History of Yarmouth, (Cumberland County) Maine United States of America

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Biographies:

Peter Chardon Brooks, underwriter, was born in North Yarmouth, Me., Jan. 6, 1767; son of Edward Brooks, a clergyman, native of Medford, Mass. In 1769 his parents removed to Medford, and in 1781 his father died. The son worked on the farm for a few years, and was then apprenticed to a merchant in Boston. In 1787 he engaged in the insurance business; became secretary, and later manager and owner of a broker's office, and in 1803 he retired from business, having accumulated a large fortune. He later accepted the position of president of the New England insurance company, which he held for some years. He also was president of the seeings bank of Boston, and of the Massachusetts hospital life insurance company, and treasurer of the Washington monument society. He at different times served in both branches of the state legislature, where he was influential in the suppression of lotteries, was a member of the first municipal council of Boston after its incorporation as a city, and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1820. Three of his daughters married distinguished men, Edward Everett, Charles Francis Adams, and Rev. N. L. Frothingham. He died Jan. 1, 1849.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Samuel Gilman Brown, educator, was born at North Yarmouth, Me., Jan. 4, 1813; son of Francis Brown, president of Dartmouth college. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1831. For the next few years he taught school, including two years' service as principal of Abbott academy. He then took a course in theology at the Andover seminary, graduating in 1837. Immediately after his graduation he travelled in Europe, and studied there until 1839, when be accepted the chair of oratory and belles lettres at Dartmouth college. In 1863 he became professor of intellectual philosophy and political economy in that institution. In 1867 he accepted the presidency of Hamilton college at Clinton, N. Y., which he resigned in 188l. He is the author of "The Life of Rufus Choate" (1870), and various lectures and essays. The last few years of his life were passed in Utica, N.Y., where he died Nov. 4, 1885.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Horatio Willis Dresser, author, was born in Yarmouth, Maine, Jan. 15, 1866; son of Julius A. and Annetta G. (Seabury) Dresser, and grandson of Asa and Nancy (Smart) Dresser and of Albion and Dorcas (Pratt) Seabury of Maine, whose ancestors were immigrants to New England in the 17th and 18th centuries. He attended school at Dansville, N.Y.; Denver, Col.; Willows, Napa and Oakland, Cal., and Boston, Mass. He was a telegraph operator and railroad and express agent in California; stenographer, bookkeeper, proofreader and reporter in Boston, Mass.; was employed on New England Farmer, 1886-88 and 1893; was a philosophical student at Harvard, 1891-93, 1895-96 and 1896-97; lecturer on practical philosophy, 1893-98; editor of the Journal of Practical Metaphysics, 1896-98; proprietor of the Philosophical publishing company, 1896-98, and associate editor of The Arena from 1899. He was a member of the Metaphysical club, Boston, from 1895. He was married, March 17, 1898, to Alice Mae Reed (A.B., Wellesley, 1893). He is the author of: The Power of Silence (1895); The Perfect Whole (1896); The Heart of It (1896); In Search of a Soul (1897); Voices of Hope (1898); and Methods and Problems of Spiritual Healing (1899).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor