Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Herrick, Jacob 1791 - 1864
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   JACOB HERRICK, ESQ., son of Rev. Jacob and Sarah (Webster) Herrick, was born
in Beverly, Mass., 29 March, 1791. When five years of age he rode on a pillion
with his mother to Durham in five days. He entered Phillips Academy, Andover, in
1805, and was for a time a student in Bowdoin College, class of 1810. He married
13 Jan. 1813, Abigail, dau. of Capt. John Scott of Durham. "She was a slight,
dark woman, of delicate physique, but of unbounded energy and vivacity,
generous, amiable and notably unselfish." Their early married life was spent in
Durham, where he was a farmer and Notary Public. In 1845 they moved to Auburn,
where "Squire Herrick" was well known as a claim-agent and Justice of the Peace.
He was a man of fair complexion and rather portly figure, of marked literary
taste, and endowed with a keen sense of humor and a ready wit which made him an
admirable raconteur. He died in Auburn 12 June 1864. His widow died in Portland
in 1877. For some account of his family see chapter on Genealogy.

Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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