Page:Sketches of representative women of New England.djvu/507

378 cards for weddings and society events generally. Another department in which she takes especial pride is that of making blank bonks, in connection with which she takes orders for binding, ruling, perforating, and electrotyping. She has printed everything, from a newspaper to a label the size of a postage stamp; from cards to law blanks, pamphlets, and books.

She is stationer for several leading women's clubs, and does stamping and embossing of the best quality. She is a very careful manager, making all her own estimates and figuring on contract work. She has many original ideas about her work, one of her specialties being advertising novelties. She has also manufactured some labor-saving devices for the counting-room, one of which, the "acme petty ledger," has met with a large sale. Her present place of business is at 42 Summer Street.

Miss Grant is a womanly woman, controlling her office with a dignity and kindly authority which have won for her the high respect of all her employees. Possessed of great tact and the courage which makes stepping-stones of obstacles, her progress has been steadily onward; and, with "Semper fidelis" for her motto, she has truly deserved her success.

LARA L. BROWN DYER, artist, was born in Cape Elizabeth, Me., March 13, 1849, daughter of Captain Peter Weare and Lucy A. (Jones) Brown. Her father, who was born February 11, 1818, son of Jacob and Lucy (Pierce) Brown, was a master mariner, and spent a great part of his life at sea, often accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Dyer. He was trusted and beloved for his many sterling qualities. Jacob Brown, Mrs. Dyer's paternal grand-father, was son of Lieutenant Peter Weare Brown and his wife, Eunice Braun, grandson of Major Jacob, Jr., and Lydia (Weare) Brown, and great-grandson of Jacob Brown, Sr., and his wife Mary.

Major Jacob Brown, Jr., of North Yarmouth, Me., served in the Revolutionary War in Colonel Edmund Phinney's regiment (Thirty-first) in 1775 and 1776, entering service April 24, 1775. His name appears in a list of officers recommended l)y the Council, October 6, 1757, to be commissioned by General Washington. Later he was First Major, Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's (Cumberland County) regiment, July 6, 1777, to September 25, 1779, expedition against Penobscot. He married July 13, 1743, Lydia, daughter of Captain Peter and Sarah (Felt) Weare.

Peter Weare Brown, Sr., was a private in Captain John Worthley's company. Colonel K. Phinney's regiment, May 8, 1775, to July 6, 1775; early in 1770 was Ensign in Captain Nathan Walker's company; promoted to Second Lieutenant, April 15, 1776, and served until December 31, 1776. He enlisted July 1, 1778, in Captain Benjamin Lemont's company, Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment, and served six months and twelve days in Rhode Island. He died February 28, 1830. In his old age he received a pension.

Mrs. Dyer's mother, Mrs. Lucy Jones Brown, who is now in her eighty-second year, was born November 25, 1822, daughter of Cyrus and Rebecca (Tyler) Jones. During the War of 1812 Cyrus Jones, Mrs. Dyer's maternal grandfather, helped to defend Portland. He also carried a load of specie in a four-ox team in the winter time from Portland to Canada for the government. On September 2, 1817, he was commissioned by Governor John Brooks Captain of a company in the Third Regiment of Infantry, First Brigade, Twelfth Division, of the militia of Massachusetts. His grandson, Cyrus .Jones Brown, brother of Mrs. Dyer, served twenty months in the United States Navy in the Civil War. He now receives a pension.

Rebecca Tyler, wife of Cyrus Jones and grandmother of Mrs. Dyer, was born June 25, 1795. She was daughter of John Tyler, of Pownal, Me., and his wife, Lucy Trickey, who belonged to one of the old families of York County. John Tyler, father of Rebecca, was son of Captain Abraham Tyler, of Scarboro, Me., a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner.

Abraham Tyler raised his own company and marched in response to the Lexington alarm, serving as Captain in the Eighteenth Continental Regiment during the siege of Boston and the Ticonderoga campaign of 1776,