Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Stackpole, Samuel Owen 1794 - 1876
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   SAMUEL OWEN STACKPOLE was born in Durham 19 Dec. 1794. He received the
homestead of seventy-five acres from his father, giving bond of $1500 for the
maintenance of his parents and sister Jane as long as they lived and for the
payment of certain amounts to other relatives. The bond obliged him, among other
things, to provide for his parents "conveyance to Meeting and for visiting their
friends in such manner as has been customary with them." This bond he gave at
the age of twenty-two and he faithfully fulfilled it. He added to the homestead
by purchase from time to time, till he owned one hundred and eighty acres. He
engaged to some extent in lumbering, built a saw-mill back of his house, and
drove many a mast and stick of oak timber to Freeport. When he wanted bricks, he
made them on his own farm. Industry and enterprise made him a successful farmer.
He refused all offers of public office, though urged to accept several. The
title of "Major" was familiarly applied to him, though he would not accept that
office when it was offered to him. His hospitality was unlimited. Everybody
found a welcome to his home. He brought up fourteen children, but there was
always room for lodgers. He was generous to the needy and to every good cause
that appealed to him for help. Hence he was an early abolitionist and total
abstainer. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church in 1838 and
conscientiously and liberally supported it as long as he lived. He drove with
his family three miles to meeting every Sunday in the year. No season of the
year was too busy for family prayer. He was a friend to many, and therefore had
many friends. In person he was six feet tall, straight as an arrow till bent by
old age and sickness, rather slim than stout, tough and muscular. He slept but
little and wanted to be at work all the time. Evenings and when not laboring he
was almost always reading some newspaper or good book, especially in old age the
Bible. With all his hard work and many cares he retained to the end a warm heart
and genial, social ways. He lived seventy-six years on the spot where he was
born. Moving to Brunswick in 1872 he did not seem to feel quite at home and was
always glad to drive up to Durham. He died in Brunswick 7 April 1876, and was
buried about a mile from his Durham home, where rest also his parents, wives and
several children.

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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