Cumberland County, Maine - Harlan M. Raymond
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Biography
Harlan M. Raymond
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 134-135

Harlan M. Raymond, a representative business man of Westbrook, Me., who is
developing one of the best residential portions of the city, was born in
Charlestown, Mass., February 5, 1842, son of Samuel T. and Elizabeth (Andrews)
Raymond. His paternal grandfather, John T. Raymond, was a native of Lyman, York
County, Me. He was a farmer by occupation, and passed his whole life in Lyman.
Politically, he was an old-time Democrat; and in religious belief he was a
Congregationalist. He married, and reared five children, all of whom have passed
from the scenes of earth.

Samuel T. Raymond was born in Lyman, Me., and there grew to manhood. At nineteen
years of age he left home, and found employment in a brickyard in Boston, but
soon became a clerk in a grocery store in Charlestown, Mass., working with one
employer five years. The next five years he was there engaged in the grocery
business for himself. Returning then to Maine, he bought the farm on which his
son, Harlan M., now lives. Three or four years after making this purchase Samuel
T. Raymond engaged in the grocery business as successor to Benjamin Harris at
Cumberland Mills, and for four or five years successfully managed both the store
and his share of the farm. He then became associated with George and Lewis P.
Warren and Joseph Walker in the grain trade in Saccarappa (now Westbrook); but
about five years later he disposed of his interest in that business, and,
purchasing his brother's share in the farm, he devoted the rest of his life to
agriculture. He was an enterprising man, always on the alert for profitable
investments. During the war he furnished large quantities of beef for the army,
killing on an average one hundred animals per week; and he built a number of
houses in Cumberland Mills to rent. Politically, he favored the Democratic
party. He was well advanced in Masonry, belonging to Portland Commandery,
Knights Templars, No. 9, of Portland. He died in 1876, at the age of sixty-two.
His wife, formerly Elizabeth Andrews, of Charlestown, Mass., died April 20,
1892. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Raymond attended the congregational church in
Westbrook. Three children were born to them, two of whom are living: Harlan M.,
the subject of this sketch; and Addie M., wife of H. W. Gage, of Portland, Me.

Harlan M. Raymond received his early education in the schools' of Westbrook, and
afterward took a two years' course at Gorham Academy and one year at Fryeburg,
Me. He worked for a while on the Raymond farm, and managed a milk route between
Westbrook and Portland for three years. Then, entering the establishment of J.
Winslow Jones, of Westbrook, he learned to make cans for putting up corn and
other garden products; and, when his term of apprenticeship was completed, he
became a regular employee, retaining his connection with the concern some eight
years. At the end of that time he entered the employ of the Portland Packing
Company of Westbrook, with whom also he remained eight years. After the death of
his father he took charge of the home farm; and in the fall of that year he
again renewed his connection with the Portland Packing Company, acting as
superintendent for four years, and at the same time raising quantities of hay
and sweet corn on his farm.

A Democrat like his father, Mr. Raymond was esteemed by members of both parties;
and in September, 1884, he was appointed Postmaster at Cumberland Mills. Closing
up his other business, he gave his whole attention to the duties of his office
till April, 1889, when he returned to his farm. His property originally
comprised one hundred acres; but he has cut it up into house lots, some of which
he has sold, and has made several new streets, including State, Raymond, and
Pearl Streets and Warren Avenue. He has reserved about forty acres of intervale
and twenty acres of pasture land.

In April, 1865, Mr. Raymond was united in marriage with Hattie Swan, daughter of
Philip and Abbie Swan, of Brownfield, Me. Mrs. Raymond's paternal grandfather,
William Swan, who was a native of Bethel, Me., was a Drum-major in the
Revolutionary army. Eight children have brightened the wedded life of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond, seven of whom are living: King, who is in the drug business at
Westbrook; S. J., in the Warren Mills in this city; and William W., Frank E.,
Herbert, Richard G., and Minnie, all yet with their parents, the three last
named attending school.

Mr. Raymond belongs to a number of fraternal organizations, including Temple
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 86; Eagle Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Westbrook;
St. Albans Commandery, Knights Templars, No. 8, of Portland, Me.; Pequacket
Tribe, No. 16, of Red Men, of Westbrook; and Westbrook Commandery, No. 289, of
the Order of the Golden Cross. With his wife and family he attends the
Universalist church.