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young, he was sent to the common school, but after a few years his ambitious nature led him to obtain employment in the cotton mills of the Old Westbrook Manufacturing Company, part of the time working, or whenever possible go- ing to school for a short period. The day's work then began at five o'clock in the morning, and it was not by any means an eight-hour day, for closing time did not come until seven o'clock in the evening, meaning fourteen hours of labor each day. When eighteen years old the young man decided to try to better his conditions, so leaving Westbrook he went to Windham, and having an opportunity to learn carriage building, took up that work, applying himself diligently for two years.
About that time the Civil War broke out, and Mr. Cloudman enlisted in the Fifth Regiment of Maine as a member of the band, remaining in the service for fourteen months when he was honorably discharged, according to Act of Con- gress. On arriving in New York he learned that his brother, Captain Andrew C. Cloudman, of the Tenth Maine Regiment, had been killed at the battle of Cedar Mountain on the same day and at about the same hour of his discharge. Re- turning to Windham he again devoted himself to the carriage trade, and after thoroughly mas- tering every detail of the business, opened a manufactory in his own name in 1870. This he continued for nine years, and when an oppor- tunity offered itself to learn the trade of mill- wright he abandoned carriage making and went to work for S. D. Warren & Company, as mill- wright. We next find him superintendent of the Fibre Manufacturing Department of S. D. War- ren & Company, which position he hield until 1903, when he retired from active business and returned to Westbrook. For some time Mr. Cloudman did not engage in any fresh occupa- tion, but gradually becoming interested in auto- mobiles, he bought and sold them, following this ocenpation for some years.
After Mr. Cloudman became a resident of Westbrook for the second time, he drifted into polities, filling the position of councilman for two years, and later was elected mayor of Westbrook on the Republican ticket.
Among the names of members in the lodge of Free Masons at Westbrook may be found that of Francis Augustus Cloudman, also in the lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, through the various chairs of which he has passed. H is member of the local encampment of Grand Army of the Republic, the Economic Club, be- sides several clubs of Boston.
Mr. Cloudman's wife was Miss Annie E. Bodge, born in Windham in 1850, the daughter of Josiah Bodge, also a native of Windham, and Isabella (Richards) Bodge. The children born of this union were: The eldest, Frank Herbert, a hardware dealer of Westbrook; Cora Isabelle, wife of Dr. Bar- rett, a physician located in Westbrook; Andrew C., superintendent of the Electric Plant of S. D. Warren; and Percy L., who was drowned when only a boy of eighteen. His sister, Margaret .A., was married to William Sweet, who was a member of the Eleventh Maine Regiment, and lost an arm in the service. The father of Fran- cis Augustus Cloudman was Paul L. Cloudman, of Gorham, Maine, son of John, also of Gorham, and his mother was Eliza B. Waterhouse, born in Saco, but married in Westbrook. In early life Paul L. Cloudman was a stage driver, then later learned the carpenter's trade, eventually becom- ing a contractor and builder in Westbrook, own- ing considerable real estate. He also conducted a successful shoe business. A very interesting incident of this member of the Cloudman fam- ily is told, and is worthy of repetition. During the early days in Maine, about 1838, when Great Britain and the United States were disputing the boundary rights in the Aroostook region, Paul L. Cloudman volunteered as teamster and not- withstanding the wild nature of the country and the perils to be encountered, continued hauling government supplies during the period of the Aroostook War. The elder Cloudman was a life- long Democrat of the old school. He died at the age of forty-five years. The mother of Francis A. Cloudman was a devoted follower of the teachings of the Universalist church.
PATRICK THERRIAULT, prominent citizen and owner of a general store at Grand Isle, Maine, is a member of a family originally of French extraction, and is a son of Isidore and Philomene (Daigle) Therrianlt. His father was for many years engaged in the ocenpation of farming at Grand Isle, and was a well known and highly respected resident of this region.
Patrick Therrianlt was born on his father's farm at Grand Isle, Maine, April 18, 1875, and passed his childhood and early youth in that place. As a lad he attended the common schools of Madawaska and the Madawaska Training School, being prepared for college at the latter institution, from which he graduated in 1893. He then entered Van Buren College, where he took the usual classical course and made an ex- cellent reputation for himself both for scholar- ship and general character. Upon completing
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his studies at the last named institution Mr. Therriault began his successful business career, and in 1901 founded the present general store at Grand Isle, which he has since operated with a very high degree of success. This establish- ment, of which Mr. Therriault is the active head, is one of the largest of its kind in this section and is conducted along the most modern and up-to-date lines. Mr. Therriault has also be- come identified with other important business interests in this region, and is at the present time vice-president of the Van Buren National Bank. Although Mr. Therriault is widely and most fa- vorably known in connection with his business activities, he is perhaps even more prominent in the public life of the community and has held many important offices of trust hereabouts. He is a staunch Republican in politics, and in the year 1905 was elected to represent this com- munity in the State Legislature. In 1907 he was elected to the State Senate and served on that body in that year and in 1909, making for himself during this time an enviable reputation as a capable legislator and a disinterested public servant. From 1911 to 1917 he was county con- missioner of Aroostook county, Maine, and in 1918 was appointed by Governor Milliken to fill the vacancy on the Board of County Commis- sioners, an office which he holds at the present time. He is also a member of Local Board, Di- vision No. 2, of Aroostook county. Mr. Ther- riault has for many years been identified with the social and religions life of this community and is a member of the Knights of Columbus, Fourth Degree; of K. O. T. M., and the local lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In his religious belief Mr. Therriault is a Roman Catholic.
Patrick Therriault was united in marriage, August 7, 1897, at Grand Isle, Maine, with Zelie Morneault, daughter of Pierre and Marie (Plourd) Morneault. To Mr. and Mrs. Ther- riault two children have been born, as follows: Edmond, January 21, 1899, and Alma, March 19, 1904.
DAVID HARRY DARLING, the well known resident of Gardiner, Maine, is a son of David Henry and Sarah Josephine (Lane) Darling, old and highly respected residents of Wakefield, Massachusetts, and a grandson of Henry Darling, of North Adams, Massachusetts. Three of his ancestors in direct line are said to have fought at the battle of Lexington. David Henry Darl- ing, the father of the Mr. Darling of this sketch,
was born at North Adams, and was a prominent banker and broker in Boston and in New York City, where he died in March, 1902. His wife was a lifelong resident of Wakefield, and died there when her son, David Harry Darling, was two years of age.
Born December 7, 1870, at Wakefield, Massa- chusetts, David Harry Darling attended as a lad the local public schools, Chauncy Hall School of Boston, and after studying at the high school of Wakefield for a time, became a pupil in the Peekskill Military Academy, of Peekskill, New York. His education was completed at the Phillips-Andover Academy, of Andover, Massa- chusetst, after which he became associated in business with his father in the latter's banking establishment. For two years he was employed there as a clerk and for one year following that was a traveling agent. At the end of that time he withdrew from his father's company and went to Alliance, Ohio, where he became connected with an engineering concern in 1893. Later he returned to Wakefield, Massachusetts, where he secured a position in the drafting department of the Water Company, where he remained for about eighteen months. He then once more went on the road as a salesman in New England for a New York company engaged in the bicycle business, and after a short time went to New York City, where he became connected with the United States Storage Battery Company in the capacity of secretary and vice-president. He then, for the same company, spent eight years in the Middle West, with headquarters at Pitts- burgh, developing the business in that region. At the end of this period Mr. Darling came to Gardiner, Maine, as treasurer for the Bradstreet Lumber Company, and since that time has con- tinued to make his home here. He remained for nine years with the lumber concern, and is now in the real estate and investment business for himself. He owns a handsome residence in this place, surrounded by a charming estate, in which he lias developed a very complete garden in the cultivation of which he spends much of his time. In addition to his personal business Mr. Darling is associated with several important enterprises here, and is secretary of the Gardiner Forestry Company, a concern organized for ex- perimental education in forestry, and which has bought forty acres in which they have planted sixteen thousand pine trees.
Mr. Darling has taken an active part in the life of this city ever since he came here, and was one of the most prominent figures of the group
Tev. John A. Horelehave.
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of men who organized the commission form of city government for Gardiner and was secretary of the Good Government Organization, giving much time and effort to the work of this body. In politics he is an Independent and quite with- out personal ambition for office, but has never- theless been very influential in the affairs of his city. It was he who was the author of the bill for the preservation, perpetuation and in- crease of the forests of Maine, and he who prin- cipally conducted the campaign for this most important measure, which would have had a ma- terial effect upon the future development and prosperity of the entire State had the bill passed. He has written many articles for the periodicals of importance in the State on the subjects of forestry and taxation. He is also keenly inter- ested in antique furniture and is a collector there- of, this subject also having afforded him mate- rial for several interesting articles. He is a member of the A. X. E. Society of the Peekskill Military Academy, and the K. O. A. of Andover. In his religious belief he is an Episcopalian and attends Christ Church of that denomination at Gardiner.
David H. Darling was united in marriage, Sep- tember 15, 1903, at Gardiner, Maine, with Laura Dearborn Bradstreet, a daughter of F. T. Brad- street, who is the subject of extended mention elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Darling are the parents of four children, as follows: Anne Bradstreet, Rachel Dearborn, David Lane, and John Bradstreet.
RODNEY ELSMORE ROSS, since 1915 the treasurer and president of the Hyde Windlass Company, was born in Kennebunk, Maine, April 9, 1884, son of Dr. Frank Marcellus and Louisa Dana (Morton) Ross, both of whom were natives of Kennebunk. Dr. Ross is a practising physi- cian in Kennebunk, and is the president of the Ocean National Bank, of Kennebunk. He is a member of the Republican party, and of the Ma- sonic order. Dr. Ross has three living children.
Rodney E. Ross was educated at the public schools of Kennebunk, and then went to Bow- doin College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1910. From Bowdoin he went to the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1913, and was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts in 1914. In that year he came to Bath, Maine, and assumed the position of treasurer of the Hyde Windlass Company. To these duties were added those of president, in 1915, and he still holds the combined office. He is also a director of the
Bath Trust Company. Although Mr. Ross is a Republican in his political opinions he has never cared to hold political office. He is a member of the Masonic order, and holds membership in the Psi Upsilon and the Phi Beta Kappa frater- nities of Bowdoin College He is also a mem- ber of the Colonial Club, and of the Engineers' Club, of New York. In his religions views he is a Liberal.
Mr. Ross married, in Bath, Maine, June 8, 1914, Lina Carr Andrews, who was born in Bath, a daughter of Jacob R. and Annie (Mitts) An- drews, the former having been for many years president of the Hyde Windlass Company. Mr. Andrews was a Mason; and in his religious be- lief a Unitarian. In politics he was a Repub- lican. He was also president of the National Bank of Bath, and was a member of the Engi- neers' Club, the Lotus and Yacht clubs, all of New York City, and of the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia. He died in 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney E. Ross have two children: Barbara and Rodney E., Jr.
JOHN WILLIAM HOULIHAN-It is a mis- taken corallary from the great and true proposi- tion that the world is growing more virtuous to suppose that therefore of any two epochs the latter must be the better. It is true that we are moving, however slowly, towards what we be- lieve shall prove to be the Millenium, but we move as do the waves of the sea and trough must follow crest as well as the contrary. It would probably be a difficult matter, however, to per- suade anyone that the present time occupies any such ignominious position as that of trough be- tween two crests of development, and doubtless most men would point indignantly to the mar- velous mechanical achievements of today and ask when the world has approached them in the past. But there are other and surer ways of judgment of the worth of a period than by its mechanical inventions, notably by the amount of religious enthusiasm existing, and it is a fact that to call a period in history at once the "Dark Ages" and the "Ages of Faith" is a contradiction in terms. That today there is less of religious belief than in the times that have preceded, it is hardly susceptable of denial and this, accord- ing to the above criterion, marks it as in some degree a retrogression. To carry us through such times of disbelief, however, there are several great factors to which men of more faithful in- stincts may turn for support and refuge. One of the greatest of these is undeniably the Roman
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Catholic church, in the shelter of whose institu- tions so many find security. It is among the priests and more devoted members of the church that we shall still find something that approxi- mates the simple faith of those old times, a faith which approached the moving of mountains. Typical of those who thus seem to perpetuate in their own persons the splendid traditions past is Father Houli- han, rector of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, of Port- land, Maine, which he has done much to build up to its present size and importance, and make it the factor that it is in the religious life of the com- munity. Father Houlihan comes of a family such as he might have been expected to have been a scion of, his forebears having been mem- bers of the simple, yet capable Irish people. County Kerry was the home of the Houlihans in past ages, and it was there that Father Houli- han's father was born and spent the first nine- teen years of his life. His parents had lived and died there, and it was only after their de- mise that he finally came to the United States, where he had heard great opportunities awaited those of enterprising natures. Accordingly, he sailed for this country and came directly to Bangor, Maine, where he resided during the re- mainder of his life, and had been a resident of that place for fully sixty-five years and was prominent in the affairs of the community. The name of this worthy gentleman was Patrick Houlihan and he married Mary Moriarty, like himself a native of County Kerry, Ireland. He passed away in Bangor, having attained the age of eighty-four years. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Houlihan, as follows: Mary, who married V. B. Ross, of Portland; Helen M., who at present makes her home with Father Houlihan in Portland; Patrick H., who is en- gaged in business as a druggist at Orono, Maine; Agnes, who died at the age of twenty-one years; Joseph E., who is engaged in business as a drug- gist at Bangor, where he owns the handsome State street drug store; Rev. Timothy H., who is now rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Portland; Anna, who resides with her mother at Bangor; John William, with whose career we are particularly concerned; and two other chil- dren who died in infancy.
Born February 13, 1871, at his father's home in Bangor, Maine, Father Houlihan spent his childhood in that place. It was there also that he began his education, attending for that pur- pose the local public school, and at the age of seventeen, having completed his education at these institutions, he went to Holy Cross Col-
lege. Father Houlihan from the outset dis- played a remarkable talent as a student and scholar, and it was in 1891, when only twenty years of age, that he graduated from Holy Cross with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He had already felt strongly his call to the priesthood, and having developed a great fondness for learn- ing and scholarship in general, he decided to con- tinue his studies with this end in view. Accord- ingly, he went to Montreal, Canada, where he entered Grand Seminary and studied for some time. Thereafter he went abroad and continued his studies at the famous seminary of St. Sul- pice, Paris, where he completed the courses necessary before ordination. It was at St. Sul- pice that he was ordained May 19, 1894, after which he returned to America and was assigned as curate to the Catholic church at Old Town, Maine, in the month of August, 1894. He re- mained there for a little above a year and then, in October, 1895, was sent to Dexter, Maine, where he established the Catholic parish. He remained at this post for more than three ycars and during that time so managed affairs that he was able to build a Catholic church not only at Dexter but one at Dover, Maine. His organizing ability is of quite an unusual order, and in May, 1909, he was placed in charge of St. Joseph's parish in Portland, where he at once became very active in the religions life of the place. Since that time he has remained continuously in charge of St. Joseph's and has done an enormous amount to increase its influence in the community. One of the most important works accomplished by him was that in connection with parochial edu- cation, his achievement in this direction having been most notable. Some years ago he was enabled to purchase two acres of valuable prop- erty situated on Stevens avenue, which he felt would be an excellent location for a school. A handsome old Colonial mansion already stood on this tract and this he remodeled and added to, and this is occupied by Father Houlihan, and he erected a new building, St. Joseph's Parish School, a beauti- ful building, which cost $30,000. This was in the year 1915, but already Father Houlihan contemplates a still more ambitious and important project, namely, the building of a handsome new church edifice for the more adequate accommodation of constantly growing congregation. Father Houlihan is a comparatively young man, and it requires no prophetic vision to predict a long period of invaluable service, both to his flock and to the church-at-large.
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AMOS CLEMENT-On the coast of Maine, beaten by the waves of the Atlantic ocean, stands Mount Desert Island, and there, in the village of Mount Desert, Amos Clement was born July 30, 1849. His father, James Clement, was a na- tive of Maine, as was his mother, Abigail (South- ard) Clement, born in Dresden. The child, who was one of a family of six brothers and sisters, three of whom are still living, grew up on his father's farm, sometimes assisting in the farm work or in fishing, the latter being one of his father's occupations. For some years he at- tended school in the village whenever possible. Later he became a clerk in one of the stores in Mount Desert, filling that position until the age of twenty-one when he decided to make a change for his betterment, and went to the coast town of Belfast, Maine, the county seat of Waldo county. Here the young man found a clerkship in the book store of J. S. Caldwell with whom he was associated for about twelve years, and when Mr. Caldwell died in March, 1883, Amos Clement succeeded him in the book business. This he carried on very successfully for fifteen years. Some years before this Mr. Clement had become greatly interested in timber, this being one of the leading industries of Maine. About 1898 Mr. Clement decided to remodel the old Clement homestead at Seal Harbor, Maine, mak- ing a summer resort hotel of it. This was a most successful venture, the hotel "Sea Side Inn" becoming known far and near as one of the best hotels in the State of Maine, and enjoying an unusually large patronage. Mr. Clement still continues in this capacity and is assisted by his brother. His grandfather was the first settler of Seal Harbor and the founder of the home- stead; a monument with a fountain has been erected as a memorial to him.
In Belfast, on September 22, 1880, Mr. Clement married Mary Rice Caldwell in the home where she was born and where they still live. She is the daughter of John Stanwood Caldwell, who was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and died in March, 1883. Mr. Caldwell's business was that of merchant; he was a Republican in politics, though never holding office; and was a member of the Congregational church. He married (first) Mary Elizabeth Simpson, who died in 1855. They had five children, though only one is now living, Mrs. I. B. Moore, of Waterville. Mr. Caldwell married for the second time, in 1858, Sophia Rice, born in Meridan, Connecticut, the daughter of Ezekiel Rice, a farmer of Meridan. The sec- ond Mrs. Caldwell died in 1896. Of this marriage
there were two children: John, who died at the age of two years, and Mrs. Amos Clement. Mr. Caldwell's father was John Caldwell, also born in Ipswich. The Caldwell family came to Amer- ica from the north of England settling in New England, the first trace of them being John, who settled at Ipswich in 1754.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Clement have three sons and one daughter: The first son, John Clement, resides at Seal Harbor, and is manager of Sea Side Inn; the second is Dr. James Donald Clem- ent, a practicing physician, of Bangor; the third son is Stephen C. Clement, who is teaching school in Danbury, Connecticut, who was in the service, United States Naval Reserve, in London during the World War; and a daughter, Louise Rice. The ancestors of the Clements were Eng- lish and came to this country soon after the landing of the Mayflower. There were three brothers, one of whom settled at Haverhill, Mas- sachusetts.
In politics Mr. Clement is a Republican, but like his father before him is not a politician. Neither of them ever held public office. The elder Clement was an old time Whig. All the members of the Clement family belong to the Congregational church.
THOMAS T. MICHAUD-The plantation of Wallagrass, in Aroostook county, now a station on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad, and a famous potato growing section of Maine, was virgin wildnerness when Romaine Michaud, a Canadian, settled there, taking up a pre-emption claim from the government. The claim was rich in pine forest, but a quantity had been cut prior to the Michaud settlement. The lot was orig- inally drawn by John Webber, town surveyor at that time, and on his pre-emption lot Romaine Michaud erected a house, farmed, kept a little store, and worked at lumbering. He was never reimbursed for the timber cut from his claim, as he was led to believe he would be, but his eight lots were valuable, and he prospered. Prior to coming to Maine, he had been impressed into the British service against the United States in the War of 1812-14, although he was but six- teen years of age. At the time of the birth of his son, Thomas Michaud, in 1839, he was living near Keegan, Maine. The Michauds being the only family living in that then wilderness, be- tween Keegan and Portage, Romaine Michaud, with his family, moved to Wallagrass in 1843.
Now the visitor along the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad observes villages springing up, the lum-
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