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Mr. Snow married, at Blaine, January II, 1902, Lou M. Pierce, daughter of Benjamin F. and Nellie E. (Jewell) Pierce, the former the postmaster at Mars Hill and formerly a merchant. They have had three children : Paul E., born June 4, 1903; Ralph A., born August 20, 1905; and Winston Rue, born October 2, 1912, deceased.
GEORGE RICHARD HUNNEWELL, promi- nent head of the G. R. Hunnewell Fur Company, of Lewiston, Maine, and owner of the family farm and homestead which is a source of pride to all who live in the country nearby, as well as throughout the State, is not only abundantly en- dowed with material wealth, but rich in character, resoluteness of purpose, sagacity, enterprise, con- structive executive ability, and bigness of heart and mind. He is widely known in his State, and very keenly appreciated by those who are familiar with his contribution to the personality, charm, and distinctive beauty of Maine as a place in which to live.
(I) Benjamin Hunnewell, the first of the family to settle in Maine, and the original owner of the farm in the suburbs of Auburn, seven and a half miles south of Auburn City, of which his grand- son, George R. Hunnewell, is the present owner and occupant, was a remarkable and unusual ex- ample of human strength and physical endurance. He was about six feet, eight inches in height, a giant of energy, and lived to the extraordin- ary age of one hundred and three years, the most of which were spent on his farm.
(II) George W. Hunnewell, son of Benjamin Hunnewell, was born on the farm of his father, where he spent his entire life as a successful and prosperous agriculturist. He married Rachel Sawyer, born in Pownal, Maine, who died in her fifty-fourth year. They were the parents of four childreu, as follows: Winfield Scott, who was a farmer by occupation, and died in 1915 at the age of sixty-four years; William Rinaldo, who died in 1914, aged fifty-eight years, at Pittsfield, Maine, where he had been an extensive real estate owner; George Richard, of whom further; and Edna Florence, now the wife of Samuel J. Foster, of Gray, Maine, and the mother of one child, Rachel Foster. The father of this family lived to the age of eighty-seven years.
(III) George Richard Hunnewell, third son of George W. and Rachel (Sawyer) Hunnewell, was born on the family farm near Auburn, Maine, March 27, 1856. There he was brought up, and during the school months acquired his education in the public schools of Auburn. The estate to
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which he eventually became heir and owner has been one of the essential pleasures of his entire life. Since coming into the possession of this home and its surroundings, seven hundred acres of land, he has made a study of the most effec- tive improvements which he has actually car- ried out. In 1907 he erected a house and added to the general melioration of the farm at a cost of sixty thousand dollars. The resources of the land have been so developed and cared for, and such a scientific management has there been carried on that nowhere in the State of Maine may be found a more productive, and at the same time, a more beautiful estate than that of Mr. Hunnewell's. Not only has he distinguished himself as a suc- cess in the field of agriculture, but in that of busi- ness as well, in conducting the affairs of the G. R. Hunnewell Fur Company. He has placed buy- ers throughout the Dominion of Canada and in New Brunswick, who travel in certain sections purchasing furs. The amount spent last year in this field of the business alone amounted to over $350,000. The company also handles a complete line of sporting goods, buying directly from all of the large manufacturers of this line of mer- chandise.
Mr. Hunnewell, true to the generations of the family which have preceded him, as a citizen of loyalty, with the best interests of the community, State and country at heart. He has a large cir- cle of friends, and a vast number of admiring and respecting acquaintances, though none have ever succeeded in persuading him to run for any poli- tical office. He belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church.
MELVILLE P. MILLIKEN was born at Gard- ner, Maine, October 21, 1848, son of Peletiah and Elizabeth (Clay) Milliken. His educational oppor- tunities were limited, but being ambitious he se- cured himself a practical education through his ex- perience with business and affairs. Mr. Milliken does not, however underrate the help of an acad- emical training even for a business career, and has always taken a keen interest in popular education and has done all he could to foster the cause and bring it to a still greater efficiency.
He began his business life by buying an interest in a store in the town of Burnham, Waldo county, Maine, he being twenty-two years old at the time. and the funds for this venture having represented several years of hard work. After a time he sold his interest to his partner and went to Portland. and there obtained a position as a traveling sales-
man for a boot and shoe firm, and this work oc- cupied his time for about fifteen years. A favorable opportunity then offered for him to go into the boot and shoe business on his own account, and he established himself in association with a friend at Skowhegan, Maine. After two years, in 1885, lie sold out his interest to his partner and took up the lumber business at Richmond, Maine, and remained in the manufacture of lumber until 1902. In that year he entered the employ of the Stockholm Lum- her Company at Stockholm, Maine, and continued for about seven years in this work. About 1909 he became identified in the business as a director, as- sistant treasurer and : resident manager. In his political faith Mr. Milliken is a Democrat, and he lias served the state in the Lower House of the Legislature, and as an alternate delegate was sent to the Democratic National Convention, at Balti- more, and while there was made full delegate. He is a member of Richmond Lodge, No. 200, Free and Accepted Masons, and he is also a member of the Elks of Houlton, Maine. Mr. Milliken attends the Universalist church, although he is not himself a member.
Mr. Milliken married (first) at Burnham, Sarah K. Cook, daughter of Rev. John and Mary (Adams) Cook, June, 1869; she died in 1879. He married (second) H. Jennie Fowler, daughter of Jedediah P. and Nuribah Hall (Scribner) Fowler. Mr. Mil- liken had only one child, a son, Frank C., who was a child of the first marriage and died when he was an infant.
CHARLES EDWARD JONES, the popular and capable director of Fort Kent, Maine, and for many years a successful merchant in this region, and the owner of a large mill, is a native of St. John Plantation, born April 3, 1855, and a son of John J. and Eunice (West) Jones, old and highly respected residents of that place, who both now are deceased. The elder Mr. Jones was for many years engaged in the occupation of farming and lumbering at St. John, New Brunswick, where he was a well known figure in the general life.
The childhood and early life of Charles Edward Jones was passed in his father's home near St. John, New Brunswick, and it was there that he obtained his education, attending for this purpose the public schools of that region. Upon completing his studies Mr. Jones came to the United States. where he engaged in business as a lumberer, and opened a large mill which he operates at the present time. In the year 1889 he also founded a general mercantile establishment and has been engaged in this line for upwards of forty years and has met
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with a marked success. He is well known through- out this region, at the present time one of the most successful and active business men hereabouts, and is connected with a number of important interests, financial and otherwise, being a director of the Fort Kent Trust Company. In politics Mr. Jones is a Republican, and was elected director of Fort- Kent in the year 1903. This post he has held ever since and has attended to its responsible duties with a high degree of efficiency. He also served as postmaster of St. Francis for some seventeen years, and has held the office of selectman as well as sev- eral other positions of trust. Mr. Jones is a mem- ber of Fort Kent Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is a well known figure in the general social life of the community. In his religious be- lief Mr. Jones is a Presbyterian, and attends the church of that denomination at St. Francis.
Charles Edward Jones was united in marriage, September 24, 1882, at Fort Kent, with Mary Con- nors, a daughter of John and Helen (Henderson) Connors, the former a prominent lumberman of this region. To Mr. and Mrs. Jones the following children have been born: George Medly, born July 20, 1883, married -, by whom he has had three children; Bertha Helen, born February 27, 1886, and died December 31, 1889; Robert Holmes, born May 2, 1890, married -, and has had two chil- dren; Frances Myrtle, April 13, 1892, became the wife of Harold P. Bailey; Charles Elmer, born May 13, 1894, a sergeant in Company F, Fifty-sixth Regi- ment, Pioneer Infantry, and served in the Machine Gun Battalion with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
WILLIAM MOULTON INGRAHAM-The record of the five generations of the family of Ingraham in this country is one of service of un- usual merit and distinction, the members of the family resident in Maine since its founding by Edward Ingraham. (I) Edward Ingraham was born in England about 1721, and when a young man made his home in York, Maine, dying at Kittery, March 6. 1807. He married Lydia, daugh- ter of Joseph Holt, of York. The records of York of that time show that he was the proprie- tor of the village inn, was a highly respected citi- zen, and took an interest in all that pertained to the welfare of the town, being prominent in the affairs of the local church. Edward and Lydia (Holt) Ingraham were the parents of seven chil- dren.
(II) Joseph Holt Ingraham, son of Edward and Lydia (Holt) Ingraham, was born in York, Feb- ruary 10. 1752, died October 30, 1841. His early
youth was spent in his native town, and when only sixteen years of age he moved to Portland, establishing in the silversmith's trade. In 1775 the comfortable home he had erected was laid in ashes during the bombardment of the town by Captain Mowatt. He was a large landholder and made numerons gifts of land for various civic purposes. For eleven years he served as one of the selectmen, and for ten years represented Portland in the General Court of Massachusetts when Maine was a part of that Commonwealth. He was three times married, first to Abigail, daughter of James Milk, second to Lydia Stone, and third to Ann Tate.
(III) Samuel Parkham Ingraham, son of Joseph Holt and Ann (Tate) Ingraham, was born No- vember 22, 1796, died June 26, 1863. He was a successful merchant, operating in Hallowell and Camden. He married, June 15, 1825, Mary Adams, born in Thomaston, October 15, 1798, died in Portland, February 4, 1876, and they were the parents of three children.
(IV) Darius Holbrook Ingraham, third child and second son of Samuel Parkham and Mary (Adams) Ingraham, was born in Camden, Maine, October 14, 1837. He was educated at Bridgeton Academy, and in 1853 received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapo- lis, ill health compelling him to resign in the mid- dle of his second year. After regaining his health he studied law for one year in the office of John Neal and completed his legal preparation in the office of Deblois & Jackson, being admitted to the Cumberland bar at Portland during the April term, 1859. His public career began early in his professional life. In 1860 he was elected clerk of the Common Council, and a member of the School Committee, a position he held for three years. In 1876 he was secretary of the Demo- cratic State Committee, later serving on the Congressional Committee, and in 1879 he was one of Portland's representatives in the State Legis- lature. In July, 1885, he was appointed by Presi- dent Cleveland consul at Cadiz, Spain, a position he held until September, 1889. He was commis- sioned by the State Department to investigate the affairs of the American Cousulate at Tangier, and received the thanks of the department upon the submission of his report. During 1892 and 1893 Mr. Ingraham filled the office of mayor of Portland, during which time he was the nomi- nee of his party for Congress, and in June, 1893, he was appointed by President Cleveland con- sul-general to Halifax, Nova Scotia, serving until August, 1897. In 1899 and 1903 he was the Demo-
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cratic homince for mayor of Mds city, and in 1908 was one of the nominees for presidential elector. He is a member and ex-president of the Cum- berland Club, of Portland, and also belongs to the Maine Historical Society. His professional and public career has been long, useful and hon- orable, and he is held in high and affectionate re- gard in Portland, the scene of his activities.
Darius Holbrook Ingraham married, June 25, 1868, Ella Moulton, born January 27, 18.12, died March 18, 1919, daughter of William and Nancy (Cumston) Moulton, descendant in the seventh generation of William Moulton, of Ormsby, Eng- land, founder in New England of his line in 1637. Darius Holbrook and Ella (Moulton) Ingra- ham were the parents of one son and one daugh- ter.
(V) William Moulton Ingraham, son of Darius Holbrook and Ella (Moulton) Ingraham, was born in Portland, November 2, 1870. He attended the public schools and prepared for college in the Portland High School, then entered Bowdoin College, whence he was graduated A.B. in the class of 1895, fifteen years afterward having the Master's degree in Arts conferred upon him by the same institution. Upon the completion of his scholastic studies he attended the Harvard Law School for one year, finishing his legal work in the office of the Hon. Augustus F. Moulton, of Portland, and was admitted to the bar, October 19, 1897. His legal practice has been large and he has been conspicuously successful in his pro- fession, which he has pursued closely with the exception of time given to the public service. On September 10, 1906, he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Cumberland county, and held his seat upon the hench from January 1, 1907, to January 1, 1915. He was mayor of Portland in 1915, an office his honored father held before him, and during 1916 and 1917 he filled the important post of assistant secretary of war. Upon his re- tirement from the War Department he became surveyor of customs at Portland, assuming the duties of the office December 1, 1917, and at this time (1919) administering its important func- tions. Mr. Ingraham is a member of the Cum- berland Club, the Portland Country, Yacht and Athletic clubs, and in addition to his member- ships in the various professional associations be- longs to the Maine Historical Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the Revolu- tion. He is a member of the High Street Con- gregational Parish.
Mr. Ingraham married, in Evanston, Illinois, June 1, 1901, Jessamine Phipps Damscl, born in
Mansfield, Chio, April 1, 877, daughter of .. hliam Hudson and Susan Rosc (Nace) Damsel, her father a veteran of President Lincoln's first call for volunteers in 1861, retired vice-president and general manager of the Adams Express Company.
LESTER F. BRADBURY, late of Fort Kent, Maine, where he lived until his death occurred May 5, 1913, and where for may years he was en- gaged in business as a dealer in lumber and as a general merchant, was a native of New Limerick, Maine, his birth having occurred there October 29, 1862. Mr. Bradbury was a son of Samuel and Julia (True) Bradbury, the former for many years a farmer at New Limerick.
The childhood and early youth of Mr. Bradbury was passed at his native town of New Limerick and he there attended the local public schools for a number of years. After five years as school teacher, clerk and bookkeeper in Houlton and New Limerick, he became interested in the great lumber industry of Northern Maine and eventually de- veloped a large business in this line. He, with his brothers and John Mullen, opened a mercantile establishment at Fort Kent, which under his skill- ful management became one of the most important of its kind in this region. Mr. Bradbury was in- deed exceedingly successful in both of his enter- prises and conducted them for a period of a quarter of a century, remaining active until the time of his death. Both of his establishments are now carried on hy a corporation known as the Fort Kent Mill Company (the name of the old firm). At one time Mr. Bradbury was a director of the Fort Kent Trust Company, and was a prominent figure in the financial life of this region. He was a man of great enterprise and organizing ability, and among his many vertures was the founding and develop- ment of the Fort Kent Telephone Company, of which he held the office of president until his death. In politics Mr. Bradbury was an ardent Republican. but although he took a keen interest in local and national issues and the great questions of the day, lie never engaged actively in political life and avoided rather than sought public office of any kind. He was however a prominent figure in the social and fraternal circles of this region and was particularly interested in Free Masonry, being affiliated with Fort Kent Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons : Aroostook Chapter, No. 20, Royal Arch Masons; Presque Isle Council, Royal and Select Masters ; - Commandery, Houlton, Knights Templar ; and Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; he had taken his thirty-second degree in Free Masonry and was one
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of the best known members of the order in this region. Mr. Bradbury was also affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and the Order of Woodmen, and held various chairs in these two fraternal bodies. In religious belief Mr. Bradbury was a non-sectarian, but attended the Presbyterian church at Fort Kent.
Lester F. Bradbury was united in marriage, June I. 1887, at Houlton, Maine, with Dora A. Small, a native of that place, born September 17, 1866, and a daughter of David W. and Martha (Bradbury) Small. To Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury the following children were born: Dora, September 27, 1891, who became the wife of Niles Pinkham, of Fort Kent ; Winifred, born May 10, 1896; Lester True, born September 25, 1906; and David S., born October 31, 1910.
JAMES J. McCURDY-Lubec, a village and summer resort of Washington county, Maine, is situated on an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, four miles south of Eastport, with which it is con- nected by steamer. A strait about half a mile wide separates Lubec Village from the island of Canpsbello, and it is this fortunate proximity to ocean and fishing grounds that Lubec gains its importance as a sardine packing center and can- ning point. It is with these, the principal busi- ness enterprises of his native village, that James J. McCurdy is connected as president and treas- urer. He is a native son of Lubec, son of John and Mary (Morrison) McCurdy, his father a far- mer, dying in 1868.
James J. McCurdy was born in Lubec, Maine, October 29, 1856. He spent the first thirty-six years of his life at the homestead. He attended the public schools of Lubec, but losing his father when a lad of twelve he was obliged to forego a part of his natural school opportunities and aid in the cultivation of the home farm. As he grew in years he adopted farming as his business, and until 1892 continued in the management of the home farm. He then retired from agriculture and entered commercial life. His first entrance into business life was as one of the organizers of the Columbia Packing Company of Lubec, a company of which he has long been president and director. From the successful management of that com- pany he turned to the. packing of sardines through the medium of the Columbia Canning Company of Lubec. After that company was in successful operation, Mr. McCurdy organized the Union Sardine Company, of Lubec, a successful corporation of which he is president and direc- tor, his brother, Jolin P. McCurdy, its treasurer.
That he has made these three corporations models of business management and operation is but to say that he gives them his personal at- tention, and that there is no detail too trivial to command his attention, if it is a part of his duty. The industries named are prosperous and employ about 250 hands, this contributing largely to Lubec's prosperity. Mr. McCurdy is a Demo- crat in politics, and in 1915-16 represented his district in the Maine Legislature. He is a mem- ber of the Roman Catholic church, the Knights of Columbus, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He takes a deep interest in all that pertains to the welfare of Lubec, which vil- lage has long been his home. He still owns the old farm, and is a man universally respected.
Mr. McCurdy marricd, in 1900, at Lubec, Eliza- beth S. Murry, daughter of James Murry.
JOSEPH NADEAU, late of Fort Kent, Maine, where he was engaged in the successful mercantile business for many years and where his death oc- curred in November, 1885, was a native of Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada, his birth occurring there in 1805.
As a lad he worked on his father's farm and never had the advantages of schooling of any kind. He was, however, gifted with an unusually bright and alert intelligence, and was one of those who learn most readily in the school of experience. so that as a man he was possessed of an excellent general education which he had gained from inter- course with other men and from independent read- ing. He continued to work as a farmer for some years after he had grown to manhood, and also did considerable boating on the St. John river. While still a young man, however, he came to the United States and was the first settler at Fort Kent, being at that place seven years before the soldiers came. Here also he farmed for a time but later. as the settlement began to grow, opened a small store which kept pace with the development of the community so that eventually it became an important mercantile establishment. Mr. Nadeau also inter- ested himself greatly in the general life of the community, and was an active participant in the political affairs thereof. He was a staunch sup- porter of the Democratic party, being one of its leaders in that time, and held a number of important offices in the gift of the community. He served as the representative of Fort Kent in the State Legisla- ure for one term, and it was during that time that the first bridge was constructed across Fish River at Fort Kent, he being one of the chief promoters of the scheme. In his religious belief Mr. Nadeau
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was a Roman Catholic, and attended the church of this denomination at Fort Kent from the time of its foundation until his death.
Joseph Nadeau married (first) in 1831, at St. Bazile, Canada, Flavie Martin, a daughter of Thomas and Mary L. Martin, by whom he was the father of six children, all of them daughters. After the death of his first wife Mr. Nadeau mar- ried (second) Alice E. White, a daughter of John White, of Ireland, and they were the parents of six children, as follows: Joseph, Richard, John A., Henry W., Alice E., and Cynthia M. Henry W. is the only one who survives, all the others being de- ceased, as are also the six children by the former marriage.
HENRY W. NADEAU, the well known and popular postmaster of Fort Kent, Maine, and the owner of the general store and a blacksmith's shop at this place, is a son of Joseph and Alice E. (White) Nadeau, the former a native of Canada.
Henry W. Nadeau was born February 2, 1856, at Fort Kent, Maine, where his father was in business as a merchant at the time, and attended the local public school of this place. Upon completing his studies Mr. Nadeau entered his father's mercan- tile establishment, and remained as his father's as- sistant until the death of the elder man. He then assumed the management of the concern and has operated it with a notable degree of success for the past twenty-four years. He was also interested in farming in this region and has carried on success- ful agricultural operations here for a long period. Mr. Nadeau opened a blacksmith's shop at Fort Kent, and added this to his other activities, meet- ing with success in this enterprise as in the others. Mr. Nadeau is a man of wide interests and enter- prising nature and has become prominent in almost every aspect of the business life of this community. In addition to his private ventures, he is also a stockholder in the Fort Kent Trust Company, and is justly regarded as one of the most substantial citizens of the town. In politics Mr. Nadean, like his father, is a Democrat and has taken a leading part in politics hereabouts for many years. For twelve years he has served as postmaster at Fort Kent, and has also held the offices of assessor of the village, and selectman of the township, the latter office being filled by him for nearly a quarter of a century. In religious belief Mr. Nadeau is a Roman Catholic and attends St. Louis Church of this denomination here.
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