History of Bath, (Sagadahoc County) Maine United States of America

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Thomas Freeman Moses, educator and physician, was born in Bath, Maine, June 8, 1836; son of William and Sarah (Freeman) Moses, and grandson of Nathaniel Moses of Scarborough, Maine. He was graduated at Bowdoin college in 1857; studied medicine in Bath, Maine, and in New York city, and was graduated at the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1861. He attended clinical schools and hospitals in London and Paris, 1861, and in 1862 entered the hospital department at Washington, D.C., as acting assistant surgeon. He had charge of several government transports and hospitals, and during the summer of 1864 was engaged in transporting wounded men from the battle fields of eastern Virginia. He also served as executive officer of the hospital steamer Connecticut and during a period of six weeks removed 14,000 men to the hospitals at Washington and Alexandria. He retired from the service in 1864, owing to ill health, and in 1866 settled in practice in Hamilton county, Ohio. He was married in 1867 to Hannah Appleton, daughter of John and Charlotte (Appleton) Cranch, and granddaughter of Judge William Cranch of Washington, D.C. He was made professor of natural sciences in Urbana university, Ohio, and director of the schools for girts in 1870; acting president of the university, 1886; was president, 1888-94; a trustee, 1886-99, and served as treasurer of the board and chairman of the executive committee. With the Rev. Theodore N. Glover he founded the Central Ohio Scientific association in 1874 and edited its Proceedings in 1878. He is the author of: Spiritual Nature of Force, and a translation of Emile Saigey's Unity of Natural Phenomena (1873).

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

William LeBaron Putnam, jurist, was born in Bath, Maine, May 26, 1835; son of Dr. Israel and Sarah Emery (Frost) Putnam; grandson of Israel Putnam of Sutton, Mass., and of William Frost of Topsham, Maine, and a descendant of John Putnam of Salem, Mass., of Dr. Francis LeBaron of Plymouth, Mass., of Anthony Emery of Newbury, Mass., and afterward of Kittery, Maine, and of George Soule of Plymouth, Mass. He was graduated from Bowdoin, A.B., 1855, A.M., 1858; was admitted to the bar in December, 1857, settled in practice at Portland as the copartner of George Evans , and continued to practise in Portland until he was appointed U.S. circuit judge, building up an extensive professional business, He was mayor of Portland, 1869-70. He twice declined appointment as justice of the supreme judicial court of Maine. In September, 1887, he was appointed by President Cleveland, with Thomas F. Bayard and James B. Angell, plenipotentiary to negotiate with Great Britain in the settlement of the rights of American fishermen in the territorial waters of Canada and Newfoundland. He was also the representative selected by the President to sit on the Boring Sea Claims commission under the treaty with Great Britain of Feb. 8, 1896, and served, 1896-98. As Democratic candidate for governor of Maine in 1888 he received the largest vote ever given in that state to a gubernatorial candidate strictly of that party. Although a Democrat, he was appointed by President Harrison judge of the U.S. circuit court for the first circuit, his commission issuing, March 17, 1892. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin college in 1884, and from Brown university in 1893.

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

McDonald Clarke, poet, was born in Bath, Maine, June 18, 1798. He appeared in New York city in 1819 and his eccentricities in dress and manner made him a marked character. He married an actress, wrote verses, and became known as the "mad poet." On March 4, 1842, he was found in the streets of the city destitute and apparently mad, and was taken to the city prison, where he was lodged in a cell. The next morning he was found drowned, the water flooding the cell from an open faucet. His published works are, A Review of the Eve of Eternity (1822); The Elixir of Moonshine (1822); The Gossip (1825); Afara, or the Belles of Broadway (1829); Death in Disguise (1833); Poems (1836); and A Cross and a Coronet (1841). He is the author of the couplet "Now twilight lets her curtain down, And pins it with a star." He died in New York city, March 5, 1842.

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

Joseph William Jenks, orientalist, was born in Bath, Maine, Nov. 23, 1808; son of the Rev. William Jenks, and seventh in descent from Joseph Jenks, of Lynn, Mass. He was graduated from Amherst in 1829, and was appointed chaplain and professor of mathematics on board the Concord, commanded by Commodore M. C. Perry. He resigned his commission to study the oriental languages among the natives; was a student at the Royal School of Languages, Paris, and acquired a thorough knowledge of oriental and modern languages. On his return to the United States he was elected a member of the American Oriental society. He assisted in preparing the revised edition of the Comprehensive Commentary on the Bible, edited by his father, 1843-50; was principal of a young ladies' school in Boston, 1850-52; was made a professor of languages in Urbana university, Ohio, in 1852, and later removed to Illinois, where he established the first agricultural paper published in that state. He edited Rural Poetry of the English Language (1856), and contributed to general literature. He died in Newtonville, Mass., June 7, 1884.

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