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The introduction of national prohibition it was hoped would permanently raise the price of apples, but there is no reason why Rowe farmers cannot reap some profits from apple raising, even without prohibition. Sugar maples yield a bountiful supply of sap which can profitably be exported in the form of syrup and sugar. (See Appendix H)
Sheep husbandry was once a thriving industry in Rowe. With Boston the chief wool market of this country and with an increasing demand in the east for mutton, increased pro- duction might be expected. The dog menace has been ever- present, but can be minimized by co-operation and by proper fencing. To be sure the severe winters necessitate extra provision for shelter and feed, but the winters are no severer than they were one hundred years ago.
The radical change in the economic picture-which might be called a Renaissance-began during the mid-century. The cash income per annum of some $70,000 in the shape of wages to Rowe citizens working at the Deerfield Glassine Company may have been the start. Improvement in roads, with a great transformation of the old road that descends some 700 feet in one short mile to Monroe Bridge, the establishment of a Volunteer Fire Department with fire-alarm and commu- rication system, the increase in the Highway Department with the acquisition of two heavy trucks, a pick-up truck, road scraper, pay loader, snow plow attachments, and a sander to take care of winter ice and snow, and the improve- ments at the village school with play apparatus, all testify to the progressive attitude of the town fathers backed by the voters.
The annual report for 1957 shows 18 street lights, and expenditures for Highway Construction and Maintenance of $54,692; for Schools, operation, maintenance, transportation and tuition, $21,947; and for the Fire Department, $2,134.
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CHAPTER XII
ELECTRIC POWER FROM THE ATOM
With 6% of the population, the U.S.A. has 36% of the world's electric power. Most of our electric power is pro- duced by heat which now comes from burning coal, oil or gas, and 20.3% is hydro-electric power. The fire produces steam in the teakettle, the steam turns a fan which spins a magnet. As the magnet spins, invisible lines of magnetic force cut across the turns of wire in the coils, which generate electric current that can be transmitted through copper wires. In a power plant, the fire is the furnace, the teakettle is the boiler, the fan is the turbine, the magnet and coils are the generator. Heat from atomic fuel such as uranium can be substituted for the heat from the coal, gas or oil by fission, or splitting the atom in a reactor instead of a furnace.
Harnessing atomic energy has some similarities with con- trolling electricity. When man learned that electricity was the secret of lightning's destructive power, he did not aband- on hope of controlling it. In like manner atomic energy and radioactivity go together, but the latter can be fully controlled. At present, the cost of generating electricity with atomic fuel is higher than with conventional fuels, but it is expected that heat from atomic fuel will eventually cost less.
In April 1955, Rowe was startled by the public announce- ment that the Yankee Atomic Electric Company had purchas- ed 1400 acres near Sherman's Station on the Deerfield and planned to erect a multi-million dollar atomic power plant. The figure of $35,000,000 was given as a preliminary estimate which is five times the total assessed valuation of the town. Forthwith the "By-Laws Committee" speeded action in pre- senting to the voters a comprehensive set of By-Laws "de- signed to foster an orderly adjustment to possible changes
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which our community might undergo as a result of the new plant".
Briefly, the Yankee company was formed in 1954 by 12 New England electric utilities serving 90% of New England who grouped together to finance and build a 134,000 kilowatt atomic power plant under the Atomic Energy Commission's Power Demonstration Reaction Program. . The site selected included the so-called Philo Sibley and Noyes Wheeler farms and was based on the proximity to a large supply of cooling water and to an existing high voltage transmission line.
The plant will resemble a standard steam-electric station except for the boiler equipment. This will be a pressurized water reactor contained in a large 125-foot steel sphere set on 8 reinforced concrete columns. Inside is the actual re- actor steam-generator with controls, auxiliaries and heat exchanges. The "heart" of the reactor is the cylindrical core about 6 feet in diameter and 8 feet tall, which will stand in a water-filled pressure vessel 9 feet in diameter and 30 feet high with steel walls over 8 inches in thickness. The core contains 76 fuel assemblies made up of over 20,000 stainless steel tubes, pencil-size eight feet in length, each tube filled with 150 uranium pellets. The heat conveyed by the circulating water equals that of a steam boiler 50 times the size of this 6 x 8 foot cylinder. Work was started in 1957 and should require three years to complete .*
*As of June 1960 construction is on schedule, and it is expected that the plant will soon be producing electric power. The total cost is now estimated at $57,000,000.
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Appendix A.
The history of Monroe could well fill a small volume by itself and only a brief sketch can be inserted here. Daniel Canedy of Colrain is said to have been the first settler in that part of Rowe which lay west of the Deerfield. He brought his family about the year 1800, and was soon follow- ed by Ebenezer Hayward,* Samuel and Daniel Gore and three Ballou brothers, David, Benjamin and Nathan. David Ballou was the first of the brothers to take up land and we find his name in the seating of the meetinghouse in 1802. In 1804 we find David Ballou on the jury list for the "In- ferior Court," but no mention is made of the Gores or Daniel Canedy, who lived in the unincorporated section called "The Gore." The latter died in 1826 at the age of 55 and Daniel Gore died in 1859 leaving a number of sons,-Hiram, Lowell, Moses, Asahel and Luther.
Difficulty of travel was experienced at an early date and in 1801 the inhabitants petitioned the town of Rowe to "set off the land that lies west of Deerfield in this Town to be annexed to a gore of land adjoining to it." The town ac- quiesced provided the General Court allowed it, but it was not to be just yet. In October 1803 the town voted "that the inhabitants of the Town west of Deerfield River, be exempt from paying their School and Highway Taxes and that they have the privilege of Schooling and working out their own money in their own neighborhood." From 1804 to 1822 a Ballou was on the school committee, David, Nathan, Stephen or Maturin, the sons of Nathan.
The petition in December 1820 to the General Court ask- ing for incorporation recites that the part of Rowe west of the Deerfield River "is commonly impassable so as to cause the settlers in the west part to go around by the way of Readsboro and Whitingham, Vt. to get to the center of the
*Ebenezer Hayward had daughters born in Rowe in December 1801, and January 1804.
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town-and contains about 1500 acres and 14 families. The unincorporated part contains 4500 acres and 15 families." The round-about way referred to, undoubtedly was the road from the "four-corners" to South Readsboro, thence across the river near Sherman's,* and up the road to Rowe from "Lime Hollow."
December 24, 1821, the town voted to allow the land west of the river to be set off, and February 21, 1822 the town of Monroe was incorporated, taking the name of President James Monroe.
Appendix B.
In 1832 Rev. Preserved Smith was assessed on the follow- ing property :-
1 House and Barn
25 Acres Land
$150 450 $600
1 Horse and colt
42
1 Cow
20
Money at interest
1200 1262
$ 1862
Tax-$75.21
It would be interesting to know where he had his money at interest. Remember that his annual salary was but $300.
The Census reports show the population of Rowe as fol- lows :-
1790-443
1870-581
1920-333
1800-575
1875-661
1925-292
1810-839
1880-502
1930-298
1820-851
1885- -582
1935-277
1830-716
1890-541
1940-233
1840-703
1895-498
1945-176
1850-659
1900~549
1950-199
1855-601
1905-533
1955-207
1860-619
1910-456
1960-230
1865-563
1915-424
*Sherman's Bridge was removed when the N. E. Power Co. develop- ment was completed above Monroe Bridge in 1925-1926. Sherman's Station began operations in February 1927 with a capacity of 6,000 K.V.A.
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On Feb. 21, 1822 Monroe was incorporated and of course this resulted in a loss to Rowe. The population of Monroe in 1830 was 265; in 1840, 282; in 1850, 254; which, if allow- ance is made for the deductions from Rowe, would show the largest aggregate for Rowe between 1830 and 1850. The high mark for Heath was 1199 in 1830.
Appendix C.
A petition dated January 14, 1780 was sent to the General Court seeking a remission of the fine of £600, and for an abatement of taxes. The petition set forth that the town was utterly unable to raise the sums "repeatedly required" of it; that of the 10,000 acres in that plantation, only 7,000 were habitable, not a tenth part of which was under any kind of improvement; that ten years before (1770), there were but eight families in the place which was increased to twenty-eight families when the war began,-most of which were so poor as to be unable to pay the small cost of lands to settle on; that those who had removed thither since the war began were such as had been reduced from comfortable livings, to the necessity of earning, by hard labor, on small tracts of wild land, the means of purchasing supplies to be brought from a distance. That the earlier settlers were just beginning to make improvements when the war broke out, and being, to a man, engaged in the popular cause, and more than ordinarily "exposed unto alarms," even in seed-time and harvest-time, they had been obliged to purchase more than half of their provisions, at a distance of from ten to thirty miles, at enormous prices, for which their improve- ments were not sufficient to yield them an equivalent; that, through all their adversities, they had "supported the gos- pel," which they could not continue to do if their burdens should be increased; that, in respect to the fine of £ 600, they had sent only one of the two men required, because, though the rate was one man for 361/2 ratable polls, they
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(as they had not more than 48 polls at the time of requisition) thought the sending of one man, a sufficient compliance; in which the superintendent, who accepted their man, con- curred; that they had nothing to sell wherewith to procure money,-they being above one hunred miles from any mar- ket, and obliged to pay enormous prices for salt and other necessaries ("even the price of seven bushels of rye for a bushel of salt"); that, being a new plantation, they within a few years had been obliged to build, through the woods, all the roads in the vicinity, and even roads to other adjoining places several miles distant, and to keep these roads in re- pair at their own expense, which required, annually the average labor of ten days per man; notwithstanding which, the country was so rugged that it required four good oxen, and at least the greater part of one day, "to convey half a ton of burthen, in our best road, for the distance of five or six miles from this place," and that by this means only could they transport such necessaries of life as they pur- chased at a distance .* That they had been obliged to borrow money to pay the bounties and travel of soldiers, and to make good the depreciation of the currency, they having no money of their own.
This is an interesting picture of life in the old plantation days with all its hardships. It may be of interest to know that the General Court remitted the £ 600 fine and abated one third of the taxes. The "best road" was probably that between the meetinghouse and Charlemont which led over the mountain, the route known as Norton's Trail.
*There were about 30 families in Charlemont in 1766 (Vol. 4, p. 1046 Acts and Resolves), and about 60 families in 1779 (Vol. 5, p. 1251 Acts and Resolves).
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Appendix D. FULHAM GRANT
On June 11, 1772 the General Court passed the following resolutions,-
"that there be granted to Francis Fullam his Heirs and assigns five hundred acres of Land to be laid out in an unappropriated tract of Land in the western part of the Province adjoining to ten thousand acres granted to Cornelius Jones, called Merrifield, to satisfy his pro- portion of the Grant in his Petition mentioned, which he lost by the runing Newhampshire line, and that the Petitioner at his own cost cause the same to be laid out by skilful Surveyor and Chain- men under oath, and return a plan of the same to this Court for acceptance within twelve months."
The petition was made by Francis Fullam (Fulham) of Fitchburg (Turkey Hills) "in lieu of his proportion of a Township formerly granted to the Soldiers under Command of Capt. John Lovewell, which fell into Newhampshire."
Beginning at the Southwest corner of "Jones's Grant," so- called.
W 6ºN
197 rods 150 66
S 6°W
6°S
250
¥
S 6°W
40
66
E
6°S 80
80 66
S 6°W
E 6°S
100
N 6°E
270 to south line of Jones's Grant
W 6°N 240
66 on said line.
The final ratification was made March 5, 1773.
Appendix E.
GREEN AND WALKER GRANT
On December 8, 1741 the General Court granted a tract comprising 8575 acres "northwest of Deerfield," which to- day represents the greater part of the town of Heath, to Joseph Green, Isaac Walker, Byfield Lyde, and John Green. In 1751 Joseph Green, Isaac Walker and Thomas Bulfinch,
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petitioned for another tract to comprise "6000 acres west of a tract of 8575 acres owned by them in order to compleat a Settlement they propose to make," but nothing ever came of it; and it was reserved for Cornelius Jones in 1762 to purchase these 6000 acres with 4000 more.
Green and Walker, both of Boston, were co-partners in the mercantile business under the style of Green & Walker. They acquired ownership of extensive tracts of land in vari- ous parts of the Province.
BULLOCK'S GRANT
In April 1771 there was granted to William Bullock some six square miles comprising roughly the present town of Savoy and an irregular tract north of this which included a narrow strip in Florida adjoining the Bernardstown Grant on the east and including the Deerfield River at the Great Bend, with a few acres of Rowe, and in Monroe bordering the Bernardstown Grant on the north.
Appendix F.
An interesting document in the State Archives is the as- sessors' return of the Plantation of Myrifield for 1784, com- piled by Henry Willson and Archibald Thomas, Assessors. They rated the property as follows,-
Improved Lands
Upland mowing
40 shillings per acre
Meadow mowing
20
66
Pastering and tillage
40
66
66
66
Unimproved Land
6 shillings, 8 pence per acre
Unimprovable Land
1 shilling per acre
Dwelling Houses
6 pounds each 66
Barns
4
66
66
Horses
6
66
66
Oxen
8
Cows
3
2
1
3 shillings each
Swine
20
66
Mills
5
66
66
66
2 year olds
1 year old Sheep
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There were but nine dwelling houses and the assessors stated that the "Remainder are Loghuts-which in the year 1780 were valued at 20/ each, since which they are so crum- bled Down, that they have been not Rated since."
The return shows 88 polls, of which number 77 were "ratable," nine dwelling houses, 18 barns, two mills, 93 acres of "tillage of land," 74 acres of "English and Upland mowing," 210 acres of Fresh-meadow and newly-cleared mowing land, 206 acres of pasturage, 5679 acres of unim- proved and 3724 acres of unimprovable land, 38 horses, 3 two-year old colts, 3 one-year old colts, 44 oxen, 27 neat cattle three-year old, 46 two-years old, and 74 one-year old, 89 cows four years old or more, 230 sheep, and 98 swine.
Following are the names of the tax-payers in 1784, the year before incorporation.
Moses Streeter
Eli Towne
Nathaniel Goodspeed
Phebe Howard, Guardn
Ebenezer Ingersol
Henry Willson, Jr.
Eldad Corbet
Paul Thayer
Jonathan Marsh
Amos Gleason
Abner Chapin
William Taylor
Joseph Steel
Oliver Wilder
Archibald Thomas
Nathan Wood
Joseph Thomas
Aaron Gleason, Jr.
Nathan Wheeler
Henry Gleason
Ambrose Potter
Aaron Gleason
Darius Barr
Jonathan Gleason
Daniel McCoon
Gideon Chapin
Nathan Foster
Ellet Makepeace
John Hibbert
Gad Chapin
Shubael Nash
Shadrach Chapin
John McNitt Jonas Gleason
David Barr
Consider Brown
Daniel Gleason
Noah Brown
Standish Foster
Richard Mason
Richard Ingersol
Daniel McAllester
Joseph Nash WiMiam Steel
Ephraim Hill Benj. Shumway
Jonathan White
Issac Lankton
Nathaniel Merrill
Benj. Brown
Eli Colton
James Merril
Nathaniel Merril, Jr.
Isaac W. Clary Jude Foster Matthew Barr Obed Foote
Charles Handy
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Humphrey Taylor
David Weer
William Weer
Stephen Gleason Michael Willson
Timothy Knowton
Isaac Cummings Henry Willson
Asa Foster
Asa Gleason
Nathaniel Corbet
Stephen Brown
Joel Hill
Moses Rogers John Adams Mr. Jones
Zenas Nash
Warren Willson
The Direct Tax made by the State in October 1798, (the original is in the library of the N. E. Historic & Genealogical Society) shows that Rowe then had 31 dwelling houses, which figure compares with nine in 1780.
Appendix G. THE MOHAWK TRAIL
A splendid paper was read before the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association at Deerfield, Sept. 8, 1909, by Judge John A. Aiken (See P.V.M.A. Proceedings), which definitely locates the Indian trail between Williamstown and Deerfield, some forty miles. A portion on the eastern end of Hoosac Mountain, along the ridge which ends with Todd Mountain and on the southerly slopes of the latter, is easily discernible today, a narrow, well-worn path. The writer has spent many hours with Judge Aiken on Hoosac Mountain examin- ing this trail and also the early roads over the mountain; and, as a result, felt qualified to read a paper in 1920 before the Greenfield Historical Society on the subject. The writer's additional information to Judge Aiken's has to do with a short portion near the confluence of Cold River and
the Deerfield. The late Miss Augusta Hawks pointed it
out in 1917. Her grandfather Samuel Hawks moved from Deerfield to Charlemont in 1811, having purchased the land from the mouth of Cold River as far west as "Rice's Flats." He built near the confluence a small house with sanded window glasses and loop-holes under the eaves. He died in 1847, aged 89, and his son Edward (born 1810), built the
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present red house, a few rods from the old one. He often showed his daughter the eastern end of the trail and she when a girl drove cattle over it. Near the confluence is "Chestnut Flat," an open mowing, and below and beyond this is the old Indian camp-site, where stone relics have been found. The trail led directly over (not around) the knoll just to the east of the highest point and past Cold Spring to Indian Spring, from which point it is described by Judge Aiken.
Appendix H.
MAPLE SUGAR
Indians taught the first New England settlers to make maple sugar, and for many years thereafter it was used as a substitute for imported cane sugar. Today pure maple syrup and maple sugar are luxuries. Maple sap is a thin watery liquid with a faintly sweet taste. A tree will yield from 10 to 20 gallons of sap, and it requires 25 to 50 gallons of sap to produce a gallon of syrup. The sap must be collected once a day, and carried to the sugar house where it is boiled down in huge metal pans. To prevent souring, quick evaporation is essential at a temperature hot enough for boiling without scorching. When it weighs eleven pounds to the gallon, it is drawn off, filtered, and poured into cans. Further boiling brings it to the concentrated sugar stage. Warm days and cool nights in late February and March make the sap flow; but if warm weather arrives too soon or remains too long, and the nights are not cold, the crop is impaired. An early thaw followed by freezing weather also has adverse effect. Late runs of sap produce a "buddy" taste.
Then come the "sugarin'-off" parties for young and old- hot syrup poured on snow with an occasional pickle and water-cracker-to neutralize the sweetness. Enterprising
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citizens of Charlemont used to tap a snow-bank in a shaded ravine on the north side of Mt. Peak as late in the season as the Fourth of July, and to serve to passing autoists for 50 cents all one could consume.
Appendix I. HOOSAC TUNNEL
First proposed (for canal)
1819
Chartered
- 1848
Commenced
- 1851
Headings met
- Nov. 27, 1874
Completed
- 1875
First train
- Feb. 9, 1875
First freight
- April 5, 1875
First passenger
- Oct. 13, 1875
First electric train
- May 27, 1911
Last electric train
- Aug. 23, 1946
Last passenger train
- Nov. 30, 1958
Total cost of construction $14,000,000
- 25,031 ft. (43/4 miles) Length
Appendix J.
SELECTMEN OF ROWE 1785 - 1960
1785 William Taylor, Isaac Langdon & Moses Streeter
1786 William Taylor, Abner Chapin & John Wells
1787 Archibald Thomas, Michael & Jonas Gleason
1788 Archibald Thomas, John Hibbard & Jonas Gleason
1789 Jonathan White, John Wells & Jonas Gleason
1790 Jonathan White, John Wells & Thaddous Merrill
1791 William Taylor, John Wells & Thaddous Merrill
1792 Nathan Foster, Archibald Thomas & Henry Wilson
1793 Nathan Foster, Noah Brown & Henry Wilson
1794 Nathan Foster, Noah Brown & William Taylor
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1795 Nathan Foster, Zebulon Benton & William Taylor
1796 Pardon Haynes, Abner Chapin & William Taylor
1797 Nathan Foster, Jonas Gleason & Samuel Brown
1798 William Taylor, Noah Brown & Zebulon Benton
1799 Jonas Gleason, Archibald Thomas & John Hibbard 1800 Jonas Gleason, William Taylor & Noah Brown John Wells, William Taylor & Noah Brown
1801 1802
Titus Todd, William Taylor & Nathan Foster
1803
Titus Todd, Calab Blakslee & Nathan Foster
Titus Todd, Moses Streeter & Nathan Foster
1804 1805 John Wells, William Taylor & James Brown Jonas Gleason, William Taylor & James Brown Josiah Carpenter, William Taylor & John Cheney Josiah Carpenter, William Taylor & Noah Brown Pardon Haynes, William Taylor & Noah Brown John Wells, John Cheney & John Thomas John Wells, Josiah Carpenter & John Thomas Jediah Bassett, Josiah Carpenter & John Thomas
1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 John Wells, Josiah Carpenter & John Thomas Sylvester Hart, Josiah Carpenter & John Thomas James Brown, Jesse Gleason & John Thomas 1814 1815 1816 - 1818 1819 1820 1821 1823 1824 1825 1826 1828 1829 1830 Isaac Pierpont, Samuel Reed & Jedidiah Barrett 1831 Isaac Pierpont, Samuel Reed & Ebenezer Merrill
Josiah Carpenter, Jesse Gleason & Isaac Pierpont John Thomas, Ebenezer Merrill & Noah Wells Jesse Gleason, Ebenezer Merrill & James Brown
Noah Wells, Ebenezer Merrill & John Thomas James Brown, Isaac Pierpont & John Thomas Noah Wells, Apollo Carpenter & Jedidiah Barrett - Noah Wells, William Taylor, Jr. & Jedediah Barrett Isaac Pierpont, Ebenezer Merrill & Jedediah Barrett
1832 Obed Peck, Samuel Reed & Eliza Hibbard
1833 John Thomas, James Brown & Moses Gleason
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1834 Samuel H. Reed, Elishia Brown & Robert L. Bishop
1835 Samuel H. Reed, Solomon Amidon, Jr. & Robert L. Bishop
1836 James Brown, Isaac Pierpont & Samuel Hall
1837 John Thomas, Ebenezer Starr & James Ford
1838 William Taylor, Ebenezer Starr & Dexter W. Brown
1839 Samuel Hall, Ebenezer Starr & Dexter W. Brown
1840 John Thomas, Alonzo Hibbard & Aruna Ide
1841 Dexter W. Brown, Alanson Hibbard & Arunah Ide
1842 Solamon Amidon, Jr., Alonso Hibbard & Arunah Ide Alanson Hibbard, Ebenezer Starr & Noah Wells William Taylor, Ebenezer Starr & John A. Winslow Samuel H. Reed, Asa Kendrick & Thomas Scott Samuel H. Reed, Elias Keith & Thomas Scott
1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 Ebenezer Starr, Elias Keith & Arad Hall
Ebenezer Starr, Elias Keith & Dwight H. Hix
1849 E. Hawks Stanford, Elias Keith & Arad Hall
1850 Solamon Amidon, Chauncy Pierpont & Horace Browning
1851 Elias Keith, Hezekiah Brown & Arad Hall
1852 Elias Keith, Hezekiah Brown & Arad Hall
1853
Elias Keith, John Ballou & William Porter
1854 Elias Keith, John Ballou & Arad Hall
1855 -
1856 Elias Keith, John Ballou & Lyman Sears
1857 Daniel Gale, William H. Stanford & Ansel Bullard
1858 1859 Daniel Gale, William H. Stanford & Elias Keith
1860 Daniel Gale, William H. Stanford & Charles Demons
1861 John Ballou, William H. Stanford & Charles Demons
1862 Samuel P. Everett, William H. Stanford & E. H. Stanford
1863 John Ballou, V. M. Porter & Elias Keith
1864 Lyman Sears, Lorenzo S. Blakslee & Elias Keith
1865 Charles Demons, Lorenzo S. Blakslee & John Ballou
1866 Charles Demons, John Ballou & Lorenzo S. Blakslee 1867 -
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Cyrus Ballou, Samuel P. Everett & John Ballou Jason C. Rice, H. A. Kendrick & John Ballou
Elias Keith, William Bolton & John Ballou
Elias Keith, Ephriam Truesdell & John Ballou
V. M. Porter, Ezra Bemis & Cyrus Ballou
V. M. Porter, Lorenzo S. Blakeslee & Peter J. Streeter
1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 - 1875 1876 - 1877 V. M. Porter, Lorenzo S. Blakeslee & Lester Smith V. M. Porter, Lorenzo S. Blakeslee & Noyes Wheeler
1878 1879 V. M. Porter, J. Herbert Starr & Noyes Wheeler V. M. Porter, J. Herbert Starr & Horace A. Smith
V. M. Porter, Peter J. Streeter & Frank C. Haynes V. M. Porter, J. Herbert Starr & Charles Demons Edward Wright, Samuel Woffenden & Russel J. Smith V. M. Porter, Samuel Woffenden & Edward Wright
Edward Wright, C. C. Wheaton & Charles B. Newell
Edward Wright, Johnathen G. Davenport & James H. Starr
J. Frank Brown, Johnathen G. Davenport & Jude S. Tuttle
1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 Charles B. Newell, Johnathen G. Davenport & Jude S. Tuttle
1891
J. Frank Brown, Johnathen G. Davenport & Jude S. Tuttle
1892 - 1893 J. Frank Brown, Johnathen G. Davenport & Jude S. Tuttle
1894 Fred W. Newell, Johnathen G. Davenport & Samuel Woffenden
1895 Jude S. Tuttle, Johnathen G. Davenport & Horace A. Smith
1396 J. Frank Brown, Johnathen G. Davenport & Perry P. Chilcott
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1897 Albert Veber, Johnathen G. Davenport & Samuel Woffenden
1898 Albert Veber, Johnathen G. Davenport & Abbott L. White
1899 -
1900 Jude S. Tuttle, Johnathen G. Davenport & Samuel Woffenden
1901 Dennis Kiley, Johnathen G. Davenport & Abbott L. White
1902 Jude S. Tuttle, Henry D. Wright & Samuel Woffenden
1903 Roscoe R. Fisk, Henry D. Wright & Johnathen G. Davenport
1904 Roscoe R. Fisk, Henry D. Wright & Samuel Woffenden
1905 Fred E. Stone, Henry D. Wright & Johnathen G. Davenport
1906-
1907 Samuel Woffenden, Henry D. Wright & Johnathen G. Davenport
1.908 Henry D. Wright, Albert Veber & Johnathen G. Davenport
1909 Abbott L. White, Samuel Woffenden & Charles Scott
1910 Henry D. Wright, Emory B. Sibley & Charles Scott
1911 Henry D. Wright, Emory B. Sibley & Adelbert F. Truesdell
1912 Benjamin T. Henry, John W. Davenport & Adelbert F. Truesdell
1913 Benjamin T. Henry, George Canedy & Adelbert F. Truesdell
1914
1915 Grant R. Hartshorn, Edward M. Upton & George E. Stanford
1916 Grant R. Hartshorn, John W. Davenport & George E. Stanford
1917 -
1918 Grant R. Hartshorn, John W. Davenport & Willie L. Shumway
1919 -
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1923 Grant R. Hartshorn, John W. Davenport & George A. Rice
1924 Grant R. Hartshorn, John W. Davenport & Myron A. Newton
1925 Grant R. Hartshorn, John W. Davenport & Adelbert F. Truesdell
1926 Abbott L. White, Myron A. Newton & Roy J. Holden Abbott L. White, John W. Davenport & Roy J. Holden
1927
1928
1931 Grant R. Hartshorn, John W. Davenport & Roy J. Holden
1932 -
1934 Henry D. Wright, Elbert C. Perry & Edward C. Henderson
1935 -
1938 Grant R. Hartshorn, Charles L. Newell & Edward C. Henderson
1939 Grant R. Hartshorn, Gerald A. Truesdell & Edward C. Henderson
1940 Henry D. Wright, Gerald A. Truesdell & John F. Woffenden
1941 Henry D. Wright, Howard N. Sibley & John F. Woffenden
1942 Henry D. Wright, Howard N. Sibley & Chandler C. Shumway
1943 -
1944 Gerald A. Truesdell, Alfred M. Rice & William C. Baldrachi
1945 Gerald S. Truesdell, John F. Woffenden & William C. Baldrachi
1946 Gerald A. Truesdell, Richard E. Shumway & William C. Baldrachi
1947 Gerald A. Truesdell, Samuel E. Pearson & William C. Baldrachi
1948 Ellsworth W. Veber, Samuel E. Pearson & William C. Baldrachi
1949 -
1951 Ellsworth W. Veber, John E. Bond & William C. Baldrachi
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HISTORY OF ROWE
1952 John H. Williams, Jr. & Frederick J. Bjork
1953 John H. Williams, Jr., Edward C. Henderson & J. Henry Stanford
1954 -
1959 John H. Williams, Jr., Edward C. Henderson & J. Henry Stanford
1960 John H. Williams, Jr., Edward C. Henderson, Giulio C. Andognini, Jr.
Appendix K
PRINTING IN ROWE
The 1954 Annual Report was printed in Rowe by the Cummington Press, lately moved here, and each sheet was run off by hand on a Washington Press, essentially the same instrument used by printers in Colonial days. The type- faces were Poliphilus and Caslon, set in Rowe by hand and in North Adams on the monotype of Elder Printing Co.
It was hoped that this third edition of the History would be so handled, but through the death in an automobile accident of an associate, our poet-printer, Harry Duncan, felt obligated to close his small plant and leave for a teach- ing position at Iowa State in Iowa City.
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