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They had banking laws and examiners in those days but they weren't as consistent as they are nowadays. The law required that each bank should have fifty dollars in gold at all times. The examiner always went to Bucksport to examine the Bucks- port Bank before coming to Ellsworth. Finding everything well there, including the fifty dollars in gold, he would leave on the stage for Ellsworth. On the same stage would be the gold he had seen there, addressed to the Ellsworth Bank. Upon inspecting the Ellsworth Bank next day he consequently found the stipulated amount of gold. And when he had finished there and went across the street to examine the Hancock Bank, a messenger from the Ellsworth Bank would hasten over with the gold. So we may conclude that "all is not well that seems well."
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The following interesting description of Ellsworth in 1853, was written by Mr. Charles Lowell and published in the Eastern Freeman :
"Ellsworth owns in whole or in part, about 150 sail of vessels of all descriptions, and perhaps nearly a like number of manufactories, including the saw mills, iron foundry, steam mill, and all inferior establishments. Her manufactories are chiefly those of wood, iron, tin, copper, cloth, leather, brick and potters' wares, lumber and navigation of the various kinds being her great commercial wheels.
"The present number of inhabitants is supposed to approx- imate 5,000, among whom are some thirty professional and literary gentlemen, fifty traders and shop keepers, one hundred ship and mill owners, and perhaps 1,000 manufacturers, mechanics, millmen and teamsters.
"Among the most prominent business men of Ellsworth, in navigation and lumber, are the Messrs. Black, Tisdale, Peters, Dutton, Jones, Miller, Woodard, Austin, and Jordan, and Brown & Otis. And among the cash and produce traders, may be named the Messrs. S. & H. A. Dutton, H. & S. K. Whiting, J. W. Wood & Co., Albert Robinson, G. C. Beckwith, Amasa Sargent, David G. Eaton, John H. Langdon, T. Fox and W. W. Rogers.
"Ellsworth has two printing offices, two banks, two book- stores, two hotels, three jewelers' shops, three apothecaries' shops, and telegraphic and express offices, besides other establishments too numerous to mention, and a Brass Band under the direction of Amos N. Fisher. Some two thousand copies of her weekly newspapers, Eastern Freeman and Ells- worth Herald, are circulated every week, and probably one- fourth that number of papers from abroad. The first of three post offices within the town of Ellsworth, receives every week, twenty-six mails, and sends off a like number.
"The village of Ellsworth occupies both banks of the Union River, which are here connected by four bridges, and having the public buildings of the county, her own churches and school- houses, her spacious brick blocks, her new and well painted dwellings, and her Main Street filled with teams, stage coaches, and other carriages.
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"The Steamer Lawrence, Capt. Chas. Deering, leaves Ells- worth Monday at 6 o'clock for Boston and leaves Boston every Friday at 5 P.M. for Ellsworth, stopping at Bangor and Belfast on each trip. Fare four dollars including hack hire to steam- boat landing.
"The number of buildings of all descriptions, annually erected in Ellsworth, varies from 50 to 100-and more or less new business establishments, are every year introduced."
MERCHANT TATLOR.
ROUGH AND READYS Banner reads, "We neither love nor fear the reptile"
Few towns ever experienced a greater crisis than did Ells- worth from 1850 to 1860. Religious and political feeling ran high. Life, itself, was often in the balance, and a civil war nearly came to pass. Each party, the Democratic and Re- publican, had its own press, and their newspaper battles were frequent and hot. Water Street was termed "Rum Row," and was, as might be supposed, the "hang-out" of an exceedingly rough and lawless element. Blood-shed and riots were often the principal amusements in that section. The people learned to respect or fear some of several organizations or clans which
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then existed. Some of them did good work and others meddled with iniquity. Notorious among these orders was that of the "Cast Iron Band," the very name of which meant fear and con- sternation to the hearts of the gentle and peace-loving citizens. The names of others of the orders, remembered to this day by the older inhabitants, were the "White Caps" and "The Rough and Readys." Each order had its special uniforms and the members were wont to don them often.
Slavery presented a sore question that had embittered the country for a generation and more. It became a live political issue with the admission of Texas into the Union in 1844, the new state becoming an accession to the slavery party, and was not terminated until April 9, 1865.
On April 12, 1861, an attack on Fort Sumter by South Carolina troops, shortly after Lincoln took the reins of Govern- ment, precipitated events. The fort had been compelled to surrender two days later, whereupon the President called for 75,000 troops to uphold the Federal Government, and the Civil War was begun. This was indeed the true test of the spirit and patriotism of our citizens and they made a heroic stand. Capt. Jesse Dutton opened a recruiting office Thursday, April 25, eleven days after the fall of Sumter, and enlisted forty-five men in the Union Army the first day.
The Ellsworth Volunteer Company consisting of eighty men, was organized April 29, 1861, with Isaac Frazier, Captain; Otis W. Kent, 1st Lieutenant; and J. D. MacFarland, 2d Lieutenant. Many applicants were rejected. Saturday, May 17, 1861, the Company voted to see whether or not they would enlist for a period of one or three years. All voted to enlist for three years except two, who later reconsidered and made the vote unani- mous. Tuesday, May 21st, the Company left Ellsworth, after an elaborate send-off, to take part in the noble cause. The company was made up of the following men:
Albert M. Murch Milton Frazier
SERGEANTS George E. Thomas Daniel G. Meader
CORPORALS
John D. Eppes Edward K. Heath
Jotham Bowker Apollos Hunt
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PRIVATES
Augustus J. Treworgy
William Hamilton
Artherton Day
Cyrus Ricker, Jr.
Allen M. Potter
George W. Bowden
William H. Sweeney
Joseph R. Jewell
Charles W. Bugbee
Cvrus L. Murch
George J. Card
William George
Jonathan Phillips.
John W. Bennett
Joseph C. Veazie
George B. Mitchell
Billings Maddox
Alvah F. Hawkins
Reuben Smith
Charles M. Fabree
Bainbridge D. Thompson
Edward B Cook
Richard Carter
Benjamin B. Royal
John Buck
Dorephus L. Fields
George F. Peaks
John C. Haney
Lorenzo Cousins
Lorenzo Linscott
Augustus T. Somerby
Hermon S. George
Oliver H. Goodwin
Roscoe G. Taylor
Alvin A. Dow
Joseph A. Joy
Alden W. Treworgy
James Sanborn
John Gates
B. F. Gray
Charles H. Pio.
David Clark
George W. Maddocks
Beniamin S. Brosdick
Theodore L. Lyman
George W. Cousins
Albert L. Jones
Andrew S. Tourtelotte
Holmes B. Williamson
R. W. Howes
Calvin A. Treworgy
John H. Cristy
John W. Mosley
David A. West
John D. Whittaker
Joseph Smith
Joseph T. Getchell
Charles T. Royal
Jesse Hines
Lewis M. Kingsbury
George H. Hutchins
Elbridge M. Milliken
Parnel B. Moore
Elwin S. Libby
Solomon Keliher
Nahum H. Hall, Jr.
Oakman W. Mason
James H. McKeen
Daniel H. Morang
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At a town meeting held Monday, May 6, 1861, $2,500 was raised for the support of families of such persons as enlisted in the `service of the United States during the Civil War. Calvin G. Peck, Erastus Redman and Henry Whiting were chosen a committee to see to the distribution of the money.
A full company of men left Ellsworth for Augusta Aug. 31, 1861. This and all the companies to leave later trained on the campus of the Old Court House on Bridge Hill, where the mon- ument was later erected by the Grand Army of the Republic. The officers in this company were: J. S. Rice, Captain; A. A. Holt, 1st Lieutenant; and W. F. Lane, 2d Lieutenant. The Rifle Company, recruited by F. W. Perry, left Ellsworth Friday, Oct. 18, 1861. Its officers were: W. P. Spofford, Captain; C. E. Illsley, 1st Lieutenant and John S. Dodge, 2d Lieutenant.
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Forty-eight men left here Friday, Nov. 6, 1861 to join Col. Dow's Regiment. So, during the first seven months of the war, Ellsworth sent three hundred and twenty-eight volunteers to the front. It is active patriotism, of this sort, and not patriotic hysteria that keeps a government intact when a crisis comes.
The soldiers who represented Ellsworth during the four long years of conflict performed their duty in a noble manner and suffered privations, illness and wounds with fortitude and courage, and very many of them offered up their lives that that; nation "shall not perish from the earth." At that time (1860) Ellsworth had but eight hundred and forty-seven voters, and she sent six hundred and fifty-three soldiers to the front, and raised for bounties alone nearly fifty thousand dollars.
*The roll call :
2d Maine Regt .:- Chas. W. Cook, John Fullerton, Co. I, k. at 2d Bull Run; Charles H. Haynes, Clarence Treworgy, John F. Sargent, Leander Clara, S. F. Gray, Arthur Jordan, Alex McQuire ( ?) (discharged), Chas. W. Watson, O. Dunham (dis- charged), Jas. E. Gray (discharged), Erastus Grant (dis- charged), Rob't Hamilton, Leonard Maddox, Jas. Ryan (dis- charged), Wm. Turner, John Jordan, Moses Moon, Geo. Webber, H. Atherton, F. A. Macomber, L. S. Webber, Timothy Bresnahan.
4th Maine Regt. :- Alpha Buker.
6th Maine Regt .- Co. B :- 1st Lieut. Otis W. Kent (resigned Nov. 5, 1861), 1st Lieut. Albert Murch (resigned 1864), Sergt. Geo. E. Thomas, Sergt. George W. Bowden, Sergt. Cyrus L. Murch, Corp. L. D. Cousins, Corp. Oliver H. Goodwin; John Malone, chief bugler.
Privates :- John W. Bennett, Cyrus Buker, Jr., Alex. E. Fields, Wm. Hamilton, Jos. R. Jewell, Jas. H. McKeen, Benj. Royal, Wm. H. Sweeney, Jesse Hines, Jas. A. Joy, Allen A.' Potter, S. S. Boynton, Wm. George, Wm. D. Thompson, David A. West, Apollos Hunt, Theo. J. Lyman, Bartlett Lynch.
6th Maine Regt .:- Benj. F. Barker (discharged), Edw. B. Cook, Geo. W. Cousins (discharged), Thomas A. Day (dis- charged), John D. Whittaker, D. G. Morang, A. F. H. Ferrill,
*From Lawton, Loring and Jordan's Register.
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John W. Mosely (discharged), Benj. F. Gray, Chas. H. Pio (discharged), David Clark, John H. Christie, Thos. Carrighan, John D. Eppes, John D. Gates, Jos. T. Getchell, Stinson George, Solomon Kelliher (discharged), Geo. B. Mitchell, Geo. F. Peaks, Ansel E. Smith, B. D. Thompson. Jas. Buker, Wm. Hamilton, Chas. W. Maddox (discharged), P. B. Moore, Billings Maddox, C. A. Treworgy, A. W. Treworgy (discharged), Augustus Treworgy, D. F. Meader, Geo. L. Thomas, N. H. Hall, Jotham Bowker, Isaac Frazier (discharged), Milton Frazier (discharged), Benj. F. Gray, Edw. W. Jackson, Wallace S. West, Chas. G. Royal, Chas. W. Moon, Chas. Bugbee, Samuel Maddox, E. S. Bonsey (discharged), John M. Peck, band (dis- charged), Wm. Buckley.
8th Maine Regt. :-- Geo. Card, Jacob M. Dodge, Andrew Newman, Jos. S. Rice, Geo. S. Card, J. M. Dodge, Geo. Robinson, F. N. Young, Benj. B. Salsbury, Dan'l S. Lunt, Chas. A. Her- rick, Jas. H. Brown, Wm. Buckley, Peter Cain, John Cain, Peter Collins, David Danico, Chas. C. Frazier, Philander Gar- land, Geo. Gordon, L. Kincaid, Co. G, James Monaghan, Michael Murphy, Chas. W. Patterson, Frank M. Stevens, Wm. D. Townsend, Thos. Welch, Paris Webber, Co. G, Roland C. Webber, Horace Watts, Thos. Brown, Jos. Cain, Wm. Dollard, Geo. B. Floyd, Leonard Higgins, Asa Haynes, Dan'l Harrington, S. H. Kimball, John Larkin, John C. Meader, S. L. Phillips, Reuben Smith, Calvin P. Tourtelotte, Asa N. Tourtelotte, J. H. Wentworth, Chas. H. Orcutt, Lewis Wentworth, W. F. Lane, Jas. Monaghan, Geo. Goding, Geo. F. Davis, Geo. F. Abbott, John Sullivan, Louis Soucy, Simon Hanscom, S. Wormwood, Thos. Ford, Henry W. Royal, Geo. Higgins, J. A. Howard, Jos. C. Howard, Wm. George, Alex. Barbour, Jas. George, Dan'l Brown, Dan'l Sullivan, Humphrey Callaghan, Jeremiah Dorgan (discharged), Thos. Welch, D. Harrington, John Burke, Geo. S. Hodgkins, Stover Lunt.
11th Maine Regt .:- Geo. W. Cook, John O'Keef (dis- charged), Thos. O'Keef (discharged), Wm. H. Rice, Ephraim Brown (discharged), H. A. Danico, Wm. Danico, Albert Gar- land, Chas. B. Hinckley, Eben Jordan 2d, Chas. McGown (dis- charged), Rufus H. Wingate (discharged), A. W. Briggs, A. S. Bunker, A. Clark, J. D. Conary, Geo. F. Danico, Wm. E.
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Danico, Henry C. Danico, Augustus Danico, Geo. W. Frazier, W. B. Garland, Reuben Cross, A. Meader, Ambrose Phillips, Jas. M. Segan ( ?), Chas. E. Fish, Wm. B. Cash (discharged), Roscoe E. Benley (?), L. W. Bennett, Co. G, Chas. W. Royal, Augustus Somerby, Z. Small, A. P. Harriman, Michael Howard.
12th Maine Regt. :- Randall McCathlin.
13th Maine Regt. :- Nelson Jellison, Jas. P. Witham, Michael Fitzgerald, John Callaghan.
16th Maine Regt .:- 1st Lieut. A. T. Somerby, Co. K (resigned) ; Thos. Middleton, Co. H; Adj. John D. McFarland (died of disease), Aug. 12, '62, John McCollum, Robert Holmes, Thos Holmes, Jr.
18th Maine Regt., transferred to 1st Maine Heavy Artil- lery, Co. C :- Capt. Z. A. Smith, wounded May 19, '64, promoted major, lieut .- col., breveted colonel; 1st Lieut., Wm. T. Parker, promoted to captaincy of Co. L, killed in action May 19, '64; 2d Lieut. Geo. W. Grant, promoted 1st Lieut., w. May 19, '64, and d. of wds. May 28, '64; Corp. Milton S. Beckwith, prom. Sergt., k. June 18, '64; James M. Smith, prom. color sergt., w. June 18, '64; Corp. Edw. N. Beal, trans. navy, April 25, '64; Corp. Hervey L. Hastings, prom. sergt., w. June 18, '64; Musician Chas. W. Beal; Wagoner John Lynch, d. of wds., Nov. 28, '64.
Privates :- Alanson Bennett, d. in Andersonville prison, Aug. 23, '64; Samuel Brann, d. Sept. 9, '63; Benj. S. Brooks, prom. corp .; Jas. Cain, w. May 19, and d. of wds., June 20, '64; Henry A. Carter; Cyrus A. Cook, trans. navy, April 25, '64; John Douglass, w. May 19, '64; Maurice Downey, w. May 19, '64; Wm. F. Emerson, prom. corp., w. May 19, '64, prom. sergt. and quartermaster-sergt .; Wm. H. Fox, w. May 19, '64, prom. corp. and sergt .; Isaiah Garland, w. June 18, and died of wds. Aug. 16, '64; Reuben Gragg, Jr., w. June 18, and d. of wds. Sept. 30, '64; Ezra P. Gray, w. May 19, '64; Jeremiah Harring- ton, w. May 19, '64, Mar. 25, '65; S. F. Haskell, w. May 19, '64; Arthur P. Hinckley, prom. corp., w. June 18, and d. of wds. Aug. 2, '64; Joshua T. Jellison; Henry C. Jordan; Walter Jor- dan, w. June 18, '64; Benj. Maddocks, w., prom. sergt .; W. Mc- Farland, detailed as musician; L. McGown, w. May 19, '64; Nahum Murch, w. June 18, '64; John Murphy, w. May 19, '64; Arthur Royal; L. M. Royal, w. May 19, '64; W. H. Saulsbury,
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trans. V. R. C. at Augusta, Me., July 15, '64; Abraham Sargent, Jr., w. May 19, '64; John J. Scott, prom. corp., w. May 19, '64; Asa Smith, w. June 18, '64; Lemuel J. Smith ; Lemuel A. Smith, w. June 18, and d. of wds. July 9, '64; Wm. Smith, w. May 19, and June 18, '64, prom. corp .; Wm. P. Squire, w. May 19, '64, prom. corp .; Alex. Starkey ; Daniel O. Sullivan, k. June 18, '64; Geo. H. Treworgy, d. Oct. 2, '62; Stephanus Wormwood, d. in the field, of exhaustion, n. Amelia Springs, Va., April 6, '65.
Recruits added in 1863 :- Edw. Butler, d. Sept. 4, '64; S. S. Eldridge, w. May 19, and d. of wds. May 24, '64; Wm. L. Eldridge, detailed for service in Washington; Jas. M. Googins, d. Nov. 23, '63; Chas. W. Jellison, w. May 19, '64; Wm. T. Lunt, w. June 18, and d. of wds. June 23, '64; Henry L. Lunt; Michael Lee, k. June 18, '64; John B. Saddler, d. April 4, '64; Eben H. Saddler ; Frank J. Sargent, prom. corp. and sergt., w. June 18, and Oct. 27, '64, prom. 2d Lieut., Co. L.
Recruits added in 1864 :- S. C. Beverly, w. May 19, '64; W. Beal, d. July 14, '64; Sylvester Bowden, w. May 19, '64; Jas. G. Bowden; Benson Cunningham, d. June 18, '64; Geo. D. Garland; W. D. Gray, d. Sept. 27, '64; Chas. W. Kincaid.
1st Maine Heavy Artillery :- C. E. Harding, Chas. H. Allen, Jas. Godfrey, A. W. Packard, Chas. H. Frazier.
19th Maine Regt .:- Wm. P. Joy, R. C. Bonsey, Co. D, trans. to 18th.
20th Maine Regt .:- Timothy Bresnahan, Co. I; Jas J. Buker, Co. K; Samuel F. Gray, Co. K; L. J. Maddocks, Co. K. 21st Maine Regt. :- Henry McAllister.
26th Maine Regt .:- Jas. Beverly, Sylvester Bowden (en- listed in Bucksport) ; Jas. L. Cook, Co. C; M. E. M. Cook, Geo. F. Haskell, L. S. Haskell, Chas. W. Hopkins, Silas Grant, Wm. McColley, Wm. McColley, Jr., Alex. C. Morang, Chas. T. Nor- ton (enl. in Bucksport) ; M. G. Joy (enl. in Bucksport) ; War- ren Call, Jas. Dowling, L. C. Elden, H. H. Elden, Abraham Frazier, Horace Grindle, M. C. Grindle, John B. Harriman, H. C. Hastings, Co. C .; Luther Hastings, W. S. McFarland, Sam'l Morrison, John H. Severance, Horace Townsend, John F. Whit- comb, John H. Brown, H. W. Conley, Thos. Dollard, Otis Grindal, Geo. S. Treworgy, Carlton McGown, Allen Meader, Jr., John H. McFarland, F. G. Meader, Dan'l Smith, F. S.
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Thompson, A. P. Tapley, S. Stackpole (enl. in Orland) ; Ran- dall Sprague, Geo. F. Haskell, John E. Clark, Wm. McDonald, Wm. S. Fields, Wm. P. Squires, Josiah Clewly, John M. Hill, John B. Harriman, Jos. Smith, Henry Lindsay, Jasper N. Gray, Chas. B. Mosley.
28th Maine Regt .:- John E. Clark, D. A. Patten.
Cavalry :- Ephraim A. Murch, Chas. Maddox, Horace B. Pulsifer, 1st Me.
Navy :- Wm. W. Hodgkins, Leander Milliken, Abiel Mc- Farland, Geo. Glidden, Geo. E. Royal, Mark Chase, Addison H. Webber, Thos. H. Carter, Roswell Murch, Chas. Chase, Corn- elius Tinker, Jos. T. Veazie, Jos. A. Smith, Byron S. Pettengill.
Regular Army :- Jos. M. Kimball.
Other Regiments :- Josiah S. Houston, Mass .; Jas. Smith, Mass .; Nelson P. Maddox, Sharpshooters; Geo. A. Dodge, 11th Rhode Island; Edwin Moore, 32d Mass .; Matthias Cochran, 1st Mass .; Wm. Garland, Ohio; Jas. L. Richards, California.
The following are soldiers who are now or have lately been residing in Ellsworth, whose names are not included in the list given above. The place of enlistment, company, regiment, and rank of an officer is given when possible:
Master-at-Arms, John W. Armstrong, enlisted in Ellsworth, served on steamer Stockdale; Geo. F. Boynton, Ells. Co. K, 17th Me. Regt .; Henry M. Brown, U. S. S. Ohio; A. W. Curtis, Han- cock, 7th and 26th, prisoner in Andersonville; Wm. J. Connick, G-11th; C. P. Dorr, w .; G. B. Floyd, G-8th; J. T. Farrell, Ells., ship Sabine; Jas'r Frazier, B-14th; J. Gilmore, Pem- broke, F-6th; E. J. Green, B'hill, H-14th; Os'r Guptill, Bel- fast (late resident of Ells.) ; Stephen Gross, Bucksport, A- 14th; Jas. Hamilton, Brooklin, H-26th. served also in Navy on ship Colorado; Corp. Vinal Hooper, Orland, G-1st H. Art .; Chas. H. Haynes, Ells., I-2d, and E-20th, lost limb in Wilder- ness, prisoner four months; John T. Higgins, Eden, Co. 1st H. Art .; Dudley Jones, Portsmouth, Ohio, A-30th Ohio, lost finger and arm in battle of South Mountain, 1862; Wm. Jones ; George W. Jordan, Ells., K-14th; Isaac Jordan, Ells., 14th; R. F. Jordan, K-1st H. Art .; H. N. Joy, Belfast; Geo. W. Ken- ney, G-1st H. Art .; Benj. F. Kierstud, New York, West Gulf Squadron; B. P. Leach, Rockland, 1st H. Art., w. at Spottsyl-
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vania; Wm. F. Moore, Holden, L-31st; Chas. Otis; Geo. W. Patten, Ells. F-7th, w. over eye at Spottsylvania, 1864, lost limb at Fort Fisher, Mar. 26, 1865; A. P. Phillips, Ells., G -- 11th; John Scott, New Hampshire, W. S. Severance, Winterport, both army and navy ; Wm. Small, navy on U. S. S. Connecticut ; S. P. Stackpole, Orland, H-26th, and Ellsworth E-19th, trans. to H. Art .; David L. Tenney, E-14th; Samuel I. Scammon, Franklin, 9-14th; Lieut. Melvin S. Smith, Boston 13th, Mass .; Lieut. John B. Wiswell, Searsport, 14th; Lieut. John F. Whit- comb, Ells., 26th, wounded .*
For twenty-five years Ellsworth was without a town house. The town meetings were held in the Congregational Meeting House, the High School in School District No. 3, in Lord's Hall and many other places. In 1868, the town had every appear- ance of a city, and a city charter was contemplated. With all this prosperity it was thought necessary to have a town hall, and at a town meeting held in March, 1868, it was voted to erect such a building. A building committee was chosen con- sisting of the following citizens: Arno Wiswell, Henry Whit- ing, Eugene Hale, Monroe Young, John Hopkins, Robert Gerry and Levi Webber.
The lot in the corner of Main and School Streets, known as the Doctor MacAllester lot, was decided upon. The land and a two-story house erected thereon, were bought for $2,500. The house was moved to a lot on the immediate west, and is now oc- cupied by Charles Partridge. The new hall was completed in June, 1869, at an expense of $50,000, and called Union Hall, later changed to Hancock Hall.
Pursuant to a call for that purpose, a large number of citizens assembled on Saturday evening, Dec. 4, 1868, at the office of Arno Wiswell, to consider the question of a city gov- ernment for Ellsworth.
After a full and thorough discussion of the whole question, it was unanimously resolved to apply to the next Legislature for incorporation as a city ; and upon motion I. H. Thomas, Henry Whiting, Levi Webber, Monroe Young, and John F. Whitcomb
* Note :- The list given above was compiled from the town records, personal interviews, and other sources. It contains probably the names of practically all the residents of Ellsworth, who were in the service of the United States during the Civil War.
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were appointed a committee to circulate among the citizens, a petition for a city charter.
Arno Wiswell, L. A. Emery, A. F. Drinkwater, Robert Cole and P. W. Perry were appointed a committee to prepare a draft of a charter for the proposed city, to be submitted to the Legislature. Ellsworth was incorporated a city, February 6, 1869.
The last town meeting was held in Lord's Hall, February 27, 1869. J. F. Grant was Moderator. The meeting chose Jesse Dutton, John D. Hopkins, Nathan Walker, Arno Wiswell and I. Y. Murch, a committee to divide the town into five wards.
WARD LIMITS OF THE CITY OF ELLSWORTH
WARD No. 1
Commencing at the easterly end of Union River Bridge, on the south side of Main Street; thence following the easterly side of the said river and Union River Bay to the town line of Tren- ton; thence easterly and northerly on the town lines of Trenton and the town of Hancock to the county road leading from Ell's- worth to Franklin; thence westerly on the south line of said county road and Main Street to the place of beginning, which shall be Ward No. 1.
WARD NO. 2
Commencing at the easterly end of Union River Bridge on the North side of Main Street; thence northerly on the east side of Union River to the northerly line of Nathaniel Jellison's original lot; thence easterly on the line of said Jellison lot, to the head of the same and continuing the same direction easterly to westerly line of the town of Hancock; thence southerly on the Hancock town line to the county road, leading from Ells- worth to Franklin; thence westerly on the northerly side line of said county road and Main Street, to the place of beginning, which shall be Ward No. 2.
WARD No. 3
Commencing on the eastern side of Union River, at the northerly line of Nathaniel Jellison's original lot; thence north- erly on the east side of said river to the Falls bridge; thence
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on the north side of the Bangor road north-westerly to the Boggy Brook Road, so-called; thence on the easterly side of said road to the termination of the same near the house of George Frazier; thence north to Reed's Pond; thence follow- ing the westerly side of said pond to the southerly line of the town of Dedham; thence easterly on the town lines of Dedham and Otis to the westerly line of the town of Mariaville; thence southerly on the easterly line of Ellsworth until it intersects the northerly line of Ward No. 2, to the place of beginning, which shall be Ward No. 3.
WARD No. 4
Commencing at the intersection of Branch Pond Stream and Union River ; thence following the northerly side of said Branch Pond Stream, northwesterly, to the outlet of Branch Pond; thence following the westerly side of said pond to the westerly line of the road leading northerly from said pond to the road leading by the dwelling house of Charles W. Wasgatt; thence on said last mentioned road, northwesterly to the line of the town of Dedham; thence easterly on said Dedham line to Reed's Pond ; thence on Reed's Pond and the westerly line of Ward No. 3 to Union River ; thence on the west side of the river southerly to the place of beginning, which shall be Ward No. 4.
WARD NO. 5
Commencing on the westerly end of Union River Bridge; thence southerly, following the westerly shore of said river to the town line of Surry; thence westerly, following the line be- tween Surry and Ellsworth, to the town line of Orland; thence northwesterly, following the line between Ellsworth and Or- land, to the south line of Dedham; thence easterly on the line between Ellsworth and Dedham to the westerly line of Ward No. 4, to Union River; thence southerly by Union River to the place of beginning, which shall be Ward No. 5.
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