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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

CARY.

   Nelson Howard Cary, son of Simeon, was born in Bridgwater, Mass. 5 Jan. 1807.
He was descended from John Cary of Somerset, Eng., who came to America in 1634.
See Hist, of Bridgewater. He graduated at the Medical School of Bowdoin College
in 1828; married 13 Sept. 1829 Maria, dau. of William R. and Olive (True)
Stockbridge of Yarmouth, who was born 1 Aug. 1806 and died in 1850. They were
married at the Baptist Meeting House in Yarmouth. He practiced medicine
successively in Gorham, Wayne, and Durham. He married (2) 1852, Julia Warren of
Durham. He died in Durham 10 April 1877.

    His three sons were members of the 13th Regt. of Mass. Vols, in the
Rebellion. Samuel was taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg and was
twenty-one months in rebel prisons. Annie Louise Cary became the famous
contralto. I remember in my childhood of hearing her sing in the choir of the
Union church at S. W. Bend. She was thought then to possess a good strong voice,
but most people can not tell diamond till it is polished. I remember, too, to
have secured her services at the Commencement Concert at the time of my
graduation at Bowdoin College in 1871, and I still preserve her autograph
receipt for $250 paid. This was her first appearance in Maine as a singer, after
her reputation had been established abroad and at home. Special trains -were run
for that Concert from Bath and from Lewiston. There was a crowded and delighted
house. Miss Cary's encores of old familiar songs produced the greatest applause.
The cultured were satisfied; the uncritical were charmed. Since a long sketch of
her musical career has recently been published in the History of Wayne, her
native town, I need say no more here. Her sister, Mrs. Ada Sturgis, became a
singer of no mean reputation.

   The following is Dr. Cary's family.

   WILLIAM H. b. 24 Aug. 1830.

  JOSEPH S. b. 16 May 1832; m. Flora E. Harlow; d. s. p. in Boston 25 April 1877.

   MARCIA A. b. 23 May 1834; m. 26 Jan. 1855 John Cushing Merrill; d. 26 June 1897.

   ELLEN M. b. 11 Oct. 1837; m. (1) 15 Nov. 1855 John Q. Warren: (2) the Rev. W.
H. Haskell, now of West Falmouth.

   SAMUEL G. b. 25 Dec. 1839; m. 11 April 1871 Catherine Lanning of Boston. One
child, Annie Louise, b. 12 May 1872.

    ANNIE LOUISE b. 22 Oct. 1842; m. 29 June 1882 Charles Monson Raymond, of New
York.

   ADA was the only child by Dr. Cary's second marriage. She married Mr. Sturgis.


Additional Comments:
Part of Chapter XII.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES

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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