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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 232
Mrs Christina (Hayford) (Bicknell) Lowney was a woman of unusual character and endowments, and was blessed with a bright and sunny temperament, that made her a delightful companion and friend, and enabled her to bear sorrow with sweet composure.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 233
Daniel moved from Hartford, Maine, to Parkham, Maine, from there to Michigan, then Ohio, and then to Texas, where he lived during the Civil War, with his son Samuel.
He returned to Ohio, where he died.
Was a justice in Maine and a judge in Texas.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 353
Samuel was first a school teacher in his life work;
then a surveyor at Cincinnati; then a maker of mathematical
instruments. From 1847 to 1858 he lived in Cincinnati, when
he went to Texas for the recovery of his health.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 233
Graduated from the Boston School of modeling, connected with the Museum of Fine Arts, and taught modeling since the death of her husband.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 233
Graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1859;
Graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1862;
He was a Untiarian clergyman and the author of sveral denominational books and a biography of Frederick Douglass.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 373, 374 & 375
George Waters Bicknell was the oldest of three children of Bela Thaxter and Abigail C. Bicknell. He graduated from the public schools of Bath, Me., and fitted for college at Westbrook Seminary, although he did not matriculate. Instead of entering college, he remained at home, and at the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the fifth regiment of Maine volunteers. He served as a private for four months, and then he was made acting orderly sergeant of his company, later being promoted to second lieutenant.
Upon his return from the war, in 1866, he entered the divinity school at Canton NY, being ordained two years later to the Universalist ministry. During his ministry of over 45 years, there was only one Sunday that he was without and active pastorate. His first pastorate was at South Strafford and West Fairlee, Vermont, his duties taking him to each place on alternate Sundays. He afterwards went to Skowbegan, Maine, shortly afterward receiving a call from the Universalist church in Portsmouth, N. H., where a large parish was put under his charge. He received the honorary degree of D. D. from St. Lawrence
University, Canton, N. Y., in 1893.
Later pastorates included the Church of the Messiah, at Portland, where he served seven years, Philadelphia and Lowell, where he remained until his call to the First Universalist Church of Cambridge, MA., where he has ministered with remarkable ability and success, resigning his active pastorate over that church at the end of a ministry of twenty years, closing Oct. 29, 1910. This resignation was not accepted, the parish insisting on its recall, and he is now as active as ever as pastor.
The Cambridge Tribune voiced the sentiment of the whole city in saying:
"Dr. Bicknell, during his twenty years 'incumbency of this pastorate, has occupied no small place in the community. He has become personally known to a far wider constituency than that embraced within the limits of his own church membership. For marriages and for funeral services no clergyman has been more in requisition, for Dr. Bicknell possesses a fund of human comradeship and human sympathy that makes his prsence at either occasion especially appropriate. His own church he has served with unceasing care and attention, while not unmindful of his obligations to those beyond its walls. It is a source of satisfaction to know that by his resignation Dr. Bicknell is not to sever all connection with our city, but that he is to continue to make his home here and to place his services as a clergyman or friend at the disposal of those by whom they may be required. To the First Universalist church he will still stand ready to give such assistance or counsel as it may ask, while as regards the city, he will be able to lill to a larger degree than ever the place which has long been his."
Unlike most Bicknells, Dr. Bicknell has distinguished himself in many departments of work. As a soldier in the Civil War, he won a high rank for brave and persistent leadership; in his chosen profession, the Gospel ministry, he has been an able and eloquent preacher and defender of a liberal faith; as a lecturer, he has few equals on the public platform, and as an author he has made permanent record of his comrades in arms in the "History of the Fifth Regiment Maine Infantry." His lectures on "War Experiences," and "Travels," have been popular and widely patronized. For eleven years he was a member of the School Board of Cambridge, and he has been the chosen orator for many public celebrations and occasions.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 373
Graduate of Harvard University and Law School, and practiced Law in Boston, Massachusetts;
Was State President of Young People's Christian Union of Massachusetts;
National Secretary and National President of the Young People's Christian Union of the United States
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 375
Charles was a clerk of the supreme Court of Nevada and Reporter of Court Decisions in 1881, having held the office since Jan 1875.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 234
Abbie was a fine scholar, had remarkable musical ability and was beautiful in person
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 234
Axel was a farmer at Belfast, maine in 1840, then a contractor for support of the poor, then deputy sheriff.
In 1849 he became a flour and grain merchant in Belfast;
then a contractor to build batteries and barracks at Belfast;
then engaged in the lumber business, and was a ship owner.
He was a trustee and President of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad, and from 1867 to 1870 was Mayor of Belfast.
Mr Hayford had a social and generous nature, was energetic and successful in business, and a liberal supporter of all worthy charities.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 119
William was Town Clerk and toen officer in Turner, Maine, from 1830 to 1840.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 235
William Bicknell resided at Hartford, Me., during his married life;
was a farmer, and also for many years a public school teacher.
He held the office of Town Clerk and Supervisor of
Schools of Hartford for many years, and was Justice of,the Quorum
from 1860 to 1874;
was author of a series of geographical charts for schools.
He was a man of strong religious character,
an advocate of strict temperance principles, deeply interested in
local and general politics, active in social progress and alert to all
progressive views in social, industrial or civil life.
He was wont to express himself in original ways and withal had a strong poetic
temperament, quite common to the Bicknell brotherhood.
Mr.Bicknell was deeply interested in our family history and was a
frequent contributor in prose and verse at our family meetings.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 376
William Emery Bicknell came to Boston in 1846; was the
proprietor of a grocery store at the corner of Howard and
Somerset streets, Boston, MA., formerly the store of his uncle,
N. B. Bicknell. He had a Weymouth residence at King Oak
Hill, East Weymouth, MA., and owned land in Middle street,
directly opposite the place where Zachary Bicknell built his
house in 1635, and which was sold at his death to William Read.
William E. was a Democrat in politics; was for several years
(1860-62 and 1870-3) a member of the Common Council of
Boston, and was for a brief period, acting Mayor, by reason of
his seniority in office.
He was Vice-President of the Bicknell
Family Association and the Association came into existence and
was organized in his house, at the corner of Howard and Somerset
streets, Boston, on Thursday evening, Dec. II, 1879, seventeen
persons uniting in the organization.
He was a member of The Ancient and Honorable Artillery, Boston, from 1859.
Mr. and Mrs. Bicknell spent the last years of their lives on
Bicknell farm at Hartford, Maine.
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From T.W. Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 375
Edward was educated in the public schools of Boston and graduated from Harvard University, A. B, 1876;
L.L.B. 1878; A.M. 1879 admitted to Massachusetts Bar, 1880;
practiced in Massachusetts courts for about fifteen years, when he removed to Lewiston, Maine to continue in office work.
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From T.w Bicknell's 1913 genealogy book page 376
Eleanor graduated from Bates College, 1881;
A minister of the Methodist Chursh in Maine.