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During the early to mid-1900's, George was a professional touring actor with the Otto Whapler Drama Organization. R.D. Sedgley (a great-grandson) relates that George was a tightrope walker and bullwhip trick artist. He could snap the top off a bottle of soda with one crack of the whip ("Sedgley Family Tree"; PUBLIC MEMBER TREE. Ancestry.com [The Generations Network, 2007] "Electronic").

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Delbert enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine, on 6 March 1946.

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Levi lived with a mental illness. In the 1870 Census, he is considered to be "insane."

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William was a lawyer. He graduated from Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1867, and from Columbia Law School in 1869.
He had served only briefly (13 August 1862 - 19 November 1862) as a 2nd Lieutenant in Co. K, 11th Maine Infantry.

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In 1880, 8-year-old Mary was being cared for by her grandmother (her father's mother), Hannah A. Humphrey, in Bangor. Her siblings, Hattie and George, were living with their mother in Newburgh. In later years, Mary lived with her mother, and brother George, in Newburgh (1900) and Bangor (1910), Maine, and (by 1930) Merrimac, Massachusetts.

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Walter preferred to be known by his middle name, Roy. He was a druggist in Bangor and South Partland, Maine.

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Fred was a Railroad engineer in Kansas and St. Joseph, Missouri.

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Benjamin was a Railroad Engineer in Missouri and Illinois.
For several years (1907, 1909, 1911-1916, 1926, 1928, 1930), he would take a vacation trip by ship to Panama, leaving from and returning to New York City. Some years, he'd go alone. Often, he was accompanied by wife Minnie. In 1912, daughters Edith Torrey and Georgie Mudgett went along. From the "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957" database at Ancestry.com [op.cit.] , we learn Benjamin and Minnie's dates and places of birth and current residence.
After Benjamin died, Minnie went on that cruise to Panama twice more (1933, 1939).

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Roy was a locomotive engineer for the Burlington Railroad.

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Melvin served in the U.S. Army in World War I. He enlisted at Kennebunk on 25 July 1917 and was honorably discharged 5 April 1919. He spent most of his enlistment overseas (24 September 1917-24 March 1919).

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Joseph worked at a mill, and was a farmer, in Prospect, Maine.

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Henry was a farmer in Dixmont and Albion, Maine.

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Oliver was a farmer in New Limerick, Maine.

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Woodbury was a farmer in Elk Creek, Iowa. He was a Civil War veteran, having enlisted 20 October 1863 in Co. L, 9th Iowa Cavalry and being discharged 3 February 1866 in Little Rock, Arkansas.