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In 1916 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 3d district.
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When the United States entered war with Germany, Governor Mill- iken appointed him Executive Secretary of the Maine Committee of Public Safety and later appointed him chairman of the Public Utilities Commission. He was active in fraternal orders taking an especial in- terest in Odd Fellowship. He was a Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge (I. O. O. F.) of Maine and Past Grand Representative of the Sovereign Grand Lodge. He had a wide acquaintance and many friends all over Maine.
DANIEL B. PLUMMER
Daniel B. Plummer was born at Montville, Maine, December 10, 1879. He married Annie B. Payson at Montville, September 7, 1904. Three children :- Thelma M., Theoda K. and William D.
When a young man Mr. Plummer was a successful school teacher, conducted a farm, and upon moving to Brooks in 1914, he engaged in buying and selling farm products. He was Superintendent of Schools of Brooks for two years. In 1918 he purchased a lot of land of Mrs. Kate A. Lane on which the Lane Postoffice Block formerly stood, which was destroyed by fire in August, 1917. Mr. Plummer erected a build- ing on this location, the first story of which was occupied by himself as a grocery store, and the second story by the Pullman Pant Factory. Mr. Plummer's building was destroyed by fire in 1925: After this he moved to Benton, Maine, where he conducted a store and served as Postmaster.
At the present time Mr. Plummer is Assistant Superintendent at the Middlesex County School for Boys at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, a Congregationalist, and a Democrat.
Mr. Plummer was Chairman of Brooks Centennial Committee in 1916, and delivered the Address of Welcome.
GEORGE BEAN ROBERTS
George Bean Roberts was born in May, 1864. He was the son of Willard and Ruth Edwards Roberts. He married Carrie M. Crane who died in 1897. They had one child, Doris Albertine Roberts, born in May, 1896.
Mr. Roberts has resided in Brooks the greater part of his life. He was in Boston for a few years in the employment of the Elevated R.R. Upon his return to Brooks he engaged in extensive farming.
Mr. Roberts has served the town in many ways. He was a member of the School Board, Superintendent of Schools, a member of the Board of Selectmen, and has served as Local Trial Justice for several years.
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He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Knights of Pythias, and the Grange. He is a Congregationalist and a Democrat.
EZRA ABBOT CARPENTER
Ezra A. Carpenter was born at Great Farm, Jackson, Maine, Novem- ber 20, 1861. He married Medora B. Twitchell, at Thorndike, Maine, April 2, 1885. He had three children :- Chloe Bernice, Elizabeth Abi- gail, and Medora Lena, all deceased. He joined the Congregational Church in Jackson when a mere lad, and when the church in Brooks was organized, he was received into its fellowship, and was elected a Senior Deacon, which office he held during his lifetime. He was a mem- ber of Harvest Home Grange No. 52, and died February 19, 1926. Mr. Carpenter moved to Brooks in 1897.
Mr. Carpenter, when a mere lad, found it necessary to abandon his education almost entirely-from that time on having only a few win- ter terms of school. The world was his teacher, and he developed into a thorough student. He was a dear lover of books, and in his spare moments one invariably found him reading.
In 1892 Mr. Carpenter began his carreer as a travelling salesman for a fertilizer firm. He was untiring in this field, working for the same company until his health began to fail. Even then his employers fur- nished him with assistants, and he was kept long after his ability had been diminished through illness. When his retirement became inevit- able he was listed as a reserve salesman, with a continuation, until his death, of his salary.
Mr. Carpenter was interested in lumbering and was also chief owner in the A. E. Chase Company. Before his affiliation with that company he handled all kinds of farm machinery, also selling fertilizer locally.
With the death of Mr. Carpenter the town of Brooks lost a true friend. In all affairs Mr. Carpenter was very active. He was very much interested in the Board of Trade, and was influential in the ex- tension of the power lines of the Central Maine Power Company to Brooks. He was an untiring worker as a member of several committees during the World War. He was a Republican and a Congregationalist.
Mr. Carpenter was a friend to everyone, and the entire town sus- tained the loss when it failed to enjoy his active services. His widow, Medora Twitchell Carpenter now resides at Brooks.
EDWIN C. HOLBROOK
Edwin C. Holbrook was born at Knox, Maine, in 1848, the son of Frank H. and Susanna Holbrook. Died at Brooks, Maine, February 16, 1920.
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Mr. Holbrook was identified with the business and civic interests of the Town of Brooks. He was considered one of the most influential Chairmen of the Board of Selectmen in the history of the town. He was for a time associated with business in Brooks. He was a member of the Legislature, and belonged to the Knights of Pythias, the Masons, and the Grange. He was a Congregationalist and a Republican.
Mr. Holbrook was a member of Brooks Centennial Committee, but during the activities of the celebration, was confined to his home with a broken leg.
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Emma Pratt, his wife, was born 1848 and died February 15, 1917. They had one son, Frank P. Holbrook, who was a graduate of the En- gineering Department of the University of Maine and is now associated with the Engineering Department of one of the large railroad systems of the Southeast.
SETH W. NORWOOD
Seth W. Norwood, the secretary of the Brooks Centennial Committee, wrote and directed the historical pageant and delivered the historical address at the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Brooks.
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WOODROW WILSON
Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States at the time Brooks observed its Centennial in 1916.
Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President-March 4, 1913-March 4, 1921, was born December 28, 1856 at Staunton, Virginia. Of Scotch- Irish ancestry. Son of Rev. Joseph R. Wilson and Janet Woodrow. Educated at Princeton. A lawyer and teacher. A Presbyterian.
Married, in 1885, Ellen Louise Axson. They had three daughters. Mrs. Wilson died in 1914, and he married, at the White House, Edith (Bolling) Galt, 1915.
Died Febuary 3, 1924, of heart disease in Washington, D. C., age 67. Buried in the National Cathedral, Washington.
Elections, 1912. Electoral votes, 531:
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Vice-President: Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana.
The school-master President came to the White House after 25 years of teaching and two years as Governor of New Jersey. Twenty years had been spent at Princeton, teaching jurisprudence and political econ- omy, and eight years as President of the University. He had written much on history and government. His term as Governor had witnessed important reforms. With a Democratic Congress, he set out at once, reformed the tariff, enacted the Federal Reserve Law which reorganized the whole financial structure of the nation, and secured many other acts. He revived the habit of George Washington of speaking in per- son to Congress instead of sending messages. While his domestic plans prospered he had trouble with Mexico, which was a scene of repeated revolutions, and of invasions by American forces.
The World War broke out in Europe, and Wilson called on America to remain neutral. Despite many difficulties, neutrality was maintained until 1917. In 1916, Wilson was re-elected in a very close contest with former Justice Charles E. Hughes of the Supreme Court, as his oppon- ent. In 1917 German attacks on our shipping finally forced us into the
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war. When it was won, Wilson went to Paris in person to sit in the peace conference. The Treaty included the League of Nations Cov- enant, of which Wilson was part author and chief sponsor. Most of the nations of the world adopted it, but the U. S. Senate refused to rat- ify. Wilson went west on a speaking tour to win popular support for the treaty, and was stricken with apoplexy, returning to the White House an invalid.
His remaining months in office were conducted largely from his wheel chair, but he kept a mental grasp of his tasks, and rode to the Capitol to see his successor sworn in. His great accomplishments and the win- ning of the war were for a time over-shadowed by the failure of the treaty.
WILSON'S ADMINISTRATION
The first Mrs. Wilson was Ellen Louise Axson (1860-1914), daughter of Rev. S. E. Axson and sister of Prof. Stockton Axson of Princeton. She was assisted as hostess at the White House, by her three daughters, Eleanor, Jessie and Margaret. Eleanor married, during her father's Presidency, William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, while Jes- sie became the bride of Francis B. Sayre, an educator. Mrs. Wilson died during her husband's first term.
The second Mrs. Wilson was Edith Bolling (1872- ) of Virginia, and the widow of Norman Galt, a jeweler of Washington. She married the President in 1915, and was with him in Europe during the peace con- ference following the World War, and nursed him during his illness at the White House and subsequently until his death.
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My dear Mr. Norwood:
May I not beg you to convey to the people of Brooks my cordial greetings when they come together to observe Old Home Week and celebrate the one hundredth anni- versary of the incorporation of the town? I wish I might be present in person to ex- press my warmest congratulations and good wishes for the continued prosperity of the town.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
Mr. Seth W. Norwood, Sec'y, Brooks Centennial Committee, Brooks, Maine.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Department. Boston, August 3, 1916.
Brooks Centennial Committee, Town of Brooks, Maine.
Gentlemen:
On behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts it is "ith great pleasure that I extend sincerest congratulations to one of its offspring, the Town of Brooks.
To have completed one hundred years of corporate exis- tence is deserving of . high praise and it is well that it be observed by appropriate exercises. The town form of rovernment is the very bed rock of our state and through it it has been proved that a republic is a success. It is par- ticularly fitting and highly proper that all of your sons and daughters gather from far and near to do homage to the town in which they were born, to visit again its people, anu to join in the celebration of this most noteworthy occasion.
From communities such as yours are drawn many of the creat leaders of our people whose sterling characters, fostered by the strengthening surroundings of the country town, make of them characteristic Americans. In our observancesof such events we must not be unmindful of the great gift handed down
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to us at great sacrifice by our worthy forefathers through whose perseverance and skill the wild land was transposed into the beautiful communities that we now enjoy.
Taking your name from one of our sterling governors of the last century who himself took part in the conflict that gave us our national freedom, it is well that you do homage to him both as a man and as the governor who by his final action gave you the corporate existence that has meant so much to you and your ancestors as a liberty loving people.
"It is my earnest wish that your Old Home Week be of great. and lasting benefit to you and that the townspeople of Brooks will take up with renewed enthusiasm the task of preserv- ing in its vigor the town that they have so successfully carried on through all these years.
'To all of your people I send my hearty personal regards.
Very truly yours,
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OTIS W. LANE, son of Washington B. and Mary J. Chase Lane, was born in Brooks, March 2, 1850. Married Martha A. Miles at Brooks, December 24, 1884. When a young man he went to Belfast and re- mained there for five years while learning the tinsmith's trade. He re- turned to Brooks about 1877, erected a building and established a bus- iness for himself, engaging in plumbing, heating and tinsmith work. As a side-line, for many years, he pur- chased furs and shipped to the New York markets. Mr. Lane was elected Town Clerk of Brooks, March, 1884, and has been re- elected every year since. During this period he has not missed an annual or special town meeting, a general or a special election or any primary election, which appears to be a record. He retired from ac- tive business in 1911. Children: Josephine B., Hilda M., Theora D., Cleora P., died September, 1898. The last two were twins. Josephine B., born December 24, 1887, mar- Otis W. Lane ried A. J. McLaughlin, January, 1912. Hilda M., born April 28, 1893, married Wilfred L. Ball, May 31, 1923. Theora D., born April 29. 1898. married Earl H. Grant, January 4, 1924. Mr. Lane is a Ma- son, a member of the Masonic order M.M.A.C.R. and S. Masters, and I.O.R.M. Refused a re-election as Town Clerk, March, 1930, after forty-five years of service.
IRA W. BOWDEN, born in Bluehill, Maine, October 24, 1863; married Della B. Leonard at Liberty, Maine, March 10, 1896; children, Ray Allen married Clara Lamb, and second Dorothy . Broderick; Earle Walter unmarried; occupation, came to Brooks in 1895, engaged the
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Libbeus Jones blacksmith shop where he worked at blacksmithing until purchasing the Chas. Peavey shop December 21, 1897, where he still works except the winter months. (Since having pneumonia spends winters in Florida.) Also, for the past few years has dealt some in antiques. Member K. of P., wife Pythian Sister; wife member Friends' Church; political belief, changeable.
ROSCOE A. BARDEN, born at Newport, Maine, October 5, 1874; mar- ried Fayette MacPherson at Carmel, Maine, December 14, 1901; child- ren: Clarence R., unmarried, Gertrude E., unmarried; occupation, car- penter and contractor; member Lakeside Lodge, Etna, Maine, I. O. O. F. No. 85; Republican.
WILLARD C. DEERING, born at Jackson, Maine, September 1, 1879; married Susan A. Dodge, at Belfast, Maine, 1900; children: Mildred married Clayton Hamlin; Donald, Raymond, George, Bernard, Mar- ion; occupation, farmer; Democrat.
CHARLES W. GIBBS, born at Brooks, Maine, September 3, 1878, died March 2, 1931; married Ethelyn S. Grover at Belfast, Maine, May 8, 1911, died February 9, 1917; second married Jessie Mae Prime, Oct. 19, 1928. Occupation, farmer and butcher; Baptist; Republican.
BURTON GIBBS, born at Knox, Maine, August 12, 1886; married Hat- tie L. Work at Brooks, Maine, January 1, 1909; children: Thelma, Melroy, Kenneth, Lloyd, Lucille; occupation, farmer; member of Grange; Republican.
GEORGE H. RYDER, born North Bucksport, Maine, July 8, 1873; mar- ried Annie B. Stevens at Monroe, Maine, Nov. 5, 1893; children, Geor- gia and Rexford H. Ryder who married Inise E. Cross; farmer 1903- 1904; clerk in A. E. Chase store, 1904-1911; kept feed store, 1911-1914; blacksmith 1914-1917; farmer, 1917-1918; clerk in Merrill & Mayo, 1918-1919; clerk in A. E. Chase store, 1919-1921; blacksmith, 1921- 1925; farmer 1925-1927; member Odd Fellows; Knights Pythias, Grange, Pythian Sisters; Republican.
CHARLES W. RYDER, born at Monroe, Maine, May 4, 1882; married Harriet J. Richards, at Monroe, Maine, January 16, 1903; children: Winslow C. married Frances Wyllie at Belfast, Maine; Evelyn L .; Kenneth W. married Arlene Patterson, Thorndike, Maine; worked for A. E. Chase from 1904, March to October, 1913; Mgr. of Agency for Union Mutual Life Insurance Co., October 1, 1913; tax collector 1915-1918; served on school board three years; general store until 1928; member K. of P .; Republican; chairman of Town Committee; Deputy Sheriff.
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GEORGE A. ROBERTS, born at Brooks, Maine, October 23, 1865; mar- ried Lovena L. Austin at Union, Maine, June 20, 1889; children: Hel- ena B. married Albert E. Anderson, Hazel D. married Alfred W. Nel- son, Jessie M. married Roy V. Weldon; conducted grocery and market store in Portland, Maine, Cambridge, Somerville and Dorchester, Mass .; and variety store in Danvers; now has store in Cliftondale, Mass .; with a home in Brooks, Maine; member Masons, Marsh River Lodge E. S., Happy Valley Chapter, all of Brooks, Maine; Republican.
ALBERT J. LOWE, born in Everett, Mass .; March 6, 1890; married Ruth H. Quimby at Brooks, Maine, December 25, 1915; children: Hen- ry F., Mary A., Shirley A .; member of Grange, E. S. Masons, K. of P., Sisterhood; Methodist Episcopal; Republican.
HARRY H. PEAVEY, born at Swanville, Maine, February 24, 1882; married Lila B. Stoddard at Searsport, Maine, October 18, 1914; child- ren, Dorothy L., Herman W. Barber shop and pool room from Janu- ary 8, 1917 to September 1, 1925; member Masons, Mariners, Sears- port O. E. S., Happy Valley, Brooks; Baptist; Republican.
RILEY B. PRIME, born at Brooks, Maine, January 8, 1878; died Jan. 7, 1928; married Jessie Mae Brown at Brooks, Maine, June 3, 1905; children, Harriet M. married Stanley C. Paul of Avon, Conn .; Doris A. General farming, Republican.
ARTHUR OLIVER PAYSON, born at Brooks, Maine, February 26, 1877; married Ardria N. Simmons, 1901, at Waldo, Maine; married second, Martha C. Harmon, 1911, at Fairfield, Maine; children, Osborne Lord, Harold Tyree; farmer, road constructor; member of Grange; Union Church; Republican.
FRANK B. STIMPSON, born in Brooks, Maine, June 25, 1869; died April, 1931; married in Brooks, Maine, June 24, 1896, Lucy Penney; children: Harry B. Stimpson, born December 24, 1897, married Loretta Arsenault, July 7, 1926; George Stimpson, born July 30, 1900, married Della King. September 18, 1922; children: Doris Stimpson born May 1, 1902, married Guy Hanson, December 31, 1921; Leroy Stimpson, born July 19, 1903; Della Stimpson, born September 26. 1907, married Clyde Elkins, November 12, 1926; Mary L. Stimpson, born December 6, 1914. Has been a blacksmith the most of his life; Republican.
HALE R. HALL, born at Brooks, Maine, April 24, 1880; married Sadie M. Stimpson, June 25, 1898, at Brooks, Maine; children: Raymond married Geneva Duncon, Mildred married Albert Melonson and Arthur married Ida Jones. Occupation, worked on M. C. R. R. ten years, then
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worked for H. P. Hood & Sons nine years, then worked in Beal's Fur- niture Factory in Portland. Sold his place in Brooks to Arthur Hall and bought a place in Portland, December 8, 1926; member of K. of P., . Free Masons, Maccabees and Grange; Protestant; Democrat.
MRS. CORA HALL, born in Brooks, Maine, April 13, 1878; married George Hall at Brooks, Maine, November 15, 1896; maiden name, Cora Pettingill; occupation, dressmaker since 1913; Republican.
ROSCOE E. WEBBER, born in Brooks, November 24, 1873, the son of George E. M. T. Webber and Mary Elizabeth Stevens Webber, both born in Monroe. George E. died December 21, 1880. Mary E. died November 19, 1902. Roscoe E. married first Estelle M. Smith, No- vember 24, 1903, and on her death he married Ethel A. Kenney, April 17, 1906. Children: Norman R., Essie .A., Winona G., Teresa A., Lu- dolph M., Beulah A. and Richard A. Norman R. married Ida M. Ar- senault on January 8, 1927; Essie A. married Walter Roberts on June 26, 1925. Mr. Webber is engaged in extensive farming, a former mem- ber of the school committee of the town of Brooks. A member of the Grange, Knights of Pythias and Masons. Political preference, Demo- crat.
BEECHER AVON SHERMAN, born at Smyrna, Maine, December 2, 1890; married Edith Gertrude Hamm at Smyrna, Maine, April 17, 1912; children: Jean Nevada, born April 18, 1913; Avon Dean, born January 2, 1915; Cecil Derwood, born August 4, 1917; Walter Albion, born No- vember 9, 1919. Farmer 1919-1927, school board 1920-1923; member Knights of Pythias, Patrons of Husbandry; Baptist; Republican.
STANLEY A. PERKINS, born at Stockton, Maine, August 23, 1843; married Rose I. Roberts, at North Searsport, Maine, June 8, 1866; children: Lena K. married Thomas E. West, Laurie A. married Burton F. Wentworth; member of Masons; Congregationalist; Republican.
MITTIE LANE GOWAN, daughter of Charles Edwin and Harriet Rich Lane, is one of the former daughters of Brooks. Possessing a pleasing personality, remarkable force and business ability, she has achieved success as owner and manager of the Smart Shoppe for women at Santa Paula, California. Mrs. Gowan married Elbane L. Gowan, who died at Long Beach, California, July 3, 1913. One daughter, Gertrude Ora, born in Brooks in the old Meadow Brook farm house, married Lester Bradford Tozier of Oakland, Maine, at Brooks, September 6, 1912. Mr. Tozier moved to California in January, 1913. Mr. Tozier has one of the largest drug stores in Santa Paula, California, giving employ- ment to three clerks. The concession departments, employing six.
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They have four children: Bradford, Everett, Vyigian and Kerwin. The children possess remarkable musical ability and have received many prizes and awards. On October 12, 1928, there was conferred on Mrs. Gowan the degree of Chivalry by Central Canton, No. 29 of Redding, California. The degree and diamond jewel were awarded Mrs. Gowan for meritorious work done at the time of the breaking of the Saurt Friusque dam, March 12, 1928. The presentation was made by Major General W. F. Merriman, Department Commander, assisted by Canton Berkley, No. 7 of California. The decoration was made by seven girls four years of age. The ceremony was witnessed by over two thousand people. Mrs. Gowan is a past Noble Grand of Petrolia Re- bekah Lodge No. 59 of California. Her term of office was marked by an active increase in membership.
FRANK E. COOKSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Cookson; born at Stetson, Maine, November 9, 1881. Married Julia E. Elwell of Brooks, September 11, 1904; children: Ernest R., Charles H. and Hazel L. Educated in public schools of Stetson; occupation, farmer; Bap- tist; Republican. Member of the Grange and Knights of Pythias. Member of school committee, Brooks, 1930.
JOHN R. WILLIAMS, born at Williamsburg, Maine, November 30, 1873; married Annie M. Coombs; graduate of high school; member of the firm of Williams Bros., general merchandise; Congregationalist; Republican; member of the Masons and the Knights of Pythias, Pyth- ian Sisters and the Eastern Star; member of the board of selectmen, 1929-1930.
GRACE DOW HAMLIN, born January 15, 1878, daughter of Marcellus J. and Abbie Ermina Lane Dow; attended local schools; graduate of Eastern State Normal School, Castine; was for a number of years a suc- cessful teacher in Brooks and other towns; superintendent of Brooks' schools 1913; married Leroy A. Bachelder of Swanville, 1906, from whom she was divorced; Central telephone operator 1918-20; married Herbert J. Hamlin in 1926; Assistant Post-Master under Frank H. Lane and for a part of the terms of Wallace O. Estes and Everett E. Brown; member of Happy Valley Chapter O. E. S .; Past Chief of Sil- ver Crown Temple No. 65, Pythian Sisters; member of Congregational Church; Secretary of Town Republican Committee. Elected Town Clerk, March, 1930.
KATE A. LANE, born December 12, 1871 in Brooks, Maine. Married December 25, 1901, to Charles Edwin Lane. Family: One daughter, Emma Gertrude Lane, born July 12, 1905. Education, trained nurse. Political preference, Republican; vice chairman of the Town Commit-
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tee. Society, Pythian Sisters and Grange; Town office, member of the school board from 1921 to 1930.
WALTER O'BRIEN, born in Brooks, Maine, February 15, 1886. Mar- ried October 10, 1916 Lila Estes of Brooks. One son, Oric; three daught- ers, Venessa, Chesla and Shela. Education, high school. Sea Captain. World War Leiut. Commander U. S. N. R. F .; religious preference, Protestant; political preference, Republican; Societies, Masons; School board, March, 1927, to March, 1931.
JAMES B. PAYSON, born in Brooks, June 26, 1884; married Evelyn M. Patterson of Brooks. Two children: Linwood A. Payson of Boston, Mass. and Christine A. Payson of Brooks. Educated in schools of Brooks, Maine Central Institute of Pittsfield, Banks Business College of Belfast, Suffolk Law School of Boston, Mass .; business, telephone work; religious preference, Baptist; political preference, Republican; political office, Republican Town Committee; societies, March River Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, Golden Crown Lodge Knights of Pythias, Silver Crown Temple Pythian Sisters; town office, Tax Col- lector and Constable, 1929-30.
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