Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 92

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

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(V) Jonathan, son of John (2) Alden, was born in 1733, and lived in Bridgewater. He died February 18, 1825, aged ninety-three. He married (first) in 1766, Experience, daughter of Cornelius Washburn; (second) Hannah, daughter of Thomas Greene, and widow of Thomas White. Children of first wife: I. Mehitabel, born 1767. 2. Joanna. 3. Isaac, born October 19, 1771. 4. Daniel, March 3, 1773. 5. Ezra. 6. John, mentioned below. Children of second wife. 7. Samuel Greene. 8. Joseph, died young. 9. Cyrus, born May 30, 1783. 10. Mary. II. Jonathan, removed to New York state.

(VI) John (3), son of Jonathan Alden,

was born in Bridgewater, December 15, 1775, and settled in Auburn, Maine. He married Deborah, daughter of Benjamin Robinson. Children, all born in East Bridgewater : I. Benjamin, mentioned below. 2. Mary. 3. Sylvina. 4. Charles.

(VII) Benjamin, son of John (3) Alden, was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and removed with the family to Auburn, Maine, where he died in 1879. He had a common school education, and followed farming through his active life. He was in- dustrious and successful in business, and prominent in public life. He filled various offices of trust and honor with great faithful- ness and ability. He married Sally, daughter of Luther Tirrell; children : Asa Alfred, born July 12, 1826, died June 20, 1897; Angerone, born December 8, 1832, died January 5, 1856; Nelson Hayes, see forward.

(VIII) Nelson Hayes, son of Benjamin Al- den, was born in North Auburn, Maine, March 31, 1836, and died in Auburn, Febru- ary 13, 1899. He was educated in the public schools of Turner and Auburn, Maine, and learned the shoemaker's trade. He worked for various manufacturers, and for several years was superintendent of a boot and shoe factory at West Auburn. In politics he was an ear- nest and active Republican, of large influence in his party, but he never sought office for himself. Throughout his life was a constant attendant at the Free Baptist church, and a willing worker in the church to the extent of his means and ability. He married (first) El- len Briggs; (second) Esther Clapp, born January 25, 1849, at East Wilton, daughter of Luther R. Chaney, of East Wilton, Maine. Children of first wife: I. Bert L., born March 17, 1860, at North Auburn, died Jan- uary, 1904, at Auburn ; married Carrie E. Co- burn; child: Everett Willis, born at Auburn, October 2, 1891. 2. Alice, born June 17, 1864; married Dr. C. F. McDonald, of Boston. Child of second wife: 3. Harley Roscal, mentioned below.

(IX) Harley Roscal, son of Nelson Alden, was born in Auburn, Maine, July 4, 1876, and was educated there in the public schools and the University of Maine. He then took up the study of pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, receiving his degree as Doctor of Pharmacy in 1901. He was with the drug firm of Pollard & Company, Philadelphia, for four years, and pharmacist in the City Hos- pital of Philadelphia during the next two years. He was in business as a druggist from 1905 to 1907 at Portland, Maine, and in May,

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1907, bought the drug store of Thomas & Lunt, at Freeport, Maine, where he now re- sides. In politics Dr. Alden is a Republican. In religion he is a Baptist. He is a member of the College of Pharmacists, the Kappa Sigma and Phi Chi fraternities, and is a Ma- son. He married, May 24, 1905, Lydia Scott Watson, of Milford, Delaware. They have two children: Elizabeth Elwood, born in Portland, Maine, June 29, 1906 and Esther Priscilla, born in Freeport, Maine, October 19, 1907.

CLARY This name is said to have been originally written Cleary, Clery and O'Clery, and to have been derived from the Gaelic Cleirach, meaning a clerk, clergyman or writer. There was a noted family of O'Clerys, the historians, who lived at the Castle of Kilbarron, county Done- gal, Ireland. In the troublous times of early Irish history, this family dwelt in a lonely, insulated fortress where they devoted them- selves to the laborious preservation of the his- tory, poetry and antiquities of their people. It is possible that the patronymic Clary may have had another origin less primitive than that connected with these ancient historians. In the time of Charles the Second, when so many French Huguenots fled for protection to Eng- land and Ireland, we find the name of Clary among those which were naturalized at that period. There seems to have been but one early Clary in the Colonial history of this . country. We find from Savage's researches that John Clary, of Watertown, Massachu- setts, married Sarah Cady, February 5, 1644. They had a son, John (2), who married Ann Dickinson at Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1670, and the latter couple had three children : John (3), Joseph and Mary. It is probably from these antecedents that Rev. Joseph Clary, fourteenth pastor of the First Church at Dover, New Hampshire, is descended. This clergyman held his pastorate during the early part of the nineteenth century, and was con- nected with several historic families. Rev. Joseph Ward Clary was born at Rowe, Mas- sachusetts, in 1786, and married Anna, daugh- ter of Judge Timothy Farrar. Judge Farrar was for more than forty years a judge of the higher courts of New Hampshire, and lived to be one hundred and one years of age. He was for a long period the oldest living repre- sentative of Harvard, having survived all the revolutionary graduates of that institution.

(I) According to the History of New Ips-

wich, New Hampshire, William Clary or Mc- Clary and his brother Daniel settled in that town in 1751. They came originally from the north of Ireland, and first established them- selves in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, whence they moved to New Ipswich. Traditions about their fun-loving propensities and jokes are still extant, and their history seems closely inter- twined. Daniel Clary had a revolutionary rec- ord. He was one of the company who marched from New Ipswich before daylight on the morning of April 20, 1775; and two years later, May 8, 1777, we find that he marched three hundred miles in the expedition against Ticonderoga. At this time he served forty- eight days as a member of Captain Josiah Brown's company, Colonel Enoch Hale's regi- ment of militia. John Clary, eldest child of William, though only a boy of seventeen, en- listed in the same year as his Uncle Daniel. John Clary belonged to Captain Edmund Bri- ant's company, Colonel Daniel Moore's regi- ment, which marched from New Ipswich and joined the continental army from Saratoga. He served from September 28, 1777, to Octo- ber 25 of that year. According to the New Hampshire Rolls these are the only Clarys who had a revolutionary record, though the History of New Ipswich erroneously states that William and three of his sons marched to Concord at the time of the fight.

William Clary moved to Belfast, Maine, soon after the revolution. He had a wife Mar- garet, whose maiden name is unknown, and there were ten children, all born in New Ips- wich. The children were: John, born March 31, 1760, whose revolutionary service has been mentioned; William, April 26, 1763; Daniel, whose sketch follows; David, October 31, 1767 ; James, December 31, 1769; Isaac, March I, 1772; Jacob, April 9, 1775; Jacob S., Feb- ruary 20, 1776; Margaret, May 2, 1778; William, June 27, 1781.

Daniel Clary, brother to William, had a wife Catherine, whose maiden name is unknown, and there were six children: Barbary, born in 1767; Elizabeth, 1770; Margaret, 1772; Dan- iel, 1774; Sarah, 1776; Mary, 1778. Accord- ing to the History of New Ipswich, Daniel Clary met with an accidental death in conse- quence of his frolicsome spirit. At the raising of the barn of Deacon E. Adams in 1780, he climbed to the ridge-pole and undertook to stand on his head, as he had often done on those occasions. This time proved once too often, and he lost his balance and his life. One family tradition says that it was William and

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not Daniel, who was killed in this way; but the probabilities are that, in this instance, the History of New Ipswich is correct.

(II) Captain Daniel, third son of William and Margaret Clary, was born at New Ips- wich, New Hampshire, June 9, 1765, and died at Brooks, Maine, February 23, 1829. The History of Belfast, Maine, says that he came from Gorham about 1794, and settled at Clary's Point, now City Point, in Belfast. He lived some years at the Point, which was named for him, and his name appears two or three times in the history in connection with bounds of land. He probably moved to Brooks during his later years.

(III) James, son of Captain Daniel Clary, was born at Belfast, Maine, during the early part of the nineteenth century. He moved to Brooks, Maine, where he spent most of his life; but the date of his death is unknown. James Clary married Matilda Ellis, daughter of Joseph Ellis, of Brooks. They had seven children : Ellen, Nahum E., whose sketch fol- lows; James, Minda, Abbie, Charles and Alice. Mrs. Matilda (Ellis) Clary had a severe ex- perience in early life. When she was eigh- teen years of age a fire broke out which de- stroyed the whole village of Brooks, includ- ing the Ellis house. Matilda escaped by jump- ing from a window, but the other children and the hired man were burned to death.

(IV) Nahum Ellis, eldest son of James and Matilda (Ellis) Clary, was born at Brooks, Maine, April 5, 1844. He attended the public schools of that town till the breaking out of the civil war when he ran away and enlisted. Owing to his extreme youth, his father went out after him and brought him home. When he was nineteen, Nahum E. re-enlisted in the Twenty-sixth Maine Volunteers and served eleven months. Upon his return to Brooks he engaged in farming, which has been his chief occupation since. He is an Independent in politics, and has served as selectman for several years, and also as tax collector. Nahum Ellis Clary married Isadora Burns, daughter of Isaac Burns, of Waldo, Maine. Five chil- dren have been born to them; Albra J., Octo- ber, 1873; Isaac Burns, whose sketch follows; Birchard A., November 14, 1878; Matilda E., 1886, married Fred Littlefield, of Waldo; and Mildred, 1888.

(V) Isaac Burns, second son of Nahum E. and Isadora (Burns) Clary, was born May 2, 1877, at Brooks, Maine. He attended the pub- lic schools of Waldo, and was graduated from the Castine Normal school in the class of 1897. This educational course was not attained with-

out some difficulty. When a boy of seventeen, Isaac B. Clary left home to make his way in the world and started to go to normal school with only fifty dollars on hand; this sum he had saved from his work as messenger in court. By securing a place with Dr. Wheeler he pro- vided for his expenses, so that he was able to complete his.course. After graduation he en- tered upon canvassing and teaching, remain- ing two years in the latter occupation. At the end of this time he began reading law in the office of John Maxwell; but after two years of study he was convinced that a course in a law school would be of great assistance. Accord- ingly, he entered the Boston Law School, ac- complished in one year the course of three, and obtained his diploma in 1904. During this time he taught in the evening school at Chel- sea. The following year he returned to the law school, and in three months received his degree of B. A. He was admitted to the bar, February 18, 1904, and was admitted to the United States circuit court, December 2, 1906. Immediately after passing the state examina- tion, Mr. Clary began the practice of law at Livermore Falls, and since 1903 has been clerk and town treasurer. He is a Republican in politics, and attends the Baptist church. He belongs to the Blue Lodge, Masons, Royal Arch Chapter and Council. He is also a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias, and has filled all chairs. On August 10, 1899, Isaac Burns Clary married Cora Isabelle, daughter of Judge Cyrus and Ellen (Luce) Knapp, of Livermore Falls.

(For preceding generations see John Hill I.)

(IV) Edward Hill, youngest child

HILL of William and Elizabeth ( Buffum) Hill, was born in North Berwick, May 13, 1840. After concluding his studies at the South Berwick Academy he entered business life in New York City, where he ac- quired excellent training, and in 1871 became associated with his brother under the firm name of Charles E. Hill and Company, tea importers, having a branch office in Chicago. He continued in that business some fifteen years and selling his interest in the firm at the expiration of that time he went to England as foreign agent of Messrs. Daniel W. Richards and Company, iron dealers, of New York City, establishing his headquarters in Liver- pool. He was subsequently admitted to part- .nership and continued with this concern for six years. Disposing of his iron interest he accepted the position of purchasing agent for one of the Vanderbilt railroad lines and re-

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tained it for four years, during which time he resided in Cleveland, Ohio. He next became general sales agent of the Pickering Spring Company of New York, manufacturers of railway springs, with headquarters in the metropolis, and when that concern lost its identity through absorption by a "trust" or combination, he severed his connection with that business. Being a business man of rec- ognized integrity and varied practical experi- ence his ability was in demand, and his ser- vices were secured by the Composite Board Company, organized for the purpose of manu- facturing boards from wood pulp for inside finish. Elected president of this company by its board of directors he established an ex- tensive suite of offices in New York City, erected the company's plant at Niagara Falls and has ever since devoted his time and ener- gies to developing the business, which has now become both large and profitable. Mr. Hill resides in Yonkers-on-the-Hudson. Politi- cally he acts with the Republican party. In his religious belief he is a Universalist. He married, May 2, 1866, Ellen H. Hodgdon, daughter of Moses A. and Abigail Hodgdon, of Weare, New Hampshire (see Hodgdon). Children: I. Ellen Elizabeth, born in 1869, a graduate of Smith College. 2. Edward Buf- fum, 1879, a graduate of Yale University. 3. Anna May, 1881, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. 4. Abbie Gertrude, 1885, a gradu- ate of Bryn Mawr College.

HODGDON William Hodgdon, who was born in England, emigrated to New England in 1634. (N. B. The History of Weare, New Hamp- shire, gives no further information relative to this immigrant.)

(II) Jeremiah, probably a son of William Hodgdon, was residing in Portsmouth in 1661.

(III) Israel, son of Jeremiah Hodgdon, moved to Dover in 1696. He married Anna Wingate and had two children: Israel, see next paragraph; and Shadrack, born in 1709.

(IV) Israel (2), eldest son of Israel (I) and Anna (Wingate) Hodgdon, was born March 25, 1697. He lived on the west side of Back river in Dover. He married (first) Han- nah, daughter of John Hanson, of Dover4; (second) Mary Johnson, who died September 13, 1781. He died April 18, 1781. Of his first union there were three children : Sarah, Tim- othy and Caleb. Those of his second marriage were: Edward, Israel, Peter, John, Abigail and Moses.

(V) John, third son of Israel and Mary

(Johnson) Hodgdon, was born in Dover, April 22, 1745. He married Susannah, daugh- ter of Joseph and Elizabeth Hussey, of Som- ersworth, New Hampshire, in 1724, and re- moved to Weare about 1775. They had two children: Moses and Abigail.

(VI) Moses, eldest child of John and Su- sannah (Hussey) Hodgdon, was born in Dover, August 22, 1773. He married (first) Dorcas Neal Dow, in 1797; (second) Hannah Austin, who died October 10, 1859. His first wife bore him five children: Abigail, Mary, Susannah, Anna and Dorcas Neal; the only child of his second marriage was Moses Aus- tin.

(VII) Moses Austin, only child of Moses and Hannah (Austin) Hodgdon, was born June 7, 1817. He married (first) in 1842, Abigail, daughter of Israel and Anna (Aus- tin) Peaslee, and she died November 3, 1852. He married (second) 1859, Julia Anna, daughter of Enoch and Sophronia (Foster) Paige, of Danvers, Massachusetts. Of his first union there was one child, Ellen H.

(VIII) Ellen H., only child of Moses A. and Abigail ( Peaslee) Hodgdon, was born in Weare, June 29, 1844, married, May 2, 1866, Edward Hill (see Hill).

BRADLEY Joseph Bradley, immigrant ancestor, was born in London, England, in 1649, and settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1659. He mar- ried, April 4, 1691, Hannah Heath, of Haver- hill. The fifth garrison was in his house and under his command. During an Indian raid his son Isaac, aged fifteen, and Joseph Whit- taker, aged eleven, were taken captive while in the open fields near Joseph Bradley's house on Parsonage road near the north brook. Whit- taker's house was on the Derry road west of Bradley's. Joseph was large, overgrown and exceedingly clumsy. On their arrival at the Indian camp at the lake, the boys were placed in an Indian family, consisting of a man, squaw, and three or more children, the Indians intending to take them to Canada in the spring. Isaac contracted a fever, from which he nearly died, the kindness and care of the squaw alone saving his life. But upon his recovery he planned his escape, managed to get away with his companion and ran all night to the south- ward. The Indians of course pursued the boys, and next day their dogs found the wretched youngsters. They gave the meat they had taken for food to the dogs, and as the dogs knew the boys they gave no evidence of dis- covering the hiding place when their masters

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appeared, the boys being hidden in a hollow log. Some days later they came upon an In- dian camp and were greatly disheartened at running into this new danger. They contin- ued almost without food or clothing for eight days. On the morning of the eighth day Jo- seph sank down exhausted and his companion went forward alone. Soon afterward he dis- covered a settler's camp and returned to save him. Joseph was sick for a long time at Saco, but Isaac returned to Haverhill soon.

(I) Levi Bradley, descendant of Joseph Bradley, mentioned above, was a pioneer in Maine. He settled in Charleston. Among his children was Levi, mentioned below.

(II) Levi (2), son of Levi (I) Bradley, was born in Charleston. He was educated in the public schools, and early in life engaged in the lumber business, which he followed all his active years at Bangor, and was among the most prominent and successful men of his day. He married Annette Best. Children : I. Child, died in infancy. 2. Henry Russell, mentioned below.

(III) Henry Russell, only son of Levi (2) Bradley, was born in Bangor, October 29, 1861. He attended the public schools of his native city and at the Adams School in Bruns- wick, Maine, entering Bowdoin College, where he was graduated in the class of 1884. He went west and for two years engaged in lum- bering and the lumber trade at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He returned to Bangor and has continued in the same line of business since then. He incorporated his business in 1902 under the name of the Bradley Land and Lum- ber Company, of which he is the president and treasurer. He married Florence Merriman, daughter of J. P. Merriman, of Baltimore, Maryland. Children, born at Bangor: Mar- garet and Frances.

LAWRY This name is variously spelled Laurie, Lowrie, Laurey and Lawry. Garren Lawrie, William Penn and Nicholas Lucas were trustees of the patent of West New Jersey, the same being conveyed to them in trust to satisfy the cred- itors of Edward Byllinger in 1676. In Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, we find a record June, 1666, of the will of Francis Laurie dated November 6, 1665. His estate appears to have gone into the family-of his daughter Mary, who married John Neale, their son, Jeremiah, Neale, and no male descendant. Samuel Lawry, born probably in Friendship, Knox county, Maine, married Betsy Ann -; lived in Rock, Maine, a joiner. Gilbert Laurie,

of Boston, in 1686 went to Portsmouth, where he was a preacher in the absence of Mr. Moody. Robert Lawry was born in Friend- ship, Maine, September 10, 1799, and removed to Warren, Maine, in 1827. His first wife was Susan Spear, to whom he was married Janu- ary 4, 1827; his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Gay, the date of their marriage being Febru- ary 18, 1830, and his third wife Lucy L. Watts, their marriage taking place March 21, 1842. He resided in North Warren and the children by his first wife were: I. Belinda, born No- vember 16, 1827, married, in 1859, John Stud- ley, and lived in Union. 2. William, February 21, 1829, died August 21, 1831. By his second wife he had: 3. Robert M., January 4, 1832, married Emma K. Walker, of Hamden, Octo- ber 25, 1857, and resided in Thomaston, Maine. 4. Jane C., February 14, 1834, resided in Warren. The mother of these two children died October 6, 1841, aged forty-six years. His third wife had one child, William L., March I, 1844, married Emma J. Crawford, Novem- ber 20, 1874, and they resided in the family homestead at Warren. The children of Rich- ard M. Lawry were: Elwin H., 1859-60; Ir- win M., 1861-62; Alma J., born October 2, 1863, and Milton W., December 9, 1871, all born in Thurston, Maine. The child of Will- iam L. Lawry was: Minnie E., born in War- ren, October 18, 1875. It does not appear that the Lawrys above named are directly con- nected with the family from which Charles A. Lawry, of Fairfield, Connecticut, comes, but the information may help them in tracing the line of descent. The family is apparently of Scotch descent and the first New England families of Massachusetts represented by the immigrant, Francis Laurie, who made his will in 1666 and Gilbert Laurie, of Boston, who went to Portsmouth in 1686, are undoubtedly of the same family of Robert Lowry, of War- ren, Maine, and probably of Waterman Lawry, of Anson, Maine. For the purpose of this sketch, we begin with Otis W., son of Water- man Lawry.

(I) Otis W., son of Waterman Lawry, of Anson, Somerset county, Maine, was brought up in that town and learned the trade of tailor, being apprenticed to Gene Collins of his native town. He was a journeyman tailor for a time and he then removed to Fairfield, Maine, where he engaged in the clothing business in copartnership with Mr. Vickery, the firm name being Vickery & Lawry, merchant tailors and dealers in ready made clothing. His next ven- ture was made in the lumbering business, and at the same time with the proceeds from his

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interests in the clothing business which he sold he purchased the retail furniture business of F. P. Wing, which he continued up to the time of his death. He was a Democrat in politics, and his religious faith was that of the Universalist denomination of Christians. His fraternal affiliations were membership in Cy- lume Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, of Fairfield, Maine; the St. Omer Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Waterville, Maine. He married (first) Betsy Pelton, of Anson, and had one child, Silas T. Lawry, who died young. His wife died and he married (second) Rebecca T. Lozier, of Fairfield, Maine, and their children were: Maneria, Charles A. (q. v.), and John P. Lawry. Re- becca T. (Lozier) Lawry died in August, 1882, in Fairfield, and he married (third) Mary L. Churchill, a native of Vermont, and she died in Fairfield, Maine, childless. He died in Fair- field, July 31, 1888.

(II) Charles Ansel, son of Otis W. and Re- becca T. (Lozier) Lawry, was born in Fair- field, Maine, August 31, 1868. He attended the public schools of Fairfield, and became a clerk and salesman in the furniture store of his father, and at the death of his father in 1888 the business was left to his brother, John P. Lawry, and himself, although he, who was the elder, was not of age, and his brother three years from his majority. They established themselves as Lawry Brothers and on Novem- ber 19, 1907, caused the business to be incor- porated as the Lawry Brothers Company and John P. Lawry was elected president, and Charles Ansel Lawry treasurer of the corpora- tion. Mr. Lawry was elected a Democratic member of the school board of Fairfield, as- sessor of the corporation. He was initiated as a member of Cylume Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Fairfield, of which his father had been during his lifetime an hon- ored member, and he also became a member of Fairfield Lodge, No. 68, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was brought up in the Con- gregational church and Sunday school. He married, October, 1893, Hannah E., daughter of Emerson and Abby A. (Chase) Whitten, born in June, 1872. Children: Emerson C., born in Fairfield, Maine; Ormond W. and John A.

HANEY Among the old Maine families whose residence in that part of New England dates to the period of the revolutionary war is that of the sur- name Haney, a name now very well and favor- ably known in the state and one whose bearers

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 92

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