Biographies
(Source: History of Bath and environs,
Sagadahoc Co., Maine, 1607 - 1894
Ortland, Me.: Lakeside Press, printers, 1894 - 556 pgs.
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CHARLES
NICHOLS DELANO.—The ancestor of the Delano family was
Hopestil Delano, grandfather of Charles N.,
who was born in Kingston, Mass., in 1734. He became captain of a
schooner, and while sailing to the Kennebec he purchased a farm
in Woolwich and settled upon it, and died there in 1829, when 95
years of age. His son, John Delano, was the father of
Charles N., who was born at Woolwich, February 19, 1819. He
married, August 17, 1843, Miss Frances Caroline Larrabee,
daughter of Robert Larrabee, of Phipsburg. She was born
January 26, 1824. Their children were four sons and three
daughters. His wife died November 4, 1864, and he married her
twin sister, Beatrice, November 17, 1865. Captain
Delano followed the sea and was in command of sea-going
vessels from 1844 to 1868, when he retired and was in the mill
and lumber business, in Portland, until 1883, making his
residence during that time in Bath, where his widow still
resides in a pleasant home. In i860 he joined the Winter Street
Church, and was one of its deacons fourteen years. He
accumulated a handsome property. Deacon Delano was
a most upright man and an exemplary Christian. His death
occurred December 5, 1887, when he was 68 years of age. |
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WILLIAM T. DONNELL
is a native of Bath, born in 1837; is a son of Benjamin
Donnell, who was a shipjoiner, and William T. was brought
up to the same employment. He eventually engaged in
shipbuilding, which he has followed thirty years. He built with
G. G. Deering for a number of years, since which time he
has built with his son, Harry H., as assistant. Mr. Donnell
married Clara Hitchcock, daughter of Harry Hitchcock, an old
ship-builder, and their children are: Harry H., Clara
A., William R., and Addie E. Mr. Donnell has been a
member of the City Government many years, serving in both
boards, to the present time, and is a member of the National
Association of Captains and Vessel Owners. In his own yard he
has built the schooners Katie J. Barrett, George R. McFadden,
George P. Davenport, Clara A. Donnell, Independent, Mary E. H.
G. Dow, and has a 1,200 ton schooner now on the stocks. Harry
H. is a graduate of the high school, of the class of '83, is
in the ship-building business in Bath, and built in 1890 the
schooner Addie P. McFadden and in 1891 the schooner Leora
McFadden. |
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JAMES B. DRAKE has
been one of Bath's active business men for the last quarter of a
century, having been extensively known as representing some of
the leading fire and marine insurance companies of this country
and England; united with this business he is largely engaged in
buying and selling and is a large owner and manager of vessels.
He has long been a large stockholder in the Kennebec & Boston
Steamboat Company, and on its re-organization in 1889, became
its president. His management, as a president of the
company, commenced with the building and adding to the line the
steamer Kennebec, the conducting of which he has made an eminent
success. Mr. Drake is married, has a family, and
has for many years been recording secretary of the Winter Street
Congregational Society. |
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SAMUEL DUNCAN,
physician, was a descendant of the old Duncan Family
of Scotland, several families of whom emigrated to this country
and settled in Massachusetts in the early part of the eighteenth
century. In about 1775 Samuel moved to this section
of the state, purchased a farm in what is now called "Harding,"
on the New Meadows River, and erected thereon a large, two story
house, which is still standing, in a good state of repair, and
until recently occupied by the family of Chapin Weston.
Doctor Duncan had an extensive practice and had been
called "Old Doctor Duncan" for some years, although he
was but thirty-nine years of age at the time of his death, which
occurred June 30, 1784. He kept his hair clipped and wore
a white wig, as was the custom, which, no doubt, contributed to
his venerable appearance. He was buried in the old
cemetery, near Witch Spring, in West Bath. His family
consisted of one son and two daughters: Samuel Eaton, Hannah,
Lydia. |
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HENRY EAMES has been
assistant cashier and cashier of the Sagadahoc National Bank
continuously since 1853, a period of forty years. That he
has been constant to the duties of this position is shown in the
fact that, in all these years, he has not been absent from his
desk at the office a single day. Mr. Eames has
always resided in Bath, where he was born February, 1834.
He had the advantages of a good city school education.
January 22, 1857, he married, in Bath, Miss Adelia Fredeline
Morse, who was born in Gardiner, May 8, 1836. They
have three children; Frederick Henry, Ella Florence, and
William Morse. Ella Florence graduated from Smith
College, Northampton, and married Edward E. Wood, of
Northampton, Mass., September 8, 1885, and they reside in that
city. F. H. and W. M. Eames graduated from
Bowdoin College and from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy,
and are in the drug business in Manchester, N. H. |
DR.
SAMUEL EATON DUNCAN lived in the house now owned by one
of his descendants, Chapin Weston, near the
Harding Station of the Maine Central Railroad. The doctor came
from Topsham and bought the farm on which this house stands, in
1772, and died there, June 30, 1782, at 39 years of age. His
practice extended to Bath. Doctor Duncan is
ancestor of all those who are residents, of Bath of that name.
He had the reputation of possessing great skill in his
profession. He was born in 1743 and married a daughter of
Benjamin Donnell, Sr. In 1718 he was living in
the house situated on High street, south of South street.
In 1788 a Doctor Sampson practiced
medicine at Bath—Lemont. |
DR. M. H. FERGUSON
was born in Dixmont, Penobscot County, May 31, 1855. His father
is the Hon. W. B. Ferguson of Brewer; his mother, now
dead, was Rebecca Goodwin of Monroe. Dr.
Ferguson was educated in the public schools and at the Maine
Central Institute. He taught school for seven winters in Veazie,
Winter-port, Frankfort, and Belfast. He studied medicine with
Dr. A. C. Hamlin, in Bangor, and graduated at Dartmouth
Medical College in 1879. In 1886 he took a post-graduate
course in New York City at the New York Poly Clinic. Dr.
Ferguson has practiced medicine in Phipsburg since 1880,
and served the town as selectman, auditor, health officer, and
for ten years as supervisor of schools. In 1887 and 1893 he
represented the town of Phipsburg in the State Legislature. He
has had a large practice in the town, and is often called to
Georgetown, Harpswell, Bath, Woolwich, West Bath, and Arrowsic.
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DR. ANDREW J. FULLER
was born in Paris, Oxford County, September 15, 1822. His
parents were Caleb and Hannah Perkins Fuller. He studied
at the Maine Medical School, at the University of New York, and
at Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia. He graduated from
the Maine Medical School in 1841; settled in Searsmont, and in
1847 moved to Bath. Among his successful major operations have
been amputation at the hip joint and resection of the humerus.
He is a member of the Maine Medical Association and its
president in 1871. Previous to the war he served seven years as
surgeon of the Second Maine Infantry, and was post-surgeon at
Bath during the war. He served as president of the Bath Board of
Trade many years, has served one term as trustee of the Maine
Insane Hospital, and is one of the consulting physicians and
surgeons of the Maine General Hospital. In July, 1843, he
married Miss Harriet, daughter of George
Marston of Bath, and has had three children, one of whom,
Mrs. Samuel C. Barker, is living and has one child, Byron
F. Barker, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1893. Doctor Fuller
has ever manifested a strong interest in all matters pertaining
to the welfare of his adopted city, standing high in the esteem
of all its people. His conscientious and persevering labors in
behalf of Bath shipping interests have attracted world-wide
attention and have been of appreciable benefit. Doctor
Fuller has had a lifelong membership in the Masonic Order,
ranking high in its offices. |
DR. EDWIN M. FULLER.—The
Freemasons Repository says: " Edwin M. Fuller was born in
Portland, January 8, 1850. When about one year of age his father
moved to South Paris, Me., where he resided until 1860; from
thence he located in Turner, where the homestead still remains.
He fitted for college at Westbrook Seminary and graduated from
there in June, 1869. In September of the same year he entered
Tufts College and received the degree of Master of Arts from
that institution.
"He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from
Bowdoin College, and further pursued his medical studies in the
leading hospitals of New York, and in France, Germany, and
England. At the close of his medical studies he settled in Bath,
where he is still residing, actively engaged in his calling.
"He delivered the first oration before the Alumni
Association of Westbrook Seminary in June, 1877. He was
subsequently elected a trustee of the institution, and is now
connected with the school in that capacity. He has always been
greatly interested in sanitary reforms, and has written many
essays on the subject. In 1876 he received the prize from the
Maine Medical Association for an essay on ' Hygiene of our
Country Towns and Villages.' He is interested in educational
matters and has served for several years as a member of the
school board in Bath. In his profession he has made a specialty
of surgery, and many can testify to his skill. In 1891 he was
elected president of the Maine Medical Asssociation.
" He was made a Master Mason in Nezinscott Lodge,
Turner, in 1871, and joined Polar Star Lodge at Bath in 1875. He
was exalted a Royal Arch Mason in Montgomery R. A. Chapter, in
1875. He received the orders of Knighthood in Dunlap Commandery,
1876. He is a Past Master of Polar Star Lodge; Past High Priest
of Montgomery R. A. Chapter, and Past Commander of Dunlap
Commandery. He has served in the Grand Commandery of Maine as
Grand Warder, Grand Junior Warden, Grand Generalissimo, Deputy
Grand Commander, in 1890 was elected Grand Commander, and
declined a re-election in May, 1891. Past Grand Commander Fuller
is an active, progressive Mason and Knight Templar, and has
rendered a large amount of service to the Craft."
During the first term of President
Cleveland's administration he was United States Pension
Examiner; was in 1893 elected alderman of the city; has been
again appointed pension examiner on the Pension Board at Bath;
is consulting surgeon at the Central Maine General Hospital at
Lewiston; is consulting surgeon at the Maine Eye and Ear
Infirmary, Portland; was appointed surgeon of the Second
Regiment, National Guards, State Militia of Maine, in 1893, with
rank of Major. He married Lizzie E. Gross of Brunswick,
and has three children, of whom, Fred. A. Fuller entered
Harvard University in the fall of 1893. |
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