Biographies
(Source: History of Bath and environs,
Sagadahoc Co., Maine, 1607 - 1894
Ortland, Me.: Lakeside Press, printers, 1894 - 556 pgs.
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JOHN H.
KIMBALL was educated at Concord, Fryeburg, and Phillips
(Andover) Academies. In 1843 he went South and taught school in
Charles County, Maryland, for two years; was in Washington, D.
C, during the winter of 1845-6. Returning North he studied law
with Judge Samuel Wells, in Portland, and was
admitted to the Cumberland County Bar, December, 1846, when he
commenced the practice of law at Kezar Falls, in Parsonsfield.
In 1848 he removed to Topsham, and in August, 1849, to Bath,
where he has since resided. For a few years he practiced law and
then became actively engaged in the insurance business and
navigation. He was also interested in railroads, and for many
years was director in the Androscoggin and Central Vermont
Railroads, and is now concerned, with many others, in the
ownership of land and cattle in the far West. He was the first
treasurer of the Bath Savings Institution, which office he held
for twenty-five years; was presidential elector in 1872;
representative in the State Legislature in 1878 and 1879, and
senator from 1883 to 1887. In religion he was brought up a
Congregationalism and in politics has always been a Republican. |
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ALFRED LEMONT was
born in Bath, April 5, 1808, and married Miss Malinda
Hoadsdon, of Wales, Me., in December, 1836. They have one
daughter, Aramede Snow Lemont, who was born
in Bath, February 9, 1845, and married Capt. Henry C. Tarbox
in 1866, and they live in Bath. In his early life Mr.
Lemont worked at the blacksmith business in Bath thirty
years, when he relinquished it and commenced ship-building. The
first vessel he built was the schooner Eliza Ann,
at a yard north of Thomas Harward's, in 1835. She
was employed in the coasting trade, and eventually was lost on
Seal Rock while endeavoring to make the harbor at Eastport, to
which port she was bound to load with plaster. In 1835 he began
building ships at Winnegance with Richard Morse &
Sons, and continued to build with them until 1851, when he
established a yard of his own in Bath, in which he built vessels
until 1865, when he relinquished the business, but to the
present time has continually owned in various vessels. He has
been connected in banks in Bath twenty-five years, as a director
in the Sagadahoc National Bank and an incorporator in the
Twenty-five Cent Savings Bank. He is now living in retirement on
a farm at West Bath, realizing a green old age, at a finely
located residence, fronting the beautiful Campbells Pond. |
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MRS. DR. LOMBARD,
who, with her husband, lived at West Bath at so early a date as
1760, was the first to professionally attend the sick within the
region around about Bath. Her specialty was attendance at
childbirth in the duties of which she was expert, and, for such
in particular, was called from far and near. To be ready for a
summons in the night her custom was to be in readiness at a
minute's warning, and as she often had to ride on a "pinion" on
the horse, behind the man who came after her, she kept her
pillion ready at hand. At such times when the man came within
hailing distance of her dwelling he would call out loudly,
"Granny Lombard! Granny Lombard!" Quick to hear, she would, at
the first sound of his voice, leap from her bed, hastily dress,
seize her pillion, emerge from the house, and, from a
neighboring high rock, mount behind her patron, and speed to her
destination. Her "call" ended, she was paid a silver dollar, her
regular fee, and conveyed home in the same manner she came. |
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FREDERIC HENRY LOW
son of David P. Low, a life-long and esteemed resident of
the city, was born in Bath, June 27, 1849, where he received his
education in the public schools. He then entered the
counting-room of J. S. Milliken & Co., as bookkeeper,
where he served three years; was then in the employ of George
H. Nichols in the dry goods business twelve years; became
treasurer of the Knox & Lincoln Railroad Company in 1883; when
the road position; elected treasurer of the Bath Savings
Institution upon the death of John H. Humphreys, in 1891,
and was elected cashier of the Lincoln Bank in 1893.
Mr. Low served as alderman in 1889, and has been a member of
the Common Council for the years 1883, 1892, and 1893, serving
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JOHN S. LOWELL, son
of Capt. Abner Lowell, Jr., was born at Small Point,
Phipsburg, and went to sea at the age of 17 years. He married
Miss C. M. Campbell, of Phipsburg, and they have had two
boys and two girls. When 21 years old he became captain, and
successively commanded the ships Armoriel and Tiger, barque
Alice Minot, ships M. E. Riggs and Merom,
sailing in C. V. Minot's employ twenty-one years, after
which he moved to Bath, where he still resides during the summer
season, and in Charlestown, Mass., winters. Captain
Lowell's wife died when he was on a voyage to China, and he
subsequently married, after three years, the widow of Alfred
Lemont was born in Bath, April 5, 1808, and married
Miss Malinda Hoadsdon, of Wales, Me., in
December, 1836. They have one daughter, Aramede Snow Lemont,
who was born in Bath, February 9, 1845, and married Capt.
Henry C. Tarbox in 1866, and they live in Bath. In his early
life Mr. Lemont worked at the blacksmith business
in Bath thirty years, when he relinquished it and commenced
ship-building. The first vessel he built was the schooner
Eliza Ann, at a yard north of Thomas Harward's,
in 1835. She was employed in the coasting trade, and eventually
was lost on Seal Rock while endeavoring to make the harbor at
Eastport, to which port she was bound to load with plaster. In
1835 he began building ships at Winnegance with Richard Morse
& Sons, and continued to build with them until 1851, when he
established a yard of his own in Bath, in which he built vessels
until 1865, when he relinquished the business, but to the
present time has continually owned in various vessels. He has
been connected in banks in Bath twenty-five years, as a director
in the Sagadahoc National Bank and an incorporator in the
Twenty-five Cent Savings Bank. He is now living in retirement on
a farm at West Bath, realizing a green old age, at a finely
located residence, fronting the beautiful Campbells Pond. |
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