Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-07

Univer-alst,
Baptist,
Methodist, ;
No religious preferences,
g reported
Free baptist, Friend, Liberal,
Episcopalian, each
BAKER, CHANDLER, Bingham. (Somcrsct coun-
". Republican, Unnersast, farmer, married
age 6S. Boru in Moscow, and attended the dis
| tIict school Brought up on a farm, and has been
| engaged in farming from youth. For twenty
years has been engaged quite extensively in lum-
bering; has kept the hotel In bingham twenty
five years has been on the board of Seleotmen
eighteen years. Town Clerk eight years; one of
the board of County Commissioners from JAN,
1865, to 1871; has settled numerous estates ad.
ministrator aud executor; Justice Of the Peace
about twenty years.
BEATTY, JASON W, Saco, York county, Re
publican. Congregationalist. manufacturer of
leather betting, married: age &C. Born in Bridg-
ton, and attended the public schools of SAGE. Au-
GItor Of accounts and Selectman oDder the town
organization. CITY Treasurer from 1868 10 1876,
and Deputy Collector OF uStoms during Presi-
dent t'ranl's first term. Always republican.
BERRY, JosErH s., Wayne (keunehec county J
Republican, Liberal in religious preferences, mcr-
Chant married; age 10 Born in Wayne, and ed
ucatcd at kent'> Hill Seminary. Afterwards en-
gagged in teaching during the winter season.
Was Assistant Superintendent Of the Maine Re-
form School for seven years, aud when Hon. seth
Scammon resigned, was commissioned bv Gov.
Conv. Superintendent Gd interim Has held the
Offices of Town Clerk and Treasurer for several
years, positions which he now holds, "a well as
Postmaster and Justice of the Peace. Was for
two and half years engaged in the Wholesale -four
and grocery trade in Portland. Has been in trade
in Wayne several years. Member of House in
1871 and of the Senate in 1850. Always a repub-
licsn.
BIsBEr. GEORGE D., Buckfeld, (Oxford coun-
ty). Republican, Baptist, lawyer, married; age
IS. Born in Hartford, and received an academic al
education. Entered the law office of the late
Judge Elisha Winter and Isaac Randall, at Dix
field in August, 1860; remained Is a law student
till June, 1862, at which time enlisted ss private
in Go. {, 10th Maine Regiment. Particpai ed
with the regiment at the battles of Antietam or
| South Mountain, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville
| and gettysburg wounded al Fredericksburg. and
| = pmoted to Lieutenant March -, 1868, cap
tu ed July lst, 1855, at Gettysburg. and remained
prisoner eighteen months was confined st Libby
| Prison, RiChmond, Va, Macon and savannah.
| Ga, aud ,harlcston and Columbia, 5. {. Wa.
| With the five hundred New England officers who
were put in the city of Charleston, under fire, to
| keep the Federal guns from firing the city.
| R"ioned the regiment in season TO be present at
the battle which resulted III Lees surrender. Dis
charged with the regiment June, 1860. Settled in
| Buckfeld IN the practice of his profession, in
| iauuarv 1866; was appointed Asst. Assessor OF
| Internal Revenue in 1869: resigned the office in
! December 1872; member of the House in 1873,
elected County Attorney for Oxford county in
| 1873, reelected in 1876 is at present member
| of the Republican State Committee.
DsrwER, HENRY C.. Freeport Cumberland
| counIvl. Republican, uivt rsai>t. caulker, sin
| gle; age L.. Born in Freeport; educated at the
common school aud at North Yarmouth Academy.
| Served il. the nICn army curing the war OF the
rebelh has held the yallous town Offices men,
oer of the House in 1871 and 1873. and of the Sem
| ,te in 1880. Formerly a whig; republican since
| the formation of the party.
BUxroN. NATHANIEL r., North Arson. (Som-
| Greet county,. National Greenback, Congrega-
| ionslist, lumber manufacturer, married; age IS.
| Born in -Nsion. and attended the town schools.
| Has held the office of Town Clerk and Selectmsn.
| Formerly democrat.
| COFFIN, NoR,NUs l., Harrington, Washing
| ton COUNTY,. Republican, Baptist merchant, mar
| ricd; age is. Born in Addison; educated in the
puhlc schools and at Wsicrvie Academy. Has
aeld all the principal tosn offices. Enlisted in Co
b. Sist Me. Rcgt. at the organization of the regi-
ment served until the close of the war, and mus
| Ter out of reg iment: wss commissioned a. I'd and
| lst Licuteusn ;; commanded company at battle OF
Petersburg until mustered out; was nine months
a prisoner of war in rebel prison pens. Formerly
| q democrat.
CLARKE. JAMES W, Nobleboro, d.incoln
| coun,v). Nasioual Grsenback, Methodist, teacher
| and farmer, married; age 81. Born in Damsris-
| Gotta; his father diving when he was four years
old. he obliged 10 rely upon his own energies
| 10 obtain an educstion obtained common
| school education, and then having completed
! he higher course of study at Lincoln Academy,
| Newcastle, he entered Bowdoin College, in '6S
| lid not complete his course there, but was obliged
10 teach. and in the summer of 1870 was elected
head master of grammar school in Mass, where
he remsned >even years. In the spring Of 1879
| vas elected Supervisor of Schools IN Nobleboro'
l candidate for Repres last and
| was counted in" by Gov. Gsrcelon and Council
Was last year chosen chrirman of hoard of Select
men by the largest vote and majority ever given
to . candidate in town. Formerly republican.