Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of Maine, Part 58

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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men and young women - and also of the Parlia- ment of Man, an auxiliary association for older members, the objects of both being the promotion of intelligent patriotism and the development of practical good-citizenship in the young people of America. The League issues a monthly magazinc the New Century, devoted to its interests. In his official capacity Mr. Hackett visits many of the fifteen hundred lyceums of the League scattered through the various states and territories, for the purpose of stimulating the members, organizing new

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lyceums, and interesting public and private citizens in the work. Mr. Hackett is unmarried.

HAINES, WILLIAM T., Attorney-General o Maine, was born in Levant, Penobscot county Maine, August 7, 1854, son of Thomas J. and Maria L. (Eddy) Haines. He is of the eightl generation in descent from Deacon Samuel Haines who sailed from Bristol, England, Junc 4, 1635, il the ship Angel Gabriel, built by Sir Walter Raleigh and wrecked on the voyage at Pemaquid ( Bristol) Maine, in the great hurricane of August 15 in tha year. Deacon Haines settled in 1650 in the parish of Greenland, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where the homestead built by him is yet standing. He was one of the ninc founders of the first Congrega

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tional Church of Portsmouth, was a Selectman of that town from 1653 to 1663, and became owner, by gaant and purchase, of large tracts of land which he distributed among his children during his life- time. The paternal grandmother of the subject of our sketch was a Whidden, another well-known New Hampshire family. On the maternal side he is a direct descendant of Colone .. Jonathan Eddy, for whom the town of Eddington, Maine, is named. His grandmother Eddy was a Knapp, one of the prominent families in the early history of New England. William T. Haines spent his early life on the farni, in the meantime acquiring his rudiment- ary education in the common schools. After a short preparatory course at East Corinth (Maine) Academy, h entered the Maine State College in 1872, from which institution he graduated in 1876, as Valedictorian of his class of thirty-three mem- bers. From the age of seventeen he taught in the public schools during winter seasons and in college vacations, up to the time of establishing himself in the practice of law. Following graduation from college he pursued a course of law study, was grad- uated in 1878 from the Albany Law School, and was admitted to the Maine Bar in Penobscot county in 1878. In May 1879 he commenced practice in West Waterville (now Oakland), Maine, and in October 18So moved to Waterville, where he has since practiced and resided. Soon a .... coming to the bar Mr. Haines surrounded himself with a good clientage, was very soon found in the courts trying his own cases, and in 1882 he was elected County Attorney for Kennebec County, in which office he served for two terms. In 1892 he was nominated for the Attorney-Generalship of the State, but was defeated by Hon. F. A. Powers of Houlton. In 1896 he was again a candidate for Attorney-Gen- eral, and was elected to that office, which he at present holds. Mr. Haines very early became prominent as a citizen of Waterville, and has been actively identified with many of the business enter- prises and other institutions of that city. In asso- ciation with others he organized and started the Waterville Loan and Building Association, which he has since served as Attorney and as one of the Exec- utive Board. In 1892 he organized and promoted the Waterville Trust and Safe Deposit Company, now a prosperous banking institution of the city, and of which he is the Attorney and one of the Directors. He is a member of the Masonic frater- nity, and was active in organizing the Masonic Building Company, which erected the Masonic Build-

ing in that city, containing one of the most spacious and beautiful Masonic Lodge rooms to be found in the State. In other lines outside of business and his profession, Mr. Haines has always taken an especial interest in the fish and game for which the state is noted. He was the first, in connection with W. P. Blake of Oakland, to introduce landlocked salmon into the lakes of Kennebec county, and with Mr. Blake and others started the Kennebec Fish and Game Association, which has grown to be one of the strongest and most prosperous organizations of the kind in the state. He is also a member of the Maine Sportsmen's Association, and has been Chairman of its Committee on Hatching Houses,

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also its legal adviser. In politics Mr. Haines has always been a Republican, taking an active interest in every campaign since becoming a voter, and serving his party effectively in several campaigns upon the stump. In 1888 he was elected to the Maine Senate from Kennebec county, serving two terms in that body, and was elected as Representa- tive from Waterville to the Legislature of 1895. As a legislator he was very successful, being a hard worker, and a ready and forcible debater. He was instrumental in putting forth a number of new and important reform measures, among them the Bill for Registration of Voters. For this measure, defeated in 1888, and passed at the end of his

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second term by a strict party vote, he was the recip- ient of much praise and a good deal of abuse ; but now that it has been fairly tried and is in successful · roperation, it is universally conceded to be a great improvement over the old and unsatisfactory method of registering voters in cities. He also introduced and carried through the constitutional amendment requiring an educational qualification for voters,, which was adopted by the people at the state election in 1892. Perhaps the best remem- bered of his legislative work is his effort to pass a statute regulating railroad fares and rates, for which he made a most determined fight during both of his terms in the Senate, and although unsuccessful in carrying the measure, his agitation of the subject promoted a public sentiment demanding mileage ticke at two cents a mile, which was promised by the railroads before the debate was closed and the last vote taken in the Senate on the bill. Mr. Haines is an ardent admirer of his native state, and partic- ularly of the Kennebec Valley and the city of his home. At the meetings of the State Board of Trade, of which he has been a prominent attendant, he has always warmly advocated Maine for Maine people, as the place in which to invest their money and their energy. a good state to be born in, to live in and to die in. He has done much, both in the Legislature and outside, to assist his alma mater, the Maine State College : he has served upon its Board of Trustees since 1882 and as Secretary of the Board since 1886, and was Chairman of the Committee on Construction which had charge of the building of Coburn and Wingate halls at that institution. Notwithstanding Mr. Haines' extensive connections with business and politics, the best part of his time and energies has always been given to the practice of his profession. As an attorney he enjoys the fullest confidence of the community, as regards both integrity and ability. In the man- agement of his cases he is a most untiring worker. When County Attorney he tried three murder cases in seven days, obtaining conviction in all; Kenne- bec county having the satisfaction of seeing three of her citizens who had forfeited their liberty by taking life immured in the State Prison, two for life, and one for seven years, in a little over two months from the time the first crime was committed. Mr. Haines was married January 1, 1883, to Edith S. Hemmenway, daughter of Bickford and Emeline P. (Woodcock) Hemmenway, of Rockland, Maine ; they have three children : Ethel A., William and Gertrude W. Haines.

HALEY, ADDISON E., Lawyer, Kennebunk, was born in Kennebunk, February 17, 1844, son of Joseph A. and Sarah J. ( Roberts) Haley. His paternal grandparents, Joseph and Rebecca (Towne) Haley, were both lifelong residents of Kennebunk. His maternal grandfather was John Roberts, whose wife was Betsey Taylor of Lyman, Maine, and who also lived and died in Kennebunk. His early .education was received in the common schools of Kennebunk and neighboring towns, at several pri- vate high schools, and the public High School at Biddeford, Maine. Until twenty years of age he lived on the farm with his father, for several years

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teaching winter terms of school. Pursuing a course of legal training with Edward E. Bourne, Jr., of Kennebunk, and afterwards in Saco with Hon. Edwin B. Smith (subsequently First Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, and now located in New York city), he was admitted to the Bar of York county at Saco in January 1867. Soon after, he began the practice of law at Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc county, where he remained for a year. He then formed a partnership with Hon. James M. Stone at Kennebunk, under the firm name of Stone & Haley, which continued for two years, the senior partner then retiring from law practice for a time. Since 1868 Mr. Haley has been engaged in active

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practice in Kennebunk, with the exception of two years ( 1889-90) spent in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he practiced law and was also Treas- urer of the Minnehaha Trust Company. For many years he has served the town of Kennebunk in vari- ous public capacities, having been Selectman, Asses- sor, Overseer of the Poor, Town Agent and member of the Supervising School Committee. He is now Superintendent of Schools of the town. In politics Mr. Haley has always been a Republican, and active in the interests of that party. In 1873 he repre- sented the classed towns of Kennebunk and Alfred in the State Legislature. He was married March 9, 1870, to Carrie M. Cone, a daughter of the late Rev. C. C. Cone of Bowdoinham, Maine, a very estimable ladv, who was of great assistance to her husband in ... s early professional life; she died suddenly at Kennebunk, January 24, 1882, leaving one child, Carrie May Haley, now living. Mr. Haley subsequently married Maria S. Richards, daughter of Dr. Lemuel Richards of Kennebunk ; by this marriage he has two daughters : Grace A. and Margaret Haley, aged eleven and eight years respectively.

HALL, ALFRED WINSLOW, Editor and Proprietor of the Aroostook Republican, Caribou, was born in Caribou, August 6, 1851, son of Iceph B. and Lu- cinda E. (Todd) Hall. His ancestry is purely Eng- lish. His grandfather, Winslow Hall, was the son of a Revolutionary soldier, and a lineal descendant of John Hall, who came to this country from England about 1640 ; and his grandmother Ruth (Howland) Hall was a lineal descendant of Admiral Robert Blake of England. His maternal grandfather, Alfred Todd, was a grandson of Colonel Alfred Todd, who fought with General James Wolfe at the capture of Quebec in 1759 ; his grandmother Mary Ann Todd was a native of Augusta, Maine. Joseph Blake Hall, father of the subject of this sketch, was one of the pioneers in Aroostook journalism, having started at Presque Isle in 1857, in association with W. S. Gilman, the Aroostook Pioneer, the first news- paper ever published in Aroostook county. Subse- quently, in 1860, having sold his interest in the Pioneer to Mr. Gilman, he tarted in Presque Isle the first Republican paper in the county, under the name of the Aroostook Herald ; and in 1862, with John T. Gilman, he founded the Portland Daily Press, of which he was editor for a time, until he disposed of his interest in that paper and bought a

half interest in the Portland Courier (now Adver- tiser), with which paper he was for some time con- nected. . In 1857 he served as Secretary of the Maine Senate, to which office he was twice re- elected, and from 1861 to 1864 he was Secretary of State. In 1871 he edited the Omaha (Nebraska) Tribune, and soon after, having removed to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, he became editor of the Expositor, a paper published at that place. Removing to Chicago in 1872 he served for a time on the staff of one of the Chicago dailies, and later went to Fargo, Dakota, where for five years he edited the Fargo Republican. His health becoming impaired, he

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retired from active work for a short period, and then returned to Presque Isle and again started the Aroostook Herald, whose pages he very largely de- voted to advocating and urging the building of a direct line of railroad into Aroostook county. He died July 5, 1889, aged about sixty-four years, with- out seeing the realization of his hopes ; but his ear- nest editorials and newspaper representations of the county's resources and the need of suitable railroad facilities to promote their development, did much to start the movement which has finally resulted in giving to Aroostook its long delayed system of rail- road transportation. Alfred W. Hall acquired his early education in the public schools of Portland,

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Maine, and received in a printing office his training for active life. He learned the printers' trade in his father's office in Portland, ran a job printing office in Chicago for several years, and afterwards was en- gaged in the newspaper and real estate business in Dakota. Like many others in the West, he bought largely of real estate, and lost all the means he had acquired by years of hard work, by the sudden fall in real estate values. Returning to his native town, in May 1887 he purchased the Aroostook Repub- lican. After paying one hundred dollars down on his purchase, he had twenty-five dollars left as a working capital. He soon added a job printing department to the newspaper establishment, and within two years enlarged the Republican to twice its former size, being the first in Aroostook to run an eight age paper. The people of Caribou and of Aroostook generally appreciated this stroke of newspaper enterprise, and the venture proved a pay- ing one from the start. Mr. Hall now has one of the best country newspaper and job offices in Maine, and also owns valuable business property in Caribou. The souvenir edition of the Republican, published in 1896 to commemorate the building of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad into Aroostook, is said to have been the finest edition of a newspaper ever issued in New England, and has greatly benefited Aroostook county by attracting widespread attention to the great natural resources and remarkable busi- ness growth of that section. Mr. Hall is President of the Board of Trade of Caribou, and is a member of St. Albans Commandery Knights Templar and also of the Odd Fellows fraternity. In politics he has always been a Republican. He was married July 14, 1892, to Miss Estelle F. Parshley, of Dexter, Maine.

Kennebec River into booms; these, alone and unaided, he took down the river to Augusta, a distance of ten miles. By the influence of Mr. Brown he obtained a situation in the post-office at Augusta in 1846, under Aseph R. Nichols as Post- master, where he remained about two years. At sixteen, with only five dollars in his pocket, he went to Boston, travelling by stage to Portland and thence by boat. He found a boarding place on Purchase street, and sought everywhere for work, willing to do anything, but of no avail. Ten days he

JOSEPH P. HAMLIN.

HAMLIN, JOSEPH PEREZ, of Norwood, Massa- chusetts, was born at what is known as the " Mid- dle Road," in Sidney, Kennebec county, Maine, June 9, 1832, son of William and Polenah (Bacon) Hamlin. His maternal grandparents were William and Mary Bacon of Bacon's Corner, Maine. His grandfather Bacon was the owner of the store and hotel at that place for many years. His paternal grandfather was Perez Hamlin of Augusta, Maine. Joseph P. Hamlin's educational opportunities were scanty and were embraced in a few short terms in the common school of Sidney. At the age of twelve years, he left school and was employed by Augustus Brown in towing logs, as they floated down the he secured a situation in the drygoods store of C.

had walked the streets, homesick and disheartened, his little stock of money gone, when providentially he went into the Pearl Street House to ask for work, and while waiting, took up the morning paper, which gave an account of the death of the board waiter of the United States Hotel by drown- ing in Braman's Baths the day previous. Without loss of time, he hastened to the hotel and applied for the place, which he fortunately secured, and in which he remained for some time, working for his board. Later Mr. Holman, the proprietor, gave him ten dollars a month as bell-boy. Out of his "scanty wages at the end of the first year he had saved twenty-five dollars and deposited it in the old Suffolk Savings Bank. He remained here until

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F. Hovey & Company, then on Winter street. This was congenial occupation to him, as he had always had un ambition to become a tradesman. From here he went into the service of Mr. Metcalf on the corner of Washington and Boylston streets, and remained with him until he closed out his business. The next few years were spent in the employ of W. W. Palmer of Salem, who in .850 kindly secured him a situation with Turner, Wilson & Company, wholesale dealers in drygoods and silks, on the corner of Milk and Congress streets, Boston, where he remained for two years at a salary of four hun- dred dollars a year. Mr. Brown, the junior partner, then formed the firm of White, Brown, Davis & Company, and Mr. Hamlin became the junior part- ner, which connection he retained for nine years. Here he conceived the idea, and made the sug- gestion to the firm, of selling goods by sample as a travelling salesman. The senior members were incredulous, but permitted him to make the trial. The first year he sold goods to the amount of fifty- four thousand dollars, demonstrating the practica- bility of this method. So far as known he was the first travelling salesman, and, the originator of this now universally accepted method of business. In 1863 Mr. Hamlin left the firm of White, Brown, Davis & Company, and went into business on Chambers street, New York, where from January I to June 27, 1863, he sold goods to the amount of twelve hundred thousand dollars. He then sold out his business and, again providentially, went to Willimantic, Connecticut, where he bought real estate at low rates in 1864. He purchased the Franklin Hall estate, the old Brainard House, also the Bassett, Atwood and Hibbard blocks, and built the Hamlin Block. In 1868 he sold his real estate to old residents of the town, left Willimantic, and bought a farm of Robert Dresser in Needham, Massachusetts, where he resided for three years. He then exchanged this farm for estates in East Boston and established his residence there. In 1880 Mr. Hamlin was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the Second District, consisting of Ward Two, East Boston, and was re-elected in 1881. He served during both terms on the Committee of Public Health, and was Chair- man of the Committee on Pay Roll in the latter year. In politics he has been a lifelong Republi- can, but was twice elected to the Legislature from a strong Democratic ward on a Republican nomi- nation. Mr. Hamlin now resides on his farm of about a hundred acres in the town of Norwood,

Massachusetts, in the enjoyment of good health and unabated physical and mental activity. He still has charge of his real estate interests, although the active management has been for a number of years in the hands of his son Edward, at 122 London street, East Boston. He was married June 11, 1857, to Elizabeth C. Sanderson, of Boston ; they had three children : Joseph P., Jr., Elizabeth C. and Edward K. Hamlin. Mrs. Hamlin died 'in 1880 : the children are all living. The youngest son, Edward K. Hamlin, married Velma Webster and resides in Medford, Massachusetts ; they have three children living : Edward Merritt, Russell Eustis and Willard Bates Hamlin.

HAYES, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Lawyer, of Boston and Medford, Massachusetts, was born in Berwick,

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York county, Maine, July 3, 1836, son of Frederick and Sarah (Hurd) Hayes. After attending the public schools of his native town he fitted for college at West Lebanon (Maine) and New Hamp- ton (New Hampshire) academies, and graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1859. Pursuing a course of legal training in the office of Wells & Eastman of Great Falls, New Hampshire, and sub- sequently at Harvard Law School, he was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in Massachusetts in April 1861,

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and established himself in practice in Medford, in partnership with Hon. Elihu C. Baker and George S. Sullivan, the latter a son of Attorney-General Sullivan of New Hampshire. The following year he was appointed by Governor Andrew a Trial Justice for the county of Middlesex, which position he held for ten years, until his resignation in 1873. From 1864 to 1870 he was an assistant United States Assessor. He was at one time a member of the Board of Water Commissioners of Medford, was for a number of years Chairman of the Appropria- tions Committee of the town, and also represented the town as counsel in many important cases before the courts and various legislative committees. He was a member of the School Committee in 1868, Representative to the Legislature for the three years 1872 -- nd State Senator in 1877 8. During part of his legislative service he was Chairman of the Committee on Towns, and in that capacity he received the congratulations of the Speaker of the House for his success in carrying every measure upon which his committee had reported favorably, and in defeating all those against which it had decided. Upon the organization of the first city government of Medford, in February 1893, he was appointed City Solicitor, and still holds that office. Mr. Hayes has had a law office in Boston since 1865. He has been a Trustee of the Medford Savings Bank since its incorporation in 1869, and a member of the Investment Board of that Institu- tion. He is a member of Mount Hermon Masonic Lodge and of the Medford (social) Club. In politics Mr. Hayes is a Republican. He has been twice married, first in 1867, to Abby D. Stetson, daughter of Jotham and Harriet (James) Stetson of Medford, who died in 1869. In 1876 he married Mary H. Harlow, daughter of Thomas S. and Lucy J. (Hall) Harlow.

MOORE, JOSEPH EUGENE, Lawyer, Thomaston, was born in Lisbon, Androscoggin county, Maine, March 14, 1841, son of Joseph Q. and Anna B. (Pierce) Moore. He is descended on both sides from sturdy stock, who participated actively in the settlement and development of the country. His paternal great-grandfat er, John Moore, came to America in the early part of the eighteenth century, married a Miss Boothby of Saco, Maine, lived at Kittery and other towns in York county, and with his son Dennis was killed in the French and Indian War. . His grandfather Moore, also named John,

was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, from Scar- borough, and afterwards settled in Parsonsfield, Maine. His father, born in Parsonsfield, served in the Maine Legislature, and was a prominent man in town and county affairs. His mother was a native of Durham, Maine, and a descendant of Michael Pierce, who came to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1646, and subsequently settled in Scituate, became noted as an Indian fighter, "a captain of great bravery," and was killed with most of his men in King Philip's War. He was a brother of Captain William Pierce, who came over as. Master of the ship Paragon in 1622, brought to Plymouth the

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Anne in 1623, the Charity in 1624, the Jacob in 1625, the Mayflower in 1629 and the Lyon several trips, and in 1639 issued Pierce's Almanack, the first in book form published in the colonies. The subject of this sketch was the fifth in a family of seven children, all of whom are living. When he was fourteen years old he was deprived of his father by death, and his youth was spent in work on the farm, acquiring in the meantime such education as was obtainable in the common schools. Subse- quently determining to get a higher education, by his own energy and independent efforts he fitted for college, and graduated from Bowdoin with honor in 1865; was Class Prophet and Peucinian Orator,

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and was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. After reading law with Judge May of Lewiston and Hon A. P. Gould of Thomaston, he was admitted to the Bar of Knox County in September 1868, and in 1871 entered into partnership with Mr. Gould, his late preceptor, in Thomastown, where he has ever since been in active practice, except for a year spent in European travei in 1878-9. He early be- came connected with important cases, and asso- ciated with prominent members of his profession. A good share of his practice has been before the Su- preme and Circuit Courts of the United States, and he has for many years been accorded a place among the leading lawyers of the state. Mr. Moore served as Collector of Customs for the Waldoboro District of Maine unde- the first Cleveland administration, and under President Cleveland's second term was appointed to that position, which he still holds. In 1883 he was a member of the Commission on Re- vision of the Maine Statutes. He has always been a Democrat in politics, and active in public speak- ing and in political work. In 1885 he was the party candidate for Speaker of the Maine House of Rep- resentatives, of which he was a member in 1878, 1883 and 1885, serving on the Judiciary and other leading committees. Being a fluent speaker, and particularly happy in repartee, he held a prominent position in the legislative body, of which he was one of the hardest workers, and from his urbanity, courtesy and fairness was influential with all parties, his counsels having great weight in shaping legis- lation. He was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Cincinnati in 1880 and Alternate Delegate to the Chicago National Con- vention in 1884, in both of which notable gatherings he was prominently active, and presided over the Democratic State Convention at Lewiston in 1894. Mr. Moore's legal standing and political abilities are supplemented by high literary tastes and attain- ments. He delivered the address before the Maine Medical School at Bowdoin College Commence- ment in June 1891, for which he received the highest praise. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College. He was married June 11, 1872, to Ella Maud Smith, of Thomaston ; they have a daughter : Christine, E. Moore. Mrs. Moore is a writer of some note and has published a book of poems, entitled "Songs of Sunshine and Shadow." ^ Her only story, "Miss Bashby," was published in the Youth's Compan- ion, and received the first prize of five hundred dollars.

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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 58

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