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In 1812 wood was $1.30 per cord.
One dollar per week was the common charge of a nurse in 1819.
"Topsham Gore" is a strip one mile wide along the east side of the town released by Newbury to Topsham in 1803.
Charles D. Macdonald had the first automobile in town, a Buick purchased in 1910.
The first birth was that of Polly McKeith on October 1, 1783; the first marriage that of Samuel Crown and Lydia Foote on June 18, 1788, and the first death that of Samuel P. Crown on August 9, 1790.
The farmer in the early days exchanged his products for gro- ceries, clothing, etc. His cash expenses hardly ever exceeded $25.00 for the year.
November 2nd, 1819, was so dark that candles were lighted at noon.
Tithing men were elected at the town meeting in 1807.
Tuesday, January 16, 1855, between six and seven o'clock violent earthquake shocks were felt in Topsham. The shocks were accompanied by a loud rumbling noise. Again on February 28, 1925, at nine P. M. a severe trembling of the earth occurred.
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Freshets and floods which carried away many bridges occurred in 1807, 1812, 1828, 1856, 1869, 1876 and in 1927. The last one occurred on November 3, 1927. Rain fell for nearly forty hours. No lives were lost in Topsham, but much damage was done to roads and bridges.
The Ministerial Lot, No. 32, came into the hands of Ebenezer Sanborn April 28. 1820. On April 11. 1823, he sold it to the Rev. William Sloane, one of the first ministers in town.
STORMS AND COLD.
February 19, 1802, a snowstorm began which lasted a week. Over four feet of snow fell. Known as the winter of deep snows.
In 1816 frost occurred every month in the year. All the corn was destroyed.
On May 15, 1817, snow fell six inches deep. Froze the potatoes to the ground.
The winter of 1861-2 was another winter of deep snows.
The winters of 1843, 1850 and 1854 were very cold.
The 5th, 6th and 7th of February, 1855, were among the coldest days ever experienced in Topsham.
January 23, 1857, at six o'clock in the evening, the thermom- eter stood at 281/2 degrees below zero. At six o'clock on the morn- ing of January 24 it stood at 40 degrees below, and at 7:30 A. M. at 38 degrees below.
In January and February of 1859 the thermometer stood as low as 34 degrees below zero on several occasions, and as low as 14 degrees below zero at noon.
1917-18 was another very cold winter.
POPULATION.
The population of the Town of Topsham since. 1791 is as fol- lows: 1791, 162; 1800, 344; 1810, 814; 1820, 1020; 1830, 1384; 1840, 1745; 1850, 1668; 1860, 1662; 1870, 1418; 1880, 1365: 1890, 1187; 1900, 1117; 1910, 918; 1920, 825; 1929, 725.
PRODUCTS IN 1840.
In 1840 there were 350 horses, 2591 cattle, 6111 sheep, 1457 swine; 5576 bushels of wheat were raised; 470 bushels of barley; 18,215 bushels of oats; 164 bushels of rye; 487 bushels of buck- wheat; 5,653 bushels of Indian corn; 63,179 bushels of potatoes; 4,294 tons of hay; 31,645 pounds of sugar, and 8,961 pounds of wool.
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ASSESSMENT FOR 1824.
Polls at $20.00 each; 3840 acres of cultivated lands, valued at $23,040.00, at 8% ; 129 houses and lots, apprized at $19,679.00, at 6 % ; 9 stores, apprized at $1,925.00, at 6% ; 233 oxen assessed at $5.00 each; 535 cows and other cattle of three years and up assessed at $3 each; 69 cattle of two years assessed at $2 each; 129 horses and mules of three years and up assessed at $8.00 each; 19 horses and mules of two years assessed at $4.00 each; 22 horses and mules of one year assessed at $3.00 each; 3 house clocks as- sessed at $10.00 each.
There were no gold watches, no pleasure carriages, no monies on hand, nor no debts due. There were no attorneys, but two phy- sicians were assessed at $15.00 each.
The following items are taken from a note book under date of May 27, 1824: 1 day's work making fence, 37c; 13 days' work haying and harvesting, $9.75; 1 day's work with team 75c; 11% bushel of rye, 75c; 1 bushel of corn, 31c: 1 load of wood, 75c; 5 12 bushels of apples, 75c; 10 bushels of oats, $2.50; 9 days getting out wood, $4.00.
OUR TOWN CLERKS.
Following is a list of the Town Clerks of the Town of Tops- ham, together with the date of their election and the number of years they held the office:
Lemuel Tabor, March 15, 1790; 34 years.
Levi Tabor, March 2, 1824; 24 years.
J. W. Batchelder, March 7, 1848; 6 years.
A. M. Bill, March 7, 1854; 4 years.
A. J. Wallace, March 1, 1859; 5 years.
F. Sheroin (?) March 1, 1864; 2 years.
Jacob Mills, Jr., March 6, 1866; 4 years.
Jacob Burton, March 1, 1870; 2 years.
J. R. McLam, November 1, 1872; 22 years.
Everett Forsyth, March 6, 1894; 10 years.
H. B. White, March 1, 1904; 23 years.
R. W. Hodge, 1 year.
The present Town Clerk and Treasurer is E. S. Locke. Most of the town clerks were also treasurers of the town's monies.
March 4, 1913, $45.00 was voted at town meeting to help sup- port a County Supervisor of Agriculture. Since that time the County of Orange has had a supervisor.
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PROPERTY IN THE TOWN.
Year
Value of Real Estate
Personal Property
Real Estate & Per. Prop.
Grand List
Polls
1845
$281,325.64
$ 3.820.88
$285,146.52
$2,851.46
309
1860
301,396.00
62,121.50
363,517.50
3,635.17
320
1870
243,169.00
43,134.00
. 286,303.00
2,863.03
332
1880
196,634.23
36,913.64
233,547.87
2,335.48
314
1890
264,349.00
94,132.00
358,481.00
3,584.81
279
1900
253,607.00
87,654.00
341,261.00
3,412.61
267
1910
248,527.00
77,413.00
325,940.00
3,259.40
240
1920
287.427.00
175,560.00
462,787.00
4,629.87
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MICAH BARRON.
Micah Barron at one time had a store at East Tospham. Mr. Barron was sheriff of Orange County for twenty-three years. In the year 1800 he figured in the capture of the notorious counter- feiter Stephen Burroughs.
Burroughs' headquarters were at Shipton in Lower Canada. From this place he was flooding New England with counterfeit coin and bills.
To secure proof two of Barron's men joined the counterfeiters. Barron then with the aid of the Canadian government raided Bur- roughs' house in the night time. Burroughs was captured, but his guard of fifteen men who were sleeping in an upper room, escaped.
TREATING.
It was customary in those early days in Topsham for the suc- cessful candidate to treat his supporters at the polls.
It is recorded in 1839 that James B. George, instead of treat- ing at Freemen's meeting, paid into the town treasury $5.00 to- wards the support of the poor. There is record that he paid $10.00 at another time for the same purpose.
It was also the custom for the captains of the muster to treat their men. This led to gambling and other vices. Ezekiel White was one of the first officers to substitute a good dinner for the "treat," a custom which was later adopted.
THE MUSTER.
As early as 1818 ablebodied men between 16 and 50 years of age were enrolled in the train-bands. These met for regular
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drills called the "Muster." The "Alarm-list" consisted of men and boys between 14 and 65 years of age. These were to be called in emergencies.
THE TOPSHAM RIFLE COMPANY.
April 1, 1854, the listers made a return of every person liable to enrollment between the ages of 18 and 45 years in the Town of Topsham who were not members of uniform companies or bands of music. This list was made out by Lewis Dickerman, Amos Gar- land and Carlos P. Bill, and included 178 men.
Largely from this list was formed a rifle company afterwards styled "The Topsham Rifle Company, 19th Regiment of the Ver- mont Militia." The roll and return of this company made Septem- ber 19, 1857, by Lemuel H. Tabor, captain, included three lieuten- ants, four sergeants, four corporals and 29 privates.
The equipment of the captain and his lieutenants consisted of a sword, red sword belt, rifle cap, rifle frock, white vest, white pantaloons, black stocks, white epaulettes of bullion silver, red sash, boots and buff gloves. The corporals, in addition to the equipment of the sergeants, had a rifle and bullet pouch. Each private had a rifle, bullet pouch, cap, rifle frock, white pantaloons, boots and red sash.
The musicians were Josephus Felch, Welcome Green and E. Dickerman, drummers; Nicholas Fellows and Absalom Corliss, fi- fers, and Daniel Cilley, bass drummer.
The early drilling or "Muster," as it was called, was done on the land which afterwards became the fair grounds in Corinth. In the early days of the Civil War the Topsham soldiers were drill- ed for about six months on the "Hood Meadow" at Waits River.
TOWN FUNDS ALWAYS LOW.
On March 23, 1812, the auditors, or committee, as they were then called, consisting of Blanchard Chamberlain, Jonathan San- born and Edward George, found that the town had $14.96 in its treasury after deducting all claims. Then, as now, the town had not enough money on hand to do its summer work and had to borrow.
It would save the town a lot of interest money if the taxes were collected in early spring as is done in many states. Undoubt- edly the town has paid enough interest money in its history to clear itself of its present debt.
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THE SQUALL AT HONEY CORNERS.
It was one of those lovely mornings in June for which the hill region of Vermont is justly famous. The sky was clear over- head and rain was far off, but a squall was brewing at Honey Cor- ners.
Now, I shall state that "a squall" in the vernacular of Honey Corners has a new and unique meaning, a meaning not found in Webster's dictionary, and one probably not found anywhere else in the world.
And to those of my readers who are not acquainted with Honey Corners I will say that it is a corner formed by a winding hill road meeting the valley road that runs along Jones' Creek, Jones' Creek being a stream emptying into the Connecticut River at Bradford, Vermont.
There are only two houses at Honey Corners. One of these houses is Uncle Dick's home. Here lives Uncle Dick, Aunt Hannah, Tom the cat (most of the time), and the chickens.
Uncle Dick and Aunt Hannah never had any children of their own, so when a little girl came to the other house at Honey Cor- ners, the house which stands opposite Uncle Dick's house and just across the winding hill road, both Uncle Dick and Aunt Hannah were very much interested, so much so that when "Baby," as ev- eryone at Honey Corners called her, was old enough to walk she spent fully as much time with Uncle Dick and Aunt Hannah as she spent with her own father and mother.
On the morning of "Baby's" fourth birthday Aunt Hannah finished washing hier breakfast dishes, then she went to lier tele- phone and rang four longs and two shorts.
Putting the receiver to her ear she shouted into the disk. "Hullo."
No answer being received she shouted again, "Hullo, hullo!"
"Hallo," came back over the line, while all along the line could be heard the clicks of the telephone resters as the receivers were removed from them.
"Mis Newcome?" said Aunt Hannah.
"Yes," came back over the line.
"How be you ?"
"Fine and dandy, lovely mornin' aint it," said Mrs. Newcome. "How's Sue?"
"She's home now, but she's been carin' for Mis Williams. Got a new baby over there."
"Boy or girl?"
"Girl."
"Good lands sakes, they got seven now."
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(At Mrs. Newcome's end of the line) : "Hold the line, Aunt Hannah, I smell somethin' burnin'."
In a few minutes connections were again made and the con- versation was renewed.
"What you burned now?" asked Aunt Hannah.
"Forgot to take the fryin'-pan off the stove," said Mrs. New-
come. "How is Uncle Dick?"
"He's all right 'cept his rheumatiz. Do you know this is "Baby's" birthday? Let's have a squall this afternoon and invite "Baby."
"Suits me," said Mrs. Newcome. "What time?" "Let's make it two-thirty," said Aunt Hannah. "Well," she continued, "Central is getting uneasy, so I had better ring off. Goodbye."
"Goodbye," floated back over the line as Aunt Hannah hung up the receiver.
Up and down the valley the telephones, started by Aunt Han- nah's early call, kept ringing at frequent intervals all the fore- noon. Of course the women-folks all knew from the time of Aunt Hannah's first call that there was to be a "Squall" at Honey Cor- ners, but then, what is a telephone for if not to use?
Early in the afternoon women from the hills, from the by- roads and from the village were seen wending their various ways, with baskets upon their arms, to the lawn in front of Uncle Dick's house.
By two o'clock there was a goodly company assembled. There was Aunt Hannah, of course, and the "Baby." the "Baby's" moth- er, Uncle Dick, Mrs. Newcome, Sue Newcome the nurse, Mrs. Jeems, little Jeems, Mrs. Wilcox who always brought her coffee pot along, and several others.
Aunt Hannah's kitchen table, improvised with an extension so as to make room for the whole company, was placed on the lawn where the slanting rays of the warm afternoon sun would temper the cool west winds from Orchard Heights.
Pies, cakes, pickles, sandwiches and other dainties dear to the hearts and palates of the house-wives of the neighborhood were taken from the baskets and placed in tempting array on the im- provised table.
"Baby" and little Jeems, who were running around the table among the older folks, sometimes getting tangled up among their legs, stopped running long enough, sometimes, to take a peep at the pies, cakes and cookies, their eyes almost as big as the China saucers upon the table.
At three o'clock the company began to gather about the table. Before they had all seated themselves, however, Aunt Hannah be-
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gan, as she said, "to count noses," and horrors of horrors there were thirteen present. That would never do, for thirteen was an unlucky number at Honey Corners.
At this moment Mr. Jeems was seen hoeing his potatoes on the hillside across the brook. The women-folks got Mr. Jeems' attention by all shouting together while waving their hands and aprons.
"Come and eat with us," shouted Aunt Hannah.
"Can't leave my potatoes," was Mr. Jeems' reply.
Mr. Jeems offered more opposition to leaving his hoe, but knowing pretty well what was on that table his modesty and his reluctance to being seen among so many of the fair sex was over- come. He knew that he could hoe potatoes another day, but the Lord only knew when there would be another chance at Honey Corners to get so much to eat.
Having the right number now the company, which had be- come scattered, gathered again about the table. As there were men-folks present the ladies were rather subdued. It is true that Uncle Dick and little Jeems usually attended the squalls at Honey Corners, but Uncle Dick could not hear at all, and little Jeems was "only a kid."
I forgot to mention that Tom, the combination cat, was pres- ent also. Tom belonged to the "baby," to the baby's father and to Uncle Dick. Tom was on hand to get the crumbs that fell from the table and the pieces of cookies that "baby" slyly dropped for him.
While the men-folks ate, the women-folks ate and talked too. Only once in a while could Uncle Dick or Mr. Jeems get a word in edgeways. This was satisfactory to them, however, for the less they talked the more they could eat.
Everything from the potato-bug crop of the baby's pa to the married and unmarried status of all the old maids and old bachel- ors of the neighborhood was discussed and settled one way or another.
Mrs. Jeems told in her inimical way of her kodak pictures, hundreds of them and most of them of little Jeems. (But the neighbors all knew that Mrs. Jeems never got a picture of little Jeems the day he played hooky and went fishing without her know- ing anything about it.)
Aunt Hannah told how Uncle Dick was trying to get rid of cramps in his legs. The remedy had been given by an East Tops- hamite who for over fifty years had, upon taking off his boots at night, turned them upside down by the stove and he never had cramps in his legs.
Uncle Dick, who thinks he can do as big a day's work without
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feeling the effects of it as he could seventy years ago, had been trying the remedy without very good success.
"The reason why it doesn't work in his case," said Aunt Han- nah to her listeners, "is because he doesn't believe."
When the dishes were being cleard away, it was found that the only eatables and drinkables left was some coffee. Someone suggested that it be saved. So Aunt Hannah took it to the kit- chen, but instead of pouring it into the coffee-pot as she intended, she poured it into the tea-kettle.
"Gracious," said she when she came back to the company and told what she had done, "I must be pretty well flambusticated."
The sun had now begun to sink behind the western hills and the "Squall" at Honey Corners broke, not down but up, and the goodly company like the Arabs in olden times folded, not their tents, but their table-cloths, and silently stole away.
OUR VISITORS.
Some of them wonder how such large luscious berries grow from such stony soil. One of them said: "Why, the berries even grow from the stone walls." The speaker little thought how much truth there was in his statement, for the decaying stone of the walls and the accumulated leaves which gather about the stone walls make the very best soil for berries of all kinds.
Last summer a western banker spent a few days in a village which nestles on the banks of one of Topsham's beautiful streams. On the last day of his stay he stood looking upon the beauty of the spot. Up the valley he could see the hills round-topped and covered with trees. Down the valley, the river looking like a sil- ver thread, wound in and out among the trees till it was lost in the distance. Turning to his wife, he said: "I would be willing to live here always."
One of them stood watching a veteran farmer swing his scythe on an uneven and rocky hillside. At last he said: "Let me try it. I have mowed a lot by hand in Illinois." Making a swing with the scythe as he would have done at home, he drove the scythe blade more than a foot into the ground. Dropping the scythe with a most comical expression upon his face, he said: "That's enough Vermont mowing for me."
It makes the Topshamite smile when some of them say: "1 wish I had a carload of these stones for my front yard."
One of their most common questions is: "Are all the people in Vermont as sociable as they are in Topsham? They treat us as though they had always known us."
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One of them in explaining how much a Vermont spring would be worth on a western farm, told the following story:
A certain boy came home from school one afternoon and said to his father: "Dad, I got a licking today and it's your fault."
When the father wanted to know why it was his fault, the boy said: "Yesterday the teacher asked me to find how much more a farm with a spring on it was worth than one without a spring, I told her you said it was worth a hell of a lot more and she whipped me.
One of them saw some horses diligently feeding upon one of our rocky hillsides. There were more rocks on that hillside than he had ever even dreamed of in his lifetime. With a broad grin on his face he said: "Look at those horses eating. If they stop eating long enough to look up they will starve to death."
Some of them are very careful of our water, saying: "Don't you waste the water when you let it run all the time?" The reply was, "We don't waste it. The water runs from the house to the river and the fish use it; then it gets into the Connecticut River and the mills use it; then it reaches the Atlantic ocean and the great steamships use it, after which the rain-clouds bring it all back to us. We never waste any water in Topsham.
OUR SOLDIERS
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Probably there were no Revolutionary soldiers sent from Tops- ham as there were no settlers in this town in 1775. Several. however, settled here and are buried in the different ceme- teries. There was no record attainable of the Topsham soldiers who entered the War of 1812, but the story is told that the day before the Battle of Plattsburg, September 10, 1814, Captain Jack- man and Esquire Jenness raised 52 volunteers, These men started for Plattsburg, but the battle was won before they completed their journey.
Hemenway's Gazetteer of Vermont gives the military record of Topsham from 1861 to 1865. This Gazetteer lists 142 soldiers and six sailors that served in this war, 46 of whom were killed or died of wounds or of disease while in service.
The following is a list of those who served from Topsham in the World War, entered by the United States April 6. 1917:
Ralph Walter Burgin: B. at Washington; 24 7-12 yrs .; res., Topsham; inducted Sept. 18, 1917, Chelsea; Org. Btry. "B," 302d Fld. Arty; overseas, July 16, 1918, to April 26, 1919; disc. April 30, 1919, Cp. Devens.
Leander A. Dexter: B. Topsham, 23 3-12 yrs .; res., Topsham; ind. October 23, 1918, Chelsea; Org. Btry "A," 30th Arty, C. A. C .; disc. December 18, 1918.
Ralph Ellsworth Frost: B. Topsham, 21 4-12 yrs; res. Topsham, enl. June 5, 1917, Ft. Ethan Allen; Org. Co. "H." 1st Vt. Inf., to August 23, 1917; Co. "F," 101st Am. Tn .; overseas, October 3rd, 1917. to April 2nd, 1919; disc. April 29, 1919, Cp. Devens.
Lewis Ellery Hall: B. Newbury, 24 4-12 yrs .; res., Topsham; enl. February 13, 1918, Chelsea; Org., 454th Aero Sqdn. A. S. P., Sig. Corps to September 5th, 1918; 59th Spruce Sqdn. S. P. D .; disc. December 17, 1918, Vancouver, Wash. The unit to which Mr. Hall belonged had its headquarters at Vancouver. While at work in the spruce forests his nearest town was Raymond. Не spent nearly a year here helping to get out lumber for aeroplanes.
Robert William Hall: B. Newbury, 27 2-12 yrs .; res., Tops- ham; ind. September 18, 1917, Chelsea; org. Btry "B," 302d Fld. Arty., to October 6, 1917; Co. "A," 1st Bn. 20th Engrs. to July 25, 1918; grades 1|c Pvt. April 1, 1918; overseas, November 12, 1917, to April 18, 1919; disc. May 2, 1919, Cp. Devens.
Walter Dean Mason: B. Topsham, 23 6-12 yrs., res. Topsham; ind. February 18, 1918, Cp. Greene, N. C .; org. Co. "M," 58th Inf.
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to August 6. 1918; overseas, May 11, 1918, to August 6, 1918; killed in action August 6, 1918; place of burial unknown.
Paul Leslie Morrison: B. Topsham, 21 3-12 yrs., res. Tops- ham; ind. August 14, 1918, Montpelier; org. Mech. Det .. Tufts College, Medford, Mass., to October 12, 1918; C. A. Tr., Ft. Mon- roe, Va .; disc. January 16, 1919, Cp. Upton, N.Y.
Elmer L. Moulton: B. Topsham, 22 5-12 yrs., Topsham; ind. April 1, 1918, Chelsea; org. 151st Dep. Brig. to May 24, 1918; Co. "D," 301st Engrs .; overseas, July 14, 1918, to June 13, 1919: disc. June 29. 1919.
Ira C. Phelps: B. Topsham, 30 8-12 yrs., res. Topsham; ind. June 21, 1918. Chelsea; org. 117th Spruce Sqdn. to January 11, 1919; 75th Spruce Sqdn .; disc. February 5, 1919, Cp. Devens.
Roy Ellsworth Powers; B. Topsham, 26 11-12 yrs., res. Tops- ham; enl. June 20, 1917, Ft. Ethan Allen; org. Co. "H," 1st Vt. Inf. (6th Co., Am. Tn.) to September 26. 1917; Co. "H," 57th Pion. Inf. to July 4, 1918; Co. "C," 5th A. A. M. G. Bn., to Sep- tember 1, 1918: Ck. Det., Sub. Dep. Q. M. C., Cp. Wadsworth, S. C., to December 18, 1918; grades 1|c Pvt. February 13, 1918; died of disease December 18, 1918; buried at Topsham.
Fred James Smith: B. Topsham, 21 11-12 yrs., res. Topsham; ind. September 18, 1917, Chelsea; org. Btry. "B," 302d Fld. Arty. to February 2. 1918; Btry. "E," 20th Fld. Arty; grades, 1 |c Pvt. March 23, 1919; overseas, May 27, 1918, to July 21, 1919; disc. July 26, 1919, Cp. Devens.
Martin Luther Tillotson: B. Topsham, 21 10-12 yrs., res. Tops- ham; enl. June 5, 1917, Ft. Ethan Allen; org. Co. "H," 1st Vt. Inf. to January 27, 1918; Co. "G," 103d Inf .; overseas, September 25, 1917, to April 5, 1919; dise. April 28, 1919, Cp. Devens.
Mr. Tillotson took ship at Hoboken on the Saxonia. This ship was fourteen days crossing to England, where they remained ten days before crossing to Havre. He was in Sec. N. E. Soissons, February 7th to March 20. 1918; Sec. N. E. Toul, April 5th to June 30, 1918; Ainse-Marne July 18th to July 23d, 1918. He was se- verely wounded in action at Chateau Thierry July 25, 1918. On Armistice Day he was at the Verdun sector. The trip home was made on the U. S. S. America. He was discharged at Camp Devens July 26, 1919.
Colonel Ray Welch: B. Topsham, 21 9-12 yrs., res. Topsham; ind. October 23, 1918, Chelsea; org. Btry. "A," 30th Arty., C. A. C .; disc. December 18, 1918.
Ralph F. Waters entered May 18, 1918; organizations, 40th Co. 10th Bn., 155th Depot Brigade; Co. C., 148th M. G. Bn .; M. G. Co., 59th Inf .; overseas July 24, 1918, to August 1, 1919; battles. St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive; disc. August 5, 1919.
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List of Abbreviations Used in the Above.
American Train, Am. Tr .; Ammunition, Am .; Artillery, Arty .; American Anti-craft Machine Gun, A. A. M. G .; Air Service Pro- duction, A. S. P .; Battalion, Bn .; Battery, Btry .; Corps, C .; Com- pany, Co .; Coast Artillery, C. A .; Camp, Cp .; Cook Detachment, Ck. Det .; Depot Brigade, Dep. Brig .; Discharged, disc .; Engineers, Engrs .; Elisted, Enl .; Field, Fld .; Inducted, Ind .; Infantry, Inf .; Machine Gun, M. G .; Mechanical, Mech .; Organization, Org .; Pri- vate, Pvt .; Place, Pl .; Quartermaster Corps, Q. C .; Residence, res .; Squadron, Sqdn .; Spruce Production Division, S. P. D .; Signal, Sig .; Troop, Tr .; Born, B.
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