Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of Maine, Part 69

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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Burnside's " Mud March " January 20-24, 1863. In Commander with his " special commendation for the the Chancellorsville campaign, April 27 to May 6, zeal and ability displayed "; after another deserter in the Keechi Valley, Texas, December 13, whom he succeeded in capturing nfteen miles from Fort Richardson ; on numerous scouts to Decatur, Red River and Fort Sill, the latter as escort to General R. S. Mackenzie by special request ; escort to the Kiowa chiefs, Satanta and Big Tree, from Dallas, Texas, to Atocha. Indian Territory; Post Adjutant of Fort Richardson; Acting Regimental Adjutant Fourth Cavalry, September 1862; transferred to Troop A, Fourth Cavalry, by an order from the War Department at the special request of General Mackenzie to command the troop, January 1873 ; on the march changing station from Fort Richardson to Fort Clark, Texas, March 4 to April 1, Acting Quartermaster ; received the " grateful thanks of the State of Texas, particularly of the citizens of our frontier " through its Legislature in joint assem- bly, "for prompt action and gallant conduct in inflicting well-merited punishment upon these scourges of our frontier," in an action with a large body of confederated tribes of Lipan, Kickapoo and Mescalero Apache Indians near Rey Molina, Mexico, May 18, 1873 ; was mentioned in General Order Number Six, Department of Texas, June 2, 1873, and received from the Commanding General of the Department the " thanks and congratulations for the very handsome manner in which you (they) accomplished your (their) perilous and difficult work." For this, Lieutenant Carter received the brevet of "Captain United States Army for gallant service in action." Following this he was on num- erous scouts, and served on the Horse Board as Quartermaster, for purchasing horses, etc., June and July 1873. On February 25, 1875, he was commis- sioned First Lieutenant Fourth United States Cav- alry. On June 28, 1876, he retired from active service, for disability incurred in the same. Since his retirement Captain Carter's health has been such as to deter him from active pursuits, and his time, when his condition has been such as to permit, has been mainly devoted to teaching and literary work. He was Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year, 1877-8 ; was Special Instructor in Military Science and Hygiene at the Newton ( Massachusetts) High School, 1877-81 ; and was Instructor of the School for Officers' Children at West Point for a year, 1881-2. Failing health, however, compelled him to abandon teaching. He removed in 1886 to Washington, District of Columbia, where he has 1863, he was in the Battle of Chancellorsville ; in the Rear Guard, First Brigade ( Barnes'), First Division (Griffin's), Fifth Corps (Meade's) of the army, taking in pontoon bridges at United States Ford when the Army of the Potomac re-crossed the Rappahannock ; and on the Corps of Observation, guarding the fords of the R- pahannock, May 29 to June 13. From June 13 to July 5 he was on the Gettysburg cam- paign supp,Srting the cavalry corps at the Battle of Aldie, June 22 ; in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2 -- 3 ; reconnoissance under fire July 4, and following up the retre. . ing Confederate army. On July 22, 1863, he was placed on detached service, conducting sub- stitutes and drafted men from Massachusetts to the army. He was mustered out October 4, 1864. In 1865 Mr. Carter was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, from the Sixth Massachusetts Congressional District, by Hon. D. W. Gooch. On June 15, 1870, he entered into active service as Second Lieutenant of Troop E in the Fourth United States Cavalry ; was engaged in numerous scouts after Comanche, Kiowa and other Indians, to the headquarters of the Concho and Colorado rivers, Texas, until March 27, 1871, when his station was changed from Fort Concho to Fort Richardson, Texas ; was on escort to wagon train to Fort Griffin, Texas, April 10-17, 1871, during which on a single horse he made a night ride of eighty miles from Fort Griffin to Fort Richardson in nine hours, crossing two streams ; on escort for General Sherman into Fort Richardson from a point where Satanta, the celebrated Kiowa chiei, com- mitted a massacre the same night, May 18; on In- dian expedition into the Gypsum Belt of Texas and up the North Fork of the Red River after Kicking Bird's band of Kiowas, as Adjutant of the column, August 1871; on second expedition to the Pan Handle and Staked Plains ( I.lano Estacado) of Texas until November 18, during which was in action October 10, 1871, with Mow-wi's band of hostile Quahada Comanches at Canon Blanco, Freshwater Fork of the Brazos River ; was nearly surrounded with five men by several hundred In- dians, losing one man killed and one wounded, and being brevetted First Lieutenant for " specially gallant conduct "; after deserters from November 39 to December 8 in a terrific " norther " and sleet storm, and under other circumstances of peculiar hardship, capturing ten deserters, for which he re- ceived a letter of thanks from the Department

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since resided. He is the author of the following short stories and sketches, published in the Youth's Companion, New York Tribune and the Outing Magazine : " The Cowboy's Verdict"; " Jackrab- bit's Victory."; " Buffalo vs. Bulldog"; "The Boy Soldier at Gettysburg " (a New York Tribune prize story, republished in Lovell's Library Series, 1887) and " A Raid into Mexico." He was also associ- ated in the preparation and publication of the His- tory of the Wilson Regiment (Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry), and is the author of sev- eral volumes of unpublished works (typewritten manuscript) illustrated and bound : " Four Brothers Blue, or Reveries of the Rebellion "; " War Letters from the Battle-Front, or Lights and Shadows of the War"; "Wearing the Cadet Gray, or Memories of West Point Days"; " Reveille and Taps, or On the Border with Mackenzie" and "Letters and Leaves from my Diary," besides two illustrated typewritten manuscript volumes of genealogy entitled "Family Historic Genealogical Records," with many manuscripts not offered for publication. Captain Carter is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and the Army and Navy Club of Washington. In politics he has always been a consistent, sound money Re- publican, but has not been in public life. He was married September 4, 1870, to Mary Maria Smith, daughter of David Dexter Smith of New Orleans, Louisiana. They have four children : Mellie Gold- thwaite, born June 21, 1871 ; Bessie Richardson, born November 14, 1872; Robert Dexter, born August 10, 1876, and Natalie Powell Carter, born May 30, 1886.

CHADWICK, CYRUS W., of Chadwick & Pot- ter, ship brokers, New York, was born in Friend- ship, Knox county, Maine, September 30, 1846, son of Cyrus H. and Nancy (Stone) Chadwick. His father, a native of Maine, for many years followed the sea, from which he retired some time since and settled in the town of Cushing, Knox county, where he now resides. His mother was a daughter of Captain James Stone, also a shipmaster and later a merchant of Cushing. In early boyhood he attended the common schools of his native town, and at the age of eleven went to sea with his father, at sixteen taking charge of a vessel. He continued in command of vessels mainly in the coastwise trades for many years, his last vessel

being the schooner Lizzie Chadwick, named for his daughter. His trips were very successful, and he has the credit of having made the quickest passage on record for a sailing vessel, from Thomaston to New York in forty-five hours and fifteen minutes. He has brought into different United States ports about thirty million feet of yellow pine and spruce lumber. In April 1891 he established himself in New York in the ship-brokerage business, in asso- ciation with Chas. H. Potter of Brooklyn, New York.

C. W. CHADWICK.

This relation is still continued. Captain Chadwick is a Master Mason, and an Odd Fellow, holding membership in Elizabeth City Lodge of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, also a member of the United Order of the Golden Cross. He was married July 4, 1870, to Helen Trefethen, daughter of James Trefethen, a seacaptain of Friendship; they have a daughter : Lizzie Chadwick.

ELWELL, JAMES WILLIAM, Merchant and Philan- thropist, Brooklyn, New York, was born in Bath, Maine, August 27, 1820, son of John and Mary `(Sprague) Elwell. His grandfather Payn Elwell was a general merchant in Waldloborough, Maine. Ile received his early education in the common schools and at Bath Academy, and at the age of

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eighteen was taken into partnership by his father in the shipping and commission business in South street, New York. The father died in August 1847, and he has continued in the same business in South street for fifty-nine years. The business has since

J. W. ELWELL.

been largely extended, reaching all over the world. Mr. Elwell was connected in 1838 with the old Merchants' Exchange, which subsequently became the present Produce Exchange of New York, and of which he is now a member. He became a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce in 1855, and he was one of the incorporators of the Ship Owners' Association. He has also been connected with various railroad, insurance and other enter- prises outside of his individual business, and was with Samuel J. Tilden, William B. Ogden and others interested in the buildin , of the Chicago & North- western and other Western railroads. Mr. Elwell is noted as a philanthropist, having given away prob- ably a million dollars in benefactions of various kinds. His most prominent characteristics, by which he is best known, are fondness for old people, affection for children, love of flowers, and gener- osity. He has officiated as Trustee of the Clinton Venue Congregational Church of Brooklyn since 1$54, a period of more than forty years. He is now · onnected with over forty different institutions. In

politics Mr. Elwell is an Independent. He was married in 1844 to Miss Olivia P. Robinson of Bath, Maine ; she died in 1851, and he subsequently married Miss Lucy E. R. Stinson, also of Bath.

EVERETT, DAVID BARTLETT, Stevedore, New York, was born in 1826, in Thomaston, Maine, son of David B and Jane (Bartlett) Everett. His father was a native of Maine, and a farmer. He was educated in the common schools until the age of fourteen, when he entered upon a seafaring life. At eighteen he was Master of a vessel, and in this capacity he followed the sea for fourteen years, until 1858, when he went to New York and engaged in business as a master stevedore, in which he has continued to the present time, being now at the head of one of the largest concerns in the stevedor- ing line in New York city. Captain Everett is a

D. B. EVERETT.

member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics is a Republican. He was married June 21, 1850, to Clementine Cole Fales, of Thomaston ; they have . four daughters: Mary Clementine, Emily Fales, Sarah Frances and Jennie Rose Everett. Mr. Everett is now residing at Pearl River, Rock- land county, New York.

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Company, New York, was born in Poland, Andros- coggin county, Maine, January 7, 1836, son of Josiah and Elizabeth ( Freeman) Milliken. He is of Scotch ancestry on the paternal side, and is of the

MILLIKEN, SETH M., of Deering, Milliken & York. In politics he has always been a Republican. He was married October 14, 1874, to Margaret I .. Hill, daughter of Dr. L. G. Hill of Dover; New Hampshire. Mrs. Milliken died in ISSo, leaving three children : Seth M., Jr., Gerry H. and Mar- garet L. Milliken.

OGIER, JESSE HOSMER, Editor and Publisher of the Damariscotta Herald, was born in Camden, Maine, February 13, 1871, son of Joseph W. and Abbie D. (Ward) Ogier. The family of Ogier originated in France, and emigrated to England about sógo. Peter Ogier, a wealthy London mer- chant, sent his son Abram to Quebec to engage in business, whence the latter emigrated in 1773 to Camden, Maine, with his son Lewis, who was the grandfather of Joseph, and great-grandfather of Jesse, the subject of this sketch. Jesse H. Ogier received his early education in the common schools of his native town, and graduated from the Camden

SETH M. MILLIKEN.

seventh generation in descent from Hugh Milliken, who was born in Scotland and came to this country in 1860. He received his early education in the common schools and at Hebron (Maine) Academy. At the age of twenty he opened a country store at Minot, Maine, under his own name, establishing a successful business. In 1861 he went to Portland and engaged in the wholesale grocery business with his brother-in-law, Daniel W. True, under the firm i name of True & Milliken, in which he continued until 1865, when he went into the wholesale dry- goods business as a member of the firm of Deering, Milliken & Company, Portland. This relation Mr. Milliken continued to January 1894, but for many years his residence and chief interests have been in New York, where in 1867 he established a dry- J. H. OGIER. goods commission business, in connection with the High School with the highest honors in scholarship in 1889. He entered Colby University in the fall of the latter year, graduating in the class of 1893. While going through college he had some experi- ence as a reporter, and soon after graduation he purchased the Damariscotta Herald, which as edi- Portland house, and became largely identified with mills and manufacturing. The house is one of the largest in the country in the textile commission and general drygoods trade. Mr. Milliken is a member of the Union League, the Republican, the Riding and Driving and the Merchants' clubs of New tor and publisher he has since conducted. Mr.

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Ogier is at present serving as Superintendent of Schools of Damariscotta, having been elected to that position in March 1896. He is a member of Alna Masonic Lodge, Lincoln Lodge Knights of P'ythias and Crystal Chapter in the Order of the Eastern Star. He is a Republican in politics, and is Secretary and Treasurer of the Young Men's Mckinley Club of Damariscotta and Newcastle. He was married October 6, 1896, to Emma Hatch Fuller, of Damariscotta.

PARSONS, WILLIAM HENRY, Shipping Merchant, New Yo. was born in South Paris, Oxford county,

W. H. PARSONS.

Maine, November 24, 1816, son of Henry Rust and Betsey (Gross) Parsons. His paternal grandfather was William Parsons, a native of Massachusetts, and one of the first se: lers of the Town of Norway, Maine. He was educated in the common schools, and after leaving school was engaged in the grocery business in Bangor until 1853, and for the next fifteen years was Cashier of the Farmers' Bank of that city. In 1867 he went to New York and engaged in the ship and freight brokerage business, in which he has since continued. Since 1867 he has been a member of the firm of Parsons & Loud and Parsons & Barnes, South Street. Mr. Parson is identified with the New York Maritime Exchange,

of which he is one of the oldest members. In poli- tics he is a Republican, but has never taken an active part in public life. While resident in Bangor he was interested in military affairs, and served as Sergeant in the old Bangor Rifle Company, a noted militia organization of those days. He was married June 9, 1844, to Sarah Maria Preston, of Bangor ; their two children, Grace Osborne and Henry Rust Parsons, both died young.

SHAW, SETH PADELFORD, of New York City, was born in East Eddington, Penobscot county, Maine, September 17, 1828, son of Seth Padelford and Susan Crossman (Padelford ) Shaw. His ancestral line runs back from his grandfather, Mason Shaw, through Mason Shaw, Jonathan Shaw and Benjamin Shaw to Ichabod Shaw, who came from England in 1670, settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and was slain by the Indians in 1675. He acquired his

SETH P. SHAW.

early education in the common schools of his native town, and received his training for active life in serving his time at the painters' trade in Ells- worth, Hancock county, Maine. In 1859 he went to New York city, where he has been engaged in business for himself as a house, sign and fresco painter for the lost twenty seven years. He is also a large owner in New England and coast shipping.

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Mr. Shaw is a member of Evangelist Lodge of Masons, and of the Master Painters' Association of New York. In politics he is an active Republican and prominent in public affairs. He was first mar- ried November 4, 1851, to Sarah Vose Fales, of Thomaston, Maine ; they had four children, all now deceased. In 1879, April 14, Mr. Fales was a second time married, to Sarah Watts, of Newburg, New York.

SHOREY, HENRY AUGUSTUS, Editor and Proprie- tor of the Bridgton News, was born in Waterville, M ' e, April 3, 1840, eldest son of Francis Warren

HENRY A. SHOREY.

and Mary Jane ( Ricker) Shorey. His father was a son of Reuben and Mary (Warren) Shorey. His grandfather, Reul en Shorey, was a native of Som- ersworth, New Hampshire, and removed early in his married life to Waterville, where he died in his eighty-fifth year. Mary Warren was closely related to the family of General Joseph Warren, the patriot commander who fell at Bunker Hill; she survived her husband, and died at Waterville at the age of ninety-five. Francis W. Shorey learned the black- smith trade in Waterville, and removed in 1842 to Bath, Maine, where he followed that vocation until his death in 1854, aged fifty-four years. His wife

was the daughter of Joseph Ricker of Waterville ; she died in Bridgton at the age of fifty-four. They were the parents of eight children : Hannah Ricker, Sophia Penney, Henry Augustus, Frazier Trott, Winfield Scott, Francis Warren, and a son and daughter that died in infancy. Henry A. Shorey attended the public schools of Bath until the age of fourteen, when the death of his father and the con- sequent family needs threw him upon his own resources. Apprenticing himself to the printing trade in the office of the Eastern Times, a weekly newspaper of Bath, he there laid the foundation for his subsequent successful career as a publisher and editor. He was employed in Bath printing offices, following the fortunes of the Times newspaper in various changes and consolidations, for seven years, at the end of which period occurred two important events -he became of age, and the Civil War broke out. Inspired by the youthful patriotism of the time, he was among the first in Bath to enter his name as a new recruit upon the rolls of the old Bath City Grays, which afterwards became Com- pany A of the Third Maine Regiment of Volunteers. Unfortunately for his aspirations, in the rigid medi- cal examination ordered just prior to going into camp, the pale faced printer's boy was among the number thrust aside as not being sufficiently robust for military duty. Although keenly disappointed, he was not altogether dispirited, but waited hope- fully and watched for his opportunity to enter one of the later regiments. In the following October, under the advice and encouragement of Governor Washburn, he engaged in recruiting service ; and going into camp with his recruits at Augusta in the latter part of November, he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant of Company B, Fifteenth Maine Volunteers. For four years and seven months he shared the fortunes and privations of this regiment, partaking in all its campaigns and varied experi- ences - with it following Farragut and Butler to the capture and occupation of New Orleans ; spending three successive summers in the malaria- infected swamp-regions of the Mississippi; cam- paigning with Banks in the expedition to the coast of Texas, and being in command of the boat's crew which first landed and restored the Stars and Stripes to Texas soil after the flag was so dramati- cally unfurled by Twiggs; participating in the `severe marches and desperate engagements of the Red River expedition in Western Louisiana ; joining Grant's forces on the Potomac with the Nineteenth Corps in 1864, serving in the fall of

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that year under Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, and being with his command under Hancock on the march from Winchester toward Lynchburg when the tidings came of Lee's surrender. He was successively promoted to First-Lieutenant and Captain, served for quite a period as Adjutant of his regiment, and in March 1865 was brevetted Major "for meritorious services during the war." In the great review of the army by the President at Washington in May . 1865, commemorating the close of the war and the dawn of peace, he com- manded his company. Subsequently he was sent with his regiment to Georgia and South Carolina, where for full year longer he was engaged in the troubles and exciting adventures of the reconstruc- tion period, until finally mustered out in July 1866. While in South Carolina he served as Provost Mar- shal for the counties of Horry and Georgetown, and for a time was commanding officer of a sub-district in Northern South Carolina - embracing the coun- ties of Chester, Laurens, York, Union and Spartan- burg - during a period of general disorder in the interim between the withdrawal of military and the re-establishment of civil government. He also served as Judge-Advocate of a Military Commission at Columbia, South Carolina, trying some noted crim- inal cases, and held besides a number of important detached appointments. At the close of his army career in 1866, Major Shorey at once resumed his old vocation, the printing business. Spending a few months in the book-printing house of John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, Massachusetts, he re- turned to Bath in 1867, and with Elijah Upton purchased the Times, which had developed into a daily, and the American Sentinel, a weekly. For three years they conducted the publication of these newspapers, and then sold the business. A little later Major Shorey fitted up a new establishment for job-printing, and for the publication of the Maine Temperance Advocate. Soon after, in 1870, he removed the outfit to Bridgton, and established the Bridgton News, which he has successfully conducted for over a quarter of a century, and which has long been recognized as one of the influential weeklies of the state. In 1889-91 Major Shorey was again connected with the publication of the Bath Daily Times and American Sentinel, in association with his eldest son and brother, also during most of that period assisting his son in the editorship of those papers. In 1873 he was ap- pointed to a position in the Portland Custom House, under the collectorship of Ex-Governor Lot M.

Morrill ; and under the succeeding administration of Collector Fred N. Dow was promoted and served as the sole weigher and gauger of the port for four and a half years. From this office he was removed for political reasons upon the advent of a Democratic Collector appointed by the Cleveland administration in 1886, but was reinstated under the civil service rules upon the return of the Republican party to power four years later, and served until again removed under the second Cleveland administra- tion, in June 1895. In politics he is an ardent Re- publican, and has been an active participant in the caucuses and conventions of his party. He was a member of Governor Perham's staff in 1873, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and served on the Board of Trustees of the Maine Insane Hospital during the successive administrations of Governors Perham, Dingley and Connor. Major Shorey has been always active in temperance work, and promi- nently identified with the order of Good Templars ; was for several years Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Maine, was Grand Worthy Chief Templar for two terms, and has represented Maine in the Supreme Councils of the order at St. Louis, Louisville, Detroit, and on other occasions. He has been a Mason and an Odd Fellow since 1864, was for a dozen years President of the Maine Odd Fellows' Relief Asso- ciation, and is a member of the Pythian fraternity. In the Grand Army of the Republic he was a charter member and Adjutant of the first post organized in Maine, served on the staff of the order's first Commander-in-Chief, in which capacity he was empowered to establish a sufficient number of posts to warrant the formation of the Department of Maine, and has twice held the position of Assist- ant Quartermaster-General of the Department. For the past dozen years or more he has been the Secretary and Historian of the Fifteenth Maine Regimental Association, and in 1890 he prepared and published " The Story of the Maine Fifteenth," an elaborate work which was received with much favor by the press and public. Major Shorey was married in 1864, in Bath, to Ida Devereux Currier. Ten children have been born to them, five of whom are living ; Albert Currier, Editor of the Brunswick Telegraph ; Eva Lovering, Stenographer for the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, Augusta ; Maude Kimball (now Mrs. Harry W. Walker) of Bridgton; Henry Augustus, Jr. (in the ('lass of 1900, Bowdoin College,) and Izora Deve- reux Shorey, a young miss of twelve years. The children deceased all died in infancy.

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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 69

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