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Percy, Samuel Rogers, Jr., Captain (1856-1940) | Maine Maritime Museum Manuscript Collection Online Catalog
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Captain Samuel Rogers Percy, Jr. (1856-1940), son of Captain Samuel Rogers Percy, Sr. and Eleanor M. (Golder) Percy, was born at Parkers Head in Phippsburg, Maine on December 13, 1856. After the death of his father, at the age of eleven, his mother remarried George M. Adams, a well-known Bath shipbuilder. Samuel Jr. and his mother moved from Phippsburg to Bath to live in the Adams home on the corner of Washington and Union streets. There Samuel Jr. attended Bath schools until he reached the age of sixteen. He then left formal education behind and took a job working for Treat & Lang’s steam sawmill for six months. He then spent three years in shipyards, first at his stepfather’s operation—Adams & Hitchcock—and then at Hagan & Thurlow’s. By the time he was eighteen, young Samuel had a basic education in timber processing and wooden shipbuilding. At the age of nineteen years, he went to sea as boy in the Chapman & Flint ship M. P. Grace. He spent seven years in the California trade, a portion of that time in a coastwise steamer out of San Francisco. At 23, he had risen to the rank of mate and served as first officer on the Freeport ship Enos Soule, under Captain Claude M. Lawrence.
On June 2, 1880, Samuel Percy married Lucy Toby, daughter of James Toby of Bath and had one child, a daughter Eleanor.
In 1882, stepfather George Adams offered Sam the command of the Adams & Hitchcock three-mast schooner Normandy, built in 1878. In 1884, Captain Percy took the command of the brand new tern (three-mast) schooner Henry P Mason, the last addition to the Adams & Hitchcock fleet. On March 11, 1893, George Adams died; two days after Captain Sam Percy arrived home in response to his stepfather’s illness.
In 1894, he associated himself with Frank A. Small in the shipbuilding business at Bath, Maine, under the firm name of Percy & Small. For the length of time they have engaged in this line of work, they have conducted the largest business of any shipbuilding firm in Maine between 1894 and 1920.
On a personal note, Captain Samuel R. Percy represented ward two in Bath as Alderman for two years, was mayor of the city of Bath in 1901 and was a representative in the Maine legislature in 1904-05. Captain Samuel Rogers Percy died in 1940 at the age of 84.
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