s/o Amos & Elizabeth M. (Berry) Redlon
h/o Alsadinia D. Cushing (m. June 22, 1856, Buxton, York County, Maine)
f/o Franklin R. Redlon & Harry C. Redlon
h/o Sarah P. Files (m. December 18, 1866, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine)
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Nathan E. Redlon, the oldest contracting mason in Portland, was born in Buxton, Me., September 13, 1830, son of Amos and Elizabeth (Berry) Redlon. He is of Scotch descent, his grandfather, Ebenezer Redlon, coming to this country from the Orkney Islands. Amos Redlon, the father of our subject, who was a shoemaker by trade, died March 10, 1860, in his seventy- sixth year. He was an upright and honest man, and an active member of the Methodist church. His wife, who was a daughter of Isaac Berry, an old and respected farmer of Buxton, died in 1877.
Nathan E. Redlon attended the common schools of his native town and Limerick Academy. When eleven years of age, he began to learn the shoemaker's trade from his father; but his tastes ran in another direction, and, when he was eighteen, he engaged as an apprentice with W. P. Files, of Portland, to learn the mason's trade. His term of apprenticeship completed he went to work as a journeyman for three years in Portland, then to Biddeford in July, 1854, and in March of the following year he started for the West, locating first in Kansas. In those early days Lawrence and Topeka were the only large towns in Kansas, which was then a Territory, though its settlement was progressing rapidly under the homestead law.
A. H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, was the first governor; and Mr. Redlon voted in the first election during his administration for Territorial offices. This was the time also when Kansas was the battleground between the friends and enemies of slavery --the days of border ruffianism--and Mr. Redlon was an eyewitness of some of the outrages perpetrated by the white savages. Mr. Redlon soon left Kansas, and went up the Mississippi to St. Anthony, now Minneapolis. This great city was also in an embryo state, there being very few houses on the Minneapolis side of the river. He stayed but a year at St. Anthony, then returned to Portland, and entered the employ of Sewell C. Chase as journeyman in 1858. Two years later he was made foreman, the first contract finished under his supervision having been that for building the glass manufactory. He afterward worked on the old Thomas Block on Commercial Street, which was erected about the time when most of the first business blocks on that street were erected. In 1863, there being little to do in the building line, Mr. Redlon engaged in the manufacture and retail sale of shoes, and conducted a fairly successful business for three years. Then came the great fire of 1866, causing a great demand for builders; and he returned to his former occupation, taking small contracts at first. His work was done promptly and in a thorough and painstaking manner. From that time to the present his business has increased till he is now one of the largest contractors for mason-work in the city, besides being the oldest. In 1868 he formed a partnership with Samuel A. Knight, which continued till the death of the latter in I888. The firm furnished constant employment to from thirty to forty men for about nine months in the year. Specimens of their work standing today are: John E. Donnell's Block on Middle Street; the store now occupied by J. W. Perkins, owned by W. W. Thomas; John Rand's fine house on High Street; the adjoining house for H. T. Plummer; T. H. Weston's house on Deering Street; the house occupied by the. Hon. Thomas B. Reed; the west wing of the Maine General Hospital; the Eye and Ear Infirmary on Congress Street, a large four-story brick building; and the John Little Block. In 1895 Mr. Redlon built the new power house for the Portland Street Railroad Company, which is considered one of the finest structures of the kind in the country. It is a very large building, standing on piles, and was built from the foundation by Mr. Redlon, the work occupying between sixty and seventy men during a whole season. In I892 he bought the brickyard on John Street, Portland, previously owned by Gurney & Son, with a capacity of one million five hundred thousand bricks, and is at present operating that plant. He has been President of the Portland Heater Company, President of the Casco Carbonized Cement Pipe Company, and was an active charter member of the Builders' Exchange, of which also be has been President. He was one of the founders of the Casco Building Loan Association, and also of the Portland Building Loan Association, and has been a member of the Security Committee of each since they were organized.
In politics he is a Republican, and was a member of the Common Council in 1875-76, representing Ward 5; and in 1889 he was Alderman from Ward 4. He has been a member of the Republican City Committee for fifteen years, and Treasurer of the same for two or three years. In 1880 he was elected to the State legislature, and was re-elected in 1881. He belongs to Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Greenleaf Chapter, St. Albans Commandery, and Egyptian Rite of Memphis; and he was Senior Warden of Ligonia Lodge, and now Vice-Grand of Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Falmouth Encampment. He is a member of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, of which he has been President. He also belongs to the Portland Club; and in temperance work he takes an active interest, and is a member of the Good Templars and the Sons of Temperance.
Mr. Redlon has been twice married. His first wife, to whom he was united in 1856, was Alcadania A. (Cushing) Redlon, daughter of Dr. John Cushing, of Lewiston, Me. She died in 1863, leaving two sons: Franklin R., who is now associated with his father in business; and Harry, who died at the age of three years. In 1866 Mr. Redlon was united to his second wife, Sarah P., daughter of Thomas Files, of Portland. Mrs. Redlon is a professing member of the Chestnut Street Methodist Church; which her husband also attends, and supports. Franklin R. Redlon, who became associated with his father in business in I889, was born July 17, 1857, and is a graduate of the Portland High School. A resident of Deering, he has been active in the politics of that city as a member of the City Committee, and as an Alderman from Ward 6 for the second year that Deering was a city. He was Chairman of the Light Committee, which during his term made a contract with the Deering Electric Light Company to light the streets of the city. He was also Chairman of the Committee on Fire Department, serving the following year as Chairman of the Board of Aldermen. He is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. &A. M., of which he is present Master; Greenleaf Chapter, of which he is Scribe; belongs to Portland Council; is Generalissimo in St. Albans Commandery; and is a member of Yates Lodge of Perfection; and he belongs to Harmony. Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; to the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association; and to the Portland Athletic Club, of which he was a charter member and in which he took a great interest while he lived in Portland. He was Captain of the old fire company in Ward 6, and has for years belonged to the Builders' Exchange, of which he is Vice-President. On August 29, 1880, he was married to Jennie E., daughter of John A. Hennigan, of Maitland, N.S.; and their home has been brightened by two children--Nathan C. and Lena F. They have a handsome residence at 46 Brown Street, which Mr. Redlon erected in 1875. He attends and supports the Episcopal church in Deering, of which his wife is a member.
[Biographical Review, Cumberland County, Maine; Boston; Biographical Review Publishing Company; 1896; Page 109-110]
h/o Alsadinia D. Cushing (m. June 22, 1856, Buxton, York County, Maine)
f/o Franklin R. Redlon & Harry C. Redlon
h/o Sarah P. Files (m. December 18, 1866, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine)
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Nathan E. Redlon, the oldest contracting mason in Portland, was born in Buxton, Me., September 13, 1830, son of Amos and Elizabeth (Berry) Redlon. He is of Scotch descent, his grandfather, Ebenezer Redlon, coming to this country from the Orkney Islands. Amos Redlon, the father of our subject, who was a shoemaker by trade, died March 10, 1860, in his seventy- sixth year. He was an upright and honest man, and an active member of the Methodist church. His wife, who was a daughter of Isaac Berry, an old and respected farmer of Buxton, died in 1877.
Nathan E. Redlon attended the common schools of his native town and Limerick Academy. When eleven years of age, he began to learn the shoemaker's trade from his father; but his tastes ran in another direction, and, when he was eighteen, he engaged as an apprentice with W. P. Files, of Portland, to learn the mason's trade. His term of apprenticeship completed he went to work as a journeyman for three years in Portland, then to Biddeford in July, 1854, and in March of the following year he started for the West, locating first in Kansas. In those early days Lawrence and Topeka were the only large towns in Kansas, which was then a Territory, though its settlement was progressing rapidly under the homestead law.
A. H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, was the first governor; and Mr. Redlon voted in the first election during his administration for Territorial offices. This was the time also when Kansas was the battleground between the friends and enemies of slavery --the days of border ruffianism--and Mr. Redlon was an eyewitness of some of the outrages perpetrated by the white savages. Mr. Redlon soon left Kansas, and went up the Mississippi to St. Anthony, now Minneapolis. This great city was also in an embryo state, there being very few houses on the Minneapolis side of the river. He stayed but a year at St. Anthony, then returned to Portland, and entered the employ of Sewell C. Chase as journeyman in 1858. Two years later he was made foreman, the first contract finished under his supervision having been that for building the glass manufactory. He afterward worked on the old Thomas Block on Commercial Street, which was erected about the time when most of the first business blocks on that street were erected. In 1863, there being little to do in the building line, Mr. Redlon engaged in the manufacture and retail sale of shoes, and conducted a fairly successful business for three years. Then came the great fire of 1866, causing a great demand for builders; and he returned to his former occupation, taking small contracts at first. His work was done promptly and in a thorough and painstaking manner. From that time to the present his business has increased till he is now one of the largest contractors for mason-work in the city, besides being the oldest. In 1868 he formed a partnership with Samuel A. Knight, which continued till the death of the latter in I888. The firm furnished constant employment to from thirty to forty men for about nine months in the year. Specimens of their work standing today are: John E. Donnell's Block on Middle Street; the store now occupied by J. W. Perkins, owned by W. W. Thomas; John Rand's fine house on High Street; the adjoining house for H. T. Plummer; T. H. Weston's house on Deering Street; the house occupied by the. Hon. Thomas B. Reed; the west wing of the Maine General Hospital; the Eye and Ear Infirmary on Congress Street, a large four-story brick building; and the John Little Block. In 1895 Mr. Redlon built the new power house for the Portland Street Railroad Company, which is considered one of the finest structures of the kind in the country. It is a very large building, standing on piles, and was built from the foundation by Mr. Redlon, the work occupying between sixty and seventy men during a whole season. In I892 he bought the brickyard on John Street, Portland, previously owned by Gurney & Son, with a capacity of one million five hundred thousand bricks, and is at present operating that plant. He has been President of the Portland Heater Company, President of the Casco Carbonized Cement Pipe Company, and was an active charter member of the Builders' Exchange, of which also be has been President. He was one of the founders of the Casco Building Loan Association, and also of the Portland Building Loan Association, and has been a member of the Security Committee of each since they were organized.
In politics he is a Republican, and was a member of the Common Council in 1875-76, representing Ward 5; and in 1889 he was Alderman from Ward 4. He has been a member of the Republican City Committee for fifteen years, and Treasurer of the same for two or three years. In 1880 he was elected to the State legislature, and was re-elected in 1881. He belongs to Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Greenleaf Chapter, St. Albans Commandery, and Egyptian Rite of Memphis; and he was Senior Warden of Ligonia Lodge, and now Vice-Grand of Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Falmouth Encampment. He is a member of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, of which he has been President. He also belongs to the Portland Club; and in temperance work he takes an active interest, and is a member of the Good Templars and the Sons of Temperance.
Mr. Redlon has been twice married. His first wife, to whom he was united in 1856, was Alcadania A. (Cushing) Redlon, daughter of Dr. John Cushing, of Lewiston, Me. She died in 1863, leaving two sons: Franklin R., who is now associated with his father in business; and Harry, who died at the age of three years. In 1866 Mr. Redlon was united to his second wife, Sarah P., daughter of Thomas Files, of Portland. Mrs. Redlon is a professing member of the Chestnut Street Methodist Church; which her husband also attends, and supports. Franklin R. Redlon, who became associated with his father in business in I889, was born July 17, 1857, and is a graduate of the Portland High School. A resident of Deering, he has been active in the politics of that city as a member of the City Committee, and as an Alderman from Ward 6 for the second year that Deering was a city. He was Chairman of the Light Committee, which during his term made a contract with the Deering Electric Light Company to light the streets of the city. He was also Chairman of the Committee on Fire Department, serving the following year as Chairman of the Board of Aldermen. He is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. &A. M., of which he is present Master; Greenleaf Chapter, of which he is Scribe; belongs to Portland Council; is Generalissimo in St. Albans Commandery; and is a member of Yates Lodge of Perfection; and he belongs to Harmony. Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; to the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association; and to the Portland Athletic Club, of which he was a charter member and in which he took a great interest while he lived in Portland. He was Captain of the old fire company in Ward 6, and has for years belonged to the Builders' Exchange, of which he is Vice-President. On August 29, 1880, he was married to Jennie E., daughter of John A. Hennigan, of Maitland, N.S.; and their home has been brightened by two children--Nathan C. and Lena F. They have a handsome residence at 46 Brown Street, which Mr. Redlon erected in 1875. He attends and supports the Episcopal church in Deering, of which his wife is a member.
[Biographical Review, Cumberland County, Maine; Boston; Biographical Review Publishing Company; 1896; Page 109-110]
s/o Amos & Elizabeth M. (Berry) Redlon
h/o Alsadinia D. Cushing (m. June 22, 1856, Buxton, York County, Maine)
f/o Franklin R. Redlon & Harry C. Redlon
h/o Sarah P. Files (m. December 18, 1866, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine)
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Nathan E. Redlon, the oldest contracting mason in Portland, was born in Buxton, Me., September 13, 1830, son of Amos and Elizabeth (Berry) Redlon. He is of Scotch descent, his grandfather, Ebenezer Redlon, coming to this country from the Orkney Islands. Amos Redlon, the father of our subject, who was a shoemaker by trade, died March 10, 1860, in his seventy- sixth year. He was an upright and honest man, and an active member of the Methodist church. His wife, who was a daughter of Isaac Berry, an old and respected farmer of Buxton, died in 1877.
Nathan E. Redlon attended the common schools of his native town and Limerick Academy. When eleven years of age, he began to learn the shoemaker's trade from his father; but his tastes ran in another direction, and, when he was eighteen, he engaged as an apprentice with W. P. Files, of Portland, to learn the mason's trade. His term of apprenticeship completed he went to work as a journeyman for three years in Portland, then to Biddeford in July, 1854, and in March of the following year he started for the West, locating first in Kansas. In those early days Lawrence and Topeka were the only large towns in Kansas, which was then a Territory, though its settlement was progressing rapidly under the homestead law.
A. H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, was the first governor; and Mr. Redlon voted in the first election during his administration for Territorial offices. This was the time also when Kansas was the battleground between the friends and enemies of slavery --the days of border ruffianism--and Mr. Redlon was an eyewitness of some of the outrages perpetrated by the white savages. Mr. Redlon soon left Kansas, and went up the Mississippi to St. Anthony, now Minneapolis. This great city was also in an embryo state, there being very few houses on the Minneapolis side of the river. He stayed but a year at St. Anthony, then returned to Portland, and entered the employ of Sewell C. Chase as journeyman in 1858. Two years later he was made foreman, the first contract finished under his supervision having been that for building the glass manufactory. He afterward worked on the old Thomas Block on Commercial Street, which was erected about the time when most of the first business blocks on that street were erected. In 1863, there being little to do in the building line, Mr. Redlon engaged in the manufacture and retail sale of shoes, and conducted a fairly successful business for three years. Then came the great fire of 1866, causing a great demand for builders; and he returned to his former occupation, taking small contracts at first. His work was done promptly and in a thorough and painstaking manner. From that time to the present his business has increased till he is now one of the largest contractors for mason-work in the city, besides being the oldest. In 1868 he formed a partnership with Samuel A. Knight, which continued till the death of the latter in I888. The firm furnished constant employment to from thirty to forty men for about nine months in the year. Specimens of their work standing today are: John E. Donnell's Block on Middle Street; the store now occupied by J. W. Perkins, owned by W. W. Thomas; John Rand's fine house on High Street; the adjoining house for H. T. Plummer; T. H. Weston's house on Deering Street; the house occupied by the. Hon. Thomas B. Reed; the west wing of the Maine General Hospital; the Eye and Ear Infirmary on Congress Street, a large four-story brick building; and the John Little Block. In 1895 Mr. Redlon built the new power house for the Portland Street Railroad Company, which is considered one of the finest structures of the kind in the country. It is a very large building, standing on piles, and was built from the foundation by Mr. Redlon, the work occupying between sixty and seventy men during a whole season. In I892 he bought the brickyard on John Street, Portland, previously owned by Gurney & Son, with a capacity of one million five hundred thousand bricks, and is at present operating that plant. He has been President of the Portland Heater Company, President of the Casco Carbonized Cement Pipe Company, and was an active charter member of the Builders' Exchange, of which also be has been President. He was one of the founders of the Casco Building Loan Association, and also of the Portland Building Loan Association, and has been a member of the Security Committee of each since they were organized.
In politics he is a Republican, and was a member of the Common Council in 1875-76, representing Ward 5; and in 1889 he was Alderman from Ward 4. He has been a member of the Republican City Committee for fifteen years, and Treasurer of the same for two or three years. In 1880 he was elected to the State legislature, and was re-elected in 1881. He belongs to Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Greenleaf Chapter, St. Albans Commandery, and Egyptian Rite of Memphis; and he was Senior Warden of Ligonia Lodge, and now Vice-Grand of Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Falmouth Encampment. He is a member of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, of which he has been President. He also belongs to the Portland Club; and in temperance work he takes an active interest, and is a member of the Good Templars and the Sons of Temperance.
Mr. Redlon has been twice married. His first wife, to whom he was united in 1856, was Alcadania A. (Cushing) Redlon, daughter of Dr. John Cushing, of Lewiston, Me. She died in 1863, leaving two sons: Franklin R., who is now associated with his father in business; and Harry, who died at the age of three years. In 1866 Mr. Redlon was united to his second wife, Sarah P., daughter of Thomas Files, of Portland. Mrs. Redlon is a professing member of the Chestnut Street Methodist Church; which her husband also attends, and supports. Franklin R. Redlon, who became associated with his father in business in I889, was born July 17, 1857, and is a graduate of the Portland High School. A resident of Deering, he has been active in the politics of that city as a member of the City Committee, and as an Alderman from Ward 6 for the second year that Deering was a city. He was Chairman of the Light Committee, which during his term made a contract with the Deering Electric Light Company to light the streets of the city. He was also Chairman of the Committee on Fire Department, serving the following year as Chairman of the Board of Aldermen. He is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. &A. M., of which he is present Master; Greenleaf Chapter, of which he is Scribe; belongs to Portland Council; is Generalissimo in St. Albans Commandery; and is a member of Yates Lodge of Perfection; and he belongs to Harmony. Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; to the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association; and to the Portland Athletic Club, of which he was a charter member and in which he took a great interest while he lived in Portland. He was Captain of the old fire company in Ward 6, and has for years belonged to the Builders' Exchange, of which he is Vice-President. On August 29, 1880, he was married to Jennie E., daughter of John A. Hennigan, of Maitland, N.S.; and their home has been brightened by two children--Nathan C. and Lena F. They have a handsome residence at 46 Brown Street, which Mr. Redlon erected in 1875. He attends and supports the Episcopal church in Deering, of which his wife is a member.
[Biographical Review, Cumberland County, Maine; Boston; Biographical Review Publishing Company; 1896; Page 109-110]
h/o Alsadinia D. Cushing (m. June 22, 1856, Buxton, York County, Maine)
f/o Franklin R. Redlon & Harry C. Redlon
h/o Sarah P. Files (m. December 18, 1866, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine)
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Nathan E. Redlon, the oldest contracting mason in Portland, was born in Buxton, Me., September 13, 1830, son of Amos and Elizabeth (Berry) Redlon. He is of Scotch descent, his grandfather, Ebenezer Redlon, coming to this country from the Orkney Islands. Amos Redlon, the father of our subject, who was a shoemaker by trade, died March 10, 1860, in his seventy- sixth year. He was an upright and honest man, and an active member of the Methodist church. His wife, who was a daughter of Isaac Berry, an old and respected farmer of Buxton, died in 1877.
Nathan E. Redlon attended the common schools of his native town and Limerick Academy. When eleven years of age, he began to learn the shoemaker's trade from his father; but his tastes ran in another direction, and, when he was eighteen, he engaged as an apprentice with W. P. Files, of Portland, to learn the mason's trade. His term of apprenticeship completed he went to work as a journeyman for three years in Portland, then to Biddeford in July, 1854, and in March of the following year he started for the West, locating first in Kansas. In those early days Lawrence and Topeka were the only large towns in Kansas, which was then a Territory, though its settlement was progressing rapidly under the homestead law.
A. H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, was the first governor; and Mr. Redlon voted in the first election during his administration for Territorial offices. This was the time also when Kansas was the battleground between the friends and enemies of slavery --the days of border ruffianism--and Mr. Redlon was an eyewitness of some of the outrages perpetrated by the white savages. Mr. Redlon soon left Kansas, and went up the Mississippi to St. Anthony, now Minneapolis. This great city was also in an embryo state, there being very few houses on the Minneapolis side of the river. He stayed but a year at St. Anthony, then returned to Portland, and entered the employ of Sewell C. Chase as journeyman in 1858. Two years later he was made foreman, the first contract finished under his supervision having been that for building the glass manufactory. He afterward worked on the old Thomas Block on Commercial Street, which was erected about the time when most of the first business blocks on that street were erected. In 1863, there being little to do in the building line, Mr. Redlon engaged in the manufacture and retail sale of shoes, and conducted a fairly successful business for three years. Then came the great fire of 1866, causing a great demand for builders; and he returned to his former occupation, taking small contracts at first. His work was done promptly and in a thorough and painstaking manner. From that time to the present his business has increased till he is now one of the largest contractors for mason-work in the city, besides being the oldest. In 1868 he formed a partnership with Samuel A. Knight, which continued till the death of the latter in I888. The firm furnished constant employment to from thirty to forty men for about nine months in the year. Specimens of their work standing today are: John E. Donnell's Block on Middle Street; the store now occupied by J. W. Perkins, owned by W. W. Thomas; John Rand's fine house on High Street; the adjoining house for H. T. Plummer; T. H. Weston's house on Deering Street; the house occupied by the. Hon. Thomas B. Reed; the west wing of the Maine General Hospital; the Eye and Ear Infirmary on Congress Street, a large four-story brick building; and the John Little Block. In 1895 Mr. Redlon built the new power house for the Portland Street Railroad Company, which is considered one of the finest structures of the kind in the country. It is a very large building, standing on piles, and was built from the foundation by Mr. Redlon, the work occupying between sixty and seventy men during a whole season. In I892 he bought the brickyard on John Street, Portland, previously owned by Gurney & Son, with a capacity of one million five hundred thousand bricks, and is at present operating that plant. He has been President of the Portland Heater Company, President of the Casco Carbonized Cement Pipe Company, and was an active charter member of the Builders' Exchange, of which also be has been President. He was one of the founders of the Casco Building Loan Association, and also of the Portland Building Loan Association, and has been a member of the Security Committee of each since they were organized.
In politics he is a Republican, and was a member of the Common Council in 1875-76, representing Ward 5; and in 1889 he was Alderman from Ward 4. He has been a member of the Republican City Committee for fifteen years, and Treasurer of the same for two or three years. In 1880 he was elected to the State legislature, and was re-elected in 1881. He belongs to Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Greenleaf Chapter, St. Albans Commandery, and Egyptian Rite of Memphis; and he was Senior Warden of Ligonia Lodge, and now Vice-Grand of Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Falmouth Encampment. He is a member of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, of which he has been President. He also belongs to the Portland Club; and in temperance work he takes an active interest, and is a member of the Good Templars and the Sons of Temperance.
Mr. Redlon has been twice married. His first wife, to whom he was united in 1856, was Alcadania A. (Cushing) Redlon, daughter of Dr. John Cushing, of Lewiston, Me. She died in 1863, leaving two sons: Franklin R., who is now associated with his father in business; and Harry, who died at the age of three years. In 1866 Mr. Redlon was united to his second wife, Sarah P., daughter of Thomas Files, of Portland. Mrs. Redlon is a professing member of the Chestnut Street Methodist Church; which her husband also attends, and supports. Franklin R. Redlon, who became associated with his father in business in I889, was born July 17, 1857, and is a graduate of the Portland High School. A resident of Deering, he has been active in the politics of that city as a member of the City Committee, and as an Alderman from Ward 6 for the second year that Deering was a city. He was Chairman of the Light Committee, which during his term made a contract with the Deering Electric Light Company to light the streets of the city. He was also Chairman of the Committee on Fire Department, serving the following year as Chairman of the Board of Aldermen. He is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, A. F. &A. M., of which he is present Master; Greenleaf Chapter, of which he is Scribe; belongs to Portland Council; is Generalissimo in St. Albans Commandery; and is a member of Yates Lodge of Perfection; and he belongs to Harmony. Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; to the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association; and to the Portland Athletic Club, of which he was a charter member and in which he took a great interest while he lived in Portland. He was Captain of the old fire company in Ward 6, and has for years belonged to the Builders' Exchange, of which he is Vice-President. On August 29, 1880, he was married to Jennie E., daughter of John A. Hennigan, of Maitland, N.S.; and their home has been brightened by two children--Nathan C. and Lena F. They have a handsome residence at 46 Brown Street, which Mr. Redlon erected in 1875. He attends and supports the Episcopal church in Deering, of which his wife is a member.
[Biographical Review, Cumberland County, Maine; Boston; Biographical Review Publishing Company; 1896; Page 109-110]
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