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Jonas Greene
Jonas Greene of Peru was born Mar. 31, 1815 in Byron. His parents were Jonas Greene and Eunice Baker Bacon, among the first settlers in Byron. Their other children were Abial, Wm. K., Roscoe G., Martha, Amanda, Lucinda and others, twelve in all. Jonas grew to manhood without many school advantages. His parents were poor and in their declining years, it fell to his lot to care for and assist both parents and the younger members of his father's family, to gain a livelihood. With no material help and no encouragement until his marriage, he steadily made his way up to an honest, useful and successful life. His wife was Louisa Morton Willard, dau. of Henry Willard, born in Ashburnham, Mass., May 23, 1819, married Aug. 11, 1841. For eight years they lived in Byron. He engaged in farming and kept a country store. He served in various offices in town and in 1848-9 repre- sented the town in State Legislature. In 1849 he moved to Rox- bury, and same year moved to Peru. Here he did a thriving busi- ness in trade and was Postmaster fifteen years. In 1866 and 67 served his district two terms in State Senate. He held important
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town offices and became a leading citizen in town, acquiring a good competence. His wife came of the Willards, who were of noble blood. It is found by tracing the genealogy that she belonged to a branch of the famous Frances Willard family. They have a common ancestor in Maj. Simon Willard, who was quite promi- nent in shaping affairs in Colonial New England.
The descedants were quite proud of this famous ancestor and his name was handed down for many generations in the family. Frances Willard speaks of this ancestor in her autobiography, and when in Europe placed a memorial window in the church in his native town of Horsmondon, Kent, England. This was Mrs. Greene's ancestor also. The Willard family have a fine record. Thirty were college graduates in the first four generations, when college bred men were rare. They were mostly Harvard grad- uates and the majority were physicians. One was president of Harvard and one a professor in that college. This woman and her children have a good inheritance, well exhibited. It became proverbial, that the Greene family children were brilliant scholars. This family moved to. Manassas, Va., in the fall of 1869. He was appointed Marshal in 1870 and took the census in his district in Virginia. Though hardy and a picture of good health to look upon, he was a victim of dyspepsia for a term of years. He died in Virginia, Oct. 1, 1873, ae. 58 yrs. 6 mos. His wife survived till Mar. 5, 1900, and closed her earthly life at Washington, D. C. Both were interred at Alexandria, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Greene were champions of all the moral reforms of the day, temperance, wholly abstaining from spiritous liquors, of rigid anti-slavery sentiments and always regular attendants at church in Peru, and brought up their children to attend church and Sabbath School regularly. Martha, the oldest of the children, acquired a collegiate educa- tion, showing marked scholarship in her studies. Had she lived, she would have been doubtless an eminent teacher in some of our seminaries. She, like her younger sisters, showed aptitude for this profession.
Children of Jonas, b. Mar. 31, 1815 and Louisa M. Greene :- Martha L., b. in Byron, Apr. 15, 1844, d. May 1866; Estella D., b. July 18, 1848 gin Byron, .m. in Virginia, Sept. 13, 1875 Rinaldo T. Cross was run over and killed by shifting engine near station in New York city, ae. 45 yrs. Children :- Nina Estelle, b. Oct. 19, 1876; Wilma G., b. Dec. 16, 1882, is married, has a dau. b. 1906: Nina Estelle, m. around 1894, T. Parkin Scott. Resi- dence, St. Denis, Md. Their son, T. Parkin Scott, Jr., b. 1897.
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Wilma Greene Cross. m. Sept. 1904. Howard Rhodes. Residence. Manhattan. Kan. Their dau., Marguerite Lucile. b. Nov. 1905. Widow Estelle D. Cross remarried H. S. Day, a soldier in Civil War. No issue. Residence. Topeka. Kan. Real estate agency. ('hestina S .. b. Roxbury. May 13. 1849. m. in 1876, Gustavus Thorp, he d. May 1901. Their son, Walton Willard, b. Jan. 1882. is 6 ft. ? in. tall. Weight 200 lbs., ae. 24. Law and real estate, Britton. S. D. : Wilma E., b. Peru. Apr. 3. 1851, m. 1st, Walter F. Robinson. She m. 2nd. no issue, Isaac P. Baldwin of Virginia of high standing. Residence, Battle Creek, Mich .; Charlena W .. b. Peru May 3. 1852. m. Aug. 3. 1872. Theodore Ketcham. Residence. Capitol Heights. Md. Children :- Mande Louise. b. Sept. 24, 1874: Walter Theodore. b. May 6. 1818; J. Willard. b. Sept. 2. 1881. d. July }. 1900. Jonas Willard. b. Aug. 11. 1856 in Peru. d. May 1881 in Baltimore. Md.
George Henry, b. Sept. 25. 1858, d. in Peru Dec. 25. 1865.
Wilma E. Greene acquired a good common school education and was well fitted for school teaching. She taught a few torms, one at C'anton village after her parents and the other children moved to Manassas. Va. in 1869. While on a visit there in the early -eventie- she obtained a clerkship in the Agricultural Office at Washington, D. C. and continued there a period of fourteen year -. She was an expert in wielding the pen : her style, polish- ed. bold. uniform, symmetrical and handsome: a quality charac- teristic of the lady as the flower bloomed. It is proverbial. "She was the flower of the family." Her marriage to Mr. Baldwin (widowed) was some time after she left the clerkship. This has proved a happy union. Ho is a man of unblemished character. intellectual. capable and of a long life race. Had just passed 8;th birthday Nov. 4. 1908, smart and active. The children of ('harlena Ketcham and their marriage :- Maud Louise. m. Edwin D. New- man. lad a son. d. young : Walter Theodore. m. Sept. 1905. Mae A. C'orridan. have dau .. Lucile Agnes : James Willard Ketcham did not marry. Walter Willard Thorp. - on of Chestina S. Thorp, is married.
Mary Greene, older sister of Jona -. m. Dr. Jame- Leary. Lu- einda Greene. the next younger than Jonas. m. about 1832. Ivory Webber. This family, with six children. came from Byron in the early fifties and lived in the house and lot adjoining the Meeting House lot on the North. He worked blacksmithing in the Joseph Rieker shop till after his wife died Apr. 21. 1859. Chil-
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dren :- Hannah E., b. Apr. 4, 1833, m. Jan. 1. 1854, Adoniram Russell, residence, Summer; Edwin, b. June 28, 1836, m. Pub. Sept. 28. 1859, Eliza A. Bent, sister of Win. H. Bent. They had four children :- George, with father in N. H .: Flavilla, m. 1907; Ransford, d. 1890, one son and dan. with mother in Lewiston. Af- ter the marriage of Edwin Webber and Eliza A. Bent they moved to Aroostook County where their children were born. They lived there happily and united till "free love" craze, then raging on the Kennebec River, reached that county; he became an easy victim to this fearful malady. He failed to recover in season to preserve the bonds of his family connection. He left the State, and wife and children were forced to provide their sustenance. They re- moved to Lewiston where Mrs. Webber ran a boarding house a few years and got a bill of divorce, remarried a Mr. Dickens. He died and she is as stated.
Lovina J. Webber, b. Sept. 17, 1838, m. Jackson Russell of Sumner : Arabine E., b. Jan. 1. 1844 : Mary O., b. May 8, 1846; Amorilla A .. b. July 6, 1849: Nellie Lucinda, b. Peru, Ang. 17, 1857. Mr. Ivory Webber and several children removed to Byron or Roxbury. Sarah Greene, a sister of Jonas, m. Luther Merrill. John. unmarried. Perry d. when a boy. Aneil B., m. Harriet Their children are living in N. H. The children of Sarah Greene Merrill were, Ida. M., m. Chas. Collins, worth $1,500,- 000, made in the oil business in Pa., where they live: Mary mar- ried and lives in Aroostook County: Lot M .; Augustus, the old- est, died: Wm. K. Greene, b. in Byron, Oct. 12, 1820, m. Nov. 1842. Mary B., b. Apr. 1824, dau. of Nemiah Hunt and Sopha Harding of Wilton. They moved to Peru in 1854, having bought the old Maj. William Brackett farm. Wm. K. Greene was up- right. enterprising and prosperous. He d. Oct. 3, 1889. Both of his wives were highly esteemed by all. Mary A. Greene, d. in Paris, July 8, 1906. Children by 1st wife :- Leander, b. June 16. 1849, m. May 10, 1882, Eliza E. Perkins in Malden, Mass. where he d. Apr. 16. 1908. Their children are Emma S. Greene, h. July 22, 1883; Chas. W., b. Dec. 25, 1885 : Mabel E., b. July ?. d. Aug. 6, 1881 ; Frank P. Greene, b. Dec. 22. 1851, m. Aug. 21, 1879; Pamelia W., b. Jan. 29, 1851. dau. of Levi J. Adkins and Sarah Woodsum of Peru. Their son, Clifton F .. b. Feb. 19, 1881. Flora A., dau. of Wm. K., b. 1854, d. 1861 : Roscoe L., b. 1859, d. 1861. Wife Mary B., d. Mar. 27, 1862 in Peru. Mr. Greene m. 2nd. Aug. 1862, Mary A. Houghton of Weld, b. Sept. 26, 1828.
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They removed' to Paris Dec. 1875, he being elected Register of Deeds. . Settled there the remainder of life.
Abial B. Greene, brother of Jonas, m. Myrtilla Houghton, a sister to Wm. K. Greene's second wife. Children (living) 1906 :- Mary A., m. May 1868, Willard Patterson in Dover, N. H .; Carrie, m. May 1813, a Mr. Wallace Berry, Abington, Mass .; Myra M., m. 1817, Melvin Alley in Revere : Angie E., m. May 1880, Frank T. Janvrin. Mrs. Janvrin's residence is Black street, Revere, Mass .; Emily H., m. June 1890, Hardin Vaughan, Revere. Mary. A. is a widow, works in shoe shop in Lynn, Mass. Wallace Berry, d. Oct. 1908. Supt. of Fish Hatchery of Maine. Melvin Alley and wife residence, Winthrop, Me. Employed in Bailey oilcloth fac- tory. Frank Janvrin a farmer in Revere. Hardin Vaughan a farmer in Derry, N. HI. They have a son and a daughter.
Births of Abial's children :- Mary A., b. Byron 1850: Carrie, b. Weld Sept. 1851 ; Mira M., b. Weld June 1860; Angie E., b. Sumner Sept. 1861; Emily H., b. Weld 1871. Last residence, Revere, Mass., where Mr. Greene d. Aug. 1901. His widow is with Dr. Minnie Houghton, Paris, Me. Roscoe G. Greene, the youngest brother of Jonas, ni. Carrie Correy. They were residing in Petersburg, Va. at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was in trade in a junk store. He came North for protection with his family and had a home with his brother, Wm. K., in Peru. They were there in 1861. when diphtheria raged fearfully and two of his little girls. Mary A., ae. 6 yrs. and Charlotte I., ae. 5 yrs., d. of the disease Sept. 18 and 23 respectively, 1861. He returned to Petersburg after the war and was made Postmaster there in re- construction period. One dau., Grace Lincoln, m. Win. Holmes, lived and d. in New Jersey Aug. 1908.
Florilla Greene, a sister to Jonas, m. Edwin Robbins, Lewis- ton. Published Nov. 14, 1855; Chestina Greene d. in infancy. Martha Willard, a sister to the wife of Jonas Greene, m. Theodore Bradeen. They lived in Peru near Alden's Ferry. Recently the Leonard Brown farm. Their daughter, Martha, m. Dr. Proctor and lives in Weld village. Of the Willard family and the Louisa and Martha Willard branch, there is but one person bearing the family name. now living. Their brother, Dr. Francis Willard, of Boston, a graduate of Harvard left a son, Henry Francis Wil- lard. also a graduate of Harvard and a doctor in Boston. Martha Willard Bradeen d. in Peru Nov. 8, 1858, ae. 44 yrs. Her son, Geo. E. W., d. in Peru Oct. 7, 1859, ae. 20 yrs.
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Hodgdon Family
John Hodgdon, b. Hebron and wife Elizabeth, b. Portland, dau. of Josiah Smith, were located in the basin on the New County Road leading over the mountain to Worthly Pond before 1821. Farmers. They were 'industrious, upright and good neigh- bors. Children b. there who grew up. Josiah S., b. May 17, 1822, m. Apr. 4, 1847, Joan W., b. Sept. 6, 1828, dau. of Scam- mon Starbird of Peru; Amos K. Hlodgdon, b. Aug. 6, 1825. Irena, b. Feb. 18, 1840, m. Pub. Aug. 13, 1865, Asa Robinson, son of Irving. Wife d. John Larnard Hodgdon, b. Feb. 20, 1845, m. May 26, 1872, Annie Robinson, dau. of Irving. This couple were church members. Residence. East Sumner, where husband d. Ang. 31, 1904. No issue. The parent, John Hodgdon, d. May 22, 1866 in Peru (grave unknown.) Josiah S., Co. C, 20th Me. Regt. Pvt., received gun shot wound in right arm, discharged and pensioned for loss of arm. Children.of Josiah S .:- Amos W., b. in Peru June 2, 1848, d. Jan. 21, 1863; Adeline, b. June 2, 1851; Lizzie Ellen, b. Oct. 21, 1856, d. Jan. 17, 1863; Caroline M., b. June 2, 1858, d. Oct. 16, 1870; Josiah S., Jr., b. Mar. 5, 1862, m. was a printer at Presque Isle; Adeline, m. March 31. 1872, In- dependence Morrison. Their dau., Leanna M., m. Perley (. Knox. Residence, West Peru. Farmers. Josiah S., d. in Peru Ang. 18, 1903. His wife d. May 28, 1882 at their home in village of East Sumner where Mr. Hodgdon was in trade several years. This. was a likely family.
Holt Family
Erastus Holt, b. in Weld, son of Abel and Ruth Holt, m. Pub. Dec. 30, 1838, Lucinda, b. Jan. 4, 1812, dau. of Ephraim and Lydia C. Packard of Peru. In 1846 Mr. Holt purchased two lots of wild land on the West side of Worthly Pond on the Hill range above the Harlow farm where E. G. Bassett lives. He made a clearing and erected a set of farm buildings. They had a family of six children; all lived to grow up. Mr. Holt was champion axe chopper. It was easy task for him to drive his ox team into the woods, cut, load and haul one cord of green wood five miles to ('anton village and return home at night. He got for the wood and labor one dollar. They were hardy pioneers. The family lived on the farm till 1854, when Mr. Holt and wife with the youngest children went to Stoughton, Mass. to take charge of a town farm. They returned to their farm in spring of 1857, con-
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tinning there till the death of Mrs. Holt in 1862. Following the event the home was broken up and the members scattered. Mr. Holt d. in 1896 at Canton. with son Otis. Children :- AArtemas Cooper Holt, b. May 13, 1839. He was a soldier in the 27th Me. Can't learn about his marriage. He was a station agent two years in Mass. Was run over by car and d. Mar. 1905 : Ellen Augusta, b. Jan. 30, 1841, m. 1st a Mr. Bishop. He d. 1825; m. 2nd, Aubury Sanborn. They live in Franklin, Mass. ; Otis Chandler, b. Jan. 12, 1843. After the family returned to the farm in 1857 he worked there and attended the winter terms of district school. finishing in 1860-61. On the 24th of June 1861 he was mustered into U. S. service, Co. K. 5th Me. and went with command into camp on Meridian Hill. D. C., where they were drilled two weeks by a West Point officer: thence to AAlexandria. The regiment was attached to Gen. Howard's brigade and participated in the battle of Bull Run, July 22, 1861. Comrade Holt says in his memoirs: "It was a very warm day and we suffered extremely with heat and thirst. On the retreat from the battlefield with James M. Sione of Otisfield I managed to get back to the old camp ground at Con- terville. As Stone and myself were crossing the stone bridge, the rebels fired the first shell at the retreating army. We marched back to Alexander the next day in a rain storm." His term of ser- vice expired in June, 1862 when he returned to Canton. In Sept. he re-enlisted for nine months in Co. C. 23d Maine, and was de- tailed as officer's cook most of that service. Returning to C'anton he engaged in cabinet work with Chas. Barrows there, till into fall when he enlisted the third time in Co. G. 30th Me .. receiving appointment of Sorgt. In Feb .. 1864 went with command to Al- giers opposite to New Orleans and joined Gen. Banks in his fa- mous Red River campaign. Holt was in several skirmishes and battles. At Monetis Bhiff, La., Apr. 23, 1864, he received gun shot wound in left thigh. At that time they were about five miles in the woods. Gen. Francis Fessenden, commanding the Brigado, was wounded and carried from the battle ground leaving his left foot behind. Holt, with a comrade, walked back over the ground after his wound, under fire all the way. his comrade be- ing hit twice, there being no ambulance at hand. Holt got per- mission to ride on back of Gen. Fessenden's horse that would have been led out of the woods back to the plantation they started from that morning. Touching the engagement Holt says, "I knew in the morning I should be wounded before night. As we started
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out to cross the river the bugler came along and said to me, 'Sergt. if you get wounded today, I will take your gun.' I said to him, 'You will have a chance before night.' It seemed to be impressed on me all day that I should get hit. After I was wounded it seemed a great relief to be rid of the mental strain." C. O. Holt, Optometrist and Optician, 30 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me.
Otis C. Holt, in. Dec. 7, 1865, Hattie A., dau. of Simeon Bick- nell of Canton. Children :- Virtue E., d. 1896; Grace M., b. July 12, 1881; Winnifred L., b. 1886, m. 1905, Frank Packard. Henrietta L. Holt, b. June 21, 1844, m. 1st, Chas. Glover. Chil- dren :- Leon O., a graduate of Colby College, is a Professor of Languages at Fall River, Mass. : Mabel, m. Arthur Glinds of Can- ton. Emerett L. Packard, b. Jan. 31, 1846, m. M. T. Hatch, a letter carrier in Boston, d. 1875. Children :- Lillis, m. a Mr. Horton. Live in Hyde Park: Erastus Eugene Holt, b. June 1, 1849. Hle attended town school when a boy at home, followed by clerking five years in stores at Canton village; thence he con- tinued his studies at Hebron Academy, at Westbrook and Gor- ham Seminaries, teaching in the meantime some portion of each year. He was principal in the City Reform School of Boston a year or more. He entered the Medical School at Bowdoin Col- lege in 1842, continuing his studies in Boston and at Dartmouth Medical School. He graduated from the medical school of Maine in 1844. Ile then entered the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons at Columbia College in New York. from which he received his ad eunden degree in 1875. After leaving Columbia he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Medical School in Maine at Brunswick, continuing two years. He was appointed house doctor in the Maine General Hospital. In Apr. 1886 he was appointed executive surgeon of the Maine Eve and Ear Infirmary, Portland, Me. In 189; Colby University con- ferred the honorary degree of A. M. upon Dr. Holt. He m. Mary Brooks Dyer. They have six children : Lucinda Mary Belle, Clar- ence Blake, Roscoe Thorne, Erastus Eugene, Jr., Dorothy and Ben- jamin Dyer.
Haskell Family
In early forties Jonathan and Mary Haskell lived on a small farm below the Albert S. Holman farm at East Peru. Mr. Has- kell was b. around 1794 and d. there Feb. 28, 1865. His wife, b. 1792, d. Apr. 16. 1868. They located on Gowell Hill prior to coming here. Mr. Haskell worked at trade of cooper in con-
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nection with farming. Their children :- Mary, b. about 1826, d. Oct. 9, 1851; Rebecca G., m. Dec. 7, 1843, Joseph I. Smith ; Eliza- beth B., m. Pub. Feb. 8, 1848, Jesse L. Nelson, Canton; Jonathan G. Haskell m. Mary C., dau. of Summer Robinson, Sr .; George Western Haskell m. Mar. 3, 1855, Mary Jane, dau. of Cyrus Wor- mell. Their children :- Lizzie N., b. Aug. 27, 1855; Addie L., b. Oct. 9, 1857. Geo. W. Haskell was wagoner in Co. F, 9th Regt. Me. Vols., war of 1861. A prisoner at Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 1, 1865. Paroled. Discharged for disability Jan. 22 as reported Nov. 1, 1863. He died prior to Mar. 1899. His widow got evi- dence in her pension claim prior to that date.
Job House
Job House and family were residents of East Peru in early forties. They came from Turner where most of their children were born. His occupation was millman and one product wooden bowls. Ilis successor to the water power here was Edgar MI. Howard, after the Civil War, when most of family returned to Turner.
Job House, b. 1803, d. Mar. 20, 1890, m. Jan. 3, 1828. Alvena Philips, both of Turner. Children :- Tilden J., b. May 2, 1829; Alonzo P., b. Nov. 6, 1830 ; Benj. D., b. June 12, 1832 ; Rhoda B., b. Apr. 2, 1835: Richard P., b. Jan. 25, 1834 : Elizabeth R., b. Feb. 12, 1839; Horatio T., b. Dec. 22, 1844; Chas. A., b. Mar. S, 1849, d. Sept. 14, 1852. Marriages :- Tilden J. and wife Amanda. Their children :- Alma Ann R., b. Dee. 19, 1851; Alvena MI., b. Feb. 27, 1855; Lovina C., b. Dec. 8, 1858. Lewiston Journal, Aug. ? , announced the death of Tilden J. House at North Tur- ner, July 31, 1907, that he left a widow, one son Richard, a dan., the wife of Geo. F. Toll at C'anton. and one in Portland, his brother Benj. in Leeds and sister Elizabeth at No. Turner. Benj. D. House m. Sarah E. Kyle in Peru.
Josiah Hall
Awarded Peru's gold headed cane by Boston Post 1909 as the oldest voter in town.
Josiah Hall, b. Wrentham, Mass., May 4, 1824, son of George Hall and Hannah Smith, came to Pern in 1855. First located on the Albion K. Knight place, it being his father's old farm. Mr. Hall lived here nine years till fall of 1864. He then moved to the
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Wm. Tucker farm on the River road and took down the Eliphalet Tucker buildings three years after. He has continued here till present date. He m. Sept. 13, 1852, Lorana, dau. of Josiah Ger- rish, b. Dec. 15, 1830, d. Oct. 4, 1891. Children :- Ella A., b. Wrentham, May 11, 1854, d. Nov. 5, 1860; George W., b. Feb. 24, 1857; Chas. A., b. Jan. 26, 1860; Josiah G., b. July 22, 1867; Ad- die Ella A .; Albert H. Mr. Hall is a prosperous farmer. For half a century he has made farming pay and demonstrated that industry and economy with temperate habits are sure to win. He has been prominent in town affairs, served several terms on the official board. Writer recalls his musical genius. He was an able player of old time music on the violin. His musical qualities were transmitted to his children, and we have a family brass band worthy of note. Of this family we have Hall Bros. Rake Manu- factory, West Peru. They are doing a thriving business. Chil- dren of Geo. W. and Mareia L. Hall, dau. of Leonard H. Brown : Myrtle Z., Leonard D. All the members of the Hall family are first class citizens, industrious, of good habits, honest and reliable. Chas A., a member of the firm, is unmarried; Josiah G. Hall, m. Alice M. Atkins, one son, Henry Hall; Albert Henry, m. Ger- trude Elizabeth McEgan of N. B. Children :-- Lorana Gerrish, Lester Albert. Josiah G. Hall was employed at the Foster Tooth- pick Mill, Dixfield, mill in Mexico. The clatter and din of ma- chinery was so great a strain on his nerves that he broke down completely and died suddenly June 26, 1909. His widow lives at her cottage home on River street to Rumford, at West Peru. Takes boarders.
Capt. Daniel Hall
Capt. Daniel Hall acquired his military title in the old militia days. In 1836 and 1837 he was commanding officer of the com- pany of militia in Peru. He was of the Rumford race of Halls. In 1834 he was second on the Board of Seleetmen. Daniel Hall was a farmer, located in 1861 on the Woodbury farm on Ridge Road. He was born Ang. 12, 1805, d. Apr. 5, 1886, m. around 1830. Sarah R., b. Nov. 26, 1807, d. Dee. 18, 1859, dan. of Heze- kiah Lovejoy. Children :- Emeline Adelia. b. Feb. 14, 1833. m. Pub. Apr. 28, 1858, Joshua M. Proctor of Westbrook. They emigrated to California where wife was engaged a term of years school teaching. She used to ride some little distance to and from school on back of horse. It is reported that she closed her
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career. Ivory Farnum was the first child, b. June ?? , 1831; At- well R., b. Apr. 6. 1835: Daniel Everett, b. Nov. 24, 1836. The oldest and one or more of the others named were located in Ban- gor in 1861 and came home to the funeral of Judith Ann, their sis- ter, in Sept. 1861. She was b. Oct. 23, 1840. Henry Dexter, b. Mar. 28, 1835. Twins Jeremiah Herbert and Hezekiah Albert, b. Apr. 1847. This was a smart, capable family of children. Their mother d. Dec. 18, 1859. The boys, except the twins, had left home in fall of 1860.
Mr. Hall remarried, Pub. June 4, 1860, Adeline Lovejoy (widow) of Dixfield. They separated in about a year and a half. His next housekeeper was widow, Abigail Benson, m. Apr. 9, 1863. They lived happily together nineteen years till her death, Apr. 16, 1882. He in. 3d widow, Mercy Frost, May 3, 1885. She was a sister to Luther Austin. Her first marriage was to Alden Frost. Daniel Hall d. at West Poru village, Apr. 5, 1886.
Samuel Howard
Sammel Howard was the first white male child born in Canton. He m. Polly Newton in Dixfield. His residence was there a term of years. Occupation, brick layer and mason. Of their children, Samuel Ward Howard, b. in Dixfield around 1846, m. Emily M., dau. of Wm. Babb. Mr. Howard gained an honorable war record in Co. (. 23d Me., a long time before marriage. Occupation, farmer, on a portion of the Joel Hall farm, West Peru. Chil- dren :- Estella M., b. Apr. 17, 1883: Myrtle A., b. Dec. 26, 1884, m. Ang. 2, 1905, Leroy A. Bisbee. Their son, Linwood Leroy, was b. June 1, 1896 ; Helen D., b. Apr. 30, 1886, m. Perley Child : Wm. IL .. b. Aug. 30, 1887; Malva E .. b. Oct. 23, 1889, m. Sept. 24, 1910, Esbjom Wiken in Peru ; Wallace W., b. May 18. 1894. This is a Christian family. members of the F. B. Church.
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