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but little attention. In this business, that of tan- ning, Mr. Dow served from "boy" to managing partner, until owing to failing health he retired in 1874. In 1874 he read law in the office of Gen- erals James D. and Francis Fessenden, and was admitted to the Bar in 1877 ; but a few years later, upon accession to the care of important business interests, he relinquished practice. In 1861, at the outbreak of the War for the Union (being still in his minority), he volunteered in the first company offering its services, but his father believing his strength unequal to life in camp, objected to his enlistment, and entering the service himself made it impracticable for the son to do so. Early inter- ested in public affairs, at the age of thirty he had served several years in the City Government and on the School Committee of Portland. In 1871 he served on the staff of Governor Perham, with the rank of Colonel. In 1872-3-4 he was a member, the last year Chairman, of the Executive Council of the State. In 1874 he was unanimously nomi- nated by the Republicans of Cumberland county for State Senator. In 1876 he became a member of the Republican State Committee, on which he served, save a few months, until 1892, and upon the re- tirement of James G. Blaine from the chairmanship, Colonel Dow was made Chairman of its Executive Committee. In this capacity he conducted the exciting campaign of 1882, adding greatly to his reputation as a skillful political leader and or- ganizer. He was also Chairman of the General Committee, but resigned both positions upon ac. cession to federal office. In the close and exciting Congressional convention, in which Hon. Thomas B. Reed was first nominated for Congress, Mr. Dow was selected by that gentleman as leader of his forces on the floor of the convention, where the conditions were so delicate as to require unusual tact and ability in leadership. He was a Commis- sioner from Maine to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 ; served as Delegate at Large to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1880, and in February 1883 was appointed to the Collectorship of the Port of Portland to succeed the late Hon. Lot M. Morrill. His activity in the campaign of 1884 in behalf of Congressman Reed, then sorely pressed by factional difficulties in his party, led to his removal for "offensive partisanship" in 1885 by President Cleveland. In 1886 Colonel Dow was instrumental in meas- ures which culminated in the general organiza- tion of permanent political clubs throughout the
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country. He was the first President of the Port- land Club, the first of its kind in the state and second in the country, and was the first President of the Maine State League of Republican Clubs. With James G. Blaine and others he became in- terested in the Portland Evening Express, made it a Republican organ, and by his energetic methods widely extended its circulation and influence. In the fall of 1886 he was unanimously nominated for the Legislature by the Republicans of Port- land, was elected at the head of his ticket, and served on the Judiciary and Library committees. Re-elected in 1888, he was unanimously nominated for Speaker by the Republicans, and elected. In October 1890 he was nominated by President Har- rison for Collector, and was instantly confirmed by the Senate without the almost invariable formality of reference to a committee. Colonel Dow is actively engaged in various business enterprises, being largely interested in real estate, is President of the Evening Express Publishing Company, Presi- dent of the Portland and Director in the Casco loan and building associations, is a Director in the West- brook Manufacturing Company, Portland Gas Light Company, Union Safety Deposit and Trust Com- pany, Casco National Bank and Commercial Union Telegraph Company, and was formerly a Director of the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad. He is also president of the Board of Trustees of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary. He finds in the numerous enterprises with which he is associated full opportu- nity for the employment of the energy, executive ability and public spirit which are his chief charac- teristics. In public life a ready and effective speaker and forcible writer, and enjoying an exten- sive acquaintance throughout the state, he has long occupied an influential position in the councils of his party. Active and aggressive in political affairs, of strong convictions, and positive in the ex- pression of his opinions, it was natural that he should arouse antagonism. But he has never al- lowed political differences to disturb personal rela- tions, and earnest political opponents are numbered among his warmest friends. Colonel Dow was married in October 1864 to Julia Dana Hammond, daughter of the late William Hammond, a promi- nent citizen of Portland ; they have two children : William H., Vice-President of the Evening Express Publishing Company and President of the Common Council of Portland 1895-6, and Marian Durant Haton, wife of William C. Eaton, a prominent luwyer of Portland.
FOGG, SANFORD LEROY, Judge of the Munici- pal Court of Bath, was born in Milan, New Hamp- shire, June 26, 1863, son of Simon and Lydia H. Fogg. His ancestry is English. His early educa- tion, acquired in the common schools of Milan and Gorham, New Hampshire, was limited to that which falls to the lot of the average boy who is brought up to work on a farm. . At the age of seventeen he entered the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill to prepare for college. Graduating therefrom in 1885, he pursued a college course at Bowdoin, and graduated in the class of 1889. Following graduation he taught school for a year, 1889-90, at
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Island Pond, Vermont, being Principal of the High School and having charge of all the village schools of that place. In September 1890 he began the study of law in the office of Judge George A. Wil- son at South Paris, Maine, was admitted to the Bar in May 1893, and at once began practice at Rum- ford Falls, Maine, where he was made Trial Justice for Oxford County. In October 1893 he removed to Bath and continued in the practice of his pro- fession, acting as City Solicitor during the latter part of 1893 and in 1894. In December 1895 he was appointed Judge of the Bath Municipal Court, which position he now holds. Judge Fogg served as Superintendent of Schools of Paris in 1892-3,
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and on the Board of Assessors of South Paris 1891-2, being Chairman of the Board in the latter year. In 1895 he was a member of the Bath City Council. He is a member of Paris Masonic Lodge, Union Royal Arch Chapter of Norway and Dunlap Com- mandery Knights Templar of Bath, also a member of Hamlin Lodge Knights of Pythias, South Paris. He is a Republican in politics, and is unmarried.
FOLSOM, MELVILLE MARSH, Postmaster of Old- town, was born in Newburg, Penobscot county, Maine, April 27, 1836, second son of Mark and
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Sarah (Morrill) Folsom. His education was ac- quired in the public schools of his native town, at Hampden (Maine) Academy and the Maine State Seminary at Lewiston. After leaving school he followed teaching until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the company of Captain Sawyer at Dixmont, of which he was made First Lieutenant. In the early fall of 1861 he re-enlisted in Company K of the Eleventh Maine Regiment, of which he was likewise chosen First Lieutenant, and remained with this command until September 1864, when he was sent back to Maine to take recruits to the front; and as meanwhile the time of his regiment had expired, he did not return to the
field. On May 10, 1863, he was commissioned Captain and assigned to Company A of the Eleventh. During his long service he was in no less than twenty-two pitched battles, besides count- less skirmishes and minor engagements, without receiving a wound. Since the war Mr. Folsom has served most of the time in the State Militia. In 1871 he organized the Hersey Light Infantry, a crack company of Oldtown, and commanded the same until 1876, when he was elected Major of the First Regiment, First Brigade, First Division of the State Militia. In April 1892 he was appointed and served on the Staff of Governor Plaisted, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Colonel Folsom is proprietor of the leading drug store in Oldtown, which he has run since the close of the war. In politics he was a Republican until the campaign of 1876, when he voted for Tilden. He served in the Maine Legislature in 1872-3, as Mayor of Oldtown in 1892, and as Postmaster under Cleveland's first and second administrations, holding that office at the present time. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was married May 24, 1863 (during his military service), to Miss Hannah Jane Edgerly, of Dixmont, Maine ; they have two children : Edith Louisa, born October 3, 1865, and Arthur Melville Folsom, born June 24, 1868.
FREEMAN, ELIAS DUDLEY, Lawyer, Portland, was born in Yarmouth, Maine, August 31, 1853, son of Barnabas and Sarah Crosby (Dudley) Free- man. He is descended on the paternal side from Samuel Freeman, who settled in Watertown, Massa- chusetts, in 1632. Barnabas Freeman, his father, was born in Fairfield, Maine, October 17, 1814 ; he was a graduate of Waterville College and a leading citizen of Yarmouth, where for many years he was engaged in the practice of law and afterwards in cotton manufacturing ; he died December 18, 1894. The mother of E. Dudley Freeman, who was born January 31, 1816, was the daughter of Hon. Elias Dudley of Hampden, and a direct descendant, in the eighth generation, of Governor Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts ; she died March 27, 1879. Mr. Freeman fitted for college at North Yarmouth Academy and graduated from Amherst in the class of 1875. On completing his college course he immediately took up the study of law in his father's office at Yarmouth, subsequently reading with Clarence Hale in Portland. In 1879 he was
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admitted to the Cumberland County Bar, and opened an office in Yarmouth. In ISSo he went abroad, and on his return after a year's absence purchased the Yarmouth Granite Quarries, which he operated till 1889. In that year he went to Ala- bama, where he remained two years, and then resumed the practice of law, opening an office in Portland, where he is now a prominent member of the legal fraternity and attending to the demands of a large clientage. Mr. Freeman has recently finished a "Supplement to the Revised Statutes," which has been highly commended by the Bench and Bar. He is Treasurer of several corporations
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and of North Yarmouth Academy, in which position he succeeds his father who held it for more than fifty years. Mr. Freeman is a prominent man in the Republican councils of his native state. In 1839 he was a member of the Maine Senate, was Chairman of the Cumberland County Committee in 1890-1, has been a member of the State Republi- can Committee and of the Executive Committee since 1892, and since January 1895 has represented Cumberland County in the Governor's Council. fle is a member of the Maine Genealogical Society of Portland, Vice-President of the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, and a member of the Maine Historical Society. He was married
February 6, 1833, to Miss Georgia Norman Carlton, daughter of Jacob F. and Maria J. (Tyler) Carl- ton, of Andover, Massachusetts; they have two daughters : Mary Dudley and Constance. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman are members of the Congregational Church of Yarmouth, where they reside in a beauti- iul home.
HASKELL, GEORGE BATES, Seed and Agricultural Merchant, Lewiston, was born in Lisbon (now Webster), Androscoggin county, Maine, March 2, 1837, son of Cyrus and Paulina (Furbish) Haskell. His ancestry is English on the paternal side, and on the maternal side is Scotch. He acquired his edu- cation in the town schools, with one term at High School, and until he entered the army at the age of twenty-five pursued the avocation of farming. In July 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Sixteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Civil War until discharged in June 1865, a period of nearly three years. He was twice a prisoner of war, being first captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, and taken to Richmond, Virginia, where he was confined in Libby and Belle Isle prisons, until exchanged after two months, on Sep- tember 1, returning to the army in the following October. He was taken the second time at the Battle of Weldon Railroad, August 19, 1864, was confined in Libby and on Belle Isle until October, and then transferred to Salisbury, North Carolina, where he was exchanged February 28, 1865. Not- withstanding his terms of imprisonment, he partici- pated in all of the battles in which his regiment was engaged, from the time it entered the service until August 19, 1864, with the exception of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. Mr. Haskell came to Lewiston in 1869, and in 1870 took charge of the farms and city property there of the late N. W. Farwell of Boston - a position which he has held to the present time. In October 1879 he bought out the seed and agricultural business of Thompson & Hitchcock, Haymarket Square, and in four years increased the trade from about five thousand dollars to over thirty thousand. Poor health then compelling him to seek outdoor occu- pation, he sold out to O. S. Ham. For two years from 1886 he was Street Commissioner of Lewiston, and for the next two years he served as Clerk of the Board of Overseers of the Poor. In 1892 he bought back his former business from Mr. Ham, in which he still continues, doing a business of about
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forty thousand dollars a year. Previous to his going into this business in 1879, he had never done a day's work in a store of any kind. Mr. Haskell was elected one of the Selectmen of Webster in March 1869, but resigned in May following, on account of his removal to Lewiston. He is a mem- ber of Golden Rule Lodge, Worumbus Encamp- ment and Grand Canton Worumbus, in the Odd Fellows fraternity ; is a member and in 1886 was Commander of Custer Post, Grand Army of the Republic ; and in 1891 organized and was made Colonel of the first encampment of the Union Vet- eran Legion in Maine. In politics Mr. Haskell is
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a Republican. He was married May 3, 1868, to Mary Neal Marston, of Litchfield, Maine ; they have two children : Chapin Edwin and Ethel Marston Haskell.
HOPKINS, ELISHA, M. D., Searsport, was born in Hampden, Penobscot county, Maine, September 14, 1829, son of Elisha and Polly ('Taylor) Hopkins. He is a direct descendant of Giles Hopkins, a son of Stephen Hopkins, who came over in the May- flower - being of the eighth generation from the last- named. He received his early education in the common schools and at the Hampden and Water- ville (Maine) academies, studied medicine at the
Tremont Medical School in Boston, and Harvard Medical School, graduating from the latter as M. D. in 1854. At once entering upon the practice of his profession in his native town, he kept a drug store in connection with his practice until 1856, when he moved to Searsport, where he has continuously prac- ticed ever since, except for three years when he was a surgeon in the army during the Civil War. In 1861 Dr. Hopkins enlisted in Company I, Fourth Regiment Maine Volunteers ; was appointed Hos- pital Steward and later Assistant-Surgeon, and served with the regiment until September, when sickness caused his resignation. In July 1862 he was commissioned Assistant-Surgeon of the Four- teenth Maine Regiment of Volunteers, serving in that capacity until 1864, when he was appointed Surgeon, and remained with the regiment until the expiration of its term of service in 1865. He was then appointed Medical Examiner in the Provost- Marshal's office at Belfast, Maine, and continued in that capacity until Lee's Surrender, when recruiting
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was suspended and the office was closed. Dr. Hopkins is a member of the Maine and the Waldo County medical associations, also of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. He served as Super- visor of Schools in Searsport for several years, but although always a staunch Republican, not being a politician, he has never held a political office. He
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has been twice married, his first marriage being in 1859 to Orianna J. Fowler of Searsport, by whom he had one child that died in infancy. In 1868 he was married to Cynthia W. Adams, daughter of Samuel G. Adams of Camden, Maine; they have had two children : Ella A., now living, and Elisha Hopkins, Jr., who died at the age of five years.
LEAVITT, SAMUEL DEAN, first Mayor of East- port, was born in Eastport, August 12, 1837, son of Benjamin B and Harriet (Lamprey) Leavitt. His father, B. B. Leavitt, was Colonel of Militia in 1838, United States Marshal in 1840, and State Senator in 1843 ; and his grandfather, Jonathan Leavitt, served four years in the Revolutionary army. He acquired his early education in the common schools, and fitted for college at Franklin (New Hampshire) Academy, but did not pursue a collegiate course. He read law with Hon. Bion Bradbury at Eastport, was admitted to the Bar in October 1861, and upon his return from the war opened a law office in his native town, in connection with fire insurance, which he has since continued. In the fall of 1861, immediately following his admission to the Bar, he enlisted and raised part of a company for the Fif- teenth Maine Volunteers, was commissioned as First Lieutenant of Company A in that regiment, and served in the Department of the Gulf under Gen- eral Butler until he resigned at New Orleans in 1862. Returning to Maine, he commenced the law and insurance business at Eastport, as above stated, which he has most successfully prosecuted to the present time. Mr. Leavitt represented East- port in the State Legislature for two terms, in 1873-4, and in 1879 was elected and served as Adjutant- General of the State. From 1886 to August 1890 he was Collector of Customs for the District of Passamaquoddy under President Cleveland, and in 1893 was elected and served as the first Mayor of the new city of Eastport. He was also appointed in 1893 a member of the commission to revise the militia laws of Maine. General Leavitt is noted as an able, progressive and energetic business man, and has successfully managed and conducted many Large interests and enterprises. He has been a Director in the Frontier National Bank of Eastport for many years. In politics he has been always a Democrat and a leader in his party, and in 1892 was the independent Democratic candidate for Congress from the Fourth Congressional District.
He is a member of Eastern Lodge, Eastern Chapter and St. Ronan's Commandery in the Masonic fra- ternity, Post Mead of the Grand Army, Loyal Legion and Sons of the American Revolution ; also member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
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Company and Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Boston. General Leavitt was married August 7, 1860, to Emily C. White, daughter of Reuben White of Londonderry, New Hampshire ; they have four children : Harriet L., Benjamin B., Samuel D. and Amy W. Leavitt.
LINCOLN, ALBERT ROBINSON, M. D., Dennysville, was born in Perry, Washington county, Maine, October 3, 1831, son of William and Maria L. (Copp) Lincoln. He was descended from Samuel Lincoln, who came from the county of Norfolk, England, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1633. His mother was a descendant of David Copp of Boston, in whose memory stands the old- est gravestone in Copp's Hill Cemetery in that city. His maternal grandfather and great-grandfather were refugees from Boston when the British evacu- ated that place during the Revolution, and settled in Shepody, New Brunswick. Hereceived his early education in the public schools of Eastport, Maine,
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and at Sackville ( New Brunswick) Seminary, after which he attended one term at Yale College. Graduating from the University Medical College of New York City in March 1854, he commenced the practice of medicine in May of that year at St. Anthony's Falls (now Minneapolis), Minnesota, where he remained until May 1855, returning then to Maine on account of his wife's health, and settling in Dennysville. In May 1859 he went to California, where he practiced in Coulterville until March 1861, when owing to sickness and death in his father's family he returned to Dennys- ville and was engaged there in active practice until
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he entered the army. In December 1862 he joined the First Maine Heavy Artillery Volunteers as Assistant Surgeon, and was stationed at Maryland Heights until May 14, 1864, when he joined the Army of the Potomac at Spottsylvania. He was assigned to the Second Army Corps, his regiment with other heavy-artillery regiments forming a division com- manded by General Tyler. On the second day after joining the Second Corps his regiment was engaged by the enemy, and repulsed them, but lost in killed and wounded four hundred and sixty men. The regiment went through the various fortunes of soldier life in the field until, June 18, in front of Petersburg, it engaged the enemy with a loss of six
hundred and forty in killed and wounded. In Octo- ber 1864 Dr. Lincoln was ordered to the artillery bri- gade of the Second Army Corps, where he acted as Surgeon in charge of hospitals and for a short time as Surgeon-in-Chief of Artillery. He remained with the brigade until June 1865, when the organization was broken up. Returning to his regiment, having participated in the grand review while with the artillery, he was stationed at Fort Baker, Maryland, where the regiment was mustered out, and he re- turned home after an absence of nearly three years. After the war Dr. Lincoln resumed the practice of medicine in Dennysville, in which he has continued actively engaged to the present time, although now at an age when he often feels that rest is needed. He served as a member of the School Committee for twenty years, from 1855 to 1875, has been Master of Pembroke Grange Patrons of Husbandry, was for three years President of the Washington County Agricultural Society, and is now serving his fourth term as member of the Maine Board of Agri- culture. He is a Master Mason, was for eight years Commander of Post Theo. Lincoln of the Grand Army, and is a member of the Society of the Loyal Legion. In politics Dr. Lincoln is a Republican ; he voted for Abraham Lincoln the first time under Rebel fire at Fort Sedgwick, near Petersburg, Vir- ginia. He was first married to Miss Elizabeth J. Clark, of New Haven, Connecticut, who died De- cember 12, 1855. In 1857, February 19, he was a second time married, to Miss Deborah R. Foster, of Dennysville. They have three children : Eliza- beth M. Lincoln, born November 11, 1857, now Mrs. A. J. Elkins of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Albert E., born October 15, 1858 ; Harry F., born August 31, 1867 ; and Olive E. Lincoln, born October 3, 1875.
LINCOLN, BENJAMIN, Dennysville, was born in Dennysville, December 5, 1832, son of Theodore and Elizabeth Cushing ( Lincoln) Lincoln. His father was a son of Theodore Lincoln, who came from Hingham, Massachusetts, in May 1786, and with fifteen other men settled the town of Dennys- ville. His great-grandfather was Major-General Benjamin Lincoln of the Revolutionary army. His mother was a daughter of Abner and Hannah (Lin- 'coln) Lincoln, the latter being a daughter of Major- General Benjamin Lincoln. His first American ancestor was Thomas Lincoln, by trade a cooper, who came from Suffolk county, England, and was
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granted a house-lot in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1636. He was educated in the common schools and academy at Dennysville, and for many years was engaged in the manufacture of lumber at Dennysville. Mr. Lincoln has been prominent in the affairs of his town and section, but has never taken an active part in political life, although he has always been a staunch Republican. He was a Selectnian and Road Commissioner of Dennysville for several years, and served for six years as a mem- ber of the Board of County Commissioners of Wash- ington County. He joined Crescent Lodge of Masons in 1872 at Pembroke, Maine, and was
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a member of the Sons of Temperance and Good Templars during the years in which those societies held meetings in Dennysville. Since 1867 he has been a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, and for several years has served on the Standing Committee of that organization. Mr. Lincoln was married October 31, 1856, to Deborah R. Gardner, of Dennysville ; they have four chil- dren : Sarah G., William S .. Theodore and Hannah G. Lincoln.
MACOMBER, GEORGE ELLISON, Mayor of Augusta for three terms, 1887-9, was born in Augusta, June 0, 1553, son of George W. and Hannah J. ( Kalloch)
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