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History of Buckfield, Maine 1777 * 1900
by Alfred Cole and Charles F. Whitman [1915] page 251
Zadoc Long, Jr.
Zadoc Long, Jr., son of Zadoc Long, was born in Buckfield, April 26, 1834. He went to the village schools and to Hebron Academy. He was then employed for a few years in the village stores, being at one time in partnership with his cousin, Carroll Loring. It was not long before he went to Boston and became a salesman in the hardware business with one or two large firms. In this vocation he travelled much in Maine and later in the Western States, and his personal bearing and business dealings were such that he was successful and highly esteemed. It was on one of those trips that he died at Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1866.
Few young men brought up in Buckfield have been more universally loved. His manner was cordial, his heart was "big as that of an ox" and his presence was good cheer. He was full of music, singing, and playing the violin with that sympathy that goes to the heart. He was the merriest of story tellers, and he overran with wit, anecdote and humor. He attracted around him, wherever he went, hosts of friends, who still recall, especially in his native town, his abundant life and spirits, his generous and unstinted helpfulness and his sympathy and humor.
He married Ruth A. B. Strout of Portland, granddaughter of Rev. George Thomes, a preacher and long a resident of Buckfield. There were four children of this marriage: Zadoc Long, 3d, who lived much of his childhood with his grandfather and grandmother Long and was the delight of their old eyes, a sweet, loving generous boy, now dead; Charles Strout Long, now with the Eastern Drug Company in Boston; Julia E. Long, now the wife of Edward C. Forbes of California, and Ruth Cardie Long, a professional singer in Portland and Boston, whose voice was of the most exquisite sympathy, now dead and lying with her father and mother in the Buckfield cemetery. All these children were much in the town in which were so many of their relatives on both the father's and mother's side, and are well remembered there.
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History of Buckfield, Maine 1777 * 1900
by Alfred Cole and Charles F. Whitman [1915] page 251
Zadoc Long, Jr.
Zadoc Long, Jr., son of Zadoc Long, was born in Buckfield, April 26, 1834. He went to the village schools and to Hebron Academy. He was then employed for a few years in the village stores, being at one time in partnership with his cousin, Carroll Loring. It was not long before he went to Boston and became a salesman in the hardware business with one or two large firms. In this vocation he travelled much in Maine and later in the Western States, and his personal bearing and business dealings were such that he was successful and highly esteemed. It was on one of those trips that he died at Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1866.
Few young men brought up in Buckfield have been more universally loved. His manner was cordial, his heart was "big as that of an ox" and his presence was good cheer. He was full of music, singing, and playing the violin with that sympathy that goes to the heart. He was the merriest of story tellers, and he overran with wit, anecdote and humor. He attracted around him, wherever he went, hosts of friends, who still recall, especially in his native town, his abundant life and spirits, his generous and unstinted helpfulness and his sympathy and humor.
He married Ruth A. B. Strout of Portland, granddaughter of Rev. George Thomes, a preacher and long a resident of Buckfield. There were four children of this marriage: Zadoc Long, 3d, who lived much of his childhood with his grandfather and grandmother Long and was the delight of their old eyes, a sweet, loving generous boy, now dead; Charles Strout Long, now with the Eastern Drug Company in Boston; Julia E. Long, now the wife of Edward C. Forbes of California, and Ruth Cardie Long, a professional singer in Portland and Boston, whose voice was of the most exquisite sympathy, now dead and lying with her father and mother in the Buckfield cemetery. All these children were much in the town in which were so many of their relatives on both the father's and mother's side, and are well remembered there.
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