History of Androscoggin County, Maine, Part 40

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew, ed
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Boston, W.A. Fergusson & co.
Number of Pages: 1050

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known and highly esteemed. His accurate knowledge alike of the broad principles and narrower technicalities of the law, his industry, his fidelity to his clients, his quick perception of the strong points of his own and the weakness of his adversary's case, his never-failing tact and good humor before a jury, make him a formidable antagonist at the bar. His knowledge of public affairs, and his steady adherence to and commanding ability in the defense of the principles and measures which to him seem right, have given him promi- nence in the political world, and marked him for rapid promotion. But it is among those intimately acquainted with him, who know his sunny temper, his kind heart, his deeds of charity, that he finds his warmest friends.

WALLACE HUMPHREY WHITE, son of John and Mary A. White, was born in Livermore, September 4, 1848. He read law in the office of Frye & Cotton, Lewiston, and was admitted to the bar in Androscoggin county, and established himself in Lewiston as a member of the firm of Frye, Cotton & White. Mr White was county attorney from 1875 to 1880, representative in the legislature from Lewiston in 1883, assistant U. S. Attorney for the state of Maine in the Alabama court of claims, and has held various city offices. Mr White is an attorney of ability, learned, careful, and is the senior partner of the firm of White & Carter. He is a member of the Maine State Bar Association.

SETH MAY CARTER, grandson of Judge Seth May, was born in Winthrop. He prepared for the legal profession in Lewiston, was admitted to practice in 1877, and is now the junior member of the firm of White & Carter, Lewiston. Mr Carter has been city solicitor of Auburn, has been a member of the governor's council, and was one of the corporators of the Maine State Bar Association. Mr Carter is an able lawyer, judicious in counsel, and has been entrusted with the interests of powerful corporations before the legislature.

CHARLES M. HAM was born at Lisbon in 1853. He graduated from Westbrook Seminary in 1876, and two years later was admitted to the Androscoggin bar from the office of Frye, Cotton & White, Lewiston. He has since practiced his profession at Lisbon Falls. He has been supervisor of schools, and has held various other town offices. In 1891 he represented Lisbon and Webster in the legislature.

NATHANIEL H. WOODBURY was born at Danville, now Auburn, April 2, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of Auburn, and in the seminary department of Bates College. He studied law with Pulsifer & Bolster, at Lewiston, was admitted to the bar in Androscoggin county in September, 1880, and has since practiced his profession in Auburn. Mr Woodbury was elected to the common council of Auburn in 1877 and 1878, and was a member of the school committee from 1878 to 1889, with the exception of one year, and for several years was supervisor of the rural schools of Auburn.

C. V. EMERSON was born in Lowell, Mass., October 22, 1849. He was educated at Yarmouth, North Anson, and Hebron academies, and Bates

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College, and was graduated from Bates College in the class of 1877. He read law in the office of Hutchinson & Savage, Lewiston, was admitted to the bar in Androscoggin county in April, 1882, and immediately commenced practice in Lewiston. He was city solicitor of Lewiston for the year 1889, and has been a member of the Lewiston board of health since 1887. He is also a director and clerk of the Stanley Dry Plate Company. He was appointed clerk of the Lewiston municipal court in 1890, after the decease of Mr Laughton.

LEVI GREENLEAF was born in Stark, December 30, 1849. He fitted for college at Bloomfield Academy, Skowhegan, and Nichols Latin School, Lew- iston. He taught several years in the public schools and then entered the scientific course at Westbrook Seminary, and was graduated in the class of 1873. He studied law with Hon. S. S. Brown, of Waterville, and Hon. Josiah H. Drummond, of Portland; was admitted to the bar in Somerset county in April, 1876, and immediately opened an office in Pittsfield for the practice of law. Mr Greenleaf was supervisor of schools during his residence in Pittsfield, and chairman of the board of selectmen, assessors, etc., for two years. In 1879 he was elected county attorney of Somerset county for three years. He removed to Lewiston in June, 1884, and has devoted himself to his profession.

J. WESLEY MITCHELL was born in Auburn, November 5, 1850. He was educated in the public schools of Auburn, and was a teacher for six years. He read law at Lewiston with Record & Hutchinson, and Hutchinson & Savage, and was admitted to the bar in Androscoggin county in October, 1875. Mr Mitchell was a member of the superintending school committee in 1881, and was city clerk of Auburn from 1881 to 1886, and from 1887 to 1890. He now holds the office of attorney for the Auburn Loan and Building Association. He married Mary F. Getchell of Winthrop.

FRANCIS ORRIN PURINGTON, son of Elisha Purington, was born in Embden, August 16, 1852. He was graduated at Bowdoin College in the class of 1880. He then taught school in Topsham one year, and at Mechanic Falls three years. In the meantime he studied law with Weston Thompson, Esq., of Brunswick, and Jesse Libby, Esq., of Mechanic Falls; was admitted to the bar in September, 1884, in Androscoggin county, and has since practiced his profession at Mechanic Falls. He has been supervisor of schools in Minot three years, and represented Minot and Durham in the legislature in 1889-1890. He married Addie E., daughter of Samuel E. Smullen, Esq., of Harpswell.

FRED O. WATSON was born in Wilton, November 26, 1852. He was educated in the public schools of Auburn, and read law with Pulsifer & Bolster at Lewiston, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1879; then commenced and has since continued the practice of his profession in Lewiston. Hle was clerk of the common council of Auburn from 1883 to 1886 inclusive, and a member of the school committee of Auburn for the years 1877 and

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1888. He was elected register of probate, September, 1888, and entered upon the duties of his office, January 1, 1889. Ile married Miss Florence A. Neal.

FRANK W. DANA, of the law firm of Dana & Estey, was born in Lubec, March 25, 1853, and acquired his education in the public schools of Lewiston and Bowdoin College. He studied law with Morrill & Wing in Auburn, and was admitted to the Androseoggin bar in April, 1875. He opened an office in Lisbon, where he practiced his profession a few years, and then moved to Lewiston, where he has since resided. He held the office of judge advocate general of the state militia under Governor E. C. Burleigh, and has been president of the Lewiston and Auburn street railway since 1885.

NATHAN W. HARRIS, son of Nathan C. Harris, M.D., was born in Minot, July 8, 1853. He was graduated from Bates College in 1873, after which he took the post-graduate course at Yale College, and received the degree of Ph.D. from that institution in 1875. He read law in Lewiston with Frye, Cotton & White, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1877, in Androscoggin county. He commenced the practice of his profession in Lewiston, remaining there two years, and then moved his office to Auburn, where he has since continued his business. He has been in the city government of Auburn four years, in the common council two years, was alderman in 1880 and 1881, was president of both boards, and city solicitor in 1890. He is one of the directors of the American Banking and Trust Company of Auburn, and treasurer of the Maine Benefit Association; also one of the trustees of Bates College. He held the office of register of probate in Androscoggin county from 1880 to 1888. He was elected secretary of the Maine Benefit Association in January, 1891, succeeding Mr Lowell in that office. He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Marilla H. Smith, of Lewiston; his second wife was Miss Edith S., daughter of Benjamin Conant, Esq., of Auburn.

FRANK L. NOBLE, of Lewiston, was born in Fairfield. He received his education in common schools and at Bates College. He was for two years member of the common council, and the second year was president of the board. He is a Republican, was a member of the Republican committee for 1891, and represented Lewiston in 1887 and 1891. He is an able advocate.

TASCUS ATWOOD, son of Harrison Atwood, Esq., was born in Auburn, February 8, 1854. He obtained his education in the public schools of Auburn, and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. He taught two years in the high schools of Hiram and Lubec, the Mattanawcook Academy, Lincoln, and the high school at Hammonton, N. J. He read law in the office of J. W. Mitchell, Esq., of Auburn, was admitted to the bar in Androscoggin county, May 6, 1879, and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession in his native city, where he has since remained. He held the office of city solicitor for the year 1883, and county attorney for the years of 1885 and 1886. He married Helen E. Jameson, of Lincoln.

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WILLIAM H. NEWELL was born in Durham, April 16, 1854. He was graduated from the Western State Normal School in 1872, and from the Maine Wesleyan Seminary in 1876. Ile studied law with Weston Thompson, Esq., of Brunswick, and was admitted to the Sagadahoe county bar in April, 1878. He was principal of the grammar school in Brunswick from 1876 to 1882. He commenced the practice of law in Lewiston in 1882, where he has since resided. He married Miss Ida F. Plummer, of Lisbon, September 20, 1883. He was elected city solicitor of Lewiston for the year 1890. He is one of the law firm of Newell & Judkins. Mr Newell is a careful, painstaking lawyer, a genial gentleman, and the firm of which he is a member is successfully prosecuting its professional business. In 1890 he was elected county attorney for Androscoggin county for the term commencing January 1, 1891; is a member of the Maine State Bar Association, and was elected mayor of Lewiston, March 2, 1891.

EDGAR M. BRIGGS was born in Parkman, May 28, 1854. He was graduated from the Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield, in June, 1875, and entered Bates College in August, and graduated therefrom in 1879. He was engaged as reporter on the Lewiston Gazette from 1879 to 1880, when he entered the law office of Hutchinson & Savage as a student. He was admitted to the bar in Dunn county, Wisconsin, in March, 1883, and in October, 1883, in this state, and began the practice of law in Lewiston, December, 1883, in partnership with C. V. Emerson, and continued until March, 1888, when he formed a copartnership with Hon. John P. Swasey. Mr Briggs married Annie Moore, of Lewiston, August, 1879. He has always kept out of politics and has held no political office.

DENNIS J. CALLAHAN was born December 25, 1854, in Cork, Ireland, and came to America with his parents when he was two years old, and settled in Lewiston. He acquired his education in the public schools, Nichols Latin School, and was graduated from Bates College in 1876. Ile commenced to read law with Hon. M. T. Ludden, in January, 1877, and April, 1878, he was admitted to practice in Androscoggin county. In 1879 he opened an office in Lewiston, and has since continued the practice of law. In March, 1877, Mr Callahan was elected alderman of Lewiston, re-elected in 1878, 1879, and 1880. Ile was chosen president of the board in 1878. He was elected city solicitor in 1883 and 1884, and in 1883 was a member of the school board, re-elected in 1885, 1887, 1889, and 1891, and served as its president in 1885 and 1887.

PRESTON S. LAUGHTON, son of Warren P. Laughton, was born in Lewis- ton, May 6, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of Lewiston, studied law with Hon. M. T. Ludden, was admitted to practice in Androscoggin county in January, 1879, and afterwards was graduated from the Boston Uni- versity Law School. He was appointed clerk of the Municipal Court of Lewiston in 1880, which office he held at the time of his death, September 23, 1890. Mr Laughton was a courteous and genial gentleman. He discharged

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the duties of his office efficiently and with integrity, thereby winning and retaining many friends. He married Miss Lora L. Gerrish, of Hebron.

JOHN ADAMS MORRILL, son of Judge Nahum Morrill, was born at Auburn, June 3, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of Auburn and Bowdoin College, from which last-named institution he graduated in the class of 1876. Immediately after graduation he taught one year in the Edward Little High School, of Auburn, and then commenced the study of law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in Androscoggin county at the January term, 1880, of the Supreme Judicial Court, and, associated with his father, entered upon the practice of his profession as a member of the firm of N. & J. A. Morrill, at Auburn, where he has since resided. He was appointed a master in chancery by the Supreme Judicial Court in 1881. He was admitted to the bar of the U. S. Circuit Court at the April term, 1886, at Portland, Me. He was elected city solicitor for the city of Auburn for the year 1886. He is a member of the board of overseers of Bowdoin College, and one of the trustees of the Auburn Public Library. He married Miss Isabella E. Littlefield, of Melrose, Mass.

HENRY WALTER OAKES, son of Dr Silvester and H. Eliza (Kilbourne) Oakes, was born in Auburn, April 26, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of the town, and Edward Little High School, and was graduated from Bates College in 1877. He read law with Frye, Cotton & White, was admitted to the bar in May, 1880, and commenced practice in partnership with Nathan W. Harris, in Lewiston, and later in Auburn. The firm was dissolved in 1883, and subsequently Mr Oakes formed a partnership with Hon. A. R. Savage, as Savage & Oakes. Mr Oakes has been a member of the school committee of Auburn several years, and of the common council in 1883, 1884, and 1891. He is a member of Androscoggin Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Past Grand Warden of the state in the New England Order of Protection. In politics he is a Republican, and in religious views a Congregationalist. Though a young man, Mr Oakes is a rising lawyer. He is well read, an ingenious advocate, and a pleasing and impressive speaker.

HERBERT C. WHITTEMORE, son of Alpheus and Sarah T. Whittemore, was born at East Livermore, November 11, 1857. He studied for his profes- sion with George D. Parks, Esq., of Brunswick, and at Boston University. He was admitted to the bar at Portland, May, 1888, and practiced law with Mr Parks at Brunswick until July, 1889, when he established himself at Livermore Falls. He is an Odd Fellow and a Free Mason.

FRED S. SAMPSON was born at Hartford, April 1, 1858, and was educated at Bridgton Academy and Bates College, graduating in the class of 1884. He taught school in Hartford, Otisfield, New Gloucester, and Camden, and read law with Hon. W. W. Bolster, of Auburn, and F. O. Watson, Esq. He was admitted to the Androscoggin bar in September, 1887.

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ALBERT E. VERRILL, clerk of Auburn Municipal Court, was born at Poland, November 12, 1860. His collegiate course was in Bates College, graduating in the class of 1886. While in college he taught school in Sherman and in the Nichols Latin School. He read law with Savage & Oakes, and was admitted to the Androscoggin bar in January, 1889, and to the U. S. Circuit Court, August 4, 1890. He commenced practice in Auburn.

WILBUR H. JUDKINS was born at Monmouth, May 19, 1858. He was educated in common schools and at Waterville Classical Institute, now Coburn Institute, Waterville, and was graduated from Bates College in the class of 1880. He read law in the office of Hon. A. M. Spear, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1883. He practices law in Lewiston, in partnership with William H. Newell, as Newell & Judkins. He was city solicitor of Lewiston for 1886-89. He has been a trustee of Bates College since 1888, and a member of commission on removal of Maine State Prison in 1890.

STEPHEN A. LOWELL, son of Hon. William Lowell, was born in Minot, January 1, 1859. He was educated in the common schools, Hebron Academy, and Bates College, and was graduated from the latter institution in 1882. He taught in the public schools of the state in the winter season from 1877 to 1881, and in 1882-3 was principal of Foxcroft Academy. He studied law in the office of George C. & Charles E. Wing, and was admitted to the bar at Auburn, in April, 1885. In 1888 he was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the State Normal School, by Governor Marble. From the organi- zation of the Maine Benefit Association until his resignation and removal from the state in 1891, he was secretary of that corporation. The duties of this office required his entire attention and precluded him from engaging in the practice of law.

DANIEL J. MCGILLICUDDY was born in Lewiston, August 27, 1859. He was educated in the public schools of Lewiston, and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1881. He studied law in the office of Frye, Cotton & White, of Lewiston, and was admitted a member of the Androscoggin bar in September, 1883, and commenced the practice of his profession in Lewiston, where he has since resided. He was elected a member of the Maine house of representatives, from Lewiston, in the year 1884, and elected mayor of the city for the years 1887 and 1890.

EZEKIEL VOSE STEVENS, son of Zacchens Stevens, and grandson of Rev. Ezekiel Vose, was born at North Turner, November 20, 1859. llis father moved to Knox and died when Ezekiel was two years old. Ezekiel was adopted in the family of Essec Fuller, his uncle-in-law, a resident of North Turner. Ilis education was acquired at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and at North Anson Academy ; graduated at North Anson in the class of 1884. He read law with Webb & Webb, of Waterville, was admitted to the bar in October, 1887, in Kennebec county, and opened an office at North Turner,

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March 1, 1888. He has held the office of supervisor of schools for two years, and was census enumerator for Turner in 1890. He is a Universalist, and has been for two years junior and senior deacon of Nezinscot Lodge of F. and A. M. He married Miss Belle Holt, of Bangor, October 1, 1888.

FRANCOIS XAVIER BELLEAU was born in Montreal, P. Q., August 13, 1860, and educated in the common schools of Canada. In 1876 he came to Bruns- wick, and six months later to Lewiston, where, in September, 1877, he began the study of law with J. W. Mitchell, Esq., of Auburn. October 11, 1881, he was made a citizen of the United States by naturalization, and the same day was admitted to practice. Mr Belleau was the first French Canadian admitted to practice law in Maine, and the second one admitted in New England. Soon after his admission to the bar he opened an office in Lewiston and is now in practice. In 1883 and 1884 he was clerk of the common council, in 1885 was city solicitor, and in 1890 and 1891 city clerk. He was married November 27, 1883, in the cathedral of St Hyacinthe, P. Q., to Marie Blanche Alexandrine Martel, by Rev. Father Gravel, cure of the cathedral, now Bishop of Nicolet.

H. E. COOLIDGE, of Lisbon Falls, was born at Livermore, December 23, 1860. He acquired his education at the Nichols Latin School in Lewiston, and was graduated from Bates College in the class of 1881. After graduation he taught school at North Berwick, from 1883 to 1889. He read law in the office of Hon. Enoch Foster in Bethel, from August, 1881, to April, 1883, and with Savage & Oakes, Lewiston, from April, 1889, to September, 1889, when he was admitted to the bar in Androscoggin county. After admission to practice his profession he established himself at Lisbon Falls, where he has since continued. He married Miss Josephine O. Dearborn, of Canton.

PATRICK H. KELLEHER was born at Lewiston, September 9, 1861, where he continued to reside until 1874, and then moved with his father's family to Auburn, where he is still a resident. He was educated in the public schools of Auburn, and was graduated from the Edward Little Institute in 1879. After graduating, he taught school and engaged in other pursuits until April, 1883, when he commenced reading law in the office of N. & J. A. Morrill, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1885, and immediately entered upon the practice of law. He was elected a member of the board of aldermen from ward four, in Auburn, in 1889, serving in that capacity one year. At the expiration of his term of office he declined a re-nomination, preferring to devote his attention uninterruptedly to his profession.

LEONARD G. ROBERTS was born in Sherman, Me, September 13, 1862. He was fitted for college in Nichols Latin School, Lewiston, and was graduated from Bates College in 1887. Devoting himself to law he entered the law school of Boston University, from which he was graduated June 4, 1890. He was also graduated from the School of Oratory in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk county (Mass.) bar, August 19, 1890; to Androscoggin county

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bar in January, 1891, and immediately thereafter entered into copartnership with Hon. F. M. Drew in the practice of law, in Lewiston, under the firm name of Drew & Roberts.

FRANK A. MOREY was born at Keeseville, N. Y., March 11, 1863. He was educated at Keeseville Union Free School and Bates College, graduating in the class of 1885. He studied law with H. & W. Hewitt, of Keeseville, was admitted to the bar at Albany, N. Y., May 5, 1887, and immediately became a member of the law firm of Hewitt & Morey, at Keeseville, where he remained until September, 1890, when he moved to Lewiston, where he has since been in practice. He married Maud M., daughter of O. G. Douglass.

GEORGE E. McCANN was born in New Gloucester, October 18, 1865. He was educated at the Freeport High School and Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Readfield, graduating in the class of 1883. He read law with Frye, Cotton & White, and was admitted to the Androscoggin bar in April, 1888, and very soon after formed a copartnership with Hon. D. J. McGillicuddy, of Lewiston, which continued about two years, when that firm was dissolved and he opened an office in Auburn. Mr McCann served in 1889 as clerk of the common council of Auburn. In 1890 he was elected councilman from ward four, and was chosen president of the board. He was elected city treasurer in 1891.

EDWIN A. SMITHI, of Auburn, is a son of Rev. B. B. Smith, missionary to India, and was born in Balasore, Orissa, India. He was educated at the Nichols Latin School and Bates College, and was graduated in 1873. He was assistant editor of the Morning Star, Dover, N. H., for six years. He read law in the office of Hutchinson & Savage at Lewiston, and was admitted to the Androscoggin bar in April, 1884. Mr Smith has not devoted much time to his profession, giving his attention more to journalism. He is now news editor of the Lewiston Journal.

The following gentlemen have been admitted to practice in the courts of this state by the Supreme Judicial Court in this county, a large majority of whom have settled in other states or other counties in this state:

1855- Angust, Ezra M. Prince. 1856- Jannary, W. II. Mclellan, R. G. Blacker, G. C. Wright. 1858 - April, Benjamin Dunn; Angust, Daniel W. Serimmer. 1859- April, John D. Sterer. 1860- September, Charles Walker. 1861 - Jannary, O. A. Ellis, R. W. Carr, Hiram Knowlton; April, Her- riek C. Davis. 1866-January, E. G. Keyes, H. N. W. Hoyt, C. B. Rounds; April, Earl Byron Parker; 1867 - September, Sanford S. Chapman. 1868- January, Horace R. Cheney, William F. Morrill; April, Clarence C. Frost. 1869- April, Reuel Small. 1870-January, I. N. Parker. 1871 -September, John Smith. 1872 -January, Everett A. Nash; April, Myron W. Jones, Dexter M. Small. 1875 - April, George E. Smith, Charles Bonney Reade. 1876-Jannary, Israel P. Quimby; April, Freedom Hutchinson, Wm W. Sanborn. 1877 - Jannary, Wm Henry Ham, James Nash; April, F. M. Fogg; September, Frank D. Hale, Walter C. Leavitt, Irving C. Phillips. 1878- April, Chas M. Ham, Jerome Fish. 1879-January, C. S. Libby; April, John H. Packard. 1880 - September, Frank C. Skinner. 1881 - April, George Hazen; September, Simon C. Moseley. 1883- April, George D. Emery, H. A. Stimson. 1884-September, John F. Merrill. 1885- April, James E. Chandler, Edward J. Hatch, Morrill N. Drew; September, Emery A. Tinkham, Edward N. Dingley. 1886-April, Aaron Beede, Jr; April, Wm H. Orr. 1887-September, Pierre X. Angiers. 1888-January, Mellen A. Pingree. 1890-Jan- nary, George A. Goodwin; April, Edward T. Little. 1891-January, Summer Hackett, L. W. Fales.

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History of Androscoggin County, Maine, Part 40

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew, ed Publication date: 1891 Publisher: Boston, W.A. Fergusson & co. Number of Pages: 1050

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew, ed
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Boston, W.A. Fergusson & co.
Number of Pages: 1050