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this State, and his house was full of trophies of the chase. No one knew or loved the woods and lakes of Maine better than he, or was more interested in preserving them and in protecting their game. His fondness for Belfast, his native place, and his readiness to help in all movements for her welfare were strong at every period of his long life. He mar- ried, 12 July, 1854, at Camden, Frances Louisa Jones, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann (Brown) Jones. Children : Grace, born at Belfast, 28 April, 1855, died 4 March. 1861; Ben, born at Boston, Mass., 24 March, 1857, married 27 July, 1888, Annie Agnes Durham; Mary, born at Belfast, July 9, 1861, married, 25 December, 1888; James Howard Howes; Frances, born at Nice, France, 2 February, 1868, died at Nice, France, 8 Feb., 1868; Louise, born 21 Nov., 1873.
Oct. 13. In New York, N.Y., Cyrus James Hall, 73, born 15 October, 1834, son of Cyrus and Martha (Weeks) Hall. He was active in the lumber and granite business, operating quarries on Mount Desert Island and elsewhere. He received the con- tract and furnished and cut the stone for the Belfast Free Library. He married, 20 June, 1868, Sylvina Jane Gil- more. Children: Martha Louise, born 9 Nov., 1869, who married, 1 Jan., 1891, at Atlanta, Ga., Clinton George Fer- guson; Mary Flitner, born at Mount Desert, 14 Sept., 1877, who married, 10 June, 1909, at Springfield, Mass., James Burton Van Gelder of Inglewood, California.
1908. Apr. 7. Albion H. Bradbury, 85, born 16 Sept., 1822, son of Nathaniel H. and Sophia (Moulton) Bradbury. He was for thirty-four years the faithful and efficient cashier of the Belfast Bank, and of its successor, the Belfast National Bank.
Nov. 4. George Dana McCrillis, 79, born 16 July, 1829, son of James and Jane (Durham) MeCrillis. He was Register of Deeds from 1895 until his death. He married, 26 August, 1852, Aurindia B. Doe. Children: Emma C., born 26 August, 1854, and died 27 May, 1884; Cora B., born 26 June, 1857, and died 15 July, 1911. She married, 1st December, 1910, D. G. Richards; Nellie J., born 17 December, 1859; she married 22 April, 1883, Fred E. Avery; Mary L., born 3 September, 1862, died 7 April, 1899; George L., born 16 July, 1865, died 3 September, 1886; he married, 23 March, 1889, at Providence, Rhode Island, Dell Foster.
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Mar. 25. Benjamin Kelley, Jr., 75, born 4 January, 1834, son of Benjamin and Catherine (Campbell) Kelley. He succeeded his father in the manufacture of the Kelley Axe, which held a high reputation from Maine to California. He married (1) Laura Rankin; (2) 27 September, 1863, at Bangor, Mary
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Electa Rankin. Children: Walter Baymore, born 20 Febru- ary, 1865, married, 20 July, 1896, Annabel Swan; Edward Havener, born 27 September, 1869, married Caroline Bar- stow; Elizabeth Adah, born 22 October, 1871.
June 21. In Riverside, California, Albert Starrett White, 69, born 15 Dec., 1839, son of James Patterson and Mary Ann (Clarke) White. He was in business at first in New York City, but was later obliged to remove to Riverside, California, on ac- count of his health. There he became an extensive orange planter and landowner. A pleasure park in Riverside has been named for him. He never married.
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Mar. 22. Elizabeth Ann Barns, 89, born at Bucksport, 17 Sept., 1821, daughter of Captain William and Sophronia (Bowles) Barns. She was assistant teacher at the Belfast Academy while the Rev. George Warren Field was principal, and later for many years conducted a private school in Belfast. Many of the older generation of residents received their first instruction from her. She was a woman of mueh foree of character, of precision, and of excellent judgment. By her will the Waldo County Hospital obtained a generous bequest, which has since been used to finish and furnish a double room for patients, a classroom for nurses, a dietary kitchen, and a room for the surgeons' use, and for keeping their instruments.
June 10. In Bangor, Ansel Lothrop White, 65, born at Belfast, 26 June, 1835, son of Robert and Lois (Lothrop) White. Enter- ing the service of his country as a private in the 19th Maine Regiment in 1862, his war record was a brilliant one, and continued until he was mustered out of service in 1865, with the rank of Brevet Major. He was at different times engaged in business in Belfast, in Boston, and in New York, in which latter place thirty-five years of his business life were passed. In 1906 he retired, and returned to Belfast, where he resided until his death. He married, 24 November, 1869, Mary, daughter of Hiram Orlando Alden. Child: Emily Bingham, born 19 October, 1872, and died 1 February, 1880.
Aug. 12. In Boston, George Prentice Field, 65, born at Searsmont, 17 October, 1844, son of Bohan Prentice and Lucy (Haraden) Field. Mr. Field entered the insurance business at an early age, as a clerk in his father's office in Belfast. At the out- break of the Civil War, he was appointed Deputy Provost Marshal, and subsequently was Deputy Collcetor of Customs at Belfast. He removed to Boston in 1873, as special agent of the Royal Insurance Company with the firm of Foster & Senll, then the New England managers of that company. Later Mr. Field became a member of the firm, its name
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changing to Scull & Field, which name, in turn, became, in 1898, Field & Cowles. He was president of the New England Insurance Exchange in 1885; president of the Bureau of United Inspection, and also of the Boston Protective Depart- ment from 1888 to 1893; president for several years of the Insurance Library Association of Boston, and for three years president of the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters. Mr. Field was, at the time of his death, the most prominent figure in the underwriting circles of Boston, and no insurance manager in New England was more widely or more favorably known than he. He was a most genial. generous, and whole- souled man, with a host of friends wherever he went. His love for Belfast, the place of his nativity, and where his youth and carly manhood were passed, was always keen. He was one of those most interested in preserving her records in this Second Volume of Williamson's "History of Belfast," and up to the time of his last illness was active in attempting to bring its publication about. His letter, which appeared in the "Republican Journal," January 20, 1910, shows that the idea of forming a syndicate or association of present and former residents for the purpose originated with him. He married, 12 June, 1868, at New Bedford, Mass., his cousin, Alma Cleghorn Field, who died at Boston, 5 Aug., 1908. Children: Walter Ingraham, born 9 March, 1869, and died 7 Feb., 1894, in Boston; Edith Alma, born at Worcester, Mass., 7 Oct., 1873, who married Horace Bertram Pearson.
Sept. 11. Fred George White, 46, born 13 February, 1864, son of George Franklin and Margaret (Hazeltine) White. He was engaged in the hay, coal, and wood business, from early manhood until his death. He possessed the confidence and warm regard of all who knew him. By his will the Belfast Free Library, founded by his great uncle, Paul Richard Hazeltine, received the income of $5000. Mr. White was much interested in bringing about the publication of Vol. II. of Williamson's "History of Belfast," and was one of the original subscribers to the fund for that purpose.
Dec. 14. Frank Merriam Lancaster, 93, born at Northport, 27 No- vember, 1817, son of Humphrey and Lucy (Elwell) Lancas- ter. He went to California in 1851, where he remained four years. On his return to Belfast he engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued until his death. He married, 18 January, 1844, at Northport, Angelett O. Brown. Child: Ella Angelett, born 27 March, 1847, who married James Llewellyn Sleeper.
1912. Feb. 3. Robert S. Burgess, 82, born 2 January, 1830, in a log house in the Pitcher District of Belfast, son of David and Catharine
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M. (Holmes) Burgess. In 1851, he went to California, where he resided for twenty years. In 1871, he returned to Belfast, where he was engaged in business with David P. Alexander for twenty-seven years. He never married.
Feb. 20. In Belfast, Arnold Harris, nearly 90, born at Krotoschin, Germany, 18 May, 1822, son of Louis and Minna Esther Harris. He married, 25 May, 1851, at New York, Frederika Benas, of Krotoschin, Germany. He was for many years a successful clothing merchant in Belfast. A courteous, oblig- ing man of sound business judgment. Children: son, born at New York City, died in infancy; Emily, born at Boston, 5 May, 1853, wife of the late William Hyams; Philena, born 25 March, 1856, died 31 December, 1859; Bertha, born 16 July, 1858, wife of the late J. B. Smith; Louis, born 16 December, 1861, died at New York City, 3 January, 1911. Sept. 26. Clara Isabelle Thorndike, 67 wife of Edward Sibley, born Schaghticoke, New York, 5 May, 1845, daughter of Timothy and Hannah (Williams) Thorndike. While she was a little girl her family removed to Belfast. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1867, and afterward taught in the Belfast High School. She was an active member of the Congregational Church, and the president of the Travelers' Club. Her interest in the welfare of Belfast was evinced in many ways, and she was the friend of many good causes. Her character was decided and well-rounded, her influence far-reaching. She married, 15 June, 1869, Edward Sibley. Children : Charlotte Thorndike, born 29 January, 1871, who married Henry Hoyt Hilton, of Chicago, Ill .; Harold Thorn- dike, born, 19 February, 1882.
Dec. 28. Augustus Perry, 97 years and 8 months, familiarly known as "Belfast's grand old man," born at Camden, 30 April, 1815, son of Oakes and Nancy (Rogers) Perry. When he was about sixteen years of age, his parents went to reside at the Head of the Tide, Belfast. There, at the age of twenty-one, he bought an interest in the general store of Edwin Beaman, which in 1841 was moved into town, where Mr. Perry con- tinued in business until 1882, when he sold out to Charles Baker, and retired, being at the time the oldest grocer in Maine. In 1883, Mr. Perry entered the Belfast Post-Office as Money-Order Clerk, and held the position for upwards of twenty years, and for a large part of that time was the oldest employee of the United States Post-Office Department. He was Town Treasurer in 1852 and City Treasurer in 1853, and from 1858 to 1860. It was said of him in the "Republican Journal" on his 95th birthday: "He is to-day more active than many younger men, a constant attendant at the Sun- day and Thursday evening services of the Congregational
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Church, keeps well informed on current events, and has a hearty greeting for his many friends. He attributes his longevity to his never having used alcoholic drinks or tobacco in any form, and to his having kept the Sabbath Day holy." On his 96th birthday it was said: "Mr. Perry is the oldest citizen of Belfast, and one of the most dearly beloved. Hardly a day passes that he is not seen downtown, with his cheery smile for old and young, and he is greeted as ' Grandpa' by half the children in the city. With his quaint long coat, stovepipe hat, and cane, he is a typical old-school gentleman, and his snowy beard and hair only enhance a complexion that any girl might envy." He married 28 November, 1843, at Searsport, Jane Porter, of Searsport. Children: Edward Augustus, born 10 November, 1844, who became a resident of Fargo, North Dakota; Julia Margaret, born 10 June, 1850; Isabella Jane, born 14 January, 1852, who married Hon. Clarence O. Poor; Walter Frank, born 11 October, 1854, who became a resident of Grand Forks, North Dakota; Emily Fowler, born 16 February, 1847.
Dec. 29. In Kansas City, Mo., Eugene S. Rust, 61, born, at Washington, D. C. 17 June, 1851, son of Hon. William Maxfield and Martha (Weeks) Rust. At the time of his death he was general manager of the Kansas City, Mo., Stock Yards, with which he had been connected for thirty- two years. He married, 6 October, 1874, at Kenduskeag, Nellie A. Case, of Kenduskeag. Children: Frederick W., born 26 March, 1876; Donald Eugene, born 9 October, 1877; married 10 June, 1911, Denver, Col., Helen Russel Dugal; an adopted daughter, Dorothy Case, born 1 February, 1891.
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Mar. 10. In Elmira, N.Y., Captain Frederick Barker, 73, born at Montville, 29 April, 1839, son of Isaac Truman and Abigail (Dyer) Barker. In 1858, Mr. Barker came to Belfast, where he engaged in business until the breaking-out of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the 26th Maine Regiment. His war record was a distinguished one. After being mustered out of the service with the rank of captain in 1863, he became a member of the hardware firm of Barker & Burgess, in Belfast, where he resided until 1870, when he closed his affairs there. In 1871, he went to Elmira, N.Y., and entered the hardware business with the firm, which at the time of his death, bore the name, The Barker, Rose & Clinton Com- pany. Captain Barker was a member of the Baldwin Post, G.A.R., Union Lodge, A.F. & A.M., a member of the Empire State Society of The Sons of the American Revolution, and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; one of the officers of the New York State Hardware Dealers' Association; on
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the executive committee of the National Hardware Dealers' Association; a member of the Century Club, and of Park Church. The high position he held among his business associates was an enviable one. Captain Barker was always very loyal to Belfast, the place where he began his business career, where he enlisted in his country's service, and where he was married. He was one of the first to join the William- son's History Association, after its organization in No- vember, 1912, and his interest in the Second Volume of Williamson's "History of Belfast," was sustained even through his last illness. He married, 18 December, 1872, Emma Charlotte, daughter of John Warren White. She died 6 April, 1900. They had no children.
Mar. 28. At Greeley, Col., Albert John Condon, 50, born 3 July, 1862, son of Captain John Crie and Hannah (Perkins) Condon. Educated in the Belfast schools, he was a clerk with several merchants here until 1887, when he went to Kansas City, to enter the employ of William F. Bean, for- merly of Belfast. Later, after holding various important positions with wholesale houses for the manufacture and sale of men's hats throughout the West, he established himself as proprietor of one of the largest department stores in Greeley, Col. At the time of his death Mr. Condon was vice-president of the General Electric Company, a director in the National Bank of Greeley, and had large real estate interests. He married, 20 March, 1894, at Montrose, Col., Miss Louise Beeker, of Montrose, Col., daughter of George and Margaret Becker; Children: Alberta Louise, born at Denver, Col., 2 May, 1896; William Bean, born at Greeley, Col., 24 March, 1908.
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY
Although Dr. Quimby died nine years before the period treated in this volume, it has been thought appropriate, in view of the widespread interest in his teachings, to include here a brief outline of his life and work.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was born in the town of Lebanon, New Hampshire, 16 February, 1802, and died in Belfast, 16 January, 1866. He was the son of Jonathan and Susannah (White) Quimby. The father, a blacksmith by trade, removed with his family to Belfast when Phincas was about two years of age. The son attended the town schools irregularly, and was apprenticed to a watch- and clock-maker, and later not only made clocks which are to-day accurate timekeepers, but became an inventor of some note. His education, which was supple- mented in mature life by reading, was, however, for the most part derived from close observation and from his own original experiments; his active, penetrating, and inventive mind leading him to investigate
ASA FAUNCE 1813-1889
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COLUMBIA PERKINS CARTER 1813-1876
JOHN HARADEN QUIMBY 1829-1899
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY 1802-1866
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first mechanical and scientific, and later philosophical subjects. Al- though not the recipient of any academic degree warranting the title, he was for many years generally referred to as Dr. Quimby.
In 1838, his attention was called to mesmerism, and after some time spent in experimentation with a youth named Lucius Burkmar as his "subject," he gave some astonishing exhibitions of mesmerism, often relieving at the same time much pain and suffering.
As his experience increased, Dr. Quimby became very much in- terested in developing his powers along the lines of helping the sick. He gradually came to place less and less importance on the part played in his cures by the intermediary "subject," Burkmar, and after some years gave him up entirely, and ceased to resort to mesmerism. It is at this epoch that he may be said to have formulated his final method, which consisted in the practice of treating those who were not well by influencing their mental life. In a "Circular to the Sick," which he distributed from 1860 to 1865, in Portland, Maine, where he was, during the latter part of his life, settled, he says: "As my practice is unlike all other medical practice, it is necessary to say that I give no medicines, and make no outward applications, but simply sit by the patient, tell him what he thinks is his disease, and my explanation is the cure. And, if I succeed in correcting his errors, I change the fluids of the system and establish the truth or health. The truth is the cure."
His "explanation," to which Dr. Quimby refers, consisted largely in setting right the false conceptions the persons who came to him held about themselves; hence it followed, naturally, that as soon as the patient accepted this "explanation," and thus recognized that his fears and worries had no real reason for existing, he was freed from them, and ceased to be their slave, and consequently was started at once on the road to recovery. His method was to disabuse the mind of its errors, and to establish truth in their place. He became more and more con- vinced that disease was largely an error of the mind, and not real, though he made a distinction between an error of the mind and one of imagination, and was wont to say that, to his suffering patients, there was no imagination about their pain. He believed that a superior wisdom could change the wrong state of mind and effect a cure. The only part of this "superior wisdom" to which he personally laid claim was that which his twenty-five years of intimate experience with the sick had gradually taught him. As a result of this "wisdom," or insight into their conditions, he devised his own method of helping and often curing those afflicted with disease, and he distinctly refers to this method as a Science. The words, Truth, Error, Wisdom, Science, Science of Health, etc., occur frequently throughout his writings.
It is worthy of note that while examining and treating the sick he was always in his normal condition, and that he never made any pre- tense of going into a trance, and was a strong disbeliever in spiritualism in its common acceptation. An insight into the character of Dr. Quimby may be obtained from the fact that his whole idea of hap- piness was to be able to serve and benefit mankind; and to administer to the sick and suffering seemed to him to be his special privilege, and to
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that end he labored sincerely and gave to it, without regard to pecu- niary rewards, his strength, and finally his own life.
A study of Dr. Quimby's career and a perusal of such of his writings as are available give the impression that he was a distinctly original man, who, through his quarter of a century of practical experience in observing closely the workings of the human mind, discovered, inde- pendently and unaided, some of the most profound principles which underlie modern psychotherapy. The power of suggestion, the import- ance of substituting correct methods of thought for bad, and of main- taining wholesome normal attitudes towards life, and the need of correct adjustment both physically and mentally to one's surroundings, and the influence of environment, upon all of which the most learned students of pyschology and psychiatry have laid so much stress during the last five years, appear to have been known to him. While it would doubtless be going too far to say that his use of the terms "change of fluids of the system," "chemical changes," etc., meant that he foresaw the very important part that chemistry was to play in the present decade in helping to understand the human mind and body, yet his recourse to the terms leads one to infer that he was even along these lines groping in the right direction. With wider opportunities for training and education, such a mind and personality would doubtless have gone very far in helping his fellow men. As it is, the principles he made use of, so important in the treatment of functional as dis- tinguished from organic diseases, will outlive any existing seet, and the modesty with which he presented them was in great contrast to the loudness with which they have often been advertised in more recent times.
We are told by men who knew him that he was a most sincere man, an absolutely disinterested and unselfish one; while a study of his portrait, framed in its wealth of snow-white hair and the beard worn by his generation, and with its keen, piercing, but kindly eyes, its strong mouth, high intellectual forehead, and its forceful lines, and very evi- dent power of intense concentration, is sufficient to convince any one of the general upright nature and strength of his character. The love, confidence, and gratitude of his patients, as well as the remarkable nature of his cures, are amply attested by letters still extant, and which have been read by the writer of the above. His wife, who was Susannah Burnham, daughter of the late John Haraden, died 19 April, 1875. Their children, the late John Haraden Quimby, Mrs. James Woodbury Frederick, and George Albert Quimby, survived them, and the two latter are still living (1913).
CHAPTER L
MARRIAGES
A List of all Marriages from 1875 to 1900 - Marriages of Former Residents Elsewhere
ITTHE following list comprises all the marriages solemnized in
Belfast from 1875 to 1900, both inclusive, and those of residents or former residents which took place elsewhere, so far as ascertained from the city records and newspapers. Mar- riages of some non-resident descendants of early families are in- cluded. Where no other city or town is named, Belfast is to be understood as the place of marriage and of residence. The State is indicated only in the case of places outside of Maine. The original form of entry has, for the most part been retained. The Index of the Marriages will be found beginning on page 651.
1875. Jan. 1. In Boston, Frank A. Caswell, of Boston, and Miss Ida Grace Hayter, formerly of Belfast.
2. At Tenant's Harbor, William O. Marshall and Miss An- toinette N. Wales, formerly of Belfast.
4. Edwin Cleale, of Sherborn, Mass., and Miss Clara E. Stinson.
9. John H. Adams and Mary M. Small.
12. Isaac M. Burgess and Miss Flora A. Marshall, both of Islesboro.
12. William H. McCarty and Ella F. Downes.
13. Charles F. Robinson, of Somerville, Mass., and Fannie J. Dunnells.
23. Dr. Arthur Childs Ellingwood and Miss Faustina R. Cle- ments, of Waldo.
27. George A. Linnekin and Ada S. McKee.
28. Charles A. Merrill, of San Francisco, and Miss Clara A. Shibles.
31. Alfred Ginn Ellis and Miss Annie M. Wilson.
- In Revere, William B. Eaton and Mrs. Ada Mitchell, of Belfast.
Feb. 3. George O. Beckwith and Miss Lucy A. Cross.
24. Leander S. Frost and Miss Georgie E. Ryan.
- Silas L. Woodbury and Miss Julia P. Walker.
Mar. 7. William E. Bowler and Sarah J. Shaw.
7. George Pattershall and Miss Effie Patterson.
7. Edgar Luther Smith and Miss Augusta Elizabeth Worthing.
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Mar. 12. Lorenzo Patterson and Mrs. Annie S. Foss.
21. William C. Adams and Mrs. Mary K. Dow.
22. Peter H. Monroe, of Troy, and Mrs. Celia V. Richards, of Waldo.
Apr.
7. William Henry Hall and Miss Mary Elizabeth Tuft, of Sul- livan.
10. Arthur Kane and Miss Rosa Higgins.
11. Isaac A. Flagg, of Belmont, and Miss Sarah E. Grady.
19. John W. Lang, of Brooks, and Miss Myra C. Whittaker.
22. Capt. Isaac Clark and Mrs. Prudentia A. Clifford.
25. John Sullivan, of Searsport, and Miss Julia Donovan.
27. I. E. Jackson and Miss Mary A. Keen.
28. Freeman T. Crockett and Miss Emma T. Tilson, both of Northport.
29. Frederick Wording Brown and Miss Jennie S. Thompson, of Montville.
29. In New York, Oscar W. Pitcher and Miss Hattie M. Carman, of New York.
May
5. In Ellsworth, Francis M. Staples, of Belfast, and Miss Pru- dence E. Wooster, of Hancock.
15. George H. Duncan and Miss Carrie E. Gardner.
18. In Prospect, Franeis J. Hunter and Miss Ella C. Hassell, both of Belfast.
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