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Title: History of Robert Chaffin and his descendants, and of the other Chaffins in America
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chaffin, William L. (William Ladd), b. 1837
Subjects: Chaffin family Chaffin, Robert, ca. 1695-1744
Publisher: New York : F.H. Hitchcock
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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elia Gertrude Flannigan, b. Oct. 4, 1877.226 ii. Henry Howard, b. Nov. 12, 1885. 162 ORIN PENFIELD (Orin 87), b. in Windham, Me., July 4,1836: a man of real enterprise and very versatile talents, whocould do almost anything he set his hand to. The following sketch,condensed from his own personal statement to the author, verifiesthe remark just made. The author ventures the assertion that noother Chaffin ever took up so many kinds of business and had sucha varied business experience. Orin P. was left a fatherless boy at the age of sixteen, the oldestof seven children, whom he and his mother supported. He workedtwo years on a farm; then a job on the river; then worked on theCumberland Canal; then in the woods, logging, etc.; then workedon the pond and river; then learned to make powder kegsfor GofF & Linsey and was soon given charge of the business andheld it about three years; then, to quote him, I built a one-storyand a half house, ell and stable, and thought I was about ready for
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J^^^^v<^ SIXTH GENERATION 195 a wife, and so at the age of 22 years I married Mary Manchester,and we started in for a little family. The keg business becomingslack, he went to buying lambs and cattle; then took to drivingan ox-team; then at cattle and lambs again; then drove a butcherscart; then back to farm work for a while; then worked for theGambo Powder Co.; then back to the powder keg business; thenstocked and conducted a grocery store in Portland, Me., but soonsold out; then enlisted in the Twelfth Maine Regt for one year aswagon master; after an honorable discharge returned home andmade molasses barrels; then worked for the Massachusetts Pow-der Co.; then three years more at the powder keg business; thena years spell at farming again; then bought a farm for himselfat Windham Centre, but sold it in a year; then for two years wasin the washing machine business, making what was called the HallWasher; then back to the powder keg business, making kegs bythe piece from the log; th

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