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(II) William Fulton, son of James and Anna (Colwell) Fulton, was born in Ireland, in 1757, and died at Truro, Nova Scotia, December 11, 1812. In 1784 he settled in the upper part of the Stewiacke valley, about twenty-five miles from Truro, on the farm on which his great-grandson, Ebenezer Fulton, now resides. In 1783 he married Sarah, daughter of John and Mary (Johnson) Dunlap, who died Sep- tember 20, 1814. They had ten children of whom Samuel, of further mention, was one.
(III) Samuel Fulton, son of William and Sarah (Dunlap) Fulton, was born at Truro, Nova Scotia, 1792, and was a very successful farmer and lumber- man. About 1816 he removed to a town on the St. John's river in New Brunswick. He married Mar- garet Lovely. They had nine children, of whom the third was Robert, of further mention.
(IV) Robert Fulton, son of Samuel and Margaret
(Lovely) Fulton, was born in Florenceville, New Brunswick, March 13, 1816, and died at Mars Hill, Maine, in 1897. He was a man of untiring energy and of great executive ability, and devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and lumbering. For a time he made his home at Wicklow, New Brunswick, but in 1868 he removed to Mars Hill, Maine, where he continued in the same occupations. He married Martha, daughter of Ephraim Jones, and they had twelve children of whom Dr. Aaron Jones, of the present mention, was the sixth.
(V) Dr. Aaron Jones Fulton, son of Robert and Martha (Jones) Fulton, was born in Wicklow, New Brunswick, as before mentioned, April 9, 1851. He obtained his education in his native town, at Mars Hill, Maine, and at the Houlton (Maine) Academy, from which he graduated in 1883. Later he attended the University of Vermont, from which he was graduated with the highest honors from the medical department, and won from his fellow students the honor of the presidency of the class in 1890. As he had before this been a very successful teacher in various towns in Aroostook county, Maine, and made many friends in that section of the State, his thoughts turned to that region as a promising field of work. Immediately after his graduation he hegan the practice of medicine at Bridgewater, and after two years of fine work he moved to Blaine, where he has since resided. The energy and pluck which he showed in his early days in working his own way through college was put into his medical practice and has given him a place and rating which is sec- ond to none in the neighborhood.
Dr. Fulton is a member of the Aroostook County Medical Society and served one year as its presi- dent. He is also a member of the State Medical Association. He is a member of Aroostook Lodge, No. 197, Free and Accepted Masons, Blaine, Maine; Aroostook Chapter, No. 20, Royal Arch Masons, Houlton, Maine ; Aroostook Council, No. 16, Presque Isle, Maine; St. Aldemar Commandery, No. 17. Houl- ton, Maine; and Kora Temple, of Lewiston, Maine. He has served his town at different times in many important positions among them being superintendent of schools, member of the school board, health officer, town clerk, member of the board of trustees of Aroos- took Central Institute, and for several years was its president. In politics Dr. Fulton is a sturdy Re- publican, and has represented his district in the Maine Legislature in 1905 and again in 1907. He also served in the Maine State Senate in 1915 and 1917.
Dr. Fulton married Emma, daughter of Otis Tur- ner, of Bridgewater, Maine, and their children are Ellwyn M., a graduate of the University of Maine,
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of the class of 1916; and Anita J., who attended Aroostook Central Institute, Mars Hill, and who dicd in November, 1908, before completing her high school course.
AMBER ELIZABETH (KETCHUM) ROB- INSON-At the age of sitxeen years Mrs. Robin- son began teaching, and during the greater part of the years which have since intervened, 1883-1919, she has followed the profession of an educator with most satisfactory results. She is as well known upon the public platform and in the columns of the press as she is in the school room, and she ranks with the 'devoted influential women of the State of Maine. She is a granddaughter of Joseph Ketchum, one of the earliest settlers of Bridgewater, Maine, liis son James being the first white child born in the town where Joseph Ketchum settled in this then un- inhabited village of Aroostook county, Maine. He cut the first timber on the Presteel, and when he had done a little clearing he sewed the first wheat ever seen in Bridgewater. He built a public inn at Bridge- water, and was its proprietor, that being the only house of public entertainment between Houlton and Presque Isle.
The Ketchums came originally from France, Jo- seph Ketchum being born at St. John, New Bruns- wick, Canada, in 1799, died August 9, 1876. He mar- ried Elizabeth Foye, born in 1804, died September 3, 1864. They were the parents of ten children: Adol- phus, Salome, Samuel, Mary, Ann, James, Harriet, John Franklin, of further mention ; Jarvis, and Ed- ward.
John Franklin Ketchum, son of Joseph and Eliza- beth (Foye) Ketchum, was born in Bridgewater, Aroostook county, Maine, July 4, 1835, died June 3, 1915. He enlisted in the Union Army from Maine, December 8, 1864, and served until the war closed, his regiment a part of the army commanded by Gen- eral Sherman. He was a farmer of Bridgewater, and a lifelong Democrat. He married (second) July 30, 1863, Lenora Parker Foote, born March 2, 1847. Children : Emma Ida, born July 13, 1857. a daughter by his first wife; Amber Elizabeth, of further men- tion ; Leslie Mount, born November 29, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum were members of the Baptist church.
Amber Elizabeth Ketchum, only daughter of John Frarklin and Lenora Parker (Foote) Ketchum, was born in Bridgewater, Aroostook county, Maine, Feb- ruary 1.4, 1867. Her mother was a near relative of Commodore Foote. Amber E. Ketchum attended the public schools of Bridgewater and Blaine, and upon that foundation, by the aid of study and wide read- ing, she has built a career as an educator most cred-
itable to her. She was but sixteen years of the when appointed to her first school, but she was equal to the position, and has never been without a po- sition if she desired it. She is still engaged in the work, and manifests the same devotion and zcal as when her career was in its beginning. She is an interesting, fluent speaker, in demand on pul.lic occasions, and is also a strong, forcible writer. She is an able advocate of Woman's Suffrage, and any cause she espouses, and exerts her influence in be- half of all that tenets to uplift and improve. In religious preferences she is a Unitarian.
Miss Ketchum married, at Blaine, September 2.2, 1883. William Ellsworth Robinson, born September 13, 1862. They are the parents of : I. Oscar Burton, born September 4, 18844, a graduate of Ricker Clas- sical Institute, Houlton, Maine, class of 'og, now a farmer of the town of Blaine, Maine. He married December 25, 1907, June Beatrice Stevens, of Port- age, Maine. 2. Clinton Burleigh, born August 31, 1866, a graduate of Aroostook Central Institute, class of '11 ; now in the employ of the Buffalo Fer- tilizer Company, Houlton, Maine. He married, in June, 1912, Helen Lincoln.
THOMAS SMILEY-Among the successful business men of Portland, Maine, Thomas Smiley may be mentioned. He comes of old New England stock, and is a son of David Oaksman Smiley, a na- tive of Winslow, Maine, born in the year 1820.
Thomas Smiley was born January 18, 1861, at Winslow, Maine, but only spent the first four years of his life in his native town. He then moved with his parents to Benton Falls, where he attended school, and after completing his studies he secured a position as a clerk in a dry goods store in the neighhornig town of Norway, Maine. Here he re- mained for a period of three years, and then at the same place established himself in business in part- nership with a Mr. Whitcomb, under the firm name of Whitcomb & Smiley. For two years they con- tinued the business there, at the end of which the firm changed its name to Smiley Brothers, on the retirement of Mr. Whitcomb and the admission of Mr. Smiley's brother to the business. Four more years were thus spent and then Mr. Smiley removed to Clinton, Massachusetts. Here he continued in lusi- ness for five years and then again returned to Nor- way. On this occasion he began business by him- self under the name of Thomas Smiley. His enter- prise was a success from the outset, and in 1902 he started a branch store at Portland. This store eventually became the more important of the two and Mr. Smiley made Portland his headquarters. Hc still, however, controls the Norway store and has
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recently opened a third at Bridgton, Maine, which was established in 1906. His present location in Portland is at Nos. 509 and 511 Congress street, Portland, which was occupied in 1912, Mr. Smiley buying another concern which had its quarters there at that time. His own business now takes up three floors and is one of the largest of its kind in the city. He has a very extensive line of lady's apparel and housekeeping goods, and his store is one of the busiest centers in the city. Besides his mercantile interest, Mr. Smiley is actively engaged in many other departments of the activity of the city and is at the present time a director in the retail bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Portland Credit Man's Association. He is a prominent Ma- son, and is a member of lodge, chapter, council, com- mandery and temple, and has taken his thirty-second degree in Free Masonry. He is a member of the Portland Club, the Portland Men's Singing Club and other organizations. He is particularly fond of music and has much ability in this direction and a delightful voice. Music indeed may be said to be Mr. Smiley's hobby, although all the arts interest him and everything in connection with the development of aesthetic appreciation and general culture. He is a member of the Second Congregational Church of Norway.
Mr. Smiley married (first) Mary Kimball, who died in 1910. Mr. Smiley married (second), Octo- ber, 1915, Minerva French, a native of Parkman, Maine, and a daughter of Edmund and Esther (Genthner) French, both of whom are deceased.
The strong and self-confident character of Mr. Smiley is greatly moderated by the most kindly of hearts and cheerful of dispositions. A man in whose life his religions faith plays an important part would naturally be of a nature to consider the rights of others, and this is pre-eminently so in his case. His private charities are also of a liberal na- ture, although how much will probably never be known as he is particularly modest and quiet in the matter.
HERBERT THOMPSON POWERS-Among the leaders of the bar in the region of Fort Fair- field, Maine, where he has been engaged in active practice since 1893, is Herbert Thompson Powers, a member of an old Maine family, and a 'on of Hannibal Hamlin and Abigail Rachel (Neal) Powers, the former for many years engaged in farming in Pittsfield, Maine. The elder Mr. Powers was a private in the Fourth Regiment of Maine Heavy Artillery, and served therewith during the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. Herbert Thompson Powers was born November 13, 1870, at Pittsfield,
Maine, and as a lad attended the local public schools and later the Maine Central Institute, at Pittsfield, where he was prepared for college, and from which he graduated with the class of 1887. He then en- tered Bowdoin College, with the class of 1891, but remained there but one year, having determined in the meantime to take up the study of law. This he did to such good purpose that he was admitted to the Maine bar in 1892, and at once opened offices in the town of Blaine. He did not remain there, however, more than one year, and in 1893 removed to Fort Fairfield, where he has been engaged in active practice ever since. Mr. Powers' character and men- tal equipment eminently fit him for the profession which he has adopted, and he rapidly made his way to a leading position among the attorneys of this part of the State, much of the important litigation thereof passing through his hands. He has not, however, confined himself entirely to the practice of the legal profession, but has also become con- nected with other important interests here. At the time of the organization of the Frontier Trust Com- pany, of Fort Fairfield, in the year 1907. Mr. Powers was elected president and has continued to hold that office ever since. He has also been exceedingly prominent in local affairs, and was elected to repre- sent Fort Fairfield in the State Legislature in 1901, serving in that capacity in that and the three fol- lowing years. He was elected county attorney of Aroostook county in 1905, and held this exceedingly responsible post until IGes. Mr. Powers is well known in social and fraternal circles here, and is affiliated with Eastern Frontier Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and the local hedics of the Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Herbert Thompson Powers was united in mar- riage (first) June 6, 10co, at Fort Fairfield, Maine, with Una Lincoln Neal, a daughter of Samuel and Amanda (Lincoln) Neal. Two children were horn of this union as follows: Neal, horn March 25, 1001, and Alice Marion, born March 26, 1903. Mrs. Neal died November 9, 1912, and August 21, 1916, Mr. Powers married (second) Mrs. Etta Pauline Haynes, of Bangor, Maine, widow of Charles 1. Haynes, and a daughter of Jeremiah J. and Ellen (Collins) Canning.
EDWARD CLARENCE JONES-There is al- ways something impressive in tracing through a long line of descent the perseverance of strong and able traits of character, showing themselves perennial, ever recurrent in each generation, without a missing link in the chain, and giving the most indisputable evidence of the power of a strong and healthy stock
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to project its virtues across the lapse of years and awaken in distant times and amidst the most di- verse circumstances the spirit that in bygone years has animated the blood. Such is conspicuously the case with the distinguished Jones family of Port- land, Maine, which, since the early Colonial period, has been identified with the stirring events of American history, and which has given no less than seven Colonial governors to this country. Since the time when its founder in America severed his connection with the land of his birth and came to dwell in the free wilderness of the "New World," its members have exhibited uninterruptedly those sterling qualities that have for so long a time been associated with the highest type of New England manhood.
Born May 31, 1853, Edward Clarence Jones has for many years been closely associated with the affairs of his native city, Portland, Maine. He is a descendant on the paternal side of Timothy Jones, who came to this country from Wales in 1630. On the maternal side he is a descendant of Sir Arthur Ingraham, of Leeds, England, who was knighted by King James I, in 1513, and of Edward Ingraham, who came from that city to the New England Col- onies in the year 1630. At an early date the family moved to York, Maine, and gradually extended them- selves over that region of the State until one of the principal lines made its home at Portland.
Benjamin Worth Jones, father of Edward Clar- ence Jones, was a prominent citizen of Portland, Maine. He married Cordelia Ingraham, who bore him the following named children : I. Fred Eugene, who was State accountant of Massachusetts for forty years, died in Boston, May 14. 19II. 2. Frank Mel- ville, who was drowned December 2, 1867, when the ship Kate Dyer was run down and sunk by the for- eign steamship, Scotland, while entering New York harbor, after a two years' trip around the world. 3. Edward Clarence, of whom further. 4. Ella Florence, married (first) George Parker Taylor, of Burnside, Kentucky, and (second) John McKean, of Orange, New Jersey. 5. Philip Ingraham, business partner of his brother, Edward Clarence, married Mabel Churchill Jones and they are the parents of two children, Lawrence Churchill, engaged in the same business as his father, and Helen Creighton, at home. 6. Laura Araxine, unmarried, resides in Portland.
Edward Clarence Jones attended the public schools of Portland and graduated from the high school there itt 1871, at the age of eighteen years, after which he studied higher branches under a special tutor. Immediately after this he engaged in the book business in association with the firm of Bailey
& Noyes, which connection was continued for twen- ty-two years, and during this period lie gained the reputation of being one of the best book sellers in his native city. He then established a stationery business, which he conducted successfully until 1876, when it was destroyed by fire. He then engaged in the insurance business under the name of E. C. Jones & Company, a firm which is continuing most successfully at the present time (1917). E. C. Jones & Company has its offices at No. 41 Exchange street, Portland, is one of the best known houses in this line in the city of Portland, and is gen- eral agent for many fire and liability companies. Mr. Jones also founded the concern known as the Jones Real Estate Company and is now president of that organization. He is one of the first directors of the Chamber of Commerce.
It has already been remarked that Mr. Jones is conspicuous in the general life of Portland, and this is true in its application to almost every department of the city's affairs. He is particularly active in club circles and is a member of the Portland Club, the Portland Yacht Club, the Portland Athletic Club, the Maitland Club, and other organizations of a similar character. He is keenly interested in gene- alogy and local history and in this connection is affi- liated with many associations, among which should be numbered the Maine Genealogical Society, the Maine Historical Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society of Colonial Governors, and the Society of American Wars, in which he holds the post of genealogist. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Jones is a Congregationalist in his religious belief, attends the State Street Church of that denomination and has been active in its work for many years. He has been for a long period a member of the State Street Parish Club and for two years its president, an or- ganization which contributed greatly to advance the cause of the church in Portland. Politically he is affiliated with the Republican party, but does not take an active part in local politics. He is a mem- ber of the American Legion, in which he ranks as captain of small steamboats. This society is pledged to take up arms at a moment's call in the service of their country. Mr. Jones has been an enthusiastic yachtsman for practically all his life, and still indulges in that pastime as much as his leisure time will permit.
Mr. Jones was united in marriage on December 28, 1880, to Lilla Smith Bremer, born in Portland, Maine, December 18, 1857, daughter of Captain Henry M. and Malvina (Smith) Bremer, natives and highly respected residents of Portland for many years. Captain Henry M. Bremer is now deceased,
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but was during his life one of the famous skippers of Portland and sailed his ship in many seas and to many foreign ports. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of one daughter, Ethel Maitland, born in Portland, July 22, 1890, who was married on June 14. 1917, to Robert Maxwell Pennell, a young attor- ney of Portland, Maine, who is now major in the United States Army.
CAPTAIN JULIUS SEYMORE SOULE, who is one of the celebrated sea captains of about a half a century ago, and since that time has been very active as a shipbuilder at Freeport, Maine, where he has made his home for many years, is a member of an old and highly respected family which has made its home in New England from the time when George Soule came here in 1620 on the May- flower. The name, Soule, is a very ancient English patronymic and we find it under a number of dif- ferent forms, such as Sole, Soal, Soul, and others besides the modern spelling. . The Sole family of London was a powerful one and belonged to the aristocracy, having been granted the right to bear arms in 1591. George Soule, one of the original Pil- grim fathers, was one of those to sign the first com- pact drawn up in the nature of a government by the early Plymouth Colony. In 1624 he received an acre of land in Plymouth, between Sandwick street and the harbor. In 1633 his name appears on the first list of freemen in the records of Plymouth, but he later removed to Duxbury, where he settled at Powder Point. He was a very prominent man at Duxbury and married Mary Becket or Bucket, who came as one of the passengers of the Ann, which sailed with other ships in 1621. She was one of the same company of which Barbara Standish and Pa- tience and Fear Brewster were other members. The first of the family to make his home in Maine, was one John Soule, the son of Ezekiel and Hannah (De- lano) Soule, of Duxbury, who came to Woolwich, Maine, where he spent the latter part of his life and eventually died August 21, 1795. His wife, Pa- tience Soule, died December 1, 1777. From this cou- ple all the members of the Soule family of Maine are descended.
Captain Soule is a son of Enos and Sarah. (Pratt) Soule, both of whom were natives of Freeport in this State, and who were married here. Enos Soule was also a seafaring man and after a number of years of this life, took up building ships at Free- port. His birth occurred in 1792, and his death in 1874 at the age of eighty-two years. His wife was born in 1800 and died in 1883. They were the par- ents of twelve children, only two of whom are now living, Margarette, now Mrs. Hengren, and Cap- tain Julius Seymore Soule.
Captain Sonle attended the public schools of South Freeport as a child and afterwards entered the well known Abbotts School at Farmington. He did not remain long at the latter place, however, but aban- doned his studies when only fifteen years of age and went to sea before the mast. He possessed an actual adaptability to the life of the seaman and it was only a few years before he became captain of the good ship Thereafter for a num- ber of years he commanded many vessels and sailed to ports in all parts of the world. About 1890, however, he retired from this life and purchased a farm in Maine, which he conducted personally for a number of years. He was well skilled in the con- struction of vessels and while still following the life of farmer, built a boat for pleasure parties on the bay. Having thus tested his skill, he turned more and more to shipbuilding and at last made it his chief business, devoting his attention to it ever since. For a time, indeed, Captain Soule retired from active business, but upon the outbreak of the war, being considered by the authorities as the best posted man in the construction of wooden ships, his advice was sought and he is now associated with a number of others in the building of four ves- sels, which they hope to complete within this year (1918). Each one of these vessels is to cost in the neighborhood of three thousand dollars and will un- doubtedly be a valuable addition to our mercantile fleet. It is estimated to be quite within the limits of possibility, that one voyage will pay for the cost of the vessel. Captain Soule is a staunch Democrat in politics, but is quite uninterested so far as any public office for himself is concerned and performs his function only as a patriotic private citizen. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, and of all the sailing and shipping clubs in this vicinity.
Julius Seymore Sonle was united in marriage on June 6, 1876, with Edith M. Creech, a native of Freeport, and a lady of Scottish ancestry. She is a daughter of William and Catherine ( Means) Creech, both her parents, like herself, being natives of Freeport, where their deaths occurred. To Cap- tain and Mrs. Soule three children have been born, as follows: Sarah, who became the wife of Thomas Randall, who resides at Freeport, a traveling sales- man for a large shoe house; Albert S., who is mar- ried and resides at Freeport, where he is engaged in the shipping business with his father ; Helen, who re- sides with her parents at home. Captain Soule is a very active man for his age, as may be seen by his taking active charge of so large and important an undertaknig for the United States Government. He is a man of genial temperament and pleasant man- ners, and is very popular among a large circle of
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friends. He enjoys a reputation for honesty and square dealing second to no man in this region and the very considerable fortune which he has laid up has been altogether the result of his own unaided energies and enterprise.
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