PIKE Hiram "Hi", Jr.

PIKE Hiram "Hi", Jr.[1, 2, 3]

Male 1834 - 1908  (73 years)

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  • Name PIKE Hiram "Hi" 
    Suffix Jr. 
    Birth 4 Jul 1834  Bangor, Penobscot, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    • (Born on Independence Hill, Bangor although daughter Blanche's birth cert says born in Norway. In fact, he spent his boyhood days in Norway.)
    Gender Male 
    Census 29 Jul 1850  Norway, Oxford, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • (Age 15; farmer; living in the household of grandfather, John Pike.)
    Military Between 11 Oct 1862 and 2 Aug 1863  [7
    as a Private with Company F, 26th Maine Infantry Regiment 
    Occupation 1880  Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    wagon maker 
    Census 12 Jun 1880  Van Buren, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    • (Age 45, widower, wagon-maker.)
    Census Jun 1890  Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    • (Special Schedule: Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.)
    Census 1 Jun 1900  Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    • (Age 65, farmer.)
    Occupation a carpenter  [12
    _UID 0B5D0D38EB9ED5118A06444553540000DC1D 
    Death 8 Jan 1908  Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5
    Burial Aft 8 Jan 1908  Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 13, 14
    • (Pike Lot, Evergreen Cemetery, right front entrance, five rows from front of left of path.)
    Hiram Pike gravestone
    Hiram Pike gravestone

    HIRAM PIKE
    1834-1908

    Notes 
    • He grew to young manhood in the home of his grandfather John in Norway, Maine but when about 17 or 18 years of age went to Boston to drive a "hack" or taxi for his uncle. Later he lived in Caribou, and here about 1862 he married Caroline Rideout (1844-1873). He had learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. He volunteered in one of the first calls for soldiers in the Civil War and served as a Private with Company F, 26th Infantry Regiment from 10/11/1862 to 8/17/1863. He was uninjured in battle though he was in some severe encounters. He contracted a fever which left its results on all his later life. Records indicate that he may have first settled and cleared land in the vicinity of the Sutherland Farm on the Brown Road, Woodland; however, this cannot be verified as the town records which were kept in the town hall, usually referred to as "Maccabee Hall, Colby Siding, burned in a fire 13 June 1949. Between 1880 and 1887, the family lived in Van Buren. It appears that he lived in Caribou and Washburn at different times, but no information is available as to the removals. On getting a pension (eight dollars a month) he had some back pension due and the first payment was $900. A portion of this he put into a stock of furniture but this did not prove to be a success. With part of the Civil War bonus money, he purchased the farm located at Baily Mitchell Bridge, which in later years was called the "Noble Farm". He worked at his trade which included making coffins to order. At one time, he had a farm in woodland (which at that time was called "Number Fourteen"). Here Addie was born. Upon leaving the farm, Hiram Pike became a specialized carpenter designing and constructing cabinets for new homes, which were fastly being built, as well as special parts for the houses, i.e. doors, windows, windows and finishing work. He was one of the builder-carpenters involved in building the Caribou Universalist Church in 1867. By his first wife, he had Sylvester, Minnie (properly Melinda), Judson, and Addie. After the death of Caroline in 1873, he had the children boarded in various places, one of which was with an Allen family, in a house back from High Street in Caribou. In 1880 he married Clara Merritt (1861-1900). By this marriage there were Nellie, who died when 4 years old, 4/15/1882; Annie Burpee, 6/23/1884; Eugene Hale 2/23/1887; Blanche Hazel 4/27/1889; William Merritt 9/18/1891; Charles Boutelle 12/18/1894; and Jennie Burnice 4/14/1896. Of both marriages there were births of children who died in early infancy and of whom no record is available. Hiram II died in Caribou and is buried there.

      Name: Hiram Pike
      Residence: Lyndon, Maine
      Enlistment Date: 11 October 1862
      Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
      Side Served: Union
      State Served: Maine
      Unit Numbers: 1043
      Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 11 October 1862 at the age of 28
      Enlisted in Company F, 26th Infantry Regiment Maine on 11 October 1862.
      Hospitalized on 02 August 1863 at Mound City, IL
    Person ID I28919  Old North Yarmouth, Maine
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2011 

    Father PIKE Hiram M.,   b. 18 Oct 1809, Norway, Oxford, Maine Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jul 1887, Portland, Cumberland, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Mother LADD Sarah,   b. Abt 1810, Bucksport, Hancock, Maine Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 4 Dec 1832  Bucksport, Hancock, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [15
    • (Married by Rev. R.E. Schermerhorn. Jordan says they married 23 Dec 1832 at Bucksport.)
    Family ID F8104  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 RIDEOUT Caroline Mary,   b. 11 Nov 1844, New Castle, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jun 1874, Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Marriage 6 Sep 1862  Grand Falls, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [14, 16
    Family ID F8100  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

    Family 2 MERRITT Clara Alice,   b. 12 Mar 1861, Grand Falls, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1900, Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Marriage 2 May 1881  Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [17
    Hiram & Clara (Merritt) Pike marriage certificate
    Hiram & Clara (Merritt) Pike marriage certificate
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    Hiram & Clara (Merritt) Pike marriage certificate
    Hiram & Clara (Merritt) Pike marriage certificate
    front
    Children 
    +1. PIKE Blanche Hazel,   b. 27 Apr 1889, Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1964, Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    Family ID F8044  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 29 Jul 1850 - Norway, Oxford, Maine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 6 Sep 1862 - Grand Falls, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 2 May 1881 - Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - Jun 1890 - Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1 Jun 1900 - Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 8 Jan 1908 - Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Aft 8 Jan 1908 - Caribou, Aroostook, Maine Link to Google Earth
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    Hiram Pike, Jr.
    Hiram Pike, Jr.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1] Book-Pike-John Pike of Newbury, Mass.
      p.384

    2. [S764] Pamphlet-Russell-Tuttle-Pike Connection, p.4.

    3. [S1934] Internet-Database-Civil War Compiled Military Service Records (detail).

    4. [S1920] VR-Norway, ME.

    5. [S1] Book-Pike-John Pike of Newbury, Mass.
      p.375

    6. [S567] Census-1850-ME-Oxford-Norway, Page: 64 Roll: M432_263.

    7. [S441] Internet-Civil War Compiled Military Service Records.

    8. [S1933] Census-1880-ME-Aroostook-Van Buren.
      FHL Film 1254476 National Archives Film T9-0476 Page 103C

    9. [S1933] Census-1880-ME-Aroostook-Van Buren.
      SD 2 ED 202 Page 26

    10. [S1940] Census-1890 Veterans Schedules-ME-Aroostook-Caribou, Roll: 7; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 3.

    11. [S1936] Census-1900-ME-Aroostook-Caribou, Roll: T623 588; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 10.

    12. [S1] Book-Pike-John Pike of Newbury, Mass.
      p.376

    13. [S32] Death-gravestone, Evergreen Cemetery on South Main St.

    14. [S1] Book-Pike-John Pike of Newbury, Mass., p.375.

    15. [S1] Book-Pike-John Pike of Newbury, Mass.
      p.286

    16. [S770] Pamphlet-Rideouts In America, p.10.

    17. [S19] Marriage Certificate, Signed by Elisha Skinner, M.E. Pastor.