judith, born August 8, 1675, married, December 2, 1692, Ebenezer Gove. 2. Mary, born July 2, 1677, married Ebenezer Stevens, and resided in Kingston. 3. Sarah, born May 8, 1679. 4. Deborah, born 1681, married (first) November 15, 1698, Samuel Fellows; (second) October 2, 17II, Benjamin Shaw. 5. John, born 1683. 6. Tris- tram, born 1684-85. 7. Enoch, born 1685. 8. Lydia, born February 24, 1687. 9. Peter, born 1689. 10. Abner, mentioned below.

(III) Abner, son of John Sanborn, born in Hampton, April 27, 1694, died January 18, 1780. He resided in Hampton Falls, and mar- ried, October 31, 1715, Rachel Shaw, daughter of Caleb Shaw, and sister of his brother's wife. His will, dated 1761, proved 1780, men- tions all the children except Judith, Jethro, Deborah and Peter. May 5, 1749, he deeded to his son an acre of land in Hampton Falls, on which the son then lived. Children: I. Caleb, born July 25, 1716. 2. Elizabeth, born March 5, 1718, married, April 12, 1744, Joseph Smith. 3. Rachel, born August 17, 1719, married, September 27, 1738, Jeremiah Ben- nett. 4. Daniel, born May 19, 1721. 5. John, born January 9, 1723, mentioned below. 6. Judith, baptized November 8, 1726. 7. Ab- ner, born August 3, 1726. 8. Jethro, born and died 1728. 9. Deborah, born 1729, died 1730. 10. Peter, born September 13, 1731, died young. II. Timothy, born June 9, 1733. 12. Mary, born July 5, 1735, married (first) Ephraim Philbrick; (second) July 18, 1776, William Blaisdell. 13. Coffin, born December 17, 1737.

(IV) John (2), son of Abner Sanborn, born at Hampton Falls, January 9, 1723, died

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December 6, 1802. He lived in Hampton Falls, Falmouth and Standish, Maine. He married (first) January 28, 1748, Lucy San- born, who died September, 1775. He married (second) 1784, Mrs. Betty Pierce, who died July, 1812. Children, the first five born at Hampton Falls, the last two at Falmouth, Maine: I. Lydia, born March 12, 1749, died unmarried September, 1775. 2. Peter, born July 9, 1751. 3. Susanna, born August 13, 1753; married (first) November 19, 1791, Enoch Linnell; (second) John Pierce; died in Standish, March 25, 1840. 4. Lucy, born Oc- tober 19, 1755, married, February, 1782, Jo- seph Dow; died September, 1836. 5. John, born October 15, 1757, mentioned below. 6. Rufus, born February 5, 1760, died 1762. 7. Rachel, born July 19, 1762, married, April 25, 1785, Rev. Benjamin Ayer.

(V) Captain John (3), son of John (2) Sanborn, born in Hampton Falls, October 15, 1757, died October 16, 1827. He resided in Standish, Maine. He was a soldier in the rev- olution and served in Captain Pike's command from Cumberland county. He is said to have served also four years under Colonel Cilley. He was enlisted as from Pepperellborough, Maine. He received a pension. He married, December 3, 1782, Abigail Jones, of Standish, who died October 19, 1832. Children: I. Pierce, born September 17, 1783. 2. Mercy, born February II, 1786, died 1786. 3. Mercy, born February 28, 1787, married, April 26, 1810, Weare Cram; died September 28, 1855. 4. Lucy, born September 1, 1789, married, De- cember 23, 1810, Jabez Dow. 5. John, born July 7, 1791. 6. Joseph, born June 14, 1793. 7. Asa, born May 5, 1795. 8. Abigail, born July 31, 1797, married, April 13, 1836, Matthias Hutchinson. 9. Susan, born July 23, 1799, married, July 19, 1822, Thomas Cram Jr. 10. Warren, mentioned below.

(VI) Captain Warren, son of Captain John Sanborn, born in Standish, Maine, May 5, 1802, died March 20, 1844. He was a far- mer and lumberman in Standish and Monroe, Maine, and operated a saw mill. He was cap- tain of the militia. He was a prominent man. He married, January 1, 1822, Jane Warren, born. June 22, 1807, died March 17, 1875, daughter of Samuel Warren, of Standish. Children: I. Aravesta D., born March 14, 1830, married Henry P. Waldron, of Liming- ton, Maine. 2. Melintha S., born April 28, 1832, married John H. Davis, of Standish. 3. John Warren, born March 21, 1835. 4. Bigelow Thatcher, born July 11, 1839, men-

tioned below. 5. Orville Scott, born May 31, 1841.

(VII) Dr. Bigelow Thatcher, son of Cap- tain Warren Sanborn, was born in Standish, July 1I, 1839. He was reared on his father's farm and from early youth was acquainted with the hard labor of the farmer. He at- tended the select schools and the Limington Academy. He began the study of medicine at home, and in 1863. entered the Portland Med- ical School, changing to the medical school of Bowdoin College, after a time, and graduated with honors in 1866. By recommendation of the medical faculty he was chosen immediately after graduation as first assistant physician of the Maine State Insane Hospital. Two years later he became assistant superintendent under Superintendent Dr. H. M. Harlow, and in 1882, when Dr. Harlow retired, he succeeded him. Not satisfied with the knowledge and experience acquired in his sixteen years in the Maine Hospital, Dr. Sanborn spent several months visiting and investigating similar insti- tutions. At that time the institution contained two hundred patients, while now there are eight hundred and fifty. In every department of the institution there has been a three-fold increase or more. Dr. Sanborn has had charge of the institution during this period of expan- sion, has planned the new buildings and addi- tions to the older structures and equipped and furnished the buildings, in co-operation with the trustees. One of the large buildings of the hospital was named Sanborn Hall by the trus- tees to show their appreciation of his effi- ciency and ability. In no respect has the change in the treatment of the unfortunate victims of mental disease been more notice- able than in the increase of the comforts and minor pleasures of life introduced in the hos- pital. The grounds are artistically laid out with trees, shrubbery and flowers in profusion. The interior is decorated with works of art, and the same degree of comfort, of substan- tial food and pleasant quarters that could be secured in an ordinary hotel. The estimated cost of the institution in 1882 was about four hundred thousand dollars, while its present value is twelve hundred thousand. Dr. San- born is chairman of the committee for Insane Criminals. He advocated the appropriation for the separate building for treatment of criminal insane before conviction in addition to the main buildings.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 89

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

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