The Republican journal., 1913-10-23


place. He occupied, successfully, the
Office of Register of Probate and Clerk
of the Courts for the county of Waldo,
and afterwards the Office of Collector Of
Customs for this port. For many years
he was member of our Board of Select
men. He was never fond Of the prac-
tice of his profession, and is best remem-
bered as an active, earnest, influential
politician of the Democratic school. The
role he played was not an assumed one;
he was by nature antagonistic to any
and every thing that was tinctured with
aristocracy; it may be said of him truth
fully, that he was born Democrat, and
that he never sold his birthright for
mess of aristocratic pottage. There has
never been in this county political par
tisan who exercised more controlling
and extensive influence than he did. He
died at his residence on Church street,
purchased by him of Fellowes and Simp-
son, the first publishers of The Republi-
can Journal, now occupied by his widow,
on the tenth day of May 1855, aged fifty
seven.
Mr.. Haynes was born in Durham in
this State and came here to reside in
1925. He was by trade shoemaker,
but abandoned that vocation after resid-
ing here several years and engaged in
business as druggist and apothecary;
he occupied the northerly store in the
old Nesmith Building, on the site of the
store now occupied by ]. c. Thompson.
He was for several years in succession
member of our Board of Selectmen, was
at one time Master of Phoenix Lodge of
F. and A. Masons, and at all times one
of our worthiest, most highly respected
and esteemed fellow townsmen. He
died at his residence on Church street,
built by him, now occupied by his widow,
or the sixth of January 1861, aged fifty
nine.
Mr.. Lothrop was the son of Ansel Lo-
throp, Esq.,, who resided in this place in
the early part of this century and re-
moved to Searsmont, when it was part
of Greene Plantation, where he died in
1884. Mr.. L. was for some years en-
gagged in trade in this place alone and as
member of the firm of Lothrop &
w goldman. For many years he was our
town clerk, deputy collector of Customs
for this Port and Register of Deeds. He
was member of the Executive Council
for the year 1887 when Robert P. Dun
lap was Governor He died on the 29th
of May. 1s49, aged forty-one, and was
buried with the honors of the Odd Fell
lows. of which Fraternity he was prom
inent member.
During the month of March the throat
distemper ard scarlet fever prevailed
here and proved fatal in many cases,
especially among the young, although
those of mature age did not in all cases
escape. On the thirteenth of the month
the Hon. Bohan Prentiss Field, father of
our fellow citizens Charles D., Bohan P.
and B. F. Field, died in his sixty-ninth
year. He was born in Mortified, Mass,
graduated at Dartmouth in 1875, and
pursued his legal studies in the office of
Hon. Samuel Dana at Amherst, N. H.
Soon after his admission to the Bar, in
1899, he came to Maine and opened an
office a. North Yarmouth. He came
here to reside in the year following; he
was the first lawyer who established his
residence within the territory now con-
shutting the County of Waldo. The
office he occupied, built by him in the
year he came here, stood on the site of
the store now occupied by S. Sleeper
and Son: it remained there until it was
burned in the fire of 1865. He was mar
ried in 1907, and built the house on the
hill, long known as Fields Hill, now oc-
cupied by his son b. F. Field.
When the county of Waldo was organ
lied, in 1927, he was appointed Chief
Justice of the Court of Sessions and held
the office for ten years, when the Court
was abolished, performing the duties of
the office during that time faithfully and
impartially ard to the entire satisfaction
of the people of the county. His assoc
iates on the bench were Joseph Shaw of
Thorndike and Thomas Eastman of Pa
lermo. He was we'll read lawyer a
safe and sound counsellor; he was never
an enthusiastic practitioner Of his pro-
fession, finding, like many of his profess
sional brethren of that day, occupation
more congenial to his taste in agricul-
tural pursuits. He was often selected
by his fellow townsmen as arbitrator be-
tween them in their matters of differ
ence, and speaking Of him in that capa-
city Mr.. Willis, in his History of the
Law, Courts and Lawyers of Maine, I"
very truthfully remarks, that mo man
entered on the investigation of the rights
of parties freer from passion or preju-
dice, and no one exercised a sounder
judgment. Such was his known integrity
of character and singleness of purpose
that he received a thousand unsought
tokens of public favor and confidence.