History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . E., daughter of Ed-mond and Mary (Hill) Coffin, of Biddeford. She was bornJuly 25, 1807, and is a woman of great moral worth andChristian excellence. Her father was a prominent citizenof Biddeford ; was a deputy sheriff of the county, and clerkof Biddeford from 180-1 to 1838. His children are Henry, a graduate of Dartmouth Col-lege, in the class of 1854, and a lawyer by profession ;Charles, a jeweler in Dover, N. H.; Mary ; and Horace, amanufacturing jeweler in Lowell, Mass. ORREN ROS
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . E., daughter of Ed-mond and Mary (Hill) Coffin, of Biddeford. She was bornJuly 25, 1807, and is a woman of great moral worth andChristian excellence. Her father was a prominent citizenof Biddeford ; was a deputy sheriff of the county, and clerkof Biddeford from 180-1 to 1838. His children are Henry, a graduate of Dartmouth Col-lege, in the class of 1854, and a lawyer by profession ;Charles, a jeweler in Dover, N. H.; Mary ; and Horace, amanufacturing jeweler in Lowell, Mass. ORREN ROSS, Orren Ross, , eldest son of Simon and l\Iary (Perkins)Ross, was born in Kennebunk, Sept. 14, 1812. His parentswere also natives of the same place. He received his edu-cation in the common schools and in the Kennebunk andNorth Bridgton Academies. At the age of fourteen hewas apprenticed to Dixey Stone, a grocer of Bridgton Cen-tre, Me., with whom he remained until he was twenty yearsold, when he began trade for himself at Sweden, Oxford Co.,Me. After about two years in business, he disposed of. insurmountable obstacles in their early experience. At theage of seventy-five his energy is unremitting, his faithful discharge of his professional duties constant,and his desire to do good to the suffering remains un-changed. Dr. Bacon has been interested in all local enter-prises tending to benefit society, and for the growth andprosperity of the city of his adoption, and little connectedwith business outside of his professional labors. He was for several years a director of the Old YorkBank, and for a few years carried on a drug-store in Saco. his stock of goods and was engaged as a teacher of penman-ship in the town schools until 1836. During that year hebegan the study of medicine with Dr. Nathaniel Pease, ofBridgton, and after three years graduated in the medi-cal department of Bowdoin College, in the class of to his graduation he had taken a th
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