Horace Chenery & Colt

Horace Chenery & Colt

Horace Chenery with mare & Colt BIOGRAPHY Horace Chenery, grandson of Governor William Crosby of Belfast, was born September 29, 1874, in San Francisco California. He died in 1934. His parents were Col. Richard Chenery (1817 - 1890) and Anne Maria Crosby Chenery (1832 - 1901) Anne Maria Crosby was born 6 July, 1832, in Boston, Mass., the daughter of William George and Ann (Patterson) Crosby. She married her first husband, Colonel Alfred Waldo Johnson on the 25th of December, 1861, at Boston, Mass She married her second husband Colonel Richard Chenery on the 18th of November, 1873, at Boston, Mass. They had one child, Horace, born at San Francisco, Cal., on the 29th of September, 1874. She died Apr. 22. 1901 at the age of 68. Horace married his first wife, Grace Fuller, daughter of George A. Fuller, of Chicago on the 23rd of January, 1896, at Chicago, Ill. She died at New York City, on the 27th of September, 1899. He married his second wife. Julie Hendry Lloyd (1876 - 1950) on the 31st of December 1901, at New York, The public-spirited services rendered by Horace Chenery, Esq., to the Fire Department, of which he was elected a member some years ago, deserve mention. Ever since automobiles have been in general use in Belfast, he has placed at the disposal of the Department one of his cars or trucks, with instructions that it be kept constantly in readiness, night or day, to convey the firemen to the scene of danger, the instant the alarm sounds. "THE PASTURES" FARM Horace Chenery owned "The Pastures", in Belmont, Maine. The Town of Belmont, Waldo County, Maine, since it's settlement in the early 1800's, and incorporation as a Town in 1814, in what was then in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, had been a farming community. Throughout the history of the town, one generation after another resided on the farms, often several generations at a time in the old farm buildings. Around the turn of the Twentieth Century, Horace Chenery, grandson of Governor William Crosby of Belfast, returned from Massachusetts, to the area of his roots. He was attracted to the farming community of Belmont. He set about to purchase one farm after another from the elder generations of farmers in Town. It was probably about this time that a migration to Massachusetts and the western United States was claiming the younger generation of the town. Some of the migration returned to Belmont after making their fortunes, but a great number of them never returned to the town that they had called home. "The Pastures" was called a model dairy farm. In 1903, Horace Chenery bought the Lamb farm of 100 acres in Belmont, which bordered on Tilden Pond. He had a dream of building a large fancy dairy farm. He then purchased the Fred Farwell farm of 75 acres, the Crockett farm of 120 acres, the James Bicknell farm of 195 acres. These farms were in Belmont. He also purchased the 195-acre Elmbrook farm in Belfast. In 1907 he owned 685 acres, which included 235 acres of fields and orchards; 200 acres of pasture, and many acres of old-growth lumber. In 1907, he purchased a farm in Belmont from Mrs. Elizabeth Milliken and her daughter Mary Maud, of Belfast. When Chenery purchased the Lamb farm, the farm included a comfortable farm house with an ell, and large connected barn. He modernized and improved the house. It was there that his farm superintendent, Walter E. Quimby, who was a graduate of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture resided with his family. COOT CLUB Horace was member of The Coot Club, an organization of Belfast young men interested in shooting and fishing They made annual excursions among the islands of Penobscot Bay, during the first week in October, since 1902, to date, 1912. The steamer Castine was usually chartered for the occasion, and in addition to deep-sea fishing, duck shooting, etc., it was the custom to hold an old-fashioned country dance, which was always looked forward to and greatly enjoyed by the residents for miles around the locality visited. The experiences of the Club have been many and varied, and number among them the capture of the steamer and the arrest of the members by over-zealous game wardens. Legal proceedings, however, determined that the wardens were less versed in the law than the sportsmen, and the case was dismissed. In addition to Horace Chenery, list of members included: Fred Titcomb Chase, Charles E. Crawford, Edward R. Esterbrooks, Herbert Foster, William Henry Hall, James Howard Howes, Ralph Henry Howes, Alfred Johnson, Dr. William Cunningham Libbey, Samuel Merrill Ray Locke, T. Frank Parker, Clarence Eugene Read, Frank O. Smith,2 and William Henry Quimby. Joseph H. Darby has always acted as steward.