Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-07
BIOGRAPHIES.
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Lewiston. Has held the OTIlceS Oh al
derman, city clerk and city liquor
agent.
CURTIS, OAKLEY c.. Portland.
Democrat; married. In early life was
engaged as a clerk in the offices of the
Grand Trunk railway at Portland, but
in recent years has been engaged in
the coal business as a member of the
firm of Randall, McAlister & Co., the
largest dealers in Maine. He is an ac-
tive member of the Portland Yacht
Club. Has been alderman from ward
], Portland, serving during the years
190G-01 Is prominent in Masonic
bodies.
DANIELS, ISAIAH, Portland. Re-
publican. Unitarian, lumber dealer,
single: age about so. Born in Hope
well. N. f., and attended the common
schools.
DOWNING, SHERMAN r., Sorrento.
Republican, Unitarian, farmer, mar
ried; age Sc. Born in that part of Sui
Ivan now Sorrento. where he has al
ways resided Educated in the COM
mon schools, where he was teacher
for some time. Has held the offices
~
schools. At present chairman of the
board of selectmen in Sorrento. Is
member of the G. A. r., Knights of
Pythias, and Masonic orders.
DAVIDSON, JOHN WILLIAM.
Hammond plantation. Republican; In
dependent Christian, farmer, married;
age co. Born in Salisbury, N. B.; edu-
Gated in the public schools of Bath,
Brunswick and Gardiner. Removed
TO Aroostook from Gardiner in 1861,
after which he worked in the Pioneer
office. Houlton several years. Has
done considerable story writing, serial
and otherwise, for Golden Days Phila-
delphia, which published fourteen SER
ials of from $4,000 to 10000 words
each; Argosy of New York, three SER
ials; and Saturday Night, two. Has
written short sketches and verse for
various publications. Went to MasSa-
chusetts, doing newspaper work on the
Springfield Republican seven years
and on the Boston Globe six years
Health gave way in 1887. when he
came back to Aroostook and resumed
farming Has been chairman of the
board of municipal officers for twelve
years; also Superintendent of Schools
for several years. AS a specimen OF
Mr.. Davidsons literary style, we glad
~ publish the following fine poem or
Eternal Youth recently written by
him on attaining the sixtieth anniver-
sary of his birthday:
Though three score years have passed
away
Since first / saw the light of day.
MY heart has not grown old;
Let others tell of whitening hair,
of spirits crushed by age and care
OF sluggish blood and cold
All these are naught, if we but know
The soul can never feeble grow,
Nor show the frosts OF. Of time.
AS endless as eternity
Oh, glorious thought sublime.
Then measure not your age by years,
Nor count this world a vale of tears,
Though dark the clouds may seem,
Tho light of the eternal day
VIII sweep the mistS of earth away,
And wake US from our dream.
Then shall we see the spring of truth
Which gives US everlasting youth,
If we but seek the grace
To know and act the nobler part,
So that we may be pure in heart
And meetsGod face to face.
A score Of years, hundred score,
Can lessen not, or make it more
The life which is our own,
The way the blessed Savior trod,
We'd falter not nor groan,
But with a faith serene and high,
While feeting years speed swiftly by,
We'd see the changeleSS truth
Which gives us, spite of So-called age,
The title to our heritage
a never-ending youth.
DILLINC;, w. H., Easton. Republi
can, Baptist, farmer, married; age A
~, aJn in h1
mon and high schools. Chairman o.
the board of Selectmen for ten years
Always a republican.
DAVIS, CYRUS W., Waterville. Dem
ocrat, Baptist, investment broker, cor
poration work. Age 46. Born in Bux.
ton; educated in the public schools Of
Buxton and old Gorham Academy
Married Flora E. Davis Of Lisbor
Falls; two children, Harold P, ant
Russell w. For 20 years resident Of
Waterville. Senior member of the firm
of Davis & Soule, with offices il
Waterville. Boston, Mass, New Yorl
City and Saint John, n. Il. Intimately
associated with the public life and af.
fairs of the city Member of Water
vile Lodge, No. 33, F. & A. NJ, Te-
comet Chapter, No. 81, r. A. NJ, ant
st. Omcr Commandery, No. II. MI
Davis is proud of his ancestors ant
traces his family back to Revolutions
airy days. His grandfather, John Da-
Wis, was one of the early pioneers
when Maine was a part of Massachu-
sets and almost a wilderness; his
grandmother. Patience Irish, was bori
in Falmouth January 31st, 1910, and
was the daughter of James Irish, Jr.
who filed such a prominent place in
the early history of the State, having
been called by public sentiment with
a brigade of $500 men to the defence
of Portland in September, 1914; and
holding appointments as surveyor OF
public lands and roads; and represent
ing Cumberland county in the Senate
of Massachusetts, in 1918, at which ses-
sion of the Legislature the act separat-
ing the Province of Maine from the
state of Massachusetts, was passed; and
also having been chosen one of the
delegates from Gorham to the conven-
ton called to prepare constitution
for the new State. Mr. Davis began
his business career in the dry goods
blIsjnesS in the city of RiddefOrd in