London in 1555. He became an author of note, one of the translators of the Bible, a preacher of wonderful power and eloquence and one of the most distinguished scholars of his age. He died Sept. 25, 1626. David, a grandson of Thomas, born in Taunton, Mass., May 23, 1736, married Naoma Briggs. Their oldest child, Edward, was born Dec. 20, 1767. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Nevens of Poland and settled in Paris. Hon. Charles Andrews, their youngest child, was Clerk of the Courts and Member of Congress; Alfred, their fifth child, born March 9, 1800, married Eliza Cushman. They were the parents of Honorable Sullivan C. Andrews who was born on Paris Hill, June 18, 1825. He received an academic education and began reading law in the office of Benj. C. Cummings, Esq., in Paris in 1843. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1846 and was admitted the same year to the Bar in Cumberland County. The next year was spent in the office of his uncle, Charles Andrews, then Clerk of the Courts. In May, 1847, he opened a law office in Buckfield where he practiced his profession and engaged in various kinds of business for 26 years.

In January, 1855, he married Brittania C. Coolidge of Portland. While at Buckfield, he was repeatedly elected to town office and served a term as attorney for the county and as a member of the Legislature. For many years he was a director in the Buckfield Railroad Company. In 1864, he ran as a candidate for Congress, but was defeated as his party was then in a large minority. He moved to Portland in 1873 and several years later to Cambridge, Mass., where he died Nov. 10, 1889 from Bright's disease, while holding the office of special examiner of the Pension Department.

Mr. Andrews was a business lawyer and he took great pride in being so called. He was a man of courtly manners and dignified bearing, a true friend and a generous enemy. Though aristocratic in his tastes, he was thoroughly democratic in his intercourse with men.

Children: Thirza, an accomplished lady, married Rev. H. B. Smith, residence Mechanic Falls.; Alfred Coolidge Andrews born in Buckfield, July 11, 1873. He graduated at Boston University Law School. Admitted to the Oxford Bar in 1897 and practiced law for a time at Mechanic Falls.

THOMAS J. BRIDGHAM, ESQ.

Thomas Jefferson Bridgham, son of Thomas of Hebron was Dorn there June 20, 1833. His early education was such as could be acquired at the district school on Brighton Hill in that town. At fifteen years of age he began attending Hebron Academy where he fitted for Waterville College which institution he entered in 1853. After his college course he began reading law in the office of S. C. Andrews at Buckfield and was admitted to the Oxford County Bar in 1857. He opened an office in the village where he remained four years in the practice of his profession. In 1859 he married Miss Susan Hayford of Canton. In 1861 Mr. Bridgham moved to Waterford, where he resided for four years. On account of failing health he returned to Buckfield, dying here May 20, 1866.

HON. GEORGE D. BISBEE.

One of the most astute and able lawyers and politicians who have ever resided in Buckfield is George Dana Bisbee. His parents were George Washington and Mary B. (Howe) Bisbee. He comes of Revolutionary and Puritan stock and was born in Hartford, Maine, July 9, 1841. He received his education in the common and high schools of the vicinity where he lived and began reading law in the office of Randall & Winter at Dixfield.

The breaking out of the Civil War in 1861 found him still a law student and less than 20 years old. The next year he assisted in organizing a company of volunteers which became Co. C. of the 16th Regiment, Maine Infantry, and he was appointed to the very responsible position of orderly sergeant.

His first battle was at Fredericksburg, Va., on the 13th of December, 1862, where the regiment was hotly engaged and lost heavily. Sergeant Bisbee received such a severe wound in the left arm that the surgeons insisted on its amputation but he would on no account permit it and the arm was saved though it has never healed. He was promoted to second lieutenant and with his wounded arm in a sling rejoined his company in time to participate in the disastrous battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 1-3, 1863, the regiment making a forced march of 25 miles to reach the position assigned it and was one of the organizations selected to cover the retreat of the army across the Rappahannock. His

third battle was at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863, where the gallant men of the 16th Maine were ordered to advance northwest of the town and hold their position at all hazards to enable the surviving heroes of the First Corps to take a new position on Cemetery Ridge. Like Leonidas and his immortal 300 Spartans at Thermopyle they knew the order meant death or capture, but they executed the movement quickly and occupied the position designated.

Lieut. Bisbee's company carried the colors as the Regiment went forward "into the jaws of death and the mouth of hell." They stopped the enemy for a brief period-precious moments for what was left of the First Corps, the most of whom got away, but cut down by shot and shell and surrounded by an enemy flushed with victory, there was nothing for Bisbee and his compatriots but to surrender. Here took place an act for which their praises will long be sung. They would not give up their flag and as it went to the earth at Lieut. Bisbee's suggestion it was stripped from its standard and hastily torn into pieces of which each man preserved one to keep as a precious relic of his service.

Lieut. Bisbee was confined in several Southern prisons for eighteen months when he was paroled and exchanged. He joined his regiment in time to participate in the engagement which resulted in the Surrender of Lee's Army at Appomattox. On returning home he took up his law studies and was admitted. to the Oxford bar in December, 1865, his mind having gained in his war college course a grasp of principles of justice and equity that no law school could possibly instill. He opened a law office in Buckfield, in January, 1866, and continued there in practice to 1892, when he removed to Rumford Falls, where he is now (1915) senior member of the law firm of Bisbee & Parker. He is a member of the bar of the supreme court of the United States. Mr. Bisbee is recognized as one of the foremost business lawyers in the state. No man in the county has ever so long retained his hold upon the management of affairs and this is due not merely to his ability, sagacity and shrewdness but also to his integrity and of his faithfully keeping his engagements. In the management of causes in court he is especially effective. His knowledge of everyday men and things, his thoroughly democratic bearing and his plain, hard common sense make him very successful with