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During the next ten years, from 1820 to 1830, the population grew rapidly again, so that at the latter date it reached 1, 187.
Since then the growth has been normal and steady. In 1840 the population was 1,360; in 1850 it had reached 1,559; and in 1860 there were living in town 2,020 souls. The Civil War made a
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heavy drain upon the town. It sent many men into the service, but by 1870 the population had risen to 2,248. The census of 1880 shows a population of 2,721. During the last fifteen years the pop- ulation has nearly doubled, due to rapid immigration and railroad construction. The census of 1890 gives the population as 3,373.
PRICES.
I have been able to learn the prices paid for many articles of bar- ter and commerce during the early years of the town, and think it of interest to the present and future generations to give them as showing that pioneer life subsisted on things that came high.
Gen. Edwards Bucknam kept some articles for barter, and from his papers still in existence I glean some prices as follows :
" 1774, Calico, $1.00, per yard. 1779, I Pr. Leather Breeches, $7.50. I Doz. Buttons, 3 shillings, (.75 cts). I Beaver hat, $10.50, or 7 bushels of wheat. 1781, Leather for a Pr. of Breeches, $4.50. 1897, I Pr. Spectacles sold to Capt. John Weeks, .30 cts."
These prices were in the silver currency of Great Britain and the United States, both of which were in circulation here at that time.
From the ledger of Stephen Wilson, who kept a store in the old Wilson Tavern at the north end of Main street from 1799 to 1803, I take the following prices, comprising his charges to customers, and credits given to them for commodities taken in exchange for goods :
" 1799. Salt, $3.60, bu. ; cow, $14; India Cloth, 62 1-2 cts. yd. ; Serge $3.50 yd. ; Forest Cloth $2.59 yd. ; Shawl $1.25 ; Calico 62 1-2 cts. yd. ; Silk Handker- chief $1.67 ; Needles 12 cts. doz .; Baize 35 cts. yd .; Breeches cloth $1.50 yd. ; Raisins 20 cts. 1b. ; Pearlash 83 cts. 1b .; Ashes 12 1-2 cts. bu .; Onions $1. ; Hay $6, pr Ton.
" 1800. Pigeons 12 1-2 cts. doz. ; Flax seed 83 cts. bu. ; Turnips 25 cts. bu. ; Malt $1.33, bu. ; Apples 14 cts. bu. ; Pumpkins 2 cts. apiece ; Beef 5 1-2 cts. lb .; Turkeys 53 1-2 cts. each ; Ribbon 12 1-2 cts. yd .; Fish 7 cts. 1b. ; Cambric $2.12 I-2 yd .; Nails .66 cts. per 100 ; Gloves 50 cts. per Pr .; Rum $2. gal .; Calico 57 cts. yd. ; Potatoes 33 1-3 bu. ; Corn 66 2-3 bu. ; Oats 25 cts. bu. ; Pork 6 2-3 cts. lb .; Spirits Turpentine 18 cts. pt .; Spanish Brown 85 cts. lb .; Sole Leather 30 cts. lb .; Calico 84 cts. yd. ; Coffee 50 cts. Ib. ; I qt. Pitcher 59 cts. ; I Pt. Tumbler 20 cts .; Putty 14 cts. lb .; Brandy 25 cts. Pt. ; Beans 50 cts. bu. ; 5 Knives and forks $1 ; Molasses $1.16 2-3 gal. ; Wine 50 cts. Pt. ; Wheat $I bu. ; Butter 33 cts. 1b. ; 6 Plates .67 cts. ; Glauber salts 33 cts. 1b, ; Cotton wool 50 cts. lb. ; Ginsing 20 cts. lb. ; Flannel 75 cts. yd .; Cheese 9 cts. lb. ; Flax 25 cts. lb. ; Tea 65 cts. 1b .; Tobacco (leaf) 20 cts. lb. ; Tallow 16 cts. lb .; Rice 7 I-2 cts. lb. ; Lemons $1.25 doz.
" 1801. Cabbage 4 cts. per head ; Butter 12 1-2 cts. Ib. ; Axes 67 cts. ; Calico 83 cts. yd. ; Turkey $1.30 ; Wood 75 cts. cord; Wages 60 cts. per day ; Veal 9 cts. 1b. ; Oxen $25 a head ; Barley $I bu .; Cotton Cambric $1.20 yd. ; Scythe $1.33; Psalm Book 62 cts. ; Jack Knife 50 cts. ; Salt $3 bu.
" 1802. Apples $I bu .; Baskets 50 cts. ; Mink Skin 65 cts. ; Wheat $1.25 bu .; Maple Sugar 16 2-3 cts. 1b .; Geese Feathers 62 1-2 cts lb. ; Loaf Sugar 33 1-3 cts. 1b."
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The following prices are taken from the day-book of Asahel Going, who kept a store here from 1816 to 1821 ; and also man- aged the fulling-mill a portion of that time :
" 1816. I Day-Book of 160 pp. $1 ; Door Handle 20 cts. ; Spoons $1.15 doz .; Hand Saw $2.50 ; Candle Stick 83 cts .; Tea $1 1b. ; Shoes $1.25 pr. ; Pepper 68 cts. lb .. ; Alspice 80 cts lb. ; Shawl $3; Umbrella $2 ; Soap 13 cts. 1b. ; Nails 20 cts. 1b. ; Nutmegs 8 cts. apiece ; Silk Gloves 67 cts. : Bombazette 50 cts. yd. ; Ginger $1.12 lb. ; Hankerchiefs 34 cts. ; Eggs 15 cts. doz .; Writing Paper 25 cts. quire; 6 qt. Pail 75 cts .; Sugar 20 cts. lb .; Cotton Yarn 90 cts. lb .; Bonnet Paper 6 cts. a sheet; Plumes $1 ; Stockings $1.25 Pr .; Pins 20 cts. a paper ; Bleached Cotton 54 cts. yd.
" 1817. Coffee Pot 50 cts. ; Tin Dipper 20 cts. ; British Cotton 83 cts. yd. ; Chocolate 42 cts. lb. ; Lace 17 cts. yd. ; Spelling Book 25 cts.
" 1818. Wheat $1.25 bu .; Hat 75 cts .; Wall Paper (called Room Paper) 75 cts. a roll; Axe Handle 25 cts .; for use of hat to wear to muster Sept. 22, 1818, $I ; for use of Buffalo Robe to N. Hampton $1.
" 1819. Pork 15 cts. lb. ; Cheese 8 cts. Ib. ; Wheat $1.33 to $1.50; Yarn 78 cts. lb. ; Cotton Yarn 72 cts. lb. ; Whiskey 25 cts. pt. ; Indigo $2.55 lb. ; Beef 5 I-2 cts. 1b. ; Lamb 5 cts. 1b .; Sheep $1.50 ; Geese 5 cts. 1b.
" 1820. Gingham 37 I-2 cts. yd. ; Hides 5 1-2 cts. Ib .; Ladies Shoes $1 ; Cot- ton Cloth 50 cts. yd .; Chintz Cloth 25 cts. yd. ; Bonnets $1 ; Combs 48 cts. ; Nails 16 1-2 cts. 1b. ; Brick $5 per M. ; Cows $17 ; Velvet $1.25 yd.
These prices held for a number of years, until better roads, and more marked increase of production in manufactured commodities, brought goods very much lower in the wholesale markets. It will be observed that home products were quite cheap, while all articles from away were very high. This is, in part, to be accounted for by high freight rates. It took a team twelve to fifteen days to make the trip to and from Portland, Me., before 1820, when, on account of better roads, the same trip could be made in ten days. Even then it cost A. Going $3 a barrel to ship pearlash to Portland; and the rate this way was no less. After many years prices ran down rapidly to about what they were in other sections of New England.
.When, on account of an almost total loss of the wheat crop in 1830, it sold for $1 in 1831, it was considered a remarkable circum- stance; and yet in 1856 it was up again to $2 a bushel. This was due, however, in a measure to the fact that agriculture was on a decline in Lancaster.
From 1825 to 1830, a man could obtain board and washing, in private houses, at $1.50 per week. At that time R. P. Kent and Royal Joyslin rented the old red store building, the Sampson store, on Elm street, for $40 a year. They paid about $10 taxes, and no insurance. The business of the merchants was done chiefly on a system of barter and credit. "Notes of hand, due bills, and orders," from a creditor upon his debtors, were as common in the routine of mercantile business in 1820 as bank checks are to-day. Very little money was in use in trade.
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The near approach and final coming through Lancaster of the railroads worked a greater change in trade than anything else in the history of the town. Now the conditions of commercial life are the same here as elsewhere. The merchant of Lancaster to-day, like those of all other communities, attends to his business and awaits the coming of the traveling representatives of the manufacturers and wholesale dealers with their samples to select his stock of goods, or uses the mails to give his orders, which are filled with dispatch.
The prices of some farm products have declined since the rail- roads have brought the Lancaster farmer into competition with the West, while other products like hay, eggs, butter, potatoes, have increased, the mountain houses making an excellent market for the farm products of the town and region.
SOME OLD HOUSES.
With an abundance of the finest timber that ever grew, and the early erection of sawmills, the most prosperous settlers of the town were soon tempted to build frame houses. In 1783, within nineteen years of the coming of the first families to town, there were eight frame houses. The log cabins have been so long given up for commodi- ous frame structures that the town has in it to-day many very old houses in a good state of preservation. The first frame building erected in town was what is now the L to the house on the old Stockwell farm as elsewhere stated. Just at what date it was built is not exactly known, but the tradition is well accepted that it is the . oldest frame structure standing in Lancaster.
The old Wilder House, now better known as the " Holton House," was the first two-story house in town. Maj. Jonas Wilder was a man of considerable wealth, and a large family. He began this work on the noted "Dark Day," May 19, 1780, which has fixed the exact date of this old landmark. The darkness was so great that workmen, who were engaged in excavating for the cellar, were compelled to stop. Filled with terror, as they must have been, they possibly thought the end of time was upon them. But as kindly nature resumed the even order of things, work went on; and on July 26, 1780, the frame was raised. Just how soon the house was completed we do not know. All the work was done by hand. The boards were planed by hand tools; the nails wrought upon the blacksmith's anvil. Such nails were costly at that time. In 1767 they cost, at wholesale, 70 cents per 100. In 1801 they were sold for 16 2-3 cents per pound. For many years Major Wilder's house was used as an inn, and also as a place of holding religious meet- ings before the town built a meeting-house.
The Everett House .- In 1793 Richard Everett came to Lancaster to settle in the practice of law. He had already been here, but
EMMONS STOCKWELL HOUSE. ELL, 1768 ; FRONT ABOUT 1780.
BRACKETT HOMESTEAD. ELL IN 1794.
BLACKSMITH SHOP. FOOT SAND HILL. (Stage wagon found mounted on roof.)
HOLTON HOUSE, 1780.
EDWARD SPAULDING FARM ON STEBBINS HILL. ONE OF THE FIRST CLEARINGS IN TOWN.
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SUGAR PARTY AT E. S. FREEMAN'S.
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had gone to college and afterward studied law. Having been engaged to one of Major Wilder's daughters he determined to make Lancaster his home. He was married in 1793; and, as near as can be learned, built his house where is now the corner of Main and High streets the following year, where he lived until his death March 22, 1815.
On his return from the term of court held at Haverhill in 1803, at which time it was made known that there would be held in 1805 the first term in the new county of Coos, at Lancaster, Mr. Everett set about the task of enlarging this house to accommodate the three judges who were to hold that court. He built an addition, which comprises the two north rooms. Tradition makes these rooms the lodging-place of many notable judges and lawyers, among whom were Daniel Webster, Levi Woodbury, Ichabod Bartlett, and Josiah Bell.
The Rosebrook House .- The old square, flat-roofed house on North Main street, owned by John S. Ingerson, was probably the second, and not later than third, two-story frame house built in town. It was built by Charles Rosebrook; but at just what date cannot now be learned with any degree of certainty. Among the other very old houses are the Joyslin house on Middle street, where Dr. Frank Spooner lived ; the Baker house, on Elm street; the ell of the Brackett house, on the South Lancaster road; the Weeks house, on Mt. Prospect farm; the Hunnex house on North Main street. All these are very old; and beside them there are many others nearly as old.
Richard P. Kent's Statistics, and Directories of Lancaster .- The late Richard P. Kent, who was a very methodical man in all matters, has left us in his diaries, and personal memoranda, several very complete directories of the business concerns of the town from 1825, when he came to Lancaster, down to nearly the time of his death. From these we are able to show the condition of business enterprises at various intervals, from which the reader may easily draw comparisons between the Lancaster of from sixty to twenty years ago and to-day. We give these statistics and directories in his own language, as copied from his diaries.
STATISTICS AND DIRECTORY OF THE VILLAGE IN 1828.
Lancaster Academy organized.
Taverns .- Wilson's, at north end of Main street, stage tavern, Francis Wilson, proprietor; Wilder's tavern (Holton House) ; Coös Hotel, Ephraim Cross, proprietor; American House.
Stores .- Guy & William Cargill, at North End, R. P. Kent & Co., at South End.
Post-office .- Kept by S. A. Pearson, in his law office (in the old building known as the Fletcher house, on Main street).
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Mills .- Two grist-mills, Wesson Mill and Stockwell Mill; two sawmills adjoining the grist-mills, as above.
Clothing Works .- John S. Haines had a cloth-mill at the lower dam, and A. Going, one on Canal street (where N. H. Richard- son's shop stands).
Tannery .- Burnside's (on Elm street, where the creamery now stands).
Furniture Factory .- Francis Bingham (on Elm street, west of where the Burnside House now stands).
Tailor .- George W. Perkins.
Blacksmiths .- Harvey Adams, Warren Porter.
Dwelling Houses .- The Going house, standing at foot of Baker Hill. Later was moved by Stephen Hadley to the corner of Main and North Main streets, and occupied by Stephen Wilson. It is now known as the " Lindsey house."
The Rosebrook and Hunnex houses on North Main street.
Pearson's house, in which his law office and the post-office were kept.
The Boardman house, on Main street, just across the Boston & Maine Railroad, and now occupied by Ethan Crawford. This house was built by Benjamin Boardman, who kept a store at one time in the northeast corner room.
The Deacon Farrar house, now the priest's house at the Catholic church (1859).
The Everett house, better known as the " Cross house" (on the corner of Main and High streets).
A one-story house on Main street (opposite Lancaster House), burnt in 1840. (Turner Stephenson's.)
Dr. Stickney's house.
Reuben Stephenson's house, on corner of Main and Middle streets (now next east of Cross house on High street.)
The mill house, belonging to the Stockwell Mills, on Middle street, near where William Clough's dwelling-house stands, and occupied by David Greenleaf, the miller.
The old mill house, corner of Middle and Main streets, near where the Lancaster National Bank building stands.
The old. " Wesson House " (on Middle street). Maine Central tracks run through site of cellar.
STATISTICS AND DIRECTORY OF THE VILLAGE FOR 1856.
POPULATION OF THE VILLAGE ABOUT 700.
Public Buildings .- Court-house of brick; jail an old and poor building; county building for offices, on Middle street, where Frank Smith & Co.'s store now is; academy; three churches,-Congrega- tional, Unitarian, Methodist; two schoolhouses, Nos. I and 12.
EVERETT HOMESTEAD (COL. CROSS PLACE), 1844 ; BUILT 1794.
EVERETT HOMESTEAD (MRS. P. F. CHASE), 1899.
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Wheelwrights .- A. J. Marshall, large shop, with steam power, employs from fifteen to twenty men in the manufacture of wagons, buggies, sleighs, carts, bedsteads, furniture. Keeps shop for iron- ing, painting, and trimming carriages and sleighs.
Harvey Adams has a large shop with water-power (where the Monnahan blacksmith shop stands just above lower bridge) for the manufacture of carriages and sleighs. Employs about half as many men as Marshall.
Saddlers and Harnessmakers .- Allen Smith and Horace Whit- comb.
Watchmaker and Feweler .- C. B. Allen, new shop and large stock of goods (where Syndicate block now is.)
Shoemakers .- Orange Smith, Vernon Smith, Heber Blanchard, Alfred Greenleaf, Willard Jackson.
Foundry .- Owned and carried on by S. & W. M. Rines. Man- ufactures plows, cultivators, stoves, and mill-gearing.
House Carpenters .- N. B. Wilson, Zebulon Black, William Row- ell, Lyman Rowell, William S. Clark, William C. Fiske, Henry Wil- liams, Rufus Hodgson, William Boswell, Chester Stebbins, David Young, Edward Melcher.
Tailors .- Robert Sawyer, T. S. Underwood, cutter and foreman in employment of D. A. Burnside.
Bricklayers and Masons .- Jacob Hamlin and Charles Baker.
Gunsmiths .- Thomas Morse and Daniel T. Johnson.
Daguerrean Artist .- F. White.
Patent Horse-rake Factory .- By Fenner M. Rhodes.
Blacksmiths .- Warren Porter, S. R. & Geo. Willey, O. W. Bemis, and shops in connection with the wheelwright manufacturies.
Gravestone Makers .- H. J. Rounds & Co.
Printing Offices .- Bowe & Allison, publish the Coös Republican, a weekly paper. J. I. Williams publishes the Coos Democrat.
Stores .- (Dry goods, groceries, and hardware.) R. P. Kent, Moore & Wentworth, R. L. Adams & Co., D. A. Burnside, In- crease Robinson, and Royal Joyslin.
Book and Drug store .- Dr. John W. Barney.
Milliners .- Mary Smith and E. A. Everett.
Town Agent for the sale of Liquors .- Robert Sawyer.
Groceries .- Frank Smith and Abel H. Wesson. (These were rather restaurants than groceries as is understood by the term to- day .- ED.)
Taverns .- The American House, kept by Frederick Fiske; the Coös Hotel, kept by D. G. Smith.
Lawyers .- Jacob Benton, Ossian Ray, William Heywood, S. W. Cooper, Turner Stephenson, J. W. Williams, G. C. Williams, J. I. Williams, George A. Cossitt, Hiram A. Fletcher.
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Physicians .- Jacob E. Stickney, John W. Barney, J. D. Folsom, Freedom Dinsmore, Benjamin Hunking, and E. Lyman.
Clergymen .- George M. Rice, Unitarian; Prescott Fay, Congre- gationalist; James Adams, Methodist.
Bank .- The White Mountain Bank, capital $50,000; G. C. Wil- liams, cashier; J. B. Sumner, president.
Grist-mill .- Owned by John Dewey, newly fitted up, and one of the best in the state.
Sawmills .- One owned by S. & W. M. Rines, with upright saw ; one by O. E. Freeman, with circular saw, in the building formerly occupied for cloth-dressing and carding (at the south end of the dam).
Town Hall .- Occupying the second story of the building used by Royal Joyslin for his store (being the old meeting-house).
Odd Fellows' and, later, Masonic Hall .- In the attic over town hall.
"Know Nothing's Hall."-A hall in the Burnside store, fur- nished for the Know Nothings, but now used for a variety of pur- poses.
Kent's Hall .- A small hall in the chamber of my store; has been used by Sons of Temperance, Masons, brass band, singing- schools, and other things.
STATISTICS OF LANCASTER, 1875.
Churches .- Congregational, Charles E. Harrington, pastor ; Methodist Episcopal, James Noyes, pastor; Baptist, no minister ; Unitarian, no minister; Catholic, Isadore H. Noiseaux, priest ; Episcopal, J. B. Goodrich, rector.
Physicians .- Mark R. Woodbury, Frank Bugbee, Ezra Mitchell, Nath. H. Scott, allopathists ; Dan Lee Jones, homeopathist.
Lawyers .- Burns & Heywood (Wm. Burns, Henry Heywood), Ray, Drew & Heywood (Ossian Ray, Irving W. Drew, and Wm.' Heywood), Fletcher & Fletcher (Hiram A. Fletcher, Everett Fletcher), Daniel C. Pinkham, John G. Crawford, Jacob Benton, Benjamin F. Whidden, George A. Cossitt (not in practice), William S. Ladd (now a judge, and out of practice).
Stores .- Richard P. Kent & Son (Richard P. Kent, Edward R. Kent), general variety store ; James A. Smith, general variety store ; Porter Brothers (Henry H. Porter, Horace R. Porter), general variety store; Rowell & Rhodes (James M. Rowell, Wm. H. Rhodes), general variety store; Orrin Tubbs & Son (Orrin Tubbs, George Tubbs), general variety store; Kent & Griswold (Nelson Kent, Charles L. Griswold), dry goods; Samuel G. Evans, general variety store; Cleaveland & Powers (Chas. A. Cleaveland, Jonas Powers), groceries and crockery; Richard W. Bailey, groceries ;
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Walter S. Bailey, oyster saloon; Albion G. Evans, groceries ; Emmon S. Smith, nuts, fruits, and oysters; William Shannon, gro- ceries ; David S. Smith, groceries; Charles A. Nutter, fruits, nuts, and oysters; Frank Smith & Co. (Frank Smith, A. M. Bullard), grain and flour; Erastus V. Cobleigh & Co. (Erastus V. Cobleigh, Richard P. Kent), stoves and castings, tinware, house furnishings, and tin shop; Mrs. Rhodes, millinery goods; Mrs. N. Sparks, mil- linery ; Parker J. Noyes, drugs, medicines, books, and stationery ; Vernon E. Smith & Co. (Vernon E. Smith, D. C. Pinkham), boots and shoes; Nathaniel G. Stickney, boots and shoes; Thomas S. Underwood, merchant taillor; Edward Savage, drugs, medicines, books, and stationery.
Insurance .- Henry O. Kent, agent, Coös Mutual, and many stock companies.
Coës County Savings Bank .- Henry O. Kent, treasurer.
Jewelers .- Charles E. Allen, George A. Martin.
Furniture .- N. H. Richardson.
Hotels .- Lancaster House, B. H. Corning, proprietor; American House, Francis Richardson, proprietor; Dew Drop Inn, Bernice Stuart, proprietor.
House Painters .- Dooley & Blair (Fred Dooley, George W. Blair), Edward Stuart.
Landscape Painter .- Edward Hill.
Carriage Factory .- A. J. Marshall, manufacturer of carriages, sleighs, furniture, painting, and blacksmithing.
Iron Foundry .- Ellis & Olcott (Thos. S. Ellis, Barzillai T. Olcott).
Machine Shops .- A. Thompson & Co. (Alexander Thompson, Charles. Bellows, Kimball B. Fletcher, Frank Twitchell).
Harness Shops .- Horace Whitcomb & Co. (Horace Whitcomb, R. Baxter Whitcomb) ; Charles Howe, Enoch L. Colby & Son (Enoch L. Colby, Charles F. Colby).
Sash, Blinds, and Doors .- Smith & Burns (Frank B. Smith, Charles E. Burns).
Marble Shop .- Johnson C. Hunter.
Daguerrean Artist .- Erdix T. Wilson.
Blacksmiths .- Riley Hosmer, Mathew Monahan, Jas. McCarten. Bricklayers and Plasterers .- Henry C. Forbush, Jacob Hamlin.
Soap Boiler .- William Bonett.
Shoemakers .- Shepard Knight, Josiah Payne.
House Carpenters .- Peter N. Shores, William L. Rowell, David Young, Joseph C. Reed, Joseph L. Nutter, Edward Melcher, Hollis Jordan, Ephraim Smith, Charles Smith, J. A. Stebbins, David Goodall, Alonzo Stillings, Benjamin F. Leonard, George S. Wolcott, John H. Smith, Frank B. Smith.
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Newspapers .- Coos Republican, owned by an association ; Independent Gazette, Geo. H. Emerson, editor and proprietor.
Tannery .- A. J. Congdon, not in operation at present.
Lancaster Manufacturing Co .- Henry O. Kent, treasurer ; John S. Koster, manufacturing agent; manufactures straw and manila wrapping paper.
Milk Dealers .- John H. Hopkinson, John W. Savage.
File Cutters .- Moody & Cave (George Moody, George E. Cave).
We give below a directory of the business enterprises of the town to-day. This shows the natural growth of more than a century and a quarter, of the enterprise of the town. Many business establish- ments have existed under conditions that have passed away, giving place to those born of the inevitable changes that are characteristic of the life of every community, and the country at large.
DIRECTORY OF LANCASTER, 1896.
Merchants .- R. P. Kent & Son. Edward R. Kent, surviving partner ; Blood & Marshall; Bailey Brothers; Kent & Roberts.
Groceries .- J. L. Bass; Howe Brothers; Clough & Sawyer; R. P. Kent & Son; Frank Smith & Co .; W. E. Ingerson & Co .; Nourse Brothers.
Hardware .- L. F. Moore; Frank Smith & Co .; Kier & McCaf- fery.
Drug Stores .- P. J. Noyes Manufacturing Co .; Fred C. Colby ; G. W. Carpenter.
Candy and Fruit Stores .- F. S. Linscott; S. N. Evans; J. R. Flanders.
Boot and Shoe Stores .- E. E. Smith & Co .; I. W. Quimby ; Geo. V. Moulton.
Shoemakers .- Vernon Smith, T. Cunningham.
Harnessmaker .- Charles Howe.
Jewelers .- W. I. Hatch; Whitcomb Brothers.
Milliners .- Mrs. S. G. Evans; Cook & Stoughton; Ella M. Twombley.
Furniture Stores .- Richardson & Porter; Cummings & Co.
Variety and Toy Stores .- C. E. Kimball; Fred C. Colby.
Barbers .- Charles Thompson; John McIntire; Fred Laforce.
Bakers .- Lancaster Bakery; Mrs. Alex. Thompson.
Meat Markets .- Clough & Sawyer; Frank Smith & Co .; J. L. Bass; Chas. A. Hill.
Banks .- Lancaster Savings Bank; Lancaster National Bank ; Lancaster Trust Company ; Siwooganock Savings Bank.
Tailors and Clothiers .- T. S. Underwood & Son; Lane Cloth- ing Company; W. C. Sherburne; C. Dietrich.
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Livery Stables .- Murphy Brothers; J. E. McGraw; G. M. Stickney; C. H. Gotham; Lancaster House Livery.
Laundries .- Lancaster Steam Laundry; Leon Wah, Chinese Laundry.
Bicycles .- H. N. Beach ; W. L. Rowell, Jr .; A. F. Rowell; R. P. Kent & Son.
Electric Light Plant .- Lancaster Electric Light Company.
Telephone and Telegraph .- New England Telegraph and Tele- phone Company ; Western Union Telegraph Company.
Lawyers .- I. W. Drew; C. B. Jordan; W. P. Buckley (firm of Drew, Jordan & Buckley) ; Fletcher Ladd; Everett Fletcher (firm of Ladd & Fletcher) ; W. H. Shurtleff; Edmund Sullivan (firm of Shurtleff & Sullivan) ; Crawford D. Henning; Merrill Shurtleff ; Jared I. Williams; Henry O. Kent.
Auctioneers .- John T. Amey; George M. Stevens.
Physicians .- Ezra Mitchell; W. H. Leith; E. F. Stockwell; H. B. Carpenter ; D. L. Jones; Frank Spooner.
Ministers .- G. H. Tilton, Congregationalist; R. L. Danforth, Methodist; Joseph Eames, Episcopal; M. J. B. Creamer, Catholic ; A. N. Somers, Unitarian.
Civil Engineers and Surveyors .- J. I. Williams; H. T. Osborne.
Blacksmiths .- J. M. Millette; James McCarten; Hosmer & Ryan.
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