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EBENEZER DRAKE.
Ebenezer Drake was in trade many years at North Paris, was a man of honor and integrity, respected and confided in by the com- munity, and successful in business. He was modest even to diffi- dence, yet a man of sound judgment and every way reliable. He was a member of the Baptist church at North Paris, and one of its strong supports. He was probably the son of Ebenezer and Martha (Gurney) Drake of Bridgewater, Mass. His wife was also a Gur- ney, a daughter of Jacob, who was an early settler in this town. He had two children-Horace, who died some years ago, and Eliza. He moved from this town to Mechanic Falls, and engaged there in the manufacture of paper, and died there several years ago.
DR. ANDREW J. FULLER.
Among the native born sons of Paris who have achieved success in professional life, is Dr. Andrew J. Fuller of Bath. He was born
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to Caleb and Hannah (Perkins) Fuller, September 15, 1822, being the youngest of a large family. He attended the town schools in Paris and at the academy in Hebron. Early showing a leaning toward the medical profession, he pursued his studies at the Maine Medical School, at the University of New York and at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He graduated from the Maine Medical School in the class of 1841, and settled in Searsmont. In 1847 he moved to Bath, and has remained there in practice ever since. He has enjoyed there and still enjoys the respect and confi- dence of the people, and has had an extensive practice, not only in common medicine and minor surgery, but in the higher grades of both. Among his successful major operations have been amputa- tions at the hip joint and resection of the humerus. He is a mem- ber of the American Medical Association and Vice President, member of the Maine Medical Association and its President in 1871. Among his published papers is an essay on "Cholera Infantum," and "Prognosis on Fractures," the former to the American Medical Association in 1856, and the latter to the Maine Association.
Previous to the war, he served seven years as Surgeon of the Second Maine Infantry, and was Post Surgeon at Bath during the war. He has been a good business man, as shown in the fact that he has served as President of the Bath Board of Trade twelve years, and as President of the Lincoln County Fire Insurance Company five years. He 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. His practice is not confined to Bath, but he is frequently called in consultation in difficult cases, especially in surgery, and often from places far remote from his home. In July, 1843, he married Miss Harriet, daughter of George Marston of Bath, and had three children, one of whom, a daughter, is living. She married Samuel C. Barker and has one child, a son, Byron F. Barker. Dr. Fuller has ever manifested a strong attachment to his native town, and a lively interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of her people. He is one of the many strong men who left Paris in early manhood, to develop and win respect and success elsewhere.
EMILY A. GOODENOW.
Miss Emily A. Goodenow died at Washington, D. C., May 15, 1872. She had been a clerk in the Treasury Department since 1865. She had been somewhat indisposed for some time, but had been out
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every day and was out walking on the day of her death. She had a sudden attack of hemorrhage of the lungs and lived only about three hours after. She was 42 years of age, a lady of fine culture. When the war broke out she was governess in the family of Hon. Humphrey Marshall of Virginia, afterwards Gen. Marshall of the confederate army. With much difficulty she succeeded in coming north, leaving her pay for her service and much of her wardrobe behind. Reaching Washington, she became a teacher in the freed- men's school, depending for her compensation on voluntary contri- butions. She was a very graceful and ready writer. She was the youngest child of Hon. Rufus K. and Jane (Bean) Goodenow of this town.
MOSES HAMMOND.
Moses, son of Benjamin Hammond, was born in Paris, June 20, 1791, and died April 10, 1871. When he became of age he selec- ted the spot and built the buildings where he ever afterwards lived. He early developed a taste for mechanics and was often employed by the town in drafting plans for bridges, &c. He was many years in trade, and also a large lumber operator, owning mills, at one time and timber lands, not only in Oxford but in Penobscot county. He was active and energetic, possessed of a robust con- stitution, and was not afraid to "put his own hand to the plow." He was often in town office, and had the confidence of his fellow-citizens in the fullest degree. He was social, genial, and confiding, careful in the selection of friends, but true to those he had tried. He mar- ried Mary Keith, a native of Bridgewater. He was buried in the new cemetery, in a spot selected by himself for a family lot. The granite monument placed in his cemetery lot was cut and lettered by himself, and is a good exhibition of his skill and handiwork.
ELIJAH L. HAMLIN.
Hon. Elijah L. Hamlin was the son of Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, and was born in Livermore, March 29, 1800. When six years of age, his father moved to Paris. Elijah fitted for college and graduated from Brown University in 1819, studied the legal profession and opened an office at Bangor. Here he spent the remainder of his years. He was a man of inarked ability, a good lawyer and well up in other departments of knowledge. It was he, in connection with Dr. Ezekiel Holmes, who discovered the deposit of rare minerals at
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Mount Mica, and he was much interested in mineralogy, especially in the rarer varieties of minerals and gems. In politics he adopted the Whig side and was the candidate of his party for Governor, but the Whigs never had much of a show in Maine, and he was not suc- cessful in being elected to office like his younger brother who took the opposite side. But the organization of the Republican party brought them upon the same platform, and Elijah was elected as such from Bangor to both branches of the Legislature, where he served with distinguished ability. His social qualities were of the highest order, and he was a most interesting and valued member of society. He was always strongly attached to Paris, especially to the old homestead on the Hill, and among his regrets late in life was, that it had been allowed to pass out of the family. He married Eliza Choate of Salem, Mass., and had three children who are fur- ther spoken of in the Genealogical Register.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, one of the foremost citizens of our State and country, was born in Paris, August 27, 1809. On the paternal side he descended from the Hamlins, who early settled at Barn- stable on Cape Cod, and from whom the different New England families of this name sprang. His grandfather, then of Pembroke, Mass., and a prominent citizen, was an officer in the Revolutionary . war and did much to fire the patriotic heart in the Old Colony dur- ing the days that tried men's souls. On the maternal side, Mr. Hamlin's Puritan ancestry were no less distinguished than were the Hamlins in the Old Colony. His mother was Anna, daughter of Dea. Elijah Livermore who was one of the proprietors and first settlers of the town, formerly in this county, which bears his name, and whose first American ancestor was an early settler and prom- inent citizen of Watertown, Mass. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, the father of the subject of this notice, born in Pembroke, Mass., after graduating in medicine, settled in practice in Livermore,, but on the formation of the County of Oxford, in 1805, he came to Paris to officiate as Clerk of the Courts. A collegiate education was in- tended for Hannibal, and he was prepared to enter college when his father died. Duties then devolved upon him which prevented him from carrying out his previous plans, and he remained at home until he became of age. In company with Horatio King, he purchased the paper started at Paris a year or two previous, called the Jeffer-
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sonian, in 1829, and worked at the case for about six months, when he sold out his interest to Mr. King. He then read law, was admitted to the bar, and in the spring of 1833 moved to Hampden. He con- tinued in active practice for about fifteen years.
He was elected to the Maine Legislature in. 1836 and re-elected three times, serving his last three terms as Speaker of the House. He was elected a member of the XXVIII Congress and re-elected to the XXIX. He was again elected to the Maine Legislature in 1847, and May 26, 1848, was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. John Fairfield. In 1851 he was re-elected for the full term of six years. In 1856 he was nominated for Governor by the Republicans of Maine, and elected by an overwhelming majority. He resigned his seat in the Senate, but January 16th he was re-elected to the United States Senate for a full term of six years, resigning his position as Gov- ernor to accept it. He was a prominent member of the Senate, serving on important committees, among others on the Committee on Commerce, and District of Columbia. In 1860 he was nomi- nated by the Republican Convention as candidate for Vice President on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln, and was elected. His position as presiding officer of the Senate during the dark days of the rebel- lion, was difficult in the extreme, but he filled it with distinguished ability and to great acceptance. At the close of his term he was appointed Collector of the Port of Boston, but resigned before the end of the year, not being satisfied with the policy of the acting Presi- dent from whom he had received his appointment. In 1869 he was again elected to the United States Senate and re-elected in 1875. In 1881 he was appointed by President Garfield, Minister to Spain, which position he resigned at the end of the year and returned to his home in Bangor.
Mr. Hamlin married first, Sarah, daughter of Hon. Stephen Emery, and had by this marriage three children who grew up to man and womanhood-two sons and a daughter. Both of the sons served creditably in the war of the rebellion, and after the war was over, the youngest, Cyrus, settled in New Orleans, but soon died. The daughter was married, and died some years ago; and Gen. Charles Hamlin, the oldest son, is a practicing attorney in Bangor. Mr. Hamlin married second, Ellen Emery, half sister of his former wife, and they have two sons, both of whom have graduated from college, and one of them is engaged in professional life as a lawyer.
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During his long public career, Mr. Hamlin has constantly held the esteem and confidence of the people of Maine, and has richly de- served it, for his attention to business, his untiring efforts in behalf of liberty and human progress and his spotless record as a public man. Genial and kind-hearted by nature, he has cultivated the acquaintance of men in the humbler as well as in the higher walks of life, and has had a personal following such as few public men have ever enjoyed. In the exalted positions to which he has attained, he has never lost sight of the fact that he owed his eleva- tion to the original source of power, the people, and in his official capacity he has never gone counter to the public will. He probably has a larger personal acquaintance with the yeomanry of the State than was ever had by any of our public men, and the fact that, meet them where he may, he always recognizes them and has a. pleasant and cordial word of greeting for them, accounts in some degree for his popularity. Although over fifty years have elapsed since he left his native hills and took up his residence on the Penob- scot, his attachment to Paris and its people remains unabated, and his visits here, when his public duties would admit it, have been fre- quent and apparently enjoyable. Though somewhat advanced in years, he is still vigorous both in mind and body ; and at his pleas- ant home in the city of Bangor, surrounded by warm personal friends, and having in his retirement the profound respect of the people of the State and country, and the consciousness of having been faithful to the many trusts which have been imposed upon him, he has every prospect of a green old age and years of grateful rest.
JOSIAH S. HOBBS.
Josiah S. Hobbs is the son of James Hobbs, Jr., of Lovell, where he was born, June 27, 1828. Hc received a thorough academical education and was for several years engaged in teaching in Water- ford. He finally read law and was admitted to the bar. He was elected Register of Probate and moved to Paris Hill. He was re- elected twice, serving three full terms of four years each. At the end of his third term he was appointed by Governor Perham, State Librarian, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Joseph T. Woodward, and moved to Augusta, where he has since resided. He has held the position of State Librarian by re-appointment, with the exception of one year, since his removal to Augusta. He mar- ried Emeline, daughter of Stevens and Sophia (Chadbourne) Smith of Gorham, and has no children.
Hon. Horatio King.
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HIRAM HUBBARD.
Hon. Hiram Hubbard was the son of Russell, and grandson of Gen. Levi Hubbard. His mother was Emma, daughter of Daniel Stowell, Esq., and he was born in Paris, September 28, 1811. He has been one of our most active and substantial business men. For many years he was in trade, either by himself or in company with others. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Paris Rifle Com- pany, May 15, 1835, and promoted to Aide-de-Camp in 1837. He has served in both branches of the Legislature, and as County Treasurer. He was also for some years connected with the Portland Custom House. A few years ago, in response to the popular wish, he fitted up his house as a hotel, now the well-known "Hubbard House." This has been a favorite resort for city people who like a pleasant house and family in which, with pure air and pleasant surroundings, to spend the summer months. Mr. Hubbard married first, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathan Marble ; and second, Nancy J., sister of his former wife. He has had eight children, five by the first marriage and three by the second ; six are now living.
HORATIO KING.
Hon. Horatio King was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Hall) King, and was born in Paris, June 21, 1811. His father was quite early here, and his mother was a daughter of Jonathan Hall, an early settler here from Hopkinton, Mass. The grandfather of Horatio King was George King of Raynham, Mass., and he and three of his brothers served in the war for independence. Like most of the country-reared young men of the period, the subject of this notice was brought up on the farm and had a personal know- ledge of what life upon the farm is, or rather what it was at that time, for it is somewhat different now. He received such an edu- cation as the common schools afforded, and, in the spring of 1829, entered the office of the Jeffersonian, a paper then printed in Paris, to learn the printers' art. One year afterwards he became part owner, and six months thereafter sole owner, and, in 1832, editor of the paper, and in May, 1833, moved it to Portland. On the first of January, 1838, he sold out to the Standard, and that paper was finally merged with the Eastern Argus. In March, 1839, he was appointed by Postmaster General Amos Kendall, to a position in the Post Office Department at Washington, D. C., where he has ever since resided. He received promotions from time to time until
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1850, when he became connected with the foreign mail service, in which capacity he originated and perfected certain postal arrange- ments of great importance to the service. In March, 1854, he was appointed by President Pierce, First Assistant Postmaster General, an office of great responsibility, but for which his long experience well fitted him. He held this position until the 1st January, 1861, when he became Acting Postmaster General, and on the 12th Feb- ruary he was nominated, by President Buchanan and confirmed by the Senate, as Postmaster General, serving in that capacity until the inauguration of President Lincoln and the appointment of his successor, March 7, 1861. He filled all these important places with fidelity and distinguished ability. He was Postmaster General dur- ing the latter part of Mr. Buchanan's administration, when treason stalked with a bold front through the streets of the National Capital. Though a life-long democrat, Mr. King was loyal to the core, and remained so during the entire struggle. Though exempted by law from the performance of military duty, he furnished a representative recruit who was duly mustered in and served in the Union army. This exhibition of patriotism and public spirit received official ac- knowledgment from the government. After retiring from the Post office Department, he was appointed, in April, 1862, one of a Board of Commissioners to carry out the emancipation proclamation in the District of Columbia. This position was tendered him by President Lincoln, unsolicited, and doubtless on account of his valuable ser- vices near the close of the previous administration. The service of this commission was limited to nine months, and. on finally leaving office, Mr. King went into a quiet business as an attorney before the executive departments and international commissions, which he fol- lowed until about ten years ago, when he retired as far as practicable from active business. Mr. King has twice made the tour of Europe, first in 1867 and again in 1875-6. The last one was somewhat more extended than the first, and on his return he published a book en- titled "Sketches of Travel, or Twelve Months in Europe." He has written much and upon a great variety of topics, and has also lectured on various occasions. He delivered an oration before the Union Literary Society of Washington in 1841, which was pub- lished. He also originated a series of Saturday evening literary entertainments at his private residence, which became very popular. February 2, 1884, the hundredth meeting of this kind was held, and the proceedings were printed in a neat pamphlet of 48 pages. He
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has for many years been a contributor to newspapers and magazines, on historical and literary subjects, sometimes translating articles from the French. He spends his winters in Washington, but about six months each season are spent at his summer home at West New- ton, Mass.
Mr. King married May 25, 1835, Ann Collins of Portland, by whom he had seven children, only three of whom-one daughter and two sons-survive. The others died young. His first wife died September 22, 1869, and he married, February 8, 1875, Isabella G. Osborne of Auburn, N. Y. Mr. King's somewhat eventful life has been one of usefulness. In all the positions he has filled, he has inaugurated important improvements, including, within the last few years, that of the official "Penalty Envelope"-a convenient, eco- nomical device ; and by his literary efforts he has contributed much to elevate the tone of society at the National Capital. During all the years since he left Paris, he has shown in various ways that his devotion to the dear old town is unwavering ; and now, as he grows older and the cares and duties of life have become lessened, his heart is drawn still oftener and with greater force toward the home of his childhood, youth and early manhood.
FRANCIS LANE.
Captain Francis Lane was born in Gloucester, Mass., in 1756, and in 1775 enlisted in Capt. Rowe's company and marched to Bun- ker Hill in season to take part in the engagement which took place there June 17. Returning to Gloucester, he entered the navy on board a privateer, and at the close of the war received his share in several prizes which he had aided in capturing. He subsequently became master of a ship and made voyages to various parts of the world. He was once shipwrecked and spent the winter in Green- land. He married, February 25, 1779, Miss Esther Griffin of Glou- cester. Later in life he moved to North Yarmouth, when he continued to follow the seas for many years. He subsequently moved to Minot, and in 1818 to South Paris, where he died Novem- ber 30, 1829. His first wife died of yellow fever in 1799, leaving five children. He married next, Widow Hannah Wyman of North Yarmouth, July 8, 1800. His second wife died in this town, and for his third wife he married Mrs. Betsey Gammon, December 5, 1822. His only son, Ammi R., served in the war of 1812, and came with his father to South Paris in 1818, and died there June
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16, 1863, leaving a family. His widow died October 18, 1884. Mary, daughter of Francis Lane, married Samuel Richards of Ox- ford, and Samuel Richards, Jr., of South Paris, is their son.
AUGUSTUS G. LEBROKE.
Hon. Augustus G. Lebroke was the son of Jacob and Martha (Foster) Lebroke and was born here Feb. 9, 1823. His grandfather, James Lebroke (or "Le Brook," as it is in the early records,) came from France in the French fleet that came over to assist in our strug- gle for independence. After the war, he settled in Pembroke, Mass., and from there came to Hebron and finally to Paris with the early settlers, and died here. Jacob Lebroke early moved to Fox- croft, where in his youth the subject of this notice worked upon his father's farm and for others in the vicinity. He was educated in the common schools in Foxcroft and at Foxcroft Academy, at which he fitted for college. He taught common and high schools three terms a year for several years, with marked success ; had experience as Assistant Postmaster at Dover Village and East Corinth, and read law while teaching, in the office of the late J. S. Holmes, Esq., in Foxcroft. He was in the California mines one and a half years ; read law after his return in the office of the late Hon. C. P. Chan- dler, in Foxcroft, and in the office of Hon. A. W. Paine, in Bangor. He was for the most of the time for fifteen years a member of the S. S. Committee, or Supervisor of Schools, in Foxcroft, till he de- clined to serve longer. He served as Town Agent of Foxcroft for 24 years, with the interruption of a single year in two instances. He also held other town offices. In 1859 and also in 1872 he was a member of the Maine Legislature and one of the most distinguished debaters in that day. He was County Attorney for Piscataquis from 1860 to 1870. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Maine Senate and was made Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He is an able lawyer and a natural born orator, having a wonderful command of language and a remarkably pleasing address. He has been much on the stump in Maine and elsewhere, and is regarded as one of the most efficient speakers in his party. He' is now prac- ticing his profession in Foxcroft and is doing a large and lucrative business.
JARVIS C. MARBLE.
Jarvis C. Marble was the son of Nathan and Mehitable (Free- land) Marble of Sutton and Bethel, and was born in the latter town.
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When seventeen years of age, he went to New York and served as clerk for his cousin, Lawson C. Carter, for three years. His health being impaired, he returned to Maine and entered into part- nership with Hiram Hubbard as soon as he was of age. Afterwards he purchased Mr. Hubbard's interest in the store, and continued in trade alone. In 1845 he bought of Lorenzo Swett, the Buckfield Powder Mills, located at Basin Falls on Twenty-Mile river, and soon after disposed of his store at Paris. About 1847 he purchased of Emery. Allen, the powder-mills at Hale's Mills ; built mills at Platt- ville, Wisconsin, and also bought a half interest in the mills at Camden. In 1852-3, in company with A. P. Waterhouse, he built mills in Portsmouth, Ohio. Subsequently. having disposed of his Platville and Portsmouth mills to New York parties, he built others at Windsor, in the Province of Quebec; also engaged largely in lumbering, and to a limited extent in mining. In January, 1878, he sold out his entire interest in the powder manufacture, but has continued his Canada operations in other directions, in the lumber, bark and wood business. Mr. Marble was elected a member of the Legislature in 1880, and re-elected in 1881. He was a useful and influential member of that body.
SILAS P. MAXIM.
Silas P. Maxim is the son of the late Silas Maxim, Jr., and grand- son of Silas Maxim, our early settler. He was born Feb. 21, 1827, attended the town schools and at Hebron Academy. He worked upon the farm summers and taught school winters for a few years, and finally learned the carpenter's trade. He carried on the manu- facture of sash, blinds and doors on the Hill for some years, and then moved his business to South Paris, where, much enlarged, it is still carried on by him and his son. Mr. Maxim was Clerk in the Enrolling Board of the Second Congressional District during the war, and has been one of the Board of Selectmen in Paris dur- ing the period of seven years. He was early interested in the history of his native town, and much of the material for this history was gathered up by him. He began to collect this material many years ago when some of the early settlers were living, and by jotting down their recollections he saved important facts bearing upon the subject, which but for his forethought must have been for- ever lost. He has erected some of the best buildings in town, among which are the Odd-Fellows' Block, the school-house in South
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