"The City of Gardiner" - Personal Paragraphs ILLUSTRATED HISTORY of KENNEBEC COUNTY MAINE 1625 - 1892 Editors Henry D. Kingsbury Simeon L. Deyo Resident Contributors James W. Bradbury,William Penn Whitehouse, Samuel L. Boardman, William B. Lapham, Hiram K. Morrell, Lendall Titcomb, J. Clair Minot, James M. Larrabee, Henry S. Webster, Charles E. Nash, John L. Stevens, Howard Owen, Rufus M. Jones, Asbury C. Stilphen, Harry H. Cochrane, Harry H. Cochrane, George Underwood, Orrin F. Sproul, Albion F. Watson __________ New York H.W. Blake and Company 94 Reade St. 1892 The following was taken from the Chapter "The City of Gardiner" - Personal Paragraphs Arthur E. Andrews, son of Arthur and Olive (Welch) Andrews, and grandson of John Andrews, of Wales, was born in Monmouth in 1831. His maternal grandfather was John Welch, of Monmouth. Arthur E. came to Gardiner in 1837 with his father, who bought the farm where he now lives, which was settled in 1803 by Ichabod Wentworth. Mr. Andrews is a farmer. He was four years street commissioner and six years in city council. He is one of the executive officers of the State Pomological Society. He married Caroline Neal. Their children are: Elmer H., Elwin W., Howard E., and one that died, Greanleaf E. Captain Eleazer W. Atwood, son of Thompson Atwood, was born in 1834, and has been a resident of Gardiner since 1845, where he has been a millwright. He served in the late war from June 5, 1862, to June 5, 1865; was promoted from first lieutenant to captain of Company B, 16th Maine Volunteers, December 4, 1862. He was a member of the city council in 1873, 1874 and 1875, and served as chairman of the committee on paving the sewerage. He has been for eight years a member of the republican county committee and twenty years a member of the city committee. He was postmaster at Gardiner from May, 1890, to may, 1892. He married Lizzie N. Palmer, and has one son, Willis P. Amos Y. Bartlett, son of Amos and Sophia (Beane) Bartlett, and grandson of Isaac Bartlett, was born at Brentwood, N.H., in 1838, came to South Gardiner in 1870 and bought the farm where he has since been engaged in farming and market gardening. His first wife, Angie C. Gove, died in 1872. They had one daughter, Mabel, who died. His present wife was Martha Purington. William M. Bartlett, born in Gardiner, September 16, 1855, son of John C. Bartlett, is the great-grandson of William(1), and the grandson of William (2), of Methuen, Mass., where the house is still standing in which the latter, one of fifteen children, was born in 1775. He became a school teacher and married Dolly Merrill, of Durham, Me., from whence they came on horseback and settled on the Brunswick road in Gardiner. Their son, John C., born in 1816, married Lydia S. Robinson, of Durham. In 1849 he went to California. Returning, he went into business in 1851, with B.F. Johnson. Of their six children, William M., one of the four now living, married Carrie Atherton in 1882. They have one child, Ralph. John C. Bartlett, who died in 1882, was senior member of the firm of Bartlett and Dennis, in which William M. now fills his father's place. Rev. Allen E. Beeman, born in 1855, is the only living child of Frederick D. Beeman, a lawyer of Litchfield, Conn. Both were graduates of Yale, the father in 1842, the son in 1877. Frederick D. married Maria A. Brisbane, whose mother was a granddaughter of Alexander Gillon, who came from Rotterdam to Charleston, S.C., in 1754, where he became the first commodore of the American navy, and commander of the ship South Carolina. Reverend Beeman, after leaving Yale, studied a year and a half at Oxford, Eng., and then prepared for the ministry under Bishop Williams at Middletown, Conn., was ordained in 1880, and came to Gardiner as rector of Christ's Church in 1888. In 1885 he married Sarah C. Carrington, of Farmington, Conn. They have one child, Charles C. Joseph Booker, son of Jacob and Sarah (Stevens) Booker, and grandson of Eliphalet Booker, was born in 1819. He is a farmer and has held several city offices. He married Esther, daughter of John K. and Sarah (Cleaves) Niles. Their only son is Burton E. Timothy Booker, born in 1822, is a son of James and Hannah (Huntington) Booker, and grandson of Eliphalet Booker. He is a farmer. His wife is Lydia A. Booker, sister of Joseph, above. Their children are: Marilla (Mrs. Alonzo Totman), Cynthia J. (Mrs. C.H. Williams), Nellie (Mrs. Martin Peacock), and Morrill (deceased). Abuid Bradley, born in 1812, in Yarmouth, Mass., is a son of Abuid and Jane (Baxter) Bradley, whose father died on board the prison ship Jersey in the revolutionary war. Mr. Bradley came from Yarmouth in 1817 to Vassalboro, where he lived until 1851, with the exception of twelve years when he was in South Carolina in the shoe business. He was a shoemaker and shoe merchant in Gardiner until 1878. He married Susan E. Bee, of South Carolina, who died, leaving four children: Margaret (Mrs. Robert M. Brown), Susan A. (Mrs. James H. Sewall), Sarah E. and Jane B. (Mrs. Edwin H. Roberts). Simon Bradstreet, once governor of Massachusetts, the ancestor of all who bear this name in New England, was born at Horbling, Eng., in 1603, and came to America in 1630 in the Arbela. He married in England, Anna, daughter of Thomas Dudley. Their son, John Bradstreet, was born in Andover, July 22, 1652, and died in Topsfield, Mass., January 17, 1717. He married Sarah, daughter of Rev. William Perkins. Their son, John, born in Topsfield, January 30, 1693, married Rebecca, daughter of John and Sarah (Dickinson) Andrews. Their son, Andrew, born at Windham, Conn., March 29, 1722, married Mary Hill, who died in 1771. His second wife, Joanna Hill, died in Gardiner in 1817. He died in Gardiner in 1804. His son, Joseph, born in Biddeford, Me., January 21, 1765, married Ruth Moore. Their son, William, was born in Gardiner, january 13, 1793. He was a shipbuilder and owner from 1818 to his death, may 14, 1868. His wife, Abby J., was a daughter of Major Peter Grant, of Farmingdale, a noted shipbuilder and owner. William Walter Bradstreet, son of William and Abby J., born in Gardiner in 1817, married Julia S., daughter of Captain James Tarbox, of Gardiner, and granddaughter of Eleazer Tarbox, who came to Gardiner from Biddeford, Me. Their only surviving child is Alice (Mrs. H.G. White), whose children are Percy G. and Marions. Charles Bridge, son of Jeremiah, jun., and Sally (Cox) Bridge, was born at Bowdoin, Me., in 1822, went to Litchfield in 1836, and in 1839 came to Gardiner, where he was employed in lumber manufacturing until 1876. He married Nancy, daughter of Samuel Amee. He is a prominent member and supporter of the Free Baptist church of Gardiner. Thomas Burnham, born December 5, 1833, is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Rhodes) Burnham, and grandson of Ebenezer and Abigail (Libby) Burnham. Mr. Burnham is one of eight children, seven of whom are living. He is superintendent of the F.G. Richards farm, where he has been since 1862. He married Mary J., daughter of Gilmore and Abigail (Troop) Blair. Their only daughter is Emma C. (Mrs. H.F. Libby), who has two sons. David C. and Edgar N. Burr, grocers, are the grandsons of David C. Burr, of Litchfield, a member of the legislature and a man of mark among the early settlers of that town. William F. Burr, his son, married Many Neal, of West Gardiner, and settled in Gardiner city, where they became the parents of five children, three girls and two boys. David C. Burr, the elder of the two sons, was born in 1849, and married Caroline, daughter of William Gowell, of Gardiner, in 1880. Edgar N. Burr was born in 1853, and married Anna L., daughter of Andrew Berry, of Gardiner, in 1882. Henry Payson Closson, the fourth of the six children of George C. and Sarah (Howard) Closson, and grandson of Deacon Nehemiah Closson, of Deer Isle, Me., was born in December, 1841. He was brought up a farmer in his native town, enlisted at the age of twenty in the 16th Maine, was at Antietam, lost his health, and was sent home. The next year he entered the navy, where he served till the close of the war. After several years' service as bookkeeper in a lumber business at Fairfield, he came to Randolph in 1882 and became a member of the present firm of Putnam and Closson, saw and planing mill proprietors. Henry P. Closson, in 1865, married Ellen U., daughter of Jacob Weymouth, of Fairfield, Me. George C. died in 1881. Sewall B. Collins, engaged in the grocery business in 1882 on Water street, Gardiner. The first four years he was in partnership with Mr. Wilkins; from May, 1886, to September, 1890, he was sole owner; then the business was discontinued until April, 1891, when the firm of S.B. Collins and Co. was formed, with C.C. Wentworth as partner; February 15, 1892, Mr. Collins bought out Mr. Wentworth, and has since continued the business alone. Samuel W. Cutts, son of Washington Cutts, of Pittston, was born in 1846. He began in 1862 as engineer of steamboats and continued until 1880, running both stationary and steamer engines. Since 1880 he has been superintendent of the Gardiner Gas and Electric Light Company's works. He married Ellinette, daughter of William Watson, of Pittston. Frederick Danforth, son of Judge Charles Danforth, was born in 1848. After leaving the North Bridgeton Academy he entered Dartmouth College, graduating in the scientific course in 1870. His studies had all been with special reference to the profession of civil engineering, upon which he immediately entered, choosing railroad engineering as a specialty. After an engagement with the European and North American railway, he established, in 1876, his present office in Gardiner, and in 1891 he was elected a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In 1880 he married Caroline, daughter of Caleb Stevens, of Randolph. Their four children are: George C., Margaret, Richard S., and Eleanor. J. Prescott Davis, the photographer, is a native of Corinth, Me. He came to Gardiner in January, 1885, as assistant to G.F. McIntosh, and in September, 1890, bought the studio which H.H. Cochrane had established four years previous. David Dennis, president of the Merchants National Bank of Gardiner, was born in Litchfield in 1836. From Litchfield Academy he taught schools, public and private, eight or nine years, and in 1862 came to Gardiner as clerk for Bartlett, Barstow and Co. The same year he bought out Mr. Nickerson, and two years later Mr. Barstow retired, and the flour, feed and grain firm became Bartlett and Dennis. Mr. Dennis married Mr. Bartlett's daughter, Julia S., and has three children: Harriet, John B., with Blair and Co., bankers, New York; and Harry Ray. The firm of Bartlett, Dennis and Co. for three years included George N. Johnson and S.N. Maxcy. Mr. Dennis' father, John, from Ipswich, Mass., settled in Litchfield in 1789, where he married Harriet, daughter of Joseph Sawyer, and for more than thirty years was treasurer of the town. Fuller Dingley is the son of Parker Dingley, a farmer of Bowdoinham, who married Ruth Bates of the same town, where they had children - William, died young; Betsey; second William; Fuller, born in 1832; James B., and Alvin, who was lost a sea. At the age of seventeen Fuller came to Gardiner and learned the carpenter's trade. Later, while living in newport, R.I., he enlisted and served under Burnside; was taken prisoner at Jackson, Miss., in July, 1863, and confined in Libby, Macon, Charleston and Columbia rebel prisons; was sick; exchanged December, 1864, and came to Gardiner in 1865, where he has been engaged ever since with his brother, James B., in the hardware trade, under the firm name of Dingley Brothers. Fuller Dingley married Mary J. Parkinson, and has two children: Fred B. and Emily G. The firm of Dingley Brothers represents the longest established and the largest coal trade in Gardiner and one of the oldest hardware houses. James Bates Dingley, its founder, whose portrait appears on the follow page, was born in Bowdoinham August 27, 1834, and remained on the home farm till the age of seventeen. The next two years he taught school winters and during summers attended the then famous Litchfield Liberal Institute. At the age of twenty he came to Gardiner and entering Seth Wood's hardware store as a clerk he took up what has proved to be the pursuit of his life. After an experience of three years in Gardiner, his employer sent him to manage a store in the same line of trade in Haverhill, Mass., where he remained two years, when mr. Wood retired from business. Returning to Gardiner in 1859, James B. rented the Wood store and embarked in the hardware trade for himself. In 1865 his brother, Fuller Dingley, returned from the war and joined in the co-partnership that still exists. Closely observant of the needs of the community, James B. had decided that the coal trade, although new, was a inviting field of enterprise. There was no regular dealer. People who used hard coal joined together and bought from 200 to 300 tons the first year. The increase to thirty times that quantity, which this firm alone now sells yearly, is a surprising exhibit. Dingley Brothers, in 1868, established the Gardiner Spring Company, which they sold in 1870 to the Wentworth Spring Company. They are now the chief owners of the Gardiner Tool Company, which makes axes and ice tools. In 1889 the Dingley Hardware Company was organized, which was charge of that branch of the business, Dingley Brothers still retaining the coal trade. They own a large block of real estate, on which stand their store and the extensive coal sheds that cover the most of what used to be the Grant and the Bradstreet wharves. From 1873 to 1878, inclusive, J.B. Dingley was a member of the city government, the first three years as an alderman and the last three as mayor. It was during this period that the memorable contests over the paving of Main street and the building of the present grammar school were fought and won by the friends of improvement. At that time there was but one good school house in the city, and the condition of Main street in bad weather cannot be depicted. Mr. Dingley has always been a republican in politics and a Universalist in religious belief. His mother died in 1847 and his father in 1858. He has two grandchildren: Helen O., daughter of John and Emma (Dingley) Bradley, and James R., son of Sidney and Mabel (Dingley) Decker. James B. Dingley, ex-mayor of Gardiner, a son of Parker and Ruth (Bakes) Dingley, of Bowdoinham, was born in 1834, the fifth in a family of six children. He came to Gardiner in 1854, entering Seth Wood's hardware store as a clerk. In 1859 Mr. Dingley established in the same store the hardware trade which he and his brother, Fuller, who became a partner in 1865, still conduct. For over twenty-five years they have also been coal dealers. In 1858 James B. married Maria McKenney, of Greene. Their children are: Emma (Mrs. J.A. Bradley, of Worcester, Mass.), Mabel (Mrs. Sidney Decker), Clara (Mrs Dr. Ben. Turner), and Etta, all except the first now residing in Gardiner. Martin Esmond was born in ireland, came to Gardiner from Boston in 1810, and was a merchant on Water street. His wife, jane, was a daughter of Richard and Margret (Lowry) Stuart. The children of Martin Esmond were: John, born in 1818, died at Montreal in 1834, and Bernard, born in 1820, dept store on Water street until he went to California in 1850. During the war he was sutler to the 16th Maine Volunteers. He was married in 1839 to Mary O'Brien. Their children were: George, Joseph, Elizabeth and John. Elizabeth was married in 1885, to Charles E. Fuller, of Hallowell, and has two children: Tom Scott and Mary E. William D. Haley, son of Woodbridge Haley, was born in 1852 at Pittston. He has been superintendent of the Haley ice House since 1873; they were at South Gardiner until 1885, since which time they have owned buildings situated in the town of Richmond. Mr. Haley has a farm of fifty acres at South Gardiner, where he devotes some attention to breeding horses. He married Lucinda Lizette, daughter of James D. Moore. Their two children are: Harry D. and Josephine T. Frederick D. Harmon, son of Humphrey and Sarah (Murry) Harmon, was born in 1838 at Boston, Mass. He came with his parents to Gardiner in 1841, and settled on the farm where he now lives. He is a farmer, as was his father. He married Hannah K., daughter of Michael and Patience (Knox) Hildreth. Their three sons are: Amasa E., Richard R. and Frederick H. Andrew J. Hooker, city liquor agent of Gardiner, is a son of Riverius and Hannah (Chaddock) Hooker, of Gardiner, and grandson of Riverius Hooker, of Litchfield, Me., who was a descendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first minister in Hartford, Conn. Andrew J. Hooker, the fourth of thirteen children, was born in South Lee, Mass., in 1837, came to Gardiner in 1849, and married Harriet Knox, of Bowdoin, in 1859). Their children are: Harry, Fred, Calvin, who died in 1888, at the age of twenty-one, and Gracie. Mr. Hooker served in the civil war as sergeant of Company I, 24th Maine Volunteers. He was chief engineer of the Gardiner Fire Department from 1883 to 1888; has been in the city council two years, and is now alderman from the Fourth ward and city liquor agent. Myrick Hopkins (1800-1891). - For sixty-eight years preceding this death on the 7th of April, 1891, Myrick Hopkins has been a resident of Gardiner, and as a business man had been intimately identified with the material and moral growth of the city. He was of the seventh generation in direct line of descent from Stephen Hopkins1, the Pilgrim, who came in the Mayflower in 1620. Stephen's son, Giles2, married Catherine Wheldon in 1639, and their son, Stephen3, born in 1642, resided in Harwich, Mass., where he married Mary Myrick, and thus the name Myrick came into the Hopkins family, and frequently recurs as a Christian name. Joseph Hopkins4 was born in 1684; in 1707 he married Mercy Mayo, and their son, Prince Hopkins5, born in 1729, married Patience Snow in 1752 or 1753, and raised seven children: Seth, Thomas, Sarah, Joseph, Nathaniel, Prince and Elizabeth. This Prince Hopkins6, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Harwich, Cape Cod, where four generations of his ancestors had lived, September 23, 1769, and married Phebe Morse. He followed the sea as a whaleman until 1804, when, with his wife and five children, he came up the Kennebec to Hallowell in a sailing packet, whence he made his way by the primitive forest road to New Sharon, and settled on a farm on which they lived - he until his death, July 4, 1854, and she until her death, May 2, 1856. Their ten children - the generation to which Myrick Hopkins belonged - were: Sally (1794-1869); Joshua (1797-1879); Myrick; Phebe (1803-1875); Eliza, 1806; Lewis, 1808; Prince (1810-1882); Seth (1813-1884); George, 1815; and Betsey, 1818. Myrick7, the fourth of the ten, was born in Brewster, Mass., September 24, 1800; thus he was four years old when with his mother and younger sister on a single horse, they found their way from the Kennebec to the New Sharon home, thirty miles distant, where in a log house the next fifteen years of his life were passed. In 1819 he went to Readfield, Me., and in a shoe shop learned the trade upon which he depended to get his start in life. In 1823 he came to Gardiner in the employ of Nutting and Cook, tanners. They did a large business in green hides and wool, in which the good judgement of Mr. Hopkins as their clerk proved very valuable to them. The habits of economy which he had formed on the farm provided valuable to him, and he soon found the firm was he debtor to a considerable amount. The firm became insolvent, and in partial settlement with Mr. Hopkins he took the little office and store which they had built in 1826, and in it he continued the business on his own account as long as he lived. As a buyer and shipper of hides and wool he became known to half the farmers of Kennebec county, and by his undeviating honesty he set a worthy example, and enjoyed to the close of his life in an unusual degree the confidence of the business public. Candor, uprightness and fairness were foundation principles with him, yet his acquisitions confirm the adage that honesty is the best policy as well as the best principle; for in the quiet, almost uneventful life he lived he reached a substantial material result. Nor did he allow his private business to absorb his whole force. When the city government was organized, in 1850, he took a seat as alderman; he served as warden of Christ's Church for many years, and at his death had been a director of the Oakland Bank for more than twenty years. In securing a railroad for Gardiner he was active and useful; he had been a stockholder in the steamboat line and a director of the Gardiner Bridge Company; and to the end of his days filled up the full measure of the upright citizen and useful man. He was twice married; first to Harriet Mason, whose surviving son is Augustus Hopkins, and second to Abigail Dodge Mason, who died in 1888, leaving two daughters - Sophronia M. (Mrs. William Woodward) and Henrietta M., now the widow of James O. Barnard. Mrs. Barnard was married in 1869. Her husband died in 1874, and now a promising student in the Boston School of Technology. Mr. Hopkins was strongly attached to his home, and prized very highly his home life. He erected his pleasant resident, the Hopkins Homestead, on Highland avenue, now the home of Mrs. Barnard, in 1859, and here he enjoyed his serene old age. William C. Jack is the great-grandson of Andrew Jack, who settled in Litchfield about 1790, married Fannie Merriman, and had sons: Samuel, Joseph, Andrew and Walter. Samuel had thirteen children. Barzillai, the eldest, married Hannah Denslow, by whom he had one son, William C., and four daughters. William C., the eldest child, born in Litchfield in 1832, married Pheba Ann, daughter of John Clay, of Piermont, N.H. They have two children: Flora G., no Mrs. Churchill, of Newburyport, Mass., and Phillip C., now attending Gardiner school. Dr. Clarence S. Jackson, born in 1849, is the only son of Elijah and Elizabeth Lord) Jackson, and grandson of Elijah Jackson, whose father, Thomas - a revolutionary soldier - settled in Pittston and married Rachel Colburn in 1782. Doctor Jackson married Alice M. Dinsmore, and has one daughter, Gertrude M. He pursued dental studies and graduated in Lewiston, Me. His first professional work was in Richmond, 1874 to 1878, when he began in Gardiner his present dental practice. William Jewell, born in 1821, is a son of Henry and Nancy (True) Jewell, and grandson of Captain Henry Jewell. Mr. Jewell's father was born in Litchfield in 1786, and died there in 1859. He was a lumber merchant and manufacturer in Gardiner and other places for many years. Mr. Jewell for for several years engaged in teaming in Gardiner, and since 1882 he has kept a livery stable. He married Elmira, daughter of Captain John Landerkin. Their children are: Clara, Lenora, Frank (deceased), and Draper C. Benjamin Johnson is the son of Daniel Johnson, of South Gardiner, whose father, Andrew Johnson, came from new Hampshire. Daniel married Eliza Waitt and raised a family of ten children. Benjamin went to sea at the age of nineteen, to California in 1850, and back to Gardiner in 1856, and the same year married Mary A. Harris, of Winthrop, who died in 1861. They had one child, who died in February, 1858. In 1881 he married Henrietta Loring, of Gardiner. In 1857 Mr. Johnson bought the Cobbossee House, and kept it as the Johnson House for thirty-one years. It is now called Young's Hotel, after its present proprietor. Mr. Johnson opened the Johnson hall in 1864, and in 1888 enlarged and refitted it, changing its name to the Johnson Opera House. Freeman A. Johnson, born in 1838, is a son of Benjamin and Hannah (Robinson) Johnson, and grandson of Andrew Johnson. He served in the army one year in Company I, 24th Maine Volunteers. He was then in a variety store in Gardiner until 1873, when he opened his present ice cream and confectionery store. He married Sarah Farris. Their children are: Hattie E. and Ben F. (deceased). Thomas S. Keenan's father, Luther, and his grandfather, James, were born in Wales, Me., and his great-grandfather, James Keenan, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to America during the revolutionary war, and settled one of the first farms in the town of Wales. Luther married Louisa Gray, of Monmouth. She died May 15, 1892, aged 101 years and 21 days. Their children were two boys and three girls. Thompson S., the second child and first boy, was born in Brunswick, Me., in 1826, and came to Gardiner in 1844, where he married Mary E., daughter of Stephen Pallard. Their children were: Addie, Ida May and Mary Etta. Mr. Keenan was a seafaring man till 1861, when he enlisted in the navy and served in the gulf squadron. William J. Landers, manager of the Kennebec Reporter, was born in Gardiner, me., October 24, 1849, the youngest son of David and Margaret Landers. His early years were spent in Gardiner, attending the city schools. Leaving the high school in 1864, he attended Augusta Commercial College, graduating in 1865. After three years' service as bookkeeper in the P.C. Holmes Company's office, he went South. He returned in 1876, in October, 1877, entered the office of the Kennebec Reporter, and has been connected with that publication ever since. January 3, 1880, he was married to Ella F. Drake, and they have two children. Mr. Landers has been grand chancellor of the Grand Jurisdiction of maine, Knights of Pythias, and district deputy grand master of the 11th Maine Masonic District; he is at present grand generalissimo of the Grand Commander of Maine, Knights Templar, president of the Kennebec Valley Press Club, recording secretary of the Maine Press Association, a director of the Gardiner High School and a director of the Gardiner Public Library. James M. Larrabee7 (Daniel6, born 1805; John5, born 1769; Philip4, born 1744; John3; Thomas2, killed by Indians in Scarboro, 1723; William1 married in Malden, Mass., 1655) was born in Wales, Me., in 1833. He has served in both branches of the Gardiner city council as president, and since July 28, 1885, has been judge of the police court of the city. John5 settled in Wales before 1794 and raised eleven children. Daniel6 married Sabrina Ricker, represented Wales in the legislature in 1845 and 1848, and removed to Gardiner in 1856, where they both died. J.W. Lash, contractor and builder, was born in Waldoboro in 1845, but before locating in Gardiner in 1878 he had been largely and successfully engaged in building in Massachusetts - residing in Somerville. He has built some of the finest structures in Gardiner, including the savings bank building, completed in 1891. Llewellyn Lennan, son of James and Lucy (Hildreth) Lennan, and grandson of David Lennan, was born in 1836 in Richmond, Me., and came to Gardiner in 1863, where he is a farmer and wholesale meat merchant. He married Emeline, daughter of Daniel and Elmira (Smith) Hildreth. Their children are: James D., Charles H. and two that died in infancy. Edwin E. Lewis, son of Horatio N. Lewis, of Cornish, N.H.., was born in 1846. He went into the army in 1865 and fought under General Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. He came to Gardiner in 1875 and became a contractor and builder. For the past fifteen years Mr. Lewis has given his attention entirely to plans and specifications, and is the recognized authority on architecture in Gardiner. He married Augusta C. Jackins in 1866. They have one child, Arthur E. Weston Lewis, president of the Maine Truce and Banking Company of Gardiner since 1889, was born December 26, 1850, in what is now Randolph, where his father, Warren R. Lewis, was a farmer and lumberman. The latter was a son of Rev. Stephen Lewis, of Jefferson, Me., who was born at Booth Bay, me., where the family name frequently occurs. By teaching a portion of the time Weston Lewis completed the collegiate course of Bowdoin, graduating with the class of '72. He then taught in the Gardiner High School until the close of the fall term of 1874. At about this time he became a clerk in the Gardiner Savings Institution, and from that may be dated his relations to the banking interests of Gardiner, by which, and through the presidency of the city water company, he is best known locally. His home is in Gardiner, where in 1876 he married Eleanor W., daughter of Charles H. Partridge. Their children are: Carleton, born in 1878, and Henry, born in 1881. His relation to the Kennebec Central Railroad Company and the Maine Water Company, in both of which he is president, is noticed in another chapter. Samuel C. McKenney was born in Woolwich, Me., in 1819, and removed in 1823 to Kingfield, Me. He came to Gardiner in 1846 and engaged in the jewelry business, which he continued until 1864, when he closed it up to about eighteen months while he was in the army in Company F, 7th Maine Volunteers. The business was resumed in 1886, and since 1890 the firm has been S.C. McKenney and Son; George L., who has worked in the business several years, being now the junior partner. Baxter Marr, son of Alexander and Keziah E. (Trafton) Marr, was born in 1826, at Georgetown, Me. He was engaged in the fish business in his native town until 1862, when he went to Lewiston, where he was eight years in mercantile trade, after which he was in business in various places until 1888, when he came to Gardiner and built his residence on Highland avenue, which was burned in 1891. He married Emily D., daughter of James Potter. They have one daughter, Lena L. (Mrs. Fred Littlefield). Henry E. Merriam was born in Grafton, Mass., in 1838 where his father, Joseph, and his grandfather, Joseph, were both farmers. Joseph Merriam, jun., married Mary C. Warren, of Grafton, a sister of S.D. Warren, the paper manufacturer. Henry E., their youngest child, left home in 1857 and went into a dry goods store in Boston. In 1861 he enlisted for nine months and went to new Berne, N.C., and served under General Foster; then returned home, and in the fall of 1863 came to Gardiner, where he has been, with the exception of two years, the agent of S.D. Warren and Co.'s Copsecook paper mill. In 1868 he married Octave A., daughter of Caleb Hunt, of Chelsea. Stephen T. Merrill, son of Franklin B. Merrill, was born in Lewiston in 1833. He was a farmer and carpenter in West Gardiner until 1874, since which time he has been superintendent of the Gardiner farm at the Oaklands. He married Harriet Augusta, daughter of James Hodkins. They have two children: Solon W. and Annie L. Fred E. Milliken, postmaster, is the grandson of Allison and Jane (Libby) Milliken, of Scarboro, Me., who came to Gardiner in 1833, and raised a family of nine children. Their son, William, married Mary Ann Lyon, by whom he had two children: Fed E., born in 1850, and Fanny E. In 1858 Mr. Milliken engaged in his present business, and is the oldest boot and shoe dealer in the city. Fred E. was educated in the public schools of Gardiner, and became, and still is, a partner with his father in the shoe business. Arch Morrell and His Descendants. - John Morrell, the common ancestor of most of the Morrills and Morrells in Kennebec county, received from the town of Kittery two grants of land in 1668. These lands, together with a third adjacent grant, made in 1669, were bounded in part by Birch Point brook. Nicholas Hodgdon, whose lands were south of these, deeded in 1674, to John Morrell, who had married his daughter Sarah, seven acres of adjoining land, upon which Morrell had erected buildings and where he had then resided for some years. In 1676 John traded all of these lands with Abraham Conley (See York Deeds) for a farm at "Coole Harbor," and subsequently bought other tracts and became a large landed proprietor. His dates - birth, marriage and death - have not been preserved and our knowledge of his antecedents is purely negative. He may have been a son of Abraham Morrell, who came from England to Cambridge in 1632, but is not mentioned as such in Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the Founders of New England. He may have come direct from England as did many of the early settlers of Kittery and Portsmouth. Whether he married Sarah Hodgdon before settling in Kittery is uncertain, but from the first he was prominent in its town affairs, often in town office and on the jury of inquest. He was a mason by trade, and in deeds of conveyance was variously called "bricklayer,", "mason" and "plasterer." Dr. William B. Lapham, of Augusta,' the genealogist and historian, records for him children: Nicholas, who married in 1695 Sarah Frye, of Kittery; Sarah, who married August 4, 1701, George Huntress; John2' Edah, married April 27, 1702, Jonathan Nason; Hannah, who married John Tidy, and Abraham. (Abraham Morrell, called "blacksmith," was of Kittery in 1711, when his father deeded him three acres of land, and nothing later is known of him.) Of these, John Morrell2 was born in 1675, and married, December 16, 1701, Hannah, daughter of Peter Dixon, of Kittery, whence the name Peter first came into the family. He was a planter and owned large estates, including areas of Kittery Commons, now North Berwick. His will, dated 1756, was proved May 16, 1763, making his widow Hannah sole executrix. This will names as his children: John, born July 30, 1702; Peter, September 16, 1709; Jedediah2, Keziah and Mary. His sons. Thomas, born August 20, 1705, and Richard, born September 23, 1713, are not mentioned in the will. His lands in Kittery and Berwick were bequeathed to his three sons, John, Peter and Jedediah, after providing for his widow and daughter. He bequeathed his negro Joe to his wife during her life time, then to the son whom Joe should select as his master. His negro Tobey was given his freedom after twenty-four years of age, but should serve the widow while she lived. These two slaves were buried side by side on the Morrell homestead at North Berwick. Jedediah Morrell2, born August 29, 1711, was thrice married; first, December 5, 1734, to Elizabeth, daughter of Ronald Jenkins, of Kittery; in 1737 to Anna Dow, of Hampton, N.H. and January 28, 1762, to Sarah Gould. His first marriage was in the manner of the Friends, the certificate of which - a quaint and instructive document belonging now to Morrill Sherbourne, of North Berwick - bears the signatures of five Morrells among the witnesses, and they each spelled the family name with an 'e'. Jedediah's three sons by his second marriage were; Abraham4, born December 26, 1738, married first Elizabeth Lewis, and second Hannah Nichols; Josiah4, who married Hannah Webber; and Winthrop4, born December 20, 1744, married Susannah lewis. Jedediah's third wife bore two children: John4, who married Sarah Varney in 1878 and died in 1789; and Peace, name only in her father's will. Jedediah Morrell3 spent his early married life in Kittery, where is recorded the birth of his first child. He received by deed from his father, John, lands in North Berwick now owned in part by his descendant, Morrill Sherbourne7, and built, four miles from North Berwick village, at the mouth of Bonny Beag pond, mills near there his great-grandson still resides. He practiced with herbs the healing art, and while operating as farmer, lumberman and trader, he was also well known as Doctor Morrell, as the curious account book he kept still show. His will, made March 18, 1775, was proved the following year. It bequeathed one-third of his real estate to his wife, Sarah, during her widowhood, and gave lands and mill property at Doughty's falls and at Bonny Beag pond to his sons, Abraham and Josiah. To Winthrop he gave a farm, his "largest fowling piece and my Silver Watch;" while John was to have the "small fowling piece" and the "great pasture" when he was twenty-one. To his daughter, Peace, he gave his household goods at the death of his wife, Sarah, who was sole executrix of the will. His son, Abraham, occupied the lands bequeathed to him until his death and was succeeded by his son, Nahum. Winthrop operated the mill at Bonny Beag pond when he died, passing the property to his son, Ephraim. Peter Morrell, brother and neighbor of Jedediah3, was father of the Sarah Morrell who was killed and scalped by Indians within the limits of North Berwick village. We have thus particularly sketched the first three generations of this old family to rescue from oblivion a few of those threads not commonly within the knowledge or the written records of the present generations. Josiah Morrell4 married Hannah Webber October 25, 1764, and had one or more daughters and three sons: Ebenezer, Aaron and Josiah, and perhaps others. His wife probably died before 1797, for in that year, without her joining the deed, he sold the lands he had inherited from his father, the blacksmith shop and tools and "all the movable both indoor and out" to his son, Josiah5. He died in Litchfield, at the residence of his grandson, Hiram Morrell6, and was buried in the graveyard at Litchfield Corner, where his grave stone says he died September 18, 1832, aged 95 years. When they came to Litchfield in 1824 Joshia5 was the head of the family and the man of affairs. He was born at North Berwick, September 22, 1775, and on April 9, 1798 - the year after his father deeded him the homestead - he married Sarah Quint, of Berwick, who was fours years his junior. They sold out there in January, 1825, to Nathaniel Walker, and on June 13, 1825, purchased of William Robinson a farm in Litchfield where Job. F. Morrell now lives. They subsequently resided with their son, Hiram, but when their younger son, Ebenezer, bought the Isaac Shurtleff farm, north of Barnabas Springer's, they made their home there until Joshia's death, December 29, 1852 (His grave stone at Litchfield Corner says 1853, but the stone is wrong.). His widow, after living alone for several years, resided until her death, November 23, 1868, with her daughter, Mrs. Barnabas Springer. The five children of Josiah and Sarah Q. Morrell were born at the ancestral home in North Berwick, and excepting the oldest son, Arch, who was previously married, came with them to Litchfield, where they all became heads of substantial families, as notice in the four succeeding paragraphs. Hiram Morrell6, a blacksmith and farmer, was born September 22, 1802, and in 1830 married Eleanor Springer, of Litchdfield, and had ten children. He died at Litchfield, January 30, 1885. Sarah Jane Morrell6, Born February 13, 1804, married Barnabas Springer, of Litchfield, and had one son and died March 9, 1874. Mr. Springer was one of the original abolitionists, and in that movement and in other reforms of his time was a substantial power for good. He died August 17, 1880. Barnabas Springer, an early settler of Litchfield, who was killed while falling a tree, was his father. Ebenezer Morrell6, born March 27, 1808, married Elizabeth Smith Rogers, of Litchfield, in 1835. She has six children and died in San Francisco March 16, 1856. He was one of the early pioneers of California, and now resides in Gilroy, Cal, Rev. Alexander Hatch Morrell6 was born October 10, 1818. He was general manager of Storer College, Harpers Ferry, Va., and died at Irvington, N.J., in 1885. His wife, Eliza, was daughter of Thomas B. Seavey. They had three children. It is not our purpose in this chapter to trace farther these four younger children of Josiah and Sarah (Quint) Morrell and their numerous descendants, but to notice somewhat the oldest son, Arch Morrell6, whose business career forms no inconsiderable factor in the local history of this city. He have noticed his marriage while his parents still resided at North Berwick. Probably he never resided in Litchfield, where the others of his father's family were. He was born April 10, 1800, and with an independent spirit which he probably inherited and which he certainly has transmitted, he started out to find a place for himself in the world. With five dollars in his pocket, he walked from South Berwick to Salem, Mass. - seventy miles - making fifty of the miles in twelve hours, and finally found employment in a brick yard at ten dollars per month, and after six months' work there returned home with $62.50. His first employer, a Mr. Gardiner, had a milk farm, and young Arch has sixteen cows to milk for his morning and evening diversion. Brick making, as then done by hand, was very laborious, but he learned the business, and in later life this knowledge served him a purpose. He went with the Salem Light Infantry to the reception of General La Fayette in Boston, in August, 1824, and was always proud of having done so. He was married in 1822, to Statira Andrews, who was born in Essex, Mass., December 3, 1797. Working a few summers at brickmaking for Mr. Stone in Salem, he came in 1827 to Gardiner, where David Flagg and Jesse Lambard were brick makers of that day, and with them Mr. Morrell found employment until he went into business for himself. His son, Henry A. Morrell, of Pittsfield, in a series of articles on brick making, written while his father was living, said: "My father did the same business for more than fifty years in succession, but the excessive labor has not brought him to an untimely grave - not yet, and he is eight-five years old, and he brought up his three boys to the same trade: the one forsook it and for thirty years has been an editor and publisher; but the other two have, with short alternations as lumbermen, printers and merchants, settled down to the old business." In 1840, when there were more than a dozen brick yards in Gardiner, Arch Morrell and Randall Robinson were in company and made the bricks for the city hall. Arch and his brother, Ebenezer Morrell, made the bricks for Colonel Stone's building, corner Brunswick and Water streets. In 1858 he and his son, H.K. Morrell, made the bricks for the Gardiner Gas Works. In 1845 Arch Morrell made the bricks for the Holmes and Robbins foundry, and in 1846 for their machine shop - in fact he made fully seven-eights of all the brick used in Gardiner prior to his death. He first lived in a house where now stands the Freewill Baptist church, on Summer street, and here his son, Hiram Kelly, was born; but his most permanent home in Gardiner was at the foot of Spring street, where Michael Hickey's house now stands; until he, in 1837, built a house on the lot now occupied by his grandson, Herbert A. Harriman, on Spring street, and lived in it until it was destroyed in the great fire of August 4, 1882. He and his wife then boarded until their deaths with George W. Viney, and were kindly cared for by Mrs. Viney, who had been an intimate friend of theirs from her childhood. Mrs. Morrell died February 28, 1883, and Mr. Morrell February 15, 1885, each having attained the age of 85 years. Arch Morrell lived in a time when rum drinking was less deprecated than now and though he sometimes drank he was not a drunkard. Before the Washingtonian movement, however, he became converted and joined the Freewill Baptist church, and ever after was a thorough going temperance man. He was a kind hearted, gentle, loving man. His children all say they never heard him use a cross word, and he was liberal to a fault. He never accumulated property to any amount. His father, once when asked by a grandson; "Did you ever now a rich Morrell?" replied "No; they always had too much company." Arch Morrell was no exception. His house was always a free hotel, for every minister, temperance or abolitionist lecturer, any man who ever worked from him-in fact for every countryman who came to haul him wood, buy bricks or for any other purpose. There were no restaurants in those days, and if there had been it would probably have been the same, for his latch string was always on the outside. This is no poetical figure, for in the old house where he first lived in Gardiner, there was actually a wooden latch and a leather latch string. The same old house had unburned bricks in the chimney and white oak beams six by eight in the garret, and pine timer as much as fifteen inches square in the second floor. He was careless about collecting and literally followed the injunction: "Give to him that asketh of thee, and of him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." He trusted anybody, and they paid him, or let it alone, as best pleased them: and he often lost by signing notes for others. All the treasurers he ever laid up were those laid up in heaven; and none of his children ever complained that he left no others. His good name is a better inheritance to them than great riches. "Full many a poor man's blessing went with him beneath the low green tent,Whose curtain never outward swings." His ancestors were Quakers, and the peaceful instincts of that sect always actuated him. His heart was as soft as a woman's, and every one's sorrows were made his own. He never held office except as a councilman, and as surveyor of brick and wood, and never wanted any; for he shrank from publicity. Physically he was a model man. Few men could do more work in a day, and still fewer could work more days and nights in succession. He and his brother, Ebenezer Morrell, once made 40,000 bricks in six days and put as many more in the kiln - a good week's work for four men. Not only morally but literally "his works live after him," for the fabrics of his make will last while the world stands. They were characteristic of the man - solid, durable and useful rather than gaudy and attractive. He did no great deeds, though he was capable of it, if circumstances demanded, and he did no mean or ignoble one. He and his wife sleep in Oak Grove Cemetery, where some of their grandchildren sleep beside them. His first born son lies in the High street burying ground, but his six other children are all living. These six children of Arch and Statira (Andrews) Morrell, representing the seventh generation from John of Kittery, are: Mary Jane, born in Salem June 30, 1823; Hiram Kelly, born in Gardiner September 25, 1827; Henry Albert, born January 23, 1830; Elizabeth Andrews, born April 26, 1833; William, born January 4, 1836; and Eleanor Ellen Morrell, born January 20, 1839. Mary J.7 married Andrew Jack Harriman in 1843. Their children, all born in Gardiner, are: George A., December 4, 1844; Francis W., February 9, 1846, died November 13, 1863; Helen and Frederick, who died in infancy; Herbert A., November 27, 1850; Ida Florence, August 24, 1852; Alice Marion, October 21, 1853, died September 23, 1889; Walter C., October 31, 1855; Willis E. and Arthur, died young; Charles W., April 24, 1861; Edward L., May 14, 1863; and Bertha Mabel, October 9, 1866. Hiram K. 7 married Lucinda P. Hinkley, daughter of Alanson and Salome (Hinds) Hinkley, who died in 1861. Their children were: Ernest W. Morrell8, editor of the Home Journal, who was born December 3, 1851, married Abigail Whitcomb and has four children - Edith Whitcomb9, Benjamin Dodge, Henry Arch and Florence; Dora May, a successful teacher, author and editor, born May 19, 1855; Florence A., born in 1857, died in 1864; and Charles A., born May 27, 1861. H. K. Morrell's second marriage was with Asenath Washburn Haskell, who died June 15, 1889, leaving one daughter, Lute Blanche, born August 16, 1866, who in October, 1887, married George Dexter Libby, of Gardiner, and has one daughter, Blanche Asenath Libby. Henry Albert Morrell7 is a brick maker at Pittsfield. He is a man of good literary attainments, well known by his nom de plume "Juniper." His first wife was Sarah Jane Springer, of Gardiner, his second wife Marada Jane Mills. Each has three children: Fonetta Augusta (Mrs. Charles O. Morrell); Mary Everett, who died young; Nellie F. (Mrs. Nathaniel L. Perkins); Clarence Henry, Effie and Ethel Belle Morrell8. Elizabeth A. Morrell7 married William Henry Wrenn, now foreman in the Waltham watch factory, and has had no children. William Morrell7, the brick maker of Gardiner, learned the printer's trade at thirteen years of age and for twenty years worked at it winters. In 1869 he married Mary O. Ring, of Gardiner, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Goodridge) Ring, and has one son, Harry Mellen Morrell8, who was born February 9, 1869, and died April 25, 1881. Eleanor Ellen Morrell7 married in 1862 Lorenzo Noble, now a foreman in the Waltham watch factory. Their children are: Annie F., Burton Andrews and Arch Edward. William H. and Gustavus Moore are the sons of John Moore, who was born in Vassalboro in 1796, on of thirteen children, and came to Gardiner in 1811 and learned the millwright trade of his brother, Ebenezer Moore. He married in 1826, Charity, daughter of Ichabod Plaisted. Of their eight children five were boys, four of whom - John S., William H., George R. and Gustavus - enlisted and fought in the war of the rebellion. George R. died in the hospital at Vicksburg. The other three came home, William H. with a bullet wound through his right lung that disabled him for over a year. John S. was sent to the legislature in 1864, and the next year went West and died at Des Moines, Ia. William H. became a manufacturer, and married in 1873, Luella J. Wakefield. They have one child, George Roscoe. Gustavus engaged in the hardware business and for two years has been superintendent of the Gardiner Water Company. He was commissioned lieutenant, was several years president of common council, and was in the legislatures of 1885 and 1887. In 1867 he married Adelaide Wiley, of Pittston. Their children are: Gustavus E., E. Mabel, Mary I. and Pearl. Horace K. Newbert, the fourth of the six sons of Andrew and Lydia (Clark) Newbert, and grandson of Philip Newbert, whose father came from Germany and settled in Waldoboro, Me., was born in Washington, Me., in 1836. Horace married Elmira A. Lukeforth, of Washington. The older of their two sons, Fred S., is now in business with his father in Gardiner. Willie A. died young. For his second wife Mr. Newbert married Lucy M. Brown, of Gardiner. In 1866 he brought his family to Pittston, and was a commercial traveler for over twenty years. From 1875 to 1878 he had a boot and shoe store in Gardiner; soon after he became for five years a manufacturer of boots and shoes in Biddeford, Me. He bought of Frank Cox in 1889, the boot and shoe business in which he is now engaged in Gardiner. Joseph E. Newell, son of George and Lydia (Edgcomb) Newell, was born in West Gardiner in 1844. He has been a paper maker by trade. He married Martha T., daughter of Elbridge and Sabrina (Smith) Hooker. They have one daughter, Laura A. Mr. Hooker was for several years a paper maker at Gardiner, and his home was where Mr. Newell now lives. Appleton D. Nickerson, son of Daniel N. and Louisa (Gilbert) Nickerson, was born in Litchfield in 1826, the youngest of seven children. In 1855 he came to Gardiner and engaged in the grain, seed, and grocery business, firm of Bartlett, Barstow and Co. In 1869 the firm name was changed to Barstow and Nickerson. This is the oldest grocery house in the city. In 1857 Mr. Nickerson married Clara H. Barstow, and their only child, Carrie L., is now Mrs. Ben W. Partridge, of Gardiner. Fred M. Noyes is a son of Manthano Noyes, who was born in Brunswick, Me., one of the older of nine children, and married Lydia Stewart, of China, by whom he had twelve children. He came with his family to Gardiner, where he died in 1876 - seventy years old. His son Fred M., the tenth child, was born in 1848, and became a druggist, which has been his business in Gardiner for the past twenty-five years. He married in 1889 Sarah J., daughter of Dexter Whitmore. Daniel C. Palmer is the son of Elisha Palmer, of Hallowell, formerly of Alna, Me., whose father, Simon Palmer, was a revolutionary soldier from New Hampshire. Elisha married Mary Perkins, of Alna, where Daniel C., the eldest of their seven children, was born in 1820. In 1846 he came to Gardiner and worked at his trade as millwright. He has been a surveyor of lumber over thirty years,a nd since 1863 clerk of the Kennebec Log Driving Company. Besides holding almost every minor city office, Mr. Palmer was elected mayor of Gardiner in 1873, and was reelected four times, serving his last term in 1880. He was also a member of the last state board of valuation. Mr. Palmer's first wife was Elizabeth J. Hanscon, of Hartland. Their children were: Georgie A., Frederick and Mary E., now Mrs. Albion G. Bradstreet, of Brooklyn, N.Y. His second wife was Ellen, daughter of James B. Sawyer, of Gardiner. Millard F. Payne is a direct descendant from Thomas Payne, who came with his father, Thomas, from England to Eastham, Mass., and married Mary Snow about 1652. Their son, Samuel, married Patience Freeman, whose son, Joshua, and a son, Timothy D., who moved from Eastham to Waldoboro, Me. His son, Samuel Payne, of Richmond, was the father of Samuel Payne, of Litchfield, who married Ellen M. Jack. Of their six children Millard F., the only boy, was born in 1854 and in 1881 married Belle Gould, of Gardiner. Their children are: Harold Gould and Catharine Bartlett. Captain Joseph Perry, a retired machinist of Gardiner, son of Joseph M. and grandson of Jonathan Perry, of Scituate, Mass., who later lived in Topsham, Me., was born in Topsham May 4, 1811. He married Olive Gilpatrick, who died leaving children: Clara E. (Mrs. Harry A. Leslie) and Anna J. The Captain's second wife was Mrs. Ann M. (Felker) Peterson, of Wiscasset, Me., who left on son - Fred A. Perry. Captain Perry's military title comes from the bloodless fields of the Aroostook war, where he commanded the Kennebec guards. Robert Pope, of Gardiner, flour and commission merchant, son of Robert Pope, of Hallowell, is the grandson of Joseph Pope, who was born in Boston in 1750, and was a watchmaker; he constructed an orrery of such merit that Governor Bowdoin, John Hancock and others procured an act of the legislature granting the right to raise five hundred pounds by lottery to buy the astronomical curiosity for Harvard College, which was done, and the college still preserves it. Joseph Pope received 450 3s. for this instrument. Mr. Pope has now in his house a clock with thirty-one hands, indicating the time in twenty-four different longitudes, the places of the sun in the zodiac and the phases of the moon, made by Joseph Pope, who came to hallowell in 1818 and died there in 1826. Robert Pope was also a watchmaker. He married Julia C., daughter of James Wingate, postmaster at Portland, Me. Robert, jun., was born in 1835, went to school in Hallowell Academy, came to gardiner and became a machinist. He married Julia A. Ellis, of Medfield, Mass. Their children are: Robert W., associated with his father in business, and Seth E., the latter now in Bowdoin College. Amos H. Potter, born in 1836, is the only surviving son of Amos and Hannah (Clark) Potter, of "Pottertown," Litchfield. He married Adelia E., daughter of Lewis Gowell, of Litchfield, in 1861, and came to Gardiner in 1868. Their children are: Alphonzo H., Frederick E. and George E., all living in Gardiner. Maxcy Brother, in 1878, started a coal business on Berry's wharf, which two years later they sold to the Citizen's Coal Company. In 1885 Amos H. Potter bought the entire interests of this stock concern, and added the coal trade to a wood business that he had been doing for some years. At the same time, for the purpose of getting deeper water, he changed from Berry's to Atkins' wharf, which used to be called the old Gay wharf. William G. Preble, merchant and undertaker, is the son of A.F. Preble and the grandson of Abraham Preble, both of Bowdoinham. The latter, besides being a farmer, was a school teacher, going as far from home as Brooklyn, N.Y., where he taught several terms. He was born in 1800 and lived on the home farm to be eight years old. A.F. Preble, who was one of nine children, married Almira, daughter of James W. Grant, of Richmond, Me. Of their four children, William G., the only boy, was born in 1853, and came with his widowed mother to Gardiner in 1863, where at the age of twelve he went to work for Uriah Morrison at cabinet making. In 1882 he bought of James Nash the premises he now occupies, and three years later on adjoining house and lot to make room for the wants of his furniture, carpet and crockery business. In 1887 he married Alice, daughter of William C. Keene, of Pittston. They have one child, Ethel. Albert A. Robbins, the machinist, is the only surviving son of Charles A. Robbins, who was born in Winthrop in 1807 and died in Gardiner in 1884. Charles A. came to Gardiner in 1825, and was one of the firm of P.C. Holmes and Co. until 1861. After eight years in Bangor he, with his two sons, E. Everett and Albert A., formed the firm of C.A. Robbins and Sons. Since the death of Everett, in 1892, the business continues under Albert A., only surviving member. Edward Robinson, born in Alna, Me., in 1818, was a ship carpenter when a young man, and was several years in business in Boston and New York prior to 1850, when he returned to Alna, where he was engaged in the lumber business and other mercantile trade until 1870, when he came to Gardiner, where he now lives. He was first selectman seventeen years, representative from Alna one term, and has held various city offices in Gardiner. He married Mary E., daughter of Edward and Mary (Woodbridge) Palmer. Their children are: H. Dean, Herman E. and Edwin A. Greenleaf S. Rogers, son of Levi Rogers, of Vassalboro, is in the sixth generation from Thomas Rogers, who in 1675 planted in Saco probably the first orchard in Maine. Old Orchard Beach was named after it. Levi Rogers married Phebe Clark, of China. Greenleaf, born in 1812, was the oldest of their seven children. Levi went to Augusta in 1827, and kept the Spencer House, then a house that stood just north of the present Allen Block; next the Mansion House; and lastly the Augusta House; where he died. Greenleaf T. Rogers married Sarah B., daughter of Elkanah McLellan, of Gardiner. Their children have been Ellen and George L. Greenleaf came to Gardiner in 1837 and kept the Cobbossee House eight years, and from 1856 to 1889 was the senior member of the jewelry firm of G.S. and G.L. Rogers. Henry R. Sawyer is the son of Ezekiel, who was born in Portland, Me., in 1798, and the grandson of Isaac Sawyer, who was born in England. Ezekiel came to Gardiner in 1819, and was in the employ of R.H. Gardiner for twenty years, investing all his earnings in real estate, till he became one of the largest landholders in town. He and Rufus K. Page were pioneers in the ice business on the Kennebec. He married Sarah Atkins, by whom he had five children. Henry R. and his sister, Mrs. Mary A. Moore, both live in South Gardiner, where Henry R. was born in 1833. He attended the Hobart High School at Richmond and the Gardiner Academy. He married Philena W.S. Hathorn. Their children are: Ida L., Hattie C., Ezekiel J., Harry H. and Jeff S. Mr. Sawyer has been a dealer in wood, hay and ice, a merchant, a contractor, and an operator in real estate, active and successful. Benjamin S. Smith, second son of Amasa and Eliza M. (Steward) Smith, of Moscow, Me., and grandson of Samuel Smith, of Litchfield, was born in Moscow in 1846. The next year they moved to Gardiner. In 1864 Benjamin S. enlisted in Stevens' Battery, 5th Maine, and fought under Grant and then under "Phil" Sheridan. On his return home he learned the cabinet maker's trade, and five years later began work in the door, sash and blind business. He has been engaged in this business for himself for the past nine years. January 2, 1868, he married Martha, daughter of Dow Clark, of Gardiner. John D. Stephenson in 1879 bought the school house on Winter street and remodeled it and started a grocery business in the same room where he received his primary education, and has continued the business in the building since that time. Later he bought the intermediate school house lot on Highland avenue, where he built a substantial residence. Now both his place of business and him home are on the ground where he received much of the school training that fitted him for his present success. Charles Swift, youngest of four children of Lemuel Swift, of Cape Cod, who came to Brunswick, Me., in 1790, and married Sarah Lufkin, of Freeport, was born in 1818, and came to Gardiner in 1845. He married Sarah Jane Rockwood, of Augusta, in 1847, and had two children: Mary H. and Charles F. Swift, now of Gardiner. Mr. Swift was a jeweler, which trade he followed twelve years, and about 1860 conceived and executed the plan of making a line of boxes adapted to jewelers' and druggists' uses, and successfully carried on the business for over twenty years. Freeman Trott. - A man's life is largely an exhibition of the results that follow an adherence to certain lines of action. While exact shades of character are difficult to define or depict, individuals acts have a trend toward well defined objects, and in obedience to, or in disobedience of, established precepts and principles. These reflections are suggested by a brief review of the life of Freeman Trott, who for over fifty years was a conspicuous and well known citizen and businessman of Gardiner. A glimpse at a man's ancestry throws wonderful light on his intellectual and moral features. In this man's case we are fortunately able to turn back six leaves in the book of his family genealogy - each leaf a generation. Thomas Trott, the ancestor, came from England to Dorchester, Mass., in 1635, where he turned his attention to farming. Nine years later he joined the church, which act, by virtue of the peculiar civil and eccesiastical polity of the Puritans, gave him the right to vote, and invested him with all the privileges of full citizenship - that exalted condition being then expressed by the noble term, freeman. That same year he became an actor and a partner in the greatest event in life - he married Sarah Proctor. Any one of these acts would indicate a laudable effort to get on in the world, but to compass them all in one year must be accepted as evidence of substantial progress. We know there was then a searching ordeal through which a candidate must pass before the gateway to church membership was thrown open. The balance of our acquaintance with Thomas Trott is that he raised a son Samuel, and died in Dorchester at the age of eighty-six, leaving a good farm and what was then called a large estate. Samuel, who was born in 1660, married Mary Beal, and they had two boys: Benjamin, born in 1712, who married Joanna Payson, of Roxbury, and his brother, name not given, who married Waitstill Payson. The Paysons seem to have enjoyed a reputation for superior intellectual attainments which justifies the presumption that the winners of these daughters were young men of good parts. By a request in his father's will, Benjamin learned a trade, and was a blacksmith in Boston, where he owned a house. About 1744 he moved to Woolwich, Me., with his wife and three sons, Lemuel, Thomas and Benjamin. Lemuel married the daughter of Colonel Thomas Motherell. His father and mother, Benjamin and Joanna, are buried in the old South burying ground at Nequasset. Lemuel left a son, Lemuel, who married Fanny Reed. They had four sons: Lemuel, Converse, Freeman and Alfred. Freeman, the subject of this sketch, was born at Woolwich in January, 1810. His father died when about forty years old, leaving a widow in the responsible and difficult position of looking after the education and guidance of her sons. This task she performed with a mother's love and wisdom. Freeman was educated at Kents Hill, teaching school winters. He came to Gardiner about 1836, and obtained a place in the post office under Judge Palmer. In 1840, at the age of thirty, he took up the business of his choice, that of a grocery merchant. Locating on Water street, in Gardiner, he gave his time, his energies and a mature judgement to the work that was to engross the activities of a long life. For the next forty-five years, until his death, May 9, 1885, although the store was rebuilt, the site remained the same. His career was prosperous and profitable, for it was characterized by honesty and fair dealing. Successful management of personal affairs is sure of public appreciation. When the city of Gardiner was incorporated in 1850, Mr. Trott was chosen its first treasurer, and served two years. He also served as a member of the city council, and was a director in the Cobbossee National Bank. He was a supporter of the Methodist church in Gardiner, of which he was for years a trustee. Lemuel Trott, a brother of his, was a clergyman in the Methodist denomination. December 17, 1844, Freeman Trott married Julia S., daughter of Nathaniel and Julia (Springer) Kenniston. Of the two children of Freemand and Julia Trott, the elder, Charles F., who was born in 1845, and died in 1877 at Gardiner, was fond of the sea and became first mate of a vessel that was lost during an earthquake at St. Thomas in 1877. The other child, Lizzie J., is Mrs. O.B. Clason of Gardiner, and has four children: Julia T., Bertha S., Freeman P. and Charles R. Clason. Isaac G. Vannah, the ninth of eleven children, whose parents were Henry and Betsey (Keene) Vannah, of Nobleboro, Me., was born in 1823. He came to Gardiner in 1846 and engaged in the hardware trade in 1848 on Bridge Street. After two or three changes of location he bought, in 1863, the block he still occupies, and next to Amasa Ring has been continuously in business in the longest of any man on Water street. A curious and significant fact in the hardware trade is this: when Mr. Vannah began the only tool he sold of American manufacture was one kind of plane irons, and it now happens that every article he sells is made in this country except on English make of the same article - plane irons. Isaac G. Vannah, in 1849 , married Eliza C. Rafter, of Jefferson, Me. They have one child, Letetia Kate. Charles O. Wadsworth, born in 1839 in Gardiner, is a son of Moses S. and grandson of the Quaker preacher, Moses Wadsworth, of West Gardiner. He enlisted in 1862 and lost a leg in front of Petersburg. After the war he was salesman and bookkeeper at times, and in 1878 was elected city clerk and librarian of the public library of Gardiner, and was commissioned justice of the peace the same year, which positions he has since continuously held. He married Angie M. Baldwin, of New Hampshire, and has two children: Mildred B. and Frank C. Captain James Walker, born in 1834, is the grandson of Captain Lemuel Walker, a seafaring man born in Kennebunkport, Me., and the son of Joshua Walker 2d, the youngest of twelve children, who was born in Litchfield, and Married Hannah S., daughter of Jeremiah Potter, of Litchfield, and moved to Richmond, me., in 1850. James enlisted from Aroostook county in Company E, 15th Maine, served under General Butler, was at New Orleans and in the Red River campaign, and then under General Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. He came home at the close of the war and married Julia, daughter of Annis Douglas, of Gardiner. They have two children: Charles F. and Clara E. Hon. Charles A. White is the son of Eben White, who came from Winthrop to Hallowell, where he was for years senior member in the grocery firm of White and Warren, and whose father was Major Benjamin White - war of 1812. Eben White brought his family to Gardiner in 1829, being then in government employ under General Jackson. Charles A. White, born in 1828 in Hallowell, was appointed postmaster at Gardiner under President Pierce in 1855 and reappointed under Buchanan; was state treasurer in 1878 and 1879; was again postmaster in Gardiner under Grover Cleveland, and has served in both branches of the city government. In 1860 he married Elizabeth R., daughter of Hon. Thomas Robinson, of Ellsworth, Me. Their children are: Mary D., now Mrs. Doctor Dike, of Melrose, Mass.; Bessie F., died 1865; and Charles R., Harry Eben and Anna E., of Gardiner. Captain Franklin D. Whitmore is the son of William and Phebe (Hayden) Whitmore, of Arrowsic, Me., where he was born in 1839. His father was a teacher and afterward a Congregational minister. Captain Whitmore has followed the sea since the age of seventeen, becoming master of the Mary Russell in 1870. He has commanded several ships, all engaged in the California trade. His present vessel is the Berlin, of which he is part owner. He came to Gardiner in 1869, and in 1871 married Mary N., daughter of Judge Palmer, of Gardiner. Their children are: Mary L., Frank H. and Morton P. Fred W. Willey was born in Litchfield, Me., June 19, 1857. When six years of age his parents moved to South Gardiner, Me., where he has since resided. He received his education in the city schools of Gardiner and the Commercial College of Augusta, of which he was a graduate. The most of his life has been spent in the lumber business; in the woods in winter and in the lumber yard in summer as surveyor. He was married to Fannie Foster Crocker, of Machias, Me., June 3, 1885. One son is the fruit of their union. His father, J.O. Willey, was born January 8, 1821, in Durham, N.H., married Mary H. Johnson, of Gardiner, Me., and had three children: Ida M., Fred W. and Abbie P. Willey. His father was a connection of the Willey family that was buried in the slide of the White mountains. Robert Williamson was born in Chesterfield county, Va., in 1803, and in 1829, with his wife, Mary Hunt, of Boston, came to Gardiner, where they raised their family and where, until his death in 1874, he was successfully engaged in the clothing business. Their surviving children are: Mary E. (Mrs. John D. Lovett, of Boston) and Virginia Williamson, of Gardiner. Albion E. Wing, son of Leonard Wing, of Wayne, and grandson of Allen Wing, who came from Cape Cod, was born in 1822. Leonard Wing married Betsey Ellis, of Wayne, by whom he had six boys and three girls, Albion E. being the fourth. The latter came to Gardiner in 1843 and married Mary Jane, daughter of Joshua Burgess, in 1846. Their only child is Mrs. Augustus W. McCausland. Mr. Wing was a self-taught mechanic and turned his attention to wagon making when he first came to Gardiner, working for William H. Lord as a journeyman. After a partnership in the same business with J.D. Gardiner of some six years, he built a shop on Church street, now a marble shop, where he manufactured carriages and sleights for nearly forty years, and then sold the business to J.B. Libby. Mr. Wing has been member of the city council and president of that body, also assessor and overseer of the poor. Philip H. Winslow8 descended from Kenelin Winslow1, who was born in Drotwich, Eng., in 1599, and came to Salem, Mass., the line of descent being: Nathaniel2, Gilbert3, Barnabas4, Barnabas5, Philip6, whose wife was Rideout; Philip7, who, born in New Gloucester in 1818 - the third of nine children - came to Gardiner in 1841, married Emily Hawks, of Windham, Me., in 1842, had a family of three boys and two girls, and died in 1888. Philip H. Winslow8, born in 1852, was the youngest of the three boys, only two of whom and one girl are living. He married Luella A., daughter of Harvey Scribner, of Gardiner, in 1873. They have one child, Harvey Philip. Mr. Winslow has been in the grocery trade at Gardiner twenty-one years, making his the oldest grocery house but two in this city. Frank C. Wise, born in Canton, 1858, is the son of George W. Wise, who was born in Hallowell, and whose father, Martin W. Wise, was also a Hallowell man. George W. removed from hallowell to Auburn and thence to Canton. He was one of four children, and is probably the only one now living. His brother went to sea and was never heard from, and the two sisters are dead. George W. Wise married, first, Eleanor Keith, of Auburn, by whom he had two boys and one girl, and, second, Orvilla Rolfe, who bore him two sons. Frank C. Wise came from Norway, Me., to Gardiner, where he bought the clothing business of Bicknell and Neal, which he still follows. He married Mary E., daughter of Thomas Berry. Their children are Ellen M. and Hattie M. Captain Andrew T. Wyman, born in 1836, is the son of Percy and grandson of William Wyman, of Phippsburg, whose ancestors came from Scotland. Percy Wyman married Mary Tibbetts, of Woolwich. Captain Wyman married, in 1858, Emily F. Witherspoon (a great-granddaughter of John Witherspoon, born in Scotland, who was one of the signers of the declaration of independence), and has one child, Nellie. They came to Gardiner in 1870 and two years later he became captain of the steam tug. 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