Oak family register, 1906

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HENRY LEBBEUS OAK
Believing
that
every
descendant
of
the Oak
tribe
will
be
interested in a sketch of the life of the compiler of the Oak Gene-
alogy, and also
of his
historical work which preceded
this, the
writer undertakes the task, albeit both a sad and pleasant one.
Rarely does
it
fall to the
lot of any one man to accomplish so
much and
receive so
little
recognition, or
appreciation,
of
his
work.
Henry Lebbeus was of the 6th generation descended through
Nath|', John*,
Nath.3,
Benj.*,
Lebbeuss.
Born
in
Garland,
Pe-
nobscot county, Maine,
(26 miles north of Bangor) on May
13,
1844.
Of his paternal ancestry to Benj.
•*
(70), this volume gives in-
iormation.
His father, Lebbeus, was the seventh child of Benj.
and Hannah (Smith) Oak. Born in Boscawen, N. H., in 1820, he
came
with
his
parents
to
Garland,
Me., when
a
lad
of
six
years, where
he, with
his
four brothers and one
sister, spent
their
entire
lives,
excepting,
in
his
case,
the
time
spent
in
learning
his
trade
of
harness-maker,
in
Bangor,
Me.,
and
Haverhill, Mass., and two years spent in Los Angeles, Cal., 1898-
1900, visiting his boys.
He died in his old home
in Garland
in
May,
1905,
three days
after Henry's
death.
Lebbeus
received
less benefit from his schooling than his brothers, but was a great
reader, and a well informed man on
all current events, national,
state and
local.
Too old
to
enter the army
in
'61, he became
captain
of the
home guards and later major of the state militia, and was active
in filling Garland's quota of soldiers
in the
Civil War.
He was
well liked among his townspeople from the oldest to the young-
est.
Though on good terms with every one,
genial
social and
witty, he was very averse to making social and formal calls.
I seldom knew him
to
visit, even
his
near
relatives, though
much pleased to have any of them or neighbors drop in to spend
an hour with him of a Sunday afternoon.
This trait of aversion to society, calling and visiting, was even

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