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FRANK AUGUSTUS HAYDEN, D.M.D .-- Among the capable dentists of Portland is Frank Augustus Hayden, who enjoys a most enviable reputation in that city, both in his professional capacity and as a man. Dr. Hayden comes of good old New England stock. His father, John T. Hayden, was a native of Boston, and dur- ing his young manhood removed to the town of Norway, Maine, and there engaged in the foun-
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dry business, and eventually died at the age of fifty-six years. Clara (Amies) Hayden, wife of John J. Hayden, survived him and still resides in Nor- way.
Frank Augustus Hayden was born at Norway, Oxford county, Maine, May 17, 1868. He secured the elementary portion of his education at the local public schools, then attended the Norway High School, where he was prepared for college, and in 1897 he matriculated in the Dental School of Tufts College at Boston. Here he established a fine record for scholarship and was graduated with the class of 1900, receiving the degree of D.M.D. He returned to his native town of Nor- way immediately thereafter and began there the practice of his profession. From the outset he met with a very gratifying success, but at the end of four years felt that he desired a larger field for his ability, and accordingly, in 1904, came to Portland where he established an office at No. 604 Congress street, removing thence to the Young Men's Christian Association building, his present location, and has been most sucessfully engaged in the practice of his profession ever since.
In the year 1888 Dr. Hayden enlisted in Com- pany D, First Regiment, at Norway, but some little time afterwards withdrew from the service. He re-enlisted, however, in 1901, and was retired in 1910 with the rank of first lieutenant. He is a very prominent figure in fraternal circles in Port- land and particularly so in the Masonic order, having taken the thirty-second degree in Free Ma- sonry and being affiliated with Oxford Lodge, No. 18, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Oxford Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Oxford Council, Royal and Select Masters, Portland Commandery, Knights Templar; Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Pennesscewassee Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of the Portland Club, Mount Joy Club of Portland, and the Portland Gun Club. In his religions belief Dr. Hayden is a Universalist and attends the church of that denomination in Portland, taking an active part in the work con- nected therewith.
Dr. Hayden married, September 28, 1916, in New York City, Phillis McCne, a native of Port- land, Maine.
It is the progressive, wide-awake men of af- fairs who make the real history of a community, State or nation, and their influence as a potential factor of the body politic is difficult to estimatc. The examples men furnish of patient purpose and steadfast integrity strongly illustrate what is
in the power of each to accomplish, and there is always a full measure of satisfaction in adverting, even in a casual manner, to their achievements in advancing the interests of their fellow men and in' giving strength and solidity to the institutions which tell so much for the prosperity of the com- munity. Frank A. Hayden, of Portland, Maine, is a man of his calibre, a public spirited citizen, he is ready at all times to use his means and in- fluence for the promotion of such public improve- ments as were conducive to the comfort and happiness of his fellow men, and there is probably not another man in the community so long hon- ored by his residence who is held in higher es- teem, regardless of sects, politics or profession. He is one of the most unostentatious of men, open-hearted and candid in manner, always re- taining in his demeanor the simplicity and candor of the old-time gentleman, and his record is to be admired by all who know of it.
WALTER HARRIS DRESSER was born at Falmouth, Maine, January 28, 1862, and died De- cember 8, 1918. He was a son of William Henry Dresser, the latter's birth having occurred at Hol- lis, Maine, January 1, 1832, and died at Standish in 1901, whither he removed about a year after the birth of his son, Walter H. Dresser. The el- der Mr. Dresser was during his early life a far- mer, trader and teacher. He was elected sheriff of the county, in which office he served for the period of four years. William Henry Dresser was united in marriage with Cassendana Cram, who was born at Standish and whose death oc- curred in 1908. They were the parents of five chil- dren, as follows: Walter Harris, of this review; Alvin Cram, whose death occurred in 1901; Maud G., who at present makes her home in Standish, Maine; Mabel, who became the wife of Fred B. Goold, of Standish, Maine, the latter of whom is deceased; and Edith M., who died at the age of one and a half years.
Walter Harris Dresser received the early por- tion of his education in the public schools of his native region, and when still a young man re- moved with his parents to Portland, Maine. He later went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he obtained a position with the Fitchburg Railroad, remaining in this employ for about three years. At the end of this period he returned to Port- land, and in 1887 became deputy sheriff of Cum- berland county, which office he filled for ten years. In 1907 he was appointed chief of police of Portland, continuing in that office for seven years. After retiring from the office of chief of
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police, he was elected secretary of the Cumber- land Loan and Building Asosciation, which posi- tion he occupied at the time of his death. Mr. Dresser was for several years a member of the well known firm of Hall & Dresser, the business being located at Bridgton, Maine, dealing largely in grain, flour, coal, etc. Mr. Dresser was also a director of the Maine Loan and Building Asso- ciation and was prominent in the business cir- cles of Portland and the region surrounding. Mr. Dresser was associated with a number of promi- nent organizations in Portland, and was identified with the Masonic order, having been a member of Oriental Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bridgton. He was also a member of the Portland Rotary, the Portland, the Woodfords, the Lincoln and Munjoy clubs, and of the Maine Charitable Mechanics Association.
On October 8, 1890, Walter Harris Dresser was united in marriage with Nettie A. Webb, a native of Bridgton, Maine, and a daughter of Isaiah S. Webb, also a native of Bridgton, where he was a successful merchant and at one time held the office of sheriff of Cumberland county, and Harriet J. Webb, his wife, also of Bridgton, Maine. To Mr. and Mrs. Dresser two children were born, as follows: I. Clarence Webb. em- ployed with the Canadian Pacific Railroad Com- pany at Brownville Junction, Maine. He went into service in May, 1917, entering the first Platts- burg Training Camp, and at the end of three months was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Engineres; he reported at Camp Devens, and in November, 1917, he was commissioned in the regular army in the C. A C. and sent to Fort Monroe; from there he was promoted to first lieu- tenant and sent to Fort McKinley, and on August 6, 1917, went overseas with the Seventy-second Regiment; he has trained as an observer of fire and received a commission in the Aviation Squadron overseas; he has been ordered home and is probably now on the way with the Eighty- eighth Aero Squadron. Lieutenant Dresser mar- ried, June 3, 1918, Delma E. Kennedy. 2. Grace M., who held the position of clerk in the police department at Portland; married, September I, 1917, Alonzo Livingston Bart, of Portland, Maine.
HARRY P. SWEETSER-Practically the en- tire professional career of Mr. Sweetser has been devoted to legal work in connection with rail- roading, his present office that of General So- licitor of Grand Trunk Lines in New England, which he occupies under the United States Rail- road Administration. He is a native and resi-
dent of Portland, interested and active in pub- lic affairs, and identified with many of the lead- ing institutions of his city, professional, social and fraternal.
Harry P. Sweetser was born in Portland, Maine, July 20, 1873, and after attendance in the public schools enrolled in Greeley Institute, of Cumber- land Center, Maine, afterward attending St. Johnsbury Academy, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He taught in the schools of Cumberland for two years and then attended Shaw's Business Col- lege, of Portland. At the completion of his general study he read law in the office of C. A. Hight, of that city, and after passing the neces- sary examination was admitted to the Cumber- land bar, April 22, 1903, in the following year, October 6, being admitted to practice in the United States Court. Mr. Hight was solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Can- ada, and Mr. Sweetser became clerk of his law office, afterward assistant solicitor of the road, and January 1, 1917, he was appointed solicitor, with headquarters in Portland, in charge of legal work in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. This position he capably filled until the assump- tion of railroad control by the national govern- ment as a war measure, when he was appointed General Solicitor of Grand Trunk Lines in New England.
Mr. Sweetser is a supporter of Republican principles, and for two terms represented his ward, the Eighth, on the Portland City Council. He is a member of Deering Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and Portland Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his club is the Portland Yacht. Mr. Sweetser served a par- tial enlistment in Company B, First Regiment, National Guard of Maine, receiving his discharge on his personal application by reason of business interests taking him to California, returning to Portland in 1898, where he has since resided. He is a communicant of the Congregational church.
WILLIAM CHUTE PETERS, well known among the professional men of Bangor, Maine, was born in Ellsworth, in the same State, June 15, 1868, the son of William B. and Martha Eliza- beth Peters. His father was a merchant, and sent his son to the local schools, from which he passed in course of time to the high school where he prepared for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After some time spent at this school he determined to study medicine and en- tered the medical school of Tufts College. He
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afterwards went to the Boston City Hospital, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He served an interneship at the Bos- ton Children's Hospital, and was appointed Or- thopedic surgeon to the Eastern Maine General Hospital in 1905. He was much attracted by orthopedic work, and went abroad and studied that type of surgery in the clinics of Berlin and Vienna. In 1915 he was elected fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He had been, in 1913, elected president of the Maine Medical Association. Dr. Peters is now (1918) serving in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army, having been called to active duty in Sep- tember, 1917, and assigned to duty at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, where he was chief of the Orthopedic service until March 10, 1918, on which date he was attached to the office of the surgeon-general in Washington as consultant in orthopedic surgery. He holds the rank of major. He is a member of the University Club of Bos- ton, Massachusetts, and of the Tarrantine Club of Bangor, Maine. He and his family attend the Congregational and the Unitarian churches.
Dr. Peters married, at Concord, Massachusetts, February 1, 1906, Adah Bryant, daughter of Ed- ward Stewart and Adah Manning (Bryant) Stewart. Mrs. Peters' grandfather, Charles Davis Bryant, who was born January 16, 1813, was a prominent surveyor, timberland owner, and business man- ager of estates. He was a director of several Bangor banks, and a Republican in his political convictions. He married, December 27, 1836, at Bangor, Maine, Avis Lowder Taylor, daughter of Wilder and Avis (Lowder) Taylor, who were married May 21, 1809. The children of Charles Davis and Avis L. (Taylor) Bryant were: Charles Wilder, born June 2, 1839; Charles Henry, born June 16, 1842; Adah Manning, born De- cember 24, 1845, married, December 28, 1871, Ed- ward Stewart, and their daughter, Adah Bryant, married William Chute Peters; Adelaide George, born September 13, 1848; and Avis Olivia, born July 25, 1852.
SEWALL JOHNSON WATSON, one of the most prominent business men and merchants of Bath, Maine, comes from old New England stock, and was a son of Sewall Watson, who was also a prominent man in this State. Sewall Watson was a native of Leicester, Worcester county, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1795, but when only fifteen years of age came to Maine and settled at Castine, when that town was oc- cupied by the British in 1812. He resided at Cas-
tine for a number of years. He also lived for a time at Augusta, Maine, where he held the posi- tion of clerk of courts. In 1846 he removed to Georgetown, where he remained in business for nearly twenty years and occupied a position of prominence and influence in that town. He was chairman of the Board of Selectman for five years, and represented Georgetown in the State Senate in 1856. He was a member of the Gov- ernor's Council during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. In 1866 he moved to Bath and died here in 1882 at the age of eighty-seven years. He was twice married, the first time to Anstrus Little, a member of an old historic New Eng- land family. She died in 1843, and he married (second) Mrs. Alice Delano, of Georgetown, who died at Bath in 1874.
Born at Castine, Hancock county, Maine, No- vember 8, 1825, Sewall Johnson Watson, son of Sewall and Anstrus (Little) Watson, was edu- cated at the local schools of his native place and at the schools of Augusta, where he came to live with his parents while still a lad. After completing his studies, he came in early man- hood to Bath, Maine, and there became engaged in the hardware business. This he carried on for many years, later taking into partnership his brother, William H. Watson. He continued ac- tively engaged up to within a few years of his death when, his health failing, he was forced to retire from active life. His business was a high- ly successful one and he won for himself a place among the substantial merchants of this region. Mr. Watson made his home on Middle street and his house there is still occupied by his daughters. His death occurred October 7, 1907, at the advanced age of eighty-two years, and he is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery. In his re- ligious belief Mr. Watson was a Congregation- alist and attended the Winter Street Church of this denomination at Bath, giving liberally both of his time and means to the work of the church and especially to those charitable movements un- dertaken by it. A Republican in politics, Mr. Watson was in no sense of the word a politician, and was quite unambitious of political prefer- ment, though he was keenly interested in the welfare of Bath and did much to assist in the growth and development of its institutions. He was a man of great enterprise and progressive ideals and was active in promoting the various business interests of the city without reference to his personal advantage. Mr. Watson was a man of strong domestic instincts and was much devoted to his home and family.
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Sewall Johnson Watson was united in marriage, August 31, 1857, with Caroline Clifford, a native of this city and a daughter of William and Caro- line (Shaw) Clifford, old and highly respected residents here. Mrs. Watson was a lady of cul- ture and refinement, and like her husband was much devoted to her home. She was a mem- ber of one of the best known families in New England, and was a charter member of the Bath Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution, and a member of the Winter Street Con- gregational Church. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Watson, as follows: I. Alice Caroline, who became the wife of Converse L. O. Smith, who is the subject of mention below. 2. Julia A., who resides in the old Watson home on Middle street. 3. Nellie, who became the wife c: Fran !: H. Fercy, of Bath, to whom she has borne three children: Sewall Watson Percy, who married Virginia Pingree; Anna, who married Edward Cutler, of New London; and Carolyn Clifford, who married Captain Langdon Simons, of the United States Army. 4. Sara W., who became the wife of Charles W. Fisher, of Bos- ton, Massachusetts, where they at present reside.
Converse Lilly Owen Smith, who was a well known business man of Bath, Maine, was a na- tive of this city, born June 16, 1858, and died No- vember 19, 1900. He was a son of William H. Smith, also a merchant here, and was educated in the local public school and at Bryant and Stratton Business College, Boston, Massachusetts. He entered as a youth the mercantile business which his father established in 1842, holding for a time a clerical position. He was later taken into partnership by his father, and the firm's name became William H. Smith & Son. This association continued until the death of the elder man in 1894, when Mr. Smith assumed the full control of the business and continued it until his own death in 1900. He was an influential fig- ure in the life of Bath and was respected highly for his ability and strong Christian character. He was a member of Solar Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Montgomery; St. Bernard Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Council, Royal and Select Masters; and Dunlap Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, of Bath. He married, in 1882, Alice Caroline Watson, daughter of Sewall Johnson and Caroline (Clifford) Watson. Mrs. Smith survives her husband and resides with her sister, Julia A. Watson, at Bath. Five chil- dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Harold Watson, William Baldwin, Charles Watson, Frank Owen, and Alice Winslow. Three sur-
vive, Harold Watson, of Youngstown, Ohio, who inarried Cecil Ward; William Baldwin, of New York City, who married Edith Brown; and Frank Owen, of Hastings, Nebraska, who married Bes- sie Morse.
GRANVILLE CHASE-An enterprising mer- chant and manufacturer of Baring, Washington county, Maine, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Gray) Chase, Granville Chase was born in Cut- ler, Maine, November 4, 1851, and died Novem- ber 26, 1904. His grandfather, Captain John Chase, who was born in Gilmanton, New Hamp- shire, about the year 1796, was related to Captain Lane, who served under General Wolfe at the siege of Quebec. Through his paternal grand- mother, Lydia Whitney, he was a descendant of General Greene of Revolutionary fame; while his maternal great-grandfather, whose name was Jones, served in General Washington's body- guard. Captain John Chase served in the War of 1812. Shortly after leaving the army he set- tled in Frankfort, Maine, later taking up new land in the town of Winterport, Maine. He was a blacksmith by trade and followed it in connec- tion with farming for the rest of his active period. His unusual strength and agility gained for him much local notoriety as an athlete. He held a captain's commission in the State militia. His death occurred in Winterport in 1887, four years after his wife had passed away.
Daniel Chase, who was born in Frankfort, Maine, July 17, 1822, in early life taught school, and was for a time a Methodist preacher. Later he was engaged in blacksmith work and farming. The greater part of his life was spent in Wesley and Baring, Maine. He came to Baring in 1864, and died here March 10, 1885. He served as county commissioner and was town treasurer for twelve years. His reputation was that of an able business man and public official. In poli- tics he was a Democrat. His wife, Elizabeth, who was born in Brighton, Maine, September 15, 1824, became the mother of three children, name- ly: Granville, of whom further; Ellery, born in Wesley, April 14, 1855, who died at the age of six years; and Cyrus, born in Wesley, Novem- ber 25, 1860. The mother died July 24, 1884.
Granville Chase attended the common schools and the Milltown Academy and completed his education with a course at Gray's Commercial College at Portland. Afterward for six years he was employed in lumbering for George Lowell & Company of Baring, and was bookkeeper and confidential clerk for the firm of Todd, Polleys
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& Company of Nova Scotia for eight years. Go- ing then to Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, he was engaged for some time in the manufacture of boxes. From Cambridgeport he went to St. George, New Brunswick, where he had charge of the lumbering operations conducted by Charles F. Todd & Son until 1890. Then he established himself in the box shook industry in Baring, at the same time opening a general store, which business he was engaged in at the time of his death.
In 1876 Mr. Chase was joined in marriage witlı Caroline Polleys, a native of Baring, who was born May 5, 1853, and died April 9, 1918. Mrs. Chase gave birth to six children, namely: Ed- ward, born March 16, 1877; Edith N., June 26, 1879; Clifford G., April 23, 1881; Florence P., October 29, 1883; Daniel, November 26, 1885; and Winifred, April 1, 1896. In politics Mr. Chase was a Democrat and served with ability as town clerk and superintendent of schools. He was a candidate for the State Legislature in 1898. He passed the chair in Alley Lodge, No. 14, Free and Accepted Masons, at Upper Mills, New Brunswick. He was also connected with Fron- ticr Lodge, No. 4, Knights of Pythias, of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and with the Uniform Rank.
EDWARD CHASE, one of the most active and successful manufacturers of Baring, Maine, and treasurer of the corporation known as the Granville Chase Company, manufacturers of box shooks and shingles, is a member of an old Maine family and the son of Granville and Caroline (Polleys) Chase. He was born March 16, 1877, at Baring, Maine, and attended as a lad the local public schols. He passed through the grammar grades and high school and was prepared at the latter institution for college. He then entered the Shaw Business College at Portland, where he pursued studies to fit him for a business ca- reer. After completing his studies at the unusual age of sixteen years, he became a clerk in the grocery store of his father, and continued to work in that capacity for two years. He was then given the position of foreman in his father's sawmill and filled that position very efficiently. When he was nincteen years of age, the follow- ing year, he went West and became bookkeeper of a hardware concern in Minnesota for six months. Returning to Maine he became asso- ciated with his father in the lumber business and continued in this affiliation until the death of the latter in 1904. The lumber business was then
incorporated, and Mr. Chase was elected treas- urer of the Granville Chase Company, the posi- tion which he now holds. The principal busi- ness of this corporation is the manufacture of box shooks and shingles, of which products they manufacture in large quantities, being also cn- gaged in the long lumber industry. Mr. Chase is well known in financial circles, he is associated with the Calais National Bank, of which he is a stockholder.
He does not by any means confine his activities wholly to his private affairs, but is a very promi- nent figure in the political life of the State. A Democrat in politics, he is active in the affairs of his party, being at the present time a member of the State committee. He has also been the candidate on the Democratic ticket as representa- tive to the State Legislature in 1906, and to the State Senate in 1916, but in the strongly Repub- lican region was defeated on both occasions. In 1917 he was Democratic candidate for repre- sentative to the United States Congress, from the Third Congressional District of Maine. For six years he held the office of first selectman of Baring, and he is now filling the post of treas- urer in that town. Mr. Chase is also well known in fraternal circles here and has attained the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry. He is a member of Alley Lodge, No. 14, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Upper Mills, New Brunswick, and is past master of that body; of the St. Croix Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Calais, Maine, of which he is past high priest; of Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Lewiston, Maine; and Maine Consistory, Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret. He attends the Baptist church at Baring and contributes liberally to the support thereof. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian church.
Edward Chase was united in marriage on Oc -. tober 20, 1909, at Milltown, New Brunswick, Can- ada, with Bertha Jane Dewar, a native of that place and a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Mc- Kenzie) Dewar. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Chase, Daniel Angus Chase, born August 23, 1912.
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS CLOUDMAN-When we say the words "A Self-made Man," how few of us stop to consider what they really mean. The hours of physical toil perhaps, or it may be mental concentration, or the self-denial neces- sary to bring about success worthy of the title. Such a man is Francis Augustus Cloudman, born in Westbrook, Maine, June 16, 1839. When very
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