Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 9

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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(For early generations see preceding sketch.) (V) Stephen, son of Samuel TWOMBLEY (2) Twombly, was born 1750-60, at Dover. He set- tled in Rochester, New Hampshire. He was baptized, an adult, while on his sick bed, May 12, 1800, and his three children-Stephen, Ann and Betty-were baptized in the Rochester church, which he joined at that time, June 19, 1800. Children, born at Rochester : I. Nancy (Anna), September 2, 1788, married Daniel Hoyt, of Rochester ; died December, 1858. 2. Lucy, November 25, 1790, died April 30, 1791. 3. James, July 24, died December 16, 1795. 4. Betsey (or Betty), January 17, 1796, married Nahum Corson, who died October 2, 1845. 5. Mary, February 13, 1798, died August 18, 1798. 6. Stephen, mentioned below.

(VI) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (I) Twombly, was born in Rochester, January 13, 1800, and died in early manhood, in 1836. He married Olive Plummer, of Rochester. They settled in Lebanon, Maine. Their only child : Joseph B., mentioned below.

(VII) Joseph B., son of Stephen (2), was born in Lebanon, Maine, June 10, 1831. He

was educated in the public schools of Lebanon and Rochester. When he was eighteen he joined the gold seekers and sailed in 1849 for California from Newburyport, in the brig "Arkansas," Captain Coffin, rounding Cape Horn. He remained in California a year and a half. In 1851 he returned to Great Falls, New Hampshire, and for a time followed the sea in fishing boats from Gloucester to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Grand Banks. Early in the civil war he enlisted in Company H, Ninth Regiment of Volunteers, Captain James Edgerly, and was mustered into serv- ice at Concord, New Hampshire. He took part in the battles of South Mountain and Fredericksburg, where he was wounded. He was sent to a Philadelphia hospital and later returned home to recuperate. He was dis- charged with the rank of sergeant. He en- listed in the navy and was gunner's mate at the battle of Fort Fisher, under Lieutenant (afterwards Admiral) Dewey. After the war he returned to Rochester and entered the employ of Wallace Brothers, boot and shoe manufacturers, and continued with the same concern for a period of thirty years. During most of that time he was at the head of the sole leather department. In politics Mr. Twombly was a Republican. He was a member of the Congregational church of Rochester, and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married (first) Almira H. Randall, born 1836, at Som- ersworth, died 1869. He married (sec- ond) Mary Jane Junkins, born 1832, died 1897, daughter of John Earle and widow of Horace Junkins. He married (third) a sister of his second wife. Children of first wife: I. Harriet Elizabeth, born 1862, died December 25, 1905. 2. William J., born 1863. 3. Ed- win Dow, mentioned below.

(VIII) Edwin Dow, son of Joseph B. Twombly, was born in Rochester, New Hamp- shire, May 1, 1865. He attended the public schools of his native town, graduated at the Rochester high school, and was in Phillips Academy, Exeter, for three years. He en- tered the newspaper business as correspond- ent and special writer for various New York and Boston dailies. In 1889 he established the South Berwick Life, at South Berwick, Maine. In 1892 he sold his newspaper and went to Minneapolis, where he was on the staff of the Minneapolis Times and Journal. While there he was injured in an accident and has never fully recovered. In 1898 he established the Old York Transcript, of which he is still the owner and editor. He is well known through-

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out York county as a writer of recognized ability. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the executive committee of the Maine Press Association. He married. Octo- ber, 1889, Elizabeth, daughter of Alonzo Stackpole, of South Berwick, Maine, descend- ant of an old colonial family of Kittery, Maine. Children: I. Beatrice R., born November 5, 1890, in Rollinsford, New Hampshire. 2. Philip V., September, 1894, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 3. Elizabeth H., November, 1907.

The name of Twombley or TWOMBLEY Twambley appears early in New Hampshire. Ralph Twombley was of Dover, in 1656. His will was made February 28. 1685, and probated October 7, 1686. By his wife Elizabeth, as shown by the will, he had children: John, Ralph, Joseph, Mary, Elizabeth. Hope, Sarah, Esther and William. Nathaniel Twombley is mentioned as of Dover, in 1658, but nothing further is heard of him. From Ralph are sprung all or nearly all of the name in New Hampshire and in Maine.

(I) Ephraim Twombley was born in 1782, died July 29, 1833, and was buried in the Eastern cemetery, Portland. He was a farmer and resided the principal part of his life in Berwick. In politics he was a Democrat, and in religious faith a Unitarian. He was a captain in the militia. He married Abigail Samson, who was born in Portland and died there, aged seventy-two years, and was buried in Eastern cemetery. They had four children : I. Fred, born February, 1802, died single, January 28, 1877. 2. Mary Ann, died at forty-five years of age. 3. Elizabeth Janet, born 1811, died in 1899. She married Colonel Charles F. Little, who was born 1815, and died in 1865. They had one child, Georgie, who married John Lowell and had one child, Payson Tucker Lowell. Payson T. married Bawn Carmen and has three children: Bea- trice, John and Payson. 4. Leonard William, mentioned below.

(II) Leonard William, youngest child of Ephraim and Abigail (Samson) Twombley, was born in Portland in 1819, and died in that city May 15, 1873. He was educated in the public schools, after leaving which he learned the trade of painter and decorator, and fol- lowed that occupation successfully for twenty years, and retired from business on account of failing health, having accumulated a handsome property. He was a Democrat in politics, but never sought office or took a conspicuous part in public affairs. In religious affiliation he

was a Swedenborgian. He married, in Gor ham Village, Eliza A. Cressey, who was bor in Gorham, May 21, 1831, who survives hin and resides in Portland. Her parents wer James and Hannah (Hasty) Cressey. (Se Cressey. V.) Mr. and Mrs. Twombley ha no children.

SHAW Of the disproportionately larg number of Shaws who settled i the New England colonies befor 1650, Roger Shaw, if in New England as earl as 1630, as claimed, is the earliest. To him multitude of their descendants trace thei lineage.

(I) Roger Shaw, immigrant, came to thi country about 1630. The compiler of th "Shaw Notes" gives him as the son of Ralp. Shaw. The Register of St. Peter's, Cornhill London, England, has the following entry "1594, Sept. Ist, Sunday. Christening o Roger Shaw, sonne of Ralph Shaw, Vintnor at the Sunne on Cornhill, born Monday, 26t of August." By this record the occupation o Ralph was that of "Vintnor," and Roger th immigrant was a vintner and keeper of a ordinary. The similarity of occupations tend to prove this relationship. Roger Shaw firs settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was in at tendance on the general court in 1636, wa made freeman in 1638, having bought on hundred acres of land and built a house of Arrow street. He served on the jury 1639 was town clerk 1640, and selectman 1641-45 Roger's name appears among the petitioner for the incorporation of Hampton, New Hamp shire. The town was incorporated 1639. H bought land of John Crosse in the new tow in 1640; in 1647 he was granted a large trac of land of King Charles First; in 1648 sol his property in Cambridge and removed t Hampton. He was a very prominent man was representative to the general court 1651 53, selectman 1649 and 1654, and filled man other offices, was appointed commissioner fo trying small cases 1651, was chairman of committee to re-examine the book of town land grants, and to lay out highways 1658 He was vintnor and keeper of the ordinary and was authorized by the general court to sell liquors. He died May 29, 1661. Hi first wife Ann was the mother of all his chil dren. He married (second) Susanna Tilton widow of William Tilton, of Lynn. His chil dren were: Margaret, Joseph, Ann, Esther Mary (died young), Benjamin and Deliver ance.

(II) Benjamin, youngest son of Roge

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Shaw, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1641. He lived with his father on the home- stead, but was also a merchant and blacksmith. His account book is still in existence, and is an interesting relic of this very remarkable man. As soon as possible after the first saw- mill was built in that region (about 1658), he built a new frame house, which was con- structed so as to be used as a garrison in times of war-was two stories in height and was afterwards enlarged and improved by his son Edward, but early in the fifties of the last century it was demolished by his descendants to make room for a modern structure. His name appears on the list of voters prepared by the president and council in 1680, from that of the selectmen of each town in New Hamp- shire when it was a royal province, each one named therein being eligible to the office of councilman and privileged to vote in their meetings. He is said to have had great in- genuity and skill in mechanics, and though the possessor of great wealth for those days, made the gravestone which still marks his grave. In his will dated December 26, 1717, he mentions five sons and six daughters; he died, accord- ing to family records, December 31, 1717, but according to the inscription on his gravestone, January 17, 1718. His widow Esther was generously remembered in his will, and lived on the homestead with her son Edward, the two being named therein as executors of that instrument. He married, May 25, 1663, Esther, daughter of Ezekiel and Susannah Richardson. She died May 16, 1736, at the age of ninety-six years. Their twelve chil- dren were: Mary, Esther, Sarah, Abigail, Ruth, Benjamin, Roger, Joseph, Edward (died young), Edward, John and Hannah.

(III) John, eleventh child and sixth son of Benjamin and Esther (Richardson) Shaw, was living at the time of his father's death, and received a bequest in his will made in 1717. There is no further record of him.

"John Shaw, who died in Holderness, New Hampshire, at the age of 103 yrs., is said to have come from England to New Hampshire early in the 18th century, and settled in that part of Durham which was incorporated Jan. 6, 1766, as the town of Lee. In spite of this tradition, however, after a large and fruitless search for particulars regarding the fate of John, the son of Benjamin Shaw, the youngest son of Roger Shaw, immigrant from England prior to 1636, who was remembered in his father's will made in 1717, but never after- ward traced with any certainty by genealo- gists," says Harriette F. Farwell, compiler of

the "Shaw Records," "it is believed that the latter may yet be identified as the John first mentioned above, having moved from Hamp- ton, N. H., where Roger and his son Ben- jamin, with others to localities theretofore un- settled and farther removed from the seacoast and civilization. The date of this son's birth must have been between 1680 and 1690." John Shaw, of Lee, New Hampshire, was a man of sterling qualities morally, and of the most vigorous constitution physically-never having been sick a day in his life, passing away sud- denly and painlessly at the close of a day's la- bor at chopping wood. When in his one hun- dredth year he made a profession of religion and was baptized, being then in full possession of all his mental and physical faculties. He married Mercy Vernet, and though little has been ascertained concerning the family of this couple, they were known to have had four sons : John, Samuel, Daniel and George.

(IV) Daniel, son of John and Mercy ( Ver- net) Shaw, was born in Lee, New Hampshire, and lived in Lee and Tamworth. He married in Kittery, Maine, Elizabeth Staples, by whom he had eight children, whose names follow, though they are not known to be recorded in their natural order: James, Olive, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, Hannah, Samuel and Noah.

(V) Daniel (2), third child and second son of Daniel (I) (the History of Industry, Maine, calls him Samuel) and Elizabeth (Staples) Shaw, was born in Lee, Strafford county, New Hampshire, April 16, 1784, and died in Industry, November 28, 1852. He removed to Industry, Maine, about the time of his mar- riage, and settled and made a farm of several hundred acres. He was a man of much busi- ness ability and held in high esteem by his townsmen. He became an extensive drover and dealer in country produce, which he often shipped east to the British Provinces, from Wiscasset, or to such other points as prom- ised the most favorable market. He had thus accumulated about $10,000 in ready money when the great land speculation craze of 1835 occurred. Though naturally very cautious in business transactions, he was at length drawn into speculative transactions from which he emerged a ruined man. He moved to Bangor about 1836, and continued in the stock and produce business in connection with farming. He married in Kittery, February 7, 1814, Elizabeth Staples, born March 9, 1787, and died in Industry, July 29, 1827. He married (second) (published June 10, 1831), Alice (Lewis) Fernald, widow of Jonathan Fernald, of Cherryfield, Maine. She died in Bangor,

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April 8, 1860. His children, all by first wife, were: Albert, Daniel, Sarah Gilman, Benja- min Gilman, Emily Newell, Milton Gilman, two sons (died young), Adeline and Mehit- able.

(VI) Milton Gilman, sixth child and fourth son of Daniel (2) and Elizabeth (Staples) Shaw, was born in Industry, December 31, 1820, and died in Bath, December 18, 1903. He lived on the farm his father had cleared until he was twenty-five years old. When a young man, just setting out in life, he went to Chicago, performing a large part of the jour- ney on foot. At that time the great metropolis of the west was but a small place and offered him no inducement to stay, and he returned to Maine. In 1841 he went into the woods and engaged in farming and lumbering at Green- ville and at Flagstaff, where Benedict Arnold camped and raised his flag on his famous march to Quebec. Mr. Shaw's first work was for his brothers, Albert and Daniel, the latter afterward became prominent on the Chippewa river in Wisconsin, and it was not till 1845 that he began business for himself. In the fall of that year he located at Greenville, on the southern end of Moosehead Lake, which was ever afterward the headquarters of his operations. His business was logging and sell- ing logs, both pine and spruce, and he lived there forty years, engaged also in farming and commercial pursuits. In 1849 he began buying land. He bought with others and for himself alone. He did not begin the manu- facture until 1883, when he with his sons went to Bath to build the now massive Shaw mill which gives constant employment to eighty men and annually manufactures several mil- lion feet of logs into long and short lumber, such as boards, clapboards, shingles and lath. Mr. Shaw had many partners during his long business career, but his associates in his later years were his sons, Charles D., Albert H. and William M., the second named, Albert H., was general manager of the Bath business, the other two residing at Greenville. The M. G. Shaw Lumber Company was incorporated in 1897, with Milton G. Shaw, president, Albert H. Shaw, treasurer and manager, and William M. Shaw, clerk. Mr. Shaw's lumbering ex- perience covered the whole of what may be called, for lack of a better term, the modern history of lumbering in Maine. When he be- gan his career in the early forties the pine on the Moosehead had been pretty well culled. During the first four years, during which he was working for his brothers, from 1841 to 1845, when he began logging on his own ac-

count, began the felling of spruce, the latter being soon the most important part of the business, though some pine has been cut every year down to this date. As before stated, Mr. Shaw's first purchase of land was in 1849, when he bought a half-interest in fifteen hun- dred acres at twenty-five cents an acre. Shortly after that, he with ex-Governor Coburn, Jo- seph Bradstreet, Elias Milliken and a Mr. Drummond, bought land for which they paid $1.25 and $1.50 an acre. Those lands, after being cut over again, are now worth $3 to $5 an acre, and some of them more. In the early fifties the best pine then remaining on Moose- head waters could be bought for about a dollar a thousand. Now the timber, cutting every- thing of log size, and with very little pine in it, is worth $3 to $6 a thousand. When Mr. Shaw began his operations the sawmills were equipped with the old style sash saw. Later came the Muley and gang, and it was not until about 1860 that the rotary or circular saw began its appearance in the mills of Maine. Later still came the band, which is now the leading sawing tool in all the larger mills. For more than sixty years Mr. Shaw was a prominent figure on Moosehead lake and the Kennebec river. His logs went steadily to market every year after 1845, and he not only built up a handsome fortune for himself, but in the timber holdings of himself and the com- pany there was the foundation for a business of indefinite duration. One of his sons, in speaking of the matter, said: "At our present rate we shall never cut our timber." The rule adopted by the company in logging was to cut nothing less than eight inches in top diameter in twenty-foot lengths or seven inches in diam- eter in thirty-foot lengths. This means prac- tically twelve inches on the stump. The effi- cacy of this method of logging is shown by the fact that Mr. Shaw cut several times over the same land. Coupled with this method of fell- ing was an exceptional degree of care in guarding against fire, with the result that a very few thousand dollars-perhaps a few hun- dred dollars-would cover the entire loss by forest fires. "Mr. Shaw was also interested in Maine hotels on an extensive scale during his life, having built the Moosehead House .at Greenville with Josiah Hinckley, his father-in- law. This hotel was successfully conducted until at last it burned. Mr. Shaw then built a new and much larger hotel on the same site which he conducted for a year. He was also interested in the great industrial development at Rumford Falls several years ago, and be- sides erecting the largest hotel in the place, he

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also owned a large amount of real estate there. While a resident of Greenville he did a great deal in the way of building up the town, and filled at different times all the town offices of any importance, and was a member of the Maine legislature in 1859. He was a strong, conservative business man, keeping close con- trol of his vast business interests until about ten days before his death. He was for many years president of the First National Bank of Bath, and was also a director in the Bath Trust Company and the Rumford Falls Trust Company.

Milton G. Shaw married, in Greenville, June 6, 1847, Eunice Spinney, born in In- dustry, Maine, January 6, 1824, daughter of Josiah and Nancy (Williams) Hinckley, of Industry. Children, born in Greenville: I. Mellen, May 27, 1849, married, September 19, 1875, M. Ella Mitchell; he died March 4, 1880. 2. Ellen, February 1, 1851, died April 20, 1863. 3. Charles D., April 5, 1852, married, October 25, 1875, Clara F. Norcross. 4. Frank, June 27, 1855, died May 16, 1867. 5. Fred (twin to Frank), June 27, 1855, died January 27, 1856. 6. Albert H., April 21, 1857, married, August 19, 1879, Martha E. Mansell, and resides in Bath; he was engaged in lumbering and mercantile business with his father. 7. William M., March 3, 1861, mar- ried, October 24, 1885, Ida J. Mansell, and was a member of the firm of M. G. Shaw & Sons. 8. George M., February 20, 1863, died the following August. 9. Mary Emma, Sep- tember 6, 1865, married, October 19, 1892, Frederick H. Kimball, and resides in Bath.

MAXCY This name is also spelled Maxey and Maxy in the Massachusetts records, and the family were quite numerous around Attleboro in the early part of the eighteenth century. The most noted member of the family in early times was Rev. Jonathan Maxcy, second president of Brown University, of Rhode Island. Among the other members of the family are to be found soldiers, physicians and other profes- sional men.

(I) Alexander Maxcy, with his children and his wife Abigail, removed from Gloucester to Attleboro, Massachusetts, about 1721, and there became proprietor of a public house ; he died September 20, 1723. He had five chil- dren : Alexander, Joseph, Josiah, Mary and Benjamin. Josiah married Mary Everett and had eleven children; his second son, Levi, be- came the father of Dr. Jonathan Maxcy, who became president of Brown University at the

early age of twenty-four years, and of Virgil P., who graduated from Brown University.

(II) Joseph, son of Alexander and Abigail Maxcy, was a resident of Attleboro, Massa- chusetts. He had a son Benjamin and prob- ably others.

(III) Lieutenant Benjamin, son of Joseph Maxcy, was born May II, 1740, at Attleboro, Massachusetts, and in 1791 moved to Union, Maine, where he died July 26, 1791. He mar- ried (first) Sarah Fuller, by whom he had three children, and (second) Amy, daughter of Nathaniel Ide, of Attleboro, by whom he had four children. Amy (Ide) Maxcy was drowned in May, 1793, at Union, Maine. Lieutenant Benjamin's children were: I. Ma- jor Joseph. 2. Josiah. 3. Benjamin, born July 16, 1772, married Esther Fuller. 4. Sally, born November 20, 1778, married Ebenezer Daggett. 5. Lydia, born March 26, 1780, was drowned at the same time as her mother. 6. Harvey, born April 30, 1782-83, married Sally Eastman. 7. Amy, born October 26, 1784, married Joel Reed.

(IV) Josiah, second son of Lieutenant Ben- jamin and Sarah (Fuller) Maxcy, was born July 25, 1766, and removed to Maine from Attleboro, Massachusetts ; he died October 4, 1829. He married (first) Chloe, daughter of Mayhew Daggett, born April 15, 1769, at At- tleboro, Massachusetts, and drowned in May, I793. He married (second) in 1794, Sally Pickering. In 1811 Mr. Maxcy removed from Union to Warren, Maine, where he died. His children were: I. Smith. 2. Chloe, mar- ried Jason Davis. 3. Ward, married Mary Jones. 4. Harvey, born March 8, 1801, mar- ried Olive Andrews. 5. Mary, married Will- iam Andrews. 6. Anna, married Addison Libbey. 7. Daniel, married Catherine Blood. 8. Micajah G., married (first) Elizabeth Blood, (second) Nancy Walker and (third) Mrs. Sarah Leach.

(V) Smith, eldest son of Josiah and Sally (Pickering) Maxcy, was born February 3, 1795, died November 14, 1872; in 1838 he re- moved to Gardiner, Maine. He married (first) in 1819, Clarissa Boggs, who died in 1839, and (second) Mary F. Crane. His children were: Josiah, Ira, Angelina, Matilda and San- ford.

(VI) Captain Ira, second son of Smith and Clarissa (Boggs) Maxcy, was a sea captain, and married Sarah A., daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Day) Fuller; he died October 7, 1869, and his wife October 25, 1869, both of them being about eighty years of age. Thomas Fuller, born February 29, 1789, was

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a son of Edward and Mary (Jones) Fuller, who were the parents of eight other children, namely: Abigail, born 1773; Olive, 1778; Catherine, 1780; Edward, 1783; Allen, 1786; Samuel, 1792 ; Francis, 1793 ; Charles S., 1796. Edward Fuller was born December 28, 1746, at Barnstable, removed to Gardiner, Maine, 1781, married, December 26, 1771, Mary Jones, and died July 9, 1831. He traces his ancestry through John (V), John (IV), John (III), Matthew (II), Edward (I).

(VII) Frederick E., son of Captain Ira and Sarah A. (Fuller) Maxcy, born May 15, 1853, at Gardiner, Maine, died Washington, D. C., December 25, 1908. He entered the medical department of Bowdoin College in 1875, and in 1879 graduated with degree M. D., after which he served a year as interne in the Maine Gen- eral Hospital, and then took up the practice of his profession, being located in Saco, Maine, for eleven years. In 1891 Dr. Maxcy settled in Washington, where he earned for himself a reputation for skill in his profession, and where he had a large circle of friends. In 1896 he took a course at the New York Post Graduate School of Medicine. He took thirty- two degrees in Masonry, was a member of LaFayette Lodge, No. 19, of Washington, was past high priest of Eureka Chapter, and be- longed to De Molay Commandery of Knights Templar. He was a Republican, was a mem- ber of the Unitarian church, and belonged to the University Club, Medical Society of Wash- ington and American Medical Society. For the last seventeen years Dr. Maxcy was medical examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He married Estelle A., daughter of John Gilpatrick, of Saco, Maine, January 26, 1882, and two children were born to them: I. Caro Estelle, born October 30, 1886, graduated from Gunston Hall College, of Washington, and married James R. Hewitt, of Louisville, Kentucky ; he is treasurer of a mercantile house in Baltimore, Maryland. 2. Kenneth Fuller, born July 27, 1889, attended the public schools of Washington, and in 1907 entered George Washington University, pre- paring for the study of medicine.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 9

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