Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of Maine, Part 47

Author: Herndon, Richard; McIntyre, Philip Willis, 1847- ed; Blanding, William F., joint ed
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Boston, New England magazine
Number of Pages: 1268

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on his fourteenth year of continuous service. He was Treasurer of the Quanapowitt Rifle Company for two years and of the Wakefield Hook and Lad- der (fire) Company for three years. He belongs to the Boston Teachers' Mutual Benefit Society, the Boston Mercantile Library Association, the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, and the Boston High and Latin Masters' Club. From boyhood he has been interested in all kinds of sports, games and physical exercises. In college he was conceded to be the best athlete that had ever graduated up to his time. For two years he was Captain of the College Baseball Team, and he was also a member

MELVIN J. HILL.

of the four-oared crew. While in business at Lew- iston, he was Captain of the Androscoggin Baseball Team, then champions of the state. He counts among his trophies three prizes in rowing regattas, several in tennis tournaments, and two in New Eng- land chess tournaments. He is an expert at golf and with the bicycle. His gymnasium practice he kept up until after fifty, and has not wholly aban- doned it yet. Mr. Hill is of a quiet, retiring dis- position, notwithstanding a certain prominence which his business capacity and physical skill have given him. He is regular, methodical and pains- taking in whatever he undertakes. Though a quick and able student, his tastes have inclined him to

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active, out-of-door recreations rather than to the sedentary ways of the study. In politics he has always voted with the Republican party. He was married July 6, 1868, to Louise Elizabeth Mowry, a native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. They have had two children, one of whom died in infancy ; the other, Ernest F., was a young man of much promise, and entered Harvard College in 1890, but died during his Junior year, at the age of twenty-one.

HYDE, CHARLES EDWARD, Designing and Con .- structing Engineer for the Bath Iron Works, Bath.

CHAS. E. HYDE.

was born in Bath, November 26, 1855, son of Edward C. and Rebecca (Tebbetts) Hyde. He is a grandso .. of Jonathan Hyde, merchant, who came to Bath from Connecticut in 1799. His first American ancestor was William Hyde, who came from England in 1633, and was one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. His father, Edward C. Hyde, whose death occurred December 26, 1896, was born in Bath, and was promiently identified with Maine transportation interests in the early days. More than half a century ago, while resident in Bangor, he was a leading promoter in the estab- lishment of a steamship line for freight and pas- senger service between Bangor and Boston. For

this line he had constructed on the Delaware, under his personal supervision, by Betts. Harlan & Hol- lingsworth, of Wilmington, the first seagoing iron steamer built in America. This pioneer example of iron shipbuilding, the Bangor, as she was called, made her maiden trip on the line, but on her second trip from Boston to Bangor, August 31, 1845, she caught fire of Castine, in Penobscot Bay, and was burned to the water's edge. Mr. Hyde later re- turned to Bath, where he served as City Treasurer for many years, was one of the organizers of the Marine Bank, and was President of that institution at the time of his death. Charles E. Hyde at- tended the public schools of his native city, after which he took special courses, of two years and one year respectively, at the Worcester (Massachusetts) Polytechnic Institute and the Massachusetts Insti- tate of Technology in Boston. He then entered upon a period of mechanical training in practical work, successively in the machine shops of the Portland Company, Portland; Ward, Stanton & Company, Newburgh, New York; the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore ; Cramp & Sons, Phila- deiphia ; and the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island. In 1884 he returned to Bath as Superintendent of the Goss Marine Iron Works of that city, and has remained with that establishment and its successors -the New England Shipbuilding Company and later the Bath Iron Works - as Designing and Constructing Engineer, to the present time. Soon after assum- ing the Superintendency of the Goss Works, Mr. Hyde designed and built the engines for the steam- ship Meteor, since famous as the first triple-expan- sion engine ever constructed in America. Although engines of that type were first conceived and built in England, they were not at that time generally accept- ed, and were looked upon as doubtful experiments. Hence it was an exhibit of remarkable enterprise and pluck on the part of the young engineer, who then had not seen thirty years, to foresee the inevi- table future of triple-expansion engines and start the crusade in this country. How well his faith has been sustained by subsequent developments is a matter of general knowledge, for now the triple- expansion engine is indispensable to the modern swift ocean steamer, and even examples of the quadruple-expansion type are not uncommon. As illustrating the prejudice of old-fashioned steamboat men against which he has had to work, Mr. Hyde takes pleasure in telling of the old engineer, whose boat carried probably about thirty pounds steam

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pressure, whom he invited to take a trip on the steamer Sappho, designed by him and built by his company for the Maine Central ferry service be- tv pen the railroad terminus and Bar Harbor. The vi.itor wandered over the boat, inspecting things with a critical eye, and apparently approving of all, until just as the wharf was reached, he happened to cast his eye on the steam-gauge, which registered a hundred and sixty pounds. Instantly he scrambled up the fire-room ladder and on to the wharf, and only stopped running when he was a block away. When the Bath Iron Works were awarded the Government contracts for the gunboats Machias and Castine, the general plans were supplied by the Naval Bureau of Steam Engineering ; but Mr. Hyde at once saw a chance for improvement in their boilers, and his design for a substitute was readily accepted by the Government designers. This change involved a gain of twenty square feet of grate sur- face and proportionate heating surface in each ship, with no increased weight, resulting in a large in- crease in the speed of these vessels over contract requirements. Mr. Hyde is a member of the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, and an associate of the American Society of Naval En- gineers. He is a Director in the Marine National Bank, has served two terms as Alderman of the city of Bath, and is now a member of the School Board and a Trustee of the Patten Library. He is also a member of the sortland and Boothbay Harbor yacht clubs, and the Sagadahoc (social) Club of Bath. He was married June 10, 1885, to Georgiana Miller, of Newburgh, New York; they have six children : Margaret Clarendon, Emily Miller, Dor- othy, Annie, Mary Neely, and an infant son, James Patten Hyde.

INGALLS, HENRY, late President of the First National Bank of Wiscasset, was born in Bridgton, Cumberland county, Maine, March 14, 1819, and died in Wiscasset, December 10, 1896. His parents were Asa and Phebe ( Berry) Ingalls, of English descent. His grandfather, Phineas Ingalls, was one of the first settlers of Bridgton, where his father, Asa, was born. Asa Ingalls was a farmer and lum- berman, held various town offices and was a member of the Maine Legislature for one or more sessions, and was Captain of one of the military companies stationed at Portland in the War of 1812. Both his

father and grandfather were prominent citizens of their town and section. He acquired his early education chiefly in the common schools of Bridg- ton and at Bridgton Academy, and graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1841. After pur- suing a course of legal studies with Howard S. Osgood in Portland, he was admitted to the Bar in Cumberland county in 1843, and in October of that year commenced the practice of law in Wiscasset, Lincoln county, where he resided till his death. At that time the county of Lincoln comprised, in addi- tion to its present territory, the important towns of Bath, Lewiston and Rockland ; and for fifteen years

HENRY INGALLS.

Mr. Ingalls had an extensive, increasing and suc- cessful practice, leading an active, laborious and busy life, until impaired health compelled him to relinquish the court business of his life profession, and confine himself to office business and other pur- suits. He was President of the First National Bank of Wiscasset from its organization in 1865 until his death ; was a Director in the Knox & Lincoln Rail- road for twenty years and thereafter held a nominal position on the Board ; was a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College ; was for many years a Trustee of the Maine State Reform School, in which he took great interest, and for which his influence did much ; was one of the standing cont-

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mittee for the Diocese of Maine, and for years was Delegate to the General Episcopal Convention ; and served in various other offices of trust and responsi- bility. He was also President of the Lincoln Bar " ssociation, President of the Maine State Pomolog- ical Society, member of the Maine Historical Society, and served as Vice-President of the Board of Managers of the Maine Commission to the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, to which he was also Alternate Delegate-at-Large. Mr. Ingalls was a lifelong Democrat, and was for many years an active and prominent member of that party, but the only political office he held was that of Represen- tative to the Legislature from Wiscasset in 1880; he was a candidate for Congress in 1856, but was not elected. He was a staunch churchman, giving of his best in every way to advance the interests of the church which he revered and loved. Mr. Ingalls was a man whose character and opinions were looked up to and respected by all, not only in the commu- nity and section where he lived. but throughout the state, where he was widely known. He was con- sulted by people for miles around, in public and private matters, and was frequently chosen and his services sought as adjuster in affairs requiring com- prehensive knowledge, keen judgment, strict honor and delicacy of management. His calm wisdom and forethought brought Wiscasset - the town for which he did so much - out of its peril (financially) at a time when a skilfull hand was most needed, and his loss to the town can hardly be estimated. He was a man of exceptional courtesy, and great refinement of nature. His influence was always for good. He took great interest in fruit culture, and was uncommonly fond of nature in all her forms and moods - every season bringing to him its own par- ticular pleasures. Mr. Ingalls was twice married, his first wife being Susan Johnston, second daughter of Captain Alexander Johnston of Wiscasset, by whom he had one daughter : Mary Johnston Ingalls, who died April 23, 1890. He was again married December 17, 1855, to Miss Mary Farley, of New- castle, Maine, who died November 6, 1890. Four children were born of this marriage, three of whom died in infancy ; the other, a daughter, Grace In- galls, survives him.

JAMESON, JOHN FULTON, of Jameson & Marr, country merchants, Cornish, was born in Cornish, July 28, 1836, son of John Jameson, a distinguished Maine lawyer, and Paymaster with the rank of

Major in the Union army during the Civil War, and Nancy (Barker) Jameson, widow of Philip Hubbard. The senior Jameson came from Dunbarton, New Hampshire, of a name which has contributed many men of letters and of affairs to the Republic. Mrs. Jameson was the daughter of a long-settled New England family of Puritan descent. The subject of this sketch obtained his education in the schools of his native town and in the famous academies at Standish, Maine, and Gilmanton, New Hampshire, the New England academy system being then in the very bloom of its beneficent growth. After finishing his studies he turned longing eyes toward

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JOHN F. JAMESON.

the fertile lands of the West, as Maine boys so often did in those days, and made a venture in Wis- consin not unprofitable in experience if it failed to fill his, purse. But his heart turned to his New England home and back he came after a brief stay. Wisely concluding that he was better fitted for the mercantile than the agricultural life, he soon went into trade in his native town, where he has built up a business that places his firm in the foremost ranks of the country merchants of Maine. Originally O'Brion & Jameson, the house has been for nearly thirty years Jameson & Marr. Mr. Jameson has been a Republican since the foundation of the party, and in 1892 was delegate to the National

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Convention at Minneapolis. Early in manhood he took an active interest in Masonry, and is affiliated with the Blue Lodge and the Royal Arch. October 1', 1859, he married Eliza O'Brion, daughter of "William O'Brion, notable among the early merchants of Cornish, and granddaughter of John O'Brion, the Revolutionary soldier. Of this marriage have come five children, two of whom are living : Alice Marcia, born July 12, 1860, died March 22, 1875 ; Fanny O'Brion, born September 13, 1863, died March 26, 1889 ; Harry Preston, born March 19, 1865; Margaret, born October 4, 1876, and John Malcolm Jameson, born April 10, 1879, died May 16, 1880.

MARBLE, SEBASTIAN STREETER, of Waldoboro. Governor of Maine 1887-9, was born in Dixfield, Oxford county, Maine, March 1, 1817, son of Ephraim and Hannah (Packard) Marble. He is descended from Samuel Marble, who settled in Salem, Massachusetts, in early Colonial times. The family is of English origin, and has produced many able men who have made their mark in various walks of life, among them being the inventor of calico-printing. Freegrace Marble, son of Samuel and his wife Rebecca Andrew, was one of the first settlers of Sutton, Massachusetts, where he married Mary I .. Sibley and reared three sons : Samuel, Malachi, and Enoch, who was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Enoch Marble was a native of Sutton, », ent most of his life there, follow- ing the farming pursuit, and died in 1815 at the age of eighty-nine, having reared, besides three daughters, eight sons : John, Alpheus, Thaddeus, Aaron, Daniel, Antipos, Enoch and Rufus. John Marble, the eldest son, born in 1751, was also a farmer of Sutton at the time of the Revolution, in which he served with credit and fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and in 1794 removed to Dixfield, Maine ; he was one of the pioneers of Dixfield, transporting his family and household goods there by ox teams, built a saw and grist mill, was an im- portant factor in the industrial life of the little settlement, and died there in 1830 at the age of seventy-nine. Ephraim Marble, son of the foregoing -- born in Princeton, Massachusetts, September 13, 1787, died April 5, 1871 - was a harness-maker and farmer of Dixfield, where he served as Assessor, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and as Deputy Sheriff for a number of years. His wife was a daughter of Israel Packard, who also fought at

Bunker Hill. Of their eight children, but two are living : Sebastian S. and Horace -D. Marble, the latter a resident of Wilton, Franklin county, Maine. Sebastian S. Marble acquired his early education in the common schools and under private tuition, and prepared for college at Waterville (Maine) Academy. Instead of pursuing a college course, however, he entered at once upon the study of law, which he prosecuted in the office of Isaac Randall, Esq., of Dixfield, and John E. Stacey of Wilton, Maine. He was admitted to the Bar at Farmington, in 1843, after which he spent a year and a half in the West and South, teaching school. Returning to Maine

S. S. MARBLE.

in 1845, he took up the law practice of his former preceptor, Mr. Stacey, in Wilton, where he continued for a year and then removed to his native town, Dixfield. In 185 1 he came to Waldoboro, where he has since resided, and where he continued in the active practice of law for ten years, becoming in the meantime gradually drawn more and more into public life, until the responsibilities of his official positions made it necessary to close up his practice for a time. In 1861 he was appointed Deputy Collector of Customs for the Waldoboro District, and after serving in that capacity for two years was appointed Collector, in which office he continued for three years and a half, his term extending into

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President Johnson's administration. In 1867 he was appointed Registrar of Bankruptcy for the Third Congressional District, and in February 1870 was appointed United States Marshal of Maine, which office he held for a period of eight years. Upon retiring from the Marshalship in April 1878, Mr. Marble resumed his law practice, but four years later was once more called to take part in the administration of public affairs, and unwillingly ac- cepted the nomination for State Senator from Lincoln county on the Republican ticket. In 1880 the Democrats carried the county by a majority of over five hundred; but at the 1882 election Mr. Marble and the whole Republican ticket were elected by about the same majority. He served in the Senate for three successive terms, and was Presi- dent of that body when the death of Governor Bodwell occurred, in December 1887. The President of the Senate was required, as is provided by the Consti- tution, to exercise the office of Governor during the remainder of the term, and accordingly Mr. Marble was installed as the late Governor's successor. As Chief Executive of the State he served until 1889, upholding with credit the dignity of the office and looking well after the interests of the people. At the end of his term he returned to his home in Waldoboro and retired from public and active political life. While connected with the state gov- ernment Mr. Marble was also actively interested in the local affairs of his residential town, serving on the School Committee of Waldoboro and as Chair- man of the Board of Selectmen. He was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1864, at Baltimore, which resulted in the renomination of Lincoln, and also to the Chicago Convention of 1880, which nominated the second martyr President, Garfield. Mr. Marble is a member of King Solomon's Masonic Lodge of Waldoboro, and is a regular attendant of the Universalist Church. He was married October 17, 1846, to Mary S. Ellis, daughter of Ebenezer Ellis of Jay, Franklin county, Maine. They have had three children : Ella A., wife of Lowell P'. Haskell of Waldoboro ; Mary A., who died in 1856, aged nine years; and an infant son, Sebastian S. Marble, who lived but two days.

LITTLEFIELD, CHARLES EDGAR, of Rockland, Attorney-General of Maine 1889-93, was born in Lebanon, York county, Maine, June 21, IS51, son of William H. and Mary (Stevens) Littlefield. His

grandparents were Theodore and Martha Little- field of Wells, Maine, and on the maternal side Paul" and Dorothy Stevens of Kennebunk, Maine. He received his early education in the common schools and at Foxcroft (Maine) Academy, studied law with Rice & Hall of Rockland, and was admitted to the Bar April 5, 1876, at Rockland, where he has since practiced and resided. Mr. Littlefield was a member of the Maine House of Representatives, from Rockland, in 1885 and 1887. and in the latter

C. E. LITTLEFIELD

term served as Speaker of that body. In 1889 he was elected Attorney-General of the State, in which office he served two terms, until 1893. In politics Mr. Littlefield is a Republican. He was Chairman of the Maine delegation at the National Republican Conventions held at Minneapolis and St. Louis, and seconded Hon. Thomas B. Reed's nomination at St. Louis. He was married February 18, 1878, to Clara N. Ayer, of Montville, Maine; they have had three children : Harry L., who died at the age of nineteen months, Charles W. and Caroline A. Littlefield.

MCCLINTOCK, WILLIAM EDWARD, Civil Engi- neer, Boston, was born in Hallowell, Kennebec county, Maine, July 29, 1843, son of Captain John and Mary Bailey (Shaw) Mcclintock. On the

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paternal side he is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, his American ancestor being William McClintock, one of the defenders in the memorable siege of London- derry (1689), who came to this country from that place in 1730 and settled in Medford, Massachu- setts. On his mother's side he is a descendant of the Reverend John Bailey, the early Puritan divine. His early education was acquired in the public schools of his native town, supplemented by a four- years course at Hallowell Academy and one year at Kent's Hill Seminary in Readfield, Maine. His early-manifested taste and talent for engineering were a heritage from his parental families on both sides. His grandfather Captain William McClin- tock was an expert land surveyor after his retire- ment from the sea, and some fine examples of his work are on file in the archives of the state. His father, Captain John McClintock, was a well-known navigator familiar with every sea, and crossed the Pacific with an ordinary watch for a chronometer and a school atlas for a chart. Following the com- pletion of his school course, he entered upon a period of training for his profession in office and field work, and received instruction from a private tutor. While a student, he taught a district school for one term. His first field work as civil engineer was in connection with the United States Coast Survey, with which department he was engaged from 1867 to 1876, on work in Maine, Massachu- setts, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana. In 1876-9 he was employed in the survey of the city of Portland ; in 1877-9 in the survey of Boston Har- bor, and a relocation survey of the Boston & Maine Railroad and all its branches in Massachusetts ; and from 1880 to 1890 he was City Engineer of Chelsea, Massachusetts, as such having charge of the streets and sewers. Mr. McClintock's special engineering works have included surveys for the South Pass jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River ; sur- veys for the improvement of the harbors of New York, Boston, and Portland, Maine ; for improve- ment of the Saco River, Maine; the Savannah River, Georgia ; Pamlico River, North Carolina : St. Mary's, Nassau and St. John's rivers, Florida; and municipal sewerage systems for the cities and towns of Chelsea, Revere, Gardner, Westfield, Easthamp- ton, Andover, Lenox, Lexington and Natick in Massachusetts, Exeter in New Hampshire, Ben- nington in Vermont, Bath and Calais in Maine, and St. Stephen and Milltown in New Brunswick. He has also served as Consulting Engineer on sewer

and water-works construction in Holyoke, Spencer, North Brookfield, North Attleboro and several smaller towns of Massachusetts and other states. He has been a member of the Massachusetts High- way Commission since 1892, having been appointed by Governor Russell and reappointed by Governors Russell and Greenhalge. He has been thoroughly identified with the good-roads movement in Massa- chusetts, and in its advocacy has written various articles and delivered addresses on modern road construction in nearly every city and most of the larger towns of the commonwealth. He was the first President of the Massachusetts Highway Asso-

W. E. MCCLINTOCK.

ciation. In 1893 he was appointed Instructor of Highway Engineering in the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University, which position he still fills. Mr. McClintock is a member of the Ameri- can Society of Civil Engineers ; the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and was at one time its President ; the League of American Wheelmen and the Chelsea Review Club ; of Robert Lash Lodge of Masons and Royal Arch Chapter of the Shekinah. He is prom- inently associated with the Church of the Redeemer in Chelsea, where he resides, and in 1888-93 was Treasurer of that organization. In politics he is a Republican on national questions, and in state and local issues an Independent. He was married June

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17, 1873, to Miss Mary Estelle Currier, of Port- land, Maine; they have five children : William James, Francis Blake, Samuel, Paul and Dorothy McClintock.

M'INTYRE, PHILIP WILLIS, Journalist, Portland, was born in Cornish, York county, Maine, February 21, 1847, son of James Otis and Sarah ( Hubbard) M'Intyre. He is sixth in lineal descent from Malcolm M'Intyre, a Highland Scot exiled by Cromwell after the battle of Dunbar for loyalty to the Stuarts, who settled in York, Maine, on land

PHILIP W. M'INTYRE.

still held by his descendants, and to this day locally known as Scotland. Mr. M'Intyre's grandfather on the maternal side was Philip Hibbard, a well-known Cornish merchant, and descendant of the immi- grant of the same name. On the paternal side his grandsire was Rufus M'Intyre, graduate of Dart- mouth College in 1809, Captain in the Third United States Artillery in the War of 1812, Representative in Congress from the First District of Maine from 1826 to 1834, Land Agent during the northeastern boundary dispute in 1839, United States Marshal under Polk, and Surveyor of Customs under Pierce. His father, James Otis M'Intyre, was educated at West Point, held a Captain's Commission in the

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Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of Maine, Part 47

Author: Herndon, Richard; McIntyre, Philip Willis, 1847- ed; Blanding, William F., joint ed Publication date: 1897 Publisher: Boston, New England magazine Number of Pages: 1268

Author: Herndon, Richard; McIntyre, Philip Willis, 1847- ed; Blanding, William F., joint ed
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Boston, New England magazine
Number of Pages: 1268