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Homeopathic Medical Society and of the Ameri- can Institute of Homeopathy, and for three years w.a. City Physician of Bath. He has served in the Common Council of Bath four years and in the Board of Aldermen three years, and as a member i the Board of Overseers of the Poor for twenty years. In 1895 he was elected President of the Buth Swings Institution, in which position he has .ominued to the present time. In politics Dr. Briry is a Republican. He was married in Decem- ber 1855 to Susan P. Higgins, of Bath ; they have five children : Ernest M., Edward E., Mary E., John F. and William S. Briry.
CHADBOURNE, WILLIAM G., Lawyer, of Al- fred, Maine, and Boston, Massachusetts, was born in Parsonsfield, Maine, son of Israel and Rebecca
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{{ ;··· |win) Chadbourne. He is a grandson of krverend William Chadbourne, who was born in Btwuk, Maine, where he was settled and preached during his entire lifetime as a Calvinist Baptist 'inn. ter, and died in 1816; he was the son of Wasphrey Chadbourne of Berwick, who was the den derendant of the Humphrey Chadbourne a masned a large part of Great Works, near where smith Berwick Academy now stands, and built a
tidemill there in 1624. William G. Chadbourne received his early education in the schools and academies of Parsonsfield, Berwick, Alfred and Gorham, Maine, read law with Rufus McIntyre, Daniel Goodenow and Nathan Clifford - all noted members of the legal profession - and was admitted to the York ( Maine) Bar in May 1841. He com- menced practice in 1842 at Brooks, Waldo county, Maine, where he remained for about a year. and then removed to Westbrook, Maine. In 1855 he went to Portland, where he practiced until 1870, when he removed to Boston, where he has since continued in practice to the present time, but hav- ing his residence at Alfred, Maine. Mr. Chad- bourne has served in various public capacities, having held several town offices while residing in Westbrook, and in 1856-7 was Judge of the Municipal Court in Portland. During President Buchanan's administration he was connected with the customs service at Portland, meanwhile keep- ing up his law practice, until his removal to Boston. In politics Mr. Chadbourne is a Democrat. He was married to Caroline Chadbourne, daughter of Simeon Chadbourne of Lyman, Maine ; they have no children.
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CUTLER, ALEXANDER MUNRO, Sailmaker, Bath, was born at Round Pond, Bristol, Lincoln county, Maine, December 1, 1852, son of William Porter- field and Janet Biset (Munro) Cutler. His pater- nal ancestry is English, and on the maternal side he is of Scotch descent. He was educated in the public schools, and early learned the sailmaking business, coming to Bath at the age of nineteen with the family, who removed to that city. He worked at sailmaking as foreman for his father until 1876, when he bought a half interest in the busi- ness. This partnership continued until 1886, when he purchased the remaining interest, his father removing to Baltimore, Maryland, where he is engaged in the sailmaking business at the present time. Mr. Cutler is one of the noted sailmakers of the country, and his sail-loft at Bath, the Ship- building City of New England, has employed up- wards of twenty men at times. He has made the sail equipments for some of the largest and fastest wooden sailing ships and fore-and-aft schooners in the world, and for some of the finest wood and steel yachts in America. Among the famous vessels he has fitted with sails are the big Bath-built ships Rappahannock, Shenandoah, Roanoke and Susque-
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hanna, the four-masted schooners William B. Palmer and Mary E. Palmer, the wooden yachts Sagamore and Sapphire, the steel yachts Peregrine and Illa- warra, and the first government lightship built at Bath. Mr. Cutler is a Republican in politics, and
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served as a member of the City Council of Bath in 1891. He was married June 14, 1886, to Flora Dell Collins, of Bath ; they have a daughter, Mary Janet Cutler, born July 14, 1888.
BISHOP, THOMAS BRIGHAM, Banker and Broker, Boston, was born in Wayne, Kennebec county, Maine, June 29, 1835, son of Joseph Snelling and Hannah (Brigham) Bishop. His grandfather, Nathaniel Bishop, was the first male child born in Hallowell, Maine, and was the son of Squire Bishop of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, the last named being fifth in descent from Edward Bishop of Salem, Massachusetts, who came from England. On the maternal side his grandfather was Dr. Thomas Brigham, son of Paul Brigham, for many years Lieutenant-Governor of Vermont and General of Vermont Militia, and a descendant in the sixth generation from Thomas Brigham, who came from Scotland. Ilis early education was limited to that acquired in the common schools. . At the age of
twelve he learned to split and dip friction matches, and at fifteen he constructed a splitting machine and successfully prepared the " dip" mixture - both of which processes were considered a secret - for a Mr. Scudder at Kendall's Mills, Maine. He afterwards duplicated the plant at Dover, Maine. Then, at the age of sixteen, about 1851, becoming possessed of a desire to study music, inspired by a marked talent which had developed in his youth, for having a tune for all song poetry that came to bis porice, he went to Providence, Rhode Island, to learn the guitar and harp. The year 1855 found him teaching music at Portland, Maine, and he continued this avocation in 1856 at Boston, in 1857 at Chicago and in 1858 at St. Louis. During this period he made short concert tours with Ossian E. Dodge, also with various burnt-cork artists and minstrel companies, and produced the melodies of " Johnny, Fill Up the Bowl," which afterwards in war time became popularly known as "When
T. BRIGHAM BISHOP.
Johnny Comes Marching Home ;" "Glory Halle- lujah (John Brown's Body) ;" " Moon Behind the Hill ;" " Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall," and many others equally well known and popular. In 1860 he learned the art of photography. This led him to work in New York city for a time, where he was the first to introduce the tintype, which imme-
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diately came into popularity as a photographic representation of living subjects at a price within the reach of all. In the early days of the Civil War his services were engaged by the Government, and he went with the Army of the Potomac, and in 1863 with the Army of the Cumberland, continuing with the latter from Nashville to Chattanooga, and remaining with the Army as Government Photog- rapher to the close of the war. Returning to New York in 1865, Mr. Bishop entered the field of speculation, in which he prospered fairly well and established a reputation as a skilful and successful operator. In 1873 he visited Europe, and remained abroad until 1876, engaged in promoting American stock companies. Upon returning to this country he engaged in stock-brokerage in Chicago for a time, and then drifted back to New York. Having introduced the system of dealing in fractional lots of stocks and grain on a small margin, he extended the facilities for this character of investments, and opened the first office outside of the large cities connected by private wires over which every sale effected on the Chicago Board of Trade and New York Stock Exchange was immediately reported. The business developed rapidly, soon assuming extensive proportions, and in 1884 no less than eighty-three offices in as many places throughout the country bore the name of T. Brigham Bishop. On January 1, 1885, the business was sold out, on account of Mr. Bishop's ill health, and for a period of five years his business interests were mainly in Florida, where his winters during that time were spent. Early in 1890 he returned to active broker- age business, with offices in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, in which he has since continued with success, Boston being his headquarters and place of residence. Mr. Bishop is reputed to have been the originator of the "bucket shop." While in Chicago he bought wheat on the Board of Trade and advertised it for sale in any quantity, even a " bucketful," which is said to have been the origin of the name and of the shop itself. Before that time, only persons possessed of several thousand dollars could invest in stocks, or margin on wheat. He was also the first to open an office or stock exchange for ladies. This was in Boston. Mr. Bishop was married in 1854 to Isabella W. Johnson, of Port- land, Maine; they had a son : De Clare Bishop, now deceased. In 1866 he was again married, to Sarah Ann Shivers, of Camden, New Jersey ; they have a son : Clarence Brigham Bishop, born July 11, 1869.
COOPER, WILLIAM EDWIN, of T. W. Cooper & Company, lumber manufacturers and shipbuilders, East Machias, was born in Whitefield, Lincoln county, Maine, May 9, 1832, son of Leonard and Abigail (Weeks) Cooper. The branch of the Cooper family to which he belongs is descended from Peter Cooper, who came to this country from England in 1635. His grandfather was Jesse Cooper, of Newcastle, Maine. His maternal grand- father, Thomas Weeks, lived in Jefferson, Maine, to which place the latter's father came from New Hampshire, with wife and ten children, when the section was an unbroken wilderness. The subject
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of this sketch was brought up on a farm in Mont- ville, Maine, and received his education in the common schools of that town and at Westbrook (Maine) Seminary. He commenced his business life in California in 1857, mining. In 1861 he went to Nevada and engaged in the lumber business until 1865, when he returned to Maine and com- menced the grocery business in Newport. In 1869 he moved to Searsmont, Maine, and formed a partnership with his brothers in the manufacture of carriages under the firm name of Cooper Brothers, which continued until 1879, when he moved to East Machias, and in partnership with Thomas W. Cooper, his eldest brother, entered upon the lumber
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and shipbuilding business in which he has ever since been engaged. Mr. Cooper has served as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of East Machias, and was a Member of the Maine Legisla- ture from Searsmont in 1876. In politics he has been always a Democrat, and in 1876 was the can- didate of his party for Sheriff of Waldo County. He was married December 13, 1865, to Julia A. Weeks, of North Whitefield, Maine; they have no children.
CROSBY, WILLIAM LINCOLN, Manager of Le- wando's French Dyeing and Cleansing Establish-
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ment, Boston, was born in Calais, Maine, 1859, son of Charles William and Sarah (Persons) Crosby. He is descended from one of the early New England families, branches of which are settled in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York. His ancestry is traced back in England to the year 1310, and in this country dates from the settlement of Simon Crosby in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1635. Mr. Crosby received his early education in the public schools. Graduating from the Bangor (Maine) High School at the age of sixteen, he passed successfully the examinations for Harvard College, but choosing to start at once upon a busi-
ness career, entered an insurance office. He con- tinued in the insurance business about three years, and then became corresponding clerk for the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Provi- dence, Rhode Island, one of the largest mannfac- turing concerns of the world in its special lines. In this position he gained an experience that was invaluable to him. But not satisfied that he had yet found the particular vocation for which he was best adapted, he tried newspaper work for a year, and then book-keeping. For some time he was chief book-keeper for Parker & Wood, Boston, one of the leading agricultural-goods houses of New England. The duties of this position, requiring a thorough comprehension of the details of a large, diversified and widely extended business, brought to the front his natural abilities as an executive and manager, and in 1886 he became the Business Manager of Lewando's French Dyeing and Cleansing establish- ment in Boston, in which capacity he has continued to the present time. Under his management the business of this oldtime house, almost sixty years established, has more than doubled in proportions ; and " Lewando's " has become the largest and fore- most institution of its kind in the United States, with extensive works at Watertown, Massachusetts, and in New York city ; main offices in Boston and New York, and sub-offices in the various sections and suburbs of those cities ; and branches in Cam- bridge, Lynn, Providence, Newport, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities. It now has a thousand agents and more throughout the country, and employs hundreds of people in its works and offices, including skilled workers from France, England, Germany and Sweden. Mr. Crosby exercises direct control over all branches of this immense business, and the development to its present magnitude and wide-reaching extent is due wholly to his personal qualities as a man of modern business ideas with the executive force and ability to carry them out. Mr. Crosby is a member of the Boston Athletic Association, is a Republican in politics, and is unmarried.
DEASY, LUERE B., President of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company, was born at Prospect Harbor, Gouldsboro, Hancock county, Maine, Feb- ruary 8, 1859, son of Daniel and Emma (Moore) Deasy. He received his early education in the common schools of Gouldsboro, graduated at the Eastern State Normal School, Castine, Maine, in
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ISSt, studied law at Boston University Law School, was admitted to the Hancock County Bar in Octo- ber 1883, and since January 1884 has been engaged in practice at Bar Harbor. In 1886 he formed a low partnership with John T. Higgins, under the
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name of Deasy & Higgins, which continued until the death of Mr. Higgins in May 1895. He was also a member of the law firm of Galligan, Deasy & Higgins at Pueblo, Colorado, where Mr. Higgins spent the last years of his life. Judge M. J. Galli- gan was the senior member of the Colorado firm. Mr. Deasy is President of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Company, and is a member of Bar Har- bor Masonic Lodge, Mount Kebo Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and Porcupine Lodge Knights of Pythias of Bar Harbor. In politics he has always been a Democrat, but is not much in political life, and has never held public office, except that he was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1896 at Chicago. Mr. Deasy was married in November 1884 to Emma M. Clark, of Prospect Harbor ; they have two children : Blanche, aged nine, and Louise, aged one year.
EATON, GEORGE HOWARD, head of the lumber manufacturing firm of H. F. Eaton & Sons, Calais, was born in Milltown, New Brunswick, March 14,
1848, son of Henry Franklin and Ann Louise ( Boardman) Eaton. His father was a native of Groton, Massachusetts, and lived there until he was twenty-one, when he moved to the St. Croix River, where he resided until his death, March 21, 1895. His mother was born in Portland, Maine, but her parents soon after removed to Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, where they lived for several years and then came to Calais, Maine. After attending the public schools, he graduated from Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1866, and from Amherst College in the class of 1870. In 1872 he became a member of the Calais lumber manufacturing firm of H. F. Eaton & Sons, composed of his father, him- self and a brother. H. B. Eaton, in which business he has continued to the present time. Since the death of Mr. Eaton senior, in 1895, the business has been carried on by the surviving partners under the old firm name, and has maintained its reputa- tion as one of the largest lumber manufacturing concerns of Eastern Maine. Mr. Eaton has also
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been prominently identified with other business enterprises and institutions of Calais and the St. Croix section. He was President of the Calais Shoe Factory Company from 1886 to 1890, when he resigned and was succeeded by L. G. Downes, continuing however on the Board of Directors ; was again chosen President upon the death of Judge
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Downes, December 10, 1895, and still holds that office. He is President of the Calais Tanning Company, a Director in the Calais National Bank, Frontier Steamboat Company, and several other business corporations, and Administrator of the estate of H. F. Eaton ; also a Trustee of Calais Academy, corporate member of the American Board of Foreign Missions, and one of the Vice- Presidents of the American Sunday School Union. In politics Mr. Eaton is a Republican. He was married August 22, 1871, to Elizabeth W. Boyden, of Chicago, Illinois; they have eight children : George D., Elizabeth B., John B., Harris D., Anna L., Miriam B., Alice M. and Louis W. Eaton.
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GOODALL, LOUIS BERTRAND, Agent and Treasurer of the Goodall Worsted Company, also Clerk and
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Director of the Sanford Mills Company and Presi- dent of the Sanford National Bank, Sanford, was born in West Winchester, New Hampshire, Septem- ber 23, 1851, son of Thomas and Ruth (Water- house) Goodall. Thomas Goodall was born in Dewsbury, England, September 1, 1823, son of a woolen manufacturer, and came to this country in 1846 ; his mother was an Armitage, a descendant
of the Armitages prominent in English history. Ruth Waterhouse was born in Dudley, Massachu- setts, April 10, 1826. Her father, Jerry Water- house, aiso a woolen manufacturer, was born in England, December 18, 1778, and came to the United States in 1819; his ancestors were Flemish, and went to England in the eleventh century. Louis B. Goodall's education was begun in the common schools of Troy, New Hampshire, and con- tinued in private school one year at Thompson, Connecticut, 1862-3 ; the Vermont Episcopal In- stitute at Burlington three years, 1863-6, and in private school in England 1866-7. In 1870 he entered Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire. to prepare for college, but was soon after called home to take the position of bookkeeper and paymaster at the Sanford Mills. In January 1875 Mr. Goodall started woolen manufacturing under the firm name of Goodall & Garnsey, acting as Treasurer and Superintendent. On October 1, 188x, he organized and started, with two brothers, the mohair car and furniture plush business, under the style of Goodall Brothers, in which he acted as Treasurer. Subsequently, in May 1883, the Good- all & Garnsey concern was incorporated as the Mousam River Mills, of which Mr. Goodall became Treasurer and Superintendent. In July 1884 he incorporated the Goodall Brothers plush business under the name of the Goodall Manufacturing Company, and continued as Treasurer ; and April 4, 1885, the Mousam River Mills and Goodall Manufacturing Company were consolidated with the Sanford Mills, and the whole business was merged into one, under the name of the Sanford Mills Company, Mr. Goodall continuing as Superin- tendent of the Mousam River Mills department after the consolidation. On May 11, 1883, he was elected Clerk, and February 17, 1885, a Director, of the Sanford Mills, and has since held these posi- tions. On October 19, 1889, he organized the Goodall Worsted Company, with thirty thousand dollars capital, of which he has been Treasurer and Agent to the present time. This business has been very successful, and has a present capital of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Goodall's knowledge of woolen manufacturing has been gained by a thorough practical training in all departments of the business. When he was about sixteen years old his father was desirous that he should go to college. The young man had other views, but the father in- sisted, and thought he could bring the son to accede to his wishes by putting him at work in the mill as
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" a common hand, and letting him have no money except that which he earned. Accordingly he entered the mill, taking his chances with and re- ceiving the same treatment as the other help, even working as night watchman and as fireman in the boiler room. From that time he has always paid his own way and saved money from his daily wages, working up to an overseer's position and thence to the office. His father helped him to start the Goodall & Garnsey concern, by lending his credit, and also extended similar assistance in starting the Goodall Brothers plush enterprise. The Sanford Mills, of which his father was the head and tounder, were engaged in the plush carriage-robe business, and were established in 1867. In 1870, he fcit that after'all it would be a good plan to go through college, and went to Meriden, New Hampshire, to fit himself for entering Dartmouth. But after one term in the preparatory school, business matters came up that called him home, and he has since devoted himself to the woolen manufacturing busi- ness. Mr. Goodall has also served as Treasurer and Clerk of the Mousam River Railroad Company since November 1893, and as President of the Sanford National Bank from its organization in April 1896. He has been a member of the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, but has now re- signed, although in good standing. He is a mem- ber of the Wool Club of New York, and in politics is a Republican. He was married July 21, 1877, tu Rose V. Goodwin, of Saco, Maine, who died April 15, 1894, leaving three children : Lela Helen, born November 15, 1877; Mildred Vaughn, born June 25, 1891 ; and Thomas Milton, born August 31, 1893.
HAINES, WALTER MANSFIELD, M. D., Ellsworth, was born in Dexter, Penobscot county, Maine, August 5, 1855, son of George A. and Martha A. (Severance) Haines. He is descended from the llaines family which came to this country from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania at an early period, and whose descendants are to be found all over the country at the present day. His father was a practicing dentist in Dexter for more than forty years. He acquired his early education in the public and high schools of his native town, and re- ceived his medical training at the Boston University School of Medicine and the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. Graduating from the lat- ter institution March 7, 1877, he located in the fol-
lowing April at Ellsworth, where he has since continued in active practice. Succeeding to the practice ot Dr. M. R. Pulsifer, whose death had occurred a few months previous, by hard work and through excellent success with his cases he soon found himself in the midst of a large and lucrative practice for a country physician. This quick pros- perity of a new and young physician, as is so often the case in rural communities, aroused ill feeling and jealousy in certain quarters, that finally culmi- nated in a suit for malpractice, instigated by outside parties. Dr. Haines fought the case hard, knowing that he was right, and was awarded the verdict.
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The result was, under the circumstances, a great professional triumph, and a permanent benefit in his practice. Dr. Haines has been a member of the Board of Health of Ellsworth for eight years, and for the past six years its Chairman. He is an active member of the Ellsworth Board of Trade and Chairman of one of its most important com- mittees. He is a member of the Maine Homwo- pathic Medical Society, in which he has served at different times as Chairman of several important bureaus, was President of the society in 1883, and is at present a member of its Board of Censors. He was also for two years a member of the United States Examining Board of Surgeons at Ellsworth.
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He has been a Mason since 1878; an Odd Fellow since 1882, one of the original members of Lejok Lodge of Ellsworth, and its second Noble Grand ; also member of Wivurna Encampment of Odd Fellows ; is a charter member of Donaqua Lodge Knights of Pythias and was its first Chancellor Commander, and is a member of the Nicolin Club of Ellsworth, the largest and most representative social club in the city. Dr. Haines finds his chief recreation and his greatest interest, outside of his profession, in sports afield. With the excellent facilities about Ellsworth for shooting and fishing, he manages to steal many hours of enjoyment with dog and gun after woodcock and grouse, and with ·rod and fly luring the gamy trout, salmon and bass. He has been prominently mentioned for the ap- pointment of State Commissioner of Fish and Game, but political considerations have thus far prevailed in the selection of this important state official. With United States Senator Hale and others of Ellsworth he is interested in the develop- ment and the future of Green Lake, a large body of water a few miles out of Ellsworth, as a sportsman's resort, owning two steamers upon the lake, and land about its shores. . In politics Dr. Haines has always been a Republican, but has never aspired to any public office. He was married September 19, 1877, to Phronia L. Eldredge of Dexter, Maine ; they have no children.
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