|
|
Charles Albert Coombs was born in Brunswick, October 17, 1836, came to Bath when a youth, and was educated in
the public and private schools. In commencing his business life he served as clerk in several stores, and at the
age of nineteen went into the grocery business on his own account, afterwards a partner in the firm of Moores &
Coombs. He went to the far western country in 1857; was one of General Lane's celebrated Kansas rangers during
the Kansas - Nebraska difficulties; then became a pioneer to Colorado in the spring of 1859 in the pursuit of gold
mining; traveled in Texas and New Mexico; returned to Bath; was the very first to enroll his name under the first
call for troops at the commencement of the Rebellion; was mustered in Company A, Third Maine Regiment of three
years' men, of which O. O. Howard was Colonel; was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks in June, 1862, and taken
to David's Island, on Long Island Sound, to recruit; returned to the army in May, 1863, as clerk in the Quartermaster's
department, served in that capacity in Sheridan's Cavalry until the close of the war; returning to Bath he went
to Canada in the oil business; coming back to the States he entered upon his subsequent career of railroad employ;
was three and a half years, in 1867 and 1871, station agent at Lewiston; was appointed the first superintendent
of the Knox & Lincoln Railroad, in September, 1871; resigned March 31, 1886, to accept the office of general
manager of the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Road; when that road was sold to the Fitchburg Company he became
general manager of the New York & Northern; resigned in one year to accept the general management of the Annapolis
& Baltimore Road, which position he still holds, while his family continues to reside in Bath, where he married,
July, 1866, Miss Mary Elizabeth Cowin, daughter of Capt. Joseph Cowin. They have had one son and two daughters.
Mrs. Coombs was born in Bath in 1840. When Mr. Coombs resigned from the superintendency of the Knox & Lincoln
Road his friends in Bath gave, in his honor, a banquet at the Sagadahoc House, with numerous guests.
From:
History of Bath and Environs,
Sagadahoc County, Maine.
1607-1894
BY: Parker McCobb Reed
Lakeside Press, Printers
Portland, Maine, 1894
Privacy Policy for
OnlineBiographies
|
NAVIGATION
Sagadahoc County, ME
Biographies
Maine
Biographies
Online
Biographies
New York
Histories
New York
Biographies
Maine
Histories
Pennsylvania
Histories
Pennsylvania
Biographies
For all your genealogy needs visit Linkpendium
|