Theophilus Drinkwater (October 28, 1792 – December 15, 1872) was an American

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in the first half of the 19th century.

Life and career

Drinkwater was born on October 28, 1792, in

North Yarmouth North Yarmouth, officially the Town of North Yarmouth, is a town in Cumberland County, Maine. The population was 4,072 at the 2020 United States Census. It is part of the Portland– South Portland–Biddeford Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

, Massachusetts (now in Maine), to Allen and Hannah Drinkwater.''Old Times: a magazine devoted to the preservation and publication of documents relating to the early history of North Yarmouth, Maine'', p. 387–391
/ref> Drinkwater's house stood at the southern end of today's Drinkwater Point Road, for whom the street is named. The house was built in 1791 by his grandfather, Nicholas. Theophilus married Louisa Prince in 1822. They had three children — Cornelia Amanda, Hannah Gray and Ferdinand. Two months before Maine's admittance to the Union, Drinkwater became a founding member of the Chapel Religious Society in North Yarmouth. In 1835, Drinkwater and his father purchased the homestead farm of Jonathan Moulton in North Yarmouth. In 1853, Drinkwater was listed as a stockholder in the

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Death

Drinkwater died on December 15, 1872, aged 80. He is interred in Yarmouth's

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alongside his wife, who survived him by six years, and Cornelia.

References

People from North Yarmouth, Maine People from Yarmouth, Maine 1792 births 1872 deaths Sea captains {{us-bio-stub