Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of Maine, Part 92

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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fighting at Whitehouse Landing, January 21 ; com- manded regiment at battle of St. Mary's Church, June 24, where he had two horses shot under him, and was himself shot through the thigh about two o'clock in the afternoon but did not relinquish com- mand of the regiment until the day was done ; com- manded Second Brigade in the severe engagement west of Ream's Station, August 23, where he lost three regimental commanders and was wounded in the ankle ; commanded brigade in the battle of Ream's Station, August 25, in a dash from the Weldon Rail- road to and beyond Pebbles's Farm ; running over the enemy's pickets and outposts to September 2;

CHAS. H. SMITH.

in a skirmish on Jerusalem Plank Road (cattle raid), September 16 ; in a fight at Wyatt Farm, September 29, and under fire supporting the First Brigade on the Vaughan Road, October 1; commanded Third Brigade in the Battle of Boynton Plank Road, Octo- ber 27 ; charged and routed the enemy at Rowanly Creek and again at Gravelly Run ; formed on the right of infantry on the plank road to repel an assault, and afterwards protected the rear of the Second Corps against Hampton's Cavalry in a hard fight until dark - four spirited fights in four differ- ent places in one day ; commanded brigade in reconnoissance and skirmish down Weldon Rail- road, November 7; in movement to Stony Creek,

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where he fought and defeated the enemy, Decem- ber 1 ; in movement to Bellefield, December 7-12 ; skirmishing with enemy December 8, fighting him on the 9th, covering the rear on return march to the crossing of the Nottaway and fighting the enemy all day the tenth ; commanded brigade in Appomattox Campaign, March 29 to April 9, 1865 ; in the fight all day at Dinwiddie Courthouse April 9, where he was hit in the leg by a ballet which passed through his horse ; in the sharp fight at Jetersville, April 5 ; in the attack on the retreat- ing flank and in the battles of Sailors' Creek April 6, Briery Creek and Farmville April 7, and Appomat- tox April 9; commanded brigade in movement against Johnson's army, April 24 and following. He was successively promoted from Captain (First Maine Cavalry), commissioned October 19, 1861, to Major, February 16, 1863; Lieutenant-Colonel, March 1, 1863 ; and Colonel, June 1863. He was brevetted Brigadier-General of Volunteers, August 1, 1864, " for distinguished conduct in the engage- - ment at St. Mary's Church " ; and Major-General of Volunteers, March 13, 1865, "for highly distin- guished and meritorious services." His commands held included command of First Maine Cavalry from May 5, 1862, to January 7, 1863 ; First Maine and Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry on reconnoissance, August 16-17, 1863 ; First Maine and Second Penn- sylvania Cavalry, October 22, 1863 ; four regiments from Bealton to Luray, December 21-24, 1863; brigade January 8 to February 17 (division, Febru- ary 11-12) and from March 25 to April 25, 1864 ; First Maine and Second Pennsylvania at Todd's Tavern, May 8, 1864; same command at Barker's Mills, June 2, 1864; brigade, August 20, 1864; division, on the Weldon Railroad, August 21-22, and brigade at Ream's Station, August 23, 1864; and took command of the new brigade (Third) authorized and organized especially for him, Octo- ber 18, 1864. He was under fire in person about sixty different times, was hit by bullets three times, and had five horses shot under him. General Smith was mustered out August 11, 1865. On July 25, 1866, he was tendered a commission in the regular army, being offered an appointment as Colo- nel of the Twenty-eighth United States Infantry, which he accepted September 17, 1866, and was transferred to the Nineteenth Infantry on March ' 15, 1869, with which he served as Colonel until retired in 1891. On March 2, 1867, he was brev- etted Brigadier-General, "for gallant and meritori- ous service in the Battle of Sailors' Creek, Virginia";

also on the same date receiving the brevet rank of Major-General, " for gallani and meritorious service during the war." Since his retirement General Smith has resided in Washington, District of Columbia.

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OREN B. WHITTEN.

SNOW, WILLIAM MORTON, Merchant, Boston, was born in Rockland, Maine, May 4, 1837, son of Larkin and Alice ( Small) Snow. He is descended from Hon. Nicholas Snow, the progenitor of the family in this country, who landed at Plymouth from the ship Anne in July 1623, and married Constance Hopkins, one of the Mayflower pilgrims, in 1626. After receiving his early education in the district and high schools of Rockland, and gradu- ating from the Bucksport (Maine) Seminary, he entered upon mercantile life in Rockland in the employ of his father, who was a merchant, lime manufacturer and shipowner. When quite young he conducted the multifarious duties of supervising the entire business during his father's sickness, and at that time assuming control of his lime business. Relinquishing this connection in 1860 he went into business on his own account, which he continued for about a year, and then went West with his brother, Edward A. Snow, to Darlington, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the general merchandise

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business. At the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861 he closed out his business at a considerable sacrifice and enlisted as a private in the Third Wisconsin Regiment for a term of three years. His regiment shortly after rendezvous at Fond du Lac was sent to the Army of the Potomac and partici- pated in the early engagements of the war, being particularly prominent in the First Battle of Har- per's Ferry, under Banks. Subsequently the regi- ment was in all the principal battles in which the Army of the Potomac was engaged, including Antietam, South Mountain, Cedar Mountain, Chan- cellorsville, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. After the Battle of Gettysburg, the Twelfth Corps, to which the Third Wisconsin was attached, was sent West and united with Carl Schurz's Eleventh Corps, the two making up the Twentieth Corps, and joining Hooker's Army, participated in its engagements from that time down to Atlanta. In the charge at Cedar Mountain Mr. Snow was badly wounded, almost mortally, and the bullet received then he carries in his body to this day. Again before Atlanta he was severely wounded, and was left on the field all night ; from this latter wound his life was threatened for many years, during which time he was obliged to visit different sections of the country seeking the change of climate that would aid recuperation and restoration of health. He was also slightly wounded in front of Resaca, Georgia. After receiving promotion to Corporal Sergeant and First Sergeant, while lying in the hospital recovering from his wound received at Cedar Mountain he was given the rank of Second Lieutenant, " for meritorious service." Soon after - he was promoted to First Lieutenant, and detailed by General Ruger to serve on his staff. In this capacity he served for about a year, on account of his wound was not able to take on active service with his regiment. Subsequently Colonel Hawley of the Third Wisconsin desiring to promote him to a Captaincy if he would return to his old regiment, he did so and was made Captain of Company B, Third Wisconsin. His regiment was brigaded with the Second Massachusetts Infantry, under com- mand of Colonel (afterwards General ) George H. Gordon, through most of the war, and both were constantly under detail whenever dangerons and important work called. Upon the expiration of the three-years' term of enlistment, the regiment re-enlisted for the war, and Captain Snow returned to Wisconsin to recruit its ranks, after which he participated in the war until nearly the end

of the struggle, when he resigned on account of wounds. Coming East to Boston, he started in his present wholesale business, in which he has continued for nearly thirty years. He has estab- lished a large and successful trade covering the entire country, his business extending from Cali- fornia to the Mediterranean, and receiving fruit from points as far distant as the Holy Land. Mr. Snow was active in the formation of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, and has been very prominent in all the remarkable progress and developments of the last few years in his line of business, His business is carried on in partnership

W. M. SNOW.

with his brother, Edward A. Snow, under the firm name of Snow & Company. It has grown to a marvellous extent, and its scope is second to none in the country, extending from the Lakes to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and con- tributing a large and constantly increasing business to the railroads and inland transportation lines of the country. Mr. Snow has served as a Director in several corporations and business organizations, and is at present a member of the Transportation Com- mittee of the Boston Associated Boards of Trade. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Boston Athletic Association. In politics he is a Repub-

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lican, but was never an aspirant for political honors. He was married March 4, 1891, to Rose Prescott Brown, of Brookline, Massachusetts, where they now reside.

D. P. STOWELL.

STANLEY, FREELAN OSCAR, of the Stanley Dry Plate Manufacturing Company, was born in King- field, Franklin county, Maine, June 1, 1849, son of Solomon and Apphia (French) Stanley. After receiving a common-school education he gradu- ated from the State Normal School of Farmington, Maine, and subsequently from Hebron (Maine) Academy, and entered Bowdoin College, but left that institution after a year and a half, and began teaching. He taught school for twelve years, and then engaged in manufacturing at Mechanic Falls, Maine, where he continued until burned out in 1883. He then engaged in the dry-plate manufac- turing business, which he still pursues. Mr. Stanley resides in Newton, Massachusetts, and is a mem- ber of the Hunnewell Hill Club of that city, of . which he has been twice elected President. In politics he is an Independent. He was married April 18, 1876, to Flora J. R. Tileston, of Mechanic Falls, Maine ; they have no children.

STANLEY, FRANCIS EDGAR, of the Stanley Dry Plate Manufacturing Company, was born in King- field, Franklin county, Maine, June 1, 1849, son of Solomon and Apphia ( French) Stanley. He is a twin brother of Freelan (). Stanley, the subject of the preceding sketch. His early education was received in the common schools, supplemented by two terms in the State Normal School at Farming- ton, Maine ; and his training for active life was derived from actual contact with practical business affairs, in the struggle for existence. He has been engaged in the successive occupations of farm laborer, carpenter, teacher, machinist, carriage maker, portrait artist, photographer, and lastly that of dry-plate manufacturer, besides several others of minor importance. Mr. Stanley is an Independent in politics and religion, as in all else, belonging to no society, not even a church or a political party. He is, however, a member of the Newton Club of Newton, in which city he resides. He was married January 1, 1870, to Augusta May Walker, of New Portland, Maine ; they have three children : Blanche May, Emma Frances and Raymond Walker Stanley.

WHITE, WILLIAM BEZALAEL, Merchant, Boston, was born in South Paris, Oxford county, Maine, August 28, 1835, son of Captain Bezalael and Nancy (Whitney) White. His grandfather Nathan White was a son of Peter White of Uxbridge, Massa- chusetts. The wife of Nathan White was a daughter of Benjamin Chapin of Worcester, Massachusetts. On the maternal side his grandparents were Israel and Lucy M. Whitney. He was educated in the district schools of South Paris, and at the age of seventeen went to Abington (now Rockland) Massa- chusetts, and engaged in the shoe manufacturing business. In 1861 he started shoe manufacturing on his own account, but soon after closed out his business to enlist in the militia, afterwards organized as the Twelfth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, for a term of forty months. After serving for about three months in the Twelfth at Fort Warren, he was transferred to the Eighteenth Massachusetts Regi- ment, which he helped to organize. In this regiment he first served as Adjutant, was promoted to Captain on August 26, 1861, to Major on May 1, 1863, and to Lieutenant-Colonel on October 15, 1863, partici- pating in the engagements of the Army of the Poto- mac at Yorktown, near or around Richmond, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Rap- pahannock Station, Beverly Ford, Mine Run, Battle

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of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Courthouse, and North Anna where he was wounded. He was mustered out of service in September 1864, on the expiration of his term of enlistment. Returning to Rockland (then Abington), Colonel White re-entered the shoe manufacturing business, and later engaged in his present manufacturing business in Boston of boot and shoe patterns and fancy leather goods, resididing in Quincy, Massachusetts, from 1875 to 1895, and for the last two years in Boston. He has made five or six inventions in connection with his business which have been patented and have proved useful and profitable. In 1889 his son became a partner in the business, which has since been carried on under the name of W. B. White & Son. Mr. White served as a Trustee of the Public Library of Quincy under appointment by Mayor Porter, and has held office on the Civil Service Commission for five years. He was a member and served as President of the Chess Club when a resident of

WM. B. WHITE.

Rockland, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and the Pine Tree State Club of Boston. He voted for Lincoln in 1860, but since then has been an Independent in politics. He was first married in 1862 to Frances Shaw, of Rockland, who died in 1871, and by whom he had three children :

Adeline Frances (died at eleven years), Nellie Louise "(died at twenty-two years), and Arthur Carrol White, now living in New Mexico. In 1878 he was a second time married to Carrie Augusta White, of Quincy, who died in 1892 ; by this union there are no children.

S. M. WATSON.

WING, GEORGE CURTIS, Lawyer, Auburn, was born in Livermore, Oxford county, Maine, April 16, 1847, son of Walter W. and Lucy Amanda (Wyman) Wing. His grandfather, Reuben Wing, came to Maine from the town of Harwich, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, when a child, with his parents, who settled in Readfield, Kennebec county. When eighteen he went to Livermore as one of the very first settlers, clearing up a farm upon which he lived until his death in 1862 at the age of ninety years. The father of the subject of our sketch, who was through life a highly respected citizen, died at the home of his son, February 22, 1897, at the age of nearly eighty-six years. The mother, a daughter of Rev. William and Lucy ( Parkhurst) Wyman, and a woman of remarkable intelligence, energy and capa- bilty, is still living at the age of seventy-eight. Her father and grandhather were Baptist ministers.

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George C. Wing received his early education in the public and high schools of Livermore, and fitted for college and studied law with the late Henry C. Wentworth as a tutor. At the age of sixteen he commenced teaching, and was constantly employed in that occupation for about three years. At twenty-one, after passing a critical examination, he was admitted to the Bar at Auburn, Maine, April 23, 1868. After practicing at Lisbon Falls for two years he removed to Auburn, and since has been actively and continuously engaged in the practice of his profession in that city. It can be safely said of him that he has had the largest and most lucra-

GEO. C. WING.

tive law practice in Androscoggin county, and one · of the largest in New England. His dockets show that he has brought over ten thousand actions, includ- ing, of course, those brought by the firms of which he has been a member, namely, George C. Wing, Morrill & Wing, and George C. & Charles E. Wing. When but little more than twenty-five years old, as County Attorney, he conducted the trial of James A. Lowell for the murder of his wife. As this was one of the most remarkable trials that have ever been held in the state, he acquired by the ability and learning which he displayed in it a very high reputation. He was elected County Attorney of Androscoggin county in 1872, was elected Judge of

Probate in 1875 and re-elected in 1879, and in 1884 was appointed by Governor Robie to that office, which he held until the following year, declining a re-appointment. He was a member of the Superintending School Committee of Auburn in 1872-3, and in 1878-80 and 1884-7 served as City Solicitor. For six years after coming to Auburn Mr. Wing was in partnership with Hon. Nahum Morrill, and thereafter with his brother, Charles E. Wing, until the latter's death, which occurred July 25, 1893. Charles E. Wing was widely known as a well-read, able and reliable counsellor, and as a man of strong convictions and thorough integrity. He was well educated, was an accomplished musician, of commanding presence, entertaining in manner, and one whose number of friends was only limited by his circle of acquaintances. His death at the comparatively early age of fifty-one years was deeply lamented by his brethren of the Bar and by the community in which he was respected and loved. Judge Wing politically has always been a Republican, but has never held any elective polit- ical office. He was nominated by acclamation in 1884, during his absence from home, as a Repre- sentative to the Legislature ; but on the day of his return publicly declined the honor. He served as Chairman of the Republican State Committee during the Presidential campaign of 1884, and as Chairman of the State Republican Delegation to the Chicago National Convention in that year. He has also served as Judge-Advocate-General on the staffs of both Governor Bodwell and Governor Marble. In business enterprises also Judge Wing has been both active and prominent. He was in 1875 one of the incorporators of the National Shoe and Leather Bank of Auburn, and has ever since been a Director of that institution. In 1885 he took a prominent part in the formation of the Maine Benefit Life Association, framing the act of incorporation and virtually securing its passage by the Legislature. The charter was procured in the face of most stren- uous opposition from the representatives of the old- line insurance companies. Upon the organization of the company Judge Wing was made the Presi- dent, and in that capacity has ever since exercised an active and energetic oversight of the business of the association, which has long since been recog- nized as the leading assessment-insurance company in the state. He is Vice-President of the Auburn Trust Company, and one of the Directors of the Portland & Rumford Falls Railway, in connection with which enterprise he was to a large degree in-

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strumental in obtaining the extension of the road into Lewiston and Auburn. In 1895 he was elected President of the Auburn Board of Trade, which position he still holds. He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, a Past Master of Tranquil Lodge of Auburn, member of Lewiston Commandery Knights Templar, and member of the Scottish Rite societies in Portland. He is also identified with the Knights of Pythias fraternity. Socially Judge Wing is essentially a home man ; he was a charter member of the Calumet Club of Lewiston and the Abenaqui

Club of Auburn, But rarely or never visits clubs at home or abroad. He was married at Livermore, May 2, 1870, to Emily Billings Thompson. They have two sons : Nahum Morrill Wing, born May 6, 1871, who graduated at Colby University in 1894 and entered Harvard Law School, but was obliged on account of his health to seek a change of climate and has since been residing in Denver, Colorado, where he has been admitted to the Bar ; and George C. Wing, Jr., born October 6, 1878, now a student in Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island.

ADDENDA AND ERRATA.

ATWOOD, FRED. - Page 505. Appointed June 14, 1897, by Governor Powers, a Trustee of the Maine State Reform School, to fill the vacancy made by the death of Hon. John J. Perry.

BALLOU, J. W., Bath. - Page 582. No data fur- nished.

BLACK, R. W. - Page 307. Deceased, March 25, 1897.

BON LAY, AVILA O. - Page 143. Should be Bou Lay.

BOYD, BYRON. - Page 147. Now (1897) Secretary of State.

BREWER, MAJOR GEORGE J., Washington, D. C. -- Page 596. No data furnished.

BURLEIGH, EDWIN C. - Page 509. Elected June 21, 1897, Representative to Congress from the Third Congressional District of Maine, to succeed Hon. Seth L. Milliken, deceased.

CHISHOLM, HUGH J. - Page 275. Elected Presi- dent American Paper Manufacturers' Association, February 1897.

CROCKETT, E. E., Castine. - Page 589. No data furnished.

CURTIS, JOHN B. - Page 116. Deceased, June 13, 1897.

DALTON, REV. ASA, D. D. - Page 19. "Next to his direct ministerial work, the greatest service Dr. Dalton has rendered the community, as all will acknowledge, is the system of lectures which he was the first to establish and successfully carry ,through in Portland. He began them many years ago and has continued them without interruption. By referring to the reports we find that three of these courses were on Shakespeare, - his English historical plays, his Greek and Roman plays and

the six great works that mark him as the greatest dramatic poet of all time. He also gave elab- orate courses on the great races and ages and ideals of history, the Greeks as authors of our civilization ; the Romans as pioneers of empire ; Italy, the mother of art, and all the states of Eu- rope ; Spain, once mistress of the world ; France, her rival; Germany, the Conqueror of France and England, the successor of Rome. The ages of Pericles, of Augustus, of the Medici, of Philip II. of Spain, of Louis XVI., of Elizabeth and of Chatham, furnished the themes for one winter. The great epic poets, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Tasso and Milton followed ; also the Greek dra matic poets and poetry, including Æschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. The history of Eng- land was the subject of two courses. Others might be mentioned, but this list will suffice to show the extent and variety of these lectures, all of which were listened to by large and enthu- siastic audiences, frequently including the late Governor Washburn and Judge Goddard, and many of the professional and scholarly men of the city, and also of its most intelligent women, not a few of whom ascribe the rise and rapid growth of their literary clubs to these lectures. In fact, to Dr. Dalton's influence, more than any other one cause, is due the Woman's Literary Union and the remarkable activity of Portland women in this direction."

DEMERITT, J. H., Washington, D. C. - Page 590. No data furnished.

HAINES; DR. W. M. - Page 189. Deceased January 1897.

JOHNSON, DR. WELLINGTON. - Page 131. Born in Augusta, Maine, November 3, 1896, Lewis Sayre Johnson ; son of Dr. Wellington and Mary E. ( Lewis) Johnson.

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KNOWLTON, HIRAM. - Page 45. In second line from top of page, second column, "Norton" should read "Knowlton." Third line from top, second column, should read " Norton vs. Lisher- ness," etc.

LARRABEE, SETH L. - Page 46. Speaker Maine House of Representatives, session of 1897.

LEAVITT, JUSTIN M. - Page 247. Enlisted at age of seventeen, in 1863, not 1864.

MURRAY, GENERAL BENJAMIN B. - Page 249. Mar- ried January 2, 1897, to Maria Wadsworth Harris, daughter of Lewis L. and Maria H. Wadsworth, formerly of Pembroke, Maine, both now deceased. Maria W. was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 10, 1837 : her parents were born in Dux- bury, Massachusetts.

NOBLE, FRANK L. - Page 163. Deceased, March 28, 1897.

SynH, A. R., Thomaston. - Page 612. No data furnished.

STOWELL, D. P., Waterville. - Page 616. No data furnished.

THOMAS, W. W. - Page 89. Deceased, November 1896.

WATSON, S. M., Portland. - Page 617. No data furnished.

WENTWORTH, THOS. H. -- Page 141. Date of ser- vice as Representative to the Legislature should be r377, instead of 1887. In sixteenth line from bottom of page, first column, in place of " Rules" read " Bills "; was " Chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills," etc.

WHITTEN, O. B., Portland. - Page 614. No data furnished.

INDEX.

PAGE

ABBOTT, FRANK 410

BOLSTER, S. A. 304

CHISHOLM, HUGH J. 275

ABBOTT, S. I. 302

BOLSTER, W. W. 305

CHOATE, W. S. 3SI

ACHORN, EDGAR O.

BONNEY, PERCIVAL. 431

CLARK, D. W .. 11

ADAMS, FORREST LEE.

173

BOODY, DAVID A ... 479

CLARK, GEO. W. 211

ADAMS, JOHN M.

BOOTHBY, C. H .. 370

CLARK, OMAR.

CLARKE, AUGUSTUS T. 514

309

ALDEN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. 146

BOWLES, FRANK II

377

CI.ARKE, CHAS. L.

538

ALLAN, WM. R. 209

BOYD, BYRON . 147

BRADBURY, A. W. 7

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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 92

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