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General Beal in 1868 was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago that nominated Gen. U. S. Grant for President, and was an elector on the ticket that year. In 1871 he became land- lord of the Beal's Hotel. He could not have had at that time an adequate conception of the possibilities before him. We now know that he might have been Governor of the State and a Member of Congress. All that was lacking was the ambition to obtain these positions and the disposition to make the contest at the right time. In his school days he had neglected to practice the art of public speaking-perhaps from not having any taste for it-at all events had he acquired the habit of thinking on his feet before a congrega- tion of people, and a fluent command of language, there would have been little limit to what he might have attained. But he was not to remain for long as the landlord of the Beal's Hotel. He was appointed U. S. Pension Agent at Portland, which office he held four years; chosen Adjutant-General of the State for five years; first De- partment Commander of the Grand Army; State Treasurer and Com- missioner of the State Treasury for seven years. He died Dec. 11, 1896. His wife died Feb. 25, 1898.
The Beal's Hotel since General Beal ceased to be its landlord in 1872 has had many proprietors.
John A. Woodman is one of the most popular landlords who ever kept a public house in the town of Norway. He came from New Hampshire stock. His father was Richard A. Woodman; his mother
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Sarah A. Channell of Bolton, P. Q. Mr. Woodman was born Dec. 7, 1846. He married in 1881 Miss Elizabeth M. Guptill of Fryeburg. He lived in Norway for three years from 1882 to 1886. In 1887 he began business as an innkeeper at Manchester, N. H., where he lived for ten years. Bought the Beal's Hotel in 1897 of which he was land- lord for 13 years. He built two cottages on the lake shore which he sold. He built the Rex Theatre on Cottage street in 1913. That he also sold. He later retired from business with an ample com- petence for himself and wife, who is also a very capable business manager.
Mr. Robert F. Seavey is the present owner of this public house which he renamed "The Beal's Inn." He came here from Peterboro, N. H. Under his management it is noted among the knights of the road as one of the best kept public houses in Maine. Mr. Seavey is a very popular landlord.
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POST OFFICE FORCE LEFT TO RIGHT: EUGENE A. DESCOTEAU, WM. A. LEWIS, JOHN P. JUDKINS, PAUL F. HOSMER, EFFIE I. AKER S, FRANK E. DECOSTER (P. M.) FRED H. PERRY, PHILIP F. STONE
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CHAPTER XXXI.
POSTAL MATTERS.
The first post office in Norway was established about 1800 and William Reed was appointed postmaster. He held the office till 1841, and was a faithful and efficient official, as his long term as postmaster under different political adminstrations attest.
The first mail carrier or post rider, was Jacob Howe, a Revolu- tionary Soldier. His route at first extended from Norway and Paris through Waterford, Bridgton and Gorham to Portland. He rode on horseback, and announced his arrival at the post offices and taverns on the route by blowing a horn. Jacob Howe was succeeded by Seba Smith of Buckfield, who removed from there to Bridgton. The third post rider in this section was Joshua Pool, a Soldier of the Revolution, who settled on the Lee's Grant and afterwards removed to Greenwood.
In those days the principal newspapers were the Portland Gazette and the Eastern Argus, printed in Portland. The former was an organ of the Federal party, and the latter of the Republican party in the District of Maine.
Years afterwards a postal route was established from Paris Hill, through Norway, Welchville, Poland Corner, New Gloucester and Gray Corner to Portland. Groresnor G. Waterhouse ran stage coaches over this line many years. He, Addison A. Latham and Orin Hobbs, who were in his employ, became famous as stage drivers. They were afterwards conductors on the railroad through this section. Then for many years, Norway obtained its mail at the railroad sta- tion and Wm. W. D. S. Millett, familiarly known as "Bill" Millett, brought it on his stage coach to the post office. He delivered the out- going mail at the same place. He was always on time and never missed a single train. For the period of his stage coach driving (till the Norway Branch R. R. was built, a period of some 30 years) he was the best known man in Norway.
About 1820 a company of individuals established a stage route from Norway through Bethel to Shelburne, N. H., and ultimately to Lancaster, the county seat of Coos County. Anthony Bennett, Jr., drove on this route for many years. He was one of the company, and was possessed of such business capacity that the enterprise paid and was finally sold without loss. He was not so popular as Orin Hobbs, who got his first experience as a stage driver on this line run by Bennett.
A postal route was early established between Fryeburg through Waterford, Norway, Paris Hill, Buckfield, North Turner and Kent's Hill to Augusta. The most famous stage driver on this line was John F. Rice of North Waterford. He died at the age of 83, in 1908. George J. Ordway succeeded William Reed as postmaster in Norway Village in 1841. He was a Whig. Mr. Ordway proved to be one of the most popular and efficient officials in the postal service.
Norway has had some very good postmasters and some very poor ones selected for political and charitable reasons. The government is best appreciated through its mail service, and the most capable,
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efficient and pleasant dispositioned persons should always be selected for the important positions of postmasters and mailcarriers.
An office was established at Fuller's Corner, now North Norway, in 1823 and Jonathan Swift, a trader there at that period, was ap- pointed postmaster. His successors were generally storekeepers. The office was discontinued many years ago.
An office was located at Norway Lake village in March, 1881, and James L. Partridge, who was then in trade there, was appointed postmaster. The office is in operation there at the present time.
The farming people are well served by two rural delivery mail- carriers in the persons of John P. Judkins and Fred H. Perry. The letter carriers in the village are (1922) : William A. Lewis, Eugene Descoteau and Paul Hosmer.
The following are the village postmasters since the office was established :
Wm. Reed, appt'd April 1, 1801 G. J. Ordway, appt'd July 13, 1841 A. Thayer, Jr., appt'd May 24, 1845 Elliott Smith, appt'd Apr. 3, 1849 C. P. Kimball, appt'd Mar. 20, 1853 Robert Noyes, appt'd Dec. 14, 1853 D. F. Noyes, appt'd Mar. 25, 1857 H. W. Millett, appt'd June 26, 1861 Dr. J. Howe, appt'd Feb. 8, 1869 H. M. Bearce, appt'd Mar. 15, 1869 A. J. Nevers, appt'd Dec. 20, 1881 Ai J. Rowe, appt'd March 2, 1886 L. I. Bartlett, appt'd 1890 Ai J. Rowe, appt'd 1894
Moses P. Stiles, appt'd 1898 Charles S. Akers, appt'd 1906
Frank E. Decoster, appt'd 1914 Philip F. Stone, appt'd 1923
The most efficient and popular postmistresses and clerks the author has known are: Izah T. Howe, Emily McWaine, Abb E. Gibson, Helen S. Swan and Effie I. Akers.
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CHAPTER XXXII.
ANNALS FROM 1875 TO 1901.
1876
John A. Bolster was elected representative to the Legislature .- The town debt, as given in the report of the selectmen, was $13,622.63 .- The Norway Reform Club celebrated with appropriate exercises, the first anniversary of its organization, on the evening of April 27th .- The Congregational church in the village was destroyed by fire in the winter. A new church was built during the summer and autumn .- The tent caterpillar made its appearance in June. Thousands of acres of forest trees were stripped of their foliage .- The first steamer on the lake, built by Elias Woodsum, was put into the water in July .- Wm. E. Goodenow died in Manhattan, Kan., July 19.
1877
An epidemic of diphtheria raged at North Norway in the winter, and there were several fatal cases among the children .- Ice went out of the lake April 22d, three weeks earlier than the preceding year .- Rev. J. A. Seitz became pastor of the Universalist Church Society early in the year, and Rev. Edward E. Bacon of the Congregational Society .- Henry Howe committed suicide in April and Otis Bosworth in May. George C. Winslow died suddenly Oct. 9th, as did also, Oct. 29th, Mr. Wm. W. Berry, an old gentleman. Geo. L. Farnum, a promising young attorney and a Civil War soldier, died June 19th.
1878
Capt. Wm. W. Whitmarsh was elected town clerk .- The dwelling houses of Henry Hobbs and Ephraim S. Crockett were burned .- The Colorado potato bug first made its appearance here this year .- Mr. Sumner Burnham died from apoplexy, June 19th .- A. Oscar Noyes, one of the most popular men in town, died Oct .- 13th .- The first snow fall of the season Nov. 5th .- The first issue of the New Religion, edited by Rev. J. A. Seitz, appeared the last week in November.
1879
Five thousand dollars were appropriated to purchase stock in the Norway Branch Railroad .- Specie payments having been resumed by the U. S. Government, the shoe factory employees were paid off in gold and other coin the first week in January .- A street sprinkler was first used in the village, during the summer .- In September a reunion of the 1st, 10th, and 29th Maine Regts. in the Civil War, was held here .- The building of the Branch Railroad began in May, and the first train was run over the road in October .- Mr. Micah Upton died May 7th, in his 98th year, and Mrs. Sarah G. Hobbs, Nov. 16th, at nearly 90 years of age.
1880
Simeon Drake resumed the publication of the Norway Advertiser in January .- The first regular passenger train between Norway and
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South Paris was run over the road, Jan. 3rd .- The Methodist church was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, Feb. 9th .- Mr. Amos French was attacked in Waterford by roustabouts and robbed of $80, Oct. 16th .- Mr. Ivers L. Witherell removed to Lynn, Mass. No one who has ever been connected with the shoe factory, was more respected by the people of Norway. Its little park near there, was named for him .- The Norway Light Infantry was ordered to Augusta in January on account of the "Count out."-On the night of Dec. 20th, a fire burned the hardware store, formerly the old woolen mill, Hath- away Block and other buildings in the vicinity. The plant of the New Religion was also destroyed .- Wm. W. D. S. Millett, the popular stage driver, died Dec. 19th. He was born in 1812. Mighill Mason died Nov. 5th, at 60.
1881
Rev. W. W. Hooper became pastor of the Universalist Society in January .- Thomas H. Richardson's dwelling house and several other buildings were destroyed by fire, March 15th .- A new valuation of the property in town was taken, and the town lines inspected. A scare arose over the condition of the dam at the head of the village, and some repairs were made to make it more safe .- The building of a new Hathaway block was begun during the year.
1882
Harry Rust Post G. A. R. was organized in the village in March. Henry M. Bearce was its first Commander .- Alvah Black, born in December, 1817, who, with Mr. C. E. Holt was practicing law here, died at his home on Paris Hill in January, and Wm. Frost, 3rd President of the National Bank, in April, aged 70 .- The voting list had 700 names, this year. The postmaster's salary was increased to $1200 per annum.
1883
Mr. Fred W. Sanborn from New Hampshire, bought the Norway Advertiser plant, and began the publication of the paper in Janu- ary .- The number of taxable polls was 686, a gain from last year of 53 .- The tannery pay roll for the month of May was nearly $4000 .- A lodge of Good Templars was organized here in June .- Rev. W. W. Hooper, having accepted a call from the Universalist Society at Mechanic Falls, closed his labors here in September .- Henry M. Bearce was elected representative to the Legislature.
1884
At the annual meeting, $700 was appropriated for writing the his- tory of the town, to be printed ready for distribution Centennial year (1886). Gen. George L. Beal, Marcus F. Brooks and Henry Upton, were chosen as a committee to superintend the work of writing and printing it. Capt. Wm. W. Whitmarsh was elected representative to the Legislature and Henry M. Bearce, senator.
1885
The Norway Municipal Court was chartered at the winter session of the legislature, and Charles F. Whitman was appointed Judge
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by the Governor .- The Norway Water Company was chartered and the contract for laying the pipes from the lake into the village was let and the work begun early in the autumn. A gang of Italians did the digging .- The farm buildings of Dr. C. A. Stephens on Upton Ridge were burned in August .- Deaths: Silas Shedd, May 2d, the oldest person in town (about 90)-four generations of his descend- ants attended the funeral; Rodolphus Young, July 16th, 55, Mrs. Aurelia Pierce, Aug. 11, at 68, Israel D. Millett, Aug. 23rd, 60, Mrs. Margery F. (Bray) Brooks, Aug. 31, at 67, Dorothy S. (Reed) Mil- lett at Portland, 79, and on same day, John S. Shedd at 87.
1886
The water works were completed in the summer .- Charles G. Mason was elected town clerk at the annual meeting .- The 17th Maine Regt. had its reunion here Aug. 18th .- Sept. 8th, the Centenniel Celebration was held. Arthur E. Denison of Boston presided at the exercises in Ordway Grove. The ode, sung to the tune "America," was composed by Mrs. Elliott Smith. The poem of welcome was by Miss Annie F. Hayden, a great granddaughter of Samuel Ames. The oration was delivered by Judge Wm. Wirt Virgin. Dr. Clifford Pike read his poem entitled "Our Honored Men," and C. F. Whitman, an "Historical Essay." Gov. Frederick Robie and others spoke briefly on various subjects. The streets, public buildings and prin- cipal residences were splendidly decorated, and the procession, consisting of the military company, members of the G. A. R. Post, secret orders, fire company, floats representing business interests, historical incidents, etc., citizens in carriages, and school children, was a mile and a half long, and was the finest and best ever seen in Norway village .- The Centennial History of the town, by Dr. Wm. B. Lapham of Augusta, which was printed and issued to subscribers, gave great satisfaction to the people.
1887
Aged people living in town this year: Susan Woodbridge 96, Wil- liam Young 92, Olive Mills 91, Fannie Millner 89, Simon Stevens 89, Nathan Millett 87, Lucy Frost 86, Mary Noble 84, Luther F. Pike 83, Fanny O. G. Hobbs 83, James Bennett 82, Lavinia Barton Smith 82, Jacob W. Herrick 82, Lucy Herrick 80, Seba Gammon 80, Albert Sanborn, and William Cox, each nearly 80 .- A sad drowning accident occurred on Moose Pond, Otisfield, Oct. 6. Three Norway young men, John O. Hatch aged 18, Mark Lamrock aged 17, and Charles Judkins about the same age, were fishing for pickerel in a canvas boat; seeing a duck they all rose in the boat and fired at it. This overturned the boat and threw them into the water. Judkins managed to swim ashore, the other two were drowned. Young Hatch was a sergeant in the military company .- Fred H. Stevens and family moved, in November, to Athol, N. H .- Mr. Frank T. True, town treasurer, re- signed in October and went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he has since resided. (He died there in March, 1922.)-Henry Robie and family settled at Omaha, Neb., the same year .- Ellison Gary com- mitted suicide at Mrs. Alice Rolfe's, Nov. 2, aged about 40 .- Number of snow storms to March 1 was 31. First storm Nov. 13th
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and the total fall of snow was 8 feet 8 inches .- Streets of the village lighted by electricity .- The Municipal Court provided during the win- ter and spring the principal boarders for Jailer James L. Parker on Paris Hill-its civil cases as published in the local paper were numer- ous, showing the court's popularity among the attorneys. Its juris- diction was enlarged by act of the Legislature this year .- School agents: No. 1 Orin Brown, No. 2 E. A. Cox, No. 3 Thomas Knightly, No. 4 Frank P. Towne, No. 5 J. L. Partridge, No. 6 Frank T. Pike, No. 7 C. F. Whitman, No. 8 I. V. Penley, No. 9 Alvin Frost, No 10 N. W. Millett, No. 11 E. L. Bennett, No. 12 Jonathan Herrick, No. 13 Weston Frost, No. 14 W. S. Pierce, No. 15 William Gary .- Elias H. Woodsum commenced to run regular trips on the lake with his steam- boat, "Fleeta." --- Oxford Bear Association of Portland visited Norway in June. Some 300 partook of dinner at the Beal's Hotel. In the after dinner speeches H. I. Kimball of Atlanta, Ga., claimed that the Oxford Bear Engine Co. of Norway Village, organized in the fifties, was the original Oxford Bear Association. The visitors carried a stuffed bear with them .- The contract for the Masonic Building on Cottage street, let in August to Horace Pike for $4560 .- Wm. M. Brooks, born in 1827, completed his 60th school year. He began teaching when 17 .- Frank Q. Elliott sold out his ready-made cloth- ing business in January to Perry W. Judkins. Capt. Jonathan Blake and Albert P. Bassett appointed deputy sheriffs .- Francis H. Whitman sold his Summit Spring property in Harrison in Janu- ary, to a Portland stock company for $28,000 .- Efforts were made in January to obtain sufficient subscribers for the Boston Sunday papers, to be delivered on the day of publication .- C. H. Witt had a log structure on his farm on the Millett neighborhood road built by his grandfather, the first Benj. Witt, the blacksmith .- The number of storms during January was unprecedented .- The list of voters num- bered over 800 .- Oxford Co. Loan Ass'n organized with S. D. An- drews, W. H. Whitcomb, H. M. Bearce, H. D. Smith and S. B. Locke as stockholders .- Dr. Harry Jones, "15 years old," made his first set of artificial teeth. They were for Henry Russell of Lovell and fitted finely. He also pulled out the old teeth necessary and took all the impressions himself .- E. F. Smith admitted to practice law at the February term of the Supreme Court and opened an office in the Grange building .- At the annual town meeting it was voted for the selectmen to appoint a liquor agent. At a subsequent meeting this vote was rescinded .- Clerk of Courts' salary fixed at $1000 per annum instead of fees .- Among the deaths were Thomas G. Brooks, Jan. 18, 74 yrs. 4 mos. and 11 days; in Durham, Jan. 19, Wm. B. Bennett, 76, and his wife, Mary G. Bennett, aged 62; Amos T. Holt, Jan. 2, from injuries received from fall in his barn near Nor- way Center, 27; William Knight, March 17, nearly 71 (born on Moses Parsons' place, May 9, 1816) ; Alice S. (Burnham) Fuller; Frank H. Hale, May 27, 52; he was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion; Hiram H. Hathaway, June 3, 64; Mary (Witt) Brown, May 31, 40; Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., the author, at Hyde Park, Mass., July 20, 64; Mrs. Henry Blake, who was living then at Mrs. Edwin A. Morse's near Crockett Ridge, died Oct. 1, at 88; Oct. 29, Ceylon Watson, 61 yrs. 5 mos .; Cyprian Hobbs, Nov. 8, 83; Lizzie Shackley, Nov. 21,
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38; Belle L. Reed, Nov. 28, 34; John Oxnard at Portland, Dec. 11, 92; Walter S. Abbott, Dec. 23, 43; Dr. Calvin E. Evans, Dec. 30, 48.
1888
The County Commissioners discontinued the road over the Millett hill to the highway from Norway Lake village to Harrison. E. G. and E. Wallace of Rochester, N. H., bought the Norway Electric Light plant with the water privilege and the old pulp mill at Steep Falls. The price paid was said to be $16,000 .- Dr. B. F. Bradbury purchased the Lucius Denison stand in June .- Freeland Howe built a cottage on the lake in June, which was named Cedar Lodge .- The Hiram Hatha- way buildings on the farm west of the lake village were burned on the night of July 23 .- The "buffalo bug" made its first appearance in the village this summer. It was not the pest it was feared it would be for it disappeared in a few seasons .- The Beal's Hotel was sold in November to an association called the "Beal's Hotel Association." --- The selectmen appointed a liqour agent this year .- Perry W. Judkins sold his interest in the ready-made clothing business in December to his partner, Frank H. Noyes, and went to California and settled at Fresno .- The Atkinson Furnishing Co. established a branch store in the village .- Gen. Geo. L. Beal chosen State Treasurer this year .- Capt. Jonathan Blake had a clock which had kept good time for 48 years, during his married life. Anthony Bennett, then living in Bath, had one which he claimed had kept good time for 74 years .- Mrs. Charlotte B. McKeene, aged 80, a professional nurse, had assisted at the birth of 336 infants .- E. W. Howe and C. F. Ridlon formed a partnership for carrying on the grocery business, in January. Mr. Ridlon had been clerk in Mr. Howe's store for many years .- Feb. 18, marriage of Miss Estelle A. Crooker and Frank E. Bell of Norway .- Deaths: Rev. Dr. John March Mitchell died in Portland, April 18, 68. He was born in Norway, Oct. 2, 1820. In early youth he moved with his father's family to North Yarmouth, where they formerly lived. He graduated at Bowdoin in 1843, and went South to teach. Entering the ministry, he was ordained as rector of the Episcopal Church society in Montgomery, Ala., and Savannah, Ga. The degree D. D. was conferred upon him by William and Mary College of Vir- ginia. After the war he traveled in Europe with his second wife, Mattie, daughter of Judge Christian of Virginia, and in 1867 settled in Portland. His first wife was Susan E. Cobb of Alabama, daughter of Bishop Cobb, whom he married in 1851. He had one son, Elliott C. Mitchell, by second wife .- Mrs. Lydia Young, mother of Rodolphus Young, died at St. Johnsbury, Vt., Jan. 20, at 96 .- Mrs. Dorothy S. Parsons at Geneseo, Ill., Jan. 18, 89. She was the widow of Gen. Wm. Parsons .- Melvin Elon Howe, Feb. 15, killed on B. & O. R. R. in West Va., 43; Robert Noyes, March 14, 77; Mrs. Susan Wood- bridge, March 16, 97 nearly; she was the daughter of Nathaniel Stevens-the early settler. Her daughter, Rebecca C., died the same day in her 55th year .- The remains of Mrs. Lydia (Prince) Young, second wife of Daniel Young the first hatter in Norway Village, were brought to Norway from St. Johnsbury, Vt., and buried in Rustfield cemetery beside her husband. She had died at the great age of 95. He had died in 1846; Wm. Young, June 9, 93, the oldest man in town;
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Mrs. Marcellus Whitcomb, July 1, 51; Ella (Haskell) Cummings, July 9, 28; Anthony Bennett, Aug. 13, at Bath, 87; remains interred in Rustfield Cemetery; Isaac Hicks, Aug. 19, "aged about 72;" Mrs. Elva Chase, Sept. 6, 76; David R. Holden, Sept. 25, nearly 79; Daniel Ben- nett, Nov. 10, 73; Mrs. Fanny O. G. Hobbs, Dec. 14, 84; Mrs. Anne L., wife of Morrill N. Packard, Esq., at Baltimore, Md., Dec. 3, "aged 29."
1889
No snow for sleighing till into January .- At the district school meeting, C. F. Whitman was re-elected school agent. For the first time in the history of the district there was money enough to pay all the indebtedness and the expenses for running the spring term of the village schools .- The ice went out of the lake April 16 .- Henry A. Bickford in April bought a place at East Stoneham and moved his family there .- Robert N. Millett, while playing ball, a member of the senior class at Hebron Academy, broke his leg. It did not prevent his graduation and entering Colby .- Dr. E. J. Noyes located in Lovell for the practice of his profession .- Exercises in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Washington's inauguration as President were held in the village schools .- C. F. Whitman was this year re- appointed Judge of the Norway Municipal Court .- F. Q. Elliott pur- chased the Aaron Thurlow place on Crescent St .- G. G. Cordwell of Greenwood gave up driving the stage from Norway to Greenwood City. He had been in service 25 years .- Milan Bennett of Gilead bought of A. S. Bean, the original Joseph Stevens place at the corner of the Waterford and Greenwood roads. His son-in-law, C. F. Boober, came with him .- The lake carnival in August was a grand affair .--- Frank Kimball and Albert H. Williamson bought out the Noyes Drug Store business of Mrs. Anna Noyes .- Baptist church on Cottage street built this year .- Arthur F. French died at Denver, Colorado, Oct. 11, at the age of 29. He went West about three years before, for his health. He tried Colorado Springs, Colorado, and California, but did not improve. He started for home with his brother, Eugene O., but got no farther than Denver, where he passed away. His remains were brought to Norway for burial. He was one of the finest young men ever born in Norway .- Deaths: Jan. 5, Abner B. Chase, 69; Jan. 15, Nellie May Devine, 16 years 6 mos .; Jan. 16, Mrs. Mary Noble, 86; Jan. 27, Ada V. (Haskell) Smith, 30 years 8 mos .; Jan. 29, Benj. Huntington, 68; Feb. 17, Pleamon Holt, 77; March 16, Miss Mattie F. Brooks, "42 years 4 mos .; " Apr. 3, Samuel L. Crockett, 35 years 5 mos .; Mar. 28, Jacob Herrick, 83; April 6, Seba Gammon, 82 years 2 mos .; same day, Enoch Merrill, 82; Mrs. Frances M., wife of B. C. A. Pingree, Sept. 8, 59; Sept. 13, Mrs. Alice Small, 80 years 3 mos .; Mrs. Lucy Frost, Oct. 3, 88; Adelphia Hawkins, Nov. 23, 76; Mrs. Elbridge G. Gammon, Dec. 2, 46; Mrs. Mary J. Frost, 63; April 4, Mrs. Alanson M. Dunham, 69 years 7 mos .; June 18, James Bennett, 84; June 16, Mrs. Christina Burnham; June 23, Mrs. Charlotte B. Mc- Keen, 81 years 6 mos .; June 22, Mrs. Chloe Stevens, 80; June 21, Mrs. Nancy Frost; July 4, Charles E. Newhall, a soldier of the Civil War in Mass. Batt'y., 52; Rowena Andrews Pike, July 29, 38 years; July 30, Mrs. Sarah H. Lovering, 83 years 8 mos .; Aug. 5, Eugene L. Bennett, 42; Aug. 4, Marcellus Whitcomb, about 50.
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