Illustrated history of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1892, Part 114

Author: Kingsbury, Henry D; Deyo, Simeon L., ed
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York, Blake
Number of Pages: 1790

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in 1863 was made lieutenant of the 80th U. S. C. T., and at the close of the war was acting regimental quartermaster of the same. He re- turned to Fayette and held various town offices until 1873, when he represented his district in the legislature. He has since then been clerk in the second auditor's office in Washington, and is now postal clerk in the United States senate.

John H. True, born in 1836, is one of seven sons of Moses F. and Eleanor (Kyle) True, grandson of Edward, and great-grandson of Thomas True. Edward True came to Fayette about 1800 and had eight sons. Moses True's sons were: John H., Edward M., Moses W., Charles E., Amos K., William F. and one who died. John H. mar- ried Helen E., daughter of Cyrus Brown, and they have five chil- dren: Winnie Ona (Mrs. R. A. Bryant), Cyrus H., Birdie E. (Mrs. Wal- lace W. Farrington), Katie M. (Mrs. George W. Farrington) and Charles E. Mr. True was in the late war as first lieutenant in 24th Maine. He has been a bookkeeper and is now a farmer.

Jesse D. Tuck, born in 1844, is a son of Jonathan and Mahala (Hilton) Tuck, and grandson of Jesse Tuck, who came to Fayette about 1795 and settled on the farm where Jesse D. now lives. His children were: Samuel, Jonathan, Madison, Mary and Nancy. Jona- than had two children: J. Granville and Jesse D., who married Olive, daughter of Lot P. Nelson. Their children are: Herbert J. and Mary E. Jonathan Tuck was selectman in Fayette for several years and was in the legislature one year. He died in 1868 and his wife died in 1887.

HON. JOSEPH HALL UNDERWOOD" was born in Amherst, N. H., June 13, 1783, and died in Fayette, Me .. November 8, 1867. His parents were Thomas and Sally (Gage) Underwood. He received such an education as the common schools and academies afforded at the time of his youth. He came to Maine in his early manhood, and taught school in Thomaston, Readfield, Fayette and other towns. He finally settled in Fayette and commenced his successful mercantile and business career, which extended through more than fifty-five years. He was one of the best known business men in Kennebec county. He was twice married. His first wife, Mary Aiken, of Merrimac, N. H., was born July 31, 1784, and died July 22, 1822. Her children were: Joseph Hall Underwood, jun., who died in infancy; Mary Aiken, Eliza Hall, Joseph Hall, jun., Thomas Parker and Sarah Ann. His second wife, sister of the first, was Jane Aiken, who survived him several years. She was born July 14, 1799, and died October 24, 1884. Her children were: Jane Aiken, Albert Gallatin, Henry Clay, George, Gilbert and Helen. One child of the first wife and four chil- dren of the second wife are the only present survivors of this large family. Both wives were women of superior talents and attainments.

*Biographical sketch by Albion F. Watson.

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Mr. Underwood, in his time, was the foremost citizen of Fayette, held the most prominent position in society, and always exerted a powerful influence in public affairs. He was always popular with his townsmen, and was elected to office many times by their suffrages. He was a leading whig politician in the state of Maine. He repre- sented the town of his adoption in the general court of Massa- chusetts, and afterward served several terms as representative and one term as senator in the Maine legislature. Still later he was a mem- ber of Governor Edward Kent's council. He was also a candidate for presidential elector. Influential men of his party, believing that the use of his name would add strength to their ticket, urgently so- licited Mr. Underwood to become a candidate for gubernatorial or congressional honors, but he respectfully declined, preferring to attend to his business affairs, rather than to go farther in politics. His keen sense of justice always led him to espouse the right side of every moral question. In all his business transactions he was methodical and exact to a remarkable degree. In personal presence and bearing he was ever dignified and gentlemanly.

He possessed a never failing fund of wit and humor, and highly enjoyed a good joke and a hearty laugh. Every worthy cause, and every social improvement had his hearty cooperation. He was a firm friend of education, and a strong patron of institutions of learning. His tendencies were progressive, and in his views he was broad and liberal. None rejoiced more than he at the onward march of science, civilization and true Christianity.

Gilbert Underwood, born in 1835, is a son of Joseph H. and Jane (Aikin) Underwood. The early ancestors of the Aikin family came from Scotland to Massachusetts in the 17th century. Mr. Underwood married Annie, daughter of John A. Holmes, of Readfield, and they have three children: Joseph H., Emma J. and May H. He is a farmer and breeder of Hereford cattle. He came to the farm where he now lives in 1877, having lived for ten years on the old homestead, where his father died in 1867.

HELEN UNDERWOOD GOODWIN is the youngest child of Joseph H. Underwood. September 7, 1867, she was married to William H. Good- win, son of Beniah C. and Martha (Rice) Goodwin. He was born Jan- uary 26, 1839, at Conway, N. H., and removed to Mercer, Me., with his parents, about 1850. He received the advantages of the common schools of his day, and on arriving at man's estate he turned his atten- tion to mercantile pursuits. In 1865 he became connected with the hardware firm of Smith, Tibbets & Co., of Portland, and was traveling salesman for that house until his death, which occurred December 4, 1885. His thorough business habits and genial bearing especially fitted him for the place he filled in life. His last resting place is in the Wing family cemetery in Wayne, where an Italian marble shaft

RESIDENCE OF THE LATE Hon. JOSEPH HALL UNDERWOOD, FAYETTE MILLS, ME.

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on a granite base has been erected to his memory by his loving wife. His kind-hearted generosity made him ever ready with cheering words and a helping hand to assist the needy and unfortunate.

Mrs. Goodwin appears to have inherited a large share of her father's executive ability and keen business foresight. She is the only one of his large family who was born in the large brick house shown in the accompanying illustration. The bricks for its construction were burned on the farm, and during the building of the structure, in 1838, Mr. Underwood gave his personal attention to the selection of the bricks used. During his whole after life the care of his neatly kept home and its surroundings made them an ornament to his adopted town.

John A. Wing, born in 1829, is one of three sons (Albert, John and Charles) of Alden and Charity (Stevens) Wing, and a grandson of Allen Wing, who came to Wayne about 1787. John A. married Lucretia, daughter of John S. French, of Fayette, and their children are: Fred A., Albert F., Frank, who died in 1877, and two that died in infancy. Mr. Wing came to Fayette in 1855, and since his father's death, in 1871, has lived on the farm where he now resides.

Oscar E. Young, born in 1861, is a son of Chandler W. and Villa (Tobin) Young, who came to Fayette in 1868, and grandson of Joshua, who lived in East Livermore. Chandler Young died in 1890 and left two children: Oscar E. and Kate B. Oscar E. graduated at Kents Hill in 1881, and has devoted most of his time to writing articles for maga- zines and papers, more especially the Chicago Sun. He has also written and published a volume of poems. He married Eva J., daughter of John Dorsey, of Portland, and lives on the farm his father left, with his mother. He has one daughter, Ouida Estelle, born June 5, 1892.

Those who have entered the legal profession from Fayette are: Silas Bates, Samuel Tuck, Parker Tuck, Phillip Stubbs, Enoch Mar- shall, William Marshall, Oliver Bacheller, David True. Horatio D. Hutchinson, David F. Crane, Franklin Fisk, Albert Fellows and Wil- liam Richards.

It is not known who the man was who set the first broken limb or administered the first dose of calomel in this town. Among the early physicians was Doctor Caswell. He was followed by Doctors Hale, Chase, Smith, Fuller, Lambright, Watson, French and Russell.

Those who have entered the medical profession from the town are: James Bates, Joseph Bacheller, Hiram Bates, Lemuel Russell, Noah Watson, Isaac Palmer, Lewis Watson, Samuel Chase, Albert G. French, James B. Cochran, George B. Crane, Willis A. Russell, Charles H. Wing and Lincoln French.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

TOWN OF VIENNA.

Opposition to Incorporation .- Plantation Names .- First Settlers .- Enlargements. -Population and Valuation .- Post Offices and Postmasters .- Traders .- Good Templars .- Union Hall .- Mills inVarious Localities .- Manufactures. -Churches .- Old Yellow Meeting" House .- Cemeteries .- Civil Lists .- Per- sonal Paragraphs.

V IENNA, the most northwesterly town of Kennebec county, was incorporated February 20, 1802, Jedidiah Prescott being au- thorized to call the first meeting. This township, when a plan- tation, was named Goshen. It was settled about 1786, the titles being given by Jedidiah Prescott, of Winthrop, and Nathaniel Whittier, of Readfield, who had purchased it from Massachusetts proprietors, and it was surveyed by Mr. Prescott in 1792.

In 1800 thirty-five inhabitants of the place-then called Wyman's plantation-petitioned for incorporation, representing the plantation to contain sixty ratable polls. Among the signers were Noah Pres- cott, Joseph Chapman, Timothy White, Abel Whittier and John Carr. An ineffectual remonstrance was made by several other of the inhab- itants on the ground that "the petitioners were inhabitants of a place known to them by the name of Goshen, a tract of land wide from them by nature's laws," and that Chester was conveniently accessible for religious and town purposes.

The first settlers were: Joshua Howland, John Thompson, Patrick Gilbraith, Noah Prescott and John and William Allen. Following these were: Arnold Wethren, James and Robert Cofren, Jonathan Gordon, Jedidiah, Abel and Nathaniel Whittier, Gideon Wells, Elijah Bunker, Daniel Matthews, Benjamin Porter, Timothy White, Caleb Brown and Joshua Moore. At the first town meeting, which was held April 5, 1802, Noah Prescott was chosen moderator and Daniel Mor- rell, clerk. The selectmen chosen were: Jacob Graves, James Cofren and Joshua Moore.

The places of holding the town meetings from that time to the present have been: In 1802, at the dwelling house of Arnold Wethren; 1803, at house of Elisha Johnson; 1804, at Nathaniel Whittier's, and in 1805, at Moses Sanborn's. For the next nine years it was held in school houses. From 1815 to 1828 it was held in the " new meeting

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house "-evidently the old Methodist church. From 1828 to 1848 it was entered on the records as being held at "the large meeting house," which must mean the old " Yellow " meeting house; and from 1848 to 1855 in No. 4 school house. Since that time the model town house, generously built and presented to his native town by Joseph M. Whittier, of Boston, has been used.

Vienna has been enlarged by two strips of territory taken from Rome-the first in 1814 and the last in 1833. It was the one hundred and thirty second town incorporated, and had in 1850 a population of 871; 1860, 878; 1870, 740; 1880, 644; and in 1890, 495. Its valuation in 1860 was $151,024; 1870, $200,015; 1880, $167,316; and in 1890 it was $162,724.

POST OFFICES .- North Vienna post office, the oldest in town, was established March 21, 1808, as Vienna. The name was changed to North Vienna March 20, 1854. Its postmasters, with dates of appoint- ment, have been: Elisha Johnson, March 21, 1808; Levi Johnson, April, 1825; George K. Porter, July, 1845; Alvan Bradley, March, 1847; Ira Neal, June, 1852; Amos C. Hodgkins, March, 1853; Sanders Morrill, March, 1854; Nathaniel Cochran, March, 1862; Henry Dowst, March, 1866; John Hall, October, 1866; Noah G. Cofren, March, 1873; Jacob S. Graves, April, 1874; Henry Whittier, September, 1885; Walter C. Pierce, June, 1887; and Henry C. Mason, July, 1889.

Vienna post office was established March 20, 1854, with Rufus W. Mansur as postmaster. His successors have been: Ira Neal, Novem- ber, 1856; Hiram S. Abbott, July, 1861; Josiah Morrill, February, 1867; Henry Dowst, April, 1869; H. C. Whittier, February, 1886; Lewis F. Gould, July, 1887; and Laforest Dowst, June, 1889.

Mails are brought to the two post offices daily by a stage that leaves North Vienna each morning, reaching Augusta the same forenoon, and returning in the afternoon, connecting at Readfield station each way with trains on the Maine Central.

STORES .- Vienna village has exceptionally pleasant situation and surroundings. Its local importance was not fully established till in 1854, after a long, determined, bitter fight, it obtained the post office bearing the name of the town. But the mills had developed a center of business and North Vienna had to submit to the inevitable.

Captain Samuel Mowers was one of the first traders at, Vienna vil- lage. Fred Stuart, Daniel Mowers and Lewis Bradley were the next. Up to this time the traders had sold liquor by the drink in public bars. But the very day Lewis Bradley began trade he invited his neighbors to come and take a free drink; then, taking a saw, he cut away the bar and told them he was done with the liquor traffic. That was about 1837, and was the last store bar in Vienna, although other stores sold liquor after that. Franklin Dearborn, Nathaniel Mowers, James Al- len, Gerry Graves, Josiah Morrill, James Scales, James Wright, Daniel

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Brown, Rufus Mansur, Byron Jewell and Hiram S. Abbott were suc- cessive traders till 1866, when Henry Dowst bought Mr. Abbott's stock and has been in business for twenty-six years. He built his present store in 1874.

GOOD TEMPLARS .- The only representative the various secret so- cieties have in town is Vienna Lodge, No. 88, of Good Templars, organized in 1887, with twenty charter members. The presiding officers have been: Lendall C. Davis, Henry Graves, Mrs. E. N. Allen, E. N. Allen, Alice M. Wait and Nettie Kimball. Guy E. Healey, Nel- lie Lawton, Charles Dearborn, Arthur Davis and Eugene Wait have held the office of secretary. The Lodge meets in Union Hall and has about thirty members.

UNION HALL, at the village, built by subscription in 1888, is kept for miscellaneous public gatherings. As a very proper recognition of their enterprise in its erection, lady officers are chosen.

MILLS .- Probably the first taskmaster the stoutly flowing stream at Vienna village ever met was Patrick Gilbraith, who laid a dam across its ancient bed and built a grist mill about 1800, compelling the lusty vagrant to tread a wheel which should grind the corn and the wheat of the hard-working settlers. Mr. Gilbraith and his son, Benjamin, ran the mill till Nathaniel Mooers, from Deerfield, N. H., became its purchaser in 1819. After many years' service the mill was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt in 1840 by Mr. Mooers and his son, Jabez S. In 1847 Timothy Mooers, father of the present proprietor, bought the property and rented it for the next sixteen years to John Lord. George H. Mooers has been in possession since 1870, and still does custom grinding.

On the middle dam stood a carding and fulling mill that was not used for these purposes after 1830. Josiah Bradley owned it and put a shingle machine in the building. On the west side of the stream Josiah and Jonathan Bradley, Jacob Graves and Nathaniel Mooers built, in 1845, a new saw mill in the place of an old one. The next year they sold the property to Sewell B. Gordon, who also bought the old fulling mill property a few years later and operated the saw and shingle mill till about 1870. George H. Wills was the next owner. In 1872 he tore away the fulling mill building and built a saw mill in its place. Five years later he sold the dam to Henry Trask, and he in 1888 to Perley Whittier, the present owner, who built works in which he cuts staves and does all branhes of cooperage. Mr. Whittier and his father have been the only stave and barrel manufacturers in Vienna.

The first machinery on the lower dam was a fulling mill, probably built by - Simpson, who had used and abandoned it before 1825. About 1838 Freeman Brown and Thomas C. Norris built the present dam, and on the west side of the stream a bark mill, which stood idle

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till 1845, when Mr. Norris erected the building now standing on the east side, and made shoe pegs in it for the next thirty years. Here was first used Sylvanus Fairbanks' machine for sharpening pegs both ways-the first ever invented. Mr. Norris also added a shingle machine and steam power, for use when water was low. Angustus Smart was the next owner of the property and William Tyler the next, and he sold it to James and Henry Trask and Daniel Lawton. Henry Trask bought the interests of his partners and is now making handles for hoes, forks and shovels.

On the Cofren brook stood a pioneer grist mill that was active and useful in its day, but had ground its last grist before 1820. Even tra- dition has failed to give its builder a name. N. P. Mooers owns the spot. Another grist mill that served its day and generation, and came to an honorable dissolution about 1830, was run by the Ladd brook. Tradition has also neglected to assign a name to its builder or owner.

A saw mill standing on the McGurdy stream, built by Nathaniel Cochran and Arnold Wethren about 1830, was in operation till de- stroyed by fire in 1858. Thomas K. Dow was its last proprietor and J. S. Graves now owns the real estate. Near the graveyard in the "Chesley neighborhood, Sylvanus Fairbanks built, in 1860, a rake fac- tory, on the outlet of Beaver pond, and made rake and spade handles ten years. Mr. Fairbanks, while here, invented the first hollow arbor for wood turning.

On a brook that ran through his farm in the northwest part of the town, Lyman Whittier built, in 1858, a dam and a mill for cutting bar- rel staves. The business grew to such proportions in nine years that the water supply became insufficient, and he added steam power. After his death, in 1869, his son, Perley Whittier, operated the mill for awhile and then sold the property to his brother, Lyman F.Whit- tier, and John W. Hall, who continued the various branches of cooper- ing. Mr. Whittier subsequently bought his partner out and added a circular saw and a shingle machine to the works. Litigation and changes in ownership have since succeeded each other, destroying the business and the value of the property.

Brick were made on Jedidiah Whittier's land and in several other places in town. About the same time large quantities of lime were burned in the northwest part of the town by the Curriers.

Wagons and carriages have been built in Vienna village by Henry Colby, Jacob C. Gordon and Sewell B. Gordon. The blacksmiths have been: James Robinson, David Wait, - Webster, Warren Folsom, Levi Brown, Charles Tompkins, Jethro Weeks and Samuel Davis.

CHURCHES .- Methodism took strong early root in Vienna. Jesse Lee preached in Vienna (then Goshen) Monday, December 8, 1794, · and again on Monday, August 29, 1808, putting up with James Coch-

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ran each time. The first class was formed by James Wager about 1794, consisting of James Cofren, Elihu Johnson and Jedidiah Whit- tier and their wives, and Nathaniel Whittier and Daniel Morrell. Awhile after about half the members of the church, which had be- come strong, seceded and formed a new church of the order known as Christian Band.

In 1828 the Maine Conference held its annual session in Vienna, Bishop Hedding presiding-a historic event. No Methodist society as small and no town as remote and obscure has been thus honored before or since. The explanation is probably this. Reverend Oliver Beale, secretary for six consecutive years of the Maine Conference, had been preaching at Vienna with great success. The church lad doubled in membership; it had a meeting house built before 1815, and was the dominant religious organization in town. To encourage and reward such zeal and growth, the denomination awarded its great yearly meeting to Vienna.

The " Yellow " meeting house was then in its prime and the daily sessions of the conference were divided between it and the new house, which was so much the smaller of the two that it is still remembered by the name of the " little " church. The old meeting house, which stood on the old road, about twenty rods south of the east part of the present Franklin cemetery, was in use till the present church was built in 1841.

Vienna was probably connected with Livermore from 1805 to 1815, when it first appears on the minutes, and Isaiah Chandler and E. W. Coffin were the preachers till 1817, when it was again connected with Livermore for eight years, and from 1825 to 1830 with Strong circuit, after which it again appears on the minutes. The appointments were: Greenleaf Greeley, 1830; James Warren and Dudley Greeley, 1832; Phillip Ayer, 1833; Aaron Fuller, 1834; Isaac Downing, 1835; D. B. Randall and John Cleaveland, 1837; Charles L. Browning and D. B. Randall, 1838; R. C. Bailey, C. W. Morse and Francis Drew, 1839; George Child and James Farrington, 1841; Joseph Lull, 1842; Ira T. Thurston, 1843; Peter Burgess, 1844; S. B. Bracket, 1845; C. C. Mason, 1846; M. E. King, 1886; A. C. Trafton, 1887; Hezekiah Chase, 1889; and Elbridge Gerry, 1891.

The Free Baptist Church was organized in the red school house, January 22, 1820, with twenty-six members. The present church was built in 1840, by Baptists and members of the Christian denomination, who united in calling themselves the Union Chapel Society-a name they still bear. Their preachers have been: Joseph Briggs, Jonathan Bradley, T. Libby, Joseph Edgecomb (who preached twenty-sixyears), Selden Bean, D. Allen, - Brooks, - Campbell, - Morse, Otis Andrews, S. P. Morrill, J. H. Bartlett, Lucien C. Graves, Albert C. Brown and F. Starbird. Deacon Nathaniel Graves, a member of the legisla-

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ture and county commissioner several terms, was church clerk for thirty-five years. The present membership is fifty-seven.

The second house built for religious purposes in Vienna was the old " Yellow " meeting house, erected on land given by Abel Whit- tier, by the seceders from the first Methodist society, before 1828, and possibly before 1820. The house stood one-half mile south of the Methodist burying ground. It was the largest church ever in town, and all its appointments were on the same broad gauge as its creed. The record of the first town meeting held within its walls (1828) reads: " in the large Meeting House." The architecture of the inside was quaint, with a decidedly fantastic appearance. A stout, roomy gal- lery extended on three sides, with " negro" pews in two corners. The pews below are described as being very high, with doors strong enough for a stable. The pulpit was a huge drum, ten feet high; en- tered by a door and mounted by inside winding stairs. Around the ceiling was a heavy ornate cornice, which, with the pulpit, was painted a sky blue. This old landmark was removed in 1848.

CEMETERIES .- The oldest grave yard in Vienna has long been known as the Methodist ground. It is situated on land given by Cap- tain Osgood, and is contiguous to, and just east of, the Franklin Ceme- tery, and used to front on the old north and south road, now aban- doned.

William Franklin Whittier, a native of Vienna, now a resident of California, in 1861 donated the land for the Franklin Cemetery, which was laid out in 1864. The grounds are handsomely arranged and neatly kept. and contain many tasteful and durable monuments.

Vienna Cemetery Association was organized in 1890 for the pur- pose of taking better care of the old burying ground that was origi- nally laid out on John Bradley's land before 1800. This yard con- tains more graves than any other in town, and is most beautifully situated, with cheerful surroundings. All its arrangements indicate the best of care, and its many white marbles are a credit to any com- munity. Samuel Davis is president and M. F. Eaton is secretary of the association.

Two private grounds mark the resting places of the Sevey and Porter families.

CIVIL LISTS .- The selectmen, with the year of first election and the number of years of service of each, have been: 1802. Jacob Graves, 13, James Cofren, Joshua Moore, 9; 1803, Noah Prescott; 1804, Robert Cofren, 3; 1805, Nathaniel Whittier, 15; 1806, Benjamin Porter, 7; 1807, Josiah Bradley, 6; 1808, Joseph Morrill, 2; 1810, James Chapman, 12, Arnold Wethren, Jonathan Bradley, 2; 1817, Ozem Dowst, 17; 1821, John Porter, 2, John Mooers, 2; 1825, John Marden, 3; 1826, Nathaniel Graves, 21; 1828, Epaphras Johnson, 3; 1831, Levi Johnson,

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Andrew Neal, 2; 1832. Levi Greeley; 1835, Moses Brown, 14; 1838, Jo- siah P. Mooers; 1840, Isaac N. Whittier, 2; 1841, Daniel Brown, 2; 1842, James H. Porter, 14; 1843, Timothy C. Bradley; 1844, Levi Brown, 3; 1845, Alvan Bradley; 1846, James Sanborn, 4; 1848, Dennis Gorden, Daniel Tozer; 1849, Thomas C. Norris, 3; 1854, John Berry, 3, Nathan Gilman; 1856, Blake T. Dow, 2, Josiah Brown, 2; 1857, Jo- siah Morrill, 19; 1858, Gerry Graves, 2: 1859, Sewall Eaton, 3, Thomas F. Hovey, 2; 1861, Henry Dowst, 7; 1862, Ruel W. Smart, 2; 1867, Jacob Robie; 1868, Willis P. Brown, 7, Albion G. Whittier, 11; 1870, Jacob S. Woods; 1871, Allen B. Wing; 1872, Charles K. Besse; 1873, Henry Graves, 7, William T. Morrill; 1875, A. F. Smart, 3; 1876, M. F. Eaton, 7; 1879, S. Wesley Carr, 6, Sanders Morrill; 1882, Orman French, 2; 1883, D. W. Griffin, Charles E. Morrill; 1885, N. G. San- born, 4; and, 1889, Josephus Brown, 4.

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Illustrated history of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1892, Part 114

Author: Kingsbury, Henry D; Deyo, Simeon L., ed Publication date: 1892 Publisher: New York, Blake Number of Pages: 1790

Author: Kingsbury, Henry D; Deyo, Simeon L., ed
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York, Blake
Number of Pages: 1790