Andrew McFadden was born between 1675 and 1683 at Scotland. In 1693 at Derry, Ireland, Andrew married Mary Mallory, born about 1672 at Derry, Ireland and died 1703 in Ireland. In 1704 in Ireland, Andrew married secondly Jane Linsey, b. 1687 at Garovo, Garvagh, Londonderry, Ireland, d. after 19 June 1776. Andrew McFadden died in 1753 at Arrowsic Island, Sagadahoc County, Maine. Issue by Jane Linsey
James McFadden+ b. 1701, d. 1754 (see below)
Andrew McFadden+ b. 1715, d. 10 Apr 1810 (see below)
Summersett McFadden b. Jan 1720
Daniel McFadden+ b. 1722, d. 6 Jan 1797
James McFadden was born in 1701 at Somerset, Londonderry, Ireland. He was the son of Andrew McFadden and Jane Linsey. In 1728 at Arrowsic Island, Sagadahoc County, Maine, James married Rebecca Pierce. James McFadden died in 1754 at Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine, at age 53 years. Issue by Rebecca Pierce:
John McFadden+ b. 31 May 1729, d. 5 Mar 1755
Mary McFadden b. 9 Jul 1731, d. 1 Mar 1824
James McFadden b. 2 Nov 1733, d. 1753
Hannah McFadden+ b. 22 Feb 1736, d. 20 Aug 1810
Thomas McFadden+ b. 10 Oct 1740, d. 18 Nov 1840 (see below)
Andrew McFadden b. 3 Jan 1743, d. 1834
Jane McFadden b. 13 Oct 1748, d. 1794
Mary McFadden+ b. 9 Jul 1831, d. 1 Mar 1834
Thomas McFadden was born on 10 October 1740 at Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine. He was the son of James McFadden and Rebecca Pierce. On 1 January 1768 at Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine, Thomas married Hannah Savage. On 20 December 1807 Thomas married Ruth Spinney. Thomas McFadden died on Wednesday, 18 November 1840 at Embden, Somerset County, Maine, at age 100 years, 1 month and 8 days. Hannah Savage was born on 28 October 1746.1 On 1 January 1768 at Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine. Hannah died on Friday, 5 June 1807 at age 60 years, 7 months and 8 days. Issue of Thomas and Hannah:
Rebecca McFadden b. 7 Oct 1768, d. 27 Sep 1844
Mary McFadden b. 28 Aug 1770, d. 1840
Abigail McFadden b. 13 Jul 1772, d. Jul 1863
Hannah McFadden b. 22 Sep 1774, d. 1857
Jane McFadden b. 15 Sep 1775, d. 28 Aug 1823
James McFadden b. 1 May 1778
Lydia McFadden b. 15 Oct 1780, d. 11 Sep 1848
John McFadden b. 5 Feb 1783, d. 16 Jul 1864
Thomas McFadden b. 30 Apr 1784, d. 1 Mar 1834
Lucy McFadden b. 4 Jun 1786, d. 1864
Grace McFadden b. 7 Jun 1786, d. 22 Mar 1854 Grace married Jacob Lowell, the son of Jacob and Jane McFadden, the daughter of Andrew McFadden and Abigail Mustard. (see Lowell Family)
Andrew McFadden b. 23 Nov 1788, d. 17 Apr 1873
Martha McFadden b. 17 Jul 1791, d. 19 Aug 1836
Andrew McFadden was born in 1715 at Somerset, Londonderry, Ireland. He was the son of Andrew McFadden and Jane Linsey. On 29 January 1750 at Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, Maine, Andrew married Abigail Mustard. Abigail was born in 1728 at Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine. She died on Tuesday, 10 April 1810 at age 82 years. Andrew McFadden died on Tuesday, 10 April 1810 at age 95 years. Issue of Andrew McFadden and Abigail Mustard:
William McFadden b. 22 May 1751
Martha McFadden b. 17 Jul 1752
Jane McFadden b. 13 Sep 1754, married Jacob Lowell, son of John Lowell, and Martha Currier of Amesbury, Massachusetts.
Andrew McFadden b. 5 Aug 1757
Abigail McFadden b. 5 Aug 1757
John McFadden b. 3 Feb 1762, d. 15 Dec 1841
Grace McFadden was born on 7 June 1786 at Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine. She was the daughter of Thomas McFadden and Hannah Savage. On 18 September 1806 Grace married Jacob Lowell, the son of Jacob and Jane McFadden Lowell. Jacob (husband of Grace) was born 22 June 1782 in Georgetown, Maine and died 29 January 1843. She died on Wednesday, 22 March 1854 at age 67 years, 9 months and 15 days.
Jacob Lowell, Jr., born in Alna, Maine, June 22, 1781, died
Concord, Maine, January 29, 1843. Married Grace McFadden of Embden, Maine. Grace died in Concord, Maine in 1854. They had issue five sons, all of whom went to Stillwater, Minnesota and lived at least for a time[according to the Newspaper account (January 5) of Elmer Lowell's death January 4, 1935]: 1. William Lowell, a lumberman of Stillwater. 2. Jacob Lowell, retired. 3. John Lowell, lumberman of Stillwater. 4. Jotham Lowell, proprieter of a general store in Stillwater. 5. Albert Lowell, born Concord, Maine, July 10, 1819, died Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 22, 1888, and buried in Stillwater, Minnesota. Kept a hotel, "one of the best hotels in the state," the Sawyer House, in Stillwater, Minnesota from 1863. From that he was a farmer there from 1854. At Kendall's Mills, Maine, he married on February 5, 1850 Abbie Bicknell Reed, who was born in East Madison, Maine on August 6, 1832 and died in Durbin, North Dakota in May 9, 1890, and buried in Stillwater, Minnesota. They moved to Stillwater in 1854. Abbie was the daughter of Josiah Reed and Abigail Bicknell. They had I. Eleanore Lowell, born January 20, 1851. II. Clara Abbie Lowell, born June 11, l853, died 1854. III. Ernest Reed Lowell, born February, 1857. IV. Charles Albert Lowell, born November 24, 1858 in Solon, Maine [A newspaper article on the Lowell family said he was born in Stillwater, Minnesota]. He removed to Cassleton, North Dakota in 1878 where he took up land. He married twice: first, on November 25, 1880, Sarah Ross who died on July 9, 1886. He died on Wednesday, October 16, 19 . His obituary states: "ALHAMBRA, Oct. 18. --Private funeral services will be held for Charles A. Lowell, 88, a former North Dakota rancher who had been a resident of this section for many years. Mr. Lowell died Wednesday at Santa Paula..." They had issue: 1. Clara Abbie Lowell, born in Cassleton, North Dakota October 16, 1881. She married February 16, 1908 William Earl Cooney who was born in Iowa. They lived in Santa Paula, California. They had two daughters: (1) Helen Lowell Cooney, born in Fillmore, California in 1913. She married Percy Eaton Skaling on Saturday, Octrober 17, 1942 in San Marino, California. They had issue: [1] Bryce Cooney [2] Whitney Cooney (2) Elizabeth Ross Lowell Cooney, born in Fillmore, California in 1916. She married Robert James Sutton on Saturday, June 7, 1952 in Los Angeles, California.
2. Lillian V. Lowell, who married [according to Chs. A.
Lowell Obituary] who married _____ Jackson of Pennsylavnia. Charles Albert Lowell married secondly on July 31, 1894, Maud Marie Whitman, daughter of Newton W. Whitman and Mary Swift. Maud was born April 12, 1869. Charles Albert Lowell and Maud Marie Whitman had: 3. Martha Elinor [Eleanor] Lowell, born August 16, 1896 in Casselton, North Dakota. At home, at 123 North Vine Street, Los Angeles, California, at eight o'clock on Saturday evening, August 13, 1921, she married Elmer Ellsworth Bailey, Jr., son of Elmer Ellsworth Bailey and Lillian Josephine Smith, born July 4, 1895, in Suffield, Connecticut, died October 28, 1965. They had issue: (1) Joan Bailey, born July 10, 1924, married Alvin Sargent Hambly, Jr. See HAMBLY family for issue. (2) Nancie Eleanor Bailey, born in Pasadena, California in 1927. Married Donald Rodney Hodgman, Esq. in Palos Verdes, California, on Saturday, October 2, 1954. They had issue: [1] Donna Hodgman [2] Cynthia Hodgman 4. Margaret Lowell, born 1899, who married at six o'clock on Saturday afternoon, June 11th, 19 , at the Church of the Angels, Los Angeles, California, Harold Weston Sayre. [At athe death of Charles A. Lowell they were living in San Gabriel, California]. They had issue: (1) Ann Sayre who did not marry. (2) Marjory Sayre who married Bill Yates. They had: [1] John Yates [2] Craig Yates 5. Maude Lowell, born 1893, who married George F. Rogers. At the death of Charles A. Lowell they were of San Gabriel, California. George and Maude had issue:
(1) Elinor Rogers who married Charles Edward Pettingal, Jr., on Friday, March 29, 1940 at their home at 2000 F Street, North West, Washington, D.C. They had: [1] Suzie Pettingal [2] Charles Pettingal [3] Thom Pettingal (2) Lowell Rogers who married Elwyn Burrell Adams, the daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Perry Adams at 8:00 P.M. on Saturday, December 21, 19 , at Saint Cross Episcopal Church, Hermosa Beach, California. They had four children. He married secondly, Laura _____. (3) Jean Rogers who married on Tuesday, the seventh of September, 1948 in San Marino, California, Robert Melvin LeVan. They had: [1] Barbara LeVan
[2] Jennie LeVan [3] Douglas LeVan
One Monday morning, presumably in late February, 1790, Thomas McFadden - at the time spelled McFaden - and wife, Hannah, stood at their front door in Georgetown, all bundled up for an eighty-mile journey. Around them were eleven young McFaddens, ranging from Mary, a buxom young maiden of eighteen, to Andrew, a babe in arms. Seven of the brood were girls, the youngest, Lucy and Grace, twins less than four years old. All were out for a bright and early start on another venture into a newer part of the new country.
Thomas McFadden (1740-1840), of Scotch-Irish stock, had purchased in 1773 the Georgetown place he was now leaving. During the interim of sixteen years he had wooed and won Hannah Savage (1745-1807) from nearby Woolwich, served for three years in the Revolutionary War, returning home, a first lieutenant. Quite half of the big McFadden family was born before the war was over.
He represented the third generation of McFaddens, who had wrested a livelihood from rugged gateway towns of the Kennebec Valley. First was Andrew, his grandfather. Born in the Highlands of Scotland in 1675, this Andrew crossed the narrow channel to northeast Ireland which was the early home of more than one family whose descendants went eventually to Embden. He settled in Garro in the county of Derry, on the river Ban at a point called "Summersett." There he belonged to a band of Protestants, whom the Londonderry Catholics besieged vigorously and in 1718 Andrew McFadden sailed away to the land of promise.
With Andrew was a son James (1701-1754) – the father of Embden Thomas. They located on Somerset Point probably named for their ancient home at Summersett in Ireland. It is the Senters Point of the present day in Merrymeeting Bay. An Indian war followed after three or four years, so that Andrew fled with his family to a garrison at Arrowsic Island and there spent the remainder of his days. About that time his son James married Rebecca Pierce (1701) of a family in Massachusetts. He and his wife resided on Arrowsic Island and there, Thomas McFadden, along with several bothers and sisters, grew to be a young man.
And now Thomas McFadden, after the example of his father and grandfather, was moving on in search of a larger opportunity. The autumn before the February morning in 1790 he had traded his Georgetown farm with George Michael, one of the earliest Embden settlers. He obtained in exchange Lot No. 18, situated close by the Kennebec and known ever since then as one of the most desirable farms properties in that vicinity.
The picture of the departing McFadden family was entirely typical of the pioneers of that day, bound for the upper reaches of the big river. Their conveyance was a long ox-sled, which stood in the front yard, fully packed with their worldly goods. There were household utensils of many sorts, a little furniture, some bedding, a few bags of seed corn and other grain and forage for a horse, a cow, a yoke or two of oxen and whatever other livestock had to be taken on the migration journey.
With visiting former neighbors from Georgetown and Woolwich and with traveling eighty miles and more it was toward the end of the week before this McFadden cavalcade – which had been joined by other en route – pulled along the winding channel of the Kennebec up toward the Seven Mile Brook outlet marked by Island B, otherwise called Savage Island. All the way up was over a winter road. It was on the river ice, from settlement to settlement, with passageways "swamped" through the forest and waterfalls and rapids. By February the road was well trodden. There was a good volume of traffic. One vexing problem, however, was to hit upon wide places in the road for ox-teams that had to pass.
Stopping places for noonday meals and for the family’s lodging were made at cabins where there were friends or relatives. That was not difficult. At Hallowell, Augusta, Vassalboro, Fairfield and Bloomfield were numerous settlers who had preceded the McFaddens from the lower valley. There was splendid hospitality all along. The travelers bore tidings from Arrowsic, Georgetown, Bristol, Dresden, Woolwich, and Wiscasset and from the several settlements they traveled on their pilgrimage northward. On the McFadden ox-sled also, were many little articles that traders down-river had been requested to dispatch by the earliest convenient transport, to say nothing of the keepsakes sent along by kin as evidence of affectionate remembrance.
So the McFadden ensemble, with their bevy of attractive maidens and James, John and young Thomas - lads of twelve, seven and five years respectively - were welcome at every stopping place along the winter road. Rebecca McFadden (1768-1844), the oldest daughter, had gone up the river two years before as the bride of George Gray - the same George Gray who was to become a Free-will Baptist preacher in the Seven Mile Brook region. As a matter of fact George and Rebecca, married in February 1788, had taken their honeymoon trip on father John Gray’s ox-sled, when it was bound on a similar expedition during the favorable late-February period of winter from Georgetown to the Embden Eldorado. All of Capt. John Gray’s family - which included six or seven attractive daughters - after having made this journey in 1788, were now established at Embden on a farm next to that which Michael had traded to Thomas McFadden.
Friday night or Saturday night was given over to a visit with the Jacob Savages, who had been living for about six years on Savage Island - nearly east of the present village of North Anson - and had a pretentious pioneer establisshment. Jacob was Hannah McFadden’s brother, as were Dr. Edward and Isaac Savage of Embden; James of Anson, and two or three others not far away. There were Hilton relatives, too, for Hannah’s mother was that Mary (Hilton) Savage who had been a veritable mother to Israel to Woolwich people of her day. Mary was a daughter of that Ebenezer Hilton of Berwick and Wiscasset, whom the Indians slew, and a sister of that William Hilton who, when a captive of the Indians on the trial to Canada, up over the Embden high hills, spied the fertile intervals. Accordingly John and Ebenezer Hilton, near the latter day Patterson bridge; William Hilton of Solon and Joseph Hilton of Embden were Hannah McFadden’s nephews.
Thomas McFadden, too, had relatives and kinfolk on the way. Daniel McFadden, a cousin, and several others of the family were settlers at Vassalboro. His mother was Rebecca Pierce, as had been stated, and her people had already plodded with ox-sleds along the winter road. David, Calvin and Luther Pierce, her young nephews, of whom only Luther was married, were then at Titcombtown, the modern Anson. Surely the McFadden relatives would not pass till they had learned how these lads were faring.
Thus there were relatives galore and family reunions compensated for the privations of a long ox-sled journey. The Hiltons and the Savages, as well as Thomas McFadden were Revolutionary War veterans. >From the struggle at arms, all had sprung to the subjugation of the wilderness. By the light of roaring backlogs as family visited with family, there were evenings when the weather bronzed men fought once more on the fields where Independence was won. They were also all grandsons of the trans-Atlantic emigrants. The Savage family came from the same Londonderry as the McFaddens. The Hiltons were from a nearby English county. Items of the migration into the new country were still fairly well remembered and still supplied interesting themes for conversation.
Their week’s eventful journey done, the Thomas McFaddens passed to their new domain at Embden and settled down. The twelve children became thirteen of whom nine were daughters. Attractive and capable girls they were and suitors thronged from both the Embden settlements for the hands of these McFadden maidens.
Mary (1770) was twice married. Her first husband was John Dinsmore; her second John Heald. She became the mother of three sons.
Abigail (1772-1863), the third oldest, became the helpmeet of Samuel Fling, a son of Morris Fling of Anson. Samuel’s farm was only a little way up the Kennebec from her father’s. Abigail bore hew husband in the course of years a family on ten fine children in New Portland.
Hannah (1774-1857), named for her mother, married Joshua Gray, also their immediate neighbor. It was the same Gray family her older sister, Rebecca, had married into and the sisters thus became also sisters-in-law. She had five children who grew to be notable men and women.
Timothy Cleveland from West Embden accompanied father Joseph, in 1790, on a prospecting trip to Caratunk and by that time was acquainted with Jane McFadden (1775-1823), whom he married three years later. They reared as exceptional family of nine Clevelands over by Seven Mile Brook.
The next daughter, Lydia (1780-1848), wedded Benjamin Thompson who had a farm for a few years near Fahi Pond and then moved to Madison. She died childless.
Lucy (1786-1864), a twin sister of Grace, who survived her by twenty years, was the wife of Benjamin Young, one of the first of several brothers and sisters come from Madison to Embden. Their eight children – Andrew, David, Almeda, Lucinda, Cephas, Marcellus and Lafayette – were part of the second generation of that creditable name in the town’s early annals. They live on farm No. 71 southwest of Fahi. Their youngest son, Lafayette, born February 16, 1823, was the last surviving grandchild of Thomas McFadden. He died in Los Angeles when 20 days past his 100th milestone. Two of his Embden cousins, although strangers, recognized the old man, then blind, while he was groping his way there along the street, and a pathetic reunion followed.
Grace McFadden (1786-1854), the twin sister married Jacob Lowell (1743-1843) in 1806, and they had nine children – William, Lucy, Jacob, Lydia, Jotham, Albert, Jane, John and Martha. It was a notable family in Concord and Solon. Lucy Lowell married John Dinsmore, Jr., of Concord and John Lowell married Anna Dinsmore of Solon, John Dinsmore’s sister. Jane married Heman Whipple, one of Solon’s highly respected businessmen. Martha Lowell married William Tibbetts of Solon. Jacob Lowell, Jr., married Climenia Thompson of Embden.
The youngest McFadden daughter, Martha (1791-1836), in 1810 married Ruben Savage, a son of James at North Anson.
Meanwhile as he became a prosperous farmer of pioneer days, little wonder that Thomas McFadden, then well into his sixties, dominated the new Embden when its first town meeting was held on August 16, 1804. With brothers, uncles, cousins and in-laws - Hiltons, Savages, Clevelands, Pierces, Thompsons, Youngs, Grays, McKennys and Flings - he held a voting majority in the hollow of his hand. But he had also been a public-spirited settler and his election as the first town clerk and chairman of the first board of selectmen - with Dr. Edward Savage, his brother-in-law, then of West Embden and Capt. Benjamin Thompson, his son-in-law as the other two members of the board – apparently gave general satisfaction.
Thomas McFadden married a second wife, Ruth Spinner, in 1808. He outlived her by a quarter of a century and more and died on his pioneer farm in Embden. He was a man of exemplary character, industrious, and frugal - an outstanding figure in the town’s early history. Until fifty-five years old he was a Calvinist but then became a Universalist. He spent much of his last twenty years on earth studying the Bible and became a great conversationalist. He could quote chapter and verse and page and column and position on the page and in column.
Indians were living on Lot 18 when Thomas and Hannah McFadden went there to reside. Chief of these was Nicholas, who became very friendly with Andrew McFadden, their son. Andrew used to relate many anecdotes about these Indians and insisted that the spirit of Nicholas, after the old chief passed on, was always with him and gave him power in relieving pain which Andrew was credited with having a wonderful degree.
Although men and women of McFadden blood were numerous in early Embden, and are even to the present day, it is noteworthy that the McFadden name there has entirely disappeared.
The history of his four sons, all of whom figured more or less in the local affairs of the day, with one exception led to other communities. James (1778), the oldest married Betsey Churchill but lived at Ripley and then at Bangor. Their oldest child was Lucinda. Of three sons, Thomas J. went to New Orleans in boyhood and was never heard from. Andrew (1813-1891) lived at Woburn, Massachusetts.
Son John (1783-1864) was constable and tax collector of Embden in 1812, migrated from the town but returned and made several purchases of unsettled lands. One of these tracts had 99 acres in the reservation, set aside "for the first settled minister." John resided in northeast Embden and was a member of the state legislature in 1822. His wife was Lucy Dunlap of New Milford, some of whose brothers pioneered into the middle Embden neighborhood. They had one son, Willard Crocket McFadden (1808-1885), who married his first cousin, Lucinda; and one daughter, Sarah A., whose husband was Zachariah Williams of Embden. Willard in 1833 bought of James Daggett a farm of 94 acres near the cross road – it being south of Nathaniel Walker’s and north of John Colby – but died in California.
Son Thomas, Jr., (1784-1834), married Lovinah Savage 1794-1825) a sister of Ruben, his brother-in-law. He resided a while in Starks, but for a time lived on farm No. 61 in middle Embden. After the death of his wife he kept a store at Oldtown. His daughter, Martha S. (1811-1892), was Mrs. David Danforth of Solon, and another daughter, Annah Young, married Daniel McKenny of Madison. Two sons of Thomas, Jr., were Barzilla S. (1818), who went into the Mexican war but did not return, and Sebastian S. (1827), who married in Kentucky.
The other of the pioneers four sons and youngest was Andrew (1788-1873) who inherited strongly from his father, and like him, was much identified with the town. Andrew married Elizabeth Reirdon (1786-1879), daughter of a Georgetown family, and, for a while, was in Starks with his brother Thomas, but returned to the Embden homestead. He was an exceptional townsman, widely known for his honest philosophy but modest and retiring. His children and grandchildren adore him but he and his wife were also "Uncle" and "Aunt" Betsey to all the neighborhood. Andrew was a member of the first legislature of Maine. That legislature adjourned, when its first winter was over, till the next autumn and was said to have been the first body of its kind to re-elect itself. He was a charter member of Northern Star Lodge of Free Masons at North Anson, served as its first secretary and was master of the Lodge in 1824. He was town clerk and first selectmen in 1835 and a member of the legislature from Embden in 1851 and ’52.
Andrew and Elizabeth McFadden had eight children, all born in Embden. One of their sons, Elhanan Winchester (1816-1893) married Zilpha Baker (1817-1878) of Bingham and then resided at Fairfield. Achsa Jane (1818-1859) married John Cragin. Angelina (1823-1918) was Mrs. David Whipple of Bingham, whose son, Hosea B. Whipple, became a well-known resident of San Diego, California. Minerva L. (1826) married Samuel Haines of Saco, who, over a long period, was active in the cotton mill business there. The youngest daughter of Andrew was Mary (1830), who married Edward P. Weston of Skowhegan.
But Andrew had one son - even as his father, Thomas, had had - who clung to the Embden farm and made his career there. This was Ozias Henry McFadden (1818-1888), whose white hair and kindly bearing are remembered by many people in Embden today. He was liberal in religion, as his grandfather had been, but a staunch partisan, steadfast as a Republican and a worthy descendant of the long line of New England McFaddens. He lent a helping hand to many of the country people and won their lasting affection. He was a Free Mason and Knight Templar. For a number of years, covering the Civil War period, he served the town of Embden as treasurer and agent and in 1862 as a member of the legislature.
Ozias made an interesting marriage with Edith C. Pierce, of an influential West Embden family - daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Cragin) Pierce on Gordon Hill. As Hannah (Cragin) Pierce was a daughter of old Simeon Cragin, the Seven Mile Brook pioneer, the marriage cemented the ties of long standing between the Cragin and McFadden families. Old Thomas McFadden, with all his interests in the Kennebec, owned some land in west Embden near his son-in-law, Timothy Cleveland. The mother of Thomas, it will be remembered, was Rebecca Pierce. The marriage of his grandson, Ozias with Edith Pierce was thus also an additional alliance between those families after three generations.
The Embden farm was the home of Ozias McFadden till his health failed, when he went to North Anson to reside with Mrs. Carrie E. Hutchins, his daughter and only child. She is a woman of unusual refinement and personal charm, beloved by a wide circle of people. Her husband, Dr. George W. Hutchins died several years ago. Her home is now at Waterville.
Thomas, Andrew and Ozias, as shown, headed in honorable successions the Embden homestead. The memorable ox-sled journey of 1790 prefaced more than a century of devoted service to their families and to their fellow townsmen. Not a few of their offspring with the adventurous ancestral spirit traveled far in establishing homes and fashioning their own careers. They shared in the conquest of the western states, as did so may others of early Embden. A kinsman from Georgetown lived in South America and died there.
Few Embden families have had as large a part as the McFaddens in the history of this old country town or contributed more to the long, hard task of its transformation from an unbroken wilderness. Their men and women were exemplary among all the hardy Embden people who were their contemporaries.
Following the McFaddens of three generations on their fertile intervale place came the late Andrew J. Libby, another public-spirited owner who served the town exceptionally for a decade. He purchased in1886 the McFadden farm of 540 acres, including the Hafford and Rowe lots of 140 acres and the John Carl farm of 100 more - all assessed on the town books that year at $4,480. Later he bought other land in Embden till it amounted to nearly 1,100 acres. On this farm he raised blooded Hereford stock and ponies. He was widely known as a cattleman.
From:
Ernest George Walker, Embden Town of Yore, Olden Times and Families There
and in Adjacent Towns, Independent-Reporter Company Publishers and
Printers, Skowhegan, Maine, 1929, pp 186-195, Seattle Public Library Genealogy
Collection, Seattle, Washington.
For the Lowell, see: http://geocities.datacellar.net/Heartland/Estates/4909/lowindex.htm