Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of Maine, Part 19

Author: Herndon, Richard; McIntyre, Philip Willis, 1847- ed; Blanding, William F., joint ed
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Boston, New England magazine
Number of Pages: 1268

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a Democrat, and was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 188o. In 1883 he was a candidate for District Attorney for the Northern District of Massachusetts, and in 1894 the candi- date of his party for Congress from the Seventh Congressional District. He was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago in July 1896, and immediately upon the adoption of the platform announced his intention of refusing to support the platform or any person who stood upon it ; and was, upon his return to Massachusetts, among the first to aid in the organization of a party in opposition to it. He was a staunch supporter of Palmer and Buckner and the Indianapolis platform. Mr. Hamilton is President of the Terminal City Com- pany and the Wakefield Water Company, and is also Treasurer of the Pine Tree State Club of Boston. He was married February 13, 1867, to Miss Annie E. Davis, of Newfield, Maine. They have no children.

HEWETT, JAMES HENRY HOBBS, President of the Thomaston Board of Trade, was born in Hope, Knox county, Maine, February 16, 1836, son of John and Esther W. (Brown) Hewett. He is a grandson of William Orrit Hewett, who was a Ser- geant in the English army, and came to this country with the troops under command of Sir William Howe. His sympathies with the patriots caused him to desert from the British ranks soon after landing at Boston, and he shortly enlisted in the New Hampshire troops of the American army, in which he served continuously till the end of the Revolutionary War. He never had any communi- cation with his relatives in England after his deser- tion, hence trace of earlier ancestry is lost. He married Sarah King of New Ipswich, New Hamp- shire, and became one of the original settlers of the town of Hope, Maine, where he afterwards resided until his death. On the maternal side the subject of this sketch is a grandson of William Brown, who came with his family from Rhode Island and settled in Hope about 1810. He was educated in the country schools until the age of sixteen, and then fitted for college at the Maine Wesleyan and West- brook seminaries, and North Yarmouth Academy. He attended Bowdoin College three years, in the class of 1860, earning the means of paying his edu- cational expenses by working at the joiners' trade and teaching school a part of each year. Leaving college from choice at the end of his junior year, in 1859 he went to Kentucky and engaged in teaching.

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At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion he was teaching in Covington Institute, and studying law with Judge W. H. Hayes, at Springfield, Ken- tucky. In July 1861 he went to Brownville, Nebraska, and continued the study of law with his brother, Judge O. B. Hewett, until admitted to the Bar of that territory in June 1862. He then returned to Maine, and on the 13th of August 1862 enlisted as a recruit for the Eighth Regiment Maine Volunteers, joining the regiment at Beaufort, South Carolina. He served with his regiment until June 16, 1865, when he was discharged for disability from a wound received in action. At the Battle of Rice

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Station, Virginia, April 6, 1865, he was shot through the left thigh and severely wounded, while acting as Assistant Inspector-General of the brigade and in rallying the Eighty-ninth Regiment New York Volunteers. At the close of the war he returned to Maine and settled in Thomaston, where he has since resided, in the active practice of his profes- sion. Mr. Hewett served successively as Quarter- master-Sergeant, Second Lieutenant of Company E, First Lieutenant and Adjutant, and Captain of Com- pany D, Eighth Regiment, Maine Volunteers. On May 30, 1867, he was commissioned by the Presi- (lent as Major of United States Volunteers by brevet, to date from March 13, 1865, "for gallant and

meritorious conduct during the war." He was Deputy Collector of Customs at Thomaston from 1869 to 1887, was County Attorney of Knox County for the four years 1887-91, and at the present time is President of the Thomaston Board of Trade. He is a member of Orient Masonic Lodge, Henry Knox Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, also of the Maine Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of P. Henry Tillson Post, Grand Army of the Republic. In politics Major Hewett has been always a Republican, and has served as Chairman of the Republican Town Committee and member of the State and County Republican committees. He was married August 23, 1862, to Susan L. Hawkes, of Thomaston ; they have four children : John, Fred Morris, Mabel Esther and James Henry Hewett.

HEALY, RIGHT REVEREND JAMES AUGUSTINE, Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland, was born on a plantation near Macon, Georgia, April 6, 1830, son of Michael M. and Eliza (Clarke) Healey. His father was a Southern farmer, or planter, and a native of Ireland. His education was begun at Flushing, Long Island, New York, at a select school of Quakers, or Friends, and was continued at Bur- lington, New Jersey, in a boarding school conducted by William Dennis, former Vice-President of Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, also a Quaker institution. At the age of fourteen, when he entered college, he had completed his studies in algebra, trigonometry and the science of surveying. He spent the five years 1844-9 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where Jesuits were the teachers, and of which institution he was one of the first students, graduating in July 1849. He then studied theology for three years in Montreal, Canada, and two years in a superior course at Paris, where besides perfecting himself in theology, he greatly increased his proficiency in the French language, of which he became a very fluent speaker, and here he was ordained priest in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in 1854. Called to the Diocese of Boston, he served as Secretary to Rt. . Rev. John B. Fitzpatrick, Bishop of Boston, for twelve years, and as Rector and Administrator of the Catholic Parish nine years, 1857-66, when he was transferred to the large and important parish of St. James in Boston, succeeding Archbishop Williams in that pastorate. After nine years as Pastor of St. James Church, upon the death of Rt.

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Rev. David W. Bacon, Father Healy was appointed his successor as Bishop of Portland, in February 1875, his consecration taking place in June follow- ing. In this important episcopate Bishop Healy has since continued, covering at this time a period of more than twenty years. On coming to Portland he found a diocese heavily burdened with debt. Its vast extent, embracing the states of Maine and New Hampshire, entailed severe and increasing labors upon its chief pastor, and the successful administration of its affairs presented difficulties of no ordinary degree. In 1884, on petition of the Bishop, New Hampshire was made a separate diocese, and Rev. Dennis W. Bradley, a former Rector of the Cathedral in Portland, was appointed its first Bishop. A remarkable success has attended Bishop Healy's labors in his present field. There are now eighty-three priests in the Diocese of Maine alone, whereas there were but sixty-five in Maine and New Hampshire when he came to Portland; twenty-nine new parishes have been established, and besides twelve new churches built where none before existed, thirty-five have been built in place of pre-existing ones ; ten convents have been founded, with two hundred and eight sisters in place of the little band of twenty in 1875, new missions have been started in various parts of the state, and three asylums and two hospitals have been inaugurated and maintained. Nor has the progress been less constant and marked along the educational line ; a college which has now seventy students has been founded at Van Buren, under charge of the Marist Fathers, and twelve new schools have been put in operation, under the charge of proficient teachers. While it is but justice to the clergy to say that the building of churches and schools has been accomplished largely by their labors and sacrifices, yet it has been under the Bishop's inspiration and rule, and through the encouragement and example furnished by his energy and zeal, that these remarkably successful results have been attained. Bishop Healy has long held high rank as a pulpit orator, and has been frequently invited to preach at the consecration of bishops, dedication of churches, jubilees and similar occasions ; he has twice visited San Francisco in this capacity, but he rarely accepts such invitations outside of his own or some neighboring diocese. Not often outside of the church, and only upon exceptional occasions, such as the death of President Garfield and the Columbian Celebration at Portland, has he appeared

upon the public platform. His eulogy on Garfield, at City Hall, Portland, was a remarkable production and attracted widespread attention. The Bishop, as a " Corporation Sole," holds all the church prop- erty in the diocese, and his prompt and intelligent action and correct methods of business are known not in Portland alone, but are felt throughout the

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state. As a citizen, Bishop Healy is second to none in manifesting an interest in every movement for public charity or the public good.

HILL, HOLLIS BOARDMAN, of the National Law and Collection Exchange, Boston, was born in Stetson, Penobscot county, Maine, May-31, 1845, son of Hezekiah and Emily Maria (Hill) Hill. On the paternal side he is of good old New England stock, and on the maternal side of notable military ancestry. His maternal grandfather, Benjamin Hill, was an officer in the Fourth Regiment of Regulars, United States Army, and died just after the Battle of Tippe- canoe. The subject of this sketch possesses the last letter he wrote, in which he said that as soon as he recovered he would give an account of the battle. At one time during the late Civil War, at the age of nineteen, as a Lieutenant in the volunteer service, he had command of the same army post that his grandfather commanded in 1810-11. His great-

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grandfather, James Hill, was an officer in the French and Indian wars. His mother's brother, James Hill, graduated at West Point Military Academy in 1844, and was Chief Quartermaster under General Taylor in the Mexican War, serving all through that war. He was presented by the officers with a solid silver service which is still in the possession of the family. In the Seminole War in Florida, he was on General Taylor's staff. He died in Baltimore, Mary- land. His son James M. Hill was also a graduate of West Point, and has a sister married to Gencial Barton H. Bee of South Carolina. He went with: the South in the Rebellion, and was captured by the

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Unionists at Fort Fisher, where he was serving as General Whiting's Chief of Staff. General J. A. Hill, brother of the subject of this sketch, was in the attack on Fort Fisher under General Foster, and there met his cousin, whom he had not seen for some years. Hollis B. Hill was educated in the common schools of his native town, the East Corinth (Maine) Academy, and at commercial college in Portland. He received his training for active life in mercantile business, and was for some years in the wholesale grocery trade as a member of the firm of W. & C. R. Milliken, Portland. In 1888, he withdrew from the business on account of ill health, and for the next four years was in the South, where

he was interested in an iron blast-furnace and other enterprises. In 1892, his health being restored, he returned North and associated himself with Colonel Joseph W. Spaulding in the law and collection busi- ness in Boston, forming the National Law and Col- lection Exchange, which he has since conducted, the business extending over the United States and into the Canadas and Europe. Since his army ser- vice Mr. Hill has continued to take an active in- terest in military affairs, and while resident in Maine served as Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Governor Davis, with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel ; on Governor Bodwell's staff as Commissary-General, ranking as Colonel ; and on Governor Marble's staff as Inspector-General, with rank of Brigadier-Gen- eral. General Hill is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of Burnside Post Grand Army of the Republic, of Auburn, Maine. While residing in Portland he served as a member of the City Council in 1886-7, and was a Director of the Cumberland National Bank of Portland and the Northern Banking Company, also one of the founders of the Portland Club. In politics, he has always been a Republican. He was married Octo- ber 27, 1870, to Harriet Morrill Quinby, daughter of the Reverend Doctor George W. Quinby of Augusta, Maine; they have one son : George Quinby Hill.

JEFFERDS, GEORGE FAYSON, M. D., Bangor, was born in Kennebunkport, Maine, May 7, 1816, son of William and Sarah (Walker) Jefferds. He is a descendant of the Rev. Samuel Jefferds, who came (from Scotland, it is believed) to Salem, Massa- chusetts, in 1720. His early education was acquired in the Latin School of Andover, Massachusetts, for a few months, and then for three years at the Lim- erick (Maine) Academy, under Principals Asa D. Smith, subsequently President of Dartmouth Col- lege, and Samuel Harris, LI .. D. Pursuing a college course, he graduated from Bowdoin in 1838, and spent the next three years in teaching, as Principal of the Alfred (Maine) Academy one year and the Nashua (New Hampshire) Academy two years. Entering upon the study of medicine, he attended the Medical School of Harvard and later that of Bowdoin College, receiving from the latter institution the degree of M. D. in 1845, and immediately commenced practice as physician and surgeon in Kennebunkport, his native town, serving there actively and continuously until the close of the year

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1860. In 1861 Dr. Jefferds came to Bangor, and took the large practice left by Dr. J. H. Payne, who had moved to Boston. His new field of practice was especially large for a few years because of the war. The suburban towns had mostly given up

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their physicians and surgeons to the military service, and thus his practice extended over a territory from fifteen to twenty-five miles in every direction from the city. Peace came, however, and with it the return of the army surgeons to their old homes. Since then he has been mostly engaged in city practice, and for more than a quarter of a century Dr. Jefferds has been doing the day and night work of a physician in Bangor. For the past five years, however, owing to somewhat feeble health and advancing old age, he has been gradually with- drawing irom professional work, and has now about retired, having become an octogenarian May 7, 1896. Dr. Jefferds was admitted to the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1859, and having been a member more than twenty-five years, is now numbered among the Seniors of that organization, entitled " Members of the Senate." He has also been a member of the Maine Homoeopathic Med- ical Society from its organization. He served his native town as Town Treasurer for fifteen years, Town Physician ten years, Chairman of the School Committee fifteen years and Chairman of the Board

of Health ten years. As a member of the South Congregational Society of Kennebunkport, he was Superintendent of the Sunday School, and Deacon of the church from 1845 to December 1860. Dr. Jefferds is a staunch Republican in principles, but has never been a politician

LANDRY, GEORGE EDOUARD, M. D., Oldtown, was born in Becancourt, Province of QQuebec, August 27, 1869, sonoi Dr. Louis Elzear and Maria Adelaide (Quesnel) Landry. He comes of medical ancestry, being a grandson of Colonel Louis Michel Landry, M. D., and Madeline Dubois on the paternal side, and his maternal grandparents were Charles Quesnel, M. D., and Mary Anne Campbell. He received his early education from private teachers, and pursued a classical course of eight years in Three Rivers College, from which he graduated in 1888. He studied with Professor Alfred Leblond de Brumath for one year, after which he began a four-years med- ical course in Laval University, Montreal. During his university course he served in various capacities

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in the Notre-Dame and Hotel Dieu hospitals in Montreal, and was First Assistant of Dr. A. T. Brosseau, Chief Surgeon of the Notre-Dame Hos- pital, for two years. He took the degree of Bach- elor of Medicine in IS91 and that of Doctor of

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Medicine in 1893, and was licensed to practice in Canada in the latter year. Dr. Landry has prac- ticed medicine and surgery in Oldtown since 1893. He is a member of the Eastern Maine Medical Association and the Cercle Medicale of Montreal, and honorary member of the Academy St. Thomas d'Aquin of Three Rivers, of which he was at one time President. - In Canada he served as First Lieutenant in the Eightieth Battalion of Infantry in 1889-91. He is also a member of Laviolette Court, Independent Order of Foresters. He is unmarried.

LITTLE, FREMONT JOHN CHARLES, Lawyer, Augusta, was born in Whitefield, Lincoln county, Maine, December 5, 1861, son of Benjamin and

FREMONT J. C. LITTLE.

Elizabeth (Fish) Little. His American ancestry dates from George Little, who emigrated from Lon- don, England, to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640. Joseph Little, son of George, lived at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and his son Daniel was one of the incorporators of Hampstead, New Hampshire, of which town he was long one of the leading citizens. Samuel Little, son of Daniel, lawyer and patriot, was a member of the Provincial Congress that met at Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1775-6, and his son

Joshua Little was a Captain in the war of the Revo- lution, served at Castine and Crown Point, and also represented Whitefield, Maine, in the Massachusetts Legislature. Abijah Little, son of the foregoing, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, whose maternal ancestors were Scotch. F. J. C. Little received his early education in the common schools of Whitefield, Newcastle and Jefferson, Maine, and fitted for college in a three-years course at Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville, Maine, from which he graduated in 1884. He entered Bowdoin College in 1885, graduated June 27, 1889, with the degree of A. B., and on June 23, 1892, received the degree of A. M. from that institution. He worked his way through the fitting school at Waterville, and through college at Bowdoin, by teaching in various schools and academies. In 1889 he taught as Principal of the Patten (Maine) Academy. After graduation he was for a year Prin- cipal of the New Portland (Maine) High School, and of the Evening School at Augusta in 1891, while studying law. In March 1892 he was ad- mitted to the Kennebec Bar, and at once began the practice of law in Augusta. He tried two impor- tant cases before the Supreme Judicial Court in Lincoln county in 1895, also several in Kennebec county before the Superior and Supreme Judicial courts. Mr. Little served as Clerk of Augusta's first Board of Registration, 1891-2, while a law student in the office of Hon. H. M. Heath. In 1894-5 he was City Solicitor of Augusta, and in 1895-6 was Secretary of the Augusta Board of Trade. He is a Freemason, at present Senior Deacon of Augusta Lodge, and a member of Unity Club of Augusta, a literary society, to which he has contrib- uted various articles at the meetings. In college he was Class Prophet the year of his graduation, Exchange Editor of the Bowdoin Orient during his junior and senior years, and a member of the Theta Delta Chi during his four-years college course, and Chapter Editor of the Shield during his Senior year. He was also a member of a club in the last-named society, and served as Steward of the same in his Junior year. In politics Mr. Little is a Republican, and stumped the state for that party in 1896; but has not been a seeker for public office, his time being taken up chiefly by the work of his profes- sional business. He was married June 18, 1894, to Miss Lillian Blackman, daughter of E. F. Blackman, a member of the Augusta City Council in the years 1889-90; they have one child : Carroll Bryce, born March 11, 1895.

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LUDDEN, CHARLES MANDEVILLE, of the law firm of Smith & Ludden, Boston, was born in Dixfield, Oxford county, Maine, November 3, 1863, son of John Mandeville and Elevene J. (Carver) Ludden. He is descended from the Ludden family who settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, about 1700, and is also a lineal descendant of Peregrine White, who was born on the Mayflower. Mr. Ludden belongs to a family of lawyers. Timothy Ludden, Reporter of Maine Decisions, was a distant cousin ; Mandeville T. Ludden, late of Lewiston, Maine, was a great uncle, as also is Luther H. Ludden of Dixfield ; and Ludden & Ludden, attorneys at

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law, Auburn, Maine, are his younger brothers. He acquired his early education in the public schools of his native town, and graduated from Tufts College in 1886 at the head of his class, with the degree of A. B. He studied law in Harvard Law School three years, graduating with honors in 1889, and later received the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. from Harvard University. When in college he was editor-in-chief of the Tuftonian, and in law school he was one of the editors of the Harvard Law Review. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1889, and soon after began the practice of law in Boston in association with E. Irving Smith, under the firm name of Smith & Ludden, in which rela-

tion he has continued to the present time. The firm does a large general law business, making corporation law a specialty. Mr. Ludden was City Solicitor of Waitham, Massachusetts, from January 1891 until his resignation in March 1896, and for several years his firm has served as Town Counsel for the towns of Lexington and Lincoln. He is a member of the Citizens' and Philedian clubs of Waltham, Harvard Law School Association, and the Phi Beta Kappa of Tufts. Mr. Ludden resides in Waltham. He is a Republican in politics, and a Universalist in religion. He was married November 24, 1891, to Kathleen Hobart Hayes, of Medford, Massachusetts ; they have had one child, John Mandeville Ludden, born April 16, died September 13, 1895.

LORD, HENRY, of Henry Lord & Company, ship- brokers and commission merchants, Bangor, is a native of the city which has been his lifelong home. He was born in Bangor, May 7, 1847, son of Charles E. and Caroline L. (Weston) Lord, old residents of the Penobscot city. On his father's side he is a descendant of Nathan Lord, who came from Massa- chusetts and settled in Kittery, Maine, in 1652; and on the maternal side, is descended from Joseph Weston, one of the first settlers of Skowhegan, Maine, who came from Concord, Massachusetts, in 1772, and was a soldier of the Revolution. Mr. Lord's career furnishes a striking example of the success open to the energetic Maine boy in the home field, by improving the opportunities that sur- round him. Educated in the public schools, sup- plemented by a course at Bucksport (Maine) Semi- nary, at the age of eighteen he commenced his business career as a clerk in the office of Captain Thomas J. Stewart, a prosperous ship-broker and general commission merchant of Bangor, engaged largely in the foreign trade as well as in traffic with domestic ports. After three years of thorough training in this connection, the young man launched out for himself, setting up an independent estab- lishment in the same line of business at 21 Exchange street. Here he built up a large and widely-extended business, occupying the original quarters for many years, until in 1892 he removed to niore commodious offices at 79 Exchange street. Besides being a large owner and manager of vessel property, and in addition to his ship-brokerage business, Mr. Lord is heavily interested in the ice industry, and is an extensive shipper of ice, lumber,

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hay, lastblocks, slate, brick, and other products of the Eastern Maine section. In ISgo he admitted into partnership his brother Edwin, who for several years had been associated with him as chief clerk, and the business is now conducted under the firm name of Henry Lord & Company, ship-brokers and commission merchants. Mr. Lord in early life, prior to his more active business career, read law with Peters & Wilson - the former now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and the latter one of the leading attorneys of the state, and President of the Maine Central Railroad - and with the late Colonel Jasper Hutchings, also an eminent

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member of the legal fraternity; and though he never engaged in professional practice, he has · found the legal knowledge thus acquired most useful in his legislative service and in his business, especially that portion of it relating to maritime affairs. He is an active member of the Vessel Owners' and Captains' National Association, and for eight years served as Maine Commissioner of that commercial body - an organization that at one time enrolled more than a thousand vessels with a valuation of twenty millions of dollars. He was president of the Bangor Board of Trade for thirteen years, and upon the organization of the Maine State Board of Trade, in 1889, was elected to the Presi- dency of that institution, and has been re-elected

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Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of Maine, Part 19

Author: Herndon, Richard; McIntyre, Philip Willis, 1847- ed; Blanding, William F., joint ed Publication date: 1897 Publisher: Boston, New England magazine Number of Pages: 1268

Author: Herndon, Richard; McIntyre, Philip Willis, 1847- ed; Blanding, William F., joint ed
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Boston, New England magazine
Number of Pages: 1268