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city at the time of her marriage. Her father was a son of Phineas and Hannah (Clifford) Bean ; and her grandfather Phineas, son of Jonathan and Mary (Leavitt) Bean, was born in Candia, New Hamp- shire, in 1763, but removed to Montville, Maine, in 1808, where he died in 1838. Mr. and Mrs. Drummond have four children : Myra Lucetta ; Josiah Hayden, Jr., associated in the law business with his father, the firm name being Drummond & Drummond ; Tinnie Aubigne, wife of Wilford G. Chapman of Portland, and Margelia Bean Drummond.
DENNIS, CHARLES SELAH, Wharfinger of Consti- tution Wharf, Boston, was born in Rockland, Maine,
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son of Selah G. and Bethiah (Thorndike) Dennis. He was educated at the Hallowell (Maine) Acad- emy and in the public schools of Boston, and in early life followed the sea for twelve years, being mate of a vessel at the age of twenty. Retiring from the sea on account of a depression in shipping in 1879, he started in the warehouse business on Damon Wharf in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After two years he went to Constitution Wharf in Boston, as Assistant Wharfinger, where he continued for a short time, until his acceptance of an offer to take charge of Boston Wharf. He remained in this position six
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years, and in 1889 returned to Constitution Wharf as Wharfinger, which onerous and responsible po- sition he has since held to the present time. Mr. Dennis is a member of the American Warehouse- men's Association, and is considered one of the leading warehousemen of the United States. In politics he is a Republican. He was married November 7, 1877, to Addie Brown Newhall, of Melrose, Massachusetts ; they have two children : Lulie S. and Mildred Dennis.
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GARNER, ALLEN, Treasurer and Agent of the Kezar Falls Woolen Manufacturing Company, Kezar Falls, Parsonsfield, was born in Bedford, England, November 9, 1842, son of William and Amelia (Ashton) Garner. He was the fifth of eight chil- dren, of whom two besides himself are living : John Garner of Lewiston, Maine, and Mrs. Regina Wright of the same city. The father died in England in 1848, and the mother in Lewiston, Maine, in 1895, having survived her husband forty-seven years. In April 1854, Mrs. Amelia Garner, accompanied by her children - John, a youth of twenty years, and Allen and Regina, aged respectively twelve and eight years - arrived in Middlebury, Vermont, where they were welcomed by relatives who had long made that place their home. Here they resided until the following spring, when John, who had early taken the responsibilities of the family upon his shoulders, decided to move to the town, now the city, of Lewiston. Here they built a house on compara- tively wild land, which became the home of the family, and in which, with modern improvements, John Garner still resides. In 1866, Allen Garner, having served in nearly every department of a woolen mill, purchased a carding mill at Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, where he remained two years, returning then to Lewiston, where he was engaged for a few months as overseer of the card-room in the Cowan Woolen Mill. Leaving Lewiston he leased a small woolen mill in Hanover, Oxford county, which was taken down in 1870 and a new One built on the same site, which Mr. Garner pur- chased, taking as partner Isaac Bagnall of Lewis- ton. In 1878, selling out his interest in the woolen mill to his partner, Mr. Garner leased a grist-mill at Locke's Mills, in the same county, which was soon after destroyed by fire. Hearing of a small woolen mill situated at Windham Centre, Cumberland county, he entered into business at that place ; but
in the winter of ISSo that mill was also burned. This was a severe blow, as Mr. Garner had invested all the means at his disposal in the business ;. and one that left its mark upon him, mentally and physically. In April 1881 Mr. Garner was engaged as Superintendent of the new woolen mill at Kezar Falls, York county, the first yard of cloth being woven the following July. Under a protective tariff the business was highly successful and of great benefit to the town. Mr. Garner is now part owner of the concern, acting as Treasurer and Agent, and has closely identified himself with the interests of the town. He is in a high degree a public-spirited
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man, always on the alert to advance the interests of the community, and generous to a fault. He is a man of uprightness and integrity, one whose word is as good as his bond. In politics he is a Republican, and represented the towns of Parsonsfield, Cornish and Newfield in the Legislature of 1885-6. He still continues a member of Rebona Lodge of Lewis- ton ; is a charter member of Kezar Falls Odd Fel- lows Lodge, Parsonsfield; a member of Ossipee Valley Lodge Knights of Pythias, of Porter ; and Lodge Deputy of the Pine Tree State Lodge of Good Templars. He was married June 17, 1865, to Mary D. Jordan, daughter of Captain James Jordan of Sumner, Maine. They have four children living :
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Alice G., Evangeline M., William S. and Florence of law at the Bar of Knox county in 1860, he con- R. Garner. Though deprived of educational advan- tages in his early years, Mr. Garner has made such good use of his spare moments that he is a better read man than many a college graduate, and stands to-day an exponent of the good old maxim, "God helps him who helps himself."
HALL, OLIVER GRAY, Judge of the Superior Court of Kennebec County, was born in South Thomaston, Knox county, Maine, March S. 1834,
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son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Gray) Hall. He is a descendant of Isaac Hall, first son born in this country of an English family of Halls who settled in Boston in the early part of the eighteenth century. His mother was the eldest daughter of Leverett and Rebecca (Sears) Gray, whose ancestors first settled in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He acquired his early education in the common and at private schools, and later at the Maine seminaries of Kent's Hill and Bucksport. Being obliged to hew his way in early life, he began to teach in the public schools at the age of eighteen, and while teaching studied law in the office of the late Judge Peter Thacher, then of Rockland, Maine. Beginning the practice
tinued in very active and successful practice until . 1886 -- from 1871 until the latter date in partner- ship with Albert S. Rice, son of the late Judge Rice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. In 1886, after a tour ot foreign travel for the benefit of his health, he changed his residence to Kennebec county, where be continued his legal practice in Waterville until his appointment by Governor Bur- leigh to succeed Hon. W. P. Whitehouse as Judge of the Superior Court, the latter having been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Judi- cial Court. In 1889 Judge Hall was appointed by the Governor as a member of the Special Tax Com- mission provided for by the Legislature to inquire into the systems of taxation of the several states, with a view to recommending changes in the Maine tax laws. This commission, the other members of which were Hon. John L. Cutler of Bangor and General Samuel J. Anderson of Portland, after a year of diligent research made an exhaustive report to the Governor which was laid before the Legisla- ture of 1891, when several of its leading radical recommendations were adopted - notably its new system of state valuation, and Board of State Asses- sors, with supervision of local assessment and valua- tions. In Rockland, Judge Hall served as City Clerk from 1859 to 1865, member of the School Board 1860-4, City Solicitor for several years, and as a member of the Board of Aldermen ; also as Register of Probate for Knox county 1863-7, Judge of Police Court of Rockland 1870-7, and represented Rockland in the State Legislatures of 1881-2 and 1883-4, in the latter session being House Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and member of the Commission on Revision of the Statutes. Judge Hall has resided in Augusta since 1891. He is a member of Aurora Masonic Lodge, King Solomon Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and Claremont Com- mandery Knights Templar of Rockland; and in Augusta holds membership in the Abnaki Club, Kennebec Historical Society, and the Unity Club, one of the oldest literary societies in the state, of which he has for several years been President. He is also a member of the Maine Historical Society. In politics Judge Hall has always been a Republican. He was married in 1858 to S. Frances White, of Rockland, Maine. They have four children : Edith Frances, now the wife of Jar- vis C. Perry of Rockland; Arthur White, Hattie Vose and Oliver Leigh Hall.
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HERRICK, HORATIO GATES, of Lawrence, Massa- ment. In 1863-5 he was Captain and Provost chusetts, was born in Alfred, York county, Maine, " Marshal of the Sixth Massachusetts District, ap- October 28, 1824, son of Benjamin Jones and Mary (Conant) Herrick. Benjamin J. Herrick was a native of Beverly, Essex county, Massachusetts, and a direct descendant, in the eighth generation, of Henry Herrick, son oi Sir William Herrick of Beau Manor Park, Loughboro', County of Leicester, Eng- land. Henry Herrick, the ancestor of the family in this country, came first to Virginia and thence to Salem, probably in 1629. On the maternal side, the immediate ancestors of the subject of this sketch were also from Essex county, Massachusetts, pointed by the Secretary of War. From this office he was mustered out in October 1865, and in the following November he was elected Sheriff of Essex County, which office he held until January 1893, having had nine successive re-elections. He was a member of the Board of Prison Commissioners of Massachusetts for three years, 1871-4, served as a member of the School Committee of Lawrence for eight years, and has been a member and President of the Board of Trustees of the Lawrence Industrial School from the establishment of that institution in 1874. Mr. Herrick is a charter meniber of Phceni- cian Masonic Lodge, member of Mount Sinai Chap- ter Royal Arch Masons and Bethany Commandery Knights Templar, and has been a member of the Monday Night Club of Lawrence since its organiza- tion in 1872. In politics Mr. Herrick is a Repub- lican. He was married August 23, 1848, to Isabella Sewell Paine, daughter of Hon. John T. and Mary E. R. Paine of Sanford, Maine. Of three children, two died in infancy ; the third, Frederick St. Clair Herrick, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricul- tural College in 1871, died January 19, 1894.
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and were descendants of Roger Conant. Horatio G. Herric .. received his early education in the common schools and academy of his native town, and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill, Readfield. Graduating from Bowdoin College in the class of 1844, he read law with Hon. Nathan D). Appleton of Alfred and John T. Paine of San- ford, Maine, was adnijtted to the Bar in 1847, and was thereafter in the active practice of his pro- fession at North Berwick, Maine, and Boston, Massachusetts, until 1862. In 1862-3 he served as Commissioner of Drafts for Essex county, Massa- chusetts, appointed by Governor John A. Andrew, under an order of the United States War Depart-
HINMAN, GEORGE, Retired Merchant, of Bos- ton, was born in Sullivan, Hancock county, Maine, November 6, 1818, son of George and Flora (Burritt) Hinman. He received his early educa- tion in the district schools of Sullivan. When quite young he was sent to the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, where he remained for three years, graduating from that institution in 1835. From that time until his marriage he assisted in his father's business. Soon after his marriage, Novem- ber 6, 1839, to Maria Curtis Moseley, only daughter of Wm. G. Moseley, merchant of Sullivan, he formed a partnership with his father-in-law under the firm name of Moseley & Hinman, and remained in trade with him for about a year, when Mr. Moseley hav- ing received the appointment of Deputy Collector of Customs for the Port of Sullivan under President William Henry Harrison, Mr. Hinman bought his interest in the business, which was continued quite successfully up to the year 1846. He then sold his stock in trade, his lumber, logs, sawmills, timber- lands, etc., to his father together with Ambrose Simpson and John S. Emery, who formed a part- nership under the firm name of Hinman & Com-
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pany, for the purpose of continuing the trade and the lumber business. In March of the next year, 1847, Mr. Hinman removed to Boston and bought out the old-established ship-chandlery and ship- store business at 43 India street, which had been conducted for many years by Daggett & Company, who were succeeded by J. H. Cheney & Company, and then by Edward Adams, of whom Mr. Hinman purchased the business. He continued the same quite successfully for about ten years, then sold out, and formed a new copartnership with Calvin M. Winch and Otis Hinman, his brother, under the firm name of Hinman, Winch & Company, for the
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purpose of conducting a wholesale flour, grain and produce commission business at 78-80 Commercial street, where he continued for upwards of twenty years. Mr. Winch retiring after five years, the business was continued by Mr. Hinman and brother under the firmi name of Hinman & Company, another partner however, Harry Hinman, a cousin, being admitted to the firm. In the meantime, as a side issue, Mr. Hinman had bought the controlling interest in a large fancy-goods store in St. Louis, Missouri, which continued business under the name of Hinman & Fowle. Mr. Hinman also opened a similar store in Cincinnati, Ohio, a third in Hart- ford, Connecticut, a fourth in Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, and a fifth in Worcester, Massachusetts, all conducted under the firm name of George Hinman & Company. After two years he sold to other parties the St. Louis and Cincinnati business, but retained the Hartford, Springfield and Worcester stores for about ten years, when having relinquished his interest in the firm of Hinman & Company he decided to sell the other stores, which purpose he easily accomplished and then retired from active business. Mr. Hinman was a member of the City Council of Boston for two years, 1862-3, first with Wightman as Mayor, and then under Mayor Fred- eric W. Lincoln, serving on the Water Board, the Committee on Streets and the Finance Committee during that time. He has been for upwards of ten years a member of the corporation of the Franklin Savings Bank, and also of the Five Cents Savings Bank. He has been largely interested in the rubber business, is at present a Director of the Boston Marine Insurance Company, which po- sition he has held since the organization of the company in 1873, and is a member of the Finance Committee of this company. He is also a member of the Pine Tree State Club of Boston. In politics Mr. Hinman has always been a Republican ; in religion, a Unitarian. His first vote was cast for William Henry Harrison. The children of George and Maria C. Hinman are three in number : Georgia Maria, born July 24, 1842, married Hon. Halsey J. Boardman, lawyer, of Boston, November 6, 1862 ; Charles Graham, born October 28, 1844, married Anna S. Gerrish, November 6, 1869 ; and William Moseley, born July 25, 1850, married Georgia W. Nichols, daughter of Curtis C. Nichols, late Treasurer of the Five Cents Savings Bank, Boston, November 6, 1880. William M. Hinman died January 18, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Boardman have two children : Flora Maria, born July 29, 1864, married November 6, 1890, to Rev. T. J. Horner, Pastor of the Independent Congregational Church of Battle Creek, Michigan ; and Emily Isabelle Boardman, born May 30, 1868, unmarried. Mr. and Mrs Horner have two children : Halsey Board- man, born September 17, 1891, and Agnes Hinman Horner, born August 22, 1895. Mr. Hinman has resided in Boston for half a century, the latter half of this time his home having been in the Roxbury District. Mr. Hinman's father, George Hinman senior, was a native of Southbury, Connecticut, a grandson of Colonel Benjamin Hinman of the Revolution, who in 1775 with one thousand men under his command, was ordered to garrison Forts
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Ticonderoga and Crown Point. On the tenth day of August 1776, Colonel Benjamin received a letter from General Washington to march a regiment under his direction immediately to New York, armed and equipped, etc., which service he faith- fully performed, and was stationed at Horse Neck and other places on Long Island Sound. Colone! Hinman was one of thirteen military officers by the name of Hinman, all of Southbury, who were in active service in the Revolutionary War, grading from Generals to Lieutenants. A large number of the same name were also conspicuous in the defence of the Stars and Stripes in the late War of the Rebellion. The first start in life made by George Hinman senior was as a member of the firm of Dunning & Hinman, lumber merchants of New Haven, Connecticut. In 1806, when Mr. Hinman was twenty-four years of age, he was sent by the firm to Maine to procure lumber for their yard in New Haven. He decided to locate in Sullivan, where he made his home for the better part of his life, and soon became extensively engaged in trade, also in the lumber business and in shipbuilding. He was for more than twenty years Postmaster of Sullivan. While serving in that office he was one of the first, if not the very first, to suggest to the Post Office Department that the postage on all letters weighing not over one ounce should be two cents to any distance, in all cases to be prepaid by stamps. He also made several important sugges- tions in regard to postage on other mailable matter, and the franking privilege, which were subsequently adopted by the Department. His correspondence on these subjects with the Postmaster-General was published in full at the time in the Ellsworth (Maine) Herald. Mr. Hinman was a member of the First Legislature of Maine, in 1820, after the state was set off from Massachusetts. In 1812 he visited Southbury once more, and soon aiter, on January 3, 1813, was married to Flora Burritt, daughter of Dr. Anthony Burritt of that town. Dr. Burritt was a cousin of Elihu Burritt, the " Learned Blacksmith." Mr. and Mrs. Hinman raised a family of seven children : Henrietta, born March 2, 1814, married Dr. Jared Fuller of East Corinth, Maine, January 19, 1837 ; Harriet Burritt, born December 24, 1815, married Ambrose Simpson of Sullivan, Feb- ruary 17, 1842 ; George, Jr., born November 6, 1818, married Maria Curtis Moseley of Sullivan, November 6, 1839 ; Mary Ann, born December 13, 1820, married Captain William Franklin, shipmaster, January 30, 1851; Truman, born May 22, 1823, married Anna
Maria Garrett, in Baltimore, Maryland, September 2, 1847 ; Joel, born November 7, 1825, married Jemima C. Dunn in Baltimore, Maryland, Novem- ber 8, 1849 ; Ous, born September 4, 1827, married first Mary Richmond of Derby, Vermont, October 33, 1860, second Marianetta Sibley of Chelsea, Massachusetts, June 10, 1873. Mr. Hinman was a man of marked ability, strict integrity, and very much esteemed and respected by every one in Sullivan and vicinity and wherever known. He died at Sullivan, September 29, 1853, aged seventy-one years. George and his wife Maria C. celebrated their golden wedding seven years ago, at which occasion the aged parents of Mrs. Hinman were present ; in fact Mr. and Mrs. Moseley have made their home with their daughter and son-in-law for more than twenty years. Mr. Moseley and his wife were also natives of Southbury, Connecticut, but resided in Sullivan, Maine, for upwards of thirty years, where he was a country merchant and dealer in Inmber, granite, etc .; he shipped the first cargo of granite ever sent from Sullivan, which town now does an immense traffic in this business. Mr. Moseley removed to Boston in 1854 and entered actively into business as a lumber commission mer- chant. In 1860 he took his son John G. Moseley with him as a partner, and this partnership con- tinued until 1864, when his son retired to enter the firm of A. B. Perry & Company. For two years subsequently Mr. Moseley had for partner Sewall Lord, from Ellsworth, Maine, at the end of which time he retired from the firm, but for a number of years thereafter continued to supply railroads and others with lumber piles, sleepers, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Moseley attained the remarkable ages of ninety- five and ninety-seven years respectively, in perfect health and with all their faculties unimpaired. Mrs. Moseley died October 30, 1895, and Mr. Moseley August 15, 1896, quickly following her who had been his constant companion for seventy-four years. His age was ninety-seven years and nine days ; Mrs. Moseley lacked twelve days of being ninety-five years. This remarkable couple were venerable in a larger sense than is expressed by the mere num- ber of their years ; they were an example of the ideal marriage, always thoughtful of each other, patient, affectionate ; no strife or discord or bitter words ever passed between them: in their case marriage was not a failure. Mr. Moseley's father attained the age of one hundred years and four monthis, and his whole life was passed on the farm where he was born. Hle was a man of eminent
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worth, of sterling integrity, and was held in great estimation by all who knew him.
HEATH, CHARLES, of Malden, Massachusetts, Lumber Manufacturer and General Merchant, retired, was born in Lisbon, Androscoggin county, Maine, November 14, 1817, son of Samuel and Eunice (Berry) Heath. His father, born in Bos- ton in 1771, died in Litchfield, Maine, July 8, 1841, was the son of Major Nathaniel Heath, who was one of the early commanders of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, and took an
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active part in the American Revolution. He was a mason by trade, and was a prominent master builder. He died at the age of eighty, and his remains rest in the Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston, by the side of his wife Mary. Samuel Heath first settled in Brunswick, Maine, about 1797, where he estab- lished a tanyard, and soon after was married to Lydia Elliot, by whom he had two daughters. He subsequently moved to Lisbon, and his wife Lydia having died, he was again married in 1802, to Eunice Berry, daughter of Josiah Berry of Lisbon, a farmer by occupation, and a soldier of the War of 1812. He held the office of Postmaster of Lisbon for twenty-one years. By his second marriage he
had twelve children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the tenth. In 1832 he moved to Litch- field, a farming town adjoining Gardiner on the Kennebec River, where he died at the age of sev- enty years, his wife and seven children surviving him. Charles Heath enjoyed the ordinary common school advantages of the time, but his early educa- tion was more particularly acquired by home in- struction due to the faithful efforts of his father. At the early age of seventeen he engaged in the manufacture of lumber at Damariscotta Mills, Lin- coln county, Maine, where he continued for two years. Then returning to Gardiner, he and his brother Edward rented a mill privilege of Hon. Robert Hallowell Gardiner and carried on lumber manufacturing until about 1841, when Edward went to New Orleans, and Charles sold out his lumber business and moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts. Casting about for employment or business of some kind, he finally decided to charter a schooner to take supplies to Machias, Maine, for the purpose of cutting out spruce piling and wood for the Boston market. He sent a nephew to superintend the work of cutting the timber and getting it to tide- water, and for the cutting and hauling employed the inhabitants of that vicinity. The work was at- tended with much labor ; as there were no wharves in the vicinity, the timber and wood had to be floated in a boom, built for the purpose, to the ves- sel, which lay off upon the flats at low tide, where at high tide there would be a sufficient depth of water to float a full cargo. After a winter's work he found it necessary to hire a wharf for the landing of his lumber and wood. He finally found a vacant wharf at Prison Point, Charlestown, which he hired at a nominal price for the landing of his wood and the dockage of his piling timber. After disposing of his piling to the Boston & Maine Railroad cor- poration, he commenced again in the lumber busi- ness, in a limited way. The Whitneyville Lumber Company, then in liquidation, were looking for someone to handle and dispose of their lumber, and Mr. Heath, having a wharf of sufficient capacity, was appointed the agent of that company. His first cargo of lumber sold for this company, consist- ing of eight hundred thousand feet, was shipped on the ship Albatross to California, consigned to Mac- Condrey & Company, and is believed to be the first cargo of lumber ever shipped around Cape Horn. Mr. Heath has for many years resided in Maklen, and is a member of the First Congregational Church of that city. He is a Freemason, and a
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