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PEASLEE, CLARENCE ARDEEN, M. D., Wiscasset, was born in Alna, Lincoln county, Maine, August 16, 1855, son of John Thurston and Mary Elizabeth (Paine ) Peaslee. The first Peaslees known in New England were settlers in New Hampshire. From them a family came to Maine and settled in the town of Jefferson, Lincoln county, and from this family most of the Peaslees in the state are descended. His paternal grandfather was Ruel Peaslee. He received his general education in the common schools, and in the Maine Wesleyan Sem- inary at Kent's Hill. Graduating from the Medical Department of Bowdoin College in June 1883, he perfected his medical training by post-graduate work at the New York Polyclinic, St. Thomas Hos- pital in London and the University of Vienna, also with Dr. Apostoli in l'aris in the department of medical electricity. Establishing himself in his profession at Wiscasset in 1883. he has since con- tinued there in active practice. Dr. Peaslee is a
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member of the Maine Academy of Medicine and Science, the American Medical Association and the Medical Alumni of Bowdoin College, having served as Vice-President of the latter in 1886 and. on the Board of Censors of the first-named association in
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1892. He was a member of the United States Board of Pension-Examining Surgeons at Bath from 1891 to 1894, was Health Officer of Wiscasset 1888-94, Superintendent of Schools 1888-96, and has been President of the Lincoln County Educa- tional Association since 1889. | In 1895 he was elected a member of the Maine House of Repre- sentatives, and served on the Education and Insane Hospital committees, also on the Joint Special Committee on the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital. He is a Freemason, a Knight Templar and High Priest of New Jerusalem Royal Arch Chapter of Wiscasset, also a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. In politics Dr. Peaslee has been always a Republican. He was married March 2, 1876, to Augusta M. Hill, daughter of D. N. Hill of Bath, Maine.
DEARBORN, JEREMIAH WADLEIGH, M. D., Par- sonsfield, was born in Parsonsfield, May 2, 1832, son of John and Sally ( Wadleigh ) Dearborn. He is
descended from Godfrey Dearborn, who settled in Exeter, New Hampshire, about 1638, and moved thence to Hampton, that state, ten years later. He was a native of Exeter, in the county of Devon, Eng- land. The New Hampshire farm upon which he set- tied has been in the Dearborn name ever since - something unusual among our migratory people. He left three sons: Henry, in the ancestral line of General Henry Dearborn ; Thomas, ancestor of the Dearhorns resident in Nashua and Effingham, New Hampshire ; and John, from whom the Parsonsfield Dearboins are descended. On the maternal side Dr. Dearborn's graralfather was Elisha Wadleigh, a native of Kittery, Maine, who died in Parsonsfield in 1872 at the astonishing age of one hundred and three years and five months. The Doctor received his early education in the common schools and at Parsonsfield Seminary. Having a taste for the practice of medicine he began the study with
JEREMIAH W. DEARBORN.
Doctors Moses and John B. Sweat of his native town, being graduated at Ann Arbor in 1857. He has been in active practice ever since, enjoying the confidence of the community, as only an old family physician can. He began practice in Parsonsfield, thence removing to Effingham, New Hampshire, thence to Freedom in the same state, and from there coming to Mydewood in his native town,
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where he still is, though he continues to ride his old circuits and visit nearly all the towns in Carroll county, New Hampshire, as well as most of the Ossipee towns, and adjoining towns in Oxford and Cumberland counties. Dr. Dearborn has been active outside the ranks of his chosen profession. Ile is high in Masonry, has been a member of the Senate of Maine, and was appointed by Governor Robie on the Board of Trustees of the Maine General Hospital and also on the Board of the Maine Insane Hospital. He wrote and published the largely illustrated " History of Parsonsfieid," the Biographical Sketch of Hon. Amos Tuck, and several other papers pertaining to the history of his native town. In politics he is a Republican andl in religion a Universalist. He was married in June 1853 to Mary G. Smart, daughter of Gardner and Sally Smart of Parsonsfield.
FIFE, SETH WYMAN, Lawyer, Fryeburg, was born in Chatham, New Hampshire, December 10, 1846, son of Moses and Eliza (Wyman) Fife. His
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ancestors, originally from Scotland, came from Massachusetts to Pembroke, New Hampshire, and . thence to that part of New Hampshire and Maine adjacent to the town of Fryeburg. He received his general education in the common schools and at
Fryeburg and Norway (Maine) academies, and spent one year as clerk in a country store. He studied law, was admitted to the Bar in September 1868, graduated from Harvard Law School in June 1869, and in the fall of 1870 opened an office in Fryeburg, where he has since continued in the practice of his profession. Mr. Fife is a Notary Public and Justice of the Peace, and holds a Dedinius Justice Commission for New Hampshire. He is interested in various business enterprises out- side of his professional lines, being engaged in real estate and insurance ; is a member of the firm of Mrs. E. G. Fife & Company, millinery and fancy goods ; owns a three-quarters interest (his son own- ing the remaining interest) in the Burbank Seed Company, covering Maine, New Hampshire and a part of Vermont with its trade in field and garden seeds ; and is General Manager of the Fryeburg Street Railroad, also Clerk and a Director of that cor- poration. Mr. Fife has served as School Supervisor of Fryeburg, for three years, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Society of Pilgrim Fathers and the order of Red Men. In politics he is a Republican, with sufficient independence, however, to vote for and help his friends regardless of party dictates. He was married July 11, 1874, to Eliza Gordan Farrington, daughter of Vere Royce and Hannah (Barker) Farrington of Fryeburg ; they have a son : Fred Royce Fife.
HOLT, CHARLES E., Lawyer, Norway, was born in Fryeburg, Oxford county, Maine, March 11, 1835, son of Joseph and Mehitable (Miller) Holt. He is a grandson of William H. Holt, who married Esther Frye, daughter of Judge Simon Frye, of Fryeburg ; and on the maternal side his grandfather was Robert Miller, who married Lucy Howe of Denmark, Maine. He received his early education in the common schools and at Fryeburg and Bridg- ion (Maine) academies, studied law with D. R. Hastings and was admitted to the Oxford County Bar at Paris, in March 1861. For the first ten years after admission to the Bar he practiced his profes- sion at Denmark, Maine. In 1873 he went to Bethel, Maine, and practiced in company with S. F. Gibson for about two years, when this relation was dissolved, and he opened an office for himself in Bethel. In the spring of 1877 he came to Norway and formed a law partnership with Alvah Black of Paris, Maine, which continued until the latter's death in January 1882. In the fall of that year he
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took in A. S. Kimball as partner, this association continuing until the summer of 1885, since which time he has practiced alone. Mr. Holt has always been a Democrat in politics, but has refrained from entering public life, other than to hold various
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municipal offices, devoting his time and abilities to the work of his chosen profession. During the last year of the Civil War he held a position as Clerk in the Quartermaster's Department at City Point, Virginia, under General Rufus Ingalls. Mr. Holt was married May 26, 1873, to Lavinia B. Ames, daughter of Colonel Nathaniel and Roxana Ames of Denmark, Maine ; they have no children.
JORDAN, EDWARD CLARENCE, City Engineer of Portland, was born in that part of the town of Westbrook now the city of Deering, Maine, March 17, 1846, son of Samuel and Et.ice Quinby (Seal) Jordan. His father was one of the most prominent men of Western Maine. He is in direct descent from the Reverend Robert Jordan, a clergyman of the church of England, who came from England in 1640 and settled on Richmond's Island in Casco Bay, and married Sarah, only daughter of John Winter, Director of the Colony. Edward C. Jordan received his early education in the public schools and at Westbrook Academy. Early developing a
taste for civil engineering, he entered the office of the late John F. Anderson, Chief Engineer of the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad, the famous line through the White Mountain Notch, where he remained two years. In IS68 he was graduated in the civil engineering course under Professor Gillespie, at Union College, New York. During five years following graduation he was Assistant Resident and Locating Engineer on the Central and Northern Pacific railroads. In 1873 he came to Portland, where he has since been in the active practice of his profession, devoting himself largely to municipal engineering, and particularly to hydraulics. Mr. Jor fan's services are much in demand as an expert before the courts. In 1892 he was chosen City Civil Engineer of Portland, and instituted many valuable reforms for the city. He is a member of that exclusive association, the Amer- ican Society of Civil Engineers, which is a guaran- tee of his professional eminence. He is also a member of the American Public Health Association, and was for several years President of the Maine State Board of Health, his especial study of sanitary
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science bringing him these preferments. In politics Mr. Jordan is a Democrat, affiliating with the gold wing of that party. He took a prominent part in the Indianapolis Convention of 1896. He Was married in December 1874, to Eliza Payson,
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daughter of Hon. W. W. Thomas ; she died March 6, 1876, and on February 28, ISSI, he was a second time married, to Marcia Dow, daughter of Hon. Bion Bradbury.
PAUL, J. CLARENCE EUGENE, Postmaster of Rock- port, was born in Rockport, July 28, 1857, son of James and Sophronia A. (Upham) Paul. His
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paternal ancestry is English, and on the maternal side he is of English and Scotch descent. He was educated in the town schools, graduating from the high schools of Rockport and Camden, and made his way in life by his own exertions. Commencing clerking as a boy, his thrift and honesty steadily led to his advancement until he held a position of his own. For a number of years he was engaged in the hotel business He served as Town Clerk of Camden in 1886-7, and as Town Clerk of Rock- port in 1891-2, and since 1890 has held a commis- sion as Justice of the Peace. In 1893 he was appointed Postmaster of Rockport by President Cleveland, and holds this position at the present time. Mr. Paul is a member of the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and of the Sir Knights, Keys Division, Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order, Eureka Senate. In politics he is a Demo- crat. He was married to Cora M. Means, of Ells- worth, Maine.
ROBINSON, EDWARD MACOY, President of the Phillips Savings Bank, Phillips, was born in South Sebec, Piscataquis county, Maine. October 21, 1833, son of Benjamin Franklin and Betsey C. (Russell) Robinson. His grandfather Robinson was born in Londonderry, Vermont, and his grand- mother Robinson, whose maiden name was Joy, was a native of Ellsworth, Maine. His maternal grandfather was an Englishman. He attended the common town schools, and at the age of seventeen left home to learn the millwright's trade, in which he served a four-years apprenticeship and then commenced business for himself. He was engaged in this occupation at Lewiston when the Civil War broke out, and he at once volunteered his services to aid in the suppression of the Rebellion. On April 27, 1861, he enlisted in the Fifth Maine Infantry, and was mustered into service at Port- land, June 24, 1861, by Captain Hight of the United States Army, as Third Sergeant in Company E, for three years ; was promoted to Second Lieu- tenant on August 15 following, to First Lieutenant
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in Company C on May 8, 1862, and to Captain of that company on March 23, 1863. Captain Robin- son was in all of the battles fought by the Army of the Potomac from the first Bull Run to Spottsyl- vania Court House, in which latter engagement ·
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was severely wounded in both legs, and was mus- tered out on account of his wounds. He soon entered the service again, however, being mustered into the Twelfth Maine Infantry, as Captain of Com- pany E, February 8, 1865 ; was in the Department of the South for the remainder of the war, and was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, February 16, 1866, by reason of expiration of term of service. Dur- ing his entire army service he was not absent from his regiment a single day on account of sickness, a record quite remarkable. A singular and interest- ing fact also in this connection is that Captain Robinson was one of six brothers who participated in the War of the Rebellion, and that his grand- father Robinson had six brothers who served in the Revolution in 1776. Since the war Captain Robin- son has been engaged in the furniture and under- taking business in the town of Phillips, where he has been a Trustee of the Phillips Savings Bank since 1879, and for the last five years President of that institution. He was made a Freemason in 1862, a Knight Templar in 1872 and an Odd Fellow in 1882, joined the Grand Army of the Republic in 1876, and became a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion in 1893. He cast his first vote for John C. Fremont, and has always been a Republican in politics. He was married December 8, 1859, to Loreda M. Adams, of Anson, Maine ; they have a daughter : Ilda M. Robinson.
WRIGHT, JAMES S., Lawyer, South Paris, was born in Jay, Franklin county, Maine, July 17, 1844, son of Reuben and Sarah (Putnam) Wright. His grandfather, Oliver Wright, came from Keene, New Hampshire, when a young man, and settled in the town of Jay, where he lived and died, having mar- ried Sally Butterfield of Farmington, Maine. His early education was acquired in the town schools of Wilton and Livermore Falls, and at the Dixfield High School, all in Western Maine. Following his high-school graduation, he studied law with W. W. Bolster, then of Dixfield, now of Auburn, Maine, and was admitted to the Bar at the September term of the Supreme Judicial Court of Oxford county in 1868. While pursuing his legal studies he taught school for about two years, teaching five winter terms and one fall term of high school at Andover, Maine. In October 1868 he entered into partner- ship with his preceptor, W. W. Bolster, and prac- ticed law with him in Dixfield for three years, under
the firm name of Bolster & Wright. After this relation was dissolved he was a partner of S. F. Gibson at Bethel, Maine, for about a year, and then moved to Paris Hill, to assume the duties of Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Oxford county, having been elected to that position in September of that year, 1872. He held this office for a period of ten years, January 1873 to January 1883, and was then elected County Attorney of Oxford county, in which capacity he served for the four years 1883- 6. In 1887-8 he represented Paris in the lower house of the Maine Legislature, and in 1889-90 was State Senator from Oxford county. In 1890 he
JAMES S. WRIGHT.
held a government position as Supervisor of the Eleventh Census for the Western Half of Maine, receiving the appointment from President Harrison. Mr. Wright has been in active practice of the law in Paris from 1883 to the present time. He resided at Paris Hill from January 1873 to December 1891, when he moved to South Paris, which is his present place of residence. He served as a member of the School Committee of Paris for four years. In poli- tics he is and has always been a Republican. He is a member of Paris Masonic Lodge and Union Royal Arch Chapter of Norway, also of Mount Mica Lodge of Odd Fellows and Hamlin Lodge Knights of Pythias, of South Paris. He was mar-
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ried May 2, 180g, to Hannah E. Woodbury, then of Dixfield, formerly of Sweden, Maine. They have had two children : Lena Frances, born May 13, 1870, died February 10, 1888 ; and Fred Norman Wright, born August 6, 1874.
SULLIVAN, JOHN H., Postmaster of Searsport, was born in Belfast, Maine, December 25, 1850, son of Daniel and Margaret (Finnegan) Sullivan.
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He was educated in the public and in private schools of Scarsport, where he has lived since 1851, and at the age of eleven commenced to work at the cus- tom boot and shoe business with his father, with whom he remained until August 1873, when he engaged in the same line of business for himself, in which he has continued to the present time. Mr. Sullivan was Moderator at the annual town meetings of Searsport for the years 1885-90, and has served as Town Clerk from 1891 to 1896. From April 1887 he was United States Deputy Collector of Customs for the Belfast District, until the office was abolished, January 1, 1888. In January 1894 he was appointed Postmaster of Searsport, which office he at present holds. He was First Assistant Fore- man of Penobscot Fire Engine Company of Sears- port irom 1876 to 1883, and from the latter year
Foreman until 1894. Mr. Sullivan has been always a Democrat in politics, and for many years has served as a member of the Democratic Town and County committees. He has acted as local corres- pondent for the Progressive Age and City Press of Belfast since March 1885, and as general marine correspondent at Searsport from 1874 to the present time. He is a member of the Waldo County Fish Protective Association, of Belfast, and is unmarried.
ROSS, EZEKIEL, President of the First National Bank of Damariscotta, was born in Jefferson, Lin- coln county, Maine, September 29, 1829, son of Joseph and Mary (Perkins) Ross, of Scotch ances- try. He acquired his early education in the com- mon town schools and at Lincoln and Yarmouth (Maine) academies, graduating from Bowdoin Col- lege in the class of 1855, read law in the office of A. P. Gould at Thomaston, Maine, and was admitted to the Maine Bar in 1859. He soon after opened a law office in Rockland, Maine, in partner-
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ship with J. O. Robinson, and continued in practice there for several years, serving as Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Knox county from 1861 to 1864. In the spring of the latter year he became financially interested in companies mining
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coal in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and assumed the position of Local Superintendent of the McNeal Coal & Iron Company, near Mahanoy City. He continued in this capacity until the fall of 1869, when having disposed of his mining inter- ests he went to Southern Minnesota, where he was engaged in the real estate business for about fifteen years. While in Minnesota he was admitted to the Bar of that State. In November IS91 he was elected President of the First National Bank of Damariscotta, and at present holds that position. Mr. Ross nas always been a Democrat in politics, and has served as Selectman, Assessor, and filled various other offices in the town of Newcastle. He was married October 14, 1867, to Esther Huston Weeks, daughter of Hon Thaddeus Weeks, late of Newcastle, Maine ; they have no children.
BANGS, ALGERNON SIDNEY, President of the Augusta Board of Trade, was born in Farmington, Maine, July 5, 1837, son of Josiah D. and Pauline
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A. (Brooks) Bangs. His ancestry is distinctively American, on the paternal side tracing back to Jo Warner, a full-blooded Indian. On the mother's side he is descended from the Brooke family, who emigrated to America from England in the seven- teenth century. His early education was received
in the common schools of Maine with two years in the public schools of New York City, and his train- ing from his seventeenth year was mechanical -- first as an apprentice, later as superintendent, and finally as a manufacturer. The years 1861-3 he spent in the army. Since IS6S he has been engaged in lumber manufacturing, for the last sixteen years in Augusta, in connection with his brother, Josiah W. Bangs, under the firm name of Bangs Brothers, their specialty being the manufacture of doors, sash, blinds and window frames. Colonel Bangs served as President of the Common Council of Bath, Maine, for two years, and in Augusta has been for two years President of the Board of Trade, also President of the Board of Registration for the last four years and now serving his second four-years term. He has also been Grand Chief Templar of the Maine Good Templars for two years, and is at present serving his second year as Supreme Com- mander of the United Order of the Golden Cross. Colonel Bangs is a believer in Progressive Chris- tianity, Freedom of Thought, Limited Woman's Suffrage, and the Single Standard for measuring money as well as lumber. He also has no doubt but that flying machines will eventually become modes of public conveyance, and that Mind will ultimately overrule Muscle. He is a member of the Abnaki Club of Augusta, and in politics has been an Independent Republican since his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. He was married December 25, 1860, to Amelia S. Wight of Augusta ; they have no children.
MAYO, EDWARD NEALLEY, M. D., Orono, was born in Orono, May 15, 1837, son of John W. and Mary C. (Nealley) Mayo. He is descended in the eighth generation from the Reverend John Mayo, who emigrated from England to this country in 1639, became one of the original settlers of the town of Barnstable, Cape Cod, and was the first Pastor of the Second Church in Boston from 1655 to 1673. His maternal progenitor, Andrew Nealley, settled in Nottingham, New Hampshire, in 1730, and his grandfather John Bowdoin Nealley came to Monroe, Waldo county, Maine, about the first of the present century. He received his general education in the public schools of Orono and at Mattanawcook Academy in Lincoln, Maine, and completed his medical studies in the Medical School of Maine and at Columbian University in Washing- ton, District of Columbia, graduating from the latter
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institution with the degree of M. D. in March 1860. From 1861 to 1867 he practiced in Houlton, Aroos- took county, Maine, and in the latter year returned to his native town, where he has since continued in the active practice of his profession. Dr. Mayo has been a member of the Penobscot County and the Maine medical associations since 1860, and has served as President of the former for two terms. He was United States Examining Surgeon for Pen- sions while in Houlton, and for the last ten years has been President of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons for Pensions at Bangor. He is also President of the Home Loan and Building
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Association of Orono, was a member of the School Committee 1879-80, and served as Selectman in 1881-2. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, a member of Mechanics Lodge of Orono, all the masonic bodies in Bangor, Maine Consistory of Portland, and Aleppo Temple of Boston. He also is a member of the Ktaadn Club of Orono, and in politics is a Democrat. As he facetiously says, he would have been in the Legislature if he had received votes enough ; as it was, lie got more than the strength of his party, and considers his political aspirations as fully satisfied. Dr. Mayo was married July 14, 1863, to Lucy W. Allen, daughter of Dr. W. H. Allen, late of Orono; a son, born to them October 25, 186.4, died in infancy. Mrs. Mayo
died November 25, 1889, and in 1894, August 8, he was a second time married, to Mrs. K. W. Snow, daughter of William Averill of Orono.
MORSE, LESHER MELVYN, D. M. D., Boston, was. born in Union, Lincoln (now Knox) county, Maine, July 16, 1842, son of George Washington and Mary Harding (Rice) Morse. He is a descendant of Samuel Morse, from Sherborn or vicinity, England, who at the age of fifty, with his wife Elizabeth, and son Joseph aged twenty, in consequence of the persecutions by Bishop Laud, embarked for New England in the ship Increase, Robert Lea master, and came to Watertown, Massachusetts. The fol- lowing year land was assigned to him in Dedham, where he subsequently served as Selectman, Col- lector and Treasurer. Afterwards he settled in Medfield, and it is supposed built the house that was first set on fire by the Indians at the destruction of the town and the killing of eighteen inhabitants, February 21, 1675 ; he died at Medfield, April 5, 1654. His second son, Daniel, born 1613, moved from Dedham to Medfield in 1651 and thence a few years later to Sherborn, Massachusetts, where he appears to have been the leading man of the place, and died June 5, 1688. From him came Daniel, of Sherborn, born 1640, died 1714; Daniel, born 1672; died 1719, inherited the place of his uncle, Deacon Obadiah, whose only son died in infancy ; Obadiah, born 1704, died 1753 ; Obadiah, born 1733, died in Sherborn, January 7, 1800, in consequence of a fall from a scaffold ; and Levi, fourth child of the foregoing, and grandfather of Dr. L. M. Morse. Levi Morse was born in Sherborn, January 5, 1762, and settled in Union, Maine, where he died Feb- ruary 3, 1844. He was in the Revolutionary army, and in the expedition for the suppression of the Shays rebellion. In 1789 he taught school in Med- uncook, now Friendship, Maine, and boarded in the family of the father of Polly Gay Bradford, born in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, in 1772, whom he married March 8, 1792. Through her the subject of this sketch is descended from the distinguished Bradford family, whose American ancestor was Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, born at Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, in 1589. Mrs. Morse's father, Carpenter Bradford, was born in Kingston, Massachusetts, in 1739, was "put out " to- a shoemaker, ran away, enlisted in the Old French War, was captured when about sixteen years old and kept a prisoner in Canada for a year, during which
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