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Henry W. Nadeau was united in marriage, Jan- uary 7, 1882, at Fort Kent, Maine, with Zeline Audibert, a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Mar-
tin) Audibert, old and highly respected residents of that place. To Mr. and Mrs. Nadeau the follow- ing children have been born: Alice May, November 8, 1882; Mattie Edna, November 14, 1883; May Jane, December 11, 1884; Gertrude T., March 14, 1886; Joseph Henry, June 6, 1890; Eveline R., Jan- uary 7, 1892; and Alma Rose, October 10, 1894.
JOHN CLAIR MINOT was born at Bel- grade, Maine, November 30, 1872, the son of George Evans and Effie (Parcher) Minot. He is of the tenth generation from George Minot, who came from Saffron Walden, County of Es- sex, England, and admitted 1634 a freeman at Dorchester, Masaschusetts.
Mr. Minot received his primary education at the public schools, and graduated in 1896 from Bowdoin College with the degree of A.B. Hc early turned his attention to a journalistic career, and from 1907 to 1909 was associate editor of the Kennebec Journal, published at Augusta, Maine. In the latter year he came to Boston, Massachu- setts, and became associated with the Youth's Companion. In the literary world Mr. Minot is well known for his historical work, his poems, stories, articles and lectures. He is the author of the "History of Belgrade," "Centennial His- tory of Augusta," "History of the Theta and Delta Kappa Epsilon," 1844-1894, "The Stag of Bowdoin," 1896; "Tales of Bowdoin," 1901; "Bow- doin Verse," 1907; "Under the Bowdoin Pines," 1907. He is a treasurer of the Theta Chapter House Association; a member of the fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Maine Historical So- ciety, the Press Association, and the Dorchester Historical Society. In fraternal circles he has been the presiding officer of his Masonic lodge, chapter and commandery. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has served his alma mater in its board of overseers. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he is a member of the Congregational church.
Mr. Minot married (first) July 23, 1903, Sophia A. Howe, of Dixfield, Maine. His second marriage took place February 20, 1912, to Marion Bow- man.
ERNEST ARTHUR RANDALL-The name Randall appears early and often in the records of New England towns. Phillip Randall was a pio- neer settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, before May 1.1, 1634, for he was made a freeman on that day. Richard Randall was in Saco, Maine, as early as 1659. The names of a score of other
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Randalls are recorded in the annals of New Eng- land, who were heads of families before 1700. The Randall of this article may be descended from Richard Randall, of Saco.
(I) Isaac Randall resided in Freeport, in which city his death occurred. He married Elizabeth Cummings, who died in Portland, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Cummings, of Freeport, the former of whom was born May 15, 1774. Chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Randall: Amanda, Ascen- ath, Malleville, Mary, Clara E., Joseph Perley. John Freeman and Albert Isaac.
(II) John Freeman Randall, seventh child and second son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Cummings) Randall, was born in Freeport, May 20, 1839, and died in Portland, Maine, November 7, 1894. He attended the public schools' of Freeport, and after completing his studies went to Portland to learn the trade of ship-carpenter with his uncle, John Cummings. After completing his appren- ticeship he shipped on board a vessel and made a voyage to Mobile, Alabama, and was there em- ployed on the city water works, of which he had charge during the winter of 1859-60. Returning to Portland he worked at his trade until the out- break of the slave-holders rebellion. He was then about twenty-two years old, strong, brave and patriotic, and offered his services for the de- fence of the Union. He became a private in the Portland Rifle Guards, which organization be- came Company E of the First Maine Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered into the service for a period of three months, May 3, 1861, and was stationed at Meriden Hill; he was mustered out the same year. He soon formed a partnership with Henry McAllister, under the firm name, Randall & McAllister, and was engaged in the coal trade. Subsequently Edward H. Sargent took an interest for a short time, but in 1884 Mr. Randall became sole proprietor of the business which has always been conducted under the old name of Randall & McAllister. The management and development of what was probably and is the largest business of the kind in New England illustrated the splendid ability of Mr. Randall as a merchant. Beginning with a very limited capi- tal, he built up a business that gave employment to a number of vessels, varying from eight hun- dred to one thousand, requiring from eight thou- sand to ten thousand men to navigate them, and gave him the well-merited title of the "coal king of New England." When he began business the coal trade was in its infancy-a small and insig- nificant trade-which he fostered and developed until it became one of the leading industries of
the New England country. The coal he dealt in embraced both anthracite and bituminous, and was shipped from Norfolk, Baltimore, Phialdel- phia and New York to Portland and other parts of Maine, and to a limited extent to St. John, New Brunswick. The cargoes received at Port- land were deposited in two great pockets, one on his own wharf, the other, built and owned by him, on the wharf of the New York and Boston steamers. From these pockets he not only sup- plied the local trade, but sent large quantities by rail into the interior towns of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. About one-half of Mr. Randall's shipments were bitnminous coal, and among his largest customers in that line was the Maine Central and Grand Trunk railways and the various steamer lines sailing from Portland.
The building up of this great business in thirty-three years proved conclusively that Mr. Randall, though not born to riches nor trained in mercantile pursuits, was a person of self-con- fidence, resolution, energy, tenacity of purpose, tact, sagacity, unsullied integrity and superior business ability, which secured and retained the entire confidence of the business world. Be- sides his private business, he was associated with some other enterprises. He was a director in the Casco National Bank, the Eastern Forge and the Portland Company, a corporation engaged in the manufacture of machinery, and was a trus- tee of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary. In the last named institution he was much interested, and to it he left a legacy at his death, which he intended to be of lasting benefit. He was a Republican in political sentiment, but confined himself chiefly to his special field of activity, though he did fill a place in the City Council in 1872 and 1873. He took more interest in the fra- ternal orders, and was a member of Portland Lodge, No. I, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons; Mt. Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Portland Commandery, Knights Templar; Beacon Lodge, No. 67, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; Michigonne Encampment.
Mr. Randall married, January 1, 1862, Elvira Small, born in Portland, February 19, 1839, daugh- ter of Eli and Elmira K. (Hood) Sargent, of Anisquam, formerly Cape Ann, Massachusetts (see Sargent). Children: Mabel Ascenath, born May 9, 1863, married Henry F. Merrill; Clifford Stowers, mentioned below; John Howard, men- tioned below; Maude Havens, born March 1, 1870, married William L. Taylor; Grace Ethel, born January 3, 1874, unmarried; Ernest Arthur, men- tioned below; Marion Stanwood, born October
John De Randall
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3. 1879, married John D. Baile, of Montreal, Can- ada, two children, Marion and Elizabeth; Claire Elizabeth, born November 24, 1881, married Harry W. Lothrop.
(III) Clifford Stowers Randall, second child and eldest son of John Freeman and Elvira Small (Sargent) Randall, was born in Portland, May S, 1865. He obtained his primary education in the public schools of Portland, and at an early age went West on account of ill health, spending some years there and continuing his studies in private schools. On his return to his native city to took a position in his father's business which he filled until the incorporation of the business,
Randall & McAllister. He was then elected vice- president of the Randall & McAllister Coal Com- pany, and has since performed the duties of that position. He is a Republican, but has no politi- cal ambition. In religious belief he is a Congre- gationalist. He takes an active interest in atlı- letic sports and outdoor events, and is a member of the Country, Portland Athletic, and the Port- land Yacht clubs, and the Portland Power Boat and the Great Pond associations. He married Rena Foster Merrill, daughter of Clinton Merrill. They have one child, John Freeman, born March 25, 1905.
(III) John Howard Randall, second son and third child of John Freeman and Elvira Small (Sargent) Randall, was born in Portland, June 12, 1867. He attended the schools of Portland, and is living on a farm at Harrison, Maine, of five hundred acres of land, and gives his time to its management. He has an interest in the Randall- McAllister Coal Company of Portland. He mar- ried Lida A. Trafton, in 1897.
(III) Ernest Arthur Randall, sixth child and third son of John Freeman and Elvira Small (Sar- gent) Randall, was born in Portland, January 3, 1876. He attended the Portland public schools and later the Phillips Exeter Academy, gradu- ating from the latter institution in 1896. He en- tered the services of his father in the coal busi- ness, in which he has ever since been employed. When the firm was incorporated, Ernest A. Ran- dall became president of the concern. He shares the religions and political predelections of the family, votes the Republican ticket, and worships with the Congregationalists. He has no affili- ation with secret societies, but is a member of the following named clubs: Country, Portland Ath- letic, Portland Gun, Portland Canoe, Portland Power Boat, Portland Yacht, and the Boston Ath- letic Association of Boston. He married Edna M. Mills, born in 1878, daughter of William G.
and Georgiana Mills. Children: Elizabeth Mills, born November 7, 1903; and Eleanor MI., bort November 17, 1906.
PERCY ELMER HIGGINS was born Decem- ber 28, 1885, the son of Andrew J. and Addie C. Higgins. He was educated at the district schools and then went to the Ellsworth High School, and later to the University of Maine Law School. Since he was admitted to the bar he has practiced law at Limestone, Maine. Since 1913 he has been the tax collector for the town of Limestone, Maine. He is a member of the firm of Blair & Higgin>, and is connected with the Limestone Trust Com- pany. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Odd Fellows. He holds membership in Diego Club, Ellsworth, Maine. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.
Mr. Higgins married at Caribou, Maine, in 1913, Hattie O. Boulter, and they have had three chil- dren : Ralph P., born December, 1914; Charles Jackson, born in June, 1916; and Ella May, born in December, 1917.
CARL FOLSOM GETCHELL-In that sec- tion of the State of Maine in which Monmouth is situated, the name Getchell stands for success, because all of the family have made a great suc- cess of their life work. One of them, Carl Folsom Getchell, is one of the rising men of the com- munity, though still in his thirties, having been born at Monmouth, May 17, 1883. His father was Mark L. Getchell, the founder and sole owner of the large moccasin manufacturing plant of that name. The product of the M. L. Getchell Manufacturing Company is known all over the State of Maine as the "Monmouth Moccasin," a high grade foot covering.
Though the son, Carl F. Getchell, grew up in a business atmosphere, his inclinations did not lead him toward following in his father's foot- steps, he preferring a college training and profes- sional life. He attended the local schools, but soon grew beyond them; so after the usual pre- paratory measures he entered Dartmouth Col- lege, from which he graduated when only twenty- two years old with a degree of A.B. in the class of 1905. Choosing the legal profession as the goal to which he aspired, Carl Folsom Getchell became a student in the School of Law, Univer- sity of Maine. Here was bestowed upon him the degree of Bachelor of Laws in the class of Ig10; from this time to the present he has led what might be termed in the language of the day a "hustling" life. He is the senior member of the
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firm of Getchell & Hosmer, attorneys at law, with offices at No. 64 Lisbon street, Lewiston, his partner being Charles B. Hosmer, now holding the office of vice-consul of the United States to Havana, Cuba. Mr. Getchell is at the present time, and has been for the past four years, soli- citor for the city of Auburn, the county seat of Androscoggin county. With his usual progres- sive ideas, Mr. Getchell points with civic pride to the fact that in 1913 Auburn, with its popula- tion of 17,000, was the first city in Maine to adopt the city manager form of municipal government, the new idea of applying business methods to the running of a city. In addition to these occupa- tions Mr. Getchell is attorney for and a direc- tor of the Central Maine Loan and Building As- sociation of Lewiston-Anburn, in the organization of which he was instrumental. Its directorate in- cludes many of the leading men of loth cities, and it is regarded as a foremost enterprise of the "Twin Cities" as they are so often called. the Androscoggin river only marking the dividing line.
In politics Mr. Getchell is a Republican, having represented that party in the City Council in 1906 and 1907; he is also a member of the Re- publican City Committee, of which he has been chairman for many years. While at Dartmouth College and during his career at the University of Maine, Mr. Getchell joined several Greck let- ter socicties, and still retains an interest in his fraternities. He is also a member of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, being con- nected with Augusta Lodge, and of the Rotary Club of Lewiston-Auburn. He is an ex-president of the last mentioned body. With the same thorougliness which he has given to other things, Mr. Getchell has gone through the various degrees of Free Masonry from the Blue Lodge up to the thirty-second degree, and is now a member of the Shrine. Lastly, he and his fam- ily are members of the Elm Street Universalist Church of Auburn.
In the city of Auburn, October 6, 1909, Carl Folsom Getchell was married to Lillian Bcarce. by whom he has one child, Elizabeth. Mrs. Get- chell is the daughter of W. Chandler Bearce, for many years a leading manufacturer of shoes, op- erating two large plants, one in Lewiston and the other across the river in Anburn, he being a di- rector and secretary of the National Shoemakers' Association. The mother of Mrs. Getchell was Julia (Wood) Bearce, whose father owned the site of Mr. Bcarce's present home. Mrs. Bearce died in 1914.
The mother of Carl Folsom Getchell was An- gusta (Woodbury) Getchell, daughter of Hugh Woodbury, of Litchfield, Maine .. The family to which she belonged was unusually large, being comprised of twelve children, each one holding a high place in their day and generation. The elder Mrs. Getchell had two children: Mary M., wife of Harrie E. Merrill, of Monmouth, born June 15, 1875; and Carl Folsom Getchell. The son paid a high tribute to his mothers' character when he said "she was much beloved by all who knew her, and she was always happiest when doing something for others." Mrs. Getchell was actively engaged in church work as well as in the social life of the community where she re- sided. She died at her home in Auburn, Sep- tember 15, 1915.
The dominant characteristics of Carl Folsom Getchell are energy and devotion to business; these he inherits largely from his father, Mark L. Getchell, whose business career was successful beyond the average. Though the son is a Uni- versalist, his father was a Congregationalist in religious faith, and his grandfather, Elder Mark Getchell, was a Baptist clergyman. Elder Get- chell's wife, Sara, survived him by several years, her death not taking place until the latter part of the last century. Elder Getchell and his wife had four children: Mark L., Amiziah, George H., and Sarah Jacques. The Getchell family is re- puted to be of Scotch-Irish descent, with an ad- ded strain of English blood. The first known of them is the arrival in America of two broth- ers, one locating in New England and the other in Chicago, where he became a beef packer in the carly days of that city. The mother of these two brothers was supposed to be of English descent, according to carly data in the possession of the family.
FRED HERBERT CARR-One of the most conspicuous figures in the industrial life of Sanger- ville, Maine, was the late Fred Herbert Carr, whose death on June 7, 1918, at his home in Sangerville, left a gap in the life of this community which it will be difficult to fill. Mr. Carr was a native of Abbot, Maine, born March 27, 1857, and he was a member of an old and highly respected family which had made its home in Maine for a number of generations. He was a grandson of Moses Carr, who was born at Mt. Vernon in this State, in the year 1810, and who was for many years a prom- inent lumherman and woolen manufacturer and the president of the Sangerville Woolen Company. Moses Carr was one of the pioneers of Sangerville,
FRANK S. CARR, 76 yrs.
CUSES CARR, 100 yrs. FRED H. CARR, 53 yrs. OMAR F. CARR, 25 yrs.
OGDEN MOSES CARR, 2 yrs. 8 mos.
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and his career was an important factor in the de- velopment of this town. He was a strong Demo- crat in politics and took an active part in public life. His death occurred in 1911, at the venerable age of one hundred and one years. One of his children was Frank S. Carr, who was born at Sangerville in 1834, and was educated at this place. He succeeded to the various business enterprises of his father and was a merchant, lumberman and wool manufacturer for many years. He was a stockholder in the Kineo Trust Company of Dover, Maine, and the Guilford Trust Company of Guil- ford, and a prominent man in the community. He married Sarah Mudgett, and one of their children was Fred Herbert Carr, of this sketch.
Fred Herbert Carr, like his father and grand- father, began the serious business of life at a very youthful age, his educational advantages in child- hood being very meagre. For a time, as a youth, he worked on a farm, and assisted his father with his lumbering activities, working in the woods of Maine, cutting down and shaving the rough tim- bers for transportation He later became interested, in association with his father, in a general store in the village of Sangerville. Still later, he became connected with the Sangerville Woolen Company, of which his grandfather and father were respec- tively the president and vice-president, and soon rose to the position of secretary and treasurer of that concern. It was mainly through his efforts that the company purchased the old mill which stands on the site of the present Glencoe Mill No. I at Sangerville from Mr. D. R. Campbell, this mill being for many years the plant in which the Sanger- ville Woolen Company manufactured its product. In 1890 the mill was burned, but Mr. Carr would not be discouraged, and at once set to work to erect another structure, which is now owned and operated by the Old Colony Woolen Mills Com- pany. Mr. Carr was one of the chief organizers of this concern, held the office of assistant treasurer, and was a member of its board of directors until the close of his life. Circumstances beyond the control of any individual brought ill fortune to this concern, and some years ago, on account of tariff changes, and an alteration in the methods of the commission merchants of New York, the Sanger- ville Woolen Company was obliged to close its doors, and it was decided by Mr. Carr and his as- sociates to re-organize on a new and solid financial foundation. Mr. Carr was untiring in his efforts and worked for several years, until in April, 1916, he had gathered about him a number of capitalists and industrial leaders who formed a new company. Conditions at that time were very difficult, but Mr.
Carr devoted himself to overcoming all obstacles and lived to see the mills for which he had given so much of his time and energy an assured success. The new company also owned a mill at Rochester. New Hampshire, which it is also successfully oper- ating. In addition to his private business interests, Mr. Carr always took a public-spirited part in the affairs of the community of which he was a mem- ber, and it is perhaps due to him, more than to any other individual, that Sangerville now possesses a modern and first class lighting and power system, and one of the best water systems in the State. Other improvements in which he was largely in- strumental was the building of the Universalist church, a large portion of which was paid for by him, although this was not commonly known until after his death. All the Carr ancestors have been Universalists in religious belief and in this matter Fred Herbert Carr followed their lead and was one of the most prominent workers in the Universal- ist church of this place. He was also a trustee of the Kineo Trust Company of Dover, Maine, as his father and grandfather had been before him. A staunch Republican in politics, Mr. Carr was well known in party circles, and was for many years a member of the Republican town committee. "He was also a member of Abner Wade Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; - _ Lodge. Knights of Pythias ; the Ancient Independent Order of United Workmen; and the Order of Foresters.
Fred Herbert Carr was united in marriage at Sangerville, Maine, in August, 1877, with Susie Maria Oakes, a daughter of Abel and Mary Oakes, old and highly respected residents of this place. Nr. and Mrs. Carr were the parents of three chil- dren, as follows: I. Harold Malcolm, born May 22, 1879: was educated at the Sangerville High School, Foxcroft Academy, Foxcroft, Maine, and the Un- iversity of Maine, Orono, Maine, from which he graduated with the class of 1902; he became asso- ciated with his father in the Sangerville Woolen Company, of which concern he was superintendent for a number of years, and when the company re- organized and purchased a mill at Rochester, New Hampshire, he was elected superintendent, agent and assistant treasurer of the Rochester Mill of the Old Colony Woolen Mill Company, which positions he still holds : he ranks with the best in the woolen industry in New England; he married, March 30. IOTO, Mande Isabelle, daughter of William and Ien- Ielle (Bentley) Dexter; they are the parents of three children : Malcolm Frederick, born February 21, 1911 : Kenneth William, born November 27, 1914: Douglass Harold, born April 1, 1916. 2. Ethel Mae, Forn laruary 4. 1882: educated at Sangerville High
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School, Shaw Business College, Portland, Maine, and a graduate of a Domestic Science School in Massachusetts; she is now teaching Domestic Science in a city school in Quincy, Massachusetts. 3 Omar Frank, born October 8, 1884; educated at the Higgins Classical Institute of Charleston, Maine, from which he graduated with the class of 1904, and became assistant superintendent of the Sanger- ville Woolen Company; he is now superintendent of the Old Colony Woolen Mills Company of San- gerville, and one of the most active of the younger business men of this place; he married, August I, 1906, Josephine Emma, daughter of Sylvester and Josephine (Coombs) Phinney; they are the parents of one child, Ogden M., boru September 10, 1907, and now a student at the public schools of Sanger- ville.
CLAPP FAMILY-The records of those who have worthily served and represented their day and generation in the State of Maine contain no chapter that chronicles more consecrated devo- tion to the public weal or greater achievement in private enterprise than that which sets forth the lives and works of the Clapps, father and son, Asa and Asa William Henry Clapp. Descendants in the fifth and sixth generations of Thomas Clapp, American founder of an ancient English line, their lives and activities extended well over the first century of the history of the United States, the city of Portland their home. They were men of distinguished accomplishment and position, citizens who led in those projects which make for a city's permanence and greatness, men to whom their fellows looked for leadership and guidance in times of stress. Never seeking per- sonal preference, never evading responsibility that came as duty, never deviating from lofty principles, they lived to serve, and though years have passed since they were called from labor to reward their influence is seen and felt in many institutions they helped to found.
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