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Gradually settlement pushed northward. Lewis Gay settled a mile or so above South Casco; Obadiah Gould on Quaker Hill; Capt. Richard Mayberry on the west side of Leach Hill; Mark Leach on the top of Leach Hill; the Mayberry brothers, Richard, Jr., Edward and William, also William Webb and Dr. Joseph Wight, on Mayberry Hill; the Cooks, William and Richard, in Shadagee, and Mark Jordan on the east side of Pleasant Lake.
It is not positively known which was the
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first house built in Casco Village, but in 1837 John Holden 3rd settled in the north end of the village, and built a dam at the outlet of Pleasant Pond that furnished power for both a grist mill and a saw mill. This John Holden came from the old Holden homestead in Otisfield, now Camp Songowood. He built a temporary home on the north side of the mill stream. He farmed and ran the grist mill and sawmill, and when prosperity had made it possible, he built the beautiful home that has since become the Pleasant Lake House, Raymond C. Fickett proprietor.
John Holden's eldest son, Colonel Levi, built for himself the house on the north corner of the village street and the Mayberry Hill road now owned and occupied by Richard E. Gay.
His other sons, Franklin and Alpheus, were never married. It is highly probable that each of the boys helped in all of the activities of the farm and of the mills, but in time Franklin became the miller. He died in 1851. Alpheus inherited the greater part of his father's very considerable estate.
Alpheus, with a keen mind, well educated for his time and affluent, was perhaps more than
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any other responsible for the building of the Casco church, and was deeply interested in the schools. He was prominent in all of the social and political affairs of the town, often holding some town office. He was elected to the legis- lature and to the State senate, and for some years was a member of the Governor's council.
Samuel Leach was an early settler. He was a carriage maker and his house was on the lot where William C. Holden now lives. His car- riage shop, adjacent to his home, was later con- verted into a store by Johnson Knight in the early 70's. Mr. Knight also rebuilt the house. Both the house and the store were burned in the great fire of 1921. The store at the time was owned and operated by Holden & Gay; the house, by V. R. Edwards and Roscoe Mayberry.
The set of buildings which is now the Inn was built by one of the Otisfield Jillsons, probably Burden, and the house which is Herman Brackett's home was built by a Jepson. Samuel K. Holden built the old Edward Mayberry place, which was also burned in 1921, the Harry Perry house, Milton Hancock's house and the Lord place at the south end of the village.
Dr. John Eastman came from Conway, N. H., and built the old Eastman place, the
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home of the late James N. Eastman. Daniel M. Cook built the house owned by Fred Han- scom. John Frost built the Frank Curtis place and William Merrow built Elmer French's house. The exact order of their construction is unknown.
William Decker built for himself a home on the south slope of Leach Hill just south of the Mountain View Cemetery. Mr. Decker was a farmer, a mill man and an itinerant preacher. He built a mill on the Decker Brook near Cook's Mills which was operated for a few years. He had five sons, three of whom spent their lives in Casco. William, Jr. lived at the foot of Parker Pond near where Stillman Berry now lives. He was William Colby's grandfather. Nathan and Spencer lived in Casco Village. They were in trade together for a period of years. About 1858 they sold out and Nathan gave his attention to timber and lumbering. After a time Spencer opened up the store in his own name. Edward Decker, another brother, went to Wisconsin when that state was being opened up for settle- ment. He, with some others, took up a township north of Milwaukee and for his native town in Maine he named the township Casco, Wisconsin.
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INDUSTRIES
AGRICULTURE
THE principal industry in Casco probably is agriculture, for nearly everybody does some farming. Many of the earlier citizens were considered prosperous farmers and truly a bird's- eye glance over Casco, covering the span of one hundred years, is that of a prosperous and contented farming community - a beautiful place to be.
Progress in agriculture almost seems to work inversely, for whereas there were many pros- perous farms hereabout fifty years ago, now the average farmer finds it difficult to keep his build- ings painted and his taxes paid. There are many contributing causes, and nearly all of them come under the comprehensive name of progress. The timber lot that used to contribute the boards and timbers and shingles for necessary repairs, and a little to sell from time to time, has been cleaned off. The cost of farm labor has been much increased, and farm boys leave home much earlier than they used to. Furthermore, the
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introduction of expensive farm machinery great ly facilitates the operation of the large producer, and probably reduces his cost of production, whereas the small farmer can ill afford to invest in such machinery, and uses most of it for only a few hours a year, if he does have it. Also, if he buys the machinery he must in addition build housing for it.
Arcadia Farm has its address-Casco, and it is an industry of which any community would be proud. Hence we claim it, although it is just over the Otisfield line, but it serves to illustrate many things. It has the equipment with which to do, and Arcadia probably produces a greater variety of fruits and vegetables than any other single farm in Maine. In both quan- tity and quality of production it is most ex- cellent, illustrating that, though our season is short, farming in great variety and of a very high order is not only possible but practicable.
Arcadia has also developed, in relatively few years, one of the finest Jersey dairy herds in Maine. Combine Bessie, a beautiful Jersey of the Arcadia herd, was the only Jersey from the State of Maine to be accepted in the Crystal Palace dairy exhibit at the New York World's Fair. She, after one or two shifts, was placed in the No. I or honor position at that exhibit.
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Arcadia Farm splendidly exemplifies what may be done in agriculture in this section.
For a time, too, horses brought Casco somewhat into the limelight. The Mayberry brothers, Cyrus C. and Frank P., sons of Deacon Richard Mayberry, established themselves in Boston in law and real estate development, and pros- pered. When Richard died they converted the Mayberry farm into a stock farm for the breed- ing of driving horses and trotters. Several of their trotters were well known on some of the famous tracks of New England.
After the death of the Mayberry brothers the stock farm was sold to Gardner W. Cole and has since been the Casco Inn with Mr. Cole as "mine host."
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LUMBERING
In the lumbering industry water power saw- mills were built at South Casco, two at Casco Village, two at Cook's Mills, others at Webb's Mills and Hog Meadow. Taken by and large, over a hundred years, they have sawed both for domestic use and export a great quantity of beautiful timber.
The Jesse Holden mill and the Decker mill were not far from Cook's Mills.
Richard Webb built a sawmill at Webb's Mills, now Crescent Lake, in the '50s and a con-
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siderable village grew up about it, although it was and is largely an agricultural community. This mill, like the one at Hog Meadow, had several owners. Beside Webb the names of Winslow, Duran, Spiller, Mclellan and Rowe appear somewhat prominently in their history. They are industries of the past.
The development of the portable mill has en- tirely changed the picture. Whereas several of these old water power mills have gone, probably forever, Casco today is shipping more lumber than ever before. Willard Libby at South Casco, Willard Chute in the western part of the town and M. S. Hancock at Casco Village have undoubtedly shipped more lumber in the last two or three seasons than ever before in Casco's history. Mr. Hancock alone had five mills in operation last winter, and at times had three hundred men directly or indirectly on the pay- roll.
Sumner O. Hancock succeeded to the lumber- ing interests of Nathan Decker and was an important factor in the background of the M. S. Hancock Company.
Kenneth M. Hancock, who is in business with his father, M. S. Hancock, last year was elected president of the Northeastern Lumber Manu- facturers Association. The association serves the
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Eastern part of the United States. His election was a great tribute to Mr. Hancock personally, and it puts Casco, Maine, on the map in large letters.
CORN PACKING
In 1869 the Portland Packing Company built a corn shop in what is now Herman Brackett's field. It was a relatively large shop and pros- pered. The land lease was for ten years. When the term of the lease expired it was not renewed, and the buildings were removed to the triangular field just east of the Lily Brook, now owned by Gardner Cole. In 1880 it was burned to the ground.
Three or four years later Wolfe & Reesing built a corn shop on the East shore of Pleasant Pond a few rods below the Bartny House. After a year or so, they sold to J. B. Webb & Co., and shortly afterward Webb sold to Burnham & Morrill who, with James N. Eastman as super- intendent, continued business for some years.
When the shop was abandoned and taken down, Mr. Eastman started a creamery near his home in the village. This was in 1902. The creamery building later was moved to another site and is now Roy Meserve's mill.
Back in the late '70s John McLellan started
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canning corn and other produce in Webb's Mills, and also at South Windham. When Mr. Mclellan died the shop was sold, and for some years H. M. Rowe carried on in the same shop.
When the Portland Packing Company first opened its shop in Casco, corn was removed from the cob by hand cutting. A special knife was used, to be sure, but it was a hand process, as were nearly all of the operations in those days. Cans also were made by hand, and afforded employment for several men through the winter months. Modern expensive machinery has forced the small operator out of business. The packing industry is now generally in the hands of large operators with a heavier capitalization, and Casco, like so many villages in this section, has lost its corn shops.
TANNERY AND STARCH FACTORY
It was probably in the '50s, though exact data is not available, that William Merrow came here from Durham, Maine, and established a tannery on the site now occupied by Roy Me- serve's lumber mill. Atter a few years of opera- tion the tannery was burned. Mr. Merrow sold the site and Silas P. Somes took it over. He rebuilt the tannery which prospered under him. About 1876 it was purchased by a Boston leather company. A Mr. Ramsdell from Arlington,
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Massachusetts, came as superintendent. The
tannery employed about twenty men. Near it and probably using power from the same wheel, was a starch factory where starch was made from potatoes, believed to have been owned and operated by Deacon Richard Mayberry, who owned and operated a grist mill and a sawmill a few rods above.
The tannery and the starch factory made quite a group of industrial buildings. With the addition of the fifty, and perhaps a hundred, cords of dry hemlock bark piled high on either side of the road, it was an imposing sight and, incidentally, an imposing fire hazard.
One dark evening in the late '70s, fire started in the tannery building proper, making it im- possible to get water from the mill pond or the brook, and all efforts to extinguish the fire were unavailing, Casco beheld the most terrible conflagration in her history. The buildings themselves were fuel for a fierce blaze, but when the heat ignited those immense piles of bark, dry as tinder, it was a veritable inferno.
The writer, hanging to his mother's hand, went across the fields and crouched behind the bark piles on the South side of the road to shield himself from the heat, watching the progress of the fire. Most of the women and children of the village were there, while the men fought
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desperately, though with little success, to keep the flames trom spreading. Those who had taken refuge behind the bark piles had to run, even as far as Frank Curtis' field. Both starch factory and tannery were total losses. Neither was rebuilt and for many years no attempt was made to use the water power.
It was probably twenty or twenty-five years after the fire that James Eastman purchased the site from the Massachusetts owners, moved the old creamery building onto it and operated it as an axe handle mill. Later he built it over into a corn shop and for some years operated it as such. Roy Meserve now operates it as a build- ers' finish factory, with the emphasis on screens and window frames. He also saws a quantity of long lumber.
IRON
In the early '8os, Casco was electrified by the discovery of iron "in these here hills." Yes, there is good rich iron ore in Casco.
There are, however, hematite ores in the vicin- ity of the Great Lakes where the steam shovel can drop the ore onto cars that run directly to the furnaces with very little expense, whereas Casco's magnetite ore has to be drilled, blasted, crushed, and smelted by a much more expensive process.
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There was quite a flurry of excitement back in the 'Sos, here in Casco, but it was found that there is too much granite intermixed with the iron. The so-called mine is a mile or so north of Crescent Lake.
WOOLEN MILL
It was about 1838 that one Perry settled in the first opening at the lett on the Edes Falls road, the farm now owned by Gardner Cole, and built a wool carding mill on the Mill Brook about three quarters of a mile below Casco Village. Foundation stones and some of the old framing timbers were to be found there only a few years ago. The location was perhaps two hundred feet above the bridge across the Mill Brook on the Edes' Falls road. It is believed that the enterprise was unprofitable and short-lived, but it was one of Casco's industries of the remote past.
GUESTS AND TOURISTS
Casco is distinctly in the "Switzerland of America" group of towns which have contributed to make Maine "Vacationland."
The quiet peaceful atmosphere, the scenic beauty of our lakes and hills, the sweet solitude of our forests, the boating, swimming and fishing which our lakes and streams invite, the culinary
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skill of our matrons, and the rugged yet friendly and sometimes quaint characteristics of our good people leave pleasant memories with thousands of our tourists and guests.
Thirteen boys' and girls' camps are served by Casco's three post offices. These camps have a total capacity of between twelve and fourteen hundred, indicating that Casco is a desirable location for camps and that the camps them- selves are desirable.
Our hotels, guest houses and camps are in- creasingly popular and many, many of their guests would subscribe heartily to this beauti- ful benediction which was written by our own Israel W. Jordan:
'C' is for Casco, and all that I ask o' Heaven itself is to be much like Casco;
Like it in skies and pastures and fountains, Like it in lakes and woodlands and mountains,
Like it in peace, when twilight is falling, Like it in hope, dawn's robins a-calling, Like it in home and home's simple pleasures,
Like it in loves defying all measures.
'C' is for Casco, and all that I ask o' Heaven itself is to be much like Casco.
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CHURCHES
RELIGIOUS worship in Raymond prior to 179I was held in the homes of citizens who had rooms of suitable size, and conducted by traveling ministers or circuit riders. Elder Joseph Hutchinson is first mentioned in this connection. The Rev. Zacariah Leach of Ray- mond was ordained in 1784, and soon after be- came resident pastor.
About 1790 there was a religious revival at Raymond which added several converts to the church society, and in 1801 two meeting houses were built. One, the old Gay Meetinghouse, so-called, situated near Ichabod Gay's home on Quaker Ridge a few rods below the Friends' burying ground, was the first meeting house in Casco. It is not now in existence. The other church built at that time was at East Raymond.
A church organization of the Freewill Baptist faith was in existence at Raymond Village long before the present meeting house was erected in 1879.
The second church edifice proper to be erected in Casco was the Friends' meeting house on
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The Church at Casco Village
Nathan Nutting, Architect and Builder
Quaker Ridge which was built in 1814. The Friends have been and are a material contribu- tion to the citizenry of Casco. Nathaniel Hawthorne in his first diary which was written as a boy pays the Friends a very gracious com- pliment. He says, "I swapped pocket knives with Robinson Cook yesterday. Jacob Dingley says that he cheated me, but I think not, for I cut a fishing pole this morning, and did it well. Besides he is a Quaker-and they never cheat."
The church edifice at Casco Village was built in 1841 through contributions from citizens of several different religious creeds, and it was known at the time as a Union Church. Of the several church denominations which wor- shipped here in 1841, all have ceased to exist save only the Freewill Baptists. Their organiza- tion is intact, and they maintain regular services.
The records of the Casco Village church were destroyed in a fire in 1921 which burned three sets of buildings in the central part of the Village, so a list of the clergy who have served that church is not available, and as all of our Casco churches have been served more or less by student pastors, and usually for brief periods, no attempt is made to list them.
The Rev. Israel Jordan and the Rev. Dr. James Albert Nichols are Casco boys who
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prepared for the ministry, but have spent the greater part of their lives in other parishes. In retirement, both have come back to Casco to live, at least in the summer. Prof. May Han- cock, both a teacher and a preacher, is connected with the Gordon College in Boston.
In 1902 a meeting house was built at Crescent Lake and religious services have been held there with more or less regularity.
The church on the Bridgton Road, built in 1915 was called "The General Provisional Bap- tist Church. Mrs. Alma Field now occupies the pulpit.
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PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY
CASCO GRANGE No. 67 was chartered and organized in 1874. After operating with some degree of success its meetings were suspended and its organization lost.
It was reorganized May 16, 1901, in the Casco school house. Atter that the meetings were held in Hancock's Hall until the present Grange Hall was erected. The hall was dedicated January 27, 1904, and cost $3,000. The officers elected were: Master, Sumner O. Hancock; Overseer, Walter W. Hamlin; Lecturer, H. M. Sylvester; Steward, E. B. Jillson; Assistant Steward, G. A. Dingley; Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. G. A. Dingley; Chaplain, J. C. Cook; Treasurer, G. H. Hanscom; Secretary, G. T. Cook; Gate Keeper, Fred C. Lombard; Pomona, Mrs. Josie B. Hanscom; Flora, Jennie M. Davis; Ceres, Mrs. Sumner O. Hancock; Organist, Miss Mellie I. Davis. The organization has been through various degrees of depression and prosperity since then.
One of the chiet social events is the annual
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Grange Fair and Sale held in the summer and looked forward to by summer visitors and mem- bers alike.
At a recently held convention of the Maine branch of the National League of District Post- masters, Richard Everett Gay, the postmaster at Casco Village, was awarded a prize for being the oldest postmaster in point of service in the State of Maine. Mr. Gay was appointed in July, 1902, which makes a record of thirty-nine years of continuous service-a very honorable and complimentary record.
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LAW
AARON B. HOLDEN seems to have been the first to practice law in Casco. He was the son of Philo Holden, also of Casco, and he married Hannah Eastman, a daughter of Dr. John Eastman. He built and occupied the house opposite Dr. Eastman's, now owned by Fred N. Tenney. .
Mr. Holden practiced law here in the early '6os and moved to Portland where he became a prominent member of the Maine Bar and was appointed a judge.
Sometime in the 'zos Herbert M. Sylvester had a law office in Casco for two or three years; then he, too, moved to Portland. Mr. Sylvester, gifted writer and a student of history, was the author of several books.
George Hazen came here from North Bridgton after Mr. Sylvester's removal to Portland and practiced for a year or two. He moved to Ox- ford where he spent the greater part of his life.
George F. McQuillan also practiced law here in the '8os. He moved to Portland. He be-
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came a member of Governor Robie's staff with the rank of colonel.
Also in the 'zos, James Tolman from Harrison set up a law office here. He also hired and oper- ated the mill for a time and eventually moved to Westbrook. He, too, became a judge.
Casco is a law abiding and peace loving com- munity and lawyers have never found a profit- able livelihood here.
James Albert Lombard and David Decker were Casco boys who studied law at the Univers- ity of Michigan, but they spent their active lives in the West.
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MEDICINE
THE following physicians have practiced medicine in Casco Village and Webb's Mills or Crescent Lake: Dr. Joseph Wight, Dr. John Eastman, Dr. S. Loton Weston, Dr. Lewis W. Houghton, Dr. F. D. Lord, Dr. Albion E. Cobb, Dr. Witham, Dr. Walter Corliss, Dr. Charles W. Young, Dr. Cyrus K. Bowker, and Dr. Leland H. Poore.
The sons of Casco who have studied medicine and practiced elsewhere are Dr. Cobb's four sons, Albion Edward, Jr. (usually called Ned), Carolus W., Ernest H., and Anson W .; Dr. Edward Archer Wight, and Dr. D. Webster Wight, grandsons of Dr. Joseph Wight; Dr. Franklin H. Mayberry, and Dr. Charles B. Sylvester. Many of them have made enviable records in the world of medicine.
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The "Who's Who" of Casco can more safely be selected by public opinion than by an indi- vidual. And these are they to whom the con- temporary citizenry of Casco have intrusted the destiny and the business of the Town:
SELECTMEN OF CASCO
1841-Isaiah Gould, Richard Cook, Fredrick Nutting 1842-P. J. Mayberry, Jas. Knight, Daniel Cook 1843-44 Wm. Webb, Isaiah Gould, Geo. W. Dingley 1845-Wm. Webb, Levi Holden, Daniel Murch 1846-Isaiah Gould, Geo. W. Dingley, John Small 1847-Wm. Webb, Frederick Nutting, Levi Holden 1848-Isaiah Gould, P. J. Mayberry, Daniel Walker 1849-A. S. Holden, P. J. Mayberry, Lewis Gay 1850-Richard Mayberry, A. B. Holden, Wm. Maxfield 1851-A. S. Holden, Anson Jordan, Wm. Dingley, Jr. 1852-A. S. Holden, Wm. Rolfe, Wm. Dingley, Jr. 1853-Wm. Rolfe, Wm. Dingley, Jr., Aaron B. Holden 1854-A. S. Holden, Wm. Rolfe, John C. Jacques 1855-Wm. Dingley, Jr., Spencer Decker, David Duran 1856-A. S. Holden, Lewis Gay, P. J. Mayberry 1857-R. M. Webb, Lewis Gay, Oliver M. Cook 1858-S. Decker, David Duran, Wm. Dingley, Jr. 1859-S. Decker, David Duran, Wm. Dingley, Jr. 1860-Daniel M. Cook, P. J. Mayberry, Aaron Mann 1861-Daniel M. Cook, P. J. Mayberry, Aaron Mann 1862-P. J. Mayberry, S. S. Browne, Wm. Hall 1863-Daniel M. Cook, Aaron Mann, John Small 1864-S. Decker, Elmer Brown, James Chute, 2nd
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1865-Daniel M. Cook, Benj. C. Gay, Wm. H. Hodgdon 1866-Daniel M. Cook, Elmer Brown, Wm. Dingley, Jr. 1867-Daniel M. Cook, David Duran, Andrew Libby 1868-Albion Cobb, Jas. H. Lombard, Benj. C. Gay 1869-Richard Cook, Jr., P. J. Mayberry, Wm. Dingley, Jr. 1870-Richard Cook, Jr., P. J. Mayberry, Wm. Dingley, Jr. 1871-P. J. Mayberry, A. R. Gay, S. S. Brown 1872-S. S. Brown, A. S. Holden, Lewis Gay 1873-Wm. M. Cook, David Duran, A. R. Gay 1874-Wm. M. Cook, David Duran, F. A. Dingley 1875-Wm. M. Cook, David Duran, F. A. Dingley 1876-Wm. M. Cook, David Duran, F. A. Dingley 1877-S. S. Brown, S. M. Say, Addison Shaw 1878-David Duran, Wm. Dingley, Jr., J. C. Cook 1879-Spencer Decker, Josiah Webb, J. H. Sawyer 1880-Daniel C. Smith, Albion Cobb, A. R. Gay 1881-W. M. Cook, F. A. Dingley, Cyrus Scribner 1882-W. M. Cook, W. H. Duran, Joshua C. Cook 1883-S. M. Gay, Cyrus Scribner, Geo. Murch 1884-Peter Jordan, W. H. Rolfe, Mark L. Leach 1885-Peter Jordan, W. H. Rolfe, Mark L. Leach 1886-Peter Jordan, W. H. Rolfe, Mark L. Leach 1887-Peter Jordan, Geo. W. Field, E. O. Cobb 1888-Peter Jordan, W. S. Dingley, C. R. Winslow 1889-Mark L. Leach, W. H. Rolfe, C. S. Sylvester 1890-Mark L. Leach, W. H. Rolfe, Chas. Duran 1891-Mark L. Leach, G. T. Cook, S. O. Hancock 1892-Mark L. Leach, S. O. Hancock, Geo. W. Field 1893-S. M. Gay, S. O. Hancock, Rufus M. Gould 1894-S. M. Gay, S. H. Mann, F. A. Dingley 1895-S. O. Hancock, W. F. Chute, J. C. Cook
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1896-G. B. Mayberry, E. C. Jordan, W. H. Rolfe 1897-G. B. Mayberry, J. C. Cook, H. B. Harmon 1898-G. B. Mayberry, Clarence Winslow, W. F. Tenney 1899-S. O. Hancock, Clarence Winslow, W. F. Tenney 1900-G. B. Mayberry, Clarence Winslow, W. F. Tenney 1901-G. B. Mayberry, W. F. Tenney, S. E. Graffam 1902-G. B. Mayberry, W. F. Tenney, S. E. Graffam 1903-G. B. Mayberry, G. H. Hanscom, S. M. Mitchell 1904-G. B. Mayberry, S. F. Jordan, S. E. Graffam 1905-S. O. Hancock, G. H. Hanscom, C. D. Watkins 1906-G. H. Hanscom, C. D. Watkins, Walter Butler 1907-Records burned 1908-Records burned 1909-G. H. Hanscom, Walter M. Butler, F. E. Harmon 1910-G. H. Hanscom, I. J. Winslow, M. L. Leach 1911-G. H. Hanscom, I. J. Winslow, M. L. Leach 1912-G. H. Hanscom, I. J. Winslow, M. L. Leach 1913-G. B. Mayberry, Henry Watkins, M. L. Leach 1914 G. B. Mayberry, Henry Watkins, M. L. Leach 1915-G. B. Mayberry, C. D. Watkins, H. A. Hall 1916-G. B. Mayberry, C. D. Watkins, W. N. Tenney 1917-G. B. Mayberry, M. S. Hancock, W. M. Chute 1918-G. B. Mayberry, M. S. Hancock, W. M. Chute 1919-G. B. Mayberry, M. S. Hancock, G. N. Burgess 1920-Henry Watkins, John Symonds, E. Wilson Baker 1921-Henry Watkins, John Symonds, S. F. Jordan 1922-Henry Watkins, John Symonds, S. F. Jordan 1923-Eugene Harmon, John Symonds, S. F. Jordan 1924-Henry Watkins, John Symonds, S. F. Jordan 1925-Eugene Harmon, Hamden Tripp, Harold Hanscom 1926-Hamden Tripp, John Symonds, S. F. Jordan
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1927-John Symonds, Albert Watkins, S. F. Jordan 1928-Hamden Tripp, Albert Watkins, G. W. Cole 1929-Henry Watkins, S. F. Jordan, Geo. Winslow 1930-Henry Watkins, S. F. Jordan, Geo. Winslow 1931-Henry Watkins, S. F. Jordan, Geo. Winslow 1932-Henry Watkins, S. F. Jordan, R. O. Meserve 1933-R. O. Meserve, George Hanscom, Henry Watkins 1934-R. O. Meserve, George Hanscom, Ruby F. Lombard 1935-R. O. Meserve, Philip Jordan, Ruby F. Lombard 1936-R. N. Mayberry, Philip Jordan, Ruby F. Lombard 1937-R. N. Mayberry, Philip Jordan, Ruby F. Lombard 1938-R. N. Mayberry, Philip Jordan, Ruby F. Lombard 1939-R. O. Meserve, Allan Duntley, Clarence Winslow 1940-R. O. Meserve, Allan Duntley, Clarence Winslow 1941-R. O. Meserve, Allan Duntley, Clarence Winslow
TOWN CLERKS OF CASCO
Alpheus S. Holden, 1841-45; R. M. Webb, 1846-47; Daniel M. Cook, 1848-54; M. S. Eastman, 1855-57; D. M. Cook, 1858-61; M. S. Eastman, 1862-63; Wm. F. Cook, 1864; Lyman W. Holden, 1865; Wm. F. Cook. 1866-67; L. W. Holden, 1868-73; Edwin A. Barton, 1874- 76; Geo. F. McQuillan, 1877; E. A. Barton, 1878; L. W. Holden, 1879-80; R. R. Bangs, 1881; Jas. H. Tolman, 1882; L. W. Holden, 1883-91; E. C. Jordan, 1892; E. A. Barton, 1893; G. B. Mayberry, 1894-96; E. C. Jordan, 1897-99; R. E. Gay, 1900-1914; Harold Hanscom, 1915; Harry Perry, 1916-20; Harry Perry, Irving Kemp and James N. Eastman, 1921; Nina Burgess, 1922-41.
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TREASURERS OF CASCO
Wm. Cook, 1841; Levi Holden, 1842; Barclay Wight, 1843; O. G. Cook, 1844; B. Wight, 1845; P. J. Mayberry, 1846; James Knight, 1847; Jas. K. Night, 1848-50; Aaron B. Holden, 1851-53; Moses S. Eastman, 1854; Richard Mayberry, 1855; Clark Stone, 1856; R. Mayberry, 1857- 59; Alpheus S. Holden, 1860; S. S. Brown, 1861; Spencer Decker, 1862; A. S. Holden, 1863; R. Mayberry, 1864; Ephraim Brown, 1865; R. Mayberry, 1866-67; Lewis W. Houghton, 1868; Wm. F. Cook, 1869-70; A. S. Holden, 1871; Wm. F. Cook, 1872-76; Daniel C. Smith, 1877-79; Spencer Decker, 1880; D. C. Smith, 1881; Littleton B. Holden, 1882; D. C. Smith, 1883-84; Sumner O. Hancock, 1885-88; Shirley H. Mann, 1889; Levi C. Maxfield, 1890; S. H. Mann, 1891-93; S. O. Hancock, 1894; J. N. East- man, 1895-1904; G. T. Cook, 1905-07; B. F. Cook, 1918- 23; Charles Gould, 1924-41.
THE ROLL OF HONOR OUR SOLDIERS REVOLUTION
SAMUEL L. WHITNEY
RICHARD SHANE JOSEPH WIGHT
RICHARD MAYBERRY, JR. WILLIAM MAYBERRY CAPT. RICHARD MAYBERRY DANIEL MAYBERRY
JOHN KNIGHT CAPT. JOSEPH DINGLEY
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CIVIL ADDISON SHAW CHARLES A. WATKINS HENRY WITHAM CHARLES L. SHANE JORDAN ROLFE MELVILLE MESERVE JOHN MAINS IVORY P. MAINS WILLIAM H. LIBBY SAMUEL L. HOVEY HORACE B. HARMON ALMON HAM JAMES GRAFFAM HENRY GRAFFAM ANDREW R. GAY JEREMIAH M. CHUTE WILLIAM H. DAVIS JOSIAH WINSLOW STEPHEN HALL CAPT. JOHN DAVIS GEORGE A. STROUT
DAVID NASH FRANK O. HALL VERNAN WINSLOW FRED A. WINSLOW MUNROE J. JORDAN JOSEPH ANDERSON HORACE M. SMALL
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HERMAN C. BRACKETT GEORGE N. BURGESS *ARTHUR M. COLBY ROY N. COLBY HALL B. DINGLEY RAYMOND E. DINGLEY BELA H. EDWARDS RAYMOND L. FILES CHARLES R. GOULD CARLYLE H. GREENE JOHN H. GULICK FRED C. HANSCOM CLAUDE E. HOLDEN WILBUR A. HOYT
ROBERT C. JORDAN ALBERT C. LORD ALBERT H. OLMSTEAD CHARLES E. PARENT WALTER L. PERKINS ARTHUR E. PERRIS BYRON G. ROLFE
MELVIN C. SHAW CHARLES V. SMALL FLORENTINE I. SNELL MORRIS SYLVESTER LEON E. TRIPP LAFAYETTE J. WATKINS HARLAN E. WILSON
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STEPHEN LIBBY SERGT. ISAAC MCLELLAN JEREMIAH BERRY WILLIAM A. PARKER JAMES F. STROUT FLORENTINE BUTLER FRANCIS J. SPILLER OREN SPILLER WILLIAM L. PINKHAM DANIEL MURCH STEPHEN C. MAXFIELD SILAS NOBLE HARLAN P. TUBBS JOHN LORD EDWIN R. MAYBERRY COL. LEVI HOLDEN CHARLES HENRY EDWARDS CHARLES H. CARR LEVI C. MAXFIELD
WORLD
HARVEY C. POLLAND LEON R. HOOPER ERALD HARMON CYRUS M. FICKETT GLENN SMITH CHARLES A. BARTLETT ARTHUR F. BIELBY
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OTHERS
ALFRED MAINS (Aroostock) JAMES WELCH, 1812 GEORGE STROUT, 1812 ISAAC PRIDE, 1812 DANIEL DUDLEY, 1812 OLIVER MAYBERRY, 1812 CAPT. BENJ. MAYBERRY, 1812 STEPHEN HALL, 1812 WILLIAM WEBB, 1812 WILLIAM T. SYLVESTER JOSEPH SPILLER
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