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University of Pennsylvania, subsequently pursued his studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and graduated from that institution in March 1870. In the following April he opened an office in his native city, where he has since been in active and continuous practice, except for a period of two years, when he was incapacitated tor profes- sional work by ill health. Dr. Files has established ' a reputation for skill in the treatment of nervous diseases that has made him one of the best-known specialists in his city and section. In politics he is a Republican, but he gives little time or attention to political matters, being closely devoted to his profession. He was married October 12, 1871, to Julia E Coyle, youngest daughter of Captain J. B. Coyle, Manager of the Portland Steam Packet Com- pany, and one of the founders and directors of the Maine and the International steamship companies. They have two children : Nina N., born October 11, 1872, and Charles Edwin Files, born August 30, 1874. Dr. Files and his family are attendants of the Chestnut Street Methodist-Episcopal Church, of which he has been Organist for many years. Octo- ber 12, 1896, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Dr. and Mrs. Files, Nina N. Files was married to Paul Deering Luce, son of Rev. Israel Luce, assistant pastor of Chestnut Street Church, who officiated at the marriage of the bride's parents. Mrs. P. D. Luce died very suddenly of pneumonia, December 24, 1896 in less than three months after her marriage. On january 28, 1896, Charles Edwin Files was married by Rev. Israel Luce to Harriet Marcelle Goodwin, daughter of Charles C. C. Goodwin of Portland.
GOULD, GEORGE MILBRY, M. D., Philadelphia, was born in Auburn, Androscoggin county, Maine, November 8, 1848, son of George Thomas and Eliza Ann (Lapham) Gould. His American ances- tor was Robert Gould, who came from Somerset- shire, England, and settled in Hull, Massachusetts, about the year 1663. Dr. Gould has collected gen- ealogical data of nine hundred of Robert's descen- dants, some of whom are still residing in Hull. His mother died when he was two years old, and he accompanied his father to Ohio, where he acquired the primary branches of his education in the public schools of Athens. When but twelve years old he accompanied the Sixty third Regiment Ohio Volum- teers to the front as a drummer-boy. A year and a half later he was discharged for disability, and in
1865 he again enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until mustered out at the close of the war. Resuming the pursuit of his education, he was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity with the degree of A. B. in 1873, following which he was a student at the Harvard Divinity School for three years. He also spent two years studying in Europe. His medical studies were pur- sued at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1888, and in April of that year he began the practice of his profession at 119 South Seventeenth
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street in that city. Since entering professional life he has made a specialty of diseases of the eye, to the study of which he devoted his principal atten- tion while in college, and as an oculist he has ac- quired a wide reputation. From 1892 to 1894 he was Ophthalmologist at the Philadelphia Hospital, As a writer upon medical topics and in other fields of literature, Dr. Gould has made excellent use of his facile pen. From 1891 to 1895 he occupied the editorial chair of the Medical News, and aside from his frequent contributions to various serials. he is the author of the following works: A Quiz- Compend of Diseases of the Eye, 1888; A New
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Medical Dictionary, 1890 ; Twelve Thousand Medi- cal Words Pronounced and Defined, 1892 ; An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology, etc., 1894 ; The Students' Medical Dictionary, tenth edi- tion, 1896; Borderland Studies, 1896; American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery, 1896, the same for 1897, and " An Autumn Singer," a volume of poems, 1896. His medical dictionaries have received the highest praise from the New York Medical Record, the London Lancet, and the British Medical Journal, London. Dr. Gould was President of the American Academy of Medicine for the years 1893 and 1894, and is a member of the University Club of Philadelphia, a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and member of various medical societies. He was married in 1876 to Harriet F. Cartwright, of Pomeroy, Ohio ; they have no children.
HAMLIN, GEORGE HERBERT, Professor of Civil Engineering in the University of Maine, Orono, was born in Sidney, Kennebec county, Maine, Novem- ber 18, 1850, son- of Wellington B. and Philena P. (Robinson) Hamlin. Professor Hamlin's father was the son of William Hamlin, who was the son of Perez Hamlin, who was the son of Nathaniel, who was the son of Lewis, who was the son of Ebenezer, who was the son of James, who was the son of James Hamlin, who came from England. His ear y education was gained in the Waterville ( Maine) Classical Institute, and he graduated from the Maine State College, now the University of Maine, in the Department of Civil Engineering, in 1873. Upon graduation he was made Tutor in.Civil Engineering and held various positions in the insti- tution up to 1880, when he was chosen Professor of Civil Engineering, and still continues at the head of that responsible department. Professor Hamlin has also carried on a general engineering business during all these years, has been in charge of the city engineering at Bangor a portion of the time, and has been consulting engineer for various con- cerns. He is a recognized authority in the engineer- ing world, and is an able and successful instructor. In 1889 he was made Treasurer of the College in addition to other duties, and continued to hold this office until 1896 when he declined re-election. He has been prominent at the meetings of the alumni and for several years was President of the Alumni Association. He has been a zealous champion of good roads, and has given notable addresses per-
taining to this subject before the State Board of Trade and meetings of the State Board of Agricul- ture. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society for the Pro- motion of Engineering Education, and the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, also of the Maine Gene- alogical Society and the Bangor Board of Trade. In politics he is a Republican. He was married
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May 20, 1877, to Annie M. Mayo of Orono. They have had four children, of whom two are living : Charles Mayo and George Harold Hamlin.
KINSMAN, OLIVER DORRANCE, of Washington, District of Columbia, was born in Portland, Maine, February 18, 1835, son of John Dafforne and Angela (Cutter) Kinsman. His paternal ancestry traces back from his father, (S) John Dafforne Kinsman, born 1805, through (7) Nathan, born 1777, (6) Nathan born 1741, (5) Stephen born 1718, (4) Stephen born 1688, (3) Thomas born 1662, and (2) Robert born 1629 to (1) Robert Kinsman who in the ship Mary and John reached Boston from Southampton, England, in March 1634. His mother, born 1803, was a daughter of (5) Levi Cutter born 1774, who was a son of (4) Wil liam born 1737, son of (3) Ammi Ruhamah born
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1705, son of (2) William born 1650, son of (1) Richard Cutter born 1620, who came from England to New England with his widowed mother Elza- beth in 1640. The subject of this sketch was edu- cated in the public and academic schools of his native city, the North Yarmouth (Maine) Academy, the public schools of Boston and the Academy at Southport (now Kenosha), Wisconsin. The death of his father in 1850 left him at fifteen with his mother to make his way in the world, and he at once undertook, on a meagre salary, to learn some- thing of the drygoods business in Portland. A more promising field opened soon after in civil- engineering, which he pursued in Maine, Massa- chusetts, Canada, Iowa and Florida, and was steadily rising in his profession when the Rebellion was inaugurated. That outbreak found him as Engineer in charge of the construction of the Western Division of the Florida Railroad, running from Fernandina to Cedar Keys; having been engaged in that section since 1858. Being a Northern man, with a Northerner's native antip- athy to slavery, suspicion naturally attached to him in the minds of the hot-headed and misguided people, and it was an easy matter for a planter with whom he had an official business disagreement to rouse the populace against him. He was arrested by a vigilance committee backed by the bayonets of a company of state militia, tried, and sentenced to be hung. The charge was the manifestly absurd one of inciting slaves to run away, coupled with the minor one of hostility to the Southern cause. He was rescued from the rope by Masons, taken to Fernandina under guard and placed on board the first Northern-bound steamer, and via Savannah and New York reached Portland late in January 1861. Thence he soon after went to Iowa, where he formerly had business relations. Disappointed in not being able to join the one regiment which was all that was allowed the State under the first call for troops, he enlisted in September 1861 as a private in Company K of the Eleventh Iowa Infan- try, and passed successively through the grades of Sergeant, Sergeant-Major, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant and Adjutant in that regiment. He was then made Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General of United States Volunteers, and assigned to the Third Brigade ("Crocker's Iowa Brigade "), Fourth Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, of which brigade he had been for some time the acting Assistant Adjutant. General, and was subsequently brevetted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of United States
Volunteers. He was in the engagements of Shiloh, Medon Station, Corinth (October 3-4, 1862), Big Black River, Vicksburg, Mechanicsville, Hillsboro, Big Shanty, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoo- chie River, Nickajack Creek, Atlanta (including the battles of July 20, 22 and 28, 1864), Flint River, Snake Creek Gap, Lovejoy's Station, Jonesboro, Sa- vannah, Pocotaligo, Rivers Bridge, Orangeburg, Ben- tonsville and Raleigh ; including the " March to the Sea " and through the Carolinas. He also partici- pated in the "Grand Review " at Washington. At the muster out of the troops at Louisville in July 1865 he was the Assistant Adjutant-General of the
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Seventeenth Army Corps. He was wounded at Shi- loh, and the sixty days required for recovery was his only absence from the front and from active duty during the war. After a month at home he was ordered to the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands in South Carolina, from which early in 1866 he was transferred to the Bureau in Alabama. He was mustered out of the military service October 1, 1866, but remained as a civilian with the same duties until January 1868, when he resigned and returned to lowa. Colonel Kinsman was intimately connected with the reconstruction measures in Alabama in 1867. When mustered out, he was offered a commission in the regular
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army, but this he declined. In November 1869 he was appointed to a position in the War Department at Washington, and with two-years exception, when resident in Brooklyn, New York, he has been con- nected with the War and Interior departments ever since. In all but five years of this period, during which interim he was in different states examining war claims, he has had his residence in or near Washington. For the past eight years he has been connected with the Pension Office in the Interior Department, and his present residence is near Burnt Mills, Montgomery county, Maryland, nine miles from Washington, where he owns and cultivates a fine farm. Colonel Kinsman has been an active Republican in politics since casting his first vote for John C. Fremont in Iowa in 1856, and is an earnest worker on the stump whenever he can thus serve his party's cause. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity, having joined the Lodge in 1856 and taken the Chapter degrees in 1868, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and the Asso- ciation of "Crocker's Iowa Brigade." He was married at the Church of the Epiphany, Washing- ton, October 19, 1871, to Emma Matilda Louisa Richardson ; they have four children : Elinor Matilda, Angela Elizabeth, Lucretia Beatrice and Olive Dafforne Kinsman.
LITTLEFIELD, FREDERICK MORTON, Lawyer, New York, was born in Kennebunk, York county, 'M ine, November 27, 1849, son of Josiah Mendum and Caroline Elizabeth (Kimball) Littlefield. He received his early education in the public schools and High School of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Entering Yale College in 1868 he graduated in 1872, and pursuing his legal studies at Columbia Law School in New York, graduated therefrom in 1874 and was admitted to the Bar in New York the same year. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in New York city, as member of the firm of Vose & McDaniel, also at different times with George V. N. Baldwin and Ernest G. Stedman. Mr. Littlefield's principal busi- ness is that of real estate, corporation and insurance law, and he is also largely interested in several corporations now engaged in the ownership and erection of some prominent office buildings in New . York city. He was one of the organizers of the Colonial Club of New York city, in which he has served as Trustee, Vice-President, Counsellor, and
Chairman of the Library Committee; and is a member of the Republican Club, the New York Bar Association, Yale Alumni Association, New England Society, Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was married April 24, 1883, to Agnes H. Smith, daughter of
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James Rufus Smith, a prominent capitalist and real estate operator of New York city. They have three children : Frederick Valentine, Frances Caro- line and George Homer Littlefield.
MARTIN, AUGUSTUS PEARL, Chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners of the city of Boston, was born in Abbot, Piscataquis county, Maine, November 23, 1835, son of Pearl and Betsey Verrill (Rollins) Martin. His father, Pearl Martin, who in later life was a merchant of Boston, was a native of New Gloucester, Cumberland county, Maine, and was the ninth child of Ezekiel and Mary (Stinch- field) Martin, whose ancestors were among the early settlers of that section. Ezekiel was born in Wind- ham, Cumberland county, November 22, 1766, son . of Robert and Hannah (Pearl) Martin. Robert Martin, great-grandfather of Augustus, was born in 1739 in Dover, New Hampshire, and in early lite
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settled in Windham, Maine, whence he removed to New Gloucester, and thence to Buckfield, where he died in his ninety-seventh year ; he was a soldier in the French and Indian War at sixteen, and was taken prisoner and remained in captivity for some. months. The mother of the subject of our sketch was a daughter of Moses Rollins of New Gloucester, fourth in descentfrom Nicholas Rawlins, who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, prior to 1679, and served in King Philip's War. Tradition asserts that Nicho- las Rawlins was an emigrant from Ireland. Augustus P. Martin went to Boston when seven years of age, and received his early education in the public schools of that city, at Wilbraham ( Massachusetts) Academy, and at private school in Melrose, Massa- chusetts. On attaining his majority he entered upon active business life as a salesman with the boot and shoe firm of Fay & Stone, Boston, a con- nection which he retained until the opening of the Civil War. Deeply interested in military matters from early boyhood, at the age of nineteen, in 1854, he joined the Boston Light Artillery, popularly known as Cobb's Battery. In 1858 he was made Second Lieutenant, but in 1860 resigned his com- mission, retaining however his membership in the organization, and continuing to evince an active interest in military affairs. When the long-impend- ing storm of war burst forth in the spring of 1861, Mr. Martin went to the front with his Battery and served to the close of his period of enlistment. After his return home in September 1861, he received his commission as First Lieutenant of the Third M ssachusetts Battery, and on the seventh of October his company (Follett's) left the state, arriv- ing in Washington on the eleventh and being assigned to Fitz-John Porter's division, which was always in- corporated with the Army of the Potomac and shared in all its engagements. On the twenty-eighth of November, Lieutenant Martin was commissioned as Captain, in which capacity he participated in the battles of Gaines Mills, Siege of Yorktown, Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, Malvern Hill, Harri- son, Manassas, Antietam, Sharpsburg, Leestown, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Middleburg and Akdie, which were fought prior to the protracted engagement of Gettysburg. In 1862 Captain Martin was assigned to duty as Chiei of Artillery of the First Division, Fifth Corps, and when in 1863 the artillery of the Fifth Corps was organized into a . brigade, he was placed in commission to command. Ilis services at the head of the brigade were of the most efficient character. He was offered the commis-
sion of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, but did not accept. He performed brilliant service at Gettysburg, Rappa- hannock Station, New Hope Church, Mine Run, Bris- tol Station, the Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spottsylvania Court House (where he was wounded in the neck), Petersburg and Siege of Petersburg. The end of his period of service having arrived, Captain Martin decided on retirement to private life. When that decision became known, it evoked many letters of regret, characteristic of the gallant heroes who, rest- less from ceaseless activity, longed to indite them. From Point Lookout, Maryland, Brigadier-General
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James Barnes wrote ; Brigadier-General R. B. Ayres, from headquarters of the Second Division, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac ; Major-General George G. Meade, from headquarters Army of the Potomac ; Brigadier-General Henry J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac, from headquarters on the Weldon Railroad ; Brigadier-General Charles Griffin, and Major-General Warren, similar letters. On March 13, 1865, Captain Martin was brevetted Colonel by the War Department, for " gallant and meritorious service during the war." On his return home he resumed his former business as salesman, continuing in that capacity two and a half years, when he was admitted to partnership in the house
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of Francis Dane & Company. Three years later he engaged in business entirely upon his own account. In December IS71 he organized the shoe firm of Martin & Skinner, of which he continued the senior member for four years, when the firm of Martin, Skinner & Fay was established, which conducted a thriving business until dissolved in 1881. The firm of A. P. Martin & Company was then organized, with Charles K. Crane as partner, which continued until June 1894, when the senior member's increas- ing prominence in public life led to his retirement from active private business. At the dedication of the Army and Navy Monument in Boston in 1877, General Martin served as Chief Marshal of the parade, and the admirable manner in which the affair was managed reflected great credit upon his executive ability. In 1878 he was elected Com- mander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and in 1879 was elected Commander of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. In June 1879, at the two hundred and forty-first anniversary of the Ancients, General Martin presented to the military museum and library of the company the sword worn by him through the late war as Commander of the Third Massachusetts Light Battery and Chief of Artillery of the Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. On that occasion he delivered an address which marked him as an admirable and eloquent public speaker. In September 1880 he officiated as Chief Marshal at the celebration of the two hun- dred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston. On November 20, 1882, he was commis- sioned by Governor Long as Brigadier-General of his staff, in recognition of his brilliant service during the Civil War In 1883 he was elected Mayor of Boston, and served in the executive office for the year 1884. In 1894 he was appointed a Police Commissioner of Boston by Governor Greenhalge, and by the Governor's order was made Chairman of the Board, which office he still holds, and in which he has served with striking zeal, efficiency and administrative ability. General Martin has served as President of the New England Shoe and Leather Association, President of the Dorchester Savings Bank, Vice-President of the Home Savings Bank, Trustee and Director of the United States Trust Company, also Director of the Howard National Bank, the Metropolitan Railroad Com- pany, and the John Hancock Life Insurance Com- pany. Ile was one of the founders of the Algonquin Club of Boston in 1886, and a member of the
Merchants', Central, Art and Country clubs and the Beacon Society of that city. He was married Feb- ruary 3, 1859. to Abbie Farmer Peirce, daughter of the late Jonathan and Elizabeth B. (Leavitt) Peirce of Boston. They have four children : Flora Eliza- beth, born August 3, 1861; Franklin Pearl, born March 4, 1866 ; Charles Augustus, born August 2, 1868, and Everett Fay Martin, born December 4, 1874.
MILLIKEN, CHARLES R., President of the Port- land Rolling Mills, Treasurer and Manager of the Poland Paper Company, and Proprietor of the Glen House in the White Mountains, was born in Poland, Androscoggin county, Maine, December 12, 1833, son of Josiah and Elizabeth (Freeman) Milliken. He is a descendant in the seventh generation of Hugh Milliken, who came from Scotland and settled in Boston, Massachusetts, about 1680. John Milli- ken, son of Hugh, married Elizabeth Alger in Bos- ton, where he resided for many years, subsequently becoming owner of extensive lands in Scarboro, Maine. Their son John, born in 1691, was a saddler in Boston for a long period, but spent the last forty years of his life in Scarboro, where he died in 1779, during the War of the Revolution, in which he took an active part. His wife was Sarah Burnett of Boston. Their son John, third of that name, and great grandfather of the subject of this sketch, born 1723, died 1766, married Elizabeth (Libby) Sallis, widow of Benjamin Sallis of Scar- boro. Their son Benjamin, who represented the fifth generation, was born in Scarboro in 1764, was a farmer, tanner and currier in that town, married Elizabeth Babbidge, and died in 1818. Josiah Milliken, son of the foregoing, and father of Charles L., was born in Scarboro in 1803, passed some of his early years in Buckfield, Oxford county, and subsequently moved to Poland, Androscoggin county, following his trade of tanner at both places, and afterwards engaging extensively in lumbering, general manufacturing and farming. He died in Portland in 1866, his wife, Elizabeth Freeman of Minot, Maine, surviving until 1889. They had seven children : Mary F., now the widow of Daniel W. True of Portland ; Weston F. ; William Henry ; Charles R., whose biography and portrait are given herewith ; Seth M, of New York : George, and Ade- laide Milliken, wife of 1 .. O. Short, of the Portland book and stationery firm of Horing, Short & Har- mon. Charles R. Milliken received his early education in the public and high schools of Minot,
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Maine, and at Hebron ( Maine) Academy. At the age of twenty-one, in 1854, he came to Portland and entered upon a clerkship with Abner Shaw & Company, remaining with them and their suc- cessors, True & Frothingham, for three years. He then became associated with F. A. Shaw in the grocery jobbing business, under the firm name of F. A. Shaw & Company, which continued until the retirement of Mr. Shaw after two years, when the name became C. R. Milliken. At this time his brother Weston F. was associated in the same line of business with Charles Shaw, a brother of F. A. Shaw, and when their term of partnership expired, Weston F. joined with Charles under the style of W. F. & C. R. Milliken, which carried on a large and successful flour and grocery business in Port- land until 1889, when C. R. Milliken assumed the active and entire charge of the Glen House, the well-known summer hotel in the White Mountains. In 1881, in company with the late H. N. Jose and the late G. E. Spring, he purchased the Portland Rolling Mills property, and in the organization of the corporation was elected President and Manager, in which office he has since continued. In 1887 he bought the large plant of the Dennison Paper Manufacturing Company at Mechanics' Falls, Poland, and organized the Poland Paper Company, of which he has since been Treasurer and Manager to the present time. Mr. Milliken is also a Director in the Portland Electric Light Company, and in the extensive locomotive and engine works known under the name of the Portland Company. He is a Re- publican . 1 politics, has served in the Portland City Council, and is a member of the Cumberland Club. He was married in 1857 to Elizabeth R. Fickett, daughter of Isaac and Margaret (Wiley) Fickett of Portland ; they have three children : Charles H., Margaret W. and Elizabeth F. Milliken.
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