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In his youth, Mr. Washburn was an enthusi- astic baseball player, and he still describes him- self as a fan. Indeed for a time he was a semi- professional and was one of the best known play- ers in Massachusetts. Mr. Washburn, as a mat- ter of fact, has always enjoyed outdoor life of all kinds and the occupations associated there- with. He has for a number of years been keenly interested in pigeon breeding, and has gained a great reputation as a fancier, and won many blue ribbons at exhibitions held in the United States. In his religious belief he is a Unitarian.
Edward Parkhurst Washburn married, June I, 1882, at Taunton, Massachusetts, Kate M. Jones, a native of that place, daughter of Dr. E. U. Jones, who holds one of the chairs of Boston
University, and is a well known writer and an authority on all subjects connected with sanita- tion. Mr. and Mrs. Washburn were the parents of two children, twins, one of whom died in in- fancy; the other, Marion W., became the wife of William H. Miller, of Lewiston, and they are the parents of two daughters, Susanne Wash- burn and Jeanne Miller.
GRANVILLE M. HOPKINSON, son of Wil- liam F. and Eunice (Decker) Hopkinson, was born at Fort Hill, Maine, April 2, 1862. His father was an attorney-at-law and represented his district in the State Legislature, and served also in several of the town offices. He died when his son, Gran- ville M., was an infant of two years old. The father was a Republican in his politics, and his son has followed in his steps.
Granville M. Hopkinson was educated in the common schools and then went through the high school, after which he entered upon agricultural pursuits which he has continued all his life. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, and of the Grange, in the latter having served as treasurer. He is a member of the religious society of Friends.
He married at Presque Isle, September 15, 1885, Ermintine Johnston, born September 5, 1869, a daughter of Frank L. and Mary (Beet- sill) Johnston. Their children are: Alice Fern, born November 4, 1886; Granville Mellen, born February 7, 1888; Grace, born March 23, 1889, died February 13, 1891; Earl Decker, born Febru- ary 3, 1891, enlisted in the World War, October 3, 1917; Amy Eunice, born February 19, 1893; Le- verse Blanche, born September 20, 1894; Stanley Fry, born February 26, 1895; Willena May, born June II, 1896; Harold Henry, born October 3, 1899.
EUGENE I. HERRICK-From the age of seven years Eugene I. Herrick lived in Range- ley, Maine, becoming one of the best known and most prominent business men of that village and of Franklin county, in which it is situated. He took an active, hearty part in all that inter- ested his neighbors, and was one with them in their joys and sorrows, their success and failures, a sympathetic, kindly friend in whose fidelity all could with safety confide. When the time came to render the last honors to their friend all busi- ness houses in Rangeley were closed, and his brethren of the Knights of Pythias escorted their fallen comrade from the church to the village cemetery, where his brethren of the Masonic
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order laid him at rest according to the beautiful Masonic burial ritual.
The tradition of the very ancient family of Herrick claim their descent from Erick, a Dan- ish chief, who invaded Britain during the reign of Alfred, and having been vanquished by that Prince was compelled with his followers to re- people the wasted district of East Europe, the government of which he held as a fief to the English crown. He is recognized in history as "Ericke, King of those Danes who hold the Coun- tries of East Angle." The Norman invasion found this name represented as Eric, the Forester, who resided in Leicestershire and possessed exten- sive domains along the sources of the Severn and on the borders of Wales. Eric raised an army to repel the invaders, and in the subsequent ef- forts of the English Earl and Princes to dis- possess the Normans of their recent conquest, and to drive them out of the country, he bore a prominent and conspicuous part. He shared in the unfortunate issue of all these patriotic efforts, and his followers and allies were stripped of their estates. The sources of his own power were dried up, and, being no longer in a condition formid- able to the new government, Eric was taken into favor by William, entrusted with important of- fices about his person and in the command of his armies, and in his old age was permitted to re- tire to his house in Leicestershire, where he closed a stormy and eventful life.
Of the twelfth generation in descent from Eric, the Forester, was Sir William Herrick, of Beau Manor Park, member of Parliament from 1601 to 1630, knighted in 1605, who "was a successful courtier and politician from 1575, when he first attached himself to the court of Queen Eliza- beth, by whom he was commissioned on an im- portant embassy to the Ottoman Porte, and as a reward for his singular diplomatic success with the hitherto intractable Turk, he was ap- pointed to a lucrative situation in the Exche- quer which he held through the remainder of this and the following reign of James." His fifth son was Henry, who in all likelihood was the founder of the Herrick line of New England after his marriage to Editha, daughter of Hugh Laskia, of Salem, who bore him eight children.
The line of Eugene I. Herrick, of Rangeley, Maine, is through Joseph Herrick, "a man of great firmness and dignity of character," who, "in addition to the care and management of his large farm was engaged in foreign commerce. As he bore the title of governor he had probably been at some time in command of a military post
or district, or perhaps of a West India colony. His descendants are numerous, and have occu- pied distinguished stations, often exhibiting a transmitted military stamp. Joseph Herrick was in the Naragansett fight." His first wife was Sarah, daughter of Richard Leach, whom he mar- ried in 1666-67; his second, Mary Endicott. His son, Joseph (2) Herrick, eldest child of his first marriage, had a son, Benjamin Herrick, through whom the line continued to Benjamin (2) Her- rick. Benjamin (2) Herrick married Mary Rich- ardson, and their son, Howard Herrick, who set- tled in Franklin county, Maine, married Eliza- beth Richardson. Benjamin (3) Herrick, son of Howard and Elizabeth (Richardson) Herrick, was for twenty-three years selectman of the town of Fairbanks, Maine, and for one term served his district in the State Legislature. He married Sarah Keizer, of Waldoborough, Lincoln county, Maine.
John Fairfield Herrick was the son of Benja- min (3) and Sarah (Keizer) Herrick, and father of Eugene Ira Herrick, of this record. He was a stone mason of the town of Rangeley, and was a man prominent in town affairs. He gave his allegiance to the Democratic party in politics, and served his townsmen as a member of the board of selectmen. He married Abbie, dangh- ter of Silas and Elmira Spaulding, who bore him two children.
Eugene Ira Herrick, son of John Fairfield and and Abbie (Spaulding) Herrick, was born in New Vineyard, Maine, July 6, 1863, and died in Rangeley, Maine, October 9, 1917. As a lad of seven years he began his life connection with the town of Rangeley, and in that vicinity he ac- quired his general and business education, gradu- ating in 1884 from the Rockland Business College. When a young man, Mr. Herrick passed several winters in the lumber camps of Maine, there gain- ing an experience extremely valuable to him when he engaged in lumber operations in later life. From 1897 to 1899 he was treasurer of the Rangeley Mercantile Company, in the latter year forsaking the general merchandise field for lum- ber operating and fire insurance dealings. In 1907 lie bought out the interest of Mr. Neal in the firm of Neal, Oakes & Quimby, purchasing the entire business in 1912. Disposing of this holding in the following year he entered the firm of Fur- bush & Herrick, under which name he was active in the large insurance dealings of Franklin county. Mr. Herrick's business life was an open book, marked only by energetic prosecution of the proposition in hand, and a scrupluous regard for
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the reputation of his home. His abilities were called upon in the public service on numerous occasions, and from the time of the erection of the Rangeley Village Corporation until his death lie filled the offices of either clerk or treasurer, besides which he was for twelve years a member of the board of selectmen, six years as chairman. Always an ardent supporter of Democratic prin- ciples, that party called him to membership on the Democratic State Committee as the repre- sentative of Franklin county, and in the ses- sions of 1915-16 he sat in the State Senate, the first member of his party to fill the Franklin county seat in sixty years. The other local or- ganizations in which he was most concerned were the Round Pond Improvement Company, of which he was a director and clerk; the Frank- lin County Land Company, in which he filled the same office in addition to that of treasurer; and the Rangeley Trust Company, on whose di- rectorate he served. While Mr. Merrick lived close to his many friends in the county and State, those who knew him in his fraternal orders felt the kindness of his nature, the warmth of his true hearted friendliness. In the Masonic order he was a past master of Blue Mountain Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Phillips; master of Kem- ankeag Lodge of Rangeley; a companion of Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; a mem- ber of Jephthah Council Royal and Select Mas- ters; and a sir knight of Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Templar, of Farmington. He was a thirty-second degree Mason. He was also the first chancellor commander of Oquossoc Lodge, Knights of Pythias; and a member of the Patrons of Husbandry. He was an attendant, with his family, of the Baptist church.
Eugene Ira Herrick married, November 16, 1892, Alice H. Huntoon, of Rangeley, daughter of John and Mehitable (Ross) Huntoon, and they were the parents of two sons, Howard and Rich- ard Herrick.
ORLAND EPHRAIM FROST-The position held in manufacturing lines by Mr. Frost is one that is dne entirely to his personal efforts-to his tireless devotion to the affairs of increasing importance with which he has been associated. At the present time (1919) he is owner of the business of Mathews Brothers, a firm with which he was first connected as superintendent, and he is also president of the Waldo Trust Company, of Belfast, with other large and important inter- ests. Mr. Frost is a son of Jacob L. and Sarah (Doe) Frost, his father a carpenter of St. Al- bans, where his life was passed.
Orland E. Frost was born in St. Albans, Som- erset county, Maine, December 14, 1864, and after attending the public schools became a student in the Maine Central Institute, at Pittsfield. He fin- ished his studies in Hinman's Business Col- lege, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and at the age of sixteen years he entered the employ of the firm of Rice & Griffin, his term of service with them covering a period of fifteen years. Their line was the manufacture of sash and doors and during the last two years of his employ- ment Mr. Frost was assistant superintendent of the plant, where one hundred and fifty men were employed. His next position was as travel- ing salesman for the Seldon Cypress Door Com- pany, and for one and one-half years he was in this employ, being entrusted with special duties in systematizing and reorganizing the produc- tion and field work of the company, which was located at Palatka, Florida. His connection with the business of Mathews Brothers began July 26, 1898, as superintendent, and as opportunity of- fered he acquired additional holdings in the company until he is now sole owner, with only one share of the company's stock outstanding. The company formerly manufactured doors, sash, and blinds, while the present operations are in the making of box shooks and caskets and in ship-building. The Waldo Trust Company, of which he is president, is Mr. Frost's chief inter- est ontside his private enterprise, and he is also a trustee of the Belfast Savings Bank.
Mr. Frost, a Republican in political faith, is deeply interested in public affairs as concerning the city and State, and during the war, particu- larly in regard to his ship-building activity, patri- otically and constantly supported the govern- ment. He supported the government financial campaigns with his means and influence and in every way realized the obligations of good citi- zenship, meeting the special demands made upon the heads of financial institutions with ready re- sponse. Mr. Frost holds the thirty-second de- gree in the Masonic order, and also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. With his family he is a member of the Baptist church.
Mr. Frost married (first) in March, 1885, Idella F. Merrow, of Hartland, Maine, who died in 1888. They were the parents of one daughter, Ethola, teacher of musical history in Meredith College, North Carolina. He married (second) in Au- gust, 1896, Anna Tucker, born in London, Eng- land, daughter of William and Isabella (Whitley) Tucker, and they have the following children: Myrtle, a graduate of Wheaton College, class of 1918; and Katherine, a student in high school.
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PHILO H. REED-At the age of eighteen years Philo H. Reed came to Aroostook county, Maine, and began farming with his father. Ten years later, with a capital of $1,000, he began an independent business as a farmer and potato buyer, raising and selling seed potatoes and selling agri- cultural machinery. That was in 1890, and the years which have since elapsed, twenty-nine, have brought him abundant success from a financial standpoint as well as high reputation as Maine's largest potato shipper. Potato houses all over Aroostook county form part of his investment, and he is a well known specialist in seed potatoes which are particularly selected to thrive and pro- duce under Aroostook county soil and climate conditions. In 1907 he built a handsome resi- dence in Fort Fairfield, and there he has since made his home. He is a son of Webster and Electa (Spaulding) Reed, who at the time of the birth of their son, Philo, were living at Madison, Somerset county, Maine, on the Kennebec river. Later the family moved to Aroostook county, forty-two miles north of Houlton.
Philo H. Reed was born in Madison, Maine, January 11, 1862, and there was educated in the grade and high schools. His youth was spent on the home farm in Somerset county, and after 1880 on the farm in Fort Fairfield, Aroostook county. There he was associated with his father in farming operations until 1890, except for one season which he spent in the West. In 1890 he married and settled on his own farm, there remaining four years, then sold and bought again, finally owning a productive farm of three hundred acres. He specialized in potato grow- ing, and in addition to raising high quality seed potatoes he bought as heavily as his means would allow. As he became thoroughly familiar with the business and fully aware of its possibilities he expanded and reached out for more business. The largest individual shipper of seed potatoes in New England is his title; in 1918 he sent to market one thousand loaded cars. These potatoes are gathered and stored in houses built for the purpose at different points along the railroads of Aroostook county, and then sent to such mar- kets and at such times as Mr. Reed decides. He is also in the automobile business, and in 1917 built the best and most up-to-date garage in Maine. At his farm he has a string of good horses which are his delight. He and his sons produced from their own farms of three hundred and twenty acres, eighty-one thousand bushels of potatoes in 1918, which was a satisfactory busi- ness in itself without considering the vast quan- tity he buys and ships.
Mr. Reed was one of the organizers of the Frontier Trust Company of Fort Fairfield, of which he is vice-president and director. He is also vice-president of the Fort Fairfield Hotel Company. He is a Republican in politics. He married, in Fort Fairfield, Maine, in April, 1890, Myra Louise Foster, daughter of Lincoln and Z --- (Bishop) Foster. They are the parents of the following children: George W., Elizabeth Louise, Walter Manley, Clara, Ralph, Gertrude, Hazel, and Clarence.
ALBION P. TOPLIFF, M.D .- Son of a tal- ented physician, it was in the field of medicine that Albion P. Topliff found the opportunity for the lofty service that enriched his life and en- deared him to his fellowmen. For more than twenty-five years he practiced his profession in Woodfords, now a part of the city of Portland, and he filled the many relations into which the physician, as no other, is permitted to come with unswerving fidelity to the highest ideals of his calling and with a sympathy and kindliness un- limited. Men and women found in him a skilled doctor for their physical ailments, a ready listener and wise counselor when troubles were of the mind and heart, and a faithful, loyal friend when there was need for a word of cheer and a sharer of burdens. It is fifteen years since he was called from his place, yet among those who knew him there lingers strong the memory of his gentle spirit and the inspiration of his life, lived in the love and approbation of all men.
Albion P. Topliff was a son of Dr. Calvin Top- liff, who was a descendant of an old English fam- ily of Lincolnshire, England, born in Hanover, New Hampshire. After preliminary education Calvin Topliff entered Dartmouth College, situ- ated in his town, and received the degree of M.D. from the medical department of this institution. He established in practice in Freedom, Carroll county, New Hampshire, and was there active in his profession for forty years, also serving for years on Freedom's school board. He was past master of Freedom Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and when a chapter of this body was organized in Freedom it was named in honor of his life and eminent service, Calvin Topliff Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons. His death occurred in 1867. Dr. Calvin Topliff married Ann Andrews, daughter of John A. Andrews, of Freedom, and they were the parents of: Jane, Ruth, Rose, Frank, Orestes, and Albion P., of whom further.
Albion P. Topliff was born in Freedom, New Hampshire, March 14, 1843, died in Portland, Maine, May 8, 1904. After attendance in the
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public schools he prepared for college at the Masonic Institute, maintained by the Masonic order at Effingham, New Hampshire. Between this period and his course at Dartmouth College, his father's alma mater, whence he was graduated, class of 1867, he studied medicine under the preceptor- ship of Dr. Topliff, continuing with his father until the latter's death soon afterward. Then he continued study at Bellevue Hospital, New York, after receiving his degree, beginning practice in Freedom, New Hampshire, where he was widely known and where his father had served so long and faithfully. Until 1871 he was in practice in Freedom, during this period finishing a post- graduate course in medicine and surgery, and from 1871 to 1878 followed his profession in Gor- ham, Maine, then coming to Woodfords, where his after life was spent. He was a member of the Academy of Medicine, the Cumberland Medical and the Maine State Medical societies, taking part in the gatherings and deliberations of all. He was a physician of learning and ability, a tire- less student in everything of progress in his pro- fession, and was recognized by his associates in medicine, as an ornament to his profession. Like his father, in many channels of his life, he again followed him in his public service, confining his office-holding to work on the school boards of his different places of residence. He belonged to Woodfords Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Greenleaf Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Port- land Commandery, Knights Templar. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church.
Dr. Albion P. Topliff married, December 9, 1875, Caroline B. Adams, daughter of James and Anne M. (Agry) Adams, of Maine. James Adams filled prominent positions at the Maine bar, prac- ticing in partnership with Judge Tenney, of Norridgewock, Maine. Children of James and Anne M. (Agry) Adams: Elizabeth, who died, aged twenty-five years; Walter C., who died aged fifty-one years; and Caroline B., of previous men- tion, widow of Dr. Albion P. Topliff, residing in Portland. Children of Dr. Albion P. and Caroline B. (Adams) Topliff : 1. Annie T., married Harry L. Whitcher, and has children: Marguerite T. and Robert. 2. Florence A., married James G. Wallace. 3. Philip, a teacher of stenography, married Irene Surrage, of Rochester, New York.
JOHN C. McFAUL-Among the business men of Calais, Maine, and of Bar Harbor, none occu- pies a more prominent place than John C. Mc- Faul. It has been his good fortune to hold many positions of trust, always with credit to
himself and to the town where he resides. He was born in Pembroke, Maine, October 20, 1879, the son of James and Margaret McFaul. He re- ceived his early training in the schools of that place, graduating from the Pembroke High School when nineteen years old. His first employ- ment was in 1899, as timekeeper with the New England Telegraph & Telephone Company. Hav- ing filled this position in a satisfactory manner, he was appointed manager of the company's ex- change in Dover-Foxcroft. From there he was transferred to Bar Harbor as manager. Having gained considerable experience during this time, he later became general manager of the Eastern Telegraph & Telephone Company, with headquar- ters in Calais, a busy, thriving city in Washing- ton county. Here Mr. McFaul made his home, identifying himself with the leading enterprises of the town, both charitable and social, occupy- ing several highly honorable positions. He was chosen president of the Washington County Light & Power Company, then treasurer of the Citizen's Gas Company of Calais, and later be- came treasurer of the Washington County Lum- ber Company, this last opening up opportunities to become interested in the purchase of timber lands, and eventually he became owner of valu- able properties in the lumber section of the State. Mr. McFaul is one of the directors of the International Trust & Banking Company of Cal- ais. In addition to this he is a director of the First National Bank of Bar Harbor.
Though a Republican in politics, Mr. McFaul has never been an active worker in the party, nor has he ever sought to hold any public office in either town or State. The only fraternal order with which he is connected is the Royal Arcanum; but that he finds pleasure in the society of his fellowman is evidenced by the fact that he is a member of several clubs, one, the St. Croix, of Calais, of which he is a director, and in Bar Har- bor he holds membership in the Sixty Three Club. He is greatly interested in the Calais Hospital, being one of the board of trustees.
Mr. McFaul married, in Boston, February 5, 1915, Blanche Harriman, daughter of William H. and Hannah Harriman. They have no chil- dren.
HORACE FRANK FARNHAM, eleventh in line of ancestry since the landing of Ralph Farn- ham in 1635, was born in Augusta, Maine, Au- gust 31, 1851, and died in Portland, January 6, 1913. He was the eldest son of Joseph and Mar- tha C. (Starkey) Farnham, both of Maine par-
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entage, his father being for many years a mer- chant of Augusta.
The Farnhams are of English descent, the name derived from two words, farn, the German for fern, and ham, Anglo-Saxon for home; hence Farnhams were a race whose homes were among the ferns, and came from Surrey county, Eng- Ind, where, about twenty miles from London, in the town of Farnham, where one of England's oldest and most historical castles may be found. Lord Farnham was a prominent figure in the history of England during the war with France. Ralph Farnham sailed, with his wife Alice, from Southampton, April 6, 1635, in the brig James, and after a voyage of fifty-eight days, landed in Boston, June 3. From their two sons, Ralph and Daniel, all Maine Farnhams descended. The Farnhams were brave, grand soliers, and fought for their country in both the Revolution and the War of 1812, as well as the Civil War. Tall, muscular, fair-haired, blue-eyed, intelligent, apt and active, they have been ever proved charac- teristic of their motto on the Farnham coat-of- arms: Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, which translated reads: "Inclined to swear in the words of no master." When Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was in Boston, he met Ralph Farnham, who was one of the American officers present at General Burgoyne's surrender, and the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill. "It was interesting," said one of the Prince's friends, "to witness a veteran of the Revolution, one hun- dred and five years old, shaking hands with a Prince whose great-great-great-grandfather was on the throne of England when he was born, and whose great-grandfather, George III, he had con- tended against during the Revolution."
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