Nicholson, John (no replies)
John Nicholson. We cannot ascertain the birth-place of Mr. N., but know he was brought up by Col. Head, of Warren, in whose store he was a clerk for a number of years before coming to Camden. He came...
View ArticleHall, Frye (no replies)
Frye Hall, Esq., was born in Methuen, Mass. He came to Camden, it is supposed, about the year 1806, in company with his brother Farnham, who traded here until after the war, and then removed to New...
View ArticleHall, John (no replies)
Hon. Joseph Hall, brother to the preceding, was born in Methuen, June 26, 1793. In 1809, he left his native village and settled in Camden. With the exception of a few months passed at school in...
View ArticleThayer, Jonathan, Hon. (no replies)
Hon. Jonathan Thayer, was born at Milford, Mass., Jan. 25, 1779, and graduated at Brown University, R. I., in 1803. After he had completed his collegiate course, he taught an academy for two years in...
View ArticleNorwood, William, Capt. (no replies)
Capt. William Norwood, was born on Mt. Desert. Following the sea in early life, he settled in what is now North Haven, where, Jan. 8, 1804, he married Miss Deborah Winslow of that place, whose...
View ArticleJacobs, Frederick (no replies)
Frederick Jacobs, son of Samuel, was born in Camden, and received his education under the tutoring of Dr. Patch, who, by the way, has instructed many of those who are now our most enterprising...
View ArticleHodgman, Amos Hale, Gen. (no replies)
Gen. Amos Hale Hodgman, was a son of Job Hodgman, one of the earliest settlers of Camdcn, who came from Mason, N. H. [See Hill's history of Mason, recently issued from the press, page 210.] He was...
View ArticleWheeler, Jonas, Hon. (no replies)
Hon. Jonas Wheeler, son of Jotham Wheeler, was born in Concord, Mass., Feb. 9, 1789, and graduated at Harvard College, in 1810. In the following year he came to Camden, and read law with Erastus...
View ArticleJones, Joseph (no replies)
Joseph Jones, was born in Warren, Mass., Oct. 14, 1797. When he was three years old, his parents removed to St. Albans, Vt. He came to Camden in 1818, with scarcely any resources, save those of a...
View ArticleBarrows, Stephen, Esq. (no replies)
Stephen Barrows, Esq., son of Banajah, is a native of this town. His father was born in Attleboro, Mass., and was one of the first settlers in the west part of Camden. The subject of this sketch...
View ArticleDillingham, Nathaniel (no replies)
Nathaniel Dillingham, son of Joshua, was born either in Bristol or in this town. His father came from Bristol, Me., and settled on the farm now owned by Mr. Henry Knight, on the post-road leading to...
View ArticleStetson, Joseph, Dea. (no replies)
Dea. Joseph Stetson, son of Micah, was born in Scituate, Mass., Jan. 1792. [For a genealogical register of the Stetsons, see Barry's "Records of the Stetson Family," and also History of Hanover, pp....
View ArticlePorter, Benjamin J., Hon. (no replies)
Hon. Benjamin J. Porter, son of Maj. Billy Porter, was born in Beverly, Mass., Sept. 20, 1763. After completing his academical course at Byfield Academy, he commenced the study of medicine with his...
View ArticleAdams, Samuel G., Capt. (no replies)
Capt. Samuel G. Adams, son of Joshua Adams, was born at Owl's Head, Thomaston, Sept. 28, 1803, and came to Camden, Oct. 1821. He was clerk in the store of Benj. Cushing, Esq., until 1823, when he...
View ArticleEstabrook, Joseph H., M.D. (no replies)
Joseph H. Estabrook, M. D., son of Rev. Joseph Estabrook, was born in Athol, Mass., in 1797, and graduated at Williams College in the class of 1818. In 1821, he came to Camden, and entered into the...
View ArticleSmart, Ephraim K., Hon. (no replies)
Hon. Ephraim K. Smart, son of Rev. E. K. Smart, a Methodist clergyman, was born in Prospect, (now Searsport,) in 1813. In 1831, his father met with a sudden death. A year after, his father's property...
View ArticleBlake, Maurice C., Hon. (no replies)
Hon. Maurice C. Blake, son of the late Dr. Blake, of Otisfield, we think, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1838, soon after which he conlmenced the study of law in the office of Hon. Samuel Fessenden,...
View ArticleAllen, William Prescott (no replies)
William Prescott Allen, lumberman, b. in Thomaston, Me., Sept. 1, 1843; d. in Portland, Maine in August, 1908. He served in the First Iowa Cavalry, and later in the 65th U. S. Infantry, attaining the...
View ArticleBachelder, Francis L. (no replies)
Francis L. Bachelder, b. in Union, Maine; settled in Minneapolis in 1866; was a member of the North Star Barrel Co.; was a representative in the legislature in 1883. (Source: Collections of Minnesota...
View ArticleRobinson, George, Capt. (no replies)
Thomaston, July 10, Capt. George Robinson, age 81 years, 3 months. (Source: Ellsworth Herald newspaper, Ellsworth, Maine, Aug. 11, 1865.)
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