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HISTORY OF MAINE
himself through college by teaching several terms in the public schools, and after his graduation obtained a position to teach language in Barre, Vermont, at Goddard Seminary. This work lasted for a year, and after that he was ready to enter upon the study of law, which he had deter- mined to make his life work. In 1876 he en- tered the office of Strout & Gage, in Portland, and here read law for the two years of his prep- aration for the bar. In October, 1878, he was admitted to the bar of Cumberland county, and immediately began the practice of his profession in Portland, where he soon met with a gratify- ing success, and counted among his clients some of the most important men of the region. Here he worked for thirty years, and became a recog- nized force in that part of the State. The "Bench and Bar of Maine" says of him in place: "His commanding figure and masterly conduct of cases have been well known in the Maine courts. Mr. Larrabee is a Republican, and his influence in political circles, his ability to win and keep friends, and his social popularity have combined to render him an important factor in the party, to which he has rendered important service."
In 1880 he was elected register of probate for Cumberland county, filling the office for nine years. He served the municipality as city so- licitor in 1891, and was reelected for the office in 1893. For two terms, 1895 and 1897, he rep- resented his district in the State Legislature. It is related that, "upon the assembling of the body after his second election he was its sole choice for the speakership, and was elected to that office without a dissenting vote, and filled it with dignity, ability, and a charm of personal manner seldom equaled."
As a business man his character and ability commended him to the public confidence and many important trusts were placed in his hands. He was for many years an active and influential member of the Portland Board of Trade. He was one of the promoters and organizers of the Casco and of the Portland Loan & Building as- sociations, in both of which he was a director, treasurer and attorney. He was also an original incorporator; trustee of and attorney for the Casco Mercantile Trust Company; director of and attorney for the Union Safe Deposit & Trust Company; a president of the Portland & Yar- mouth Electric Railway Company; one of the founders of the Chapman National Bank, of which he was president, trustee, and attorney. He had the care of a number of important es-
tates, and in all his administrative work he showed himself the possessor of a fine combina- tion of conservatism and progressiveness. He was a member of the Masonic order, and be- longed to Atlantic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and was a member of Bramhall Lodge, No. 3, Knights of Pythias. He served in the militia for two years as a captain of the First Battery, of the National Guard of Maine. He was a member of the Cumberland Club, and of a number of other civic and social organizations.
Mr. Larrabee married, October 21, 1880, Lulu B. Sturtevant, of Scarboro, who was born Feb- ruary 1, 1858, and was a daughter of Joseph and Harriet N. (Bartels) Sturtevant. Their children were: Sydney Bartels; and Leon Sturtevant.
WHITING LUTHER BUTLER-For several years of his life State Senator Butler, of Farm- ington, Maine, was engaged as an educator, fol- lowing the example of his farmer father, Ben- jamin Butler, a man of education, who taught in Franklin county schools for sixty terms. The Butlers of this branch of the Maine family came from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where a Nicholas Butler was living in 1662. There were other Butler families in the early settlements on the island, but no definite connection is traced beyond Benjamin Butler, who died on the island of Martha's Vineyard in 1821, at an advanced age, He left a son, Benjamin (2) Butler, who is the great-grandfather of Senator Whiting L. But- ler, whose career is herein traced.
Benjamin (2) Butler was born at Martha's Vineyard, in 1748, died in Avon, Maine, in Feb- ruary, 1828. He removed to Farmington, Maine, in 1790, and there owned land and followed the carpenter's trade, erecting the first dwelling houses along the river. In 1803 he had charge of framing the Center meeting house, and con- tracted the erection of the first bridge across the river. It was opposite Center village and was completed in 1808. He married, in 1769, Amy Daggett, and had thirteen children, ten of whom were born at Martha's Vineyard, and three in Farmington. This branch descends through the eighth child, Ralph.
Ralph Butler was born at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, September 27, 1782, died in Phillips, Maine, June 6, 1868. He came with his family to Farmington, and there resided until 1815, when he moved to Avon. He married, November 10, 1806 (intentions published), Mary Stevens. They were the parents of: William O., Whiting, Lorenzo, Alonzo, Harrison, Ralph,
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who was living at the age of one hundred and one; Caroline, Mary, Benjamin (3), of further mention; Melinda, Emily, and Nancy.
Benjamin (3) Butler was born in Phillips, Franklin county, Maine, March 10, 1828. He obtained a good common school education and then began teaching, continuing as a teacher in Franklin county schools for sixty terms. But the greater part of his life he was a farmer, teaching only during the winter terms. He was selectman in Avon many years, and in 1875 was elected to the State Legislature on the Repub- lican ticket. He married, in 1857, Susan H. Bad- ger, born in Falmouth, Maine, in 1833, died
March 10, 1900. Children: William B., born May 7, 1858, treasurer of the Phillips Hardware Company; Whiting Luther, of further mention; Ida M., residing in Strong, Maine, the wife of Elisha Landers; Frank W., born October 4, 1864, a lawyer of Farmington, married Alice E. Smith, of Machias, Maine; Amosk K. ,a lawyer of Skow- hegan, Maine; Ernest C., associated with his brother in the practice of law in Skowhegan.
Whiting Luther Butler, second son of Ben- jamin (3) and Susan H. (Badger) Butler, was born April 12, 1860, at Phillips, Franklin county, Maine, a village situated on the Sandy river, sixty miles north of Lewiston. There he at- tended the public schools, was a student in West- brook Seminary, and completed courses in Au- gusta Business College. Following his own school years he taught for twenty-two terms in various schools, then spent four years learning the blacksmith's trade. He did not long follow that trade, however, but entered mercantile life at Rangeley, Maine, and has been associated with G. L. Kempton and H. A. Furbish at Rangeley, Maine, for twenty-five years in the lumber and sawmill business, under the name of the Kemp- ton Lumber Company. While in the mercantile business he became interested in the livery busi- ness, and for seven years conducted a livery under the name, P. Richardson Company. On November 1, 1906, he moved to Farmington, Maine, where he is in the insurance business. Mr. Butler is a Republican in politics, and has always taken a deep interest in public affairs. He was superintendent of schools for several years dur- ing the fifteen years which he lived in Rangeley, and was elected selectman for one term. In Farmington he has been selectman six years, and was elected representative to the State Legis- lature in 1912. In 1916 he was elected State Senator, and at the expiration of his term, in 1918, was reelected for another term. Senator
Butler is a member of the Masonic order, and an attendant of the Congregational church.
Senator Butler married, in Wilton, Maine, De- cember 31, 1891, Myrtell L. Vaughan, a daugh- ter of Roscoe and Mary Vaughan. They are the parents of a son, Glenn V. Butler, born July 24, 1901.
JOHN KNOWLEN was born in Sheridan, Maine, May 4, 1872, a son of Roswell T. and Maria (Metcalf) Knowlen, and one of fourteen children who were brought up by them. His father was a farmer, and the young John Know- len went to the district schools of the neighbor- hood and also those of Presque Isle. Later he went to the State Normal School at Farmington, and graduated in the class of 1899. After he had finished school he entered the profession of teaching and has been occupied in this capacity for twenty-five years. He settled in Westfield, Maine, and here he made his home and carried on his profession and at the same time operated his farm.
Mr. Knowlen is a Republican in politics, and for ten years he has served the board of select- men. For six years lie has been superintendent of town schools, having served for ten years on the school board. He is a charter member of Westfield Lodge, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; past noble grand of Blaine Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a mem- ber of the Grange, and is a Knight of the Macca- bees. Mr. Knowlen's religions preferences are for the Methodist Episcopal church, to which denomination his father and mother before him had belonged. His wife is an Adventist.
Mr. Knowlen marricd at Robinson, Maine, Au- gust 14, 1902, Annie L. Nickerson, a daughter of Charles and Bathsheba (Doherty) Nickerson, both of whom were natives of New Brunswick, in which region her father was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Knowlen have one child, Harry Rudel, born September 30, 191I.
REV. WILLIAM FARRAND LIVINGSTON -A clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church for twenty-seven years, Rev. William Far- rand Livingston is a son of a minister of the Congregational church whose pastorates covered a period of half a century, ten years of which were passed in devoted service in the foreign field. Rev. William Farrand Livingston, pater- nally and maternally, is a descendant of Revolu- tionary ancestors, his great-grandfather, Isaac Livingston, serving nearly six years as a ser-
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geant in the Eighth Connecticut Regiment, from 1777 to 1783. He is a descendant in the sixth generation of General Israel Putnam, of Revolu- tionary fame, and is the author of a history on the life of General Putnam, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York.
Rev. William Farrand Livingston is a grand- son of Farrand Livingston, born in Washington, Connecticut, November 5, 1797, and died No- vember 25, 1875. He engaged in farming and also followed the carpenter's trade, and was a member of the Congregational church. He mar- ried Judith Elkins, born March 26, 1803, and died March 8, 1883. They were the parents of: William Wallace, of whom further; Ralph Ann, Ellen Eliza, Loudon Bard, Henry Farrand, and George Adelbert.
Rev. William Wallace Livingston, son of Far- rand and Judith (Elkins) Livingston, was born at Potton, Province of Quebec, Canada, Decem- ber 15, 1832, and died at Jaffrey, New Hampshire, October II, 1910. He was a graduate of the University of Vermont in the class of 1856, and of Andover Theological Seminary, class of 1859. He went into the foreign field as a missionary of the American Board, and for ten years, from 1860 to 1870, worked at Sivas, Turkey in Asia, where five of his six children were born, Re- turning to the United States, he was pastor of the Congregational church at North Carver, Mas- sachusetts, from 1872 to 1878, in the latter year entering upon his long and fruitful ministry at Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where he filled the pul- pit and a large place in the hearts of his fellows until his death. He married (first) at Andover, Massachusetts, May 17, 1860, Martha Evarts Tracy, born at Windsor, Vermont, November 9, 1837, died at North Carver, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 19, 1874, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Alice Hewitt (Dana) Tracy; they were the parents of six children, as follows: Alice, born March 1, 1861; William Farrand, of whom further; Stephen Tracy, born December 29, 1864; Rebecca, born September 10, 1867; Edward McCallum, born August 14, 1869; Judith Leavenworth, born June 12, 1874, at Andover, Massachusetts. Rev. Wil- liam W. Livingston married (second) at Peters- boro, New Hampshire, November 3, 1880, Ermina Cutter Campbell, daughter of Dr. William John- son and Sarah Augusta (Cutter) Campbell.
Rev. William Farrand Livingston, son of Rev. William Wallace and Martha Everts (Tracy) Liv- ingston, was born in Sivas, Turkey in Asia, July 5, 1862. After graduation from Williams College, in the class of 1884, he entered the Hartford
Theological Seminary, graduating in 1887, then pursuing post-graduate studies in the Union Theological Seminary, of New York, during 1889- 90. He was pastor of the Congregational Church at Fryeburg, Maine, 1887-89, and at North Abing- ton, Massachusetts, 1890-92. Ordained into the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, he was in charge of St. Matthias' church, at Rich- mond, Maine, from 1892 to 1900. From 1892 to 1914 he was also in charge of St. Barnabas' church at Augusta, Maine, and for the whole period from 1892 to the present time (1919) he has been rector for the parish of St. Matthew's, at Hallowell, Maine. From 1906 to 1918, he was secretary of the Diocese of Maine. Mr. Livingston, from 1903 to 1918, served as assistant State librarian of Maine. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society, fraternizes with the Masonic order, be- longing to lodge, chapter and council, and belongs to the Zeta Psi Society, with which he became affiliated during his college years.
Rev. William F. Livingston married, December 30, 1890, at Augusta, Maine, Margaret Vere Far- rington, born at Fryeburg, Maine, May 22, 1863, died in Boston, Massachusetts, August 29, 1914, daughter of Colonel E. C. and Emma C. Farring- ton. Children of William Farrand and Margaret Vere (Farrington) Livingston: Robert Royce, born in Augusta, Maine, December 29, 1893, died there May 13, 1895; Margaret, born in Augusta, Maine, April 28, 1896, educated in the Misses Allen School for Girls, at West Newton, Massa- chusetts, Miss Capen's School for Girls, at North- ampton, Massachusetts, and the Bryant & Strat- ton School, of Boston, Massachusetts.
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GEORGE BRADFORD HAYWARD, one of the most prominent men in Ashland, Maine, though not a son of the soil, had been a resident of that town since 1865. He had been identified with many successful enterprises, one being in partnership with his brother, Jarvis Hayward, of Portage Lake. Together they carried on exten- sive lumber operations for twelve years, and later George B. Hayward continued in the business for several years longer. In addition to this he was largely interested in the manufacture of starch, and conducted a flourishing dry goods and gro- ceries store, as well as running a well stocked farm. One of Mr. Hayward's particular hobbies was a love of horses, and he kept an unusually fine string of racing horses which he personally supervised, though keeping a professional trainer for that purpose. But though so occupied with business Mr. Hayward found time to interest him-
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self in the affairs of the town, being a director of the Presque Isle National Bank, and at one time holding the position of town treasurer. It is a well known fact that when any plans for the wel- fare of the town were projected, he was never slow to help generously; while his purse was ever open to the call of the poor and afflicted in the community. He was one of the promoters of the idea of a newspaper for Ashland, and person- ally sent many copies of it to friends living at distant points. He also had been an ardent worker in the effort to secure the coming of the new railroad to Ashland. Though Mr. Hayward was distinctly a public-spirited man, and enjoyed the respect of all his townspeople, he never took an active part in politics, but was content to vote a straight Republican ticket. While giving liber- ally to all denominations, Mr. Hayward never be- came a member of any church, though a regular attendant of the Congregational church, and as a mark of his interest in that particular body pre- sented it with a bell.
George Bradford Hayward was born in the town of Brighton, New Brunswick, May 28, 1848, of good, sturdy ancestry, being the son of George and Mary A. (Sewell) Hayward, the former named a farmer in that section. He attended the public schools in the district and received a good fundamental education which fitted him for his successful career in after life. He married (first) -. He married (second) in Ash- land, December 24, 1894, Mrs. Frances A. Carter, formerly Frances A. De Grasse, daughter of James F. and Hannah (Seeley) De Grasse. She had previously been the wife of Josiah H. Carter, by whom she had one son, Charles A. Carter, who married Hannah E. Gardiner. Mrs. Hay- ward had no children by her second husband.
Several years ago Mr. Hayward built a hand- some house for himself and wife where the latter still lives, Mr. Hayward having died September 22, 1917. In his death the inhabitants of Ash- land feel deeply the loss of one of its best citi- zens, and a friend, loyal alike to rich and poor. Though of a genial disposition, he was not allied with any fraternal or secret order.
JOSIAH HENRY CARTER was born in Mon- ticelo, Maine, January 27, 1844, died November 3, 1893. He was educated in the district schools, and during his business career was a contracting builder of Ashland, a man of great mechanical ability, highly regarded for his upright, manly character and life. He was a veteran of the Civil War, serving with the Seventeenth Regiment,
Maine Volunteer Infantry, during the four years that the war lasted. After the war, he settled in Fort Fairfield, Maine, but later moved to Ash- land, where his after life was spent. He was a Republican in politics, a member of Ashland Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of the Grand Army of the Republic; and a commu- nicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. He aided in all good works and did his full share in the support of all forward movements in his community.
Mr. Carter married ,in Fort Fairfield, Maine, Frances A. De Grasse, daughter of James F. and Hannah (Seeley) De Grasse, a descendant of County De Grasse. Mr. and Mrs. Carter were the parents of a son, Charles A. Carter, of fur- ther mention. Mrs. Carter survived her husband, and married (second) December 24, 1894, George Bradford Hayward (q.v.), who died September 22, 1917. Mrs. Hayward continues her residence in Ashland; her son, Charles A. Carter, makes his home with her.
CHARLES A. CARTER, only child of Jo- siah H. and Frances A. (De Grasse) Carter, was born in Fort Fairfield, Maine, March 16, 1868. He was educated in the public schools, and upon reaching a suitable age learned the carpenter's trade under his father's instruction. He was associated with the latter as a contracting builder for several years, then upon the death of the senior partner succeeded him in the business. He is well known and highly regarded in the busi- ness world, and is at the head of a prosperous concern. Mr. Carter is a Republican in politics, and has served his town as school committee- man for twelve years. He is a past master of Pioneer Lodge, No. 72, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, of Ashland; a companion of Aroostook Chapter, No. 20, Royal Arch Masons; a sir knight of St. Aldemar Commandery, No. 17, Knights Templar, of Houlton; Kora Temple, Ancient Ara- bic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Lewis- ton, Maine; Eastern Star Lodge of Perfection; fourteenth degree, Palestine Council, Princes of Jerusalem; sixteenth degree, Bangor Chapter of Rose Croix; eighteenth degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, of Bangor; past patron, Tillicum Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star, of Ashland. He is a member of the Protestant Epis- copal church and is interested in all good causes.
Charles A. Carter married, in Ashland, Maine, January 20, 1891, Hannah Esther Gardiner, daugh- ter of William Luther and Nancy M. (Coffin) Gardiner. Mr. and Mrs. Carter are the parents of
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a son and daughter: Clyde Earl, born August 22, 1892, married Caroline Ann Madore, and has a son, Roger Hayward Carter; Lucy V., in training at the Presque Isle General Hospital.
ARTHUR RITCHIE-Descendant of Scotch ancestry, his grandfather, Thomas Ritchie, a na- tive of Scotland, Mr. Ritchie's line in its Ameri- can residence has ever been associated with the State of Maine, his birthplace and the scene of his life's labors. Arthur Ritchie is a son of Elijah C. Ritchie, a native of Winterport, Maine, in call- ing a school teacher and farmer of that region. Elijah C. Ritchie married Eunice M. Littlefield, also born in Winterport, and they were the par- ents of sixteen children, of whom Arthur Ritchie is the youngest.
Arthur Ritchie was born in Monroe, Maine, April 15, 1873, and after attending the public and high schools of his birthplace entered the East Maine Seminary at Bucksport, subsequently tak- ing a course in Gray's Business College, of Port- land. From the age of seventeen years to his twenty-third year he taught school, acquiring an interest in educational matters that has al- ways remained strong and that has been a source of valuable public service. He began the study of law in the office of Ellery Bowden, of Winter- port, continuing under the preceptorship of Gen- eral C. P. Mattocks, of Portland, and the firm of Thompson & Wardwell, of Belfast. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1896, and on February 3, 1897, established in practice at Liberty, Maine. Here he remained in professional work until November 12, 1903, when he opened an office in Belfast, where he has since been a member of the legal fraternity. Mr. Ritchie is a member of the American Bar Association, and his connections in Belfast are numerous, professional, social, fra- ternal and educational. During 1903 and 1904 he served as county attorney, elected to office as the Republican candidate. For three years he was superintendent of schools in Liberty, also serv- ing on the school board, and for several years he was chairman of the school board directing the union schools of Belfast and Searsport. He served for a time as president of the Waldo County Teachers' Association. Mr. Ritchie is counsel for the Waldo Trust Company, highly regarded in his profession, and is widely known in this re- gion. He is a member of the Belfast Board of Trade, and fraternizes with the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, the Patrons of Husbandry, in which he has been master of the local Grange,
and the Masonic order, in which he holds York and Scottish Rites degrees, as well as belonging to the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine. He is also a member of the Coun- try Club, and is an attendant of the Unitarian church.
Mr. Ritchie married, at Lewiston, Maine, July 22, 1907, Hattie Skillings, born in Lewiston, a graduate of Bates College, daughter of James Dunn Skillings, a native of Yarmouth, Maine, and Laurinda (Stevens) Skillings, born in Embden, Maine.
LOUIS C. HATCH was born in Bangor, Maine, September 1, 1872, the son of Silas Clinton and Sarah Frances (Williams) Hatch. He received his early education in the local schools of his native town, and after completing his preparatory training, he entered Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1895. Four years later, in 1899, he received the degree of Ph.D., from Harvard University. Continuing his scholarly pursuits, he remained in Cambridge, Massachusetts, doing historical work until 1905, and since then Mr. Hatch has lived in his native Bangor, of which place he had always been a legal resident. In 1904 he published "The Administration of the American Revolutionary Army," and in 1919 he wrote a "History of Maine," published by the American Historical Society, Inc., of New York City. He has also written, but not published, an elaborate history of the pension legislation of the United States. Mr. Hatch is an indefatig- able student along historical lines, painstaking as a writer, and conservative in judgment. His works are of permanent value.
EDWARD PARKHURST WASHBURN- Born at Taunton, Massachusetts, May, 1859, Ed- ward Parkhurst Washburn comes of old New England stock, his forebears in a direct line hav- ing been merchants here for four generations back. He is a son of Edward E. Washburn, also born in Taunton, where he inherited from his father and grandfather the furniture store which has come to be so closely identified with the Washburn name in this region. Edward E. Washburn passed his entire life at Taunton, his death occurring there in 1899. He was a suc- sessful merchant. He married Mary A. Park- hurst, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, who sur- vives him, and still resides at the old Washburn mansion in Taunton. They were the parents of two sons, Edward Parkhurst, with whose career we are here especially concerned, and Walter C.,
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who is also engaged in the furniture business at Taunton.
Edward Parkhurst Washburn attended the pub- lic schools of Taunton for his education, and con- tinued thus engaged until he had reached the age of eighteen years. When only twelve, however, he began, in addition to his studies, to work in his father's store, the elder man believing that he would better pick up the details of the busi- ness in this manner than to wait until later. Ac- cordingly he worked in this capacity for a number of years, and remained with his father until he had reached the age of twenty-seven. He then secured a position in a store at Newport, Rhode Island, where he continued for five years. Then he was assistant manager of the Glenwood Furniture Company for seventeen years at Taunton, Mas- sachusetts. After this he was for a time at Salem, and eventually came to Lewiston, Maine. In 1909 he purchased the business of Jack & Hartley Com- pany in the B. Peck building and is sole owner of the business at the present time. There is placed with Mr. Washburn each year orders for furniture amounting to seventy-two thousand dol- lars, a volume of business which has caused the company to increase the floor space, as well as other facilities, to double its original extent. The main floor has a capacity of twenty thousand feet, and is the largest single show room in New England. There are eighteen thousand square feet on the fourth floor of the building, and here is kept what is the largest furniture stock in New England. He is a consulting designer and furnisher for Jack & Hartley Co., besides giving talks and lectures to various educational institutes on this line, and furnishes homcs with all equip- ment needed by them, and his skill and artistic sense have had much to do with his successful achievement.
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