History of South Berwick, (York County) Maine United States of America

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Frederic Jordan Goodwin, clergyman, was born in South Berwiek, Maine, April 30, 1812. He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1832; studied theology at Bangor, Maine, 1832-33; Andover, Mass., 1833-34; and was graduated at the General theological seminary in 1836. He was ordained deacon July 3, 1836, and priest, July 2, 1837. He was professor of languages at Bristol college, Pa., 1836-37; professor ad interim of Latin in the University of the city of New York, 1837; was rector of St. George's church, Flushing, N.Y., 1837-44; rector of the church of the Holy Trinity at Middletown, Conn., 1845-72; and professor of the evidences of Christianity at Berkeley divinity school, 1854-72. Trinity conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1854. He died in Middletown, Conn., Feb. 29, 1872.

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

Joseph Hayes, soldier, was born in South Berwick, Maine, Sept. 14, 1835; son of William Allen and Susan (Lord) Hayes; grandson of David and Lucy (Allen) Hayes, and of John and Mehitabel (Perkins) Lord, and a descendant of John Hayes who settled in Dover, N.H., in 1680. He entered Harvard college with the class of 1855 and received his A.B. degree in 1862. He was a civil and mining engineer and an early volunteer in the Union service in the civil war. He helped to recruit the 18th Massachusetts volunteers and was commissioned major of the regiment, July 26, 1861; lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 25, 1862, colonel, Nov. 30, 1862, and brigadier-general, May 12, 1864. He was taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison, Richmond, Va., for six months. In January, 1865, he was appointed U.S. commissioner of supplies for the southern states while a prisoner of war, Richmond, Va., for six months. He rejoined the army, April 2, 1865, and commanded the advance brigade, army of the Potomac, at the Appomattox surrender, April 9, 1865. At the close of hostilities he was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March l3, 1865, and was mustered out of the service, Aug. 24, 1865, at his own request, having been offered by the war department the commission as field officer in the regular army. He then went to South America where he introduced the hydraulic system in the mines of Colombia. On his return he engaged in business in New York city as a broker and as president of a coal company.

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

Sarah Orne Jewett, author, was born in South Berwick, Maine, Sept. 3, 1849; daughter of Dr. Theodore Herman Jewett. She was educated at Berwick academy, Maine, and travelled extensively in Europe, Canada and the United States. She is the author of: Deephaven (1877); Play-Days (1878); Old Friends and New (1879); Country By-Ways (1881); The Mate of the Daylight and Friends Ashore (1883); A Country Doctor (1884); A Marsh Island (1885); A White Heron and Other Stories (1888); The Story of the Normans Told Chiefly in Relation to the Conquest of England (1887); The King of Folly Island and; other People (1888); Betty Leicester (1889) Strangers and Wayfarers (1890); A Native of Winby (1893); The Life of Nancy (1895); The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896); The Queen's Twin and Other Stories (1899). The Tory Lover appeared serially in the Atlantic Monthly and then in book form (1901).

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

John Lord Hayes, naturalist, was born in South Berwick, Maine, April 13, 1812. He was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1831, and A.M., 1834. He studied law at Harvard, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and practised his profession in Portsmouth, N.H., serving as clerk of the U.S. district court for New Hampshire. He organized the Katahdin iron works, was council for the Canadian government at Washington, D.C., in 1846, in the reciprocity treaty, 1851, organized and was secretary of the Mexican, Rio Grande & Pacific railway company; and in 1854 obtained a charter from the Mexican goverment authorizing the building of a railroad across that country. He was chief clerk in the U.S. patent office, 1861-65; and secretary of the National association of wool manufactures, 1865-87. He collected and mounted a complete cabinet of birds, made a large herbarium and was a student of geology. He presented before the American association of geologists and naturalists a paper on glaciers in 1843, regarded as the most important contribution to the history of glacial phenomena in relation to geology then advanced. He was elected a member of the Boston society of Natural history in 1845, and held memberships in various other scientific associations in Europe and the United States. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1878. He published: Report on North American Indians; Iron Mines of Nova Scotia; Jackson's Vindication as the Discoverer of An?sthetics; Sketch of Maryland Geology; The Hudson Bay Question; The Protection Question Abroad and at Home; Sheep Industry in the South; Notes Upon Indigo (1873); Corolla Hymnorum Sacrorum, a selection of Latin hynms translated and edited (1887); and numerous pamphlets, political, industrial and scientific. He died in Cambridge, Mass., April 18, 1887.

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