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Waterville to Bangor. In 1859 he received the appointment from President Buchanan of consul general to the British Provinces. In 1868 he purchased an estate near Lynchburg, Virginia, and moved there to engage in the manufacture of iron, where he died on March 10, 1869. Mr. Moor was married at Waterville to Clara A. N. Cook. Their children were, Dudley Watson, Maria E., who married W. S. Heath; Caroline Clara Cook, who married F. E. Heath; Charlotte, Annie Hilton, Grace Bradbury, Charles Francis Cook.
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Warren Coffin Philbrook was born at Sedgwick, Maine, in 1857. He is the son of Luther G. and Angelia Philbrook. He acquired his early education in the public schools in Castine and the State Normal School. He fitted for college at Coburn Clas- sical Institute and graduated from Colby University in 1882. He read law with E. F. Webb and Reuben Foster and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He was principal of Waterville High school for three years. He opened his office in 1887. He married Ada, daughter of M. C. Foster. He served a while as judge of Waterville municipal court. He has represented his city in the Legislature two terms, serving on the judiciary com- mittee. He served as mayor of Waterville two years and for several years has been a member of the Board of Education. Mr. Philbrook is an effective political speaker in wide demand during political campaigns. He was the orator at the Waterville cen- tennial. (vid. chapter 4,) Mr. Philbrook is a Mason, a mem- ber of the Chapter and the Commandery. He belongs also to the Order of Knights of Pythias and for the year 1901-2 was chancellor commander of that order for the State of Maine. He is a member of the A. O. U. W.
Isaac Redington, son of Asa and Polly Getchell Redington, was born in Waterville, March 13, 1803. He passed through the public schools, also Bloomfield Academy at Skowhegan in the days of "Preceptor Hall." After his course at Waterville College, from which he was graduated with honor as valedic- torian of his class in 1827, and two years' study of law, he was admitted to the bar and soon won distinction by his ability and his legal attainments. In 1831, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Lydia Gilman of Waterville. In 1842, he was elected State senator and served with marked ability. After twenty years of practice as a lawyer, in Waterville, he removed to New York. The family included four daughters : Lydia, who married John McLellan of Skowhegan, and after his death, Dr. Bradford; Annie, who married Dr. Frank H. Getchell, son of Horace Getchell, now deceased; Caroline, now (1902) living in New York, and Lizzie, now deceased. Mr. Redington was pos- sessed of large ability, fine literary taste and a kindly spirit, which won for him many friends.
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Frank Kingsbery Share, son of Rev. B. F. Shaw, D. D., and Mary (Pratt) Shaw, was born in Newcastle, Me., January 17, 1859. He was educated in the schools of Waterville, in Coburn Classical Institute and Colby College, from which he was grad- uated in the class. of 1881. He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and in 1892 became clerk of the municipal court of Waterville, and in 1897 became judge of the same court, which responsible position he still holds. Judge Shaw has been on the board of education for two terms. He is a member of Waterville Lodge, F. & A. M., Teconnet Chapter, Mount Lebanon Council and St. Omer Commandery, Knights Templar. He is a member of the Baptist church, of which his father was pastor. March 30, 1883, he married Miss Emma J. Smith. They have no children.
Frank Jackson Small was born in Oldtown, Maine, December 31, 1874. He is the son of Benjamin F. and Luetta G. Small. He received his early education in the public schools of Oldtown. He graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1897. He pursued a course of study in the law school in the University of Maine, closing his course there in 1900 and receiving the degree LL. B. He is now practicing law in Waterville in company with Harold E. Cook.
Jonathan Godfrey Soule was a native of Waterville, and was educated in its schools and college, graduating from the latter in 1857. After graduation he taught as principal of Hartland Academy, later as instructor in Evansville Seminary, Wis., and as principal at Hartland and Foxcroft. In 1874, he was admitted to the bar in Waterville. He afterward served for twelve years as trial justice and was for fourteen years a member of the board of education. His experience as a teacher fitted him for efficient service in this office, in which he is well remembered. He died January 1, 1888.
Judge James Stackpole, the third of the name, was long prom- inent in Waterville. He was graduated at Bowdoin College, and spent most of his life in the practice of his profession in Water- ville. (For more complete sketch, see page 129.)
Stephen Stark, son of Samuel and Rebecca Whittaker Stark, was born in 1803 at Conway, N. H. He graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1827. After spending three years in the
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study of law, he commenced the practice of his profession at Clinton, Maine, in October, 1830. He continued practice there till 1837, when he moved to Waterville where he continued his practice till his death in 1855. He was a man of public spirit, served the town as representative in the Legislature and rendered important aid to the College in raising funds for its support. He married Mehitabel Jane Cook of Fryeburg, Me., in 1832. They had six children, of whom only Mrs. Sarah D., wife of J. F. Elden, and Amos J. Stark, both of this city, are now living. His name is borne by a son of Amos J., who graduated at Colby in the class of '92 and is now a lawyer at Mt. Hermon, Mass.
Horace Wilson Stewart was born in 1852. He graduated from Colby University in 1874. He read law in Bangor and Waterville. He was admitted to the bar in 1875. He was twelve years judge of the Waterville municipal court. He has since practiced in Hartland and is now pursuing his profession in Thomaston, Knox County.
Frederick Augustus Waldron, son of James N. and Sarah Waldron, was born in 1841 at Buckfield, Maine. He graduated from Waterville College in the class of 1868. He studied law with Hon. Reuben Foster and was admitted to the bar in 1871. He opened his law office in Waterville, where he continued in the practice of his profession to the time of his death, December 19, 1896. He was a trial justice until the municipal court was organized. He served as city solicitor, 1894-96. July 12, 1894, he married Miss Adelia R. Leech, daughter of Wm. Leech of Dexter. Their children are Linton Edson, who graduated at Colby College in the class of 1897, and was a member of the senior class of the Maine Medical School at the time of his death, May 27, 1900; and William Linscott, who graduated at Colby in 1899, and has since been engaged in teaching at the Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y., and the the Skowhegan High school.
Edmund Fuller Webb was born in Albion in 1835. He studied law in that town two years. He entered Waterville College in 1856 and after remaining there two years he began the study of law in Portland and was admitted to the bar in Cumberland County in 1859. He commenced practicing law in Albion and after remaining there one year he came to Waterville. In 1867
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he was admitted to the U. S. district bar. In 1866 he received from Waterville College the honorary degree of A. M. He was for two terms a member of the House of Representatives, being speaker in the session of 1873. He served two years as State senator, the second year being elected president of the Senate. He served three years as county attorney and for several years was a trustee of Colby University. He was a director of the Waterville Bank, and of the Merchants from its organization, and was for many years a solicitor for the Maine Central Rail- road. He married Miss Abby E. C. Hall. They had one son, Appleton Webb, who was admitted to the Somerset bar in 1882.
Samuel Wells was born in Durham, N. H., August 15, 1801. His mother was a niece of General Sullivan, of Revolutionary fame. He studied law with Thos. Rice of Winslow, and on being admitted to the bar in 1826, established himself in Water- ville. He practiced here with good success and a growing repu- tation, eight or nine years, when he removed to Hallowell, and in 1844 to Portland. Again in 1856 he removed to Boston, where he died, July 15, 1868. He was appointed associate jus- tice of the supreme court of Maine in 1847, which office he resigned in 1854. In 1856 he was elected Governor by the Leg- islature, none of the candidates having a majority. The next year he was defeated by Hannibal Hamlin. He married Louisa Appleton, daughter of Dr. Moses Appleton. Their children were Mrs. Ann A. (Wells) Cummings, now living in Boston ; Charles C. Wells, died in Portland; Samuel Wells, a lawyer in Boston ; Clara L. Wells, who has lived the past thirty years in France and Italy. Judge Wells' house in this town was the small house on College street, afterward occupied by Daniel R. Wing, on the site of which the D. K. E. Club house now stands.
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PROF. GEORGE W. KEELY. PRESD'T ROBERT E. PATTERSON. PRESD'T JAMES T. CHAMPLIN.
PROF. JOHN B. FOSTER.
PROF. MOSES LYFORD.
CHAPTER XXV.
THE TEACHERS OF WATERVILLE.
BY ARTHUR J. ROBERTS.
Martin Brewer Anderson, son of Martin and Jane Brewer Anderson, was born in Brunswick, Maine, Feb. 12, 1815. He was graduated from Colby College in 1840. After serving the College for two years as tutor, he was elected professor of rhe- toric in 1843. In 1850 he left Waterville to become editor of the New York Recorder, and in 1853 was called to the presidency of the University of Rochester. His term of office as president was one of the longest and most eventful in all the history of American colleges. For thirty-five years he served the Univer- sity and the State. He was a useful and efficient public servant, as well as a successful administrator, an inspiring teacher, a pro- found scholar, an eminent publicist, and an eloquent lecturer and preacher. He was a member of the State Board of Charities of New York, for several years president of the National Baptist Missionary Societies, a trustee of Vassar College, and one of the associate editors of Johnson's Encyclopaedia. He received the degree of LL. D. from Colby College in 1853, and from the University of the State of New York in 1883, and the degree of L. H. D. from Columbia University in 1887. In 1867 Dr. An- derson was elected president of Brown University, but declined to accept the position. He said that Rochester had invested in him when he was unknown and without value, and if the invest- ment had not proved a failure, Rochester deserved the profits. He was married in August, 1848, to Miss Elizabeth Mary Gilbert of New York, who died Feb. 22, 1890, four days before the death of Dr. Anderson.
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Dennis Evarts Bozeman, son of Frank and Carrie Heath Bow- man, was born in Sidney, Maine, Nov. 10, 1871. He graduated from Coburn Classical Institute in 1889, and from Colby College in 1893. He was principal of the Waterville High School from 1893 to 1898, and a law student with Heath & Andrews, Augusta, Maine, from 1898 to 1900. He was admitted to the State of Maine bar in 1900. Since 1900 he has been Latin Mas- ter of the William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia. He is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and of the Phi Beta Kappa society. He was married in 1900 to Hortense Low of Water- ville.
Nathaniel Butler, president of Colby College from 1895 to 1901, was born in Eastport, Maine, May 22, 1853. His parents were the Rev. Nathaniel and Jeanne Emery Butler. He pre- pared for college at Camden High School and Coburn Classical Institute, and graduated from Colby College in 1873. From 1873 to 1876 he was associate principal of Woman's College at Lake Forest, Ill., and from 1876 to 1879 was associate principal of a similar institution at Highland Park, Ill. He became prin- cipal of the school in 1879, and remained there until he was called to the professorship of English Literature in the (old) Univer- sity of Chicago in 1884. From 1886 to 1892 he was a professor in The University of Illinois. In 1892 he became a professor and the director of university extension in The University of Chicago. He was called to the presidency cf Colby College in 1895, and remained at the head of this institution until 1901, when he became professor of education and director of cooper- ating work in The University of Chicago. He received the degree of D. D. from Colby College in 1895. Dr. Butler is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He represented The University of Chicago at the University Extension Congress, held in London, England, in 1894. He is widely known as a writer and lecturer. Dr. Butler was married April 28, 1881, to Florence Reeves Sheppard, who died in June, 1902. He has three children,-Sheppard Emery, class of 1903, Colby College, Albert Nathaniel and Frederic Hamlin Butler. Dr. Butler's present address is 5601 Madison Ave., Chicago, Il1.
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James Tift Champlin, for sixteen years president of Colby College, was born June 9, 1811, in Colchester, Conn. He was the son of John and Martha Armstrong Champlin. After graduat- ing from Brown University in 1834, he remained there as a tutor until 1838, when he became pastor of a Baptist church in Port- land. In 1841 he was elected professor of the Greek and Latin languages and literature in Colby College. From 1857 to 1873 he was president of the College. After his retirement from the presidency, he lived in Portland until his death, March 15, 1882. He received the degree of LL. D. from Colby Collge, of D. D. from the University of Rochester and from Brown University. He was a member of the Maine Historical Society. From 1875 to 1881 he was a member of the board of trustees of Colby Col- lege. Dr. Champlin did a large amount of work as author, editor and translator. His publications include Latin and Greek gram- mars, treatises on ethics, political economy, and intellectual philosophy, and annotated selections from the ancient classical writers. He married Mary Ann Pierce of Providence, R. I., June 12, 1839.
Jeremiah Chaplin, first president of Colby College, was born in Georgetown, Mass., in 1780. He graduated from Brown Uni- versity in 1799 as valedictorian of his class. After serving as a tutor in Brown for two or three years, he became pastor of the Baptist church at Danvers, Mass., in 1803. His pastorate in that place lasted until 1818, although he was absent one year acting as pastor of the First Baptist church in New York City. In 1818 he was invited to become a teacher in the newly founded Maine Literary and Theological Institution. At first he decided to re- fuse the invitation, but after a night of prayer and what he regarded as a special revelation of the will of God, he changed his decision. He became president of Waterville College in 1822, and remained at the head of that institution for eleven years. He was married in April, 1806, to Miss Marcia O'Brien. From boyhood Dr. Chaplin was a theologian and meta- physician. Before he was fifteen he had mastered the writings of Hopkins. He was always morbidly conscientious and given to rigid self-examination with reference to the question as to whether he was one of "the elect." After fifty years he was still in doubt. He learned Hebrew without an instructor, and during
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his pastorate at Danvers received young men as students in theology. Of his students, Coleman and Wheelock responded to Judson's call for missionaries. A paper written by Dr. Chaplin on "Ministerial Education" led to the establishment of the theo- logical school at Hamilton, N. Y. He founded the Baptist church in Waterville, and for several years served as its pastor without pay.
William Elder graduated from the Provincial Normal School in 1860, and from Acadia College in 1868. The next year he studied at Harvard under Professors Agassiz, Cooke, and Shaler. From 1869 to 1873 he was professor of physical sciences at Acadia. In 1873 he was called to Colby to the professorship of chemistry and natural history, and remained at the head of this double department until 1885, when he became Merrill professor of chemistry. In 1898 he published "Ideas from Nature." Prof. Elder married Miss Caroline Scammon of this city. They have one daughter, Marjory Louise Elder.
John Barton Foster, son of John May and Elizabeth Lowell Merrill Foster, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 8, 1822. He attended the public schools of Waterville and Waterville Academy, and graduated from Colby College in 1843. He taught school in China, Maine, for one year, and in Lexington, Mass., for two years. For two years (1846-7) he was pastor of the Baptist church at Gardiner, Maine. In 1847 he entered Newton Theological Institution, graduating thence in 1850. He was editor of Zion's Advocate from 1852 to 1858, when he was elected professor of the Greek and Latin languages and literature in Colby College. From 1873 to 1894 he was professor of the Greek language and literature. In 1894 he was made Professor Emeritus. His enthusiasm for his work and his love of Greek literature will surely always be remembered by those whose privilege it was to be his pupils. In 1876 Professor Foster was given the degree of LL. D. by Colby College. For thirty years he was treasurer of the Baptist State Convention. He was twice married : June 1, 1852, to Anne Doe, who died Jan. 20, 1861 ; Aug. 14, 1866, to Elizabeth Boutelle Philbrick. His son by his first marriage, John Marshall Foster, is a missionary at Swatow, China. Professor Foster died Aug. 19, 1897.
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Edward Winslow Hall, Librarian of Colby College, was born in Portland, Maine, Sept. 9, 1840. His parents were Winslow and Eunice Harding Hall. He prepared for college in the high school at Portland, and graduated from Colby College in 1862. After teaching for a year he accepted a position in one of the government departments at Washington, where he remained until he was called to the professorship of modern languages in Colby College in 1866. In 1873 Professor Hall was elected Librarian of Colby College, and performed the duties of that office in addi- tion to the work of his department until 1892, when he was relieved of his classes and enabled to devote his entire attention to the library. In 1900 he recived the degree of LL. D. from the The University of New Brunswick. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society, of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and of the Phi Beta Kappa society. He married Mary S. Has- call of West Rutland, Vermont, Jan. 3, 1865. They have four children : Celia, wife of Charles J. Waterhouse of Oakland, Cal., Frank E., Hascall S., and Marian.
Charles Edward Hamlin, was born in Augusta, Maine, February 4, 1825, the oldest of the sons of Charles and Elizabeth Williams Hamlin. At the age of sixteen he entered Colby, but as his course was interrupted by ill health, he did not grad- uate until 1847. After graduation he taught at Brandon, Vt., Bath, Me., and Suffield, Conn. He became professor of chem- istry and natural history in Colby College, August 9, 1853, and continued at the head of that department until 1873, when he was called to Harvard University to serve as curator of conchology and palaeontology in the museum of comparative zoology. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 3, 1886. After leaving Colby he served on its board of trustees and also as the necrologist of the alumni association. His published reports are marvels of painstaking accuracy. Beside scientific articles in various periodicals, he published "Observations on the Physical Geography and Geology of Mt. Ktaadn" (1881) and "Syrian Molluscan Fossils" (1884). In 1853 he married Eliza- beth Ann Smith of Conway, Mass. The interests of Colby were ever dear to him and he had a large part in the raising of its endowment. It has been said of him: "The greatest value of
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Prof. Hamlin's work in life was in his influence upon students as an example of a Christian gentleman, of manly honor, of chastened dignity, of almost ideal manhood."1
James Hobbs Hanson, son of James and Deborah Clark Han- son, was born in China, Maine, June 26, 1816. After attending the town school and China Academy he entered Waterville Col- lege in the fall of 1838. The next year after his graduation from college he began teaching in Waterville Academy. He continued teaching in the academy until 1854, when he became principal of the Eastport High school. In 1857 he was called to the Portland High school. From 1863 to 1865 he conducted a private school in Portland. In 1865 the trustees of Waterville College wished him to return to the principalship of Waterville Academy, now Coburn Classical Institute, and he remained at the head of this school until his death in 1894. He was the author of the widely used "Preparatory Latin Prose Book," and joint editor of the "Hand Book of Latin Poetry." He was elected to the board of trustees of Waterville college in 1862. In 1872 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Colby Col- lege. He was twice married ; in 1845 to Sarah Boardman Mars- ton of Waterville, in 1854 to Mary E. Field of Sidney. He died in Waterville, Maine, April 21, 1894.
Franklin Winslow Johnson, son of Elizabeth Winslow and John Sullivan Johnson, was born in Jay, Maine, August 17, 1870. He prepared for college at Wilton Academy and grad- uated from Colby College in 1891. After serving for three years as principal of Calais High School he was called to the head- ship of Coburn Classical Institute. He is president of the Maine Teachers' Association. He was married in 1896 to Carolyn M. Lord of Calais, Maine. Principal Johnson is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and of the Phi Beta Kappa society.
George Washington Keely, for twenty-three years professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Colby College, was born, December 25, 1803, in Northampton, England. He was the son of Rev. George and Mary Ramsay Keely. He came to Haverhill, Mass., with his father's family in 1818. He graduated
1. Memorial Address by Francis W. Bakeman D.D.
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from Brown University in 1824. He served as a tutor of Latin and Greek at Brown for three years and in 1829 was called to a professorship in Colby College. "He engaged early in original research, but published very little; yet his few brief articles in English and American scientific journals gained for him high reputation among scientific men. In 1847 he was invited by the head of the British Colonial Surveys to make a series of magnetic observations in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the results of which were published in England the following year. For sev- eral months in 1833, and again from 1839 to 1841, he was called upon as senior professor to administer the government of the college, but he refused to assume the presidency permanently, as being an office wholly incompatible with his temperament and tastes." [From Professor Hamlin's memorial. ] After his
withdrawal from the college in 1852 he continued his residence in Waterville until his death, June 13, 1878. He was given the degree of LL. D. by Brown University in 1849. He was married in 1829 to Mrs. Jane Whitman Bailey of Providence, R. I., who died in 1866. They had two children, Eliza, who died in infancy, and Mary, wife of Professor J. D. Taylor of Waterville.
Asa Lyman Lane, son of Edmund Cleaves and Mary Ring Humphrey Lane, was born in Yarmouth, February 18, 1839. He graduated from Colby College in 1862 and for the next four years was principal of Reid Institute in Pennsylvania. From 1867 to 1870 he studied at Newton Theological Institution. From 1870 to 1875 he was pastor of the Baptist church at Bidde- ford, Maine. After serving for one year as principal of New London Institution he was called to the chair of sciences and mathematics in Coburn Classical Institute, where he remained twenty-five years. He resigned in 1901. Mr. Lane received the degree of A. M. from Colby College in 1867. At present he is one of the trustees of the Waterville Public Library and a member of the school board. He was married in 1864 to Mary J. Robinson. They have two daughters, Ava Bertha and Mary Blanche. Mr. Lane's present address is 12 Nudd street, Water- ville, Maine.
Justin Rolph Loomis was born in Bennington, Vermont, August 21, 1810. He prepared for college in the Hamilton
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Literary Institution and was graduated at Brown University with high honor in 1835. In 1836 he became a tutor in Colby and was elected in 1838 professor of chemistry and natural history. This position he held with great honor both to himself and to the college until 1852. During this time he pursued scientific explorations in Bolivia, Peru and Chile and published some important papers and text-books. Of strong Christian character and active in religious work he was of great help to the Baptist church in the city, and his ideas were carried out in the remodel- ing of its meeting house. His relations with the students were especially close and helpful. In 1852 Prof. Loomis accepted the chair of natural science in the university at Lewisburg, Pa., and became president of the institution in 1858, which office he held for twenty-one years. As at Waterville, his Christian char- acter and eminent ability exerted a powerful influence in the church and community. Beside many scientific papers, Prof. Loomis published, "Principles of Geology," "Physiology." "Anatomy" and other text-books of high rank.
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