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business was conducted until 1878, when Mr. Ross was appointed to the Municip d Bench. From 1883 to 1890 the firm was Hamilton & Haley, Mr. Ham- ilton's associate being George F. Haley; and in 1892, upon the admission to the Bar of his nephew and former student, B. F. Cleaves, the present firm of Hamilton & Cleaves was established. Mr. Ham- ilton has served in various public capacities, as Supervisor of Schools in his native town, City Solicitor of Biddeford for five years, member of the Board of Assessors for six years, Deputy Sheriff of York County, member of the State Legislature of 1873, and Postmaster of Biddeford under the administration of President Grant. In politics he has been an active promoter and supporter of the principles of the Republican party, has served at two different periods upon the City and County Republican committees, and was for eight years a member of the Republican State Committee during the time when James G. Blaine was at the height of his influence in shaping the destinies of the party. He was also for twelve years President and a Trustee of the Maine State Agricultural Society, and in the Patrons of Husbandry is a member of the Biddeford Grange and Deputy Grand Master of the State Grange. Among other fraternal orders he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, having filled the various chairs in the Biddeford Lodge, also with Laconia Lodge and York Encampment of Odd Fellows, and with the Independent Order of Good Templars, in which he was for four years Grand Worthy Secretary of the State Lodge. Mr. Hamilton was married in 1858 to Ann R. Roberts, daughter of Samuel K. Roberts of Waterboro ; they have one son : Arthur S. Hamilton.
HALL, HORATIO, General Freight Agent of the Maine Steamship Company in New York, was born in Brunswick, Maine, August 17, 1834, son of Horatio and Jane (Kincaid) Hall. He is a grand- son of John Hall, a prominent shipbuilder and native of Maine. He was educated in the common schools, and in early life followed the sea. At the present time he is General Freight Agent in New York of the Maine Steamship Company, which operates a line of freight and passenger steamers between New York and Portland, a position that he has held for fifteen years. Captain Hall is a member of the Crescent Club of Brooklyn, the Aurora Club of Greater New York, and of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. In politics he is a Republican. He was
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married February 28, 1863, to Mary B. Johnson ; they have two children : Jennie K. and William H. Hall.
GEO. J. BREWER.
HARTLEY, JOHN FAIRFIELD, Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury for ten years, 1865- 75, was born in Saco, Maine, June 13. 1809, son of Samuel and Hannah (Fairfield) Hartley. Beyond the fact that his father was of English descent, nothing is known of his paternal ancestry. His mother was a daughter of the Reverend John Fair- field, who was a Harvard graduate and a settled minister in Saco for many years. The subject of this sketch is therefore sixth in descent from John Fairfield, the first of the name in this country, who was made a freeman at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1640. John F. Hartley received his early education at Thornton Academy in Saco, and entering Bowdoin College in 1825, graduated therefrom with honors in 1829. He read law in the office of Ether and John Shepley, Saco, the former of whom became subsequently United States Senator and afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and soon after admission to the Bar removed to Portland, where he practiced his profession until 1838, mean- while contributing quite regularly to the newspaper press of that city. In 1838 he received an appoint-
inent as Clerk in the United States Treasury Depart- ment, and removed to Washington. After twenty- five years of service he was appointed to the chief clerkship of the Department in 1863. Twelve years later, in 1865, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and discharged the duties of that office until his resignation May I, 1875, his term of service in the Department having covered a continuous period of thirty-seven years. Upon his retirement from official life Mr. Hartley spent six months in Europe, and upon his return re- moved from Washington to Saco, where he has since resided on the old Hartley homestead which has been in possession of the family for more than a century. Mr. Hartley in 1867 received the degree of LL. D. from Norwich (Vermont) University. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, and in politics has always been a Democrat. He has been twice married - first, to Martha F. King, of Saco, who died in 1846; and second, in 1850, to Mary D. King, of Sacc. Mr. Hartley's children are : Edward, a lawyer in New York city ; John A., who was a Captain in the United States army, and
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died in 1882 ; Martha, wife of I .. Howland Coit, late United States Consul at Valencia, Spain, and who died in that country ; and Dr. Frank .A. Hart- ley, a practicing surgeon in New York city.
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HARTLEY, RICHARD FOXWELL CUTTS, President of the York National Bank, Saco, was born in Saco, March 2, 1812, son of Samuel and Hannah ( Fair- field) Hartley. He is a brother of John Fairfield Hartley, the subject of the preceding sketch, in which connection are given a few facts relating to his ancestry and family history. Richard F. C. Hartley was educated at Thornton Academy in Saco, and from the age of sixteen followed the sea for upwards of thirty years, becoming master of a vessel at an early age. In 1860 Captain Hartley retired from the sea, and has since devoted himself to the care of his extensive private interests, being owner of a large amount of shipping and other property. He has served as President of the York National Bank of Saco for many years In politics Captain Hartley is a Democrat. He married Sarah Scamman, daughter ot ton. John F. Scamman, of Saco, Representative to Congress from that district.
HARTLEY, FRANK, M. D., New York, was born in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1856, son of John Fairfield and Mary D. (King) Hartley. He is of old New England stock on both sides. His father was the Hon. J. Fairfield Hartley, Assist- ant Secretary of the United States Treasury for many years, a brief sketch of whose life and career is given on a preceding page of this volume. He received his early education in the public schools of his native city and at Emerson Institute in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, and graduated from Princeton College in the class of 1877. For the next three years he attended the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in New York, graduating from that institution in 1880. Pursuing his medical studies and training at Bellevue Hospital in 1880-2 and in Berlin, Heidelberg and Vienna 1882-4, in the latter year he established himself in practice in New York city, where he has won distinction in his profession. He has served as Assistant Surgeon of Roosevelt Hospital since 1855. He was Attending Surgeon at Bellevue Hospital from 1889 to IS.)2, Attending Surgeon at the New York Hospital from 1892 to 1897, and Consulting Surgeon to the New York Cancer Hospital during the latter period. At the present time he is Instructor in Operative Surgery upon the Cadawe in the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York. Dr. Hartley is President of the New York Surgical Society, and a member of the New York Clinical, the Medico- Chirurgical, the Dermatoetal. the Genito-Urinary
and the New York Pathological societies. He is also a member of the University Club. In politics he is a Democrat.
HEYWOOD, CHARLES, Colonel Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, was born in Water- ville, Maine, October 3, 1839, son of Lieutenant Charles Heywood, United States Navy, and Antonia Heywood. From the days of General Knox, of Revolutionary fame, down to General O. O. Howard, now retired, the Pine Tree State has been ably represented in the army and navy of the United States, and among the many who have served their country honorably and faithfully, the subject of this sketch deserves especial mention for his long and active connection with the Marine Corps. Charles Heywood was appointed from New York state and commissioned Second Lieutenant on April 5, 1858. His active duties were begun during the quarantine riots at Staten Island in September of that year, and his first sea duty was performed on board the Frigate Niagara, which was detailed to return cap- tured slaves to Africa. Afterwards he was ordered to the St. Louis, Home Squadron, stationed at Greytown, looking after the filibuster Walker. He served on board the Cumberland, Flagship of the squadron of observation in the gulf of Mexico, witnessed the destruction of the Norfolk Navy Yard in April 1861, and was promoted First Lieutenant in the following May. In August of that year he participated in the capture of Forts Clark and Hatteras, was favorably mentioned by the com- manding officer, Major Doughty, and promoted Captain in November 1861. During the winter of 1861-2 he took part in several boat expeditions on the James River, and was on board the Cumberland and commanded the after-gun deck division in the fight with the Confederate Ram Merrimac. In that memorable engagement the first shot from the Merrimac killed nine marines. Captain Heywood fired the last gun in this fight, and his meritorious conduct being especially mentioned in the report of the commanding officer, Lientenant Morris, and was brevetted Major for distinguished gallantry in pres- ence of the enemy. In 1862 he was ordered to the Frigate Sabine, on special service after the rebel steamer Alabama, and in 1863 to the Ticonderoga, Flagship of the Flying Squadron, on the same duty. Having volunteered for duty under Admiral Farragut in the Gulf Squadron, he was ordered to the Flag- ship Hartford as Fleet Marine officer, rendered
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valuable services in the Battle of Mobile Bay and at the capture of Forts Morgan, Gaines and Powell, the Rams Tennessee and steamer Selma. For dis- tinguished gallantry in the presence of the enemy, he received through the recommendation of Admiral Farragut, the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, United States Marine Corps. After the close of the war he was entrusted with important services both on land and at sea, being at one time Fleet Marine officer of the European station, with Admiral Farragut, and during the Virginius affair in 1873 he was Fleet Marine officer of the North Atlantic Squadron with nearly nine hundred marines under his command.
CHAS. HEYWOOD.
He served upon the staff of Admiral Mullany during the White League troubles in New Orleans in the winter of 1874 and 1875, and in November 1876 was promoted to the rank of Major. In July and August 1877 he was in command of the Marines at Baltimore, Philadelphia and Reading during the labor riots, and the efficient service rendered by his corps received the thanks of the Navy Department, and also the hearty commendation of Major General Hancock, as follows :-
HEADQUARTERS MIL. DIV. OF THE ATLANTIC, NEW YORK CITY, August 13, 1877. GENERAL ORDER NO. 46.
The marines now at Reading, Pennsylvania, under the command of Colonel Ileywood, when relieved by the detach-
ment of United States Artillery, ordered there for that pur- pose, will proceed to the Marine Barracks, Washington, District of Columbia, reporting to the proper naval authori- ties. The Major-General Commanding desires to express his high appreciation of the excellent conduct and soldierty qualities of the marines during the entire period of the recent disorders; citizens and soldiers are united in admiration of the soldierly bearing, excellent discipline and devotion to duty displayed by them, while at Baltimore, Philadelphia and Reading. Copy of this order will be forwarded to the Ion- orable Secretary of the Navy, that he may be informed of the valuable services and arduous duties rendered by the marincs while serving in the Military Division of the Atlantic.
By command of MAJOR-GENERAL HANCOCK.
(Signed) JOHN S. WHARTON, Captain 19th Infantry, Act'g Asst. Adjt .- General.
(Official)
(Signed) JOHN S. WHARTON, Captain 19th Infantry, Aide de Camp.
In 1885 he was ordered to hastily equip a battalion of two hundred and fifty marines for the purpose of opening transit and protecting the lives and prop- erty of American citizens at Panama. Reporting for duty with the full complement of marines re- quired within twelve hours after receiving the tele- graphic order, he arrived in Aspinwall on April 11, and immediately proceeded with his command to Panama, which was then in the hands of the Revo- lutionists. He took quarters in the railroad ,build- ings outside the walls and proceeded to open and to keep in operation all regular trains along the line. The American marines were confronted by a des- perate and turbulent mob, but owing to the firm bearing and formidable appearance of the troops, the expected attack by the insurgents did not mate- rialize. As the inhabitants of the city conceived the idea that the United States had other motives rather than to simply protect the lives and prop- erty of their citizens, Colonel Heywood's position was for a time a hazardous one, but he was rein- forced by the second battalion together with a strong detachment of Naval Artillery, making a brigade of nearly one thousand men, of which he had command during the entire occupation of the Isthmus by our forces. His command was the first to arrive and the last to depart, and this was not done until the federal forces were restored to power. Upon his departure from the Isthmus the following letter of thanks was received from Admiral Jouett : -
NORTH ATANTIC STATION, U. S. FLAGSHIP TENNESSEE (1 Rate), ASPINWALL U. S. C., May 22, ISS5. COLONEL CHARLES HEYWOOD, U. S. M. C.,
Commanding Battalion U. S. Marines, Isthmus of Panama : Sir, - Your departure from the Isthmus with your com- mand gives nie occasion to express my high estimation of the
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Marine Battalion. You and your battalion came from home at the first sound of alarm, and you have done hard and honest work. The Marine Battalion has been constantly at the front, where danger and disease were sure to come first, and always, when a conflict has seemed imminent, I have relied with most implicit confidence on that body of tried soldiers. No conflict has come, but I am well aware how nobly and steadily, through weary and anxious nights. exposed to a deadly climate, the marines have guarded our country's interest. Please communicate to your command my grateful acknowledgment of their faithful services on the Isthmus of Panama, and accept my sincere thanks for your own earnest and valuable assistance.
Very respectfully, (Signed) Your obedient servant,
JAS E. JOUETT, Rear Admiral Commanding U. S. Naval Force on North Atlantic Station.
On March 9, 1888, he was promoted to Lieutenant- Colonel. Colonel Heywood was appointed Colonel Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, January 30, 1891. He was married October 25, 1866, to Caroline Bacon, of Washington, District of Columbia.
HOLT, ERASTUS EUGENE, M. D., Portland, was born in Peru, Oxford county, Maine, June 1, 1849, son of Erastus and Lucinda (Packard) Holt. He commenced his early education in the public schools of Canton, an adjoining town, where his family moved in his early boyhood. Subsequently, after acquiring the foundations of a mercantile training under such prominent business men of that section as Albion Thorne, John P. Swasey, Dura Bradford and Otis Hayford, he attended Hebron Academy, and Westbrook and Gorham seminaries, all well-known Maine institutions of learning. While fitting for college he taught school during some part of every year, by this means defraying the expenses of his educational course. Circumstances necessitating a postponement of his purpose to enter college, he determined to devote himself at once to a thorough course of medical study and training, and in pursuance of this plan entered the
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Maine Medical School at Bowdoin College in 1872. Later he attended courses of lectures in Boston and at the Medical School of Dartmouth College, and returning to Bowdoin graduated from the Medical School of Maine in 1874. Then continu- ing his studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia College, New York, he gradu- ated therefrom and received his ad cundem degree in 1875. While pursuing his medical studies he was for a time Principal of the City Reform School
of Boston. Following graduation he returned to Maine and commenced the general practice of medicine in Portland, where he became the first- appointed House Physician of the Maine General Hospital, and an Attending Physician of the Port- land Dispensary. He was also appointed Demon- strator of Anatomy at the Medical School of Maine, and officiated in this position for two years. His quarterly reports of medical and surgical cases treated at the Maine General Hospital during his service at that institucion, published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, and his historical sketch of the hospital published in the Portland
E. E. HOLT.
Transcript, thus early attracted attention to his scientific. attainments and literary abilities, and evinced the interest and activity in the affairs of the hospital which has been characteristic of him ever since. In 18St Dr. Holt went abroad for study in the special departments of ophthalmology and otology, and after spending some months chiefly in the hospitals of London, he returned and resumed his practice in Portland, devoting himself principally to diseases of the eye and ear, in which specialty he soon established a reputation extending beyond the limits of the state. While in Europe Dr. Holt was a member of the Seventh Inter- national Medical Congress, held in London in
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August 1881. Soon after his return from abroad he became impressed with the great need of an eye and ear infirmary in the state of Maine. About 1886 he began to secure signatures to a petition for the incorporation of such an institution, with the result that carly in that year a meeting of the signers was held in the City Building of Portland, and the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary was duly organized. Rooms were secured in Federal street and prepared for the reception and treatment of patients. Dr. Holt was appointed Executive Surgeon, and in April 1886 the Infirmary was opened with promises of usefulness and success which have been more than realized. Soon the institution was able to purchase the building which it occupied, and additions and improve- ments were made from time to time as needed. But its facilities and accommodations could not keep pace with the requirements of its increasing patronage, and accordingly in 1890 steps were taken for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new and larger building of improved construction and modern appointments. In May 1891 the cor- ner stone of the present imposing edifice on - Congress street was laid, with Masonic and other fitting ceremonies, the principal address being delivered by Dr. Holt ; and in December 1892 the new building was formally opened and dedicated. Up to this time thousands of patients had been treated and hundreds of operations performed by the Infirmary, and since establishment in its new and model quarters the institution's usefulness and efficiency have been continually increasing under the direction of Dr. Holt, who still remains its executive head. Dr. Holt has also been active and prominent, both professionally and as a human- itarian, outside of the institution with which his name is so conspicuously identified. In 1891 his earnest efforts resulted in the passage by the Legis- lature of an " Act for the Prevention of Blindness," relating to the treatment of infants at birth, Maine being the first state after New York to place such a law upon its statute books ; and in 1896 he was in- strumental in securing the enactment of a medical registration law, requiring that every person desiring to practice medicine or surgery shall be examined and found proficient in all the branches of medicine before a certificate permitting such person to prac- tice in the state shall be granted. Dr. Holt was the founder of the Portland Medical Club in 1876 and of the Maine Academy of Medicine and Science in 1894, was one of the originators of the New
England Ophthalmological Society, and founder and editor of the Journal of Medicine and Science, the . official organ of the Maine Academy of that name. He is also a member of the Maine and the American medical associations, the American Ophthalmologi- cal and American Otological societies, and the Con- gress of American Physicians and Surgeons. As an author and writer on medical and surgical subjects he is widely known. The list of his numerous papers contributed to various journals or read before med- ical societies is too long to be enumerated here, but among his published writings may be mentioned, besides a " Report on Otology," and his incidental editorial articles in the Journal of Medicine and Science, papers read before the Maine Medical Association on " Diseases of the Lachrymal Appar- atus," " Diseases of the Mastoid," " Strabismus Convergens," "Otitus Media Suppurativa," " Treat- ment of Ulcers of the Cornea," and " First One Hundred Cases of Cataracts"; before the American Ophthalmological Society on the " Removal of Steel from the Vitreous of the Electro Magnet," " Orbital Cellulitis," " Commotio Retinaum," etc ; papers in the Journal of Medicine and Science on the " Re- lations of Modern Civilization to Affections of the Eye and Nervous System," the " Relations of Ame- tropia to Diseases of the Eye," " Some of the Practi- cal Results Derived from a Study of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye," " Otitis Media Suppur- ativa," and "Ophthalmology and Otology" ; papers read before the American Otological Society in " Boiler-Makers' Deafness," " The Hearing Power in Different Conditions," " Report on a Case of Teratoid Tumor of both Auricles " ; a paper in the American Journal of Otology on 'Acute Inflamma- tion of the Middle Ear," and " Detachment of the Retina," in the American Journal of Ophthalmol- ogy. To these should be added his annual Reports as Executive Surgeon of the Maine and Ear In- firmary. Referring to Dr. Holt's labors in the great field to which his life has been devoted, a well- known writer says of him : " Few men in the United States, and perhaps none in New England, have won higher distinction in the special departments herein mentioned. To his reputation as a scientist he has added that of a humanitarian and philan- thropist ; and as the field of his usefulness as a practitioner has expanded, he has sought by ener- getic methods to extend to the poor the full benefits of the iatest results of his researches and studies. The Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary in Portland is a monument not only to his profound learning and
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skilful hand, but also to his sympathetic nature and generous heart." Dr. Holt is a prominent Mason, being a member of Atlantic Lodge, Mount Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, Portland Commandery Knights Templar, and other bodies up to and including the Thirty-second degree. He is also a member of the Bramhall League, Portland and Country clubs and Portland Athletic Association. He is actively in- terested in all matters of a public nature, an illus- tration of his public spirit being his subscription of a thousand dollars as one of the incorporators of the new Portland Theatre, which will rank when completed among the finest in New England. Dr. Holt married Mary Brooks Dyer ; they have six children : Lucinda Mary Belle, Clarence Blake, Roscoe Thorne, Erastus Eugene, Jr., Dorothy and Benjamin Dyer Holt.
KENDALL, RALPH MILLS, Merchant, Boston, was born in Bridgton, Cumberland county, Maine,
R. M. KENDALL.
March 19, 1854, son of Robert Pope and Sophia Ward (Wilson) Kendall. He is a lineal descendant of Francis Kendall, who came from England to America between 1630 and 1640, and was one of a small colony of about thirty-five persons who were the first proprietors of the town of Woburn, Massa-
chusetts. in which Francis died about the year 1706. Ralph M. Kendall received his early educa- tion in the common schools of Bridgton, and from the age of fifteen until he was twenty-two worked in a retail store in Biddeford, Maine, where he ac- quired the elements of a thorough business training. He then entered the service of Bradford & An- thony, an old and prominent cutlery house of Bos- ton, and continued in their employ until 1883, when in association with Messrs. Dame and Stod- dard he organized the present firm of Dame, Stod- dard & Kendall. This firm, of which Mr. Kendall is still a member, purchased the business of the old firm of Bradford & Anthony, and have since continued as their successors, as importers and *wholesale dealers in cutlery, fishing tackle, skates, athletic goods and bicycles. Mr. Kendall is a thorough-going business man, and has never held any civil or political office, although taking an inter- est in all public affairs. In politics he has always been a Republican. He was married August 23, 1887 ; he has no children.
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