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EMERY, ROBERT STOVER, Stevedore, New York, was born in Eastport, Maine, August 20, 1828, son of Henry T. and Mary E. (Stover) Emery. His grandfather Caleb Emery was a native of Maine, and was a large shipbuilder and shipowner. He was educated in the common schools, and followed the sea until 1869, when he established himself in New York in a general stevedoring business, which has been very successful and in which he still con- tinuer. He was master of a full-rigged brig, the Charlotte of Calais, a few months before he was twenty-one years old, and afterwards sailed as master in the employ of Joseph M. Livermore of Eastport
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until about 1860, when he went to New York, con- tinuing to follow the sea as Master, mostly in the foreign trade, ur til 1869, as above stated. Captain Emery is quite largely interested in shipping, being part owner in several vessels. He is a member of the Maritime Association of the Port of New York and of the Marine Society of New York, also of the Masonic fraternity and the American Legion of Honor. In politics he is a Republican. He was married May 17, 1849, to Lydia Leland, of East- port ; they have seven children : Lizzie, Rebecca, Adeline, Mand, Bertie, Robert (died young) and James Emery.
MITCHELL, WILLIAM HOWARD, Lawyer, Boston, was born in North Yarmouth, Maine, Angust 14, 1861, only child of Azor and Sarah Jane (Shaw) Mitchell. He is descended from Experience Mitchell, who came to Plymouth, New England, in the ship Ann, in 1623, and married, about 1628, Jane, daughter of Francis and Esther Cook of Plymouth. Francis Cook was one of the Mayflower company in 1620, and his wife Esther, with their children, Jacob, Jane and Esther, came to Plymouth in the Ann with Experience Mitchell. The lot of land on which Experience Mitchell built a house after his marriage, on the easterly side of Market street, Plymouth, is well defined. In 1631 he moved to Duxbury, and thence late in life to Bridgewater, where he died in 1689, aged eighty years. Jacob Mitchell, his son, removed to Dartmouth, Massa- chusetts, about 1669, and had a son Jacob, who re- moved to Kingston, Massachusetts, and thence in 1728 to North Yarmouth (now Yarmouth), Maine. Another Jacob, son of Jacob last named, married Elizabeth Gooding, and was the father of Azor Mitchell, who was born May 8, 1828, and in 1859 married Sarah Jane Shaw of Cumberland, Maine, who had been for twelve years a school-teacher in that region. Their only child, William H. Mitchell, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the home farm, attending only the winter terms of district school, until he was eighteen years of age. In the spring of 1880 he entered the college-preparatory class of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, Readfield, and by doubling courses graduated in 1881, after four terms in that institution. He then entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, graduating therefrom in 1885 with the highest honors, after having won over seven hun- dred dollars in special prizes during his course. Following graduation he took charge of the High School in Spencer, Massachusetts, but resigned the position in December 1885, to devote himself wholly to the study of law. This he pursued for a time at home, under the advice and direction of his kinsman Hon. Thomas B. Reed (Mr. Reed's mother, Matilda Mitchell, being second cousin of Azor Mitchell), and later in the office of Edwin L. Dyer, Recorder of the Municipal Court of Portland, Maine, and afterwards City Clerk of Portland for many years. In October 1886 he entered the Boston University Law School, where he completed the regular three-years course in one year, graduat- ing with the degree of LL. B. in June 1887. In August following he was admitted to the Suffolk
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Bar in Boston, from which city he shortly after re- moved, and began the practice of his profession in Denver, Colorado, in partnership with his college- classmate, Stephen S. Abbott, of Bethel, Maine, since prominent as the special prosecutor of Dr. T. Thacher Graves, and now City Judge of Denver. Finding the high altitude of Denver injurious to his health, he returned to Boston in April ISSS, assum- ing the position of Treasurer and General Eastern Represent tive of the Colorado Farm-Loan Com- pany, a corporation organized to purchase, sell and make loai ? upon Denver property. From this he retired in 1891, since which time he has devoted
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himself exclusively to the practice of law, giving especial attention to corporation law and insolvency court cases. Mr. Mitchell received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater in ISSS. He is iden- tified with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of Wyoming Lodge, of which he has been Senior Deacon ; of Waverly Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; and of Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of Denver Camp Woodmen of the Workl; and of Beacon Lodge, Ancient Order United Workmen, of Boston, of which he was Foreman in 1894. He married Oct- ober 2, 1889. Harriet Louise Orent, only daughter of Frank E: Orcutt of Melrose, Massachusetts,
Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Massachusetts 1889 to 1893 ; they have one child : William Howard Mitchell, Junior, born September 10, 1891. Mr. Mitchell's law offices are in the Fiske Buikling, State street, Boston, and his resi- dence since his marriage has been in Melrose.
FABYAN, GEORGE, M. D., was born in Scarbo- rough, Maine, June 9, 1810, son of Joshua and Mary Clark (Downing) Fabyan ; died in Boston, Massachusetts, May 25, 1874. He was fourth in descent from Justice John Fabyan, the immigrant, who was born in England in 1681 and came to this country in early life, settling in the town of New- ington, New Hampshire. He was by trade a tailor and draper, and was also a Justice of the Peace. His wife was Mary Pickering. He died March 30, 1756, at the ripe age of seventy five years. After the Indian Wars had subsided, in the year 1730 or a little before, Joseph Fabyan, born April 1, 1707, son of Justice John, removed with his brother Cap- tain John to Scarborough, Maine. This town, one of the oldest in New England, had been laid waste by the Indians and wholly abandoned in 1690, and the newcomers formed a part of what is called the second settlement of the town. They received from the proprietors of the town a tract of about six hundred acres of land, fertile and well located, near the Alger tract at Dunstan. Captain John was reputed to be a forceful man, somewhat rough in his manners, and was never married. Joseph was of a more quiet disposition and an active church member; he joined the First Parish Church in Scarborough in 1730, but afterwards took his dis- missal from the First Parish and was one of the signers of the Second Parish covenant when organ- ized in 1744. The two brothers lived together on the farm, a portion of which is still held by their descendants, and traces of their sawmill can still be seen. Joseph Fabyan married, in October 1739, Mary Brackett of Greenland, New Hampshire, who was also a prominent member of the Second Parish Church ; they had six children - one son and five daughters. Joshua Fabyan, Esquire, only son of Joseph, was born in Scarborough in March 1742. Ile received from his father and his uncle, Captain John, mill properties and lands, and was reputed to be wealthy. He carly became prominent in public affairs ; was a member of the county convention held at Falmouth, September 21, 1774, to endorse
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resistance to British aggression ; was one of the Selectmen of Scarborough in 1775, 1779 and 1781; was in 1775 appointed Receiver of Taxes under Henry Gardiner, the Colonial Treasurer; was a member of the Massachusetts General Court in 1776 ; is reputed to have raised, at General Wash- ington's request, the company of which Paul Ellis was Captain and which took part in the Siege of Boston ; was appointed by the General Court one of the Committee for Cumberland County to raise men tr go on the expedition to Canada in 1776; was one of the Justices of the Court of General Ses- sions 1 : Cumberland County from October 1775 to April 1797 ; was member of the Committee of Cor-
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respondence and Safety in Scarborough in 1782, and was one of the first Overseers of Bowdoin Col- lege in 1794, resigning in 1798. He too lived on the old Fabyan farm 1 Scarborough. His wife was Sarah Brackett of Portland, and both were active church members. He died June 20, 1799. Joshua Fabyan, born March 28, 1782, was the youngest of Squire Fabyan's family of five sons and two daughters. He married November 26, 1803, Mary Clark, daughter of John Downing of Kennebunk, and lived on the ancestral farm. He inherited the religious tendencies of his family and joined the Methodist, Episcopal Church, then newly estab-
lished in Maine, and died at the early age of forty-two, leaving his family in the care of his widow, a woman of unusual ability and strength of character. Of his four sons, one became a clergyman, two were physicians, and one was a justice of the peace; the daughter married a clergyman. Dr. George Fabyan, the subject of this sketch, was the third son of Joshua Fabyan. He attended the village school, which then was of academic rank, and on leaving school began the study of medicine with Dr. Henry Greene, a distin- guished practitioner of Saco. He graduated from the Bowdoin College Medical School in the class of 1833, and immediately after receiving his diploma began practice in Great Falls, New Hampshire, where he married Abigail (Junkins) Cutts. After practicing for a while in Great Falls he went to Providence, Rhode Island. There he became emi- nently successful in his profession, but his health failing he returned to Maine, and for several years practiced in Portland. While there he was Surgeon in the Maine Hospital for the years 1852-3. In November 1854 he took up his residence in Boston, where he soon acquired an extensive and lucrative practice, and became one of the prominent physicians of that city. He continued active in the church, both as a member and officer, and was always interested in charitable work. For many years he served as a member of the School Board, and was one of the Overseers of the Poor and held , other official positions. Dr. Fabyan was a man of fine presence and of most genial manners, and was in every way worthy of his excellent and distin- guished ancestry. In the church, in his profession, in his family and social relations, and as a citizen, he was one who may truly be called a good repre- sentative of the highest type of Christian gentleman. He had the confidence of his patients and of his professional brethren, and was held in the highest esteem by an extensive circle of acquaintances. He died somewhat suddenly, May 25, 1874, being then, at the age of sixty-four, at the height of his activity and usefulness. Resolutions of various bodies and associations with which he was con- nected, attested the great regard in which he was universally held. His family consisted of three daughters : Abbie M., Sarah and Julia ; and one son : George Francis Fabyan, who for some years has been a leading member of the well-known firm of Bliss, Fabyan & Company, and is one of the most prominent managers of cotton mills in New England.
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PART VI.
BEAL, FLAVIUS ORLANDO, Mayor of Bangor, was born in Monmouth, Kennebec county, Maine, June 2, 1841, n of Samuel and Maria A. (Warren) Beal. His grandfather, William Beal, son of Jonathan Beal of Durham, Androscoggin county, Maine, came from Durham to Monmouth in 1821, purchasing a farm in the Warren District, so called, upon which he resided. He married, in 1803, Maria Tracy, and reared a family of nine children, of whom Samuel, father of Mayor Beal, was the eldest son. The youngest son, George W. Beal, learned the machin- ist trade at an early age, was long identified with the Portland Locomotive and Marine Engine Works, serving as Superintendent ior about twenty years ; more recently he was General Superintendent of the Houston Car Company at Houston Heights, Texas, but is now again located in Portland. Flavius O. Beal was deprived of both father and mother by death in 1848, within four months of each other. They left three children, two sons and a daughter, of whom the subject of this sketch was the youngest, being then but seven years of age. He lived for four years in the town of Litchfield with John Patten, and then removed to Winthrop where he lived with Rufus Berry on the Wayne road and with Columbus Fairbanks three years on the Augusta road. He attended the Litchfield town schools four years, Winthrop town schools four years and Towle Acad- emy in Winthrop two years. Following the com- pletion of his course of : tudy at the latter institution he worked on the milk farm of Colonel William Chisam in Augusta for a year, and then went to Portland and learned the trade of brushmaking. On the breaking out of the Civil War, in 1861, he enlisted in the First Regiment of Maine Volunteers for three months, and served until the expiration of his term of enlistment. Re-enlisting in the Thir- teenth Maine Regiment he passed the winter in cump on the arsenal grounds at Augusta. Having . previously contracted inflammatory rheumatism with
the First Maine Regiment, he had to leave the ser- vice in March 1862. In 1862 he entered the service of the Maine Central Railroad Company, and after serving for some time as Baggage Master, was pro- moted to the position of Conductor of the through Pullman train between Bangor and Boston. In this capacity he officiated for several years, becoming widely known to the travelling public and very pop- ular along the whole line of the road. In 1874, having become tired of railroading, and possessing a fondness and thorough knowledge of horses, he purchased the extensive livery stables connected with the Bangor House in Bangor, then conducted by O. M. Shaw. Entering into his new occupation with the energy and push which have always charac- terized his undertakings, he soon built up a large and prosperous business. The attractions of Mount Desert and Bar Harbor for summer tourists and pleasure seekers were about this time beginning to be widely known, and to facilitate travel to this now popular resort, Mr. Beal established the Bangor & Bar Harbor Tally-ho Coach Line, which soon became famous, and was operated with great success until the completion of the railroad some years later. In 1878 Mr. Beal leased the Bangor House, a large and widely-known hostelry, but at that time doing an unprofitable business. He remodeled and largely refurnished the house, which under his liberal and progressive management soon acquired great fame and became, as it has since remained, one of the most popular and successful hotels in the state. In 1881 he purchased the establishment and continued as its active proprietor until 1889, when increasing outside interests demanding more of his attention, he leased his house and retired from personal connec- tion with the hotel business. In 1875 he purchased the livery stock of the l'enobscot Exchange stables, from the heirs of Abram Woodard, and continued to conduct the business of both stables. In 1881. at the time of his purchase of the Bangor House,
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he also purchased the l'enobscot Exchange from the Woodard heirs, and for three years he carried on both hotels; he then leased them to other parties, and since then has not been associated in their management, although he still owns them. In 1883, in association with J. P. Bass and E. 1 .. Sterns, Mr. Beal built the fine fair grounds at Maple- wood Park, Bangor, and he is at present President of the Eastern Maine State Fair Association, which holds an annual exhibition on the Maplewood grounds. In the fall of 1878 he purchased a farm of two hundred and forty acres on Hammond street, Bangor, where for some years he had forty to fifty
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head of cattle, three hundred to four hundred hogs and a large quantity of poultry. For a long time he supplied his hotels from this farm, but in 1894, be- cause of his many engrossing matters, he disposed of it. In the spring of 1888, in association with Charles S. Pearl and others, he built Union Hall. In the same year he was elected a Director of the Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad. In the spring of 1892 he established the Bangor Creamery, of which he is President and Manager, and in which an annual business of seventy-five thousand dollars has been built up. He was one of the chief promoters of the Bangor, Orono & Oldtown Electric Railroad
Company, and is the Bangor director in this line, which has proved one of the best electric street- railway investments in New England ; the line is fifteen miles in length and was opened July 9, 1895. He is also one of the chief promoters and a Director in the Penobscot Central Railroad Company, which is to build and equip during 1897 an electric rail- way twenty-six miles in length from Bangor to Ken- duskeag, Corinth and Charleston. For more than a decade Mr. Beal has been a prominent factor in Bangor politics. In 1887 he was elected Republi- can Alderman in Ward Two, which heretofore had been strongly Democratic. In 1889 his name was used in the Republican mayoralty caucus, but he was defeated by Hon. C. F. Bragg, who was renom- inated and re-elected. In 1891 he was nominated by the Republicans for Mayor and defeated at the polls. In 1892 he was renominated and elected. In 1893 and 1894 he was each year re-elected, and in 1895 he was renominated and defeated at the polls after a contest necessitating two elections. In 1896 he was renominated and re-elected with a plurality of eleven hundred and seventy-six votes. In 1897 he ran as an Independent Republican and was elected by a plurality of two hundred and eighty-six over his nearest opponent. He is there. fore at present serving his fifth term as Mayor, a record without parallel in the history of Maine municipal politics. Mr. Beal is a zealous believer in public improvements, and during his administra- tion of municipal affairs has inaugurated many im- portant projects, notable among them being the new City Hall. The corner stone was laid July 4, 1893, and on July 4, 1894, the handsome edifice was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, the Gov- ernor being present. In 1894 at his suggestion the city put in a new water-main from the water-works to Thomas Hill at a cost of seventy thousand dollars, and the same year the engine houses at the Water Works were torn down and rebuilt at a cost of six thousand dollars. Among other improve- ments mide largely during his administration were the Palm Street School House, filter plant at the Water Works, and the new Armory. During 1896 very extensive improvements to Bangor's water- works system in the line of increased pumping capacity and standpipes were inaugurated, and they will be pushed to completion the present year. Mr. Beal was married December 7, 1865, to Lucy Jane Randall, youngest daughter of Reuben and Sarah ( Brown) Randall of Freeport, Maine ; they have no children.
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BOODY, DAVID A., Mayor of Brooklyn, New York, for two terms, 1892-3, was born in Jackson, Waldo county, Maine, August 13, 1837, son of David and Lucretia (Mudgett) Boody. He is descended from Quaker ancestry, and his great-
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grandfather Robert Boody, of Limington, was a minister of that sect, known as the Society of Friends. His father, David Boody, was a native of Maine, and a farmer. His maternal grandfather was John Mudgett, a merchant, and also a native of Maine. His early education was acquired in the common schools of his native town, and in one year's attendance at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After teaching school for a period of five years, he read law with Charles P. Brown of Bangor and Nehemiah Abbott of Belfast, and was admitted to the Bar at Belfast, Waldo county, Maine, in 1860. Opening an office in Rockport, Maine, he remained n the practice of law until June 1862, when he entered the banking house of his uncle, H H. Boody, in New York city, where he continued for two years as clerk and two years as partner, and then engaged in the banking and stock-brokerage business for himself at 12 Wall street. In this business he has since continued to the present time, being now associated with Charles W. Mclellan and his son Henry T. Boody, under the firm name of Boody & Mclellan. In 1890
Mr. Boody was elected Representative to Congress from Brooklyn, but resigned in the following year to accept the Mayoralty of Brooklyn, to which office he was elected in the fall of 1891, and in which he served for two years. Mr. Boody is Vice-President of the Sprague National Bank of Brooklyn, a Trustee of the People's Trust Company and the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company, and President of the Louisiana & Northwestern Railway Company. He is also President of Berkeley Institute for Young Ladies, of Brooklyn; President of the Brooklyn Free Library ; Vice-President of the Brooklyn Home for the Blind ; and member of the Brooklyn, Mon- tauk and Carleton clubs. In politics Mr. Boody is a Democrat. He was married June 1, 1863, to Abbie H. Treat, a native of Frankfort, Waldo county, Maine. They have five children : Henry T., Charles A., Alvin, Edgar and Maude L. Boody.
CARVER, GEORGE ALBERT, Merchant, New York, was born in Searsport, Waldo county, Maine, Octo-
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ber 6, 1836, son of John and Elizabeth (Todd) Carver. He was educated in the public schools, and in early life, from 1858 to 1870, was a ship- builder in Searsport. From 1870 to 1877 he was a shipmaster, sailing on foreign voyages. In 1877 he located in New York and engaged in the business
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of ship supplies, as a member of the firm of Baker, Carver & Company, at 29 South and 125 Broad streets. In this business he has since continued, in the above location until 1893, and since then at 71-75 Front street, under the firm name of Baker, Carver & Morrell. Captain Carver is a member of the Maritime Exchange and the Marine Society of the Port of New York, also of the Masonic frater- hity. In politics he is a Republican. He was first married in 1858 to Celia M. Dow, of Searsport, Maine, who died May 1, 1870, having borne him fc ir children : Scott N., Amos D., George L. and Charlie Carver. In 1879 he married Virginia E. Cháse, of Brooklyn, New York, by whom he has one child : Elizabeth E. Carver.
engaged, and was several times complimented on the field in general orders for his bravery and faith- fulness in battle and in the line of duty. At the First Battle of Bull Run he was one of the six men who volunteered to bring his wounded comrades from the abandoned battle-field. On the return and discharge of the Second Regiment in the sum- mer of 1863, he resumed his studies and entered Colby University, graduating from that institution in 1868 with the highest honors. Following gradu- ation he taught school for about six years in Maine and in the West, and then entered upon the study of law with Hon. Reuben Foster of Waterville,
CARVER, LEONARD DWIGHT, State Librarian of Maine, was born in Lagrange, Penobscot county, Maine, January 26, 1841, son of Cyrus and Mary (Waterhouse) Carver. His paternal grandfather was Nathan Carver of Livermore, Androscoggin county, Maine, whose parents emigrated to that place from Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1779. The ancestry of this branch of the Carver family is traced to William Carver of Marshfield, Massachu- setts, who lived to the advanced age of one hundred and four years. His paternal grandmother was Hannah Mathews, daughter of Deacon Mathews of Warren, Maine. On the maternal side he is a grandson of John Waterhouse of Poland, Maine, who came there in 1792 from Barrington, New Hampshire, with his brother Joseph and his father Captain George Waterhouse of Revolutionary fame. Captain George was a direct descendant of Richard Waterhouse, who came from Boston in 1672 and L. D. CARVER. settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he married Sarah Fernald, daughter of Renald Fernald. Maine. He was admitted to the Bar in 1876, and from that time until ISgo he was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Water- ville. In October 1890 he was appointed to the office of State Librarian at Augusta, and in 1893 was reappointed to that position, which he still holds and administers with signal ability. While resident in Waterville, Mr. Carver served as Town Clerk for five years, and was Coroner of the county for two terms. Wlien the town was made a city, he was designated by his Republican associates as the proper representative, acting in conjunction with Hon. S. S. Brown of the Democratic party, His maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Daniel Jackson. Leonard D. Carver received his early education in the common schools of his native tow 1, and in 1861 was at Foxcroft (Maine) Academy fitting for college when the news came of the fall of Fort Sumter. He immediately enlisted in the Milo Light Artillery Company, which subsequently became Company D in the Second Maine Infantry, commanded by Colonel C. D. Jameson of Bangor, and which had the honor of being the first regiment from Maine to report for duty in Washington. Mr. Carver was in every battle and skirmish in which his regiment was to draw up a city charter. He was the author of
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