Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of Maine, Part 8

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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LAUGHLIN, ARTHUR WOOD, Treasurer and Business Manager of the Evening Express Publish- ing Company, Portland, was born in Pembroke, Washington county, Maine, March 1, 1854, son of Thomas and Mary A. Laughlin. His father came with his family to Pembroke from New Brunswick about fifty years ago, his people having been among the early settlers of that province. A. W. Laughlin attended the ordinary country school until he came

to Portland, about 1870, at the age of sixteen. After a year's attendance at the North School he entered the High School, but left at the end of three months to learn the printer's trade. While serving his apprenticeship he worked for George A. Jones & Company. job printers, and on the Sun- day Star. During the year and a half of his con- nection with the Star office he had Mondays to - himself, in exchange for working Saturday nights, and on these Mondays he attended Gray's Business College and learned bookkeeping. Upon finishing his apprenticeship he accepted a position as book- keeper with T. Laughlin & Son, manufacturers of

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marine hardware, the firm being composed of his father and elder brother. He remained in this con- nection four years, acquiring a business education and training, and at the end of that time embraced an opportunity to buy an interest in a job-printing office, which he accomplished without outside aid, from earnings saved up to that time, and shortly afterwards he acquired the whole business. About this time the suspension of a weekly paper that he had been printing for the publisher left him with considerable newspaper-printing material on hand, a condition which first turned his attention to the newspaper field, and on October 12, 1879, he started a penny daily called the City Item, the size

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of the sheet being fourteen by nineteen inches. After running it about two years he sold out to a stock company, assuming the position of Business Manager and Treasurer ; the paper was enlarged and continued until September 1882, when it suspended publication. Having secured from the mortgagee of the old company a part of its material and equipments, including a Cottrell & Babcock drum-cylinder press, Mr. Laughlin issued on 'Octo- ber 12, 1SS2, the first number of the Evening Express, of which he remained editor and sole proprietor iour years. During this period the paper was enlarged several times and became recognized as one of the established newspapers of the state. In June 1886 Mr. Laughlin sold a half interest to the late William H. Smith, the firm name becoming Laughlin & Smith, and in October of the same year the Evening Express Publishing Company was formed, and incorporated under the laws of Maine, with Mr. Smith as President and Mr. Laughlin as Treasurer and Business Manager. After about a year Mr. Smith sold his interest and retired from the company. From its small beginnings in 1882 the Evening Express has grown in circulation and influence until now recognized as one of the leading papers of the state. Mr. Laughlin is a member and Past Grand of Unity Lodge of Odd Fellows, a Trustee of Trinity Lodge Knights of Pythias and member of the Legion of Honor, also a member of the Veteran Corps Portland Cadets and one of the "Champion Twenty-four " of 1875, who contested with the Montgomery Guards for possession of the champion flag. He was married January 1, 1880, to Miss Gertrude E. Knowlton of Portland ; they have three children : Ethel G., James K. and Thomas Earle Laughlin.

LINEHAN, REVEREND TIMOTHY PATRICK, Pastor of St. Mary's Parish, Biddeford, was born in Macroom, county of Cork, Ireland, April 5, 1847, son of John and Margaret (Foley) Linehan. His immediate ancestry were respectively, tracing back, John Linehan and Margaret Foley, Cornelius Linehan and Annie Vaughan, John Linehan and Mary Riordan. Linehan is derived from O'Leanaghan, or McClenaghan, an ancient proper name of Gaelic origin. His father came to America in the fall of 1847, and his mother, with five children, two boys and three girls, followed in 1849 : three boys were born in this country, making eight children in all.

His mother died in October 1891, aged seventy- seven ; his father is still living, in Penacook, New Hampshire, at the age of eighty-two. Both parents had received a good education, and were well read. The family is well known as one of the oldest and' most steadfast Catholic families in the state of New Hampshire, and as having entertained many of the missionary priests in the days when Catholics were few and far between. His eldest brother, John C.

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Linehan, is the present Insurance Commissioner of New Hampshire. Father Linehan acquired his rudimentary education in the public schools of Danbury and Fisherville (now Penacook), New Hampshire, and at Penacook Academy. His col- legiate studies were pursued at St. Charles College, Maryland, founded by Charles Carroll of Revolu- tionary fame ; at Nicolet College, Province of Quebec, Canada ; and at the Grand Seminary, Montreal, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Theology, and in the chapel of which institution he was ordained priest for the Diocese of Portland, by Archbishop Fabre, December 21, 1878. His training for active life was not, however, · wholly confined to his school and collegiate career. Previous to entering college he learned the machinist trade with D. Arthur Brown & Company, Penacook, and followed it for seven years, five in Penacook

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and one each in Fitchburg and Worcester, Massa- chusetts. At his ordination. to the priesthood Father Linehan was assigned to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, where he remained under Bishop Healy eleven and a half years, as Chancellor and Secretary, and afterwards a Rector for nearly ten years. In July 18So, he was appointed to St. Mary's Parish at Biddeford, where during his pastorate he has greatly improved the parish property, erected one of the finest . parochial schools in the diocese, and built a church (St. Margaret's) with a seating capacity of six hundred and fifty people at Old Orchard. Father Linehan has served as Diocesan Attorney, as a member of the Board of Examiners of Junior Clergy and as Vice-President of St. Elizabeth's Asylum, and is Trustee of the Clergy Relief Fund at the present time. He has also served as a member of the School Board of the diocese. He is a member of the Irish-American Relief Association of Port- land, was Chaplain of the Ancient Order Hibernians of Portland in 1888-90, and is Chaplain of the Biddeford branch of that order at the present time. Politically he is a believer in sound money and protection for American industries that need them ; equal rights for all ; no proscription because vi race, color or religion, even in state institutions ; and in municipal affairs, independence of party in choice of officials, ability, honesty and fitness only to be considered. Father Linehan cast his first vote tor General Grant, and in the last Presidential elec- tion voted for Mr. Cleveland.

LOCKE, JOSEPH ALVAH, -Lawyer, Portland, was born in Hollis, York county, Maine, December 25, 1843, son of Stephen and Lucinda (Clark) Locke. He is a descendant in the sixth generation from John Locke of Hampton (now Rye), New Hamp- shire, who came from Yorkshire, England (it is believed), and first settled in Dover, New Hamp- shire, where he became a land owner. Through both his father, son of Caleb Locke of Hollis, and his mother, daughter of Charles Clark of Hollis, he is descended in the fourth generation from Sarah Pepperell, daughter of Andrew Pepperell, and the accomplished and beloved niece of Sir William Pepperell, and also from the historic Major Charles Frost, of Kittery. In his early childhood his parents moved to Biddeford, where he fitted for college.

Graduating from Bowdoin College in 1865 with high rank, salutatorian of his class, he taught in the high school in Portland the following two years, having charge of classes in Greek, Latin, chemistry and mathematics, pursuing his law studies mean- while. He then entered the law office of Davis & Drummond (Judge Woodbury Davis and Hon. Josiah H. Drummond), and was admitted to practice in the State Courts in 1868, and in the United States Courts in 1869. He settled in Port- land, remaining with Davis & Drummond a short time after admission to the Bar, and in October 1868 opened an independent office in the Boyd Block, which had just been completed. By close

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application to business, and the care and fidelity with which he attended to all matters entrusted to his charge, both in office business and the trial of causes in the courts, he soon acquired a large and successful law practice and commanded the confi- dence of all with whom he came in contact. In 1880 he formed a copartnership with his brother, Ira S. Locke, under the firm name of Locke & Locke, who still continue the business. Besides their large general practice, they are trustees of several large estates, and have the charge of many trust funds placed in their care. Mr. Locke has been

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frequently honored by his fellow-citizens with posi- tions of honor and trust. He was twice elected Representative irom Portland to the State Legisla- ture, for the sessions of 1877 and 1879, serving as a member of the Judiciary Committee at both sessions and also as a member of the Library Com- miittee in 1877. The election in the fall of 1878 for the Legislature of 1879 was a very close one throughout the state, especially so in Cumberland county, and out of the five Representatives to the House from Portland, Mr. Locke was the only Republican elected. On the organization of the House of Representatives in 1879 he was the Republican nominee for Speaker, but was defeated by the combined vote of the Democratic and Greenback Representatives. At the state election that fall he was elected a Senator from Cumberland county, being the only Republican nominee for the Senate from Cumberland county who received his certificate of election from the Governor and Council. This was the famous session of the Legislature of 188c. From the first meeting of the Senate until its final organization, when he was elected its President, he was the leader in the Senate on behalf of the Republican party in oppo- sition to the organization of the same by the mem- bers of the Democratic and Greenback parties ; and by his timely protests, duly presented in writing, while they were attempting to organize the Senate, paved the way to bring the question involved, as to who were legally elected members of the Senate, before the Supreme Court of the State for its decision. This is the only instance since the organization of the State, that a member has been elected President of the Senate in his first term of service. Mr. Locke was also the youngest man who ever occupied the Chair. He was returned to the Senate in ISSI, and re-elected its President. This was the first session of the Legislature following the amendment to the Constitution providing for biennial elections, conse- quently Mr. Locke remained as President of the Senate, making him the second civil officer in the state, for three years, and until the organization of the Legislature in January 1883, when he was elected a member of the Governor's Council, and held this position by subsequent election for four years, serving all the time as Chairman of the Com- mittee on Accounts and Public Instruction. Since that time he has entirely devoted his time and attention to his law practice. Mr. Locke has ever taken an interest in educational matters. For several years after teaching in the high school he was a

member of the School Committee of Portland, has been for about twenty years a member of the Board of Trustees of Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College at Kent's Hill, and for the last fourteen years President of the Board. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical Society, Portland Natural His- tory Society, and has been interested more or less in the different secret societies or fraternal orders, but especially in the Masonic fraternity. He first became a Mason in 1866, receiving the Blue Lodge degrees in Dunlap Lodge in Biddeford. Having decided to make his home in Portland, he trans- ferred his membership to Portland Lodge, and at the next election was elected Senior Warden, and afterwards Worshipful Master, occupying the chair for the years of 1871 and 1872. In June 1877 honorary membership was conferred upon him, and in 1878 he was elected a member of the Board of Masonic Trustees of Portland. He has at different times been highly honored by this large and strong fraternity. Besides having been elected presiding officer in his lodge, he has served as presiding officer of Greenleaf Chapter, Com- mander of St. Alban Commandery, Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Maine, Grand Com- Inander of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Maine, and is at the present time Deputy Grand Master of Masons in Maine, and also an officer of the Grand Encampment Knights Templar of the United States. He was for eleven years Sovereign Prince Grand Master of Yates Lodge of Per- fection, .Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, in Port- land ; seven years Commander-in-Chief of Maine Consistory, Thirty-second Degree, of Maine; and in September 1884 received at Detroit, Michigan, the honorary grade of Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Thirty-third and last Degree. In 1889 at the triennial sessions of the Grand Encamp- ment Knights Templar at Washington he was elected by the representatives from the different states Chairman of the Committee on Ritual, and the present uniform ritual of the order throughout the country was brought about in a great measure through his efforts and influence. Mr. Locke was married August 27, 1873, to Miss Florence E. Perley, daughter of Joseph H. Perley, a well-to-do merchant of Portland. They have four children now living : Grace Perley, now a student at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania ; John Richards, aged fifteen ; Allan Stephen, aged twelve; and Joseph Alvah, Jr., aged seven years.

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LORD, SAMUEL LOWELL, Mayor of Saco, was born in Buxton, Maine, January 4, 1841, son of Ephraim HI. and Hannah (Lowell) Lord. His paternal ancestry is traced to Nathan Lord of Kittery, Maine ( 1652), the line of descent being : Nathan Lord,

SAMUEL L. LORD.

Kittery, 1652 ; Nathan of Berwick, Maine, 1655- 1733 : Captain Abraham, Berwick; Abraham of Scarboro, Maine ; Nathaniel, Scarboro and Buxton ; Isaac of Buxton ; and Ephraim H. Lord of Buxton and Saco, father of Samuel L. His mother was the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Ayer) Lowell of Saco, and a sister of the late Hon. Moses Lowell of Saco. His early education was obtained in the little old brick schoolhouse at Salmon Falls, Buxton, and at the grammar school on the common in Saco. In June 1856, at the age of fifteen, he left school to learn the business of druggist and apothecary with Tristram Gilman of Saco. He remained in this business as clerk and agent for others until September 1874, when he opened the drug store on Factory Island, Saco, in which he has since continued. Mr. Lord was elected Alderman of Saco from Ward Six in 1876, was again elected to that office in 1884 and re-elected in 1885, and has been a member of the Saco Board of Registration, from which position he resigned February 29, 1896. On March 2, 1896, he was elected Mayor of Saco, the first Democrat to serve in that office since 1871,

and the second in the city's history. During the War of the Rebellion, in the early part of which period Mr. Lord attained his majority, he voted the Republican ticket ; but in 1872 he became identified with the Democratic party and thoroughly imbued with the principles of Democracy, and since that time he has labored to further the interests of that party organization by every honorable means. He has represented his party on important committees many times, having been Chairman of the Demo- . cratic City Committee of Saco for several years, was Chairman of the Democratic County Committee 1879-82, and was chosen a member of the First District Democratic Congressional Committee in 1884. He was a candidate for Mayor of Saco in 1878 and in 1879, and again in 1882, in each instance suffering defeat, the city being strongly Republican ; and has been defeated as candidate for Representa- tive to the Legislature from Saco, for State Senator from York County, and for Presidential Elector. Mr. Lord belongs to no social or fraternal organiza tions, and is unmarried.

LOWELL, ENOCH, Mayor of Saco for two terms, 1890-1, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sep-

ENOCH LOWELL.

tember 25, 1842, son of Moses and Abigail Hight (Jordan) Lowell. His father, son of Samuel and Sarah (Ayer) Lowell, was born in Saco, December

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5, 1814, and died there March 5, 1878 ; his mother, a daughter of Ichabod and Elizabeth (Nason ) Jor- dan, was born in Biddeford, May 22, 1816, and died November 8, 1892. He was educated in the com- mon schools, and began his business life in 1860 as a clerk in his father's store, in which capacity he continued until 1870, when in association with Augustus Lord he bought out the stock of stoves and kitchen-furnishing goods, and continued the business to the present time, under the firm name of Lowell & Lord. Mr. Lowell served as Alderman in 1879-80, 1887-8 and 1895, and was elected Mayor in 1890 and re-elected in 1891. He has been a Director in the Saco National Bank since 1879, in which year he was also chosen a Director in the Saco & Biddeford Gas-light Company, afterward merged into the York Light and Heat Company, in which office he still serves. Since 1885 he has been Treas- urer of the Laurel Hill Cemetery Association. He was made a Mason in Saco Lodge in 1870, was knighted the same year in Bradford Commandery of Biddeford, and went through the various chairs in the Blue Lodge, in which he served as Master two years. Mr. Lowell was married in 1863 to Miss Narcissa Hardin, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, who died in July 1881 ; four children were born to them : Ida and Herbert (died in infancy), Frank H. Lowell, and Grace G., who was married to Walter J. Gilpat- ric of Saco, May 16, 1894. In 1888 he married Miss Mary Gilpatric, daughter of John and Annie Shepley Gilpatric of Saco; they have had three children : Annie Shepley, Moses (died in infancy) and Sarah Amelia Lowell.

clination for the medical profession, and it is doubt- less due to his natural ability in this direction that he owes much of his professional success in his later years. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Israel Putnam of Bath, Maine, and later entered the Medical School of Bowdoin College, where he was graduated with the degree of M. I)., in 1866. After graduation he was for a time intimately asso- ciated with Professor Amos Nourse of Bowdoin Col- lege, and toward the close of the year 1866 he established himself in South Portland, where he con- tinues in active practice. Notwithstanding his large practice, Dr. Lowell has always been interested in

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J. WARREN LOWELL.

LOWELL, JAMES WARREN, M. D., South Port- land, was born in Phipsburg, Maine, March 22, 1842, and connected with numerous social and business enterprises. He has served as Acting Assistant Sur- geon of the United States Army, is a member of the Maine Medical Association, and has been Chairman of the Board of Health of South Portland since 1888. He has served on the School Committee of Cape Elizabeth three years ( 1879-81), is one of the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of South Portland and is a Director in the South Port- land Loan and Building Association. He is also a son of Tallman and Almira (Shaw) Lowell. He is descended from Percival I.owell, who came from England in 1639, through Richard Lowell (born 1602), Percival Lowell (1639) and Mary Chandler (1664), Gideon Lowell (1672) and Mary Swett (1692), Stephen Lowell (1703) and Marian Collins (1727), Abner Lowell (1731) and Betsey Eaton (1732), Stephen Lowell ( 1753) and Prudence Blais- dell (1779), Abner Lowell (1781) and Hannah Wy- man (1801) and Tallman Lowell born in 1805. He . prominent Odd Fellow, a member of Ligonia Lodge received his early education in the public schools of (Portland) and of Bayard Lodge (South Portland) Knights of Pythias, of which latter he was the founder ; and through his efforts was erected the handsome Pythian Hall that now is one of the or- Phipsburg, and at Westbrook (Maine) Seminary, and also to some extent by private instruction. When a very young man, he evinced a natural in-

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naments of the town, and one of the finest Pythian buildings in the state. In politics he is a Democrat, but although he has often been urged to accept nominations for various political positions, he has steadfastly declined to accept public office. He has many times been a delegate to the state, district and county conventions, and has often appeared before the committees of the Maine Legislature to influ- ence the passage of certain laws in which he was in- terested. Dr. Lowell has been very closely con- nected and actively associated with the advance- ment and progress of the town of Cape Elizabeth, now South Portland. Many of its best institutions and greatest improvements were brought into life by his suggestions, and by the energy and push he has always displayed in whatever he has undertaken, and he is held in the highest esteem by his fellow- town-men, and by all who know him. He was mar- ned in 1867 to Miss Anna F. Tarbell of Vassalboro, Maine. They have had four children : Florence Almira, now Mrs. C. A. Vincent of Oswego, New York; Annie Warren, died in 1886; Blanche Ber- nese and Mary Tarbell Lowell.

MARKS, WILLIAM MILLER, Printer and Pub- lisher, Portland, was born in Youghal, Ireland, December 13, 1841, son of John and Dora (Hall) Marks. His early education was received in the public and private schools of his native city. In 1852 he removed to Sherbrooke in the province of Quebec, where, after going through the usual scho- lastic course, he entered that most practical of all schools - the " college " from which so many noted men have graduated - a printing office. He learned the case and mastered the marble slab in the office of a famous old Canadian paper, the Sherbrooke Times From the first he displayed a proficiency in his chosen profession which gave promise of rare success. Indeed, so well did he do, that in 1860, just before the outbreak of the Civil War, he re- ceived a call to a larger field of usefulness. Com- ing to "the States " in September 1860, he entered the printing office of Brown Thurston & Company, and shortly after was promoted to the foremanship of the Portland Daily Advertiser, then the leading Republican paper in Maine. Not long after the Portland Press was established, and he joined that paper, being identified with its fortunes from 1863 to 1877. In the latter year he determined to go into business for himself, and established the great

book and job printing house which bears his name. While building up his business Mr. Marks gained the confidence of his fellow-citizens, who conferred upon him many preferments. They made him member of the Portland City Council in the years .1879-81, and an Alderman in 1885-7, during the last year of service being Chairman of the Board and occasionally Acting Mayor. He has also been a Trustee of Evergreen Cemetery, the beautiful burial place in which Portland inters her honored · dead. Other tokens of respect and honor have come to Mr. Marks. From 1886 to 1890 he was Presi- dent of Portland's famous organization, the Asso-

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ciated Charities. He is now President of the Port- land Provident Association, an old organization ; a leading member of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation, the Maine Charitable Mechanics Asso- ciation, and the Maine State Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals. He is also a Fellow and Trustee of the Maine Academy of Medicine. In a word he is identified with all the good work that has been going on in Maine for thirty years. In religion Mr. Marks is a Congregationalist, being an active member of the High-street Church, of which he was elected Deacon in 1873. He has served on the Parish Committee since 1876, and been its Chairman since 1SSS. He belongs to two orders, being a member of Maine Lodge and Ma-

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chigonne Encampment of Odd Fellows, and of Bramhall Lodge Knights of Pythias. In politics Mr. Marks is a Republican, commanding the esteem of his party, and receiving many tokens of their appreciation. For a long time he has been a mem- ber of the city and district committees, serving as Chairman of the one and Treasurer of the other. He was married September 20, 1870, to " Miss Amanda Althea Stearns. They have had two chil- dren : Henry Thornton, born September 25, 1871, died October 20, 1879 ; and Helen Amanda, born March 15, 1874, died October 22, 1879.

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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 8

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