History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 201

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

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D. M. Clark is the son of Edwin Clark, who was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Edwin Clark married Mary McRuer, daughter of Dr. Daniel McRuer, of Bangor. They had three children, two sons and one daughter- Ardelia B., deceased, wife of Colonel A. B. Farnham, of Bangor; Daniel M., and Donald C., of this city. Daniel M. was born August 10, 1851, in Bangor, where he has always since lived. He is now and has been for four years engaged in the livery business, his stable being located on French street. He has a large stable and keeps sixteen horses with first-class carriages.

John A. Kelley first came to Bangor in 1846 from Boston. Mr. Kelley's father, Patrick Kelley, never came to this country. He had six children, of whom John is the youngest. John was born in 1827 and came to this country in 1845, locating first in Boston as a journey- man tailor. Here he lived till 1846, when he came to Bangor. Since then he has lived twelve years in Old- town. His present place of business is at 73 Exchange street, where he has a good store and employs several men and about twenty-five women.

One of the fine places of business in Bangor is the wholesale and retail establishment of W. S. Nickerson.

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Mr. Nickerson was born November 30, 1847. His father, Elijah N. Nickerson, had five children, two sons and three daughters-Sarah L., now deceased; Annie, now Mrs. A. W. Pitman, of Bangor; W. S .; I. L., now of Denver, Colorado, and Lydia F., in Boston. Mr. Nick- erson has always lived in Bangor, commencing as clerk in the store he now occupies, with Blood & Rowe, in 1865. The firm finally dissolved and Mr. Rowe con- tinued the business until 1879, when Mr. Nickerson purchased his interest, in which business he has since continued. His store is located at 121 Exchange street. Mr. Nickerson married Miss Addie F. Milliken, daughter of Joseph Milliken, of Bangor. Mrs. Nickerson died in December, 1880. Mr. Nickerson has two daughters -Nellie M. and Josie M.

The senior member of the firm of Charles York & Co., meat, fish, and grocery dealers, Mr. Perley G. York, was born in Standish, Maine. He married Eliza- beth A. Mitchell, of Monroe, Maine. They have three children, two sons and one daughter-Charles, of Ban- gor; Ida M., now Mrs. James Milliken, of Bangor; Albert H., who lives with his father. Charles York, who has the entire charge of the business in Bangor, married Miss Annie B. Treat, daughter of Robert and Amanda Treat, of Hudson, Maine. They have no children. Mr. York came to Bangor in 1861, and engaged in farming, which he followed three years. He then went into a hotel, the Broadway House, in which he continued until 1868, when he went into the meat and provision busi- ness, in which he has since continued, having associated with him his son Charles. Their place of business is at Nos. 9 and 11 Granite Block, East Market Square, where they have one of the largest and best stocked places of this kind in the city, and are doing a large business in their line. They have recently enlarged their business by adding a large cold air blast refrigerator, the largest this side of Boston used in the retail business.

The branch of the Lincoln family of which Matthew Lincoln is a descendant, sprang from Stephen Lincoln, who came to this country in 1638. Matthew Lincoln's grandfather, Matthew Lincoln, was a native of Hingham, Massachusetts. His father, Isaiah Lincoln, was born in Sidney, Maine, and removed to Corinna in 1815, where he died in 1872. Matthew Lincoln was born November 18, 1821, in Corinna, where he lived until 1854, engaged in milling and merchandising. He came to Bangor in 1854 and engaged in the lumber business, in which he has since continued. He married Elizabeth Hanson, of Palmyra, Maine. They have one son now living, having lost one. Mr. Lincoln is largely interested in real estate in the city of Bangor. He has in his possession an heir- loom of the family, a Bible, printed in 1599, printed twenty-one years before the King James revision.

The firm of Lowell & Tibbetts, house carpenters and builders, was formed in 1876. G. F. Lowell was born in North Bucksport, Maine, December 6, 1833. He set- tled in Bangor in 1861, where he has since lived. He married Susan M. Stubbs, of North Bucksport. They have three children, viz: Ida N., Gracie G., and Lena N. Mr. A. F. Tibbetts was born in New Sharon, Maine,

March 25, 1829, and settled in Bangor in 1853. He married Sarah Tracy, daughter of Samuel Tracy, of West Gouldsboro. They have seven children-five daughters and two sons. This firm employs about twenty-five men, and do a larger business than any other firm in the city.

The firm of E. H. & H. Rollins do a general planing business, and manufacture moldings and gutters at their mill in Brewer. The senior member of the firm, Edmund H. Rollins, is now deceased, but Henry continues the business under the old firm name. They came originally from New Hampshire in 1849, and first engaged in trade in which they continued for fifteen years. In 1862 they built the mill on the Kenduskeag, which they ran until 1870. In 1869 they built their mill in Brewer, where we now find H. Rollins & Son. They employ about twenty- five men, and do all kinds of work in their line. It is a well arranged mill, and one of the prominent establish- ments in Brewer.

Archibald L. Boyd, of the firm of A. L. Boyd & Son, was born in Bristol, Maine, August 30, 1827. His father, James Boyd, was a farmer. He married Sarah Chamberlain, by whom he had six children-four sons and two daughters, viz: Elizabeth, deceased; John, de- ceased; Caroline, deceased wife of Captain Henry Treat, of Bangor; James H., now in Kingman, Maine; Archi- bald L .; and Rodney, who follows the sea. Mr. Boyd died in 1857. His wife died in 1871. Archibald L. Boyd was raised on the farm, and on becoming of age, or rather at the age of twenty, went into the tin plate trade in Bangor, and worked with Henry Call and Leigh- ton Brothers. Afterwards he worked at the trade in Ma- chias and Boston. In 1851 he came back to Bangor and engaged in the fruit and confectionery business with his brother Rodney. Their first place of business was in the old market building. There they remained until 1854, when they moved to No. 6 Hammond street. In 1875 they moved to their present place, at No. 1I West Market Square. They keep a large and well se- lected stock in their line. In 1876 Mr. Rodney Boyd went out, and Mr. A. Boyd took in his son as partner. Mr. A. Boyd married Martha J. Eustis, daughter of Captain Joseph Eustis, of Bangor. Their family consists of five sons-Joseph F., in company with his father, James H., Archibald W., George E., in Boston, and Ed- ward F.

Mr. C. G. Sterns, of Bangor, the well-known lumber dealer, is a son of Samuel and Emma (Johnson) Sterns, of Brookline, Massachusetts. He went to Brewer in 1809 and built mills there. For many years he carried on a large business there at tanning and currying, boot and shoemaking, ship-building, lumbering, and general merchandising. He had ten children, of whom five are living, viz: Clara R., now Mrs. B. Goodwin; Eliza A., widow of the late Benjamin F. Fowls, of Brewer; Han- nah, wife of Willis Patten, of Brewer; Mary M., wife of O. H. Herriman, of Brewer; and Charles G., the latter of whom was born April 13, 1812. He learned the tan- ner's trade and sawed lumber in his father's mill in Brewer. In 1840 he went into company with his father, who died in 1841, and he carried on the business alone

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until 1848, when Deacon Daniel Sargent, second, be- came partner with him under the firm name of C. G. Sterns & Co., which afterwards became Sargent & Sterns. In 1864 they dissolved, Mr. Sargent taking the Brewer Village mill and Mr. Sterns the Roberts steam saw-mill at East Hampden, which the firm had purchased in 1863. About this time Mr. Sterns established his office in this city, and in 1865 moved here. In 1866 the present firm of C. G. Sterns & Co. was formed, consisting of Mr. Sterns, his two sons Samuel and Ezra L., and Mr. E. Wheelden, all practical lumber men. Their mills are lo- cated at Turtle Head, about three miles below Bangor, where Mr. Thomas Egery built a steam mill in 1836. This was purchased by Mr. Roberts and Hinckley & Egery in 1854, who improved it and erected by its side another and larger mill. The present firm have im- proved both, increasing their capacity and expending on them $30,000. Seventy-five men are employed about these mills. They produce from twelve to fifteen million feet of long lumber, seven million lath, six hundred thou- sand staves, besides clapboards, etc. Their principal market is in New York and Philadelphia. The firm lumber largely, cutting about two-thirds of their logs. Mr. Sterns married Margaret L. Lunt, daughter of Dea- con Ezra Lunt, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Two of his sons, Ezra L. and Samuel, are in business with hım.

Among the first settlers of Penobscot county was Jon- athan Pickard, from Rowley, Massachusetts, of English descent. His wife was Mary Killburn. He first pur- chased land on the banks of the Penobscot River, what is now known as Hampden lower corner. Entering into the lumber business, he purchased land heavily timbered in that section of the town now known as West Hamp- den, and there made his home. This homestead was re- tained in the Pickard family until 1878. After some years in the above business he engaged in farming. His family consisted of six sons and one daughter. Jonathan, the eldest son, settled in Newburg and followed the oc- cupation of farming; Ephraim, in Hampden, also a farm- er; Joseph, settled in Freedom as a merchant; Thomas and Joshua, in Belfast, also merchants. Thomas was for many years owner and proprietor of the Commercial House. Mary, the daughter, married Thomas Taylor and settled in Hermon. Daniel remained on the home- stead, his father and mother residing with him, both liv- ing to a good old age. He was one of the founders of the Baptist church at West Hampden, and for many years, and at the time of his death, was a deacon in the same, and one of its most generous and earnest support- ers. He married Anne Whitney. They had seven chil- dren, only one of whom is now living-Edmund, the youngest, who resides in West Hampden. The home- stead passed into the hands of the second son, Amos Pickard, who made it his home until 1866. He married Sarah J. Carter. During his residence in Hampden he held the various town offices of trust and responsibility. He was a member of the Maine House of Representa- tives in 1848 and 1860; a member of the Maine Senate in 1849 and in 1850. He also occupied the responsible

place of Clerk of the Committee on Finance and Appro- priations of the United States Senate from 1861 to 1872, inclusive. In 1867 Mr. Pickard moved to Bangor, mak- ing that city his home, where he was held an honored and valued citizen. He was elected Representative from that city to the Maine Legislature in 1879. He died April 6, 1880, leaving two children, a son and a daughter.

Professor Daniel Smith Talcott, D. D., of the Bangor Theological Seminary, was born March 7, 1813, in New- buryport, Massachusetts. His father, Daniel Smith, was a native of Hartford, Connecticut. (The name Smith being so common, the Professor, by act of Legislature in 1863, took the name Daniel Smith Talcott, Talcott being an old family name.) Daniel Smith was a drug- gist by trade and spent his business life in Newburyport. He married Abigail Jewett. Their family consisted of four children, who grew up. Their names were Daniel ; Abbie, married Rev. D. A. Wasson, of West Medford ; Elizabeth, married Henry H. Hall, of Santa Barbara, California ; and Caroline, deceased wife of William A. Kimball, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Mr. Smith died in 1877 aged ninety years. Mrs. Smith died in 1866. Daniel T., the subject of this sketch, received his collegi- ate education at Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1831, and Andover Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1834. From 1833 to 1836 he was instructor in Hebrew at Andover, and pastor at Sher- burne, Massachusetts, from 1836 to 1838. He became Professor of Sacred Literature in Bangor Theological Seminary in 1839. On account of failing health he was obliged to resign his chair in 1881. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1853 from Colby University, and subsequently from Bowdoin College. He was married in 1840 to Sophia Hammond Brown, daugh- ter of Deacon George W. and Sophia Hammond Brown. Mrs. Talcott died in .1866. Their family consists of three children-Frances Sophia, Elizabeth Smith, and Rowland Mather, all unmarried.

Isaac Arthur Hatch was born in Horton, Nova Scotia, August 23, 1819, and removed to Bangor, Maine, when about six years of age, his father's family being among. the first settlers and most prominent families in Bangor. His mother was from an English family and a lady of great refinement. Young Hatch was educated in the public and private schools of Bangor, and with the ex- ception of a year in a counting-house in Boston, re- sided in Bangor until the year 1860. From seventeen until twenty years of age he was clerk in one of the principal dry goods stores in the city. At twenty he be- came a member of the firm of Reed & Hatch, afterwards Hatch, Thompson & Co., and then I. A. Hatch & Co., for nearly twenty years doing a large and successful busi- ness. In this place he was Vice-President of the Young Men's Bible Society 1843-48, and President in 1849-51; was Scribe of the Hammond Street Congregational church 1847-48; and Secretary of the Sabbath-school of that church in 1850. In 1860 he removed to Boston and was associated with the large dry goods house of Palmer, Waterman & Hatch. After a successful busi- ness, and at the expiration of the company partnership

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in 1868, he retired from the retail trade, and invested in the manufacture of hosiery and fancy woolen goods, and is at the present time largely interested in the production of these goods, and in the woolen commission business in Boston, under the firm name of I. A. Hatch & Co. In 1844 Mr. Hatch was married to Miss Elizabeth Par- sons Chandler, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, a lady of great culture and refinement. She died in Novem- ber, 1857, leaving two daughters, Laura Elizabeth, now the wife of S. F. Wilkins, Esq., of Boston, and the au- thoress of two popular Sabbath-school books. The sec- ond daughter, Ida Annette, a very promising and beau- tiful girl, died suddenly in March, 1875, aged nineteen years. In 1860 Mr. Hatch married Miss Harriet S. Jenkins, daughter of the Hon. John Jenkins, of Fal- mouth, Massachusetts. Mr. Hatch's residence is now at Newton, Massachusetts. He was an active member of the Hammond Street church, Bangor, from 1846. In 1853 he transferred his relation to the Central church, Bangor, and for several years was Superintendent of the Sabbath-school. In Boston he was member of the Shawmut Congregational church. In 1867, when he ex- changed his residence to Newton, Massachusetts, he united with the Elliott Congregational church.

Reuben S. Prescott, of Bangor, was born November 8, 1805, in Northwood, New Hampshire. His father was Josiah Prescott, a farmer, a descendant of James Prescott, who came from England and settled at what is now Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He was of the great family of Prescott to which William H. Prescott, the his- torian, belonged. At the age of thirteen he became an as- sistant and clerk in a store, where he continued until he came to Maine in 1826. In 1827 he established himself in Exeter, in this county, where he remained until 1833, when he removed to Bangor, where he has since resided. While in Exeter he was elected Town Clerk, and repre- sented the class one year in the Legislature. The year after his removal to Bangor the town was converted into a city, with that important appendage, a municipal court. Of this court he was appointed Recorder, an office to which he was well adapted, although not a lawyer. He was in the office five years and performed its duties very satisfactorily. Mr. Prescott's business has been that of an auctioneer and commission merchant. In it he has been successful. In all his business he inspired such general confidence that has been placed in many positions of trust, where integrity, business capacity, and sound judgment were required. He was for about twelve years an assessor of taxes in Bangor; was Assistant Land Agent of the State; was Public Administrator of the county; and was Commissioner on the State Valua- tion in 1860 and 1870. He has been more frequently selected as an appraiser of large estates than any other person in the county, as the probate records of the last quarter of a century indicate; and his services have been in demand not only in his own county but elsewhere in the State and out of the State - in Portland, Augusta, Rockland, Saco, Concord, New Hampshire, and many other places-to appraise furniture in hotels, on a change of landlords or proprietors, and other property. He has

held the office of Justice of the Peace and Quorum more than fifty years, and was President of the Bangor Board of Trade from January, 1873, to January, 1881, when his resignation in the previous October was accepted. From the fact that Mr. Prescott was earning his livelihood at so early an age as thirteen, with strangers, his school advan- tages must have been limited, yet he found time to qualify himself for a successful business career. Always inter- ested for the prosperity of his neighbors and the com- munity, he has favored all movements tending thereto. Disliking litigation he has frequently used his good of- fices to prevent it, and thereby has been the means of saving useless expenditures, and perpetuating friendships. He has applied himself, always successfully, to accom- plish what he has undertaken, and is a fine specimen of a self-made, self-reliant American citizen.

Elnathan Freeman Duren (popularly known as “ Dea- con Duren "), son of Elnathan Duren, of French descent, and Elizabeth Freeman, of English origin, was born in Boston, January 14, 1814. He resided in Boston and Billerica, Massachusetts, six years; in Cornish, New Hampshire, four years ; at Portland, Maine, from 1824, with his grandfather, Hon. Samuel Freeman, and, after graduating at the high school, entered as clerk in the book-store of William Hyde, going with him to Boston, 1831-33. August, 1834, he established himself as a book-seller and publisher in Bangor, which has been his residence to the present time, except in 1846-48, when he was connected with the publishing house of Hyde, Lord & Duren, in Portland. He has been called to various positions of trust and labor in religious, benevo- lent, and other associations-among them the office of Scribe and Deacon of the Hammond Street Church, Ban- gor from 1840; Secretary, 1836-49, and 1852-59 ; and Superintendent, 1842-45, and 1863-71, of the Sabbath School ; Secretary and Chairman of the Committee of Publication of the General Conference of Maine, from 1855 ; Secretary of the Penobscot Musical Association, from its organization in 1848 to this time; and Secretary of the Bangor Historical Society, from its organization in 1864, etc. He was married in 1836, May 30, to Mary Clark Hyde, daughter of William Hyde, of Port- land. Their children are Freeman Hyde, William Grif- fin, and Charles M. Duren.

George M. Fletcher, the well-known marble dealer, of the firm of Fletcher & Butterfield, of Bangor, was born in Wilton, Maine, May 17, 1841. He is a son of David and Sarah (Stickney) Fletcher. David Fletcher was a native of Wilton. He had six children-Lizzie A., widow of the late Gilbert L. Heald, of Wilton; Lucy C., married John D. Hardy, of Wilton; George M .; Abbie J., wife of Morrill N. Young, of Nashua, New Hamp- shire; Mary C. married Dr. A. D. Adams, of Wilton, and Walter B. Mr. Fletcher died May 26, 1876. Mrs. Fletcher is living. George M. Fletcher attended school winters, and finally attended an academy for a time. He taught school for several winters. In 1863 he enlisted and remained in the army until the close of the war. In 1866 he returned to Wilton and traveled for a season for Hiram Holt & Co., scythe manufacturers. In 1867 he

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came to Bangor and engaged with M. S. P. Bradbury, marble dealer, as traveling salesman. He remained with Mr. Bradbury for nine years and in 1876 he bought the establishment and took in as a partner Mr. Benjamin F. Butterfield. They have since continued the business under the title of Fletcher & Butterfield. This firm have a branch shop at Dover in this State. They usually employ twelve men and do all kinds of work in their line at their large shop on East Market Square. Mr. Fletcher married Miss Ella A. Butterfield, daughter of Samuel and Betsey Butterfield. They have five children -Alice M., Fannie M., Gilbert F., Flora B., and George W.

A. W. Dudley, the well-known dairyman and farmer of Bangor, was born in Chesterville, Franklin county, Maine, January 4, 1830. His father, Joseph Dudley, married Ruth Davis, of Readfield. They had five chil- dren-Mary Jane, wife of I. B. Greene, of Auburn; Susanna, deceased; Juliette, deceased; Albion W. and Octavia, deceased. Mr. Dudley was a farmer all his life. He moved into Bangor in 1835 and settled in the neigh- borhood called Sherburn District. Here he lived until his death in 1875. Albion W. Dudley was raised on the farm. . He received but a common school education, and left the schools at eighteen, working on the river in the saw-mills and rafting lumber. In 1850 he went to Minnesota and spent two years and more. On returning to Maine he found his father in poor health and felt it his duty to remain with him. For the last eleven years he has been engaged more exclusively in farming and dairy business. He owns one of the finest farms in the town, known as the old Sherburn farm, to which he has added one hundred acres. Mr. Dudley keeps a large dairy, usually wintering over thirty cows besides other stock. Mr. Dudley married Miss Lizzie A. Jordan, of St. Albans, Maine. She died in 1865, leaving four chil- dren-Harris C., in Burlington, Vermont; Ella F., Elmer L., and Lizzie A. Mr. Dudley married for his second wife Jane McClure, of Milo, Maine. He was for three years Street Commissioner of Bangor.

Samuel Hale is a son of Samuel Hale, a native of Bradford, Massachusetts. He was for a number of years a stage contractor in Portland, Maine, where he was widely known. He married Mary White, a native of Maine. They had eight children. Mr. Hale had six children by a former wife. The names of his children by his second wife were Samuel; Edwin, now in Brooks, Maine, and who is blind; Elizabeth, deceased; Julia, now Mrs. Lowell, of Bangor; Harriet and Joseph, de- ceased; Charles, in Augusta; and Ann Maria, wife of Henry G. H. Niebuhr, of Princeton University. Mr. Hale died July 10, 1840. Mrs. Hale died March 12, 1871. Samuel Hale was born February 9, 1806, in Wis- casset, Maine. After becoming of age he first engaged with Mr. Nat. Mitchell in a grocery and hardware store in Portland when fifteen. He was with Mr. Mitchell five years and then went into the hardware business for himself, having as partner T. B. Brooks. This firm con- tinued three years when they dissolved, and Mr. Hale went into the post-office in Portland as assistant clerk,

where he remained about four years, and, his health fail- ing, he went to the West Indies and remained one year and a half. His health being improved, on his return he came to Bangor and engaged in the dry goods and grocery business, in 1832 or 1833. About this time he married Persis R. Carpenter, who came from Barry, Ver- mont. Mr. Hale continued in business until 1837; the year of the great financial crash, in which he was broken up. He then went to Buffalo, New York, and engaged in trade for two years. He then went into the hog busi- ness ; his hogs dying with the cholera, he soon left that and returned in 1840 to Maine. He then engaged as clerk in Portland, and afterwards engaged in trade again, and again failed. He then took a mill in Waterford and run it six years. From here he went onto a farm in Waterford and remained six years. He then lived in · Norway village two years, and in 1861 moved to Bangor, where he has since lived. He was with Horton in the music business one and a half years, and then with his brother in the jewelry, sewing machine, and music busi- ness. In 1871 he moved to his present farm, about five miles from the city. He was obliged to do this on ac- count of the loss of sight of one eye. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have had two children - Helen, who married E. Kilgore, and lives in Norway, Maine, and Georgia, de- ceased wife of James L. Page.

William H. McCrillis, of Bangor, was born in Wake- field, New Hampshire, November 4, 1813. His parents, John and Abigail (Kimball) McCrillis were natives of New Hampshire. Mr. McCrillis was a physician. His father, David, was of Scotch-Irish descent. The first members of the family came to this country about 1730, and settled in the neighborhood of Londonderry, New Hampshire. John and Abigail McCrillis had three children-Louisa, deceased, William H., and Harriet S. The latter married Rufus W. Griswold, of New York, who is deceased. Mrs. Griswold resides now in Bangor with William H. William H. McCrillis, after completing the common school course, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and completed his education, and studied law two years in New Hampshire. He then came to Bangor in December, 1833, and entered the office of Allen & Appleton, and was admitted to the Bar in the fall of 1834. Here he has since lived. He was at one time County Attorney, and was sent to the Legis- lature in 1858, 1859, and 1860 from this city.

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History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 201

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