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Biographies
A
HISTORY
OF THE
FIRST Century
OF THE TOWN OF
PARSONSFIELD, MAINE
INCORPORATED AUG. 29 1785
AND
CELEBRATED WITH IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES,
NORTH PARSONSFIELD,
AUGUST 29, 1885.
PORTLAND, ME.
BROWN THURSTON & COMPANY
1888
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NEWBEGIN. This
family has been prominent at Kezar Falls during about all of the
present century. George Newbegin, whose father
came from Scotland, settled in Parsonsfield in 1803. He had two
brothers, Jonathan and David. The former settled in Pownal,
and the latter, who was a sea-captain, settled in Portland.
George married Lettice Harding, and had a
family of nine children, a majority of whom were born prior to
his residence in Parsonsfield, viz.: Annie, David, Jonathan,
Polly, George, Abraham, Betsey, Flanders, and Elias.
During the war of 1812, he was in the service and held the
commission of Captain. Several of his sons have been
residents of the town. None now remain here save the
youngest, Elias, who was born in Parsonsfield in 1806.
He has been, and is, a man of much energy and business capacity.
In early life he left home, to learn the comb maker's trade.
Soon after completing his term of apprenticeship, he was chosen
superintendent, and had charge of the comb factory for ten
years. Failing health obliged him to abandon the business,
and he returned to his native town, where he was successfully
engaged in mercantile business for many years, and where he yet
resides. In 1834 he was married to Miss Mary Hoyt
of Rhode Island, and they have a. family of five children, viz:
Carrie, John S., Elias, Walter, and Fannie.
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JOHN S. NEWBEGIN,
Eldest son of Elias and Mary (Hoyt) Newbegin, was born in
Port land in 1842. He was educated in the Saco Grammar and
High schools, early studied navigation, and at the age of
seventeen, went to sea. He followed a sea-faring life for
four years, becoming second mate at the expiration of one year,
and soon thereafter arose to the position of mate of a
merchant-ship. At this time he received a commission from
the Secretary of the Navy as an Acting Master's Mate, and served
until the war closed, on board the Frigate Niagara and the
United States Ship Onward, as a watch officer. In this
service he contracted malarial fever, and was otherwise severely
injured, rendering him unable now to perform any active
business, though for seventeen years after the close of the war,
he engaged in mercantile business at Kezar Falls, despite the
disadvantages under which he labored, and the in tense suffering
to which he was subjected, in consequence of his great
misfortune. In 1874 he married Miss Julia A. Mahony of
Saco, and they have one son, Frank L. Newbegin.
Mr. Newbegin is a man of fine physical proportions, with an
active, well-balanced mind, full of vital force, and indomitable
will power which enables him to surmount and overcome obstacles;
and with a native grace and ease, and an open generosity and
genuine hospitality, which make his presence felt, and his home
one of attraction and comfort. Within the few years past
he has erected near his old home, a beautiful residence, which
is one of convenience and attraction, where his many friends
find a warm and cordial welcome.
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