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DR.
HOWARD SPEAR was born in Bowdoinham, Me.; came to Bath at
an early age and afterwards learned the blacksmith trade; was
foreman blacksmith at Goss, Sawyer & Packard's for
thirteen years; married Ada Sawyer in 1876; January 1887,
commenced building vessels in teh firm of Kelley, Spear & Co. |
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ANDREW
TARBOX was a leading and influential townsman of
Woolwich, who commanded Bath ships and owned and occupied, for
many years, the fine old Governor Phips estate, in
that town. Late in life, Captain Tarbox
purchased the Judge Groton property, on High
street, in this city, and built thereon a new house, and passed
his declining years in the midst of his children.
Captain Tarbox was a staunch Republican though all
the eighty-four years of his life, and served his adopted city
repeatedly in both branches of the city government.
Henry C. Tarbox was born on Phips' Point,
Woolwich, December 2, 1836, and was brought up on the old
Phips farm. His father, Andrew Tarbox, being a
ship-master, Henry C. early imbibed the attractions of a
sea-faring life, and, at the age of thirteen, went to sea with
his father. His early education was in the district
schools, but eventually he attended the academies of Pittston
and Litchfield., where he obtained the rudiments of an English
education, and the theory of navigation. From that time on
he sailed in separate ships from that of his father, serving the
regular grades of seamanship to the command of bark Samuel
Tarbox in 1858, commanding her six years, most of the time
in the Clincha Islands trade, coming home in 1865, and remaining
one year; rejoined the Tarbox, lost her in a hurricane
sailing from Baltimore for Aspinwall, and was rescued after
three days without food. He then commanded the ships
Ataska, Alexander, bark Almira Robinson, and retired from the
sea in 1884, living in Bath. On February 15, 1865,
Captain Tarbox married Aramede Lemont, only
daughter of Alfred Lemont, of Bath and they have three
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CHARLES
W. TAYLOR was born in Bath, February 14, 1849, and
married Mary J. Lewis at New Bedford, October 26, 1871.
He grew up in Bath; was educated in the city schools and Maine
Weslyan Seminary, Kent's Hill; was thirteen years in the employ
of the Eastern Express Company in Boston, and seven years in the
employ of the Pullman Company in Montreal; is now in the coal
business in Bath; in 1891 and 1892 was a member of the Common
Council, and an alderman from Ward Six for 1893. In
political sentiments he is a Republican. |
