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at every subsequent annual meeting. The Maine State Board of Trade is composed of delegates from more than forty local boards, having a membership of more than twenty-five hundred of the most active and influential business and professional men of the state. It was the first organization of its kind formed in the United States, although, following the lead of Maine, many other states now have similar organi- zations. The work of the Maine State Board has been of vast benefit to the state in the way of mak- ing known her great advantages and resources, and encouraging their development, and thereby keeping her young men and capital at home. The success which has attended Mr. Lord in his business under- takings is due to inherent qualities that, naturally. have brought him into prominence in social and public life. His strong personality and engaging manners, combined with keen intelligence, breadth of view, and ready expression in relation to all matters of general public interest, have made his counsels and services sought after in various capaci- ties by the community. In politics always an ardent and steadfast Republican, he quickly, upon reaching manhood, became active and prominent in the organization of that party in his native city. Commencing his public life by serving in various minor offices, he was elected a member of the Bangor City Council in 1872, and was continued by successive re-elections for three years, during the second and third of which he served as President of that body. In 1876 his field of action as a polit- ical leader and legislator was enlarged by his elec- tion as Representative to the State Legislature, and upon being returned the following year he was chosen Speaker of the House, at the age of thirty years. Later he served two terms as State Senator, and during his second term, in IS89, was President of the Maine Senate, the second officer of the state. Among other local honors bestowed upon him, Mr. Lord served for some years upon the Superintend- ing School Committee of Bangor, and as a Director of the Mechanics' Library Association. He was one of the originators of the Bangor Literary Asso- ciation, an organization that led an active career for many years, and which comprised many of the younger business and professional men of the city, holding weekly meetings during the winter months for debate and general literary advancement. He has always been especially interested in educational matters, and is President of the Board of Trustees of the Maine State College, and was for three years President of the Board of Trustees of Westbrook
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Seminary. In religious faith Mr. Lord is a Univer- salist. Though not in membership in that church, he has been prominently identified with the promo- tion of its work, and was for several years President of the Maine State Convention of Universalists. Mr. Lord was married in 1872, to Miss Emma Saunders, daughter of Joseph Saunders of Orland. They have four children : Anne, born in October 1872 ; Harry, born January 1874: Charles, born January 1875, and Alice Lord, born in August 18S2.
MITCHELL, HENRY LYMAN, Lawyer, Bangor, was born in Unity, Waldo county, Maine, February 6, 1844, son of Steward S. and Lucinda (Tyler) Mitchell. His father was the fourth son of Isaac Mitchell, who was a large mill owner in Unity ; and Isaac Mitchell was one of eleven children of John Mitchell, a soldier of the Revolution, and the second man to settle in the town of Unity. His mother was the sixth child of Rowland Tyler of Bangor, tenth child of Ebenezer Tyler, who lived and died in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Rowland Tyler was a teacher when he first came to Maine, served in the army for many years, was a Captain and Major in the state forces, and carried on a large business as a contractor and builder, besides a large farm. His father, Ebenezer Tyler, was at the Battle of Lexing- ton, served through the war as an officer and became a Major-General of Militia of Massachusetts, from which he resigned in 1806, and also served in the General Court of Massachusetts for several terms. Henry L. Mitchell was left an orphan at a very early age, the death of his mother when he was three years old being followed by his father's death two years later. He attended the common and graded schools, and six terms at the Corinth and Corinna (Maine) academies, and later was a private pupil of Professors Sewall and Cates and Rev. J. H. Sawyer, three of the ablest teachers of Maine. Aside from his boyish schooling he was obliged to educate him- self, earning the money to pay for his private tuition by working at various occupations during the sum- mer months, and teaching fall, winter and spring terms of school. He studied law, was admitted to the Bar in April 1866, and at once commenced practice in Bangor, where he has since continued in the enjoyment for many years of a large business. In September 1861 he left his school and became a member of the First Regiment of Maine Cavalry ; was in the battles of Middletown, Winchester, Cedar Mountain, South Mountain, Second Battle of Bull
Run, and Antietam, and was so badly wounded that it unfitted him for mounted duty, therefore he left the service, and as soon as he was able, resumed his studies. He served as Colonel of the Second Regi- ment Maine Volunteer Militia 1883-7, and as Gen- eral commanding the First Brigade from 1887 to April IS91. Mr. Mitchell was fitting himself to com- mence upon the study of medicine, as the profession of his choice, but after his return from the army he was advised by several physicians that his im- paired health, resulting from the wounds and injuries received, would unfit him to follow that profession, other than office practice, and he therefore took up
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the legal profession. General Mitchell has acted as counsel in some of the most important cases that have been tried in Eastern Maine during the last twenty-five years, and was City Solicitor of Bangor for a term of ten years, 1885-95. He is also Presi- dent of the Hampden & Winterport Street Rail- way, for which he procured the charter from the Legislature. He has been commander of Hannibal Hamlin Post Grand Army of the Republic, is Past Commander of Norombega Lodge Knights of Pyth- ias and Past Master of Bangor Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen. In politics General Mitchell has been always a Republican. He was married Sep- tember 22, 1879, to Emma L. Rider, daughter of Dr. Robert E. Rider of Washington, Maine.
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FULLER, PARKER THURSTON, Postmaster of Rockland, was born at Northwest Harbor, Deer Isle, Maine, June 24, 1858, son of Thomas S. and Elizabeth R. (Lufkin) Fuller. He comes of Puritan ancestry on both sides, and is tenth in direct descent from Dr. Samuel Fuller, the Physician on the May- flower, and one of the most prominent members of that historic crew. His parents moved to Castine in the fall of 1865, in order that he might be afforded better educational advantages, the Castine schools being at that time considered equal to any in the state. In 1873 the family moved to Thomaston, where the young man remained a year, and his
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attention, he resigned his position, and after a Southern trip of several months returned to Rock- land and once more connected himself with the drug business. In March 1886 he was appointed Assistant Postmaster of Rockland, under the Cleve- land administration, and held over during the Harrison administration. Under the second admin- istration of President Cleveland he was appointed to the Postmastership, taking charge of the office April 15, 1894. Notwithstanding that Mr. Fuller is a Democrat in politics and comes of Democratic stock, he was elected to the City Council of Rock- land in a strong Republican ward for the years IS86-7. He is a member of the Central Club of Rockland, being one of the original four who promoted and founded the organization in 1884, and has also been from its start an influential mem- ber of the Penobscot Yacht Club. Mr. Fuller is especially interested and active in all outdoor sports and pastimes, on both land and water, as well as in the progress and advancement of the city which is his adopted home. He is unmarried.
JOHNSON, WELLINGTON, M. D., Augusta, was born in Somerville, Lincoln county, Maine, Feb- ruary 7, 1855, son of Wellington and Dorothy Winslow (Lovett) Johnson. On the paternal side his grandfather was a native of Sweden, and his grandmother of Germany ; and his maternal grand- parents were respectively Scotch and English. His preliminary education was acquired in the common schools and in a normal school course at Castine, Maine, and his early training for active life was received on the farm and in the schoolroom as teacher. Teaching was his principal occupation for the period from 1873 to 1885, when he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York, on March 14, 1887. Following graduation he practiced his profession at Cooper's Mills in White- field, Lincoln county, Maine, until 1895, when he moved to Augusta, where he has since continued in active practice. His first experience at teaching was in the ungraded country schools, and later in " free high schools " and grammar grades, having taught in Union, Windsor, China, Whitefield, Jeffer- son and Damariscotta, all in Maine, and lastly as Principal of the Bridgton (Maine) Grammar School in 1883-5. While resident in Whitefield he held the office of Supervisor of Schools for several years, 1889-95, and in 1882-3 was President of the Lin-
frequent visits to Rockland and the acquaintances formed during that time proved the magnet that in . from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. later years drew him back to his native state. After attending the graded schools he received a com- mercial education, and at the age of sixteen, in 1874, went to Boston and learned the drug business with Henry A. Choate, one of the most prominent druggists of that city. Five years later he formed a connection with the firm of Page, Spaulding & Company, commercial stationers and printers, where he worked his way up from clerk in the store to having full charge of the business - a position which led to an acquaintance with the leading bank, insur- ance and railroad men in and about Boston. In 1882, the old firm dissolving, and his health requiring
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coln County Educational Society. Dr. Johnson was elected City Physician of Augusta in the spring of 1896, and still holds that office. He is a member of the Augusta Medical Club and of the Kennebec Medical Society. In 1894 he served as President
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of the South Kennebec Agricultural Society. In the Masonic order he was Master of Riverside Lodge in 1893-4, and is a member of Augusta Lodge, Cushnoc Royal Arch Chapter and Trinity Com- mandery Knights Templar ; and in Odd Fellowship was Noble Grand of Sheepscot Lodge in 1889-90, and Secretary of that lodge 189c-5. He was also Master Workman of Whitefield Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen 1888-90, and is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and of the First Baptist Church of Augusta. Dr. Johnson was mar- ried November 7, 1881, to Mary E. Lewis, youngest daughter of George and Nancy Lewis, of Whitefield, Maine. They have three children : George Harold, born February 13, 1883 ; Eva May, born February 16, 1886; and Alfred W. Johnson, born September 16, 1890.
CROCKETT, A. F., President of the A. F. Crock- ett Company, lime manufacturers and general mer- chants, Rockland, was born in Rockland, July 16,
1840, son of Captain Robert and Lucy (Achorn) Crockett. His father, son of Robert J. and Dorcas (Holmes) Crockett, was a very successful ship- master, having built and sailed to all parts of the world some of the largest ships of his time. Robert J., born in 1782, was a son of Jonathan Crockett, who was born in 1741 in Falmouth, Maine, married Elonia Robbins, and was one of the first settlers at Ash Point, Knox county, near Rockland. A. F. Crockett received his early education in the com- mon schools, and at the age of fifteen became a clerk, and later proprietor, in mercantile business. He followed the sea as master of vessels from 1861 to 1868, since which time he has been at the head of the firm of A. F. Crockett & Company (now incorporated as the A. F. Crockett Company), manufacturers of lime and dealers in coal and general merchandise. He has been the President since their organization of the A. F. Crockett Company, the Rockland Trust Company, Bay Point Company and Camden & Rockland Water Com- pany, all of Rockland, the Merchants' Exchange
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Building Company of Kansas City, Missouri, and is at present President of the Rockland Water Com- pany ; has been from organization a Director in the Rockland Building Syndicate and Limerock Rail- road Company of Rockland, the Georges Valley
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Railroad, Portland National Bank of Portland and the Moore Lime Company of Virginia; was a Director in the Knox & Lincoln Railroad and the Limerock National Bank of Rockland for several years, and is prominently identified with a number of other corporations. Mr. Crockett was a member of the Rockland City Government and Chairman of the Overseers of the Poor for several years, and was Chairman of the Street Commission at the time when street-paving and sewerage were commenced, serving in that capacity for three years. In politics he is a Republican. He was a Delegate to the National Convention that nominated James G. Blaine for the Presidency ; served on the Executive Council of Governor Robie two years ; was a mem- ber of the Commission to represent Maine in New York at the Celebration of the Evacuation of New York by the British ; and is a Trustee of the Maine Insane Hospital at the present time. Mr. Crockett was married November 4, 1868, to Theresa M. Butler of Rockland; they have two children : Robert H. and Anna T. Crockett. .
MAYO, JOSIAH BACON, Senior Proprietor of Mayo & Sons' Woolen Mills, Foxcroft, was born in Freeport, Maine, February 19, 1826, son of John Gould and Joanna (Bacon) Mayo. His father, who was an active member of the firm until his retirement from active business about eight years prior to his death, which took place December 9, 1879, emigrated to Maine from New Hampshire, where his ancestors, of English descent, were among the first settlers of the town of Acworth. He attended the village schools of Kennebunk and the private school of Dr. Patten in Edmands, Maine, and finished his education at Foxcroft Academy, from which he graduated in 1846. His training for active life was received in the mill of his father, where he remained as an employe until the age of twenty-one, and then became a partner in the estab- lishment. His first business was that of wool-card- ing and cloth-dressing, in a very small way. After a few years machinery was put in to manufacture cloth, and in 1848 the first of the present mills, now known as Number One Mill, was built; Number Two Mill was built and put in operation in 1883, and the plant has from the first been almost. contin- ually undergoing enlargement, extension and im- provement, to keep pace with the steadily increasing demand for its products. The output in 1848 was valued at about six hundred dollars a year, with
three employes ; the present year (1896) the value of the output amounts to a hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars, and the mills, which comprise several buildings, covering an acre of ground, employ an average of eighty operatives. Mr. Mayo retired from active connection with the mills April 1, 1895, and the business has since been conducted by his son, Edward J. Mayo, under the firm name of Mayo & Son. Mr. Mayo's manufacturing interests have not, however, been wholly confined to the woolen industry or to his place of residence. He was one of the incorporators of the Lockwood Company,
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which built and operates the extensive cotton mills at Waterville, Maine, and has been a Director since organization ; is one of the Directors of the Cas- cade Woolen Mill at Oakland, Maine, and for the last six years President ; and is extensively engaged and interested in cotton mills in the New South - North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. He has also from organization served as President of the Dexter & Piscataquis Railroad, built in 1889, and now operated under lease by the Maine Cen- tral; was for eight years a Director of the Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad, now the Piscataquis Division of the Bangor & Aroostook ; is one of the Direct- ors of the Dover & Foxcroft Electric Light Com- pany, and a Trustee of Foxcroft Academy. He is
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a member of Mosaic Lodge and Piscataquis Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, of Foxcroft, and of Kineo Lodge and Eldorado Encampment of Odd Fellows, Dover. In politics Mr. Mayo has been a staunch Republican from the organization of the party, and was a Delegate from Piscataquis and Aroostook counties to the Republican National Convention of 1876 at Cincinnati that nominated Hayes and Wheeler. He was married September 5, 1848, to Eliza Ann Sprague, of Pembroke, Maine. They have had four children : Eliza M., now Mrs. F. V. Chase of Portland ; Edward J. Mayo ; and George Frederick and Mary Ellen, both deceased. Mrs. Mayo is a granddaughter of Colonel John Allan of Cumberland, Nova Scotia, of Revolutionary fame. He was a descendant of William Allan, one of the first settlers of Halifax, Nova Scotia, born in Edin- burgh Castle, Scotland, January 3, 1746. John Allan was a Colonel of infantry,and Superintendent of East- ern Indians, receiving his instructions from John Hancock. On December 23, 1776, he dined with General Washington ; and on January 4, 1777, he was received by Congress and gave a full state- ment of affairs in the Provinces. The British were very bitter against Colonel Allan, and for many years a large reward was offered for his capture, alive or dead. At the close of the war he moved to Maine, and settled at a place called Dudley, since changed to Allan's Island, which still retains his name. He died February 7, 1805, at Lubec, Maine.
NASON, WALTER HERBERT, M. D., Hampden, was born in Dixmont, Penobscot county, Maine, January 26, 1860, son of Darius and Elizabeth D. (Mudgett) Nason. He was the eldest of five children, of whom only two, Walter H. and a brother five years younger, are now living. His paternal grandparents, Thaddeus and Narcissa (Stone) Nason, reared a family of nine children - five boys and four girls-of whom his father, Darius Nason, was one of the younger ; and his maternal grandparents, Nathaniel and Ruth (Stone) Mudgett had eight children - two boys and six girls. Although the maiden name of both grand- mothers was Stone, they were not related. His father's people came from Cornish in the western part of the state, but his mother's family were residents of the eastern section. He received his early education in the town schools, with an occa- sional high-school term, until the age of fifteen. when his family moved to Ilampden, where he
entered Hampden Academy and fitted for college. His boyhood was spent on a farm, a mile distant from the district school. and to instruction received from his father at home he owed in early life the advantage of being farther advanced in his studies than most of his schoolinates of like age. This advancement it was in a measure that stimulated him to work for a college education. After the age of ten or twelve, the money spent for his education, as well as for clothes and pleasure, he earned him- self by teaching in the public schools, and in high school for a few terms, or in other occupations at odd times meanwhile. In 1878 he entered the
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Maine State College at Orono, and after a two- years course left that institution and began the study of medicine. In 1881 he entered the Maine Medical School, and the following year went to Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York, where he pursued his studies two years and grad- uated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1884. During his Bellevue course he held a position in the outdoor department of the hospital, and also took a three-months course in the hospital under Professor Austin Flint, Sr. Following his gradua- tion in March 1884 he at once commenced the practice of medicine in Hampden, where he has continued to the present time. Dr. Nason is a member of the Board of United States Pension
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Examining Surgeons at Bangor, having been ap- pointed in September 1893. He has served as a member of the School Committee of Hampden for , three years, 1885-7, and as Supervisor of Schools two years, 1888-9. He also held a commission in the state militia for four years, 1880-4, in connec- tion with the company in Hampden. He is a Freemason, served two years as Worshipful Master of Mystic Tie Lodge of Hampden, and is a charter member of Lodge of Odd Fellows of Hampden, instituted in 1896. In the State College he was a member of the Q T V fraternity, and in 1879 President of his college class. Dr. Nason is a Democrat in politics, as were his father and grand- father before him. He was married September 2, 1884, to Frances M. Jewell ; they have one child : Charles J. Nason, born December 17, 1885.
PENDLETON, JAMES GILMORE, President of the National Bank of Searsport, was born in Searsport,
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May 17, 1821, son of Phineas and Nancy (Gilmore) Pendleton. His father, Phineas Pendleton, was born in Stonington, Connecticut, in 1780, and came to Prospect (now Searsport), Maine, with his parents in 1783 He was a descendant of Major Byron Pendleton, who came to this country about
1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, afterwards moved to the vicinity of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was a prominent man of his time. He married Nancy Gilmore in 1805; they had twelve children, eight of whom are now living. James G. Pendleton received his early education in the common schools, and worked on the farm at home until the age of eighteen. In 1839 he went to sea, and in the next few years filled the various grades of seaman and rose to the official positions of Mate and Master. From 1845 to 1864 he com- manded various ships, always in the foreign trade, and made several voyages around the world, retiring from the sea in the latter year. Since 1873 Captain Pendleton has been President of the Searsport Sav- ings Bank, and upon its organization in 1882 he was elected President of the Searsport National Bank, which office he fills at the present time. He is also a Director of the Merchants' Insurance Company of Bangor and the Maine Belting Company of Phila- delphia, and a member of the firm of C. O. Sawyer & Company, stoves and hardware, Searsport. He has held various town offices at different times, and was a member of the Governor's Council in 1879- 8r. Captain Pendleton is a Freemason, a member of Mariners' Lodge of Searsport. In politics he is an Independent Republican. He was married in 1851 to Margaret C. Gilmore, who died in 1876, leaving two children : Alfred B. and James L. (deceased 1884) Pendleton. In 1883 he was a second time married, to Hannah T. McGilvery, widow of Colonel Freeman McGilvery and daughter of the Reverend Stephen Thurston of Searsport.
NEWELL, WILLIAM HENRY, Lawyer, Mayor of Lewiston for two terms, 1891-2, was born in Dur- ham, Maine, April 16, 1854, son of William B. and Susannah K. (Weeks) Newell. He received his early education in the common schools and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, and is a graduate of the Western State Normal School at Farmington, Maine. From 1876 to 1882 he fol- lowed the occupation of teacher. Meanwhile pur- suing the study of law, he was admitted to the Bar on April 25, 1878, and since 1882 has been estab- lished in the active practice of his profession at Lewiston. Mr. Newell was City Solicitor of Lewis- ton in' 1890, Mayor of Lewiston for two terms, in 1891-2, and in 1892-3 served one terin of two years as County Attorney for AAndroscoggin county. He
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is Vice-President of the Manufacturers' National Bank of Lewiston, and is a member of the Calumet Club of that city. In politics he is a Democrat. He was married September 20, 1883, to Ida F.
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Plummer, of Lisbon Falls, Maine ; they have three children : Augusta P., Gladys and Dorothy Newell.
PALMER, CHARLES ASA, M. D., Bowdoinham, was born in Bath, Maine, September 7, 1867, son of Asa C. and Ann M. (Cushman) Palmer. His grandfather Asa Palmer, great-grandfather Captain Asa Palmer and great-great-grandfather Dr. Nathan Palmer were all of Stonington, Connecticut. The" latter was descended from Walter Palmer, who came to this country in 1629 with John Endicott, having charge of six ships filled with Puritans, and finally set- tled where the city of Stonington now stands ; he died in 1661, leaving twelve children, whose descendants now number over six thousand persons. Ann M. Cushman, mother of the subject of this sketch, is a daughter of Dr. Solomon Cushman of Brunswick, Maine, whose paternal progenitor came over in the Mayflower. Charles A. Palmer received his early education largely in the public schools of Bath, his native city, supplemented by two years in the public schools of Denver, Colorado. After leaving school in 1884, he was a clerk for a time in the drygoods
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