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EDMUND E. LANDER, son of Deacon Seneca, m. Celia A., dau. of Joseph and Catherine (Virgin) Rowe of Woodstock, Feb. 24, 1856. Children :
I Gilbert Henry, b. Dec. 9, 1856, d. March 8, 1861.
II Kate M., b. July 25, 1858.
III Tina Alber, b. Feb. 25, 1865.
LANE.
CAPT. FRANCIS LANE was born in Gloucester, Mass., in 1756, and came to Paris from Minot in 1818. His first wife had six children, and died in 1799. He married next, widow Wyman of North Yar-
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mouth, and third, after he came to this town, Mrs. Betsey Gammon. He died in 1829. His children, all by the first marriage, were :
Esther, b. May 26, 1782, m. Benj. Safford of Turner.
Francis, b. about 1787, d. young.
Mary, b. June 7, 1792, m. Samuel Richards of Oxford. (See Richards.)
Ammi R., b. March 7, 1794, m. Eliza Whitehouse of Oxford.
Susan, b. Nov. 7, 1797, m. Ransom Ripley of Paris.
Hannah, b. June 14, 1799, m. Wm. Hutchins of Oxford.
Esther, wife of Francis Lane, died in 1799, of yellow fever, con- tracted while taking care of a sick neighbor. He died Nov. 30, 1829, and he and his two last wives are buried in the Robinson neighborhood, and his grandson, Samuel Richards of Paris, has thoughtfully placed a stone to mark the spot with appropriate inscrip- tions.
AMMI RUHAMAH LANE, son of Francis, who married Eliza White- house, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his widow received a pension for that service. He died June 16, 1863, and his widow died Jan. 18, 1884. Children :
Zenas, b. Nov. 10, 1825, m. Judith Safford.
Betsey, b. July 4, 1827, m. Samuel Rogers.
Gilman G., b. Dec. 26, 1829, m. Mary Guptill.
America, b. Nov. 22, 1831, m. Eliza A. Furber.
Philena G., b. Dec. 26, 1836, m. Alonzo Palmer.
Ammi F., b. April 2, 1843, m. Mary Knight.
Frances. Ann, b. July 1, 1843, m. Enoch E. Hall. .
Oscar G., b. Oct. 11, 1855, m. Nelly Talbert.
ISAAC LANE, blacksmith, b. in Byfield, Mass., m. Esther Cook of Conway, N. H., settled in the Whittemore District, and worked at his trade. Children :
Betsey, b. June 15, 1813, m. Lewis Monk, d. Aug. 1841.
Willard, b. Nov. 17, 1815.
Abagail, b. April 24, 1818, d. Nov. 7, 1840.
John M., b. Oct. 15, 1820, m. - Coburn, s. Sumner.
Mary Ann, b. April 3, 1823, m. 1st, Charles Lane, 2d, Charles A. Buck.
George B., b. Nov. 5, 1826, d. Oct. 15, 1841.
Frances, b. July 8, 1830, m. Solon G. Walker.
LAPHAM.
THOMAS LAPHAM' from Tenterden, Kent, old England, was at Scituate, Mass., in 1634. Two years later, he married Mary, the oldest daughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden. Judith, a sister of Mary
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Tilden, married Abraham Preble and settled in York. Me. ; these are the ancestors of the Maine Prebles. Thomas Lapham1 died in 1648, leaving two sons and four daughters. His son Joseph? was one of the grantees of Bridgewater and died there unmarried. Thomas2 moved to Marshfield and had two sons, Joseph3 and Samuel3. Joseph3 married Abagail Sherman, and had Joseph4, who married Abagail Joyce. Joseph4 had 4 sons, John5, Jesse5, Joseph5 and Nathaniel5. John Lapham5 m. Bathsheba Eames of Marsh- field, and came to Buckfield, Me., in 1793. His oldest son, John6, died in the Revolutionary army, and his only other son, Abijah6, married Sarah Hartwell of Bridgewater, and came to Buckfield with his father. Abijah's6 wife died, and he married Abagail, dau. of John and Abagail (Irish, Buck. John Lapham7, was the only son of Abijah6, who ever lived in Paris. He married Lovicy, dau. of Levi and Lusanna (Bryant) Berry, and lived for several years at the north-west part of the town. His wife died in 1868, and he in 1883. Children :
Lusanna A., b. Feb. 4, 1826, m. Jonas W. Bartlett of Bethel, and had Louvisa E., b. July 18, 1851 ; William B., b. June 11, 1853; Lucetta A., b. Oct. 18, 1855 ; Gardiner W., b. April 17, 1857; Elias R., b. Feb. 15, 1860; Aurelia Abbie, b. Dec. 18, 1864.
The mother d. Feb. 2, 1869.
James M., b. May 19, 1827, m. widow Nancy P. Cummings of Weld, in 1883, and lives in Litchfield.
William B., b. Aug. 21, 1828, m. Nov. 27, 1866, Cynthia A., dau. of Joel Perham of Woodstock, and has Mary Cynthia, b. March 7, 1868; Ben William, b. Dec. 10, 1869, and Fanny Beulah, b. in Augusta, Nov. 25, 1875, r. Augusta.
Betsey J., b. Sept. 12, 1830, m. Alonzo B. Swan of Woodstock, and had Rhoda JJ .. Edith V , Lillian A., AAlonzo F., Frank, Florence and James M., and others who died young, r. in Portland.
Isaac F., b. March 31, 1833, mn. Aug. 13, 1854, Eliza R., dan. of Rev. David Ricker of Woodstock, and had Ida, b. April 10, 1855, d. Dec. 24, 1855; Louis Adelaide, b. Oct. 30, 1856; Ernest M., b. Sept. 4, 1867. r. in Litchfield.
Aurelio, b. Dec. 17, 1834, unmarried.
Eli F., b. May 24, 1840, d. Aug. 4, 1841.
John B., b. April 27, 1842, drowned Sept. 20, 1814.
John E., b. March 1, 1846, m. Martha Tenney of Grafton, Me., and has Carrie, b. Jan. 15, 1869, and Arthur P., b. April 11, 1871, r. in Angusta. Frank W., b. May 29, 1849, m. Jennie H. Deane of West Gardiner;
had Thomas, who died of diphtheria, and has Walter and Maud; r. Pittsfield, Me.
Martha A., b. May 15, 1851, m. Dennis Swan, son of SamuelS. of Wood- stock ; r. Charlestown, Mass.
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HEZEKIAH MOODY LAPHAM, son of James and Sally (Moody) Lapham of Bethel. and nephew of John above named, m. Hattie A., dau. of John and Dolly (Gile) Chase of Paris, and settled on a farm near Peleg B. Hammond's, where he yet resides and has a family.
LEBARON.
FRANCIS LEBARON. a physician, came to this country from France, in 1694, by way of Buzzard's Bay, where he was wrecked in a French war vessel. Hem. 1695, Mary, dan. of Edward Wilder of Hingham, and had James, b. 1696, Lazarns, b. 1698, and Francis, b. 1701.
JAMES, above named of Middleboro', m. 1720, Martha Benson, and had James. b. 1726. and others.
JAMES LEBARON, son of James, and great grandson of Francis, was b. in Middleboro', Dec. 16, 1759, m. Elizabeth Washburn of the same town, and moved to Hebron, and afterward to Paris, and settled on the lot, now the homestead of William Cooper, then to the Joseph Holmes lot. and when nearly paid for, found his title void. From this, he moved to South Paris village, and built on the site where the stand of Jacob Nichols is located. The oaks now standing, grew up around that house. Late in life he moved to the old Pray place near Gen Hubbard's, and died there June 9, 1836. His wife, Jane Russell, went to live with her dan. Sarah Knight in Norway. and died there. March 1, 1856. Children :
James, m. Betsey Tracy, s. Mercer, was in the war of 1812, and d. at Sackett's Harbor.
Hannah, m. James Holland, s. Belfast.
The mother d. in Hebron. Married 20, Jane Russell of Gray.
Nathaniel b. June, 1793. He worked for Abraham Bolster on the farm, now owned by Captain G. C. Pratt, and died in the spring of 1816, at the age of 23, from hydrophobia or biood poisoning, he having killed a fox that came into the yard with the flock of sheep a few days pre- vious to his death.
William. b. July, 1795, m. Joanna Jordan of Albany, s. Lovell. Russell, b. Aug. 13, 1797. m. Lydia Jordan, s. on the Crocker Hill farm. Betsey, b. May 22, 1806, ul. Daniel Henry Kilpatrick, s. Hiram.
Sarah. b. Aug. 24, 1808. m. William Knight, s. Norway, now living.
Sylvester, b. May 21. 1815, m. Abagail Melntyre of N. H. ; he was lost at sea.
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LEBROKE.
JAMES LEBROKE, the name on our records is spelled as above, also Le Broke, Le Brook, Brook and Brooks) came here from Hebron. He was born in Paris, France, and came over in the French fleet that assisted the colonists in their struggle for inde- pendence. He enlisted in the continental army and served one year, and then settled in Pembroke, Mass. In 1784, he moved to Hebron, and from there to Paris. He was killed by falling from a house-top in 1812. His wife was Sarah Gardener. He had three sons and a daughter, but the exact dates of their birth cannot be given. Their names were :
James, Jr., b. 1784, m. a Beckler, dau. of John of Woodstock, and lived
in Greenwood, and had several sons and daughters. He died in 1867. Sarah, b. in 1787, died in Foxcroft, unmarried.
Jacob, b. June 2, 1789, m. Martha Foster.
Nicholas, b. 1791, m. widow Lydia Ingersol of Lancaster, N. H. He died in 1853.
JACOB LEBROKE moved to Foxcroft, a few years after his mar- riage, and spent the remainder of his life there. His children were : Abner F., b, 1821, d. 1824.
Augustus G., b. Feb. 9, 1823.
Mary F., b. Dec. 23, 1825, is now widow Harmon.
James H., b. 1827, d. Jan. 31, 1840.
Sarah A., b. July 9, 1831, is now widow Gilman.
George, b. Aug. 12, 1833, m. and lives in Foxcroft.
Charles H., b. May 7, 1835, d. Jan. 29, 1840.
Thomas S., b. Sept. 2, 1837 ; he lives in California, and is engaged in cat- tle and sheep raising.
Jacob N., b. Jan. 17, 1841, m. and resides in Foxcroft.
Eugenia A., b. Sept. 14, 1845 ; she married William T. Pollard and r. in Portland.
AUGUSTUS G. LEBROKE, (see Personal Notices) was twice mar- ried ; first, in 1854 ; and second in 1862, to Sarah J. Hayes. His children are :
Eva Augusta, b. March. 9, 1855, graduated at the Farmington Normal
School, and was a teacher of public schools and assistant in Foxcroft Academy. She married Arthur N. Burke.
Harriet Beecher, b. May 9, 1865. She is a graduate of Foxcroft Academy, and proposes to continue her studies elsewhere.
LEONARD.
SOLOMON LEONARD, son of Micah of Middleboro', Mass , was b. Sept. 15, 1793. He learned the trade of iron founder of Caleb
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Lapham of Pembroke, Mass., and came to Paris in 1821. He settled on the farm now the homestead of Jonathan Andrews, and had a foundry on the brook near the house. His kettles and various house- hold wares are still found in use in many families of this town. In 1828, he moved to Woodstock. He mn. Esther French of Norway. Children :
Theodore, b. Paris, July 21, 1822, d. Feb. 20, 1823.
Marcia, b. Dec. 12, 1823, m. Joseph Whitman, Jr. of Woodstock.
George B., b. Aug. 27, 1827, d. young.
George F., b. Woodstock, May 4, 1832, graduated at Dartmouth College, and spent many years in teaching. Now lives in Newton Highlands, Mass.
Mary J., b. Woodstock, June 9, 1837, m. -Cole, s. Waterford.
LETHBRIDGE.
WILLIAM LETHBRIDGE, son of Richard, b. in Franklin, Mass., Jan. 11, 1783, m. Amy Mann, b. Feb. 18, 1782, came to Paris about 1813, and settled on the lot now the homestead of Elbridge Gray. Children :
Abagail, b. Dec. 10, 1815, m. Elbridge Gray.
Sabin, b. Aug. 6, 1819, d. 1833, of canker rash.
The father d. Feb. 28, 1859. The mother d. April 25, 1836.
LIBBEY.
JOSEPH LIBBEY, the sixth in descent from the Emigrant John, was b. in Gray, 1764. He m. Mary, dau. of Nathaniel and Susan (Lamoine) Young. He was a farmer in Gray, and was also in trade at Gray Corner for some years. He died Dec. 28, 1815. His widow died in Portland, Sept. 28, 1839. The name is spelled "Libbee," and "Libbey," but more commonly "Libby." Children :
Lamoine was a cattle drover, and d. in Brunswick.
Mary, m Henry Homer, s. Portland.
Joseph, d. in New York, in 1839.
Delar, b. Oct. 21, 1799, m. Mary Emerson, lived at one time in Bangor, then in Lowell, Mass., and afterward lumbering in Va., d. in Boston, Sept. 7, 1859.
Nathaniel, b. Nov. 19, 1800, m. Sophia Churchill.
NATHANIEL LIBBEY, son of the preceding, m. Sophia, dau. of Joseph and Alice (Drake) Churchill, Dec. 26, 1819, and settled in the Swift neighborhood. Children :
Alice Jane, b. Feb. 26, 1823, m. Albert Winslow.
Joseph Lamoine, b. April 31, 1827, m. Evelyn Ingalls Stuart.
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. Sarah Sophia, b. Sept. 2, 1832, m. Stetson L. Gordon, s. Hampstead, N. H.
Nathaniel William, b. June 24, 1834, m. Effie A. Nelson, and was, killed
by the wrecking of a railroad train, July 14, 1869, Wyandotte, Kansas. The father d. Nov. 29, 1873.
JOSEPH LAMOINE LIBBEY, son of Nathaniel, m. Nov. . 4, 1857, Evelyn I., dau. of Josiah A. and Miriam ( Rich) Stuart of Harrison, and settled on the homestead. Children :
Annie L., b. July 13, 1865; William Lamoine, b. Dec. 12, 1868; Mary P., b. Dec. 9, 1871.
The father d. 1884.
REV. PHINEAS LIBBEY, a descendant from John, was born in Pownal, May 1, 1817, m. March 31, 1844, Mary Ashley Waldron of Portland. She d. Nov. 8, 1846, m. 2d, May 27, 1847, Nancy Ann Noyes of Windham. In 1839, be began preaching ; in 1847, he received a local preacher's license, joined the Methodist Confer- ence at Biddeford in 1853 ; preached in Newfield, Cape Elizabeth, Fayette and other places. until 1857, when he withdrew. In 1863 and 1864, he represented the town of Fayette in the Legislature. Is now settled in Paris. Children :
Frances Ellen, b. Aug. 29, 1845, d. Dec. 1845, in Portland.
Children by 2d wife.
George Edward, b. July 29, 1848, d. 1850.
Benjamin Franklin, b. July 29, 1848, drowned at Cape Elizabeth, Feb. 17, 1855.
Elizabeth Ellen, b. March 3, 1850, m. Columbus Richardson.
Ellen Ashley, b. Feb. 14, 1852, m. Samuel Ray.
Sarah Mitchell, b. Newfield, May 14, 1854, mn. Virgil D. Rawson. Alvira Hatch, b. July 1, 1856, m. Julia Adalaide Kimball.
Franklin Raymond, b. June 17, 1858.
Charles, b. April 15, 1860, d. April 1860.
Fannie Meade, b. May 15, 1863.
Frederic Hamlin, b. Sept. 16, 1867.
ABNER LIBBEY, also a descendant of John, was b. in Scarborough, Aug. 17, 1797, m. Sept. 23, 1830, Harriet, dau. of Solomon and Nancy (Hanscom) Newbegin of Harrison. Children :
Sarah J., b. Otisfield, Sept. 21, 1831, d. Oct. 22, 1845.
Plummer A., b. Sept. 21, 1838, m. Melinda M. Fogg, s. Union. Harriet E., b. Nov. 24, 1841, m. S. G. Burnell, s. South Paris. Georgianna, b. Jan. 9, 1848, d. 1850.
Frank P., b. July 24, 1852, m. Clara B. Parker of Norway.
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The father d. at South Paris, June. 16, 1866. The mother d. at South Paris, April 23, 1884.
WILLIAM CLAY LIBBEY, also a descendant from John, as will be seen by reference to the Libbey Genealogy, was the son of Benja- min and Priscilla (Clay) Libbey of Gorham. He was the second of five children, b. March 5. 1820. Hem. March 31, 1843, Jerusha F., dau. of Jacob and Lydia (Shedd) Bancroft of Norway. Child- ren :
I Jacob B., b. June 29, 1845, d. May 15, 1854.
II Isaac A., b. Aug. 18, 1847, d. Sept. 20, 1867.
III William Henry, b. Nov. 7, 1849, m. Mary E. Wheeler.
IV Almira A., b. July 7, 1853, m. Jan. 1, 1881, Win. H. Harding.
Mehitable A., b. April 24, 1858, d. April 28, 1863.
. VI Reuben A., b. Oct. 1861, d. May 7, 1863.
VII Lydia E., b. March 31, 1865, m. Joel A. Harding, s. Andover.
(For a full account of the Libbey family, see Genealogy recently pub- lished, from which the above is mainly taken.)
LOCKE.
SAMUEL BARRON LOCKE, JR., was born in Bethel, Sept. 25, 1801. He was the sixth in descent from William Locke, who was early in Woburn, Mass. He m. in 1825. Lucetta, dau. of John Edgerly, b. in Buxton, Aug. 10, 1806 .. He was many years the proprietor of Locke's Mills in Greenwood, and in 1856 he built the first grist mill at West Paris. A year or two later he moved here with his family, and died Aug. 16, 1870. His widow resides with her son, Samuel B. Jr., at West Paris. Children, all but the youngest b. in Buxton :
I Mary Ellen, b. Sept. 16, 1826, m. 1852, Charles M., son of John and Sarah (Ramsdell) Morgan of New Gloucester. He was in trade at West Paris, also resided for a time at South Paris, and now lives in Portland. Their children are: Lucetta, b. Oct. 29, 1856, m. Wm. G. Phelps of S. P .; Sarah E., b. Feb. 24, 1857; Charles L., b. Nov. 8, 1859, and Mary Louise, b. Sept. 10, 1861, both of whom d. young ; and Lucy Ellen, b. July 6, 1868.
II John, b. Sept. 15, 1928, in. Helen L. Soule of Freeport; they have had John, Jr., b. Nov. 17, 1857, mn. Alice Abbott; William, b. March 2, 1860, m. Ella Spring ; Mary Louise, b. Oct. 27, 1862, died young ; Helen May, b. May 6, 1865, d. young; and Alice Lucetta. b. July 2, 1869, r. Fryeburg.
III Charles Russell, b. May 16, 1833, m. 1st, Caroline M. Hutchins, and 2d, Ada Nutter, r. Fryeburg.
IV Frank, b. May 15, 1835, mn. Lydia D. Hall, r. Fryeburg.
V George W., b. Nov. 8, 1837, m. June 2, 1861, Irene G. Plummer of
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Waterford, b. 1841, and has: Mary Ellen, b. Aug. 26, 1862; and George P., b. Aug. 2, 1864. He resides in Auburn. He formerly lived and was engaged in milling and trade at West Paris.
VI Samuel Barron, Jr., b. in Greenwood, April 18, 1840, m. 1st, 1865, Milinda Plummer, who d. June 5, 1868, and he m. 2d, June 8, 1875, Elva Libby of Westbrook, and has: Linnie E., b. March 2, 1876, and Mary Louise, b. Sept. 6, 1882. Mr. Locke has succeeded to the ownership of the mills at West Paris, has engaged largely in trade and been an active and successful business man. He served one term in the Maine Legislature.
(An extended account of the Locke family is given in "The Book of the Lockes.")
LOWELL.
EMERY EDES LOWELL, son of Simon of Harrison, and Ann (Rob- inson) Lowell of Bridgton, b. Feb. 4, 1829, in Harrison, m. Abby, dau. of Alvin Swift, Jan. 16, 1853. Children :
Andrew N., b. Feb. 4, 1854.
Dexter E., b. Nov. 11, 1855, m. Sarah A. Decoster. Abbie Frances, b. May 5, 1857, m. Fitzroy J. Foster. Minnie C., b. Aug. 11, 1859, m. Andrew J. Foster.
LURVEY.
JOB LURVEY, son of Captain David and Lydia (Holland) Lurvey of Gloucester, Mass., m. Betsey Tobey of New Gloucester. He came to Paris when he was twenty-two years old, and worked for Stephen Robinson eight years. He settled on the lot known after- ward as Deacon Gibbs Benson farm. He then bought Gen. Hub- bard's first settlement, and afterward exchanged with Joseph Cole for the Peter Chase farm. His boyhood was spent with the Shakers. He moved to Woodstock in 1820. Children :
Lydia, b. Jan. 21, 1799, m. Eliphalet Davis of Woodstock. Richard Tobey, b. Aug. 10, 1800, m. Eliza Davis. Matilda, b. May 28, 1802, m. Seth Curtis, 2d. Elvecy, b. Jan. 2, 1803, m. John Butterfield. Job, Jr., b. June 17, 1805, d. young. Job Holland, b. 1807.
Abagail Tobey, b. May 29, 1809, m. Jesse H. Stevens. Thomas Tobey, b. Jan. 26, 1811, m Olive Tuell, s. Woodstock. Leri Tobey, b. Dec. 31, 1814, m. Charlotte Fickett. Darid, m. Jane F. Bemis.
Benjamin Chandler, m. Emily Bicknell.
Samuel Foxcroft, b. Feb. 22, 1821, m. Augusta Ellen Skillings, s. Cal. The father d. Feb. 1851.
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COL. RICHARD T. LURVEY, son of Job. m. Eliza, dau. of Aaron and Thankful ( Strout) Davis. She was b. April 22, 1801, in Poland. Settled in Woodstock, and afterward returned to Paris. He was in office in Woodstock and in Paris. Children :
I Eliza Davis, b. March 20, 1825, m. Samuel Googins of Dedham, Mass.
The mother d. March 20, 1826, m. 2d, Emma, dau. of Captain Samuel Stephens, in 1830.
II Jennie, b. Sept. 27, 1831, m. Samuel Lee Rice.
III Samuel S., b. Dec. 14, 1822, d. in Nebraska, Sept. 8, 1858.
IV Richard Levi, b. Jan. 30, 1838, m. Lucinda Clark.
V Emma Augusta, b. Sept. 26, 1835, d. March 20, 1859.
The mother d. Jan. 4, 1859. The father d. Dec. 31, 1882.
LEVI T. LURVEY, brother of the preceding, m. Charlotte, dau. of Simon Fickett of Woodstock, May 1, 1859. Children :
William Harwood, b. Feb. 1, 1860.
Lottie Harwood, b. June 1, 1862.
The mother d. Oct. 20, 1862, m. 2d, Lucinda, dau. of Stephen Starbird.
Mary Louisa, b. July 11, 1866.
George Leri, b. July 10, 1871.
The father d. 1881.
RICHARD LEVI LURVEY, son of Richard Tobey, m. Lucinda Clark of Norway. Children :
Samuel Stephens, b. Oct. 30, 1859; Hiram Clark, b. March 13, 1862.
The father d. June 28, 1880.
MACOMBER.
JOB MACOMBER of Bowdoinham, m. Catharine Pratt, one of ten sisters, and settled in Paris. Children :
Daniel, b. 1785, m. Mary, dau. of Edmund Bowker.
Catharine, m. Francis Clark, s. Portland.
Samuel, became a Baptist minister.
Job, went South.
Isaac, (see sketch of Lost Boy.)
The father d. and the widow m. Deacon William Barrows of Hebron, and was long known as aunt Katie. She d. in Monson, Me.
DANIEL MACOMBER, son of Job, m. Mary, dau. of Edmund Bowker, and settled at a place since known as Macomber Corner. He was a blacksmith by trade. This faniily moved to Glenburn, Penobscot Co., and are now all dead. Children :
Maria, b. Nov. 11, 1808 ; Mary Ann, b. Aug. 6, 1814; Hiram, b. Jan. 31, 1816.
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MCALLISTER.
JOSEPH MCALLISTER once resided in Paris. He came here from Lovell. Children :
Richard, Bryant, b. Aug. 8, 1815; Edward, b. June 21, 1817; Betsey,. b. April 1, 1819; Emily, b. April 8, 1821; Joseph, b. Aug. 1, 1823; George, b. June 25, 1826.
The father d. Dec. 7, 1843.
SAMUEL MCALLISTER, probably brother of the preceding, m. Lydia Fogg of Buckfield. He was born in Lovell, and has lived in Bethel, Paris and elsewhere. He is now living with a second wife in Wood- stock. Children :
Emily, b. March 24, 1823.
Clarinda, b. June 5, 1825. She died from the effects of a fall while play- ing in the barn at Bethel, about the year 1832.
Samuel Augustus, b. April 1, 1827.
BENJAMIN MCALLISTER by wife Charlotte, had :
Benjamin B., b. Sept. 3, 1825 ; Rufus R., b. June 24, 1827.
MCKENNEY.
HENRY MCKENNEY was the son of -, who came from Scotland, and Miss McCrea of Irish nationality, and was b. at Cape Elizabeth. He m. Dolly Martin of Danville, and came to Paris in 1823, and settled on the Jonathan Shurtleff farm now owned by Josiah Churchill. Children :
Jonathan, b. Cape Elizabeth, 1804, m. Mary -- , s. Hallowell.
Anu, b. .. July, 1806, m. Ira Durell.
Lydia, b. 1808, m. Walter Johnson.
Moses, b.,
1810, m. - Jordan, s. Danville.
William, b. Dec. 27, 1812, m. Mary D. Bessey.
Heury, b. 1814, m. Jane Hall.
Hannah L., b. 1816, m. George Trundy of Cape Elizabeth.
Charles F., b. 1818, m. Harriet Tribou.
Jane, b. .6 1820, m. Lewis Mixer.
John Martin, b. 1823, m. Eunice Stanley of Steuben.
Achsa, b. Paris, m. Calvin A. Jackson, s. Woodstock. The father d. Sept. 7, 1870. The mother d. 1871.
WILLIAM MCKENNEY, son of Henry, m. Mary D., dau. of War- ren Bessey, and settled in the Shaw neighborhood. Children :
William Wallace, b. Feb. 25, 1838.
Solomon Shar, b. Aug. 13, 1840, killed at Winchester, in Banks' retreat. Warren Bessey, b. Sept. 14, 1842. (See Military Record.)
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Rose, b. July 18, 1845, m. Rev. Otis Bent Rawson. (See Rawson.) Albion Paris Bessey, b. May 24, 1847, d. Feb. 27, 1877. Isabella Augusta, b. Aug. 27, 1850.
Fannie Angeline, b. Aug. 26, 1852, m. Frank A. Messenger.
Margie Ann, b. June 15, 1855, m. George Webster Watson.
Frank Perley, b. July 21, 1861 ..
The mother d. Oct. 30, 1870.
HENRY MCKENNEY, son of Henry, m. Sarah Jane, dau. of Capt. Frederic N. Hall. Children :
Elizabeth Shaw, b. Jan. 13, 1842, d. July 8, 1861.
Leroy Frederic, b. Nov. 17, 1843.
Jonathan Bemis, b. Aug. 27, 1847.
Sarah Columbia, b. Aug. 12, 1849, d. June 24, 1851.
Alzina Jane, b. Sept. 10, 1851.
Henry Edwin, b. Sept. 26, 1855.
The father d. Feb. 1872.
MCFADDEN.
CHARLES MCFADDEN, son of Robert and Margarette (Sewall) McFadden, was b. in Georgetown, Aug. 15, 1812, and came to South Paris village in 1845. He was a tanner and currier, and went to work for Phineas Morse. He afterward became proprietor. He m. Calista, dau. of Captain Emmor Rawson, in May, 1846. Children :
Emeline L., b. Sept. 4, 1849, m. William Franklin Johnson, and had : Louisa Gertrude, b. Nov. 26, 1872, d. Nov. 10, 1876; Charlie, b. Feb. 25, 1875.
MANN.
DEACON ISAAC MANN of Canton or Randolph, Mass., was b. Nov. 16, 1784, m. Hepsibah (Vose) Blake, July 31, 1806. She was b. Feb. 26, 1786. He settled in this town about 1816. Children :
Walter E., b. Oct. 7, 1807, m. Betsey Estes, s. Machias. Susanna, b. Sept. 13, 1809, in. Asa Matthews, s. Paris.
Hepsibah, b. Feb. 22, 1812, m. Cyrus Chipman, s. Paris. Abagail, b. April 29, 1814, m. Luther Stone, s. Paris.
Harriet N., b. Paris, April 16, 1817, m. Alanson Chandler.
Nancy Judson, b. Paris, March 7, 1821, m. Jairus S. Swift, s. Paris. Mary Thomas, b. " Nov. 27, 1828, m. William Childs.
The mother d. Aug. 2, 1838, and he m. 2d, widow Lydia Bryant, Aug. 13, 1848. He d. March 21, 1858, aged 74 years. He had been deacon 25 years.
MARBLE.
NATHAN5, (Stephen4, Samuel3, Freegrace2, Samuel1) m. Mehitable Freeland, dau. of Dr. James and Mehitable (Mellen) Freeland ; she
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
was b. Sept. 10, 1780. Their first child was born in Sutton, Mass .. The family then moved to Bethel, Me. He was a saddler and har- ness maker. Three of his sons, Stephen, Nathan and Freeland, learned the trade of him while in Bethel. Children, all but the. oldest b. in Bethel :
I James Putnam, b. Sutton, Nov. 25, 1800, d. Nov. 26, 1825.
II Stephen Mellen, b. Dec. 25, 1802, m. Allura Bonney of Turner.
III Palmer Merrill, b. Nov. 12, 1805, d. Dec. 11, 1807.
IV Nathan Merrill, b. March 5, 1803, m. Mary Ann Clark, s. Paris.
V Mehitable Mellen, b. May 9, 1810, m. Judge Joseph G. Cole, s. Paris ..
VI Freeland, b. Nov. 12, 1812, m. Eliza Clark.
VII Elizabeth Burbank, b. July 24, 1815, m. Hon. Hiram Hubbard, s .. Paris.
VIII Franklin, b. Oct. 27, 1818, m. Maria L. Cole.
IX Jarvis Carter, b. May 24, 1821, m. Mary Hubbard, s. Paris.
x Nancy Jennette, b. Aug. 22, 1824, m. Hon. Hiram Hubbard, s. Paris.
XI James Rawson, b. May 8, 1827, d. July 22, 185-, killed by explosion of powder mill.
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