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Few men are so widely and favorably known in the circles in which they move as Mr. Stev-
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ens. He is one of those influential citizens whose lives become inseparably intertwined with the interests for which they stand. Through this training has been developed a wide cosmopoli- tanism, a broad sympathy with the manners and customs of all men, which is one of the most fundamental elements of real culture. To know truly is to love, to appreciate and to enjoy, for it is only the man who is equipped with the genial tolerance which springs from understand- ing who really gains the joy of existence, for to him, instead of impatience and irritation such as ignorance feels in the presence of the strange and unfamiliar, the outlandish seems but pictur- esque, the eccentricities of custoni, the idiocyn- cracies of persons, can at least be langhed at, even when not possible of admiration. Such a man as Mr. Stevens and his large-minded outlook on life makes him a delightful comrade and friend, as well as a willing patron to all those whose honesty and industry renders them worthy of patronage. Men of this kind cannot fail to be a beneficent influence upon those about them, they raise the tone of thought, they enlarge the basis of common understanding and sympathy among those with whom they associate. And in a much more obvious manner, also, do they work ad- vantage to those about them, for the knowledge they have gained at the uttermost ends of the world is diffused in their conversation, in their point of view, in their manner of looking at things in an enlarged perspective, so that in many ways contact with them is an education in the ways of the great world.
WILLIAM EDMOND PULSIFER is a native of Maine, although now and for many years past identified with New York City. He was born in West Sumner, Maine, April 16, 1852, the son of Moses Gilbert and Nancy Amelia Pulsifer. His father was a merchant and farmer.
William E. Pulsifer had his first schooling in the local schools of Sumner. This was followed by work in the grammar school at Portland, Maine, and this in turn by attendance at the pri- vate high school of Buckfield, Maine. He then went to Westbrook Seminary, Deering, Maine, from which he was gradnated in 1870. His next school was the Kents Hill Seminary, Kents Hill, Maine. For a short time he was a student at Bates College, and in 1908 this institution conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Between 1884 and 1889 he was the New England manager for the firm of Ginn & Brothers, Pub- lishers, Boston. He became connected with the
publishing house of D. C. Heath & Company and from 1896 to 1909 was the treasurer, becoming in 1910 the president of the firm, a post which he liolds at the present time. Besides his connec- tion with the publishing business, Mr. Pulsifer lias done extensive work for the lecture depart- ment of the New York Public School system, covering a period of several years. He has de- livered addresses on Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, General Grant, Alexander Hamilton, Ed- mund Spencer, Conan Doyle, and many other dis- tingnished historical and literary characters. D. C. Heath & Company are publishers of educa- tional works and the wide and decp information possessed by Mr. Pulsifer in educational mat- ters has made it possible for him to bring to bear a material contribution to that field from many sources. He is the author of a number of papers on historical characters For four years he served as a director in the Northern National Bank, of New York, and for two years he was a member of the city government of Somerville, Massachusetts. Mr. Pulsifer is a member of the Ardsley Golf Club, of the Maine Society, of the Graduates' Club of New York, of the Camp Fire Club, of the Merchants' Association of New York, of the American Historical Association, of the American Academy of Political and Social Sci- ence, and of the Republican Club. He was a member of the Union League Club of Brooklyn, and was its president, and was also a member of the Aldine Association and its secretary. He is also a member of the Masonic order. He is a Universalist in his religious belief.
Mr. Pulsifer married, in New York, August 7, 1905, Julia M. Martin, daughter of Benjamin and Julia Martin. The children of Mr. Pulsifer by his first wife are Mary Gilman and Lester Scott.
LYMAN BLAIR, a well known manufacturer and agriculturist of Maine, son of Lyman and Mary De Groff Blair, was born in Chicago, April 28, 1864. After spending four years in the Mer- chant's National Bank, of which his uncle, Chaun- cey Buckley Blair, was president, he took up a clerkship in the wholesale and retail coal firm of Watson, Little & Company, in Chicago, where he remained until March, 1889, when he started an independent coal business of his own in the firm name of Lyman Blair & Company. This he continued until May, 1891, when he went to Greenville, Maine, and became vice-president and treasurer of the Greenville Manufacturing Com- pany, which manufactured all kinds of veneer, also wagon hubs. When this plant burned, in
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December, 1904, Mr. Blair took up the active man- agement of his stock farms, and turned agricul- turist and breeder of finely bred registered Guern- sey cattle, Chester white swine, Scotch collie dogs, poultry and sheep.
Mr. Blair is a life member of the Chicago Athletic Club, of Chicago, of the Automobile Club of America, New York, Tarratine Club, of Bangor, Maine, also of several recording associa- tions. Mr. Blair's father was a prominent packer and commission merchant in Chicago, and one of the charter members of the Chamber of Com- merce, also founder of one of the first packing houses in Chicago.
Mr. Blair married, in Chicago, July 19, 1886, Cornelia Seymour Macfarlane, daughter of Vic- tor Wells and Zanina Nelson Macfarlane.
REV. JAMES CHURCH GREGORY, son of Charles Matthew and Julia Church (Betts) Greg- ory, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, April 14, 1861. His father was a miller and farmer. Mr. Gregory prepared for college in the Wilton Acad- emy and graduated at Williams College in the class of 1889 and Andover Theological Seminary in the class of 1892. He was ordained to the Christian ministry together with four other class- mates in Farmington, Maine, September 27, 1892. His first call was to the Congregational church in Bingham, Maine. He began his work in this church September 1, and continued it until Janu- ary, 1901, when he accepted a call to Gorham, Maine. He remained in this pastorate until Oc- tober, 1905, going from there to Millinocket. After a pastorate of two years he accepted the work of general missionary under the Maine Missionary Society, having for his first task the building of the church in the new town of East Milli- nocket. This task accomplished, he was next sent to the church in Lincoln. After three months' stay he accepted a call to go back into the pas- torate from the church of Presque Isle, February 1, 1910.
Mr. Gregory was instrumental in the building of a new church in Bingham, another in East Millinocket, and a parsonage in Presque Isle. He has always taken an interest and active part in political affairs, believing that the spiritual wel- fare of the community is very closely connected with the social and political life of the people. There has been no movement for the betterment of the local, State or national interests that has not had his earnest support. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Knights of
Pythias. He has served as grand chaplain of the Maine Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Gergory married for his first wife, Oc- tober 15, 1898, Lephe M. Dinsmore, the daughter of Arthur C. and Alice A. Dinsmore, of Bingham, Maine. They had a daughter, Frances Church, who lived for three years and four months. Mrs. Gregory died June 26, 1905. For his second wife Mr. Gregory married, November 26, 1907, Sarah L. Kimball, daughter of James F. and Har- riet Kimball, of Millinocket. To them was born Louis K. Gregory, February 13, 1909.
JAMES F. KIMBALL, son of John S. and Sarah French Kimball, was born September 22, 1843, in Bangor, Maine, his father having been a merchant and later associated with his son, Sam- uel S. Kimball, in the real estate business. James F. Kimball was educated in the common schools of Bangor, and after having finished the gram- mar school course obtained a position in his father's store. After this first initiation into business he served as traveling salesman for a number of years. Feeling then that he would like to be his own master, in 1872 he bought a store in Medway, Maine, where a tannery was being built, and in October of that year moved there with his fam- ily. In addition to his mercantile interests in that locality Mr. Kimball became connected with the lumber interests along the Penobscot river, supplying the crews with provisions and taking charge of drives. Some years later in association with Charles Adams, of Bangor, he bought the Morrison mill at Stillwater, and operated it for a number of years under the firm name of Kim- ball, Adams & Company until the mill was burned.
When the Great Northern Paper Company be- gan building the big paper mill at Millinocket, Maine, in 1899, Mr. Kimball went there and opened the first general store under the firm name of James F. Kimball & Company. He also opened a little later the first store in East Millinocket, continuing his interest in the lumber business at the same time. Later the J. F. Kimball Trading Company was formed with Mr. Kimball as presi- dent. He died in Millinocket, May 31, 1914.
Mr. Kimball married, January 6, 1871, Harriet Mayberry, daughter of Andrew and Rebecca (Whitcomb) Mayberry, and their children are: James Mayberry, born December 19, 1871; Har- riet May, born December 22, 1873; Sarah Louise, born August 10, 1885. Of these children Harriet M. died in infancy; James Mayberry was educated in
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the Bangor schools and graduated at the Uni- versity of Maine in the class of 1894, and died February II, 1898; and Sarah Louise was mar- ried to Rev. James C. Gregory, November 26, 1907.
LOUIS LINWOOD DOLLIVER, one of the most popular and successful physicians of Au- gusta, Maine, where he has been in active prac- tice since the year 1896, is a man who has won for himself through his own praiseworthy ef- forts at once a high place in his profession among his colleagues and an equally high one in the gen- eral esteem of the community as a man. He is a son of Pillsbury C. and Abbie (Springer) Dol- liver, and is descended on both sides of the house from ancient Maine families, so that his personal and ancestral associations are with the "Pine Tree State." Pillsbury C. Dolliver, who now lives retired at Medford, Massachusetts, is a native of Searsport, Maine, but came to Augusta as a youth and married Abbie Springer, a native of this place. Here he engaged in business as a merchant tailor and continued successfully in that line for a num- ber of years. He and his wife, whose death oc- curred February 2, 1918, were the parents of four children, three of whom are living today, one of the latter being Louis Linwood Dolliver, of this brief sketch.
Born July 9, 1872, at Augusta, Maine. Louis Lin- wood Dolliver has made the capital city his home ever since. In his childhood he attended the local public schools, continuing his studies at these institutions until he had entered the high school. He then became a student at the Boston Latin School, where he continued until he had completed his preparation for college, by which time also he had determined upon his career in life. For some time prior to this he had taken a keen interest in medicine, and now, when the choice was to be made, he turned to that and de- cided to become a physician. Accordingly he took a course in medicine and also one in dentistry. Upon graduation he began the practice of his profession at Augusta, and has remained here ever since, meeting with a most gratifying and well deserved success. He has now a large prac- tice, and among his many patients he is loved as a friend and counsellor no less than he is ad- mired as a physician.
The demands made upon the time and energy of Dr. Dolliver by his profession are naturany of a kind which precludes him from being a very active participant in other departments of the city's activity, yet he maintains an intense inter-
est in the general life of the place and is ever ready to do what he can towards advancing the common interests. In politics he is a Republican, but is quite without ambition politically. He is now a member of Company F, Second Regiment, Maine State Militia. Dr. Dolliver is a prominent figure in fraternal circles here, and is an active Free Mason, being affiliated with the lodge, chap- ter, council, commandery and temple. He is also a member of the local lodge of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his fam- ily attend the Unitarian church.
On November 22, 1894, at Maine, Dr. Dolliver was united in marriage with Caroline Cartland Hoyt, like himself a native of Angusta, and a daughter of Thomas Carlton and Sarah (Heath) Hoyt. Mr. Hoyt was a native of Vassalboro, Maine, and for many years was engaged in the fur tanning business, as well as carying on a success- ful farm. His wife, who was Miss Heath before her marriage, was a native of Strong, Maine. Dr. and Mrs. Dolliver were the parents of one child, Katherine Dolliver.
HENRY HERBERT RANDALL-From 1903, when Mr. Randall assumed the duties of the of- fice of superintendent of schools in Rockland, Maine, until the present, 1919, he has held but one other position, and that one the same office but in a different city of Maine. This fact alone places Superintendent Randall in the front rank of supervising educators, and a further tribute is the high character of the Auburn schools over which he has exercised a superintendent's con- trol since 1907. He is a native son of Maine, his parents, William D. and Sarah J. (Foster) Ran- dall, of Freeman, Maine, his ancestry, English. The surname Randall is a shortened form of the personal name, Randolph, which was in general use before the time of the Norman Conquest, and is found in Domesday Book, where thirty-three different men are credited with bearing that name. From 1120 to 1232 the name was borne in Eng- land by three famous Earls of Chester. As early as the year 888 there was a St. Randulphus, Bishop of Bourges, and among the Northmen the personal name, Randolfr (a house wolf), pre- vailed from the earliest times. The name is found spelled Ralph, Ramulph, Radulphus, Roff, and Rauffe. From these forms has come the mod- ern surname, Randall. The name is early found in New Hampshire and Maine; Dover, New Hampshire, probably being the earliest seat of the family.
Henry Herbert Randall was born in Freeman,
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Maine, June 18, 1869. In 1880 his people moved to Farmington, where he completed his public school course. He then entered Farmington State Normal School, whence he was graduated with the class of 1890. Several years were then spent in teaching, after which he entered Bowdoin Col- lege, receiving his A.B. in 1900. Later, while con- tinuing teaching, he pursued post-graduate sum- mer school courses at Harvard University, and in 1903 was appointed superintendent of the public schools of Rockland, Maine. For four years he continued in that position, then resigned to ac- cept the superintendency of the public schools of Auburn, Maine. There he still continues his record, one of successful achievement, as the schools themselves testify. Superintendent Ran- dall has made a deep study of his profession and under his leadership the Auburn schools have attained a high standard of excellence which can be attained only by first bringing the com- munity to a point where they demand the best, and are willing to pay a fair price for it. De- voted superintendents, principals, and teachers ac- complish the rest, and the public school becomes a veritable university within the reach of all. Mr. Randall has served as president of the Maine Teachers' Association, and at present is presi- dent of the New England Association of School Superintendents. He is affiliated with the Ma- sonic order, is a member of Beta Theta Pi, and the Wasea Club of Auburn; in politics a Republi- can.
Mr. Randall married in Rockland, Maine, Au- gust 31, 1905, Alice Louise Harrington, daugh- ter of Charles M. and Rose E. (Harrington) Har- rington, of Rockland. Mr. and Mrs. Randall are the parents of two daughters: Catherine J., born December 6, 1907; Elinor C., born March 19, 1912.
REV. GARDNER D. HOLMES-The pastoral career of Rev. Gardner D. Holmes extended from 1877 to 1912 in active work of which the Maine con- ference was the field of his labors with the ex- ception of two years in the Montana conference. At the close of a six year term of useful effort as presiding elder of the Angusta district, he took the supernumerary relation in the conference and retired at the last session of the conference prior to his death in 1917. He was a son of Levi and Sarah (Dennett) Holmes, his father a farmer of Bridgton, Maine, among whose children were: Gardner D., of whom further; Mrs. Elizabeth A. Bacon, of Bridgton, Maine; Dr. Levi E. Holmes, of Helena, Montana; Mrs. Henrietta Po-
land, of Boston, Massachusetts; George W., a law- yer of North Conway, New Hampshire; Albert H., a lawyer of Brunswick, Maine; and Dr. Alvin D., of Wakefield, Masachusetts. Levi and Sarah Holmes were old residents of Bridgton, where both en- joyed the regard and respect of the community for lives of purity and usefulness, spent in well- doing and the rearing of a large family in ways of honor and righteousness.
Rev. Gardner D. Holmes was born in Bridgton, Maine. December 18, 1848, died at Lewiston, Maine, November 15, 1917. His youth and young manhood were passed on his father's farm, and while working on the home acres he attended the school and academy of his birthplace. His four brothers, like himself, chose professional ca- reers, not because of dislike for the calling of their father but because their home training had given them ambition to aspire to higher things. Need for his presence and services at home pre- vented his pursuing his studies to the extent that he desired, but he cheerfully relinquished his aim and applied himself to the present need. The home in which he passed his boyhood was thor- oughly Christian, and under its influence he early took upon himself the responsibilities of church membership. When the call to the ministry came to his thoughtful, earnest nature it was prayer- fully received and obeyed, and although he was denied the oportunity of the full training for the pulpit he prepared himself thoroughly by wide reading and study, and in 1877, under the appoint- ment of the presiding elder, he went to his first charge. At the following session of the Maine conference he was received as a probationer and in due time in full relation. For thirty-nine years he continued in the ministry, and the pulpits that he filled were enriched and blessed by his pres- ence. His appointments were Newry, Solon, Strong, Monmouth, York, two years in Butte, Montana, conference, Lisbon and Lisbon Falls, Brunswick and Hammond Street, Lewiston. In 1906 he was appointed presiding elder of Augusta district, serving the full term of six years, and at the close of his term on the district he took the supernumerary relation, five years after retir- ing. The following is an extract from the Year Book of the Maine Conference, 1918:
He was a clean, wholesome man, winning and hold- ing the confidence and respect of every community in which he lived. As a citizen, he was alive to public interests, community conditions, and a warm advocate of every needed reform. He was a man of strong cos- victions, for he always had a reason for them. He was not easily turned from his purpose. Ile could take. and strike, hard blows. While modest and peace lo :- ing, not seeking leadership nor desiring contest, he
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could stand far out on the firing line and struggle manfully for righteousness.
As a preacher he was clear, earnest, and convincing. Although wanting in special training for the ministry. he learned to preach by preaching and made himself a pulpit speaker of recognized ability. He gained material by wide reading, careful thinking, and close observation. Possessing the instincts and habits of the scholar, loving his task, . his sermons were never slovenly prepared or lazily delivered. There was, always, "Beaten oil" in the message and spiritual fer- vor in the presentation. Pastoral work was a pleasure as well as a duty. His sympathetic and friendly nature gave him entrance into the hearts of the people and he won them to his Savior. There are stars in his crown. He has not gone empty-handed.
He married, at Oxford, Maine, March 2, 1875, Calista A. McDonald, of Brighton, Maine, and they were the parents of three children : I. Elbert B., born at Solon, Maine, December 5, 1879, graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1900, and from the General Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1905, a minister in the Episcopal church at Middlebury, Vermont; married Effie M. At- wood, of Lisbon, Maine, and they have children: Arthur W., Mary L. and Elizabeth K. 2. Effie Ma- belle, born at Strong, Maine, April 14, 1882, edu- cated in Brunswick High School and Bates Col- lege, Lewiston, Maine, married Alton T. Maxim, of Portland, Maine, and they have one child, Doris R. 3. Wilbert D., born at Strong, Maine, March II, 1884, died May 5, 1889.
ROBERT FULTON WORMWOOD-In the little town of Porter, in Oxford county, Maine, there lived some years ago a farmer by the name of Darius Wormwood, and his wife, Abbie (Wales) Wormwood. The former was born in Cornish, Maine, and the latter in Hiram, Maine. They had one son, Robert Fulton Wormwood, born on the farm in Porter, June 15, 1858, and two daughters, Fannie and Hattie. The boy was sent to the town schools, and then entered a printing office to learn the trade, at the age of fifteen years. When nineteen years old he became editor of the Cornish Maxima, a small local paper pub- lished weekly at Cornish, Maine. In 1884 he be- gan the publication of the Oxford County Record, at Kezar Falls, continuing it there for a few years, when he moved the paper and printing plant to Fryeburg, Maine. Mr. Wormwood remained at this work until 1891, when publication was sus- pended, and in the following year he became a member of the editorial staff of the Portland Eve- ning Express, a position which he held for eight years. In 1900, Mr. Wormwood became editor of the Biddeford Daily Journal, and as such he still remains. While in Portland he also edited the Portland Sun, a Sunday newspaper which
had a brief and troubled existence. After this, while still on the Evening Express, he for a time was associate editor of the Lewiston Courier, a daily sheet which lived only a few weeks.
Mr. Wormwood was frequenty approached in the matter of politics, as a newspaper man gen- erally is, but he did not care to take any political office other than the local ones of town clerk and member of the town school committee of his na- tive town. He is a Republican, as his father and grandfather were before him. He is a Free Ma- son, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Maine Republican Editorial Association, and a life mem- ber of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Associa- tion.
Mr. Wormwood married (first) Annie M. Stacy, in 1884, at Cape Elizabeth; she died in Porter, in 1894. He married (second) Mrs. Anna Hutchins Bullock, now living. The first Mrs. Wormwood was the daughter of Jordan and Lydia F. Stacy, the former being a versatile and successful busi- ness man. During his lifetime he was a farmer, a school teacher, something of a politician, and a general business man, holding at different times many town offices, and was also at one time sher- iff of Oxford county, and also represented his district in the State Legislature. By his first marriage Mr. Wormwood had two children: I. Bertha M., born March 14, 1885, who married Herbert S. Doe, and resides at Kezar Falls, Maine, 2. Florence E., born February 25, 1887, for several years a registered nurse, and later married Mor- ton D. Garland, and is now living at North Par- sonfield, Maine. Both daughters were educated in the common schools and at Parsonfield Semi- nary, of which both are graduates.
The subject of ancestry has never attracted Mr. Wormwood, but he points with pride to the fact that his father responded nobly to the call of his country at the time of the Civil War, enlisting twice with the Maine troops. His grandfather was Ithamar Wormwood, born in Kittery, Maine, and followed farming as an occupation all his life. He had three children, Darius, Simeon and Mehit- able.
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