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Dr. Chase did not practise in Wiscasset, but made his summer home here from 1906 until his death in Boston, January 27, 1919.
John Church
John Church was assessed in Wiscasset in 1806 for $200 real estate and $ 500 personal and faculty. He did not own real estate, but was assessed for the office room he occupied, being, in 1807, one-third the office of Mr. Cook. His name does not appear on the assessment rolls after 1809, in the margin of which for that year against his name is written the word, "Drowned."
Samuel Parker, Esq., of Wiscasset, was appointed administrator of the estate of John Church, physician, and the inventory of the estate made Jan- uary 12, 1812, contains the following:
2 Trunks $1.00
I chest
1.00
I sett of small Draws
2.00
Medicines, Phials & Gallipots
1.00
Old Cloaths
1.50
Instruments
9.00
2 Neck cloths, 3 shirts, I pair of stockings
4.09
3 books
.75
Razor, case and shaving box
.75
Old scales & 4 oz. weight
.25
Iron Mortar
2.25
One pair of boots
.75
Total
$24.34
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The appraisers were Samuel Adams, a well-known physician here; John McMaster, who soon afterwards met his death in an affray on one of the wharves in Wiscasset; and Thomas Brintnal, who was for a long time a resident here and known as Major Brintnal.
Dr. Cunningham
Rufus H. Cunningham, the son of Thomas Cunningham and Nancy, his wife, was born in Edgecomb, Maine, in 1821.
He attended the Maine Medical School in 1846-1847 but received his medical degree from Dartmouth in 1848. He settled first at St. George, and while there married Anna Henderson ( 1825-1891).
They removed to Whitefield and later came to Wiscasset where they lived from 1855 to 1888. They occupied the house on Federal Street which was later owned by Dr. Leathers and in which Harold S. Sherman now lives.
Dr. Cunningham died May 14, 1888. Dr. and Mrs. Cunningham had two sons, Thomas born September 23, 1853, died June 1, 1881; Alexander Johnston born about 1861, went to Casper, Wyoming, and married Ada B. Rohrbaugh, the daughter of Dr. Edwin Peter Rohrbaugh of York, Penn- sylvania.
Dr. Cushman
Sidney Beaman Cushman, the son of Kenelm Cushman and his wife, Hannah (Boynton) Nutter, was born at Wiscasset, August 26, 1810. He was educated in the south district school of this township, and later became a successful physician. For three years (1837-1840) he practised in Booth- bay, but left that place in 1840, when he built a house on High Street in Wiscasset which place was ever afterward his home.3
Rev. David Quimby Cushman, his brother, compiled the History of An- cient Sheepscot and Newcastle, published in 1882.
Dr. Sidney B. Cushman's specialty-if a country doctor be permitted to have a specialty-was obstetrics, and he is said to have presided over the birth of more than 2,000 infants. He was also a taxidermist of no mean repute, having a rare collection of birds which he had shot, stuffed, and mounted himself. Whenever called to a distant case he would invariably
3. Rev. and Mrs. Henry W. Webb now live in the Cushman house on High Street.
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take along his gun in the hope of bringing down some rare bird, which he could stuff and add to his collection.
He married Lydia Browne the daughter of Benjamin Browne of Shirley, Massachusetts, and his wife, Sarah Orne, whose home was near the Edge- comb quarry at the Cross. Lydia Browne was born October 25, 1813, in Edgecomb, and she died at Wiscasset, November 29, 1891.
Dr. Cushman died January 24, 1890, in the eightieth year of his age. They had no children, but a nephew and niece of Mrs. Cushman's lived with them.
Dr. Day
De Forest Smith Day was born in Jefferson, Maine, March 7, 1878. His parents were George Hudson Day and Ruth Burtt.
In 1905, he graduated from the Maine Medical School and the same year married Helen, the daughter of Samuel Hervey Clapp and Zoe Huston. Dr. and Mrs. Day settled at that time in Wiscasset in a brick house on Main Street known as the Manasseh Smith house.
Their only child Robert Huston Day, was born July 31, 1906.
Dr. Day has been for more than thirty years one of the leading physicians of this town.
Dr. Kennedy
Daniel Knight Kennedy was born in Jefferson, Maine, in 1798. He grad- uated from Waterville College and from the Maine Medical School in 1826. He settled in Boothbay Harbor where he lived from 1827 to 1839. From Colby College, in 1828, he received the A. M. degree. On leaving Boothbay in 1839, Dr. Kennedy settled at Wiscasset where he resided until his death, August 26, 1873.
As a physician he was very successful and had a large practice. His house, which is still standing and known at the present time as Webber's Tavern, is situated on Middle Street.
Dr. Kennedy was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was Master of Lincoln Lodge from 1854 to 1861; and from 1862 to 1864. Being a public-spirited citizen, it was largely due to his untiring efforts in 1855 that the high school was revived in Wiscasset.
Dr. Kennedy married Maria Reed of Boothbay.
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Dr. Kimball
Irving Ellis Kimball, the son of Ebenezer and Tryphosa Kimball, was born at Clinton, Maine, September 2, 1851. He graduated from the Maine Medical School in 1876. He was a demonstrator of anatomy 1883-1887. Dr. Kimball made a specialty of diseases of the nose and throat.
He practiced in Wiscasset, where, in 1880, he married Mary Frances, the eldest daughter of Capt. Joseph Tucker. She died the following year in Portland whither he had moved.
On June 2, 1886, Dr. Kimball married Susan Jackson Rollins. He died in Portland, August 4, 1912.
Dr. Enoch Leathers
Enoch Leathers was born in Hermon, Maine, February 24, 1868. He graduated from Dartmouth College and settled in Wiscasset in 1905. He was a homœopathist.
Dr. Leathers married Annie Smith, and with their son, Kenneth, and daughter, Dorothy, lived on Federal Street in the house formerly occupied by Dr. R. H. Cunningham, next to the Ancient Cemetery.
In 1919, Dr. Leathers removed to Auburn, Maine.
Dr. Rice
Dr. Thomas Rice was, as far as is known, the first resident physician in Wiscasset. He was the son of Noah and Hannah (Warren) Rice and was born at Westboro, Massachusetts, November 29, 1734. He graduated from Harvard College in 1756 and studied medicine with Dr. Oliver Prescott of Groton. He also studied law.
Dr. Rice came to Wiscasset in 1762 and soon after bought the land from Robert Lambert which was the site of the second framed house in town. In 1763, he became justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Dr. Rice married in 1767, Rebecca Kingsbury, one of the daughters of Col. John Kingsbury of Wiscasset.
Thomas Rice was one of the most eminent men in New England in the Revolutionary period, and the Journals of each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, 1774-1780, contain many references to him. He was the first representative from Pownalborough to the General Court of Massa- chusetts in 1775. He was also a representative in the General Courts that
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met in May 29, 1776, and May 28, 1777; but he was not a member of the General Courts that met May 26, 1778, May 29, 1779, and May 31, 1780.
Thomas Rice, Esq., was appointed to swear the soldiers in the county of Lincoln, in the room of Thomas Fales, Esq., July 1, 1775.
In the Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1774-1780 (XIX, 145), under date of November 8, 1775, one allusion reads: "Resolved that there be paid out of the Publick Treasury of this Colony to Thomas Rice, Esq" the sum of One pound four shillings in full of his account for swearing Two Com- panies."
On August 18, 1775, Dr. Rice with others signed a petition relating to Lincoln County (XIX, 56). On November 11, 1775, he was paid £3 for a grant to Benjamin Pomeroy, who had been disabled at Louisburg in 1745 (XIX, 155). On January 6, 1776, Dr. Rice was appointed on a committee "to sign and number the Bills of Credit" (XIX, 199). On February 15, 1776, Dr. Rice was appointed on a committee "to procure silver and gold in exchange for bill" (XIX, 226). On November 16, 1776, he was paid £6 for a grant to Benjamin Pomeroy (XIX, 660). And on December 6, 1776, it was "Resolved That there be a suitable quantity of Medicines provided by this State and deliver'd to the Surgeons of each Regiment for the Use of the Troops to reinforce the Army at New York each Surgeon to be account- able for the quantity he shall so receive, and that Doct" Gardner Doct" Dunsmore and Doct" Rice be a Committee to procure and deliver said Medi- cines" (XIX, 708).
On September 10, 1777, Dr. Rice was taken prisoner on the British frig- ate Rainbow, a 44-gun ship, by Commodore Sir George Collier, and held as hostage for the good behavior of the townspeople of Pownalborough, now Wiscasset. He was a delegate, in 1779, to the convention for forming the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and he was also a delegate to the conven- tion for ratifying the Constitution of the United States in 1788. During several years, 1780, 1781, 1782, he was elected senator for the district in which he resided, and was appointed elector for the President and Vice- President in 1792, 1796, and 1800.
When the judiciary was reorganized under the authority of the state con- stitution he received a commission as one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, and presided for several years, until 1809, with integrity and ability. He was register of deeds for many years, resigning in 1807.
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Thomas Rice died in Wiscasset, April 21, 1812. His residence on the old post-road to Bath is the house now occupied by his great-great-great-grand- son, Wolcott Erskine Andrews.
Dr. Rose
Daniel Rose was born in North Bradford, Connecticut, July 31, 1772. He graduated from Yale College in 1791. Sometime between that date and 1812, he studied medicine, taught school and settled at New Milford, now Alna, Maine. From that place he removed to Boothbay where he was prac- tising between the years 1796 and 1823. He was town clerk of Boothbay in I 807, and it was he who made an early plan of that town.
He removed to Wiscasset and lived and practised here for a short time. He was here chosen president of the local medical society and he was like- wise a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Records of Lincoln Lodge show that he was admitted to the Masonic Order at this place in 18 12.
The war of that year found him a volunteer engineer, building barricades and forts, and drilling soldiers. He was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts, where he spoke at length on the proposed separation of Maine from Massachusetts, and at the election after the separation had been achieved he was unanimously chosen senator to the capital of Maine. He was a member of the Governor's Council, and was president of the Senate, inaugurated January 2, 1822. He was therefore, virtually governor of Maine when the constitution was agreed upon, and he could have been governor, but he positively declined the office. When King was elected, Rose finished his term as senator and then returned to his medical practice.
When the state prison was erected at Thomaston it was built under his supervision. He became warden and superintending physician and for years labored unceasingly for the betterment of prison conditions. He discouraged solitary confinement of prisoners.
In 1828, he was appointed land agent of Maine and moved to Augusta, where he worked until 1833, when, owing to failing health, he resigned. Dr. Rose died at Thomaston, October 25, 1833.
It is recorded that during his residence in Boothbay, his wife gave birth to triplets, and that two of them had black hair and one, red hair. They lived but a short time and were all three laid out in a bureau drawer.
Among his many interests, Dr. Rose had a penchant for grafting. He would try to make apples grow on gooseberry stocks, an experiment in
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Samuel Emerson Smith, 1788-1860. Governor of Maine, 1831-1834. Courtesy of Frick Art Reference Library.
Louisa Sophia Fuller, daughter of Henry Weld Fuller and wife of Governor Samuel E. Smith. Courtesy of Frick Art Reference Library.
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which he had some success. He seems also to have had marked business ability, for at one time he was haled before the Legislature in regard to a debt of $1,731, which it was claimed was due the state. Dr. Rose turned the tables on the lawyers by proving that the state owed him that amount, and, what was more, he received it.
Dr. Peaslee
Clarence Ardeen Peaslee, the son of John T. and Mary E. (Paine) Peas- lee was born in Alna, Maine, August 16, 1855. He began his education in the common schools of Alna and later attended the Maine Wesleyan Semi- nary at Kent's Hill. He studied medicine with Dr. R. D. Bibber of Bath and in 1881 entered the Maine Medical School at Brunswick, from which he received his M. D. degree in 1883.
Clarence A. Peaslee married in 1876 Augusta Maria Hill, daughter of David N. Hill of Bath.
Soon after his graduation, he located in Wiscasset. In 1896 he and his brother, Winfield Scott Peaslee, opened a drug store in Wiscasset. Dr. Peas- lee was for five years supervisor of the schools and he held other town offices. He was a Republican and in 1895 represented his district in the leg- islature. He was a member of the State and American Medical Societies; a member of Lincoln Lodge, and New Jerusalem, Royal Arch Chapter of which he was at one time High Priest; Dunlap Commandery No. 5 of Bath; Arambec Lodge and the Knights of Pythias of Wiscasset, holding for two years the office of Deputy Grand Chancellor in the latter.
Sometime after the death of his first wife, Dr. Peaslee married Frances Hobson. In 1904 Dr. Peaslee removed to Bath where he lived until his death September 1I, 1926.
James W. Savage
James W. Savage was born in Woolwich, January 21, 1830. He was the son of John H. and Nancy (Lowell) Savage, the latter from Wiscasset. James was one of ten children and after graduating from the Bath High School in 1847, he shipped as cabin boy on a vessel bound for Europe, and for six years he followed the sea. He rose to first mate, and after a brief experience in a telegraph office decided to study medicine. He first studied with Dr. William E. Paine and later on attended the Homeopathic College in New York, graduating in 1862. He settled in Wiscasset where for over
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ten years he practised, becoming identified in many ways with the town. In 1872 he removed to Bath. He was a member of Arambec Lodge of Odd Fellows in Wiscasset and a Knight Templar of Dunlap Commandery in Bath.
James W. Savage died in Bath September 18, 1906.
Dr. Stephens
Silas Appleton Stephens, the son of Jaruel Stephens and Roxannah Wright of Woolwich, was born in that town, August 29, 1857. The Ste- phens family came originally from Georgetown, and Jaruel was a soldier in Company E Twenty-first Maine Volunteer Infantry.
Silas Appleton Stephens first attended school in the old brick school- house in Woolwich, going later to the Bath High School. He was at the Maine Medical School in 1876-1877, but received his M. D. from Dart- mouth College in 1879. For the next ten years after his graduation he re- sided in Appleton, Maine.
Dr. Stephens married first Miss Fisher of Bath. She died leaving one son, Harold Fisher Stephens, who died in early childhood. Dr. Stephens married a second time at Appleton, August 6, 1883, Cora, the daughter of Henry Hilton, of that place
During the years 1889-1901 he, with his family, resided in Wiscasset where he was a practising physician. He served also as a member of the town school committee in 1894.
Dr. Silas Appleton Stephens died May 16, 1925, aged sixty-eight years. His grandfather, John Stephens, in 1834, built the brick house on High Street in Wiscasset, known as the Richard H. Tucker house, now owned by Mrs. Richmond White.
Dr. Theobald
Philip Ernst Theobald was the son of Dr. Ernst Fredrick Theobald of Dresden, Maine, and his wife Sally Rittal whom he married at Pownal- borough in 1781. Dr. Theobald, the father, was from Hesse Hanau, and came to this country as chaplain in the German division of Burgoyne's army.
Philip Ernst was born November 2, 1783. He became a physician, mar- ried in 1810 Nancy Payson, daughter of David Payson, Jr., and Nancy In- gersoll, and settled in Wiscasset. They lived in the Kingsbury house on Federal Street. One who knew him well wrote of him as follows:
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While the old town had several doctors of the M.D. and other abbreviations, I think I am safe in saying that the boys acknowledged only one man as the doctor, and that man was Dr. Theobald. The doctor knew most of us from our first appearance in town, and as we grew older and stronger and caught prevalent ailments, if saffron and sheep tea and other driving drinks failed to bring out the measles, he came around and put us on our feet again. He was a kind hearted man and had a great love for horses and dogs. His dogs were many and they were cared for by his maid-of-all work, Thursey Seigars, tall and brawny, whose chief talent lay in making soap,-Thursey's soap was the pride of the parish !
In rain or shine, bitter cold or storm, from Munseytown to Jewankee, Joppa to Grover's Tavern, or outside of those limits, a call was answered at any hour of the day or night,-the thought of where the pay was to come from never entered his mind. His presence in a sick room was more potent than drugs; it is said that his personality changed the whole atmosphere infusing vitality alike to patient and nurse.
The doctor made his visits on foot, on horseback or in a two-wheeled chaise. Boys would then as now hang on behind, for this the old chaise offered special inducements. The doctor annoyed at the "cut behind" of venturesome boys, had a row of blunted tacks placed inside the cross piece which the boys would let go as speedily as they would grasp it,-the doctor, meanwhile peeping through the little glass window in the back, slyly enjoying the joke.
The doctor's wood pile gathered from all parts of "out back", sawed, split and fully prepared for use, was like Aaron's rod, that grew, budded and blossomed in a day. The old folk said it represented physic and pills. On the day set for work all came out, the at- tendance rivaling a town meeting. There was no mean shirking or loafing to get rid of the debt owed the doctor and the debt was cleaned up in short order.
Dr. Theobald's wife, Nancy Payson, died June 30, 1820, at the age of thirty years. Their son was reared in Wiscasset, became a physician and left town. Dr. Theobald died July 8, 1846, universally loved and lamented and never replaced.
There is now no one of that name in the town of Wiscasset.
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Lawyers of Wiscasset
Bailey, Jeremiah
1798-1853
Bellard, Samuel
1824-1827
Bowman, Edmund B.
1848-1858
Bowman, Jonathan Jr.
1799-1808
Bowman, William
1803-1826
Coffin, Nathaniel
1812-1836
Coffin, Isaac
Coombs, I. Adams
-1878
Emery, Moses
1821-1825
Flagg, Edmund
1810-1815
Fogg, W. Fred P.
1894-1898
Foote, Erastus
1816-1856
Foote, Erastus, Jr.
1852-1868
Hilton, Emerson
1894-1901
Hilton, Weston Morton
1901-1904
Hobson, Henry D.
1878-1878
Hodge, William
1798-1806
Hubbard, Wales
1836-1878
Ingalls, Henry
1843-1896
Knight, Charles E.
1880-1884
Langdon, Timothy
1768-1794
Larrabee, Carl M. P.
19II-
Lee, Silas
1789-1814
Macurda, Charles L.
1900-1916
McCrate, John D.
1837-1850
Merrill, John, Jr.
1798-1816
Pease, Harvey
1922-
Redonnett, Bradford C.
1927-
Rice, Thomas, Jr.
1794-1795
Sawyer, George B.
1862-1903
Sevey, John
1821-1830
Sewall, Rufus K.
1855-1903
Sheppard, John H.
1810-1842
Smith, Benj. F.
1873-1885
Smith, Joseph E.
1858-1869
Smith, Manasseh
1788-1823
Smith, Samuel E.
1812-1860
Smith, S. E., Jr.
1856-1881
Thompson, Rodney I.
Weeks, Charles
1878-1894
Wood, Wilmot
1827-1865
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XXVII Quaint Personalities and Folklore
W ISCASSET, for a small village, has had a wealth of inhabitants whose personalities, not to say peculiarities, have been so marked that they should be inscribed on the bead roll of the unforgotten ones. Although they have long since passed to the land of shadows and are separated from the present era by two generations or more, it is felt that a history of the town without them would be incomplete.
Only the oldest residents recall the tales of Winzer Jones and his wavy wigs; "General" Taylor and his solitary feasts; Frank Bush, the hermit; "Seven Days," the wanderer in the wilderness; Henry, the outcast; Ed Logan who was pressed into service on the Queen's ship; pious "Aunt Rhoda"; the bewitching Widow Wink; Thankful Averell, the cap-maker; Granny McFadden and her cows; Jerry Dalton and his flock of geese; old William Morelen and his witches; Thirza Segars1 and her soap cauldrons; Irish Mike and Katie Warnock; Marty Anderson and Hannah Light and their unique little shops; showily dressed Betty O'Dee, with her quaint Irish brogue; the Witch of Windmill Hill; the three Hannafords in their home on Jail Hill, and last but by no means least, the immortal Rachel Quin. Although they did nothing to make history, they formed such an integral part of the village life that to think of Wiscasset was to recall them, one and all.
Winzer Jones was a peruke maker. He was an early settler who occupied one-sixth part of Quarter-Acre Lot Number 16 situated on the western side of Fore Street. He was a charter member of the Blue Lodge, the local chap- ter of Masons. Although several of the Roman emperors wore wigs, some of which were besprinkled with perfume and gold dust, after this there are no historical traces of the wig until the end of the fourteenth century when they made their appearance in France. The fashion of wearing wigs set in strong in the reign of Louis XIII, and for more than a century no gentle- man appeared without one. Toward the end of the eighteenth century the unnaturalness of this headgear became apparent and it was superseded by the queue with hair powder. At the present time, except by British judges and barristers, wigs are used for but one purpose, to conceal baldness, and it
I. Thirza McDonald of Dresden, who married Artemas Segars.
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was to this utilitarian purpose that the perukes of Winzer Jones were dedi- cated. One of his wig racks still exists. On July 7, 1805, Mr. Jones married Rachel Bridge of Dresden, and that is the last record found concerning him.
Josiah B. Taylor, the gentleman cadger who as a peregrinator was a worthy rival of the Walking Stewart, used to march from his modest home on Spittoon Hill, and from the different houses in the village, collect dona- tions of provisions from the larders of liberal townspeople. These he would hoard until a bountiful harvest had been gathered, when he would have a solitary feast and consume it all at one sitting. His nickname "General" was given to him because of his military bearing and his soldier-like way of marching when he walked. "General" Taylor died in Wiscasset August 31, 1874, at the age of seventy-four years.
Very soon after the Civil War was ended, an ex-soldier, who called him- self Frank Bush, appeared in Wiscasset. He lived alone in a two-roomed cabin at Birch Point on the road to Jewankee, and the only glimpse one ever had of the interior of his hovel was a geranium plant in a tin can on the window sill, with a tiny blue and white teapot beside it.
True to his agrarian convictions this hermit of the high road, in the season when berries were ripe, was wont to forage ruthlessly in the berry patches of his neighbors, and then take the pickings he had culled of strawberries, raspberries or blackberries, to those same neighbors to sell. This avocation gained for him the nickname of "Mr. Berry," and as such he was known to the children of his day.
Notwithstanding the fact that "Mr. Berry" had fought valiantly all through the Civil War, when he heard of Lee's surrender he threw down his gun and hastened away without waiting for a proper discharge, thereby, unwittingly, ranking as a deserter and forfeiting a well-earned pension. Very little is known about him except that he eventually died in the poor- house at Wiscasset. His name appears on the parish register of St. Philip's Church as Francis Bushard who died May 22, 1922, aged ninety-two years.
Sometime during the early nineties a man was found in Boothbay Har- bor, where, it is thought, he was left by a vessel and abandoned, just an- other human derelict on one of the wharves. There he was picked up, ar- rested, and lodged in the Lincoln County jail on a charge of vagrancy.
Seth Patterson, then deputy sheriff, was in charge of the jail and from that time on, "Henry," as they called him, became a part of the Patterson
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household, for they knew only too well, that if Henry were released and turned into the streets of Wiscasset with nowhere to go, he would be back within twenty-four hours on the self-same charge. And so that simple, childlike soul became a permanent retainer of the family, and when the Pattersons moved from Federal to Summer Street, and again to the Moses Carlton house on High Street, Henry was taken along as a part of their ménage.
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