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City Hospital, the Washburn Memorial Hospital and St. Vincent Hospital. He married, April 22, 1886, Miss Edith Loring Peirce of Philadelphia. They have two children, Ruth Peirce and Margaret Colby. Dr. Getchell is a member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Clinatological Association, etc. Of social clubs he is a member of the Shakespeare, the Worcester Art Society, the Worcester Music Association, the Bohemians, the Tatnuck Country Club, etc.
Dr. Percy Shepherd Merrill, son of A. F. and Hattie E. (Thomas) Merrill, was born in Bangor, November 2, 1872. Graduated from Colby College in 1894. Received his medical degree from the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege in 1899. Was interne one year in Bridgeport, Conn., hospital. Began practice in Gardiner, Me., moving to Water- ville in 1901. He is, at present, city physician. Dr. Merrill resides at No. 5 Dalton street.
Dr. Joseph Arthur Pineau, son of Marcellin and Apoline (St. Laurent) Pineau, was born at Rimouski, P. Q., February 20, 1867. He graduated from the college of Rimouski, receiving his medical degree from Laval University in 1894. He began practice at Van Buren, Me., moved to Livermore Falls in 1897, coming to Waterville in February, 1902. He was married, Janu- ary 8, 1896, to Leda Pelletier. They have four children. He resides at No. 137 Water street.
Dr. Lewis King Austin, son of William King and Sarah Eliza (Thomes) Austin, was born in Portland, August II, 1869. He took his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- phia in 1894. He practiced medicine at Portland, Deering and Clinton, moving to this city in 1902. He devotes his attention entirely to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is a member of the Maine Medical Association, Kennebec County Medical Society, and Waterville Clinical Society. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. His office is at No. 145 Main street.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE BAR OF WATERVILLE. By HON. SIMON STRATTON BROWN.
The following is a brief sketch of the lawyers who have prac- ticed law here since the incorporation of the town in 1802 to the present time. They have all been men of character and have cione their part in making Waterville what it is to-day. A large part of them have served in the Legislature, and have aided in building up the code of statute laws by which our State is now governed. They have had large and honorable part in the man- agement of town and city affairs, have contributed their full share to the business prosperity of the city and in all matters of public interest have been ready with voice and hand for every forward movement.
Reuben Kidder. The first lawyer to practice his profession in Waterville was Reuben Kidder. He was a man of thorough scholarship and legal training and was also a public-spirited citizen. As the facts of his life have been given by Mr. A. A. Plaisted in his chapter in this volume, on the early settlers, they need not be repeated here. Suffice it is to say that the line of Waterville lawyers had a good man to stand at its head.
Timothy Boutelle. One of the first lawyers who practiced in his profession at Waterville, was Timothy Boutelle. He was born in Leominster, Mass., November 10, 1777. He was a lineal descendant of James Boutelle, who came from England in 1635 to Salem, Mass. Timothy Boutelle graduated from Harvard College in 1800. He was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1804 and came to Waterville the same year, where he practiced law till the time of his death, November 12, 1855. In 1811 he
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married Helen, the daughter of Judge Rogers. One of his daughters married Edwin Noyes, a prominent Waterville lawyer, and one son, Dr. N. R. Boutelle, was a prominent physician and surgeon in Waterville. Timothy Boutelle was one of the prom- inent lawyers of his day. An examination of the reports of our law court during his time will disclose the fact that he took part on one side or the other in a very large portion of the cases then presented to that court, and by his rare ability and industry as a lawyer he took a prominent part in establishing the laws which have since controlled and regulated the legal rules of conduct of our people to the present time. He was also an influential busi- ness man. He was very influential in making Maine an inde- pendent state. He was first State Senator to the Legislature from the Kennebec District.1
George Keely Boutelle. Mr. Boutelle is the son of Dr. N. R. and Mrs. Mary Keely Boutelle, and was born in Waterville, March 15, 1857. He was educated at Harvard University and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1888. October 24, 1891, he was married to Miss May Wheelock, the grand-daughter of Judge May. They have two children, Kather- ine and Elizabeth. Since his admission to the bar, Mr. Boutelle has been in practice in Waterville. His large business interests occupy a considerable portion of his time. He is president of the Ticonic Bank, as were his father and his grandfather before him. He is also president of the Waterville & Fairfield Railway and Light Company, and is treasurer of Colby College, of which he has been for some years a trustee. He is also a trustee of Coburn Classical Institute. Mr. Boutelle is a member of the Masonic order and of the Episcopal church.
Simon Stratton Brown, son of Luke and Polly Gilman Brown, was born in Clinton, Maine, July 6, 1833. He fitted for college under Dr. J. H. Hanson at Waterville Academy. He entered Waterville College in 1854, from which institution he graduated in the class of 1858 with Phi Beta Kappa rank. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 and began practice at Fairfield in 1864. He moved to Waterville in 1881. He was elected a member of the Governor's council in 1879. He served several years on the board of education in both Fairfield and Waterville. At the
1. Vid chapter on Early Settlers.
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organization of the city of Waterville in 1888 he was elected a member of the board of aldermen, of which board he was chair- man continuously for five years. He was a member of the Democratic National Convention in 1880 and in 1884. He was for seven years a member of the Democratic State committee and for four years its chairman. He represented his city in the House of Representatives in the session of 1893. June 30, 1861, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Hepsie B. Wiggin. They have four children, Frank E., of the legal firm of Brown and Brown; Jennie B., wife of Mr. Alpheus Flood ; William Wirt, a graduate of Colby in the class of '9S, and Mrs. Caddie H. Burleigh. Mr. Brown is a member of the Masonic fraternity and an attendant at the Unitarian church.
Frank Ellsworth Broren, son of S. S. and Hepsie B. Brown, was born at Freedom, Waldo county, June 14, 1863. He received his education in the public schools of Fairfield and later he entered Coburn Classical Institute and graduated from that institution in the class of 1882. On July 8, 1896 he married Mae F. Wentworth, daughter of Charles Wentworth of Clinton. He was four years clerk in the United States Mail Service. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1895, whereupon he began the practice of law in company with his father, where he has con- tinued to the present time. He has been for seven years city clerk of the City of Waterville. He belongs to the Masonic fra- ternity and is also a member of the order of the Knights of Pythias.
Leonard D. Carver was born at Lagrange, Maine, January 26, 1841. He was son of Cyrus and Mary Waterhouse Carver. His early education was received in the common schools, and while he was fitting for college at Foxcroft Academy in 1861 he left that institution and enlisted in the Milo Light Artillery which was subsequently made Company D of the 2nd Mainc Regiment, commanded by Col. C. D. Jameson. This regiment had the honor of being the first Maine regiment to report for duty at the seat of war. Mr. Carver was engaged in all the bat- tles and skirmishes which fell to the lot of his regiment. He was in the first Battle of Bull Run, where he distinguished him- self as a man of courage. After leaving the army he resumed his studies and graduated from Colby University in the class of
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1868. He read law with Hon. Reuben Foster at Waterville and was admitted to the bar in 1876, after which time he practiced law in Waterville till he was appointd State librarian in October, 1890. He is president of the Association of State Librarians, a national association. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society and several other literary organizations In 1877 he mar- ried Mary C. Low, also a graduate of Colby College. Their only daughter, Miss Ruby Carver, is a member of the class of 1904, Colby College. Since 1890 Mr. Carver has resided at Augusta.
Fred W. Clair was born at Oldtown, Me., in 1866, the son of John B. and Ellen E. Clair. He was educated in the public schools and Coburn Classical Institute, from which institution he graduated in 1886. He read law in the office of S. S. Brown, was admitted to the bar in 1891 and since that time has been in practice in Waterville. He has served his city as city clerk and as city solicitor, and as clerk of the executive committee of the centennial celebration. November 27, 1895, Mr. Clair married Miss Elmire Conturier. They have two children, Yvette and Adrienne. Mr. Claire is a Catholic and a member of the A. O. U. W., the American Benefit Society, the Knights of Columbus, L' Union Lafayette, Knights of the Maccabees, etc.
Harold Elijah Cook. Harold Elijah Cook was born in Charleston, Maine. He is the son of George Dillwyn and Helen Dunning Cook. He received his education at Higgins Classical Institute and at the Law School at the University of Maine, from which he received the degree of LL. B. He married Alberta Fayette Parks Sept. 16, 1895. He was admitted to the bar March 8, 1900. He is practicing his profession in company with F. I. Small, in this city, under the firm name of Cook & Small.
Everett Richard Drummond. Everett Richard Drummond, son of Clark Drummond, was born at Winslow, September 14, 1834. He received his early education in the common schools of his native town. He spent one term each at the Winslow High School, Waterville Academy, and Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, and two or three more terms at Vassalboro Academy. He read law at Waterville with his brother, Josiah H. Drum- mond. He was admitted to the bar in 1858, and at once formed
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a partnership with his brother, which continued 'till the latter moved to Portland in the spring of 1860. He then formed a partnership with E. F. Webb, which continued 'till 1863. In 1874 he was elected treasurer of the Waterville Savings Bank, which position he has held to the present time. December 26, 1859, he was married to Aubigne M. Bean. He has been town clerk of Waterville and a member of the board of aldermen. For about twenty years he has been one of the trustees of the Maine . Wesleyan Seminary and Female College at Kent's Hill.
Mr. Drummond's children are : Mrs. Viola B. Thomes, Clark W., who died in 1898, Albert F., a graduate of Colby in the class of '88, now assistant treasurer of the Waterville Savings Bank, and Mrs. Aubigne E., wife of Mr. Elwood T. Wyman.
Josiah Hayden Drummond. Josiah Hayden Drummond was born in the town of Winslow, Maine, August 30, 1827. He graduated from Waterville College in 1846. He read law in the office of Timothy Boutelle and Edwin Noyes, and in 1850 was admitted to the bar of Kennebec County and commenced practice at Waterville, where he continued his profession 'till 1860, when he opened his law office in Portland, where he is still in practice. In 1851 he became connected with the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad Company. In 1864 he became a director in the Maine Central Railroad Company, of which he has been clerk since 1866. He has also been chief counsel of that corpo- ration. He has been speaker of the State House of Representa- tives. In 1859 he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1860 he was elected attorney general of the State. He is a dis- tinguished member of the Masonic fraternity. Scarcely any one in that fraternity has done more for it than he has, both in writ- ings and in filling eminent stations. In 1867 he was elected grand commander of the United Supreme Council, the highest office in the gift of the fraternity. In 1871 the degree LL.D. was conferred upon him by Colby University. Mr. Drummond has been for many years one of the trustees of Colby College, and is the president of that board. Though long a resident of Port- land, Mr. Drummond is very loyal to Waterville, its institutions and its interests.
Harvey Doane Eaton. Harvey Doane Eaton was born at North Cornville, September 20, 1862, son of Augustus B. and
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Harriet Armstrong Eaton. Mr. Eaton received his education in Somerset Academy, Waterville Classical Institute and Colby University, and Harvard Law School. He graduated from Colby in the class of 1887, and from Harvard Law School in the class of 1891. He married Estelle Merrill Foster in October, 1891. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and immediately com- menced the practice of law in Waterville. He has served his city as city solicitor and as a member of the board of education, being for one year chairman of that board. He has four children, viz. : Harvey Doane Eaton, Jr., Foster Eaton, Florence Eaton, Harriet Eaton. He is the author of the Kennebec Water District Asso- ciation, the object of which is to form a corporation to supply the city of Waterville and towns of Fairfield, Benton and Winslow with pure water. He is president of the Messalonskee Electric Light Company, and is connected with many business interests of importance.
Reuben Foster. Reuben Foster was born in Bethel, in Oxford County, in 1833, the son of Reuben B. and Sarah Bartlett Foster. He entered Waterville College in 1851, graduating in 1855. After his graduation from college he taught as principal of Vanceboro Academy for one year ; then he commenced the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He practiced law in Waterville to the time of his death, on the twelfth day of October, 1898. He was a careful, pains-taking lawyer. He gave consider- able attention to the buying and selling of real estate, of which he had large holdings in his town. He was elected to both branches of the Legislature and became presiding officer in both branches. He was the first mayor of the City of Waterville, and afterward served as chairman of the board of education. He married Miss Frances C. Howe, and their only son, Dana Pitt Foster, became associated with him in the law firm of Foster & Foster.
Dana Pitt Foster. Dana Pitt Foster, son of Reuben Foster, was born August 28, 1869, at Waterville, Maine. He received his early education in the public schools of his native city. He afterwards pursued a course of study at Coburn Classical Insti- tute. He graduated from Colby College in the class of 1891, and afterwards took a course of the study of law in Yale Law School. He married Adelaide Dix Hopkins October 22, 1894. He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice with
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his father and has continued his practice to the present time. He has in the meantime been city clerk, and at the present time is city solicitor, having held the same office in 1900 and 1901. He received from the College the degree of A. B., and from the Law School the degree of LL. B. His children's names are Clara Roberts and Adelaide Foster. He is a member of Waterville Lodge, F. and A. M., and of St. Omer Commandery, Knights Templar.
William Thomas Haines. William Thomas Haines, son of Thomas J. and Maria Eddy Haines, was born at Levant, Maine, in 1854. He received his education in East Corinth Academy, University of Maine and Albany Law School. He commenced the practice of law in Oakland, in 1879, and moved to Waterville in 1880, where he has continued his law practice to the present time. He has represented Waterville in both branches of the State Legislature. He was County Attorney for four years and Attorney General of the State from 1897 to 1901, and is a mem- ber of the Governor's Council. He has been a trustee of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now the Uni- versity of Maine, for many years, and has had an important part in the development of that institution. July 1, 1883 Mr. Haines married Miss Edith S. Hemenway of Rockland, Me. His chil- dren are Ethel A., William and Gertrude W. Mr. Haines has large holdings in railroad property, owns timber lands in north- ern Maine, on which he carries on lumbering operations, and is prominent in many business enterprises of the city. He is in the directorate of many corporations and is a trustee of Coburn Classical Institute. He is a member of the Masonic order.
Oliver G. Hall was born at South Thomaston in 1834. From the common schools of that town he continued his education at Kents Hill and at Bucksport and when seventeen years of age he commenced teaching in Rockland. He studied law with Peter Thatcher of that city. He was admitted to Knox County bar in 1860. During the next twenty-five years he held various public positions, among which was that of judge of the Rockland Police Court. He represented that city in the legislature of 1881 and 1883. In the Autumn of 1886 he moved to Waterville and com- menced the practice of law there with Warren C. Philbrook. In
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April, 1890, he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Kennebec county, which position he now holds.
William Solyman Heath graduated from Waterville College in the class of 1855. He was a very brilliant scholar and a man of great promise. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and prac- ticed here successfully till the commencement of the Civil War, when he entered the U. S. Army. He went out as captain of Company H of the 3rd Maine Regiment. This company was recruited in Waterville. Mr. Heath was Ist lieutenant. He rose to the rank of lieut .- colonel and was held in high honor throughout his division. He was killed at the battle of Gaines's Mills. W. S. Heath Post, G. A. R. of Waterville was named in honor of him. Mr. Heath married Maria, daughter of Wyman B. S. Moor. They had two children, Ethel who had unusual musical ability and who died in Washington in 1898, and Sidney Moor Heath.
Solyman Heath was born in 1804, at Claremont. He graduated from Dartmouth College and began the practice of law in Belfast, where he remained till 1851, when he came to Waterville. He continued in practice till the time of his death, June 30, 1875. He was for some years reporter of decisions of the law court of the State of Maine, and edited several volumes of the Maine Reports. For a quarter of a century he was a prominent citizen of Waterville, was president of Ticonic Bank and had much to do with the organization of the Ticonic Water Power and Manufacturing Company. He married Emily, daughter of Asa Redington. Two of their children, Lieut .- Col. W. S. Heath and Bvt .- Gen. F. E. Heath became distinguished in the Civil War. The only children now living are Mrs. A. A. Plaisted and Mrs. Helen R. Buck.
Sidney Moor Heath was born in Waterville on the 27th day of August, 1859. He was the son of Col. William S. Heath. His mother was the daughter of Wyman B. S. Moor. He received his education in the public schools of Waterville and Coburn Classical Institute. He was admitted to the bar in 1881. He practiced law in Waterville several years and then moved to Hoquiam in the state of Washington, where he is now suc- cessfully practicing his profession. He was town clerk of Water-
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ville one year. He has been a member of the Legislature of Washington.
Thomas Webster Herrick was born in Harmony, Me., July 20, 1816, the son of Thomas and Catharine (Weeman) Herrick. He was graduated in the class of 1846 at Waterville College. For the years 1846 and 1847 he was principal of the Waterville Liberal Institute. He afterward studied law and was admitted to the bar, but in 1852 engaged in the hardware business in Waterville, in which he continued until 1872. October 8, 1856 he married Mary Dennison Porter of Bangor. Several children were born to them but only one, Frank Ware, lived to manhood. Mr. Herrick was State senator, 1856-1857, and selectman of Waterville in 1866. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He died in Eggleston Springs, Va., May 7, 1872.
J. Alfred Letourneau was born December 3, 1864. He is the son of Joseph Letourneau. He was educated in the French and English language in the public schools and commercial college. He read law with S. S. Brown. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1900. He married Rose D. Loubier, October 27, 1890. He is a member of the society of A. O. U. W. and of the Catholic church. He has been a member of the board of Education of the city of Waterville.
Alpheus Lyon was born in Augusta, November 8, 1790. He was admitted to the Kennebec bar in 1819. He soon thereafter commenced the practice of law at Waterville, where he remained working in his profession and other active business for thirty- two years. While in Waterville he built Ticonic Block. He also built and owned lumber mills in the town of Fairfield adjoin- ing Waterville on the north. He was a strong business man and one of the leading public men of his town. For six years he was cashier of Ticonic Bank. For two years he was a member of the Governor's council. In 1851 he removed to Bangor, became judge of the municipal court and afterward was recorder of the police court for twenty years. November 14, 1820 he married Miss Mary Evans, sister of Hon. George Evans, who afterward became U. S. representative and senator. Mr. Lyon was prom- inent in Masonic circles. He died in Bangor in March, 1885, at the age of ninety-five years.
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Edwin Noyes was born at South Kingston, R. I., February 21, 1812. He graduated from Brown University in the class of 1837. Soon after graduating from college, he became tutor of the Greek language in Waterville College for two years. He read law a while in the office of Timothy Boutelle and then he took a course of instruction at Harvard Law School. In 1842 he began the practice of law at Waterville in company with Mr. Boutelle, whose daughter he married. He was the first treas- urer of the Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad Company, and its first superintendent, holding the position on the road after it became the Maine Central, with the exception of two years, until 1872. For the two years of his absence, 1853-4, he was superintendent of the Michigan Central Railroad, with home in Detroit, Mich. He served two terms in the Maine Senate, during 1849 and 1850. For many years he was prominent in all public affairs in the town and was regarded as one of its ablest men. August 12, 1842, he married Helen R. Boutelle, daughter of Hon. Timothy Boutelle. Their children were Timothy Boutelle, Robert Fanning, Boutelle, and Francis Edwin.
Charles Fletcher Johnson was born in Winslow, Me., February 14, 1859, the son of William F. and Ruth (Boutelle) Johnson. He was graduated at the Waterville Classical Institute, studied two years at Colby and was graduated at Bowdoin in the class of 1879. He taught school for a time after graduation and then" read law, being admitted to the bar in 1886. From 1886 to 1890 he was a member of the law firm of Brown and Johnson. He then became a partner in the firm of Webb, Johnson and Webb. Since 1894 he has practiced law, without partners. Mr. John- son has been prominent in political life. In 1893 he was mayor of Waterville and served as alderman in 1899. He has been the Democratic candidate for Governor of the State, leading with ability an army that was too small for victory. Mr. Johnson is a member of Waterville Lodge, F. & A. M., Teconnet Chapter, St. Omer Commandery and also Waterville Lodge, A. O. U. W. He was married, December 20, 1881, to Miss Abbie W. Britton of Winslow. They have one daughter, Emma L. a member of the class of 1903, Waterville High school.
Wyman Bradbury Seavey Moor was born at Waterville on the eleventh day of November, 1811. He was the son of Daniel
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and Rebecca Spring Moor, and the grandson of Captain Daniel Moor of Deerfield, N. H., who belonged to General Starks' regiment and who was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. He spent his early life in his native town and received his early education in the public schools. He was sent at an early age to China Academy to prepare for college. At the age of seventeen years he entered Waterville College and graduated from that institution in the class of 1831. His course at college was marked by great intellectual progress under the instruction of such men as President Jeremiah Chaplin, Professor Thomas Conant and Professor George Keely. After his graduation he taught one year at St. Stephen, N. B. In 1834 he attended the Dane Law School at Cambridge, Mass., where he received instruction of Hon. Joseph Story. In 1835 he was admitted to the bar and the same year he was invited to deliver at commence- ment the valedictory address. He lived in Waterville in the prac- tice of his profession from 1835 to 1842. He was elected to represent his town in the Legislature during that time. From 1844 to 1848 he was attorney-general of the State. In 1848 he was appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate, made vacant by the death of Senator John Fair- field. His colleague, Hon. J. W. Bradbury says: "During the time of his service in the U. S. Senate, I found him an able and faithful associate and upon every question I always found him anxious to discharge his duty as a patriotic Senator." Hannibal Hamlin once said of him: "Mr. Moor was a man of marked and decided ability and was fully entitled to rank with the ablest men of our State." That position was conceded to him by all persons who knew him. From 1852 to 1858 he resided in Water- ville and superintended the construction of the railroad from
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