Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-05

| committee and Superintendent o
Schools for a number of years. Mem
Der of Starks Grange and Of Euclid
Lodge OF Masons in Madison. Five
| years chairman OF republican towr
committee of Starks and four years
| member Of republican county com.
mittee. Owned and operated the saw
and grist mills in Starks for eight
years. Has large orchard on his
farm.
publican, Unitarian, counsellor at law
| married; age IS. Born in Portland;
educated in the schools Of that city
and at Dartmouth College; member of
the Portland school committee in 1889
%; assistant county attorney of Cum
berland county in 1S93-97 Always a
republican.
WEBSTER. JUSTUS, Chesterville,
Up. O. North Chesterville.) Republic
can, Universalist, land surveyor and
farmer, married; age IS. Born in Jay;
attended the public and high schools.
Teacher in the public schools for fifteen
years; Supervisor of Schools: Select
man and Assessor: Treasurer; Clerk:
County Commissioner; Assistant Post
master; at present chairman of school
board. Served three years in the civil
war in Co. l., First Me. Cavalry; JUS
tice OF the Peace for the last thirty
years; President of the Androscoggin
Veteran Association: Past Commander
of A. C. Gill Post. G. A. r.; Past Mas
ter of Wilton Lodge of Masons, No. 156.
Has been engaged for thirty years in
Probate courts. settling estates.
WEED. JOHN r.. Jr.. Monticello.
Republican, no religious preferences,
farmer and teacher. married; age 81.
Born in Monroe; educated in the COM
mon schools and at Houlton Academy.
A very successful teacher. Deals IN
farm machinery. Has held the various
town offices. Always a republican.
WEST. NORTH MILTON. Bidde-
ford. Democrat, Universalist. railroad
agent, single; age Al. Born in Brook
line, Mass; educated in the public
schools of Boston. and at Corners
Commercial College. Member of Bid
deford school board for eight years:
term expires in 1902. President Bidde-
ford Common Council two years char
man Board of Aldermen two years, and
the present chairman of that body. Be
longs to c. c. Dame Lodge A. F. & A.
NJ, Georgetown, Mass; .Peutucket
Chapter of 'Haverhill, Mass; and .Ha-
verhill Commandery, No. IA. Knights
Templar; also Laconia Lodge No. A.
York Encampment No. II. I. @. o. F.,
and Canton u. H. Dearborn. = No. 5.
P. NJ. of Biddeford; Squando Tribe No
/, Imp. Order of Red Men.
WILBUR, JOEL, Avon. Republican.
Congregationalst. merchant, married;
age IS. Born in Phillips. He was re-
turned to the legislature without dis.
senting vote on the republican side.
During his public career he has served
as member of House of Representa-
tives in 1889 and Of the Senate in 1891.
He was chairman of the committee on
banks and banking in both branches.
also on fisheries and game, mercantile
affairs and insurance, engrossed bills
and Federal relations. Mr.. Wilbur was
appointed delegate and attended the
centennial celebration of the Inaugural
ton of George Washington. held in
New York in April. 1889. and was an
alternate and attended the Minneapolis
convention as elector at large and cast
the electoral vote of Maine for William
Mckinley, two years ago. He has held
all the four offices in the gift of the
town of Avon during the past % years.
While living in Avon and deeply in
terested in the affairs of that town, his
business interests and property rights
are and must necessarily besin Phillips.
I. -tl,a ,1,s,,. Of tHe.
wholesale and retail house of Wilbur
& Co.
WILSON, FREDERICK H.. Bruins
wick. Republican. Congregationalist.
druggist, married.; age 40. Born IN
Topsham; cducated in the town schools.
at Litchfield Academy. and at the
Academy in Laconia, N. II. One of the
promoters of the Brunswick Electric
Light & Power Co., and the Brunswick
Electric Railroad. Director for fiji
teen years of the First National Bank
of Brunswick. President in 1897 of the
Maine Pharmaceutical Association.
Three years on the Board of Health
Founded the Pine Spring Water Co.
Actively identified with all the bust
ness interests of the town. and also
with the Masonic fraternities. Always
a republican.
WILSON, ELBRIDGE NJ, Gorham
Republican, Methodist, farmer, mar
ried: age A. Born at white Rock"
Gorham. Educated at GOrham Semi
nary, and at the Maine Wesleyan
Seminary. kent's Hill. Served on
board of school committee of Gorham
three years. also on board of Selectmen
from 1891 to 1894, being chairman IN
1894 Member Of the last House.
Always a republican.
WILSON, EMERSON K, Cherryfield.
Republican, manufacturer of packing
cases. Age As years. No religious
preferences, widower. Was educated in
the school of Cherryfield and has since
lived there. Has held the office of Dep
uty Sheriff.