Cumberland County, Maine - Jacob Parker Shattuck
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Biography 
Jacob Parker Shattuck 
Biographical Review 
Cumberland County,Maine 
Boston 
Biographical Review Publishing Company 
1896 
Page 257-258


Jacob Parker Shattuck, a successful and extensive agriculturist and a
respected citizen of East Deering, Cumberland County, Me., is a
Massachusetts man by birth and breeding, having been born March 27,
1821, in the town of Groton, Middlesex County. He comes of ancient
Colonial stock, whose emigrant progenitor settled in Watertown, Mass.,
as early as 1640. Mr. Shattuck's grandfather, Captain Job Shattuck, of
Groton, served his country valiantly in the Revolution, being
energetic in raising recruits and taking an active part in several
campaigns. A few years later he was a leader in Shay's Rebellion. (See
"History of Groton, Mass.")

William Shattuck, father of Jacob, was born November 16, 1786, in
Groton Centre, Mass., being the eldest of a family of seven children.
He was educated in the district schools of his native town, and was
trained to agricultural work on the parental farm. He was but a youth
when his father died; and he was left with the care of the farm, and
his widowed mother and her young family to look after, the heavy
duties thus devolving upon him being in practical matters faithfully
performed. Possessing unusual capabilities, a discerning mind, and a
sound judgment, he became one of the most influential men in the town.
An ardent Democrat, he took a very prominent part in local politics,
for several years serving as Selectman and on the Town Committee,
besides which he was a Representative in the State legislature a
number of terms. He was a very decided and outspoken opponent of all
secret societies, having an especial antipathy for the Masonic Order,
and, though a sincere Christian, refused to unite with the church, as
members of secret organizations were there admitted to membership. He
married Sarah, daughter of Jacob Parker, of Groton, and to them nine
children were born, namely: Frances, wife of George May, of Lancaster,
Mass.; Jacob Parker; Antoinette, wife of Frank Nutting, of Otisfield,
Me.; William; Mary Jane; Charles; Sarah, wife of Samuel Shattuck;
Eugene; and Josephine, the wife of the Rev. Lucius Smith, D.D., for
many years editor of the Watchman. Mrs. Sarah P. Shattuck was a woman
of cultivation and refinement, and, like her husband, was a devoted
Christian.

Jacob P. Shattuck was educated in the common schools and at the
Lawrence Academy in Groton, and on his leaving school, at the age of
eighteen years; his father gave him his time. The following year he
worked for his father on the home farm, going then to Boston, where he
was employed for two years on a dredging machine. He walked from
Boston to Groton to cast his first vote, the candidate for whom he
voted being George S. Boutwell. In the fall of that year, with the
money saved while working on the dredger, Mr. Shattuck bought a yoke
of oxen and a horse; and with these he filled a contract of carting
for James Farnsworth. The succeeding spring he sold his oxen and
horse, and resumed his former occupation in Boston, remaining there
another two years. Mr. Shattuck then followed the tide of emigration
westward, going to Athens, Ohio, where he purchased a tract of
unimproved land, on which he reared a log house, and then began the
task of redeeming a farm from the primeval forest. In those days the
pioneers used to smoke their bacon and hams by placing them in a
barrel, which they suspended over a fire. One day, leaving his hams
smoking, Mr. Shattuck started out with a yoke of oxen to build a road;
and on his return his log cabin and all that it had contained were in
ashes. He subsequently rebuilt the cabin, and then purchased three
hundred and sixty acres more of land; but the hardships of this life
proved too much for his constitution, and broken in health he returned
East.

In 1849 Mr. Shattuck came to this State, securing work in Portland on
a dredger run by five horses. Soon after, going to Boston, through the
influence of John B. Brown, he bought a steam dredger, with which he
returned to Portland, where he did a large amount of work for the
Maine Central Railway Company. Mr. Shattuck also did between eighty
and ninety thousand dollars' worth of dredging in Portland Harbor, in
order that the "Great Eastern" might be brought into this port. He
continued in this profitable business until 1864, when he returned to
his property in Ohio. There he built a steam sawmill, which cost him
fourteen thousand five hundred dollars, and began sawing the timber on
his land; but, before he had much headway, his mill was burned to the
ground, the loss being total, as he had no insurance. He then sold the
mill site, and gave the remainder of the property to his brother
Eugene, returning with his wife and son in 1868 to Portland,
subsequently settling in Deering, on the farm which he had purchased
in 1858, and where he has since resided. This farm contains two
hundred and fifty acres of land, the most of which is under
cultivation. He annually raises large crops of hay, the yield usually
exceeding a hundred tons. Mr. Shattuck disposed of his steam dredger
to Captain William Willard for ten thousand dollars. Although past
seventy-five years of age, Mr. Shattuck is hale and hearty, with the
physical and mental vigor of a man a score of years younger. A keen-
sighted, clear-headed man of business, he has been unusually
successful in worldly matters, notwithstanding his various losses,
being now in affluent circumstances. Mr. Shattuck was united in
marriage March 27, 1863, with Martha Lord, daughter of Stephen Lord,
of Windham. The only child of this union is a son, William P.
Shattuck, of Mobile, Ala