Dixfield Descendants of Early Settlers


Thomas J Cox.Thomas married Mary S. Millett.

Other marriages:
Millett, Almira

Mary S. Millett was born on 9 Sep 1816 in Norway, MA. She died in Boston, MA. She married Thomas J Cox.

Other marriages:
White, Amos Trask

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.


Dewitt Clinton Chase [Parents] was born on 15 Oct 1836 in Dixfield, Maine. He died on 2 Jun 1872. He married Florentine E Newman on 18 May 1859 in Canton, Oxford, ME. Dewitt was born on 15 Oct 1836 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He resided in 1850 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1870 in Wilton, Franklin, Maine. He resided in 1930 in Lagrange, IL.

Other marriages:
Hayford, Celia Augusta
Delano, Sarah Ann
Newman, Clara A

Florentine E Newman was born in 1840 in Carthage, Franklin, ME. She died on 3 Jul 1863. She married Dewitt Clinton Chase on 18 May 1859 in Canton, Oxford, ME.

They had the following children:

  M i Elmer Clinton Chase was born on 7 Oct 1861. He died on 15 May 1863.

George McAllister.George married Melissa Randall Wheeler on 9 May 1883.

George had 6 brothers all but one went from Oldtown, Machias, ME to Minneapolis, MN.

Melissa Randall Wheeler [Parents] was born on 10 Nov 1845 in Dixfield, ME. She died in Dixfield, ME. She married George McAllister on 9 May 1883. Melissa resided in 1850 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. She resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine.

ABR notes - Meslissa Wheeler was 4 months old when her mother died and she was called Melissa Barnard until she was 16 when she took her own name. She went to Minneapolis in March 1 1862 (or perhaps 1864?).

They had the following children:

  M i Roy I McAllister was born in 1886 in Minnesota.

Charles Ward Greenleaf was born in 1841. He married Mary Stanley Eustis.

Mary Stanley Eustis [Parents] was born on 22 Feb 1844 in Mexico, ME. She died on 28 May 1934. She married Charles Ward Greenleaf.

They had the following children:

  M i Mace Eustis Greenleaf was born on 8 Dec 1872. He died in Mar 1911.

William Benjamin Edwards was born on 15 Nov 1851 in Framingham, MA. He was buried in Dixfield, ME. He married Susan Edith Stowell on 28 Jan 1883 in Canton, ME.

Susan Edith Stowell [Parents] was born on 28 Jan 1858 in Mexico, ME. She died on 22 Nov 1900 in Boston, MA. She was buried in Dixfield, ME. She married William Benjamin Edwards on 28 Jan 1883 in Canton, ME.

Lived in South Paris, Maine before 1887

They had the following children:

  M i Frank Dexter Edwards was born on 4 Jul 1885 in S. Paris, ME. He died on 3 Apr 1889 in Dixfield, ME.
  F ii Edith S Edwards was born on 28 Sep 1887 in Dixfield, ME. She died on 1 Oct 1887 in Dixfield, ME. She was buried in Dixfield, ME.
  F iii Helen Edwards.

died in infancy

Walter Carpenter died on 4 Jan 1883 in Minneapolis, MN. He married Nancy Barnard.

Nancy Barnard [Parents] was born in Oct 1785 in Marlboro, MA. She died on 29 Jul 1882 in Minneapolis, MN. She married Walter Carpenter.


Maurice Webb Foster was born on 25 Jun 1873 in Buckfield, Maine. He died after 1922. He married Lelia M. Randall. Maurice was born in 1873 in ME. He resided in Not Stated, Franklin, Maine. He resided in 1880 in Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, United States.

Maurice is listed as a passenger on the Megantic sailing from NYC from Feb 18, 1922 and returning on March 15, 1922. I don't know where they sailed to but Maurice states his birthdate, birthplace and his current address: Fidelity Bldgs, Portland, Maine. He is listed as married. So they both died after 1922. He and Lelia do not appear in the 1930 Census.

Lelia M. Randall [Parents] was born in Dec 1879 in Dixfield, ME. She died after 1922. She married Maurice Webb Foster. Lelia resided in 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States. She resided in 1920 in Portland Ward 8, Cumberland, Maine.


Samuel Page, Jr.Samuel married Lydia Stanley.

Lydia Stanley [Parents] was born on 5 Apr 1811 in Winthrop, ME. She died on 21 Jan 1849 in Chelsea, Suffolk, MA. She married Samuel Page, Jr.

After her mother's death when she was 2 years old, she was adopted by a neighbor, Samuel Page of Readfield, Maine, and her name was changed to Margaret Anne Page. She married her step brother, Samuel Page, Jr.

They had the following children:

  M i George Shepard Page,.

Occupation: Was a member of the NYC firm - Page, Kidder, & Co

Francis Edgar Stanley [Parents] was born on 1 Jun 1849 in Kingfield, ME. He died on 31 Jul 1918 in Newburyport Turnpike, Wenham, MA. He was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Kingfield, ME. He married Augusta May Walker on 1 Jan 1870.

Invented the Stanley Steamer along with his twin brother, Freelan Oscar Stanley. See notes on Freelan Oscar for information on the Stanley Steamer.

An award-winning protrait artist, he patented the airbrush in 1876. He and his brother Freelan Oscar became partners in the Stanley Dry Plate Co. in 1884 and patented a dryplate coating machine that revolutionized the process. Eastman Kodak bought Stanleys' dry plate company in 1904 long after F.E. had begun tinkering with motorized carriages, using steam as the energy source. His machine was demkonstrated in 1898 at Charles River Park Velodrome in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it set a world record of 27 mph. The brothers worked in a converted bicycle shop in Watertown, Massachusetts, filling 100 orders in 1898-99 before selling out to a magazine publisher who rechristened the early Stanley Steamers as the Locomobile. Later they got back into the business.

F.E. was killed in 1918 when he crashed a Steamer near Topsfield, Massachusetts and it is said that this lead to the demise of the company some 6 years later. F.O then turned to a violin making business. Both brothers made violins as a hobby, all their lives.

Augusta May Walker was born on 20 Aug 1848. She died on 11 Jul 1927. She married Francis Edgar Stanley on 1 Jan 1870.

They had the following children:

  F i Blanche May Stanley was born on 14 Dec 1870.
  F ii Emma Frances Stanley was born on 15 Aug 1876.
  M iii Raymond Walker Stanley was born on 1 Apr 1894. He died on 20 Sep 1985.

Charles Bowker was born in Paris, ME. He married Margaret Stanley.

Margaret Stanley [Parents] was born in Nov 1869 in ME. She married Charles Bowker.

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