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HENRY H. SMITH.
was Town Treasurer of Sandwich when he died in the year 1700. Samuel, son of Thomas, married Bertha Chipman, and died in Sandwich in 1730. Stephen, son of Samuel, married in 1762 Deborah Ellis of Plymouth, and in 1772 removed to Machias, Maine ; he was known as Captain Smith, and in 1776 was appointed Truck Master to the Indians by
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the Provincial Congress. Stephen's son John, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married love Scott, whose ancestors came from Scarboro (Maine) to Machias about 1763. On the maternal side, Dr. Smith's great-grandfather was Daniel Hoyt, whose eldest son, also named Daniel, married Eleanor Harvey and had seven children, of whom Susan was the fifth. Henry H. Smith received his early education in the common schools and at Washington Academy in East Machias. Graduat- ing at Bowdoin College as .1. B. in 1877, in the same year he also graduated as physician and surgeon at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and at once began practice in Machias, where he has continued to the present time. Dr. Smith is a member of the Maine Academy of Medicine, the Maine Medical Association and the American Academy of Medicine, and from 1885 to 1893 was Secretary of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons for Pensions. He is a member of the various Masonic bodies, including Harwood Lodge, which he joined in 1885 and of which he is Past Master ; Washington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is Past High Priest ; St. Croix Council, Royal and Select Masters; St. Elmo Commandery Knights Templar ; Delta Lodge of Perfection and Deering Council Princes of Jerusalem, in which latter he is now serving as Grand Master. In Bowdoin College he was a member of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. In politics Dr. Smith is a Republican. He was married December 24, 1877, to Mary Elizabeth Longfellow, daughter of Edwin and .Agnes B. (Brown) Longfellow of Machias. Mrs. Smith died April 15, 1884, leaving two chil- dren : Agnes Longfellow and Philip Seabury Smith. In October 1896 Dr. Smith removed from Machias to New Haven, Connecticut, where he is engaged in practice.
SMITH, JOSEPH OTIS, Editor and Publisher, Skowhegan, was born in Weston, Aroostook county, Maine, April 24, 1839, son of Barnabas C. and Maria L. (Small) Smith. His ancestry on the pa- ternal side is traced directly back through eight generations to Reverend John Smith, who came from England to Barnstable, Massachusetts, about 1630. His great-grandfather, Stephen Smith, served at Machias, Maine, as Captain of an infantry company in the war of the Revolution. He was elneated in the common schools, and at Houlton (Maine) Academy, now Ricker Classical Institute,
and his early manhood from 1856 to 1863 was spent in farming and teaching country schools. From 1863 until mustered out in February 1866 he served in the army, and from 1866 to 1872 he was engaged in mercantile business. For nineteen years, end- ing January 1894, he was a clerk and public official in various capacities at the State Capitol in Augusta. Since 1878 he has been interested in the printing and publishing business, and is now editor of the Somerset Reporter. In 1893 he received the hon- orary degree of A. M. from Colby University. Mr. -Smith was a member of the Maine Legislature two terms, 1869 and 1870, was Assistant Clerk of the
JOSEPH O. SMITH.
Maine House of Representatives 1872-3, Chief Clerk in the Secretary of State's office for two years ending January 1877, Deputy Secretary of State four years ending January 1881, Secretary of State 1881-4 inclusive, and Insurance Commis- sioner of Maine for a period of nine years, ending January 1894. During the Civil War, from April 1865 to February 1866 he held a commission as Lieutenant of the Eleventh Regiment, Maine In- fantry Volunteers. In politics he is a Republican. He was clerk of the Republican State Committee five years, 1876-80, when James G. Blaine was Chairman, and has served as the member of that committee for Somerset county from 1890 to the
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present time. Mr. Smith resided in Weston and Hodgdon, Aroostook county, until 1873, then in Augusta until 1885, since which time Skowhegan has been his place of residence. He has always been an active worker in all movements conceived to be, materially or morally, for the public good. He is a member of the Blue Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He has been twice married - March 17, 1860, to Miss Cordelia Smith, who died in 1865 ; and Novem- ber 21, 1868, to Miss Emina Mayo. He has three children : Eda K., George O. and Josie W. Smith.
STROUT, ALMON AUGUSTUS, Lawyer, of Portland and Boston, was born in Limington, York county, Maine, May 8, 1835, son of Elisha and Mary
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(Hagan ) Strout. Both parents were natives of Limington. His paternal ancestors were emigrants from England, who located at or near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and early came to Maine, where they first settled in and about Portland. His. mother was a daughter of Walter Hagan, a farmer, whose ancestors settled in Scarboro, Maine. They were"descendants of the ()'Hagan family, formerly of the North of Ireland. Mr. Strout spent his early
years upon a farm, and during the winter months attended the common schools. After three years' attendance at the North Bridgton and Fryeburg (Maine) academies, teaching fall and winter terms of school meanwhile, he commenced the study of law with Joel Eastman of Conway, New Hampshire, and ten months later entered the office of Howard & Strout in Portland, where he found as a fellow- student Eugene Hale, now United States Senator from Maine, and with him was admitted to the Bar of Maine on February 13, 1857. He at first located in Harrison, Cumberland county, Maine, where he entered at once upon a large and lucrative practice, and acquired considerable local reputation as a suc- cessful advocate in jury cases. In 1865 he removed to Portland, where he succeeded to the business of Shepley & Dana, and in March 1866 he entered into a partnership with General George F. Shepley, which continued until the appointment of General Shepley to the Bench of the United States Circuit Court in June 1869. Mr. Strout continued prac- tice alone until 1873, when finding his increasing business too much to manage without assistance, he formed a partnership with George F. Holmes, under the firm name of Strout & Holmes. His association with General Shepley, combined with his own industry and ability, brought a very large amount of business, and he soon made his way to the front rank of his profession, both as a learned lawyer and successful advocate. In 1882 he was appointed General Counsel for the Grand Trunk Railway for New England, which position he still holds; and in 1884 he became Counsel for the Boston & Lowell Railroad, continuing as such until that road was absorbed by the Boston & Maine. In January 1889 he opened an office in Boston, where he is now associated with William H. Coolidge, and with his son, Henry F. Strout, under the firm name of Strout & Coolidge, still retaining his office in Portland. The firin, besides their gen- eral practice, act as · counsel for several railroad, telegraph and other corporations. Mr. Strout's early political affiliations were with the Douglas wing of the Democratic party. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he identified himself with the War Democrats who labored for the preservation of the Union, and finding himself more in accord with the Republican policy, he voted for the re-election of Lincoln and has ever since acted with the Republi- can party. His legal and political experiences con- tinued to rapidly widen. He acted for the United States as Assistant-Counsel for the distribution of
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the Geneva Award, and has been Senior Counsel for the Government in many important cases. In 1879 he was elected Representative to the State Legisla- ture from Portland, but was deprived of his seat upon the pretext that, although the return showed his election by a clear majority of over six hundred votes, it also contained the words, "Scattering, forty-three votes." In the contest that followed, which resulted in the defeat of the Fusion party's attempt to control the Legislature, Mr. Strout took a prominent and important part, serving as Chair- man of the committee chosen by the Republican members of the Legislature to draw up a statement oi their side of the case, with suitable interroga- tories, for submission to the Supreme Court. The opinion of the court sustained the Republican side " of the controversy, and Mr. Strout's course and his services to the state having met with the recogni- tion and approval of his constituents, he was returned to the Legislature of 1881, where as Chair- man of the Judiciary Committee he took an active part in shaping the legislation of the session. Mr. Strout is a Mason and a Knight Templar. He was married December 23, 1861, to Mary R. Sumner, daughter of Samuel R. Sumner of Grand Rapids, Michigan ; they have one son : Henry Francis Strout, born March 3, 1867, and now associated in the practice of law with his father.
VOSE, EDWIN HOWARD, M. D, Calais, was born in Robbinston, Washington county, Maine, August 20, 1838, son of Peter Thacher and Lydia Cushing (Buck)Vose. His first American ancestor was Robert Vore, born 1599, who came from England to New England about 1635 and settled in Dorchester, now Milton, Massachusetts. The line of descent is through (2) Thomas, (3) Henry, (4) Robert, (5) Thomas, (6) Thomas and (7) Peter Thacher Vose. He is also descended from the families of Thacher. Sumner, Prince, Oxenbridge, Partridge, Tucker, Josslyn, Hinckley, Williams, Keith, Adams, Hayden, Hay- ward, Howard and Buck, and through the Oxen- bridge branch, from King Edward IH. of England. He attended the public schools of Robbinston and Calais Academy, after which he spent about six months as clerk in a grocery store in 1858, taught « hool two winters in 1858-60, was clerk for ten months in Rolfe & Peabody's lumber concern at Princeton, Maine, and in September 1861 began the study of medicine with Drs. Swan & Holmes of
Calais. He attended medical lectures at the Maine Medical School in 1862-4 and at Harvard in 1863, graduating at the Maine Medical School of Bowdoin College in August 1864. After practicing in Gor- ham, Maine, from March 1865 to February 1869, he returned to Calais, where he has continued in active practice to the present time. Dr. Vose be- longs to the regular school of medicine, so called, and has long enjoyed a high standing in his profes- sion. He is a member of the Maine Medical Asso- ciation, of which he was Secretary in 1867-8, and of the Council of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick. in 18;2 and from 1876 to 1892 he was City Physician: of Calais, was a member of the
EDWIN HOWARD VOSE.
Board of Health 1885-91, has served on the Board of United States Examining Surgeons for Pensions since 1873, and is Examining Surgeon for the Equi- table, Union Mutual, New York Life, Connecticut Mutual, United States, Pennsylvania, and several other insurance companies. He was Acting Assist- ant Surgeon in the United States Navy from Decem- ber 1863 to April 1864, resigning on account of sickness. Dr. Vose is a prominent Mason, being Past Master of St. Croix Lodge, Past High Priest of St. Croix Royal Arch Chapter, Past Thrice Illustrious Master St. Croix Council Royal and Select Masters, Past Commander Hugh de Payens Commandery Knights Templar, Past District Deputy Grand Mas-
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ter of the Second Masonic District, Past District Deputy Grand High Priest Fifth Masonic District, Past Junior Grand Warden Grand Lodge of Maine, member of the Maine Consistory Sublime Prince Royal Secret, Thirty-second Degree, and is now serving his eleventh year as Grand Prelate of the Grand Commandery of Maine. He is also Past Commander of Joel A. Haycock Post Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member of Border Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen. In politics Dr. Vose comes from old Whig stock, and has been a Republican from the formation of the party. He was married September 12, 1866, to Elza Maria Goodnow, of Calais ; they have had four children : Kate Gage, now the wife of Rev. George S. Mills of Belfast, Maine; Alice Howard, who died in childhood ; Henry Goodnow and Winnifred Vose.
WHITMARSH, WILLIAM WHITMAN, Proprietor of the Elm House, Norway, was born in Norway,
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W. W. WHITMARSH.
May 27, 1835, son of John and Charlotte (Stevens) Whitmarsh. He is a grandson of Ebenezer Whit- marsh, who came from Bridgewater. Massachusetts, and resided in Norway until his death. He was educated in the common schools of Norway, and was in the State militia service as Lieutenant from 1855 to the breaking out of the Civil War. In
April 1861 he enlisted as a private in Company G, First Maine Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in as First Sergeant on May 3 following, for three months. Upon the expiration of his term he was mustered out at Portland, August 5, and in October following re entered the service as Second Lieuten- ant of Company G, Tenth Maine Regiment ; was' soon after promoted to First Lieutenant, and served until mustered out May 8, 1863. In December :853 he again entered the service, as Captain of Company G, Twenty-ninth Maine Veteran Volun- teer Infantry, in which he continued until detached from his regiment and appointed Assistant Provost Marshal of the Eastern District of South Carolina, July 9, 1855, in which capacity he served until mus- tered out and honorably discharged, March 3, 1866. Among the more important engagements in which he participated were the battles of Winchester (May 25, 1862) in Virginia; Sabin Cross-Roads (April 8, 1864), Pleasant Hill (April 9, 1864) and Cane River Crossing (April 23, 1864) in Louisiana ; and in the Virginia campaign of 1864, Opequan (September 9), Fisher's Hill (September 22), New- market (September 23) and Cedar Creek (October 19). Immediately upon his return home, May 10, 1866, Mr. Whitmarsh commenced business as a hotel keeper in Norway, where he has continued as proprietor of the well-known Elm House to the present time. He filled the office of Town Clerk of Norway for eight years, was a Representative to the Legislature from that town for two years, 1885-6, and from 1885 was one of the County Commissioners of Oxford county for a period of ten years. In July 1883 he was appointed Captain and Commissary on the staff of General Jolin Marshall Brown, commanding the First Brigade of Volunteer Militia of Maine, and served in that capacity six years. In January 1893 he was ap- pointed Aide-de-Camp with rank of Lieutenant- Colonel on the staff of Governor H. B. Cleaves of Maine, in which position he is serving at the pres- ent time (1896). Colonel Whitmarsh has been active in business affairs outside of the hotel pro- fession and his various private interests. He is Treasurer and Superintendent of the Norway Water Company, a Director of the Norway Build- ing Association, Treasurer of the Graded Mutual Relief Association and Trustee of Norway Lodge oi Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Norway and Bass Island clubs, Norway Lodge and Wildley Encampment of Odd Fellows, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Military Order of the Loyal
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Legion. In politics Colonel Whitmarsh is a Re- publican. He was married September 22, 1868, to Martha C. Blake, of Norway ; they have had two children : Lizzie C., now living, and Charles B. Whitmarsh, died in infancy.
WALLING, GEORGE HENRY, Jr., Postmaster of Machias, was born in Burrillville, Rhode Island,
G. H. WALLING, JR.
March 4, 1860, son of George Henry and Phoebe (Whiting) Walling. On the paternal side his an- cestors were residents of Wallingford, England. His mother's people were the Whitings of Douglas, Massachusetts. After attending the public schools of Burrillville and Woonsocket, Rhode Island, he graduated at the Machias (Maine) High School, pursued his studies at Cherryfield (Maine) Acad- einy, and took a college course at Westbrook (Maine) Seminary. Adopting the profession of dentistry, he was a student in the office of J. W. Keyes, D. M. D., at Machias, for three years, end- ing February 7, 1878, and after taking a course of lectures at the Dental School of Harvard Univer- sity, established himself in practice in Machias, where he has continued to the present time. On December 30, 1895, Dr. Walling was appointed Postmaster of Machias, to which office he was com-
missioned January 9, 1896, and took possession on February 16 following. On June 17, 1896, he was also appointed a member and Chairman of the Board of Civil Service Examiners for the Customs District of Machias. Postmaster Walling is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, New England Order of Protection and In- - dependent Order of Foresters. In politics he has always been a staunch Democrat.
WALSH, JAMES ALOYSIUS, Agent of the Lewis- ton Bleachery and Dye Works, Lewiston, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, January 1, 1852, son of Patrick and Anna (Foley) Walsh. He received his education in the public schools of Salem, and at the age of seventeen, in 1869, commenced active life as an entry clerk in the wholesale drygoods house of Thomas Kelly & Company, Boston. In 1871 he entered the office of the Danvers Bleach-
JAMES A. WALSH.
ery, Peabody, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1873, and then came to the Lewiston Bleach- ery and Dye Works, assuming charge of the ship- ping and invoicing. In 1875 he was promoted to Paymaster, and in 1879 was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the works. In 1884 he became Superintendent, and upon the retirement of the late
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Mr. Dempsey, in 1892, was appointed Agent of the company, which position he now holds. Mr. Walsh served as a member of the Lewiston School Board for four years, 1878-82, and since 1893 has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the People's Savings Bank of I ewiston. He is also a member of the Calumet Club of Lewiston. He has always been active in promoting the interests of all char- itable societies and institutions. and is especially interested in aiding the work of the St. Joseph's Catholic Temperance Society in his city. Mr. Walsh was married June 7, 1887, to Mary E. C. - O'Donnell ; they have four children : Louis, Dolly, James and Kate Walsh.
AMES, JOHN KELLER, Lumber Manufacturer, Machias, was born in East Machias, Maine, Novem- ber 7, 1831, son of Alfred and Mary Gardner
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(Keller) Ames. He is a grandson of Captain Isaac Ames, shipmaster, and Abigail Clark, both of Machiasport, Maine ; and great-grandson of Mark Ames (originally of Marshfield, Massachusetts, and later of North Haven, Maine) and Priscilla Howland. His mother was a daughter of Captain John Keller (son of Findley Keller of Warren, Maine, and Mary
Gardner) and Susan Phinney. He received his education in the common schools and at Washing- ton Academy in East Machias, and for nearly fifty years has been engaged in the lumber business at Machias, and interested in navigation and various local industries. The death of his father when he was ten years of age left him to battle with the world „ alone. He worked his way through Washington Academy, and entering the employ of S. W. Pope & Company, lumber manufacturers, was soon made their Agent and managed theit affairs. In 1880 he bought an interest in the property, and for the last sixteen years he has been in business for himself. He is President of the Machias Water Company ; Director of the Washington County Railroad, the Bucks Harbor Packing Company and the Machias Electric Light Company; Trustee of the Machias Savings Bank, the Central Washington Agricultural Society and the Porter Memorial Library Associa- tion ; also Vice-President of the Maine Lumbermen's Association, and an officer in various other organiza- tions and institutions. Although a strong Repub- lican from the formation of the party, Mr. Ames has never sought political office, but has served in various public capacities. He was for thirty years one of the Selectmen of Machias and Chairman of the Board during the latter part of that time, and he was State Senator from Washington county for the four years 1893-6. Among his public services, he fought the old Shore Line Railroad and saved the town of Machias a hundred thousand dollars at one time, and later fought the new Shore Line project and saved the town thirty thousand dollars. Mr. Ames is a sagacious business man, but has a large and generous heart, is very liberal to the poor, and is an ardent promoter of all matters pertaining to the good of his community and the general public. He was married October 7, 1855, to Sarah Albee Sanborn, daughter of Cyrus and Susan Sanborn of East Machias. They have six children : Edwin G., Manager of the Puget Sound Lumber Company, Washington ; Anna M., wife of Fred H. Peavey of Sioux City, Iowa ; Julia P., wife of R. Clinton Fuller of Providence, Rhode Island ; and Frank S., Alfred K. and Lucy T. Ames of Machias.
BELL, DUDLEY JOHNSTON, M. D., Fort Fairfield, was born in Bristol, Carleton county, New Bruns- wick, Canada, June 27, 1863, son of James Arvard and Mary (Crosby) Bell. He comes of Loyalistic
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stock, of English, Scotch and Irish descent. His father was born in 1837 at what is now called Bris- tol, New Brunswick, son of David C. Bell, whose father, William Bell, and mother, Janet Creighton, belonged in Dumfries, Scotland. William Bell came to America about ISIS, when David was fourteen years old. The latter, grandfather of Dr. Bell, in 1830 married Debora Kinney of Shiktahawk (now Bristol), New Brunswick, and settled at that place. Debora Kinney was the daughter of Asa Kinney, whose wife was a Miss Tompkins, and Asa was the son of Israel Kinney, who was born in Ireland and came to Boston, New England, where he married Susan Hurd. He espoused the cause of the Loyal- ists during the Revolutionary War, and when peace was declared, in 1783, went to St. John with his family, and finally settled on the St. John River. His daughter Debora (aunt to the grandmother of Dr. Bell) was the first white child born along the St. John River. Dr. Bell's mother, Mary Crosby, was born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1844, and was married to his father in 1862. She was a de- scendant of Simon Crosby, who came from London to America and settled at Cambridge, Massachu- setts, in 1635. The Revolution separated the Crosby family, and Mary's immediate ancestors went to Nova Scotia after the war. Her father was Moses S. Crosby of Yarmouth, whose parents were Lemuel Crosby and Thankful Saunders. Her mother, Martha Churchill, was a granddaughter of Ephraim Churchill, an officer in the King's army during the War of the Revolution, and who received a grant of four hundred acres of land for his ser- vices. The city of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is built in part over this grant, and the sword of the soldier ancestor is an heirloom in the family. The subject of this sketch was the eldest in a family of six chil- dren - two boys and four girls - viz., Dudley J., Ada G., Wallace E., Mattie Lee, Myrtle C. and Jessie G. Ada survived only until the age of four years, and Jessie died in 1896 at the age of twenty- three ; the mother died in 1893 ; the father and the rest of the family are living and healthy, residing at Bristol, New Brunswick. He acquired his early education in the common schools of New Bruns- wick, and taking up the study of medicine, received his degree of M. D. from the Maine Medical School (Bowdoin College) on June 27, 1838, his twenty- fifth birthday. In the following August he began practice at Fort Fairfield, Aroostook county, where he has followed the active duties of his profession with a fair degree of success to the present time.
Dr. Bell has served as President of the Northern Aroostook Medical and Chirurgical Society for the years 1895-6, also for the same period as Chairman of the Fort Fairfield Board of Health. He is a member of Frontier Masonic Lodge of Fort Fair- field, and President of the local Chautauquan Lit- erary and Scientific Circle. In politics he is not active, preferring the citizenship of private life ; is politically broad-minded, with a leaning towards the party of Prohibition. In 1890 Dr. Bell purchased the ramparts of old Fort Fairfield, of historic fame, and having erected a residence and office thereon, purposes to preserve the ancient earthworks as
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nearly intact as possible. He was married March 10, 1888, to Agnes Miller, of Glassville, Carleton county, New Brunswick.
CARLL, GEORGE B., Town Treasurer and Super- intendent of Schools of Kennebunkport, was born in Buxton, York county, Maine, December 3, 1831, son of George and Eunice (Watts) Carll. His first American ancestor is supposed to have been of Scandinavian origin, and settled in Kittery, Maine, in 1660. His great-grandfather Robert Carll, said to have been a brother of Timothy and son of Lieu- tenant Samuel Carll of Scarboro, was a Selectman of
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