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ized the wholesale grain, flour, grocery and coal business how represented by the Swan & Sibley Company in Belfast ; the subsequent changes being the admission of his brother Edward in 1876, making the name Swan & Sibley Brothers, and the retirement of A. Cutter Sibley from the firm in 1877. In 1880 the shoe manufacturing business which eight years before had been established in Belfast on a large scale became dormant from lack of capital ; and in the fall of that year Mr Sibley joined with O. G. Critchett, who had been the man- ager of the manufacturing part of the business since
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its start, and, forming the co-partnership of Crit- chett & Sibley, commenced anew the manufacture of shoes in that city. Starting with no business legacy, and on Mr. Sibley's part with no practical knowledge of the business, a large trade was soon built up in the products of their factory, and a manufacturing industry was established which is now and has been for many years the life and sus- taining force of the city of Belfast. In 1884 the firm name was changed, on the admission of H. l'. Thompson as a partner, to the present style of Critchett, Sibley & Company. Their specialty is boys' shoes. Mr. Sibley has been for many years President of the Belast Board of Trade, is Vice- President of the Maine State Board of Trade, and
is a Director in various business enterprises and corporations. He is President of the Belfast Humane Society, also Treasurer and one of the Board of Managers of the Children's Aid Society of Maine, which has under its especial care the Girls' Home at Belfast, a state-wide institution. In poli- tics Mr. Sibley is a Republican, but has not been inclined to accept political office, although often urged to do so. He has served for three years as a member of the School Committee of Belfast. He married November 7, 1877, Margaret Atherton Ritchie, of Searsport, Maine. They have had two children : Louise Cutter, born October 22, 1880, died September 10, 1881 ; and A Cutter Sibley, Jr., born October 7, 1883, a fine, sturdy boy now attend- ing the Belfast public schools.
SWAN, WILLIAM BATCHELDER, Mayor of Belfast 1879-80, was born in Belfast, May 2, 1825, son of Nathan and Annabella (Poor) Swan. His grand- father, Nathan Swan of Methuen, Massachusetts, whose wife was Lydia Tyler Poor of Andover, Mas- sachusetts, was a son of Deacon Francis and Lydia (Frye) Swan of Andover, grandson of Joshua and Sarah (Ingalls) Swan of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and great-grandson of Robert and Elizabeth (Asie) Swan of Haverhill. Robert's father was Richard Swan, the first of the name of whom we have record in this country ; he was in Boston in 1638, moved thence to Haverhill, and died there in 1678. Wil- liam B. Swan was educated in the public schools of Belfast, and at the age of fifteen entered upon active life as clerk in a general store, in which capacity he continued for fourteen years. In 1854 he formed a copartnership with Colonel Thomas H. Marshall of Belfast, dealing in groceries, grain and flour. This partnership continued until dissolved in 1868, and in 1869 Mr. Swan in association with A. Cutter Sibley established the firm of William B. Swan & Company, wholesale grocers, and jobbers of grain, feed, salt and coal. This business, soon built up to large proportions, was continued, under a change of name in 1887 to Swan & Sibley Brothers, until 1891, when it was incorporated under the present style of The Swan & Sibley Company, of which Mr. Swan has been the President to the present time. Mr. Swan was President of the Belfast Gas Light Company from 1866 to 1890, has been President of the Belfast Light and Power Company from its establishment in 1895, is Presidentof the Merchants'
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they have a daughter : Annabel Swan, now Mrs. Walter B. Kelley of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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native town, and received his training for active life in following the occupations of mechanic and sales- man. He was a manufacturer of scales from 1845 until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion in 1861, when he enlisted and was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company I, Fourth Massachu- setts Infantry. On the seventeenth of April 1861, the Governor of Massachusetts telegraphed Lieu- tenant Stephenson to report to Boston at once. He took the first train for Boston and upon arrival found that the Governor had offered the services of his regiment to President Lincoln, and that the Captain of Company I, not being able to go, had been discharged. The regiment took the train for Fall River that afternoon and Lieutenant Stephen- son went with it in command of his company. Arriving at Fall River the regiment embarked .on the steamer State of Maine and left that night for Fortress Monroe, where they arrived on the nine- teenth. On the passage out, on the eighteenth, Lieutenant Stephenson was elected Captain of Company I. The steamer arrived at Fortress Mon- roe April 19, and the Fourth Massachusetts was the first regiment of Union troops to set foot on Seces- sion soil, Captain Stephenson being the second man ashore. Before the battle of Big Bethel, Captain Stephenson was ordered by General Butler to make an armed reconnoissance of the enemy's position, with two companies of his regiment, and did so, thus making the first armed reconnoissance of the Civil War. During his three months' service, Captain Stephenson also was detailed and served upon the first court-martial of volunteer officers. This court-martial was held in the building now used as the Soldiers' Home, at Hampton, Virginia ; it was then, or had been up to the breaking out of the war, the Hampton Female Institute. At the expiration of the three months for which the regi- ment was called out, Captain Stephenson returned with his regiment to Boston and was mustered out on the twenty-seventh day of July 1861. Not being content with this short service, he imme- diately recruited the first company (A) of the Thirty-second Massachusetts, and was again mus- tered in, November 28, 1861, with the rank of "Captain. The regiment joined the Army of the Potomac at Harrison's Landing in June 1862. As
STEPHENSON, LUTHER, Governor of the Sol- diers' Home, Togus, was born in Hingham, Massa- chusetts, April 25. 1830, son of Luther and Sarah (Hersey) Stephenson. He is descended from John Stephenson, born in England, April 30, 1690, who settled at Cohasset, Massachusetts, about 1715. On the maternal side his American ancestry dates . Captain, he commanded the regiment during Pope's from William Hersey and William Sprague, who campaign, which included the battles of Gaines- ville and Second Bull Run, and was also present at the battles of Antietam and Shepardstown Ford. On August 18, 1862, he was promoted to Major, settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, the former in 1635 and the latter in 1636. He was educated in the common schools and at Derby Academy in his
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and during the fall campaign took part in the Battle of Frede icksburg. Before the close of the war he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and as such commanded the regiment at the Battle of Chancellorsville: Colonel Stephenson was with his regiment in every battle in which it participated until his discharge, and at the Battle of Gettys- burg, July 2, 1862, was severely wounded, and was obliged to return home, but rejoined his regiment in time to participate in the battles of Rappa- hannock Station and Mine Run. His wounds troubled him so much, however, that he was forced to resign, which he did on June 28, 1864. By order of General Grant he was brevetted Colonel and
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Brigadier-General, March 15, 1865. Among the battles in which General Stephenson was engaged were Malvern Hill, Shepardstown Ford, Gaines- ville, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, Three-Days Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomy Swamp, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg on the eighteenth, twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth of June. Following his period of army service General Stephenson held the office of .Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Second District of Massachusetts from November 186; to March 1866, and for the ten years 1865-75
was engaged in the insurance business. From IS75 to 1878 he was Chief of the State Detective Force of Massachusetts, and from 1879 his time was mainly devoted to lecturing on the War of the Rebellion until 1883, when he was appointed Governor of the Eastern Branch National Home for Disabled Volun- teer Soldiers, at Togus, Maine, which position he now holds. General Stephenson is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, also of the Sons of the American Revolution, and in 1862-4 was a member and Master of Warren Army Lodge, Number 10, a Masonic organization. In politics he was a Whig and Conservative until 1864, and since then has been a Democrat to the present time. In 1865-6 he was a candidate for the office of Secretary of State in Massachusetts. He was married January 2, 1853, to Mary Dana Gill, of Hingham, Massa- chusetts ; they have had six children : Albert Leavitt, Sarah, Walter (deceased), Harriet Dexter (deceased), Augustus Thayer (deceased) and Susan Gill Stephenson.
WELD, GAWIN GILMORE, M. D., Mayor of Old- town in 1893, was born in Olamon, Penobscot county, Maine, November 10, 1855, son of Moses and Olive (Comstock) Weld. He is a descendant of Joseph Weld, who arrived in New England in 1638. He received his general education in the common schools, and at the East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport, of which institution he is a graduate. Adopting the profession of medicine, he went to Oldtown in 1880 and matriculated with Dr. Samuel Bradbury, under whose direction he studied for three years. After pursuing medical studies at the Maine Medical School at Brunswick, the School of Anatomy and Surgery at Philadel- phia, and Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, New Hampshire - from which two latter schools he holds diplomas - he returned and entered upon the active duties of his profession at Oldtown in Decem- ber 1883. Dr. Weld has been frequently called upon to be a candidate for public office, but in all instances has refused, excepting only those pertain- ing to municipal affairs, to which he has devoted much personal time and labor. He was elected and served as Mayor of the city of Oldtown for the municipal year 1893-4. For several years, as a frequent contributor to the newspapers, and as editor of the Oldtown Herakl and Herald-News, he
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has materially assisted in the promotion of the in- dustrial growth of Oldtown, and the improvement of the general sanitary condition of the city. He is closely identified with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of Star in the East Lodge of Oldtown,
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Mount Moriah Royal Arch Chapter and St. John's Commandery Knights Templar of Bangor, Maine Consistory of Portland and Kora Shrine of Lewis- ton. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order United Workmen. In politics he is Independent. He was married September 16, 1882, to Fannie E. Comins, of Oldtown; they have two children : Moses Waldo and Edith Claire Weld.
NASH, WILLIAM B., President and General Man- ager of the Star Publishing Company, Rockland, was born in Cherryfield, Washington county, Maine, April 20, 1872, son of William M. and Caroline J. (Moore) Nash. He is a grandson of James Walker Moore, who was one of the pioneer lumber kings of Eastern Maine, a resident of Cherryfield. His father, William M. Nash, has now very large lumber
interests in Washington county, and has taken a prominent part in Maine politics for several years. He was educated in the public schools of Cher- ryfield, Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville, Maine, and Colby University. He had an early inclination towards journalism, and was a news- paper correspondent while in college and after- wards, doing also considerable special literary work, and taking courses of study to fit him for such a career. At the age of twenty-one, in 1893, he moved to Rockland, where he formed and became chief owner in the Star Publishing Company, pub- lishers of the Rockland Daily Star, a straight Re- publican paper, which in the first year of its existence obtained a large circulation and filled a want long felt by the people of Knox and Lincoln counties. Mr. Nash has been President of the company from its organization, and since October 1895 has also occupied the position of Business Manager. He is
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a member of Rockland Masonic Lodge of Rock- land, and in college was a member of the D. K. E. fraternity. In politics he is a Republican. Besides his newspaper business, Mr. Nash has quite large lumber interests in Washington county. He was married December 4, 1895, to Mand L. Smith, of Machias, Maine.
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BAXTER, JAMES PHINNEY, Mayor of Portland, was born in Gorham, Maine, March 23, 1831, son of Dr. Elihu and Sarah (Cone) Baxter. His father, who was a physician, moved to Portland and engaged in practice in 1840, where the son, then nine years old, entered the public schools. Subse- quently he took a course of instruction at the Lynn (Massachusetts) Academy, then under the manage- ment of Principal Bachelder, and afterwards return- ing to Portland he continued his studies at the old Portland Academy, supplementing his education with a comprehensive course of instruction in ancient and modern languages. For several years following the completion of his educational course he was engaged in study and in literary work for various publications, at the same time having in view the legal profession for a life work. To accomplish this purpose he went to Boston with the intention of entering the law office of Rufus Choate, the then eminent jurist, but owing to deli- cate health was forced to undertake a more active life. Therefore, in 1859, he established, with a friend, an agency for American and foreign manu- factures, which became a large and lucrative enter- prise. Two years later, in the early days of the Civil War, there being a considerable demand for hermetically-sealed provisions for use in the army and navy, the Portland Packing Company was formed, which by enterprising and efficient man- agement finally assumed the vast proportions that have made the name of the company famous throughout the world. Mr. Baxter's exceptional ability for handling large business interests has led him into many other enterprises more or less im- portant, in which he has been uniformly successful. His especial skill in finance has made his counsel and services sought after by some of the leading financial institutions of his city, and he is President of the Merchants National Bank, a Trustee of the Portland Savings Bank, and Vice-President of the
Portland Trust Company, of which he is one of the original Directors. In 1893 Mr. Baxter was elected Mayor of Portland, to which office he has been successively four times re-elected. Early in his first term he donated his official salary of two thousand dollars to the School Board to establish a
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Manual Training School for Boys, and his public- spirited generosity has manifested itself by frequent and bountiful gifts to the city, chief among which is the beautiful Public Library Building on Congress street. Mayor Baxter has always been active and prominent in charitable work, has been President of the Portland Provident Association, is a Director of the Maine Industrial School and President of the Portland Benevolent Society, and is also the
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founde. of the Portland Associated Charities, an outgrowth of his interest in the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston. In literature, his favorite study and recreation, his especial labor of love is found in historical research, his labors in this field for many years having been active and incessant, and their results most valuable. In 1885-6 he spent the greater part of his time during a pro- longed visit to Europe in researches in public and private archives, which resulted in the collection of a large number of rare manuscripts, many of which he has published. The following are among the most important of his publications : -
LAUS LAUREATI. A poem delivered before the Maine Historical Society on the celebration of Longfellow's seventy- fifth birthday. Portland, 1882, Stephen Berry, pp. S.
A GREETING TO THE MENTOR. A Poem delivered on the eighty-fourth birthday of Professor Packard, Longfellow's Tutor. Portland, ISS3. Reprinted in the Maine Historical Quarterly, Portland, October 1890.
THE GREAT SEAL OF NEW ENGLAND. Cambridge, 1884. pp. 29, 2 engravings.
IDYLS OF THE YEAR. Poems. Portland, Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1884. pp. 75, 3 engravings.
THE TRELAWNY PAPERS. Portland, Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1884. pp. 520, 19 engravings.
GEORGE CLEEVE AND HIS TIMES. Portland, Gorges So- ciety, 1885. pp. 240, 5 maps and engravings.
THE BRITISH INVASION FROM THE NORTH. Albany, Mun- sell (Historical Series), 1887. pp. 512, 4 engravings.
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF MAINE, Vol. 4. Portland, Maine Historical Society, ISS9. pp. 508.
EARLY VOYAGES TO AMERICA. Providence, R. I., Histori- cal Society, 1889. pp. 49, 4 engravings.
A PERIOD OF PERIL. Portland, 1889, pp. IS.
SIR FERDINANDO GORGES AND HIS PROVINCE OF MAINE. Boston, Prince Society, 1890. pp. 904 (3 vols.), 10 engrav- ings.
THE ABNAKIS. New England Magazine, Boston, Septem- ber 1890. pp. 30.
REMINISCENCES OF A GREAT ENTERPRISE. Portland, IS90. Pp. 19.
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PEQUAKETS. Its causes and its results. Portland, IS90. - pp. 35.
THE BEGINNINGS OF MAINE. Portland, IS91. pp. 27.
CHRISTOPHER LEVETT. Portland, 1891. pp. 35.
A LOST MANUSCRIT. Portland, 1891. pp. 30.
ISAAC JOGUES, A. D. 1636. New York, IS91. pp. S.
THE ABNAKIS AND THEIR ETHNIC RELATIONS. Portland, 892. pp. 30.
THREE SUGGESTIVE. MAPS. Portland, 1892. pp. 8.
CHRISTOPHIER LEVETT OF YORK. The Pioneer Colonist of Casco Bay. Portland, Gorges Society, 1893. pp. 166, 5 engravings.
THE OBSERVATORV. Illustrated Poem. Portland, 1893. PP. 29.
THE PRESENT STATUS OF PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERY. Washington, D. C., 1894. pp, 8.
THE PIONEERS OF NEW FRANCE IN NEW ENGLAND. Albany, Munsell (Historical Series), 1894. pp. 450. 5 engravings.
RALEIGH'S LOST COLONY. New England Magazine. Bos- ton, January 1895. pp. 23. Illustrated.
Mr. Baxter was an early contributor to the New York Home Journal, Shillaber's Carpet Bag, Godey's Ladies' Book and other of the pioneer literary monthlies, has written a number of poems of recognized merit, and has read numerous papers on historical and other subjects before the various societies of which he is an active and valuable member. He is President of the Portland Public Library and the Maine Historical Society ; a Vice- President of the New England Historic Gen- ealogical Society of Boston; a member of the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mas- sachusetts ; the Old Colony Historical Society of Taunton, Massachusetts ; the Rhode Island Histor- ical Society ; the American Historical Society of Washington, and the Portland Society of Natural History. In politics Mr. Baxter has always been a staunch Republican, broad-minded and liberal, never offensively partisan. His whole career has been eminently honorable, useful and successful, and his record is alike creditable to himself, his city and his state. He has been twice married - namely : to Sarah K. Lewis, September 18, 1854, and to Mehetabel C. Proctor, April 2, 1873. His children, in the order of their birth, are as follows : Florence L., born July 20, 1855 ; Hartley C., July 19, 1857 ; Clinton L., June 29, 1859; Eugene R., January 12, 1862 ; Mabel, May 17, 1865 ; James P., Jr., February 27, 1867 ; Alba, May 9, 1869 ; Rupert H., July 26, 1871 ; Emily P., July 15, 1874 ; Perci- val P., November 22, 1876, and Madeleine C. Bax- ter, born January 26, 1879.
BARRON, GEORGE, Lawyer, Brunswick, was born in Topsham, Sagadahoc county, Maine, July 4, 1824, son of John and Martha (Crockett) Barron. His paternal grandfather, Jotham Barron, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, in 1750, served in the Continental army during the Revolutionary War until honorably discharged at its close, and in 1796 removed to the town of Danville, Androscoggin county, Maine. His grandfather on the maternal side, Samuel Crockett, was born in Danville, Maine, and moved to Stetson, l'enobscot county, about the year 1800, beiore the incorporation of the town.
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The section was then a wilderness, and he pur- chased land from Amasa Stetson of Dorchester, Massachusetts, for whom the town was named, where he created a fine farm on which he lived and died, "and reared a family of five sons and one daughter. John Barron, father of George, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, in 1792, removed to Danville, Maine, with his parents in 1796, and at the age of twenty-one came to Topsham, establishing himself there permanently with his family in 1820. He was extensively engaged in lumbering and navigation, and died April 10, 1860. The subject of this sketch received his early educa- tion in the common schools and under private in-
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struction. In 1846 he went South, to New Orleans, where he was a clerk in a grocery and commission house until 1847, when he went to Columbus, Ken- tucky, and engaged in the grocery and commission business. He returned to Maine in 1849, but con- tracting the California fever of that year, he went to the Pacific Coast, where he was an Inspector in the San Francisco Custom House, and also engaged in mining and other pursuits for several years, again returning to Maine in 1853. Deciding to enter the legal profession, he became a student in the office of the late Judge Barrows of Brunswick, and in 1858 was admitted to the Bar, since which time he has practiced law actively and continuously in Bruns-
wick, having his residence in Topsham. In 1854 he served as Clerk of Courts of Sagadahoc County, appointed by Governor Crosby upon the organiza- tion of the county. In the years 1873 and 1875 he was a member of the Maine Legislature, represent- ing the classed towns of Topsham, Bowdoinham and West Bath. Mr. Barron is a member of the Society of California Pioneers of New England. In politics he was originally a Whig, and upon the dissolution of that party went into the Democratic organization, with which he affiliated until 1862, when he joined the Republican party, of which he has since been a member. Among the memories that Mr. Barron cherishes is that of having been at one time a fellow-boarder with Edgar Allan Poe - in New York, in the summer of 1845. He was married December 25, 1856, to Caroline A. Ridley, of Topsham ; they have had nine children : John (deceased), Frank, Caroline, Eugenia (deceased), Martha, George (deceased), Harry, Charles and Annie Louise Barron.
BRASTOW, THOMAS EDWIN, Treasurer of the Rockport Ice Company, Rockport, was born in Brewer, Penobscot county, Maine, August 14, 1835, son of Brazier and Maria (Sampson) Brastow. His ancestry is English on both sides. On the paternal side he is descended from Thomas Brastow (1), who settled in Bristol, Rhode Island, and moved to Wrentham, Massachusetts, about 1700 ; he died quite early (probably), leaving a widow and several children. From the eldest son Thomas (2), through his grandson Thomas (3) and great- grandson Thomas (4), came Brazier (5), youngest child of the last named, and Thomas E. (6), eldest of Brazier's eight children. His grandfather, the fourth Thomas, removed from Wrentham to Orring- ton, Maine, where he bought a farm which is now in possession of the family, and died there April 28, 1810 ; he filled various public offices, both civil and military, and at one time held a commis- sion as Major in the Massachusetts Militia. His father was born in what is now Brewer, adjoining Orrington, April 10, 1805, and lived in that town by far the greater part of his life, and died in Orrington, in the house built by his father, October 26, 1889, at the age of eighty-four years; he was one of the earliest members of the old Liberty party, in the days when it was decidedly unpopular, and was a conductor on the so-called Underground
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Railroad. On the mother's side the subject of this sketch is descended from Abraham Sampson, who came over soon after the Mayflower company, of which his brother Henry was a member. Abraham settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, which appears to have been the home of Mrs. Brastow's branch of the family 'until her father, Constant Sampson, moved to Kingston, Massachusetts, where she was born September 30, 1808. She came to East. Machias, Maine, and afterwards to Brewer with a sister, where she was married to Brazier Brastow, October 30, 1833. She lived to rear a family of eight children, all of whom reached mature life, and died in Brewer, April 15, 1893, at eighty-four
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