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1854
Raised for schools one thousand dollars; for poor one thousand dol- lars ; for the purpose of erecting a new almshouse nine hundred dollars ; for ways thirteen hundred dollars. It was voted to raise the whole tax as money, and three commissioners were chosen to expend the money on ways, consisting of Henry W. Millett, Ansel Town, and Perry . D. Judkins. The selectmen and John Whitmarsh and R. Evans were made a committee for building the almshouse. Governor vote: Isaac Reed, twenty-two; Anson P. Morrill, two hundred and four; Albion K. Parris, one hundred and twenty-nine; Shepard Cary, four ; Ezekiel Holmes, one. The town lines were perambulated this year. Deaths this year: May 6th, Nancy, wife of Joseph Mixer, aged seventy-two.
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July, Nancy, wife of Levi Frost; 4th, Stephen Greenleaf, aged seventy- five; 21st, Esther, wife of Joshua B. Crockett, aged twenty-seven. Andover, October 24th, Sewall Crockett, aged fifty-one. December 3d, Charles E. Shurtleff, aged twenty-three.
1855
Raised one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and forty cents for schools, one thousand five hundred dollars for ways, and for poor and town charges two thousand and six hundred dollars. "Voted that the roads and bridges in Norway shall not be repaired by money tax." Voted that men be allowed twelve and one-half cents per hour for work on the road, the same for oxen, and one-fourth as much for a cart. Votes for Governor : Anson P. Morrill, one hundred and ninety-six ; Samuel Wells, two hundred and sixty-three; Isaac Reed, nine. At a meeting, November 3d, voted to oppose the location of a road prayed for by N. S. Littlefield and others, commencing in Norway near John P. Jordan's. Titus O. Brown died February 23d, aged ninety years. Other deaths were : March 2d, Keziah Barrows, aged fifty-four. August 22d, Eben Hobbs, aged sixty-five.
1856
Voted that the selectmen cause the reports of the several town officers to be printed. Raised twelve hundred dollars for schools; for poor and town charges sixteen hundred dollars ; for ways two thousand dollars. Voted to accept of a road laid out by the selectmen on petition of William Frost. For governor, Hannibal Hamlin had two hundred and fifty-six votes ; Samuel Wells, two hundred and twenty-three; George F. Patten, ten. For representative to the Legislature, Samuel H. Hough- ton, of Greenwood, had two hundred and fifty-nine ; George W. Patch, one hundred and twenty-five. The deaths this year were: January 28th, Phebe Paddleford, aged sixty-seven; 30th, Sarah J., wife of Anthony Bennett, forty-five. April 17th, Miss Martha W. Whitcomb, aged seventeen. October 9th, Deacon John Horr, aged eighty-nine.
1857
Raised for schools twelve hundred dollars; for poor and town charges sixteen hundred dollars ; for roads in summer two thousand dollars ;
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for roads in winter five hundred dollars; for building the road laid out by county commissioners on petition of John N. Baker, et als., three hundred dollars; for building road laid out on petition of William Frost, eighty dollars. The selectmen were made a committee to settle at their discretion with Enoch Holt for alleged injury from defective highway. A committee was chosen to consider the matter of repairing roads, consisting of A. B. Davis, Mark P. Smith, William W. Hobbs, Joel Millett, and Ansel Town, which subsequently reported, recom- mending two separate taxes for repair of ways, one for summer, and one for winter, and that persons preferring to pay seventy-five cents on the dollar in cash, be permitted to do so. Votes for governor, Lot M. Morrill, two hundred and forty-seven; Manasseh H. Smith, two hun- dred and seventeen. Deaths this year were: January IIth, Hannah A. Knight, aged twenty-three. February 2d, Frederic E. Fuller, aged thirty-six. August 5th, Ephraim Sargent, thirty-six; in Wisconsin, Nancy, wife of Samuel W. Crockett, formerly of this town; Ioth, James Flood, aged eighteen. November Ist, Daniel Town, aged seventy ; 13th, Amos Ordway, aged eighty-three; Mary G. Ross, aged twenty-four; 30th, Samuel Cobb, aged twenty-five. December 12th, Rosalie Hill, twenty-two; 18th, Solomon Millett, aged eighty-eight.
1858
Voted for schools one thousand two hundred dollars; for same two hundred dollars additional, to be distributed according to law ; for poor, etc., one thousand five hundred dollars; for repairing bridges two hundred and fifty dollars ; for roads one thousand dollars ; voted to abolish the winter tax. Raised seventy-five dollars to build the road laid out on the petition of Asa Danforth ; also ninety dollars to build the road laid out on petition of John Frost et als. On the question of prohibition or license, the town voted: for license, one ; for prohibition, one hundred and fifty-eight. For governor, Lot M. Morrill had two hun- dred and sixty-eight votes, and Manasseh H. Smith, two hundred and twenty-three. For representative to the Legislature, Henry W. Millett had two hundred and sixty-three, and Luther F. Pike, two hundred and twenty-four. At a special meeting, October 6th, a committee was chosen to oppose a road located from a point near John P. Jordan's to the
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Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad. The following are among the deaths : January 5th, Charlotte Barrows, aged ninety. March 13th, Sarah H. Parsons, aged fourteen; 26th, Esther Bartlett, aged eighty. May 15th, Helen E. Holmes, sixteen. October, Phebe Pratt, sixty- three ; 28th, Samuel Osgood, son of Hiram Millett. December 28th, Simon Noble, sixty-one.
1859
Voted for schools fourteen hundred dollars; for poor and town charges twelve hundred dollars; for ways fifteen hundred dollars; voted fifty per cent discount on highway tax, to such as will pay cash on or before the first day of June. Voted to open the road laid out on petition of N. S. Littlefield and others, and two hundred dollars were raised for that purpose. The selectmen were instructed to dispose of the military stores belonging to the town. Voted to raise one hundred dollars to build the road on the town farm. At a special meeting on April 18th, five hundred dollars additional were raised for roads. For governor, Lot M. Morrill had two hundred and forty-four votes; Ma- nasseh H. Smith, one hundred and eighty-seven. At a special meeting holden January 9th, 1860, resolutions were passed expressing the senti- ment of the town upon a petition of Alvah Black, R. S. Stevens, and R. T. Lurvey for setting back to Paris certain territory which had the previous year been annexed to Norway. A committee was chosen to oppose the granting of the prayer of the petition. Deaths : January 7th, Henry Hayden, aged seventy-two. March 25th, Jonathan S. Millett died on the passage from San Francisco to New York, aged thirty-one. April 17th, Isaac Parsons, aged twenty-one. August Ist, Sarah D., wife of Ephraim Crockett, aged forty. September, Lewis Crockett, aged sixty-four. October, Georgeanna Cherry, aged twenty-three ; 25th, Esther A. Lovejoy, aged thirteen. December 6th, William Clark, Whitney, aged ninety-four.
1 860
Resolutions were passed approving the action of the Legislature in indefinitely postponing the bill for restoring to Paris the land set off and annexed to Norway the year previous, and expressing the determination
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to resist the legislation asked for by Paris, " with due candor, but with a zeal and firmness tempered to the unwarranted persisting of the town of Paris each and every filibustering aggression upon the territory confirmed to us by two legislatures of this State." The meeting, after the election of officers, was adjourned to March 13th, when one thousand two hundred dollars were raised for schools, one thousand six hundred dollars for poor and town charges, two thousand five hundred dollars for ways, with fifty per cent discount for cash, and six per cent discount on money tax paid before the first day of September. The territory set on from Paris was annexed to School District Number
Seven. For Governor, Israel Washburn Jr. had two hundred and seventy votes, and Ephraim K. Smart, two hundred and three. Among the deaths this year were: February 8th, Mercy P. Jordan, aged seventy- six. March 8th, James M. Buck, aged seventy-six. March 23d, James Flint, aged eighty-two.
1861
Raised for schools twelve hundred dollars, with two hundred dollars additional; sixteen hundred dollars for poor, etc., and two thousand dollars for ways; also five hundred dollars additional for ways. Two hundred dollars for repairing a building on town farm. The usual dis- counts were made for prompt payment of taxes. Voted not to excuse the engine men from serving as jurors. At a meeting in April of this year, five hundred dollars were raised to aid in the support of the families of those who should enlist and serve in Company H, of the First Regiment Maine Volunteers. In November, three hundred and fifty dollars additional were raised for a similar purpose, and a vote passed including in its benefits any citizen of the town of Norway who should enlist in the service of the United States. A committee was chosen to ascertain what families of soldiers were in need of assistance, and it was voted that in the distribution of this money no discrimina- tion should be made between the families of officers and privates. Deaths: January Ist, Esther Bumpus, aged thirty-one. May 26th, Lorenzo H. Noyes, aged twenty-two. November 4th, Josiah H. Evans, aged twenty-eight; Charlotte Whitman, aged sixty-two; 14th, Lucy H. Verrill, aged forty-six. December 9th, Samuel E. Favor, aged
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thirteen; at Relay House, Maryland, John S. Henley, aged twenty- three. The Barnes Monument, in Norway Pine Grove Cemetery, was finished this year. Mr. Barnes was the first minister settled in Nor- way, and the first to make his home in the State.
1862
Twelve hundred dollars were raised for the support of schools ; six- teen hundred dollars for the support of the poor, and for town charges ; twenty-five hundred dollars in labor for repair of roads, and one thousand additional. At a meeting on the 16th of April, it was voted to raise five hundred dollars to aid the wives and children of volunteers from Norway. The selectmen were instructed to write to the volun- teers from Norway now in the army, that they were expected to forward part of their pay for the benefit of their families. A special meeting was holden July 21st, to see what action the town would take in relation to offering inducements for persons to enlist in the service of the United States. A committee was chosen to take the matter into con- sideration, which, through Sylvanus Cobb Jr., made the following report : -
Whereas freedom is the fundamental principle of our Government and obedience to the laws a necessity of national life, and
Whereas the Union and the Constitution, as given by the founders of the Republic, are the very basis upon which the whole superstructure of American greatness rests, therefore
Resolved, That the infamous rebellion, which now threatens the destruction of all we hold dear as a nation, must be put down at all hazards.
Resolved, That we have confidence in the Administration and the generals who lead our armies in the field, and we will sustain them in a direct and vigorous prosecution of the war.
Resolved, That to this end, it is our duty as a town, to furnish men and means, and that duty we will perform, even at the sacrifice for a season, of our social and domestic comfort.
Resolved, That those noble sons of Norway, who, having families and homes, have marched forth with their lives in their hands to fight for the glorious institutions we love, and, if need be, to die for country, are the true representatives of our town and the true exponents of our principles and we will sustain them so that their patriotic work may the more speedily be accomplished.
Resolved, That the town pay fifty-five dollars to each and every citizen of said town, who shall enlist under the present call of the Governor, and be accepted and mustered into the service of the United States, the number of men called for being twenty-one.
The report was accepted, and eleven hundred and fifty-five dollars were raised to carry out the recommendations of the committee.
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'At a special meeting holden August 23d, it was voted that the town treasurer be authorized to hire one hundred dollars for each man who should volunteer on the quota of Norway, and pay the same to him when mustered into the service of the United States, and a committee of ten, consisting of Mark P. Smith, George E. Gibson, Luther F. Pike, David Frost, Ira Johnson Jr., Samuel Cross, E. A. Holmes, Ceylon Watson, H. W. Millett, and James Merrill, was chosen to procure enlistments.
Another meeting was held on September 3d, when the doings of the previous meeting were reconsidered. David Frost Esq. then offered the following which was passed : -
Resolved, That the selectmen be authorized and required to deliver a town order by them signed for one hundred and twenty dollars, payable in one year with interest, to each one who shall enlist as a volunteer soldier under the call of the President, of August 4th, 1862, said orders to be delivered to said soldiers when they shall have been mustered into the service of the United States, and the number delivered not to exceed the number of soldiers required of Norway under said call.
The persons chosen at the previous meeting were re-chosen for the same purpose.
For governor, Abner Coburn had two hundred and seventeen votes, and Bion Bradbury one hundred and seventy-five. For representative John J. Perry had one hundred and eighty-three votes, and Seth T. Holbrook two hundred and eighteen. Among the deaths were : March Ioth, Simeon Noble, aged seventy-one ; 14th, Albert E. Lovejoy, aged nineteen ; 19th, George W. Verrill, aged fifty-one. September 23d, Mary E. Hall, ten ; 24th, Edna T. Town, aged five. November 11th, Asa A. Crooker, aged six. In New Orleans, David, son of Alonzo Morse, aged nineteen.
ยท1863
Twelve hundred dollars were raised for the support of schools, and sixteen hundred dollars for the support of poor and town charges; also voted to raise fifteen hundred dollars to pay half of the sum hired by the town for the payment of soldiers' bounties. The selectmen were authorized to hire five hundred dollars, or such part thereof as might be needed, to aid soldiers' families. Fifteen hundred dollars were raised for the repair of roads.
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At a meeting June 27th, to see if the town would raise three hundred dollars to pay each drafted man from Norway, or to obtain a substitute, the meeting was adjourned without further action. Samuel Cony had two hundred and fifty-eight votes for governor, and Bion Bradbury had one hundred and ninety-two. For representative, Willard G. Whittle, of Greenwood, had two hundred and fifty-six, and L. A. Carter, one hundred and ninety-three. At a meeting holden October 3d, it was voted that the selectmen and treasurer be a committee to settle with L. R. King, collector of taxes, who, it was said, was about to leave the State. E. C. Shackley was chosen collector in place of King.
At a special meeting holden November 2d, it was voted "that the town raise and pay to each enlisted person who shall be duly mustered on the quota of Norway, the sum of one hundred dollars, to be paid by means of town note, due in three years, with interest annually."
At a meeting holden November 25th, it was voted to pay to each person who should enlist on the Norway quota under the last call of the President, the sum of two hundred dollars, when mustered into the service of the United States. The doings of the previous meeting were reconsidered, and it was voted that the money so paid should be in the form of negotiable town notes, made payable to the recruits, or order, in three years, with interest annually. At a meeting January 29th, 1864, it was voted to raise six hundred and fifty dollars additional, to defray the expenses of the town's quota. Deaths this year: March 9th, Isaac Bolster, aged sixty-six; at Belt's Point, Virginia, James C. Shedd, Com- pany C, Fifth Maine, aged twenty-seven. April 22d, John Bird, aged eighty-eight. May 17th, Olive N., wife of James L. Paine, aged thirty- six. June 3d, Henry Rust, Esq. May 17th, Charles S. Stevens, twenty-three. July 15th, William Pingree, aged seventy-five. Decem- ber 4th, Oliver Stevens, aged ninety-one.
1864
Twelve hundred dollars were raised for schools; seventeen hundred dollars for support of poor, and town charges; eight hundred dollars to aid soldiers' families; eighteen hundred dollars on town debt; two thousand dollars to pay soldiers' notes, and two thousand dollars for the repair of roads. Two hundred and ninety-eight dollars were raised for
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Stephen Merrill's road. The selectmen were authorized to adjust and pay all claims against the town, and to prepare and publish a report of the standing of the town, and that each legal voter be furnished with a copy thereof.
At a special meeting August IIth, voted to raise by loan the sum of twenty-five dollars for each recruit necessary to fill the quota of Nor- way, to be paid to agents employed by the town to procure the recruits. It was voted to employ Charles C. Sanderson and Henry Tucker to procure the recruits. The selectmen were authorized to raise twelve hundred dollars to pay State aid, allowed by law, to families of soldiers.
At a meeting September 3d, " voted that the town of Norway raise three hundred dollars for the purpose of refunding to the treasurer of the Norway Mutual Enrollment Association, such sums as he may pay out for volunteers to fill our quota under the last call of the President of the United States for three hundred thousand men." For governor, Samuel Cony had two hundred and forty votes, and Joseph Howard, one hundred and ninety-eight. For representative, William W. Hobbs had two hundred and thirty-eight votes, and Solomon I. Millett, two hundred. The vote on the constitutional amendment, allowing volunteer soldiers at the front to vote, stood in favor, two hundred and forty-five; against, one hundred and seventy-two.
At a meeting holden December 31st, it was voted to pay each vol- unteer on the quota of Norway, to do duty on our coast for one year, the sum of one hundred dollars. Voted to raise by loan, the sum of six thousand dollars for the purpose of filling Norway's quota under the last call of the President. "Voted that any person, resident of the town of Norway, who shall pay the sum of four hundred dollars toward the procuring of a substitute, said substitute to be mustered into the United States service upon the quota of Norway under the last call for three hundred thousand men, shall be assisted in procuring said substitute from the sum raised by the town for filling its quota, and the selectmen are hereby authorized to pay such sum as may be necessary, in addition to the sum of four hundred dollars paid by the person for whom the substitute is furnished, toward the procuring of said substitute, pro- vided that each man who furnishes a substitute shall pay four hundred dollars into the hands of the selectmen of said town of Norway on or before the fifteenth of January A.D. 1865."
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January 22d, Charles Gammon, while in the act of undressing, fell dead upon the floor. He was in his usual health during the day. April 15th there was an affray at the Liberal Institute in which two students were seriously injured by Samuel B. Yeaton and his two sons. These persons had made trouble in the Lyceum, to avoid a repetition of which, they were not permitted to enter at the next session, but they rushed in, armed with clubs, and severely hurt J. P. Packard, of Paris, and a Frost boy of this town. Two of them were arrested and put in jail, and a reward of two hundred dollars was offered for the arrest of the other. Captain Sylvanus Cobb Jr., received orders to take his company, the Norway Light Infantry, to Fort McClary for sixty days in April. In June of this year the Bennett mills at the village were sold to G. F. Evans. They had previously been owned by John B. Brown, St. John Smith, Ezra F. Beal, Levi Whitman, and others. Addison E. Verrill, of this town, was elected Professor of Zoology in Yale College in August. Lieutenant Wellington Hobbs, of this town, was killed while on picket in front of Petersburgh, the last of October. He belonged to the Seventeenth Maine. Andrew P. Greenleaf was killed October 19th, at the battle of Cedar Creek.
- 1865
Fifteen hundred dollars were raised this year for the support of schools, twenty-two hundred dollars for poor and town charges, and twenty-five hundred dollars in labor for repair of roads. It was voted to raise two thousand dollars to pay, in part, the indebtedness of the town. The town voted to authorize the selectmen to use the money reimbursed by the State for the year 1864, in aid of soldiers' families. At a special meeting on the 10th day of June, voted " to exempt from taxation for ten years, all manufacturing establishments erected by individuals or corporations within three years, in this town, for the manufacture of fabrics of cotton or wool, or of both cotton and wool, and all the machinery and capital used for operating the same, together with all such machinery hereafter put into buildings already erected, but not now occupied, and all capital used for operating the same." The select- men were instructed to take a valuation of the real estate in town, the following September. Samuel Cony had two hundred and twenty-nine
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votes for governor, and Joseph Howard one hundred and four. For representative, William S. Dodge, of Oxford, had two hundred and twenty-seven, and Seth T. Holbrook one hundred and six.
In April there was great rejoicing in town over the Union victories in Virginia and the collapse of the Rebellion ; but the cruel and cowardly assassination of the President caused universal regret. Dr. Albert Thompson returned from the army, and resumed the practice of dentistry in August. Freeland Howe purchased the building occupied by C. C. Sanderson as a law office and G. W. Millett as a printing office, moved it, and fitted it up for an insurance office. Rev. Nathaniel Gunnison, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, accepted a call of the Universalist Church, to become their pastor. The following are some of the heavy tax payers of this town for the present year : -
John Bird,
$ 54.18 Solomon I. Millett,
$139.32
Titus O. Brown, Ezra F. Beal,
60.90
Andrew Mills,
62.34
Allen S. Bartlett,
53.40
H. Millett estate,
82.38
Jacob Bradbury,
61.62
Brackett Marston,
60.18
Sumner Burnham,
102 54
Samuel E. Merrill,
70.20
James Bennett,
104.52
Claudius A. Noyes,
109.26
Horatio G. Cole,
109.86
Benjamin H. Noble,
88.32
Cyrus Cobb,
142.08
Solomon Noble,
53.64
William Cox,
86.76
George J. Ordway,
172.80
Alvah B. Davis,
57.30
John Oxnard,
59.52
A. M. Dunham,
64.80
Henry Pike,
52.74
Ansel Dinsmore,
51.72
Nathaniel Pike,
56.94
Asa Danforth,
76.80
Stephen Pottle,
59.46
Lucius Denison,
55.50
Luther F. Pike,
104.22
Isaac A. Denison,
114.00
Jacob Parsons,
59.40
Denison & Horn,
71.46
Osgood Perry,
54.24
Richard Evans,
70.86
William Parsons 2d,
62.94
George F. Evans,
186.09
Moses Parsons,
67.62
Ralph S. Freeman,
62.22
William C. Pearce,
127.14
David W. Frost,
65.88
John Richardson,
80.84
David Frost,
51.06
G. W. Richardson,
57.45
William Frost Jr.,
67.02
T. H. Richardson,
90.84
William Foster,
133.14
Henry Rust,
65.34
Timothy Gorham,
60.30
Simon Stevens,
50.34
William Hall,
63.66
Noah O. Stevens,
52.56
William W. Hobbs,
85.80
Mark P. Smith,
127.38
Jeremiah Hall,
63.54
E. C. Shackley,
84.24
Silas E. Hall,
52.14
R. Rust & L. Smith,
59.59
Amos T. Holt,
91.98
C. C. Sanderson,
51.90
John L. Horne,
121.25
Ansel Town,
62.58
Lorenzo Hathaway,
71.76
Benjamin Tucker,
124.02
Ira Johnson,
60.30
Otis True,
86.76
Nathan Millett,
76.20
Uriah H. Upton,
64.92
John H. Millett,
110.82
Cyrus Witt,
64.14
Edwin A. Morse,
65.22
Levi Whitman,
72.60
Silas Merriam,
56.94
W. H. Woodbury,
99.48
Mixer & Watson,
100.80
Deborah Whitney,
215.46
Henry W. Millett,
54.90
W. C. Whitney estate, .
62.62
E. A. Holmes,
172.14
John Tucker,
65.10
174.06
Joel Millett,
104.34
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The petroleum excitement prevailed in town during the autumn, and a company was organized October 25th, called the Oxford Petroleum Company. General William W. Virgin was elected president, Freeland Howe secretary, and Sylvanus Cobb Jr. treasurer. In November, the citizens of the village began to move for a national bank. Dr. G. P. Jones succeeded Dr. Thompson in the dentistry business in November. At a meeting, the last of December, temporary directors were chosen for a national bank, consisting of Rev. N. Gunnison, Ezra F. Beal, E. A. Holmes, and Isaac A. Denison.
1866
Fifteen hundred dollars were raised for schools, twenty-two hundred dollars for support of poor and town charges, one hundred dollars for the families of soldiers still in the service, six thousand dollars for town debt, and two thousand dollars in labor for ways. At a special meeting April 21st, the selectmen were instructed to rebuild the bridge near Horne's tannery, the present year, and four hundred dollars were raised and placed at the disposal of the selectmen for this purpose. At a meeting August 25th, the selectmen were authorized to borrow three thousand dollars to be expended in repairing the highways in town. For governor, Joshua L. Chamberlain had two hundred and seventy- three votes, and Eben F. Pillsbury, one hundred and fifty-one. For representative, James H. Merrill had two hundred and sixty-seven votes, and Solomon I. Millett, two hundred and fifty-six.
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