History of Eastport, (Washington County) Maine United States of America

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Henry Prince, soldier, was born in Eastport, Maine, June 19, 1811. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy and assigned to the 4th U.S. infantry, Sept. 18, 1835; served in Florida, 1836-38, and was wounded in a skirmish at Camp Izard, Feb. 29, 1836. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, June 11, 1838; 1st lieutenant, July 7, 1838; served on frontier duty among the Creek Indians at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, 1839-41, and in Florida, 1841-42. He was in garrison, 1842-44; on coast survey and recruiting service, 1844-46, and adjutant of the 4th infantry, 1846-47, being present at the capture of San Antonio, the battle of Churubusco and of Molino del Rey, where he was severely wounded. He was brevetted captain, Aug. 20, 1847; for Contreras and Churubusco; was promoted captain, Sept. 26, 1847, and brevetted major, Sept. 8, 1847 for Molino del Rey. He was an invalid from his wounds, 1847-50; on coast survey duty, 1850-55; commanded Fort Steilacoom, Washington Territory, and on paymaster duty, 1855-58. He took part in the Utah campaign, 1858-59, and was commissioned brigadier-general of U.S. volunteers, April 28, 1862. In the battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862, he commanded the 2d brigade in Augur's 2d division, Banks's 2d corps, and when General Augur was wounded he succeeded to the command of the division. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war until December, 1862. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, U.S.A., for Cedar Mountain, and on his release took part in the operations in eastern-North Carolina early in 1863. He was ordered to Maryland in June, 1863, being engaged in the action at Wapping Heights, Va., July 23, and in the Rapidan campaign, October to December, 1863, where he commanded a division in the 3d corps, and was prominent in the attack on the Confederates entrenched at Antioch Church, Nov. 29, 1863. He commanded the district of Columbus, Ky., April to August, 1864; took part in the pursuit of Forrest's raiders in Tennessee and Alabama, October to November, 1864, and commanded a provisional division on the coast of South Carolina, January to May, 1893. He was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general, U.S.A., March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war and in the field; served on courts-martial in Washington, D.C., 1865-66, and was mustered out of the volunteer service, April 30, 1866. He served as paymaster at Boston, Mass., 1866-69; as chief paymaster of the department of the east, 1869-71, and as paymaster in New York city, 1871-75. He was chief paymaster of the division of the Pacific, 1875-77; was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and made department paymaster-general, March 3, 1877, and was retired, Dec. 31, 1879. He committed suicide in London, England, Aug. 19, 1892.

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

Robert Thaxter Edes, physician, was born in Eastport, Maine, Sept. 23, 1838; son of Richard Sullivan and Mary (Cushing) Edes. He was graduated from Harvard in arts in 1858 and in medicine in 1861. On Sept. 10, 1861, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon in the U.S. navy and ordered to the navy yard at Brooklyn. In December he was ordered to the mortar flotilla under Commander D. D. Porter and took part in the bombardment of the forts below New Orleans. His commission in the regular service was dated Jan. 26, 1862. His vessels participated in the first attack on Vicksburg and in the siege of Port Hudson. In August, 1863, he was transferred to the Black Hawk, the flag-ship of Admiral Porter in the Mississippi squadron. He was stationed at the naval hospital, Chelsea, Mass., from July 14, 1864, to May 13, 1865, receiving promotion to the rank of passed assistant surgeon, May 8, 1865. He resigned from the navy, June 1, 1865, and in August sailed for Germany spending some time in medical study, mostly in Vienna. Returning to Boston in February, 1866, he began practice in Dorchester, but removed to Hingham, Mass. June 26, 1866. He was married in April, 1867, to Elizabeth Townsend, daughter of Calvin W. Clark of Boston. His wife died in 1877, leaving four children. In 1881 he was married to Anna C., daughter Of William H. Richardson of Dorchester. In 1868 he received a prize from the Massachusetts medical association for an essay on the "Part taken by Nature and Time in the Cure of Diseases." In May, 1869, he received from the New York academy of medicine the O'Reilly prize of $600 for an essay on the "Sympathetic Nervous System." He removed to Roxbury, Mass., and in 1870 was appointed assistant professor of materia medica in Harvard, becoming full professor in 1875. In 1884 he was appointed Jackson professor of clinical medicine. He removed to Boston in 1882, and in 1886 having resigned his chair at Harvard and his position at the Boston city hospital, he removed to Washington, D.C. He was visiting physician to the Garfield memorial hospital. In 1891 he returned to Boston and was the resident physician of the Adams nervine asylum at Jamaica Plain until September, 1897. He was elected a member of the American academy of arts and sciences; of the Philosophical society of Washington; of several medical societies in Boston; of the American medical association; of the Massachusetts medical society, before which he gave the Shattuck lecture in 1895; of the American neurological association, of the committee of revision and publication of the 1890 edition of the United States Pharmacop?ia; a companion of the Loyal Legion, and was one of the founders of the Association of American physicians. He is the author of A Therapeutic Handbook of the United States Pharmacop?ia (1883); Therapeutics and Materia Medica (1887); and numerous contributions to medical journals.

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

Otis Tufton Mason, ethnologist was born in Eastport, Me., April 10, 1838; son of John and Rachel (Lincoln) Mason; grandson of Tufton Mason, and a descendant of Capt. John Mason, the founder of New Hampshire and the explorer of the New England coast in 1617. His father was engaged for years in the New England, Virginia and West India trade, but in 1840 lost his fortune and removed his family to New Jersey, residing at Red Bank and Haddonfield. He purchased a part of the Mt. Vernon estate called "Woodlawn" from the Lewis family in 1849; removed his family to Virginia in that year and engaged in farming. Otis received a preparatory education at home, and was graduated at Columbian college, A.B., 1860, A.M., 1862, and taught school to procure the necessary tuition. He was principal of Columbian College preparatory school, 1861-84, and from 1870 devoted himself to the study of ethnology and anthropology in its widest sense. He was married, Oct. 23, 1862, to Sarah, daughter of John and Emily Henderson of Alexandria, Va. He worked on the principle that the apparatus and methods of the naturalist may he applied to the study of our race and that anthropology should he in the strictest sense the natural history of man. He was professor of anthropology in Columbian university; 1884-98, and curator of the department of ethnology in the U.S. National museum at Washington, D.C., 1884-1901. He was an honorary and corresponding member of many American and European scientific societies and received the decoration of Officier de l'Instruction Publique from the French government in 1889. He received the degree of Ph.D. in 1879 and LL.D. in 1897, from Columbian university, and was elected a trustee of that institution in 1889. He contributed to the American Naturalist and to the publications of the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. National museum, and is the author of: The Antiquities of Guadaloupe (1885); The Hupa Indian Industries (1886); Cradles of the North American Indians (1887); Woman's Share in Primitive Culture (1894); Primitive Transportation (1894); and Origin of Inventions (1895).

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

Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, soldier, was born in Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Maine, April 15, 1822; son of Capt. Nathaniel Giddings and Mary Ann Langdon (Harris), grandson of Luther and Lucy (Giddings), and great-grandson of the Rev. Samuel (1739-98) and Anna (Kendrick) Dana, and on the maternal side a great-grandson of the Hon. Woodbury Langdon (1739-1805) of Portsmouth, N.H. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1842, serving on garrison duty in the 7th infantry as 2d lieutenant in the southwest until the war with Mexico called him into active service. He was promoted 1st lieutenant and served in the principal battles of the war. While storming the Mexican intrenchments at Cerro Gordo he was severely wounded, and his body, discovered after the battle, was about to be buried, when he revived. He was made captain by brevet "for gallant and meritorious conduct." He was promoted captain on staff and assistant quartermaster in March, 1848, and served on garrison duty in the west, 1848-55. He resigned from the army in 1855 and established himself in the banking business in St. Paul, Minn., serving in the state militia as brigadier-general, 1857-61. He raised and commanded the 1st Minnesota infantry during the first year of the civil war and in February, 1862, was promoted brigadier-general. He fought under McClellan in western Virginia and on the Peninsula, commanding a brigade in Sedgwick's division until July 10, 1862, and was on sick leave until Sept. 2, 1862. At Antietam he received a severe wound, was carried from the field for dead, and was incapacitated for active field service until Nov. 27, 1862. He was promoted major-general of volunteers in November, 1862, and was in command of the defences of Philadelphia during Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863. He then joined the army of the Gulf and was given command of the expedition dispatched by sea to the Rio Grande, Texas, to cut off the communication of the Confederate army with Mexico. He landed the expedition at Brazos, Santiago, and forced the Confederates back as far as Loredo, Texas. He subsequently commanded the 13th army corps, the district of Vicksburg, the 16th army corps, the districts of West Tennessee and Vicksburg, and the department of the Mississippi, consecutively. He resigned from the volunteer army, May 27, 1865, and engaged in mining in the far west. He was general agent of the American-Russian commercial company of San Francisco in Washington and Alaska, 1866-71, and superintendent of various railroads in Illinois, 1871-78, and of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, 1878. He was made chief of the old war and navy division, pension department, in 1893, was promoted first deputy commissioner of pensions by President Cleveland in 1895, and was removed from the office in 1897, by President McKinley.

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