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Second House .- Justus. Amos or Levi Lowe (some authorities say Clovis Lowe) built very early a " nice little camp" on lot 3, range 4, estab- lished a shoe shop, remained a year or so, then removed to Randolph. " Lascar" Jackson took possession of this camp and occupied it two years. Andrew Cates came three or four years later, and built a house against the end of the camp which was located on the upper end of the farm now owned by Harvey Smith. The first town meeting was held in this house.
Simon Evans came from Shelburne in 1825, and settled on the east side of the river on the next lot above Sessions. He developed a good farm which was afterwards owned by Thomas Wheeler, Jr. He had a large family, and there are many bearing the name.
Joseph Wheeler cleared the farm on the east side of the river just below that of Mr Sessions, but sold and removed to Milan in a short time.
Samuel S. Thompson, an old Revolutionary soldier, and his son Benja- min came in 1827. He was a carpenter, and. according to Mr. Blodgett, he made and painted the ballot and jury boxes now in use in Berlin. He also built the first school-house: this was in the Wheeler district, No. 1. He has no descendants living here.
The first settler on the west side of the river was Samuel Blodgett, brother of Mrs. Sessions. He cleared what is now the Reuben Wheeler farm. He came soon after the arrival of Mrs. Sessions, and built a log house on the bank of the river, but did not remain there but a short time. Ben- jamin Bean came from Success, purchased Blodgett's interest, and the latter moved to the lot above, which subsequently became the Daniel Davis farm. After a short stay Mr. Blodgett returned to Gilead, Me .. where he resided for a year or more, then removed to Berlin and settled
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on Cates hill-Berlin Heights. He has numerous descendants in town, all reputable citizens.
Thomas Wheeler, son of Samuel Wheeler, (an old Revolutionary soldier and original settler of Gilead, Me , whither he removed from Temple, N. H., in 1799.) located on the farm now occupied by his son Cyrus. He came here from Shelburne, in 1826, with his wife and ten children, all natives of Gilead, Me., Thomas, Amos, (who, with a companion, Samuel Phipps, lost his life by the burning of a logging camp at Jericho in 1837,) Cyrus, Polly (Mrs. Daniel Green), Sarah (Mrs. Benjamin Thompson), now living in Stark at an advanced age, Dexter, Hiram, Reuben H., Daniel, and Jonathan. This honest pioneer has a large posterity in Berlin and vicinity, besides many in Pennsylvania and Arkansas. He was a good citizen, and brought his children up to work, and thus add to the weal of the town.
Daniel Davis came to Berlin when the town was yet in its infancy (December 31, 1831,) from Buxton, Me. He lived on lot 4, range 3, had a large family and held numerous town offices. Fletcher I. Bean, Job Insley Bean, Lovell Bean, and a family by the name of Coffin were early comers. Fletcher I. Bean was a prominent town officer. Greenlief Coffin is still a resident, and seventy years old.
Joseph Blodgett (son of Jonathan, a Revolutionary soldier, ) came from Gilead, Me , January 1, 1823, to work for Mr. Sessions. He married Mary L., daughter of Nathaniel Wight, one of the first settlers on the river in Milan. He cleared and developed the farm now owned by William D. Sanborn. Here he lived for more than twenty years, then removed to Berlin Falls and followed the avocation of a carpenter, in which he excelled. It was said that he could cut down a large pine tree with the squarest, smoothest cut of any man in the section. He has but three children sur- viving of his family of ten or eleven. He has attained the age of ninety- two; his wife is seventy-eight. They are still residing in Berlin.
Hazen Chandler came quite early from the lower part of the state, and purchased the farm originally settled and partially cleared by Nathaniel Wight, and now known as the Dustin farm, the buildings of which are in Berlin, and the farm in Milan. He had a family of six or seven children. The oldest daughter, Daphne, married Reuben H. Wheeler. Mrs. Chand- ler is now living in town, aged ninety-one.
John Chandler, a brother of Hazen, was a blacksmith, and also land- lord of the Berlin Falls House for some years. He came here from Shel- burne and removed to Milan. His daughter, Elizabeth L., married Merrill (. Forist, who was a prominent man in Berlin for years. He was a school- teacher, superintendent of schools, representative, justice of the peace, and filled other offices. Mt. Forist bears his name. This was originally called " Plumer's Fort " in honor of Gov. William Plumer. who was a large land owner in the town. Mr. Forist built the Mt. Forist House as a hotel about
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1866, and was its landlord until his death. Before building this house he had been proprietor of the Berlin Falls Hotel for many years, succeeding John Chandler. With Mr. Forist departed the glory of this old-time "hostelrie." He was a kind hearted man, and in that period of Berlin's growth did much to enhance its prosperity.
John Y. Dustin, of Gilead, Me .. purchased the Chandler farm about 1850, and now resides there with his son True P. Mr. Dustin attained his eighty-ninth year, May, 1887.
Lorenzo Mason, also from Gilead, came here about 1850, and bought the farm cleared by Seth Kimball on the east side of the river opposite Pine Island. He lived here the remainder of his life, dying in 1884, aged eighty. He was an honest, industrious man, and left a numerous pos- terity.
Past and Present Business Interests. - The first trader, hardly to be called a merchant, was Thomas Green, who had a small store opposite his grist mill as early as 1835. He also built in connection with his grist-mill a "dry-house " for the purpose of hulling oats for making oatmeal. After- wards, when "boughten " flour was to be had, this enterprise failed to be remunerative, and, taking up the perforated zinc floor of the dry-house, Mr. Green introduced wool-carding machinery, which was operated for half a dozen years or more.
The advent of the railroad and the development of the water-power gave a great impetus to the manufacturing interest and traffic, and caused several persons to embark in trade. In 1851 J. D. Horner & Co. built, and stocked with general merchandise, the building at Berlin Falls now occupied as a clothing store by A. W. Jones, in connection with the mill which they had erected on the site in the rear of the Clement block on what is known as the Horner and Hastings privilege. They failed after some years, and the store was vacant until Ira Mason, in 1868, put in a stock of goods, and conducted business until his death in 1883. John W. Green then sold dry-goods here for a few months. E. W. Scribner and H. H. Abbott, as " Scribner & Abbott, " were the next firm engaged in merchan- dising here, commencing in 1884. Mr. Abbott soon gave place to John B. Noyes, who, in the summer of 1886, purchased Mr. Scribner's share of the business, and. in the autumn, removed to his present location.
Daniel Green opened a store about 1850 very near the site of the drug store of J. W. Green, and conducted it nearly two years, when he sold it with all his other business interests in town to Gower & Wilson. This store was made from the shop, where for some years Mr. Green had man- ufactured clapboard and shingle machines. Gower & Wilson conducted this store until their failure in 1559, when it again came into the possession of Daniel Green, who remodelled it, and it was occupied by various traders until it was opened as the first drug store in town by Henry Marble in
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1883. George P. Emerton succeeded him; in a short time he sold to F. L. Wilson, who moved to his present location. It was then refitted by John W. Green. who put in a fresh stock of goods, and began trade in the sum- mer of 1886.
Oliver H. Mason, some time after 1850, built the store where John B. Noyes now trades, and conducted merchandising until he sold to Moses T. Cross in 1860. Mr. Cross sold to J. W. Wheeler. Dexter Wheeler pur- chased his interest and admitted G. C. Paine as partner as "Wheeler & Paine." They afterwards moved into Eagle Hall, and were in business until the death of Mr. Wheeler in 1881. Wilson Brothers succeeded Wheeler & Paine in the occupancy of the O. H. Mason building, as gen- eral traders. After two years they failed: and, in 1868, C. C. Gerrish & Co. established themselves as merchants. In 1885 they moved into their new building where they are now located. After being entirely rebuilt and enlarged the store was occupied by Mr. Noyes.
G. C. Paine, after the death of Mr. Wheeler, continued business in the branch store which they had established near the railway station, and now conducts it in connection with his extensive trade in grain. (Mr. Paine died July 5, 1887.)
Eagle Hall building was built by the Reform Club in 1875, with contri- butions from the friends of this temperance movement. After about a year's occupancy by the club as a reading-room, lecture-room, etc., the upper story became and remains a public hall, and the ground floor was occupied by Wheeler & Paine. In 1881 Stahl Brothers opened a clothing house and grocery store here. They were in trade here some months after the opening of their large store in the Clement block in 1883. They were succeeded by F. C. Stevens with a stock of clothing, drugs and medicines. He now occupies it as a clothing and " notions" store. In 1886 Mr. Stevens erected the large building on Main street, which bears his name, and removed his drug business there, and sold it to F. W. Foster in December, 1886.
The building in which George L. Vincent has this year established a book and variety store was constructed in 1881, by L. J. Coté. Several people have dealt in fruit, oysters, etc., there previous to Mr. Vincent's occupancy.
In the spring of 1>86 "Hodgdon & Crowell" opened their hardware store in the building put up on Depot street by L. N. Clark. They erected their present store the same year, removing their goods thither in the fall of 1886. They do a business of nearly $40,000 per annum.
C. C. Gerrish & Co. built their " great store " in 1885, at an expense of from $10,000 to $12,000. It is the finest mercantile establishment in town, with annual sales of $60,000; is heated by steam, and has machinery for
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the manufacture of gas, by which it is lighted. The upper story is Pyth- jan Hall.
The Clement block was erected in 1883, by F. L. Clement; in 1886 he added a photographic studio.
The Folsom block, put up in 1884, was occupied by Lambert Brothers & Co. as a grocery store until the completion of their new building in 1886. Then Olivier Lambert, who had occupied the Fernald block (built in 1882), removed to this building, where he is now doing business.
C. C. Leighton started a blacksmith shop in the old Gower & Wilson shop near Dead River bridge. This was burned in 1882. He then put up a building just south of the Clement block, and carried on blacksmithing and wagon-making for some time. Now, after various removals, he is located in the large three-story building which he erected in 1886, on the street south of Dead River pond. A twenty horse-power engine, black- smith shop, band and bench saws, and planer occupy the first floor; a carpenter and wood-working shops, with machinery for the manufacture of moldings, the second; and his paint shop is in the upper story.
Daniel Green began the manufacture of mill machinery in a small way in 1843. The first side-clapboard machine built in town was made by him in that year, and used in the old Green mill until 1849, when Mr. Andrews bought it for his mill at " Jericho."
Thomas and Daniel Green used to haul their clapboards forty miles to Harrison, Me., from whence they were shipped by canal to Portland, Bos- ton and Providence, where they were marketed once a year. They con- tinned to do this until the railroad was built. In early days the long lumber was rafted down the Androscoggin to Bethel and Rumford from Cascade Falls. The last raft was run in 1851, by Daniel Green. Lumber was sold at Gilead and Bethel at $4 or $5 a thousand for good pine; extra quality was worth $6.
Ira Mason, in 1856, built a shingle-mill on Bean brook, one-quarter of a mile east of the Androscoggin, opposite Berlin bridge, which did a fine business for some years until destroyed by fire.
Samuel M. Andrews came from Effingham, Carroll county, in 1841, (after marrying the widow of Thomas Wheeler, Jr.,) and carried on the Wheeler farm for several years. He then purchased timber land in "Jer- icho," and built two mills on Dead river in 1849, about half a mile above the steam mill now run by Ezra M. Cross. One of these took its power from an immense overshot wheel nearly thirty-five feet in diameter. This was destroyed by fire after several years of good work. The other one had a "tub " wheel, and was carried down stream by a freshet in 1853 or 1854. (Two of Mr. Andrews's sons were soldiers in the Union army of the great civil war.
The steam-mill owned by E. M. Cross at "Jericho," succeeded one built
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by R. H. & J. W. Wheeler about 1870, which stood on a steep bank some. rods above the present mill. This was operated about two years, when it- was burned, and the present one erected by J. W. Wheeler. Mr. Cross. has been its owner since 1884. A large amount of lumber has been cut by these mills.
R. H. Wheeler built a small steam mill back of his residence, and cut- the timber on about 200 acres. He then moved the engine down to the interval, and used it to run the starch mill which he built there.
Railroad, Station Agents, Etc .- The completion of the railroad to Berlin was the first step to the permanent prosperity of the town. The first station agent was Simon Cole, who was succeeded by Aaron Knight, who served six or seven years. Dexter Wheeler was appointed in 1860, and held this position until 1869. The present efficient agent, Abner K. Cole, began his long term of service February 15, 1870. At that time he did all the work of the station, sold tickets, sent messages, attended to baggage and freight, etc. The next year he had one assistant, and since 1885 the work has kept four men busily employed. The passenger traffic has increased fourfold since 1850, and the freight business in the same pro- portion. In 1870 the net earnings of the road at this station were $40,000; in 1886 about $110,000. June 22, 1872, the buildings connected with the depot were burned with loss of life. Others have since been erected, but the present structure is by no means adequate to the commercial needs of the town.
The height of land between the Androscoggin and Connecticut valleys is six miles west of Berlin Falls. Berlin Falls station is 1,011 feet above tide water.
The Berlin Mills branch road was constructed and opened in 1854, by the Grand Trunk, under a guaranty that a definite amount of business specified was to be done annually.
We trace the record of early and other important settlers farther as they appear in describing the industries of the town. Those already named comprise most of the pioneers who came here when the country was an unbroken wilderness, and, amid untold hardships and arduous toils, laid the foundations of their future prosperous homes, and prepared the way for an intelligent community. As the settlements increased. roads were laid out, mills were built on the Androscoggin, schools were established, and societies organized. The lumber interest was of paramount impor- tance. The heavy growth of pine furnished abundant occupation for men and mills. It was not until after the pine had been nearly exhausted that the value of spruce lumber was discovered. The apparently inexhaustible supply of this wood gave a new impetus to lumbering operations; larger mills were established, more men employed; a. market was thus provided for the products of the farm, and the growth and development of Berlin
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was assured: and with its rush of business, its rapid increase of popu- lation, fine public buildings, and electric lights, it is now almost a city.
In the sixty years of her existence Berlin has developed from an un- broken wilderness into a thriving and prosperous town. She has always been loyal to her state and the government to which she belongs. She has always been loyal to her convictions of right in all matters pertaining to education, religion, and politics; and where her heart has been, there her purse has been also. The foundations of her prosperity are struck as deep as the granite that underlies her, whilst the structure she has and is build- ing, towers upward and upward, keeping pace with the hopes, aspirations, and enterprise of her citizens.
CHAPTER XCV.
Civil List: Town Clerks, Selectmen, Treasurers, Representatives-Extracts from Town Records-Berlin in the Rebellion-Action of the Town.
IVIL List .- 1830. Peter Wheeler, elerk: Amos Green. Thomas Wheeler, Jr., Samuel Blodget, select- men. (No treasurer.) "Thomas Wheeler collector of taxes at one cent on the dollar."
1831. Peter Wheeler, clerk: Benjamin Thompson, Joseph Wheeler, Peter Wheeler, selectmen; Peter Wheeler, treasurer; Barker Burbank, of Shelburne. representative from the classed towns of Berlin, Shelburne, Shelburne Addition, and Success. "Thomas Wheeler bid off the taxes at nothing per dollar."
1832. Peter Wheeler, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Joseph Wheeler, Peter Wheeler, selectmen.
1833. Daniel Davis, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Daniel Green, Uriah Evans, selectmen; Benjamin Thompson, treasurer. "Seth Kimball agreed to collect the taxes, and to give five dollars for the privilege." Robert Ingalls, of Shelburne, representative.
1834. Daniel Davis, elerk; Benjamin Thompson, Daniel Green, Fletcher I. Bean, selectmen ; Benjamin Thompson, treasurer.
1835. Daniel Davis, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Daniel Davis, Uriah Evans, selectmen; Benjamin Thompson, treasurer; Benjamin Thompson, representative, classed as above.
1836. Daniel Davis, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Fletcher 1. Bean, Uriah Evans, selectmen and assessors; Daniel Davis, treasurer. May 14, William Evans chosen selectman in the place of Uriah Evans, removed from town.
1837. Fletcher I. Bean, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Daniel Green. Cyrus Wheeler, selectmen and assessors; Cyrus Wheeler, treasurer.
1838, F. I. Bean, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Daniel Green, Cyrus Wheeler, seleetmen and assessors: Cyrus Wheeler, treasurer.
1839. Benjamin Thompson, elerk: Benjamin Thompson, Cyrus Wheeler, Edmond Green, selectmen; Cyrus Wheeler, treasurer.
1840. Daniel Green, elerk; Daniel Green, Cyrus Wheeler, Thomas Wheeler, selectmen: Thomas Green, treasurer.
1841. Daniel Green, clerk; Insley Bean, Benjamin Thompson, Edmond Green, selectmen; Insley Bean, treasurer. 1842. Dexter Wheeler. elork: F. I. Bean, Insley Bean, Daniel Davis, selectmen: Benjamin Thompson. treasurer.
1843. F. I. Bean, clerk: F. 1. Bean, Insley Bean, Daniel Davis, selectmen; Daniel Davis, treasurer.
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1844. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; F. I. Bean, Daniel Davis, Samuel Blodgett, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer; John Morse, representative. Classed with Gorham and Shelburne.
1845. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Insley Bean, Dexter Wheeler, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer.
1846. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Dexter Wheeler, Insley Bean, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer.
1847. Dexter Wheeler, elerk; Daniel Green, Samuel M. Andrews, Benjamin Thompson, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer; Thomas J. Hubbard, representative. Classed with Gorham and Shelburne.
1848. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Daniel Green, Cyrus Wheeler, Insley Bean, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer.
1849. F. I. Bean, clerk; Daniel Davis, F. I. Bean, Paul Perkins, selectmen; no record of treasurer.
1850. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Reuben H. Wheeler, Daniel Green, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer.
1851. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Benjamin Thompson, Daniel Green, R. H. Wheeler, selectmen; no record of treasurer: Hiram T. Ellingwood, representative. Classed with Milan.
1852. Charles Mason, clerk; Daniel Davis, Timothy H. Hutchinson, William Y. Merrill, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer. Bailey K. Davis appointed town clerk July 30, 1852, on removal of Mr. Mason from town.
1853. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Daniel Davis, James H. Hall, Daniel Cates, selectmen; B. K. Davis, treas- urer; Reuben H. Wheeler, representative. Town classed with Milan.
1854. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Daniel Davis, Daniel Cates, Gilman Connor, selectmen; B. K. Davis, treasurer.
1855. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Daniel Green, Reuben H. Wheeler, Ira Mason, selectmen: Dexter Wheeler, treasurer; Daniel Green, representative. Town elassed with Milan.
1856. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Daniel Green, F. I. Bean, Oliver H. Mason, selectmen; no record of treas- urer; Merrill C. Forist, representative. Town classed with Randolph.
1857. Oliver H. Mason, clerk; Daniel Green, O. H. Mason, Insley Bean, selectmen; O. H. Mason, treasurer; Daniel Green, representative. Town classed with Randolph and Success.
1858. Dexter Wheeler, elerk; Daniel Green, M. C. Forist, Insley Bean, selectmen. Voted not to choose town treasurer.
1859. Dexter Wheeler. clerk; Daniel Green, Insley Bean, George R. Eaton, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer; George R. Hodgdon, representative. Town classed with Randolph and Success.
1860. Merrill C. Forist, clerk; F'. I. Bean, George R. Eaton, Jesse Tuttle, selectmen; Aaron A. Knight, treasurer.
1861. M. C. Forest, clerk; F. I. Bean, Jesse Tuttle, Cyrus Wheeler, selectinen ; Aaron A. Knight, treasurer; Fletcher I. Bean, representative. Classed as above.
1862. M. C. Forist, clerk; F. I. Bean, Cyrus Fletcher, Horace C. Sawyer, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer.
1863. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; George R. Eaton. Cyrus Wheeler, H. C. Sawyer, selectmen; George R. Eaton, treasurer; John C. Leighton, representative. Classed as above.
1864. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; Insley Bean, Jesse Tuttle, Daniel C. Bean, selectmen; George R. Eaton. treasurer. F. I. Bean elected selectmen in August to succeed D. C. Bean, resigned.
1865. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; F. I. Bean, Charles C. Noyes, J. W. Wheeler, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler . treasurer; William A. Wilson, representative. Classed as above.
1866. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; William A. Wilson, Joseph H. Dustin, F. I. Bean, selectmen ; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer; Robert I. Leighton, representative. Classed as above.
1867. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; F. I. Bean, Charles C. Noyes, Greenlief Coffin, selectmeu; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer. 1868. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; F. I. Bean, Edward E. Fernald, J. W. Wheeler, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer.
1869. Dexter Wheeler, clerk: J. W. Wheeler, E. E. Fernald, John R. Horn, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer; Daniel Green, representative. Classed as above.
1870. Dexter Wheeler, elerk; J. W. Wheeler, J. R. Horn, William M. Wilson, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer.
1871. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; F. I. Bean, W. M. Wilson, J. R. Ilorn, seleetmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer; Joel E. Leighton, representative. Classed as above.
1872. Dexter Wheeler, elerk: W. M. Wilson, J. R. Horn, Franklin Wheeler, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer.
1873. Dexter Wheeler, clerk; W. M. Wilson, J. R. Horn; Thomas L. Forbush, selectmen; Dexter Wheeler, treasurer; George R. Eaton, representative. Classed as above.
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1874. George S. Wilson, clerk; J. R. Horn, Samuel E. Paine, T. L. Forbush, selectmen: James W. Parker, treasurer.
1875. George S. Wilson, clerk; J. R. Horn, S. E. Paine, II. F. Marston, seleetmen; W. M. Wilson, treasurer; J. W. Wheeler, representative.
1876. George S. Wilson, clerk; Sullivan D. Green, Cyrus Wheeler, Xerxes F. Wardwell, seleetmen; W. M. Wilson, treasurer: J. R. Horn, representative.
1877. George S. Wilson, elerk; S. D. Green, Cyrus Wheeler, Lawson C. Beattie, selectmen; W. M. Wilson, treasurer: Samuel E. Paine, representative.
1878. S. D. Green, elerk; S. D. Green, Franklin Wheeler, Eugene W. Seribner, selectmen. J. W. Parker, treasurer; John R. Horn, representative.
1879. S. D. Green, clerk; Franklin Wheeler, E. W. Scribner, Jacob Dresser, selectmen; J. W. Parker. treasurer: H. C. Sawyer, representative for Berlin and Randolph.
1880. S. D. Green, clerk: E. W. Scribner. J. Dresser, Jesse Tuttle, seleetmen; J. W. Parker, treasurer.
1881. S. D. Green, clerk; Jacob Dresser, Jesse Tuttle, Lewis N. Clark, selectmen; John B. Noyes, treasurer.
1882. S. D. Green. clerk; H. F. Marston, L. N. Clark, X. F. Wardwell, selectmen. Mr. Wardwell de- clined to serve and S. D. Green was appointed. John B. Noyes, treasurer.
1883. S. D. Green, elerk; Jesse Tuttle, X. F. Wardwell, S. D. Green, seleetmen; John B. Noyes, treasurer: Franklin Wheeler, representative.
1884. S. D. Green, clerk; Jesse Tuttle, X. F. Wardwell, E. E. Fernald, seleetmen; John B. Noyes, treasurer.
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