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DANIEL DAMON married Sarah Eaton. He was born in 1779 and she in 1788. William Damon was born in 1829. His wife, Sebiah C. Pratt was born in 1834. Their daughter, Emma L., married Angus Delaney.
Reynolds Damon and Fayette Damon were killed in the Civil War.
REUBEN DAMON, the first of the family, came about 1850 from Plymouth, Maine, but originally from Massachusetts. When he came here, there was one acre of land on his place that had been cleared by Henry Smith, who lived there a year and then left. His brother, Nelson Smith, lived near. Delia married a Dr. . Cleaves from Portland; Herbert married a Wing; Fannie became Mrs. Chapham; Sadie, (Mrs. Henry Mills) had a son, Talmage S. and a daughter, Mrs. Ivan Philbrook. There was also a son, Freeman. Reuben was the father of Fred and grandfather of Albert Damon, now living in Stetson. Fred's children are: Etta, (Mrs. Frank L. Hoyt), Clarence, Alice, (Mrs. Jas. Reynolds of St. Albans), Albert A., who married Alice Friend. Albert's children are: Susan, (Mrs. Carroll Harris), Volney, (married Evelyn Leathers), Pearl, Lester, (married Phyllis Smith), Helen and John. LaFayette Damon's wife was Ann Maria Goodwin, and their children: Washington E., Herbert L., Fannie W., Irving and Lucy A.
Joseph Damon married Susan, daughter of Robert Patten. They had three children: Henry Wood, Reynolds, who died in the Civil War, and Maria, who never married.
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JOSEPH SHEPARD was born 1769 and died 1843; his wife, Sarah Hook, was born 1777 and died 1856. Josiah was born in Bloomfield, October 28, 1811. Mary S., his wife, was born in Reading, Mass., February 5, 1818. Their children were: Harvey Hook, Charles Horan, Joseph Henry, Mary Elizabeth.
John Farnham, son of David Farnham, married Nettie Goodwin. They had two children, Everett and Roger. He married for a second wife, Olive Warren. They had one daughter, Evelyn, who married T. S. Mills.
CHAPTER IX. EARLY SETTLERS
Wolfborough Road took its name from the number of settlers there who came from Wolfborough, N. H. All, except Charles Wyman, of the. old settlers came from that New Hampshire town. Wyman came from Vermont. The Wolf- borough road was originally laid out from Clark's. Hill east to the Levant line, but was never built beyond Southers. It was supposed to run by Russell Souther's to the Jim Keye school-house in Levant.
Lew Call's father lived beyond the W. A. Langley place. Mr. Souther also lived beyond Langleys. That was Joseph Souther's father.
Eleazer Coburn's house was built near the Balm of Gilead tree that stands near. the road at the left of the driveway into Frank Langley's door yard (N. Allen Langley's place).
UNION CHURCH STETSON MED
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UNION CHURCH BUILT
When the Union Church was about to be built by Amaza Stetson, the pro- prietor, in 1843, he secured the services of a master builder, Ralph C. Evelyth. Later, Mr. Evelyth married Irene Stetson.
DAVID LANGLEY, who lived on the E. E. Tufts place, married for his second wife, Joan Allen (Whitteredge). Their children were; Julia Langley, who married a Hiller, and went West; William Allen Langley; Henry (who died in the army during the Civil War) ; and the twins, Joe and Jim. Joe also died in the army. By her first marriage, Joan Allen and Whitteredge had two children: Charlotte Whitteredge Cordon, wife of William Cordon, and Daniel Whitteredge. David Langley and his first wife, a sister of "Uncle John" Keyes, had three children : David, Ameziah and Lorenzo.
The late Jerry Damon formerly owned what was afterwards known as the Edd. Stetson place and ran the hotel here for a number of years His children were: Arabine, who married Charles Foster, and Francis, who married A. C. Clark. This place is now occupied by the Withee family and. is the oldest in Wolfboro.
The Locke's were the first to live in Wolfboro, going there on foot over logs and stumps, for there was no road usable except a winter one; but they were young and just married and perhaps didn't mind the roughness of the path. Good health and love can surmount many difficulties when one is young and holds the future in pleasurable anticipation. Charles Wyman, of Vermont, who lived on the Wolfborough road, built this house. It was at one time owned by Andrew Weymouth.
JOHN GIPSON and CHARLES FOSTER bought their land from the Seaveys, Gipson the east half (now owned by the Frank Langley heirs) and Foster, the west. Tillie Seavey was the father of Chandler Seavey ..
DR. CALVIN SEAVEY was born in Exeter, June 15, 1809. A sketch of his life appears in another chapter.
MR. E. RICE died April 4, 1877 at the age of 57 years. His wife, Harriet N. Pierce, was born in 1830 and died in 1904.
WINSLOW POWERS died at the age of 67 years, January 27, 1893. His wife died December 30, 1914, at age 82 years. John W. died in 1880 and Lillian A. in 1882.
WILLIAM M. LENNAN was born 1841 and his wife, Olivia L., born in 1837, died in 1907, had three children: Vina R., Lizzie and Mabel.
JOIIN KEY was born in 1801. He married -. . They had four sons and three daughters. His second wife was Elmira Kimball of Bangor, born in 1813. Their sons were: William, John R., George L. and James. George L. married Rosetta Sanborn. They had one son, Lewis V. For a second wife, he married Ellen Abbott. They had two sons, Leeman H. and. Orman L., both of Caribou. Orman L. married Grace Allen, who lived but a few years, leaving one daughter, Marion. He afterward married Carlotta Pendell and they have one daughter, Helen. William married Jane Bean. James married Ella Allen. The daughters were: Lydia, married Samuel Tay; Sarah, married Edd Stetson; Elvira, married E. Merrill Hersey. They had three children: Drusilla, Elias and Nathan. .
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DISTRICT SCHOOL MEETINGS
In 1835, Charles Wyman, school agent for District No. 4, called a school meeting at the home of James Piper to determine the location of a school-house. It was decided to build it half on land of James Piper and half on land belonging to Daniel Lary, (of Dexter) one of the incorporators of Stetson. Charles Moulton recorded this meeting as clerk of the school district. Daniel Tibbetts was paid seventy-eight dollars to finish the outside of the building. Others whose names appear in these records are: Joseph Wiggin, Warren Hay, William P. Guppy, William Hersey, Olcut Hersey, Moses G. Tuck, E. M. Hersey. Olcut Hersey served as school agent almost from the first meeting till 1879 when C. H. Foster's name occurs as district clerk and George L. Keys, school agent. Among later names are: Nathan L. Hersey, Edwin Stetson, A. J. Wiggin and F. L. Gipson. The last record dated April 15, 1887, was signed Charles H. Foster, district clerk.
BAPTIST CHURCH ORGANIZED
The first Baptist church was started August 28, 1834, and the charter men- bers were: "Thorndike Allen, Thomas Cole, Josiah W. Goodwin, John Allen, Alvin Borden, Keziah Hartwell, Sally R. Allen, Judith Cole, Olive M. Goodwin, Lidia C. Herrick."
STETSON GRANGE, No. 270, Patrons of Husbandry, was organized March 1, 1878, and Reform Lodge, No. 231, INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS, August 18, 1876. Later, Stetson had a lodge of the NEW ENGLAND ORDER OF PROTECTION.
STETSON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION was incorporated in 1870 and has been of very great service to the town.
MODERN HIGH SCHOOL
Stetson has just cause to be proud of having a modern and up-to-date high school equal to many in towns of far greater population.
STETSON'S PAST
A former resident of the town, going back into memory sixty years, paints a picture of Stetson as having five stores, a good hotel, a large tannery, two blacksmith shops, a large carriage factory, a daily stage, two schools (a primary grade and an advanced grade, numbering, all told, 150 students), no empty houses, Lew Barker, the lawyer; Calvin Seavey, the doctor; Anderson, the church choir leader. This writer excuses his really excellent letters in the following language: "It (his excuses) reminds me of those old Yankee women of my youth, who, know- ing they were going to have company to dinner, a dinner that they had spent many hours in preparing together with all the skill they possessed, would say as the company gathered around the table: "Now I don't suppose I have a thing that you can eat."
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Since that far-away day, some fifty houses have burned down or fallen down, none of them replaced. The last house built in Stetson is that of Dr. Tibbetts, built about 1880.
The Stetson family was related to the Ranney family, it will be remembered, through the marriage of Samuel Stetson, probably a cousin of Amasa, the proprietor.
MOSES RANNEY, SR., married Hannah Stuart of Newport. Their children were: Moses, Jr., Stephen, Stow, Hannah, Albina and Nancy. Moses, Jr. had two children, Stephen and Glennie. Stephen married Anna Nye. They had no children, but adopted two girls, Hattie Young, wife of Harry Ridlon of Bangor, and Mertie, now Mrs. Frank Mason. Hannah married Henry F. Johnson, and had no children. Albina married Charles Crockett. They had one daughter, Effie.
Winslow Powers married Abbie Hill. They had four children: Emily, who married Bert Flint and has one son, Clifford; Lillian, who never married; Sarah, who married Abbott Coan; John was drowned in New York.
Robert Powers married Annie Brown. George Powers married Loantha Good- win and for a second wife, her sister, Sarah Goodwin. He had three children: Elizabeth Powers Merrill, poet and writer; Nellie Bennett of Waterville; Loantha, who married Frank White and lives in Bangor.
JOHNSON FAMILY
PETER JOHNSON (1812-1883) came to Stetson from Robbinston, Maine, in the early thirties. He was a prominent teacher and supervisor of schools in Stetson for thirty years. During that time he spent his vacations working in a lathe mill in Orono.
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Soon after coming to Stetson, Peter cleared the land on the place opposite the church. He made a home for himself out of a store building which he had brought there from the village. The house still stands.
He married Lydia Coburn (1812-1888) of North Newport. To them were . born four children: Winthrop, Henry F., Mary E. and Evelyn M. Winthrop died young. Henry married twice. His first wife was Hannah Ranney, daughter of Moses and Hannah Ranney of Stetson, and his second wife was Rebecca A. Graham of North Newport. Mary married Boardman Friend of Etna and they had one son, Charles, who now resides in Etna. Evelyn married Dr. Freeman Hersey of the East Corinth Herseys. Dr. Hersey was at one time a resident of Stetson. He practiced medicine in Pittsfield, Salem and in Boston for many years.
To Henry F. and Rebecca A. Johnson were born four children: Henry P., Freeman C., Aaron C. and Mary L. Henry married Hazel MacGregor of Rum- ford and they have two children, Margaret and Pauline. Henry is now a prom- inent specialist, practicing in Portland. Freeman C. married Isabelle Tear of Old Town, where they reside. They have no children. . Aaron C. married Marion Lindsay of Brewer. They have one child, Aaron Coburn, Jr. Mary L. married Fingal Wohlman of Atkinson.
THOMAS JOHNSON came to Stetson a few years after his brother, Peter. The two cleared land above Peter's farm and Thomas built a home which now stands and is occupied by Mrs. Rebecca Johnson, widow of Henry F. Johnson. Thomas had two children, Harriet and Mariner. Harriet married Charles Orff of Exeter, a Civil War veteran. They had one child, Jennie, who married Andrew J. Nutter. They had six children: Grace, George, Charles, Ethel and two who died in infancy. Of these, Charles has a daughter, Maxine, and Ethel has two children, a daughter, Hazel, and a son, Roland. George, who married Mary Leeman, resides in the old home. Mariner married Alvenia Patterson of Perry. Of this union came four children : Myra, Arthur, Lottie and Jennie.
THATCHER ANDERSON
Thatcher Anderson, of whom, unfortunately, there is little data obtainable, for many years was the leader in musical circles of Stetson and vicinity, and dearly beloved by all who knew him. He is said to have possessed a truely re- markable tenor voice of great sweetness and most unusual range. His home was in the Clark's Hill neighborhood, later owned and occupied by Lewis Cross, Sr. and family. The son, Simon, and family still live in the village.
The Randall family settled in Mt. Pleasant about fifty years ago. Two brothers, Sands Randall and Alonzo Randall. Sands Randall married Rose Stevens and they had seven children: Rose, Augusta, William, Henry, Ellen, Ida and Rena. Alonzo Randall married Mary Stevens. The families are still living in the old home.
Newell Weeks was one of the old settlers in Stetson, coming here from Abbott, Maine. He had one son, George, and four daughters. George was in the harness business here for many years. He married Annie Sprague. Olie, his daughter, married George Locke of Stetson. Eva married Woodbury Bond of Stetson.
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TUFTS FAMILY
WILLIAM TUFTS of New Braintree, Worcester County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, husbandman, purchased from Moses Gill a parcel of land totaling 390 acres on the Sourdabscook River in the present town of Carmel prior to the purchase of the rest of Carmel and the township of Stetson from Gill by Amasa Stetson. From this ancestor, the Stetson Tufts family is descended.
Joseph Tufts was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, April 7, 1809, and his wife, Lucy. Elliot, in the same state in the town of Mason.
Elias Elliot Tufts, their son, was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, April 7, 1809 and in 1841 married Nancy T. Hodsdon of Levant, (a grandchild of General Moses Hodsdon). Their children were: Lucy A: (Mrs. Lonzo Newcomb of Her- mon) ; Rodolphus A., who was killed in the war in 1861; and Edward E., who married Nella Robinson of Exeter and lived on the old home place in Wolfboro. Lizzie Tufts Friend (Mrs. Ivan Friend) is their daughter; Flora C., Elsie A. and Eugene L., who married Ella Crockett and lived on the Crockett homestead, and Cornelia M., who died in infancy.
Their children are: Ida (Mrs. Willis. Berry of Livermore Falls) ; Walter, who married Gladys Galvin; Luella, and Cora (Mrs. Harry Austin of Exeter).
Elias Elliot Tufts came to Kenduskeag as a young man, entered the tannery business there and also conducted a store and boarding house. In 1846, their business was destroyed by fire. The family then removed to Stetson, where they . lived, with the exception of one year spent in North Newport, until their deaths.
DAVID LANGLEY, born September 5, 1792, first of the name, came from New Hampshire. He married Lydia Hoyt, born December 19, 1786. Their children were: Thomas, Amariah, Elizabeth, Lorenzo, David, Jr., Gulielma, John B. and Mary Ann.
Thomas married Mary Sweet Baker. Their children were: Woodbury F., . Eliza Jane, Amagiah, who died during the Civil War and was buried in Arlington Cemetery; Elizabeth Jane (Mrs. Joseph Souther of Levant) ; Moses Baker, who married Olive A. Taylor. Moses was in the Civil War in Co. I, 12th Maine Volunteers, later in Co. D, 22nd Reg. Veteran Reserve Corps, formerly 126 Co. First Bat. His children were: Litha, Estelle (Mrs. Albert Patten). Their daughter, Ethel May, became Mrs. Robert H. Graves. They have two children, Robert and Donald.
Moses Baker Langley also had a daughter, Florence Ada and Mary Olive (Mrs. William D. O'Keefe).
Mary Louise Langley married Ambrose Rowe.
Eliza Jane Langley married a Damon.
Lorenzo married Rhoda Mott Baker. Their children were: Charles, who died in March, 1864 when a member of 1st Maine Artillery, Bat. B .; Eveline, Juliette, Emma, and John. John's son, Charles, now lives in Newport.
David, Jr., had a son, Norton. Mary Ann married a Sleeper. Children of David and - Allen were: Julia, (Mrs. Hiller) Allen, whose wife was Frances. Their children: Walter and George, who married Annette Lawrence. Their son, Frank, married Mercy Lawrence. Effie married Everett Philbrook. Their daughter, Violet, married George Lawrence.
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DESCENDANTS OF THE MAYFLOWER
Mary Sweet Baker and Rhoda Mott Baker were sisters, children of Moses Baker and Rhoda Mott. They were descendants of Richard Warren and Frances Cooke of the Mayflower (1620) and of Tristram Coffin and Edward Starbuck who settled Nantucket Island in 1659. The Bakers were Quakers. Moses Baker was a school-master. They settled first in Wilton but later in Dutton. William A. and Frances A., his wife, are buried in Stetson.
DAVID ABBOT was born in York County in 1789. He was a blacksmith and was twice married. His first wife was Irene Bowden. She had six children. She died in York in 1823. His second wife was Mehitable Shaw. He came to Penobscot County in 1849 and settled in Levant, where he died in 1851. He had one child by the second marriage. She lived in York. His seven children were: Thomas, John, David, Abraham, James, Charlotte, and George. Thomas was born in York, April 24, 1813. At 21 years of age, he settled on the Lorenzo Ecles farm in Stetson. He married Elizabeth Pease of Exeter in 1837. She died in Stetson, 1876. They had nine children: John F. (married Almyra Ross and lives in Tops- field, Mass.) ; Irene E., Annette (Mrs. Charles Robinson of Stetson) ; Charles H. of Wenham, Massachusetts; Amanda O. (Mrs. William S. Randlett of Newport) ; Susan E. (Mrs. George W. Keyes of Stetson) ; Thomas W. of Stetson; Frank P. of Stetson; Preston W. of Topsfield, Mass., later of Stetson, married Flora Mayhew. They had three sons, Charles, Clarence and Maurice. Charles married Lettie Noddin of Stetson and they live in Corinth. Clarence married Hattie Hilton, their home being in Stetson. They have one son, Clarence, Jr. Maurice died when a young man.
John H. Abbott was a member of Co. G, Eleventh Maine Regiment of In- fantry. He was present at the capture of Richmond.
HENRY COWEN, Co. F, 7th Maine Infantry, and Lucy A., his wife, with their . infant daughter, Annie May, are buried in Clark's Hill cemetery.
JOHN WATSON GILMORE, son of a veteran of the war of 1812, was a native . of Durham, N. H. He married Rebecca Paine in 1833 and settled in Denmore. He was a blacksmith by trade. Mrs. Gilmore was the daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth Ayer Paine of Eastham, Cape Cod, Mass. She was born in 1808. Three of John and Rebecca's children were born in Denmark, Maine. They settled in Corinna in 1841, coming later to the Mrs. Olive Simpson place in Stetson. Their blacksmith shop is now used as a cooper, shop. John planted the big elm in the front yard. At that time 50 cents was allowed on the tax bill for every tree set by a property owner. They had six children: Antoinette Eliza, born in Denmark, was the oldest. The youngest child, Charles, was the only one born in Stetson. John Gilmore died in 1853 and is buried in Clark's Hill cemetery.
FIRST MASONIC FUNERAL
His was the first Masonic funeral ever held in Stetson. Rebecca Gilmore sold the homestead to John Wiggin and died at the home of her daughter, Antoinette Carpenter in 1875.
Antoinette Eliza Gilmore (born March 25, 1837) married Charles Henry Carpenter (born March 28, 1831) in Biddeford. They moved to Stetson, buying
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the property now owned by Mrs. George Hartwell from Daniel Sylvester and the blacksmith shop. They had four children, three of whom reached an adult age, the oldest son dying in 1882.
Charles Henry Carpenter, second son of James and Eliza (Young) Carpenter, was born in Eastport in 1831. He learned the blacksmith trade and started out for himself before he was twenty, coming to Stetson to work for John Gilmore. About 1850, he made two trips to California, worked in the mines and became part owner in one called "The Yankee Girl."
He came back to Maine and enlisted in the 15th Maine Regiment. He was a prisoner in Libby prison three months. He resumed his blacksmithing in Stetson after the war. In 1892, the family removed to Newport.
One who know the Gilmores and the Carpenters has described them as honest, useful, God-fearing citizens. What more need be said of anyone?
GARDNER M. BLACK was born in Bowlding, May 15, 1817. His wife was Nancy Maria P., (born in Stetson, June 4, 1817). Merrill Black was their son.
RICHARD BEAN was born in Waterborough, July, 1803. Catherine, his wife, (born in Bristol, April 21, 1812). Their sons were: Richard, Jr., and George H.
SEARLES DORE bought his farm from Daniel Wing and built the barn in 1844. Orrin's sister, Helen, married James Emerson. Another sister, Sarah, married James Wiggin. When Searles Dore and Porter Wiggin first came from Harmony, they stayed over night at the Wing place.
FIRST COLLEGE MAN
The MR. FOGG who built the Lennan place had a son killed in the Civil War. Another son was the first one .to go to college from Stetson.
There were two WING brothers, Stephen and Howard and a third Wing by the name of William. Stephen's sister, Mary, married William . Emerson. Howard's wife was Naomi. Stephen's daughter was Tilly Wing. Other children were: Isaac, Frances (Mrs. Getchell), Georgia (Mrs. Howard Cook), Carrie (Mrs. Herbert Smith), and: Walter. Howard's children were: James, Ella (Mrs. La- Point), Lizzie (Mrs. Larrabee), Cora (Mrs. Uriah Curtis), Lois (Mrs. Charles French), and Charlie. The LaPoint children were: Elwyn, Effie, Elizabeth, Harry and Laura.
Daniel Wing (born February, 1804) and Gracy (born November 14, 1807) were the parents of: Abigail H., William H., Charles and Sumual H.
William Wing, Jr., (born in Livermore, February 17, 1800, and Abigail, (born in Hampden, February 27, 1804) had the following children: Nancy H., Julia Ann, Cynthia, Sarah, Caroline H., and Zacheriah P.
ISAAC TATE, who married a Cook, had a son, Amasa.
Mrs. Elizabeth Winnie, daughter of William Lennan, now occupies the old home of her aunt, Mary Wiggin, in New Hampshire.
The family of Seth Weymouth were among the early settlers in Coboro, com- ing here seventy-five years ago. His children were: Erastus, Ellen, Fred and Henry. Erastus married Margaret Babb and is now living on the old place at the age of eighty-three. He had two children, Lillian and Ralph, who married Julia Bertrand.
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STEPHEN HURD was born in Harmony, August 16, 1807. His wife, Susannah H., in Freeport, August 31, 1806. Their children: Amasa S., Adonirum J., Samuel C., Abel, Stephen N., and Nathan R. Samuel's children were: Lucy, Calista; Liza, Sarah, William K., Samuel, Jr., Josiah, Albert, Etta, Fred and Edgar.
Samuel, Jr.'s children: Eva B. (Mrs. Fenderson), Effie B., Annie (Mrs. Bartlett of Dover-Foxcroft), Dora (Mrs. Winfield R. Allen of Bangor) who has two daughters, Fern and Rena.
STETSON STORES
The first store in Stetson is where W. A. Lawrence is now located. It was built and operated by E. G. Allen, who was succeeded by William Plaisted, William Ireland, Marshall Abbott, (who married Lew Barker's daughter, Evvie) George Hersey, William Ireland, Charles Ireland, John Jordan, H. W. Brown, Fred G. Sargent, Maurice Tasker, W. A. Lawrence.
The O. H. Shepley store was built and operated by Mr. Shepley but was later owned and managed by Jabez Soper.
William Plaisted built the tannery store. He sold to Will I. Shaw, who con- tinued it until about 1875, when it was converted into a residence. Charles Hill built the store where he held forth as merchant and postmaster until after the war, when he sold to Dr. I. W. Tibbetts and John Q. Adams (who married the doctor's sister). They were succeeded by C. E. Hammons, C. R. Ireland and the present proprietor, I. B. Friend. It was at this store that the anxious
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residents gathered during war times to wait for the arrival of the Etna stage and hear P. M. Hill read the war news.
Charles Demerritt and Dana Goodwin ran a store also, and were succeeded by Lewis Blanchard. That store burned.
Maj. J. W. Cloudman kept store and was postmaster. He was followed. by Newton G. Merrill, G. M. Bond. Charles Ireland bought the store and moved it onto the other side of Main Street, beside Lewis Barker's office. The town now owns this building and uses it for a town office and library.
Eben Dresser formerly "ran" a store in East Stetson.
Later, Charles . Demerritt built the store in East Stetson now owned and operated by G. C. and Mary Demerritt.
THE TANNERY
The tannery once employed some 50 men, and bark was hauled here for a radius of twenty-five miles. The cheese factory, cooper shop, carriage shop and other mills made Stetson a hustling community .. Stetson still manufactures thousands of barrels annually, but nearly all of the other establishments except the saw mill, have fallen into disuse.
CHAPTER X. OTHER SETTLERS
DR. CALVIN SEAVEY established his practice of medicine in Stetson in 1837 and stayed there until he removed to Bangor in 1853. He was the son of Rev. Reuben and Polly (Pease) Seavey, who had 16 children-and were the third family settled in Exeter, where the doctor was born. A brother of Calvin was the first white child born in Exeter.
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