MACE to MURPHY

MACE, ALBERT EUGENE
Born at Readfield April 8, 1872 (son of Charles A. and Lucy A. <Richardson> Mace) Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge April 3, 1899. Demitted April 4, 1903 and again affiliated April 7, 1906. He now lives in Providence, RI where he is employed an overseer in the Moses Brown School (in 1909). (also lived in Wilbraham, Norton and Attleboro, MA - where he was living in 1940. Date  and place of death unknown. Married Susanna Magovern, a native of northern Ireland, in 1903 in Wilbraham).


MACE, RICHARD
Born at Readfield June 1782 (son of Andron / Andrew and Jane <Hale> Mace). Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge May 10, 1827. He was a farmer at East Readfield (also a brick layer who built several brick structures in Readfield. He was one of the founders of Union Meeting House as well as one of the builders in 1827.) Died at East Readfield Jan. 30, 1861(buried at East Readfield Cemetery. Married Eunice Johnson of Readfield in 1807)


MALLETT, CHARLES HERBERT
Born at Gilbert's Cove, Digby Co. Nova Scotia Oct. 11, 1874. Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge Jan. 15, 1903. Member of Lafayette Chapter O.E.S. Is a barber and lives in Readfield (in 1909). (Died at Readfield 5/13/1915)


MANTER, GEORGE WEST
Born at Starks, Maine Dec. 3, 1849 (son of John W. and Hannah <West> Manter). Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge May 11, 1878; treasurer 1879-82; Secretary 1883-87. He was a member of the firm J.W. Manter & Son and is now the firm of G.W. Manter and M.W. Manter, drugs and general merchandise. A member of Trinity Commandery K.T. And Lafayette Chapter O.E.S.; town treasurer, 1878; town clerk 1879-1885 and 1908. Lives at Readfield, Maine. (Married Alice Haines, dgt. of Dudley W. Haines, in 1899. Died Jun. 16, 1941, buried Readfield Corner Cemetery. Manter brothers' - George and Melville - stores were both destroyed in the devastating fire of June 1921 but they rebuilt.)


MANTER, JOHN WEST JR.
Born in New Sharon, Maine April 3, 1858 (son of John W. and Hannah <West> Manter; brother of John W. and Melville Manter). Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge June 3, 1882. Has held no Masonic office. Postmaster at Readfield Corner 1897-1901. Painter and paper hanger by trade. (Married Bertha Hoyt of Manchester in 1880, she died 1907; married Etna May in 1916; died 1939 in Readfield, buried Readfield Corner Cemetery).

MANTER, MELVILLE WEST
Born in New Sharon, Maine May 12, 1861 (son of John W. and Hannah <West> Manter; brother of John W. and George Manter). Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  Apr. 1, 1882. Only office has held was organist, which he held practically all the time since he was made a Mason. Is a member of the firm G.W. & M.W. Manter (see George W. Manter above FMI). A member of Trinity Commandery K.T. and Maine Consistory S.P.R.S. (Married Lillian Cowan in 1909; died in Readfield Apr. 27, 1943, buried Readfield Corner Cemetery).


MASTERMAN, JOHN ROBERTSON
Born at Weld, Maine July 21, 1838 (son of Ira and Susan <Robertson> Masterman). Made a Master Mason in Blue Mountain Lodge at Phillips, Maine. Affiliated with Lafayette Lodge Apr. 19, 1870 and demitted Feb. 7, 1880 and became a member of Caribou Lodge at Caribou, Maine. Again affiliated with Lafayette Jan. 7, 1893 and since that time has been Chaplain; elected Honorary Member Sept. 7, 1907. Is a member of Lafayette Chapter O.E.S. He is a minister of the Methodist church and has held the pastorate over about twenty different charges but in now retired. He was in Co. B of the 2nd Maine Calvary in the Civil War and is a member of the G.A.R. and also of P. of H. He lives at Readfield (in what is known as the Harriman house, Winthrop Road, in 2016). (Married Arabine Phillips of Weld in 1857; They lived at their home in Readfield until 1909 - one year before he died when they sold and moved to Monmouth, ME to live with their daughter Lilla Marston. His other children had moved out west to Washington state as did Lilla after her parent's deaths. Rev. Masterman died at age 73 years of diabetes and Bright's Disease. He is buried in Readfield Corner Cemetery)


MASTERMAN, ERNEST
Born in Caribou, Maine April 7, 1879 (son of John R. and Arabine <Phillips> Masterman, above) Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge Dec. 29, 1902. Was formerly engaged in the grocery business in the firm of Folsom & Masterman. Went to Washington state in 1909 and us there at this writing. (Married in 1903 to Leonora Juliette Manter, dgt. of John West Manter above. Died in Yakima, WA in 1955; buried in that town)


MAYO, NATHANIEL JR.
Place and date of birth unknown (born in 1795 in Maine). Raised to the Sublime degree of Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge Dec. 14, 1826; S.D. 1827-28. He was a clothier and had a fulling mill at the sawmill dam (head of Torsey Pond, Bean's Mills). There was also a grist mill there at that time. The time or place of his death has not been learned. (Married Eliza Bearce in 1820, both of Readfield at that time. Research leads me to believe that Mayo moved to East Livermore where he was made post master Dec. 1820. In 1827 he and his partner Nathaniel Bartlett were ejected from the Readfield mill via a court case. Nathaniel died in Livermore in 1862. Buried in Richardson Cemetery in Livermore Falls.)


MERRIMAN, DAVID DOUGLASS "D.D."
Born in Harpswell, Maine Nov. 27, 1831 (son of Robert and Clarissa <Douglass> Merriman). Made a Mason in Richmond, Lodge, Richmond Maine. Affiliated in Lafayette Lodge Dec. 5, 1874. He has lived in Readfield for more than thirty years, all the time engaged in the dry good business. (Married Emeline Perkins of NH in 1859; died in Readfield in 1916, buried in Readfield Corner Cemetery)


MERRIMAN, ELI E. "E.E."
Born in Tamworth NH Oct. 11, 1863 (son of D.D. and Emeline <Perkins>  Merriman above). Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  Jan. 30, 1892; J.D. 1893; S.D. 1894; Town Clerk of Readfield 1888-1893. U.S. railway and mail clerk. Lives at Woodfords (Portland) Maine (in 1909). (Married in 1885 to Celia Haines dgt. of Dudley W. and Clarissa <Hankerson> Haines. Returned to live in Readfield where he died in 1956; buried in Readfield Corner Cemetery)


MERROW, LOUIS WOODMAN
Born in Farmington, Maine Sept. 10, 1878. Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  April 7, 1904; J.S. 1904-05; J.D. 1906; S.D. 1907; J.W. 1908. Educated at Cony High School, Augusta. Learned the trade of mason, which he followed for several years. Is head clerk at F.I. Brown and lives at Readfield (in 1909).


MILLETT, CHARLES HOLMES
Born in Leeds, Maine Dec. 25, 1844. Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  Apr. 13, 1867. Affiliated with Raboni Lodge and because a member of Lafayette Lodge May 5, 1877; Secretary 1878-1882; S.D. 1885; He was a carpenter by trade. Died at Readfield Oct. 29, 1890.


MILLETT, EUGENE LEROY
Born at Milton Plantation, Maine Mar 25, 1870. Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  April 7, 1906. He is a clerk and lives at Readfield Depot (in 1909).


MILLETT, SAMUEL GOULD
Born at Leeds, Maine Dec. 5, 1832. Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  Aug. 5, 1868 under a waiver of jurisdiction from Fellowship Lodge at Bridgewater, MA. Affiliated with this lodge Sec. 4, 1875. For several years was in the gold mines of California and Idaho. From 1865 to 1896 he was engaged in the shoe business as foreman, superintendent and manufacturer. Retired from active business in 1896. Lives at Brockton, Mass (in 1909).


MILLIKEN, JOHN SEWELL DR.
Born Farmington, Maine Sept. 20, 1875.Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  Mar. 4, 1905; S.S. 1906; J.D. 1907; S.D. 1908/ Graduated from the Maine Medical School and was one year each an intern in Christ Hospital in Jersey City, NJ and Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Hospital of New York City. Settled in Readfield (Church Road) in 1903 in the practice of medicine, where he now resides (in 1909).   (He died in 1943)


MITCHELL, NEAL DR.
Born in Jacksonville, Florida Oct. 21, 1855 (son of Dr. Joseph and Myra Mitchell). He received the Entered Practice Apprentice and Fellowship degrees in Duval Lodge, Jacksonville in 1892 and was raised to the Sublime degree of Master Mason of Lafayette Lodge Mar. 13, 1907. His education was received at Kents Hill School and Lapham Institute in N. Scituate, R.I. Graduated from Amherst College and Medical College, N.Y. and Long Island Medical College, Brooklyn, receiving his medical degree from the later college; Friederich Wilhelm University, Hamburg, Germany; intern at General Hospital at Hamburg Germany. Member of the Society of American Physicians at Berlin, Germany; American Medical Association and Florida Medical Association. Was in the active practice of his profession from 1880 to 1892 when he was obliged to relinquish due to ill health. His practice continued through one of the most serious outbreaks of yellow fever that Jacksonville had ever had and through it all he remained in the city caring for the sick. Now lives in Readfield (in 1909). (Bought the Asa Gile mansion on Main Street after he retired in FL. Owned hotels in Florida which his wife carried on after he died in 1911. She also owned the mansion in Readfield for several years.)


MOORE, APPLETON
Born in Vienna, Maine Feb. 13, 1861. Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  Jan. 24, 1898; S.S. 1900; Town clerk of Readfield 1898-1901; traveling salesman for a Portland wholesale firm. Lives in Readfield, Maine (in 1909).


MORGON, ERNEST AMOS
Born in Weld, Maine Oct. 8, 1849 (son of Harrison and Julia <Piper> Morgan). Made a Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge  June 4, 1887; Secretary 1888-89 and 1893 and 1901; Member of the Lafayette Chapter O.E.S. Ten years deputy sheriff Kennebec County formerly a farmer but since selling his farm he has been engaged the most of the time as traveling agent purchasing furs. (Son William "Bill" married Pearl Hannaford, a daughter of Dr. Eli Hannaford of Readfield. Bill founded Camp Maranacook Boys' Camp. Ernest Morgan died in Readfield 1922, buried Readfield Corner Cemetery)


MORRILL, SAMUEL
Born in Brentwood, NH June 4, 1800 (son of Nathaniel and Eleanor <Morrill> Morrill). Made A Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge March 27, 1827; Tyler 1828-29; J.D. 1830. He was a sleigh maker by trade and had a shop where Mr. McCormick now lives (Readfield Depot, north side of street next to tracks). Died Feb. 14, 1843 (buried East Readfield Cemetery)


MORRILL, GEORGE STANLEY
Born in Readfield Nov. 12, 1837 (son of Maj. Jacob and Maria <Clary> Morrill). Made A Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge July 25, 1863; J.D. 1867-68; S.D. 1869-72; J.W. 1873; S.W. 1874-75. A farmer and lives at East Readfield on the farm where he was born. (Died 2/14/1911. Buried East Readfield Cemetery)


MORRILL, CHARLES CRAIG S.
Born at Readfield Mar. 13, 1850 (son of Maj. Jacob and Maria <Clary> Morrill; brother to George S. above). Made A Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge Mar. 8, 1873. A farmer and lives at East Readfield. Member of board of selectman of Readfield 1904-09. Deputy Sheriff of Kennebec County 1907-08. (Married Ida J. Mace, dgt. of Charles Mace, in 1874. Charles Morrill died 1915. He and Ida are buried East Readfield Cemetery)


MORRILL, PHINEAS, JR.
Born at Brownville, Maine June 24, 1830 (son of Phineas, Esq. and Sylvina <Gerrish> Morrill). Made A Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge Mar. 18, 1870; J.D. 1872-73; treasurer 1874-78; J.W. 1879-80; S.W. 1881-84; Master 1885. In earlier life he was spinner and weaver at woolen mills. In later life he retired from active business. Died at Readfield Feb. 12, 1890 and buried (Readfield Corner Cemetery) with Masonic honors. (married Elizabeth Fairbanks of Winthrop in 1855)


MORSE, CHARLES SANFORD
Born at Readfield in 1827 (parents unknown). Made A Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge June 26, 1858; J.D. 1858-59; S.D. 1860. He was a carriage and ornamental painter by trade. He painted the Master's carpet used in Lafayette Lodge for nearly fifty years. He served in the Civil War, was taken prisoner and confined in several Confederate prisons and died at Florence (Stockade), South Carolina Sept. (Nov) 13, 1864. His Masonic diploma and Masonic pin he entrusted to the Southern Mason but they were never again seen. (married Olive Whittier dgt of Joseph Whittier of Readfield in 1858 and they lived at the Whittier farm on North Road (Cyrus Whitcomb 2016) until Charles died. After that they sold the Whittier farm and Olive bought a house on Old Kents Hill Road (Nancy Barnes 2016) and married to William Laughton, also a Mason. A memorial to Charles S. Morse is engraved on the Whittier / Morse / Laughton family stone in Readfield Corner Cemetery although it is highly likely Charles S. Morse was actually buried in one of the mass graves at the Florence Stockade, SC)


MORSE, WILSON FAY
Born in Westfield, NY May 7, 1845. Made a Mason in Elm Creek Lodge in Randolph, NY. Affiliated with Lafayette Lodge Jan. 2, 1875. Member of Lewiston lodge of Perfection. In the Civil War he was Band Master of the 2nd Division of the 12th Corps and was at the Battle of Lookout Mountain where his band rendered most stirring music for the first two hours of the battle. Since 1870 he has been the Director of (Morse) Conservatory of Music at Kents Hill. Received the degree of Music Doc. from Syracuse University. Lives at Kents Hill (in 1909 - currently the Dennison house).


MORSE, LOUIS BEETHOVEN
Born at Kents Hill Nov. 14, 1878 (son of William F. and Ella <Deuel> Morse). Made A Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge Mar. 15, 1902. Educated at Kents Hill School and was a teacher at (Morse) Conservatory of Music. Died at Portland, Maine May 23, 1903.


MURPHY, HAMLIN HIRAM
Born at Bristol, Maine Sept. 19, 1845. Made A Master Mason in Lafayette Lodge Mar. 13, 1875. Served three years in the 19th Maine Infantry in the Civil War. ember of the San Francisco, California police force from 1878-1898 and retired on half pay because of injuries received in service. In employ of the Wells Fargo Express Co. as a treasurer, guard on railroad stage lines for several years. Died in San Francisco Mar. 18, 1908.