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un''l the age of fourteen, and for the next four years attended Bridgton Academy at North Bridg- ton, meanwhile engaged in farm work summers, and bý this means defraying the expenses of his academic course. Entering Bowdoin College in the fall of 1852, he remained at that institution for two years and then transferred to Vale, where he was graduated in 1856. Among his classmates at Yale were many men who have since become dis- tinguished in public life, among them being Asso- ciate Justices Brown and Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, and Chauncey M. Depew. Returning home after graduation he studied law with Hon. D. R. Hastings in Lovell and with Fes- senden & Butler in Portland, and was admitted to the Bar in 1858. Striking out into the West, he commenced practice in Anoka, Minnesota, where he remained for a year, when at the earnest solicitation of his only brother, Simeon Colby Walker, he re- turned home and shortly after established a law office in Fryeburg. In 186t he succeeded to the practice of his former preceptor, Mr. Hastings, at Lovell, where he carried on a successful business for about twenty years. In 1881 he removed to Bridgton, where he has since made his home, con- tinuing in the active practice of his profession, with a large and always increasing clientage. In 1891 his nephew, Edwin Colby Walker, was admitted to partnership, and the business of the office has since been conducted under the firm name of A. H. & E. C. Walker. Mr. Walker served as Judge of Probate of Oxford County, by appointment and election, from 1868 to 1881, and was a member of the Maine Senate from that county during the biennial session of 1881-2, being Chairman of the Gubernatorial Committee and the Committee on Legal Affairs. In 1894 he was elected President of the Bridg- ton Savings Bank, which position he at present holds. He is identified with the Masonic fra- ternity, holding membership in the several bodies from Pythagoras Lodge of Fryeburg to St. Albans Commandery Knights Templar of Portland. In politics Mr. Walker has always been a Republican, since casting his first Presidential vote for Fremont. He was first married October 1, 1863, to Mary E. Thurston, of Bangor, Maine, who died March 28, 1873, leaving one child, Alice Thurston Walker, born October 12, 1865, died August 28, 1876. In 1881, November 25, he was a second time married, to Mrs. Emma Thurston Wood, widow of Charles Wood, and a sister of his first wife ; there are no children.
WHEELER, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, M. D., Castine, was born in Standish, Cumberland county, Maine, July 26, 1837, son of Amos Dean and Louisa A. (Warren) Wheeler. He is a descendant in the fifth generation from John and Priscilla Alden. His American ancestral line on the paternal side is derived from (1) George Wheeler, through (2) Thomas, (3) Thomas, (4) Thomas, (5) Amos, (6) Amos and (7) Amos Dean Wheeler; and on the maternal side, from (1) Ebenezer Warren, through (2) Elijah and (3) Louisa A. Warren. His great- grandfather, Amos Wheeler, married Mary Belcher Henshaw, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bass) Henshaw ; Elizabeth Bass was daughter of Samuel
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and Mary (Alden) Bass; and Mary Alden was daughter of the historic John and Priscilla. George A. Wheeler acquired his early education in the town schools of Topsham, Maine, and at Topsham Acad- emy, and graduated at Bowdoin College as B. A. in 1856. Following graduation he attended two courses of lectures at Harvard Medical School, and received his degree of M. D. at the Maine Medical School, Bowdoin College, in 1859; also receiving in the same year the degree of A. M. from that institution. At once commencing prac- tice at Falmouth, Cumberland county, Maine, he soon removed to Orland, Hancock county, where he practiced until September 1861. He then went
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to Presque Isle, Aroostook county, where he prac- ticed uz:2 July 1862, when he enlisted in the War for the Union and was mustered into the Eighteenth Maine Regiment as Sergeant in Company G. Pro- ceeding to Washington, in October following he was mustered out of the regiment and commissioned Assistant Surgeon of United States Volunteers, and a few weeks later was appointed to take charge of the United States General Hospital at Annapolis Junction, Maryland. In March 1864, as Surgeon, he was ordered to the Army of the Potomac and placed in charge of the Depot Field Hospitals of the Ninth Army Corps. In the course of the fo !- lowing summer he was ordered to the front, and at different times thereafter served in the Ninth Army Corps as Medical Director of a Division, Medical Inspector of Hospitals, Surgeon in Charge of Fly- ing Hospitals, and temporarily as Medical Director of the Corps. When the army entered Petersburg he was put in charge of all the Confederate hospi- tals there, but owing to a change in the military command of the place was relieved and ordered to Burksville Junction, Virginia, and put in charge of the transportation of the wounded to City Point. After Lee's surrender he was ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there to the hospital at Jeffer- sonville, Indiana, where he remained until mustered out in July 1865. After leaving the army Dr. Wheeler practiced his profession for a short time at Alberton, Maryland, then went to Washington, where he was employed as a Surgeon by the Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen, and had charge of the hospital at Arlington for a year, at the expiration of which he was transferred to Washington city. A year later he was stationed at Campbell Hospital in Washington as Assistant Surgeon. In 1868 he came to Topsham, Sagadahoc county, Maine, to practice, but remained there only a short time, removing to Oldtown, Penobscot county, where he was in prac- tice until 1870, when he moved to Castine, where he has since resided and practiced. Dr. Wheeler was appointed Assistant Surgeon of United States Volunteers on October 4, 1862 ; Surgeon, March 30, 1864 ; and Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, June 1, 1865. He is a member of the Maine Medical Association and the Maine Historical Society, and has filled the chair of President of the Hancock County Medical Association. He is also a member of Hancock Masonic Lodge and Hancock Chapter Royal Arch Masons, was District Deputy Grand Master of the Fourth Masonic District 1882-4 and 1890-1, and hokls membership in Massasoit Lodge
of Odd Fellows, Hancock Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, and Charles H. Stevens Post Grand Army of the Republic. In politics he is a Repub- lican, but has never had any political aspirations. He was Chairman of the School Committee of Cas- tine from :875 to 1887 and again in 1890, and has served as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen from 1892 to the present time. Besides occasional arti- cles contributed to various medical and historical journals and societies, Dr. Wheeler in 1874 com- piled the " History of Castine, Brooksville and Penobscot"; and in 1876, in conjunction with his brother Henry, now deceased, the " History of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine." He has also recently issued from the press a book entitled "Castine -- Past and Present." Dr. Wheeler was married February 17, 1864, to Mrs. Margaret Lavinia Dorsey, daughter of John F. and Elizabeth Haver- cötter of Maryland. They have had seven children : Louise, married to Boyd Bartlett of Ellsworth, Maine ; Mary Charlotte, deceased; Katherine Irene, deceased ; George Dean ; Harvey Haskell, deceased ; and Clarence Albion Wheeler ; also his wife's adopted daughter, Elizabeth Dorsey, who took the name of Wheeler, and married Frederic Ï .. Smith of Waterboro, Maine.
ABBOTT, STEPHEN IRISH, Agent of the Lock- wood Cotton Mills, Waterville, was born in Frye- burg, Oxford county, Maine, March 31, 1822, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Irish) Abbott. His an- cestors came from England and located at Andover, Massachusetts, whence his paternal grandfather moved to Fryeburg, Maine, where with two brothers he had received a large grant of land. His grandfather Isaac Abbott fought through the War of 1812, entering the army when only sixteen years old, taking the place of an uncle who had been drafted. He was educated in the common schools of his native town and at Fryeburg Acad- emy, and after completing his academic course learned the trade of blacksmith. Subsequently he learned the machinist trade, and in 1843 entered the employ of the York Manufacturing Company, in their cotton mills at Saco. Shortly afterwards, upon the completion of the Androscoggin Cotton Mill at Lewiston, he assumed full charge of the mechanical department of that mill, where he con- tinued until appointed Agent of the Continental Mills at Lewiston in 1866. Thence, in 1872, he
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;ent to Riverpoint, Rhode Island, as Agent of the Riverpoint Manufacturing Company, where he re- mained until May 1875, when he was appointed Agent of the Lockwood Company at Waterville. This position, as the local head and Resident Man- ager of the company's mills, which are among the largest and best equipped cotton manufacturing plants of New England, he still holds. Mr. Abbott's business abilities and personal qualities have been recognized and called into service in public as well as in private affairs, and he has served as Councilman in the second City Govern- ment of Biddeford, as Alderman in the first City
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Government of Lewiston, and as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen in Waterville for the three years 1879-81. Politically, he was born a Demo- crat, but since casting his Presidential vote for Franklin Pierce in 1853 has been a Republican. Mr. Abbott was married in March 1848 to Ruth L. Knight ; they have four children : Amos F., Martha A., Mary E., and William H. K. Abbott, the latter now Superintendent of the Lockwood Mills, under his father.
BEANE, FRED EMERY, Mayor of Hallowell in 1891, was born in Readfield, Kennebec county, Maine, May 14, 1853, son of Emery Oliver and Elizabeth Hunton (Craig) Beane. His parents
were natives and life-long residents of Readfield, and his immediate ancestors on both sides were among the earliest settlers of that town, his pater- nal progenitors being of Scotch and the maternal of English descent. His great-great-grandfather, Joshua Beane, was of the fourth generation in America from his Scotch ancestor ; he was born in Brentwood, New Hampshire, in 1741, and came to Readfield in 1784, where he died in 1814. Elisha Beane, eldest son of Joshua, was born in Brent- wood, September 10, 1764; his fifth child was Oliver Beane, born in Readfield, November 15, 1797, father of Emery Oliver Beane, born in that place September 10, 1819, whose second son is the subject of this sketch. Fred Emery Beane re- ceived his early education in the common schools, fitted for college at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary in his native town and at Westbrook (Maine) Sem- inary, and entered Tufts College in the class of 1875. Immediately after leaving college he studied law for two years in the office of his father, who was a lawyer of Readfield, and was admitted to the Bar of Kennebec county at the August term of the Supreme Judicial Court at Augusta in 1876. Upon admission to the Bar he entered into a law copart- nership with -his father, under the firm name of Beane & Beane, which has continued to the present time. In 1879 he removed to Hallowell, since which time the firm has continued its law business in that city and Readfield, and also for the past two years in a third office in the city of Gardiner in the same county. The business of the firm has been quite large and successful, and for several years has been actively conducted in the courts by the junior member, who is known as an industrious, careful and painstaking lawyer. His reliance for success in the trial of cases has always been more upon the facts of the case, drawn from witnesses by candid and searching examination, and upon brief and terse statements of the law, than upon long and labored arguments. He was admitted to practice in the United States Courts in 1886. Mr. Beane has been locally prominent in public life, and has served in various important offices. He was Town Clerk of Readfield in 1876, was City Solicitor of Hallo- well for the seven years 1879-85, was a member of the Common Council in 1882 and of the Board of Aldermen in 1883, and Mayor of the city in 1891. Since i888 he has been a member and Secretary of the State Democratic Committee. In politics he was an earnest and active Democrat before his con- nection with the State Committee, and he has since
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been especially zealous and persistent in upholding -- and promoting the principles and interests of that party. Aggressive and independent, strong in his beliefs, whether in politics, religion or morals, he has the courage of his convictions, and never fails to independently avow them when occasion re- ' quires. Although an active political worker, his efforts have been more for the official promotion and preferment of others than for himself. His taste for society and club associations is indicated by his membership in the Theta Delta Chi, com- mencing with his first college year, and by his affili- ations and official connections with various frater-
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nal orders. He is Past Master of Kennebec Masonic Lodge, Past Noble Grand of Sanborn Lodge of Odd Fellows, Past Chancellor of Granite Lodge Knights of Pythias, Past Master Workman of Crescent Lodge Ancient Order United Work- men, Past Sachem of Cobbosseecontee Tribe Im- proved Order of Red Men, and Court Deputy of Annabessacook Court Independent Order of For- esters, all of Hallowell; is also Past Chief Patri- arch of Jephtha Encampment, member of Canton Augusta, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also member of King Company Knights of Pythias, of Augusta ; was Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias in 1891, and was unani-
mously elected Supreme Representative by the Grand Lodge for the term 1895-6. Mr. Beane's home attachments are strong. He was united in marriage September 14, 1876, with Orella Griffin McGilvery, daughter of Captain Henry McGilvery of Belfast, Maine. This union has been blessed with four children : Charles Eugene Hill, Bessie Craig, Eleanore McGilvery and Emery Oliver Beane.
BOLSTER, SOLOMON ALONZO, Justice of the Municipal Court of the Roxbury District of Boston, was born in Paris, Oxford county, Maine, December 10, 1835, son of Gideon and Charlotte (Hall) Bolster. He is a descendant of Isaac Bol- ster, who came from England and settled in Uxbridge, Worcester county, Massachusetts, and whose son Isaac was an officer in the Revolu- tionary War. The latter, who was the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one of the minute men who marched to Concord, April 19, 1775, serving as Lieutenant in Captain Put- nam's company. At the close of the war he moved to Paris, Maine, of which town he was one of the first settlers. Solomon A. Bolster acquired his general education in the public schools and at the Oxford Normal Institute in his native town. He graduated at Harvard Law School in the class of 1859, was admitted to the Maine Bar at Paris in 1858, to the Missouri Bar in Palmyra in 1860, and to the Suffolk Bar at Boston in April 1862. Since entering upon active life he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession as lawyer, for the last thirty-three years in Boston. In April 1885 he was appointed Justice of the Municipal Court for the Roxbury District of the City of Boston, in which office he has continued to the present time. Judge Bolster served in the Civil War, as a Lieutenant in the Twenty-third Maine Regiment of Volunteers. In June 1867 he was appointed Judge- Advocate, with rank of Captain, in the First Brigade of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia ; was com- missioned in March 1870 as Assistant Inspector- General with rank of Major in the same brigade ; and in August 1876 was commissioned Assistant Adjutant-General, with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, in that brigade. He is a member and Past Con- mander of Thomas G. Stevenson Post in the Grand Army of the Republic, and member of the Massa- chusetts Commandery in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He is promi-
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- nently identified with the Masonic fraternity, being Fast Master of Washington Lodge, Past High Priest of Mount Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, Past Master of Roxbury Council Royal and Select Masters, and Past Commander of Joseph Warren Commandery Knights Templar ; is a Thirty-second Degree Mason. in the Scottish Rite; has been District Deputy of the Fourth Masonic District and District Deputy High Priest of the First District, and is a member ~ of the Grand Chapter. He is also a member of the Pine Tree State Club of Boston. Mr. Boister is a strong Republican in politics, but has never accepted any political office. He was married
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October 30, 1864, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Sarah Jane Gardner, then of Cambridge, formerly of Dixfield, Maine. They have five children : Percy Gardner, born August 20, 1865; Wilfred, born September 13, 1866; May Morrill, born July 20, 1872 ; Stanley Marshall, born March 21, 1874, and Roy Hale Bolster, born April 6, 1877.
BOLSTER, WILLIAM WHEELER, Mayor of Auburn in 1893, was born in Rumford, Oxford county; Maine, July 6, 1823, son of Alvan and Cynthia ( Wheeler) Bolster. He is a great-grandson of Isaac Bolster, who came to this country from Eng-
land, soon after he attained his legal majority, and settled in Sutton, Massachusetts, thence removing to Hebron, Oxford county, Maine. He served as Captain in the Revolutionary army, and with the same rank in the War of 1812. Two of his sons, Isaac and David, settled in Paris, Maine, where the former married Hannah Cushman, a descendant of Robert Cushman of the Mayflower. General Alvan Bolster, father of the subject of our sketch, was the eldest son of this marriage. He was born in Paris, Maine, December 7, 1895, was a resident of Rum- ford during most of his life, and was often in town office. He served as Representative to the Legis- lature three years, and was twice elected State Senator, was interested in military affairs, and was an active Free Mason. In politics he was an ardent Republican, and when the Southern States seceded, in 1861, he advocated the War for the restoration of the Union at whatever cost. But he did not live to see the glorious result, his death occurring December 8, 1862. General Bolster was married January 4, 1821, to Cynthia Wheeler, daughter of Colonel William Wheeler, a leading business man of Kumford. Mrs. Bolster was an excellent wife and mother, performing faithfully her duties to her family, to the Christian church, and to the commun- ity in which she lived ; she died in Poland, Maine, September 26, 1879. William W. Bolster, the eldest son in their family of three sons and five daughters, received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and the Bethel (Maine) and Peachanı (Vermont) academies, where he fitted for college, teaching in various towns in Maine and Ver- mont during his academic vacations. In February 1845 he commenced the study of law with Isaac Ran- dall, Esq., and Hon. C. W. Walton (subsequently Judge Walton of the Supreme Judicial Court), at Dix- field, Maine. In March 1846 he entered the middle class of Harvard Law School, from which he gradu- ated as LL. B. in August 1847. He was admitted to the Bar in 1846, at the April term of the Supreme Judicial Court in Portland, and soon after gradua- tion from the law school he entered upon active professional duties in East Rumford, continuing there until October 1852, when he moved to Dix- field, where he practiced his profession for the next twenty years, as senior member respectively of the law firms of Bolster & Ludden, Bolster & Richard- son and Bolster & Wright. From 1861 to 1867 he was County Attorney for Oxford County. While living in Rumford and Dixfield he served several terms in each town as a member of the Superintend
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ing School Committee. In 1871 he compiled the "Tax Collector and Form Book," and in ISSo the "Tax Collector's Book," both now in general use throughout the state. In connection with these works he compiled an " Invoice and Valuation Book," a "Tax Collector's Book " and a " Highway
- Surveyor's Book," for the use of town officials. Since the adoption of the Revised Statutes of 1883, these books have been revised by the author. In May 1848 Mr. Bolster received an appointment as clerk in the office of the Secretary of State at Au- gusta, which position he held by annual reappoint- ment until 1858, with the exception of a single year. During two'sessions of the Legislature he discharged
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the duties of Miscellaneous Clerk, and throughout six other sessions he had charge as Engrossing Clerk of the engrossing department ; when the Statutes of Maine were revised in 1857, the engrossment of the revised code was under his supervision. For a year and a half he served as Commission Clerk, which office he resigned in May 1858 on account of ill health. In September 1868 he was elected State Senator from Oxford county, was re-elected in 1869, and in 1870 was chosen President of the Senate. In the first of these Senatorial terms he served on the committees upon Judiciary, Claims, Governor's Message, Appropriations and Engrossed Bills. In October 1872 Mr. Bolster removed to
Auburn, where he formed a partnership with A. M.
Pulsifer, with their law office in Lewiston. In January 1873 he was appointed State Bank Exam- iner by Governor Perham, and was reappointed in February 1876 by Governor Connor, holding the office for six years. In January 1883 he was elected to the Executive Council under Governor Robie, for two years, serving on the standing committees on Warrants, Taxation, Expenditures, the Reform School, Insane Hospital, Indian Affairs and the Library. In February 1885 he was appointed by Governor Robie a Trustee of the Maine Reform School, and was re-appointed by Governor Burleigh in February ISS9, holding the office for eight years. Mr. Bolster was an Alderman in the City Govern- ment of Auburn in 1877-8, and for three years fol- lowing was City Solicitor. In 1893 he served as Mayor of Auburn, having been elected on the Citizens' ticket by a very large majority. The issue was the municipal ownership of the water system of the city, the Legislature having empowered the city to purchase it of the corporation owning it. Since August 1878 Mr. Bolster has been President of the Little Androscoggin Waterpower Company, which owns and operates the Barker Cotton Mill in that city ; and at the organization of the American Banking and Trust Company of Auburn - which was organized under the name of the Maine Mort- gage Loan Company -he was made President of that institution, which office he now holds. Mr. Bolster has always taken an active interest in mili- tary affairs. In 1849 he was elected and commis- sioned First Lieutenant in Company A of the Riflemen of Rumford, of the Second Brigade in the Sixth Division of Maine Militia. In 1861 he was promoted to the Captaincy of the company, and served in that capacity until he resigned and was honorably discharged in April 1862. In October 1864 he was appointed to the office of Division Advocate on the staff of Major-General William Wirt Virgin (the late Judge Virgin), commanding the Third Division of the State Militia. This post he held during General Virgin's term of office, and up to the re-organization of the citizen soldiery of Maine. He was admitted to the Third Degree in Free Masonry in 1856, in Oriental Star Lodge of Rumford, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Maine. He has been active in the interests of temperance reform, ever since he became identified with the Sons of Temperance in 1846. In religion he is a Universalist, and in politics a Republican. He was a member and took an active part in the
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memorable (Oxford) county convention of August .852, composed of Anti-slavery Democrats, Free- soilers and Whigs, which met at Norway and formed the organization that adopted the title of Republican Party, and nominated a full set of county officers. Mr. Bolster was married October 15, 1848, to Martha Hall Adams, daughter of Dr. Joseph Adams of Rumford, who bore him six children : Clara M., Bion A., Mary J, Alvan J., William H. and George F. Bolster. His wife died August 20, 1866, and in 1868, August 17, he was a second time married, to Florence Josephine Reed, daughter of Colonel Lewis Reed of Mexico, Maine, by whom he had two children : Martha F. and Wil- liam W. Bolster, Jr. The second Mrs. Bolster died November 21, 1894. Both wives were most worthy women, greatly lamented by their relatives and a wide circle of friends.
BLACK, RICHARD WIGGIN, of Augusta, United States Pension Agent for the District of Maine, was born in Palermo, Waldo county, Maine, March 31, 1838, son of Edmund and Comfort (Wiggin) Black. His ancestors, Scotch on the paternal and English on the maternal side, came to this country at a very early period of its settlement, and settled in Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire. His father, Edmund Black, came with his parents to Palermo from Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, about the year 1800, when a mere boy; served in the War of 1812 from November 1812 to December 1813, was a stage- driver for some years from Augusta to Belfast and Bangor, then settled on a farm in Palermo, where he resided until his death at the age of eighty-five years. His mother, Comfort Wiggin, came from New Hampshire to the town of Fairfax, now Albion, Maine, with her brother, Bradstreet Wiggin, who was a civil engineer, when fifteen years of age ; was married to Edmund Black when eighteen, and died at Meredith, New Hampshire, about two years after she lost her husband, at the age of nearly eighty-four years. His early education was acquired in the town schools of Palermo and the Liberty (Maine) High School, supplemented by studies at home while at work on the farm, and a course at Water- ville (Maine) Academy. Entering Waterville Col- lege (now Colby University) he pursued his studies at that institution for two years, and then went to Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he graduated with honors in the class of 1860. His youth was spent in working on the homestead farm
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