Authur M Stanley [Parents] was born in 1882 in Maine. He married Florence A Nutter. Authur resided in 1900 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1910 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine.
Florence A Nutter was born in 1886 in Massachusetts. She married Authur M Stanley. Florence resided in 1910 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine.
Rueben Kimball.Rueben married Netta L Marsh.
ECR - Rueben was known as Dick
Netta L Marsh was born in 1870 in Maine. She died before 1930. She married Rueben Kimball. Netta resided in 1900 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. She resided in 1910 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. She resided in 1910 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. She resided in 1920 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine.
Other marriages:Stanley, George P
They had the following children:
F i Mary Bennett Kimball. M ii Stanley Kimball.
William S Marble [Parents] was born in Nov 1871 in Dixfield, ME. He died on 18 Apr 1924 in NY. He married Lulu M in 1893. William resided in 1880 in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States. He resided in 1880 in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States. He resided in 1900 in Rangeley, Franklin, Maine. He resided in 1910 in Rangeley, Franklin, Maine. He resided in 1920 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine.
Lulu M [Parents] was born in Sep 1871 in ME. She died after 1930. She married William S Marble in 1893. Lulu was born in 1869 in Maine. She was born in 1872 in Maine. She resided in 1900 in Rangeley, Franklin, Maine. She resided in 1910 in Rangeley, Franklin, Maine. She resided in 1920 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. She resided in 1930 in Augusta, Kennebec, Maine.
They had the following children:
M i John Carroll Marble was born in 1895. He died in 1962. F ii Dorothy Marble was born on 19 Aug 1910 in Rangely, Maine. Dorothy was born in 1911 in Dixfield, ME. She resided in Kennebec, Maine.
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
about Dorothy Marble
Name: Dorothy Marble
Birth Year: 1910
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Maine
State: Maine
County or City: Kennebec
Enlistment Date: 10 Sep 1942
Enlistment State: Maine
Enlistment City: Portland
Branch: Womens Army Corps
Branch Code: Inactive Reserve
Grade Code: Aviation Cadet
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Womens Army Corps
Source: Civil Life
Education: 2 years of college
Civil Occupation: Projectionist, Motion Picture or Stenographer or Teletypewriter Operator or Typist or Court Reporter or Stenotype Operator or Clerk-Typist
Marital Status: Divorced, without dependents
Height: 66
Weight: 132
Albert Barnard Root [Parents] was born on 7 Dec 1919 in Boston, MA. He married Jacqueline Marie Waldron.
Jacqueline Marie Waldron.Jacqueline married Albert Barnard Root.
They had the following children:
M i Albert Barnard Root. M ii Lawrence Root. F iii Deborah Root. M iv Robert Waldron Root. M v David Root.
Henry Orville Stanley [Parents] was born on 22 Mar 1829 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He died on 11 Jan 1913 in Dixfield, Maine. He married Elisabeth Bamford on 12 May 1847 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA. Henry resided in 1850 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1870 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States. He resided in 1900 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1910 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine.
Other marriages:Bennett, Mary Elizabeth
Inventor of the “Rangeley Spinner.” He had a White Maine fish named after him called acoregonus Stanleyi. The fish was named after him as the State Fish Commissioner. There is a photo in the calendar. Henry O. Stanley built 2 grist mills and sold one to Albion Marsh
Elisabeth Bamford was born on 2 May 1826 in Winthrop, ME. She died on 14 Oct 1886 in Winthrop, ME. She married Henry Orville Stanley on 12 May 1847 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, USA.
They had the following children:
F i Nellie Stanley was born in 1865. M ii George Page Stanley was born in 1869.
Bayard Taylor Stanley [Parents] was born on 24 Apr 1861 in Kingfield, ME. He died on 12 Jul 1915 in Kingfield, ME. He married Laura Jane Landers on 15 Sep 1885.
Laura Jane Landers was born in 1860. She died in 1954. She married Bayard Taylor Stanley on 15 Sep 1885.
They had the following children:
F i Agnes Lucille Stanley was born on 26 Apr 1886. She died on 12 Jun 1978. M ii William Solomon Stanley was born on 26 Apr 1888. He died on 24 Aug 1972. F iii Apphia Jane Stanley was born on 13 Jun 1897. She died in 1921.
Henry W. Park [Parents] was born in 1834 in Dixfield, ME. He married Ellen C. Reed on 3 Jul 1865. Henry resided in 1900 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine.
Other marriages:Phelps, Ellen R.
Gleason, Emma L.
[This newspaper article first appeared in the Boston Daily Globe, Sunday July 20, 1890. It was copied and typed by Richard J. Muzzrole, from microfilm in the Boston Public Library, March 1989. It was copied from the Internet by Peter Russell Stowell on October 10, 2003.]
Mayor Park of Mexico Corner
Etched by a Globe Man
Only a schoolhouse, post office, saw-mill, grocery store, blacksmith’s shop and a half dozen houses has Mexico Corner down in Maine, yet it has a mayor. Mexico Corner is in Oxford County, and it’s the chief center of a region that is but a howling wilderness. In appearance Mexico Corner is not unlike any other place of its size, but the characteristics of the people are indeed unique. Because a mayor seems to them to be a necessity, it does not imply that they are an ungovernable people and need a ruler. On the contrary, they are peace-loving and law-abiding citizens and their loyally to one another is remarkable.
Yes, they have a mayor; Henry W. Park is his name. Mr. Park has served the longest term of any other mayor in the United States, it being over 25 years since he took the office. Mr. Park was not elected as mayors are generally, for Mexico Corner is not known in the statutes as a city. Mr. Park did not suffer the many annoyances and trials of a hotly contested election-lucky man as have all other mayors, but he had an easy time of it while winning the honor.
One cold winter’s night over 25 years ago, the entire population of Mexico Corner assembled in Mr. Park’s store to await the arrival of the stage bearing the mails. After they had made themselves comfortable by seating themselves on the counter and cracker barrels, one of the leading citizens called Mr. Park to the front and, in a neat little speech, informed him that after dun consideration and a good deal of “thinkin on’t they had decided not only to recognize him as postmaster, chairman of the selectmen and school committee, justice of the peace, town treasurer, constable, pound keeper, town clerk, tax collector and general provider for Mexico Corner, but they had such a high opinion of his executive abilities that they wished him to accept the additional office of mayor.
Ever since that night Mr. Parks has been known as “Mayor Park,” and he bids fair to be mayor so long as he lives, as there are no signs of an aspiring candidate making his appearance.
Mexico Corner is the same today that it was 25 years ago. Mr. Park’s administration has been a creditable one, and it is not his fault that the place is not now in reality a duly incorporated city and the capital of the State. Owing to the limited natural resources of the town no new industries have yet sprung up, and the population has not made any visible increase. All the residents of the town are ‘tillers of the soil” and everybody looks to Mayor Park to perform all marriage ceremonies, collect taxes, pay the town’s debts, make all necessary arrests. In fact the mayor has to play the part of Pooh Bah to its utmost limit. He does it well, and enjoys it.
A few days ago I found Mayor Park in his field near his house seated upon a stump calmly whittling a stick and silently making calculations for his summer stock of general merchandise. After extending to me a hearty greeting, he said, “Come up to dig good, I suppose? There’s a lot of it up hear” no question about it. They’ve got to take their hats off to this wilderness yet. Why here is our blacksmith next door who is so enthusiastic over this gold discovery that he announces he will shoe anybody’s horse gratis for the gold he gets out of the horse's hoofs, and he makes a good living, too.” “Yes,” the Mayor said afterwards in reply to repeated personal questions, my life has been a checkered one, and perhaps in a measure extraordinary. A full account would embrace the telling of many exploits. I do not care for great notoriety, but of course I am not absolutely unwilling to be come known outside of this hamlet. I was born in Dixfield, Me. My father was Isaac, son of Nathan and Sally (Ward) Park.
The death of my father caused me to return to Maine and in 1859 I came here to Mexico, where I have since lived. Here I have been in trade nearly 30 years. I am now serving my 21st consecutive year as town treasurer, and have held all the offices in our town. I have also represented this district in the Legislation. During the rebellion I was in the ordnance office at Washington. From my majority I have been a red hot Republican and have often thought I would just sit down and knock the false theories of The Globe into smithereens, but as I had little spare time and fearing I might possibly bite more than I could comfortable chew concluded to let the Globe continue benighted-unlearned as to the true faith.
For many years I have been a regular correspondent for newspapers and magazines and I have a deep love for literary work. My business would not allow me to dabble with that much, however, therefore I could not lift myself from obscurity and place myself on the cap of fame’s dizzy heights. I have peddled piles of goods and kept out of want. I have an extensive acquaintance among the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities. I have a large family; my eldest son is a successful lawyer in Portland. My only brother, Rev. George M. Park of Presque Isle, Me., keeps up the Christian reputation of our race. I-well, I am not so good as I ought to be. “How about your being mayor of this place for such a long time?” “Oh, well, “he said laughingly," I have to answer to the titles of mayor, professor, elder, esquire, deacon, brother, governor, and several others. I am one as much as another in the eyes of our people, I suppose.
One of the mayor’s many stories is about an old farmer known as “Uncle Gammon.” Mr. Park had sold him several barrels of flower on a few days time, which was often quite extended, so that one day when he was a little cross, and Uncle Gammon wanted to purchase another barrel on the same terms, he said: “Now Mr. Park if you will sell me this ere barrel of flower I will pay you in a few days.” Mr. Park replied that he had sold him several barrels on those terms, and had been compelled to wait a long time for the pay, and that now he should like to know what he called a few days.
The store was full. Neither was “mealy mouthed” in their conversation, and their peculiar style of talk drew every one’s attention. Finally the roaring climax came when Uncle Gammon defined a few days in this way: “Waal, Mr. Park, a man’s lifetime is a few days, and full of trouble.” The mayor instantly remarked, “Uncle Gammon, you can have the flower.”[The following biography of Mr. Henry W. Park was taken from the Biographical Review, Leading Citizens of Franklin and Oxford Counties, Maine, published in 1897 by the Biographical Review Publishing Company of Boston. - Peter Russell Stowell]
"HENRY W. PARK, a prosperous merchant in the village of Mexico, Oxford County, Me., is widely and favorably known in these parts, having long been prominent, not only as a successful business man, but as a political leader in the Republican ranks and as one of the town officers. He was born in Dixfield, the town adjoining Mexico on the east, on March 13, 1834, son of Isaac and Emeline (Smith) Park.
"Isaac Park was born at the residence of his parents, near the corner of Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. After attending school in that city until he was fourteen years of age, he went to Newton, Mass., to learn the trade of carpenter. Going with his employer soon after to Paris, Me., he there remained until the completion of his apprenticeship, when he removed to Dixfield, to work at his trade. He served as Captain of the old State militia, and officiated for nearly twenty years as Sheriff, being subsequently a member of the legislature. In politics he attained honor and distinction in the ranks of the democratic party. Captain Park was a public-spirited citizen and a man of liberal views, being in religion a Universalist. His busy career was ended by death at the age of fifty-seven. His wife, Emeline, who shared his cheerful religious faith, was a daughter of John Smith of Readfield, Kennebec County, Me. She died at the home of her son, Henry W. Park on January 28, 1878, at the age of seventy-two years.
"Henry W. Park was the eldest of the children born to his parents. He spent early life at home, attending the common school and later the high school in the village until the age of fifteen, and during the next three years being employed in his father's general merchandise store in Carthage, Franklin County, Me. When he was eighteen he went to Boston, there serving four years as salesman in a clothing house. After his father died he returned to Dixfield, and he worked at the carpenter's trade till 1859, when he came to Mexico, and rented a farm. The following year he moved to Mexico Corner, where he now resides. In March, 1861, Park purchased the store that he now owns, continuing in trade until the early part of 1864, when he sold out and went to Washington, D.C., where he served as clerk in Ordnance Department until the close of war. Returning to Mexico in July, 1865, he bought back his old store at the corner, revived his trade, which is now (1896) in flourishing condition.
"In politics Mr. Park is a decided Republican, ever alive to party interests. His standing in the estimation of his fellow-citizens is shown by his frequent election to important offices. He has served as Crier of the Courts four years, Selectman of Mexico three years, Town Treasurer twenty-five consecutive years, and in 1875 he was Representative to the State legislature. He has been for twenty-one years a member of Blazing Star Lodge, No. 30, A. F. & A. A. M., of Rumford Falls; and he is a charter member of Tuscan Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Dixfield, which he named at the time of its organization. Besides being a store-keeper, Mr. Park is an active temperance worker and an able correspondent of the local papers. It is hardly needful to add that he has an extensive acquaintance and a large circle of excellent friends.
"Mr. Park has been three times married. His first wife, Ellen R. Phelps, of Dixfield, with whom he was united in June, 1857, died in August, 1862, leaving two children - Albert Dexter, who is now Register of Probate for Oxford County; and Henrietta, who married John E. Richards, and resides here. His second wife, formerly Miss Ellen C. Reed, of this place, whom he wedded on July 3, 1865, died in January, 1875, leaving one son, Ellery C., who became a lawyer in Bethel, Me. The maiden name of his present wife, to whom he was married in August, 1875, was Emma L. Gleason. Four children have been born to them, namely: Helena O. and Lucy E., both of whom are teachers; and Henry W., Jr., and Eva Grace, who are still at home. Mrs. Park is a native of Mexico, Me."
This is from Emily Barnard's 8/31/1862 letter in the Root family collection.
"Ellen, Henry Park’s wife is dead. She died in the Insane Hospital at Augusta last weeks. She has been insane ever since her last child was born six months ago. She leaves three children. Henry’s mother will take care of them I suppose."This from a letter from Peter Stowell, Dixfield Historian 4-16-2007 after the above letter from Emily Barnard was sent to him.
Henry Park wrote a diary for a few months in 1859. He was 25 years old, newly married and was moving from the Plains of Dixfield, about a mile up Weld St. from the 1820 House, to Mann Hill in Mexico. He describes his social life, his work life, and his love for Ellen and Albert, then their only child. Moving in the winter was a colossal chore for him and he got stuck during the move. He borrowed oxen from my ggGrandfather David Porter Stowell and with the help of friends, finally got moved. During the process, he had harsh words with Ellen and felt badly about it. The diary ends abruptly. Later I learned that Ellen died a couple years after the move, and my heart went out to this young family and their shattered hopes and dreams. I must say that I don't understand how post-partum depression leads to death; I wonder if she committed suicide.To see the details of her illness is especially poignant; it's hard to imagine the horror of the wreck of their lives. Yet, Henry and his children survived. Albert became a county official, perhaps in the sheriff's office, I don't recall. Henry's second wife was also an Ellen and she died too. But they had a child together, Ellery Park, who became a highly-respected attorney in Bethel, Maine, serving on the board of trustees of Gould Academy, the fine prep school there. He had a daughter Muriel Park who married Harry Mason who became vice-president of the Baker Extract company (Baker's Vanilla, Baker's Chocolate, etc.). When she died several years ago, she left Gould Academy $5 million.
Recently I acquired some of Muriel's personal papers including a report card from Gould Academy in 1912. She was a straight A student!
So their lives were all so vital and important, for this and countless other reasons. Henry W. Park is one of my heroes (the same HWP who wrote the notes on Dixfield I sent you a couple days ago). Not only for his diary, his Dixfield notes, his struggles to move to Mexico, his three marriages, two to Ellens and one to Eleanor, but because of his legacy as Mayor of Mexico, his war time service in Washington, DC, his success as a merchant in Mexico, his championing of a new bridge for Dixfield\Mexico and a new factory in Bethel, and his life's example.
Henry's mother was Emaline Park and his father was Isaac. I know he had several brothers and sisters but have not been able to find out who they all were. I have recently MS-Worded an 1865 diary of an unidentified J. Lena Park but have concluded that she was Henry's younger sister (by about 15 years), and they had a brother called Melville and another named George.
Ellen C. Reed was born about 1835 in Dixfield, ME. She died in Jan 1875 in Dixfield, ME. She married Henry W. Park on 3 Jul 1865.
They had the following children:
M i Ellery C. Park was born in Jun 1865.
Freelan Oscar Stanley [Parents] was born on 1 Jun 1849 in Kingfield, ME. He died on 2 Oct 1940 in Boston, MA. He married Flora Jane Record Tileston in 1876.
Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Kingfield, Maine
Invented the Stanley Steamer along with his twin brother, Francis Edgar Stanley. Many engineers experimented with steam cars. The most successful were the Stanley brothers. In 1896 they gave up a photographic plate company (sold out to Eastman Kodak) to build a steamer. For its time it was amazing. But even more amazing were the brothers themselves. Identical twins, they dressed alike and even trimmed their beards alike. Although they refused to advertise their car, their mirror image appearance was more than sufficient to publicize it. Stanley was actually the first really successful automobile corporation in America. By 1899 the business was flourishing and the brothers sold it to Locomobile. But instead of retiring, they built another model, were sued by Locomobile, redesigned the car, and went into business again.
Like many other car makers, the Stanley brothers proved their product by racing tests. It was a good product. It was phenomenally fast. It was dependable. As a matter of fact, the engineers of that time predicted that the car of the future would be steam driven.
The first great triumph of the Stanley Steamer came in 1906. A car with a strange body appeared at Daytona Beach, Florida, in January of that year. It looked like a small boat with a prow front and rear. Actually this was an early attempt at streamlining. The slender, highwheeled vehicle flashed across the sands at a little over 127 mph, setting a new land speed record. It was a great record. Darracq had held the previous record with a speed of 109 mph, made in 1905. Stanley held the record until 1910, when Barney Oldfield drove a Benz only four miles per hour faster.
Stirred by their success, the Stanley brothers returned in 1906 with the same car. They were set for an all-out effort. They tuned the car to a fine edge, and ran the boiler pressure up to an astronomical figure. With Fred Marriott, who had driven the previous year, at the wheel, the machine started down the beach. The speed increased steadily 150, 160, and still climbing. The speedometer now read 197, and the needle showed no sign of easing down. Suddenly the car hit a slight bump, and Nature's laws of aerodynamics took over. The bottom of the car was completely smooth, in fact it functioned as a wing. Marriott and the Stanley became airborne! For about 100 feet the car really flew. Then it landed. A crumpled wreck and a badly injured driver were the result. The speed was necessarily unofficial, but it was not until 1927 that a record car exceeded the pace of that famous run 197 mph, back in 1906!
The Stanleys kept building. They produced many passenger models, which sold quite well to the American public. In 1917, they retired and sold the company, but the Stanley Steamer was not discontinued until 1925.
What happened to the steam car? Other companies made them successfully. There was a White, a MacDonald, a Detroit, a Coats, which lasted into the twenties, and the Doble was built until the early thirties. The steamer was cheap to operate and simple to drive, with very little to get out of order. Acceleration was amazing and the power was tremendous. It was a silent, smooth-running machine which needed only water and anything that could burn.
But there were shortcomings. It sometimes took as much as a half-hour to get enough boiler pressure to start. There were all kinds of valves to set and keep clean. The cars needed a great amount of water, and filling stations were few and far between. Although gearing and transmission were ridiculously simple, the cars sometimes had a habit of dropping into reverse by themselves. This was embarrassing, especially when traffic was following and the steamer reversed, taking off at full speed backwards. In addition, many old wives' tales circulated. They told of explosions and fire hazard. The final blow was the development of the self-starter for the gasoline engine.
There is no doubt that modern engineers could design a steam car that would conquer the objections. But it is too late. The internal combustion engine is the ruler of the roads and the steam car is a thing of the past.
Flora Jane Record Tileston was born in 1847. She died on 25 Jul 1939 in Estes Park, CO. She married Freelan Oscar Stanley in 1876.
Fred S Chase [Parents] was born in 1864 in Dixfield, Maine. He married Lena Lane. Fred resided in 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States. He resided in 1910 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1920 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1930 in Mexico, Oxford, Maine.
1910 and 1920 Mexico, ME Census says he is divorced. Listed in all the censuses as a boarder. 1930 Mexico Census says he is a fireman at the spool mill. He's not married in 1880 and he is divorced in 1910. Could have a family between those time frames.
PossiblyFred Chase is listed with Marcia H Chase in the 1900 Portland, ME census record with daughter Isabel J Chase born abt 1887. In the 1910 Boston Ward 16, Suffolk, MA Census Marcia H Chase is listed as a boarder and single. Same birth year. Could be that they divorced between 1900 and 1910.
Lena Lane.Lena married Fred S Chase.
They had the following children:
M i Walter Chase.
Amos Trask White [Parents] was born on 2 May 1816 in Dixfield, ME. He died before 1868. He married Mary S. Millett.
Went to South Boston, MA
Mary S. Millett was born on 9 Sep 1816 in Norway, MA. She died in Boston, MA. She married Amos Trask White.
Other marriages:Cox, Thomas J
When Mary's first husband, Amos White died, she married her sister's husband, Thomas Cox and went to Dixfield, ME to raise Almira's children.
They had the following children:
M i Amos Trask White was born on 27 Dec 1840. M ii Henry Augustus White was born on 22 Oct 1842.
Died by suicideM iii Edwin Hiram White was born on 10 Apr 1844.