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He married Marietta Northrop at Newark, New Jersey, Sept. 30, 1867, where he has resided since the war and still resides. They have had four children, viz. : Richard S., born Aug. 22, 1868; Adelbert B .. born Dee. 28, 1869; Harry F., born Jan. 16, 1871; and Samuel A., born June 3, 1874, and died March 18, 1876. He has been engaged in the lumber business. and has helt the office of Commissioner of Public Instruction for five years. In politics he is a Republican, and in his religious belief a Protestant, Presbyterian form.
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LIEUT. WM. B. LAPHAM.
William Berry Lapham was born in Greenwood, Me., Aug. 21, 1828. When he was only a few weeks old, the family returned to Bethel, Me., which was their home. After reaching ten years of age, he worked out by the month or year upon various farms during the remainder of his minority. His early means of education were very limited, and such as he had, neglected; but, after becoming of age, he fitted for college at Gould's Academy, in Bethel, and entered Colby University in 1851. He did not remain to graduate, but received the com- plimentary degree of Master of Arts from the college in 1884. He read medicine with Dr. Almon Twitchell of Bethel, attended medical lectures at the Maine Medical School and Dartmouth College, finished his medical course in New York in 1856, and commenced the practice of medicine at Bryant's Pond, Me., the same year. In the winter of 1861-2 he was in Augusta, assisting in the hospitals, and as assistant surgeon to regiments not provided with a full medical staff. In 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-Third Maine Regiment, and served during its term. He was promoted to Commissary-Sergeant. then to 2d. and subsequently to 1st Lieutenant of Co. F. After his regiment was mustered out, he aided in recruiting the Seventh Maine Battery, with which he was mustered into the United States service as Senior 1st Lieutenant. He served with this battery, which took part in the subsequent great battles of the Army of the Potomac, down to the surrender of the Confederate
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armies and close of the war. When the Battery was ordered honte to be mustered out, in June, 1865, he accepted an appoint- ment as Assistant Quartermaster, with the rank of Captain, and was ordered to duty in Vermont, where he remained until Oct. 20, 1865, when he was mustered out as Brevet-Major. Returning to Bryant's Pond, he resumed the practice of his profession. He was elected a member of the Legislature in 1867, and appointed a Trustee of the Maine Insane Hospital in 1868. He served in the latter capacity for six years. the last four as president of the Board of Trustees. In July, 1871, he moved to Augusta, and in March, 1872, was tendered by the owners the position of general and news editor of the Maine Farmer, which position he held for upwards of six years, when he was tendered the position of agricultural editor of the same paper. which position he held until 1883. He was appointed examining surgeon for invalid pensioners in 1866, and when he moved to Augusta was assigned to the Augusta Board of Surgeons, where he served eighteen years, the last six years as President of the Board. He was postmaster at Bryant's Poud, a school officer and collector in Woodstock, one of the charter members. Treasurer and Master of Jefferson Lodge of Masons. District Deputy Grand Master of the Sixteenth Masonic District for two terms, and for the same number of terms of the Eleventh District. He was Commander of the Post of the Grand Army at Bryant's Pond, and also of Seth Williams Post in Augusta; has also served as Medical Director of the Department of Maine. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society. He is a member of the Maine Press Association, and for two years was its president. For several years he has given his attention largely to historical and genealogical studies, being a member of a large number of historical societies. He has compiled and printed several genealogies and four town histories, and has two more well in hand. He was appointed by Gov. Bodwell Commissioner of
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Maine at the Centennial of the Constitution, in Philadelphia, in 1888. Is a member of the Maine Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a director of the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals, also a director of the Maine General Hospital.
Married in 1866, to Cynthia A. Perham, and has a son and two grown-up daughters. In politics he is an Independent Republican and in religious belief liberal.
Lieut. LOREN E. BUNDY.
LIEUT. LOREN E. BUNDY.
Lieut. Bundy was born in Columbia, N. H., Nov. 23, 1840. He received a common school education, and was employed as a clerk at the Willard House, North Stratford, N. H., at the breaking out of the war. In December, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Fifth Maine Battery, and was promoted in that organization to a Corporal, then to a Line Sergeant and finally to Orderly Sergeant. He was with that battery in the engagements at Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station, Thoroughfare Gap, second battle of Bull Run, Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Mine Run, and was discharged therefrom in January, 1864, to accept a commission as Junior 1st Lieutenant in the Seventh Maine Battery, which he at once joined and in which he was afterwards promoted to Senior 1st Lieutenant. In this service he was in the following engagements, viz. : The Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, Petersburgh, Petersburgh Crater. the Siege of Petersburgh, and the Pursuit of Lee's Army to Farmville, Va. Was finally mustered out June 23, 1865, the war being closed, through nearly all of which he had taken a prominent part. He married Miss Mary A. Green, at Washington, D. C., May 17, 1865, and they had two children, viz. : Adelbert Leppien, born Apr. 17, 1866; and Zilla A., born Oct. 24, 1867. He resided in Columbia, N. H., to June, 1869, when he removed to Newark, N. J., being engaged in the lumber business, and where he resided until July. 1889, when he removed to Tonawanda, N. Y., as superintendent of one of the largest lumber yards in the country, and there died suddenly of heart disease on the 18th day of May, 1891. His remains were brought to his old home in Columbia, N. H., and there buried in the South Columbia Cemetery on May 23d, Carlos Fletcher Post, G. A. R., of Colebrook. attending and firing a salute over his grave. In politics he was a Repub- lican, and a Protestant in his religious belief.
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Lieut. DANIEL STAPLES.
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LIEUT. DANIEL STAPLES.
Was born in Temple, Me., Aug. 20, 1823. He married Miss Lucretia Tucker, of Oldtown, Me., who died in Dexter in 1877. They had six children, five of whom are now living, viz. : Mrs. E. W. Clark of Dexter, Mrs. James Haley of Fort Fairfield, Mrs. J. P. Billings of Clinton, Mrs. Agnes Patten of Lowell, Mass., and James Staples of Oakland, Me. His military career was a peculiarly honorable one. In the very beginning of the war he enlisted in Co. K of the Second Maine Regiment, and was Orderly Sergeant, serving two years. He was in the first battle of Bull Run, as well as the other battles in which the regi- ment was engaged. In the Peninsula campaign he was taken prisoner, but was exchanged after being held eighty days. After his discharge he enlisted in the Seventh Maine Battery, of which he was 2d, Lieutenant, serving with much distinction. On the day of the capture of the forts before Petersburgh, April 2, 1865, when artillerists were needed to work the captured guns, Lient. Staples volunteered, with all the men of his section of the Seventh Maine Battery, to go forward into the hottest part of the tight, where the rebels were pelting them from all sides. So dangerous was the task, and so effectively was the work done, that the commanding officer publicly and specially praised them in his report of the action, and twenty years later, in telling the story of the battle, gave special honor to Lieut. Staples and his men. He was a member of Plymouth Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of H. F. Stafford Post, G. A. R., of which he had been Commander. He was also Assistant Inspector of Department of Maine, G. A. R. Hle was a member of the Congregational church in Dexter, and in his political belief a Republican. He died on the 27th day of April, 1887, of disease of kidneys.
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Lieut. FRANK THORP.
LIEUT. FRANK THORP.
Lieut. Thorp was born in Boothbay, Me., March 29, 1842, and was engaged in teaching at the time of his enlistment, being first enrolled Oct. 14, 1862, as 2d Lieutenant in the Twenty- eighth Maine Volunteers, in which he served until Aug. 31, 1863. On October 31, following, he enlisted and was mustered with the Seventh Maine Battery as 2d Lieutenant, where he served until their final muster out at Augusta, June 21, 1865. He participated in all the engagements into which his Battery was called in the Army of Potomac, where it served, and was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, but was never mustered, the close of the war following so quickly thereafter. He returned, after his muster out, to his home in Boothbay, Me., where he remained but a few months, having received a commission as Lieutenant .
in the Fifth U. S. AArtillery, in which he has ever since served, and been stationed from time to time at the following army posts : Fort Monroe, Va., Fort Jefferson, Fla., Key West, Fla .. Fort Warren, Mass .. Fort Trumbull, Conn., Fort Adams, R. I., Charleston and Summerville, S. C., Atlanta, Ga., Governor's Island, New York Harbor, Fisher's Head, N. Y., Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, and the Pacific Coast, where he is now stationed as Captain in the Fifth Regiment, U. S. Artillery.
He married Edwina L. Hurlbut of New London, Conn., June 10, 1875. They have one child, Frank, Jr., born .Jan. 21, 1884. In politics he is a Republican, and in his religious belief an Episcopalian. He is also a member of the Grand Army.
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Orderly-Sergt. OSBORNE J. PIERCE.
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ORDERLY-SERGT. OSBORNE J. PIERCE.
Was born in Albion, Kennebec Co., Me., March 8, 1839, and was the youngest of twelve children of Stephen and Betsey Pierce. Reared upon a country farm, his time during minority was mainly occupied in farming and in attending district school, supplemented by a few terms at neighboring academies, and in teaching penmanship, drawing and oil painting. He also taught district school during the winters. In the spring of 1856, he went to lowa, and afterwards to Minnesota, which was then a ter- ritory ; returning to Maine two years later. In 1860, he went to Boston. Mass., and soon after to Taunton, where he was engaged in decorative painting until the breaking out of the war. when he returned home and. in 1862, enlisted in the U. S. service. He was made recruiting officer to raise the Albion quota, and in the autumn of that year went out with the Twenty- fourth Maine Regiment as Corporal in Co. G. He was with his regiment at Port Hudson, La .. having been promoted to Sergeant- Major of the regiment; and in the first battle, May 25, he was Acting Adjutant, the Adjutant of the regiment being sick. He served with the organization, being in all its engagements, and upon the capitulation of the fort, in July, returned North with the regiment, and was discharged at Augusta in August, 1863. Young Pierce, then twenty-four years of age, thought he had seen enough of war, and settled down in business at Fairfield, Me. ; but by reason of constant news of reverses at the front, he determined to re-enter the army. Being referred by Adjt .- Gen. Hogdson to Capt .. Twitchell, who was raising the Seventh
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Battery, he enlisted as Sergeant, and at the organization of the Battery was made Orderly-Sergeant, which position he held until April, 1865, when he was commissioned 2d Lieutenant by Gov. Coney, to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Lieut. Lapham, and was at once assigned to duty as such. He was never mustered as Lieutenant, on account of the immediate col- lapse of the rebellion, and was therefore mustered out at Augusta with the Battery as 1st Sergeant, his former rank. He was constantly with the Battery in every move and manœuvre. though temporarily off duty on several occasions on account of sickness ; but was never sent to hospital or absent on sick leave, his only absence being a short furlough of about three weeks after the occupation of Fort Sedgwick.
He married Caroline L., daughter of Col. Eli Twitchell of Bethel, Me., April 24, 1866. He has two daughters: Annie : Louise, born June 9. 1867; and Winifred Mabel, born August 15, 1872.
Shortly after being mustered out of service, he embarked in business as a publisher of photographs of works of art in Benton, and afterwards in Waterville, Me. In July, 1868, he removed to Worcester, Mass., and engaged in architecture as draughtsman for E. Boyden & Son. He afterwards followed the same business in Northampton and Boston, in connection with industrial draw- ing. the latter of which he taught most successfully in Worcester and Chelsea, Mass. At the formation of the Normal Art School in Boston, in 1873, he entered, and pursued the course to the end of the first year. taking the highest honors of the school and receiving the first diploma ever issued from that institution. In 1874, he removed to Chicago, Ill., where he followed the art of drawing, and was elected to the office of superintendent of drawing in the public schools of that city. He subsequently conducted art classes at the Chicago Art Institute, the Athe- neum, and at Bryant's College, and had many special, private pupils. He followed this and the art of designing and as an
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architectural draughtsman until January, 1882, when he opened an office on his own account at 155 La Salle Street, Chicago, where he has since been engaged in designing and superintend- ing the construction of a large number of buildings of almost every description in the city and outside territory. In 1889, he was secretary of the Illinois Association of Architects, and member of the Western Association of Architects. He is now Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and member of the Illinois Chapter, A. I. A. In politics he is a Republican, and a liberal in his religious belief.
Quartermaster-Sergt. ALBERT S. TWITCHELL.
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Q ... M .- SERGT. ALBERT S. TWITCHELL.
Was born in Bethel, Me., Sept. 16, 1840. Was educated at Gould's Academy. At the breaking out of the war he was a student-at-law in the office of S. F. Gibson, Esq., of Bethel. teaching school during the winter season to help defray expenses. Early in 1863 he was appointed by Governor Perham enrolling officer for the district comprising Bethel, for the draft of that year. At the close of his duties in that position, he enlisted, in December, as a private in the Seventh Maine Battery, and at its organization, Jan. 1, 1864, was made Q.M .- Sergeant. After going into camp at Washington he was taken sick with a fever and was sent to the city, where he was cared for by friends until the Battery was ordered to the front, when, being unable to return to duty, he was sent to the hospital at Augusta, Me., and from there given a furlough home. After a few weeks there, though still unfit for duty. he returned to Augusta and at once volunteered to return to the Battery, waiving the examination of the surgeons. He was at once placed in charge of a squad of convalescents and ordered to the convalescence camp on Bedloe's Island, in New York Harbor. After about a week's anxious waiting, he, together with his men, again volunteered to leave the camp without ex- amination, for the front. Being loaded upon an ohl transport, overcrowded with returning soldiers, the journey to City Point, Va .. their destination, was anything but a pleasant one, lasting about a week. Arriving at City Point, he went into camp, where he was kept until Aug. 24. 1864. when he joined the Battery, then in the front line of the Potomac Army before Petersburgh.
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Va., near the Williams House. Here, returning to duty, he served until the winter, when he was again stricken with the fever, brought on by exposure, and taken to the Depot Field Hospital, where he lay until a movement of the army compelled those unable to do duty to go back to the hospital at City Point. Remaining there about one week, and fearing the contract surgeons more than rebels or exposures in camp, he left, without leave, and returned to the front; but only to be sent back again, where he battled again with the disease and with the surgeons, being saved only by the timely aid of Mrs. Mayhew of the Maine State agency. He was taken from there by order of Gen. Grant, through the influence of Q.M .- Gen. Ingalls, and placed on detached service with Capt. Gibson, his old law tutor, who was a Captain and Quartermaster in charge of transportation at Army Headquarters. Here he was nursed and cared for until fit for duty, and then placed in charge of free transportation on the James River, where he remained until June, when he was ordered to Washington, and from there given transportation to Augusta, where he arrived and joined his Battery, which had returned and was in camp, just in season to be mustered out with it on the 21st of that month. During his detached service at City Point he was ordered to Washington for examination for promotion to a Lieutenancy in the United States troops; but failing to pass the surgeons, on account of his health, he returned to his duties. After returning home he was admitted to the bar of Maine in the fall of 1865, and in the fall of 1866 was admitted to the bar of New Hampshire and settled in Gorham, where he has ever since resided, in the practice of his profession.
He married Miss Emma A. Howland of Gorham. May 7, 1869, and had two children, viz. : Harold P., born May 31, 1875, and who died May 23, 1883; and Rita May, born May 16, 1889. Hle has hell many offices in town and State, being elected Rail- road Commissioner for New Hampshire, at the age of 32, and serving three years. Is a Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of
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Pythias, Good Templar and a member of the Grand Army, having served for two years as Judge Advocate of the Depart- ment of New Hampshire, and been two years president'of the New Hampshire. Veterans' Association. In politics he is an earnest Republican, and a Liberal in his religious views. 1
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Sergt. HOWARD GOULD.
SERGT. HOWARD GOULD.
Was born in Portland, Me., Jan. 3, 1844. from which place he enlisted Nov. 16, 1863, being at that time a clerk in National 'Traders' Bank at Portland. He was mustered as a Sergeant, and was promoted Quartermaster-Sergeant, Feb. 1, 1865. He was with the Battery during all its services and in all its engagements. and was mustered out at Augusta, June 21, 1865. He was married April 26, 1866, and has one child : Arthur Howard, born Ang. 1, 1869. He has always resided at Portland, and was for a long time connected with the First National Bank. In politics he is a Republican, and in his religious belief a Congre- gationalist. He' is a member of Bosworth Post, G. A. R., Portland, Me. He is at the present time engaged in the in- surance business.
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Sergt. JOHN E. WILLIS.
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SERGT. JOHN E. WILLIS.
Sergt. Willis was born in Bethel. Me., April 7, 1827. He received a good common school education. At the time of his first enlistment, in the Fourteenth N. H. Volunteers, Nov. 24, 1863, he resided at Gorham. N. H., and was watch- man at the engine house of the Grand Trunk Railway Co. He was promoted to Lieutenant in the Fourteenth N. H. Regi- ment. which position he resigned to take the position of Ist Line Sergeant in the Seventh Maine Battery, at its organization, which position he occupied all through its service, until mustered out with the Battery at Augusta. June 21. 1865, being in all the engagements into which the Battery was called.
He married Miss Laurentia Wight, March 28, 1842, and had by her seven children. viz. : Mary A., Ella K., Etlie, Elmore E., Hattie E., Lydia F. and Eunice A., all of whom are living except Effie. who died in, June. 1877. aged 17 years. After his return from the army he settled down at Gorham, and was soon after appointed Deputy Sheriff. which office he held at the time of his death, being killed Jan. 20, 1877. by falling beneath a moving train at West Milan, while attempt- ing to get on board the same. Sergt. Willis was a splendid soldier and a worthy citizen. As a sheriff he was one of the best ever appointed in his county, and his sad death was a severe blow to his excellent family and a host of friends. In politics he was a staunch Republican, and he was a regular attendant at the Methodist church. He had never joined the Grand Army, as he had no good opportunity before his death ; but the Post afterwards organized at Gorham was named for him.
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SERGT. AUGUSTUS BRADBURY.
Was born, February, 1841, in Fairfield, Me., from which place he enlisted in the Battery Dec. 10, 1863. Was mustered in as a Corporal, and afterward promoted to Sergeant, which position he held when mustered out at Augusta, June 21, 1865. Was in all the engagements into which the Battery was called, and was never in hospital on account of sickness. In May, 1861, he enlisted in a company which was raised at his home, but which was not mustered on account of the call for troops being filled and they were not wanted.
He married Lizzie A. Gifford, Jan. 9, 1867, for his first wife; and second, E. Florence Cragin, Dec. 9, 1875. They have no children. He returned to Fairfield after the war and has ever since lived there. Has been several years a Deputy Sheriff for Somerset County. In politics he is a Republican, and in his religious belief a Universalist. Has been interested in the lumber business most of the time since the war. Is a member of the Grand Army. He has been granted a pension of $4.00 per month.
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SERGT. GEORGE A. MCLELLAN.
Was born in Oldtown, Me., Oct. 7, 1839, from which place he enlisted in December, 1863. Was mustered into the Battery as a Sergeant, and served until the close of the war, being with his command in every engagement except a short time in the hospital at White Hall, Pa., in 1864. He also served two years prior to this service in Co. K, Second Maine Infantry, in which he was Ist Sergeant. Was mustered out finally at Augusta, June 21, 1865.
He married Katie McDade of Oldtown, Me., Jan. 2, 1864, and had three children, viz. : George M., Frank L. and Rufus B. His residence since the war was at Oldtown, Me., until killed in a railroad accident July 26, 1873, being at that time an engineer on the European & North American Railroad. In politics he was a Republican, and in his religious belief a Methodist.
SERGT. AUGUSTUS MELLEN CARTER.
Was born in Bethel, Me., Oct. 7, 1840, from which place he enlisted as a private Dec. 1, 1863, being at that time a farmer. At the organization of the Battery he was made a Corporal, and was afterward promoted to Sergeant. He served with the Battery during all its service, being in all the engagements of the Battery; and as an officer was held in high esteem, both by the men of his detachment and by his superior officers. He was never in a hospital by reason of sickness, and was mustered out at Augusta, June 22, 1865.
He married Miss Mary Frances Stanley, at Lowell, Mass., Dec. 25, 1867, and has had two children, viz. : Edward Mellen, aged 16; and Frances Arabella, aged 13. Since the war he has resided at Bethel, Me., and in addition to his farming has been largely engaged in civil engineering and land surveying, and for the past few years as a packer of sweet corn. He is a member of Brown Post. G. A. R., at Bethel, Me. A Republican in politics, and in his religious belief an Episcopalian.
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SERGT. DELPHINUS B. BICKNELL.
Was born in Buckfield, Me., April 28, 1841, and enlisted from Poland, Me., Nov. 25. 1863, as a private in the Battery, being at the time a millman and unmarried. Prior to his enlistment he served in Co. K, Tenth Maine Infantry, and was with the regiment every day except at Pope's Retreat. being wounded at Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862, in the neck and shoulder. Was in hospital at Wolf Street. Alex- andria. Discharged from first service, May 7. 1863. He was with the Battery during all its service, being promoted to Sergeant, in which capacity he served through all the battles in which the Battery was engaged, and was mustered out at Augusta, June 21, 1865. While before Petersburgh he received the brigade furlough, as a prize for soldierly conduct, . an honor which he justly deserved. Since the service he has resided in Maine and Pennsylvania, until a few years since, when he removed to Everett, Mass., his present home. He has never been married. In politics he is a Republican. No religious preference given.
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