Cumberland County, Maine - Col. Frederic E. Boothby
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Biography
Col. Frederic E. Boothby
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 557-558


Col. Frederic E. Boothby, of Portland, General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the
Maine Central Railroad, was born in Norway, Me., December 3, 1845, son of Levi
Thompson and Sophia Packard (Brett) Boothby.

Levi Thompson Boothby was born in Livermore, Me., June 21, 1818. He received a
good common-school education, and learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he
worked but a short time. He lived a while in Paris, Me., and while there took up
insurance as a side issue, developing in that way a talent for business which
affected the whole course of his after life. In 1857 he moved to Waterville, and
about a year later established the Waterville Mutual Insurance Company, at the
same time accepting an appointment as railway station agent; but, finding that
he could not attend properly to both lines of business, he decided to devote his
attention wholly to insurance. He accordingly resigned his position in the
employ of the railroad company, and opened an office in the center of the town,
where he is still in business, his youngest son, William, acting as his
assistant. Mr. Levi T. Boothby is undoubtedly the oldest insurance agent in
Maine, and has a large business to attend to. In politics he is a Republican;
and he takes an active interest in State and national affairs, having regularly
attended the Republican conventions as delegate for thirty-one years. Though
time has sprinkled Mr. Boothby's head with the frosts of many years, he is still
active mentally and physically, and is a leading business man of Waterville. He
was married in Paris, Me., on his twenty-fifth birthday, to Sophia Packard
Brett, a native of Brockton, Mass.

Frederic Eleazer Boothby acquired his education at Oxford Normal Institute at
South Paris, the Waterville High School, and the Waterville Academy, now called
the Coburn Classical Institute. He was first tendered an official appointment on
May 1, 1861, when he was made Assistant Postmaster at Waterville. He acquired a
taste for railroading when his father was station agent, and in 1864 entered the
service of the Maine Central Road as general ticket agent, with office at
Waterville. The road then covered but one hundred and ten miles, extending from
Bangor to Danville Junction. In 1871, when this road was consolidated with the
Portland & Kennebec, Colonel Boothby went to Augusta and took charge of the
freight department, being appointed auditor and paymaster. In 1874 he was made
general passenger agent, having under his direction nine hundred miles of
railroad. In 1875, when the offices were changed, he was removed to Portland,
where he has since been general passenger and ticket agent. He also acts in the
same capacity for the Portland, Mount Desert, & Madison Steamboat Company.
Colonel Boothby has a great many interests outside of his railroad business,
being a Director of the Union Safe Deposit and Trust Company, of which he was an
organizer; a Director of the New England Railway Publishing Company of Boston; a
Director of the St. Andrew's Land Company, office at Boston; and also of the St.
Andrew's Land Company of New Brunswick, a summer resort developed by this
company, which built a beautiful hotel, the Algonquin.

On October 25, 1871, Frederic E. Boothby was united in marriage with Miss
Adelaide E. Smith, of Waterville, daughter of Charles H. and Vesta B. Smith. In
Politics Colonel Boothby is a Republican. He was a member of Governor Bodwell's
staff, Commissary general on Governor Marble's staff, and Assistant
Quartermaster-general on Governor Burleigh's staff, serving in all six years. He
is a member of the Massalonskee Lodge; of Drummond Chapter of Oakland ; and of
Portland Council and Portland Commandery, Knights Templars. He belongs to the
Cumberland Club, the Portland Club, and to the Portland Art Club, taking an
active part in the work of the latter, and is also a member of the Athletic
Club. In religious belief Colonel Boothby is an Episcopalian, being; Vestryman
in St. Stephen's Church. He has travelled extensively through the United States
and Mexico, and is a man of varied accomplishments and broad intelligence.