two houses on the southerly side of the stream, the Capt. Parris house and a small one-story house near the present summer house in Kimbal! N. Prince's yard. He bought the latter house, cut away the alders and that year built a store, twenty-five feet square, just south from the store now owned by Randolph C. Thomes. This store, until the days of the railroad, was a notable center of country business. Here he engaged in trade and continued his former Turner business of making card boards. He remained in business many years, the store finally passing into the hands of his son, Lucius, with whom he resided until his death. During his later years he was in feeble health, suffering greatly from asthma. He died in Buckfield, April 1, 1851, aged 80 years, 9 months and 14 days.

The marriage record of Mr. Loring in Bridgewater invests him with the title of esquire, which he continued to bear during his whole after life and he is now seldom recalled in memory except as "old Squire Loring." He was a Justice of the Peace many years, and his court sittings were prominent features of by-gone village days. Saturdays were then field days in Buckfield, on which the people from all the surrounding community would flock to the village for trade or convivial gossip and the incidents of the day usually resulted in some litigious affairs to be aired the following Monday before Squire Loring. These courts were first held in his house, but the crowd became so intrusive upon his domestic affairs that he built an office for the better convenience of an eager public.

Squire Loring was a man of conspicuous personality, of courtly manners and somewhat aristocratic bearing. He was deeply interested in educational affairs, for which he always advocated liberal public provisions. To his latest days he preserved a quaintness of dress, retaining the old continental style, with a three-cornered hat, ruffled shirt, knee breeches and low shoes with shining buckles, which rendered him a picturesque figure in the grouping of old-time village life.

Lucius, born Dec. 27.

His children, al! born in Turner, were: 1797, married Sally Long; Jennette, born July 25, 1800, married Judge Stephen Emery; John Alfonso, born Aug. 18, 1802, died in

1803.

LUCIUS LORING.

Lucius Loring, son of John, was seven years of age when he came with his father to Buckfield. Growing to manhood during the growth of the village from a wilderness to a business center, he became familiar with all the early associations of the town, pleasant pictures of which he gives in his "Reminiscences," elsewhere appearing in this volume. From the limited educational provsions of the times and the instructions of his well-informed father he acquired a good knowledge of the English branches. At an early age he became familiar with the ways of country trade in his father's store, where he formed an extensive acquaintance with the people. He was in trade several years with his father, later becoming sole proprietor, and having at different times partnership associations with Zadoc Long, Washington Long and Ralph C. Jewett. While in business with the latter the second Loring store was built to which the large business of the firm was transferred. For many years he was the most prominent merchant in town, his heavy spring and fall stock of goods from Portland and Boston always attracting a throng of visiting purchasers from both near and distant towns. The continuity of his mercantile career, covering a period of forty-two years in active, prosperous trade is without a parallel in the history of the town. With a large circle of old-time friends and highly esteemed by the whole community he retired with a competence to the enjoyment of an ideal country life and a green old age. His residence, with its surrounding shade trees and large terraced flower garden was one of the most attractive country seats in the county. The first break in his family circle came in the death of his wife in 1861, after which he continued housekeeping with his daughter and son until the marriage of the former in 1867. He then sold his paternal estate and purchased the house on the opposite side of the street, in which he and his son resided until the death of the latter in 1868. He then resided with his widowed daughter-in-law, who faithfully cared for him in the house of her father until his life. ended.

Mr. Loring always kept in touch with the world's events and though never controversial, had strong convictions respecting public questions, being in religion a liberal, in politics a republican. Though never seeking public preferment, he was appointed staff major in the militia and in 1861 was chosen to represent the Legis

lative district, composed of Buckfield, Sumner and Woodstock, against the candidacy of his nephew, John D. Long. The campaign preceding the election was brisk and exciting and is now often humorously recalled as the one in which the future Massachusetts Governor and Secretary of the Navy was knocked out up. in Maine by his mild-mannered old Uncle Lucius. But the younger man won a crumb of consolation from his flattering majority in his own town, the vote standing 228 to 179 in his favor.

During his whole life Mr. Loring was a liberal patron of every good cause. He had a sunny, sympathetic nature, a face of cheer and a kindly greeting for all. Though old in years, his heart was always young. He was as companionable with the young as with those of riper years, and to his latest days was always performing some kindly act, using his income freely for the comfort and pleasure of others. During his last years he could walk only by aid of crutches, but this did not keep him indoors, and his frail figure, as he slowly worked his way along, was for many years a familiar one on the village streets. He died Sept. 29, 1889 at the advanced age of 92 years, honored by all and leaving on the memory of the present generation a lasting impression of his lovable character.

His children were: Jennette, born Sept. 16, 1825, who married William H. Atwood, June, 1867, died Jan. 6, 1903; Charles Carroll, born Nov. 23, 1832, married Emily, daughter of Ephraim Atwood, October, 1868. He died Oct. 7, 1868.

CHARLES CARROLL LORING.

Charles Carroll Loring from his youth to manhood was associated with business in his father's store, and was subsequently in trade several years with other village merchants; but his nature was never fully in touch with matters of trade. Failing health caused his early retirement from business, after which he rapidly. declined until his death when but thirty-five years of age. An only son, his relations with his father were of the most confiding nature, not only tenderly filial, but having the nature of an unreserved and life-long companionship. He never attended school beyond the limits of the village, but he became liberally educated through private instruction and years of diligent study. He was of thoughtful cast of mind, a poetic lover of nature and

a devoted reader and student of literature. In the literary associations of the village he was an active member, excelling as a conversationalist and public debater. He was a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the day and a graceful writer in both prose and verse.

The history of the Buckfield Loring family is notably reflective of the pathos of human life. Beginning here in a wilderness, it was prominently associated with the best interests of the town from the dawn of the century until its going out, and then the last representative of the family name, Mrs. Jennette (Loring) Atwood, passed away and the tale of its generations was fully told.

APPLETON F. MASON.

Appleton F. Mason, the son of Naphtali and Arvilla S. (Waterman) Mason, was born in Buckfield, Aug. 3, 1841. His grandfather, Mr. Philip C. Mason, an early settler in Paris, who followed the occupation of a blacksmith, passed the last years of his life in Buckfield and died here Feb. 7, 1856, aged about 65. He had two wives-Betsy Coburn, who died in 1826 and second, Lucy Coburn; six children born of each union.

The father of Appleton F. Mason was a prominent man and kept a livery stable at South Paris for many years and served for a time as a deputy sheriff. He died in Buckfield at an advanced age. Mr. Appleton F. Mason acquired his education in the public schools of the town and fitted himself for a teacher, which occupation he followed for several years. He opened a store at North Buckfield in 1864 which he has successfully managed and has been frequently in town affairs. Since 1875 he has been the village postmaster. In 1868 he married Miss Emma Adelaide, daughter of Elias and Eliza Turner Monk. She was born Sept. 14, 1847. (He died in 1915.)

NAHUM MOORE.

Nahum Moore, son of John and Esther (Ryerson) Moore, was born in Sumner, Me., April 2, 1824. His grandfather, Thomas, came to America as a British soldier in Gen. Burgoyne's army. After the surrender at Saratoga, he was taken into the

service of the patriots and after the war settled permanently in the country.

In 1845 the subject of this sketch went to Abington, Mass., and worked in a shoe shop. Two years after he entered a store as clerk and in October of that year married Miss Phebe C. Stephens of Sumner. In 1850 he opened a dry goods store in Dover, N. H. The next year he went into the wholesale dry goods and groceries business with Samuel Ellis, a native of Sumner. Two years after he sold out and went into trade at East Abington. In 1855 was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1857 he moved to Buckfield and purchased the Nathan Morrill farm on the Turner road. He sold to Silas Mitchell in 1865 and removed to the village and went into trade with Isaac Morrill. His wife died in 1865 and he married second, Miss Ruth Snell, daughter of Mellen Snell of Turner. In 1870 he was elected to the Maine Legislature. Having received the appointment as conductor on the passenger train of the Portland & Rumford Falls Railroad, he moved to Canton in 1881, and later to Rumford Falls. Mr. Moore served for 22 years as conductor and in 1902 he was appointed as special agent of the company, a position he held at the time of his death about 1912.

Of engaging manners and pleasing address, he was well fitted for the positions he occupied and the business he followed and was thoroughly liked and respected by all who ever knew him.

By his first wife, he had four children: Geo. Henry, born Dec. 26, 1848, is in Illinois; John E., born Dover, N. H., Sept. 15, 1850, married Sarah E. Atwood, daughter of Charles B. Atwood. They have had five children, Charles Nahum, born May 6, 1872, died Jan. 16, 1889; Emily May, born Feb. 17, 1875, married. Adelbert Parsons; Sarah Phebe, born Dec. 6, 1877; Bessie Louise, born May 16, 1882, married Fred Holland and, Othel Harold, born April 7, 1884. The third child and son of Nahum Moore, Eugene Herbert, born Dec. 20, 1852, died Oct. 24, 1854 and Charles Sumner, born Jan. 4, 1865, died Sept. 24, 1872. By his second wife he had two children: Wallace Ryerson, born Oct. 21, 1873, married August, 1897, Miss Lucy E. Park, daughter of Henry W. Park, Esq., of Mexico, Me., and Esther Louise, born March 10, 1879, married June, 1900, A. J. Bernis. They reside at Plymouth, Mass.