History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 92

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

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The father of Jacob W. Haskell was born in New Gloucester, Maine, March 29, 1779. When about twen- ty-three years of age he came to Garland, where he died March 4, 1870, aged ninety-one years. He was by trade a cooper, put paid his attention to farming principally. He served a short time in the War of 1812. His wife was Sally Merry, born in Rutland, Massachusetts, in 1782, June 23d. She came to Garland when twenty- four years of age, and was there married. She died July

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II, 1857. Jacob W. Haskell was the sixth child, and was born in Garland October 25, 1817. The other members of the family were: Daniel M., John R. Nathan A., Harry L., Sarah E. Jacob W. Haskell was married March 10, 1842, to Mary T. Bates, and had ten children : Martha E., died in infancy ; Sarah E., mar- ried John H. Doe, and has one child; Joseph S., died in infancy; Samuel B., married Georgie Delano, and has three children; Thomas B., unmarried ; Luarce A., unmarried ; J. Fremont, unmarried ; George W., unmar- ried ; Mary Lizzie, unmarried ; M. Mabel, unmarried. Mrs. Haskell died, and for a second wife Mr. Haskell married Mrs. Anna Elkins, November 13, 1877. He has held several township offices, but has not been a place-seeker.

Moses Gordon was born in Hopkinton, New Hamp- shire, February 15, 1780, and remained there until about twenty-five years of age, when he removed to Garland, where he died September 22, 1877. His wife was Sarah Silver, also born in Hopkinton, March 8, 1779. She died May 17, 1857. Albert G. Gordon was born in Garland, December 12, 1820. The other children were: Savilla C., Amos G., Horace H., Samuel S., James P., and Moses G. Albert G. Gordon was married May I, 1856, to Caroline A. Blanchard, daughter of Eben and Ann (Silver) Blanchard. They have no family.

Constant Southard, a native of New Hampshire, set- tled in Corinna, where he died in 1863. His wife was Sally S. Hicks, by whom he had eleven children. Wil- liam Southard was born in Corinna in 1809. His wife was Maria F. Ambrose, by whom he has seven children. Merritt Southard was born in Corinna in 1843; gradu- ated from the Brunswick Medical College in the class of 1870, since which time he has been in practice. His wife was Mary Gregory, of Corinth. He has a large practice and is well known and respected by a large circle of friends.

Lyndon Oak is a son of Benjamin H. Oak, who came to Exeter in 1826. He was born in Winchester, New Hampshire, in 1775, and died in Garland about 1843. His wife was Hannah Smith. Other members of the family were S. H. Oak, H. L. Oak, Llewellyn Oak, Lyn- don Oak, E. S. Oak. Lyndon Oak was born in Bosca- wen, New Hampshire, and came to Penobscot county with his father when ten years of age. He has since that time lived in Garland. In 1846 he engaged at merchandizing, which business he has continued until the present time. He has by enterprise and industry accu- mulated a fine property.

John Whiting was born in the town of Hartland, Maine, March 5, 1820, where he lived about fifteen years, when he moved to Garland, Maine, where he lived until his death October 15, 1880, at the age of sixty years and seven months. His business through life was a farmer. His wife was Tryphosa E. Stewart, born in the town of Alton, New Hampshire, September 30, 1821, where she lived about four years, and with her parents moved to the town of Garland, where she now resides at the age of sixty years. Charles H., the fourth child in the family, was born in Garland, March 15, 1850. His

business is farming and teaching. The names of his brothers and sisters are Mary J., Fannie E., Andrew Bryce, and Lizzie H. Charles H. Whiting was married March 14, 1877, to Miss Emma J. Brown, and by this union have been born two children-Blanche M. and an infant child. Mrs. Whiting's father's name was James Brown; her mother, Mary R. Seavey, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. Whiting. Mr. Whiting has held no State or county offices, but is now and has been for four years one of the School Committee of the town.

Henry Morrill settled in Garland township in 1857. He married Margaret Chandler, and they have threee children. His life has been devoted to farming, and he is one of the leading men of Garland. He is now one of the Selectmen of the town, and is respected by all who know him.

B. A. Haskell was one of the first settlers in Garland, and a prominent man of the town. His business was that of a blacksmith, and he held the position of captain of militia previous to his death in 1869. His wife's maiden name was Rebecca Mayhew. Of their children four are still living-Susan H. (Clark), Garland; Frances K. (Mitchell), Minneapolis, Minnesota; Jacob M., Bos- ton, and Andrew M. Andrew, the subject of this sketch, was born in Garland in 1819. At the age of fourteen he learned the trade of mason, and followed it for nine years. In 1842 he commenced the business of carriage- making and repairing, which he is still engaged in. For twenty-one years he held the office of Selectman in this town. He married Mary B. Sargent, of Belfast, and they have seven children. He was engaged in the Aroostook war; and in the years 1870-71 was a member of the State Legislature, proving himself a valuable addition to that body.

Leonard Hathaway was born in Massachusetts in 1802, and settled in Maine in 1809. He was ordained as a Free-will Baptist minister in 1826, and preached for eight years in different parts of the State. He was one of those too rare men whose whole object is to do good to his fellow-men. He married Dorcas Harvey, daugh- ter of Jonathan Harvey, and died in 1877. Of his chil- dren four are living-Laura A. (Mason), Hannah H. (Davis), Leonard C., and Addie H. For his second wife he married Mary A. Stoner, by whom he had three sons, one of whom is the Hon. Henry H. Hathaway. This whole family are worthy representatives of America's noblemen.

Zebulon Knight was born in the town of Parsonfield, Maine, in the year 1803, on the 21st day of June. He came to Garland in the year 1825, and lived here until he died August 8, 1865, at the age of sixty-two years, one month, and eighteen days. His business through life was farming. His wife was May Staples, born in Kennebunk, Maine, in 1801. They were married in the year 1825, and she died April 25, 1870, aged sixty-eight years, three months, and twenty-one days. Zebulon Knight was the second child in the family, and was born in Garland, April 19, 1828. His business through life was that of farmer, shoemaker, and hotel proprietor, His brothers and sisters are Joseph T., Hanniel P., Sarah

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J., and Mary Ann. Zebulon Knight was married August 17, 1851, to Harriet J. Barker, and by this union they had three children : Franklin P., Charles S., and Freddie, died in infancy. They have one adopted daughter, Sarah, aged fourteen years.

Jonathan Farrar Crowell was born in the town of Exeter, Maine, November 17, 1830, where he lived until he was nineteen years of age. He then worked on the Penobscot river one year, and then went to Pennsylvania and worked about four years, after which he moved to Garland, where he now resides at the age of fifty-one

years. His business has been lumbering, milling, and farming. Mr. Crowell owns the mills at Garland Centre. He has good substantial farm buildings. He was first married to Hannah Farrar Rand, daughter of John Rand and Laura (Jumper) Rand. She died and he was married to his second wife Hannah F. Skillin October 6, 1867, and by this union has one child, Hannah A. Crowell, age twelve years. Mrs. Crowell's father's name was Samuel Skillin, her mother's Elizabeth Plummer.

John Davis was born in the town of Lee, New Hamp- shire. His wife was Hannah Hanson, born at Lee, New Hampshire. Josiah Davis, their son, was married the 26th day of November, 1848, to Harriet M. Walker, and by this union has four children : Isabell F. Davis, mar- ried to Arthur J. Ricker, Dover, Maine, now living in Cochituate, Massachusetts, and has one child, Albert W .; James H. Davis, married to Ida M. Chandler Foxboro, Massachusetts, now resides at Cochituate, Massachusetts, one child named Grace A. ; Hattie M., not married but resides at home; Charles L., not married, and resides at home. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are members of the Free- will Baptist church, as is the daughter who remains at home. The eldest daughter is a member of the church where she resides.

Russell Murdock was born in Townshend, Vermont, in 1801, and in 1829 came to Garland, where he still re- sides. He married Eleanor Bartlett, who was born in Garland, July 3, 1811, and died November 1, 1844. Their children were as follow: Maria, wife of Freeman Bacon; Lydia, wife of Richard Henry; Abby and Sarah B., not living; Eleanor and Henry. The subject of this sketch, Henry Murdock, was married January 3, 1866, to Emily J. Fosnett of Northfield, Massachusetts, by whom he has six children, all living, viz: Percy R., aged twelve years; Willis B., ten; Harry E., eight; Grace E., six; Blanche A., four; Arthur H., one year and a half. Mr. Murdock has been a member of the Congregational church for seventeen years, and his wife has been a mem- ber for ten years. He has a good farm of 140 acres, with substantial buildings and one of the best orchards in the county.

Joseph True's father was born at Deerfield, New Hamp-

shire, May 10, 1762, and moved to Garland in 1820, where he followed farming until his death March 2, 1839. He married Sarah Batchelder, who was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, March 12, 1776, and died April 10, 1842. Their children were Betsey and Abraham, de- ceased; Sally, Mary, Nancy, and Joseph, still living. Joseph, the fourth child, was born in Deerfield, June 18, 1801. July 1, 1830, he married Eliza L. Adams, and has had eight children, three of whom are living, viz: Benza, married Sarah F. Jones, and has five children; Joseph L., married Ellen M. Abbott, and has one child; Mary D., resides at home. The names of those not now living are: Sarah P., who died June 12, 1851; Charlotte N., who died October 10, 1852; Mary E., who died Sep- tember 13, 1841; Lucy, who died November 7, 1851; Eliza A., who died August 29, 1872. Mr. True married a second wife July 25, 1855; she is not now living, hav- ing died September 16, 1880. Mr. True was a member of the State Legislature in 1828-29. He was Selectman in 1829, and held the position of Town Treasurer one year. He is a member of the Congregational church, and lives on a fine farm of about seventy acres near the village.

Benjamin Otis was born in New Hampshire Novem- ber 24, 1784, and died in Garland January 15, 1863. His wife was Rosa Hussey, born in New Hampshire Oc- tober 4, 1791, and died in Garland June 3, 1868. Joel W. Otis was the ninth child, and was born in Fairfield, Maine, November 10, 1824. In 1840 he removed to Garland, where he yet resides. He was married Novem- ber 24, 1847, to Francina A. Pooler, and had three chil- dren-Frank P., unmarried, resides at Norway, a lawyer; Frances I., married William K. Holt; Joel W., resides at home, single. The remaining children of Benjamin Otis are: Sally N., Cynthia A., Lydia R., Abigail P., Mary D .. Benya P. (deceased), Reuben H., George W., Benya P., second (deceased), and Rosa C.

The father of Moses N. Parker was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1783, where he remained until about thirty years of age, when he moved to Garland, where he lived until 1850. His wife was Nancy Bigelow, also born in Worcester in 1790; she died October ro, 1875, aged eighty-five years. Their son, Moses N. Parker, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 16, 1826, and lived there until about five years old, when his father and mother came to Garland, where he has since lived. He was married August 26, 1862, to Miss Sarah Oliver, of Garland, and has no family. His brothers and sisters were: Elizabeth; Amasa, fell at the battle of Vera Cruz in the Mexican war; Sarah, deceased when young; Sarah, second; George, Hannah, Mary Ann, and Austin. The parents of Mrs. Parker were William and Sarah (Bick. nell) Oliver, both deceased.

GLENBURN.

Glenburn is one of the townships which immediately adjoin Bangor. It is bounded on the north by Hudson, on the east by Pushaw Lake, beyond which lies Oldtown, and by Orono; on the south by Bangor and Hermon; and on the west by Levant and Kenduskeag. It thus touches two towns on every side except the north, yet it is not a large town. It is of the regular township length, and its southernmost border lacks only about fifty rods of the same; but this width is suddenly narrowed by the invasion of Kenduskeag town two miles above the south- town line, and the width above this corner is but four and a fourth miles. The town is thus composed of a cen- tral and northern section, nearly in the form of a square, four and a quarter miles wide by four miles long ; and a parallelogram forming the south part, two miles wide by a little less than six miles long, giving Glenburn an area of less than twenty-nine square miles, or more than seven less than that of a full township. The south line of the town is shortened by the pushing nearly half a mile of the Orono boundary westward of the Oldtown line.

A large part of the eastern boundary is covered by the waters of Pushaw Lake. Beyond the narrower portion of the lake, in the northeast corner of the town, is per- haps half a square mile of land, which, however, has no settlers upon it. South of that part of the lake in Glen- burn runs a little more than a mile and a half of the boundary between Orono and Glenburn. About four and two-thirds miles of the length of Pushaw lie in this town, but no great width of it; and the total of the Glen- burn waters of the lake is hardly two square miles. This sheet will receive more particular description where we deal with Oldtown, in which most of it lies. It has a singular paucity of tributaries in this town, the only ones noted on the map being the Gibbs Brook, of about two miles' length, which flows in from the east nearly half- way across the town, and another in the southeast part of the town, reaching the lake at almost its lowest point in Glenburn.

The Kenduskeag Stream has about four and a half miles' length of course in the town. From Kenduskeag town the river dips down into the narrow part of Glen- burn, but only a little way, making an arc of less than a mile before returning to Kenduskeag, whence it flows in a northeast course across the angle of that town into Glenburn, preserving this course but a short distance be- fore it bends to the southeast and then to the south, making its way, after a course of less than four miles, into Bangor, about a mile from the northwest corner of that city. About one-fourth of a mile after its first ap- pearance in Glenburn, just as it makes a sharp bend to the eastward, it receives from the southwest the Little

Kenduskeag Stream, a very crooked body of water flow- ing across the southeast part of Levant, and for less than a mile in the lower northwest angle of Glenburn. A little below the mouth of this a small tributary, rising near the south line of the town, also reaches the Ken- duskeag. Meadow Brook heads in the southern edge of Hudson, enters this town at the upper northwest corner, and flows a little less than a mile to its junction with a similar stream also coming from the Hudson border, the two forming the Lancaster Brook. A little below the junction an affluent of about the same length comes in from the eastward. The Tozier Brook heads upon the Kenduskeag line, a mile and two-thirds south of the north west corner of Glenburn, and flows southwestward two miles to a union with the Lancaster Brook, in a channel of one mile's length, by which their waters flow south- ward to the Kenduskeag Stream. One and a half miles from the south the stream receives another but petty tributary, nearly opposite its mouth another on the west, and a mile south of that a very small rivulet. These are the waters of Glenburn.

Considerable tracts in this town, away from the high roads and larger waters, are still unsettled. The princi- pal highways are two that come in from the direction of Bangor, less than half a mile apart from the town line, and running in a general north direction to a junction one mile below the north line, to which the westernmost of them continues and goes into Hudson. On this road is Glenburn Centre, or Glenburn post-office, where the Town Hall and School No. 4 are situated. It is at the crossing of the main east and west road of the town, which starts from the road near Pushaw Lake, a third of a mile below School No. 2, and runs due west to nearly a mile beyond Glenburn Centre, where it angles to the southward and shortly strikes the Kenduskeag Stream, whose north bank it follows into Kenduskeag. North of this there is no east and west road of length in the town, nor any south of it traversing more than a small part of the breadth of the town. Nearly two miles south of Glenburn Centre, and a little above School No. 5, a short route connects the two north and south highways, and runs a little beyond the easternmost to one of two short roads that, with the Orono town line, make pretty nearly a triangle. At the eastern road-crossing is School No. I. School No. 3 is near the junction of the north and south roads, in the north of the town. A cemetery is on the road a mile east of Glenburn. West and south of the Kenduskeag three diagonal lines of road come in quite close together from the Bangor way, and run across the town, the northeasternmost of them going out exactly at the southeast corner of Kenduskeag, and the other

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two uniting at West Glenburn, crossing the Kenduskeag, and following up its left bank to the Kenduskeag post- office. At School No. I, midway between West Glen- burn and the town line, the westernmost of these roads pushes off a highway due west and then northwest into Levant, from which a short road, with School No. 7 and a cemetery upon it, connects with another diagonal line crossing almost at the extreme southwest corner of Glen- burn. West Glenburn is but a petty hamlet, without a post-office.

Notwithstanding the extent of the waters of Glenburn, there is no water-power, and so comparatively little man- ufacturing in the town. The soil is generally favorable, and the surface for the most part level ; so the population of the town' is largely given to agriculture. There is, however, a cheese factory in Glenburn, organized, about 1873; one moccasin-maker, one smith and carriage- maker, one smith, one mason, and a number of carpen- ters, charcoal-burners, and makers of flour-barrel hoops. One hotel, the Pushaw House, is kept; and the Patrons of Husbandry have a general Grange store.

Glenburn was settled about 1806, but not incorporated as a town until January 29, 1822, when it took the name Dutton, from Judge Samuel E. Dutton, of Bangor, who had a large interest in it, and of whom an entertaining sketch will be found in Judge Godfrey's chapter on the Bench and Bar, in the first division of this book. It ex- isted under this name for a little more than fifteen years, when, March 18, 1837, it took its present name by the requisite resolve of the Legislature.

The population of the Dutton tract in 1810 was 89, and 207 in 1820. Glenburn had 664 people in 1840, 905 in 1850, 741 in 1860, 720 in 1870, and 655 in 1880.

The number of polls in Glenburn in 1860 was 171, with estates $115,453; 1870, polls 166, estates $143,313 ; 1880, polls 175, estates $138,632.

The officers of the town in 1880 were: Horace Pen- dexter, J. B. Gibbs, J. S. Staples, Selectmen; John F. Tolman, Town Clerk; John F. Tolman, Treasurer; Win- gate E. Gibbs, Joseph Parks, Constables; . John B. Gibbs, School Supervisor; L. Marston, John M. Cort, William Goodwin (Quorum), Justices.

William Goodwin is Postmaster of Glenburn.

The associations of Glenburn are altogether agricul- tural-the Pushaw Grange, No. 22, Patrons of Hus- bandry, and the Glenburn Farmers' Club. There is not now an organized religious society in the town. The Nelson Dingley Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, named from ex-Governor Dingley, now editor of the Lewiston Journal and member of Congress, and a prominent temperance advocate, subsisted until re- cently.

SETTLERS' NOTES.

Mr. Lemuel Worster is a son of George Worster, who came to Glenburn from Berwick, Maine, in 1805. His father was George Worster, born January 25, 1775. He married Mercy Tibbitts, born May 1, 1774. When he came to Penobscot county he first settled in Kendus- keag, formerly Levant. ' From there he moved to Glen- burn, then called Dutton, and from there moved to the

place where Mr. Lemuel Worster now lives. He was a farmer and lumberman. George and Mary Worster had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters-Joshua, Martha, Mary, Daniel, Lemuel, George, Isaac, Thomas H., Charity, Solomon, and Mercy. Mr. Worster died August 16, 1828, and Mrs. Worster died October 19, 1861. Lemuel Worster was born August 14, 1805, in Kenduskeag, then Levant. He has always lived in this vicinity since he became of age. Mr. Worster married, for his first wife, Abiah B. Mason, by whom he had ten children, viz: Mary E., George W., Jonas M., Lemuel N., Henry T., Abiah A., David S., Clara A., Harriet N., Franklin P. Mrs. Worster died November 4, 1864. Mr. Worster married, for his second wife, Mrs. Lucy H. Stilkey (nee Lucy Page), daughter of Philemon Page, of Freeport, Maine, who lived also in Bangor. Mr. Worster has followed the business of farming and lumbering. He was for seven years a captain of the mi- litia. He has served as Selectman of his town. His place is in the western part of Glenburn, and contains sixty-eight acres.

Mr. Stephen T. Vickery, of Glenburn, is a son of Jonathan Vickery, of Gorham, Maine. He came to Glenburn in 1827, and settled in the neighborhood where Mr. Stephen Vickery now lives. He had fourteen chil- dren, viz : Benjamin, now in Bangor; Martha, deceased; David, deceased; Stephen; Lewis, deceased; Joel, now of Glenburn; Hannah, deceased ; Lydia, deceased; Jona- than, of Exeter, Maine; Lydia ; Joseph, deceased; Hiram, deceased; Eliza A., deceased; Albion, deceased, and Leander. Mr. Vickery always followed farming. He died in 1846, and Mrs. Vickery in 1855. Stephen T. Vickery was born in Unity, Maine, June 25, 1806. He came to Glenburn with his father when he was about twenty-one years old. Here he has since lived, following farming and lumbering for a business. He married Betsey Gibbs, daughter of Elisha Gibbs, of Glenburn. They have had nine children, viz: Ellen ; Charles, deceased; Edward, of Glenburn; Wilmot, deceased in army; Susan, deceased wife of Hollis Newcomb, of Bangor; Minte; Eben, of Glenburn; Charles, deceased, and Olive. Mr. Vickery formerly held office in town. He is now one of the successful farmers of Glenburn.

Mrs. Lillian Tibbitts, widow of the late William Tib- bitts, of Glenburn, is a daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Hunt (nee Sarah Vickery). Her mother died when she was but two years of age, and her father in 1879. She was brought up by her grandfather Vickery. Her father, Jonathan Hunt, was a farmer, and lived in Bradford. Lillian married William Tibbitts, of Carmel, Maine. He was a surveyor of lumber, and worked in Bangor, where he lived. He died in July, 1877. Mrs. Tıbbitts has one daughter, Lillie May, now six years of age. She makes her home with her grandmother in Glenburn.

Captain Horace N. Wentworth was born in Orrington, November 29, 1840. He is a son of George W. and Jane M. Wentworth. For several years Captain Went- worth followed the sea, and was a successful navigator. He married Lovinia D. Atwood, daughter of Captain Warren Atwood, November 23, 1864, and resided in Or-

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rington until 1873, where his wife died, leaving one child -Mary J. He came to Glenburn in 1873, where he married Susan G. Ridley, widow of Silas C. Ridley, and eldest daughter of Austin and Louisa Edson, July 9, 1873. They have one son, George Edson Wentworth, born July 26, 1875. Captain Wentworth lives on the farm where Mrs. Edson was born. His family consists of himself, his wife, and two children, and Austin and Louisa Edson, father and mother of Mrs. Wentworth.

Austin Edson was born in Randolph, Vermont, March 13, 1805; was a son of Simeon Edson of that town, whose ancestors came from England and settled on the banks of the Connecticut River. He was the seventh child of a family of fourteen ; came to Glenburn in 1830; was married to Louise Mann, February 5, 1834; was a millwright by trade; worked in most of the mills on the Penobscot River for twenty-five years. He settled on the farm in Glenburn where he and his wife are now living.

Louise Edson was a daughter of William and Sarah Mann, and was born July 9, 1812. She was a grand- daughter of Amos Mann, one of the first settlers of Maine and a Revolutionary soldier, who drew a pension until his death. He was born in Kennebec county in 1750, and married Mary Blagdon. He settled on the banks of the Kenduskeag River, afterwards moved to Hermon and was the first settler there. He died No- vember 1, 1841, aged seventy nine. His wife, Mary, died November 2, 1852, aged ninety-one. They had ten children, three of whom served in the War of 1812. Two are still living-Joel Mann, aged seventy-eight, and Sylvia Mann, aged eighty-one.

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History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 92

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