Francis Delmar DOLBIER

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OAKLAND CITY DIRECTORY:

1889-90 Clerk, Smallman & Cumming, Grocers, 551 East 12th
Residence, 1413 12th Avenue

1892 Clerk, Stuparich Brothers, San Francisco

1892-93 Residence, 476 East 11th Street

1894 Wood and Coal business, 1411 12th Avenue
Residence, 1413 12th Avenue

1900 Wood and Coal business, 1109 12th Avenue
Residence, 568 East 14th Street

1910 Collector, Oakland Gas Light & Heat Company
Residence, 464 East 16th Street

1921 Deputy County Recorder
Residence, 928 East 16th Street

1933 Residence 928 Foothill Boulevard (16th Street ren
amed)

On April 2, 1869, Francis Delmar Dolbier was born in Kingfield, Maine,the only son of Ward and Lucinda Dolbier. His parents took him toCalifornia in June of 1876 on the transcontinental railroad. As a boy helived on the North Coast, in and around Mendocino County, and hegraduated from high school, a military school at Lytton, Sonoma County.

When Francis was about twenty-one, he went with his mother and father toFlorida to grow tomatoes. After a short time they returned to Californiaand took up residence in Oakland, living near 12th Avenue and East 18thStreet. Francis married Sarah Blethen on Christmas Eve, 1894, and afternearly ten years of marriage, they produced their only child, Mayne.

As a young man Francis worked as a grocery clerk. He formed apartnership with Mr. Vestal in a wood and coal yard in East Oakland, andwas employed as a collector for the gas company. In about 1919 he was inbusiness as a San Francisco Chronicle distribution route manager. Hisfinal employment was in the Alameda County Recorder's Office, where hebecame Deputy Recorder.

Francis was active in the Masonic order, becoming a member of Oakland'sSequoia Lodge in 1903. In 1911 he served as Master of the lodge. Healso belonged to the Scottish Rite Bodies, Ahmes Temple of Shrine, andOak Leaf Chapter No. 8, Order of Eastern Star. He served as a volunteerfireman at the firehouse on the corner of East 14th Street and 12thAvenue, and later joined the Oakland Veteran Fireman's Association.

Sometime after 1910. Francis and Sarah acquired the property at 928 East16th Street (later Foothill Boulevard), where they lived in a small houseat the back of the lot. Later a larger house was built facing thestreet, and Francis, Sarah, Mayne, and his family all lived on theproperty.

Francis D. Dolbier retired from the county recorder's office in 1939 andpassed away six years later at the age of 76 in the newer house at 928Foothill Boulevard. Services, conducted by the Sequoia Lodge, were heldat 1:30 on December 27 at the Andker-Petersen funeral parlor at 5thAvenue and East 15th Street. The remains were cremated and interred atthe Chapel of the Chimes columbarium in Oakland.

DOLBIER FRANCIS DELMAR MALE 2 Apr 1869 23 Dec 1945 MAINE ALAMEDAVOSE DOLBIER
DOLBIER FRANCIS DELMAR 4/02/1869 VOSE DOLBIER M MAINEALAMEDA(01) 12/23/1945

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ANCESTOR BIOGRAPHY
Ward S. DOLBIER
28th Maine Infantry
by Harry Dolbier

Nestled deep in the Maine woods, the village of Kingfield l
ay hundreds ofmiles away from any Civil War fighting. Yet during the course of theconflict the town sent 29 of its young men, one-eighth of its registeredvoters and volunteers all, to serve under the Stars and Stripes.
Ward Spooner Dolbier, just short of his twenty-first birthday, enlistedon September 10, 1862, as corporal in a new regiment of infantry beingformed to answer President Lincoln's call of August 4 for 300,000 men toserve nine months. Young Ward, a fourth-generation resident of Kingfieldand a blacksmith by trade, set out the 60 miles to Maine's capital,Augusta, where, along with 934 other young men from around the state hemustered into the 28th Maine Regiment of Volunteers, Colonel Ephraim W.Woodman, commanding.
Along with his uniform and equipment, Ward received a testament from theNew York Bible Society. The pages fail to display a great deal of wear.However, the corporal did find time to decorate its fly leaves withpencil sketches of bearded and kepied officers, flags, and a patrioticeagle.
The martial exploits of the 28th Maine nearly died a-borning when measlesswept through the troops gathered at Augusta, but the 28th reported nocases, so Maine Governor Washburn informed Secretary of War Stanton thathe believed it was safe to release the regiment for duty.
Ward's regiment was slated to join the defenses of Washington, but atJersey City Colonel Woodman was ordered to report with his troops to FortSchuyler in New York harbor, where the 28th would become part of MajorGeneral Nathaniel P. Banks' expedition to New Orleans. The regimentproceeded to garrison the post at Fort Schuyler, where it turned in itsold smoothbore muskets for new Enfield rifles. Then on November 26 thetroops marched to Brooklyn, where they spent the night billeted in HenryWard Beecher's Plymouth Church. The Maine men were so orderly that theneighbors never knew they were there until they marched away the nextmorning.
After a few weeks training and building barracks at East New York, the28th boarded the U.S. Steam Transport "Empire City" and sailed fromBrooklyn, January 17, 1863. Still far from the combat zone, Ward and hiscompanions now faced one of the most dangerous situations of theirwartime service. By 1862 the Union had nowhere near enough ships tomaintain the Southern blockade, fight the Confederate navy, carry oncommerce, and transport troops. The Government chartered 50 old vessels,leaking and under-manned, to carry Banks' troops to Louisiana. Onlythrough good fortune did this decrepit flotilla deliver its cargo alive.The 28th reached Fortress Monroe on January 22, then embarked on aneight-day voyage to New Orleans, encountering a severe gale on the way.
The regiment reached Louisiana on January 29, became part of GeneralThomas Sherman's Second Division of Banks' Nineteenth Corps, and encampedat General Andrew Jackson's old battleground at Chalmette. Soon orderscame through sending the regiment to Pensacola, Florida, 180 miles to theeast, where the Union forces holding the Warrenton Navy Yard anticipateda rebel attack. The transport "Che Kiang" sailed on February 15 anddelivered the Maine troops to the navy yard two days later. Ward'sCompany D and three other companies under Lieutenant Colonel William E.Hadlock were assigned picket duty at Fort Barrancas, near the navy yard.After the Confederates evacuated Pensacola, the 28th boarded thetransport "Eastern Queen" for a five-day voyage to New Orleans, arrivingMarch 29, 1863.
General Banks immediately ordered Colonel Woodman to station part of hiscommand at the newly constructed Fort Butler at Donaldsonville on thewest bank of the Mississippi about 60 miles from New Orleans and the restat Plaquemine, another 25 miles upstream.
Around this same time, Ward got some good news: Captain Orrin Thomas,commander of Company D, had taken note of Ward's soldierly bearing andattention to duty, and approved his April 1 promotion to sergeant.
Based at Fort Butler, Ward and his companions went to work manning thepost, guarding the telegraph lines, and intercepting contraband. Moralewas a problem. The duty?tiring, tedious, and dangerous?was made worse bythe terrain and the climate. This was bayou country?huge magnolia andlive oak trees, thick, jungle-like vegetation, and swampy ground all mademovement and visibility hard for the Union forces. There were more bugsand snakes than many of the Northern soldiers were used to, or cared for.Making matters worse, soldiers who had enlisted for nine-month terms wereoften looked down upon by those serving for longer periods, who believed(not without some evidence) that many of the nine-month men were bothlazy and cowardly.
Confederate General Dick Taylor's raiders operating from Arkansasconstantly harassed the Union forces in Louisiana, and the 28th Mainebore its share. Captain Stanley, Sergeant Wilder, and eleven men werecaptured on April 18. Lieutenant Witham was severely wounded. ThenSergeant Dolbier got in the way of a rebel ball?shot in the right foot.
In the hospital at Baton Rouge Ward must have had some grim thoughts ashe recalled the results of Civil War surgery he had seen. He wasfortunate that his wound was in an extremity?the further the injury fromthe center of the body in those days, the better the chances of recovery.Even more encouraging was the surgeon's decision that he would not needto amputate. Ward spent nearly two months in the hospital while CompanyD and other units of the 28th were sent to join in the assaults and siegeof Port Hudson, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.The gunshot wound healed nicely, and Ward was released from the hospitalin time to rejoin the regiment as the siege was drawing to its successfulclose.
On July 4 the companies at Port Hudson rushed to reinforce their besiegedcomrades in Fort Butler at Donaldsonville, and once that threat hadpassed, the regiment embarked for Baton Rouge to man the post there.Then, their nine-month term of enlistment nearing its end, the men of the28th boarded the steamboat "Continental" for Cairo, Illinois. ColonelWoodman described the trip home: "From Cairo the Reg't came by carsthrough Terre Haute, Buffalo, Albany, and arrived at Augusta, August18th," he wrote. "I would particularly mention the hearty welcomeextended the Reg't on its return by the patriotic citizens of Augusta,the goal to which we returned after having passed around nearly the wholeextent of the so-called Confederacy." The 28th Maine Regiment ofVolunteers was mustered out of the service of the United States on August31, 1863.
Ex-Sergeant Dolbier returned to the forge in Kingfield and in 1867married Lucinda Page Vose. Two years later their son Francis was born.In 1875, Ward caused a hullabaloo in the family when he announced he wastaking his wife and son and moving to California. No Dolbier withinliving memory had seen any reason to leave Kingfield, but Ward's mind wasmade up. Perhaps the three thousand mile train trip to the Pacificslope, shepherding a six-year old boy, made Ward recall with fondness theswamps, the snakes, and the bullets of Louisiana.
After several years working as a machinist in the lumber mills ofMendocino County, Ward settled in Oakland, California, where he opened abicycle shop. Ward S. Dolbier was an active member of the Grand Army ofthe Republic for many years, marching in parades and enjoying the group'sother activities almost until the end, which came peacefully on August27, 1927. His remains lie in the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland.
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" In 1853 Wm. Dolbier and Jerry Larrabee built the blacksmith shop, alittle later Mr. Larrabee sold out and for years Col. Dolbier ran theSmith shop and J. B. Mayo the carriage shop. In Oct. 1864 all of themills on the river and three sets of dwelling houses were burned in all13 buildings on which there was but very little insurance. Undismayed bytheir heavy losses owners resolutely went about the task of rebuilding.S. & C. W. French built saw mill, shingle and clapboard mill. Wm.Drummond the grist mill, S. H. Hinds the rake factory, Wm. and W. S.Dolbier the smith and edge tool factory and J. B. Mayo the carriage shop.Just two years later what is known as the pumpkin freshet washed out thedam and carried away all the mills except the rake factory which wasbadly damaged and the edge tool factory and carriage shop."
-- O. C. Dolbier, History of Kingfield 1916
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Ward S. Dolbier was born on November 1, 1841, the son of William andMartha (Dyer) Dolbier of Kingfield. He enlisted from Kingfield onOctober 13, 1862, as a Corporal in Company D, 28th Maine Infantry, andwas mustered out with the regiment August 31, 1863. He married LucindaVose. A blacksmith, he lived in Kingfield and in Oakland, California.
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Ward married Lucinda Page VOSE on 2 Mar 1867 in Kingfield, Franklin, Maine. Lucinda was born on 16 Mar 1851 in Kingfield, Franklin, Maine; died on 20 Aug 1923 in Oakland, Alameda County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"In old State Militia times we had some of the best traine
d and mostsoldierly companies in the State. Captain Davis Phillips, Captain EbenF. Pilsbury, Captain Henry Dolbier and Col. William Dolbier and manyothers won their military titles by service in the Militia."

" In 1853 Wm. Dolbier and Jerry Larrabee built the blacksmith shop, alittle later . Mr. Larrabee sold out and for years Col. Dolbier ran theSmith shop and J. B. Mayo the carriage shop. In Oct. 1864 all of themills on the river and three sets of dwelling houses were burned in all13 buildings on which there was but very little insurance. Undismayed bytheir heavy losses owners resolutely went about the task of rebuilding.S. & C. W. French built saw mill, shingle and clapboard mill. Wm.Drummond the grist mill, S. H. Hinds the rake factory, Wm. and W. S.Dolbier the smith and edge tool factory and J. B. Mayo the carriage shop.Just two years later what is known as the pumpkin freshet washed out thedam and carried away all the mills except the rake factory which wasbadly damaged and the edge tool factory and carriage shop."

" In 1866 there was an agitation started to build a church. Acorporation was organized composed of nearly all the prominent men intown among whom were: Solomon Stanley 2nd, E. S. Winter, Orrin Tufts,Charles F. Pillsbury, Emerson Bradbury, Wm. S. Gilbert, William R.Blanchard, William Dolbier, Isaac French and others. This organizationchose a President, a Secretary and Treasurer, also executive or buildingcommittee and the result of its labors was the erection of the SeniorChurch. "

"One of the oldest framed structures in town is the Col. Wm. Dolbier'sresidence. The Colonel bought the lot of Gov. King in 1848 and purchasedthe Charles Pike store and moved it from the lot now occupied by the C.W. Clark drug store and finished it into a dwelling."

-- O. C. Dolbier, History of Kingfield 1916
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DOLBIER
William 1817 - 1901 (son of Nathan & Mary -ed)
Martha Dyer, his wife 1817 - 1905
Anderson Mayo, son 1847 - 1-13-1848 age 11m
Infant dau. 1858 - 1858

William married Martha Tarr DYER in Mar 1840. Martha was born in 1817 in New Portland, Maine; died in 1905 in Kingfield, Franklin, Maine; was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery Kingfield, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, New Portland, Somerset, Maine
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Nathan married Mary "Polly" DYER on 27 Oct 1818 in Kingfield, Franklin, Maine. Mary (daughter of Elkanah DYER and Catherine BROOKS) was born on 13 Aug 1798 in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine; died on 28 Sep 1851; was buried in Freeman Ridge Cemetery, Franklin, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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