Illustrated history of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1892, Part 96

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

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Adelbert C. Sherman, born in 1840, is a son of George C. and Julia A. (Blake) Sherman, and grandson of Obadiah Sherman, of Massa- chusetts. He married Maria A., daughter of Daniel and Caroline (Shorey) Pierce. He enlisted in 1862, in Company F, 11th United States Infantry, was shot through the right lung at Gettysburg, and wounded again at Petersburg, after which he was made captain of Company G, 28th United States colored troops, and still holds the rank of captain in the United States army.

John Simpson, born in York county, Me., in 1835, son of John and Mary Simpson, is one of eleven children. The others were: Erastus B., Edwin C., Susan A., Lydia J., Sylvanus R., Francis M., Mary P., Kathleen E., Harriet M. and one infant which died. Mr. Simpson married in 1860, Almira T., daughter of Moses and Salinda (Cole) Cooper. They have had four daughters-two pairs of twins-the only one now living being Susie. Mr. Simpson is a scythe maker by trade, but has been for the past twenty years a farmer on the David Thurs- ton farm, which he now owns.

Jacob G. Smith is a son of Jacob and Rebecca (Jackson) Smith, and was born in Monmouth near where he now lives, in 1815. His father's children were: Elmira (Mrs. Phillips Rackley), Diantha, who died in 1878; Rebecca A. (Mrs. William H. Woodbury) and Jacob G., who in 1839 married Jane Tilton. She died in 1854, leaving four children: Edward G., Sarah J. (Mrs. Robert M. Macomber), Charles E. and Mary A. Tillson. Charles E. died in 1883, leaving one son, Charles F. In 1855 Jacob G. married Martha A. Moody, of Monmouth, who died in

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1885, leaving three children: Elma J., who died in 1890; Henry L. and Albert S. Mr. Smith has been selectman for fourteen years, justice for forty years, and director and president of the Monmouth Mutual Insurance Company for twenty years.

Nahum Spear, born in 1831 in West Gardiner, son of Richard Spear, was a carpenter until September 1, 1855, when he came to North Mon- mouth and was four years in the sleigh and carriage factory of Sam- uel Robinson. Since then he has carried on a wagon repairing and manufacturing business. His wife, Mary F., was a daughter of Eben- ezer Prescott.

ANDREW WOOD TINKHAM was born in Monmouth November 23, 1823. His mother was Armida, daughter of Andrew Wood, of Win- throp. His ancestors on both sides were of English stock, the Tink- hams coming from the valley of the Severn, near the head of Bristol channel, and making their home in Middleboro, Plymouth county, at an early day, where in common with the Pilgrims of the Old Colony they suffered and bore the hardships incident to those times. In 1807 Amasa Tinkham, then about twenty-five years of age, left the paternal home for the District of Maine, and finally settled in Monmouth (then almost a wilderness) on the farm now owned and occupied by his son, where he remained until his death in 1872, at the advanced age of ninety years. On this farm Andrew W. was born and has always made his home, busily engaged in its management and conducting its operations carefully, wisely and profitably.

Like most farmers' boys of his day, his school education was lim- ited to a few weeks in the year in the little district school house, and and it is not remembered that he attracted particular attention except in the studies of geography and history, which he took in as the " ox drinketh in water." Natural philosophy and geology were also favor- ites. His school studies have been supplemented by careful and judi- cious reading continued to the present time, and with a memory re- markably retentive and a ready command of language, his well stored facts come forth at call, making him an interesting and instructive conversationalist.

He has served several terms as selectman of his town, was a trus- tee of Monmouth Academy several years, and his judgment and in- tegrity are in such repute that he has often been called to serve as commissioner and as arbitrator in disputed claims. As evidence of his honor and his regard for the good name of his family, one fact is worth a myriad of theories or assertions. His father, in the goodness of his heart and in his old age, had indorsed paper for others; the maker failed and he became liable to pay, and payment would impov- erish him. That no stain might rest on the honored name of his aged father, the son, although under no legal or moral liability, voluntarily assumed the debt, some $4,000. For a farmer in his circumstances

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this was no small undertaking, but the energy, good judgment, econ- omy and industrious habits inherited from his Pilgrim ancestry, bore him safely through, and he soon had the satisfaction of paying the last dollar of principal and interest-an act that established his repu- tation and proved (as he has often said) the best investment of his life.

As a farmer he has always been a progressive one, and while culti- vating the usual crops of the farmers of his section, has made wool and apples specialties. About twenty-two years ago, alarmed at the wholesale destruction of our forests, as an experiment, he fenced and planted about ten acres of worn out pasture land with seed of white pine, oak, cedar and some other woods, which have now grown to a beautiful forest, converting what was a dreary waste into a thing of beauty.

In employing assistance on the farm his rule has been to give preference to the poor and needy, always bearing in mind the words of Scripture-" The poor ye always have with you, and if ye will, ye may do them good."

A fractured leg, the result of an accident some thirty years ago, has been the cause of great trouble and inconvenience ever since, seriously interfering with his farming operations; yet notwithstand- ing this infirmity, he is always serene and happy, living in full faith that beyond this vale of tears there is a better land, where canes and crutches are unknown, and where he will range in delight through Elysian fields of joy.

William B. Tinkham, born in Massachusetts in 1827, is a son of John and Elizabeth (Ling) Tinkham. He married Olive A., daughter of Emory Tilson, and has six children: Francisco, a merchant in Mon- mouth; Herbert R. and Emory A., lawyers in Duluth, Minn .; Carrie B. (Mrs. Joshua Stover), Willie C. and Geneva. Mr. Tinkham went to California and on his return in 1853 came to Monmouth and settled on the farm where he has since lived.

Hiram G. Titus was born in 1834 and died June 25, 1892. He was a son of James and Elizabeth (Gould) Titus, and grandson of William Titus, who came from Massachusetts. James Titus had twelve chil- dren, of whom the following are living: William F., James H., Cyrus K., Nathaniel W., Eliza J. and Charles O. Hiram G. married Jose- phine L., daughter of Phineas B. and Elizabeth (Collins) Nichols. They had three children: Walter H., Adelbert E. and Hattie E. (Mrs. Nelson Springer).

Daniel G. Towle, born in Monmouth in 1815, is a son of Benjamin and Sarah (Kelley) Towle, and grandson of Benjamin Towle, who came from New Hampshire to Monmouth. Benjamin, jun., had three sons: Henry W., Daniel G. and Josiah E., who died and left one son, Charles E., who now lives with Daniel G. The latter married Sarah,

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daughter of Peter and Jerusha Gale. He went to Boston in 1836, and in 1856 went to Minnesota, where he enlisted in 1861 in Company E, 4th Minnesota, being first sergeant and then captain, which rank he held until April, 1865, when he was discharged, being disabled by wounds at Altoona Pass, Ga. Since 1878 he has lived in Monmouth, where he has been prominent in the G. A. R. Post and also in the Ma- sonic and Odd Fellows orders.

Wilbert True, born in Litchfield in 1838, is a son of Joseph C. and Betsey J. (Woodbury) True. He went to California in 1857, returned in 1861, and in 1862 married Mary B., daughter of Simeon and Mary A. Williams. They have one daughter, Annie M. He came to Mon- mouth in 1865 and has since been a farmer.

Alexander L. Walker, born in Litchfield in 1842. is a son of Samuel and Abigail (Belden) Walker, grandson of Joshua Walker, and great- grandson of John Walker, who was a native of Kennebunkport, and married Elizabeth Burbank. They had seven sons and seven daugh- ters. Their son Joshua, married Sarah Huntington, and had two sons and two daughters. Alexander L. married Myra, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Gowen, and they have two children: Irving E. and Hattie M. He enlisted in the 1st Maine Cavalry in 1861, was discharged in 1865, and in 1877 came to Monmouth, where he is a farmer. He has for some years sold agricultural implements.

George H. Waugh, born in Readfield in 1833, is one of eight chil- dren of Robert and Lydia Waugh, and grandson of Robert Waugh. He married Laura M. Poole, of Readfield, who died living two chil- dren: George N. and Samuel F. His present wife was Anna P., daugh- ter of Joseph Wood, of Winthrop. He was nine years in California, returning in 1861. In 1863 he enlisted in Company B, 17th Maine, served until the close of the war, and has since been a farmer.

CHAPTER XXXI.

TOWN OF WAYNE.

Location and Natural Features .- Settlement and Civil History .- Cemeteries .- Ecclesiastical .- Educational .- Industrial Interests .- Associations .- Villages. Personal Paragraphs.

R EACHING farther west by nearly two miles than any other sec- tion of the county, and lapping over the west line of the Ken- nebec purchase, lies a town which, but for comparatively recent concessions to and acquisitions from the lands of its neighbors, would form an almost perfect triangle. It is bounded on the north by Liv- ermore and Fayette, east by Winthrop, south by Monmouth and west by Leeds and Audroscoggin pond. Pocasset, as this favorite resort of the red man was termed, is a rough, hilly tract, covered with enor- mous loose boulders. It is splendidly irrigated and abounds in a light, natural grass-bearing soil, which at several points merges into tracts of drift sand. A heavy formation of deep-toned granite under the thin soil has been quarried in the southern portion of the town for monumental purposes.

Androscoggin pond, which covers the south half of the western boundary, comprises nearly six miles of surface. It receives the out- flow of a long chain of lakes, the most remote of which rises near the northern boundary of the county. The exit is through a broad chan- nel into the Androscoggin river. This channel, which is known as Dead river, has the singular ability of flowing both ways. A rise in the Androscoggin, resulting from local rains in the White Mountain range, will set the current back into the pond for days, while quick rains in central Maine will excite the sluggish water and send it rush- ing down into the river with the rapidity of a mountain torrent. Near the upper end of Androscoggin pond are two islands of considerable size, one of which was used by the Anasagunticook Indians as a burial place, from which many relics of aboriginal warfare have been ex- humed. Northeast of this body of water, and connected with it by a short, sinuous stream, which furnishes motive power to the mills at Wayne village, is Wing's pond, formerly known as Howe's mill pond, a large, natural reservoir, about one and a half miles in length, which receives the outflow of Lovejoy's pond, on the north, the larger por- tion of which lies in the adjoining towns of Fayette and Readfield.

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East of this chain, and separated from it by a high water-shed. is a short water system flowing into the Kennebec river. Beginning at the northeast corner of the town, it follows along the entire length of the eastern boundary, swelling out into two small ponds-Berry and Dexter-then empties into Wilson pond.

From the lofty ranges which surround these ponds magnificent vistas are spread out in every direction. Attracted, doubtless, by this feature, as well as by the lumbering and agricultural resources of the territory, a number of prospectors from Cape Cod selected lots here as early as 1775, on which to found permanent homes.

SETTLEMENT AND CIVIL HISTORY .- Job Fuller, the pioneer of the colony of New Sandwich, as the place was called by the settlers, in memory of their old home, Sandwich, on the coast of Cape Cod, struck the first tree that fell before the woodman's axe not far from 1773. The lot on which he settled was, it is supposed, the one lately owned by the K. B. Pullen heirs, near the head of Wilson pond. His house, which, on the evidence of contemporary events, may safely be reckoned as the first framed building in the town, stood a few rods east of the site covered by the present buildings. It was taken down many years ago.

Fuller had lived in the forest but a short time when other families, many of them old neighbors, came in and settled around him. Promi- nent among them were the Wings, the Washburns, Sturtevants, Nor- rises, Winslows and Jenningses, Asa Lawrence, the Maxims, Isaac Dexter, Reuben Besse and John Bowles.

With Reuben Wing came his six sons-Moses, Ebenezer, Simeon, Allen, William and Aaron. Moses became a physician. He settled on the farm now owned by John Weeks, to whose father, Thomas Weeks, he sold the clearing, and removed to the lot opposite Dr. C. H. Barker's at the village. He removed, subsequently, to Phillips, Me. Ebenezer Wing took up the farm now owned by Ebenezer Norris, on the Winthrop road; Simeon settled on the farm occupied by his grand- son, J. M. Wing, west of Wing's pond; Allen on the Riggs farm farther north, William on the adjoining lot on the west, and Aaron on the place now owned by James M. Pike. Asa Lawrence probably settled in the eastern part of the town, near Berry pond. The Norrises set- tled near the Androscoggin pond, in the south part of the town. There were four brothers of them -- Ephraim, Nathaniel, Wooden and Josiah -- sons of Samuel Norris, who removed from Sandwich, Mass., a few years later. Ephraim settled on the place now owned by Charles Norris, Nathaniel on an adjoining lot, Wooden on the farm now occu- pied by Sewall Pettingill, and Josiah on the farm now owned by his grandson, Melvin Norris. The Jennings family took up a lot north- east, a short distance from the head of Wing's pond. The father, Samuel Jennings, came with three sons -- Nathanuel, Samuel, jun., and John. Of these, the last two removed, after a short time, to

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Leeds, while Nathaniel remained on the farm which is now owned by his grandsons, the well known Jennings Brothers. Isaac Dexter set- tled near the head of Wilson pond, a short distance west of the one which bears his name; Reuben Besse on the Winthrop road, near Berry pond, and John Bowles near Job Fuller, on the farm now owned by M. B. Sylvester.

In the absence of authentic records, it is impossible to accurately trace the development of the colony through its various stages. As the fragmental data that can, at this late period, be gathered from the few remaining aged citizens would, at best, bear marks of partiality and insufficiency, it may be better to pass over the colonizing period with light touches. Suffice it to say that during the twenty-five years which intervened between Job Fuller's advent and the incorporation of the town, nearly one hundred families had gathered on the beauti- ful hills which cluster about this vast water system.

All this time the settlement had borne the appellation, New Sand- wich. February 12, 1798, an act was passed by the general court which placed Wayne on the list of legally incorporated towns. The name was adopted in honor of General Anthony Wayne, a hero of the revolution, under whom, it is probable, some of the pioneers of the new town had fought.

Of the first three years following the town's incorporation we have no record. The selectmen for the year 1801 were Isaac Dexter, Moses Wing and William Wing. Of these, Moses Wing remained in office until 1808, while William Wing served only two years and Isaac Dex- ter but one. Their successors were: Ellis Sweet, 1802-3; Ephraim Norris, 1803-5; Braddock Weeks, 1804-9; Daniel Smith, 1806-8; Jo- seph Lamson, 1809; Moses Wing, Job Fuller and Benjamin Burgess, 1810; Joseph Lamson, 1811-15; Moses Wing, jun., 1811-12; Cyrus Foss, 1811; Aaron Wing, 1812; John Bowles, 1813-15; Ebenezer Besse, 1813; Moses Wing, jun., 1814-15; Moses Wing, 1816; Nathaniel Fair- banks, 1816; Joshua Bowles, 1816-17: Lemuel Bryant, 1817-18; Allen Wing, 1818; Cyrus Foss, 1818-19; Joseph Lamson and John Morrison, 1819; Allen Wing. William Burgess and Ephraim Norris, 1820-1; Lemuel Bryant, Nathaniel Fairbanks and Moses Bean, 1822; Joseph Lamson, 1823; William Burgess and John Morrison, 1823-6; Asa Foss, 1824-30; Hamilton Jenkins, 1827; Amasa Dexter, 1827-8; Francis Bowles, 1828; Abijah Crane and James Wing, 1829-30; Francis Bowles, 1831; John Morrison, 1831; Jesse Stevens, 1831-4; Asa Foss, 1832; George Gorden, 1832-3; Noah Chandler, 1833-4; Leonard Wing, 1834-6; Asa Foss, 1835; George Smith, 1836-9; Uriah H. Virgin, 1836; Asa Foss and Jesse Stevens, 1837; Sewall Frost, 1838-9; Leonard Wing, 1838; Nelson H. Carey, 1839-41; George W. Fairbanks and Samuel W. Frost, 1840; Josiah Norris, jun., and William Lewis, 1841-3; Sewall Frost, 1842-6; Nelson H. Carey and Joshua Burgess, 1844-9; Tillotson

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Lovejoy and R. R. Frohock, 1848; David Stevens, 1849-50; Josiah Norris, jun., 1850-4; Samuel S. Brown, 1850-1; Benjamin Ridley, 1851; Ephraim Hall and Gilman Buswell, 1852; Tillotson Lovejoy, 1853; William G. Besse, 1853-6; Thomas B. Read, 1854; Samuel W. Frost and Emery Foss, 1855-6; Joshua Burgess, 1857; Samuel S. Brown, 1857-9; A. K. P. Burgess, 1857-8; H. J. Ridley, 1858-9; Samuel W. Frost, 1859; Josiah Norris, 1860; Daniel True, 1860-3; Squire Bishop, 1860-4; A. K. P. Burgess, 1861-2; Thomas B. Read, 1863-5; Richard Berry, 1864-6; H. J. Ridley, 1865-7; Llewellyn Wing, 1866-7; William L. G. Clark, 1867; Josiah Norris, 1868-9; George W. Fairbanks, 1868- 72; Sewall Pettingill, 1868-71; John P. Carson, 1870-3; J. C. Stinch- field, 1872-7; H. J. Ridley, 1873-7; Sears Frost, 1874-8; Sewall Pettin- gill, 1877; Stillman L. Howard, 1878-9; G. M. True, 1878; Melvin Nor- ris and James M. Wing, 1879; Joseph S. Berry and J. P. Stevens, 1880-1; William G. Besse, 1880; Benjamin F. Maxim, 1881-5: J. C. Stinchfield and James M. Wing, 1882-5; Nathaniel B. Frost, 1886-9; Peleg F. Pike, 1886-90; John M. Weeks, 1886; Sewall Pettingill, 1887 -90; Albert W. Riggs, 1890; William B. Frost, 1891; B. F. Bradford and George H. Lord, 1891-2; A. H. Briggs, 1892.

The first Town Clerk of whom we have any record was Moses Wing, who held the office eighteen consecutive years. The next in- cumbent was Asa Foss, who was elected in 1820. His successors were: Joshua Bowles, 1822; Zacariah Wing, 1829; Francis Bowles, 1832; George Smith, 1834; Wellington Hunton, 1841; Bartlett W. Varnum, 1852; Thomas B. Read, 1853; James H. Thorn, 1855; Cyrus B. Swift, 1861; Charles H. Barker, 1865; Cyrus Swift, 1868; Joseph H. Berry, 1870; H. C. Tribou, 1878; W. A. Burgess, 1892.

The successive Treasurers have been: Ebenezer Mason, 1801; Thomas Atkinson, 1802; Joseph Lamson, 1804; John Bowles, 1809; Moses Wing. 1810; Allen Wing, 1811; Isaac Dexter, 1813; Ebenezer Besse, 1815; Joshua Bowles, 1819: Allen Wing, 1820; Joshua Bowles, 1823; Allen Wing, 1829; Humphrey Hight, 1830; Zacariah Wing, 1831; Francis Bowles, 1832; George Smith, 1834; Sumner C. Moulton, 1841; Wellington Hunton, 1847; J. F. Jennings, 1854; Cyrus B. Swift, 1856; Leonard L. Wing, 1857; E. H. Libby, 1858; N. B. Frost, 1859; C. H. Barker, 1860; Squire Bishop, 1862; W. H. Rollins, 1864; Charles H. Barker, 1865; W. H. Rollins, 1866; Josiah Norris, 1868; Joseph S. Berry, 1874; Alfred Johnson, 1877; Joseph S. Berry, 1882; Stillman L. Howard, 1883; and Charles E. Wing, since 1886.

While Wayne, like her companion towns, throws a mournful glance into the brilliant past, and laments her depleted population and mori- bund industries, she has not, like many of the towns of Kennebec, to deplore run down farms and dismantled buildings, which many of our Maine towns present. Of her sons and daughters, one of whom is

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Annie Louise Cary, Maine's greatest songstress, she may well be proud.

The season of greatest prosperity which the town has enjoyed, was the decade embracing the civil war, when the mills were in full oper- ation on profitable contracts. Following that period, the value of real estate has steadily increased in the face of a diminishing population, until the recent sluggishness in manufacturing operations induced a sudden fall. From the first the inhabitants of Wayne have been en- terprising and intelligent. That this is true of the early stock is demonstrated, in a measure, by the neat, concise and methodical man- ner in which the contemporaneons public records were kept.

The town institutions have been few. Nothing has been created for mere ostentation, and everything not of immediate practical utility has been dispensed with. For more than half a century the annual and public business meetings were held in private buildings and the Methodist church. The town house, which has the appearance of a far older building, was erected not far from 1845 by David and Peter Fifield. The semi-barbarous custom of selling the town's poor, at public auction, to the lowest bidder, which has so reluctantly been re- linquished throughout the state, was in vogue here until not far from 1850, when a farm in the south part of the town, near Androscoggin pond, was purchased of Benjamin Norris. This was sold and a farm on Beech hill purchased of Jason Maxim. This, in turn, was substi- tuted by the farm in the north part of the town now in use, which was formerly the property of Matthias Smith.

CEMETERIES .- The oldest cemetery, probably, is the one in the Syl- vester district. At a very early date a cemetery was established on Beech hill, twenty rods north of H. J. Ridley's. The location was poorly chosen. Little by little the sands sifted away until skeletons began to appear on the surface. Many bodies were taken up and placed on the more secure land of the new private cemetery, an eighth of a mile to the southwest, but many bones were widely scattered. Another of the early cemeteries was taken from the farm now owned by A. C. Hayford, in the north part of the town. The one near N. Davis', at North Wayne, while of early date, was established later than the last mentioned ground, as was also the one near the Howard Gott place, in the west part of the town.

CHURCHES .- The ecclesiastical history of Wayne begins with the year 1793, in the early part of which regular social services were es- tablished by some of the settlers who had been aroused by the exhort- ations of missionary disciples of the Baptist faith. On the 9th day of January, 1794, they were, largely through the labors and influence of Rev. Mr. Potter, organized into a church of eleven members, of which nine were males. For eight years they had no regular pastor. Itin- erant preachers, among whom were Elders Potter, Jackson and Cas e

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visited them occasionally, and Thomas Francis, of Leeds, a man of considerable talent and force of character who had joined them, served as a lay pastor. In 1798 he was ordained, and in 1800 became pastor of the church in Leeds. Two years later Rev. William Godding be- gan a four years' pastorate. His successors have been: Nathan Thomas, 1817-19; T. B. Robinson, 1831-5; D. P. Bailey, 1836-8; R. C. Starr, 1841-3. In more recent years the church has been supplied to quite an extent by students. Among the settled pastors have been: Reverends Joshua Millet, Samuel Boothby, Carleton Parker, G. S. Smith, A. Snyder, Erwin Dennet and J. R. Herrick.

Their first house of worship was erected through the united effort of another denomination. It eventually fell into the entire control of the Baptists, and was burned on the site where the present edifice stands, about fifty years ago.

Five days after the Baptist church of Wayne was organized, Rev. Jesse Lee, the Methodist evangelist, preached to the people of that place. A class was soon organized by his subordinate, Philip Wager, which developed into an auxiliary church of the Readfield circuit. Until 1827, when it was transferred to Monmouth circuit, the pastors were circuit riders. Their names and the dates of their pastorates are given in Chapter XXX.

From 1827 to 1841 Wayne was classed with Monmouth, with only one minister in charge. The names of the ministers during this period have been mentioned in the preceding chapter.

In 1842 Wayne was set off as a separate charge, with R. H. Stinch- field, pastor. He was followed by D. F. Quimby, 1844; C. Fuller, 1845; P. Munger, 1846; C. C. Whitney, 1847; W. Wyman, 1848; D. B. Ran- dall, 1849-50; D. Copeland, 1851; R. J. Ayer, 1852; T. Hill, 1853; F. A. Crofts, 1856; A. C. Trafton, 1860; E. Smith, 1861; W. B. Bartlett, 1863; J. M. Woodbury, 1865; J. Armstrong, 1868; J. Mitchell, 1869; W. H. Foster, 1871: E. K. Colby, 1873; Elbridge Gerry, 1876; Sylvester Hooper, 1878; W. H. Foster, 1880; J. P. Cole, 1884; O. H. Stevens, 1885; D. R. Ford, 1887; J. R. Masterman, 1890. Two of these, Reverends Caleb Fuller and C. C. Whitney, located in Wayne. The former rep- resented the town one term in the legislature, and the latter was en- gaged in business as a druggist.

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Illustrated history of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1892, Part 96

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