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MECHANIC FALLS REGISTER

1904

BY

MITCHELL AND DENNING

Kent's Hill, Maine : Published by the H. E. Mitchell Publishing Companv.

1904.

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Table of Contents

Early Settlers and Incorporation

Pigeon Hill

Industrial Account

Military Matters

Church Affairs

School Items

Professional Men and Town Officials

Societies

Newspapers and Publications

Business Directory

General Reference

Census

Non-Residents.

Mechanic Falls Town Register

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Early Settlement and Incorporation.

It was the village of Mechanic Falls that made the town of Mechanic Falls, and its territory was a part of ancient Bakertuwn. The name of this plantation had been changed in 1795, when it was incorporated as the 93rd town and named Poland. There is a difference of opinion as to the origin of the name. Some say it was named after the famous Indian chief Poland; some after the country in Europe and some after the ancient hymn- melody. In 1802 Poland was divided and the portion on the eastern side of the Little Androscoggin River was in- corporated on February 18th, of that year as the 129th town and named Minot. This latter portion was sub- divided in 1852 and the town of Auburn formed, which has since become a city. The territory of the town of Danville which was annexed to Auburn February 26, 1807, had been set off from Poland territory in 1852.

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That portion of Bakertown now occupied by the town of Mechanic Falls was the last portion of its territory to be settled, and was made np of about equal portions of the towns of Poland and Minot. It was the water power of the Little Androscoggin that attracted settleis. This river is about forty miles long and the area of its basin is 280 square miles, discharging about 10,020,000,000 cubic feet of water. It is variable, according to the season, as to the quantity of water discharged and this inequality is adjusted by the use of the numerous ponds for storage purposes. There are two falls in the river within the territory of Mechanic Falls, one at Page's Mills, of four- teen feet fall within a distance of fifteen hundred feet with. a volume of 17,000 cubic feet of water per minute, and one at the village proper of thirty-seven feet in a distance of nine hundred and fifty feet, with a volume of 20,000 cubic feet of water per minute and a velocity of current of ninety-six feet per minute. There are twenty-one ponds above the village with an area of twenty-eight square miles, all of which can be used for storage purposes.

W here the beautiful village of Mechanic Falls is now located was but an unbroken wilderness until the year 1820 when Josiah Jordan, in company with others came from Poland Corner for the purpose of looking out a route for a highway to render communication with the people of Minot more convenient.

It was late in 1823, while the land was still covered with a heavy forest, that Isaiah and Luther Perkins with Captain James Farris of Hebron, erected a saw mill on

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what was then the Poland side of the river. This mill was soon burned and another was built, owned in part, in connection with the above named persons, by a Mr. Smith of Portland. This was also burned and another was built which stood until 1867, when it was taken down to be re-placed by a paper mill. A small lumber mill was also erected on the Minot side by Aseph Churchill and a grist mill by Isaiah Perkins. Mr. Perkins was the earliest to settle in the village.

The first dweUing house was erected in 1828 by Dean Andrews, who worked in the mills, on what is now Pleasant Street near the site of the residences of 0. B. Dwinal. The same year Isaiah Perkins erected a barn on what is now Main Street, nearly opposite the Metho- dist church, and the following year a house near by, these are still standing, and the oldest buildings in the village. The first building on the Poland side was erect- ed by Luther Perkins very nearly on the site of the Grand Trunk Depot. The first store was erected by Isaiah Perkins on what is now Post Office Square near where Perry's Block recently stood.

Capt. Jacob Dwinal built the third house in Mechanic Falls village, the house still stands; and the brick yard which he established, the first in town, is still in active operation.

An old kitchen clock, owned by Mrs. Mason, was the first one of its kind to be brought here. This clock was originally owned by her grandfather, Richard G.Foss who we are told, was the third settler. He built his house where Merrill's millinery store now stands.

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The growth of the village was at first slow as but very few workmen w«re needed in the lumber mills of the early years. The first great impetus to growth was made by the establishment of the Atlantic & St. Law- rence Railroad, now the Grrand Trunk, and its completion to this point in 18-1:9, made a boom for the town. People fiocked in and the village grew rapidly. The next year the railroad passed on to South Paris and the bubble burst. It has been paper making that has been of per- manent value to the village and made it what it is. The first mill was built in 1851 by Ebenezer Drake and Ezra Mitchell. Mitchell's part was soon purchased by Oliver B. Dwinal and this firm carried on business until it was sold to A. C. Dennison & Co. in 1866. In 1851 the last named company bought out Messrs. Perkins, Dunham, Moore and Waterhouse who had succeeded the original proprietors, on the Poland side and began the manufac- ture of paper, which has been continued with some changes of ownership until the present time.

Mechanic Falls is not a designed town. It happened by chance. For many years it had no name. Dr. Jacob Tewksbury, a famous physician half a century ago in Oxford, who was called to officiate at the birth of the first child born in Mechanic Falls (Isaiah Andrews, son of Deacon Andrews, the first resident), called the place ' 'Jericho" from his bitter experience on this trip occuring in the night and causing him to travel over rough logging roads for seven miles. It bore this name for some time. In early times, it is said, that it took a good deal of grog to run the place and for this reason the name "Jericho"

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was succeeded by "Groggy Harbor;-" but the popular name was "Bog Falls" which clung to it until 1841, when a post office was established and at the suggestion of the first postmaster, Samuel F. Waterman, it was called Mechanics' Falls, which was changed to Mechanic Falls in 1887 at the suggestion of postmaster Frank A. Millett.

The village being situated in two towns found that its interests could not be served as well as they ought to be and effort was made in 1889 to have the two sideis incorporated, that a better system of police and fire pro- tection could be inaugurated and better schools estab- lished. Many were opposed to this. The legislature of 1889 granted a charter for this purpose with the provision that it must be accepted by a majority of the voters on both sides. This charter was defeated by the lack of six votes on the Poland side. On February 29, 1891, the Poland side was incorporated under a charter granted by the legislature that winter, when it in- augurated the plan of a village divided against itself. This did not meet with the satisfaction of the larger portion of the citizens and a petition was presented to the legis- lature of 1893 to set off the following defined portions of the towns of Poland and Minot and form the town of Mechanic Falls. After a severe struggle this act was passed March 22 1893. The town limits are as follows:

Beginning at a point in Gardiner brook (so called) on to Oxford town line where said brook enters the town of Minot; thence following said Oxford town line to Winter broDk (so called) in the town of Poland; following the line of said brooktothe road to Winter bridge, (so called)thence

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following the line of said road leading to Mechanic Falls to Cousins brook (so called); thence following the line of said Cousins brook (so called); to Waterhouse brook (so called); thence continuing from said Waterhouse brook to the lot line at the south-westerly corner of the Alansou Briggs Placf^ in Poland; thence continuing; on said lot to the Little Androscoggin River; thence up the line of said river to a point where Bog Brook (so called) enters the same; thence up said Bog brook to Gardiner brook (so called); then^.e up the line of said Gardiner brook to the point of beginning on Oxford line.

PIGEON HILL.

So far this history has been confined, almost exclu- sively, to the territory occupied by the village of Mechanic Falls; but there is a part of the tow^n, known as Pigeon Hill, which is purely an agricultural community. To be sure there is a stretch of farming country up the valley of the little Androscoggin and another on that eminence known as Mount Hunger, but these sections have been built up by the village and largely dependent upon it. Pigeon Hill was settled before the village and is the only portion of the town which has the appearance of an- tiquity.

The first settlers on Pigeon Hill were Jabez True, and Capt. Day, who came from New Gloucester in 1779 or 1780, and made an opening on what is known as the A. C. Dennison farm and for many years these were the only settlers. From 1790 to 1795 quite a number of set- tlers came from New Gloucester and Poland Empire.

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Jabez True was born in New Gloucester in 1771 and married Hannah Jackson of Poland. This family has perhaps been the most prominent on the hill. Families in those days were large and there was one singular thing about them — the usual number of children seemed to be twelve and there were twelve in this family. Their children were, Sally, Jabez, John, Elizabeth, Hannah, Moses, Rocksyllania, Miriam, Abagail, Otis, Rebecca and Daniel W. They were an industrious family and several of them gained distinction in the mercantile world. The fine old mansion was built in 1802, which at the death of Jabez, descended to his son, Daniel W. and after to his only son Frank D.

Captain Ripley cleared the next above the True farm, occupied for many years by Alden Chandler and after- wards by S. N. Haskell. Captain Ripley, came from Plympton, Massachusetts, and brought with him a negro slave, Black Joe, or Joe Prince, as he was called, the only slave ever owned within the limits of the town of MechanicFalls.

Jacob Strout took up a part of the same lot with Captain Ripley. He married Salley Bray, of the Empire and left quite a familv of children (viz.) Sally, Joshua, Nabby, Jacob, Joseph, Nathaniel, Cyrena, Hobert, Adon- iram, Cynthia and William. Mr. Strout met with a painful accident while clearing his land. In fastening a chain around a log he wished to haul, the oxen became frightened and run to the house and the hook of the chain caught in the fleshy part of the leg and he was dragged after the oxen. He very narrowly escaped

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death and was lame ever after.

Eben Marble took the next lot west of the Ripley farm and came with his bride, Sarah Cash of Cape Eliza- beth, in 1790. He lived here until 1812 when he enlisted as a soldier in the war then raging between this country and England, went to Burlington, Vermont, and died there.

Among the prominent families of the section are the Dennings. George and Simeon, brothers, came from Salem, Massachusetts, in 1791 or 1792 and took lots on the hill. George cleared several sections of land and built first a log house on what is known as the Haley Pulsifer farm, which being burned, caused him to buy the lot west and to erect a building on the farm now owned by his grandson, J. K Denning. Simeon made several clearings, lived in several places on the hill and in 1830 moved to Shirley, Maine, where he died. Both of these men left large families who have been prominent in bhis section. George married Elenel Rollins of New Gloucester, by whom he had twelve children as follows; Samuel, Stephen, Hannah, Ruth, Ruth 2d, Basheby, George, Job, Moses, Rhoda, James and Jacob. Simeon Denning married Rebecca Chickering and had eleven children; Simeon, Peter, Frederic, John, Levi, Lyford, Elena, Lydia, Joseph, Lois and Otis.

Among the earlier settlers was Dr. Peter Brooks, "an Indian doctor" who came from Plympton, Massa- chusetts, and has the distinction of building the first frame house within the present town of Mechanic Falls. It is said that he came by his death from inhaling poison

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from the fangs of rattlesnakes, which he us^d to get from Rattlesnake Mountain in Raymond, during the win- ter season, for the oil which he used in his practice.

John Cousins of Wells, came to the hill in 17*J5. He married for his first wife Lucy Hatch and for his second Sarah Cushman of Hebron. He purchased the Jabez True opening. His family consisted of fourteen as follows: Samuel, William, Sarah, Eliza, Lucy, Thomas, Susan, Abagail, Humphrey, Mary J., Adaline, Harriet, Jacob T. and James D.

Alden Chandler came from Plympton, Massachu- setts, in 1800. By his first wife, Priscilki Cushman of Hebron, he had ten children; Priscilla, Harvey, Alvin, Josiah, Lydia, Christania, Benjamin F., Gains, Jacob and Rachel T. His second wife was Hepzebah Cooledge of Livermore.

Nathaniel Bray came to this locality from the Em- pire in 1818 and Daniel Bray, his brother, in 1820. Many of their descendants live here and a section of the town is called the Bray District in their honor. They left five children each. Nathaniel married Deborah Keene and their children were; Mary, Xoa, Stephen, James and Eliphalet. Daniel married Xoa Keene and their children were; George W., Sullivan A., Emeline, Daniel J., and Jefferson,

The business of the hill has been agriculture but in early days (1820) Reuben B. Dunn kept a store here, Hiram Hilburn did blacksmithing and Joseph Per- kins made earthern pans.

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Industrial Account.

It was the waterpower of the little Androscog- gin which occasioned the settlement of the land on the present site of the village of Mechanic Falls, and has been the sole source of its growth and prosperity. To present things in their natural order, the manufacturies which have been promoted by the falls would come first. The natural industries of the state of Maine have been the turning of the products of her forests into merchandise and therefore the pioneer industry of every town, almost without exception, has been lumbering. To this rule Mechanic Falls was no exception. The first industry was a lumber mill which was situated on, what is now known, as the upper dam. Boards, shingles, and boxes were turned out here and the mill operated by Isaiah Perkins, Luther Perkins and James Farris. In the box mill a Mr. Smith of Portland owned a share. This was built as has been stated, in 1823. This business continued with some changes until 1851. Messrs. Moore, Dunham and Waterhouse had bought into the water pow- er and introduced small woolen manufacturies of their own. Shortly after the building of the first saw mill, a grist mill was erected by Isaiah Perkins which for many years, did a large business for the times.

In 1851, the character of the business changed, in the line of a natural resource, to the manufacture of paper. At that time rags were almost exclusively used for this purpose and no one dreamed of the possibilities held in our forests, in the way of pulp. The first paper mill was

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built by Ebenezer Drake and Ezra Mitchell on the eastern side of the river, in 1851. Oliver B. Dwinal and W. C. Dwinal soon bought out Mitcheirs share and this firm was known as Drake, Dwinal & Co. , who continued in this business until 1865, when they sold out to A. C. Dennison & Co., who had already established a business of the same kind on the opposite side of the river.

A. C. Dennison & Co., built their first mill, known as the Eagle, in 1851 having bought out one half of the power at the upper dam. The firm consisted of Adna C. Dennison andE. W. Filer. This mill with machinery cost $15,000 and made from rag stock, a ton of paper every twenty- four hours. In 1862 Adna T. Dennison bought out Filer's interest and machinery to prepare and use straw was introduced at considerable expense. In 1865 the land below the upper mills was bought, the second dam built and the Star mill completed. In 1865, also a new mill was built on the site of the old Drake & Dwinal mill. In 1866, the lower dam and the Poland Pulp mill were built, also the stone dam and flumes on the upper privilege. About the same time the mills and privilege at Range Pond were purchased with rights of fiowage and a stone reservoir dam built. At the next legislature a charter was obtained to control the water. The Calendar mill on the upper dam was built also at this time, as well as machine and carpenter shops. In 1873 The Dennison Paper Manufacturing Company was formed with a cap- ital stock of $5('0,000. Adna C. and AdnaT. Dennison and Mrs. C. M. Cram, stockholders. In 1879 and 1880 a chemical pulp mill was built at Canton to supply the

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mills at Mechanic Falls with pulp. In 1887 these exten- sive works passed into the hands of a new company known as the Poland Paper Company, with a capital stock of $300,000. The officers of this company were: President, Arthur Sewall, Bath; Chas. R. Milliken, clerk and Treasurer, Portland; directors, Arthur Sewall, James Munroe, George C. Wing, W. S. Dana, W. G. Davis, W. H. Milliken, Frank D. True, Superintendent, C. H. Milliken. At the time they acquired this property it employed 175 hands, used twenty tons of pulp daily and its monthly shipment of manufactured goods amounted to $50,000. In 1891 a spur track was laid out from the Grand Trunk Railway line, one-half mile below the de- pot to the mills. The same year the carpenter and machine shops of the company were burned, which were rebuilt with brick the following year. In 1893 a gigantic brick mill was built extending from Poland Pulp mill, which forms a part of the new mill on the lower dam to the Eagle on the upper dam, with a capacity of thirty tons of manufactured paper per day. The Star mill which had stood in the center of the new mill was torn down and a stone wall built the entire way changing the course of the river and turning quite a portion of river bottom into dry land and covered in part by the site of the new mill. The present officers of this com- pany are C. H. Milliken, Treasurer, C. R. Milliken, Mana- ger.

One mile above the village and within the limits of the town, is another privilege, which for many years was owned and used as a saw mill by Moses Page. In

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1868, this privilege was bought by J. A. Bucknam, who improved the lumber and grist mills and operated them for fifteen years, since that time the privilege has been unused.

For many years John Winslow run a tannery on ground now occupied as a part of the site of the Dia- mond paper mill. Along in the seventies Mr. Winslow failed and the property passed into the hands of Warren Winslow, who operated it a few years, when it was sold to A. C. Dennison & Co.

Cabinet making has been carried on in the town since 1841 by Lowell Valentine, Nelson Valentine, R. L.

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McPherson, William Eldridge, D. S. Perkins, D. B. Perry and J. S. Merrill. In 1878, Andrew J. Weston began as contractor and builder and has continued ever since.

Brick making has been a prominent business ever since 18(55. For many years there was a yard on Main Street near its junction with Dwinal, but it has not been operated for twenty years. Fessenden & Morrill operated one for many years on the Poland road. This was sold in the seventies to Thurston & Waterhouse who operated it until 1880 when it was discontinued. In 1893 a new yard was opened on Water Street by the Mechanic Falls Brick Company, consisting of Horace Purington & Co., of Waterville, and F. 0 Purington, of Mechanic Falls.

In the early seventies, the shoe factory manufacturies of Massachusetts began to feel the power of combined labor and to desire to get away from those centers which made this power possible; so they made overtures to small country villages to erect them factories and thereby increase their size and importance. Mechanic Falls took advantage of one of those opportunities and built the factory on Main Street near the Grand Trunk Railway, for Berry, Field & Company. But the village was unfortunate in this company, as it has been in every one since that time. It soon failed. The Ventil- ating Waterproof Company took its place to stay but a short time. Then came Thompson & Company to follow the path of the others. The old factory was then placed in the hands of J. A. Bucknam & Company, and

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has since been used as a ready-made clothing factory. In 1881 J. Harris & Son's of Marblehead, Massachusetts, made a proposition to the village to build them a factory which they would lease for ten years, and carry on there- in the manufacture of shoes. This the village conclud- ed to do and organized the Mechanic Falls Manufacturing Company for the purpose of building the proposed building. 0. B. Dwinal was elected president, which position he filled until 1892, with the exception of one year when C. E. Stevens filled the chair. The proposed factory was built at a cost of $15,000, and occupied by the lessees. They stayed for the stipulated time when they concluded to return to their factories in Marble- head. Labor had become organized in the small towns the same as in cities and it was no advantage for companies to remain so far from the base of operations and many a Maine town suffered from the loss of this industry.

In 1871 the village embarked in an industry from which it hoped to reap great profits. This was the manufacture of magazine rifles, invented by George F. Evan's. The Evans' Eifle Company was organized for this purpose. The majorit)'^ of this stock was owned by the Deunison Paper Company. This arm was adopted by the Russian government, but the expense of equip- ping the shop to make the guns was so great that it failed both companies, and the plant was moved to Massachusetts in 1878.

The Packing Business was inaugurated here in 1873, by J. W. Jones. In 1886 it passed into the hands of

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General Charles P. Haddocks, and in 1890, into the possession of John Hanscom, and the following year it was leased to the Portland Packing Company. In 1888 a new company was formed in the village, known as the Minot Packing Company, formed by H. E. Thurston, and J. A. Grerry, of Mechanic Falls and H. F. Hayford and J. W. Bicknell of Canton. In 1890 Hayford and Bicknell sold their interests to the former patrons.

The manufacture of clothing has been carried on in this village for many years by J. A. Bucknam & Co., Dwinal & Golderman, Joseph Bucknam & Son, Golder- man & Cummings, P. T. Murray, and W. B. Bucknam. The former company having carried it on to a large extent and have at times, given employment to as many as one thousand persons.

, Toothpicks have been manufactured in town by E. E. Edgecomb and E. A. Harris.

Pumps were manufactured at one time by T. B, Swan and J. C. Walker.

In 1872 the machine shop and foundry of J. W. Penney was established and has grown from a small beginning to large proportions. In 1884 A. R. and S. R. Penney were admitted to the firm and name changed to J. W. Penney & Son's.

Among the industries, which, while not directly located in the village have been a source of prost erity, is the railroads. The Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad was organized and a charter obtained Feb. 10, 1845. It reached Mechanic Falls in 1849, bringing a boom to

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the place. It continued on to Montreal and in later years to Chicago, with a branch to Quebec.

On June 22, 1847, a road running from Mechanic Falls to Buckfield was chartered and opened on Oct. 10, 1849, known as the Buckfield Branch. This soon failed and was succeeded by the Portland & Oxford Central Railroad Company, who operated it off and on for twenty years, extending it to Canton. They finally abandoned it. In 1874 it was resumed by the Rumford Falls & Buckfield Railroad Company. In 1892 it was extended to Rumford Falls and in 1893, to Auburn, and opened to traffic to the latter place on Feb. 12, 1894.

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Military Hatters

The following is a list of former residents of Mechanic Falls who served in the war of the rebellion. These men enlisted from the towns of Poland and Minot but, were from the section afterwards incorporated as Mechanic Falls.

The record made by these brave boys who went to the front is an honor to their noble ancestry, and a credit to their many descendants in the town:

Wellington Dwinal, H. H. Hutchinson, Charles E. Har- ris, A. H. Hutchinson, Hiram B. King, Orrin Dwinal, Hiram P. Bailey, Eleazor B Atwood, Elmer Chipman, Josiah Carr, William A. Tobie, Hamlin T. Bucknam, Charles Andrews, John F. Bancroft, William A. Camp- bell, Charles W. Campbell, Augustus A. Dwinal, Bur- bank Spiller, Almund H. Hutchinson, Samuel H. Hutch- inson, Henry H. Hutchinson, Charles F. McKenney, Harrison J. Dwinal, Charles Dore, Arthur M. Brown, William E. Morton, William H. Everett, Fabian Churchill, Adelbert Churchill, Joseph H. Durgin, Cyrus M. Lord, Ezra Mitchell Jr., Robert W. Carr, James F. Gerry, Isaac A. Whittemore, Percival D. Herrick, James N. Nason, Lemuel T. Marshall, Lorenzo Mayberry, George J. Fuller, Elmer Chipman, Hiram C. Curtis, Albion A. Drake, Joseph C. Bray, Azel W. Drake, Darius Holt, James R. Holt, Samuel L. Brown, James S. Small, William M. P^^rkins, Lewis J. Morton, Newton E. Stowe

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Charles E. Strout, George P. McCarty, Augustus Golder- man, A. M. Churchill, Asa L. Downs, Alexander Campbell, James L. Fuller, George F. Perkins, George F. Sawyer, Orrin Whittemore, Otho W. Burnham, George G. Bridgham, John Noyes, Andrew J. Pettee, Tilson Waterman, Josiah Winslow, Hiram Moore, Frank H. Hall. James L. Dingley, Stephen G, Bray, E.D. Chand- ler, Lemuel T. Marshall, Edwin Woodsum, David Wood- sum, William E. Farrar, L. F. Tenney, Dexter D. Skinner, Elmer Chipman, Zebedee Cushman, Francis E. Dwinal, Ronello C. Dwinal, Darius Holt, Jabez T. Den- ning, Edward F. Ross, Augustus A. Dwinal, Richard E. Maxwell, Horace Perkins,

Perhaps as important as any of these organizations in the village is A. A. Dwinal Post, Grand Army of the Republic; reminding us as it does, of a struggle yet familiar to middle-aged people and to which the nation reverts with pride. The Post was named after one of the youngest citizen soldiers of Mechanic Falls and a Lieutenant of the seventeenth Maine Regiment. It was instituted July 18, 1872. The following persons have filled the post of commander:

Josiah Carr, H. A. Sawyer, H. T. Bucknam, Ed- ward Fuller, E. F. Ross, F. R. Harmon, H. B. King, W. H. Poole, W. C. Bridge, C. B. Adams, G. B. Robbins, F. E. Dwinal, A. L. Downs, G. W. Sholes, F. A. Millett,

C. N. Burns, Orrin Downs, Joseph Gould, A. V. Edie,

D. D. Skinner. Connected with this Post is the A. A- Dwinal Relief Corps, and A. J. Pettee Camp, No. GO, Sons of Veterans.

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In 1887 the post erected a monument in memory of those who fell during the war as the following in- scription taken from it will show.

Dedicated May ?,(), A. D.,

1887.

To the memory

of those comrades who died

during the war

18<)1 — 1865, By A. A. Dwinal

Post, No. 3,

and

Woman's Relief Corps,

No. 32, G. A. R., Mechanic Falls, Maine.

MONUMENT

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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

CHURCH AFFAIRS

The first regularly organized church in Mechanic Falls was that of the Congregational Society. The earlier believers in this particular faith had been members of the church at Poland and the organization in the village of Mechanic Falls was at first a branch of that church. The church was organized by an ecclesiastical council held in the house of John Valentine, June 15, 1845, with

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the following persons as members: John Valentine, Joseph H. Hall, Sophia Hall, Salmon Hackett, Laurana Hackett, Samuel Chandler, Lowell and Nelson Valentine, Mrs. Pamelia Foss and Mrs. Nancy P. Alden Two other branches of the church were under the charge of Rev. Thomas Williams, preaching on alternate Sundays at Poland Corner and Mechanic Falls. The first church service was held in the school house on the eastern side of the river, July 12, 1840. The lot on which the present church edifice stands was presented by John Valentine and a vestry was built during the summer of 1841, and dedicated December 30, 1841. On November 2, 1842, the branch became an independent body with Rev. Nathan Cobb as pastor. The church edifice was completed and dedicated in 1848 and the old vestry removed in 1850. In 1886 the church was remodeled, repaired and a basement vestry added in 1886. Following is a list of pastors: Nathan Cobb, 1842-47; Enos Merrill, 1847-65; William N. Jordan, 1855-59; Horatio Illsley, 1859-62; Joseph Kyte, 1862-64; the pulpit was then supplied by Rev's. George W. Campbell, E. T. Bouchers, F. M. Davis, A. C. Herrick, E. S. Jordan, H. Witcher, R. J. Lang- radge and Profs, Stanley, Hayes and Angell until April 1, 1874, when Rev. F, E. Emrich, became pastor and remained until 1882, he was succeeded by Rev C. A.White, 1882-88; Rev. H. S. Woodrow, 1888 to 1889; then by Rev. F. Newport. Rev. Frederick Newport remained until May, 1898 when he was succeeded by Rev. C. W. Fisher who remained until June 1902 when he went to Portland.

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During his pastorate a fine organ was presented to the church by one of its original members. 24 members were united with the church during the four years he remained with the church. Rev. H. F. Burdon, came to the church in Sept. 1902, and is doing good work for the church .

Free Baptist

The second and in some respects the oldest, was the Free Baptist. Rev. Christopher Macy of this denomina- tion it seems preached here as early as 1828. In IS-lT this society united with the others in building a union church which was sold to the Baptists in 1889. This church had few regular pastors with long intervals in which there was no preaching at all.

The first Baptist conference was held at Mechanic Falls in the year 1855 and preaching was sustained one- fourth of the time by Rev. A. K. P. Small. The church was organized in September 1857, with forty-one members. Following is a list of pastors: A. K. P. Small, D. D., Adam Wilson, D. D., Abner Merrill, A. C. Herrick, L. P. Gurney, R. J. Langradge, J.S. Studley, C. E. Harden, and W. H. Clark. Messrs W. Swett, and R. Denning, members of the church, occupied the pulpit at times. R. B. Andrews, Eben Drake, A. B. Dwinal, Joseph Buckman, S. Woodman, Gilman Thayer, and S. U. Hawkes, have been deacons. Isaac P. Bumpus, A. B. Dwinal and J. S. Merrill have been clerks. In 1888 the

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church was remodeled, repaired, and re-dedicated. Since 1898 the following have been pastors, T I. Sweat, J. N. Stadley, E. C Harding, W. H. Clark, Chas. Chamber- lain, Geo. Chase, L. H. Clark, Sidney Packard, W. H, Whittier.

method ist

Mechanic Falls was made a station of the Methodist church by the Maine Annual Conference, April 27, 1859, with Rev. J. C. Perry as pastor. Before this time services by this denomination had been held in the Union church, which was partly owned by Metho- dists, a portion of the time by the pastors in charge of the Poland church and circuit. A church edifice was erected on Main Street and dedicated in 1860. This was burned April 1, 1877. A new church was soon erected and dedicated in 1880. Following is a list of pastors: Rev. J. C. Perry, 1856, James McMillan, 1860; Kinsman Atkinson, 1861; J. C. Perry, 1862-63; John Woodbury, 1864; William H. Foster, 1865-66; John Gibson, 1867-68; Joseph Hawkes, 1869-70; J. A. Fletch- er, 1871; Daniel Waterhouse, 1872-74; W. B. Bartlett, 1875-77; J. H. Trask. 1878; H. Chase, 1879-80; Daniel Church, 1881-83; W. S. Jones, 1885-87; C. F. Cobb, 1888-90; C. E. Springer, 1890; C. F. Parsons. 1891-92; and G. C. Andrews, 1893. The parsonage was built in 1872. Since 1893 the Methodist Church was served by the following men: 1893-94, G. C. Andrews; 1895-97, T.

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P. Baker; ]S9«-1901, A Hamilton; 1902-05, F. C. Nor- cross. A fine church property is owned by the society on Main Street all in good repair and free from debt. The church and parsonage sit on adjoining lots.

UNIVERSALIST CHURCH

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Universalist

It is recorded that the first Universalist sermon ever preached in Mechanic Falls was by Rev. Zenas Thompson in 1840. A church was organized April 8, 1862, and services held in Curtis Hall. A church was built and dedicated in January 1864. Rev. A. G. Gaines, D. D., was the first pastor and he has been followed by Revs. Zenas Thompson, S. S. Davis, M. J. Steere, C. S. Whitman, W. W. Hooper, W. S. Perkins, R. F. Johonnet, G. G. Hamilton and F. E. Barton. In 1875, the church was enlarged and a vestry, called Murray Hall built underneath. Rev. W. E. Gaskin was pastor of this church prior to Sept. 1903, follow- ing his removal Rev. F. E. Barton, State Supt., Rev. S. G. Davis and Rev. Elinor S. Forbes supplied in the pulpit. Rev. F. H. Cole came in June, 1904. Mr. F. A. Golderman has served as Sunday School Supt. for about eight years. This church is the largest in town, having a seating capacity of about 500.

Advents

The Adventists have held occasional meetings in Mechanic Falls for many years and a yearly camp- meeting was held at Pottle Grove for two decades or

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SO, until 1890, when the Androscoggin Camp Meeting Association bought fifteen acres on the Lewiston road, erected buildings and seats where their yearly meet- ings are now held. A few years ago a church was organized in town, holding their meetings in halls. They have had two pastors, — Rev. J. A. Libby and Rev. Mrs. Jessie Jordan. In 19('3 Mrs. Jordan resigned but has frequently supplied the Church to the present time. This Church is in a prosperous condition and its membership has increased in the last twelve years about one-third. The present clerk is H. B. King.

Educational Account

We cannot do better than to cast a glance toward the typical common school as known in Maine in the early days. Even as soon as our forefathers, almost invariably of Puritan extraction had located themselves in the forests of the Fine Tree State and began their efforts of erecting churches, they made provisions for the common school. They in common with us of to- day considered education the bulwark of our institutions, the institutions for the establishment of which they had fought and bled. They knew therefore better than we how much depended upon the proper guijl- ance of the newly established government. They saw their liberties and property, we had almost said wrapt

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up in the future of the new government, which Wash- ington had said was "one today and thirteen tomor- row." Is it a strange thing that these people who so well understood the significance of these trying years, should so thoroughly grasp at the thought that in ed- ucation of the masses lay their only hope of ultimate success? No, they saw well their duty and as pioneers prepared to meet it. A room in the little log cabin became the university of the wilderness, and humble as was this first effort, might;*'^ results came from it. From out of these rough, low-roofed structures walked men who were yet to meet the representatives of the courts of Europe, in the battlefield, in diplomacy, and in scores of other capacities from which they were emerged unscathed. This system of education went on till it almost became a necessary thing for a man to rea'^.h the president's chair that he be able to pre- sent a career begun in "The Little Ked Schoolhouse" in the backwoods hamlet. It was not that the people loved wealth and culture less, but that they loved the more the homely virtues inspired by healthy atmos- phere of the country. And as we look back today over the progress of our school system, we dwell with pride upon the record it has made. But this system like all others was expected to advance and it has ad- vanced.

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HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING

The value of the public schools has ever been recognized by the settlers and citizens of the towns of Maine, and their support has been well provided for from the first as a matter of course. The history of the early schools of Mechanic Falls is the history of

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the towns of Poland and Minot. This part of those towns comprised, on the Minot side, district No. 1, established in 1831; and district No. 20 on the Poland side of the river. These were the ungraded district schools of a typical section and served the interests of education as well as could be provided for. Along in the sixties there arose a desire for better education- al facilities and in 1867 a petition to Justice S. F. Waterman, signed by E. G. Hawkes, A. C. Dennison, A. T. Dennison, 0 W. Hawkes, William Childs, J. A. Buck- nam, E. M. Thurston, D. S. Perkins and J. S. Merrill was made to call a meeting which resulted in the forma- tion of a union district, comprised of the two districts already mentioned. This district was formed March 30, 1867. Rev. A. G. Gaines, D. D., J. M. Eveleth, M. D., Alanson Briggs and A. T. Dennison were elected to grade the schools.

In 1871 the need of a new school building to accom- modate the number and different grades of the scholars in the village was deeply felt, which resulted in the building of the brick school on Water Street, in which until 1883 was held the high school. Nathaniel Cush- man, J. S. Gerry, 0. B. Dwinal, O. B. Mooie and Alan- son Briggs, were the building committee. It cost $8863,85.

At a special meeting November 26, 1887, the town of Poland abolished the district school system and adopted the town system, thereby terminating the union district, all but paying a debt of $2,000,00 on the Water Street school house, which was raised at a special meet-

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ing held April 7, 1888. This left the Poland side without adequate school buildings. On the annual meeting of March 12, 1888, Poland voted to raise $5,000 to build a suitable school building at Mechanic Falls. A fine building was erected on Elm Street and completed in season for the fall term of school of that year, at a cost of $1:,942, under charge of W. W. Waterman and A. J. Weston.

The schools are now well graded and are under the successful management of F. L. Waterman, J. K. D en- ning, and J. W. Wayne. J. M. Libby is superintendent, Prof. H. Stewart is principal of the high school.

PROFESSIONAL MEN.

Physicians

The first settled physician of Mechanic Falls was Josiah Carr, who not only practiced here for forty years, but was one of the first citizens of the village. Doctors D. W. Sawyer, C. L. Holt, J. M. Eveleth, H. L. Torrey, E. F. Bradford, A. L. Gaubert, J. D. Holt, Albion Cobb, C. M. Cobb, and C. H. Tobie. C. B. Rankin, L. 0. Cobb, of the allopathic school have practiced here; homeopathic, Henry Waters, William Waters, E. C. Heath and A. D. Bowman.

Dentists

Dr. Childs was probably the first in town. J. W. Curtis, N. Gammon, N. T.Marshall, and W. H. Spear; A. W. Butler is now located here.

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Lawyers

The names of the legal profession are not so numerous as those of the physicians and are as follows: Robert Carr, William H. McClellan, David Dunn, T. B. Swan, C. F. Whitman, C. L. Warren, Elliot King, J. M. Libby, I. W. Hanson, J. A. Roberts, William Green, F. O. Pur- ington, and A. C. Andrews.

Postmasters

Samuel F. Waterman, 1841; Jacob Dwinal, 1846; Samuel Carr, 1849; Merrill W. Strout, 1851; Alexander B. Dwinal, 1853; Charles K. Smith, 1856; Samuel F. Waterman, 1861; Oliver B. Dwinal, 1866; Joseph Buck- nam, 1869; Jason Hall, 1869; F, E. Dwinal 1883; Frank A, Millett, 1887; F. E. Dwinal, 1891; L. W. Mason, and J. H. DeCoster the present postmaster.

Town Officials

The following is a list of the men who have served the town as selectmen, clerks and treasurers, since the incorporation of the town in 1893, These men are among the leading men of the town.

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Selectmen

1893-94:— A. J. Weston, F. H. McDonald, J. K. Denning 1895— A. J. Weston, J. W. Penney, E. K. Holbrook 1896— A. J. Weston, E. K. Holbrook, F. E. Dwinal 1897— A. J. Weston, E. K. Holbrook, Ernest Smith 1898 — A. J.Weston, J. K. Denning, J. E. Saunders 1899— F. A. Millett, Frank H. Cobb, Solon H. Davis 1900— F. A. Millett, E. F. Smith, Solon H. Davis 1901-'02-'03— F. H. Cobb, E. K. Holbrook, J. E.

Saunders 1904— E. K. Holbrook, Tillson Waterman, J. E. Saun- ders

Clerks and Treasurers

The same man serving in both offices

C. H. Dwinal, 1893;

J. H. DeCoster, 1894-95-96-97-98;

Clarence M. Hutchins, 1899-1900-'01-'02-'03 -04.

Societies

• Secret societies occupy a prominent place in the modern life of every village, and Mechanic Falls is no ex- ception to the general rule.

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riasons

The first of these societies to be organized in almost every village was a Masonic Lodge. On January 21, 1853, a dispensation was granted to George Moore, Daniel W. True, Nathaniel Bray, Augustus Golderman, George Hathaway, Josiah Carr and Samuel Atwood, to open and hold a Freemason's Lodjre in Mechanic Falls, to be known as Fraternal Lodge. George Moore was first master and the first meeting U, D,, was held on January 24, 1853. Fraternal Lodge held nine- teen communications but when a charter was granted May 10, 1853, it was to Tyrian Lodge, No. 73, with rank of precedence from January 1, 1853.

Royal Arch Chapter

In 1872, nine months and twenty-six days dispensa- tion was granted for a chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Mechanic Falls, to be known as Union Royal Arch Chapter. The Chapter held its first meeting October 8, 1872, and a charter was granted May 7, 1873, which was consituted October 9, 1873. In 1882 a dispensation was given, changing the place of meeting to Norway and the next year that place was continued as the home of the

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chapter. Following is a list of High Priests while the Chapter had its home in Mechanic Falls. J. M. Eveleth, E. F. Stevens, P. R. Cobb, J. F. Briggs.

In 1891 a dispensation was granted for St. Andrews' Royal Arch Chapter and a charter was granted July 14, 1893. P. R. Cobb was the first High Priest.

Odd Fellows

In September, 1874, Alvin Reed, Charles H, Dwinal, F. A. Millett, G. L. Reed, and D. N. McCann held an in- formal meeting to see about the propriety of organizing a lodge of Odd Fellows. Their application was granted and Monami Lodge, No. 4^0, was instituted November 20, 1874, Colfax Lodge, No. 20, Daughters of Rebekah is connected with this lodge.

Encampment

Orion Encampment of Odd Fellows was instituted November 20, 1878. Following is a list of Past Chief Patriarchs down to 1893. George L. Reed, Frank A. Millett, Dim an B. Perry, Hiram Perkins, P. T. Murray, William M. Greenlief, P. D. Herrick, Luther Perkins, A. J. Weston, A. Lewis Gaubert, Charles Lane, E. A. Thomas, George W. Robbins, S. T. Rowe, F. E. Thurlow, A. V, Hathaway, H. E. Thurston. O. M. Gup- till, A. E. True, W. W. Denuen, L. W. Mason.

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Knights of Pythias

St. Elmo Lodge, Knights of Pythias, was instituted at Mechanic Falls, December 18, 1885, called after the famous fortress which once protected and still looks down on the city and bay of Naples. The first chancellor was A. W. Bridge.

Charity Assembly, No. 10, Pythian sisterhood, is connected with this lodge,

Red Men

Osceola Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, No. 24, was established in this village, February 13, 1891. The first Sachem was L. W. Mason.

Golden Cross

Agassiz Commandery, No. 285, United Order of the Golden Cross, was instituted July 8, 1883, by D. G. C. Tristram Hersey of Auburn. The first Noble Command- er of the lodge was John D. Holt.

New England Order of Protection

Androscoggin Lodge of the New England Order of Protection was established January 23, 1893. F. H. McDonald was the first Warden.

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Newspapers

The newspaper life of a village is always interesting and Mechanic Falls has witnessed many attempts to establish one within the narrow limits which its situation assigns to journalism.

The Down Easter, published by William Cady. was the first paper of the village, a small sheet whose life was short. The Androscoggin Herald was started in 186Y by William Moody and John F. Moody. This con- tinued several years and during this time the senior proprietor became sole owner. He removed the plant to Skowhegan. William Moody has been connected with the Somerset Reporter, The Woman's Journal and Bos- ton Herald, and his brother John, has been the successful principal of Hebron, andBridgton Academies and at pres- ent of Edward Little High School. After an interval in which no paper was published, the Herald was resur- rected by Wm. H. Clark & Son, and published several years, when it was removed to Auburn.

Shortly after the removal of the Herald, the Citizen was established by Charles S. Allen and Charles Moore. After a year or so, Moore sold out to Allen, who run it several years then sold out to Thurston & Garland. In a year or two the senior partner, Mr. H. E. Thurston, sold his share to the junior partner and his father, who continued until 1882, when the paper was discontinued. In 1884 the Mechanic Falls Ledger was established by H.

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A. Poole and F. L. Davis. Davis soon sold out to Poole and shortly after G. W. Poole was admitted to the firm, under the name of Poole Brothers. They run in connec- tion with the Ledger, a book and job printing establish- ment. This firm failed in 1892 and the Ledger was discontinued in March of that year. The plant of this company was purchased in June of the same year by Charles E. Waterman, F. H. McDonald and F. L. Perk- ins, who re-established the Ledger on the first day of July, 1892.

Besides these papers devoted to local matters, a monthly devoted to the Masonic Relief Association was published by W. E. Merrill and The Bee-Keepers' advanc- ed by J, B. Mason & Sons. In the spring of 1892, the Weekly News was established by E. F. Edgecomb, but run only three months.

Book making has been indulged in by the citizens of the village to a limited extent. Mrs, Julia Schayer made the village her residence a portion of the time during the seventies and incorporated a part of her experience here in a book entitled "Tiger Lily". Rev, M. J. Steere, who was once pastor of the Universalist church, was the author of a book called "Footprints Heavenward." In 1890 a History of Poland was published by H. A. and G. W. Poole which had the peculiarity of being written by Poland men, set up, electrotyped and printed by Poland workmen, in a Poland office and on paper manufactured in the same town. In 1892 Dr. E. F. Bradford published a medical work entitled "A Handbook of Emergencies and Common Ailments," which has had a large sale.

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Postmaster, James H. DeCoster

Selectmen, E. K. Holbrook, Tillson Waterman, J. E. Saunders

Town Clerk and Treasurer, Clarence M. Hutchins

Collector L. W. Mason

Road Commissioner, E. A. Faunce

School Committee, E, L. Waterman, J. K. Denning, J. W. Wayne

Supt. J. M. Libby

Board of Health, M. N. Royal, Sec.

Clergymen, F. C. Norcross, Meth; vacant, Univ; W. H. Whittier,

Bap; H. F. Burdon, Cong; Mrs. Jessie Jordan, Adv. Dentist, A. W. Butler

Physicians, Charles H. Tobie, C. B. Rankin, L. O. Cobb Lawyers, Libby and Andrews, F. O. Purington Notaries, Frank O. Purington, May 9, 1809; Clarence M. Hutchins,

April 2, 1908

Justices, J. M. Libby, April 17, 1910; Frank A. Millett, May 9, 1908; A. C. Andrews, Dec. 16, 1904; Mildred F. Millett, May. 9, 1905, to administer oaths; F, O. Purington, July 22, 1908, F. L. Marston, April 15, 1911 Quorum; F. H. Cobb, Dec. 29; 1906, Trial

Merchants-Apothecaries, Merrill and Denning, W. G. Pulsifer

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Auctioneer, H. T. Bucknam

Bees and Bee Keepers Supplies, J. B. Mason

Books and Stationery, Merrill and Denning, W. G. Pulsifer

Boots and Shoes, O. B. Dwinal, F. A. Goldermann, A. A. Wood- sum (also bicyles

Clothing, Hats and Gent's Furnishing Goods, O. B. Dwinal, A. A, Woodsum, S. L. Hawley

Furnishings, I^. P. Gates

Carriages and Sleighs, Jordan & Saunders

Coal, A. J. Weston

Confectionery, wholesale and retail, M. N. Royal & Co.

Crockery and Glassware, J. S. Merrill, A. A. Woodsum, W. G. Morton

Drugs and Patent Medicines, Mrs. T. C. Holt

Dry and Fancy Goods, S. L. Hawley, Mrs. M. H. T. Merrill, L. P. Gates

Fertilizers, G. O. Goodwin & Co., A. J. Weston, S. H. Davis

Fish Market, O. Rousseau

Fruit and Confectionery, A. W. Bridge, Chas. O. Cole, M. N. Royal cSi Co., A. A. Shorey

Furniture and Carpets, J. S. Merrill, W. G. Morton

Grain and Feed, Geo. O. Goodwin & Co., C. B. Cumming's & Son

Groceries, I. A. Dennison, A. A. Woodsum, Poland Packing & Mnfg. Co., Edwin A. Harris, Spiller & Bringham, G. O. Goodwin & Co

Groceries and Meats, I. F. McCann & Co., F. I. Dwinal, W. D, Towne

Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Paints, Oils and Agricultural Imple- ments, Hawkes & Whitney

Harness, H. M. Maybury, Jordan & Saunders

Ice, Waterhouse Bros

Kennels, J. B. Mason, (English Beagles)

Lumber, Doors, Sash, etc., Poland Packing & Mnfg. Co., A. J. Weston, Geo. O. Goodwin & Co.

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Merchant Tailor, P. T. Murray

Millinery and Fancy Goods, Mrs. M. H. T. Merrill, Mrs. Rose C.

Green (Millinery) Mill and Steam Fitters Supplies, J. W. Penney & Sons Co. Newspapers and Periodicals, A. W. Bridge, Merrill & Denning

W. G. Pulsifer, Evis Hazel Bridge, (Newspaper and Magazine

Agency. ) Paper Hangings, O. B. Dwinal, Mrs. T. C. Holt Pianos and Organs, J. A. Bucknam cSr Co., J. S. Merrill School Supplies, W. G. Pulsifer, Merrill & Denning Sewing Machines, J. A. Bucknam & Co., W. J. McCann Sporting Goods, A. W. Bridge, A. A. Woodsum Variety, A. A. Shorey, J. S. Merrill Wood, G. O. Goodwin & Co., Poland Packing Co Manufacturers, Bakers, Confectioners and Ice Cream, M. N

Royal & Co. Blacksmiths, Sanders Bros,, J. F. Sawyer & Son, Story & Giddings Boots and Shoes, Chase, Merritt Co., Repair, C. M. Sawyer, J. Q.

Noyes, W. J. McCann Boxes, Poland Packing & Mnfg. Co. *^

Bricks, Mechanic Falls Brick Co. E. L. Charles, mgr. Butcher, E. Nelson Cabinet Maker, J. S. Merrill Canned Goods, Minot PackingCo.

Carpenters, G. Cole, J. Keene, S. S. Nason, Carl Austin Carriages, J. W. Story Contractor and Builder, A. J. Weston Dowels and Wood Novelties, Virgin Bros

Dressmakers, Mrs. Anna S. Nason, Mrs. James Sawyer, Mrs. Wil- liam Mitchell, Mrs. Charlotte Foster, Miss Estelle Durrell Foundry, Brass, Iron and Machine Shop, J. W. Penney & Sons

Company Granite and Marble, H. S. Decker

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Harness, H. M. Mayberry. W. J. McCann Jeweler, E. A. Hammond

Laundry, O. F. Welch

Lumber and Grist Mills, Poland Packing & Mnfg. Co.

Masons, W. R. Durgin, John Seal, H. E. Chandler, Anson Martin

Painters, H. F. Sawin, F. M. Davis, (carriage and signs), Charles Harris, Charles Conant, O. C. Bridge (sign)

Paper, Poland Paper Co., C. H, Milliken, treasurer; C. R. Milliken, manager, Office 24 Plum Street, Portland

Paper and Pulp Machinery, J. W. Penney & Sons Company

Paper Hanger, M. A. Herrick

Plumbing, J. W. Penney & Sons Co., George A. Benjamin

Printers, Ledger Publishing Company

Proprietary Medicines, Merrill & Denning, Manufacturers of Puri- tan Cough Cure

Steam Engines and Boilers, J. W. Penney & Sons Company

Stoves and Tinware, Hawkes & Whitney

Undertakers, Leroy Spiller, J. S. Merrill

Barbers, C. O. Cole, A. E. Morris, A. A. Shorey, E. A. Hammond

Billiard Halls, A. W. Bridge, A. A. Shorey

Dining Rooms, Alice W. Allen

Express Agents, American, P. R. Cobb; Canadian, H. Hunter

Florist, William F. Milliken

Hall, Perkins, S. D. S, Perkins, proprietor

High School, H. H. Stuart, principal

Insurance J. A. Bucknam & Co., F. O. Purington, W. M. Mitchell F. A. Goldermann

Libraries, Public, Mrs. Lizzie Jewett Butler, 1600 vols., circulating A. W. Bridge, 700 volumes

Livery Stables, P. R. Cobb, E. A. Faunce & Son, S. E. Davis, Jordan & Saunders

Loan and Building Association, J. E. Saunders, president; A. A.

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Woodsum, secretary

Mechanic Falls Water Electric Light and Power Company, Harry Edgecomb, superintendent

Mechanic Falls Water Co., C. W. Fenn Portland, manager; George A. Benjamin, superintendant

Music Teachers, Miss Effie E. Saunders, Miss Mamie Hawkes

Photographer, O. C. Bridge

Station Agent, G. T. R., H. Hunter; P. & R. F. R ; H. F. Hayford

Telegraph, Gt. N. W., W. U., J. C. Record, operator

Telephone, N. E. T. & T, Co., Merrill and Denning agents

Trust Company, Lewiston Trust and Safe Deposit Co., (Mechanic Falls Branch) C. M. Hutchins, manager

Associations, Masons, Tyrian, No. 73, Thursday on or before full moon; St. Andrews R. A. C, Thursday after full moon; Eastern Star, Dwinal, No. 28, 2 d and 4 th Wednesdays; I. O. O. 1'". Monami, No. 40, Monday; Orion Encam]3ment, No. 27, 2d and 4th Wednesdays; Colfax Rebekah, No. 27, ist and 3d Wednes- days; K. of P., St. Elmo, No. 55, Friday; U. O. G. C, Agassiz, No. 245, ist and 3d Wednesdays; N. E. O. of P. Andrscogogin, No. 205, ist and 3d Saturdays; G. A. R., Dwinal Post, No. 3, Tuesdays; I. O. R. M., Osceola, No. 24, Tuesday; Owaissa, D. of P., Thursday; I. O. of F., Mechanic Falls, No. 172S, 4th Wed nesday.

Maple Grove Cemetery Association, F. Edwin Dwinal, chairman of trustees

Board of Trade, J. W. Penney, president, Chas. E. Waterman, sec.

Hotels, Cobb's Hotel, P. R. Cobb; Hotel Elms, W. J. Hines proprietor; Mechanic Falls House, S. E. Davis

Newspaper, Weekly, Mechanic Falls Ledger, Ledger Pub. Co.

C^r:^

Census of Mechanic Falls.

1904.

We have herewith arranged the population of the town of Mechanic Falls in families where that arrangement has been pos- sible. In these families, in addition to the resident living mem- bers, the names of non-resident members are included. At the end of the Census of each town wall be found these Non-residents with the full names and present addresses, when such names and addresses have been given to the author. The non-residents are indicated by the (*).

The common directory abbreviations have been used to indi- cate the occupation of the several people in town. These abbre- viations are placed opposite the name. Some of the abbreviations and contractions used are the following:

Farmer — far; carpenter — car; merchant — mer; housework — hw; physician and surgeon — phy & sur; student — stu; etc., etc.

This Census was taken during the summer of 1904 by A. C Denning, East Poland Maine.

MECHANIC FALLS POST OFFICE.

A Allen, Alice W cafe

*Agnes (Harriman

Andrews, Brittaina C. (Andrews Andrews, Alfred C lawyer

lab. 7 Dwinal 7 Dwinal

Thirza (Smith Andrews, Annie Elm

Lillie C hw Allard, Frank H ret'd, Lew'n

Alfred C lawyer Helen C (Morton

5°

CENSUS

B

Henry F Caralee pi

Leroy pi Carlos pi Elmer pi Allen, Daniel T car 45 Pleas

Theron M pi Ida M (Libby hw

Andrews, Medcalf lab, Lew'n Lynwood eng

Celeste (Churchill Melcora hw

Ripley A Minerva M pi

Allen, Wm N Cor Pine Vreece C . pi

Susie (Bridgham hw Allen, Wallace L eng Maple

Allen L. T. ret'd, 12 Pine S Edith (Hall hw

Pauline E (Murdock hw C Virabelle pi

William M Harold W pi Chase S printer Eva M artist

Abbott, Mary lo kp Boyer, H L lab

Tames M mach Mae table wk

Austin, Chas H sec hand R R wk Irma hw

Annie R (Lewis hw John shoe shop

Florence H tr Nellie L pi

Chas S lab Chas L pi

Verner H lab Broad, Thomas W lab Main Roberta F pl Bridge, Andrew W variety store

Josephine pl Spring

Capitola M pl Harry S R R Ser

Hazel D pl Brazier, Chas sect hand Lynwood AW pl Brickett Clara B Carlyle Briggs, Alvernon H shoe wk'r

Allen, Mabel shoe shop and cook Briggs, Chester shoe mk'r

T Clyde stu Bryden, William H far

ggj-yl Pl Burns, Chas N lab 72 Elm

\ustin Carl W car 14 Oak Benson, Jabez lab Pearl

Nettie (Cloudman hw Lizzie B (Chase hw

Merle W stu Herbert W lab Velva L pl Blanche N

CENSUS

SI

Cora pi

Albert P pi

Lillian B pi

Beals, Mary M (Dwinal

*Lutha

*Lizzie

Chester

Bucknam, Hamlin auctioneer and

Vet surgeon 30 Marshall

Rachel (Brown hw

*Worthey C mach

*Cheston F metal wk'r

Bailey, Otis N ret'd Main

Lorinda (Marshall hw

Butler, A W dentist 61 Elm

Lizzie J (Jewett hw

Bucknam, Chas W far water

Bailey, Ella J tailoress 32 Pleas

Briggs, Daniel lab

Bray, Augustus far

Mary (Bennett hw

Mildred E pi

Fred A pi

Bedell, James O shoe shop Main

Jessie (Snow hw

James O Jr

Blackington, Clarence cl

Bray, Daniel F far

Minnie L (Farrar hw

Walter C stu

*Hollis salesman

Beal, Llewellyn paper mk'r North

Alice (Marshall

Aura M pi

Lawrence pi

Lyndal Bray, Jefferson C far

Christiana (Campbell hw Berry, W G mast mech Elm

Rena (Woodsum hw

Marion W pi

Elmer E Berry, Eliza S ret'd Elm

Benjamin, Geo A sup't water w'ks

81 Elm

Carrie (Emery hw

Philip E. Burdon, Henry F Cong clerg

12 High

Orodell (Grimes

Harold C pi

Ruth O pi

Karl G pi

Paul G pi

Phillip H Bridge, Frank L shoe shop

Mary (Smith hw

William A Berry, Jerry car Lincoln

Mamie (Dean hw

Ollie pi

Eula F Boothby, Wellington mach Oak

Grace (Morse Bicknell, Nellie M hw Oak

Bicknell, John C lab Oak

Benson, Eli M lab Water

Emma A (Hezelton hw

52

CENSUS

Inez R shoe shop

Neva E stu Bucknam, Sarah millinery Bates

Bailey, Hannah L hw

Bryant, \Yilliam teamster

Bartlett, Alonzo lab Main

Cassie hw

Eugene pi

Ella pi

Flissie

Clark

Bancroft, Geo R lab Lew'n

Eva (Skinner hw

Neva A

Bangs, Bert L eng Lew'n

Ella L (Herrick hw

Vina E pi Bartlett, Fannie M (Young hw

Lew'n

Bancroft, John T lab

Hattie C (Pratt hw

Fannie M

Blackendon, J M salesman

Clarence S lab

Eaton O lab

Battles, Geo W lab Bedell, William W lab 12 Yates

Lydia (Jones hw

James O shoe shop Bridgham, Geo G grocer 48 Elm

Mary A (Fuller hw

*Mabel

Chas P lab

Geo D grocer

Gertrude Bradford, Adrianna( Chandler hw

Hortense B tr

Boyd, Alexandria lab

Elizabeth (Campbell hw

Arthur AH pi

Alton Q L

Bridge, Oliver photo E Park

* Edward

Bridge, Charlotte tr

Brown, Frank J lab Myrtle

Fannie A (Hasey hw

* Marguerite C

Lucy A pi

Dana F pi

Bunker, Ralph S lab 5 Pine

Cora (Strout hw

Carl W pi

Dulico C pi Violet E

Cole, F. H. Univ clerg Elm

Ruth (Crocker Cole, Chas barber W Park

Alice (Haskell hw

Ruth H Cole, C. G. con and bld'r Yat*s

Lynda D (Day hw

Elijah D stu

Cook, Phoebe nurse

Crooker, Josiah A lab

Elsie (Whitman hw

Percey shoe shop

CENSUS

53

Ava stu

Daisy E pi

Chute, Herbert foundryman

Marsha Crooker, Florence 13 Pleas

Churchill, Sherman far

Clinch, Chas shoe m'kr Main

Colclazier, Joseph hostler 8 Main Cook, Pheobe 104 Elm

Cote, J J brakeman

Cox Perley G lab

Cox, S A lab

Cram, Clara E stenogjrapher

Crooker, Geo B lab Summer

Currier, A W nurse

Currier, Harold W lab

Currier, John lab Lew'n

Curtis, John D ret'd 21 Main

Colley, Bessie hw Lew'n

CoUey, John lab

Cobb, Mary A hw Lincoln

Conant, William lab Lew'n

Almu ( Krwhnborg hw

Neille K

Hues L Coulehan, Agnes Campbell, Alfreda Judson

Curtis, Daniel lab

Winnifred (Gray hw

Gray H Chapman, Amos teamster

Emma (Harris hw

Clark, William H. lab

Bertha V hw

Edith M Stu

Churchill, Allen M lab 8 Yates

Mary S (Newbergin hw

Annie L shoe shop

Geo A drummer

Conant, Chas A painter High

Nellie (McGaffey hw

William painter Flora M Chas L

Frank S pi

Nellie E pi

Jacob R pi

Mark W pi Jessie L

Cobb, Leroy Physician 8 Pleas

Catherine (Cook hw

Cotton, Dennet car Maple Mary W (Lovejoy dress mk'r

*Fannie hw

*Frank H lab

Eva hw

*Maud L hw

Minnie hw

*Harry far

G Louise lab

*Nellie hw

Arthur lab

Winfield lab

Forest lab

Orpha hw

Jennie pi Eva

Chipman, W C far W Park

54

CENSUS

Lovina (Childs hw

*Roland L. laundry

Child, Fred surveyor 12 Main Annie (Fitzpatrick Ralph

Churchill, Reuben watchman

30 Main Agnes (Campbell hw

Ernest M lab

Chas E pi

Mina O pi

Byron W pi

Campbell, Jacob F paper mk'r

Elm Augusta (Thayer hw

Maude paper mill

Agnes book kp'r

Blanche Nat Shop Co

*Morris R pi

Chute, Maud

Coffin, Adelaine hw Elm

Minnie (Woodsum hw

Charles Edward L paper mk'r

Main Carrie (Thompson hw

John pi

Cobb, F H ret'd Maple

Clara C (Bonney hw

Chase, Walter far

Minnie (Carpenter hw

Fred

Collins, Eliza hw

Carey, Martin shoe mk'r Pine Mary (Haley hw

Catherine

*Lottie R

Minnie E

Curtis, Mary J

Cousins, Rasina

*Delmer

Casper A

Cousins, Casper A

pl hw hw hw Pleas hw Fleas lab paper mill paper mill Pleas Mertelle (McCann hw

Marion M pl

Cloutier, Napoleon lab Oak

Mattie pl

Wilfred pl

Alice pl

Albert pl

Beatrice Lillian Chute, Howard lab

Angle (Smith hw

Frank pl

Linwood pl

Alice Crooker, Geo B truck'n Summer Grace (Howard hw

Lizzie Chaplin, Almon

Susan (Hunnewell Cushman, Lucy hw Spring

Florence

*Sarah hw

Cummings, Geo H lumber Dwinal

Ellen F (Cummings hw

Cobb, Prescott R Main

CENSUS

55

Jeanie (Donaldson hw

*Maude L hw

Alice B

Ralph P cl

Cole, Chas O mer W Park

Lois M (Staples hw

Chas W barber

Geo E confectionery

Blanche M cl

D

Dudley, Daniel stone mason

Dwinal, F Edward mer Main

Georgiana (Pillsbury hw

*Grace Denning, Harriet hw Elm

Racheal hw

Ruth Davis, J H far

Margarite E (McDowell' hw

*R Ella

*Jennie C

*Alice J Denning-, Kelsey J far

Eliza (Smith hw

Charles K far

*Mary

*Fannie Denning, Chas K far

Rosa (Thomas hw

*Dennen, HoUis R E Agt

*Gertrude (Hurding

* Ralph stu

*Barbara pi

*Doris

Address Waltham, Mass

Davis, Isaac C lab Lew'n

Durrill, Estella M dress mk'r

Lewiston Dwinal, F I grocer Main

Dyer, Emery W foreman C M

Co Elm

Downing, Persis M hw Lew'n

Davis, Frank L painter and car

12 Judson

Mary (Gammon hw

Frank M

Eulalie stu

Marjorie pi

Geo G pi

Guy R Dyer, Fred electrician Myrtle

Persis (Crockett hw

D Adeline Dunn, Maria S hw Elm

Dennison; I A grocer 74 Elm

Lauristine (Bemis

Katherine L

*Woodbury E

*Clara Douglass, Edwin gate tender

Mabel (Stearns

Marion M *Daicy, Geo C shoe shop Pleas

Emma M (Keith

Willard C pi

Lena M pi

Dwinal, OB 42 Pleas

S6

CENSUS

Eliza D (Denning

Dwinal, Clara A

Dwinal, Rosalia B hw Water

Ella J tr

*Fred E shoe dealer

*C Frank phy

*Winnifred C shipping cl

Duran, Samuel lab Spring

Jane F (Bragdon hw

Josiah lab

Edith *John B lab

DeCoster, J.H. pastm'st'r Dwinal Angelia (shaw hw

Bertha L hw

* Harry W druggist

^J Carroll ag't P P Co

*Percy S druggist

DeCoster, Harry P

Darby, Sarah E lab Main

Durgin, W R mason lo Main

Elmer M shoe mk'r

Albert L Shoe mk'r

Merrill M shoe mk'r

*Ina B

Davis, Fred M carriage p't'r Main

Winnifred R (Bennett hw

and dressmaker

Decker, H S marble worker

Margerite S (Randall hw Ora G bk kp'r

Inez V tr

Methyl stu

Duran, Chas lab 12 Main

Mary (Fitzpatrick nurse

Donovan, Mary F telegraph oper

Mary F pi

Ruth pi

John pi

Dresser, Fremont shoe shop Yates

Hattie (Spiller hw

Dudley, Edwin teamster True

Emma J (Holt • hw

Verna M pi

Walter L Duran Herbert lab

Downs, Isadore hw

Alberton C

Geneoa M

Ella L

Georgie A

Inez P

Walter W

Elder, Luther R. ret'd. Lew'n Mary (Graffam Mary W

Elie, Charles lab Lew'n

Lecadie (Leroux hw

Chas D lab

Clara

Joseph stu

George stu

Helen pi

Archie pi

Lillian Eugene

CENSUS

57

Ellingwood, I H far Judson

Columbia (Briggs hw

Rose millinery

*Lettice mer

^William H S Walter

Estes, Chas E lab 22 Pine

Ellen V (Victoria hw

Edgcomb, Harry A. lab High

Martha (Bray hw

Harry A supt paper mill

Elba E electrician

Ellis, Hiram brick yd

Minnie (Cotton hw

Elliot, Mary 41 Pleas

Gertrude (Golderman hw

Edwards, Guy H

Edwards, William H. far Spring Alice (Strout hw

Bertha "Lizzie

Daniel shoe shop

Clifford pi

Lena pi

Stephen pi

Ray pi

Mildred Melvin K. Roy

Edgcomb, Elba electrician

Agnes M. (Hunt hw

Eastman, Arthur stenographer

Earl, Nellie Elm

F

Farrington, Orrenshoe shop Main

Lila (Rich hw

Fielding,Harry short hand 55 Elm

Harry	pl
Lillian	Pl
Gertie	pl
Foster, Newell	far
Emma (Millett	hw
Carrie B	pl
Clarence	pl
Foster, Bianca	hw
Newell
"Mabel
^Flora
""Augusta

-Fred L

Frye, Chas far

Fales, A G far North

Sarah E (Weyland hw

^Benjamin B lab

Perley soldier

^Herbert J foreman

Faunce, Elmer A stable prop Elm

Rachel C (Denning hw

*Lowe E teamster

Lila D shoe shop

Edith pl

Fitz, Jonathan S lab Elm-

Farrington, Chas W hostler

Farrington, Eunice Main

Fitz, Matilda tr School

Fessendon, John nurse 40 Elm

Frazer, William bookkp'r C M Co

Faunce, Edward painter Elm

58 CENSUS

Abbie E (Thayer hw Margurite B

Hazel A pi

Erland H pi ^

Fielding, Harry Jr shoe maker Grant, James far

Myrtle Nellie (Merrow hw

Jenny (Strout hw *Alfred cl

Foster, Chas A ret'd 67 Elm Sherman far

Rebecca A (Waterman Arthur far

Carrie F Percey pi

Farris, R Elmer mach Spring Griffin, Hannah ( hw

Florence L (Littlefield hw Elmer H far

Elsie M shoe shop Mary

Jessie E stu Albert

Foss, Sarah J hw Gilman, John shoe wk

Fernando lab Fluvilla (Farrow hw

Foss, Fernando lab Myrtle Alice M pi

Martha S (Merrill Vivia I pi

Farris, Fred J stable Gardiner, Guy druggist Main

Rachel S (Sturdevant hw Garrett, John lab Lewiston

Ida M paper mill Vinnie (Smith hw

Chas W. pi Garrett, William G paper mk'r

Foster, Chas A far Lew'n Jorden

Emma (Tobie washer woman Annie (McKiver hw

*Mary John A C painter

Elizabeth R pi *Anna P

Jennie GO pi Edward W shoe mk'r

Farnum, A V lab Marshall Benjamin shoe mk'r

Annie M (Hanson hw Flora J stu

Mabel hw Gammon, Adron E 5 Dwinal

* Percy cl Bertha L (DeCoster hw

Frank, Augustus L electrician Gibbs, Frank shoe mk'r

Rose (Hoay hw Davis House

Mary E pi Green, Rose C millinery

Clarell R pi Goodale, Harry express messen-

C ENSUS

59

ger R R ser Maple

Goodwin, Charles A piper

Elms House Goodwin, Horace E

G O Goodwin Co Main Grady, Lizzie Park

Griffith, Thyra B milliner High Goss, E S shoe mk'r

Greenwood, N S far Lew'n

Alice M David R Greenwood, David R paper finish- er Lew'n Josephine (Chipman Gerry, James Acorn packer 8 Pine Ada (Sanborn hw

Helen M pi

Thelma M pi

Gookin, John W lab High

Mabel G hw

John W Jr Grant, Nettie hw High

Goss, Grace shoe shop Pleas

Gould, L Forest shoe shop Spring Hattie (Nutter hw

Golderman, F A shoe store

28 Maple Gertrude (Elliot hw

Windsor stu

F Harold stu

Goldermann, Atha tailoress Maple Gould, Winfield A shoe shop

W Park Hattie (Thayer

Forest shoe shop

Blanche L hw

Goodwin, James C truckman

Mary E (Hamblin hw

*Ella L hw

Geo A lab

Gray, Isabella A 81 Elm

Gilman, Chas brick yd

Gould, Joseph far 33 Pleas

Grant, Eva hw

Gilman, Geo B mach Main

H

Hackett, Ruth 5 Yates

Haines, Joseph stone cutter 5

Elm Hall, Chas lab Water

Hanscom, Charlotte E Pine

Harbugh, Addie 22 Pine

Harmon, Walter D pulp mill

E Park Harris, David R Oak

Harris, Edwin A mer Elm

Harris, Mrs Elizabeth hw Elm Harris, Ernest A Elm

Henthorn, Geo F yd m'st'rG

T R Elm Hilborne, Mrs C L Pine

Holt, James L paper mk'r Buck-

nam Harris, A W R R Elm

Lizzie hw

* Mabel Hammond, E A 9 Elm bar & jew'lr

6o CENSUS

Ella N (Meritt hw Hattie M pi

Lucretia P pi Nathan H pi

Margurite V pi Ethel E

Herrick, Humphrey C lab Spring Harlow, E lab

Frank D car Harmon, Geo lab 14 Pine

Gerald A lab Lydia (Webb hw

John K pi Harry A lab

Holt Edward lab Edith E paper mill

Hinds, William J Hotel Elms prop *Walter D

Margurite (O'Connell hw *Arthur

Hayford, Herbert sta agt Maple Harmon, Frank R shoe shop Pleas

Nellie M (McLaughlin Celia M (Causland d'ss mk'r

Jessamine stenographer Delos F car

Josephine tr Hanscome, Geo eng Lincoln

Hutchinson, Samuel H P P Co Eva (Holt hw

20 WPark John H pi

Lucy J ( Hodgdon Bertha M pi

Arthur I mach Susie L pi

Hutchins, Clarence town cl Lillian G pi

16 Park Julia

Nellie S Ranson hw Hutchinson, Arthur L lab

*Frank E foreman ship yd 13 Lincoln

Geneva C tr Henritta (Gammon hw

Hackett, Lizzie shoe shop Elm Earl L stu

Hunter, Harry station agt Elm Hanscom, William E lumber mfgr

Lacolia (Mastine hw Pine

Deryl Edith E (Goodall hw

Harris, Chas paper h'ger 19 Elm Hanscom, Charlotte E hw

Frances A(Rice hw Hawkes, Orrington W ret'd

*Tilson S shoe cutter " 12 Pleas

Chas L photo Mary E Packard

Herrick, A C truckman Myrtle Hathaway, Albert V lab 26 Pleas

Gussie (Hearon Ella N (Marshall hw

Bessie C pi Hall, Rozella hw

CENSUS

6i

Harmon, WE electrician Marshall Millie F ^Ryerson hw

Wendell pi

Lucy pi

Elizabeth

Hall, Edgar painter Water

Florence (Lunt

Hawes, Charles

Hanscom, Nathan far Lew'n

Fred E Willis H Emma D Frank W

Hawes, Edwin mach Lew'n

Mary E ( Field hw

Verna M pi

Geraldine B Margeurite V

Holt, Julia hw Judson

Fred A

Eva M pi

Lucy pi

Grace pi

Geo O pi

Ernest pi

Herrick, Mark A painter 9 Grove Rebecca F (Brazier hw

Sadie E hw

Herrick, Lillian A lab Grove

Herrick, Bertie

Herrick, Bert W R R Ser Grove Lila N (Battles hw

Frank A

Herrick, Percival car 53 Elm

Sylphira E ( Foster hw

Harry H mach

Hackett, C L Far 63 Elm

Mary A (Atwood hw

Harmon, F DeLos car W Park

Nora (Smith hw

Marie V pi

Holt, James L lab Lew'n Bertha E ( Eaton Edith E

Holt, Fred A lab Spring

Irene R (Herrick hw

Freddie pi

Ralph pi

Victor pi

Villa pi

Clyde pi

Gladys pi

Home, Chas R P R F Marshall

Mary E (Piper hw

Holt, Nancy M druggist Elm

Hawley, S L mer 64 Elm

Flora B (Kendall cl

Harris, Simeon L far

Flora E (Bearce hw

*Frank milk dl'r

*Fred teamster

Alburton, milk dl'r Sylva

Jennie shoe shop

Holt, Helen E hw

Herrick, Frank D mach Spring

Lizzie ( Haskell hw Delmer A

62

CENSUS

Holbrook, finest far and

first selectman Lizzie M ( Fessenden

Haskell, Samuel N far

Mattie W ( Nelson hw

Lillian E tr

Maude S pi

Edwin N pi

Harwood, Walter P P Co North Ella ( Bryant hw

Lila E stu

Geo W pi

Clarence pi

Holey, Catherine book kp'r Pine

Haskell, N D far

Anna F (Morrill Herman W paper mill

Lizzie

Stephen R millwright

Ruth C pi

Hawkes, C W tin smith 38 P O Sq Ellen E (Young hw

Holt, Sidney far

Laura (Delano hw

Henry C pi

William L pi

Harris, John far

Harris, Elizabeth Elm

I

Ireland, Fred H Irish, Nancy Vesta

lab hw

tr far hw

Pleas

far

far Lew'n

hw

J

Jefferson, Chelsey hw

Jorden, P A Main

Carrie (Foster

Agnes O Jorden, Herbert J

Lizzie ( Verrill

Joseph E Jackson, Mrs C F Jacobs, Chas E Jordan, C E Jordan, Chas Jorden, Fred

Lillian ( Estes

Hazel E Jorden, Cyrus F lab Box 211

Jessie E (Strout

Alvin E lab

Austin T lab

Jorden, Samuel D foreman Lew'n

Amanda E ( Page

Charles E far

Fred A lab

Joice, William fireman 8 Grove

Emma (Somerset hw

Jessie L Jorden, Edwin C car 70 Elm

Nellie ( Wormwell hw

Doris L pi

Jewett, Harry L paper mk'r High

Alwilda (Marston hw

Harold L pi

Jefferies, Lewin lab Maple

Annie M ( Peterson hw

Chas L

CENSUS

63

Jefferies, Samuel retir'd 30 Maplr Jorden, Theodore P pattern mk'r

Pearl

Caroline E (Jordan hw

Johnson, James C lab

Stella (Chipman hw

Margaret shoe shop

Marion E pi

Philip pi

Jorden, Malcolm mach Elm

Laura (Bennett hw

Gladys L pi

Marion J

Eleanor M

Jorden. Lizzie E hw 62 Elm

Judkins, I H far 100 Elm

Althea (Bailey hw

K

lab hw

Keene, Irvin S

Laura M ( Pike

Rena

Electa pi

Kesten, Albert W lab Elm

Bertha ( Edwards hw King, J H

Lillian M (Collins hw

James C far

Philip pi Kesten, Fred C paper mk'r Lew'n

Kenne, Philena Pleas Kenerson, Norris millman Main

Kershner, Capola M 80 Elm

Kershner, Remember B 80 Elm King, Hiram B paper mk'r Lew,n Knights, Samuel S Maple

King, Lizzie Judson

Knight, Chas T lab Pleas

Keene, Nellie shoe shop 17 Pine Keen, Nancy hw 17 Pine

Knights, Allura R 30 Pleas

Joseph U

Keen, Julia Oak

Keene, Judiah L car 33 Oak

Imogene (Keene hw

Chas A mach

Wilfred car

F Lewis lab

Percy H lab

C Addie stu

Joseph C pi

Keene, Chas A 33 Oak

Venon L pi

Bertie F pi

Violet L pi

Keene, Percy H lab 33 Oak

Winnie L (Watkins hw

Keene, Frank L lab Oak

Eva (Bicknell hw

Kaler, Chas N foreman shoe shop

Yates Lena (Nash hw

Morris E pi

Alcada E pi

Inez pi

Evelyn R Knights, William lab Marshall

64

CENSUS

Sarah Gammon hw

*Elnora hw

Edgar custom pressman

Clifford paper hanger

Kesten, Herbert lab Lew'n

Lunt, James L far

Lunt, L J far

Clementine (Crooker hw

*John F car

*Elmer E car

James L

*Edith

Edna L

Rose C

Leach, William E car North

Annie (Marshall hw

Edward C paper mill

Walter A paper mill

Gertrude

Libby, Elva S i8 Pine

Libby, Jesse M lawyer

Kittie (Perkins hw

Libby, Rose O 12 Main

Lord, Frank H R R ser W Park

Leach, Edward C lab Lew'n

Delia M ( Keene hw

Clara E

Lane. Rocksyllania T hw 64 Elm

Elmer Z electrician

Wendell R lab

Lord, Willis lab School

Liza (Somerset hw

Archie pi

Barbara pi

Lawn, Annie L

Ada S pi

Libby, Mrs Simon hw 18 Pine

Lord, Rebecca F hw Marshall

Lamb, Ralph mach Oak

Vesta (Washburn hw

Glenroy I pi

Lock, Silas M mach

Lizzie (Murch hw

Lord, Frank H RRser 24 Park Jennie (Lamberton hw

Carl C pi

Lawler, Hiram paper mk'r

W Park Melissa (Farrar hw

Edwin L pi

Kenerson, Morris A millman Main Rosie A (Goodwin hw

Flora E pi

Clayton M pi

James H pi

Alice M

Lord, Hanson lab Marshall

M

Meggett, Ribert lab True

Merrill, Alton E paper mk'r 9 Elm Merrill, Anna B 21 Elm

Merrill, Edmund paper mk'r

Merrill, Fred L druggist Spring Lewis, PI cl Yates

Millett, Chas M painter Lincoln

CENSUS

65

Millett, Mildred F

justice of peace Elm

Milliken, Frank W eng 51 Elm

Milliken,HarryMshoemk'r5i Elm

Mitchell, Chas M far W Park

Mitchell, Fannie 50 Elm

Moore, Geo E lab Judson

Morey, Alexander car

Morrill, Carroll teamster True

Morrill, Merville W shoe mk'r

Morris, Albert E Barber Main

Morton, Alice M shoemk'r 50 Elm

Murray, Palmer T tailor 38 Pleas

Maybury, F E phy

Ellen P (Verrill hw

*Chas O shoe mk'r

*Abbie E

Walter M

Maybury, Walter M far

Ida H (Merrill hw

Frank O far

Morton, William E far

Hannah ( Nason hw

Harry conductor

Elva L stu

Morton, Harry far North

Winfield C pi

Martin, Dustin far North

Morris, A E hair dresser Main

Alice M (Cook hw

Leon pi

Catherine pi

Hazel pi

McCann, Belle hw Elm

Josiah S tr

*Morilla (Holman

*Frank T laundryman

Macrun, Georgia Morton, William far

Marston, Bravity lab Judson

Marston, Ethel M Lew'n

Martin. Jacob watchman

Maxim, Bessie L 62 Elm

Mayberry, Herbert M

harness mfg 4 Main McCann, Josiah tr Elm

McCann, Merilla M book kp'r Elm McGovern, Chas. T shoemk'r Elm McCann, William harness mk'r

Lew'n

Edna T (Rowe

Nellie B Mills, Guy L lab Lew'n

Florence (Clough Marston, Fred L foreman Judson

Laura (Martin C M Co

Mayberry, E M Judson

Mason, James B bell kp'r Lew'n

Sophia F (Cotton hw

* William G wood wk'r

Lizzie G hw

*James L band sawyer

Chas H chef

iNIains, Francis far 51 Elm

Ella (Mayberry

Ralph pi

Mitchell, William M ins agt 50

Elm

66

F Louise ( Fickett

hw and dress mk'r Milleft, Frank A real estate Elm L,ucy A (Faunce *John F Mildred *xArthur A *Harold L McKeen, Phileen ( — hw

Ellen A Mason, Ludelphus tax collector

41 Pleas

Flora (Valentine

Milliken, W F florist 51 Pleas

Lizzie M (Merrill hw

Frank W eng

Harry M lab

Meserve, Isaac truckman Pleas

Nettie (Goss dress mk'r

Clarence W pi

Merrill, J S undertaker Spring

Mary H (Thayer millinery

*Annie M

William H printer

Merrill, Eliza

Moore, Horace lab Maple

Isabelle (Dixon hw

*Lucy E

Miller, Catherine hw Maple

Mitchell, Thomas W lab

Eva (Churchill hw

Nora pi

Murch, Hattie hw

Morse, Geo W lab Summer

CENSUS
Sadie L (Crockett	hw
nk'r Grace L	Pl
Elm Shirlie	Pl
hw Clarence W	Pl
Gladys

Martin, Francis A lab W Park

Lilia (Hazelton hw

L Earland

Merrill, Geo P far Marshall

Merrill, Eva L tr

Merrill, Hiram lab 21 Elm

Susannah (Merrill

Edwin lab

Marshall, F Edward lab Marshall

Nettie M (Braley

Milliken, Eliza A 26 Elm

Milliken, Pamelia J 26 Elm

Merrill, Josiah A grocer 30 Pleas

Addie F (Patterson hw

J Arthur druggist

Lawrence O pl

Morton, Lewis W

truckman 57 Pleas

Mary (Faunce hw

Chas H lab

*Melvill J lab

Alice M shoe shop

Morse, Ona M pl

McDonald, John lab Oak

Mattie (Berry hw

Ruth V

Morse, Melissa hw

McKinnon, Allan car insp

Annie (McDonald hw

CENSUS

6r

*John R V S

Mabel shoe shop

William Allen yd master

*Chas N

Ella M pi

Lynwood M pi

Sidney H pi

McCann, I F grocer 57 Elm

Abbie H (Rowe hw

Fred F grocer

*Annie R Mertelle

McAvery, Mabel E hw 5 Dwinal

Milliken, C H agt P P Co Elm Louise F (Fuller hw

Margurite F pi

Moulton, Elizabeth J

book kp'r 21 Main

March, Sumner C far

Melinda E ( Richardson *Chas S shoe shop

*Adelaide F

McKenney, Edwin lab Lew'n

Charlotte ( Voung Helen C

N

Minnie

Emma Nay, Jane ( —

Eben Nelson, E B

Octavia (Nelson

Eva

Carrie Nason, James

Pl Pl

hw lab far hw hw stu far

Anna (Mc(-aul dress mk'r Nason, Geo V painter North

Nelson, Erastus D far North

Noyes, John G paper mk'r High Noyes, John Q

boot and shoe rep'r High Noyes, John T shoe mk'r Elm

O

Osgood, Bert

lab

Nichols, Susan	hw Pleas
Nason, Samuel S	car
Alice (Caston	hw
Ernest	far
Bertha	shoe shop
May	shoe shop
Oscar	Pl

Pinkham, Harry teamster Pleas Prince, Geo far

Alvilla (Horn hw

Elizabeth

Gertie

Alice

Augusta

Ruth

Grace Perkins, Hiram salesman

Perkins, Viva shoemk'r Main

Pinkham, Harry S lab Pleas

Piper, Sherman foreman J W P

68

CENSUS

and S C Co Minot Poland, James B far Welchville Pratt, Ernest paper mk'r Lew'n Prince, Jennie

Prince, Mrs Stephen M shoe mk'r Pynn, Chas T shoe mk'r Grove Penney, John W ret'd 12 Maple Penney, John lab Spring

Patridge, Geo shoe mk'r Main Purington, Edward H lab Maple

Annie L (Bancroft hw

Kenneth F pi

Alice M pi

James W pi

Norman E pi

Pinkham, Harry A phy Elm

Georgie E (Wigglesworth hw

Austin A lab

Pinkham, Austin A lab Elm

Beatrice (Waldren hw

Pierce, Salome hw 54 Elm

Fred W lab

Pierce, Fred W lab 54 Elm

Josephine (Whittle hw

Pulsifer, Cushman ret'd 9 Pine

Ann M ( Eaton hw

*Ada C

*Mary C

*Fred G

*Viginia Peterson, Ina paper mill Elm Purington, Frank O lawyer

46 pleas

Addie V (Smullen

Beulah F . Frank H Ellison S * Perron, Frank

stu

stu

stu

eng Water

Louisa L (Perham hw

Pendexter, Benjamin P car

12 Bates

Esther P (Dinsmore hw

*Frank A overseer

Peterson, Rebecca iiw 30 Maple

Payson, Donald R R Ser

Jennie ( Payrent hw

Packard, ?vlary E nurse

Pulsifer, Walter G druggist

6 Maple

Annie (Walker tr

Patterson, John W blk

Jane(Mayhew hw

Addie hw

*Frank N phy

Penney, S R mach Maple

Annie ( Bridgham hw

Sarah R pi

Dorothy B

Pettie, Chas T news dealer

*Eugene pulp mill

Pratt, Ellis lab Main

Cassie (Bartlette hw

Bartlette, Lillian hw

Penney, Lillian hw Maple

Perkins, William P shoe work

W Park Anna ( Burns hw

Ruth E pi

	CENSUS		69
Perkins, D S far	W Park		Walter C	shoe shop
Alice J (Buckman			Richard	pl
Fred	printer		Albert	pl
William	shoe shop		Beatrice	pl
*Rose A			James	pl
Perkins, Winfred L	W Park		Frederic
Josephine (Burns		Quinn, Jennie F	nurse
Amy J	stu
Perkins, Francis	W Park		R
Penney, Chas V mach	Spring	Ra>	^mond, C D paper	mk'r Lew'n
Ella R (Keene	hw		Hannah (Campbe	ill hw
Harvey	mach		Carroll G	lab
John W			Ora L	stu
*Penney, Harvey mach	Spring		Mura B	pl
Ida (Harris			Lawrence D
Davis			Irvin E
Thelma		Rowe, Jennie M hw	59 Kl'"
Penney, A J	Spring		Etta M (Stanton	hw
Prince, Morris C B far	Spring		* Edgar S	lab
Hattie (Pratt	hw		Wendell W
Thomas W	Pl		Henry E
Merle	Pl	Rand, Stephen B far	Grove
Maurice E	Pl		Carrie I (Leighto	m
Grace A	Pl		David E	wood wk
Lida	Pl		*Morris M	car
Philip W	pl		Dana M	truckman
Mildred	Pl		Geo M	car
Violet M	pl		Leroy D *Alvertie G	far
Q			*Ethel M
Quance, Harry A	far	Royal, Melvin N	mer school
Fannie (Westwood	hw		Mary C (Wardle	hw
William H paper mill		Arthur M	lab
Fannie	shoe shop		Roselle N	stu

70

CENSUS

Reed, Alvin millwright Pine

Eva (Allen

Hannah ( — hw

Reed,

*Jayson lab

Reed, Augustus Rand, James H Jr shmk'r Lincoln

Lizzie G (Mason Record, Ida L (Lincoln hw

Record, Clara C (Lincoln hw Rounds, Alvah L

supt pulp dep in paper mill

Emma F (Frank

Merle R stu

Reynolds, John lab Pleas

Eliza (Lowe Rand, Dana truckman Water

Maud D (Stowell

Clifford V

Walter H Robbins, John W far Bates

Hattie (Buckman hw

Richardson, Jane Maple

Rawson, Sarah hw

Rand, David E car Elm

Ida J (Sherwood hw

Alta L pi

Rich, Chas F shoe shop Cross

M Nettie (Sanders

Arleon S Rawson, Edward cl Main

Ellen (Strout hw

Henry E pi

Frank E pi

Rogers, Harry L teamster

Hattie M (Haselton hw

Leroy C pi

Guy W pi

Ernest pi Bessie

Russell, Andrew far

Jennie (Buck- hw Ida

Russell, Chas O far

Gertrude (Rowe hw

Lynwood p^

Ethel pi

Leroy pi Nora

Russell, John paper mill

Rowe, S M blk

Annie (Lewis hw

Florence hw Verna novelty shop

Roverta pi

Josephine pi

Capitola pi

Hazel pi

Lynwood pi Carlyle

Records, William H far

Ella M (Records hw

Sadie B stu Phoebe

Martha J pi

Edna M pi

Phoebie pi Georgia A

CENSUS 71

P>.ankin, Clark B phy Main Somerset, Fred lab W Park

Lydia L (Stephens hw Freda (Sieberling hw

Chas S pi Scully, P H R R ser Lew'n

Clark C pi Maggie (Perry hw

Rose, Sumner T far Isabelle

Annie (Smith hw Henry L

Florence pi Spiller, Joshua lab Lew'n

Nettie pi Caroline (Thurlough

Addie pi *Geo E far

Ruggles, Alonzo *Fred I far

paper maker E Park * Hubert hotel prop

Ruggles, Bert Carrie B hw

Read, Harry R conductor Maple Saunders, Scott S cl 8 Main

Record, Joseph C tel op Pleas Sawyer, Chas W R R ser Poland Rich, Martha D Main Sawyer, James F Pleas

Richardson, Asaph J provisions Sawyer, Frank T Pleas

« Judson Sawyer, William ret'd Pleas

Ripley, Ada A paper mk'r Lew'n Simpson, Lucretia Water

Roderick, Fred hostler Skinner, Maria hw Pine

Rosenberg, Sarah Elm Smith, Thirza hw 7 Dwinal

Rousseau, Octave Smith, William lab Lew'n

lunch room 5 Elm Spaulding, Leslie C far

Rowe, Edgar S electrician 59 Elm Spooner, John T foreman Maple Rowe, Henrietta M tr 59 Elm Stone, Geo N 17 Main

Rowe, Lendall W sh mkr 59 Elm Strout, Harold lab Elm

Russell, Chas C tr 15 Oak Strout, Stephen paper mill Elm

Rounds, Carrie ( Foster hw Strout, J Linwood lab Oak

Charles stu Strout Levi N shoe mk'r Myrtle

Ada stu Strout, Royal I shoe mk'r Myrtle

Stanton, James H far 102 Elm

Arbina (Jermess hw

Strout, Sam'l H paper mill Spring William B stu

Sadie S (Snell hw Strout, Stephen iron foundry Elm

Earl H Annie (Walker hw

72

CENSUS

Stephen

Lillian E

Irvin N

Merle

Liza Saunders, ( — Smith, Leonard Strout, Sarah ( —

Wesley

Fannie

*Hannah

Cora

*Chas A

*Eva

*Susie

Roland Strout, W Scott

Jennie (Wight

*Freeman G

Pl Pl pl

lab

far

far

far R R ser

hw stableman

Stanton, Myra dress mk'r 104 Elm

Clarista P Stanton, John L far

Helen (Watson

Donald I Stanton, Perley lab

Henrietta (Rowe Strout, John lab

Marcia B (Weymouth

*Delmer W

Arthur L

*J Lynwood Strout, Delmar,

J William

Edwin

pl

Elm

hw

pl

Lewiston

hw

Oak

hw

far

lab

lab

labj

P

Strout, Samuel D far & agt Elm Laura (Spiller hw

*Lucy E

*Elias M elec eng

*Benjamin R far

Harold L mech

Barton lab

Winfred pl

Spiller, Luther cl W Park

Harriet tr

Scribner, Chas lab

Rena (Keene hw

Irvin D

Strong, John W car mk'r E Park Nellie C (Martin *Carrie *Susie hw

Stevens, John lab 12 Main

Lydia R ( Holey hw

Smith. Ernest F shoe mk'r W Park

Sawyer, C M shoe mk'r W Park Ellen J (Staples John H advertiser

Carroll M shoe shop

Saunders, John blk 23 Oak

Edith hw

Nettie (Rich hw

Stanton, Mary E ( — hw Lewiston Perley lab

Bessie hw

Shackley, Henry J lab Pine

Alice (Bancroft hw

Lillian

Shorey, H A barber cS: confect'ner

CENSUS

73

Lena D

Berger H fruit & confect'ry

Spiller, Freeland J grocer Lincoln

Lena (Shockford hw

Murray L pi

Merton R

Steflfin, Mamie hw

Stone, Newton E far 9 Pleas

Stone, Annie M pi

Stone, Geo N

Stone, Newton E Jr lab Pleas

Seal, John mason Pleas

Helen A (Keene hw

Howard P novelty shop

*Fred E lab

Saunders, Edward A blk Pleas

Almeda (Riggs hw

Effie music tr

Sawyer, James F blk Maple

Nellie (Patterson dress mk'r

Frank T blk

Sawyer, William far Pleas

Snell, Simon mach Pleas

Eldusta ( Feero hw

Ethel D book keeper

Bernice C pi

Elwood B

Spiller, Silas C lab Lewiston

Mercy (Tripp hw

Goodhue pi

Ruel C pi

Clyde L pi Bernard Bernice

Stanton, Arthur far Lew'n

Rose M (Doughty

Mildred E hw

Louis G

Forest A lab

Clyde D lab

Nellie pi

Skilling, Joseph A lab Lew'n

Flora M (Colley

Bessie E pi

Percy W pi

Harold A Sreberting, Lottie dress maker Strout, Edward H fireman Lew'n

Flora R (Johnson hw

Iva M pi

Lena M pi

Leroy

Clara F Strout, Dorome car

Hannah B (Verril

Annie F hw

Theodore C

Ethel P

Emily P

Myra E pi

Ralph D pi

Lawrence pi

Scribner, Lydia hw Grove

*Augusta (Eldridge hw

Belle tourist

Lawyer, Albert E mach 60 Elm

Mary E ( Verril 1 Skinner, Maria

74	CENSUS
		Elizabeth (Walker	hw
T		Forest L
Tacie, S	62 Elm	Albert H
Trundy, Chas	far	Tobie, C H phy	9 Main
Virginia (Strout		Emma E (Keene	hw
Lionel H	pl	Chas R	pl
Dorothy A		William A	pl
Twitchell, Joanna	Lewiston	Twiple, James	lab
Twitchell, Geo H	road man	Tola (Libby	tailoress
*Nellie N (Patterson	Margurite E
Tibbett, Henry	eng	Morris A
Ada M (Bragg		Trask, W C book kp'r	High
Henry	pl	Maude (Giffette
Vinton		Tripp, Roland moulder	W Park
Tinkham, Alice	hw	Nora C ( —	hw
Tileston, Mary E hw	Yates	Sarah M	pl
Abbey M (To bey		Roland L	pl
Mary E		Maude	pl
Thurlow, William P sawyer	Virgil J
	Lincoln	Mildred
Letita (Curtis	hw	Tilton, Amos	far
Margie	pl	Evy (Smith	hw
Claribel		Winfield W	far
*Tobey, Frank	book kp'r	*Eva
Tinkham, A G ret'd mer Water	*R Belle
Thurston, John P fireman Water	*Ira
Gertrude (Chase	hw	Laura	hw
Aaron S	pl	Hattie E
Freeman H	pl Tobey, James	gardener
Lilia A	pl	Thayer, Lucius far	Pearl
Annie M		Martha E (Jose	hw
Arvilla C		*Meda
Bertha L		Julia L
Tracy, Lyman butcher	Buckman	Tufts, Frank E b'k kp'	r 62 Elm

CENSUS

75

Lila ( Jordan hw

Katherine

Tobie, Geo W far

Annette W ( Briggs hw

Thurston, L W milkman

Nellie (Stanton hw

Twitchell, Geo H lab Lew'n

Twitchell, James P

Tyler, I N foreman Cobb Hotel

True, Frank I) wholesale grocer Annie (Brown

Dorothy pi

Daniel pi

Annie pi

Thorpe, John far

Thayer, Alfred B paper mk'r

Lewiston Myra (Strout hw

Emery W pi

Thayer, Melinda hw 12 Yates

Teague, James H R R Ser Elm Mary M ( Lowe hw

James H Jr shoe shop

Percy shoe shop

Wilfred pi

Chas pi

Elsie pi

Alice

Taft, Chas E supt C M Co

Taillon, Joseph shoe mk'r

Dov Ho

Taylor, David S lab Water

*Teague, Edward O

Termey, Chas S

Thayer, Arvilla W Park

Thoits, Jason W shoe mk'r True Thomas, John T lab

Thorpe, Alice

Thurlow, Amos paper mk'r Lew'n Thurston, Herbert E 58 Elm

Tibbetts, William E shoe mk'r

Oak Tobie, William D grocer 20 Pleas Tripp, Lendall R R Ser Summer True, Sarah Elm

Tucker, Herbert M far

Tobie, Abby M High

Towne, Wm D Groceries 20 Pleas

V

Vaughn, E M R R Ser

Hotel Elms Virgil, Geo A Virgin Bros Maple Virgin, Rufus J Virgin Bros

Voyer, Herbert L lab 13 Main

W

Whittle, Herman gardener Pleas

Edna D (Strout hw

Josie Whitney, William

Rose E (Ranson music tr

Waterhouse, Lena hw 34 Pleas

Fred H ice man

Clarence D cl

Whittier, W H clerg Oak

Lucy (McGerry hw

Mai

76

CENSUS

Walcotte, Sarah J hw Oak

Frank C painter

Walker, Geo E lab Elm

Grace (Strout hw

Wendell Wood, Marion hw

Wakefield, Edwin A lab

Wyman, Frank P car

Walsh, Mary

Weston, Lewis Hotel Elms

Waterman, John T far

*Henry mach

*Elwell mach

Weston Woodsum, David Lewiston

Cynthia

*William

*David

Racheal

Almond Waitt, George lab

Evelyn ( Dunn hw

Waterhouse, Solon mer Judson

Louise (Wright hw

Willard S cl

Myrtie E Waycott, William lab

Clara ( Frost Waterhouse, Forrest ass't P M

51 Elm

Leona ( Perkins hw

Waterhouse, Fred H teamster Elm

Mertie E ( Perham

Dexter B

Waterman, Tilson sheriff 75 Elm Martha E (Verrill hw

Forest L

Wayne, James M foreman Elm Sarah ( Wagner Effie M

Walker, Daniel H expressman

5 W Park Rosilla C hw

Alfred B far

Waterhouse, Willard S cl Judson Edith E ( Duran

Winslow, Louise B hw Pleas

Welch, O F laundryman i6 Pine Bertha G ( Butler Carroll D pi

Ashley B pi

Amsley G pi

Waldren, Edward A lab Main Lillian ( Bryant Una A Earl A pi

Woodsum, A A grocer and

clothing store Elm Minnie C (Coffin hw

Chas A pi

Gilbert pi

Norton A pi

Lucretia A

Walcott, Edwin Oak

Walker, Alfred B far

Mary L (Winslow hw

Robert C pi

Geo L pi

CENSUS 77

^Ifrej ]3 pi Wyman, Frank P mech

Wakefield, Edward A canvasser Cobb's Hotel

Summer Wan en, C 62 Elm

Walker, Garfield David House Wallace, Dolly (— Pleas

Waterhouse, Clarence D cl Pleas Annie M

Weston, Andrew J coal dl'r Elm Winchester, Warren shoe maker

Lincoln York, Joseph carriage painter

Woodsum, Albion canvasser True York, Lamont laundryman

Wright, R G G paternmk'r York, Isaac lab

15 Pleas Bethiah (Chase

NON-RESIDENTS.

A

C

Allen, Chas S Melrose Mass Cotton, Fannie (Whitman

Allen, Agnes ( Harriman ^^^^^ ^^^^

No Lovell Cotton, Frank H Oxford

Cotton, Maude L (Gregory B Oxford

Beals, Lizzie (Sinclair Auburn Cotton, Harry Bethel

Buckman, Worthley C Cousins, Delmer

Newton Mass Cumberland Miss

Bridge, Edward Concord N H Cushman, Sarah (Rich Oxford

Bridgham, Mabel (Wheeler Cobb, Maude L Mason Portland

New Jersey Cotton, Harry Bethel

Brown, Margurite C (Keen Cotton, Nellie (Sylvester

Rumford Falls Gloucester

Bray, Hollis 155 Cedar Chipman, Roland L Maiden Mass

Boston Mass Campbell, Morris R Lewiston Beals, Lultha (Dwinal Auburn Collins, Lottie R (Hartford

78 CENSUS

D

So Smithfield Rumford Falls

Ellingwood, Wm H S Wilton

Edwards, Lizzie (Holmes Oxford

Duran, Edith Waterville

Duran, John B Rumford Falls

DeCoster, Harry W Foster, Mary (Caswell

304 Boston Lynn Mass No Yarmouth

DeCoster, Percy S Foster, Percy Oakdale

304 Boston Lynn Mass Foster, Mabel (Blaisdell

Durgin, Ina B ( Dowe Minot Kent Washington

DeCoster J Carroll Foster, Flora (Telker Auburn

John Hancock Building Foster, Augusta (Records

Dwinal, Grace (Pushard Auburn

Fryeburg Foster, Fred L Peterbury N H

Davis, R Ella (Hanscome Bethel Fales, Benjamin B Dixfield

Davis. Jennie C (Dunker Fales, Hebert J Nangatuck Conn

Paloalto Cal Davis, Alice I (Hersey

591 Broad E Weymouth Mass Gould, EllaL(Goss Minot

Denning, Mary (Holt Oxford Garrett, Anna P (Andrews

Denning, Fannie D (March 10 Pleasant Bucton Mass

Turner Auburn Giddings, Dell B Minot Dennison, Woodbury E

So Framingham Mass

Dennison, Clara (Emrich Harmon, Walter D

Bridgton Mass 12 Hammond Lewiston

Daicy, Geo C Auburn Harmon, Arthur

Dwinal, Fred E Auburn 25 Falmouth Portland

Dwinal, C Frank Bangor Hutchins, Frank E Groton Conn

Dwinal, Winifred C Harris, Tilson S

7 Arch Boston Mass So Braintree Mass Harris, Frank

•^ Medford Hillside Mass

Ellingwood, Lettice Harris, Fred Deering

CENSUS

79

Lord, Geo A

427 Broadway Chelsea Mass

Lunt, John F Auburn

Lunt, Elmer E 85 Hunnington

Ave Roslindale Mass

Lunt, Edith (Keene W Poland

M

Maybury, Chas O

83 Johnson Lynn Mass Maybury, Abbie (Brickett

18 Witham Haverill Mass McCann, Morilla (Holeman

17 Orange Lewiston McCann, Frank T Bridgton

Mason, William G

33 Lexington Boston Mason, James L

71 High Auburn Millett, John F Sioux City Iowa Millett, Arthur A Chicago 111

Millett, Harold L Chicago 111

Merrill, Annie M Auburn

Merrill, Eliza Auburn

Moore, Lucy E Denton

McKinnon, John R Andover

Mckinnon, Chas N Boston

McCann, Annie R (Cobb

99 A Becket Portland Moulton, Chas S Auburn

Moulton, Adelaide F (Coburn

Weston, Mass

Pettie, Chas T Bridgport Conn Patterson, Frank N

51 W Fiftieth New York Perkins, Rose A ( Pooler

Hinsdale N H Pulsifer, Ada C (Parsons

Kansas City Pulsifer, Mary C (Greenleaf

x\uburn Pulsifer, Fred G Sabattus

Pulsifer, Virginia (Elwell

Woodfords Pendexter, Frank A Auburn

Pettie, Eugene Lisbon Falls

Pettie, Tobey Lisbon Falls

R

Rowe, Edgar S Berlin N H

Rand, Morris M Long Beach Cal Rand, Albertie G (Griffin

Ashland, N H Rand, Ethel M (Chase Paris

Reed, Jayson Berlin N H

Reed, Augustus Auburn

Strout, Delmer W East Auburn Strout, J H Auburn

Strout, Lucy E (Day Jay Bridge Strout, Elias M So Poland

Strout, Benjamin R Norfolk

Story, Carrie (Wallis

8o CENSUS

Norwood Mass Tilton, Eva Minot

Story, Susie (Cummings Tilton, R Belle (Sanborn

Yarmouth Gardiner

Strout, Hannah ( Verrill Tilton, Ira Brockton Mass

New Gloucester Thayer, Meda ( Cobb Berlin N H

Strout, Chas A E Poland Teague, Edward O

Strout, Eva (Records Earmington N H

New Gloucester

Strout, Ereeman G ^

240 Pearl Somerville Mass Whittle, Edith (Bradbury

Scribner, Augusta . Elridge Auburn

Leicester Mass Waterman, Henry Lowell Mass

Seal, Fred E Lynn Mass Waterman, Elwell

Spiller, Geo E Upper Gloucester Lawrence Mass

Spiller, Hubert Rangley Woodsum, William Bath

„ Woodsum, David

T

42 Brackett, Portland

Twitchell, Nellie N Patterson Walker, C Blanche Wellman

26 Bowery Bath Houlton

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GENERAL REFERENCE

PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES

NATIVE STATE

George Washington, Fed. — Virginia, John Adams, Fed.— Massachusetts, Thomas Jefferson, Rep.— Virginia James Madison, Rep. — Virginia, James Munroe, Rep.— Virginia, John Q. Adams, Rep. — Mass., Andrew Jackson, Dem — S. Carolina, Martin Van Buren, Dem. — N. ¥., Wm. H, Harrison, Whig — Virginia, John Tyler, Dem.— Virginia, James K. Polk, Dem.— N. Carolina Zachary Taylor, Whig— Virginia, Millard Fillmore, Whig — New York Franklin Pierce, Dem. — N. H., James Buchanan, Dem. — Pa,, Abraham Lincoln, Rep. — Kentucky, Andrew Johnson, Dem. — N. C. Ulysses S. Grant, Rep. — Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rep. — Ohio, James A. Garfield, Rep. — Ohio, Chester A. Arthur, Rep. — Vermont, Grover Cleveland, Dem. — N. Jersey,

TERM OF OFFICE DIED

1789 to i797, Dec. 14, 1799 1797 to 1801, July 4, 1826 1801 to 1809, July 4, 1826 1809 to 1817, June 28, 1836 1817 to 1825, July 4, 1831 1825 to 1829, Feb. 23, 1848 1829 to 1837, June 8, 1845 1837 to /841, July 24, 1862 1841, April 4, 1841 1841 to 1845, J^"- ^7' ^^^^ 1845 to 1849, June 15, 1849

1849 to 1850, July 9, 1850

1850 to 1853, Mar. 10, 1874 1853 to 1857, Oct. 8, 1869 1857 to 1861, June I, 1868 1861 to 1865, Apr. 15, 1865 1865 to 1869, July 31, 1875

1869 to 1877, July 23, i885 1877 to 1881, Jan. 17, 1893 1881 Sept. 19, 1881 1881 to 1S85, Nov. 18, 1886 i885, to 1889.

82 HISTORICAL

Benjamin Harrison, Rep. — Ohio, 1889 to 1893, Mar. 13, 1900. Grover Cleveland, Dem. — N. Jersey, 1893 to 1897. William McKinley, Rep. — Ohio, 1897 to 1901, Sept. 13, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, Rep. — N. York, 1901.

GOVERNORS OF MAINE.

1820 William King, Bath.

182 1 William D .Williamson, Bangor, Acting,

1 82 1 Benjamin Ames, Bath, Acting

1822 Albion K. Parris, Paris.

1827 Enoch Lincoln, Portland, (d).

1829 Nathan Cutler, Farmington, Acting.

1830 Jona G. Hnnton, Readfield.

183 1 Samuel E. Smith, Wiscasset. 1834 Robert P. Dunlap, Brunswick.

1838 Edward Kent, Bangor.

1839 John Fairfield, Saco.

1841 Edward Kent, Bangor.

1842 John Fairfield, Saco.

1843 John Fairfield, Saco, (elected to U. S. Senate).

1843 Edw. Kavanagh, Newcastle, Acting.

1844 Hugh J. Anderson, Belfast. 1847 John W. Dana, Fryeburg. 1850 John Hubbard, Hallowell. 1853 William G. Crosby, Belfast.

1855 Anson P. Morrill, Readfield.

1856 Samuel Wells, Portland.

1857 Hannibal Hamlin, Hampden (elected U. S. Senate).

1857 Joseph H. Williams, Augusta, Acting.

1858 Lot M. Morrill, Augusta.

HISTORICAL

83

I86I	Israel Washburn, Jr.,	Orono
1863	Abner Coburn,	Skowhegan
1864	Samuel Cony,	Augusta
1867	Joshua L. Chamberlain,	Brunswick
I87I	Sidney Perham,	Paris
1874	Nelson Dingley, Jr.,	Lewiston
1876	Selden Connor,	Augusta
1879	Alonzo Garcelon,	Lewiston
1880	Daniel F. Davis,	Corinth
I88I	Harris M. Plaisted,	Bangor
1883	Frederick Robie,	Gorham
1887	Joseph R. Bodwell,	Hallowell	Died Dec. 15, 1887
1887	S. S. Marble,	Waldoboro	Acting
1889	Edwin C, Burleigh,	Bangor
1893	Henry B, Cleaves,	Portland
1897	Llewellyn Powers,	Houlton
I90I	John Fremont Hill,	Augusta

PRESENT U. S. SENATORS FROM MAINE.

William P. Frye, Eugene Hale,

Lewiston Ellsworth

1883-1907 1887-1905

REPRESENTATIVES TO CONGRESS FROM MAINE.

Amos L. Allen, Chas. E. Littlefield, Edwin C. Burleigh, Llewellyn Powers,

Alfred Rockland Augusta Houlton

Lawyer

Lawyer

Editor

Lawyer

84 HISTORICAL

GOVERNMENT OF MAINE.

The following arrangement for Councilor Districts, for the ten years ending 1912, was adopted by the Legislature of 1902-3.

1 York, 1903, '04, '07, '68, '09, '10, Charles H. Prescott, Bidde- Oxford, 1905, '06, '11, '12, ford, Chainnan.

2 Cumberland, one for each year, Chas. Sumner Cook, Portland.

3 Androscoggin, 1907, '08, '11, '12, Sylvester J. Walton, Skow- Somerset, 1903, '04, '09, '10, began.

Franklin, 1905, '06,

4 Kennebec, 1903, '4, '9, '10, '11, '12, Wm. T. Haines, Water- Lincoln, 1905, '06, ville.

Sagadahoc, 1907, '08,

5 Hancock, 1903, '04, '09, "10, Edward E. Chase, Bluebill. Knox, 1907, '08,

Waldo, 1905, '06, '11, '12,

6 Penobscot, 1903, '4, '5, '6, '9, '10, '11, '12, Nath'l M. Jones, Piscataquis, 1907, '08, Bangor.

7 Aroostook, 1907, '8, '9, '10, '11, '12, George A. Murchie, Washington, 1903, '04, '05, '06, Calais.

OFFICE SALARY

Byron Boyd, Augusta, Secretary of State, $1,500

*Arthur L Brown, Belfast, Deputy Secretary of State, 1,500

J. E. Alexander, Richmond, Chief Clerk to Sec. of State, 1,200

=^Abel D. Russell, Weld, En'g Clerk to Sec. of State, 1,000

Anna P. Ladd, Augusta, Clerk to Secretary of State, i.ooo

*0. Smith, Litchfield, State Treasurer, 2,000

Geo. M. Seiders, Portland, Attorney-General, 1,000

A B. Farnham, Bangor, Adjutant-general, 1,500

N. S. Purinton, W. Bowdoin, Private Sec. to Governor, 1,200

HISTORICAL 85

Francis Keefe, Eliot, Messenger.

*Addie French, Winthrop, Stenographer to Exec. Dept.

*W. W. Stetson, Auburn, State Supt. PubHc Schools, 1,500

*Edgar E. Ring, Orono, Land Agt. and Forest Com., i ,000

^Charles W. Curtis, Brewer, Clerk.

*S. W. Carr, Bowdoinham, Insurance Commissioner, i-S^o

Chas. W. Fletcher, Augusta, Deputy Ins. Commissioner, 1,000

*F. E. Timberlake, Phillips, Bank Examiner, 1,800

*E. C. Stevens, Chelsea, Supt. of Public Buildings, 1,200

J. M. Leavitt, Kennebunk'rt, State Liquor Commissioner, 1,500

*E. C. Milliken.Portland, Pension Clerk, 1,200

*S. W. Matthews, Caribou, Com. Indus'l and Labor Stat. 1,500

*Charles J. House, Monson, Clerk.

A. W. Oilman, Foxcroft, Com. of Agriculture, 1,500

C. E. Atwood, Biddeford, Inspector W., F., M., etc.

Joseph B. Peaks, Dover, 2,500

Benj. F. Chadbourne, Biddeford, 2,000

Parker Spofford, Bucksport, 2,000

Railroad Commiss'rs,

*E. C. Farrington,Fryeburg, Clerk to R. R. Commiss'rs, 1,500

Francis C. Peaks, Dover, Assistant Clerk, 1,200

Otis Hay ford. Canton, 1,500

George Pottle, Lewiston, 1,500

State x\ssessors,

*F. M. Simpson, Bangor, 1.500

James Plummer, Augusta, Clerk to State Assessors, 1,000

Leonard D. Carver, xAugusta, State Librarian, 1,000 Ernest W. Emery, Augusta, Assistant Librarian. Mary L. Carver, Augusta, Cataloguer.

Edw. Wiggin, Presque Isle, Clerk to Supt. Pub. Schools. 1,000

Chas. B. Caldwell, Augusta, Treasurer's Clerk, 1,500

Melvin W. Wiswell, Brewer Treasurer's Clerk, 1,000

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Daniel W. Emery, Augusta, Treasurer's Clerk,

Thomas Clark, Tremont, Charles E. Davis, Portland, L. T. Carleton, Winthrop, Henry O. Stanley, Dixfield, Edgar E. Ring, Orono,

Clerk to Adjt. General, Clerk to Adjt. General.

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Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, A. R. Nickerson, Booth. Har. Com. of Seashore Fisheries, Henry R. Cowan, Bangor, Keeper of State Arsenal, Sam'l B. Kelsey, Portland, C. W. T. Coding, Portland, Cyrus H. Farley, Portland,

Commissioners of Harbor and Tidal Waters. F. O. Beal, Bangor, John M. Deering, Saco, F. S. Adams, Bowdoin,

Cattle Commissioners. F. H. Wilson, Brunswick, Percy L. Lord, Calais, Jos. F. Young, Augusta,

Commissioners of Pharmacy. Geo. H. Hunt, Old Town, Agent Penobscot Indians, Chas. A. Rolfe, Princeton, Agent Passamaq'dy Indians, Whitman Sawyer, Portland, Wm. L. Scribner, Springfield, Albion P. Gordon, Fryeburg,

Inspectors of Prison and Jails. Albion P. Gordon, Fryeburg, John M. Taylor, South Portland, John R. McDonald, Addison,

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Inspectors of Steamboats. H. P. Farrow, Belmont ( Ct. ) Inspector of Dams and Reservoirs. * Indicates official P. O. at Augusta.

STATE INSTITUTIONS.

INSANE HOSPITALS.

Trustees — salary, $2.00 per day and travel. Frederick Robie, President, Gorham. H, T. Powers, Secretary, Fort Fairfield. Mrs. J. R. Smith, Litchfield. Chas. E. Field, Bangor. Geo. E. Macomber, Augusta. Thomas White, Bangor. Sidney M. Bird, Rockland.

MAINE) INSANE HOSPITAE — AUGUSTA,

Officers.

Bigelow T. Sanborn, M. D., (Salary, $2,000) Superintendent. H. B. Hill, M. D., (salary $1,350) Assistant Superintendent. H. L. Horsman, M. D., (salary, $1,200) Second Assistant. H. K. Stinson, M. D., (salary. $800) Third Assistant. Gertrude E. Heath, M. D., (salary, $400) Assistant Physician. Manning S. Campbell, (salary, $1,600) Steward and Treas- Alice G. Twitchell, (salary. $500) Matron. Revs. Chas. W. Doherty, Norman McKinnon, C. G. Mosher, Chaplains.

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Vermont R. Luce, Supervisor of Male Wards. Mrs. Annie D. McLean, Supervisor of Female Wards. John A .Getchell, Hospital Clerk. . Warren P. Doughty, Superintendent's Clerk.

EASTERN MAINE INSANE HOSPITAE — BANGOR.

George W. Foster, M. D., (salary, $2,000) Superintendent. (Deceased).

P. H. S. Vaughn, M. D., (salary, $1,200) Assistant Superin- tendent, (Elected superintendent).

Burt F. Howard, M. D., (salary, $700) Second Assistant.

Charles F. Perry, Steward.

Charles S. Pearl, Treasurer.

Adelaide C. Brown, Matron.

Frank D. Friend, Supervisor of Male Wards.

Revs. C. H. Cutler, Edward McSweeney, A. E. Kingsley, Robert A. Jordan, Chaplains.

Jessie J. Glenn, Supervisor of Female Wards and Chief of Training School.

Leslie W. Somers, Hospital Clerk.

Isabelle N. Pratt, Superintendent's Clerk.

STATE PRISON — TIIOMASTON.

Hillman Smith, (salary, $1,800) Warden.

Arthur C. Wyman, (salary, $1,000) Deputy Warden.

STATE REFORM SCIIOOI, — SOUTH PORTLAND.

Board meetings third Tuesday of February, May, August and November.

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E. P. Wentworth, ($1,000) Superintendent.

J. Henry Dow, ($700) Assistant Superintendent.

Trustees — salary, $2.00 per day and travel.

Fred Atwood, Winterport, President. Chas. L. Hutchinson, Portland, Secretary. Marquis F. King, Portland, Treasurer. Hiram W. Ricker, South Poland. Henry W. Mayo, Hampden.

MAINE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. HALLOWELL.

Incorporated February 29, 1872. Organized November 12, 1872. Opened January 20, 1875. Established as a State insti- tution, March 17, 1899.

Trustees.

Andrew Hawes, Portland, President. Alfred W. Anthony, Lewiston. Chas. H. Dudley, Hallowell. Miss Clara M. Farwell, Rockland. Mrs. Persis Martin, Augusta.

Ex-officio on the part of the State, State Superintendent of Public Schools. Mrs. Mary E. King, Principal. Flagg-Dummer Hall, (opened January 2, 1875) M. F. Whit- tier, Matron.

Baker Hall, (opened December, 1898) Mary E. Mitchell, Matron.

Erskine Hall, (opened September, 1902) Nancy R. Merrill, Matron.

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MILITARY AND NAVAL ORPHAN ASYLUM — BATH.

Incorporated February 23, 1866; opened November 19, 1866. Seth T. Snipe, Bath, President. John O. Shaw, Bath, Secretary. H. A. Duncan, Bath, Treasurer.

Trustees Appointed by Governor. J. L. Chamberlain, Portland. John O. Shaw, Bath. John M. S. Hunter, Farmington. J. L. Merrick, Waterville.

Trustees Appointed by Corporation. S. T. Snipe, Bath ; H. A. Duncan, Bath ; W. H. Watson, Bath.

Executive Committee. S. T. Snipe, Bath ; W. H. Watson, Bath ; John O. Shaw, Bath.

Committee on Reception and Disposal of Children.

W. H. Watson, Bath ; S. T. Snipe, Bath ;

J. L. Merrick, Waterville.

INSTITUTIONS OF A PUBLIC NATURE.

MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL — PORTLAND.

Opened October, 1874, Officers — William L. Putman, Portland, President; Franklin R. Barrett, Portland, Secretary and Treasurer.

Directors.

Elected by the Corporation — S. W. Thaxter, President;

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William H. Moulton, J. W. Symonds, Elias Thomas, Thomas L. Talbot, Chas. H. Payson, Portland.

Appointed by the State — F. A. Wilson, Bangor ; Nath'I Hobbs, North Berwick; William W. Brown, Portland.

Chas. D. Smith, M. D., Portland, Resident Physician and Superintendent ; Mrs. Hannah E. Rogers, Matron ; Miss Amelia L. Smith, Superintendent of Nurses.

CENTRAL MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL — LEWISTON.

Opened July, 1891. Seth M. Carter, Auburn, President ; D. J. Callahan, Lewiston, Secretary ; L. G. Jordan, Lewiston, Treasurer.

Directors.

Elected by the Corporation — Seth M. Carter, President, Ara Cushman (Deceased), H. M. Packard, J. P. Hutchinson, Chas.

C. Wilson, Auburn ; S. B. Hayes, W. D. Pennell, G. M. Coombs, S. D. Wakefield, T. F. Callahan, Lewiston; Geo. P. Emmons, M. D., Resident Physician and Superintendent ; Miss Eugenia

D. Ayers, Matron and Superintendent of Nurses.

EASTERN MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL — BANGOR.

Opened June 7, 1892.

Officers — Chas. Hamlin, Bangor, President; Edw. Stetson, Bangor, Vice-President ; Chas. H. Bartlett, Secretary ; Chas. D. Crosby, Treasurer.

Tr«5/<?^5— President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer ex-officio, B. B. Thatcher, Hugh R. Chaplin, Hiram H. Fogg,

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Edward McSweeny, Isaiah K, Stetson, J. L. Crosby, Prescott H. Vose, Fred W. Ayer, Arthur ChapHn.

Superintendent of the Hospital — Miss Ellen F. Paine.

Medical Staff— QsXtn M. Woodcock, Atwell W. Swett, Calvin P. Thomas, Bertram L. Bryant.

Surgical Staff — W. H. Simmons, W. C. Mason, W. L. Hunt, Daniel A. Robinson.

Adjunct Surgeons — E. B. Sanger, Daniel McCann, John B. Thompson, Luther S. Mason.

Surgeons — Herbert T. Clough, eye and ear; Harry Butler, throat and nose ; L. S. Chilcott, dental.

Acting Pathologist and Bacteriologist — B. L. Bryant.

MAINE EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY — PORTLAND.

Oificers — John F, Hill, Augusta, President; Albion Little, Portland ; Ammi Whitney, Portland, Vice-Presidents ; F. W. Searle, Portland, Secretary and Superintendent ; F. E. Boothby, Portland, Treasurer.

Executive Committee — Albion Little, Chairman ; E. E. Holt, Thos. P. Shaw, W. S. Eaton, Ammi Whitney, Jas. F. Hawkes.

Executive Surgeon — E. E. Holt.

Attending Surgeons — E. E. Holt, D. J. Clough.

DEPARTMENT EOR NERVOUS DISEASES.

Physicians — Addison S. Thayer, A. K. P. Meserve. ^

NOSE AND THROAT DEPARTMENT.

Surgeons — Owen Smith, Oilman Davis. Matron and Head Nurse — Miss Edith Whitlock.

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