History of East Machias, (Washington County) Maine United States of America

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Arlo Bates, author, was born at East Machias, Maine, Dec. 16, 1850. He was educated at the common schools of his native town, and was graduated from Bowdoin college in 1876. He then went to Boston, Mass., and began work as a journalist. From 1878 to 1880 he was editor of the Broadside, and from 1880 to 1893 of the Boston Sunday Courier, at the same time being Boston correspondent of the Book Buyer, the Providence Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. In 1893 he was elected professor of English in the Massachusetts institute of technology. His published works include: "Patty's Perversities" (1881); "The Pagans" (1884); "A Wheel of Fire" (1885); "Berries of the Brier" (1886); "Sonnets in Shadow" (1887); "Lad's Love" (1887); "The Philistines" (1889); Albrecht" (1890); "The Poet and His Self" (1891); "A Book o' Nine Tales" (1891); "Told in the Gate" (1892); "In the Bundle of Time" (1893); "The Torch Bearers "(1894 ); "Under the Beach Tree" (1899); "Love in a Cloud" (1900). He also edited "Old Salem" (1886), a book left unfinished by his wife.

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

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, educator, was born at East Machias, Maine, Aug. 15, 1817; son of Roswell and Betsey (Longfellow) Hitchcock. He was prepared for college at the Washington academy, in East Machias, and was graduated from Amherst in 1836. He taught an academy at Jaffrey, N.H., 1836-37; studied Biblical and other subjects under private tutors, 1837-38, and then took a partial course at Andover Theological seminary, 1838-39, meantime teaching in Phillips academy, Andover. He was a tutor in Amherst, 1839-42, and preached at Andover, Mass., and Waterville, Maine, 1842-45. He was married, Jan. 2, 1845, to Elizabeth Anthony, daughter of Israel Brayton, of Somerset, Mass. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Nov. 19, 1845, and became pastor of the First Congregational church at Exeter, N.H. He studied at the universities of Halle and Berlin, 1847-48, and resigned his pastorate at Exeter in 1852 to accept the Collins chair of natural and revealed religion at Bowdoin college, which he occupied, 1852-55. In 1855 he became Washburn professor of church history in the Union theological seminary, New York. In 1866 he visited Italy and Greece, and in 1869-70 Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. On Nov. 9, 1880, he was elected president of the Union Theological seminary to succeed the Rev. William Adams, which position he held until his death. He was president of the American Palestine Exploration society, 1871-87; an editor of the American Theological Review, 1863-70; and a trustee of Amherst, 1869-87. He received the degrees of D.D. from Bowdoin in 1855, LL.D. from Williams in 1873, D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1885, and LL.D from Harvard in 1886. He is the author of: The Life, Character and Writings of Edward Robinson (1863); A Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible (1869); Hymens and Songs for Social and Sabbath Worship (1875); Socialism (1879); and Eternal Atonement, sermons, published posthumously (1887). He died in South Somerset, Mass., June 16, 1887.

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

George Harris, educator, was born in East Machias, Maine, April 1, 1844; son of George and Mary Ann (Palmer) Harris, and grandson of Josiah and Lucy (Talbot) Harris, and of Robinson and Harriet (Allen) Palmer. He was graduated from Amherst college in 1866, and from the Andover theological seminary in 1869. He was ordained Oct. 6, 1869, and was pastor of the High Street Congregational church at Auburn, Maine, 1869-72, and of the Central Congregational church in Providence, R.I., 1872-83. He was university preacher at Dartmouth college, 1894-99, and at Harvard, 1897-99. He was elected professor of Christian theology at the Andover theological seminary in 1883, which chair he held until 1899, when he was elected president of Amherst college. He received the degree of D.D. from Amherst in 1883, and from Harvard in 1899, and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1899. He was one of the editors of the Andover Review, 1884-93, and is the author of Moral Evolution (1896); Inequality and Progress (1897), and of contributions to periodical literature.

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