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In 1782 it was proposed to divide the two parishes. This resulted in the incorporation of the district of Alfred from the North Parish, Feb. 4, 1794. Massabesie was taken off, and incorporated as a separate town, under the name of Waterborough, March 6, 1787. That part now included in the town of Dayton north of Salmon Falls, the town of Hollis, and the part of Limington south of the Little Ossi-
៛ Massabesie was afterwards incorporated as Waterborough. It took its name from an Indian woman who lived beside the pond whieb still bears her name. The jurisdiction of the town of Sanford extended over the entire Phillips tract until the several towns in- cluded in the grant were separately incorporated.
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pee River, was incorporated as Phillipsburg, Feb. 27, 1798. Previous to their incorporation, all the towns of the Maj. Phillips Purchase were under the jurisdiction of Sanford. At a meeting held in the Congregationalist meeting-house, Dec. 14, 1807, in which Capt. Sheldon Hobbs was elected moderator, it was voted that the district of Alfred be incor- porated in a separate or distinct town. The Supreme Court had been held there since 1802, and a court-house contrib- uted much to its future prospects. These were forwarded, without jealousy, by the inhabitants of the South Parish. The population at its organization is not known. Among the votes for Governor of Massachusetts, the largest previous to 1790 was 76 cast for John Hancock.
In January, 1809, a committee of seven was appointed to draft an address to the Senate and House of Representa- tives in the name of the town, praying for relief from the several acts of the embargo, " considering thein as unneces- sary, unequal, unjust, oppressive, and tyrannical; laws tend- ing to reduce us to poverty and the most abject slavery ;" that the law was in " open violation of the constitution, subjecting us to unlawful seizures and detentions, and therefore not binding upon us. Therefore, after once ap- plying to the President of the United States while the power was vested in him for relief, and received none, we think it is our duty to look to you as that tribunal compe- tent and willing to assist us in our present embarrassed situation." The committee comprised Caleb Emery, Elisha Allen, William Emery. John Paul, John Powers, Jr., Caleb Emery (3d), and Caleb Emery (4th). On the reading of the petition a long series of resolutions was adopted, de- claring that "any law which requires the whole manual force of the Nation with an army of 150,000 men to enforce it must be unjust, arbitrary, and inconsistent with every principle which establishes and secures a republican govern- ment." They condemned Congress, and applied to the State Legislature for relief. The resolutions were ordered published in the Freeman's Friend.
At the convention of 1819 to form the State of Maine, Capt. Timothy Shaw and Elisha Allen were delegates from Sanford. Fifteen men were appointed a committee by the town to give them instructions before they went, and two more were added to the committee at their session. The town rejected the constitution by a vote of 85 to 10.
Two companies of volunteers were formed partly within the town for the Mexican war, and their serviccs tendered to the government. Of these, Hon. Charles E. Weld, a prominent lawyer of Hollis, was first lieutenant, and Sam- uel S. Thing, Esq., a lawyer of New York, was second lieutenant of Company C, organized Aug. 7, 1846, under Capt. Moses Goodwin, of Shapleigh ; and William Emery (3d), of Sanford, now a prominent lawyer of Alfred, was captain of Company H, organized Dec. 12, 1846.
Elections were first held at the houses of Messrs. Willard and Jonathan Powers. In 1788 the meeting-house in the North Parish was used. After 1792 they were held in both the Baptist and Congregationalist meeting-houses. After 1840 a town-house at Saoford Corner was occupied until the erection of the present one at Springvale.
The Springvale Aqueduct Company was organized through the exertions of John A. Dennett, Stephen E.
Hersom, and Samuel D. Tibbetts, and was incorporated in 1876. Mr. Tibbetts has been president since its organiza- tion. The water is taken from Littlefield Pond, a deep, pure stream covering an area of thirty-five acres a mile and a half to the northeast, and one hundred and ninety-seven feet above the river at the Print- Works Dam. The surface of the main street is thirty feet higher than the river. There have been about $6000 expended in completing this work.
THE REVOLUTION.
In 1776 the town stores of ammunition were increased by half a barrel of powder, one gross of flints, and " half a hundred led." John Stanyon and Nathaniel Conant were chosen to take care of it till ealled for. Nearly all the fam- ilies were represented by some member in the Continental army before the end of the war.
On the offer of arms by the Boston board in 1778 it was voted not to raise any money, as the town was already heavily burdened to support the war, but to give liberty to any one or more persons to buy arms from the board at Boston. A committee of safety was elected each year during the war. The bounty on wolves was discontinued in 1779, that the money might be used in the support of soldiers' families. Money did not go far at that time. The pay of selectmen was increased to £4 10s. per day, and the ordinary appro- priation for preaching was increased to £500.
In 1780 a meeting to examine the several articles in the new form of government chose committees to make remarks on the third and seventh articles, and to take under con- sideration that the Governor, senators, and councilors shall be Protestants. On the report of the committee the town voted not to act upon the new form of government. Capt. Morgan Lewis, Capt. Edward Harmon, and Jonathan Tib- betts were a committee to hire soldiers for the south ward of the town .* Six hundred and fifty pounds were raised for six months' soldiers' bounty, and £450 to hire three years' soldiers.
A tax of 3210 pounds of beef was assessed upon the town, and £5000 voted to buy it with. This beef was bought from the lowest bidders and delivered to the county agent at Kennebunk Landing. In 1781, £9248 were ex- pended for beef and 8 more soldiers furnished. Each man was furnished with a new pair of shoes by the town. Sol- diers' clothing was furnished by tax and forwarded to the men in the field.
CIVIL LIST. TOWN CLERKS.
Samuel Willard, 1768-69 ; John Stanyon, 1770-73; John Moulton, 1774-79; Caleb Emery, 1780 ; Joel Moulton, 1781-96; Samuel Nason, 1797-98; Stephen Hobbs, 1799; Samuel Nason, 1800; Stephen Hobbs, 1801-3 ; Thomas Keeler, 1804-7; Ezra Thomp- son (vacancy), 1807; Elisha Allen, 1808-9; Ebenezer Linscott, 1810 ; Elisha Allen, 1811-29; Timothy Shaw, 1830-41; Samuel Tripp, 1842-45; Charles O. Lord, 1846-49; Caleb S. Emery, 1850 ; Charles O. Lord, 1851-52; Stephen Merrett, 1853-55; Asa Low, 1856-58 ; Salter Emery, 1859-60; Moses Emery, 1861-65 ; John A. Dennett, 1866-79.
SELECTMEN.
1768-69 .- Jonathan Johnson, William Bennett, Samuel Willard. 1770-71 .- Samuel Willard, William Bennett, John Stanyon.
# The south ward of the town was the present Sanford, in distinc- tion from Alfred, the north parish.
GEORGE A. FROST.
The Frost family traces its descent to an ancestor of English birth who resided near Sheffield. His father, John, was a native of Milford, Mass., his mother, Hannah Morrill, was a native of Wells, York Co.
His father spent his entire life in mercantile pursuits, first as a clerk in Boston, and afterwards for many years as a general merchant in Sanford, where he died in 1851. His wife still survives at the age of eighty-nine, having been born in 1790.
George A. was born in the town of Sanford, April 2, 1813. He was educated in the common school and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. For the years 1836-37 he was a partner with his father, and for three years he was in business with H. P. Storer (now of Portland), and, since the dissolution
of this firm, he has carried on a general merchan- dise trade at Sanford for thirty years.
In politics he was formerly a Whig and afterwards a Republican. In 1861-62 he was a member of the executive council, and was a trustee of the Maine Insane Hospital for nine years, being a part of the time president of the board.
He is interested in all local enterprises tending to the education of the rising generation and the prosperity of the people, and is a promoter of re- ligious and kindred interests. As a business man he is active, judicions, and possessed of sterling integrity in all his business relations. He married, April 14, 1835, Mary, daughter of Moses Lord, of Sanford. They had one child, born in 1836, but survived only six years.
B. F. HANSON,
second son of Joshua and Phil- emina (Hobbs) Hanson, was born July 31, 1818, on the farm where he now resides. His grandfather was for many years prior to his death a resident of Waterbo- rough, York Co., aud his parents were also natives of this county. His father died in 1866; his mother in 1865.
He learned the blacksmith's trade from his father, and at the age of twenty, left home to battle with life for himself. It is stated as a fact that at the age of twenty- eight, assisted by his brother George M., he turned four hundred horse- shoes in eleven hours, a most remarkable amount of labor in those days of hard toil, and now
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B.F.HANSON.
a matter regarded almost impos- sible.
In 1852 he returned to his na- tive town, and gave his attention to agricultural pursuits, excepting four years in trade at Sanford's Corners. While a resident of Somersworth, N. H., he was se- lectman, and since his return to York County, he was elected, on the Republican ticket, a member of the Legislature of 1862, and for the years 1874-75 served in the State Senate. He is, in 1879, town agent. William Hanson married, Feb. 21, 1840, Mary, daughter of Elias Libby. They have four sons: Luther, of Chel- sea ; Benjamin F., of Great Falls, N. H .; Charles H., and George William, both at Waterville Col- lege.
RES. OF HON B. F HANSON, SANFORD, MAINE.
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TOWN OF SANFORD.
1772 .- Jonathan Johnson, William Bennett, Daniel Gile. 1773 .- Daniel Gile, James Gary, William Bennett. 1774-76 .- Daniel Gile, Morgan Lewis, James Gary. 1777 .- James Gary, Morgan Lewis, Joel Moulton. 1778 .- Daniel Gile, Morgan Lewis, Phinehas Thompson. 1779 .- Morgan Lewis, Walter Powers, Joel Moulton. 1780 .- Caleb Emery, Nathaniel Bennett, Ebenezer Hall. 1781 .- Samuel Nason, James Gove, Elenzer Chadbourne. 1782-83 .- William Parson, James Gove, Eleazer Chadbourne. 1784 .- William Parson, Elenzer Chadbourne, Joel Moulton. 1785 .- Capt. Caleb Emery, Eleazer Chadbourne, Henry Smith. 1786 .- Caleb Emery, Henry Smith, Samuel Nason. 1787 .- Henry Smith, Eleazer Chadbourne, Joshun Goodwin. 1788 .- Samuel Nason, Eleazer Chadbourne, Henry Smith. 1789 .- Samuel Nason, Eleazer Chadbourne, William Person. 1790 .- Samuel Nason, Joel Moulton, Henry Smith. 1791 .- Caleb Emery, William Parson, Henry Smith. 1792-93 .- Samuel Nason, Henry Smith, Sheldon Hobbs. 1794 .- Samuel Nason, Ezra Thompson, Sheldon Hobbs. 1795 .- Sheldon Hobbs, Ezra Thompson, Elenzer Chadbourne. 1796-98 .- Samuel Nason, Eleazer Chadbourne, Ezra Thompson. 1799 .- Samuel Shaw, Stephen Gowen, Sheldon Hobbs. 1800 .- Samuel Nason, Sheldon Hobbs, Ezra Thompson. 1801 .- Ezra Thompson, Caleb Emery, Eleazer Chadbourne. 1802 .- Ezra Thompson, Elenzer Chadbourne, Jedediah Allen. 1803 .- Eleazer Chadbourne, Ezra Thompson, Jedediah Allen. 1804 .- Jedediah Allen, Samuel Shaw, Ezra Thompson. 1805 .- Samuel Shaw, Thomas Keeler, Jedediah Allen. 1806 .- Thomas Keeler, Samuel Straw, Rufus Bennett. 1807 .- Thomas Keeler, Samuel Straw, Rufus Bennett, Elisha Allen .* 1808-9 .- Ezra Thompson, Elisha Allen, Rufus Bennett. 1810 .- Rufus Bennett, Sheldon Hobbs, Elisha Allen. 1811-12 .- Sheldon Hobbs, Elisha Allen, Rufus Bennett. 1813 .- Sheldon IIobbs, Rufus Bennett, Timothy Shaw. 1814 .- Sheldon Hobbs, Thomas Shackley, Elisha Allen. 1815 .- Sheldon Hobbs, Timothy Shaw, Jobn Libby. 1816-17 .- Sheldon Hobbs, Jr., Timothy Shaw, Enoch Lord. 1818-19 .- Timothy Shaw, Enoch Lord, John Frost (2d). 1820 .- Capt. Timothy Shaw, Sheldon Hobbs, Ezra Thompson. 1821 .- Capt. Timothy Shaw, Sheldon Hobbs, Jr , Ezra Thompson. 1822 .- Sheldon Hobbs, Timothy Shaw, John Frost. 1823-24 .- Sheldon Hobbs, Timothy Shaw, John Frost (3d). 1825 .- Timothy Show, John Powers, Jr., Sheldon Hobbs. 1826 .- Sheldon Hobbs, Timothy Shaw, Johu Powers. 1827 .- John Powers, Timothy Shaw, Nothao Goodwin. 1828 .- John Powers, Daniel Gowen, John Frost. 1829 .- John Powers, Daniel Gowen, Timothy Shaw. 1830-33 .- John Powers, Timothy Shaw, Daniel P. Shaw. 1834-35 .- Timothy Shaw, Daniel P. Shaw, William B. Merrick. 1836 .- Timothy Shaw, Daniel P. Shaw, Jotham Welch. 1837 .- Jotham Welch, Daniel P. Shaw, John Storer. 1838 .- Timothy Shaw, Daniel P. Shaw, Jotham Welch. 1839 .- Orin P. Shaw, Theodore Tripp, Nehemiah Butler. 1840 .- Nehemiah Butler, Jotham Welch, Timuthy Shaw. 1841 .- Nehemiah Butler, Jotham Welch, Gen. Timothy Shaw. 1842 .- Amos F. How, Enoch Frost, Stephen Willard. 1843 .- Amos F. How, Enoch Frost, John Shaw. 1844 .- Samuel B. Emery, Thomas J. Allen, Nathaniel Hobbs. 1845 .- Nathaniel Hobbs, Samuel B. Emery, John Merrill. 1846 .- Enoch Frost, John Shaw, Hornce Bennett. 1847-48 .- Samuel B. Emcry, Enoch Frost, John Carroll. 1849 .- Samuel B. Emery, John Carroll, Jonathan Tibbetts. 1850-51 .- Theodore Willard, Daniel Cheney, Christopher Shackford. 1852 .- Theodore Willard, Albert I. Smith, Theodore Tripp. 1853 .- James M. Burbank, Stephen Willard, Nehemiah Butler. 1854-55 .- James M. Burbank, Nehemiah Butler, Horace Bennett. 1856-58 .- Jas. M. Burbank, Hornce Bennett, Nath. Chadbourne, Jr. 1859 .- Jonas S. Littlefield, Albert J. Smith, Gershom Ricker. 1860 .- Jonas S. Littlefield, John Carroll, Nehemiah Butler. 1861-64 .- Asa Low, Moses H. Libby, George Bennett. 1865-66 .- Asa Low, Moses Jelleson, Jesse Furbish. 1867 .- Irving A. Butler, Daniel G. Clark, George Jacobs.
1868 .- Alvah W. Dam, Daniel G. Clark, George Jacobs. 1869 .- Alvah W. Dam, William Russell, Lewis Butler. 1870 .- Lewis Butler, William Russell, Hosen Willard. 1871 .- Alvoh W. Dam, Lewis Butler, William Russell. 1872 .- Alvah W. Dam, Walter Cram, John B. Libby. 1873-76 .- Alvah W. Dam, Lewis Butler, Enoch F. Lord. 1877 .- Alvah W. Dam, George W. Gowen, Walter Cram. 1878 .- Alvnh W. Dam, Walter Cram, Darling H. Ross. 1879 .- Darling H. Ross, Ernest M. Goodall, Ivory C. Allen.
VILLAGES AND HAMLETS. SPRINGVALE.
Springvale is a beautiful manufacturing village in the north part of the town, situated on both sides of the Mou- sam River, at the outlet of a beautiful pond.
The name of the village originated from a large and beau- tiful spring of pure water just below the grist-mill. After the print-works were completed, they wished to have a sort of dedication, feeling joyful at their success, and so they gathered around the spring, where, when a prayer was offered, a speech was called for, and a name demanded for the place. In reply, the speaker, Rev. Thomas Greenhalgh, agent of the company, said, " Here is the spring at our feet, and here is the vale,-stretching out on either hand of us ; we will call it Springvale."
The first house built in the vicinity is directly east and a few rods from George A. Frost's store, and is known as the Widow Adams' house.
A tract of land one hundred and seventy-six rods square, on the west side of the river, extending above the old Pro- vincial site, and bordering on the river, was purchased by William Frost, of Berwick, in 1787, and settled by his son William, who, for fifteen or twenty years, was colonel of militia, and afterwards chosen major-general. He died in 1822, and was buried with military honors.
In 1827 the Springvale Print-Works were erected on a part of his land donated for that purpose. A corporation was formed by J. Hayden, Ichabod Frost, Amos Boyd, Amos Getchell, David Fall, and others, in 1840, which led to the erection of the cotton-mill, and first operated by the Springvale Manufacturing Company, then by Fitch & Hodg- don.
The first trader in this place was Robert Fernald, in a small shop owned by Mrs. Rankin.
The Portland and Rochester Railroad crosses the town just below Springvale, and affords good facilities for travel and transportation. There are daily stage connections with the towns on the north.
The business of the place is comprised in the following manufactures and industries :
Springvale Reporter: This newspaper was first issued as a six-column, four-page weekly newspaper, by H. Carlton Cheever, founder of the Danvers, Mass., MMirror. The first number was issued Jan. 1, 1876, at $1.50 a year, as an in- dependent local newspaper. In 1877 the paper took a firm stand for the political movement against thic old parties. The circulation has increased from 300 the first year to 800 in 1879. It was enlarged to seven columns in March, 1877, and the subscription reduced to $I per year in Jan- uary, 1878. Frank C. Noyes, of Saco, son of William Noyes, of the Saco Independent, became a partner, under the firm-style of Cheever & Noyes, in March, 1879.
# Elisha Allen was elected to fill vacancy of Thomas Keeler, elected representative to the General Court.
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Springvale Print-Works : Incorporate stock, $100,000. E. W. Holbrook, president; G. K. Gibbs, agent. 10,000 spindles ; manufactures sheetings; has been under the present management since 1873.
Shoe manufactory : 1. A. Butler & Co., manufacture ladies' and misses' machine-sewed shoes. Employs 60 to 75 operatives, and turns out about $70,000 worth of manufac- tured goods annually. Established by Butler & Stiles about 1869, and operated by the present firm since 1876. Irving A. Butler, the senior member of the firm, has been manu- facturing shoes in the village on a large scale since 1853, and was partner with John D. Fogg from 1869 to 1876. There were formerly the three firms of Butler & Stiles, Butler & Fogg, and Cunaings Bros., the last of which was removed to South Berwick, and the former absorbed by the present firm.
Clothing manufactories : R. A. Kempton, vests, estab- lished in 1873, employs 10 operatives in shop, and sends work out through the surrounding towns, as far as Wells, Alfred, and the borders of New Hampshire, turning out 90,000 garments a year ; Weeks & Cheney, vests, since 1874, 6 to 10 operatives in shop, established by John Mer- rill, about 1839 ; Longee & Fenderson, pants, established in 1875, 4 to 10 operatives in shop; Eugene Fenderson, since 1879; I. B. Stiles, + operatives.
Grist-mills : John H. Merrill & Co., first erected as early as 1774; L. H. Shockley & Co.
Cigars : L. Taylor.
Sash and blinds : E. P. Ross, sale- and finishing-rooms, established in 1877.
Coffins and caskets : John M. Pillsbury, established by Samuel D. Tibbetts, in 1858.
Lumber-mills : F. Jordan & Co., a mile northeast of the village, formerly Lord & Hemingway ; W. S. Rice & Co.
Harness-waker : Charles E. Ham, established in 1870; first in the place.
Carpenters and builders : Giles & Otis ; Martin Shackley. Mason : E. Earle.
Painters : H. W. Fairbanks ; James Chaney.
Gunsmith : M. W. Conor, established 1879.
Blacksmiths: Hodgdon & Co .; E. C. Libby ; William F. Hanson & Son.
Ilotels : Tibbetts House, S. D. Tibbetts, erected 1864; Butler llouse, C. E. Butler, erected 1877.
Lawyers : Asa Low, Howard Frost, Esq.
Physicians : Ivory Brooks, Lorenzo Dow, William M. Simpson.
Eastern Express Co. : Leroy Wentworth, agent.
Western Union Telegraph-Office : C. Marsh Howe, ope- rator.
Drug-store : C. Marsh Howe, 1879, formerly J. R. Colby ; town liquor agency, telegraph-office, and circulating library.
General stores: A. J. Smith & Co., established 1874; E. & E. E. Goodwin, established 1877; W. A. Ricker & Co., since 1877, established by W. A. Ricker, in 1871; W. 11. Dyer; Edwin J. Reed, since 1877, established in company with Stephen M. HTersom, in 1873.
Groceries: A. M. Littlefield, established as furniture- store, in 1876, groceries added in 1878; H. J. Frost, es- tablished 1878.
Corn, flour, and coal : L. H. Shapley & Co .; coal and wood, S. B. Ridley.
Stoves and tinware : William Smith, established 1858.
Dry- and fancy-goods : Charles H. Frost, since 1870, es- tablished in company with George A. Frost, about 1850; Enoch F. Lord, established 1877, commenced business here in 1861.
Dry-goods and clothing : John A. Dennett, established 1857; Moses Dennett, established 1872.
Tailors : N. Hersom ; S. R. Shehan, established 1879. Furnishing goods : W. O. Hanson.
Millinery : Mrs. E. J. Andrews, since 1879, established by Mrs. H. H. McDonald, 1877; F. H. Cousens, estab- lished 1S79.
Saloons : Benjamin Graves, established 1876; Edward A. Wentworth.
Livery-stables : C. E. Butler; S. D. Tebbetts; E. G. Murray.
Barber : C. L. Hamilton.
Sewing-machines : Singer Manufacturing Co., established 1879, M. S. Robins, agent. Mails are daily by rail. How- ard Frost, Esq., has been postmaster since 1S63.
SANFORD,
the first village, is finely located in the centre of a broad valley of gently-rolling land, upon the west bank of Mousam River, two miles south of Springvale. It is regularly laid out, and contains over one hundred dwellings, nearly one- half of which have been erected since 1870. It first be- came a business centre about 1S06. There are here a fine school-house and two churches. The place is connected by telegraph with the Western Union Company's lines. Its first traders were Thomas Keeler, Gen. Allen, John Frost, John Storer, Moses Lord, and Gen. Shaw. A saw- and grist-mill were built at an early period. Afterwards mills for carding and fulling were put into operation by Gen. Allen or Jeremiah Moulton. There was also a company consisting of Messrs. Melvin, Hutchinson, and Sargent, which carried on manufacturing for a while. The business of the place consists of the two factories and a flourishing trade with the surrounding country.
Sanford Mills: robes and blankets, Thomas Goodall. The factory of Shaw, Paine & Co. was destroyed by fire in 1849. This was afterwards built by Mr. Miller, for the manufacture of woolen fabrics. Within a few years it has been bought and greatly enlarged by Thomas Goodall, who is now carrying on an extensive business in the manufacture of sleigh-robes and blankets, such as are nowhere else made in New England.
Mousam River Mills : carpets, Goodall & Garnsey, established in 1876.
Hardware and stoves : Prescott Emery, established about 1830 by Samuel B. and William L. Emery.
Furniture : Samuel B. Emery, established in 1879.
General stores: Kimball Bros. & Co., established in 1876; Newell & Libby, established in 1877.
Drugs : Rev. S. Estes since 1872; drug-store first opened by Gen. Elisha Allen, one of the first merchants of the town.
Eastern Express Company : E. K. Bennett, agent.
GEORGE NASSON,
eldest son of Thomas and Sally (Frast) Nasson, both natives of York County, was born at San- ford Corners Aug. 3, 1815. His grandfather, Samuel Nasson, was one of the early settlers of San- ford.
His father died Oct. 16, 1825, when young Nasson was obliged to leave home, and for three years, then a mere lad, he went from place to place. With a capital of twenty-five cents lie went to sea, but only remained one year. He was a peddler, and a clerk for a few years, and at the age of seventeen returned to his native town, and was employed in the printery. Nov. 24, 1834, his mother died, and at her re- quest he assumed the care of his
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younger brothers, took them to Boston and procured places for them, where they earned their support. From 1838 to 1861 he was engaged in business in Boston. He then returned to Springvale, in the town of San- ford, where he has since been engaged quite largely in real- estate operations. Ill health and a desire to see more of the world, has led him to visit other parts of it. In 1848-49 he visited Cuba, in 1851 California, in 1859 he made the tour of Eu- rope, and for the past ten years he has spent his winters in Flor- ida. Ile is an active member of the Democratic party.
He married, in 1852, Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Dearborn, of Sanborntown, N. H. She died in 1861.
GEO. NASSON'S HOTEL AND RESIDENCE, SPRINGVALE, YORK CO., NE.
JEREMIAH MOULTON,
second son of Rufus and Mariam Moulton, was born in the town of Sanford Dec. 28, 1825. His grandfather lived for many years in that town, and there died, and his father and mother were both natives of the same town; the former died in 1870, the latter in 1872.
He received the advantages af- forded by the common schools of his time for obtaining an edu- cation, and since early manhood has resided on a farm. Upon the death of his father he became sole proprietor of the farm, then containing one hundred and fif-
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JEREMIAH MOULTON.
teen acres, to which he has made additions, until it now contains two hundred and fifty acres.
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