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Dr. Israel Putman was born in Sutton, Mass., December 25, 1805, and was the son of Israel and Hannah (Le Barron) Putman. His father was a cousin and intimate friend of Major-General Israel Putman. He graduated at Brown University and Bowdoin Medi- cal School, commenced practice in Wales, Me., and removed to Bath in 1835, where he attained an extensive practice in his profession and became actively connected with municipal affairs. He was chairman of the town council, and after the formation of the city government was chosen mayor, holding the office from 1859 to 1865, and again in 1867. During this official period he won very marked approval for his administration, especially during the very arduous years of the war. Other municipal positions which he held were more or less connected with his profession. His char- acter, alike as a physician, a magistrate, and a citizen, commanded universal confidence and high respect. Doctor Putman was an off- hand man in everything he said or did, bluff in his ways, but withal genial, outspoken, and honest. He was well read and a physician by nature. His generous disposition forbade him from collecting his just fees from those whom it would distress to pay him, and he was liberal to the poor almost to a fault. His death occurred June 30, 1876, aged 70 years and 6 months. The manner in which he first acquired practice is, perhap: worth relating. Doctor Prescott had become of that age when he did not care to answer calls at night. The old doctor owned what was then a fine dwelling, now standing on the southwestern corner of Washington street and the railroad track. He found confidence in the young man, and one day he said to him, "You buy my house and I will turn over to you my night practice; when there is a call at my door I will put my head out of the window and say that I cannot go, but if you will call Doctor Putman he will do just as well." The house and practice were at once secured by the young doctor.
His sons are William L. Putnam, judge of the United States Cir- cuit Court; Edwin Putnam, who entered the United States Navy when twenty-one years of age, going into service in the War of the Rebellion, joining the Nahant, one of the iron-clads that was immediately engaged in the terrific and successful bombardment of
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the forts in Charleston harbor, served through the war and since, and is paymaster-inspector on active duty.
Dr. Andrew J. Fuller was born in Paris, Oxford County, Sep- tember 15, 1822. His parents were Caleb and Hannah Perkins Fuller. He studied at the Maine Medical School, at the University of New York, and at Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia. He graduated from the Maine Medical School in 1841 ; settled in Sears- mont, and in 1847 moved to Bath. Among his successful major operations have been amputation at the hip joint and resection of the humerus. He is a member of the Maine Medical Association and its president in 1871. Previous to the war he served seven years as surgeon of the Second Maine Infantry, and was post-sur- geon at Bath during the war. He served as president of the Bath Board of Trade many years, has served one term as trustee of the Maine Insane Hospital, and is one of the consulting physicians and surgeons of the Maine General Hospital. In July, 1843, he married Miss Harriet, daughter of George Marston of Bath, and has had three children, one of whom, Mrs. Samuel C. Barker, is living and has one child, Byron F. Barker, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1893. Doctor Fuller has ever manifested a strong interest in all matters per- taining to the welfare of his adopted city, standing high in the esteem of all its people. His conscientious and persevering labors in behalf of Bath shipping interests have attracted world-wide attention and have been of appreciable benefit. Doctor Fuller has had a life- long membership in the Masonic Order, ranking high in its offices.
Dr. Samuel Anderson was born in Deering, N. H., March 9, 1807, and died in Bath, Me., April 22, 1873. He was the third of ten children of John and Nancy Anderson, of Deering, N. H. His ancestors came to New England from Londonderry, in the north of of Ireland, in 1718. They were Scotch Presbyterians, driven from their homes by religious persecution. The grandfather, named Samuel, was captain. of one of the ships that brought over these Londonderry immigrants, most of whom settled in New Hampshire and named their settlement "Londonderry," in memory of their old home,
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Doctor Anderson was married, November 20, 1829, to Katharine Emerson of Edgecomb, who descended from the Emersons of Mass- achusetts. She was great-granddaughter of the Rev. John Emerson, fourth parson of Topsfield. Doctor Anderson came to Bath in 1834. A few years later he commenced the study and practice of medicine and subsequently opened a drug store, where he continued in business the remainder of his life. He had five children, Edward Francis, Climena Katharine, Samuel, Jr., Nancy Elizabeth, and Laura Ann. Samuel, Jr., was born in Bath, September 7, 1835. He entered his father's drug store at the age of nineteen, was afterward received as partner, and has continued in the drug business ever since. He married Almina Martha Norton, of Phillips, Me. Their children were Harry Warren and Herbert Morrell. Harry Warren graduated at the College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, in 1884, and has since been in the drug business in Exeter, N. H.
Doctor Raeburn received his professional education in the medi- cal colleges of Edinburg and Glasgow, and then entered the English army as surgeon. He came to this country as surgeon in the British army in the War of 1812, after which as a common sailor before the mast of a merchant ship he came to Thomaston. While there an accident occurred which required skilled surgery beyond that of the physicians of the town. Raeburn successfully accomplished the operation, and the reputation it gave him caused his settlement, in practice, in Warren, where he remained several ears. Later he came to Bath and acquired celebrity as a surgeon, which was a specialty with him, and was accounted exceedingly skillful. He died about 1840, leaving an American wife.
He was an eccentric man, bold and daring in his practice. Faith in his skill went a great ways with credulous people; they flocked to see him and he was called to their houses. His prescrip- tions were off-hand and odd. His style may be illustrated in a case when, at her house, a woman patient asked him what she should eat, when he quaintly replied, " Anything but the poker and bellows."
Dr. Edwin M. Fuller .- The Freemasons Repository says: "Edwin M. Fuller was born in Portland, January 8, 1850. When about one
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year of age his father moved to South Paris, Me., where he resided until 1860; from thence he located in Turner, where the homestead still remains. He fitted for college at Westbrook Seminary and graduated from there in June, 1869. In September of the same year he entered Tufts College and received the degree of Master of Arts from that institution.
"He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Bowdoin College, and further pursued his medical studies in the leading hos- pitals of New York, and in France, Germany, and England. At the close of his medical studies he settled in Bath, where he is still residing, actively engaged in his calling.
" He delivered the first oration before the Alumni Association of Westbrook Seminary in June, 1877. He was subsequently elected a trustee of the institution, and is now connected with the school in that capacity. He has always been greatly interested in sanitary reforms, and has written many essays on the subject. In 1876 he received the prize from the Maine Medical Association for an essay on 'Hygiene of our Country Towns and Villages.' He is interested in educational matters and has served for several years as a member of the school board in Bath. In his profession he has made a specialty of surgery, and many can testify to his skill. In 1891 he was elected president of the Maine Medical Asssociation.
" He was made a Master Mason in Nezinscott Lodge, Turner, in 1871, and joined Polar Star Lodge at Bath in 1875. He was exalted a Royal Arch Mason in Montgomery R. A. Chapter, in 1875. He received the orders of Knighthood in Dunlap Commandery, 1876. He is a Past Master of Polar Star Lodge; Past High Priest of Montgomery R. A. Chapter, and Past Commander of Dunlap Commandery. He has served in the Grand Commandery of Maine as Grand Warder, Grand Junior Warden, Grand Generalissimo, Deputy Grand Commander, in 1890 was elected Grand Com- mander, and declined a re-election in May, 1891. Past Grand Commander Fuller is an active, progressive Mason and Knight Templar, and has rendered a large amount of service to the Craft."
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man of the city; has been again appointed pension examiner on the Pension Board at Bath; is consulting surgeon at the Central Maine General Hospital at Lewiston; is consulting surgeon at the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, Portland; was appointed surgeon of the Second Regiment, National Guards, State Militia of Maine, in 1893, with rank of Major. He married Lizzie E. Gross of Brunswick, and has three children, of whom, Fred. A. Fuller entered Harvard University in the fall of 1893.
Dr. Randall Doyle Bibber was born in Brunswick, September 1, 1845, and when four years of age came to Bath with his father's family, where he has lived to the present time, obtaining his education in the city schools. At the age of sixteen he went to sea, which he followed six years. Returning home he undertook the study of the medical profession at the age of twenty-two. He attended a regular course of study at the Portland Medical School, and at the Medical Department of Bowdoin College, graduating in 1871. With limited means he then commenced practice in Bath, and has worked his way up to a successful business.
He is a member of the Maine Medical Association; acting assistant surgeon in the Marine Hospital Service since 1872; city physician and member of the board of overseers of the poor eight years; on the board of health and pension examiner a number of years; has been president of the Sagadahoc Historical Society three years; its treasurer many years; is a resident member of the Maine Historical Society, and member of the Patten Free Library Association. His father is John D. Bibber, and mother Mehitable Cowen ( Hall ) Bibber. February 6, 1873, he married Miss Sarah Aborn Thornton and they have one son, Harold Thornton Bibber. Doctor Bibber has ever been active in forwarding benevolent under- takings, efficient in raising funds in aid of the public library and other worthy objects, contributing liberally to the proposed estab- lishment of an Old People's Home, of which he was the originator.
Dr. James B. Wescott was born in Gorham, May 21, 1841, and received his education in the common schools, after which he passed eight years in North Jay, and then in Portland until he entered
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the volunteer army as a private, August 22, 1862, in the Twentieth Maine Regiment; was promoted to hospital steward and assistant surgeon, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He then came to Bath, where he worked at mechanical employment while studying medicine; took four courses of lectures at the Maine Medical School, graduating in 1881, having, unaided, worked his way through, and has since that time been in successful practice in Bath. He has been United States Pension Examiner since 1889, and served the city as member of the Common Council in 1876 and 1877. On December 31, 1869, he married, in Bath, Miss Eliza M. Taylor. She died in January, 1879, leaving two young daughters.
Dr. Charles Appleton Packard, A.M., was born in Brunswick, Me., and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1848. After graduation he studied and practiced civil engineering four years; then studied medicine, graduating from Maine Medical School in 1857. He first practiced medicine in Waldoboro for nine years; then, moving to New York State, was in practice at Fordham for four years. In 1870 he married Miss Caroline E. Payne, of Erie, Pa., who died in 1881. He came to Bath, in 1873, where he has continued the prac- tice of his profession up to this time.
Dr. M. H. Ferguson was born in Dixmont, Penobscot County, May 31, 1855. His father is the Hon. W. B. Ferguson of Brewer; his mother, now dead, was Rebecca Goodwin of Monroe. Dr. Fer- guson was educated in the public schools and at the Maine Central Institute. He taught school for seven winters in Veazie, Winter- port, Frankfort, and Belfast. He studied medicine with Dr. A. C. Hamlin, in Bangor, and graduated at Dartmouth Medical College in 1879. In 1886 he took a post-graduate course in New York City at the New York Poly Clinic. Dr. Ferguson has practiced medicine in Phipsburg since 1880, and served the town as selectman, auditor, health officer, and for ten years as supervisor of schools. In 1887 and 1893 he represented the town of Phipsburg in the State Legis- lature. He has had a large practice in the town, and is often called to Georgetown, Harpswell, Bath, Woolwich, West Bath, and Arrowsic.
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Dr. William E. Payne .- The first introduction into Bath of the homeopathic system was by a foreigner by the name of Blazin- ski, who remained in town a short time. He was a Polander, and invited all the doctors to a private lecture on the Hannamann sys- tem, and some, if not all, of them attended, among whom was Dr. William E. Payne, who was a graduate of the regular school and a new-comer to Bath. He undertook experiments with it, which resulted in his adopting its practice in about 1840, and, after a hard experience, succeeded in its introduction; undoubtedly his pleasing personality having considerable to do with his success. He was aided in this by a novel way of advertising. Samuel Anderson was trying to introduce, at the same time, the "Thomsonian system " of "purely vegetable " remedies, and they united in a newspaper battle upon the respective merits of the two systems. It attracted attention and brought them business. In 1851 or 1852 Dr. Jotham Young came to Bath and commenced practice in this mode of treat- ment; remained about two years. No practitioner of that persuasion could successfully compete with Doctor Payne.
Dr. Milton Story Briry was born in Bowdoin, May 17, 1825. His grandfather was Thomas Briry, who came to Maine from Lin- colnshire, England, about the time of the Revolution, and settled in Bowdoin. Joseph, the youngest of his sons, was the father of Doctor Briry, who was educated at Litchfield Academy; studied medicine at the Bowdoin Medical School, after which he was assist- ant to Doctor Haley at Quebec. From there he came to Bath and studied the homeopathic system of medical treatment with Dr. William E. Payne, and settled in this city in practice, which he has continued to the present time with success, sustaining an extensive practice. During Doctor Briry's residence in Bath he has taken a prominent part in municipal affairs, having served four years as a member of the Common Council, three years on the Board of Aldermen, on that of the overseers of the poor twenty-two years, physician to the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home eight years, and to the Old Ladies Home many years. He has always been closely identified with the temperance cause as one of its most
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active workers, never prescribing liquor in any form in his practice. Doctor Briry's children are: Ernest M., Edward E., Mary E., John F., and William L. Briry.
Dr. Edward E. Briry, having obtained a classical education at Bowdoin College, and a full medical education at Boston University School of Medicine, practiced in Boston in 1883 and 1884, and since that time has been in practice in Bath; has been city physi- cian, member and secretary of the board of health, member of school board, and boarding officer for this port, serving in these capacities for many years.
Dr. James W. Savage was born January 21, 1830, in Wool- wich; received an academical education in Bath; entered the office of Dr. William E. Payne in 1858, graduating from the Homco- pathic Medical College of New York in 1862, and is in successful practice in Bath.
John Hazen Kimball, eldest son of Samuel Ayer and Eliza (Hazen) Kimball, of Concord, N. H .; born in Concord July 14, 1823 ; married, November 5, 1851, Annie, daughter of John Camp- bell and Angeline (Whitmore) Humphreys, of Brunswick, Me. She was born November 19, 1828, and died December 11, 1890. Their children are five sons, viz .: EDWARD HAZEN, born August 24, 1854. He was graduated at Bowdoin College, 1876, Boston University Law School, 1879, and is now in the wholesale grain, flour, and grocery business in Bath. He married, June 13, 1883, Anna, daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel F. and Miriam (Worcester) Dike of Bath. She was born January 16, 1855. Their children are: Anne, born in Lewiston, April 16, 1884; Phillips, born in Lewiston, February 20, 1886; Miriam Worcester, born in Bath, July 8, 1890. SAMUEL AYER, born August 22, 1857. He graduated at Yale College, 1879, Harvard Medical School, 1882, and Boston University Medical School, 1883, and is in the practice of medicine in Boston, Mass. He married, October 17, 1883, Belle C. Trowbridge, daughter of Charles I. and Caroline (Lane) Trowbridge, of Portland. She was born in Portland, July 29, 1859. Their children are: John Hazen, born in Melrose,
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Mass., May 6, 1886; Joseph Stickney, born in Boston, Mass., May 20, 1889. FREDERIC HUMPHREYS, born Feb. 25, 1861. He graduated at the Bath High School in 1880, and is in business with his brother, Edward, under the firm name of Kimball Brothers. He married Mary E., daughter of Milton G. and Eunice (Hinckley) Shaw, of Bath, October 19, 1892. She was born in Greenville, Me., Septem- ber 6, 1865. JOHN MCKINSTRY, born November 14, 1863. He graduated at the Bath High School, 1880, and at the Bates Mill in Lewiston. He is now agent of the Slatersville Mills, in Slatersville, R. I. He married, September 13, 1893, Sally Burnside, daughter of John C. and Mary (Dresser) Small, of Portland. HARRY WHITMORE, born December 13, 1865. He graduated at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, in 1887, and learned the cotton-mill trade at the Tremont & Suffolk Mills, of Lowell, Mass.
John H. Kimball was educated at Concord, Fryeburg, and Phillips (Andover) Academies. In 1843 he went South and taught school in Charles County, Maryland, for two years; was in Washington, D. C., during the winter of 1845-6. Returning North he studied law with Judge Samuel Wells, in Portland, and was admitted to the Cumberland County Bar, December, 1846, when he commenced the practice of law at Kezar Falls, in Parsonsfield. In 1848 he removed to Topsham, and in August, 1849, to Bath, where he has since resided. For a few years he practiced law and then became actively engaged in the insurance business and navigation. He was also interested in railroads, and for many years was director in the Androscoggin and Central Vermont Railroads, and is now concerned, with many others, in the ownership of land and cattle in the far West. H. was the first treasurer of the Bath Savings Institution, which office he held for twenty-five years; was presidential elector in 1872; representative in the State Legislature in 1878 and 1879, and senator from 1883 to 1887. In religion he was brought up a Con- gregationalist, and in politics has always been a Republican.
John Stockbridge .- 1. John Stockbridge came to New Eng- land on the ship Blessing, of which John Liecester was master, June, 1635, when twenty-seven years old, and settled in Scituate. He
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became owner of a large tract of land, purchased near "Stockbridge Mill Pond," where he owned one of the first grist-mills that were built in the colony. In 1656 he built the Stockbridge Mansion House, which was a garrison in Philip's War. 2. Charles Stockbridge lived in Boston, and in Scituate in his father's house, and built the second water-mill, in Plymouth, in 1676. 3. Charles S., son of Charles (2), was selectman of Hanover in 1727. 4. Thomas, son of Charles.(2), mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Thomas Reed. 5. Joseph, son of Charles (2), married Margaret, daughter of Joseph Turner. 6. Benjamin, son of Charles (2), married Mary Tilden. 7. Samuel, son of Charles (2), married Lydia, daughter of William Barrell, in 1703. 8. Thomas, son of Thomas (4). 9. David, son of Joseph (5), married Deborah, daughter of Judge John Cushing. 10. William, son of David (9), married Ruth, daughter of John Bailey, October 8, 1774. 11. Hon. David, son of David (9), married Ruth, daughter of Hon. James Cushing. 12. John, son of William (10), studied medicine with Dr. Gad. Hitchcock, in Pembrook, Mass., settled in Topsham in 1804, moved to Bath in 1805, received the degree of M. D. from Dartmouth College in 1822, practiced forty-eight years, and died May 3, 1849.
Dr. John (12) had children as follows: T. G. Stockbridge, physi- cian at Bath in 1827, married Mary R. Harding; John W., lived at New Orleans; Maria E., born March 25, 1815, died September, 1823; Mary G., born June 12, 1818, married Capt. William Drummond, and now lives at Kalamazoo, Mich .; Theodosia, born September 20, 1819, lives at Utica, N. Y .; Francis B., born April 9, 1826, went to Chicago in 1847, and to Michigan in 1851, was in the Legislature in 1849-50-51, and elected to the United States Senate in January, 1887, re-elected in 1893, lives at Kalamazoo, Mich., is married and has no children; Cornelia L., married T. P. Sheldon, and lives at Kalamazoo; Joseph H., born February 18, 1831, died June, 1844; March E., born October 27, 1832, married W. D. Houghleting, and lives in Chicago, Ill.
Isaac H. Merritt was born in Harpswell, at the portion that is known as Condys Harbor. His education was such as could be obtained in the public schools. When still young he adopted a sea-
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faring life, and in due course of service rose to the command of the vessels in which he sailed. His early voyages were to the West India ports, and later in the European trade. He was uniformly fortunate as a commander, and, having accumulated sufficient means to warrant him to do so, he retired from the sea to be with his family, making his home in Bath, where he built a fine residence, and entered into mercantile business which he continued as long as he lived.
While yet a young man, he married Miss Hannah Ann Batchelder, daughter of Capt. Timothy Batchelder, with whom he sailed in his his early voyages. His wife had been a young lady of the highest ' standing in her native town, and was notable for her superior mental culture and personal accomplishments. They had two sons who are now living in San Francisco, where Mrs. Merritt has resided for many years since the death of her husband. Captain Merritt had native traits of character that were genial, outspoken, and generous, which endeared him to those with whom he associated. He possessed a well developed and handsome presence. While in the prime of life and in apparant health his sudden death was a shock to the com- munity and regretted by all classes of citizens.
Alfred Lemont was born in Bath, April 5, 1808, and inarried Miss Malinda Hoadsdon, of Wales, Me., in December, 1836. They have one daughter, Aramede Snow Lemont, who was born in Bath, February 9, 1845, and married Capt. Henry C. Tarbox in 1866, and they live in Bath. In his early life Mr. Lemont worked at the blacksmith business in Bath thirty years, when he relinquished it and cc.amenced ship-building. The first vessel he built was the schooner Eliza Ann, at a yard north of Thomas Harward's, in 1835. She was employed in the coasting trade, and eventually was lost on Seal Rock while endeavoring to make the harbor at Eastport, to which port she was bound to load with plaster. In 1835 he began building ships at Winnegance with Richard Morse & Sons, and con- tinued to build with thein until 1851, when he established a yard of his own in Bath, in which he built vessels until 1865, when he relin- quished the business, but to the present time has continually owned
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in various vessels. He has been connected in banks in Bath twenty- five years, as a director in the Sagadahoc National Bank and an incorporator in the Twenty-five Cent Savings Bank. He is now living in retirement on a farm at West Bath, realizing a green old age, at a finely located residence, fronting the beautiful Campbells Pond.
Andrew Tarbox was a leading and influential townsman of Woolwich, who commanded Bath ships, and owned and occupied, for many years, the fine old Governor Phips estate, in that town. Late in life, Captain Tarbox purchased the Judge Groton property, on High street, in this city, and built thereon a new house, and passed his declining years in the midst of his children. Captain Tarbox was a staunch Republican through all the eighty-four years of his life, and served his adopted city repeatedly in both branches of the city government.
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