The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-11-12
At the annual spring meeting the MON

penSes 100000. An effort was made to
pass a vote instructing the Selectmen not
to license retailers OF ardent spirits; it
failed because those engaged in the bust
ness, and their friends, and those who
disapproved of the arbitrary measures
adopted by some of the indiscrete advo-
Gates OF temperance opposed it.
The following town officers We're re-
elected; Nathaniel NJ. Lowney, Benja-
min T. Blackstone, Samuel Haynes. Sc
lectmen, David w. Lothrop, Clerk, limo
thy Chase, Treasurer Mess Chase and
Blackstone are the only members of the
municipal government for the year who
are now living
Mr. Lowney was the son of William
Lowney, a graduate of Dublin College,
Ireland originally a school-teacher by
vocation, who came to this place from
Monmouth, Maine and died here in 1915,
aged seyentysiX. Nh Lowney, who was
never OF vigorous health, commenced the
| study OF medicine with the late Doctor
Hollis Monroe but after while.abandoned
it and studied law in the office of the late
Judge johnson. After being admitted to
the Bar he opened an Office at Frankfort
where he remained few years and then
returned to this place lie occupied, sue
cesslvely, the office OF Register OF Probate
and Clerk of the Courts for the county oil
Waldo, and afterwards the Office OF Col
lector of Customs for this port For many
| years he was a member of our Board of
Selectmen. He was never fond OF the
practice OF his profession, and is best re-
membered as an active, earnest, inilu-
entail politician Of the Democratic school
! The T0le he played was not an as
| summed one; he was by nature ;tutago-
nistic to any and every thing that was
| tinctured with aristocracy it may be said
of him, truthtully that he was born Il
| democrat, and that he never sold his birth
right for u mess of aristocratic pOttage
There has never been in this county a
political partisan who exercised a more
controlling and extensive influence than he
did He died at his residence on Church
street, purchased by him of FclloWes and
! Simpson, the first publishers of the Repub-
lican Journal, now occupied by his widow,
on the tenth day of MAY 1850, aged fifty
| seven.
! Mr.. Haynes was born in Durham in this
State and came here to reside in 1879. He
was by trade a shoemaker. but abandoned
| that vocation after residing here several
years and engaged in business as Il drug
| gist and apothecary; he occupied the
northerly store in the Old Nesmith Build
ing, on the site Of the store now occupied
| by j. T.. Thompson. He was for several
| years in succession member OF our Board
| OF Selectmen, was at one time Master Of
| Phoenix Lodge of f. and A. Masons, and
at all times one Of our Worthiest most
| highly respected and esteemed fellow
| townsmen He died at his residence ON
Church street, built by him. now occupied
| by his widow, on the sixth OF january
| 1861, aged titty-nine,
Mr. lothrop was the son of Ansel Lo-
throp, Esq, who resided in this place in
the early part of this century and removed
to Searsmont, when it was part of Greene
| Plantation, where he died in 1884. Mr.
/. was for some years engaged in trade in
| this place alone and rs a member of the
firm OF Lothrop n Woodman. For many
years he was our town clerk, deputy col
| lector of Customs for this Port and Regis-
ter of Deeds. lie was member of the
| Executive Council for the year 1881 when
Robert +. Dunlap was Governor He
died on the 10Th Of May, 1s49, aged forty
| one, and was buried with the hon0rs OF
the Odd Fellows, of which Fraternity he
was prominent member.
During the month OF March the throat
distemper and scarlet-tevtr prevailed here
and proved fatal in many cases especially
| among the young, although tlose Of ma
ture age did not in all eases escape. On
| the thirteenth OF the month the Hon.
Bohan Prentiss Field, father of our fellow
citizens Charles d., Bohau r. and t. f.
Field, died in his siXty-ninth year lie
was born in Northeld, Mass, graduated
ut Dartmouth in 1913, and pursued Ibis
legal studies in the office OF Hon. Samuel
Dana at Amherst, n. IL. soon after his
admission to the Bar, in 1893, he came to
Maine and opened an office at North ar
mouth. He came here to reside in the
year following; he was the first lawyer
who established his residence within the
territory now constituting the County OF
| Waldo The Office he occupied, built by
him in the year he came here, stood ON
the site Of the store now occupied by ).
Sleeper ami Son it remained there until
it was burned in the fire OF 1860. lie was
married in 1907, ard built the house on
the hill long known rs Fields Hill, now
occupied by his son b. +. Field.
When the county OF Waldo was organ
lied. i'll 1927, he was appointed Chief
Justice Of the Court of Sessions and held
the office for ten years, when the Court
was abolished, performing the duties of
the office during that time faithfully and
impartiaily and to the entire satisfaction
Of the people Of the county. His associ-
ates on the bench We're Joseph Shaw OF
Thorndike and Thomas Eastman OF Pa
lermo. He was well read lawyer, safe
and sound counsellor; he was never an
enthusiastic practitioner of his profession,
finding, like many Of his professional
brethren of that day, occupation more
congenial to his taste in agricultural pur-
suits. He was often selected by his fellow
townsmen as arbitrator between them in
their matters of difference, and speaking
of him in that capacity Mr.. Willis, in his
History of the Law, Courts and Lawyers
of Maine, very trnthtully remarks, that
mo man entered on the Investigation of
the rights of parties freer from passion or
prejudice, and no one exercised a sounder
Judgment. Such was his known integrity
of character and singleness Of purpose
that he received Il thousand unsought
tokens Of public favor and confidence.
Few men ever died more highly esteemed
and respected by all who knew him"
Mr.. Field retired from the practice of
his profession some years before his
utct'St, Dttu llt lllSll poStllpH llC Httti "
the last in the estimation OF his profession.
al brethren appears in the resolutions
adopted by them at a Bar meeting held
Immediately after his decease; they con-
stitute a most truthful eulogy Of the man
and the lawyer. RESOLVED, that we
cherish the highest respect for his memory,
for his talents, industry, moral worth, and
gentlemanly department; that we hold
/ all
interestedness and taithfulness in the dis
charge OF the duties of his profession;
that we honor him as the one who first
came to practice law within the limits Of
the county, and rs the father Of the Bar;
and that we Will attend his funeral as
mourners."
The remaining annals Of this year will
| be found in our next chapter.
| A Fearful Typhoon.
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