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3. BERTHA,5 b. June 17, 1864; was m., Aug. 29, 1892, to Henry Eldridge. She graduated from a four years' course in 1881, at the Maine Central Institute ; afterwards studied elocution at the Boston Conservatory of Music. She early developed a dramatic talent, and took first prize at the age of 14 for oratory. She taught elocution in various seminaries, and had classes from Bates College and Nichols Latin School, Lewiston. Although urged to follow the stage profession, she has declined to do so. Her readings have secured high commendations from the press. She lives at Rochester, N. Y. One son (1894).
4. RALPH,5 m. Rachel Stephenson, of Bangor, in 1893; is a clothing in- spector.
5. CARL,5 has musical talent; inspector of clothing.
6. HUGH,5 now a student for medical profession.
7. THOMAS,5 attending school.
Children of George J., deceased, named J. WATSON, RALPH W.,5 CLARE,5 and HERMAN J.5
CHILDREN OF ELDER SAMUEL AND KATHERINE:
I. REUBEN M.,5 m., first, Martha O. Poor; second, Sarah Dow; settled in Illinois.
2. CATHERINE,5 m. Cyrus B. Morrill; resided in Cornish, and d. in 1883.
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3. MARY,5 m. J. T. Pike, of Cornish, where they now reside.
4. D. W., EsQ.,5 m., first, - La Dow, of Iowa; second, Eliza Gram- mond, of Detroit, Mich. He resides at Ashton, South Dakota ; in early life a teacher, afterwards a lawyer, now said to be a judge.
5. ELMIRA M.,5 m. D. M. Parsons, of Parsonsfield, where they reside.
6. REV. SAMUEL,5 b. July 12, 1820, in Cornish, Me .; m., Dec. 3, 1849, Ruth Wadsworth, dau. of Charles and Sarah Lewis, b. in Hiram, Aug. 6, 1826, d. Apr. 8, 1875. He m., second, Sarah E. Bucknam (b. in Unadiller, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1824), July 8, 1882 ; she d. Feb. 1, 1890. His third wife was Sarah E. Jepson, b. at Ashton, Underline, Lanca- shire, Eng., Mar. 15, 1841, m. Aug. 28, 1893, she dau. of Benjamin B. and Alice Hardy. He was captain of militia, being chosen at the age of 19; licensed to preach by the Parsonsfield Quarterly Meeting, in 1846, and ordained at Georgetown, Me., in 1849. While living in Cor- nish he was selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor five years; on the school board, and moderator several years; taught thirty terms of school; charter member Republican party, chairman of Republican town committee; has known much affliction, having lost two wives, and seven children after they had passed their majority; now a well-preserved man; residence, Shapleigh, Me. Issue as follows :
I. CARRIE W.,6 b. Sept. 3, 1851; d. May 3, 1873.
IT. CHARLES W.,6 b. Oct. 2, 1853; m. Mary Dooly, of Montana, and lives at Boise City, Idado.
III. MARSHALL L.,6 b. June 15, 1856; d. Oct. 8, 1881.
IV. KATIE S.,6 b. July 9, 1858; m. T. S. Bachelder, of Waterborough ; d. Jan. 12, 1890.
V. WILLIS S.,6 b. Jan. 9, 1861 ; d. Nov. 27, 1884.
VI. ADDIE M.,6 b. June 11, 1863; m. Frank S. Nowell, of Sanford; d. Nov. 17, 1886.
VII. LILLIE A.,6 b. Aug. 29, 1867 : m. Edward H. Emery, of Sanford, and lives there.
CHILDREN OF JONATHAN AND SARAH:
I. LEVI W.,5 d. unmarried at the age of 44 years.
2. CATHERINE,5 m. Freedom Berry.
3. WILLIAM,5 d. at sea.
4. NOAH W.,5 d. at New Orleans.
5. CHARLES H.,5 m. Abbie Rhodes.
6. GILMAN B.,5 m. Henrietta Paine and holds a position in the custom- house at Portland.
7. EDMUND W.,5 m. Almira Downs.
I. EUGENE S., b. in Worcester, Mass., Nov. 18, 1858 ; m. June 27, 1883, to Cora E. Green, of Milford, Mass., by whom two sons. From a lad he exhibited a remarkably industrious and self-reliant disposition. After graduating from the Hopkinton high school, in 1875, he entered the commercial college at Binghampton, N. Y. He was employed in a
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shoe factory there in October, 1876; became apprenticed to learn the jeweler's trade. In 1882 he took charge of the jewelry department in a store at Springfield, Vt. On Apr. 1, 1883, he entered the employ of J. H. Merrill & Co., of Portland, and June 23, 1887, he started in busi- ness for himself. Mr. Pendexter now has a fine store on Congress St., where he carries a large stock of jewelry and silver ware. He has been agent for the Victor bicycles and has extended sales to all sections of the state. Mr. Pendexter is well known for square dealing and a kindly and courteous attention to his customers. Children :
I. SIDNEY E., b. Nov. 24, 1885.
11. VICTOR B., b. Mar. 22, 1889.
PENDEXTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
John Pendexter,1 b. Aug. 21, 1752; m. Martha Jackson (b. Jan. 16, 1753, d. Aug. 11, 1846). He d. Nov. 17, 1835. These were among the earliest settlers of Lower Bartlett; they came from Portsmouth in the winter of 1775-6. It has been said that she rode through the woods on an old horse with a feather-bed under her for a saddle, and a child in her arms; that her husband walked by the side of the horse drawing their stores on a large hand- sled. He built his first house and barn on the intervale. He was taught a practical lesson-in a class with many others-by a sudden swelling of the Saco, and went to higher ground, where he built what became the nucleus of the spacious residence now known as the Pendexter mansion. Here he and his good wife spent the remainder of their long lives. He was chosen select- man at the first town-meeting. He afterwards held several municipal offices and, in 1820, was justice of the Court of Sessions. He was a carpenter by trade; was self-reliant, independent, and industrious; a strict observer of the Sabbath; an earnest Christian. Children :
I. ALICE,2 b. May 28, 1776; m. Mar. 31, 1797, Col. Jonathan Meserve ; d. Apr. 19, 1872.
2. NANCY,2 b. May 18, 1778; d., unmarried, Mar. 30, 1798.
3. SALLY,2 b. June 18, 1780; m. Benjamin Pitman.
4. SUSANNA,2 b. Aug. 16, 1782 ; m. Stephen Rodgers; d. Sept. 27, 1828.
5. JOHN,2 b. July 29, 1784; m. Susan Eastman, Oct. 8, 1806, and d. May 21, 1840; wife b. May 17, 1786, and d. May 29, 1844. Children :
I. GEORGE,8 b. June 14, 1808; m. Ursula, dau. of Samuel Cushman, of New Gloucester, Sept. 2, 1839, and settled in that town. He d. Apr. 14, 1882; wife b. in New Gloucester, Dec. 22, 1815. Children :
(1). John,4 b. in Bartlett, N. H., June 15, 1840; d. Sept. 27, 1841.
(2). Sarah A.,4 b. Dec. 6, 1841, m. Dec. 24, 1865, to C. W. Dunn, of Poland, Me. Several children, well educated.
(3). John C.,4 b. in Bartlett, N. H., Dec. 20, 1843; m., in 1868, Rose A. Witham. Two children: Lillie5 and Edith.5
(4) Rev. Merritt C.,4 b. Mar. 27, 1846; m. Oct., 1874, Rebecca W. Strout, of Poland. Two children : Ursula E.,5 b. in Naples, Me., Jan. 4, 1877, and Merritt T.,5 b. in Cape Elizabeth, June 9, 1882.
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Mr. Pendexter is a Methodist minister of the Maine Conference and a preacher of eminent ability.
(5). Georgie E.,4 b. in New Gloucester, July 29, 1848 ; unmarried.
(6). Charles H.,4 b. Nov. 4, 1850; m. Nov. 14, 1878, Mary W. La Monde, of New York; d. there Feb. 11, 1894. Their children, b. in Auburn, Me., living in New York, are George W7.5 and Hes- sie L.5 He was a judge.
(7). Mary E.,4 b. July 23, 1853; m. to J. W. Cole, of New York, Aug. 8, 1877 ; d. there Feb., 1878.
1I. ALICE M.,8 b. May 11, 1812; m, Rev. Henry Butler, who d. in New Gloucester, Me., Apr. 5, 1850, aged 43 years. She d. in Minneapolis, Nov. 5, 1880, aged 68 ; had a large family of intelligent children.
III. HANNAH E.,3 b. Mar. 25, 1814; in. Rev. Thomas Hillman. She d. at Mechanic Falls, Sept. 1, 1886; was a devoted Christian, influen- tial for good, beloved by all who knew her. Two children.
IV. SUSAN,8 b. May 24, 1816; m. Dr. J. S. Farnum, of Brockton, Mass.
V. AMELIA A.,3 b. Mar. 31, 1819 ; m. Haskett D. Eastman, of Conway, N. H., Feb. 8, 1844. He was b. June 9, 1818; removed to Minne- apolis in 1871, where he resided until his death ; had one son.
VI. DANIEL E.,3 b. Dec. 9, 1822; m. Harriet O. Cushman ; proprietor of Pequawket house at Conway, N. H .; large family.
VII. BENJAMIN,3 born July 2, 1824; m. Esther P. Dinsmore, and lives at Mechanic Falls, Me. One son, named Frank.4
VIII. LYDIA P.,3 b. Jan. 27, 1827; m. Samuel Shackford, Esq., of Conway, N. H., May 8, 1848. He d. some years ago.
6. JOSEPH,2 b. Sept. 23, 1786 ; m. Lydia Dinsmore, and d. Mar. 29, 1855; wife d. Nov. 22, 1856. Children as follows :
I. SOLOMON D.,8 b. April 21, 1813; m. his cousin, Mary D. Meserve, Sept. 4, 1838, and d. Dec. 21, 1868; killed by a falling limb; kept summer boarding-house in Bartlett.
II. ELIZA D.,3 born April 13, 1817 ; m. Cyrus A. Tasker, June 13, 1850; owners of Fairview House.
III. MARTHA J.,3 b. in 1819; d. unmarried, Mar. 7, 1886.
IV. NANCY,3 m. George P. Stilphen, Oct. 23, 1837.
v. JOHN,3 b. June 24, 1822 ; m. Malinda Chase, b. in Fryeburg, June 5, 1840; proprietor of Langdon House, Intervale, N. H.
VI. MARY D.,3 m. Hazen Pitman.
VI1. ABIGAIL,8 m. James C. Willey.
VIII. AUGUSTA,8 b. in 1834; d. unmarried, May 24, 1860.
7. BETSEY,2 b. Jan. 14, 1789 ; m. Daniel Meserve, Nov. 18, 1804; d. Feb. 7, 1880.
8. GEORGE,2 b. Apr. 18, 1790; d. May 27, 1797.
9. MARTHA,2 b. Oct. 28, 1792; m. William Stilphen.
IO. SAMUEL,2 b. July 18, 1794; m. Lydia T., dau. of Silas Meserve, and d. Mar. 6, 1883 ; she b. Feb. 27, 1800, and d. July 13, 1868. Children :
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I. SILAS M.,3 b. Nov. 16, 1819; m. Lydia D. Hale, Oct., 1850; d. Jan. 7, 1883.
II. BETSEY M.,3 b. July 5, 1822 ; d., unmarried, Mar. 4, 1864.
III. CHARLES C.,3 b. June 21, 1828; m. Caroline P. Gale, Nov. 22, 1866; d. Sept. 29, 1881. He was proprietor of the Pendexter Mansion.
Pike Family.
John Pike1 is said to have been a native of Cape Ann, but he was an inhabitant of Epping, N. H., in later years. He became possessed of a tract of land in the wilderness of Francisborough, in the Ossipee country, now Cornish, and some of his children settled there. Although many of his de- scendants were cut down in early years, his blood flows in the veins of a host of the Cornishites at the present day. His children were JOHN,2 BENNETT,2 NOAH,2 MOLLY,2 ELIZABETH,2 SARAH,2 and ABIGAIL.2
JOHN, JR.,2 came to Cornish at the age of nineteen, and with his brother Bennett cleared land for a farm on the west end of the "High Road." Chil- dren : Sarah,3 Mary,8 Nancy,3 Job,3 John,8 Thurston,3 WVier,3 Simeon,3 and Eben.8
BENNETT,2 came to Cornish, when sixteen years of age, to hew the forest down and populate the town. He m., first, in 1780, Dolly Morrill, by whom one son ; second, Hannah Brassbree, step-daughter of Eben Barker. He be- came a wealthy farmer and useful member of society; was tall and spare and a man of active temperament. He and wife had intellectual parts and trans- mitted brain force to their children. His pride was in a blue broadcloth, high- collared, gilt-buttoned, swallow-tailed coat. Seven children :
I. OLIVER,8 settled in Sebago and had two sons, Nathaniel+ and Edward,4 who were lawyers, besides other issue.
2. BENNETT,3 a man of charming presence, was a distinguished lawyer at Bridgton, where he died in his prime. He was a person of extraordi- nary mind, and gave promise of great success in his profession. He left four children, namely, Mrs. Noah Thompson+; Bennett,+ who married Abbie Small and went to California, where he died at thirty-two, leaving Llewellyn,5 Luella,5 and Bennett5; Mrs. Edward Trafton,4 and Charles,4 who died unmarried.
3. WILLIAM,3 m. Mary Morrill; was a graduate of Bowdoin College, stud- ied medicine, and settled in Cornish as druggist. He was scholarly and had poetic taste and ability. His children were Martha,+ a teacher, d. unmarried; Ellen4; Acsah,4 who continued the drug business, and Frederick,4 who d. soon after graduating from Bowdoin College.
4. DOLLY,8 m. General Steele, of Brownfield ; afterward Dr. Bachelder.
5. JOHN,3 m. Elvira Chick and lived on the homestead. He was a man of literary predilections and humorous; something of a wag and a capital story-teller. He died in life's prime, being survived by a widow, who reached a great age, and four children : Charles W.,4 m. Sarah Lewis, lived on the homestead, and served long as supervisor of town schools.
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His children were l'inton," Alvin,5 Jack,5 lawyers; Hannah,4 m. Benjamin Clark; Bennett,4 who was a lawyer and judge in St. Louis, and Albert.4
6. EZRA,8 graduated at Bowdoin College; was admitted to the bar and soon died. He was a young man of brilliant intellect and many attainments, from whom much was anticipated. .
7. HORACE,3 m. Elizabeth Wedgewood and settled in Cornish, where he engaged in trade and served as postmaster. To sum up, we find eight lawyers and two other graduates descended from " Uncle Bennett " Pike.
NOAH,2 m. twice; first, Joanna Hurd, of Dover, N. H., and second, Abigail Ripley. Eighteen children, named Noah,3 Eliza,3 Samuel,3 Mary, Shedrach,3 Michah,3 Joanna,3 Joanna,3 Jane,3 Theophilus,3 Joseph," Joanna,3 Martha,3 Abigail,3 Lydia,3 'Sarah,3 William,3 and Quincy.3
MOLLY,2 m. Eliphalet Pease, of Cornish.
ELIZABETH,2 m. Joseph Smith. SARAH,2 m. Theophilus Smith, of Cornish.
ABIGAIL,2 m. Nathan Hilton.
Pingree Family.
Among the early settlers of Denmark were two brothers named Thomas and Parker Pingree. The former was born in Rowley, Mass., Sept. 9, 1771; m. Phebe Alexander, of Henniker, N. H., who was born June 26, 1773. He came to town in 1800 and took up a tract of land in the southern part, where he began his clearing in the fall of 1801. He built a house, and in March, 1802, moved his family, consisting of wife and six children, to his new planta- tion. His farm was large and produced enormous harvests for many years. All his fields and pastures were enclosed with good stone-walls before his death (about a thousand rods nearly all "double wall"), which occurred Feb. 24, 1848. His family of fourteen children all lived to adult years and were all married and had children when he died. Nearly all survived until " three- score years and ten." Many families in Denmark and surrounding towns are connected by ties of blood with the Pingrees. WILLIAM, the eldest son, was early identified with town business and was called to fill many positions of trust ; was justice of the peace for nearly fifty years; represented his town in the Legislature in 1847 and 1848; was a farmer who ran a country store.
Parker Pingree, before-mentioned, came to Denmark in 1805, and cleared a farm about one mile east of the mills at the Corner. He had six sons and three daughters. Jasper, one of the sons, was father of Hon. Hazen Pingree, now mayor of Detroit, Mich.
Plaisted Family.
No better fighting stock was ever represented in New England than pro- duced by the Plaisted family. Of the origin of the emigrant ancestors l have no knowledge. By intermarriage the family is connected with the most respectable lineages in Maine and New Hampshire. CAPT. ROGER PLAISTED was slain in King Philip's war while defending the " Upper Garrison" in Kittery, and the following inscription from a large tombstone at South Berwick, speaks for itself:
"Here lies ye body of SAMUEL PLAISTED, EsQ., son of COL. ICHABOD PLAISTED, EsQ., who departed this life March ye 20, 1731-2, in ye 36 year of his age. Near unto this place lies interred the body of ROGER PLAISTED, EsQ., grandfather to the said Samuel Plaisted, who was killed by ye Indians Oct. ye 16th. 1675 aged 40 years. Also ye body of his Eldest son, Mr. Roger Plaisted, who was killed at ye same time with his father."
ICHABOD PLAISTED was a member of the council from 1706 until his death, Nov. 16, 1715, aged 52 years, "deeply lamented." JUDGE SAMUEL PLAISTED was a gentleman of superior parts, distinguished and beloved. COL. JOHN PLAISTED was for twenty years associate and chief justice of New Hampshire.
Elisha Plaisted, Esq., from Berwick, was an early proprietor of Scar- borough, and gave his son Samuel a farm at Winnocks Neck, where, with wife Elizabeth Libby, he settled and remained until old age. After the death of his wife he went to Limington and died there in the family of Joseph Moody, whose wife was his daughter. He had a family of twelve children as follows:
1. HANNAH, b. June 20, 1754; m., Feb. 17, 1779, Joseph Dam, of Kittery.
2. ELISHA, b. Nov. 20, 1755.
3. ESTHER, b. Sept. 9, 1757.
4. JOHN, bapt. July 1, 1759; m. Lydia Moulton, and settled in Standish.
5. SAMUEL, bapt. May 24, 1762 ; m. Hannah Cilley, of Saco, and settled in Gorham, Me.
6. ANDREW, b. June 1, 1763 ; m. Molly Libby, of Scarborough. Sept. 13, 1786, and settled in Gorham, Me., where children and descendants were born.
I. BETSEY, b. Dec. 20, 1787 ; m. Stephen Cram.
11. SALLY, b. July 1, 1788 : m. William Thomes.
III. JOSEPH, b. May 9, 1790; m. Eunice Thomes, sister of Col. Amos Thomes, of Harrison, and settled on an eminence in the south part of that town afterwards known as " Plaisted's hill." He had : Harriet C., b. Oct. 12, 1823, m. Jonathan Fogg, Dec. 8, 1844 ; Eliza, b. Oct. 22, 1825, m. Edward Hall; Sumner S., b. March 10, 1831, supposed to have been murdered.
IV. ANDREW, b. Sept. 18, 1792; m. Eliza True.
V. MARY, born Oct. 30, 1795 ; m., first, John Phinney; second, Oliver Arthurton.
VI. MAJOR, b. March 17, 1798; m. Mary G. Libby, and settled on the homestead in Gorham, where he was living in 1882. Six children :
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John, b. July 14, 1850, shoe dealer, Manchester, N. H. ; Helen A., b. Sept. 11, 1852, m. Herman S. Whitney; Louisa M., b. Aug. 27, 1854, m. Granville Clement; George P., b. Apr. 25, 1857 ; Edward IV., b. May 22, 1860; Alice B., b. May 30, 1870.
VII. HANNAH, b. Apr. 10, 1803; second wife of William Thomes, of Gor- ham, Me.
VIII. HARRIET, d. at the age of four years.
7. ELIZABETH, m. Joseph Moody, of Limington, Me., July 10, 1783.
8. SIMON, m. Harriet Small; settled in Limington and had issue :
I. JOHN, b. Jan. 1, 1809.
II. SIMON, b. Apr. 22, 1811.
III. BENJAMIN, b. Mar. 6, 1814.
IV. MARY, b. Oct. 14, 1816.
9. WILLIAM, m. Hannah Dyer in 1805, and lived in Portland.
IO. ABIGAIL, mn. Simon Moulton, of Standish.
II. SARAH, d. unmarried.
12. MARY, m., first, Eben Moulton, of Waterford; second, Josiah Willard, of that town.
Roger Plaisted was an early settler of Buxton; was a soldier of the Revolution. Some say he was in the navy. He d. Oct. 9, 1848; wife Dorcas d. Nov. 4, 1827. He is said to have been at Boston to attend a reunion of soldiers of the Revolution, when rising ninety years of age, where he made a short speech. Children, b. in Buxton, as follows :
I. OLIVE, b. Sept. 3, 1775; m. Robert P. Marr, of Scarborough, May 1I, 1797.
2. SIMON, b. May 28, 1777.
3. DORCAS, b. July 17, 1779.
4. ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 10, 1781 ; d. June 22, 1784.
5. MARY, b. Feb. 15, 1784.
6. ELIZABETH M., b. Mar. 24, 1786 ; m. Amos Mason, Apr. 9, 1807.
7. JOSEPH, b. Oct. 21, 1788.
8. JANE M., b. Mar. 29, 1791.
9. ROGER, b. May 28, 1793.
IO. ISABELLA M., b. Aug. 22, 1795.
II. MELLEN, b. Mar. 26, 1798.
12. JONATHAN M., bapt. Mar. 22, 1799.
13. SAMUEL, b. Nov. 22, 1800.
John Plaisted, of Biddeford, and wife Hannah had issue born there named as follows :
I. BETSEY, b. Dec. 4, 1793.
2. ALEXANDER, b. Apr. 28, 1795.
3. HANNAH, b. July 18, 1797.
4. MARGERY, b. Oct. 21, 1801.
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5. MOLLY, b. Jan. 15, 1804.
6. OLIVE, b. Feb. 7, 1806.
7. JOHN, b. Feb. 9, 1808.
8. MALINDA, b. June 9, 1810.
William and Charity Plaisted had, b. in Biddeford, children as follows :
I. JOHN T., b. Sept. 15, 1816.
2. GEORGE C., b. Aug. 14, 1819.
3. WILLIAM, b. Jan. 7, 1824.
Gen. Harris M. Plaisted, son of Dea. William and Nancy (Merrill) Plaisted and seventh in descent from Capt. Roger, was born in Jefferson, N. H., Nov. 2, 1828. He has filled many official positions; a brave soldier in the Civil war, a member of Congress, and Governor of Maine; an able lawyer and eloquent orator. He married, Sept. 21, 1858, Sarah J. Mason, of Water- ville, Me., and by her had three sons. Mrs. P. died Oct. 25, 1875, and he married, Sept. 27, 1881, Mabel True, of Exeter, by whom one child. Issue :
I. HAROLD M., graduate of Maine State College in 1881 ; Stevens Insti- tute Technology, 1882 ; now solicitor of patents at St. Louis.
2. FREDERIC W., graduate St. Johnsbury Academy and since 1885 editor New Age.
3. RALPH P., member senior class of Bowdoin.
4. GERTRUDE H., at home.
Bankin Family.
This is a Scottish surname of some antiquity. At the settlement of Ulster, in the north of Ireland, cadets of the family from Scotland settled there, where descendants have ever since remained. Family tradition has made the ancestor of the Maine families come over with the Scotch-Irish who landed in 1718, but I find that CONSTANT RANKIN was in York as early as 1693, and is mentioned as late as 1735. JAMES RANKIN was in York in 1745, and mem- bers of the family were married in Kittery as early as that year. It would appear from the foregoing that the Rankin family may rightfully lay claim to an early settlement in what is now Western Maine. The early records of Wells are prolific of the name, and many have migrated from that town to other parts of the state. The Rankin family of Buxton, a branch of which is now represented in Hiram, probably came with the Dunnells, with whom they were early intermarried, from old York.
Joseph Rankin 1 married Mehitable Dunnell, Oct. 12, 1777. He cleared a farm between the old Dunnell place, on the line of the P. & R. Railway, and Bar Mills, where his descendants have since lived. Children as follows :
I. JOSEPH,2 b. Feb. 7, 1778; m. Jane Perry, of Parsonsfield, who was b. May 10, 1778. He seems to have settled in Baldwin, now East Hiram, between 1812 and 1814. At that time his nearest neighbor was John
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Watson, who lived three miles up river. He built a mill on Hancock brook, and engaged quite extensively in lumber business; was a man of great size and strength and was sometimes called "one of the Ran- kin giants." Eight children, named as follows :
I. MEHITABLE,3 b. May 30, 1802, in Buxton ; d. in Hiram, Me., June 19, 1867.
II. JAMES R.,8 b. Apr. 15, 1804, in Buxton ; m. Joanna Watson, of Hiram, where he d. Sept. 15, 1883, having issue, five children, viz: Ezra,4 Perry,4 Thomas,4 Mary,4 and Joseph.4
III. JOSEPH,3 b. Oct. 17, 1806, in Buxton ; m. Lydia Wentworth, of Hiram, Mar. 30, 1831, she b. Dec. 9, 1809. He d. in Irving, Mass., Feb. 19, 1866. Children : Jane P.,4 b. Dec. 2, 1831; Noah,4 b. Nov. 27, 1835; Mark,4 b. Aug., 1840, d. in Andersonville rebel prison.
IV. JOHN,3 b. July 29, 1809; m. Nancy Hodgdon, of Hiram; d. in Canada, Oct. 9, 1863 ; a farmer and lumberman ; a man of large size and great strength. Three children, of whom more.
V. ENOCH,3 b. May 16, 1812, in Buxton; m. Hope Kimball (intention), May 5, 1837, and died April 29, 1890, in Hiram, Me. Children : George,4 Sophia4 Emma,4 Gardner.4
VI. JANE,3 b. Aug. 26, 1814, in Baldwin; m. John B. Gray, of Hiram; d. there Feb. 19, 1875.
VII. PERLEY,3 b. May 16, 1817, in Baldwin ; m. Margaret A. Richardson, of Hiram, Nov. 24, 1840; died April 3, 1882, in Hiram. Children : Madison,4 Lizzie,4 Cyrus,4 Albert,4 Edward,4 Mary,4 and Perley.4
VIII. SUSAN A.,3 b. July 7, 1820; m. Henry Thorn, of Baldwin, June 30, 1849 (Int.); d. in Brockton, Mass., Aug. 18, 1890. Seven children.
2. MEHITABLE,2 b. April 12; 1780.
3. ELIZABETH,2 b. Feb. 28, 1782.
4. MARY,2 b. July 1, 1784.
5. ANNA,2 b. Sept. 17, 1786.
6. JOHN,2 b. Aug. 19, 1789; m. Nellie Harmon and settled on the home- stead in Buxton, as farmer ; a man of large size and enormous physical powers. Children :
I. SEWALL,3 b. Aug. 26, 1813.
II. ENOCH,3 b. Oct. 27, 1815 ; d. young.
1II. WILLIAM H.,3 b. August 2, 1817; in. Mary, dau. of George Carll, of Buxton, and settled on the old Rankin homestead in that town; farmer ; was a man of great stature and massive frame. He d. Jan. 4, 1894. Children : John A.,4 born Jan. 13, 1848, died Sept. 30, 1852 ; Eunice A.,3 b. Dec. 26, 1851, d. Nov. 27, 1855 ; John WV.,3 b. July 7, 1854.
IV. JOHN S.,3 b. Nov. 10, 1820; by wife named Mehitable, had children, born in Buxton, named as follows :
(1). John L.,4 b. Sept. 16, 1847; d. Jan. 12, 1848.
(2). Abbie L.,4 b. Dec. 16, 1849.
(3). Eugene B.,4 b. Mar. 11, 1852.
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RANKIN FAMILY.
(4). Charles L.,4 b. Nov. 22, 1854.
(5). Isaiah L.,4 b. Mar. 22, 1863 ; d. April 17, 1863.
(6). Samuel L.,4 b. Dec. 3, 1863 ; d. April 9, 1864.
v. FRANCIS,3 b. Jan. 1, 1824, and, by wife Betsey, had children, born in Buxton, named as follows :
(1). Eliza J.,4 b. May 24, 1850; d. June 5, 1851.
(2). Eliza J.,4 b. Sept. 5, 1851.
(3). Ellen,4 b. Feb. 6, 1857.
7. ENOCH,2 b. Oct. 26, 1792.
8. EDA,2 b. Apr. 20, 1796.
CHILDREN OF JJOHN AND NANCY :
1. HON. CHARLES,4 b. Apr. 1, 1833, in Hiram; m. Octavia Colby, of Den- mark, Me., Dec. 3, 1854. Mr. Rankin is a man of public spirit and a leading townsman ; served as selectman several years and was senator in 1880 in the State Legislature; has been in lumber business forty-six years ; a large, fine-formed man of commanding presence. Children :
I. DR. CLARK B.,5 b. Sept. 7, 1858 ; m. Lydia Stevens, Oct., 1888, and lives at Bryants Pond, Me .; graduated at Nichols Latin School, Lew- iston, 1876; at Bates College, with degree of A. B., in 1880, and at Medical School, Bowdoin, degree of M. D., in 1883, and began prac- tice same year. One son, Charles S.6
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