Illustrated history of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1892, Part 130

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

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There are four Methodist churches in the town. Their records are very deficient in their early histories, but from conference reports and tradition of aged members something has been gleaned. It seems from a pastoral record of ministers that prior to the organization of the East Maine Conference in 1848, ministers were appointed to travel in Maine as missionaries, and every town of Kennebec county was early more or less blessed by the pioneer Jesse Lee, succeeded by other earnest men for four decades; but no ministers were stationed in this town until about 1850. Sullivan Bray was pastor at East Vas- salboro in 1852, and his charge embraced the society at North Vassal- boro; Otis F. Jenkins was in the same field in 1855, succeeding Cyrus Phenix, who was pastor through 1853 and 1854. Daniel Clark was at the same post in 1856, and moved to North Vassalboro in 1857. The next pastor for these charges was Benjamin B. Byrne, settled at the North for 1863. Leonard H. Bean was appointed to East Vassalboro for 1864 and 1866. The society at North Vassalboro used the Union church until 1875, when they secured an unfinished church building in Winslow, and removing it, made their present Methodist church. From the erection of the East Vassalboro church the pastors were: William J. Clifford, 1875; Daniel Smith, 1877; Josiah Bean, 1878; John R. Clifford, 1879; E. H. Tunnicliff, 1881. After the formation of another Congregational society the Methodists again had settled pas- tors. William Wood was pastor in 1886; E. H. Hadlock, 1887, until autumn, when W. Wiggin came to fill the year; W. F. Prince in 1888. In 1890 the North Vassalboro and Getchell's Corners societies were joined, W. J. Kelley, pastor, and the East Vassalboro was joined with China. The Getchell's Corners society purchased and repaired the old academy building in 1868, which they had occupied for several years before the transformation. The East Vassalboro Methodists erected their first edifice near the cemetery. It was removed to the site of the present church, where it stood some years before it was again moved and converted into a store.

The Methodists in the southern portion of the town organized

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classes at Riverside, South Vassalboro and Cross Hill, and about 1813 erected the church now standing at Cross Hill. Among the active Methodists of that period were John Roberts, William and John Per- cival. Robert Austin, David Hawes, Isaac Robbins, John Stevens, Richard Turner and Hartwell Gardner. Tradition names among the early ministers Elder Benjamin Jones, Albert Church in 1839, Charles Munger, Daniel Fuller in 1842, Barnett M. Mitchell, Ephraim Bryant and George Pratt. Cyrus Phenix succeeded Sullivan Bray in 1853, and began the only church records extant .* These records, showing baptisms and marriages by some of the pastors, furnish incidentally the only and, no doubt, imperfect list of pastors. It appears that Cyrus Phenix remained three years, succeeded by Lewis Wentworth in 1857; Jesse Harriman, 1858; S. Freeman Chase, 1860; F. A. Soule, 1861; James Hartford, 1863; Ephraim Bryant, 1864; Levi L. Shaw and Eliot B. Fletcher, 1865; Ephraim Bryant, 1870; Theodore Hill, 1871; Charles E. Springer and E. B. Fletcher, 1872; Abram Plummer, 1873; Samuel Bickmore, 1875; William J. Clifford, 1876; Charles H. Bray, son of Sullivan, 1877; Wilbur F. Chase, 1880.

The marriage records name three other officiating clergymen: L. B. Gates, 1859; M. W. Newbert, 1861; and Thomas Pentacost. In May, 1860, records of dismissals begin, showing that within a year twenty-two members were transferred from this church to Weeks' Mills, in China.

The Catholic church of North Vassalboro is a mission church sup- plied from Waterville, and Father Charland has for several years filled the pulpit. A very neat edifice for worship was erected in 1871.

A Union church was erected at North Vassalboro in May, 1851, at an expense of $800. Beriah Weeks, Timothy Rowell and Levi Web- ber were the building committee. It was then the only church edifice there. In 1880, having been several years closed, it was sold for the benefit of the chief contributors, and is now four tenements.

One other place and kind of worship will not be forgotten so long as the links of tradition can touch each other-the church and teach- ings of Charles Webber, who resided on the river road near River- side, in the house now occupied by Wallace W. Gilbert. Across the road, on what is known as the James S. Emery place, Mr. Webber erected a small edifice in the last few years of the last century. Here he had preaching of his own, and constituted himself the pastor. What was more conspicuous in this arrangement was the fact that said Webber could not read, and depended upon his wife for that im- portant attribute. He could readily grasp the scripture reading of his

* These records were overlooked in 1887 by Rev. W. H. Pilsbury, who says in his History of Methodism in Maine that no record prior to 1875 could be found. -[ED.

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wife and give wholesome explanation thereon; and only once was his knowledge clouded, when his wife read "log " for "lodge " in the wilderness. His manner of announcing a text was: " If Polly tells me aright you will find my text, etc." He urged sinners to repent, often saying that it was as impossible for one to enter heaven as it was for a shad to climb a tree. His eccentricities and goodness sur- vive him, as does the old church, which, on another site, is the resi- dence of Freeman Sturgis.

CEMETERIES .- There are several public burial places in the town East Vassalboro has two-one, the Friends', near their meeting house, is ancient in use and appearance; the other is near the Methodist church, and contains several beautiful, costly monuments. Jabez Lewis rests here, having died in 1843, aged 68 years. David Ham- len's monument tells of his death in 1862, aged 73 years. Among other inscriptions are: Stephen Homan, 1846, aged 82 years; Nathan- iel Robbins, 1841, aged 61; and John Fairfield, 1847, aged 75.

At Riverside is a well-kept cemetery, managed by an incorporation of citizens. On the west side of the river road, where the old Congre- gational church stood, is an old town burying ground north of the present residence of Daniel Rollins.

The Friends have a large burial place in rear of their church, near the seminary, and this society has considerably used the burying ground called the Nichols Cemetery, on the farm owned by John Clifford, on the road to North Vassalboro. Caleb Nichols opened these grounds many years ago.

At North Vassalboro is a large cemetery, to which lots are being added by the owner of adjoining land. Much care is bestowed upon the lots and graves here by the living, and there are some fine monu- ments. Here, among other aged residents, rest Enoch Plummer, born 1794, died 1885; Amos Childs, born 1760, died 1847; and Joseph H. Brann, died 1867, aged 85 years. A neglected spot for burial at North Vassalboro is the Bragg ground, in the rear of S. S. Lightbody's drug store. It is upon a corner of a triangular piece of land which is said to have been the unsold portion of the square-mile of land owned by John Getchell. The visitor will find here in the reeds the headstone of Joab Bragg, a revolutionary patriot, who died April 9, 1832, aged 75 years.

The Priest burying ground contains some of the oldest graves in the northeastern part of the town. Many plain field stones, without inscriptions, seem to have strayed from the surrounding wall to mark the resting places of the early pioneers; and the lilac, the first flower of those early days, planted here by loving hands, now grows untrim- med above them. The oldest dated headstone is to Martha Priest, who died 1812, aged 83. Jonas Priest died 1831, aged 87; Jonas, jun.,

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died 1856, aged 85; Elisha Burgess died 1886, aged 72, and Mary A. Burgess in 1875, aged 52; John Dearborn, jun., died 1880, aged 82.

The Cross Hill Cemetery, as originally laid out, contained but one- fourth of an acre. Here, in 1849, was buried William Cross, aged 79 years; and in 1853 Zebedee Cross, aged 48 years. These two slabs are the only authentic record in the community of the prominent old family, now extinct here, which gave name to the locality. Among the first burials in this ground was Mary Coleman Dyer, in 1813, aged 27 years. Other headstones here tell of Joel Gardner, who died in 1875, aged 97 years; John Palmer, in 1834, aged 84; Samuel Randall, 1838, aged 81; John Gaslin, in 1857, aged 90, and Mary, his wife, in 1837, aged 68; Seth Richardson, 1856, aged 78; Owen Coleman, 1834, aged 74; Daniel and wife Martha Whitehouse, 1835 and 1837, aged respectively 80 and 92; Benjamin Runnells, 1834, aged 68; his wife, Rebecca, 1833, at the age of 67; Gideon Wing, 1842, aged 65; and Dr. Oliver Prescott, 1853, aged 62.

South of this was an early burying ground where scores of the pioneers found resting places. This ground was within what was later known as the Warren Percival farm, and for twenty-five years now the graves have been obliterated, and only a cultivated field marks the spot.

There are private grounds upon many of the early settled lots, which are still used by the successors of the patriarch whose dust is venerated. Some private cemeteries are upon lands now out of the family; but the grounds are generally inviolate. Standing at the rail- road station, Riverside, and looking south you see Mt. Tom, as the hill is denominated, on whose apex a hundred years ago was an old building which tradition claims was a missionary post. At the south of this hill, on the Sturgis farm, sloping to the brook, was an Indian burial ground, where bones and Indian relics are plentiful.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Oscar A. Abbott, son of William and grandson of George Abbott, was born in Winslow in 1848. His mother, Harriet, was a daughter of George and granddaughter of Major Ebenezer Nowell. Mr. Ab- bott was fifteen years in the employ of the Maine Central, including eight years as agent at Brunswick, prior to 1887, when he purchased, on Taber hill, a handsome farm, where the ancestors of the Taber family settled. Mrs. Abbott is Rose B. Toothaker, of Brunswick, Me. They have one daughter, Ruby.

The Austin family of this town are descended from Robert Austin, who, with his brother Thomas, came from New Hampshire. Robert settled at Cross Hill, married Desiar Wing, daughter of William Wing, an early Methodist there, and raised five sons: Gideon, Jona- than, William, Robert, jun., and Eldridge, of whom the second only

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survives. Henry H. Austin, born 1839, the only surviving son of Gideon (1810-1889) and Lucinda (Pinkham) Austin, and grandson of Robert Austin, married Emeline R. Jones, of Vermont. They have four children: Carrie (Mrs. Flavius J. Ames), William A., and twins, Albert H. and Herbert S. He follows his father, Gideon, at the homestead, Cross Hill, where Robert, in 1808, made the first clearing.

William Alvah Austin, son of William and grandson of Robert, was born in 1846, married Helen F. Clark, and has three children: Ada L. (Mrs. Arthur H. Rice), Willis G. and Frank H. William Alvah en- listed September 10, 1862, in Company D, 21st Maine, reënlisted as a veteran in Company G, 2d Maine Cavalry, December 5, 1863, and was honorably discharged June 23, 1865. He has the best manuscript record of the Vassalboro soldiers which exists in the town.

Henry D. B. Ayer, born in 1857, married Susan E. Clark, of Vas- salboro. Her father, Emery, was a son of Jonathan and grandson of Jonathan Clark. Their children are Russell G. and Elton B. Mr. Ayer was three years supervisor of schools prior to 1877, and has taught for fifteen years. He is secretary of the board of health.

Edward C. Ballard, born 1849, is the son of John and grandson of Rufus Ballard. John Ballard purchased of Elisha Gifford the place which his father, Joseph Gifford, had settled, and where Edward C. Ballard now resides. Rufus was the son of Jonathan Ballard, who, in 1775, came from Oxford, Mass., to Vassalboro, where he was killed by a falling tree in 1778. Ephraim Ballard, the surveyor, who came to Winslow in 1775, and subsequently lived at Augusta, was a brother of Jonathan.

Caleb Barrows came to Vassalboro from Camden, Me., in the spring of 1830, and purchased the farm now owned by his oldest child, Hanson G. Barrows, on the pond road. His other children were: Mary A. (Mrs. J. C. Chadbourn), deceased; Alonzo M., deceased; Julia D., who died in infancy, and Edwin C. Caleb's father, Peter Barrows (1755-1841), who was in the revolutionary war seven years, was the son of Ichabod Barrows (1724-1783), and grandson of Beniah Barrows, who lived at Rehoboth, Mass., in 1707, where his oldest son, John, was born.

Edwin C. Barrows, born in 1842, the youngest of the five children of Caleb Barrows, was educated at Waterville and Bowdoin Colleges, and in 1863 enlisted, November 19th, in Company B, 2d Maine Cav- alry. In June, 1865, he was transferred to the 86th U. S. C. T., with commission of second lieutenant, but acted as adjutant of the regi- ment until his discharge, April 10, 1866. In September following he entered the Albany Law School, graduated in June, 1867, was admitted to the bar, and located in Nebraska City. Practicing there until 1871, he returned to Vassalboro in 1872, with his wife, Laura Alden. He was supervisor of schools in 1882, 1883, and has since been selectman

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excepting one year, being chairman since 1887. In 1883 he was elected representative.

Dea. Gideon Barton, a son of Dea. Gideon (1786-1878), and a grand- son of Dr. Stephen Barton, was born in Windsor in 1818. He was one of a family of thirteen children, and as he tells it, they wore out two log houses in Windsor. When he was nineteen years old he took his "white bundle " and with a few venturesome " green Kenne- becers," started for the Penobscot, where he worked ten years. He then hauled lumber for several years, and was foreman for several years for Ira D. Sturgis and the Kennebec Land and Lumber Com- pany. In 1885 he bought and located on one of the good farms of North Vassalboro, where he still lives. His wife, Harriet E., is a daughter of William Percival, of Cape Cod. Their children are: Russell S., a farmer, on the old homestead in Windsor; Isabel, in Bos- ton; Alice (Mrs. R. S. Hamilton); Evelyn (Mrs. C. S. Farnham), Ho- bart, in California; Hattie (Mrs. Charles E. Crowell); Carrie (Mrs. James Cavanaugh), and Edith Barton.

John S. Briggs, born in 1848, is the son of George U., and grand- son of William Briggs, of Augusta. He married Lizzie J., daughter of Ira and granddaughter of Levi Smart, and has three children: Ora L., Delmont S. and Gladys Lefa. Mr. Briggs' farm at Cross Hill was formerly occupied by Aaron White. Levi Smart was born in 1780, in New Hampshire, and came to Monmouth, Me., with his father, Rob- ert, who settled on Smart's hill, on the stage road between Winthrop and Lewiston, whence Levi removed to Vassalboro, where he died in 1853.

Josiah Brown, born 1829, was the son of George, and grandson of John Brown, who lived and died east of Cross Hill. George Brown married Hannah Clark; Josiah Brown married Mary A. C., daughter of George and Rebecca (Stimpson) Shaw, who in 1853 came from Gouldsboro to Vassalboro, where he died in 1880. Josiah Brown's residence, formerly owned by George Tower, was erected by Jerry Horn and rebuilt by Albert Brown.

Burgess .- The Burgess family of Vassalboro are descended from Benjamin and Rebecca (Parker) Burgess, who probably came to Vas- salboro about 1760, although in the Burgess genealogy [E. Burgess, Dedham, 1865], the birth of their oldest child, Eliza, is noticed as in Vassalboro in 1756. They subsequently lived in China, where David, the fifth of their seven children, was born in 1769, and where he lived and died. David's son, Moody C. Burgess (1810-1887), married a sis- ter of Levi Gardner. Their son, born 1840, is Reuel C. Burgess, of North Vassalboro. I. P. Burgess, of North Vassalboro, born in 1850, is a son of Isaiah, born in China in 1802, and grandson of David.

John Bush, born in Danvers, Mass., in 1826, came in 1831 to Vas-

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salboro with his father, Dr. John Bush, and in 1861, after working at his trade in other places, located as a tailor at North Vassalboro, where he built his present shop in 1865. Some farming, with what remains of the tailoring business, constitutes his employment. He married Harriet M. Noyes, of Bangor, and raised four children. J. Frank is at Lisbon Falls; Lizzie married William Dinsmore, a shoe dealer of Waterville, and George S. is employed in the mills at Shoddy Hollow. . The oldest child, Lillian W., who resides with her father, is Mrs. Henry F. Rice, and has six children: May and Maud, Gracie, Leslie, Lulu and Evelina.

THE BUSSELL FAMILY .- Early in the present century, William Buswell (as the name was then spelled) and Ploomy, his wife, came to Vassalboro from East Kingston, N. H., and settled on Cross Hill. He bought a farm, deeded to him March 9, 1811, by " William Smith, Yeoman, and Mehitable, his wife." William and Ploomy raised seven children: Betsey L., Ploomy D., John, William, jun., Mary A., Abe- gail and Celia. All but Betsey died with consumption.

John, the last survivor, whose portrait appears herewith, was born October 8, 1816, on the old homestead, where he spent the whole of his life, and where he died, November 27, 1883. He had an active mind, was well informed and possessed a substantial education. He economized all his time and talents, farming summers and teaching school winters-his services in the latter calling being in active demand for years. June 4, 1846, he was married to Mary J., daughter of Ambrose White, whose father, John White, was an old resident of Winthrop, Me. They had four children: George H., John E., Mary A. and Nellie M. The coincidence of the sudden termination of the lives of two of these children was striking and sad. John E. fell dead in the field, October 31, 1878, and Mary A. dropped dead in the road while on her way to church, March 6, 1881. Nellie M. holds a responsible position as bookkeeper in Nashua, N. H.

With the exception of teaching school winters, Mr. Bussell was always a farmer. He loved and followed it with great industry and good judgment, and by it made and saved a handsome competence. His son, George H. Bussell, was born on the place settled by his grand- father over eighty years ago, where his father spent the whole of his life and where his mother is still spared to him, remarkably bright and vigorous at the age of seventy-two. Like his father he has been a school teacher. Three terms at Oak Grove Seminary and a full course at Dirigo Business College in Augusta, from which he gradu- ated in 1875, constituted his preparation for teaching, in addition to the advantages of a district school. At the age of twenty he taught, in Whitefield, Lincoln county, Me., his first term, and his last term was in Montville, Waldo county, Me., in the winter of 1879-80.

PRINT, E. BIERSTADT, N. Y.

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In Harlem Lodge, No. 39, A. O. U. W., at South China, he holds the responsible office of financier. He is also a member of Cushnoc Grange, No. 204, P. of H., and of Lake View Lodge of Good Tem- plars. He belongs to the First Baptist church of Vassalboro, and has always been a republican in politics. He married in March, 1886, Marietta C. Page, of China, Me. Their children are John H. and William T.

The White family are descendants of Peregrin White, who was born on board the Mayflower, the first child born of English parents after the Pilgrims reached the coast of New England.

Andrew C. Butterfield, born in 1825, a son of Zachariah and Jemima (Shaw) Butterfield, and grandson of John Butterfield, a Scotch- man who came to Goffstown, N. H., married Zylphia Bryant, and has two children: Fred Z. and Lizzie. Zachariah Butterfield and his wife, only daughter of Jacob and Mollie Shaw, of Albion, came to East Vassalboro about 1810, and he 'tended the grist mill at East Vassal- boro for John Getchell, who built the mill, also the saw mill.

Jeremiah S. Butterfield, born in 1825, married Eliza F., daughter of Beriah Weeks, of North Vassalboro, and has three sons: George, Elmer and Harry. He was postmaster at East Vassalboro for forty- two years, and with his twin brother, Andrew C., made shovel handles for Jacob Butterfield and his son, Henry R. Butterfield, and afterward at Freedom, Waterville and Farmington.

William H. Cates, born in December, 1823, is one of the five children of Edmund and Anna Cates, who came to East Vassalboro from Gor- ham, Me. The others are: Dr. Charles B. Cates and Mary A., deceased; Eliza P. (Mrs. James C. Pierce) and James E. Cates. William H. mar- ried Etta S., daughter of John Mower. Their children are: George H., Abbie W., William Willis, in Idaho; John M., Arnold R., deceased, and Fred L., of Waterville. Mr. Cates has been selectman seven years, town clerk seven years, and was representative in 1862.

Andrew Horne Clark, born in 1821, is a son of Thomas Clark and grandson of William Clark. He married Saloma Robinson, of Sidney, and has two children: Adella (Mrs. Horatio G. Dickey), of Boston, and James S. Clark. Mrs. Dickey has one son, Ralph C. Dickey.

James S. Clark, a substantial young farmer, was born in 1856. His father, Andrew H. Clark, was the son of Thomas H. Clark, formerly of South Vassalboro. Mrs. James S. Clark is Carrie, daughter of Daniel S. Lampson, of Windsor. They have two children: Maude B. and Scott Lee. The farm, which has one of the finest barns in town, is east of Riverside.

Chandler F. Cobb, born in Leeds, Me., July 17, 1845, is a son of Ebenezer, and grandson of Joseph Cobb. His wife, Mary E. Gordon, born in Leeds, July 6, 1852, is a daughter of William C. Gordon. Their children, excepting the youngest, were born in Leeds-Bertha

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S., April 11, 1874; Mary I., July 20, 1875; Blanche G., February 28, 1877; Arthur L., September 6, 1878; Lorania F., February 16, 1880; Clarence C., born in Vassalboro, March 18, 1889. Mr. Cobb was deputy sheriff in Androscoggin county, from July, 1873, to January, 1887; and was constable and collector three years.

Charles E. Collins, born in 1834, is a son of John, who was the eld- est of the fifteen children of Benjamin and Rebecca (Fairfield) Collins. Benjamin was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and later came to East Vassalboro, where he taught school and 'tended grist mills. Charles E. married Ruth H., a daughter of Franklin Dunbar, of Wins- low. He served as non-commissioned officer in Company D, 21st Maine, from September, 1862, to April, 1863. His home was bought by John Collins in 1831, of Paul Hussey, whose father, Isaac, settled here.

Albert Cook, son of Elijah and grandson of John and Mary (Pope) Cook, married Eliza F., daughter of Briggs Thomas, and their children are: Ella (Mrs. Charles W. Waldron) and Annabell. Albert Cook's farm was purchased by Elijah Cook & Sons in 1857. It was settled by Peltiah Varney, a Quaker, whose son, Remington Varney, succeeded him.

Edward H. Cook, brother of Albert, born in 1844, married Annie L. Hamblin, a daughter of Captain Zenas Hamblin, of Falmouth, Mass. Their four children are: Edward C., Hattie H., Edith M. and Annie E. Mr. Cook was graduated from Haverford College in 1868, and from 1869 to 1878 was principal of Oak Grove Seminary. He was also supervisor of schools in Vassalboro one year. John M. Cook, of Vassalboro, born 1834; Elijah, jun., 1832, and George D., 1841, are also brothers of Albert.

Marcellus F. Davis, born in 1835, is a son of Columbus and Chloe (Abbott) Davis, and grandson of William Davis, who died in Jackson, Me. In 1853 Columbus and his family came to South Vassalboro, where he bought the Joseph Wing farm. Marcellus married Ella S. Pullen, of Anson, Me., and has one son, Omar P. Davis.

J. C. Evans, born in 1850, a son of Cyrenus K. Evans, late of China, married Nancy A., daughter of Daniel Priest. Their children are: Blanche and Maude Evans.

Robert Gardner, a son of William (1774-1855), and grandson of Jethro Gardner, was born in 1813. He married Melintha, daughter of Lemuel Stevens, of Hartford, Me., and lived in the house built by his father abont 1816. His two sons were Edward E. and Albert M., of Boston. Robert Gardner, his wife, and their son, Edward E., died in February, 1892.

Sheldon H. Gardner, a farmer at Cross Hill, born in 1848, is a son of Jethro and grandson of William, whose father, Jethro Gardner, came early from Nantucket to Cross Hill, and built the house where

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Sheldon H. now lives. He was in California in 1863-4; in Montana, 1869-83.

Isaiah Gifford was born in the eastern part of Albion, in 1831. His father, William (1802-1874), a farmer and blacksmith, married in 1827 Rachel, daughter of Micajah Meader. William's father, Isaiah, also a blacksmith at Vassalboro and later at "Quaker Hill" in Albion, married Hannah Hussey, of Albion. The family-always Quakers until the present generation-came to Maine from Sandwich, Mass. Mr. Gifford learned the tanner's and currier's trade and worked at it for Pishon & Ayer at Vassalboro until 1854; then went with them to their new tannery at East Benton. In 1858 he bought a half interest in the Vassalboro tannery, where he had learned his trade, and oper- ated it three years. As merchant, selectman, representative and deputy sheriff he is probably as widely known as any present resident of Vassalboro. His wife, Cynthia W. Turner, deceased, left two chil- dren: Herbert C., born 1857, and Bertha E. (1863-1885). His present wife, Hattie, is a daughter of Franklin Blackwell, whose parents came to Winslow from Sandwich, Mass. Herbert C. Gifford married Hattie Whiting, and has one son, Clinton B., born in 1892.

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Illustrated history of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1892, Part 130

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

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