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Walter Merryman of Harpswell, Maine, and his descendants

Walter Merryman of Harpswell, Maine, and his descendants - FM

Walter Merryman was kidnapped in an Irish port in 1700 and brought to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was indentured to a shipbuilder in Portland, Maine. He married Elizabeth Potter and settled in Harpswell, Maine. Descendants and relatives lived in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Idaho and elsewhere. Includes Alexander, Curtiss, Hamilton, McManus, Stover, Webber and related families.

Biographical Sketch of E. M. Kinnear

E.M. Kinnear, born in Ohio in 1856, established a significant mercantile business in Washington Territory after relocating in 1871. Initially engaging in merchandising on the Touchet, he briefly operated in Colfax before settling in Sprague in 1880. There, he expanded his enterprise, specializing in general merchandise and farming implements, and became a prominent community figure, even serving a term as city councilman. His establishment remains one of the largest and most frequented in the region.