Illustrated history of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1892, Part 119

Author: Kingsbury, Henry D; Deyo, Simeon L., ed
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York, Blake
Number of Pages: 1790


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The first trader in the little village that began to grow here three- quarters of a century ago was John Chandler, on the site of the pres- ent large Golder store, which was afterward built and occupied by George Robinson. Since Robinson the traders in this store have been: Robert T. Whitten, Isaac N. Pray, Alfred Leathers, Samuel Lawton, Farnham & Williams, David Golder, Henry and Thomas Golder, and the present occupant, Charles H. Kelley. Joseph Chandler built the stone store in 1838, and traded there many years. Charles D. Heald and Howard Chandler have since traded there. Others who have traded at the Mills have been: Joshua Frost, Joshua Lord, Alexander Austin and Morrison Chandler.


About 1831 Joseph Chandler built the large house now owned by Mrs. Rollins, which was used for many years as a tavern, among its landlords being Joseph Rollins, David Rockwood and John Libby. Hiram Savage kept a tavern here in a building recently remodeled, and now the handsome residence of Henry W. Golder. Other land- lords in the same house were: Charles Merrow, Luther Allen, Howard Maxwell and William Cummings. George H. Foster kept a tavern in a house afterward burned in 1873. The Mills felt a loss of travel and trade after the building of the railroad through the south part of the town, and for a long time no public house was maintained here. A few years ago, however, the increasing number of summer visitors encouraged Charles Austin to open a hotel, the Central House, which has recently been greatly enlarged.


Belgrade Mills is a pretty village and splendidly located, and the opportunity it offers to a pleasure seeker or a fisherman is hard to beat, even around Belgrade, famous for its natural scenery and fishing grounds. Many hundreds of summer visitors come here each season from outside of the state, and the whole neighborhood, with the shores and islands of the surrounding ponds, is literally taken posses- sion of by them. The number increases each year, so that the place is winning no mean name as a summer resort, and the benefit to the town is not to be lightly estimated. A ladies' Village Improvement Society is doing much to make the place neat and attractive and to make practical improvements.


Belgrade Mills was made a post office, with Joseph Chandler as postmaster, January 13, 1829. His successors have been: Robert T. Whitten, appointed August 12, 1841; Joseph W. Russell, July, 1845; Alexander Austin, October, 1845; George H. Foster, February, 1852; Ezekiel Elliott, December, 1857; Charles D. Heald, September, 1861; David Golder, February, 1867; Henry W. Golder, November, 1882; Thomas S. Golder, August, 1888; and Charles H. Kelley, appointed December 17, 1890 .*


* Mr. Minot's responsibility for this chapter ends here .- [ED.


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PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.


HERMON H. ADAMS, the fifth of the ten children of Dr. Enoch Ad- ams, of Litchfield, Me., and of Mary (Case) Adams, his wife, was born in that town August 25, 1856. The earlier years of his life were passed in Litchfield and his education was completed at Kents Hill. Soon after leaving school he married Hattie M., daughter of Crowell Taylor, of Belgrade, and removed to that town, where he has since resided. In 1876 he engaged in school teaching at Oakland, and the following year began farming on Belgrade hill. In 1880 he took up his residence on the Rollins farm, which he subsequently acquired, and where he now lives. His first wife died in 1885, leaving one son, Reuel Smith Adams. He afterward married Effie M., daughter of Jonathan and Abbie (Martin) Philbrick, of Mt. Vernon. Of this union were born three children: Mary, who died in infancy; Enoch H. and Frank C. Adams.


Though still a young man, Mr. Adams has become prominently identified with the institutions and progressive movements of his sec- tion. In 1890 he was elected to represent the towns of Winthrop, Rome and Belgrade in the lower house of the state legislature, where he served on the committees on engrossed bills and on the State Re- form School. He is a republican in politics and has always con- sistently represented the principles and tenets of that party. He has taken an active interest in the cause of education in the town of Bel- grade, and for a number of years has served as school commissioner in that town. By industry and economy he has succeeded in acquir- ing some of the best farm property in Belgrade, and devotes his time to farming when not engaged in the performance of public duties. He is connected in religious matters with the Society of Friends, and has, by his consistent and earnest course of life, the integrity and uprightness of his conduct, entitled himself to the respect and esteem of the entire community.


Moses H. Alexander, born in 1834 and died in 1876, was a son of John Alexander, who was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1778, and died in Belgrade in 1880. His wife was Jane Dunlap. Mr. Alexander was educated in the schools of the town and at Titcomb Academy. He was a teacher and farmer, and at the time of his death owned the farm his father bought of John Pitts when he came to the town. Since Mr. Alexander's death his widow and sons have carried on the farm. He married in 1862, Adelia M. Cummings, sister of Greenwood and Warren Cummings, of this town. Their children are: Herbert, Harry L. and Della H .; and two that died-Annie P. and Leslie M.


William D. Alexander, eldest brother of Moses H., was born in 1829, and is a farmer near where his father settled. He married Mary C., daughter of Benjamin and Lucy Leighton, and granddaughter of


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Isaac Leighton. Their children were: Jane and Frank, deceased; and Frank William.


Charles H. Austin, born in 1844, is the youngest son of Nahum and Jane Austin. He was a farmer until 1867, since then has been a spool maker, and has kept the Central House, Belgrade Mills, since 1876. He married Abbie K., daughter of Mark Lord. They have one daugh- ter, Jennie.


Horace R. Austin, farmer. born in 1852, is the only surviving child of Horace and Lovina (Tucker) Austin, and grandson of Samuel and Annie (Carpenter) Austin. He married Laura A., daughter of Wil- liam B. Dunlap, and they have one daughter, Edith C.


Samuel Austin, born in 1834, is a son of Samuel and Dorcas (Yea- ton) Austin. He has been spool maker since 1854. He married Eliza E., daughter of William and Lois (Farnham) Kelly, and granddaugh- ter of Seth Kelly. Their two daughters are: Mary L. (Mrs. Jerome Damren) and Luona Belle (Mrs. F. W. Simmons).


L. Wesley Bachelder, son of John and Sarah T. (Clough) Bachelder, was born in 1844. He was employed by the Maine Central Railroad Company from 1860 until 1891, and after 1872 was section superin- tendent. He was treasurer of the town from 1876 to 1892. He mar- ried Martha A., daughter of Jacob Clough.


Greenleaf G. Bartlett, born in 1836, is the only survivor of a family of nine children of Peter D. and Emily (Brown) Bartlett, and grand- son of Timothy Bartlett, who came from Belfast, Me., to Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bartlett is a farmer on the place where his father settled in early life. He married Lizzie, daughter of Daniel Hill. She died leaving two children-Lincoln A., and a daughter that died. His present wife is Christina, a sister of his first wife. They have one daughter, Angie O.


Martin Bickford, born in 1858, is one of eight children of Seth, grandson of Asa, and great-grandson of William, who with his father, Benjamin Bickford, came from New Hampshire to this town. Since 1887 Mr. Bickford has been a member of the firm of Spaulding & Bickford, manufacturers, having been employed in the same shop for several years previous. He married Marcia E., daughter of Hiram, and granddaughter of Benjamin Snow. Their children are: Harold D., Emily L. and Ralph C.


John Brown, born in Vienna in 1819, was the youngest child of Eliphalet and Abigail (Smith) Brown, who came to Vienna from New Hampshire in 1800. Mr. Brown followed the sea for fifteen years and served in the late war twenty-one months; enlisted in the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery and was transferred to the man-of-war Arisuois. He married Sophia W., daughter of Nathaniel Neal, and they have two children: Mary C. and James A.


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Eleazer Burbank, a Quaker, came from Westbrook, Mass., in 1800, and settled on the farm in Belgrade now owned by Greenwood Cum- mings. He married Mary Brackett. Silas, one of their eleven chil- dren, married Lucretia Hersum, and had three children. The youngest, Mary Arvilla, married Asa Dunn, who died in 1864. Their children were: Ellen A. (Mrs. Frank P. Spaulding), Alice A., and Mary Etta (Mrs. Charles S. Hersum). Mrs. Dunn married for her second husband Sewall Spaulding, who is a farmer and occupies the farm owned by Mr. Dunn. Mr. Spaulding's former wife was Frances L. Cottle, who died leaving two sons: Henry B. and Frank P.


Henry P. Chandler, born in 1838, is one of six children of John and Nancy (Yeaton) Chandler, and grandson of John Chandler. Mr. Chandler is a farmer on the Ichabod Smith farm. Before buying this farm he was for twenty years a resident of Blanchard, Me. He mar- ried Mary E., daughter of Benjamin Blackstone. Their children are: Ida L., John, Elmer, Myrtie M., C. F., and two sons who died in infancy.


George W. Cottle, born in Pittston in 1832, is a son of Daniel and Sarah K. Cottle, and grandson of Ananias Cottle. He came to Bel- grade in 1854, where he has been a farmer. He now owns a part of the original Doctor Williams farm. He married Margaret, daughter of Campbell Wyman. They have one son, Arthur L.


Greenwood J. Cummings, born in Sidney in 1822, is one of ten children of Joseph S. and Ann P. (Prescott) Cummings, and grandson of Eleazer Cummings. He came to Belgrade in 1858, and bought the Eleazer Burbank farm of 180 acres, where he has since been a farmer. He married Harriet N., daughter of David and Martha (Page) Mosher, and granddaughter of Daniel Mosher. Their children are: Vesta C. (Mrs. A. R. Chase), Arthur R., Charles F., Hattie M. (now a trained nurse), and Annie B. (Mrs. C. E. Woodman).


Warren P. Cummings, brother of Greenwood J., was born in 1828 in Sidney, came to Belgrade in 1837 with his parents, and in 1850 bought the Moses Page farm, where he now lives, engaged in the business of farming and butchering. He married Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Sally (Taylor) Bowman. Their children are: Ida M. (Mrs. Manley M. Judkins), Elmer W. (now station agent at South Gardiner), and Sarah Louisa (deceased). Ida M. and her husband live with her father, and have two children: Edna L. and Sarah B.


Rev. Joseph S. Cummings, born in 1834, is a son of Seth G. and Mary A. (Sawtelle) Cummings, and grandson of Eleazer Cummings. He was educated in the schools of the town and at Kents Hill Semi- nary. He has taught school twenty-nine winters, devoting the sum- mers to farming. For the last twenty-five years he has been a Baptist preacher. He married Amanda J., daughter of John Hersom, and their children are: John M., Inez, Callie, Joseph (deceased), and Guy.


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George Edward Damren is a son of Samuel R. and Olive A. (Jor- dan) Damren, and grandson of Joshua Damren, who came to Belgrade from Hallowell with his two brothers, William and Dustin. Mr. Damren is a farmer on his father's homestead. He married Alice M. Dorr, and has one son, Irving H.


James H. Dunlap, born in 1842, is one of eight children of William B. and Lucy A. (Fifield) Dunlap, and grandson of Ebenezer Dunlap, of Monmouth. William B. was nine years whale fishing from New Bedford, Mass., and came from there to Belgrade in 1835. Mr. Dunlap was in Boston from 1862 until 1883, when he came back to Belgrade, where he is a farmer. He married Maggie Cameron.


George A. Farnham, born in 1837, son of David and Sarah (Kelley) Farnham, and grandson of David Farnham, is a house painter and farmer. In 1865 he bought the Edward Merchant homestead, where he has since lived. He married Lydia J., daughter of John and Mary (Yeaton) Spaulding. Their children are: H. Everett, Elnora, Mary B., Carrie L., Francis E. and George Bertrand. H. Everett is general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Pennsylvania. The daughters are all teachers.


Dexter Foster came from Blackstone, Mass., to Belgrade, where he died in 1816, leaving four sons: Dexter, John, George H. and Herman. George H. had eight children, of whom the second, George C., married Mary D. Greenleaf, and was a farmer until his death in 1885. Their children were: Frank Chester, Elnora, Fred and Edgar L. The oldest and youngest are living and occupy the homestead with their mother, and are farmers. Frank C. married Susan E., daughter of William E. Lord, and they have one daughter, Ethel C.


Henry O. Frost, born in 1844, is a son of William M. and Dorcas (Gowell) Frost, and grandson of Samnel Frost, who came to Belgrade from Lebanon, Me., about 1800. Mr. Frost is a farmer on the farm where his father has lived for the last fifty years. He married Alice, daughter of Nathaniel Towle.


B. Frank Gleason, son of Benjamin and Caroline (McIntire) Glea- son, was born in 1861. He is a farmer, and since April, 1887, has owned and occupied the William F. Eldred farm of two hundred acres at Belgrade hill. He married Lena M., daughter of Henry Allen and Cornelia (Townsend) Hallett. Their children are: Bessie E. and Elmo A. B.


Henry W. Golder is the youngest of three children of David and Elizabeth (Stone) Golder. He was educated in the schools of Augusta, at Kents Hill Seminary, and at the United States Naval Academy. He was one year in the late war in the 28th Maine, as lieutenant. From 1864 until his father's death, in 1882, he was the latter's partner in the spool manufactory at Belgrade Mills. He was three years one of the firm of Golder Brothers, and since 1885 has owned and run the busi-


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ness alone. Mr. Golder was selectman one year, and postmaster four years. He married Elvira F., daughter of Joseph Chandler, and their only child is Maude E. David Golder formerly owned a saw mill in Augusta, on the east side of the river, at what was then called Riggs' brook. He was for several years in the lumber business, on both ends of the Kennebec dam.


Simon Guptill, born in 1838, is one of three surviving sons of Nat and Sally (Yeaton) Guptill, and grandson of Nathaniel and Mary (Libby) Guptill, who came to Belgrade in 1806, and bought of Paul Yeaton the farm where he had settled twelve years before. Mr. Guptill now owns and occupies his grandfather's farm, and owns in all 260 acres.


Charles H. Hallett, born in 1843, is the only son of Franklin and Betsey (Damren) Hallett, grandson of Josiah M., and great-grandson of Solomon Hallett, who came from Cape Cod, Mass., to Waterville about 1790. Mr. Hallett is a farmer on the place where his grand- father settled about 1820; and it is on this farm that the Second Ad- vent camp ground and the Lakeside mineral springs are located. He married Josephine T., daughter of David Lowe, and she died leaving one son, Bertrand D.


Abner Hammond, born in Sidney in 1819, a son of Paul and Cath- erine (Mason) Hammond, and grandson of Paul Hammond, was a farmer in Sidney until 1867, when he came to Belgrade Depot, and the following January began mercantile business, which he still con- tinues. His first wife, Rebecca L. Nash, died leaving two sons: Paul and A. Elliott. His present wife was Mrs. Mary A. Yeaton, daughter of Richard Yeaton. She had two sons by her former marriage: How- ard L. and George Yeaton.


William H. Hersum, farmer and stone mason, born in 1834, is a son of James and Tamesen (Blaisdell) Hersum. James came to Bel- grade in 1821 from Lebanon, Me. William H. married Cynthia, daughter of Reuben Wentworth, and their children are: James R., Charles S., Alice V., William O., Ernest L., Arthur L., Cyrena W. and Tabor G.


Joseph Hersum, born 1836, died 1889, was a brother of William H. He was a farmer on the place where his father settled in 1821, and died in 1850, and the family burying lot is on the farm, near the resi- dence. Mr. Hersum married Excey, daughter of Reuben Wentworth. Their children were: Andrew J., born in 1864; Reuben W. and Effie L. Andrew J. has run the farm since his father's death.


Harrison Hill, born in 1836, one of six children of Daniel, and grandson of Joseph Hill, is a farmer on a part of his father's home- stead. He married Hannah, daughter of Elias Sherburne. She died leaving one daughter, Etta, who married James Hewett.


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Daniel L. Jones, son of Daniel L. Jones, sen., was born in 1840. He went to California in 1858. and was engaged in mining there five years, and three years in Montana. After working five years in a wire shop in Worcester, Mass., he came to Belgrade, where he has been a farmer. He married Ella L. Blackmer, of Massachusetts, who died in 1891. His present wife was Edith Worthington. Mr. Jones' father was a native of Leeds, and later removed to Brighton, where he was a trader. He held various town offices, and was representative to the legislature.


Samuel E. Judkins, born in 1819, is the only son of Elisha and Sally (Whittier) Judkins. His grandfather was among the early set- tlers of Readfield. Mr. Judkins came to Belgrade with his parents in 1827. In 1863 he bought the Samuel Taylor farm of one hundred acres, where he now lives. He has one sister, Nancy Judkins Axtell, now of Wisconsin. He married Margaret K. Coy, who died leaving seven children: Amanda, Susia, Viola, Leonia, Frank H., Manley M. and Stanley L. Only the three last named are living. In 1866 Mr. Judkins married his present wife, who was Belle Severance. Their children are: Lizzie A. (deceased), Clara E. and Nettie B.


Frank H. Judkins, son of Samuel E., was born in 1853. He was in the freight office of the Maine Central railroad at Waterville two years, and in 1879 he came to North Belgrade, where he has since been the company's agent. Since October 28, 1891, he has been postmaster of the Lakeside office. He married Ella, daughter of Charles Rich- ardson, and their children are: Lester F., Nina A. and Forest C.


Charles H. Kelley, born in Rome in 1846, is a son of William and Eunice (Varnum) Kelley, and grandson of Seth Kelley, who came to Belgrade from Cape Cod, Mass. Charles H. was clerk in stores at Belgrade Mills and New Sharon several years, then started a small store at Belgrade Mills, and in November, 1890, bought of Thomas S. Golder the store which he has since conducted. He has been post- master since January 1, 1891, succeeding Thomas S. Golder. He mar- ried Sylvina, daughter of George Brann.


William E. Lord, born in 1831. was the only child of John and Susan (Bradbury) Lord, and grandson of William Lord, who died in New Hampshire. His widow married Wentworth Hayes, and came to Belgrade in 1790, and bought of a Mr. Hodgden the farm where Mr. Lord now lives. John Lord's first wife was Hannah Austin, and they had two sons, John and Nathaniel, both deceased. William E. is a farmer, butcher and cattle broker. He married Abbie, sister of George W. Cottle. Their children are: Mary, Susan E., J. Frank, Laura, William E., jun., Sadie, Alice and Fred.


GEORGE E. MINOT .- This family is traced to Thomas Minot', sec- retary to the Abbot of Walden, by whom he was advanced to great possessions. His son, George?, was born August 4, 1594, in Safron, Walden, Essex, England. He came to New England among the first


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settlers of Dorchester, where lie was for thirty years a ruling elder in the church. His sons were: James, John, Stephen and Samuel.


James4, the eldest son of John3, born September 14, 1653, was grad- uated at Harvard College in 1675, and located at Concord, Mass., about 1680. He was a minister of the Gospel as well as a physician, and the epitaph upon his tombstone records at length his many virtues and great usefulness. Hon. James Minot®, his fifth child, was one of the most distinguished men of his time and a member of the king's council. He married Martha Lane in 1716. His eldest son, Johne, had a son John', and he a son, James®, who settled in Belgrade, Me., in 1804.


James Minot® located on the place now occupied by George E. Minot, purchasing the land of Chase Page, and engaged in farming until his death in 1859, serving meantime as a captain in the state militia. He married Elizabeth Rogers, of Groton, Mass., and had a family of ten children, of whom seven attained years of maturity.


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MINOT HOMESTEAD, Belgrade, Me., residence of GEORGE E. MINOT.


John S. Minot" was born on the old place in Belgrade July 5, 1805, and passed his entire life there, engaged in tilling the soil and in the performance of the public duties that were thrust upon him. He re- ceived an excellent academic education at Bloomfield and at Kents Hill, and filled many offices of trust and responsibility during his life, including all the town offices of Belgrade, and represented this dis- trict in the legislature of 1866. He married in 1835, Olive, daughter


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of Holmes Tillson, of Sidney, her mother being a member of the well known Packard family, of Bridgewater, Mass. They had four chil- dren: George E.“, Edwin G.", and two daughters who died in infancy. John S. Minot® died January 21, 1890. His widow is still living. Ed- win G. Minot, born January 17, 1839, enlisted in Company M, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, during the late war, was wounded at Peters- burg, Va., June 18, 1864, and died in hospital September 17, 1864.


George E. Minot", born October 22, 1836, on the family homestead in Belgrade, received his academic education at Belgrade Academy and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and has continued to reside where, in 1804. his grandfather first settled. He has devoted his at- tention to farming, and has been prominently identified with the political interests of the republican party in his locality, serving upon the town and county committees and occupying several positions of importance. Besides serving as town clerk of Belgrade, as a member of the school board and selectman, he was a member of the state senate in 1870 and 1871. In 1876, 1877 and 1878 he served as chief clerk in the office of the secretary of state, at Augusta, and in 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1884 acted as assistant secretary of the senate. He also filled the position of messenger in the national house of representatives, 51st Congress. He was for eight years one of the trustees of the old Ken- nebec Agricultural Society, the last two years serving as president. He is a member of Belgrade Grange and of Relief Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Belgrade. Mr. Minot married, in 1866, Effie C., daughter of Daniel and Clara Parcher, of North Leeds. Their children (the elev- enth generation here traceable) are: George L., engaged in farming with his father: J. Clair, who is fitting himself for a professional career, and Blanch S., who resides with her parents.


James C. Mosher, born in 1837, was the only son of James and Sarah H. (Wellman) Mosher, and grandson of Elisha Mosher, who came to Belgrade from Dartmouth, Mass. Mr. Mosher began work on the railroad in Belgrade in 1853, and continued on track work until 1871, when he was made agent for the company at Belgrade, which position he held until his death, August 2, 1892. He was a charter member and past master of Relief Lodge, F. & A. M. He married Mary J., daughter of Edward Merchant. Their children are: Cora A. (Mrs. A. E. Hammond), Edward H., Lilla M., Eva E., J. Irving, living at home, and Lindley H., deceased.


David L. Page, born 1816 and died 1885, was a son of Lewis and Hannah (Churchill) Page, grandson of Abraham and great-grandson of James Page. Abraham came to Belgrade from Augusta in about 1788, and from New Hampshire in about 1784. David L. married Aurelia, daughter of Daniel and Sally (Andrews) Parcher. Their only child is Ellen A., wife of Freeman G. Yeaton.


Gilman J. Page, born in 1828, is the next to the youngest of nine


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children of Ezekiel (1786-1864), and grandson of Amos Page. His mother was Sarah Richardson. Mr. Page is a farmer on the place where his father settled about one hundred years ago. He has taught school several winters. He married Alvira G., daughter of Andrew Yeaton. Their children are: Laura A .. Frank A., Henry J., Edwin L., Della E. (deceased), Carrie M., Charles O., Minella E., Alla R. and Andrew E.


Frank A. Page, son of Gilman J. Page, was born in 1860. In 1885 he bought the Joseph Taylor farm, near his father, and is a farmer and orchardist, and also carries on a meat business at Oakland. He mar- ried Hannah, daughter of Jefferson Hersom, and their children are: Harold H. and Mabel E.


John Partridge, born in 1821, was a son of Moses and Ruth (Rock- wood) Partridge. He came to Belgrade in 1851 and was a farmer and dealer in produce, until his death in 1890. He served about one year in the 5th Maine Battery, until the war closed. He married Susan R., daughter of John and Thankful C. (Moshier) Page, and granddaughter of Abraham Page, who came to Belgrade in 1801. Their children are: Frederick E. and Florence I. (Mrs. George W. Colby).




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