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     Fred Herbert Sewall was born on 17 September 1878 in Bangor, Maine.² He was the son of Charles Herbert Sewall and Mary L. Adams.¹ Fred Herbert Sewall died on 1 September 1879¹ and was buried on 2 September 1879 in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine.³

     Fred Stinson Sewall was born on 5 August 1886 in Elk Horn Ridge, North Dakota.² He was the son of William Wingate Sewall and Mary Alice Sherman.¹ Fred Stinson Sewall married Phyllis E. Garverich, daughter of Dr. Franklin Hedrich Garverich and Martha Steese, on 20 June 1912 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.¹ Fred Stinson Sewall died on 20 October 1978 in Island Falls, Maine, at the age of 92 and is buried in Island Falls Cemetery, Island Falls, Aroostook County, Maine.³

     Colonel Frederic Dummer Sewall was born on 22 January 1825 in Bath, Maine.² He was the son of General Joseph Sewall and Eliza W. Smith.³ Colonel Frederic Dummer Sewall married Evelina Hill Gove, daughter of Hartley Gove and Evalina Hill, on 14 November 1849 in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, They had eight children of whom only two were living at the date of the 1900 Census.^4,5 Colonel Frederic Dummer Sewall died on 16 December 1907 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at the age of 82 suddenly, of heart failure.^6,7 He was buried on 19 December 1907 in Maple Grove Cemetery, Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine.^8,9 [LIND:
]Frederick Sewall was prepared for college at the North Yarmouth Academy. After graduating from Bowdoin in 1846 he studied law in the office of the Tallman and Richardson and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He practised his profession in his native city until the outbreak of the Civil War. He had always been interested in military affairs, and in August 1861, was appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the U.S. Volunteers and assigned to duty in the Army of the Potomac on the staff of General O.O. Howard and served with him until after the battle of Fair Oaks. In July 1862 he was appointed Colonel of the Nineteenth Maine Volunteers and again joined the Army of the Potomac. In the spring of 1863 he was made Colonel of the Third Regiment of the Veteran Reserve Corps and was engaged on a board of examination and staff duty till 1864 when he was assigned to the defences of Washington with his regiment and placed in command of a brigade before Alexandria. In March 1865 he received the brevet rank of brigadier-general of volunteers on account of faithful and meritorious services during the war. After further service in mustering out volunteers and in the South as Acting Assistant Inspector General on the staff of General Howard, he finally left the army in 1868.
He was soon after made a special agent in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington. In 1873 he was appointed by President Grant, a supervisor in the same service and on the discontinuance of that office in 1876, became chief of the division of special agents of the Internal Revenue. This position he held continuously until the second administration of President Cleveland. In 1894, he resumed the practice of his profession at Bath but three years later was re-appointed by President McKinley, to his former position in the Treasury Department. He was later transferred at his own request to Boston and took charge of the division of the New England states, he continued to perform its duties until his death.⁶