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and was a constant attendant at political gatherings. About 18;8, at the age of seventeen, he entered the employ of Alonzo Leavitt, and afterwards of William Warren, as clerk in a general store. In ISSI he purchased the business, which he continued at South Waterboro, and with his brother George also built a store and started business at Waterboro Centre. Mr. Carlo served as Supervisor of Schools of Waterboro in 1883, and in 1886 was nominated as Representative to the Legislature, but declined to serve as a candidate. He held the office of Post- master for several years, until its transfer by reason of a change of political administration, and was County Treasurer of York for two terms, 1891-4
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inclusive. He was a Republican in politics, was a member of the Republican Town Committee for twelve to fourteen years, and in 1890 became a member of the Republican County Committee, serving as Chairman for two years. Mr. Carll was much esteemed for his political and business abil- ity, and his future career was full of promise. lle was considered as the candidate of his party for the State Senatorship in 1894. But his health began to fail, and in the fall of that year he was obliged to give up the cares of business, and he spent the fol- lowing winter in Florida, hoping to receive benefit from the change. His malady developed, however, and he returned in the spring to consult the best
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Northern specialists. But his strength gradually failad, until on November 17, 1895, he passed away. The large attendance at the funeral services, includ- ing the county officers and many from Portland, Biddeford and Gorham, as well as from immediately surrounding towns, testified to the esteem in which he was held by his family and business and political friends. Mr. Carll was a member of Enterprise Lodge of Odd Fellows, in which he had been through all the chairs. He was also a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge instituted at Water- boro about 1893-4, and was for several years a non- resident member of the Portland Club. He was in active business and political life in South Waterboro until the year of his death, and had a large acquaint- ance among the business and political leaders of York county and of the state. He was married December 24, 1884, to Jennie P. Sargent, of Port- land, Maine ; they had a daughter, now living : Florence Sargent Carll, born May 22, 1890.
BERRY, JOHN CUTTING, M. D., late of Bath, was born in Phipsburg, Sagadahoc county, Maine, Janu- ary 16, 1847, the son of Captain Stephen Decatur and Jane Mary (Morse) Berry. His ancestors were of English descent and were early identified with the military struggles and the industrial development of the nation. His great-grandfather Thomas Berry, of Falmouth (now Portland), was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary army ; his grandfather Samuel Berry erected the early government lighthouses along the coast of New England ; his uncle, General Joseph Berry (receiving his title from the State Militia), was a prominent shipbuilder of the state and Col- lector of the Port of Bath ; while Major-General Hiram Berry, a member of the Rockland branch of the family, displayed a valor and military genius at the Battle of Bull Run in the War of the Rebellion, which led General Kearney to give him credit for nearly saving the day. A somewhat unusual honor falls to the subject of our sketch from the fact that his four great-grandfathers were all Revolutionary soldiers, namely : Thomas Berry and Samuel Small on the paternal side, and Daniel Horse and Moses Morrison on the maternal side. Stephen Berry, father of the subject of our sketch, an active and successful sea-captain of brilliant promise, died at the early age of thirty-three years ; John, his only child, being then but four years old. On the death of her husband, Mrs. Berry, who was the youngest
daughter of Deacon Elijah Morse of Phipsburg, made her home chiefly with her father and brothers, between whom and a relative of his father, Chris- topher Small, John spent the most of his early boy- hood. In both of these homes he came under the influence of a strong religious life, which did much to shape his character and subsequent career. At the age of seventeen years he united with the church, from which time on to the present his life has been closely linked with Christian and humanitarian work. His general education was conducted at the town schools and at Monmouth ( Maine) Academy, while his professional studies were pursued at the Medical School of Maine, the United States Marine
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Hospital at Portland, and at Jefferson Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia, from which latter institution he took his degree in 1871, at the age of twenty four years. The finances of the family obliged him to support and educate himself after the age of fifteen years. On his graduation he was appointed by the American Board of Foreign Missions to its newest mission field, Japan, as a medical missionary ; and after practicing his profession for a year in this country he married (April 10, 1872) the youngest daughter (Maria Elizabeth) of Hartley Gove, Esq., of Bath, and reached Japan in May 1872. Japan was just emerging from her great political revolu- tion, and her touch with the civilization of the West
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so emphasized her own backwardness and darkness as to make her eager to receive the rich gifts which the religion and the sciences of the Occident held out for her acceptance. What developed later into the largest of the Christian missions to Japan, with all its Christian, humanitarian and educational work, had but then just begun ; and thus at the early age of twenty-five years the young physician found him- self the medical member of this great missionary or- ganization, and in a country eager to adopt the rich gifts of the West. Never was there more to stimulate a young man to large activity and rapid growth than the conditions surrounding him during those early years. Of his work during this period Professor W. W. Keen his old teacher of anatomy, writes in sub- stance, in ue Transactions of the College of Physi- cians, Philadelphia (Third Series, Volume IV.) : " Dr. Berry arrived in Japan in the spring of 1872 and was at once appointed the Medical Director of the International Hospital (European) at Kobe. At the end of nine months he had ten students. By this time his native dispensary work had become so arduous that he resigned his connection with the hospital, and with the co-operation of native friends opened another dispensary in a more favorable place. But in a few months, in order to avail him- self of proffered government aid, he changed to a still larger building owned and supported by the gov- ernment as a hospital under native management. During this time he had observed cases of kakke, a disease resembling the beriberi of India, but so modified by climate and other influences as to present peculiar and independent features. Partly to learn the pathology of this disease, but chiefly to afford his students an opportunity to study anat- omy, he wrote to the government requesting the privilege of teaching human anatomy by dissection at the hospital, and asked that the unclaimed bodies of criminals should be furnished him for this purpose. Fruitless attempts had been made betore in the same direction, but this application met with a singularly favorable response. The request was forwarded to the central government with commendable prompt- ness, and in a few days a favorable reply was re- ceived, and the local authorities directed to grant the privilege of dissection. A suitable building for the purpose was constructed and this was opened for use November S, 1873. On the day following the receipt of the first two subjects for dissection, the physicians of Hiogo prefecture and neighboring provinces met at the hospital, when the exercises were opened by reading in Japanese a brief history
of anatomy. After an hour and a half spent in reading, the circulation of the blood was studied, and then those present were shown the dissection of the brain. The next day the regular course was be- gun. In 1875 the government regarded this school with such favor as to place in it eighteen selected young men. Meantime another hospital had been organized at Himeji, fifty miles away, and six dis- pensaries within a radius of twenty miles. To this hospital and these dispensaries Dr. Berry made monthly tours, meeting from five hundred to seven hundred patients each month, besides numerous physicians from the same localities. In order to in- struct these physicians didactically as well as clini- cally, he prepared lesson sheets and sent them to the nearest dispensary, where they were copied and thence forwarded to the next. In this way a number of native physicians, who could not leave their prac- tice to come to the school for study, were taught the more important elementary principles of the science of medicine. A feature of the work receiving special attention was that of affording the native profession, and also the public, information on epi- demic diseases and on hygiene. Papers on smallpox, typhoid fever and cholera were circulated at different times when epidemics of these diseases occurred or threatened, while the native press was employed to reach the masses by articles on house-building, heat- ing, ventilation, drainage, nursing, care of children, how to prevent summer diseases, etc. Dr. Berry learned much of the inner life of Japanese prisons (through visiting the sick in the prison with one of his hospital assistants) and at once set himself at work to effect much needed reforms there. When the request for permission to visit the prisons was granted the work of inspection was at once begun, and was followed by a Report in which special stress was placed upon the following among other topics : A system of thorough classification ; special education of prison officials ; introduction of indus- trial labor; the teaching of trades and the art of self helps; the abolition, except under peculiar limitations, of corporal punishment ; making the reformation of the prisoner, rather than his punish- ment, the first aim ; importance of preserving domestic ties of prisoner ; value of Christianity as a reformatory agent ; ventilation ; prison architec- ture ; care of the sick, etc. The Report was accepted and acknowledged by the government, published, and sent out to the prisons of the coun- try." Of this work for the prisons a Japanese gentleman, recently in this country studying our
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systems of prison management, said : " Dr. Berry's Rep^ =: was the beginning of prison discipline reform in Japan. . . . A great light in the darkness of our prison system." In 1879, in order to open up and establish a mission station in the interior of the country, he left Kobe and became Adviser to the Okayama Prefectural Hospital and Board of Health, where he remained until coming to this country in 1884. During the last two years of his connection with the Okayama Hospital the number of patients treated annually was over ten thousand. In 1885 he returned again to Japan to establish the Doshisha University Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Kyoto, of which institution he became the Medical Director. This position he held for ten ye , during six of which he also filled the chair of Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the University. He recently resigned from the service of the Board, on which occasion the Pru- dential Committee took action as follows : "Tues- day, March 3, 1896, the Prudential Committee voted to accept the resignation of Dr. J. C. Berry, Physician and Missionary of the American Board. But the Committee cannot suffer the withdrawal of so eminent a physician and so conscientious a missionary without bearing testimony to his distin- guished and successful services in Japan. By his ability, wisdom and energy he has contributed to elevate the medical profession in that country. His Hospital and Nurses' Training School have been models of wisdom and efficiency, and his methods have been adopted by the intelligent and successful native physicians. He has the confidence of all who know him, both Americans and Japanese. While regretting the retirement of Dr. Berry from the service of the American Board, we are glad of an opportunity to record our high estimate of his personal character and of his professional skill." This action of the Board was supplemented by similar action of members of his Mission, urging his return again to their number. For twenty-three years, during the period of national development of New Japan, he has been closely identified with the religious, humanitarian and educational move- ments in that country, and continues to take the warmest interest in her welfare. H'; active pro- fessional labors and interest in the general work of his Mission has prevented large attention to writing, though he has found time to prepare a number of articles on subjects affecting the Japanese people, the last being on the Climate of Japan, for the Con- gress of Hygiene at the World's Fair at Chicago,
written by request of the Japanese Advisory Com- mittee ; and " The Kyoto Memorial for the Aboli- tion of Licensed Prostitution in Japan," a document presented to the National Parliament after wide circulation among the Christian communities of the Empire. Referring to him and his recent speeches on the subject of Christian Missions, the Portland Daily Press says : "Dr. Berry is a man of large ability and experience, and an impressive speaker, who at once finds favor with his audience." He is now (1897) fifty years of age, has a wife, and four children : Katherine Fiske, aged nineteen years ; Gordon, aged seventeen years ; Helen Cary, aged fourteen years, and Almira Field Berry, aged ten years. In 1885 Dr. Berry took post-graduate studies in New York, and again in Vienna in 1894. He will now remain in this country in the practice of his profession, having for the education of his children settled in Worcester, Massachusetts.
BOOTHBY, CHARLES HENRY, Lawyer, Boston, was born in Dixfield, Oxford county, Maine, May 10, 1854, son of Charles H. and Betsey W. (His- cock) Boothby. His paternal grandparents, Icha- bod and Charlotte (Knight) Boothby, were residents of Livermore, Maine, where his father was born in 1821, and where he resided until the time of his death in 1889, with the exception of about three years at Dixfield. Ichabod was a son of Nathaniel and Susan (Thompson) Boothby of Scarboro, and Nathaniel was a son of Samuel of Scarboro, whose father, Henry Boothby, was born in England and came to Maine where he settled in 1720. The name and family of Boothby are of great antiquity, and the ancestral line is traced back in unbroken succession in England for nearly a thousand years, to Theodoric de Botheby, Knight, Lord of Botheby, whose wife Lozelina laid the corner-stone of Croy- land Abbey church and endowed the same in 1114. Authentic records also establish the existence of the family at a much earlier period. They held large possessions in Lincolnshire in the reign of King Egbert about the year A. D. 800, and the ancient manor house which belonged to the family, Boothby Hall, is still standing in the parish oi Boothby-Pay- nell, a few miles southeast of Grantham. The pedigree of the family was compiled by Dr. Sander- son, who subsequently became Bishop of Lincoln, and the manuscripts, written in Latin, are preserved in the British Museum. Of other of Mr. Boothby's
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paternal ancestors, the Knight family were among the earliest settlers in Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, where his great-grandfather Stephen Knight was an owner and master of vessels, and a man of much property and influence. On the maternal side, his grandfather Thomas Hiscock was a native of Damariscotta, Maine, where his ancestors had lived for several generations. The name is the same as Hitchcock, one of the earliest permanent families in America. Another of his maternal ancestors, Edward Jackson, settled in Massachusetts in 1642, in what was then called Cambridge Village, and immediately purchased a farm of five hundred acres from Governor Bradstreet, on which stood the first house built in Cambridge Village (now the city of N' .on), in or previous to the year 1638. - He took the freeman's oath in 1646; was elected to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1647, and was a member of that body for seventeen years ; was elected one of the Selectmen of Cambridge in 1665 ; was chairman of two important committees elected to lay out the streets of Cambridge, and- for several years was one of the commissioners to end small causes. He owned a large amount of land, of which he gave four hundred acres to Harvard College. He was the author and first signer of a petition to the General Court asking that Cambridge Village be set off from Cambridge, which was granted after much opposition. Forty-four of his descendants were in the Revolutionary army from Newton alone, including Nathaniel Jackson, Mr. Boothby's great-grandfather, who served during the entire war, as did also five of his brothers. All of the above ancestors were of English extraction. The subject of this sketch attended the town schools until he was ten years old, and from that time until the age of fifteen worked on the farm summers and limited his school attendance to the winter terms. Subsequently, while working at home summers, he was a student at Wilton (Maine) Academy and Waterville (Maine) Clas- sical Institute, from which last-named institution he graduated in 1876. For the two years fol- lowing he taught the High School at Canton, Maine, meanwhile reading law with Hon. John P. Swasey of that place, and in 1878-9 taught the Livermore Falls (Maine) High School. The follow- ing summer he pursued his legal studies with Hon. Charles W. Larrabee of Bath, Maine, and was admitted to the Bar at Paris, Oxford county, in September 1879. After pursuing a short course at the Boston University Law school, graduating in the
class of 1880, he opened an office in Livermore Falls, and practiced his profession there until the fall of 1884, in the meantime teaching several terms of High School in that town. In IS78-9 he was a member of the School Committee of Livermore. In October 18S; he removed to Portland and took the management and secretaryship of an insurance company, in which position he remained until May 1692, when he resumed the practice of his profession, continuing in Portland until January 1894, and then removing to Boston, where he is now in successful and lucrative practice. Mir. Boothby possesses strong literary proclivities, and his writings show marked ability, including some poetic productions
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which have found their way into print. As a public speaker he is ready, graceful, and effective when. the occasion requires. In politics he has been always an uncompromising Republican, and when a resident of Portland served as Vice-President and acting President of the Lincoln Republican Club of that city. He has been tendered nominations for various official positions at different times, but has declined to have his name thus used, having no desire for political preferment. He is a member of Oriental Star Lodge and Androscoggin Royal Arch Chapter of Masons of Livermore Falls, having served as Master of the former, and is also a member of Portland Council and St. Albans Commandery
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Knights Templar, both of Portland, and of Livermore Falla . Lodge of Odd Fellows. He was a member of the Portland Board of Trade for about five years, up to 1894. Mr. Boothby was married May 13, 1880, to Lottie G. Millett, daughter of Dr. Albion R. and Sarah J. (Treat) Millett of Livermore Falls ; they have one child : Albion Millett Boothby, born April 4, 1882, a very promising lad, now attending the Somerville Latin High School, class of .1899, which will fit him for Harvard College. He is the only great-grandchild of Ichabod who bears the name of Boothby.
LANE, SAMUEL WORCESTER, Mayor of Augusta 188 o, was born in Frankfort, Waldo county,
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Maine, April 22, 1838, son of Urial and Susan S. (Deane) Lane. His ancestry is early colonial on both sides. He was the youngest in a family of nine children. The father, an architect by profes- sion, died when the subject of this sketch was a small boy. His mother was a woman whose devout piety ennobled and sweetened a character of great force and energy, and to her training and guidance he has always attributed every worthy attainment of his life. On the death of his father the family moved to Hampden, l'enobscot county, and there
he acquired his early education in the common schools and at Hampden Academy, in the mean- time working on a farm and at shoemaking, to defray expenses. At the age of seventeen he began teaching winter terms of school. Studious by nature, and fond of books, he devoted his spare time to reading and study. Resolving upon the profession of law, after a due course of preliminary training in legal lore, he was admitted to the Bar in in Penobscot county in 1859, and began practice in Hampden. But determining upon a collegiate course, he returned to the Academy to complete his preparation, and was nearly ready for college when the stirring events of 1861 aroused his patriotism, and instead of going to college he went to the war. Enlisting as a private in the First Maine Cavalry, he spent the winter of 1861-2 in a tent on the State Capitol grounds in Augusta. This proved a cold introduction to the city of his future home, for a disability, followed by his discharge in March 1862, was the result of the exposure. With a few weeks of home life, however, came a return of vigor, and with it the old resolve to march under the flag of his country. Again he enlisted, this time in the Eleventh Maine Infantry, in which he was promoted by regular gradations from the ranks to a Captaincy. He served in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Florida, and in the Department of the Guli - nearly three years of constant duty, never absent from his regiment, except when on detached service, until sent home to be discharged. While at Pensacola he was stricken with fever of so viru- lent a type that the Medical Director hastened to send him home. The Post Surgeon at Augusta pronounced him a physical wreck, and he was dis- charged from the service in November 1864. But the resources of a hardy constitution again put him on his feet, and in the following February he was able to assist in the Provost Marshal's office in Augusta, where he remained until the office was abolished. The very next day, May 1, 1865, he opened a law office in Augusta, from which he was burned out in the great fire of the following Sep- tember. This was followed by the more important and far pleasanter event of his marriage, and by his entrance into public life as a natural result of his earnest and useful activity in municipal affairs. He served successively as a member of the School `Board, member of the Common Council, as Auditor of Accounts for many years, and for three terms as City Treasurer and Collector, refusing a third re-election. Following this he served the city as
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Aldermat. for three years, and then as Mayor for two years, declining a third term. One of the note- worthy acts of Mayor Lane's administration was his suggestion and instigation of replacing the old wooden bridge over the Kennebec River with an iron structure. His views as to the need of this improvement were acted upon by the City Council, and in less than a year from that time the present iron bridge was open for public travel. In 1868-9 Mr. Lane was Assistant Secretary, and for the ten years following Secretary, of the State Senate. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to the Legisla- ture for the next term, 1893-4, and was re- elected in 1894 for a second term. At the present time he is serving as City Auditor of Augusta. In 1878, hav . previously acted for three years (1869- - 72) as Editor of "Our Young Folks," an illus- trated paper published by E. C. Allen & Company, Augusta, Mr. Lane became Editor-in-chief of all the various publications issued by that house, and retained that position with the E. C. Allen Pub- lishing Company, which after the death of Mr. Allen succeeded to the business in 1892. In 1894 the S. W. Lane Company, of which Mr. Lane is the head, bought out the Allen corporation, and under that name the business has since been conducted. Captain Lane has been actively interested in the Grand Army of the Republic from the inception of the order, and prominently identified with its growth and prosperity in the state. He was a charter member of the first Grand Army post estab- lished in Augusta, was subsequently chosen Com- mander of Seth Williams Post in that city, and while serving in that capacity organized the Seth Williams Ladies' Relief Corps and founded a fund of several thousand dollars for the relief of families, widows and orphans of poor and disabled com- rades. The Department of Maine chose him as its representative to the National Encampment for
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