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ing home Mr. Fogg engaged in dealing in men's furnishing goods in Bath, which business he disposed of in 1888 and moved to Portland.
William B. Olys was born in Bath, December 17, 1856. His father and mother came from the County of Roscommon, Ireland, in 1848, to Bath, the father dying in 1872. Mr. Olys graduated from the high school; was employed in the printing and publishing establishment of E. C. Allen at Augusta; was an assistant in the management of several hotels, which he left, in 1886, to enter into the ship brokerage, commission, and insurance business, building three vessels in 1889-91, and operated extensively in ice. In April, 1892, he went to Boston and engaged in real estate and banking business.
George W. Ricker, of Rockland, was born in Bath, September 1, 1820. His father kept for many years the Bath Hotel. George W. was also a hotel-keeper in Augusta a considerable length of time; has been engaged in other business and is a prominent man of affairs. He married in Augusta and has one child, Emma B. Ricker. In his declining years he is living in Rockland, a respected citizen.
Edward P. Mitchell, son of Edward H. Mitchell and Frances Page Mitchell, was born in Bath, March 24, 1852. Going through the graded schools of the city and graduating from the high school, he entered Bowdoin College, graduating in 1871. Having a taste for journalism, he early adopted that profession, commencing employment on the Boston Advertiser, in 1871, where he continued until 1872; worked on the Lewiston Journal in 1874 and 1875; accepted a position on the morning edition of the New York Sun the latter year; has continued with that paper since that time and is assistant editor to his chief, Charles A. Dana. In 1874 he mar- ried Miss Annie S. Welch, of Bath, and they have four children, residing in New York City.
Samuel Harding was born in Bath, March 11, 1809. His father was Samuel Harding, who was born at Truro, Mass., and his mother was Lucy Stetson Harding, who was born at Duxbury,
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Mass. They came from Truro to Brunswick (New Meadows), Me., where his father had purchased a farm (now Miss Snow's beautiful place), and where his grandparents lived the remainder of their lives. His father, in his early days, was a successful ship-master from Bath, in the Liverpool and West India trade. Samuel Harding lived in his latter years in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died in 1892, when 84 years of age.
J. G. Dunning, of Springfield, Hampden County, Mass,, son of Ebenezer and Harriet P. (Frost) Dunning, was born in Bath, May 25, 1857. After graduating at the Bath High School, in 1874, he taught the winter term at North Bath, and was afterwards prin- cipal of the lower grammar school in Bath for four years. While teaching in the latter school he began the study of law with Judge Washington Gilbert, and afterwards graduated from the law depart- ment of Boston University, in 1880, with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the Bar of Hampden County the same year and opened an office at Springfield, and has been in the continuous practice of his profession there ever since. He was married, in 1884, to Miss Sadie L. Potter, daughter of William Potter, of Arrowsic, and has two children, Harold G., born May 17, 1884, and Ray P., born December 12, 1888.
Arthur C. Donnell, of San Francisco, belongs to a family that is the oldest in Bath, coming originally from Scotland and locating at Yarmouth and York, believed to be during the year 1700. Of this branch was Nathaniel Donnell, the purchaser of a large portion of what is now the territory of Bath from the heirs of Robert Gutch. Mr. Arthur Chatham Donnell, who was born in Bath, in 1853, comes down from this ancestor, and his father was Arthur Donnell, who had been an alderman of Bath, and his grandfather and great- grandfather had served in the State Legislature. He was educated in the city schools, graduated from the high school and was a mem- ber of the Phi Rho Society; passed an examination for Harvard, but on account of the death of his father went to California, where he was engaged in civil engineering six or seven years, after which he entered into the insurance business, and is now a partner in the
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firm of Okill, Donnell & Co., managers for the United States for a large English insurance company, for a New York insurance com- pany, and for the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation of London for the Pacific coast. In 1734 a kinsman of the original Nathaniel Donnell resided where is now the mansion of Thomas W. Hyde. He died in 1761. The same house was afterwards occupied by another descendant, Capt. Benjamin Donnell.
Bradstreet S. Rairden, of Aujer, Java. The father of Captain Rairden was Capt. Bradstreet Rairden, who was born at Georgetown, December 12, 1815, and died at Aujer, Java, May 28, 1887, while living there with his son after the loss of his daughter, a year previ- ous, who was with her husband who was in command of the ship Bombay when she was lost, with all on board, in the Atlantic Ocean. The father commenced a sea-faring life at an early age, and by regu- lar promotion rose to the office of captain, commanding the Bath ships Gerard, Gardner, Houghton, Ocean Romp, Canova, Alexander, Arcturus, and barks Henry Warren, Harriet Hussey, and Evie Reed, in all of which he made successful and uneventful voyages.
His son, Bradstreet S., was born in New Orleans, November 7, 1858; spent his youthful days in Bath, with the exception of one year at school in Portishead, England; commenced going to sea in November, 1874; took command of the bark Evie Reed, at Portland, Me., August 18, 1881, at the age of twenty-three years; left this vessel, on account of sickness with Java fever, at Batavia, Java, March, 1884, and settled at Aujer, April, 1884, as ship-chandler and commission nrerchant. He was married to Frances Elizabeth Collins (who was born at Bootle, England, July 16, 1865), January 12, 1887. Their children: Frank Bradstreet, born May 4, 1888; Percy Wallace, born November 14, 1889; Mamie Lowell, born May 30, 1891. In August, 1892, Captain Rairden was appointed, by President Harrison, consul to Batavia, Java, and took charge of the consulate November 1, 1892.
Winfield Scott Batchelder was born in Phipsburg, in 1841, and is a son of Emerson Batchelder. His business life was com- menced in a cotton commission house in Philadelphia, and when
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the War of the Rebellion was in progress he enlisted as a private in the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry; was promoted to first lieutenant; participated in the battles in which that regiment was engaged, including that of Gettysburg, participating in the repulse of Picket's famous charge. After serving two and a half years in the army he was compelled, by disability, to retire from further service. He married a Southern Union lady, of Harper's Ferry, and has two sons. His residence is at Titusville, Pa., where he is general super- intendent of the Titus Water Pipe Company, which is a very responsible position and which he has filled many years. His mother is a widow, residing in Bath.
Luther Dorr Emerson, grandson of the Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, and son of Hawley Emerson and his wife, Rachel Lennan, was born in Arrowsic, and married Miss D. Minerva, daughter of Reuben Crane, of Fayette, Me. Their children are Alice and Walter C. The latter graduated from Colby University, in 1884, and is one of the editors and proprietors of the Portland Advertiser. Mr. Emerson was engaged in the business of manufacturing scythes and axes and was president of the Messalouskee National Bank at Oakland, Me., where he died in October, 1893.
George W. Percy, of San Francisco, was born in West Bath, July 5, 1847; went to sea; returned in 1866 and, after a short time at Kent's Hill school, entered the office of F. H. Fassett, the Port- land architect; went to California in 1869; went to Chicago after the great fire, and was engaged one year in the work of the rebuild- ing of that city; early in 1873 went to Boston and was in charge of the construction of several important buildings there during the next three years; returned to California and opened an office in San Francisco, where he has since been employed in practical architect- ure with success. In 1880 he entered into partnership with F. F. Hamilton. On December 29, 1881, Mr. Percy married Miss Emma W., daughter of Mr. D. W. Clark, of Portland, Me. Mr. Percy is a son of Dea. Isaiah Percy, who was a well-known resident of West Bath. T. B. Percy, another son, resides in Portland and is a deacon of the Second Parish Church.
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Joseph Whitman Spaulding was born in Carratuck Plantation, Somerset County, Me., August 11, 1841. November 4, 1865, he married Miss Mary Jane Clark, of Boston, Mass., who was born at Tinmouth, Vt., November 19, 1840, and they have two children. Mr. Spaulding was educated at Richmond Academy and Westbrook Seminary, and received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin, July 10, 1878. He had commenced the study of law, but when the War of the Rebellion broke out he resolved to tender his services, and was commissioned first lieutenant of Company A, of the Nineteenth Regiment of Maine Volunteers, which was mustered at Bath, August 25, 1862; was promoted to captain, major, and lieu- tenant-colonel in the army of the Potomac, and was mustered out while in command of the regiment, May 31, 1865. Upon his return home he resumed the study of law, and was admitted to the Bar November 28, 1865; to the United States Circuit Court for Maine, April 24, 1871, and to the courts of Alabama, August, 1890. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Maine in 1868, 1870, and 1879; was state senator in 187 1 and 1872, and held offices of trust in the village of Richmond. From 1880 to 1888 he was reporter of Supreme Law decisions, and in 1881 he prepared a law book on common law practice in courts, with the changes made by Maine Statutes, which is cited as "Spaulding's Practice." For many years his law office was at Richmond, subsequently in Portland, removing to Fort Wayne, Ala., in 1890, where he is engaged in practice, and became mayor of the city. He is a member of Rich- mond Lodge of F. and A. Masons; of John Merrill Post, G. A. R., of Richmand, and of Maine Commandery, Military Order of Loyal Legion of the United States.
Charles Carrol Morse was born in Phipsburg, April 4, 1843, and is a son of William H. and Hannah Reed Morse. His early education was such as is afforded by the district schools, and he commenced going to sea when sixteen years of age; sailed out of Boston five years, when he became captain of the schooner Fleet- wing of Bath when less than twenty years old; then went mate of the bark Caroline Lemont of Brunswick, afterwards taking com- mand of her; subsequently was mate with Capt. Charles E. Patten
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in the Bath ship Moravia one foreign voyage, when the command was relinquished to him by Captain Patten in 1870; afterwards he was master of the ship Ellen Goodspeed, the George F. Manson, and the C. F. Sargent, in all of which he was part owner. He mar- ried at Plymouth, England, in 1871, Mrs. Margaret Stevens Webber, and they have had four sons and two daughters. His family lived in England until the year of 1888, when they came to this country and are settled in San Francisco, from which port Captain Morse is sailing. In 1890 he bought into the ship Occidental and is now master of her.
Parker Henry McCobb Morrison .- Captain Morrison was a son of Capt. Pierson Morrison and was born in Phipsburg, at the Basin section, November 16, 1837. His education was such as was obtained in the district school, and, following his father's occupation, he went to sea in April, 1855, at seventeen years of age, as cabin boy with Capt. Frank Percy in the ship Lizzie Drew. Adopting the sea as his life occupation, he rose in the course of regular service to the position of captain in January, 1863, taking charge of the bark Comet. Subsequently he has commanded the brig Vincent, bark Aberdeen, bark Amie, ship George W. Adams, ship Indiana, and bark Andrew Welch owned by Welch & Co., San Francisco, and later was given command of the fine clipper iron bark R. P. Rithet, sailing between San Francisco and West Pacific ports. When in command of the bark Aberdeen, and at St. Thomas, in November, 1867, a hurricane and tidal wave caused every person to flee to the hills, many lives were lost, vessels were swept up into the streets making more or less total wrecks, the Aberdeen among the number. Added to this calamity the cholera and yellow fever prevailed in the town. Captain Morrison is notable as a careful navigator and a trustworthy man in charge of a vessel.
Albion H. Morse, son of Thomas and Arabella (Hillman) Morse, was born in Phipsburg, December 24, 1832, where his education was obtained in the public schools. When sixteen years of age he adopted a sea-faring life, rising, in a regular course of service in the merchant marine, to the command of deep-sea-going ships, and con-
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tinued in that vocation until 1890, when he retired from the sea, having met with abundant success. His early voyages were in ships sailing out of the Port of Bath, but for the last twenty-five years he commanded steamers in a regular line plying on the coast and rivers of China-fourteen years under the Chinese flag. His long extended business with Chinese merchants led him to speak of them as being honorable, straightforward men. Captain Morse is unmarried and resides in Alameda, Cal., where he has a magnificent residence.
Llewellyn Scott Wyman was born in Phipsburg, June 23, 1831; married, in September, 1859, to Lizzie Merrill, only daughter of Thomas J. Merrill of Damariscotta. She died December, 1860, at the age of 21 years. Lizzie Merrill Wyman, her daughter, born November 5, 1860, died October 25, 1882. He commenced going to sea in 1843; took command of ship Caspian, 1853; from her to Florence; changed to bark Rig; from her to ship Champlain. In 1859 he built, in part, and took command of ship Canada, the first ship sailing with star built on the Kennebec. All these ships were built and managed by Messrs. G. F. & J. Patten, Bath. In 1867 he built with J. P. Morse ship Belle Morse, and was in com- mand of her three years. In 1871 he built with J. P. Morse ship Harry Morse, and was in command of her until he retired from the sea in November, 1875. Since that time he has built a large num- ber of ships, barks, and schooners. Since retiring from the sea his home has been in Damariscotta and Portland.
Felix U. Stinson, of Arrowsic, was born in Cuba, November 20, 1855; came to America in 1868; was adopted by Capt. John Stin- son, living at Arrowsic. He went to the district school and worked on the farm. In 1874 he commenced going to sea, shipping on board of the ship Storm King, of Bath, of which A. P. Boyd was - master, and in 1884 reached, through the several grades of service, the position of first officer. He has sailed as such in the ships Solitaire, Frank N. Thayer, Valparaiso, Arminia, John R. Kelley, and is now in the largest wood ship in the world, the Shenandoah, having three mates under him. All of the above-named ships in which he has sailed as mate are vessels of the larger class engaged
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in the Pacific trade. To be first officer of a ship of such excessive tonnage as that of the Shenandoah is equal in responsibility to being in command of ships of a much smaller tonnage.
Frederic W. Payne. - Dr. Payne, son of the distinguished William E. Payne, was born in Bath, where he passed through the city schools, leaving the high school just before the completion of a regular course to enter a boarding-school in Newton Centre, where he remained two years. Commencing the study of medicine, he graduated from the Harvard Medical School, of the class of 1866, and from the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867 ; was engaged in study in Europe, at the hospitals of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, during the greater part of the years 1868 and 1869; has been in Europe at the hospitals, mainly those of Paris and Vienna, repeatedly since his first visit to them; was associated with his father in practice, in Bath, for the first four years after his graduation, and went to Boston in 1872.
Doctor Payne has since traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and America, having once circumnavigated the globe and spent some time in China and Japan. He is a member of the International Hahnemann Association, senior member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Boston Hahnemann Association; was formerly lecturer upon diseases of the eye and ear at the Boston University School of Medicine, and lately surgeon in charge of the Eye and Ear Depart- ment of the Boston Homeopathic Dispensary. He has written much concerning homeopathic practice and cases, and aided in the proving of several remedies for the homeopathic materia medica. The doctor is a specialist in his practice in ophthalmology and otology, and has been most successful in the accomplishment of surgical and therapeutic means for the alleviation and restoration of sight and hearing to the distressed.
Doctor Payne married the daughter of Jacob Parker Morse of Bath and has two sons and a daughter. He is in practice in Boston, where he has the confidence and patronage of a large community.
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Dr. John H. Payne, of Boston, was born in Bath, June 14, 1855. He is son of the distinguished homeopathic physician, Dr. William E. Payne of Bath. His mother was daughter of Capt. Davis Hatch, a prominent citizen of Bath in his day. Their son, John H., com- menced his education in the schools of his native city, graduating from its high school in 1872; from Bowdoin College in the class of 1876; from the Boston University School of Medicine, class of 1879; was in the Hospital of Paris, France, and in one in Austria during ten months of the years 1883 and 1884.
In 1879 he commenced practice in Boston with his cousin, Dr. J. P. Paine, and moved into the city proper in 1881, where he has continued in his profession, in Copley Square, to the present date, in the specialty of the treatment of diseases of the eye and ear. Doctor Payne is lecturer on diseases of the eye and ear in that department of the dispensary in connection with the Boston Univer- sity School of Medicine, and also ophthalmic surgeon, by appoint- ment, at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital at Boston. A few years since Doctor Payne, with his wife, went on a tour of Europe for health and recreation.
William L. Putnam was born in Bath, May 26, 1835. He attended the public schools of his native city, and entered Bowdoin College in the class of 1855, graduating with it. He at once com- menced the study of law, and the next winter was chosen assistant clerk of the House of Representatives, and at about the same time assumed editorial charge of the Bath Daily Times, which he retained for nearly a year. He was admitted to the Bar in 1858 and imme- diately moved to Portland, where he has since resided. He was so fortunate as to be received into partnership by Hon. George Evans, and his associations with that brilliant statesman were of course of inestimable value. Also, he was thus introduced at the beginning to the best class of clients and business, and given plenty of work to do, which was a powerful stimulus, at that formative period, of his natural propensity for that thorough and unremitting devotion to his legal pursuits that has been and is the dominant feature of his life and the foundation of its eminent success. In the later years
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of his law practice a great part of his business was connected with corporations and great business enterprises. In politics Judge Put- nam has always been devoted to Democratic principles, yet the citizens of Republican Portland elected him mayor in 1869, an office which he filled with credit.
In 1883 he was tendered one of the judgeships of the Supreme Bench in this State, but declined the honor. In 1887 President Cleveland appointed him a commissioner on the part of the United States to negotiate a settlement of the rights of Americans in the territorial waters of Canada and Newfoundland, a duty that he dis- charged with distinguished ability. At the end of the negotiations he wrote two able papers in support and defense of the treaty. They were sent to the Senate by the President. These events gave him a national reputation, and his latest honor, his appointment, December, 1891, by President Harrison, to be judge of the new United States Circuit Court of Appeals, which was created March 31, 1891, was entirely above the plane of politics and a recognition universally commended. In 1884 he was elected by the Bowdoin College corporation a member of the Board of Trustees of that institution, and simultaneously received from them the degree of LL.D. He was for several years president of the Portland Institute and Public Library, and is now president of the corporation of the Maine General Hospital.
It was in cases that involved a mastery of the legal principles and required a profound research and preparation that Judge Putnam's superiority was manifest. It was, therefore, in the law courts and in office business that his efforts created, perhaps, the most exten- sive and valuable clientage of any of his contemporaries in the city. His thoroughness in details, his recognition of the importance of minor features that would not be apparent to most opponents, and in fact his complete mastery of the whole subject is what has made his arguments irresistible, and caused his judgment to be relied upon where matters of great importance were concerned.
Mr. Putnam, for many years, has worked steadily at his law office all day and carried home his green bag full of papers to continue his work late in the evening. He is one of the few men who can labor
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thus with their brains, year after year, and thrive upon it. He is, of course, strong of mind and body. He enjoys social life, both at home and elsewhere. Probably no other Maine man makes so many calls in Washington as he, or has a wider acquaintance with eminent people.
Judge Putnam is a large man with an erect and imposing carriage, would attract attention anywhere, and when he walks into the court- room with his voluminous silk robe enfolding him, he expresses the dignity of the law to perfection. Judge Putnam is married and has no children.
Henry A. Shorey was born in Waterville, in 1840. He is a journalist by profession, and for twenty-seven years, in Bath and Bridgton, has been engaged in the newspaper business as editor and publisher. He enlisted as a private in the first "challenge to the fray," in the old Bath City Grays (Company A, Third Maine), but was rejected at the medical examination as not being robust enough for field service. But, nowise discouraged, he recruited a detachment of men in November, 1861, and with them entered the service as second lieutenant in the Fifteenth Maine Regiment. He served with the regiment in the Butler expedition against New Orleans, and endured the privations of a soldier's life in the malaria infected regions of the Mississippi through three consecutive summers; served in Western Florida; was with Banks' expedition to Southern Texas; in the Banks' Red River expedition, participating in all the battles of that eventful campaign; was with Butler at Bermuda Hundreds; was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley; was "in" at the final close of the war, commanding his company in the famous Grand Review at Washington in May, 1865; and, with his regiment, then proceeded to Georgia and South Carolina, serving a full year in the adventurous and exciting service incident to the reconstruction period and the protection of the freed people during that memorable transition period. He was mustered out of the service in July, 1866, after a continuous service of four years and seven months. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1863; served as adjutant for a con-
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siderable period; promoted to captain in 1865; and brevetted major for meritorious service during the war, in March, 1865.
During his long term of service Major Shorey occupied many important detached positions, including those of provost marshal, judge advocate of military courts, and post commander, during his service in South Carolina in 1865-6, which was especially varied, responsible, and exciting.
Major Shorey has held many important positions in the Maine reformatory and fraternal organizations, including those of chief and secretary of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars, and president of the State Odd Fellows' Relief Association. He was also a mem- ber of the governor's staff (with rank of lieutenant-colonel ) during Governor Perham's administration; one of the trustees of the Maine Insane Hospital for half a dozen years; and for a number of years has been weigher and gauger at the Portland Custom House.
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