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Martin was a factory worker in South Scituate, Massachusetts.

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Samuel was a Free-Will Baptist minister, serving churches in Harrison, Sprigfield, Lee and Chester, Maine, and Chatham and Sherburne, New Hampshire. According to a descendant, Ruth Lewis, Samuel was one of the first settlers of Springfield. As a minister, he was a "fire and brimstone" preacher, whose sermons usually ended with the words, "If you don't change your ways, I will glorify in watching you burn in Hell" (Leigh E. Cowing, "Hanscom, Lewis, Cowing of ME, MA 129-1998"[op.cit.] "CD-ROM").

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William was a farmer and merchant in Springfield for many years. After working with his father for a year, he bought out his father's interest in the store. He served the community as Sheriff of Penobscot County for about 20 years, County Commissioner for 10 years, and Prison and Jail Inspector for several years.

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Harriet's mother, Stella, was seventh in descent from John Howland of the "Mayflower." Accordingly, John and Harriet's children and their descendants can all be considered to be "Mayflower Descendants."

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Osgood was a well-known and respected physician in Springfield, Norway and South Paris, Maine. An article about his career appears on the front page of the 27 December 1895 edition of the "Oxford County Advertiser."
 Prior to becoming a Doctor, he was a schoolteacher. He taught first at Norway in the late 1840's, "at times earning as much as 20 dollars per month and boarded round, which was large wages in those days." In the early 1850's, he moved to Springfield and taught there. From 1852 to 1855, he was employed as a bookkeeper at East Machias in Washington County. He lived in California from 1856 to 1860, after which he returned to Springfield and began working with Dr. P.C. Jones. In 1864, after completing his medical studies, he served at the Cony Military Hospital in Augusta as Superintendent and Assistant Surgeon until the hospital closed at the end of the Civil War (1866). He practiced at Springfield for a few years before moving to Norway in 1873.
 During part of the time that he lived in Springfield, Osgood was active in politics. In 1862, he was Springfield's State Representative and, in 1863 and 1864, he was a State Senator from Penobscot County.
 In Norway, as he withdrew from the practice of medicine, he took up the study of local history. For several years, he wrote a series of historical articles which were published in the "Oxford County Advertiser" (In time, that newspaper became the "Advertiser-Democrat," the newspaper which continues to be published each week in Norway, Maine). Those articles (a total of 257) have been compiled into a book, NORWAY IN THE FORTIES, which was printed in 1986 by Twin Town Graphics of Norway. Rev. Don L. McAllister is the General Editor.

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John was a farmer and millman in Springfield, Maine.

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Jackson was a Private in Co. B, 13th Maine Regiment, during the Civil War. He died 3 May 1863 in New Orleans, LA, and is buried in Monument National Cemetery, Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, LA (ROLL OF HONOR, 21 [op. cit.], 386).

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In 1856 (at age 12), Anna and her widowed mother, Rebecca, along with her brother, Ebenezer, and a cousin, Samuel Scribner Caldwell, moved to Ridgway, Pennsylvania. Daniel followed before 1860 and became a well-known and industrious lumberman, working as the superintendent of the Elk Creek Sawmill for many years (Harry M. Hill [comp.], THE STORY OF RIDGWAY [Ridgway, PA: Ridgway Publishing Co., 1964], 14). According to Anna's obituary in the "Ridgway Record" [op. cit.], Daniel and Anna were married in 1862.
 Anna's brother, Ebenezer, and his wife, Harriet, both died in 1869, leaving two children, Mary Belle and Charles. Daniel and Anna took Charles into their home and family.
 At the time of her death, Anna was the oldest resident of Ridgway. She was one of the original proprietors of Ridgway Township (at a time when very few women were proprietors, or original trustees of a town). There were 15 grandchildren in their family when she died.