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PASCHAL B., b. in Harrison in 1833; died Apr. 19, 1836.
Haskell Peirce imbibed, in early life, similar principles on the subject of temperance to those which made his brother, George, a conspicuous reformer during the greater part of his life. He was elected Captain of one of the Har- rison militia companies in 1832. His election was accepted on the condition that he should not be required to furnish liquor for the company on the occasions of the annual trainings, and at the general muster of the regiment, as he was conscientiously opposed to the use of intoxicants. By his request, also, the officers of the company were not to furnish liquor unless they chose to do so. He was unanimously elected. He was afterwards elected Colonel of the regiment, and it is a tradition that no commander of the Harrison company after him ever furnished in- toxicating liquors for his company.
OLIVER PEIRCE, JR., seventh child of Oliver Peirce, was born in Otisfield, May 2, 1810. He was possessed of a superior order of intellect, and was in early boyhood, far advanced in a course of educational training. He had been for several terms a student at Bridgton Academy, and was one of the brightest and most popular students in
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that institution. He was equally popular and beloved in the society of his town. He was prostrated by typhoid fever in the midst of his student year in 1827, and died February 12, 1828. An eloquent tribute to his character closes with the following stanza :
"So fell the youth by death's relentless bow ; Fond friends, nor prayers could bind him here below ; Nor youth, nor worth, nor hearts with sorrow riven, Could stay the flight of innocence to Heaven."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PEIRCE, eighth child of Oliver Peirce, was born in Otisfield, May 10, 1813; married Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel Burnham of Harrison, May 14, 1840. She was born July 7, 1818. They resided on the old Peirce homestead in Harrison for many years. Mr. Peirce was of upright and generous qualities of char- acter, an ardent promoter of all religious and social re- forms, and a devoted member of the church of his fathers. His wife had the same high characteristics, and equally beloved in a large community in the town of her birth and residence, and wherever she was known. In 1859, they moved from Harrison, residing for a time in East Poland, but in 1876, removed to the Pacific Coast, residing some time in Stockton, Cal., and at length settling in the city of Oakland, where they spent the remaining years of their lives in the family of their daughter. They had three children :
FREDERIC R., b. April 1, 1841; educated in the public schools. In 1861, he enlisted as a musician in Company F, First Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, and served through the period of his enlistment. He was after- wards engaged in railroad business in various respon- sible positions for several years, and finally settled in Oakland, Cal. He married Hattie O. Farnham, daugh- ter of Dr. John Farnham of New Gloucester, Me. They have two daughters, Maude (married), and Gertrude ; both residing at Brockton, Mass. Frederic is now liv- ing at the Veteran's Home, Napa Co., Cal.
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HESTER A., b. in Harrison, Jan. II, 1843. She received a good English training in the public and high schools. She married Robert P. M. Greely of North Yarmouth, Sept. 20, 1864. Mr. Greely was in military service as a member of the Twenty-fifth Maine Regiment. They emigrated to the State of Nevada and were engaged in teaching in the High School of Reno in that State. They finally settled in Oakland, Cal., where Mr. Greely has been prosperous in mercantile business. Mrs. Hester Peirce Greely is a well known writer for several Maine papers, principally the Lewiston Journal and Bridgton News. She has travelled somewhat extensively in Mex- ico, visited the Sandwich Islands a few years ago, and has since toured through the States of the Pacific Coast with her husband, visiting the most interesting places as far as British Columbia. Her sketches of journey- ing, observations of things seen in her visits, and de- scription of the native wonders of the Coast States, are among the best examples of descriptive writing in the American press. At home she is much devoted to church and benevolent work, instituted for the relief and benefit of poor families of her own city. She is also much interested in one of the leading Woman's Clubs of her home city, and is devoted to the cause of Woman's political enfranchisement.
ROBERT O., b. in Harrison, Jan. 5, 1845; married Julia Lamont of Ellsworth, Me. He has lived many years in Boston; is a successful inventor of valuable articles, for which he has received patents from the government. He now resides in Worcester, Mass., and is foreman of a large manufactory in that city. They have no chil- dren.
Benjamin Franklin Peirce died in Oakland, Cal., Aug. 3, 1900, at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, twenty- two days.
THOMAS TARBELL PEIRCE, ninth and youngest child of Oliver Peirce, was born in Otisfield, September 3, 1817. He married Lydia Jane Pratt, daughter of Na- thaniel Pratt of Paris. They settled in Harrison in a
MRS. HESTER PEIRCE GREELEY, OAKLAND, CAL.
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handsome cottage on one of the "twin lots" adjoining his father's homestead on the north. Mr. Peirce removed to Harrison Village about 1840, and was for several years in trade in the store originally occupied by his father and brothers. He removed to Island Pond, Vt., in 1851, and later the family emigrated to Wisconsin.
After their removal from Island Pond, Mr. Peirce and his family resided in Berlin, Wis .; Owatonna, and Man- kato, Minn .; and finally settled in Lynde, Lyon County, Minn., in 1869. In 1862, at the uprising of the Indians in Minnesota, Mr. Peirce enlisted in the Mankato Home Guards in Col. Charles Flandrau's expedition for the de- fense of the southern frontier, and for the protection of their own families from the incursions of the Sioux.
While hunting in company with one of his sons, and following a line of traps, Mr. Peirce was lost in a terrible storm, and perished in the cold. When found by his son he was near his own camp. This sad event occurred on January 8, 1875.
Mr. Peirce was noted in his native town for his enter- prising spirit, and was promoted to offices of trust and re- sponsibility. He was a pioneer of Lyon County, Minne- sota, and originated many civic improvements in that sec- tion. He planted the first shade-trees, built the first black- smith shop, was the first Justice of the Peace, and his son, Parker, made the first arrest. They hauled provisions and lumber to build their house a distance of fifty miles with ox-teams. Since Mr. Peirce's death, Mrs. Peirce and three sons resided for a time in California, but finally settled in Kamiah, Idaho, where they own an extensive tract of land, on which they are developing gold, silver, copper, and coal mines. Mrs. Peirce, at eighty-three years of age, is as vigorous as a woman of fifty, and is a credit to the State of her nativity.
Four sons were born to Thomas T. and Lydia J. (Pratt) Peirce, as follows :
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HENRY LEEDS, b. in Harrison, Nov. 17, 1842. Married and settled in Lynde, Minn.
PARKER ILLSLEY, b. in Harrison, Nov. 17, 1844.
GEORGE W., b. in Harrison, Feb. 5, 1846.
THOMAS TARBELL, b. at Island Pond, Vt., Oct. 16, 1850; died in Berlin, Wis., Nov. 5, 1854.
I am strongly tempted to present a brief sketch of some of the adventures and experiences of three of the sons of Thomas T. Peirce during their residence at Mankato, Minn., in 1862. It was the second year of the Civil War, and several warlike tribes, principally the Sioux, were on the war-path against the advancing tide of immigration of white settlers upon the lands occupied by them from time immemorial.
In the spring of 1862, Henry L. and Parker I., the two eldest sons, beardless boys of nineteen and seventeen years, respectively, with desire for adventure - with their fath- er's consent - journeyed ninety miles up the Minnesota River to find employment at a government Indian agency. The superintendent gave them work on the farm at $18 per month. From the first day they had many thrilling encounters with the Sioux Indians in connection with the apportionment of the government annuities to the Indians - twenty dollars per head, children included. The In- dians were very troublesome until they received their pay, and a company of soldiers was sent down from Fort Ridge- ly to keep the peace. From that time for weeks the In- dians were engaged in shooting, and burning, and destroy- ing the government buildings and cabins of the settlers, and other property amounting to millions of dollars in value. In violation of their treaties they broke into open rebellion, and massacred a thousand people. Thus, for four or more months, these adventurous Maine youths, only a few years before playing in the shades of Peirce's Grove in Harrison, found a thrilling vocation in the service
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of Uncle Sam, fighting a desperate traditional enemy of the white race, and defending the lives and property of the devoted pioneers of the new State of their adopted residence.
They served at different times under those renowned Indian fighters, Generals Sibley and Sully. They had thrill- ing and perilous personal encounters with Chippewas, Black- foot, and other tribes, and with Little Crow, Red Cloud, Cut-Nose, Gray Eagle, and other chiefs among the bravest and most able, as well as the most cruel of the Indian rebel leaders of that period. Parker Peirce, speaking of his ex- perience during the eventful summer, says: "The imagi- nation of the most skilled writer would fail, should he at- tempt to describe the thoughts and feelings of a man in constant dread for weeks and months, of a whizzing tom- ahawk, a scalping-knife, or a humming bullet."
Tramping across wide prairies, moccasins worn out, feet blistered, and pockets loaded with powder and bullets, sleep- ing on the ground in a pouring storm, lunching on flour and salt, dining on roasted rabbit, often half famished for lack of any food-and always with nerves agitated by fear of meeting a treacherous and cruel enemy - what wonder if the plucky New England boys often thought of the little mother and her well-filled cupboard in the com- fortable home at Mankato! But, taking counsel of their "grit," they said: "We'll stick to the crowd, and see this thing through !"
After the return of Henry and Parker Peirce to their home in August, 1862, Henry joined the Renville Rangers, a company composed of Sioux half-breeds, and served1 four months, during which time he saw more hot work than did many who went through the Civil War. He as- sisted in the celebrated defence of Fort Ridgely, August 20th and 22nd, against the assaults of a vastly superior force of Sioux Indians under the noted chief, Little Crow,
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and other able warriors. The State of Minnesota has erect- ed a beautiful monument on the Fort Ridgely battleground in honor of Lieut. Timothy J. Sheehan, Co. C, Fifth Regt. Minn. Infantry, who commanded the garrison during the protracted siege. After Mr. Peirce's term of enlistment had expired, he joined a company of riflemen for thirty days, and in 1865, he served eight months as an enlisted man in the First Regiment of Minnesota Heavy Artillery. He also served the government as a bearer of dispatches, and in other capacities, during the Civil War.
GEORGE W. PEIRCE, third son of Thomas T., served in a company of riflemen in 1862, when only sixteen years of age. He was an expert "shot," knew the country well, and was a very serviceable scout. In 1864, he accompanied Gen. Sully on an expedition against the Sioux; was at Forts Rice and Thompson, and was in a skirmish with the Sioux at Cannon Ball River.
In sketching the foregoing history of the first pioneer settler, and of his numerous descendants, who were born in, and resided for a long time in our town, and assisted in the development of its prosperity, we may naturally con- template the extension of the branches of this thrifty family tree. But in the tenth generation from John Peirce the Englishman, and the fourth generation from Esq. Oliver Peirce, there is not one male descendant by the name of Peirce, and that patronymic which has been so widely known for nearly three hundred years in America in a con- tinuous line, seems fated to become extinct in the present century. G. F.
NOTE .- Mr. Fernald speaks of George Peirce, Esq., as being one of the principal owners of the Steamer "Fawn," which for a time plied the waters of the now famous Sebago Lake route. In 1855, Mr. Peirce became the sole owner of that steamer, as he pur- chased the boat, and all its appurtenances, at public auction in July of that year, paying the sum of $1,951.60 for the whole prop- erty.
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PERLEY FAMILY.
SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, November 17, 1776. He was a farmer. He came to Gray in 1795, and to Harrison in 1807. He married in Ludlow, Vermont, Abigail Lewis of that place, Novem- ber 13, 1793. She was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts,
October 2, 1773. He died September 10, 1828. She died June 5, 1848. Children :
ABIGAIL, b. Nov. 14, 1794, died Dec. 14, 1794.
ABIGAIL, b.'Oct. 26, 1796, married Elijah Potter of Bridg- ton, Oct. 20, 1836. He was born June 9, 1796, died in Bridgton, Aug. 13, 1844. His widow married Mar- quis de Lafayette Caswell of Harrison, in Bridgton, June 20, 1860. Children of Abigail and Elijah Potter, Ist, Rhoda Jane, b. May 25, 1839, married Nathaniel Potter, 2nd, Oct. 28, 1855. Their children were Ella Louisa, b. June 8, 1856. Clara Augusta, b. April 16, 1859. Ed- win Lewis, b. Sept. 28, 1862. Cora Ellen, b. Sept. 8, 1865. Lizzie Mabel, b. Dec. 31, 1876.
SAMUEL, b. in Gray, Dec. 16, 1798, died Sept. 22, 1823. SUSANNAH, b. Jan. 14, 1801, died June 25, 1805.
PERSIS, b. Mar. 15, 1803, in Gray, died June 15, 1805. RHODA, b. Nov. 3, 1805; married July 22, 1847, Fuller An- drews Smith. They had one child, Julia Louisa, b. in Bridgton, May 31, 1848, married Samuel W. Potter, of Gilead, Me. They had one son, Geo. Fuller Potter, b. Jan. 13, 1875.
DAVID LEWIS, b. Oct. 24, 1807; married Sophronia Spurr, daughter of Enoch and Abigail (Wight) Spurr of Otis- field, Oct. 23, 1835. She was born Feb. 4, 1807. He lived on the homestead of his father to the end of his life. He was an honest, public spirited and progressive farmer, and a devoted Christian. Children :
I. William Sumner, b. Oct. 3, 1836. He is an intel- ligent and thrifty farmer, and is very successful in the cultivation of choice apples, and in raising stock for market. He follows his father in posses- sion of the home farm.
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2. Catherine Fowler, b. Aug. 21, 1838. Educated at Bridgton Academy, at the select school of Miss Harriet Douglass in Harrison and in Lewiston High School. She was a successful school teacher for a number of years in Harrison, Otisfield, and Lew- iston. Married in Bridgton, Sept. 15, 1864, Luther Cary Blake, of Harrison. He was born May 31, 1819. He was a manufacturer and dealer in stoves and tinware at Harrison Village, residing several years at North Bridgton, and the remainder of his life in Harrison, where he died Feb. 17, 1894. They had one daughter, Ellen Perley, b. Nov. 27, 1866, who resides with her mother and uncle, Wm. S. Perley in Harrison, and is unmarried.
3. Osborn, b. Dec. 6, 1841, died April 20, 1844, of scarlet fever, during an epidemic of that disease, which spread in a fatal manner to many families in the neighborhood.
4. Ellen Augusta, b. May 16, 1848, died Jan. 30, 1853.
ISAAC, b. in Harrison, Mar. 1, 1810. He lived succes- sively in Harrison, Bridgton, and Gray-but principally in Harrison, and died at Bolster's Mills, Feb. 3, 1900. He married Feb. 27, 1840, Catherine Jane Fowler, b. Dec. 24, 1814, daughter of David and Jane Fowler of Bridgton. She died Aug. 17, 1881, in Harrison. Chil- dren :
I. Miranda Louise, b. July 9, 1841, died in Harrison, Oct. 28, 1865.
2. David Fowler, b. July 1, 1844, married June 22, 1875, Julia Ann, daughter of David M. and Em- eline (Patch) Scribner of Otisfield, b. July 7, 1852. He was a member of Co. B, 23rd Regt. Me. In- fantry. He died in Windham, Me., May 19, 1899. Mrs. Julia A. Perley resides in Otisfield.
LUTHER LEWIS, b. in Harrison, June 28, 1813, died Mar. 25, 1859; married in Rowley, Mass., Sarah Alice Potter, b. in Ipswich, Mass., Mar. 7, 1823, daughter of Asa and Susan (Hadley-Johnson) Potter. She died in Har- rison, May 28, 1854. They had one child, Osborne, born in Harrison, Me., July 13, 1852. He was an or- phan from the age of six years, and was brought up
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in the family of his uncle, David L. Perley. He received his education in the public schools, and at Bridgton Academy, and at the Norway Liberal Institute. He was successively clerk and partner with his uncle, Thomas Potter, in Rowley, Mass. He migrated to Lincoln, Neb., in 1878. Was in stock-raising and farming eight years. Thence removed to Broken Bow, Neb., and resided there seventeen years. He was first Mayor of Broken Bow, and organized a great business in merchandise, and live stock, and was in the lead in the establishment of bank- ing, and many industries. Mr. Perley came back to Ipswich, Mass., in 1903, and established a large whole- sale and retail grocery business. He married April 10, 1878, Mrs. Anna Josephine Pickard-Bailey, of Rowley, Mass. She was born in Ipswich, Mass., Jan. 30, 1853, daughter of Luther Calvin and Lavinia Day-Spiller Pick- ard. Luther L. Perley married for second wife, Oc- tober 23, 1856, Maria Conant Vining, b. April 5, 1836, daughter of David and Betsy Vining of Durham, Me. She died March 25, 1859. They had one child: Emma Mahala, b. in Harrison, Aug. 6, 1857, married Aug. 19, 1876, in Lewiston, Asa Frederick Howe, of Rowley, Mass. He was a soldier in Massachusetts volunteers in the Civil War. They reside in Georgetown, Mass. They have two children, Josephine Eldren, and Alice Marjorie.
WILLIAM, b. in Harrison, June 6, 1816, while a fierce snow- storm was prevailing over a wide section of country. It was the "cold year" of the 19th century. He married Dec. 22, 1842, Lois Porter Brackett, born Nov. 26, 1819, daughter of William and Sally (Hobbs) Brackett of Harrison. She died Nov. 10, 1897, in Blaine, Wash- ington. Children :
I. George Parsons, b. Sept. 7, 1844. His business course comprises the various employments here enumer- ated : School teaching, clerk in country store of Silas Blake, Harrison, 1865, at Wyatt Turner's store, Bol- ster's Mills in 1866, and the same year became bookkeeper at Forest Mills, Bridgton; jobber in Cumberland and Oxford counties in 1869. A car- riage manufacturer in 1871; same year in stoves, woolen goods direct from mills, and operated in tin, and hardware business in Bridgton, admitted
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brother to partnership in 1872, as G. P. Perley & Co., and admitted in 1874, Charles H. Weston of Oshkosh, Wis., as partner under the firm name of "Perley Bros. & Weston." He bought out Weston in 1876. Charles, his partner, went West in 1877; sold out business to Jesse and Geo. E. Murphy in 1878, became Treasurer of Bridgton Savings Bank in 1879, and sold balance of stock to Lewis W. Brad- street. The Perley building, previously leased to B. F. Evans, was totally destroyed by fire, Nov. 1, 1879. He married in Bridgton, Jan. 8, 1880, Frances Hil- ton, born in Bridgton, Dec. 5, 1852, daughter of Nathaniel Pike and Hannah Goodwin Wiley Hil- ton.
The families of William and Geo. P. Perley migrated to California, in 1887, and settled first at Redlands in that State. In about two years, they removed to Blaine, Wash., where they settled permanently and in company with his brother Charles, George P. was engaged in lumbering busi- ness and real estate operations under the style of the Globe Investment Company, Geo. P. Perley, President; Mrs. Perley, Secretary. He was for twelve years a helpless, rheumatic cripple, due to overwork and nervous prostra- tion. Geo. P. and Frances H. Perley had one child, Har- old Hilton, born August 8, 1881, in Bridgton; died Jan- uary 21, 1887. George P. Perley died
2. Charles Osborne, b. in Harrison, Me., Nov. 4, 1848. His business life was identical with his brother's till he went West in Oct, 1877, on a prospecting tour. He returned to Bridgton, Dec. 25, of the same year and Nov. 10, 1879, started for Lincoln, Neb., and was extensively engaged in raising and trading in live stock. He married in Lynn, Mass., Jan. 29, 1890, Hester Amanda Tibbetts, born in Rowley, Feb. 13, 1859, daughter of James and Jane Fowler- Potter Tibbetts. Their home is in Blaine, where he is engaged in real estate business. William Perley, the father, is still living in Blaine, at the age of ninety-two.
SAMUEL PITTS AND SISTER, MRS. HARRIET McNEICE
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PITTS FAMILY.
The ancestor of this family in Harrison, was JOHN PITTS, born it is believed in Waterboro in 1736. He came to Harrison before the year 1800, and settled on the north- west side of Hobbs' Hill, on the farm, for many years owned by Stephen T. Whitney and still in possession of his son, Fred Whitney. Mr. Pitts, the pioneer, died in 1827, aged ninety-one years. Children :
SAMUEL, married Lydia -, and lived many years on the farm settled on by his father. His children were :
I. Polly, b. Jan. 15, 1801, married Seth Carsley, 2nd.
2. Joseph, b. Mar. 10, 1804.
3. Daniel, b. July 4, 1809; married Mary Lord.
4. Lydia, b. Dec. 5, 18II; married Stillman Leavitt, Feb. 13, 1832.
5. Samuel Farnsworth, b. Feb. 17, 1818, married Calista Brackett, daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Lombard) Stuart of Harrison, Nov. 9, 1847. They settled first on a farm in Naples, where five of their chil- dren were born. About 1857, they removed to the farm in South Harrison, near the Naples line, on the farm originally owned by Amos Foster, and lived there until the house was burned, when he bought the Ezra T. Ingalls farm and moved there. Samuel and Calista Pitts were noted for their sturdy in- tegrity and industry ; and bred up a family of chil- dren equally noted for their excellent traits of char- acter and usefulness as citizens. Mr. Pitts died Sept. 2, 1888. Calista B. Pitts died Nov. 19, 1905. Their children: Samuel H., b. Aug. 28, 1849; died Apr. 27, 1850. George S., b. June 22, 1851; mar- ried Asenath Eliza Sampson of Harrison; their children are: Bertha May, b. Feb. 17, 1880; Susan Elizabeth, b. July 25, 1881; Christine Marion, b. May 13, 1883; George Horatio, b. Jan. - , 1887, died in infancy; Philip Samuel, b. May 12, 1888. Mrs. Eliza (Sampson) Pitts died Mar. I, 1902. For second wife, Mr. Pitts married Sept. - , 1903, Ada Tibbetts Gilman of £ Their children are :
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Ruth, b. Mar. 3, 1906. Robert Huntley, b. Oct. 22, 1907. Silas C., b. Feb. 9, 1853; married Emma Quimby of Naples, Feb. 15, 1873; their children were: William Asbury, b. Apr. 19, 1875; died Jan. 2, 1885. Herbert, b. Dec. 18, 1887; married Alice Josephine Adams. Marshall H., b. Aug. 16, 1879. Léonard, b. Oct. 7, 1888; married Minnie Jackson; children: Emma Jenny, b. Sept. 1, 1907. Iva Eliz- abeth, b. Aug. 3, 1908; died Aug. 21, 1908. Al- bert S., b. Mar. 29, 1855; married Alice J. Sampson of Harrison. They had three children: Fred Earl,
b. -; married Louise Garfield Jennison, Oct. 5, 1901 ; they have one daughter, Mary Helene, b. Feb. 10, 1902. Mary, b. Aug. 13, 1887. Nellie, b. Sept. 17, 1891. William H., b. Dec. 20, 1856; died Apr. 13, 1863. Hattie B., b. Mar. 2, 1861; died Apr. 25, 1863. Lizzie A., b. Dec. 8, 1862; mar- ried Charles C. Doughty of Naples. They resided in Harrison. She died in Harrison, Dec. 12, 1907. Joseph, b. Oct. 13, 1864; married Effie Robinson, of Naples. They have children: Joseph Harvey and Charles Hartley, b. in Harrison, May 15, 1895. Samuel Lee, b. May 13, 1898. Dorothy Esther, b. May 10, 1902.
George S. Pitts by his academic training became fitted for the profession of teaching, which he exemplified in a successful career in the public schools of Harrison and neighboring towns in earlier life. He has also served his town acceptably in the Board of Selectmen, Superintendent of Schools, Collector of Taxes and Town Agent. In recent years he has been engaged in business as an agent for a fertilizer company, and for the sale of agricultural imple- ments ; and is also a land and timber surveyor, and Jus- tice of the Peace.
Silas Pitts was bred to the work of the farm, but he has, since his early manhood, been in the butchering and meat trade. He has been also much in public affairs of the town, especially as Collector of Taxes.
MRS. CALISTA (STUART) PITTS
RESIDENCE OF J. HOWARD RANDALL
Erected in 1907 H. T. Proctor & Son, Builders
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Albert S. Pitts has, for many years, carried on a general blacksmithing business in the same shop, long occupied by George Frisbie, and before that as a grocery and dry goods store. He is the popular farrier for many miles around, always faithful and dependable. He has been elected Town Treasurer for many years successively, and is this year Collector of Taxes.
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