RIDLEYS OF WAYNE, MAINE.
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Marcie-E. Ridlon (2), third daughter of Magnus (8), was born in
Parsonfield, Me., July 25, 1857. She has acquired a thorough education,
being a graduate of Farmington Normal School, and is now a teacher in
the public schools in Portland, Me.
Nellie Ridlon (?), youngest daughter of Magnus (8), was born in
Parsonfield, Me., Nov. 28, 1867. Nellie has a very precocious mind, and
is an interesting young lady, beloved by all.
Clark Ridley (1), eldest son of Matthias (5), was born in Wayne,
Me., June 25, 1819, and never married. He spent many years in the gold-
mines of California, having gone out amongst the early explorers of that
country. He acquired a passion for camp-life, and became a good cook.
He is an eccentric character, and keeps away from society as much as
possible. In 1879 he was living in New Bedford, Mass., where he is said
to own considerable property. Lives alone. Medium height, broad
shoulders, short, thick neck, dark hair and beard, gray eyes, and is a typi-
cal specimen of the old Redlon ancestral stock in looks and movements.
Matthias Ridley (7), second son of Matthias (5), was born in Wayne,
Me., March 7, 1822; married Lydia D. Rolf, Aug. 27, 1849 (another au-
thority states his wife to be Mary-Ann Tibbetts, daughter of Isaac Tib-
betts, of Rumford, Me.), and resides at Dedham, Mass., where he carries.
on a mill. He was a watchman for several years in Lowell, and it is said
his wife owned considerable property in that city; she was helpless for
several years. He sometime lived in Charlestown, and worked in the navy
yard there. Kept a store in Boston. Possibly married twice: the "skein
is tangled." He was a man of great physical powers when in his prime.
Resembles the old Redlons. Reserved and retiring in disposition. He
has had issue four children, of whom hereafter.
Nancy Ridley (4), eldest daughter of Matthias (5), was born in
Wayne, Me., Dec. 30, 1824; was married, Sept. 4, 1844, by Rev. A. A.
Miner, to Philip Sargent, of New Hampshire, and resided in Lowell,
Mass. Died Dec. 12, 1854.
Hannah Ridley (11), second daughter of Matthias (5), was born in
Wayne, Me., July 17, 1826; was married Nov. 24, 1847, to Daniel Kim-
ball, of New Hampshire, and died in Lowell, Mass., Nov. 14, 1856.
Mary Ridley (31), third daughter of Matthias (5), was born in
Wayne, Me., May 26, 1828; was married Oct. 6, 1855, at Boston, to
David Patterson, and resides in Lowell, Mass.
Isaac Ridley (8), third son of Matthias (5), was born in Wayne,
Me., June 21, 1831; married Mary M., daughter of Dea. Snow Keene
and his wife, Sophronia Maxum, Oct. 1, 1856, settled in Leeds, and had
issue one son, of whom hereafter. His wife died in 1858, and he went to
California the same year. He worked on a farm in Sacramento Valley;
thence went to Oregon, and mined on the Powder River; then worked
in a lumber-yard, at Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory; thence
mined on the Columbia River; thence up that river seven hundred miles,
prospecting in a log-canoe; dragged canoe two miles to Courtney River,
in British Columbia; thence down that river to Courtney mines; thence
alone on a pony six hundred miles, to Fort Colville, where he carried on a
farm two years. He engaged in speculations, on the Columbia; went back
from Portland, Oregon, to San Francisco and Sacramento; thence home
to Maine, and settled down upon a part of his father's old homestead
farm. He married, secondly, July 20, 1874, to Annetta, daughter of Did-
