The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-05
OBITUARY..
Franklin j. Rollins.

67.
Mr.. Rollins was the son of Daniel g.
Rollins, for long time judge of the
Probate court of STAFFORD county, N.
H., and was born at Wakefield, N. H,
April 3rd, 1897.
He was man of staunch English
stock, and descendant in the eighth
generation of James Rawlins, who
came to this country in 1852. After a
short residence,at Ipswich and Newbury,
Mass, he settled at Dover, N. H., in
1914; and that county in New Hampshire
has been the home of the Rollins family
ever since.
Mr.. Rollins passed his youth in New
Hampshire and was engaged in active
business in Somersworth until 1862,
when he was appointed deputy collector
of internal revenue under Collector
Nathaniel J. Miller, and moved to Port
land.
After the death of Mr.. Miller he was
appointed collector of internal revenue
and held the office for period of
twenty-five years until the Republican
party went out of power, when Hon.
Charles Ell. Chase succeeded him.
After retiring from Office, Mr.. Rollins
formed partnership with Mr.. E. L. Q.
Adams in the insurance business; and
the business connection then formed was
existing at the time of his death.
Mr.. Rollins leaves widow, the
daughter of Ichabod Jordan of Somers-
worth, H., three daughters, one the
wife of Hon. Clarence Hale. one the wife
of DR.. Irving E. Kimball, the third un-
married, and two sons, Jordan j.,
graduate of Dartmouth, class of '92, now
studying law with his uncle, ex-Surro-
gate Daniel G. Rollins of New York, and
the other, Weld A., a student at Dart
mouth college.
He also leaves two brothers, Daniel
G.Rollins of New York, and George
Frederick, in charge of one of the
bureaus in the treasury department at
Washington. His brother, E. Ashton
Rollins, the first commissioner of in
ternal revenue, died some years since.
Mr.. Rollins was president of the Con
solidated Electric Light company, presi-
den of the Provident Aid Society, ex-
secretary of the Citizens Relief, chair
man of the building committee of the
new State street church, and chairman
of the parish committee.
He was a man of no less marked
abilities than the brothers whose official
positions brought them into greater
prominence before the country, of most
genial manners and beloved and re-
spected by all who knew him.
He was man of marked character
and sterling integrity, and showed at its
best the highest type of the New Eng
land character He had the broadcast,
kindIiest nature which had no enmities
and no littleness, and which won the
love of every body who came in contact
with him. His death is real loss to
the whole community.
The funeral will take place Tuesday at
2 O'Clock, at his late residence. Burial at
the convenience of the family.
David Augustus Easton
The death of David Augustus Easton
at Cam bridge, Mass, is annouced. He
was born in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
August, 1s42. He graduated in the class
of '65 at Bowdoin College, and then
studied law for time. Afterwards he
entered the Andover Theological Semi
nary and graduated there in 1869. He
was called to the passionate of the Second
Congregational church, Danbury, Conn.,,
where he remained until 1876, when ne
accepted a call to the Congregational
church at Naugatuck. In 1879 he was
compelled by his health to retire from
the active ministery and engaged in
banking in the firm of Body, Mcclellan
& Co., of New York. Later he removed
to Cam bridge, Mass, where he was
practitioner of Christian Science. He
married NJ. E., daughter of the late S. T.
Corser, Esq, of this city. His widow
and daughter survive him.
James M. Bailey.
Montgomery Bailey, "the Danbury News
MANI died suddenly this morning. He
had been sick about two weeks with
bronchitis, but there was nothing alarm
ing in his condition till within twenty
four hours of death when pneumonia
developed. His wife survives. j. M.
Bailey was born at Albany, N. Y, Sep
tenn Der 25. 1S41. He removed to Dam
bury in 1860. In 1862, he enlisted in the
18th Connecticut Infantry. While at the
front, he wrote many graphic and
humorous letters to the local newspapers.
Returning to Danbury, after the close OF
the war he purchased the Danbury
Times which he conducted until he pur-
chased the Danbury Jeffersonian in 1870.
These two papers he consolidated under
the name he afterwards made so well
known in all parts of the English speak
ing world as "The Danbury News"
Notes.
I.Alonzo Caldwell, a veteran of the
late war and well known citizen OF
Oxford, died at his home Saturday at er
long illness from disease contracted in
the serv ice, aged 81 years. Mr.. Caldwell
enlisted early in the war in the 10th
Maine regiment. also serving IN the 10th
Maine Battalion and the 29th Maine to
the close of the war.
A. C. Carr, one of the prominent
citizens of Winthrop, died Saturday
morning, after an illness of only two