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Bangor High School, and graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1390. In 1890-1 he studied law in the offices of Appleton & Chaplin, Bangor, and for two years in :891-2 and 1892-3 he was a student at the Harvard Law School. During his course in the law school he spent four months in Southern Europe, in the summer vacation of 1892. In September 1803 he went to New York and entered the office of Blair & Rudd, attorneys, where he remained until February 1896, when he estab- lished an office at 32 Liberty street and com- merced the practice of law on his own account. Mr. Hubbard has recently been retained as General
WM. WINGATE HUBBARD.
Attorney for the American Mortgage and Realty Company, a corporation organized under the laws of New York, and operating as real estate agents and dealers. He is a member of the Psi Upsilon Society of Bowdoin College, and is unmarried.
HUBBARD, THOMAS HAMLIN, Soldier and Law- yer, was born in Hallowell, Kennebec county, Maine, December 20, 1838, youngest son of Governor John and Sarah H. ( Barrett) Hubbard. His father, Dr. John Hubbard, a physician, born in Readfield, Ken- nebec county, Maine, March 22, 1794, was a mem- ber of the State Senate in 1843, Governor of Maine
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1849-51, and a Commissioner in 1859 under the Reciprocity Treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain in 1854 ; he died suddenly at his home in Hallowell, February 6, 1869. His grandfather John Hubbard was also a physician, born in Kingston, New Hampshire, in 1759, and was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts. His mother, Sarah H. Barrett, was born in Dresden, Lincoln county, Maine, March 4, 1796, daughter of Oliver Barrett, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, October 13, 1764; and granddaughter of Oliver Barrett, born in Chelmsford, January 9, 1726, who , was one of the minute men on the occasion of the
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Lexington Alarm, was a soldier in the Revolutionary army and was killed in battle on October 7, 1777, at what is generally designated as the Second Battle of Stillwater, which preceded General Burgoyne's sur- render. The subject of this sketch was prepared for college at the Hallowell Academy and entered Bowdoin College in 1853, graduating high in his class in 1857. He chose law as his profession, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Maine in 1859. In the fall of 1860 he went to New York, and dur- ing the following winter and spring continued his studies at the Albany Law School. On May 4, 1861, he was admitted to practice in the courts of New York. In the fall of 1862 he returned to his
native state for the purpose of offering his aid in the suppression of the Rebellion, and was mustered into the service of the United States, September 29, 1862, as First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Twenty-fifth Maine Volunteers. He served with his regiment in Virginia until the expiration of its term, July 11, 1863, during part of this time as acting Assistant Adjutant-General of brigade. After the regiment was mustered out he assisted in raising the Thirtieth Regiment of Maine Volunteers, of which he was Commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel on Nov- ember 10, 1863. He went with his regiment to the Department of the Gulf, served through the Red River campaign, had command of his regiment after the battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, and led it in the battles of Cane River Crossing, or Monett's Bluff, and Marksville. He assisted in the construc- tion of the dam across the Red River at Alexandria by means of which the fleet of Federal gunboats was saved, and was mentioned with especial commenda- tion for this service in the reports of Admiral Porter. He assisted in bridging the Atchafalaya River with a fleet of transports for the rapid passage of the army May 18, 1864, when its progress had been checked by the destruction of bridges. He was commissioned Colonel of his regiment May 13, 1864, and mustered into the United States Service with that rank June 2, 1864, in Louisiana. In the autumn of that year he was transferred with his com- mand from Louisiana to Virginia, his regiment being part of the Third Brigade, First Division of the Nineteenth Army Corps. During 1864-5 he was on different occasions in command of the brigade. He served in the Shenandoah Valley in the fall and winter of 1864 in General Sheridan's army On June 7, 1865, he was ordered with his command to Savannah, Georgia, and there presided for a time over a board for the examination of officers of the volunteer forces desiring to enter the regular service. He was commissioned Brigadier-General by brevet with rank from July 13, 1865, and was mustered out of the service soon after that date. General Hubbard returned to the practice of law in New York city in the fall of 1865, and for a year was associated in business with Charles A. Rapallo, afterwards a Judge of the Court of Appeals. For many years he was a member of the law firm of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard, and had a large and varied clientage and conducted many causes involving great financial interests. More recently he has devoted himself chiefly to railroad management. He is President of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company,
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and of several railroad companies of Texas whose lines connect with the Central. He is a Vice-Presi- dent of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and l'resident of companies in California and Oregon whose lines connect with the Southern Pacific sys- ten .. He is also a Director of the Wabash Railroad Company, and of several financial and business cor- porations. General Hubbard has been a Vice- President of the Union League Club of New York, and of the Association of the Bar for the City of New York. H is a Trustee of Bowdoin College, Maine, and a member of numerous societies, but has held no political office. He was married January 28, 1368, to . yl A. Fahnestock of Harrisburg, Penn- sylvania. Their surviving children are John, Sibyl E. and Anna W. Hubbard.
MARBLE, CYRUS CLARK, of New York City, was born in Turner, Oxford county, Maine, April 23, 1836, son of Freeland and Eliza (Clark) Marble.
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Ilis paternal ancestors came originally from Ire- land, and settled in Worcester county, Massachu- setts. On the maternal side his progenitors, the Clarks, came from England and settled in Connec- tient, whence they moved to Maine soon after that province became a state. His parents moved to . Boston in 1848, and he received his early education
in the public schools of that city. At the age of sixteen he entered a wholesale drygoods house in Boston, and subsequently, in 1860, he went into the business on his own account as a member of the firm of Marble, Tucker & Company. In 1863, on account of ill beaith he was compelled to seek a change of climate, and with others he went to the Rocky Mountains. Fighting his way through the Indians over what was then the Great American Desert, he Snaliy reached Denver, where the moun- tain air soon gave him new life. He remained in the mountains for a time, mining, and then engaged in mercantile business in Denver. In ISSo he went to Europe and remained abroad for three years. On his return he settled in New York, engaging in real estate operations, and has since resided in that city, where he is the owner of large estates. Mr. Marble is unmarried,
MERRILL, ADAMS HUSE, the pioneer in the slate industry of Maine, was born in Belfast, Waldo county, Maine, September 3, 1805, son of Wiggin and Jemima (Dow) Merrill. He acquired his early education in the common schools, but was a lifelong student and was in every sense of the term a self- made man. He followed the occupation of farming until the age of thirty, and from that time was an extensive lumberman until forty-five, when he en- gaged in the quarrying and manufacture of roofing- slate, which he carried on until his death, November 27, 1888, at the age of eighty-three years. When the subject of this sketch was sixteen years old, his father moved on to a farm in Williamsburg, Pis- cataquis county, Maine. At the age of twenty-four he married, and settled on a farm in the adjoining town of Barnard. On this farm was discovered the first vein of slate known in the state. After this slate discovery he sold the property, and from the proceeds of the sale he started in the lumber busi- ness. Being very successful in this business, he was engaged by a New York house to take charge of its extensive lumbering operations on the East Branch of the Penobscot River. This enterprise was carried on with marked success, and he soon found himself in position to purchase the New York interest, which consisted of the Trout Brook Town- ship, so called, with the lumbering outfit then under his management. He continued the business on his own account, carrying it successfully through the dark days of 1837-43, and accumulating for himself a respectable fortune. In 1844 he moved to Fast
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Corinth, Penobscot county, where he built a fine residence, now the property of Hon. John Morrison. After the discovery of slate in Barnard above referred to, quite an interest was awakened in Piscat- aquis county upon this question, and in 1846 some Welshmen prospecting for slate discovered a rich deposit in the town of Brownville in the same county, on either side of the Pleasant River. They bonded a few acres of land and commenced to develop the find. Being men of small means they made but slow progress, but demonstrated the fact . of the existence of a large deposit of the very finest quality of slate for roofing purposes. By this time 1
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Mr. Merri'l had become deeply interested in the matter, and thought he could see " millions in it"; and being a man who always had the courage of his convictions, he bought an interest in what is now the famous Merrill Brownville Slate Quarry. In 1852 he became the sole owner of the quarry and moved to Williamsburg, where he purchased large tracts of timber and slate lands, and devoted his entire energy and business tact to the development of the slate business. By his indomitable will and untiring energy, against almost insurmountable ob- stacles, he conquered for himself out of the rocks of Piscataquis, a business of magnitude and value second to none in the county. Not the least of the
difficulties he had to face and finally overcome, was that of transportation. In those early days there was no other method of getting the slates to market than the primitive way of hauling them by horses and wiles forty-five miles to Bangor, where he piled them on his wharves and in his storehouses, thence shipping by vessels to Boston and other markets. These conditions continued for many years, until the building of the Bangor & Piscataquis Rail- road, in the promotion and construction of which he was a prominent factor. As giving some idea of the large extent of his sales, it may be said that he sold to one Boston house over a million dollars' worth of slate in a period covering twenty to twenty-five years, besides large sales to many other parties. Mr. Merrill continued in the slate business up to the time of his death, which occurred on November 27, 1838. He left this large property unencum- bered to his widow, and to his children, eleven of whom survive him. The family then organized a corporation under the name of the Merrill Brown- ville Slate Company, with capital stock at two hundred and forty thousand dollars, and continued the manufacture of roofing slate successfully until 1894, when they sold out to the Monson Maine Slate Company, the present owners and operators of the business. The Monson Maine Slate Com- pany, whose general offices are at 113 Devonshire street, Boston, now have seven well-developed quarries in Monson and two in Brownville, equipped with the latest improved steam power and machin- ery, and the sales of their roofing slates and other slate products extend over the New England, Southern and Western states. The slate at both Monson and Brownville is of a superior quality, as to strength, color and durability, and the roofing slates produced at the Monson and Brownville quarries are the finest in the world. Mr. Merrill represented his town in various offices, was for some years Postmaster, and in 1858 and again at a later period served as Representative to the State Legislature. He was for many years a prominent figure on the streets of Bangor, and was a generous contributor to the Bangor Theological Seminary, of which he was for twenty-two years ( 18.45-67) one of the Trustees. In politics he was first a Whig, then an ardent Abolitionist; and in the Anti- Slavery times contributed quite largely to the establishment of Oberlin (Ohio) College, where he sent two of his sons to be educated. At the forma- tion of the Republican party he became and ever after continued an adherent and staunch supporter
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of the principles of that organization. Mr. Merrill was married February 12, 1829, to Persis Poor Greenlief, daughter of Hon. Ebenezer Greenlief of Williamsburg, Maine. They had thirteen children : Adolphus, Henry Adams, Julia, Helen, Harriet, Marie, Kate, Ferdinand W., Frederick, Elizabeth, Martha, Arthur and Jessie Merrill.
NOTT FREDERICK JOSIAH, M. D., New York, was born _1 Kennebunkport, Maine, January 11, 1854, son of Handel Gershom and Sarah Louise (Smith) " ott. He is a lineal descendant of Ser- geant John Nott, who emigrated from England and was one of the early settlers of Wethersfield, Con- necticut, afterwards a member of the Colonial Assembly from 1665 to 1681, and who died in 1681. John Nott's grandson was Rev. Abraham Nott of Essex, Connecticut, whose son Josiah was the grand- father of the subject of this sketch. Frederick J. Nott was fitted for college at the Rochester (New York) Academy, and pursued an academic course at the University of Rochester, graduating with the class of 1874, and receiving the degree of A. M. from that institucion in 1877. Following graduation, 1874-5, he studied medicine for a year in the office of Dr. Charles Sumner of Rochester, New York. For the next two years, 1875-7, he was a student at the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, in the meantime, 1876-7, being also a student at the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, College Dispensary and Five Points House of In- (lustry. He received his degree of M. D. in 1877, graduating as Valedictorian and winner of the ob- stetrical prize, and entered at once upon general practice of medicine and surgery in New York at 228 East 124th street, keeping up hospital and dis- pensary work until 8So. In the spring of the latter year he became associated with Dr. George E. Belcher, a distinguished practitioner at 522 Madison avenue. In 1886 he became a partner, and after Dr. Belcher's death in 1890 he removed to 500 Madison avenue. In 1892 he moved to 554 Madison avenue, where he has since resided. Dr. Nott has been active in his professional work, and has never sought public positions. He was Presi- dent of the Alumni Association of the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital in 1892, was elected an Alumnus Trustee of that insti- tution in 1894, and served as Physician to the New ' England Society of New York in 1895-6. He is a
member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the New York State and New York County homco- pathic medical societies, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, the New England Society and the Charity Organization Society, also of the University, Psi Upsilon and New York Athletic clubs. Dr. Nott is thoroughly devoted to his profession, and the higher development of the art of medicine is the main object of his pro- fessional life. To aid in accomplishing this, he depends upon the daily application of established
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principles in the treatment of the sick. He believes that medical progress is imperative, but that it depends upon an intelligent conservatism which conscientiously tests a new thing before accepting and applying it. He thinks that the physician should be a man of affairs, should act his proper part in social and political life, cultivate the arts and literature and endeavorto promote good citizenship. In politics Dr. Nott has always been a Republican, and a partisan. He was married May 8, 1890, to Miss Laura Fish Dickson, of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands ; they have two children : Laura and Fred eric Dickson Nott.
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OTIS, CHARLES HARRISON, Lawyer, New York, was born in Unity, Waldo county, Maine, May 5, 1850, son of Harrison Gray and Harriet ( Lambert) Otis. He received his early education at Auburn (Maine) Academy and the Newport ( Rhode Island)
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High School, and graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1873. Entering upon the study of law he pursued a course at the Columbia Law School and was admitted to the Bar in May 1875, since which time he has practiced his profession in New York. Mr. Otis has served on the State Board of Charities of New York, and is a member of the University and Harvard clubs of New York and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. He is a Democrat in politics but voted for Mckinley and other Repub- licans in the election of 1896. He was married June 10, 1880, to Mary Isabel Woods, of Brooklyn, New York; they have two children : Harold and Helen Chichester Otis.
PAGE, THEODORE LLOYD, Hotel Proprietor, was born in Readfield, Kennebec county, Maine, Novem- ber 15, 1831, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Stanley) Page. His father and grandfather Samuel Page were both natives of Readfield. His early education was acquired in the public schools of Hallowell, Maine, and Chelsea, Massachusetts. Mr. Page has
been engaged in the manufacturing business, that of making varnishes and roofing material, both in Boston and New York city, but it is in connection with the hotel and restaurant business that he is best known by the general public. For some years he conducted the Elmwood Hotel in Phillips, Maine, and Hotel Page in Washington, District of Colum- bia, and he is now keeping the Senate Restaurant in the United States Capitol in Washington. Fortunate it was for the members of the upper branch of the Na- tional Legislature when Senator Frye, having found Mr. Page conducting a hotel in Northern Maine, in- duced him to go to Washington to show American statesmen what good things he could manufacture and provide for their refreshment and inspiration. Mr. Page has been absent from Maine for twelve years, and besides his restaurant, which is far and
THEODORE L. PAGE.
away the finest in the city, has kept a hotel in Wash- ington, and another on the eastern shore of Maryland. During all these years his loyalty to the state of his birth has in no degree waned, and he has decided to return to Maine to pass the remainder of his days. During the past winter Mr. Page leased from Mrs. J. R. Burns of Washington, District of Colum- bia, the Mooselookmeguntic House in the Rangeley Lake region, and has already assumed the manage- ment of this favorite resort of sportsmen and tour-
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ists. The hotel, which was remodelled last season, is situated at Haines Landing on Mooselookmegun- tic Lake, and is about midway between the terminus of the standard railway gauge at Bemis and the narrow gauge at Rangeley. Steamers from Bemis, Indian Rock, Pleasant Island and Upper Dam make connections at this point with the "carry " teams from the steamers at the outlet of Rangeley Lake. Mr. Page is a Free Mason and a member of Paul Revere Lodge of Boston. In politics he is a Re- publican. He was married by the celebrated Father Taylor in Boston, in 1864, to Lydia S. Bacon of Boston.
PARCHER, WILLIAM H. H., Truckman, Boston, was born in Waterboro, York county, Maine. Septem- ber 27, 1840, son of Ivory and Rhoda B. Parcher. His early education was acquired in the common schools of his native town and in attendance for one term at Limington (Maine) Academy, and his
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training for active life was received in the various occupations of farm work at home. In his twenty- first year, in April 1861, he went to Boston and entered the teaming and trucking business, in which he has ever since been engaged. Mr. Parcher is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fel- low fraternities, and in politics is a Democrat. He
has been twice married, his first wife being Katie Reese, of Boston, to whom he was wedded Septem- ber 24, 1867. His second marriage was July 5, 1892, to Ada Bradeen, of Boston. By his first mar- riage he has a daughter : Gertrude Parcher, born in Boston, November 23, 1874.
PEIRCE, JOHN, President of the New York & Maine Granite Paving Block Company, was born in
JOHN PEIRCE.
Frankfort, Waldo county, Maine, September 28, 1853, son of the late George A. Peirce and Louisa T. (Pike) Peirce. His mother still survives. He attended the Dummer Academy at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was for a year a student at Harvard University. In 1874 he became asso- ciated with the granite business at Frankfort, Maine, the extensive Mount Waldo quarries there having been opened by his father in association with John T. Rowe in 1853. In 18So he removed from Frankfort to New York and established him- self in that city, still devoting his attention to his extensive granite interests. In 1882 was organized through his instrumentality the New York & Maine Granite Paving Block Company, of which he was chosen President, a position he still holds. Mr. Peirce is a member of the Manhattan ( lub, and in politics is an Independent.
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POOR, HENRY WILLIAM, Banker, Author and Publisher, was born in Bangor, Maine, June 16, 1844, son of Henry V. and Mary W. ( Pierce) Poor. His ancestors on both sides originated in England and established themselves in Massachusetts in the earliest colonial times, where they shared in all the activities of their day for subduing the wilderness and the Indian tribes, planted a commonwealth, -. and created in the new world a representative form of government. Ezekiel Merrill, great-grandfather of Mr. Poor on his father's side, heid a commission an officer and wielded a sword bravely in the . American Revolution. He served in Colone! Ger-
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rish's regiment April 19, 1775, when the minute men of New England were summoned at the time of the Lexington Alarm to withstand the aggressions of the British troops, and had the honor to be present in the American army at the time of Bur- goyne's surrender at Saratoga, October 1, 1777. In 1785 this old Revolutioner moved to Andover, Maine, situated among the mountains of Oxford county near the Rangeley Lakes, and there in 1791 built the Merrill House, an old homestead of the colonial style, which is now owned by the subject of this sketch and occupied by him as one of his country seats. Benjamin Franklin, great-great- uncle of Mr. Poor on his mother's side, performed
services in the period of the struggle for indepen- dence which are historic and require no further mention. On his mother's side also, Mr. Poor is a grandson of the Rev. John Pierce, who presided over the First Parish Church in Brookline, Massa- chusetts, for over fifty years, and was a prominent figure in the annals of Harvard University, his pic- ture occupying a conspicuous position in Memorial Hall, Cambridge. His father, Henry V. Poor, a graduate in 1835 of Bowdoin College, was a lawyer in Bangor until 1849, when he moved with his family to New York and became well known in that city in railway affairs and as editor of the American Railroad Journal, which he conducted until 1863. In 1865 he retired and moved to Brook- line, Massachusetts, and since then has become the author of various financial and statistical works of great value. He is yet living in a hale and hearty old age, greatly respected by all who know him. Henry W. Poor received his preliminary education in New York, to which city he was brought when five years of age, and graduated from Harvard in 1865. Finding occupation at once as clerk in the then stock-brokerage firm of Henry Fitch & Com- pany, he learned in that house all the technicalities of the brokerage business and soon gained suffi- cient confidence to engage in business on his own account. In 1868 he established himself under the firm name of H. V. & H. W. Poor in New York, as a-dealer in railroad securities. Subsequently he associated himself with Hon. C. E. Habicht, Con- sul-General of Norway and Sweden, in the importa- tion of railroad iron, as correspondent of the firm of Tiden, Nordenfelt & Company, London. Mr. Nor- denfelt afterwards became the maker of the heavy ordnance known as the " Nordenfelt Gun " for the British Government. In1 1868 Mr. Poor established his now famous annual publication known as Poor's Railroad Manual, which has ever since filled an im- portant place in the railroad world. Mr. Poor gave extremely close study to the subject to which the inanual was devoted, and soon rose to the position of an authority upon railroad statistics. The firm of H. V. & H. W. Poor is yet in existence at 44 Broad street, as publishers of the Railroad Manual and other statistical works, I. W. Poor having been the sole partner, however, for many years. The now well- known banking firm of which Mr. Poor is the senior partner was organized in 18So under the name of Anthony, Poor & Oliphant. They located their office at 19 Broad street and immediately attracted clients from the street. Various transmutations have since
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