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Henry Richmond b. in Middlebury, Mass., m. Mehitable C'as- well. They had nine children. The third child was Henry b. in Tehint. He m. 1st Sarah Washburn of Bridgewater, Mass., m. 2nd Submit Witherhead of Plymouth and removed to Hebron, Me. where he died. He was in the French and Revolutionary wars. He had eight children. The first, Eliab, b. Plymouth, Apr. 9, 1751, m. 1770, Hannah Holmes, b. Feb. 11, 1753 in Plymouth. He d. July 31 1831. Wife d. Mar. 19, 1848. He removed from Plymouth, Mass. to Hebron, Me. (now Oxford.) He was a farmer, noted for his industry. It is claimed he was wealthy at his death. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and engaged in several battles. He fell from a load of hay, causing his death when 80 yrs. old. His children were Hannah, Ruth and Israel, and eight more; the last was Rhoda, b. July 1, 1797, m. Jesse Witham.
Israel Richmond, the 3d child of Eliab, was b. Jan. 27, 1779 and m. 1st, Chloe Crooker, 2nd, Sarah Bromhall of Plymouth. Recapitulation. We have the heads of the generations as fol- lows : John Richmond, John Richmond, Lieut. Joseph Richmond, Henry Richmond, Eliab Richmond, Israel Richmond, Sarah Rich- mond, who m. Erastus Hall, as shown in the history of Halls.
Elbridge Gerry Hall
Elbridge Gerry Hall, 2nd son of Erastus, b. Dixfield, d. Nov. 9, 1895, m. Sept. 26, 1855, Martha Ann Plumstead, Lynn, Mass., dau. of Mathew Plumstead and Martha Crooker, before marriage of Bath, Me. Her brothers, Isaiah, Harding and Robert Crooker were among the first ship builders in Bath. Mathew Plumstead was high up in degrees of Mason and a Deacon in Cong. church.
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He with family removed from Boston, Mass. to Dixfield and Mexico, Me. about 1860. Children b. in Boston :- Emma Etta, Aug. 2, 1856; Ella Frances, b. May 19, 1859. Children b. in Dixfield :- Martha Ellen, Feb., 1861. Children b. in Mexico :- George El- bridge, b. Jan. 31, 1863; Orin Ross, b. Mar. 7, 1866. Family removed to Cambridge, Mass., in 1869, where were b. Carrie Fairfield, Nov. 2, 1869; Fred Elbridge, b. Aug. 7, 1874 and Sara Brooks, b. Sept. 6, 1876. Was pupil at Normal Art School, Bos- ton, d. Apr. 7, 1900. Marriages :- Emma Etta Hall m. Jan. 27, 1875, A. F. Jewell. Residence, Plainville, Conn. Their only child, Merton Hall Jewell, was b. Wales, Me., Dec. 13, 1878, d. Oct. 18, 1884. The parent, A. F. Jewell d. Wales, Me., Mar. 7, 1906. Ella Frances Hall m. at Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 25, 1880, F. P. Noera. Residence, Waterbury, Conn. Children b. Cambridge :- Florence Anna Noera, Jan. 11, 1882, graduate of St. Margrete Episcopal School, Wellesley College, 1903. Spent one year in Eu- rope devoted to study of art. Ernestine Chester, b. July 11, 1885, graduated above school. Church singer Waterbury 3 yrs. Spent a year in Europe. Study of music. Frank Elbridge. Noera, b. Malden, May 20, 1888, d. June 11, 1889. George B. d. in infancy. Edith Frances Emma b. Waterbury, Sept. 30, 1894. Hazel Hall Noera b. Waterbury, June 12, 1897. Martha Ellen Hall, M. D., m. Louisville, Kan. 1892, Rev. E. B. Smith of Iowa, graduate of Bible Training School at Chicago, also of College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, Mass. Child :- Martha Smith, b. in Kan- sas, Westmoreland, Aug. 21, 1894. Mother d. Mar. 16, 1899.
George Elbridge Hall d. Cambridge Dec. 5, 1874. Orin Ross Hall not m. Residence, Providence, R. I. Carrie Fairfield Hall m. Sept. 26, 1888, Dr. H. B. Babbitt. Residence, Plainville, Conn. Fred Elbridge Hall m. 1895, Ellen Chase Call. Residence, Provi- dence, R. I. Clara Brooks Hall d. Apr. 7, 1900, unmarried.
Children of Dr. H. B. Babbitt and wife Carrie F. b. in Cam- bridge Mar. 24, 1890, Albert Bradford; b. Arlington Hts., Mass., Nov. 8, 1901, Henry Bradford.
Children of Fred Elbridge and Ellen Chase Hall :- Elbridge Hall d. at birth, Oct. 8, 1897. B. in Cambridge Aug. 7, 1901, Marzorie Hall; b. in Cambridge Nov. 19, 1902, Evelyn Hall; b. at Conimiat, Providence, R. I., Sept. 21, 1904, Nettie F. Hall ; b. at Providence, R. I. Oct. 20, 1906, Ida Stillman Hall.
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Sarah Brooks Hall, dau. of Elbridge Gerry Hall, was a pupil of Normal Art School. Boston, d. ae. 23 yrs. Carrie Fairfield,
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pupil of Normal Art School, Boston, before marriage and artist. Fred Elbridge Hall and Orin Ross Hall form the firm of "The Hall Cleansing Co." 227 Cranston St., Providence, R. I. doing a large business. "F. P. Noera, Principal of The Noera Mfg. Co. Imple- ments and Hardware Specialties," has a National reputation, Wa- terbury, Conn.
Jeremiah Hall
Jeremiah Hall and family, with his brothers Robert L. and Liberty and their families, moved from Peru to Concord, N. H. in 1853. The two brothers named worked as carpenters for the Con- cord Wagon Co. Liberty Hall, the son of Jeremiah, was employed as traveling book agent by a Boston firm in 1854. In that year, June 6, he remarried Maria Cobb of Rochester, N. Y., taking his wife home to his father's in Concord. At that time Robert L. Hall had lost his 1st wife, Sybil Kyle, and their son, Robert Quimby, born 1842. Their dau., Mary Jane, b. 1835, m. about 1854, Jack Crosby. They lived with their father, Robert L., there and afterwards at Fisherville, N. H., after he had m. 2nd, Mary A., dau. of James and Mercy (Coolidge) Lunt of Peru on May 31, 1855. Robert and Mary were living at West Peru village in 1859 and 1860. He d. July 9, 1866. They had two children :- Jennie M., b. Mar. 9, 1860, d. Jan. 27, 1878 and Ernest, who grew to manhood, and with his mother moved to Auburn where she d. Oct. 10. 1888. Robert's first dau. did not return to Maine. Liberty, the brother of Jeremiah, returned with family to Peru. He tended the grist mill at West Peru in early sixties, d. in Rox- bury, Maine.
Liberty Hall, son of Jeremiah, moved to Rochester, N. Y., the native residence of his wife in 1856. Maria Cobb was the dau. of Gideon Cobb of that city. Liberty established a home, going into business for himself in connection with D. Appleton of New York and continued there eleven years. His father and family joined them in 1851, excepting Virtaline Copeland who that year m. Stillman Humphrey of Concord, N. H., afterwards mayor. Their children were Irving Hall Humphrey and Mary Lois Humphrey. Virtaline Humphrey, b. Oct. 9, 1837, died June 1867. Her sis- ter, Sophrona W., unmarried, d. May 1870 in Rochester. Virintha C. Hall, an invalid, unmarried, d. Dec. 1868. She was b. May 6, 1835. Sarah Adelaide Hall b. July 2, 1844, unmarried, d. 1869. Mary Angeline Hall m. 1869, Rev. Stephen B. Rand of Holyoke, Mass. and sailed in Nov. of that year for Burmah, sent by the
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American Board of Missions from the second Baptist Church of Rochester. They resided there five years, returning to this country in 1826 on account of ill health, from which he never recovered able to return to Burmah. Their children b. in Burmah :- Frede- ric, who d. there; Sarah Cornelia; Alice d. Ang. 1906. Born in America, were Laura Bradford, b. 1876; Wilberforce and Maud.
The families of Liberty and Virgil Hall, having moved from Rochester, N. Y. to Glencoe, Minn. in the fall of 1868, their parents, Jeremiah and Sarah and dau. Elvira, joined them in the last part of the year 1870 from Rochester, N. Y. Liberty had charge of the interests of D. Appleton in the Northwest for twenty- three years, the last few years opening up a drug store and pub- lishing the Glencoe Register, the official paper of MeLeod County. Failing health compelled him to seek a warmer climate. Hc and his wife joined their sons, Clifford and Harry, at Kansas City in 1887. Jeremialı died at Glencoe in 1884. His wife, Sarah, went with family to Kansas City, Mo. and died there in 18SS. She was buried beside her husband at Glencoe, Minn. He lived 83 years and she 80 years. They and their posterity are an honor to the family name, an honor to the mothers who gave them birth. The highest honors are no less due the mothers of each generation from Edward Hall, 1636, down a long line of lineage to the present day. Through the Bible injunction: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart," these mothers have brought up their sons and daughters in the path of morality, temperance and chastity. Biographers in general are free to ex- toll the noble traits and achievements of the sons of men, but they invariably fail to do honor to the weary, watchful mothers who give their energies and their life work to nurture, train and equip human souls for this life and the life to come. Long live the memory of our dear mothers. The climate did not prove beneficial to Liberty Hall at Atlantic City and he became so feeble that it was thought advisable to take him to Denver, Col. This was done by Dr. Greaves, the husband of Elvira Hall. After two weeks he was much improved, and at the end of six weeks he felt he could return home and to business, and that day, the 23d of June 1891, wrote his wife he would be back in a few days. He walked two miles that day before eleven o'clock, and retired in the best spirits. At five minutes to twelve he called his niece, Virtie, dau. of Virgil, to come quickly. He died soon, June 21, 1891, of hemorrhage. He was buried at Glencoe beside his son Charley, brother Virgil, sister Elvira Greaves and father and mother Hall.
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Henry (Harold) Liberty, son of Liberty and Maria (Cobb) Hall m. Mar. 4, 1891, Lucile M. Henry in Kansas City. Residence now Morrison, Ill. Weenona Maria, b. Sept. 8, 1868, m. in Glen- coe May 18, 1899, Phil S. Creager of Kansas City, Mo., who d. May 11, 1906. Their children :- Helen Hall Creager, b. July 10, 1900; Mariam Hall Creager, b. Feb. 3, 1901.
Liberty Hall, Jr.
Liberty, Jr., the fifth son m. Abigail Partridge of Paris, Me. When a young man he learned the trade of a carpenter and went to Cuba, where he acquired some knowledge of the Spanish language. Ile was there some little time, working at his trade. He returned to Peru, having of his earnings two hundred dollars Spanish silver, rare coins to back-woodsmen in those days. Liberty visited his old home, George Walker's. A specimen of the coin was exhibited as a curiosity. Now it was revealed that "Uncle George" as all the neighbors called him, had a special fondness for silver, so he exchanged bank bills for the whole pile. It was ob- served ever after, that his tender was paper money. Over forty years after, a goodly portion of those coins resumed circulation. Liberty Hall was a professor of religion, and a zealous advocate for the cause. He was life and power in social meetings, an honest, honorable man. Children :- Geo. E., b. m. Pub. Oct. 13, 1867, Mary F., dau. of Thomas and Avis Demeritt, Peru; Caroline, m. lived in Paris. Liberty died Nov. 18, 1869. Wife, Abigail died Mar. 8. 1884, ae. 78 yrs. Buried in Knight Cemetery, Peru.
George E. Hall was a soldier in war of 1861. After marriage as stated, he moved West. His trade was house carpenter. He returned wi th family to Malden, Mass. While there he and an- other man took down a pest house. Both were stricken down with small pox and died. He had six children, all dead but one daughter Minnie who works in Waltham Watch Factory. Mrs. Geo. Hall d. around 1901.
This exchange of money occurred when silver was at par and Mr. Walker's fancy lead him to choose silver. In our day, 1907, we all prefer gold. He was not a miser in any sense, but one of the best providers for his family, strictly honest, of good morals and exemplary deportment, though he was not assured as revealed that when this earthly house fails, we have a continuance in The Heaven- ly City.
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A vein of humor in the Hall family is revealed in Liberty, the father of the nine brothers, and it cropped out in succeeding gen- erations. On the home farm in Dixfield, the herd of cattle went to drink at the spring where the house was supplied. On one oc- casion their only cow was found dead at this spring. Liberty wrote in rhyme (his kind of poetry) a memorial of the event. The only line at hand reads, "The lophorned ox, he pushed her in." His humor and wit, revealed as rhymster, tided him over all grief and regret, incident to loss of cow. The vein is revealed in his grandson, Jonathan, Jr. Daniel Hall was collector of taxes in Peru in the early fifties. It was the custom then to give jail service as a substitute for non-payment of poll tax. Happily the heathen practice, likewise imprisonment for debt has gone by. This tax- payer's income was scanty for the support of his family, causing him to be a guest at town's expense of tenement on Paris Hill. Now the prisoner took it all very kindly and employed his leisure hours in writing a phamplet of rhymes. He had a good number of copies printed and they found ready buyers. There are calls for a reprint but no copy is at hand. One verse is in memory. It reads :-
"You may call me a jail bird as much as you please, I know my pants are all out at the knees ; My coat is all ragged and so is my vest ; And my hat compares very well with the rest."
The above reference shows the trend of affairs in every day life. People have broader views of humanity, are more generous and for- bearing than those of a century ago. Poverty is respected instead of punished. Truly the world doth move.
Jefferson Hall
Jefferson Hall, b. Apr. 22, 1807, m. Oct. 13, 1829, Lucy, dau. of Robinson Turner and Lillis Ford of Duxbury, Mass. Child :- Lydia, b. July 15, 1830, m. 1852, Franklin Twitchell in Paris. Children :- Ella. m. Dr. Fitch in Brownfield. No issue. Ernest, b. 1858. was single when 38 years old. Alvira, b. Mar. 26, 1832, did not mı .. died while a work in Lowell factory ae. sixteen to seven- teen years. Robert 2nd b. May 7, 1834, did not m., died Jan. 28, 1863, ac. 28 years. James G. Birney, b. Apr. 25, 1842, was a soldier in C'av., 1st Me., Civil War. d. about close of war. Lois A., b. 1838, did not m., d. Mar. 25, 1862, ac. 24 yrs. The subject of the sketch died Mar. 14, 1863. Wife Incy d. Jan. 12, 1861. Jef-
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ferson m. 2nd, June 1861 (as advised by Lucy a short time before she died) widow Charlotte Chase of Paris. They were neighbors and well acquainted years before in Paris. After his decease, she returned to Paris. He was a farmer, a good carpenter and an able preacher, Methodist. On his head stone, in the old Knight Cem- etery is inscribed :-
"Servant of God well done, Thy glorious warfare's past. The battle fought, the race is run, And thou art crowned at last."
Elbridge Hall
Elbridge Hall, the eighth son of Liberty and Lydia Hall, m. a Viss Abbott of Andover. They lived at last accounts in Law- rence, Mass., had three daughters. Names known, Lydia and Dora (maiden) living there. The last named withholds information of family.
Elijah Hall and Family
Elijah HIall, b. Apr. 21, 1809, m. Dec. 6, 1835, Mary W., b. June 29, 1818, d. Mar. 2, 1902, dau. of Samuel and Olive ( Foss ) Knight of Peru. Record shows he was chosen one of the jurors in Peru in May 1839. It is probable he was located either near his brother Jeremiah at Hall's Ferry, or on the hill at the Samuel Knight farm adjoining and West of the ferryway land. This ferry passed from the Halls one or both to Alden in 1841. Elijah Hall removed to Dixfield and subsequently JJeremiah located on the Samuel Knight farm continuing till 1853 when he removed to Con- cord, N. H. Children of Elijah Hall :- George Wallace, b. Sept. 10. 1836 ; Marshall, b. Dixfield May 28, 1842. He enlisted in the Union Grays at Rochester, N. Y. in 1861 and served through the war. He in. June 2, 1867, Mary A. Wood in Jersey City and re- moved to Wyanette. Minn. 1870 where he d. leaving an aged mother, wife, one dau. and two sons. (Newspaper slip sent writer without date.) Though a staunch Democrat, he was repeatedly honored by his Republican townsmen and elected chairman of the town Board of Supervisors, and once was County Commissioner. He is ex- tolled as being a kind hearted and generous man with a host of friends. Frank, son of Elijah Hall, d. in Soldiers Home, Mar. 12, 1910 at Minnehaha, Minn. as result of a fall and fracture of thigh bone. Elijah Hall and family removed to Minnesota in early for-
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ties, and d. in Minneapolis in the seventies. His widow was living in Princeton with granddaughter in 1900, mind cloudy, ae. 82 years. She visited her brother's family in Peru in winter of 1894- 95. Her sister, Elnora, refused her company at the Town Farm. Visit cut short.
Robert L. Hall
Robert L. Hall, b. Oct. 28, 1812, d. July 9, 1866, m. Dec. 1834, 1st Sibyl, dau. of Wm. and Rebecca (Walker) Kyle, b. Oct. 13, 1814. Children :- Mary Jane, b. Sept. 13, 1835; Wm. Kyle Hall, b. July 13, 1837 ; Robert Quimby, b. Oct. 2, 1842.
This man was a house carpenter and served as local preacher of Methodist Church, as opportunity offered. He lived in the early forties at Peru Centre, and built the house afterwards taken down to make room for railway in 1892. He had a work shop and shingle mill on the bank of the river at the mouth of Stony brook, south side, where a dam was built below the bridge that serves the high- way. A penstock conveying water from dam to tub wheel drove the machinery. This mill paid well at this period when lumber was plenty. One fall wheat crop was abundant. He, with a trifle of cost, improvised a thresher, using an old beater, and a wooden basket sieve for separator. He earned that season threshing, at the mill, one hundred dollars. He was successor to his brother Jefferson on Albert Holman's farm and living there with second wife, Mary A., when he died. Sce further incidents in life of Jeremiah Hall.
Holman Family
Hohan history by David Emery Holman, M. D. of Attleboro, Mass. 1909 has eight generations of this family, commencing with Solomon, who settled in West Newbury, Mass. in 1692-93. One of the descendants is Win. HI. Taft, President of the United States. Solomon Holman, a ship carpenter, b. probably in 1671-72, d. May 7, 1753, m. 1st, Mary Barton of York, Me., b. 1673, d. Oct. 18, 1736; m. 2nd, Elizabeth Kelley, widow of John Kelley. Her maiden name was Emery, b. about 1640, d. May 8, 1753. All buried at West Newbury in Walnut Grove Cemetery. "One tradi- tion says he was born in Wales. If true he was an Englishman. Wales became a principality of Great Britain 1536. In 1701 he and three other churchmen built and donated a substantial meet- ing house at Huse Hill for public worship to all brethren of said precinct and all persons that doth or may hercafter belong to said precinct." Solomon was a member of the end Foot Co. of New-
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bury under Hugh Marsh Jan. 15, 1710-11. He had 12 children. He bought in Sutton, Mass. from 1719 to 1722 nine hundred and thirty acres of land for 240 pounds. Solomon, Jr., son of Mary Barton Holman was b. Nov. 25, 1697 at Newbury, d. at Sutton, Apr. 12, 1785, m. May 23, 1722 at Newbury, Mary Brickett, b. Aug. 13. 1705. Wife died. Solomon, Jr. m. 2nd, Aug. 28, 1729, Mercy Waters at Oxford, Mass. She was living 1785. Solomon, Jr. had 12 children. The first was Solomon 3d. Solomon senior divided among his sons, Edward, Thomas and Solomon, Jr. his lands in Sutton, Mass., now Millbury. From 1726 the estate of Solomon, Jr. was in West Millbury. From there is seen the site of Fort or Block House of Indian days of Sutton. The Holmans in colonial service were Solomon, Jr., his son Jonathan from private to Col., Solomon 3d, John, David, Edward and Stephen. Solomon, Jr. was captain during the French and Indian war and Jonathan was major in the English Army during same period, also Col. of the 5th Mass. Regt. of Militia during the Revolution. That he and his Regt. acquitted themselves bravely, may be justly inferred from the fact that after the battle of Saratoga, his Regt. was designated to take possession of Fort Edward and to hold it until the dispersion of Burgoyne's army, which they did. After the surrender of Bur- goyne's army, he continued active in raising troops for Coast Alarms, and forwarding supplies. After the war, when Shay's rebellion rose 1786, he promptly of his own accord raised a body of men and marehed to Petersham, Mass. to aid in surpressing it. Before the 13 colonies ratified the Constitution, sectional difficulties of the country arose from the lack of a elose and authoritative union in which all the members eould rest and appease their grievances. There was strong opposition to what was imagined to be Federal tyranny. At Worcester and at Springfield an attempt was made to prevent the sitting of the Courts, also the insurgents threatened the arsenal at Springfield under the lead of Daniel Shay, who had been a Capt. in Continental army. The State militia under Gen. Lin- coln drove the rebels from Springfield to Petersham where Col. Holman ended the rebellion. He was in the Province of Maine in Aug. and Sept., 1787, looking for a township that he could buy and later he purchased township No. 1, Holmantown, now Dixfield and Mexico. He gave 3,000 acres to three of his sons, to wit: Peter, Jonathan, Jr. and Ebenezer. Peter settled at the Center, Jonathan, Jr., made his clearing at E. Dixfield and Ebenezer at Dixfield vil- lage. Col. Jonathan was the son of Solomon, Jr. and Mercy Wa-
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ters, b. Ang. 13, 1732, d. Feb. 25, 1814, grave at Sutton. He m. Hannah Sibley.
Col. Jonathan's brother Daniel settled in Livermore, Me. in 1785. Repeating the genealogy we have Daniel Holman, the son of Solomon, Jr. and Mercy (Waters) Holman, b. at Sutton, Mass. Sept. 1, 1743, d. at Livermore, Me. Nov. 16, 1812. He m. Eliza- beth Pitts of Winthrop, Me. who d. Feb. 28, 1831. He traded with the Shaker community and so made the acquaintance of his wife. He was Corp. in Capt. Daggett's Regt. in War of Revolution. He and Col. Jonathan were two of the original proprietors of Brain- tree, Vt. IIis right was conveyed to the C'ol. and by him to his son, Solomon 3d. Children of Daniel :- Melinda, b. Apr. 7, 1988, m. Geo. Walker; Dolly, b. Mar. 5, 1790, d. Apr. 1847 in Dixfield, m. Samuel Park, Jr .; Abner b. Mar. 5, 1792, m. Judith P. Safford; Daniel, Jr., b. Feb. 22, 1794, m. Julia A. Lindsay ; Waters, b. May 19, 1796, d. July 7, 1862, m. Hannah Gould ; Samuel Pitts, b. Oct 18, 1798, d. 1861, unmarried. Dolly Holman m. Dec. 18, 1819, Samuel Park, Jr., b. probably Chesterville, the son of Samuel and Polly ( Holman) Park, was D. Feb. 5, 1692, baptized in Baptist Church, Oct. 26, 1800 and died in Peru May 12, 1873. Hle m. 2nd, widow Morse. Children :- Samuel, Jr., 2nd, b. Sept. 9, 1822, d. Dec. 14, 1875, m. 1st, -. m. 2nd, Jane Robinson of Orono. Me .; Seraphine, b. 1824, d. Aug. 8, 1891, m. James Decker; Mary Elizabeth, b., d., m. Cassander Brown in Carthage, Me., had a son, Dana Brown; Geo. Park, b., d., unmarried.
Abner Holman, m. Dec. 30, 1821, Judith Ball Safford of Tur- ner, b. Sept. 18, 1796 at Minot, d. Dec. 18, 1855 at North Liver- more. Husband d. there Sept. 5, 1867. He was a farmer, joiner and wheelwright. He continued the war record of the long line of his ancestry, serving as Fifer in War of 1812. He built many houses in Maine. He owned and occupied his father's farm at North Livermore. Their children :- Sarah, b. Sept. 18, 1822 ; John Henry, b. Oct. 29, 18?4; Otis, b. Dec. 5, 1829; Martha Jane, b. Apr. 26, 1835, Livermore records. Daniel Holman, Jr. was in the War of 1812. He m. Jan. 2, 1823, Julia Ann Lindsay of Camden, of Scotch-Irish descent, b. Oct. 4, 1799, d. Apr. 5, 1862. He came to Milo, Me. Mar. 1823, a farmer, where he d. July 20, 1864. His son Franklin was killed by accident in a mill at Bangor, July 30. 1858. Col. Jonathan had dau., Susan Trask Hohnan, b. Feb. ? 2, 1784 at Sutton, who m. May 10, 1802, Asa Waters. Their dau. Susan Holman Waters, b. Apr. 11. 1803. d. Feb. 3 1836. She m.
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Samuel D. Torrey and their dau., Susan Holman Torrey, was the grandmother of Pres. Taft.
Peter Holman, son of Col. Jonathan, b. Oct. 16, 1769 at Sut- ton, d. Oct. 30, 1829 at Dixfield, m. 1796, Mercy, dau. of Merrill Knight, Sr. of Peru. She was b. Falmouth, July 1, 1776, d. Dec. 9, 1855, at Dixfield where they raised a good family of children :--- Jonathan, b. Oct. 30, 1797, d. May 18, 1886, m. Saphrona Richard- son ; Luther b. Aug. 16, 1799, d. Nov. 30, 1880, m. Olive Newton ; John Jacob, b. June 25, 1801, d. July 22, 1889, m. July 8, 1837, Samantha, dau. of Jacob Newton; Peter, Jr., b. Feb. 22, 1803, d. Sept. 12, 1876, m. Martha P. Newton, Sept. 20, 1827. All the Newton women named were daughters of Jacob Newton in Dixfield. Merrill Holman, another brother m. Mariam, dau. of Amos Knight of Peru. How the plantation of Holmantown was given its present name: One Dr. Dix bought the honor of naming the town. He promised the proprietors that he would give a library for the town. A record of the event was made public in his town, and of course he was highly honored. "The only thing he did was to bring a few old books to Dixfield in a small trunk; they were left some- where on Severy Hill. No one knew what became of them." Men- tioned in an article read at a Holman reunion.
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