The Republican journal., 1906-02-01

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Address DIR. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Island for seven years, when he fol-
lowed his brother Ezra to jackson. He
was a fine penman and a practical land
surveyor, his beautiful and symetrical
hand work being now frequently found
upon the old deeds and plates, also
county records. He was also county
commissioner several terms IN old fed
eraIist times, when Waldo was part
Of Hancock county, and was several
times the candidate of the Wing party
for county commissioner and repre-
sentative from Jackson to the legis-
lature when that party was in the mi
nority. He was most dignitied and
austere in manners and radically prom
inent in giving expression to his ideas.
His professional requirements made
his services always sought and he was
constantly engaged in surveying or as
sisting various ones of the county Of
ficials at Belfast.
Mary married Allen Davis of Brooks,
and of that family of one son and four
daughters, Ellen only survives. She
married Otis J. Libby and resides in
Melrose, Mass.
Phoebe married Wellington Roberts,
their surviving children being DR.. E. j.
Roberts of Augusta, Freeman n.
Roberts of Newport, who served the
full term of three years with the 4th
Maine Infantry, and Mrs. Amorena
Grant of Boston, Mass. Chloe was a
school teacher for many years, then
married Dr. Sumner Hall They both
passed away many years ago, leaving
no children.
Emily married Loren Fletcher of
Jackson and they now reside in Bel
fast. Me-, as does their son Willis.
Fremont Fletcher, the oldest of the
children, is prominent and wide
awake real estate dealer of Boston and
Melrose, Massachusetts. The youngest,
Fred Fletcher, is also of Boston, and
the only daughter, Mrs. Mary Clark,
resides in Lowell, Mass.
This branch of the Abbot's descended
from George Abbot, who came from
England in 1914 to Andover New
Hampshire. His great grandson, Nv H.
liam Abbot, was the father of Ezra and
Isaac Abbot, the pioneer cltiZenS of
Jackson, who were younger members
of the family. Their Oldest brother,
William Abbot, a graduate of Harvard
College, located IN Castlne, Name,
where he was a prominent lawyer and
leading man in Eastern Maine when
the Federalsts controlled the politics
of the State, which was then a part of
Massachusetts; and for several years
after Maine became Il State by separt-
ton.
He was Register of Probate for Han
cock Cuunty-of which Waldo County
was then part-from 1903 until 1921.
He was memberiOf the Constitutional
Convention i'll 1919; the first RepreSen-
tative from CaStlne in 1921, also repre-
scented that town in 1922, 1923, 1926 and
1927. He removed to Bangor i'll 1929
drafted the city..charter of Bangor III
1884; and was Mayor of that city in
1913 and 1850. He was one of the lead,
ing lawyers in the State of Maine and
one of the leaders of the Wing party.
Other brothers were DR.. Herman Alb
bot, an early physician of Belfast, and
Dr. John Abbot, who practiced his
profession for many years in Hamp-
den and Bangor.
Dr. Herman Abbot removed to Belfast
from Wilton, n. H., in 1910 and practic
ed his profession there until his death,
which occurred in 1925, at the premature
age of AZ years. He was a prominent
member of the niversalist church,
where he sang in the choir as leading
bass; the tenor chorister being William
Moody, who succeeded Esquire Phineas
Ashman of Brooks as agent of the pro-
orietors of the Waldo lands. DR.. Alb
bott was member of the militia COM
pany of Capt. Thomas Cunningham fol
coast defense in the war of 1912, also a
member of the first fire engine company
of Belfast with Thomas Marshall, VIM.
Quimby, Willard Frederick and other
leading citizens; and a director of the
Maine Bible Society, with Col. Daniel
Lane, Ralph C. johnson, Rev. VIM.
rockingham, Bohan p. Field, Josiah
Simpson, ct al.
| Dr.. Abbot was q, man of pronounced
/ literary tastes and requirements, an
ode written by him for the occasion hav-
ing been sung at the Belfast celebra-
/ ton on July 4. 1920, at which time
Joseph Williamson, ESD, senior, de-
| livered the Grafton, and speeches were
made by the great lawyer, John Wilson,
Dr. Eben Poor, R. c. johnson, Judge
William Crosby, Col. A. W. Atherton
of Prospect; and Hugh G. Anderson,
who twenty-three years later was elect
ed governor of Maine.
The cultivation of his farm was ap-
parently more for recreation than
profit, some of his attention being Civ.
en- to fancy stock, one of his expert
ments being the introduction of the
short or fine haired merino sheep, of
which he had flock of fifty, but they
were not found by other more prac-
tical farmers to be profitable as a
pure breed.
His superior education and decided
manners, added to his taste for books,
maps and study, had a tendency to
cause him to live largely within him
self and create a reputation among his
neighbors for eccentricity. He always
insisted upon a cash payment for every
neighborly obligation. AS once illus.
tratedwhen returning from Belfast with
a heavy load and getting stuck in the
mud, he greatly surprised the man who
helped him out by insisting upon pay
ing him 25 cents for his assistance,
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