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April 28. Major Benjamin Kelley, aged 74. He was a native of Boothbay, and came here in 1822.
May 22. Joseph Sanborn, a native of New Hampshire, and formerly a citizen of Prospect, aged 90.
May 29. Mrs. Betsey Jones, aged 76.
June 8. In Newtonville, Mass., Colonel Daniel Lane, aged 89. Colonel Lane was a native of Buxton in this State. In the war of 1812, he held a commission as lieutenant-colonel in the regular army, but was in command of his regiment during a large part of the time. He was stationed for a short time at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor; afterwards at Port Preble, Portland, from which station he went to the fron- tier. He was at the battle of Plattsburgh, Sept. 5, 1814, and at several minor engagements prior to that date. When the office of collector at this port was created, his meritorious services were remembered; and he received the appointment. He continued to hold the office, discharging its duties to the entire acceptance of the mercantile and sea-faring portion of the community until 1838, when Nathaniel M. Lowney, Esq., of this place, was appointed to succeed him. He soon after removed to Boston, and was engaged for a short time in busi- ness as a commission merchant, from which business he re- tired on receiving an appointment in the Boston custom-house. He did not engage in any active business after the expiration of his official term, but devoted a large portion of his remain- ing days to horticulture and kindred occupations, of which he was passionately fond. He is well remembered here as an ardent, not boisterous, politician, a courteous gentleman, a faithful officer, a valuable member of society.1
1873, June 18. Robert M. Lymburner, aged 72, son of the late Captain John Lymburner ..
July 7. In Boston, Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of the late Colonel Watson Berry, formerly of Belfast, aged 87.
July 28. Joseph Miller, aged 77.
Aug. 5. Captain Isaac Toothaker, aged 72.
Sept. 4. Mrs. Eliza Denison, aged 70.
Sept. 29. Mrs. Betsey Jones, aged 76.
1 Crosby's Annals.
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1873, Oct. 20. Mrs. Mary A. White, wife of Hon. James P. White, aged 71.
Oct.
21. Mrs. Eunice C. Staples, aged 89.
Nov. 1. Thomas Town, aged 68. He was a native of Oxford County, and came here when a young man. He was one of the early overland emi- grants to California, where he resided from 1849 to 1864.
Nov. 3. William H. Conner, aged 57, for many years a prominent merchant and ship-builder.
Nov. 24. Mrs. Abigail Eells, widow of Henry B. Eells, aged 84.
Dec. 5. Mrs. Lavinia Hathaway Angier, widow of John Angier, aged 89. She was a native of Digh- ton, Mass., and came here in 1804. She oc- cupied the house where her death occurred for seventy years. She was a woman of un- common personal beauty, of liberal education, and agreeable manners, - a fine specimen of the lady of the old school.
Dec. 27. Albert Small, for thirty years an active and suc- cessful business man, aged 61.
1874, Jan. Jan.
8. Benjamin Condon, aged 78.
12. Timothy Thorndike, aged 57, a merchant here since 1852. He was born in Brooks, and commenced business at Worcester, Mass. In 1862, he was appointed Quartermaster of the Twenty-sixth Maine Regiment, and served his full term. He was twice chosen county treasurer, and was city treasurer in 1868-69. At the time of his death, he held a position in the custom-house.
Jan. 21. Mrs. Jane Bishop, widow of Captain Hutson Bishop, aged 84. She was the last survivor of a family of thirteen children, born in Peterboro', N. H., nine of whom came to Bel- fast, and all of whom occupied honorable positions in society. They were Colonel Thomas Cunningham, Samuel, William, and James ; Susan, wife of Thomas Cunningham ; Mary, wife of Samuel Jackson; Rachel, wife
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of Zaccheus Porter; Eliza, wife of Thomas Caldwell.
1874, Jan. 25. Jabez Dow, formerly of China, aged 85.
Jan. 30. Mrs. Sarah M. Rogers, widow of Martin Rogers, aged 81.
Feb. 6. Mrs. Sally (Quimby) Wales, widow of John Wales, aged 78.
March 14. In Fayetteville, N. Y., Benjamin Griffin, form- erly editor of the "Republican Journal."
March 20. In Boston, Captain Henry Colburn, a native of Belfast, and a resident here until 1849, aged 74. He was postmaster from 1841. to 1845, town clerk from 1838 to 1841, and repre- sentative to the Legislature of 1847. His remains were brought here for burial.
March 23. Joab Herrick, aged 77. He was born in Penob- scot, and came here when twenty-one years old. There were five brothers in the family, who settled on a tract of land in the south part of the town, and in the border of North- port.
March 26. Isaiah Forbes, aged 77.
April 18. Hon. Enoch K. Boyle, aged 39. (See chapter on lawyers.)
April 25. Mrs. Mary Heath, wife of Simeon A. Heath, aged 81.
May -. Mrs. Mary Jane Salmond, widow of William Salmond, aged 83. She was a native of New Hampshire, her maiden name being Ladd.
May 31. John Alexander, formerly of Belmont, aged 77. June 1. Mrs. Hannah Haraden, widow of John Haraden, aged 88. Her maiden name was Brown. She was a native of Gorham, and came here in 1802. Her eighty-seventh birthday was observed Jan. 20, 1873, by a family gathering, four generations being represented.
June 28. John Young, aged 77.
July 12. Mrs. Eliza A. Means, late of Bluehill, aged 85.
July 28. In Vinalhaven, Joseph Ginn, formerly of Bel- fast, aged 75.
July -. Frank B. Frederick, an active business man and merchant, aged 40.
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1874, Aug. 5. Mrs. Jane A. Eells, widow of Benjamin Eells, and daughter of the late Colonel Jonathan Wilson, aged 86.
Aug. 6. Stephen McKenney, aged 95 years, 10 months. Mrs. S. V. Bean, aged 72.
Aug. 14. Mrs. Isabella B. Treadwell, wife of Charles Treadwell, and daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Durham, aged 73.
Aug. 15. Mrs. Nancy Smith, aged 80.
Aug. 26. Mrs. Hannah Porter, formerly of Searsport, aged 79.
Aug. 30. Miss Ruth Whitman, 80.
Oct. 1. Joseph Severance, formerly of Brewer, aged 86.
Oct. 20. Mrs. Hannah Mills, wife of Charles Mills, aged 83. Nov. 14. Hon. Ralph C. Johnson, aged 84. Mr. Johnson was a son of Rev. Alfred Johnson, and was born in Freeport, Sept. 25, 1790. Soon after the commencement of his father's ministry here, Mr. Johnson, then a lad of fifteen, obtained em- ployment as clerk in the store of James Nesmith, the principal village trader. Such was his industry and capacity that, when Mr. Nesmith retired on account of his health in 1809, young Johnson became his successor, and was therefore established in active business at the early age of eighteen. He continued to occupy the store until 1816, when he removed to the build- ing now the Phoenix House. He relinquished the details of buying and selling goods about 1836, although he was the silent partner of a firm for several years later.
Mr. Johnson's career as a public man commenced in 1820, when he was chosen a representative from Belfast and North- port to the first Legislature of the State of Maine. He was again elected to the House of Representatives in 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1837. While a member in 1827, the county of Waldo was established, mainly through his efforts. In 1831, he was chosen an executive councillor from this district. He was the first treasurer of Waldo County, and president of the Waldo Bank, the first institution of the kind here. At the annual town meetings from 1830 to 1846 inclusive, with the ex- ception of a single year, he presided as moderator, and in 1836 acted as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. In 1853, when Belfast became a city, his name was suggested for mayor, to which position he was unanimously elected. His long experi-
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ence in our commercial affairs was instrumental in organizing the new government upon a basis of economy and individual responsibility which it still retains. This was the last political office which he held.
Although Mr. Johnson had the advantage of only a common- school education, his habits of general reading, his tenacious memory, and his association with men of intelligence and of varied acquirements, rendered him a correct writer and a for- cible and an impressive speaker. In matters of finance and of political economy, he was always particularly versed. The re- sult of his sagacity and the experience of over sixty years of uninterrupted success was a compact and judiciously invested estate, probably exceeding that of any one in this section. In all his intercourse, he set the example of strict honor in deal- ing and strict morality in social life.
1874. Nov. 28. Mrs. Betsey Gurney, aged 84.
Dec. 2. General James W. Webster, aged 74, a native of Concord, N. H. He came here in 1821, and many years taught the village school. He was town olerk from 1830 to 1833, and representative in 1832, 1833, and 1834. He was an excellent teacher, and served repeatedly as a member of the school com- mittee. From 1839 to 1850, he was agent of the proprietors' lands in this county. He was colonel of our local regiment of militia from 1838 to 1842, and Adjutant-general of Maine in 1857 and 1858. For nearly ten years he was assistant as- sessor of internal revenue for this section.
1874, Dec. 13. In Swanville, Samuel Eames, aged 85. He was born here in 1788, and moved with his father's family to Swanville, when seventeen years of age.
Dec. 19. In Northport, Mrs. Thankful French, formerly of Belfast, aged about 96.
Dec. 24. Mrs. Jean Wason Ferguson, the oldest person here, aged 98 years and 6 months. She was born iu Notting- ham West, now Hudson, N. H., June 5, 1776, and was married to Jonathan Ferguson of Perham, N. H., and came to Belfast in 1800. They settled at the Upper Bridge, lived there tive years, and then removed to the house in which she lived until her death. Her husband died in May, 1810, leaving her with four children, the eldest seven years old, and the youngest eight months. She never remarried. Mrs. Ferguson remained
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in full possession of her faculties until a few days before her death. Her memory, especially, was astonishingly retentive ; and she loved to recount the scenes, incidents, and personal anecdotes of the early times and settlers. Her ninety-eighth birthday was celebrated by her descendants, at her residence at City Point.
1874, Dec. 13. George Hemmenway, aged 70.
Dec. 19. Samuel Gilbreth, aged 82.
Dec. . 29. Charles D. Field, son of the late Bohan P. Field, aged 60. For about forty years, Mr. Field was a prominent business man here.
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CHAPTER XXXV.
TRAVELLING, POST-OFFICE, HOTELS, &0.
Conveyance by Water. - Spotted Trees. - Condition of Early Roads. - First Horse. - Chaise. - Wagons. - Post-office established. - Tolford Durham first Postmaster. - His Successors. - Different Locations of Post-office. - Head of the Tide. - Poor's Mills. - First Mail Carrier. - Weekly Mail in 1798. - Service increased in 1812. - Different Rontes. - First Stage-coach. - Thomas Pickard. - Daily Mails. - Rail- road Connections. - Present System. - Discomforts of Stage Travel. - Boston Packets. - The "Superb," "Comet," and "Mechanic." - Captains McFarland, Clark, and Young. - Castine Packet. - Captain Skinner. - Packets to Eastport. - First Livery-stable. - Rates. - Hospitality to Strangers. - First Public House. - List of Hotels and Landlords. - Owen Kelleran. - Whittier's Hotel. - Huse's Tavern. - The Spa. - Cunningham's Hotel. - Sun Tavern. - Pumpkin Tavern. - Eagle Hotel. - Engraving. - American House. - Phoenix House. - Farmer's Inn. - New England House. - Sanborn House. - Minor Hotels. - Expresses. - J. N. Winslow, Pioneer Expressman, in Maine. - Eastern Express Company. - Telegraph. - Line built along the Coast. - Station established. - First Message. - First Opera- tor. - Atlantic Cable. - International Telegraph Company.
BEFORE the Revolution, travellers in Eastern Maine passed from place to place wholly by water. No roads existed ; and an occasional path through the woods, seldom used, was obscurely indicated by spotted trees. Upon the return of peace, intercourse began to be maintained on horseback. Until 1800, there were no means of communication with the interior towns but on foot. General Knox and the Duke de Liancourt, in going from Thomaston to Brigadier's Island, in 1795, found the road which Richard Stimson surveyed through Belfast, over a genera- tion before, obstructed and dangerous. As late as 1801, Judge Crosby lost his way amidst the stumps and fallen trees in coming from Bangor, and passed the night in the forest. Three years after, no one would venture to conduct a wagon of goods across the country from Angusta. James Patterson' owned the first horse in town, and Tolford Durham the next.1 The State valua- tion of 1800 shows but seven here then.2 About 1796, the first chaise was brought from Massachusetts by a lady who came on a
1 Locke's Note-book.
2 Valuation of Massachusetts.
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visit. It attracted much attention, and for some time formed the chief topic of conversation.1 There were no wagons used until about 1812. Captain John Burgess owned the first one.
Before 1760, the regular eastern terminus of the mail route in New England was at Portsmouth, N. H. Fifteen years later, the first post in Maine was established. There were then only three post-offices, - at Kennebunk, Falmouth, and Georgetown.2 Those who have noticed the tons of mail matter now daily brought into the State can hardly realize that at that period the number of letters did not average five each week. Few people could afford correspondence, as postage on a single rate was ten and a half pence, equal to about thirty cents of our present currency.
A post-office was established here, Jan. 1, 1795,8 and James Nesmith appointed postmaster. The following is the succession of those who have held that position : -
James Nesmith
appointed
1 Jan., 1795.
Tolford Durham
31 March, 1795.
James Nesmith
" 1 July,
1801.
Thomas Whittier
"
1 Oct., 1810.
Benjamin Whittier
" 12 May, 1813.
Joseph Williamson
"
9 Dec., 1822.
Hiram O. Alden
"
27 Jan.,
1830.
Henry Colburn
"
22 June, 1841.
William T. Colburn
"
24 May, 1845.
Charles Giles
"
23 March, 1849.
Joseph S. Noyes
A
1 April, 1853.
Samuel Edwards
"
2 April, 1857.
Hiram Chase
"
17 June, 1861.
Samuel G. Thurlow
"
28 July, 1865.
It is not known that Mr. Nesmith formally entered upon the duties during the brief period of his first term. Deacon Durham kept the office in his house on the east side of the river. When succeeded by Mr. Nesmith in 1801, it was removed to the new store of the latter, at the corner of Main and High Streets.
1 Locke's Sketches. Mr. Quimby says that the Rev. Mr. Johnson owned the first two-wheeled chaise in 1805. Another authority gives Dr. John S. Osborn as the owner of the first.
2 Willis's Hist. Portland.
8 In 1790, there were only seventy-five post-offices in the United States; and the whole extent of post-roads did not exceed nineteen hundred miles, or only about double the distance now traversed by railroads in Maine alone.
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Thomas Whittier transferred it to his hotel, now the Alfred John- son house, at the northern junction of Church and High Streets. Benjamin Whittier, his son and successor, changed its location first to the basement of the house adjoining the North Church ; then to the northerly end of what is now the Phoenix House, and lastly to a store at the corner of Main and Washington Streets, where the store of F. M. Lancaster now stands. Mr. Williamson removed the office to a wooden building on Main Street, on the site of the store of Henry H. Forbes. The last-named store was occupied by William T. Colburn, while postmaster from 1845 to 1849, and the office was kept there.
During the official term of Mr. Alden, the location was changed to the north end of the " Fire-proof Block " on High Street. In April, 1833, it was removed to the western end of the " Telegraph Block," below the American House, and continued there until 1845. From 1849 to March, 1854, the office was kept in the store now occupied by Dr. Daniel Sylvester, at the junction of Main, Beaver, and Church Streets. Mr. Noyes transferred it to store No. 32, on Church Street ; and in January, 1857, to its permanent establishment in the building erected by government.
In January, 1848, the Waldo post-office was removed to the Head of the Tide, and kept under the same name by Henry Davidson, until his resignation in 1858. His successors were Samuel Maddocks, who held the office two years, and William E. Mitchell, the present incumbent.
A post-office was established at Poor's Mills, Aug. 14, 1868 ; and George G. Patterson appointed postmaster.
Up to 1793, no mail had penetrated as far east as Belfast. The nearest post-office was then at Wiscasset, which a post-rider sup- plied twice a month. This year, George Russell, of Castine, was employed to pass once a fortnight 1 with letters between the two last-mentioned towns. At first he carried the mail in a handker- chief, but afterwards in a leather bag strapped to his back. After the roads became sufficiently cleared for a horse, saddle-bags were used. His route was through Camden and Belfast, crossing the Penobscot at Sandy Point.2 When on horseback, this herald of a noisy world gave notice to the settlements of his approach by "the twanging horn."
1 Eaton's Hist. of Thomaston, I. 201.
2 Prospect and Penobscot were then connected by a ferry. In 1871, a steam-ferry company between the same points was incorporated.
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In 1798, a new arrangement of the mails included Belfast in a route from Lincolnville (Ducktrap) to Narraguagus (Cherryfield). The post-rider left Ducktrap every Saturday, at two in the after- noon, and reached his destination on the following Tuesday, pass- ing from Belfast through Prospect, Frankfort, Buckstown, Castine, Bluehill, Trenton, Sullivan, and Gouldsborough.1 A connection with the western mail was made at Wiscasset. This service was increased to a semi-weekly one in 1812. The distance from the Old State House in Boston to Belfast, as measured officially that year, was found to be two hundred and thirty-two fo% miles. A weekly route from Wiscasset by Palermo and Belfast was estab- lished in 1817. Three years later, there were four routes to Bel- fast ; the western, thrice a week each way; the Dixmont, the Bangor, and the Gardiner, each once a week. Forty-eight letters were advertised as remaining in the post-office July 1, 1820.2 The first stage-coach was brought here in 1825 by David Whittier and Joseph Smith.8 An advertisement at this period shows the in- creased travelling accommodations.
"PORTLAND, BELFAST, AND BANGOR MAIL-STAGE.
Travellers are informed that on the whole line they will now find good Post Coaches, attentive and civil Drivers, comfortable Inns, and Fare low. Leaves Portland at 4 A.M., on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Fridays; arrives at Belfast by 10 A.M., on Mon- days, Wednesdays, and Saturdays; and at Bangor same days by 5 P.M. Leaves Bangor on Sundays and Tuesdays at 4 A.M., and Belfast by 10 A.M., on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Fridays, and will arrive at Portland next day by 5 P.M. If necessary, an hour may be taken up at Belfast to accommodate Passengers. Generally the Stage will return from Waldoboro' to Wiscasset same even- ings ; saving so much time as to afford facilities for business at Wiscasset, Bath, and Brunswick, and will always arrive in Port- land in season to afford some hours for business there."
1 Philadelphia Daily Advertiser. 8 William Quimby.
2 Hancock Gazette.
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FARE.
From Portland to Bath Ferry $2.00
" Bath Ferry to Wiscasset . 0.50
" Wiscasset to Waldoboro'
1.12}
Waldoboro' to Belfast .
2.00
" Belfast to Bangor 2.00
JULY, 1825.
With the opening of the year 1826, Arnold and Whittier com- menced running a tri-weekly mail-stage between Augusta and this place " on the new road called the Eastman road," so named in honor of Thomas Eastman, Esq., one of its originators, who was quite a prominent man in his county, one of the Associate Justices of the Court of Sessions, and keeper of a tavern for many years in Palermo.
"Before that time," said the 'Journal,' "but a single coach came into Belfast. Now there are five, all of which, save one, are new and elegant, and unsurpassed by any in the State."1 There were then daily mails to Portland, Augusta, and Bangor. A stage line to Albion was established in 1827; and four years after, through the exertions of Mr. Pickard, a thrice-weekly line to Ellsworth. At that time, in favorable weather, the western mail reached Boston from here in about forty-eight hours.2 Until 1846, it went by the way of Thomaston 8 and Bath, afterwards through Augusta, and first through Liberty Village in July, 1848. A route to Augusta, on the new county road, as it was then called, passing through Searsmont, Patricktown, and Windsor, was established in 1841, by Thomas W. Lothrop. The coach left this place on three days in the week at 8 A.M., and returned on the days next following. For several years before, a weekly stage to Gardiner had passed over the same road. A line to Waterville went into opera- tion in 1848. With the opening of the railroad from Portland to Augusta, in 1851, our western mail connected with the morning trains, and thus continued until we had railroad communication of our own. The first mail received here directly by rail was Dec. 23, 1870. A through mail by cars at noon commenced Feb. 3, 1871;
1 "Republican Journal," Dec. 29, 1830.
2 "After Jan. 1, 1829," says the " Waldo Democrat," "the eastern mail will leave Boston at five P.M., and reach Portland at noon the next day ; arrive at Brunswick the next night ; leave there at four A.M., pasa through Hallowell and Auguata at about eight or nine, and thence proceed to Belfast."
8 The great eastern mail from Portland to Eastport went via Belfast until February, 1837, when a new arrangement conveyed it directly from Augusta to Bangor. - Bangor Whig.
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and one in connection with the Boston midnight train was estab- lished during the following October. In addition to two daily mails each way by railroad, there are now daily mails each way by stage between here and Bangor, Augusta, and Rockland, and thrice-weekly ones to Albion, Camden, Ellsworth, and Frankfort.
Those whose experience of travelling is limited to a rapid trip in a well-warmed railroad car can hardly conceive of the discom- forts of the wearisome night journey between Belfast and Augusta, in a rocking, pitching, swaying stage-coach, into which might be crammed nine unfortunate passengers, besides babies, bundles, and other impedimenta, the bottom of the vehicle carpeted with mouldy straw ; while the traveller, cold and shivering, yet choking for the lack of fresh air ; cramped, bruised, and exhausted ; hungry, yet finding no appetite for the dismal refreshments furnished at Palermo and South China, - was now compelled to turn out and walk up the toilsome ascent of some long hill, and now to lay hold upon a fence-rail and help to extricate the coach from some crevasse of snow.
Before steam navigation became established, travellers along the coast were generally conveyed by boats and sailing vessels. For many years, regular packets, with convenient accommodations for passengers, afforded the only expeditious means of communica- tion. The most noted of those which ran to and from Boston were the schooners "Venus" and "Superb," commanded by Captain Ephraim McFarland; the "Mechanic," commanded by Captain Isaac Clark; the "President Jackson," of ninety-three tons' burden, built in 1831 ; and the " Comet," of one hundred and twenty tons, built in 1832.1 The latter was commanded by Captain James Young.2 The fare to Boston was usually " four dollars and found ; " that is, the meals were provided or "found " without ad- ditional charge. From 1804 to 1837, Captain Isaiah Skinner ran a packet between here and Castine : first, the sloop " Lady Wash- ington," afterwards the sloop "General Washington." During that period, he crossed the bay thrice on an average each day, measuring, in the devious path which he was sometimes obliged to sail in accomplishing these trips, at least forty miles, being equal to a circumnavigation of the globe more than sixteen times.8 Dur-
1 Another schooner, of seventy-six tons, called the "Comet," was built by John G. Hall, in 1846.
2 Captain Young died at Calcutta, Oct. 23, 1858, aged fifty-nine. He commanded the ship "Lady Blessington."
8 " Republican Journal." Inscription on tombstone at Castine, erected by the citi- zens of that town in 1842, as a tribute of respect for his honesty and puuctuality.
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ing the first part of the present century, there were regular packets to St. John. In a single week of July, 1820, four vessels arrived from the British provinces; one of them bringing forty Irish pas- sengers. In 1829, " the ' Helen,' from Eastport, with forty-two passengers," is reported. For many years the sloop " Spy," Captain Nathaniel Wells, and the schooners "Packet " and "Edna," Captain Paoli Hewes, ran exclusively between here and the latter place.
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