History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 198

Author: Williams, Chase & Co., Cleveland (Ohio)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Williams, Chase & Co.
Number of Pages: 1100

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Hon. Francis M. Sabine, of Bangor, was born in Bos- ton in 1811, but resided in youth in Hampden. Here, at the public schools and Academy, he received a good rudimentary education. At the age of seventeen he went to Eastport, where, after four years' clerkship with a mer- cantile firm, he went into similar business for himself. He was married in 1834, and in 1835 removed to Ban- gor and at once resumed his former business. Owing to the notably wide-spread business depression and conse- quent failures, he found, at the end of two years, that his assets were inadequate to pay his debts. Happily for all concerned, his creditors extended payment on old de- mands, gave new credit, and were ultimately paid in full. In the course of his mercantile career of thirty-six years, he engaged to some extent in other pursuits, among which was the manufacture of brick, and also farming. For the latter he had a natural inclination, which he grat- ified for twenty-seven years. Seventy acres, of a farm of one hundred and sixty, he converted from a very rough condition into beautiful grass-fields. The average annual crop of hay of this farm was one hundred tons. Twenty cows yielded an annual gross income of $1,200. The net income of this farm during the six years previous to its sale was eight per cent. The past ten years Mr. Sa- bine has been President, Treasurer, and Manager of the Bangor Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which offices he still holds. He took an active part in establishing the Bangor Mercantile Library Association, and for thirty years was its Treasurer and ex-officio a Director. In the first year of the late war he received from Governor Washburn, unsolicited, a commission as Assistant Quar- termaster-General, with orders from time to time for special service. The first was to issue to the Second Maine Regiment of Volunteers (the first to leave the State for Washington), an entire equipment for actual service. Another, in 1862, was to manufacture and issue the uniforms for the eight regiments of volunteers for nine months' service. He took a leading part in the or- ganization of the Freedmen's Aid Association, and served as its President. Through the generosity of the citizens of Bangor, the effective labor of our ladies, and the suc- cessful result of a course of lectures, this association con- tributed largely to the needs of these newly enfranchised people. He has served the city as a member of the

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Board of Aldermen, and on the School Committee, Board of Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor. He is a member of the board of directors of banking and other business corporations, and a trustee of several estates. In politics he has been a Republican from the formation of the party-was previously a Free-soil Whig. In re- ligion he is a Unitarian. For forty-six years he has been a member of the Bangor Independent Congregational society, and for thirty-three years Superintendent of its Sunday-school. He has also been an active member of the Maine Conference of Unitarian churches from its formation, and was for three years President of the con- ferenee.

Frank H. Williams is a son of James W. Williams, of Bangor, where he has always resided. James W. Wil- liams married Elizabeth T. Freese, daughter of Andrew Freese, of Bangor, and has three children, viz : Frank H., Lillian C., now Mrs. George B. Wiggin, of Bangor, and Fred J., also of Bangor. Frank Williams first engaged in business in Bangor as a clerk for the firm of Freese & Wiggin, becoming a member of the firm that succeeded them. The present firm is Wiggin, Small & Williams. Mr. Williams is also a member of the firm of F. H. Wil- liams & Co., of Boston, doing a brokerage business. Mr. Williams married Miss Louie A. Thompson, daughter of Captain Benjamin Thompson, of Bangor.

The first representative of the Gallupe family to settle in this country was John Gallupe, who came from Eng- land with his father and two brothers and settled in Ston- ington, Connecticut. The father went back to England and was killed in battle. All the Gallupes in this coun- try originated from two of these sons-one dying a bach- elor. The sons were John, Thomas, and Nathaniel. John Gallupe had a son by the name of Thomas, who was the grandfather of Dr. William Gallupe. This name is spelled several different ways, but however it may be spelled, it is believed to have been originally the same. Thomas Gallupe had a son by the name of Benjamin, who married Sally Park for his second wife. She was a daughter of Nehemiah Park. His family by both wives consisted of twelve children, all born in Plainfield, Con- necticut. Dr. William Gallupe was the sixth son of this family, all of whom are now deceased except one beside himself. Dr. Gallupe commenced the study of medicine in September, 1826, and graduated in 1830 from the medical department of Dartmouth College. In 1840 he became convinced that homeopathy was the better and more desirable practice, and therefore adopted it. When he came here in 1844 there were but few homeopathic physicians in Maine. At this time he had been in prac- tice of his profession fourteen years in Concord, Massa- chusetts, Plainfield and New Ipswich, New Hampshire. There was at that time great opposition to homeopathy in this country. There were not then twenty persons within ten or fifteen miles who would employ any but the old school physicians. The doctor seems to have suc- cessfully combatted this prejudice, for since then there have been from six to ten homeopathic physicians here and three are established here now, all of whom seem to be successful. Dr. Gallupe is now living with his

third wife. He has two children living, having buried a son, who was a noted telegraph man, in 1876.

Dr. George P. Jefferds, undoubtedly the most promi- nent and well-known of the homeopathic physicians of Bangor, is a native of Kennebunkport, in this State, born May 7, 1816. His preparatory education was received at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Limerick, Maine. He entered Bowdoin College in 1834, and was duly graduated in course. From the fall of 1839 to the end of the academic year, in 1842, he was in charge first of the Alfred Academy, Maine, and then of Nashua Acad- emy, New Hampshire. He then matriculated in the medical department of Harvard University, but was graduated finally in medicine with high honor, in 1845, from the Bowdoin Medical School. He opened an office in his native town, beginning fortunately with the large practice of a physician who had just retired. His system was of the old school until 1850, when he became a con- vert to homeopathy. He practiced as a follower of Hahnemann for a little more than ten years longer in Kennebunkport, and then removed to Bangor, where he soon commanded an extensive and reputable practice, which has steadily widened and become more profitable with the years. The Doctor is the subject of a sketch in the Biographical Cyclopedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, which closes with the following worthy tribute : "Dr. Jefferds is a highly accomplished scholar, and a man of great natural powers. He has brought to his profession his largest energies, and the success he has won is the legitimate consequence of this ability and ap- plication."

Dr. Alfred Walton, of Bangor, is a son of Samuel and Sarah (Brown) Walton, who came from Belfast to Old- town in 1830. Samuel Walton was for many years a merchant in Oldtown. He had six children-four sons and two daughters. He died on his way home from California in 1851. Dr. Alfred Walton was born June 22, 1832. After finishing his common school education he followed the sea a few years, and then went to Cal- ifornia, where he remained two years. On returning from there he built a mill in Alton, this county, and was en- gaged in the lumber business seven years. In 1862 he went into the army. He had previously been studying medicine, and was chosen Hospital Steward in the Eighth Maine Regiment. He remained in the army until the close of the war, and then returned to Oldtown. He then entered the medical department of Bowdoin Col- lege, was graduated in 1867, and settled in Oldtown, where he practiced until 1869, in which year he came to Bangor, where he has since lived. Dr. Walton married Electa M. Reed, daughter of Deacon Joseph H. and Abigail Reed. Mrs. Walton died very suddenly in May, 1881.

Dr. Daniel Hennessy, an allopathic physician and surgeon, of Bangor, was born in Bandon, Ireland, December 25, 1838. His father, Bartholomew Hennessy, married Margaret McCarthy, and has five children, viz: Bartholomew, of Botsford, New Brunswick; John, also in Botsford; Daniel; Elizabeth, deceased wife of John Hartnett, of Bristol, New Brunswick; and Jeremiah, of

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Botsford. Mr. and Mrs. Hennessy are both living in Botsford, and Daniel was brought up on a farm in that place. After completing his common school education he attended school one year at Mount Allison Academy, at Sackville, New Brunswick, and from there he went to St. Dunstan's College at Charlotte, Town, Prince Ed- ward's Island. He was here two years and then entered the office of Dr. Carritte, of Shediac, New Brunswick, remaining with him for two years, and then took a course of lectures at Geneva Medical College, New York, spending the time of two courses. During this time he spent eighteen months in De Camp General Hospital, near New York City. After completing his course at the college he attended lectures in New York at the Eye and Ear Infirmary and the private Lying in Institute in Mad- ison Avenue. In 1869 he commenced practice in Point Debute, New Brunswick, where he remained four and a half years. In 1873 he came to Bangor, where he has since lived. He married Alessandra Stewart Bliss, daughter of Rev. Donald M. Bliss, rector of Mount Whatly, New Brunswick. To this couple have been born three children, viz: Wilfred Augustin, Sarah Margaret Madeline, and Mary Alessandra. Dr. Hennessy has had a large experience in hospital practice and is a skilled physician and surgeon. His office is at No. 29 Main street.

Dr. John K. Lincoln, one of the leading dentists of Bangor, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, He is a son of Augustus and Maria (Davis) Lincoln, natives of Massachusetts, who lived in Boston for a time, where some of their children were born. Mr. Lincoln owned an iron foundry in Boston, but afterwards purchased a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln had five children-four sons and one daughter, viz: William H., now in Millbury, Massachusetts; Albert W., also in Millbury; Charles D .; Maria W., now Mrs. Barzilla Mills, of Rut- land, Massachusetts; and John K. Mr. Lincoln died in Rutland in' 1879. Mrs. Lincoln died in 1841. John K. Lincoln was born July 5, 1841, in Worcester, Massa- chusetts. He received a common and high-school ed- ucation and went to Biddeford, where he studied dentis- try. He remained in Biddeford about six years, when he removed to Augusta and opened an office there, con- tinuing in practice for five years, when he came to Bangor and entered the Theological Seminary, at the same time opening an office and placing it in the hands of N. S. Jenkins. He completed the course and grad- uated in 1862, and was at once appointed Chaplain of the Twenty-second Maine Volunteers, stationed at New Or- leans and Baton Rouge. He remained with the regiment about nine months, when he received a severe hurt from being thrown from a horse into a deep ravine. He fell forty-five feet and received a severe fracture of the skull which caused him to be unconscious for nine days. From this severe injury he has since suffered, though better now than for years. He was sent home to Bangor and in 1863 had so far regained his health as to be able to open his office again, going into partnership with Mr. Jenkins. Since then he has remained in Bangor in the practice of his profession of dentistry. He married

Olive Dame, of Saco. They have two daughters and one son, viz: Nellie M., Mary A., and Frederick D. For many years Mr. Lincoln was not able to see plainly enough to read on account of the injury to his head, not being able to see but a portion of a word at a time. He could see small words but only part of a long one at one time or without moving his paper. On this account he has been unable to preach. His present place of business is No. 2 Wheelwright and Clark's Block. He lives at 129 Cedar street.

Dr. Ralph Kneeland Jones was born at Stockbridge, in the county of Berkshire, in Massachusetts, on Sunday, July 13, 1823. He was the son of Samuel Jones of that place, a lawyer, and a graduate of Yale College. Through his father, who was the fifth of the same name, he was descended from the Jones family of Saybrook and Heb- ron in Connecticut, and through his mother, from the Connecticut Gilberts and Champions. Fitted for college at the schools and academy at Stockbridge, he was ad- mitted to Williams College, but did not join his class. After teaching for a short time he decided to adopt the profession of a physician. He pursued his medical studies with Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, of Boston, and at the Medical School at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the Harvard Medical School at Boston. In the autumn of 1847 he received the degree of M. D. from the latter school, and, after a year's service as house physician in the Massachusetts General Hospital, settled for the prac- tice of his profession at West Needham, now Hellesley, Massachusetts. A year later he removed to Vineyard Haven (then called Holmes' Hole), on the Island of Martha's Vineyard. On November 4, 1853, he was married to Miss Octavia Avon Yale Norris, of that vil- lage. In 1857 Dr. Jones removed to Bangor, Penob- scot county, Maine, and has ever since lived here, and has been actively engaged in professional work. In the years 1862, 1863, and 1866 he was City Physician of Bangor. In 1862 he was appointed an Examining Sur- geon of Pensioners, being one of the first to receive such appointment, and since the organization of the Bangor Board of Examining Surgeons in 1870, he has been its President. In 1863 he received the appointment of Sur- geon in the First Regiment of Infantry in the Maine State Guards. The Penobscot County Medical Associa- tion chose him as its President in February, 1867, and again in November, 1874. In 1874 he delivered the oration before the Maine Medical Association at its an- nual meeting at Portland. Dr. Jones has four sons living-Henry Champion, Gilbert Norris, Ralph Kneel- and, Jr., and Eliot Norris. The first and oldest is at present (November, 1881) Assistant in Botany in Har- vard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Melvin Preble, of Bangor, is a son of Winn Pre- ble, a native of Bowdoinham, Kennebec county, Maine. His mother's maiden name was Lucinda Williams, daugh- ter of Samuel Williams, Esq. Winn Preble was in for- mer years a merchant in Bangor, though now retired. He has six children living, viz: H. C. Preble, of Bangor; Edwin, of Garland; Melvin; Marilla M., wife of Henry A. Swett, of Gloucester, Massachusetts; Hiram J., of

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Bangor, an attorney of this city; and Lucinda W. They lost two in early life. Dr. Melvin Preble was born July 10, 1848. He attended the common and high-school at Garland, and then went to Massachusetts and attended the Medical Department of Harvard University for one year; then went to Brunswick, Maine, and attended the Maine Medical College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1866. After graduating he spent some time in the Medical Hospitals in Boston. He commenced the practice of medicine in California, where he went in 1866. On account of loss of health he returned to Maine and after recovering his health sufficiently he com- menced practice again. Since then he has lived in Ban- gor and practiced his profession. The doctor enlisted in the First Maine Cavalry in 1864-65, and was detailed on special duty. First he was in the Commissary Depart- ment, and afterward Chief Clerk in the mustering office at Etrics, Virginia. During the summer of the year 1865 he was detailed, together with Sergeant Chandler and a Miss Truman, of the village, to open and teach a free school, for the benefit of the children and people of the place. This being a free school was largely attended and served to show that the Union soldiers and officers only wished the people well and desired to do them good. At the close of the term the teachers received the com- mendations of the officers of our army and the people of the town. The doctor was appointed as city physician during the years 1862 and 1863. This was the year that the small-pox raged here, and though the doctor was him- self disabled and had to go on crutches from a broken leg caused by being caught in the falling wall of a burning building, he notwithstanding this managed to make as high as sixty calls a day and had excellent success. Dr. Preble is not married. He has a large practice and is successful in his calling.

Dr. Daniel W. Maxfield, a dentist of Bangor, was born December 15, 1835. He is a son of Andrew and La- vinia (McGrath) Maxfield. Andrew Maxfield was a na- tive of Westbrook, formerly Falmouth, near Portland, Maine. He was a son of Daniel Maxfield. Lavinia McGrath was born in Bangor, as was also her mother and her grandmother. Andrew and Lavinia Maxfield had seven children, and Mr. Maxfield had three daugh- ters by a previous marriage. The names of his children by his second wife were: Daniel W .; Joseph, deceased; Sarah, deceased; Joseph N., Frank C., both of last named now living in Bangor; Anna F., deceased; and Charles S., now in Bangor. Mr. Maxfield was a mason, and built the first house on Essex street above State. He came to Bangor in 1823. He was one of the first Abolitionists in the city. He died November 3, 1880. Mrs. Maxfield is still living, being seventy-three years of age. Daniel Maxfield, after receiving such an education as is to be obtained in the common and high schools of Bangor, entered the office of Dr. P. Evans, dentist, with whom he remained twelve years, learning the profession and practicing it under the direction of the Doctor. In 1875 he opened dental rooms for himself at 21/2 Strick- land's Block, where he has ever since been located. He married Addie M. Prince, daughter of Grant Prince, of

Albany, Oxford county, Maine. They have two children living, viz: Hattie L. and Frederick E. The Doctor has served as Councilman in the City Government here.

Bertram Lewis Smith, Esq., a well-known attorney and counsellor-at-law in Bangor, is a native of Exeter, in this county, born November 20, 1857, oldest child of Wil- liam and Rosina (Foss) Smith. His father was a farmer in Exeter. He was trained in the common schools of his native town, and at the Exeter High School, under private tutors at the Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield, and the Bloomfield Academy, where his classical and general education was completed at the age of seventeen. He had begun to teach in the country schools when he was only fifteen, and taught thenceforth every vacation until his own formal education was completed, and one final term after he left Bloomfield. The next spring, in 1875, he came to Bangor and began to read law with Judge Whiting S. Clark, a leading practitioner here then, and now in Des Moines, Iowa. He remained with Judge Clark during all his elementary professional course, and was admitted to the Bar at the August term, 1877, of the Supreme Judicial Court, sitting in Bangor, before he was twenty years of age. He began practice alone the next winter, in West Waterville, and remained there about fifteen months, or until the spring of 1879, when he was offered a very eligible partnership with General (now Governor) Harris M. Plaisted, and finally removed to Bangor. He was associated with General Plaisted and F. H. Appleton, Esq., in the preparation of the vo- luminous Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Courts of Maine, which appeared under their names with his as associate compiler. The partnership of Plaisted & Smith was maintained with great success until May, 1881, when it was dissolved by reason of the senior partner's election as Governor of the State. He has since practiced alone, as successor to the firm of Plaisted & Smith. He was a member of the Common Council of the city during the official year 1880-81; has been Chairman of the Greenback County Committee during three campaigns and still holds that responsible position; and was a delegate from Maine to the National Green- back Convention of 1880, in Chicago, and represented the party of the State on the Committees on Permanent Organization and on Rules and Orders. In March, 1881, he was appointed by Governor Plaisted Reporter of De- cisions in the Supreme Court; but the name was with- drawn some time afterwards, at the request of Mr. Smith. As yet but twenty-four years of age, in the prime of his young manhood, with many influential friends and the prestige of a successful career thus far, he has the prom- ise of long and distinguished professional and general usefulness.

James Donigan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 1848. His father, Thomas Donigan, had eight children, five sons and three daughters, seven of whom are still living, viz: Mary E., James W., Bernard E., Sarah A. (now Mrs. C. E. Lawrence, of Boston), Ella A. (now Mrs. Watkins, of Providence, Rhode Island), Thomas H., of Bangor, and Albert F., of Orono, Maine. James W. Donigan, the second of these sons, after

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completing the course of the graded schools of Oldtown, went to Lewiston, where he worked in the factories to obtain the means to attend the Maine State Seminary (now Bates College). He afterward attended the Maine Conference Seminary. He commenced the study of law in the County Clerk's office in 1869. In 1870 he en- tered the office of Charles A. Bailey, Esq., where he con- tinued his studies, and was admitted to the Bar at the April term in 1872. Mr. Donigan has been a teacher for many years, both while pursuing his law studies and after his admission to the Bar. August 17, 1874, he was married to Miss Carrie A. Starrett, daughter of David J. Starrett, of Thomaston, Maine. They have one child --- Cato M., now three years old. Mr. Donigan is at pres- ent located at No. 55 West Market Square.

D. M. Hall, editor and publisher of the Dirigo Rural, in Bangor, is a son of Daniel Hall, of Nobleboro, Lin- coln county, Maine. His grandfather, also named Daniel, was a native of Jefferson, Lincoln county, Maine, though he lived principally in Nobleboro. Daniel Hall, 2d, father of the subject of this sketch, married Miss Lu- cinda Hall, daughter of Isaac Hall, and moved to Her- mon in 1834, where he has since lived. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have had six children-Daniel M .; Lucinda S .; Isaac S., station agent at Maranocook, Maine; Olive T., deceased; George W., now in Minnesota, an attorney, graduate of Colby University, now admitted to practice in the United States Courts; and one that died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are both living in Hermon, this coun- ty. Daniel M. Hall was born September 17, 1836, in Hermon. He spent his boyhood on the farm, receiving such an education as the common schools afforded. De- siring to get a better education as he grew older, he at- tended an academy and fitted himself for a teacher, which vocation he followed for several years during the winter, carrying on the farm during the rest of the year. For two seasons he was employed as a surveyor in Aroos- took county. In 1874 he moved to Bangor and started the paper which he has since conducted-the Dirigo Rural. This is the only agricultural paper east of the Kennebec River, and, under the able management of Mr. Hall, is one of the best papers in the State. Mr. Hall married Miss Maria O. Pike, daughter of Silas S. Pike, of Carmel. They have had one son named Mil- ton D., who is now deceased. Mr. Hall, while living in Hermon, served as Selectman and Superintending School Committeeman.

One of the oldest and most widely known business houses in Bangor is that of Wheelwright, Clark & Com- pany. Mr. Joseph Wheelwright, the senior member of the firm, is a son of George Wheelwright, a native of Kennebunkport, Maine, who came to Bangor in 1834. He had three children, two sons and one daughter, viz: George A., now residing in Wells, Maine; Mary, wife of C. P. Felch, of Chicago, and Joseph. Mr. Wheelwright was for some years a Custom-house officer in Kenne- bunkport. Joseph Wheelwright was born April 18, 1821, in Kennebunkport, Maine. After receiving such an edu- cation as the common schools of that time gave, he came to Bangor and entered the employ of. Thomas

Furber as a clerk, remaining with him three years. Mr. Furber failed in business and Mr. Wheelwright bought out the business. Since that time Mr. Wheelwright has been in business here. In 1840 the style of the firm was George Wheelwright & Son, being then the only clothing house in the city. This was the year of the cele- brated Aroostook war, and their entire stock of clothing was sold in one day. Mr. George Wheelwright died in 1845 and the business was continued by J. S. Wheel- wright until 1850, when Mr. J. G. Clark was associated with him. In 1872 Mr. J. G. Blake and George Wheel- wright were admitted as partners and the business has since been conducted under the present firm name. In 1859 they erected what then was and still is the most elegant store in the city, which they occupied for their large wholesale and retail business until 1878, when they removed to Phoenix Block, and now confine them- selves to wholesaling exclusively. The sales of the house the first year were only $13,000, but have con- stantly increased until now their sales amount to nearly $500,000 per annum. Doubtless few persons in the city are aware how large and important a man- ufacturing establishment this has become. They now give employment to over two hundred persons. Mr. Wheelwright married for his first wife Miss Susan A. Webb, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. She died in 1876. By her he has three children, one son and two daughters, viz: George W., one of the firm; Ella, wife of H. A. Saxton, of Bangor; Carrie, now Mrs. H. E. Rus- segue of Framingham, Massachusetts. Mr. Wheelwright has been a member of the city government in both branches and twice, in 1872 and 1873, was the Mayor of the city. In 1874 he was sent as Representative to the Legisla- ture, and in 1875 and 1876 was a member of the Senate. Mr. Clark, of this firm, is a native of Wells, Maine. He is a son of Thomas Clark; was born in 1829, and came to Bangor when a boy, and engaged as clerk with Mr. Wheelwright. He has been with him either as clerk or partner since that time. He married Hattie Brown, daughter of Joseph Brown. She died several years since, leaving one son, Lewis, now in Harvard College. Mr. Clark married for his second wife Miss Anna Clark, daughter of Isaac R. Clark of this city.

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History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 198

Author: Williams, Chase & Co., Cleveland (Ohio) Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Cleveland, Williams, Chase & Co. Number of Pages: 1100

Author: Williams, Chase & Co., Cleveland (Ohio)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Williams, Chase & Co.
Number of Pages: 1100