History of York County, Maine, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 115

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 730

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On Cook's Brook, which is the northern boundary of the town, Kimball's Saw-Mills are located at a 40-foot fall, furnishing sufficient power nearly the entire year. A mile above, Cook's saw-, grist,- and shingle-mills have for many years derived their power from this stream. Wells' " Water- Powers of Maine" gives 7 water-privileges entirely within the limits of this town,-4 on Hill's Brook and 3 on Swan's Pond Brook, at Goodwin's Mills. At these mills there is a fall of 33 feet. At Hanson & Pierce's Mill, a few rods below, there is a fall of 16 feet. The two last are occupied by the saw-, shingle-, and elapboard-mills of Simon Pieree, and the grist-mill of Sylvester Hill, formerly Good- win's Mill.

VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.

GOODWIN'S MILL, on Swan Brook, six miles from Bid- deford, contains 20 fine dwellings, part in Limington, and is surrounded by fine cultivated farms.

UNION FALLS contains half a dozen dwellings, a store a saw-, planing-, wood-working-, and grist-mill, and in autumn, a cider-mill, the property of Jesse G. Harmon. This place was settled by Stephen Hopkinson, son of John Hopkinson (2d), of Buxton, who ereeted the first mill in company with Nathaniel Dunn and Pelatiah Came, in 1806.

PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST.

The site of the old bloek-house, or fort, about sixty yards from the bank of the Saco River, is finely located for a de- fense ; the intervale is here a quarter of a mile wide, and thirty feet above the river bed. The ground slopes gently to the west and south, then rises into a ridge of flat land thirty or forty feet above the intervale, which is continued across the river, and confined the possible use of cannou to elose quarters, in repelling a charge upon the surrounding plain. A grove of sumac and a burying-ground mark the spot where the fort and its surrounding palisades stood until the present eentury .* This spot is said to have never been plowed.

Jonathan Bean, who died in 1840, aged eighty-two, is buried here, with Thomas Davis, a soldier of the Revolution, who died in 1834, aged seventy-five, and some thirty others, most of whose graves are unmarked. Jacob Bean, his grand- son, has a huge iron key, plowed up near by, and supposed to be the key of the bloek-house.

The old house of Jonathan Bean stands beside the road two hundred and eighty yards to the westward, its roof falling in, but still showing the style of the best frame buildings of one hundred years ago.

# The block-house was standing on the Bean farm as late as ISI0.

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TOWN OF DAYTON.

The grave of John Gordon, the first settler, is on the H. F. Moore place, on the Biddeford road, near Boiling Spring. Mr. Gordon was a very powerful, raw-boned man, six feet and four inches tall, and possessed of great courage and undaunted energy. He commenced the clearing near his grave in 1753, when about nineteen years old, living with his father at the south, or with his brother camping in the woods, hastening across the plains to the fort when menaced by Indians, and leaving his opening only to take up arms at the outbreak of hostilities. He returned at the peace of 1759, and spent the remainder of his days here. He died at the age of ninety-four years.

INCORPORATION.

This town appears to have been designed, from the first settlement, for a separate government. May 25, 1797, a petition, signed by Joseph Chadbourne aud others, requested the General Court to set off that part of Hollis south of Cook's Brook, and erect of it a separate plantation. This action was diverted by the incorporation of the town of Hollis the next year. It remained a part of Hollis until April 7, 1854, when it was incorporated by act of the Legislature, and became the town of Dayton.

The first election was held at the brick school-house, near the store of John M. Goodwin, at Goodwin's Landing, on Monday, May 1, 1854. John M. Goodwin was elected Moderator ; John S. Murch, Town Clerk ; Daniel Hill (2d), Benjamin C. Hight, and James R. Haley, Selectmen, Asses- sors, and Overseers of the Poor ; John Smith, Treasurer ; John M. Goodwin, Town Agent ; aud Simon Meserve, Col- lector and Constable.

A vote of thanks to John M. Goodwin, for his exertions in getting the town incorporated, was passed; the Gould school-house selected as the place of future elections, and the meeting dissolved. The highest number of votes cast for one office was 126.

The first list of jurors was made Feb. 28, 1855, and com- prised the names of Columbus Dyer, Elisha Cleaves, David Meserve, Asa R. Fogg, John Whitehouse, William F. Hight, Robert Cleaves, Aaron Buzzell, Samuel L. Smith, James Maddox, Hezekiah Young, Edgcomb Haley, Leon- ard Ford, Cyrus Waterhouse, and Horatio Dunn.

Jesse Locke was appointed by the selectmen to sell intox- icating liquor according to law. There is no town-house. Elections have continued to be held in the brick school- house since the incorporation of the town.

CIVIL LIST. TOWN CLERKS.

Joha S. Murch, 1854-56; Aaron P. Buzzell, 1857-60; Jobn S. Murch, 1861; Aaron P. Buzzell, 1862-63; Enoch C. Purinton, 1864; Zebulon G. Staples, 1865-67 ; George W. Rumery, 1868; Aaron P. Buzzell, 1869-70; Rufus H. Butterfield, 1871-73; Francis N. Clark, 1874-76; George F. Peavey, 1877-78; John W. Clark, 1879.

SELECTMEN.

1854-56 .- Daniel Hill (2d), Benjamin C. Hight, James R. Haley. 1857-58 .- James R. Haley, James Maddox, Josepb Roberts. 1859 .- James R. Haley, Joseph Roberts, Joshua Clark. 1860 .- James R. Haley, Daniel Dyer, Jr., Alpheus Dyer. 1861 .- Daniel Hill, Jr., Benjamin C. Hight, Cyrus K. Smith. 1862-63 .- James R. Haley, Edgcomb Haley, Edgcomb Hill.

1864 .- Zebulon G. Staples, Josepb Roberts, James Maddox. 1865-66 .- James R. Haley, Horace Woodman, Josiah H. B. Buzzell. 1867 .- James R. Haley, Aaron P. Buzzell, Edgcomb Hill. 1868 .- Zebulon G. Staples, Aaron P. Buzzell, Alpbeus Dyer. 1869 .- Zebulon G. Staples, Alpheus Dycr, Benjamio C. Hight. 1870 .- William Waterhouse, George H. Moore, James R. Ilaley. 1871 .- William Waterhouse, Asa R. Fogg, James K. Huntress. 1872-73 .- William Waterhouse, Asa R. Fogg, Horace Woodman. 1874 .- Horace Woodman, Benjamin Whitebouse, Wm. H. Davis. 1875-76 .- Benjamin Whitehouse, Horace Woodman, Stephen Me- serve.

1877 .- Wm. H. Waterhouse, Stephen Meserve, Isaiah Hill. 1878 .- William H. Waterhouse, Isaiah Hill, Albert R. Dyer. 1879 .- Samuel C. Hight, Albert R. Dyer, Benjamin Whitehouse.

CHURCHES.

Early surrounded by churches in the adjoining towns, the people soon became members and gave to these their liberal support. The first minister in the town, Rev. Simon Locke, came in 1782, but, owing to the sparseness of the settlement, left to become pastor of a church in Lyman. He lived near Goodwin's Mill for many years.

A school-house was built for joint use of schools and meetings, and half the seats were high, old-fashioned, boxed-in pews. This was used for many years, and finally replaced by Rev. Timothy Hodgdon's lower meeting-house, which was built near the Boiling Spring in 1802-3, by Daniel Stone, Capt. John Gould, and Joseph Smith, com- mittee for the town. After the death of the Rev. Mr. Hodgdon in 1875, Rev. John Hubbard. who was ordained in this building, and Rev. Mr. Chadbourne occupied the church as pastors. The meeting-house was sold at auction in 1839. Noah Smith received, as the proceeds due the pew-right of his father, John Smith, about 75 cents. The church members united with those of neighboring churches and dissolved their organization.

The sale of the meeting-house was considered by many at that time as a gross imposition, and was only accounted for by a temporary suspension of religious services. The building was still sound and was a good church. It was sold on the bid of a man who hurriedly entered, ascended into the garret, and, returning as quickly, cried his bid of $67, much to the astonishment and chagrin of those who believed themselves interested parties.

The town has now no church, though contributing lib- erally to the support of religious worship, both in members and means. The lawyers, physicians, ministers, and mer- chants reside in adjoining towns. The town had no post- office until the Dayton post-office was openeed in the centre of the town, with Mrs. Fannie M. Rumery post- mistress, in 1878.

SCHOOLS.

A school-house built on the T. M. Buck farm, south of Pot-Hook Brook in the east part of the town, was filled with scholars, children of the first settlers, who came from the greater part of the present town. The building, which was abandoned about 1810, was attended by Mrs. Daniel Smith, daughter of Robert Cleaves, as early as 1806, and the early members of the family before her. She distinctly remembers its heavy pews, and large open fireplace extend- ing across one end, and speaks of it as a frame building and very old at that time.

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PROMINENT MEN.

The leading citizens of Dayton have been Capt. John Smith and Capt. Thomas Smith, the early trader and com- mander of the old fort. Zebulon Gordon, who was made elerk at the first plantation election of Little Falls planta- tion in 1781.

Hon. Jesse Locke, son of the Rev. Simon Locke, was a leading citizen for many years. He represented his town in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1810 to 1816.

Andrew Gordon, who settled near the fort in 1753, and by his early settlement, hardihood, and industry, became prominent, was killed in 1804 by a falling tree.

Robert Cleaves, Daniel Hill, James R. Haley, Benjamin

C. Hight, Horace Woodman, Stephen Meserve, and John S. Murch were leading citizens at the incorporation of the town.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

This town responded from its few settlers with seven men for the patriot army. Of these were Capt. John Smith, who had been a lieutenant under Pepperell in the Louisbourg expedition, Jacob Rhoades, who was living in the town until near 1870 (?), and Thomas Davis.

The people, with commendable patriotism, furnished their quota of men and means for the war of the Rebellion, and in 1864 voted $400 for the support of soldiers' families and State aid.

ACTON.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

THE town of Acton was formerly the western part of the plantation of Hubbardstown and town of Shapleigh. It is bounded on the north by Newfield, on the east by Shap- leigh, on the south by Lebanon, and on the west by the towns of Milton, io Stafford County, and Wakefield, in Carroll Co., N. H. It contains 18,127 acres of land, of which 11,000 are improved. The surface is diversified by hills, valleys, and plains, the hills rising highest in the ceu- tre and in the northwest, where a deep, circular valley, a mile across, has received the appropriate name of The Hop- per, from its resemblance to the form of the hopper in a grist-mill.

A part of the town on the east, extending to Mousam River, was re-annexed to Shapleigh in 1831. The town was not at right angles with the west line of the State, because run in accordance with the old survey from the coast. This was remedied by purchasing a gore on the northwest from Bridget Phillips, and dividing the south gore with Lebanon.

Acton is well watered, containing within and upon its borders a greater area of fresh water than any other town in the county. Its pounds are, in order of their size, North- east Pond, partly in New Hampshire, and extending three miles across the north end of the town ; Mousam or Long Pond, extending for three miles along its eastern boundary ; Square Pond, between the two former, and partly in Shap- leigh, its waters flowing into Mousam Pond; Wilson's or Carvin's Pond, a third of a mile south of Northeast Poud, covering an arca of 640 acres ; and Ilorner's Pond, half a mile to the cast, which receives the waters of both the last- named ponds, and discharges into the Salmon Falls River. Balch Pond forms two miles of the boundary on the north, and the Little Ossipee River the remainder. Salmon Falls River is the boundary line on the west.

The soil is poor upon the plains near the ponds, but pro-

i duces good crops of hay and grass where improved. It improves in quality upon the higher lands and becomes stony, but produces good crops. Apples are a leading product, and grapes are much grown. More interest is taken in farming than in many of the surrounding towns.

ORIGINAL LAND TITLES.

The lands comprised in the present town were awarded to the heirs of Nicholas Shapleigh, in 1771, as a portion of their interest in the Ossipee tract, deeded by Capt. Sunday, Indian sagamore, to Francis Small, the trader at Kittery, in 1668. Mr. Small had subsequently sold an interest in the Ossipee tract to Maj. Shapleigh. The lands included between the Great and Little Ossipee Rivers not containing the number of square miles deeded by the sagamore, the original town of Shapleigh was included in the survey by James Warren, surveyor, under the direction of Joshua Hubbard and Dependent Shapleigh, proprietors.

The title to the lands was contested by former grantces. James Sullivan, afterwards Governor of Massachusetts, undertook the defense for one-half of the plantation of Limerick. He brought the case before the committee on Eastern lands, and it was decided in his favor in a bill passed Oct. 30, 1782. The conditions required of the proprietors were the payment of £400 into the State treasury, and a reservation of all lots already appropriated by the State in accordance with their practice in making original grauts. The proprietors effected a compromise with those who had settled upon their land without their consent, by obtaining from them a relinquishment of all title, in re- turn for which they grauted to each twice as much land as he had cleared, and agreed to sell to each the balance of his lot on the payment of two dollars an acre. Most of the town was lotted, between 1774 and 1776, by Surveyor Warren, and a part of the land drawn by the proprictors. In laying out two rods were left between the north and

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south lines for roads. Fifty-two 300-acre lots were included in the first drawing.

FIRST SETTLERS.

The first settlement in the town was made at what is now Acton Corner, in the fall of 1776, by Benjamin Kimens, Clement Steele, and John York.

Capt. William Rodgers, a proprietor of note and first justice of the peace, built a bridge across the narrows of Mousam Pond, and built a house about the same time. The bridge was built previous to 1776, but the exact date of his moving in is not known.

John B. Hanson, of Dover, N. H., opened a road under the direction of the proprietors in 1776, beginning at the Lebanon line east of Goding Brook, near the Free-Will Baptist church, and passing north past Kimens', Steele's, and York's places to the Ossipee River. This work em- ployed 12 or 15 hands some twenty days. After this road was opened settlers came in rapidly, but many of them selected poor lands upon the plains, or in the hills far from neighbors, where they became discouraged and left after a few years. These early improvements, now marked by a rude cellar, a pile of stones from the fallen chimney, or a few seedling apple-trees surrounded by deep forest, are most numerous in the north part of the town. Seven of these may be seen along the road to the north of Acton Centre, where there are only five families yet remaining. Among the permanent settlers were Joshua Brackett, who came in 1778, and made the first opening at South Acton Corner ; John Hussey, who settled half a mile southwest; and Ger- shom Ricker, of Dover, N. H., who settled half a mile be- yond in 1779.

The first mill in the town, a grist-mill, was built on Sal- mon Falls River, near Wakefield, in 1779, by Joseph Par- sous. For this and other services he was awarded by the proprietors 200 acres in the third range of rights. In February, Paul Farnham, a Revolutionary soldier, and his sons,-Dummer, Ralph, and Paul,-came from Lebanon, and settled near each other in the southwest corner of the town, where Paul Farnham, Jr., afterwards lived. In March, John Woodman, from Farmington, N. H., settled north of the Farnhams. The place is now held by the only descendant, who is the wife of Joseph H. Postleton.

Daniel Hurd (or Heard, as it was then spelled) came the same year, and located on the hill, a mile south of South Acton, where Mark C. Hurd has for years held the post-office of that place.

Benjamin Drew, whose wife was the first woman to ride into the town on horseback, settled east of the pro- prietors' road, near the Lebanon line. Jonathan Young and Joseph and Samuel Sanborn, from Brinkwood, N. H., were early settlers. Lands were bought for $2 per acre. Corn was hoed in as soon as land was cleared, and with milk, game, and fish furnished the chief food of the first settlers. All the waters were alive with salmon, so that people were perfectly sure of catching all they desired in their season. Before Emery's Mill was built a rude hand- mill, on the hill at Mr. Woodman's, ground corn for the few people in the settlement, who came with a bag of corn, turned the mill, and then carried home the meal.

In 1791 there was great interest taken in the question of whether one or two meeting-houses should be built, and the election of deacons and church officers became the strongest object of political contest or local ambition. But one meet- ing-house was built, and in this the town elections were held from 1794 to 1801. The office of constable and collector was a position contested for by captains, colonels, and pro- fessional men, and was then au office of high respectability. In 1797, Dr. C. Powers bid off the appointment for both parishes, paying $1 in the East, and 50 cents in the West Parish. His time was well filled by the additional work of enforcing the destruction of thistles, which had increased to so alarming an extent that their destruction was enforced by a general law. By 1802 the competition had so in- creased that Stephen Marsh paid $25 for the office. In 1828, Luther Goding paid $40 for the privilege of collect- ing taxes and its attendant honors, and was spoken of as the most efficient collector the town had yet appointed. The town afterwards paid a small sum to the lowest bidder for the office.

In 1801, John, Joshua, Peter, Joseph, and Jonathan Grant settled near each other in the north of the town on the highlands still occupied by their descendants. Thomas Grant, son of Jonathan, is still living on his father's home- stead at an advanced age. Another family, Elisha P. Grant, whose sons, Nehemiah and Isaiah Grant, still live on his homestead in the south of the town, moved into the town previous to 1800. These are two distinct families.

In 1820 there were about twenty licenses to sell strong drink granted in the town. The temperance reform had not then begun, but the evils of intemperance were already felt, and in consequence of their effects against the freedom of elections the town board prohibited the sale of intoxi- cating drinks on town-meeting days under a penalty of per- manent revocation of license. The law was so evaded as to have no effect, and therefore was repealed ; afterwards the people joined willingly in the general reform which resulted in the steady habits of the present generation.

The surplus revenue money awarded by the general gov- ernment in 1837 was a weight upon the people of the town until finally invested two years afterwards in a town farm, which was bought of Aaron Hubbard for $1800.

INCORPORATION.

In March, 1825, a proposition to divide the town was defeated by a vote of 170 to 126. In September it was again proposed, when the meeting passed a resolve prohib- iting any action on the subject for the next five years. To cement the two divisions more firmly, $5000 were devoted to the improvement of roads. The question of division defied their enactments, and in 1828 was again brought up. After an exciting contest, a vote of 164 to 111 de- clared in favor of division, and Dr. R. Buck, John Bod- well, Elisha Bodwell, Dr. William Lewis, and J. C. Libby were appointed a committee to petition the Legislature to make the division on nearly the old parish line. The act of incorporation was passed March 6, 1830, and gave to the new town of Acton 170, the most from the total num- ber of 2950 inhabitants. The name of Acton is derived from the locality of one of the most important contests of

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the Revolutionary war, and was given in honor of the citi- zens of the town who had participated in that war, and of whom Ralph Farnham was held in high esteem by his fellow-townsmen.

All the old town elections had been held in Acton until 1801, when the honor was shared with the Eastern Parish until it became a separate town. The first town election of Acton was held at the Baptist meeting-house, March 22, 1830. Aaron Hubbard, Esq., was elected Moderator ; John Bodwell was elected Town Clerk ; John Bodwell. Joseph Dame, Samuel S. Wood, Selectmen ; John Brackett, Treas- urer. The offices of constable and collector were sold at vendue to Jethro Goodwin, for 50 cents. Rev. Clement Parker, Rev. Charles Emerson, and Capt. Rufus W. Brack- ett were elected School Committee; and Samuel Heard, agent to prosecute and defend suits at law. Two thousand five hundred dollars were voted for roads. The support of the poor was awarded to the lowest bidder, Col. John Gar- vin, for the ensuing year. Town-meetings were ordered to be held alternate years in the Congregationalist and Baptist meeting-houses until 1842, when the town-house was built. By the act of incorporation, all town lands within the hounds of Acton became the property of the town. All back taxes were collected by the old town, and all appro- priations divided equally. The town of Shapleigh retained the records, but any citizen of Acton should have, at all times, free access to examine and make copies or extracts therefrom, free of expense. In April, Reuben Buck, Aaron Hubbard, and Samnel Stacy were appointed a com- mittee to petition for a post-office to be established near the Baptist meeting-house. At the fall election, 203 votes were polled.

CIVIL LIST. TOWN CLERKS.

John Bodwell, 1830-31; Rufus W. Brackett, 1832-33 ; Aaron Hub- bard, 1834-36: Asa Brackett, 1837; Aaron Hubbard, 1838-40; Horace Bolwell, 1841-43: Stephen Merrill, 1844-47: Daniel Watson, 1848; Gershom Rieker, 1849 : Horace Bodwell, 1850-56 ; A. D. Morrow, 1857 ; A. J. Lord, 1858: Mark C. Hurd, 1859-62 : Ira Miller, 1863-65 ; David Boyd, 1866; John F. Topliff, 1867- 70; Morris B. F. Dalton, 1871: Charles W. Gross, 1872-73; Samuel II. Garvin, 1874-75 ; William E. Pillsbury, Bodwell J. Grant vacancy), 1876 ; Bodwell J. Grant, 1877-78; Asa F. Horoc, 1879.

SELECTMEN.

1430 .- John Bodwell, Joseph Dame, Samuel S. Wood. 1.31 .- John Bodwell, Joseph Dame, Rufus W. Brackett. 1.42 -: 3 .- John Dodwell, Rufus W. Brackett, Capt. Peter Young. 1-34 .-- Jobn Bodwell, Rufus W. Brackett. Maj. Samuel Stacy. 1. 5 37. John Bodwell, Maj. Samuel Stacy, Rufus W. Brackett. 1 .....- Rufus W. Brackett, John Ilubbard, Samuel Stacy. h.J .- Rufus W. Brackett, John Hubbard, Hubbard Stevens. 1>10 .- Rufus W. Brackett, John Hubbard, Samuel Stacy. 1411-42 .- John Bodwell, Samuel Stacy, Daniel Waldron. 1813 .- John Bodwell, Daniel Waldren, Hubbard Stevens. 1844 .- John Bodwell, Hubbard Stevens, John Lord. 1815 .- Hubbard Stevens, John Lord, Samuel Thompson. 1516 .- Hubbard Stevens, Samuel Thompson, John Hemingway. 1517 45. Hubbard Stevens, John Hemingway, Leoj. Brackett (2d). 1-19 .- John Hemingway. Benjamin Brackett, Ebenezer Ricker. 1530 .- Rnfns W. Brackett, John Lord, Ebenezer Ricker. IS51. Rufus W. Brackett. John Lord, Nathan Brackett. 1.2 54 .- Rufu- W. Brackett, Benjamin Brarkett, Caleb Burbank. 1`15-56 .- Hlorace Do lwell, Ebenezer Rieker, Daniel Graut. 1837 .- Horace Bodwell, Ira Miller, Daniel Grant.

1858-60 .- Richard Goding, John F. Thompson, Samuel G. Stackpole. 1861-62 .- Richard H. Goding, Samuel G. Stackpole, Ira Fox. 1863 .- Richard H. Goding, Mark C. Hurd, John A. Garvin. 1864-65 .- Richard H. Goding, Mark C. Hurd, Caleb W. Burbank. 1866-67 .- John A. Garvin, Jacob Brackett, John C. Burch. 1868 .- Horace Bodwell, Caleb W. Burbank, Oliver C. Titcomb. 1869-70 .- Caleb W. Burbank, Oliver C. Tilcomb, John Lord. 1871-75 .- Oliver C. Titeomb, Charles N. Brackett, Wm. H. Langley. 1876-77 .- Charles N. Brackett, Samuel H. Garvin, Asa F. Horne. 1878 .- John Lord, Edwin S. Lary, Ira Fox.

1879 .- Bodwell J. Grant, William H. Langley, George L. Prescott.

WATER-POWERS AND MANUFACTORIES.

Little Ossipee, Salmon Falls, Hubbard, Brackett, Ricker, and Mousam Rivers furnished sufficient power to carry saw- and grist-mills a portion of the year. At the outlet of the Balch Pond there is sufficient fall to run a large saw-, shingle-, and grist-mills, now the property of Edward Hargraves. Nathaniel Balch, the man who built the first mill here, was buried, by his own request, on the opposite hill.

A fine water-power at Milton Mills is occupied on the Acton side of the river by a large felting-mill, erected on the site of a smaller one in 1873, the first having been de- stroyed by fire. The present mill was erected by E. Brierly & Son, and was exempted from local taxation for ten years. D. H. Buffum & Co. became the proprietors and operators in 1879. All kinds of felting goods are manufactured here, giving employment to about 40 skilled operatives and $250,- 000 capital.

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History of York County, Maine, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 115

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford) Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 730

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 730