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CENTENNIAL  HISTORY 


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THE      ORATION      THE      HISTORICAL      ADDRESS      AND      THE      POEM 

PRESENTED   AT    THE    CELEBRATION  OF    THE  CENTENNIAL 

ANNIVERSARY    OF    THE      INCORPORATION 

OF    THE    TOWN 


June  23d,  1902 


WITH    ILLUSTRATIONS 


Rev.  EDWIN  CAREY  W'HITTE.MORE,^ 
Editor.  ~  ~ '  '^       ""^ 

ARTHUR  J.  ROBERTS,  FRANKLIN  W.  JOHNSON. 

MRS.    MARTHA    BAKER    DUNN,    MRS.    ESTELLE    FOSTER 

EATON,    HORATIO   D.   BATES, 

ASSOCIATE     EDITORS. 


Published  by  the 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE  OF  THE  CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Waterville,  1902. 


^ 


PREFACE. 

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,  To  make  a  permanent  record  of  the  events  of  the  centennial 
ycelebration,  to  trace  the  development  of  the  town  from  its  earliest 
[settlement,  and  to  give  biographical  sketches  of  some  of  its 
representative  men  is  the  purpose  of  this  volume.     To  accomplish 


/this  within  the  limits  of  time  and  space   allowed   has   been   no 


easy  task,  and  the  book  has  grown  to  nearly  twice  the  size  that 
was  planned  and  promised.  Grateful  recognition  should  be 
given  to  the  generous  labors  of  those  who  have  contributed  the 
several  chapters  of  the  book.  Each  writer  is  solely  responsible 
for  the  statements  made  in  his  article.  Credit  is  due  to  Rev. 
Asa  L.  Lane,  who  gathered  from  the  town  records  and  from  the 
files  of  the  Waterville  Mail  a  large  amount  of  valuable  matter. 
Dr.  Edward  W.  Hall  has  made  the  resources  of  the  library  of 
Colby  College  always  available,  and  L.  D.  Carver,  Esq.,  librarian 
of  the  State  Library,  has  shown  the  editors  many  courtesies. 
The  officials  of  the  City  of  Waterville  and  the  town  officers  of 
Winslow,  have  kindly  allowed  the  use  of  all  records  and  docu- 
ments which  are  on  file  in  their  respective  offices.  The  thanks 
of  the  editors  are  due  to  Messrs.  Joshua  and  Charles  E.  Cush- 
man  of  Winslow,  for  access  to  the  papers  of  Rev.  Joshua  Cush- 
man ;  to  Miss  Julia  Stackpole  for  the  use  of  the  diaries  of  Capt. 
James  Stackpole;  to  Wallace  B.  Smith  for  the  papers  of  his 
grandfather,  Abijah  Smith;  to  ^Irs.  W.  P.  Stewart  for  the 
account  book  and  diar\'  of  Dr.  John  McKechnie ;  and  to  Mrs. 
Frank  Skinner  for  the  use  of  the  manuscript  prepared  by  Rev. 
J.  O.  Skinner  for  a  history  of  Waterville.  The  editors  are 
grateful  to  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  centennial  celebra- 
tion for  their  constant  encouragement  and  support,  and  to  the 
printers,   Messrs.   Burleigh  &  Flynt,   for    many    favors.     Con- 


iv  PREFACE. 

siderable  material  has  been  gathered  which  could  not  be  used 
in  this  volume.  This,  and  the  many  valuable  historical  papers 
which  are  scattered  among  the  homes  of  the  city  should  be  / 
preserved  in  some  safe  place  for  the  future  historian  of  Water-  \ 
ville,  who,  with  ample  leisure  for  research  and  verification,  will 
write  more  adequately  the  history  of  our  city.  The  more  one 
comes  to  know  of  the  history  and  life  of  Waterville,  the  more 
does  he  respect  its  past  and  have  confidence  in  its  future. 

The  Editors. 
Waterville,  Sept.  19,  1902.  j 

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ii 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE) 

NTRODUCTION.     Preparing  for  the  Centennial.     Frederick  W. 

Clair,  Esq 1-7 

Chapter  I.     The    Centennial    Celebration.       William    Abbott 
Smith,  A.  M. 

Description  of  the  city  as  prepared  for  the  Centennial.  9 

The  Religious  Mass  Meeting 9 

The  Sermon  by  President  Faunce 11-12 

Dedication  of  City  Hall 13-18 

The  Literary  Exercises 18-21 

The    Illumination 21 

The  Reception 21 

I              The  Parade 23-27 

I              The  Sports 27-28 

KDhapter  II.     Teconnet    and    Winslow.      Rev.    Edwin    Carey 

Whittemore 29-54 

Chapter    III.     Waterville,    1802-1902.       Rev.    Edwin    Carey 

Whittemore 55-IOI 

Chapter  IV.     The  Centennial  Oration.     Hon.  Warren  Coffin 

Philbrook 102-110 

The  Centennial  Poem.     Mrs.  Julian  D.  Taylor 111-112 

Chapter  V.     Early  Settlers  and  Their  Work.     Aaron  Appleton 

Plaisted,  A.  M 1 13-139 

Chapter  VI.     Recollections  of  Waterville  in  the  Olden  Time. 

William  Mathews,  LL.  D 140-152 

Chapter  VII.     The  Military  History  of  Waterville.*    Brevet 

Brigadier  General  Isaac  Sparrow  Bangs 153-224 

Chapter  VIII.     The  Churches  of  Waterville.     George  Dana 

Boardman  Pepper,  D.  D..  LL.  D 225-267 

Chapter  IX.     The  Public  Schools  of  Waterville.     Elwood  T. 

Wyman,  A.  M 268-280 


Copyright  September,  1902,  by  Dennis  M.  Bangs. 


vi  CONTENTS. 

page' 
Chapter  X.     Coburn  Classical  Institute.     Franklin  W.  John- 
son, A.  M 281-295^ 

Chapter  XI.    Colby  College.    Edward  W.  Hall,  LL.  D 296-305' 

Chapter  XII.    The   Secret  Fraternal   Orders  of  Waterville.  1 

Norman  Keith  Fuller,  Esq 3o6-3d 

Chapter  XIII.     Social    Life  in  Waterville.      Martha    Baker 

Dunn  318-33C 

Chapter  XIV.     Waterville  Agriculturally  Considered.     E.  P. 

Mayo 33i-33is 

Chapter  XV.     The  Manufacturing  Industries  of  Waterville.  | 

Reuben  Wesley  Dunn,  A.  M 339-35^ 

Chapter  XVI.     Banking  in  Waterville.     Horatio  D.  Bates...       357-38c 

Chapter  XVII.     The  Waterville  Woman's  Association.     Mrs. 

James  H.  Hanson 381-385 

Chapter  XVIII.     The    Waterville    Free    Library.       Estelle  1 

Foster  Eaton 386-392^ 

Chapter  XIX.     The  Press  of  Waterville.     Henry  C.  Prince..       393-405 

Chapter  XX.     Other    Organizations  and    Institutions.       The 

Waterville   Y.    M.    C.   A.— The   Stevens   Hospital—  ) 

The  Woman's   Christian   Temperance   Union — The  \ 

Kiest  Business  College — Hall's  Military  Band — The 
Cecilia  Club — Garfield  Camp  No.  i,  Sons  of  Vet- 
erans— Co.  H,  Second  Regiment  National  Guard, 
State  of  Maine— The  Waterville  Bicycle  Club— The 
Waterville  Gun  Club 406-414 

Chapter    XXI.    The  Present  Business  of  Waterville;  Some 
Comparisons  with  the   Past  and  a  Glance  into  the  ^ 
Future  Business  Conditions.     Frank  Redington 415-439 

Chapter  XXII.     The   Pulpit  of  Waterville.       George  Dana 

Boardman  Pepper,  D.  D.,  LL.  D 440-458 

Chapter  XXIII.     The  Medical  Profession.     Frederick  Charles 

Thayer,  M.  D 459-477 

Chapti^r  XX IV.     The  Bar  of  Waterville.     Hon.  Simon  Strat- 

ton  Brown 478-492 

Chapter   XXV.     The     Teachers    of   Waterville.      Arthur     J. 

Roberts 493-506 

Chapter  XXVI.  Some  of  the  Business  Men  of  Waterville. 
Rev.  Asa  L.  Lane,  A.  Appleton  Plaisted  and  Edwin 
C.  Whittemore 507-542 


CONTEXTS.  VU 

PAGE 

Chapter  XXVII.     Copies  of  Documents  and  Other  Historical 

Data.     Submission  of  Indians.   Pemaquid,   1693....  543 

Letter  of  Col.  Lithgow  to  Gov.  Shirley 546 

Records  of  Winslow  Proprietors 548 

Grant  to  James  Pitts  of  Lot  104 551 

Settlement  of  Mr.  Cushman  as  Town  Minister,  Agree- 
ments    556 

Muster  Roll  of  Capt.  Stackpole's  Company.     Letter  of 

Reuben  Kidder 562 

Epitaph  of  Richard  Thomas 563 

Representatives  of  Winslow  and  Waterville  in  Legis- 
lature of  Massachusetts 564 

Militia  565 

Sunday  School 565 

Waterville  Incorporation  Act 566 

Letter  of  Asa  Redington 568 

The  City  Charter 571 

Table  of  Valuation,  Tax  Rate  and  Debt 582 

Mayors  of  W^aterville 583 

Waterville  Social  Library,  Bill  of  Books 584 


PREPARING  FOR  THE  CENTENNIAL. 

By  Frederick  W.  Clair,  Esq.,  Secretary  of  the  Committee  of 
One  Hundred  and  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

At  the  close  of  a  meeting  of  the  Waterville  Board  of  Trade  in 
the  spring  of  1901  at  which  there  had  been  discussion  as  to  the 
advisability  of  celebrating  the  4th  of  July,  the  suggestion  was 
made,  "Let  it  pass ;  next  year  we  must  celebrate  our  centennial." 
Attention  was  called  to  the  fact  that  the  old  city  hall  would  be 
a  poor  place  in  which  to  celebrate  and  that  the  new  hall  consisted 
only  of  a  cellar.  However  the  idea  took  root  in  many  minds  not 
only  of  celebrating  the  centennial  of  the  incorporation  of  Water- 
ville but  of  preparing  to  do  it  in  a  suitable  manner.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1901,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  president,  Dr.  Hill,  the  matter 
was  brought  formally  before  the  Board  of  Trade  in  a  petition 
signed  and  circulated  by  Hon.  S.  S.  Brown  and  Frank  Redington 
and  bearing  the  names  of  a  large  number  of  influential  citizens 
urging  the  Board  of  Trade  to  call  a  meeting  for  considering  the 
matter  of  the  proper  observance  of  the  centennial. 

In  accord  with  this  petition  which  was  published  in  the  Water- 
ville Mail  and  met  with  general  approval.  President  Hill  called 
a  meeting  of  the  citizens  at  city  hall  October  9,  1901.  This  meet- 
ing was  not  so  largely  attended  as  was  expected.  However 
there  was  a  sufficient  number  to  warrant  the  promoters  of  the 
celebration  in  proceeding  to  business.  Hon.  S.  S.  Brown  called 
the  meeting  to  order.  F.  C.  Thayer,  M.  D.,  was  elected  chair- 
man of  this  meeting  and  F.  W.  Clair,  Esq.,  secretary.  It  was 
voted  that  a  committee  of  one  hundred  be  elected,  said  committee 
to  have  charge  of  the  centennial  celebration.  It  was  voted  that 
the  following  named  persons  be  members  of  the  committee  of 
one  hundred. 

The  CommiUce  of  One  Hundred — Walter  Getchell,  ^Simeon 
Keith,  E.  G.  Header,  A.  A.  Plaisted,  C.  K.  iSIathews,  Nathaniel 
Header,  James  P.  Hill,  George  E.  Shores,  Rev.  S.  K.  Smith, 


2  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Rev.  G.  D.  B.  Pepper,  John  Ware,  S.  S.  Brown,  C.  H.  Reding- 
ton,  W.  B.  Arnold,  Wallace  B.  Smith,  Rev.  N.  Charland,  Chris- 
tian Knauff,  M.  C.  Foster,  W.  M.  Lincoln,  E.  R.  Drummond, 
S.  I.  Abbott,  W.  T.  Haines,  C.  F.  Johnson,  Dr.  C.  L.  White, 
Dr.  C.  W.  Abbott,  Rev.  G.  B.  Nicholson,  Rev.  A.  G.  Pettengill, 
Dr.  J.  L.  Fortier,  A.  J.  Roberts,  F.  W.  Johnson,  Dr.  E.  L.  Jones, 
E.  T.  Wyman,  E.  W.  Hall,  C.  A.  Leighton,  Geo.  F.  Davies,  Fred 
Pooler,  A.  S.  Hall,  G.  K.  Boutelle,  Dr.  A.  Joly,  H.  C.  Prince, 
George  Overend,  C.  E.  Matthews,  L.  H.  Soper,  G.  W.  Dorr, 
H.  R.  Dunham,  Mark  Gallert,  F.  J.  Goodridge,  Horace  Purinton, 
Robert  L.  Proctor,  H.  E.  Judkins,  Homer  C.  Proctor,  E.  C. 
Wardwell,  Jules  Gamache,'H.  R.  Mitchell,  S.  E.  Berry,  F.  K. 
Shaw,  H.  D.  Eaton,  Arthur  Alden,  I.  S.  Bangs,  H.  L.  Emery, 
W.  A.  R.  Boothby,  A.  W.  Flood,  ].  F.  Percival,  H.  D.  Bates, 
Hascall  S.  Hall,  Ernest  E.  Decker,  Dr.  J.  F.  Hill,  W.  C.  Phil- 
brook,  Frank  Redington,  Rev.  E.  L.  Marsh,  G.  Fred  Terry,  P.  S. 
Heald,  C.  W.  Davids,  W.  H.  K.  Abbott,  R.  W.  Dunn,  Martin 
Blaisdell,  Gedeon  Richer,  Rev.  A.  A.  Lewis,  Rev.  E.  C.  Whitte- 
more,  Patrick  McLaughlin,  F.  E.  Boston,  W.  M.  Dunn,  L.  G. 
Salisbury,  Frank  B.  Philbrick,  John  N.  Webber,  George  Ballen- 
tine,  C.  J.  Clukey,  John  E.  Nelson,  A.  B.  Reny,  Leslie  P.  Loud, 
Arthur  Darviau,  Marshall  Peavy,  Frank  E.  Brown,  Edward 
Ware,  Colby  Getchell,  F.  D.  Lunt,  Horace  Toward.     ^Deceased. 

This  first  meeting  had  the  desired  result.  The  celebration  was 
the  general  topic  of  conversation  among  the  people  of  the  city, 
and  it  was  seen  at  that  early  date  that  the  celebration  would  be 
a  success.  The  city  hall  was  to  have  its  exterior  walls  finished 
and  the  roof  placed  by  the  first  day  of  January,  1902.  It  was  the 
intention  of  the  city  government  of  1901-02  to  do  no  more  work 
upon  the  building.  At  the  first  mass  meetino-  a  motion  was  made 
and  carried  "that  it  is  the  sense  of  this  meeting  that  the  work  on 
the  new  city  building  be  prosecuted  so  that  it  may  be  finished  and 
dedicated  at  the  time  of  the  celebration." 

October  18,  1901,  the  committee  of  one  hundred  met  at  the 
Ware  parlors,  called  in  accordance  with  the  vote  of  the  mass 
meeting.  The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  F.  W.  Clair, 
secretary  of  the  meeting.  F.  C.  Thayer,  M.  D.,  was  elected 
chairman  of  the  committee  of  one  hundred.  F.  W.  Clair  was 
elected  secretary,  and  F.  A.  KnaufF  was  elected  treasurer.     A 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  3 

committee  of  eleven  was  selected  by  the  chair  to  report  a  date 
thought  most  advisable  for  the  celebration  and  to  give,  as  early 
as  possible,  an  outline  for  the  program  for  the  celebration.  This 
committee  was  to  report  at  a  meeting  to  be  called  by  the  chair- 
man of  the  committee  of  one  hundred,  the  chairman  and  clerk  of 
the  committee  of  one  hundred  to  be  ex-officio  members  of  said 
committee.  The  chair  appointed  S.  S.  Brown,  W.  M.  Dunn, 
W.  T.  Haines,  E.  R.  Drummond,  E.  L.  Jones,  J.  F.  Hill,  H.  E. 
Judkins,  Gedeon  Picher,  and  E.  T.  Wyman.  This  meeting 
adjourned  to  the  following  Wednesday  at  7.30  P.  M.  On  Octo- 
ber 23d,  the  date  to  which  the  last  meeting  adjourned,  the  com- 
mittee met  at  the  Ware  parlors.  The  report  of  the  committee 
of  eleven  was  made  by  the  secretary  and  was  as  follows : 
"To  the  Committee  of  One  Hundred: 

Your  committee  has  attended  to  the  duty  assigned  them,  and 
beg  leave  to  make  the  following  report :  It  has  decided  that  the 
centennial  celebration  should  take  place  on  the  twenty-second, 
twenty-third,  and  twenty-fourth  days  of  June,  A.  D.  1902.  It 
has  decided  upon  these  dates,  because  it  has  come  to  the  con- 
clusion, after  an  examination  of  the  records,  that  the  incorpora- 
tion and  birth  of  the  town  of  Waterville  took  place  on  the  twenty- 
third  day  of  June,  A.  D.  1802.  It  decided  that  the  twenty-second, 
falling  on  Sunday,  should  be  given  over  to  the  churches,  to  have 
such  exercises  as  they  deem  best.  It  decided  to  report  the  fol- 
lowing program.  Monday,  the  twenty-third,  dedication  exer- 
cises of  the  new  city  building,  in  the  forenoon.  Anniversary  exer- 
cises of  the  incorporation  of  the  town,  in  the  afternoon,  at  the 
park.  Reception  tendered  to  the  past  and  present*  residents  of 
the  city,  at  City  Hall,  in  the  evening.  Tuesday,  the  twenty- 
fourth,  forenoon,  parade;  evening,  illumination.  Your  com- 
committee  decided  to  report  the  following  sub-committees  as 
necessary.  Executive,  Finance,  Literary,  Invitation,  Advertising 
and  printing,  Transportation  and  military.  Horses,  carriages  and 
equipments,  Badges  and  emblems.  Trades  display.  Decoration, 
Fire  department,  Illumination,  Reception,  Entertainment,  Schools, 
Churches,  Music,  and  Sports. 

The  report  was  accepted  and  it  was  voted  to  adopt  the  report. 
A  committee  on  sub-committees  had  been  appointed  and  made 
the  following  report. 


4  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLi;. 

SPECIAL    COMMITTEES. 

Invitation  Committee — E.  R.  Drummond,  A.  A.  Plaisted, 
Walter  Getchell,  W.  B.  Arnold,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Hanson,  Mrs.  N.  G. 
H.  Pulsifer,  Mrs.  S.  S.  Brown. 

Church  Committee — Rev.  E.  L.  Marsh,  Dr.  Charles  L.  White, 
Rev.  N.  Charland,  Dr.  G.  D.  B.  Pepper,  Rev.  A.  A.  Lewis,  Rev. 
G.  B.  Nicholson,  Rev.  A.  G.  Pettengill. 

Bntertninment  Committee — S.  S.  Brown,  P.  S.  Heald,  Fred 
Pooler,  Frank  Walker,  T.  E.  Ransted,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Flood,  Mrs. 
W.  B.  Arnold,  Mrs.  F.  C.  Thayer,  Mrs.  George  K.  Boutelle. 

Literary  Committee — Rev.  E.  C.  AA'^hittemore,  A.  J.  Roberts, 
H.  D.  Bates,  F.  W.  Johnson,  Mrs.  R.  W.  Dunn,  Mrs.  H.  D. 
Eaton. 

Decoration  Committee — Frank  Redington,  Hascall  S.  Hall, 
Daniel  Berrv,  S.  S.  Lightbody,  D.  M.  Bangs,  Mrs.  C.  F.  Johnson, 
Mrs.  H.  E.  Jiidkins.  Mrs.  Geo.  West,  ^liss  Eva  Getchell. 

Finance  Committee — \V.  T.  Haines,  F.  A.  Knanff,  C.  F.  John- 
son, W.  H.  K  Abbott,  Cyrus  W.  Davis,  Martin  Blaisdell,  Gedeon 
Richer. 

School  Committtee — E.  T.  Wyman,  John  E.  Nelson,  Horace 
Purinton,  D.  S.  Wheeler,  J.  W.  Black,  Sara  Lang,  Fannie  Angle. 

Transportation  and  Military  Committee — R.  W.  Dunn, 
Edward  Ware,  R.  L.  Proctor,  W.  F.  Bodge,  A.  B.  Renv,  John 
H.  Gould. 

Horses,  Carriages  and  Equipment  Committee — B.  P.  Wells,  E. 
E.  Decker,  F.  E.  Brown,  G.  E.  Barrows,  Frank  Paul.     < 

Committee  on  Reception — The  Mayor  and  Mrs.  Blaisdell,  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  F.  C.  Thayer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  \V.  B.  Arnold,  Miss  Grace 
E.  Matthews,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  E.  L.  Marsh,  P.  S.  Heald,  Mrs. 
J.  H.  Grondin,  Pres.  and  Mrs.  C.  L.  White,  W.  A.  R.  Boothby, 
Mrs.  Ann  M.  Pulsifer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  W.  Flood,  Rev.  N. 
Charland. 

Trades  Display  Committee — E.  C.  Wardwell,  L.  H.  Soper, 
George  Overend,  G.  YV.  Dorr,  J.  F.  Elden,  S.  E.  Whitcomb,  H. 
R.  Dunham,  W.  C.  Hawker,  O.  G.  Springfield,  E.  D.  Noyes, 
Harry  Haskell. 

Parade  Committee— W.  C.  Philbrook,  W.  E.  Reid,  Dr.  A.  Joly, 
Dana  P.  Foster,  Dr.  L.  G.  Bunker,  L.  G.  Salisbury,  G.  S.  Dolloff. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK.  5 

Fireworks  and  Illumination  Committee — H.  E.  Judkins,  Frank 
Chase,  F.  J.  Arnold,  W.  A.  Hager,  F.  J.  Goodridge,  W.  H. 
Savage. 

Advertising  and  Printing  Committee — Dr.  J.  F.  Hill,  C.  E. 
Matthews,  J.  H.  Welch,  C.  A.  Redington,  J.  N.  Webber. 

Badges  and  Emblems  Committee — Dr.  E.  L.  Jones,  F.  B. 
Hubbard,  F.  W.  Noble,  Daisy  Plaisted,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Dunn,  Annie 
Dorr,  Emma  F,  Lovering. 

fire  Department  Committee — George  F.  Davies,  George  L. 
Learned,  W.  H.  Rancourt,  Calvin  C.  Dow,  C.  E.  Bushey. 

Music  Committee — W.  M.  Dunn,  Llewellyn  B.  Cain,  Prof.  C. 
B.  Stetson,  Charles  Wentworth,  Mrs.  F.  W.  Johnson,  Mrs. 
George  F.  Davies,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Flood. 

Committee  on  Sports  and  Athletics — Dr.  C.  W.  Abbott,  H.  L. 
Simpson,  John  DeOrsay,  Leslie  P.  Loud,  H.  B.  Snell,  Charles 
Walsh,  S.  F.  Brann. 

The  executive  committee  consisted  of  the  chairman  of  the 
committee  of  one  hundred,  the  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  the 
respective  chairmen  of  the  sub-committees,  as  follows : 

EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE. 

Dr.  Frederick  C.  Thayer,  President ;  F.  W.  Clair,  Esq.,  Clerk ; 
F.  A.  KnauflF,  Treasurer ;  The  Mayor,  W.  T.  Haines,  W.  C. 
Philbrook,  S.  S.  Brown,  Frank  Redington,  Dr.  E.  L.  Jones,  G.  F. 
Davies,  Rev.  E.  C.  Whittemore,  B.  P.  Wells,  H.  E.  Judkins,  Rev. 
E.  L.  Marsh,  Dr.  C.  W.  Abbott,  F.  A.  Knauff.  Dr.  J.  F.  Hill, 
W.  M.  Dunn,  E.  R.  Drummond,  E.  C.  Wardwell,  E.  T.  Wyman, 
R.  W.  Dunn. 

The  committee  on  invitation  was  instructed  to  invite  the  gov- 
ernor and  stafiF  to  be  the  guests  of  the  city. 

Rev.  E.  C.  Whittemore  made  a  report  for  the  literary  com- 
mittee, in  which  they  recommended  a  history  of  the  town,  a  poem, 
and  an  oration,  as  the  literary  program  for  the  celebration. 
They  recommended  that  the  history  be  published  in  book  form. 
The  committee  were  given  full  power  to  act  as  they  thought 
advisable. 

The  finance  committee  was  instructed  to  raise  the  sum  of  five 
thousand  dollars  for  the  payment  of  the  expenses  of  the 
centennial. 


6  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

It  was  voted  that  the  literary  committee  be  given  full  power 
to  have  written  and  published  a  book  containing  a  history  of  the 
town  and  city.  It  was  voted  to  construct  a  centennial  arch,  and 
that  power  be  given  to  the  illuminating  and  decorating  commit- 
tee to  build  the  same,  after  conference  with  the  next  city  gov- 
ernment. Attention  was  called  to  the  fact  that  the  dates  of  the 
centennial  celebration  and  the  commencement  of  Colby  College 
were  the  same,  and  in  order  to  avoid  having  the  exercises  of  both 
come  at  the  same  time,  a  committee  was  appointed,  consisting 
of  Dr.  F.  C.  Thayer,  Rev.  E.  C.  Whittemore,  and  S.  S.  Brown, 
whose  duties  were  to  confer  with  the  authorities  of  the  college 
for  the  purpose  of  arr^ging  hours  and  dates  to  avoid  conflict. 
This  committee  attended  to  its  duty,  and  the  authorities  of  the 
college  very  graciously  decided  to  postpone  the  commencement 
exercises  until  Wednesday,  the  25th.  At  the  meeting  on  April 
4,  1902,  it  was  voted  that  the  regular  meetings  of  the  committee 
be  held  on  Friday  evening  of  each  week. 

Invitations  were  extended  to  the  towns  of  Winslow  and  Oak- 
land to  send  official  representatives  to  be  the  guests  of  the  city. 
Right  Reverends  Robert  Codman  and  W.  H.  O'Connell  were 
also  invited. 

June  2d,  Rev.  E.  C.  Whittemore  reported  that  Hon.  J.  Man- 
chester Haynes,  who  had  been  engaged  to  deliver  the  centennial 
oration,  on  account  of  poor  health  would  not  be  able  to  keep 
the  engagement  and  that  the  committee  had  secured  as  orator, 
Hon.  Warren  C.  Philbrook  of  this  city.  Dr.  Frederick  C. 
Thayer  was  elected  marshal  of  the  parade.  A  special  committee 
was  appointed  consisting  of  Dr.  Thayer,  Dr.  Hill  and  Rev.  E.  C. 
Whittemore,  and  this  committee  was  directed  to  prepare  and 
publish  an  official  program  of  the  centennial  celebration. 

From  the  beginning  the  committees  had  worked  with  great 
vigor,  careful  attention  to  detail  and  in  the  utmost  harmony.  No 
unpleasant  incident  occurred  in  the  committees  and  none  occurred 
in  the  celebration.  The  citizens  showed  their  sympathy  by 
hearty  co-operation  :  it  was  notably  an  affair  of  the  whole  city, 
there  v/as  no  such  thing  as  class,  party,  faction  or  favoritism  in 
the  matter.  1^.  lay  or  Blaisdell  heartily  recommended  in  his  inau- 
gural address  a  liberal  appropriation  and  the  sum  of  two  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars  was  voted  by  the  city  government.     The 


HISTORY    OF    WATi:RVILLK.  7 

citizens  and  the  corporations  responded  cheerfully  and  liberally  to 
the  calls  of  the  finance  committee,  so  that  the  bills  of  the  centen- 
nial are  all  provided  for.  Dr.  F.  H.  Getchell  of  Philadelphia  sent 
an  unsolicited  contribution  of  twenty-five  dollars  to  the  committee. 
Mayor  Blaisdell  and  the  contractors  used  utmost  endeavors  to 
have  the  new  citv  hall  in  readiness.  The  city  was  ready  when 
the  day  came  for  the  opening  of  its  doors  to  its  great  "at  home," 
but  it  had  meant  a  vast  amount  of  careful,  hard  and  persistent 
work. 

At  all  of  the  meetings  of  the  committee  great  interest  was  mani- 
fested by  the  members.  The  committee  did  not  adjourn  at  any 
time  for  want  of  a  quorum  and  at  almost  every  meeting  of  the 
committee  nearly  every  member  was  present.  The  sub-com- 
mittees attended  to  the  duties  assigned  them  and  worked  with 
energ\^  for  the  success  of  the  celebration.  They  made  frequent 
reports  to  the  executive  committee.  The  executive  committee, 
at  no  time  found  any  fault,  but  on  the  contrary,  have  nothing 
but  praise  for  the  sub-committees.  The  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee attended  all  the  meetings  and  his  enthusiasm  and  labors 
were  unbounded. 

The  authorities  of  Colby  College  co-operated  with  good  will, 
postponing  their  exercises,  and  lending  the  committee  the  use 
of  their  athletic  field.  Members  of  the  faculty,  who  were  upon 
the  sub-committees,  faithfully  performed  their  duties.  The 
thanks  of  the  citizens  arc  due  to  the  authorities  and  faculty  of 
Colby  College. 


CHAPTER  I. 


THE  CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION. 
By  William  Abbott  Smith,  A.  M. 

The  celebration  of  the  city's  centennial  occupied  three  days, 
Sunday,  Monday,  and  Tuesday,  June  22-24,  1902.  By  way  of 
preparation  for  this  event  the  citizens  seem  to  have  vied  with 
each  other  in  the  taste  and  elegance  of  the  decorations  with 
which  their  homes  and  places  of  business  were  adorned.  Spec- 
ially noticeable  were  the  stores  and  offices  on  Main  street,  the 
buildings  themselves  being  scarcely  visible  for  the  profusion  of 
red,  white,  and  blue  with  w^hich  they  were  hung,  yet  every  part 
of  the  city  announced  its  loyalty  and  appreciation  of  the  events 
which  were  transpiring  by  donning  more  or  less  extensively  a 
holiday  attire.  The  public  buildings  were  tastefully  decorated, 
and  prominent  among  the  decorative  features  was  the  arch  which 
spanned  the  square  near  the  Elmwood  Hotel.  This  was  so  sit- 
uated as  to  show  to  advantage  from  Main  street.  Elm  street,  and 
College  avenue.  On  the  north  side  of  this  arch  over  the  center 
was  painted  the  city  seal,  on  the  right  of  which  was  a  painting  of 
Fort  Halifax,  and  on  the  left  one  of  Ticonic  falls.  The  south 
side  of  the  arch  was  tastefully  decorated  with  flags  and  bunting, 
while  over  four  hundred  electric  lamps  provided  a  brilliant 
illumination  of  the  whole. 

Along  the  principal  streets  at  short  intervals  banners  and  flags 
were  hung,  and  everywhere  the  city  gave  evidence  that  it  was 
conscious  of  having  reached  a  milestone  in  its  history,  the  pass- 
ing of  which  was  a  signal  for  a  brief  holiday,  in  which  it  might 
look  back  upon  the  hundred  years  just  passed  with  excusable 
pride  and  self-congratulation,  and  to  the  future  with  renewed 
hope  and  confidence. 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE). 


9 


Several  days  before  the  time  appointed  for  the  celebration  to 
begin,  there  was  published  and  put  into  circulation  "The  Official 
Programme."  This  contained  a  complete  list  of  the  executive 
committee,  the  committee  of  One  Hundred,  and  of  all  special 
committees  appointed  to  further  the  interests  of  the  celebratio|?f 
These  were  followed  by  several  pages  of  interesting^  f^cTih'erated, 
ing  to  the  city's  history  p?^gPImme  oT^flie  centennial  celebra- 
tion was  given. 

The  pamphlet  also  contained  half-tone  cuts  of  the  new  City 
Hall,  several  of  the  churches,  schoolhouses,  Alumni  Chemical 
Building  of  Colby  College,  etc. 

But  the  final  preparations  for  the  festivities  of  the  celebration 
were  indeed  the  most  fitting  of  all.  These  consisted  of  the  ser- 
vices held  in  each  of  the  churches  on  the  morning  of  Sunday, 
June  22nd.  The  capacity  of  each  house  of  worship  was  tested 
to  its  utmost,  so  that  a  large  proportion  of  the  citizens  and 
visitors  were  enabled  to  join  in  appropriate  services  at  the 
churches  of  their  choice.  The  pastors  ordered  their  services  and 
adapted  their  discourses  with  special  reference  to  the  city's  cen- 
tennial. At  the  Baptist  church  the  centennial  celebration  gave 
place  to  the  baccalaureate  sermon  before  the  graduation  classes 
of  Colby  College  by  President  White. 

Sunday  evening  at  City  Hall  occurred  the  first  of  the  exercises 
under  the  auspices  of  the  centennial  committee.  For  this  service 
the  following  programme  was  arranged : 

RELIGIOUS    MASS    MEETING SUNDAY    EVENING. 

Religious  Mass  Meeting,  City  Hall,  7.30  P.  M.  Rev.  Edward 
Lester  Marsh,  presiding. 

Music  by  Hall's  orchestra.  Prof.  R.  B.  Hall,  conductor;  the 
Cecilia  Club,  80  voices ;  Prof.  C.  B.  Stetson,  president ;  Dr. 
Latham  True,  conductor ;  Mrs.  Franklin  W.  Johnson,  pianist. 

Order. 
Overture,  selected,  Hall's  Orchestra 

Invocation,  Rev.  Arthur  G.  Pettengill 


jQ  HISTORY    O^    WATERVILLE. 

.  ,    ^,  Handel 

Hallelujah  Chonis, 

Cecilia  Club. 

Scripture  Lesson.  Rev.  Albert  A.  Lewis 

"Judge  Me,  O  God,"  Dudley  Buck 

Mr.  Llewellvn  B.  Cam. 

pj.^^,gj.  ■  Rev.  George  Bruce  Nicholson 

.^/    -r'      1  •  T  ■   1  4- '-  AUistein 

"The  Lord  is  my  Lignt, 

Miss  Eva  M.  Goodrich. 
Selection  from  iNin...   ....      Rfiv..\Y^lliam  H.  P.  Faunce,  D.  D., 

Cecilia  Club. 
Trayer,  Rev.  Charles  L.  White 

President  of  Colby  College. 
Hymn,  Kipling's  Recessional 

Benediction,  Rev.  J.  F.  Rhodes 

It  will  always  be  a  source  of  pleasure  and  satisfaction  to  the 
citizens  of  Waterville  to  recall  this  first  gathering  in  the  city's 
new  hall.  In  every  way  the  opera  house  demonstrated  its  ability 
to  satisfy  the  fondest  hopes  of  its  builders,  and  to  fulfill  its 
promise  of  furnishing  the  city  with  a  commodious,  useful  and 
beautiful  room  for  public  gatherings.  On  this  occasion  it  was 
artistically  decorated  with  ferns  and  palms,  with  flowers  in 
abundance.  But  one  regret  obtruded  itself  upon  the  observer, 
and  that  was  that  hundreds,  perhaps  thousands  of  people  were 
unable  to  find  even  standing  room  within  hearing  of  the  speakers. 
This  fact,  however,  instead  of  furnishing  a  ground  for  criticism 
of  the  capacity  of  the  audience  room,  was  only  a  true  prophecy 
of  the  interest  and  enthusiasm  with  which  the  inhabitants  and 
friends  of  the  city  were  to  enter  into  the  celebration  of  its  one 
hundredth  birthday.  The  doors  were  opened  at  6.45  to  holders 
of  tickets  which  had  been  distributed  through  the  pastors  of  the 
churches ;  and  when,  at  7.20  the  hall  was  thrown  open  to  the 
public,  comparatively  few  of  the  multitude  which  stood  w^aiting 
could  find  accommodation. 

As  the  evening  advanced  it  became  evident  that  every  partici- 
pant in  the  programme  had  made  preparation  with  full  appre- 
ciation of  the  signficance  of  the  occasion.  Prof.  Hall  never 
fails  to  master  his  audiences,  especially  when  his  local  orchestra 


HISTORY    OF    WAT^RVILLK.  II 

is  augmented  by  artists  from  the  ^Taine  Symphony.  Mr.  Cain 
and  Miss  Goodrich  are  always  favorites  Vv'ith  Waterville  audi- 
ences, and  at  this  time  amply  justified  the  artistic  taste  of  their 
many  admirers.  The  Cecilia  Club  showed  the  result  of  the  con- 
scientious and  thorough  work  of  Dr.  True.  The  selection  from 
the  95th  psalm  in  which  the  aria  was  sung  by  Miss  Kate  Sturte- 
vant  was  enjoved.  Specially  impressive,  however,  was  the 
rendition  of  Kipling's  "Recessional,"  in  which  the  audience 
joined,  and  which  was  certainiv  no  less  appropriate  on  this  occa- 
sion than  at  the  Queen's  Jubilee  for  which  it  was  first  designed. 
The  sermon  by  President  Faunce  was  a  masterpiece.  To  do 
it  justice  in  a  brief  report  is  an  impossibility.  Indeed  it  is  only 
when  every  word  is  emphasized  by  the  strong  personality  and 
powerful  magnetism  of  the  speaker  himself  that  any  true  impres- 
sion of  the  sermon  can  be  obtained. 

The  following  abstract  appeared  in  the  Waterville  Mail  and 
The  Sentinel,  and  will  give  as  well  perhaps  as  can  be  given  the 
preacher's  general  line  of  thought. 

Subject — The  State,  The  School  and  the  Church. 

The  century  which  has  elapsed  since  the  founding  of  Water- 
ville has  been  justly  called  the  "wonderful  century."  Men  have 
discovered  more  facts,  and  invented  more  mechanisms  in  the  last 
TOO  years  than  in  all  preceding  history.  But  the  greatness  of 
our  apparatus  ought  to  mean  greatness  of  intellect  and  character. 
The  difiference  between  the  old  hand  loom  and  the  modern  loom 
is  enormous ;  is  the  difference  a.^  great  between  the  man  who 
stood  behind  the  former  and  the  man  who  stands  behind  the  lat- 
ter? What  is  the  use  of  the  incandescent  light  if  it  does  not 
enable  the  citizen  to  see  his  duty?  What  is  the  advantage  of 
travelling  at  60  miles  an  hour  if  we  are  as  discontented  at  the  end 
of  the  journey  as  at  the  beginning?  The  aim  of  our  civilization 
is  not  to  w^hiten  the  seas  with  the  sails  of  commerce,  but  to 
develop  the  simple,  homely  virtues  which  are  the  chief  defense 
of  our  nation,  the  best  safeguards  of  the  fireside  and  the  home. 

We  owe  to  the  state  our  freedom  to  speak  and  to  act.  It  is 
said  that  our  New  England  fathers  were  narrow.  Yes  they 
were,  as  Niagara  is  narrow  when  it  gathers  up  the  waters  of  the 
Great  Lakes  in  smooth,  green  flood,  and  pours  them  through  one 
narrow  channel  with  the  power  of  eight  million  horses  plunging 


12  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

toward  the  sea.  They  that  live  delicately  are  in  king's  houses, 
but  the  founders  of  state  are  of  sterner  stuff. 

We,  the  sons  of  the  Puritan,  must  develop  a  new  sense  of  civic 
pride  and  municipal  duty.  Americans  have  succeeded  nobly  in 
founding  states,  but  they  have  not  yet  learned  to  govern  cities. 
We  shall  never  learn  to  govern  them  until  we  establish  non- 
partisanship  in  municipal  affairs.  The  provision  of  parks,  libra- 
ries, pure  water,  good  light,  has  no  relation  whatever  to  national 
policies.  These  are  business  matters  to  be  decided  pn  business 
principles  by  men  eager  to  serve  their  city.  The  enemies  of  the 
fathers  were  the  Indians ;  ours  are  the  spoilsmen.  Their  devil 
was  painted  red  with  horns  and  hoofs ;  ours  is  the  sleek  modern 
gentleman  with  the  Mephistophelian  smile. 

The  schools  of  this  country  are  the  chief  bond  of  national 
unity.  They  are  the  digestive  apparatus  of  the  body  politic.  It 
is  a  common  language,  a  common  social  ideal  a  common  love  of 
order  and  liberty,  a  common  political  tradition  that  makes  the 
common  school.  The  army  of  16,000,000  children  in  our  public 
schools  is  the  best  defense  of  the  nation. 

Our  higher  schools  and  colleges  have  contributed  much  to  the 
national  seriousness.  In  the  records  of  the  oldest  church  in 
Rhode  Island  we  read :  "This  meeting  house  was  built  for  the 
worship  of  God  and  to  hold  Commencements  in."  Yale  began 
with  40  books  contributed  by  ten  men.  Colgate  began  with  an 
endowment  of  $13  contributed  by  13  ministers  in  a  village  inn. 
Colby  College  was  founded  by  men  of  the  same  spirit  as  Judson 
and  Livingstone.  The  profession  in  those  early  days  belonged 
to  the  noble  army  of  martyrs.  Our  colleges  have  given  America 
much  of  its  seriousness  of  purpose  and  lofty  ideal. 

State  and  school  and  church  must  combine  in  the  making  of 
men.  We  are  to  perpetuate  the  Puritan  type  not  by  mere  imi- 
tation, but  by  reproducing  the  Puritan  spirit.  We  are  weary 
of  conventionalized  religion — of  millinery  and  formulas  and 
heresies.  But  our  age  is  eager  for  the  religion  which  can  make 
men  who  shall  be  sturdy  citizens,  true  scholars  and  servants  of 
their  generation. 

Monday,  June  2^d,  was  the  city's  birthday,  and  its  age  was 
announced  at  sun-rise  by  a  salute  fired  from  a  neighboring  hill ; 
one  gun  for  each  year  of  the  city's  life. 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILL^.  1 3 

In  the  forenoon  occurred  the  dedication  of  the  new  City  Hall. 
Certainly  Waterville  could  hardly  have  selected  for  herself  a 
more  fitting  birthday  gift  than  this  fair  and  convenient  home 
for  her  officials  and  this  comfortable  and  inspiring  meeting  place 
for  her  citizens.  If  the  expressions  of  satisfaction  which  came 
from  the  vast  throng  that  visited  every  corner  of  the  new  build- 
ing on  this  dedication  day  is  evidence  of  the  opinion  of  the  gen- 
eral public,  certainly  the  efforts  of  the  promoters  and  builders  of 
our  city's  new  hall  are  not  without  due  appreciation  on  the  part 
of  Waterville's  citizens.  Everywhere  there  was  manifest  a  sense 
of  pleasure  and  satisfaction  that  the  work  was  done,  and  done 
so  well. 

At  10  O'clock  occurred  the  dedicatory  exercises  in  the  Opera 
House,  with  the  programme  as  follows : 

Dedication  of  Nezu  City  Hall. 
]\Ir.  Frank  Redington,  Presiding. 
Music  Hall's  Orchestra 

Prof.  R.  B.  Hall,  Conductor. 
Music,  The  Cecilia  Club 

Prayer,  Rev.  Albert  A.  Lewis 

Music,  Children  of  the  Public  Schools 

Miss  Lillian  Berry,  Director. 
Address,  Hon.  S.  S.  Brown 

Solo,  Mrs.  Antonia  H.  Sawyer 

Address,  Frederick  W.  Clair,  Esq. 

Music,  The  Cecilia  Club 

Presentation  of  the  keys  of  City  Hall,  ^.Ir.  Horace  Purinton. 

Acceptance  of  the  keys.  His  Honor,  ]\Iayor  ^Martin  Blaisdell 

Solo,  ^Ir.  Llewellyn  B.  Cain 

Address,  Ex-]\Iayor  Hon.  Chas.  F.  Johnson 

Music,  Halls'  Orchestra 

Here  again,  as  on  Sunday  evening,  all  gave  evidence  of  the 
wisdom  of  those  who  were  entrusted  with  the  duty  of  furnishing 
an  appropriate  programme  for  this  interesting  occasion. 

Mrs.  Sawyer  is  always  heard  with  pleasure  in  Waterville  as 
elsewhere,  and  it  was  specially  fitting  that  one  of  \\'aterville's 
former  residents  who   has  gained    a  national    reputation  as  an 


14  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

artist  of  unusual  ability  should  be  heard  on  this  occasion  at  her 
old  home.  Also  the  efficient  work  of  ]Miss  Lillian  Berry  as 
director  of  music  in  the  public  schools  was  shown  to  excellent 
advantage  by  the  really  artistic  rendering  of  the  "Soldier's 
Chorus"  from  Gounod's  "Faust,"  by  fifty  children  from  the 
eighth  and  ninth  grades. 

The  speakers  were  all  at  their  best,  as  might  have  been  learned 
by  one  far  beyond  the  sound  of  their  voices  by  the  frequent  and 
prolonged  applause  which  greeted  and  often  interrupted  them, 
and  never  failed  to  stamp  the  approval  of  the  listeners  at  the  close 
of  each  address. 

Probably  no  man  in  Waterville  has  been  more  industrious  and 
inRuential  in  arousing  the  citizens  to  the  need  and  advantages 
of  a  new  City  Hall  than  Mr.  Frank  Redington,  ex-president  of 
the  Waterville  Board  of  Trade,  and  every  one  recognized  the 
appropriateness  of  the  selection  of  him  as  presiding  officer  at 
the  dedication  of  the  building  which  he  had  labored  so  faithfully 
to  procure. 

Mr.  Redington' s  Address. 

]\Ir.  Mayor,  Gentlemen  of  the  city  council,  Ladies  and  Gen- 
tlemen :  I  assure  you  it  is  with  a  profound  sense  of  honor  that 
I  assume  the  position  of  presiding  officer  at  this  first  secular 
gathering  of  our  citizens  within  the  walls  of  this  splendid  edi- 
fice, and  I  thank  the  official  board  for  tendering  me  this  great 
favor.  My  great  grandfather  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
the  Revolution,  after  peace  was  declared,  came  to  Winslow,  and 
cast  in  his  lot  with  the  people  of  this  vicinity.  Afterward  he 
settled  on  this  side  of  the  river  in  what  is  now  the  city  of  Water- 
ville, and  in  co-operation  with  others  built  the  first  dam  across 
the  Kennebec  river  at  this  point  more  than  one  hundred  years 
ago.  Ever  since  then  some  of  the  Redington  family  have  been 
residents  of  Waterville,  and  you  may  readily  see  that  the  history 
of  our  city  is  one  in  which  I  have  much  interest. 

One  hundred  years  ago  Waterville  had  a  citizenship  of  about 
eight  hundred  souls,  and  as  we  come  along  down  the  stream  of 
time  we  find  an  almost  continuous  growth  with  a  lull  now  and 
then  which  only  emphasized  the  growth.  x\bout  1870  it  seemed 
that  we  were  sinking  into  a  state  called  by  Grover  Cleveland 
'Inocuous  desuetude,"  but  rescue  was  at  hand  and  the  Lockwood 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  1 5 

Cotton  Mill  started  the  ball  to  rolling  in  the  right  direction. 
Since  then  our  progress  has  been  steady  and  wholesome.  Nearly 
all  of  you  are  familiar  with  our  recent  history,  and  I  will  only  say 
that  we  have  reached  our  present  size  of  10,000  in  good  season 
to  celebrate  our  looth  anniversary. 

This  building  which  we  dedicate  today  is  a  structure  of  which 
we  may  well  be  proud.  Its  career  began  more  than  seven  years 
ago,  when  was  first  conceived  the  idea  of  a  municipal  building, 
suitable  and  commensurate  with  our  needs.  It  has  had  a  check- 
ered life,  and  at  times  it  seemed  as  if  it  were  drawing  its  last 
breath,  but  a  renewed  effort  on  the  part  of  its  friends  brought  it 
into  activity  once  again,  and  we  now  rejoice  that  we  have  a 
suitable  home  for  our  city  officials,  a  hall  large  enough,  hand- 
some enough,  and  properly  constructed  and  equipped  for  all 
public  gatherings.  Here  we  ma\  laugh,  and  here  we  may  cry. 
Here  we  may  listen  to  the  voice  of  oratory  and  the  charms  of 
oratorio.  Here  thousands  may  be  swayed  by  the  power  of  elo- 
quence, and  questions  of  great  moment  be  considered,  debated 
and  determined. 

This  structure  is  stately  and  beautiful  and  accords  well  with 
the  sentiment  expressed  by  Polonius  in  his  precepts  to  Laertes 
"Costly  thy  habit  as  thy  purse  can  buy,  rich  not  gaudy,  for  the 
apparel  oft  proclaims  the  man,"  and  so  it  is  with  cities  as  with 
individuals.  It  has  been  said  that  the  world  will  make  a  path- 
way to  his  cabin  door  who  does  his  work  the  best,  even  though 
his  home  be  in  the  wilderness,  and  people  will  surely  find  us  if 
we  find  ourselves. 

I  am  undecided  whether  to  place  the  church  or  the  school  first 
in  the  order  of  great  benefits  to  a  town  or  city.  Certainly  religion 
without  learning  is  but  a  series  of  superstitions  but  the  two  com- 
bined are  perhaps  co-equal  in  their  great  results. 

Next  in  order,  so  far  as  the  past  is  concerned,  I  would  put  the 
old  town  meeting  house,  wherein  the  people  gathered  to  discuss 
matters  of  common  interest,  and  settle  questions  of  municipal 
needs ;  and  in  this  building  we  have  the  convention  hall,  the  old 
town  house  remodelled,  enlarged,  beautified,  adorned,  and  ful- 
filled. Some  of  you  are  perhaps  thinking  of  the  entertainment 
element  which  is  introduced,  for  the  human  mind  is  so  con- 
structed that  it  needs  entertainment  as  much  as  the  body  needs 


1 6  HISTORY    O?    WATKRVILLE. 

nourishment.  Its  desires  and  demands  are  God  given,  and  the 
man  who  thinks  to  suppress  them  will  find  himself  ever  on  the 
wrong  side.  In  the  municipal  action  which  has  built  this  hall 
we  are  on  the  right  road  and  our  future  progress  depends  upon 
ourselves.  If  we  in  fancy  should  attempt  to  reach  the  source  of 
all  knowledge  and  prosperity  and  should  ask  of  the  Goddess  of 
Knowledge  the  keys  to  her  treasure  house  that  w^e  might  learn 
its  secret,  she  would  point  back  to  earth  and  with  a  smile  would 
utter  the  one  word  "\\^ork."  Work  with  the  hands,  and  work 
with  the  brain ;  this  it  is  that  brings  results. 

But  I  am  not  here  to  speak  to  you.  I  am  here  to  introduce 
speakers.  The  first  man  whom  I  shall  call  upon  is  the  Hon. 
Simon  S.  Brown  of  the  Waterville  Bar. 

Mr.  Brown's  address  was  largely  of  congratulation.  In  very 
appropriate  words  he  congratulated  the  city  on  its  solid  pros- 
perity. He  paid  a  fitting  tribute  to  Mayor  Blaisdell  for  his 
arduous  and  valuable  labors  in  connection  with  the  erection  of 
City  Hall  and  to  the  builders,  Horace  Purinton  and  Co.,  for  the 
thoroughness  as  well  as  the  beauty  of  the  building.  He  referred 
with  feeling  to  the  old  City  Hall  and  to  the  men  who  had  spoken 
there  in  the  past.  Because  of  what  the  old  hall  had  been  in  the 
life  of  the  town  he  thought  that  it  should  have  been  appropri- 
ately decorated  for  the  Centennial.  Its  own  centennial  might 
have  been  observed  several  years  ago. 

After  singing  by  Mrs.  Antonia  II.  Sawyer,  which  was  greatly 
enjoyed  and  greatly  applauded,  Frederick  W.  Clair,  Esq.,  was 
introduced.  His  address  was  fittingly  historical.  He  sketched 
the  somewhat  checkered  history  of  the  City  Hall  movement  in  a 
delightfully  humorous  fashion.  In  an  able  and  suggestive  man- 
ner he  spoke  of  the  true  policy  of  the  progressive  city. 

In  presenting  the  keys  of  the  building  to  Mayor  Blaisdell,  Mr. 
Horace  Purinton,  of  the  firm  of  Horace  Purinton  and  Co.,  the 
builders,  spoke  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Chairman,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen : 

On  an  occasion  like  this  very  little  need  be  said  by  the  builder 
of  the  building.  What  we  say  here  today  will  soon  be  forgotten 
but  what  has  been  done  here  will  abide  and  will  be  speaking  long 
after  we  are  gone.     On  the  12th  day  of  last  July  contracts  were 


HISTORY   OF    WATKRVILLE.  I7 

signed  for  the  erection  of  this  building-.  At  that  time  the  most  of 
the  material  entering  into  the  construction  of  this  building  was  in 
its  natural  state. 

The  stone  for  the  trimmings  was  in  the  quarries  of  northern 
New  York  and  ^Michigan.  The  material  for  the  terra  cotta  was 
then  in  the  clay  banks  of  New  Jersey.  The  material  for  the  brick 
was  in  its  natural  state  in  the  clay  banks  within  our  borders. 
The  lumber  for  the  finish  was  at  the  mills  in  Indiana  and  Georgia 
in  the  rough,  the  lumber  for  the  frame  being  in  the  log  on  its 
way  to  the  mill  on  our  beautiful  Kennebec  river.  It  is  worthy 
of  note  at  this  time  that  the  facilities  are  such  in  this  our  day  to 
bring  the  material  from  so  great  a  distance,  have  it  worked  into 
form  and  put  together  in  less  than  a  year's  time. 

Hon.  S.  S.  Brown,  who  has  spoken  this  morning,  has  very 
kindly  spoken  of  our  part  in  the  construction  of  this  building. 
In  behalf  of  the  members  of  our  firm  I  thank  him  but  not  all  the 
credit  belongs  to  us.  The  architect  and  building  committees 
have  planned  and  directed  wisely,  and  other  contractors  have 
done  work  here  and  deserve  credit  w^ith  ourselves.  And  there 
are  others  who  deserve  great  honor  and  credit  w^ho  are  sometimes 
overlooked  on  occasions  like  this.  I  refer  to  the  skilled 
mechanics  and  workmen  who  have  taken  the  raw  material, 
molded,  and  built  it  into  this  structure,  and  whose  skill  and 
workmanship  will  be  a  joy  and  beauty  to  us  and  generations  fol- 
lowing. 

I  want  to  express  here  my  appreciation  of  this  skill  and  faith- 
fulness with  which  these  men  have  wrought,  many  of  them  our 
own  fellow  citizens. 

Mr.  Mayor,  chairman  of  the  building  committee,  I  thank  you 
and  the  gentlemen  associated  with  you  for  the  courtesy  and 
patience  w^ith  w^hich  you  have  treated  us  during  the  construction 
of  this  building. 

It  only  remains  now  for  me  to  pass  to  you  the  keys  and  give 
the  building  for  the  use  and  pleasure  of  the  people  of  our  beloved 
city. 

In  accepting  the  keys  ]\Iayor  Blaisdell  spoke  briefly  of  the  sig- 

nificence  of  the  event,  and  in  behalf  of  the  building  committee 

and  the  City  Government  expressed  appreciation  of  the  faithful 

and  honest  work  done  by  the  builders,  making  special  mention 

2 


l8  HISTORY    OF    W'ATERVILLE. 

of  the  foreman,  Mr.  Frank  Merriman.  He  included  in  his  appre- 
ciation the  mechanics  and  laborers  who  had  been  employed  upon 
the  building. 

A  noticeable  thing  in  the  addresses  of  Mr.  Purinton  and  Mayor 
Blaisdell  was  their  kindly  appreciation  of  the  work  of  others. 

The  final  address  of  the  morning  was  given  by  Hon.  Charles 
F.  Johnson,  ex-mayor  of  the  city. 

The  Centennial  element  of  the  celebration,  the  connection  of 
the  past  with  the  present,  the  memory  of  those  whom  we  revere 
and  the  pathos  as  well  as  the  gladness  of  the  home-coming  of 
the  old  residents,  all  these  found  place  in  an  address  which  was 
not  only  eloquent  but  in  perfect  accord  with  the  spirit  of  the 
occasion. 

A  pleasant  feature,  unannounced  on  the  programme,  was  the 
arrival  during  the  exercises  of  Governor  and  ]Mrs.  Hill  attended 
by  several  of  the  Governor's  staff  and  members  of  his  Council. 
Hon.  Wm.  T.  Haines  of  the  Council  did  the  honors  of  the 
occasion  and  entertained  the  Governor  and  his  party  during  their 
stay  in  the  city. 

MONDAY    AFTERNOON. 

On  Monday  afternoon  the  literary  exercises  of  the  Centennial 
were  held  at  Monument  Park.  It  is  doubtful  if  so  many  people 
were  ever  gathered  into  an  audience  within  the  limits  of  the  city 
as  on  this  afternoon.  The  expectations  of  those  who  had 
arranged  for  the  accommodation  and  comfort  of  a  large  audience 
by  an  open-air  meeting  were  not  disappointed. 

A  large  platform  had  been  erected  against  the  north  side  of 
the  Coburn  Institute  building.  Here  were  seated  the  Governor 
and  party,  the  executive  committee  of  the  Centennial,  members 
of  the  city  government  and  visitors.  Among  the  sons  of  Water- 
ville  who  were  there  were  Hon.  Frederic  E.  Boothby,  mayor  of 
Portland;  Hon.  J.  ^Manchester  Haynes  of  Augusta;  Hon. 
Josiah  H.  Drummond  of  Portland :  Prof.  William  Alathews,  L. 
L.  D.,  of  Boston,  and  many  others.  The  descendants  of  many 
of  the  early  residents  of  the  town  were  present  and  their  presence 
added  greatly  to  the  enjoyment  of  the  occasion. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  I9 

The  progTamme  was  as  follows : 

Dr.  Frederick  C.  Thayer,  Presiding. 
Music,  Hall's  Military  Band 

Prof.  R.  B.  Hall,  leader. 
Greeting,         His  Honor,  Martin  Blaisdell,  ]Mayor  of  \\'aterville 
Prayer, 
Rev.  Geo.  D.  B.  Pepper,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Lately  President  of  Colby 

College. 
Welcome  by  chairman  of  Centennial  Committee  of  One  Hundred, 
Dr.  Frederick  C.  Thayer. 

Music. 
Response,  His  Excellency,  Gov.  John  F.  Hill 

Historical  Address,  Rev.  Edwin  Carey  Whittemore 

^NFusic. 
Poem,  ]\Irs.  Julian  D.  Taylor 

Read  by  Prof.  Arthur  J.  Roberts  of  Colby  College. 
Oration,  Hon.  W.  C.  Philbrook 

Lately  ]\Iayor  of  Waterville. 
Music,  Hall's  Military  Band 

Dr.  Thayer's  Address. 

Waterville  has  rounded  out  the  first  century  of  its  existence 
as  a  distinct  municipality  and  today  its  sons  and  daughters, 
neighbors  and  friends  celebrate  this  supreme  event. 

In  behalf  of  the  committee  of  One  Hundred,  who  have  had  in 
charge  all  matters  pertaining  to  this  celebration,  the  very  pleasant 
duty  devolves  upon  me  to  welcome  you,  everyone,  to  the  fes- 
tivities of  this  significant  occasion. 

From  the  east,  from  the  west,  from  the  north,  from  the  south, 
you  have  come  back  to  the  place  of  your  birth  to  lay  your  tribute 
of  loyalty  and  affection  at  its  shrine,  to  rejoice  in  its  prosperity 
and  the  fulfillment  of  its  first  century  of  corporate  existence,  and 
to  you  especially  do  we  extend  a  most  cordial  welcome. 

Our  one  hundred  years  stand  for  more  in  the  way  of  achieve- 
ment than  all  the  previous  centuries  within  historic  times.  The 
most  cursory  glance  at  its  history  reveals  this  truth,  and  shows 
how  its  great  inventions  and  their  adaptation  to  the  needs  of  man 
have  marked  new  epochs  in  the  development  of  the  human  race. 

Human  life  as  it  now  exists  in  this  country  would  be  well  nigh 
impossible  without  our  present  means  of  transit  and  transporta- 


20  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

tion,  without  the  rapid  interchange  of  thought  and  opinion,  and 
the  quick  knowledge  of  current  events  transpiring  daily  within 
its  vast  domain. 

The  comforts  of  life  have  been  vastly  enhanced  by  the  adop- 
tion and  use  of  a  thousand  things  now  called  common,  all  the 
gift  of  the  nineteenth  century. 

Science,  art,  letters,  indeed,  every  phase  of  human  development 
and  attainment  are  greatly  in  advance,  yes,  immeasurably  so,  of 
the  time  when  our  forefathers  laid  the  foundation  upon  which 
we  have  builded. 

While  we  may  not  be  able  to  boast  that  from  our  midst  have 
gone  forth  any  of  the  great  minds  which  have  moved  the  world, 
or  that  we  have  given  to  mankind  any  wonderful  [invention,  or 
great  idea  which  has  changed  the  trend  of  thought  or  action,  yet 
we  may  well  pride  ourselves  that  we  have  contributed  our  share 
to  the  great  store  of  general  knowledge,  the  sum  of  which  has 
been  so  potent  in  the  advancement  of  the  world,  in  the  better- 
ment of  the  human  race. 

Again  I  extend  to  you  our  most  cordial  greetings  and  welcome 
you  to  our  hearts  and  our  hearthstones. 

To  His  Excellency,  the  Chief  Alagistrate  of  this  good  old 
Commonwealth,  who  for  the  time  has  laid  aside  the  cares  of 
state  and  honored  us  with  his  presence,  do  we  extend  the  cordial 
warm  hand  of  welcome. 

To  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Waterville,  who  by  their  success 
and  eminence  in  the  homes  of  their  adoption,  have  brought 
special  honor  to  the  place  of  their  birth,  in  short  to  all  as  to  those 
who  have  wrought  well  their  part,  do  we  give  glad  welcome  to 
the  home  of  their  childhood,  the  home  of  their  fathers.  We  are 
glad  to  welcome  also  the  representatives  of  so  many  of  the  cities 
and  towns  of  our  goodly  State  of  ]Maine  and  to  respond  to  the 
good  will  which  has  brought  them  to  celebrate  with  us  the  cen- 
tennial of  Waterville. 

The  response  to  the  above  address,  given  by  His  Excellency, 
Governor  Hill,  was  an  eloquent  appreciation  of  what  Waterville 
stands  for  in  the  Commonwealth,  and  of  congratulation  on  her 
progress  and  prospects.  The  presence  of  Governor  and  Mrs. 
Hill  and  their  evident  sympathy  with  the  spirit  of  the  occasion 
was  highly  appreciated  by  both  citizens  and  visitors. 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  21 

The  History,  Poem,  and  Oration  are  to  be  found  elsewhere 
in  this  vohime  and  speak  for  themselves.  Xo  feature  of  the  cen- 
tennial however  will  be  of  such  lasting  value  and  interest  to  all 
inhabitants  of  Waterville  as  the  History  which  has  been  pre- 
pared by  Rev.  Edwin  C.  Whittemore,  a  portion  of  which  was 
read  by  him  at  the  Park.  It  was  the  universal  testimony  of  his 
hearers  that  a  work  of  unusual  excellence  and  value  had  been 
accomplished,  which  the  city  both  now  and  in  future  generations 
will  not  fail  to  appreciate.  All  parts  of  the  program  were 
listened  to  with  much  pleasure,  and  the  large  audience  was  held 
to  the  end  by  the  freshness  of  thought  and  power  of  eloquence 
which  each  speaker  displayed. 


MONDAY    EVENING. 

For  Monday  evening  a  grand  illumination  of  the  city  was 
announced,  and  surely  the  city  made  itself  more  impressive  under 
the  glare  of  the  many  thousands  of  electric  lamps  than  under  the 
direct  rays  of  the  sun.  Crowds  of  people  passed  to  and  fro 
under  what  appeared  at  a  distance  as  a  continuous  arch  of  lights, 
extending  through  all  the  principal  streets.  The  centennial  arch 
at  Elmwood  Park  was  seen  to  best  advantage  at  night,  with  its 
hundreds  of  electric  lights,  arranged  in  graceful  lines. 

The  center  of  attraction  Monday  evening,  however,  was  at 
City  Hall,  where  a  reception  of  the  citizens  and  visitors  was  held. 
Hall's  orchestra  occupied  the  back  of  the  stage,  while  the  receiv- 
ing line  extended  across  the  entire  front.  On  the  right  of  the 
line  were  His  Excellency,  Governor  Hill  and  Mrs.  Hill,  beyond 
them  in  order  were:  The  Mayor  and  Mrs.  INIartin  Blaisdell, 
Dr.  and  ^Irs.  Frederick  C.  Thayer,  JNIr.  and  :Mrs.  Willard  B. 
Arnold,  Rev.  Edward  Lester  Marsh,  President  and  :\Irs.  Charles 
Lincoln  White,  ^liss  Grace  E.  Alathews,  Perham  S.  Heald,  Mrs. 
J.  H.  Grondin,  Gedeon  Picher,  Mrs.  Ann  U.  Pulsifer,  jMr.  and 
Mrs.  Alpheus  W.  Flood. 

The  presentations  were  made  by  I\Ir.  John  E.  Nelson  and  Hon. 
Chas.  F.  Johnson.  The  other  ushers  were:  Frank  J.  Good- 
ridge,  Dr.  J.  L.  Fortier,  Albert  F.  Drummond,  Dennis  ]\L  Bangs, 
Charles  A.  Redington,  George  A.  Kennison,  Dr.  J.  Frederick 
Hill,    Frederick  J.  Arnold,  William  A.  Smith,    Harry    Dubois, 


22  HISTORY    OF    Vv ATERVILLi:. 

Horatio  R.  Dunham,  Harvey  D.  Eaton,  Frank  W.  Alden,  Charles 
J.  Clukey,  Wilham  Fogarty,  Elwood  T.  Wyman,  Dr.  John  G. 
Towne,  Dr.  E.  E.  Goodrich,  Henry  Darrah. 

For  nearly  two  hours  a  constant  stream  of  guests  passed  along 
the  line  and  grasped  the  hand  of  each  of  the  receiving  committee. 

TUESDAY. 

The  last  day  of  the  celebration  was  as  brilliant  and  successful 
in  point  of  the  spectacular  as  the  others  w^ere  from  a  literary  and 
social  standpoint.  Tuesday  forenoon  at  10.05  o'clock  was  thd 
time  appointed  for  the  civic,  military,  trade,  and  industrial 
parade.  It  would  not  have  been  surprising  if  such  an  hetero- 
geneous column  as  made  up  this  procession  should  have  been 
anywhere  from  a  half  an  hour  to  an  hour  late  in  starting,  but 
surely  if  such  had  been  the  case  all  would  have  felt  a  jar  in  the 
otherwise  absolute  precision  of  the  entire  celebration.  Fortu- 
nately the  chief  marshal.  Dr.  F.  C.  Thayer,  felt  the  incongruity 
of  such  a  delay  beforehand,  and  had  the  ability  to  prevent  it. 
The  procession  began  to  move  at  exactly  the  appointed  time,  and 
the  whole  parade  passed  oft*  as  smoothly  as  though  it  had  been 
drilled  for  w^eks. 

The  line  of  march  was  as  follows :  Elm  street,  to  Center,  to 
Pleasant,  to  Western  avenue,  to  Elm,  to  Spring,  to  Gold,  to  j\Iain, 
to  Water,  to  Silver,  to  ]\Iain,  to  College  avenue,  to  Depot  Square, 
to  Main,  to  Elm,  to  Monument  Park  where  the  parade  was 
dismissed. 

The  length  of  the  parade  was  such  that  any  extended  descrip- 
tion of  each  of  its  separate  attractions  would  require  all  the  pages 
that  this  volume  contains.  Yet  it  will  always  be  of  interest  to 
the  friends  of  Waterville  to  have  a  brief  record  of  this  proces- 
sion, sufficiently  detailed  to  convey  some  impression  of  the  inge- 
nuity of  the  many  men  and  w^omen  who  contributed  so  lavishly 
of  their  means  and  skill  to  make  this  parade  a  truly  magnificent 
affair,  such  a  record  was  found  in  the  W^aterville  Sentinel  of 
Wednesday,  June  25th,  and  is  copied  here  with  but  slight  and 
unimportant  omissions  which  lack  of  space  compels. 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  23 

THE    PARADE. 

Platoon  of  police. 

Dr.  Frederick  C.  Thayer,  chief  marshal,  and  staff. 

Adjutant  and  Chief  of  Staff*.  Dana  P.  Foster. 

The  staff:  Dr.  A.  Joly,  Lowell  G.  Salisbury,  Ernest  E. 
Decker,  Cyrus  W.  Davis,  Horatio  D.  Bates,  Dr.  J.  F.  Hill,  Dr. 
L.  G.  Bunker,  George  S.  Dolloff,  Howard  B.  Snell,  George  H. 
Groder,  Elwood  T.  Wyman,  Hascall  S.  Hall,  Dr.  E.  E.  Goodrich. 

Elm  City  Guards,  mounted,  Capt.  Ray  Blanchard. 

First  Division. 

Hall's  :\lilitary  Band. 

Dr.  L.  G.  Bunker,  chief  of  division,  with  two  aids.  •  . 

Centennial  float,  "Fair  Waterville." 

Co.  H.,  Infantry,  Second  Regiment,  N.  G.  S.  M.,  Capt.  A.  T, 
Shurtleff'. 

Battalionl  Second  Regiment,  Patriarchs  Militant,  Maj.  Evander 
Gilpatrick,  commanding. 

Canton  Halifax. 

Canton  Augusta. 

Society  Union  Lafayette,  Gedeon  Richer,  commander. 

Float  showing  the  first  meeting  of  Gen.  Washington  and  the 
Marquis  de  Lafayette.  Two  stalwart  figures  in  the  dress  of  two 
centuries  ago  amicably  conferring  across  a  table. 

Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  Uniform  Rank,  Edwin 
Towne  commanding. 

Waterville  Cadets,  uniformed,  Capt.  George  E.  Tolman. 

W.  S.  Heath  Post,  No.  14,  G.  A.  R.,  in  carriages.  Department 
Commander  James  L.  ^Merrick  in  first  carriage. 

Second  Division. 

Knights  of  Pythias  Second  Regiment  Band. 
George  S.  Dolloff,  chief  with  two  aids. 
Uniform  Rank,  K.  P.,  E.  J.  Brown,  captain. 
Float  representing  Damon  and  Pythias  in  classic  robes  grasp- 
ing each  other's  hand  with  the  mystic  grip. 

St.  John  Baptist  Society,  I^Iichael  Morin,  commander. 


24  HISTORY    OF    V/ATERVILLE. 

Float  containing  a  dainty  little  maiden  in  white,  the  cross  and 
banner  of  the  order  in  one  hand  and  the  other  resting  lovingly 
in  the  fleece  of  a  snowy  white  lamb. 

The  Bricklayer's  Union,  Joseph  Preault,  president. 

Allan  Williams,  deputy.  The  masons  marched  in  well  kept 
ranks  clad  in  white  duck  suits.  These  were  followed  by  a  float 
showing  bricklayers  and  masons  of  Union  No.  8  busily  at  work 
on  a  structure  of  brick  and  granite. 

Union  St.  Joseph,  Jules  Gamach,  commander,  showing  the 
carpenter  at  work  at  the  bench. 

Third  Division. 

George  Groder,  chief,  with  two  aids. 

Float,  "The  Village  School,"  a  representation  of  a  red  brick 
schoolhouse,  green  yard  and  white  fence. 

Carriages  with  invited  guests  and  Waterville  city  government. 

Members  of  the  Centennial  executive  committee. 

C.  H.  Nelson  driving  the  famous  Nelson,  2.09. 

Horses  from  Sunnyside  Farm,  driven  by  young  ladies,  two 
mounted,  handsomely  arrayed. 

H.  R.  Mitchell,  the  florist,  had  a  beautiful  float,  consisting  of 
a  monster  basket  of  flowers,  tied  with  white  ribbons  and 
streamers. 

E.  S.  Dunn,  the  tailor,  had  a  beautifully  decorated  cart  in  the 
flower  section. 

fourth  Division. 

Howard  B.  Snell,  chief,  with  two  aids. 

Waterville  Bicycle  Club  with  floats  of  four  bicycles  abreast 
drawing  a  chariot. 

The  club  followed  in  double  rank  of  decorated  wheels. 

Olympia  Band  of  Augusta. 

Then  came  the  trades  display,  complete  and  beautiful,  and 
made  up  as  follows : 

Otten,  the  baker,  had  a  handsome  display  of  thirteen  men  in 
white  duck  with  white  top  hats,  carrying  white  canes.  Then 
came  a  brick  oven  hard  at  work  and  after  that  Fleischman  & 
Go's,  team,  followed  by  the  Otten  deliverv  wagons  and  a  big  float 
of  "Uneeda's,"  with  four  girls  on  the  corners,  tossing  National 
biscuits  into  the  crowd. 


I 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  25 

W.  B.  Arnold,  hardware  and  plumbing. 

L.  H.  Soper  put  in  a  beautiful  float  in  yellow  and  white  on 
which  rode  nine  girls.  The  sides  and  ends  of  the  float  formed 
open  oval  panels  and  the  effect  was  charming. 

The  Hollingsworth  &  Whitney  Company  had  a  notable  exhibit 
drawn  by  six  powerful  horses.  The  lower  part  of  the  float  was 
made  up  of  the  various  kinds  of  paper  their  mills  turn  out  and 
on  the  top  of  all  was  a  giant  roll  of  paper  148  inches  wide,  weigh- 
ing 5,250  pounds  and  measuring  seven  and  one-half  miles  in 
length. 

The  Florence  fruit  store,  four  teams. 

Singer  Sewing  Machine  Company,  one  team. 

Standard  Oil  Company,  one  tank, 

J.  J.  Pray,  carriages  and  harnesses. 

The  Bay  \''iew  Hotel,  one  carriage. 

The  Dickinson  City  Harness  Store,  three  floats,  one  with 
bicycles  and  one  with  trunks. 

Allen  &  Pollard,  groceries,  delivery  wagon  and  float  with  forty 
barrels  of  flour. 

Redington  &  Co.,  two  teams,  one  a  float  with  a  parlor  suit  and 
the  other  piled  high  with  rich  carpeting. 

Young  &  Chalmers  had  four  decorated  ice  carts  of  the  present, 
followed  by  an  ante-diluvian  rig  labelled  "the  ice  cart  of  1850." 

Whitcomb  &  Cannon  advertised  their  meats  with  an  elaborate 
and  tasty  collection  of  garnished  loins  and  quarters,  the  team 
being  driven  by  a  boy  in  white. 

Blanchard,  the  music  dealer,  livened  the  waits  with  a  phono- 
graph which  was  working  overtime  on  the  wagon  seat. 

Proctor  &  Bowie  of  Winslow,  had  a  float  showing  a  modern 
kitchen,  followed  by  a  float  advertising  Sun  Proof  paints  and 
containing  an  excellent  miniature  of  the  block  house  at  Fort 
Halifax. 

G.  S.  Flood  &  Co.,  coal  cart  decorated  in  green  and  white. 

H.  C.  Haskell,  grocer,  one  team. 

Wardwell  Brothers  had  a  beautiful  float  in  red  and  white,  a 
courtly  array  with  a  high  throne  filled  by  a  queen  in  red  and 
white,  with  a  white  parasol,  while  below  her  sat  the  beauties  of 
the  court,  all  in  white.     The  effect  was  unusually  attractive. 

Pomerleau  had  a  schooner-rigged  float  filled  with  school  chil- 
dren, the  sails  of  the  vessel  furnishing  advertising  space. 


26  HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLE. 

P.  P.  Herbst  had  a  handsome  float  driven  by  two  Indian  war- 
riors, eight  men  being  busily  engaged  making  cigars. 

S.  A.  and  A.  B.  Green  had  their  coal  wagons  filled  with  anthra- 
cite and  decorated  with  flowers  and  bunting. 

E.  W.  Drake,  assistant  superintendent  of  the  International 
Correspondence  School  of  Scranton,  Pa.,  made  a  good  hit  with 
his  Resolution  Club  in  parade. 

Dunham,  the  clothier,  set  forth  the  changes  in  the  dress  of  the 
American  in  the  four  centuries  past,  each  period  being  repre- 
sented by  a  youth  in  the  attire  of  that  time. 

Cunningham  &  Smith  had  a  big  white  shoe  on  their  float  filled 
with  so  many  children  they  didn't  know  what  to  do.  A  clown 
did  the  driving. 

Armour  &  Co.,  had  a  yellow  wagon  filled  with  their  products, 
surmounted  by  a  monster  ham. 

The  Maine  Central  market  had  a  tea  and  coffee  wagon  filled  to 
the  brim. 

Clukey  8l  Libby  Co.,  had  four  representations,  including 
twenty-four  boys  in  gray  dusters  with  red  advertising  umbrellas  ; 
a  float  with  twelve  young  ladies  in  white  with  white  and  rose 
sunshades,  the  team  being  decorated  with  500  poppies  and  drawn 
by  four  gray  horses  with  white  harnesses. 

G.  S.  DollofT  &  Co.,  had  a  float  representing  "Our  Defenders — 
The  Men  Behind  the  Guns."  The  float  contained  a  five-inch 
brass  cannon  manned  by  four  jackies  in  white. 

The  Whittemore  Furniture  Company  had  a  float  in  green  and 
garnet  filled  with  couches  of  their  manufacture. 

Arthur  Daviau,  a  decorated  grocery  wagon. 

The  Ticonic  Mineral  Spring  Company  had  a  float  of  the  forest 
primeval  with  a  bark  tepee  and  a  trio  of  dusky  braves  in  their 
blankets,  followed  by  one  of  the  delivery  carts. 

H.  C.  Shores,  milk  and  cream. 

H.  L.  Emery's  dry  goods  float  represented  a  big  round  daisy 
made  of  dainty  little  girls  in  white  with  damsels  in  yellow  form- 
ing the  center. 

The  Vigue  Harness  &  Carriage  Company  had  a  four-horse 
float  with  a  bicycle  carriage  and  show  window  horse  of  shining 
proportions. 

The  Loverinp:  Hair  Store  had  two  pretty  little  misses  in  a  pony 
cart,  shaded  by  a  rose  trimmed  parasol. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  2J 

J.  L.  Light,  grocery  wagon. 

W'aterville  Steam  Dye  House,  two  teams. 

Golden  Oil  Company,  Henry  Tucker,  one  team. 

Union  Farm  Creamery,  two  teams,  the  latter  filled  with  young 
porkers. 

W.  P.  Stewart  &  Co.,  grocers,  two  teams. 

Atherton  Furniture  Company,  a  wagon-load  of  attractive 
goods. 

A  float  representing  the  old  ferry  boat  of  commerce,  filled  with 
boys. 

E.  G.  Grondin,  clothier,  a  float  in  which  a  Chinee  washerman 
was  making  the  ringer  hum. 

'Pijth  Division. 

Payne's  Second  Regiment  Band,  Lewiston. 
George  F.  Davies,  chief  engineer,  of  Waterville  fire  depart- 
ment, as  chief  of  division,  with  two  aids. 
Waterville  steamer  No.  i. 
Hose  Truck  Xo.  i. 
Hook  and  Ladder  Xo.  i. 
Hose  Company  X'^o.  2. 
Hose  Company  X'o.  3. 
Hose  Company  X'o.  4. 
Columbia  racing  team  and  reel. 
■  1  The  "Bloomer/' 
Carriages  with  ex-chiefs  of  the  Waterville  fire  department. 

The  summary  of  the  parade  is  given  as  follows :  Time  in 
passing  a  given  point,  38  minutes ;  number  of  floats,  95 ;  number 
men  on  foot,  594;  number  men  on  horses,  35 ;  number  bands,  4; 
number  carriages,  22 ;  number  men  on  bicycles,  22.  To  the  eye- 
witness the  procession  was  one  that  will  linger  long  in  memory. 

TUESDAY    AFTERNOON. 

Although  Tuesday  forenoon's  parade  was,  in  point  of  display, 
the  high  water  mark  of  the  celebration,  yet  the  vast  multitude  of 
visitors  which  had  come  with  the  intention  of  enjoying  a  long 


1.    The   Bloomer  was  a  reproduction  of  Waterville's  first  fire  engine  bought 
in  1810. 


28  HISTORY   or    WATERVILLE. 

day  of  festivities  was  not  to  be  left  without  entertainment.  In 
the  afternoon  the  contests  by  the  fire  companies,  directed  by 
Chief  Engineer  George  F.  Davies ;  the  sports,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Dr.  C.  W.  Abbott,  consisting  of  the  baseball  game  between 
the  Waterville  city  team  and  Colby,  and  the  balloon  ascension  on 
the  college  campus,  were  amply  sufficient  to  keep  the  spectator 
occupied  and  interested ;  and  in  the  evening  the  concert  by  Hall's 
Military  Band  on  Elmwood  Park  formed  a  fitting  close  to  the 
celebration. 

No  accident  of  any  kind  occurred  to  mar  the  pleasure  of  the 
occasion.  As  the  railroads  sold  about  twenty  thousand  Water- 
ville tickets,  it  is  a  conservative  estimate  that  at  least  twenty-five 
thousand  people  visited  the  city  during  the  centennial.  Many 
estimated  the  number  as  high  as  thirty-five  thousand.  The  good 
work  in  advertising  done  by  Chairman  Dr.  J.  Frederick  Hill, 
the  interest  of  Maine  in  Waterville,  and  the  central  location  of 
the  city  all  contributed  to  this  satisfactory  result.  There  was 
no  drunkenness,  disorder  or  even  incivility  upon  the  streets.  The 
labors  of  the  centennial  committee  and  of  its  efficient  chairman. 
Dr.  Thayer,  were  abundantly  successful.  The  public  spirit  and 
the  civic  patriotism  of  the  citizens  were  increased  and  their  love 
was  quickened  for  the  fair  city  in  which  they  dwell.  Perhaps 
the  most  appropriate  characterization  of  the  whole  celebration 
would  be,  that  it  was  in  every  way  worthy  of  the  city  under 
whose  auspices  it  took  place  and  whose  birth  day  it  celebrated. 


CHAPTER    II. 


TECONXET  AND  WINSLOW. 
By  Rev.  Edwin  Carey  Whittemore. 

One  hundred  years  have  passed  since  on  June  23,  1802,  the 
Great  and  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  incorporated  the  town 
of  Waterville.  Today  under  conditions  which  place  her  among 
the  most  favored  of  the  cities  of  New  England,  Waterville 
gathers  her  citizens,  calls  back  those  whom  unkind  fortune  has 
compelled  to  reside  elsewhere,  reviews  the  ascending  path  of 
her  prosperity  and  with  tender  thoughts  of  those  whose  life  work 
has  been  given  to  the  past,  faces  the  future  with  confidence 
and  with  hope.  Appropriate  is  the  place  (Monument  Park)  in 
which  we  are  convened.  On  one  side,  this  noble  building  and 
the  nobler  name  which  it  bears,  stand  for  discipline,  education, 
sound  preparation  for  life.  In  the  center  of  the  park  as  in  our 
history,  stands  the  Soldiers'  Monument,  the  perpetual  memorial 
to  the  patriotism  of  those  sons  of  Waterville  who  died  that  the 
nation  might  live,  and  over  yonder  is  a  Christian  church.  These 
three,  education,  patriotism,  religion,  have  determined  the  char- 
acter of  the  town's  civil  life  and  when  sound  and  productive  busi- 
ness, as  represented  by  the  stores  and  the  great  manufactories 
beside  Ticonic  Falls  is  added,  the  foundation  of  permanent  pros- 
perity is  complete. 

In  order,  however,  the  better  to  understand  and  the  more 
highly  to  appreciate  the  century  which  we  celebrate,  a  glance 
should  be  given  to  the  centuries  which  were  before  it.  If 
Assiminasqua,  the  eloquent  orator  of  old  Teconnet  could  speak  to 


Note.    Chapters  II  and  III  were  delivered  in  part,  as  the  historical  address  at 
the  celebration  of  the  centennial  of  Waterville  June  23,  1902. 


30  HISTORY   OF    W'ATERVILLE. 

US  today,  he  would  narrate  events  more  thrilling  than  those 
which  living  man  can  tell  though  it  is  ours  to  record  the 
unmerited  disaster,  tragedy  and  annihilation  of  his  race. 

In  1497,  five  years  after  the  discovery  of  America  by  Colum- 
bus, Henry  VII  of  England  sent  an  expedition  to  these  shores. 
John  Cabot  was  in  command  and  with  him  was  his  son  Sebastian. 
The  expedition  reached  Labrador,  June  24,  1497,  ^^d  after  cruis- 
ing along  the  coast  for  three  hundred  leagues  returned  to  Eng- 
land. The  next  year,  1498,  Sebastian  Cabot  sailed  along  the 
whole  coast  of  Maine  and  across  ^Massachusetts  bay.^  He  was 
disappointed  in  the  matter  of  finding  a  course  to  China  but  on 
his  discoveries  England  established  a  claim  to  the  whole  country 
from  Labrador  to  New  York. 

In  1534  Jaques  Cartier  under  commission  of  Francis  I.  of 
France,  discovered  the  St.  Lawrence  river  and  took  possession 
of  all  adjacent  territory  in  the  name  of  France,  thus  beginning 
the  rival  claims  which  were  to  vex  the  country  for  two  hundred 
years. 

Under  the  patronage  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Sir  Humphrey 
Gilbert  took  possession  of  Newfoundland  August  3,  1583,  "in  a 
very  formal  and  solemn  manner."  On  the  return  voyage  his 
vessel  of  only  ten  tons,  foundered  and  Sir  Humphrey  and  all  on 
board  were  lost. 

In  1603  sailing  from  Milford  Haven,  April  10,  Martin  Pring 
entered  Penobscot  bay  on  the  7th  of  June.  He  describes  the 
country  and  its  products  in  enthusiastic  terms  but  as  he  found 
no  sassafras,  he  shaped  his  course  for  Massachusetts. 

The  same  year  (1603)  King  Henry  IV  of  France  granted  to 
Sieur  De  Monts  the  whole  of  North  America  between  40°  and  46° 
north,  viz :  the  territory  between  Cape  Breton  and  the  Hudson 
river  which  was  named  Acadia.  Samuel  Champlain  was  the- 
most  eminent  man  connected  with  the  De  Monts  expedition.  He 
explored  the  entire  Maine  coast  -  and  his  very  accurate  maps 
were  published  in  Paris  in  1613.  July  6,  1604,  De  Monts  and 
Champlain  had  ascended  the  Sheepscot  river  and  had  come  out 
into  the  Kennebec  proceeding  as  far  as  Merrymeeting  bay.     The 

1.  See  Biddle's  Memoir  of  Sebastian  Cabot.    London,  1832. 

2.  "Coasting?  Voyages  in  the  Gulf  of  Maine,  made  in  the  years  1604-5  and  6.  by 
Samuel  Champlain."  By  Gen.  John  Marshall  Brown.  Coll.  Me.  Historical  Society. 
Vol.  VII,  pp.  242-243. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  3I 

Indians  were  friendly  and  informed  Champlain  that  the  Kenne- 
bec and  the  Chaudiere  were  the  great  route  to  the  north,  also 
that  the  Indians  in  this  section  cultivated  the  soil.  Champlain 
set  up  a  cross  on  the  bank  of  the  river  and  formally  claimed  the 
territory  as  a  part  of  Acadia.  This  was  the  first  claim  made  to 
Kennebec  territory  and  it  is  worthy  of  note  that  it  was  made  by 
the  father  of  French  colonization  in  America,  Governor  of  New 
France  and  founder  of  Quebec,  Samuel  Champlain.  In  his  writ- 
ings we  find  for  the  first  time  the  name  Ouinebequi  applied  to  the 
river,  the  name  signifies  dragons  or  monsters  and  referred  to  the 
monsters  whose  writhings  vexed  the  waters  at  the  Hell  Gate  in 
the  Sheepscot.  The  expedition  of  Capt.  George  Waymouth, 
which  sailed  from  the  Downs  on  March  31st,  1605,  anchored  of¥ 
Monhegan  May  17th.  After  considerable  exploration,  the  claim- 
ing of  territory  for  England  and  the  kidnapping  of  five  Indians, 
Capt.  Waymouth  sailed  for  home.  The  claim  has  been  made 
that  he  entered  and  explored  the  Kennebec  river,^  but  the  weight 
of  evidence  is  against  it.-  The  same  year,  1605.  Champlain  was 
again  in  the  Kennebec  and  heard  of  a  vessel  six  leagues  away 
which  had  captured  or  killed  five  natives,  evidently  Waymouth's. 

Captains  Hanham  and  Pring  under  the  patronage  of  Sir  John 
Popham  explored  the  Sagadahoc  in  1606  and  were  probably  the 
first  Englishmen  to  enter  the  river.^ 

The  year  1607  is  notable  for  the  founding  of  the  first  English 
Colony  in  New  England  under  Popham  and  Gilbert  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Kennebec  river,  called  the  Popham  Colony.  The  expedi- 
tion which  was  supported  by  some  of  the  greatest  men  irj  Eng- 
land sailed  j\Iay  31st,  1607. 

August  19,  1607,  the  site  for  a  plantation  was  chosen  and  forti- 
fications were  begun.  The  colony  was  planned  on  a  large  scale 
and  of^cers  were  appointed.  Worship  was  instituted  according 
to  the  forms  of  the  English  church.  September  23d,  the  colonists 
sent  an  exploring  expedition  up  the  river  and  on  Sunday  the  27th, 
they  were  at  Vassalboro,  where  they  set  up  a  cross.  On  Decem- 
ber 13  Gov.  Geo.  Popham  made  a  glowing  report  of  the  pros- 
pects of  the  colony:  this  has  been  called  the  first  state  paper 


1.  John  McKeen  in  Coll.  Me.  Hist.  Soc,  vol.  5.  pp.  307-340. 

2.  "Rosier's  True  Relation"  by  Henry  Sweetaer  Barrage,  vol.  Ill  of  the  publica- 
tion of  the  Gorges  Society.    Portland,  1S87. 

3.  Thayer.    "The  Sagadahoc  Colony."    Gorges  Society,  vol.  IV. 


32  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

written  in  America.  At  that  time  the  colonists  were  busy  build- 
ing the  ''Virginia,"  a  vessel  "about  some  thirty  tonne ;"  thus  the 
first  wooden  ship  built  in  America  by  colonists,  was  built  in  a 
Kennebec  yard.  The  severity  of  the  winter  (1608)  the  harsh 
treatment  of  the  Indians  by  the  colonists  which  provoked  repris- 
als, the  death  of  Gov.  Geo.  Popham  and  the  return  of  Gilbert 
to  England  caused  the  failure  of  the  colony  in  1608. 

In  1609  the  Jesuits  Biard  and  Masse  established  a  mission  at 
Mount  Desert  and  two  years  later  Biencourt  and  Biard  were  at 
the  Kennebec.  The  Cannibas,  the  Indians  of  the  valley  "received 
the  reverend  father  with  respect  and  cordiality"^  and  the  first 
Catholic  service  was  held  near  the  Sheepscot. 

In  1614  Capt.  John  Smith  of  Virginia  fame  came  with  two 
vessels  to  the  Kennebec  on  a  trading  expedition.  Though  he 
spent  most  of  his  time  in  fishing  for  whales,  yet  in  his  book  he 
says  "We  got  for  trifles,  eleven  thousand  beaver,  one  hundred 
martens  and  as  many  otters.  We  took  and  cured  forty  thousand 
fish,  corned  or  in  pickle."-  Capt.  Smith  gave  to  the  country 
between  the  Hudson  river  and  New-foundland  the  name  of  New 
England.  After  Capt.  Smith's  departure,  his  subordinate,  Capt. 
Thomas  Hunt,  who  delayed  to  complete  his  cargo,  kidnapped 
twenty-four  natives  whom  he  conveyed  to  Spain  and  sold  into 
slavery  at  one  hundred  dollars  each. 

One  of  the  most  destructive  wars  which  this  state  has  ever 
known  broke  out  auong  the  Indians  themselves  in  161 5.  The 
Indians  of  the  Penobscot  and  the  East  were  arrayed  against  those 
of  the  Kennebec  and  the  West.  For  two  years  the  conflict  raged 
with  all  the  horrible  cruelty  of  savage  warfare.  It  was  immedi- 
ately followed  by  a  pestilence,  which  annihilated  many  tribes  and 
nearly  depopulated  New  England. 

November  3,  1620  King  James  I  granted  to  the  "Council  of 
Plymouth  in  the  County  of  Devon"  successors  to  the  Plymouth 
Co.  of  1603,  the  "New  England  Charter."  The  council  included 
the  Duke  of  Lenox,  the  Earl  of  Arundel,  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges, 
Francis  Popham,  Raleigh  Gilbert  and  others.  The  territory  con- 
veyed was  all  the  land  in  North  America  between  the  40th  and 
48th  parallel  of  latitude.     Thus  when  the  Pilgrims  landed  at 


1.    Governor  Lincoln's  Papers.    Me.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.  vol.  I,  p.  429. 
2-    Description  of  New  England  by  Capt.  Jobn  Smith.    London,  1616. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK.  33 

Plymouth  in  December  of  1620  the  territory  was  already  the 
property  of  another  corporation. 

In  1625  the  Plymouth  Counctt  granted  to  Gorges  and  Mason 
and  others  all  the  territory  between  the  Kennebec  and  the  Merri- 
mac  which  was  termed  the  ''Province  of  Laconia."  The  same 
year,  according  to  Gov.  Bradford,  the  Pilgrims  of  Plymouth, 
"after  harveste  they  sende  out  a  boats  load  of  corne,  40  or  50 
leagues  to  ye  eastward,  up  a  river  called  Kenibeck."  After  refer- 
ring to  their  hardships  he  concludes,  "But  God  preserved  them 
and  gave  them  good  success  for  they  brought  home  700  pounds 
of  beaver  besides  some  other  furrs,  having  litle  or  nothing  els 
but  this  corne  which  themselves  had  raised  out  of  ye  earth.  This 
viage  was  made  by  Mr.  Winslow  and  some  of  ye  old  standards 
for  seamen  they  had  none."^ 

January  13,  1629  a  grant  was  made  by  the  Plymouth  Council 
to  the  Pilgrim  Colony  called  the  Plymouth  or  Kennebec  Patent.^ 
It  conveyed  exclusive  rights  to  a  territory  fifteen  miles  wide  on 
either  side  of  the  Kennebec  river  extending  from  Topsham  to 
the  Wessarunsett  river  at  Cornville ;  the  patent  received  the 
previous  year  having  been  "so  strate  and  ill  bounded  as  they  were 
faine  to  renew  and  inlarge  it."^ 

They  now  erected  a  trading  house  "up  above  on  ye  river  in  ye 
most  convenientest  place  for  trade,"*  probably  at  Cushnoc 
(Augusta). 

The  Plymouth  Council  discouraged  by  its  losses  and  by  thei 
persistence  of  its  enemies  held  its  last  meeting  April  25,  1635  and 
surrendered  its  charter  to  the  King.  He  appointed  his  Privy 
Councillors,  Lords  Commissioners  of  all  his  American  Planta- 
tions. This  board  appointed  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges  Governor 
General  of  New  England. 

The  Council,  before  its  dissolution  had  divided  its  territory 
into  twelve  royal  provinces  and  assigned  these  to  its  members 
by  lot.  The  third  and  fourth  lots  covering  the  entire  territory 
between  the  Kennebec  and  the  Piscataqua,  fell  to  Sir  Ferdinando 
Gorges  and  was  called    New    Somersetshire.     Sir    F.    Gorges, 


1.  Bradford's  History  of  Plimoth  Plantation.    Boston,  1898,  p.  247. 

2.  Hazlitt  Coll.  p.  298-303. 

3.  Bradford,  p.  280. 

4.  Bradford,  p.  280. 

3 


34  HISTORY   OF    WATe:RVILL^. 

detained  by  an  accident  to  the  vessel  which  was  to  convey  him  to 
his  new  government,  never  set  foot  in  New  England. 

On  the  third  of  April,  1639,  the  King  conferred  upon  Sir  Fer- 
dinando  Gorges  yet  more  extensive  territory  and  vice:  regal  power 
over  what  was  called  "the  Province  of  Maine."  It  could  hardly 
be  regarded  a  limitation  of  his  rights  that  the  Lord  Proprietor 
was  to  give  to  the  King  a  fifth  of  the  profit  arising  from  the 
pearl  fishings,  and  from  gold  and  silver  mines.  Full  executive 
powers  were  given  and  the  right  of  legislation  in  connection  with 
the  citizens.  The  Lord  Proprietor  was  to  give  deeds  and  titles 
to  land,  erect  courts  and  appoint  officers.  The  English  church 
was  established.  The  Lord  Proprietor  Gorges  had  sent  over  his 
nephew  William  Gorges  as  Governor  who  established  his  capital 
at  Saco  and  opened  court  there  March  28,  1636.  As  there  were 
at  the  time  no  settlements  on  the  Kennebec,  the  government  of 
Gorges  was  not  exercised  here,  but  the  Pilgrim  Colony  main- 
tained their  rights  to  a  monopoly  of  the  trade  with  the  Indians. 

The  Indians  of  the  Kennebec. 

The  French  gave  the  name  Abenaquiois  to  all  the  Indians  east 
of  the  Connecticut  river,  but  the  name  became  gradually  restric- 
ted to  the  dwellers  in  the  Kennebec  valley.  These  Indians  bore 
also  the  name  Canibas,  or  Narhantsouaks.  Before  the  great 
Indian  war  of  161 5  it  appears  that  the  Rashaba  or  great  chief 
who  lived  on  the  Penobscot  exercised  a  kind  of  general  sover- 
eignty over  all  the  Maine  tribes  :  later,  the  chief  of  the  Kennebecs 
dwelt  on  Swan  Island.  The  tribe  extended  from  Merryrneeting 
bay  to  Moosehead  lake  and  enjoyed  in  the  forests,  the  fertile 
meadows,  the  rivers  teeming  with  fish  and  affording  a  broad 
highway  for  their  canoes,  an  ideal  place  for  Indian  habitation. 
In  the  winter  the  Indians  retired  to  the  woods  and  lakes  further 
north  where  they  found  it  easy  to  secure  the  moose  and  deer  in 
the  deep  snow.  With  the  coming  of  spring  they  descended  the 
rivers  in  time  to  secure  the  salmon,  shad  and  alewives ;  in  the 
summer  they  had  their  scanty  harvests  and  the  berries  and  wild 
fruits  of  the  forest.  Several  important  Indian  villages  were  on 
the  river.  At  Fort  Hill,  Winslow,  was  a  large  village  extending 
along  the  banks  of  the  Sebasticook  and  of  the  Kennebec  for 
nearly  a  mile.     Mr.  F.  F.  Graves  who  has  carefullv  searched  the 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  35 

site  has  found  large  quantities  of  pottery,  wholly  of  Indian  make. 
Flint  chippings  are  very  abundant,  as  well  as  fine  specimens  of 
arrow  points,  gouges,  etc.  It  is  noteworthy  that  no  metal  has 
been  found  here  except  beads  of  pure  copper,  thus  showing  that 
the  settlement  antedated  European  trade  and  also  the  village 
at  Norridgewock  where  iron  of  European  manufacture,  pipe 
stems,  etc.,  are  found.  The  village  on  Fort  Hill  was  probably 
the  ancient  Teconnet  although  the  name  belonging  first  to  the 
Falls,  was  applied  to  territory  on  both  sides  of  the  river.  The 
only  grave  yard  in  the  western  part  of  Winslow  was  small  in 
extent  and  was  located  near  the  present  wheel  house  of  the  paper 
mill.  In  Waterville  there  are  no  indications  of  Indian  villages. 
No  pottery  is  found,  but  along  the  river  and  streams,  sinkers  and 
arrow  heads  are  common.  There  was,  however,  a  large  burial 
ground  here  extending  from  what  is  now  Temple  street  to  the 
site  of  the  Lockwood  Mills.  When  Dunn  Block  was  erected, 
the  body  of  an  Indian  buried  in  a  sitting  posture  was  found. 
Many  implements  were  buried  with  him  and  about  tw^o  quarts 
of  copper  beads.  About  the  same  time  Mr.  Graves  and  two  assis- 
tants discovered  six  skeletons  in  a  single  forenoon's  digging  in 
the  open  space  at  the  junction  of  Main  and  Water  streets.  Here 
evidently  was  the  burial  place  of  old  Teconnet.^ 

The  Cannibas  Indians  were  well  disposed  to  the  white  men 
though  the  kidnapping  of  their  neighbors  at  the  mouth  of  the 
river  and  the  brutalities  at  Fort  St.  George  soon  made  them  sus- 
picious. It  is  not  to  the  credit  of  the  Plymouth  Colonists  that 
during  all  the  earlier  years  of  the  trade  with  the  Indians,  nothing 
was  done  for  their  intellectual  or  moral  improvement. 

In  1643  ^^  Indian  who  had  become  a  Christian  under  the  labors 
of  the  Catholic  French  missionaries  at  Sillery  and  Quebec,  came 
down  the  Kennebec  as  far  as  Augusta  and  told  the  Indians  of 
the  beauty  and  majesty  of  the  new  faith.  He  took  back  with  him 
an  Indian  chief  whose  life  had  been  saved  by  the  intercession  of 
the  missionaries.  He  was  baptized  in  Sillery  under  the  name  of 
John  Baptist.  Later  a  considerable  intercourse  grew  up  between 
the  Indians  of  the  Kennebec  and  those  about  Sillery  and  in  1646 
a  delegation  appeared  before  a  council  of  the  fathers  at  that  place 


1.    Mr.  Graves  has  in  his  collection  a  stone  war  club  fifteen  inches  long  by  one 
and  one-half  Inches  in  diameter,  also  pestles  and  corn  grinders. 


'^'^-jL'kJA^^ 


36  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLS. 

and  begged  that  a  missionary  might  be  sent  to  the  Indians  of  the 
Kennebec.  They  said  that  thirty  men  and  six  women  had 
embraced  the  new  faith  and  they  desired  a  missionary  to  baptise 
and  teach  them.  Father  Gabriel  Druillette  was  appointed  and 
August  29th,  1646  started  for  his  mission  field.  He  found  a 
heartv  welcome.  After  a  stay  at  Nahrantsouak  and  Teconnet 
he  arrived  at  Cushnoc  late  in  September  where  he  was  hospitably 
entertained  by  John  Winslow  the  Pilgrim  trader.  Father  Druil- 
lette received  the  encouragement  of  the  Plymouth  Company  and 
established  a  successful  mission  called  "The  Mission  of  the 
Assumption  among  the  Abenakis,"  ^  at  Gilley's  Point  about  three 
miles  north  of  Augusta.  During  the  winter  he  shared  the  expe- 
riencesof  the  Indians  in  the  hunting  season  about  Moosehead  Lake 
and  by  the  time  of  the  spring  gathering  of  the  tribe  had  wholly 
won  their  confidence.  He  had  emphasized  three  things  as  essen- 
tial, viz.,  to  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  traders'  firewater ;  to 
cease  quarreling  among  themselves  and  to  throw  away  their  idols. 
After  the  return  of  Father  Druilette  to  Sillery  in  1647,  it  seems 
unfortunate  that  the  Jesuit  Fathers  did  not  see  their  way  clear 
to  allow  him  to  return  until  1650,  although  three  delegations  were 
sent  by  the  Indians  asking  his  return.  This  year,  in  addition  to 
his  missionary  labors,  he  was  envoy  to  the  New  England  Con- 
federacy (formed  in  1643  ^^^  defense  against  the  Iroquois)  and 
visited  Boston,  being  the  first  Jesuit  priest  to  enter  that  city.  He 
was  honorably  received  at  both  Boston  and  Plymouth  and 
returned  with  high  hopes  for  the  success  of  his  mission.  Again 
he  spends  the  winter  among  the  Indians.  After  heroic  service 
and  other  journeys  for  the  public  defense  his  labors  on  the  Ken- 
nebec closed  in  1652,  but  he  had  exerted  a  marvellous  influence 
over  the  Indians  who  had  been  won  to  him  as  a  true  friend  and 
to  the  faith  which  he  preached. - 

Meanwhile  the  English  had  been  getting  more  assured  pos- 
session of  the  land.  The  titles  to  land  coming  into  question, 
the  English  secured  deeds  of  the  Sagamores  though  it  is  a  matter 
of  question  whether  the  Indians  understood  that  they  were  con- 
veying exclusive  rights.     In  1648  a  Sagamore  conveyed  to  Gov. 

1.  Jesuit  Relations  for  1647,  chap.  X. 

2.  Father  Druillette  after  his  return  from  the  Kennehec  was  constantly  em- 
ployed. In  1666  he  went  west  with  Marquette  and  labored  at  Sault  St  Mary  for 
thirteen  years.    He  died  in  Quebec  in  1681. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  37 

Bradford  all  land  on  both  sides  the  river  to  Wessarunsett.     In 
this  deed  Waterville  is  included. 

The  very  next  year  Kennebis  and  Abbagadasset  sold  to  Chris- 
topher Lawson^  the  Kennebec  land  up  as  far  as  Teconnet  Falls, 
which  was  afterward    assigned    to    Clark  and    Lake  traders  in 

1653-^ 

The  Plymouth  trade  with  the  Kennebec  had  been  declining 
for  years  and  in  June  1649  ^^  was  leased  for  three  years  at  the  rate 
of  £50  per  year  to  William  Bradford,  Edward  Winslow,  Thomas 
Prince,  Thomas  Willet  and  William  Paddy.  Renewals  of  the 
lease  at  lower  rates  followed  until  on  the  27th  of  October  1661 
the  patent  was  conveyed  by  sale  to  Artemas  Boies,  Edward  Tyng, 
Thomas  Brattle  and  John  Winslow  for  £400  sterling. 

In  1653  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  directed  Thomas 
Prince  to  summon  the  citizens  on  the  river  Kennebeck  that 
they  might  take  an  oath  of  allegiance  and  arrange  a  judicial  code. 
This  was  done  at  the  residence  of  Thomas  Ashley  near  Merry- 
meeting  bay,  where  on  May  23,  1654,  sixteen  men  assembled, 
took  the  oath  and  in  their  code  of  laws  promulgated  the  first 
prohibitory  law  of  Maine.  It  provided  penalties  for  selling  liquor 
to  the  Indians  as  they,  when  intoxicated,  were  often  guilty  of 
"much  horrid  wickedness."'' 

As  the  new  proprietors  of  1661  made  no  effort  for  the  improve- 
ment of  their  property  or  to  set  up  a  government,  very  little  was 
done  in  the  settlement  of  the  valley  for  nearly  one  hundred  years. 
Its  nominal  government,  however,  was  matter  of  more  interest. 
After  the  restoration  of  Charles  II,  Ferdinando  Gorges,  grand- 
son of  Sir  Ferdinando,  petitioned  the  throne  that  the  Province  of 
Maine  might  be  restored  to  him.  January  11,  1664  the  King 
issued  an  order  that  the  Massachusetts  Colony  should  give 
Gorges  quiet  possession  of  his  Province.^  As  this  was  not  done 
the  King  sent  over  commissioners'"^  who  assumed  the  government 
and  set  up  courts  on  the  Sheepscot  September  5,  1665.  This 
action  of  the  King  was  stoutly  resisted  by  Massachusetts  and 
the  tyrannical  acts  of  the  commissioners  soon  brought  the  settlers 


1.  Christopher  Lawson  was  brougrht  before  the  Duke  of  York's  Court  at  Arrow- 
sic  on  an  action  for  debt  by  warrant  dated  Nov.  1, 1665.    Sullivan,  290. 

2.  Sullivan  Hist.  Dist.  of  Maine,  p.  147. 

3.  Williamson's  Me.,  Vol.  I,  pp.  366,  367. 

4.  Hutchinson's  Hist.  p.  234:  Williamson  I,  p.  412. 

5.  Hutchinson's  Hist.  Appendix  No.  XV,  p.  459-60. 


38  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

to  the  verge  of  rebellion.  The  commissioners  were  recalled  in 
1668  and  Massachusetts  resumed  control.  To  avoid  future 
trouble  Massachusetts  purchased,  May  6,  1677,  for  £1250  ster- 
Lng,  of  Gorges,  all  his  rights  m  the  province,  much  to  the  dis- 
gust of  the  King  whose  designs  were  thereby  thwarted.  In  1780 
Massachusetts  organized  a  Provincial  government  of  Maine  and 
Thomas  Danfoith  v/as  appointed  President.  This  administra- 
tion, with  some  interruption  by  Dudley  and  Andros,  continued 
until  1 69 1  when  the  charter  of  William  and  Mary  included 
Maine  in  the  Province  over  which  Royal  Governors  were 
appointed  by  the  crown  until  the  Revolution  in  1775. 

King  Philip's  War,  the  first  war  with  the  Indians,  extended 
to  Maine  in  the  autumn  of  1675.  For  years  there  had  been 
increasing  friction  between  the  Indians  and  the  English.  The 
French  had  won  the  friendship  of  the  Indians,  sent  them  priests, 
sold  them  powder  and  guns  and  had  been  their  allies  in  conflicts 
with  other  tribes.  The  English  had  treated  them  as  inferiors, 
had  sought  profit  in  sharp  business  practices,  had  been  suspicious 
and  prompt  to  punish  offenses  and  often  refused  to  sell  powder 
or  guns.  With  the  first  outbreak  of  hostilities  the  Canibas  tribe 
retired  to  this  place,  Teconnet,  to  await  developments.  The 
trade  upon  the  river  at  this  time  was  largely  in  the  hands  of 
Clark  and  Lake  and  Richard  Hammond.  Hammond  had  a  trad- 
ing house  at  Woolwich,  Clark  and  Lake  had  a  large  establishment 
at  Arrowsic  and  both  had  trading  houses  at  Teconnet  Falls.  The 
committee  sent  by  Massachusetts  to  have  general  control  over 
military  and  other  measures  of  safety.  Captains  Lake,  Flatter- 
hall  and  Wiswell,  ascending  the  Kennebec,  met  seven  of  the 
Canibas  tribe  and  live  of  the  Androscoggins,  ]\Iahotiwormet  or 
Robinhood  being  leader.  The  Indians  surrendered  their  guns 
and  mutual  professions  of  friendship  were  made.  A  little  later 
Capt.  Davis,  from  the  Clark  and  Lake  house  at  Arrowsic  sent  a 
messenger  to  Teconnet  to  remove  the  arms  which  were  in  the 
trading  house  there.  He  was  also  to  promise  that  if  the  Indians 
would  come  to  Arrowsic  they  would  be  supplied.  The  messen- 
ger disobeyed  his  instructions  by  assuring  the  Indians  that  "if 
they  did  not  go  down  and  give  up  their  arms  the  English  would 
come  up  and  kill  them."  Meanwhile  Magistrate  Abraham 
vShurte  at  Pemaquid  was  doing  his  utmost  to  secure  peace.     He 


HISTORY  OF  wati;rville.  39 

called  a  number  of  the  chiefs  to  Pemaquid  for  conference.  They 
complained  that  their  people  had  been  frightened  away  from 
their  cornfields,  were  not  allowed  to  purchase  powder  and  so 
were  unable  to  kill  any  game  or  venison.  Some  had  died  of 
hunger.  Some  had  been  kidnapped.  jNIr.  Shurte  spoke  kindly 
to  them,  assured  them  that  he  would  do  his  utmost  to  punish 
those  who  had  wronged  them  and  to  restore  their  captives.  The 
Indians  were  greatly  pleased,  gave  up  a  captive  boy  and  presented 
Shurte  with  a  belt  of  wampum.  But  the  strife  went  on.  During 
the  autumn  about  one  hundred  of  the  English  were  barbarously 
murdered  and  the  dwellers  on  ]\lonhegan  offered  a  bounty  of  £5 
for  every  Indian  head. 

Those  were  anxious  days  at  Teconnet.  The  Indians  carefully 
abstained  from  acts  of  violence  but  the  situation  grew  worse  and 
worse.  At  last  they  sent  a  swift  runner  through  the  woods  to 
Pemaquid  to  invite  Magistrate  Shurte  to  a  council  at  Teconnet. 
Immediately  he  set  out  in  his  small  boat,  was  joined  at  Arrowsic 
by  Capt.  Davis  and  arrived  safely  at  Teconnet.  The  council 
was  held  in  a  great  w'igwam  where  five  chiefs  sat  in  state  while 
a  throng  of  warriors  stood  about  the  door.  Assiminasqua  the 
Prince  and  orator  of  Waterville  opened  the  council.  As  Shurte 
and  Davis  proceeded  to  lay  aside  their  arms  he  said:  "Brothers 
keep  your  arms  as  honorable  men.  Be  without  apprehension. 
We  do  not,  like  the  Mohawks  seize  messengers  w^ho  come  to  us. 
Nay  we  never  do  as  you  people  once  did  with  fourteen  of  our 
Indians  sent  to  treat  with  you,  taking  away  their  arms  and  put- 
ting them  under  guard.  We  have  been  in  deep  waters.  You 
told  us  to  come  down  and  give  up  our  arms  and  powder  or  you 
would  kill  us,  so  we  were  forced  to  part  with  our  hunting  guns 
or  to  leave  both  our  fort  and  our  corn.  What  we  did  was  a  great 
loss,  we  feel  its  weight."  Shurte  responded  with  professions  of 
friendship.  Tarumkin  ansvrered :  "I  love  the  clear  streams  of 
friendship  that  meet  and  unite.  Certainly  I  myself  choose  the 
shades  of  peace.  IMy  heart  is  true  and  I  give  you  my  hand  in 
pledge  of  the  truth. "^ 

But  the  differences  between  the  parties  in  council  were  hard 
to  meet.  The  Indians  must  have  guns  and  ammunition  or  they 
would  starve.     If  the  whites  sold  them  these  they  were  providing 


1.    History  Kennebec  County,  p.  41. 


40  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

means  for  their  own  destruction.  At  last  Madockawando  adopted 
son  of  Assiminasqua  and  son-in-law  of  Baron  Castine  cried  out : 
"Do  we  not  meet  here  on  equal  ground?  We  ask  w4iere  shall 
we  buy  powder  and  shot  for  our  winter's  hunting?  Shall  we 
leave  the  English  and  apply  to  the  French  for  it,  or  shall  we  let 
our  Indians  die.  We  have  waited  long  to  hear  you  tell  us.  Now 
we  want  yes  or  no."  Shurte  was  not  able  to  give  a  satisfactory 
answer.  A  little  more  confidence  would  have  averted  much 
bloodshed. 

August  13,  1676  the  first  blow  w-as  struck  in  which  the  Tecon- 
net  Indians  had  part.  Richard  Hammond  the  trader  had  a  bad 
reputation  at  Teconnet.  The  Indians  declared  that  he  cheated 
them,  filled  them  with  strong  drink  and  robbed  them  of  their 
furs.  In  revenge  they  burned  Hammond's  place  at  Woolwich, 
killed  him  and  two  others  and  took  sixteen  persons  captive  who 
were  conveyed  to  Teconnet  and  there  kept  under  guard. 

The  next  night,  August  14,  the  mansion  and  large  establish- 
ment of  Capt.  Lake  at  Arrowsic  was  destroyed.  Capt.  Lake  was 
killed  and  Capt.  Davis  of  the  Teconnet  Council  severely 
wounded.     Thirty-five  prisoners  were  taken. 

In  a  few  weeks  the  whole  county  from  Falmouth  to  Pemaquid 
was  desolated,  the  inhabitants  killed,  captured  or  driven  awav. 
Then  Madockawando  and  Mugg,-his  lieutenant,  saw  that  it  would 
be  a  good  time  to  arrange  for  peace.  Mugg  was  conveyed  to 
Boston  where  he  arranged  provisional  terms.  Returning  he  was 
sent  to  Teconnet  to  arrange  for  the  release  of  the  prisoners. 
While  here  he  laughingly  told  the  Indians  "I  know  how  we  can 
even  burn  Boston  and  drive  all  the  country  before  us.  We  must 
go  to  the  fishing  islands  and  take  all  the  white  men's  vessels."^ 
Mugg  was  killed  in  an  attack  upon  Wells,  May  16,  1667. 

April  12,  1678  the  Kennebec  and  other  Sagamores  signed  a 
treaty  of  peace  at  Casco.  This  treaty  provided  for  the  release  of 
prisoners  and  for  the  payment  of  a  peck  of  corn  annually  by  each 
white  family  to  the  Indians  in  acknowledgment  of  their  right 
to  the  land.  Among  the  prisoners  returned  from  Teconnet  was 
Mrs.  Hammond  who  bore  a  letter  dictated  by  her  captors  in 
which  they  boasted  of  their  clemency  and  fair  dealing.     It  is  true 

1.  Hubbard's  Indian  Wars,  p.  386-391. 

2.  Abbott.    History  of  Me.,  p.  197.    Notes. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  4I 

that  we  have  no  record  that  the  Kennebecs  ever  tortured  a 
prisoner. 

Ten  years  of  peace  and  rapid  progress  on  the  part  of  the  Eng- 
lish were  followed  by  King  Williams'  War  which  opened  August 
13,  1688.  In  this  war  the  French  were  actively  engaged  and  its 
most  effective  expeditions  were  planned  and  officered  from  Que- 
bec. The  French  had  used  to  the  full  the  religious  influence 
which  had  been  gained  over  the  refugee  Indians  who  had 
ascended  the  Kennebec  to  the  neighborhood  of  Sillery.  King 
Williams'  War  was  one  of  the  most  costly  episodes  in  the  long 
struggle  between  England  and  France  for  the  possession  of 
Acadia  and  ultimately,  the  continent.  Teconnet  was  used  dur- 
ing the  early  years  of  the  war  as  a  station  for  captives  until  they 
could  be  ransomed  or  sold  north  into  slavery.  Hither  from 
Merrymeeting,  New  Dartmouth,  Sheepscot,  Winter  Harbor  and 
Kennebunk  prisoners  were  brought  and  W'aterville  became  a 
central  station  on  the  prisoners'  sad  march  to  slavery,  death  or 
long  delayed  ransom. 

^In  1692  Col.  Church,  on  his  third  Eastern  expedition,  burned 
the  fort  and  settlement  at  Teconnet,  and  the  history  of  earliest 
Waterville  the  metropolis  of  the  Cannibas  Indians  was  ended.  The 
white  men  claimed  that  the  Indians  set  it  on  fire  at  their  approach ; 
the  Indians  that  the  white  men  burned  the  place.  In  1693 
Maj.  Converse  who  was  more  feared  by  5ie  Indians  than  any 
other  English  officer,  was  at  Teconnet  and  at  so  many  other 
places  in  rapid  succession  that  the  Indians  were  dismayed.  They 
were  gaining  nothing  from  their  alliance  with  the  French  and 
came  to  feel  that  they  were  fighting  the  battles  of  another  power 
beyond  the  seas.  Their  own  share  was  to  fight  against  an  ever 
increasing  enemy  and  to  die.  i\ccordingly,  August  12,  1692, 
eighteen  of  the  Maine  Sagamores  met  at  Pemaquid  and  agreed 
to  a  treaty  of  peace.  This  treaty  provided  for  a  release  of  all 
captives  and  was  signed  by  all  the  Sagamores,  including  Bom- 
aseen  of  the  Kennebecs  and  Wenobson  of  Teconnet,  in  behalf 
of  ^loxus.  The  peace,  however,  was  not  observed.  Later  in  the 
same    year    Bomaseen  was    supposed    to  be  concerned    in    the 


1.  Hon.  Thomas  B.  Reed  in  his  centennial  oration  at  Portland  states,  without 
citing  authorities,  that  the  French  from  Quebec  and  the  Indians  from  Castine  met 
at  Ticonnet  and  thence  proceeded  on  the  expedition  which  destroyed  Portland 
May  16-20,  1690. 


42  HISTORY    0:P    WATERVILLE. 

destruction  of  Dover,  N.  H.  November  19,  1694,  while  visiting 
Pemaquid  with  a  flag  of  truce  Bomaseen  was  recognized,  arrested 
as  a  spy  and  sent  to  Boston  where  he  w^as  imprisoned  for  five 
years.  Enraged  at  this  the  Kennebec  warriors  became  the  more 
zealous  in  the  conduct  of  the  war  and  shared  in  the  destruction 
of  Fort  William  Henry  at  Pemaquid  in  1696,  and  did  not  agree 
to  peace  until  its  terms  included  the  release  of  Bomaseen.  Peace 
was  attained  in  1699.  Bomaseen  was  restored  to  his  people 
and  the  captives  confined  at  X^orridgewock,  which  after  the  burn- 
ing of  Teconnet  became  the  prison  station,  were  released. 
Meanwhile  the  man  who  for  thirty  years  was  to  exercise  the  most 
potent  influence  on  the  Kennebec  had  arrived.  It  was  Father 
Sebastian  Rale,  He  was  a  native  of  France,  of  excellent  edu- 
cation and  of  high  rank.  In  1693  he  was  sent  by  the  French 
leaders  at  Quebec  to  Norridgewock  where  the  brothers  Bigot 
already  had  revived  the  mission  founded  half  a  century  before 
by  Druillette.  With  utter  devotion,  Rale  gave  himself  to  his 
work.  He  shared  the  Indian's  lot,  sought  to  guard  his  rights 
and  naturally  shared  his  country's  hatred  of  the  English.  It 
was  to  be  expected  also  that  the  Quebec  authorities  would  keep 
in  correspondence  with  him  as  the  one  best  fitted  to  report  the 
conditions  on  what  they  regarded  as  their  Acadian  frontier. 
Soon  he  became  an  object  of  suspicion  and  hatred  to  the  English, 
They  charged  him  with  hindering  the  formation  of  treaties  and 
with  preventing  the  execution  of  them,  and  with  encouraging 
the  Indians  in  their  deeds  of  bloodshed :  certainly  he  gave  them 
his  blessing  and  the  sacrament  before  they  set  out.  In  171 7, 
when  Gov.  Shurte  of  Massachusettts,  visited  the  Kennebec  in 
order  to  make  a  treaty  with  the  Indians,  Father  Rale  championed 
both  the  Indians  and  France  in  the  effort  to  prevent  alienation 
of  lands  and  the  erection  of  forts.  The  treaty  was  against  his 
protest.  As  earlv  as  1605,  during  Queen  Anne's  War,  which 
was  brought  on  by  French  intrigues,  an  expedition  under  Col. 
Hilton  ascended  the  Kennebec  on  snow  shoes  in  mid-winter  to 
capture  Rale.  They  found  Norridgewock  deserted.  In  1721 
Rale  secured  united  protest  on  the  part  of  several  Indian  villages 
against  the  advance  of  the  English  whom  he  virtually  threatened 
with  the  vengeance  of  France.  August  ist  ninety  Indians  with 
Rale  as  adviser,  appeared  at  Arrowsic  and  ordered  the  settlers 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  43 

to  leave  within  three  weeks  or  they  would  be  killed.  Regarding 
Father  Rale  as  the  real  source  of  the  disturbances  and  depreda- 
tions made  by  the  Indians  who  certainly  were  so  fully  under  his 
control  that  he  could  direct  or  restrain  them,  Massachusetts,  in 
the  winter  of  1721-22,  sent  Col.  Thomas  Westbrook  to  Nor- 
ridgewock  to  apprehend  the  ])riest  and  convey  him  to  Boston, 
The  expedition  found  Xorridgewock  deserted,  a  notice  posted 
upon  the  door  of  the  church  threatening  the  destruction  of  the 
English  meeting-houses  if  the  soldiers  dared  to  harm  it  and 
stoutly  maintaining  the  right  of  the  French  and  the  Indians  to 
the  territory.^  A  box  was  found  containing  the  correspondence 
of  Rale  and  Vaudreuil,  French  Governor  at  Quebec,  which 
proved  the  complicity  of  the  priest  in  the  plots  of  the  French  and 
the  duplicity  of  the  Governor  in  his  dealings  with  Massachu- 
setts. Enraged  at  this  expedition,  the  Indians  began  the  sys- 
tematic plunder  of  all  the  little  settlements  on  the  river,  burning 
Brunswick  in  July,  1722  and  taking  many  captives.  War  v/as 
declared  by  ^Massachusetts  upon  the  Eastern  Indians,  July  26, 
1722  and  a  reward  of  iioo  for  the  bringing  of  the  person  of 
Father  Rale  to  Boston. 

On  the  19th  of  August,  1724,  an  expedition  numbering  208 
men  led  by  Captains  Harmon  and  Moulton,  left  Richmond  Fort. 
They  arrived  at  Teconnet  August  20,  where  they  left  forty  men 
to  guard  their  boats  while  the  rest  marched  silently  and  swiftly 
through  the  woods  toward  Norridgewock.  On  the  way  they 
came  upon  an  Indian  with  his  wife  and  daughter,  Remember- 
mg  the  failure  of  the  Westbrook  expedition,  they  immediately 
fired  upon  them  lest  Norridgewock  should  receive  warning.  The 
man  was  killed  while  trying  to  escape  across  the  river;  it  was 
the  noted  chief  Bomaseen.  Norridgewock  was  taken  wholly  by 
surprise  and  the  inhabitants  fled  panic  stricken.  Many  were 
drowned  while  trying  to  escape,  m.any  were  shot  among  whom 
was  Father  Rale.  Charlevoix's  romantic  story  that  Rale  came 
forth  boldly  to  his  death  while  seven  heroic  Indians  covered  him 
with  their  own  bodies  until  all  were  shot  down  is  disposed  of  by 
the  testimony  of  Lieut.  Jaques,  that  he  himself  shot  the  priest  in 
a  cabin  while  he  was  in  the  act  of  loading  a  gun.- 


1.  For  letter,  see  "Pioneers  of  New  France,"  Baxter,  pp.  122-3. 

2.  Jaques  was  afterward  arraigned  by  Capt.  Moulton  for  killing  Rale  instead 
of  taking  him  captive.  He  defended  himself  on  the  ground  that  the  priest  refused 
quarter. 


44  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 

August  22,  1/24  Capt.  Johnson  Harmon  appeared  before  the 
Governor  and  council  at  Boston  with  twenty-seven  Indian  scalps 
and  with  the  scalp  of  Father  Rale.  "In  consideration  of  the 
extraordinary  service  of  said  Capt.  Harmon,  the  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor presented  him  with  a  commission  for  Lieutenant-Colonel," 
and  a  warrant  was  drawn  in  his  favor  for  the  promised  reward 
of  iioo.^ 

The  destruction  of  Norridgewock,  terrible  though  it  was,  was 
in  reprisal  for  the  destruction  of  hundreds  of  homes  and  many 
villages  of  the  English  settlers,  and  it  was  practically  the  end  of 
trouble  with  the  Indians  on  the  Kennebec.  Father  Rale  was  a 
remarkable  man.  His  love  for  his  Indian  converts  and  his  self 
sacrificing  devotion  to  what  he  believed  to  be  their  interest  were 
beyond  question,  but  as  a  loyal  citizen  of  France  he  felt  called 
upon  to  do  everything  in  his  power  to  prevent  the  English  from 
getting  control  of  the  country.  He  was  the  victim  on  the  banks 
of  the  Kennebec,  of  strifes,  which  had  their  origin  on  the  banks 
of  the  Thames  and  of  the  Seine,  strifes  which  destroyed  both  him 
and  his  followers,  but  among  all  the  pictures  of  early  Maine  is 
none  more  beautiful  than  that  of  the  priest  and  the  reverent 
Indian  worshippers  as  they  gathered  morning  and  evening  in 
the  chapel  at  Xorridgewock.  After  the  death  of  Rale  the 
Indians  fled  in  despair  to  Canada.  For  twenty-five  years  there 
is  little  to  record.  The  half  century  of  war  had  nearly  destroyed 
both  the  Indians  and  the  English  settlers  and  as  late  as  1749  there 
were  only  two  white  families  left  above  Merrymeeting  bay. 

September  i,  1749  nine  of  the  heirs  of  the  men  who  had  bought 
the  rights  of  the  Colony  of  New  Plymouth  to  Kennebec  territory 
in  1 66 1,  met  in  Boston  and  became  incorporated  for  the  purpose 
of  defending  their  rights  and  opening  their  lands  to  settlement. 
The  great  obstacle  was  the  constant  danger  from  the  French  and 
Indians.  In  1753  the  Plymouth  Company  petitioned  Gov. 
Shirley  for  the  erection  of  a  fort  at  Teconnet  Falls.  This  was 
regarded  as  a  strategic  point :  the  highway  between  ?vlaine  and 
Quebec  was  up  the  Kennebec  and  down  the  Chaudiere.  Even  the 
Penobscots  came  down  the  Sebasticook  to  Teconnet  and  thence 
ascended  the  Kennebec.     Rumors  were  always  afloat  that  the 

1.    Mass.  Council  Records,  Vol.  VIII,  pp.  71-72. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLi:.  45 

French  and  the  Indians  who  had  been  driven  from  their  lands 
were  about  to  come  down  the  river  with  hostile  intent. 

In  answer  to  the  petition,  Gov.  Shirley  proposed  that  if  the 
Plymouth  Company  would  build  a  defensible  house  for  stores 
and  fort,  at  the  head  of  the  tide  water,  Cushnoc,  Augusta,  he 
would  build  a  fort  at  Teconnet  Falls. 

Under  the  direction  of  the  General  Court  which  was  alarmed 
at  the  rumor  of  French  invasion.  Gov.  Shirley  with  Col.  Paul 
Mascarene,  Commissioner  of  Nova  Scotia,  General  John  Wins- 
low  in  command  of  the  troops  and  several  high  officials  with 
800  soldiers,  set  sail.  Tune  21,  1754,  in  the  frigate  Massachu- 
setts for  Falmouth.  There  42  Indians  from  the  Kennebec  met 
the  Governor  in  conference.  He  expressed  his  purpose  to  build 
a  fort  at  Teconnet  to  which  the  Indians  made  desperate  pro- 
test.^ They  besought  him  to  build  no  forts  higher  up  the  Kenne- 
bec than  Fort  Richmond ;  declared  themselves  willing  that  set- 
tlers should  occupy  the  lands  but  were  afraid  of  more  forts. 
Their  eloquent  plea  was  wholly  unavailing.  Governor  Shirley 
produced  deeds  signed  by  Sagamores  long  since  dead,  conveying 
the  lands  in  question.  Against  this  fact  no  words  could  avail 
and  the  Indians  acquiesced  though  asserting  that  their  ancestors 
had  been  cheated. 

Immediately  the  troops  began  their  march  for  Teconnet. 
There  Gen.  Winslow  laid  out  the  Fort  and  detailed  300  men  for 
its  construction  while  he  with  500  troops  ascended  (August  8) 
the  Kennebec  in  search  of  the  French  fortification  which  had 
been  reported.  Gen.  Winslow  was  taken  ill  at  Norridgewock 
and  returned  to  Teconnet,  the  command  of  the  expedition  devolv- 
mg  upon  Col.  Preble,  who  ascended  to  the  head  waters  of  the 
Kennebec  but  found  no  French. 

In  a  very  short  time  five  buildings  were  erected  at  Fort  Hali- 
fax,- a  stockade  800  feet  long  erected,  the  cannon  and  arms 
brought  up  in  scows  from  Cushnoc  and  mounted  and  a  road  for 
wheel  carriages  cut  through  from.  Fort  Western  to  Fort  Halifax. 

1.  "July  1st  Norridgewock  Indiana  gave  their  answer  and  refused  the  fort  being 
built  at  Ticonnet.    July  2,  treaty  signed."    Parson  Smith's  Journal. 

2.  While  at  Falmouth  Gen.  Shirley  contracted  with  Capt.  Isaac  Ilsley  as  head 
carpenter,  who  was  to  take  with  him  twelve  others  for  the  building  of  the  fort  at 
Ticonnet.  Their  wages  were  to  include  "the  Province's  ordinary  allowance  of 
provisions  and  drink."  The  bill  of  Capt.  Ilsley  was  filed  Sept.  28,  for  82  days  labor 
of  himself  and  men,  amounting  to  £1660,  10s.  Goold's  account  of  Fort  Halifax. 
Me.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.  Vol.  8,  p.  229. 


A.6  HISTORY    01?    WATERVILLK. 

Gov.  Shirley  who  had  personally  inspected  the  work  was  greatly 
gratified  and  highly  commended  Gen.  Winslow  and  his  men.  Capt. 
William  Lithgow,  who  had  been  commander  of  Fort  Richmond, 
was  assigned  to  Fort  Halifax  and  a  garrison  of  80  ^  men  left  in 
charge.  A  whale  boat  express  was  arranged  running  from  Fort 
Halifax  to  Portland  in  twenty  hours.  The  route  was  down  the 
Kennebec  to  Merr>^meeting  Bay,  thence  by  the  Androscoggin 
and  across  to  New  Meadows  river  and  Casco  Bay. 

Gov.  Shirley  returned  in  great  state  to  Boston  in  September. 
For  two  months  Falmouth  had  been  very  gay.  Parson  Smith 
writes  in  his  diary :  "Thus  ends  a  summer  scene  of  as  much  blus- 
ter as  a  Cambridge  commencement  and  now  comes  on  a  vacation 
when  our  house  and  the  town  seem  quite  solitary." 

Capt.  Lithgow  assumed  a  heavy  task.  The  fort  was  unfin- 
ished. About  the  first  of  November  a  party  of  six  men  from 
the  fort,  who  were  cutting  timber,  were  attacked  by  the  Indians. 
One  was  killed  and  scalped,  four  were  carried  away  captive, 
only  one,  wounded,  succeeded  in  reaching  the  fort.  Some  rein- 
forcements were  sent  and  Capt.  Lithgow  received  authority  to 
impress  men  as  needed.  The  winter  of  1755  was  a  sad  time  at 
Fort  Halifax.^  As  Capt.  Lithgow  wrote  "The  fort  was  the  most 
extraordinary  one  for  ordinariness  I  ever  saw."  The  soldiers 
lacked  shoes,  clothing  and  blankets.  The  exposure  and  hard- 
ships of  the  men  in  hauling  their  fuel  by  hand  through  the  deep 
snow  soon  prostrated  them  with  sickness.  Of  the  eighty  men 
only  thirty  were  left  who  were  fit  for  duty.^  Five  died  during 
the  winter.  Supplies  ran  short  and  the  distressed  captain  started 
down  the  Kennebec  to  secure  aid.  The  journey  was  both  hard 
and  dangerous.  Supplies  had  already  been  sent  by  the  Gov- 
ernor which  were  landed  at  Arrowsic  and  gundalowed  to  Merry- 
meeting  bay.  By  the  aid  of  Capt.  Hunter  of  Topsham  and  Capt. 
Dunning  of  Brunswick  and  their  men,  the  supplies  were  brought 
to  Fort  Halifax.  Despite  all  their  hardships  the  garrison  had 
hauled  by  hand  to  the  hill  200  tons  hewn  timber  also  100  tons 
board  logs  and  bolts  for  shingles.     The  fortification  including 

.    Rept.  Commancling  Gen.  Dec.  21,  1754. 

2.  Letter  of  Capt.  Lithgow  to  Gen.  Shirley.  See  Chapter  of  Historical  Documents. 

3.  Williamson,  Vol.  2,  p.  302,  states  that  100  men  with  five  cohorn  mortars  were 
sent  as  reinforcements  in  the  fall  of  1754.    The  Lithgow  correspondence  proves 
that  this  was  not  done,  and  the  Council  Records  of  Mass.  under  date  of  Dec.  21 
1754,  give  as  reason  that  there  were  not  sufficient  provisions  at  the  fort  and  at  tha 
time  of  year  it  would  be  difficult  to  forward  more. 


FORT    HALIFAX. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  47 

the  great  house  for  the  officers'  quarters  and  stores,  was  com- 
pleted by  Capt.  Lithgow  in  1755.  Early  in  the  spring  of  that 
year  two  men  from  the  garrison  who  were  fishing  were  mortally 
wounded  by  the  Indians.  June  11,  the  Provincial  Government 
declared  war  with  the  Indians  and  offered  $200  for  each  Indian 
scalp  and  $250  for  each  captive.  Col.  Lithgow  had  now  the 
strongest  and  most  important  fortification  in  IMaine,  but  found  it 
difficult  to  secure  men  and  supplies.  He  complains  that  his 
men  are  lonely,  being  about  fifty  miles  from  inhabitants,  and  are 
over-worked  in  guarding  night  and  day  the  main  fort,  store  house 
and  two  redoubts  upon  the  hill.^  Col.  Lithgow  removed  his 
family  from  Fort  Richmond  to  Fort  Halifax  in  1755. 

May  18,  1757  occurred  the  last  skirmish  with  the  Indians. 
Col.  Lithgow  noticed  a  few  days  before,  some  rafts  drifting  by 
the  fort.-  Concluding  that  the  Indians  had  used  them  to  cross 
the  river  and  that  they  were  intendmg  to  attack  the  settlement, 
he  sent  a  boat  containing  an  ensign  and  nine  men  down  the  river 
to  give  warning.  On  their  return,  about  ten  miles  below  the 
fort,  they  were  fired  upon  by  seventeen  Indians.  Two  of  the 
boat's  crew  were  wounded  but  they  kept  up  the  fight  with  great 
gallantry.  One  Indian  was  killed  and  at  last  his  comrades 
retreated  bearing  the  dead  body  and  another  of  their  number 
who  was  wounded.  It  was  the  final  shot  and  retreat  of  the 
Indians,  almost  on  the  same  spot  where  Capt.  Gilbert  of  the  Pop- 
ham  Colony  had  first  met  the  Indians  and  erected  the  cross 
exactly  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  before. 

The  garrison  at  Fort  Halifax,  though  much  reduced,  was  con- 
tinued for  several  years,  in  1759  sixteen  soldiers  petitioned  the 
Governor  for  a  discharge,  affirming  that  they  had  been  impressed 
into  the  service  and  already  had  served  far  beyond  their  time. 
The  request  was  granted  and  Col.  Lithgow  was  authorized  to 
offer  "a  bounty  of  five  dollars  to  each  of  three  men  who  would 
enlist.  If  they  cannot  he  enlisted  to  he  impressed.''  After  the 
Peace  of  Paris  in  1763,  the  fort  was  dismantled.  At  the  time 
of  Arnold's  expedition  in  1775,  the  large  house  within  the  fort 
was  used  as  a  tavern,  "Fort  House."  Afterward  it  was  used 
as  a  dwelling-house,  meeting-house,  town  hall,  where  all  the 


1.  Letter  to  Gov.  Shirley  Oct.  22, 1755. 

2.  Me.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.  Vol.  8,  p.  269-70. 


48  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

earlier  town  meetings  of  \Vinslo\v  were  held,  a  hall  for  public 
dancing  parties,  finally  a  home  for  poor  families  until  it  was 
taken  down  by  'Mr.  Thomas  and  some  of  its  material  used  in  the 
construction  of  the  Halifax  House  in  1797.  Col.  Lithgow  was 
engaged  in  trade  at  the  fort  for  several  years.  In  1760  he  was 
appointed  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Lincoln 
county,  the  first  magistrate  on  the  Kennebec  above  Pownalboro, 
and  was  continued  by  the  Am.erican  government.  Before  1772 
he  retired  to  Georgetown  to  the  Noble  farm  which  was  his  wife's 
inheritance  and  died  there  in  1798  at  the  age  of  eighty-three. 

Abbott  states  that  eleven  families  settled  in  Winslow  in  1754 
but  if  so  they  have  left  neither  trace  nor  name.  Among  the 
earliest  settlers  were  Ensign  Ezekiel  Pattee,  who  lived  in  the  fort 
house  on  the  hill  and  kept  store.  Pie  afterward  removed  the 
block  house  to  his  farm  below  the  present  village.  March  12, 
1766  the  Plymouth  Company  granted  to  Gamaliel  Bradford, 
John  Winslow,  Daniel  Howard,  James  Warren  and  William 
Taylor  a  tract  of  land  covering  the  present  Winslow,  of  18,600 
acres,  on  condition  that  within  four  years  they  should  have  fifty 
settlers  on  the  premises,  twenty-five  of  them  to  have  families,  and 
to  build  fifty  houses  not  less  than  twenty  feet  square  and  seven 
feet  studd  each.  Said  fifty  settlers  were  each  to  clear  and  pre- 
pare for  mowing,  not  less  than  five  acres  of  land  adjoining  each 
house. "^  This  arrangement  was  carried  out  and  was  the  only 
one  to  succeed  of  many  similar  propositions.  (For  records  con- 
cerning the  Plymouth  Grant  see  chapter  of  Historical  Docu- 
ments). Within  a  few  years  the  names  which  have  remained 
prominent  through  all  the  history  of  Winslow  appeared  upon  the 
records,  viz.  Pattee,  Howard,  Haywood,  Crosby,  Heald,  Getchell, 
Drummond,  Hayden,  Redington,  Stackpole,  Blackwell,  Phillips, 
Runnels,  Simpson,  Town  and  others. 

Up  to  the  year  1771  the  plantation  was  called  Kingfield.  By 
act  of  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  April  26,  1771,  it  was 
incorporated  as  a  town,  the  fourth  in  the  State  and  named  in 
honor  of  General  John  Winslow  of  a  family  which  had  been 
prominent  in  Kennebec  history  since  1525.  By  warrant  of 
James  Howard,  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  and  for  the  county  of 
Lincoln,  directed  to  Mr.  Ezekiel    Pattee,  the    Freeholders    and 

1.    History  of  Kennebec  Co.  Vol.  I,  p.  542. 


HISTORY    or    WATERVILLH.  49 

Other  inhabitants  of  Winslow  qualified  to  vote  in  town  affairs 
met  at  Fort  Halifax  ^lay  2^,,  1771,  at  8  o'clock  A.  yi.  They 
chose  Lieut.  Timothv  Healcl,  moderator ;  Ezekiel  Pattee,  town 
clerk  and  treasurer ;  Ezekiel  Pattee,  Timothy  Heald  and  John 
Tozer,  selectmen ;  Robert  Crosby,  John  Peter  Cool  and  Nathaniel 
Carter,  wardens ;  Francis  Dudley,  Joel  Crosby  and  John  Ayer, 
surveyors  of  highways ;  Jonah  Crosby,  fence  viewer.  At  a  sub- 
sequent meeting  summoned  ''in  His  Majesty's  name"  the  ''clear- 
ing the  banks  of  the  river  for  the  purposes  of  navieation,  and  the 
hireing  of  preaching,"  were  considered  but  no  action  taken. 
March  2,  1772,  Dr.  McKechnie  was  "employed  to  apply  to  Dr. 
Sylvester  Gardiner  for  a  tract  of  land  for  a  burying  ground  and 
for  a  road  leading  through  his  Improvement."  This  secured  the 
old  cemetery  on  Fort  Hill.  In  May,  1772.  it  was  voted  "to  hire 
one  month's  preaching  this  summer."  The  road  which  is  now 
Main  street  and  College  avenue  was  accepted.  Early  in  1773 
the  authorities  of  Hallowell  (Augusta)  sent  five  men  in  a  boat 
to  Boothbay  to  carr}-  to  the  town  the  Rev.  John  Murray  who  was 
the  first  minister  to  be  hired  by  that  town.  He  proceeded  to 
Winslow  and  Waterville  and  July  3,  ij/^y  baptised  three  child- 
ren of  Dr.  John  ^NIcKechnie.  This  is  the  first  baptism  in  town 
of  which  we  have  record. 

In  the  autumn  of  1775  the  ill-fated  Arnold  expedition  with 
1,100  men  passed  through  Winslow  and  \\^aterville  on  its  way 
through  the  wilderness  to  Quebec  where  it  arrived  at  last  with 
men  half  starved,  worn  out  with  incredible  hardships  and  fit  only 
for  the  hospital  rather  than  the  battlefield.  Of  the  exploring 
expedition  sent  in  advance  Nehemiah  Getchell  and  John  Horn 
were  guides.  For  the  expedition  itself  a  "guide  by  the  name  of 
Jackins  was  obtained,  living  north  of  Teconnet  Falls." 

That  the  Revolution  meant  more  than  the  mere  passing  of 
armed  expeditions  became  apparent  in  1776  when  the  town 
appointed  a  "Committee  of  Safety''  consisting  of  Timothy  Heald, 
John  Tozer  and  Zimri  Haywood.  July  8,  1776,  the  town  meet- 
ing was  for  the  first  time  called  in  the  name  of  "The  Government 
and  People  of  ^Massachusetts  Bay."  The  general  law  required 
that  each  town  should  provide  itself  with  a  stock  of  ammunition, 
but  there  was  no  money  in  the  Winslow  treasury.  The  town 
therefore    voted,  "To    borrozu  of    Esquire    Pattee,  100,000    of 


50  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLK. 

shingles;  of  Deacon  Tozer,  80,000  ditto;  of  Timo.  Heald,  Jr., 
4,000  ditto ;  of  Ambrose  Davis,  3,000  ditto ;  of  Lawrence  Costa- 
gan,  1,000  clapboards,  and  of  Nathaniel  Carter,  5,000  of  shingles ; 
to  purchase  a  town  stock  of  ammunition  and  that  the  produce  of 
the  same  or  what  the  same  shall  clear  in  the  market  shall  be 
assessed  upon  this  town  some  time  in  the  month  of  October 
next."  (Winslow  Record).  It  also  voted  to  hire  three  men  to 
go  up  the  river  on  scout  duty  to  see  whether  any  British  force 
was  approaching,  and  petitioned  the  General  Court  for 
defence  against  the  Canadians.  Those  who  served  on  the  Com- 
mittees of  Correspondence,  Inspection  and  Safety  during  the 
Revolution  were :  Timothy  Heald,  John  Tozer,  Zimri  Haywood, 
Ezekiel  Pattee.  Robert  Crosby,  Manuel  Smith,  Ephraim  Osborne, 
Nathaniel  Low,  Hezekiah  Stratton,  William  Richardson  and 
Benjamin  Runnels.  The  town  had  not  a  little  trouble  with  the 
roving  Indians  who  came  into  it  without  means  of  support  and 
called  upon  the  selectmen  to  feed  them.  This  was  done  by 
Squire  Pattee  until  the  town  voted  to  pay  him  for  1,000  pounds 
beef  found  the  Indians  at  the  rate  of  five  dollars  per  pound, 
which  price  would  indicate  either  a  depreciated  currency  or  that 
some  primordial  beef  trust  already  had  taken  possession  of  the 
country.  Under  such  conditions  it  became  difficult  to  secure  the 
clothing  and  beef  required  by  the  Court  for  the  Continental 
Army.  The  quota  of  soldiers  also  fell  short  and  the  town  voted 
to  hire  "tow"  men  for  the  town  of  Winslow  to  serve;  for  three 
years  or  during  the  war.  It  is  no  wonder  that  the  articles  con- 
cerning preaching  and  schooling  at  the  town's  expense  w^re  so 
often  passed  over  or  voted  down. 

May  21,  1782,  Zimri  Haywood  was  elected  as  the  town's  repre- 
sentative in  the  Massachusetts  Court.  The  next  year  Ezekiel 
Pattee  was  chosen  and  Zimri  Haywood,  Solomon  Parker  and 
Benjamin  Runnels  were  made  a  committee  "to  give  their  repre- 
sentative instructions." 

In  1784  it  was  voted  not  to  hire  preaching,  not  to  hire  school- 
ing and  not  to  raise  any  money  for  town  expenses.  The  next 
year  it  was  voted  to  raise  i  20  for  preaching,  i  60  for  schooling 
and  i  100  for  work  on  the  roads  which  liberality  was  afterward 
reconsidered  and  recalled.  In  December,  1785,  Capt.  Haywood 
attended  the  Falmouth  Conference  with  reference  to  the  separa- 
tion of  Maine  from  Massachusetts. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  5I 

In  1786  on  petition  to  the  g-overnor,  the  plantations  of  Han- 
cock (Clinton)  and  Canaan  were  relieved  of  the  taxes  assessed 
upon  them  by  Winslow  on  account  of  their  ''greate  povertie  and 
inabilitie."  December  3,  1787,  Jonah  Crosby  was  chosen  to 
attend  the  convention  at  Boston  "to  see  whether  the  people  will 
accept  the  constitution  set  forth  at  Philadelphia,  September  17, 

1787." 

The  town  was  slowly  becoming  prosperous.  The  farms  were 
productive,  several  grist  and  saw  mills  were  in  operation,  the 
river  afforded  means  for  conveying  the  lumber  to  market,  while 
its  fisheries  supplied  both  food  and  an  important  article  of  trade. 
In  1 79 1  there  were  eighty-one  polls  in  town  and  George  Warren, 
Winslow's  first  lawyer,  had  begun  business.  In  the  same  year 
he  petitioned  the  General  Court  for  authority  to  conduct  a  lottery 
for  the  building  of  a  bridge  across  the  Sebasticook.  He  was 
representative  to  the  General  Court  for  that  year.  An  article  in 
the  warrant  to  set  off  the  territory  of  Winslow  on  the  west  side 
.of  the  Kennebec,  was  at  last  approved  by  a  vote  of  thirteen  to 
seven.  The  smallness  of  the  vote  probably  prevented  any 
further  action.  In  1793,  however,  perhaps  to  remove  the  griev- 
ance which  had  caused  the  desire  for  separation  two  collectors 
were  appointed  of  whom  one,  Asa  Emerson,  was  to  serve  for  the 
west  side  of  the  river.  It  was  also  voted  that  the  preaching  in 
the  future  should  be  half  on  the  east  and  half  on  the  west  side  of 
the  river  and  that  the  town  meetings  were  to  be  held  alternately. 
Several  times  action  had  been  brought  against  the  town  under 
the  general  statute  for  not  having  a  "Gospel  Teacher."  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1794,  at  a  town  meeting  held  at  John  McKechnie's  it 
was  voted  "to  erect  a  meeting  house  on  the  east  side  of  the  river 
on  land  to  be  given  by  Arthur  Lithgow,  Esq.  One  hundred 
pounds  were  to  be  raised  by  a  tax  on  polls  and  estates  for  the 
purpose  of  building  said  meeting  house."  Jonah  Crosby,  Capt. 
Timo.  Heald,  Capt.  Josiah  Hayden,  David  Pattee,  Jonathan 
Soule,  Nathaniel  Low  and  Ezekiel  Pattee,  Esq.,  were  appointed 
to  carry  this  vote  into  effect.  A  fish  committee  of  nineteen  mem- 
bers was  to  regulate  the  fisheries  for  the  year.  The  same  year 
two  names  appear  in  the  town  records  which  were  to  hold  large 
place  there  for  many  years ;  Rev.  Joshua  Cushman  and 
Elnathan  Sherwin.     At  a  meeting  held  at  the  house  of  Elnathan 


52 


HISTORY    01?    WATERVILLE. 


Sherwin  on  the  site  of  the  Silas  Redington  place,  Sherwin  street, 
Rev.  Joshua  Cushman  was  invited  to  settle  in  the  town  as  a 
religious  instructor.  His  salary  was  to  be  one  hundred  and  ten 
pounds  annually  so  long  as  he  should  remain  their  minister.  A 
committee  of  ten,  headed  by  Col.  Hayden,  was  appointed  to  wait 
upon  Mr.  Cushman  and  receive  his  answer. 

Mr.  Cushman  already  had  seen  much  of  Hfe.  Bom  in  1759  at 
Halifax,  he  served  with  distinction  in  the  Revolutionary^  army 
and  endured  the  hardships  of  Valley  Forge.  He  was  graduated 
from  Harvard  in  the  class  of  1788  with  John  Quincy  Adams. 
At  the  age  of  thirty-six  he  was  now  to  enter  the  ministry.  He 
proved  himself  a  man  of  high  character,  great  ability  as  a 
preacher  and  a  politician  of  no  mean  degree.  In  addition  to 
twenty  years  service  as  pastor  in  Winslow,  he  served  in  both 
branches  of  the  Legislature  of  Massachusetts,  was  then  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress  for  three  terms  where  he  made  a  decided  impres- 
sion, and  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature  of  IMaine  when  he 
died.  The  constitution  and  agreement  for  a  religious  society 
under  which  he  began  work,  which  was  supposed  to  come  from 
his  pen  was  very  liberal  so  that  his  society  has  been  termed  the 
first  Unitarian  church  in  America.^ 

The  ecclesiastical  council  for  the  ordination  of  Mr.  Cushman 
to  which  the  Church  of  Christ  in  Canaan,  in  Pownalboro,  in 
Woolwich,  in  Brunswick,  in  Topsham,  Second  Church  in  Wells, 
First  Church  in  Kittery,  First  Church  in  Pembroke  and  two 
others  were  called,  was  received  in  great  state.  Twenty  of  the 
leading  citizens  of  the  town  were  made  a  committee  to  conduct 
the  council  to  the  large  booth  of  evergreen  erected  on  the  plains 
where  the  meeting  was  to  be  held. 

March  7,  1796,  the  town  voted  to  build  a  meeting  house  on  the 
hill  near  or  in  Ticonic  village.  The  next  day  it  was  voted  to 
build  another  on  the  Lithgow  lot  in  Winslow,  the  previous  vote 
concerning  it  having  been  reconsidered. 

The  committee  for  the  west  side  was :  Nehemiah  Getchell, 
James  Stackpole,  Jr.,  John  Pierce,  Obadiah  Williams,  Reuben 
Kidder.  The  committees  reported  March  16  that  the  meeting 
houses  should  be  erected,  the  pews  valued  and  the  choice  sold  at 


1.  For  tbe  "Constitution  and  Agreement"  under  which  Mr.  Cushman  became 
town  minister  of  Winslow,  with  the  report  of  the  Committee.  See  chapter  of  his- 
torical documents. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  53 

auction,  the  highest  bidder  to  have  two  minutes  to  make  his 
choice,  payment  for  pews  and  premium  was  to  be  made  in  four 
quarterly  installments  in  cash,  corn,  grain,  any  building  materials 
or  merchantable  lumber.  Such  was  the  beginning  of  the  meet- 
ing house  which  is  now  a  part  of  the  old  city  hall.  Difficulty 
arose  as  to  the  location.  Dr.  Obadiah  Williams  generously 
offered  to  the  town  the  present  city  hall  park  as  a  location  for 
the  meeting  house  and  an  academy  or  school  house\  court  house, 
etc.  Then  Asa  Emerson  and  David  Pattee  who  lived  by  the 
Messalonskee  or  Emerson  stream  as  it  was  then  called  petitioned 
that  the  house  be  placed  at  a  more  central  point.  Their  petition 
was  not  granted.  The  house  was  not  completed  for  many  years. 
The  pews  were  sold,  forfeited,  resold,  forfeited  again.  About 
sixty  pages  of  the  first  volume  of  Waterville  records  are  taken 
up  with  pew  deeds  and  many  more  with  meeting  house  business. 
The  first  town  meeting  was  held  in  the  new  meeting  house  June 
25,  1798,  and  Elnathan  Sherwin  was  paid  $30  for  the  use  of  his 
house  for  previous  town  meetings  and  religious  services.  Mean- 
while questions  of  division  had  been  constantly  before  the  public. 
For  years  the  matter  of  the  separation  of  Maine  from  Massa- 
chusetts had  been  agitated  and  vote  after  vote  taken  in  its  favor. 
The  division  of  Lincoln  county  and  the  erection  of  Kennebec 
county  took  place  February  20,  1799.  The  dividing  of  the  town 
usually  with  the  river  as  line  though  once  a  line  one  mile  west  of 
the  river  was  proposed,  had  been  discussed  and  voted  on  again 
and  again.  The  expedient  of  holding  town  meetings  alternately 
on  the  east  and  on  the  west  side  of  the  river  was  not  satisfactory. 
Two  collectors  and  a  double  set  of  town  officials  did  not  conduce 
to  harmony.  Air.  Cushman  preached  at  the  meeting  houses  in 
turn,  even  going  to  West  Waterville  one-fourth  of  the  time. 
There  was  no  bridge  across  the  Kennebec  and  when  the  inhab- 
itants set  forth  in  petition  their  grievances  what  wonder  that  the 
General  Court  listened  to  their  prayer  and  divided  the  town.^ 

The  population  now  amounted  to  1,250  of  which  800  were  on 
the  west  side  of  the  river. 

December  28,  1801  the  town  voted  "To  petition  the  General 
Court  to  set  off  that  part  of  the  town  which  lieth  on  the  westerly 
side  of  the  Kennebec  river  and  to  incorporate  it  into  a  separate 


1.  See  copy  of  deed,  chapter  of  historical  documents. 

2.  Petition  for  division.    Page  54,  note. 


54  HISTORY    OP    WATERVILLE. 

town,"  and  chose  Reuben  Kidder,  Thomas  Rice,  Josiah  Hayden, 
Nehemiah  G.  Parker  and  Asa  Soule  a  committee  for  the  purpose. 
Considering  the  circumstances  the  development  of  the  town  had 
been  worthy  even  remarkable  and  when  the  time  of  separation 
came,  the  mother  and  daughter  parted  without  a  quarrel. 

PETITION   FOR  DIVISION, 

Note.  To  the  Honourable  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Com- 
monwealth  of  Massachusetts  iu  General  Court  assembled: 

The  Petition  of  the  Subscribers,  Inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Winslow,  in  the 
county  of  Kennebeck,  being  a  committee  chosen  by  said  Town  in  Town  meeting 
assembled,  humbly  Report  to  your  Honours  that  it  is  the  wish  of  the  Inhabitants 
of  the  said  Town  that  the  territory  lying  on  the  Westerly  side  of  said  River,  in 
said  town,  as  it  is  now  bounded,  should  be  set  off  from  said  Town  by  the  name  of 
Waterville.  Your  Petitioners  would  in  behalf  of  said  Town,  beg  leave  to  offer  to 
your  Honours  the  following  reasons: 

That  the  value  of  the  property  now  owned  in  said  Town  is  nearly  equally 
divided  on  each  side  of  said  river; 

That  the  Town  and  religious  meetings  in  said  town  are  held  alternately  at  the 
meeting  bouses  now  erected  on  each  side  of  said  River,  and  that  in  several  parts 
of  the  year  it  is  very  difficult  and  almost  impossible  to  cross  said  River  to  attend 
said  meetings; 

That  in  the  spring  season,  at  the  annual  meetings  held  in  said  Town,  the  Inhab- 
itants thereof  living  on  the  opposite  side  from  where  the  said  meeting  is  to  be 
held,  are  frequently  prevented  by  the  particular  situation  of  said  River  from 
crossing  the  same  to  attend  said  meeting; 

That  said  River  near  by  divides  said  Town  of  Winslow  in  equal  halves; 

Wherefore  your  Petitioners  in  behalf  of  said  Town  humbly  pray  that  said  terri- 
tory may  be  set  off  and  as  in  duty  bound  will  ever  pray. 
(Signed.) 

ASA  SOULE,  ] 

THOMAS   RICE,  | 

NEHEMIAH  A.   PARKER,  )■    Com.  of  Town  of  Winslow. 

.lOSIAH    HAYDEN,  | 

REUBEN   KIDDER,  J 

That  the  now  Town  of  Winslow  shall  be  divided  through  the  middle  of  the 
River  Kennebeck  as  the  River  usually  runs  across  the  width  of  said  Town; 

That  that  part  of  said  Town  which  lay  on  the  Eastern  side  of  the  Kennebeck 
shall  retain  the  name  of  Winslow  and  the  part  which  lay  on  the  Western  side  be 
erected  into  a  town  by  the  name  of  Waterville; 

That  all  debts  except  such  as  concern  meeting  houses  that  shall  be  due  from  the 
Town  when  divided,  or  Damages  the  Town  may  be  liable  to  pay,  shall  be  appor- 
tioned and  paid  by  each  Town  according  to  the  present  valuation; 

That  Josiah  Hayden,  Esq.,  being  the  only  selectman  of  the  present  Town  of 
Winslow  residing  on  the  east  side  of  the  Kennebeck  River,  shall,  after  a  Division, 
have  power  to  call  the  first  meeting  without  consulting  his  colleagues. 

The  above  are  articles  agreed  on  by  us  in  a  Division  of  the  now  Town  of  Wins- 
low, in  behalf  of  said  Town. 

(Signed.) 

JOSIAH   HAYDEN,  1 

REUBEN   KIDDER,  | 

ASA    SOULE,  ^Com. 

NEHEMIAH    A.    PARKER,    | 
THOMAS   RICE, 


CHAPTER   III 


WATERVILLE  1802-1902.  ^ 

By  Rev.  Edwin  Carey  Whittemore. 

By  act  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  Waterville  was 
incorporated  June  230!,  1802.^  July  13,  1802  Asa  Redington,^ 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  issued  to  Moses  Appleton,^  physician,  his 
warrant  to  call  the  first  town  meeting  to  be  held  on  July  26,  at 
the  East  meeting-  house.  These  were  men  long  prominent  in  the 
life  of  the  town  as  their  character,  ability  and  public  spirit 
deserved.  Justice  Redington,  the  old  "soldier  of  Washington's 
body  guard "'^  was  ever  faithful  to  his  trust.  Dr.  Appleton  is 
still  remembered  by  aged  men  who  say  "He  was  kind  to  the 
poor." 

Of  the  first  town  meeting,  Elnathan  Sherwin,  long  a  prom- 
inent citizen  of  the  place,  who  already  had  served  three  years  as 
representative  in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  and  who  w^as  to 
serve  thirteen  years  longer,  was  chosen  moderator,  and  Abijah 
Smith,  to  whom  every  one  who  consults  the  Waterville  records 
covering  the  long  period  of  his  clerkship,  is  under  obligation,  was 
elected  town  clerk.  The  selectmen  were  Elnathan  Sherwin,  Asa 
Soule  and  Ebenezer  Bacon ;  David  Pattee  was  elected  town 
treasurer,  and  the  long  official  list  of  surveyors,  cullers,  meas- 
urers, scalers,  agents,  tythingmen,  fish  wardens,  fence  viewers, 
field  drivers,  saxons  (sextons),  pound  keepers,  ended  with  the 
names  of  eighteen  good  men  and  true  who  were  elected  hog 
reeves.  Evidently  the  new  town  was  to  be  sufficiently  governed. 
At  the  second  town  meeting,  August  9,  1802,  held  at  the  West 


1.  Act  of  Division  and  Incorporation.    Wat.  Records,  Vol.  I,  p.  1-4.    See  chapter 
of  historical  documents. 

2.  See  Biographical  chapter. 

3.  Letter  of  Asa  Redington  to  Hon.  Daniel  P.  Ring.    (In  full.)    See  chapter  of 
historical  documents. 


^6  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

meeting-  house,  (Oakland)  $i,ooo  was  voted  for  town  expenses 
and  $300  for  schools.  The  prospects  of  the  new  town  were 
good.  Already  through  the  efforts  of  Reuben  Kidder,  Abijah 
Smith  and  others  the  "Waterville  Social  Library"  had  been  estab- 
lished, which  though  not  large,  included  books  of  the  highest 
class.^  Many  of  these  books  are  still  in  the  city  and  it  is  hoped 
that  they  will  find  a  proper  place  in  the  new  public  library.  In 
1791  only  sixty-three  tax  payers  were  living  on  the  "\\'est  Side" 
but  the  year  following,  Redington  and  Getchell  built  the  first 
dam  on  the  Kennebec  and  a  large  mill,  which  movement  began 
our  earliest  business  boom.-  Considerable  business  also  was  car- 
ried on  by  the  earlier  mills  on  the  Messalonskee,  the  McKechnie, 
Pattee  and  others.  Capt.  John  Clark  and  his  son  Geo.  Clark  had 
a  shipyard,  where  in  1800  the  ship  Ticonic  of  268  tons  was  built.^ 
The  fisheries  of  shad,  salmon,  and  especially  alewives  were  of 
profit  to  many  and  of  annoyance  to  others,  for  in  1804  "the 
dressing  of  fish  between  Capt.  Geo.  Clarke's  shipyard  and  the 
road  leading  from  Isaac  Temple's  landing  was  prohibited. 
Waterville  became  a  distributing  point  for  the  cargoes  of  mer- 
chandise that  came  up  the  river  on  the  "long  boats."  As  the 
most  of  this  merchandise  consisted  of  rum  and  molasses,  both  of 
which  came  bv  the  hogshead,  it  is  charitable  to  suppose  that  it 
was  intended  for  distribution  rather  than  for  home  consumption. 
The  collection  of  taxes  was  let  to  the  lowest  bidder,  who  in  1804 
was  Capt.  James  Stackpole  at  5^%-  Later  as  much  as  6% 
was  paid.  The  most  of  the  money  for  preaching  voted  by  the 
town  was  paid  to  Rev.  Joshua  Cushman  of  W'inslow,  by  an 
agreement  with  that  town.  In  1803  the  town  had  been  divided 
into  ten  school  districts  and  in  1806  we  find  as  school  committee, 
Moses  Appleton,  Reuben  Kidder,  Timothy  Boutelle,  James 
Stackpole  and  Thomas  C.  Norris,  a  committee  to  inspire  the 
teacher  with  dread  and  the  scholar  with  awe.  Squire  Kidder 
was  the  town's  first  lawyer  and  he  rendered  it  in  many  ways  an 
important  service.  Hon.  Timothy  Boutelle  was  eminent  through 
his  entire  career  in  Waterville  for  public  spirit  and  high  char- 


1.  Via  Public  Libraries  of  Waterville,  by  Estelle   Foster  Eaton.    Also  Water- 
ville Social  Library.    See  chapter  of  historical  documents. 

2.  Via  "Early  Settlers  ana  Settlements,"  by  A.  A.  Plaisted. 

3.  For  shipping  list  Virt  "Early  Settlers  and  Settlements." 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  57 

acter.  He  served  the  town,  the  State,  and  the  Nation  in  many 
official  duties  and  in  all  with  distinction  and  honor. 

In  1806  the  mail  privileges  of  the  town  were  g^reatly  increased 
by  the  estahlishment  of  a  stag'e  line  from  Norridgewock  to  Hal- 
lowell  by  Peter  Oilman.  The  old  days  of  the  Revolution,  when 
the  mail  was  brought  at  long  and  irregular  intervals,  during  the 
winter  on  snowshoes,  seemed  primitive  indeed,  for  this  stage 
made  two  trips  per  week. 

That  home  amusement  as  well  as  foreign  travel  was  not  neg- 
lected, we  learn  from  Capt.  Stackpole's  diary  which,  under  the 
suggestive  date  of  July  27.  states  that  he  carried  his  children  to 
the  dancing  school  .at  Col.  Sherwin's  kept  by  one.  Moore. 

The  Embargo  Act  of  December  22,  1807,  which  by  way  of 
reprisal  upon  England,  forbade  American  vessels  to  leave  port, 
was  a  crushing  blow  to  the  shipping  of  Maine.  A  town  meeting 
was  called.  A  petition  to  the  U.  S.  government  for  the  removal 
of  the  Embargo  was  presented,  but  the  spirit  of  patriotism  pre- 
vailed and  the  town  authorized  a  resolution  approving  the 
Embargo  and  chose  a  committee  to  prepare  and  forward  to  the 
President  such  resolution.  The  same  year  it  was  voted  to  build 
a  powder  magazine  in  the  loft  of  the  meeting  house,  probably 
as  ihe  driest  place  available  though  that  the  people  were  discrim- 
inating in  the  matter  of  their  preaching  is  shown  by  their  vote 
to  pay  $100  for  preaching  if  Mr.  Allen  of  Duxbury  can  be 
secured,  otherwise  $50. 

In  1809  the  fire  department  makes  its  first  appearance,  in  the 
election  of  Elnathan  Sherwin,  James  L.  Wood,  Moses  Dalton, 
Asa  Redington  and  Eleazer  W.  Ripley  as  fire  wardens,  who  were 
duly  sworn.  From  that  time  on  some  of  the  foremost  citizens 
of  the  town  have  served  in  the  fire  department.  It  has  been  to 
them  a  matter  of  patriotism,  an  honor  and  the  secret  of  its 
efficiency  to  the  department  and  a  safeguard  to  the  town.  The 
first  engine  company  included  Capt.   Abijah  Smith,  Nehemiah 

Note.  In  a  tax  list  for  1809  so  given  to  Baxter  CroweU  for  collection,  occur276 
names  of  reslflent  tax  payers.  The  list  here  given.contains  21  names  of  persons  pay- 
ing over  ten  dollars:  Moses  Appleton,  $19.30;  Ebenezer  Bacon,  S10.44;  .James  Bur- 
gess, 810.18;  Thomas  Cook,  S11..51;  George  Clarke,  S15.62;  .Jonathan  Combs,  $11.11; 
John  Cool,  $11.03;  Isaac  Corson,  $21.28;  Baxter  Crowell,  $13.70;  Moses  Dalton,  $12.95; 
Daniel  R.  Emerson,  $10.06;  Jonathan  Heywood,  $10.17;  Jeremiah  Fairfield,  $16.66; 
Kaihaniel  Gilnian,  S23.59;  Keuben  Kidder,  $19.31;  Joseph  Mitchell,  $10.42;  William 
Pullen,  $11.60;  Asa  Redington,  $25.93;  Asa  Soule,  $10.60;  James  Stackpole,  $23.98! 
James  L.  Wood,  $31.53. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  •  59 

river  now  became  regularly  established  and  a  lively  trade  in 
lumber,  farm  products,  groceries,  etc.,  followed  the  proclamation 
of  peace  in  181 5. 

I'he  next  important  event  in  the  history  of  the  town  vras  the 
establishment  here  of  the  Maine  Literary  and  Theological  Insti- 
tution, afterward  U'aterville,  now  Colby  college.^  A  charter 
was  granted  by  the  General  Court  of  ]\Iassachusetts,  February  27, 
1813,  and  after  the  question  of  location  in  the  township  No.  3,  on 
the  Penobscot,  then  practically  a  wilderness  which  had  been 
granted  by  the  Legislature,  or  in  Bloomiield  (Skowhegan)  or 
in  Fannington  or  in  Waterville,  had  been  decided  by  the  trustees 
in  favor  of  Waterville,  the  Vaughan  lot  of  179  acres  was  pur- 
chased of  R.  A.  Gardiner  for  $1897.50.  In  18 16  the  town  had 
voted  to  raise  $3,000  for  the  benefit  of  the  institution  should  it 
be  located  here.     For  some  reason  this  money  was  not  paid. 

On  the  arrival  of  President  Jeremiah  Chaplin  in  1818,  theo- 
logical instruction  began  and  the  literary  department  was  opened 
with  the  coming  of  Prof.  Avery  Briggs  in  18 19.  The  history  of 
the  college,  written  by  one  qualified  by  long  and  valuable  service 
in  it,  appears  in  Chapter  X.  The  college  has  brought  to  the 
tov\n  in  the  roll  of  its  presidents  and  professors,  a  large  number 
of  eminent  citizens,  men  who  have  been  interested  in  all  that 
pertains  to  the  life  of  the  town  and  by  voice  and  influence  have 
sought  its  good.  It  has  created  an  intellectual  atmosphere, 
stimulating  to  thought  and  high  conceptions  of  life,  which  has 
led  many  of  the  youth  of  the  town  to  seek  instruction  within  its 
halls  and  has  benefitted  a  far  wider  circle.  It  has  brought 
together  a  large  number  of  youth  representing  the  best  life  of 
the  communities  from  which  they  came  and  has  trained  them 
for  useful  lives.  The  actual  business  of  the  college  is  no  small 
item  in  the  transactions  and  profits  of  the  town.  But  the 
supreme  advantage  has  been  the  continued  residence  of  pro- 
fessors and  their  families,  who  bv  work  and  influence  in  social, 


1.  As  early  as  1788  Dr.  Obadiab  Williams  adflressed  a  letter  to  Doctor  N.  Whit- 
aker  of  Canaan,  Me.,  with  reference  to  the  best  location  for  a  college,  and  the 
method  of  establishing  such  an  institution.  The  answer,  dated  May  5,  1788,  is  in 
possession  of  Mr.  Wallace  B.  Smith,  grandson  of  Dr.  Williams.  The  first  sen- 
tences are  as  follows : 

"Sir— Your  fav'r  of  April  30th  came  to  hand  last  Friday.  I  have  weighed  the 
contents.  Am  agreeably  affected  by  the  noble  and  important  design  of  erecting 
a  Seminary  of  learning  in  these  parts,  where  little  skill  is  required  to  discern  a 
too  hasty  return  to  a  state  of  Barbarism." 


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HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  6l 

noble  and  the  wise  passed  in  first  and  then,  as  the  rear  were 
entering,  the  outside  crowd,  no  longer  able  to  endure  the  sus- 
pense, rushed  for  the  door  determined  to  find  entrance.  For  a 
few  moments  there  was  a  fearful  struggle.  Order,  however,  was 
restored.  The  exercises  began  when,  in  a  few  minutes,  the  tor- 
rent, which  had  flowed  so  frightfully  into  the  house,  took  a  reflex 
turn.  Out  they  came,  they  had  seen  the  elephant  and  were  sat- 
isfied. 

The  coming  of  Dr.  Chaplin  to  Waterville  meant  also  the  estab- 
lishment of  regular  religious  services  on  Sunday  in  the  old 
meeting  house.  Very  soon  the  Baptist  church  was  organized 
with  twenty  members.  This  took  place  at  the  ''Wood  House" 
where  the  Elmwood  Hotel  now  stands.  The  church  was  served 
by  the  president  and  professors  of  the  college  in  an  unpaid  pas- 
torate of  ten  years.  It  held  its  meetings  in  various  locations  in 
the  town  until  the  erection  of  its  fine  meeting  house  in  1826  on 
land  presented  by  Hon.  Timothy  Boutelle. 

In  1 814  the  old  Waterville  Bank  was  chartered,  erected  a  one- 
story  building  on  lower  Main  street,  chose  Nathaniel  Giiman  as 
president  and  Asa  Redington,  Jr.,  as  cashier.  The  name  was 
afterward  changed  to  "Ticonic  Bank."  It  has  had  connected 
with  it  many  of  the  financial  leaders  of  the  town  and  for  thirty- 
eight  years  had  the  efficient  and  successful  service  of  A.  A. 
Plaisted,  Esq.,  as  cashier. 

The  town  had  repeatedly  put  itself  on  record  as  in  favor  of 
the  separation  of  Maine  from  Massachusetts  and  in  September, 
1 81 9,  chose  Abijah  Smith  and  Ebenezer  Bacon  to  attend  the 
convention  called  at  Portland  for  the  formation  of  a  State  Consti- 
tution. The  draft  then  drawn  was  accepted  and  Maine  became 
an  independent  state,  Alarch  15,  1820.  The  vote  for  William 
King  for  Governor  was  practically  unanimous.  Baxter  Crowell 
v/as  elected  representative  to  the  Maine  Legislature. 

As  previously  noted  the  trade  of  the  early  days  included  the 
sale  of  liquors  to  a  great  extent.  The  regulation  of  the  sale  was 
In  the  hands  of  the  town.  In  1821,  12  licenses  were  issued  by 
the  town  at  S6  each,  in  1822,  16;  in  1823,  34.  This  was  the 
high  water,  say  rather,  the  low  water  mark  in  the  town's  liquor 
business. 

May  23d,  1823  the  first  number  of  the  first  newspaper  pub- 
lished in  the  town  v/as  issued.     It  was  the  Waterville  Intelli- 


62  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

gencer.  It  was  published  by  \Vm.  Hastings,  and  printed  by  John 
Burleigh.  The  proprietor,  in  his  first  issue,  states  his  satisfac- 
tion that  more  than  i,ooo  subscribers  had  been  obtained  and  a 
printer  engaged  "who  to  correct  morals,  and  the  requisite  skill 
in  typography  adds  a  capital  sufficient  for  all  the  exigencies  of 
his  employment."  The  paper  was  under  the  auspices  of  the 
college  and  was  designed  as  a  State  paper  for  the  Baptist  denom- 
ination. It  was  able  and  instructive  but  local  news  found  small 
place  within  it.  It  became,  in  1828,  the  foundation  of  Zion's 
Advocate. 

The  town  was  growing  rapidly.  Ticonic  bridge,  a  wooden 
structure  built  by  private  parties  as  a  toll  bridge,  was  opened  to 
the  public  and  the  good  effect  upon  the  business  of  the  town  was 
apparent.  There  was  competition  in  the  stage  business  between 
here  and  Augusta.  Seth  Robins  ran  an  extra  stage  at  a  fare 
of  seventy-five  cents.  The  regular  line  of  Washburne  mail 
stages  charged  one  dollar  for  passage  and  left  "on  Mondays, 
Wednesdays  and  Fridays  at  4  o'clock  in  the  morning." 

An  echo  comes  to  us  today  from  the  direction  of  the  Cecilia 
Club,  from  the  "Waterville  Branch  of  the  Northern  Harmonic 
Society,"  John  Hovey,  Sec,  but  the  echo  is  not  descriptive.  We 
have  the  very  record  book  of  the  Ticonick  Debating  Society, 
organized  September  18,  1824  and  including  in  its  membership 
the  leading  men  in  the  town.  Great  questions  were  investigated 
by  committees  and  debated  with  all  possible  deference  to  parlia- 
mentary usage.  Among  the  members  were  Abijah  Smith,  R. 
A.  L.  Codman,  Eben  F.  Bacon,  James  Stackpole,  Jr.,  Samuel 
Wells,  Geo.  Stickney,  William  Richards,  Alpheus  Lyon,  Clark 
Lillybridge,  Julius  A  Men,  William  Hastings,  W.  P.  Norton, 
Johnson  Williams,  Asher  Hinds,  James  Burleigh,  Lemuel  Paine, 
Asa  Redington,  Jr.,  Eliphalet  Gow,  Samuel  Plaisted,  Herman 
Stevens  and  others.  The  next  prominent  debating  society  was 
the  Waterville  Lyceum,  organized  in  1837.  The  secretary  and 
moving  spirit  in  this  enterprise  was  William  Mathews.  After 
two  years  of  debate  there  was  silence,  broken  however,  when 
the  Waterville  Debating  Society  was  formed  in  184T  with  M. 
S.  Chase  as  secretary.  This  society  had  a  long  and  influential 
list  of  members  but  after  one  brief  season  we  read  in  the  record : 
"Adjourned    then  to  the    party."     The   society    has  not  reas- 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  63 

seiiibled.     The  records  of  the  above  societies  are  in  the  possession 
of  E.  R.  Drummond,  Esq. 

Though  Waterville  always  has  been  generous  in  the  matter 
of  her  pubHc  schools,  private  and  corporation  schools  have  been 
quite  a  feature  of  the  school  life  of  the  town.  In  1823  Miss  Pet- 
tengill  had  here  a  school  for  the  education  of  young  ladies.  The 
next  year  ^Ir.  John  Butler  and  Miss  Lewis  opened  a  school 
which  with  its  modern  methods  and  apparatus  won  enthusiastic 
approval.  Such  teaching  has  continued  from  that  time  to  the 
days  of  Miss  Julia  Stackpole  and  has  been  a  special  work  of  great 
importance. 

The  Liberal  Institute  under  the  patronage  of  the  Universalist 
church  did  good  work  until  it  became  apparent  that  the  field  was 
already  supplied. 

The  great  freshet  of  March  25-7,  1826,  carried  away  a  part 
of  Ticonic  bridge  which  immediately  was  rebuilt.  The  Fourth 
of  July  was  usually  celebrated  but  the  semi-centennial  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  was  observed  in  a  more  formal 
w^ay.  The  procession  formed  at  Dow's  Hotel  at  11  o'clock  and 
led  by  a  band  of  music  and  the  Waterville  Artillery,  Col.  John- 
son \\'illiams  in  command,  proceeded  down  Silver  street,  up 
Back  street.  (Elm)  and  down  Main  to  the  meeting  house  where 
a  sensible  and  patriotic  oration  was  pronounced  by  Samuel 
Wells,  Esq.  Thence  to  the  hotel  "where  a  dinner  was  served 
by  Mr.  Dow  in  his  usual  style  of  elegance  and  liberality." 
Timothy  Boutelle  presided  with  ]\Ioses  Appleton  and  James 
Stackpole  as  vice-presidents.  Responses  were  given  to  thir- 
teen regular  toasts  while  several  volunteers  contributed  to  the 
rhetorical  splendor  of  the  day. 

In  the  same  year  Wm.  Hastings  established  a  circulating 
library  of  well  selected  books  which  were  loaned  at  the  rate  of 
four  cents  per  week. 

In  1S27  Waterville  in  open  town  meeting  adopted  very  forcible 
resolutions  of  sympathy  with  the  Greeks  in  their  struggle  against 
Turkey.  The  feeling  throughout  New  England  was  intense, 
greater  than  that  aroused  for  Cuba  in  her  recent  struggle  for 
liberty  and  equalled  only  by  New  England's  compassion  for  the 
slave. 

The  location  of  the  State  capitol  was  under  discussion  but  as 
the  Waterville  Board  of  Trade  had  not  yet  been  born  the  capitol 


64 


HISTORY    Or    WATEKVILLE. 


was  allowed  to  get  stranded  on  the  Augusta  hills  twenty  miles 
helow  its  logical  and  proper  location  at  W'aterville.  For  two 
vears  Col.  Abort,  under  employment  of  the  L'.  S.  Government, 
had  been  making  surveys  of  the  Kennebec  with  a  view  to  secur- 
ing a  waterway  to  Canada.  In  1828  the  Colonel  recommended 
the  building  of  a  canal  around  the  falls  from  Ticonic  Bay  to 
Kendall's  Mills.  Local  facilities  for  traveling  were  improved 
the  same  year  by  the  introduction  of  plank  sidewalks.  The  first 
theatrical  performance  given  in  town  was  at  the  old  cotton  mill 
on  the  Messalonskee  and  the  Waterville  Watchman,  which  in  an 
unguarded  moment  had  advertised  it,  atoned  for  the  error  by 
printing  several  articles  upon  the  evils  of  the  theatre. 

Notable  events  in  the  year  were  the  erection  and  opening  of 
\\'aterville  Academy  i^vid.  chapter  on  Coburn  Institute),  the 
ordination  of  Harvey  Fitz  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church,  an 
attempt  to  rob  the  bank  and  the  accident  to  "The  Eagle." 

In  i8.^o  a  village  corporation  was  formed  which  adopted  an 
extensive  and  stringent  code  of  '"By-laws"  and  appointed  an 
inspector  of  p«Mice  to  put  them  into  effect.  It  was  forbidden  on 
penalty  of  fine  to  carry  a  lighted  pipe  or  cigar  on  the  sidewalk 
or  to  allow  even  the  chimney  of  one's  house  to  bum  out.  The 
boys  v\ere  not  allowed  to  play  ball  or  throw  snowballs  on  the 
street,  or  "to  steal  rides  on  the  rear  of  carts  or  wagons." 

The  great  freshet  in  1S32  remained  for  seventy  years  without 
an  equal.  \'ery  cold  weather  extending  to  the  middle  of  May 
kept  the  frost  in  the  ground,  and  the  snow  from  melting.  Then 
v.arm  weather  and  five  days  of  continuous  rain  brought  on  the 
deluge.  May  22  the  river  reached  its  greatest  height.  Part  of 
the  bridge,  the  Redington  saw  mill  and  other  buildings,  like  many 
ofienders  who  fi.rst  and  last  have  gotten  out  of  order,  went  down 
to  Augusta.  The  losses  along  the  river  were  very  heavy.  June 
I.  1S32.  the  "Ticonic"  the  first  steamboat  to  visit  Waterville 
arrived.  This  was  a  stern-wheeler  built  at  Gardiner,  It  was 
received  with  the  firing  of  cannon,  the  ringing  of  bells  and  every 
expression  of  jubilant  welcome.  It  was  the  beginning  of  steam- 
boat traffic  which  increased  and  prospered  until  the  coming  of 
tlie  railways.  The  Moors,  the  Getchells  and  others  were  inter- 
ested in  the  building  and  management  of  steamers  and  soon  quite 
a  fleet  was  owned  here.  Sometimes  as  many  as  six  Waterville 
steamboats  could  be  seen  at  the  wharves.  Rival  companies 
reduced  the  passenger  rates  until  it  became  possible  to  bi  y  a 


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]11  STORY    OT'    WATERVILLE.  65 

ticket  from  Waterville  to  Boston  for  one  dollar.  Capt.  Geo. 
Jewell  is  well  remembered  by  many  as  for  many  years  com- 
mander of  river  steamboats. 

In  the  summer  of  1832  Wm.  Lloyd  Garrison  visited  Water- 
ville and  gave  an  address  on  the  slavery  question.  It  aroused 
great  interest  among  the  students  who,  on  the  4th  of  July  formed 
an  Anti-Slavery  Society.  Their  celebration  was  so  boisterous  as 
to  call  out  the  censure  of  President  Chaplin.  In  a  second  after- 
chapel  address  on  the  subject  he  compared  the  noise  to  the  bray- 
ing of  so  many  wild  asses.  The  students  sprang  to  their  feet 
and  demanded  that  he  should  retract  his  charge  and  then  left  the 
chapel.  Expulsion  was  then  threatened  but  the  students  declared 
that  if  one  went  all  would  go.  President  Chaplin  and  two  of  the 
professors  then  resigned  and  left  the  institution.  The  service  of 
the  president  had  been  of  the  highest  order,  as  the  memorial 
tablet  in  the  chapel  testifies  he  was  the  "auctor"  of  the  college, 
and  misunderstanding  rather  than  fault  on  either  side  was  the 
unfortunate  occasion  of  his  withdrawal. 

The  citizens  seem  to  have  shared  the  sentiments  of  the  students 
for  in  1 8.34  we  find  an  anti-slavery  society  here  with  150  members. 
The  fine  building  of  the  Universalist  church  had  been  erected  in 
1833.  Patriotism  and  temperance  seemed  to  be  on  the  increase. 
In  1834  we  find  Rev.  Samuel  Francis  Smith,  pastor  of  the  Bap- 
tist church,  teaching  his  Sunday  school  children  to  sing  his  great 
national  hymn  "America,"  and  also  lecturing  on  the  subject  of 
temperance.  The  town  voted  not  to  license  the  selling  of  liquors 
to  be  drunk  on  the  premises.  Having  tried  license  for  several 
years  it  came  squarely  into  the  no  license  ranks  and  was  among 
the  earliest  of  the  Maine  towns  so  to  do.  The  same  year 
appeared  the  ''North  American  Galaxy."  ''A  semi-monthly  jour- 
nal devoted  to  Tales,  Essays,  Music,  Biography,  Poetry,  Anec- 
dotes, etc.,  besides  a  great  many  things  that  it  ain't  devoted  to  at 
all."  F.  R.  Wells  and  William  Mathews  were  the  editors  and 
Daniel  Wing  the  printer.  Its  ability  and  wit  were  beyond  ques- 
tion nor  did  its  support  remain  long  in  doubt  for  in  the  swan 
song  in  the  fourth  number,  the  editors  cheerfully  declare,  "The 
productions  of  our  uncallowed  youth  shall  not  rise  up  in  judg- 
ment against  the  productions  of  our  riper  years."  This  certainly 
has  been  fulfilled  in  case  of  our  honored  Dr.  William  Mathews. 
5 


66  HISTORY   OF    WATKRVILLE. 

For  many  years  he  was  a  resident  of  Waterville  showing  in  the 
Watervillonian  the  same  brilliant  qualities  of  mind  which  have 
made  his  many  books  so  popular  and  so  helpful.     His  "Getting 
on  in  the  World"  has  helped  multitudes  to  get  on  more  honorably 
and  successfully.     We  hail  him  as  our  literary  Nestor  and  are 
glad  that  his  presence  graces  this  occasion.     Despite  the  news- 
paper protest  that  the  fire  department  "wouldn't  let  a  building 
burn  long  enough  to  be  worth  telling  about,"  the  town  voted  to 
purchase  two  fire  engines.     This  was  not  carried  out  until  1836 
when  the  "Ticonic  Village  Corporation"  was  formed,  mainly  to 
secure  protection  against  fire.     Engine  "Ticonic  No.  I"  was  pur- 
chased and  the  leading  citizens  of  the  town  organized  an  engine 
company.^     An  important  step  in  the  religious  history  of  Water- 
ville was  taken  when,  September  2y,  1836,  the  meeting  house  of 
the    Congregational    church  was  dedicated    and    Rev.    Thomas 
Adams  installed  as  pastor.   (Vid.  Hist.  Cong'l.Ch.,  chapter  VHI). 
The  murder  of  Elijah  Parish  Lovejoy  at  Alton,  111.,  November 
7,  1837,  by   a   pro-slavery  mob,  greatly  moved   the  citizens    of 
Waterville.     Lovejoy   was  graduated  with  honor  in  the  class  of 
'26    at  Waterville    College  and    had    shown  great    ability  and 
patriotism.     He  was  the  first  martyr  of  the  college  in  the  cause 
of  civil  liberty. 

So  decided  was  the  sentiment  of  the  town  on  the  subject  of 
liquor  selling,^  that  the  Washingtonian  temperance  movement 


1.  The  members  of  the  company  in  1S39  were:  Sam'l  Appleton,  Joseph  Hasty, 
Joseph  O.  Pearson,  William  Getchell,  Jr.,  James  Pearson,  Geo.  Wentworth,  John 
A.  Rhodes,  Isaac  W.  Wheeler,  Jonathan  Stanley,  Llewellyn  E.  Crommett,  David 
Shorey,  Joseph  Percival,  Ruel  Howard,  Jr.,  Arthur  Blish,  James  Hasty,  Jr., 
Walter  Getchell,  B.  K.  Scribner,  Eben  Freeman,  William  G.  Penney,  Eliphalet 
Gilman,  Elisha  Howard,  Sumner  Percival,  William  Golder,  Otis  Getchell,  William 
H.  Pearson,  Silas  Getchell,  Charles  H.  Thayer,  Philander  Soule,  Estes  W.  French, 
Jarvis  Barney.  Moses  Getchell,  Dr.  N.  R.  Boutelle,  James  S.  Read,  Wadsworth 
Chipman,  Lewis  Purrington,  Edward  H.  Piper,  Hiram  P.  Cousins.  Orea  Doolittle, 
Daniel  Golder,  C.  K.  White,  Geo.  H.  Esty,  Joseph  Nudd,  S.  S.  Parker,  H.  H.  Eames, 
Joseph  C.  Whitman,  Eldridge  Getchell,  S.  T.  Williams,  Aaron  Healy,  W.  H.  Blair, 
Oliver  Paine,  N.  Gilman,  Jr.,  Albert  Balcom,  C.  F.  Gilman. 

2.  "At  a  meeting  of  the  licensing  board  Sept.  8,  1840,  it  was  Resolved  by  the 
selectmen,  treasurer  and  town  clerk  of  the  town  of  Waterville,  that  the  opinions 
of  the  inhabitants  of  said  town  heretofore  expressed  in  the  instructions  to  the 
licensing  board  by  vote  passed  Mar.  13,  1837,  are  in  the  opinion  of  this  board  en- 
titled to  the  highest  respect  as  having  their  foundations  in  a  just  regard  for  the 
best  interests  of  the  people  of  this  town  and  for  the  happiness  and  well-being  of 
society.  Resolved,  therefore,  that  this  board  do  not  deem  it  necessary  or  consis- 
tent with  the  public  good  to  license  any  persons  within  said  town  to  be  sellers  of 
Wine.  Brandy,  Rum  or  any  other  strong  drinks  by  retail,  and  that  no  license  for 


HISTORY    OF    VVATERVILLE.  67 

found  ready  supporters  here  and  the  Watervillonian  informs  us 
that  "alcohol  reels  and  staggers  worse  than  ever."  The  town 
was  slowly  growing  through  the  employment  of  its  water  power. 
The  Fairbanks  establishment  was  sending  out  great  quantities  of 
its  ploughs  and  the  lumber  business  was  increased  by  the  erection 
by  Col.  Redington  of  a  double  sawmill  at  the  excavation  made 
by  the  rush  of  water  in  1839. 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  visited  Waterville  to  deliver  his  address 
on  "The  Method  of  Nature"  before  the  Society  of  the  Adelphi 
in  the  College,  August  11,  1841.  He  said  that  he  was  heard 
"with  cold,  silent,  unresponsive  attention  in  which  there  seemed 
to  be  a  continuous,  unuttered  rebuke  and  protest."^ 

The  contest  for  the  office  of  representative  in  the  legislature 
for  1842  was  not  without  interest.  Nine  town  meetings  were 
held  before  a  choice  was  made.  Moses  Hanscom,  William  Dorr, 
and  Wyman  B.  S.  ]Moor  were  in  the  contest.  Mr,  Moor  from 
start  to  finish  but  at  the  finish,  by  the  ninth  ballot  of  the  ninth 
meeting,  Timothy  Boutelle  was  elected.  The  same  year  the  old 
east  meeting  house  was  moved  back  and  fitted  up  for  a  town  hall. 

In  1843  Dearborn  Plantation  (Smithfield)  was  annexed  to 
W^aterville  in  spite  of  the  protests  and  votes  of  this  town.  It  was 
purely  a  political  move  intended  to  give  a  majority  to  the  Demo- 
cratic party. 

A  night  watch  of  fourteen  men  to  serve  two  each  night  in 
order  was  appointed  January  22,  1847.  The  same  year  a  com- 
mittee of  fifteen  was  chosen  to  prosecute  violators  of  the  liquor 
law.^  The  early  newspapers  of  Waterville  had  finished  their 
brief  existence  and  on  July  22,  1847,  the  first  number  of  the 
Eastern  Mail,  which  became  the  Waterville  Mail  was  issued. 
Ephraim  T^Taxham  was  the  editor.      Maxham  and    Drummond 


that  purpose  shall  be  granted  by  this  board.  Voted  that  the  town  clerk  be 
directed  to  enter  the  foregoing  resolutions  in  the  records  of  the  town.  Present, 
Samuel  Appleton,  Samuel  Doolittle,  Selectmen,  James  Stackpole,  Jr.,  Treasurer, 
and  Augustine  Perkins,  Town  Clerk. 

1.  Emerson  arrived  in  Waterville  by  stage  late  at  Inight  and  thoroughly  tired . 
As  there  was  doubt  where  he  was  to  pass  the  night,  the  stage  driver  visited 
several  houses  and  awakened  their  inmates  by  loud  rapping  only  to  find  that  the 
right  place  had  not  been  found.    At  last  both  shelter  and  welcome  were  secured. 

2.  The  Committee,  Johnson  Williams,  John  R.  Philbrick,  Moses  Hanscom, 
William  Golder,  Enoch  Merrill,  Samuel  Redington,  Joseph  Hill,  Samuel  Scam- 
mon.RufusNason,  George  W.  Pressey,  Cyrus  Wheeler,  Eusebius  Heald,  John 
Cornforth,  William  Lewis  and  Jonathan  Higgins. 


68  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLi;. 

the  printers.  Daniel  R.  Wing  was  connected  with  the  paper 
from  the  start.  This  paper  has  been  largely  influential  in  the 
life  of  the  town.  Conservative  in  its  early  days  it  has  become 
progressive  in  the  best  sense,  being  quick  to  see  and  to  urge  what- 
ever will  contribute  to  the  good  of  the  city.  Its  editors  have 
been  men  of  character  and  responsibility  and  in  bringing  to  pass 
much  that  is  included  in  the  present  prosperity  of  the  city  the 
Waterville  Mail  has  had  large  share. ^  The  difficulties  under 
which  it  started  may  be  argued  from  the  fact  that  it  took  three 
weeks  to  get  news  from  the  Mexican  War  then  in  progress.  Its 
service  in  the  matter  of  the  Centennial  has  been  of  the  highest 
order. 

September  30,  1847,  occurred  the  first  and  only  murder  in  the 
entire*  history  of  Waterville.  Next  morning  the  body  of  Edward 
Mathews,  son  of  Simeon  Mathews  and  brother  of  William 
Mathews  was  found  in  the  cellar  under  what  was  then  Shorey's 
clothing  store,  now  Learned  &  Brown's  shop.  There  were  no 
marks  of  violence  upon  the  body  but  as  demonstrated  by  Prof. 
J.  R.  Loomis  of  the  College,  Mr.  Mathews  had  come  to  his  death 
by  poison,  a  dose  of  prussic  acid  having  been  given  to  him.  The 
crime  was  soon  fastened  upon  Dr.  Valorous  P.  Coolidge,  a  very 
successful  young  physician  of  the  town  into  whose  room  at  the 
Williams  House  Mathews  had  gone  on  the  evening  of  the 
murder.  On  account  of  the  circumstances  and  the  high  oosition 
of  the  parties  involved  great  interest  was  awakened.  The  trial 
occurred  in  Augusta  in  March,  1848.  The  government  was 
represented  by  Samuel  H.  Blake,  Attorney-General,  and  Lot  M. 
Morrill,  Hon.  Geo.  Evans  and  Edwin  Noyes,  Esq.,  conducted  the 
defense  in  an  exceedingly  able  manner.  The  jury  after  being  out 
twenty-four  hours  rendered  a  verdict  of  guilty. 

Whether  Waterville  or  Augusta  should  be  the  terminus  of  the 
Androscoggin  and  Kennebec  Railroad,  which  by  the  charter  of 
1845  was  authorized  to  touch  the  Kennebec  at  any  point  between 
the  north  line  of  Waterville  and  the  south  line  of  Hallowell,  was 
a  burning  question.     Great  interests  and  powerful  men  favored 

1.  The  paper  has  rendered  valuable  service  in  gathering  and  preserving  his- 
torical and  biographical  matter,  a  very  large  amount  of  which  it  has  published. 
Prof.  Asa  L.  Lane  has  carefully  examined  the  file  of  the  Mail  owned  by  Mrs 
Wing,  who  kindly  allowed  its  use,  and  has  gathered  a  vast  amount  of  interesting 
matter  which  has  been  freely  used  in  the  preparation  of  this  volume.  Eds. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  69 

Augiista.  A  mass  meeting  was  called  at  which  Timothy 
Boutelle,  Samuel  Taylor  and  Prof.  Champlin  made  addresses. 
The  classical  scholar  made  a  great  speech  and  the  men  of  affairs 
were  quickly  engaged  in  the  acts  which  determined  that  Water- 
ville  and  not  Augusta  should  be  the  great  railroad  center  of 
Maine.^  When  on  July  4,  1848,  the  annual  meeting  of  the  stock- 
holders of  the  A.  &  K.  R.  R.  w^as  held  in  the  towm  hall,  five  of 
the  directors  chosen  were  Waterville  men.  Timothy  Boutelle, 
President ;  Jediah  Alorrill,  John  Ware,  Reuben  B.  Dunn,  W.  B. 
S.  Moor.  A  petition  to  unite  with  Waterville  that  portion  of 
Winslow  lying  between  the  Kennebec  and  the  Sebasticook  shared 
the  fate  now'  historic  of  its  successors. 

The  year  1849  saw  the  practical  end  of  river  travel.  The  A. 
&  K.  Railroad  was  com^pleted  and  passengers  and  freight  found 
a  new  way  of  entrance. 

The  commencement  of  '49  w^as  notable  for  the  oration  by 
Theodore  Parker,  the  poems  by  S.  F.  Smith  and  John  G.  Saxe 
and  the  oration  for  the  master's  degree  by  Josiah  Hayden  Drum- 
mond  of  Winslow.  Mr.  Drummond's  subject  was  "Physical 
Astronomy." 

November  27,  1849,  ^^e  Androscoggin  and  Kennebec  Railroad 
was  finished  to  Waterville  and  a  grand  stockholders'  meeting 
was  held  in  celebration  of  the  event.  The  first  train  ever  to  leave 
Waterville  went  down  to  Readfield  to  meet  the  Portland  train. 
On  the  return  it  was  greeted  with  thunder  of  cannon,  ringing  of 
bells  and  the  cheers  of  citizens.  The  banquet  was  held  in  the 
freight  house,  which  was  thronged  with  people.  Prayer  was 
ofi'ered   by   Dr.    Sheldon   and   addresses   were   made   by   Hon. 


1.    A  railroad  song  by  Silas  Redington  was  sung  at  an  exhibition  of  the  Liberal 
Institute  Feb.  23, 1847.    Tune,  "Old  Dan  Tucker.    The  first  stanza  was : 
We've  beat  the  bush  and  caught  the  bird, 
Now  onward,  forward  is  the  word, 
By  opposition  strong  assailed, 
That  opposition  now  has  failed. 
Chorus.    Then  clear  the  track  the  engine's  coming. 
In  forty  nine  you'll  hear  it  humming. 

Last  verse.    Now  ply  the  spade  and  ply  the  shovel, 
And  bow  the  hilltops  to  a  level ; 
Fill  up  the  valley,  bridge  the  stream, 
And  then  bring  on  your  iron  team. 
Chorus.    Now  clear  the  track  for  Androscoggin, 
The  steam  is  up  and  we'll  be  joggin. 


yO  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Timothy  Boutelle,  Judge  Preble  of  Portland,  W.  B.  S.  Moor  of 
Bangor,  then  holding  the  office  of  United  States  senator ;  Lot  M. 
Morrill  and  several  others.  In  the  evening  the  floor  was  cleared 
for  a  dance  which  ended  the  hearty  celebration  of  a  very  signifi- 
cant day. 

The  ''great  fire''  of  1849  swept  the  business  section  of  the  town, 
about  the  wharves  and  mills.  The  jMoors  were  the  heaviest 
losers. 

The  grocers  may  be  interested  in  the  fact  that  the  delivering 
of  groceries  was  introduced  this  year  by  E.  L.  Smith  as  ''Smith's 
Accommodation  Grocery  Express."  A  milk  route  was  estab- 
lished by  Mr.  Hayward  of  Winslow. 

The  year  1850  saw  the  opening  of  the  Elm  wood  Hotel  under 
the  management  of  Seavey  and  Williams.  The  old  taverns  from 
the  Jackins  Tavern  of  1795  down,  presided  over  by  such  genial 
landlords  as  Daniel  Fairfield,  Col.  Mathews,  Major  Bolcom, 
William  Dorr,  Joseph  Freeman,  Levi  Dow,  Elisha  Howard. 
Deacon  Abial  P.  Follansbee  who,  on  the  site  of  the  Elmwood  and 
afterward  in  the  house  now  the  residence  of  W.  M.  True,  kept  a 
"Temperance  Hotel,"  Cyrus  Williams  and  others  had  satisfac- 
torily met  the  demands  of  the  time.  Something  on  a  larger  scale 
became  desirable  with  the  growing  importance  of  the  town. 
This  was  secured  and  has  been  maintained  by  the  Elmwood. 
After  its  destruction  by  fire  it  was  rebuilt  in  1878  and  has  been 
frequently  improved  until  its  enlargement  during  the  present 
year.  It  has  furnished  a  pleasant  home  to  its  many  city  board- 
ers, a  fine  headquarters  for  convention  delegates,  a  worthy  place 
of  entertainment  for  commencement  dignitaries,  and  the  scene 
of  many  festal  occasions  when  clubs  and  college  societies  have 
celebrated  after  their  fashion. 

The  landlords  of  the  Elmwood  have  been :  A.  D.  Seavey, 
Dr.  Fitzgerald,  James  Osborne,  Eben  ]\Iurch  and  for  the  last 
twelve  years  Henry  E.  Judkins  to  whom  its  increased  efficiency 
is  due. 

March  10,  185 1,  Samuel  Appleton  and  Isaiah  Marston  were 
appointed  a  committee  to  purchase  a  farm  and  buildings  for  a 
poorhouse  establishment,  not  to  exceed  $3,000  in  cost. 

June  I,  1 85 1,  saw  the  dedication  of  Pine  Grove  Cemetery. 
The  earliest  place  of  burial  in  the  town  was  the  high  ground 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  7I 

lying  south  of  Western  Avenue  near  the  water  works  and 
bordered  on  three  sides  by  the  Messalonskee.  Here  the 
McKechnies,  Toziers  and  about  forty  of  the  early  inhabitants  of 
the  town  were  buried.  No  stones  have  marked  their  resting 
place,  within  the  memory  of  present  citizens,  but  the  writer  has 
found  on  the  spot  pieces  of  the  flat  stone  usually  employed  in 
early  times  to  mark  graves.  The  next  cemetery  was  what  is  now 
Monument  Park.  It  early  became  apparent  that  this  would  be 
entirely  inadequate,  and  after  the  purchase  of  Pine  Grove  the 
bodies  here  buried  were  removed  thither  and  the  Soldiers'  jNlonu- 
ment  Association  was  allowed  to  place  the  monument  in  the 
center  of  the  park.  Pine  Grove  had  been  purchased  in  1842  but 
was  not  prepared  for  use  and  dedicated  until  1851.^  The  church 
services  of  Sunday  afternoon  were  suspended.  A  great  throng 
gathered  in  the  new  cemetery  whose  first  open  grave  received  the 
body  of  Miss  Helena  Low.  The  services  were  continued  by 
prayer  by  Dr.  Sheldon  and  addresses  by  Rev.  Mr.  Gardner  and 
Prof.  J.  R.  Loomis.  An  original  hymn  written  by  Miss  Julia 
Moor  was  sung. 

The  town  has  been  well  served  by  the  men  who  have  managed 
Pine  Grove  Cemetery.  In  1854  Samuel  Appleton  gave  eight 
acres  of  land  as  an  addition  to  the  cemetery,  this  has  been 
increased  by  purchase  and  by  gift  until  at  present  (1902)  it 
includes  thirty  acres. 

The  gift  in  1883,  by  Mr.  W.  H.  Arnold,  of  $5,000  for  the  use 
of  the  cemetery  committee  has  been  of  great  significance,  and  has 
made  possible  the  improvements  which  are  of  so  great  satisfac- 
tion to  the  citizens.  Much  credit  is  due  to  the  cemetery  com- 
mittee on  which  have  served  C.  R.  McFadden,  F.  E.  Heath,  E. 
L.  Getchell,  N.  Meader,  W.  B.  Arnold,  Frank  Redington  and 
H.  B.  Snell. 

The  semi-centennial  of  Waterville  in  1852  was  not  celebrated, 
but  the  4th  of  July  was  observed  by  a  great  procession,  an  oration 
at  the  Baptist  church  by  ]\Ioses  L.  Appleton  of  Bangor,  and  a 


1.  June  6,  1842,  tlie  town  voted  that  Sam'l  Appleton,  Joseph  Hitchings,  F.  O. 
Saunders,  Oliver  Gardner  and  Hall  Chase  be  a  Com.  authorized  to  purchase  of 
Wm.  Pearson  eight  acres  of  Land  on  the  Plains  for  a  Burying  Ground,  paying  him 
t-wo  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  therefor,  he  having  the  right  to  take  off  three  fourths 
of  the  timber  standing  on  the  same  within  one  year  under  their  supervision. 


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74  HISTORY   O?    WATERVILLE. 

Waterville  was  very  decided  in  the  matter  of  temperance  legis- 
lation and  when  it  came  to  a  vote,  for  the  License  Law  of  1856, 
there  were  18  votes.  For  the  Prohibitory  Law  of  1858,  292. 
At  the  college  commencement  in  1858,  Dr.  James  T.  Champlin 
became  president  and  John  B.  Foster  was  elected  Professor  of 
the  Greek  and  Latin  languages.  S.  S.  Brown  and  Sabine  Emery 
were  among  the  graduates. 

Joshua  Nye  was  busily  engaged  in  that  temperance  instruc- 
tion of  the  children  which  characterizes  his  life.  From  his  duties 
as  an  official  of  the  railroad  he  was  never  too  weary  to  lead  the 
"Cadets  of  Temperance."  On  one  occasion  they  presented  Mr. 
Nye  a  silver  goblet,  the  presentation  speech  being  made  by  Frank 
C.  Lowe,  while  the  officers  of  the  society,  Boutelle  Noyes,  Fred 
E.  Boothby,  W.  M.  and  R.  W.  Dunn  and  Fred  C.  Thayer,  gave 
him  their  moral  support. 

The  night  of  August  20,  1859  was  made  memorable  by  a  fire 
which  destroyed  over  $12,000  worth  of  property  in  mills  and 
machinery  belonging  to  Daniel  Aloor,  W.  &  W.  Getchell  and 
Furbush  &  Drummond. 

Waterville's  representative  in  the  Legislature,  Hon.  Josiah  H. 
Drummond,  was  speaker  of  the  House  in  1858. 

These  were  years  of  prosperity  in  the  churches.  The  member- 
ship of  the  Baptist  church  was  greatly  increased,  the  Congrega- 
tional church  built  an  addition  to  its  building  and  the  movement 
which  resulted  in  the  Unitarian  church  was  begun. 

The  sentiment  of  the  town  in  national  afifairs  is  shown  ,by  the 
vote  for  presidential  electors,  November  6th,  i860,  when  Abner 
Coburn  and  William  Willis,  the  Lincoln  electors,  received  504 
votes  to  186  for  three  other  tickets. 

September  6,  i860  was  ordained  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist 
church,  George  D.  B.  Pepper,  a  man  of  keen  mind,  great  ability, 
true  and  lofty  patriotism.  Through  the  troubled  days  that  fol- 
lowed, his  pulpit  gave  no  uncertain  sound.  Later  as  president 
and  professor  in  the  college  and  as  a  citizen  of  the  highest  order, 
he  has  deserved  the  honor  which  he  receives. 


Note.  "Waterville  Engine  No.  3"  was  victorious  over  the  "Victor"  at  Kendall's 
Mills,  and  at  the  State  Fair  in  Bangor,  A  reception  and  collation  was  given  at 
the  Engine  Hall  on  their  return.  July  4, 1859,  a  third  silver  trumpet  was  won  at 
Bangor. 


HISTORY    OF    WATHRVILLE.  75 

Waterville  gathered  as  one  man  in  the  old  town  hall,  April 

20,  1861,  to  take  action  concerning  the  rebellion.  Joshua  Nye 
called  the  meeting  to  order,  Solyman  Heath  was  chosen  chair- 
man, I.  S.  Bangs,  Jr.,  secretary.  \V.  A.  Hatch  of  the  college 
stated  the  action  of  the  special  session  of  the  Legislature  at 
Augusta.  Hon.  W.  H.  Weeks  of  California  gave  a  thrilling 
speech  and  addresses  were  made  by  Joshua  Nye,  Edwin  Noyes, 
F.  S.  Hesseltine,  D.  L.  ^lilliken,  Rev.  Edward  Hawes,  F.  P. 
Haviland  and  others.  A  company  of  about  seventy-five  men 
was  formed  on  the  spot  for  purposes  of  drill.  Edwin  Noyes 
promised  to  furnish  a  drill  master  for  three  months.  Two  com- 
panies of  soldiers  were  immediately  formed,  one  of  eighty-three 
men  under  Capt.  F.  S.  Hesseltine,  containing  fourteen  college 
students,  the  other  of  eighty  men  under  Capt.  William  S.  Heath 
with  Francis  E.  Heath  as  first  lieutenant  and  John  R.  Day  as 
second.  The  first  march  of  the  companies  was  to  C.  F.  Hatha- 
way's  shirt  factory,  where  each  man  was  presented  with  a  pair 
of  French  flannel  shirts  by  ]\lr.  Hathaway.     On  Tuesday,  ]\lay 

21,  1 86 1  the  companies  went  to  Augusta  where  they  were  m.us- 
tered  in  as  Co's.  G  and  H  of  the  Third  Maine  Regiment  which 
soon  was  led  to  the  front  by  its  gallant  Col.  O.  O.  Howard. 
These  companies  gave  good  account  of  themselves  on  the  field, 
w^ere  complimented  by  their  superior  officers  for  dauntless 
bravery  and  were  unsurpassed  in  the  old  Third  Regiment  which 
bore  home  on  its  banner  the  names  of  fourteen  battles,  among 
which  were  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville  and  Gettysburg. 

Sergeant-]\lajor  F.  W.  Haskell  was  promoted  for  gallant  con- 
duct at  Fair  Oaks.  Wm.  S.  Heath  was  killed  at  Gaines  Mills 
having  risen  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Ffth  Maine, 
Of  him  the  New  York  Herald  said,  "Perhaps  no  one  is  more 
regretted  in  his  division  than  Lieut. -Col.  Heath  of  Waterville. 
He  was  of  all  men  the  most  consistent,  courageous  and  chiv- 
alrous. We  S2LW  him  a  little  before  the  battle  reading  in  the 
shady  serenity  of  his  tent  a  Latin  copy  of  Caesar's  Commen- 
taries." Capt.  F.  S.  Hesseltine  rose  to  the  rank  of  colonel. 
Lieut.  Francis  E.  Heath  became  Colonel  of  the  Nineteenth  Maine 
and  commanded  a  brigade  at  Gettysburg.  On  that  historic  field 
he  not  only  distinguished  himself  by  great  bravery,  but  he  and 
his  command  rendered  a  service  of  the  utmost  importance  at  a 


70  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLK. 

critical  time  in  the  battle.  Waterville  men  were  in  the  i6th 
Maine  when  it  led  the  charge  at  Fredericksburg  and  suffered  at 
Cbancellorsville.  At  Gettysburg  were  Capt.  W.  A.  Stevens, 
Sergeant  Edwin  C.  Stevens,  Corporal  William  Ballentine  and 
manv  private  soldiers  among  whom  our  French  fellow  citizens 
had  honorable  place. 

Capt.  Isaac  S.  Bangs,  who  went  out  from  Waterville  in  com- 
mand of  Co.  A  of  the  20th  Maine,  was  promoted  for  gallant  con- 
duct, February  26,  1863,  to  be  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  8ist 
U.  S.  C.  troops,  was  again  promoted  to  be  Colonel  of  the  loth  U. 
S.  C.  Artillery  and  was  made  Brigadier-General  by  brevet,  March 
13,  1865.  Among  the  dead  at  Gettysburg  were  many  Waterville 
men ;  among  the  wounded  was  Sergt.  Geo.  W.  Reynolds.  Our 
soldiers  followed  the  fortunes  of  war  until  the  end  and  were  in 
the  line  which  Gen.  Chamberlain  drew  up  to  receive  the  sur- 
render of  Gen.  Lee. 

From  the  western  part  of  the  town  many  soldiers  went  to  the 
front.  Several  were  in  the  3d  Regiment  and  many  in  the  21st. 
Among  the  bravest  men  who  gave  his  life  in  the  service  was 
Sergeant  William  W.  Wyman,  for  whom  Post  No.  97  is  named. 
Throughout  the  war  the  soldiers  of  Waterville  acquitted  them- 
selves with  great  credit.  They  were  brave  in  battle,  patient 
under  hardships,  faithful  and  loyal  to  duty.  If  the  saving  of 
this  Nation  and  the  making  possible  its  magnificent  present  and 
its  more  wonderful  future  be  worthy  of  credit,  then  in  that  credit 
Waterville  deserves  a  full  share.  She  gave  to  the  service  421 
men  of  whom  more  than  one-eighth  died  before  the  war  was  over. 

Some  incidents  of  1864  will  indicate  how  closely  Waterville 
was  in  touch  with  the  army.  Charles  R.  Shorey  was  promoted 
to  be  1st  Lieut.  Co.  A,  20th  Maine.  Geo.  S.  Scammon  recruited 
a  company  for  the  nth  Maine  and  went  to  the  front  as  Captain. 
September  24,  1864,  the  body  of  Henry  E.  Tozier  of  Co.  I,  8th 
Maine,  was  brought  home  and  buried  with  Masonic  honors.  Of 
him  Col.  now  General  IMcArthur  said :  "We  have  lost  a  brave 
and  true  man,  there  was  not  his  superior  as  an  officer  in  this 
regiment." 

June  19,  1864,  Capt.  William  A.  Stevens  was  shot  at  Peters- 
burg and  lived  only  an  hour.  To  his  brother  Edwin  he  said, 
"Tell  the  friends  at  home  that  I  died  thinking  of  them  and  that 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLH.  'J'J 

I  died  calm  and  happy."  Two  months  later  that  brother,  Sergt.- 
Major  Edwin  C.  Stevens  was  killed  in  the  battle  for  the  defense 
of  the  Weldon  Railroad. 

At  home  the  loyalty  of  the  citizens  was  shown  in  many  ways. 
A  soldiers'  Aid  Association  was  formed  August  28,  ^1861  with 
Mrs.  G.  D.  B.  Pepper  as  president;  Mrs.  C.  E.  Hamlin,  vice- 
president;  Mrs.  Edward  Hawes,  secretary;  Mrs.  S.  Hoag, 
treasurer. 

The  town  was  liberal  in  the  matter  of  bounties,  giving  at  the 
rate  of  $100  in  1S62  and  of  $500  for  three  years'  men,  July  18, 
1864. 

March  14,  1864,  a  concert  by  local  talent  was  given  in  the  town 
hall  for  the  purpose  of  starting  a  fund  for  a  soldiers'  monument. 
At  a  second  concert.  The  Soldiers'  Monument  Association  was 
formed  with  Geo.  A.  Phillips  as  president ;  William  A.  Caffrey, 
vice-president;  Daniel  R.  Wing,  secretary;  Geo.  L.  Robinson, 
treasurer ;  and  Jones  R.  Elden,  E.  G.  Meader  and  C.  M.  Morse 
trustees.  Annual  membership  fees  were  placed  at  one  dollar 
each  for  males,  and  fifty  cents  for  females.  When  the  member- 
ship fees  did  not  come  in  rapidly  enough,  committees  made  a 
canvass  for  members.  Thus  in  1875  the  committee  consisted  of 
Col.  F.  E.  Heath,  Dr.  Atwood  Crosby,  P.  S.  Heald,  Miss 
Florence  Plaisted,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Dow  and  Mrs.  C.  G.  Carleton. 
The  association  continued  its  work  until,  with  an  appropriation 
of  Si, 000  by  the  town,^  it  obtained  funds  sufficient  to  secure  the 
beautiful  bronze  statue  of  the  "Citizen  Soldier"  by  Milmore 
which  adorns  Monument  Park.  The  town,  March  13,  1865, 
granted  the  use  of  the  park  as  a  site  for  the  monument  which 
was  dedicated  May  30,  1876. 

During  the  war,  the  college  also  had  seen  dark  days.  The 
class  of  '62  was  the  largest  which  the  college  ever  had  graduated. 
Many  wore  the  soldier's  uniform,  some  to  be  distinguished  soon 
by  the  soldier's  heroic  death,  some  to  render  long  and  important 
service  in  life's  work.  Richard  C.  Shannon  became  distin- 
guished in  the  army  rising  to  the  rank  of  colonel.  His  affection 
for  the  college  is  witnessed  by  the  Shannon  Observatory  and 
Physical  Building,  his  gift  in  1887.  Another  of  the  class  was 
Edward  W.  Hall,  so  long  professor  and  librarian  at  the  college. 


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80  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

with  his  sons  Willard  M.  and  Reuben  W.  began  the  construction 
of  the  mill.  Mr.  Amos  D.  Lockwood  became  interested  in  the 
project  and  the  Lockwood  Company  was  formed.  The  first 
cloth  was  woven  in  February,  1876.  The  plant  was  increased  in 
1882  by  the  erection  of  mill  No.  2  with  a  capacity  of  55,000 
spindles.  Such  was  the  origin  of  the  Lockwood  Company,  a 
company  which  now  employs  about  1,300  hands  with  a  pay  roll 
of  $415,000  per  year.  ^Ir.  Stephen  L  Abbott  has  been  the  agent 
of  the  mills  from  the  start  and  his  son,  W.  H.  K.  Abbott,  has 
held  the  important  position  of  superintendent  with  signal  ability 
since  1890. 

The  introduction  of  such  a  manufacturing  industry  means 
much  to  any  city,  but  in  Waterville  it  meant  a  great  deal  more 
than  its  own  product.  It  turned  the  attention  of  the  people  to 
manufacturing  as  the  fitting  use  for  the  great  power  which  was 
floating  past  their  doors  to  the  sea.  The  iron  foundry,  oldest 
and  most  constant  of  Waterville  industries  was  busy.  The 
Hathaway  Shirt  Factory  had  been  long  established  and  had  been 
of  much  value  to  the  town,  but  these  had  not  given  the  impulse 
necessary  to  the  development  of  Waterville  as  a  manufacturing 
city.  The  work  at  the  Lockwood  Mills  brought  a  large  increase 
to  the  population,  notably  of  the  French  people. 

The  first  French  immigrant  to  Waterville  was  Jean  Matthieu, 
who  came  about  1827.  He  was  the  first  among  the  French  to 
have  a  "framed  house," rebuilding  a  house  which  had  been  moved 
from  Fairfield  into  the  "Matthieu  house"  which  stands  on  the 
east  side  of  Water  street.  A  little  later  Jean  Marcou  settled  in 
Winslow.  In  the  thirties  came  Peter  DeRocher,  Abraham  and 
Joseph  Roneo  and  others.  When  Jacob  Pare  desired  to  be  mar- 
ried he  was  obliged  to  go  with  his  lady  to  Whitefield  in  order  to 
find  a  priest  to  perform  the  ceremony.  Mass  was  said  for  the 
first  time  on  the  plains  by  Father  Fortier  in  the  old  Matthieu 
house.  The  Poulins,  Lacombes  and  many  others  came  during 
the  forties.  All  the  immigrants  were  poor.  Several  families 
made  shelters  by  digging  into  the  steep  hillside  and  putting  up 
a  rude  cabin  of  slabs  as  a  front.  One  of  the  citizens  whose 
wealth  now  amounts  to  several  tens  of  thousands  of  dollars  tells 
how  an  unsuspicious  cow  who  had  strayed  upon  one  of  these  turf 
roofs  came  down  through   it    into  the  midst  of   the  astonished 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  8l 

family.  As  early  as  1851  a  movement  was  started  which  secured 
the  chapel  in  which  the  Catholics  worshipped  until  the  erection 
of  their  large  and  fine  church  on  Elm  street. 

Peter  Bolduc  opened  the  first  French  store  in  1862  continuing 
in  business  until  he  sold  out  to  Exear  Reny  and  moved  west. 
He  was  the  first  of  a  long  line  of  trench  merchants,  many  of 
whom  have  been  successful  and  have  amassed  wealth. 

In  the  early  days  there  was  bitter  feeling  between  the  young 
men  of  the  plains  and  the  young  men  of  the  town.  The  town 
young  men  did  not  go  down  to  the  plains  with  good  intent  and 
when  the  plains  men  came  up  town  they  came  in  bands  strong 
enough  for  offense  or  defense,  as  the  case  might  require.  Some- 
times the  French  warriors  imported  some  redoubtable  fighter 
from  Bangor  or  Orono  to  retrieve  disaster  or  to  lead  their  clans 
to  victory.  All  this  is  far  past.  The  progress  of  the  French 
citizens  in  education,  wealth  and  position  has  been  remarkable. 
They  own  their  homes  and  also  a  large  amount  of  property  in 
stores  and  business  enterprises.  They  are  well  represented  in  the 
learned  professions,  law,  medicine  and  theology  and  have  had 
important  share  in  the  city  government.  To  a  large  degree  has 
the  history  of  the  French  people  been  the  history  of  the 
Catholic  church  (see  chapter  on  churches  of  Water- 
ville)  and  the  noble  edifice  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales  church 
with  its  convent  and  its  parochial  schools,  now  being  enlarged, 
is  a  worthy  monument  to  their  progress  as  well  as  to  their  devo- 
tion. His  predecessors  had  wrought  well  but  an  unparalleled 
work  in  building  up  his  church  and  its  schools  and  in  the  civil 
life  of  the  community,  has  been  done  in  his  quarter  century  pas- 
torate by  the  Rev.  Father  Narcisse  Charland. 

The  Protestant  French  also  are  highly  regarded.  They  have 
carried  on  an  increasingly  important  church  work  for  many  yeaf s, 
have  a  fine  chapel  on  Water  street  with  good  congregations  and 
efficient  work  in  all  departments.  They  have  an  able  and  hon- 
ored pastor.  Rev.  Paul  N.  Cayer,  who  (1902)  has  been  seven 
years  in  this  church.  An  excellent  spirit  prevails  between 
Catholic  and  Protestant,  each  recognizing  the  other's  sincerity 
and  his  right  to  worship  God  according  to  the  dictates  of  his 
conscience. 


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thousand  of  the  eighteen  rh'j-jsand  dollars  whidn  the  hmkr^'g 
cjSL  m  this  instan-ce  siz-e  was  not  necessary  to  simcDess-  Decem- 
ber 3>o.  1869  ^yfa^or  Henr>'  5.  Burrage  was  ordaineid  pastor  of 
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binnself  with  the  interests  of  the  town-  and  with 
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sizr.err  "^'ere  j-erjirei.  A  T'Ocnter  petTtucn  was  crcnlaiei-  At 
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§4  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLK. 

held  in  the  West  village,  those  favoring  division  took  no  part 
and  393  votes  were  cast  against  it.  In  the  legislative  committee 
of  nine,  five  were  against  division  and  four  favored  it.  The 
four  urged  the  distance  between  the  villages,  their  separate  cor- 
porate capacity,  differing  business  interests,  opposition  of  each 
to  improvements  in  the  other,  the  struggle  over  the  free  bridge 
with  loss  to  the  town  of  $8,000,  etc.  The  bill  for  the  division  was 
approved  February  2.6,  1873.  The  name  West  Waterville  was 
changed  to  Oakland  March  10,  1883. 

The  Waterville  Temperance  Reform  Club  was  organized  April 
14,  1873  and  within  one  week  had  over  200  members.  At  the 
college  commencement  Dr.  Champlin  closed  his  thirty-one  years 
of  efficient  labor  for  the  college  and  Rev.  Henry  E.  Robms,  his 
successor,  was  installed.  Hon,  Edmund  F.  Webb,  so  long  and 
honorably  known  as  among  the  ablest  of  Waterville's  lawyers 
was  speaker  of  the  Maine  House  in  1873  was  also  in  his  second 
term  in  the  Maine  Senate  president  of  that  body.  In  1874  two 
men  came  to  Waterville  who  were  to  have  much  to  do  with  its 
business  interests.  M.  C.  Foster  and  Horace  Purinton.  The 
firms  of  M.  C.  Foster  &  Son  and  Horace  Purinton  &  Co.  are 
known  all  over  the  State,  for  many  of  the  largest  and  most  expen- 
sive public  buildings  in  the  State  have  been  constructed  by  one 
or  the  other  of  these  firms. 

The  St.  Francis  de  Sales  Catholic  church  was  dedicated  June 
14,  1874. 

The  Fourth  of  July,  1874  was  celebrated  by  the  boys  in  their 
usual  manner.  By  the  adults  by  an  oration  on  the  Park  by  Rev. 
S.  P.  Merrill,  by  a  grand  dinner  in  the  town  hall  at  which  a  gold 
badge  was  presented  to  Wlllard  B.  Arnold,  chief  engineer  of 
the  fire  department.  Hon.  E.  F.  Webb  presided  at  the  dinner 
and  after  dinner  speeches  were  made  by  President  Robins,  Dr. 
F.  C.  Thayer,  R.  J.  Barry,  Hon.  Reuben  Foster,  E.  R.  Drum- 
mond,  Joshua  Nye,  Prof.  E.  W.  Hall,,  Simeon  Keith,  C.  H.  Red- 
ington  and  others.  At  a  trial  of  fire  engines,  in  the  afternoon, 
the  Ticonic  played  198  feet  6  inches ;  the  Waterville  Three,  185 
feet,  2  inches.  Fireworks  in  Nudd  field  completed  the  celebra- 
tion. 

The  gift  by  Hon.  Abner  Coburn  of  $50,000  to  the  institute 
was  announced  at  commencement,   1874.     The    town    enjoyed 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  85 

during  that  year  the  largest  "'building  boom"  in  its  history  to 
that  time.  The  new  mill  is  a  part  of  the  explanation.  Lamp 
posts  were  erected  and  street  lamps  were  introduced  in  1874  and 
in  the  same  year  the  wooden  railroad  bridge  over  the  falls  was 
replaced  by  the  present  structure  of  iron. 

In  1875  a  new  town  hall  was  proposed  but  the  town  decided 
to  enlarge  the  old  one  by  adding  to  it  thirty-three  feet  at  an 
expense  of  $5,000.  The  Baptist  meeting  house  was  remodelled 
and  improved  at  an  expense  of  $17,000. 

The  exercises  of  Memorial  Day  were  for  the  first  time  under 
the  auspices  of  W.  S.  Heath  Post  No.  14,  Department  of  Maine, 
G.  A.  R.  Original  hymns  by  Mrs.  M.  K.  Boutelle  and  A.  L. 
Hinds  were  read.  Rev.  S.  P.  Merrill  gave  an  address  and  Prof. 
J.  B.  Foster  read  a  poem  written  for  the  occasion  by  Mrs. 
Atwood  Crosby. 

The  Merchants  National  Bank  was  organized  August  4,  1875 
with  Hon.  John  \\''are  as  president ;  Geo.  C.  Getchell,  secretary ; 
Geo.  H.  Ware,  cashier.  From  the  start  it  has  been  an  important 
element  in  the  business  of  the  town  and  never  more  so  than  at 
the  present  time  with  Mr.  John  Ware,  son  of  the  first  president, 
as  president  and  Mr.  Horatio  D.  Bates  as  cashier. 

The  Waterville  Free  High  School  was  established  in  1876. 
The  arrangement  by  which  the  town  pupils  of  high  school  grade 
had  attended  the  institute  having  terminated  the  year  before. 
In  1876  began  also  the  twenty-five  years  of  faithful  work  of  Prof. 
Asa  L.  Lane  at  the  institute.  His  departments  in  the  school 
involved  a  broad  field  but  his  enthusiasm  for  nature  took  him 
yet  farther  afield  with  results  shown  in  the  Lane  Museum  at 
Coburn  and  in  the  delight  and  instruction  of  his  classes  and  of 
all  who  have  heard  his  lectures. 

Telephone  connection  between  Waterville  and  Portland  was 
established  in  1878,  the  first  conversation  being  between  Payson 
Tucker  and  Geo.  A.  Alden,  March  31st. 

St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church  was  opened  July  5,  1878,  and 
August  25th  the  Congregational  church  celebrated  its  semi-cen- 
tennial with  an  historical  sermon  by  the  pastor,  Rev.  E.  N.  Smith. 
The  burning  of  the  shank  factory  on  the  Messalonskee,  ?vlarch 
6,  1879,  threw  about  fifty  hands  out  of  employment.  Mr.  C. 
R.  McFadden  closed  his  eighteen  years  of  duty  as  postmaster 


86  HISTORY   or'    WATERVILLE. 

of  Waterville.  He  had  been  both  efficient  and  popular.  Rev. 
Wm.  H.  Spencer  began  his  twenty  years'  pastorate  of  the  Baptist 
church  during  which  so  much  was  to  be  wrought  for  the 
church  and  the  city.  Mr.  Gardner  Colby  died  April  2,  1879,  at 
his  home  at  Newton,  Mass.  He  had  befriended  the  college  in 
its  darkest  hour ;  by  gift  and  bequest  he  bestowed  upon  it  about 
$200,000  and  rightly  does  it  perpetuate  his  name.  While  a  boy 
he  had  lived  for  a  while  in  Waterville.  His  father,  who  had 
been  a  shipbuilder,  came  to  Waterville  and  engaged  in  the  potash 
business  on  Silver  street.  The  family  home  was  on  Temple 
street.  After  the  death  of  the  father  the  family  removed  to 
Boston  where  Mr.  Colby  won  that  business  success  which  enabled 
him  to  be  the  princely  benefactor  of  so  many  important  interests 
in  education,  religion  and  philanthropy. 

The  semi-centennial  of  the  Classical  Institute  was  celebrated 
July  3,  1879,  with  addresses  by  Dr.  William  Mathews  and  Rev. 
Geo.  B.  Gow.  Hon.  Henry  W.  Paine,  first  preceptor,  Ex-Gov. 
Dingley  and  others  spoke  in  praise  of  the  school  and  its  principal. 

The  event  of  1880  in  Maine  was  the  "count  out"  by  which  the 
Governor,  through  the  throwing  out  of  ballots  on  technicalities, 
sought  to  overrule  the  will  of  a  majority  of  the  citizens  of  the 
State.  Meetings  of  indignation  and  remonstrance  were  held 
and  other  meetings  of  approval.  January  15,  1880,  fifty  vol- 
unteers left  Waterville  for  Augusta,  where  a  clash  of  arms  was 
expected.  Through  wise  management  at  headquarters,  blood- 
shed was  averted  and  our  soldiers  returned  home  the  same  day. 

The  Waterville  Sentinel  appeared  in  1880  under  the  manage- 
ment of  Leger  and  Robinson,  It  has  won  a  large  place  for  itself 
on  its  merits  and  under  its  present  owners,  W.  M.  Ladd  Co.  is 
worthily  influential. 

A  new  code  of  by-laws  was  adopted  by  the  town,  March  14, 
i88t  (Waterville  Records,  Vol.  Ill  pp.  735-748.)  Rev.  Dr.  G.  D. 
B.  Pepper  was  elected  president  of  the  college,  March  ^j,  1882. 

On  July  4th,  1882,  Hon.  Stephen  Coburn  of  Skowhegan  and 
his  only  son,  Charles  Miller  Coburn,  were  drowned.  Both  were 
graduates  of  Colby,  were  true  and  noble  men  and  were  held  in 
high  honor.  As  fitting  memorial,  Hon.  Abner  Coburn  erected 
the  fine  building  which  since  has  been  the  home  of  Coburn 
Classical  Institute.     During  1882  the  first  steps  were  taken  for 


HISTORY   OF*    WATERVILLE.  87 

protection  against  fire  according  to  modern  methods.  Permis- 
sion was  secured  to  use  the  steam  pump  of  the  Lockwood  Com- 
pany in  case  of  fire  and  pipes  were  laid  and  hose  purchased  for 
hydrants  at  the  corner  of  Common,  Temple  and  Appleton  streets 
at  their  junction  with  Alain. 

The  death  of  Lieut.  Boutelle  Noyes,  on  the  U.  S.  Ship  Rich- 
mond, near  Japan,  August  29,  1883,  brought  sorrow  to  his  many 
friends.  He  was  a  gallant  officer  who  had  performed  faithfully 
the  duties  of  his  station  and  who  gave  promise  of  rising  to  the 
highest  rank  in  his  profession. 

In  1884  the  town  enjoyed  quite  a  building  boom,  the  most 
important  construction  being  the  iron  bridge  across  the  Kenne- 
bec which  is  still  in  use.  The  old  bridge  had  proved  too  light 
for  the  work  and  was  badly  decayed.  The  new  bridge  was  built 
under  the  direction  of  John  Ware,  S.  J.  Abbott  and  the  selectmen, 
Nathaniel  Header,  C.  E.  Mitchell  and  Geo.  Jewell  as  building 
committee,  and  cost  $36,863.46.     It  was  paid  for  by  town  bonds. 

That  the  town  was  not  anxious  for  city  privileges  was  indi- 
cated by  its  refusal  to  accept  the  city  charter  granted  by  the  Leg- 
islature, bv  a  vote  of  344  no  to  223  yes. 

As  to  the  amendment  to  the  State  Constitution,  prohibiting 
forever  the  manufacture,  sale  and  keeping  for  sale  of  intoxicating 
liquors,  the  vote  stood,  yes,  563,  no,  238. 

An  event  of  great  importance  to  the  business  history  of 
Waterville  was  the  securing  of  the  locomotive  and  car  shops  of 
the  Maine  Central  Railroad  for  this  city.  There  was  sharp  com- 
petition and  Portland  seemed  to  have  the  preference.  Waterville, 
however,  voted  exemption  from  taxation  (practically  for  twenty 
years)  and  raised  $7,500  for  the  purchase  of  a  site.  Mr.  G.  A. 
Phillips  was  active  in  the  matter.  Mr.  W.  B.  Arnold  and  Mr. 
C.  E.  Gray  raised  a  subscription  among  the  citizens.  As  a  result 
the  shops,  among  the  best  in  the  country,  were  built  in  Waterville 
to  the  mutual  satisfaction  of  the  company  and  the  town.  This 
brought  in  an  industry  of  the  first  order,  a  large  number  of  very 
desirable  citizens,  is  building  up  a  fine  quarter  of  the  city  and 
contributed  not  a  little  to  the  making  of  Waterville  as  a  railroad 
center.  January  4,  1885,  Ex-Gov.  Abner  Coburn  died  at  Skow- 
hegan,  the  greatest  of  our  Maine  philanthropists.  His  interest 
in  Waterville    and    its    educational  work  was    proved    by  the 


88  HISTORY   01^    WATERVILLE. 

$100,000  which  he  gave  to  Coburn  Classical  Institute  and  the 
$200,000  which  he  gave  with  much  of  personal  attention  and 
labor  on  its  board  of  trustees,  to  Colby  College. 

The  question  of  water  supply  was  considered  in  1886.  A 
committee  consisting  of  Reuben  Foster,  Moses  Lyford,  F.  A. 
Waldron,  S.  S.  Brown,  W.  T.  Haines,  Geo.  E.  Shores  and  C.  G. 
Carleton  reported  against  the  making  of  a  contract  with  a  private 
corporation  and  in  favor  of  assuming  the  charter  of  the  VVater- 
ville  Water  Company.  This  was  voted  but  was  afterward  recon- 
sidered and  a  contract  was  signed  with  the  Water  Company  in 
May,  1887,  to  run  for  twenty  years. 

Watervill  began  her  career  as  a  city  by  the  acceptance, 
January  23,  1888,  of  the  amended  city  charter,  which  had 
been  granted  by  the  Maine  Legislature.  March  4,  1887,^  the 
vote  on  acceptance  stood  543  in  favor,  432  in  opposition.  March 
9th,  Hon.  Reuben  Foster  was  elected  mayor  by  a  vote  of  734; 
S.  J.  Abbott  having  651.  Charles  F.  Johnson  was  elected  city 
clerk.  The  beautiful  north  grammar  school  building  had  been 
erected  under  the  direction  of  G.  A.  Phillips,  J.  D.  Hayden, 
N.  G.  H.  Pulsifer,  M.  C.  Foster,  W.  T.  Haines  and  the  school 
committee  at  a  cost  of  $20,000.  It  was  dedicated  February  28, 
1888.  Prof.  A.  W.  Small  read  a  poem  "The  Building  of  the 
School  House"  by  Mrs.  Martha  Baker  Dunn. 

Early  in  March  the  parochial  school  of  the  St.  Francis  de  Sales 
church,  through  whose  doors  such  a  multitude  of  children  were 
to  pass  was  opened.  The  death  of  Edwin  Noyes  March  23,  1888, 
at  Young's  Hotel,  Boston,  removed  a  man  long  prominent  in 
railroad  and  business  circles.  The  citizens  have  never  become 
quite  reconciled  to  having  the  Noyes  mansion,  in  the  very  heart 
of  the  city,  closed.  September  i,  1888,  died  Gen.  Franklin 
Smith,  son  of  Abijah  Smith  and  grandson  of  Dr.  Obadiah 
Williams.  He  was  prominent  in  business  circles,  not  only  of  the 
town  but  of  the  State.  September  9,  1889,  Hon.  Reuben  B. 
Dunn  died  at  his  residence  on  College  street.  He  had  been  a 
leader  in  the  development  of  the  great  manufacturing  industries 
at  Oakland,  the  building  of  the  Somerset  Railroad,  the  establish- 
ment of  the  Lockwood  Company  and  was  its  only  president  until 
his  death.     Dr.  David  N.  Sheldon  died  October  4,  1889.     He 

1.    City  charter.    Chapter  Historical  Documenta. 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  89 

as  pastor  of  churches,  president  of  the  College,  author,  member 
of  the  school  board  and  a  most  kindly  citizen,  had  exercised  large 
influence  in  the  community. 

A  representative  of  an  earlier  day,  Daniel  Moor,  died  February 
14,  1890.  As  merchant,  manufacturer  and  ship  builder  he  had 
contributed  not  a  little  to  the  early  prosperity  of  the  town. 
Major  Samuel  Appleton,  son  of  Dr.  Aloses  Appleton  and  one  of 
the  most  prominent  citizens  of  the  town  and  also  Dr.  Nathaniel 
R.  Boutelle,  son  of  Hon.  Timothy  Boutelle,  and  long  eminent  in 
his  profession,  died  during  1890.  Evidently  the  old  order  was 
changing.  The  men  of  the  town  who  had  given  it  character  and 
success  were  passing  away,  but  the  men  of  the  new  era  were  at 
hand. 

The  Waterville  Board  of  Trade  had  been  organized  in  1889 
with  Mayor  Nathaniel  Meader  as  president.  This  board  with 
its  successive  presidents,  M.  C.  Foster,  Frank  Redington  and  Dr. 
J.  Frederick  Hill,  has  done  much  for  the  business  interests  of  the 
town  and  has  had  large  influence  in  such  important  matters  as 
the  building  of  the  new  city  hall,  the  Waterville  and  Wiscasset 
Railroad,  etc. 

Among  the  earliest,  most  important  and  most  expensive  per- 
manent improvements  made  by  the  city  was  the  construction  at 
a  cost  of  about  $100,000,  of  an  admirable  system  of  sewers.  The 
facts  of  the  new  business  era  in  Waterville  must  be  reviewed 
briefly.  The  Hollingsworth  and  Whitney  pulp  and  paper 
mills  were  established  on  the  east  side  of  the  Kennebec  in 
1892  and  have  steadily  increased  to  their  present  immense 
plant.  Though  in  Winslow,  these  mills  are  nearer  to  the 
Waterville  business  center  than  are  the  car  shops  and  they 
are  practically  a  part  of  the  Waterville  business  resources. 
Their  pay  roll  of  $360,000  annually  is  in  itself  sufficient 
for  the  maintenance  of  quite  a  city.  It  soon  became  appar- 
ent to  the  merchants  that  the  day  of  larger  business  opportunities 
had  come  and  they  enlarged  stores  and  stocks  accordingly.  The 
Waterville  and  Fairfield  Railway  and  Light  Company  bound 
Waterville  and  Fairfield  into  close  connection  and  brought  much 
business  to  the  city.  This  company  began  running  electric  cars 
in  1892  one  of  the  first  companies  in  the  State  so  to  do.  The 
same  company  began  to  furnish  power  for  manufacturing  pur- 


90  HISTORY   OF    WATKRVILLK. 

poses.  The  Gamewell  Fire  Alarm  System  was  installed  Septem- 
ber, 1892,  at  cost  of  $2,300.  Later  Mr.  Frank  Chase  bought  the 
old  Webber  and  Philbrick  water  privilege  on  the  ]\Iessalonskee 
and  erected  a  fine  stone  dam  for  electric  power.  This  was  sold 
to  the  Union  Gas  and  Electric  Company  and  is  now  connected 
with  the  older  company.  Yet  later  the  Messalonskee  Electric 
Company  was  formed,  Harvey  D.  Eaton  and  Walter  S.  Wyman 
constituting  the  company.  This  company  now  lights  our  streets 
and  soon  will  have  large  increase  of  facilities  through  utilization 
of  the  famous  cascade  at  Oakland.  This  distribution  of  electric 
power  at  cheap  rates  has  greatly  increased  the  business  of  thq 
city.  The  Riverview  Worsted  Mills  built  under  the  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Thomas  Sampson,  the  \\'hittemore  Furniture 
Company,  the  Sawyer  Publishing  Company,  etc.,  mean  much 
to  the  business  prosperity  of  the  city.  This  development 
has  come  largely  through  the  efforts  of  certain  public  spirited 
professional  and  business  men  among  whom  are  Dr.  F.  C. 
Thayer,  Frank  Chase,  I.  C.  Libby,  Frank  Redington,  William 
T.  Haines,  Thomas  Sampson,  Harvey  D.  Eaton,  Cyrus  W.  Davis, 
W.  B.  Arnold,  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  G.  F.  Terry  and  others. 

Other  events  of  the  decade  though  fresh  in  memory  should 
have  some  record  here.  Early  in  1893  the  Waterville  Trust 
Company  began  business  in  Masonic  Block.  This  company  with 
its  ample  capital  and  its  enterprising  and  progressive  manage- 
ment has  been  a  large  factor  in  the  development  of  the  city.  The 
death  of  Dr.  James  H.  Hanson,  who  with  characteristic  energy 
toiled  to  the  very  last,  carried  personal  sorrow  to  the  citizens  of 
Waterville  and  to  the  students  throughout  the  nation  who  had 
enjoyed  the  high  privilege  of  his  instruction.  Of  his  half  cen- 
tury of  teaching  he  had  given  forty-two  years  to  Waterville  and 
the  Institute  is  his  memorial  as  well  as  that  of  his  friends  whose 
name  it  bears.  Associated  with  him  in  the  work  and  in  the 
honor  of  its  success  is  his  wife  Mrs.  Mary  Hanson. 

In  1895  the  College  celebrated  the  seventy-fifth  anniversary 
of  its  founding  as  a  college  with  an  oration  by  Dr.  Nathaniel 
Butler  of  Chicago,  his  subject  being  ''The  College  Ideal  and 
American  Life."  Judge  W.  P.  Whitehouse  at  the  same  com- 
mencement delivered  the  oration  before  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  9I 

Fraternity  at  their  fiftieth  anniversary.  Dr.  Butler  became 
president  of  the  College  the  same  year.  On  Saturday,  February 
29,  1896,  the  first  public  meeting  was  held  in  the  interests  of  the 
public  library.  Forty  volumes  had  already  been  given  and 
placed  in  the  office  of  Harvey  D.  Eaton,  Esq.  The  library  began 
its  work  with  j\lrs.  ]\I.  B.  Johnson  as  librarian  on  Saturday, 
August  22,  1896.  She  has  continued  in  efificient  service  to  the 
present  time.  The  library  has  had  abundant  patronage  and  the 
gift  by  Hon.  Andrew  Carnegie  of  $20,000  for  a  building  makes 
the  centennial  year  a  signal  one  in  the  history  of  the  library. 

The  new  city  hall  appears  first  in  a  call  for  a  meeting  ^lay  18, 
1896  "To  see  if  the  voters  of  the  city  will  instruct  the  city  council 
to  build  a  city  hall  and  opera  house  this  season." 

Dr.  F.  C.  Tha}'er  was  chairman  of  the  meeting  which  was 
largely  attended.  The  call  seemed  to  be  with  reason.  The  old 
city  hall,  the  east  meetinghouse  of  1796  with  sundry  remodel- 
lings,  was  no  longer  on  a  plane  with  the  dignity  or  the  demands 
of  the  city.  The  meeting  voted  in  favor  of  a  building  to  cost 
$75,000.  Of  course  the  citizens  were  not  unanimous  as  to  the 
wisdom  or  necessity  of  such  a  course.  May  4,  1897,  the  city 
voted  in  favor  of  the  special  enabling  act  to  incorporate  the  City 
Building  Commission,  526  to  404.  Plans  were  accepted,  the  old 
hall  was  moved  back,  contracts  were  signed  and  the  foundation 
of  the  new  hall  was  partly  laid  when  at  the  instance  of  conserva- 
tive or  as  some  said  reactionary  Waterville  an  injunction  was 
issued  and  the  work  stopped.  Certainly  the  completion  of  the 
hall  would  have  carried  the  debt  of  the  city  beyond  the  constitu- 
tional limit.  Nothing  more  was  done  for  some  time  though  the 
Board  of  Trade  and  especially  its  president,  Mr.  Frank  Reding- 
ton,  did  not  give  up  the  enterprise.  Early  in  1901  public  meet- 
ings were  held  and  it  was  ascertained  that  the  sentiment  of  the 
citizens  was  in  favor  of  the  erection  of  the  hall.  jNIayor  Martin 
Blaisdell  favored  the  enterprise.  It  was  decided  by  the  city 
council  to  erect  the  hall  and  to  raise  the  amount  necessary  to  pay 
for  it  by  taxation,  the  amount  to  be  distributed  over  a  term  of 
years.  The  building  committee  consisted  of  Mayor  Blaisdell, 
Aldermen  Gedeon  Picher  and  E.  C.  Wardwell  and  Councilmen 
H.  R.  Mitchell  and  E.  E.  Decker,  ^vlodified  plans  by  the  archi- 
tect, Geo.  D.  Adams,  were  adopted  and  the  contract  to  erect  and 


92  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

cover  the  building  was  let  to  Horace  Purinton  and  Company. 
During  1901  $22,500  were  raised  by  direct  taxation  and  with  the 
transfer  of  funds  saved  from  other  amounts  $29,800  was  paid  on 
city  hall.  Contracts  for  the  completion  of  the  hall  were  let  to 
Horace  Purinton  &  Co.  The  building  committee  for  1902  con- 
sisted of  Mayor  Blaisdell  and  Aldermen  E.  C.  Wardwell  and 
G.  L.  Learned  with  Councilmen  Greaney,  Wm.  King  and  Leslie 
P.  Loud.  The  total  cost  of  the  hall  will  be  about  $70,000. 
Mayor  Blaisdell  through  the  whole  enterprise  has  given  himself 
without  reserve  to  the  work.  He  has  been  careful  in  his  con- 
tracts, constant  in  his  oversight  and  has  rendered  an  important 
and  permanent  service  to  the  city.  The  builders  have  given  a 
construction  which  is  a  credit  both  to  themselves  and  to  the  city. 
Waterville  at  last  has  a  city  hall  of  which  she  may  well  be  proud. 
Turning  again  to  the  year  1896  we  note  the  sudden  death, 
December  19,  of  F.  A.  Waldron,  Esq.,  city  solicitor,  respected 
and  beloved  for  his  ability  and  high  character. 

Rev.  B.  F.  Shaw,  D.  D.,  died  March  i,  1897.  He  had  been 
the  eminently  successful  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church,  a  trustee 
of  the  College  and  was  honored  in  his  denomination  for  his 
ability  and  unselfish  ministration.  He  was  the  father  of  Judge 
Frank  K.  Shaw  of  the  municipal  court. 

Two  events  of  importance  in  the  temperance  history  of  the 
city  and  State  marked  the  year  1897.  March  21,  a  mass  temper- 
ance meeting  filled  city  hall  and  a  petition  containing  1,227  names 
was  presented  to  Mayor  Redington  requesting  him  to  enforce 
the  law  against  the  rum  traffic  in  Waterville.  March  29',  the 
Christian  Civic  League  of  Maine  was  organized  with  Principal 
G.  C.  Purington  of  Farmington  as  president ;  Rev.  W.  F.  Berry 
of  Waterville,  secretary,  and  Horace  Purinton  of  Waterville, 
treasurer.  This  work  has  been  carried  on  with  great  vigor  and 
with  encouraging  and  increasing  success. 

A  mass  meeting  under  the  auspices  of  the  Board  of  Trade  was 
held  in  City  Hall  April  i,  1897,  at  which  the  relations  between 
the  city  and  the  College  were  discussed.  President  Butler  spoke 
at  length  and  several  of  the  leading  business  men  followed.  The 
result  was  a  closer  sympathv  between  city  and  College  than  had 
existed  before  and  a  generous  subscription  in  the  city  to  the  new 
chemical  building. 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  93 

The  fine  Myrtle  street  schoolhouse  thoroughly  built  by  Con- 
tractor S.  F.  Brann,  under  the  supervision  of  J.  D.  Hayden,  was 
dedicated  December  17,  1897.  The  building  committee  were 
Aldermen  F.  D.  Lunt  and  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  Councilmen  H.  C. 
Prince  and  S.  F.  Merrill  with  S.  S.  Brown  and  A.  L.  Lane  of  the 
school  board. 

That  gallant  soldier  of  the  Civil  War,  Col.  Francis  E.  Heath, 
died  December  20,  1897.  He  was  worthily  honored  not  only  as 
a  soldier  but  as  a  public  spirited  citizen.  He  introduced  the 
manufacture  of  wood  pulp  into  ]^Iaine,  building  the  first  mill  for 
that  purpose  at  Benton  Falls. 

October  19,  1898,  Hon.  Reuben  Foster,  first  mayor  of  Water- 
ville,  long  a  prominent  lawyer,  Speaker  of  the  Maine  House  of 
Representatives  and  President  of  the  Senate  died  at  his  home  on 
Park  street. 

Hon.  Edmund  F.  Webb,  the  last  of  the  older  lawyers  of 
Waterville,  died  suddenly  at  the  Revere  House,  Boston,  Decem- 
ber 7,  1808.  He  also  had  been  mayor  of  W^aterville,  Speaker  of 
the  Maine  House  of  Representatives,  President  of  the  Senate, 
trustee  of  Colby,  Republican  elector  and  delegate  to  national 
conventions. 

The  year  1898  marks  an  epoch  in  the  history  of  the  United 
States  and  of  the  world  through  the  new  position  in  world  poli- 
tics assumed  by  this  government.  The  devastation  of  Cuba  by 
Spain,  the  destruction  of  the  U.  S.  Battleship  ^Nlaine  in  Havana 
Harbor,  and  the  failure  of  diplomacy  to  secure  satisfaction  from 
Spain  led  to  the  President's  message  of  April  14,  1898,  in  which 
he  said,  "In  the  name  of  humanity,  in  the  name  of  civilization,  in 
behalf  of  endangered  American  interests  which  give  us  the  right 
and  the  duty  to  speak  and  to  act,  the  war  in  Cuba  must  stop."^ 


1.  At  its  annual  meeting  March  28, 1S9S,  the  Waterville  Board  of  Trade,  Frank 
Redington,  President,  had  passed  the  following  resolutions: 

"We,  the  Waterville  Board  of  Trade,  fully  recognizing  and  understanding  the 
gravity  of  the  conditions  existing  between  this  country  and  Spain,  do  hereby 
adopt  the  following  resolutions: 

Resolved,  That  we  heartily  commend  the  action  of  the  President  of  the  United 
States  in  his  conservative  yet  manly  and  courageous  action  in  the  crisis  pending 
with  Spain. 

That  we  deprecate  war  and  will  do  all  in  our  power  to  preserve  peace  with 
honor,  but  we  demand  the  vindication  of  the  nation's  honor  even  though  war 
should  be  the  alternative. 


94  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

Already  the  Board  of  Trade  had  passed  resokitions  pledging 
support  of  the  President's  policy  for  the  maintaining  the  honor 
of  the  United  States  and  the  deliverance  of  Cuba. 

On  May  2,  1898,  Co.  H,  National  Guard  State  of  Maine, 
seventy-three  men,  Captain  A.  T.  Shurtleff,  left  the  city  to  join 
the  regiment  at  Augusta.  The  city  gave  them  an  overwhelming 
demonstration  of  their  confidence  and  patriotic  approval.  The 
streets  on  the  line  of  march  were  profusely  decorated.  At  the 
armory  ]\Ir.  Frank  Redington  presented  the  company  with  a  fine 
flag.  Capt.  Shurtleff  responded.  A  patriotic  address  was  given 
by  Mr.  J.  H.  McCone.  The  company  was  escorted  to  the  station 
by  the  Waterville  Military  Band,  Prof.  R.  B.  Hall,  leader.  Sev- 
eral fraternal  societies,  the  students  of  the  college,  the  institute 
and  the  high  school,  and  at  the  right  of  the  line  was  W.  S.  Heath 
Post  No.  14,  G.  A.  R.,  the  old  soldiers  guiding  the  march  of  the 
new.  At  the  platform  near  the  station,  prayer  was  offered  by 
Rev.  William  H.  Spencer,  D.  D.,  himself  a  veteran  of  the  Civil 
War,  who  knew  what  war  meant,  who  in  his  own  body  for  thirty- 
five  years  had  felt  what  it  meant.  Eloquent  addresses  were 
given  by  President  Nathaniel  Butler  of  Colby  and  by  General 
Isaac  S.  Bangs,  whose  heart  was  thrilled  with  the  spirit  of  the 
old  days  of  strife  and  victory. 

As  the  2nd  Regiment  was  not  needed  at  the  front,  the  com- 
panies returned  home.  May  14.  Several  of  Co.  H  volunteered 
and  were  mustered  into  the  ist  Regiment  and  the  1st  Maine  Bat- 
tery. Later  several  Waterville  men  saw  service  in  the  Philip- 
pines and  the  city  fulfilled  well  her  part  offering  vastly  more  of 
service  than  could  be  received  in  the  Spanish-American  War. 

The  establishing  of  the  Whittemore  Furniture  Co.  in  1899,  and 
of  the  Riverview  Worsted  Mill  in  1900,  were  events  of  import- 


That  we  can  see  no  way  in  view  of  the  present  state  of  affairs,  knowing  that 
the  people  are  being  starved  to  death  not  by  ones  and  twos,  but  by  thousands  and 
hundreds  of  thousands  by  the  action  of  Spain,  except  to  declare  the  independence 
of  Cuba  and  recognize  her  as  a  free  people. 

That  as  the  finding  of  the  Naval  Commission  declares  external  explosions  as 
the  cause  of  the  destruction  of  the  Maine, we  demand  all  possible  reparation  from, 
the  parties  who  may  be  found  responsible  for  loss  of  life  and  property. 

That  we,  the  merchants,  doctors,  lawyers,  clerks,  business  and  professional 
men  without  distinction  of  party  or  class  uphold  the  President  in  his  course,  and 
if  war  be  the  result  we  pledge  ourselves  to  do  all  in  our  power  in  defense  of  the 
«tars  and  Stripes." 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  95 

ance  in  the  business  history  of  the  town.  Both  of  these  plants 
have  since  been  enlarged.  1901  saw  the  erection  of  the  new 
City  Hall,  its  corner  stone  was  laid  with  Masonic  ceremonies 
August  4 ;  and  the  departure  of  President  Butler  to  the  University 
of  Chicago.  Dr.  Butler  had  shown  himself  a  pubhc  spirited  and 
genial  citizen  as  well  as  the  head  of  the  college.  The  Alumni 
Chemical  Building  with  its  splendid  facilities  and  equipment 
was  the  result  of  his  initiative  and  enthusiastic  leadership.  A 
banquet  was  given  in  his  honor  by  the  Board  of  Trade  at  the 
Elmwood  and  expression  was  given  of  the  high  esteem  in  which 
he  was  regarded  in  the  city. 

The  Maine  Christian  Endeavor  Union  held  its  convention  in 
Waterville  in  September  1901,  one  of  the  largest  and  most  suc- 
cessful in  the  history  of  the  Union. 

The  death  of  President  McKinlcy  was  a  great  shock  to  the  city. 
A  public  memorial  service  was  held,  September  19th  in  Monu- 
ment Park,  in  which  many  thousands  of  the  citizens  reverently 
joined.  Hon.  C.  F.  Johnson  presided.  Prayer  was  offered  by 
Kev.  A.  G.  Pettengill ;  addresses  were  given  by  President 
Charles  L.  White,  Rev.  Edward  L.  Marsh,  Rev.  N.  Charland, 
closing  with  prayer  by  Rev.  Edwin  C.  Whittemore  and  bene- 
diction by  Rev.  Dr.  Pepper  who  had  shared  in  Waterville's  mem- 
orial service  in  honor  of  President  Lincoln,  thirty-six  years 
before. 

A  little  later  the  death  of  Rev. George  D.Lindsay,  who  had  been 
the  efficient  pastor  of  the  Methodist  church  for  five  years  and  by 
whose  labors  the  church  had  greatly  prospered,  called  out  an 
expression  of  universal  regret  and  sympathy. 

On  Sunday,  December  15,  the  melting  of  a  great  body  of  snow 
hy  a  heavy  rain  caused  the  rivers  of  Maine  to  rise  to  a  higher 
point  than  at  any  other  time  since  1832.  Bridges  were  carried 
away,  the  railroad  tracks  v/ere  undermined  for  miles,  streets 
were  channeled  to  the  depth  of  many  feet  by  the  rushing  waters. 
Homes  were  swept  away  and  their  occupants  drowned.  In 
Waterville,  however,  the  principal  damage  was  the  carrying 
away  of  the  iron  foot-bridge  extending  from  the  foot  of  Temple 
street  to  the  Winslow  side  near  the  Hollings worth  and  Whitney 
mills.  This  had  been  built  by  the  enterprise  and  at  the  cost  of 
Hon.  Wm.  T.  Haines  and  Harvey  D.  Eaton  Esq.,  and  although 


96  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

it  had  been  opened  for  travel  but  a  few  days,  had  proved  itself 
a  great  convenience. 

1902  has  seen  the  acceptance,  on  the  part  of  the  city,  of  the 
offer  of  that  munificent  and  magnificent  giver,  Hon.  Andrew 
Carnegie  of  New  York,  of  $20,000  for  the  erection  of  a  building 
for  a  free  public  library  on  condition  that  the  city  raise  $2,000 
per  year  for  its  support.  Mr.  Elwood  T.  Wyman,  superintend- 
ent of  schools  had  been  in  correspondence  with  him  as  to  the  use 
which  a  library  here  would  have.  The  committee  had  invited 
him  to  be  present  at  the  Centennial  and  in  the  letter  announcing 
his  gift  was  an  expression  of  regret  that  he  could  not  attend  the 
Centennial. 

The  Centennial.  This  is  the  event  of  1902.  It  means  much 
to  the  city  to  receive  back  again  so  many  who  have  gone  out  from 
Waterville  to  successful  and  important  work  in  the  world.  The 
city  is  coming  by  these  events  into  a  clearer  consciousness  of  its 
power  and  of  its  possibilities.  The  century's  history  has  been 
like  that  of  our  New  England  towns  of  the  first  rank,  without 
much  that  is  sensational,  but  that  New  England  life  has  leavened 
the  history  of  the  Nation  and  has  done  its  full  share  to  secure 
our  National  progress  and  present  greatness. 

The  intellectual  life  of  the  community,  with  the  college  as  its 
center,  has  been  of  a  high  order.  Thoroughness  rather  than 
show  has  been  the  ruling  principle  and  this  has  sent  out  a  great 
number  of  men  and  women  to  work,  not  so  much  for  self  as  for 
humanity  and  for  God.  Reverently  do  the  thoughts  of  many 
turn  to-day  to  the  great  teachers  of  the  earlier  day.  Chkplin 
and  Anderson  and  Keely  and  Loomis  and  Hamlin  and  Champlin 
and  Hanson  and  Lyford  and  Foster  and  to  others  who  still  live 
to  carry  on  important  work.  Presidents  Robbins  and  Pepper  and 
Small  and  Whitman  and  Butler,  each  did  their  work  and  are 
worthy  of  their  reward.  The  college  and  the  town  have  still  the 
advantage  of  the  tried  service  of  professors  who  have  given  more 
than  a  quarter  of  a  century  in  far-reaching  labors,  while  younger 
men  with  the  best  equipment  of  the  time  are  at  hand  for  the 
enlarging  work. 

The  history  of  the  several  churches  has  been  such  that  their 
influence  in  the  community  has  been  of  the  highest  order  while 
their  missionary  consecration  has  borne  fruit  to  the  ends  of  the 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  97 

earth.  The  reHgious  Hfe  of  the  community  has  been  broad, 
rational,  Hberal,  not  highly  emotional  but  thoroughly  reliable  and 
in  no  time  of  test  or  crisis  has  it  been  found  wanting.  It  has 
employed  its  strength  not  in  sectarian  controversy  but  in  the 
doing  of  the  work  of  the  Kingdom  of  God.  The  names  of 
Cushman  and  S.  F.  Smith  and  Adams  and  Cobb  and  Park  and 
Gardner  and  Sheldon  and  Shaw  and  Hawes  and  Pepper  and 
Burrage  and  Ladd  and  Seward  and  Spencer  themselves  declare 
the  quality  of  religious  life  which  has  characterized  the  town, 
and,  among  a  large  part  of  our  population,  while  other  names 
are  highly  honored,  especial  honor  for  his  long  and  increas- 
ingly useful  pastorate  will  be  given  to  Father  Narcisse  Charland. 

The  deacons  and  office-bearers  in  the  churches  have  con- 
tributed in  no  small  degree  to  the  high  esteem  in  which  religion 
is  held  in  this  community.  The  preaching  of  noble  living  from 
the  pulpit  has  had  powerful  reinforcement  from  the  pew. 

The  medical  profession  in  Waterville  from  the  time  of  Dr. 
Obadiah  Williams  and  Dr.  ]Moses  Appleton  down  to  the  time 
of  Dr.  Thayer  has  been  an  honor  to  the  town.  It  has  kept  high 
ideals  of  professional  honor  and  of  the  privilege  of  the  profession 
to  render  a  service  to  the  community,  priceless  in  its  helpfulness 
and  Christ-like  in  its  charity.  Some  members  of  the  profession 
have  attained  eminence  and  wide  fame  by  their  success.  In  the 
time  of  war  our  physicians  were  there  on  their  errands  of  mercy, 
Crosby  and  Boutelle  and  West.  In  the  business  development 
of  the  town  our  doctors  have  had  large  place  and  the  present 
membership  of  the  profession  is  worthy  of  the  honor  and  suc- 
cess which  its  leaders  have  won  and  to  which  its  junior  members 
will  yet  attain. 

The  bar  of  Waterville  has  enrolled  many  men  of  eminent 
ability.  Few  of  them  have  made  politics  a  profession  and  so 
they  have  not  risen  to  high  political  preferment  though  we  have 
furnished  many  leaders  to  the  Maine  House  and  Senate.  The 
old  lawyers  have  come  to  their  graves  full  of  years  and  of  honors, 
and  the  young  men  of  to-day  have  a  professional  and  a  political 
prospect  which  is  unsurpassed. 

From  the  date  of  the  establishment  of  the  Masonic  lodge  in 
Waterville,  Tune  2^,  1820,  until  now,  with  the  exception  of  a  few 


98  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

years  of  the  Anti-Masonic  movement,  Waterville  Lodge  has  had 
honored  place  and  influence  in  the  life  of  the  town.  Many  of  its 
members  have  attained  very  high  rank  in  Masonry,  while  one  who 
holds  a  rank  attained  by  no  other  Mason  in  the  United  States, 
Hon.  Josiah  H.  Drummond,  is  still  a  member  of  Waterville 
Lodge.  In  this  and  in  the  many  orders  which  since  have  come 
in  to  take  their  place  and  work,  again  and  again  has  the  head 
of  the  Maine  jurisdiction  been  found  in  a  Waterville  man.  The 
orator  of  the  day,  Hon.  Warren  C.  Philbrook,  was  last  year 
Chancellor  Commander  of  the  Maine  Knights  of  Pythias,  and 
the  present  commander  of  the  Department  of  Maine,  G.  A.  R., 
is  an  old  soldier  of  the  19th  Maine,  James  L.  Merrick.  The 
list  might  be  largely  extended.  The  many  orders  for  mutual, 
insurance,  protection,  relief  and  improvement  are  accomplishing 
a  great  deal  of  good  in  the  community,  while  that  devastating 
flood  of  all  imaginable  evil  which  the  anti-secret  society  men  are 
ever  declaring,  seems  to  have  passed  us  by. 

The  business  history-  of  Waterville  is  important  in  its  attain- 
ment but  more  in  its  prophecy.  Even  in  the  eighteenth  century 
John  McKechnie,  who  built  the  first  dam  on  the  Messalonskee 
and  Redington  &  Getchell,  who  built  on  the  Kennebec,  saw  that 
this  was  to  be  a  manufacturing  center.  The  early  traders  under- 
stood that  this  was  to  be  the  trade  center  of  central  Maine. 
With  the  passing  of  the  old  order  of  things  and  the  extension  of 
the  railroads,  it  seemed  for  a  while  that  Waterville  was  left 
behind.  Had  it  not  been  for  the  public  spirit  and  the  business 
genius  of  George  Alfred  Phillips  and  the  executive  ability  of  R. 
B.  Dunn,  Waterville  would  not  have  been  what  it  is  to-day. 
Other  men  of  means  and  public  spirit  and  administrative 
capacity  were  found  who  brought  in  the  new  era. 

As  early  as  1839  it  had  been  pointed  out  that  within  a  radius 
of  five  miles  of  Waterville  were  fifteen  waterfalls,  thus  affording 
power  for  a  manufacturing  city  of  the  first  rank.  Our  great 
manufacturies,  our  pay  rolls  of  $1,700,000  per  year  are  a  definite 
and  well-established  and  incontrovertible  prophecy  of  the  greater 
things  which  are  to  be. 

The  past  century  has  made  Waterville  a  railroad  center.  The 
business  of  the  Maine  Central  Railroad  at  the  Waterville  station 
has  increased,  since  1879,  i"  ticket  business,  400%  and  in  freight 


HISTORY   OP    WATERVILLE.  99 

business,  600%.  The  coming  of  the  Wiscasset,  Waterville  & 
Farmington  road,  for  which  VVaterville  citizens  have  worked 
so  long,  will  mean  much  to  the  business  of  the  city.  The  exten- 
sion of  electric  roads  will  write  a  new  page  in  the  prosperity  of 
Waterville.  And  for  larger  things — study  the  map  and  your 
eyes  may  discern  the  laden  trains  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Trans- 
Continental  system  rolling  through  Waterville  to  the  nearest 
ever-open  harbor  of  the  Atlantic. 

The  conditions  upon  which  our  grandsires  looked  in  1802 
should  give  inspiration  and  courage  to  us  who  look  into  the 
second  century  of  Waterville's  life.  They  are  to  us  also  a  chal- 
lenge. If  under  those  conditions  they  wrought  so  well  and 
accomplished  so  much,  what  shall  be  required  of  us? 

In  order  to  this  grander  and  larger  future,  certain  things  are 
essential.  The  intellectual,  moral,  religious  and  civic  life  of  the 
community  must  be  ever  higher  and  nobler.  The  schools  must 
be  well  supported  and  properly  housed.  The  churches  must 
carry  forward  their  work  of  love  which  binds  man  to  his 
brother  man  and  both  to  God. 

The  laws  of  the  State  and  the  Nation  must  be  kept.  We 
record  with  gratitude  and  pride  to-day,  that  only  one  murder 
stains  Waterville's  record  for  a  hundred  years  and  that  was  com- 
mitted by  one  who  hardly  had  been  here  long  enough  to  be 
called  a  citizen  of  Waterville.  For  the  true  prosperity  of  the  city 
there  must  be  respect  for  law  and  enforcement  of  law. 

In  material  things  much  is  yet  desired.  The  old  days  when 
every  man  kept  his  own  store  and  cried  down  his  neighbor,  are 
past.  In  order  to  large  individual  prosperity  there  must  be  gen- 
eral and  corporate  prosperity.  The  public  spirit  which  unites 
the  resource  of  all  for  the  general  good,  alone  can  meet  the  needs 
of  the  new  era.  The  Board  of  Trade  has  given  example  and 
suggestion  in  this  regard.  The  prosperity  of  Waterville  is  not 
matter  of  accident  or  uncertainty.  Let  its  citizens  work  together 
on  rational  lines  and  that  prosperity  is  as  certain  as  the  laws  of 
nature,  which  are  the  thoughts  of  God. 

Let  the  things  essential  to  the  more  great  and  glorious  future 
of  Waterville  be  supplied.  The  railroads  needed,  will  be  built, 
men  who  know  an  opportunity  will  utilize  the  power  of  our 
rivers  for  manufactures.     Let  the  higher  things  of  the  city*s 


100  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

life  be  regarded.  The  new  library  must  have  a  fitting  site,  and 
is  there  no  land  except  this  sacred  spot  ?  The  high  school  which 
has  so  well  proved  its  efficiency  should  have  a  building  worthy 
of  its  work.  Other  schools  have  like  needs.  Colby  and  Coburn 
should  receive  large  increase  in  endowment  that  they  may  be 
leaders  in  the  new  era.  The  Fire  Department  which  has  had 
such  an  honorable  past  and  has  such  present  efficiency  should 
have  a  suitable  central  station. 

We  are  not  discouraged  by  our  needs,  they  are  only  proofs 
of  the  city's  progress  and  growth  by  which  they  have  been 
created.  As  to  their  supply :  It  seems  strange  that  no  prosper- 
ous son  of  the  city,  who  in  broader  fields  has  gained  wealth,  has 
ever  given  anvthing  to  supply  some  of  these  needs  in  his  native 
town.  Such  gifts  would  be  alike  honorable  to  the  giver  and  to 
the  recipient.  But  if  they  come  not,  then  let  the  city  in  good, 
sturdy,  self-respecting  fashion  out  of  its  own  increasing  revenue 
supply  its  needs,  and  build  even  higher  the  enduring  structure 
of  its  prosperity  and  its  fame.  The  City  Hall  yonder,  in  its 
beauty,  its  convenience  and  its  strength  which  will  make  memor- 
able the  administration  of  Mayor  Blaisdell,  shows  what  the  city 
can  do.  The  needs  of  progress  are  better  than  the  competence  of 
stagnation. 

This  centennial  celebration  in  which,  led  and  marshalled  by  our 
efficient  chairman,  Dr.  Frederick  C.  Thayer,  we,  as  committees 
and  citizens,  have  worked  heartily  together,  should  arouse  a  spirit 
which  will  make  larger  things  possible.  Let  us  go  forward  to 
that  larger  future.  In  it  v*"hatever  may  come,  whatever  dariger 
befall  our  beloved  country  in  this  new  century  of  her  larger  life, 
the  men  of  Waterville  will  not  be  wanting.  Her  fair  daughters 
still  will  adorn  and  make  happy  her  homes,  unless  induced  by 
men  of  the  right  sort  to  establish  in  larger  but  less  favored  cities, 
homes  of  the  Waterville  order.  Our  college  still  will  send  forth 
men  and  women  who  because  they  know,  can  teach,  because  of 
what  they  are,  can  lead,  however  rapidly  the  front  line  of  the 
world's  progress  may  advance. 

Yet  we  pause  a  moment  in  our  progress,  to-day,  to  salute  the 
men  and  women  of  the  past  from  whom  we  have  received  our 
goodly  heritage.  Only  a  few  of  their  names  could  be  recorded 
in  this  brief  sketch  but  their  work  abides,  their  descendents  ful- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILI.E.  101 

fil  well  their  part  in  the  city  of  to-day  and  will  cherish  and  honor 
their  memory. 

We  salute  Winslow,  our  mother,  still  fair  in  her  ever  renewed 
youth  and  comfortable  in  her  ever  increasing  prosperity.  (Even 
though  she  lost  her  covered  bridge.)  Sometimes  this  Mother 
Winslow,  has  been  a  bit  cross  and  severe  to  her  beautiful  and 
somewhat  headstrong  daughter,  Waterville,  but  on  the  whole 
she  has  been  a  good  mother  and  has  secured  her  daughter's  fond 
approval. 

We  salute  our  own  daughter,  Oakland,  regretful  that  family 
jars  led  to  her  setting  up  housekeeping  for  herself  and  rejoicing 
in  all  her  new  promise  of  prosperity.  We  are  about  building 
a  new  railroad  in  order  to  make  it  more  convenient  for  mother 
and  daughter  to  exchange  calls  and  the  light  of  Oakland  shines 
in  our  streets  by  night. 

Yea,  more,  as  I  study  the  record  of  the  past,  and  regard  the 
signs  of  the  future  there  comes  before  me  a  vision  of  a  city 
restored  to  the  limits  of  the  old  town  of  1771.  Winslow,  Water- 
ville, Oakland,  together  again,  bound  by  the  modern  hooks  of 
steel,  the  steam  and  electric  roads,  and  by  interests  in  common. 
That  city  will  be  strong  and  efficient  in  its  great  industries,  rich 
in  its  commerce,  grand  in  its  educational  institutions,  happy  in 
its  homes,  pure  in  its  civil  life  and  loyal  to  the  brotherhood  of 
man  in  the  service  of  Almighty  God.  Of  that  city  it  matters 
little  whether  the  name  be  Waterville  or  Winslow  or  Teconnet, 
it  will  be  the  fair  city  of  our  heart's  love,  of  our  faith  and  of  our 
prayers.  Meanwhile  Waterville,  city  beloved  and  fair,  in  the 
words  of  the  old  Hebrew  benediction  "the  Lord  bless  thee  and 
keep  thee,  the  Lord  mxake  His  face  to  shine  upon  thee  and  be 
gracious  unto  thee,  the  Lord  lift  up  His  countenance  upon  thee 
and  give  thee  peace." 


CHAPTER   IV. 


THE   CENTENNIAL   ORATION 

By  Hon.   Warrex   Coffin    Philbrook,  A.  ]\I.,  Lately  ]\Iayor 

of  Waterville. 

The  first  hundred  years  of  the  existence  of  our  municipality 
is  so  nearly  contemporaneous  with  the  nineteenth  calendar  cen- 
tury that  it  may  not  be  inappropriate,  while  we  are  celebrating 
our  centennial,  to  glance  over  that  most  important  period  of  the 
world's  history  and  compare  present  with  past  conditions,  for, 
though  years  glide  by  unheeded  and  centuries  pass  into  eternity 
to  be  forgotten,  yet  men  who  filled  those  years  with  notable  deeds 
of  right  or  wrong,  and  events  which  illuminated  the  records  of 
the  centuries,  or  stained  the  pages  of  the  book  of  Time,  still  hold 
their  place  in  the  halls  of  memory. 

The  most  correct  estimates  are  those  formed  by  comparison 
and  in  order  to  judge  of  the  conditions  of  our  own  national  exis- 
tence a  hundred  years  ago  we  should  scan  the  conditions,  at  'that 
time,  of  our  neighbors  beyond  the  sea.  And  first  it  should  be 
remembered  that  monarchies,  more  or  less  absolute,  then  held 
sway  throughout  Europe  and  while  some  rulers  were  apparently 
attempting  to  ameliorate  the  conditions  of  their  subjects  yet,  for 
the  most  part,  kings  and  emperors  sought  wealth  and  power 
only  for  their  own  aggrandizement.  But,  as  threatening  an 
eclipse  of  all  European  government,  written  across  the  heavens 
from  Gibraltar  to  the  land  of  the  midnight  sun,  was  the  name  of 
Napoleon,  whose  ambitions  were  forcing  Europe  into  a  general 
war.  The  respite  from  continental  struggles  granted  by  the 
treaty  of  Amiens  was  so  brief  as  to  be  hardly  called  a  respite. 
The  alliance  of  Paul  of  Russia  with  the  First  Consul  had  been 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  IO3 

abandoned  by  Alexander  I,  who  succeeded  the  murdered  Paul, 
and  Russia,  still  exhausted  by  forty  years  of  ceaseless  strife, 
found  herself  allied  to  England,  the  bitterest  enemy  of  France, 
under  mutual  vows  to  drive  Bonaparte  from  northern  Germany 
and  to  make  Holland  and  Switzerland  independent.  Sweden 
entered  the  Anglo-Russian  alliance  and  Prussia,  with  eighty 
thousand  men,  fought  on  the  side  of  the  lion  and  the  bear. 
Austria  had  already  begun  war  against  the  Corsican,  while  in 
Spain,  Ferdinand  \'II,  who  had  come  to  the  throne  on  a  wave 
of  absolutism,  who  had  publicly  burned  the  constitution,  who 
had  declared  the  acts  of  the  Cortes  illegal  and  who  had  restored 
the  inquisition,  found  himself  and  his  country  forced  into  a  coali- 
tion with  the  man  whose  hand  was  against  all  Europe. 

The  disastrous  campaigns  of  ]\Iarengo  and  Hohenlinden  soon 
compelled  Francis,  in  behalf  of  Austria,  and  in  the  name  of  the 
German  Empire,  to  sign  the  treaty  of  Luneville  whereby  Ger- 
m.any  lost  twenty-four  thousand  square  miles  of  its  best  territory 
and  three  and  a  half  millions  of  its  people.  Austerlitz  was  fol- 
lowed by  Waterloo  and  the  struggle  of  nation  with  nation  for 
supremacy  on  the  one  hand  and  independence  on  the  other 
absorbed  the  attention  of  a  continent.  Everywhere  on  that  side 
of  the  Atlantic  was  heard  the  martial  drum  beat,  the  roar  of 
cannon,  and  the  moans  of  the  dying,  everywhere  was  the  war 
cloud,  everywhere  was  intrigue,  plot  and  counterplot. 

From  this  hasty  view  of  that  land  where  monarchies  and  wars 
to  support  monarchies  held  sway,  we  turn  to  the  western  world 
in  which  the  youngest  nation  of  the  earth  had  begun  the  experi- 
ment of  a  government  "of  the  people,  by  the  people  and  for  the 
people."  Across  our  heavens,  in  letters  of  glorious  light,  was 
written  the  name  of  that  great  patriot  who  had  just  closed  his 
eyes  on  scenes  of  earth,  our  own  illustrious,  incomparable  Wash- 
ington. Upon  our  soil  no  king,  no  potentate,  no  emperor  had 
set  foot.  Our  institutions  were  dedicated  to  the  immortal  prin- 
ciple "that  all  men  are  created  equal,  that  they  are  endowed  by 
their  Creator  with  certain  unalienable  rights,  that  among  these 
are  life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness."  Than  this  no 
statement  could  have  been  framed  more  comprehensive,  more 
significant,  more  prophetic,  when  viewed  in  the  light  of  all  that 
has  happened  during  the  century  which  has  just  closed.     Have 


104  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE). 

we  had  wars?  They  were  not  for  the  acquirement  of  territory, 
the  subjugation  of  a  nation,  or  the  glory  of  a  king,  but  rather 
in  defence  of  the  lives  of  American  citizens,  for  the  liberty  of 
American  subjects  and  the  down  trodden  of  other  races.  Have 
art,  science,  invention  and  philanthropy  borne  fruit  ?  The  golden 
harvest  has  not  been  gleaned  by  the  favored  few  of  rank  and 
station  but,  in  all  its  bounty,  has  been  laid  at  the  door  of  the  rich 
and  the  poor,  of  the  lofty  and  of  the  lowly,  and  herein  has  the 
pursuit  of  happiness  been  richly  rewarded. 

It  is  not  my  intention  to  dwell  upon  the  wars  through  which 
we  have  been  called  to  pass  during  the  century.  Every  one  was 
a  necessitv  and  unavoidable.  But  whether  in  our  chastisement 
of  the  piratical  Barbary  states,  our  final  war  with  the  mother 
country,  our  occupation  of  the  halls  of  the  Montezumas,  our 
domestic  tragedy  in  the  early  sixties,  or  the  latest  conquest  of 
the  Spaniard,  in  every  instance  the  stars  and  stripes  were 
unfurled  in  a  righteous  cause,  were  defended  by  gallant  soldiers 
and  sailors  and  were  never  lowered  until  the  cause  was  won.  It 
is  rather  my  purpose  to  emphasize  the  victories  of  peace,  tne 
glorious  achievements  of  invention,  the  splendid  progress  of  art 
and  science,  and  the  holy  conquests  of  philanthropy.  In  the 
development  of  this  purpose  I  shall  not  invoke  the  graces  of 
trope  and  metaphor,  nor  seek  the  aid  of  eloquence,  but  rather  let 
the  story  be  a  plain,  unvarnished  tale,  only  pausing  from  time  to 
time  to  emphasize  the  thought  that  these  things  are  all  the  fruit 
of  the  century  in  which  our  fair  city  has  grown  from  a  struggling 
hamlet  to  its  present  beautiful  proportions,  a  time  almost  covered 
by  the  memory  of  some  who  honor  me  with  their  attention  at 
this  hour. 

First  then  let  us  consider  those  inventions  which  have  anni- 
hilated time  and  space  in  the  transportation  of  thought  and  arti- 
cles of  commerce.  One  hundred  years  ago  no  swifter  courier 
than  the  stage  coach  and  the  breeze  driven  ship  brought  tidings 
of  life  or  death,  communications  as  to  the  affairs  of  state,  or  the 
message  of  the  merchant.  The  sail  waited  for  the  favoring  wind 
and  the  slow  moving  wagon  was  at  the  mercy  of  the  horse  or  the 
ox  when  the  storehouses  of  commerce  were  empty.  To  Ameri- 
can ingenuity  we  owe  the  first  improvement  in  this  condition 
when  Robert  Fulton  began  to  navigate  the  Hudson  river  by 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  IO5 

Steamboat  in  1807,  thereby  preceding  by  five  years  like  naviga- 
tion on  the  Clyde  and  by  ten  years  that  upon  the  Thames.  If 
the  nineteenth  century  had  produced  no  other  invention  than  the 
application  of  steam  power  to  navigation  it  would  still  have  easily 
held  first  place  among  the  ages  by  reason  of  the  material  bene- 
fits which  it  has  bestowed  upon  mankind.  So  familiar  are  we 
now  with  the  steamboat  from  the  tiny  launch  to  the  mammoth 
floating  palaces  costing  fortunes,  that  it  might  seem  to  the 
younger  generation  a  fable  to  say  that  when  their  grandfathers 
left  the  little  hamlet  of  Waterville  to  fight  the  battles  of  1812 
there  were  but  eleven  steam  driven  vessels  in  the  world,  one  in 
England  and  ten  in  America.  At  that  time  Dr.  Lardner,  the 
great  English  scientist,  was  reported  to  have  declared  that  steam 
iiavigatioti  coiild  never  be  made  practicable,  on  account  of  the 
great  expense  of  operation,  and  that  no  ship  could  ever  cross  the 
Atlantic  ocean  by  steam  power  alone  because  it  would  not  be 
possible  to  carry  coal  sufficient  for  the  voyage.  And  yet,  thanks 
to  Yankee  ingenuity  which  our  British  cousins  always  reluc- 
tantly admit,  so  rapid  and  so  successful  was  the  development  of 
steam  navigation  that  the  same  learned  gentleman,  in  less  than 
three  decades  after  the  trial  trip  of  Fulton's  little  craft  was  made, 
used  the  following  gracious  langu.age  ;  ''Among  the  various  ways 
in  which  the  steam  engine  has  ministered  to  the  social  progress 
of  our  race  none  is  more  important  and  interesting  than  the  aid 
it  has  afforded  to  steam  navigation.  Before  it  lent  its  giant 
power  to  that  art,  locomotion  over  the  deep  was  attended  with  a 
degree  of  danger  and  uncertainty  which  seemed  so  necessary  and 
so  inevitable  that,  as  a  common  proverb,  it  became  the  type  and 
representative  of  everything  else  which  was  precarious  and 
perilous."  How  great  has  been  that  social  progress,  and  in 
what  directions,  every  one  may  have  some  conception  who  will 
contemplate  the  amount  of  business  now  done  daily  by  steam 
vessels,  how  safely  and  how  swiftly  it  is  done,  and  how  its  per- 
formance brings  the  markets  of  the  w^orld  to  our  very  doors. 
But  we  should  not  forget  that  steam  navigation,  grown  from  the 
little  "Clermont"  with  a  speed  of  less  than  five  miles  an  hour 
to  that  great  ocean  greyhound  which  a  short  time  ago  crossed  the 
broad  Atlantic  in  a  trifle  over  five  days  ;  grown  from  the  "Demo- 
logos"  a  steam  orooelled  batterv  of  two  thousand  four  hundred 


I06  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

and  seventy-five  tons  to  the  magnificent  ships  of  the  "California'* 
class  with  a  record  of  thirteen  thousand  six  hundred  eighty- 
tons,  is  a  gift  of  the  century  whose  close  we  celebrate  today. 

Made  first  by  our  English  cousins,  this  same  century  has  also 
seen  the  experiment  with  steam  locomotion  for  railway  purposes 
pass  into  the  realms  of  established  necessities  and  today  we  whirl 
across  a  continent  in  less  time  than  one  might  go  from  here  to 
New  York  when  Waterville  asked  incorporation  from  the  hands 
of  the  Legislature  of  Massachusetts. 

The  transmission  of  thought  by  telegraph  and  telephone  has 
new  become  so  common  as  to  excite  no  comment  but  it  remained 
for  Americans  in  the  nineteenth  century,  to  perfect  telegraphy 
so  as  to  make  it  practical,  and  to  invent  the  telephone  which  was 
an  absolutely  unknown  factor  in  the  world's  progress  a  little 
more  than  twenty-five  years  ago.  None  can  tell  what  the  future 
may  have  in  store  for  those  who  have  abandoned  the  wire  for  the 
transmission  of  messages  and  are  teaching  the  whispering  airs 
of  heaven  to  tell  the  story  of  Marconi,  but  we  may  well  be  proud 
of  the  fact  that  American  enterprise  and  American  capital  have 
not  been  sought  in  vain  with  which  to  test  the  practical  value  of 
this  latest  gift  of  invention. 

Descending  to  what  might  be  called  a  humbler  line  I  borrow 
for  a  moment  the  words  of  a  noted  author  who  says :  "The 
comforts  of  life  have  been  immeasurably  increased  by  the  uni- 
versal adoption  of  things  now  termed  common  and  indispensable, 
such  as  friction  matches,  gas  lighting,  electric  light  and  appli- 
ances, or  steel  pens  as  well  as  modern  methods  of  heating,  plumb- 
ing and  construction."  But  human  life,  as  it  now  exists  among 
civilized  communities,  owes  still  more,  perhaps,  to  our  new  labor 
saving  machines.  Should  w^e  attempt  to  enumerate  the  inven- 
tions of  the  century  in  this  class  time  would  fail  and  patience  be 
exhausted  with  the  telling.  Machines  for  the  working  of  wood 
and  iron,  machines  for  the  spinning  and  weaving  of  wool  and 
cotton,  machines  for  the  manufacture  of  hats  and  machines  for 
the  manufacture  of  shoes,  that  most  marvellous  product  of 
American  brain,  the  sewing  machine,  which  one  enthusiastic 
writer  declared  was  the  greatest  blessing,  save  alone  the  Christian 
religion,  ever  bestowed  on  civilized  woman ;  machines,  in  short, 
to  do  almost  everything  which  was  necessarily  done  by  human 


HISTORY    OF    WATe:rvILLE.  I07 

ton  a  hundred  years  ago,  are  the  fruits  of  a  century  at  whose 
close  we  stand. 

As  a  natural  sequence  to  the  appHcation  of  steam  to  trans- 
portation by  sea  and  land,  the  last  hundred  years  has  seen  an 
enormous  expansion  of  business  in  which  our  country  has  greatly 
shared.  This  is  neither  the  time  or  the  place  to  give  extended 
statistics  relating  to  the  commerce  of  our  country,  either  foreign 
or  domestic,  but  a  few  figures  may  be  used  to  indicate  the  enor- 
mous amount  of  our  sales  to  foreign  nations  and  their  increase 
during  the  memory  of  this  generation.  In  many  other  avenues 
of  industry  might  the  illustration  be  found  but  it  now  suffices 
the  purpose  to  speak  of  some  exported  products. 

Exports  1885  1900 

Machinery,  agricultural  implements, 

instruments  and  apparatus,  $14,893,000  $74,681,000 

Other  manufactured  metals,  5,950,000  41,891,000 

Cp.ide  iron  and  steel,  (in  tons)  13,000  747,095 

1897  1900 

Copper,  $31,075,636  $55,772,166 

1898  1900 

Refined  petroleum,  $51,242,933     $67,740,106 

Such  figures  as  these,  to  the  thoughtless  mind,  are  as  empty 
sounds,  meaning  nothing,  but  to  the  student  of  events,  to  the 
intelligent  business  man  they  speak  volumes.  They  represent 
thousands  upon  thousands  of  men  employed  at  honest,  profitable 
labor,  they  represent  hundreds  upon  hundreds  of  happy  homes  on 
which  there  is  no  mortgage  and  for  the  occupation  of  which  no 
rent  falls  due,  they  represent  cities  and  towns  newly  sprung  into 
existence  and  the  life  of  many  municipalities  which  celebrate  an 
anniversary,  they  mean  education  and  refinement  for  the  masses, 
luxuries  for  those  who  are  possessed  only  of  moderate  means, 
enlarsred  fortunes  for  the  wealthv  and  in  short  everv  material 
blessing  to  which  man  is  heir. 

Great  as  the  advance  has  been  in  the  realm  of  invention  and 
commerce,  yet  an  equal  forward  movement  has  been  made  along 
the  lines  of  science.  Only  the  most  passing  allusion  can  be 
given  to  this  advance,  nor  indeed  is  there  great  need  of  particu- 
larizing in  the  presence  of  an  audience  composed  of  those  who 


I08  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

are  so  well  versed,  as  this  one  is,  in  the  development  of  the  times. 
Some  reference  is  due  however,  to  the  great  strides  taken  in  the 
science  and  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery.  Imagine,  if  you 
please,  a  patient  in  the  full  possession  of  his  senses  and  with 
every  nerve  of  feeling  alert,  bound  firmly  to  an  operating  table, 
about  to  feel  the  knife  and  the  saw,  follow  his  agony  through 
the  necessary  amputation  of  a  limb  or  the  opening  of  a  cavity, 
watch  the  life  blood  follow  the  scalpel,  listen  to  his  cries  of 
anguish,  see  him  swoon  with  pain,  and  then  say  how  great  a 
blessing  the  nineteenth  century  conferred  on  humanity  when  an 
American  doctor,  either  Morton,  Jackson  or  Wells,  in  1846,  dis- 
covered that  by  the  mere  inhalation  of  pure  sulphuric  ether  the 
most  dreaded  of  surgical  operations  may  be  performed  during 
the  happy  unconsciousness  of  the  patient.  For  screaming  and 
struggles  and  intense  suffering  under  the  surgeon's  knife,  etheri- 
zation substituted  complete  exemption  from  pain,  associated  in 
some  with  the  quietude,  mental  and  bodily,  of  deep  sleep ;  in 
others,  with  pleasing  dreams,  imaginary  scenes  and  sweet  music. 
And  for  this  great  boon  the  modest  physician  who  first  made  it 
possible  asked  of  the  world  no  recompense,  no  reward.  It  was 
simply  a  gift  to  mankind,  a  trophy  which  science  laid  at  the  feet 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  a  garland  whose  perfume  filled  the  air 
with  sweetness  for  the  comfort  of  all  men.  In  like  manner,  and 
v/ith  equal  largess,  have  the  members  of  that  splendid  profession 
given  ungrudginglv  the  beneficial  results  arising  from  the  dis- 
covery of  the  functions  of  the  blood  corpuscles,  the  germ  theory 
of  disease  and  the  use  of  the  Roentgen  rays.  Boldly  let  it  be 
said  that  the  century's  achievements  in  invention,  commerce  and 
science  outnumber  like  results  of  all  previous  centuries  within 
historic  time. 

But  when  all  is  said  neither  the  achievements  of  invention,  the 
growth  of  commerce,  nor  the  progress  of  science  is  at  all  com- 
parable with  these  deeds  of  philanthropy  which  the  sons  of 
Columbia  have  made  the  crowning  glory  of  the  century.  Their 
altruism  has  not  been  confined  to  the  household  of  their  own 
faith,  nor  even  to  the  stranger  within  their  gates,  but  has  been 
extended  to  those  beyond  seas ;  has  blessed  not  only  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  but  has  thrown  its  arm  about  the  starving  dwellers  on  the 
Emerald  soil,  the  dusky  sons  of  Africa  and  those  who  live  upon 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLi:.  IO9 

the  islands  of  the  tropics.  In  1846  Ireland  was  afflicted  with 
one  of  the  most  dreadful  famines  known  to  modern  times. 
Destitution,  pestilence  and  death  were  seen  on  every  hand.  No 
tongue  could  tell  the  sad  stories  of  the  time,  no  pen  could  chron- 
icle the  awful  record  of  the  hour.  Then  it  was  that  America 
won  her  first  great  victory  of  peace  and  challenged  the  admira- 
tion of  the  world.  Scarce  thirty  years  had  passed  since  the 
smoking  guns  of  our  warships  had  humbled  the  proud  flag  of 
George  III,  and  yet  the  same  generation  which  manned  those 
guns  now  sailed  toward  England  in  one  of  those  same  warships 
laden  with  food  for  the  starving  subjects  of  the  British  King. 
It  was  not  an  event  of  passing  importance  but  was  the  forerunner 
of  the  policy  of  our  country  through  the  years  which  were  to 
follow.  Two  decades  passed  by  and  we  were  able  to  show  the 
world  the  proud  record  at  home  of  a  race  of  slaves  made  free 
from  bondage,  even  at  the  cost  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
human  lives  and  thousands  of  millions  of  dollars.  To  be  sure 
the  question  of  the  stability  of  the  Union  is  said  to  have  been  the 
cause  of  the  Civil  War  but  that  stability  was  threatened  on  the 
one  hand  by  southern  tyranny  and  on  the  other  by  northern  phil- 
anthropy. In  the  end  the  latter  came  off  victor  and  added 
another  star  to  America's  crown  of  glory.  But  it  remained  for 
these  latest  days  to  witness  a  spectacle  never  before  beheld  by  the 
people  of  any  age,  race  or  clime.  In  the  midst  of  unequalled 
material  prosperity  at  home,  at  a  time  when  peace  and  harmony 
cemented  the  hearts  of  all  the  American  people  as  never  before, 
at  a  time  when  strife  was  farthest  from  our  minds,  the  breeze 
from  ofif  the  ocean  brought  a  cry  for  help.  It  came  not  from 
territory  which  we  had  peopled,  in  the  veins  of  its  dwellers  ran 
no  drop  of  our  blood,  their  traditions  were  not  ours,  their  man- 
ners and  customs  were  not  ours,  their  ancestors  were  not  ours ; 
no  obligation  bound  us  to  them,  no  claim  had  they  upon  us  save 
alone  the  moral  claim  to  protect  the  weak,  to  succor  the  afflicted 
and  to  raise  up  those  who  were  bowed  down  by  the  burden  of  an 
unequal  and  an  unjust  foe.  At  the  sound  of  that  cry  America 
arose  in  her  majestic  strength.  Calmly,  without  passion  and 
without  fear  she  drew  around  her  more  closely  the  white  robes 
of  justice,  on  her  fair  brow  she  placed  the  blazing  helmet  of  love, 
in  her  right  hand  she  took  the  sword  of  freedom  and,  calling 


no  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

xipon  her  sons  in  blue  and  her  sons  in  gray,  went  forth  upon  such 
a  mission  as  never  had  been  known  before  since  time  began. 
Here  was  no  offensive  alHance  for  gain  of  lands  or  treasure,  no 
defensive  union  for  the  protection  of  her  own,  but  as  a  messenger 
of  the  God  of  nations  she  went  forth  to  do  His  will.  Recall  the 
myths  of  earliest  times,  delve  into  the  legends  of  prehistoric  days, 
search  the  records  since  history  began,  and  tell  the  world,  with 
proudest  boast,  if  you  can  find  the  equal  of  this  philanthropic  act 
of  America  with  which  she  wrote  the  closing  chapter  of  our 
century. 

In  the  environment  of  this  moment  we  maw  well  be  proud  and 
thankful  for  what  the  years  have  brought  to  us  and  to  our  fair 
city.  Last  night  the  moon  shone  fair  and  bright  as  I  passed 
through  yonder  walk  and  paused  a  moment  to  contemplate  the 
scene.  The  hour  was  late.  The  fragrant  stillness,  the  lights 
and  shadows,  the  graceful  foliage  of  the  majestic  elms,  the  arch- 
ing blue  of  heaven  and  the  perfect  verdure  of  earth  formed  a 
picture  not  soon  to  be  forgotten.  From  the  east  came  faint 
sounds  of  the  rushing  river  on  whose  banks  the  tired  mill  wheels 
waited  a  new  day  of  busy,  profitable  toil  for  hundreds  of  our 
people ;  the  southern  sky,  bending  closely  down  upon  this  stately 
temple  of  learning  told  its  vacant  halls  new  secrets  of  the  wisdom 
of  the  ages  for  the  earnest  student  of  the  coming  years ;  toward 
the  west  I  saw  happy  homes  where  untroubled  sleep  held  the 
weary  dreamers  close  to  its  restful  bosom ;  between  me  and  the 
northern  polar  star  I  saw  the  church  spire  standing  as  a  symbol 
of  the  moral  and  spiritual  aspirations  which  characterize  so  many 
who  have  tried  to  follow  the  teachings  of  the  gentle  Nazarene, 
and  in  the  midst  of  all  stood  that  bronze  sentinel  whose  eyelids 
never  slumber.  And  I  said,  O  city  beautiful !  surrounded  by  all 
the  benefits  of  the  century,  by  the  fruits  of  its  invention  and  pros- 
perity, by  the  advantages  of  every  branch  of  education,  by  the 
henison  of  pure,  enlightened  homes,  by  the  benediction  of  the 
infiuence  of  religion,  as  long  as  bronze  and  stone  may  withstand 
the  action  of  the  elements,  so  long  may  every  moral,  social  and 
material  blessing  be  thine,  so  long  may  thy  children  at  home  and 
abroad  love  and  cherish  thee,  until  all  are  welcomed  to  that  City 
''which  hath  foundations,  whose  builder  and  maker  is  God!" 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  Ill 


A  HUNDRED  YEARS. 

Mrs.  Julian   D.  Taylor. 

Who  will  not  love  his  country — the  dear  land  where  he  was  born? 

And  we  who  love  thee,  in  our  pride  today  will  love  thee  more — 

Thou  who  sitst  between  the  seas,  with  a  hand  on  either  shore ; 

The  sunset  gold  is  in  thy  locks,  thy  face  is  toward  the  dawn, 

And  in  thy  lap  the  orchards  lie,  the  vineyards  and  the  corn. 

Thy   mountain   heights  stand  guard   for  thee ;  their   white  crests  greet 

the  sun  ; 
League  on  league  thy  forests  marshal  their  serried  pines  below ; 
A  hundred  rivers  draw  thy  streams,  rushing  sea-ward,  as  they  go 
With  the  tribute  of  thy  harvests,  and  the  triumphs  thou  hast  won — 
Iron  fruit  of  forge  and  furnace — who  hath  wrought  as  thou  hast  done? 

The  roar  of  mighty  cities,  the  din  of  steel-clad  ways  that  meet. 

And  clang  and  cross  each  other  thou  hearest,  night  and  day, 

But  thou  art  barkening  to  the  children,  in  their  school  time  and  their 

play. 
And  they  grow  to  fight  thy  battles  and  fling  beneath  thy  feet 
The  accursed  fraud  and  falsehood  that  would  mar  thy  forehead  sweet. 
Thy  voice  is  heard  in  the  Old  World;  they  listen  there — and  heed; — 
*'What  child  of  yesterday  is  this,  that  bids  us  all  beware? 
She  waxes  bold  as  beautiful;  she  has  strength  and  gold  to  spare;" 
So  they  forge  their  guns  and  build  their  ships,  and  are  thy  friends  indeed ; 
But  England  laughs  across  the  sea — "Blood  tells — we  know  the  breed!" 

O  well  it  is  to  dwell  with  thee.  North  or  South,  or  East  or  West, 

But  in  all  thy  pleasant  borders,  from  the  mountains  to  the  sea, 

The  valley  of  the  Kennebec  is  the  place  where  I  would  be ; 

And  here's  a  little  city,  dearer  far  than  all  the  rest, — 

'Tis  her  Hundredth  Birthday  !— cheer  her,  now,— you  who  know  her  best ! 

You  who  know  how  fair  her  homes  are,  beneath  her  summer  shade, 
How  many  churches  lift  their  spires— how  trimly  court  and  lawn 
With  verdure  charm  the  stranger's  eye,— how  cheerily,  at  dawn. 
Bell  and  whistle  wake  her  echoes,— how  Time's  magic  touch  has  laid 


112  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

A  spell  upon  her  College  walls  whose  memory  shall  not  fade, 

Look  back  on  the  old  Teconnet ;  your  Waterville  lies  there, 

A  cluster  of  rude  dwellings  in  the  clearing  by  the  stream, 

Where  the  shining  salmon  leaps,  and  the  prowling  wildcat's  scream 

At  midnight  scares  the  settler,  in  his  troubled  dream  aware 

Of  the  dreaded  Indian  war-whoop,  and  the  burning  roof-tree's  glare. 

Other  days,  and  other  lives,  now !     But  many  a  time  since  then, 

In  peace  and  war  the  little  town  has  borne  her  part  right  well ; 

She  has  her  roll  of  heroes ;  some  who  unrecorded  fell. 

They  have  passed;  but  what  they  stood  for,  stands.     This  day  we  bless 

the  men 
Who  taught,  and  toiled,  and  fought  for  us,  with  sword  and  spade,  and  pen. 
They  have  passed — as  we  shall  pass  !    Another  century  will  see 
The  green  turf  growmg  over  our  own  unheeded  dust ; 
Well  for  thee,  O  little  city,  if  some  lives,  generous,  pure  and  just, 
Sow  in  thee  today  the  seed  whose  bright  harvest  then  shall  be 
A  city's  crown  of  glory — a  people  worthy  to  be  free ! 


CHAPTER  V. 


EARLY  SETTLERS  AND  THEIR  WORK. 
By  Aaron  Applkton  Plaisted,  A.  M. 

From  1 77 1,  the  date  of  the  incorporation  of  Winslow,  and 
earher,  to  1802,  the  date  of  the  incorporation  of  Waterville,  the 
history  of  Winslow  inckides  the  history  of  VVaterville.  When 
Fort  HaHfax  was  built  in  1754  there  were  no  settlers.  Under 
the  protection  of  the  Fort  and  induced  by  the  liberal  offers  of 
the  Kennebec  Purchase  Co.,  people  began  to  come  in,  but  slowly. 
It  IS  supposed  that  ten  years  later,  in  1764,  there  were  about  one 
hundred  inhabitants.  How  many  were  on  either  side  of  the 
Kennebec  is  not  known.  At  first  the  settlers  would  naturally 
keep  within  the  shelter  of  the  fort,  but  after  the  Peace  of  1763, 
between  England  and  France,  there  was  less  danger  from  hostile 
Indians  and  the  little  settlement  expanded  its  borders. 

The  two  portions  of  Winslow  were  known  as  the  East  Side 
and  West  Side,  the  latter  hamlet  frequently  called  Ticonic  and, 
pity  'tis  that  the  name  has  not  been  retained.  There  is  a  flavor 
about  the  Aboriginal  name  that  is  wanting  in  the  hybrid  French 
and  English  word  Waterville. 

The  name  of  the  Falls  has  been  spelled  in  various  ways  :  Gov. 
Shirley,  1754,  says  Taconett ;  Parson  Smith,  1755,  Teuconic  ;  Gen. 
Winslow,  1754,  Ticonnett;  Col.  Montessor,  1760,  Ticonic;  Judge 
Lithgow,  1763,  Taconick — Teconnet  however  appears  in  the 
treaty  of  1693.  The  name  that  was  proposed  for  the  town  we 
happily  escaped.  In  1795  a  petition  was  sent  to  the  General 
Court  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  West  Side  praying  for  a  division 
of  the  town  and  praying  the  new  town  might  be  called  Williams- 
burgh,  perhaps  to  honor  the  first  signer,  Dr.  Obadiah  Williams. 

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114   •  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

The  first  white  man  known  to  have  any  connection  with  the 
West  Side  was  Richard  Hammond,  who  had  a  trading  house 
here  in  1660,  but  "as  he  was  so  imprudent  as  to  rob  the  Indians 
of  their  furs"  he  was  killed  by  them  as  were  Clark  and  Lake 
who  had  a  trading  house  in  this  vicinity  seven  years  earlier.  For 
a  hundred  years,  until  the  building  of  Fort  Halifax  in  1754,  his- 
tory is  essentially  a  blank,  Codman,  in  his  account  of  Arnold's 
Expedition,  estimates  the  total  population  above  Georgetown, 
near  the  mouth  of  the  river,  at  500  in  1775. 

The  U.  S.  Census  gives  the  population  of  Winslow  in  1790  as 
779,  of  whom  E.  A.  Paine  says  479  were  on  the  West  Side.  In 
1800  Winslow  had  1,250,  in  1810  Winslow  had  658  and  Water- 
ville  1,314.  It  is  probable  that  Waterville  began  its  existence 
with  about  800  inhabitants  and  included,  besides  its  present 
limits,  the  town  of  Oakland.  In  1791  sixty-three  persons  on 
the  West  Side  paid  taxes.  Ebenezer  Bacon,  Wm.  Brooks  and 
Deacon  John  Tozier  were  here  as  early  as  1770.  The  first  had 
a  large  farm  on  the  river  road  on  the  hill,  a  little  south  of  the 
Fairfield  line,  the  latter  owned  Lot  No.  106,  according  to  Dr. 
McKechnie's  plan,  where  the  Elmwood  now  stands.  He  prob- 
ably built  the  first  of  the  several  houses  erected  on  that  site. 
These  lots  ran  from  the  Kennebec  river  to  the  Messalonskee. 
The  next.  Lot  105,  south  of  John  Tozier,  was  held  by  Isaac 
Tem.ple,  north  of  Temple  street.  Next  on  the  south,  No.  104, 
by  Dr.  Obadiah  Williams,  and  then  103,  including  the  water 
power  on  Ticonic  Falls  and  the  Messalonskee  was  taken  by  the 
old  surveyor  himself.  Dr.  John  McKechnie. 

The  first  settlers  on  the  river  road,  beginning  at  the  Sidney 
line,  were  Wellington  Hamblen,  James  Crommett,  Nathan  Lowe, 
Isaac  Stevens,  Edward  Blanchard,  Dea.  Thos.  Parker,  Edward 
Dillingham,  Pelatiah  Soule,  Jonathan  Soule,  David  Webb, 
Samuel  Webb,  Silas  and  Abijah  Wing,  William  Colcord,  Her- 
bert Moore,  Asa  Redington,  Reuben  Kidder  and  Asa  Emerson. 
The  splendid  water  power  of  Ticonic  Falls  and  of  the  Messal- 
onskee was  earlv  appreciated  and  was  largely  the  cause  of  the 
more  rapid  growth  of  the  West  than  of  the  East  Side.  Dr.  John 
McKechnie,  who  surveyed  for  the  Plymouth  Co.,  both  sides  of 
the  Kennebec  from  Winslow  to  Hallowell,  built  a  small  saw 
mill  at  what  we  now  call  Crommett's  Mills :  another  soon  after 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  II5 

was  built  near  the  same  place  by  David  Pattee,  this,  before  the 
greater  power  on  the  Kennebec  was  utilized,  though  Moses  Dal- 
ton  seems  to  have  had  a  small  mill  of  some  kind  just  above  this 
end  of  the  bridge. 

In  17Q2  Asa  Redington  and  Nehemiah  Getchell  came  from 
Vassalboro.  In  connection  with  the  heirs  of  Dr.  McKechnie, 
who  paid  half  the  expense,  they  built  the  first  dam  across  the 
river,  essentially  on  the  site  of  the  present  Lockwood  dam.  In 
August  of  the  same  year  they  had  completed  a  double  saw  mill. 

The  building  of  the  dam  and  the  necessity  for  access  to  the 
river  made  that  vicinity  then  and  for  many  years  the  center  of 
business.  The  building  of  the  Lockwood  mills  entirely  changed 
its  topography.  Front  street  then  w^as  continued  from  the 
present  west  end  of  the  bridge  to  the  Plains  near  the  bank  of 
the  river,  with  room  on  the  east  side  of  the  road  for  dwellings 
and  shops.  The  position  from  the  upper  Lockwood  boarding 
house  to  the  Plains  being  the  same  as  now.  It  is  not  only  the 
road  that  has  changed  but  shore  and  river  as  well. 

A  hundred  years  ago  there  were  two  small  islands,  the  upper 
one,  the  Healey  Island,  nearly  opposite  the  Healey  house,  the 
lower  one,  Leeman  Island.  Now  they  are  of  much  greater 
extent  and  in  low  water  are  separated  from  the  shore  by  a  nar- 
row thread  of  water  where  there  was  a  broad  and  quite  deep 
channel.  The  shore,  south  of  the  Lockwood  mills,  w^here  now 
is  a  thick  growth  of  tall  trees  and  tangled  underbrush,  a  century 
ago  was  a  scene  of  life  and  business  activity.  All  merchandise, 
not  only  for  this  town  but  for  all  the  country  above,  came  by 
vessel  from  Boston  or  Portland  to  Hallowell  and  thence  by  long 
boats  to  Waterville.  So  Waterville  became  the  distributing 
center  for  a  large  extent  of  country  and  its  first  traders  became 
rich.  Many  now  living  can  remember  those  curious  crafts,  the 
long  boats — long,  low,  square  at  both  ends  like  a  ferry  boat, 
steered  by  a  long  oar,  one  tall  mast  with  three  or  four  square 
sails,  drawing  but  little  water,  they  made  a  not  ungraceful  pic- 
ture as  with  all  sails  set  and  a  good  south  wdnd,  they  ploughed 
their  way  past  Fort  Point  to  the  landing  to  disgorge  their 
freight  of  dry  goods,  barrels  of  rum  and  quintals  of  dry  cod  fish 
to  return  with  the  next  favoring  wind  loaded  with  bark,  shingles 
and  lumber.  They  retained  their  supremacy  till  superseded  by 
steamboats  in  the  thirties. 


ii6  HISTORY  OF  waterville;. 

Asa  Redington  came  in  1792.  He  has  left  this  record  of 
houses  then  existing.  "When  I  first  came  to  this  place  John 
Lane  lived  in  a  shell  of  a  house  on  the  site  where  Moor's  store- 
house now  (1832)  stands,  and  Isaac  Temple  lived  in  another 
old  thing  on  the  site  where  my  workshop  now  stands,  both  per- 
haps worth  fifty  dollars."  The  Lockwood  covers  the  sites  of 
both  these.  "There  were  also  two  small  houses  up  street,  one 
where  or  near  where  the  Wood's  house  now  stands,  occupied  by 
Ivory  Low  and  the  other  one  where  Lemuel  Dunbar  now  (1832) 
lives.  No  other  building  nearer  than  David  Pattee's  house  and 
saw  mill  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Crommett. 

The  first  mentioned  was  probably  built  by  Deacon  John  Tozier, 
the  latter  was  known  as  the  McKim  house.  In  1792,  probably 
aided  by  the  new  dam,  something  like  what  we  call  a  boom  was 
started.  In  that  year  Dr.  Williams  built  the  oldest  house  now 
standing.  The  next  year  Mr.  Redington  built  for  himself  a 
small  house  somewhat  above  the  present  Healey  house.  Mr. 
Temple  moved  from  his  "old  thing"  to  a  better  one  on  Front 
street,  near  the  city  hall.  The  condition  of  things  a  few  years 
letter  is  shown  by  the  following  letter  written  by  Reuben  Kidder, 
the  first  lawyer  on  this  side  the  river  to  Moses  Appleton,  a  young 
physician  seeking  a  place  to  settle. 

Win  SLOW,  Jan'y  i,  1796. 

"Dear  Sir:  Rec'd  yours  of  Nov.  23,  1795,  Dec.  20,  '95,  in 
v/hich  you  signify  A'our  intention  of  coming  into  our  vicinity  soon 
to  establish  yourself  in  the  Profession  of  Physic.  You  request 
a  little  more  particular  information — "Whether  it  be  a  place  of 
much  trade?"  Answer:  Within  50  rods  of  my  ofiice  there  are 
six  traders,  mostly  men  of  considerable  business.  Within  the 
same  distance  30  buildings,  including  every  kind,  have  been 
erected  (where  not  one  stood  before)  within  3^/2  years.  Several 
more  are  likely  to  be  put  up  soon.  Land  sells  for  2  Dolls,  per 
square  rod. 

"Is  there  an  Apothecary  shop?" — None  within  20  miles  in  any 
direction  and  only  one  within  50  miles  that  I  know  of,  which  is 
at  Hallowell.  The  stand  must  be  good  if  any  in  the  county  is 
for  an  Apothecary. 

"Is  the  Country  in  that  quarter  rough,  hilly,  rocky  or  other- 
wise?" 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  11^ 

The  river  roads,  above  and  below,  where  most  of  your  practice 
will  be,  are  very  good;  from  here  to  Hallowell,  i8  miles,  there  is 
as  good  a  chaise  road  as  from  Concord  to  Boston,  but  as  the 
country  above  is  very  new,  the  roads  are,  I  suppose  in  the  spring 
season,  somewhat  mirey.  We  live  in  quite  a  level  country  where 
stone  is  hard  to  be  found. 

"What  is  the  population  of  Winslow  ?"  I  should  suppose  that 
Winslow  has  more  than  i,ooo  inhabitants. 

Nature  has  lavished  her  charms  profusely  on  Winslow ;  the 
situation  is  the  most  pleasant  on  the  Kennebeck,  but  don't  expect 
too  much ;  we  are  an  infant  country,  everything  yet  appears  in 
the  rough. 

If  you  are  inclined  to  settle  with  us,  the  sooner  the  better.  I 
think  the  stand  will  not  be  unoccupied  3  months.  Had  you  been 
here  the  three  months  past  your  practice  within  two  miles  would 
have  been  sufficient  to  support  you  12  months,  as  we  have  been 
remarkably  sickly. 

Dr.  Williams  is  pleased  with  the  idea  of  your  coming  and  says 
he  will  do  any  thing  for  you.  I  shall  build  an  office  in  5  months, 
— 1  guess  you  may  occupy  one  end." 

R.  Kidder. 

This  letter  seems  to  have  been  convincing  as  the  young  doctor 
came  the  same  year. 

What  was  once  a  thriving  and  profitable  industry  has  long 
since  disappeared  and  been  almost  forgotten.  That  Waterville 
was  ever  a  ship  building  port  will  probably  be  news  to  many. 
Not  only  long  boats,  for  home  use,  but  schooners,  brigs  and  even 
ships,  were  built,  some  as  early  as  1794.  The  abundance  of  ship 
tim.ber  close  at  hand  made  it  possible  to  build  cheaply  and  orders 
were  received  from  Boston  and  elsewhere.  The  shipyard  of 
John  Clark  was  at  the  foot  of  Sherwin  St.,  next  above  the  yard 
of  Nath'l  Oilman,  then  that  of  Asa  Redington  and  next  north 
W.  &  D.  Moor's  built  many  steamboats.  It  was  necessary  to 
launch  them,  the  sea-going  vessels,  on  the  spring  or  fall  freshets  ; 
they  were  then  floated  down  river  to  Hallowell  or  Gardiner, 
where  they  received  their  rigging  and  outfit  and  took  their  place 
in  the  commerce  of  the  country,  but  never  to  return  to  the  port 
whence  they  started. 


Il8  HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLE. 

The  following  is  probably  a  complete  list  with  masters  and 
owners. 

1794.  Schooner  Sally,  92  tons,  master,  Rillae;  owner,  John 
G  etch  ell. 

1800.  Ship  Ticonic,  268  tons,  master,  Geo.  Clarke;  owner, 
John  Clarke. 

1810.  Ship  Hornet,  214  tons,  master  Wm.  Fletcher;  owner, 
N.  B.  Dingley. 

1818.  Brig  Dingley,  106  tons,  master,  Thos.  Jones;  owner, 
Nath'l  Dingley. 

1826.  Brig  Elizabeth,  182  tons,  master,  John  Sylvester; 
owner,  Johnson  Williams. 

1805.  Brig  William  Gray,  156  tons,  master,  Gideon  Colcord; 
owner,  Geo.  Crosby. 

1807.  Schooner,  Ticonic,  123  tons,  master,  Daniel  Smith; 
owner,  Nath'l  Gilman. 

1807.  Schooner  Thomas,  70  tons,  master,  Levi  Palmer; 
owner,  F.  P.  Stilson. 

1810.  Schooner  James,  117  tons,  master,  Gideon  Colcord; 
owner,  Jas.  Stackpole. 

1809.  Brig  America,  136  tons,  master,  Wm.  Pattee;  owner, 
Peleg  Tallman. 

1809.  Brig  Madison,  160  tons,  master,  Caleb  Heath;  owner, 
Wmi.  Sylvester. 

181 1.  Brig  Hiram,  14.2  tons,  master,  Jos.  Lemont. 

1812.  Sloop  Aurora,  61  tons,  master,  Wm.  Poole;  owner, 
Asa  Redington. 

1814.  Francis  &  Sarah,  290  tons,  master,  T.  S.  Winslow; 
owner,  Rob't  G.  Shaw. 

1824.  Brig  Gov.  King,  138  tons,  master,  N.  Harding;  owner, 
Nath'l  Gilman. 

1824.  Schooner  North  vStar,  T07  tons,  master,  R.  Crooker; 
owner,  N.  Gilman. 

1825.  Brig  Waterville,  178  tons,  master,  N.  Harding;  owner, 
Johnson  Williams. 

1826.  Brig  Lydia,  178  tons,  master,  J.  W.  Lamont;  owner, 
Johnson  Williams. 

1826.  Brig  Neutrality,  132  tons,  master,  R.  Crooker;  owner, 
Johnson  Williams. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  Iig 

1827.  Schooner  Brilliant,  82  tons,  master,  R.  Brown;  owner, 
K.  G.  Robinson. 

1829.  Schooner  Martha,  89  tons,  master,  R.  Ellis ;  owner,. 
Russell  Ellis. 

1835.  Brig  Wave,  47  tons,  master,  John  Lewis ;  owner,  J.  M. 
Moor. 

After  the  passing  of  ship  building  came  the  era  of  steamboats. 
William  and  Daniel  Moor  under  the  firm  name  of  W.  &  D.  Moor 
were  the  leading  captains  of  industry  in  this  line.  The  first  was 
the  Ticonic,  built  at  Gardiner.  She  made  the  first  trip  to  Water- 
ville,  June  i,  1832,  and  was  received  with  great  demonstrations 
of  rejoicing. 

The  Water  Witch  built  by  W.  &  D.  Moor  in  1842  was  the  first 
steamer  launched  in  Waterville.  It  was  quickly  followed  by 
others  and  soon  a  considerable  fleet  was  plying  between  here  and 
Augusta  and  Gardiner.  In  one  season  five  steamers  left  the 
wharf  daily.  They  were  flat  bottomed,  of  light  draft,  with  stern 
wheels,  and  were  of  about  42  tons  burden. 

They  prospered  until  the  opening  of  the  railroad  to  Augusta 
when  the  doctrine  of  the  "survival  of  the  fittest"  relegated  them 
to  other  scenes. 

In  1890  an  attempt  was  made  by  some  of  our  enterprising 
citizens  to  restore  steam  navigation  on  the  Kennebec.  July  loth 
the  steamer  City  of  Waterville  sailed  from  Bangor  for  this  port. 
She  has  not  yet  arrived. 

Near  its  close  the  era  of  steamboats  was  marked  by  a  terrible 
accident.  May  2},,  1848,  the  steamer  Halifax,  a  new  boat  and 
the  finest  of  the  fleet,  w^as  making  her  record  trip  to  Augusta ; 
on  leaving  the  lock  the  boiler  exploded  and  six  persons  were  killed 
and  others  severely  wounded.  Of  the  dead  James  Hasty,  the 
pilot,  and  Vedo  Micue,  fireman,  resided  here. 

In  1802  the  only  streets  were  Main,  Silver,  Mill,  Temple  and 
a  part  of  what  is  now  Front  street.  Main  street,  where  Temple 
crosses  it  was  little  better  than  a  bog  with  a  corduroy  bridge  over 
it.  From  there  to  Appleton  street  there  was  quite  a  rise;  the 
level  road  of  to-day  has  been  made  so  by  filling  twelve  or  more 
feet. 

On  the  Plains  the  only  houses  were  those  of  Mr.  Leeman  and 
Daniel  Moor,  both    near  the  upper  end.      The  latter  is  still    in 


I20  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

existence.  Of  French  Canadians,  there  was  then  not  a  single 
family.  Among  the  first  to  establish  himself  here  was  Peter 
DeRocher,  who  built  a  cabin  at  the  lower  end  of  the  Plains,  below 
Grove  street  in  the  early  thirties.  His  son  Peter  carried  on  the 
meat  business  for  some  years. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  both  space  and  scarcity  of  material 
allow  mention  of  but  few  of  the  hardy  pioneers  who  laid  the 
foundation  of  our  good  city.  There  were  others  as  well  deserv- 
ing notice  as  those  of  whom  imperfect  sketches  here  follow. 

JOHN   McKECHNIE. 

No  one  of  the  early  settlers  was  more  active  and  useful  and 
entitled  to  respectful  memory  than  Dr.  John  McKechnie.  He 
was  a  Scotchman,  educated  as  a  physician  and  civil  engineer. 
He  came  to  this  country  in  1755  ^  and  was  soon  employed  by  the 
Plymouth  Company  as  a  surveyor.  His  surveys  extended  from 
Winslow  to  Augusta  and  the  titles  to  property  between  those 
cities  rest  largely  on  what  is  known  as  the  McKechnie  plan. 

He  married  Mary  North  of  Pemaquid,  January  i,  1760.  He 
was  lieutenant  at  Fort  St.  George  under  Capt.  John  North.  In 
1764  he  was  at  Bowdoinham,  in  1771  he  moved  to  Winslow  and 
in  1775  to  this  side  the  river.  He  built  a  log  cabin  on  the  east 
side  of  the  Messalonskee  near  the  Crommett  bridge  and  also  a 
saw  mill  on  the  same  stream.  He  practiced  his  profession  and 
had  charge  of  some  of  the  sick  soldiers  of  Arnold's  expedition, 
1775.  In  1774  and  the  three  succeeding  years  he  was  one  of 
the  selectmen  of  Winslow.  He  had  thirteen  children,  one  of 
whom,  Alexander,  is  the  father  of  Erastus  W.  McKechnie  who 
lives  on  a  farm  on  the  road  to  Oakland,  which  has  been  in  the 
possession  of  the  family  since  1801. 


1.  In  the  possession  of  Mrs.  W.  Parker  Stewart  is  an  ancient  account  or  pocket 
book  bound  in  leather.      On  tlie  first  page  is  written  in  a  very  clear  hand. 

"John  McKechnie  bought  this  Pocket  Book  ns.*)."    The  first  entry  is  as  follows: 

"Scotland,  Greenock,  July  26th,  1755.  This  day  about  4  o'clock  afternoon  we  set 
sail  in  the  Crawford  Bridge,  Captain  Cury,  commander,  bound  for  Boston,  New 
England,  there  being  17  pasengers.  And  landed  all  in  perfect  health  Sept.  12th 
thereafter  at  7  o'clock  at  night  at  the  Long  Wharf,  Boston." 

The  book  records  Dr.  McKechnie's  marriage  Jan.  1,  1760  to  Mary  North,  daughter 
of  Col.  North  of  Fort  St.  George  and  the  birth  and  baptism  of  their  thirteen 
children.  His  account  of  surveys  for  the  Kennebec  Company  begins  May  15, 1760. 
Dr.  McKechnie  cared  for  a  considerable  number  of  soldiers  of  the  Ai-nold  expedi- 
tion and  his  hospital  record  gives  their  names,  ailments  and  the  treatment  em- 
ployed by  him. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  121 

A  daughter,  Rebecca,  married  Simeon  Tozier,  whose  daughter 
married  Sumner  A.  Wheeler,  whose  son,  Sumner  Wheeler,  is 
now  a  resident  of  this  city.  A  son  of  Simeon  Tozier,  also  named 
Simeon,  married  Miss  Pullen.  Their  son,  Horace  Tozier,  a 
young  man  of  eighty-two  years,  until  within  a  few  years  an 
active  member  of  the  fire  department,  also  lives  here.  Mrs. 
Caroline  Tilton,  daughter  of  Sumner  A.  Wheeler,  is  another  of 
Dr.  McKechnie's  descendants.  Mary,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Mc- 
Kechnie,  married  James  Stackpole,  2nd,  long  prominent  in  the 
life  of  Waterville.  Alexander,  a  son,  married  Betsy  Roberts  and 
one  of  their  daughters,  Mrs.  Solomon  Kimball,  was  the  grand- 
mother of  Mrs.  W.  Parker  Stewart,  (Miss  Daisy  Marston).  A 
daughter  of  Alexander  McKechnie  married  Mr.  Henry  A. 
Shorey. 

Dr.  McKechnie  died  in  1782  and  v^as  buried  on  the  south  side 
of  what  is  now  called  Western  avenue,  on  the  rising  ground  a 
little  east  of  the  bridge  over  the  Messalonskee.  This  was  the 
earliest  burial  ground  and  forty  or  more  of  the  "forefathers  of 
the  hamlet"  were  there  laid  to  rest. 

REUBEN   KIDDER. 

Reuben  Kidder,  the  first  of  the  long  line  of  Waterville  lawyers, 
was  born  in  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  April  3,  1768.  He  was  grad- 
uated at  Dartmouth  College,  1791,  qualified  himself  for  the  pro- 
fession of  the  law  and  established  himself  at  Winslow  in  the 
spring  of  1795,  not  only  the  first  lawyer  here,  but  the  first  who 
had  ventured  so  far  north  any  where  in  the  wilderness  of  Maine. 
He  arrived  four  days  before  Thomas  Rice,  who,  disappointed  in 
having  been  anticipated,  went  to  the  east  side  of  the  river  where 
he  passed  a  long  and  useful  life.  Mr.  Kidder  married  Lois 
Crosby  of  Winslow.  His  two  sons,  Cornelius  and  Jerome,  went 
to  Boston  and  became  wealthy  but  he  left  no  descendants  resident 
here.  His  office  was  on  Silver  street  where  a  livery  stable  now 
stands.     He  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  Winslow,  1798. 

Mr.  Kidder  was  a  man  of  abilities  and  had  considerable  busi- 
ness at  the  bar.  He  engaged  in  various  speculations,  one  of 
which  was  the  establishment  of  a  smelting  furnace  and  a  foundry 
at  CUnton,  near  which  was  a  bed  of  iron  ore.     The  writer  has 


122  HISTORY   OI?    WATHRVILLE. 

seen  a  large  iron  crowbar  which  was  made  there.  The  venture 
was  not  successful  and  the  capital  invested  was  lost.  In  1816, 
Mr.  Kidder  was  attacked  by  the  ''western  fever"  and  emigrated 
to  New  Harmony,  Indiana.  The  move  was  an  unfortunate  one 
and  he  died  the  following  year,  1817. 

ASA  REDINGTON. 

Asa  Redington  was  born  in  Boxford,  Mass.,  December  22, 
1761.  His  father,  owner  and  master  of  a  trading  schooner,  was 
drowned  in  the  wreck  of  his  vessel  when  Asa  was  eight  years 
old.  From  that  time  till  he  was  seventeen  he  worked  on  different 
farms  in  the  neighborhood,  working  hard  and  getting  but  little 
schooling.  In  177S  he  enlisted  in  a  New  Hampshire  regiment 
and  served  till  the  close  of  the  war,  undergoing  the  terrible  suffer- 
ings of  the  dreadful  winter  at  Valley  Forge,  and  witnessing  the 
close  of  the  long  struggle  at  Yorktown. 

In  1784  he  drifted  to  the  Kennebec  and,  with  his  brother 
Thomas,  stopped  in  Vassalboro.  One  winter  he  taught  school 
at  eight  dollars  a  month,  and  quite  successfully,  which  as  he 
quaintly  remarks,  "indicates  the  low  state  of  learning  in  this 
region  at  that  time."  He  traded  somewhat,  going  on  foot  at 
one  time  to  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  to  buy  goods. 

September  2,  1787,  he  married  Mary,  the  oldest  daughter  of 
Capt.  Nehemiah  Getchell,  with  whom  he  boarded.  He  remained 
in  Vassalboro  till  1792,  "lumbering  some,  farming  some  and 
doing  considerable  land  surveying."  In  that  year  both  he  and 
Capt.  Getchell  came  to  Winslow,  west  side,  and  built  the  first 
dam  across  the  Kennebec  at  the  Falls,  nearly  on  the  site  of  the 
present  Lock  wood  dam.  Redington  and  Getchell  paying  one- 
half  the  cost,  the  heirs  of  Dr.  McKechnie  the  other  half.  The 
next  year  he  built  a  small  house  a  little  north  of  the  house  now 
occupied  by  the  Misses  Healey ;  a  few  years  later,  the  exact  date 
not  known,  he  built  a  much  larger  one,  the  site  of  which  is  now 
covered  by  the  Lockwood  mills.  It  was  then  and  for  many  years 
the  largest  in  town.  It  now  exists  as  the  middle  one  of  the  three 
mill  boarding  houses. 

In  1793  in  connection  with  Nehemiah  Getchell,  he  built  a  large 
couble  saw  mill,  the  first  on  the  new  dam.     He  dissolved  part- 


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nership  with  Getchell  in  1799,  but  continued  lumbering  on  a 
large  scale  for  those  days,  till  1830,  building  several  more  saw 
mills. 

In  1831,  w4th  his  sons,  Samuel  and  William,  he  bought  the 
Dalton  privilege  at  the  end  of  the  bridge,  where  the  electric  power 
station  now  is,  and  built  a  four  stone  grist  mill.  He  was  select- 
man 1819  and  the  five  succeeding  years,  and  issued  the  warrant 
for  the  first  town  meeting  in  1802.  He  took  an  active  interest 
in  all  town  affairs  and  in  town  meetings  spoke,  especially  on 
questions  of  appropriations,  with  an  earnestness  and  natural 
eloquence  that  made  him  a  match  for  his  superiors  in  education. 

He  died  I\Iarch  31,  1845,  ^S^^  eighty-three  years.  He  had 
nine  children,  Asa,  Samuel,  Silas,  William,  Harriet,  Mary, 
George,  Isaac  and  Emily.  Of  these  the  following  were  residents 
of  Waterville :  Samuel,  father  of  Chas.  H.  Redington  of  Sher- 
win  street ;  Silas,  father  of  Harriet  A.  Redington,  Sherwin 
street ;  William,  father  of  Sophia  A.  Redington  of  Silver  street ; 
Harriet  died  unmarried;  Mary  married  Elah  Esty,  a  grandson, 
Elah  E.  Kimball  is  living  on  Silver  street ;  George  died  unmar- 
ried, Emily  married  Solyman  Heath,  their  children  now  living 
are,  Mrs.  Helen  R.  Buck  and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Plaisted. 

DR.  OBADIAH  WILLIAMS. 
Obadiah  Williams  was  born  in  1752,  probably  in  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  served  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution  in  the  regiment 
of  Gen,  Stark  as  surgeon.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  came  with 
his  family  to  Winslow  and  established  himself  as  a  physician  on 
this  side  of  the  river,  the  first  in  what  is  now  Waterville.  He 
settled  on  Lot  104  of  the  McKechnie  plan,  next  north  of  the  falls 
and  extending  back  to  the  Messalonskee.  In  1792  he  built  the 
first  frame  house  that  is  still  in  existence,  the  so-called  "Parker 
house"  on  the  west  side  of  Water  street,  just  above  the  bridge. 
He  also  built,  before  1795,  on  the  north  side  of  Silver  street,  the 
first  two  story  house  in  Waterville.  It  was  occupied  as  a  tavern 
by  Fred  Jackins  and  Col.  Jabez  Mathews.  Nathl.  Gilman  at  one 
time  occupied  it  and  several  of  his  children  were  born  there.  It 
was  taken  down  in  1883  and  the  massive  hewn  timbers,  some  of 
them,  oak,  excited  the  admiration  of  the  spectators. 


124  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Dr.  Williams  was  a  generous,  public  spirited  citizen  and  we, 
today,  owe  him  a  debt  of  gratitude  which  should  not  be  forgot- 
ten. The  Common  in  front  of  the  City  Hall,  the  completion  of 
which  we  are  celebrating  in  these  Centennial  Days,  was  deeded 
to  the  town  of  Win  slow  in  1796.  It  was  given  expressly  for  the 
erection  of  a  church  and  school  house.  The  church  was  built 
the  same  year  and,  very  much  transformed,  still  exists  as  the 
old  Town  Hall.  The  school  house  too  was  built  on  the  east 
side  of  the  Common  and  the  little  yellow  building  still  survives 
in  the  memory  of  our  older  citizens.  It  outlived  its  usefulness 
and  one  night  it  went  up  in  flames. 

Most  of  the  pioneers  of  the  new  country,  despite  the  toilsome 
lives  they  led,  were  long-lived,  but  Dr.  Williams  died  in  1799  at 
the  age  of  47,  but  his  memory  should  be  kept  green  as  long  as 
'  grass  grows  on  the  Common. 

Two  of  his  sons,  Johnson  and  Clifford,  were  for  many  years 
in  business  here.  Clifford  was  a  prominent  member  and  a  Dea- 
con of  the  Baptist  church.  His  only  descendents  of  the  Williams 
name  now  living  here  are  Frank  Williams,  a  farmer,  Temmia 
and  Annie  S.  W^illiams  and  Elizabeth  (Williams)  Graves,  grand- 
children of  Dea.  Clift'ord. 

He  was  buried  in  the  old  burial  ground  on  the  south  side  of 
Western  avenue,  and  in  18 10  his  remains  were  removed  to  the 
cemetery,  now  Monument  Park. 

ABIJAH  SMITH. 

Abijah  Smith  came  from  Alna,  Maine  to  Winslow,  1794, 
then  twenty-one  years  of  age.  He  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of 
Waterville  in  1803-4-5  and  was  elected  town  clerk  in  1802  at  the 
first  election  held  after  the  separation.  He  held  the  office  for 
twenty-nine  years,  a  good  indication  of  the  esteem  in  which  he 
was  held  by  his  fellow  citizens.  He  was  appointed  postmaster 
by  President  Jackson  in  1832,  which  office  he  held  till  1841  when 
the  political  overturn  and  the  election  of  Gen.  Harrison  retired 
him  to  private  life.  The  little  postoffice  on  the  west  edge  of  the 
Common  is  still  remembered  by  the  oldest  of  us. 

He  married  Clymena  Williams,  daughter  of  Dr.  Obadiah  Wil- 
liams, April  28,  1790.  His  children  were,  Franklin  Smith,  for 
many  years  a  respected  and  valued  citizen,  prominent  in  politics 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK.  1 25 

and  engaged  in  extensive  lumbering  operations,  Harrison  A., 
for  some  time  a  lawyer  here,  Edwin  L.  and  daughters,  Clymena, 
Susan  and  Orinda.  The  descendants  of  Abijah  now  resident 
here  are  Mrs.  Helen  S.  daughter  of  Franklin  Smith,  wife  of 
Edw.  G.  Meader,  Wallace  and  Alice,  children  of  Harrison  A. 
Smith.  In  1800  he  was  living  in  the  house  of  Dr.  Williams,  the 
so-called  Parker  house,  afterward,  and  for  the  greater  part  of  his 
life,  in  the  large  house  on  Front  street,  opposite  Common  street. 
He  died  September,  1841,  aged  sixty-seven  years.  Mr.  Smith 
was  actively  interested  in  whatever  concerned  the  intellectual 
and  social  life  of  the  town.  His  part  in  the  Waterville  Social 
Library  and  the  Ticonick  Debating  Society  was  that  of  a  leader. 

MOSES   APPLETON. 

Moses  Appleton  was  born  in  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  March  17, 
1773.  He  graduated  at  Dartmouth  college,  1791,  then  taught 
school  in  Medford,  Mass.  and  Boston,  studied  medicine  and 
received  his  diploma  from  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society  in 
1796.  In  the  same  year  he  established  himself  in  Winslow, 
induced  by  a  letter  from  his  friend,  Reuben  Kidder,  elsewhere 
referred  to.  He  lived  in,  and  probably  built,  the  house  on  Silver 
street  lately  occupied  by  Sumner  A.  Wheeler.  His  office  and 
store  were  directly  opposite,  being  the  first  apothecary  shop  in 
the  town.  In  18 14  this  building  was  moved  up  across  the  Gil- 
man  bog  to  the  corner  of  Main  and  Appleton  street,  the  site  of 
the  house  of  W.  T.  Haines.  Dr.  Appleton  lived  in  it,  enlarged 
and  renovated,  till  1847  when  he  built  on  the  corner  of  Front  and 
Appleton  streets.  The  old  house  was  then  sold  to  Edwin  Noyes 
and  moved  to  the  north  side  of  Appleton  street.  Its  next  move 
was  across  the  street  where  it  is  now  the  residence  of  A.  A. 
Plaisted. 

Dr.  Obadiah  Williams  was  the  only  physician  here  and  he  was 
pleased  to  retire  and  leave  the  care  and  toil  to  a  younger  man. 
The  life  of  the  country  doctor,  in  those  days,  was  not  a  pleasant 
one.  Visits  to  patients  twelve  and  fifteen  miles  distant  were 
common.  Carriages  were  unknown,  roads  were  bad,  but  with 
saddle-bags  filled  with  drugs  thrown  over  his  horse's  back,  the 
country  practicioner  rode  many  miles  every  week  on  his  errand 


T26  HISTORY   OF    WATI^RVILLi:. 

of  healing.  Dr.  Appleton's  account  book  shows  charges  against 
ninety-six  different  persons  the  first  year,  the  first  being  against 
Dr.  WilHams  for  pulHng  a  tooth.  Not  infrequently  contracts  by 
the  year  were  made  with  patients.  Jonathan  Clark  agrees  to  fur- 
nish the  doctor's  family  for  a  year  with  boots  and  shoes  in  return 
for  medical  treatment  for  the  same  time.  Jabez  Mathews  agrees 
to  give  two  and  a  half  cords  wood  for  such  medicine  as  he  should 
need  for  a  year. 

Dr.  Appleton  was  interested  in  establishing  the  old  Waterville 
Bank  (1814)  and  was  a  director  many  years. 

In  the  absence  of  a  regular  minister  he  was  frequently  called 
upon  to  read  a  sermon  in  the  little  yellow  school  house  on  the 
Common. 

December  6,  180T,  he  married  Ann  Clarke,  daughter  of  Capt. 
John  Clarke.  Their  children  were,  Louisa,  who  married  Samuel 
Wells,  for  a  few  years  a  lawyer  in  this  town,  afterwards  judge 
and  Governor.  Samuel,  a  well-known  and  much  esteemed  citizen, 
who  died  September  30,  1890,  aged  ^y,  Mary  Jane,  who  married 
Dr.  Samuel  Plaisted  and  Moses  L.,  a  lawyer  of  Bangor. 

A  skilful  physician,  kind  and  courteous  in  manner,  he  was 
always  welcome  by  his  patients  as  a  friend  as  well  as  a  physician. 
He  died  May  5,  1849. 

NATHANIEL  OILMAN. 

Nathl.  Gilman  was  born  in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  February  15,  1779. 
A  natural  born  trader,  self  reliant  and  intelligent,  before  he  was 
of  age  he  freighted  a  vessel  with  goods  and  made  a  trading 
voyage  up  the  Kennebec.  In  1802  he  settled  in  Waterville  and 
began  business  in  a  small  way  where  the  Dunn  block  now  stands. 
His  business  increased  but,  more  ambitious  than  the  other  traders, 
Mr.  Gilman  was  not  satisfied  with  the  local  traffic,  which,  on 
account  of  the  scarcity  of  money,  was  mostly  barter,  the 
exchange  of  dry  goods  and  West  India  groceries,  for  farm  pro- 
duce, lumber  and  fish,  salmon  being  current  at  4  to  6  cents  per 
pound. 

He  extended  his  business  to  the  West  Indies  and  even  to  the 
coast  of  Africa,  thus  laying  the  foundations  of  the  fortune  which 
made  him  a  millionaire  at  the  time  of  his  death. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE;.  12/ 

He  never  sought  or  received  public  office.  Though  not  an  edu- 
cated man  he  was  a  trustee  of  Waterville  College  from  its  begin- 
ning in  1821  to  his  death  in  1859.  Seldom,  indeed,  was  there  a 
Commencement  when  his  tall  form,  slightly  bowed  toward  the  last 
years,  with  his  long,  white  hair  hanging  over  his  shoulders,  did 
not  appear  in  the  procession. 

He  was  the  first  president  of  the  first  bank  established  in 
Waterville. 

Twice  married,  he  had  sixteen  children,  but  the  only  descendant 
now  resident  in  Waterville  is  Charles,  a  child  of  Charles  B.  Gil- 
man,  son  of  Mr.  Oilman's  second  wife,  Joanna  Boyd.  William, 
one  of  his  sons,  was  in  business  with  Samuel  Appleton  in  a  store 
a  little  north  of  the  Common.  Elizabeth,  one  of  the  daughters, 
married  Isaac  Redington.  They  lived  on  the  corner  of  Spring 
and  Elm  streets.  Charlotte,  another  daughter,  married  Sumner 
Percival,  cashier  of  the  Ticonic  and  afterwards  of  the  Peoples' 
Bank.  Chas.  B.  Gilm.an  lived  and  died  here,  engaged  in  no  busi- 
ness except  looking  after  his  property. 

The  last  years  of  Mr.  Oilman's  life  were  spent  in  New  York, 
though  he  usually  passed  the  summers  in  his  house  on  Silver 
street.     He  died  in  1859. 

JAMES   STACKPOLE. 

For  three  generations  the  name  of  James  Stackpole  has  been 
a  prominent  and  honored  one  in  the  annals  of  Waterville.  The 
first  James  was  born  in  Biddeford,  Maine,  1732.  His  immigrant 
ancestor  was  James  Stackpole  of  Sligo,  Ireland,  who  came  over 
in  1680.  He  came  to  Winslow  about  1780  and  at  first  settled 
on  the  east  side  coming  to  this  side  probably,  about  1790. 

He  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  Winslow  from  1785  to  1794. 
In  1787  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  to  settle  the  line  between 
Win.sldw  and  Vassalboro.  In  1796  he  was  town  clerk  and  town 
treasurer  in  1798. 

Like  most  of  the  pioneers  he  was  engaged  in  various  occupa- 
tions. He  carried  on  a  farm  on  which  he  raised  flax  among 
other  things,  which  was  spun  and  woven  into  linen  under  his  own 
roof. 

He  built  the  second  saw  mill  on  the  Redington  and  Getchell 
dam  and  others  afterwards.     He  kept  store  from  1783  to  1787, 


128  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

built  several  vessels  and  was  interested  in  various  other  indus- 
tries. He  was  captain  of  the  first  militia  company.  His  com- 
mission, signed  by  Gov.  John  Hancock  with  the  bold  signature 
familiar  to  us  from  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  is  in  the 
possession  of  his  granddaughter,  Julia  A.  Stackpole. 

Ill  his  diary  he  records  the  arrival  of  the  first  menagerie  that 
visited  Waterville.  "J^^b'  i'  1816.  This  day  is  at  the  village 
an  elephant,  a  lion  and  a  man  without  feet  or  legs  and  only  one 
arm,  playing  on  violin."  The  exhibition  was  in  a  bam  behind 
Plaisted's  Block. 

He  married  Abiel  Hill,  1754,  by  whom  he  had  thirteen  chil- 
dren, of  whom  four  settled  in  Waterville,  Mary,  who  married 
Charles  Dingley,  two  of  whose  grandchildren,  Mrs.  Eunice  Corn- 
forth  and  George  Dingley  are  living  here.  Jotham,  whose 
daughters,  Julia  A.  Stackpole  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Soule,  reside 
here.  James,  born  in  Biddeford,  May  28,  1769,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Dr.  John  McKechnie.  No  descendant  of  his  is  now 
living.  Susie  (Nudd)  Stewart,  a  granddaughter  of  Jotham, 
resides  here.  The  first  James  was  a  man  of  stalwart  constitution. 
November  25, 181 2,  he  writes  "I  am  this  day  eighty  years  old  and 
carried  a  bushel  of  corn  and  grain  on  my  back  to  the  mill."  He 
lived  in  a  small  house  on  Silver  street,  where,  in  1813,  he,  with  his 
son  James,  built  the  larger  house  which  is  still  standing  though 
moved  a  little  from  its  original  site. 

He  died  September  8,  1824,  aged  92  years. 

The  second  James  was  an  enterprising  and  successful  trader, 
lumberman  and  builder  of  vessels.  His  store  stood  a  little  below 
the  west  end  of  the  bridge,  its  site  being  now  covered  by  the 
Lockwood  Mills.     He  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  1822-1823. 

He  had  a  good  reputation  as  a  land  surveyor  and  was  appointed 
in  1 8 10  by  Gov.  Gore  as  a  commissioner  to  lay  out  a  road  from 
Augusta  to  Canada.  He  surveyed  part  of  it  but  the  road  was  not 
built,  though  later  a  State  road  was  made  from  the  Forks  to  the 
Canada  line. 

He  died  September  i,  1852,  aged  83  years. 

The  third  James,  son  of  James  Jr.,  was  born  in  Waterville, 
November  19,  1708.  He  entered  Bowdoin  college,  181 6,  goingf 
thither  then  and  on  several  subsequent  returns  by  canoe  to  Hal- 
lowell.     He   studied  law,   began  practice  in   Clinton  but  soon 


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returned  and  continued  for  many  years  in  active  practice  of  his 
profession. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature,  1859,  was  seven- 
teen years  treasurer  of  Waterville  college  and  director  of  the 
second  Waterville  bank.  A  man  of  strong  will  and  decided 
opinions,  he  was  never  disturbed  at  finding  himself  in  a  minority. 
He  was  a  constant  attendant  at  town  meetings  where  his  vote 
and  voice  were  always  against  what  seemed  to  him  municipal 
extravagance. 

He  married,  October  31,  1825,  Hannah  Chase  of  Fryeburg, 
and  died,  July,  18,  1880,  leaving  no  children. 

CAPT.  JOHN  CLARKE. 

John  Clarke  was  born  in  England,  November,  1741.  He  came 
to  Boston,  1772,  and  there  is  a  tradition  that  he  was  one  of  the 
historic  Boston  Tea  Party  in  1773.  With  his  son  George  he 
came  to  Waterville,  1797,  engaged  in  trade  and  built  several  ves- 
sels, one  of  them,  the  ship  Ticonic,  268  tons,  being  the  2nd  largest 
launched  from  the  Waterville  shipyards. 

He  married  in  Vienna,  Austria,  Maria  Theresa  Laske,  by 
whom  he  had  fifteen  children.  One  of  his  daughters,  Ann 
Clarke,  married  Dr.  Moses  Appleton,  who  is  mentioned  else- 
where. About  1803  Mr.  Clarke  moved  to  Canterbury,  Conn., 
where  he  died,  August  21,  1834,  aged  93.  His  son  George 
remained  in  Waterville  till  his  death,  July  23,  1823.  He  built 
and  occupied,  about  1808,  the  house  on  College  avenue,  now 
known  .hs  Ladies'  Hall. 

JEDIAH   MORRILL. 

Jediah  Morrill  was  born  of  sturdy  Quaker  stock  in  Berwick, 
Maine,  1778,  though  he  did  not  retain  his  connection  with  that 
denomination. 

He  came  here  in  1799  and  his  brother  Josiah  about  the  same 
time.  Josiah  settled  on  what  is  known  as  "the  Neck"  and  several 
farms  in  that  locality  are  still  held  by  his  descendants. 

Jediah,  like  many  of  the  early  settlers,  engaged  in  the  three 
occupations  of  trading,  lumbering  and  farming,  all  of  which  he 
carried  on  with  success. 
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130  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

His  store  was  on  the  west  side  of  Main  street  where  the  Barrell 
store  now  stands.  His  house  was  on  the  east  side  of  Main  street, 
corner  of  Common  street.  The  house  next  adjoining  was  occu- 
pied by  David  Nourse, — both  gone  long  since.  About  1840  he 
built  on  Silver  street  where  he  lived  till  his  death. 

He  soon  became  one  of  the  leading  citizens,  foremost  in  every 
good  work.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Universalist 
church  and  its  most  liberal  supporter,  leaving  at  his  death  a  large 
bequest  for  its  continued  support.  He  was  for  many  years  a 
director  of  the  Ticonic  Bank,  though  he  rarely,  if  ever  held  public 
office. 

He  did  much  to  originate  and  carry  to  completion  the  A.  &  K. 
R.  R.  of  which  he  was  a  director. 

He  married  Miss  Taylor,  a  daughter  of  Col.  Ezra  Taylor,  who 
in  1757  was  an  officer  in  the  British  army. 

His  sister,  Mrs.  Peace  Meader,  was  a  member  of  his  family. 
She  was  the  mother  of  Edw.  G.  Meader  and  Mrs.  Susan  L. 
Hoag.  She  died  1888,  aged  94.  Mr.  Morrill  died  December  12, 
1872,  in  the  96th  year  of  his  age. 

COL.   JABEZ   MATHEWS. 

Jabez  Mathews  was  born  in  Gray,  Maine,  in  1743.  Before 
he  finally  settled  here  he  had  passed  through  the  place.  He  was 
in  Col.  Ward's  division  of  Arnold's  army  on  its  march  up  the 
river  September,  1775.  After  reaching  the  Dead  River  region 
Ccl.  Ward's  command  deserted  Arnold  and  returned  to  Cam- 
bridge. 

Mr.  Mathews  remained  at  Gray  till  1794  when,  with  his  young 
sons,  John  and  Simeon  he  came  to  Winslow.  He  kept  tavern 
for  a  time  in  a  house  on  the  north  side  of  Silver  street,  near 
Main.  It  was  built  by  Dr.  Williams  about  1795  and  was  the 
first  two-storied  house  on  this  side  the  river. 

He  owned  the  lot  now  covered  by  the  Milliken  block,  bought 
of  Dr.  Williams.  He  lived  in  the  small  house  on  the  east  side 
of  Silver  street,  next  below  the  residence  of  W.  B.  Arnold.  Col. 
Mathews  died  in  Waterville,  1828. 

John  Mathews,  son  of  Jabez,  was  born  in  1783.  For  some 
years  he  was  a  trader  in  West  Waterville  in  partnership  with 


HISTORY   OF    WATE:RVILLE.  I3I 

Samuel  Kimball,  whose  sister  he  married;  in  1808  he  bought  a 
large  tract  of  land  on  the  west  side  of  the  ]^Iessalonskee  which 
he  cultivated  till  he  moved  into  the  village.     His  children  were : 

Charlotte,  b.  November  22,  1813,  married  John  S.  Carter. 

Caroline,  b.  February  16,  181 7,  married  Moses  Smart. 

Susan,  b.  February  21,  1819,  married  Johnson  Williams. 

John,  b.  October  3,  1821. 

Chas.  K.,  b.  November  19,  1823,  for  many  years  a  bookseller 
in  this  city,  afterward  with  his  son,  Charles  W.,  in  the  insurance 
business.     He  died  in  August,  1902. 

George,  b.  July  6,  1825. 

Ann,  b,  November  13,  1827,  married  Calvin  Davis. 

Simeon  Mathews,  son  of  Col.  Jabez  Mathews,  was  born  June 
8,  1785. 

In  partnership  with  Nath'l  Gilman  he  carried  on  an  extensive 
business  in  the  store  on  Main  street  next  north  of  the  Common. 
The  kind  and  amount  of  their  business  transactions  is  shown  by 
their  purchase  and  shipping  in  one  year  6,000  bushels  of  wheat 
and  corn  and  20,000  bushels  of  oats,  all  bought  of  the  farmers  in 
this  vicinity.  In  1826  he  built  and  lived  in  till  his  death,  the 
house  on  lower  Silver  street  now  owned  by  G.  F.  Terry.  The 
long  line  of  beautiful  elm  trees  on  the  street  shows  his  generous 
forethought  for  posterity.     His  children  were  : 

William,  born  July  28,  181 8.  The  well  known  scholar,  editor 
and  author,  now  living  in  Boston. 

Edward  E.,  born  June  26,  1822.  Murdered  by  Dr.  V.  P. 
Coolidge  September  30,  1847. 

Ann  E.,  born  August  28,  1824;  now  living  in  Hartland. 

Simeon,  born  May,  1827;  not  living. 

Jesse  R.,  born  September  15,  1830;   not  living. 

Climena,  born  March  i,  1833  ;  not  living.  ' 


DANIEL  MOOR. 
Daniel  Moor  was  born  in  Pembroke,  N.  H.,  February  17,  1770, 
and  came  to  Winslow  1779.  His  father,  Capt.  Daniel  Moor,  was 
with  Gen.  Montgomery's  column  that  marched  to  Canada  by 
Lake  Champlain  to  assist  Arnold  in  his  disastrous  attack  on 
Quebec. 


132  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

His  grandfather,  James  Moor,  came  from  Tyrone  County, 
north  of  Ireland,  1723.  Most  of  his  six  sons  took  part  in  the 
War  of  the  Revolution. 

Daniel  Moor  married  Rebecca  Spring,  1797.  Their  children 
were :  Joseph  March  Moor,  born  1798  ;  a  business  man  of  Ban- 
gor where  he  died,  1866. 

Agnes  Moor,  not  married,  born  October  5,  1800;  died  June 
28,  1881. 

Julia  Ann  Moor,  not  married,  born  March  11,  1802;  died  May 
9,  1875.  She  will  be  remembered  as  a  writer  of  graceful  verses 
which  occasionally  appeared  in  the  local  newspaper. 

William  Moor,  born  March  i,  1804;  died  November  24,  1872. 

Henry  Moor,  born  February  17,  1807.  Received  a  commis- 
sion as  lieutenant  in  U.  S.  navy,  resigned  on  account  of  ill  health, 
went  to  California  where  he  was  killed  by  a  steamboat  explo- 
sion on  the  Sacramento  river,  March,  1853. 

Daniel  Moor,  bom  July  i,  1809. 

W'Vm.an  B.  S.  Moor,  born  November  3,  181 1 ;  died  in  Lynch- 
burg, Va.,  March  11,  1869. 

Rebecca  E.  Moor,  born  September  13,  1814 ;  died  April  i,  1902. 
She  married  Freeman  Tilton  and  later  Rev.  Arthur  Drinkwater. 
By  her  brilliant  intellectual  powers  and  high  character  she  won 
many  friends.  She  was  deeply  interested  in  the  centennial  which 
she  did  not  live  to  see. 

The  first  house  of  the  elder  Daniel  was  opposite  the  steam- 
boat landing.  About  1800  he  built  and  occupied  a  large  house 
which  is  still  standing  at  the  upper  end  of  the  Plains. 

His  sons,  W^illiam  and  Daniel,  under  the  firm  name  of  W.  & 
D.  Moor,  were  for  a  long  period  prominent  among  the  business 
men  as  traders,  as  boatmen  and  more  especially  as  builders  of 
steamboats.  In  this  industry  they  were  easilv  first.  Of  the 
boats  employed  on  the  river  between  Waterville  and  Gardiner 
the  larger  part  were  owned  and  run  by  them.  One  of  their  boats 
was  on  the  Merrimac  and  more  than  one  on  the  rivers  of  Cali- 
fornia. After  the  dissolution  of  partnership  William  went  west 
and  lived  in  Minneapolis  till  his  death. 

Daniel  remained  here  and  devoted  much  time  to  searching  for 
coal  and  gold  which  he  was  confident  existed  in  this  vicinity. 
In  1877  he  invented  a  machine  for  dredging  gold  from  the  bot- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  I33 

torn  of  rivers  which  was  tried  in  Colorado,  British  Columbia  and 
South  America.  Its  success  was  not  notable.  The  descendants 
of  the  first  Daniel  now  residing  here  are :  Frank  A.  Moor,  son 
of  Lieut.  Henry  Moor,  now  living  on  a  farm  on  the  west  side 
of  the  Messalonskee,  and  Mrs.  N.  G.  H.  Pulsifer,  a  daughter  of 
William  Moor. 

NEHEMIAH   GETCHELL. 

Nehemiah  Getchell,  the  youngest  of  seven  brothers,  was  born 
1744.  He  came  to  Vassalboro  about  1770  where  he  carried  on 
trading  and  farming.  He,  together  with  John  Horn,  were 
employed  by  Arnold  in  1775  as  scouts  and  preceded  his  army  on 
his  expedition  against  Quebec,  going  probably  as  far  as  the  Dead 
River  country. 

He  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  Vassalboro  two  years  and 
town  treasurer  one  year.  In  1792  with  his  son-in-law,  Asa 
Redington,  he  moved  to  Winslow,  west  side,  and  together  they 
built  the  first  dam  and  sawmill  on  Ticonic  Falls.  He  continued 
with  Redington  till  1799,  after  that  carrying  on  an  extensive 
lumbering  business,  building  mills,  and  manufacturing  and  ship- 
ping lumber.  Even  at  that  early  date  he  as  well  as  others  oper- 
ated as  far  away  as  Dead  River. 

He  married  January  23,  1768,  Hannah  Bragg  of  Vassalboro, 
by  whom  he  had  eight  children.  Of  these  who  have  any  asso- 
ciation with  Waterville  are  Mary,  v/ho  married  Asa  Redington 
and  died  December  8,  1804;  Nehemiah,  Jr.,  who  married  Philo- 
mela A.  Williams,  widow  of  Dr.  Obadiah  Williams,  May  22., 
1803,  He  lived  in  the  house  on  Elm  street  known  as  the  Dow 
house.  Nehemiah,  Jr.,  had  nine  children,  of  whom  Mrs.  Charles 
C.  Dow,  Horace  Getchell  and  Eldridge  L.  Getchell  lived  and 
died  in  this  town,  all  upright,  useful  and  esteemed  citizens. 

William,  the  fifth  child  of  Nehemiah,  was  born  November  12, 
1786;  married  Eliz.  Burrell  January  22,  1807;  died  February  14, 
1876.  He  lived  on  a  farm  on  the  bank  of  the  Sebasticook,  which 
included  the  beautiful  groves  and  grounds  known  as  Beulah. 

Like  most  of  the  men  of  those  days  he  had  a  large  family — 
seven  sons  and  two  daughters.  Four  of  these  sons  were  actively 
associated  with  the  business  interests  of  Waterville.  Otis  and 
Charles  were  for  many  years  engaged  in  boating,  lumbering  and 
other  enterprises. 


134  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

The  other  sons,  William  and  Walter,  under  the  firm  name  of 
W.  &  W.  Getchell,  by  their  enterprise  and  by  the  extent  of  their 
operations  became  well  known  from  Bath  to  Moosehead  lake. 
William  was  born  February  ii,  1808.  Married  Mary  F.  Crom- 
mett  January  i,  1833.     Died  January  24,  1878. 

Walter  was  born  December  24,  1809.  Married  Annie  E. 
Balcom  December  i,  1833.  ^^  married  Antoinette  Colby,  1847. 
He  is  with  us  to-day,  active,  strong  and  in  good  health  in  his 
ninety-third  year. 

Walter  began  life  as  a  clerk  with  Gilman  &  Mathews,  (Nath'l 
Gilman  and  Simeon  Mathews)  on  the  east  side  of  Main  street, 
a  little  above  the  Common,  When  of  age  he  began  trading  for 
himself  nearly  opposite  Gilman  &  Mathews,  and  about  1832  with 
his  brother  William  began  business  on  the  site  now  11-13  Main 
street.  Their  trade  was  large,  they  built  and  used  several  saw- 
mills, lumbered  extensively,  built  a  plaster  mill  and  three  stern 
v.'heel  boats.  They  accumulated  a  respectable  fortune  but  ill 
luck  came  to  them.  In  1835  their  store  was  burned.  In  1849 
and  again  in  1859  all  their  mills  were  destroyed  by  fire,  and  more 
than  once  great  amounts  of  lumber  were  swept  to  sea  by  floods. 

The  children  of  William  now  living  here  are  Mrs.  Ellen 
(Getchell)  Read  and  Mrs.  Caroline  (Getchell)  Carleton. 

Of  Walter,  Eva  Getchell. 

TIMOTHY   BOUTELLE. 

Although  not  among  the  earliest  settlers,  Timothy  Boutelle 
filled  a  large  place  in  the  history  of  Waterville.  He  was  bom  in 
Leominster,  Mass.,  Nov.  10,  1777.  His  father  served  as  an 
officer  in  one  or  more  campaigns  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

He  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1800,  studied  law  in 
Boston,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1804  and  the  same  year  came 
to  Waterville.  being  the  third  lawyer  in  this  vicinity  and  the 
second  on  this  side  the  river.  Reuben  Kidder  here  and  Thomas 
Rice  in  Winslow  being  his  predecessors.  His  business  soon 
became  very  large.  As  an  advocate  he  was  eminently  successful, 
and  he  uniformly  had  the  confidence  of  the  court  as  a  sound  and 
able  lawyer.  He  was  a  presidential  elector  in  1816.  The  first 
senator  from  Kennebec  county  after  the  separation  of  Maine 
from  IMassachusetts  and  fi.ve  years  subsequently,  and  five  years 
a  member  of  the  Maine  House  of  Representatives. 


HOX.     TT-AIOTHY    E' ;UTEI.T.E. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLH.  I35 

In  1814  he  procured  the  charter  for  the  Waterville  (now 
Ticonic  National)  Bank,  was  its  president  more  than  twenty- 
years  and  a  director  from  its  organization  till  his  death.  He  was 
an  active  and  valuable  tr^^tee  of  Waterville  College  from  1821 
to  1855.  Always  zealous  for  whatever  might  promote  the  pros- 
perity of  the  town  he  was  largely  instrumental  in  building  the 
A.  &  K.  R.  R.,  of  which  he  was  the  first  president.  His  house, 
built  early  in  the  century  was  on  the  corner  of  Elm  and  Temple 
street.  Some  time  in  the  fifties  it  was  moved  further  down 
Temple  street  and  converted  into  shops  and  on  the  old  site  a  new 
one  much  larger  and  more  elegant  was  erected  and  occupied  by 
Edwin  Noyes,  who  married  his  daughter  Helen. 

In  181 1  Mr.  Boutelle  married  Helen,  a  daughter  of  Judge 
Rogers  of  Exeter,  N.  H.  The  children  who  survived  him  were : 
Helen,  who  married  Edwin  Noyes,  a  lawyer,  afterwards  super- 
intendent of  the  Alaine  Central  Railroad  and  N.  R.  Boutelle,  a 
skillful  and  much  esteemed  physician  of  this  city.  November 
8,  1852,  Dr.  Boutelle  married  JNIary,  daughter  of  Prof.  G.  W. 
Keely.  Their  son,  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  is  a  resident  of  Waterville. 
He  is  president  of  the  Ticonic  National  Bank  as  were  his  father 
and  grandfather  before  him. 

Timothy  Boutelle  died  November  12,  1855,  mourned  and 
honored  by  all. 

Moses  and  Aaron  Healey,  brothers,  came  from  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  about  1800.  They  carried  on  quite  a  large  business  as 
manufacturers  of  hats,  one  of  those  industries  which,  like  ship 
building  and  the  distilling  of  gin,  has  ceased  to  exist.  Their 
shop  was  on  the  east  side  of  Water  street,  nearly  opposite  the 
present  Healey  house.  Later  they  had  a  shop  on  Main  street 
below  Boutelle  block.  Moses  died  in  1841  at  the  age  of  63.  His 
two  daughters,  Emily  E.  Healey  and  Pamela  Healey  are  living 
in  the  house  at  the  foot  of  Sherwin  hill  built  by  their  father  in 
1802,  Aaron  married  a  sister  of  Nathaniel  Gilman.  His  grand- 
sons are  wealthy  leather  merchants  of  New  York. 

In  1 79 1  sixty-three  persons  paid  taxes  on  this  side  the  river, 
of  these  a  few  have  been  already  mentioned.  Some,  the  Parkers, 
Soules,  Lows,  Toziers,  Shaws,  and  perhaps  others,  have  repre- 
sentatives now  living  here.  Others  are  names  only,  of  whom  we 
know  nothing  and  still  others  of  whom  we  get  brief  glimpses. 


136  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Deacon  John  Tozier  was  here  in  1770.  He  was  a  large  land- 
holder and  built  the  first  of  the  several  houses  on  the  site  of  the 
Elmwood.  He  was  a  selectman  of  Winslow  1771  and  four  years 
following. 

James  Crommett  built  sawmills  on  the  Messalonskee  in  the 
locality  known  since  as  Crommett's  Mills. 

James  McKim,  whose  house  was  on  the  site  of  the  present 
Lemuel  Dunbar  house. 

Lieut.  Thomas  and  John  McKechnie  were  sons  of  the  old 
surveyor,  Dr.  John  McKechnie.  John  was  a  selectman  of  Wins- 
low  1774  and  three  other  years. 

Solomon  Parker  was  selectman  five  years  beginning  1777. 

John  Cool  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution.  He  lived  on  a 
large  farm  on  the  west  side  of  the  Messalonskee. 

Isaac  Temple  was  a  large  land  owner  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
present  Temple  street.  The  river  shore  at  the  foot  of  Temple 
street  was  known  as  Temple's  landing. 

William  Phillips,  grandfather  of  G.  A.  Phillips,  than  whom 
no  one  has  contributed  more  to  the  growth  and  prosperity  of 
Waterville. 

Moses  Dalton  was  an  active,  useful  citizen  at  a  very  early  date, 
probably  before  1790.  He  seems  to  have  had  some  kind  of  a 
manufacturing  establishment  at  this  end  of  the  bridge  before  the 
Redington  &  Getchell  dam  of  1792,  perhaps  a  woolen  mill. 
Afterward  he  built  a  grist  mill  and  other  works  on  the  same  site 
which  were  carried  away  by  floods.  Later  he  built  the  house 
still  standing,  opposite  the  bridge,  known  as  the  Nudd  house. 
He  also  built  the  first  brick  building,  a  three-story  store  where 
the  Merchants'  Bank  now  stands.  The  ground  proving  too  soft 
to  sustain  the  weight  the  upper  story  had  to  be  removed.  The 
brick  for  it  was  made  at  the  yard  of  Elnathan  Sherwin  at  the  foot 
of  Sherwin  street.  He  was  a  selectman  nine  years,  beginning 
1807. 

Among  those  who  settled  here  before  1800  was  Isaac  Stevens. 
His  ancestors  came  to  Wells,  Maine,  from  Paisley,  Scotland 
He  came  to  Winslow,  west  side,  about  1793.  He  was  a  trader 
carriage  builder  and  carpenter.  About  1795  he  built  and  occu- 
pied the  house  on  Silver  street  known  as  the  Stevens  house,  its 
site  at  the  time  being  covered  with  woods.  He  also  built  in  1836 
one  of  the  brick  stores  of  the  so-called  Ticonic  row. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE,  I37 

There  is  a  tradition  that  Mr.  Stevens  gave  the  name  to  Silver 
street,  so  naming  it  on  account  of  the  "soHd  men"  residing  there. 

Of  his  three  sons  two,  Isaac  and  Augustus,  made  their  homes 
here ;  Hermon  was  a  lawyer  in  Thomaston. 

Isaac  was  a  trader ;  he  was  killed  by  a  railroad  train  at  the 
Temple  street  crossing. 

Augustus  was  a  machinist  and  carpenter. 

Isaac  Stevens,  the  elder,  died  September  23,  1837. 

Col.  Elnathan  Sherwin  was  prominent  in  town  affairs  in  the 
early  days.  He  was  a  selectman  of  Winslow  in  1797  and  the 
four  succeeding  years  and  in  1802,  after  the  separation,  one  of 
the  first  selectmen  of  Waterville.  He  was  for  many  years  repre- 
sentative in  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts.  During  the  war 
of  1812  he  was  colonel  of  the  2nd  Maine  Regiment.  His  house 
was  on  Sherwin  hill.  The  house  built  and  occupied  by  Silas 
Redington  now  stands  on  its  site.  He  jfinally  moved  to  Ohio, 
**the  Ohio,"  as  it  was  commonly  called,  then  more  distant  than 
Oregon  is  to-day.  His  daughter  Caroline  married  Asa  Reding- 
ton, Jr. ;  their  grandson.  Hon.  Asa  Redington  Reed  and  only 
descendant,  is  now  living  in  Waldoboro,  Maine. 

Of  others  here  before  1800  but  scant  mention  can  be  made. 
\^ery  early  Asa  Emerson  built  a  sawmill  on  the  stream  for  a 
long  time  called  by  his  name.  It  was  on  the  site  of  the  Webber 
&  Haviland  foundry. 

One  of  the  election  notices  in  1790  was  posted  by  vote  of  the 
town  on  Emerson's  mill. 

Jonathan  Clark,  a  shoemaker,  lived  near  the  ]\Iain  street  rail- 
road crossing. 

Ephraim  Getchell,  a  colonel  of  a  militia  regiment. 

David  Nourse — his  chief  occupation  was  fishing.  His  house 
was  next  to  Jediah  Morrill's,  corner  Main  and  Common  street. 
Henry,  one  of  his  sons,  was  in  the  hardware  business  with 
Stephen  Stark. 

James  Hasty,  a  trader.  His  store  was  on  the  west  side  of 
Main  street  where  Wardwell's  now  stands.  His  house  was  on  the 
corner  of  Main  and  Center  streets ;  the  house  of  Miss  Florence 
Plaisted  occupies  its  site.     He  died  in  1846. 

Jonathan  Haywood — the  first  harness  maker  in  Waterville. 
His  shop  was  on  the  north  side  of  the  Common,  his  house  on 
Silver  street  next  the  Stevens  house. 


138  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

His  son,  Charles  Haywood,  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  navy 
and  won  distinction  in  the  Mexican  war.  He  died  at  sea. 
Charles,  the  son  of  Lieutenant  Haywood,  is  general  of  the  U.  S. 
Marine  Corps,  the  highest  in  command,  with  headquarters  in 
Washington. 

Salathiel  Penney  was  a  soldier  of  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

Solomon  Parker,  David  Webb  and  Asa  Soule,  residents  of  the 
west  side  were  selectmen  of  W^inslow  for  five,  one  and  five  years 
respectively,  between  1777  and  1802. 

Frederick  Jackins  kept  tavern  in  several  places,  among  others 
in  the  present  Hanscom  house  on  College  avenue.  This  house 
was  built  by  Jackins  probably  before  1800. 

With  a  single  exception  all  those  before  mentioned  were  here 
before  the  division  of  the  town  in  1802.  Those  who  came  soon 
after  seem  entitled  to  be  reckoned  among  the  early  settlers. 

Lemuel  Dunbar  was  born  in  Bridgewater,  Alass.,  1781,  came 
to  Waterville  about  1808.  A  carpenter  by  trade,  in  18 10  he  built 
on  the  corner  of  North  and  Main  street.  The  house  has  been 
removed  and  another  erected  on  the  same  site  by  his  son  Lemuel 
Dunbar.  In  his  carpenter  shop  the  well-known  missionary, 
George  Dana  Boardman,  taught  school  in  1820.  That  shop  has 
been  made  into  a  house  which  is  now  occupied  by  Mr.  A.  M. 
Dunbar.  He  had  nine  children  of  whom  Lemuel  is  the  only  one 
now  living.     He  died  1865. 

Dr.  Wright  seems  to  have  been  the  next  after  Dr.  Appleton 
to  settle  here  as  a  physician.  His  house  was  on  Main  street  next 
north  of  the  store  of  James  Hasty.     He  was  here  as  early  as  1807. 

Dr.  Eigelow  was  here  the  same  year. 

Dr.  Daniel  Cook,  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  his  time 
both  as  a  physician  and  a  man  of  affairs,  came  about  1812.  A 
fuller  notice  of  him  is  given  elsewhere. 

Dr.  Hall  Chase  was  probably  the  next  physician.  He  too  is 
noticed  elsewhere.  He  lived  in,  and  presumably  built  the  house 
on  Silver  street  now  occupied  by  W.  B.  Arnold. 

Capt.  Asa  Faunce  came  about  1800.  He  built  and  occupied  a 
two  storv  house  at  the  foot  of  Main  street  which  was  enlarged 
and  for  a  time  known  as  the  Continental  House.  Some  years 
since  it  was  moved  into  the  valley  near  the  Lockwood  Mills. 


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Capt.  Faunce  was  a  skilful  cabinet  maker  and  specimens  of  his 
work  are  preserved  at  the  house  of  his  granddaughters,  the 
Misses  Bacon  of  Silver  street.  J.  M.  Crooker,  for  nearly  iifty 
ycar?  a  jeweler  and  watch  maker  on  ]\Iain  street,  married  a 
daughter  of  Capt.  Faunce :  another  daughter,  Mrs.  Angeline 
Wheeler,  widow  of  Isaac  Wheeler,  died  in  April,  1902,  at  the  age 
of  ninety-three  years. 

Capt.  William  Pearson  was  born  in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  February 
17,  1784,  and  removed  to  W^aterville,  June,  1816,  a  year  memor- 
able as  the  coldest  summer  on  record.  He  arrived  in  a  snow- 
storm which  covered  the  ground  to  the  depth  of  six  inches. 

He  built  his  first  tannery  on  the  site  now  occupied  by  the  Lock- 
wood  Mills.  In  excavating  for  the  mills  old  vats  were  discov- 
ered containing  sides  of  leather  in  perfect  preservation. 

He  afterward,  with  his  sons,  built  a  much  larger  tannery  on 
the  LMessalonskee,  lately  owned  by  Henry  Ricker. 

His  children  were  Joseph,  Edmund,  James,  William  and  Har- 
riet. Harriet  married  William  Redington,  son  of  Asa  Reding- 
ton.  Of  their  children,  William  is  a  merchant  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, Sophia  resides  with  her  mother  in  the  homestead  on  Silver 
street.     Capt.  Pearson  died  June  29,  1844. 

For  a  long  time  after  its  settlement,  the  population  of  Water- 
ville  was  entirely  American.  As  mentioned  before,  there  were 
no  French  Canadians  here  until  a  single  family  came  in  the  early 
thirties.  A  few  families  of  Irish  came  as  employes  of  the  A.  & 
K.  R.  R.,  about  1847.  There  was  one  family  of  colored  persons 
by  the  name  of  Seco  some  time  in  the  twenties.  The  first  barber 
in  town,  George  Boardman,  was  a  colored  man,  very  much  of 
a  dandy  and  more  elegant  in  his  dress  and  manners  than  many 
of  his  white  fellow  citizens. 

The  early  establishment  of  the  college  and  academy  made 
Waterville  an  educational  center  and  elevated  the  social  and 
moral  character  of  the  town :  its  unsurpassed  water  power  and 
favorable  situation  for  business  attracted  people  from  abroad  and 
so.  with  its  natural  increase,  the  little  hamlet  of  800  souls  (much 
less,  if  only  the  present  territory  of  Waterville  is  included)  a  cen- 
tury ago,  has  grown  into  the  beautiful  city  of  10,000  inhabitants 
whose  centenarv  we  celebrate  to-day. 


CHAPTER  VI. 


RECOLLECTIONS  OF  WATERVILLE  IN  "THE 
OLDEN   TIME." 

By   Professor   William    Mathews,  LL.  D. 

My  recoilections  of  Waterville  in  "the  olden  time"  beefin  with 
the  year  1822,  when,  at  the  age  of  four  years,  I  was  sent  to  school 
to  learn  the  alphabet  and  to  spell  "ab,"  "eb,"  "ib,"  preliminary 
to  wrestling  with  such  words  as  "baker,"  "brier,"  and  "cider." 
My  first  teacher  was  Nancy  Dingley,  who  taught  first  in  a  two- 
story  dwelling-house  on  Main  street,  standing  nearly  where  the 
millinery  shop  of  Misses  Mathews  and  Irish  now  stands,  and 
afterward  in  "the  Powers  house,"  the  next  building  east  of  Dr. 
Hall  Chase's  residence  on  Silver  street,  now  the  home  of  Mr. 
Willard  Arnold.  Miss  Dingley  was  a  very  kind-hearted  teacher, 
giving  us,  if  we  did  tolerably  well,  frequent  "rewards  of  merit," 
as  they  were  called.  Her  sister,  who  also  taught  a  primary 
school,  was  a  rigid  disciplinarian,  and  used  to  chalk  an  X  on 
my  seat,  on  each  side  of  me,  and  tell  me,  on  peril  of  the  rod,  not 
to  move  an  inch  beyond  it. 

In  this  sketch  I  shall  try  to  give  my  recollections  of  Water- 
ville as  it  was  during  the  years  1825-1850,  Until  1830  or  later, 
there  were  no  streets  west  of  Elm,  or  west  of  Main  where  Elm 
street  touches  it.  I  remember  well  when  Spring  street  was 
opened.  It  was  not  till  the  railway  days,  that  there  was  any 
cross  street  from  College  to  Main.  In  1835,  when  I  graduated 
from  Waterville  college,  there  were  but  seven  or  eight  dwelling 
houses  on  College  street,  but  five  or  six  on  Elm,  and  but  sixteen 
or  seventeen  on  Silver,  which  is  a  mile  long.  Front  street 
extended  north  only  to  Temple.     On  what  was  called  "the  Plain," 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE;.  I4I 

now  covered  with  the  houses  and  shops  of  Frenchmen,  there 
was  not  a  building,  except  possibly  at  the  extreme  north  end. 
Between  Spring  street  and  Temple  there  was  a  large  swamp  or 
bog,  filled  with  flags  and  frogs,  which  gave  concerts  nightly.  In 
the  winter  the  boys  utilized  it  for  skating.  It  had  two  outlets ; 
one  at  the  north  end  and  across  Main  street  into  the  Kennebec 
river;  the  other  at  the  south  end,  where  the  water  ran  between 
Silver  street  and  Elm  into  "the  Emerson  stream,"  now  called 
the  Messalonskee.  Trout  were  caught  in  this  stream,  one  of 
which  weighed  four  pounds.  The  hollow  between  north  Silver 
street  and  Front,  now  occupied  by  the  boarding-houses  of  the 
Lockwocd  Mills  corporation,  was  marshy,  and  peopled  by  frogs 
whose  music  rivalled  that  of  "the  Gilman  bog." 

In  my  early  boyhood — in  1826,  or  thereabouts — a  bear  was 
shot  on  "the  mountain,"  as  the  high  ridge  was  called  between 
Summer  street  and  "the  Plain,"  and  my  father  obtained  some 
steaks  from  it  for  the  family  breakfast.  "The  Mountain"  was 
covered  mostly  with  trees  and  bushes,  and  boys  used  to  go  there 
for  blueberries,  which  were  plentiful,  and  for  juicy  "slivers" 
from  the  pine  trees. 

A  favorite  place  for  swimming  in  those  days  was  the  Kennebec 
river  a  little  south  of  the  foot  of  Temple  street.  There  was  a 
fine  sandy  bottom  there,  and  frequently  a  raft  of  pine  boards, 
from  which  one  could  dive  deep  into  the  water.  Baptisms  some- 
times took  place  there,  and  sometimes  near  the  ferry,  lower  down 
the  river,  inside  of  the  island.  In  my  childhood  there  was  no 
bridge  across  the  Kennebec  or  the  Sebasticook  river,  and  I 
remember  that  when  the  Congregation  alist  church  in  Winslow 
was  dedicated — which,  I  think,  must  have  been  before  1826,  the 
citizens  of  Waterville,  who  attended  the  exercises  in  large  num- 
bers, were  transported  across  the  two  rivers  in  ferry  boats.  In 
the  winter,  as  soon  as  the  water  had  frozen  on  the  sides  of  the 
Kennebec,  it  was  customary  to  cut  a  huge  cake  of  ice,  and  swing 
one  end  of  it  to  the  other  side  of  the  rapid  current,  and  thus  form 
a  bridge.  It  must  have  been  as  early  as  1827  that  tollbridges 
were  built  across  the  Kennebec  and  the  Sebasticook.  The  year 
1S32  was  memorable  for  the  greatest  freshet  ever  known  on  the 
Kennebec.  All  the  bridges  on  the  river  were  swept  away  with 
many  mills  and  other  buildings,  and  the  citizens  of  Winslow 


142  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLEJ. 

village  who  lived  near  the  river  were  obliged  to  leave  their  houses 
one  night  and  occupy  higher  land.  The  spectacle  of  the  raging 
flood  at  "the  bay,"  as  it  swept  southward  with  its  prey  of  logs, 
boards,  timber,  and  buildings,  was  picturesque  and  impressive. 

Skating  on  the  frozen  river  was  a  favorite  amusement  in 
winter,  which  the  bitterest  cold  did  not  prevent.  In  the  evenings 
a  huge  slab  fire  was  built  on  the  upper  island  by  the  boys,  by 
whose  light  (for  warmth,  it  might  as  well  have  been  built  on  the 
planet  Uranus  or  Neptune,)  they  raced  along  the  ice,  or  played 
the  game  of  "Chorum,"  till  a  late  hour  in  the  evening. 

The  only  public  conveyances  for  travelers  in  those  days  were 
stage-coaches  and  steamboats,  one  of  which  latter  ran  from  Hal- 
lowell  to  Portland.  A  memorable  epoch  in  the  history  of  Water- 
ville  was  when  the  stern-wheel  steamboat,  Ticonic,  made  her  first 
trip  from  Hallowell  to  Waterville,  where  her  arrival  was  greeted 
by  a  throng  of  citizens  with  the  thunder  of  artillery  and  loud 
huzzas.  All  goods  for  the  Waterville  stores  were  brought  from 
Boston  to  Hallowell  in  ships,  and  thence  in  "long-boats."  Navi- 
gation of  the  Kennebec,  when  the  water  was  low,  was  somewhat 
difficult,  on  account  of  "the  rips,"  the  "six  mile  falls,"  and  other 
rapids,  and  a  dangerous  rock  called  "Old  Coon,"  a  few  miles 
north  of  Augusta,  on  which  the  boat  Eagle,  owned  by  my  father, 
Simeon  Mathews,  and  loaded  with  a  heavy  and  valuable  cargo 
of  goods  for  his  stores  in  Waterville,  Fairfield,  Skowhegan, 
China,  and  East  Vassalborough,  was  once  wrecked. 

The  arrival  of  the  mail-stage  from  Augusta,  which  was  at 
about  eleven  A.  M.  daily,  was  in  my  boyish  days  an  important 
event.  As  it  rounded  the  bend  in  Silver  street,  just  north  of  my 
father's  house,  the  driver  drew  forth  his  long  horn,  and  blew  a 
loud  and  vigorous  blast.  As  the  stage  stopped  at  Levi  Dow's 
tavern,  on  Main  street,  nearly  opposite  the  head  of  Silver,  all  the 
quidnuncs  and  loafers  of  the  village  flocked  there  to  learn  the 
latest  news.  Before  the  steam  car  came,  it  took  from  three  to 
four  days  to  go  by  stage-coach  to  Boston.  The  first  day  one 
could  get  no  farther  than  to  Augusta,  where  he  had  to  stay 
twenty-one  hours  at  a  hotel ;  and,  on  the  next  day  he  could  go 
but  sixty  miles  more,  to  Portland.  There  he  passed  the  night, 
and  on  the  third  day  had  his  choice,  either  to  pay  six  dollars  for 
a  ride  to  Boston  in  the  "Accommodation"  stage,  which  would 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  1 43 

require  two  days,  with  considerable  expense  for  meals  and  lodg- 
ing, or  to  pay  ten  dollars  and  ride  seventeen  hours,  or  from  4 
o'clock,  A.  M.  till  nine  P.  M.,  in  the  mail  stage. 

In  January,  1837,  w^hen  I  was  a  student  in  Harvard  Law 
School,  it  took  me  six  days  in  the  Christmas  vacation  to  go  back 
in  the  mail-stage  from  Waterville  to  Boston.  As  we  left  Gardi- 
ner .1  furious  snow-storm  set  in,  and  at  West  Gardiner  our 
progress  was  completely  blocked,  so  that  the  stage  with  its  occu- 
pants was  compelled  to  tarry  two  days  at  a  small  country  inn, 
^vhich  was  packed  to  overflowing  with  Americans  and  Canadians 
of  all  ages  and  callings.  As  I  had  in  a  capacious  outside  pocket 
of  my  overcoat  a  package,  five  or  six  inches  thick,  of  bank  bills, 
amounting  to  84,000,  entrusted  to  me  by  the  Ticonic  Bank, 
Waterville,  to  be  delivered  to  the  Suffolk  Bank,  Boston, — to 
which  sum  the  Canal  Bank,  of  Portland,  afterward  added  $2,500 
more, — and  as,  having  no  trunk,  T  was  obliged  to  carry  the 
package  all  day,  the  situation  was  not  very  pleasant.  Fortu- 
nately, as  no  one  could  have  a  bed  to  himself,  I  found  a  student 
of  Waterville  college,  whom  I  knew,  among  the  guests,  and  had 
him  and  my  package  for  bed  fellows.  After  two  days'  delay, 
the  mail  bags  were  put  into  a  pung,  and,  sometimes  riding  in  it, 
sometimes  w^ading  through  big  drifts  of  snow,  I  reached  Bruns- 
wick at  night,  and  next  morning  rode  on  the  crust  of  the  deep 
snow,  which  covered  all  the  fences  except  the  tops  of  the  posts, 
to  Portland.  On  the  next  day  a  ride  of  seventeen  hours  in  the 
mail -stage — six  of  them  in  darkness — took  me  to  the  Eastern 
Stage  Tavern,  Ann  St.,  Boston.  Once  on  the  way,  we  were 
upset  in  the  darkness,  and  a  big  fat  man  rolled  dow^n  upon  me 
and  my  bank-bills,  but  fortunately  no  bones  were  broken. 

At  this  time  there  were  three  hotels  in  Waterville, — one  kept 
by  Levi  Dow  on  Main  street,  nearly  opposite  Silver ;  another  on 
the  opposite  side  of  ]\Iain,  a  little  farther  north,  and  the  third  on 
Silver  street,  kept  successively  by  Major  Balcom  and  a  Mr.  Page 
— the  west  half  of  it  being  the  building  next  west  of  Redington's 
furniture  shop.  In  the  dancing-hall  of  this  inn,  public  exhibi- 
tions and  lectures  were  sometimes  given,  and  I  remember  some 
kind  of  a  theatrical  show  there  in  1827  or  1828,  on  the  drop  cur- 
tain of  w^hich  was  depicted  the  Battle  of  Waterloo  fought  twelve 
or  thirteen  vear?  before,  in  which  Napoleon  was  seen  flying  for 


144  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

life  before  the  victorious  squadrons  of  Wellington.  Here  one 
day  Mr.  Wilbur,  of  Newburyport,  Mass.,  gave  an  astronomical 
lecture,  after  which  he  showed  us  a  minature  railway  car,  which 
ran  to  and  fro  on  the  floor,  to  give  us  an  idea  of  a  projected  new 
mode  of  conveyance,  which  was  expected  soon  to  be  a  reality. 
Where  Mr.  Turner's  dry  goods  store  now  stands,  was  a  wide 
carriage  way  to  Mr.  Dow's  stable,  in  the  yard  of  which  all  men- 
ageries and  circuses  were  for  many  years  exhibited — the  latter 
exhibition  always  closing  with  "the  laughable  farce  of  Billy 
Button,"  who,  divesting  himself  of  a  dozen  garments  as  he  rode 
around  the  ring,  was  transformed  from  a  beggar  into  a  Croesus. 

Trade  in  the  early  days  of  Waterville  was  more  profitable  than 
to-day.  Large  prices  were  charged  for  goods,  which  were  usu- 
ally sold  on  long  credits,  and  paid  for  by  farmers  in  country 
produce.  In  the  two  largest  of  my  father's  stores,  of  which  there 
were  six,  the  upper  stories  were  filled  with  great  bins  of  wheat, 
corn,  barley,  oats,  grass  and  clover  seed,  etc,  etc.,  taken  in 
exchange  for  goods,  which  were  shipped  for  sale  to  Boston. 
One  year  he  shipped  40,000  bushels  of  potatoes  to  Boston,  and 
one  season  bought  a  large  quantity  at  six  cents  a  bushel. 

Before  the  Lockw^ood  Mills  were  built,  there  were  four  or  five 
sawmills  near,  perhaps  partly  on  the  site  of  the  southern  part  of 
the  former  mills,  and,  during  the  spring  freshets  many  men  were 
employed  in  catching  for  the  mills,  logs  that  had  been  cut  in  the 
vicinity  of  Moosehead  lake.  Great  rafts  of  boards  were  floated 
from  time  to  time  down  the  Kennebec  to  market,  and  sometimes 
shipped  from  Hallowell  or  Bath  to  Boston.  The  dam  in  the 
river  at  Waterville  in  those  days  extended  only  to  what  was  called 
"Rock  Island,"  on  the  east  side  of  which  was  an  excellent  passage 
way  for  the  fish,  provided  they  did  not  get  caught  in  the  traps 
set  for  them  on  the  falls.  Just  north  of  the  sawmills  there  was 
for  many  years  a  tannery  carried  on  by  William  Pearson,  then  or 
afterward  a  trader  on  Main  street.  There  seems  to  have  been 
at  an  early  period  a  small  tannery  back  of  the  Powers  house 
(already  mentioned)  on  Silver  street;  at  any  rate,  when  a  very 
small  boy  I  got  a  good  ducking  by  walking  into  a  tanpit  there, 
the  layer  of  tan  on  the  surface  of  which  seemed  to  offer  a  sure 
footing. 

It  may  be  worth  while  to  note  a  w^hoiesale  and  economical  way 
of  shodding  families  that  prevailed  in  the  twenties,  before  the 


HISTORY    OF    WATEPVILLE.  145 

era  when  nearly  the  whole  population  of  many  villages  and  even 
cities  were  engaged  in  making  boots  and  shoes.  A  country  cob- 
bler was  installed  and  boarded  in  a  private  house  for  a  week  or 
v/eeks,  which  he  spent  in  making  boots  and  shoes  for  all  the 
members  of  a  family.  As  he  was  sometimes  an  amateur  fiddler, 
and  brought  his  fiddle  with  him,  it  can  be  imagined  what  delight 
"we  boys"  took,  first  in  watching  the  growing  boots  designed 
for  us,  during  the  day,  and  next  in  listening  to  the  strains  of 
"Bonaparte's  March,"  as  they  were  scraped  away  by  the  rural 
Paginini  in  the  evening,  or  in  leading  our  blushing  partners 
through  the  mazes  of  the  merry  dance  in  the  wake  of  our  silver- 
headed  elders. 

Something  here  reminds  me  of  a  hoax  of  which  the  citizens  of 
Waterville  were  made  the  victims  in  1833  or  1834.  A  placard 
headed  "Another  Wonder!"  was  posted  about  the  village, 
announcing  that  Pedro  Batiste,  a  waterman  on  the  Thames,  had 
invented  a  "Life  Preserver,"  by  which  a  person  could  walk  on 
water  for  miles  with  perfect  ease  and  safety.  Like  many  other 
m.arvellous  inventions,  it  was  the  result  of  a  happy  accident,  and 
had  deeply  interested  the  scientists  of  Europe.  The  inventor, 
just  from  England  via  Quebec,  would  exhibit  the  preserver  to 
th('  inhabitants  of  Waterville,  and  walk  across  the  Kennebec  "on 
Monday,  the  28th  day  of  July,  at  2  o'clock,  P.  M.,  at  the  head 
of  the  Falls."  To  exclude  any  suspicion  of  deception,  the  inven- 
tion would  be  explained,  and  any  spectator  would  be  able  "to 
perform  the  experiment  himself,  and  test  the  invention  to  his 
satisfaction."  At  the  appointed  hour,  hundreds  of  persons  from 
all  parts  of  the  town  flocked  to  the  banks  of  the  Kennebec  to  wit- 
ness the  startling  exhibition ;  but  no  Pedro  Batiste  appeared. 
A  half  hour — three-quarters — an  hour  passed,  with  the  same 
result,  when  suspicion  ripened  into  conviction  that  the  promised 
exhibition  was  a  hoax.  Great  was  the  wrath  that  ensued,  and 
loud  the  imprecations ;  but  no  one  suspected  the  perpetrator — 
F.  Burt  Wells — who,  all  the  while  laughing  in  his  sleeve,  was 
outwardly  the  most  indignant  man  in  the  assemblage. 

It  will  surprise  many  persons  to  learn  that  ship  building  was 
once  a  branch  of  business  in  Waterville.  Before  1830,  and  per- 
haps later,  vessels  were  built  in  the  early  spring  on  the  bank  of 

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146  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

the  Kennebec,  near  the  foot  of  Shervvin  hill — just  south  of  the 
island.  They  were  built  at  that  time  in  order  to  take  advantage 
of  the  spring  freshet  in  the  river  for  launching  them. 

Before  the  Augusta  dam  was  built,  and  when  the  Kennebec 
was  comparatively  free  from  sawdust,  great  quantities  of  salmon, 
shad,  alewives,  and  other  fish  were  caught  in  its  waters.  My 
father  had  a  trap  on  the  east  side  of  Ticonic  Falls,  which  he 
visited  twice  daily,  and  from  which  he  took  salmon  weighing 
from  ten  to  twenty  or  thirty  pounds.  It  is  difficult  to  tell  a  big 
fish  story  without  exaggerating,  but,  if  I  can  trust  my  memory, 
he  caught  one  salmon  at  least,  that  weighed  forty  pounds.  Shad 
and  alewives  were  so  plentiful  as  to  command  a  very  low  price. 
The  early  settlers  of  this  region  lived  largely  on  the  fish  they 
caught.  The  Sebasticook  river  was  one  of  the  best  fishing 
grounds  of  the  State — a  fact  of  which  the  Indians  had  been  well 
aware. 

Waterville,  in  the  days  of  my  boyhood,  had  three  fine  military 
companies.  First,  there  was  the  Light  Infantry,  commanded 
successively  by  William  Phillips,  a  trader  on  Main  street,  father 
of  the  late  Alfred  Phillips, — by  William  Hume,  a  shoemaker 
living  in  the  brick  building  next  north  of  the  present  Unitarian 
church  grounds,  and  by  Josiah  Crosby,  then,  I  think,  a  saddle 
and  harness  maker.  Second,  there  was  a  large  artillery  com- 
pany, commanded  for  a  time  by  Shubael  jMarston,  a  trader, 
w^hich  had  its  quarters  on  Temple  street,  a  little  east  of  Front, 
where  in  a  small  house  it  had  two  brass  cannon.  Third,  there 
w^as  the  Militia,  a  large  company  with  no  uniform  but  a  bayonet- 
beh  and  knapsack, — only  its  officers  wearing  plumed  hats  and 
epaulettes — which,  for  this  reason,  w^as  jeeringly  called  "The 
String  Beans."  "Hurrah  for  the  Stringbeans !"  was  the  con- 
temptuous cry  of  the  street  boys  that  heralded  its  march,  wdio, 
in  general,  preferred  to  swarm  about  the  other  more  showy  com- 
panies, which  were  in  uniform,  and  could  boast  of  finer  bands  of 
music.  The  annual  muster  of  these  companies  and  those  of 
adjoining  towns  was  a  great  occasion — a  red-letter  day  for  young 
and  old,  who  flocked  early  to  the  fields  of  Mars  from  near  and 
far.  Peddlers  of  all  kinds  of  edibles  and  potables, — notably  of 
gingerbread,  cider,  and  rum,  and  of  new  inventions  and  "gim- 
cracks," — had  booths  adjoining  the  muster-field,  or  carts  upon  it. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  I47 

where,  with  loud  and  vehement  harangues  upon  the  matchless 
virtues  of  their  vendibles,  they  exchanged  them  for  Spanish  four 
pences,  ninepences,  and  quarters.  The  military  exercises  closed 
with  a  sham  fight,  in  which  all  the  troops  exhibited  to  crowds  of 
admiring  spectators  their  prowess  and  military  skill ;  after  which 
the  soldiers  and  spectators  who  were  able  to  stand  up  and  to 
avoid  a  zigzag  step,  in  which  there  was  much  motion  but  little 
progress,  dispersed  to  their  homes.  One  of  the  most  successful 
of  these  musters  was  held  on  "the  Plain." 

In  those  days  persons  living  in  cities  and  villages  did  not  deem 
it  necessary  to  go  to  the  seashore  or  the  mountains  for  rest  and 
recreation  in  the  summer.  Sometimes  a  party  of  the  citizens  of 
Waterville,  however,  would  fit  up  a  long-boat  with  an  awning, 
beds,  chairs,  etc.,  and  take  a  trip  to  the  mouth  of  the  Kennebec, 
where  they  would  spend  a  v.-eek  in  loafing,  story-telling,  dancing 
and  mackerel-catching.  Usually  they  took  a  fiddler  with  them, 
who  scraped  away  while  they  went  through  the  mazes  of  the 
"\^irginia  Reel"  or  other  contra-dance  that  was  popular  in  those 
days.  Tea  parties,  dance  parties,  and  balls  were  frequent  in 
those  days,  and  I  remember  that  in  1825  the  Fourth  of  July  was 
celebrated  by  a  tea  party  at  four  o'clock  P.  ]\I.,  in  a  woolen  mill 
and  on  the  grounds  that  fronted  it,  on  the  bank  of  the  ]\Iessalon- 
skee,  a  little  below  the  spot  where  the  public  waterworks  now  are. 

Alcoholic  liquors  were  sold  in  those  ante-Xeal  Dow  days  in 
nearly  all  the  stores  in  Waterville,  and  there  were  comparatively 
few  abstainers.  Punctually,  as  the  clock  struck  eleven  A.  M.  and 
four  P.  I\I.,  the  dry-throated  citizens  thronged  to  the  barrooms 
and  stores,  and  quenched  their  thirst  with  "toddies" — brandy, 
gin,  or  New  England  rum,  which  in  those  days  were  generally 
pure,  and  not  ''warranted  to  kill  at  forty  paces."  In  the  dwell- 
ing-houses of  the  well-to-do  citizens,  side-boards,  with  bottles 
of  brandy,  gin,  and  wine  for  guests  and  callers,  were  common 
pieces  of  furniture. 

It  is  remarkable  that  there  was  a  circulating  library  in  Water- 
ville as  early  as  1827,  if  not  earlier.  It  w^as  kept  by  Edward  ( ?) 
Savage,  in  his  bookstore,  nearly  where  Mr.  Dorr's  drug-store 
now  stands.  Thanks  to  ]\Ir.  Savage,  whose  name  belied  his  call- 
ing, I  was  enabled  by  his  enterprise  to  cheat  the  weariness  and 
monotony  of  many  a  school  hour  by  the  aid  of  the  charming 
pages  of  DeFoe,  Jane  Porter,  and  Dean  Swift. 


148  HISTORY    OF    WATFRVIL.LE. 

Till  1826,  when  the  Baptist  church  was  dedicated,  there  was 
but  one  meeting-house  in  the  village,  and  that — an  unpainted 
building  resting  on  blocks,  afterwards  converted,  with  some 
changes,  into  a  town  hall, — stood  about  in  the  center  of  the  Com- 
mon, fronting  south.  Here  Christians  of  different  denomina- 
tions worshipped;  but  usually  it  was  occupied  by  the  Baptists, 
Jeremiah  Chaplin,  D.  D.,  president  of  Waterville  college,  being 
the  preacher.  He  was  a  tall,  spare  man,  very  grave  in  look  and 
utterance ;  and  well  do  I  remember  how  weary  at  the  age  of  six 
or  seven  I  used  to  be,  when,  to  my  inexpressible  relief,  he  finished 
his  sixthly,  seventhly,  or  eighthly,  and  closed  the  big  quarto 
Bible,  and — as  it  seemed  to  me — his  protracted  and  ponderous 
discourse.  In  the  afternoon,  the  Universalists,  whose  meeting- 
house on  Silver  street  was  dedicated  in  February,  1832,  some- 
times occupied  the  town  meeting-house,  and  listened  to  a  dis- 
course by  Rev.  William  A.  Drew,  of  Augusta.  On  one  Sunday 
morning.  Dr.  Chaplin,  whose  general  gravity  did  not  forbid  his 
uttering  at  times  a  dry  and  pungent  witticisim,  made  the  follow- 
ing announcement :  "I  am  requested  to  give  notice  that  the  Rev. 
William  A.  Drew,  of  Augusta,  will  preach  in  this  house  this 
afternoon,  at  four  o'clock.  The  Gospel  will  be  preached  in  the 
schoolhouse,  at  the  same  hour."  The  schoolhouse  of  which  the 
Doctor  spoke,  and  in  which  the  unadulterated  Gospel  was  to  be 
preached  by  himself,  was  that  of  the  "lower  district,"  a  one-story 
}cllow  building  back  of  the  meeting-house  on  Front  street,  that  of 
the  upper  district,  a  small  brick  building,  being  located  on  College 
street,  just  north  of  the  spot  on  which  Daniel  R.  Wing  long  after- 
ward built  his  house.  That  yellow  schoolhouse — shall  I  ever 
forget  it,  or  the  scenes  that  I  once  witnessed  therein  ?  Shall  I — 
can  I — forget  the  great  open  fireplace,  with  its  blazing  logs, 
before  which,  under  various  pretexts,  such  as  the  necessity  of 
thawing  our  frozen  ink,  etc.,  we  lingered  so  long  on  frosty  morn- 
ings,— between  which  and  the  hot  stove  class  after  class  stood 
up  to  read  or  spell,  at  the  imminent  risk  of  its  flanks  being 
scorched,  to  avoid  which  it  crooked  into  a  shape  which  the  peda- 
gogue vainly  tried  to  straighten  ?  Shall  I  ever  forget  how,  when 
I  was  one  day  penning  a  fly  in  a  hollow  cut  in  the  desk,  or  was 
following  with  breathless  interest  the  fortunes  of  Robinson 
Crusoe,  or  Gulliver,  or  Alonzo  and  Melissa,  as  narrated  in  a  book 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  1 49 

kept  "on  the  sly"  under  the  desk,  I  suddenly  found  myself  seized 
by  "the  master"  by  the  jacket  collar,  and  whisked  unceremoni- 
ously into  the  centre  of  the  room?  Shall  I  forget  the  exciting 
scene  when  one  day  "Gus  D — ,"  who  had  been  a  sailor,  was 
ordered  on  account  of  some  misdemeanor  to  come  to  the  master's 
desk,  and  thereupon  flew  to  the  fireplace,  and,  seizing  the  fire- 
shovel,  held  it  up  in  the  air  by  its  long  iron  handle  in  a  threaten- 
ing manner,  and,  when  asked  by  the  master,  "What  are  you  going 
to  do  with  that?"  replied:  "Knock  your  brains  out,  if  you  come 
near  me !" — and,  again,  how  the  insurgent  was  suddenly  dis- 
armed and  compelled  to  submit  to  a  severe  feruling?  Shall  I 
forget  the  spelling-match  on  every  Saturday,  which  we  all 
enjoyed  so  much,  when  the  whole  school  was  divided  into  two 
contesting  parties,  ranged  on  opposite  side  of  the  schoolhouse, 
and  the  correct  spelling  by  a  boy  or  girl  on  our  side,  of  a  w^ord 
which  had  been  mispelled  by  one  on  the  other,  was  hailed  with 
an  exultation  equal  to  that  at  a  point  scored  at  baseball  to-day? 
Jonathan  Heywood,  our  master,  who  was  a  strict  disciplinarian, 
was  afterward  a  physician  in  Alethuen,  Mass.,  where  he  lived  to 
a  good  old  age — doubtless  owing,  in  part,  to  the  vigorous  athletic 
exercise  he  had  had  in  administering  the  "oil  of  birch"  to  his 
refractory  pupils  at  Waterville. 

The  Waterville  college  commencement  differed  for  many  years 
materially  from  that  of  Colby.  It  was  the  great,  notable  event 
of  the  year,  and  took  place  in  August.  The  citizens  were  very 
hospitable  to  visitors,  and  for  weeks  preceding  the  event  the  ques- 
tion most  frequently  put  by  the  ladies  of  the  village  to  one 
another  was :  "Are  you  expecting  much  company  at  commence- 
ment ?"  The  sheriff  of  the  county  always  attended  the  exercises, 
and  magnified  his  office.  With  a  cockade  on  his  hat,  and  a  red 
sash  about  his  waist,  he  accompanied  the  procession  from  the 
college  to  the  church  on  horseback, — sat  on  the  stage  on  the  right 
hand  of  the  Governor  of  the  State, — and,  with  his  official  wand, 
a  long  white  rod  or  pole,  announced  the  opening  of  the  exercises 
by  rapping  loudly  on  the  floor,  and  crying:  "O-r-d-e-r!"  This 
was  repeated,  whenever  there  was  any  loud  talking  or  other  dis- 
turbance in  the  house.  The  stage  was  large  and  high,  reaching 
from  the  north  to  the  south  gallery ;  on  one  side  sat  the  trustees 
and  faculty  of  the  college;  on  the  other,  distinguished  guests 


150  HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLE. 

and  visitors ;  between  them,  in  front  of  the  pulpit,  sat  the  Gov- 
ernor of  Maine.  The  first  page  of  the  large  quarto  order  of 
exercises  "astonished  the  natives"  with  a  formidable  array  of 
Latin  words  "of  learned  length  and  thundering  sound."  In  front 
of  the  church,  and  on  both  sides  of  Elm  street,  for  a  little  dis- 
tance, were  booths,  stands,  and  wagons,  where  refreshments, 
candies,  et  id  omnc^  were  sold  during  the  day. 

Commencement  day  in  1840  was  memorable  for  a  political 
discussion  in  the  Baptist  church  between  George  Evans,  Whig 
Representative  in  Congress  from  Alaine,  and  Robert  Rantoul,  Jr., 
of  Massachusetts,  a  "Jackson  Democrat,"  afterward  Representa- 
tive in  Congress  from  that  state.  The  discussion  was  a  vigorous 
one,  and  lasted  from  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  till  eleven  at 
night. 

Political  contests  in  the  years  1820- 1850  were  often  decidedly 
warm  in  Waterville.  While  the  Whigs  or  National  Republicans 
usually  elected  their  candidates  for  office,  the  victory  was  seldom 
"a  walk-over,"  and  the  Democrats  often  triumphed.  A  notable 
bone  of  contention  for  some  years  was  the  proposed  annexation 
of  Dearborn,  or  part  of  that  town,  which  was  peopled  almost 
wholly  by  Democrats,  to  Waterville,  whereby  the  leaders  of  that 
party  expected  to  turn  the  political  scale  in  the  latter  place  for- 
ever in  their  favor.  After  a  stubborn  contest,  the  measure  was 
carried  through  the  Legislature,  nobody  then  dreaming  of  an 
Oakland. 

The  somewhat  invidious  name  of  Silver  street,  which  was 
chosen  by  some  of  the  richest  men  of  the  town,  who  dwelt  on^that 
street,  was  fought  against  in  town  meeting  by  other  citizens,  who 
were  outvoted. 

Waterville  has  always  had  a  goodly  number  of  lawyers,  two 
of  whom  became  members  of  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  of 
Maine,  viz :  Asa  Redington  and  Samuel  Wells — the  latter  being 
also  elected  Governor.  It  is  not  generally  known  that  among 
the  members  of  the  bar  in  Waterville  early  in  the  nineteenth 
century  was  Eleazar  Wheelock  Ripley,  born  in  Hanover,  N.  H. 
in  1782,  who  graduated  at  Dartmouth  college  in  1800,  and  died 
in  West  Feliciana,  Louisiana,  in  1839.  In  1810  he  was  speaker 
of  the  Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives,  later  a  senator, 
and,  in  the  second  war  with  Great  Britain,  rose  in  the  armv  from 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILL^.  H  I5I 

the  rank  of  lieutenant  to  that  of  brigadier-general,  and  finally 
to  that  of  major-general.  He  fought  with  great  gallantry  in  the 
bloody  battles  of  Chippewa  and  Niagara,  and  was  known  as  "the 
hero  of  Lundy's  Lane,"  where  was  one  of  the  most  desperate 
fights  of  the  war.  Another  early  lawyer  of  Waterville  was  Rus- 
sell Freeman,  who  appears  to  have  been  the  wit  of  the  bar.  It 
used  to  be  told  that  once  when  he  was  replying  in  some  court  to 
one  of  his  brethren  whose  eyes  were  inflamed  by  frequent  pota- 
tions of  aqua  fitae,  and  who  had  quoted  the  legal  maxim.  Id 
certiiin  est  quod  certnm  reddi  potest,  he  retorted,  with  a  signifi- 
cant gesture:  "Yes,  your  honor,  id  certuin  est  quod  redd-i!'" 
Once  he  was  dining  in  Augusta  with  Ruel  Williams  and  other 
luminaries  of  the  bar,  when,  as  the  meal  was  finished,  it  was 
proposed  that  toasts  be  given.  The  other  attorneys  gave  suc- 
cessively as  toasts  the  colleges  at  which  they  had  been  educated. 
When  the  turn  of  Air.  Freeman  came,  who,  like  ]\Ir.  Williams, 
was  not  a  college  graduate,  he  responded  thus :  "Gentlemen,  I 
give  to  you,  as  a  toast,  no  college — not  Harvard,  Dartmouth, 
Brown,  or  Yale — but  the  University  from  which  were  graduated 
George  Washington,  Benjamin  Franklin,  David  Rittenhouse, 
Ruel  Williams,  and  Rnss  Freeman." 

V"^aterville  never  could  boast  of  many  wealthy  citizens,  even 
in  the  days  when  a  man  possessing  ten  thousand  dollars  was 
regarded  as  "independent,"  and  one  possessing  twenty-five  or 
thirtv  thousand  was  pronounced  rich.  The  citizens  of  the  town 
were  generally  prudent  and  thrifty,  spending  less  than  they 
earned,  rarely  tempted  into  financial  speculations,  and  accumu- 
lating their  moderate  fortunes  by  patient  industry  and  safe 
investments.  The  few  persons  who  flew  their  financial  kites 
higri  were  looked  upon  with  suspicion,  and  usually  came  to  grief. 
Nathaniel  Gilman,  for  many  years  the  richest  man  in  the  town, 
made  the  bulk  of  his  fortune  in  the  leather  business  in  New  York 
City.  He  once  told  me  that  he  had  m.ade  thirty  thousand  dollars, 
by  the  rise  in  the  value  of  his  stock  of  leather,  of  two  cents  on 
a  pound.  Among  the  natives  of  W^aterville  who  became  wealthy 
after  leaving  Waterville,  were  Mr.  Gilman's  sons,  W^atson, 
Nathaniel,  and  George— the  last  of  whom,  at  his  recent  death  in 
Bridgeport,  Conn.,  left  an  estate  of  two  or  more  millions,— and 
William  and  Aaron  Healey.     But  richer  far  than  any  of  these— 


152  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE:. 

the  richest  native  of  Waterville,  and  one  of  the  longest-hved, 
was  the  multi-milHonaire,  Daniel  Wells,  who,  born  July  16,  1808, 
on  the  west  bank  of  the  Messalonskee,  close  by  the  spot  where 
the  new  dam  has  been  built,  and  where  his  father  had  a  fulling 
mill,  died  on  March  18,  1900,  in  his  ninety-fourth  year,  in  Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin.  He  was  the  wealthiest  man  in  that  state, 
his  estate  being  estimated  to  amount  from  fifteen  to  twenty-five 
millions  of  dollars. 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  Sylvanus  Cobb,  author  of  "The 
King's  Talisman,"  "The  Patriot  Cruiser,"  "Ben  Hamed,"  and 
many  other  popular  novelettes,  and  for  a  long  time  a  leading 
story-writer  for  the  New  York  "Ledger,"  was  a  native  of  Water- 
ville. He  was  the  son  of  Sylvanus  Cobb,  a  well-known  Univer- 
salist  clergyman, — a  brother  of  the  noted  artists,  Cyrus  and 
Darius  Cobb — and  was  born  in  1S23. 

To  conclude  these  imperfect  recollections — Waterville  in  its 
youth  was  a  pretty  village,  and  its  attractions  have  increased  with 
each  successive  year.  Never  advancing  by  leaps  and  bounds, 
it  has  had  a  steady  and  healthful  growth,  and  its  citizens  have 
taken  a  pride  in  making  it  attractive  by  the  beauty  and  tidiness 
of  their  dwellings.  Situated  in  the  heart  of  the  State,  near  the 
junction  of  three  beautiful  rivers ;  with  lakes  on  every  side  of  it ; 
possessing  fine  water-powers,  abundant  railway  communication, 
and  plenty  of  excellent  diversified  land  for  buildings ;  with  its 
streets  shaded  by  a  multitude  of  fine  trees ;  enjoying  in  its  col- 
lege, classical  institute,  and  graded  public  schools,  rare  educa- 
tional facilities  ;  it  ofl^ers  to  persons  seeking  a  pleasant,  healthful, 
and  attractive  place  of  residence,  many  advantages.  Till  the 
present  summer  it  has  lacked  a  town  hall  in  keeping  with  its  other 
improvements ;  but  now  an  elegant  and  commodious  brick  build- 
ing for  this  purpose  has  been  completed.  There  is  no  reason  to 
doubt  that  the  city,  already  the  most  beautiful  in  the  State  of 
Maine,  will  continue  to  grow  in  attraction,  till,  at  a  not  far  dis- 
tant day  one  may  truthfully  address  it  in  the  proud  language  of 
the  Roman  poet,  Catullus,  to  Verona  : 

"Qui  te  viderit. 
Et  non  amarit  protinus 

Amore  perditissimo, 
Is,  credo,   seipsum  non  aniat, 
Caretque  amandi  sensibus, 

Et  odit  omnes  ^ratias." 


CHAPTER   VII. 


THE  MILITARY  HISTORY  OF  WATERVILLE* 

Its  record  in  the  Revolution— the  War  of  1812— The  Aroostook  War— 
the  Mexican,  Spanish  and  PhiHppine  Wars,  with  rosters  of  soldiers 
who  have  served  in  each,  military  records,  etc. — also  sketch  of  the 
Waterville  Soldiers'  Monument  Association  and  of  W.  S.  Heath  Post, 
No.  14,  Department  of  Maine.  G.  A.  R. 

By  Brevet.  Brig.  General  Isaac  Sparrow  Bangs. 

Of  all  the  magnificent  pageants  this  cotmtry  has  ever  seen, 
from  its  settlement  to  the  present  year,  none  m  point  of  interest 
can  compare  to  the  grand  review  of  the  armies  of  the  Union  on 
May  23  and  24,  1865. 

The  most  causeless,  crtiel,  bloody  war  in  the  world's  history 
had  jtist  been  brought  to  a  triumphant  close  by  the  surrender  of 
the  army  of  Northern  Virginia,  under  General  Robert  E.  Lee,  to 
General  Grant,  at  Appomattox,  April  9th,  and  the  surrender  of 
Johnston's  and  all  confederate  armies  east  of  the  Mississippi  by 
the  military  convention  of  April  26th. 

The  identical  flag  that  was  lowered  from  the  flagstaff  of  Fort 
Sumter  by  Major  Robert  Anderson  April  14,  1861,  was  floating 
over  Fort  Sumter  again,  having  been  raised  by  Brevet  Major 
General  Robert  Anderson  on  the  14th  of  April,  1865 !  the  fourth 
anniversary  to  commemorate  in  the  most  fitting  manner  the 
restoration  of  national  authority  on  the  spot  where  the  great 
rebellion  was  first  inaugurated. 

On  the  evening  of  that  same  day.  President  Lincoln  had  fallen 
a  victim  to  the  hate  engendered  by  the  war,  by  the  bullet  of  John 
Wilker.  Booth,  at  Ford's  theater  in  Washington. 

*  Copyright  September,  1902,  by  Dennis  M.  Bangs. 


154  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

May  1 8th,  by  Special  Orders  No.  239,  war  department,  adju- 
tant general's  office,  a  grand  review  by  General  Grant,  President 
Johnson  and  cabinet,  was  ordered  of  all  the  armies  then  near 
Washington ;  to  take  place  ]\Iay  23rd  and  24th.  These  great 
armies  had  bivouacked  in  the  streets  of  the  capital  the  previous 
night,  and  when  the  hour  arrived,  the  army  of  the  Potomac  led 
the  way  around  the  capitol,  down  Pennsylvania  avenue,  out  past 
the  reviewing  stand  at  the  White  House;  passing  for  the  last 
time  as  regimental  organizations  before  their  beloved  com- 
mander. 

With  tattered  flags,  faded  uniforms,  marks  of  battle  and 
exposure ;  but  keen-eyed,  alert,  bronzed,  they  swung  along  with 
elastic  stride  in  close  column  by  division ;  cheered  by  thousands 
who  gloried  in  their  loyalty,  their  victories  and  final  triumph. 

These  were  the  men  of  Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Gettysburg, 
the  Wilderness  and  Spottsylvania,  whose  undaunted  courage  had 
stood  between  their  country  and  ruin,  between  their  flag  and  dis- 
honor, for  four  long  years ; — the  men  whose  exultant  faces  were 
set  toward  home. 

The  24th  brought  Sherman's  splendid  army,  who  in  a  cam- 
paign of  two  thousand  miles  of  marching  and  fighting  had  cut 
the  confederacy  in  twain,  and  joined  Grant  at  the  Nation's  cap- 
ital. Sixty-five  thousand  bronzed  veterans  who  had  won  each 
a  blazonry  for  his  "shield  without  device"  at  Chattanooga,  Dal- 
ton.  Resaca,  Kenesaw,  or  Atlanta, — in  the  army  of  the  Tennessee 
under  Howard, — in  the  army  of  Georgia  under  Slocum, — in  the 
army  of  the  Ohio  under  Schofield,  or  in  the  cavalry  division  with 
Kilpatrick. 

For  two  entire  days  these  marching  hosts  filled  Washington's 
streets  •  serried  ranks  of  glistening  steel  with  touches  of  color  in 
the  tattered  flags  they  had  carried  for  four  long  years  and  loved 
so  well ;  martial  music,  songs,  shouts  of  welcome,  and  ringing 
cheers  filled  the  air  with  sound ;  while  the  hearts  of  the  welcom- 
ing thousands  were  overflowing  with  gladness  that  peace  had 
come  at  last  and  "come  to  stay." 

The  efifect  of  this  moving  military  pageant  must  be  lost,  except 
as  an  historical  incident,  to  the  generation  born  since  the  war; 
but  tc  those  then  living  it  bore  tremendous  significance.  No  one 
can  ever  know,  who  was  not  then  living,  the  tumultuous  joy  of 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  jcc 

the  people  over  the  close  of  the  war  and  the  return  of  the  men 
who  had  saved  the  country. 

It  may  well  be  asked  by  those  who  do  not  know  :  "If  the  War 
of  the  Rebellion  ended  with  so  much  rejoicing,  bv  what  fanfare 
was  it  inaugurated  ?" 

We  will  turn  back  the  pages  of  history  for  four  years  and  stand 
in  the  streets  of  the  village  of  Waterville,  the  embryo  city  of 
to-day,  just  forty-one  years  ago.  It  is  not  the  purpose  of  this 
article  to  describe  the  physical  changes  that  man  and  "God  hath 
wrought."  Indeed,  these  have  been  so  insidious,  so  gradual  and 
at  the  same  time  so  radical,  that  old  things  have  become  new 
Even  the  people  are  new  !  One  wonders  where  the  old  buildings 
are,  since  one  misses  them,— and  the  old  faces;  just  like  any 
child  who  puzzles  his  wits  to  know  where  all  the  m'oons  go. 

It  is  impossible  not  to  remember  that  the  enduring  quality  of 
Its  buildings  was  then  represented  by  a  few  unpretentious  brick 
stores:  the  Ticonic  row,  Getchell  block,  the  Noyes  fPhcenix) 
block,  Morrill,  and  the  one  "where  David  Webb  traded,"  and 
just  replaced  by  the  Flood  block.  As  for  the  others,  they  were 
more  or  less  pretentious  frames,  and  have  been  moved-no  one 
can  remember  zvhen  or  hozv,  and  handsome  brick  blocks  fill  their 
places.  The  old  stores  can  be  found  out  on  back  streets  meta- 
morphosed into  dwellings  with  front  piazzas,  bow  windows,  and 
new  paint,— "spruced  up"  like  a  widower  with  a  second  wife. 

The  popular  resorts  in  the  late  50s  and  the  60s  were  "the  hard- 
ware store,"  John  Caffrey's,  and  the  gymnasium,  which  stood  on 
the  site  of  the  post  office  block.     At  the  gymnasium,  the  evening 
classes  were  popular  and  comprised    representative  men  of   the 
town;    life-long    friends  who   had  "Lived    and   loved    together 
through  many  a  changing  year,"  and  stood  shoulder  to  shoulder 
m  support  of  the  government  and  in  sympathy  with  the  soldier, 
through  all  the  weary  days  of  the  tedious  months,  of  the  terrible 
years  of  the  war.     Among  these  were  Edwin  Noves,  Dr.  Bou- 
telle,    Charles    M.    Morse,    Jones    Elden,  Nathaniel    and    John 
Meader,   C.  R.  McFadden,  John  and  William  Caffrey,  W.  B. 
Arnold,  Joshua  Nye,  George  Robinson,  G.  A.  Phillips,  J.  P.  Hill, 
William  Blunt,  A.  A.  Plaisted,  Simeon  Keith,  E.  G.  Meader  and 
I.  S.  Bangs ;  names  to  conjure  with  ;  of  men  who  controlled  pub- 
lic sentiment  and    stood  for   law  and    order  always  and  every- 
where. 


156  HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLE. 

A  history  of  "Watervllle  in  the  war"  would  be  incomplete 
without  mentioning  a  few  of  the  prominent  older  men : 

Hon.  D.  L.  Milliken,  Gen.  Franklin  Smith,  F.  D.  Haviland, 
Major  Samuel  Appleton,  Dr.  D.  N.  Sheldon.  Dr.  J.  T.  Champlin, 
John  Ware,  Julius  Alden,  William  and  Walter  Getchell,  R.  B. 
Dunn,  John  Webber,  Prof.  George  Keeley, — noble  men  of  wise 
counsels  and  great  hearts,  whose  waking  thoughts  when  conflict 
was  joined,  were  always  with  our  armies ;  whose  "purse  and 
pen"  sustained  the  government  and  encouraged  the  leaders  to 
final  victory  and  peace. 

The  years  in  which  these  men  lived  and  wrought  have  gone 
where  the  roses  go ;  many  have  crossed  the  river,  but  the  influ- 
ence of  their  lives  and  their  loyalty  in  "the  times  that  tried  men's 
souls,"  has  left  a  fragrant  memory  with  those  that  knew  them. 

As  for  the  questions  the  solution  of  which  was  so  important 
to  the  great  Republic  of  to-day,  it  may  be  said :  God  wrought 
them  out  in  his  own  way,  in  his  own  appointed  time,  through  the 
Civil  War,  and  they  were  settled  forever. 

The  first  rebel  gun  fired  at  Fort  Sumter,  April  12,  1861,  roused 
all  the  latent  patriotism  of  the  North  united  all  parties  or,  better, 
obliterated  all  parties,  and  when  the  President's  call  of  April  15th 
for  75,000  men  was  flashed  over  the  wires,  the  enthusiasm  was 
so  great  that  a  million  men  would  have  offered  their  services  if 
required,  and  they  could  have  been  armed  and  fed. 

In  Waterville  a  recruiting  office  was  opened  in  the  office  of 
Joshua  Nye,  then  treasurer  of  the  old  Androscoggin  and  Ken- 
nebec Railroad  Company,  on  the  second  floor  of  the  HansQom 
block,  corner  of  Elm  and  Main  streets,  on  the  morning  of  April 
1 6th,  the  day  following  the  call  of  President  Lincoln. 

Charles  A.  Henrickson,  then  an  undergraduate  at  Waterville 
College,  was  the  first  to  sign  the  roll  as  a  volunteer  from  Water- 
ville, and  his  patriotic  zeal  and  his  exaltation  as  a  new  volunteer 
proved  so  irresistibly  contagious  at  the  college  that  the  classes 
and  recitations  were  broken  up.  Finally,  to  save  the  classes, 
the  president  and  faculty  voted  to  close  the  college  temporarily. 

Another  recruiting  office  was  opened  on  the  second  floor  of 
the  Plaisted  building,  which  now  stands  on  Charles  street.  This 
was  in  charge  of  William  S.  Heath,  his  brother  Frank  E.  Heath, 
and  J.  H.  Plaisted,  who  were  the  first  to  volunteer  there,  and  each 
arrived  at  distinction  in  the  service. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  1 57 

In  a  few  days  the  companies  were  filled  and  began  squad  and 
company  drill  in  our  streets ;  were  soon  ordered  to  Augusta  into 
camp,  and  on  June  4th  were  mustered  into  the  service  of  the 
United  States  as  Companies  G  and  H  of  the  Third  Maine  Infan- 
try Volunteers.  Company  G  was  commanded  by  Frank  S.  Hes- 
seltine,  with  Nathaniel  Hanscom  ist  lieutenant  and  William  A. 
Hatch  2nd  lieutenant.  Company  H  was  commanded  by  W.  S. 
Heath,  with  F.  E.  Heath  as  ist  lieutenant  and  John  R.  Day  as 
2nd  lieutenant. 

O.  O.  Howard  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  regiment,  and  on 
the  5th  of  June  he  was  ordered  to  Washington  with  his  com- 
mand, carrying  with  him,  as  Waterville's  first  contingent, 
seventy-four  of  her  boys  into  the  maelstrom  of  war. 

Meantime,  apprehending  the  embarrassment  under  which  the 
general  government  would  labor  to  defend  itself  against  the 
organized  rebellion  of  the  South,  the  legislature  of  }^Iaine,  at  an 
extra  session  called  to  consider  and  provide  for  the  exigencies  of 
the  hour,  determined  to  furnish  the  government  at  the  earliest 
moment  with  ten  regiments  fully  armed  and  equipped,  from  the 
enrolled  but  unarmed  militia  of  60,000  men,  to  serve  for  two 
years.     This  act  was  passed  and  approved  April  25th. 

How  the  men  who  voted  for  this  measure  expected  to  arm  and 
equip  these  men,  f//n' never  knew,  but  they  did  knowit  must  he  done. 

Thus  the  regiments  from  the  ist  to  the  loth  inclusive  were 
organized  by  this  act  of  the  legislature,  and  all  succeeding  organ- 
izations by  the  general  government  or  by  its  authority. 

It  must  be  born  in  mind  that  the  ist  Regiment  ]\[aine  Infantry 
had  been  mustered  into  service  for  three  months  at  Portland 
May  4th,  and  the  2nd  Regiment  Alaine  Infantry  mustered  at 
Bangor  May  28th,  and  both  sent  at  once  to  the  front. 

The  3rd  was  mustered  June  5th:  the  4th  June  15th;  the  5th 
June  24th  ;  the  6th  July  15th  ;  the  7th  August  21st;  the  8th  Sep- 
tember 7th  ;  the  9th  September  22nd  ;  the  loth  October  4th  ;  the 
nth  November  4th;  the  12th  November  15th:  the  T3th  Novem- 
ber 20th ;  the  14th  December  nth ;  the  15th  December  17th  ;  the 
first  cavalry  October  19th.  and  six  batteries ;  making  with  five 
companies  of  sharpshooters  and  coast  guards,*  16,669  men ;  and 
of  this  number  Waterville  furnished  121  in  1861. 


*TLe  U.  S.  Governmert  credited  the  State  of  ]\Jaine  with  IS.STo  for  the  year  1S61. 


158  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Waterville  College  furnished  from  its  alumni  and  undergrad- 
uate classes  the  following  list  of  patriotic  young  men  for  Com- 
pany G,  3rd  Maine:  Charles  A.  Henrickson,  class  of  1864; 
William  E.  Brown,  class  of  1864;  George  H.  Bassett,  class  of 
1864,  died  in  service;  At  wood  Crosby,  class  of  1864;  Moses  W. 
Young,  class  of  1864;  E.  P.  Stearns,  class  of  1864,  died  in  ser- 
vice ;  Frank  S.  Hesseltine,  class  of  1863 ;  A.  C.  Hinds,  class  of 
1863,  died  in  service;  Samuel  Hamblen,  class  of  ,1862;  Amasa 
Bigelow,  Jr.,  class  of  1862;  J.  A.  Philbrook,  class  of  1862;  Wil- 
liam A.  Hatch,  class  of  1861. 

For  Company  H,  3rd  Maine:  W.  S.  Heath,  class  of  1855, 
killed  in  battle;  Francis  E.  Heath,  class  of  1858. 

These  companies  received  their  baptism  of  fire  at  Bull  Run, 
July  21,  1 86 1,  and  of  the  above  named,  C.  A.  Henrickson  and 
Atwood  Crosby  were  taken  prisoners  there ;  the  latter  a  voluntary 
one  to  care  for  his  brother  who  was  shot  through  the  lungs.* 

David  Bates  was  mortally  wounded,  taken  prisoner  and  died 
at  Richmond,  \'a.,  the  first  Waterville  soldier  killed ;  and  a  num- 
ber of  the  Waterville  contingent  were  wounded  and  captured. 

During  the  year  the  following  changes  were  made  in  the  line 
and  non-commissioned  officers : 

Capt.  Frank  S.  Hesseltine,  promoted  November  14th  to  major 
of  the  13th  Maine. 

Lieut.  Nath'l  Hanscom,  promoted  November  15th  to  captain 
of  his  company. 

2nd  Lieut.  W.  A.  Hatch,  promoted  November  15th  to  ist  lieu- 
tenant of  his  company. 

Capt.  \y.  S.  Heath  was  promoted  lieutenant  colonel  5th  regi- 
ment, September  25th. 

Lieut.  F.  E.  Heath  was  promoted  captain  of  his  own  Com- 
pany H. 

2nd  Lieut.  Jno.  R.  Day  was  promoted  ist  lieutenant  of  his 
own  company. 

1st  Sergt.  E.  C.  Lowe  was  promoted  2nd  lieutenant  of  his 
own  company,  and 


•Henrickson  was  a  prisoner  eleven  montlis  in  Libby  and  Salisbury  prisons  and 
the  Parish  prison  in  New  Orleans;  was  exchanged  and  returned  to  Waterville.  In 
'63  he  enlisted  in  the  navy,  and  was  promoted  to  Ensign.  While  serving  as  gun- 
ner in  the  turret  of  the  monitor  Saugus,  in  the  second  attack  on  Fort  Fisher,  one 
of  the  15-inch  Rodman  guns  exploded,  prostrating  the  executive  ofBccr  and  seven- 
teen men  in  the  turret, wounding  every  man  except  Henrickson, but.miraculously, 
killing  none. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  1 59 

Sergt.  J.  H.  Plaisled  was  promoted  Tst  sergeant  of  his  own 
company. 

These  were  the  changes  and  casuahies  of  our  neighbors  and 
friends  at  the  front  for  the  year  1861,  in  Companies  G  and  H, 
'^rd  Maine. 

Of  the  boys  from  our  State,  188  were  killed  or  died  of  disease 
or  wounds,  and  165  were  prisoners  or  missing. 

The  excitement ;  the  ten  thousand  details  of  the  recruiting, 
arming,  equipping,  and  transportation  of  Maine  troops  to  the  seat 
of  war;  their  military  discipline  there;  the  campaigns,  battles, 
skirmishes,  marches,  sickness  and  deaths  among  these  Maine 
boys  in  that  first  year  of  the  war,  filled  the  minds  of  the  men  and 
women  of  our  town,  and  of  the  State,  to  the  almost  total  exclu- 
sion of  all  else,  except  sympathy  for  those  who  mourned  the  loss 
of  loved  ones,  and  sympathy  for  the  sick,  suffering,  homesick, 
heartsick  boys  who  lingered  in  the  populous  hospitals  where 
parting  life  was  laid. 

No  sooner  had  our  first  contingent,  Companies  G  and  H,  been 
uniformed  at  Augusta,  than  wnth  natural  instinct,  devotion  and 
helpfulness,  the  women  of  Waterville  commenced  their  arduous 
duties  of  picking  lint,  making  bandages,  seeking  contributions  of 
money  for  hospital  stores  for  soldiers  in  camp  in  our  State,  in 
the  field  and  general  hospitals  :  and  these  duties  were  continuous, 
untiring,  during  the  war.  Commencing  in  the  modest  home — 
individual  labor,  sympathy  and  love,  developed  into  the  town, 
county,  State  and  general  organizations  that  spent  fabulous  sums 
for  the  sick  and  wounded,  relieving  distress  in  ways  never  before 
known. 

The  approximate  estimate  of  Waterville's  contributions  in 
money,  hospital  stores,  etc.,  in  public  channels,  from  1861  to 
1865  is: 

To  soldiers  in  Maine  camps  and  hospitals ....         $600  00 

To  general  hospitals  in  loyal  states 300  00 

To  regimental  hospitals  and  individuals 350  00 

To  New  York,  Philadelphia,  Boston,  etc 200  00 

To  United  States  Sanitary  Commission 400  00 

To  United  States  Christian  Commission 1,500  00 

To  aid  to  652  persons  in  215  families 10,234  42 

$13,584  42 


l60  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

The  modest  beginnings  of  individuals  and  local  associations 
of  relief  grew  so  helpful,  so  necessary,  and  finally  so  vast  in 
scope,  as  to  eclipse  any  and  all  efiforts  before  or  since  made  to 
supplement  the  hospital  service  of  the  army  in  its  efforts  to  alle- 
viate suffering.  Contributions  were  enormous.  Government 
was  calling  for  the  last  man  and  the  last  dollar  to  save  the  coun- 
try, and  to  those  at  home  money  seemed  worthless  zvitJwiit  coun- 
try, flag,  and  honor. 

In  her  "Epistle  to  Posterity"  Mrs.  Sherwood  says :  "Dr.  Bel- 
lows was  president  of  the  Sanitary  Commission,  and  I  became 
secretary  of  the  Metropolitan  Fair  and  wrote  innumerable  letters 
to  all  our  representatives  in  Europe.  All  answered  well.  After 
a  winter's  work  we  sent  Dr.  Bellows  one  million  three  hundred 
and  sixty-five  dollars  in  one  check,  as  the  result  of  our  work."* 

Among  the  many  schemes  for  the  benefit  of  our  soldiers  in  the 
field  was  a  plan  for  transmitting  their  pay  or  a  portion  of  it  to 
their  families  at  home,  authorized  by  General  Orders  No.  8i, 
war  department,  adjutant  general's  office,  September  19,  1861, 
by  "Allotment  Rolls,"  to  be  signed  by  the  soldier  who  designated 
b's  assignee,  his  address,  and  the  amount  per  month  to  be 
reserved.  These  rolls  were  transmitted  by  company  and  regi- 
mental officers  to  the  paymaster  general,  and  by  him  to  the  dis- 
tributors or  trustees  appointed  by  the  governor,  who  generously 
and  patriotically  consented  not  only  to  act  without  compensation, 
but  to  give  bonds  to  Nathan  Dane  and  John  S.  Hodsdon  in  the 
sum  of  $15,000  each  for  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duties. 

The  volunteer  trustee  for  Waterville  and  vicinity  was  Homer 
Percival,  Esq.,  cashier  of  the  Peoples'  Bank,  who  performed  the 
onerous  duties  of  this  office  during  the  war,  although  many  of 
these  trustees  resigned  their  offices,  finding  the  duties  too 
exactinsf. 

The  amount  received  and  distributed  by  banks  and  private 
individuals  as  trustees  in  these  allotment  rolls  prior  to  the  trans- 


*  The  writer  has  in  Ills  possession  a  fine  lithograph  receipt  of  the  "Committee 
on  Military  Donations  of  the  City  of  Boston,"  reading: 

"Boston,  1861." 
"This  certifies  that  the  ladies  of  the  Waterville  Association  have  given  sixty 
dollars  and  thirty  cents  for  the  soldiers  "who  leave  Boston  under  the  requisition 
of  the  President  of  the  United  States." 

(signed)  Mrs.  Harrison  Gray  Otis 

for  the  Com.  on  Military  Donations. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  l6l 

fer  of  a  part  of  these  duties  to  the  State  treasurer  by  act  of  the 
legislature,  and  the  few  who  continued  to  discharge  those  duties 
without  compensation,  must  amount  to  some  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands of  dollars. 

The  vState  treasurer  alone  received  and  disbursed  $559,526.37. 

It  could  only  gratify  idle  curiosity,  to  indicate  how  much  of 
this  sum  came  to  Waterville  from  our  boys  in  the  field,  and  the 
suggestion  is  only  made  to  show  how  impossible  it  is  to-day  to 
group  events  chronologically,  which  most  interest  us  locally. 
Our  neighbors  and  friends  joined  this  or  that  regiment  and  lost 
their  identity  in  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  that  for  four 
long  years  held  in  its  grasp,  not  only  the  destiny  of  this  Nation, 
but  the  fate  of  Liberty  and  good  government  throughout  the 
globe,  an  army  which  knew  no  law  but  Loyalty,  no  thought  but 
obedience ;  an  army  that  served  under  as  many  commanders  as 
it  fought  campaigns ;  yet  marched  as  cheerfully  and  fought  as 
loyally  under  the  new  commander  as  under  the  old ;  an  army 
that  fought  over  more  miles  of  ground  than  most  continental 
armies  ever  marched  over;  an  army  baptized  in  blood,  conse- 
crated in  tears,  and  hallowed  in  prayers. 

In  such  a  school,  the  fathers  of  this  generation,  were  taught 
what  loyalty  meant ;  what  our  flag  symbolized ;  while  the 
mothers  sat  with  sorrow  and  wrought  with  busy  hands  and  tear- 
ful eyes. 

From  homes  of  peaceful  traditions ;  lives  of  peaceful  pursuits ; 
our  Waterville  boys  stood  up  to  be  counted  "for  three  years  or 
for  the  war" — anxious  to  do  their  duty. 

Waterville  was  represented  in  each  of  the  fifteen  infantry  regi- 
ments sent  out  in  '61,  except  the  2nd,  4th,  and  12th;  as  also  in 
the  1st  Cavalry  and  the  4th  Battery,  as  follows : 

One  in  the  ist  Infantry;  seventy-four  in  the  3rd  Infantry; 
three  in  the  5th  Infantry ;  one  in  the  6th  Infantry ;  eight  in  the 
7th  Infantry;  fourteen  in  the  8th  Infantry;  three  in  the  9th 
Infantry;  one  in  the  loth  Infantry;  two  in  the  nth  Infantry; 
one  m  the  13th  Infantry;  one  in  the  14th  Infantry;  one  in  the 
15th  Infantry  ;  four  in  the  First  Cavalry ;  one  in  the  4th  Battery. 

In  1862  Waterville  furnished  102  volunteers  for  the  twelve 

regiments  of  infantry  and  one  regiment  of  heavy  artillery,  besides 

recruits,  as  follows : 
II 


l62  HISTORY   OF    WATKRVILLE. 

Twenty-two  for  the  i6th  Infantry;  two  for  the  17th  Infantry; 
eight  for  the  19th  Infantry ;  twenty-nine  for  the  20th  Infantry ; 
forty-one  for  the  21st  Infantry. 

Commissioned  officers  from  Waterville  in  the  i6th ;  Abner  R. 
Small,  adjutant,  promoted  major;  William  A.  Stevens,  2nd 
lieut.,  1st  lieut.,  and  captain,  killed  before  Petersburg. 

Commissioned  officers  from  Waterville  in  the  19th ;  Francis 
E.  Heath,  promoted  from  the  3rd  Me.,  to  lieut.-col.  of  the  19th, 
colonel  and  brevet  brigadier-general ;  F.  W.  Haskell,  adjutant. 

Commissioned  officers  from  Waterville  in  the  20th ;  Isaac  S. 
Bangs,  captain;  lieut.-col.  8ist  U.  S.  C.  I.;  col.  loth  Heavy 
Artillery,  brevet  brigadier-general  U.  S.  Vols. ;  George  C. 
Getchell,  ist  sergt.,  2nd  lieut.,  ist  lieut.,  captain  81  st  U.  S.  C.  L, 
major,  lieut.-col.,  and  brevet-colonel;  Addison  W.  Lewis,  ist 
lieut.  and  captain;  Charles  W.  Billings,  2nd  lieut.,  ist  lieut.,  and 
captain,  died  of  wounds  at  Gettysburg;  Charles  R.  Shorey 
sergt.,  1st  sergt.,  2nd  lieut.,  and  ist  lieut;  W.  H.  Low,  sergt. 
and  1st  lieut;  Henry  A.  Batchelder,  sergt.  and  2nd  lieut. 

Commissioned  officers  from  Waterville  in  the  21st  Regiment: 
John  U.  Hubbard,  captain ;  George  W.  Hubbard,  sergt. -major, 
2nd  lieut. ;  Andrew  Pinkham,  2nd  lieut ;  Frank  Bodfish,  hospital 
steward  to  assist,  surgeon. 

Casualties  and  Promotions  of  commissioned  officers  from 
Waterville:  Lieut.-Colonel  W.  S.  Heath,  5th  Me.,  killed  at 
Gaines  Mill;  Chaplain  Henry  C.  Leonard,  from  3rd  to  18th 
Regt. ;  William  A.  Hatch,  ist  lieut.  in  3rd  Me.,  and  major  72nd 
U.  S.  C.  I. ;  George  A.  Mclntire,  2nd  lieut.,  ist  lieut.,  and  cap- 
tain;  James  H.  Plaisted,  sergt.,  sergt. -major,  to  adjutant  and 
captain;  Samuel  Hamblen,  to  2nd  lieut.,  captain,  major,  and 
lieut.-col.  in  Ullman's  Brigade ;  E.  C.  Lowe,  sergt.,  to  2nd  lieut., 
resigned ;  Frank  H.  Getchell,  hospital  steward  to  assist,  sur- 
geon ;  John  R.  Day,  2nd  lieut.  to  ist  lieut.  and  captain ;  Charles 
W.  Lowe,  2nd  lieut.  to  ist  lieut.  and  captain;  William  H.  Copp, 
to  1st  lieut.  Co.  I,  17th  Me. ;  Charles  A.  Farrington,  to  lieut.  31st 
Me. ;  Samuel  J.  Haines,  to  lieut.  U.  S.  N. ;  Henry  E.  Tozier,  to 
lieut.  8th  Me. ;  John  B.  Wilson,  to  surgeon  96th  U.  S.  C.  I. 

Waterville  furnished  for  the  two  regiments  of  infantry  and  one 
of  cavalry  in  1863  ■  Four  for  the  29th  Infantry  ;  sixteen  for  the 
30th  Infantry;  two  for  the  2nd  Cavalry;  and  in  1864:     Seven- 


HISTORY   OF    WATKRVILLE;.  165 

teen  for  the  31st  Infantry;  three  for  the  32nd  Infantry;  and 
many  recruits  for  all  the  regiments  and  batteries  in  the  field,  the 
unassigned  companies,  the  coast  guards  and  naval  service. 

The  figures  given  for  186 1-2-3-4  being  for  the  regiments,  etc., 
as  originally  sent  to  the  field,  but  these  and  all  subsequent  allot- 
ments of  men  under  the  President's  call  were  always  up  to  the 
requirements. 

In  1861  more  than  its  share  was  furnished  of  men  who 
received  no  bounty  from  the  government  and  the  town  received 
no  credit  for  the  excess. 

The  enlistments  from  Waterville  for  the  years  1861  and  1862 
can  be  quite  accurately  determined,  but  to  ascertain  the  actual 
enlistments  in  any  succeeding  year,  to  include  recruits,  drafted 
men,  and  substitutes,  is  a  task  of  such  magnitude  that  it  will 
never  be  undertaken,  because  the  results  are  unimportant  and 
not  commensurate  with  the  labor. 

The  quotas  of  Waterville  and  all  the  other  towns  and  cities 
for  1863  and  subsequent  calls  were  not  apportioned  to  such 
municipalities,  but  to  the  respective  provost  marshals,  districts, 
sub-districts  or  to  congressional  districts,  and  no  adequate  record 
of  these  apportionments  exists. 

The  foregoing  figures  show  that  the  enlistments  for  the  orig- 
inal companies  in  different  organizations  of  named  men  were  121 
in  1861  ;  102  in  1862;  22  in  1863;  and  20  in  1864,  while  the 
alphabetical  list  printed  herewith  gives  the  names  of  421  men; 
showing  that  156  more  men  joined  these  organizations  as  recruits 
during  these  foin-  vears  or  one  in  nine  of  the  entire  population  in, 
1861. 

Waterville  paid  in  bounties  for  enlistments  as  follows  : 
Call  of  i86t  Nothing 

1862  3  years  men   $4,700 

1862  9  month  men 5, 200 

1863  Volunteers 8,925 

1864-5  Volunteers  and  drafted  men 

who  furnished  substitutes   45^79^ 

Drafted  men  that  entered  service 1,200 

Substitutes 1,900 

It  -'"-   '  •  

$67,715 


164  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK. 

Out  of  the  400  estimated  alumni  and  undergraduates  of  Water- 
ville  (now  Colby)  college  in  1865,  142  entered  service  during 
the  war. 

Thirty-eight  members  of  \\'aterville  ^Masonic  Lodge  entered 
service  and  seven  were  killed  in  battle. 

The  State  of  Maine  furnished  72,945  men  for  the  war.  The 
total  number  of  troops  killed  or  died  of  wounds  was  2,801.  The 
total  number  of  troops  died  of  disease  was  4,521.  Total,  7,322, 
or  about  one  in  ten  of  the  men  who  enlisted. 

The  losses  in  naval  service  are  not  here  included. 

It  is  impossible  for  the  present  generation  to  realize  the  danger, 
the  privation,  the  suftering  of  those  whom  we  knew ;  who  went 
out  from  among  us ;  or  the  agonizing  suspense  of  the  mothers, 
wives,  sisters  and  daughters  who  were  left  at  home ;  of  their 
waiting,  fearing,  hoping,  as  the  long  campaigns  followed  each 
other,  leaving  in  their  trail  waste,  ruin  and  lonely  graves. 

And  when  battle  was  on,  their  faith  in  God  was  almost  a  pre- 
monition, while  their  constant  prayer  was  for  hope  in  his  mercy, 
or  strength  to  bear  their  pain. 

To  those  who  remember  the  dreadful  years  of  the  war,  it  is 
no  longer  real,  but  a  horrid  dream  of  blood,  and  horror  and  woe. 

These  will  know  that  some  of  our  boys  followed  their  tattered 
flags,  representing  their  State,  their  town,  their  home,  in  every 
campaign,  in  every  great  battle,  and  every  prison  of  the  South. 

David  Bates,  our  first  martyr,  represents  W'aterville  at  Bull 
Run,  killed  there  forty-one  years  ago  this  month. 

George  Bowman  and  Roscoe  Young  died  at  Yorktown. 

Lieut. -Col.  W.  S.  Heath,  the  gallant  soldier ;  so  early  lost  to 
his  home  and  his  country ;  killed  at  the  disastrous  battle  of 
Gaines  Mill,  where  for  forty  years  he  has  slept  under  the  grass 
and  flowers  in  an  unknown  grave. 

Miner  W.  Savage  at  South  ^Mountain. 

Isaac  W.  Clark  at  Antietam ; 

Lorenzo  Clark,  Charles  F.  Lyford,  James  O.  Wes4;,  and  John 
M.  Wheeler  at  Fredericksburg ; 

William  F.  Bates,  Albert  Corson,  and  Joseph  D.  Simpson  at 
Gettysburg ; 

Hadley  P.  Dyer,  Stephen  Ellis,  and  Richard  Perley  at  Port 
Hudson ; 


LT.     COL.     WILLIAM     S.     HEATH. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  165 

William  Chapman,  C.  R.  Atwoocl,  Peter  Roderick,  and  Capt 
William  A.  Stevens  before  Petersburg ; 

Lieut.  Charles  A.  Farrington  at  the  Wilderness;  • 

John  O.  James,  and  Albert  Quimby  buried  at  sea ; 

Six  died  at  Salisbury  prison,  two  at  Andersonville,  one  at 
Belle  Isle,  and  one  at  Camp  Gross,  Texas ; 

The  yellow  fever  found  a  victim  in  the  brilliant  young  officer, 
George  C.  Getchell.  at  New  Orleans,  and  a  soldier's  death  met 
our  boys  at  Hatchers  Run,  Pleasant  Hill,  La.  Weldon  Railroad, 
Chantilly,  Ship  Island,  Winchester,  and  Belle  Plain. 

The  Bacon  family  sent  five  sons ;  but  three  returned. 

The  iMesser  family  sent  three  sons  ;  none  returned. 

The  "Penney  Boys" — four  brothers,  three  killed  or  died  in 
service,  one  returned  to  die  at  home,  of  disease  contracted  in  the 
army. 

Deacon  Stevens  sent  his  two  sons ;  most  promising  young 
micn,  both  killed  in  battle. 

Companies  G  and  H  of  the  Third  Infantry,  and  Co.  A  of  the 
20th  Infantry  were  well  known  as  Waterville  companies,  and 
from  the  first  to  last,  the  town  furnished  eighty-five  men  for  the 
former  and  forty-five  for  the  latter. 

Of  these,  but  three  are  living  here  of  the  eighty-five  who  went 
to  the  front  in  '61,  in  the  Third  Regiment,  Charles  R.  Shorey, 
F.  W.  Haskell,  and  Charles  Bacon ;  in  Oakland  two,  Baxter 
Crowell  and  George  T.  Benson. 

Of  the  forty-five  who  went  into  the  20th  (Co.  A),  but  two  are 
living  in  Waterville,  I.  S.  Bangs  and  Charles  R.  Shorey,  and  one 
in  Oakland,  William  H.  Stevens. 

Our  Roll  of  Honor  contains  the  names  and  military  record  of 
140  of  our  dead,  including  a  few  who  came  here  to  live  at  some 
time  since  the  war  and  died,  and  found  a  resting  place  in  Pine 
Grove  Cemetery.  Fifty  of  these  went  from  here  and  are  buried 
here.  As  many  more  "unheeded — unknown"  lie  where  they  fell 
and  were  thrown  into  trenches  without  a  prayer,  or  died  in  hos- 
pital and  prison  and  drifted  away  into  the  dawning  eternities. 

]Many  of  these  are  they  who  came  back  to  us  "when  war  was 
done,"  thro'  the  blood-red  haze  of  a  score  of  battlefields.  These 
and  the  living  are  the  representatives  of  the  men  who  bequeathed 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERYILLH. 


165 


William  Chapman,  C.  R.  Atwood,  Peter  Roderick,  and  Capt. 
William  A.  Stevens  before  Petersburg ; 

Lieut.  Charles  A.  Farrington  at  the  Wilderness;  ' 

John  O.  James,  and  Albert  Quimby  buried  at  sea ; 

Six  died  at  Salisbury  prison,  two  at  Andersonville,  one  at 
Belle  Isle,  and  one  at  Camp  Gross,  Texas ; 

The  yellow  fever  found  a  victim  in  the  brilliant  young  officer, 
George  C.  Getchell,  at  New  Orleans,  and  a  soldier's  death  met 
our  boys  at  Hatchers  Run,  Pleasant  Hill,  La.  Weldon  Railroad, 
Chantilly,  Ship  Island,  Winchester,  and  Belle  Plain. 

The  Bacon  family  sent  five  sons ;  but  three  returned. 

The  Alesser  family  sent  three  sons  ;  none  returned. 

The  "Penney  Boys" — four  brothers,  three  killed  or  died  in 
service,  one  returned  to  die  at  home,  of  disease  contracted  in  the 
army. 

Deacon  Stevens  sent  his  two  sons ;  most  promising  young 
men,  both  killed  in  battle. 

Companies  G  and  H  of  the  Third  Infantry,  and  Co.  A  of  the 
20th  Infantry  were  well  known  as  Waterville  companies,  and 
from  the  first  to  last,  the  town  furnished  eighty-five  men  for  the 
former  and  forty-five  for  the  latter. 

Of  these,  but  three  are  living  here  of  the  eighty-five  who  went 
to  the  front  in  '61,  in  the  Third  Regiment,  Charles  R.  Shorey, 
F,  W.  Haskell,  and  Charles  Bacon  ;  in  Oakland  two,  Baxter 
Crowell  and  George  T.  Benson. 

Of  the  forty-five  who  w^ent  into  the  20th  (Co.  A),  but  two  are 
living  in  Waterville,  I.  S.  Bangs  and  Charles  R.  Shorey,  and  one 
in  Oakland,  William  H.  Stevens. 

Our  Roll  of  Honor  contains  the  names  and  military  record  of 
140  of  our  dead,  including  a  few  who  came  here  to  live  at  some 
time  since  the  war  and  died,  and  found  a  resting  place  in  Pine 
Grove  Cemetery.  Fifty  of  these  went  from  here  and  are  buried 
here.  As  many  more  "unheeded — unknown"  lie  where  they  fell 
and  were  thrown  into  trenches  without  a  prayer,  or  died  in  hos- 
pital and  prison  and  drifted  away  into  the  dawning  eternities. 

Many  of  these  are  they  who  came  back  to  us  "when  war  was 
done,"  thro'  the  blood-red  haze  of  a  score  of  battlefields.  These 
and  the  living  are  the  representatives  of  the  men  who  bequeathed 


l68  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Davis,  Octavius  A. :  Private,  Co.  K,  ist  D.  C.  Cav.  Died  in 
Salisbury  prison,  November  4,  1864. 

Dyer,  Hadley  P. :  Sergeant,  Co.  B,  21st  Me.  Died  at  Cairo, 
111.,  en  route  home,  of  wounds  received  at  Port  Hudson. 

Dubor,  Isaac  :  Private,  Co.  A,  ^le.  Coast  Guards.  Died  here, 
April  15,  1869. 

Davis,  Arba  P. :  Corporal,  Co.  I,  31st  Me.  Died  here,  Nov- 
ember 30,  1885. 

Ellis,  Stephen:  Private,  Co.  B,  21st  Me.  Killed  at  Port 
Hudson,  May  2^,  1863. 

Euarde,  Paulette :  Private,  Co.  A,  qth  ]\Ie.  Died  of  wounds, 
July  24,  1864. 

Ellis,  Dighton:     Co.  E,  ist  Regt.  \^eteran  Infantry. 

Folsom,,  Samuel  P.:  Private,  3rd  ^le.  Died  December  22, 
1861. 

Farrington,  Chas.  A.:  Lieut.,  31st  Me.  Died  at  Washing- 
ton, June  20,  1864,  of  wounds  received  at  the  Battle  of  the 
Wilderness. 

Farnham,  Wm.  H. :  Private,  Co.  B.  21st  'Me.  Died  at  New 
Orleans,  May  16,  1863. 

Fish,  Hiram  :  Co.  H,  3rd  Regt.  Died  at  Hospital,  Harrison's 
Landing. 

Getchell,  Geo.  C. :  Bvt.  lieut.-col.  U.  S.  Vols.;  major,  8ist 
V.  S.  C.  I.  Died  of  yellow  fever  at  New  Orleans,  September 
21,  1866.     Buried  here. 

Gibbs,  Thos.  A.:     Private,  Co.  G,   i6th  Me.     Died  Dec.  9, 

1863.  Body  brought  home.     Buried  here. 

Gibbs,  David  B.,  Jr. :  Private,  Co.  B,  14th  :Me.  Died,  April 
I,  1863. 

Gilcot,  Frank:  Private,  Co.  I,  31st  Me.  No  headstone;  no 
record. 

Grant,  Isaiah :  Private,  Co.  F,  32nd  Me.  Died  here,  Decem- 
er  22,  1882.     Buried  here. 

Hardy,  D.  W. :  Assistant  surgeon,  surgeon,  U.  S.  Col'd  Inf. 
Died  at  Billerica,  Mass.,  July  28,  1901.     Buried  here. 

Plerbert,  Edw.  B. :  Private,  ist  ]\Ie.  Cav.  Died  at  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  of  wounds.  May  3,  1865.     Returned  prisoner. 

Hubbard,  Albro :  Sergeant,  Co.  H,  3rd  Me.  Released  from 
Andersonville,  March  10.     Died  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  ^larch  16, 

1864,  from  effects  of  want  and  exposure  at  Andersonville. 


HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLi:.  l6o 

Heath,  W.  S. :  Lieut.-col.  5th  Me.  Killed  at  Gaines  Mill, 
June  27,  1862. 

Ham,  W.  H. :  Private,  31st  Me.  Died  at  Poplar  Grove 
Church,  Va.,  November  26,  1864. 

Hayv/ard,  \V.  E. ;  Co.  A,  ist  Alass.  Died  here,  August  19, 
18690     Buried  here. 

Haynes,  Samuel  J. :  Lieut.,  U.  S.  Navy.  Died  here,  May, 
1892.     Buried  here. 

Heath,  Francis  Edw. :  Col.,  19th  Me.  Died  here,  December 
20,  1897. 

Plerrick,  Algernon  P. :  Co.  G,  3rd  Regt.  Taken  prisoner, 
July  2,  1863.     Died  in  prison. 

Hubbard,  A.  J.:  Capt.  Co.  F,  31st  ls\^.  Died  at  Morganza, 
La.,  July  16,  1864.  Capt.  Hubbard  was  twin  brother  of  Capt. 
Geo.  ^^^  and  brother  of  Capt.  John  U. ;  was  born  in  Waterville, 
lived  here  until  past  his  majority  and  went  into  the  service  from 
the  west. 

Jero,  Joseph:  Private,  30th  ]\le.  Died  in  prison  at  Camp 
(^ross,  Texas,  December  i,  1864. 

James,  John  O. :  Private,  seaman  ship  "Colorado.*'  Died  at 
sea  of  yellow  fever,  September  10,  1863. 

Jackson,  John:  Private,  ist  Me.  Heavy  Art.  Died  here, 
April  3,  1875.     Buried  here. 

Keith,  Sidney:  Private,  Co.  A,  20th  Ale.  Died,  October  10, 
1890.     Buried  here. 

King,  ]\Ioses :  Private,  30th  j\Ie.  Died  on  steamer  near 
Portland,  August  26,  1865,  when  returning  home. 

Kelley,  Moses :  Chaplain  Soldiers  Home,  Togus ;  chaplain 
U.  S.  Army  from  1870  to  1879,  when  he  was  retired.  Died  at 
Damariscotta,  ]\Ie.,  August  25,  1898.     Buried  here. 

Lowe,  Chas.  W. :  ist  lieut.,  Co.  G,  3rd  Me.  Died  at  Skow- 
hcgan,  April  11,  1887.     Buried  there. 

Lyford,  Chas.  F. :  Private,  i6th  ]\Ie.  Killed  at  Fredericks- 
burg, Va.,  December  14,  1862. 

Libby,  B.  M. :     Private,  Co.  L  31st  Me.     Buried  here. 

La  Fontaine,  Alex:  Private,  Co.  H,  7th  Me.  Died,  March 
26,  1 886      Buried  here. 

Loring,  E.  P. :  Lieut.-col.  10th  LL  S.  Heavy  Art.  Col.  Died 
in  Boston,  October  30,  1894.     Buried  here. 


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Died  at  Belle 


Killed  at  Fred- 


Messer,  Orin :  Private,  Co.  E,  7th  ^le.  Taken  prisoner  at 
Spottsylvania,  May  12,  1864.     Died  in  Libby  prison,  of  wounds. 

Messer,  Alvin  :  Private,  Co.  G,  7th  ]Nte.  Died  at  Alexandria, 
September  24,  1862. 

Messer,  John  N. :     Private,  Co.  G,  7th  Me. 
mish  line,  May  12,  1864,  at  Spottsylvania,  Va. 

Macomber,  Otis:     Private,  Co.  K,  i6th  'Me. 
Plain,  Va.,  ]\ larch  15,  1863.     Buried  here. 

Murray,  Lewis :     Private,  Co.  B,  i6th  Me. 
ericksburg,  December  13th,  1862. 

JNIcFarland,  Tra  I. :  ist  Me.  Cav.  Died  at  Waterville,  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1864.     Buried  here. 

Marston,  Wm.  H. :  Sergeant,  32nd  ^Mass.  Died  at  Win- 
chester, Va..  in  hospital.     Date  unknown. 

Paine,  John  A. :  5th  ]\Ie.  Batter)\  Died  at  Portland,  May 
20,  1 871.     Buried  here. 

Penney,  Jos.  ]\I. :  Sergeant,  Co.  B,  7th  Me.  Died  here,  Nov- 
ember 19,  1862.  Was  at  home  on  furlough  when  he  died. 
Buried  here. 

Penney,  \Ym.  W. :  Private,  15th  ]\Ie.  Died  at  Xew  Orleans, 
March  5,  1864.     Buried  here. 

Penney,  Peletiah :  Private,  3rd  ^le.  Died  at  Washington, 
November  i.  1862.     Buried  here. 

Penney,  Ira  D. :  Private,  31st  ]\Ie.  Died  in  Salisbury 
prison,  January  10,  1865,  of  starvation  and  despair ;  died  "crying 
for  bread." 

Percival,  Albert  W. :  Private,  Engineer  Corps.  Died  here, 
August  23,  1872.     Buried  here. 

Percival,  Wm.  C. :  Private,  U.  S.  Navy.  Killed  at  Bangor 
in  railroad  accident,  August  9,  1871. 

Percival,  Geo.  G. :  Assistant  surgeon,  80th  U.  S.  C.  1.  Died 
here,  August  3,  1882.     Buried  here. 

Pease  Elias : 

Perley,  Richard:  Private,  21st  Me.  Killed  at  Port  Hudson, 
May  27,  1863. 

Perry,  Joseph  :  Private,  3rd  Me.  Wounded  and  made  pris- 
oner at  Chantilly,  August  31,  1862,  and  never  heard  from. 

Perry,  James:  Private,  Co.  G,  3rd  Me.  Died  here,  April  15, 
187^.     Bnriedhere. 


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Peters,  Thomas : 
7,  1902. 

Phelps,  Lewis  G. 
1863.     Buried  here. 

Phelps,  Wm.  H. : 

Plummer,  Edwin 


Private,  Co.  H,  12th  Me.  Died  here,  March 
Private,  Co.  G,  i6th  Me.     Died  July  28, 


Private,  Co.  H,  13th  Me. ;  Co.  H,  30th  Me. 
Private,  Co.  B,  21st  Me.     Died  at  Port 
Hudson,  La.,  July  24,  1863. 

Pooler,  Peter:     Co.  C,  28th  Mass.  Inf.     Buried  here. 

Pooler,  Jos.:     Private,  ist  ^le.,  Heavy  Art.     Died  at  Ports- 
rrX'Uth  July  14,  1864,  o^  wounds. 

Pooler,  Ephraim :     Private,  Co.  E,  30th  Me.     Died  at  Water- 
ville,  October  15,  1868.     Buried  here. 

Pooler,  Henry :  Private,  Co.  H,  30th  ]^Ie.  Died  at  New 
Orleans,  July  11,  1864. 

Pooler,  Jos. :  Private,  Co.  E,  iQth  Me.  Died  here,  January 
23,  1887.     Buried  here. 

Prescott,  E.  E. :  21st  Me.  Died  here,  April  18,  1874.  Buried 
here. 

Proctor,  Sumner  B. :  Private,  Co.  F,  Me.  Coast  Guards. 
Died  here,  July  16.  1892.     Buried  here. 

Pullen,  James  Burney :  Corporal,  Co.  E,  30th  Me.  Wounded 
at  Pleasant  Hill,  La.     Died  in  prison,  April  29,  1864. 

Quimby,  Albert :  Private,  30th  ]\Ie.  Died  on  steamer  en 
route  to  New  Orleans  and  buried  at  sea,  ]\Iarch  17,  1864. 

Ricker,  James  F. :  Private,  Co.  G,  3rd  Me.  Died  at  Alex- 
andria, \^a.,  Sept.  II,  1861. 

Rodrick,  Peter:  Private,  19th  ]\Ie.  Killed  on  picket  before 
Petersburg,  November  12,  1864. 

Rice,  Thos.  G. :     Lieutenant,  2nd  ^^le.  Cav.     Buried  here. 

Roberts,  Winslow :  Lieutenant,  Co.  I,  14th  ]\Ie. ;  captain,  Co. 
H,  14th  Me. ;  captain,  Co.  G,  ]\Iaine  Coast  Guards.  Died  here, 
June  17,  1879.     Buried  here. 

Ronco,  Jos. :  Private,  Co.  K,  29th  Me.  Died  in  Waterville. 
Buried  here. 

Richards,  Jos. :  Private,  Co.  B,  21st  Me.  Died  here,  March 
3,  1892.     Buried  here  in  Catholic  cemetery. 

Ronco,  Abram,  2nd :  Private,  Co.  A,  9th  Me.  Died  here, 
September  10,  1891.     Buried  here. 


172  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Richardson,  Royal:  Private,  Co.  B,  21st  ]Me.  Died  here, 
September  20,  1863. 

Roderick,  John :  Private,  Co.  A,  20th  ]\le.  Died  here, 
November  17,  1898.     Bnried  here. 

Savage,  jNIiner  W. :  Corporal,  12th  ?^Iass.  Killed  at  South 
Mountain,  September  17,  1862. 

Simpson,  Jos.  D. :  Corporal,  Co.  A,  20th  'Me.  Killed  at 
Gettysburg,  July  2,  1863. 

Shepherd,  Rich  A. :  Private,  Co.  C,  19th  Me.  Killed  in  the 
battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May  7,  1864. 

Stevens,  \Vm.  A. :  Captain  i6th  Me.  Killed  near  Peters- 
burg, June  19,  1864.     Buried  here. 

Stevens,  Edwin  C. :  Sergeant  major,  i6th  ^^le.  Killed  at  the 
Weldon  Railroad,  August  18,  1864.     Buried  here. 

Sawtelle,  John  R. :  3rd  Me.  Died  August  18,  1862.  Buried 
here. 

Scates,  Edgar :  Private,  Co.  A,  20th  Me.  Died  at  Portland, 
March  29,  1881.     Buried  here. 

Soule,  Daniel  A. :  Private,  Co.  E,  i6th  yie.  Died  here,  Octo- 
ber 13,  1883.     Buried  here. 

Stevens,  Jason  R. :  Private,  Co.  D,  7th  Me.  Died  in  Water- 
ville,  1863.     Buried  here. 

Stevens,  G.  G. :     26th  Co.     Unassigned. 

Saunders,  Theodore  O. :  ist  Sergeant,  Co.  G,  62nd  111.  Died 
at  Soldiers'  Home  at  Togus,  July  3,  1896.     Buried  here. 

Tilley,  George  M.:  Private,  Co.  I,  31st  Me.  Died  at 
Augusta,  Me.,  April  2,  1864. 

Thayer,  Adin  B. :  Private,  Co.  B,  i6th  Me.  Taken  prisoner 
at  Weldon  Railroad,  August  18,  1864.     Died  at  Salisbury  prison. 

Tallouse,  oMartin  :  Private,  i6th  Me.  \\'ounded  and  missing 
at  battle  of  Weldon  Railroad,  October  18,  1864. 

Tozier,  Henry  E. :  Captain,  Co.  I,  8th  Me.  Killed  at  Fort 
Holly,  Spring  Hill,  V^a.,  December  10,  1864.     Buried  there. 

Tozier,  Albert  F. :  Private,  Co.  H,  nth  Me.  Died  at  Water- 
ville,  March  13,  1865.     Buried  here. 

Tozier,  W.  M. :  Private,  Co.  E,  30th  Me.  Died  at  Pleasant 
Hill,  La.,  of  wounds,  December  i,  1864.     Buried  here. 

West,  W^allace  W. :  Hospital  lieutenant,  8th  Me.  Died  here, 
February  5,  1862. 


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Wyman,  Wm.  W. :  Sergeant,  3rd  and  21st  Me.  Died  of 
wounds  received  at  Port  Hudson,  June  i,  1863. 

Woodman,  Erastus  D. :  Corporal,  14th  U.  S.  I.  Died  at 
Washington  under  surgeon's  hands  while  undergoing  amputa- 
tion of  his  leg. 

\Mieeler,  George  ly. :  Private,  Co.  G,  3rd  Me.  Killed  at 
Chantilly,  September  i,  1862. 

West,  James  O. :  Private,  31st  ?\Ie.  Died  at  Fredericksburg, 
j\Iay  23,  1864,  of  wounds. 

Wilson,  John  B. :  Surgeon,  96th  U.  S.  C.  I.  Died  at  Dexter, 
]\rarch  15,  1866.     Buried  here. 

Washburn,  John  N. :     No  record. 

Wheeler,  John  ^l. :  Private,  Co.  G,  i6th  I\Ie.  Wounded  at 
Fredericksburg,  December  13.     Died  December  18,  1862. 

White,  Henry:  2nd  Battery,  ist  Mounted  Artillery;  1st 
Cavalry. 

Young,  Eben  W. :  Private,  3rd  Me.  Died  in  prison  at 
Columbus,  Ga.,  March  26,  1864. 

Young,  Eugene  H. :  Co.  H,  3rd  Me.  Died  here,  February 
19,  1893. 

Young,  Roscoe  G. :  Private,  Co.  H,  3rd  Ale.  Died  at  York- 
town,  Va.,  April  22,  1862. 

The  long  years  come  and  go, 

And  the  Past, 
The  sorrowful,  splendid  Past, 
With  its  glory  and  its  woe, 

Seems  never  to  have  been. 

Seems  never  to  have  been? 

O  sombre  days  and  grand. 

How  ye  crowd  back  again. 
Seeing  our  heroes'  graves  are  green. 

•'-  i:  :};  ^  ;);  ^  ^ 

Tears  will  well  to  our  eyes. 

And  the  bitter  doubt  will  rise — 

But  hush !     for  the  strife  is  done, 

Forgiven  are  wound  and  scar ; 

The  fight  was  fought  and  won 

Long  since,  on  sea  and  shore, 

And  every  scattered  star 

Set  in  the  blue  once  more; 

We  are  one  as  before. 

With  the  blot  from  our  scutcheon  gone ! 


174  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

The  writer  began  more  than  four  years  ago,  the  preparation  of 
a  hst  of  the  soldiers  who  served  in  the  Civil  War  from  the  town 
of  Waterville  ;  intending  to  print  the  same  for  distribution  among 
our  citizens. 

It  has  been  a  fascinating  pursuit,  a  labor  of  love ;  better,  a 
tribute  to  the  living  and  the  dead  of  our  brave  volunteers. 

In  the  pursuit  of  detailed  information  in  regard  to  the  military- 
record  of  different  soldiers,  inquiry  developed  interesting  statis- 
tics in  regard  to  previous  wars  in  which  this  country  has  been 
engaged  and  in  which  citizens  of  Waterville  bore  a  part.  These 
have  accumulated  until  they  cover  something  of  the  details  of 
the  Revolutionary  \\'ar,  the  \\'ar  of  1812,  the  Aroostook  War, 
the  Mexican  War,  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  the  War  with  Spain 
and  the  Phillipine  War.  All  too  long,  the  preservation  of  prec- 
ious material  has  been  delayed.  What  has  been  secured  the 
writer  hopes  will  prove  of  interest  if  printed  here. 

Sixty  years  ago,  more  than  a  score  of  Revolutionary  soldiers 
lived  here,  who  carried  all  the  material  in  their  memory,  for  a 
record  of  their  lives. 

Fifty  years  ago  the  War  of  181 2  could  have  been  intelligently 
rehearsed  by  men  living.  The  same  is  true  of  the  ]\lexican. 
The  facts,  so  important  historically  and  so  difficult  of  proof 
to-day,  were  rehearsed  for  years  by  men  whose  memory  was 
better  than  books. 

Survivors  of  the  Civil  War,  who  went  from  Waterville,  are 
scattered  far  and  wide  over  the  length  and  breadth  of  this  coun- 
try and  will  never  return.  " 

The  feeling  of  the  writer  has  been,  that  it  was  a  duty  someone 
owed  to  the  boys  of  '61  ;  the  least  of  whom,  from  here,  took  his 
life  in  his  hand  with  his  rifle,  and  living  or  dead  deserves  a 
record. 

The  simple  alphabetical  list  indicates  little  of  the  labor  required 
to  perfect  it,  or  the  great  expense  of  research,  copying  and 
recopying,  typewriting  and  material.  It  is  not  claimed  to-day 
as  perfect,  but  perfection  has  been  aimed  at,  and  if  anyone  who 
is  interested  can  discover  an  error,  the  writer  will  be  grateful  for 
information. 

The  list  contains  the  name  of  every  soldier  who  enlisted  from 
Waterville,  or  who  having  been  born  and  reared  here,  left  home,, 
and  when  war  was  declared  enlisted  in  another  town  or  state. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  1 75 

The  writer  trusts  the  citizens  of  Waterville  will  appreciate  the 
list  and  the  labor. 

Grateful  acknowledgments  are  tendered  to  the  very  able  and 
soldierly  Adjutant  General  John  T.  Richards,  and  his  chief  clerk, 
Thomas  Clark,  for  valuable  information  and  careful  revision  of 
the  list,  as  well  as  to  the  courteous  Colonel  F.  C.  Ainsworth, 
chief,  Record  and  Pension  office  of  the  war  department,  for  valu- 
able advice  and  prompt  and  painstaking  replies  to  all  inquiries. 

Much  kindness  has  also  been  shown  the  writer  by  Hon.  Wm. 
M.  Olin,  secretary  of  the  Commonwealth  of  ^Massachusetts,  to 
whom  thanks  are  due  for  Civil  War  and  Revolutionarv  records. 


Waterville  Soldiers  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 

Aderton,  Wm.  H.,  13th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Alexander,  Geo. 
E.,  1st  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Allen,  ]\Ianley,  19th  Infantry,  substi- 
tute; Allen,  Benjamin  C,  14th  Massachusetts,  volunteer;  Atkin- 
son, Leroy,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Atwood,  Chas.  R.,  32nd 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Avery,  John,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer. 

Bacon,  Chas.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Bacon,  John  H.,  3rd 
Infantry,  volunteer ;  Bacon,  W.  H.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ; 
Bacon,  James  R.,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Bacon,  George,  7th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Bagley,  Alexander,  19th  Infantry,  substi- 
tute; Balentine,  \Villiam,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Balentine, 
Elijah,  4th  Massachusetts,  volunteer;  Bangs,  I.  S.,  20th  Infantry, 
volunteer ;  Barney,  Henry,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Barrett,  Wm. 
K.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Bartlett,  Nelson  G.,  Coast  Guards, 
volunteer;  Basford,  Andrew  J.,  19th  Infantry,  drafted;  Bates, 
David,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Bates,  Geo.  W.,  U.  S.  Navy, 
volunteer;  Bates,  John  H.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Bates,  W^m. 
F.,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer :  Benson,  Geo.  T.,  3rd  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Bickford,  Levi  S.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Bickford, 
Bennett,  30th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Bickford,  Cyrus,  20th  Infan- 
trv',  volunteer;  Billings,  Hiram,  15th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Black, 
Portal  jNI.,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Blackstone,  Daniel,  8th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Blackstone,  Daniel,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Blackstone,  Chas.  H.,  32nd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Blackstone,  Geo. 
C.  32  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Blackwell,  Sam'l  H.,  52nd  Massachu- 
setts, volunteer;  Blair,  John,   i6th  Infantry,  substitute;  Blake, 


iy6  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Geo.  A.  E.,  8th  Infantry,  volnnteer;  Bodfish,  Frank,  21st  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Boothby,  \A'arren,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Bow, 
Horace,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Bowden,  Henry  H.,  21st  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Bowlett,  Frederic,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Bow- 
man, Geo.  W.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Brackett,  Orrin,  6th  Bat- 
tery, volunteer;  Branch,  ]Milton  M.,  ist  D.  C.  Cavalry  and  1st 
Cavalry,  volunteer ;  Branch,  Chas.  H.,  U.  S.  Navy,  substitute ; 

Branch,  Elisha  R.,  U.  S.  Navy,  substitute :  Bray,  Robert, 

substitute;  Brooks,  Wm.  E.,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Brown, 
James,  ist  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Brown,  Wm.  W.,  15th  Infantry, 
volunteer ;  Bryant,  Geo.  H.,  Coast  Guards,  volunteer ;  Bubier, 
John,  20th  Infantry,  substitute;  Burns,  John  W.,  19th  Infantry, 
substitute;  Bushey,  Levi,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Bussford, 
Andrew  J.,  19th  Infantry,  drafted  ;  Butler,  Thomas,  8th  Infantry, 
volunteer. 

Calder,  John  G.,  ist  Veteran  Infantry,  substitute;  Campbell, 
Augustus,  19th  Infantry,  substitute;  Carey,  Joseph,  7th  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Carson,  Chas.  J.,  ist  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Cayouette, 
Levi,  30th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Chandler,  Henry  A.,  i6th  Infan- 
try, substitute;  Chapman.  W'm.,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Chase, 
George,  19th  Infantry,  substitute;  Chick,  Isaac,  15th  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Clark,  Albert  M.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Clark, 
Charles,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Clark,  Isaac  \\'.,  20th  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Clark,  Lorenzo  D..  20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Clifford, 
Selden  I.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Clukey,  Chas.  H.,  13th  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Cochran,  Robert,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Coch- 
ran, Andrew,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Cochran,  Hiram,  3rd 
Infantry,  vohuiteer;  Cook,  IMoses  \V.,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Copp,  Alonzo,  5th  Pensylvania  Reserves  and  19th  Regiment 
Pensylvania  Volunteers,  volunteer ;  Copp,  Wm.  H.,  3rd  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Corson,  Albert,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Cousens, 
Prentiss  Al.,  12th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Cross,  Chas.  E.,  i6th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Cross,  Carlostine,  17th  Infantry,  substitute; 
Cross,  Joseph,  i6th  Infantry,  substitute;  Crowell,  Henry,  3rd 
Infantrv,  volunteer ;  Crowell,  Baxter,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ; 
Cummings,  Walter  L.,  15th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Cunningham, 
Francis  M.,  15th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Curtis,  James  M.,  3rd 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Cushman,  Andrew  J.,  8th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer. 


HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLi:. 


177 


Davis,  Arba  P.,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Davis,  Daniel  B., 
9th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Davis,  Geo.  W.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ; 
Davis,  Octavus  A.,  D.  C.  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Day,  John  R.,  3rd 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Day,  Isaac  C,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Dearborn,  Geo.  H.,  19th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Deleware,  Geo., 
30th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Derocher,  Chas.  W.,  3rd  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Derocher,  Henry,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  DeWolf, 
V/m.  H.,  1st  Heavy  Artillery,  volunteer;  Dore,  Henry  A.,  19th 
Infantry,  substitute;  Dow,  Levi  A.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Downes,  Geo.  A.,  19th  Infantry,  substitute;  Drake,  Nelson,  V. 
S. ;  Dusty.  Frank,  3Jst  Infantry,  volunteer;  Dusty,  James,  8th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Dyer,  Hadley  P.,  3rd  and  21st  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer ;  Dyer,  James  A.,  U.  S.  Navy,  substitute. 

Eames,  Luther  N.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Ellis,  Luther,  6th 
Battery,  volunteer;  Ellis,  Stephen,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Ellis.  Sullivan,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Ellis,  Dighton,  ist 
Maine  Veteran  Infantry,  volunteer;  Emery,  Fanuel  H.,  20th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Emery,  John  W.,  26th  Massachusetts,  vol- 
unteer; Emery,  Nath'l  S.,  D.  C.  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Emery, 
Samuel  D.,  14th  Massachusetts,  volunteer;  Enman,  Paul,  30th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Euarde,  Paulette,  9th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Evans,  Leander  H.,  8th  Infantry,  substitute. 

Fairbanks,  Henry  L.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Fairbanks, 
Henry  N.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Farrington,  Chas.  A.,  31st 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Fenno,  Chas.  A.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Fish,  Hiram,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer:  Folsom,  Samuel  P.,  ist 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Foster,  Dennis  M.,  20  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Frazier,  Dudley  C,  ist  Heavy  Artillery,  volunteer;  Frizzle,  Geo. 
B.,  Coast  Guards,  volunteer;  Frost,  Henry  M.,  7th  Infantry^ 
volunteer ;  Fuller,  Franklin  Z.,  U.  S.  Navy,  substitute. 

Galusha.  Cyrus  C,  13th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Garland,  John, 
Jr.,  2ist  Infantr}^,  volunteer;  Garney,  George,  ist  Cavalry,  vol- 
unteer; Gayrough,  George,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Gerald, 
Ezekiel,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Gerough,  Joseph,  30th  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Getchell,  Frank  H.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Getchell,  Geo.  C,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Getchell,  Marshall 
P.,  9th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Gibbs,  John  F.,  31st  Infantry  and 


12 


178  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

i6th  Massachusetts,  volunteer;  Gibbs,  Thomas  A.,  i6th  Infantry, 
voUmteer;  Gibbs,  David  B.,  14th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Gibbs, 
David  B.,  Jr.,  I4tli  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Gibbs,  John  F.,  i6th 
Massachusetts,  volunteer;  Gilbear,  Chas.,  7th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer; Gilcott,  Frank,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Gleason,  Russell, 
2ist  Infantry,  volunteer;  Gleason,  Geo.  R.,  21st  Infantry,  volun- 
teer; Goff,  Alonzo,  2 1st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Gofif,  Alonzo,  31st 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Gonnea,  Geo.,  9th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Goodrich,  Daniel,  drafted  ;  Goodridge,  Foster,  ist  Veteran  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Goodwin,  John  F.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Gordon,  Edmund,  2nd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Goulding,  Henry, 
3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Gray,  Albert  J.,  19th  Infantry,  substi- 
tute; Gullifer,  JNIoses  H.,  D.  C.  Cavalry,  volunteer. 

Haines,  Samuel  J.,  Lieutenant  U.  S.  Navy,  volunteer;  Ham, 
Wm.  H.,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Hamblen,  Samuel,  3rd  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Hanuth,  John  H.,  V.  S.,  volunteer;  Haskell, 
Frank  W.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Hatch,  Frederick  C.,  D.  C. 
Cavalry,  volunteer;  Hatch,  Joseph  H.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Hatch,  Wm.  A.,  3rd  Infantry ;  volunteer ;  Hawes,  Wilson,  19th 
Infantry,  substitute;  Heath,  Wm.  S.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Heath,  Francis  E.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Henrickson,  Chas. 
A.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Herbert,  Edward  B,,  ist  Maine 
Cavalry,  volunteer;  Herbert,  Thos.  G.,  U.  S.  Xavy,  substitute; 
Herrick,  Algernon  P.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Hersom,  Milford, 
3rd  Infantry;  volunteer;  Hersom,  Samuel  T.,  21st  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Hersom,  Wm.  H.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Hesseltine, 
Frank  S.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Higgins,  Albert  H.,  ist  Cav- 
alry, volunteer ;  Hill,  George,  substitute ;  Hitchings,  Frank  E., 
i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Hodgdon,  John  S.,  nth  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Horn,  Hiram,  17th  Infantry;  drafted;  Horn,  Llewellyn, 
15th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Houghton,  Daniel  F.,  i6th  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Howes,  Wilson,  19th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Huard, 
Paul,  9th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Hubbard,  Albro,  3rd  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Hubbard,  Geo.  W.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Hub- 
bard, John  W.,  2ist  Infantry,  volunteer;  Hutchins,  Parker  P., 
20th  Infantry,  volunteer. 

James,  Isaiah  H.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  James,  John  O., 
U.  S.  Navy,  volunteer ;  Jibbear,  Chas.,  7th  Infantry ;  volunteer ; 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  1 79 

Jones,  Geo.  J.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Joy,  \Vm.  P.,  19th  Infan- 
try, volunteer. 

Keene,  Josiah  T.,  nth  Infantry,  volunteer  ;  Keith,  Sidney,  20th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Kendall,  Chas.,  14th  Infantry;  volunteer; 
King,  Moses,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  King,  John,  20th  Infan- 
try, volunteer ;  Kirby,  John  J.,  volunteer ;  Knox,  Sylvester,  3rd 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Knox,  William,  15th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Knox,  Sylvanus,  19th  Infantry,  volunteer. 

Lachanse,  A'eidal,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Lashus,  Geo.,  3rd 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Latlip,  Gott,  29th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Lat- 
lip,  Geo.,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Leonard,  Henry  C,  3rd  Infan- 
try, (chaplain),  volunteer;  Lewis,  Solomon  B.,  3rd  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Lewis,  David  J.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Lewis, 
Addison  W.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Libby,  Henry  H.,  sub- 
stitute; Libby,  Albert  L.,  6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Littlefield, 
Geo.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Lonelon,  Chas,  W.,  V.  S. ;  Lore, 
Wm.,  i6th  Infantry,  substitute;  Love,  Chas.,  20th  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Low,  Edw.  C,  13th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Lowe,  Edw.  C, 
3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Lowe,  Chas.  W.,  3rd  Infantry,  volun- 
teer ;  Lowe,  Wm.  H.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Lowe,  Franklin 
B.,  D.  C.  Cavalry,  volunteer ;  Lowell,  A.  M.,  U.  S.  Navy,  substi- 
tute; Lubier,  Gott,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Lyford,  Chas.  F., 
i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Lyford,  James  M.,  i6th  Infantry, 
volunteer. 

Maines,  Geo.,  Jr.,  U.  S.  Navy,  substitute;  Mains,  Graham, 
U.  S.  A.,  volunteer ;  Manton,  Wm.  H.,  32nd  Massachusetts,  vol- 
unteer; Marshall,  Joseph,  30th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Marston, 
Watson,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Martin,  Daniel  E.,  15th  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Mason,  Fred  T.,  nth  Infantry,  volunteer;  Maury, 
Joseph,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Maxham,  Geo,  M.,  5th  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Merchant,  Harrison,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Merrill,  Chas.  W.,  Hancock's  Corps,  volunteer;  ]\Ierton,  Ernest, 
19th  Infantry,  substitute;  Messer,  John  N.,  7th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer ;  Messer,  Orrin,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Messer,  Alvin,  7th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Messer,  Eugene  P.,  30th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer; McCartney,  Wm.  H.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  McDonald, 
Hugh,  Sharpshooters,  volunteer;  McDonald,  Dugald,  31st  Infan- 
try, volunteer;    McFadden,  Michael,    3rd    Infantry,  volunteer; 


l8o  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

McGilvery,  John,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  McGrath,  Daniel, 
29th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Mclntire,  Geo.  A,,  3rd  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer ;  McLaughlin,  Timothy,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Morri- 
son, John,  19th  Infantry,  substitute;  Mosher,  Francis  B.,  21st 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Mosher,  Madison,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Morton,  Wm.  H.,  32nd  Massachusetts,  volunteer;  Murphy, 
Chas.  D.,  V.  S. ;  Murray,  Louis,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Muz- 
zey,  Geo.  E.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Muzzey,  Geo.  E.,  7th 
Infantry,  drafted. 

Newland,  Wm.  H.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Nickerson, 
Hezekiah,  ist  Cavalry,  volunteer:  Nock,  Sylvanus,  6th  Battery, 
volunteer;  Noyes,  Alonzo,  5th  Infantry,  volunteer. 

Oliver,  Frank  H.,  15th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Oliver,  Fayette, 
3rd  Infantry,  volunteer. 

Paige,  Ezekiel,  Jr.,  14th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Parker,  John  H., 
nth  Infantry,  substitute;  Parker,  Benj.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Pattee,  Orlando  J.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Pattee,  Orlando  I., 
Coast  Guards,  volunteer;  Peasley,  Richard,  21st  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Peavey,  John  M.,  9th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Peavy,  Wm. 
D.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Penney,  Chas.  H.,  21st  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Penney,  Ira  D.,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Penney, 
Everett  A.,  19th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Penney,  Wm.  W.,  15th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Penney,  Peltiah,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Penney,  Joseph  M.,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Percival,  Edw.  S., 
3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Percival,  Albert  W.,  U.  S.  A.,  volun- 
teer; Percival,  Henry  H.,  U.  S.  A.,  volunteer;  Percival,  Geo.  G., 
80th  U.  S.  C.  I.,  volunteer;  Perkins,  James  L.,  21st  Infantry, 
volunteer;  Perley,  Richard,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Perley, 
Nathaniel,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Perley,  Henry  J.,  3rd  Infan- 
try, volunteer ;  Perry,  George,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Perry, 
Chas.,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Perry,  James,  3rd  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Perry,  Joseph,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Perry,  David, 
7th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Phelps,  Wm.  H.,  13th  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Pinkham,  Andrew,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Plaisted, 
James  H.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Plummer,  Edwin,  21st 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Plummer,  John  PL,  6th  Battery,  volunteer; 
Pooler,  Henrv,  30th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Pooler,  Gott  7th  Infan- 
try,  volunteer;      Pooler,   Ephriam,   30th    Infantry,    volunteer; 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  l8l 

Pooler,  Joseph,  ist  Heavy  Artillery,  volunteer;  Pooler,  Joseph, 
i6th  Infantry,  volunteer :  Pooler,  George,  29th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer ;  Porter,  John,  9th  Infantr}^,  volunteer ;  Porter,  Andrew  H., 
6th  Battery,  volunteer;  Preo,  Peter,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Prescott,  Edmund,  E.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Preson,  Thos. 
E.,  Hancocks  Corps,  volunteer ;  Pulsifer,  Alexander,  W.,  i6th 
Infantry,  volunteer ;  Pullen,  Frank  D.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ; 
Pullen,  James  Burney,  30th  Infantry,  volunteer. 

Quimby,  Clement,  5th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Quimby,  Albert, 
30th  Infantry,  volunteer. 

Ranco,  Tsloses,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer :  Ranco,  Abram,  9th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Ranco,  George,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Ranco,  Joseph,  lOth  Infantry,  volunteer :  Rankins,  Lucius,  8th 
Infantry,  volunteer ;  Rankins.  William,  20th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer ;  Ray,  Robert,  U.  S.  Navy,  substitute ;  Richards,  Joseph, 
2ist  Infantry,  volunteer;  Ricker,  James  F.,  3rd  Infantry,  volun- 
teer ;  Roderick,  John,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Roderick,  Peter, 
igth  Infantry,  volunteer  ;  Rodgers.  Edwin  J.,  substitute  ;  Ronco, 
Frank,  29th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Rowan,  David,  V.  S. ; 
Rowe,  Elisha  ^l.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Rowe,  Welcome,  3rd 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Rowe,  Addison  H.,  9th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Roy,  Lorenzo  D.,  nth  Infantry,  substitute. 

Sands,  Joseph,  U.  S.  Xavy,  substitute ;  Sawyer,  James  A., 
unassigned,  volunteer;  Savage,  Stephen  D.,  17th  Infantry, 
drafted:  Savage,  ^Nliner  W.,  12th  ^Massachusetts ;  Scammon, 
George  S.,  nth  Infantry,  volunteer;  Scates,  Edgar,  20th  Infan- 
try, volunteer ;  Shaw,  Resolvo,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Shep- 
herd, Alfred,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Shepherd,  Richard  A., 
19th  Infantry,  drafted;  Sherburn,  Jacob,  3rd  Infantry,  volun- 
teer; Shorey,  Chas.  R.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Shorey,  Chas. 
R.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Sharp,  Wm.  J.,  5th  Battery;  Simp- 
son, Joseph  D.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Small,  Abner  R.,  3rd 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Smart,  John  yi.,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Smart,  John  M.,  Coast  Guards,  volunteer ;  Smiley,  Albert  R., 
20th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Smiley,  Chas.  N.,  20th  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Smiley,  Frank  O.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Smiith, 
James  P.,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Smith,  Lemuel  H.,  3rd 
Infantry,    volunteer;  Smith,    Allen,    V.    S.,    volunteer;  Soule, 


l82  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLS. 

Martin  B.,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Soule,  John  W.,  i6th 
Massachusetts,  volunteer;  Soule,  Josiah,  20th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer; Soule,  Daniel  A.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Southard, 
Cyrus,  2nd  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Spaulding,  Nathan  F.,  15th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Stevens,  William  A.,  i6th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer; Stevens,  Gilbert  G.,  26th  Co.  Infantry,  unassigned ; 
Stevens,  Jason  R.,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Stevens,  Wm.  H., 
20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Stevens,  Edwin  C,  16th  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Stuart,  Chas.  H.,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Sturtevant, 
Reward  A.,  20th  Infantry,  volunteer. 

Tallouse,  John,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Tallouse,  Martin, 
l6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Thayer,  Samuel  J.,  21st  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer ;  Thayer,  Welcome,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Thayer, 
Adin  B.,  i6th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Thing,  Henry  A.,  3rd  Infan- 
try, volunteer;  Thing,  Chas.  W.,  ist  Infantry,  volunteer;  Thing, 
Chas.  W,,  14th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Thing,  George  S.,  ist  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia  Cavalry  and  ist  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Thomas, 
John  P.  H.,  2nd  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Thomas,  David  S.,  i6th 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Thompson,  James,  9th  Infantry,  volunteer; 
Thompson,  Asa  L.,  4th  Battery,  volunteer ;  Thorn,  James  H., 
1st  District  of  Columbia  Cavalry  and  ist  Cavalry,  volunteer; 
Tilley,  Geo.  M.,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Tozer,  Henry  M., 
20th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Tozier,  Walter  N.,  30th  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Tozier,  Albert  F.,  nth  Infantry,  volunteer;  Tozier, 
Henry  E.,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Tracy,  Geo.  C,  5th  Battery 
R.  R. ;  Trask,  Alexander,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Trask, 
Elbridge,  Coast  Guards,  volunteer. 

Vigue,  Levi,  ist  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Vigue,  Levi,  31st  Infan- 
try, volunteer. 

Ward.  N.  A.,  17th  Infantry,  drafted;  Watson,  Andrew  P., 
2ist  Infantry,  volunteer;  Welch,  ]\Ioses  A.,  31st  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; Welch,  James  B.,  ist  District  of  Columbia  Cavalry  and 
1st  Cavalry,  volunteer;  W^ells,  Howard  W.,  i6th  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer; West,  Wallace  W.,  8th  Infantry,  volunteer;  West, 
James  O.,  31st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Wheeler,  Geo.  L.,  3rd 
Infantry,  volunteer;  Wheeler,  John  N.,  i6th  Infantry,  volun- 
teer ;  W^hite,  Henry,  i  st  Cavalry,  volunteer ;  Williams,  Andrew 
J.,  14th  Rhode  Island  Heavy  Artillery,  volunteer;  Wilson,  Geo. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVIL,LE.  1 83 

A.  2ist  Infantry,  volunteer;  Wilson,  John  B.,  96th  U.  S.  C.  L, 
volunteer;  Wingate,  Henry,  T4th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Winslow, 
Hiram  C,  21st  Infantry,  volunteer;  Witham,  Albert  B.,  4th 
Battery,  volunteer;  Woodbury,  David,  3rd  Uns.  Co.,  R.  R. ; 
Woodman,  Alvin  B.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Woodman,  Eras- 
tus  W.,  14th  Infantry,  United  States  Army,  volunteer;  Wyman, 
Wm.  W.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer ;  Wyman,  Hiram,  Coast 
Guards,  volunteer ;  W>man,  Hiram  R.,  Qth  Infantry,  volunteer : 
Wyman,  Increase,  2nd  Cavalry,  volunteer;  Wyman,  W.  W., 
2ist  Infantry,  volunteer;  Wyman,  Hiram,  21st  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer. 

Young,  Eugene  H.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Young,  Roscoe 
G.,  3rd  Infantry,  volunteer;  Young,  Eben  W.,  3rd  Infantry,  vol- 
unteer: Young,  Laroy,  F.,  30th  Infantry,  volunteer;  Young, 
John  M.,  7th  Infantry,  volunteer. 

Waterville  furnished  525  soldiers  during  the  Civil  War, 
according  to  Adjutant-General's  Report  (page  24-1864-5)  and 
yet  the  above  list  includes  every  name  that  can  be  found  in  town 
or  State  records,  and  numbers  but  421. 

The  great  discrepancy  between  these  figures  and  the  credits 
allowed  this  town  by  the  Adjutant-General,  occurs  in  several 
ways : 

First :  Many  non-residents  and  foreigners  were  enlisted  and 
credited  on  the  town's  quota  whose  enlistment  papers  would 
show  some  other  residence,  and  would  thus  only  count  in  the 
summary  of  town  credits. 

Second:  A  further  discrepancy  is  caused  by  the  commis- 
sioners of  equalization  refusing  to  credit  the  town ;  men  orig- 
inally placed  to  their  credit,  and  in  refusing  to  credit  commis- 
sioned officers. 

All  calls  for  men  by  the  President  prior  to  July  2nd,  1862,  were 
filled  by  voluntary  enlistments,  promiscuously ;  cities,  towns  and 
plantations  not  being  called  upon  to  furnish  their  proportional 
number  of  the  State's  allotment. 

Men  enlisting  prior  to  July  2nd,  1862,  were  not  credited  upon 
the  quota  of  any  city  or  town  in  the  State,  but  were  simply  placed 
upon  the  lists  of  names  and  classified  to  the  cities  and  towns  in 
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1 86  HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLK. 

From  army 1 1 7,247 

From  navy 4^649 

(4)  Total  number  of  deaths 364,1 16 

In  army 359.52B 

In  navy 4,588 

(5)  Estimated  total  number  of  individuals  in  ser- 

vice    2,213,365 

In  army 2,128.948 

In  navy 84,417 

(6)  Estimated  total  number  of  survivors  at  termin- 

ation of  service  (deserters  excluded) 1,727,353 

In  army 1,652,173 

In  navy 75, 180 

Estimated    total    number    of    survivors     (deserters 

excluded)  June  30,  1902 930,380 

Estimated  average  age  of  survivors  at  close  of  the 

war 28  years. 

According  to  the  mortality  tables,  355,091  have  died  since 
1890,  and  the  average  mortality  will  be  about  the  same  until  the 
year  1925,  although  the  percentage  among  the  survivors  rapidly 
increases. 

In  1930  there  will  remain  37,033 ;  in  1935  there  will  remain 
6,296;  in  1940  there  will  remain  340;  in  1945  there  will  be  no 
survivor  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 


TOTAL    NUMBER    OF    MEN    FURNISHED    BY    THE    STATE    OF    MAINE 

DURING    THE    WAR. 

In  1861. 
15  Regiments  Infantry,  i  Cavalry,  6  Batteries  Mounted 
Artillery,  i  Company  Sharpshooters,  3  Companies 
for  Coast  Fortifications,  Recruits,  etc 16,669 

In  1862. 
12  Regiments  Infantry,    i  Regiment    Heavy  Artillery, 

Recruits,  etc 1 5,690 

In  1863. 
2  Regiments  Infantry,  2  Cavalry,  i  Battery  of  Artillery, 

Volunteers  and  Drafted  men 10,223 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  1 8/ 

In  1864-5. 
2  Regiments  Infantry,  30  Companies  Unassigned  Infan- 
try,   6    Companies    Sharpshooters,    3    Companies 
Coast  Guards,  Drafted  men  and  Navy 30.363 


72,945 

Maine  sent  this  great  army  of  her  sons  to  the  field,  sealed  with 

the  traditions  of  their  ancestors  for  courage  and  devotion ;  boys 

half  of  them,  who  passed  straight  from  their  mother's  arms  to 

the  embrace  of  war. 

There  they  left  more  than  7,000  of  their  number  in  known  and 
unknown  graves,  among  the  hills  and  valleys  of  the  South ; 
buried  where  they  fell ;  buried  from  the  hospitals  in  camp  and 
field  or  from  the  great  hospitals  of  the  cities,  despite  the  devotion 
of  heroic  women ;  buried  from  the  prison  pens  of  the  South, 
where  they  perished  so  miserably  of  exposure,  starvation,  deli- 
rium and  despair;  husbands,  fathers,  lovers,  sons,  comrades, 
friends ;  the  patriotic,  the  brave,  the  true. 

They  are  our  uncalendared  heroes.  The  language  of  their 
lives  is  written  in  the  annals  of  our  country.  They  helped  with 
point  of  sword  or  bayonet  to  pen  a  chapter  in  American  history 
that  will  be  read  while  patriotism  is  honored  or  liberty  cherished. 

Lowell  speaks  of  the  heroes  of  the  Civil  War  as  marching 
"on  a  shining  track 


heroes  mustered  in  a  gleaming  row, 

Beautiful  evermore,  and  with  the  rays 

Of  morn  on  their  white  shields  of  expectation." 


BOUNTIES. 

The  1st  Regiment  of  Infantry  was  enlisted  for  two  years, 
though  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  for  three  months 
only.  The  $22  bounty  was  paid  to  this  organization.  The  2nd 
Regiment  of  Infantry  was  enlisted  and  mustered  into  the  United 
States  service  for  two  years,  and  received  only  the  same  State 
bounty  as  the  1st  Regiment.  Having  originally  some  two  hun- 
dred more  men  than  the  First,  and  recruits  who  enlisted  when 
large  bounties  were  paid,  the  aggregate  amount  of  State  bounty 
paid  it,  is  much  more  than  that  to  the  First. 


1 88  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 

The  3rd,  4th,  5th,  6th,  7th,  8th  and  9th  Regiments  of  Infantry 
were  enlisted  and  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  for 
three  years.  They  received  the  %22  State  bounty  at  their  muster 
into  service.  The  re-inlisted  men  and  some  recruits  of  1864  for 
those  regiments  received  $300  State  bounty.  Recruits  of  1862 
and  1863  for  those  regiments  received  $55  State  bounty. 

The  loth  Regiment  was  designed  to  be  a  re-organization  of 
the  1st  Regiment,  which  owed  twenty-one  months  service  to  the 
government.  The  few  men  of  the  ist  Regiment  who  recognized 
their  continuing  Hability  to  government  under  their  enhstment, 
received  no  State  bounty  at  the  muster  into  United  States  ser- 
vice of  this  regiment ;  the  remainder  were  paid  the  State  bounty 
of  %22.  Fifty-five  dollars  State  bounty  was  paid  to  recruits  for 
three  years  service  who  were  assigned  to  this  regiment. 

The  nth,  I2th,  13th,  14th  and  15th  Regiments  of  Infantry 
received  no  State  bounty  whatever.  The  amounts  exhibited  as 
paid  to  them  were  received  by  their  recruits  and  re-enlisted  men, 
in  sums  of  from  $55  to  $300. 

The  1 6th,  17th,  i8th,  19th  and  20th  Regiments  of  Infantry 
were  paid  a  State  bounty  of  $45.  Recruits  for  these  regiments 
were  paid  from  $55  to  $300  State  bounty,  except  the  i8th,  which 
early  ceased  to  exist  as  an  infantry  organization,  and  became  the 
1st  Heavy  Artillery,  the  recruits  for  which,  as  will  be  seen,  were 
paid  less  than  $100,000,  mostly  in  $55  bounties. 

The  2 1  St,  22nd,  23rd,  24th,  25th,  26th,  27th  and  28th  Regi- 
ments of  Infantry  were  enlisted  and  mustered  into  the  United 
States  service  for  nine  months,  and  were  paid  no  State  bounty. 

The  29th  and  30th  Regiments  of  Infantry  received  $100  State 
bounty. 

The  31st  and  32nd  Regiments  of  Infantry  were  paid  from  $100 
to  $300  State  bounty,  their  organization  extending  over  the 
period  during  which  these  widely  varying  State  bounties  of  from 
$100  to  $300  were  authorized.  These  regiments  received  but 
very  few  recruits.  Two  of  the  unassigned  companies  were 
incorporated  into  the  31st  Regiment. 

The  1st  Veteran  Regiment  of  Infantry  was  composed  largely 
of  the  recruits  and  re-enlisted  men  of  the  5th,  6th  and  7th  Regi- 
ments of  Infantry,  who  had    received  from    $55  to  $300    State 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK.  1 89 

bounty.      Enlistments  in  this  regiment  proper  were  paid    from 
$100  to  $300  State  boimty. 

The  1st  Regiment  of  Heavy  Artillery  is  alluded  to  above. 
The  1st  Regiment  of  Cavalry  was  paid  no  State  bounty  at  its 
muster  into  the  United  States  service.     The  amount  shown  was 
paid  its  recruits  and  re-enlisted  men  in  State  bounties  of  from 
$55  to  $300  each. 

The  2nd  Regiment  of  Cavalry  was  paid  Si 00  State  bounty, 
generally,  though  some  few  of  the  men  received  more.  Its 
organization  was  commenced  with  a  State  bounty  of  $100,  but 
before  it  was  mustered  into  the  United  States  service,  $300  was 
authorized. 

The  1st  Regiment  of  D.  C,  or  Baker's  Cavalry,  was  being 
enlisted  from  the  authorization  of  $55  bounties  to  those  of  $300, 
though  most  of  the  men  were  paid  Si 00  State  bounty. 

The  first  six  batteries  of  Mounted  Artillery  received  no  bounty 
from  the  State.  Their  recruits  and  re-enlisted  men  were  paid 
from  $55  to  $300  State  bounty. 

The  7th  Battery  received  from  $100  to  $300  State  bounty. 
Coast  Guards  and  unassigned  companies  received  from  $100 
to  $300    State    bounty.       The    most  of    these  companies    were 
assigned  to  regiments  in  the  field. 

Hancock's  Corps  received  $100  State  bounty. 
1st  Battalion  Sharpshooters  received  from  $100  to  $300  State 
bounty. 

Co.  D,  2nd  Regiment  U.  S.  Sharpshooters,  received  $22  State 
bounty,  and  recruits  and  re-enlisted  men  from  $55  to  $300  each. 
United  States'  organizations,  and  those  of  other  states,  received 
from  $55  to  $300  State  bounty. 

The  State  paid  for  actual  naval  enlistments  made  subsequent 
to  February  2,  1864,  of  our  own  citizens  duly  credited  to  locali- 
ties in  this  State,  bounties  of  $100,  $200  and  $300,  for  one,  two, 
or  three  years'  service,  except  as  stipulated  in  order  of  Novem- 
ber, 1864,  confirmed  by  subsequent  statute,  that  not  exceeding 
$100  should  be  paid  for  any  period  of  enlistment  not  less  than 
one  year,  if  nlace  of  recruit's  credit  had  filled  all  calls  without 
him.  This  order  also  applied  to  enlistments  for  land  service  in 
Maine  organizations,  as  also  for  those  of  the  government  and 
other  states. 


190  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

All  these  State  bounty  payments  were  made  only  for  new  bona 
fide  enlistments,  when  the  enlistment  contract,  and  descriptive 
and  muster-in-rolls  were  duly  filed  in  the  adjutant  general's 
ofiice,  and  when  entering  organizations  other  than  those  of  Maine 
volunteers,  in  addition  to  the  foregoing  papers,  the  place  of  credit 
in  this  State  was  duly  certified  by  the  proper  officer  having  offi- 
cial knowledge  of  the  enlistment  and  credit. 

Citizens  of  this  State  enlisted  in  the  navy  to  the  credit  of  local- 
ities herein,  subsequent  to  February  2,  1864,  though  credited  only 
by  the  "commission,"  were  paid  State  bounty  under  the  statute 
if,  in  addition  to  the  receipts  in  duplicate  invariably  required,  the 
enlistment  and  other  papers  above  specified  were  filed  in  the 
adjutant  general's  office.  It  will  be  observed  that  a  smaller 
amount  of  State  bounty  was  paid  the  original  members  of  the 
entire  first  ten  regiments  of  infantry  and  company  of  sharp- 
shooters, the  most  of  whom  were  mustered  into  United  States 
service  for  three  years,  than  was  received  by  a  single  regiment 
of  infantry  two  years  later  for  a  like  enlistment,  but  a  shorter 
period  of  service  as  eventually  proved.  The  original  members 
of  thirteen  regiments  of  infantry,  one  regiment  of  cavalry,  and 
six  batteries  of  mounted  artillery,  were  paid  no  State  bounty. 
The  original  members  of  five  regiments  of  infantry  received  $45 
each.  The  entire  State  bounties  paid  the  original  members  of 
twenty-eight  of  our  infantry  regiments,  from  the  ist  to  the  28th 
inclusive,  the  ist  Cavalry,  and  first  six  batteries  of  Mounted 
Artillery,  amounted  to  only  about  $400,000.  All  of  the  re-en- , 
listed  men  of  those  organizations  (some  4,000  in  number  received 
$300  each,  State  bounty,  and  some  of  them  a  large  local  bounty 
in  addition  thereto,  although  the  same  was  prohibited  by  the 
statute.  ]\Iany  members  of  the  eight  regiments  for  nine  months' 
service  are  found  among  the  recruits  of  old  regiments  in  1864, 
and  received  liberal  State  and  local  bounties.  The  same  is  found 
to  be  the  case  with  members  of  the  two  "two  years"  regiments, 
and  a  large  number  of  those  of  other  regiments  of  1861  and  1862, 
who  were  discharged  for  disability,  and  upon  their  recovery 
enlisted  into  our  old  and  new  organizations  and  were  paid  liberal 
bounties. 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  did  not 
begin  or  close  at  the  same  time  in  all  the  states.     The  dates  of 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  I9I 

the  commencement  and  the  termination  of  that  war  indicated  in 
the  opinion  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States  in  the  case 
of  "The  Protector"  which  is  reported  in  twelve  Wallace,  700, 
and  is  in  substance,  that  the  proclamation  of  the  intended  block- 
ade by  the  President  may  be  assumicd  as  marking  the  first  of 
these  dates,  and  the  proclamation  that  the  war  had  closed,  as 
marking  the  second. 

There  were  two  proclamations  of  the  intended  blockade;  the 
first  of  the  19th  of  April,  1861,  embracing  the  states  of  South 
Carolina,  Georgia,  Alabama,  Florida,  ^^lississippi,  Louisiana,  and 
Texas;  the  second  of  the  27th  of  April,  1861,  embracing  the 
states  of  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  South  Carolina,  Georgia, 
Florida,  ^Mississippi,  Tennessee,  Alabama,  Louisiana,  and  Arkan- 
sas, and  the  other  issued  on  the  20th  of  August,  1866,  embracing 
the  state  of  Texas. 

In  the  absence  of  more  certain  criteria,  of  equally  general 
application  we  must  take  the  dates  of  these  proclamations  as 
determining  the  commencement  and  the  close  of  the  war  in  the 
states  mentioned  in  them. 


WATrRVILtE    soldiers'    MONUMENT   ASSOCIATION. 

Many  of  our  citizens  still  living  will  recall  the  terrible  days  of 
the  war;  when  battle  was  on  and  victory  hung  in  the  balance; 
when  care  for  the  sick  and  wounded,  and  honoring  the  dead,  was 
the  duty  and  desire  of  all  the  living, — that  even  then  a  few  of 
our  patriotic  citizens  inaugurated  a  plan  to  raise  funds  for  the 
erection  of  a  suitable  monument  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  our 
dead  soldiers. 

The  inception  and  successful  prosecution  of  this  plan  is  due 
to  the  patriotism  and  untiring  energy  of  ^Ir.  G.  A.  Phillips,  as 
to  him  more  than  any  man  living  here  to-day  or  who  has  ever 
lived  here  is  due  the  present  prosperity  of  Waterville. 

The  following  facts,  copied  from  the  records  of  the  Waterville 
Monument  Association,  will  interest  our  older  citizens,  and 
should  interest  the  younger. 

"On  the  evening  of  the  14th  of  March,  1864,  a  concert  was 
given  in  this  village,  the  proceeds  of  which,  by  previous 
announcement,  were  to  be  donated  in  aid  of  erecting  a  suitable 


192  HISTORY    01?    WATERVILLE. 

monument  to  the  memory  of  our  soldiers  who  had  fallen  in 
defence  of  the  Union,  or  who  should  thereafter  lose  their  lives  in 
the  same  holy  service. 

The  names  of  these  performers,  which  all  will  agree  should 
appear  upon  the  first  page  of  this  record,  were :  Mrs.  J.  E.  Dow, 
Miss  A.  M.  Bates,  Miss  C.  M.  Barney,  IMiss  L.  S.  Carroll,  ^Miss 
E.  Piper,  Miss  H.  C.  ]\Iarston,  ^liss  S.  E.  Ransted,  Mr.  Wm.  A. 
Caffrey,  Mr.  S.  C.  Marston,  Yiv.  J.  R.  Pitman,  Mr.  G.  A.  Phillips. 

During  the  intermission,  a  proposition  to  form  a  permanent 
organization  for  the  more  speedy  and  certain  accomplishment  of 
the  work  was  introduced ;  and  after  some  explanations  and  dis- 
cussion, a  committee  was  chosen  to  prepare  a  plan  of  organiza- 
tion, to  be  submitted  at  a  future  meeting,  with  a  list  of  officers, 
etc.     The  following  gentlemen  were  put  upon  this  committee : 

J.  Nye,  J.  B.  Foster,  G.  A.  Phillips,  E.  G.  Meader,  and  C.  M. 
Morse. 

A  second  concert  in  aid  of  this  object  was  given  by  the  same 
individuals  on  the  evening  of  the  23rd  of  the  same  month,  at 
which  time  the  committee  named  above  reported  a  constitution, 
which  was  unanimrusly  adopted.  The  following  list  of  candi- 
dates was  also  presented,  and  after  the  adoption  of  the  constitu- 
tion, they  were  chosen  to  the  several  offices  for  which  they  were 
severally  designated. 

G.  A.  Phillips,  president ;  Wm.  A.  Caffrey,  vice-president ; 
Daniel  R.  Wing,  secretary ;  Geo.  L.  Robinson,  treasurer ;  Jones 
R.  Elden,  E.  G.  Meader,  C.  M.  Morse,  trustees. 

Article  2  of  the  constitution  reads  as  follows :  ''The  object 
of  this  association  shall  be  to  procure  the  erection,  at  such  time' 
and  in  such  place  within  the  town  as  shall  hereafter  be  desig- 
nated, of  a  suitable  monument  in  honor  of  those  of  our  fellow- 
citizens,  residents  of  Waterville,  who  shall  have  died  in  the  mili- 
tary or  naval  service  of  the  United  States  during  the  present 
war." 

Appended  to  the  constitution  are  the  names  of  ninety-two 
persons. 

A  second  benefit  concert  was  given  in  1865  and  efforts  were 
made  to  secure  a  contribution  of  one  dollar  from  each  citizen 
for  the  association. 


BREVET     BRIG      GFX.     FRANCIS     E.     HEATH. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  193 

Here  occurs  a  hiatus  of  nearly  ten  years,  or  from  November 
29,  1865,  to  June  14,  1875,  during  which  there  is  no  record  of  any 
kind,  nor  any  explanation  of  the  interregnum. 

There  were  doubtless  good  reasons,  and  the  first  that  suggests 
itself  is  the  effervesence  of  zeal,  as  this  has  occurred  in  the  his- 
tory of  many  commemorative  monuments ;  but  the  purpose  was 
fixed  in  the  minds  of  good  men  and  the  funds  drawing  interest. 

In  1875  ^he  fund  with  accumulated  interest  amounted  to 
$1,000,  this  with  the  $1,000  voted  by  the  town  made  $2,000  avail- 
able for  the  purpose  of  the  association.  The  meeting  of  the 
association  at  which  such  report  was  made  was  the  last  meeting 
held  in  the  old  town  hall  before  it  was  remodeled.  This  fact 
Secretary  Daniel  R.  Wing  thought  was  worthy  of  permanent 
record.  The  committee  to  submit  plans  and  estimates  for  a 
monument  was  as  follows :  Col.  F.  E.  Heath,  Dr.  Atwood 
Crosby,  Edwin  Noyes,  Reuben  Foster,  J.  H.  Plaisted. 

This  committee  recommended  the  purchase  of  Milmore's 
"Citizen  Soldier"  in  bronze,  the  price  to  be  $2,000.  This  recom- 
mendation was  accepted  and  a  committee  consisting  of  the  ofii- 
cers  of  the  association,  Edwin  Noyes,  Col.  I.  S.  Bangs  and  J.  H. 
Plaisted  was  appointed  to  procure  a  suitable  monument  upon 
which  to  place  the  statue. 

The  committee  to  locate  the  monument  consisted  of  Nathaniel 
Meader,  E.  R.  Emerson,  Miss  Florence  Plaisted,  Miss  Roxana 
Hanscom,  Dr.  Crosby  and  Mrs.  Crosby,  C.  G.  Carleton,  M.  C. 
Foster,  C.  K.  Mathews,  C.  R.  McFadden,  F.  P.  Haviland,  P.  S. 
Heald,  Reuben  Foster,  W.  B.  Arnold,  Prof.  E.  W.  Hall,  Prof. 
M.  Lyford,  A.  A.  Plaisted  and  Mrs.  Plaisted,  Dr.  N.  R.  Boutelle 
and  Mrs.  Boutelle,  E.  B.  Cummings,  E.  F.  Webb  and  the  officers 
of  the  association. 

The  following  inscriptions  were  accepted.  On  the  Elm  street 
front,  "To  the  memory  of  the  Soldiers  and  Sailors  of  Waterville 
who  gave  their  lives  for  the  preservation  of  the  Republic 
1861-1865."  On  the  opposite  front,  "Erected  by  the  citizens  of 
Waterville." 

In  order  to  raise  the  balance  of  the  money  needed  for  the  mon- 
ument the  ladies  of  the  committee  decided  to  have  an  entertain- 
ment on  two  evenings,  the  i6th  and  17th  of  May,  1876,  the  first 
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Here  occurs  a  hiatus  of  nearly  ten  years,  or  from  November 
29,  1865,  to  June  14,  1875,  during  which  there  is  no  record  of  any 
kind,  nor  any  explanation  of  the  interregnum. 

There  were  doubtless  good  reasons,  and  the  first  that  suggests 
itself  is  the  effervesence  of  zeal,  as  this  has  occurred  in  the  his- 
tory of  many  commemorative  monuments ;  but  the  purpose  was 
fixed  in  the  minds  of  good  men  and  the  funds  drawing  interest. 

In  1875  the  fund  with  accumulated  interest  amounted  to 
$1,000,  this  with  the  $1,000  voted  by  the  town  made  $2,000  avail- 
able for  the  purpose  of  the  association.  The  meeting  of  the 
association  at  which  such  report  was  made  was  the  last  meeting 
held  in  the  old  town  hall  before  it  was  remodeled.  This  fact 
Secretary  Daniel  R.  Wing  thought  was  worthy  of  permanent 
record.  The  committee  to  submit  plans  and  estimates  for  a 
monument  was  as  follows :  Col.  F.  E.  Heath,  Dr.  Atwood 
Crosby,  Edwin  Noyes,  Reuben  Foster,  J.  H.  Plaisted. 

This  committee  recommended  the  purchase  of  Milmore's 
''Citizen  Soldier"  in  bronze,  the  price  to  be  $2,000.  This  recom- 
mendation was  accepted  and  a  committee  consisting  of  the  offi- 
cers of  the  association,  Edwin  Noyes,  Col.  I.  S.  Bangs  and  J.  H. 
Plaisted  was  appointed  to  procure  a  suitable  monument  upon 
which  to  place  the  statue. 

The  committee  to  locate  the  monument  consisted  of  Nathaniel 
Meader,  E.  R.  Emerson,  Miss  Florence  Plaisted,  Miss  Roxana 
Hanscom,  Dr.  Crosby  and  Mrs.  Crosby,  C.  G.  Carleton,  M.  C. 
Foster,  C.  K.  Mathews,  C.  R.  McFadden,  F.  P.  Haviland,  P.  S. 
Heald,  Reuben  Foster,  W.  B.  Arnold,  Prof.  E.  W.  Hall,  Prof. 
M.  Lyford,  A.  A.  Plaisted  and  Mrs.  Plaisted,  Dr.  N.  R.  Boutelle 
and  Mrs.  Boutelle,  E.  B.  Cummings,  E.  F.  Webb  and  the  officers 
of  the  association. 

The  following  inscriptions  were  accepted.  On  the  Elm  street 
front,  "To  the  memory  of  the  Soldiers  and  Sailors  of  Watervill© 
who  gave  their  lives  for  the  preservation  of  the  Republic 
1S61-1865."  On  the  opposite  front,  "Erected  by  the  citizens  of 
Waterville." 

In  order  to  raise  the  balance  of  the  money  needed  for  the  mon- 
ument the  ladies  of  the  committee  decided  to  have  an  entertain- 
ment on  two  evenings,  the  i6th  and  17th  of  May,  1876,  the  first 
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196  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

dead  when  their  last  member  shall  have  passed  beyond  our  feeble 
following. 

W.  S.  Heath  Post,  No.  14,  Department  of  Maine,  G.  A.  R., 
was  organized  in  1874  and  chartered  December  29th  of  the  same 
year,  under  the  administration  of  Department  Commander  Gen- 
eral   Selden    Connor,    with    the    following    charter    members : 

*  Atwood  Crosby,  *  F.  E.  Heath,  I.  S.  Bangs,  *  J.  H.  Plaisted, 
O.  F.  Mayo,    ^  Levi  A.  Dow,    A.  P.  Webb,    *  Addison  Dolley, 

*  Sidney  Keith,  Redford  M.  Estes,  Alpheus  S.  Webber,  John 
U.  Hubbard,  George  W.  Hubbard,  Henry  J.  Goulding,  George 
W.  Goulding,  E.  P.  Buck,  W.  H.  Emery,  W.  H.  Russell,  R.  T. 
Beazley,  *  G.  A.  Osborne,  James  W.  King,  ^'  Moses  J.  Kelley, 

*  Charles  W.  Lowe,  E.  N.  Small,  G.  T.  Stevens,  A.  M.  Sawtelle. 
The    Post   was   named   by   these   veterans    after    Lieutenant 

Colonel  W.  S.  Heath  of  the  5th  Maine  Infantry,  who  was  killed 
at  the  battle  of  Gaines  Mill. 

Its  first  commander  was  General  *  Francis  E.  Heath,  and  he 
was  succeeded  by  General  I.  S.  Bangs,  Dr.  *  Atwood  Crosby, 
G.  H.  Mathews,  Captain  *  Charles  Bridges,  A.  O.  Libby,  ^=  J.  G. 
Stover,  Dr.  D.  P.  Stowell,  N.  S.  Emery,  George  W.  Reynolds, 
S.  S.  Vose,  George  A.  Wilson,  P.  S.  Heald,  J.  L.  Merrick,  F.  D. 
Lunt,  E.  Gilpatrick,  A.  E.  Ellis,  Captain  J.  P.  Garland,  J.  H. 
Coombs,  O.  P.  Richardson,  Captain  Silas  Adams,  H.  C.  Proctor, 
and  J.  R.  Pollard. 

The  Post  has  on  its  roll  of  membership  195  names. 

Death,  emigration,  and  other  causes  have  reduced  its  mem- 
bership to  fifty-seven,  but  it  is  still  one  of  the  vigorous  active 
Posts  of  the  order,  and  is  doing  a  noble  charitable  work,  looking 
with  great  fidelity  after  the  necessities  of  sick  and  disabled  com- 
rades, their  widows  and  orphans,  whether  members  of  their 
organization  or  not. 

If  it  performed  no  other  duty,  it  would  commend  itself  to  the 
charitable  and  hum.ane,  but  in  a  higher  sphere  of  influence,  it  is 
an  organized  examplar  of  loyalty,  by  the  service  of  its  members 
to  the  land  they  helped  to  save,  and  a  lesson  in  loyalty  to  the 
generation  that  are  to  follow  them. 

January  30,  1891,  Hon.  Nathaniel  Meader,  then  Mayor  of  the 
city  of  Waterville,  presented  to  the  Post  a  very  beautiful  record 
*  Deceased. 


HISTORY    01c     WATERVILL^.  I97 

book,  especially  designed  for  recording  the  name  and  military 
history  of  its  members. 

It  has  taken  the  writer  and  Comrade  A.  O.  Libbey  of  the  com- 
mittee, five  or  six  years  to  secure  the  names  and  record  of  105 
of  these  members  from  Waterville  and  Winslow,  verify  them, 
have  them  re-written  and  engrossed  in  the  great  book. 

The  labors  of  the  committee  are  finished,  and  the  record — the 
lasting  memorial  to  her  patriotic  sons,  is  to  be  presented  to  the 
city  of  Waterville  as  soon  as  a  depository  is  provided  for  its  safe 
keeping. 

The  Post  has  had  leading  place  and  influence  in  all  observ- 
ances of  a  patriotic  character,  has  made  its  campfires  schools  of 
patriotism,  has  furnished  to  the  Department  of  Maine,  Com- 
mander Gen.  I.  S.  Bangs  and  Commander  James  L.  Merrick.  It 
has  pleasant  headquarters  in  Masonic  block  which  are  always 
open.  The  Womans  Relief  Corps  has  added  greatly  to  the  com- 
fort and  efficiency  of  the  Post. 

Since  its  organization,  the  Post  has  paid  its  annual  tribute  of 
respect  to  the  memory  of  dead  comrades  whose  graves  are  within 
its  jurisdiction  in  Waterville  and  Winslow. 

The  number  of  these  is  so  rapidly  augmenting,  that  they 
already  number  nearly  three  times  the  Post  membership,  and  will 
mcrease  until  all  have  joined  the  ranks  of  the  great  army  of  the 
dead,  to  take  up  their  march  under  the  loving  eye  and  guiding 
hand,  to  which  we  confidentlv  commit  them. 


the:  revolutionary   war. 

The  Revolutionary  War  commenced  with  the  battle  of  Lex- 
ington, April  19,  1775.  Provisional  articles  of  peace  were 
signed,  November  30,  1782,  and  proclamation  of  cessation  of 
hostilities  ordered  by  the  Continental  Congress,  April  11,  1783. 
Definite  treaty  of  peace  was  concluded,  September  3,  1783, 
ratifi.ed  by  the  Continental  Congress  and  proclaimed,  January 
14,  1784. 

From  a  report  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, dated  May  10,  1790,  and  published  in  American  State 
Papers,  Military  Afifairs,  Volume  I,  pages  14  to  19,  it  appears 
that  the  number  of  troops  and  militia  furnished  from  time  to 


198  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

time  by  the  several  states  during  the  Revokitionary  War  was 
395,330.  It  is  impossible  to  ascertain  whether  the  figures,  which 
are  given  in  the  report  for  each  year  of  the  war,  and  which  aggre- 
gate 395,330  for  the  whole  period  of  the  war,  represent  only  the 
number  of  new  enlistments  each  year,  or  whether  they  include 
not  only  men  who  enlisted  during  each  year  but  also  those  who 
were  in  the  service  at  some  time  during  that  year  but  who 
enlisted  during  a  prior  year.  In  other  words,  it  cannot  be  deter- 
mined positively  whether  the  figures  for  each  year  merely  rep- 
resent additions  to  the  force  during  that  year,  or  whether  they 
represent  these  additions  together  with  the  force  remaining  in 
service  from  a  prior  year.  It  is  certain  that,  in  either  case,  they 
do  not  represent  the  total  number  of  individuals  in  service  in  any 
year,  or  the  total  number  of  individuals  added  to  the  force  in 
any  year,  because  there  must  have  been  many  duplications  caused 
by  counting  the  same  man  over  again  for  each  successive  enlist- 
ment. It  is  well  known  that  a  very  large  proportion  of  the  men 
who  served  in  the  American  arm.y  during  the  Revolutionary 
War  rendered  two,  three  or  more  terms,  or  "tours"  of  service. 
This  was  notably  the  case  in  militia  organizations  in  which  men 
frequently  served  tours  of  a  few  days  each  at  comparatively  short 
intervals. 

The  writer  feels  it  unnecessary  to  apologize  for  the  meager 
incidents  that  serve  to  connect  this  generation  with  events  of  a 
century  and  more  ago. 

The  time  for  detail  was  passed  when  the  old  Revolutionary 
soldiers  passed  away  and  their  families  were  separated. 

Their  military  history  was  carefully  preserved  by  the  Com-'' 
monwealth  of  Massachusetts,  and  if  identity  could  be  established, 
a  biographical  sketch  might  be  written  that  would  confer  credit 
upon  the  soldier  and  his  biographer. 

The  writer  presents  the  most  and  the  best  sketch  of  these  old 
worthies  possible  who  went  from  Waterville  (then  Winslow) 
or  came  here  after  the  war  and  found  a  home  and  a  final  resting 
place  here  or  in  the  immediate  vicinity. 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  IQQ 

RECORDS     OF     SERVICE     IN     THE     REVOLUTION. 

Captain  Dean  Bangs,  grandfather  of  Isaac  Sparrow  Bangs, 
was  born  May  31,  1756,  in  Harwich,  (now  Brewster),  Cape  Cod, 
Mass.  He  married  April  21,  1780,  Eunice  Sparrow,  daughter 
of  Isaac,  son  of  Jonathan,  son  of  Jonathan,  son  of  Jonathan,  who 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Gov.  Thomas  Prence  and  Patience, 
daughter  of  Elder  Brewster. 

He  "followed  the  sea"  as  boy  and  man  for  forty  years ;  became 
mate  and  master  in  the  East  India  trade,  was  a  privateer  in  the 
first  year  of  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  and  then  enlisted  in 
Abijah  Bangs'  company.  Colonel  Dike's  Regiment  in  1776  and 
served  two  years. 

In  1802  he  came  to  Sidney  and  brought  a  large  tract  of  land 
on  the  Kennebec  river  and  there  lived  and  reared  a  large  family. 
Waterville  was  his  mercantile  home  and  here  he  raised  a  com- 
pany of  artillery  during  the  \\'ar  of  18 12  for  Major  Joseph 
Chandler's  Battalion  of  Artillery,  and  marched  to  Augusta  with 
the  other  companies  of  the  Waterville  contingent.  He  died, 
December  6,  1845  ^^^  ^^'^^  buried  in  a  private  cemetery  on  his 
own  farm  in  a  beautiful  spot  overlooking  the  Kennebec  river, 
where  lie  several  of  his  family,  including  his  wife  and  one  son. 

The  cemetery  is  enclosed  by  a  permanent  granite  and  iron 
fence,  and  in  this  enclosure  near  Captain  Bangs'  grave  is  a  ceno- 
taph in  memory  of  his  father,  whose  m.ilitary  record  is  inscribed 
as  follows : 

To  the  memory  of 

ELKANAH  BANGS, 
(father  of  Dean  Bangs), 
who  was  in  the  privateer  service  of  the  Revolution ;  was  taken 
prisoner  with  three  of  his  neighbors,  and  died  on  board  the  Jersey 
prison  ship  at  Wallabout  Bay,  New  York,  in  July,  1777,  aged 
44  years ;  this 

CENOTAPH 

is  respectfully  dedicated  by  his  great-grandson,  Isaac  Sparrow, 
son  of  Isaac  Sparrow,  son  of  Dean  Bangs,  who  settled  upon  this 
farm  in  the  year  1802. 

Thomas  Bates:  Corporal,  Capt.  John  Gibb's  Co.,  Col.  Eben- 
ezer  Sprout's  Regt. ;  service  from  December  8  to  December  10, 


200  HISTORY   O^    WATERVILLE. 

1776,  two  days,  marched  to  Falmouth  on  an  alarm  at  Elizabeth 
Islands  :     Roll  dated  at  Wareham  : 

Also,  Private  Capt.  Samuel  Brigg's  Co.,  Col.  Theophilis  Cot- 
ton's Regt.,  General  Palmer's  Brigade ;  service  32  days  on  a 
secret  expedition  to  Tiverton,  R.  I.,  September  29,  1777.  (Do. 
Vol.  I  page  803). 

Also,  Capt.  Gibb's  Co.  (4th  Plymouth),  Col.  Sprout's  Regt., 
service  from  September  6  to  September  10,  1778,  5  days, 
marched  to  Dartmouth  on  an  alarm : 

Also,  pay  roll  for  five  days'  service  from  September  13,  1778, 
marched  to  Falmouth  on  an  alarm  : 

Also,  Capt.  Gibbs'  (4th  Plymouth)  Co.,  Lt.-Col.  White's  Regt. 

Thomas  Bates:  Enlisted  July  31,  1780,  discharged  August 
9,  1780,  service  nine  days  at  Rhode  Island:  Roll  sworn  to  at 
Wareham.     (Ibid.  Vol.  I,  page  804). 

Thomas  Bates:  Sergeant,  Capt.  Joseph  Parker's  Co.,  Col. 
Ebenezer  Sprout's  Regiment:  Cluster  roll  dated  February  13, 
1778:  Enlisted  January  9,  1778,  enlisted  for  three  months  from 
January  i,  1778:  stationed  at  Rhode  Island. 

Also,  Capt.  John  Gibbs'  Co.,  Col.  John  Jacobs'  Regiment: 
Enlisted  July  23,  1780,  discharged  October  27,  1780;  service 
three  months,  six  days  on  an  alarm  at  Rhode  Island :  Enlist- 
ment three  months ;  company  raised  to  reinforce  Continental 
Army:     Roll  dated  Wareham.     (Ibid.  Vol.  I,  page  804). 

Was  a  pensioner  and  lived  in  Waterville  in  1840.  Date  of 
death,  and  burial  place  unknown. 

John  Cole:  Appears  with  rank  of  Private  (on  Continental 
Army  pay  accounts.  Captain  Redding's  company,  5th)  in  Col. 
Bradford's  regiment  for  service  from  March  8,  1777  to  Decem- 
ber 31,  1779.     Residence,  Winslow,  Me.     V^ol. :  14:2:74. 

He  appears  with  rank  of  Private  on  Continental  Army  pay 
accounts  of  Capt.  Haskell's  company,  Col.  Bradford's  regiment, 
for  service  from  January  i,  1780  to  March  8,  1780.  Residence, 
Winslow.     Vol.  :i4  :i  :35. 

He  appears  in  Capt.  John  Samont's  company,  Colonel  Gamaliel 
Bradford's  (15th)  regiment  Massachusetts.  Line  from  Wins- 
low. Was  pensioned  in  181 8.  He  moved  to  Albion  about  18 14 
and  died  there  January  11,  1824.     His  age  unknown,  but  prob- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  20I 

ably  less  than  seventy  years.  His  widow,  Polly  Cole,  on  papers 
signed  by  her  July  7,  1835,  alleges  her  age  then  as  seventy-one. 

John  Cool:  Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  Continental 
Army  pay  accounts  of  Capt.  Sewell's  company,  Colonel  Sprout's 
regiment  for  service  from  March  12,  1777  to  December  31,  1779. 
Residence,  Winslow,  also  given  in  Capt.  Josiah  Jenkins  company, 
Col.  Brewer's  regiment,  dated,  Camp  near  Valley  Forge,  January 
23,1778.     Vol.  :i2:2  79:10:319. 

Was  discharged  at  Fishkill,  N.  Y.,  March  12th,  1780,  having 
served  full  three  years :  his  term  of  enlistment.  He  alleged  on 
a  paper  dated  May  26,  1835,  that  he  w^as  then  seventy-eight  years 
old  and  had  lived  in  Waterville,  (Winslow)  seventy  years.  He 
lived  on  Cool  street,  which  after  his  death  was  named  for  him. 
He  died  October  5,  1845,  ag^d  eighty-nine  years,  six  months, 
and  was  buried  in  the  old  cemetery  and  afterwards  removed  to 
Pine  Grove  cemetery. 

.  .Levi  Croivell:  Born,  reared  and  enlisted  on  Cape  Cod.  After 
the  war  drifted  "down  east"  to  Winslow  (that  part  in  which  is 
now  Oakland)  with  Elisha  and  Solomon  Hallett.  Date  of  death 
unknov.'n.     Buried  in  old  cemetery,  Oakland. 

Mono  ah  Crozvell:  Was  pensioned  in  1834  for  service  in  the 
Massachusetts  militia,  but  his  name  is  not  to  be  found  in  Massa- 
chusetts records.  He  was  said  to  be  seventy-one  years  old  in 
1835,  but  is  put  down  at  seventy-eight  in  1840,  when  he  was 
living  in  Waterville  (now  Oakland)  and  drawing  his  pension 
there. 

The  date  of  his  death  is  unknown,  but  he  was  a  soldier  in  the 
War  of  1812. 

John  Davis:  Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  muster  roll  of 
Capt.  Jeremiah  Hill's  company.  Col  Scammon's  regiment,  dated 
August  I,  1775.  Enlisted  May  5,  1775.  Time  of  service, 
tv/elve  weeks,  four  days.  Residence,  Biddeford.  Eight  month's 
service.     Vol.  15,  p.  28. 

He  appears  with  rank  of  drummer  on  company  return  of  Capt. 
liill's  company,  Col.  Scammon's  regiment,  (30th)  dated  Sep- 
t'jmber  2y,  1775.  Enlisted  May  5,  1775.  Residence,  Bidde- 
ford.    Coat  Rolls.     Eight  months'  service.     Vol.  56,  p.  199. 

He  appears  among  signatures  to  an  order  for  bounty  coat 
or  its  equivalent  in  money,  due  for  the  eight  months'  service  in 


202  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Capt.  Jeremiah  Hill's  company,  Col.  James  Scammon's  regi- 
ment, dated  October  6,  1775.     Coat  Rolls.     Vol.  57,  File  21. 

He  appears  with  rank  of  drummer  on  muster  roll  of  Capt.  Jere- 
miah Hill's  company,  Col.  Edmund  Phinney's  regiment,  dated 
in  garrison.  Fort  George,  December  8,  1776.  Enlisted  January 
I,  1776.     Re-enlisted  November  14,  1776.     Vol.  46,  p.  3. 

During  the  winter  months  of  1776  he  enlisted  for  the 
war  and  served  as  drummer  and  drum-major  in  Col.  Joseph 
Vose's  (First)  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Line  and  was  dis- 
charged in  June  1783.  He  was  five  feet,  six  inches  high, 
light  complexion,  light  hair.  He  claimed  to  have  been  in  the 
Battle  of  Monmouth  and  at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne,  and  to 
have  marched  to  Yorktown  and  been  present  at  the  surrender  of 
Cornwallis.  He  was  at  one  time  reported  as  a  deserter,  but  the 
charge  was  cancelled  and  this  record  removed. 

He  came  to  New  Sharon  in  1794  and  to  Waterville  about  1830. 
He  had  nine  children,  but  never  owned  any  property  in  New 
Sharon  or  Waterville.     He  was  probably  a  skilled  mechanic. 

Mr.  Davis  was  born  in  Simbross,  Cork  county,  Ireland,  about 
1754-  I'he  date  of  his  death  and  place  of  burial  are  unknown, 
but  he  was  living  here  in  1835  ^^^  ^t  his  great  age  would  hardly 
return  to  New  Sharon.  He  died  before  1840,  if  he  died  here, 
as,  although  he  was  a  pensioner,  he  was  not  on  the  list  of  fifteen 
living  here  and  in  Winslow  in  1840. 

Oliver  Dow,  and  his  cousin  Amos,  enlisted  in  Captain  Watts' 
company  in  Salem,  N.  H.,  in  1756.  Oliver  continued  in  same 
company  in  Colonel  N.  Meserve's  regiment;  fought  at  Crown 
Point,  Ticonderoga,  and  in  other  campaigns. 

In  1777  he  was  in  Captain  Joseph  Bailey's  company,  Moses 
Kelly's  regiment.  General  Vi'^hipple's  brigade. 

In  1 781  he  served  in  Captain  Nathaniel  Head's  company  of 
Lieut. -Col.  David  Reynolds'  regiment  of  New  Hampshire  troops. 

He  was  a  lieutenant  as  earlv  as  1776,  as  appears  from  military 
archives ;  his  name  appearing  with  other  Hopkinton  men. 

Oliver  Dow  was  born  in  Salem,  N.  H.,  in  1736;  moved  to 
Hopkinton,  in  1773,  back  to  Salem  about  1790  and  lived  there 
till  1820,  when  he  moved  to  Waterville  with  his  son  Levi,  died 
here  December  18,  1824  and  was  buried  in  Monument  Park. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  2O3 

He  was  grandfather  of  Charles  Dow  who  Hved  and  died  here, 
and  great-grandfather  of  Levi  A.  Dow,  late  of  Co.  B,  21st  Maine 
Infantry  Volunteers. 

He  was  a  great  grand-father  of  Hon.  Richard  S.  Dow,  coun- 
sellor-at-law,  State  street,  Boston,  Mass.,  to  whom  the  writer 
is  indebted  for  this  biographical  sketch. 

Sampson  Preeman:  x^ppears  in  a  return  of  men  enlisted  into 
the  Continental  Army  from.  1st  Essex  county  regiment.  Resi- 
dence, Salem.  Term,  three  years.  Joined  Capt.  Fairfield's 
company.  Col.  Wigglesworth's  regiment.     Yo\.  41,  p.  44. 

Appears  with  rank  of  prk'ate  on  muster  roll  of  Capt.  Joseph 
McNall's  company,  Col.  Edward  Wigglesworth's  regiment, 
Dated  Camp  at  Valley  Forge,  June  2,  1778.  Term  three  years. 
Vol.  61,  p.  24. 

Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  muster  and  pay  roll  of  Capt. 
Peter  Page's  company,  Col.  Wigglesworth's  regiment,  for 
March  and  April,  1770,  dated  at  Providence,  ]\Iay  5,  1779. 
Enlisted  February  i,  1777,  three  }-ears.  Transferred  to  Capt. 
John  K.  Smith's  company,  Col.  Smith's  regiment.    Yol.  22,  p.  98. 

Appears  with  rank  of  priratc  on  Continental  Army  pay 
accounts  of  Capt.  John  K.  Smith's  company,  Col.  Smith's  regi- 
ment, for  service  from  February  i,  1777  to  February  5,  1780. 
Residence,  Salem.     Continental  Army  books. 

Sampson  Freeman  was  a  free  man  of  color  who  came  to 
W^aterville  from  Peru,  Me.,  in  1835,  ^^1*^  after  a  brief  acquain- 
tance married  Venus,  the  widow  of  Prince  Henry  who  lived  on 
the  second  rangeway  and  owned  a  small  farm.  Venus  was 
brought  up  in  the  family  of  Judge  Redington  of  Vassalboro. 
Her  husband  must  have  died  before  1825  as  she  was  a  widow 
in  1826  and  lived  on  the  farm  she  inherited  from  him  and  which 
is  now  a  part  of  the  farm  of  J.  C.  Blaisdell  on  the  2nd  rangeway. 
Freeman  lived  with  "Aunt  Venus"  six  years,  when  she  died  and 
was  buried  in  JMonument  Park.  He  died  in  1843  ^^^  ^^as  buried 
near  her. 

Enoch  Fuller,  Revolutionary  soldier,  died  in  Winslow,  January 
29,  1842,  aged  eighty-seven,  and  was  buried  in  the  "Old  Fort" 
Cemetery. 

Seth  Getchell:  Grandfather  of  Miss  Julia  Stackpole,  enlisted 
from  Berwick,  Maine,  where  he  was  born  in  1753.     He  married 


204  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLi;. 

Sarah  Grant  by  whom  he  had  nine  children,  all  of  whom  are 
dead. 

He  came  here  soon  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War, 
owned  a  small  farm  about  two  and  a  half  miles  west  of  Water- 
ville  village,  and  worked  in  a  grist  mill,  which  might  have  been 
near  the  dam  of  the  Union  Gas  &  Electric  Co.,  on  the  Messalon- 
skee  or  farther  up  that  stream  at  the  Rice  bridge.  In  1840  he 
lived  with  Susan  Stackpole. 

He  died  in  Pittsfield,  INIaine,  in  July  1845,  aged  ninety-one 
years,  eight  months.  His  wife  survived  him,  but  died  in  Febru- 
ary of  the  following  year,  and  the  remains  of  both  were  brought 
here  and  buried  in  Pine  Grove  Cemetery. 

Nathaniel  Gilman:  Has  record  of  service  but  no  way  to 
identify  him  positively,  as  there  are  many  of  the  same  name. 
He  lived  here  and  died  here  before  1840,  as  his  widow,  Sarah 
Gilman,  was  a  pensioner  here  at  that  date.  The  date  of  his  birth, 
death  or  place  of  enlistment  are  in  doubt,  but  he  was  buried  in 
the  family  vault  in  the  old  cemetery  and  when  it  was  made  into 
a  park  (Monument)  the  vault  was  demolished  and  all  the  bodies 
removed  to  Pine  Grove  Cemetery. 

Elisha  Hallet:  Private,  Capt.  Elisha  Nye's  company. 
Enlisted  February  14,  1776:  service  to  November  21,  1776,  nine 
months,  six  days.  Company  stationed  at  Elizabeth  Islands  for 
defense  of  sea  coast,  also,  Capt.  Elisha  Hedge's  company^  Col. 
Freeman's  regiment.  Enlisted  September  3,  1779.  Discharged 
September  18,  1779;  service  five  days.  Company  detached  "for 
military  service  at  Falmouth  on  an  alarm.  Massachusetts 
Soldiers  and  Sailors  in  Revolution,  Vol.  VII,  p.  122. 

Received  a  pension;  lived  in  Waterville,  in  1840,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-two  years,  with  Jonathan  Hallet.  Date  of  death 
unknown ;  buried  in  old  cemetery  in  Oakland. 

Solomon  Hallett:  Private,  Capt.  Joshua  Gray's  company.* 
Enlisted  November  i,  1775,  discharged  December  31,  1775,  ser- 
vice two  months,  five  days  in  defense  of  sea  coast.  Roll  dated 
Barnstable. 

*Capt.  Joshua  Gray  of  Yarmouth ;  captain  of  a  company  of 
minute-men,  engaged  July  i,  1775,  discharged  December  31, 
1775. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  205 

Private,  Capt.  Ebenezer  Baker's  company,  Col.  Freeman's 
regiment.  Marched,  October  4,  1777,  service  eighteen  days. 
Company  marched  to  Tiverton,  R.  I.,  on  a  secret  expedition. 

Private,  Capt.  2*^licah  Hamlen's  company,  Col.  Jonathan 
Reed's  (ist)  regiment  of  Guards.  ^larched,  April  2,  1778. 
Service  to  July  6,  1778,  three  months,  four  days,  at  Cambridge, 
including  four  davs  (eighty  miles)  travel  home.  Enlistment 
three  months  from  April  2,  1778. 

Private,  Capt.  Elisha  Hedge's  company,*  Col.  Freeman's  regi- 
ment. Marched  September  3,  1779.  Discharged  September  18, 
1779.  Service  fifteen  da}'s.  Company  detached  from  militia 
for  service  at  Falmouth  on  an  alarm. 

"^Capt.  Elisha  Hedge,  Yarmouth,  Capt.  2nd  (ist  Yarmouth) 
company,  1st  Barnstable  County  Regiment  of  Massachusetts 
Militia. 

Solomon  Hallett  was  living  in  ^^'aterville  (now  Oakland)  in 
1840,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six,  and  was  a  pensioner.  He  died 
soon  after  this  date  and  was  buried  in  the  old  cemetery  at  West 
Waterville  (now  Oakland). 

Timothy  Littleficld:  Enlisted  from  Wells,  Maine,  September 
4,  1775  in  Capt.  Noah  Moulton  Littlefield's  company,  and  served 
three  months  and  fifteen  days  at  Wells  and  Arundell,  guarding 
sea  coast. 

Also:  In  Capt.  James  Littlefield's  company,  Col.  Stover's 
regiment  from  August  14,  1777  to  November  14,  1777,  four 
months  and  three  days,  including  300  miles  travel  home  from 
Coeman's  (Oueman'sf  ?)  )  Heights  with  Northern  Army. 

Also :  Served  to  reinforce  the  Continental  Army  from 
August  2,  1780  to  December  26,  1780,  five  months  and  nine  days 
including  fifteen  days'  travel  home. 

Descriptive  list,  6'  1"  high,  light  complexion,  age  twenty-one 
years. 

Was  a  pensioner  and  lived  here  in  1840.  Date  of  death  and 
place  of  interment  unknown. 

Salathiel  Penny:  Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  muster  roll 
of  Capt.  Samuel  Sayer's  company,  Col.  Jam.es  Scammon's  regi- 
ment, dated  August  i,  1775.  Time  of  service  three  months, 
four  days.  Enlisted  May  3,  1775.  Residence,  Wells,  eight 
months'  service.     Vol.  16,  p.  zy. 


206 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


Appears  with  rank  of  prh'afe  on  company  return  of  Capt. 
Samuel  Sayer's  company,  Col.  James  Scammon's  regiment, 
October,  1775.  Enlisted  May  3,  1775.  Residence,  Wells^  Me. 
Coat  Rolls,  eight  months'  service.     Vol.  56,  p.  205. 

Appears  am.ong  signatures  to  an  order  for  bounty  coat  or  its 
equivalent  in  money  due  for  the  eight  months'  service  in  1775, 
in  Capt.  Samuel  Sayer's  company,  Col.  James  Scammon's  (30th  j 
regiment,  dated  Cambridge,  October,  2"/,  1775.  Coat  Rolls,  Vol. 
57,  File  21. 

Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  muster  roll  of  Capt.  Silas 
Wild's  company,  Col.  Edmund  Phinney's  regiment,  dated  in  Gar- 
rison at  Fort  George,  December.  1776.  Enlisted  January  10,  1776. 
Time  of  service,  ten  months,  four  days.  Reported  sick  in  bar- 
racks. Re-engaged,  November  14,  177'^),  under  Col.  Brewer. 
Vol,  46,  p.  6. 

Salathiel  Penny:  Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  muster 
and  jjay  roll  of  ('apt.  iJaniel  ?vlcrriir>  company,  Col.  Samuel 
Brewer's  regiment.  Marched  to  Bennington.  Enlisted  January 
I,  1777.  W'as  present  at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne.  Dis- 
charged ^vlarch  17,  1777.     Residence,  Wells.     \'ol.  21,  p.  100. 

Was  born  in  Wells,  Maine,  in  1756.  First  wife  unknown; 
second  wife  was  Mr   garet  C.  Grant  of  Ikrwick. 

]\Ir.  Penney  settled  u];on  and  clearefl  tlie  farm  where  he  lived 
and  died,  and  which  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Moses  Penney. 

By  his  first  wife  he  had  two  daughters  and  one  son.  Peletiah, 
father  of  William  G.  Penney,  father  of  our  "Penney  Boys/'  Ira, 
Peletiah,  Charles,  William  and  Fred  and  one  daughter,  Harriet, 
who  married  Nelson  McCrillis. 

Salathiel  Penney  died  September  22,  1847,  aged  ninety-one 
years,  and  was  buried  in  Monument  Park.  About  1875  ^^^ 
remains  were  removed  to  Pine  Grove  Cemetery. 

John  Pv.llen  was  born  at  Attleboro,  Mass.,  May  7,  1763.  He 
was  the  youngest  of  the  nine  children  of  James  Pullen  and  Lydia 
Woodcock,  his  wife,  who  had  been  married  at  Attleboro,  Febru- 
ary 26,  1742.  Lydia  Woodcock  was  the  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Woodcock,  who  is  said  to  have  been  a  very  brave  man  and  of 
much  influence  in  the  colony  at  that  time. 

John's  grandfather  and  the  father  of  James  was  Nicholas  Pul- 
len.    He  is  the  earliest  ancestor  that  the  familv  have  thus  far 


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been  able  to  fincl,  aiul  notliiiii:::  is  known  of  him  except  the  fact 
of  his  marriage  at  Rehoboth.  Mass..  on  January  10.  lyoo  to 
Mary  Tucker. 

John  Pullen  was  a  Revohitionary  soldier,  his  name  appearing 
in  a  descriptive  list  of  men  raised  to  reinforce  the  Continental 
annv  for  the  term  of  six  months  agreeably  to  a  resolve  of  June 
5.  17S0.  He  is  there  described  as  seventeen  years  of  age.  five 
feet,  four  inches  in  height  and  of  dark  complexion.  His  resi- 
dence is  given  as  Attleboro.  He  arrived  at  Springfield.  July  0. 
1780.  and  with  the  nth  Division,  to  which  this  re-enforcement 
was  assigned,  marched  to  camp.  Jul\-  11.  I78c^,  under  command 
of  Ensign  Barrows.  (Mass.  Muster  and  Pay  Rolls.  \'ol.  35. 
page  192.) 

The  name  of  John  Pullen  of  Attleboro  also  appears  in  a  return 
dated  Camp  Totoway,  October  2^,  1780.  containing  a  list  of 
men  raised  for  six  months'  service  and  returned  bv  Hrig.-Cien. 
Patterson  as  having  jxissetl  muster.  (Mass.  Muster  and  Pay 
Rolls,  \'ol.  25.  page  241.) 

He  was  in  the  Continental  army  from  July  o.  1780  to  January 
8.  1 781.  having  seen  six  months'  and  two  days'  service. 

John  Pullen  was  married  at  W  inihrop.  Mc.  June  23.  1785. 
to  Amy  Bishop,  daughter  and  youngest  ch M  of  Scpiire  Bishop 
and  Patience  Titus.  Eight  children  were  L)orn  of  this  union. 
one  of  whom,  Sarah  Boardman,  married  John  Caffrcy.  who  was 
the  grandfather  of  Mrs.  L.  D.  Carver  of  Augusta. 

John  Pulkn  died  March  _'g.  1810.  at  tlu-  age  of  f(.irty-scven. 
at  W'aterville.  Me.,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  cemetery  on  Elm 
street,  now  Monument  Park. 

His  widow.  Amy  l>ishop  Pulkn,  resided  for  a  number  oi  years 
in  W'aterville  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Sarah  Boardman  Catfrey. 
and  was  living  as  late  as  the  year  183(1.  when  ^he  made  applica- 
tion for  State  bounty,  as  aj^pears  by  the  records  in  the  land  office 
of  Maine. 

Asa  Rcdingfon:  Was  born  in  the  town  of  lioxford,  Essex 
Co.,  Mass,  December  22.  1761.  Sou  of  Abraham  and  Sarah 
(Kimball")  Redington.  lii  June  177S  lie  enlisted  in  W  ilicii,  X. 
H.,  in  Col.  Peabody's  regiment,  and  iuiued  the  forces  of  Gen. 
Sullivan  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  where  tlie  tre)oi)s  were  (juartered 
in  Brown  College. 


208  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

In  December  he  was  discharged  and  returned  to  Wilton,  N.  H. 
In  June,  1779  re-enHsted  in  the  "Continental  Establishment"  for 
one  year,  joined  the  army  at  Fishkill  on  the  Hudson  and  spent 
the  following  winter  at  Danbury,  Ct. 

In  spring  of  1780  joined  the  regiment  of  Col.  ]\Iiller  and  spent 
the  balance  of  his  term  of  enlistment  scouting  as  far  north  as 
West  Point  and  was  discharged  at  expiration  of  term  of  service. 
In  March,  1781,  he  again  enlisted  and  joined  the  army  near  West 
Point  in  Col.  Alex  Scammel's  regiment,  which  dropped  down 
the  Hudson  to  Kingsbridge,  thence  to  New  Jersey,  Philadelphia 
and  Annapolis  and  finally  reached  Yorktown  in  time  to  partici- 
pate in  the  seige  and  surrender.  Thence  he  followed  the  for- 
tunes of  the  army  in  its  long  march  to  Saratoga,  thence  to 
Princeton,  New  Jersey  and  West  Point  where  he  was  discharged 
December  23,  1783  without  pay  and  left  to  travel  300  miles  to 
his  home,  carrying  the  musket  he  had  borne  through  his  long 
service.  The  old  musket  was  treasured  many  years  in  his  family 
and  finally  presented  to  the  State  of  Maine  by  his  oldest  son, 
Judge  Redington.. 

Mr.  Redington  came  to  Vassalboro  in  1784,  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Nehemiah  Getchell,  September  2,  1787.  Came  to 
Waterville  (then  Winslow)  in  1792  where  he  died,  March  31, 
1845.  He  was  buried  in  Monument  Park,  where  his  remains 
still  lie. 

Asa  Redington  was  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Appleton  A,  Plaisted 
of  Waterville. 

Simeon  Simpson:  Simeon  Simpson  enlisted  in  Winslow  in 
July,  1782  for  three  years,  in  Capt.  King's  company,  Lieut. -Col. 
Brooks'  regiment  (the  7th  Mass.  Line)  ;  transferred  to  the  4th 
Massachusetts  Line  and  was  discharged  in  the  State  of  New 
York,  December  31,  1783.     Mr.  Simpson  was  pensioned  in  1818. 

In  a  paper  dated  October  11,  1836,  he  alleged  that  he  was 
seventy  years  old.  This  would  make  his  birth  in  1766,  and  his 
age  ninety-four  at  his  death,  September  24,  i860,  though  he 
claimed  to  be  ninety-six. 

He  was  buried  in  Winslow  on  the  home  farm,  now  owned 
by  the  Lockwood  Company.  Before  this  article  goes  to  press, 
his  remains  will  have  been  removed,  with  those  of  his  family,  to 
Pine  Grove  Cemetery. 


HISTORY    01^    WATKRVILLE.  20g 

Jonathan  Soule:  Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  muster 
and  pay  roll  of  Captain  Calvin  Partridge's  company,  Colonel 
John  Ciishing's  regiment,  for  service  at  Rhode  Island.  Enlisted, 
September  23,  1776.  Time  of  service,  one  month,  twenty-eight 
days.     Vol.  3,  p.  62. 

Jonathan  Soule :  Appears  with  rank  of  private  on  muster  and 
pay  roll  of  Captain  James  Harlow's  company.  Col.  Ezra  Wood's 
regiment,  raised  for  eight  months  to  guard  the  passage  of  North 
river.  Enlisted,  June  5,  1778.  Time  of  service,  eight  months, 
four  days.     Vol.  20,  p.  8. 

He  died  January  6,  1832,  aged  eighty-four,  and  was  buried 
in  the  old  Elm  street  cemetery,  and  in  1875  removed  to  Pine 
Grove  Cemetery. 

Lot  Sturtevant:  Was  born  in  Wareham,  Mass.,  July  25,  1759. 
He  was  the  second  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Gibbs)  Sturte- 
vant, Joseph  was  the  son  of  Aloses,  son  of  Samuel,  son  of 
Samuel,  who  was  at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  as  early  as  May  1642. 
His  affidavit,  on  file  in  the  land  office  at  the  State  House, 
Augusta,  gives  the  following: 

"Lot  Sturtevant  of  Waterville,  June  15,  1835,  seventy-five 
years  old  and  upwards,  enlisted  at  Wareham,  Mass.,  1777,  for 
three  years  in  Capt.  Josh  Eddy's  company.  Gen.  Bradford's  regi- 
ment, Massachusetts  Line.  Served  his  full  time  and  was  honor- 
ably discharged  at  West  Point  in  1780.  LTnited  States  pensioner. 
Land  certificate  granted  April  19,  1835." 

It  cannot  be  ascertained  when  he  came  to  Waterville,  but  it 
must  have  been  before  1790,  for  his  eldest  son,  Zenas,  was  born 
here  in  November,  1790,  and  the  succeeding  children,  seven 
in  all,  were  born  here  prior  to  1806.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Bessie,  who  was  born  October  3,  1764  or  5,  and  died  January  13, 
1833,  aged  sixty-eight.  Lot  Sturtevant  died  at  Waterville, 
June  4,  1848,  aged  eighty-eight,  at  the  home  of  Reward  Sturte- 
vant. 

His  farm  w^as  one  of  the  "Ten  Lots"  of  which  he  was  the 
original  settler  and  proprietor.  Here  he  lived,  reared  his  family, 
and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  one  mile  north  of  Fairfield  Center 
on  the  Pishons  Ferry  road. 

Richard  Szveefser:     Of  North  Yarmouth  is  credited  with  ser- 
vice as  a  private  in  Capt.  Noyes'  company.  Col.  Phinney's  regi- 
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Mast^.  and  enHsied  from  ibere.  'Came  10  Berwick  after  ibe  urar 
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ai  BimkeT  Hill,  and  serred  dixring-  ibe  eniire  RexolnliosnaTT  "War. 
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1792.  and  bcih  •die  trrsr.  frame  bouse  in  WaierriDe,  :''  -  -"  /' 
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:.:.fz  ocilr  an  open  field  witbom  fences,  and  was  deeded  : .  : '  - 
town  of  ^^'in5low  for  a  bnrs-ingr  groond,  wiib  cenain  reserraiion?- 
^^"ben  :>  -.     -  —  were  mn  to  deane  tbe  "'..-.-  :    .  :  • 

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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  211 

THE     WAK    Oi'     1812. 

The  War  of  181 2,  as  is  well  known  grew  out  of  the  claim  of 
Great  Britain  to  the  right  of  search  of  our  merchant  vessels,  and 
the  impressment  of  American  seamen  under  various  pretexts, 
which  culminated  in  a  "State  of  War,"  as  declared  by  our 
National  Congress,  June  18,  181 2,  and  proclaimed  by  President 
Madison,  the  following  day. 

The  follov/ing  are  the  Rosters  of  the  several  companies  of 
militia  enlisted  from  Waterville  and  vicinity  for  the  war,  with 
their  service  as  noted.  The  residence  of  the  company  officers  is 
given  while  that  of  the  men  is  not  and  the  records  at  Augusta 
and  Washington  do  not  give  them,  but  as  the  Waterville  com- 
panies were  recruited  here,  the  means  of  transportation  at  that 
time  primitive  and  limited,  the  inference  is  that  they  were  i)rob- 
ably  residents  of  Waterville. 

Service  from  the  14th  to  25th  September,  18 14. 

Roll  of  the  Field  and  Staff  of  Lieut. -Col.  Elnathan  Sherwin's 
Regiment  of  Militia,  being  the  ist  Regiment,  2nd  Brigade,  8th 
Division,  in  service  at  Augusta  from  the  14th  io  the  25th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1 814.  This  regiment  started  for  the  seaboard  but  was 
ordered  into  camp  at  Augusta  to  await  orders.  On  the  24th  day 
of  September  there  was  a  draft  from  the  regiment  to  fill  up  the 
regiment  of  Lieut. -Col.  Ellis  Sweet  in  service  at  Bath.  Those 
of  the  regiment  not  drafted  were  discharged  on  the  25th  day  of 
September,  1814. 

Elnathan  Sherwin,  lieut.-col.,  Waterville;  John  Cleaveland, 
major,  Fairfield;  Richard  ^L  Dorr,  major;  Ephraim  Getchell, 
adjutant;  Joseph  H.  Hallett,  or.-mast.,  Waterville;  Ambrose 
Howard,  or.-mast. -sgt. ;  Moses  Appleton,  surgeon,  Winslow ; 
David  Wheeler,  paymaster,  Waterville ;  Zedekiah  Belknap,  chap- 
lain, Waterville;  Moses  Healey,  drum-major;  Benjamin  Foster, 
fife-major;  Thomas  Leeman,  fife-major. 

Field  and  Staff  Roll  of  Lieut.-Col.  Elnathan  Sherwin's  drafted 
regiment  of  militia  in  service  at  Wiscasset  and  Edgecomb  from 
the  24th  of  September  to  the  loth  of  November,  1814. 

Elnathan  Sherwin,  lieut.-col.,  Waterville;  Richard  M.  Dorr, 
major;  Nathan  Stanley,  major,  China;  Aloses  Appleton,  sur- 
geon, Winslow;  Joseph  Bachellor,    surgeon's  mate;    Ephraim 


212 


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Gctchcll,  arljnt;iril;  \)hv\<\  VVlicclcr,  j^aymastcr,  Watejille; 
Joseph  H.  ffallctt,  or.  master;  Charles  Haydon,  Jr.,  s'gt,- 
major;  lienjamin  Foster,  or.-mast.-sf;Ct. ;  I^avi^l  U>w,  oim- 
major;  Thomas  Leeman,  fife-major. 

Roll  of  Captain  Dean  lianj^'s'  Company  of  Artillery  in  AJjor 
Joseph  Chandler's  liattalion  raiserl  in  Walcrvillc  and  Vassaioro 
anrl  in  service  at  An^nista  waiting  orders,  from  the  I2th  tohe 
24th  of  September,  1K14. 

Commissioner]  r^fficers :  l)<aii  f'an^'s,  caj^t.,  Watervje; 
Lemuel  Pullen,  lienf.,  VVatfrvill'-;  Ahrahain  Smith,  li<;t., 
Waterville. 

Serj^eants:  Jahcz  Ornv,  Arlemiis  Smith,  Jx-vi  Mrx^re,  ;., 
William  MeFarland. 

Corjjorals:  William  Marston,  Alexander  McKechnie,  AI>1 
Moore,  James  iJra^^. 

Musicians:     Henry  Richardson,  Reward  Sturtevant. 

iVivates:  William  liates,  Dennis  I'larkwell,  ICllis  Hlackwt, 
William  lilish,  Andrew  IJradforrl,  Martin  iJradfr^rd,  Chark 
Freeman,  Joseph  Cullivcr,  vSamud  Hastings,  Godfrey  Jacksoj 
Joseph  Marston,  Josiah  Merrill,  Newall  Page,  JJenjamin  Rive^ 
James  Shorey,  Jeremiah  Smith,  Joseph  Smiley,  Jeremiah  Tozier 
3,  Alvin  Trask,  Jonathan  C.  To/ier. 

C',i\A.  Dean  I'an^s  was  a  j>rivateer  and  a  srjlditr  of  the  Ameri 
can  Revolution. 

Roll  (A  Captain  William  Rullen's  company  of  militia  in  ijeut. 
(>jl.  I'Jnathan  Sherwin's  regiment,  raised  in  Waterville  and  in 
service  at  Augusta  from  the  14th  to  the  25th  of  September,  1814. 

William  Rullcn,  caj^t.,  Waterville;  Joseph  Warren,  lieut., 
Waterville;  Leonard  Cornforth,  ensign,  Waterville. 

Sergeants:  Ichabod  Smith,  Reuben  Ricker,  Isaiah  llallett, 
John  Mallett. 

Corjjorals :  Samuel  .Merry,  James  Gilbert,  Wiman  Shorey, 
Thomas  Stevens. 

Musicians:     Dexter  Rullen,  Jsaac  Gage,  Asa  liates. 

I'rivatcs:  Philip  Badger,  James  Hurgess,  Thomas  Bessey, 
Sf  til  Crowell,  Isaiah  Crowell,  David  Coombs,  Miller  Crowell, 
John  Cobb,  Hiram  Crowell,  Seward  Corson,  Daniel  Duren,  Pliny 
Farrington,    Seth   Gage,    Bryant   Gleason,    Reuben   Gage,  Jr., 


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am  Hume.  Thocnat  Parker, 

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214 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


B.  Thompson,  Butler  Wood,  Ephriam  Wilson,  Jr.,  Samuel  Wil- 
son, Luke  Wilson,  Wm.  Wyman,  Benj.  Windship,  Geo.  Abbot, 
Wentworth  Ross,  Stephen  Getchell,  Levi  Pollard,  Wm.  Ham, 
Frederic  R.  Paine,  John  Gould,  Nathaniel  Dingley,  Stephen 
Abbot. 

Amos  P.  Southard  was  born  and  enlisted  in  Litchfield  or  Edge- 
comb.  Soon  after  the  war  he  moved  to  Winslow,  where  he  lived 
nearly  fifty  years,  and  died  in  1870. 

An  act  "Declaring  war  between  Great  Britain  and  her  depend- 
encies, and  the  LTnited  States  and  their  Territories"  was  passed 
by  Congress  and  signed  by  the  President,  June  18,  1812.  Treaty 
of  peace  was  concluded,  December  24,  1814,  ratification 
exchanged,   February   17,   1815,  and  proclaimed,  February   18, 

1815. 

From  reports  of  the  third  auditor  of  the  Treasury  Department 
dated  December  12,  1836,  (published  in  Ex.  Doc.  No.  20,  House 
of  Representatives,  24th  Congress,  2nd  Session.,)  and  February 
22,  1858,  (published  in  Ex.  Doc.  No.  'J2,  House  of  Representa- 
tives, 35th  Congress,  ist  Session),  it  appears  that  the  total  num- 
ber of  regulars,  militia,  volunteers  and  rangers  who  served  the 
United  States  at  any  time  during  the  war  of  1812  was  528,274. 
It  is  evident  that  this  number  represents  only  the  number  of 
enlistments  and  not  the  actual  number  of  individuals  in  service. 
It  is  known  that  many  of  the  men  who  served  during  the  War  of 
1812  rendered  more  than  one  term,  or  "tour,"  of  service.  >  But 
the  number  of  men  who  served  more  than  one  term  cannot  be 
ascertained,  and  it  is  impossible,  therefore,  to  determine  the 
actual  number  of  individuals  in  service  during  that  war. 

Waterville's  most  eminent  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812  was 
Gen.  Eleazer  Wheelock  Ripley. 

Born  in  Hanover,  N.  H.,  April  15,  1782,  he  was  a  nephew 
of  President  John  Wheelock  and  son  of  Prof.  Sylvanus  Ripley, 
D.  D.,  of  Dartmouth,  and  was  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1800. 
He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Timothy  Boutelle,  and  of 
his  tax  assessed  in  1809,  $2  was  tax  on  his  income  as  a  lawyer. 
He  was  town  agent  in  1809  and  1810,  was  one  of  the  first  board 
of  fire  wardens  elected  in  1809,  was  chosen  by  the  town  as  one 
of  the  petitioners  to  the  general  court  to  annex  Waterville  to 
Somerset  county. 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLi:. 


215 


May  7,  1810,  he  was  elected  by  the  town  its  representative  to 
the  general  court  of  ^Massachusetts  and  was  re-elected,  May  13, 

181 1.  He  was  Speaker  of  the  House  and  was  elected  Senator  in 

1812.  He  became  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  21st  Regiment  Massa- 
chusetts Infantry,  ]\Iarch  12,  1812,  and  just  one  year  later, 
colonel.  He  was  made  brigadier-general,  April  15,  1814,  and 
major-general,  July  2^,  18 14.  He  was  wounded  in  the  attack 
on  Toronto  but  soon  after  commanded  the  2nd  Brigade  under 
Gen.  Brown  on  the  Niagara  frontier.  At  the  battle  of  Lunday's 
Lane,  after  the  wounding  of  Gen.  Brown,  the  command  of  the 
army  devolved  on  Gen.  Ripley.  He  was  severely  wounded  in  the 
battle  of  Niagara  but  was  conspicuous  for  gallantry  in  defense 
of  Fort  Erie,  August  15,  1814.  November  3,  1814,  by  resolution 
of  Congress,  he  was  presented  with  a  gold  medal  inscribed  with 
the  names,  "Niagara,  Chippewa,  Erie."  He  remained  in  the 
U.  S.  Army  until  1820,  stationed  in  Louisiana.  He  then 
resigned,  practiced  law  in  Louisiana,  served  in  the  State  Senate, 
and  was  a  member  of  Congress  from  1835  to  1839.  He  died  in 
Louisiana,  ]\larch  2,  1839. 


THE    AROOSTOOK    WAR. 

From  the  close  of  the  War  of  181 2,  the  Northwestern  bound- 
ary of  ]\Iaine  was  in  dispute  till  1839,  when  the  Legislature  (of 
Maine)  in  private  session  took  measures  to  drive  trespassers 
from  their  camps  in  the  valley  of  the  Aroostook  river. 

The  first  detachment  in  charge  of  a  sheriff  was  captured  and 
taken  to  jail  at  Fredericton,  N.  B.,  whereupon  the  Governor  of 
New  Brunswick  sent  word  to  Governor  Fairfield  that  he  had 
orders  to  hold  the  disputed  territory  by  military  force  and 
demanded  the  recall  of  all  militia  from  the  Aroostook. 

The  people  were  aroused  ;  the  Legislature  indignant !  Money 
was  voted  for  the  protection  of  the  public  lands,  and  a  draft  of 
10,000  men  from  the  militia  was  ordered  and  the  men  sent  at 
once,  through  the  winter  snows  to  the  frontier,  where  they  spent 
three  months  near  Presque  Isle,  on  the  Aroostook. 

A  company  was  drafted  here  and  at  Fairfield  with  Samuel 
Burrill  as  captain,  and  on  February  25,  1839  joined  the  2nd 
Regiment  at  Augusta,  and  marched  through  deep  snow  to  the 
frontier. 


2l6  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

A  peaceful  settlement  was  enforced  by  this  timely  occupation 
and  the  troops  marched  home. 

A  roster  of  the  Waterville-Fairfield  company  with  the  names 
of  the  Waterville  men  marked  with  a  star,  follows.  But  one 
man  of  this  company  from  Waterville  survives,  Adrastus  Branch. 
Roll  of  Capt.  Samuel  Burrill's  Co.  I  of  Infantry,  in  the  detach- 
ment of  the  drafted  militia  of  Maine,  2nd  Regiment,  ist  Brigade, 
2nd  Division,  called  into  actual  service  by  the  State  of  Maine 
for  the  protection  of  its  Northwestern  frontier,  from  the  25th 
of  February  to  the  19th  of  April,  1839. 

Commissioned  officers :  Captain,  Samuel  Burrill,  Fairfield ; 
lieutenant,  John  J.  Emery,  Fairfield :  ensign,  Charles  Cornforth, 
Waterville.* 

Sergeants:  James  Hasty,  Jr.,*  Elias  C.  Hallett,*  William 
Gardner,*  William  L.  Maxwell.* 

Corporals:  John  Bradbury,  Ephriam  W.  Leach,  Daniel  W. 
Tinkham,*  Thurston  H.  Tozier.* 

Musicians :  Josiah  Pearl,  Silas  Richardson.* 
Privates:  David  P.  Banks,*  Goodwin  Bradbury,  W^alter 
Burleigh,*  Adrastus  Branch,*  Gersham  Boston,*  Charles 
Church,  Isaac  B.  Clifford.*  Benjamin  F.  Corson,*  Eben  S.  Cor- 
son,* Charles  E.  Dillingham,*  William  Davis,*  Briggs  H. 
Emery,  2nd,  John  Evans,*  Joseph  Fogg,  William  Green,* 
Heman  Gibbs,  Jr.,*  Abisha  Higgins,*  James  Hey  wood,  INIoses 
Healey,  Jr.,*  James  Holmes,*  Chancellor  Johnson,*  Williams 
Lander,*  Theodore  McGrath,*  George  W.  Priest,*  Granville  D. 
Pullen,*  Joseph  G.  Peavy,*  William  Peavy,*  Joseph  Peavy,* 
John  Rines,  George  Rose,*  Joseph  Ricker,  Jr.,*  Ivory  Ricker,* 
William  Southwick,  Henry  A.  Shorey,*  Hartson  Smith,*  Peter 
Sibley,  Jr.,*  Curtis  Tobey,  William  P.  Tozier,*  William  Wood- 
man,* Charles  S.  Wyman,  James  E.  Wyman,  Sewell  Wliitcomb,* 
Thomas  Whitcomb,*  James  Wyman. 

Officers'    servants :      Joshua    Ellis,    Jr.,    capt's. ;    Thomas    J.     , 
Emery,*  lieut's. ;  Oliver  Cornforth,*  ensign's.  PO. 

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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  21/ 


MEXICAN     WAR. 

No  record  has  been  found  on  the  rolls  of  the  war  department 
of  the  enlistment  of  any  volunteer  soldiers  from  Waterville  for 
service  during  the  ^lexican  War,  either  for  volunteer  regiments 
or  for  the  regular  army. 

The  principal  recruiting  in  Maine  was  at  Portland,  Bangor, 
Eastport  and  Lewiston. 

Hiram  Cothsan  enlisted  at  Bangor,  September  28,  1847,  giv- 
ing his  birthplace  as  Waterville,  jNIaine.  He  was  assigned  to 
Company  M,  2nd  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  and  was  discharged  there- 
from July  19,  1848,  by  expiration  of  service,  as  a  musician. 

Hostilities  began  x\pril  24,  1846,  with  a  skirmish  which 
resulted  in  the  capture  of  Captain  Thornton  and  his  party  of 
dragoons  by  the  ]\Iexicans.  The  act  of  Congress  approved  May 
13,  1846,  declares  that  ''A  state  of  war  exists  between  that  gov- 
ernment (Mexico)  and  the  United  States.''  Treaty  of  peace 
was  concluded  February  2,  1848,  ratifications  exchanged  May 
30,  1848,  and  proclaimed  July  4,  1848. 


From  a  report  of  the  adjutant  general,  dated  December  3, 
1849,  (published  in  Ex.  Doc.  No.  24,  House  of  Representatives, 
31st  Congress,  ist  session),  together  with  certain  additions  com- 
piled from  the  official  records  on  file  in  this  office,  it  appears  that 
the  number  of  regulars  and  volunteers  received  into  service  dur- 
ing the  war  with  iMexico  was  101,110. 


WAR    WITH    SPAIN. 

From  a  ''Statistical  Exhibit  of  Strength  of  Volunteer  Forces 
called  into  Service  during  the  War  with  Spain,"  published  by  the 
adjutant  general's  office,  December  13,  1899,  it  appears  that  the 
total  number  of  volunteers  in  service  during  the  war  was  2^3,235. 
This  number  includes  453  officers  who  were  also  officers  in  the 
regular  army. 

Our  representation  in  this  war  is  as  follows : 


2l8 


HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLE. 


first  Battalion 

Heaz'y  /. 

h'tillcry. 

Avery,  Harley  E., 

Co. 

c, 

Private. 

Barnaby  Alec, 

C, 

Private. 

Barnes,  Ernest  A., 

c. 

Private. 

Barry,  Richard  J.,  Jr., 

c, 

Private. 

Bennett,  Nelson, 

A, 

Private. 

Butler.  Joe, 

A, 

Private. 

Buzzeli.  Henry  E., 

c, 

Corporal. 

Cabana,  Charles  L., 

A, 

Private. 

Chanpagne,  ]\Iathias, 

c, 

Private. 

Cone,  Augustus, 

c, 

Private. 

Conway,  James  J., 

A, 

Private. 

Button,  James  W., 

c, 

2d  Lieutenant 

Ferguson,  William, 

c, 

Sergeant. 

Foster,  Ralph  H., 

D, 

Musician. 

Francouer,  Joseph, 

c, 

Private. 

Furlong,  Richard  E., 

c, 

Private. 

Greenwood,  Arthur, 

A, 

Private. 

Hall,  Fred  G.. 

D, 

Private. 

Keniston,  Charles  W., 

c, 

Private. 

Latlip,  Frank  C, 

A, 

Private. 

Lessor,  Edward, 

A, 

Private. 

I/ibbey.  Llewellyn  AI., 

A, 

Private. 

jMcLellan,  William  J., 

c. 

Sergeant.        < 

Alerrill,  PMmund  W., 

c, 

Corporal. 

Moore,  Thomas  F., 

A, 

Private. 

Perry,  Frank  F., 

A, 

Private. 

Pooler,  David  B., 

c. 

Private. 

Pooler,  Fred  E., 

A, 

Private. 

Pooler,  Harry, 

c, 

Private. 

Soucier,  Oniseme, 

c, 

Private. 

Sterling,  William  L, 

c, 

Corporal. 

Thing,  Daniel  H., 

c. 

Private. 

Vigue,  Joseph, 

A, 

Private. 

Volier,  Joseph  D., 

c, 

Private. 

Willette,  Edward, 

c, 

Private. 

HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE:.  219 

First  Maine  Infantry. 


Co. 

L, 

Private. 

M, 

Private. 

L, 

Private. 

B, 

Private. 

M, 

Corporal 

L, 

Private. 

H, 

Private. 

M, 

Private. 

Band, 

Private. 

M, 

Private. 

D, 

Private. 

E, 

Private. 

Berg,  Lars, 
Burgess,  Fred  E., 
Dor,  George  F., 
Ellis,  Walter  L., 
Gilman,  Forest  J., 
Hewes,  Irving  R., 
King,  Joseph  F., 
Lidstrom,  Axel, 
Pomelow,  Trefflin, 
Pooler,  William  J., 
Surman,  William  J., 
Winslow,  Henrv  L., 


PHILIPPINE    WAR. 

From  a  "Table  Showing  the  Organization,  Service  and 
Strength  of  the  United  States  Volunteers  Authorized  by  the 
Act  of  March  2,  1899,"  published  by  the  adjutant  general's  office 
October  i,  1901,  it  appears  that  the  total  number  of  volunteers 
in  service  during  the  Philippine  Insurrection  was  39,178.  This 
number  includes  252  officers  who  were  also  officers  in  the  regular 
army. 

List  of  Soldiers  of  Philippine  War  from  Waterville. 
Burgess,  private,  Co.  C,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Butler,  Melville,  pri- 
vate, Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Barker,  Edwin,  private,  Co.  B,  43rd 
U.  S.  Inf.;  Besse,  Edward  H.,  O.  M.  sergeant,  5th  U.  S. 
Inf. ;  Chamberlain,  William,  private  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ; 
Doe,  George  Fred,  sergeant,  Co.  I,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf ;  Dutton,  J. 
W.,  1st  lieutenant,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf.;  Furlong,  Richard  E., 
Jr.,  private  Co.  I,  46th  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Hawes,  Percy  W.,  private,  Co. 
B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Larkin,  Phillip,  private,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S. 
Inf.;  Latlip,  Fred,  private,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf.;  McLellan, 
William  J.,  sergeant,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  McFarland, 
Howard,  sergeant,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Micue,  John,  private, 
Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf, ;  Micue,  Joseph,  private,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S. 
Inf;  Micue,  Gus,  private,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Morgan,  G.  A., 


220  HISTORY    OF    WAT^RVILLE. 

U.  S.  Art. ;  Pomelean,  Trefflie,  private,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf., 
(killed  in  action)  ;  Preble,  Hallis,  musician  (band)  43rd  U.  S. 
Inf.;  Pooler,  Barney,  private,  Co.  B.,  43rd  U.  S.  Infantry; 
Quint,  Willis,  private,  Co.  B,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Tallouse,  Willie, 
private,  Co.  H,  43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Towle,  Winfred,  private,  Co.  B, 
43rd  U.  S.  Inf. ;  Wilson,  George  A.,  Jr.,  musician  (band)  43rd 
U.  S.  Inf. 

REGULAR    ARMY     AND    NAVY. 

Among  the  sons  of  Waterville  who  have  served  in  the  regular 
army  and  the  navy  are : 

Lieut.  Boutelle  Noyes.  U.  S.  N.  the  son  of  Edwin  and  Helen 
(Boutelle)  Noyes,  was  born  in  Waterville,  January  3,  1848.  He 
entered  the  United  Statess  Naval  Academy,  September  26,  1864, 
and  was  graduated  with  honor  in  1868.  His  first  service  afloat 
was  on  the  Guerrierreer,  flag-ship  of  the  South  Atlantic  Squadron, 
1868-69.  He  was  promoted  to  be  ensign  in  1869.  He  was  in 
the  European  fleet  from  1869- 1872,  was  promoted  to  be  master 
in  1870  and  commissioned  lieutenant  in  1873,  which  rank  he  held 
at  his  death.  From  1873- 1877  he  was  with  the  South  Pacific 
fleet;  was  on  the  training  ship  Minnesota  from  1877  ^^  1880. 
In  1 88 1  he  was  ordered  to  the  Asiatic  squadron  on  board  the 
Richmond  where  he  met  his  death  by  accident,  August  29,  1883. 
His  last  command  was  for  his  men  to  save  themselves  while  he, 
looking  out  for  their  safety,  died  at  his  post  of  duty.  He  had 
previously  received  honorable  mention  for  saving  the  lives  of 
seamen  at  peril  to  his  own.  It  was  in  the  days  of  the  Civil  War 
when  naval  service  was  of  utmost  value  that  Boutelle  Noyes  gave 
himself  to  his  country.  In  the  days  of  peace,  promotion  was 
slow,  but  his  high  ideals,  great  ability,  and  faithful  performance 
of  duty  seemed  to  assure  the  highest  rank  in  his  profession, 

Lieut.  Noyes  was  married,  June  25,  1879,  ^^  Miss  Charlotte 
Bleecker  Luce.  Two  sons  were  born  to  them.  Robert  Boutelle 
Noyes  and  Stephen  Henley  Noyes.  The  family  home  is  at  New- 
,  port,  R.  I. 

John  Herbert  Philbrick,  was  born  in  Waterville,  Maine,  June 
15th,  1853;  fitted  for  college  at  the  Waterville  Classical  Insti- 
tute (now  Coburn  Classical  Institute)  ;  entered  Colby  Univer- 
sity, (now  Colby  College),  in  1869;  graduated  in  1873,  A.  B. ; 


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entered  West  Point  Military  Academy,  July  i,  1873,  and  served 
there  as  a  cadet  until  June  15,  1877,  when  he  was  graduated  and 
appointed  2nd  lieutenant  in  the  nth  U.  S.  Infantry;  he  was  at 
first  stationed  at  Fort  Bennett,  and  afterwards  at  Fort  Sully,  on 
the  western  frontier;  in  1879  he  was  ordered  to  West  Point  as 
acting  assistant  professor  of  modern  languages  at  the  Alilitary 
Academy;  at  the  expiration  of  this  assignment  he  rejoined  his 
regiment  at  Fort  Sully;  he  was  promoted  ist  lieutenant,  April 
24,  1886  and  served  as  regimental  adjutant  from  December  i, 
1889,  until  the  date  of  his  death,  July  24,  1890. 

Francis  Bdzvard  Nye,  son  of  Hon.  Joshua  Nye,  was  born  in 
Waterville,  Maine,  August  27,  1847;  entered  W^est  Point  Mili- 
tary Academy  in  1865,  and  was  graduated  in  1869,  being 
assigned  to  the  2nd  U.  S.  Cavalry,  in  which  he  served  four  years  ; 
at  the  expiration  of  this  service  he  resigned  and  was  in  business 
in  Augusta,  Maine  for  twelve  years,  was  then  appointed  captain 
in  the  Commissary  Department,  by  President  Arthur  in  1885 ; 
was  stationed  at  Fort  Monroe  for  four  years ;  at  Washington, 
D.  C.  for  five  years;  June  i,  1896  he  was  commissioned  major, 
and  was  stationed  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  for  four  years,  at  Chat- 
tanooga, Tenn.,  and  Huntsville,  Ala.,  for  one  year ;  he  was  in 
San  Juan,  P.  R.,  for  two  years  and  since  that  time  has  been  at 
Vancouver  Barracks,  Washington.  By  regular  promotion  he 
has  attained  the  rank  of  colonel. 

Major-General  Charles  Heywood,  Commander  of  the  Marine 
Corps  of  the  U.  S.  Army,  was  a  Waterville  boy,  the  son  of  Lieut. 
Charles  Heywood  of  the  United  States  Navy,  who  died  at  sea. 
Before  he  was  twenty  years  old  he  received  a  commission  in  the 
Marine  Corps,  April  5,  1858.  Before  the  Civil  War  he  had  seen 
service  off  the  coast  of  Africa,  and  off  Nicaragua.  He  was  on 
the  Cumberland  at  Vera  Cruz,  Mexico,  at  the  outbreak  of  the 
war.  He  commanded  the  after-gun  deck  division  in  the  fight 
between  the  Merrimac  and  the  Cumberland,  and  when  the  latter 
went  down  with  the  flag  flying,  Capt.  Heywood  fired  the  last  gun 
and  jumped  overboard.  "For  gallant  and  meritorious  service  on 
this  occasion  he  was  brevetted  major  and  received  honorable 
mention  from  his  commander.  Afterward  he  was  in  command 
of  the  guard  on  the  Hartford,  Farragut's  flagship  and,  January, 
1864,  was  made  fleet  marine  oflicer.     He  was  on  the  Hartford  in 


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tlie  battle  of  ^[obile  Bay,  commanding  a  cii\'ision  of  nine-inch 
guns.  For  his  part  in  this  action  he  was  commended  and 
breverted  lieutenant-colonel.  He  shared  several  other  engage- 
ments and  at  the  close  oi  the  war  was  recommended  for  advance- 
ment five  numbers  by  a  special  board.  During  the  railroad  riot 
of  1S77  ^^  commanded  a  battalion  of  marines  and  was  highly 
commended  for  the  efficiency  of  his  soldiers  as  well  as  for  his 
care  oi  them.  He  received  the  thanks  of  the  Xa\y  Depanment. 
He  rendered  important  service  on  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  in 
1SS5.  commanding  a  force  of  1,100  men  and  keeping  the  Panama 
Railroad  open  in  the  midst  of  revolution.  He  was  made  lieu- 
tenant-colonel in  18S8  and  three  years  later  became  commandant 
at  Washington  Barracks.  The  good  work  of  die  marines  during 
the  Spanish  War  and  the  present  superb  condition  of  the  force 
is  largely  the  result  of  the  work  of  Gen.  Hey  wood,  who  has 
inspired  the  force  with  his  own  spirit,  perfected  its  discipline  and 
pro^•^ded  its  thorough  equipment.  At  present  the  ^[arine  Corps 
enrolls  6.090  men.  Gen.  Heywood  became  brigadier-general  in 
March.  1899  and  major-general  in  July.  1902.  On  the  laner 
occasion  a  ver\-  unusual  compliment  was  paid  Gen.  He\'\vood. 
The  Secretary  of  the  Xa\'A-.  instead  of  sending  the  commission 
by  an  aid.  the  usual  custom.,  called  in  person  and  presented  the 
commission  with  words  of  high  appreciation. 

Charles  Leonard  Phillips,  was  a  member  of  the  class  of  1S81 
at  Colby  University-  (now  Colby  College V  and  for  three  years 
:>:k  high  rank  in  his  class :  at  the  end  of  his  third  year  he  par- 
ticipated in  a  competitive  examination  for  entrance  to  the, West 
Point  Militar}-  Academy  and  was  the  successful  candidate :  he 
entered  the  Academy  and  graduated  with  his  class :  was 
apf>ointed  2nd  lieutenant  and  has  since  been  promoted  ist  lieu- 
tenant and  captain.  Colby  College  conferred  upon  him  the 
degree  of  A.  M.  (out  of  course). 

Otho  JV.  B.  Farr  was  bom  February-  6.  1871.  He  entered 
Colby  in  1888  and  West  Point  Military-  Academy  in  June,  1889. 
He  was  graduated  in  1893  and  was  assigned  to  the  2nd  Artillery-, 
stationed  at  Fort  Preble.  Me.  Afterward  at  Fort  ^^'arren.  Mass., 
Fort  Riley.  Kan.,  and  Fort  Sheridan.  111.  He  ser\-ed  with  light 
batter\-  A.  2nd  Artiller\-.  during  the  Spanish-American  War, 
taking  part  in  the  battle  before  Santiago  de  Cuba,  July,  1898. 


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Promoted  to  be  I5t  lieutenant,  March,  1889,  and  to  captain,  July 
I,  1901.  Served  in  Cuba  from  January,  1899  to  Januan.-,  1902. 
Capt.  Farr  is  now  stationed  at  Fort  Warren.  Mass.,  and  is  in 
command  of  the  77th  Co.  Coast  Artillery. 

Alexander  Fred.  Hammond  Yates,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  R. 
Yates  of  this  city,  was  born  January  11,  1879.  He  entered  the 
U.  5.  Xaval  Academy  at  Annapolis  in  September,  1895,  and  was 
graduated,  January  28,  1899.  He  served  as  ensign  on  the  U.  S. 
Ship  Detroit  during  the  Spanish-American  War,  from  June  ist 
to  August  23.  1898.  In  January.  1899.  he  was  ordered  to  the 
Asiatic  Station,  where  he  has  ser^-ed  on  the  Oregon  and  Pam- 
panga  and  has  been  in  command  of  the  Leyte  and  Arayat  until, 
his  three  years'  cruise  being  completed,  he  was  ordered  to  the 
United  States  in  the  summer  of  1902  on  a  furlough. 

General  Isaac  SparrozL'  Bangs'^  was  born  in  Canaan,  ^^le..  March 
17.  1 83 1,  the  son  of  Isaac  Sparrow  Bangs  and  of  a  family  which 
already  for  three  generations  had  been  prominent  in  the  militar}' 
and  civil  history  of  the  Kennebec  valley.  He  was  prepared  at 
Rochester,  X.  Y.,  for  the  first  class  that  was  graduated  at 
Rochester  University  but  on  account  of  trouble  with  his  eyes  did 
not  enter. 

He  began  his  business  life  in  1856.  was  for  sometime  cashier 
of  the  Waterville  Bank  and  after^vard  becoming  interested  in 
granite  quarries  has  done  a  large  business  as  a  contractor.  He 
has  also  owned  interests  in  millmg  and  other  industries. 

Mr.  Bangs  had  prominent  share  in  the  Civil  War  history  of 
Waterville.  He  became  captain  of  Co.  A.  20th  Regiment.  Maine 
Infantr}-  Volunteers  :  was  soon  promoted  to  be  lieutenant  colonel 
81  St  U.  S.  C.  Infantry  and  afterward  to  be  colonel  of  the  loth 
U.  S.  C.  Heavy  Artillery.  As  reward  of  meritorious  service  he 
was  made  brigadier  general  by  brevet  at  the  close  of  the  war. 
Since  the  war  General  Bangs  has  shown  himself  loyal  to  the  old 
soldiers  and  has  done  much  to  advance  their  interests.  He  is  a 
charter  member  and  past  commander  of  W.  S.  Heath  Post  Xo. 
14.  Department  of  ^^laine.  G.  A.  R..  has  been  department  com- 
mander and  iunior  vice  commander-in-chief  of  the  Grand  Armv 


1.    The  sketch  of  Gen.  Isaac  Sparrow  Bangs  was  prepared  by  the  editors  of  this 
volume.    It  seems  to  them  fitting  that  it  should  be  inserted  here.  Editors. 


224  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

of  the  Republic.  He  organized  the  Sons  of  Veterans  of  the  six 
New  England  states  as  the  first  Grand  Division  S.  of  V.  of  the 
U.  S.  A. 

General  Bangs  is  the  author  of  the  chapter  m  this  volume  upon 
the  military  history  of  Waterville.  To  the  securing  of  the  list 
of  soldiers  which  accompanies  it  he  has  given  a  great  deal  of 
time  and  labor  and  expense.  He  deserves  great  credit  for  this 
labor  of  love  and  patriotism. 

General  Bangs  is  also  member  and  past  commander  of  the 
Commandery  of  Maine  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion.  He  is  a  member  of  the  ]\Iaine  Society  of  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution  and  a  member  of  the  "Ancient  and 
Honorable  Artillery  Company  of  Boston." 

In  Masonic  circles  he  is  a  member  of  the  lodge,  chapter, 
council  and  commandery ;  Past  Commander  and  Grand  Com- 
mander of  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Maine,  Knights  Templar ; 
Maine  Consistory  Ancient  and  Accepted  Rite  and  Mystic  Shrine. 

October  20,  1857,  General  Bangs  was  married  to  Miss  Hadas- 
sah  Jane  Milliken,  daughter  of  Hon.  Dennis  Milliken  of  Water- 
ville. They  have  one  son,  Dennis  Milliken  Bangs,  who  was 
graduated  at  Bowdoin  and  is  at  present  engaged  with  his  father 
in  the  insurance  and  real  estate  business  under  the  firm  name  of 
The  L  S.  Bangs  Company  with  offices  in  Milliken  block. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 


THE  CHURCHES  OF  WATERVILLE. 

By  Gkokge  Dana  Boardman  Pepper,  D.  D.,  EL.  D.,  Lately 
President  of  Colby  College. 

The  chief  wealth  of  a  community  and  the  permanent  basis  of 
all  its  other  wealth  is  character,  but  morals  and  religion,  if  not 
identical,  are  at  least  inseparable.  Moral  law  has  its  origin  and 
seat  in  the  nature  of  God  and  he  who  consciously  honors  God 
will  take  care  to  conform  to  his  laws.  In  a  centennial  review, 
therefore,  a  sketch  of  the  history  of  Waterville's  religious  life 
may  well  have  place.  It  is  not  practicable,  however,  to  trace 
that  life  definitely,  save  as  it  has  come  to  organized  expression. 
Hence  our  view  must  be  confined  mainly  to  the  origin  and  devel- 
opment of  our  churches  and  religious  societies.  Of  the  churches- 
here  organized  none  have  died  out.  Nine  have  been  born  and 
nine  still  live.  Named  in  the  order  of  age  they  are  the  follow- 
ing: Baptist,  Universalist,  Congregationalist,  Roman  Catholic, 
Unitarian,  Methodist,  Episcopalian,  Second  Adventist,  and  Free 
Baptist.  Along  with  these  are  .  other  religious  organizations, 
some  of  them  included  in  some  or  all  of  the  churches  or  closely 
connected  with  them,  and  more  or  less  under  their  care  and  over- 
sight. Such  are  the  Christian  Endeavor  Society,  Epworth 
League,  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  Woman's  Asso- 
ciation and  the  like.  There  are  other  religious  movements  of 
more  or  less  significance  which  are  independent  of  the  churches 
named,  such  for  example  as  that  of  "Christian  Science,"  which 
may  claim  a  passing  recognition. 

From  the  beginning  ]Massachusetts  had,  as  a  state,  assumed 
the  control  of  the  religious  as  well  as  of  the  civil  life  of  its  citi-- 


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in  1788,  the  last  in  1806.  Waterville  was  doubtless  visited  occa- 
sionally by  Baptist  preachers.  A  preacher's  diary,  under  date 
of  1803,  reports  a  visit  to  "Watervail"  for  a  preaching  service 
and  speaks  of  the  "Methirdous"  as  meeting  in  a  dwelling  house, 
of  "a  meeting  kept  up  by  a  number  of  Baptists,"  and  of  an 
apparent  "revival  of  religion  in  the  place  of  late."  The  Water- 
ville Baptist  church  is,  in  a  sense,  a  child  of  the  college.  The 
Massachusetts  legislature  in  181 3  chartered  The  Maine  Literary 
and  Theological  Institution,  which  in  1820  on  a  charter  given  by 
the  Maine  legislature,  became  Waterville  College.  The  Theo- 
logical Institution  began  operations  in  t8i8.  Its  first  faculty 
was  a  learned  and  powerful  one,  although  it  consisted  of  only 
one  man.  Rev.  Jeremiah  Chaplin.  He  with  his  family  and  sev- 
eral (probably  seven)  theological  students  arrived  at  Waterville 
on  the  25th  of  June  of  that  year  and  was  welcomed  with  great 
gratification  by  the  leading  men  of  the  town,  and  indeed  by  the 
citizens  generally,  for  they  had  earnestly  desired  and  had  con- 
tributed to,  the  origination  of  the  institution.  His  residence, 
still  known  as  the  Wood's  house,  stood  where  now  stands  the 
Elmwood  Hotel,  and  here,  as  Mrs.  Chaplin  states  in  her  interest- 
ing diary,  a  number  of  gentlemen  called  before  the  first  Sabbath, 
requesting  President  Chaplin  to  preach  in  the  meeting-house. 
He  gladly  complied  and  his  first  sermon  was  on  "God's  love  to 
sinners."  The  attendance  was  large,  the  attention  close.  At 
subsequent  meetings  the  attention  was  not  less  and  the  attend- 
ance was  greater.  Arrangements  were  made  to  make  perma- 
nent these  public  services.  Hon.  James  Brooks,  "the  accom- 
plished editor  of  the  New  York  Express"  characterized  Dr. 
Chaplin's  discourse  as  "clear,"  "cogent"  and  "as  irresistibly 
convincing  as  problems  in  Euclid,"  and  Dr.  Wm.  Lamson,  years 
after  hearing  them,  remembered  them  as  in  style  "chaste,  simple, 
suited  to  the  subject  and  remarkable  for  their  purity,"  also 
as  "enlivened  with  striking  illustrations."  Under  the  controlling 
influence  of  this  strong  and  Godly  man  twenty  persons  met  at 
liis  house  on  the  27th  of  August,  1818,  and  organized  The  First 
Baptist  church  of  Waterville.  Their  names  were  Jeremiah 
Chaplin,  his  wife  Marcia  Scott  Chaplin,  Hadley  Proctor,  John 
Wakefield,  Henry  O.  W\er,  Samuel  C.  Dilleway,  John  Turner, 
Jr.,  William  Lewis,  William  Lewis,  Jr.,  David  Webb,  Manoah 


228  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Crowell,  Thomas  Parker,  Abigail  Lewis,  Mary  Showry,  Mary 
Coombs,  Mary  Coombs,  Jr.,  Eliza  Plummer,  Hannah  Yeaton, 
Lydia  Perkins,  Alartha  ^liller.  Of  these  the  first  seven  were 
connected  with  the  Literary  and  Theological  Institute  and  the 
other  thirteen  had  been  members  of  the  Sidney,  ^le..  Baptist 
church.  The  new  church  adopted  "Articles  of  Faith,"  "Articles 
of  Discipline,"  and  a  "Covenant."  The  articles  of  faith  and 
covenant  were  substantially  like  those  still  accepted,  but  the  arti- 
cles of  discipline  numbering  twenty-five  have  disappeared  as  a 
separate  declaration.  Their  provision  for  ruling  elders  was  in 
a  few  years  found  superfluous  and  the  elaborate  provision  for 
the  correction  by  punishment  of  offenses  was  doubtless  found  to 
breed  rather  than  correct  transgressions.  The  early  church 
records  containly  show  a  vast  expenditure  of  thought,  time,  and 
labor  in  the  line  of  "discipline."  In  the  service  of  recognition  at 
the  town  meeting-house  Rev.  Asa  Wilbur  of  Sidney  gave  the 
hand  of  fellowship  and  Rev.  Otis  Briggs  of  North  Yarmouth 
preached  the  sermon.  So  was  this  ecclesiastical  child  born,  hav- 
ing by  its  union  of  the  two  elements  of  school  and  community, 
a  character  which  it  has  ever  retained  and  which  has  determined 
in  large  measure  the  signal  nature  and  extent  of  its  influence  in 
the  world.  To  the  original  twenty  members  (ten  of  each  sex) 
there  were  added  during  the  first  year  eighteen  (nine  of  each 
sex).  In  the  first  decade  the  additions  were  eighty,  making  a 
total  of  one  hundred.  The  need  of  a  house  of  worship  of  their 
own  was  soon  felt,  for  the  continual  change  of  place  for  the 
preaching  and  the  social  services  alike,  was  unfavorable  to 
growth.  Accordingly  in  1824  a  legally  constituted  society  was 
formed  whose  first  work  was  the  erection  of  a  new  meeting- 
house. A  building  committee,  consisting  of  Ephraim  Tripp, 
Daniel  Cook,  and  Avery  Briggs,  was  chosen  with  power  to  go 
forward  and  build.  The  contract  to  build  for  $3,375  went  to 
James  Packard  of  Readfield.  For  laying  the  foundation  there 
was  an  added  expenditure  of  $100  and  a  pew  worth  $125. 
According  to  a  custom  then  general,  the  money  was  raised  mainly 
by  the  sale  of  pews.  These  were  sold  partly  by  private  sale  and 
partly  by  auction  and  the  process  was  continued  for  some  years. 
The  house  was  dedicated  December  6,  1826  "to  the  service  and 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  229 

worship  of  Almighty  God  by  appropriate  services  consisting  of 
singing,  prayer,  and  a  sermon  by  Dr.  Chapin."  Stoves  for  heat- 
ing the  house  were  voted  in  1832.  It  had  the  old-time  lofty 
pulpit  and  high  backed  pews  and  a  gallery  on  three  sides  which 
with  some  modifications  still  remains.  As  to  location,  size,  plan, 
adaptation  to  serve  for  public  worship  and  for  school  and  college 
anniversaries,  it  has  proved  to  be  permanently  admirable  and 
bears  emphatic  witness  to  the  sagacity  of  the  leaders  in  the  Bap- 
tist society  of  that  day.  Prior  to  1875  it  had  been  more  than 
once  somewhat  modified  within,  but  it  then  underwent  more  radi- 
cal changes.  The  small  chapel  on  its  north  side  built  in  1836 
by  Mr.  Samuel  Redington  at  his  own  expense  for  social  worship 
was  removed  and  the  present  vestry  connecting  with  the  west 
end  of  the  meeting-house  and  forming  with  it  one  structure  was 
erected.  Until  near  the  present  time  this  addition  has  furnished, 
with  the  main  building,  sufficient  space,  but  so  great  has  been  the 
enlargement  of  the  Sunday  school,  that  it  has  been  decided  to 
make  a  still  further  enlargement  and  the  matter  has  been  placed 
in  the  hands  of  a  competent  committee  to  form  and  report  for 
action  a  suitable  plan. 

Until  1829,  that  is,  for  twenty-one  years  the  church  was  with- 
out a  pastor  and  was  served  by  officers  of  the  Literary  and  Theo- 
logical Institute  and  College,  for  the  most  part  gratuitously. 
The  ministerial  services  of  Dr.  Chaplin  and  after  him  of  Dr. 
Chapin  were,  however,  as  faithful  and  unremitting  as  though  they 
had  had  each  no  other  office  than  that  of  pastor.  On  the  7th  of 
October,  1829,  the  church  called  and  ordained  as  their  first  pastor 
Mr.  Hervey  Fittz,  a  young  man  just  graduated  from  Newton 
Theological  Institute.  He  had  moral  and  spiritual  earnestness, 
good  sense,  tireless  industry  and  an  impressive  utterance.  His 
salary  was  $500,  of  which  $400  was  paid  by  the  society  and  the 
remainder  by  the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Convention,  the  first  and 
last  aid  ever  received  by  the  church  from  such  a  source.  He 
remained  only  one  year  but  during  that  time  there  was  a  precious 
revival  at  the  Ten  Lots.  From  that  neighborhood  ten  were  bap- 
tized of  whom  seven  were  of  the  Bates  families  which  have 
since  added  so  largely  to  religious  work  and  worship  at  home 
and  abroad,  especially  to  the  service  of  song.  Rev.  H.  Fittz 
after  several  brief  pastorates  elsewhere  served  the  Massachusetts 


230  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Baptist  Convention  as  its  general  agent  or  secretary  for  thirty- 
five  years,  until  his  death  in  187S.  In  his  care  and  labor  for  the 
weak  churches  of  Massachusetts,  by  visitation,  counsel,  and 
preaching,  he  did  very  important  service. 

Rev.  Henry  H.  Greene,  salary  $600,  served  two  years,  during 
which  time  over  forty  were  received  by  baptism.  We  are  thus 
brought  to  the  close  of  1833  and  of  the  first  fifteen  years  of  the 
church.  The  record  shows  that  the  total  of  known  living  mem- 
bers of  the  church  at  that  time  was  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
seven.  The  clerk  for  the  year  1834  states  that  ''owing  to  defi- 
ciencies in  the  former  clerks,  the  records  do  not  contain  the  names 
of  all  the  members  but  this  is  the  most  accurate  that  could  be 
obtained." 

January  i,  1834,  was  an  eventful  day  for  the  Baptist  church 
and  society  and  indeed  for  the  town  of  Waterville,  the  beginning 
of  a  new  era,  for  on  that  day  began  the  ministry  of  the  young, 
boyish  looking  student,  fresh  from  his  studies  in  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Samuel  Francis  Smith.  He  was  ordained  the 
month  following,  February  12,  1834,  Dr.  Babcock  preaching  the 
sermon.  His  name,  history  and  writings  are  known  in  many 
lands.  At  the  seventy-fifth  anniversary  of  the  church  he  fur- 
nished a  paper  of  "personal  recollections''  of  his  pastorate  from 
which  the  following  extracts  are  made. 

"I  found  the  congregation  peculiar,  being  made  up  of  three 
elements,  the  college,  the  village  people,  and  the  families  from 
the  farms  in  different  directions  for  a  distance  of  five  njiles. 
*  *  "^  My  first  sermon  after  my  ordination  was  from  the  text 
Jer.  I  :  6,  'Then  said  I,  Ah  Lord,  God,  behold  I  cannot  speak  for 
I  am  a  child.'  *  *  *  Those  were  the  days  of  'protracted 
meetings,'  so-called,  continuing  usually  four  days,  hence  called 
'four-days  meetings.'  They  began  on  Tuesday ;  for  four  days 
there  was  preaching  forenoon,  afternoon  and  evening,  prayer 
meetings  and  inquiry  meetings  intervened.  Saturday  brought  a 
single  service  for  prayer  and  the  following  Sabbath  was  the  great 
day  of  the  feast.  Evangelists  and  hired  helpers  were  unknown. 
The  neighboring  pastors  offered  their  services  without  pay  in  aid 
of  brother  ministers.  *  *  *  The  first  meeting  of  this  kind 
was  held  by  this  church  in  April,  1834.  Rev.  Dr.  Tappan  of 
Augusta  preached  several  times  most  acceptably.     Father  Sewall, 


HISTORY    O^    WATERVILLK.  23 1 

home  missionary  in  Maine,  gave  useful  help  (both  Congrega- 
tionalists.)  ^  --i^  ^-^  i  remember  one  season  of  about  sixteen 
weeks  during  which  it  did  not  occur  to  us  that  we  were  living 
in  the  midst  of  a  revival,  but  souls,  averaging  one  every  week, 
entered  into  the  kingdom  of  God."  He  proceeds  to  speak  of  a 
revival  in  1858  which  had  its  origin  in  the  families  at  the  Ten 
Lots  and  thence  extended  to  other  parts  of  the  town.  Personal 
religion  was  the  general  and  absorbing  topic  of  thought  and  con- 
versation and  protracted  meetings  were  held  in  different  parts 
of  the  town.  The  college  shared  fully  in  the  work  and  its  results. 
The  singing  of  familiar  hymns  had  a  large  place  in  the  social 
services  especially  at  the  Ten  Lots.  Dr.  Smith  says  ''There  was 
no  visible  excitement,  there  were  no  sensational  discourses.  The 
spirit  spoke  with  his  still  small  voice  and  human  hearts  w^ere 
tender  to  hear  and  obey.  Attempts  were  made  only  to  enlist 
conscience  on  the  side  of  God  and  the  truth."  He  speaks  of  a 
Sabbath  in  the  early  summer  when  thirty-five  received  the  hand 
of  fellowship.  His  ministry  continued  eight  years,  1833-1841, 
during  which  170  were  received  into  the  church,  sixty  men  and 
no  women,  nearly  all  by  baptism.  Among  them  were;  men  and 
women  of  high  standing  and  large  influence,  names  still  familiar. 
In  1838,  sixty-four  joined  the  church,  twenty-nine  men  and 
thirty- five  women.  No  wonder  that  the  people  of  Waterville 
and  especially  the  Baptist  church  were  exceedingly  precious  in 
Dr.  Smith's  memory  until  the  day  of  his  death  and  no  wonder 
that  the  church  and  community  have  ever  given  him  a  large  place 
in  their  affections.  In  his  *" Personal  Recollections"  he  names 
and  felicitously  characterizes  one  by  one  over  fifty  of  his  former 
Waterville  members  and  friends,  although  more  than  a  half  cen- 
tury had  passed  since  his  removal  from  Waterville.  Rev.  David 
N.  Sheldon  at  once  succeeded  to  the  pastorate  but  after  a  year 
and  a  half  resigned  (September,  1843)  ^o  become  president  of 
the  college.  In  this  brief  pastorate  sixty-four  persons  became 
members  mostly  by  baptism  and  mostly  in  the  last  six  months 
of  the  pastorate  during  which  there  was  a  powerful  revival. 
In  this  the  families  of  the  Ten  Lots  shared  largely  as  did 
the  College.  Professors  Martin  P).  Anderson  and  Justin 
R.  Loomis  were  very  active  and  efficient  aids  to  the  pas- 
tor.     After  a  year,   in   September,   1844,   Mr.   John  C.  Stock- 


232  HISTORY    OF    W'ATERVILLE. 

bridge,  just  graduated  from  the  Newton  Theological  Sem- 
inary came  to  supply  the  pulpit  and  on  the  nth  of  Novem- 
ber, 1844,  was  ordained  as  pastor ;  Professor  Loomis  being  at  the 
same  time  ordained  as  Evangelist.  On  the  13th  of  August,  pre- 
ceding, forty-four  members  had  been  dismissed  to  organize  a 
church  in  the  west  part  of  the  town,  now  Oakland.  Mr.  Stock- 
bridge  was  a  man  of  fine  presence,  scholarly,  genial,  courteous, 
and  after  leaving  Waterville  held  important  pastorates  and  other 
positions  of  influence  and  from  Harvard  University  received  in 
1859  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity.  His  pastorate  closed 
August  15,  1847.  His  successor,  William  Crowell,  (made  D.  D. 
1857  by  Rochester  University)  began  his  ministry  in  November, 
1848,  was  ordained  January  31,  1849,  ^"^  terminated  his  pasto- 
rate November  30,  1850.  He  was  earnest,  scholarly  and  able, 
•  but  less  fitted  to  be  a  pastor  than  an  editor  which  he  had  been 
before  coming  to  Waterville  and  again  became  after  leaving. 
During  his  pastorate  only  eight  were  added  to  the  church,  but  of 
discipline  and  dissatisfaction  there  was  an  excess. 

Rev.  N.  ■Milton  Wood  was  pastor  during  the  eight  years  1852- 
1859.  In  these  years  there  were  two  powerful  revivals,  the  first 
in  1852,  the  second  in  1858,  each  resulting  in  large  accessions 
to  the  church.  The  whole  number  received  during  Mr.  Wood's 
pastorate  was  135,  seventy-four  of  them  by  baptism.  Mr. 
Wood's  preaching  was  clear,  strong,  direct,  scriptural.  Pro- 
foundly in  earnest  he  urged  with  tremendous  emphasis  at  once, 
the  terrors  and  the  mercies  of  the  Lord,  while  his  known  down- 
right integrity  mightily  re-enforced  his  words.  Around  him 
as  leader,  the  strong  forces  of  the  church  rallied  and  wrought 
with  a  will.  His  unique  personality  and  his  remarkable  sermons 
are  still  remembered  clearly  by  citizens  of  Waterville.  ]\Ir.  Geo. 
D.  B.  Pepper,  a  student  just  graduated  from  Newton  Theological 
Institute  was  ordained  as  pastor  of  the  church,  September  6, 
i860,  and  remained  five  years.  The  Nation's  tremendous  strug- 
gle for  life,  engrossed  much  of  the  thought  of  both  people  and 
pastor,  as  it  did  the  thought  of  the  whole  community  and  nation. 
It  was  felt  to  be  the  will  of  the  Master  that  the  great  principles 
of  righteousness  involved  in  the  Civil  War  and  the  immeasurable 
interests  pending,  should  be  emphasized  by  the  pulpit,  while  the 
fearful  sacrifices  made  by  members  of  the  church  and  society 


HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE.  233 

demanded  continual  words  of  encouragement,  cheer  and  consola- 
tion. Perhaps  this,  in  part,  is  the  reason  why  there  was  no 
larger  increase  in  the  membership  of  the  church  in  those  years. 
The  total  additions  were  fifty-three.  The  pastor  has  never 
ceased  to  think  with  grateful  wonder  of  the  kindly  forbearance 
and  sympathetic  helpfulness  of  his  people,  both  men  and  women, 
to  Deacon  W.  A.  F.  Stevens,  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school, 
and  President  Champlin,  his  debt  was  beyond  measure. 

In  February,  1867,  after  about  a  year  and  a  half  of  pulpit  sup- 
ply by  Dr.  Adam  Wilson  and  others,  Rev.  B.  F.  Shaw,  D.  D., 
became  pastor,  continuing  his  pastorate  two  and  a  half  years. 
He  is  said,  and  probably  truly,  to  have  been  the  most  popular 
pastor  the  church  has  ever  had.  Excelling  as  a  strong  and 
winning  preacher,  he  still  more  excelled  in  the  social  meetings, 
by  his  direct  address  to  the  conscience  and  his  sweetly  persua- 
sive appeal  to  the  heart.  Truly  so  large  was  the  attendance  at 
these  meetings  that  it  became  necessary  to  enlarge  the  vestry, 
and  in  his  short  pastorate,  sixty-three  members  were  added  to 
the  church,  forty-three  of  them  by  baptism.  The  salary  also, 
which  until  1S52  had  been  $600  and  from  that  time  to  Dr.  Shaw's, 
about  $800,  was  now  raised  to  $1,200,  and  the  old  time  cry  of 
deficit  was  no  longer  heard.  Four  months  after  Dr.  Shaw's 
withdrawal,  Mr.  Henry  S.  Burrage  was  ordained  as  pastor, 
December  30,  1869,  and  remained  until  October  i,  1873.  His 
preaching  was  thoughful  and  instructive ;  his  interest  in  all  that 
pertained  to  the  life,  at  once  of  the  church  and  the  community, 
intelligent  and  active ;  and  his  influence  wholesome  and  per- 
manent. At  Dea.  Stevens'  suggestion  he  prepared  and  preached, 
July  9,  1871,  a  sermon  on  the  history  of  the  church's  Sunday- 
school  from  its  organization  in  1827.  President  Henry  E. 
Robins'  was  received  into  the  church  just  before  Pastor  Burrage 
left,  and  through  Dr.  Robins'  influence  Rev.  Samuel  P.  Merrill 
became  the  next  pastor  in  November,  1873.  The  church  then 
numbered  207  members.  At  the  close  of  Mr.  Merrill's  pastorate, 
January  15,  1879,  ^^''^  membership  was  about  360,  of  whom  144 
had  been  received  by  baptism.  These  five  and  a  half  years  were 
years  of  intense  activity  and  great  achievement.  The  pastor  was 
a  mati  of  boundless  enterprise,  energy,  power  of  w^ork,  and  prac- 
tical wisdom.     President  Robins,  Dr.  Hanson,  and  others  were 


234  HISTORY    or    WATERVILLE. 

at  the  front  with  him  and  their  contagious  enthusiasm  took  pos- 
session of  the  whole  body.  He,  with  the  co-operation  of  these 
workers,  at  once  held  a  series  of  special  meetings ;  set  a  going 
a  flourishing  young  people's  meeting;  brought  in,  at  one  time 
in  his  pastorate.  Evangelist  Earle,  and  at  another  joined  his 
Methodist  brethren  in  revival  meetings  under  lead  of  the  Lynn 
Praying  Band ;  got  the  students  at  work  in  live  of  the  adjacent 
school  districts,  holding  services  in  the  school-houses ;  moved  in 
the  formation  of  a  Baptist  church  in  Fairfield  ;  saw  accomplished 
the  transformation  of  the  old  meeting-house,  and  the  erection 
of  the  present  large  and  commodious  connected  vestry ;  and 
effected  the  full  inauguration  of  that  mission  work  among  the 
French  people  of  the  place,  which  has  since  been  successfully 
prosecuted  and  now  flourishes  under  the  wise  and  able  ministry 
of  Rev.  P.  N.  Cayer. 

On  the  17th  of  April,  1879,  Rev.  Wm,  H.  Spencer  (see  biog. 
ch.)  began  his  happy  and  successful  pastorate  of  twenty  years. 
He  brought  to  the  duties  of  his  office  and  to  his  life  as  a  citizen 
such  qualities  of  mind  and  heart,  such  integrity,  fidelity,  industry, 
nobility,  as  to  command  universal  respect  and  to  achieve  con- 
tinuous success.  He  sought  and  gained  for  every  department 
of  Christian  work  a  constant  symmetrical,  wholesome  develop- 
ment. To  this,  his  able  pulpit  ministrations,  his  watchful  pas- 
toral care,  and  his  practical  business  sagacity  alike  contributed. 
The  church  was  made  to  see  and  feel  its  obligations,  not  to  the 
people  of  Waterville  only,  but  to  the  whole  world,  and  by  all 
possible  means  to  meet  those  obligations.  Special  prominence 
w^as  given  to  foreign  missions,  though  not  to  the  neglect  of  any 
other  department  of  Christian  work.  His  appreciation  of  the 
best  music  secured  an  enrichment  of  the  service  of  song,  notably 
in  the  purchase  by  the  church  of  a  new  organ  at  a  cost  of  $2,200. 
This  ideal  pastorate  closed  February  12,  1899.  Thq  number  of 
additions  during  it  was  590,  of  which  376  were  by  baptism.  The 
number  of  members  at  its  close  was  457.  There  were  several 
seasons  of  unusual  revival  interest,  but  for  the  most  part  the 
growth  in  number  was  continuous  in  connection  with  the  regular 
services  of  the  church.  A  considerable  fraction  of  the  increase 
was  from  the  French  population.  The  French  mission  on  the 
plains,  under  the  immediate  pastoral  care  of  its  successive  min- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  235 

isters,  has  been  from  the  beginning  a  source  of  gain  to  the  church 
and  indeed  is  itself  a  branch  of  the  church. 

On  the  6th  of  October,  1899,  Rev.  E.  C.  Whittemore  was  called 
to  the  pastorate  and  has  since  discharged  its  duties  with  signal 
ability  and  success  and  with  rich  promise  for  the  future.  The 
purchase  of  the  Gallert  property  on  Pleasant  street  for  a  parson- 
age, was  largely  through  his  influence.  A  Sunday-school  which 
in  all  its  departments,  not  including  the  French  or  any  other  mis- 
sion school,  numbers  about  six  hundred,  and  is  under  the  efficient 
leadership  of  Superintendents  Dea.  Horace  Purinton  and  Mrs. 
A.  T.  Dunn,  powerfully  re-enforces  the  pastor's  efficiency.  The 
Young  People's  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor  is  large  and  vigor- 
ous, especially  when  the  college  and  institute  students  are  in  town. 

The  woman's  mission  societies,  both  home  and  foreign,  are 
aggressive  and  helpful  to  every  interest  of  the  church.  The 
organization  of  women  for  the  care  of  the  church  building  and 
other  material  interests  of  the  church,  raises  much  money  for  its 
purposes  and  promotes  its  social  and  spiritual  welfare.  The 
church,  not  including  the  French  mission,  raises  annually,  for 
home  expenses,  about  $3,500,  and  for  outside  causes,  nearly 
$1,000.  These  figures  do  not  include  the  mone}'  that  is  given 
in  other  than  the  regular  process  of  collection.  Of  the  large 
representation  which  the  church,  by  virtue  of  its  connection  with 
the  college,  has  in  various  departments  of  Christian  work  at 
home  and  abroad  and  of  the  members,  men  and  women,  who  for 
like  reason  have  attained  to  great  distinction,  it  has  not  seemed 
best  to  speak.  A  grand  roll-call  it  would  be  if  their  names 
should  all  be  spoken.  Yet  the  church  has  not  attained.  The 
word  of  both  pastor  and  people  is  "Forward:' 


THE    UNIVERSALISTS. 

It  is  noteworthy  that  the  first  Universalist  minister  of  Water- 
ville,  Thomas  Barnes,  was  also  the  first  Universalist  minister 
ordained  in  the  State,  and  has  been  called  "the  father  of  the 
faith  in  the  State  of  IMaine."  He  visited  Belgrade,  Water- 
ville  and  Farmington  in  1802.  He  had  been  a  Baptist  but 
became  a  Universalist  in  Jaffrey,  N.  H.,  in  1783.  In  1798 
he   visited   Maine   and   the   next   year   organized   the   Eastern 


236 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


Association  of  Universalists  in  Gray,  where  the  next  two 
annual  meetings  were  held,  where  he  was  ordained,  January 
6,  1802.  The  1 2th  annual  meeting  of  the  association  was  held 
in  West  W'aterville,  called  in  a  report  of  the  meeting  "back 
Waterville,"  September  5,  1810,  and  with  Father  Barnes  was 
another  minister,  Rev.  Isaac  Root.  Mr.  Barnes  wrote  that  "the 
services  were  performed  before  a  respectable  and  crowded  assem- 
bly, with  vocal  and  instrumental  music  truly  animating  to  every 
soul,"  The  15th  annual  meeting  of  the  association  was  also  held 
in  "back  Waterville"  and  the  circular  letter  written  by  "Thomas 
Barnes,  clerk"  and  the  minutes  of  the  proceedings  signed  by 
"Isaac  Root,  moderator  and  "Thomas  Barnes,  clerk"  are  still 
extant.  At  a  meeting  of  the  association  held  in  Wlnthrop  in 
1 82 1,  there  were  present  eight  Universalist  ministers.  Three 
"came  into  the  work  of  the  ministry"  at  that  time,  "Br.  Frost, 
recently  converted  from  the  Baptist  order,"  Sylvanus  Cobb,  and 
Wm.  A.  Drew.  It  is  thus  evident  that  in  West  Waterville  there 
was  more  of  Universalism  than  in  the  east  part  of  the  town,  and 
that  in  this  vicinity  there  had  been  made  a  considerable  progress 
by  that  faith.  It  is,  therefore,  not  surprising  that  in  this  part  of 
the  town  there  should  have  been  so  much  of  welcome  to  the  cause 
that  it  was  decided  to  hold  here  the  annual  meeting  in  1823. 

At  that  meeting  a  sermon  preached  by  the  eminent  Rev.  Hosea 
Ballou,  won  over  to  the  Universalist  faith,  Mr.  Jediah  Morrill. 
From  that  day  until  his  death  he  devoted  himself  whole-heartedly 
and  effectively  to  the  Universalist  cause,  and  as  a  crowning  testi- 
monial of  his  love  for  the  society,  made  to  it  in  his  extreme  old 
age,  a  gift  of  $3,000,  to  be  a  perpetual  fund  whose  income  should 
go  for  the  maintenance  of  preaching.  In  1826,  May  28,  Rev. 
Sylvanus  Cobb  organized  a  Universalist  church  in  Waterville, 
consisting  of  the  following  persons:  Sylvanus  Cobb,  pastor; 
Eunice  H.  Cobb,  Nathan  Sawtelle,  Sarah  J.  Sawtelle,  Elizabeth 
Blackwell,  Hampden  Keith,  Levi  Barrett,  Rebecca  Barrett,  Abel 
Wheeler,  Erastus  O.  Wheeler,  Susanna  A.  Wheeler,  Cyrenus 
Wheeler.  May  M.  Wheeler,  May  Eaton,  Elizabeth  McFarland, 
Benjamin  Carson.  Of  these,  eleven  belonged  in  Waterville,  the 
other  six  in  the  neighboring  towns  of  Fairfield,  Winslow  and 
Sidnev. 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  237 

After  seven  years'  service,  the  last  two  as  pastor  of  the  new 
church,  Mr.  Cobb  removed  to  Maiden,  Mass.,  to  prosecute  that 
work  which  gave  him  so  great  distinction  as  a  writer  and  leader. 
On  his  removal  Rev.  \\\  A.  Drew  of  Augusta  preached  here 
occasionally.  It  was  apparently  not  accidental,  that  as  the  Bap- 
tists began  their  work  in  the  town  under  the  leadership  of  men 
who  were  in  ability  and  standing  among  the  foremost  of  their 
denomination,  so  also  the  Universalists  had  for  their  first  leaders, 
men  of  like  eminence.  The  character  of  the  people  and  the  cir- 
cumstances combined  to  make  this  a  requisite  to  immediate  suc- 
cess. 

Until  1 83 1  the  preaching  services  had  been  held,  by  consent  of 
the  town,  in  the  town  meeting-houses,  under  an  arrangement 
equitable  to  other  denominations.  The  disadvantage  of  this 
arrangement  and  the  importance  of  having  a  church  home  of 
their  own  had  become  so  obvious  and  urgent  to  the  Universalists 
in  this  part  of  the  town,  that  they  now  decided  to  build  for  them- 
selves, a  house  of  worship.  To  this  end  the  First  Universalist 
Society  was  organized  ''at  a  local  meeting  of  the  Members  of 
the  First  Universalist  Society  in  Waterville  holden  at  the  East 
meeting-house  in  W^aterville,  pursuant  to  notice  given  on  a  war- 
rant granted  by  Tim.  Boutelle  Esquire,  on  the  17th  day  of  Nov- 
ember, A.  D.  183 1,  at  4  o'clock  P.  M."  Col.  Chas.  Hayden  was 
chosen  moderator;  Alpheus  Lyon,  clerk;  Jediah  Morrill,  treas- 
urer ;  Wm.  Dorr,  collector.  A  committee  of  six,  of  which 
Jediah  Morrill  was  chairman,  was  "raised"  with  full  power  in 
the  name  of  the  society  to  form  plans  for  a  meeting-house,  secure 
a  suitable  lot,  contract  for  the  erection  of  the  house,  and  sell  pews 
to  pay  expenses,  "the  house  to  be  completed  one  year  from  date." 
That  they  acted  with  com.mendable  efficiency  is  apparent,  for  the 
next  record,  bearing  date  "1832,  November  Sth,"  shows  votes 
passed  "that  the  meeting-house  be  dedicated  on  the  ist  day  of 
January,  next" ;  that  a  committee  of  which  Jediah  ^lorrill  was 
chairman  "purchase  a  stove,  carpets,  etc.,"  and  that  "Brother 
George  Bates  be  invited  to  preach  the  sermon  at  the  dedication." 
A  glad  day  for  the  societv  was  that  first  day  of  January,  for  now 
they  had  their  own  "house  and  hom.e."  It  is  an  interesting  fact 
that  there  still  remains  with  us  in  a  vigorous,  cheerful  old  age, 
one  of  the  forty  men  who  signed  the  request  to  Timothy  Boutelle 


238  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

to  issue  a  warrant  to  call  the  meeting  for  the  first  organization 
of  the  society, — his  name,  the  last  on  the  list,  as  he  is  himself  the 
last  in  the  land  of  the  living, — our  venerable  friend  Walter 
Getchell,  whose  zeal  for  his  church,  to  this  day,  has  not  failed 
or  even  flagged. 

The  cost  of  the  house  was  $4,200.  The  clock,  costing  $300, 
was  given  by  Jediah  Morrill  and  a  part  of  the  lot  (valued  at 
$100),  on  which  the  house  was  built  and  still  stands,  by  Simeon 
Mathews.  An  interesting  letter  of  the  building  committee,  being 
dated,  "W'aterville,  ist  July,  1832,"  written  to  Mr.  Samuel 
Appleton  is  still  in  existence  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  A.  A.  Plais- 
ted,  the  committee  consisting  of  Jediah  Morrill,  Simeon  Mathews, 
Elah  Esty,  Alpheus  Lyon  and  Chas,  Hayden,  say:  "Dear  Sir: 
We  have  raised  by  subscription,  a  sum  to  purchase  a  bell  for  our 
new  meeting-house.  We  wish  you  to  purchase  one  and  have 
the  same  shipped  immediately.  As  this  is  pro  bono  publico  we 
hope  you  will  not  think  us  trespassing  on  your  goodness  too  far. 
We  want  to  purchase  a  bell  from  ten  to  twelve  hundred  weight. 
Consult  your  own  judgment  in  regard  to  tone  and  size  within 
these  limits :  not  to  exceed  in  price,  $360,  should  like  it  on  six 
months ;  we  should  like  one  not  too  sharp  or  flat,  but  about  on 
letter  F  for  tone.  You  will,  of  course,  buy  on  best  possible 
terms."  In  a  postscript  ^^Ir.  Appleton  is  asked  to  inquire  for 
the  cost  of  a  clock  "suitable  for  the  place,  in  position,"  and  adds 
that  "we  understand  that  it  is  the  practice  to  warrant  bells  ."  On 
the  eleventh  of  the  following  March  the  town  voted  to  authorize 
the  selectmen  to  hire  a  suitable  person  to  ring  the  bell  on  the 
Universalist  meeting-house,  three  times  a  day  for  one  year,  at  an 
expense  not  above  $30.  The  building  committee  had  shown 
excellent  judgment  in  the  choice  of  location  and  lot,  and  in  the 
plan  for  the  house  and  its  equipment,  and  much  business  energy 
and  ability  in  the  executing  of  their  plan.  The  goodly  house 
continued  to  render  satisfactorily  the  designed  service  until  the 
beginning  of  1894,  when  it  was  greatly  damaged  by  fire.  The 
society  at  once  set  to  work  to  repair  it,  meeting,  meanwhile,  in 
the  Unitarian  house  on  invitation  of  that  society.  It  was  voted 
by  the  pewholders  to  expend  $1,500  to  repair  and  remodel  the 
house,  and  the  proposition  of  Mr.  Geo.  H.  Ware  to  move  the 
house  back  near  to  the  north  line  of  the  lot  midway  between  Elm 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE:.  239 

street  and  Silver  street,  and  to  turn  it  so'  that  it  should  front 
to  the  south,  and  to  make  under  it  a  suitable  celler,  all  at  his  own 
expense,  was  thankfully  accepted.  The  first  bell,  which  for  some 
time  had  been  speaking  with  a  cracked  voice,  was  now  given  in 
exchange  as  part  payment  for  a  new  bell  costing  $300.  Mr. 
Charles  Barney  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  gave  $150  toward  this,  and  the 
old  bell,  estimated  at  the  same  amount,  paid  the  remainder.  The 
organ  had  been  sold  and  a  new  one  bought  in  1852,  and  thorough 
repairs,  at  an  expense  of  $600,  made  in  1854.  Mrs.  Susan  Hoag 
gave  S500  for  further  repairs  in  1879.  The  house  has  three 
memorial  windows,  one  behind  the  pulpit,  given  by  the  late  Mrs. 
F.  Smith  in  honor  of  her  parents.  Rev.  and  ]\Irs.  Gardner ;  one 
by  Mr.  W.  B.  Arnold  and  sisters  in  honor  of  their  parents ;  a 
third  by  Miss  Hannah  Powell's  Sunday-school  class  of  young 
men.  From  the  beginning  the  society  has  been  vigilant,  prompt, 
and  efficient  in  its  business,  and  has,  at  the  present  time,  free 
of  debt,  a  commodious  church  home  admirably  fitted  to  its  pur- 
pose. It  is  as  good  as  new  and  in  some  respects  better  than  when 
new — better  certainly  in  cherished  and  sacred  memories. 

The  pastors,  since  the  organization  of  the  society,  have  been 
Rev.  Calvin  Gardner,  twenty  years,  September,  1833 — January, 
1853;  Rev.  W.  B.  Lovejoy,  1853 — '54;  Rev.  Henry  C.  Leonard, 
seven  years,  1854 — '61;  Rev.  A.  P.  Dillingham,  1862 — '64; 
Rev.  Frank  Maguire,  1865 — '68;  Rev.  Joseph  O.  Skinner,  1869 
— '73.  Since  Mr.  Skinner's  pastorate,  the  pastoral  care  of  the 
society  has,  for  most  of  the  time,  been  in  charge  of  ministers 
who  have  divided  their  labors  between  this  and  societies  in  the 
neighboring  towns.  Rev.  E.  AL  Grant  of  West  Waterville,  1875 
— '76;  Rev.  Amos  Battles  of  Bangor.  18S0;  Rev.  G.  G.  Hamil- 
ton of  Oakland,  1882— "84;  Rev.  R.  H.  Aldrich  of  Fairfield, 
1884— '88;  Rev.  S.  G.  Davis  of  Fairfield,  1889—^1 ;  Rev.  E.  L. 
Houghton,  1892 — '95;  Rev.  \\m.  E.  Gaskin,  1895 — '98;  Rev. 
J.  F.  Rhoades  of  Fairfield,  1898  to  1902. 

Under  the  long  and  prosperous  pastorate  of  Mr.  Gardner  the 
congregations  were  large  and  the  Sunday  school  flourishing. 
Indeed  this  state  of  things  continued  until  the  organization  of 
the  Unitarian  society.  That  event  was  a  severe  blow  to  the  Uni- 
versalist  interest,  for  it  drew  away  not  a  few  valued  and  influ- 
ential members.     To  some,  at  least,  of  those  that  remained,  this 


240  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

withdrawal  seemed  almost  like  treason,  and  even  to  have  in  it  a 
tinge  of  matricide.     But  the  location  of  the  places  of  worship 
respectively,  prior  religious  views  and  preferences,  and  perhaps 
social  and  other  considerations  were  potent.     Probably  the  old 
home  has  been  not  a  whit  less  dear  to  the  brothers  and  sisters 
that  remained  than  it  would  have  been  if  all  had  stayed  by,  and 
perhaps  the  influences  in  the  home  have  been  for  each  heart  more 
strong  and  helpful — the  greater  the  sacrifice  the  greater  and 
sweeter  the  blessing.     The  interest  in  the  Sunday  school  and 
Young  People's  Christian  Union  and  other  religious  work  is 
effective  and  fruitful.     A  pastorate  of  twenty  years  among  a 
people  of  such  intelligence,  and  financial,  business  and  social 
standing  is  itself  a  high  testimony  to  the  worth  of  ]\lr.  Gardner. 
The  warm  regard  with  which  Mr.  Leonard  is  still  remembered 
is  due  to  his  signally  genial  spirit  and  the  purity  and  elevation 
of  both  his  life  and  his  preaching.     The  others  have  had  each 
his  own  marked  excellencies  and  wrought  faithfully  in  his  own 
special  way  and  power.     The  bare  mention  of  some  of  the  famliy 
names  constantly  appearing  in  the  records  of  the  society  is  the 
most  impressive  exhibition  of  its  historic  position  in  the  town. 
Among  them  the  Morrill,  Mathews,   Smith,   ^loor,  Crommett, 
Hayden,    Redington,    Philbrick,  Getchell,  Dorr,    Paine,    Moor, 
Arnold,  Percival,  Esty,  Dunn,  Phillips,  Vose,  Tozier — ,  but  one 
must  stop  somewhere,  though  it  seems  almost  an  injustice  not  to 
go  on  to  the  end.     One  wonders,  especially  one  familiar  with  the 
history  of  the  town,  where  was  to  be  found  material  for  other 
churches.      But  Waterville  has    been  and    is  rich  in  men    and 
women.     There  have  been  enough  to  go  around,  and  so  all  the 
churches  and  societies  come  to  the  end  of  the  century,  not  only 
with  inspiring  memories  but  also  with  inspired  hope. 

Under  the  history  of  education  in  Waterville  due  recognition 
will  be  given  to  the  Waterville  Liberal  Institute.  In  this  con- 
nection is  to  be  noted  the  fact  that  it  was  a  child  of  the  Univer- 
salist  society  and  an  evidence  of  the  intelligence  and  enterprise 
of  its  members.  The  Baptist  society  had  the  college  for  its 
mother;  the  Universalist  societv,  the  Liberal  Institute  for  its 
child. 


HISTORY    O?    WATDRVILLi;.  24I 

THE    CONGREGATIONALISTS. 

The  Congregational  churches  of  New  England  are  a  continua- 
tion of  the  Puritan  churches,  but  with  important  changes.  The 
connection  which  they  held  with  the  state  has  been  severed,  and 
other  changes  in  doctrine  and  practice  have  come  with  the  lapse 
of  time,  but  the  Congregationalists  and  the  Puritans  of  New 
England  are  still  reckoned  as  one.  In  this  view  it  would  seem 
that  the  religious  life  provided  by  the  town  of  Winslow  before 
Waterville's  separate  incorporation,  and  by  Waterville  immedi- 
ately afterward  should  gradually  and  without  a  break,  have 
developed  itself  into  a  Congregational  church  of  the  more  modern 
type.  This,  however,  was  not  to  be.  Not  until  August  21,  1828, 
ten  years  after  the  organization  of  the  Baptist  church,  was  the 
Waterville  Congregational  church  established.  Attempts  to 
organize  a  church  of  this  order,  however,  were  made  as  early  as 
1806.  Rev.  David  Thurston  of  Winthrop,  at  that  time  labored 
here  nine  weeks.  In  his  journal  he  writes :  "I  found  no  man 
at  the  river  who  was  a  member  of  any  church.  At  West  Water- 
ville there  were  a  few  members  of  a  Baptist  church.  The  state  of 
religion  was  low  indeed."  After  eleven  years  (1817)  a  Mr. 
Emerson  of  Vassalboro  was  sent  here  by  the  Maine  Missionary 
Society  to  examine  the  field  and,  if  advisable,  to  make  a  second 
attempt  to  gather  a  church.  He  reported  to  the  society  a  sad  lack 
of  evangelical  piety  in  the  place.  In  consequence  of  this  report, 
and  of  the  organization  of  the  Baptist  church  the  next  year 
(1818)  under  the  lead  of  President  Chaplin,  further  effort  was 
for  the  time  suspended.  In  1828  the  population  of  the  town  had 
so  increased  (estimated  at  2,200 — 2,500,  of  whom  800  lived  in 
the  village)  that  there  seemed  to  be  room  for  a  second  evangeUcal 
church.  Accordingly  the  live  Congregationalists  (one  man  and 
four  women)  then  residing  here,  secured  the  services  of  Rev. 
Eben  Carpenter  to  hold  a  series  of  revival  meetings  for  six 
weeks.  These  were  so  successful  that  steps  were  taken  to 
organize  a  Congregational  church.  A  council  was  called  to 
meet  August  21,  1828,  composed  of  Revs.  David  Thurston,  of 
Winthrop ;  Benjamin  Tappan  of  Augusta ;  George  Shepherd  of 
Hallowell ;  Josiah  Peck  of  Norridgewock ;  and  Thomas  Adams 

of  Vassalboro,  with  the  lay  delegates  of  their  churches.     David 
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242  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Thurston  was  moderator  and  Thomas  Adams  scribe.  The  coun- 
cil gave  its  approval  to  the  steps  taken  and  the  church  was  duly 
organized  and  recognized.  The  constituent  members  were 
twelve,  three  men  and  nine  women,  seven  bringing  letters  from 
churches  in  other  towns  and  five  uniting  with  these  by  confes- 
sion of  faith.  Their  names  were  Geo.  W.  Osborn,  Sophia  Pear- 
son, Rhoda  Stetson,  Alvan  and  Sally  Blackwell,  Sophia  Red- 
ington,  Violinda  Piper,  Asa  Redington,  Jr.,  Susan  Hastings, 
Mary  Hayden,  Cyrena  Withman,  and  Amy  Pullen.  Rev.  Ezra 
N.  Smith,  in  his  historical  discourse  preached  at  the  church's 
semi-centennial,  said  :  "This  then  (was)  the  little  germ  of  our 
present  vigorous  family  tree.  *  *  *  The  church  thus  estab- 
lished was  small  and  weak,  utterly  unable  to  sustain  the  regular 
preaching  of  the  gospel,  yet  full  of  courage  and  hope  for  the 
future.  Preachers  were  sent  occasionally  by  the  Maine  Mis- 
sionary Society,  Rev.  Dr.  Gillett,  the  secretary  of  the  society, 
coming  most  frequently.  --^  ^  ^  The  church  remained  for 
seven  years  following  its  organization  without  a  permanent 
minister,  small  and  weak,  with  very  little  to  strengthen  it,  and 
laboring  under  the  additional  disadvantage  of  having  its  place 
of  meeting  shifted  hither  and  thither."  In  the  latter  part  of  1834 
Rev.  Thomas  Adams,  who  for  sixteen  years  had  been  the  very 
successful  pastor  of  the  Vassalboro  Congregationalist  church, 
came  to  Waterville,  held  a  protracted  meeting,  infused  new  life 
into  the  church,  welcomed  to  its  fellowship  new  members,  secured 
the  erection  of  a  good  meeting-house  and  on  the  day  of  its  dedi- 
cation, September  27,  1836,  was  installed  as  pastor.  Up  to  this 
time,  while  acting  as  stated  supply,  twenty-six  new  members  had 
been  received.  Another  protracted  meeting  of  eight  days'  con- 
tinuance was  held  immediately  after  his  installation  in  which 
Drs.  Pond  of  Bangor  and  Tappan  of  Augusta  had  part. 
Although  his  pastorate  closed  August  31,  1838,  one  year  and 
eight  months  after  his  installation,  twenty-one  persons  had  mean- 
while been  added  to  the  church,  making  in  all,  during  his  minis- 
try, forty-seven  additions. 

Rev.  Calvin  E.  Park,  ordained  and  installed  as  pastor,  October, 
1838,  served  five  years  and  eight  months  and  the  results  of  his 
work  were  seen  in  a  steady  growth  in  the  members  of  the  church. 
The  new  members  received,  during  that  time,  were  thirty-nine. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  243 

Roswell  Dwight  Hitchcock,  afterward  eminent  as  an  educator 
and  president  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  supplied  the 
church  for  one  year,  1844-5.  He  was  succeeded  by  Richard  B. 
Thurston,  who  was  ordained  and  installed  November  10,  1846. 
Next  to  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  E.  N.  Smith,  Mr.  Thurston's  is  the 
longest  in  the  history  of  the  church,  eight  years  and  four  months, 
closing  March,  1855,  Under  him  thirty-seven  were  added  to  the 
church.  On  the  15th  of  November  of  this  same  year  Rev.  Wm. 
B.  Greene  became  pastor,  receiving,  like  his  two  predecessors, 
both  ordination  and  installation.  During  his  three  years'  stay, 
forty-five  were  added  to  the  church. 

Rev.  Edward  Hawes  was  the  next  pastor.  He  came  directly 
from  the  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  and  was  ordained  and 
installed  in  1858,  remaining  as  pastor  until  1864. 

It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  Rev.  Josiah  T.  Hawes,  the  father 
of  Edward,  was  the  first  young  man  whom  Rev.  Thomas  Adams, 
the  first  pastor  of  the  church,  received  into  the  Vassalboro  church, 
and,  indeed,  into  any  church,  since  the  Vassalboro  pastorate  was 
his  first.  For  a  man  only  twenty-four  years  of  age  and  without 
experience  in  public  life  to  take  his  place  in  the  line  of  pastoral 
succession  was  a  severe  test.  Mr.  Hawes  stood  this  test  grandly. 
He  had  a  clear  mind,  an  appreciation  of  the  best  thought,  a  strong 
hold  on  the  truths  of  the  Gospel,  practical  tact  and  good  sense, 
loyalty  and  love  to  his  denomination  and  church,  a  fine  presence, 
excellent  rhetoric  and  oratory,  and  sweetness  combined  with 
light.  He  excelled  as  a  platform  speaker  not  less  than  as  a 
preacher,  and  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  was  in  demand  for 
rally  meetings.  His  church  and  society  were  as  one  with  him 
in  all  his  efforts.  He  writes  of  his  ministry  here,  that  he  "lived 
it  happily  for  six  years,  without  friction,  and  without  a  single 
unkind  act  or  word  to  remember,  and  that  the  parting  was,  he 
believed,  with  mutual  regret."  There  are  many  living  who  will 
not  doubt  that  this  is  a  true  statement.  During  his  ministry, 
fifty-five  were  added  to  the  church,  and  important  changes  for 
the  better  made  in  the  material  and  social  interests  ot  the  society. 

After  Mr.  Hawes  had  left,  the  Rev.  P.  C.  Headley,  author  of 
several  biographical  volumes  for  young  people,  supplied  the  pul- 
pit for  some  months,  and  on  the  22nd  of  March,  1866,  Benjamin 
A.  Robie,  just  graduated  from  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 


244  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

was  ordained    and    installed.     His  ministry  of    five  years    was 
eminently  satisfactory  and  his  resignation  in  March,  1871,  was 
reluctantly    accepted.     During    his    pastorate,  thirty-four  new 
members  were  received.     After  a  supply  of  the  pulpit  for  nine! 
months  by  Mr.  Calvin  G.  Hill,  just  graduated  from  Bangor,  and 
the  short  pastorates  of  Rev.  James  Cameron  and  Rev.  Mr.  Crum- 
rine  the  Rev.  C.  D.  Crane  became  pastor  of  the  church.  Although 
not  remaining  a  full  two  years,  he  wrought  with  such  effect  as 
to  make  these  years  among  the  most  prosperous  in  the  history 
of  the  church.     His  successor,  Mr.  Smith,  said  of  him  that  he 
introduced    into    the    fold    an  element  of  youthful    vigor    and 
strength    containing  great    promise  of    future  usefulness    and 
growth.     By  his  ministry  to  the  church  and  his  marriage  to  a 
daughter  of  Waterville,  Mr.  Crane  identified  himself  with  the 
city  in  such  a  way  as  to  make  this  a  home  where  he  is  ever  wel- 
comed.    Rev.  Ezra  N.  Smith  (1877 — '88)  was  a  man  of  spirit- 
ual wisdom  and  practical  sense,  and  by  his  modest  integrity  and 
wholesome  influence  commanded  the  respect  of  the  entire  com- 
munity and  greatly  strengthened  his  church  and  society.     Rev. 
Leavitt  H.  Hallock,  who  succeeded  him,   (1889 — '92)  was  full 
of  enterprise,  the  results  of  which  are  visible  to  those  who  walk 
our  streets.     His  successor,  Rev.  George  V.  Washburn  (1893 — 
'96),  was  in  theology  conservative.     A  man  of  rare  conscien- 
tiousness and  downrightness.     The  present  pastor,  Rev.  Edward 
L.  Marsh,  began  his  ministry  here  in  1897.     Without  neglecting 
other  applications  of  the  Gospel,  he  emphasises  especially,  its 
power  for  civic  righteousness  and  for  the  salvation  of  the  young. 
Most  of  the  pastors  of  the  church  have  been  young  men.     About 
one-half  of  them  directly  from  the  theological  seminaries.     Yet 
the  pastorates,  though  averaging  high  for  ability,  have  averaged 
low  for  length.     Dr.  Hawes,  in  a  recent  letter  writes  as  follows : 
"I  went  back  to  Waterville  to  attend  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of 
the  church.     I  think  it  had  had  thirteen  pastors.     It  was  an  inter- 
esting fact  that  the  first  pastor,  Rev.  Thomas  Adams,  and  the 
last,  myself,  were  present  on  that  occasion,  and  that  no  one  of 
the  number  between  had  died.     A  ministry  in  Waterville  was  in 
no  case  fatal." 

The  church  has  given  to  the  Gospel  ministry  two  of  its  mem- 
bers, Revs.  Charles  H.  Percival  and  William  F.  Jordan.     Two 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  245 

members  of  the  society  gained  distinction  in  the  Civil  War,  Wil- 
liam S.  Heath,  who  entering  the  army  with  the  rank  of  captain, 
became  lieutenant-colonel,  and  was  killed  early  in  the  war 
at  Gaines'  Mill,  and  Francis  E.  Heath,  familiarly  known 
as  Colonel  Heath,  although  he  had  reached  the  rank  of 
brevet  general.  In  the  teaching  profession  it  has  been  repre- 
sented by  Mrs.  Mary  Hanson,  long  associated  in  instruction  with 
her  husband  in  the  Cobum  Classical  Institute ;  Prof.  Wallace  S. 
Elder,  Miss  H.  M.  Parmenter  and  others  of  like  ability. 

In  addition  to  the  regular  preaching  services  of  the  church 
on  Sundays,  and  the  weekly  social  meetings,  there  are  maintained 
the  appropriate  activities  of  Sunday  school  and  Christian 
Endeavor  Societies  (young  people).  The  Sunday  school  has 
221  members;  the  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  80  members.  In  this  centen- 
nial year  there  has  been  introduced  a  course  of  systematic  instruc- 
tion in  the  work  of  home  and  foreign  missions,  chiefly  as  carried 
on  by  the  Congregationalists.  A  graded  course  extending 
through  one  year  has  been  prepared  by  a  competent  committee. 
The  Sunday  school  gives  the  fourth  Sunday  of  each  month  to  one 
lesson  of  this  course,  and  a  teachers'  meeting  is  held  in  prepara- 
tion to  teach  it.  The  amount  given  for  missions,  at  present, 
averages  a  trifle  more  than  one-tenth  of  all  moneys  raised.  The 
average  is  $3,000  for  home  expenses,  and  $330  for  missions. 
The  organizations  for  woman's  work  were  in  1901  united  under 
the  name  "Federated  Church  Workers."  One  day  each  week  is 
known  and  observed  for  "church  work."  This  centralization  has 
been  a  source  of  strength.  The  "Workers"  are  about  to  expend 
$800  in  church  repairs. 

The  church  at  a  very  early  date  took  an  advanced  position  on 
the  temperance  question.  At  a  quarterly  fast  meeting,  March  5, 
1836,  it  was  "resolved  that  in  the  future  the  unfermented  fruit 
of  the  vine  be  used  by  the  church  at  its  communion."  x\gain, 
September  3,  1837,  after  a  preamble  aflirming  the  current  Chris- 
tian judgment  of  the  sin  of  the  liquor  traffic  and  the  urgent  need 
that  the  church  testify  against  it,  it  was  "resolved,  that  those  who 
may  hereafter  unite  with  this  church  shall  be  considered  as  pledg- 
ing themselves  by  that  act  totally  to  abstain  from  the  use  of 
intoxicating  drinks  as  a  beverage.  Resolved,  that  if  any  mem- 
bers of  this  church  shall,  after  this  expression  of  its  views  be 


246  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 

engaged  in  the  traffic  of  intoxicating  drinks  except  for  use  in 
medicine  or  the  arts,  they  shall  be  dealt  with  as  for  any  other 
immorality."  The  spirit  of  the  fathers  lived  in  those  that  fol- 
lowed. Joshua  Xye,  still  living  in  Boston,  Mass..  at  an  advanced 
age.  was  for  many  years  foremost  in  the  activities  and  support  of 
the  church  and  foremost  also  in  the  enforcement  of  the  prohib- 
itory law.  In  i865-'66  he  was  by  the  town  made  ''inspector  of 
the  police."  and  on  the  12th  of  March,  1866.  the  town  passed  a 
unanimous  vote  of  thanks  to  him  '"for  his  heroic  and  successful 
efforts  in  shutting  up  the  rum  shops." 

As  soon  as  the  church  had  a  pastor  (1834)  it  set  itself  to  the 
task  of  securing  a  suitable  meeting-house.  The  sum  of  $1,000 
was  raised  in  the  town  by  the  sale  of  shares,  the  present  site  was 
purchased,  and  a  building  begun.  Its  vestry  was  completed  by 
Thanksgiving  Day,  1835.  and  on  that  day  the  first  service  in  it 
was  held.  The  vestry  served  the  church  until  the  next  year 
(1836)  when  the  whole  house  was  finished  and  dedicated. 
Father  Adams  preached  the  sermon.  "During  the  pastorate  of 
Rev.  Edward  Hawes  the  meeting-house  was  cut  in  halves  and 
the  two  ends  moved  apart,  the  space  between  was  then  filled  and 
thus  the  building  much  enlarged."  While  Rev.  Ezra  N.  Smith 
was  pastor  the  present  vestr}-  was  built  and  the  original  vestry 
under  the  church  converted  into  a  supper  room.  'Tn  1889,  dur- 
ing the  pastorate  of  L.  H.  Hallock,  the  meeting-house  was  again 
extensively  repaired  at  a  cost  of  nearly  $3,000.  The  organ  was 
moved  to  the  front,  the  pews  upholstered,  the  walls  and  ceiling 
frescoed,  a  porte  cochere  built  over  the  front  door  and  the  whole 
building  lighted  by  electricity.  During  this  pastorate  also  the 
parsonage  was  built.  The  so-called  ]\Iayo  lot  at  9  Park  street 
was  purchased  for  $3,000  and  the  parsonage  built  at  a  cost  of 
$5,000.  Of  this  money  $2,000  was  raised  at  the  time  and  a  sink- 
ing fund  established  in  the  Building  and  Loan  Association  by 
which  the  balance  was  to  be  paid  by  shares  of  $1.00  a  month 
each.  The  church  paid  two  legacies,  one  of  $1,000  from  the 
estate  of  Mr.  Alfred  C.  Burleigh,  and  one  of  $500  from  the  estate 
of  Mrs.  Mehitable  Stark  toward  this  fund,  and  January  i,  1902, 
at  its  annual  roll-call  meeting,  it  subscribed  $280  to  pay  the  bal- 
ance of  the  parsonage  debt.  The  parsonage  was  dedicated 
Christmas  night,  December  25,  1890,  and  the  last  dollar  of  indebt- 


HISTORY    O^    WATERVILLE.  247 

edness  for  it  paid  January  i,  1902.  Another  bequest  of  $500 
from  the  estate  of  Miss  Betsy  R.  Brown  remains  to  the  church 
as  a  permanent  fund.  With  such  material  equipment  does  this 
church  cross  the  Hne  into  the  second  century  of  Waterville's 
history. 

THK    CATHOLICS. 

In  colonial  days  the  conflict  between  the  French  and  English 
in  this  country  carried  with  it  somewhat  of  conflict  between 
CathoHcism  and  Protestantism.  In  this  immediate  vicinity  was 
this  realized.  The  tragic  story  of  Father  Rale,  the  French  mis- 
sionary to  the  Indians,  and  of  his  tragic  death  with  the  destruc- 
tion of  his  Christian  Indian  village  in  Norridgewock  in  1724  has 
been  briefly  recited  in  the  historical  address. 

The  monument  which  stands  on  the  spot  and  commemorates 
that  bloody  event  of  rough  wild  war,  commemorates  also  the  first 
appearance  of  Roman  Catholic  work  and  workers  in  this  neigh- 
borhood and  doubtless  on  the  very  ground  where  now  stands  our 
flourishing  city  with  its  successful  Catholic  church.  In  that 
old  time  war  the  French  and  their  church  were  expelled ;  in 
this  new  time  peace  they  and  their  faith  are  back  again. 
The  antagonism  has  not  returned.  Politically  we  are  one 
as  Americans :  Religiously  we  grant  each  to  the  other  that  free- 
dom which  we  claim  each  from  the  other.  So  do  we  dwell 
together  in  peace  and  mutual  good  will. 

After  the  year  1724  the  Indians,  who  had  been  driven  to  the 
Penobscot,  were  occasionally  visited  by  priests  from  Quebec. 
There  were  a  few  white  Catholics,  Acadian s,  on  territory  belong- 
ing to  New  Brunswick,  along  the  St.  John's  river.  In  1822, 
nearly  a  hundred  years  after  Father  Rale's  death  forty-three 
Catholics  in  Portland  united  in  a  request  to  the  bishop  of  Boston 
to  send  them  a  priest,  at  least  for  a  visit.  At  that  time  the  bishop 
of  Boston,  the  Rt.  Reverend  John  Cheverus,  afterward  Cardinal 
Archbishop  of  Bordeaux,  governed  all  the  Catholics  of  New' 
England,  among  whom,  however,  there  were;  only  four  priests. 
One  of  these,  the  Rev.  Denis  Ryan,  was  at  Whitefield,  Maine, 
only  a  short  distance,  therefore,  from  Waterville.  There  is  no 
evidence  that  he  ever  visited  Waterville,  or  that  there  were  Cath- 
olics here  so  early  to  require  his  services.    The  French  had  begun 


248  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

to  come  down  from  Canada,  by  the  route  ever  since  taken  in 
1830,  and  in  1835  there  were  alread}^  in  town,  mostly  if  not 
wholly  on  the  Plains,  some  thirty  families.  Among  these  were 
the  families  of  James  Perry,  Caspar  Pooler,  and  one  by  the  name 
of  Ranco.  At  that  time  Father  Fortier  came  now  and  then  to 
visit  and  minister  to  these  people,  and  after  him  more  frequently 
there  came  to  the  growing  flock  Father  Babbst  from  Bangor. 
In  185 1  the  number  of  Catholics  had  so  increased  that  they 
formed  the  purpose  to  erect  a  house  of  worship  and  to  have  stated 
religious  services.  Hitherto  they  had  met  in  a  private  dwelling, 
still  standing  a  little  to  the  north  of  the  Protestant  mission 
chapel  and  known  as  the  Matthieu  house.  In  the  Waterville  Mail 
of  that  year  appeared  an  article  with  the  following  heading:  ''A 
Catholic  Church  in  Waterville."  The  article  says :  "We  are 
glad  to  learn  that  efforts  are  in  progress  to  secure  the  erection  of 
a  small  chapel  for  the  worship  of  the  Catholics.  Mr.  Caspar 
Pooler  and  Mr.  James  Pooler  (Perry?)  both  of  whom  are  said 
to  be  honest  and  worthy  men,  are  entrusted  with  the  raising  of 
funds.  We  heartily  commend  the  enterprise  to  the  benevolent 
and  to  the  liberal  minded  of  all  sects  and  classes.  A  large  num- 
ber of  families  among  us  are  deprived,  by  their  honest  convic- 
tions, of  the  privileges  and  benefits  of  public  worship.  That  a 
church  of  their  own  will  tend  to  their  moral  and  mental  improve- 
ment we  can  hardly  suppose  there  will  be  a  doubt.  The  under- 
taking is  one  that  would  improve  that  section  of  our  village  and 
we  heartily  commend  its  movers  for  their  efforts.  Let  those 
connected  with  other  sects  see  that  'the  Creeks  are  at  their  doors' 
and  the  charity  which  is  at  the  basis  of  their  religion  will  tell 
them  what  to  do." 

This  disposition  of  the  Protestants  to  aid  their  French  Catholic 
friends  was  shown  in  liberality  not  only  at  the  beginning  but 
subsequently  from  time  to  time  in  their  larger  and  later  enter- 
prises, and  was  duly  appreciated  and  acknowledged.  More  than 
once  did  the  Catholic  pastor  publish  in  the  Waterville  Mail  his 
card  of  thanks  in  behalf  of  his  people  for  generous  aid  furnished 
especially  in  connection  with  church  fairs.  This  liberal  dispo- 
sition and  grateful  appreciation  at  and  from  the  beginning  have 
contributed  not  a  little  to  the  development  of  that  marked  good 
will  which  has  ever  characterized  the  mutual  relations  of  Cath- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  249 

olics  and  Protestants,  French  and  Americans  in  this  town  and 
its  neighborhood.  The  effort  to  secure  funds  for  the  new  chapel 
was  successful.  The  chapel  was  erected  on  Grove  street.  It 
was  a  modest  structure,  in  every  respect  suited  to  its  purpose. 
An  estimate  by  one  who  had  something  to  do  with  its  erection 
and  who  worshipped  in  it  regularly  until  the  erection  of  the  new 
house  reckons  its  seating  capacity  at  not  less  than  300.  This 
exceeded  the  immediate  needs  of  the  church,  but  the  leaders  fore- 
saw that  there  would  be  in  the  future  as  there  had  been  in  the 
past  a  constant  increase  in  the  Catholic  population  by  births  and 
immigration  if  in  no  other  way.  They  could  not  forsee,  nobody 
could  the  rapidity  and  extent  of  the  increase,  especially  that 
which  followed  the  erection  of  the  Lockwood  Mills  and  the  initia- 
tion and  development  of  other  industries.  In  the  last  part  of 
its  twenty  years  of  use  as  a  chapel  it  was  wholly  inadequate,  and 
it  was  obviously  necessary  to  substitute  for  it  another  structure 
or  to  have  two.  The  former  decision  was  wisely  reached  and  on 
the  erection  of  the  large  brick  edifice  now  standing  and  in  use  at 
the  corner  of  Elm  and  East  Winter  streets  the  old  chapel  was 
sold  and  moved  up  to  a  lot  near  the  Congregational  church 
where  it  still  renders  service  in  changed  form  as  a  private  dwell- 
ing. Until  1857  the  little  church  on  the  Plains  was  under  the 
pastoral  care  of  visiting  priests.  Father  Nicolyn  was  the  first 
resident  pastor  and  was  succeeded  by  Father  L'Hiver  and  he  in 
turn  by  Father  Picard. 

The  year  1870  begins  a  new  era  in  the  history  of  the  Catholic 
church  in  Waterville.  In  that  year  came  to  the  pastorate  Rev. 
D.  J.  Halde.  In  was  evident  to  him  and  to  all  that  a  large  and 
costly  house  in  a  better  location  was  urgently  needed,  was, 
indeed,  an  imperative  necessity.  He  and  his  brethren  set  them- 
selves at  once  with  wisdom  and  vigor  to  the  formation  and  execu- 
tion of  plans  to  secure  the  needed  house.  In  a  December  num- 
ber of  the  Waterville  ]Mail  of  1871,  Father  Halde  has  a  card  of 
thanks  to  the  American  friends  for  their  patronage  of  a  fair  for 
raising  funds  for  the  new  church  and  the  Mail  of  July  5,  1872, 
says :  "The  Catholics  have  broken  ground  for  their  new  house, 
corner  of  Elm  and  Winter  streets.  The  old  Sanger  house,  built 
by  Rev.  Sylvanus  Cobb,  first  Universalist  minister  in  Waterville, 
has  been  moved  to  near  the  south  line  of  the  lot  and  drawn  back 


250  HJSTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

about  six  feet,  and  the  church  will  be  in  line  with  the  house.  The 
church  will  be  a  Gothic  structure  50x120  feet,  twenty-six  feet 
posts,  with  a  spire  120  feet  in  height  and  it  will  seat  about  600 
persons.  The  outside  will  be  of  brick  with  heavy  buttresses  and 
it  will  be  an  ornament  to  the  street."  There  w^ere  apparently 
some  changes  of  plan  in  its  erection,  for  at  its  completion  the 
height  of  the  spire  is  given  as  126  feet.  The  height  of  the  Uni- 
tarian spire  was  given  as  128  feet  and  of  the  ]\Iethodist  as  133 
feet,  nine  inches.  Another  Catholic  fair,  patronized  by  the 
"Amercan  friends"  netted  $955.22.  The  name  given  to  the 
church  was  that  which  it  still  bears,  "St.  Francis  de  Sales 
Church,  Waterville,"  and  it  was  dedicated  (consecrated)  on  Sun- 
day, June  14,  1874.  The  sermon  was  by  Bishop  Bacon  of  Port- 
land. A  service  of  confirmation  was  held  in  the  church  in  the 
afternoon.  The  completion  of  this  noble  structure  so  admirably 
located  and  so  perfectly  adapted  to  its  purposes  was  an  event  of 
great  significance  and  a  great  joy  to  Father  Halde  and  his  flock. 
They  deserved  and  received  the  hearty  congratulation  of  their 
friends. 

Another  event  of  equal,  if  not  greater,  significance  was  the 
coming  of  Rev.  Narcisse  Charland  in  1880  as  the  successor  of 
Father  Halde.  For  twenty-two  years  he  has  filled  even  to  over- 
flowing this  important  and  ever  increasingly  important  pastorate. 
Abundant,  tireless,  faithful  in  his  ministrations  to  his  own  people, 
he  has  also  labored  not  a  little  for  the  Catholic  church  in  North 
Vassalboro,  Oakland  and  elsewhere  and  has  always  taken  a  deep 
interest  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  city's  welfare.  He  has  shown 
great  enterprise  and  sagacity  in  enlarging  the  plant  of  the  church. 
In  1886  he  bought  of  Mrs.  Ingalls  the  McCaffrey  property  for 
$3,600  and  expended  upon  it  $1,000  additional  to  make  of  it  a 
parochial  residence.  The  next  year  he  built  in  the  rear  of  this 
property  a  parochial  school  which  he  completed  in  1888  at  a  cost 
of  $7,000.  In  1 89 1,  at  a  cost  of  $8,788  he  built  and  furnished 
for  the  Ursuline  Nuns,  whom  he  had  previously  brought  from 
Canada,  a  convent  building  within  which  is  a  boarding  school. 

In  the  Ursuline  community  there  are  nineteen  sisters  who 
instruct  500  children.  Father  Charland  in  1895  built  at  an 
expense  of  $8,000  the  beautiful  rectory  in  which  he  has  lived 
since  the  beginning  of  1896. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  25I 

There  is  need  of  more  room  for  his  schools  and  he  is  now  erect- 
ing another  building.  Early  in  his  ministry  he  found  it  neces- 
sary to  associate  with  himself  as  assistant  another  priest,  and 
still  later  a  second.  As  nearly  the  entire  French  population  of 
Waterville  and  vicinity  and  many  besides  are  members  of  his 
church  it  is  obvious  that  there  are  ample  demands  upon  the  time 
and  strength  of  all  three.  The  four  successive  services  of  each 
Sunday  at  which  there  is  on  the  average  an  a.ergregate  attend- 
ance of  about  3,400,  i.  e.,  at  the  first  and  third  services  i,ioo  each 
and  600  at  each  of  the  other  two.  The  constant  succession  of 
marriages  and  of  funerals,  and  the  personal  care  and  counsel  of 
the  great  multitude,  a  care  which  extends  through  all  the  days 
of  all  the  weeks,  involve  an  incalculable  amount  of  labor  and 
responsibility.  No  ordinary  man  could  fill  the  pastoral  office  of 
this  great  church  as  Father  Charland  fills  it,  and  discharge  with 
signal  success  its  multifarious  duties  as  he  discharges  them.  No 
wonder  that  his  people  revere  and  love  him.  Nor  is  it  wonder 
that  beyond  the  limits  of  his  own  parish  his  work  and  worth  are 
so  recognized  as  to  confer  upon  him  honor  and  impose  upon  him 
corresponding  duties.  Under  Bishop  Healy  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Diocesan  Council,  and  he  now  holds  for  the  ]Maine  Diocese 
the  two  important  positions  of  examiner  of  the  younger  clergy 
and  defensor  of  the  marriage  tie.  Only  fifty-two  years  of  age, 
with  a  strong  constitution,  robust  health,  and  abounding  vigor, 
he  may  well  look  around  for  new  worlds  to  conquer. 


THE    UNITARIANS. 

Rev.  J.  L.  Seward,  m  a  discourse  preached  at  the  dedication 
of  the  Ware  parlors  said :  "In  a  very  proper  sense  we  may 
regard  Rev.  D.  N.  Sheldon,  D.  D.,  as  the  father  of  Unitarianism 
in  Waterville."  If,  however,  one  were  to  seek  for  the  father  of 
that  Unitarian  thought  which  unorganized  had  before  been 
diffused  through  the  community  and  whose  existence  Mr. 
Seward  recognizes,  it  might  appear  that  Rev.  Joshua  Cushman, 
D.  D.,  rather  than  any  other  could  claim  that  distinction.  The 
tenor  of  his  public  discourse  was  signally  'iiberal"  and  much 
more  fitted  to  develop  the  faith  of  Unitarianism  than  that  of  the 
''standing  order"  to  which  he  belonged.     But  a  large  part  of 


252  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

those  who  by  preference  were  Unitarians  had  identified  them- 
selves with  the  UniversaHst  society,  had  there  found  a  congenial 
home  and  had  been  in  all  respects  influential  supporters  of  that 
cause.  In  the  earlier  years  of  organized  religious  Hfe  in  Water- 
ville  the  lines  were  drawn  sometimes  rather  sharply,  between  the 
Baptists  and  the  Universalists  and  even  at  this  late  day  we  now 
and  then  hear  an  isolated  echo  of  an  old  time  conflict.  Unques- 
tionably Dr.  Sheldon  was  the  supreme  factor  in  the  movement 
which  on  July  25,  1863,  issued  in  the  organization  of  the  First 
Unitarian  Society  of  Waterville.  One  may  not  perhaps  say  that 
no  other  man  could  have  brought  this  event  to  pass  as  success- 
fully but  for  this  work  he  had  a  rare  combination  of  qualifica- 
tions. His  previous  life  in  the  town,  first  as  pastor  of  the  Bap- 
tist church  and  then  as  president  of  the  college,  had  brought  him 
into  close  and  influential  relations  with  the  community  and  espec- 
ially with  those  persons  more  or  less  closely  affiliated  with  the 
Baptist  cause  who  yet  were  somewhat  inclined  to  Unitarianism. 
In  natural  and  acquired  ability  he  was  a  man  of  note,  thinking 
clearly  in  religious  and  philosophical  lines,  and  expressing  his 
thought  in  pure  idiomatic  English ;  he  was  social  and  familiar 
with  people  of  all  religious  preferences  and  connections  and  duly 
aggressive  in  his  private  as  well  as  public  advocacy  of  the  prin- 
ciples then  only  recently  professed  by  him,  and  his  character  and 
reputation  were  such  as  to  command  confidence  in  him  as  a  leader 
in  the  proposed  enterprise.  Some  of  his  personal  friends  secured 
him  to  preach  two  sermons  in  the  town  hall  in  the  months  of 
June  and  July  respectively  in  1859.  They  interested  others  to 
unite  with  them  in  the  successful  effort  to  secure  his  services  for 
ten  Sabbaths  during  i860.  These  too  were  held  in  the  town 
hall  and  usually  at  intervals  of  one  month.  The  increase  of 
interest  and  of  the  number  interested  was  constant,  so  that  at  the 
close  of  i860  Dr.  Sheldon  was  engaged  to  preach  during  1861 
on  the  second  Sabbath  of  each  month,  continuing,  however,  as 
pastor  of  the  Unitarian  church  in  Bath  until  the  end  of  the  year, 
when  he  resigned  that  pastorate  to  become  the  pastor  of  those 
people  who,  as  yet  not  formally  organized  as  either  church  or 
society,  were  united  in  attachment  to  him  and  his  views  and  in 
readiness  to  give  and  work  to  plant  here  a  Unitarian  vine.  His 
first  sermon  as  their  pastor  was  preached  January  i,  1862.     He 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  253 

moved  his  family  from  Bath  to  Waterville  April  3,  1862,  and 
resided  here  until  his  death.  (See  biog.  ch.)  The  First  Unita- 
rian Society  of  Waterville  was  organized  in  the  town  hall  July 
25,  1863,  and  its  constitution  adopted  in  the  same  place  on  the 
27th  of  the  same  month.  The  formal  application  for  a  warrant 
directing  the  call  for  a  meeting  to  organize  was  presented  July 
17  of  the  same  month  to  E.  L.  Getchell,  Esq.,  justice  of  the  peace, 
signed  by  D.  L.  Milliken,  John  Ware,  Wm.  Dyer,  Geo.  Went- 
worth,  L.  E.  Thayer,  James  P.  Blunt,  Ira  H.  Low,  G.  A.  Phillips, 
and  C.  K.  Mathews.  The  constitution  adopted  was  brief  and 
simple,  consisting  of  five  articles  determining:  (i)  The  name 
of  the  society;  (2)  its  officers;  (3)  their  duties;  (4)  the  condi- 
tions of  membership  (which  were  admission  by  vote  of  the 
society  and  signing  of  the  articles)  ;  (5)  the  right  to  amend  or 
add  to  the  articles.  To  it  was  prefixed  a  statement  of  the  pur- 
pose of  the  society  as  follows :  For  the  public  worship  of  God, 
the  promotion  of  piety,  the  extension  of  religious  knowledge,  the 
aid  of  Christian  charities,  and,  generally,  for  such  objects  as 
religious  societies  have  in  view.  Rev.  D.  N.  Sheldon,  Franklin 
Smith,  E.  L.  Getchell  and  Ephraim  Maxham  were  elected  as 
members  on  the  evening  of  its  adoption.  Of  subsequent  addi- 
tions to  membership  there  seems  to  be  no  record  until  December 
2"],  1894,  when  it  was  "voted  that  the  following  named  persons 
be  accepted  as  members  of  the  society,  said  persons  to  become 
full  members  upon  signing  their  names  upon  page  250  of  these 
records." 

In  explanation  of  this  somewhat  peculiar  action  and  its  result 
one  must  take  into  consideration  the  formation  of  the  church 
organization  in  distinction  from  that  of  the  society  of  which  an 
account  is  given  below.  It  was  evidently  felt  that  the  special 
ends  which  it  was  the  purpose  of  the  church  to  attain  could  be 
better  realized  without  a  separate  organization.  Accordingly, 
to  the  page  on  which  were  to  be  signed  the  names  of  those  who 
would  be  full  members  of  the  society  there  was  prefixed  the  fol- 
lowing "bond  of  fellowship :"  "Recognizing  no  other  test  of 
fellowship  than  fraternity  of  spirit,  we  adopt  the  following  state- 
ment as  indicating  the  value  of  the  tie  that  binds  us  together. 
In  the  love  of  truth  and  in  the  spirit  of  Jesus  we  unite  for  the 
worship  of  God  and  the  service  of  man."     This  is  an  abbreviated 


254  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 

repetition  of  the  original  statement  of  the  object  of  the  society, 
and  in  effect  a  declaration  that  the  church  organization  was 
superfluous.  Its  functions  as  a  distinct  body  had  already  been 
suspended  and  have  not  since  been  revived.  Two  hundred  and 
fifty  names,  both  men  and  women,  make  up  the  list  of  those  who 
were  accepted  as  members.  Only  thirty-three  signed  on  the 
designated  page.  Many  were  both  called  and  chosen  but  few 
heard  and  heeded.  This  was  doubtless  due,  not  to  lack  of  sym- 
pathy with  the  cause,  ''but  to  an  emphatic  individualism  which 
is  comparatively  independent  of  organization."  Those  not  sign- 
ing have  doubtless  been  as  loyal  supporters  of  the  society  as  have 
the  signcis.  The  '"accepted"  members  and  the  "full  members" 
share  alike  in  all  the  activities  of  the  society.  The  purpose  and 
effect  of  signing  the  bond  was  not  to  create  an  outward  distinc- 
tive activity  but  to  express  the  normal  principle  of  the  society 
life  and  so  to  develop  it. 

There  was  no  church  organization  until  September  2,  1888, 
when  the  pastor,  Rev.  J.  L.  Seward,  advocated  and  secured  one. 
In  his  record  of  its  formation,  Pastor  Seward  states  that  until 
that  date  "no  church  (Unitarian)  in  the  proper  sense  had  ever 
been  organized  (in  Waterville),"  and  adds  that  its  (covenant 
was  composed  bv  the  venerable  Rev.  D.  N.  Sheldon,  D.  D.,  who 
took  an  active  interest  in  the  formation  of  the  church."  The 
"covenant,"  is  in  form  a  creed  or  "Declaration"  of  faith,  with 
eight  articles.  They  affirm  belief  in  God  as  the  supreme  object 
of  worship ;  in  his  Son  Jesus  Christ  as  the  best  manifestation  of 
God ;  in  Christianity  as  a  divine  law  of  life  ;  in  the  Bible,  especially 
the  New  Testament,  as  a  product  of  divine  inspiration  and  the 
best  teaching  ever  given  to  the  world ;  in  personal  immortality 
and  the  necessity  of  faith,  hope  and  love  as  a  condition  of  well- 
being;  in  the  brotherhood  of  mankind  and  God's  good  pleasure 
"to  bring  them  all  through  whatsoever  discipline  to  final  holiness 
and  happiness ;"  in  public  worship  and  the  ordinances  of  "Bap- 
tism and  the  Memorial  Supper;  and  finally  in  the  duty  not  to 
make  these  articles  an  authoritative  creed  or  test  of  church  fel- 
lowship but  to  "respect  and  honor  all  earnest  seekers  after  truth 
and  righteousness."  The  constituent  members  or  original  "Cov- 
enanters" were  twenty-four.  There  are  now  forty-six  names  on 
the  rolls.     These  are  all  of  whose  admission  to  the  church  there 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  255 

is  any  record.  The  six  covenanters  whose  names  appear  first 
on  the  Hst  are  those  of  Pastor  Seward,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Sheldon, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Simeon  Keith  and  ^Ir.  H.  D.  Bates.  The  honor- 
able list  of  twenty-four  is  closed  and  crowned  with  the  name : 
"Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Ware,  widow  of  John  Ware,  Sr."  For  the 
origination  and  maintenance  of  the  church  to  the  close  of  his 
ministry  as  also  for  the  preservation  of  its  records  in  the  most 
complete  and  admirable  form,  great  credit  is  due  to  Pastor 
Seward.  The  record  book,  to  which  little  has  been  added  since 
he  left,  is,  for  the  time  covered  by  his  pastorate,  in  all  respects  a 
model. 

Other  organizations  connected  with  the  society  have  been  or 
now  are  the  following:  Sunday  school;  Ladies'  Circle,  dating 
from  1880,  with  Mrs.  Sarah  Ware  as  president  until  her  death; 
Women's  Auxiliary,  the  Waterville  branch  of  the  Unitarian 
Women's  Auxiliary,  having  for  its  object  religious  study  and 
missionary  and  denominational  work ;  the  Sorosis,  a  society  of 
the  young  ladies  of  the  Unitarian  church,  dating  from  1889,  and 
the  Fatima  Club,  both  having  as  their  object  work  in  the  interest 
of  the  society. 

The  "house  and  home"  of  these  organizations,  the  edifices  in 
which  they  gather,  are  admirable  and  adequate  alike  in  respect 
of  the  location,  the  buildings,  and  their  furnishings.  The  Town 
Hall  was  the  meeting-house  of  the  Unitarians  at  the  beginning. 
In  1865  ^  movement  was  made  to  raise  money  for  a  suitable 
house  of  their  own.  In  October  of  that  year  the  American  Uni- 
tarian Association,  through  its  secretary,  promised  to  the  society 
$2,000  toward  the  proposed  house  on  condition  that  it  should  be 
erected  free  from  debt,  and  a  prescribed  bond  executed.  At  a 
meeting  of  the  society,  November  11,  the  gift  with  its  condi- 
tion was  accepted,  and  thanks  voted  to  the  association  and  by 
name  to  seven  men  in  Portland  for  aid  in  building.  Its  erection 
was  vigorously  pressed  and  in  the  summer  of  1866  it  was  ready 
for  the  sale  of  pews.  They  were  sold  at  auction,  in  August, 
some  on  the  13th,  some  on  the  15th  and  some  on  the  i8th,  while 
a  few  remained  unsold.  Mr.  G.  A.  Phillips  was  auctioneer,  and 
the  three  sales  together  realized  $2,664.  There  are  recorded 
votes  of  thanks  "to  Alben  Emery,  Esq.  of  Waterville,  for  his 
munificent  gift  of  a  bell  for  our  house  of  worship;"  "to  J.  M. 


256  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Crocker,  Esq.,  for  his  valuable  present  of  a  clock;"  "to  Col.  R. 
H.  Greene  of  Winslow  for  a  Bible ;  to  Geo.  F.  Gilman,  Esq.,  of 
New  York,  for  a  beautiful  set  of  pulpit  furniture  and  of  gallery- 
chairs  and  for  his  many  other  manifestations  of  interest  in  our 
welfare."  We  can  well  imagine  the  satisfaction  with  which  the 
following  sensible  resolution  was  passed :  "Resolved ;  that  we 
look  with  delight  upon  the  architectural  beauty  of  our  house 
of  worship  and  feel  justly  proud  that  this  fine  edifice  is  the  work 
of  Waterville  mechanics."  Then  was  added  a  vote  of  thanks 
to  James  P.  Blunt,  Esq.,  the  master  mechanic,  and  "to  the  home 
talent  employed  by  him."  The  house  was  dedicated,  Septem- 
ber 4,  1866.  The  sermon  was  by  Edward  Everett  Hale,  D.  D., 
of  Boston,  Mass.,  and  the  prayer  of  dedication  by  Rev.  C.  C. 
Everett  of  Bangor.  The  clock  in  the  tower  was  presented  in 
1869  by  Samuel  Appleton,  Esq. 

In  18S9  the  beautiful  building  known  as  "The  Ware  Parlors" 
was  erected,  furnished  and  presented  to  the  society  through  the 
munificence  of  Madame  Ware.  This  building  was  dedicated 
January  14,  1890.  The  principal  address  was  by^  Pastor  Seward 
and  there  were  congratulatory  addresses  by  other  pastors.  For 
Sunday  school  work,  committee  meetings,  the  social  and  kindred 
functions  of  the  society  and  church  the  Ware  Parlors  have  been 
constantly  and  greatly  useful.  Mrs.  Ware  gave  the  building 
without  restriction  as  to  its  use,  assured  that  there  would  be  "the 
strictest  observance  of  propriety  in  determining  the  right  and 
expedient  uses  to  which  it  should  be  put."  Madame  Wa're  had 
also,  in  1881,  made  to  the  society  a  permanent  loan,  practically 
an  outright  gift,  of  "the  sweet  voiced  organ"  by  which  the  church 
services  have  been  so  enriched,  and  "for  a  term  of  years"  the  fine 
residence  by  the  Park,  now  owned  by  one  of  her  sons,  Mr. 
Edward  Ware,  was  granted  to  the  pastor,  rent  free.  It  was 
appropriate  that  "a  very  fine  portrait  of  Madame  Ware,  in  a  heavy 
rich  frame,"  and  tablet  recording  the  gift  of  the  building  were 
placed  in  the  Ware  Parlors  before  its  dedication,  in  recognition 
of  all  that  she  had  been  and  had  done  for  the  society. 

There  have  been  in  all  eight  pastors  of  the  society  and  church. 
David  Newton  Sheldon,  D.  D.,  1862-1876;  Rev.  John  Adams 
Bellows,  1878-1883;  Rev.  Daniel  Rowe,  i884-'85,  less  than  one 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  257 

year;  Rev.  Albert  Cory  don  White,  1885- 1887;  Rev.  Josiah 
Lafayette  Seward,  B.  D.,  1888- 1893 ;  Rev.  Thomas  Jefferson 
Valentine,  1894-1897;  Rev.  John  William  Barker,  November  i, 
1897-September  8,  1899;  Rev.  Arthur  G.  Pettengill,  September, 
1900  to  the  present,  and  still  pastor.  As  has  appeared  from  the 
record  above  given,  the  pastorates  of  Dr.  Sheldon  and  Mr. 
Seward  were  specially  significant.  Under  the  former's  able  and 
prolonged  leadership  the  society  came  not  only  to  its  birth  but 
also  to  its  full  maturity,  in  a  rapid  and  natural  growth.  Next 
in  length  were  the  pastorates  of  Mr.  Seward  and  Pastor  Bellows, 
each  five  years,  Mr.  Seward  was  a  man  well  qualified  for  leader- 
ship. Whole-hearted  and  tireless  in  promoting  the  interests  of 
his  own  people,  he  was  scarcely  less  interested  in  all  that  affected 
the  welfare  of  the  city,  and  responded  readily  to  calls  for  ser- 
vice as  a  member  of  the  school  board  and  in  other  ways.  Young 
men  were  attracted  to  his  public  services  and  in  large  numbers 
came  under  his  immediate  personal  influence.  Pastor  Bellows 
made  his  mark  as  a  brilliant  preacher.  The  other  pastors  have 
been  educated  men  of  high  character  and  have  contributed  each 
his  part  to  maintain  and  promote  the  cause.  Pastor  Pettengill 
is  still  making  his  record  emphasizing  the  spiritual  life,  and  his 
work  goes  forward  with  good  promise. 

Wliile  the  efficiency  of  a  church  depends  largely  upon  its  pas- 
tors, it  depends  still  more  upon  its  members.  The  Unitarians 
of  Waterville  have  from  the  beginning  had  at  least  their  full 
share  of  men  and  women  foremost  in  ability,  culture  and  influ- 
ence. Whatever  may  be  true  as  to  the  present  relative  standing" 
of  the  society  among  the  Unitarian  societies  of  the  State,  there 
can  be  little  doubt  that  to  the  Unitarians  of  Waterville  belongs 
the  possibility  of  making  it  rank  among  the  foremost. 


the:    METHODISTS. 

The  early  history  of  the  Methodist  church  in  Waterville  is  a 
story  of  struggle :  Those  who  first  tried,  found  it  exceedingly 
hard  soil  for  Methodism.  While  they  received  encouragement 
in  adjoining  towns,  the  early  itinerants  strangely  avoided  Water- 
ville. We  have  no  accounts  of  any  visits  to  this  place  by  Metho- 
dist preachers  until  1827  or  1828,  when  Rev.  Ezekiel  Robinson. 
17 


258  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

then  preacher  in  charge  of  Fairfield  circuit,  preached  occasionally 
in  Waterville,  and  organized  a  small  class.  This  class  was  of 
brief  continuance. 

In  1832,  Rev.  Martin  Ward  preached  for  a  while  in  Water- 
ville and  organized  a  class  of  seven  persons  of  which  James 
Parker  was  leader.  In  1833,  Rev.  P.  P.  Morrill  preached  here 
once  in  four  weeks  on  the  Sabbath.  In  1835,  R^v.  Marcus 
Wight  rendered  the  same  service  and  the  membership  was 
increased  to  twenty-five.  Because  of  discouragements,  the  meet- 
ings were  discontinued,  and  the  ground  abandoned  until  1843, 
when  Waterville  was  made  a  mission  station  with  Rev.  Luther 
P.  French  preacher  in  charge.  The  Town  Hall  was  secured  for 
meetings — a  good  congregation  gathered  and  a  Sunday-school 
organized. 

In  1844,  Rev.  Stephen  Allen  was  appointed  to  this  field  with 
a  missionary  appropriation  of  $150.  Incipient  measures  were 
taken  for  building  a  house  of  worship  and  a  church  site  bar- 
gained for,  but  as  Mr.  Allen  left  at  the  close  of  the  year,  the 
building  enterprise  was  abandoned.  In  1845  Asahel  Moore  sup- 
plied the  mission;  in  1846,  Rev.  Chas.  Munger.  The  society 
again  became  discouraged  and  the  field  was  abandoned.  In  1851, 
Rev.  Stephen  Allen  was  again  appointed  to  preach  in  Waterville. 
He  remained  two  years.  Quite  a  revival  occurred,  and  there 
was  some  talk  about  building  a  fine  house  of  worship,  but  because 
of  financial  embarrassment  the  enterprise  was  not  attempted. 

During  the  years  185 1 -1856,  Revs.  Stephen  Allen,  D.  'Water- 
house  and  Caleb  Fuller  were  the  appointed  preachers,  the  first 
and  third  serving  two  years  each,  the  second,  one.  The  question 
of  building  a  meeting-house  was  again  raised  in  connection  with 
a  revival  under  Mr.  Allen,  and  was  taken  up  anew  under  Mr. 
Fuller,  when  an  eligible  site  was  engaged  and  arrangments  to 
build  nearly  matured.  But  nothing  further  was  done.  The 
society  was  broken  up,  the  membership  nominally  transferred 
to  Fairfield  charge,  and  for  the  next  twelve  years  the  society  was 
connected  with  that  charge.  In  1867  Waterville  was  again  made 
a  separate  appointment  with  thirty  members,  and  missionary 
funds  were  appropriated  toward  the  support  of  the  society. 
This  was  effected  mainly,  by  the  efforts  of  Rev.  Hobart  Richard- 
son, then   a  resident   of  Waterville.     Rev.    J.    H.    Movers  was 


HISTORY    OK    WATERVILLE.  259 

appointed  preacher  in  charge.  There  were  held  regularly,  a 
Sunday  morning  preaching  service  in  the  Town  Hall,  a  Sunday 
evening  preaching  service  in  a  3d-story  hall  in  Marston  Block, 
and  a  Thursday  evening  social  meeting  in  the  same  hall.  A 
Sunday  school  was  organized.  This  new  development  was 
largely  due  to  a  protracted  meeting  and  revival  in  the  previous 
year.  In  1868  Rev.  James  W.  Hathaway  was  appointed  to  the 
charge.  The  society  decided  to  build  a  church,  bought  the  lot 
on  Pleasant  street,  made  plans  and  contracts  and  went  forward 
imder  the  leadership  of  Mr.  R.  B.  Dunn.  The  estimated  cost 
was  $16,000,  the  amount  subscribed  $4,375,  of  which  Mr.  R.  B. 
Dunn  had  pledged  $3,000.  To  appearance,  the  enterprise  was, 
in  the  highest  degree,  reckless.  The  society  was  poor,  Mr.  Dunn 
was  the  only  man  of  considerable  financial  ability.  The  build- 
ing, however,  went  on,  Mr.  Dunn  assuming  the  responsibility, 
as  the  emergency  required,  until  the  house  was  finished  and  fur- 
nished in  excellent  style  throughout,  including  an  organ  and  bell, 
at  a  cost  of  about  $18,000,  Mr.  Dunn  paying  $14,000.  The  dedi- 
cation was  on  the  23rd  of  March,  1870.  The  sermon  was  by 
Rev.  j.  A.  M.  Chapman,  D.  D.,  of  Boston,  from  the  words :  "The 
wages  of  sin  is  death,  but  the  gift  of  God  is  eternal  life  through 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lord."  It  was  a  masterly  effort  and  made  a 
deep  impression  upon  the  large  audience.  The  pastors  of  sister 
churches,  also  several  visiting  clergymen,  assisted  in  the  services. 
Mr.  Ladd,  now  presiding  elder  of  Lewiston  district,  remained 
as  pastor  for  three  years,  the  full  term  under  the  rule  of  the 
church,  during  that  time  fifty-three  persons  united  with  the 
church.  1 872- 1 874,  Rev.  A.  W.  Pottle  was  pastor.  (A  revival 
in  which  some  forty  were  converted  occurred  during  his  minis- 
try.) In  1875  Rev.  Wm.  vS.  Jones  was  pastor  and  a  gracious 
revival  under  the  labors  of  the  Lynn  Praying  Band,  added  one 
hundred  new  names  to  the  list  of  members  and  probationers, 
while  many  who  were  converted  united  with  other  churches  here 
and  elsewhere.  In  1877- 1878  Rev.  Roscoe  Sanderson  was  pas- 
tor. The  following  is  the  list  of  subsequent  pastors :  Rev. 
Ezekiel  Martin,  A.  W.  Pottle,  afterwards  a  presiding  elder ;  W. 
S.  Mclntire,  Wm.  M.  Sterling,  Geo.  A.  Crawford,  C.  I.  Mills, 
H.  A.  CliflFord,  L.  B.  Codding,  Israel  Luce,  W.  F.  Berry,  (see 
biog.  ch.),  Geo.  D.  Lindsay,  (see  biog.  ch.),  Albert  A.  Lewis. 


260  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

During  the  year  1899  the  church  was  enlarged  and  beautified, 
under  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  Geo.  D.  Lindsay,  at  an  expense  of 
$5,000.  Mr.  Lindsay's  health  failed  during  the  winter  of  1901 
and  he  was  obliged  to  give  up  ministerial  work.  He  died  in 
Waterville,  October  25,  1901,  loved  and  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him. 

The  foregoing  sketch  is  by  the  present  pastor,  who  has  also, 
by  request,  furnished  the  statistics  for  the  following  summary. 
At  the  permanent  organization  of  the  church  in  1867,  there  were 
found  less  than  thirty  of  those  who  had  previously  identified 
themselves  with  the  cause  here  and  who,  in  1853,  numbered  136. 
In  1873  there  were  152 ;  230  in  1883 ;  262  in  1893  •  275  in  1902. 
The  total  of  baptisms  is  529.  A  Sunday  school  was  organized 
in  ^.^6y,  with  forty  members.  There  were  173  at  the  year's  close, 
the  attendance  for  the  year  averaging  forty-six.  Everett  R. 
Drurnmond,  Esq.,  was  superintendent  from  the  beginning  imtil 
1888  with  a  brief  interruption  in  1885.  For  the  last  ten  years 
this  important  office  has  been  successfully  filled  by  Miss  Sarah 
A.  Copp.  There  are  in  the  school  about  300  members,  and  in  its 
library  i,too  volumes.  For  about  fifteen  years,  i88o-'95,  ^  Sun- 
day school,  with  an  average  attendance  some  of  the  time  as  high 
as  fifty,  was  maintained  by  the  church  in  the  chapel  on  Sand  Hill, 
Winslow,  the  chapel  having  been  built  and  owned  by  the  church. 
The  church  has  also,  for  many  years,  had  two  of  its  members, 
Mr.  James  L.  Corson  and  Miss  Eda  L.  Fuller  working  through- 
out the  State  as  missionaries  of  the  Maine  Bible  Society.  Miss 
May  Grover  became  a  missionary  in  Africa  under  Bishop  Taylor 
in  1887.  Although  not  organized  until  after  the  Civil  War,  of 
those  who  have  belonged  to  it,  twenty  or  more  were  in  the  Union 
army,  while  in  the  war  for  temperance,  the  church  as  a  whole  has 
been  and  is  a  valiant  regiment.  Indirectly,  through  its  gifts, 
of  money  for  Christian  enterprises  outside  its  own  limits,  it  is 
represented  in  mission  and  reform  work  the  world  over.  In 
only  one  year  (1868)  have  its  contributions  for  these  fallen  below 
$100.  The  highest  sum  was  $970,  in  1897.  Since  1881  the 
amount  has  in  only  one  year  been  less  than  $200,  while  the 
average  for  these  years  has  been  $479,  and  the  average 
for  all  the  years  of  the  church's  history  has  been  $346.50. 
Surely  the  church  has  had  a  most  honorable  record  and  an 
enviable  prospect  speaks  encouragement. 


HISTORY    OF    WAT^RVILLE.  26 1 


THE    EPISCOPALIANS. 

The  first  services  of  the  Episcopal  church  in  Waterville  were 
undertaken  chiefly  through  the  instrumentahty  of  men  who  were 
not  of  her  communion.  Deacon  John  B.  Bradbury,  of  the  Con- 
gregational society  of  Waterville,  was,  during  the  winter  of 
1875-6,  boarding  in  a  family  with  the  Rev.  George  T.  Packard, 
the  newly  appointed  rector  of  St.  John's  church,  Bangor.  Mr. 
Charles  Follansbee,  a  nephew  of  Deacon  Bradbury,  was  a  fre- 
quent visitor,  and  through  his  uncle  became  acquainted  with  Mr. 
Packard.  From  this  acquaintance  developed  the  suggestion  to 
hold  a  service  of  the  Episcopal  church  in  Waterville,  and  through 
the  influence  of  these  gentlemen  the  first  service  here  was  con- 
ducted m  the  Congregational  house  of  worship,  presumably  by 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Packard.  Such  an  unexpected  interest  was  mani- 
fested that  the  Bishop  of  Maine,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  A.  Neely, 
at  once  undertook  to  provide  a  monthly  service.  Owing  to  the 
small  number  of  priests  whose  services  were  then  at  his  disposal, 
it  was  not  always  possible  to  carry  out  this  plan,  but  during  the 
next  few  months,  services  were  frequently  held,  and  the  Rev.  H. 
L.  Yewens  of  Lewiston  and  the  Rev.  Samuel  Upjohn  of  Augusta 
were  am^ong  those  who  officiated. 

In  June,  1876,  the  Bishop  sent  Mr.  Henry  Jones, — then  a  can- 
didate for  Holy  Orders,  and  now  the  senior  priest  actively 
engaged  in  parochial  work  in  Maine, — to  W^aterville,  "with 
instructions  to  remain  there  long  enough  at  least  to  fairly  test  the 
desire  of  any  considerable  number  to  have  the  services  of  the 
church."  The  result  of  this  experiment  was  certainly  encour- 
aging, for  in  December  of  the  same  year  a  petition  was  forwarded 
to  the  bishop  for  the  organization  of  a  mission.  On  December 
2.2  the  organization  was  completed  under  the  name  of  St.  Mark's 
church  and  the  mission  placed  under  the  care  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Upjohn.  The  bishop  appointed  the  following  officers  :  Mr.  J.  G. 
Soule,  warden ;  Mr.  J.  F.  Percival,  treasurer ;  Mr.  Jones,  the  lay 
reader,  continued  in  charge  of  the  services.  During  Mr.  Jones' 
term  of  service  the  mission  used  the  Universalist  house  of  wor- 
ship part  of  the  time  and  later  occupied  the  Grangers'  hall  on 
iMain  street.  Three  persons  were  baptized  and  confirmed  during 
the  vear. 


262  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

In  June,  1877,  the  Rev.  Edwin  F.  Small,  just  ordained  Deacon, 
was  given  permanent  charge  of  the  mission.  He  found  a  con- 
gregation of  about  sixty  ready  to  accept  his  ministrations.  In 
the  autumn  of  that  year  the  mission  purchased  of  Mr.  Mark 
Gallert  the  lot  of  land  on  Center  street  on  which  the  church  now 
stands,  and  at  the  same  time  leased  a  new  store  on  Main  street, 
belonging  to  Mr.  W.  H.  Leslie,  which  was  fitted  up  as  a  chapel. 
Attention  was  then  directed  to  the  erection  of  a  church.  Plans 
were  secured  and  most  of  the  money  raised,  so  that  by  early 
spring,  building  operations  were  begun.  The  first  service  was 
held  in  the  new  chapel  on  the  evening  of  July  6,  1878,  the  Rev. 
Edward  R.  Brown,  of  the  Diocese  of  Connecticut,  being  the 
preacher.  The  chancel  furniture  was  the  gift  of  the  bishop. 
The  communion  plate  was  presented  by  Mrs.  Frank  Getchell  of 
Philadelphia.  The  altar  linen  was  the  work  and  gift  of  the 
altar  society  of  St.  Mark's  church,  Philadelphia.  Mr.  Small 
resigned,  March  i,  1881,  to  accept  the  rectorship  of  Trinity 
church,  Saco.  During  his  ministry  twenty-eight  persons  w^ere 
baptized,  and  an  equal  number  were  presented  to  the  bishop  for 
the  apostolic  rite  of  confirmation. 

During  the  next  five  years  the  church  had  two  rectors,  the  Rev. 
John  M.  Bates,  who  served  two  years,  and  the  Rev.  L.  W. 
Richardson,  who  remained  but  a  year  and  a  half.  For  the  rest 
of  this  period  the  parish  had  to  be  content  with  such  ministra- 
tions as  from  time  to  time  could  be  furnished. 

The  Rev.  Melville  McLaughlin  took  charge  of  the  parish  on 
the  first  Sunday  in  Lent,  1886,  and  remained  until  June,  1889. 
Much  in  a  material  way  was  accomplished  during  his  incum- 
bency. The  house  and  lot  just  east  of  the  church  was  purchased, 
Mr.  McLaughlin  advancing  the  money,  and  taking  a  mortgage 
on  terms  very  favorable  to  the  mission.  This  was  done  before 
the  end  of  1886.  In  1887  the  chapel  was  painted  without  and 
frescoed  within,  the  windows  put  in,  various  other  improvements 
made,  and  the  church  was  duly  consecrated  on  June  9,  the  money 
having  been  raised  to  make  the  last  payment  on  the  lot.  Mr. 
McLaughlin  recorded  forty-two  baptisms  and  thirty-four  con- 
firmations. 

The  Rev.  James  W.  Sparks  was  appointed  rector  by  Bishop 
Neely,  November  8,  1889,  ^^^  remained  until  October  i,  1899,  a 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  263 

period  of  ten  years,  lacking  one  month.  During  Mr.  Sparks* 
administration  the  rectory  was  partially  destroyed  by  fire,  and  the 
improvements  that  were  made  at  the  time  of  the  rebuilding  added 
somewhat  to  the  convenience  and  the  value  of  the  property.  The 
scriptural  custom  of  the  weekly  eucharist  was  established  at  the 
outset  of  Mr.  Sparks'  rectorship  and  the  Saints'  Day  celebra- 
tions were  also  made  the  rule,  in  accordance  with  the  prayer- 
book  requirem.ent.  IMr.  Sparks  was  particularly  active  as  a  mis- 
sionary, holding  services  at  Madison,  Skowhegan  and  Shawmut, 
— building  at  the  last  named  village  a  beautiful  little  church  at 
a  cost  of  something  over  $2,000, — and  finding  and  ministering 
to  communicants  also  in  Vassalboro,  Winslow,  Oakland,  and 
Norridgewock.  Mr.  Sparks  administered  the  sacrament  of  Holy 
Baptism  to  one  hundred  and  thirteen  persons,  and  presented 
forty-six  for  confirmation. 

In  November,  1809,  the  present  rector,  the  Rev.  George  Bruce 
Nicholson,  came  to  Waterville,  his  appointment  being  almost  the 
last  official  act  of  the  late  Bishop  Neely  prior  to  his  death.  The 
affairs  of  the  parish  were  not  then  in  an  ideal  condition.  With- 
out attempting  to  fix  the  responsibility  upon  anyone,  the  fact 
remains  that  there  was  much  disaffection  in  the  congregation, 
and  considering  its  numbers  and  resources  the  parish  was  quite 
heavily  in  debt.  The  people,  however,  seemed  quite  ready  to 
unite  in  any  effort  which  might  be  undertaken  to  renew  the  inter- 
est and  strengthen  the  work.  Steps  were  at  once  taken  to  cancel 
the  floating  indebtedness  of  the  parish,  while  in  the  meantime 
the  rector's  attention  was  given  to  the  re-organization  of  the 
various  parochial  agencies,  and  the  improvement  of  the  character 
of  the  services.  Friends  of  the  mission  here  and  elsewhere  have 
given  various  accessories  of  church  worship,  so  that  the  Catholic 
faith,  which  is  taught  in  its  fulness,  may  have  due  outward 
expression  in  a  reverent  and  appropriate  ceremonial,  which, 
while  modest  and  simple  in  its  character,  follows  so  far  as  it  goes 
the  principles  of  scriptural  symbolism  and  the  historic  usages 
of  the  Catholic  church.  In  the  autumn  of  1900,  the  rector  pre- 
sented a  plan  for  the  liquidation  of  the  debt  resting  upon  the 
property,  within  five  years.  The  plan  met  with  instantaneous 
approval  and  response,  and  more  than  one-third  has  already  been 
paid.     During  the  same  season  an  extension  was  built  at  the 


264  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

south  end  of  the  church,  providing  a  choir-room  and  small 
chapel,  and  the  chancel  was  remodeled  and  furnished  to  accom- 
modate the  re-organized  vested  choir,  which,  after  Several 
months'  training  by  the  rector,  made  its  first  appearance  in  the 
evening  of  the  feast  of  St.  Cecilia.  Up  to  the  present  time 
twenty-one  have  been  confirmed.  The  outlook  at  the  present 
time  is  hopeful.  The  parish  is  united,  the  congregations  arq 
growing,  the  few  workers  are  faithful,  financial  obligations  are 
being  faced  and  discharged,  prejudices  are  in  a  measure  being 
overcome,  and  St  Mark's  church  enters  upon  her  second  quarter- 
century  in  faith,  believing  that  God  has  a  work  for  her  to  do  in 
witnessing  for  a  pure  Catholicity,  and  that  He  will  guide  her  in 
the  accomplishment  of  His  purpose. 

The  present  officers  of  the  mission  are :  Mr.  George  S.  Dolloff, 
warden ;  Mr.  J.  Foster  Percival,  treasurer ;  Mr.  Lowell  G.  Salis- 
bury, clerk.  The  number  of  communicants  in  good  standing 
is  not  quite  one  hundred. 

THE    ADVENTISTS. 

Many  still  living  distinctly  remember  William  Miller  and  his 
trumpet-toned  proclamation  throughout  New  England  and  the 
Middle  States,  that  the  second  coming  of  Christ  and  the  end  of 
the  world  were  at  hand.  Who  that  heard  it  could  forget  the 
rallying  cry :  "Eighteen  hundred  forty-three  will  be  the  year 
of  jubilee !"  Great  and  widespread  was  the  interest  and  his  fol- 
lowers in  his  own  lifetime  numbered  some  50,000.  As  the  event 
showed,  he  was  at  fault  as  to  that  date  as  have  been  many  other 
attempts  to  determine  the  exact  time  of  the  Lord's  predicted 
advent.  But  the  conviction  that  the  time  is  very  near  at  hand 
has  remained  and  widely  extended. 

Doubtless  there  have  been  in  Waterville  individuals  of  this 
faith  ever  since  the  time  of  Miller.  There  were  certainly  some 
of  them  here  in  the  sixties  who  knew  exactly  what  they  believed, 
and  who  affirmed  and  defended  their  faith  with  ability.  No 
effort  toward  organization  seems  to  have  been  made  until  the 
fall  of  1894.  At  that  time  five  men  and  their  wives,  most  of 
whom  were  connected  with  the  Charles  street  mission,  reached 
the  decision  to  establish  meetings  in  harmony  with  their  own 


HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLE.  265 

faith.  Accordingly  they  hired,  for  this  purpose,  Golden  Cross 
hall,  began  their  meetings  at  once,  and  have  ever  since  continued 
them  there.  Different  ministers  from  various  parts  of  the  State 
were  for  two  years  engaged  from  time  to  time  to  preach  for  them. 
There  resulted  an  increase  in  attendance.  It  was  therefore 
decided  in  1896  to  organize  a  church.  This  was  effected  Octo- 
ber first  with  a  membership  of  thirteen  and  with  the  following 
officers :  Elder,  Fred  S.  Vamey ;  deacons,  Martin  H.  Ham  and 
Isaac  Varney ;  clerk,  Miss  Myra  A.  Barker ;  financial  secretary, 
C.  G.  Hapworth ;  treasurer,  Mrs.  Almeda  Rose.  Rev.  E.  E. 
Larcell  of  Fairfield  was  unanimously  called  to  be  pastor,  and  at 
the  end  of  his  two  years  of  service  the  membership  had  increased 
to  fifty.  Various  preachers  supplied  the  pulpit  until  December 
3,  1899  when  Rev.  W.  M.  Strout  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  became  pas- 
tor and  served  until  February  of  the  present  year.  During  his 
pastorate  the  membership  of  the  church  has  been  increased, 
the  Sunday  school  doubled  in  size,  a  lot  of  land  on  Pearl  street, 
facing  Nudd  street,  on  which  to  erect  a  church  building,  bought 
and  paid  for,  and  money  secured  sufficient  to  warrant  the  taking 
of  further  steps  for  its  erection.  The  expectation  is  that  it  will 
be  completed  and  ready  for  dedication  in  the  fall  of  the  presenr 
year.  The  members  of  the  church,  although  at  present  without 
a  pastor,  expect  one  soon,  and  they  regard  the  prospects  of  the 
young  church  as  very  bright. 


THE    FREE    BAPTISTS. 

The  Free  Baptist  church  of  Waterville  is  the  latest  born  of 
all  the  churches  of  the  city.  It  was  organized  December  31, 
1901.  Were  one  to  write  the  history  of  this  church  as  it  "might 
have  been"  there  would  be  much  of  effective  work  and  large 
achievement  to  record.  Some  twenty  years  ago  Rev.  James 
Boyd,  agent  of  the  Maine  Free  Baptist  Association,  organized  in 
this  village  a  Sunday  school  and  for  a  while  held  public  preach- 
ing services.  There  were  living  here  at  the  time  a  goodly  num- 
ber of  members  of  that  denomination,  some  of  them  persons  of 
not  a  little  social  and  financial  ability  and  influence,  and  in 
religious  character  also  excellent  material  to  go  into  a  new 
church  enterprise  and  organization.     Indeed  long  before  that 


2&^  HISTORY    OI^    WATERVILLK. 

Deacon  Hanscom,  (deacon  of  a  Free  Baptist  church)  and  all  his 
family,  living  in  the  house  still  occupied  by  his  daughters  at  the 
junction  of  Main  street  and  College  avenue,  were  loyal  and 
downright  Free  Baptists.  Some  of  the  Hills  shared  very  posi- 
tively the  same  faith.  There  were  others  here  with  them  fifty 
years  ago,  after  that  still  others  continued  to  come,  among  them 
such  families  as  the  Trues  and  the  Purintons.  No  effort  seems 
to  have  been  made  to  unite  these  in  a  society  and  church 
of  their  own  faith  and  order  until  the  coming  of  Rev.  James 
Boyd,  already  noticed.  This  effort  at  the  first  was  full  of 
promise  and  would  unquestionably  have  been  richly  successful 
if  it  had  not  been  for  the  unfortunate  mistakes  of  management 
for  which  the  Free  Baptists  of  Waterville  were  not  responsible 
and  which  they,  at  the  time,  greatly  regretted.  But  the  loss  to 
that  denomination  was  gain  to  the  others.  The  "might  have 
been"  which  has  made  them  "sad"  has  made  others  glad.  And 
yet,  in  a  truer  sense,  all  have  together  been  both  sad  and  glad 
for  we  are  "all  members  of  one  body,"  and  so  all  share  alike  the 
joy  and  sorrow  of  each. 

The  question  of  separate  services  and  organization  was  not 
again  eifectively  raised  until  1809.  At  that  time  Rev.  A.  D. 
Dodge  of  Clinton,  made  the  acquaintance  of  his  denominational 
brethren  in  Waterville,  and  as  the  first  public  result  they  gath- 
ered on  the  20th  of  August,  1899,  in  Forester's  hall  on  Temple 
street  for  their  first  separate  preaching  service  which  was  in 
charge  of  Mr.  Dodge.  From  that  day  they  have  held  services 
continuously  under  his  charge  and  leadership.  On  the  1st  of 
October,  1900,  they  moved  from  Forester's  hall  to  the  Grand 
Army  hall,  and  subsequently  into  the  hall  over  the  Woman's 
Association.  This  they  have  furnished  suitably  for  their  own 
use  and  at  their  own  expense.  On  the  31st  of  December,  1901, 
they  were  organized  into  a  church  of  twenty-four  members. 
They  have  as  pastor,  Rev.  A.  D.  Dodge ;  as  deacons,  Messrs.  A. 
E.  Purinton  and  J.  G.  Butler ;  as  clerk,  Mr.  George  Smith ; 
Mr.  A.  E.  Purinton  is  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school  and 
chorister  and  gives  himself  to  the  service  of  the  cause  with  a 
cheerful  devotion  which  is  shared  by  the  other  workers,  both 
men  and  women.     The  small  number  makes  heavy  the  burden 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  26/ 

of  support  but  the  State  Convention  renders  aid  in  the  payment 
of  $200  annually  toward  the  pastor's  salary.  They  feel  the  need 
of  a  house  of  worship  and  hope  in  due  time  to  secure  one.  The 
constant  increase  in  attendance  on  all  the  services  of  the  church, 
including  the  Sunday  school,  makes  them  hopeful  for  the  future. 
All  congratulate  them  on  their  good  record  and  wish  them  well 
for  the  coming  years. 


Note.    The  sketch  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church  was  written  by  its  Rector,  the 
Rev.  George  Bruce  Nicholson. 


CHAPTER   IX. 


THE  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS  OF  WATERVILLE 
By  Elwood.   T.   Wyman,  A.  M.,  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

Seeking  after  facts  concerning  the  early  history  of  the  schools 
of  Waterville  is  largely  groping  in  the  dark,  for  the  records  of 
the  period,  so  far  as  they  relate  to  schools,  are  scanty,  and  its 
remembrance  lies  beyond  the  memory  of  living  men.  There  is 
enough  written  down,  however,  to  show  that  the  settlers  of  this 
part  of  the  Kennebec  valley  brought  with  them  from  Massa- 
chusetts the  same  high  regard  for  education  that  made  and  has 
kept  for  that  commonwealth  the  foremost  place  in  the  Union. 
The  mother  state  gave  to  her  daughter  Maine  no  more  precious 
heritage  than  this  strong  desire  and  determination  to  offer  youth 
as  much  of  elementary  learning  as  limited  resources  could 
provide. 

It  took  no  little  sacrifice  at  times  to  keep  the  lamp  of  popular 
education  burning,  and  while  Waterville  was  yet  a  part  of  Wins- 
low  there  were  several  occasions  when  taxes  were  so  grievous  a 
burden  that  no  money  was  voted  at  the  annual  town  meeting  for 
the  support  of  schools.  In  1778,  Winslow  voted  to  hire  preach- 
ing but  no  schooling;  in  1780  the  cause  of  the  gospel  suffered 
alike  with  that  of  education,  no  money  being  voted  for  either 
schooling  or  preaching.  In  March,  1787,  it  was  voted  to  allow 
Capt.  Zimri  Haywood  four  pounds,  eight  shillings  and  sixpence, 
for  paying  and  boarding  a  schoolmaster  one  month.  This  is  the 
first  record  of  a  definite  sum  paid  to  an  individual  in  connection 
with  the  support  of  schools. 

In  1788  and  the  two  following  years  no  money  was  voted  for 
preaching  or  schooling.     In  the  last-named  year  the  voters  thrice 


HISTORY    OF    WATE:RVILLE.  269 

evinced  their  determination  to  hire  no  schooling  as  shown  by  the 
record  of  the  town  meetings.  In  1791  no  money  was  voted  for 
preaching,  but  fifty  pounds  were  allowed  for  schooling.  That 
some  of  the  more  prosperous  of  the  citizens  united  in  the  support 
of  private  schools  is  shown  by  diary  records  and  such  agreements 
as  the  following,  an  exact  copy  of  the  original  document : 

WiNSLO\v,  28th  Dec.  1796. 
Whereas  Abijah  Smith  of  said  Winslow,  has  agreed  to  keep  a 
school  in  Ticonic  Village  for  the  term  of  three  months  next 
ensuing  the  date  hereof,  and  bord  himself  and  find  a  room  con- 
venient for  that  purpose.  We  the  subscribers  do  promise  to 
pay  him  twenty  dollars  pr  month — two  dollars  of  w^hich  is  to  be 
paid  weekly  for  his  bord — and  the  remainder  to  be  paid  at  the 
expiration  of  said  three  months  each  one  to  pay  in  proportion 
to  the  number  he  signs  for — also  to  find  and  hall  to  said  room, 
a  sufficient  quantity  of  fire-w'ood  for  said  school. 

Nehemiah  A.  Parker,  One 
John  Rogers,  Three 
Benj.  Chase,  Three 
Elnathan  Sherwin,  Two 
Getchell  &  Redington,  Five 
Edw'd  Piper  for  two 
James  M'Kim  for  three 

Jona.  Clark,  Three 
Feby  7th,  1797, 

Abijah  Smith  ought  certainly  to  have  been  able  to  teach  pen- 
manship and  the  correct  use  of  his  mother  tongue,  for  the  first 
records  of  the  town  of  Waterville  are  in  his  handwriting,  beau- 
tiful to  behold  even  novv^ ;  and  they  are  so  well  expressed  that 
they  may  w^ell  have  been  used  as  a  model  for  the  town  clerks  that 
succeeded  him. 

It  is  not  to  be  believed  that  schools,  or  preaching,  were  neg- 
lected for  lack  of  appreciation  of  the  advantages  of  either,  but 
the  people  were  poor  and  the  depreciated  currency  of  the  day 
was  lamentably  scarce.  So  it  is  not  strange  that  some  of  the 
early  schoolmasters  were  glad  to  receive  "pickled  herring"  in 
remuneration  for  their  services.  In  ]\ larch  of  1796,  six  years 
before  the  separation  of  the  two  towns,  Winslow  voted  $250  for 


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270 


HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 


the  purpose  of  schooling,  this  being  the  first  instance  in  the  town 
records  of  the  use  of  the  term  dollars.  The  votes  previous  had 
named  the  amount  of  municipal  appropriations  in  pounds.  At 
the  same  March  meeting,  an  article  "to  make  such  alterations 
in  school  districts  as  may  be  thought  expedient"  was  "passed 
over,"  this  also  being  the  first  use  in  the  records  of  the  term 
"school  district." 

In  1798  family  names  long  familiar  in  the  history  of  both 
towns  appear  in  the  list  of  school  agents  elected  at  the  annual 
town  meeting.  On  the  east  side  they  were  Col.  Hayden,  Eph- 
raim  Town  and  Moses  Wyman ;  on  the  west  side,  Nathaniel 
Low,  Asa  Redington,  Daniel  Carter,  Jonathan  Combs,  David 
Pattee,  Hugh  Osborne  and  Thomas  Bates.  In  1800,  Winslow 
voted  $400  for  schools  and  $1,500  for  roads ;  how  much  of  these 
sums  was  expended  for  that  part  of  the  town  lying  west  of  the 
Kennebec  the  records  do  not  show. 

After  Waterville's  incorporation  as  a  town,  June  2T),  1802,  little 
time  was  lost  in  setting  its  school  machinery  in  motion.  At  the 
first  town  meeting,  July  26  of  that  year,  the  following  school 
agents  were  elected :  Elisha  Hallet,  Thomas  Parker,  Nehemiah 
A.  Parker,  Nelson  Colcord,  Asa  Soule,  Micah  Ellis,  Isaac  Cor- 
son, John  Streeter,  Thomas  Cook  and  Samuel  Moors.  On 
August  9  the  town  voted  to  raise  $300  for  purposes  of  schooling. 

At  the  March  meeting  of  1803,  the  sum  of  $400  was  voted  for 
schooling  and  only  $50  for  preaching.  At  an  adjourned  meeting 
held  May  2,  it  was  voted  to  accept  a  report  presented  by  the  select- 
men for  dividing  the  town  into  school  districts,  which  were 
referred  to  in  the  report  as  Ticonic,  Rose's,  Ten-lot,  Almond 
Soule's,  Tozer's,  Low's,  Moors's,  Asa  Soule's,  Osborne's,  and 
Crowell's.  The  selectmen's  report  also  provided  for  the  choice 
of  the  several  school  agents  at  the  annual  town  meeting,  each 
district  to  have  the  liberty  of  "providing,  agreeing  with  and  pay- 
ing their  teachers,"  subject  to  the  restrictions  of  the  law  in  such 
cases  made  and  provided.  Discretionary  power  was  granted  the 
selectmen  to  aid  small  districts,  and  Rose's  district  was  advised 
to  join  with  neighboring  families  in  Fairfield  in  support  of  a 
union  school. 

At  the  March  meeting  of  1805,  three  agents  were  elected  for 
Ticonic  district,  which  embraced  the  village  portion  of  the  town. 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


271 


They  were  Nehemiah  A.  Parker,  Asa  Redirxgton.  Jr.,  and  James 
Stackpole,  Jr.  In  1806  the  school  appropriation  was  increased 
to  $600,  and  at  a  meeting  in  May  a  committee  consisting  of 
Moses  Appleton,  Reuben  Kidder,  Timothy  Boutelle,  James 
Stackpole,  Jr.,  and  Thomas  C.  Norris  was  elected  "to  inspect 
schools  throughout  the  town  the  year  ensuing."  This  committee 
was  of  quality  suited  to  the  important  work  assigned  it,  for  two 
of  its  members.  Dr.  Moses  Appleton  and  the  Hon.  Timothy 
Boutelle,  were  graduates  of  Harvard  besides  being,  like  their 
associates  on  the  committee,  men  of  affairs  with  ability  sufficient 
to  make  them  leaders  of  thought  and  action  in  any  community. 

That  the  boys  of  those  days  were  not  unlike  the  boys  of  to-day 
may  be  guessed  from  a  vote  of  the  town  in  April,  1808,  by  which 
ball  playing  and  snow-balling  within  fifteen  rods  of  the  meeting- 
house and  schoolhouse  were  prohibited  on  penalty  of  a  fine  of 
not  more  than  $4  and  not  less  than  fifty  cents.  ^lany  of  the  lads 
at  whom  that  vote  was  leveled  grew  to  be  dignified  and  dis- 
tinguished citizens,  just  as  will  their  grandchildren  whom  we 
see  playing  upon  our  streets  to-day. 

The  various  school  districts  soon  came  to  be  known  officially 
by  number  although  the  original  family  names  of  them  still  sur- 
vive in  the  local  parlance  of  several  communities. 

For  district  No.  i,  in  1808,  there  were  reported  as  parents  of 
children  of  school  age — five  to  twenty-one — the  following  per- 
sons :  William  Spaulding,  Jere.  Curtis,  Benj.  Woodman,  Daniel 
Curtes,  Christopher  Jakins,  George  Jakins,  James  L.  Wood,  Jona. 
Clark,  Frederick  Jakins,  Isaac  Temple,  Edward  Piper,  Nicholas 
Coffin,  David  Nours,  Jediah  ]sIorrill,  Jere.  Fairfield,  Enoch 
Plummer,  Nathaniel  Gilman,  Jona.  Haywood,  Isaac  Stevens, 
James  Stackpole,  Jr.,  William  Phillips,  Hannah  Cool,  Reuben 
Kidder,  ]Moses  Appleton,  ]Mrs.  Lakin,  George  Dunbar,  Closes 
Dalton,  Charles  Dingley,  Daniel  IMoore,  John  Stackpole,  Asa 
Redington,  David  Getchell,  Nehemiah  Getchell,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Parker, 
Wm.  Haywood,  Moses  Healey,  Wm.  Miller,  Mrs.  Leeman,  Elna- 
than  Sherwin,  Turner  Fish,  Thomas  C.  Norriss,  John  Wright, 
Russell  Blackwell,  Winthrop  Watson,  Jere.  Kidder,  Edward 
Estey,  Samuel  King,  Sally  Taylor,  Samuel  Gilman,  Samuel 
Clark,  Christopher  Rice,  James  Grummet,  Daniel  Loring.  Joseph 


274  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

discontinuance  of  roads  furnished  a  never-failing  subject  for  dis- 
cussion and  action. 

The  amount  of  money  voted  for  schools  in  1829  was  $900,  a 
larger  sum  by  $200  than  had  ever  been  voted  before.  In  a  list 
of  town  by-laws  adopted  in  1830  the  public  school  pupils  were 
probably  aimed  at  in  a  section  providing  for  a  fine  of  twenty-five 
cents  as  a  penalty  for  riding  upon,  or  taking  hold  of  the  back  part 
of  any  chaise,  sleigh  or  other  carriage,  while  in  actual  use,  with- 
out the  consent  of  the  person  having  charge  of  the  same.  There 
was  also  to  be  no  ball  playing  or  stone  throwing  in  the  public 
streets. 

There  was  a  decidedlv  "ministerial"  committee  chosen  in  1834, 
consisting  of  the  Rev.  Calvin  Gardner,  the  Rev.  S.  F.  Smith, 
author  of  "America,"  and  the  Rev.  Jonathan  C.  Morrill.  Samuel 
Plaisted  was  chairman  of  the  committee  for  the  next  year,  which 
was  marked  by  the  passage  of  a  vote  to  authorize  the  various 
districts  to  elect  their  respective  school  agents  in  district  meet- 
ings. The  custom  thus  inaugurated  prevailed  thenceforth  unin- 
terruptedly as  long  as  the  district  system  remained  in  vogue. 

Early  in  the  thirties,  there  were  in  attendance  at  the  little  brick 
schoolhouse  a  number  of  pupils  that  are  still  living  or  have  but 
recently  died.  The  entire  list  included  Mary  and  Hannah  Eaton, 
Ellen,  Elizabeth  and  Rebecca  Getchell,  Lydia  and  Ariana  Hill, 
Alice,  Armenia  and  Olivia  Dunbar,  Rosetta  and  Naomi  Nelson, 
Hannah,  Tiley  Ann  and  Susan  Hayden,  Mary  Jewett,  Esther 
Shorey,  Georgiana  Bright,  Olive  Blackwell,  Eliza  and  Martha 
Haywood,  Mary  Brown,  Ellen  Cafifrey,  Josephine  Morrow,  Olive 
Reed,  Lydia  Hasty,  Sarah  Tuttle,  Climenia  Blood,  Mary  Shep- 
herd, Maria  Littlefield,  James  Hasty,  Edward  Piper,  Eldridge 
L.  Getchell,  Leonard  Hill,  Burt  Wells,  Thomas  Eaton,  George 
Blackwell,  Eleazer  Getchell,  Edward  Dunbar,  Joseph  Hasty, 
Peter  Dunbar,  John  Caffrey,  Charles  Dow,  William  Dow,  Wil- 
liam CaftVey,  Thomas  Foster,  Edmund  Dunbar,  Joseph  and 
Franklin  Wheeler,  Augustus  Hill,  Oliver  Wheeler,  Arnold  and 
David  Getchell,  Henry  and  John  Paine,  Hiram  Brown,  Alfred 
Burleigh,  George  Blood,  Thomas,  Edwin  and  James  Nelson, 
David  Stilson,  Turiel  Haywood,  George  and  John  Brown,  John 
B.  Foster,  Wm.  Blood,  Lemuel  Stilson,  James  Otis,  Benjamin 
Tibbetts,  Edward  McKechnie,  Nathan  Shorey,  Timothy  Little- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  2/5 

field,  John  Bacon,  James  Haywood,  Francis  Stilson,  Charles 
White,  James  P.  Hill.  For  teaching  this  array  of  pupils  the 
teacher  received  the  liberal  salary  of  twenty-four  dollars  a  month. 

Schools  were  maintained  in  1836  in  fourteen  districts,  of  which 
the  largest  were  Nos.  i  and  5,  the  former  having  212  scholars 
on  its  census  roll,  and  the  latter  204.  The  smallest  district  in 
the  town  had  fourteen  pupils.  The  total  number  of  pupils 
returned  for  the  town  was  1,049,  ^^^  the  school  money  expended 
amounted  to  $1,131.18.  In  district  No.  i  with  its  eighty  pupils 
in  attendance  the  sum  of  $197.50  was  paid  for  instruction,  of 
which  $117  went  to  Crosby  Hinds,  who  got  $26  a  month  for  a 
term  of  eighteen  weeks ;  and  $80.50  to  Martha  A.  Sheldon,  who 
taught  twenty-three  weeks  at  $14  a  month.  The  average  attend- 
ance was  fifty.  On  the  first  visit  of  the  committee  thirty  pupils 
were  found  present  and  on  the  second,  forty-one.  Seventeen 
pupils  took  grammar,  sixty  were  found  in  arithmetic  classes,  and 
seventeen  gave  attention  to  geography. 

In  district  No.  5  J.  G.  Dickenson  received  $173  for  teaching, 
his  rate  of  wages  not  being  given  ;  and  Celia  A.  Colbum  was  paid 
$54  for  a  term  of  eighteen  weeks. 

The  entire  teaching  force  for  the  year  consisted  of  Crosby 
Hinds,  Martha  A.  Sheldon,  Thomas  Wright,  Adeline  Tozier, 
Philip  N.  Kimball,  Sophia  Thayer,  David  Purington,  Martha  W. 
Nelson,  J.  G.  Dickenson,  Celia  A.  Colburn,  Serena  Whitman, 
Martha  Bowman,  E.  M.  Thurston,  Mary  Marston,  Wm.  L. 
Eaton,  Charlotte  Mathews,  Jacob  Tuck,  Elvira  Cowan,  Chas. 
Morrill,  Louisa  N.  Ingalls,  Danforth  Thomas,  H.  C.  Warren, 
Mary  Ladd,  Lyman  Corson,  Caroline  Pullen  and  Maria  Libby. 

The  highest  wages  paid  a  woman  teacher  was  the  $14  received 
by  Martha  A.  Sheldon  in  district  No.  i,  which  was  more  than 
was  paid  to  some  of  the  male  teachers.  In  six  of  the  districts 
women  teachers  were  paid  salaries  of  $4  a  month.  In  earlier 
years  seventy-five  cents  a  week  had  not  been  considered  a  nig- 
gardly price  to  pay  for  the  services  of  a  woman  teacher.  The 
only  mention  of  extra  studies  in  the  schools  of  this  year  was  in 
reference  to  those  of  districts  Nos.  7  and  12,  in  the  former  of 
which  two  pupils  were  set  down  as  having  studied  history,  and 
in  the   latter,  six.     In  many  of    the  districts  the  length  of   the 


276  HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLE. 

school  year  was  twenty-two  weeks ;  in  the  village  schools  it  was 
more ;  in  the  smaller  districts  it  was  somewhat  less.  The  whole 
amount  paid  the  twenty-six  teachers  was  $771.37.  As  the 
teachers  in  the  two  largest  districts  received  $370.50  of  this 
amount,  it  is  evident  that  the  rest  of  the  corps  were  not  achieving 
wealth  at  a  dangerously  rapid  pace.  The  average  number  of 
pupils  was  reported  as  502,  but  these  figures  were  evidently  not 
accurate,  as  in  several  of  the  districts  the  agents  failed  to  make 
the  returns  necessary  to  determine  the  point  correctly. 

In  March  of  1835  ^  movement  had  been  set  on  foot  to  build 
a  new  schoolhouse  in  the  village,  but  nothing  came  of  it ;  and  the 
same  year  an  attempt  to  unite  districts  No.  i  and  No.  5  also 
failed,  the  committee  from  No.  i  consisting  of  the  Rev.  Calvin 
Gardner,  Alpheus  Lyon,  James  Stackpole,  Jr.,  Eben  F.  Bacon 
and  William  Pearson,  reporting  against  the  plan  as  inexpedient. 

In  1837  it  was  voted  that  the  scholars  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Crommett  stream,  under  eight  years  of  age,  draw  their  money 
to  be  expended  in  a  private  school  to  be  kept  on  the  west  side  for 
their  benefit.  The  next  year  the  following  classification  of  pupils 
was  made  for  the  village  schools :  All  between  the  ages  of  four 
and  twelve  years,  and  no  others,  were  to  be  permitted  to  attend 
the  summer  schools ;  and  all  between  the  ages  of  ten  and  twenty- 
one  years,  and  no  others,  might  attend  the  winter  schools,  or 
those  taught  by  a  master. 

In  1 84 1  it  was  voted  to  open  a  woman's  school  on  the  Plain, 
so  called,  if  a  suitable  place  could  be  obtained.  Three  schools 
were  maintained  in  the  village  that  summer.  An  article  provid- 
ing for  the  giving  up  of  the  old  schoolhouse  lot  for  one  more 
convenient  was  voted  down  in  the  district  meeting  of  No.  i  in 
1843.  There  was  evidently  some  trouble  with  the  management 
of  the  scholars  at  this  time  as  the  district  meeting  records  show  a 
vote  of  thanks  extended  to  the  schoolmaster  for  having  enforced 
discipline,  and  to  the  committee  for  having  backed  him  up  by 
turning  refractory  pupils  out  of  school.  In  1845  by  vote  of  the 
town  districts  No.  i  and  No.  5  were  united. 

In  1846  the  building  of  a  schoolhouse  on  the  Plains,  which 
seemed  to  have  failed  of  accomplishment  earlier,  was  authorized 
at  a  cost  of  $250 ;  and  it  was  also  voted  to  furnish  two  school 
rooms  in  the  town  hall.     In  the  same  year  arrangements  were 


HISTORY    OF    WATe:RVILLE.  277 

made  for  having  the  more  advanced  pupils  attend  the  academy 
and  the  institute.  The  next  year  boys  under  twelve  and  girls 
under  fourteen  were  admitted  to  the  summer  schools,  and  it  was 
also  decided  to  admit  "foreign"  children  under  "such  restrictions 
as  the  district  committee  might  prescribe."  It  was  also  decided 
that  the  English  elementary  branches  be  taught  in  the  schools  of 
the  district  and  no  others,  except  at  the  discretion  of  the  classifi- 
cation committee.  James  H.  Hanson  was  clerk  of  district  No.  i 
for  several  years  from  1847. 

A  little  earlier  than  this  the  district  fathers  had  begun  a  con- 
test over  the  matter  of  a  new  schoolhouse.  It  was  a  case  of  the 
north  part  of  the  village  against  the  south,  apparently,  and  it  was 
waged  eagerly,  and  not  without  traces  of  considerable  bitterness. 

Again  and  again  action  would  be  taken  at  a  district  meeting 
providing  for  the  erection  of  a  building,  only  to  be  overthrown 
when  the  opposing  forces  were  mustered  in  sufficient  strength  at 
a  later  meeting.  In  1853  it  apparently  became  plain  that  nothing 
was  being  gained  for  either  side,  and  the  time-honored  method 
of  compromise  was  brought  into  use.  A  committee  consisting 
of  James  Stackpole,  Samuel  Plaisted,  Joseph  Percival  and 
George  Wentworth,  was  chosen  to  name  a  committee  of  ten  to 
consider  and  report  upon  the  whole  matter.  This  larger  com- 
mittee was  made  up  of  Solyman  Heath,  Josiah  H.  Drummond, 
James  Stackpole,  Joseph  O.  Pearson,  Samuel  P.  Shaw,  R.  B. 
Thurston,  John  B.  Bradbury,  C.  M.  Morse,  Ephraim  Maxham, 
and  Charles  H.  Thayer.  The  committee  reported  in  favor  of 
two  brick  buildings,  one  for  the  north  end,  the  other  for  the 
south ;  and  the  long  fight  was  over.  One  of  the  buildings  thus 
provided  for  was  the  main  part  of  the  present  high  school  build- 
ing ;  the  other  what  is  now  a  brick  tenement  on  College  avenue, 
moved  there  from  the  present  site  of  the  North  grammar  school 
building,  and  used,  until  the  Myrtle  street  building  was  erected, 
for  school  purposes. 

In  1853  it  was  voted  to  sell  the  old  brick  schoolhouse  and  lot 
on  College  avenue,  and  so  departed  an  interesting  landmark  of 
the  earlier  days.  Two  years  later  Latin  and  French  were  author- 
ized as  studies  in  the  high  school.  In  1859  the  teachers  of  high 
and  grammar  grades  were  requested  to  present  to  parents  a 
weekly  report  of  the  conduct  and  scholarship  of  pupils  in  their 


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interest  to-day  as  they  were  •ben.     .\n>:xjg  the  sinects  treated 
in  this  report  were :    **In:  -  "  ."  ""Schjl  Reports;"' 

"Kind   of   Education    Ncx   7  .  .  i5o«i   c  Teachers;" 

"Selection  of  Teachers:"  "NoTmal  :r  - ."  'Tntiest  and  Co- 

operation   of    Parents:"    "Small    Dtsmcr* -"    **ext-Books;" 
"Selection  of  Studies."  and  others  of  r  -^icur  interest  to 

the  time.     The  comments  and  rec  •  this  report 

were  eminently  sensible  and  pc  '   .    .  Its  author 

was  either  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Kehc-  .^..    .         ^^'   "^"v!don. 

Mr.  Kelton's  name  appearing  as  an  oi  :    .  v.  but 

the  thought  and  the  language  of  the  repeat  frequent  suggesting 
Dr.  Sheldon  as  its  probable  author. 

Other  well  known  members  of  the  s^ipcrintendinischool  com- 
mittee from  1864  until  the  town  became  a  cir\-  werti^rof.  Moses 
Lyford  of  Colby,  the  Rev.  J.  O.  Skinner.  Prof.  F\V.  Hall  of 
Colby,  J.  G.  Soule,  who  died  January  i.  iS^,  after  continuous 
service  of  thirteen  years.  Hon.  S.  S.  BrouTi,  Dr.  -  W.  Small, 
formerly  of  Colby,  now  of  the  University  of  Chicao.  and  Mrs. 
Martha  Baker  Dunn. 

Just  before  the  towii  became  a  city,  its  citizens  ad  a  chance 
to  feel  proud  over  the  acquisition  oi  a  nne  new  scM  building, 
the  North  Grammar  schoc-lhouse,  which  was  fonally  opened 
February  28.  1S8S.  A  few  years  later  came  the  ereion  of  what 
IS  known  as  the  South  Grammar  building,  and  in  i^7  there  was 
built  for  the  accomnuxiation  of  the  upper  part  of  thcity  what  is 
in  most  respects  the  best  school  building  in  the  cit  the  Myrtle 
street  schoolhouse. 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  279 

With  the  stablishmcnt  nf  a  city  form  of  government  for 
W'atcrville  thrc  came  a  recognition  by  its  new  board  of  ethication 
of  the  nee<!  t  a  more  systematic  plan  of  supervision  than  had 
cxistctl  hitheo.  and  choice  was  made  of  W'ilham  C.  Crawford, 
a  graduate  (  Colby  in  the  class  of  1882.  to  Ik-  the  first  superin- 
tendent of  scorjls.  The  board  that  elected  Mr.  Crawford  con- 
sisted of  S.  .  Brown,  chairman :  Reuben  Foster.  Charles  F. 
Johnson.  Chrlo  H.  Ke-dington.  Franklin  A.  Smith.  D.  1*. 
Stowril.  and  rol.  Julian  1).  Taylor  of  Colby.  Su]>erintendeiit 
Craw  I'-rd  f-'id  it  necessary  untler  the  circumstances  practically 
to  rt\  •n-::^n.  t'u-  entire  school  system,  and  this  he  did  with  little 
disturbance  ad  yet  so  efficiently  that  his  successors  in  office  have 
all  realized  th  gtxxl  effect  of  his  laln^rs.  He  remained  with  the 
Walerville  sch<»ls  for  alvnit  four  years  and  a  hall,  leaving  them 
to  accep*  •  '-on  in  Massachusetts.  Those  who  have  followed 
him  m  *  ••  of  su|K'rintendrnt  are  C.  I'.  I.iadbetter.  J.  Iv 

Burke.  J.  H  Uanchar.l.  \V.  I..  Waters.  \\.  F.  Hitchings.  and 
I"l\\<  -  !  T.  Wman.  (  )f  the  seven  all  except  Mr.  I'.lanchard  aii<l 
Mr.  \l\'  .ive  been  graduates  of  Colby  College. 

The  :  t  the  high  sch<K)l  since  its  permanent  organiza- 

tion in  .  e  iK-en  :     Kdward  H.  Smiley.  Warren  C.   Phil- 

brr^»k.  Tavlor.    Lincoln   Owen.    Dennis   E.    Bowman, 

All  Kvans.  S.  K.  Marsh,  and  John  K.  Nel- 
son. At  the  cd  of  the  present  sch<M»l  year  .\lr.  .\eIson  resigned 
hi'-  •  ai*r  holding  it  four  years,  and  will  be  succeeded  by 

Kk1..w  .  ..  .  brague  of  the  class  of  Kioi.  Colby  College.  It  is 
interesting  U*  nte  that  every  one  oi  the  masters  in  the  list  quoted 
has  been  a  Co)y  graduate. 

There  are  iithe  city  to-day  about  3.500  people  of  school  age, 
and  of  these  oout  1.300  are  registered  in  the  various  schools. 
Thrse  are  hou**!  in  eight  buildings,  all  the  pupils  from  the  out- 
lying sections  cing  conveyed  into  the  city.  The  growth  of  the 
schools  in  the  ist  tifteen  years  has  been  remarkable.  Within 
that  jH!rio<l  for  new  buildings  have  been  erected,  and  two  others 
have  been  remdeled,  to  provide  for  the  accommo<lation  of  about 
1,000  pupils,  ad  vet  there  is  a  demand  that  must  soon  be  met 
for  a  new  gramiar  school  building  in  the  s(juthern  section  of  the 
city,  and  for  ;jiew  high  school  building.  Against  the  $300 
ex|>ended  for  scooling  in  the  first  year  of  Watcrville's  corporate 


28o  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

life,  there  is  now  to  be  set  the  annual  expenditure  of  $30,000 
for  the  school  department.  The  schools  of  the  city  have  kept 
pace  with  its  growth.  They  have  enlisted  the  honest  efforts  of 
faithful  men  and  women  who  have  served  as  members  of  super- 
intending school  committees,  of  boards  of  education,  as  super- 
intendents, as  teachers ;  they  have  enjoyed  to  a  remarkable  degree 
the  good-will  and  appreciation  of  the  community ;  and  they  have 
bestowed  upon  thousands  of  boys  and  girls  a  gift  richer  than  any 
other  earthly  possession — the  gift  of  an  education. 


CHAPTER  X. 


COBURN  CLASSICAL  INSTITUTE. 
By  Franklin  W.  Johnson,  A.  M.,  Principal  of  the  Institute. 

The  school  which  now  bears  the  name  of  Coburn  Classical 
Institute  was  founded  in  1829  as  Waterville  Academy.  It  had 
its  origin  in  a  deeply  felt  need  of  a  preparatory  school  for  Colby, 
then  Waterville  College.  Hon.  Timothy  Boutelle,  then  treas- 
urer of  the  College,  had  given  a  lot  of  land  a  year  or  two  before 
and  funds  were  raised  by  Jeremiah  Chaplin,  D.  D.,  president 
of  the  College,  and  others  for  the  erection  of  a  school  building. 

The  first  principal  of  the  school  was  Henry  W.  Paine,  at  that 
time  an  eighteen-year-old  senior  in  Waterville  College,  later  one 
of  the  most  distinguished  lawyers  in  Massachusetts.  The  num- 
ber of  students  in  attendance  during  the  first  year  was  sixty-three, 
of  whom  forty-seven  were  young  men.  The  greater  part  of  the 
work  of  the  school  was  in  the  ordinary  English  branches  as  will 
be  seen  from  the  fact  that  only  seventeen  students  are  catalogued 
as  studying  Greek  or  Latin.  Among  the  students  of  the  first 
year  were  Mrs.  Rebecca  Moor  Drinkwater  who  died  in  March, 
1902;  Daniel  R.  Wing,  long  time  proprietor  of  the  Waterville 
Mail;  John  B.  Foster,  LL.  D.,  for  many  years  a  professor  at 
Colby;  Eldridge  Getchell,  treasurer  of  the  College  for  many 
years,  and  William  Mathews,  LL.  P.,  the  well-known  essayist. 
Of  all  the  students  of  that  early  day  Dr.  Mathev/s  alone  survives. 
His  writings  still  grace  the  pages  of  our  periodical  literature. 

Mr.  Paine  opened  the  school  in  August,  1829,  and  gave  up  his 
office  at  the  end  of  nine  months  on  account  of  the  fatal  illness  of 
a  brother.  Robert  W.  Wood  had  charge  of  the  school  for  the 
remainder  of  this  year,     Joseph  Hodges,  Jr.,  was  an  assistant 


282  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

teacher  during  this  year.  The  next  principal  was  George  I. 
Chase,  just  graduated  from  Brown  University,  afterwards  pro- 
fessor and  acting  president  of  that  institution.  He  began  his 
duties  in  August,  1830,  but  closed  his  work  in  May,  1831,  after 
nine  months'  teaching.  In  August,  1831,  Henry  Paine,  a  grad- 
uate of  Waterville  College  in  the  class  of  1823,  became  principal 
and  retained  this  position  for  five  years.  There  is  extant  a  cata- 
logue belonguig  to  this  period  for  the  year  ending  July  21,  1834. 
The  following  names  appear  under  the  heading  "Superintending 
and  Examining  Committee :"  Rev.  Rufus  Babcock,  Jr.,  George 
W.  Keeley,  Rev.  Calvin  Newton,  Alpheus  Lyon,  Esq.,  Dr.  Hall 
Chase,  Dr.  Samuel  Plaisted,  Phineas  Barnes,  J.  Everett  Farnam, 
Samuel  Randall,  Jr.  Mr.  Paine  had  two  assistants  besides  a 
teacher  in  elocution.  The  attendance  for  the  year  was  205,  of 
whom  131  were  young  men.  Of  these  there  were  "attending  to 
the  Ancient  Languages"  for  the  first  term  twenty-five,  for  the 
second  term  thirty-seven,  "attending  to  the  French  Language" 
nine.  The  school  year  contained  forty-eight  weeks.  The  fol- 
lowing statements  from  this  early  catalogue  show  how  small  was 
the  expense  of  attendance  upon  the  school.  "The  price  of  tuition 
in  the  common  English  studies  is  S3. 25  per  quarter.  In  Latin, 
Greek  and  French  languages,  in  Intellectual  and  Moral  Phil- 
osophy, the  Natural  Sciences  and  the  higher  branches  of  Mathe- 
matics, $4.25  per  quarter.  The  expense  of  fuel  and  other  inci- 
dental expenses  is  proportionated  on  the  students.  Bpard, 
including  lodging  and  washing,  can  be  obtained  in  respectable 
families  for  $1.50  per  week." 

Mr.  Paine  was  followed  in  the  principalship  by  a  Mr.  Free- 
man for  a  short  time ;  he  was  followed  in  turn  by  Moses  Burbank, 
and  he  by  Lorenzo  B.  Allen  who  served  until  1837.  Mr.  Allen 
is  said  to  have  been  "an  excellent  classical  scholar  and  a  true 
Christian  gentleman."  He  was  afterwards  president  of  Burling- 
ton University,  Iowa.  Next  Charles  B.  Train,  later  attorney- 
general  of  Massachusetts,  became  principal.  Nathaniel  G. 
Rogers,  a  graduate  of  Colby,  became  principal  in  1838,  but 
resigned  after  a  short  time.  At  about  this  time  there  were  vari- 
ous men  who  presided  over  the  school  for  four  or  five  months 
each  but  no  accurate  record  of  their  names  or  order  of  service 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  283 

is  to  be  obtained.  It  is  evident  that  during  this  period  the  school 
was  in  a  most  precarious  state  of  existence.  Indeed  for  about 
two  years,  1839- 1840,  ^^^  school  was  wholly  suspended.  During 
this  period  the  Waterville  Liberal  Institute  was  established  and 
attracted  many  students  who  would  otherwise  have  attended  the 
Academy.  This  school  occupied  the  building  now  used  as  a 
dwelling  house  at  the  south  corner  of  Elm  and  School  streets. 
It  seems  that  during  this  period  of  temporary  suspension  the 
Academy  building  was  used  for  at  least  one  term  of  the  district 
school.  The  school  was  revived  in  1841  when  Charles  H. 
Wheeler,  then  a  student  in  Waterville  College,  afterwards  an 
Episcopal  rector  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  became  principal.  He 
taught  for  two  terms  and  was  followed  in  the  latter  part  of  1842 
by  Nathaniel  Butler,  father  of  the  late  president  of  Colby  College. 
He  remained  at  the  head  of  the  school  for  one  year. 

During  the  first  fourteen  years  it  will  be  seen  that  the  school 
was  conducted  by  young  men,  in  most  cases  students  or  recent 
graduates  of  the  College.  Among  the  teachers  not  already  men- 
tioned was  Elijah  P.  Love  joy,  the  first  anti-slavery  martyr. 
From  the  quality  of  the  men  who  were  instructors  it  is  certain 
that  the  school  must  have  afforded  abundant  inspiration  to  the 
students  of  these  early  da3'S. 

With  the  hope  of  strengthening  the  struggling  school,  in  the 
winter  of  1841-2,  an  act  of  incorporation  was  obtained  from  the 
legislature  and  a  board  of  trustees  was  established  to  have  charge 
of  the  school.     The  act  was  as  follows : 

An  Act  to  incorporate  the  trustees  of  the  Waterville  Academy. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
Legislature  assembled,  as  follows  : 

Sect.  I.  Samuel  Plaisted,  Stephen  Stark,  Zebulon  Sanger, 
Edwin  Noyes,  Harrison  A.  Smith,  David  Garland,  Amasa  Ding- 
ley,  Johnson  Williams,  Stephen  Thayer,  Samuel  Taylor,  and 
their  successors,  are  hereby  created  a  corporation  by  the  name  of 
the  Trustees  of  Waterville  Academy,  and,  by  that  name  may  sue 
and  be  sued,  and  may  have  a  common  seal,  and  make  any  by-laws 
for  the  management  of  their  concerns,  not  repugnant  to  the  laws 
of  this  state ;  and  may  take  and  hold  by  gift,  grant,  or  otherwise, 
any  real  or  personal  estate,  the  annual  income  of  which  shall  not 


284  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

exceed  fifteen  hundred  dollars,  and  may  give,  grant,  convey,  or 
lease,  the  same,  and  may  choose  all  officers  necessary  for  the 
management  of  their  concerns,  for  the  purpose  of  promoting 
piety  and  morality,  and  for  the  instruction  of  youth  in  such  lan- 
guages, arts  and  sciences  as  the  said  trustees  may  direct. 

Sect.  2.  Samuel  Plaisted  is  authorized  to  fix  the  time  and 
place  of  the  first  meeting  of  said  trustees,  and  to  give  to  each 
four  days  notice  thereof,  in  writing. 

Approved  February  12,  1842. 

It  does  not  appear  that  this  incorporation  was  of  any  consider- 
able help  to  the  school.  A  far  more  potent  factor  in  the  revival 
which  immediately  followed  was  the  selection  as  principal  of 
James  H.  Hanson,  a  graduate  of  Colby  in  the  class  of  1842.  Mr. 
Hanson  took  charge  of  the  school  in  September,  1843.  There 
were  but  five  pupils  at  the  opening  of  the  year.  Before  the  end 
of  the  first  term  the  number  had  quintupled.  In  less  than  ten 
years  the  attendance  had  reached  the  large  number  of  308. 

During  all  these  years  the  school  had  no  endowment  and  no 
source  of  income  save  the  very  low  tuition  fees.  The  income  of 
the  principal  was  small,  the  duties  arduous.  After  twelve  very 
successful  years  Mr.  Hanson  was  worn  out  by  his  extremely 
hard  work  and  resigned  the  principalship  in  1854,  going  to  East- 
port,  Maine,  where  he  remained  for  three  years  as  principal  of 
the  high  school. 

George  B.  Gow  succeeded  him  until  the  summer  of  1855. 
James  T.  Bradbury  was  then  principal  until  the  winter  of  1857, 
when  Isaac  S.  Hamblen  took  charge  of  the  school.  His  princi- 
palship extended  three  and  one-half  years,  to  the  end  of  the 
spring  term  of  1861.  His  management  of  the  school  was  very 
successful.  The  average  attendance  during  his  administration 
was  218  and  forty-nine  were  prepared  for  college.  He  was 
forced  to  resign  his  position  because  of  ill  health.  Following 
him  as  principal  came  Ransom  E.  Norton  for  one  term,  Randall 
E.  Jones  for  three  terms,  John  W.  Lamb  for  two  years  and  three 
terms,  from  the  summer  of  1862  to  the  winter  of  1864-5,  and 
Augustus  D.  Small  for  two  terms  in  1865. 

In  1864  the  College  had  received  new  life  through  the  gift  of 
Gardner  Colby.     Following  this  a  determined  effort  was  made 


WATERVILLE    CLASSICAL,    INSTITUTE. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  285 

to  Strengthen  the  Academy  which  had  been  decHning  for  several 
years.  At  the  urgent  request  of  Dr.  Champlin,  then  president  of 
the  College,  James  H.  Hanson  returned  to  Waterville  from  Port- 
land where  for  six  years  he  had  been  at  the  head  of  the  Boys' 
High  school,  and  for  two  years  had  been  conducting  a  private 
school  for  boys.  In  1865  he  again  took  charge  of  the  Academy 
with  the  same  success  which  attended  his  earlier  principalship. 
At  this  time  several  of  the  trustees  created  by  the  act  of  1842 
had  died  and  it  appeared  that  no  successors  had  been  elected  to 
fill  the  vacancies.  Those  who  remained,  at  the  suggestion  of 
Dr.  Champlin,  gave  back  their  charge  to  the  trustees  of  the  Col- 
lege and  the  separate  corporation  ceased  to  exist.  The  trustees 
of  the  College  then  placed  the  affairs  of  the  Academy  in  the 
hands  of  the  College  faculty.  The  name  was  changed  to  Water- 
ville Classical  Institute. 

In  1869  ^  Ladies'  Collegiate  Department  was  added  and  the 
legislature  granted  the  power  to  confer  degrees  in  accordance 
with  the  following  act: 

"Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
Legislature  assembled,  as  follows : 

Section  i.  The  managers  of  Waterville  Classical  Institute 
may  prescribe  a  course  of  study  for  young  ladies,  equivalent  to 
that  of  any  female  college  in  New  England,  and  may,  with  the 
concurrence  of  the  board  of  instructors,  confer  upon  all  who  shall 
satisfactorily  complete  such  course  the  collegiate  honors  and 
degrees  that  are  generally  granted  by  female  colleges." 

In  accordance  with  this  act  a  course  of  three  years  was  estab- 
lished which  was  the  next  year  changed  to  one  of  four  years. 
The  degree  of  Baccalaureate  of  Letters  was  conferred  upon  those 
who  successfully  completed  this  course.  This  was  for  many 
years  a  most  important  feature  of  the  school  until  the  increasing 
number  of  women  entering  Colby  and  other  colleges  caused  the 
number  pursuing  this  course  to  diminish.  It  was  given  up  in 
1896.     The  graduates  of  this  course  in  all  number  185. 

Although  the  return  of  Mr.  Hanson  to  the  principalship 
brought  new  vigor  to  the  school,  it  was  still  for  several  years 
without  endowment.  The  need  of  funds  in  order  to  secure  the 
permanent  prosperity  of  the  school  was  deeply  felt.     In  June^ 


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At  the  commencement  exercises.  July  1-3.  ii<j^).  was  celebrated 
the  semi-centennial  anniversary  of  the  o|>eninji^  of  the  school.  In 
addition  to  the  usual  exercises,  on  Thursday,  July  4.  special 
exercises  were  hcM  at  the  Baptist  church  c«)nsistiiijif  of  an  address 
by  Ex-(jOvemor  Nelson  Dinjjley,  Jr..  a  |)oem  by  Miss  Abbie  ]. 
Klatjg  of  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  a  paper  of  reminiscences  of  the 
early  history  of  the  school  by  William  Mathews.  l.L.  I).,  and 
another  containing  its  later  history  by  Kev.  (jeorj;e  H.  Oow. 
After  the  exercises  at  the  churcli  the  priK'ession  formed  and  with 
Col.  I.  S.  lianps  as  marshal.  escorte<l  by  the  Waterville  band, 
marched  to  the  town  hall  where  tlinner  was  served  to  230  quests. 
Principal  Hanson  presidetj  over  the  after-dinner  speaking:. 
.\monj^  those  who  s|>oke  on  this  occasion  were  Ibui.  llenrv  V\'. 
I'aine.  l.L.  I).,  the  fir>t  |)rincipal :  William  Mathews.  IJ..  D.. 
I'rof.  J.  H.  Foster.  John  \\  .  I)runun<»nd.  Kev.  I.  S.  Hamblen,  a 
former  princijjal ;  Hon.  Jn>hua  Nye.  Ivx-C.nvernor  Nelson  I)in^- 
!ey.  Jr..  an<l  others.  (  )f  this  semi-centennial  celebration  a  i)rom- 
inent  newspai>er  said;  "il  fairly  rivaled  in  interest  the  com- 
mencement at  Colby." 

(lovemor  Cobuni  had  i)lace<l  the  school  on  a  firm  financial 
basis  but  his  benefactions  did  not  eml  there.  After  the  sad 
'leath  in  1882  of  his  brother  Stephen  Coburn  and  the  latter's  son, 
Charles  M.  Coburn.  who  ha<l  been  ^^raduated  from  Colby  only 
the  year  before,  (toverm-r  Coburn  at  once  stated  his  intention  of 
'Tectinj:^  on  the  Institute  lot  a  memorial  to  his  brother  and 
nephew.  Prej)arations  were  soon  made  for  the  erection  of  a 
ifuildiii)^  which  was  dedicate*!  with  aj)j)roj)riate  exercises  during 
the  Collefj^e  commencement  of  iH<X4.  This  buildinjj  is  of  brick 
Aitli  red  sandstone  trimminj^s.  is  three  stories  hij^di  and  is  sur- 
iiounled  by  a  tower.  It  rej)resents  a  cost  of  more  than  $50,000 
md  is  one  of  the  finest  school  buildinp^s  in  New  Knpfland.  It 
lears  on  its  front  a  sandstone  tablet  on  which  is  the  followini; 
nscription  : 

Erected  A.  I).  1.S83 

by  Abner  Ccjburn 

in  memory  of 

Stephen  Coburn 

and 
Chas.  M.  Coburn 

wh<j  died  July  4,  1882. 


288  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

In  1883  the  name  of  the  school  was  changed  to  Coburn  Clas- 
sical Institute  in  consideration  of  Governor  Coburn 's  benefac- 
tions. 

A  circular  dome  was  later  added  to  the  building  and  equipped 
as  an  astronomical  observatory.  It  contains  a  six-inch  equatorial 
telescope  with  clock-work  attachment.  The  whole  is  a  gift  of 
Mary  D.  Lyford  and  her  son,  Hon.  Edwin  F.  Lyford  of  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  in  memory  of  Moses  Lyford,  for  many  years  a 
professor  in  the  College. 

The  old  school  building  which  for  fifty-four  years  had  occupied 
the  spot  now  occupied  by  the  more  commodious  building  was 
removed  to  the  rear  of  the  grounds  where  it  was  afterwards  torn 
down  and  removed.  This  building,  an  illustration  of  which 
accompanies  this  chapter,  was  long  familiar  to  Waterville  citi- 
zens and  is  linked  with  pleasant  associations  in  the  minds  of 
hundreds  of  former  students.  The  following  sketch  of  the 
school  and  house  of  the  early  days  was  written  by  one  who  was 
long  connected  with  the  school  as  pupil  and  teacher. 

"Through  the  Zion's  Advocate  many  an  obscure  boy  or  girl 
in  an  obscure  corner  of  Maine  heard  of  Waterville  Academy  and 
began  to  build  air  castles  and  to  earn  and  save  money  enough  to 
pay  the  twenty-five  cents  a  week  for  tuition  so  as  to  be  enrolled 
in  the  catalogue  as  a  member  of  a  school  that  was  so  near  a  col- 
lege. When  the  town  was  reached  and  the  plain  brick  building 
with  its  symmetrical  belfry  appeared,  long  cherished  hopes 
seemed  about  to  be  realized.  A  timid  knock  at  the  heavy  front 
door,  the  only  one  in  the  building,  had  to  be  repeated  before  the 
principal  appeared.  A  cordial  welcome  from  him  was  never 
lacking  but  when  the  door  opened  and  you  were  ushered  within 
some  of  your  rose-colored  anticipations  vanished.  There  were 
no  gilded  towers  without  nor  marble  walls  within,  but  a  front 
entry  with  a  place  on  the  right  that  opened  from  the  principal's 
room  for  storing  wood  for  the  big  box  stove,  brooms,  shovel, 
tongs  and  other  needed  articles.  The  long  poker  was  kept  under 
the  stove.  There  was  a  suspicion  of  fear  when  the  poking  was 
done  for  there  was  a  crack  in  the  bottom  of  the  stove  and  burn- 
ing cinders  could  always  be  seen  on  the  zinc  under  the  stove. 
To  the  left  as  you  entered  the  front  door  was  an  unattractive 
stair-case  which  led  to  the  room  of  the  preceptress  above.     On 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLS.  289 

the  east  side  of  the  upper  room  a  door  opened  into  a  small  room 
over  the  stairs,  called  the  apparatus  (?)  room,  which  contained 
an  orrery,  an  old  electric  machine,  a  battery,  and  other  trash. 
The  room  on  the  other  side  was  the  clutter  room  of  the  upper 
floor.  There  were  long  benches  on  the  north  side  of  the  pre- 
ceptress' room  and  the  platform  for  rhetorical  display  and  the 
teacher's  desk  on  the  south  side.  As  you  entered  the  principal's 
room  below  and  stepped  upon  the  cold,  brick  floor  and  saw  the 
rows  of  ugly  looking  seats  with  their  heavy  wooden  forms,  whit- 
tled and  marked  with  the  names  of  former  pupils,  you  had  a 
chance  to  revel  in  the  ruins  of  your  air-castles  and  felt  that  the 
district  schoolhouse  at  home  was  more  attractive  than  the 
academy.  But  when  the  school  work  began  and  the  principal, 
who  was  wood-sawyer,  janitor,  and  en  dower  of  the  school,, 
appeared,  surroundings  were  forgotten  and  the  eager,  enthusi- 
astic class,  guided  by  the  masterful  hand  of  the  teacher,  felt  that 
no  mistake  was  made  when  they  first  came  to  Waterville 
Academy." 

Although  the  establishment  of  the  Waterville  High  School  and 
the  improvement  of  the  schools  in  every  part  of  the  State  had 
caused  the  attendance  of  the  school  to  decrease,  the  school  con- 
tinued without  marked  change  until  Dr.  Hanson's  death.  At 
this  point  a  brief  sketch  of  his  life  is  appropriate,  for  during  the 
sixty-five  years  of  the  school's  history  up  to  that  time,  he  had 
been  at  its  head  forty-one  years ;  in  fact,  he  was  the  school. 

James  Hobbs  Hanson  was  born  in  China,  Me.,  April  ii,  1817. 
He  was  fitted  for  college  in  China  Academy  under  Henry  Paine, 
who  went  to  China  after  leaving  Waterville  Academy.  He  was 
graduated  from  Waterville  College  in  1842,  and  spent  the  next 
year  teaching  in  the  town  of  Hampden,  Maine.  The  trustees 
of  Waterville  Academy  found  Mr.  Hanson  at  home  in  China, 
where  he  was  spending  the  summer  at  work  on  his  father's  farm^ 
and  invited  him  to  take  charge  of  the  academy  in  the  autumn. 
They  could  offer  him  no  compensation  beyond  what  he  could 
receive  in  tuition  fees.  He  began  the  work  on  these  conditions 
and  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  found  a  balance  of  $40  on  the 
wrong  side  of  his  account  book.  The  next  term  brought  no 
greater  returns  and  Mr.  Hanson  decided  to  leave  the  school  for 
19 


290  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

a  position  under  Mr.  Paine  in  China  Academy.  In  response  to 
earnest  entreaties  of  the  trustees,  who  promised  to  make  vigorous 
efforts  in  the  school's  behalf,  he  decided  to  remain.  This  decision 
alone  probably  determined  the  continuance  of  the  school.  Refer- 
ence has  already  been  made  to  Mr.  Hanson's  resignation  in  1854 
and  his  return  in  1865,  after  teaching  for  three  years  in  Eastport 
and  eight  years  in  Portland.  From  this  time  he  gave  himself 
unsparingly  to  the  school  until  his  death  which  occurred,  April 
21,  1894.  Less  than  a  week  before  his  death  he  was  about  his 
accustomed  duties  in  the  schoolroom.  The  words  of  one  of  the 
speakers  at  the  semi-centennial  celebration  express  appreciatively 
the  work  of  Dr.  Hanson.  "Waterville  Academy  owes  its  name 
and  usefulness  to  the  patient,  self-denying  toil  of  its  present 
honored  and  already  venerable  principal.  But  for  him  no  semi- 
centennial would  have  called  us  together.  What  kind  of  labor 
has  he  not  performed  ?  What  work  did  he  ever  ask  another  to 
do  which  perhaps  he  might  better  do  himself?  What  work  was 
he  ever  asked  to  do  that  he  declined,  however  overworked  he 
might  alreadv  be?  When  other  men  wrought  six  hours  in  the 
classroom,  he  wrought  twelve.  I  speak  in  no  hyperbole.  And 
then,  when  the  long  weary  work  in  the  classroom  was  at  length 
over,  the  midnight  hours  saw  him  still  at  his  task.  Too  poor 
to  employ  the  needed  assistance,  too  conscientious  to  leave  any- 
thing undone  that  might  be  of  use  to  the  most  ungrateful  pupil, 
he  toiled  on  seeking  no  reward  but  the  satisfaction  of  doing 
his  whole  duty.  If,  through  superior  scholarship,  severe  habits 
of  self-mastery,  and  a  natural  capacity  for  work  beyond  the  great 
body  of  even  strong  men,  he  was  able  to  do  this  and  not  die,  he 
only  counted  himself  happy  that  he  could  lay  all  his  wealth,  more 
precious  than  gold,  upon  the  altar,  a  votive  offering  to  his  divine 
Master  and  his  beloved  pupils.  It  is  surely  a  little  thing  that 
we,  who  have  entered  into  the  fruit  of  all  this,  should  rise  up, 
to-dav,  and  call  him  blessed.  Our  preceptor  has  thus  far  been 
the  academy's  endowment." 

Dr.  Hanson's  reputation  as  a  classical  scholar  was  extensive 
and  .served  as  a  great  attraction  to  students  preparing  for  college. 
Students  came  in  large  numbers  from  other  schools  to  receive 
the  last  year's  drill  under  his  instruction.  His  reputation  was 
greatly  enhanced  by  the  books  which  he  edited.     The  Latin  Prose 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  29 1 

Book  appearing  in  1861,  and  the  Latin  Poets  in  1865.  These 
were  recognized  by  classical  teachers  as  a  great  contribution  to 
the  text-books  of  the  time  and  were  widely  used  for  many  years. 
He  received  the  degree  of  LL.  D.,  from  Colby  in  1872.  He  was 
for  many  years  a  trustee  of  the  college. 

The  high  estimation  in  which  Dr.  Hanson  was  held  by  the 
large  number  of  students  and  friends  of  the  school  is  shared  by 
Mrs.  Hanson  who,  before  her  marriage,  had  been  a  teacher  in  the 
school,  and  for  many  years  during  Dr.  Hanson's  life,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  worked  by  his  side  in  the  schoolroom. 

Rev.  Asa  L.  Lane  was  acting  principal  for  one  term  after  Dr. 
Hanson's  death,  when  Franklin  W.  Johnson,  a  graduate  of  Colby 
in  the  class  of  1891,  was  elected  principal,  beginning  his  duties 
in  September,  189^].  This  position  he  still  holds.  Mr.  Lane 
resigned  his  position  as  instructor  in  science  in  July,  1901,  after 
twenty-five  years  of  continuous  service  in  this  position.  He  was 
a  scientist  of  high  reputation  throughout  the  State,  He  left  as 
a  permanent  endowment  to  the  school  the  large  collections  which 
he  had  made  illustrating  the  various  departments  of  the  natural 
sciences.  These  have  been  placed  in  a  room  furnished  by  the 
graduating  class  of  1902  which  will  hereafter  be  known  as  the 
'Xane  Museum." 

The  Boutelie  Library  receives  its  name  from  Timothy  Bou- 
telle,  whose  daughter,  Mrs.  Edwin  Noyes,  presented  the  school 
$2,500  as  an  endowment  fund  for  the  library.  The  library 
occupies  the  most  attractive  room  in  the  building.  It  now  con- 
tains 3,517  volumes,  with  card  catalogue,  and  forms  a  valuable 
adjunct  to  the  work  of  the  school. 

In  1897  the  house  and  lot  at  the  south  corner  of  Elm  and 
Spring  streets  was  purchased.  The  house  was  renovated  and 
has  since  been  used  as  a  dormitory  for  young  ladies.  The  house 
is  known  as  the  "Hanson  Cottage." 

From  1865  to  1901  the  Institute  remained  under  the  control 
of  the  trustees  of  the  College.  During  Dr.  Hansons'  life,  how- 
ever, its  management  was  virtually  in  his  hands.  He  secured 
the  teachers,  contracted  and  paid  the  bills,  received  tuitions,  and 
retained  the  balance,  if  there  was  any,  for  his  own  compensa- 
tion. His  successor  took  charge  of  the  school  on  a  different 
basis.     A  committee  of  the  trustees  had  oversight  of  the  school's 


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W^\\«V   0*"  WVXUSj^VU^l^ 


CiSfe^rTt  Cjkj^^jtT  l[l1!5t5iUl^^.  ivNT  ih<'  v^irjvjse  v>i  «uiut;A\nii\^  «  lit- 

^se  ^xvr  ^^n^-^^i^inftu  oi  :V  mstit\«k>«v 

"^S^^rivxs  i.  Scukt  cw^xvr;iktk^>  5ih;*ll  W  ^n-^nwvl  anvl  its 
Iv^w^fTs  ex^eiTCt^jaevt  N  ;i  Kxirv^  <.>t  ik^  ^•xvxwUt^^  lievvnttx^^  trwstex^s. 
of  xnhK^  the  pirte$i\k?t:  oi  C<.>tN\  Ool!e$:^  ^nd  rhe  ^vriiKi^wl  ot 
OoK^rtt  Oiiscsicjtl  Itt^mite  tv>r  the  tinK  beii\^  shall,  ex-\>tl^c\v\  be 
BOjietEiber^  At  tbe  or^amizi'ttion  v>t  the  cv>r^x>rativ.>i\,  the  number 
of  ocher  tntst^ees  sfcalt  be  tixevi  by  the  by-laws  an^l  shall  be  vUvidevl 
ss  meatrty  as  rniay  be  into  thr^e  classes :  o«>e  class  shall  be  eleotevl 
for  Of':  '  ~  ■-  opje  for  two  year^  am!  o«e  t\>r  three  years:  and  at 
eawclt  .  raeeciiig  :hereafter.  men^bers  shall  be  eUvtevl  by  the 

K^ar,  ^e  of  tboa^  whot^  remis  shall  expire,  and  any  vacan- 

cies in  ths?  ocher  classes  shall  be  tilkvi 

"^Ssomo^f  5.  Said  corporatk^o  may  use  the  real  estate  held  in 
tras*  for  it.  arsd  the  iiKome  of  all  funds  heki  in  tnist  for  it.  by  the 
pcesi^^esat  auad  cmsrees  of  Colby  College,  in  accorviance  with  the 
tntst  bv  midch  tbev  are  so  held  and  with  such  arranirements  as 


HlStrOBKT    CJf   -WATEaRTILLt. 


^m 


siaU  frocL  :,  -:,^  :'j  tiaDc  be  ma<fe  -sritii  said  presifeit  armd  toffitees  - 
and  juar  also  -t-e;"^  en d  bold,  for  tbt  pnrpc>set  of  its  cresEtkBa,  prcip- 
ertv  in  its  c  ■  -  -  :-"t  to  ibe  ssarjmA  oi  caae  Imnadred  aaad  i^ 
tbomsamd  'doHars. 

"SEcnoir  4.     Ttris  act  sbsaH  tsiiit  effect  -wrben  apprrored * 

AdditionaJ  meDobers.  beside  tbo5>e  inentiooed  in  libe  above  act 
were  elected  a?  follc/ws:  George  K.  B':ratene.  WilHaaaa  T. 
HatDes,  George  O.  Smitb.,  Fred  M.  Preble.  AHan  P,  Sodfe, 
George  W.  Lord,  Ndtxdscd  L  Bassett,  J.  Predtridk:  HHIL  At  -Sbe 
first  meetmg  of  tbe  Board,  beld  Jnoe  22,  3901^  George  D..  B.. 
Pep5>er,  D,  D^  UL.  D-,  "sras  dhosen  presdtent ;  Korman  L.  Ba^- 
=.ett  LL.  B„  secretary:  and  Horace  Prtrinton,  treasrrrer.  Tbe 
manag'eiiient  of  tbe  scbool  pesBed  into  the  hands  of  the  new  cor- 
poratioDL  Jnly  i,  1901-  The  vahae  of  ttds  change  has  alreadj 
beer,  seen  dnricg  the  past  rear  in  wlridi  the  sdbool  Iss  besm 
strengtiheQed  in  raricms  wajs  and  plans  hare  been  set  a©  f ocit 
for  increasing  the  permanent  fimds  of  liie  insULLiLion. 

No  exact  statement  can  be  made  of  the  number  of  students 
enrolled  during  the  history  of  the  scfhool.  As  many  as  5,000 
•different  students  nmst  hare  been  in  attendance  during  liiese 
years.  The  school  has  aiharays  prepared  a  lar^  nuujber  of 
students  for  coBege.  More  stD'dents  hare  entered  college  from 
this  school  than  from  any  other  Maine  school.  At  least  700  hai^ 
recerred  their  preparation  here.  Axnong  the  m-ost  prominent  o^ 
these  LTr  Neisoffi  Dingiify-,  Jr.,  Ex^Govemar  of  Maine  aaad  iar 
many  years  an  inffnential  member  of  Congr^.  LieweSyn 
Piwrers,  Ex-Goremor  and  now  member  of  C'OngTess.  Bartletiie 
Tripp,  formerly  U.  S-  minister  to  Anstna-Hungary.  Vv'ilHam 
Mathews,  LL  D^  professor  and  arrrhor :  Nathankil  Butler.  D. 
D^  recfTTtfly  president  of  Colby  College  4  Qrarles  P..  Mtssrre. 
LL.  D..  president  of  Shaw  Unirersity ;  Jndge  WiHiEn:  ? 
l^lntehaiise,  J ndge  Albert  M.  Spear. 

Psrablished  as  a  feeder  I'Dt  Warerririe  College,  the  sdiD'^l  h;^ 
always  fnlfilled  thai  missiooi.  Those  who  hsrre  known  condiriaiK 
ndmateiy  hare  stated  that,  brrt  lor  thk  sdiodL.  liie  cDl^sgs:  -wdmM 
have  been  obEged,  at  times,  to  close  ils  doar^  iar  lack  en  -g-nrlfrTt?^ 
Since  the  f  onndatian  ot  Colby ^s  ionr  prepararory  scboctk,  Crihrmn 
ha-    sent   more    gradrrates  to  xhe  coHeg^e  rhan    the    orher  r^^ree 


294  HISTORY  OF  waterville;. 

schools  together.  The  school  continues  to  send  the  larger  part 
of  its  graduates  to  Colby  though  a  large  number  of  colleges  now 
attract  its  students.  During  the  past  year  graduates  of  Coburn 
have  been  enrolled  at  seventeen  institutions  as  follows :  Bates, 
Bowdoin,  Boston  University,  Brown,  Colby,  Colgate,  Columbia, 
Dartmouth,  Harvard,  Mount  Holyoke,  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology,  University  of  IMaine,  University  of  Vermont, 
Vassar,  Wellesley,  \\'orcester  Polytechnic  Institution  and  Yale. 

In  scholarship  Coburn  justly  claims  pre-eminence  among 
Maine  schools.  Evidence  of  this  may  be  found  in  the  record  of 
the  graduates  on  entering  college.  In  1883  Colby  offered  the 
Merrill  prizes  to  the  members  of  the  freshman  class  who  should 
secure  the  highest  rank  in  competitive  examinations  upon  the 
work  required  for  admission  to  college.  Of  the  twenty  prizes 
thus  given,  Coburn  graduates  have  taken  fourteen,  while  gradu- 
ates of  all  other  schools  have  taken  six.  Of  these  six,  the  prize 
has  been  taken  only  once  by  a  graduate  of  a  IMaine  school.  Colby 
draws  its  students  from  every  part  of  Maine  and  in  many 
instances  from  other  states.  This  high  standing  of  Coburn 
students  in  scholarship  in  competition  with  graduates  of  all  other 
Maine  schools  is  the  best  possible  indication  of  the  quality  of  the 
school's  work. 

During  the  seventy-three  years  of  its  history,  the  school  has 
been  of  incalculable  benefit  to  the  community.  Until  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  public  high  school,  the  academy  provided  instruc- 
tion of  a  high  degree  of  excellence  to  the  pupils  of  the  towp.  A 
large  number  of  young  men  and  women  of  ambition  and  promise 
also  were  attracted  from  various  parts  of  Maine  and  other  states 
who  made  their  residence  temporarily  here.  The  school  has 
thus  shared  with  the  college  in  making  Waterville  noted  as  a 
center  of  education  and  culture.  To  this  is  due,  in  no  small 
measure,  the  attractiveness  which  the  city  presents  to  those  seek- 
ing a  place  of  residence.  A  still  further  consideration  is  the 
advantage  to  the  city  in  a  business  way  accruing  from  money 
which  is  brought  into  the  business  of  the  city  by  the  considerable 
number  of  students  each  year  attending  the  school. 

Within  recent  years  the  condition  of  the  Maine  academies  has 
been  changing.  The  rapid  growth  of  the  high  schools  both  in 
number  and  efficiency  has  caused  a  great  many  of  the  old  acad- 


HISTORY    OF    VVATERVILLK.  295 

emies  to  disappear  entirely  or  to  become  merged  in  the  high 
schools  of  their  respective  towns.  Recent  legislation,  while  tem- 
porarily assisting  the  weaker  academies,  has  served  rather  as  an 
injury  to  the  stronger  schools  of  this  class.  The  broadening  of 
the  scope  of  instruction  and  changes  in  methods  have  necessitated 
a  larger  number  of  teachers.  Lower  rates  of  interest  have  dim- 
inished the  income  from  invested  funds.  All  these  causes  have 
combined  to  present  a  difficult  problem  to  such  schools  as  Coburn. 
The  only  solution  rests  in  a  considerable  increase  in  the  funds  of 
the  school.  It  is  not  too  much  to  expect  with  confidence  that  the 
friends  of  the  school  in  Waterville  and  elsewhere  will  rally  to 
the  support  of  an  institution  which  is  soon  to  close  a  proud  record 
of  three-quarters  of  a  century. 


CHAPTER   XI, 


COLBY  COLLEGE. 
By  Edward  W.  Hall,  LL.  D.,  Librarian  and  Registrar. 

Colby  College  originated  with  the  Bowdoinham  Baptist  Asso- 
ciation which  in  1810  appointed  a  committee  to  consider  the 
propriety  of  petitioning  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  "to 
incorporate  an  institution  in  the  district  of  Maine  for  the  purpose 
of  promoting  literary  and  theological  knowledge."  Similar 
action  was  taken  in  181 1  by  the  Lincoln  and  the  Cumberland 
Associations,  and  a  petition  prepared  by  the  joint  committees 
was  presented  to  the  Senate  of  Massachusetts  by  Rev.  Caleb 
Blood  in  181 2.  This  petition  stated  that  although  the  Baptists 
were  undoubtedly  more  numerous  in  the  district  than  any  other 
denomination,  yet  they  had  no  Seminary  over  which  they  had 
any  control,  and  in  which  their  religious  young  men  might  be 
educated  under  the  particular  inspection  of  able  men  of  the  same 
sentiments. 

The  petitioners  asked  the  legislature  to  grant  them  "for  the 
furtherance  of  their  object  a  tract  of  good  land,  and  cause  it  to 
be  located  as  nighly  in  the  centre  of  the  district  as  your  wisdom 
may  find  convenient.  For,  it  is  contemplated,  that  the  seminary 
be  in  the  very  tract  which  your  honorable  body  may  see  fit  to 
grant  for  its  encouragement." 

This  first  petition  for  incorporation  was  not  successful.  The 
following  year  Rev.  Daniel  Merrill  of  Sedgwick  was  appointed 
to  present  a  second  petition  and  succeeded  in  obtaining  a  charter, 
approved  February  27,  18 13,  for  establishing  "a  Literary  Insti- 
tution for  the    purpose  of    educating    youth,  to    be  called  and 


Z^  A 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  297 

known  by  the  name  of  the  Maine  Literary  and  Theological  Insti- 
tution." The  title  given  was  at  that  time  a  favorite  designation 
attached  to  many  seminaries  of  learning  in  which  collegiate  and 
theological  classes  were  united. 

The  trustees  named  in  the  charter  soon  organized  with  Rev. 
Sylvanus  Boardman  as  chairman  and  Rev.  Otis  Briggs  as  secre- 
tary, and  entered  upon  the  preliminary  work  of  securing  a  suit- 
able location  for  the  Institution.  By  a  resolve  dated  February 
15,  181 5,  township  Xo.  3,  originally  purchased  from  the  Indians, 
and  embracing  the  territory  now  occupied  by  the  towns  of  Alton 
and  Argyle  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Penobscot  river,  was  granted 
to  the  Institution.  This  township  had  been  selected  by  the  trus- 
tees as  "the  best  selection,  in  their  opinion,  that  can  be  made  from 
the  unlocated  lands  of  the  commonwealth  for  the  establishment 
of  the  Institution."  It  yielded  an  excellent  growth  of  timber, 
the  sale  of  which  maintained  the  young  seminary  for  many  years. 
The  plan  of  locating  the  Institution  on  the  very  township  granted 
was  found  impracticable,  and  in  181 6  the  legislature  granted 
permission  to  locate  and  establish  the  buildings  in  any  town 
within  the  counties  of  Kennebec  and  Somerset.  The  corporation 
appointed  a  committee  in  1817  to  visit  Farmington,  Bloomfield 
and  Waterville,  towns  which  had  expressed  a  desire  to  have  the 
school,  and  eventuallv  decided  in  favor  of  Waterville.  The  town 
authorities  pledged  three  thousand  dollars  and  the  citizens  sub- 
scribed two  thousand  in  aid  of  the  enterprise. 

A  tract  of  land  eighty-six  rods  wide,  extending  from  the  Ken- 
nebec to  the  Messalonskee  was  purchased  of  R.  H.  Gardner  in 
1818  for  $1,797.50  which  amount  was  contributed  by  citizens  of 
Waterville.  This  lot,  containing  179  acres,  was  afterward 
increased  by  the  purchase  of  the  Briggs  estate  adjoining  it  on  the 
south.  The  southern  boundary  of  this  land,  which  also  extended 
from  the  Kennebec  to  the  Alessalonskee,  coincided  with  the  south 
line  of  the  lot  on  which  the  Button  house,  owned  by  the  College, 
now  stands. 

In  June,  18 18,  upon  petition  of  the  trustees  a  bill  was  reported 
granting  four  additional  townships  of  land  and  $3,000  annually 
for  the  maintenance  of  the  Institution,  but  was  referred  to  the 
next  legislature  for  final  action.  At  that  session  a  number  of 
printed  petitions  signed  by  citizens  in  several  towns  in  IMaine  and 


298  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Massachusetts,  were  offered  urging  the  passage  of  the  bill.  The 
language  of  these  petitions,  presented  by  Hon.  Wm.  King,  a 
trustee  and  later  governor  of  Maine,  was  severely  criticised,  and 
Gen.  Alford  Richardson,  a  trustee  and  member  of  the  legislature 
expressed  great  dissatisfaction  on  that  account.  This  trivial 
circumstance  led  to  the  failure  of  the  bill  by  a  vote  of  13  to  10, 
and  entailed  upon  the  Institution  many  years  of  poverty  and 
sacrijfice. 

Rev.  Jeremiah  Chaplin  of  Danvers,  Mass.,  who  had  charge  of 
the  theological  students  of  the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Education 
Society  was  chosen  professor  of  theology  in  February,  1818. 
Accompanied  by  his  wife,  two  children,  and  several  of  his  pupils, 
he  sailed  from  Beverly,  Alass.,  on  board  the  sloop  "Hero"  which  ' 
brought  the  little  company  as  far  as  Augusta.  The  remaining 
twenty  miles  to  Waterville  were  accomplished  in  a  long-boat, 
which  Mrs.  Chaplin  in  her  journal  describes  as  provided  with 
sails  and  having  a  booth  or  cabin  at  one  end.  When  the  breeze 
failed  them,  the  young  men  of  the  party  landed  and  dragged  the 
boat  by  a  rope.  On  their  arrival  at  Waterville  they  were  met  by 
a  number  of  citizens,  among  whom  was  Hon.  Timothy  Boutelle 
who  made  a  short  address  of  welcome  and  provided  for  their 
entertainment.  Mrs.  Chaplin's  journal  gratefully  records  the 
courteous  reception  accorded  them  by  ^Irs.  Boutelle,  Mrs.  Clark 
and  idr.  Partridge  at  this  time,  and  it  is  mentioned  that  she  found 
friendly  neighbors  who  did  not  ''seem  to  be  such  ignorant,  uncul- 
tivated beings  as  some  have  imagined."  It  is  gratifying  also  to 
read  the  following  statement :  "Many  of  those  whom  I  have 
seen  appear  to  be  people  of  education  and  refinement,  nor  have 
we  been  destitute  of  Christian  company." 

The  new  seminary  was  opened  and  instruction  by  Professor 
Chaplin  commenced  July  6,  18 18,  in  a  house  standing  where  the 
Elmwood  Hotel  is  now  situated.  In  May,  1819,  there  were 
seventeen  students  in  the  theological  department.  Tuition  was 
fixed  at  $4.00  per  quarter,  board  was  obtained  for  $1.00  a  week, 
and  wood  for  $1.50  per  cord.  An  "Address  to  the  Public," 
issued  in  1819,  proves  that  the  school  was  established  not  as  a 
theological  seminary,  but  also  for  "those  who  are  desirous  of 
engaging  in  any  of  the  learned  professions." 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  299 

Rev.  Avery  Briggs  was  chosen  professor  of  languages  and  the 
literary  department  was  opened  by  him  in  October,  1819,  with 
twenty-five  students.  The  first  session  of  the  legislature  of  the 
State  of  Maine  in  1820,  authorized  the  college  "to  confer  such 
degrees  as  are  usually  conferred  by  universities," — the  sum  of 
$1,000  annually  for  seven  years  was  also  voted,  one-fourth  for 
the  tuition  fees  of  needy  students,  a  principle  which  was  gener- 
ally followed  in  all  the  money  grants  to  the  College  made  by  the 
legislature,  which  only  amount  to  $14,500. 

The  collegiate  character  of  the  young  seminary  was  definitely 
declared  in  1821  when  the  name  of  \\'aterville  College  was 
adopted.  In  May,  1822,  Rev.  Jeremiah  Chaplin  was  elected 
president  and  on  August  21  the  first  commencement  exercises 
were  held.  A  large  concourse  of  people  from  towns  in  the  vicin- 
ity assembled  to  wM'tness  the  literary  exercises.  The  procession, 
which  continues  to  be  a  prominent  feature  of  the  day,  was  led 
by  a  band  of  music  and  a  company  of  militia  in  uniform.  George 
Dana  Boardman  and  Ephraim  Tripp  constituted  the  graduating 
class,  and  both  served  the  College  as  tutors. 

Two  buildings  had  now  been  erected  on  the  College  grounds 
after  cutting  away  the  dense  growth  of  trees.  A  dwelling  house 
for  the  president  had  been  completed  in  1819  on  the  site  now 
occupied  by  Memorial  Hall.  In  1821  the  South  College  was 
built  and  eighteen  rooms  finished  besides  fitting  up  a  part  of  the 
building  for  a  chapel.  The  second  dormitory,  known  as  the 
North  College  and  now  called  Chaplin  Hall,  was  built  in  1822. 
The  mason  work  of  both  college  buildings  was  done  by  Mr.  Peter 
Getchell  and  the  carpenter  work  by  Mr.  Lemuel  Dunbar. 

The  theological  department  of  the  College  was  of  short  dura- 
tion. The  first  triennial  catalogue,  issued  in  1825,  gives  the 
names  of  fifteen  graduates  in  theology.  No  record  of  any  other 
students  in  this  department  appears  in  subsequent  triennials. 

President  Chaplin  resigned  in  1833,  leaving  the  College  pro- 
vided with  two  brick  dormitories,  two  dwelHng  houses  for  col- 
lege officers,  a  large  boarding  house,  a  farm  of  180  acres,  two 
workshops,  a  good  chemical  and  philosophical  apparatus  obtained 
at  a  cost  of  $1,500,  and  a  library  of  about  2,000  volumes. 

After  his  death  in  1841  the  trustees  passed  resolutions  "in 
grateful  remembrance  of  the  able,  untiring  and  successful  labor 


300  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

of  the  late  President  Chaplin,''  and  a  memorial  tablet  was  placed 
on  the  wall  of  the  College  chapel. 

In  1 83 1  a  manual  labor  department  was  established  to  enable 
students  to  earn  part  of  their  College  expenses  by  manufacturing 
doors,  blinds,  sashes,  tables,  chairs  and  similar  articles.  Three 
workshops  were  built  for  this  department  by  the  students  them- 
selves, who  also  in  1832  built  the  large  boarding  house  long 
known  as  the  Commons  House,  and  now  occupied  by  the  college 
superintendent  of  buildings  and  grounds.  In  1835  a  printing 
office  was  added,  with  a  valuable  press  under  the  charge  of  Edgar 
H.  Gray  of  the  class  of  1838.  A  variety  of  job  work,  the  annual 
catalogues,  and  a  thirty-four  page  catalogue  of  the  library  were 
issued  from  the  "College  Press."  The  enterprise  proved 
unprofitable  and  the  shops  were  removed  from  the  College 
grounds  in  1842. 

Rev.  Rufus  Babcock,  Jr.,  succeeded  President  Chaplin  in  1833. 
It  was  a  critical  period.  The  College  was  in  debt  $18,000  and 
could  not  meet  more  than  three-fifths  of  its  current  expenses. 
The  popularity  and  efficiency  of  the  new  president  soon  com- 
pleted a  subscription  to  pay  the  debt  and  the  catalogue  for  1834 
recorded  the  names  of  over  one  hundred  students.  The  central 
brick  building  now  called  Champlin  Hall  was  erected  in  1836. 
The  basement  story  was  divided  into  four  recitation  rooms,  above 
which  was  the  college  chapel  reached  by  a  broad  flight  of  steps 
outside.  The  story  above  the  chapel  was  occupied  on  the  north 
side  by  the  library  and  on  the  south  by  the  apparatus  and  class 
room  for  natural  philosophy.  The  value  of  the  College  property 
was  now  $50,000.  Rev.  John  O.  Choules  returned  from  Eng- 
land in  1836  with  gifts  of  1,500  volumes  for  the  library,  includ- 
ing a  set  of  the  folio  volumes  of  the  Records  Commission  and  the 
Royal  Observatory. 

An  attempt  was  now  made  to  resume  instruction  in  theological 
studies,  but  it  was  not  continued  after  the  resignation  of  Dr. 
Babcock  in  July,  1836,  who  was  obliged  to  seek  a  milder  climate. 
The  resolutions  adopted  by  the  trustees  are  expressive  of  their 
sense  of  the  "zeal  and  ability,  the  dignity  and  urbanity,  with 
which  he  discharged  the  arduous  duties  confided  to  him." 

Rev.  Robert  E.  Pattison,  who  had  served  as  professor  of 
mathematics  in    1828-2Q,  was  chosen  to    succeed    Dr.  Babcock. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  3OI 

Under  his  care  the  attendance  was  largely  increased  and  the 
quality  of  the  instruction  rose  to  a  high  rank.  Another  effort 
was  made  to  relieve  the  College  from  financial  embarassment  but 
without  success.  Dr.  Pattison  resigned  the  presidency  in 
December,  1839,  and  several  of  the  professors  also  tendered  their 
resignations.  By  the  influence  of  Prof.  George  W.  Keely,  the 
acting  president,  instruction  was  maintained  and  one  more 
attempt  made  to  secure  funds.  The  citizens  of  Waterville 
responded  liberally  and  $10,000  was  at  once  subscribed,  of  which 
the  ill-paid  professors  subscribed  $2,000.  Agents  were  sent  out 
through  ]\Iaine  and  ^lassachusetts  and  by  December,  1840,  sub- 
scriptions amounting  to  $50,000  were  obtained. 

In  August,  1 841,  Mr.  Eliphaz  Fay,  an  eminent  teacher  in 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  was  chosen  president.  The  recent  crisis 
affected  the  attendance,  reducing  the  number  of  students  in  1841- 
42  to  only  seventy-six.  The  resignation  of  President  Fay  was 
accepted  in  August,  1843,  ^^^  Rev.  David  N.  Sheldon,  then 
pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Waterville  was  chosen  his  suc- 
cessor. Under  his  care  and  with  the  co-operation  of  an  able 
and  devoted  faculty  three  of  whom  were  subsequently  eminent 
as  college  presidents,  the  earlier  prestige  of  the  College  was 
revived  and  students  presented  themselves  in  larger  number. 

Ten  years  passed  in  comparative  quiet.  The  small  income  of 
the  College  w^as  yet  sufficient  to  meet  its  wants.  In  1853  Dr. 
Sheldon  retired  to  resume  the  work  of  the  ministry,  and  Dr. 
Pattison,  the  beloved  president  of  the  College  in  1836-1839,  was 
recalled  to  the  direction  of  its  affairs.  His  second  term  of  three 
years  was  marked  by  the  intellectual  vigor  and  devotedness  of  a 
Christian  character  of  rare  excellence. 

Prof.  James  T.  Champlin,  whose  text-books  on  the  Orations 

of  Demosthenes  were  for  thirty  years  in  general  use  in  American 
colleges,  was  promoted  to  the  presidency  of  the  College  in  1857. 
Some  efforts  were  made  to  solicit  endowment  funds.  The 
classes  entering  in  1858  and  1859  were  unusually  large,  but 
before  graduation  the  outbreak  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  had 
called  many  into  the  service  of  the  nation.  Only  sixty-two 
students  remained  in  1864-65.  Professors  Smith,  Lyford,  Foster 
and  Hamlin  constituted  the  faculty  of  instruction. 

With  the  invested  funds  reduced  to  $15,000  and  rapidly  grow- 
ing less,  the  outlook  was  indeed  dark.     The  dawn  of  brighter 


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niSTOKY    Ol'    \VATF.\'njJ':. 


(lays,  liovvcvcr,  was  a|)i)rna(liiiij^'.  Mr/»anlncr  Colby  of  Boston, 
pari  of  whose  cliilfllmod  had  hccn  spei  in  Watcrville,  came  for- 
w.'ird  with  ;iii  olTcr  of  ^i^o.fxx)  on  conition  tliat  the  friends  of 
the  CoWc^r  raise  $I(X),cxk).  Much  cnthsiasin  was  awakened  by 
ihis  j^Mtierons  r)ffer,  and  Dr.  ("haniphn.dded  hy  nieinhcrs  of  the 
f;i(nlly,  canvassed  the  state  vij^orously  onij)letinp^  the  required 
sid)S(ripti()n  in  abont  two  years.  In  rcop^nition  of  Mr.  Colby's 
niiiiiilK  (  nt  ^ifl.  tlie  trnstees  obtained  frni  the  Icfjislature  in  1867 
an  acl  ( h;iiii,dnj^^  the  iiatue  of  the  C'ollep  to  Colby  University. 

Mr.  Colby's  y^'\i\  calltMl  forth  other  cnsi<lerablc  pifts.  Aided 
by  the  alninni  a  memorial  bnildinj^  wa^nilt  of  stone  in  1869  at 
a  cost  of  $5o.()<)().  I  lire  the  lil)rary  )und  a  hi^nic  especially 
desij^ned  for  Ms  use.  ihon^di  its  9,000  vnmies  seemed  lost  on  the 
s|)a(  ions  shelves  built  to  contain  30,000  1  the  far  distant  future. 
The  new  ( lia|Ml  a«  ( <  •miiiodaijdns  wn^unt  a  marked  chanp^e  in 
llic  d.iil\  services.  iio\v  luld  at  eij^ht  oV.ick  instead  of  at  six  in 
llie  nioiiiin^^  and  live  in  the  afternoon.  In  the  Memorial  Hall 
was  place<l  l)\  I  lie  almntii  a  marble  talet  inscribed  with  the 
names  n[  Iweiiiy  Collej.;e  imn  who  had  .ul  d(jwn  their  lives  for 
the  I  'nion. 

The  commencemeni  diinui  in  l87o.vas  marked  by  great 
eiidmsiasm.  t  nlminatini;  in  pledj^es  of  $3,000  for  a  building  for 
llie  (K  pailmeiil  of  natural  sciences  then  «tx'Cted  by  Prof.  Charles 
I*'  llamlui.  The  building  was  timshd  in  1S72  and  styled 
^'"biuu  Mall.  The  ..Id  tbapel  was  reiiKloled  into  convenient 
let  lute  looms  :uid  uaiuid  Cbam|>lin  I  lall  The  earlv  six  o'clock 
'<<  "lalious  weie  .dtaiidoued.  Steam  heatij^  was  introduced  into 
ih<'  lenovate.I  \oiih  Collei^e  now  calle.;  "hajdin  Hall.  These 
iinpioveuuMils  were  lu.ide  under  the  dirci  supervisitMi  of  Presi- 
denl  Ch.uuphu  a\u\  paid  for  bv  subscriptms  solicited  mainly  by 
'"">.  and  \el  ilu-  uui-sted   fimds  bad  incrtscil  to  $200,000 

The  semi  eeuteumal  i^i  the  Collej^e  in  ^70  was  the  '^ 

"I  ail  addles^  b\    I  )r    Cli.mipliu  iii  whiclne  reviewed 

hi-loiv  ol   ihr  CoiK«j;r  and  its  pr.ispectiv  advanccmen 

IV   I,.    Millikeii  of  Waterville.  a  trustee  nd  bcnefac^' 

^  "llei;e.   w.is   iustiumeiit.il    lu  obtaininij  fmi  the  S 

•'   "•'.'•'"'   "I   l\\'>  li.ilf  townships  oi  huul.  w  last  g" 
source. 


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In  July.  187a.  Df  V 
retnainc*!  in  after  it  tV 
uhm  he  rrtimi  !•»  ' 

Ro-.  Henry  I     i< 
the  prc*J<lmcy  m  i  **  ~ 
npccUlly  Amnnv:  t» 
convinc^l  ihai  «<i^ 
conftitucncy  be  . 
and  »h<»r  long  c^- 
CollcRT  wa*  •^"   ^ 
in  collnjc   • 
awakmuif;  oC  !it'f.i' 
libranan      The 
ar>-  Fratmiicy  \^ 

the  1   ,, 

Colby  in  1879  tlir  « 

anluouft  labor%  «>(  \  - 

he  was 

ing  Pro!   ^.  i\ 

rcsifjne'!  hi*  I*  ^ 

urer  m  iSSi  a! 

Rev.  iKOCKe  I  > 
in  i8Sj  and  a  ' 
'«ty  until  !.i 
I  lie  a%*eraj:r 
Pepper  «!evr 
tuunces  <»f :! 
Cobum.  <!yin>^' 
which   he  ha«l    '- 
Richanl  C.   S»i . 
1880  thr  hr* 
l*hy!»jcal  I^i 
eminent  astit>n«>n.' 
in  1885.  obUine^l  th 
geolo^-  and  inni- : 
Gcolofpcal  S'jr\' 
A.  \V.  Small.    1' 


hit    re»i|2:natiiin    biit 
^ear  UmKer, 

,     v..  v'.inu'  !•> 
I  in  thi 
of  the  State.  l>einj{  hrmly 
»t  and  >:T«»winj; 


1    the    ^TiCAl 
I  in  c!  !  a  |ai«l 

ir  I.iter- 
-    .in«!  the 
^  "h  the 
■  i.\r«l. 
cath  of  Mr. 
^|ue%t  m1  $ij(3.ooo.     The 
imeil  hi«  heahh  that 
Mfeijji*  travel,  loav- 
^.Icnt.  and  in  iS8j  he 
inev  wa»  cht»*en  treas- 
.  in  that  office, 
etled  President  Rnliins 
4ftair»  oi  the  College  with  jjreat 
<IIci|    him  to  xvs\\^  in    iSA). 
'\\%  |>erio<l  wa«  alxnit  120.     Dr. 
•  improvement  of  the  work  an«l 
I'd  ili  rqnitatitm.     Hon.  .Mmcr 
aihetl  $ioo.ooo  to  the  College  of 
-c    for  forty    years.      lion. 
.i-»   ^:r.i«lnated  in    iH/ij.  erectc<l   in 
1    the  Shannon    ^  )b>crvatory  and 
!c|>artmcnt  than  in  charge  of  the 
im  A.  Rogers.     I'resitlent  IVppor. 
hmenl  of  a  new  profcssorshi|)  of 
irh  I>r.  \V.  S.  Haylcy  of  the  I'.  S. 
'l^ho  pn)fessor  of  history.   Dr. 
H   If.ivo  of  absence  to  university 


302  HISTORY    01"    WATERVILLE. 

days,  however,  was  approaching.  Mr.  Gardner  Colby  of  Boston, 
part  of  whose  childhood  had  been  spent  in  Waterville,  came  for- 
ward with  an  offer  of  $50,000  on  condition  that  the  friends  of 
the  College  raise  $100,000.  Much  enthusiasm  was  awakened  by 
this  generous  ofifer,  and  Dr.  Champlin,  aided  by  members  of  the 
faculty,  canvassed  the  state  vigorously,  completing  the  required 
subscription  in  about  two  years.  In  recognition  of  Mr.  Colby's 
munificent  gift,  the  trustees  obtained  from  the  legislature  in  1867 
an  act  changing  the  name  of  the  College  to  Colby  University. 

Mr.  Colby's  gift  called  forth  other  considerable  gifts.  Aided 
by  the  alumni  a  memorial  building  was  built  of  stone  in  1869  at 
a  cost  of  $50,000.  Here  the  library  found  a  home  especially 
designed  for  its  use,  though  its  9,000  volumes  seemed  lost  on  the 
spacious  shelves  built  to  contain  30,000  in  the  far  distant  future. 
The  new  chapel  accommodations  wrought  a  marked  change  in 
the  daily  services,  now  held  at  eight  o'clock  instead  of  at  six  in 
the  morning  and  five  in  the  afternoon.  In  the  Memorial  Hall 
was  placed  by  the  alumni  a  marble  tablet  inscribed  with  the 
names  of  twenty  College  men  who  had  laid  down  their  lives  for 
the  Union. 

The  commencement  dinner  in  1870  was  marked  by  great 
enthusiasm,  culminating  in  pledges  of  $50,000  for  a  building  for 
the  department  of  natural  sciences  then  directed  by  Prof.  Charles 
E.  Hamlin.  The  building  was  finished  in  1872  and  styled 
Coburn  Hall.  The  old  chapel  was  remodeled  into  convenient 
lecture  rooms  and  named  Champlin  Hall.  The  early  six  o'clock 
recitations  were  abandoned.  Steam  heating  was  introduced  into 
the  renovated  North  College  now  called  Chaplin  Hall.  These 
improvements  were  made  under  the  direct  supervision  of  Presi- 
dent Champlin  and  paid  for  by  subscriptions  solicited  mainly  by 
him,  and  yet  the  invested  funds  had  increased  to  $200,000. 

The  semi-centennial  of  the  College  in  1870  was  the  occasion 
of  an  address  by  Dr.  Champlin  in  which  he  reviewed  the  early 
history  of  the  College  and  its  prospective  advancement.  Hon. 
D.  L.  Milliken  of  Waterville,  a  trustee  and  benefactor  of  the 
College,  was  instrumental  in  obtaining  from  the  State  in  1864 
a  grant  of  two  half  townships  of  land,  the  last  gift  from  that 
source. 


HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLE.  305 

ence  in  college  instruction  and  high  ideals  of  the  function  of  the 
college  in  the  American  educational  system.  Under  his  com- 
petent direction  intellectual,  physical  and  social  education  each 
received  due  consideration.  The  misleading  title  of  "university," 
assumed  when  our  country  had  no  real  universities,  was 
exchanged  in  1899  ^^^  ^^^^^  o^  "College"  at  his  instance. 

A  subscription  to  raise  $60,000  for  new  buildings  and  other 
purposes,  received  the  approval  of  the  citizens  of  Waterville  at 
a  public  meeting  called  by  the  board  of  trade.  The  desired 
amount  w^as  obtained,  Rev.  N.  T.  Button  acting  as  financial 
agent.  The  Alumni  Chemical  Hall  was  erected  in  1898  at  a  cost 
of  $30,000.  A  pledge  that  in  due  time  a  building  for  the 
Women's  College  should  be  built  and  furnished  was  received 
from  a  friend  whose  name  is  not  yet  made  public.  Rev.  C.  E. 
Owen,  after  the  decease  of  Mr.  Button,  was  given  charge  of  a 
second  subscription  of  $60,000  and  his  appeals  have  met  with 
favorable  response. 

President  Butler  gradually  brought  the  manifold  details  and 
diverse  interests  of  all  departments  of  college  activity  into  har- 
monious and  systematic  working.  A  marked  improvement  in  , 
College  spirit  and  loyalty  was  awakened  in  the  student  body. 
His  scholarly  addresses  at  many  literary  and  educational  gather- 
ings reflected  great  honor  upon  the  College  and  made  its  name 
more  widely  and  honorably  known. 

But  the  University  of  Chicago  which  reluctantly  parted  with 
Br.  Butler  in  1896,  again  claimed  him  in  June,  1901,  to  take 
charge  of  an  important  division  of  its  work.  His  resignation 
seemed  like  a  public  calamity,  affecting  not  only  the  College,  but 
the  entire  community,  which  had  through  him  been  brought  to 
take  an  unusual  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  College. 

A  farewell  dinner  was  given  to  Br.  Butler  by  the  citizens  of 
Waterville  and  a  silver  loving-cup  presented  as  a  token  of  their 
high  esteem. 

The  trustees  elected  as  the  successor  of  President  Butler,  Rev. 
Charles  L.  White,  B.  B.,  of  Hampton  Falls,  N.  H.,  a  graduate 
of  Brown  University,  who  entered  upon  his  duties  September 
first,  1901,  and  consequently  at  this  centennial  of  Waterville  is 
at  the  beginning  of  his  presidential  career. 
20 


CHAPTER  XII. 


THE  SECRET  FRATERNAL  ORDERS   OF 
WATERVILLE. 

By  Norman  Keith  Fuller,  Esq. 

The  time  is  not  far  distant  when  it  will  be  proper  to  add  to 
that  trite  expression,  "The  permanence  of  our  republican  govern- 
ment rests  on  the  school,  the  church  and  the  home,"  a  fourth 
institution,  the  secret  fraternal  order.  The  large  number  of 
fraternal  orders  in  the  country,  their  remarkable  growth  and  the 
prominence  of  many  of  the  men  who  are  members,  bespeak  for 
them  a  prosperous  future  and  a  yet  larger  influence  in  the  devel- 
opment of  our  republic. 

Waterville  was  only  in  its  infancy  when  the  first  fraternal 
order,  the  Alasonic,  was  established  here ;  it  had  been  incorporated 
as  a  town  only  eighteen  years,  its  first  church  had  been  estab- 
lished only  two  years  and  a  bridge  across  the  Kennebec,  connect- 
ing it  with  Winslow,  was  not  constructed  until  four  years  later. 
It  will  thus  be  seen  that  from  its  early  history  the  secret  fraternal 
orders  have  been  a  part  of  the  life  of  the  city,  growing  and  devel- 
oping with  it,  until  to-day  one  is  surprised  at  the  large  number 
which  not  only  exist,  but  thrive,  in  a  place  the  size  of  Waterville. 
Not  all  orders,  however,  have  found  Waterville  a  fertile  field. 
Some  have  met  an  early  death.  But  when  we  contemplate  the 
large  number  that  find  a  welcome  home  here  to-day  we  have 
ample  proof  that  Waterville  people  are  not  slow  to  appreciate  an 
institution  which,  regarded  in  all  its  varied  phases,  represents 
so  much  that  is  indispensable  to  the  highest  happiness  and  wel- 
fare of  our  citizens. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  30/ 

"I  think,  am  sure,  a  brother's  love  exceeds 
All  the  world's  loves  in  its  unworldliness." 

The  various  orders  are  treated  in  the  order  of  their  establish- 
ment in  this  city. 

Waterville  Lodge,  No.  33,  F.  &  A.  M.,  was  the  thirty-third 
Masonic  lodge  formed  in  the  State  and  was  so  numbered.  Its 
organization  dates  from  the  summer  of  1820,  in  which  year  the 
grand  lodge  of  Maine  was  formed,  and  the  district  of  Maine 
separated  from  Massachusetts,  and  erected  into  an  independent 
State.  The  charter  of  the  lodge,  bearing  date  June  27,  1820, 
was  granted  in  compliance  with  the  petition  of  thirteen  brethren 
then  living  in  Waterville,  Fairfield,  Clinton  and  Winslow.  It 
is  worthy  of  mention  that  the  charter  of  the  lodge  bears  the  signa- 
ture of  William  King,  as  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge,  who 
was  also  the  first  governor  of  the  new  State  of  Maine ;  of  Simon 
Greenleaf,  as  deputy  grand  master,  who  became  a  distinguished 
jurist  and  author,  and  a  professor  in  the  Harvard  Law  School; 
of  William  Swan,  as  senior  grand  warden ;  of  Nathaniel  Coffin, 
as  junior  grand  warden;  of  William  Lord,  as  grand  secretary. 

Of  the  charter  members  Jephthah  Ames  was  an  axe-maker. 
He  resided  in  Waterville  but  a  short  time  and  removed  to  New 
Hampshire.  Major  Ebenezer  Bolkcom  was  a  highly  esteemed 
and  wellknown  citizen.  He  died  in  Georgia  whither  he  went  to 
recuperate  his  health  about  1850.  Elias  Cobb  was  studying  law 
with  Mr.  Boutelle.  Ellis  Burgess  was  keeper  of  a  public  house 
at  West  Fairfield.  Col.  Ephraim  Getchell  came  from  Berwick 
and  afterwards  removed  to  Carmel.  Henry  Johnson  came  from 
the  state  of  New  York  to  Clinton,  and  there  is  a  tradition  that  he 
was  concerned  in  some  way  in  the  Hamilton  and  Burr  duel  in 
1804,  and  that  that  was  the  occasion  for  his  emigrating  to  the 
then  district  of  Maine.  General  William  Kendall,  the  father  of 
Capt.  William  Kendall,  of  circular-saw  celebrity,  was  a  man  of 
much  importance.  He  owned  nearly  all  of  the  land  on  which  is 
now  located  Fairfield  village.  In  honor  of  him,  the  village  was 
for  many  years  called  Kendall's  Mills.  Thomas  Stinchfield  was 
a  clothier,  Hezekiah  Stratton  was  a  merchant.  Calvin  Wood 
was  a  mill-man  and  lumber-man.  Capt.  Nahum  Wood  lived  in 
Winslow,  and  was  a  carpenter.  David  Nourse  was  a  boatman. 
Dr.  Stephen  Thayer  was  a  wellknown  physician. 


308  HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLK. 

The  meetings  of  the  lodge  have  been  held  in  eight  different 
places.  The  lodge  was  organized  October  26,  1820,  in  Thomas 
Kimball's  hall  in  the  tavern  kept  by  him  on  the  western  side  of 
Maine  street.  It  stood  very  nearly  on  the  site  of  the  building 
now  occupied  by  Mr.  Harriman  for  a  jeweller's  store  and  Mr. 
Dunham  for  a  shoe  store.  The  meetings  were  held  here  for 
nearly  four  years.  From  July,  1824,  until  suspension  of  work 
in  1 83 1,  when  the  anti-masonic  excitement  prevailed,  the  lodge 
met  in  the  Bank  house,  so-called,  a  large  w^ooden  structure  sit- 
uated at  the  foot  of  Main  street,  on  the  western  side.  For  the 
next  fourteen  years  only  one  meeting  was  held  and  that  was  held 
m  the  office  of  Alpheus  Lyon.  From  the  resumption  of  work  in 
February,  1845,  until  about  1850,  the  lodge  met  in  the  hall  of  the 
Waterville  Liberal  Institute,  on  Elm  Street,  corner  of  School 
street,  in  a  building  which  still  stands  on  the  same  site,  converted 
into  a  dwelling.  From  December  16,  1850,  to  February  3,  1851, 
the  fraternity  had  temporary  quarters  in  Phoenix  hall,  the  same 
room  which  is  now  used  for  the  typographical  and  printing  work 
of  the  Waterville  Mail.  The  next  meeting  place  of  the  lodge 
was  in  the  third  story  of  the  building  now  occupied  by  Ward- 
well's  dry  goods  store.  The  fraternity  used  this  room  for 
twenty-four  years  from  February  10,  1851,  to  April  12,  1875. 
The  Commandery  newly  organized,  held  the  last  meeting  here 
on  the  25th  of  March,  1875.  The  sixth  hall,  which  was  occupied 
by  the  lodge  from  1875  to  1890,  was  in  the  old  Plaisted  building 
which  was  located  on  the  site  of  the  new  brick  Plaisted  building. 
The  seventh  place  of  meeting  was  in  Ware's  hall,  on  the  upper 
floor  of  the  building  now  occupied  by  the  Merchants'  National 
Bank. 

The  eighth  and  present  place  of  meeting  is  the  new  Masonic 
Temple  on  Common  street,  which  was  consecrated  in  full 
masonic  form  by  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine 
on  Saturday,  June  13,  1891,  just  seventy  years  to  a  day  from 
the  consecration  of  the  lodge.  The  day  was  a  proud  one  for 
Waterville  Masons.  Distinguished  visitors  from  other  places 
including  Palestine  Commanderv'  of  Belfast,  joined  with  the  local 
members  of  the  fraternity  and  their  ladies  in  the  celebration. 
The  exercises  were  very  elaborate  and  included  an  oration  by 
Rev.  J.  L.  Seward,  of  the  Unitarian  church.     The  first  meeting" 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  309 

of  the  lodge  in  this  temple  on  March  23,  1891,  had  been  the 
occasion  of  a  strange  coincidence.  It  happened  to  be  precisely 
sixty  years  to  a  day  since  the  last  meeting,  March  23,  1831, 
before  the  dark  days  of  Masonry.  As  if  to  commemorate  the 
event  the  electric  lights  all  went  out.  This  was  owing  to  the 
high  water  in  the  Kennebec  river.  Oil  lamps  were  quickly  pro- 
vided by  the  aid  of  which  the  exercises  of  the  evening  were  com- 
pleted. The  only  thing  lacking  to  make  the  temple  complete  was 
procured  in  1901,  when  the  various  masonic  bodies  purchased 
at  a  cost  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars,  a  new  pipe  organ,  one  of  the 
finest  toned  organs  in  the  city. 

Though  believing  in  religion,  and  though  practicing  charity, 
the  Masonic  order  is  primarily  and  essentially  fraternal.  As 
indicating  the  prominence  of  some  of  the  men  who  have  been 
Masons  in  this  city  it  is  worthy  of  mention  that,  with  one  excep- 
tion, all  of  the  mayors  of  Waterville,  from  its  incorporation  as 
a  city  in  1888,  to  the  present  time  have  been  Masons. 

On  August  14,  1 90 1,  by  request  of  the  city  government,  the 
corner  stone  of  the  new  city  hall  was  laid  with  due  ceremony 
under  the  auspices  of  the  jMasonic  lodge,  represented  by  the  offi- 
cers of  the  grand  lodge  of  Maine. 

In  the  eighty-two  years  since  it  was  chartered,  Waterville 
lodge  has  had  forty-one  different  masters,  as  follows :  Benjamin 
Adams,  David  Shepherd,  Joseph  R.  Abbott,  Alpheus  Lyon,  Mil- 
ford  P.  Norton,  Daniel  Cook,  Richard  M.  Dorr,  Samuel  Wells, 
Asil  Stilson,  Alden  Palmer,  Jeremiah  Arnold,  Thomas  W.  Her- 
rick,  Wadsworth  Chipman,  Josiah  H.  Drummond,  Charles  M. 
Morse,  Edward  G.  Meader,  Charles  R.  McFadden,  Willard  B. 
Arnold,  Frank  W.  Knight,  Nathaniel  Meader,  Jonathan  Meader, 
Isaac  S.  Bangs,  Edmund  F.  Webb,  Charles  H.  Alden,  Llewellyn 
E.  Cromm.ett,  R.  Wesley  Dunn,  Frederick  C.  Thayer,  Franklin 
A.  Smith,  Andrew  L.  McFadden,  Edwin  F.  Small,  Horace  W. 
Stewart,  True  B.  Page,  William  H.  K.  Abbott,  Anson  O.  Libby, 
Warren  C.  Philbrook,  Frank  Walker,  Charles  F.  Johnson, 
Martin  F.  Bartlett,  Herbert  M.  Fuller,  John  M.  Webber,  Cyrus 
W.  Davis. 

There  have  been  connected  with  Waterville  lodge  either  by 
demit  from  other  lodges  or  by  having  taken  one  or  more  degrees. 


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In  1846  a  lodge  of  tht  L  O.  O.  F,  was  foonded  mi  Watervinc 
by  Amasa  Dingey,  and  named  Samakitax  Lodc^  No.  59. 

Among  the  charter  members  were  Jaines  Smiley,  Ge'  -. 
Esty,    Solon  S.  Sinx^s,  and    Henry  B.  ''"'-       K'-'-     ; 
Getchell,  Snmtner  and  Joseph  p^--'  --'   Si"..r.  .-.,.:'    -   ^.-.l  .t. 
K.  Botitelle  and  Ephraim  Ma?::  --         -re  amonir  fhe  early  mtsn- 
bers.     After  contmnmg  eight  years  the  lodg^:  "      '  'jTmaixt, 

but  twenty  years  later,  when  Odd  Ttlilawshvy  revived.  ?i  rr!rw 
charter  was  granted  tinder  the  old  name  ar:''  -"    ^^'■-':'    '^■''    '^- 
Januarv-  14,  1874,  the  grand  officers  in.stittrte--_  :'-:  : '-::-'■.  .•-^'^ 
v.-ith  ele\-en  charter  members,  as  follows :    Edward  C.  Lowe,  Geo. 
H.  Esty,  Henry  B.  White,  Joshtia  Nye,  W.  G.  Penny,  Jc^epli 
Percival,  Nathaniel  R.  Botitelle,  D.  M.  Black.  Ephraim  Maxham, 
Geo.  Je-A-ell,  and  Levi  T.  Boothby.     The  Noble  Grands  of  the 
lodge,  beginning  with  1874.  have  been :    Henry  B.  White,  a  diar- 
ter  member,  Edward  C.  Lowe,  George  H-  Esty,  Joshtia  Nye, 
D.  ^L  Black,  Levi  T.  Boothby,  Henry  T.  Chamberlain,  Charles 
H.  Dnimmond,  George  S.  DollofF,  Evander  Gilpatrick,  Cahrin 
W.  Gilman,  Charles  H.  Jones,  Simeon  Keith,  E.  A,  Lon:"'  "--^. 
W.  J.  Maynard,  Ne-%-ton  J.  Norris,  J.  L.  Perkins.  F.  A.  ? 
Weston  B.  Smile>-,  J.  E.  Scribner,  E.  N.  Small.  E.  L.  SpatJding, 
Wi]liam  L  Towne.  J.  L.  Towne.  Charles  R,  Tyler,  C.  Ht'-;. 
Williams,  Eugene  W.  Woodman,  M.  H.  Blackwell,  Joseph  !*L 
Barker,  John  Daile}-.  Charles  ^L  Turner.  William  C  Cannon, 
Edgar  N.  Keene,  William  A.  Hager,  Chandler  W.  Wormell, 
Josiah  W.  Morrell,  William  H.  Dearborn.  Horace  S.  Howard, 
Chane5  L.  Getchell.  George  H.  Wans.  ar.  -  „    r.    ] .:— ear- 

Odd  Fellowship  is  primarily  fraternal,  but  it  has  always  i:'t 
much  in  a  charitable  way,  relieving  the  si:'  ".-  '  '':''ing.  aiding  :r.t 
widow,  protecting  and  educating  the  orpr.ir..  ^is  members  irt 
enjoined  to  illustrate  by  their  acts  and  earn-  out,  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, the  sublime  maxir:. — "AjI  things  whatsoever  yt  j  -  i  that 
men  should  do  unto  you,  do  ye  even  so  to  them,  xzit  .i-irt 
now  has  a  membership  of  two  huntirei  ar.  i  r^rtr.T/.  .:  :■: :  j:  :tr 
one  of  the  finest  h^ls  in  the  city,  in  ihe  nev."  j-Lai'iS  i.:-!^:  :r. 
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310  HISTORY    OF   WATERVILLE. 

or  honorary  members,  a  total  of  669  men,  the  present  membership 
being  266. 

TiiK  Teconnet  Chapter  Royal  Arch  Masons  was  organ- 
ized in  this  city  in  1892,  by  dispensation  from  the  Grand  Royal 
Arch  Chapter  of  Maine. 

St.  Omer  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  was  organized 
with  sixty  charter  members,  September  2.y,  1874.  The  eminent 
commanders  have  been :  George  Wilkins,  Isaac  S.  Bangs, 
Nathaniel  Meader,  Frederick  C.  Thayer,  Frank  A.  Smith, 
Andrew  L.  IMcFadden,  Horace  W.  Stewart,  E.  L.  Veasie,  Fred 
A.  Love  joy,  W.  A.  R.  Boothby,  Warren  C.  Philbrook,  Arthur 
H.  Totman,  John  Phillips,  James  Frederick  Hill,  Charles  F. 
Johnson  and  Mortimer  E.  Adams. 

Martha  Washington  Chapter,  No.  15,  of  the  Order  of 
THE  Eastern  Star,  was  organized  February  24,  1894. 

TicoNic  Division,  No.  13,  Sons  of  Temperance  is  as  its 
name  implies,  a  temperance  organization,  and  was  instituted 
November  2^,  1845.  This  order  did  much  to  pave  the  way  for 
the  establishment  of  the  prohibitory  law  in  this  State.  Among 
the  early  patriarchs  were  T.  O.  Sanders,  Eldridge  L.  Getchell, 
W.  M.  Phillips,  Edward  L.  Smith,  E.  H.  Piper,  R.  Perley, 
Simeon  Keith,  Edward  C.  Low,  John  P.  Caffrey,  Jones  R.  Elden 
and  George  S.  C.  Dow. 

Ticonic  Division  was  reorganized  in  1858  with  the  following 
charter  list :  H.  C.  Leonard,  Llewellyn  E.  Crommett,  Charles 
M.  Morse,  Charles  R.  McFadden,  Charles  W.  Wingate,  Jones 
R.  Elden,  Joshua  C.  Bartlett,  Thomas  W.  Herrick,  Charles  R. 
Phillips,  Hiram  P.  Cousins,  George  L.  Robinson,  Jeremiah 
Arnold,  Edward  C.  Lowe,  Joshua  Nye  and  Moses  Hanscom. 
The  worthy  patriarchs  since  reorganizaton  have  been  :  Everett 
R.  Drummond,  Levi  T.  Boothby,  Samuel  Osborne,  Thomas  Ran- 
sted.  Airs.  Estelle  Ransted,  Byron  Kimball,  Mrs.  Laura  F. 
Mason,  James  Coombs,  Hiram  O.  Ray,  Inez  White,  Vonia  Pres- 
sey,  Irving  P.  Barnes,  Estelle  Ray,  S.  H.  Plolmes,  Mary  Wilson, 
C.  P.  Toward,  Stephen  J.  Cunningham,  A.  W.  Starbird,  Myra 
Coombs,  Edwin  Barnes,  Frank  J.  White,  Arthur  Barton,  Amelia 
Smith,  Emily  Ray  and  Leverett  Dow.  The  order  has  a  present 
membership  of  about  thirty. 


■      HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  3^3 

ton,  Appleton  Webb,  Edward  C.  Luce,  Appleton  H.  Plaisted, 
A.  C.  Crockett,  Leonard  D.  Carver,  Alfred  Thompson,  Frank 
Redington,  Frank  J.  Goodridge,  W.  S.  Dunham,  J.  M.  Wall, 
William  F.  Swan,  A.  J.  Lyon,  Phenny  Lyon,  John  N.  Webber, 
Reaford  Patten  and  F.  W\  Kincaid.  The  chair  of  the  C.  M. 
has  been  filled  by  the  following :  A.  W.  Allen,  Charles  F.  Ayer, 
Stephen  F.  Brann,  Luther  G.  Bunker,  Samuel  A.  Burleigh, 
Edgar  J.  Brown,  George  S.  Dolloff,  John  A.  Davidson,  Frank 
J.  Goodridge,  F.  A.  Lincoln,  Warren  C.  Philbrook,  Henry  C. 
Prince,  Luke  B.  Spencer,  Frank  W.  Smith,  Selden  E.  Whitcomb, 
Everett  C.  Wardwell,  and  H.  Leroy  Simpson. 

The  lodge  has  a  present  membership  of  one  hundred  and  fifty, 
and  is  proud  to  number  among  its  members  the  grand  chancellor 
of  the  grand  lodge  of  ]Maine,  in  the  person  of  Hon.  Warren  C. 
Philbrook. 

The  Uniform  Rank,  Bayard  Company  No.  9,  which  is  the 
military  branch  of  the  order,  was  instituted  November  10,  1890. 
It  has  a  membership  of  fifty-two.  It  drills  and  is  governed  by 
the  same  military  tactics  as  are  used  in  the  U.  S.  Army. 

The  past  captains  are  A.  W.  Stewart,  Eugene  W.  Allen,  F.  A. 
Lincoln,  Henry  C.  Prince,  Hiram  O.  Ray,  Luther  G.  Bunker  and 
Edgar  J.  Brown. 

CoMMANDERY  No.  332,  U.  O.  G.  C,  was  instituted  February 
3,  1888,  with  twenty-five  charter  members.  It  has  a  present 
membership  of  seventy-five.  , 

The  presiding  officers  from  the  beginning  have  been  Jefiferson 
\\'ood,  Thomas  W.  Scribner,  Herbert  M.  Fuller,  H.  W.  Ludwig, 
Samuel  W.  Fuller,  N.  F.  Tower,  Mrs.  H.  M.  C.  Estes,  Lewis  M. 
Small,  L.  S.  Tupper,  Luke  I  vers,  Joseph  H.  Knox,  Byron  A. 
Kimball,  Angelos  W.  Merrill,  Mrs.  E.  M.  Brann,  Alden  A. 
Wright,  Mrs.  F.  F.  Merrill,  Mabel  Lacomb,  J.  S.  Lewis,  and 
Fred  S.  Harding. 

The  objects  of  this  order  are  social,  beneficent  and  fraternal. 
During  the  fourteen  years  it  has  existed  in  the  city  $13,500  have 
been  paid  to  local  beneficiaries. 

L'Uniox  Lafayette,  founded  in  1890,  is  a  social  and  insur- 
ance order,  wholly  local,  and  has  a  present  membership  of  two 
liundred  and  ninety. 


314  HISTORY    O^    WATERVILLE. 

Its  presidents  have  been  Joseph  Matthieu,  Achille  Joly,  A.  P. 
A.  Pichette,  Adelard  Holde,  Fred  W.  Clair,  Abraham  Reny, 
Peter  D.  Fortier  and  Gedeon  Picher. 

Waterville  Lodge,  No.  221,  New  England  Order  of  Pro- 
tection was  instituted  June  19,  1893,  with  the  following  charter 
members :  William  T.  Haines,  "Warren  C.  Philbrook,  W.  Fred 
P.  Fogg,  Carroll  W.  Abbott,  Colby  Getchell,  R.  E.  Attwood, 
Gustavus  L.  Weeks,  S.  A.  Estes,  Clarence  R.  ^Miller,  Granville 
Sibley,  E.  A.  Bailey,  Waldron  F.  Kennison,  George  V.  Spauld- 
ing,  Clarence  E.  Tupper,  F.  Al.  Shores,  J.  K.  Soule,  and  S.  H. 
Rhoades. 

This  order  is  a  ritualistic,  benevolent  and  fraternal  one,  with 
a  present  membership  of  about  sixty,  A  rather  remarkable  thing 
in  connection  with  Waterville  lodge  is  that  in  the  nine  years  of 
its  existence  death  has  not  entered  its  ranks. 

The  following  have  filled  the  warden's  chair:  W.  Fred  P. 
Fogg,  Gustavus  L.  Weeks,  George  F,  Gile,  Colby  Getchell, 
Waldron  F.  Kennison,  E.  A,  Cox,  Eugene  W.  Woodman,  and 
Russell  S,  Barton. 

Court  Sebasticook,  No,  1,495,  Independent  Order  of  For- 
esters, was  organized  March  2,  1894,  by  James  Grover,  with 
forty-six  charter  members,  among  whom  were  Charles  F,  John- 
son, Harvey  D.  Eaton,  J.  Frederick  Hill,  Frederick  C.  Thayer, 
Mark  Gallert,  Flenry  C.  Prince,  Charles  E.  Matthews,  Elwood 
T.  Wyman,  Cyrus  W.  Davis  and  F.  August  Knauff. 

It  is  an  insurance  and  fraternal  order.  The  past  chief  rangers 
are  Harvey  D.  Eaton,  Charles  F,  Ayer,  Hartwell  W.  Pollard 
and  W.  Parker  Stewart,  Frank  J.  Hughes  is  the  present  chief 
ranger. 

The  American  Benefit  Society,  an  insurance  order,  has 
two  lodges  in  the  city.  Waterville  Lodge,  No,  40,  started 
December  31,  1895,  with  twenty-four  charter  members  and  has 
a  present  membership  of  fifty. 

Its  presidents  have  been  John  J,  Reid,  George  L.  Cannon  and 
George  F.  Davies. 

Richelieu  Lodge,  No,.  4,  was  organized  January  28,  1896, 
with  thirty  charter  members  and  has  a  present  membership  of 
sixty. 


HISTORY  01^  waterville:.  3^5 

Its  presidents  have  been  Fred  W.  Clair,  Gedeon  Pitcher, 
Achille  Joly,  Joseph  Bujeau  and  Abraham  Reny. 

Waterville  Council,  No.  148,  Knights  of  Columbus  was 
organized  February  9,  1896,  with  thirty-nine  charter  members. 
It  is  a  social,  fraternal  and  insurance  order,  and  has  a  present 
membership  of  sixty.  It  meets  in  the  Knights  of  Columbus  Hall 
on  the  west  side  of  ]Main  street. 

The  following  have  filled  the  chair  of  grand  knight:  John 
B.  Friel,  John  P.  Baxter,  Fred  W.  Clair,  John  Hogan  and  Arthur 
Darviau. 

Kennebec  Council,  No.  14,  Order  United  American 
Mechanics  w^as  instituted  in  this  city  in  Soper's  Hall,  Novem- 
ber 6,  1896.  with  thirty-one  charter  members,  as  follows  :  Frank 
Brann,  Alphonso  H.  Cook,  William  H.  Andrews.  E.  A.  Mills, 
John  Fish,  ^lilan  S.  Thomas,  Russell  C.  Taylor,  C.  C.  Ellis, 
Hiram  E.  Eddy,  Alonzo  E.  IVIathews,  George  B.  Huff,  Oscar  N. 
Getchell,  M  L.  Strickland,  Fred  L.  ^lerrill,  Warren  C.  Casey, 
John  King,  C.  A.  Farnham,  William  H.  Belleveau,  James  T. 
Flynn,  George  A.  Warren,  Charles  A.  Holway,  Algenon  C. 
Glazier,  Charles  W.  Davis,  Eeroy  R.  Kitchen,  Charles  C.  Bridges, 
James  H.  Pooler,  E.  D.  :Mitcheli,  Charles  E.  Wright,  Charles  H. 
Gibson,  Thomas  G.  Rose  and  Claude  C.  Cole. 

The  O.  U.  A.  M.  is  a  patriotic,  social,  fraternal  and  benevolent 
secret  association,  composed  entirely  of  those  born  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  or  under  the  protection  of  its  flag.  Its  motto 
is,  "Honesty,  industry,  and  sobriety."  The  local  lodge  after 
meeting  in  Soper's  Hall  until  December  i,  1897,  leased  its  pres- 
ent fine  hall  in  Alilliken  block  on  the  corner  of  ]\Iain  and  Silver 
streets. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  senior  ex-councillors :  E.  F. 
Parker,  Everett  E.  Haynes,  Frank  W.  Lewis,  George  A.  Warren, 
Leroy  R.  Kitchen,  William  M.  Pulsifer,  Charles  Bridges  and 
David  H.  Bowker. 

The  Foresters  oe  America  are  represented  in  this  city  by  two 
lodges.  The  first.  Court  Canada,  was  organized  among  the 
French  citizens  in  1896,  with  six  charter  members.  The  second. 
Court  America,  No.  14,  was  organized  February  25,  1897,  with 


3l6  HISTORY   01?    WATE^RVILLE^. 

thirty-five  charter  members.  This  order  is  purely  a  beneficial 
and  benevolent  organization.  Its  purposes  are  the  mutual  pro- 
tection and  assistance  of  its  members  in  sickness  and  distress. 

The  past  chief  rangers  are  Fred  D.  Nudd,  Edwin  J.  Littlefield, 
Harry  E.  Hinds,  George  W.  Hoxie,  Edward  L.  Hanscom,  Dana 
P.  Foster,  James  A.  Weymouth  and  Fred  E.  Hoxie. 

The  Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  Waterville,  Camp 
No.  8,465,  was  organized  in  this  city  August  9,  1900.  It  is  a 
fraternal  insurance  order,  and  started  with  a  charter  list  of  six- 
teen members,  as  follows :  Warren  C.  Philbrook,  Luther  G. 
Bunker,  W.  E.  Choate,  Thomas  Suttie,  Bliss  T.  Watts,  E.  L. 
Marston,  Peter  M.  Libby,  Alden  A.  Wright,  Flavins  H.  Mace, 
\\\  M.  Ladd,  Ernest  M.  Home,  C.  H.  Page,  J.  E.  Lashus, 
Charles  A.  Grondin,  Frank  Blanchard  and  Fred  E.  Libby. 

The  Maccabees  is  represented  by  two  lodges,  both  of  which 
were  organized  in  1901.  Ticonic  Tent  has  a  membership  of 
one  hundred  and  forty,  and  Hope  Tent,  No.  12,  a  membership 
of  fifty-two.     This  is  an  insurance  order. 

At  Colby  there  are  five  Greek  letter  fraternities :  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon.  chartered  at  Colby  in  1845,  has  a  membership 
of  twenty-four;  Zeta  Psi,  chartered  in  1850,  has  a  membership 
of  eighteen ;  Delta  Upsilon,  chartered  in  1852,  has  a  member- 
ship of  twenty-seven ;  Phi  Delta  Theta,  chartered  in  1884,  has 
a  membership  of  twenty-one ;  Alpha  Tau  Omega,  chartered  in 
1892,  has  a  membership  of  ten.  There  are  two  sororities,'  both 
of  which  are  local. 

Sigma  Kappa,  founded  in  1874,  numbers  thirty-two  members 
and  Beta  Phi,  founded  in  1895,  numbers  twenty-eight. 

At  one  time  there  existed  in  the  city  an  organization  of 
Grangers,  of  which  Martin  Blaisdell,  Fred  Pooler  and  George 
Balentine  were  prominent  members.     It  is  long  since  defunct. 

The  Knights  of  Honor,  No.  289,  an  insurance  and  fraternal 
order,  was  established  here  in  1870  and  existed  for  about  fifteen 
years. 

Bombazeen  Tribe  of  Red  Men,  No.  39,  was  instituted  in  1894. 
Although  it  had  a  membership  of  seventy-five  the  attendance  at 
the  meetings  was  so  small  that  the  charter  was  given  up  in  1901. 


HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE.  31 7 

The  Ancient  Ascenic  Order,  the  prime  purpose  of  which  was 
insurance,  was  estabHshed  here  in  1898,  but  only  lasted  one  year. 


THE    CANIEAS    CLUB. 

Club  life  for  men  has  its  sole  representative  in  this  city  in  the 
Canibas  Club.  This  club  is  a  local  organization  for  social  pur- 
poses and  was  formed  on  Washington's  birthday,  1889.  Its  first 
president  was  Gen.  I.  S.  Bangs ;  first  vice-president,  Dr.  F.  C. 
Thayer ;  second  vice-president,  H.  W.  Stewart ;  secretary  and 
treasurer,  George  K.  Boutelle,  Esq.  Its  first  board  of  directors 
included  E.  L.  Jones,  E.  L.  Veazie,  Frank  Redington,  John  N. 
Webber  and  W.  M.  Dunn.  The  club  moved  into  its  present 
elegant  quarters  on  Main  street  just  below  the  Unitarian  church, 
November  13,  1889. 

Its  officers  for  the  present  year  are :  President,  Oscar  G. 
Springfield ;  vice-president,  F.  B.  Hubbard ;  secretary  and  treas- 
urer, E.  M.  Home.  Directors,  W.  S.  Dunham,  G.  F.  Terry, 
W.  J.  Fogarty,  C.  E.  Mathews,  E.  L.  Jones.  The  present  mem- 
bership of  the  club  is  fifty-nine. 


CHAPTER   Xlll, 


SOCIAL  LIFE  IN  WATERVILLE. 

By  Martha  Baker  Dunn,  author  of  ''Memory  Street,"  Lias' 

Wife,  etc. 

The  social  Hfe  of  any  moderate-sized  town  or  city  is  usually  a 
ditHcult  thing  to  classify  or  even  to  formulate.  It  is  apt  to  be 
sporadic  rather  than  general,  and  subject  to  a  reaction  and 
reaction  as  pronounced  though  perhaps  not  as  regular  as  the  ebb 
and  flow  of  the  tide ;  yet  to  say  as  one  is  sometimes  on  first 
thought  tempted  to  do,  that  any  spot  where  human  beings  live 
has  no  social  life,  is  to  forget  that  the  most  significant  part  of  the 
history  of  the  world  is  made  up  of  the  daily  intercourse  of  men 
and  women  with  each  other,  and  that  the  impulses  born  of  such 
intercourse,  the  ties  and  emotions  that  grow  out  of  it,  constitute 
the  underlying  forces  that  mould  society. 

Little  record  of  the  social  life  of  Waterville  up  to  the  beginning 
of  the  nineteenth  century  seems  to  have  been  preserved  even  in 
tradition.  In  1791  the  population  of  Winslow,  which  then 
included  the  territory  on  both  sides  of  the  river,  is  estimated  at 
779  persons  of  whom  more  than  half  lived  within  the  present 
limits  of  Waterville,  and  loved,  hated,  married,  bore  children, 
salted  their  bread  with  tears  or  ate  it  with  joy,  died  and  were 
buried  even  as  they  are  to-day. 

Among  the  names  of  citizens  engaged  in  business  and  paying 
taxes  on  the  west  side  of  the  river  at  that  time  we  find  Crommetts, 
Lows,  Tozers,  Soules,  Stackpoles  and  others,  names  still  well 
known  in  Waterville  annals,  and  had  some  one  of  these  bygone 
worthies  been  inspired  to  keep  such  a  journal  of  current  events 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  319 

as  was  done  by  Gen.  Henry  Sewall  of  Augusta  he  might  have 
materially  aided  the  labors  of  the  modern  historian. 

The  few  diaries  and  memorandum  books  available  which  fur- 
nish any  records  of  those  early  days  contain  only  the  sparsest 
and  most  commonplace  details,  records  of  barter  and  sale,  the 
time  of  sowing  crops  and  similar  intensely  practical  matters. 
There  is,  however,  in  the  memorandum  book  of  one  of  the  resi- 
dents of  ancient  W'inslow  a  single  personal  note  which  stands, 
unexplained,  amidst  the  monotonous  sequence  of  weather,  crops 
and  traffic,  leaving  one  to  wonder  whether  there  may,  perchance, 
have  been  a  heart-throb  registered  in  its  brief  statement. 

''August  15th  Sarah  Johnson  went  away ;"  that  is  all  the  record 
tells  us.  Who  Sarah  was,  where  and  why  she  went,  what  made 
her  departure  of  such  importance,  and  whether  she  ever  came 
back,  these  are  questions  which  arise  at  once,  but  the  answers 
are  lost  in  the  oblivion  of  time.  So  far  as  the  curiosity  of  the 
present  generation  is  concerned,  Sarah's  going  away  was  a  per- 
manent event. 

The  times  when  things  are  beginning  are  frequently  strenuous 
ones.  In  the  early  days  of  new  settlements  the  actors  in  the 
scene  find  enough  in  the  struggle  and  stress  of  everyday  life  to 
weary  their  muscles  and  satisfy  their  thirst  for  excitement. 
Probably  the  first  residents  of  Waterville  were  sufficiently  occu- 
pied in  conquering  the  wilderness  and  solving  the  problem  of 
daily  existence,  and  neither  felt  the  need  nor  saw  the  opportunity 
for  many  festivities.  Such  entertaining  as  did  take  place  was 
undoubtedly  more  or  less  primitive  in  its  nature. 

We  read  in  the  histories  of  the  time  that  the  colonists  kept  up 
intercourse  with  their  distant  friends  and  acquaintances  and 
managed  in  spite  of  obstacles  to  pay  occasional  visits  to  those  liv- 
ing in  other  settlements.  The  river  was  then  much  more  com- 
monly used  as  a  thoroughfare  of  travel  than  it  is  at  present. 
Horseback  journeys  were  also  very  frequent. 

About  1793  pleasure  carriages  began  to  appear  in  Maine  and 
in  that  year  General  Sewall  records  the  purchase  of  his  "new 
topped  sleigh."  As  early  as  1784  mention  is  made  in  Mr. 
Sewall's  diary  of  a  sleighing  party  from  Augusta  to  Ebenezer 
Farwell's  in  V^assalboro,  "returning    the  same    night."      Very 


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possibly  (Ins  jtnmu'v  w.is  in.uK"  lui  tlu'  \cc,  as  [\\c  \o:\As  .\\  ibat 
\'\\\\c  wcvc  slill  \(M  V  b;ul. 

AiiuMii^  (lu^  iUUuscMiUMitv  uu-nluMUil  .is  luMiij;  in  \«\:;u('  al   th.il 

jXMioJ  \\c\c  "spinnin!^  Ix^^s  .in<l  w  0(»1  1m  (\ikini;s"'  tor  spinuiuL; 
und  oatdinj^;.       Tlu^sc^    i;.»tluMui:>  ni>i     nili  (-(|U('ull\    cndcil   in    .i 

il.'vnoo. 

\\'luM\  <\A.   \  .\\\\\^k)\\  w.is  in  roinni.ind  .it    ImuI   I1.i1iI.i\  wt^arc* 

loKl  lluu.  luMii:;  .1  vorv  iiall.int  man.  lu"  w.is  arrnst»Miu\l  m  \\)c 
winttM  \\\\\c  to  v'onun.uhi  liis  nun  ;»i  >\\(\'i>  tlu^  \cc  ami  sliiio  tlu' 
hulios.  TluM(>  was  .it  th.it  tmu^  .m  isl.nul  ni  thi  1\(MUU-1h\'  livtM" 
just  holow  Tivonu'  tails  whuMi  Jniin.::;  tlu^  warm  weather  was 
mnoh  r(^Si\ii(\l  to  h\  tlu"  otVu'(M  s  ani'  theii-  wixt's  iov  plcasmc 
parti(\s.      I'his  is  tlu^  tnst  j<\-owl  oi  IihmI  >.;.iuli(N  whiv'h  appears. 

(uMUM.il  l\/(>ku'I  l\ill(\\  llu^  puim\M  innk(\'prv  o\  .nu'u-nt  \\  ins- 
Inw.  whuMi  .It  th.il  tiuu  niv-lu^Uul  .ui^mimu  \\  .it(MvilU\  \\C\A  a  t.wcMn 
within  the  preetiuts  ol  l-'ou  ll.ilit.ix.  1  lon\  ir.ulition  tells  ns. 
he  .it  one  tinu^  (MUtit.muil  ■'eomp.nn  tii>m  lu>ston"  wlu>  eame 
*K>wn  to  \  iew  tlu-  l.mi'.svMj>(>  ^"ei  .m.l  .isk  i|m\stit>ns  ipiite  alter  the 
m.mmM  ot  tlu^  nuulcMn  snmnuM  ho.iuler.  At  this  inn  A.non  Ihnr 
was  onee  .\  i:^uc>\.  Imt  wIumIum  th(^  pioiMiec-  of  tlu^  noteil  l.ulv- 
killcM  thittev(\l  the  pulsc-s  ot  []]c  \<.\\\]  lu^Ues  no  vc\"ovil  KMn.iins  ti> 
tell.  ri.uhlion.  how  ex  ci .  u^poits  th.il  <\A.  Ihui  w.is  prot\>mully 
mo\c\l  h\  the  stukniL:  he.uitx  o!  .i  ikuij^hter  oi  Col.  l.ithi^xnv. 
The  kul\  howc^\(M\  tU^s]Mtc^  the  piHirv  wlueh  ho  sent  Ium  .  wimUl 
h.ixi^  nothing  to  ilo  with  him. 

I.  "^u  Jnne  u\  i;'0'>.  tlie  Kevereiul  Joslm.i  (.'nshman  was  ordained 
ns  i^astor  ot"  the  W  inslow  ehmeh.  The  or<lin.uiiMi  serviees  were 
hekl  on  llu^  i'i.uns.  wh<Me  .i  hm;e  exeM^teen  hower  sn]'>]>orted  hv 
twenlx  pill. ns  h.ul  In-en  eu\Mc\l  l\>v  ilie  pnr]>ose.  This  w  .\s  .i 
memorable  l>eeasu^n.  'Vcn  ehmehes  w  cm  e  lepvesenied  h\  their 
pastors  anil  also  by  many  oi  their  people.  Pnrini.:  the  tnst  part 
of  Ml.  ^.'nshman's  pastorate,  he  pve.iehed  .iltein.itelv  on  the  e.ist 
aiul  west  sides  o\  tlie  river  .uul  the  eeremomes  oi  his  ordination 
wore  ot  eommon  interest  to  both  settlements  .md  tittered  opp^^r- 
t\mit\   tor  a  not.ihU^  rennion  ot  telatives  and  aeqnaintanoes. 

\\  itb  the  bej;inninc  ot"  the  nineteenth  eentmv  tlie  historx  oi 
StX'ial  life  in  Water  ville  .issnmes  more  detinite  torm.  hnt  it  is  still 
a  m.nter  ot"  tradition  r.uhet  th.m  ot  teeord  -  the  stories  ot  the 
l\4St  witli  wliieh  nuxthers  interested  tlteir  ehildien.  the  t.nnily 
annals  bandevi  down  from  cvneration  to  i^ener.uion. 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


321 


By  that  time  society  was  beginning  to  crystallize  and  take 
shape  and  the  line  of  class  distinction  seems  to  have  been  at  the 
same  time  more  and  less  sharply  drawn  than  in  the  present  day. 
A  row  of  mills  was  then  growing  up  along  the  banks  of  the  Ken- 
nebec, and  the  mill  men,  lumbermen  and  men  engaged  in  general 
business  furnished  one  class,  while  the  representatives  of  the 
learned  professions  and  the  college  instructors,  after  the  organi- 
zation of  the  college,  were  drawn  together  by  similarity  of  tastes 
and  interests.  Dr.  Moses  Appleton  and  "Square"  Timothy 
Boutelle,  however,  both  prominent  figures  in  the  society  of  the 
time,  united  business  interests  with  professional  practice  and  the 
final  division  of  classes  was  probably  then,  as  now,  governed  in 
part  at  least  by  congeniality  and  circumstance. 

Mr.  Boutelle  may  be  characterized  as  an  aristocrat  with  demo- 
cratic tendencies,  and  perhaps  also  as  something  of  a  politician, 
and  when  he  entertained  no  one  was  left  out. 

The  less  polished  guests  sat  around  the  long  table  elbow  to 
elbow  with  those  of  greater  pretensions,  and  with  legs  noncha- 
lantly crossed  to  show  themselves  fullv  at  ease  in  the  social  scene, 
emptied  their  glasses  with  the  best. 

This  was  before  the  days  of  temperance  societies  and  no 
hospitable  gathering  was  complete  without  the  serving  of  wines 
and  liquors. 

Tea  parties,  card  and  dancing  parties,  and  similar  functions 
given  at  private  houses,  would  seem  to  have  been  much  more 
common  in  Waterville  during  the  early  part  of  the  last  century 
than  at  any  time  since  then,  and  though  these  entertainments 
were  in  some  ways  distinguished  by  a  dignity  and  formality 
exceeding  that  of  modern  times,  they  also  displayed  features 
which  in  our  generation  would  be  considered  questionable. 

The  oldfashioned  tea  parties  were  generally  given  during  the 
winter  months.  The  ladies  were  invited  for  the  afternoon  and 
were  urged  to  come  early  and  bring  their  work.  The  gentlemen 
were  expected  to  take  supper  and  spend  the  evening.  When  the 
ladies  gathered  about  three  o'clock  each  one  was  served  with  a 
small  glass  of  hot  spirits  and  water  to  drive  out  the  cold,  after 
which  reviving  draught  they  sat  down  to  gossip  and  needlework 
in  great  cheerfulness  of  spirit.  On  the  arrival  of  the  gentlemen 
21 


320  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

possibly  this  journey  was  made  on  the  ice,  as  the  roads  at  that 
time  were  still  very  bad. 

Among  the  amusements  mentioned  as  being  in  vogue  at  that 

period  were  "spinning  bees  and  wool-breakings"  for  spinning 
and  carding.  These  gatherings  not  infrequently  ended  in  a 
dance. 

When  Col.  Lithgow  was  in  command  at  Fort  Halifax  we  are 
told  that,  being  a  very  gallant  man,  he  was  accustomed  in  the 
winter  time  to  command  his  men  to  sweep  the  ice  and  slide  the 
ladies.  There  was  at  that  time  an  island  in  the  Kennebec  river 
just  below  Ticonic  falls  which  during  the  warm  weather  was 
much  resorted  to  by  the  officers  and  their  wives  for  pleasure 
parties.     This  is  the  first  record  of  local  gaieties  which  appears. 

General  Ezekiel  Pattee,  the  pioneer  innkeeper  of  ancient  Wins- 
low,  which  at  that  time  included  ancient  Waterville,  kept  a  tavern 
within  the  precincts  of  Fort  Halifax.  Here,  tradition  tells  us, 
he  at  one  time  entertained  "company  from  Boston"  who  came 
down  to  view  the  landscape  o'er  and  ask  questions  quite  after  the 
manner  of  the  modern  summer  boarder.  At  this  inn  Aaron  Burr 
was  once  a  guest,  but  whether  the  presence  of  the  noted  lady- 
killer  fluttered  the  pulses  of  the  local  belles  no  record  remains  to 
tell.  Tradition,  however,  reports  that  Col.  Burr  was  profoundly 
moved  by  the  striking  beauty  of  a  daughter  of  Col.  Lithgow. 
The  lady  however,  despite  the  poetry  which  he  sent  her,  would 
have  nothing  to  do  with  him. 

On  June  lo,  1795,  the  Reverend  Joshua  Cushman  was  ordained 
as  pastor  of  the  Winslow  church.  The  ordination  services  were 
held  on  the  Plains,  where  a  huge  evergreen  bower  supported  by 
twenty  pillars  had  been  erected  for  the  purpose.  This  was  a 
memorable  occasion.  Ten  churches  were  represented  by  their 
pastors  and  also  by  many  of  their  people.  During  the  first  part 
of  Mr.  Cushman's  pastorate,  he  preached  alternately  on  the  east 
and  west  sides  of  the  river  and  the  ceremonies  of  his  ordination 
were  of  common  interest  to  both  settlements  and  offered  oppor- 
tunity for  a  notable  reunion  of  relatives  and  acquaintances. 

With  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century  the  history  of 
social  life  in  Waterville  assumes  more  definite  form,  but  it  is  still 
a  matter  of  tradition  rather  than  of  record — the  stories  of  the 
past  with  which  mothers  interested  their  children,  the  family 
annals  handed  down  from  generation  to  generation. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  323 

period  reserved  their  most  modish  costumes  to  enhance  the  bril- 
liancy of  the  occasion. 

It  is  hardly  necessary  to  state  that,  at  a  period  when  ideas  in 
regard  to  amusements  were  much  stricter  than  at  present,  these 
functions  were  never  held  under  the  patronage  or  with  the 
approval  of  the  college  authorities. 

The  custom  of  the  president's  reception,  following  or  pre- 
ceding the  annual  commencement  exercises  was  instituted  by 
Rev.  Jeremiah  Chaplin,  the  first  president  of  the  college.  Dur- 
ing Dr.  Chaplin's  presidency  and  for  some  years  after  the  guests 
at  these  receptions  included  very  few  of  the  town's  people.  The 
president  and  professors  of  the  college  with  their  families,  the 
young  men  of  the  senior  class  with  their  relatives  and  friends 
from  out  of  town  who  had  come  to  witness  the  ceremonies  of 
graduation,  comprised  the  usual  list  of  guests  who  were  expected 
to  gather  at  the  president's  house  without  formal  invitation. 

A  lady,  who  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  clad  in  the  conventional 
white  muslin  which  tradition  pronounced  to  be  the  fitting  garb 
of  the  debutante,  made  hei  first  entrance  into  society  at  one  of 
President  Chaplin's  commencement  receptions,  has  described  to 
me  the  simple  yet  dignified  character  of  these  gatherings.  The 
more  formal  courtesy  of  that  earlier  day  had  a  grace  of  its  own, 
and,  it  is  a  question  whether  in  relinquishing  the  form  we  have 
in  all  respects  made  a  corresponding  gain  in  substance. 

It  was,  I  think,  during  the  presidency  of  Dr.  G.  D.  B.  Pepper 
that  the  college  receptions  first  began  to  include  the  town's  people 
to  any  noticeable  extent.  Both  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Pepper  were  people 
of  large  hospitality,  and  besides  their  naturally  generous  instincts 
in  this  respect  they  recognized  the  fact  that  whatever  served  to 
strengthen  the  bond  between  the  town  and  the  college  would 
tend  towards  the  substantial  interest  of  the  latter.  Under  this 
new  order  of  things  the  number  of  guests  soon  became  too  large 
for  entertainment  at  a  private  house  and  the  receptions  were 
transferred  to  Memorial  Hall  and  from  thence,  during  the  past 
few  years,  to  the  new  chemical  building,  where  more  ample  and 
convenient  quarters  are  afforded. 

It  is  difficult  to  realize  at  the  present  day  how  wide  a  separa- 
tion formerly  existed  between  college  and  town,  a  separation 


322 


at  supper  time 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


similar  restorative  was  administered  to  them, 
and  neither  sejovas  allowed  to  brave  the  chill  air  of  a  winter 
night  without  fortifying  draught  of  hot  cherry-  bounce  as  a 
preparation  for  le  walk  home. 

The  lady  whoirst  described  these  tea  parties  to  me,  as  she  had 
often  heard  thctory  told  by  a  venerable  relative  who  partici- 
pated in  them.asired  me  that  the  modest  potations  in  which  these 
bygone  dames  ndulged  were  only  sufficient  to  loosen  their 
tongues  and  praote  a  gentle  hilarity,  but  alas!  the  record  kept 
by  a  member  Df  le  other  sex  maliciously  asserts  that  sometimes 
our  excellent  an  stately  ancestresses  overstepped  the  mark  and 
were  betrayed  iio  great  gaiety  of  spirits.  Even  if  this  is  the 
case  however,  tire  is  little  reason  to  doubt  that  our  ancestors 
on  occasion  so  fr  outstripped  their  gentle  companions  that  any 
comparison  w<>u]  be  out  of  the  question.  These  were  days,  too, 
when  cverybodylrank  more  or  less  and  clergy  as  well  as  laity 
looked  upon  alccol  as  "one  of  the  good  creatures  of  God." 

At  the  card  i)aies  for  sometime  after  the  beginning  of  the  last 
century  cards  \vre  almost  invariably  played  for  small  stakes, 
the  sum  put  up  Mng  not  less  than  sixpence. 

There  lies  bcff^e  me  as  I  write,  furnished  through  the  courtesy 
of  a  gentleman  i  whose  family  it  was  handed  down,  an  invita- 
tion to  a  "Socil  Ball,"  given  in  "Mr.  Kimball's  hall"  on 
Wednesday  evcnig,  February  26,  18 19,  the  hour  set  for  arriving 
at  the  ball  being  P.  M.  The  invitation,  which  is  written  on  the 
back  of  a  playinjcard,  is  signed  by  M.  Appleton,  T.  Boutelle, 
J.  Stackpole,  Jr.J.  Morrill  and  J.  Williams,  all  of  whom  were 
to  officiate  as  maagers. 

One  of  the  notieable  features  of  this  invitation  lies  in  the  fact 
that  most  of  thtsigners  had  at  that  time  already  reached  or 
passed  the  periodof  middle  age,  showing  that  the  men  of  that 
day  did  not  displa  undue  haste  in  retiring  from  the  active  partic- 
ipation in  social  oties. 

With  the  foundtion  of  Waterville  College  a  new  and  important 
element  was  intrcuced  into  the  social  life  of  the  town.     In  tht 
early  history  of  cdege  festivities  the  annual  commencement^ 
became,  perhaps,  le  most  notable  society  event  of^ 
was  eagerly  looki  forward  to,  guests  from 
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324  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

marked  not  merely  by  the  frequent  and  vigorous  ''scraps" 
between  town  and  gown,  but  also  recognized  in  the  habits  of 
daily  life  and  the  current  phraseology  of  the  time.  The  dwellers 
in  Waterville  were  divided  by  an  imaginary  line  into  Silver- 
Streeters  and  Pious-Hillers,  the  division  being  perhaps  not  so 
much  one  of  territory  as  of  denomination,  and  representing  the 
line  of  cleavage  between  the  Baptist  and  Universalist  congrega- 
tions. In  pursuing  my  inquiries  in  regard  to  the  Waterville  of 
former  days  I  have  more  than  once  encountered  persons  who 
have  told,  me  with  an  air  which  showed  that  some  of  the  ancient 
feeling  still  lingers,  "I  know  nothing  about  up-town  parties.  I 
never  attend  them." 

In  studying  the  story  of  the  social  life  of  any  bygone  period, 
one  finds  that  the  real  flavor  and  picturesqueness  of  the  tale 
comes  out  in  the  comedies  and  tragedies  of  daily  life,  the  personal 
details  too  numerous  to  be  included  in  any  brief  narrative. 

The  parties  given  by  the  Appletons,  Boutelles,  Redingtons, 
Plaisteds,  Stackpoles,  Nourses  and  the  rest,  gain  immensely  in 
interest  when  one  knows  something  about  the  individual  lives  of 
the  people  who  talked  and  danced  and  laughed  and  loved  amidst 
the  background  these  scenes  afforded.  The  Gilmans  were  one 
of  the  conspicuous  families  of  the  town,  and  the  vision  of  the 
second  Mrs.  Nathaniel  Gilman  walking  up  the  aisle  of  the  Baptist 
church  on  her  ''appearing-out  Sunday,"  clad  in  shimmering  corn- 
colored  satin  and  leaning  on  her  husband's  arm,  reproduces 
itself  on  the  fading  canvas  of  tradition 

Like  a  picture,  when  the  pride 
Of  its  coloring  hath  died. 

It  was  an  age  of  portrait  painting,  and  the  faces  of  many  of 
these  fair  women  and  brave  men  still  look  down  upon  us  from 
the  walls  of  the  old  houses.  \Ye  hear  the  story  of  the  famous 
red  damask  upholsteries  which  came  from  New  York  in  a  sail- 
ing vessel  to  furnish  the  Gilman  drawing-room,  the  coming-out 
party  given  for  Miss  Anna  K.  Gilman  at  the  age  of  fourteen  and 
the  belles  and  beaux  who  helped  to  make  the  occasion  memorable. 
There  were  other  coming-out  parties  too  and  similar  gaieties, 
and  we  are  told  with  some  pride  in  the  superior  courtesy  of 
former  times  that  in  those  days  when  a  young  lady  was  invited  to 


326  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLD. 

ing  committee  for  the  assignment  of  parts  was  appointed,  with 
the  understanding  that  the  parts  when  given  out  should  be  con- 
scientiously studied  with  a  view  to  a  rendering  at  once  critical 
and  dramatic. 

In  this  committee  Mr.  Edward  Header  served  continuously 
during  the  whole  period  of  the  club's  existence,  and  Mr.  Appleton 
Plaisted  during  a  large  part  of  the  time. 

It  is  related  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Wood,  at  that  time  pastor  of  the 
Baptist  church,  a  man  of  strict  tenets  and  naturally  lugubrious 
cast  of  countenance,  that  he  not  only  excelled  but  delighted  in 
the  representation  of  comic  parts  and  did  not  hesitate  to  join  in 
a  jovial  song  when  his  assumed  character  demanded  it.  Mrs. 
Ephraim.  Maxham,  wife  of  the  then  editor  of  the  Waterville 
Mail,  was  especially  skilled  in  the  rendering  of  tragedy. 

The  history  of  the  Shakesperean  Club  is  one  of  which  Water- 
ville may  well  be  proud.  It  had  its  social  features,  intimate 
friendships  were  formed  there,  courtships  even  grew  out  of  it, 
but  primarily  and  essentially  it  was  an  organization  for  work  and 
its  stability  and  singleness  of  purpose  were  the  bonds  of  its 
preservation. 

With  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  the  former  things  passed 
away.  The  new  conditions  brought  their  own  deep  and  absorb- 
ing interests.  Waterville  sent  two  full  companies  of  volunteers 
to  the  front  and  among  their  officers  were  William  and  Francis 
Heath,  both  notable  members  of  the  Shakesperean  Club.^  No 
time  now  for  reading  Shakespeare ;  the  men  of  the  hour  were 
writing  their  own  tragedies  in  blood.  The  old  Wars  of  the 
Roses  were  forgotten  in  the  blossoming  of  this  new  red  rose  of 
courage  which  sprang  gloriously  to  life  amidst  the  crimson  stain 
of  battle.  When  at  the  close  of  the  struggle  the  old  interests 
revived,  the  club  was  reformed  including  many  of  the  former 
members,  yet  it  was  not  the  same. 

The  story  of  the  intervening  years  had  gone  deep  into  the 
hearts  of  the  community,  from  which  many  had  gone  out  never 
to  come  back.  William  Heath  had  found  a  hero's  grave.  Yet 
life  goes  on  in  spite  of  sorrows,  and  the  breath  of  peace  crept 
over  the  land  as  softly  as  the  green  grass  of  springtime  spread 
its  garb  of  verdure  over  the  deserted  battlefields.     Time  brought 


HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLD.  3^7 

its  healing,  and  when  the  Shakesperean  Club  merged  into  the 
Roundabout  people  had  begun  to  smile  and  hope  and  enjoy  again. 
The  new  club  continued  the  study  of  the  dramatists,  forming 
itself  upon  the  lines  of  the  old,  but  it  gradually  became  less 
purely  intellectual  in  its  character  and  more  given  to  feasting  and 
social  enjoyments.  It  continued  in  active  existence  for  some 
five  or  six  years  and  its  memory  is  still  gratefully  cherished  by 
those  who  shared  its  privileges  and  hospitalities. 

Previous  to  the  war  the  secular  entertainments  connected  with 
the  church  had,  for  the  most  part,  been  confined  to  the  meetings 
of  the  Ladies'  Sewing  Circle,  at  whose  mystic  rites  gentlemen 
were  sometimes  allowed  to  participate  to  the  extent  of  supper 
and  a  social  evening.  It  was  after  the  close  of  the  war  that  the 
churches  began  to  assume  their  present  position  as  centres  of 
social  as  well  as  spiritual  life.  In  the  Waterville  of  to-day 
church  societies,  socials  and  functions  of  many  kinds  play  an 
important  part  in  bringing  people  together,  promoting  fellow- 
ship, and  strengthening  the  ties  between  friend  and  friend.  The 
Men's  and  Women's  Christian  Association,  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  the 
young  people's  societies  of  the  different  churches,  the  various 
branches  of  missionary  work,  have  all  helped  to  advance  social 
intercourse  no  less  than  to  accomplish  the  legitimate  object  of 
their  being. 

The  Woman's  Temperance  League,  formed  about  1898,  was, 
while  it  lasted  a  strong  factor  in  binding  together  those  who  were 
associated  in  trying  to  do  very  necessary  work  under  very  uncom- 
fortable conditions.  While  it  was  the  direct  object  of  the  league 
to  conduct  an  aggressive  campaign  against  liquor  selling  the 
women  who  composed  it  believed  that  the  most  permanent  result 
of  any  attempt  at  moral  regeneration  is  that  which  comes'through 
social  influence  and  social  contact  and  the  receptions  and  other 
functions  given  under  their  auspices  made  their  faith  manifest 
in  their  works. 

The  social  life  of  the  Waterville  of  to-day  may  perhaps  be  best 
classified  under  three  or  four  general  heads  : 

That  which  centres  around  the  church  and  the  various  organ- 
izations growing  out  of  church  work. 

That  which  has  its  origin  in  the  secret  orders,  some  of  which 
have  separate  branches  for  women. 


328  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

The  social  features  resulting  from  the  interests  and  activities 
of  the  various  clubs. 

The  purely  society  functions,  balls,  assemblies,  whist  parties, 
afternoon  teas,  etc. 

The  secret  orders  have  a  chapter  of  their  own  in  this  volume 
and  need  not  be  dwelt  upon  here,  further  than  to  say  that  their 
multiplicity  and  activity  have  made  them  prominent  factors  in 
modem  social  intercourse. 

No  club  numbering  both  sexes  has  ever  arisen  in  Waterville 
to  take  the  place  of  the  old  Shakesperean  and  Roundabout  Clubs  ; 
in  fact,  the  club  epidemic  in  any  form  has  never  been  able  to 
obtain  a  very  extensive  hold  in  our  city. 

The  Canibas  Club,  the  only  men's  club  which  has  maintained 
continuous  form  here  during  any  extended  term  of  years,  was 
founded  in  1888.  This  club,  which  has  numbered  among  its 
members  many  of  the  well-known  business  and  professional  men 
of  the  place,  has  pleasant  headquarters  on  Main  street  in  a  suite 
of  rooms  conveniently  fitted  up  for  its  use.  It  is  a  purely  social 
organization,  but  with  the  exception  of  one  or  two  receptions 
given  during  the  early  years  of  its  existence  has  never  con- 
tributed largely  to  the  general  social  life  of  the  city. 

The  Waterville  Bicycle  Club  also  occupies  rooms  on  Main 
street  and  furnishes  a  rallying  point  where  wheelmen  congregate. 
The  Colby  Club,  recently  founded  by  the  resident  graduates  of 
Colby  College,  held  its  first  public  meeting  at  the  Elmwood  hotel 
on  the  evening  of  February  14,  1902.  This  club,  which  is  still 
in  its  infancy,  was  founded  to  promote  good  fellowship  among 
the  resident  alumni  and  advance  the  interests  of  the  college. 

In  1887  through  the  inspiration  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Ware,  who  was 
in  the  best  sense  one  of  the  representative  women  of  Waterville, 
the  Woman's  Association  was  formed,  in  which  women  of  all 
denominations  united  for  the  furtherance  of  all  kinds  of  women's 
work.  Besides  its  general  usefulness  in  many  directions  this 
association  has  proved  a  common  ground  where  women  may 
work — and  enjoy — together,  independent  of  society  distinctions 
or  church  affiliations.  In  the  winter  of  189 1-2  the  Woman's 
Literary  Club  was  founded  as  one  of  the  branches  of  the  asso- 
ciation. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  329 

This  club,  a  large  one  from  the  start,  during  the  past  winter, 
1901-2,  numbered  214  members.  It  has  maintained  regular 
meetings  fortnightly  during  the  winter  season  since  its  organi- 
zation, offering  at  each  meeting  a  carefully  prepared  literary  and 
musical  programme.  A  committee  is  appointed  to  lay  out  each 
season's  work. 

Many  interesting  papers  have  been  prepared  and  read  by  mem- 
bers of  the  club,  the  musical  numbers  have  been  uniformly  excel- 
lent, and  the  large  average  membership  and  attendance  testify 
to  the  success  of  its  management.  As  the  club  has  as  yet  no 
home  of  its  own  independent  of  the  rooms  of  the  Woman's  Asso- 
ciation, its  meetings  have  sometimes  been  held  at  private  houses, 
sometimes  at  church  vestries  or  at  the  Classical  Institute.  The 
annual  reception  given  by  its  members  to  invited  friends  of  both 
sexes,  which  has  in  the  past  proved  a  most  enjoyable  society 
event,  this  year  gave  place  to  a  banquet  at  the  Elmwood  hotel 
for  women  alone.  One  hundred  and  sixty  women  who  partici- 
pated in  the  banquet  and  listened  to  the  subsequent  exercises  are 
prepared  to  testify  that  women  on  that  occasion  won  laurels  as 
after  dinner  speakers. 

Among  smaller  W'aterville  clubs,  past  and  present,  may  be 
mentioned  the  Saturday  Club,  a  club  both  literary  and  social  in 
its  character,  which  after  several  years  of  existence  has  for  the 
present,  at  least,  discontinued  its  meetings ;  the  Literature  Class, 
which  numbers  about  a  dozen  members,  and  has  for  the  past 
three  years  held  weekly  meetings  during  the  winter  months ;  the 
F.  H.  Club,  organized  in  1894  for  work  and  play,  a  club  which 
though  lim.ited  in  its  membership  is  much  given  to  hospitality 
and  has  at  different  times  entertained  many  invited  guests ;  the 
Happy  Seven,  a  society  comprising  seven  young  ladies  strongly 
iDOund  together  by  ties  of  friendship  and  association.  This 
society,  which  has  existed  for  some  years,  has  been  prominent 
in  benevolent  work  as  well  as  in  social  events.  When,  a  short 
time  since,  the  little  circle  was  for  the  first  time  broken  by  the 
death  of  Airs.  Alice  Barrelle  Hall  the  sympathy  of  the  whole 
community  went  out  to  the  mourning  friends. 

Of  the  numerous  whist  clubs  which  have  existed  in  Waterville 
the  Salmagundi  has  been  the  most  prominent  and  most  perma- 


330  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE:. 

nent  in  its  organization.  It  numbers  among  its  members  women 
well  know^n  in  society  and  in  addition  to  its  social  features  has 
contributed  generously  towards  the  purchase  of  books  for  the 
public  library. 

The  Silence  Howard  Hayden  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
Revolution  has  also  played  its  part  in  the  social  life  of  Waterville. 

In  spite  of  all  the  branches  of  social  activity  w^hich  have  been 
enumerated  as  entering  into  the  life  of  our  city,  it  is  undoubtedly 
true  that  Waterville  has  never  fully  lived  up  to  its  social  capac- 
ities. Yet  even  while  we  criticise,  we  love  the  city  of  our  resi- 
dence, the  Waterville  that  is  growing  up  around  us.  It  is  a  city 
of  wide  streets  and  spreading  trees,  of  comfortable  homes 
wherein  home-loving  people  live.  W^e  find  strong  social  ties 
here,  warm  friendships,  generous  sympathy  in  times  of  need,  and 
though  we  may  and  do  in  our  complaining  moods  assert  that 
Waterville  "has  no  general  society,"  we  look  back  lovingly  on 
many  and  many  a  "good  time"  within  her  borders.  May  the 
next  century  of  her  growth  find  her  still  going  on  from  grace  to 
glory ! 


CHAPTER  XIV. 


WATERVILLE  AGRICULTURALLY   CONSIDERED. 
By  E.  P.  Mayo,  Editor  of  Tnrf,  Farm  and  Home. 

The  present  city  of  Waterville  agriculturally  considered  is  one 
of  the  most  charming,  picturesque,  interesting  not  to  say  profit- 
able of  all  the  most  favored  and  far  famed  "garden  spots"  in 
New  England.  The  present  area  of  the  city  as  has  doubtless 
been  told  already  in  this  volume,  was  formerly  a  part  of  the  town 
of  Winslow,  and  the  present  thrifty  town  of  Oakland  was  set  off 
from  Waterville  proper  and  given  the  name  of  West  Waterville 
February  26,  1873,  hence  if  in  this  chapter  on  the  agriculture  of 
Waterville  we  over-reach  the  present  bounds  of  the  municipality, 
it  will  be  in  order  to  include  the  old  town  as  it  was  originally 
bounded.  We  find  in  the  early  history  of  the  town  after  it  was 
set  off  from  Winslow  that  the  Kennebec  river  was  the  eastern 
boundary,  Somerset  county  itsnorthern,  Richmond  lake,  McGrath 
and  East  pond  its  western  boundry.  The  western  area  of  the 
town  has  now  been  narrowed  up  to  the  present  Oakland  line. 

A  wide  diversity  of  soils  is  found  in  this  town  so  that  almost 
every  crop  that  can  be  successfully  cultivated  in  this  latitude  has 
been  and  is  to-day  grown  successfully  within  our  limits.  On 
the  river  below  the  city  the  soil  is  light  and  sandy,  while  on  the 
"neck"'  so  called,  it  is  underlaid  by  a  slaty  ledge  which  lies  very 
near  the  surface  and  often  crops  out.  On  the  Messalonskee  the 
soil  is  clayey,  but  all  is  strong  and  productive,  and  yields  the  best 
of  crops. 

Waterville  was  fortunate  from  an  agricultural  point  of  view  in 
having  among  its  early  settlers  a  goodly  number  of  men  of  means 


who  were  agn:    :     :.  As  a  re?nl:  of  this  gPiXNl  mate- 

rial there  was  a  desire  maniiested  verv-  early  in  the  lite  of  the 
stragghng:  vc .  ;  :  mi  to  have  an  agricultural  soddty  (Hganized. 
and  Ais  se'v  ^  '"e*  '"  t^e  Xorth  Kennebec  Asrricultural 

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the  need  of  a  state  or^^anization  around  which  they  could  build 
their  local  society.  One  of  the  votes  recorded  a  half  a  centur}- 
ago  also  gives  a  hint  of  the  old  time  urbanity  that  prevailed  in 
those  days,  also  the  appredation  of  the  power  of  the  press  in  the 
efforts  of  this  organization.  Here  is  the  vote :  "A'oted  to 
instruct  the  secretan.-  to  furnish  the  proceedings  of  this  meeting 
to  the  public  press.'' 

One  of  the  strange  things  about  the  records  of  this  societ}-, 
wonderfully  well  presen-ed  as  they  are.  is  that  great  pains  was 
taken  to  record  the  list  of  premiums  offered  with  the  committees 
of  awards,  but  no  record  was  kept  of  who  won  the  prizes.  This 
omission  will  readily  be  seen  as  a  serious  defect  as  the  historian 
of  to-day  is  unable  to  pick  out  the  names  of  the  successful  exhib- 
itors, as  he  might  have  done  had  the  list  of  the  winners  been 
recorded.  But  one  vote  recorded  is  worthy  of  more  than  a  pass- 
ing notice,  and  that  is  where  the  trustees  vote  that  unless  an 
animal  exhibited  possesses  superior  merit  no  awards  shall  be 
made  to  such  animal,  but  if  the  owner  desires,  a  statement  shall 
be  made  and  published  that  such  an  animal  was  the  best  one 
shown  at  the  exhibition.  Let  the  average  agricultural  fair  man- 
ager think  for  a  moment  what  the  com.motion  would  be  if  such 
a  rule  should  be  enforced  by  one  of  our  Maine  societies  to-dav. 
and  yet  who  shall  say  that  it  would  not  have  a  salutary  effect  on 
exhibits  as  well  as  exhibitors. 

If  space  would  permit,  we  could  fill  the  entire  limits  of  this 
book  with  interesting  data  taken  from  the  records  of  this  society, 
.le  item  that  catches  our  eye  is  a  vote  of  thanks  passed  at  a  meet- 
^  of  the  trustees  October  4.  1859.  to  Col.  Thom.as  S.  Lang  for 
5  liberality  in  always  giving  to  the  societ}*  all  purses  won  by  his 
•rses,  and  as  the  record  adds.  "He  ever  strove  to  win  all  the 
izes  that  he  could  in  order  that  the  society  might  be  the  more 
netited  thereby.'' 

In  Tanuary.  1854.  it  was  voted  to  appoint  a  committee  to  ascer- 
n  what  grounds  could  be  secured  for  a  track,  and  upon  a 
vorable  report  the  grounds  located  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
■y  were  purchased  and  a  nne  half  mile  track  constructed 
ereon.  Later  this  track  was  leased  to  the  Waterville  Horse 
^^sociation  for  their  annual  exhibition.  The  original  lease  of 
is    property  is    pasted    in  the  records    before   us.  and   is  well 


^^2  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

who  were  agriculturally  inclined.  As  a  result  of  this  good  mate- 
rial there  was  a  desire  manifested  very  early  in  the  life  of  the 
struggling  young  town  to  have  an  agricultural  society  organized, 
and  this  agitation  resulted  in  the  North  Kennebec  Agricultural 
Society,  which  was  incorporated  by  the  Maine  legislature  July 
31,  1847,  ^^^^  its  first  exhibition  was  held  in  Waterville  in  Octo- 
ber of  that  year.  The  annual  address,  which  in  those  days  was 
a  very  important  part  of  an  agricultural  exhibition  was  delivered 
by  Dr.  E.  Holmes  of  ^^^inthrop.  The  original  limit  to  this 
society  included  the  towns  of  Fairfield  and  Smithfield  in  Somer- 
set county,  Waterville,  Belgrade,  Winslow,  Clinton,  Sebasticook 
now  Benton,  China  and  Albion  in  Kennebec  and  Unity  and 
Burnham  m  the  county  of  Waldo.  l:^rom  the  records  of  the 
society  from  its  inception,  now  before  me,  kindly  loaned  by  Mr. 
Geo.  Balentine,  I  find  that  the  officers  chosen  at  the  organization 
of  the  society  were  as  follows,  Samuel  Taylor,  Jr.,  president ; 
Ebenezer  H.  Scribner  and  Thomas  Fowler,  vice-presidents ; 
Harrison  A.  Smith,  secretary;  Joseph  Percival,  treasurer  and 
collector ;  Stephen  Stark,  agent ;  William  Dyer,  librarian ;  Sam- 
uel Taylor,  Jr.,  Asher  Hinds,  Sumner  Percival,  John  F.  Hunne- 
well  and  Reuben  H.  Green,  trustees.  A  glance  through  the  subse- 
quent elections  shows  that  the  society  kept  up  its  prestige  for 
selecting  men  of  ability  and  influence  as  its  officials.  We  would 
like  if  space  would  permit  to  give  the  entire  list  of  officers,  but 
must  be  content  with  simply  naming  a  few  of  the  number  who 
held  the  office  of  president  of  the  society.  After  Samuel  I'aylor 
Jr.,  the  first  president,  came  Sumner  Percival,  E.  H.  Scribner 
Robert  Ayer,  Thomas  S.  Loring,  Isaac  W.  Britton,  Col.  Isaia 
Marston,  Daniel  Jones,  B.  C.  Paine,  Joseph  Percival,  and  man; 
others  of  equal  calibre. 

One  of  the  first  acts  of  the  society,  even  before  it  had  a  hom 
was  to  raise  $75  for  the  purchase  of  standard  agricultural  work 
for  a  library.  This  indeed  was  starting  an  agricultural  societ 
on  a  firm  enduring  foundation,  and  the  vote  and  the  class  o 
gentlemen  who  were  invited  to  give  the  annual  addresses  give 
us  a  good  insight  into  the  makeup  of  the  men  who  formed  thi 
organization.  In  1850  we  find  by  the  records  that  the  societ 
voted  to  send  a  petition  to  the  legislature  for  a  State  Board  o 
Agriculture,  showing  that  at  that  early  day  even,  thev  realize* 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  333 

the  need  of  a  state  organization  around  which  they  could  build 
their  local  society.  One  of  the  votes  recorded  a  half  a  century 
ago  also  gives  a  hint  of  the  old  time  urbanity  that  prevailed  in 
those  days,  also  the  appreciation  of  the  power  of  the  press  in  the 
efforts  of  this  organization.  Here  is  the  vote :  "Voted  to 
instruct  the  secretary  to  furnish  the  proceedings  of  this  meeting 
to  the  public  press." 

One  of  the  strange  things  about  the  records  of  this  society, 
wonderfully  well  preserved  as  they  are,  is  that  great  pains  was 
taken  to  record  the  list  of  premiums  offered  with  the  committees 
of  awards,  but  no  record  was  kept  of  who  won  the  prizes.  This 
omission  wnll  readily  be  seen  as  a  serious  defect  as  the  historian 
of  to-day  is  unable  to  pick  out  the  names  of  the  successful  exhib- 
itors, as  he  might  have  done  had  the  list  of  the  winners  been 
recorded.  But  one  vote  recorded  is  worthy  of  more  than  a  pass- 
ing notice,  and  that  is  where  the  trustees  vote  that  unless  an 
animal  exhibited  possesses  superior  merit  no  awards  shall  be 
made  to  such  animal,  but  if  the  owner  desires,  a  statement  shall 
be  made  and  published  that  such  an  animal  was  the  best  one 
shown  at  the  exhibition.  Let  the  average  agricultural  fair  man- 
ager think  for  a  moment  what  the  commotion  would  be  if  such 
a  rule  should  be  enforced  by  one  of  our  Maine  societies  to-day, 
and  yet  who  shall  say  that  it  would  not  have  a  salutary  effect  on 
exhibits  as  well  as  exhibitors. 

If  space  would  permit,  we  could  fill  the  entire  limits  of  this 
book  with  interesting  data  taken  from  the  records  of  this  society. 
ne  item  that  catches  our  eye  is  a  vote  of  thanks  passed  at  a  meet- 
■y  of  the  trustees  October  4,  1859,  to  Col.  Thomas  S.  Lang  for 
\  liberality  in  always  giving  to  the  society  all  purses  won  by  his 
»rses,  and  as  the  record  adds,  "He  ever  strove  to  win  all  the 
'jzes  that  he  could  in  order  that  the  society  might  be  the  more 
nefited  thereby." 

Jn  January,  1854,  it  was  voted  to  appoint  a  committee  to  ascer- 
n  what  grounds  could  be  secured  for  a  track,  and  upon  a 
vorable  report  the  grounds  located  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
'y  were  purchased  and  a  fine  half  mile  track  constructed 
ereon.  Later  this  track  was  leased  to  the  Waterville  Horse 
^5SOciation  for  their  annual  exhibition.  The  original  lease  of 
is   property  is   pasted   in  the  records   before   us,  and   is  well 


336  HISTORY    OF    VVATERVILLE. 

Waterville  has  for  more  than  a  century  been  prominent  as  a 
centre  for  the  breeding  and  ownership  of  valuable  horses  and  it 
seems  very  appropriate  that  she  should  have  within  her  limits 
to  day  among  the  many  valuable  horses  born  and  bred  on  her  soil 
one  whose  name  is  known  not  only  through  the  length  and 
breadth  of  this  country  but  even  across  the  sea,  and  it  seems  most 
appropriate  and  fitting  that  the  portrait  of  such  an  animal  should 
adorn  this  book.  It  will  easily  be  guessed  that  the  horse  referred 
to  is  the  veteran  Nelson  2.09  now  in  his  20th  year. 

Nelson,  2.09,  is  registered  No.  4,209.  He  was  sired  by  Young 
Rolfe,  2.21^,  he  by  Tom  Rolfe,  2.33^^/.  The  dam  of  Nelson 
was  Gretchen,  by  Gideon  145.  He  was  bred  and  is  now  owned 
by  Mr.  C.  H.  Nelson  of  this  city,  who  has  trained  and  developed 
him,  and  driven  him  in  all  his  great  races.  He  was  a  great  colt 
and  attracted  much  attention  even  as  a  two-year-old,  when  he 
won  the  two-year-old  stake  race  for  Maine  colts  at  the  Maine 
State  Fair,  Lewiston.  As  a  three-year-old  he  won  the  Maine 
State  Fair  cup  for  fastest  three-year-old,  also  the  cup  for  fastest 
stallion  of  any  age,  taking  a  record  of  2.26^ — the  fastest  half 
mile  track  record  to  that  date  and  for  several  years  afterward. 
As  a  five-year-old  he  won  the  New  England  stake  for  five-year- 
olds.  When  seven  years  old  he  lowered  his  record  to  2.14^. 
In  1890  he  was  worked  at  Franklin  Park,  Massachusetts,  and 
shipped  to  Bangor  in  August,  where  he  started  to  lower  the  half 
mile  track  record,  which  he  did,  trotting  in  2.15^.  From  Ban- 
gor he  started  on  a  long  journey  to  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  >and 
from  there  to  Kankakee,  111.,  where  he  trotted  a  full  mile  in  2.12, 
which  at  that  time  was  the  world's  stallion  record.  Two  days 
later  he  lowered  the  record  to  2.11^,  and  two  days  later  than 
that  at  Rushville,  Tnd.,  he  circled  the  oval  track  at  that  place  in 
2.11^4-  One  week  later  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  he  cut  the  record 
down  to  2.11%,  and  twelve  days  later  at  Cambridge  City,  Ind., 
he  again  lowered  it  to  2.10^,  after  which  he  was  shipped  to 
Maine,  when  with  one  week's  rest  he  was  shipped  back  to 
Chicago,  where  he  was  the  idol  of  the  great  horse  show,  after 
which  he  returned  to  his  home  at  Sunnyside  Farm  for  the  winter. 
In  1891  he  again  went  west,  where  he  was  greeted  on  every  side 
with  the  utmost  enthusiasm,  wherever  he  appeared.  The  floral 
tributes  bestowed  upon  him  were  most  profuse  and  elegant,  and 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  337 

such  as  a  prima  donna  might  well  be  proud  of.  He  commenced 
his  tour,  which  was  nothing  short  of  a  triumphal  procession  at 
Saginaw,  Mich.,  and  continued  at  Detroit,  Grand  Rapids,  Free- 
port,  Elgin,  Rockport,  Independence,  Iowa,  Richmond  and  Cam- 
bridge City.  Ind.  At  Grand  Rapids  he  lowered  the  record  to 
2.10,  and  again  returned  to  Maine  to  spend  the  winter.  In  1892 
he  was  driven  many  exhibition  miles  on  New  England  tracks, 
and  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  lowered  the  half  mile  track  record  to 
2.11^.  In  1893  he  made  his  present  record  of  2.09  at  Rigby 
park,  Portland,  since  which  time  he  has  trotted  exhibition  miles 
before  large  concourses  of  people  on  different  tracks  in  Maine, 
New  Hampshire,  \^ermont.  and  at  St.  John,  N.  B.  To-day  he 
holds  the  world's  stallion  record  to  high  wheels  over  oval  track 
and  has  probably  trotted  more  fast  miles  than  any  horse  in  the 
world. 

Nearly  a  century  ago  another  Waterville  horse  made  fame  and 
fortune  for  Waterville  in  the  historic  old  town  of  Charleston, 
Mass.  The  late  Hall  C.  Burleigh  used  to  delight  to  tell  the  story 
of  O.  B.  Palmer,  a  relative  of  his,  who  seeing  a  purse  of  $1,000 
posted  for  any  horse  that  could  trot  a  mile  in  three  minutes 
started  for  Boston  with  the  chestnut  gelding  that  they  called 
Zuarrow.  He  made  the  mile  in  2.57  an  unprecedented  record 
for  that  day,  and  received  his  purse  besides  several  wagers  that 
he  had  made  on  the  result,  having  full  faith  in  the  capacity  of  his 
horse  to  accomplish  the  feat.  He  afterwards  sold  the  animal 
and  the  name  was  changed  to  Boston  Blue,  and  as  such  the 
Waterville  horse  won  great  renown.  The  grounds  of  the  North 
Kennebec  Agricultural  Society  in  the  zenith  of  their  days  were 
the  scene  of  many  a  spirited  contest  between  horses  of  note. 
Although  Col.  Lang  did  not  reside  within  our  town,  he  was 
located  so  near  that  Waterville  got  the  benefit  of  his  ownership 
of  the  great  Gen.  Knox  as  well  as  Gideon  and  others  of  his  most 
celebrated  steeds.  It  was  at  this  track  in  October,  1867,  that 
Gilbreth  Knox,  then  owned  by  J.  H.  Gilbreth  of  Fairfield,  trotted 
a  half  mile  in  the  remarkable  time  of  one  minute  and  fifteen 
seconds,  but  probably  the  most  remarkable  race  ever  trotted  over 
the  Waterville  track  was  the  contest  between  Gen.  Knox  and 
Hiram  Drew,  a  horse  no  less  celebrated  in  his  day.  This  event 
22 


338  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

occurred  October  22,  1863,  and  although  it  came  when  the  excite- 
ment over  the  war  was  at  its  height  a  very  large  concourse  of 
people  from  all  parts  of  the  State  gathered  to  witness  the  contest, 
which  is  recalled  even  to  this  day  by  the  oldest  lovers  of  racing 
as  one  of  the  great  events  of  their  lives.  Both  horses  had  a 
great  many  friends  everyone  present  being  a  partizan  and  the 
contest  waged  hotly  until  the  last  deciding  heat  had  been  trotted 
when  Knox  was  declared  victor. 

In  the  above  we  have  written  wholly  of  the  past,  but  there  is  a 
present  and  a  future  for  Waterville  agriculture,  and  perhaps  there 
has  been  no  time  in  the  last  century  when  so  much  thought  and 
intelligent  calculation  was  given  to  agricultural  operations  as  at 
the  present  time.  We  have  not  space  to  go  into  details  as  to  who  is 
doing  the  work  of  to-day,  but  should  not  be  doing  our  subject 
justice  did  we  not  mention  the  fact  that  at  Sunny  side  Farm,  the 
home  of  the  great  Nelson,  there  is  to-day  one  of  the  largest 
breeding  establishments  to  be  found  in  northern  New  England, 
and  one  cannot  travel  far  enough  east  or  west,  north  or  south  to 
get  beyond  the  reputation  that  the  good  horses  at  this  farm  are 
making  not  only  for  our  town,  but  for  our  State  as  well.  Pass- 
ing a  little  way  farther  up  the  street  toward  Oakland,  we  come 
to  the  farm  of  Mr.  R.  H.  Union,  who  is  largely  engaged  in  breed- 
ing Jersey  cattle  and  Ohio  Improved  Chester  swine.  Mr.  Union 
has  a  very  large  patronage  for  his  products  in  the  city,  and  is 
doing  a  very  prosperous  business. 

At  Mountain  Farm  Mr.  G.  F.  Terry  is  breeding  Jerseys  and 
Chester  White  swine,  also  cultivating  a  very  large  growing 
orchard,  with  the  best  of  results. 

We  might  mention  a  long  list  of  others  who  are  doing  good 
work  and  keeping  up  the  reputation  of  our  town  as  one  of  much 
importance  agriculturally  considered. 

The  records  of  the  town  show  that  in  1850  Waterville  included 
what  was  afterwards  set  oflf  as  West  Waterville,  had  a  popula- 
tion of  3,964,  in  i860  it  had  increased  to  4,392,  with  870  polls, 
while  the  real  estate  was  valued  at  $1,348,330.  To-day  W^ater- 
ville  has  a  population  of  10,332,  and  the  assessors  report  the  val- 
uation of  1902  as  follows:  Polls,  2,618;  real  estate,  $4,274,325; 
personal  property,  $934,838,  or  a  total  of  $5,219,163. 


CHAPTER  XV. 


THE    MANUFACTURING    INDUSTRIES    OF 
WATERVILLE. 

By  Reuben  Wesley  Dunn,  A.  M.,  President  of  the  Somerset 
Railroad,  and  Treasurer  of  the  Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company. 

Waterville  seemed  destined  by  her  situation  to  become  a  manu- 
facturing center.  On  the  east  flows  the  Kennebec,  the  outlet  of 
the  largest  lake  in  Elaine,  as  well  as  of  numerous  smaller  bodies 
of  water.  A  fall  of  nearly  forty  feet  between  the  principal  power 
at  Fairfield  and  the  bay,  as  it  is  called,  has  been  estimated  as 
capable  of  developing  8,000  h.  p.  In  the  west  part  of  the  town 
is  found  the  Messalonskee,  the  outlet  of  the  lake  of  the  same 
name  into  which  are  discharged  the  waters  of  East,  Norths 
McGrath,  Ellis,  Great,  and  Long  ponds  or  lakes  lying  partly  in 
Smithfield,  Belgrade,  and  Oakland.  This  stream  flows  northerly 
about  four  miles  with  a  fall  in  that  distance  of  about  150  feet 
of  which  about  too  feet  are  in  the  village  of  Oakland  and  within 
less  than  a  mile  from  the  outlet.  Turning  to  the  east  and  then 
to  the  south  it  empties  into  the  Kennebec  about  two  miles  below 
Ticonic  Falls.  As  it  passes  through  Waterville  it  makes  a 
further  fall  of  about  100  feet.  The  flow  of  water  in  this  stream 
is  far  more  constant  than  in  the  Kennebec.  It  has  been  esti- 
mated that  by  controlling  the  dams  at  the  foot  of  the  several 
lakes  and  carefully  storing  the  water  when  abundant  and  letting 
it  down  in  the  dry  season,  the  power  on  the  Messalonskee  would 
be  about  25  h.  p.  for  each  foot  of  fall. 


Note.  The  writer  of  this  chapter  is  indebted  to  the  History  of  Kennebec  County 
published  in  1892  by  H.  W.  Blake  &  Co.  of  New  York,  for  much  valuable  informa- 
tion, tu 


340  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

There  were  no  railroads  one  hundred  years  ago,  and  naviga- 
tion on  the  Kennebec,  open  but  about  two-thirds  of  the  year,  was 
limited  to  boats  of  small  capacity.  Hence  but  little  attention  was 
paid  to  manufactures  till  after  the  problem  of  transportation  had 
been  solved.  Local  demand  for  bread  stuffs  and  lumber  called 
for  the  erection  of  grist  mills  and  saw  mills  which  naturally  were 
the  first  manufactories  in  ^^^aterville.  The  power  on  the  Messa- 
lonskee  was  the  first  to  be  utilized.  About  twenty-five  years 
before  Waterville's  separation  from  Winslow,  Dr.  McKechnie 
constructed  a  dam  and  built  and  operated  a  mill  for  grinding 
grain  and  sawing  lumber  at  what  is  now  known  as  Crommett's 
Mills.  The  site  is  now  occupied  by  the  pumping  station  of  the 
Maine  Water  Company.  A  few  years  later,  but  also  some  years 
before  the  close  of  the  i8th  century,  Asa  Emerson,  whose  name 
has  ever  since  been  associated  with  the  stream,  built  a  dam  and 
a  saw  mill  on  the  site  below  the  foot  of  Silver  street  recently 
occupied  by  the  Webber  &  Philbrick  Foundry  and  Machine 
Shop.  About  the  same  time,  or  perhaps  a  little  later,  Silas  and 
Abijah  Wing  built  a  dam  on  the  last  privilege  on  the  Messa- 
lonskee  or  Emerson  stream,  some  distance  below  the  present  plant 
of  the  Union  Gas  and  Electric  Company.  Here  they  erected  and 
for  some  years  operated  a  saw  mill  and  a  grist  mill.  In  about 
1810  Samuel  and  Joseph  Hitchings  purchased  this  property  and 
later  Samuel  Hitchings  added  another  building  for  the  manu- 
facture of  wool  carding  machines,  and  for  turning  bed  posts. 
Not  long  after,  on  this  same  dam.  Deacon  Daniel  Wells  built  a 
carding  and  clothing  mill  for  which  Samuel  Hitchings  made  the 
machinery.  All  the  buildings  and  machinery  on  this  dam,  except 
the  carding  mill,  were  swept  away  by  the  great  freshet  of  1832. 
A  grist  mill  at  West  Waterville  was  carried  away  at  the  same 
time.  This  is  the  only  time  that  high  water  has  ever  done  any 
considerable  damage  on  this  stream. 

While  these  developments  were  in  progress  near  the  mouth  of 
the  stream,  Jonathan  Coombs  had  built  a  dam  at  the  outlet,  and 
sometime  before  1800  was  sawing  logs  and  grinding  grain  for 
the  settlers  in  the  west  part  of  the  town.""     The  Coombs  mill  has 


*  In  writing  of  the  manufacturing  establishments  in  Waterville,  we  have  in 
clucied  the  industrial  enterprises  of  West  Waterville,  now  Oakland,  since  that 
town  was  a  part  of  Waterville  until  1873. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  341 

been  worn  out  and  replaced,  destroyed  and  re-built,  and  changed 
owners  several  times,  but  the  grist  mill  still  exists  and  continues 
to  do  business  at  the  same  old  stand.  The  saw  mill,  as  well  as 
the  carding  and  fulling  mill  on  the  same  dam,  also  built  by  Mr. 
Coombs,  gave  place  some  fifty  years  later  to  the  Ellis  Saw  Com- 
pany, and  fifteen  years  after  to  the  Hubbard  &  Blake  Scythe 
and  Axe  Factory. 

Very  early  in  the  igth  century,  Leonard  Cornforth  settled  in 
West  Waterville,  now  Oakland,  and  built  a  dam,  a  stone  grist 
mill,  a  saw  mill,  and  a  carding  and  clothing  mill  on  the  site  now 
occupied  by  the  scythe  finishing  shop  and  axe  shop  of  the  Dunn 
Edge  Tool  Company.  Bed  posts  and  wagon  hubs  were  turned 
by  Clark  Stanley  in  the  basement  of  this  saw  mill  in  1834.  A 
bark  mill  and  a  tannery  owned  by  Nahum  Warren  was  operated 
on  this  dam  in  the  early  part  of  the  century.  In  this  bark  mill 
Holbrook  and  Richardson  placed  axe  machinery  and  were  the 
first  to  make  axes  on  the  Messalonskee.  Just  before  the  middle 
of  the  century,  Passmore,  Young  &  Taft  purchased  the  bark  mill, 
axe  factory  and  fulling  mill,  and  in  1849  began  the  making  of 
scythes.  This  property  passed  through  several  hands  and 
numerous  changes,  till  with  the  saw  mill  and  grist  mill  it  was 
purchased  by  Reuben  B.  Dunn  and  in  due  time  became  the  prop- 
erty of  the  Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company. 

About  1830,  or  a  little  earlier,  James  Crommett  built  a  saw 
mill,  grist  mill,  carding  and  clothing  mill  on  the  east  side  of  the 
stream  at  Crommett's  Mills.  These  mills  were  operated  with 
various  changes,  by  the  Crommetts,  B.  P.  Manley,  James  S. 
Craig,  Greenlief  L.  Hill,  Mr.  Allen,  Fred  Bailey,  Jeremiah  Fur- 
bish, W.  S.  B.  Runnels,  Bangs  Bros.,  Mr.  Dane,  Hayden  & 
Robinson,  A.  G.  Bowie,  Fuller  &  Haynes,  and  others.  From 
1872  to  1878  Mr.  Furbish  did  a  large  business  here  in  manufact- 
uring doors,  sash  and  blinds.  On  the  same  side  of  the  stream 
and  a  short  distance  below,  Winslow  Marston  made  friction 
matches  from  1858  to  about  1890.  Those  who  were  connected 
with  the  fire  department  during  those  years  will  remember  how 
frequently  they  were  called  upon  to  extinguish  the  fires  caused 
by  Winslow's  matches. 

About  the  same  time  that  James  Crommett  was  building  the 
mills  which  gave  his   name  to  that    locality,  James    Stackpole, 


342  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE:. 

Erastus  O.  and  Sumner  Wheeler  were  building  and  operating  a 
saw  mill  on  the  west  end  of  the  same  dam  on  or  near  the  site  of 
the  first,  or  Dr.  McKechnie  mills.  More  than  forty  years  later 
(1873)  Henry  R.  Butterfield  purchased  this  privilege  and  half 
of  the  next  dam  below.  Here  for  some  years  he  made  shovel 
handles.  He  also  erected,  in  1875,  a  building  which  was  occu- 
pied for  a  few  years  by  W.  H.  Dow  &  Company  in  the  manu- 
facture of  furniture.  In  1880  the  Fiber  Ware  Company  pur- 
chased this  shop  and  made  fiber  ware  tubs,  pails,  wash  basins, 
etc.,  till  their  works  were  burned  in  1884. 

Probably  few  of  the  present  citizens  of  Waterville  are  aware 
that  a  cotton  mill  was  built  in  this  town  forty  years  before  the 
Lockwood  Company  was  heard  of.  It  was  about  1830  that 
Windsor  &  Barrett  erected  a  factory  for  the  manufacture  of 
cotton  goods  on  the  privilege  next  below  the  James  Crommett 
mills  and  on  the  same  side  of  the  stream.  But  it  was  opened  and 
operated  as  a  carpet  factory.  A  Mr.  Gilroy  was  the  manager, 
and  in  this  mill  were  made  genuine  Wiltshire  goods  of  such 
excellent  quality  that  it  is  said  that  his  customers  did  not  live 
long  enough  to  wear  them  out.  Fine  all  linen  table  cloths  were 
also  woven  in  this  factory,  which  are  well  remembered  by  some 
who  are  still  living  in  Waterville  and  vicinity. 

Mr.  Gilroy  was  followed  by  Israel  Johnson  who  converted  the 
factory  into  a  shop  for  the  manufacture  of  woolen  mill  machin- 
ery. In  1836  Wm.  Pearson  and  Sons  bought  the  property, 
added  more  buildings  and  established  a  large  tannery.  Some 
years  later  they  sold  out  to  the  Plaisteds  of  Gardiner  who  con- 
ducted the  business  on  a  large  scale.  From  1854  till  1865  the 
tannery  was  shut  down,  when  H.  S.  Ricker  and  Son  purchased 
and  refitted  it.  It  has  been  run  with  more  or  less  regularity  by 
Mr.  Ricker  until  recently.  This  privilege,  in  connection  with 
that  formerly  occupied  by  Winslow  Marston's  match  factory,  has 
been  purchased  by  Frank  Chase  who  is  building  a  dam  and  a 
woolen  mill. 

the:  waterville   iron   works. 

In  1833  Joseph  P.  Fairbanks,  of  the  family  who  built  the 
famous  Fairbanks  scales,  came  here  from  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt., 
and  with  Arba  Nelson  built  a  dam  and  foundry  on  the  former 
site  of  the  Asa  Emerson  saw  mill  below  the  foot  of  Silver  street. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  343 

Fairbanks,  Nelson  and  Company  (the  "Co."  were  two  others  of 
the  Fairbanks  family)  operated  here  for  a  few  years  when  they 
were  succeeded  by  the  Waterville  Iron  ^lanufacturing  Company. 
John  Webber  and  Fred  P.  Haviland  were  stockholders  and 
directors  in  this  company,  and  in  1843  purchased  the  whole  prop- 
erty. The  business  was  largely  increased  and  conducted  by  them 
and  their  sons  after  them  for  many  years.  From  1873  to  1882 
the  proprietors  were  Frank  B.  Webber,  Chas.  T.  Haviland,  and 
Frank  B.  Philbrick.  Air.  Haviland  then  retired,  and  Messrs. 
Webber  and  Philbrick  have  since  been  the  sole  owners  of  the 
business.  They  were  burned  out  in  August,  1895.  The  follow- 
ing year  they  removed  to  their  present  location  on  the  bank  of 
the  Kennebec  river  about  one-eighth  of  a  mile  north  of  Temple 
street.  Here  they  erected  new  shops,  much  larger  and  more  con- 
venient than  those  which  had  been  destroyed,  and  fitted  with  all 
the  modem  machinery  and  appliances  adapted  to  the  business. 
They  now  employ  about  thirty  men  and  their  annual  pay-roll 
amounts  to  about  seventeen  thousand  dollars.  They  derive  the 
power  for  running  their  machinery  from  a  twenty  horse  power 
electric  motor,  and  the  electricity  is  supplied  by  the  Waterville 
and  Fairfield  Light  and  Power  Company.  Under  the  name  of 
the  Waterville  Iron  Works  they  carry  on  a  general  foundry  and 
machinery  business,  but  much  of  their  work  is  in  making  pulp 
mill  machinery. 

The  next  enterprise  to  be  established  on  the  Messalonskee,  was 
a  tannery  built  by  Alfred  Winslow  in  1836  on  the  Coombs  dam 
at  West  \^''aterville.  The  product  of  this  tannery  for  several 
years  was  manufactured  into  boots  by  Mr.  Winslow  and  Wm. 
Jordan,  who  gave  employment  to  twenty-five  men.  This  prop- 
erty after  passing  through  several  hands  was  purchased  in  1887 
by  the  Dustin  and  Hubbard  Manufacturing  Company.  This 
company  was  succeeded  in  1892  by  the  Oakland  ^Machine  Com- 
pany. Ten  years  later  the  Oakland  Woolen  Company  was 
organized  and  at  the  present  time  is  erecting  a  woolen  mill  on 
this  site,  which  the  machine  company  has  vacated  for  that 
purpose. 

In  1849  Joseph  Bachelder  who  had  been  making  chairs  for 
several  years  in  a  wooden  building  just  north  of  the  present  site 
of  the  Flood  block  on  T^Iaine  street  in  Waterville,  removed  to 


344  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

West  Waterville.  He  located  his  factory  on  the  west  end  of  the 
Coombs  dam  where  the  manufacture  of  chairs  and  settees  has 
been  conducted  by  him  and  his  sons  to  the  present  time. 

In  1850,  or  soon  after,  another  dam  was  built  on  this  stream. 
This  was  on  the  privilege  just  below  the  Emerson  bridge  and 
only  a  few  rods  above  the  Webber  and  Haviland  foundry. 
Erastus  O.  Wheeler  was  the  proprietor,  and  on  this  dam  Samuel 
Appleton,  Zebulon  vSanger,  and  John  Ransted  built  a  paper  mill 
and  made  newspaper  stock.  They  were  succeeded  by  the  War- 
rens and  the  Monroes  of  Boston,  who  made  paper  from  cedar 
bark.  The  mill  finally  burned  and  the  wooden  shank  factory  of 
Roberts  and  Marston  occupied  the  site  from  1873  to  1879  when 
the  business  was  removed  to  North  Anson  where  white  birch 
wood  was  more  abundant.  This  privilege  with  the  others  below  it 
was  afterwards  purchased  by  the  Union  Gas  and  Electric  Com- 
pany who  in  1899  erected  a  dam  nearly  forty  feet  in  height  and 
built  a  plant  for  the  development  of  electricity.  This  is  now 
operated  in  connection  with  the  system  of  the  Waterville  and 
Fairfield  Railway  and  Light  Company  furnishing  light  and 
power  to  their  patrons  in  Waterville  and  Winslow. 

It  was  also  in  1850  that  a  dam  was  built  one-quarter  of  a  mile 
below  the  Coombs  dam  in  West  Waterville,  by  Daniel  B.  Lord. 
Lord  and  Graves  manufactured  axes  and  hoes  on  this  dam'  for 
several  years.  After  passing  through  several  hands  the  shops 
and  east  end  of  the  dam  were  bought  in  1865  by  John  U.  Hub- 
bard and  Wm.  P.  Blake.  Here  the  Hubbard  and  Blake  A'ianu- 
facturing  Company  made  scythes  and  axes  till  they  sold  out  to 
the  American  Axe  and  Tool  Company  in  1889.  The  latter  com- 
pany continued  to  make  scythes  here  until  1901.  This  privilege, 
also  the  easterly  end  of  the  Coombs  dam,  has  recently  become 
the  property  of  the  Waterville  and  Fairfield  Railway  and  Light 
Company. 

Among  the  most  important  industrial  establishments  on  the 
Messalonskee,  have  been  the  West  Waterville  scythe  and  axe 
factories.  The  first  scythe  factory  was  built  in  1836  by  Learned 
and  Hale  on  the  present  site  of  the  Cascade  Woolen  Mill.  This 
firm  was  succeeded  by  S.  and  E.  Hale,  by  Hale  and  Stevens,  and 
by  Dunn  and  Jordan.  In  1854  Burgess  and  Atwood  built  a 
scythe  shop  at  the  head  of  the  Cascade  fall,  which  was  afterwards 


HISTORY  OF  waterville;.  345 

owned  and  operated  by  Mathews  and  Hubbard.  In  1857  Reuben 
B.  Dunn  organized  the  Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company  which  pur- 
chased these  two  plants.  A  few  years  later  the  old  shops  were 
removed  and  new  ones  erected  on  the  first  two  dams  north  of  the 
road  leading  from  Oakland  to  Waterville.  The  present  scythe 
plant  of  the  Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company  is  said  to  be  the  best  and 
most  conveniently  arranged  in  America.  The  annual  capacity 
is  fifteen  thousand  dozen.  Their  axe  shop  is  not  excelled  in 
convenience  or  efficiency  by  any  of  its  size.  The  annual  capacity 
is  six  thousand  dozen.  The  annual  pay-roll  of  this  company  is 
something  over  thirty  thousand  dollars.  Their  goods  are  sold 
in  all  parts  of  the  United  States  and  Canada.  The  present  offi- 
cers of  the  company  are  Willard  M.  Dunn,  president ;  Reuben 
W.  Dunn,  treasurer  and  manager ;  Wm.  M.  Ayer,  superintendent. 

The  Emerson  and  Stevens  Manufacturing  Company  com- 
menced business  manufacturing  scythes  and  axes  a  little  over 
thirty  years  ago.  Their  works  are  on  the  west  end  of  the  dam 
opposite  the  Hubbard  &  Blake  shops.  They  have  a  capacity  of 
about  three  thousand  dozen  scythes  and  two  thousand  dozen 
axes,  annually,  and  are  still  in  operation.  Next  above  the 
Emerson  and  Stevens  Company's  works,  and  taking  power  from 
the  same  dam,  is  the  foundry  and  machine  shop  of  Geo.  F.  Allen. 
The  business  was  first  established  in  1862  by  Albion  P.  Benja- 
min, with  whom  Mr.  Allen  was  for  many  years  associated  under 
the  name  of  Benjamin  &  Allen.  The  manufacture  of  threshing 
machines  at  one  time  formed  an  important  part  of  their  work. 

In  1883  the  Cascade  Woolen  Mill  was  incorporated  with  a  cap- 
ital stock  of  $125,000.  A  ten  set  woolen  mill  was  built  on  the 
Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company's  lower  dam,  and  has  been  in  success- 
ful operation  ever  since.  Thomas  P.  Curtis  of  Boston,  is  treas- 
urer and  manager,  and  Geo.  H.  Winnegar  is  superintendent. 
One  hundred  and  ten  hands  are  employed  and  the  annual  product 
amounts  to  about  $250,000. 

The  development  of  the  power  on  the  Kennebec  dates  from 
1792  when  Nehemiah  Getchell  and  Asa  Redington  moved  here 
from  Vassalboro.  They  built  a  dam  at  Ticonic  Falls  from  the 
west  shore  to  Rock  Island  and  erected  the  first  saw  mill.  A  little 
later  additional  mills  were  built  by  Mr.  Redington  and  James 
Stackpole,  and    by  Nehemiah  and  William    Getchell    sons    of 


346  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK. 

Nehemiah  Getchell  named  above.  Two  of  V/illiam's  sons,  Wil- 
liam and  Walter,  were  associated  many  years  in  the  firm  of 
W.  &  W.  Getchell.  They  operated  the  Getchell  saw  mill,  built 
by  their  father  and  uncle,  from  1830  to  1849  when  it  was 
destroyed  by  fire.  They  at  once  re-built  and  ten  years  later  were 
burned  out  again.  The  fires  of  1849  and  1859  are  noted  as  the 
most  disastrous  which  ever  visited  Waterville.  In  each  case 
nearly  the  entire  manufacturing  property  on  the  river  at  this 
point  was  destroyed,  together  with  dwelling  and  other  property. 

But  the  Getchells  again  rebuilt  and  continued  the  manufacture 
of  lumber  till  1867  when  they  sold  out  to  the  Ticonic  Water 
Power  and  Manufacturing  Company  who  in  turn  sold  to  General 
Franklin  Smith.  Mr.  Smith  removed  the  old  mill  and  erected  a 
larger  and  more  modern  one  in  its  place,  together  with  a  house 
framing  establishment.  This  was  operated  by  the  firm  of  Smith 
&  Meader  till  1880  when  it  was  removed  to  make  room  for  the 
second  Lockwood  mill. 

Other  saw  mill  owners  and  manufacturers  of  lumber  on 
Ticonic  Falls  during  the  first  half  of  the  T9th  century  were  John, 
Samuel  and  William  Kendall,  Isaac  Farrar,  Zebulon  Sanger  and 
his  sons  William,  Samuel  and  Silas,  Asa  Redington  son  of  the 
Asa  Redington  named  above,  Dunlap,  Hobson,  John  P.  Sheldon, 
Samuel  Doolittle,  David  Page,  Josiah  Morrill,  Colonel  Scribner, 
Colonel  Symonds,  William  and  Daniel  Moor,  French  Brothers, 
and  Jacob  and  William  Wing.  The  latter  made  sash  and  blinds 
in  a  brick  mill  which  occupied  a  part  of  the  site  of  the  Lockwood 
Company's  mill  No.  i.  They  were  succeeded  by  Furbish  & 
Drummond,  afterward  Drummond  &  Richardson. 

In  1 8 16  Wm.  Pearson  came  here  from  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  built 
a  tannery  on  the  Kennebec  near  the  site  now  occupied  by  the 
boiler  house  of  the  Lockwood  Mills.  He  continued  the  business 
here  for  twenty  years,  tanning  sole  leather.  In  1836  he  removed 
to  a  location  on  the  Messalonskee  at  Crommett's  Mills,  noted  on 
a  previous  page. 

V^ery  early  in  the  century  Moses  Dalton  built  a  grist  mill  and 
carding  mill  near  the  site  now  occupied  by  A.  F.  Merrill's  mill. 
Some  thirty  years  later  Samuel  Redington  renewed  the  Dalton 
mill  or  built  another  on  the  same  site.  This  was  later  operated 
successively  by   Pelatiah  and   William   Penney,   Gideon  Wing, 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  347 

Horace  Tozier  and  Col.  I.  S.  Bangs.  The  latter  was  burned  out 
in  1883,  but  re-built  and  sold  to  A.  F.  INIerrill.  W.  S.  B.  Run- 
nells  succeeded  Mr.  Merrill  and  was  himself  succeeded  by  Mr. 
Merrill  and  Llewellyn  Morrill.  The  latter  has  since  retired  and 
Mr.  Merrill  continues  alone  in  the  business. 

About  sixty  years  ago  William  and  Daniel  Moor  erected  on 
the  dam.  at  Ticonic  Falls  a  large  mill  four  stories  in  height. 
Here  they  manufactured  lumber,  made  shovels  and  ground  plas- 
ter and  feed.  In  the  great  fire  of  1849  this  building  was 
destroyed.  Another  similar  building  was  erected  by  the  Messrs. 
Moor,  on  the  same  site,  only  to  be  burned  in  the  second  conflag- 
ration of  1859. 

THE    LOCKWOOD    COMPANY. 

For  more  than  fifty  years  little  attention  was  paid  to  manu- 
facturing outside  of  lumber.  Logs  were  plenty  and  cheap  and 
lumber  found  a  ready  market.  But  after  a  time  conditions 
changed  and  it  became  evident  that  Waterville  must  make  use  of 
her  magnificent  water  power  in  some  other  lines.  In  1865  a  plan 
was  formed  for  organizing  a  company  to  buy  up  and  control  all 
the  power  on  the  river  at  Waterville  and  Winslow.  If  this 
could  be  done  it  was  hoped  that  some  larger  manufacturing 
plants  might  be  induced  to  locate  here.  In  other  cities  in  the 
State  large  cotton  mills  were  in  operation,  and  w^hy  should  not 
Waterville  become  a  spindle  city? 

The  shore  and  water  rights  on  both  sides  of  the  river  were 
owned  by  different  individuals,  widely  scattered.  To  reach  those 
living  in  or  near  Waterville  and  Winslow  was  not  very  difficult. 
But  to  find  all  of  the  owners  and  secure  a  clear  title  to  the  prop- 
erty at  a  fair  price,  involved  much  labor  and  was  attended  with 
many  difficulties.  This  work  was  undertaken  by  George  Alfred 
Phillips,  who  had  long  been  a  prominent  citizen  of  Waterville. 
To  his  tireless  energy  and  perseverance  in  the  face  of  many  dis- 
couragements the  credit  is  due  for  uniting  under  one  control  all 
the  water  rights  and  sufficient  land  adjacent  to  the  river  on  both 
sides  to  render  large  developments  possible. 

On  February  7,  1866,  a  corporation  was  chartered  by  act  of 
the  jMaine  Legislature,  known  as  the  Ticonic  Water  Power  and 
Manufacturing  Company.  On  February  24th,  of  the  same  year, 
the  incorporators  met  at  the  office  of  Solyman  Heath  and  organ- 


348  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

ized  by  choice  of  Solyman  Heath,  George  A.  Phillips,  James  P. 
Blunt,  James  Drummond,  and  John  P.  Richardson  as  directors ; 
Everett  R.  Drummond,  clerk,  and  Geo.  A.  Phillips,  treasurer. 

When  the  books  were  opened  for  subscription  to  the  capital 
stock,  some  subscribed  generously  with  evident  faith  that  the 
investment  would  prove  profitable ;  others  took  a  few  shares  each, 
to  help  along  the  enterprise.  In  1868  and  '69  a  dam  was  built 
entirely  across  the  river,  with  bulk  heads,  head  gates  and  race- 
ways, and  some  attempts  made  to  utilize  the  same.  Power  was 
rented  to  Dennis  L.  Milliken  for  a  grist  mill,  and  to  Smith  & 
Meader  for  their  large  saw  mill  and  framing  mill. 

The  attention  of  those  interested  in  cotton  manufacture  was 
called  to  this  power  and  efforts  were  made  to  secure  the  erection 
of  factories  here.  Nothing  was  accomplished  until  1873  when 
Reuben  B.  Dunn  was  induced  to  purchase  the  stock  in  the  water 
power  company,  pay  oft  its  debts  and  further  develop  the  prop- 
erty. Mr.  Dunn  had  been  prominently  connected  with  manu- 
facturing industries  in  different  parts  of  the  State,  principally  in 
making  scythes  and  axes  at  North  Wayne  and  West  Waterville, 
and  in  cotton  manufacturing  at  Auburn,  Maine.  He  had  been 
identified  with  the  Maine  Central  Railroad  for  many  years  as  a 
director  and  president,  but  had  recently  disposed  of  his  interests 
there  and  retired  from  the  management.  He  was  now  more  than 
seventy  years  of  age,  which  is  regarded  by  most  men  as  the  time 
to  withdraw  from  the  active  conflicts  of  commercial  life.  But 
his  energetic  spirit  would  not  allow  him  to  rest.  He  entered 
upon  this  new  project  with  the  same  courage  and  enthusiasm 
that  he  had  displayed  in  his  many  previous  business  enterprises. 

In  the  summer  of  1873  P^^ns  for  a  cotton  mill  of  33,000 
spindles  were  produced,  made  under  the  personal  supervision  of 
Amos  D.  Lockwood.  Mr.  Dunn  and  his  two  sons,  Williard  M. 
and  Reuben  W.  then  proceeded  to  make  contracts  and  get  ready 
to  build  the  mill.  The  ground  was  cleared,  excavations  made 
and  a  portion  of  the  foundation  wall  put  in  that  season.  The 
following  winter  was  devoted  largely  by  the  Messrs.  Dunn  to 
interesting  Mr.  Lockwood  and  other  manufacturers  in  the  enter- 
prise financially.  When  the  legislature  again  assembled,  a  com- 
pany was  chartered  under  the  name  of  the  Lockwood  Cotton 
Mills.     This  name  was  later  changed  to  Lockwood  Company. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  349 

On  February  21,  1874,  the  first  meeting  was  held  and  the  corpo- 
ration duly  organized  bv  choice  of  Reuben  B.  Dunn,  Amos  D. 
Lockwood,  John  W.  Danielson,  Geo.  A.  Phillips,  Willard  M. 
Dunn,  Reuben  \\\  Dunn,  and  Josiah  H.  Drummond  as  directors ; 
Willard  M.  Dunn,  clerk,  and  Amos  D.  Lockwood,  treasurer. 
It  was  decided  to  raise  $600,000  by  sale  of  capital  stock.  Mr. 
Dunn  subscribed  for  a  large  amount,  as  also  did  ^Ir.  Lockwood 
and  some  of  his  friends.  But  it  became  necessary  to  secure 
subscriptions  for  about  $400,000  from  other  sources.  It  was  a 
time  of  business  depression  and  capital  was  cautious,  but  the 
Dunns  took  hold  of  it  with  determination  and  it  was  finally 
accomplished. 

It  was  not  until  the  spring  of  1875  that  the  financial  difi^culties 
were  overcome  and  the  completion  of  the  enterprise  fully  assured. 
On  April  9th  of  that  year,  all  the  real  estate  and  water  rights  of 
the  Ticonic  Water  Power  and  :Manufacturing  Company,  which 
had  been  conveyed  the  previous  year  to  the  Ticonic  Company, 
were  deeded  by  the  latter  company  to  the  Lockwood  Company. 
The  consideration  was  $125,000  and  payment  was  made  in  the 
stock  of  the  Lockwood  Company.     The  building  contracts  were 
assumed  by  the  new  organization  and  mill  No.  i  made  ready  to 
receive  the  machiner}'.     This  was  put  in  and  set  up  during  the 
last  half  of  1875.     In  February,  1876,  the  first  cloth  was  woven. 
Thus  Waterville  celebrated  the  Nation's  centennial  by  the  start- 
ing up  of  her  first  cotton  mill. 

But  the  Lockwood  Company  did  not  stop  here.  As  soon  as  it 
had  been  demonstrated  that  Lockwood  cottons  were  destined  to 
occupy  a  prominent  place  in  the  dry  goods  market  the  directors 
began  to  discuss  the  project  of  enlarging  the  plant.  It  w^as  soon 
decided  to  erect  mill  No.  2,  of  55,000  spindles.  Plans  for  this 
large  addition  were  also  made  by  Mr.  Lockwood  and  accepted  by 
the  directors.  In  the  summer  of  1880  the  ground  was  cleared 
and  excavations  for  foundations  were  begun.  The  following 
year  the  building  was  erected,  machinery  installed,  and  early  in 
1882  the  new  mill  was  in  operation. 

In  the  meantime  the  capital  stock  had  been  increased  to 
$1,800,000.  The  new  stock  was  disposed  of  without  difficulty, 
much  of  it  being  taken  by  citizens  of  Waterville  and  other  towns 
in  Maine.      From  the  first  it    has    proved  a  good    investment. 


350  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Semi-annual  dividends  of  three  per  cent  had  been  paid  for  four 
years,  on  the  first  issue,  and  with  the  exception  of  two  brief 
periods  of  general  business  depression  the  entire  capital,  since 
1882,  has  yielded  the  same  net  percentage  of  profit  each  six 
months. 

Immediately  following  the  death  of  Mr.  Lockwood  in  1882, 
John  W.  Danielson  was  chosen  treasurer.  Mr.  Dunn,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  company,  died  in  1887  and  was  succeeded  by  James 
H.  McMullan.  These  officers  still  continue.  The  directors  are 
James  H.  McMullan,  Portland ;  John  W.  Danielson,  Providence, 
R.  I. ;  Seth  M.  Milliken,  New  York ;  Josiah  B.  Mayo,  Foxcroft ; 
Willard  M.  Dunn,  Waterville;  Frank  A.  Wilson,  Bangor,  and 
J.  DeForest  Danielson,  Providence,  R.  I.  The  latter  is  also 
assistant  treasurer.  Alpha  M.  Kennison  is  clerk ;  Stephen  I. 
Abbott,  manufacturing  agent,  and  Wm.  H.  K.  Abbott,  super- 
intendent. Deering,  Milliken  and  Company,  New  York,  are 
selling  agents. 

The  number  of  employees  is  about  1,300  and  the  amount  paid 
in  wages,  annually,  is  about  $415,000.  About  6,250,000  pounds 
of  cotton  are  annually  consumed  in  making  nearly  20,000,000 
yards  of  cloth,  varying  in  width  from  36  to  108  inches.  The 
total  number  of  looms  is  2,100. 


HATHAWAY    SHIRT    FACTORY. 

Among  the  most  important  of  our  minor  industries  is  the 
Hathaway  Shirt  Factory.  C.  A.  Leighton,  proprietor.  ^This 
was  established  in  1849  ^Y  Chas.  F.  Plathaway  and  was  famil- 
iarly known  as  The  Laundry.  During  the  first  twenty-five  years 
the  work  was  confined  to  the  manufacture  of  gentlemen's  fine 
shirts.  The  Hathaway  shirts  are  widely  known  for  their  supe- 
rior quality.  In  1874  the  manufacture  of  ladies  fine  muslin 
underwear  was  added.  In  1879  Clarence  A.  Leighton  became 
associated  with  Mr.  Hathaway  and  since  the  death  of  the  latter 
in  1895,  has  been  sole  proprietor.  One  hundred  and  fifty  to 
175  hands  are  employed  and  the  annual  pay-roll  is  about  $60,000. 
One  hundred  sewing  machines  are  kept  in  constant  use.  These 
are  run  by  steam  and  electrical  power,  about  25  h.  p.  being 
required.     The  buildings,  heated  by  steam  and  lighted  by  gas 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  35 ^ 

and  electricity,  together  with  the  equipment  are  up  to  date  in 
every  particular.  Mr.  Frank  W.  Smith  has  been  for  many  years 
the  efficient  superintendent.  , 

THE    NOYES    STOVE    COMPANY. 

The  Noyes  Stove  Company's  foundry,  on  Chaplin  street,  is 
another  of  our  substantial  industries.  This  occupies  the  site  of 
the  foundry  established  in  1867  by  Asher  P.  Fletcher.  After  a 
few  months  Mr.  Fletcher  formed  a  co-partnership  with  Joseph 
Percival.  They  carried  on  the  business  till  April,  1868,  when 
Mr.  Fletcher  withdrew.  Air.  Percival  also  retired  soon  after. 
His  nephew,  Mr.  Geo.  G.  Percival,  occupied  the  building  two  or 
three  years  as  a  chemical  laboratory,  and  there  made  and  put  up 
extracts  for  the  market.  In  1872  the  foundry  was  used  by  a 
company  who  made  a  patent  kettle  and  other  hollow  ware.  The 
enterprise  was  soon  abandoned,  and  in  1873  John  Goodell  and 
Company  came  here  from  Bangor,  purchased  the  plant  and  con- 
verted it  into  a  cook  stove  foundry.  In  1886  Noyes  &  Goddard 
purchased  the  entire  interest  of  Goodell  and  Company.  They 
conducted  the  business  until  April  15,  1902,  when  E.  D.  Noyes 
became  the  sole  proprietor.  In  October,  1892,  the  works  were 
destroyed  by  fire,  but  were  at  once  rebuilt  and  in  the  January 
following  were  again  in  operation.  A  10  h.  p.  gasoline  engine 
furnishes  the  required  power.  Fifteen  men  are  employed  in  the 
shops,  and  eight  salesmen  on  the  road.  Twelve  hundred  cook 
stoves  are  made  and  sold  every  year.  They  are  distributed  by 
the  salesmen  all  over  northern  New  England.  The  amount  paid 
in  wages  annually  is  about  $16,000. 

CAR    SHOPS    OE   THE    MAINE    CENTRAL    RAILROAD. 

Soon  after  the  Androscoggin  and  Kennebec  Railroad  was 
opened  to  Waterville,  which  was  in  December,  1849,  the  company 
established  its  repair  shops  here.  They  were  located  on  the 
south  side  of  Chaplin  street  near  College  street.  The  machine 
shop  and  round  house  occupied  one  building,  the  blacksmith  shop 
another,  while  the  third  was  used  by  the  wood  working  and  paint- 
ing departments.  After  consolidation  with  the  Penobscot  and 
Kennebec,  under  the  name  of  Maine  Central,  and  the  natural 
increase  of  business  which  followed,  additional  buildings  were 
erected  on  both  sides  of  Chaplin  street.     In  1870  the  Maine  Cen- 


352  HISTORY    or    WATKRVILLE. 

tral  leased  the  Portland  and  Kennebec,  and  later  absorbed  other 
roads,  all  of  which  make  up  the  present  Maine  Central  system. 
For  some  years  the  consolidated  company  continued  to  do  its 
repair  work  in  the  several  places  where  it  had  shops,  but  finally 
decided  to  abandon  all  these  and  erect  a  new  plant  in  some  place 
where,  so  far  as  practicable,  all  the  work  should  be  done. 
Among  other  cities  to  contend  for  the  location  were  Portland 
and  Waterville.  At  one  time  Portland  seemed  to  have  been 
selected.  Land  was  purchased  for  the  purpose  and  the  public 
were  informed  that  the  new  shops  were  to  be  located  there.  But 
Waterville  did  not  give  it  up.  A  delegation  of  her  citizens  was 
sent  to  interview  the  president  and  directors,  liberal  terms  were 
offered,  and  generous  treatment  assured. 

Waterville  was  finally  selected  and  in  1886  work  of  construc- 
tion of  the  new  shops  began.  The  following  year  they  were 
completed  and  were  pronounced  to  be  the  most  perfect  in  design, 
and  convenient  in  arrangement,  of  any  similar  plant  in  the 
United  States.  They  are  built  of  brick,  a  portion  being  two 
stories  in  height,  and  cover  nearly  four  acres  of  ground.  They 
furnish  employment  to  250  men,  most  of  whom  are  skilled 
mechanics,  who  receive  annually  about  $168,000  in  wages.  One 
hundred  and  fifty  h.  p  is  required  to  run  the  machinery.  This 
is  generated  by  two  boilers  of  260  h.  p.  one  engine  of  150  h.  p., 
and  one  air  compressor  of  80  h.  p.  The  shops  are  lighted  by 
electricity.  The  work  is  not  confined  to  repairs  alone,  but  new 
cars  both  passenger  and  freight  are  built  here. 

THE    RTVERVIEW    WORSTED    MILLS. 

In  1899  the  Riverview  Worsted  Mills  corporation  was  organ- 
ized in  Waterville,  with  F.  C.  Thayer,  president ;  Thomas  Samp- 
son, treasurer ;  C.  F.  Johnson,  clerk.  The  capital  stock  is 
$50,000.  The  mill  was  erected  at  once,  on  land  purchased  of  the 
Lockwood  Company  near  the  bank  of  the  Kennebec  river,  a  few 
rods  north  of  Temple  street.  Manufacturing  began  in  February, 
1900.  The  product  consists  of  fine  fancy  worsteds  for  men's 
wear,  woven  on  eighty  looms  of  the  latest  and  most  approved 
pattern.  The  employees  soon  will  number  about  300,  and  the 
annual  pay-roll  be  increased  to  $150,000  anually.  Electric  power 
is  furnished  by  the  Union  Gas  and  Electric  Company.  George 
W.  Overend  is  the  agent. 


HISTORY    OP    WATERVILLD.  353 

THE    WHITTEMORE    FURNITURE    COMPANY. 

The  presence  of  the  Whittemore  Furniture  Company  in 
Waterville  is  due  chiefly  to  the  efforts  of  Wm.  T.  Haines,  and 
Frank  Redington,  members  of  the  local  board  of  trade.  Mr. 
W.  E.  Whittemore  had  been  making  furniture  in  Foxcroft,  and 
later  in  Fairfield.  Fire  destroyed  his  shop  in  Fairfield  and  he 
was  not  unwilling  to  locate  here.  Additional  capital  was  needed, 
to  provide  which  a  corporation  was  organized  in  August,  1899, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $50,000.  Mr.  Haines  was  chosen  clerk ; 
Frank  Redington,  F.  C.  Thayer,  W.  E.  Whittemore,  Geo.  K. 
Boutelle,  and  H.  R.  Mitchell,  directors ;  Frank  Redington,  pres- 
ident:  F.  C.  Thayer,  vice-president;  W.  E.  Whittemore,  treas- 
urer and  manager.  Land  was  purchased  on  Sanger  avenue,  and 
a  large  wooden  building  with  two  stories  and  basement  was 
erected.  A  year  later  another  building  was  added.  The  busi- 
ness is  manufacturing  and  selling  to  the  trade  throughout  New 
England,  all  kinds  of  upholstered  furniture  and  frames  for  the 
same.  From  twenty  to  twenty-five  men  are  employed  and  the 
annual  pay-roll  is  nearly  $10,000.  A  10  h.  p.  electric  motor 
furnishes  power,  which  is  supplied  by  the  Waterville  and  Fair- 
field Railway  and  Light  Company. 

BRICK    MAKING. 

Brick  making  has  been  a  prominent  industry  in  Waterville 
from  the  earliest  history  of  the  town  to  the  present  time.  The 
inexhaustible  supply  of  clay  and  sand  lying  in  close  proximity, 
as  well  as  an  abundance  of  water,  relieves  the  situation  of  diffi- 
culties which  have  often  been  experienced  elsewhere.  In  the 
early  days  bricks  were  made  on  the  land  west  of  Water  street, 
just  south  of  the  Lockwood  Company's  tenement  houses.  B.  F. 
Blanchard  was  one  of  those  who  occupied  this  yard.  The  prod- 
uct was  disposed  of  in  part  at  home  and  in  part  transported 
down  the  river  by  boat. 

For  many  years  during  the  middle  of  the  century,  Geo.  Went- 
worth  made  bricks  on  upper  Main  street,  west  side,  just  north  of 
Hayden  brook.  About  a  dozen  men  and  several  horses  were 
kept  busy  during  the  season,  and  the  product  found  a  ready  sale 
in  W^aterville  and  other  towns  round  about.  Shipments  by  rail 
23 


354  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

were  made  in  considerable  quantities.  Stacy  Wentworth, 
brother  of  George,  also  engaged  in  the  same  business  prior  to 
1850  on  land  a  short  distance  southwest  of  his  brother's  yard. 
A  short  distance  south  and  on  land  of  Deacon  Osborn,  a  pottery 
was  operated  for  several  years  by  a  Mr.  Bruce.  Jugs,  nappies 
and  other  earthern  ware  were  made  which  were  sold  all  over  the 
surrounding  country. 

When  the  tirst  Lockwood  mill  was  erected  a  large  yard  was 
opened  just  below  Ticonic  bridge,  in  Winslow,  and  the  bricks  for 
both  No.  I  and  No.  2  mills  were  made  there.  A  smaller  yard 
had  previously  been  opened  on  land  of  the  Ticonic  Water  Power 
and  Manufacturing  Company,  now  of  the  Lockwood  Company 
in  Winslow,  by  Wallace  H.  Carter.  In  1876  Norton  &  Purinton 
purchased  Mr.  Carter's  plant  and  enlarged  the  business.  In 
1885  they  opened  a  large  yard  on  College  avenue,  near  the  Fair- 
field line.  In  1887  Mr.  Norton  retired  and  Horace  Purinton 
and  Company  succeeded.  In  1893  the  Winslow  yard  was  given 
up  and  the  business  in  the  Waterville  yard  enlarged.  About 
fifty  men  are  employed  here  for  twenty  weeks  in  the  year  and 
receives  in  wages  about  $1,200  every  week.  Nearly  4,000,000 
bricks  are  made  each  year,  a  part  of  which  are  consumed  at  home 
and  the  balance  shipped  away.  Electric  power  is  used,  about 
15  h.  p.  furnished  by  the  Waterville  and  Fairfield  Railway  and 
Light  Company. 

In  1892,  '93  and  '94,  Proctor  &  Flood  manufactured  about 
750,000  bricks  per  year,  on  College  avenue,  just  south  of  the 
Holland  brook.  In  1895  ^^i"-  Proctor  leased  the  Winslow  yard, 
which  H.  Purinton  and  Company  had  formerly  occupied.  After 
a  few  years  the  corporation  of  Proctor  and  Bowie  Company  was 
formed  and  they  are  now  making  annually  about  1,500,000  bricks 
in  the  Winslow  yard.  They  also  operate  a  steam  wood-working 
mill  for  building  supplies,  such  as  mouldings,  casings,  flooring, 
stair  work,  etc.  A  30  h.  p.  electric  motor  supplies  the  power. 
In  mill  and  brick  yard  they  employ  about  thirty-three  men  and 
pay  them  in  wages  about  $25,000  annually. 

The  wool  pulling  and  sheep  skin  tanning  business  of  A.  P. 
Emery  deserves  mention  among  the  minor  industries  of  Water- 
ville. This  was  established  by  Alben  Emery,  father  of  the 
present  proprietor,  who  came  here  from  Fairfield.     In  about  1847 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  355 

the  elder  Mr.  Emery  purchased  a  building  which  stood  upon  the 
college  campus  and  had  been  used  as  a  workshop  by  the  students, 
and  moved  it  to  the  south  side  of  North  street,  just  west  of  Hay- 
den  Brook.  Here  he  began  the  business  of  pulling  wool  from 
sheep's  pelts,  and  here  it  has  been  continued  to  the  present  time. 
From  about  i860  to  1892  the  business  of  tanning  the  skins  was 
also  conducted.  From  3,000  to  10,000  skins  were  handled  annu- 
ally and  from  three  to  five  men  employed. 

About  1840,  and  for  several  years  thereafter,  B.  F.  Blanchard 
employed  from  twelve  to  fifteen  men  slaughtering  cattle  and 
dressing  and  shipping  the  meat.  This  went  chiefly  by  boat  to 
Boston.  The  tallow  also  was  rendered  and  shipped  to  the  same 
market.  The  establishment  was  located  on  the  bank  of  the  Ken- 
nebec a  short  distance  below  the  bridge,  and  near  the  present  site 
of  the  wheel-house  of  the  Lockwood  Company's  No.  i  mill. 

The  manufacture  of  carriages  and  sleighs  was  once  carried 
on  quite  extensively  in  Waterville.  Purmot  Hill,  whose  des- 
cendants continue  to  reside  among  us,  conducted  such  a  business 
from  1820  to  1873,  on  the  east  side  of  Main  street,  nearly  oppo- 
site the  location  of  the  central  fire  station.  Some  eight  or  ten 
men  found  constant  employment  in  Mr.  Hill's  shop. 

About  the  same  time  Samuel  Stilson  was  engaged  in  the  same 
line  of  business  on  the  north  side  of  Temple  street,  about  where 
Augustus  Otten's  bakery  now  stands.  Excellent  work  was  done 
in  both  these  establishments  and  the  product  was  readily  disposed 
of  at  home  and  in  neighboring  towns. 

For  ten  or  twelve  years  Waterville  supported  a  manufactory 
where  men's  thick  boots  were  made.  Dunn  &  Harvey  were  the 
first  proprietors,  beginning  work  about  1849  ^^  1850.  They  car- 
ried on  the  business  in  a  large  wooden  building  on  the  present 
site  of  the  Masonic  Block,  on  the  south  side  of  Common  street. 
They  employed  about  twenty-five  men  in  the  shop  and  as  many 
more  outside.  The  senior  partner,  Wm.  Ellery  Dunn,  died  about 
1857  when  T.  C.  Merritt  and  Company  purchased  the  business. 
The  latter  firm  continued  till  about  i860  when  the  shop  was 
closed. 


356  HISTORY    OF    VVATERVILLE. 

THE    HOLLINGSWORTH    AND    WHITNEY    COMPANY. 

An  important  enterprise,  established  and  opcratecl  entirely  by 
a  foreign  corporation  and  located  outside  of  Waterville,  yet  con- 
tributes in  so  high  a  degree  to  the  prosperity  of  our  ciiy  as  to 
merit  a  place  in  this  chapter.  The  Hollingsworth  ana  Whitney 
Company,  operating  large  pulp  and  paper  mills  in  Gardiner, 
Maine,  decided  about  1891  to  enlarge  their  business  by  building 
additional  mills  in  some  other  location.  Their  attention  was 
turned  toward  Madison  at  first,  and  negotiations  looking  to  the 
purchase  of  the  lower  privileges  on  the  Kennebec  at  that  point, 
were  begun.  The  owners  were  the  Manufacturing  Investment 
Company  who  had  previously  erected  a  large  sulphite  mill  on  the 
next  power  above.  Failure  to  agree  on  some  points  affecting 
the  purchase  by  one  company  of  the  product  of  the  other  com- 
pany's plant,  brought  negotiations  to  an  end,  and  Winslow  was 
suggested  as  a  desirable  location  for  the  new  mills.  The  Lock- 
wood  Company's  upper  power  was  unoccupied,  and  the  "Island" 
on  the  Winslow  side  of  the  river,  opposite  Colby  College,  was 
an  excellent  site  on  which  to  build.  This  entire  property  was 
soon  purchased,  and  in  1892  the  ground-wood  mill  and  the  paper 
mill  were  erected,  and  a  dam  and  head  gates  built  at  the  head 
of  the  island.  About  450  men  found  employment  here.  Seven 
years  later  a  sulphite  mill  was  added,  and  the  number  of  men 
employed  has  increased  to  675,  who  receive  in  wages  about 
$30,000  per  month.  In  addition  to  the  water  power,  both  steam 
and  electric  power  are  used.  The  latter  is  supplied  by  the  Union 
Gas  and  Electric  Company. 


CHAPTER  XVI. 


BANKING  IN  WATERVILLE. 
By  Horatio  D.  Bates,  Cashier  Merchants  National  Bank. 

Shice  early  in  its  history,  Waterville  has  enjoyed  ample  bank- 
ing facilities.  The  old  Waterville  Bank  founded  in  1814  fur- 
nished all  of  the  circulating  medium  then  required  and  a  surplus 
to  loan  in  Boston.  In  1831  the  Ticonic  was  organized  to  suc- 
ceed the  Waterville,  occupying  the  field  alone  until  1850,  when 
another  bank  called  the  Waterville  Bank  was  started.  The  Peo- 
ples began  business  in  1855,  and  in  1876  the  Merchants  was 
added  to  the  list,  but  the  closing  up  about  that  time  of  the  Water- 
ville National  left  the  number  of  banks  the  same  as  before.  The 
need  of  a  depository  for  savings  was  met  by  the  founding  of  the 
Waterville  Savings  Bank  in  1869  and  in  1887  The  Waterville 
Loan  and  Building  Association  commenced  business.  In  1889 
the  charter  of  the  Waterville  Trust  Company  was  granted  to 
W.  T.  Haines  and  his  associates,  but  the  company  did  not  com- 
mence business  until  1893.  In  the  present  year  of  Waterville's 
centennial  we  have  four  commercial  banks,  the  Ticonic,  Peoples, 
and  Merchants  National  Banks,  and  the  Waterville  Trust  Com- 
pany, having  a  combined  capital  of  $500,000,  surplus  and  undi- 
vided profits  of  $187,868,  business  deposits  of  $620,000  and  loans 
including  stocks  and  bonds  of  $1,600,000.  There  are  three 
depositories  of  savings:  The  Waterville  Savings  Bank  with 
deposits  of  $1,200,000,  and  the  savings  department  of  the  Trust 
Company  with  deposits  of  $592,452,  and  the  Loan  and  Building 
Association  with  capital  dues  of  $85,608. 

There  are  no  defalcations  to  record  in  Waterville's  banking 
history,  and  the  nearest  approach  to  failure  was  the  scaling  down 


358  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

of  I2>4  per  cent,  in  the  deposits  of  the  Waterville  Savings  Bank 
and  the  passing  of  one  dividend  in  1876.  With  this  exception 
our  banks  have  weathered  all  the  financial  storms,  have  paid 
good  dividends,  and  are  to-day  in  exceptionally  strong  condition. 
Onr  city  is  the  banking  center  for  North  Vassalboro,  China, 
Albion,  Corinna,  Hartland,  Newport,  Burnham  and  Clinton,  and 
has  a  share  of  the  business  of  Dexter  and  Fairfield.  Banking 
conditions  at  present  are  very  favorable.  Although  rates  for 
money  are  not  as  high  as  in  past  years,  the  volume  of  deposits 
is  larger  than  ever  before,  and  the  local  demand  for  funds  makes 
it  unnecessary  for  the  banks  to  buy  notes  of  Boston  brokers,  a 
class  of  paper  in  which  there  is  a  much  greater  chance  of  loss 
than  in  loans  made  to  home  borrowers.  The  banks  at  the  present 
time  are  charging  six  per  cent,  on  most  loans,  a  five  per  cent, 
rate  being  made  to  large  depositors  or  on  loans  of  good  size  with 
choice  collateral.  The  Savings  Bank  and  the  Trust  Company, 
on  its  time  deposits,  are  paying  depositors  three  and  one-half 
per  cent,  and  the  Savings  Bank  charges  six  per  cent,  on  its  real 
estate  loans.  The  national  banks  are  holding  a  minimum  of  two 
per  cent,  bonds  as  security  for  circulation,  all  having  sold  their 
twos  down  to  this  limit  within  a  year,  tempted  by  the  high  prices. 
The  growth  of  the  banking  business  since  the  industrial  awaken- 
ing of  the  town  is  shown  by  the  increase  in  deposits  and  loans 
since  1876,  in  which  year  the  four  national  banks  reported 
deposits  of  $126,000,  and  loans  of  $524,000,  against  business 
deposits  at  the  present  time  in  the  three  national  banks  and  the 
Trust  Company  of  $620,000,  and  loans  of  $1,600,006.  The 
increase  of  savings  deposits  in  the  same  time  has  been  from 
$400,000  in  the  Savings  Bank  to  $1,792,452  in  this  bank  and  the 
savings  department  of  the  Trust  Company,  and  $85,608  capital 
dues  in  the  Loan  and  Building  Association. 

There  have  been  several  attempted  robberies  of  Waterville 
banks.  The  Ticonic,  when  located  in  the  little  building  south 
of  Ticonic  Row,  was  twice  entered,  but  the  vault  withstood  the 
efforts  of  the  burglars.  Before  the  days  of  time  locks  an  attempt 
was  made  to  enter  the  house  of  Mr.  Homer  Percival,  then  cashier 
of  the  Peoples  Bank,  then  living  in  the  house  on  the  corner  of 
Spring  and  Elm  streets,  now  occupied  by  Dr.  C.  W.  Abbott.  It 
happened  that  there  was  sickness  in  the  house  that  night  and  the 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  359 

robbers  were  frightened  away  by  the  Hghts  and  the  people  mov- 
ing about.  It  was  thought  that  the  intention  was  to  force  Mr. 
Percival  to  go  to  the  bank  and  open  the  safe. 

An  attempt  to  rob  the  Waterville  National  Bank  was  made  on 
the  night  of  November  22,  1876,  the  bank  at  that  time  being 
located  in  the  second  story  of  a  wooden  building  at  the  south 
corner  of  Main  and  Silver  streets,  where  the  Milliken  Block  now 
stands.  A  circumstance  favorable  to  the  attempt  was  that  a 
lecture  was  given  in  town  hall  that  night  by  Theodore  Tilton. 
The  four  men  concerned  in  the  affair  got  permission  to  leave 
their  team  at  Luke  Brown's  on  the  corner  of  Pleasant  and  Mill 
streets,  saying  they  were  going  to  the  lecture,  and  their  presence 
on  the  street  excited  less  suspicion  than  it  otherwise  would. 
Augustus  Wood,  the  night  watchman  was  approached  by  these 
men  about  twenty  minutes  of  eleven  and  before  he  could  make 
an  outcry  was  gagged  and  thrown  down,  after  being  put  upon 
his  feet  and  led  blind-folded  to  a  shed  in  the  rear  of  the  Catholic 
church.  Here  his  gag  was  removed,  his  keys  taken  and  he  was 
obliged  to  answer  all  the  inquiries  put  to  him  as  to  his  beat,  etc. 
The  gag  was  then  put  in  his  mouth  and  he  was  securely  bound 
with  window  cord.  Two  of  the  gang  then  went  to  the  bank  and 
were  climbing  up  to  reach  a  rear  window  when  George  H.  Vigue, 
a  private  watchman,  came  toward  the  bank  looking  for  Wood, 
whom  he  had  been  in  the  habit  of  meeting  at  stated  times  while 
on  his  beat.  L.  D.  Carver,  now  State  Librarian,  had  an  office 
on  the  same  floor  as  the  bank  and  slept  in  a  room  in  the  rear.  He 
was  awakened  by  the  robbers  and  heard  one  say,  "There's  that 
cussed  private  watchman,  let's  go  and  do  for  him."  Mr.  Carver 
took  his  revolver  and  without  waiting  to  dress,  rushed  down  the 
stairs.  Before  he  had  reached  the  sidewalk  the  men  had  seized 
Vigue,  one  striking  him  a  heavy  blow  on  the  head.  He  suc- 
ceeded in  breaking  away  from  them  however,  and  to  use  his  own 
expression,  "hollered  like  a  loon."  The  men  ran  down  Silver 
street,  their  flight  hastened  by  two  shots  from  Vigue's  revolver. 
They  went  to  the  place  where  the  other  men  were  and  then  all 
escaped  in  the  team  which  had  been  left  at  Mr,  Brown's. 
Vigue's  outcry  brought  a  number  of  people  from  the  Williams 
house,  and  before  long  a  general  alarm  was  rung.  When  it  was 
learned    that  the  robbers    had    escaped,  a  search  was  made  for 


36o 


HISTORY   OF    WATE:rVILLE. 


Wood,  who  was  found  by  J.  Fred  Hill  where  the  robbers  had 
left  him.  The  next  morning  Levi  Dow  and  Fred  Hill  followed 
the  track  of  the  team  as  far  as  Augusta,  the  traces  and  the  testi- 
mony of  the  people  along  the  road  showing  that  the  ride  was  a 
fast  and  furious  one.  Though  this  happened  nearly  twenty-six 
years  ago,  Dr.  Hill  well  remembers  the  remark  of  Dr.  Hanson 
when  Constable  Dow  came  to  the  Institute  for  him  the  next 
morning:  "Well,  Mr.  Hill,  if  you  think  you  had  rather  be  a 
detective  than  a  scholar  you  may  go,  and  your  education  is 
entirely  sufficient  for  the  business."  No  arrests  were  ever  made 
in  connection  with  this  affair  which  was  the  talk  of  the  town  for 
a  long  time. 

THE    OLD    WATERVILLK    BANK. 

The  banking  history  of  Waterville  dates  from  1814,  in  which 
year  the  old  Waterville  Bank  was  organized  and  its  charter  granted 
by  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts.  This  was  the  first  banking 
institution  commencing  business  above  Augusta  on  the  Kennebec 
river  and  served  besides  Waterville,  Skowhegan,  Norridgewock 
and  other  up-river  towns.  At  the  first  meeting  of  its  directors, 
held  at  the  dwelling-house  of  Nath'l  Gilman,  Esq.,  on  the  21st 
day  of  March,  1814,  Mr.  Gilman  was  chosen  president  and 
served  in  this  capacity  for  the  nineteen  years  of  the  bank's  exis- 
tence. A  small,  one-story,  wooden  building  was  erected  for  the 
use  of  the  bank,  its  location  being  just  south  of  Ticonic  Row  on 
lower  Main  street.  The  original  bank  building  was  occupied 
also  by  the  Ticonic  Bank,  the  successor  of  the  Waterville  until 
1865.  This  building  afterward  was  moved  to  Ticonic  street  and 
was  used  as  a  dwelling-house  until  destroyed  by  fire. 

The  first  board  of  directors  of  the  bank  consisted  of  Mr.  Gil- 
man, Asa  Redington,  Samuel  Redington,  Thomas  Rice  and 
Daniel  Cook.  Among  others  who  later  served  as  directors  were 
Asa  Redington,  Jr.,  Lemuel  Paine,  Timothy  Boutelle,  Jonathan 
Farrar,  Moses  Appleton,  Joseph  Southwick,  Calvin  Selden, 
Thomas  B.  Coolidge,  Samuel  Weston,  James  Stackpole,  and  John 
Ware  of  Norridgewock,  great  uncle  of  John  Ware  of  this  city. 
Asa  Redington,  Jr.,  was  first  cashier.  He  was  elected  July  i, 
18 1 4  and  served  until  September,  i8t8.  The  highest  salary  he 
received  was  $500.     He  was  succeeded  by  his  father,  Asa  Red- 


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ington,  who  served  from  September,  1818  to  November,  1826. 
His  salary  was  $500  until  July,  1826,  when  on  plea  of  the  poor 
business  done  by  the  bank  it  was  reduced  to  $250.  When  the 
senior  Redington  was  chosen  cashier  in  1818  his  place  on  the 
board  of  directors  was  taken  by  his  son,  they  thus  exchanging 
places.  Asa  Redington,  senior,  evidently  did  not  care  to  serve 
at  the  small  salary  granted  him  in  1826,  and  upon  his  resigna- 
tion Alpheus  Lyon  was  elected,  November  2,  1826.  Mr.  Lyon's 
pay  was  $300  until  November,  1829,  when  it  was  reduced  to  $200. 
Asa  Redington  was  chosen,  on  Mr.  Lyon's  resignation,  to  his  old 
place  as  cashier,  January  18,  1830,  and  continued  to  July,  1832. 
Daniel  Cook  was  the  last  to  fill  the  office.  He  was  elected,  July 
I,  1832,  and  voted  a  stipend  of  $100  for  undertaking  to  close  the 
affairs  of  the  bank.  The  profits  of  country  banks  in  those  days 
were  from  the  loaning  of  their  circulating  notes,  so  the  first  busi- 
ness engaging  the  officers  of  the  bank  was  the  signing  and  issuing 
of  its  bills,  and  a  good  portion  of  the  money  seems  to  have  found 
ready  borrowers.  The  bills  were  signed  by  president  and 
cashier  and  bore  a  blank  space  in  which  it  was  customary  to  write 
the  name  of  some  person  as  payee.  For  example,  at  one  direc- 
tors' meeting  it  was  voted  "To  fill  up  five  hundred  three  dollar 
bills  payable  to  D.  Cook.'"  So  these  notes  were  made  payable 
to  D.  Cook  or  bearer  and  then  loaned  to  any  one  whose  note  was 
discounted  by  the  bank.  The  bills  were  redeemable  in  specie  at 
the  bank's  counter  and  the  constant  problem  was  to  keep  them  in 
circulation.  At  times  loans  were  made  of  the  banks  circulation 
on  ninety  days  with  a  charge  for  interest  of  only  half  that  time, 
the  object  being  to  keep  the  bills  away  from  the  bank  and  its 
redemption  obligations. 

The  strength  of  banks  issuing  currency  was  not  so  carefully 
considered  as  in  the  laws  made  at  a  later  period  and  it  appears  that 
quite  an  amount  of  the  stock  in  this  bank  was  issued  upon  credit. 
That  is,  the  stockholder  subscribed  for  his  shares  and  gave  his 
note  in  payment  for  part  or  whole  of  the  stock,  leaving  it  with  the 
bank  as  collateral.  The  legislature  of  18^3  passed  a  banking  act 
in  which  this  practice  of  loaning  by  banks  on  its  own  shares  was 
prohibited.  There  is  constant  reference  in  the  records  of  the 
Waterville  Bank  to  these  loans  on  hypothecated  shares  and  they 
appear  to  have  been  an  annoving  feature  of  the  business.     There 


360  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

Wood,  who  was  found  by  J.  Fred  Hill  where  the  robbers  had 
left  him.  The  next  morning  Levi  Dow  and  Fred  Hill  followed 
the  track  of  the  team  as  far  as  Augusta,  the  traces  and  the  testi- 
mony of  the  people  along  the  road  showing  that  the  ride  was  a 
fast  and  furious  one.  Though  this  happened  nearly  twenty-six 
years  ago.  Dr.  Hill  well  remembers  the  remark  of  Dr.  Hanson 
when  Constable  Dow  came  to  the  Institute  for  him  the  next 
morning:  "Well,  Mr.  Hill,  if  you  think  you  had  rather  be  a 
detective  than  a  scholar  you  may  go,  and  your  education  is 
entirely  sufficient  for  the  business."  No  arrests  were  ever  made 
in  connection  with  this  affair  which  was  the  talk  of  the  town  for 
a  long  time. 

the:  old  watkrville  bank. 

The  banking  history  of  Waterville  dates  from  1814,  in  which 
year  the  old  Waterville  Bank  was  organized  and  its  charter  granted 
by  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts.  This  was  the  first  banking 
institution  commencing  business  above  Augusta  on  the  Kennebec 
river  and  served  besides  Waterville,  Skowhegan,  Norridgewock 
and  other  up-river  towns.  At  the  first  meeting  of  its  directors, 
held  at  the  dwelling-house  of  Nath'l  Gilman,  Esq.,  on  the  21st 
day  of  March,  1814,  Mr.  Gilman  was  chosen  president  and 
served  in  this  capacity  for  the  nineteen  years  of  the  bank's  exis- 
tence. A  small,  one-story,  wooden  building  was  erected  for  the 
use  of  the  bank,  its  location  being  just  south  of  Ticonic  Row  on 
lower  Main  street.  The  original  bank  building  was  occupied 
also  by  the  Ticonic  Bank,  the  successor  of  the  Waterville  until 
1865.  This  building  afterward  was  moved  to  Ticonic  street  and 
was  used  as  a  dwelling-house  until  destroyed  by  fire. 

The  first  board  of  directors  of  the  bank  consisted  of  Mr.  Gil- 
man, Asa  Redington,  Samuel  Redington,  Thomas  Rice  and 
Daniel  Cook.  Among  others  who  later  served  as  directors  were 
Asa  Redington,  Jr.,  Lemuel  Paine,  Timothy  Boutelle,  Jonathan 
Farrar,  Moses  Appleton,  Joseph  Southwick,  Calvin  Selden, 
Thomas  B.  Coolidge,  Samuel  Weston,  James  Stackpole,  and  John 
Ware  of  Norridgewock,  great  uncle  of  John  Ware  of  this  city. 
Asa  Redington,  Jr.,  was  first  cashier.  He  was  elected  July  i, 
1814  and  served  until  September,  i8t8.  The  highest  salary  he 
received  was  $500.     He  was  succeeded  by  his  father,  Asa  Red- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  361 

ington,  who  served  from  September,  1818  to  November,  1826. 
His  salary  was  $500  until  July,  1826,  when  on  plea  of  the  poor 
business  done  by  the  bank  it  was  reduced  to  $250.  When  the 
senior  Redington  was  chosen  cashier  in  1818  his  place  on  the 
board  of  directors  was  taken  by  his  son,  they  thus  exchanging 
places.  Asa  Redington,  senior,  evidently  did  not  care  to  serve 
at  the  small  salary  granted  him  in  1826,  and  upon  his  resigna- 
tion Alpheus  Lyon  was  elected,  November  2,  1826.  Mr.  Lyon's 
pay  was  $300  until  November,  1829,  when  it  was  reduced  to  $200. 
Asa  Redington  was  chosen,  on  Mr.  Lyon's  resignation,  to  his  old 
place  as  cashier,  January  18,  1830,  and  continued  to  July,  1832. 
Daniel  Cook  was  the  last  to  fill  the  office.  He  was  elected,  July 
I,  1832,  and  voted  a  stipend  of  $100  for  undertaking  to  close  the 
afi'airs  of  the  bank.  The  profits  of  country  banks  in  those  days 
were  from  the  loaning  of  their  circulating  notes,  so  the  first  busi- 
ness engaging  the  officers  of  the  bank  was  the  signing  and  issuing 
of  its  bills,  and  a  good  portion  of  the  money  seems  to  have  found 
ready  borrowers.  The  bills  were  signed  by  president  and 
cashier  and  bore  a  blank  space  in  which  it  was  customary  to  write 
the  name  of  some  person  as  payee.  For  example,  at  one  direc- 
tors' meeting  it  was  voted  "To  fill  up  five  hundred  three  dollar 
bills  payable  to  D.  Cook.''  So  these  notes  were  made  payable 
to  D.  Cook  or  bearer  and  then  loaned  to  any  one  whose  note  was 
discounted  by  the  bank.  The  bills  were  redeemable  in  specie  at 
the  bank's  counter  and  the  constant  problem  was  to  keep  them  in 
circulation.  At  times  loans  were  made  of  the  banks  circulation 
on  ninety  days  with  a  charge  for  interest  of  only  half  that  time, 
the  object  being  to  keep  the  bills  away  from  the  bank  and  its 
redemption  obligations. 

The  strength  of  banks  issuing  currency  was  not  so  carefully 
considered  as  in  the  laws  made  at  a  later  period  and  it  appears  that 
quite  an  amount  of  the  stock  in  this  bank  was  issued  upon  credit. 
That  is,  the  stockholder  subscribed  for  his  shares  and  gave  his 
note  in  payment  for  part  or  whole  of  the  stock,  leaving  it  with  the 
bank  as  collateral.  The  legislature  of  18^3  passed  a  banking  act 
in  which  this  practice  of  loaning  by  banks  on  its  own  shares  was 
prohibited.  There  is  constant  reference  in  the  records  of  the 
Waterville  Bank  to  these  loans  on  hypothecated  shares  and  they 
appear  to  have  been  an  annoying  feature  of  the  business.     There 


362  HISTORY    OlF    WATERVILLE. 

was  a  constant  endeavor  to  get  them  paid  up  or  reduced  by 
restricting  the  amount  per  share  which  should  be  loaned  upon 
them.  The  Waterville  Bank,  however,  was  not  a  "wildcat"  bank, 
and  its  bills  seemed  to  have  a  good  standing  in  their  time,  and 
provision  was  made  for  the  outstanding  remnant  when  the  bank 
went  out  of  business.  The  only  statements  of  the  bank's  con- 
dition that  have  been  preserved  bear  the  dates  1814  and  181 5  and 
the  one  of  latest  date,  February,  181 5,  is  given  herewith.  The 
capital  of  the  bank  appears  to  have  been  increased  to  $100,000 
subsequent  to  this  report,  the  records  showing  a  reduction  from 
that  amount  later. 

ASSETS. 

Real  estate  $  2,200  00 

Stamps    100  00 

Loans    55,156  3^ 

Bills  of  other  banks  1,514  00 

Treasury  note  1,000  00 

Specie  with  Prest 3,270  95 

Specie  with  Cashier 2,581  54 

$65,822  85 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital    Stock   $50,000  00 

Bills  in  circulation  11 .425  00 

Profits    1,583  97 

Deposits,    individual 1,17023 

Deposits,  United  States   1.318  65 

Deposits  of  assessors'  money 68  00 

Deposits  to  Cr.  of  I.  G.  Neal  ,     257  00 


$65,822  85 


Interesting  features  of  this  statement  are  the  small  amount  of 
deposits  and  the  fact  brought  out  that  the  president  was  custodian 
of  part  of  the  bank's  funds.  When  specie  was  needed  for  busi- 
ness the  directors  passed  a  vote  that  a  certain  sum  should  be 
turned  over  by  the  president  to  the  cashier,  taking  his  receipt  for 
the  same.  The  president  had  a  strong  box  in  the  bank  in  which 
he  kept  the  money  of  which  he  had  charge.  It  was  the  rule  of 
the  bank  that  every  note,  at  least  those  taken  of  local  borrowers, 
should  bear  not  less  than  three  names.  The  record  of  the  seven- 
teen years  of  the  bank's  active  existence,  from  1814  to  1831  is 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK.  3^3 

told  quite  fully  in  the  minutes  of  the  directors'  meetings  (the 
stockholders'  records  not  having  been  preserved)  and  is  typical 
of  the  country  bank  of  that  period.  It  would  appear  that  there 
was  not  sufficient  local  demand  for  the  bank  funds  after  the  first 
wants  of  the  community  were  supplied,  and  large  sums  were 
placed  in  the  hands  of  agents  in  Boston,  to  be  loaned  by  them. 
There  is  record  of  $80,000  being  intrusted  to  Chas.  Scudder,  a 
Boston  merchant  who  enjoyed  at  one  time  the  confidence  of  the 
directors.  Mr.  Scudder  evidently  made  somic  poor  loans  to 
others  or  to  himself  for  in  a  settlement  with  the  bank  in  1821  he 
paid  about  $i,6oo  in  cash  on  claims  against  him  for  over 
$20,000.  The  bank  was  also  obliged  to  compromise  a  claim 
against  Mr.  Brooks,  another  Boston  agent.  The  bank  also  had 
in  Boston  a  correspondent  bank  where  its  circulation  was 
redeemed  and  part  of  its  funds  lodged. 

When  the  Suffolk  system,  so-called,  was  inaugurated  it  was 
the  endeavor  of  the  Suffolk  bank  to  make  itself  a  general 
redemption  agent  for  the  country  banks,  and  each  bank  was 
expected  to  keep  a  sum  of  money  there,  without  interest,  to 
redeem  its  bills  when  presented.  The  Waterville  bank  did  not 
take  kindly  to  this  arrangement  and  refused  to  keep  a  redemption 
fund  with  the  Suffolk.  Mr.  A.  A.  Plaisted  relates  that  his 
grandfather,  Moses  Appleton,  went  to  Boston  at  one  time  with  a 
large  sum  in  specie  for  the  purpose  of  taking  up  a  like  amount 
in  bank  bills  held  by  the  Suffolk.  This  bank,  to  punish  the 
Waterville  institution  for  not  coming  into  the  new  arrangement 
refused  to  take  the  money  and  sent  a  clerk  down  by  stage  to 
demand  specie  at  the  bank  counter.  Dr.  Appleton  returning  in 
the  same  stage,  bringing  back  the  coin.  The  bills  were  redeemed 
and  the  specie  took  another  trip  to  Boston.  In  these  early  days 
there  were  no  express  companies  and  money  was  sent  to  Boston 
or  brought  home  by  any  trusty  person  who  happened  to  be  mak- 
ing the  trip  by  stage  or  otherwise.  This  service  appears  usually 
to  have  been  voluntary  and  unpaid  but  there  is  a  vote  recorded 
at  one  of  the  directors  meetings  "that  the  cashier  pay  to  Mr.  Jos, 
Mitchell  the  sum  of  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  in  consideration  of 
his  care  and  prudent  management  in  bringing  specie  from  Boston 
in  January  last."  The  banks  capital  after  being  made  $100,000 
was  reduced  in  1828  to  $75,000  and  to  $50,000  in  the  following 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


per  share.  December  27.  1864.  the  vote  was  passed  to  surren- 
der the  charter  granted  by  the  State,  and  a  national  charter  was 
then  obtained.  The  records  of  directors  subsequent  to  1855  are 
missing  but  the  record  of  dividends  paid  up  to  that  time  shows  a 
prosperous  business. 

Presidents :  Timothy  Boutelle.  1832  to  1855  ;  Jos.  Eaton,  1855 
to  1865;  Solyman  Heath.  1865.  Cashiers:  Daniel  Cook,  1832 
to  1834;  Augustine  Perkins,  1834  to  1849;  Sumner  Percival, 
1849  to  1853;  Edw.  G.  Hoag,  1853  to  1858;  Aaron  Appleton 
Plaisted,  1S58.  Silas  Redington  also  served  as  cashier  for  a 
short  time  in  1858.  before  Mr.  Plaisted's  appointment.  Beside 
those  on  the  first  board  the  bank  was  served  as  directors  by  Asa 
Redington,  ^Nloses  Appleton,  Simeon  Mathews,  Sumner  Percival, 
Elah  Esty,  Samuel  Appleton,  Edwin  Noyes,  Samuel  Doolittle, 
Edw.  G.  Meader  and  Chas.  K.  Mathews. 


TICONIC    NATIONAL    BANK. 

The  Ticonic  changed  to  a  national  bank  in  1865,  its  charter 
bearing  date  January  2  of  that  year.  The  first  board  of  directors 
was  Joseph  Eaton  of  Winslow ;  Solyman  Heath,  Samuel  Doo- 
little, Edward  G.  Meader,  Charles  K.  iMathews.  Presidents: 
Jos.  Eaton.  1865.  January  to  September;  Solyman  Heath,  1865- 
1875  :  Samuel  Appleton,  1875-1884:  Nathaniel  R.  Boutelle.  1884- 
1891  ;  Chas.  K.  ^xlathews,  1891-1899;  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  1899 — . 
A.  A.  Plaisted  was  cashier  from  1865  to  1896  when  Appleton  H. 
Plaisted,  his  son,  was  chosen,  June  29.  A.  H.  Plaisted  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Hascall  S.  Hall,  the  present  cashier,  who  was  elected 
January  8.  1901,  having  served  as  assistant  from  January  2,  1898. 
Willard  H.  Parsons,  assistant,  was  appointed  February  14,  1901. 
The  present  board  of  directors  is  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  president; 
Clarence  A.  Leighton,  vice-president ;  Joseph  Eaton  of  Winslow, 
Charles  Wentworth  and  William  T.  Haines.  Others  who  have 
served  as  directors  are :  Dudley  W.  Moor.  Henry  R.  Butter- 
field,  Nathaniel  Meader,  J.  H.  Plaisted  and  H.  h.  Kelley.  Mr. 
A.  A.  Plaisted  served  a  remarkably  long  term  as  cashier  of  the 
Ticonic  and  Ticonic  National,  1858  to  1896,  a  period  of  thirty- 
eight  years.  During  nearly  the  whole  of  this  time  he  performed 
all  the  duties  of  cashier  without  help  and  had  no  vacations.     This 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


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bank  has  paid  in  dividends  since  1865,  $286,000,  to  July  i,  1902 
and  its  net  earnings  to  July  16,  1902,  have  been  $325,800. 

The  Ticonic  National  is  the  historic  and  family  bank  of  the 
city,  having  been  organized  as  a  State  bank  in  1831  to  succeed  the 
old  Waterville  Bank  founded  in  1814,  and  members  of  the  prom- 
inent old  families  in  the  past  and  at  the  present  time  being  con- 
nected with  its  management.  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  the  president 
at  this  time  is  a  son  of  Dr.  N.  R.  Boutelle  who  filled  the  same 
office  from  1884  to  1891,  and  is  a  grandson  of  Timothy  Boutelle 
who  served  as  a  director  of  the  old  W^aterville  Bank  and  was 
president  of  the  Ticonic  from  1832  to  1855.  A.  H.  Plaisted  and 
his  father,  A.  A.  Plaisted,  are  respectively  great-grandson  and 
grandson  of  ^Nloses  Appleton,  a  director  of  the  old  Waterville 
Bank,  A,  H.  Plaisted's  maternal  grandfather,  Solyman  Heath, 
was  president  of  the  Ticonic  in  1865.  Jos.  Eaton  of  the  present 
board  is  a  grandson  of  the  Jos.  Eaton  who  was  president  from 
1855  to  1865  ^^d  Asa  Redington,  connected  with  old  \\'aterville 
Bank  for  many  years  as  cashier  or  director,  is  the  ancestor  of 
all  the  Redingtons  now  living  in  this  city. 

Hascall  Shailer  Hall,  the  present  cashier,  is  son  of  Edw.  W. 
Hall,  librarian  and  registrar  of  Colby  College.  He  was  born  in 
Waterville  April  16,  1876,  and  received  his  education  here, 
graduating  from  Colby  in  1896,  and  was  engaged  in  teaching 
before  entering  the  bank.  Mr.  Hall  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order  but  holds  no  public  office.  The  average  individual  deposits 
of  the  Ticonic  for  the  year  ending  with  the  date  of  the  following 
report  have  been  $79,584. 


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366  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

per  share.  December  27,  1864.  the  vote  was  passed  to  surren- 
der the  charter  granted  by  the  State,  and  a  national  charter  was 
then  obtained.  The  records  of  directors  subsequent  to  1855  are 
missing  but  the  record  of  dividends  paid  up  to  that  time  shows  a 
prosperous  business. 

Presidents :  Timothy  Boutelle,  1832  to  1855  :  Jos.  Eaton,  1855 
to  1865;  Solyman  Heath.  1865.  Cashiers:  Daniel  Cook,  1832 
to  1834;  Augustine  Perkins,  1834  to  1849;  Sumner  Percival, 
1849  to  1853;  Edw.  G.  Hoag,  1853  to  1858;  Aaron  Appleton 
Plaisted,  1858.  Silas  Redington  also  served  as  cashier  for  a 
short  time  in  1858.  before  Mr.  Plaisted's  appointment.  Beside 
those  on  the  first  board  the  bank  was  served  as  directors  by  Asa 
Redington,  Mioses  Appleton,  Simeon  Mathews,  Sumner  Percival, 
Elah  Esty,  Samuel  Appleton,  Edwin  Noyes,  Samuel  Doolittle, 
Edw.  G.  Meader  and  Chas.  K.  Mathews. 


TICOXIC    NATIONAL    BANK. 

The  Ticonic  changed  to  a  national  bank  in  1865,  its  charter 
bearing  date  January  2  of  that  year.  The  first  board  of  directors 
was  Joseph  Eaton  of  Winslow ;  Solyman  Heath,  Samuel  Doo- 
little, Edward  G.  Meader,  Charles  K.  Mathews.  Presidents: 
Jos.  Eaton,  1865,  January  to  September;  Solyman  Heath,  1865- 
1875  ;  Samuel  Appleton,  1875-1884:  Nathaniel  R.  Boutelle,  1884- 
1891 ;  Chas.  K.  Mathews,  1891-1899;  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  1899 — . 
A.  A.  Plaisted  was  cashier  from  1865  to  1896  when  Appleton  H. 
Plaisted,  his  son,  was  chosen,  June  29.  A.  H.  Plaisted  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Hascall  S.  Hall,  the  present  cashier,  who  was  elected 
January  8,  1901,  having  served  as  assistant  from  January  2,  1898. 
Willard  H.  Parsons,  assistant,  was  appointed  February  14,  1901. 
The  present  board  of  directors  is  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  president; 
Clarence  A.  Leighton,  vice-president ;  Joseph  Eaton  of  Winslow, 
Charles  Wentworth  and  William  T.  Haines.  Others  who  have 
served  as  directors  are :  Dudley  W.  Moor.  Henry  R.  Butter- 
field,  Nathaniel  Meader,  J.  H.  Plaisted  and  H.  L.  Kelley.  Mr. 
A.  A.  Plaisted  served  a  remarkably  long  term  as  cashier  of  the 
Ticonic  and  Ticonic  National,  1858  to  1896,  a  period  of  thirty- 
eight  years.  During  nearly  the  whole  of  this  time  he  performed 
all  the  duties  of  cashier  without  help  and  had  no  vacations.     This 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  367 

bank  has  paid  in  dividends  since  1865,  $286,000,  to  July  i,  1902 
and  its  net  earnings  to  July  16,  1902,  have  been  $325,800. 

The  Ticonic  National  is  the  historic  and  family  bank  of  the 
city,  having  been  organized  as  a  State  bank  in  1831  to  succeed  the 
old  Waterville  Bank  founded  in  1814,  and  members  of  the  prom- 
inent old  families  in  the  past  and  at  the  present  time  being  con- 
nected with  its  management.  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  the  president 
at  this  time  is  a  son  of  Dr.  N.  R.  Boutelle  who  filled  the  same 
office  from  1884  to  1891,  and  is  a  grandson  of  Timothy  Boutelle 
who  served  as  a  director  of  the  old  Waterville  Bank  and  was 
president  of  the  Ticonic  from  1832  to  1855.  A.  H.  Plaisted  and 
his  father,  A.  A.  Plaisted,  are  respectively  great-grandson  and 
grandson  of  ^Nloses  Appleton,  a  director  of  the  old  Waterville 
Bank,  A.  H.  Plaisted's  maternal  grandfather,  Solyman  Heath, 
was  president  of  the  Ticonic  in  1865.  Jos.  Eaton  of  the  present 
board  is  a  grandson  of  the  Jos.  Eaton  who  was  president  from 
1855  to  1865  and  Asa  Redington,  connected  with  old  Waterville 
Bank  for  many  years  as  cashier  or  director,  is  the  ancestor  of 
all  the  Redingtons  now  living  in  this  city. 

Hascall  Shailer  Hall,  the  present  cashier,  is  son  of  Edw.  W. 
Hall,  librarian  and  registrar  of  Colby  College.  He  was  born  in 
Waterville  April  16,  1876,  and  received  his  education  here, 
graduating  from  Colby  in  1896,  and  was  engaged  in  teaching 
before  entering  the  bank.  Mr.  Hall  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order  but  holds  no  public  office.  The  average  individual  deposits 
of  the  Ticonic  for  the  year  ending  with  the  date  of  the  following 
report  have  been  $79,584. 


368  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

REPORT   OF    THE    CONDITION    OF   THE 

TICONIC    NATIONAL    BANK, 

at  Waterville,  in  the  State  of  Maine,  at  the  close  of  business,  July  i6,  1902. 

RESOURCES. 

Loans  and  discounts  $181,744  93 

Overdrafts,  secured  and  unsecured   215  79 

U.  S.  Bonds  to  secure  circulation 25,000  00 

Stocks,  Securities,   etc   10,61 1  S3 

Banking-house  furniture,  and  fixtures   10,000  00 

Due  from  National  Banks  (not  reserve  agents)    1,500  00 

Due  from  approved  reserve  agents  29,053  og 

Checks  and  other  cash  items  1. 153  02 

Notes  of  other  National  Banks  6,465  00 

Fractional  paper  currency,  nickels,  and  cents 20  00 

Lawful  Money  Reserve  in  Bank,  viz : 

Specie    10,097  59 

Legal-tender  notes   4,100  00 

14,197  59 
Redemption  fund  with  U.  S.  Treasurer  (5  per  cent,  of 

circulation,)    1,25000 

Total    $281,21075 

UABIUTIES, 

Capital  stock  paid  in  $100,000  00 

Surplus  fund   20,000  00 

Undivided  profits,  less  expenses  and  taxes  paid 19,799  74 

National  Bank  notes  outstanding  25,000  00 

Due  to  other  National  Banks 492  79 

Due  to  Trust  Companies  and  Savings  Banks 18,836  27 

Dividends   unpaid    477  00 

Individual  deposits  subject  to  check  '93,365  45 

Cashier's  checks  outstanding   3,239  50 

Total    $281,210  75 

State  of  Maine,  County  of  Kennebec,  ss : 

I,  Hascall  S.  Hall,  Cashier  of  the  above  named  bank,  do  solemnly 
swear  that  the  above  statement  is  true  to  the  best  of  my  knowledge  and 
befief. 

HASCALL  S.  HALL,  Cashier. 
Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me  this  23rd  day  of  July,  1902. 

J.  FOSTER  PERCIVAL,  Notary  Public. 
Correct, — Attest : 

GEO.  K.  BOUTELLE, 
JOSEPH  EATON, 
WILLIAM  T.  HAINES, 

Directors. 


NEHEMIAH    GETCHELL,    2nd. 


ELDRIDGE    E.   GETCHELE 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  369 


WATERVTLLE    BANK.       WATERVILLE    NATIONAL    BANK. 

This  bank  was  chartered  as  a  State  bank  in  1850,  commencing 
business  with  a  capital  of  $25,000,  all  paid  in  coin.  The  first 
board  of  directors  was  Samuel  P.  Shaw,  president ;  Increase  S. 
Johnson,  James  Stackpole,  Jr.,  Stephen  Stark,  John  R.  Phil- 
brick,  Wm.  Moor,  Ebenezer  Frye,  Thomas  G.  Kimball  and 
Daniel  H.  Brown.  Augustine  Perkins  was  first  cashier.  The 
location  of  the  bank  when  commencing  business  was  over  the 
Esty  &  Kimball  store  in  Ticonic  row.  This  was  the  store  at  the 
north  end  of  the  block  and  on  the  old  stone  door  posts  can  still 
be  seen  the  bank's  sign  painted  on  either  side  of  the  entrance. 
The  bank  in  1866  purchased  the  wooden  building  then  standing 
on  the  south  comer  of  Main  and  Silver  streets,  using  cm  upstairs 
room  for  a  banking  office,  and  in  1877  erected  the  brick  building 
which  now  stands  on  this  lot  and  is  called  the  Milliken  block. 
The  banking  office  was  on  the  lower  floor  in  the  room  now  used 
as  a  fruit  store  by  King  &:  Paganucci.  Mr.  Shaw  was  succeeded 
as  president,  in  1856,  by  D.  L.  Milliken  who  held  the  office  to  the 
closing  of  the  bank.  Mr.  Perkins  resigned  in  1861  and  I.  S. 
Bangs  was  chosen  cashier,  serving  until  1862,  when  he  resigned 
to  enter  the  army. 

Mr.  Perkins  was  again  chosen  but  resigned  in  1863  on  account 
of  ill  health  and  Eldridge  L.  Getchell  was  elected  and  continued 
to  the  closing  of  the  bank.  The  Waterville  became  a  national 
bank  in  1865  and  its  affairs  were  closed  up  in  1879-80.  The 
capital  of  the  bank  at  the  time  of  winding  up  was  $125,000  and 
the  stockholders  received  the  value  of  their  stock  in  full  and  a 
stock  dividend  of  20 7c.  This  bank  was  well  managed  and  paid 
good  dividends.  An  item  of  interest  in  the  director's  records  is 
the  passing  of  a  vote  in  March,  1851,  thanking  the  directors  of 
the  Ticonic  Bank  for  the  courtesy  and  liberality  extended  by 
them  and  promising  to  reciprocate.  The  board  of  directors  at 
time  of  the  bank's  closing  was  D.  L.  Milliken,  James  Stackpole, 
Francis  Dow  of  Clinton,  Thomas  G.  Kimball,  E.  F.  Webb,  EHas 
Milliken  and  1.  S.  Bangs. 

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370  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


people's  bank. 

The  records  of  this  bank  not  having  been  preserved  its  history 
will  necessarily  be  short.  It  was  organized  in  1855  ^^^^  Paul 
L.  Chandler  as  president  and  Sumner  Percival,  cashier.  John 
R.  Philbrick  was  president  at  one  time  and  Homer  Percival, 
father  of  the  present  cashier  of  the  People's  National,  succeeded 
his  brother  Sumner  as  cashier  in  1859.  John  Ware  was  presi- 
dent in  1865  when  the  change  to  the  national  form  was  made. 


people's  national  bank. 

In  1864  there  were  three  banks  in  Waterville,  the  Ticonic, 
successor  of  the  old  Waterville ;  a  second  Waterville  Bank  dating 
from  1850,  and  People's  Bank  which  commenced  business  in 
1855.  These  three  banks  voted  to  apply  for  charters  under  the 
national  system  and  it  was  agreed  in  a  spirit  of  fairness  that  the 
applications  should  all  be  sent  in  the  same  mail.  The  People's 
National  certificate  bears  date  March  15,  1865.  At  this  time  it 
was  located  in  the  second  story  of  a  wooden  building  standing 
on  the  site  now  occupied  by  a  brick  store  belonging  to  Geo.  K. 
Boutelle,  the  lower  floor  used  by  W.  A.  Hager  as  a  confectionery 
and  ice  cream  store.  The  bank  afterwards  moved  to  a  wooden 
building  where  the  Hanson,  Webber  &  Dunham  store  is,  and 
purchased  in  1884  the  brick  building  in  which  it  is  now  located. 

The  first  board  of  directors  after  the  change  to  the  national 
form  was  John  Webber,  father  of  John  N.  Webber,  vrce-presi- 
dent  at  the  present  time ;  Thomas  W.  Herrick,  William  Connor 
of  Fairfield,  James  P.  Blunt,  William  Dyer,  Luke  Brown,  2nd, 
and  L.  E.  Thayer.  The  late  F.  P.  Haviland  was  at  one  time  a 
director. 

Presidents:  John  Webber,  1865-1882;  N.  G.  H.  Pulsifer, 
1882-1893;  J,  W.  Philbrick,  1894-1900;  E.  G.  Hodgdon  of  Clin- 
ton, 1900, — Cshiers:  Homer  Percival,  1865-1893;  J.Foster 
Percival,  1893 — ;  Ernest  E.  Decker,  the  present  assistant,  was 
appointed  in  May,  1896.  The  present  board  of  directors  is  E.  G. 
Hodgdon,  president ;  John  N.  Webber,  vice-president ;  Arthur 
J.  Alden,  Christian  KnaufiF  and  Llewellyn  Parks  of  Pittsfield. 
The  vacancy  on  the  board  caused  by  the  death  of  Jonas  P.  Gray, 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILL^.  371 

for  many  years  a  director  has  not  been  filled  at  the  present  writ- 
ing. The  capital  of  the  People's  was  $150,000  in  1865  and  in 
1875  it  was  increased  to  $200,000.  It  has  paid  as  a  national  bank 
to  July  I,  1902,  dividends  amounting  to  $592,653,  and  its  net 
earnings  to  July  16  are  $654,281. 

People's  National  Bank  has  lately  installed  the  latest  electric 
protective  system,  has  improved  and  strengthened  its  vault,  put- 
ting in  a  fine  new  door  and  vestibule  and  has  added  safety  deposit 
boxes  to  its  equipment.  J.  Foster  Percival,  the  present  cashier, 
was  bom  in  Waterville  in  1847  and  received  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  and  high  school  of  the  city.  From  1864  to  1870 
he  was  with  a  Boston  commission  house  and  from  1870  to  1875 
in  the  elevator  business  in  Duluth.  In  1875  he  returned  to  his 
native  town  and  purchased  the  book  business  long  carried  on  by 
Chas.  K.  Mathews  in  the  store  in  the  Phenix  block  now  occupied 
by  W.  B.  Blanchard.  In  1883  he  sold  his  book  business  and 
entered  the  bank  as  his  father's  assistant,  serving  in  that  capacity 
for  ten  years,  when  he  was  chosen  cashier  in  1893.  Mr.  Percival 
has  been  treasurer  of  St.  Mark's  (Episcopal)  church  since  it  was 
organized  in  1876.     He  holds  no  other  public  office. 

The  average  individual  deposits  of  the  People's  National  the 
past  year  have  been  $146,584. 


374  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLi;. 

REPORT    OF    THE    CONDITION    OF 

MERCHANTS    NATIONAL    BANK, 

at  Waterville  in  the  State  of  Maine,  at  the  close  of  business,  July  i6,  1902. 

RESOURCES. 

Loans  and  discounts $179,280  53 

Overdrafts,  secured  and  unsecured  719  75 

U.  S.  Bonds  to  secure  circulation 25,000  00 

Stocks,  securities,  etc  74^673  35 

Banking-house,  furniture  and  fixtures 9,000  00 

Due  from  approved  reserve  agents 23,130  55 

internal  Revenue  Stamps   160  00 

Checks  and  other  cash  items  969  59 

Notes  of  other  Nat'l  Banks 8,541  00 

PVactional  paper  currency,  nickels  and  cts 128  88 

Lawful  money  reserve  in  bank,  viz  : 

Specie    I5i350  50 

Legal-tender  notes  3.909  00 

19,259  50 
Redemption  Fund  with  U.  S.  Treasurer,   (5  per  cent. 

of  circulation)    1.250  00 

Total    $342.11315 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital  stock  paid  in  $100,000  00 

vSurplus  Fund    30,000  00 

Undivided  profits,  less  expenses  and  taxes  paid 14.520  54 

National  Bank  Notes  outstanding  25,000  00 

Due  to  Trust  Companies  and  Savings  Banks 6.000  00 

Dividends  unpaid 162  00 

Individual  deposits  subject  to  check   164,110  88 

Demand  certificates  of  deposit   1.937  00 

Cashier's  checks  outstanding  382  70 

Total    $342.11315 

State  of  Maine,  County  of  Kennebec,  ss : 

I,  H.  D.  Bates.  Cashier  of  the  above-named  bank,  do  solemnly 
swear  thai  the  above  statement  is  true  to  the  best  of  my  knowledge  and 
belief. 

H.  D.  BATES.  Cashier. 
Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me  this  i8th  day  of  July.  1902. 

HARVEY  D.  EATON,  Notary  Public. 
Correct — Attest : 

J.  M.  WINN, 
FRED  POOLER. 
CHAS.  F.  JOHNSON, 

Directors. 


HISTORY    OlP    WATERVILLi:.  375 

wati:rville  loan  and  trust  company. 

February  19,  1889,  the  legislature  granted  a  charter  for  this 
institution  to  W.  T.  Haines,  F.  C.  Thayer,  Chas.  G.  Carleton 
and  W.  A.  R.  Boothby  and  their  associates  under  the  name  of 
The  Waterville  Loan,  Trust  and  Safe  Deposit  Company.  This 
name  was  later  changed  to  Waterville  Trust  and  Safe  Deposit 
Company  and  afterwards  to  its  present  title.  Its  charter  pro- 
vided for  the  double  liability  of  stockholders  and  the  establishing 
of  branches.  The  company  fitted  up  offices,  vaults,  and  installed 
safety  deposit  boxes  in  the  Masonic  block  and  commenced  busi- 
ness February  20,  1893.  Frederick  C.  Thayer  served  as  tempo- 
rary president  and  Chas.  G.  Carleton  as  treasurer,  during  the 
organization  period.  Isaac  C.  Libby  was  first  president  after  the 
bank  opened  for  business  and  R.  E.  Attwood,  treasurer.  The 
first  board  of  directors  was  F.  C.  Thayer,  C.  G.  Carleton,  W.  T. 
Haines,  Geo.  R.  Swasey  and  E.  A.  Milliken.  Mr.  Libby  died  in 
1899  ^^^  ^-  J-  Lawrence  of  Fairfield,  the  present  incumbent, 
was  elected  in  March,  iqoo.  R.  E.  Attwood  was  succeeded  as 
treasurer  in  February,  1898,  by  Harry  L.  Holmes.  R.  E.  Lin- 
coln was  assistant  until  September,  1897,  when  he  resigned  and 
Chas.  W.  Vigue  was  appointed.  The  present  board  of  directors 
is  E.  J.  Lawrence,  president ;  Horace  Purinton,  vice-president ; 
F.  C.  Thayer,  S.  A.  Nye  of  Fairfield,  Cyrus  W.  Davis,  C.  W. 
Abbott  and  P.  S.  Heald.  The  first  branch  opened  by  the  com- 
pany was  in  Newport  April,  1893,  and  in  April,  1898,  branches 
were  started  in  Dexter,  Corinna  and  Hartland.  These  branches 
act  as  feeders  to  the  main  office  at  Waterville  so  that  practically 
the  banking  business  in  these  country  towns  is  done  in  this  city. 

Each  branch,  as  well  as  the  home  office  has  a  savings  depart- 
ment and  this  has  proved  a  great  convenience  in  the  places  where 
the  branches  were  established.  The  company  does  a  general 
banking,  trust  and  safe  deposit  business.  It  is  trustee  for  the 
bonds  of  the  following  companies :  Lewiston,  Brunswick  and 
Bath  Street  Railway ;  Portsmouth,  Kittery  and  York  Street  Rail- 
way; Bangor,  Orono  and  Old  Town  Street  Railway;  Calais 
Street  Railway ;  Machias  Water  Company ;  Newport  Water 
Company ;  Riverside  Woolen  Company  of  Pittsfield ;  Gold  King 
Consolidated  Mines  Company;  Maine  Condensed  Milk  Company. 


376 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


The  institution  is  well  managed,  having  an  excellent  growth  and 
is  paying  at  present  8%  dividends. 

Harry  Lewis  Holmes,  the  present  treasurer,  is  a  resident  of 
Fairfield.  He  graduated  from  Fairfield  High  School  in  1885 
and  from  Dirigo  Business  College,  Augusta,  in  1886.  He  was 
bookkeeper  for  the  Maine  Manufacturing  Company  of  Fairfield 
for  about  five  years  and  served  as  bookkeeper  and  paymaster 
for  about  the  same  period  with  the  lumber  firm  of  G.  A.  and 
C.  M.  Phillips.  He  is  a  member  of  Siloam  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M., 
Fairfield,  and  of  Merrymeeting  Chapter,  O.  of  E.  S.,  in  the  same 
town. 

Statement  Watermlle  Trust  Company  April  26,  ipo2: 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital  stock  $100,000  00 

Undivided  profits  31,266  65 

Deposits,   demand    226.188  27 

Deposits,  time  592.452  01 

Due  other  banks   1,645  53 

$951,552  46 

ASSETS. 

Loans  and  discounts  $763,81 1  86 

Stocks  and  bonds  42,000  00 

Real   estate    3,000  00 

Fixtures  and  furniture    36,000  00 

Interest  due  not  paid 812  50 

Expense   Acct    1,680  96 

Cash  on  deposit  73.943  83 

Cash  on   hand    30.303  31 

$951,552  40 


WATERVILLE)    LOAN    AND    BUILDING    ASSOCIATION. 

This  association,  of  a  character  which  in  Massachusetts  are 
called  co-operative  banks,  was  organized  in  1887,  commencing 
business  in  April  of  that  year.  The  first  board  of  directors  was 
I.  S.  Bangs,  president;  P.  S.  Heald,  R.  A.  Call,  Jesse  Stinson, 
U.  S.  Smith,  W.  T.  Haines,  J.  W.  Harmon  and  the  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  association.  The  first  secretary  was  W.  A. 
R.  Boothby ;  treasurer,   H.  D.  Bates ;   auditor,  F.    B.   Hubbard, 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  377 

and  counsel  W.  T.  Haines.  jNlartin  F.  Bartlett,  the  present 
treasurer,  succeeded  W.  A.  R.  Boothby  who  resigned  in  1896, 
and  P.  S.  Heald  was  chosen  president  in  place  of  I.  S.  Bangs 
in  1895. 

The  present  board  of  directors  is  P.  S.  Heald,  W.  T.  Haines, 
Cxeorge  L.  Learned,  F.  D.  Lunt,  Geo.  W.  Dorr,  W.  A.  R. 
Boothby,  H.  D.  Bates,  A.  W.  Flood,  M.  F.  Bartlett.  Officers : 
P.  S.  Heald,  president ;  ^1.  F.  Bartlett,  secretary ;  H.  D.  Bates, 
treasurer;  W.  T.  Haines,  counsel  and  M.  E.  Adams,  auditor. 
The  association  has  filled  an  important  place  in  the  community 
in  affording  a  safe  and  quite  profitable  investment  for  monthly 
savings  and  in  aiding  the  building  of  homes.  The  system  under 
which  these  associations  are  managed  enables  them  to  loan  on 
a  less  margin  of  security  than  that  required  by  savings  banks 
and  this  feature  has  been  a  stimulus  to  building  where  they  are 
located.  This  association  has  loaned  on  first  mortgage  of  real 
estate  about  $210,000,  furnishing  funds  for  the  erection  of  over 
seventy  houses,  mostly  of  moderate  cost.  It  has  had  careful 
management  and  its  losses  have  been  small. 

The  association  from  1888  to  1900  paid  six  per  cent  per  annum 
to  its  shareholders.  Since  that  time  the  rate  has  been  five  per 
cent,  the  change  being  made  necessary  by  the  lowering  of  rates 
for  loans  and  by  the  abolishing  of  the  premium  of  twenty-five 
cents  per  share.  The  rate  now  for  loans  is  six  per  cent,  the  in- 
terest and  an  installment  of  the  loan  being  payable  monthly. 
Holders  of  shares  pay  monthly,  and  this  monthly  compounding 
of  interest  and  installments  of  principal  enables  the  association  to 
pay  fair  dividends  to  its  shareholders. 

The  Fifteenth  Annual  Statement,  May  24,  ip02. 

ASSETS. 

Cash $661  82 

Share  loans  986  00 

Real  estate  loans   89,446  82 

Temporary  expense 40  50 

Real  estate  account  3,000  00 

Uncollected  interest 1.387  42 

$95,522  56 


378  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

LIABILITIES. 

Guaranty    $560  50 

Profit  and  loss  3,i  18  77 

Capital  dues 85,608  04 

House  account   34  40 

Bills    payable    6.200  85 

$95,522  56 

M.  F.  Bartiett,  Secretary. 

May  24,  1902. 
I  hereby  certify  that  I  have  examined  the  accounts  of  the  Waterville 
Loan  &  Building  Association  to  date,  and  find  the  same  correct. 

M.  E.  Adams,  Auditor. 

WATERVILLE   SAVINGS   BANK. 

(Written  by  E.  T.  Wyman.) 

The  Waterville  Savings  bank  was  chartered  in  1869  with  the 
following  charter  members  of  the  corporation :  L.  E.  Thayer, 
J.  F.  Elden,  Reuben  Foster,  T.  W.  Herrick,  William  Tobey,  John 
Webber,  H.  A.  Marston,  J.  P.  Cafifrey,  Chas.  A.  Henrickson, 
B.  A.  Robie,  G.  L.  Robinson,  Luke  Brown,  W.  L.  Leslie,  Wil- 
liam Dyer,  E.  E.  Getchell,  G.  B.  Broad,  Ira  H.  Lowe,  S.  C. 
Marston,  N.  G.  H.  Pulsifer,  James  R  Blunt,  E.  F.  Webb,  G.  A. 
Phillips,  D.  R.  Wing,  Homer  Percival,  Noah  Boothby  and  C.  F. 
Hathaway. 

The  charter  was  accepted  and  the  organization  was  partially 
completed  March  2^^,  1869.  March  29,  a  set  of  by-laws  was 
adopted  and  on  May  4  the  organization  was  completed  and  a 
board  of  trustees  was  elected  composed  of  William  Dyer,  C.  F. 
Hathaway,  Moses  Lyford,  Ira  H.  Lowe  and  N.  G.  H.  Pulsifer. 
Homer  Percival  was  elected  treasurer  and  clerk,  and  William 
Dyer,  president.  May  10  the  bank  was  located  in  the  rooms 
occupied  by  the  People's  National  Bank,  the  use  of  which  was  to 
be  had  for  one  year  free  of  charge.  The  amount  of  the  treas- 
urer's bond  was  fixed  at  $10,000  and  his  salary  at  $600.  May 
31,  less  than  a  month  after  the  bank  opened,  ten  loans  amounting 
to  about  $9,000  were  ai)proved.  The  first  depositor  in  the  new 
bank  was  John  A.  Vigue,  one  of  its  present  board  of  trustees. 
The  first  loan  was  made  to  Joseph  H.  Lunt.     The  bank  was 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  379 

examined  for  the  first  time  in  November  and  the  trustees  certified 
to  the  report  that  there  were  on  deposit  $67,773.02,  and  that 
profits  of  $566.20  were  on  hand. 

In  less  than  a  year  the  list  of  depositors  numbered  791  and 
the  deposits  amounted  to  $186,492.91.  Homer  Percival  con- 
tinued to  be  secretary  and  treasurer  until  May  9,  1871,  when  his 
son,  Marshall  C.  Percival,  who  had  been  from  the  beginning 
acting  treasurer,  was  chosen  treasurer,  and  held  the  office  until 
May  25,  1874,  when  he  resigned.  In  May  of  1872  a  dividend 
at  the  rate  of  seven  per  cent  was  declared.  At  this  May  meeting 
Reuben  Foster  was  elected  president  and  was  re-elected  every 
year  until  his  death  in  1898.  Upon  Mr.  Percival's  resignation 
as  treasurer,  Everett  R.  Drummond,  the  present  treasurer,  was 
chosen  to  succeed  him. 

In  1876  C.  C.  Cornish  began  a  long  term  of  service  as  one  of 
the  board  of  trustees.  Moses  Lyford,  the  last  of  the  original 
board  retired  in  1886.  In  1897,  Albert  F.  Drummond,  was 
chosen  assistant  treasurer.  In  1898,  George  K.  Boutelle  was 
elected  to  the  board  to  succeed  Reuben  Foster,  deceased,  George 
W.  Reynolds  was  chosen  president.  In  1900  he  was  succeeded 
by  Christian  Knauff,  the  present  president.  The  only  financial 
embarrassment  the  bank  has  known  came  in  1876  when,  on 
account  of  the  marked  shrinkage  of  railroad  bonds  and  real 
estate,  the  board  of  trustees  thought  best  for  the  bank  to  suspend. 
The  bank  examiner,  after  making  a  valuation  of  its  assets,  con- 
sidered them  worth  about  87 j'^  per  cent  of  the  bank's  liabilities. 
The  trustees  then  arranged  by  an  agreement  with  nearly  all  the 
depositors  to  scale  down  123^4  per  cent  rather  than  put  the  bank 
into  the  hands  of  a  receiver.  After  a  suspension  of  about  six 
months,  it  resumed  business  on  a  basis  the  solidity  of  which  has 
never  since  been  questioned. 

Present  board  of  trustees :  Christian  Knauff,  Josiah  W.  Bas- 
sett  of  Winslow,  Geo.  K.  Boutelle,  Dana  P.  Foster,  Howard  C. 
Morse,  John  A.  Vigue,  and  S.  T.  Lawry  of  Fairfield.  Officers : 
Christian  Knaufif,  president ;  Everett  R.  Drummond,  treasurer : 
Albert  F.  Drummond,  assistant  treasurer. 


380  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

Statement  of  the  condition  of  the  Waterville  Savings  Bank,  as  it  exis- 
ted on  the  13th  day  of  May,  1902. 

LIABILITIES. 

Deposits    $1,186,826  49 

Reserve  fund 51,320  00 

Undivided  profits 12,008  16 

$1,250,154  65 
RESOURCES. 

Loans $541,342  00 

National  bank  stock,  par 88,270  00 

Other  bank  stock  par 4,050  00 

Railroad  bonds  3i5>8oo  00 

RaiJroad  stock I4,500  00 

Municipal  and  county  bonds 144,500  00 

Corporation  bonds 37,900  00 

United  States  bonds  17.000  00 

Premium  account 9,000  00 

Real  estate  invested "         21,600  00 

Real  estate  by  foreclosure 26,244  50 

Cash  and  deposited 29,948  15 


$1,250,154  65 

The  Bank  Examiner  makes  the  estimated  market  value  of  the  above 
$1,320,549.70  or  $125,873.21  above  all  liabilities. 


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CHAPTER  XVll. 


THE  WATERVILLE  WOMAN'S  ASSOCIATION. 
By  Mrs.  James  H.  Hanson. 

The  Waterville  Woman's  Association  was  formed  in  the  year 
eighteen  eighty-seven.  Mrs.  Sarah  Scott  Ware,  widow  of  John 
Ware,  Sr.,  a  large-hearted  woman  of  excellent  judgment,  benevo- 
lent purpose,  and  friendly  interest  in  the  working  women  of  the 
town,  with  ample  means,  invited  friends  who  were  in  sympathy 
with  the  movement,  to  meet  at  her  house  to  form  an  association 
whose  object  should  be,  as  expressed  in  the  following  words  of 
the  revised  constitution :  "To  provide  and  maintain  a  homelike 
and  attractive  room,  furnished  with  facilities  for  literary  and 
womanly  culture  and  usefulness,  which  shall  be  free  to  all 
women  young  and  old. 

"A  special  attraction  to  this  room  shall  be  a  library  enlarged 
and  replenished  from  time  to  time  as  funds  may  warrant.  Books 
may  be  taken  from  this  library  for  home  reading,  on  payment 
of  one  dollar  yearly  or  one  cent  a  day." 

After  varying  experiences,  some  discouragement,  but  no  fail- 
ure, a  free  reading  room,  well  warmed,  well  lighted,  bright  and 
cheery  was  opened  a  portion  of  each  week  day  and  on  Sunday 
afternoon  from  three  to  five.  Mrs.  Ware  was  the  first  president 
and  became  responsible  for  the  rent  the  first  year.  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth D.  Bates  was  the  second  president  and  brought  to  the  work 
the  serenity  of  character,  helpfulness  and  courage  that  were  so 
much  needed  at  the  time.  Mrs.  L.  T.  Boothby  was  vice-presi- 
dent and  from  that  time  to  the  present  has  been  an  earnest,  sym- 
pathetic, generous  helper. 


382  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Mrs.  S.  G.  Crosby,  secretary  for  several  years,  was  actively 
engaged  in  the  duties  of  her  office,  and  afterward  became  a 
valuable  contributor  to  the  literary  work  of  the  club  connected 
with  the  association. 

Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Blaisdell,  the  first  treasurer,  was  a  constant, 
reliable  worker,  ever  hopeful  and  helpful,  and  a  faithful  cus- 
todian of  her  trust. 

Miss  L.  E.  McLain,  the  present  librarian,  has  given  her  Sat- 
urday evenings  to  the  library  from  its  very  small  beginning  to 
the  present  time  with  cheerful,  untiring  devotion.  The  money 
for  the  first  book  purchased  for  the  library  was  given  by  Miss 
McLain. 

On  the  tables  of  the  rooms  are  found  the  best  magazines  of 
the  day  and  several  daily  and  weekly  newspapers.  Encyclo- 
pedias and  other  valuable  books  of  reference  are  conveniently 
placed  for  school  girls  and  for  others  who  often  come  to  them 
to  settle  unanswered  questions  or  to  seek  information  not  readily 
found  elsewhere. 

Games  are  provided  for  those  who  do  not  care  to  read  or  study, 
and  an  easy-running  sewing  machine  stands  near  a  window 
where  the  girl  from  college,  factory,  school  or  place  of  employ- 
ment can  stitch  whenever  she  wishes  to  do  so.  For  a  time  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  B.  Foster  had  an  interesting  Bible  class  one  evening 
in  the  week  and  Mrs.  Jessie  Smith  Hubbard  gave  valuable 
instruction  in  vocal  culture  on  another  evening. 

At  first,  four  evenings  a  week  were  devoted  to  classes  for 
study.  For  several  years,  on  Sunday  afternoon,  the  hour  from 
four  to  five  was  occupied  by  a  meeting  which  opened  with  a  brief 
service  of  song,  then  a  Scripture  lesson  and  prayer,  followed  by 
a  talk  given  by  some  member  of  the  association  or  an  invited 
guest  who  gave  a  review  of  some  instructive  book,  a  personal 
experience,  a  biographical  sketch,  or  spoke  upon  a  topic  of 
immediate  and  general  interest. 

From  one  of  these  services  came  the  impulse  to  establish  a 
sewing  school  on  The  Plains. 

To  the  young  girl  coming  here  in  search  of  work — an  entire 
stranger — new  to  everything,  and  through  loneliness  liable  to 
fall  into  temptations  abounding  in  a  city,  the  association  oflfers 
a  pleasant  place  presided  over,  for  the  last  seven  years  by  Miss 


HISTORY    OP    WATERVILLE.  3^3 

Frances  F.  Dunbar,  who  has  never  failed  to  extend  a  hearty 
welcome  and  a  hopeful  w^ord  to  each  and  all  who  need  sympathy 
and  genuine  kindness. 

After  a  few  years  the  sewing  and  evening  classes  became  so 
large  that  it  was  found  necessary  to  add  to  the  accommodations. 
A  large  front  room  was  rented  in  eighteen  ninety-nine. 

Additional  expenses  were  incurred  and  though  generous  gifts 
were  received  from  interested,  sympathizing  citizens  who  are; 
not  included  in  the  membership,  the  question  of  financial  support 
became  increasingly  difficult.  Much  money  has  been  raised 
from  entertainments  and  from  lectures  and  readings,  by  members 
of  our  college  faculty  and  interested  friends  from  other  places. 
The  Woman's  Exchange  is  a  source  of  income,  and  it  gives  to 
many  the  opportunity  to  make  things  and  bring  them  to  the 
rooms  for  sale.  A  small  commission  goes  into  the  treasury  of 
the  association.  At  this  exchange  department  may  be  found  fine 
photographs,  calendars  and  needle  work  from  the  finest  Batten- 
berg  lace  to  a  kitchen  holder. 

The  observance  of  the  birthday  of  the  association  brings  in  a 
larger  sum  of  money  than  any  other  entertainment.  It  was 
inaugurated  and  carried  to  success  by  the  skillful  management 
and  the  persistent,  earnest  efforts  of  Mrs.  Annie  G.  Pepper. 

One  advantage  that  the  association  enjoys  is,  that  old  and 
young  work  together  harmoniously.  The  young  bring  to  it  their 
youth,  their  helpfulness,  their  enthusiasm  and  their  valuable 
assistance.  The  successful  doll  sales  and  May-basket  sales  are 
largely  due  to  the  labor  and  skill  of  these  young  ladies.  They 
are  also  indispensable  in  the  work  of  the  schools. 

There  are  schools  for  study  two  evenings  in  the  week.  The 
average  attendance  about  thirty-five.  One  sewing  school  for  the 
younger  children  is  held  Saturday  afternoon  and  one  for  the 
older  girls  in  the  evening.  The  number  of  the  younger  is  thirty- 
five  and  of  the  older  from  fi-fteen  to  twenty. 

There  is  a  self-constituted,  self-conducted,  free  employment 
bureau  at  the  rooms.  Women  in  search  of  work  and  women 
who  need  service  go  almost  instinctively  to  Miss  Dunbar. 

There  is  also  a  lunch  room  for  those  who  live  too  far  from 
home  to  go  there  for  a  dinner.  Here  they  as  well  as  shoppers 
can  find  quiet  and  rest. 


\S2 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


Mrs.  S.  G.  Crosby,  secretary  for  several  years,  was  actively 
engaged  in  the  duties  of  her  office,  and  afterward  became  a 
valuable  contributor  to  the  literary  work  of  the  club  connected 
with  the  association. 

Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Blaisdell,  the  first  treasurer,  was  a  constant, 
reliable  worker,  ever  hopeful  and  helpful,  and  a  faithful  cus- 
todian of  her  trust. 

Miss  L.  E.  McLain,  the  present  librarian,  has  given  her  Sat- 
urday evenings  to  the  library  from  its  very  small  beginning  to 
the  present  time  with  cheerful,  untiring  devotion.  The  money 
for  the  first  book  purchased  for  the  library  was  given  by  Miss 
McLain. 

On  the  tables  of  the  rooms  are  found  the  best  magazines  of 
the  day  and  several  daily  and  weekly  newspapers.  Encyclo- 
pedias and  other  valuable  books  of  reference  are  conveniently 
placed  for  school  girls  and  for  others  who  often  come  to  them 
to  settle  unanswered  questions  or  to  seek  information  not  readily 
found  elsewhere. 

Games  are  provided  for  those  who  do  not  care  to  read  or  study, 
and  an  easy-running  sewing  machine  stands  near  a  window 
where  the  girl  from  college,  factory,  school  or  place  of  employ- 
ment can  stitch  whenever  she  wishes  to  do  so.  For  a  time  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  B.  Foster  had  an  interesting  Bible  class  one  evening 
in  the  week  and  Mrs.  Jessie  Smith  Hubbard  gave  valuable 
instruction  in  vocal  culture  on  another  evening. 

At  first,  four  evenings  a  week  were  devoted  to  classes  for 
study.  For  several  years,  on  Sunday  afternoon,  the  hour  from 
four  to  five  was  occupied  by  a  meeting  which  opened  with  a  brief 
service  of  song,  then  a  Scripture  lesson  and  prayer,  followed  by 
a  talk  given  by  some  member  of  the  association  or  an  invited 
guest  who  gave  a  review  of  some  instructive  book,  a  personal 
experience,  a  biographical  sketch,  or  spoke  upon  a  topic  of 
immediate  and  general  interest. 

From  one  of  these  services  came  the  impulse  to  establish  a 
sewing  school  on  The  Plains. 

To  the  young  girl  coming  here  in  search  of  work — an  entire 
stranger — new  to  everything,  and  through  loneliness  liable  to 
fall  into  temptations  abounding  in  a  city,  the  association  oflFers 
a  pleasant  place  presided  over,  for  the  last  seven  years  by  Miss 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


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Frances  F.  Dunbar,  who  has  never  failed  to  extend  a  hearty 
welcome  and  a  hopeful  word  to  each  and  all  who  need  sympathy 
and  genuine  kindness. 

After  a  few  years  the  sewing  and  evening  classes  became  so 
large  that  it  was  found  necessary  to  add  to  the  accommodations. 
A  large  front  room  was  rented  in  eighteen  ninety-nine. 

Additional  expenses  were  incurred  and  though  generous  gifts 
were  received  from  interested,  sympathizing  citizens  who  are 
not  included  in  the  membership,  the  question  of  financial  support 
became  increasingly  difficult.  Much  money  has  been  raised 
from  entertainments  and  from  lectures  and  readings,  by  members 
of  our  college  faculty  and  interested  friends  from  other  places. 
The  Woman's  Exchange  is  a  source  of  income,  and  it  gives  to 
many  the  opportunity  to  make  things  and  bring  them  to  the 
rooms  for  sale.  A  small  commission  goes  into  the  treasury  of 
the  association.  At  this  exchange  department  may  be  found  fine 
photographs,  calendars  and  needle  work  from  the  finest  Batten- 
berg  lace  to  a  kitchen  holder. 

The  observance  of  the  birthday  of  the  association  brings  in  a 
larger  sum  of  money  than  any  other  entertainment.  It  was 
inaugurated  and  carried  to  success  by  the  skillful  management 
and  the  persistent,  earnest  efiforts  of  Mrs.  Annie  G.  Pepper. 

One  advantage  that  the  association  enjoys  is,  that  old  and 
young  work  together  harmoniously.  The  young  bring  to  it  their 
youth,  their  helpfulness,  their  enthusiasm  and  their  valuable 
assistance.  The  successful  doll  sales  and  May-basket  sales  are 
largely  due  to  the  labor  and  skill  of  these  young  ladies.  They 
are  also  indispensable  in  the  work  of  the  schools. 

There  are  schools  for  study  two  evenings  in  the  week.  The 
average  attendance  about  thirty-five.  One  sewing  school  for  the 
younger  children  is  held  Saturday  afternoon  and  one  for  the 
older  girls  in  the  evening.  The  number  of  the  younger  is  thirty- 
five  and  of  the  older  from  fiJteen  to  twenty. 

There  is  a  self-constituted,  self-conducted,  free  employment 
bureau  at  the  rooms.  Women  in  search  of  work  and  women 
who  need  service  go  almost  instinctively  to  Miss  Dunbar. 

There  is  also  a  lunch  room  for  those  who  live  too  far  from 
home  to  go  there  for  a  dinner.  Here  they  as  well  as  shoppers 
can  find  quiet  and  rest. 


384  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Many  a  family  has  been  made  comfortable  from  second-hand 
clothing  obtained  from  the  rooms  as  a  center  of  distribution. 
This  is  given  where  evidently  needed,  or  sold  at  a  very  low  price. 

The  library,  from  its  small  beginning,  has  been  gradually 
enlarged,  by  individual  gifts,  by  library  fees,  by  contributions 
from  other  organizations  and  by  the  addition  of  the  well-selected 
Bank  Library,  till  it  now  numbers  three  thousand  volumes  and 
has  a  card  catalogue  prepared  entirely  by  the  generous  labor  of 
Mrs.  Mary  Smith  Philbrick. 

An  interesting  feature  of  the  last  year's  work  has  been  the 
Mother's  Meeting  held  in  the  rooms  from  four  to  five,  on  Sun- 
day where  talks  of  great  value  have  been  given  by  some  of  the 
ablest  members  of  the  association.  The  present  number  of  the 
association  is  two  hundred  sixty-three. 

In  the  winter  of  eighteen  ninety-two  the  Women's  Literary 
Club  was  organized  as  a  branch  of  the  Woman's  Association  and 
under  the  same  officers.  It  now  has  officers  of  its  own,  but 
remains  closely  affiliated  to  the  association.  The  membership 
is  not  limited  and  those  who  join  are  interested  in  both.  The 
number  of  members  for  the  last  year  was  one  hundred  forty- 
nine.  The  different  objects  of  the  association  are  closely  in 
touch  with  each  other.  Each  has  its  individuality  but  in  all 
there  is  unanimity  of  purpose. 

The  fifteenth  milestone  marks  a  somewhat  uneventful  year, 
but  steady,  quiet  work  goes  on  under  the  excellent  leadership 
of  Mrs.  Clara  E.  Bessey,  who  has  held  the  office  of  p'-esident  of 
the  association  for  ten  years.  She  accepts  and  performs  the 
duties  of  the  place  with  ability,  coura^re  and  untiring  service. 

Mrs.  J.  W.  Black  has  been  the  capable  vice-president  and 
valuable  helper  for  five  years. 

Miss  Florence  Plaisted  is  the  successor  to  Miss  Blaisdell  as 
treasurer  and  brings  to  the  association  all  that  is  implied  in  the 
words,  an  interested  worker. 

Miss  Frances  F.  Dunbar,  the  general  secretary,  is  eminently 
fitted  not  for  the  place  but  for  the  places  she  fills.  She  is  often 
weary  but  never  disheartened  or  discouraged.  Her  genial  good 
temper,  her  cheerfulness,  her  sincere  interest  in  the  unfortunate, 
her  tireless  industry,  her  ready  sympathy,  her  tactful  skill  in 
dealing  with  women  and  girls,  and  her  love  for  the  work  make 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE:.  385 

her  services  invaluable.  Miss  Arra  Pike  is  the  careful,  com- 
petent recording  secretary,  who  does  not  limit  her  duty  to  this 
work  alone. 

There  are  scores  of  others  equally  loyal  and  devoted  to  the  wel- 
fare of  the  association,  who  hold  up  the  hands  of  the  officers  and 
help  make  the  Waterville  Woman's  Association  a  growing  and 
important  feature  of  the  city's  influence  in  carrying  on  the  legiti- 
mate work  of  the  times. 


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388  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

the  year,  raise  an  equal  sum.  The  condition  was  not  fulfilled 
and  the  money  reverted  to  the  heirs. 

Early  in  1896,  the  women  of  Waterville,  whose  attention  had 
been  called  10  the  matter  by  Mrs.  Lillian  Hallock  Campbell, 
began  to  interest  themselves  in  a  movement  to  secure  a  free  pub- 
lic library  for  Waterville.  While  the  library  of  the  Woman's 
Association,  and  the  Bank  Library,  so  called,  supplied  many, 
there  were  a  great  number  of  people  who  were  not  reached  by 
them,  and  it  was  hoped  that  the  agitation  would  result  in  some- 
thing both  permanent  and  adequate. 

During  the  two  weeks  preceding  the  first  meeting,  Mrs.  Camp- 
bell called  personally  upon  over  fifty  women,  asking  their 
co-operation.  From  Mrs.  G.  D.  B.  Pepper  was  received  the  first 
offer  of  assistance ;  while  of  the  men,  Mr.  Simon  S.  Brown  was 
the  first  to  become  interested. 

On  the  evening  of  Februar}^  13,  some  of  the  representative 
women  of  the  city  met  in  the  Ware  Parlors  and  organized  the 
Waterville  Library  Association,  with  the  following  officers : 

President,  Mrs.  Willard  B.  Arnold ;  vice-presidents,  Mrs.  T. 
J.  Volentine,  Miss  Lovering,  Mrs.  F.  C.  Thayer,  Miss  McLain, 
Mrs.  Berry;  secretary,  Mrs.  M.  D.  Johnson;  treasurer,  Miss 
Bessie  Stevens ;  committee  on  ways  and  means,  Mrs.  Pulsifer, 
Mrs.  H.  D.  Bates,  Mrs.  F.  B.  Hubbard ;  executive  committee, 
Mrs.  F.  A.  Love  joy,  Mrs.  G.  D.  B.  Pepper,  Mrs.  George  A. 
Alden;  school  committee.  Miss  Hortense  Low,  Miss  Mary 
Abbott;  press  committee,  Mrs.  R.  W.  Dunn,  Mrs,  G.  A.  Camp- 
bell, Mrs.  J.  D.  Taylor;  information  committee,  Mrs.  S.  S. 
Brown,  Mrs.  J.  F.  Percival,  Mrs.  Edward  Ware. 

Public  interest  was  aroused.  Among  the  first  to  express  this 
interest  in  a  substantial  form  were  Redington  and  Company,  M. 
C.  Foster,  W.  M.  Lincoln  and  W.  B.  Arnold.  As  these  con- 
tributions were  unsolicited,  it  was  very  gratifying  to  those  who 
had  the  matter  in  hand.  Other  gifts  followed  which  showed 
that  the  movement  met  with  approval. 

The  women  now  called  to  their  aid  the  citizens  of  Waterville. 
The  incorporators  met  in  the  Ware  Parlors  on  the  evening  of 
March  25,  S.  S.  Brown  presiding.  S.  S.  Brown,  Annie  G.  Pep- 
per and  T.  J.  Volentine  reported  a  code  of  by-laws  which  in  an 


HISTORY   O?    WATERVILLK.  3^9 

amended  form  was  adopted.     The  Waterville  Free  Library  Asso- 
ciation was  then  organized,  with  the  following  officers : 

President,  The  Mayor,  Edmund  F.  Webb,  ex-officio;  vice- 
president,  Charles  F.  Johnson;  secretary,  Frank  B.  Hubbard, 
treasurer,  Horatio  D.  Bates;  trustees  for  one  year,  Simon  S. 
Brown,  Harvey  D.  Eaton ;  two  years,  Annie  G.  Pepper,  Prof.  A. 
L.  Lane ;  three  years,  Lillian  Hallock  Campbell,  Rev.  N.  Char- 
land;  four  years,  Mrs.  Willard  B.  Arnold,  Frank  Redington; 
elected  by  the  Board  of  Trade,  Elwood  T.  Wyman ;  by  the  city, 
Arthur  J.  Roberts,  W.  M.  Lincoln,  Horatio  D.  Bates. 

Mass  meetings  were  held  in  City  Hall,  at  which  speeches  were 
made  in  favor  of  the  movement. 

As  a  direct  result  of  the  first  meeting,  shelves  were  set  up  in 
the  law  office  of  Harvey  D.  Eaton,  and  contributions  of  books 
called  for.  Mr.  Eaton  gave  from  his  own  library  about  forty 
volumes,  and  to  these  were  added  others,  while  Redington  and 
Company  kindly  donated  a  table.  These  books  were  free  to  all ; 
and  until  the  library  was  opened  in  August,  were  publicly  cir- 
culated. 

The  public  was  informed  on  April  7,  1896,  that  the  Waterville 
Free  Library  was  organized  and  ready  to  receive  contributions. 
Pledge  cards  were  placed  in  the  banks,  drug  stores  and  leading 
grocery  stores ;  the  city  was  assigned  by  wards  to  members  of  the 
association,  and  every  effort  made  to  raise  funds  for  the  purchase 
of  books. 

By  May  12,  eleven  hundred  dollars  had  been  raised  by  personal 
solicitation  and  by  pledge  cards.  This,  with  the  five  hundred 
dollars  appropriated  by  the  city,  constituted  the  first  working 
fund  of  the  library.  The  book  purchasing  committee,  composed 
of  Prof.  Lane,  Mrs.  Campbell,  Elwood  T.  Wyman,  Harvey  D. 
Eaton  and  Horatio  D.  Bates,  proceeded  at  once  to  select  the 
''foundation  books"  of  the  library,  a  task  of  no  small  importance. 
Lists  were  carefully  prepared  from  various  catalogues ;  the  wis- 
dom of  the  committee  being  demonstrated  by  the  librarian's 
report  of  the  first  year,  which  showed,  that  the  library  opened 
with  433  books;  increased,  during  the  year,  to  1,250;  while  the 
out  put  for  the  year  had  been  15,504. 

A  room  in  Plaisted  Block  was  secured,  and  the  library  was 
opened  to  the  public  August  22,  1896,  with  Mrs.  Agnes  M.  John- 


390  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

son  as  librarian.     INIiich  credit  is  due  to  Mrs.  Johnson  for  her 
untiring  devotion  to  the  interests  of  the  Ubrary. 

In  1898  it  was  moved  to  its  present  quarters  in  the  Haines 
Building. 

The  librarian's  report  for  May,  1902  shows  that  the  number  of 
volumes  accessioned  is  3,088 ;  the  circulation  for  the  year  ending 
May  16,  1902,  being  20,692.  There  has  been  a  gradual  decrease 
in  the  circulation  of  fiction;  while  the  reference  work  in  connec- 
tion with  the  schools,  is  constantly  and  rapidly  increasing. 

The  history  of  the  library  is  very  largely  one  of  ways  and 
means.  It  has  received  from  the  city  each  year  an  appropriation  of 
five  hundred  dollars,  increased  for  the  year  1902,  to  one  thousand 
dollars,  and  from  the  State,  fifty  dollars,  an  amount  supposed 
to  cover  the  running  expenses ;  although  as  a  matter  of  fact  it 
has  not.  Beyond  this,  it  is  dependent  for  its  support  upon  vol- 
untary contributions. 

Various  entertainments  have  been  given  to  raise  money  for 
the  purchase  of  books.  The  concert  given  in  August,  1898.  by 
friends  of  the  library,  resulted  in  a  gift  of  two  hundred  forty-two 
dollars  and  fifty  cents,  two  hundred  dollars  being  set  aside  as  a 
nucleus  for  a  building  fund.  This  concert  was  made  possible 
through  the  efforts  of  Mrs.  Frederic  E.  Boothby  of  Portland, 
who  has  shown  her  interest  in  Waterville  in  many  ways.  No 
expense  whatever  was  incurred ;  the  artists,  Mrs.  Antonia  Saw- 
yer, Miss  Harriet  Shaw,  harpist.  Miss  Alice  Philbrook,  pianist, 
and  Miss  Blanche  Smith,  accompanist,  giving  their  services  at 
the  request  of  Mrs.  Boothby.  All  other  arrangements^  were 
made  by  Mrs.  Willard  B.  Arnold  who  was  equally  successful  in 
securing  assistance. 

Mrs.  Arnold  has  been  identified  with  the  library  from  the  very 
first,  and  whenever  its  interests  are  involved  is  an  indefatigable 
worker. 

Aside  from  Redington  and  Company,  M.  C.  Foster,  W.  M, 
Lincoln  and  W.  B.  Arnold,  who  were  the  first  to  offer  aid,  gifts 
of  over  fifty  dollars  have  been  received  from  Geo.  K.  Boutelle, 
Carrol  W.  Abbott,  Hollingsworth&  Whitney  Co.,  Lockwood  Com- 
pany, L.  H.  Soper  and  Company,  and  William  T.  Haines. 
These,  increased  by  the  smaller  sums  contributed  at  various 
times,  have  maintained  the  library  for  six  years.     No  one,  per- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILI.E.  391 

haps,  has  shown  greater  interest  than  Mr.  Haines,  who  has  given 
freely  both  time  and  money. 

Among  those  who  have  given  largely  of  books  are  ^Irs.  F.  E. 
Boothby,  T.  D.  Danielson,  Cyrus  W.  Davis,  Charles  H.  Alden, 
George  Maxham,  L.  Dunbar,  Mrs.  Pulsifer,  F.  A.  Davies, 
and  Aliss  Alice  Getchell. 

They  have  been  ably  seconded  by  the  clubs  of  the  city;  the 
Saturday  Club  being  the  first  to  respond  to  the  need. 

The  Salmagundi  Club,  a  whist  club  of  thirty-two  women, 
imposes  upon  its  members  a  small  sum  at  each  meeting.  The 
money  thus  raised,  is  expended  in  books  which  are  given  to  the 
library.  Two  hundred  and  twenty-five  books  have  been  received 
from  this  club  during  the  last  three  winters.  A  gift  of  fourteen 
books  was  received  from  the  Catholic  Sodality  Society,  a  relig- 
ious society  made  up  of  English-speaking  young  women  from 
the  church  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales,  whose  pastor.  Rev.  Charland, 
has  shown  great  interest  in  the  doings  of  the  library. 

In  1902  the  members  of  the  Woman's  Literary  Club  raised  by 
a  personal  canvas  of  the  citizens,  three  hundred  and  eighty  dol- 
lars for  the  purchase  of  books. 

Miss  Fryatt  and  Miss  Dunbar,  during  that  same  year,  received 
from  the  sale  of  a  doll  forty-six  and  a  half  dollars  which  was 
given  for  the  purchase  of  current  fiction. 

In  December,  1901,  ]Mr.  Ehvood  T.  Wyman,  superintendent 
of  schools  for  Waterville,  recognizing  the  value  of  the  library 
as  an  aid  to  the  school  system,  wrote  to  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie, 
in  an  attempt  to  interest  him  in  a  public  library  building.  Nearly 
a  year  before  this,  Mrs.  Annie  G.  Pepper  had  written  Mr.  Car- 
negie upon  the  same  subject.  In  February,  1902,  Airs.  Willard 
B.  Arnold  was  instructed  by  the  trustees  of  the  library  to  write 
to  Mr.  Charles  Haviland ;  to  see  if  he  could  secure  from  Mr. 
Carnegie  a  gift,  upon  the  same  terms  granted  by  him  to  other 
towns. 

After  making  inquiries  of  Mr.  Wyman  as  to  the  need  of  the 
town,  which  he  satisfactorih^  answered,  Mr.  Carnegie,  through 
his  secretary,  notified  Martin  E.  Blaisdell,  Mayor,  that  he  would 
give  to  the  city  of  Waterville  twenty  thousand  dollars  ($20,000) 
for  a  library    building,  if  a  site  be  provided  and    two    thousand 


394  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

lating  library  which  was  a  great  boon  to  the  people  of  the  village 
at  that  time. 

The  office  was  first  opened  in  the  building  afterward  occupied 
by  a  Mr.  Baker  as  a  barber  shop.  The  first  sheet  was  struck  oif 
by  John  Burleigh,  a  trader  in  the  village,  who  had  learned  the 
printer's  trade  in  New  Hampshire,  and  Asa  Dalton,  who  volun- 
teered for  that  occasion  to  beat  the  type  form  with  the  old  fash- 
ioned ink  balls,  for  Mr.  Burleigh  to  pull.  The  office  was  after- 
ward moved  to  a  building  occupying  the  site  covered  by  that 
now  occupied  by  Mrs.  Bonne  as  a  store. 

The  Intelligencer  was  published  in  the  interests  of  the  Baptist 
denomination,  under  the  patronage  of  the  college,  whose  officers 
had  been  instrumental  in  establishing  a  printing  office  in  the 
town.     The  paper  contained  no  local  news  whatever. 

The  last  number  of  the  paper  was  issued  November  6,  1828, 
the  subscription  list  having  been  sold  to  Rev.  Adam  Wilson, 
proprietor  of  Zion's  Advocate,  the  first  number  of  which  was  to 
be  issued  in  Portland,  Tuesday,  November  11,  1828. 

That  newspaper  accounts  were  as  difficult  to  collect  then  as 
now  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  Air.  Hastings  closed  an  earnest 
appeal  to  subscribers  in  arrears  with,  "I  am  persuaded  that  all 
who  have  any  bowels  of  compassion  will  attend  to  the  above  rea- 
sonable request." 

THE    WATCHMAN. 

In  the  last  few  issues  of  the  Intelligencer  there  appeared  in  the 
advertising  columns  "Proposals  for  publishing  in  Waterville  a 
weekly  newspaper  entitled  The  Watchman."  This,  according  to 
the  prospectus,  was  to  be  a  "political  paper." 

The  first  number  was  issued  December  11,  1828,  and  was  the 
same  size  as  the  Intelligencer,  except  that  the  columns  were  a 
little  wider.  This  paper,  "a  political,  literary  and  miscellaneous 
journal  of  the  times"  was  started  by  :\Ir.  Hastings  partly  as  an 
experiment  and  partly  to  keep  the  office  employed  during  the 
closing  up  of  the  old  business.  The  Watchman  had  but  a  small 
list  of  subscribers  and  lived  only  fifty-six  weeks,  the  last  number 
being  issued  Wednesday,  December  30,  1829.  Mr.  Hastings 
then  removed  his  office  to  Augusta,  where  he  ran  a  job  office  for 
several  years. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  395 

THE    TIMES. 

A  Whig  paper,  called  The  Times,  was  the  next  one  in  the  field, 
the  first  number  appearing  in  June,  1831.  It  was  published  by 
Mr.  John  Burleigh,  James  Stackpole,  Jr.,  being  the  political 
editor.     The  paper  lived  about  two  years  and  three  months. 

THE    WATERVILLE    JOURNAL. 

The  next  paper  to  appear  was  The  ^^^aterville  Journal,  also 
published  by  'Sir.  Burleigh.  This  was  a  non-sectarian,  religious 
paper  of  eight  pages.  Its  publication  was  commenced  in  Decem- 
ber, 1833,  at  the  instance  of  the  officers  and  friends  of  Waterville 
College,  and  with  promise  of  assistance  in  the  editorial  depart- 
ment from  some  of  the  older  students,  and  also  in  securing  sub- 
scribers, but  these  promises  not  being  fully  met,  the  paper  was 
discontinued  at  the  end  of  the  first  volume.  This  was  the  first 
paper  in  Waterville  on  which  composition  rollers  were  used,  the 
others  having  been  printed  with  the  old-fashioned  ink  balls. 

A  manual  labor  department  having  been  established  at  the 
college,  the  old  Ramage  press  of  Air.  Burleigh,  with  his  other 
printing  material,  was  purchased  and  set  up  in  one  of  the  work- 
shops on  the  ground.  Some  friend  of  the  institution  in  Massa- 
chusetts contributed  an  iron  hand-press,  and  perhaps  some  type. 
Job  printing  in  a  small  way  was  done  for  a  while  in  this  office 
by  Mr.  Edgar  H.  Gray,  a  graduate  of  the  class  of  '38,  who  had 
entered  college  a  practical  printer.  An  old  catalogue  of  the  col- 
lege library  bears  his  imprint.  This  office,  with  the  exception 
of  the  old  Ramage  press,  was  soon  sold  to  Geo.  V.  Edes,  and 
taken  to  Dover. 

THE    NORTH    AMERICAN    GALAXY. 

Saturday,  March  15,  1834,  appeared  the  first  number  of  "The 
North  American  Galaxy,  or  Watervillonian  Revived."  F.  B. 
Wells  and  W.  Mathews,  editors ;  Daniel  R.  Wing,  printer.  This 
was  a  four-page  semi-monthly  journal,  devoted  to  "tales,  essays, 
music,  biography,  poetry,  anecdotes,  etc."  and  lasted  for  four 
issues.  As  its  title  indicated,  it  succeeded  a  little  sheet  called 
The  Watervillonian,  spoken  of  in  another  paragraph. 


396  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK. 


THE    WATERVILLONIAN. 

After  a  lapse  of  about  eight  years,  The  Watervillonian,  a 
quarto  of  eight  pages,  followed  The  Journal,  the  first  number 
appearing  May  29,  1841.  This  was  a  literary  and  family  journal, 
published  by  William  Mathews,  (now  of  Boston,  and  distin- 
guished in  the  field  of  literature)  and  Daniel  R.  Wing,  and  was 
published  one  year.  In  a  letter  to  the  writer  Prof.  William 
Mathews  gives  the  following  brief  history  of  the  The  Water- 
villonian : 

"It  began  with  four  hundred  subscribers ;  a  list  which,  by  fill- 
ing its  columns  to  a  large  extent  with  elegant  extracts  from  old 
and  modern  English  writers,  from  Chaucer  to  Carlyle,  the  editor 
succeeded  in  cutting  down  in  twelve  months  to  two  hundred  and 
fifty.  With  the  exception  of  the  commendation  of  the  students 
in  the  college  and  a  few  men  of  literary  tastes,  the  first  assurance 
the  publishers  received  that  the  paper  was  giving  satisfaction  to 
its  readers  was  a  general  outburst  of  praise  when,  from  a  sheer 
lack  of  pure  literature,  a  full  account  of  Colt's  murder  in  New 
York  was  published  in  its  columns.  To  the  great  surprise  of 
the  publishers  they  found  at  the  year's  end  that,  as  a  reward  for 
their  labors,  there  w^as  the  sum  of  $600  to  be  divided  between 
them." 

The  Watervillonian  was  published  in  the  third  story  of 
Boutelle  block,  Main  street,  and  took  its  name  from  a  boyish 
venture  of  Messrs.  Mathews  and  Wing  in  1832,  when  they  pub- 
lished for  eight  issues  a  little  four-page  sheet  under  the  same 
title. 

THE    YANKEE    BLADE. 

In  June,  1842,  The  Watervillonian,  which  had  been  printed  on 
an  old  Ramage  press  bought  of  Waterville  College  for  twelve 
dollars,  was  succeeded  by  a  handsome  folio,  The  Yankee  Blade, 
printed  from  new  type  on  a  fine  Tufts  press.  William  Mathews 
was  editor  and  proprietor,  and  Mr.  Wing  became  foreman  of  the 
printing  department.  Edward  Mathews,  (afterward  murdered 
by  Dr.  Coolidge)  was  soon  taken  into  partnership  by  his  brother 
and  the  paper  published  one  year  in  Waterville  by  W.  and  E. 
Mathews  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Main  and  Silver  streets,  in 
a  large  two-story  building,  which  had  been  built  for  a  dwelling 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  397 

house  by  Col.  Jabez  Mathews.  In  the  same  building  a  book  store 
was  kept  by  Mr.  Mathews,  also  a  law  office.  In  August,  1843, 
the  interest  of  the  junior  partner  was  purchased  by  Moses 
Stevens  of  Hallowell,  and  the  establishment  moved  to  Gardiner. 
Four  years  later  the  paper  went  to  Boston,  and  was  merged  with 
"The  Portfolio." 

After  the  removal  of  The  Blade,  Waterville  was  without  a 
printing  office  until  the  fall  of  1844,  when  John  S.  Carter,  a  Ban- 
gor publisher,  came  in  and  occupied  the  field  with  a  job  office 
until  the  excitement  preliminary  to  the  building  of  the  Andros- 
coggin and  Kennebec  Railroad  seemed  to  demand  a  paper  once 
more. 

THE    WATERVILLE    UNION. 

In  April,  1847,  Charles  F.  Hathaway  began  the  publication  of 
The  Waterville  Union,  now  the  Waterville  Mail.  This  was  a 
well- printed  sheet,  neutral  in  politics,  but  owing  mainly  to  the 
stringent  rules  adopted  and  enforced  regarding  the  payment  of 
subscriptions  and  for  advertisements,  was  not  well  sustained  by 
the  public,  and  Mr.  Hathaway  gave  up  the  enterprise  after  a  trial 
of  fourteen  weeks. 

THE    WATERVILLE    MAIL. 

Ephraim  Maxham,  who  had  had  journalistic  experience  in 
Massachusetts  and  Vermont,  then  purchased  The  Union  plant, 
changed  the  name  of  the  paper  and  July  19,  1847,  issued  from 
the  third  story  of  Boutelle  block  the  first  number  of  The  Eastern 
Mail,  the  title  of  which  was  changed  September  4,  1863,  to  the 
more  distinctive  local  name  that  it  bears  to-day.  The  Waterville 
Mail. 

Mr.  Maxham  was  not  only  a  ready  writer,  who  kept  his  paper 
a  clean  local  journal,  but  a  practical  printer  and  The  Eastern 
Mail  began  a  vigorous  growth. 

The  original  inventory  of  the  office  as  made  out  by  Mr.  Hath- 
away, is  in  possession  of  the  present  proprietors  of  The  Mail, 
and  shows  that  the  plant  cost  $571.47,  and  was  sold  to  Mr. 
Maxham  for  $475.00.  New  material  to  the  amount  of  $89.50 
was  added  during  the  next  two  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time, 
Daniel  R.  Wing,  who  had  been  employed  on  the  paper  and  who 
had  been  connected  in  some  capacity  with  every  paper  published 


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vvvJv  Ivvo  of  thi*  luoni  u.Mlnl  citizens  the  town  ever  had. 

NU\>«:«r!«.  Ma\han»  i*^  W  ing  ran  the  paper  until  the  death  of  Mr. 
\\  lug,  l)vvcnit>er  j.  1SS5.  ^^^-  Maxhani  continued  the  business, 
i^UhoUgh  feeble  fiv>n\  illness,  until  January  i.  1SS6.  when  the 
pl^nt  wa>i  purchased  by  Charles  C  Wing  and  Daniel  F.  Wing, 
whi>  XKK>k  the  tirm  name  of  Wing  &  \N'ing. 

The  plant  was  at  once  enlargeil  and  brought  up  to  date  by  the 
purchase  oi  new  tyv>e  and  material  and  a  tine  cylinder  press,  the 
tirsi  one  to  be  i^et  up  in  Waterville.  The  paper  was  enlarged 
and  improYe<^  typographically,  and  in  its  news  features,  and 
became  one  oi  the  best  local  weeklies  in  the  State. 

The  junior  partner.  Daniel  F.  Wing,  died  March  21.  1S91.  and 
Charles  G.  Wing  published  the  paper  imtil  April  17  of  the  same 
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in  Waterville,  except  The  Union,  purchased  a  half  interest,  and 
the  firm  of  Maxham  &  Wing,  from  that  date,  played  an  import- 
ant part  in  the  history  and  development  of  Waterville. 

Mr.  Wing  had  a  warm  love  for  Waterville,  and  one  of  the 
secrets  of  the  success  of  his  paper  was  his  interest  in  its  citizens 
and  the  graduates  of  college  and  academy,  and  the  vigilance  with 
which  he  watched  and  informed  his  readers  of  every  one's  change 
of  residence,  and  of  every  indication  of  his  success  and  pros- 
perity. He  was  an  antiquarian,  and  his  local  sketches  made  a 
valuable  feature  of  the  paper. 

The  paper  took  no  party  position  until  the  presidential  contest 
of  1856,  when  it  advocated  the  election  of  Gen.  Fremont.  It 
was  "independent  in  politics"  for  many  years,  but  later  endorsed 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party  which  political  faith  it 
retains  at  the  present  time. 

The  Waterville  Mail,  under  Maxham  &  Wing,  was  an  earnest 
advocate  of  everything  that  promised  to  be  of  aid  to  the  town, 
whether  materially  or  morally.  Mr.  Maxham  was  a  man  of 
strong  individuality,  and  independence  of  character,  eager  to  help 
every  good  cause.  He  was  one  of  the  old-fashioned  printers  and 
used  to  stand  at  the  case  and  put  in  type  his  articles  without  tak- 
ing the  trouble  to  write  them.  The  historical  articles  which  Mr. 
Wing  compiled  in  the  later  years  of  his  life,  have  proved  very 
valuable  to  those  looking  up  the  history  of  Waterville.  These 
were  two  of  the  most  useful  citizens  the  town  ever  had. 

]\lessrs.  Maxham  &  Wing  ran  the  paper  until  the  death  of  Mr. 
Wing,  December  2,  1885.  Mr.  Maxham  continued  the  business, 
although  feeble  from  illness,  until  January  i,  1886,  when  the 
plant  was  purchased  by  Charles  G.  Wing  and  Daniel  F.  Wing, 
who  took  the  firm  name  of  Wing  &  Wing. 

The  plant  was  at  once  enlarged  and  brought  up  to  date  by  the 
purchase  of  new  type  and  material  and  a  fine  cylinder  press,  the 
first  one  to  be  set  up  in  Waterville.  The  paper  was  enlarged 
and  improved  typographically,  and  in  its  news  features,  and 
became  one  of  the  best  local  weeklies  in  the  State. 

The  junior  partner,  Daniel  F.  Wing,  died  March  21,  1891,  and 
Charles  G.  Wing  published  the  paper  until  April  17  of  the  same 
year,  when  it  was  purchased  by  Henry  C.  Prince  of  Buckfield, 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  399 

and  Elwood  T.  Wyman  of  Sidney,  who  did  business  under  the 
firm  name  of  Prince  &  Wyman,  until  the  incorporation  of  The 
Mail  Publishing  Company,  February  26,  1896.  Charles  B. 
Davis  acquired  an  interest  in  the  business  at  this  time,  but  severed 
his  connection  two  years  later  to  accept  the  position  of  city 
marshal. 

Early  in  the  year  1896,  the  form  of  The  ]\Iail  was  changed 
from  a  nine-column  folio  to  a  six-column  quarto,  and  the  day 
of  publication  made  Wednesday  instead  of  Friday. 


THE    WATERVILLE    SENTINEL. 

In  1880  The  Mail  had  its  first  competitor  in  The  Waterville 
Sentinel,  the  first  number  of  which  appeared  from  the  third  story 
of  the  building  of  which  Wardwell  Brothers  now  occupy  the 
ground  floor,  Wednesday,  December  i.  This  was  a  seven 
column  folio  published  by  M.  A.  Leger  and  E.  O.  Robinson.  In 
their  "Greeting"  the  publishers  said,  "We  do  not  propose  to 
crowd  others  out  by  crowding  ourselves  in,  but  to  find  a  place 
or  make  one."  That  these  gentlemen  had  complete  faith  in  the 
growth  and  prosperity  of  Waterville,  is  shown  by  this  extract 
from  their  first  editorial :  "Without  claiming  any  prophetic 
power  we  see  in  the  near  future  our  beautiful  village,  with  its 
magnificent  water  power,  energetic  business  men,  its  unrivalled 
educational  institutions  and  other  elements  of  success,  outgrow 
its  present  limits  and  develop  into  city  proportions  and  dignities. 
We  desire  to  share  its  growth  and  aid  as  far  as  possible."  In 
February,  1881,  the  publication  day  was  changed  to  Friday. 

Mr.  Leger  did  not  stay  with  the  paper  long  and  March  18, 
1881,  R.  O.  Robbins  became  the  editor,  and  in  September  of  that 
year,  a  member  of  the  firm,  The  Waterville  Printing  Company. 
On  December  30,  1881,  the  paper  was  enlarged  to  eight  columns, 
and  February  16,  1883,  the  form  was  changed  to  a  five  column 
eight-page  paper. 

In  October  of  1883,  I\Ir.  Robbins  gave  up  the  business  and 
December  5,  1883,  Vol.  IV,  No.  i,  the  paper  came  out  with  J.  D. 
Maxfield,  editor  and  proprietor,  from  room  20,  Dunn  block.  Mr. 
Maxfield  in  the  following  month  changed  back  to  the  eight- 
column  folio. 


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nunoil  \vo\\\  .\nj;usla  muI  \\w  w.wwc  oi  \\\c  paper  ch.\t\i;vd  to  Tho 
MnsttMn  ]'\ninor.  W  ini;.  l^uvloii^b  iS,  Tt^  .  proptiotors,  S.  I..  l\o.iril 
\UA\\,  cA\\o\.  Vhc  \'\\\\\\c\  was  an  oii;lu  paj;(\  six  ooliunn.  nj;ri- 
ovilhual  papoi  puMislu\l  nh>nil\l\  at  V\\c  Mail  i>tVu\\  V\\c  tiiin 
was  v^>n\p^vso^l  ol  lion,  llall  ^>\  iMnlcM-i^h.  riuulos  ('■,  W  uii;.  atiil 
Oaniol  V.  W  ini;.  Thr  papcM  lost  nii^iu^'  stoa^lilv.  atul  April  U), 
iSSS.  tho  list  was  soKl  to  Tlu^  l.i~wi>toi\  joiivt^il.  o\\\\  thirty  tmni 
IxM's  luwiiig  been  issuod. 

Tin:    s\w\i;k    iMiuisiuNi;    «,imr\\\. 

In  Max.  iSo.\  r,(\M!;x^  l'*ri\l  Vcvw  staitod  a  pnUlislunj;'  husi- 
noss  that  u\  a  \  cm  \  tow  \oars  s;iow  ti^  inunonso  pi\ipi>rtiiMis  and 
has  voiN  UMlciialh  inoroasoil  tho  hnsinoss  prixsjHM'ity  i>t"  Wator- 
\  ilU\  Tho  hnsinrss  hojjjati  with  tlu^  pnhlioation  of  tho  h'irositlo 
CuMn.  a  nionlhK  ]\ipoi  hoUMii^ini;  to  tho  olass  ot  what  is  kniw\n 
as  Mail  Oivlof  ]^apo^s.  Mt  Torr\  i^nivhasovl  tho  pa]HM-  in  Vovl- 
lanvl  and  tho  oipnpniont  on  tho  start,  aooonhni;  to  Mr.  I'orrv 
was  "i>no  r<v>ni  in  Masonio  hUvk.  two  tables,  anil  a  risL^hi  to  ]nih 
lisli  Tho  h'irosido  Ikmh.*  "'  Tho  nuvhanioal  WimK  was  iUmio  hy 
outsido  ]^artios. 

In  \o\onihor.  iSoj.  tho  hnsinoss  was  inoorporatoil  mulor  tho 
naiuo  oi  Tho  Sawyor  rnhhshini.;  i.\Mnpany  anvl  a  httlo  later  was 
movod  nito  tho  np]HM-  I^oim-  ot"  Uaydon  hUvk  on  Tonii^'o  street 
and  some  )M-intini;n\alerial  and  atwi">-re\\>lution  t^at  hoil  press  pnt 
in.  The  hnsinoss  s;rtn\  stoadilv  and  in  tho  winter  ot"  ^"^^4  1S05  tho 
oom]^an\  pnrohased  the  snhsoription  list  of  a  paper  published  in 
^H^ston  anvl  known  as  "Tlie  .\nieriean  Nation.  '  Shortly  after  the 
plant  was  moved  into  the  lower  tlix^r  of  the  Milliken  bnildini^" 
so-called,  on  the  east  siile  lAf  Main  street,  next  to  tho  Maine  Cen- 
tral railroad  erv^.ssini^.  In  iSo(i  the  small  press  was  taken  ont 
and  the  tirst  w  oh  ]h  rfeotmi;  press  installoil.  1  ho  follow  im;  year. 
iSi)(\  a  third  paper.  "The  Homo  Treasnrx."  was  pmvhased  and 
the  whole  of  the  bnildinj^  ooen]Med.  This  same  \  oar  the  land  and 
bniUlini;-s  on  Chaplin  street  between  tho  Maine  Central  railroad 
.md  Tioonio  street  wore  pnrohased.  and  the  business  was  moved 


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th^e  in  the  hammer  of  ii9/i,  Tw>  y^atr*  la-Vrr  th<*r  ^miMm^  n^/w 
^/a:upi*:/l  wa»  t/«ilt,     'fli^  UiM'mi^  h  4Sxf/j  f««t,  two  «tr/fk*  awl 

thrf:  wh',]^  of  h  3%  uw/j  fr/r  :,  ai^  wdJ  a*  a  j/surt  <A  ^ht 

<A4  hmWm^,  In  the  winter  of  i</f>-i*/n,  the  pr<f^hmt  inM.  y^- 
ifxxin^  prt^h  wa*  m\tiilk'4,  Tha*  j/re*4t>  ha^  a  <:aj>a(;jtj  </f  2:<>/rr> 
thirty 'two  j^j/^r  jya]>^^  a«  h^/ur. 

The  i^rowth  of  th'-  '  •  ■  -  -  -  -'  ^;  vm  y^r%  h'^'r  '■/  ■  ■  ^^^^ 
M%h*A,  ha*  Jxi^en  aJr-  At  j/r^rr^eairt  :;.-,.-.    •.>;    ;</-> 

j>eopJe  are  j^iven  r^j^ular  tmpUjymcni  -^nA  the  j^y  rolll  ^.ioc>^% 
$^j/xxj  a  y*::ar.  The  drculatv-zn  ha^t  j^r^/wTii  fr^/rxj  2j/x/>  <://iA^ 
j>er  rry/nth  v>  rjyyr*r  than  j/xx>/xx>  coj/ie*  j>er  month,  a  itj>^iaJ 
mail  car  l>dnj(  di^jyatched  tverv  workinj^  4av. 

7i3£  rr;»F,    fA»M  AKIv   HOME, 

The  Turf,  Farm  an<d  J{</me  was  removed  to  thu*  citj  froitm 
Auburn,  where  it  wa*  e$t;5uWi*hed  a*  an  ^/rj^;^^  of  the  hor*e 
h'-" '  "    ' "'   "'  "-e.     The  fir$.t  mue  to  '^y^yi^r  m  thi*  ditj  wa* 

K' -'  ,  '    -  ',  i^j4,  the  office  ^/dnj^  ':••'■<',"'"''  '-   ^'"-  *"'•♦ 

floor  of  the   Dunn   block.     Soon  after  c,  ^-,  - 

widened  its  scope  and  ad4ed  a  dej/artmtnt  devoted  to  ^Mrrm^^ 
*^mploym^  Cnh  Meader  of  Alhion  as  daarj  t4kf/r,  and  v>on  after 
added  a  y/uhry  dej/artrrjft^it  v/ith  <'>>o,  P,  Coififin  of  Freqx/rt,  a 
wel] -known  ymhry  fancier,  a-^  editor  of  th;at:  dej^rtnient;.  Latter 
a  household  departrrient  was  ad<ded  and  all  theie  dej^artmorats 
are  l>ein^  energeticaJJv  maintained  so  that  tod;aT  the  pa3p«er  i«  a^a 
all  round  agricultural  journal  occufn^ki^  a  rerj  impoirtatmt  j^art 
in  the  discussicr.  '. ''  ' '  'eadin^  agricultural  tojyics  of  the  daj  an^d 
il$  so'4>e  of  use: .,;.., .  .-^  constantly  being  widened.  The  ysc^^ 
h.  owned  and  published  W  the  Turf  PubEshing  Cocmpajitj,  ^Ir. 
A,  R,  Cobb  of  Portland  being  president  aaid  ^Ir,  E.  P,  ^H^o^ 
editor  and  business  manaj^er. 


WATlE3(ri7JX£   ^-JtSriK'O    MAIL. 

Jn  the  winter  of  i%5-y>,  the  proprifetors  of  The  WaterriBe 
!vlail  came  to  the  concl-Gsion  tbat  the  time  was  ripe  for  a  d^flr 
paper  in  Wateryille,  and.  on  January  ^  1896,  the  first  r  . "  •.■•  - 
of  the  Waterville  Ev^jiMig  ^tJail  appeared,  and  it  h<.'t  V.-^  ;^';'v- 


402  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

THE    EASTERN    FARMER. 

In  September,  1887,  The  Home  Farm  establishment  was 
moved  from  Augusta  and  the  name  of  the  paper  changed  to  The 
Eastern  Farmer,  Wing,  Burleigh  &  Co.,  proprietors,  S.  L.  Board- 
man,  editor.  The  Farmer  was  an  eight  page,  six  column,  agri- 
cultural paper  published  monthly  at  The  Mail  office.  The  firm 
was  composed  of  Hon.  Hall  C.  Burleigh,  Charles  G.  Wing,  and 
Daniel  F.  Wing.  The  paper  lost  money  steadily,  and  April  19, 
1888,  the  list  was  sold  to  The  I.ewiston  Journal,  only  thirty  num- 
bers having  been  issued. 

THE    SAWYER    PUBLISHING     COMPANY. 

In  May,  1892,  George  Fred  Terry  started  a  publishing  busi- 
ness that  in  a  very  few  years  grew  to  immense  proportions  and 
has  very  materially  increased  the  business  prosperity  of  Water- 
ville.  The  business  began  with  the  publication  of  the  Fireside 
Gem,  a  monthly  paper  belonging  to  the  class  of  what  is  known 
as  Mail  Order  papers,  Mr.  Terry  purchased  the  paper  in  Port- 
land and  the  equipment  on  the  start,  according  to  I\Ir.  Terry 
was  "one  room  in  Masonic  block,  two  tables,  and  a  right  to  pub- 
lish 'The  Fireside  Gem.'  "  The  mechanical  work  was  done  by 
outside  parties. 

In  November,  1892,  the  business  was  incorporated  under  the 
name  of  The  Sawyer  Publishing  Company  and  a  little  later  was 
moved  into  the  upper  floor  of  Hayden  block  on  Temple  street 
and  some  printing  material  and  a  two-revolution  flat-bed  press  put 
in.  The  business  grew  steadily  and  in  the  winter  of  1894- 1895  ^^^ 
company  purchased  the  subscription  list  of  a  paper  published  in 
Boston  and  known  as  "The  American  Nation.'"'  Shortly  after  the 
plant  was  moved  into  the  lower  floor  of  the  Milliken  building 
so-called,  on  the  east  side  of  Main  street,  next  to  the  Maine  Cen- 
tral railroad  crossing.  In  1896  the  small  press  was  taken  out 
and  the  first  web-perfecting  press  installed.  1  he  following  year, 
1S96,  a  third  paper,  "The  Home  Treasury,"  was  purchased  and 
the  whole  of  the  building  occupied.  This  same  year  the  land  and 
buildings  on  Chaplin  street  between  the  Maine  Central  railroad 
and  Ticonic  street  were  purchased,  and  the  business  was  moved 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  403 


there  in  the  summer  of  1898.  Two  years  later  the  building  npw 
occupied  was  built.  The  building  is  45x90  feet,  two  stories  and 
a  basement,  practically  amounting  to  a  three-story  building,  and 
the  whole  of  it  is  used  for  the  business,  as  well  as  a  part  of  the 
old  building.  In  the  winter  of  1900-1901,  the  present  fast  per- 
fecting press  was  installed.  This  press  has  a  capacity  of  20,000 
thirty-two  page  papers  an  hour. 

The  growth  of  the  business  in  the  ten  years  it  has  been  estab- 
lished, has  been  almost  marvelous.  At  present  more  than  100 
people  are  given  regular  employment  and  the  pay  roll  exceeds 
$50,000  a  year.  The  circulation  has  grown  from  25,000  copies 
per  month  to  more  than  1,600,000  copies  per  month,  a  special 
mail  car  being  dispatched  every  working  day. 

THE    TURF,    FARM    AND    HOME. 

The  Turf,  Farm  and  Home  was  removed  to  this  citv  from 
Auburn,  where  it  was  established  as  an  organ  of  the  horse 
breeders  of  IMaine.  The  first  issue  to  appear  in  this  city  w^as 
published  June  i,  1894,  the  office  being  established  in  the  first 
floor  of  the  Dunn  block.  Soon  after  coming  here  the  paper 
widened  its  scope  and  added  a  department  devoted  to  dair}dng, 
employing  Otis  Header  of  Albion  as  dairy  editor,  and  soon  after 
added  a  poultry  department  with  Geo.  P.  Coffin  of  Freeport,  a 
w^ell-known  poultry  fancier,  as  editor  of  that  department.  Later 
a  household  department  was  added  and  all  these  departments 
are  being  energetically  maintained  so  that  today  the  paper  is  an 
all  round  agricultural  journal  occupying  a  very  important  part 
in  the  discussion  of  the  leading  agricultural  topics  of  the  day  and 
its  scope  of  usefulness  is  constantly  being  widened.  The  paper 
is  owned  and  published  by  the  Turf  Publishing  Company,  Mr. 
A.  R.  Cobb  of  Portland  being  president  and  "Sir.  E.  P.  Mayo, 
editor  and  business  manager. 

WATERVILLE    EVENING    MAIL. 

In  the  winter  of  1895-96,  the  proprietors  of  The  Waterville 
Mail  came  to  the  conclusion  that  the  time  was  ripe  for  a  daily 
paper  in  Waterville,  and  on  January  29,  1896,  the  first  number 
of  the  Waterville  Evening  Mail  appeared,  and  it  has  been,  pub- 


404  HISTORY   OF    VVATERVILLE. 

lished  regularly  since.  The  Evening  Mail  is  a  four-page,  seven- 
column  sheet  and,  while  giving  briefly  the  news  of  the  world, 
makes  no  pretension  to  be  anything  but  a  local  paper  for  Water- 
ville  and  near-by  towns. 

The  proprietors  have  steadily  added  to  the  equipment  of  the 
office,  this  including  large  quantities  of  new  type  and  material, 
an  electric  motor,  a  folder,  and  in  1901,  a  type-setting  machine, 
with  a  complete  new  dress  of  type.  The  circulation  of  the  paper 
has  taken  no  remarkable  jumps,  but  has  increased  a  little  every 
year,  and  with  the  excellent  advertising  patronage,  both  local 
and  foreign,  has  put  the  paper  on  a  solid  foundation  of  prosperity 
that  promises  to  continue. 


THE    CLIFTON    MONTHLY. 

This  mail  order  paper  was  started  in  July,  1899,  by  Leo  C. 
Fuller,  who  sold  it  in  March,  1901,  to  the  Waterville  Publishing 
Company.  Mr.  Fuller  bought  back  the  paper  in  January,  1902, 
and  now  claims  a  paid-up  subscription  list  of  10,000  to  12,000 
names.  The  size  of  the  paper  varies  from  sixteen  to  twenty-four 
pages,  according  to  the  season  of  the  year,  the  larger  size  being 
used  during  the  winter  months.  Mr.  Fuller  has  no  printing 
plant,  the  mechanical  work  being  done  by  outside  parties. 


THE    CHRISTIAN    CIVIC    LEAGUE   RECORD. 

The  first  issue  of  The  Christian  Civic  League  Record  was 
published  September,  1900.  The  Record  is  a  monthly  paper  and 
is  the  organ  of  the  Christian  Civic  League.  Its  purpose  is 
according  to  its  constitution,  "by  all  the  means  at  our  command 
and  by  co-operation  with  other  existing  agencies,  1st,  to  educate 
the  people  in  all  that  pertains  to  good  citizenship ;  2nd,  to  arouse 
and  maintain  throughout  the  State  a  reverence  for  law ;  3d,  to 
secure  the  enactment  of  the  best  possible  laws;  their  impartial 
execution,  and  the  choice  of  competent  officials  to  that  end."  The 
paper  is  non-partisan,  non-denominational. 


HISTORY    OF    WAT^RVILLE.  405 

THE    ICONOCLAST. 

The  Iconoclast  was  the  name  of  a  semi-monthly  paper  of  four 
pages  with  seven  columns  to  the  page,  which  was  started  Novem- 
ber 15,  1900,  by  Mr.  J.  H.  McCone  of  this  city.  The  Iconoclast 
was  independent  in  politics  and  was  one  of  the  first  papers  to 
suggest  re-submission  of  the  prohibitory  constitutional  ammend- 
ment.  The  paper  was  given  over  to  the  support  of  license; 
attacked  the  methods  of  the  Christian  Civic  League  in  the  enforce- 
ment of  the  prohibitory  law ;  indulged  in  editorial  comment  that 
was  forceful  if  not  elegant  and  died  as  its  editor  expected  it 
would,  in  its  infancy.  The  circulation  of  the  Iconoclast  was 
chiefly  among  the  enemies  of  the  prohibitory  law  and  politicians 
and  reached  1,000.  Mr.  McCone  started  the  paper  for  personal 
reasons  without  suggestion  from  any  person  and  having  no 
financial  backing  the  life  of  the  paper  was  limited  by  the  amount 
of  cash  the  proprietor  could  secure  between  issues.  The  Icono- 
clast closed  its  career  with  the  seventh  number. 


CO'.LEGE    AND    SCHOOL    PAPERS. 

The  Colby  Echo,  formerly  published  monthly,  but  for  the  past 
four  years,  weekly,  is  published  by  the  students  of  Colby  college 
during  the  school  year. 

The  Coburn  Clarion  is  published  twice  each  term  by  the  stu- 
dents of  Coburn  Classical  Institute. 

The  Nautilus  is  published  by  the  students  of  the  Waterville 
High  school. 

The  Colby  Oracle  ought  not  to  be  omitted  from  a  list  of 
Waterville  publications.  It  has  now  made  thirty-six  annual 
appearances,  and  a  file  of  its  numbers  contains  a  pretty  com- 
plete record  of  events  of  interest  in  the  college  years,  and  that 
is  what  a  newspaper  prints.  The  Oracle  had  predecessors  in  its 
field,  among  them  the  Watervillian,  of  which  a  few  numbers 
were  printed. 


408  HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE. 

THE  woman's  christian  tkmperanci:  union. 

In  the  year  1878  the  women  of  Waterville  were  invited  by  Mrs. 
Sarah  Girard  Crosby  to  meet  in  the  Congregational  vestry  to 
consider  the  formation  of  a  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union.  Mrs.  Crosby's  enthusiasm  proved  contagious  and  a 
union  was  formed,  of  which  Mrs.  James  H.  Hanson  became  pres- 
ident and  Mrs.  S.  G.  Crosby  secretary.  Mrs.  R.  B.  Dunn  and 
others  interested  themselves  in  the  work,  which  was  carried  on 
vigorously  for  about  eight  years.  Then  followed  a  period  of 
eight  years  in  which  the  society  seemed  dormant,  though  its 
members  did  not  a  little  independent  work.  A  third  period  of 
eight  years  began  when  Mrs.  Crosby  again  called  the  women 
together  in  1894  for  the  reorganization  of  the  society.  Mrs. 
Crosby  was  elected  president  and  has  held  the  office  till  the  pres- 
ent time.  She  certainly  was  well  qualified  for  the  work.  Of 
the  Girard  family  of  Pennsylvania,  her  grandfather  was  a 
brother  of  Stephen  Girard,  who  founded  Girard  College.  Mrs. 
Crosby  for  fifteen  years  had  been  stenographer  to  the  Supreme 
Judicial  Court  of  Maine,  being  the  second  woman  in  America  to 
be  appointed  to  such  a  position.  She  had  done  much  reporting 
for  Justices  Appleton,  Dickerson  and  Barrows,  and  reported  the 
last  term  ever  held  by  each  of  these  celebrated  men.  For  five 
years  she  had  been  stenographer  to  the  Maine  Board  of  Agricul- 
ture. Among  the  other  workers  was  Mrs.  E.  E.  Cain,  who,  as 
State  organizer  for  Juvenile  temples,  had  accomplished  much  for 
temperance. 

The  union  never  has  had  a  large  membership,  but  has  exerted 
its  influence  both  independently  and  in  the  support  of  other 
temperance  movements.  It  entertains  the  State  Convention  of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.  in  September,  1902.  Its  present  membership  is 
forty-five.  Its  officers  are,  Mrs.  S.  G.  Crosby,  president;  re- 
cording secretary,  Mrs.  Marian  H.  Leslie,  corresponding  secre- 
tary, Mrs.  Abbie  J.  Tubbs ;  treasurer,  ]Mrs.  L.  F.  Boothby. 

THE  KIEST     business     COLLEGE. 

This  institution  is  one  of  the  latest  additions  to  the  educational 
equipment  of  the  city,  yet  already  many  young  men  seeking  pre- 
paration  for  business   pursuits  have  availed  themselves   of  its 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  409 

resources.  Its  predecessors  have  been  the  Bhss  Business 
College  and  the  Waterville  Business  College.  November 
22,  1899,  it  was  bought  by  Mr.  Keist  and  the  name  changed 
to  Kiest  Business  College.  In  1902  it  removed  to  fine  quar- 
ters in  the  new  Flood  Block,  which  it  now  occupies.  It  offers 
different  courses  in  stenography,  commercial  law  and  practice, 
and  all  matters  involved  in  actual  business.  Since  November, 
1899,  it  has  enrolled  243  students. 


HALL  S     MILITARY    BAND. 

Very  early  in  the  history  of  Waterville  the  formalities  of 
Commencement  Day  and  the  military  exigencies  of  "muster"  and 
"training"  days  made  a  brass  band  a  necessity.  That  necessity 
was  met  as  early  as  1822,  and  bands  have  existed  here  from  that 
time  on.  In  1890  I*^Ir.  R.  B.  Hall,  who  already  had  taken  rank  as 
one  of  the  best  cornetists  in  the  State,  and  was  favorably  known 
as  a  composer  of  music,  came  to  Waterville.  He  organized  the 
Waterville  Military  Band  and  Hall's  Orchestra.  These  organ- 
izations were  carefully  trained  and  their  work  was  very  accepta- 
ble and  popular. 

December  30,  1899,  Mr.  Cyrus  ^^^  Davis,  who  had  shown  his 
interest  in  the  band  in  many  ways,  with  other  citizens  who 
appreciated  the  value  of  the  band  to  the  city,  formed  a  corpora- 
tion for  "the  establishing  and  maintaining  in  the  city  of  Water- 
ville a  band  and  orchestra."  The  incorporators  were :  Frank 
Redington,Dr.  J.  F.  Hill,  Cyrus  W.  Davis,  C.  F.  Johnson,  Geo.  K. 
Boutelle,  H.  E.'  Judkins,  R.  B.  Hall.  F.  C.  Thayer,  G.  F.  Terry, 
W.  T.  Haines  and  C.  B.  Stetson.  The  officers  of  the  corporation 
were :  President,  Dr.  J.  F.  Hill ;  vice-president,  Frank  Reding- 
ton ;  clerk,  Cyrus  W.  Davis, ;  treasurer,  Geo.  K.  Boutelle ;  man- 
ager, R,  B.  Hall.  The  corporation  pays  the  salary  of  Prof.  Hall 
and  for  the  services  of  the  members  of  the  band  and  receives  the 
earnings.  It  exists,  hov.'ever,  not  for  the  purpose  of  making 
money,  but  for  the  support  of  a  band  that  will  be  a  credit  to  the 
city,  as  Hall's  ^Military  Band  and  orchestra  certainly  are.  For 
several  vears  the  city  has  employed  the  band  to  give  open  air  con- 
certs in  JMonument  Park  during  the  summer.  The  music  ren- 
dered at  the  school  and  college  commencements  is  of  a  high  order. 


410  HISTORY    OF*    WATERVILLi;. 

and  that  rendered  at  the  Centennial  was  much  appreciated  and 
enjoyed.  Prof,  Hall's  reputation  as  conductor  and  composer  has 
constantly  widened,  and  the  band  has  come  to  be  an  institution 
which  the  city  could  not  well  do  without. 


THF.    CECILIA    CLUB. 

The  Cecilia  Club  would  record  not  as  matter  of  boasting,  but  as 
plain  statement  of  historical  fact  that  it  was  not  organized  to  join 
the  ]\Iaine  Festival  Chorus,  but  was  already  in  existence  when 
the  festival  movement  was  inaugurated.  It  owes  its  existence  to 
the  persistent  labors  of  Mrs.  George  F.  Davies  and  Mrs.  Frank 
B.  Hubbard,  who  secured  nineteen  persons  who  were  organized 
as  the  Cecilia  Club,  October  15,  1896.  The  officers  elected  were: 
W.  C.  Philbrook,  president ;  Elwood  T.  Wyman,  vice-president ; 
Mrs.  George  F.  Davies,  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  directors 
were :  Mrs.  Frank  B.  Hubbard,  Miss  Ella  Downer,  ^Nliss  Susie 
Fogarty,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Knox  and  Mrs.  George  A,  Kenniston. 

The    club   was   small   and   heroic   labors   devolved   upon   its 
officers,  yet  such  was  their  success  that  after  joining  the    Maine 
Festival  Chorus  in   January,  1897,  and    careful    training   under 
Prof.  George  Pratt  Maxim,  with  a  full  chorus  of  eighty  voices  it 
sang  in  the  Bangor  Festival  in  October,  1897.     During  the  same 
year  two   successful    concerts   were   given.      Prof.    Carlton   B. 
vStetson  became   president   of   the   club   in    1898,    continuing   in 
efficient  leadership  until   his    resignation  in  1902.     Miss    Nellie 
Webber  (now  ^Irs.  Dr.  AT.  L.  Eastman)  was  the   first   pianist. 
After  her  removal  from  the  city,  Mrs.  Franklin  W.  Johnson  was 
elected,  and  has  already  given  three  years  of  work  characterized 
by  sympathetic  insight  as   well   as   accurate    and    brilliant   per- 
formance.    Prof.  ]\Iaxim  conducted  the  club  for  three  seasons 
with  great  fidelity  and  success.     His  successor  was  Prof.  Llew- 
ellyn B.  Cain  of  this  city,  whose  work  and  ability  were  such  as  to 
secure  more  flattering   oilers    from    Portland   and   other   cities 
which   led  to   his    withdrawal.     The    present    conductor  is   Dr. 
Latham  True  of  Portland.     The  club  has  participated  in  each  of 
the  Maine  Musical  Festivals,  and  has  given  concerts  in  the  city 
which  have  been  greatly  enjoyed.     It  has  rendered  aid  on  several 
patriotic  occasions  and  its  singing  was  one  of  the  features  of  the 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  4II 

Centennial  celebration.  It  has  been  fortunate  in  its  officers  and 
directors.  :\Irs.  Davies  who  has  given  so  much  of  thought  and 
labor  to  its  interests  served  as  secretary  until  1901  when  ill  health 
caused  her  to  resign.  A  great  deal  of  strength  has  been  contri- 
buted to  the  club  by  its  Fairfield  members.  The  present  mem- 
bership of  the  club  is  about  eighty. 

Its  officers  are :  president,  vacant ;  vice-president,  Franklin  W. 
Johnson  ;  secretary.  Mr.  Joseph  T.  ]\Iurray  of  Fairfield :  treas- 
urer, Miss  Blanche  Smith;  conductor,  Dr.  Latham  True 
pianist,  Mrs.  Franklin  W.  Johnson.  Directors :  Mrs.  Frank  B. 
Hubbard,  :\Iiss  Ella  Downer,  :\Irs.  George  F.  Davis,  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Connor  of  Fairfield  and  Mrs.  Edbert  Kelley  of  Fairfield. 
The  Cecilia  club  holds  high  place  in  the  esteem  of  the  people 
though  perhaps  it  never  will  attain  the  popularity  possessed  by 
"The  singing  school  kept  at  Col.  Hayden's"  in  1795. 

GARFIELD      CAAIP,      XO.      I,      SONS      OF     VFTERAXS. 

This  camp  has  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  camp  of  the 
order  organized  in  New  England.  It  was  organized  by  General 
Isaac  S.  Bangs  who  was  the  organizer  of  the  New  England 
grand  division  of  the  order.  Its  charter  was  granted  Mar.  20, 
i(S88.  Its  object  was  similar  to  those  of  the  Grand  Armv  and 
though  it  cannot  look  back  to  comradeship  in  days  of  battle,  yet  bv 
holding  up  the  same  ideals  of  patriotism,  and  keeping  fresh  the 
memory  of  those  who  gave  the  service  of  their  lives  to  the  Union, 
It  will  hold  an  important  place  among  the  patriotic  forces  of  the 
future. 

The  first  captain  of  Garfield  camp  was  Dennis  M.  Bangs,  son 
of  General  Bangs.  His  successors  have  been,  Lewis  Pollard, 
Ellery  Vose,  J.  D.  Reynolds,  E.  B.  Dunbar,  Robert  Reny,  Joseph 
C.  Colby,  who  has  served  several  terms,  James  Coombs,  Irving 
Barnes,  Charles  Frazier,  Geo.  B.  Jackson  and  Frank  W.  Gowan. 
The  present  officers  are:  capt.  Frank  W.  Gowan;  ist  lieut., 
vacant;  2nd  lieut.,  Belmont  Jordan;  chaplain,  T.  E.  Vose;  q.  m. 
sergt.,  W.  J.  Leathers;  ist.  sergt.,  Charles  W.  Frost;  camp  coun- 
cil, Herbert  L.  Simpson,  Willard  Tucker,  T.  E.  Vose.  The 
camp  enrolls  51  men.  A  Ladies  Aid  society  of  Garfield  camp 
No.  I,  society  No.  to,  was  chartered  June  10,  1892. 


412  HISTORY   O^    WAT^RVILLE. 

COMPANY  H,  2ND  RHIGIMKNT,  NATIONAL  GUARD,  STATE  OF  MAINE. 

Company  H  was  organized  Nov.  lo,  1880.  Capt.  A.  T.  Shurt- 
leff  was  a  charter  member  and  has  remained  with  the  company- 
through  its  entire  history.  Many  of  the  men  connected  with  it 
have  become  prominent  in  the  civil  hfe  and  work  of  the  commu- 
nity. May  2nd,  1898,  Co.  H  answered  the  first  call  for  troops 
and  went  with  a  full  company  to  Augusta.  As  the  second  regi- 
ment was  not  sent  out  Co.  H  as  a  company  returned  home  but  so 
many  of  its  members  enlisted  in  the  first  regiment  and  in  the  first 
Maine  artillery  that  the  company  was  almost  disorganized.  It 
has  the  honor  of  having  sent  more  men  into  the  Spanish  and 
Philippine  wars  than  did  any  other  company  in  the  State  of 
Maine.  Several  of  the  men  who  enlisted  did  not  reside  in  Water- 
ville  but  they  belonged  to  the  Waterville  organization.  The  roll 
of  the  men  who  served  in  the  Spanish  war  as  given  by  Lieutenant 
William  I.  Sterling  is  as  follows : 

In  the  First  Maine  Infantry — Laus  Berg,  Fred  F.  Burgess, 
George  F.  Doe,  Forrest  I.  Oilman,  Walter  Hand,  George  W. 
Herrin,  Irving  R.  Hughes,  Joseph  F.  King,  Axel  Lidstrom, 
Edward  R.  Penney,  Allen  L.  Penney,  Trefflie  Pomerleau, 
William  I.  Pooler,  Ogra  Pooler,  Wirt  I.  Priest,  Archie  Simpson, 
Harold  A.  Sinclair,  Elroy  W.  Thompson,  John  C.  Tripp,  Arthur 
F.  Sheaff,  John  A.  Sjogren,  Henry  L.  Winslow. 

In  the  First  Maine  ArtiUery — Joseph  T.  Allen,  Harley  E. 
Avery,  Benj.  F.  Auchu,  Leon  A.  Bachelder,  Alec  Barnabee, 
Ernest  A.  Barnes,  Richard  J.  Barry,  Jr.,  Nelson  Bennet,  Joseph 
Butler,  Henry  E.  Buzzell,  Charles  L.  Cabana,  Frank  Charity, 
Mathias  Champagne,  Augustus  Coomb,  James  J.  Conway,  Frank 
B.  Crosby,  Ralph  W.  Davis,  James  W.  Dutton,  Frank  B.  Farmer, 
Harry  Fenson,  W^illiam.  Ferguson,  Ralph  H.  Foster,  Joseph 
Franconer,  Richard  E.  Furlong,  Jr.,  LaForest  E.  Graves,  Arthur 
Greenwood,  Joseph  A.  Gurney,  Fred  E.  Hall,  Samuel  J.  Jakins, 
Charles  W.  Keniston,  Harry  P.  Lancaster,  Frank  C.  Latlip, 
Edward  Lessor,  Llewellyn  M.  Libby,  Howard  M.  McFarland, 
William  J.  McLellan,  Edmund  W\  Merrill,  Albert  F.  Merrow, 
Thomas  F.  Moore,  Frank  F.  Perry,  David  B.  Pooler,  Fred  E. 
Pooler,  Harry  Pooler,  Hadley  D.  Rhodes,  Albert  G.  Ryan, 
Ardacton  Smith,  Onesime  Soucier,  William  I.  Sterling,  Herbert 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK.  413 

A.  Taylor,  Daniel  H.  Thing,  Albert  J.  Thomas,  Joseph  Vigue^ 
Joseph  D.  Volier,  Sargie  L.  Warren,  Edward  Willette. 

After  the  Spanish  war  about  fifteen  men  of  Co.  H  followed  the 
flag  in  the  Philippines. 

On  the  return  of  the  men  who  had  been  furloughed  to  join  the 
battery,  the  company  was  reunited  and  recruited  to  its 
full  strength  in  1899.  Its  drill  has  been  in  Thayer's 
hall  but  since  the  completion  of  the  City  hall  the  base- 
ment of  the  old  City  hall  has  been  fitted  up  for  an 
armory  and  drill  will  be  in  the  main  hall.  The  company  was 
never  in  better  condition  than  at  present  (1902).  Capt.  A.  T. 
Shurtleff  is  now  the  senior  captain  in  the  National  Guard,  State 
of  Maine.  The  other  of^cers  are:  ist  lieut.  Joseph  H.  White- 
house;  2nd  lieut.  William  I.  Sterling;  ist  sergeant,  Charles  W. 
Keniston;  quarter  master  sergeant,  Harry  L.  Hughes;  2nd  ser- 
geant, Horace  E.  ]\Ioore ;  3rd  sergeant,  John  P.  Sibley ;  4th  ser- 
geant, Percy  W.  Hawes;  5th  sergeant,  William  O.  Stinson;  ist 
corporal,  Herbert  L.  Simpson ;  2nd  corporal,  John  L.  Swift ;  3rd 
corporal,  Perley  A.  Emery ;  4th  corporal,  Harry  L.  Gordon ;  5th 
corporal,  John  A.  L.  Terrio ;  6th  corporal,  William  ]\IcKague ; 
7th  corporal  and  cook,  Charles  Cabana ;  musicians,  Geo.  E.  Dow, 
Arthur  K.  Strout. 

Corporal  Perley  A.  Emery  and  others  are  already  vet- 
erans of  two  wars  and  yet  like  all  the  members  of  Co.  H  are 
loyal  soldiers  of  the  National  Guard.  Co.  H  in  1900  won  the 
first  prize  in  the  regimental  shoot  and  thus  the  championship  of 
the  State.  In  the  matter  of  rounds  fired  at  preliminary  practice 
it  is  far  ahead  of  the  other  companies  in  the  State. 

the;  watervillf,  bicycle  club. 

From  the  interest  created  by  an  invitation  to  the  wheelmen  of 
Waterville  to  participate  in  the  parade  on  Columbus  Day,  1892, 
sprang  the  Waterville  Wheel  club.  The  club  was  organized 
November  19,  1892,  in  Masonic  block  with  eight  charter  mem- 
bers. The  officers  elected  were  A.  B.  Cook,  president,  F.  B. 
Gardner,  vice-president  and  H.  E.  Davidson,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. Of  the  charter  members,  only  H.  E.  Davidson  and  F.  B. 
Gardner  remain,  but  the  club  membership  has  increased  slowly 
but  steadily  from  the  first  until  now  with  nearly  seventy  members 


414  HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLE. 

it  can  claim  to  be  the  largest  bicycle  club  in  the  State  (with  pos- 
sibly one  exception).  Orange  and  black  were  adopted  as  club 
colors  and  the  orange  and  black  monogram  (W.  B,  C.)  has 
became  familiar  to  wheelmen  all  over  the  State.  The  club  has 
very  pleasant  rooms  occupying  the  whole  of  one  floor  of  Boutelle 
block  corner  Main  and  Temple  streets.  These  rooms  are  used 
for  club  business  and  social  purposes  but  neither  gambling  nor 
liquors  ever  have  been  allowed  within  them.  The  present  officers 
of  the  club  are  Leslie  P.  Loud,  president,  John  Suttie,  vice-presi- 
dent and  captain,  A.  W.  Stevens,  secretary  and  C.  F.  ^Miller, 
treasurer.^ 

THE      WATERVILLE      GUN      CLUB. 

The  Waterville  gun  club  was  organized  in  1892  by  a  few  men 
who  were  fond  of  shooting,  the  first  shoots  of  the  club  being  held 
in  Burleigh  field  where  dwelling  houses  are  now  numerous.  A 
club  house  was  built  on  land  of  Frank  Chase  in  the  western  part 
of  the  city  the  second  year,  and  was  later  moved  to  the  high  hill 
on  Drummond  avenue,  and  later  from  there  to  its  present  location 
in  the  southern  part  of  the  city. 

The  five-man  team  representing  the  club  shot  at  the  state  tour- 
naments with  indifferent  success  until  1897  when  at  Richmond  it 
won  the  state  championship.  The  team  consisted  of  Sidney  A. 
Green,  Samuel  L.  Prebble,  Walter  E.  Reid,  Elwood  T.  Wyman 
and  Andrew  Merrill.  The  same  team,  with  the  substitution  of 
Wesley  Getchell  for  Merrill,  defended  the  title  in  1898,  but  lost 
to  Auburn  in  1899.  In  1901,  the  Waterville  team  made  up  of 
Messrs.  Green,  Preble,  Reid,  William  H.  Stobie  and  Dana  P. 
Foster,  again  won  the  championship  of  the  State. 

The  club  has  also  furnished  the  State  champion  in  the  indi- 
vidual match  three  times,  Walter  E.  Reid  having  won  it  once, 
and  Samuel  L.  Preble  twice.  No  other  club  in  Maine  has  fur- 
nished so  many  shooters  of  acknowledged  skill. 

The  club  officers  are  Samuel  L.  Preble,  president,  Dana  P. 
Foster,  secretary,  and  J.  A.  Davison,  treasurer. 


1.    The  above  facts  concerning  the  bicycle  club  were  kindly  furnished  by  Mr.  H. 
B.  Holland,  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  club.    Editors. 


CHAPTER  XXL 


THE  PRESEXT  BUSINESS  OF  WATERMLLE ; 
SOME  COMPARISONS  WITH  THE  PAST  AND 
A  GLANCE  INTO  THE  FUTURE  BUSINESS 
CONDITIONS. 

Bv    Frank    Redingtox. 

When  W^aterville  became  incorporated  as  a  town,  she  had  but 
few  manufactories  and  not  many  merchants.  Her  financial  tran- 
sactions were,  of  course,  very  limited.  ]\Ioney  in  those  days  was 
a  very  scarce  article,  and  barter  and  exchange  were  the  rule. 
Here  on  the  banks  of  the  Kennebec  had  gathered  a  small  colony 
of  people,  striving  hard  to  make  a  living  out  of  the  soil  and  turn 
an  honest  penny  by  felling  and  clearing  the  forests,  and  convert- 
ing the  logs  into  lumber  by  means  of  the  ver}-  limited  processes 
then  known  to  man. 

Here  lay  one  of  the  most  beautiful  spots  in  all  the  States  of  the 
Union.  Nature  had  been  lavish  of  her  gifts  and  seemed  to  have 
scattered  them  about  in  great  profusion  for  the  hand  of  man  to 
pick  up  and  transform  into  things  of  service  and  of  welfare  to 
himself.  The  beautiful  fall  of  water  on  the  Kennebec  river, 
named  by  the  Indians  Ticonic,  or  Teconnet,  came  dashing  and 
laughing  over  the  great  ledge,  and  needed  only  the  hand  and 
brain  of  man  to  transform  it  into  a  means  of  wealth.  It  seemed 
to  say :  "Here  am.  I.  Come  and  take  me ;  use  me  to  thy  purposes 
and  for  thy  advancement  and  elevation.  I  will  add  to  thy  com- 
fort, to  thy  wealth,  and  to  thy  happiness."  And  then  it  quietly 
sped  away  to  the  great  mother  ocean,  leaving  a  silence  broken 
only  by  the  sound  of  the  woodsman's  axe  as  he  toiled  to  provide 
a  home  for  himself  and  familv. 


41 6  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

The  great  forest  which  then  covered  the  land  in  all  directions 
dared  the  pioneer  to  a  contest  of  endurance  and  privation.  But 
I  will  leave  the  history  of  this  to  other  hands  better  prepared  than 
my  own  to  set  forth  the  record  of  these  early  days,  and  will  pro- 
ceed to  the  consideration  of  the  financial  and  business  standing" 
of  the  city  at  the  present  time,  after  giving  a  brief  abstract  of  the 
rapid  growth  of  the  old  town  since  the  locating  of  the  Lockwood 
Cotton  Mill  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Kennebec. 


THE  LOCKWOOD  COMPANY. 

The  manufacturing  industries  of  Waterville  are  of  great 
importance,  as  can  readily  be  seen  by  a  glance  at  the  statistics 
given  in  connection  with  this  article.  Thirty  years  ago,  the  town 
lay  almost  dormant ;  a  lethargy  pervaded  all  her  activities  ;  a  few 
only  of  the  older  industries  remained.  It  looked  as  if  she  had 
reached  her  limit  of  greatness  and  was  soon  to  sink  into  a  slow 
but  sure  decay.  Then  came  the  change.  The  Lockwood  Cotton 
Mill,  established  in  1875,  gave  a  boom  to  all  interests ;  the  citizens 
awakened,  rubbed  their  eyes  and  sat  erect ;  real  estate  changed 
hands ;  an  influx  of  new  energy  seemed  to  vibrate  and  pulsate 
through  the  veins  of  old  Waterville.  From  that  time  to  the 
present,  she  has  moved  steadily  forward,  and  bids  fair  to  continue 
upon  her  onward  course  for  an  indefinite  period. 

The  second  Lockwood  Mill  was  built  in  1882,  and  this  more 
than  doubled  the  number  of  employes,  and  consequently  gave  a 
renewed  impetus  to  all  kinds  and  classes  of  financial  interests. 

At  this  time,  we  had  but  few  other  manufactories  of  import- 
ance. There  were  several  smaller  industries,  such  as  the  old 
shank  factory,  which  was  located  where  the  one-time  paper  mill 
had  stood ;  and  the  Webber  &  Haviland  foundry,  oldest  of  Wat- 
erville's  present  industries,  which  had  been  a  landmark  for  years  ; 
the  Crommett's  Mills  saw  mill,  and  the  Furbush  sash  and  blind 
factory,  together  with  the  Ricker  tannery  and  the  old  match  fac- 
tory. One  other  industry  deserves  mention  at  this  time.  This 
is  the  Hathaway  shirt  factory.  Every  old  resident  of  Water- 
ville will  readily  bring  to  mind  Charles  F.  Hathaway  and  his 
characteristics,  his  tract-distributing  proclivities  and  his  deeds  of 
charity.  The  old  factory  still  exists,  but  has  been  much  enlarged 
and  modernized.     It  is  now  in  the  control  of  Mr.  C.  A.  Leighton, 


HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 


417 


who  has  brought  the  business  up  to  its  present  high  standard. 
The  old  railroad  repair  shops  were  at  this  time  located  near  the 
Maine  Central  freight  depot,  and  employed  a  few  good  mechan- 
ics. The  neighboring  towns  of  Oakland,  Fairfield  and  North 
Vassalboro  did  a  renumerative  business  in  a  diversity  of  manu- 
factures. Oakland  employed  a  large  number  of  people  in  mak- 
ing edge  tools,  Fairfield  in  the  lumber  interest,  and  North  Vas- 
salboro in  the  woolen  industry.  These  all  contributed  to  Water- 
ville's  mercantile  interests  and  helped  to  fill  the  coffers  of  her 
thrifty  business  men. 


THE    HOLLINGSWORTH    .1-    W^HITNEY    CO. 

Second  in  order  of  importance  among  the  present  manufactur- 
ing interests  of  W'aterville  is  the  Hollingsworth  &  \\' hitney  Pulp 
Mill,  located  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Kennebec,  in  Winslow,  oppo- 
site the  college  buildings.  This  is  not  actually  a  Waterville 
industry,  but  her  mercantile  interests  are  subserved  by  this  great 
plant,  employing  as  it  does  some  675  hands,  largely  skilled 
mechanics,  at  good  wages.  It  is  obvious  to  all  that  the  distri- 
bution of  money  from  this  source  is  a  great  help  to  Waterville, 
and  it  is  confidently  expected  that  this  plant  will  soon  be  much 
enlarged. 

These  mills,  known  as  the  Taconnet,  Mohegan,  and  Algonquin, 
are  but  one  plant  of  several  owned  and  operated  by  the  company ; 
the  others  being  the  Cobbossee  and  the  Aroostook  mills  at  Gar- 
diner, Alaine.  The  company  is  everywhere  known  as  one  of  the 
oldest,  strongest,  most  conservative,  and  yet  most  thoroughly 
up  to  date  pulp  and  paper  manufacturing  corporations  in  the 
country.  Its  officers  are :  Chas.  A.  Dean,  president ;  Edward  B. 
Eaton,  treasurer;  Waldo  E.  Pratt,  vice-president;  M.  L.  Mad- 
den, assistant  manager ;  PL  E.  Fales,  assistant  treasurer ;  F.  E. 
Boston,  manager  of  mills ;  W.  H.  Stobie,  superintendent  of  mills  ; 
H.  W.  Vaughan,  New  York  sales  agent ;  N.  G.  Torrey,  purchas- 
ing agent.  The  main  office  of  the  company  is  located  in  the  Dean 
building  at  60  India  street,  Boston,  ]\Iass.,  and  the  New  York 
office  at  309  Broadway. 

The  Taconnet  and  Mohegan  mills  were  erected  in  1892,  and 
the  Algonquin  Sulphite  Fibre  mill  in  1899.     ^^^  principal  build- 
27 


41 8  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

ings  of  the  plant  are  of  brick,  resting  upon  granite  foundations. 
The  product  of  the  Taconnet  paper  mill  is  lOO  tons  of  Manila 
paper  daily ;  the  product  of  the  Mohegan  pulp  mill  is  50  tons  of 
mechanical  pulp  daily,  and  the  product  of  the  Algonquin  Sul- 
phite Fibre  mill  60  tons  daily.  A  printing  plant,  with  a  large 
number  of  presses  and  a  stereotyping  outfit,  is  included  in  the 
thorough  equipment  of  the  establishment,  which  prints  all  kinds 
of  wrapping  paper  for  customers. 

The  shipping  facilities  of  the  mills  are  ample,  a  double  system 
of  spur  tracks  of  the  Maine  Central  railroad  running  to  the  doors 
of  the  mills  and  storehouses.  Shipments  are  thus  made  easily 
and  promptly.  The  concern  sells  to  dealers  in  paper  only.  Both 
steam  and  water  power  are  used  for  running  the  mills,  the  Ken- 
nebec river  furnishing  about  5,000  h.  p.,  3,000  h.  p.  of  steam  and 
about  1,000  h.  p.  of  electricity  are  also  employed.  The  company 
gives  employment  at  its  ^^'inslow  plant  to  about  675  men,  the 
average  of  whose  wages  is  high,  their  earnings  forming  an 
important  part  of  the  money  monthly  placed  in  circulation  in  this 
vicinity.  The  average  monthly  pay-roll  of  the  mills  amounts  to 
about  $30,000.  The  company  owns  large  townships  of  timber 
land  where  they  cut  most  of  their  annual  supply  of  pulp  wood. 
It  is  said  that  these  townships,  regardless  of  other  sources  of  sup- 
ply, would  furnish  the  Taconnet  mills  with  pulp  wood  enough  to 
keep  them  running  for  at  least  fifteen  years.  The  relations  exist- 
ing between  the  corporation  and  its  employes  have  always  been 
exceedingly  pleasant. 

The  new,  well  equipped  Taconnet  club  house  is  an  example  of 
the  interest  the  Hollingsworth  &  Whitney  Company  has  always 
shown  in  the  comfort  and  pleasure  of  the  people  in  its  employ. 

The  company  has  built  and  furnished  this  club  house,  and 
admits  to  its  use  all  employes  without  charge.  The  house  is 
managed  by  an  association  of  the  employes  who  charge  a  small 
sum  for  billiards,  pool  and  bowling,  such  receipts  being  used  for 
the  benefit  of  entertainments. 

There  is  a  comfortable  library  with  about  3000  volumes  and  all 
the  leading  magazines  and  daily  and  weekly  papers;  a  billiard 
room  with  two  billiard  tables  and  two  pool  tables ;  two  bowling 
alleys  and  a  very  complete  gymnasium ;  smoking  room  with  good 
comfortable  chairs  and  card  tables;  a  large  hall  for  entertain- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


419 


merits  and  meetings:  and  there  are  toilet  rooms  with  shower 
baths. 

The  house  is  pleasantly  situated  on  high  ground,  overlook- 
ing the  Kennebec  and  the  City  of  Waterville.  It  has  large 
piazzas  and  abundant  grounds. 

A  resting  place  like  this,  kept  clean  and  orderly,  with  varied 
means  of  amusement,  and  open  to  all  well  behaved  of  the  people 
employed,  is  profitable  both  to  the  company  and  its  employees. 

In  other  places  there  are  some  such  club  houses  supported  and 
managed  by  the  employes  ;  but  some  wage  earners  do  not  feel  like 
devoting  any  part  of  their  pay  to  such  purposes,  so  all  do  not 
enjoy  the  use  of  the  club.  By  true  and  faithful  service  men  have 
earned  the  good  will  of  the  company ;  they  have  also  earned  the 
comfort  they  get  out  of  this  house. 

The  total  cost  of  the  building,  grounds,  etc.,  amounts  to  about 
$20,000.00.  The  estimated  cost  of  maintaining  this  establish- 
ment is  about  $2500.00  per  year. 

Twenty  years  ago  the  president  of  this  company  arranged  to 
make  stockholders  of  the  men  who  were  to  direct  the  work  of  the 
various  branches  of  its  business,  and  to-day  a  very  large  amount 
of  its  stock  is  owned  by  the  active  working  men,  in  amounts  from 
ten  to  four  hundred  and  fifty  shares  each,  and  all  paid  for  out  of 
their  earnings  and  dividends.  The  loyal  and  faithful  service  of 
these  men  has  been  of  great  assistance  to  the  company,  which 
during  this  time  has  doubled  its  capital  and  increased  its  business 
to  five  times  its  volume  of  twenty  years  ago. 


MAINE     CENTRAL    RAILROAD. 

Another  large  corporation  within  our  limits  employing  skilled 
mechanics  to  a  good  number,  is  the  Maine  Central  Railroad 
Company.  Its  repair  shops  have  been  a  source  of  much  benefit 
to  Waterville's  business  interests  since  the  railroad  first  entered 
our  borders.  Within  a  comparatively  few  years  these  works 
have  been  vastly  increased  and  now  have  taken  on  an  importance 
second  only  to  the  Lockwood  Company  in  their  money  value  to 
Waterville,  speaking  of  them  as  a  strictly  Waterville  industry. 
Appended  is  a  statement  of  its  present  status,  containing  also 
comparative  figures  for  the  years  1879  and  1901. 


420  HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLE. 

The  railroad  company  employs  many  men  outside  of  these 
shops,  such  as  engineers,  firemen,  trackmen,  conductors,  train 
men,  etc.,  who  make  their  homes  in  Waterville  and  contribute 
largely  to  her  prosperity. 

Those  who  are  familiar  with  the  past  may  compare  the  figures 
given  below  with  those  of  an  earlier  period  of  our  history. 

Maine  Central  Freight  Business  for  Waterville. 

1901.  1879. 

Gross 
Tons.  Frt.  Charges.         Tons.        Frt.  Charges. 

Freight  received  89,307     $118,003.62     3,885     $14,724.62 

Freight  forwarded  51,991        100,870.41     8,492       22,743.94 

Included  in  the  freight  business  for  1901  is  all  the  business 
done  at  Waterville  and  Winslow  by  the  Hollingsworth  &  Whit- 
ney Co. 

Tickets. 

1901.  1879. 

No.  Pass.  Gross  Amount.  No.  Pass.  Amount. 

83,995  $8t,6io  98  17,831  $18,482  69 

This  company  received  over  its  road  and  unloaded  at  Water- 
ville for  its  use  30,937  tons,  or  1237  cars  averaging  25  tons 
each  of  bituminous  coal  for  locomotives  and  shop  use. 

There  are  approximately  320  cars,  freight  and  passenger, 
repaired  at  Waterville  shops  each  month,  making  a  total  for  the 
year  of  3840  cars.  Last  year  about  55  locomotives  went  through 
the  shops  for  general  repairs.  There  were  built  at  Wa1;erville 
shops  during  the  year  ending  June  30,  1901,  16  flat  cars,  5  passen- 
ger, mail  and  baggage  cars,  and  one  caboose  car. 


Note.  Mr.  F.  E.  Boothby,  a  native  of  Waterville  and  ever  loyal  to  her  interests, 
now  Mayor  of  Portland  and  General  Passenger  and  Ticket  Agent  of  the  Maine 
Central  Railroad  Company,  is  entitled  to  our  thanks  for  the  statement  of  the  Rail- 
road's Waterville  business  as  given  above. 

In  connection  with  the  history  of  the  Maine  Central  Railroad  from  its 
entrance  into  Waterville,  it  should  be  mentioned  that  our  fellow  townsman,  Mr. 
William  Bodge,  was  acting  as  brakeman  on  the  first  freight  that  came  into  the 
town,  Dec.  7,  1849.  His  brother,  Almaren  Bodge,  was  conductor  on  the  first  pas- 
senger train,  Dec.  6,  1849,  and  Marshall  Barrelle  was  conductor  on  the  first  train 
out  of  Waterville.  Mr.  William  Bodge  is  the  only  living  citizen  of  Waterville 
who  was  then  in  the  employ  of  the  railroad  company.  He  served  the  company 
as  brakeman  only  a  few  months,  was  then  promoted  to  the  position  of  baggage 
master,  and  shortly  after  to  that  of  conductor,  which  position  he  filled  until 
about  two  years  ago,  retiring  with  a  service  of  nearly  fifty  years  to  his  credit. 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILLE.  421 

The  average  number  of  men  employed  at  Waterville  shops  is 
250.  They  receive  approximately  $14,000  per  month.  In  addi- 
tion to  this,  about  $16,000  is  paid  to  employes  other  than  shop- 
men, making  a  total  of  $360,000  a  year  paid  to  employes  at 
Waterville.  The  estimated  value  of  manufactured  products  at 
Waterville  shops  for  a  year  is  $355,000,  including  the  entire  cost 
of  repairing  all  cars  and  locomotives. 

Waterville  yard  has  three  miles  of  main  line  and  twelve  miles 
of  side  track ;  with  a  capacity  of  1252  cars. 


THE     WISCASSET,     WATER\'ILLE     AND     FARMINGTON     RAILROAD. 

Very  soon  we  shall  have  a  new  railroad  line,  extending  from 
the  Rangeley  Lakes  to  the  sea,  having  its  southern  terminus  at 
the  large  and  deep  harbor  in  the  historic  old  town  of  Wiscasset. 
This  road,  while  a  narrow  gauge,  will  be,  to  some  extent,  a  com- 
peting line  with  the  Maine  Central,  and  will  operate  to  the  advan- 
tage of  shippers  of  merchandise.  It  will  make  W^aterville  a  bill- 
ing point  and  cause  a  concentration  of  railroad  interests  in  our 
city.  This  little  road,  commencing  in  Wiscasset,  wends  its  way 
through  the  fertile  valleys  of  central  Maine,  connecting  the  towns 
of  Wiscasset,  Sheepscot,  Alna  Centre,  Head  Tide,  Whitefield, 
Preble's,  North  Whitefield,  Cooper's  Mills,  ^laxey's  Weeks' 
Mills,  Newel's  Palermo,  Cole's  China,  South  China,  East  Vas- 
salboro,  North  Vassaiboro,  Winslow,  Albion  and  South  Albion, 
on  the  east,  and  Oakland,  Smithfield,  Rome,  ]\Iercer,  New 
Sharon,  Farmington,  Phillips  and  the  Rangeley  region,  on  the 
w^est :  and  \\'aterville  is  in  the  centre  of  this  chain  of  municipali- 
ties and  has  the  further  advantage  of  being  the  largest  and  most 
prosperous.  It  follows,  as  a  natural  consequence,  that  the  great 
amount  of  business  flowing  from  these  well-to-do  farming  and 
manufacturing  com.munities  will  gravitate  to  this  city. 

The  personnel  of  the  company  is  as  follows :  L.  Atwood,  presi- 
dent ;  G.  P.  Farley,  vice-president ;  F,  B.  Hubbard,  superinten- 
dent; J.  H.  Gould,  treasurer.  This  road  has  about  forty-two 
miles  of  track  laid  and  is  already  doing  business  and  running 
trains  on  schedule  time. 


422  HISTORY    OF    WAT^RVILLE. 


THK    RIVERVIEW    WORSTED    MILLS. 

The  Riverview  Worsted  Mills  is  among  the  new  but  very 
important  industries.  It  was  founded  in  1900  by  Mr.  Thomas 
Sampson,  who  had  had  a  long  and  successful  experience  in 
woolen  manufacturing  and  was  largely  interested  in  the  mills  at 
North  Vassalboro  until  they  were  sold  to  the  American  Woolen 
Company.  Mr.  Sampson  associated  with  him  some  of  the  lead- 
ing business  men  of  the  city  and  the  enterprise  was  a  success 
from  the  start.  Soon  it  became  necessary  to  enlarge  the  mills 
and  a  second  enlargement  is  in  process  which  will  increase  the 
number  of  operatives  to  about  three  hundred,  and  the  pay-roll  to 
$150,000  per  year.  Only  goods  of  a  high  grade  are  manu- 
factured. 

THE    HATHAWAY    SHIRT    FACTORY. 

The  Hathaway  Shirt  Factory  employs  150  hands,  and  has  a 
pay-roll  of  $60,000  per  annum.  The  building  has  been  enlarged 
recently,  is  finely  equipped  and  has  place  on  the  highest  list  of 
such  manufactories. 

THE    .SAWYER    PUBLISHING     COMPANY. 

The  Sawyer  Publishing  Company,  perhaps,  comes  next  in  the 
number  of  employes,  and  is  of  far-reaching  importance  to  our 
city,  employing  as  it  does  a  large  number  of  young  ladies,  who 
are  thus  enabled  to  earn  a  livelihood  without  going  frorn  home. 
It  employs  hands  to  the  number  of  100;  its  pay-roll  is  $48,000. 
Its  business  is  the  publication  of  "mail  order"  papers  and  maga- 
zines. 

THE    WATERVILLE    IRON    WORKS. 

In  speaking  of  the  next  industry — the  Waterville  Iron  Works 
— it  may  be  in  order  to  state  that  it,  the  oldest  of  our  industries, 
in  common  with  nearly  all  which  were  once  located  on  the  banks 
of  the  beautiful  Messalonskee,  has  taken  up  its  abode  elsewhere. 
The  location  of  the  Waterville  Iron  Works  is  now  at  the  "Head 
of  the  Falls,"  and  the  proprietors,  Messrs.  Webber  &  Philbrick, 
are  doing  a  thriving  business.  They  have  a  foundry  department 
and  a  department  of  machinery.     Most  of  the  machinery  con- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  423 

structed  is  for  mills,  especially  for  pulp  mills.     They  employ  an 
average  of  thirty-four  hands,  have  a  pay-roll  of  $16,800. 

THE    WHITTEMORE    FURNITURE    COMPANY. 

The  Whittemore  Furniture  Company  is  a  comparatively  new 
industry,  having  been  established  a  little  over  two  years.  Its 
business  is  the  manufacture  of  couches,  lounges,  Morris  chairs, 
etc.  It  employs  from  fifteen  to  twenty-five  hands,  according  to 
the  season.  It  has  an  annual  pay-roll  of  about  $9,600.  It  has 
been  enlarged  in  1902  and  its  future  growth  is  only  a  matter  of 
time. 

In  the  embryo  state  is  a  woolen  mill,  now  building,  erected  by 
the  Chase  Manufacturing  Company  on  the  Messalonskee,  at  the 
Crommett's  Mills  bridge.  This  will  employ  about  twenty  hands, 
and  will  be  a  one-set  mill,  having  a  water  power  of  60  h.  p.  It 
will  have  a  stimulating:  efifect  on  our  mercantile  affairs. 


THE    WATERVILLE    STCVE    FOUNDRY. 

The  Waterville  Stove  Foundry  on  Chaplin  street,  is  one  of  our 
desirable  manufacturing  establishments,  employing  twenty  hands, 
and  having  a  good  pay-roll.  The  men  are  skilled  in  their  work 
and  command  high  wages. 


THE    JAYNES    CREAMERY     COMPANY. 

The  Jaynes  Creamery  Company,  located  on  Toward  street,  was 
organized  in  December,  1899,  with  ten  thousand  dollars  capital; 
Am.os  F.  Gerald,  president,  and  R.  F.  Jaynes,  treasurer.  It  has 
three  hundred  patrons  among  the  farmers.  It  has  a  branch  at 
Thorndike.  This  company  pays  annually,  fifty  thousand  dollars 
to  the  farmers.  The  company  sends  5,000  gallons  of  cream, 
monthly,  to  Boston.  It  handles  also  butter  and  cheese  in  large 
quantities.     Ten  hands  are  employed  by  this  corporation, 

Wesley  Fitzgerald,  on  upper  College  avenue,  employs  several 
hands  in  jobbing  in  wood  work.     He  has  a  large  machine  plant. 

A.  P,  Emery  does  some  business  in  the  tanning  of  sheepskins, 
which  he  has  carried  on  for  years. 


424  HISTORY   OF    WATElRVILLK. 

Many  of  our  citizens  are  unaware  of  what  is  being  done  in  the 
line  of  bee  culture  by  Mr.  F.  F.  Graves.  The  city  of  Waterville 
consumes,  annually,  from  six  to  eight  tons  of  honey ;  about  five 
tons  are  produced  by  city  bred  bees,  and  of  this  amount  Mr. 
Graves  raises  four  and  one-half  tons,  which  sells  at  an  average  of 
fifteen  cents  per  pound,  or  a  total  of  $1,275. 

THE    WATERVILLE    &    FAIRElEl-D   RAILWAY     AND    LIGHT   COMPANY. 

The  Waterville  &  Fairfield  Railway  and  Light  Company,  while 
not  perhaps  to  be  classed  as  a  manufacturing  plant,  yet  does  man- 
ufacture one  of  the  greatest,  most  dangerous  and  least  understood 
products — if  it  is  a  product — of  these  strenuous  times.  It  does 
all  it  can  to  turn  night  into  day  and  to  control  the  elements  for 
man's  advancement  and  em.ancipation.  It  furnishes  electric 
lights  for  our  homes,  stores,  factories  and  streets.  It  also  sup- 
plies power  for  many  of  our  other  plants,  viz. :  the  Worsted  Mill, 
a  part  of  the  Hollingsworth  &  Whitney  Go's,  mills,  the  Water- 
ville Iron  Works,  and  many  others.  The  electric  railway  is  a 
part  of  this  plant  and  brings  into  and  carries  out  of  Waterville, 
517,895  passengers  per  year.  This  electric  road  is  in  itself  of 
vast  and  incalculable  importance  to  Waterville's  financial  inter- 
ests. Take  away  this  road  and  you  would  take  from  our  mer- 
chants a  good  percentage  of  business.  The  extension  of  this 
railroad  is  eagerlv  looked  forward  to  by  the  citizens,  not  only 
for  the  accommodation  it  would  afford  but  because  it  would  add 
to  our  monetary  advantage. 

This  company  employs  thirty-eight  hands,  and  has  a  pay-roll 
of  $20,000.  It  has  1,000  h.  p.  water  and  500  h.  p.  steam.  It 
operates  four  and  three-quarters  miles  of  track,  located  in  Fair- 
field and  Waterville.  It  runs  its  cars  every  half  hour  from  six 
A.  M  to  ten  P.  M.,  and  made,  last  year,  11,765  trips.  The  com- 
pany could  develop  1,000  h.  p.  more  from  its  present  control- 
ment. 

THE     UNION    GAS     AND     ELECTRIC     COMPANY. 

The  Union  Gas  and  Electric  Company,  owned  by  Mr.  Spauld- 
ing  of  Boston,  is  managed  from  the  ofiice  of  the  Waterville  & 
Fairfield  Railway  and  Light  Co.  It  is  a  plant  constructed  by 
Frank  Chase  on  the  lower  ]\Iessalonskee,  just  below  the  site  of 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  425 

the  old  Webber  &  Haviland  foundry.  It  has  a  capacity  of  1,500 
h.  p.,  water,  and  uses  at  present  about  half  of  its  full  power.  It 
is  equipped  for  electric  lighting  and  motor  power  and  is  of  very 
even  and  steady  force. 


THE     MESSAI.OXSKEE     ELECTRIC     COMPANY. 

The  jMessalonskee  Electric  Company  is  a  newly  organized 
electrical  corporation  which  bids  fair  to  have  a  successful  future. 
Its  employes,  at  present,  are  seven  in  number  and  it  has  an 
.innual  pay-roll  of  $4,500.  It  is  sure  to  grow,  and  its  growth 
can  but  prove  to  \\'aterville's  advantage.  At  present  it  holds 
the  contract  for  the  street  lighting  in  the  city. 

THE    WATERVILLE    BEEF    COMPANY. 

The  Waterville  Beef  Company,  owned  and  controlled  by 
Armour  &  Company,  is  an  innovation  on  the  old  method  of  sup- 
plying our  meat  markets.  Most  of  the  meats  which  we  get  now 
come  from  Chicago  in  refrigerator  cars,  and  are  distributed  from 
stations  in  different  cities  of  the  State.  This  company  has  a 
plant  here,  located  beside  the  Maine  Central  track,  and  unloads 
from  the  car  direct  to  its  refrigerator.  It  has  a  substantial  brick 
building,  especially  adapted  to  its  uses.  As  a  distributing  centre 
for  this  business,  \\'aterville  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  State.  This 
company  employs  five  hands,  but  is  of  much  importance  to  our 
business  interests.  It  does  a  business  of  $200,000  per  year; 
handling  over  six  carloads  per  month. 

THE    AMERICAN     EXPRESS     COMPANY     AND     HOYT'S     EXPRESS 

COMPANY. 

The  American  Express  Company  and  Hoyt's  Express  Com- 
pany are  both  doing  a  large  and  increasing  business. 

THE    NE^^     ENGLAND    TELEPHONE    AND    TELEGRAPH     COMPANY. 

The  New  England  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company  first 
located  in  Waterville  in  1880.  It  has  now  (June,  1902)  439 
instruments  in  use  with  a  constantly  increasing  business.  It  is 
safe  to  sav  that  no  business  man  in  Waterville  or  elsewhere  gets 


424 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


Many  of  our  citizens  are  unaware  of  what  is  being  done  in  the 
line  of  bee  culture  by  Mr.  F.  F.  Graves.  The  city  of  Waterville 
consumes,  annually,  from  six  to  eight  tons  of  honey ;  about  five 
tons  are  produced  by  city  bred  bees,  and  of  this  amount  Mr. 
Graves  raises  four  and  one-half  tons,  which  sells  at  an  average  of 
fifteen  cents  per  pound,  or  a  total  of  $1,275. 

THE    WATERVILLE    &    FAIRFIELD   RAILWAY     AND    LIGHT    COMPANY. 

The  Waterville  &  Fairfield  Railway  and  Light  Company,  while 
not  perhaps  to  be  classed  as  a  manufacturing  plant,  yet  does  man- 
ufacture one  of  the  greatest,  most  dangerous  and  least  understood 
products — if  it  is  a  product — of  these  strenuous  times.  It  does 
all  it  can  to  turn  night  into  day  and  to  control  the  elements  for 
man's  advancement  and  em.ancipation.  It  furnishes  electric 
lights  for  our  homes,  stores,  factories  and  streets.  It  also  sup- 
plies power  for  many  of  our  other  plants,  viz. :  the  Worsted  Mill, 
a  part  of  the  Hollingsworth  &  Whitney  Go's,  mills,  the  Water- 
ville Iron  Works,  and  many  others.  The  electric  railway  is  a 
part  of  this  plant  and  brings  into  and  carries  out  of  Waterville, 
517,895  passengers  per  year.  This  electric  road  is  in  itself  of 
vast  and  incalculable  importance  to  W^aterville's  financial  inter- 
ests. Take  away  this  road  and  you  would  take  from  our  mer- 
chants a  good  percentage  of  business.  The  extension  of  this 
railroad  is  eagerly  looked  forward  to  by  the  citizens,  not  only 
for  the  accommodation  it  would  afford  but  because  it  would  add 
to  our  monetary  advantage. 

This  company  employs  thirty-eight  hands,  and  has  a  pay-roll 
of  $20,000.  It  has  1,000  h.  p.  water  and  500  h.  p.  steam.  It 
operates  four  and  three-quarters  miles  of  track,  located  in  Fair- 
field and  Waterville.  It  runs  its  cars  every  half  hour  from  six 
A.  M  to  ten  P.  M.,  and  made,  last  year,  11,765  trips.  The  com- 
pany could  develop  t,ooo  h.  p.  more  from  its  present  control- 
ment. 

THE     UNION     GAS     AND     ELECTRIC     COMPANY. 

The  Union  Gas  and  Electric  Company,  owned  by  ^Ir.  Spauld- 
ing  of  Boston,  is  managed  from  the  office  of  the  Waterville  & 
Fairfield  R.ailway  and  Light  Co.  It  is  a  plant  constructed  by 
Frank  Chase  on  the  lower  Messalonskee,  just  below  the  site  of 


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the  old  Webber  Sz  Haviland  foundry.  It  has  a  capacity  of  1,500 
h.  p.,  water,  and  uses  at  present  about  half  of  its  full  power.  It 
is  equipped  for  electric  lighting  and  motor  power  and  is  of  verv 
even  and  steady  force. 


THE     MKSSAI.OXSKEE     ELECTRIC     COMPANY. 

The  Messalonskee  Electric  Company  is  a  newly  organized 
electrical  corporation  which  bids  fair  to  have  a  successful  future. 
Its  employes,  at  present,  are  seven  in  number  and  it  has  an 
.innual  pay-roll  of  $4,500.  It  is  sure  to  grow,  and  its  growth 
can  but  prove  to  Waterville's  advantage.  At  present  it  holds 
the  contract  for  the  street  lighting  in  the  city. 

THE    WATERVILLE    BEEF    COMPAXV. 

The  Waterville  Beef  Compan}-,  owned  and  controlled  by 
Armour  &  Company,  is  an  innovation  on  the  old  method  of  sup- 
plying our  meat  markets.  Most  of  the  meats  which  we  get  now 
come  from  Chicago  in  refrigerator  cars,  and  are  distributed  from 
stations  in  different  cities  of  the  State.  This  company  has  a 
plant  here,  located  beside  the  :\laine  Central  track,  and  unloads 
from  the  car  direct  to  its  refrigerator.  It  has  a  substantial  brick 
building,  especially  adapted  to  its  uses.  As  a  distributing  centre 
for  this  business,  A\'ateryille  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  State.  This 
company  employs  five  hands,  but  is  of  much  importance  to  our 
business  interests.  It  does  a  business  of  $200,000  per  year; 
handling  over  six  carloads  per  month. 

THE    AMERICAX'     EXPRESS     COMPAXY     AXD     FIOYT's     EXPRESS 

COMPAXY. 

The  American  Express  Company  and  Hoyt's  Express  Com- 
pany are  both  doing  a  large  and  increasing  business. 


THE    NE\\     EXGLAXD    TELEPHOXE    AXD    TELEGRAPH     COMPANY. 

The  New  England  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company  first 
located  in  Waterville  in  1880.  It  has  now  (June,  1902)  439 
instruments  in  use  with  a  constantly  increasing  business.  It  is 
safe  to  say  that  no  business  man  in  Waterville  or  elsewhere  gets 


426  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

SO  much  for  his  money  from  any  other  modern  convenience  as  he 
does  from  his  telephone  connection. 

the:  standard  oil  company. 
The  Standard  Oil  Company  has  had  a  branch  of  its  business 
established  here  for  nearly  thirteen  years.  It  handles  for  Water- 
ville  and  vicinity  over  300,000  gallons  of  oil  per  year  and  repre- 
sents a  business  value  of  from  $30,000  to  $35,000.  It  has  its 
plant  beside  the  railroad  track,  just  west  of  the  Whittemore  Fur- 
niture Company.  It  unloads  direct  from  car  to  storage  tanks. 
The  com.pany  sells  to  jobbers  and  large  consumers  only. 

NSv/sr-APERS. 

The  Mail  Publishing  Company  is  a  corporation  which  does  a 
large  printing  business  in  addition  to  issuing  the  daily  and  weekly 
editions  of  the  Waterville  Mail.  It  employes  from  fourteen  to 
twenty  hands  and  has  an  annual  pay-roll  of  about  v$5,8oo. 

The  W.  M.  L,add  Company  is  another  large  printing  concern. 
It  also  publishes  the  Waterville  Sentinel — a  semi-weekly  paper. 
It  employs  an  average  of  twelve  hands  and  has  a  pay-roll  of 
$5,668  annually. 

THE    CITY    GREENHOUSES. 

Several  years  ago  'TJncle  Wendell"  had  a  small  greenhouse 
on  Front  street,  where  he,  a  true  lover  of  flowers,  cultivated  and 
sold,  in  limited  quantities,  both  cut  flowers  and  potted  ^plants. 
He  maintained  this  establishment  for  some  time,  but  at  length 
the  worker  and  the  work  disappeared. 

Later,  Amos  C.  Stark  established  a  small  greenhouse  in  con- 
nection with  his  residence  on  Main  street,  where  he  gave  special 
attention  to  the  cultivation  of  potted  plants  and,  in  the  spring, 
of  seedlings,  both  vegetable  and  floral,  and  bedding  plants.  He 
also  did  quite  a  business  in  filling  urns  for  the  cemetery.  But 
failing  health  has  compelled  him  to  abandon  the  work  entirely. 

It  remained  for  the  firm  of  H.  R.  I\Titchell  &  Son  to  build  up 
in  Waterville  the  florist  business  on  a  scale  in  any  way  commen- 
surate with  the  growing  business  of  our  city  and  with  the 
demands  of  an  industry  which  has  developed  into  mammoth  pro- 
portions in  the  country  during  the  last  twenty-five  years. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  427 

In  the  fall  of  1896,  H.  R.  ^Mitchell,  who  had  been  a  pastor  of 
Baptist  churches  for  over  twenty  years,  and  his  son,  Frank  H., 
who  left  a  good  position  in  a  bank,  bought  quite  a  section  of 
land  on  the  south  side  of  Highwood  street,  and  erected  a  large 
greenhouse. 

The  patronage  of  the  people  of  Waterville  has  been  constant 
and  hearty.  The  new  firm  soon  discovered  that  they  must  have 
more  room ;  so  the  next  summer  they  erected  two  more  houses, 
more  than  doubling  their  capacity.  Trade  continued  to  increase, 
and  the  firm  began  to  >end  their  goods  to  surrounding  towns, 
establishing  agencies  in  many  of  the  thriving  villages  in  Ken- 
nebec, Somerset  and  even  Penobscot  counties. 

The  building  and  equipping  of  new  houses  has  been  almost 
constant  until  they  have  now  one  of  the  largest  and  best  equipped 
florist  establishments  in  Maine.  They  have  about  14,000  square 
feet  of  glass,  and  the  greenhouses  and  other  buildings  connected 
with  them  cover  nearly  a  third  of  an  acre  of  ground.  They  ship 
their  goods  to  all  parts  of  the  State  and  even  to  other  states ; 
their  shipping  facilities  being  absolutely  the  best  in  Elaine. 

THE    WATERVILLE     POST-OFF  ICE. 

The  \\'aterville  Post-office  has  kept  pace  with  the  growth  of 
the  city.  The  present  incumbent,  ^Ir.  W.  M.  Dunn,  is  one  of  the 
most  efficient  postmasters  the  city  has  ever  had.  His  ability  is 
acknowledged  by  all,  and  the  public  are  highly  pleased  with  the 
treatment  accorded  them  and  the  manner  in  w^hich  the  business 
of  the  office  is  conducted.  ]\[r.  Dunn  served  as  postmaster  four 
years  under  President  Hayes'  administration.  When  Grover 
Cleveland  was  elected  President,  F.  L.  Thayer  was  appointed  to 
the  position,  and  Mr.  Dunn  was  again  appointed  when  President 
Harrison  came  into  power,  and  has  served  since,  to  the  -entire 
satisfaction  of  all  concerned.  ]Mr.  J.  F,  Larrabee,  the  assistant 
postmaster,  comes  in  for  a  full  share  of  the  public  approval. 


Note.  A  curious  custom  of  the  oldtime  post  office  is  noted  In  the  Chaplin  MS. 
The  postmaster  after  arranging  the  mail  would  tap  on  the  table  for  silence.  The 
people  "Who  thronged  the  office  -would  then  keep  measurably  quiet  while  the  post 
master  in  a  loud  voice  read  the  names  upon  the  letters  received.  The  letters  were 
then  passed  from  hand  to  hand  to  their  owners.  This  process  sometimes  was 
the  occasion  of  considerable  mirth  and  sometimes,  as  in  the  suspense  which  fol- 
lowed the  rumored  death  of  Lieutenant  Moor,  it  showed  the  quick  sympathy  of 
the  townsmen. 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  429 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  the  older  one-time  citizens  of  Water- 
ville,  now  located  elsewhere,  to  mention  some  of  the  changes  that 
have  taken  place. 

Beginning-  at  the  lower  end  of  Main  street,  the  old  Ticonic 
block  still  stands,  without  external  change.     The  first  modern 
brick  building,  as  you  go  north,  is  the  ^lilliken  block,  which  took 
the  place  of  the  old  Waterville  Savings  Bank.     On  the  opposite 
corner  at  the  junction  of  Main  and  Silver  streets,  where  used  to 
stand  the  old  wooden  building  owned  by  the  Kimball  heirs  and 
occupied  by  David  Gallert  as  a  dry  goods  store,  and  including 
the  next  building  that  was  owned  by  Joseph  Nudd  and  rented  for 
a  saloon  for  years,  now  stands  a  splendid  block,  three  stories,  and 
modern  in  all  respects.     This  block  is  of  brick,  trimmed  with 
granite,  and  was  erected  by  F.  L.  Thayer.     It  is  now  owned  by 
C.  J.  Clukey.     Next  in  order  is  the  Plaisted  block,  one  of  the  best 
in  town.     This  takes  the  place  of  the  old  stores  occupied  by  J.  G. 
Darrah,  Wadsworth  Chipman,  J.  H.  Plaisted,  William  Caftrey 
and  E.  Blumenthal.     L.  H.  Soper's  large  brick  block  comes  next 
and  is  among  the  best.     It  is  three    stories.     Last    April    Mr. 
vSoper  had  a  passenger  elevator  put  in  to  run  from  basement  to 
top  floor.     This  is  the  first  elevator  put  into  any  store  in  the  city ; 
that  IS  run  by  motor  power  and  used  for  the  accommodation   of 
customers.  The  three  story  wooden  building   owned    by    Theo- 
philus  Oilman  adjoins  the  Soper  block.     The  next  brick  block  is 
the  Barrelle  block,  three  stories,  and  a  fine  structure.  It  stands  on 
the  site  of  the  J.  P.  Caftrey  store.     The  Ware  block,  similar  to 
the  Barrelle  block,  is  next  in  order.     This  is  a  double  block,  all 
connected,  and  closing  up  the  right  of  way  which  lay  between 
the  old  buildings,  which  were  occupied  respectively  by  C.   M. 
Barrelle  and  C.  R.  ]\IcFadden.     Alongside  of  this  is  the  H.  L. 
Emery  block.     Passing  along,  we  come  to  the   Savings   Bank 
block,  a  good  brick  structure  of  two  stories.     There  are  no  more 
brick  buildings  until  we  reach  the  Peoples'  Bank  building ;  but 
the  intervening  space  is  occupied  by  good  substantial  wooden 
buildings.     The  land  on  which  these  buildings  stand  is  probably 
the  most  valuable  on  Main  street.     The  Peoples'  Bank  and  the 
Ticonic  Bank  buildings  are  three  story,  brick  structures  and  occu- 
pied by  the  owners  for  banking  purposes.     Then  comes  the  old 
Phoenix  Block,  which  looks  as  it  did  years  ago.     A  wooden  build- 


430  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

ing  stands  on  the  corner,  called  the  Rogers  building.  On  the 
next  corner,  at  the  junction  of  yia'm  and  Temple  streets,  is  the 
Burleigh  block,  a  three  story  brick  building  and  of  modern  style ; 
this  takes  the  place  of  the  old  tumble-down  wooden  affair  once 
occupied  by  ]\Ianley  &  Tozier  as  a  grocery  store.  There  are  two 
quite  good  wooden  buildings  before  we  reach  the  Pulsifer  and 
Flood  blocks,  which  were  built  last  year  and  which  are  of  three 
stories  and  modern  in  all  particulars.  Then  wooden  buildings 
extend  to  the  property  owned  by  the  Unitarian  Church  Society. 

The  east  side  of  Alain  street,  going  south,  is  practically  as  it 
has  been  for  many  years,  until  you  get  to  Temple  street.  Com- 
mencing here,  the  old  brick  buildings  have  been  remodelled  and 
present  an  unbroken  front  as  far  as  the  old  Burleigh  property, 
once  occupied  by  Thomas  Herrick  as  a  hardware  store.  These 
blocks  are  the  Boutelle,  Elden,  Arnold,  and  Hanson,  Webber  & 
Dunham  blocks.  From  here  to  the  square,  or  the  hay  scales,  as 
the  boys  used  to  call  it,  there  are  no  brick  buildings,  but  some 
of  the  wooden  ones  have  been  remodelled.  From  common  street 
south  we  have  no  brick  blocks  until  we  reach  the  Gallert  building, 
and  adjoining  this  is  the  Peavy  block,  one  of  the  best  in  the  city. 
Then  come  the  same  old  brick  buildings  with  the  roofs  pitching 
toward  the  street  that  have  stood  for  years  and  years.  The  last 
pretentious  building  on  the  east  side  of  the  street  is  the  R.  B. 
Dunn  block,  used  for  stores  on  the  ground  floor  and  the  Bay 
View  Hotel  above.  It  is  one  of  the  largest  brick  business  blocks 
in  the  city. 

On  Common  street  where  once  stood  a  few  cheap  wooden 
buildings,  now  stands  the  Masonic  Temple,  built  of  brick  and 
trimmed  with  granite.  It  is  three  stories  and  modern  in  all  par- 
ticulars. Adjoining  it  is  the  W.  T.  Haines  block,  of  the  same 
general  style  and  qualitv  as  the  former.  The  ground  floor  of 
this  building  is  occupied  by  the  Post-oflice. 

Silver  street  can  boast  of  one  good  brick  building,  that  of 
Frank  Redington,  on  the  old  Wheeler  property  where  once  Sum- 
ner A.  Wheeler  dispensed  spruce  and  lemon  beer  and  sold  shot 
guns.  There  are  several  stores  on  that  street,  but  all  of  wood, 
with  this  exception. 

Temple  street  has  grown  much  as  a  business  section,  having 
many  stores  both  east  and  west  of  INIain  street,  and  bids  fair  to 
increase  its  number  within  the  near  future. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  43 1 

It  is  not  possible  to  enumerate  all  the  chan<yes  that  have  taken 
place  in  the  business  and  residential  sections  of  the  city;  but  to 
the  older  people  it  may  be  of  interest  to  state  briefly  some  of  the 
most  notable  ones.  On  what  we  term  "The  Plains,"  the  growth 
has  been  notable.  It  was  but  a  few  years  ago,  when  only  a  few 
houses,  widely  scattered,  were  located  in  that  section,  and  they 
were  of  a  poor  quality  and  simply  constructed,  only  one  or  two 
rooms  in  some  of  them.  Then  there  was  the  one  main  thorough- 
fare, named  Water  street,  and  only  a  few  lanes  making  off  from 
this  street,  north  of  Grove  street.  It  seemed  like  going  into 
another  town  to  go  ''down  on  the  Plains."  But  now  what  a 
contrast!  There  are  good  large  substantial  homes,  clean,  neat, 
roomy  and  comfortable  ;  fine  business  blocks,  and  nearly  all  kinds 
of  business  represented ;  streets  running  in  all  directions ;  real 
estate  at  a  premium,  and  thrift  and  order  found  on  every  hand. 
It  is  a  small  city  within  itself.  The  electric  cars  run  the  length 
of  Water  street  every  half  hour  and  are  well  patronized. 

Most  of  us  can  remember  the  circus  ground  on  what  was  called 
Nudd  field  and  where  the  school  boys  plaA'ed  four-old-cat  and 
later  baseball.  There  were  no  houses  there  then,  but  now  nearly, 
if  not  quite  every  lot  is  built  upon,  making  it  one  of  the  prettiest 
and  most  desirable  locations  in  the  city ;  and  further  over  in  the 
Burleigh  field  a  number  of  beautiful  houses  have  been  built. 

Ticonic  street,  once  called  "Paddy  Lane,"  is  one  of  the  busiest 
in  the  city.  There  are  several  stores  located  here  and  many  good 
homes.  Above  the  railroad  crossing  on  College  street  many  fine 
residences  have  been  built  and  new  streets  have  been  opened  on 
either  side.  One  of  the  best  schoolhouses  in  the  city — the  Myrtle 
Street  schoolhouse —  has  recently  been  erected  here.  It  is  a 
building  of  eight  rooms  and  is  crowded  with  scholars.  And  so 
one  may  go  on  taking  section  by  section,  describing  changes, 
which  are  in  the  line  of  improvements  everywhere. 

The  present  demand  is  for  good,  substantial,  medium-rate 
rents.  There  seems  to  be  a  scarcity  of  them,  although  new 
houses  are  being  built  in  all  quarters.  There  may  be  danger  of 
overdoing  in  this  direction,  but  it  would  seem  not  for  some  time 
yet.  Real  estate  is  of  more  value  than  several  years  ago,  but 
there  seems  to  be  no  lack  of  purchasers. 


432  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

THE    NEW    CITY    HALL. 

During  the  last  year  the  city  has  erected  a  handsome  city  build- 
ing, on  the  site  of  the  ola  town  hall,  just  off  Common  street. 
This  building  contains  rooms  for  all  the  city  officials ;  a  station 
house  for  those  who  are  so  unfortunate  as  to  need  the  restraining 
hand  of  the  law;  a  superior  court  room  and  a  municipal  court 
room,  with  all  the  adjuncts  necessary  for  the  comfort  and  con- 
venience of  the  court  officials.  A  safe  and  commodious  vault 
occupies  the  middle  section  of  the  first  two  floors  for  the  keeping 
safely  of  all  monies  and  records  belonging  to  the  city ;  and  the 
upper  floor  is  devoted  to  a  large  and  beautiful  auditorium  with 
balcony  and  stage.  Some  of  our  citizens  facetiously,  and  yet 
rightly,  describe  this  portion  of  the  building  as  the  "Opera 
House."  It  is  well  adapted  to  the  uses  of  the  city  in  its  municipal 
capacity,  and  can  be  used  for  convention  purposes  as  well.  It 
is  also  the  intention  to  let  this  hall  for  entertainments — thus  deriv- 
ing an  income  for  the  city  and  at  the  same  time  furnishing  the 
people  with  a  fine  public  hall.  This  building  will  cost,  when 
completed,  about  $70,000.  Our  citizens  are  all  pleased  with  this 
structure  and  proud  of  its  possession. 

The  College,  schools,  churches,  and  other  of  our  public  and 
private  edifices,  are  written  up  in  this  volume  by  others,  and  I 
only  speak  of  them  as  contributing  to  our  wealth  and  adding  to 
our  population. 

VALUATION    AND    TAXATION. 

Our  assessed  valuation  for  1902  is  $5,219,163;  the  rate  of 
taxation  is  23 V2  mills;  giving  a  total  of  $122,650.33.  Add  to 
this  2,618  polls,  at  $3  each,  and  we  have  $130,504.33  as  the  total 
amount  raised  by  the  city.  Of  this  valuation,  $4,191,325  was  on 
real  estate  and  $892,007  on  personal  estate.  It  may  be  thought 
by  some  that  this  rate  is  rather  high,  but  by  a  comparison  with 
the  rates  in  other  cities  of  the  State,  it  will  readily  be  seen  that 
our  burdens  are  not  very  heavy.  The  assessors'  report  for  1901 
shows  that  we  added  $100,000  to  our  valuation,  and  we  add 
$135,831  this  year.     The  increase  in  the  number  of  noils  is  132. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK.  433 

FIRE    DEPARTMENT     AND     INSURANCE. 

We  take  great  and  increasing  pride  in  our  Fire  Department.  It 
was,  to  a  large  extent,  brought  to  its  present  state  of  efficiency 
by  Chief  Engineer  A.  H.  Plaisted,  under  whose  training  a  thor- 
ough system  was  estabHshed.  He  was  succeeded  by  Chief 
George  F.  Davies,  the  present  incumbent,  who  is  the  right  man 
to  follow  in  Mr.  Plaisted's  footsteps.  He  is  fully  alive  to  keeping 
up  the  department  to  its  present  high  standard,  and  the  men 
under  him  all  readily  acknowledge  his  fitness  for  the  position. 
Our  alarm  system  is  one  of  the  best  and  gives  very  good  satis- 
faction. It  has  been  suggested  that  when  it  can  be  readily  done, 
an  alarm  be  placed  in  a  more  central  location — perhaps  on  the 
new  city  hall,  and  that  it  be  a  whistle,  in  preference  to  a  bell,  as 
being  more  readily  distinguishable. 

In  connection  with  this  matter,  it  may  be  well  to  note  the  item 
of  insurance.  Our  local  insurance  men  are  much  pleased  with 
the  efficiency  of  our  fire  department  and  it  has  quite  an  influence 
in  keeping  down  the  insurance  rates. 

The  amount  of  business  done  by  the  insurance  companies  of 
Waterville  is  large;  it  is  estimated  to  be  $7e;,ooo  in  premiums. 
Our  veteran  insurance  companies  are  the  L.  T.  Boothby  &  Son 
Company  and  the  C.  K.  Mathews  Company.  In  mentioning 
these  names  I  have  no  wish  to  slight  any  other  company  or  indi- 
vidual, but  the  history  of  these  two  companies  is  contemporary 
with  the  growth  of  the  city,  and  it  is  not  out  of  place  to  speak 
of  them. 

THE    BOARD    OF    TRADE 

Waterville  has  a  flourishing  Board  of  Trade,  with  a  member- 
ship of  150.  It  is  alive  to  all  subjects  that  may  be  of  benefit  to 
our  city.  It  has  done  much  to  further  the  interests  of  Water- 
ville. It  was  organized  in  1889,  with  Mayor  Nathaniel  Meader 
as  its  first  president,  and  during  his  term  of  office,  which  covered 
two  years,  many  meetings  were  held  and  topics  of  much  interest, 
pertinent  to  the  welfare  of  our  city,  were  debated  and  acted  upon. 
It  brought  about  a  sentiment  for  concerted  action  and  succeeded 
in  arousing  the  people  to  a  realization  of  the  fact  that  we  must 
take  hold  and  push  for  ourselves  in  order  to  get  desired  results. 

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434  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Our  energetic  and  forceful  citizens  communicated  their  own 
enthusiasm  to  others  of  our  slower  moulded  yet  equally  interested 
property  owners.  The  next  president  was  Hon.  M.  C.  Foster, 
who  brought  to  the  Board  a  mind  well  stored  with  business  ideas 
and  an  energy  which  was  always  exerted  to  Waterville's  benefit. 
Under  his  administration  the  Board  flourished  and  grew  into 
large  proportions.  Frank  Redington  followed  Mr.  Foster  in 
the  president's  oflice  and  served  for  five  years.  During  his  con- 
trol several  important  matters  were  acted  upon.  Colby  college 
wanted  to  raise  a  large  sum  of  money  to  build  several  new  struc- 
tures, and  by  the  desire  of  President  Nathaniel  Butler  the  coop- 
eration of  the  Board  was  secured  and  a  mass  meeting  held  in  city 
hall  under  the  auspices  of  the  Board.  The  meeting  was 
addressed  by  several  citizens  and  the  final  result  was  the  sub- 
scription of  over  $10,000  by  Waterville  citizens  to  aid  Colby  in 
her  efiforts,  and  materially  helped  in  building  the  new  Chemical 
Laboratory.  The  Waterville  Free  Library  has  received  much 
help  from  the  Board  of  Trade.  The  Waterville  &  Wiscasset 
Railroad  came  in  for  a  share  of  the  Board's  attention  and  a  large 
sum  was  subscribed  to  assist  in  its  construction.  The  Summer 
School  was  induced  to  hold  its  sessions  here  through  the  agency 
of  the  Board  of  Trade.  The  new  City  Building  is  the  direct  out- 
come of  the  action  of  the  Board  of  Trade.  The  Board  took  up 
this  matter  with  a  vim  and  energy  that  knew  no  defeat.  It 
appointed  committees  to  wait  on  Mayor  Webb  and  the  city 
council ;  it  held  mass  meetings  and  discussed  the  question  on  all 
occasions ;  and  to-day  we  have  the  City  Building,  for  which  we 
may  thank  the  Waterville  Board  of  Trade. 

Dr.  J.  F.  Hill  is  the  present  president,  and  under  his  leadership 
the  Board  is  growing  youthful  and  powerful.  It  started  the 
centennial  celebration  by  securing  a  large  list  of  names  of  the 
most  influential  citizens  on  a  request  to  the  Board  to  call  the 
proper  authorities  into  action.  Combined  and  concentrated 
action  of  such  a  nature  as  an  organization  of  this  kind  can  bring 
about,  will  always  be  of  advantage  to  any  town  or  city. 


ARNOLD    BLOCK. 
REDINGTON    BLOCK. 


FLOOD    AND    PULSIFIiJR    BLOCK. 
CLUKEY    BLOCK. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  435 

POPULATION. 

I  find  by  reference  to  the  Maine  Register  that  the  population 
in  1870 — four  years  previous  to  the  estabhshment  of  the  Lock- 
wood  Cotton  Mill — was  4,852,  and  this  included  West  Waterville. 
It  has  increased  a  little  year  by  year  until  now,  on  our  one  hun- 
dredth anniversary,  we  have  a  population  of  ten  thousand  souls, 
— all  busy,  all  happy  and  contented.  We  are  growing  to  be 
somewhat  cosmopolitan  and  our  citizens  vie  with  each  other  in 
advancing  Waterville's  interests  at  home  and  abroad.  While  our 
population  within  the  city  limits  is  10,000,  we  have  a  flourishing 
and  wide-awake  community  of  surrounding  towns  to  draw  from. 
Within  a  radius  of  fifteen  miles — the  most  of  whose  floating 
business  comes  to  Waterville — are  the  towns  of  Fairfield,  Burn- 
ham,  Clinton,  Benton,  Winslow,  Albion,  China,  Vassalboro,  Sid- 
ney, Belgrade,  Oakland,  Smithfield  and  Rome,  with  a  population 
of  nearly  20,000,  which  gives  to  our  mercantile  interests  a  total 
population  of  nearly  30,000  with  which  to  do  business.  Not  only 
does  the  natural  flow  of  this  business  tend  toward  us,  but  with 
our  large  and  well-stocked  stores  we  call  the  larger  part  of  central 
Maine  to  our  doors  to  participate  in  the  advantages  we  offer 
them. 

Many  of  our  residences  are  handsome  structures,  beautiful  in 
architectural  design,  convenient  as  to  location,  comfortably 
arranged  and  sumptuously  furnished.  Finely  kept  lawns  sur- 
round nearly  all  of  our  residential  places,  and  all  are  attracted 
by  the  beauty  of  our  homes. 

We  have  a  splendid  system  of  sewerage,  which  was  put  in  some 
years  ago  at  a  cost  of  over  $100,000,  and  which  has  given  perfect 
satisfaction ;  and  Main  street  is  paved  nearly  the  whole  length  of 
the  business  section. 

WATERVILLE    AS    A  SUMMER    RESORT. 

Have  our  people  considered  to  a  sufficient  extent  what  advant- 
ages accrue  to  Waterville  as  a  centre  from  which  to  journey  in 
any  direction  to  fishing  and  pleasure  resorts, — looking  at  the 
subject  from  a  financial  aspect?  Many  more  people  than  we  are 
aware  of  are  attracted  to  our  city  for  this  purpose.  Our  splendid 
and  beautiful  drives  are  famous  throughout  New  England.     The 


436  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

fishing  in  East,  North,  Great,  Ellis,  Long  and  Snow  ponds  is  as 
good  as  in  any  chain  of  lakes  or  ponds  in  the  State.  The  cottages 
and  hotels  at  these  places  are  increasing  in  number  and  excellence 
of  entertainment  each  year,  and  Waterville  is  the  natural  trading- 
place  for  the  tourist  who  sojourns  at  these  enchanting  resting 
places.  If  one  wishes  to  be  entertained  by  nature,  get  a  touch 
of  the  soft  side  of  life  and  dream  away  the  idle  hours  for  a  week 
or  a  month,  growing  poetic  and  aesthetic,  he  can  do  no  better 
than  repair  to  these  outlying  hills,  lakes  and  dales  which  surround 
Waterville. 

WATERVILLE    AS    A    MARKET. 

Waterville  as  a  market  for  the  products  of  the  farm  is  one  of 
the  best  in  central  Maine.;  and  this  fact  is  fast  becoming  known 
and  acknowledged  by  the  farmers  for  many  miles  around.  Our 
traffic  with  the  tillers  of  the  soil  is  growing  more  extended  year 
by  year  and  the  mutual  advantages  enjoyed  by  the  urban  and  the 
suburban  dwellers  tend  to  good  results. 

There  is  not  now  the  excuse  that  once  obtained  for  abandoned 
farms,  as  any  man  with  energy,  thrift  and  ordinary  intelligence 
can  readily  make  a  reasonable  success  of  farming  in  localities- 
adjacent  to  a  city  like  Waterville.  There  are,  as  the  report  of 
our  milk  inspector  shows,  sixty-five  persons  selling  milk  in 
Waterville,  and  the  milk  is  of  the  highest  quality.  Compare 
this  with  the  time  when  Cyrus  Howard  was  the  only  man  having 
a  milk  route  in  our  town,  some  thirty  years  ago. 

The  means  of  ingress  and  egress  for  the  farmer  aje  greatly 
enhanced  by  the  electric  and  steam  roads  running  into  and  having- 
stations  in  the  smaller  places,  and  the  expense  in  fares  is  very 
light.  Do  not  overlook  the  fact  that  our  farms  and  farmers  are 
of  the  most  pronounced  value  to  Waterville. 

WHAT    OE    THE    FUTURE? 

What  of  the  future  ?  A  boom  ?  a  reaction  ?  Oh,  no !  neither. 
We  have  grown  as  steadily,  as  sturdily,  as  systematically  and  as 
naturally  as  the  child  changes  into  youth  and  merges  into  man- 
hood. We  feel  our  strength,  but  it  is  the  strength  of  confidence 
and  not  of  frenzy  or  a  fevered  imagination.  "Our  past  is 
secure."     The  present    is  always  with  us,  and    the    future  we 


HISTORY   OF    WATERVILL^.  437 

bequeath  to  posterity.  We  have  no  Whittier,  no  Longfellow,  or 
other  shade  of  world-wide  fame  to  grace  the  history  of  our  past, 
but  we  can  hark  back  a  hundred  years  and  more  with  a  pride  in 
the  loyalty,  the  strength,  the  enterprise  and  ability  of  our  fore- 
fathers, and  a  satisfied  feeling  of  having  inherited  a  growth  and 
prosperity  which  has  placed  us  within  the  ranks  of  successful 
enterprise. 

The  present  is  our  time  for  making  history,  money,  and  a 
future.  The  impetus  we  have  inherited  necessarily  aids  and 
forces  us  onward,  like  a  rushing  current  flowing  swiftly  by,  and 
we  must  not  drop  behind  in  the  strenuous  contest.  As  we  grow 
in  numbers,  rivalry  becomes  more  acute,  competition  more  vio- 
lent; and  a  determined  and  steady  purpose  is  the  only  course 
that  will  lead  to  the  top  of  the  ladder  of  success.  As  a  com- 
munity, we  are  highly  favored  in  our  geographical  location ;  as 
a  railroad  center,  we  are  extremely  fortunate.  The  branches  of 
the  diverging  lines  of  the  great  Maine  Central  road  concentrat- 
ing within  our  borders,  and  the  additional  advantages  accruing 
from  another  railroad  soon  to  be  completed  across  our  southern 
section,  give  us  a  future  outlook  of  vast  importance.  And  so 
we  gather  all  the  elements  of  our  trade,  educational,  social  and 
local  conditions ;  mass  them  into  a  kaleidoscopic  scene,  and  from 
them  predict  a  happy,  successful  and  prosperous  future,  with  an 
ever  increasing  population.  Let  those  who  are  native-born  to 
Waterville,  but  who  now  live  in  far-distant  lands,  dream  of  such 
a  future  for  their  beautiful  one-time  home,  and  awake  to  find  it 
a  reality. 

Tabulated  statement  of  mercantile  business,  based  011  the  vol- 
lune  of  business  for  1901  as  attributed  to  individual  firms  and 
companies  doing  business  zvithin  the  city  lijiiits. 

Per  year. 

Groceries,  meats  and  provisions $450,000  00 

Dry  goods  and  other  lines  carried  by  dry  goods 

houses  and  classed  as  dry  goods 400,000  00 

Clothing,  hats,  caps,  etc.  (sold  by  clothing  houses),  200,000  00 

Hardware,  stoves,  tinw^are  and  plumbing 200,000  00 

Armour  Beef  Company 200,000  00 

House   furnishings,   including   furniture,   carpets, 

crockery  and  goods  sold  by  furniture  houses.  .  .  125,000  00 


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f>rn^<»  and  artirlr<*  carried  by  aig^  stores 

fJook^,  periodtcaH,  stationery ,Jirall  paper,  etc 

FJertnral    supplies    and    mijellaneoiis    articles, 
inrliidtn<y  all  other  lines  of  rercantile  enterprise. 
Tobacco  and  cig^ars 


$100,000  00 
90,000  00 
75,000  00 
75.000  00 
75'Ooo  00 
75^000  00 
70,000  00 
60,000  00 


50,000  00 

50,000  00 
Harnesses  and  leather  snoods 50,000  00 


Millinerx'  

Standard  Oil  Co 

Jeweir}-  and  all  j^oods  carriediv  jewelers 

Florists 

Musical  instruments,  etc. 
Bicvcles  


Total 


40,000  00 

35,000  00 

10,000  00 

8,000  00 

5.000  00 

5.000  00 

$2,448,000  00 


Tabulated  statement  of  hang  employed  and  money  paid  out  by 
the  fnoMttfactones  and  labr-tin ploying  industries  of   Watcr- 
img  the  Holli^stvorth   Si    JVhitney   Company  of 


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.r«n«e  No.  of  Pay  Roll 

taMl^s  employed.  Per  month.  Per  year. 

1300    $34,000  00    .$415,000  00 

675         30,000   00         360,000   00 


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90,000  00 
60,000  00 
48,000  00 
25,000  00 
24,000  00 


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HISTORY    OFNVATERVILLE.  439 

Watcrville   &    Fairfield    K  i  ' 

way  and  Li^ht  Co 3S  $1,666  00      $20,000  00 

Waterville        Iron        W  ■  :  - 

(Webber  &  Philbrick  •  34  1.400  cxi         16.800  00 

Noyes  Steve  Co 20  i  ,000  00         1 2,000  00 

Whittemore  Furniture  C\..  .  20  800  00           9.600  00 

The  Mail  Pu!)lishing  Co.  14  t^.800  00 

W".  M.  Ladd  Co u  5.66800 

Jaynes  Creamer>-  Co 10  400  00          4.800  00 

Messalonskee  Electric  Co  7  375  00          4.500  00 

Total.  $1,461.1^)8  00 

These  fi^ires  represent  the  p?  rolls  of  established  and  con- 
tinuous industries:  the  fp-eater  >rt  of  this  amount  fnulinj,'  its 
way  into  the  channels  of  W'atenlle  business. 

Estimated  pay  rolls  of  other  an  miscellaneous  classes. 
Clerks  in  stores,        500  at  an  aveijje  of  $18,000  00  $216,000  00 
Carpenters.  50  ^1750  00 

Masons  and  Tenders,  2^  15,000  00 

Painters,  25  10.000  00 

Total  amount  distributed  in  \\  rrvillc  bv  j)av 

rolls  per  year  S1.723.g18  00 

To  this  should  be  added  the  amcni  ])ai(l  out  by  the  collcci^c  and 
institute  treasurers  the  amount  pxl  to  the  school  tcaclicrs  and 
other  city  officials  by  the  city  treasrcr.  and  the  amounts  paid  to 
apents  and  representatives  of  outflc  cor|)(jrations  in  order  to 
get  an  estimate  of  the  money  puunto  circulation  through  the 
system  of  wage  earnings  in  WaterJlc.  This  is  what  keei)s  the 
city  alive. 


438 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK. 


Grain,  feed,  etc.,  including  what  flour  is  sold  by 

grain  and  feed  stores $100,000  00 

Coal,  wood,  lime  and  cement 90,000  00 

Boots  and  shoes 75,ooo  00 

Fruit  and  confectionery 75-000  00 

Insurance   75,ooo  00 

Bakeries 75, 000  00 

Drugs  and  articles  carried  by  drug  stores 70,000  00 

Books,  periodicals,  stationery,  wall  paper,  etc.  . .  .  60,000  00 
Electrical    supplies    and    miscellaneous    articles, 

including  all  other  lines  of  mercantile  enterprise,  50,000  00 

Tobacco  and  cigars 50,000  00 

Harnesses  and  leather  goods 50,000  00 

Millinery    40,000  00 

Standard  Oil  Co 35,ooo  00 

Jewelry  and  all  goods  carried  by  jewelers 10,000  00 

Florists  8,000  00 

iMusical  instruments,  etc 5,000  00 

Bicycles 5,000  00 

Total,  $2,448,000  00 


Tabulated  statement  of  hands  einployed  and  money  paid  out  by 
the  manufactories  and  labor-employing  industries  of  Water- 
ville,  including  the  Hollingszvorih  &  Whitney  Company  of 
Winslow. 

Average  No.  of  Pay  Roll 

hands  employed.  Per  month.  Per  year. 

Lock  wood  Company 1300  $34,000  00     $415,000  00 

Hollings worth  &  Whitney  Co.  675  30,000  00  360,000  00 
Maine  Central  R.  R.  Co.  on 

the  roads,  about  the  yard, 

etc 16,000  00       192,000  00 

Maine  Central  R.   R.  Co.,  at 

the  shops 250  14,000  00       168,000  00 

Riverview  Worsted  Mill 175  90,00000 

Hathaway  Shirt  Factory 150  5,000  00         60,000  00 

Sawyer  Publishing  Co 100  4,000  00         48,000  00 

Proctor  &  Bowie  Co 33  25,000  00 

H.  Purinton  &  Co 50  24,000  00 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  439 

Waterville   &   Fairfield   Rail- 
way and  Light  Co 38  $1,666  00       $20,000  00 

Waterville        Iron        \\^orks 

(Webber  &  Philbrick) ....  34  1,400  00         16,800  00 

Noyes  Steve  Co 20  1,000  00         12,000  00 

Whittemore  Furniture  Co.  .  ..  20  800  00           9,600  00 

The  Mail  Publishing  Co 14  5,8oo  00 

W.  M.  Ladd  Co.  .  .T 12  5,668  00 

Jaynes  Creamery  Co 10  400  00           4,800  00 

Messalonskee  Electric  Co.  ...  7  375  00           4,500  00 

Total,  $1,461,168  00 

These  figures  represent  the  pay  rolls  of  established  and  con- 
tinuous industries ;  the  greater  part  of  this  amount  finding  its 
way  into  the  channels  of  Waterville  business. 

Estimated  pay  rolls  of  other  and  miscellaneous  classes. 

Clerks  in  stores,        500  at  an  average  of  $18,000  00  $216,000  00 

Carpenters,  50  21,750  00 

Masons  and  Tenders,  2~,  15,000  00 

Painters,  25  10,000  00 

Total  amount  distributed  in  Waterville  by  pay 

rolls  per  year  $1,723,918  00 

To  this  should  be  added  the  amount  paid  out  by  the  college  and 
institute  treasurers  the  amount  paid  to  the  school  teachers  and 
other  city  ofPxials  by  the  city  treasurer,  and  the  amounts  paid  to 
agents  and  representatives  of  outside  corporations  in  order  to 
get  an  estimate  of  the  money  put  into  circulation  through  the 
system  of  wage  earnings  in  Waterville.  This  is  what  keeps  the 
city  alive. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  44I 

its  organization,  but  his  strength  was  spent,  and  he  died  at 
Augusta,  January  27,  1834,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years.  A 
singularly  varied  life  which  used  its  large  powers  faithfully  for 
country  and  for  God.  Mr.  Cushman's  wife  was  Lucy  Jones, 
who  had  been  brought  up  by  her  uncle,  Dr.  Cotton  Tufts  of 
Weymouth,  Mass.  They  had  but  one  child,  Charles,  at  whose 
home  in  Winslow  Mrs.  Cushman  died,  January  13,  1847,  aged 
seventy-nine. 

The  descendents  of  I\Ir.  Cushman  possess  many  books  manu- 
scripts and  relics  of  the  old  minister  and  his  family.  These  were 
freely  put  at  the  disposal  of  the  editors  of  this  volume.  Mr. 
Cushman  was  much  in  demand  as  orator  on  Fourth  of  July  and 
other  public  occasions  and  his  published  orations  show  that  his 
popularity  was  well  deserved.  The  title  of  one  of  these  publi- 
cations is  "An  Oration  pronounced  at  Waterville,  4  July,  1814, 
in  Commemoration  of  the  Independence  of  the  United  States  of 
America."  It  is  not  generally  known  that  Richard  Thomas,  who 
prepared  for  himself  the  curious  "rumpuncheon"  epitaph,  was  a 
friend  of  Mr.  Cushman,  and  before  his  death  gave  to  him  his  own 
library,  a  collection  of  English  and  early  American  books  of 
considerable  value  and  interest.  These  are  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  Cushman.  E.  C.  W. 

Rev.  Thomas  Adams,  D.  D.,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Eunice 
Adams,  was  born  in  North  Brookfield,  Mass.,  February  7,  1792, 
and  died  in  Winslow,  Me.,  February  4,  1881,  three  days  before 
the  completion  of  his  eighty-ninth  year.  He  prepared  for  college 
in  the  Leicester  Academy,  and  in  1S14  was  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth College.  After  taking  a  course  in  theology  under  his 
pastor.  Rev.  Thomas  Snell  of  North  Brookfield,  he  was  ordained 
and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  in  Vassal- 
boro.  Me.,  August  26,  18 18.  He  retained  this  pastorate  until 
1834,  having  charge,  also,  of  the  churches  in  \\"inslow  and  Clin- 
ton— now  Benton  Falls.  During  the  year  following  he  was 
agent  of  the  Maine  Temperance  Society  and  resided  in  Hallowell. 
From  that  time  until  May  31,  1838  he  was  the  minister  of  the 
Waterville  Congregational  church,  though  not  formally  installed 
as  pastor  until  September  27,  1836.  After  leaving  Waterville, 
he  for  three  years  edited  the  i\Iaine  Temperance  Gazette,  pub- 
lished first  in  Augusta  and  afterward  in  Portland.     He  was  agent 


442  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

for  the  American  Tract  Society,  i843-'46.  He  preached  the  next 
ten  years  in  Ohio,  the  first  in  Hampden,  the  other  nine  in  Thomp- 
son. After  four  years'  service  as  agent  of  the  Congregational 
Board  of  PubHcation  he  returned  to  Maine,  served  the  Pittston 
Congregational  church  as  pastor  one  year  (i863-'64),  removed 
then  to  Vassalboro  and  served  as  pastor  four  years,  when  he 
retired  from  the  pastorate,  but  continued  to  reside  in  Vassalboro 
until  1 87 1,  spent  the  next  nine  months  in  Waterville  and  then 
removed  to  Winslow  where  he  resided  until  his  death.  He  was 
three  times  married  and  survived  his  third  wife  (Catherine  L. 
daughter  of  Caleb  Lyman  of  North  Brookfield)  eleven  years. 
He  had  three  sons,  of  whom  one  survived  him  (Edward  F.,  of 
San  Francisco)  and  one  daughter,  Sarah  B.,  who  at  the  Kenne- 
bec Conference  in  Waterville  in  1894,  read  an  extremely  interest- 
ing paper  entitled  "Reminiscences  of  the  Churches  and  Pastors 
of  Kennebec  County"  which  was  published  in  pamphlet  form. 
The  well  merited  degree  of  D.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by 
Dartmouth  College,  his  alnia  Jiiafcr.  He  was  held  in  profound 
esteem  wherever  he  was  known  and  throughout  all  this  region 
his  name  is  honored  and  his  memory  cherished.  His  daughter 
says  (Reminiscences  p.  15)  :  "He  was  buried  on  his  eighty-ninth 
birthday  and  rests  in  the  little  cemetery  on  the  hill,  where  he 
always  wished  to  be  placed,  with  those- who  had  gone  before. 
No  more  fitting  memorial  could  have  been  raised  for  him  than 
the  little  chapel  which  has  been  placed  in  Vassalboro  by  the  gifts 
of  so  many  of  his  friends,  and  none  that  would  have  been  so 
acceptable  to  him.'' 

Rez'.  Wilbur  Fiske  Berry,  son  of  Nicholas  and  Hope  S. 
(Clarke)  Berry  of  Camden,  Ale.,  was  born  in  Camden,  November 
24,  1 85 1.  After  leaving  the  public  schools  he  studied  in  Maine 
Wesleyan  Seminary,  and  in  Wesleyan  University,  Middletown, 
Conn.  He  has  been  pastor  of  Methodist  churches  in  South 
Standish,  Woodfords,  Saco,  Lewiston,  Farmington,  Waterville, 
(all  in  Maine),  covering  the  years  iHjS-'qc). 

Some  of  these,  at  least,  are  churches  to  which  only  men  of  the 
highest  rank  and  ability  are  appointed  and  which  can  be  suc- 
cessfully served  only  by  such  men.  In  these  pastorates  he  has 
fully  met  all  demands  made  upon  him.  He  was  elected  as  secre- 
tary of  "The  Christian  Civic  League  of  Maine"  in  the  spring  of 


HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE.  443 

1899,  entered  upon  the  work  May  ist,  and  by  lectures  through- 
out the  State,  by  promoting  the  formation  and  maintenance  of 
local  leagues,  by  editing  The  Christian  Civic  League  Record,  and 
by  efficient  personal  influence  has  rendered  the  cause  important 
service.  For  fourteen  years  he  has  been  secretary  of  the  Maine 
Annual  Conference,  and  in  1892  was  delegate  to  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  General  Conference.  On  the  i6th  of  July,  1878,  he 
married  Miss  Livonia  S.  French  of  Solon,  Maine.  His  children 
are  Josie  May,  Lillian  Eunice,  Mary  Eleanor,  Emma  Louise, 
Nicholas  Luther,  and  William  French.  In  1902  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary  at  Kent's  Hill  and 
removed  to  that  place. 

Rev.  Henry  S.  Bnrrage  was  born  in  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  Jan.  7, 
1837.  His  parents  resided  later  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Leomin- 
ster, Mass,  and  Roxbury,  Mass.  While  in  Roxbury,  he  attended 
the  Chauncey  Hall  school,  Boston.  Afterward  fitted  for  college 
at  Pierce  Academy,  Middleboro,  Mass.  Entered  Brown  Univer- 
sity in  1857,  and  in  1861  was  graduated,  and  entered  the  Newton 
Theological  Institution.  In  1862  he  enlisted  as  a  privatejn  the 
36th  Mass.  Vol.  Infantry,  served  in  this  regiment  as  sergeant, 
second  lieutenant,  first  lieutenant  and  captain,  served  also  as  act- 
ing assistant  adjutant-general  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  Custer,  ist 
Brig.  2nd  Div.  9th  Army  Corps,  w^as  made  a  major  by  brevet. 
Returned  to  Newton  at  the  close  of  the  war  and  completed  his 
studies,  graduating  with  the  class  of  1867.  W^ent  to  Germany 
for  the  purpose  of  further  study.  After  his  return 
he  became  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Water- 
ville,  Maine.  Since  January  i,  1870,  he  has  been  editor 
of  Zion's  Advocate,  Portland,  Maine.  In  1883,  he  re- 
received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Brown  University,  was 
made  a  trustee  of  Brown  University  in  1889,  and  in  1901  he 
was  transferred  to  its  Board  of  Fellows,  has  been  a  trustee  of 
both  Colby  College  and  Newton  Theological  Institution  since 
1881.  He  is  the  author  of  "Brown  University  in  the  Civil  W^ar," 
''The  Anabaptists  of  Switzerland,"  ''Baptist  Hymn  Writers  and 
Their  Hymns,''  "History  of  the  Baptists  of  New  England,"  and 
various  other  works.  Also  of  numerous  historical  and  religious 
papers.  For  more  than  twenty-five  years  he  has  been  recording 
secretary  of  the  Maine  Baptist  Missionary  Convention  and  of  the 


444  HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLE. 

American  Baptist  Missionary  Union,  is  recorder  of  the  Maine 
Commandery  of  the  MiHtary  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States,  secretary  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the 
State  of  Maine,  secretary  of  the  Maine  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  and  chairman  of  the  standing  committee 
of  the  Maine  Historical  Society.  He  married  (first)  Caroline 
Champlin,  only  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  J.  T.  Champlin  and  (sec- 
ond) Ernestine  Marie  Giddings,  daughter  of  Mr.  Moses  Gid- 
dings  of  Bangor.  There  are  two  children  by  his  first  wife, 
Champlin  and  Thomas  Jayne,  and  two  by  his  second  wife,  Mil- 
dred Giddings  and  Madeleine. 

Father  Narcisse  Charland  was  born  August  lo,  1848,  in  Rich- 
mond, Richmond  Co.,  Province  of  Quebec.  He  began  his  school 
life  in  the  common  schools  of  his  birthplace;  continued  it  in 
St.  Francis  College  and  Nicolet  College  (both  in  Nicolet, 
P.  O.)  :  and  completed  it  in  Grand  Seminary  (Theological)  at 
Three  Rivers,  P.  O.  He  received  from  the  Arts  College  on 
graduation  the  degree  of  B.  A.  and  from  the  Theological  on  grad- 
uating from  it  the  degree  of  B.  D.  He  is  the  author  of  a  pam- 
phlet entitled  'Xadies  of  St.  Anne."  The  history  of  the  Catholic 
church  in  this  place  is  largely  a  biography  of  Father  Charland 
and  the  reader  is  referred  for  further  information  to  the  chapter 
on  the  churches  in  Waterville.^ 

Rei'.  Syh'anus  Cobb,  D.  D.,  widely  known  in  his  last  years  as 
"'Father  Cobb,"  was  born  at  Norway,  Maine,  in  1799,  and  was 
ordained  to  the  Universal ist  ministry  with  a  Mr.  Frost  and  Wm. 
A.  Drew,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Eastern  Association  of  Unitersal- 
ists,  holden  in  Winthrop  in  1821,  and  at  once  began  his  ministry 
in  Waterville  (see  hist,  of  the  church).  While  here  he  preached 
in  West  Waterville  and  neighboring  towns  about  one  half  the 
time  and  completed  a  course  of  doctrinal  lectures  (published  as 
Cobb's  Compound  of  Divinity)  which  was  widely  read  and 
influential.  Leaving  Waterville  he  lived  until  his  death  (Oct. 
31,  1866,)  in  Boston  and  vicinity.  He  was  the  author  of  a 
''Commentary  on  the  New  Testament."  He  had  editorial  charge 
of   various   denominational   papers    and    magazines    and    wrote 

1.  The  Sillery  Mission  at  which  the  Catholic  refugees  from  the  Kennebec  gath- 
ered was  flnallj-  moved  to  the  opposite  side  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  a  few  miles  up 
the  Chaudiere,  and  called  "The  Mission  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales."  Very  appropri- 
ately therefore  does  the  Catholic  church  in  Waterville  bear  this  name. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  445 

largely  for  the  periodical  press.  Tufts  College  conferred  upon 
him  the  honorary  degree  of  D.  D.  in  recognition  of  his  scholarship 
and  distinguished  services. 

Rev.  Albert  D.  Dodge,  son  of  Alvin  and  Emily  (Boyd)  Dodge, 
was  born  Jan.  ii,  1859,  in  ]\Ionroe,  Waldo  Co. ;  fitted  for  college 
in  Maine  Central  Institute ;  was  graduated  from  the  Theological 
department  of  Bates  College  in  1886;  has  been  pastor  of  Free 
Baptist  churches  in  Cape  Elizabeth  i856-'58 ;  Clinton  Village 
i888-'93;  Amesbury,  Mass.  i893-'99  Waterville,  Me.  (society 
and  church  successively)  1899  to  the  present  time.  In  securing 
additions  to  the  membership  and  material  equipment  of  churches 
served  he  has  been  successful  s^'gna'-y  "=^0  m  Amesbury,  ?xlass. 
He  married  Miss  Helen  Eugenia  Lamb  Dec.  31,  1881 ;  has  one 
child,  William  L. ;  and  resides  in  Waterville  at  No.  3,  High 
street. 

Rev.  Albert  Teele  Dunn,  D.  D.  was  born  in  Fairfax,  Vt.,  I\Iay 
6,  1850,  the  son  of  Rev.  Lewis  A.  and  Lucy  (Teele)  Dunn.  He 
was  graduated  at  the  New  Hampton  Institution,  Fairfax,  Yt., 
Colgate  University,  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  in  the  class  of  1873  and 
Newton  Theological  Institution  in  1878.  He  was  ordained 
as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  at  East  Poultney,  Vt., 
July  30,  1873.  After  important  pastorates  at  Stoughton  St. 
church,  Boston,  and  at  the  Free  St.,  Portland,  he  became  corres- 
ponding secretary  of  the  ]Maine  Baptist  ^Missionary  Convention, 
and  removed  to  Waterville  in  Nov.  1889.  Dr.  Dunn  was  mar- 
ried June  24,  1873,  to  Gertrude  A.  Cottrell,  and  after  her  death  to 
Elizabeth  F.  Walker  of  Boston,  July  30,  1884.  They  have  two 
sons,  Lewis  Walker  and  Fred  Ballentyne.  In  addition  to  the 
important  denominational  work  for  which  he  is  responsible.  Dr. 
Dunn  has  been  prominently  identified  with  the  Interdenomina- 
tional Commission,  the  Alaine  Sunday  School  Association  and  is 
president  of  the  ^.laine  Bible  Society.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
First  Bapt.  church  and  of  the  Masonic  order. 

Rev.  Calvin  Gardner  was  born  in  Hingham,  ]Mass.,  x\ug.  29, 
1798,  and  was  a  son  of  Samuel  and  Chloe  (Whiton)  Gardner. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  in  Hingham,  became  first  a 
mechanic  and  later,  in  1825,  entered  the  Universalist  ministry. 
He  was  ordained  as  pastor  of  the  Charlestown,  Mass.,  Universal- 
ist church  June  22;  April  11,  1827,  became  pastor  of  a  church  in 


44^  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 

Duxbury,  Mass.,  and  in  1830  came  to  Waterville  with  his  family 
and  was  pastor  of  the  Universahst  society  until  1853.  He  then 
went  to  Provincetown,  Mass.,  for  two  years.  In  1855  he 
returned  to  Waterville  not,  however,  as  pastor.  He  made  this 
his  home  until  his  death,  which  occurred  March  26,  1865,  preach- 
ing as  opportunity  offered  and  caring  for  his  land.  A  large  num- 
ber of  his  sermons  were  published  in  the  denominational  papers 
and  one  in  pamphlet  form.  For  a  few  years  he  was  associate 
editor  of  The  Gospel  Banner.  In  1841,  on  leave  of  absence 
granted  by  his  church,  he  spent  a  few  months  of  the  summer  and 
early  autumn  in  trying  to  raise  $50,000  to  establish  and  endow  a 
theological  seminary  to  be  located  on  what  is  now  the  site  of  Tufts 
College.  The  encouragement  did  not  w^arrant  a  continuance  of 
the  eft'ort.  His  first  wife  was  Mary,  daughter  of  Percy  and 
Mary  (Bowker)  Whiting  of  Hingham,  Mass.,  who  died  sud- 
denly Sept.  2,  1832,  in  Lowell,  ]\Iass.,  in  the  31st  year  of  her  age; 
his  second  wdfe,  Julia  Ann  Hasty  of  Waterville,  died  in  1891. 
His  children  were,  by  his  first  wife,  Mary  Whiting,  who  married 
William  Graham  Cutler  of  Dexter,  and  died  in  Chicago;  by  his 
second  wife,  Ann  Estella,  who  married  Franklin  Smith  and  died 
April  19,  1901,  in  Waterville. 

Rev.  Edward  Hawes,  D.  D.  began  his  public  life  as  pastor  of 
the  Waterville  Congregational  church.  His  extraordinary  suc- 
cess in  this  position  (see  sketch  of  the  church's  history)  would 
alone  entitle  him  to  a  special  notice  in  this  chapter,  but  that  suc- 
cess was  only  an  earnest  of  that  which  has  attended  him  to  this 
day.  He  perhaps  brought  with  him  by  inheritance  from  his 
father.  Rev.  Josiah  Taylor  Hawes,  an  honored  Congregational 
minister  and  pastor,  a  hereditary  bias  toward  the  profession  for 
which  certainly  the  home  influences  were  constantly  preparing 
him  even  before  his  own  adoption  of  it  by  a  final  choice.  He  was 
born  in  Topsham,  Maine,  midway  between  Auburn,  where  he 
fitted  for  college  in  the  Academy  and  Brunswick,  where  he  took 
his  college  course  in  Bowdoin,  graduating  in  1855.  To  the 
degree  of  A.  B.  then  given  him  in  course  was  added  by  his  alma 
mater  in  1884  the  honorary  degree  of  D.  D.  From  Bowdoin  he 
went  to  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  where  he  was  graduated 
in  1858  and  at  once  came  to  the  Waterville  church  as  pastor. 
Called  to  the  Central   Congregational  church   in  Philadelphia, 


HISTORY    OF    \\\\THRVILLE.  447 

Pa.,  in  1864,  he  won  for  himself  and  the  church  a  most  honorable 
recognition  from  the  Presbyterian  brotherhood  which  until  then 
had  not  been  over  cordial  to  the  weak  Congregationalism  of  that 
city.  His  subsequent  pastorates  have  been  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  in  Burlington,  Vt.  He  now  resides  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  and  is  the  secretary  of  the  Congregational  Relief  Fund. 

Roszcell  Dzvight  Hitchcock,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.  although  not  strictly 
one  of  the  pastors  of  the  W'aterville  Congregational  church  yet 
for  one  year  iS44-'45)  supplied  its  pulpit.  Born  in  East 
Machias,  Maine,  Aug.  15,  181 7,  he  entered  the  sophomore  class 
in  Amherst  College  in  1833,  was  graduated  in  1836  and  after  one 
year  as  principal  of  Jafifrey  (N.  H.)  Academy,  and  two  years  of 
theological  study,  he  served  as  tutor  three  years  in  Amherst 
College  (i839-'42).  He  spent  the  next  two  years  as  resident 
licentiate  at  x\ndover  Theological  Seminary  whence  he  came 
directly  to  Waterville.  Ordained  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  church  in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  Nov.  19,  1845,  ^~'^ 
remained  there  until  1852,  though  absent  for  study  in  Halle  and 
Berlin  one  year  (i847-'48)  of  his  pastorate.  During  i852-'55  he 
was  Collins  Professor  of  Natural  and  Revealed  Religion  in  Bow- 
doin  College,  and  from  1855  until  his  death  (June  16,  1887)  was 
connected  with  Union  Theological  Seminary  as  Washburn  Pro- 
fessor of  Church  History,  and  also,  from  1880,  as  president.  He 
received  from  Bowdoin  in  1855  the  degree  of  D.  D.  and  from 
Williams  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  in  1873.  He  contributed  many 
articles,  mostly  on  church  history,  to  the  Presbyterian  Quarterly 
and  to  the  American  Theological  Review,  being  from  1863  to 
1870  one  of  its  assistant  editors.  He  published  numerous  essays, 
orations,  addresses  and  sermons,  also  "The  Life,  Character  and 
Writings  of  Edward  Robinson,"  (1836)  and  "A  Complete 
Analysis  of  the  Bible,"  (1869).  He  edited  (with  Drs.  Eddy 
and  Schaft)  "Hymns  and  Songs  of  Praise,"  and  "Hymns  and 
Songs  for  Social  and  Sabbath  Worship." 

Rev.  Ammi  S.  Ladd,  D.  D.  was  born  in  Phillips,  Ale.,  June  17, 
1835,  is  a  graduate  of  Kent's  Hill  Seminary,  in  1873  received 
from  Colby  University  the  honorary  degree  of  A,  M.,  has  been 
the  successful  pastor  of  Alethodist  churches  in  Waterville,  Bath, 
Bangor,  Biddeford  and  Portland,  and  holds  the  office  of  presid- 
ing elder.     He  is  now   living  with  his  third   wife,   Helen   M. 


44^  HISTORY  OF  wati;rvillk. 

(Osgood)  Ladd  and  has  two  children,  Lydia  and  Annie.     His 
residence  is  Brunswick,  Maine. 

'  Rev.  Albert  A.  Lewis,  son  of  Ammon  Lewis,  was  born  in 
Orono,  Me.,  June  15,  1853.  He  prepared  for  college  in  the 
Orono  High  School,  and  in  1876  was  graduated  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Maine  with  the  degree  of  B.  S.  He  has  been  the  pastor 
of  Methodist  churches  in  the  following  towns  of  this  State :  Sebec, 
Houlton,  Winterport,  Brewer,  Bath,  Saco,  Gardiner  and  Water- 
ville  and  is  still  pastor  of  the  Waterville  church.  He  has  also 
filled  the  offices  of  teacher  and  superintendent  of  public  schools. 
He  married  Miss  Eva  A.  Baker  of  Orrington,  Me.,  April  24, 
1878,  and  has  one  child,  Leon  G. 

Rev.  Henry  Codman  Leonard,  son  of  Samuel  and  Cynthia 
(Claggett)  Leonard,  was  born  April  25,  i8t8,  in  Northwood,  N. 
H. ;  studied  theology  with  Rev.  Henry  Bacon  in  Haverhill  in 
i838-'40;  was  ordained  in  Salem,  Mass.,  July  21,  1841 ;  was  pas- 
tor at  Rockland,  Me.,  1842-46;  at  Orono,  Me.,  i847-'54;  at 
Waterville,  Me.,  i847-'54 ;  served  as  chaplain  first  of  Third  Regt. 
Me.  Vol.  Infantry;  second  of  First  Me.  Heavy  Artillery,  1861- 
'64;  resided  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  i865-'68;  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
i869-'7i  ;  in  Pigeon  Cove,  Mass.,  1872  to  his  death,  March  7, 
1880.  For  the  two  years,  i873-'74,  however,  he  was  at  Deering, 
Me.,  as  professor  of  English  Literature  in  Westbrook  Seminary. 
While  at  Pigeon  Cove  he  supplied  regularly  the  pulpit  of  the  An- 
nisquam  church,  Gloucester,  until  his  health  failed  in  1879.  He 
wrote  two  books,  the  first  '*A  Sheaf  from  a  Pastor's  Field/'  Bos- 
ton, 1856,  12  mo.  pp  384;  the  second,  ''Pigeon  Cove  and  Vicin- 
ity," Boston,  1873,  16  mo.  pp  viii,  193.  For  a  time  in  i860  he 
was  editor  of  The  Gospel  Banner.  He  had  fine  poetic  gifts  and 
contributed  to  The  Knickerbocker  Magazine  ;  The  National  Era ; 
and  The  Universalist  Ladies'  Repository.  He  married,  Sept.  14, 
1845..  Miss  Adelia  D.  Norwood  of  Pigeon  Cove,  JNIass.,  who  bore 
to  him  two  daughters.  He  was  at  once  amiable  and  able, 
respected  and  loved. 

George  Dickson  Lindsay,  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  Lindsay, 
was  born  in  Portadown,  County  Armagh,  Ireland.  He 
was  educated  in  the  Methodist  Connexional  School^  and 
the  Methodist  College,  in  Dublin  and  in  part  by  private 
tutors.     He    early    showed    rare    business    talent    and    secured 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  449 

in  a  wholesale  tea-store  a  splendid  position.  It  was  his 
purpose  to  give  his  life  to  business  and  the  prospect  of 
success  was  flattering.  Converted  at  the  age  of  21,  he  soon  felt 
himself  urgently  called  of  God  to  the  gospel  ministr}^  and  at 
once  gave  himself  with  characteristic  energy  and  singleness  of 
aim  to  preparation  for  this  work.  Coming  early  to  this  country 
and  to  this  State  his  rare  gifts  and  noble  character  were  speedily 
recognized.  He  was  appointed  to  the  pastorate  of  the  most 
important  churches  in  his  conference  and  in  each  appointment 
save  the  last,  which  was  cut  short  by  his  final  sickness,  his  pastor- 
ates were  limited  in  time  only  by  the  rules  of  the  denomination. 
He  was  a  clear,  strong,  instructive  and  inspiring  preacher,  a 
laboriously  faithful  pastor,  a  public  spirited  citizen,  and  a  wise, 
practical  business  manager.  He  at  one  time  or  another  held 
every  office  of  trust  in  the  gift  of  his  conference  except  that  of 
presiding  elder,  which  he  declined  to  accept,  belonged  to  the 
Free  Alasons  and  Odd  Fellows  fraternities,  was  chaplain  of  the 
Grand  lodge  of  the  Free  Masons,  was  president  of  the  Maine 
Chautauqua  Union,  and  gave  many  lectures  on  various  topics 
throughout  ATaine  and  occasionally  elsewhere.  He  died  in 
Waterville,  Oct.  25,  1901,  leaving  a  widow  and  four  children. 

Rei'.  Edward  Lester  Marsh,  the  present  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational church  in  Waterville,  was  born  in  Leicester,  Mass., 
May  19,  1865.  His  parents  (George  E.  and  Mandana  E. 
Marsh)  heartily  encouraged  and  cooperated  with  him  in  his  pre- 
paration for  his  life  work.  He  completed  his  preparation 
for  college  in  his  native  town,  graduating  from  Leices- 
ter Academy  in  1884.  He  took  his  college  course  in  Amherst, 
receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1888 ;  completed  the  Yale 
Divinity  School  course  in  1891  (B.  D.)  and  during  the  year  fol- 
lowing was  a  graduate  student  in  Andover  Theological  Seminary. 
He  has  completed,  as  yet.  only  one  pastorate,  that  of  the  Congre- 
gational church  in  Yarmouth,  ]\Iass.,  where  he  was  ordained  in 
1892.  He  resigned  the  Yarmouth  pastorate  in  1897  and  at  once 
accepted  his  present  position.  He  has  identified  himself  sym- 
pathetically and  helpfully  with  all  that  makes  for  the  city's  wel- 
fare but  without  loss  of  devotion  to  the  interests  of  his  own 
church  and  society  and  the  wader  interests  of  his  denomination 
throughout  the  State.  He  married  on  the  28th  of  November, 
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1893,  ^iiss  Mary  Eliza  Jenkins,  and  has  two  children,  Elizabeth 
White  and  Mandana.     His  residence  is  9  Park  Street. 

Rev.  George  Bruce  Nicholson,  son  of  Orland  H.  and  Carrie  O. 
Nicholson  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  1862  He  attended  the 
Boston  public  schools,  afterward  preparing  for  college  at  the 
Academy  at  Graceville,  N.  Y.  After  graduating  from  that  insti- 
tution, he  returned  to  Boston,  where  he  was  engaged  in  business 
for  more  than  ten  years  during  which  time  he  was  married  to 
Adelaide  Smith,  also  of  Boston.  In  1885,  he  became  conscious 
of  a  vocation  to  the  Sacred  Ministry,  and  offered  himself  to 
Bishop  Neely  of  Maine  as  a  candidate  for  Holy  Orders.  He  pur- 
sued theological  studies  under  direction  of  designated  priests  in 
Boston,  and  after  passing  Canonical  examinations  was  ordained 
by  Bishop  Neely,  as  deacon  in  Dec.  1891,  and  priest  in  Sept.  1893. 
He  served  seven  years  in  Aroostook  county,  with  residence  at 
Fort  Fairfield,  was  dean  of  the  Convocation  of  Aroostook  from 
its  inception  until  he  removed  from  the  county,  and  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  Fort  Fairfield  public  schools  during  the  last  four 
years  of  residence  there.  He  has  been  rector  of  St.  Mark's 
Waterville,  since  Nov.  1899. 

^  George  Dana  Boardman  Pepper,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  was  born  in 
Ware,  Mass.,  Feb.  5,  1833,  the  son  of  John  and  Eunice  (Hutch- 
inson) Pepper.  He  was  educated  in  Williston  Seminary,  East- 
hampton,  Mass.,  at  Amherst  College  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1857,  and  at  Newton  Theological  Institution,  finishing  the  full 
course  in  i860.  He  was  ordained  as  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
church  of  W^aterville,  Sept.  6,  i860.  The  same  year  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Annie  Grassie  of  Bolton,  Mass.  After  an  able 
and  successful  pastorate  in  Waterville  covering  the  period  of  the 
Civil  War,  Mr.  Pepper  resigned  in  1865  to  become  Prof,  of  Eccles- 
iastical History  at  Newton  Theological  Institution.  He  remained 
until  1868  when  he  became  Prof,  of  Systematic  Theology  at  Cro- 
zer  Theological  Seminary  which  position  he  acceptably  and  hon- 
orably filled  for  fifteen  years.  In  18S2  he  became  President  of 
Colby  and  Prof,  of  Moral  and  Intellectual  Philosophy.  During 
the  years  of  his  presidency  he  was  revered  for  his  character  and 
ability  and  loved  for  his  kindliness  of  heart.     From  '90  to  '92  he 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  45 1 

was  acting  pastor  of  the  Saco  Baptist  church ;  in  the  latter  year 
he  returned  to  Waterville  as  Prof,  of  BibHcal  Literature  at  Colby, 
holding  the  position  until  1900.  These  are  the  mere  outlines  of 
a  career  as  educator  which  has  been  remarkably  and  widely  influ- 
ential and  useful.  Dr.  Pepper  has  published  "Outlines  of  System- 
atic Theology,"  also  sermons  and  addresses  and  a  very  large 
number  of  essays  and  reviews  in  the  leading  magazines.  His 
writing  has  been  mostly  on  theological  and  ethical  lines.  He 
contributes  to  this  volume  the  chapter  on  the  churches  of  Water- 
ville, also  biographical  sketches  of  the  ministers  of  the  city.  Dr. 
Pepper  received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Colby  in  1867  and  from 
Amherst  in  1882.  From  Lewisburg  University  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.D.  in  1882  and  from  Colby  the  same  degree  in  1890. 
The  children  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Pepper  are  Charles  Hovey,  the 
artist,  of  Concord,  ]\Iass.,  Jessie  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Prof.  F.  W. 
Padeiford  of  the  University  of  Washington,  and  Annie  Hutchin- 
son, wife  of  Prof.  Everett  W.  Varney  of  Philadelphia. 

Rev.  Arthur  G.  Pettengill,  son  of  Elisha  and  Elizabeth  J.  C. 
(Eaton)  Pettengill,  was  born  in  Brewer,  Me.,  Oct.  30,  1858.  He 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Brewer  High  school,  of  Bowdoin  College  and 
of  Yale  Divinity  School  in  which  he  also  took  one  year  of  gradu- 
ate work  (i887-'88).  From  the  college  he  received  the  degree 
of  A.  B.  and  from  the  Divinity  School  that  of  B.  D.  He  has  had 
pastorates  in  Warren,  Me.,  2nd  Cong,  ch.,  i885-'87,  in  St.  Cloud, 
Minn.,  ist  Cong.  ch.  i889-'90,  Hyde  Park,  Mass.,  Unit.  Soc, 
i895-'99,  and  in  Waterville,  jMe.,  1900  to  the  present.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  On  the  30th  of  June,  1896, 
he  married  Miss  Bertha  F.  Capen  by  whom  he  has  three  child- 
ren, Miriam,  Rodney  G.  and  Richard  E.  His  residence  is  on 
Dalton  Street. 

ReiL  /.  Frank  Rhoades  is  a  son  of  Rev.  Jabez  and  Mary  A. 
(Mills)  Rhoades,  and  was  born  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.  He  prepared 
for  college  in  the  Auburn  schools  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Iowa  Central  University.  He  began  his  public  life  as  a  teacher. 
For  several  years  he  owned  and  managed  Versailles  Academy, 
Versailles,  Mo.,  and  for  some  years  with  his  wife  as  assistant 
teacher,  had  charge  of  Geneva  Academy,  Geneva,  Kan.  He 
served  in  the  Civil  War  as  surgeon's  steward  on  board  the  gun- 
boat Gammage  No.  60,  Miss.  Squadron,  and  has  been  pastor  of 


454  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK. 

ville,  where  he  was  pastor  of  the  First  Unitarian  Society  until 
1878.  He  died  in  Waterville,  Oct.  4,  1889.  His  wife  survived 
him  until  1896.  He  left  also  five  children,  Jane  Ripley,  the  old- 
est, who  died  in  England  in  1898,  Henry  Newton,  Orlando  Wil- 
bur, Chauncey  Cooley,  Edward  Stevens.  Four  other  children 
died  in  childhood.  During  his  life  he  published  occasional  ser- 
mons and  was  a  contributor  to  the  Christian  Review.  In  1856 
was  published  a  volume  under  the  title  "Sin  and  Redemption,"^ 
containing  twelve  of  his  sermons  and  also  an  address  on  Moral 
Freedom  delivered  in  1855  before  the  literary  societies  of  Water- 
ville College.  He  was  much  interested  in  the  schools  of  W^ater- 
ville,  and  as  a  member  of  the  school  committee  was  actively  con- 
cerned in  their  improvement. 

Rev.  Joseph  Oherlin  Skinner,  son  of  David  and  Abigail  Skin- 
ner, was  born  in  Piermont,  N.  H.,  Feb.  18,  1816;  received  a  com- 
mon school  education :  taught  school  i832-'33 ;  was  employed  in 
a  Lowell,  Mass.,  cotton  mill,  i834-'35 ;  studied  theology  under 
Rev.  Sylvanus  Cobb,  D.  D.,  at  Maiden,  Mass,  i836-'37;  was 
ordained  at  Salem,  N.  H.,  Aug.  31,  1837:  was  pastor  of  Univer- 
salist  churches  as  follows:  in  Holliston,  Mass.,  i837-'4o;  Fram- 
ingham,  Mass.,  1840- '44;  Dudley,  ]\Iass.,  i844-'46;  Concord, 
Mass.,  1846- '48;  Ludlow,  Vt.,  i848-'5o;  Chester,  Vt.,  i85o-'53; 
Rockland,  Me.,  i853-'59;  Nashua,  N.  H.,  i859-'62;  St.  Albans, 
Vt.,  i863-'65;  Malone,  N.  Y.,  i865-'67;  East  Montpelier,  Vt., 
i867-'69;  Waterville,  Me.,  i869-'73.  He  continued  to  reside  at 
Waterville,  supplying  at  Vassalboro,  Fairfield  and  Sidney,  and 
after  an  illness  of  11  months  died  in  Waterville,  Jan.  12,  1879. 
He  was  twice  married,  first  in  May,  1846,  to  Miss  Maria  T.  Barn- 
ard of  Hartford,  Conn.,  who  died,  Aug.  1852;  second  in  June, 
1854,  to  Miss  Condace  L.  Fullam  of  Ludlow,  Vt.  He  was  a 
Free  Mason;  wrote  a  ''History  of  the  Masonic  Lodge,  Water- 
ville," edited  "The  Universalist  Year  Book,"  i867-'78;  was  asso- 
ciate editor  of  "Christian  Reporter"  and  contributed  to  "Univer- 
salist Quarterly."  He  left  in  ]\ISS  much  material  for  the  history 
of  Waterville. 

Rev.  Samuel  Francis  Smith,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  Boston,  Oct. 
21,  1808,  and  died  in  the  same  city,  Nov.  16,  1895.     The  exact 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE:.  455 

length  of  his  hfe,  therefore,  was  eighty-seven  3^ears  and  twenty- 
five  days.     Fitting  for  college  in  the  Boston  Latin  School,  where 
he  won  ''the  Franklin  ]\Iedal  for  primacy  in  scholarship,"  he  went 
directly  to  Harvard  and  was  graduated  at  the  age  of  twenty-one, 
and  thence  to  Andover  Theological   Seminary  from  which  he 
was  graduated  at  the  age  of  twenty-four.     After  a  year  of  edi- 
torial work  in  Boston  he  became  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in 
Waterville  and  the  Professor  of  ^Vlodern  Languages  in  the  col- 
lege.    Soon  after  his  settlement  in  Waterville  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Alary  White  Smith  who  made  bright  and  glad  his  remain- 
ing years  and   still  lives  in  the  Newton   Center  home.     After 
eight  years  at  Waterville,  Dr.  Smith  moved  to  Newton  Center, 
Mass.,  to  become  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  that  place  and  to 
edit  "The  Christian  Review,"  a  Baptist  quarterly.     He  served  as 
editor  seven  years,  as  pastor  twelve  years  and  a  half  and  for  the 
next  fifteen  years  was  "Editorial  Secretary  of  the  Missionary 
Union,"  but  continued  to  preach,  usually  as  stated  supply  of  some 
neighboring  church.     He  loved  to  preach  and  till  his  death  was 
often  in  the  pulpit.     Fittingly  his  death  in  Boston  came  suddenly 
while  on  his  way  to  supply  a  pulpit.     During  his  thirty-six  years 
of  public  life  and  indeed  to  the  end,  he  was  a  diligent  student. 
Ever  receiving,  he  also,  as  author,  was  ever  giving.     Fugitive 
pieces  in  the  daily  and  w^eekly  press ;  quarterly  review  articles ; 
translations  from  German,  French  and  Swedish  writers ;  books 
historical,  biographical  and  poetical, — these  are  worthy  products 
of  an   ever  busy,   fruitful  and   able  pen.     As  a  writer  of  our 
National  hymn  and  of  hymns  of  Christian  worship,  he  is  best 
known.     His  missionary  hym.n,  "The  ]\lorning  Light  is  Break- 
ing," is  one  of  many  widely  known  and  much  loved  and  sung. 
His  hymns,  in  part,  have  been  translated  into  foreign  languages 
and  when  in  his  old  age  he  visited  the  missionary  stations  of 
India  and  Burmah  he  heard  them  sung  by  the  native  Christians 
in  their  own  languages.     His  last  published  volume  was  "Poems 
of  Home  and  Country,"  and  Prof.  Alvah  Hovey,  D.  D.,  in  an 
unpublished  memorial  address,  says  of  this  volume  that  all  who 
read  it  "must  have  been  surprised  and  gratified  by  the  revelations 
which  it  makes  of  his  affectionate  devotion  to  wife  and  children," 
an  affection  and  devotion  fully  reciprocated.     One  of  his  child- 
ren, President  Daniel  A.  W.  Smith,  D.  D.,  of  Burmah  is  one  of 


45^  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE). 

the  most  distinguished  of  the  missionaries  of  the  Baptist  denomi- 
nation. 

Rev.  Williom  H.  Spencer,  D.  D.,  son  of  David  H.  and  Mary  A. 
Spencer,  was  born  in  Knox,  N.  Y.,  Sep.  2, 1838  ;  began  his  college 
course  in  Aladison  University,  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  but  left  to  serve 
in  the  Union  army ;  completed  his  college  course  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity which  gave  him  then  the  degree  of  A.  B.  and  afterwards 
(1890)  the  honorary  degree  of  D.  D. ;  was  graduated  from  New- 
ton Theological  Seminary,  Newton,  Mass.,  in  1869,  and  ordained 
as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church,  Foxboro,  Mass.,  the  same  year; 
remained  there  as  pastor  until  April,  1879,  when  he  became  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Baptist  church,  Waterville,  Me. ;  served  this 
church  with  rare  wisdom,  ability  and  success  until  Feb.,  1899, 
when  he  resigned  his  pastorate  to  accept  that  of  the  Bethany  Bap- 
tist Church,  Skowhegan,  which  he  still  retains.  Leaving  his 
studies  in  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  for  the  service  of  his  country,  he 
enlisted  in  6Tst  N.  Y.  Vols,  and  became  successively  2nd  lieut, 
1st  lieur.,  captain  and  major;  lost  a  leg  on  the  battlefield;  suf- 
fered as  a  prisoner  of  war ;  and  has  continued  to  the  present  his 
patriotic  services  by  orations,  addresses  and  papers  pre- 
pared for  army  reunions,  Decoration  Days  and  other 
special  occasions.  On  the  12th  of  October,  1869,  he 
married  Miss  Mary  E.  Stevens,  daughter  of  the  late 
Rev.  Edw.  A.  Stevens,  D.  D.,  long  an  eminent  Baptist 
missionary  in  Burmah,  and  sister  of  Rev.  Edw.  O.  Stevens,  D.  D., 
well  known  in  Waterville  and  now  returned  to  Burmah  to  con- 
tinue his  missionary  services.  He  has  two  children,  Charles 
Worthen,  now  Professor  of  History  in  Colgate  University,  and 
Henry  Russell.     His  residence  is  Skowhegan,  ^le. 

Rez'.  Bdzvin  Carey  Whitteuwre,  son  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth 
(Hatch)  Whittemore,  was  born  in  Dexter,  ]\Ie.,  Apr.  29,  1858. 
He  prepared  for  college  in  the  Dexter  High  School  and  Coburn 
Classical  Institute;  graduated  from  C.  C.  I.  in  1875;  from  Colby 
University  in  1879  and  from  Newton  Theological  Institution  in 
1882.  Ordained  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  New  Boston, 
N.  H.,  in  1882,  he  was  pastor  of  that  church  two  years  and  has 
since  been  the  pastor  of  Baptist  churches  in  Auburn,  Me.,  (1884- 
'89)  and  in  Damariscotta  (i889-'99).  Since  1899  ^^  ^'^^^  been 
pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  church  of  Waterville.     He  is  author 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  457 

of  "History  of  Damariscotta  Association,"  "History  of  First  Bap- 
tist Church  of  Nobleboro,"  "Seventy-five  years  of  the  Maine  Bap- 
tist Missionary  Convention,"  etc.,  is  chairman  of  the  editorial 
board  of  the  Centennial  History  of  Waterville,  and  furnishes  for 
the  Centennial  Historical  volume  the  chapter  on  the  general  his- 
tory of  Waterville,  this  being  the  historical  address  delivered  at 
the  centennial  celebration.  His  constant  advance  in  pulpit  ability 
and  pastoral  efficiency  and  his  valuable  services  to  the  denomina- 
tional interests  of  the  State  as  a  member  of  the  permanent  commit- 
tee of  the  Maine  Baptist  Convention,  and  in  other  ways  have  given 
him  rank  among  the  foremost  Baptist  ministers  of  Maine.  On  the 
25th  of  July,  1879,  he  married  Miss  Ida  ]\Iacomber,  by  whom  he 
has  one  child,  Bertha  Carey,  who  is  a  member  of  the  class  of 
1904,  Colby  College.  ]Mr.  Whittemore  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Historical  Association  and  of  the  American  Academy 
of  Political  and  Social  vScience. 

Memorial  of  NafJianiel  Milton  Wood  zi-'ith  scnnons,  edited  by 
Nathaniel  Butler,  Lewiston,  Me.,  Geo.  A.  Callahan,  printer,  1877. 
In  this  octavo  volume  of  14-2  pages  are  contained  the  "Memorial 
Address"  by  the  editor  (father  of  ex-president  Butler)  and  seven 
sermons  of  Dr.  Wood,  selected  by  the  editor.  The  address  is  an 
accurate  statement  of  the  principal  facts  of  Dr.  Wood's  life,  and 
a  sympathetic  and  just  estimate  of  his  ability,  character  and  work. 
To  this  volume  the  reader  of  this  notice  is  referred  for  a  satis- 
factory knowledge  of  this  able  man  and  minister.  He  was  born 
in  Camden,  ^le.,  in  1822.  When  nearly  twenty  years  of  age 
his  father,  Ephriam  Wood,  who  was  engaged  in  extensive  mer- 
cantile and  commercial  pursuits,  allowed  him  to  choose  whether 
to  take  his  share  in  the  patrimony  for  use  in  a  like  business  or  for 
classical  study.  He  chose  the  latter  and  entered  Waterville  Col- 
lege in  1840,  and  was  graduated  with  honor  in  1844.  In  his 
junior  year  he  experienced  a  radical  change  of  religious  life  and 
in  1843  ^vas  baptised  into  the  Camden  Baptist  church.  After  a 
year  in  Mississippi,  he  returned  to  Covington,  Ky.,  where  for  a 
year  and  a  half  he  studied  theology  under  Dr.  R.  E.  Pattison,  pre- 
viously president  of  Waterville  College,  and  then  president  of  the 
Western  Baptist  Theological  Instituce.  In  1848  he  became  pastor 
of  the  Bloomfield  (now  Skowhegan)  Baptist  church.  His  subse- 
quent pastorates,  all  of  them  like  his  first,  characterized  by  sig- 


45^  HISTORY    OI'    WATKRVILLD. 

nal  power  and  friiitfulness,  were  in  Waterville,  Lewiston  and 
Thomaston,  in  Maine,  and  in  Upper  Alton,  111.  In  the  latter 
place  he  filled  the  chair  of  Systematic  Theology  in  Shurtleff 
College  For  six  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  college.  He  resigned  his  professorship  and  returned  east 
in  1874.  He  resided  in  Boston  and  supplied  churches  occasion- 
ally until  April,  1876.  His  health  had  now  failed  and  in  July 
following  he  returned  to  Camden  to  end  his  earthly  life  where 
he  began  it.  He  married  Miss  Caroline  L.  Bray,  by  whom  he 
had  three  daughters,  Marie  E.,  Carrie  Ella  and  Annie  P. 


DOCTOR    MOSES    APPLETON. 


CHAPTER   XXIII. 


THE  ^lEDICAL  PROFESSION. 
By  Frederick  Charles  Thayer,  ^I.  D. 

For  many  years  the  profession  of  medicine  divided  with  law 
and  divinity  the  title  of  learned.  It  has  always  been,  is  now,  and 
must  ever  continue  to  be  both  useful  and  honorable.  It  demands 
in  the  exercise  of  its  duties  altogether  as  much  of  brain  and  heart 
as  any  of  life's  great  callings.  In  this  and  in  every  other  civi- 
lized country  medicine  is  so  closely  connected  with  the  social  and 
sanitary  condition  of  the  people  upon  the  one  hand,  and  with  the 
status  of  education  and  general  science  on  the  other,  that  its  pro- 
gress in  the  past,  its  position  at  the  present,  and  the  possibilities 
of  its  future  render  it  a  most  interesting  subject  for  study  and 
contemplation. 

From  the  time  when  someone  discovered  that  a  broken  limb 
laid  straight  and  retained  in  that  position  was  more  comfortable 
and  gave  better  results  than  one  left  without  such  care,  the  medi- 
cal man  has  been  an  important  factor  in  the  community.  Up 
from  the  very  dawn  of  history  through  myth,  fable  and  tradition, 
through  ill  defined  experiences,  tinged  with  ignorance  and  super- 
stition, medicine  has  advanced  from  its  small  beginnings  to 
become  a  recognized  science,  and  the  doctor  has  in  every  age 
constantly  and  unselfishly  devoted  himself  in  so  far  as  he  was 
able  to  the  well-being  of  the  people  under  his  care. 

A  history  of  the  medical  profession  of  Waterville  during  its 
first  century  of  corporate  life  would  necessarily  be  to  a  great 
extent  a  review  of  medical  progress  for  the  Nineteenth  Century. 
However  much  of  interest  and  instruction  might  obtain  from  such 
a  review  it  would  obviously  be  out  of  place  and  require  too  much 


460  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Space  to  recount  the  wonderful  achievements  which  as  a  science 
and  an  art  it  has  recorded  since  the  year  1802. 

It  requires  no  proof  for  it  is  a  truism,  that  scientific  medicine 
owes  more  to  the  discoveries  made  during  this  period  than  in  all 
the  years  of  which  history  gives  an  account, 

yVnesthetics  and  antisepsis  have  revolutionized  the  methods  of 
surgical  practice  making  possible  procedures  otherwise  unattain- 
able, thus  adding  unnumbered  years  to  human  life,  and  reducing 
human  suffering  to  a  minimum  point  not  even  dreamed  of  by  the 
most  optimistic  medical  man  of  a  century  ago. 

The  realm  of  definite,  practical,  medical  knowledge  has  been 
vastly  broadened  by  the  recent  progress  in  pathology,  clinical 
microscopy,  and  bacteriology  which  have  made  possible  an  under- 
standing of  the  causation  and  history  of  diseased  conditions,  and, 
correspondingly,  modifications  have  taken  place  in  the  previously 
existing  views  of  their  prevention  and  treatment,  much  to  the 
advantage  of  the  profession  and  the  betterment  of  the  human 
race. 

The  progressive  march  of  medical  science  is  the  result  of  the 
intelligent,  constant,  persistent,  unselfish  labor  of  the  medical 
man.  No  labor  is  too  arduous,  no  investigation  too  difficult,  no 
duty  too  dangerous,  to  deter  the  practitioner  of  the  healing  art 
from  prosecuting  his  noble  work.  The  pleasures  of  life,  personal 
comfort,  health,  yes,  life  itself,  is  as  freely  and  heroically  sacri- 
ficed in  the  search  for  means  of  prevention  and  cure  of  disease  as 

has  ever  been  done  by  the  martyrs  to  religious  faith  or  political 

< 

principle. 

It  is  a  curious  and  lamentable  fact  however,  that  while  the 
world  seems  ever  ready  to  do  kingly  honors,  to  sing  peans  of 
praise,  and  erect  magnificent  mausoleums  to  the  memory  of  the 
wholesale  slayers  of  human  life,  those  who  have  done  so  much 
to  preserve  life  and  to  bring  health  and  comfort  to  the  human 
race  receive  but  scant  praise  for  all  they  have  accomplished. 
Giving  no  thought  to  personal  honor  or  emolument,  the  profes- 
sions continues  to  prosecute  its  humane  work,  knowing  that  a 
duty  well  and  nobly  done  is  its  own  recompense. 

From  the  time  of  Dr.  John  IMcKechnie  to  the  present, 
there  have  always  been  in  Waterville  members  of  the  profession 
who  have  stood  preeminent  for  learning  and  professional  skill, 


HISTORY    OF    WATe:RVILLE.  461 

their  council  and  advice  having  been  sought  by  physicians  from 
all  the  surrounding  country.  Not  only  have  they  been  earnest 
seekers  after  the  fundamental  truths  of  their  profession,  honest, 
painstaking,  and  expert  in  the  performance  of  their  professional 
duty,  they  have  also  been  ever  ready  to  lend  their  aid  in  every 
good  work.  Indeed  the  medical  men  of  Waterville  are  well 
typified  in  the  history  of  its  first  three  physicians,  Dr.  John  Mc- 
Kechnie,  Obadiah  Williams  and  Moses  Appleton.  Besides 
being  educated  and  skilled  in  their  profession,  they  have  ever 
been  active  and  useful  as  citizens,  possessed  of  practical  judge- 
ment, having  a  large  share  of  good  common  sense,  full  of  enter- 
prise and  public  spirit,  they  have  always  been  found  at  the  fore 
in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  social,  moral  and  business  welfare 
of  the  community. 

The  writer  takes  this  opportunity  to  return  his  thanks  to  Mr. 
Frank  W.  Alden  for  the  very  valuable  assistance  he  has  rendered 
in  accumulating  and  arranging  the  data  for  the  following  bio- 
graphical sketches. 

Dr.  John  McKechnie,  an  educated  Scotch  physician,  came  to 
this  country  in  1755,  settled  in  Winslow  in  1771,  and  in  1775 
moved  to  this  side  of  the  river.  During  the  stay  of  Arnold's 
army  at  Fort  Halifax,  Dr.  McKechnie  acted  as  their  surgeon. 
Besides  attending  to  his  medical  duties  he  was  an  active  civil 
engineer  and  business  man.  j\Iany  of  his  original  surveys  are 
still  extant.  He  was  the  father  of  thirteen  children.  He  was 
buried  on  the  south  side  of  Western  Avenue  on  the  high  land  just 
west  of  Hayden  brook  where  his  son,  Obadiah,  and  many  other 
early  settlers  were  buried.  This  is  believed  to  be  the  first  burial 
ground  in  Waterville. 

Dr.  Obadiah  Williams  was  born  in  Antrim,  N.  H.,  March  21st, 
1752.  He  participated  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and  after- 
wards served  as  surgeon  in  General  Stark's  regiment  throughout 
the  revolution.  Some  time  after  the  war  he  moved  to  Sidney 
where  he  practiced  his  profession  for  a  while,  moving  to  Water- 
ville in  1792.  Here  he  married  Hannah  Clifford  who  bore  him 
seven  children,  five  boys  and  two  girls.  Dr.  Williams  was  a  pub- 
lic spirited  man  as  well  as  a  good  physician  and  was  held  in  high 
esteem  by  the  community.  He  gave  the  land  for  the  first  meet- 
ing house,  now  the  Common  in  front  of  the  new  City  Hall.     He 


462  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

built  the  firs*  frame  house  in  \\^aterville  and  it  is  still  occupied. 
He  died  in  1799.  Both  Dr.  McKechnie  and  Dr.  Williams  died 
as  citizens  of  Winslow,  Lincoln  County,  INIassachusetts,  Water- 
ville  not  then  having  been  incorporated. 

Dr.  Moses  Appleton  was  born  in  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  in  1783,  came 
to  Waterville,  then  known  as  Ticonic  village,  of  the  town  of 
Winslow,  Lincoln  County,  Massachusetts,  in  1796.  After  hav- 
ing completed  his  medical  studies  under  Governor  Brooks  of 
Aledford,  INIass.,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the 
Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
here.  He  opened  the  first  drug  store  in  Waterville  and  was  for 
many  years  the  most  prominent  physician  of  this  section.  He 
was  the  first  resident  physician  of  the  incorporated  town  of 
Waterville.     He  died  in  1849. 

(Drs.  McKechnie,  Williams  and  Appleton  are  treated  more 
fully  in  the  chapter  of  early  settlers,  where  a  more  complete 
sketch  of  their  lives  will  be  found.) 

In  1807,  Dr.  Wright  and  Dr.  Bigeloiv,  practiced  medicine  here 
for  a  short  time  only.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  no  further 
information  can  be  discovered  concerning  them. 

Dr.  Daniel  Cook  was  born  in  Kingston,  Mass.,  July  29th,  1785, 
graduated  from  Brown  University  in  1809.  He  studied  medi- 
cine in  Boston,  practicing  there  for  a  short  time.  He  was  an 
assistant  surgeon  in  the  army  during  the  war  of  181 2,  coming 
to  Waterville  about  that  time,  and  associating  himself  with  Dr. 
Appleton.  He  quickly  became  identified  with  the  place,  was 
made  a  director  of  the  old  Waterville  Bank  in  1814,  in  1816,  was 
elected  representative  to  the  Massachusetts  legislature.  In  1820, 
he  built  the  first  brick  dwelling  house  in  Waterville,  which  is  now 
standing  just  south  of  the  Unitarian  church,  and  which  he  sold 
in  1834  or  5,  to  Dr.  Stephen  Thayer.  In  1833  he  was  cashier 
of  Ticonic  Bank.  He  moved  to  Maumee,  Ohio,  in  1834,  and  died 
there  in  1863.  He  married  Clarissa  Watson  of  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  January  12th,  1813.  To  them  were  born  six  children, 
one  of  whom  is  now  living,  Daniel  Francis  Cook,  of  Maumee, 
Ohio,  who  is  remarkably  well  and  vigorous  at  eighty-eight  years 
of  age.  Dr.  Cook's  eldest  daughter  married  Hon.  W.  B.  S.  Moor 
of  Waterville,  formerly  U.  S.  Senator. 


4^rj 


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n.iA'.. 


Ijiiilt  llic  (irsl>  fr;m^r)iisc  in  Wal'-rvillc  aiifl  it  is  still  occupied, 
lie  (Jic'I  ill  ly*)').  ioth  Dr.  McKccliiiic*  an<l  Dr.  Williams  died 
as  citizens  of  Wiiiovv,  IJiicoIn  Cuinity,  Massachusetts,  Water- 

villc  ]\(>\  ill'  n  Ii.iviij"  l)«»-ii  jjicorporatcd. 

J)r.  Mosi's  /Ipl'lpn  was  luirti  in  Ipswich,  N.  If.,  in  1783,  came 
If)  Walfrvill*',  I  lie  l<n<jwn  as  'i'icf)nir  villaj^-c,  oi  the  town  of 
Winslow,  I  jiK  oinTonnty,  Massachusetts,  in  1796,  After  hav- 
ing conipN-lcd  liinnedioal  studies  inider  Tjovernor  I'nH)ks  of 
Mc'Ifnfd,  Mass.,  \i(T«-  lie  receive* I  the  decree  of  M.  I),  horn  the 
Massachusetts  M^cal  Society,  he  he^an  tlu*  practice  of  medicine 
here.  He  opcncrfhe  first  drn^^  stf)re  in  VVaterville  and  was  for 
many  years  the  it>st  prominent  physician  of  this  sectif)n.  He 
was  the  first  rejdent  jihysiciau  of  the  incorporated  town  of 
VVaterville.      I  !<•  ted  in  1849. 

( l)rs.  MeKeclie,  Williams  an<l  Appleton  are  treated  more 
fiillv  ill  lli<  ( li.i|(r  of  early  settlers,  where  a  more  complete 
skel(  li  ()l   IIk  ii    li?s  will  he  tonixl.) 

Ill  iXny,  Pi.  Ihi^hl  and  Pr.  lUvchr.v,  j>rarticefl  mcflicine  here 
loi  .1  Jioii  liiiuonlv.  It  is  to  he  re^^^retted  that  no  further 
iiiloiiiLiiioii  (Mil  e  discovered  concerninj.j  them. 

Pr.  PiiiiitI  (  O'e  was  horn  in  Kingston,  Mass.,  Jnly  2<jth,  17S5, 
^^^radii.iied  IrniiiJrown  University  in  iK^x;.  He  stndierl  medi- 
<  inc  ill  r.o  .i.iii.  tractieinj^  there  for  a  short  time,  lie  was  an 
assislanl  siii>'<(,  in  ihe  armv  dining  the  war  rif  181 2,  rominj^ 
to  Watervillr  .ibul  that  time,  and  associating.,''  himself  with  Dr. 
Applduii.  jlcpiickly  hecaiue  identified  with  the  place,  was 
made  ;i  dircc  l<.r»f  (lie  old  Waterville  I'aiik  in  181, ^,  in  1816,  was 
elected  represeittive  to  the  Massachusetts  legislature.  In  1820, 
lie  hiiill  the  firsbrick  dwellinj^  honse  in  Waterville,  which  is  now 
sl.indin^r  jnsi  HUth  of  the  Unitarian  chmch,  and  which  he  sold 
in  i8;v|  or  5,  t  Dr.  Stephen  Thayer.  In  1833  he  was  cashier 
of  'ri(  <»nic  HaiiJ  I  Ic  moved  to  Maumee,  Ohio,  in  1834,  and  died 
tlicn  in  iSf.^.  He  married  ('larissa  Watson  of  Portsmouth, 
N.  II.,  Jainiar  12th,  1813.  To  them  were  horn  six  children, 
one  of  whom  .  now  liviiif^^,  Daniel  hVancis  Cook,  of  Maumee. 
Ohio,  who  is  m.irlc.Mhly  well  an<l  vi^'-orous  at  fif.,ditv-ei^di« 
of  aj.re.  Dr.  (  I  .  Ide.st  dau^rhter  married  Hon.  W  ' 
of  Wat('rville,ormerlv  U.  S.  Senator. 


DOCTOR   STEPHEN    THAYER. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  463 

Dr.  Hall  Chase  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Chase  of  Fryeburg, 
Me.,  where  he  was  born  April  7,  1792.  He  received  his  early 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  Fryeburg,  and  afterward 
graduated  from  Dartmouth  college  where  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.  D.  He  came  to  Waterville  in  1812,  where  he  practiced 
his  profession  for  39  years.  He  died  July  21,  185 1.  He  was  a 
surgeon  in  the  State  militia  and  a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge, 
F.  &  A.  AL  He  was  married  to  Hannah  McMillen  Spring  of 
Saco,  February  25,  1819,  and  had  five  children,  Helen  Maria; 
Marshall  Spring;  Geo.  Randolph;  John  Spring,  and  Julia  S. 
John  is  still  living  in  New  York  city. 

Dr.  Clark  Lillyhridge  was  a  student  in  Waterville  College, 
theological  department,  in  1821.  He  afterwards  went  to  Bow- 
doin  and  graduated  from  the  medical  department  in  1824.  He 
settled  in  Waterville  and  became  prominent  in  town  affairs.  He 
was  a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.  He  married  a 
daughter  of  Abijah  Smith.  After  a  few  years  he  moved  to  Staf- 
ford, Conn. 

Dr.  Samuel  Plaisted  was  born  in  Gardiner,  Me.,  November 
21,  1801.  Son  of  Ichabod  and  Charity  (Church)  Plaisted.  He 
was  graduated  from  Brown  University  in  1825,  received  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  IMaine  Medical  School  in  1828.  He 
directly  came  to  Waterville  where  he  practiced  his  profession 
until  the  time  of  his  death,  April  14,  1862,  being  recognized 
as  one  of  the  foremost  physicians  in  this  vicinity.  June  22,  1830, 
he  married  Mary  Jane  Appleton,  daughter  of  Dr.  Appleton. 
They  had  three  children,  Aaron  Appleton,  James  Hamilton,  and 
Florence.  Aaron  Appleton  and  Florence  are  still  residing  here. 
Dr.  Plaisted  was  active  in  business  circles,  was  one  of  the  direc- 
tors of  the  old  Waterville  Bank,  and  in  the  early  fifties  was  inter- 
ested together  with  several  other  Waterville  men  in  the  manu- 
facturing of  paper. 

Dr.  Stephen  Thayer  was  of  French  Hugenot  extraction  and 
descended  from  both  Pilgrim  and  Puritan  stock.  His  earliest 
American  ancestor  of  the  name  came  from  Braintree,  England, 
and  settled  in  Braintree,  Mass.,  in  163 1.  His  great-great  grand- 
father married  Huldah  Haywood,  who  was  a  grand-daughter  of 
Thomas,  through  whom  the  line  is  carried  back  to  Experience 
Mitchell  who  came  to  Plymouth  in  the  Ann  in  1623,  and  mar- 


466  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLK. 

at  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia  in  1846.  In 
1849  he  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Waterville.  In 
1852  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  became  associated 
with  Dr.  Potter,  who  had  previously  moved  there.  In  1854,  he 
sailed  for  Europe,  where  he  spent  two  years  in  study.  He  then 
returned  to  Waterville  where  he  entered  upon  a  large  practice. 
In  1858  he  again  went  to  Europe  where  he  spent  a  year  in  study, 
spending  most  of  the  time  in  Paris.  While  there  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Society.  He  returned  to 
Waterville  in  1859  where  he  remained  until  1863.  During  which 
period  he  had  a  large  and  growing  practice.  He  performed 
many  capital  surgical  operations  and  did  a  large  consulting  busi- 
ness. In  1863  he  moved  to  Detroit,  Michigan,  where  he  at  once 
entered  upon  a  brilliant  career.  In  1873  he  was  appointed  pro- 
fessor of  Ophthalmology  and  Otology  in  the  Detroit  Medical 
College,  and  later  Ophthalmic  surgeon  to  the  St.  Mary's,  Harper 
and  Woman's  Hospital.  These  positions  he  held  for  ten  years. 
Dr.  Noyes  was  a  member  of  the  following  societies :  American 
Medical  Association,  American  Association  for  the  Advancement 
of  Science,  American  Ophthalmological  and  Otological  Society, 
Michigan  State  Medical  Society,  Detroit  Academy  of  Medicine, 
of  which  he  was  president  in  1873,  Detroit  Medical  and  Library 
Association,  Pioneer  and  Historical  Society,  Rhode  Island  His- 
torical Society,  American  Laryngological  Rhinological  and  Oto- 
logical Society.  He  was  also  an  honorary  member  of  the  Ohio, 
Rhode  Island,  Maine  and  Texas  Medical  ^Associations.  In  1895 
he  donated  a  permanent  free  bed  in  the  Rhode  Island  Hospital. 
He  also  took  an  active  interest  in  establishing  Oak  Grove  Asy- 
lum, at  Flint,  Michigan,  a  retreat  for  the  insane,  and  provided 
funds  for  the  erection  of  an  amusement  hall  for  the  inmates,  to 
be  known  as  Noyes'  Hall.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Waterville 
Lodge  in  1857.  He  died,  February  16,  1896,  and  in  accordance 
with  his  wish  as  expressed  in  his  will  "for  sanitary  reasons  and 
as  an  example  in  the  interest  of  humanity"  his  remains  were 
cremated  and  his  ashes  now  rest  in  Riverside  Cemetery  at  Paw- 
tucket,  R.  I. 

Dr.  Nathan  Goldsmith  Hoivard  Pnlsifer  was  born  in  the  town 
of  Eden,  Mt.  Desert  Island,  Maine,  January  24,  1824,  son  of 
Moses  R.  and  Mary  (Dunn)  Pulsifer.     He  graduated  from  the 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  467 

Dartmouth  Medical  School  in  1847,  went  to  California  in  1849, 
returning,  studied  Homeopathy  in  Philadelphia,  graduating  from 
that  school  in  1852.  He  came  to  Waterville  the  same  year,  where 
he  at  once  built  up  a  large  practice.  His  judgment  of  financial 
affairs  was  of  a  high  order  and  he  was  for  many  years  president 
of  the  People's  National  Bank,  which  office  he  held  at  the  time 
of  his  death.  October  24,  1855,  he  married  Ann  Cornelia  Moor, 
daughter  of  Wm.  Moor  one  of  the  prominent  business  men  of 
Waterville.  To  them  were  born  four  children,  two  daughters, 
Norah,  wiie  of  the  late  Frank  L.  Thayer,  Cornelia,  wife  of  H.  L. 
Kelley,  and  two  sons,  Wm.  M.,  and  Ralph  H.,  both  of  whom 
have  been  resident  physicians  in  this  city.  He  died  December 
8,  1893. 

Dr.  John  Benson  and  Dr.  L.  P.  Babb  both  practiced  medicine 
in  Waterville  in  the  early  fifties,  for  a  short  time.  Dr.  Benson 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Maine  Medical  Association,  was 
a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  was  surgeon  in  the 
United  States  medical  service  during  the  Civil  War,  moved  to 
Newport  in  about  1853.  Dr.  Babb  moved  to  Eastport  where  he 
died  a  few  years  ago. 

Dr.  Byron  Porter  was  born  in  Vienna,  Me.,  J\Iay  11,  1802.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  Maine  Medical  School  in  1827.  He 
practiced  in  Newburg,  Dixmont,  Hampden  and  Bangor,  moving 
to  Waterville  in  the  latter  part  of  1857.  Dr.  Porter  was  mar- 
ried, March  21,  1831,  to  Eliza  Jane  Morse,  to  them  were  born 
five  children.  He  purchased  and  lived  for  some  time  on  the 
estate  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Geo.  Fred  Terry.  He  after- 
wards resided  on  the  comer  of  College  avenue  and  Union  street, 
in  the  house  now  occupied  by  Dr.  Knox.  Because  of  declining 
health  he  went  with  his  family,  early  in  1870,  to  southern  New 
Jersey.  He  died  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  in  February,  1871.  His 
son  Parker  and  daughters  Octavia  and  Evelyn  are  still  living, 
and  it  is  from  Rev.  William  Churchill  Reade,  husband  of  Octavia 
that  the  data  for  this  sketch  was  obtained. 

Dr.  Thomas  Albert  Poster  was  born  in  Montville,  Me.,  Febru- 
ary 20,  1827.  He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  D.  and  Joanna 
(Carter)  Foster.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  his 
native  town,  studied  medicine  at  Albany  Medical  College,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Pennsylvania  Medical  School 


468  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLIC. 

in  1856.  He  came  to  Waterville  the  same  year,  practicing  his 
profession  until  1859,  when  he  moved  to  Portland  where  he 
became  very  prominent.     He  died  November  27,  1896. 

Dr.  Henry  Hancock  Campbell  was  born  at  Farmington,  Me., 
in  1820.  Son  of  Moses  and  7\bigail  (Hancock)  Campbell.  He 
received  his  early  education  at  Bloomfield  Academy  and  the 
famous  "Little  Blue"  school  of  Farmington.  He  graduated  at 
the  Dartmouth  Medical  school  in  1848,  taking  a  supplementary 
degree  at  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia  in  1849. 
Beginning  practice  at  Fairfield  Center  immediately,  where  he 
remained  until  1857,  when  he  spent  a  year  in  the  hospitals  of 
Europe,  after  which  he  settled  in  Waterville  where  he  built  up 
a  large  general  practice.  He  was  a  member  of  the  State  and 
County  medical  societies,  also  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Waterville.  Dr.  Campbell  was  largely  interested  in 
real  estate,  having  large  holdings  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
was  one  of  the  members  of  the  committee  w^ho  called  the  first 
Republican  convention  ever  held  in  Somerset  County.  In  1852 
he  married  Julia  A.  Tobey,  and  to  them  were  born  five  children, 
two  of  whom  are  now  living,  Annie  J.,  wife  of  Rev.  C.  D.  Crane, 
of  Yarmouth,  Me.,  and  Dr.  Geo.  R.  Campbell,  who  is  a  practic- 
ing physician  in  Augusta,  Me.  Dr.  Campbell  died  in  January, 
1895. 

Dr.  Atwood  Crosby  was  born  in  Albion,  Me.,  November  i, 
1838.  He  was  the  son  of  Luther  and  Ethelinda  (Getchell) 
Crosby.  He  entered  Waterville  College  in  1859,  remaining 
until  1 86 1,  when  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  3rd  Maine  Regi- 
ment, U.  S.  V.  He  was  captured  at  the  first  Battle  of  Bull  Run, 
anl  for  eleven  months  was  in  Libby  Prison.  He  w-as  paroled 
in  June  1862.  He  at  once  began  the  study  of  medicine  with 
Dr.  Boutelle,  attending  lectures  at  Harvard  and  the  Alaine  Medi- 
cal School  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1864.  He 
entered  the  LTnited  States  Navy  immediately  upon  his  graduation, 
as  a  surgeon  and  served  until  the  end  of  the  war.  He  practiced 
at  China  and  Buckfield.  In  1866  he  came  to  Waterville  and 
associated  himself  with  his  former  preceptor.  Dr.  N.  R.  Boutelle. 
He  was  married  August  13,  1864,  to  Elizabeth  Hanscom,  by 
whom  he  had  one  child,  Mary  S.  His  wife  died  about  1867.  In 
February,  1870,  he  married  Samantha   (Perkins)   Wilson.     To 


HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLE.  469 

them  were  born  four  children,  Carroll,  Katherine,  Margaret  H., 
and  Atwood  II.  In  every  relation  of  life  and  under  most  adverse 
circumstances  Dr.  Atwood  Crosby  was  always  the  true  man. 
He  died  January  25,  1883. 

Dr.  Frederick  Charles  Thayer  was  born  in  Waterville,  Sep- 
tember 30,  1844.  He  was  the  only  child  of  Charles  H.  and  Susan 
E.  (Tobey)  Thayer,  and  the  grandson  of  Dr.  Stephen  Thayer. 
He  attended  the  common  schools,  Waterville  Academy  and 
Franklin  Family  School  for  boys  at  Topsham,  Me.  Entered 
Waterville  College  in  1861,  went  to  Union  College  in  1863. 
Studied  medicine  with  Dr.  James  E.  Pomfret  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Attended  the  medical  lectures  of  Albany  Medical  College, 
1865-66.  He  graduated  from  the  Maine  Medical  School  in  1867. 
December  2,  1871,  he  married  Leonora  L.  Snell,  daughter  of 
Judge  Wm.  B.  Snell  of  Washington,  D.  C.  He  was  president 
of  Kennebec  County  Medical  Association  in  1878,  was  president 
of  Alumni  Association  of  the  Medical  department  of  Bowdoin 
College,  which  he  was  intrumental  in  founding,  in  1885-6.  In 
1884  the  degree  of  A.  M.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Colby  Uni- 
versity. In  1885-6  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and  in  the 
latter  year  delivered  the  annual  oration  before  the  Maine  Medical 
Association.  Was  president  of  the  jNIaine  Medical  Association 
in  1887-8.  Was  alderman  of  Waterville  in  1889.  He  has  been 
master  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.  Commander  of  St. 
Omer  Commandery,  K.  T.,  and  is  now  deputy  grand  commander 
of  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Maine.  He  has  served  in  the 
State  militia  as  assistant  surgeon  and  surgeon  of  the  2d  Regi- 
ment, medical  director  of  the  Tst  Brigade  and  surgeon-general  on 
the  staff  of  Governor  Henry  B.  Cleaves.  He  was  the  first  presi- 
dent of  the  Waterville  Trust  Company  and  is  now  one  of  its 
directors.  He  is  president  of  the  Sawyer  Publishing  Company 
and  the  Riverview  Worsted  Mills  and  a  director  of  the  W.  W. 
&  F.  P..  R.  Co.  He  founded  and  has  been  president  of  the 
Waterville  Clinical  Society.  He  is  now  president  of  the  Board 
of  U.  S.  Pension  Examining  Surgeons  at  Augusta,  consulting 
surgeon  to  the  Maine  Central  General  Hospital  at  Lewiston, 
and  to  the  City  Hospital  at  Augusta.  By  his  skill  and 
success  in  capital  surgical  cases  Dr.  Thayer  early  gained  an 
eminent  position  in  his  profession,  which  position  he  has  ever 


470  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK. 

since  maintained.  In  addition  to  the  care  of  his  large  business 
interests  he  has  been  prominently  identified  with  all  movements 
for  the  development  and  progress  of  the  city  for  many  years. 
He  was  president  of  the  centennial  committee  of  one  hundred 
and  of  the  executive  committee,  and  the  success  of  the  celebra- 
tion is  due  in  no  small  degree  to  his  faithful  attention  and  to  his 
efficient  generalship.  Dr.  Thayer  lives  in  the  house  where  he  was 
born,  No.  214  Main  street. 

Dr.  David  P.  Stoivell  was  born  in  Townsend,  Mass.,  September 
22,  1838.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  David  and  Emily  C.  (Stanett) 
Stowell.  He  graduated  from  Phillips  Exeter  Academy  in  1857. 
Was  in  Amherst  College  one  year,  studied  medicine  at  Dart- 
mouth Medical  School,  taking  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  New  York  in  1862.  He  served  one  year  in  the  regu- 
lar army  as  an  assistant  surgeon.  November,  1863  he  was  com- 
missioned as  assistant  surgeon  of  the  8th  New  Hampshire  Regi- 
ment, U.  S.  v.,  and  served  until  June,  1864.  He  practiced  medi- 
cine in  Masonsville,  N.  H.,  and  Mercer,  Me.,  moving  to  Water- 
ville  in  1878.  In  1863,  May  21st,  he  was  married  to  Sarah  E. 
Batchelder  of  Mt.  Vernon.  He  has  been  in  the  city  government 
as  a  member  of  the  common  council  and  has  also  been  on  the 
board  of  education.  He  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  W.  S. 
Heath  Post,  G.  A.  R.  Dr.  Stowell  resides  at  No.  232  Main 
street. 

Dr.  Frederick  Morse  Wilson  was  born  at  Hebron,  December 
8,  1850.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Adam  and  Sarah  (Ricker) 
Wilson.  He  graduated  from  Colby  College  in  1871,  received 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Harvard  Medical  School  in  1875.  He 
practiced  medicine  in  Waterville  but  a  few  years,  when  he 
moved  to  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  where  he  has  a  large  special  prac- 
tice in  eye  and  ear  work.  He  is  Ophthalmic  surgeon  to  several 
hospitals  and  is  a  member  of  many  medical  societies.  He  mar- 
ried Carrie  A.  Scommers,  November  13,  1883.  They  have  two 
children  and  he  resides  at  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Dr.  George  Bassett  Hozcard  was  born  in  Winslow,  Maine,  in 
1850.  He  was  the  son  of  Cyrus  and  Cornelia  Abiah  (Bassett) 
Howard.  He  graduated  from  Coburn  Classical  Institute  in 
1 87 1,  from  Colby  College  in  1875,  taking  the  degree  of  M.  D. 


Note.    The  sketch  of  Dr.  Thayer  was  prepared  by  the  editor. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  47I 

from  the  medical  departm.ent  of  New  York  University.  In  1880 
he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Waterville.  The  same  year 
in  June,  he  married  Hattie  Hoar  of  Lowell,  Mass.  He  died, 
November  13,  1893,  after  a  long  and  trying  illness,  which  he 
bore  with  great  fortitude  and  resignation. 

Dr.  Francis  Alton  Roberts  was  born  in  Jackson,  Me.,  August 
9,  1838.  He  was  the  son  of  Hamlin  and  Mary  Ann  (Rich) 
Roberts.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  took 
his  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Dartmouth  College  in  1859.  He  prac- 
ticed in  China  and  North  Vassalborough,  coming  to  Waterville 
in  1883,  where  he  remained  until  his  death,  which  occurred  ^lay 
26,  1892.  He  married  Mary  Frances  Hussey,  December  29, 
1862.  To  them  was  born  one  child.  Emily.  He  was  a  Mason. 
Dr.  Roberts  had  a  large  and  lucrative  homeopathic  practice. 

Dr.  James  Frederick  Hill  was  born  in  Waterville,  June  15, 
1854.  He  is  the  son  of  James  P.,  and  Emeline  (Simpson)  Hill. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  Coburn  Classical  Institute,  entered 
Colby  in  1878,  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  F.  C.  Thayer 
in  1 88 1.  Attended  medical  lectures  at  Dartmouth,  graduating 
from  the  Maine  Medical  School  in  1885.  Was  assistant  to  Dr. 
Thayer  from  1885-8  when  they  became  partners.  In  1895,  1896 
and  1897  he  did  post  graduate  work  in  New  York  and  has  since 
devoted  himself  to  special  work  of  the  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  staff  and  consulting  surgeon  of  the  Maine 
Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  lecturer  and  examiner  at  Colby  College. 
Member  of  the  Maine  Academy  of  Medicine,  Maine  Medical 
Association,  Waterville  Clinical  Society,  American  Laryngologi- 
cal,  Rhinclogical  and  Otological  Society,  American  Medical 
Association,  Kennebec  Medical  Association  of  which  he  has  been 
president.  He  is  a  Mason,  also  past  commander  of  St.  Omer 
Commandery,  an  Odd  Fellow,  also  Knight  of  Pythias.  At 
present  president  of  the  Waterville  Board  of  Trade.  He  was 
married,  July  31,  1885,  to  Angle  L.  Foster.  To  them  have  been 
born  three  children,  jMarguerite,  Frederick  and  Howard.  He 
resides  at  No.  225  Main  street,  and  his  office  is  at  iii  Main 
street. 

Dr.  John  L.  Fortier  was  born  in  1853  at  St.  Sylvester,  P.  Q. 
Son  of  Frederick  and  Esther  (Wright)  Fortier.  He  received  his 
preparatory  education  at  Christian  Brother's  School  at  St.  Mary, 


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'     -  -       '  t  of  l:^j^jm  X-  TTom  like  Vhhsm.- 

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he2<L-n,  reniaimiig'  -antil  1^97.  irben  be  rertnraed  to  Wsdierrille. 

Febmary  23.  1893  be  married  2!kfis«  Grace  YestocL     Tbej  bsr^ 

one  5-051.     H-e  noTar  reside?  2I  A'assalboro^b. 

Dr.  Charles  Port-er  SmiJJ  -btcLs  bora  --'•-•  '  - '  -  i-6. 
1^.3,     He  was  tbe  50c  of  Jier.  A.  K-  P.  l-.  _  ,   ._-    . .    ._  ^vd- 

hoTj)  Small  Gradtaied  from  ibe  Fall  Errer.  Mas*..  "Ht-^^ 
sdi'col  ia  1882.  Co3irr  College  in  1^6-  EscsTfrd  the  degT*:e  of 
3L  D.  in  tbe  Elaine  I^fedi^ircu  Scbciol  in  1^91.  He  -rs*  an  inntsiae 
at  tbe  Maine  Genera-  I^  ■  ':'  1889-90.  Assistant  s-rnrv-  -  -.  • 
XationaJ  Soldier:'  H'jnit.  .  .i..^.  1890-91.  Practiced  n::.t. .-..„-_. -- 
in  Waterrillte  ooe  j-ear  "srben  be  mor^  to  CiaiC2:go,  -srbere  be  niOTr 
resides. 

Dr.  Josefh  Knojr.  ibe  500  of  Isa^c  and  Arsnda  ^  C^rbetoca) 
Knox.  Tra=  boni  in  CHmtoEL  Febriiajj  i.  1843.  ^^s  axteoded 
scboo-l  at  Ccrinra  Union  A-.'- —  He  tniEsted  Aii^rist  18. 
1862  and  Srerred  in  the  iir-_  -  P-eginKnt  -10111  dir.±£rg=ed 

becanse  of  iQ  beaJtb.  He  giadnated  from  tbe  Hfi,"hrir^"n?rr-i  Medi- 
cal Co-H-eg^e  of  P!hi]2.>detotaa  in  1877.  He  practiced  in  Qraa© 
from  1877-92.  -Erben  be  rj'.— ed  to  u£s  drj.  He  is  a  mtfmiber  €?£ 
Vr^terrine  Lc-ls-e.  F.  k  A  ^I.,  i=  a  Kmgte  Temt'iar.  alst  sn  C>dd 
Jtllivr.     He  resi'des  at  Xo.  li  Colieg-e  arenxke. 

3r.  WiMiam  MO'Or  Prdiifrr,  son  of  Dr.  X-  'G  H  anid  Ann 
(MooT)  Pnliifsr.  -aras  bcm  in  Yrsterrilk-  Angxist  18.  186,3.. 
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472  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK. 

P.  Q.,  and  his  classical  education  at  Sherbrook  and  Three 
Rivers.  He  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  1879  with  Dr.  H.  H. 
Campbell  of  this  city.  He  graduated  from  the  Maine  Medical 
School  in  1883.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  Medical  Associa- 
tion, Waterville  Clinical  Society  of  which  he  is  now  president, 
French  Historical  Society  of  Massachusetts,  and  of  numerous 
Catholic  orders.  He  married  Louisa  Martel,  October  21,  1886. 
They  have  had  one  child,  Lora  C.  Dr.  Fortier  resides  at  No.  86 
Silver  street. 

Dr.  Alden  B.  Bessey  was  born  at  Hebron,  ]\Ie.,  January  i, 
1838.  He  was  the  son  of  Erastus  and  Sally  (Smith)  Bessey. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  Hebron  Academy  and  Maine  Wes- 
leyan  Seminary.  He  entered  Amherst  College  with  the  class 
of  1869.  He  graduated  from  the  Maine  Medical  School  in  1870. 
He  practiced  medicine  at  Wayne,  Sidney,  moving  to  Waterville 
in  1890.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  Medical  Association, 
Kennebec  Medical  Association  and  the  Waterville  Clinical 
vSociety,  of  the  last  two  he  has  been  president.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  church.  Dr.  Bessey  has  been  twice  mar- 
ried, first,  to  Helen  J.  Morton  in  1863,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons, 
Merton  W.,  and  Earl  E.,  both  of  whom  are  physicians.  He  was 
married  in  1874  to  Clara  A.  Forbes,  they  have  one  daughter, 
Lenora,  a  graduate  of  Colby  in  the  class  of  '99.  Dr.  Bessey 
resides  at  No.  72  Elm  street. 

Dr.  Matthew  S.  Goodrich  was  born  at  Palmyra,  Me.,  January 
24,  i860.  He  was  a  son  of  Rev.  Jos.  B.,  and  Amanda  J. 
(Gower)  Goodrich.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  at  the  Maine  Central  Institute.  Received  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  medical  department  of  New  York 
University  in  1882.  Practiced  medicine  in  Fairfield  until  1890, 
when  he  moved  to  Waterville,  after  having  done  some  post 
graduate  work  in  New  York.  He  was  a  U.  S.  pension  examiner 
in  Somerset  County  in  1885-Q.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Maine 
Medical  Association,  also  Kennebec  County  Association.  He  is 
a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  St.  Omer  Com- 
mandery,  K.  T.,  and  Portland  Consistory.  He  has  been  alder- 
man of  the  city  of  Waterville  and  now  represents  his  ward  in 
the  common  council.  He  married  Miss  Etta  Warren,  April  5. 
1901.     He  resides  at  No.  224  Main  street. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLK.  473 

Dr.  Ralph  H.  Pnlsifer,  the  son  of  Dr.  N.  G.  H.  and  Ann 
(Moor)  Pulsifer,  was  born  in  Waterville,  August  19,  1865. 
Graduated  from  Cobum  Classical  Institute  in  1882,  Colby  Col- 
lege in  1886.  Received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  medical 
department  of  Boston  University  in  1889,  ^nd  from  the  Hahne- 
mann Medical  College  of  Philadelphia,  in  1890.  He  practiced 
medicine  in  Waterville  for  two  years  when  he  moved  to  Skow- 
hegan,  remaining  until  1897,  when  he  returned  to  Waterville. 
Februar>'  23,  1893  he  married  Miss  Grace  Yeaton.  They  have 
one  son.     He  now  resides  at  Vassalborough, 

Dr.  Charles  Porter  Small  was  born  in  Bangor,  November  16, 
1863.  He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  A.  K.  P.  and  Thankful  L.  (Wood- 
bury) Small.  Graduated  from  the  Fall  River,  Mass.,  high 
school  in  1882,  Colby  College  in  1886.  Received  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  in  the  Maine  Medical  School  in  1889.  He  was  an  interne 
at  the  Maine  General  Hospital  1889-90.  Assistant  surgeon  at 
National  Soldiers'  Home,  Togus,  1890-91.  Practiced  medicine 
in  Waterville  one  year  when  he  moved  to  Chicago,  where  he  now 
resides. 

Dr.  Joseph  Knox,  the  son  of  Isaac  and  Amanda  (Orbeton) 
Knox,  was  born  in  Clinton,  February  i,  1845.  He  attended 
school  at  Corinna  Union  Academy.  He  enlisted  August  18, 
1862  and  served  in  the  nth  Maine  Regiment  until  discharged 
because  of  ill  health.  He  graduated  from  the  Hahnemann  Medi- 
cal College  of  Philadelphia  in  1877.  He  practiced  in  Orono 
from  1877-92,  when  he  moved  to  this  city.  He  is  a  member  of 
Waterville  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  is  a  Knight  Templar,  also  an  Odd 
Fellow.     He  resides  at  No.  1 1  College  avenue. 

Dr.  JVilliam  Moor  Pitlsifcr,  son  of  Dr.  N.  G.  H.  and  Ann 
(Moor)  Pulsifer,  was  born  in  Waterville,  August  18,  1863. 
Graduated  from  Coburn  Classical  Institute  in  1878,  from  Colby 
College  in  1882.  Received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Harvard 
Medical  School  in  1887,  and  from  the  Hahnemann  Medical  Col- 
lege in  1888.  He  at  once  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
Skowhegan.  Moved  to  Waterville  in  1892,  returning  to  Skow- 
hegan  in  1900,  where  he  now  resides.  October  2,  1896  he  mar- 
ried Helen  G.  Libby,  daughter  of  che  late  I.  C.  Libby.  They 
have  one  child,  Libby  Pulsifer. 


476  HISTORY    O?    WAT^RVILLK. 

1865.  He  took  his  medical  degree  at  the  Vermont  University 
in  1887.  He  practiced  in  Monticello  and  Fairfield,  moving  to 
Waterville  in  1899.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, Maine  Academy  of  Medicine  and  the  Waterville  Clinical 
Society.  He  is  a  Mason  and  a  Knight  Templar.  October  6, 
1895  he  married  Caroline  Gould  Rice.  They  have  one  child, 
Wendell  Edward.     Dr.  Boyer  resides  at  No.  84  Elm  street. 

Dr.  Bdson  Everett  Goodrich,  son  of  Joseph  B.  and  Amanda  J. 
(Gower)  Goodrich,  was  born  in  Palmyra,  Me.,  September  16, 
1877.  He  graduated  at  Coburn  Classical  Institute  and  took  his 
medical  degree  from  the  Baltimore  University  School  of  Medi- 
cine. He  at  once  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Water- 
ville, being  associated  with  his  brother.  Dr.  M.  S.  Goodrich. 
June  26,  1901,  he  married  Eva  M.  Towne.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  American  Medical  Association,  Maine  Medical  Association, 
and  the  Maine  Academy  of  Medicine.  Dr.  Goodrich  resides  at 
No.  37  Elm  street. 

Dr.  John  Gerald  Tozviic,  the  son  of  Edwin  and  Lydia  Ann 
(Gerald)  Towne  was  born  in  Waterville,  May  26,  1877.  He 
graduated  from  the  Baltimore  University  School  of  Medicine 
in  1900.  He  is  a  Mason  and  an  Odd  Fellow.  Dr.  Towne 
resides  at  No.  37  Elm  street. 

Albert  Colby  Getchell,  M.  D.  Dr.  Getchell  is  a  son  of  Water- 
ville who  has  attained  high  rank  in  his  profession.  He  was  born 
in  Waterville,  July  9,  1857,  the  son  of  Walter  and  Antoinette 
Colby  Getchell.  He  was  educated  at  the  Institute  and  at  Colby, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  '78.  He  afterward  studied 
at  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  the  Jefferson  Medical  College 
and  the  Philadelphia  Polyclinic.  On  graduation  from  the  Jef- 
ferson Medical  College  he  took  the  surgical  prize.  Dr.  Getchell 
has  had  experience  in  teaching,  as  principal  of  the  Adams,  Mass., 
high  school  and  as  principal  of  a  grammar  school  in  Worcester, 
Mass.  Since  1885  he  has  been  a  physician  in  Worcester, 
Mass.  For  several  years  he  was  visiting  physician  to  the  Wash- 
burn Memorial  Hospital  and  the  Worcester  City  Hospital.  In 
1883  he  was  elected  librarian  of  the  Worcester  District  Medical 
Library,  a  library  of  about  8,000  volumes,  which  position  he  still 
holds.  Dr.  Getchell  has  been  a  trustee  of  several  of  the  State 
medical  institutions  and  is  now  Laryngologist  to  the  Worcester 


HISTORY    OF    WATDRVILLE.  477 

City  Hospital,  the  Washburn  Memorial  Hospital  and  St.  Vincent 
Hospital.  He  married,  April  22,  1886,  ]Miss  Edith  Loring 
Peirce  of  Philadelphia.  They  have  two  children,  Ruth  Peirce 
and  Margaret  Colby.  Dr.  Getchell  is  a  member  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Medical  Society,  the  American  Medical  Association,  the 
American  Clinatological  Association,  etc.  Of  social  clubs  he  is 
a  member  of  the  Shakespeare,  the  Worcester  Art  Society,  the 
Worcester  Music  Association,  the  Bohemians,  the  Tatnuck 
Country  Club,  etc. 

Dr.  Percy  Shepherd  Merrill,  son  of  A.  F.  and  Hattie  E. 
(Thomas)  Merrill,  was  born  in  Bangor,  November  2.  1872. 
Graduated  from  Colby  College  in  1894.  Received  his  medical 
degree  from  the  University  and  Bellevue  Hospital  Aledical  Col- 
lege in  1899.  Was  interne  one  year  in  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
hospital.  Began  practice  in  Gardiner,  Me.,  moving  to  Water- 
ville  in  1901.  He  is,  at  present,  city  physician.  Dr.  ^Merrill 
resides  at  No.  5  Dalton  street. 

Dr.  Joseph  Arthur  Pineait,  son  of  Marcellin  and  Apoline  (St. 
Laurent)  Pineau,  was  born  at  Rimouski,  P.  Q.,  February  20, 
1867.  He  graduated  from  the  college  of  Rimouski,  receiving 
his  medical  degree  from  Laval  University  in  1894.  He  began 
practice  at  Van  Buren,  Me.,  moved  to  Livermore  Falls  in  1897, 
coming  to  Waterville  in  February,  1902.  Pie  was  married,  Janu- 
ary 8,  1896,  to  Leda  Pelletier.  They  have  four  children.  He 
resides  at  No.  137  Water  street. 

Dr.  Lewis  King  Austin,  son  of  William  King  and  Sarah  Eliza 
(Thomes)  Austin,  was  born  in  Portland,  August  11,  1869.  He 
took  his  medical  degree  at  Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadel- 
phia in  1894.  He  practiced  medicine  at  Portland,  Deering  and 
Clinton,  moving  to  this  city  in  1902.  He  devotes  his  attention 
entirely  to  diseases  of  the  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Maine  Medical  Association,  Kennebec  County 
Medical  Society,  and  Waterville  Clinical  Society.  He  is  a  .Mason 
and  an  Odd  Fellow.     His  office  is  at  No.  145  Main  street. 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 


THE  BAR   OF  WATERVILLE. 

By  Hon.   Simon   Stratton   Brown. 

The  following  is  a  brief  sketch  of  the  lawyers  who  have  prac- 
ticed law  here  since  the  incorporation  of  the  town  in  1802  to  the 
present  time.  They  have  all  been  men  of  character  and  have 
done  their  part  in  making  Waterville  what  it  is  to-day.  A  large 
part  of  them  have  served  in  the  Legislature,  and  have  aided  in 
building  up  the  code  of  statute  laws  by  which  our  State  is  now 
governed.  They  have  had  large  and  honorable  part  in  the  man- 
agement of  town  and  city  affairs,  have  contributed  their  full 
share  to  the  business  prosperity  of  the  city  and  in  all  matters 
of  public  interest  have  been  ready  with  voice  and  hand  for  every 
forward  movement. 

Reuben  Kidder.  The  first  lawyer  to  practice  his  profession 
in  Waterville  was  Reuben  Kidder.  He  was  a  man  of  thorough 
scholarship  and  legal  training  and  was  also  a  public-spirited 
citizen.  As  the  facts  of  his  life  have  been  given  by  Mr.  A.  A. 
Plaisted  in  his  chapter  in  this  volume,  on  the  early  settlers,  they 
need  not  be  repeated  here.  Suffice  it  is  to  say  that  the  line  of 
Waterville  lawyers  had  a  good  man  to  stand  at  its  head. 

Timothy  Boiitelle.  One  of  the  first  lawyers  who  practiced  in 
his  profession  at  Waterville,  was  Timothy  Boutelle.  He  was 
born  in  Leominster,  Mass.,  November  10,  1777.  He  was  a  lineal 
descendant  of  James  Boutelle,  who  came  from  England  in  1635 
to  Salem,  Mass.  Timothy  Boutelle  graduated  from  Harvard 
College  in  1800.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Massachusetts 
in  1804  and  came  to  W^aterville  the  same  year,  where  he  practiced 
law  till  the  time  of  his  death,  November  12,  1855.     In  181 1  he 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  479 

married  Helen,  the  daughter  of  Judge  Rogers.  One  of  his 
daughters  married  Edwin  Noyes,  a  prominent  W'aterville  lawyer, 
and  one  son.  Dr.  N.  R.  Boutelle,  was  a  prominent  physician  and 
surgeon  in  Waterville.  Timothy  Boutelle  was  one  of  the  prom- 
inent lawyers  of  his  day.  An  examination  of  the  reports  of  our 
law  court  during  his  time  will  disclose  the  fact  that  he  took  part 
on  one  side  or  the  other  in  a  very  large  portion  of  the  cases  then 
presented  to  that  court,  and  by  his  rare  ability  and  industry  as 
a  lawyer  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  establishing  the  laws  which 
have  since  controlled  and  regulated  the  legal  rules  of  conduct  of 
our  people  to  the  present  time.  He  was  also  an  influential  busi- 
ness man.  He  was  very  influential  in  making  Maine  an  inde- 
pendent state.  He  was  first  State  Senator  to  the  Legislature 
from  the  Kennebec  District.^ 

George  Keely  Boutelle.  Mr.  Boutelle  is  the  son  of  Dr.  N.  R. 
and  jMrs.  Mary  Keely  Boutelle,  and  was  born  in  Waterville, 
March  15,  1857.  He  was  educated  at  Harvard  University  and 
at  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1888. 
October  24,  1891,  he  was  married  to  Miss  May  Wheelock,  the 
grand-daughter  of  Judge  May.  They  have  two  children,  Kather- 
ine  and  Elizabeth.  Since  his  admission  to  the  bar,  Mr,  Boutelle 
has  been  in  practice  in  Waterville.  His  large  business  interests 
occupy  a  considerable  portion  of  his  time.  He  is  president  of 
the  Ticonic  Bank,  as  were  his  father  and  his  grandfather  before 
him.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Waterville  &  Fairfield  Railway 
and  Light  Company,  and  is  treasurer  of  Colby  College,  of  which 
he  has  been  for  some  years  a  trustee.  He  is  also  a  trustee  of 
Coburn  Classical  Institute.  Mr.  Boutelle  is  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  order  and  of  the  Episcopal  church. 

Simon  Straiton  Bro7vu,  son  of  Luke  and  Polly  Oilman  Brown, 
was  born  "in  Clinton,  Maine,  July  6,  1833.  He  fitted  for  college 
under  Dr.  J.  H.  Hanson  at  Waterville  Academy.  He  entered 
Waterville  College  in  1854,  from  which  institution  he  graduated 
in  the  class  of  1858  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1859  and  began  practice  at  Fairfield  in  1864.  He 
moved  to  Waterville  in  1881.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Governor's  council  in  1879.  He  served  several  years  on  the 
board  of  education  in  both  Fairfield  and  Waterville.     At  the 


1.    Vid  chapter  on  Early  Settlers. 


4^0  HISTORY    O?    WATERVILLE:. 

organization  of  the  city  of  Watervillc  in  1888  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  board  of  aldermen,  of  which  board  he  was  chair- 
man continuously  for  five  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  National  Convention  in  1880  and  in  1884.  He  was 
for  seven  years  a  member  of  the  Democratic  State  committee 
and  for  four  years  its  chairman.  He  represented  his  city  in  the 
House  of  Representatives  in  the  session  of  1893.  June  30,  1861, 
Mr.  Brown  was  married  to  Miss  Hepsie  B.  Wiggin.  They  have 
four  children,  Frank  E.,  of  the  legal  firm  of  Brown  and  Brown ; 
Jennie  B.,  wife  of  Mr.  Alpheus  Flood ;  William  Wirt,  a  graduate 
of  Colby  in  the  class  of  '98,  and  Mrs.  Caddie  H.  Burleigh.  Mr. 
Brown  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  an  attendant 
at  the  Unitarian  church. 

Prank  Ellsworth  Broi<.'n,  son  of  S.  S.  and  Hepsie  B.  Brown, 
was  born  at  Freedom,  Waldo  county,  June  14,  1863.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Fairfield  and  later 
he  entered  Coburn  Classical  Institute  and  graduated  from  that 
institution  in  the  class  of  1882.  On  July  8,  1896  he  married  Mae 
F.  Wentworth,  daughter  of  Charles  Wentworth  of  Clinton.  He 
was  four  years  clerk  in  the  United  States  Mail  Service.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  March,  1895,  whereupon  he  began  the 
practice  of  law  in  company  with  his  father,  where  he  has  con- 
tinued to  the  present  time.  He  has  been  for  seven  years  city 
clerk  of  the  City  of  Waterville.  Pie  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity and  is  also  a  member  of  the  order  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias. 

Leonard  D.  Carver  was  born  at  Lagrange,  Maine,  January  26, 
1 841.  He  was  son  of  Cyrus  and  Mary  Waterhouse  Carver. 
His  early  education  was  received  in  the  common  schools,  and 
while  he  was  fitting  for  college  at  Foxcroft  Academy  in  1861  he 
left  that  institution  and  enlisted  in  the  Milo  Light  Artillery 
which  was  subsequently  made  Company  D  of  the  2nd  Maine 
Regiment,  commanded  by  Col.  C.  D.  Jameson.  This  regiment 
had  the  honor  of  being  the  first  Maine  regiment  to  report  for 
duty  at  the  seat  of  war.  Mr.  Carver  was  engaged  in  all  the  bat- 
tles and  skirmishes  which  fell  to  the  lot  of  his  regiment.  He 
was  in  the  first  Battle  of  Bull  Run,  where  he  distinguished  him- 
self as  a  man  of  courage.  After  leaving  the  army  he  resumed 
his  studies  and  graduated  from  Colby  University  in  the  class  of 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLi:.  481 

1868.  He  read  law  with  Hon.  Reuben  Foster  at  Waterville  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1876,  after  which  time  he  practiced 
law  in  Waterville  till  he  was  appointd  State  librarian  in  October, 
1890.  He  is  president  of  the  Association  of  State  Librarians,  a 
national  association.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Maine  Historical 
Society  and  several  other  literary  organizations  In  1877  he  mar- 
ried Alary  C.  Low,  also  a  graduate  of  Colby  College.  Their 
only  daughter,  Aliss  Ruby  Carver,  is  a  member  of  the  class  of 
1904,  Colby  College.  Since  1890  Mr.  Carver  has  resided  at 
Augusta. 

Fred  W.  Clair  w^as  born  at  Oldtown,  Me.,  in  1866,  the  son  of 
John  B.  and  Ellen  E.  Clair.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  Coburn  Classical  Institute,  from  which  institution 
he  graduated  in  1886.  He  read  law  in  the  office  of  S.  S.  Brown, 
Avas  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1891  and  since  that  time  has  been  in 
practice  in  Waterville.  He  has  served  his  city  as  city  clerk  and 
as  city  solicitor,  and  as  clerk  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
centennial  celebration.  November  2y,  1895,  Mr.  Clair  married 
Miss  Elmire  Couturier.  They  have  two  children,  Yvette  and 
Adrienne.  Mr.  Claire  is  a  Catholic  and  a  member  of  the  A.  O. 
U.  W.,  the  American  Benefit  Society,  the  Knights  of  Columbus, 
L'  Union  Lafayette,  Knights  of  the  Maccabees,  etc. 

Harold  Elijah  Cook.  Harold  Elijah  Cook  was  born  in 
Charleston,  Maine.  He  is  the  son  of  George  Dillwyn  and  Helen 
Dunning  Cook.  He  received  his  education  at  Higgins  Classical 
Institute  and  at  the  Law  School  at  the  University  of  Maine,  from 
which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  He  married  Alberta 
Fayette  Parks  Sept.  16,  1895.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
Atarcli  8,  1900.  He  is  practicing  his  profession  in  company  with 
F.  I.  Small,  in  this  city,  under  the  firm  name  of  Cook  &  Small. 

Everett  Richard  Dniiiiuiond.  Everett  Richard  Drummond, 
son  of  Clark  Drummond,  was  born  at  Winslow,  September  14, 
1834.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
his  native  town.  He  spent  one  term  each  at  the  Winslow  High 
School,  Waterville  Academy,  and  i\Iaine  Wesleyan  Seminary  at 
Kent's  Hill,  and  two  or  three  more  terms  at  Vassalboro  Academy. 
He  read  law  at  Waterville  with  his  brother,  Josiah  H.  Drum- 
mond.    He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1858,  and  at  once  formed 

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482  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

a  partnership  with  his  brother,  which  continued  'till  the  latter 
moved  to  Portland  in  the  spring  of  i860.  He  then  formed  a 
partnership  with  E.  F.  Webb,  which  continued  'till  1863.  In 
1874  he  w^as  elected  treasurer  of  the  Waterville  Savings  Bank, 
Avhich  position  he  has  held  to  the  present  time.  December  26, 
1859,  he  was  married  to  Aubigne  M.  Bean.  He  has  been  town 
clerk  of  Waterville  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen.  For 
about  twenty  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Maine 
Wesleyan  Seminary  and  Female  College  at  Kent's  Hill. 

Mr.  Drummond's  children  are :  Mrs.  Viola  B.  Thomes,  Clark 
W.,  who  died  in  1898,  Albert  F.,  a  graduate  of  Colby  in  the  class 
of  '88,  now  assistant  treasurer  of  the  W^aterville  Savings  Bank, 
and  Mrs.  Aubigne  E.,  wife  of  ]\lr.  El  wood  T.  Wyman. 

Josiah  Hay  den  Drummond.  Tosiah  Hayden  Drummond  was 
born  in  the  town  of  Wlnslow,  ]\Iaine,  August  30,  1827.  He 
graduated  from  Waterville  College  in  1846.  He  read  law  in  the 
office  of  Timothy  Boutelle  and  Edwin  Noyes,  and  in  1850  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Kennebec  County  and  commenced  practice 
at  Waterville,  where  he  continued  his  profession  'till  i860, 
when  he  opened  his  law  office  in  Portland,  where  he  is  still  in 
practice.  In  185 1  he  became  connected  with  the  Androscoggin 
and  Kennebec  Railroad  Company.  In  1864  he  became  a  director 
in  the  Maine  Central  Railroad  Company,  of  which  he  has  been 
clerk  since  1866.  He  has  also  been  chief  counsel  of  that  corpo- 
ration. He  has  been  speaker  of  the  State  House  of  Representa- 
tives. In  1859  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  and  in  i860 
he  was  elected  attorney  general  of  the  State.  He  is  a  dis- 
tinguished member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  Scarcely  any  one 
in  that  fraternity  has  done  more  for  it  than  he  has,  both  in  writ- 
ings and  in  filling  eminent  stations.  In  1867  he  was  elected 
grand  commander  of  the  United  Supreme  Council,  the  highest 
offixe  in  the  gift  of  the  fraternity.  In  1871  the  degree  LL.D. 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  Colby  University.  Mr.  Drummond 
has  been  for  many  years  one  of  the  trustees  of  Colby  College,  and 
is  the  president  of  that  board.  Though  long  a  resident  of  Port- 
land, Mr.  Drummond  is  very  loyal  to  Waterville,  its  institutions 
and  its  interests. 

Harvey  Doane  Baton.  Harvey  Doane  Eaton  was  born  at 
North  Cornville,  September  20,  1862,  son   of  Augustus  B.  and 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  483 

Harriet  Aimstrong  Eaton.  Air.  Eaton  received  his  education  in 
Somerset  Academy,  Waterville  Classical  Institute  and  Colby 
University,  and  Harvard  Law  School.  He  graduated  from 
Colby  in  the  class  of  1887,  and  from  Harvard  Law  School  in  the 
class  of  1 89 1.  He  married  Estelle  Merrill  Foster  in  October, 
1891.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1891  and  immediately  com- 
menced the  practice  of  law  in  Waterville.  He  has  served  his  city 
as  city  solicitor  and  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  education,  being 
for  one  year  chairman  of  that  board.  He  has  four  children,  viz. : 
Harvey  Doane  Eaton,  Jr.,  Foster  Eaton,  Florence  Eaton,  Harriet 
Eaton.  He  is  the  author  of  the  Kennebec  Water  District  Asso- 
ciation, the  object  of  which  is  to  form  a  corporation  to  supply  the 
city  of  Waterville  and  towns  of  Fairfield,  Benton  and  Winslow 
with  pure  water.  He  is  president  of  the  ]\Iessalonskee  Electric 
Light  Company,  and  is  connected  with  many  business  interests 
of  importance. 

Reuben  Foster.  Reuben  Foster  was  born  in  Bethel,  in  Oxford 
County,  in  1833,  the  son  of  Reuben  B.  and  Sarah  Bartlett  Foster. 
He  entered  Waterville  College  in  1851,  graduating  in  1855. 
After  his  graduation  from  college  he  taught  as  principal  of 
Vanceboro  Academy  for  one  year;  then  he  commenced  the  study 
of  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1858.  He  practiced  law  in 
Waterville  to  the  time  of  his  death,  on  the  twelfth  day  of  October, 
1898.  He  was  a  careful,  pains-taking  lawyer.  He  gave  consider- 
able attention  to  the  buying  and  selling  of  real  estate,  of  which  he 
had  large  holdings  in  his  town.  He  was  elected  to  both  branches 
of  the  Legislature  and  became  presiding  officer  in  both  branches. 
He  was  the  first  mayor  of  the  City  of  Waterville,  and  afterward 
served  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  education.  He  married  Miss 
Frances  C.  Howe,  and  their  only  son,  Dana  Pitt  Foster,  became 
associated  with  him  in  the  law  firm  of  Foster  &  Foster. 

Dana  Pitt  Foster.  Dana  Pitt  Foster,  son  of  Reuben  Foster, 
was  born  August  28,  1869,  at  Waterville,  Maine.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city.  He 
afterwards  pursued  a  course  of  study  at  Coburn  Classical  Insti- 
tute. He  graduated  from  Colby  College  in  the  class  of  1891, 
and  afterwards  took  a  course  of  the  study  of  law  in  Yale  Law 
School.  He  married  Adelaide  Dix  Hopkins  October  22,  1894. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1893  and  commenced  practice  with 


4^6  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

ville  one  year.     He  has  been  a  member   of   the   Legislature   of 
Washington. 

Thomas  Webster  Herrick  was  born  in  Harmony,  Me.,  July  20, 
181 6,  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Catharine  (Weeman)  Herrick. 
He  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1846  at  Waterville  College. 
For  the  years  1846  and  1847  he  was  principal  of  the  Waterville 
Liberal  Institute.  He  afterward  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar,  but  in  1852  engaged  in  the  hardware  business  in 
Waterville,  in  which  he  continued  until  1872.  October  8,  1856 
he  married  Mary  Dennison  Porter  of  Bangor.  Several  children 
were  born  to  them  but  only  one,  Frank  Ware,  lived  to  manhood. 
Mr.  Herrick  was  State  senator,  1856-1857,  and  selectman  of 
Waterville  in  1866.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity. 
He  died  in  Eggleston  Springs,  Va.,  j\Iay  7,  1872. 

/.  Alfred  Letourneau  was  born  December  3,  1864.  He  is  the 
son  of  Joseph  Letourneau.  He  was  educated  in  the  French  and 
English  language  in  the  public  schools  and  commercial  college. 
He  read  law  with  S.  S.  Brown.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
March,  1900.  He  married  Rose  D.  Loubier,  October  27,  1890. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  society  of  A.  O.  U.  W.  and  of  the  Catholic 
church.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  Education  of 
the  city  of  Waterville. 

Alpheiis  Lyon  was  born  in  Augusta,  November  8,  1790.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  Kennebec  bar  in  18 19.  He  soon  thereafter 
commenced  the  practice  of  law  at  Waterville,  where  he  remained 
working  in  his  profession  and  other  active  business  for  thirty- 
two  years.  While  in  Waterville  he  built  Ticonic  Block.  He 
also  built  and  owned  lumber  mills  in  the  town  of  Fairfield  adjoin- 
ing Waterville  on  the  north.  He  was  a  strong  business  man 
and  one  of  the  leading  public  men  of  his  town.  For  six  years  he 
was  cashier  of  Ticonic  Piank.  For  two  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Governor's  council.  In  185 1  he  removed  to  Bangor,  became 
judge  of  the  municipal  court  and  afterward  was  recorder  of  the 
police  court  for  twenty  years.  November  14,  1820  he  married 
Miss  Mary  Evans,  sister  of  Hon.  George  Evans,  who  afterward 
became  U.  S.  representative  and  senator.  Mr.  Lyon  was  prom- 
inent in  Masonic  circles.  He  died  in  Bangor  in  March,  1885,  at 
the  age  of  ninety-five  years. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  487 

Bdivin  Noyes  was  born  at  South  Kingston,  R.  L,  February 
21,  1 812.  He  graduated  from  Brown  University  in  the  class  of 
1837.  Soon  after  graduating  from  college,  he  became  tutor  of 
the  Greek  language  in  Waterville  College  for  two  years.  He 
read  law  a  while  in  the  office  of  Timothy  Boutelle  and  then  he 
took  a  course  of  instruction  at  Harvard  Law  School.  In  1842 
he  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Waterville  in  company  with  Mr. 
Boutelle,  whose  daughter  he  married.  He  was  the  first  treas- 
urer of  the  Androscoggin  and  Kennebec  Railroad  Company,  and 
its  first  superintendent,  holding  the  position  on  the  road  after 
it  became  the  Maine  Central,  with  the  exception  of  two  years, 
until  1872.  For  the  two  years  of  his  absence,  1853-4,  he  was 
superintendent  of  the  Michigan  Central  Railroad,  with  home  in 
Detroit,  Mich.  He  served  two  terms  in  the  Maine  Senate,  during 
1849  ^^^  1850.  For  many  years  he  was  prominent  in  all  pubhc 
affairs  in  the  town  and  was  regarded  as  one  of  its  ablest  men. 
August  12,  1842,  he  married  Helen  R.  Boutelle,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Timothy  Boutelle.  Their  children  were  Timothy  Boutelle, 
Robert  Fanning,  Boutelle,  and  Francis  Edwin. 

Charles  Fletcher  Johnson  was  born  in  Winslow,  Ale.,  February 
14,  1859,  the  son  of  William  F.  and  Ruth  (Boutelle)  Johnson. 
He  was  graduated  at  the  Waterville  Classical  Institute,  studied 
two  years  at  Colby  and  was  graduated  at  Bowdoin  in  the  class 
of  1879.  He  taught  school  for  a  time  after  graduation  and  then' 
read  law,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1886.  From  1886  to  1890 
he  was  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Brown  and  Johnson.  He 
then  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Webb,  Johnson  and  Webb. 
Since  1894  he  has  practiced  law,  without  partners.  Mr.  John- 
son has  been  prominent  in  political  life.  In  1893  he  was  mayor 
of  Waterville  and  served  as  alderman  in  1899.  He  has  been  the 
Democratic  candidate  for  Governor  of  the  State,  leading  with 
abilitv  an  army  that  was  too  small  for  victory.  Mr.  Johnson  is 
a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  Teconnet  Chapter, 
St.  Omer  Commandery  and  also  Waterville  Lodge,  A.  O.  U.  W. 
He  was  married,  December  20,  1881,  to  Miss  Abbie  W.  Britton 
of  Winslow.  They  have  one  daughter,  Emma  L.  a  member  of 
the  class  of  1903,  Waterville  High  school. 

Wyman  Bradbury  Seavcy  Moor   was  born  at  Waterville   on 
the  eleventh  day  of  November,  t8ii.     He  was  the  son  of  Daniel 


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HISTV^KV    or    W  ATERVILLE. 


and  RoNxwi  Spring-  Miv>r,  and  the  grandson  ot  Captain  Daniel 
^foor  of  Doertield,  X,  H..  N\ho  Mongwi  ro  General  Starks' 
regiment  and  who  was  eng^gwi  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  June 
17.  1775-  l"^"^""  i^l^""^  ^^-^  early  life  in  his  native  town  and  receivevi 
his  early  eiinoation  in  the  public  schools.  He  was  sent  at  an 
early  ag"e  to  China  Academy  to  pre|>are  for  college.  .\t  the  ag-e 
of  se\-enteon  years  he  enterevi  Water\nlle  Collegx^  and  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  the  class  of  1S31.  His  course  at  college 
was  marked  by  groat  intellectual  pn^ress  under  the  instniotion 
of  such  men  as  I'Vesident  Jeremiah  Chaplin.  Professor  Thomas 
Conant  and  Professor  George  Kecl\ .  After  his  graduation  he 
taught  one  year  a:  S:.  Stephen.  X.  R.  In  1S54  he  attended  the 
Dane  Law  School  at  Cambridgx^.  Mass.,  where  he  received 
instruction  of  Hon.  Joseph  Stor}\  In  1S35  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  and  the  same  year  he  was  in\-itevi  to  deliver  at  commence- 
ment the  \-aledictori-  address.  He  lived  in  \\ater\-ille  in  the  prac- 
tice of  his  professdon  from  1S35  to  I^^42.  He  was  elected  to 
represent  his  town  in  the  Legislature  during  that  time.  From 
1S44  to  1S4S  he  was  attorney-general  of  the  State.  In  1848  he 
was  appointed  by  the  i~iovemor  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  United 
States  Senate,  made  \-acant  by  the  death  of  Senator  John  Fair- 
field. His  colleague,  Hon.  J.  \\\  Bradbur\-  says :  "Durinsr  thr- 
tiroe  of  his  service  in  the  U.  S.  Senate,  I  found  him  an  able  and 
faithful  associate  and  upon  ever\-  question  I  always  found  him 
anxious  to  discharge  his  dut>-  as  a  patriotic  Senator."  Hannibal 
Hamlin  once  said  of  him:  "Mr.  Moor  Axas  a  man  of  marked 
and  decided  ability-  and  w-as  fully  entitled  to  rank  with  the  ablest 
men  of  our  State,"  That  position  ^^-as  conceded  to  him  by  all 
persons  who  k-new  him.  From  1S52  to  1S5S  he  resided  in  \\'ater- 
ville  and  superintended  the  construction  of  the  railroad  from 
\Vater\-ille  to  Bangor.  In  1S50  he  received  the  appointment 
from  President  Buchanan  of  consul  general  to  the  British 
Prc>\-inces,  In  1S6S  he  purchased  an  estate  near  L}nchburg, 
Mrginia.  and  moved  there  to  engage  in  the  manufacuire  of  iron. 
where  he  died  on  March  la  iSoo.  Mr.  Moor  ^-as  married  at 
Waterville  to  Clara  A.  X.  Cook.  Their  children  were,  Dudley 
Watson.  Maiia  E..  who  married  W.  S.  Heath :  Caroline  Clara 
Cook,  who  married  F.  E.  Heath:  Charlotte,  .\nnie  Hilton, 
Grace  Bradbun-.  Charles  Francis  Cook. 


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Warren  Coffin  Philbrook  was  born  at  Sedgwick,  Maine,  in 
1857.  He  is  the  son  of  Luther  G.  and  AngeHa  Philbrook.  He 
acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  in  Castine  and 
the  State  Normal  School.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Coburn  Clas- 
sical Institute  and  graduated  from  Colby  University  in  1882. 
He  read  law  with  E.  F.  Webb  and  Reuben  Foster  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1884.  He  was  principal  of  Waterville 
High  school  for  three  years.  He  opened  his  office  in  1887.  He 
married  Ada,  daughter  of  M.  C.  Foster.  He  served  a  while  as 
judge  of  Waterville  municipal  court.  He  has  represented  his 
city  in  the  Legislature  two  terms,  serving  on  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee. He  served  as  mayor  of  Waterville  two  years  and  for 
several  years  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education.  Mr. 
Philbrook  is  an  effective  political  speaker  in  wide  demand  during 
political  campaigns.  He  was  the  orator  at  the  Waterville  cen- 
tennial, (vid.  chapter  4,)  Mr.  Philbrook  is  a  ^lason,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chapter  and  the  Commandery.  He  belongs  also  to 
the  Order  of  Knights  of  Pythias  and  for  the  year  190 1-2  was 
chancellor  commander  of  that  order  for  the  State  of  Maine.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  A.  O.  LT.  W. 

Isaac  Redington,  son  of  Asa  and  Polly  Getchell  Redington, 
was  born  in  W^aterville,  March  13,  1803.  He  passed  through 
the  public  schools,  also  Bloomfield  Academy  at  Skowhegan  in 
the  days  of  "Preceptor  Hall."  After  his  course  at  Waterville 
College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  honor  as  ^^aledic- 
torian  of  his  class  in  1827,  and  two  years'  study  of  law,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  and  soon  won  distinction  by  his  ability  and 
his  legal  attainments.  In  1831,  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  and  Lydia  Oilman  of  Waterville.  In  1842,  he  was 
elected  State  senator  and  served  with  marked  ability.  After 
twenty  years  of  practice  as  a  lawyer,  in  W^aterville,  he  removed 
to  New  York.  The  family  included  four  daughters :  Lydia,  who 
married  John  ]\IcLellan  of  Skowhegan,  and  after  his  death.  Dr. 
Bradford ;  Annie,  who  married  Dr.  Frank  H.  Getchell,  son  of 
Horace  Getchell,  now  deceased;  Caroline,  now  (1902)  living  in 
New  York,  and  Lizzie,  now  deceased.  Mr.  Redington  was  pos- 
sessed of  large  abilitv,  fine  literary  taste  and  a  kindly  spirit, 
which  won  for  him  many  friends. 


488  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 

and  Rebecca  Spring  Moor,  and  the  grandson  of  Captain  Daniel 
Moor  of  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  who  belonged  to  General  Starks' 
regiment  and  who  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  June 
17,  1775.  He  spent  his  early  life  in  his  native  town  and  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools.  He  was  sent  at  an 
early  age  to  China  Academy  to  prepare  for  college.  At  the  age 
of  seventeen  years  he  entered  Waterville  College  and  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  the  class  of  1831.  His  course  at  college 
was  marked  by  great  intellectual  progress  under  the  instruction 
of  such  men  as  President  Jeremiah  Chaplin,  Professor  Thomas 
Conant  and  Professor  George  Keely.  After  his  graduation  he 
taught  one  year  at  St.  Stephen,  N.  B.  In  1834  he  attended  the 
Dane  Law  School  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  he  received 
instruction  of  Hon.  Joseph  Story.  In  1835  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  and  the  same  year  he  was  invited  to  deliver  at  commence- 
ment the  valedictory  address.  He  lived  in  Waterville  in  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  from  1835  to  1842.  He  was  elected  to 
represent  his  town  in  the  Legislature  during  that  time.  From 
1844  to  1848  he  was  attorney-general  of  the  State.  In  1848  he 
was  appointed  by  the  Governor  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  United 
States  Senate,  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  Senator  John  Fair- 
field. His  colleague,  Hon.  T.  W.  Bradbury  says :  "During"  tho 
time  of  his  service  in  the  U.  S.  Senate,  I  found  him  an  able  and 
faithful  associate  and  upon  every  question  I  always  found  him 
anxious  to  discharge  his  duty  as  a  patriotic  Senator."  Hannibal 
Hamlin  once  said  of  him :  "Mr.  Moor  was  a  man  of  marked 
and  decided  ability  and  was  fully  entitled  to  rank  with  the  ablest 
men  of  our  State."  That  position  was  conceded  to  him  by  all 
persons  who  knew  him.  From  1852  to  1858  he  resided  in  Water- 
ville and  superintended  the  construction  of  the  railroad  from 
Waterville  to  Bangor.  In  1859  he  received  the  appointment 
from  President  Buchanan  of  consul  general  to  the  British 
Provinces.  In  1868  he  purchased  an  estate  near  Lynchburg, 
Virginia,  and  moved  there  to  engage  in  the  manufacture  of  iron, 
where  he  died  on  March  10,  1869.  Mr.  Moor  was  married  at 
Waterville  to  Clara  A.  N.  Cook.  Their  children  were,  Dudley 
Watson,  Maria  E.,  who  married  W.  S.  Heath ;  Caroline  Clara 
Cook,  who  married  F.  E.  Heath;  Charlotte,  Annie  Hilton, 
Grace  Bradbury,  Charles  Francis  Cook. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  489 

Warren  Coffin  Philbrook  was  born  at  Sedgwick,  Maine,  in 
1857.  He  is  the  son  of  Luther  G.  and  AngeHa  Philbrook.  He 
acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  in  Castine  and 
the  State  Normal  School.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Coburn  Clas- 
sical Institute  and  graduated  from  Colby  University  in  1882. 
He  read  law  with  E.  F.  Webb  and  Reuben  Foster  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1884.  He  was  principal  of  Waterville 
High  school  for  three  years.  He  opened  his  office  in  1887.  He 
married  Ada,  daughter  of  M.  C.  Foster.  He  served  a  while  as 
judge  of  Waterville  municipal  court.  He  has  represented  his 
city  in  the  Legislature  two  terms,  serving  on  the  judiciary  com- 
mittee. He  served  as  mayor  of  Waterville  two  years  and  for 
several  years  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education.  Mr. 
Philbrook  is  an  effective  political  speaker  in  wide  demand  during 
political  campaigns.  He  was  the  orator  at  the  Waterville  cen- 
tennial, (vid.  chapter  4,)  Mr.  Philbrook  is  a  Mason,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chapter  and  the  Commandery.  He  belongs  also  to 
the  Order  of  Knights  of  Pythias  and  for  the  year  190 1-2  was 
chancellor  commander  of  that  order  for  the  State  of  Maine.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W. 

Isaac  Redington,  son  of  Asa  and  Polly  Getchell  Redington, 
was  born  in  Waterville,  March  13,  1803.  He  passed  through 
the  public  schools,  also  Bloomfield  Academy  at  Skowhegan  in 
the  days  of  "Preceptor  Hall."  After  his  course  at  Waterville 
College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  honor  as  valedic- 
torian of  his  class  in  1827,  and  two  years'  study  of  law,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  and  soon  won  distinction  by  his  ability  and 
his  legal  attainments.  In  1831,  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  and  Lydia  Oilman  of  Waterville.  In  1842,  he  was 
elected  State  senator  and  served  with  marked  ability.  After 
twenty  years  of  practice  as  a  lawyer,  in  Waterville,  he  removed 
to  New  York.  The  family  included  four  daughters :  Lydia,  who 
married  John  McLellan  of  Skowhegan,  and  after  his  death.  Dr. 
Bradford;  Annie,  who  married  Dr.  Frank  H.  Getchell,  son  of 
Horace  Getchell,  now  deceased;  Caroline,  now  (1902)  living  in 
New  York,  and  Lizzie,  now  deceased.  Mr.  Redington  was  pos- 
sessed of  large  abilitv,  fine  literary  taste  and  a  kindly  spirit, 
which  won  for  him  many  friends. 


492 


HISTORY    O^    WATERVILLE. 


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he  was  admitted  to  the  U.  S.  district  bar.  In  i<S66  he  received 
from  Waterville  College  the  honorary  degree  of  A.  M.  He  was 
for  two  terms  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  being 
speaker  in  the  session  of  1873.  He  served  two  years  as  State 
senator,  the  second  year  being  elected  president  of  the  Senate. 
He  served  three  years  as  county  attorney  and  for  several  years 
was  a  trustee  of  Colby  University.  He  was  a  director  of  the 
Waterville  Bank,  and  of  the  Merchants  from  its  organization, 
and  was  for  many  years  a  solicitor  for  the  ]\Taine  Central  Rail- 
road. He  married  Miss  Abby  E.  C.  Hall.  They  had  one  son, 
Appleton  Webb,  who  was  admitted  to  the  Somerset  bar  in  1882. 
Samuel  Wells  was  born  in  Durham,  N.  H.,  August  15,  1801. 
His  mother  was  a  niece  of  General  Sullivan,  of  Revolutionary 
fame.  He  studied  law  v/ith  Thos.  Rice  of  Winslow,  and  0*1 
being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1826,  established  himself  in  Water- 
ville. He  practiced  here  with  good  success  and  a  growing  repu- 
tation, eight  or  nine  years,  when  he  removed  to  Hallowell,  and 
in  1844  to  Portland.  Again  in  1856  he  removed  to  Boston, 
where  he  died,  July  15,  1868.  He  was  appointed  associate  jus- 
tice of  the  supreme  court  of  Maine  in  1847,  which  office  he 
resigned  in  1854.  In  1856  he  was  elected  Governor  by  the  Leg- 
islature, none  of  the  candidates  having  a  majority.  The  next 
year  he  was  defeated  by  Hannibal  Hamlin.  He  married  Louisa 
Appleton,  daughter  of  Dr.  Moses  Appleton.  Their  children 
were  Mrs.  Ann  A.  (Wells)  Cummings,  now  living  in  Boston; 
Charles  C.  Wells,  died  in  Portland ;  Samuel  Wells,  a  lawyer  in 
Boston ;  Clara  L.  Wells,  who  has  lived  the  past  thirty  years  in 
France  and  Italy.  Judge  Wells'  house  in  this  town  was  the 
small  house  on  College  street,  afterward  occupied  by  Daniel  R. 
Wing,  on  the  site  of  which  the  D.  K.  E.  Club  house  now  stands. 


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492  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

he  was  admitted  to  the  U.  S.  district  bar.  In  1866  he  received 
from  AVaterville  College  the  honorary  degree  of  A.  M.  He  was 
for  two  terms  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  being 
speaker  in  the  session  of  1873.  He  served  two  years  as  State 
senator,  the  second  year  being  elected  president  of  the  Senate. 
He  served  three  years  as  county  attorney  and  for  several  years 
was  a  trustee  of  Colby  University.  He  was  a  director  of  the 
Waterville  Bank,  and  of  the  Merchants  from  its  organization, 
and  was  for  many  years  a  solicitor  for  the  Maine  Central  Rail- 
road. He  married  Miss  Abby  E.  C.  Hall.  They  had  one  son, 
Appleton  Webb,  who  was  admitted  to  the  Somerset  bar  in  1882. 

Samuel  Wells  was  born  in  Durham,  N.  H.,  August  15,  1801. 
His  mother  was  a  niece  of  General  Sullivan,  of  Revolutionary 
fame.  He  studied  law  v/ith  Thos.  Rice  of  Winslow,  and  on 
being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1826,  established  himself  in  Water- 
ville. He  practiced  here  with  good  success  and  a  growing  repu- 
tation, eight  or  nine  years,  when  he  removed  to  Hallowell,  and 
in  1844  to  Portland.  Again  in  1856  he  removed  to  Boston, 
where  he  died,  July  15,  1868.  He  was  appointed  associate  jus- 
tice of  the  supreme  court  of  Maine  in  1847,  which  office  he 
resigned  in  1854.  In  1856  he  was  elected  Governor  by  the  Leg- 
islature, none  of  the  candidates  having  a  majority.  The  next 
year  he  was  defeated  by  Hannibal  Hamlin.  He  married  Louisa 
Appleton,  daughter  of  Dr.  Moses  Appleton.  Their  children 
were  Mrs.  Ann  A.  (Wells)  Cummings,  now  living  in  Boston; 
Charles  C.  Wells,  died  in  Portland ;  Samuel  Wells,  a  lawyer  in 
Boston;  Clara  L.  W^ells,  who  has  lived  the  past  thirty  years  in 
France  and  Italy.  Judge  Wells'  house  in  this  town  was  the 
small  house  on  College  street,  afterward  occupied  by  Daniel  R. 
Wing,  on  the  site  of  which  the  D.  K.  E.  Club  house  now  stands. 


494  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE. 

Dennis  Evarts  Bozvman,  son  of  Frank  and  Carrie  Heath  Bow- 
man, was  born  in  Sidney,  Maine,  Nov.  lo,  1871.  He  graduated 
from  Coburn  Classical  Institute  in  1889,  and  from  Colby  College 
in  1893.  He  was  principal  of  the  Waterville  High  School 
from  1893  to  1898,  and  a  law  student  with  Heath  &  Andrews, 
Augusta,  Maine,  from  1898  to  1900.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
State  of  Maine  bar  in  1900.  Since  1900  he  has  been  Latin  Mas- 
ter of  the  William  Penn  Charter  School,  Philadelphia.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Zeta  Psi  fraternity  and  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
society.  He  was  married  in  1900  to  Hortense  Low  of  Water- 
ville. 

Nathaniel  Butler,  president  of  Colby  College  from  1895  to 
1 90 1,  was  born  in  Eastport,  Maine,  May  22,  1853.  His  parents 
were  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  and  Jeanne  Emery  Butler.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Camden  High  vSchool  and  Coburn  Classical 
Institute,  and  graduated  from  Colby  College  in  1873.  From 
1873  to  1876  he  was  associate  principal  of  Woman's  College  at 
Lake  Forest,  111.,  and  from  1876  to  1879  was  associate  principal 
of  a  similar  institution  at  Highland  Park,  111.  He  became  prin- 
cipal of  the  school  in  1S79,  and  remained  there  until  he  was  called 
to  the  professorship  of  English  Literature  in  the  (old)  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago  in  1884.  From  1886  to  1892  he  was  a  professor 
in  The  University  of  Illinois.  In  1892  he  became  a  professor 
and  the  director  of  university  extension  in  The  University  of 
Chicago.  He  was  called  to  the  presidency  cf  Colby  College  in 
1895,  and  remained  at  the  head  of  this  institution  imtil  1901, 
when  he  became  professor  of  education  and  director  of  cooper- 
ating work  in  The  University  of  Chicago.  He  received  the  degree 
of  D.  D.  from  Colby  College  in  1895.  Dr.  Butler  is  a  member  of 
the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  society,  and  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
fraternity.  He  represented  The  University  of  Chicago  at  the 
University  Extension  Congress,  held  in  London,  England,  in 
1894.  He  is  widely  known  as  a  writer  and  lecturer.  Dr.  Butler 
was  married  April  28,  1881,  to  Florence  Reeves  Sheppard,  who 
died  in  June,  1902.  He  has  three  children, — Sheppard  Emerj% 
class  of  1903,  Colby  College,  Albert  Nathaniel  and  Frederic 
Hamlin  Butler.  Dr.  Butler's  present  address  is  5601  Madison 
Ave,,  Chicago,  111. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  495 

James    Tift    Chanipliu,    for  sixteen  years  president  of  Colby 
College,  was  born  Tune  9,  iSi  i.  in  Colchester,  Conn.     He  was  the 
son  of  John  and  Martha  Armstrong  Champlin.     After  graduat- 
ing from  Brown  University  in  1834,  he  remained  there  as  a  tutor 
until  1838,  when  he  became  pastor  of  a  Baptist  church  in  Port- 
land.    In  1841  he  was  elected  professor  of  the  Greek  and   Latin 
languages  and  literature  in  Colby  College.     From  1857  to  1873 
he  was  president  of  the  College.     After  his  retirement  from  the 
presidency,  he  lived  in  Portland  until  his  death,  ^larch  15.  1882. 
He  received  the  degree  of   LL.  D.  from   Colby  Collge,  of  D.  D. 
from  the  University  of  Rochester  and  from  Brown  University. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Elaine  Historical  Society.     From  1875 
to  1 88 1  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Colby  Col- 
lege.    Dr.  Champlin  did  a  large  amount  of  work  as  author,  editor 
and  translator.     His  publications  inchide  Latin  and  Greek  gram- 
mars,   treatises    on    ethics,    political    economy,    and    intellectual 
philosophy,  and  annotated  selections  from  the  ancient  classical 
writers.     He  married  ^lary  Ann  Pierce  of  Providence,  R.   L, 
June  12,  1839. 

Icreiniah  Chaplin,  first  president  of  Colby  College,  was  born  in 
Georgetown,  Alass.,  in  1780.     He  graduated  from  Brown  Uni- 
versity in  1799  as  valedictorian  of  his  class.     After  serving  as  a 
tutor  in  Brown  for  two  or  three  years,  he  became  pastor  of  the 
Baptist  church  at  Danvers,  Mass.,  in  1803.     His  pastorate  in  that 
place  lasted  until  181 8,  although  he  was  absent  one  year  acting  as 
pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  church  in  Xew  York  City.     In  18 18 
he  was  invited  to  become  a  teacher  in  the  newly  founded  Alaine 
Literary  and  Theological  Institution.     At  first  he  decided  to  re- 
fuse the  invitation,  but   after   a  night   of   prayer  and   what  he 
regarded  as  a  special  revelation  of  the  will  of  God,  he   changed 
his  decision.     He  became    president  of    \\'aterville    College    in 
1822,  and  remained  at  the  head   of   that   institution    for   eleven 
years.     He  was  married  in  April,  1806,  to  Miss  Marcia  O'Brien. 
From    boyhood    Dr.    Chaplin    was    a    theologian    and    meta- 
physician.    Before  he  was  fifteen  he  had  mastered  the  writings 
of  Hopkins.     He  was  always  morbidly  conscientious  and  given 
to  rigid  self-examination  with  reference  to   the   question    as   to 
whether  he  was  one  of  '"the  elect."     After  fifty  years  he  was  still 
in  doubt.     He  learned  Hebrew  without  an  instructor,  and  during 


49^  HISTORY    OF    WATI^RVILLE:. 

his  pastorate  at  Danvers  received  young  men  as  students  in 
theology.  Of  his  students,  Coleman  and  Wheelock  responded  to 
Judson's  call  for  missionaries.  A  paper  written  by  Dr.  Chaplin 
on  ''Ministerial  Education"  led  to  the  establishment  of  the  theo- 
logical school  at  Hamilton,  N.  Y.  He  founded  the  Baptist 
church  in  Waterville,  and  for  several  years  served  as  its  pastor 
without  pay. 

William  Elder  graduated  from  the  Provincial  Normal  School 
in  i860,  and  from  Acadia  College  in  1S68.  The  next  year  he 
studied  at  Harvard  under  Professors  Agassiz,  Cooke,  and  Shaler. 
From  1869  ^^  1*^73  ^^  ^^as  professor  of  physical  sciences  at 
Acadia.  In  1873  he  was  called  to  Colby  to  the  professorship  of 
chemistry  and  natural  history,  and  remained  at  the  head  of  this 
double  department  until  1885,  when  he  became  Merrill  professor 
of  chemistry.  In  1898  he  published  "Ideas  from  Nature."  Prof. 
Elder  married  Miss  Caroline  Scammon  of  this  city.  They  have 
one  daughter,  Marjory  Louise  Elder. 

John  Barton  Foster,  son  of  John  May  and  Elizabeth  Lowell 
Merrill  Fester,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Jan.  8,  1822.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Waterville  and  Waterville 
Academy,  and  graduated  from  Colby  College  in  1843.  He  taught 
school  in  China,  Maine,  for  one  year,  and  in  Lexington,  Mass., 
for  two  years.  For  two  years  (1846-7)  he  was  pastor  of  the 
Baptist  church  at  Gardiner,  Maine.  In  1847  he  entered  Newton 
Theological  Institution,  graduating  thence  in  1850.  He  was 
editor  of  Zion's  Advocate  from  1852  to  1858,  when  he  was 
elected  professor  of  the  Greek  and  Latin  languages  and  literature 
in  Colby  College.  From  1873  to  1894  he  was  professor  of  the 
Greek  language  and  literature.  In  1894  he  was  made  Professor 
Emeritus.  Plis  enthusiasm  for  his  work  and  his  love  of  Greek 
literature  will  surely  always  be  remembered  by  those  whose 
privilege  it  was  to  be  his  pupils.  In  1876  Professor  Foster  was 
given  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  by  Colby  College.  For  thirty  years 
he  was  treasurer  of  the  Baptist  State  Convention.  He  was  twice 
married:  June  i,  1852,  to  Anne  Doe,  who  died  Jan.  20,  1861  ; 
Aug.  14,  1866,  to  P^lizabeth  Boutelle  Philbrick.  His  son  by  his 
first  marriage,  John  Marshall  Foster,  is  a  missionary  at  Swatow, 
China.     Professor  Foster  died  Aug.  19,  1897. 


HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE.  497 

Edzvard  \Vinslo7v  Hall,  Librarian  of  Colby  College,  was  born 
in  Portland,  Maine,  Sept.  9,  1840.  His  parents  were  Winslow 
and  Eunice  Harding  Hall.  He  prepared  for  college  in  the  high 
school  at  Portland,  and  graduated  from  Colby  College  in  1862. 
After  teaching  for  a  year  he  accepted  a  position  in  one  of  the 
government  departments  at  Washington,  where  he  remained  until 
he  was  called  to  the  professorship  of  modern  languages  in  Colby 
College  in  1866.  In  1873  Professor  Hall  was  elected  Librarian 
of  Colby  College,  and  performed  the  duties  of  that  office  in  addi- 
tion to  the  work  of  his  department  until  1892,  when  he  was 
relieved  of  his  classes  and  enabled  to  devote  his  entire  attention 
to  the  librar}'.  In  1900  he  recived  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  from  the 
The  University  of  New  Brunswick.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Maine  Historical  Society,  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity, 
and  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  society.  He  married  ]\lary  S.  Has- 
call  of  West  Rutland,  Vermont,  Jan.  3,  1865.  They  have  four 
children :  Celia,  wife  of  Charles  J.  Waterhouse  of  Oakland,  Cal., 
Frank  E.,  Hascall  S.,  and  Marian. 

Charles  Edi<.'ard  Hauilin,  was  born  in  Augusta,  ]\[aine, 
February  4,  1825,  the  oldest  of  the  sons  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth 
Williams  Hamlin.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  Colby, 
but  as  his  course  was  interrupted  by  ill  health,  he  did  not  grad- 
uate until  1847.  After  graduation  he  taught  at  Brandon,  Vt., 
Bath,  Me.,  and  Suffield,  Conn.  He  became  professor  of  chem- 
istry and  natural  history  in  Colby  College,  August  9,  1853,  and 
continued  at  the  head  of  that  department  until  1873,  when  he  was 
called  to  Harvard  L^niversity  to  serve  as  curator  of  conchology 
and  palaeontolog}^  in  the  museum  of  comparative  zoology'. 
He  died  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  January  3,  1886. 
After  leaving  Colby  he  served  on  its  board  of  trustees  and  also 
as  the  necrologist  of  the  alumni  association.  His  published 
reports  are  marvels  of  painstaking  accuracy.  Beside  scientific 
articles  in  various  periodicals,  he  published  "Observations  on  the 
Physical  Geography  and  Geology  of  j\It.  Ktaadn"  (1881)  and 
"Syrian  jNlolluscan  Fossils"  (1884).  In  1853  he  married  Eliza- 
beth Ann  Smith  of  Conway,  Mass.  The  interests  of  Colby  were 
ever  dear  to  him  and  he  had  a  large  part  in  the  raising  of  its 
endowment.     It  has  been  said  of  him :     "The  greatest  value  of 

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49^  HISTORY  OF  wate;rville:. 

Prof.  Hamlin's  work  in  life  was  in  his  influence  upon  students 
as  an  example  of  a  Christian  gentleman,  of  manly  honor,  of 
chastened  dignity,  of  almost  ideal  manhood."^ 

James  Hobhs  Hanson,  son  of  James  and  Deborah  Clark  Han- 
son, was  born  in  China,  Maine,  June  26,  1816.  After  attending 
the  town  school  and  China  Academy  he  entered  Waterville  Col- 
lege in  the  fall  of  1838.  The  next  year  after  his  graduation 
from  college  he  began  teaching  in  Waterville  Academy.  He 
continued  teaching  in  the  academy  until  1854,  when  he  became 
principal  of  the  Eastport  High  school.  In  1857  he  was  called 
to  the  Portland  High  school.  From  1863  to  1865  he  conducted 
a  private  school  in  Portland.  In  1865  the  trustees  of  Waterville 
College  wished  him  to  return  to  the  principalship  of  Waterville 
Academy,  now  Coburn  Classical  Institute,  and  he  remained  at 
the  head  of  this  school  until  his  death  in  1894.  He  was  the  author 
of  the  widely  used  "Preparatory  Latin  Prose  Book,"  and  joint 
editor  of  the  ''Hand  Book  of  Latin  Poetry."  He  was  elected 
to  the  board  of  trustees  of  Waterville  college  in  1862.  In  1872 
the  degree  of  LL.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Colby  Col- 
lege. He  was  twice  married  ;  in  1845  ^o  Sarah  Boardman  Mars- 
ton  of  Waterville,  in  1854  to  Mary  E.  Field  of  Sidney.  He  died 
in  Waterville,  Maine,  April  21,  1894. 

Franklin  Winslow  Johnson,  son  of  Elizabeth  Winslow  and 
John  Sullivan  Johnson,  was  born  in  Jay,  Maine,  August  17, 
1870.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Wilton  Academy  and  grad- 
uated from  Colby  College  in  1891.  After  serving  for  three  years 
as  principal  of  Calais  High  School  he  was  called  to  th^  head- 
ship of  Coburn  Classical  Institute.  He  is  president  of  the  Maine 
Teachers'  Association.  He  was  married  in  1896  to  Carolyn  M. 
Lord  of  Calais,  Maine.  Principal  Johnson  is  a  member  of  the 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity  and  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
society. 

George  Washington  Keely,  for  twenty-three  years  professor 
of  mathematics  and  natural  philosophy  in  Colby  College,  was 
born,  December  25,  1803,  in  Northampton,  England.  He  was 
the  son  of  Rev.  George  and  Mary  Ramsay  Keely.  He  came  to 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  with  his  father's  family  in  181 8.     He  graduated 


1.     Memorial  Address  by  Francis  W.  Bakeman  D.D. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  499 

from  Brown  University  in  1824.  He  served  as  a  tutor  of  Latin 
and  Greek  at  Brown  for  three  years  and  in  1829  was  called  to  a 
professorship  in  Colby  College.  *'He  engaged  early  in  original 
research,  but  published  very  little;  yet  his  few  brief  articles  in 
English  and  American  scientific  journals  gained  for  him  high 
reputation  among  scientific  men.  In  1847  he  was  invited  by  the 
head  of  the  British  Colonial  Surveys  to  make  a  series  of  magnetic 
observations  in  New^  Brunswick  and  Nova  Scotia,  the  results  of 
which  were  published  in  England  the  following  year.  For  sev- 
eral months  in  1833,  and  again  from  1839  to  1841,  he  was  called 
upon  as  senior  professor  to  administer  the  government  of  the 
college,  but  he  refused  to  assume  the  presidency  permanently, 
as  being  an  ofiice  wholly  incompatible  with  his  temperament  and 
tastes."  [From  Professor  Hamlin's  memorial.]  After  his 
withdrawal  from  the  college  in  1852  he  continued  his  residence 
in  Waterville  until  his  death,  Jime  13,  1878.  He  was  given  the 
degree  of  LL.  D.  by  Brown  University  in  1849.  He  was  married 
in  1829  to  Mrs,  Jane  Whitman  Bailey  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  who 
died  in  1866.  They  had  two  children,  Eliza,  who.  died  in  infancy, 
and  Mary,  wife  of  Professor  J.  D.  Taylor  of  Waterville. 

Asa  Lyman  Lane,  son  of  Edmund  Cleaves  and  Mary  Ring 
Humphrey  Lane,  was  born  in  Yarmouth,  February  18,  1839. 
He  graduated  from  Colby  College  in  1862  and  for  the  next  four 
years  was  principal  of  Reid  Institute  in  Pennsylvania.  From 
1867  to  1870  he  studied  at  Newton  Theological  Institution. 
From  1870  to  1875  he  was  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Bidde- 
ford,  Maine.  After  serving  for  one  year  as  principal  of  New 
London  Institution  he  was  called  to  the  chair  of  sciences  and 
mathematics  in  Coburn  Classical  Institute,  where  he  remained 
twenty-five  years.  He  resigned  in  1901.  Mr.  Lane  received 
the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  Colby  College  in  1867.  At  present  he 
is  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Waterville  Public  Library  and  a 
member  of  the  school  board.  He  was  married  in  1864  to  Mary 
J.  Robinson.  They  have  two  daughters,  Ava  Bertha  and  Mary 
Blanche.  Mr.  Lane's  present  address  is  12  Nudd  street,  Water- 
ville, Maine. 

Justin  Ralph  Loomis  was  born  in  Bennington,  Vermont, 
August  21,  1 8 10.     He  prepared  for   college    in    the   Hamilton 


500  HISTORY  OF  wate;rville. 

Literary  Institution  and  was  graduated  at  Brown  University  with 
high  honor  in  1835.  In  1836  he  became  a  tutor  in  Colby  and 
was  elected  in  1838  professor  of  chemistry  and  natural  history. 
This  position  he  held  with  great  honor  both  to  himself  and  to 
the  college  until  1852.  During  this  time  he  pursued  scientific 
explorations  in  Bolivia,  Peru  and  Chile  and  published  some 
important  papers  and  text-books.  Of  strong  Christian  character 
and  active  in  religious  work  he  was  of  great  help  to  the  Baptist 
church  in  the  city,  and  his  ideas  were  carried  out  in  the  remodel- 
ing of  its  meeting  house.  His  relations  with  the  students  were 
especially  close  and  helpful.  In  1852  Prof.  Loomis  accepted 
the  chair  of  natural  science  in  the  university  at  Lewisburg,  Pa., 
and  became  president  of  the  institution  in  1858,  which  office  he 
held  for  twenty-one  years.  As  at  Waterville,  his  Christian  char- 
acter and  eminent  ability  exerted  a  powerful  influence  in  the 
church  and  community.  Beside  many  scientific  papers.  Prof. 
Loomis  published,  "Principles  of  Geology,"  "Physiology." 
"Anatomy"  and  other  text-books  of  high  rank. 

Moses  Lyford  was  born  in  oNIount  \'^ernon,  Maine,  January 
31,  1816.  His  parents  were  Dudley  and  Betsey  Smith  Lyford. 
After  graduating  from  Colby  College  in  1843,  he  taught  in  Ken- 
nebunk  Academy,  in  Townshend  Academy,  Vermont,  and  in  the 
Boys'  High  school,  Portland.  In  1856  he  was  elected  professor 
of  mathematics  and  natural  philosophy  in  Colby  College.  In 
1873  a  professorship  of  mathematics  was  established  and  Pro- 
fessor Lyford  became  professor  of  natural  history  and  astronomy. 
He  retired  from  active  service  in  the  college  in  1884.  He 
received  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  from  Colby  College  in  1874.  He 
was  married  in  1848  to  Mary  L.  Dyer.  One  son  survives  them, 
— Hon.  E.  F.  Lyford  of  Springfield,  ]\Iass.  Professor  Lyford 
died  August  4,  1887,  at  Portland,  Maine. 

Shailer  Mathews,  son  of  Jonathan  Bennett  and  Sophia  Lucinda 
Mathews,  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine,  May  26,  1863.  He 
prepared  for  college  in  the  high  school  at  Portland  and  graduated 
from  Colby  in  1884.  After  completing  the  three  years'  course 
of  study  at  Newton  Theological  Institution,  he  became  associate 
professor  of  English  at  Colby.  In  1887  he  was  elected  professor 
of  history  and  political  economy  in  the  same  institution.  In  1894 
he  was  elected  associate  professor  of  New  Testament  history  and 


PIISTOR/    OF    WATERVILLE.  5OI 

interpretation  in  Chicago  University  and  was  raided  to  a  full 
professorship  in  1897.  He  received  the  deg^ree  of  D.  D.  from 
Colby  College  in  1901.  In  1890  he  married  ]\Iiss  Alary  Phil- 
brick  Elden  of  Waterville.  They  have  two  children,  Robert 
Elden  and  Helen  Mathews.  Professor  ^Mathews's  present  ad- 
dress is  5736  Woodlawn  avenue,  Chicago,  111. 

Wiliiam  Mathevs,  teacher  and  author,  son  of  Simeon  and 
Clymena  (Esty)  Mathews,  was  born  in  Waterville,  July  28,  1818. 
He  spent  four  years,  from  the  age  of  nine  to  thirteen,  in  prepar- 
ing for  college  at  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary,  and  China, 
Ivlonrnouth,  Bloomfield,  and  V/aterville  academies,  and  grad- 
uated at  Waterville  College  (now  Colby  College)  in  1835.  He 
studied  law  for  four  years,  alternately  in  office  of  Timothy  Bou- 
telle  and  at  Harvard  Law  School,  and  received  degree  of  LL.  B. 
from  Harvard  College  in  1839.  He  spent  the  year  1839- 1840  in 
Philadelphia,  Baltimore  and  A\'ashington,  and  in  teaching  a 
school  at  Amelia  Court-house,  Va.  After  being  admitted  to  the 
Kennebec  county  bar  in  1840,  he  practiced  law  in  Benton  and 
Waterville  till  1843.  ^^  ^^4^  ^^  began  with  Daniel  R.  Wing 
the  publication  of  The  Waten'illouian,  2l  literary  and  family  news- 
paper, which  was  succeeded  in  1842  by  TJie  Yankee  Blade,  pub- 
lished by  Mr.  M.  alone ;  which  last  paper  was  removed  in  1843  ^o 
Gardiner,  Me.,  and  thence  in  1847  ^o  Boston,  Mass.  There,  greatly 
enlarged  and  strengthened  by  a  large  corps  of  contributors,  it 
vv  on  an  extensive  circulation  in  all  parts  of  the  country.  Finally, 
in  1856,  the  paper  was  sold  to  Col.  Sleeper  of  the  Boston  Mer- 
cantile Journal,  and  united  with  the  Portfolio.  In  1856,  Mr. 
^Mathews  moved  to  Chicago,  111.,  where,  during  the  next  three 
years,  he  edited  a  financial  weekly  journal,  and  contributed  to 
the  Tribune,  Evening  Journal,  Chronotype,  Covenant,  and  other 
newspapers.  From^  1839  to  1842  he  was  librarian  of  the  Young 
Men's  Library  Association:  from  1862  to  1875,  professor  of 
rhetoric  and  English  literature  in  the  old  University  of  Chicago. 
In  1868  he  received  from  Colby  University  the  honorary  degree 
of  LL.  D.  In  1875  he  resigned  his  professorship,  and  has  since 
devoted  himself  wholly  to  literature.  In  1880  he  returned  to 
Boston,  T^Iass.,  where  he  has  since  resided.  In  1845  h^  ^""'^^  mar- 
ried to  Mary  Elizabeth  Dingley,  of  Winslow,  Me. ;  in  1850  to 
Isabella  I.  ^Marshall,  of  China,  Me. ;  and  in  1865  to  Harriet  N. 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


Griggs,  Chicago,  111.  Since  1872  he  has  written  and  published 
the  following  books,  viz. :  "Getting  on  in  the  World ;  or.  Hints 
on  Success  in  Life,"  of  which  70,000  copies  have  been  sold  in 
this  country,  an  edition  published  in  Canada,  editions  issued  in 
London  by  three  publishers,  three  Scandinavian  translations  pub- 
lished, and  one  in  Magyar,  at  Budapest,  Hungary ;  "The  Great 
Conversers;"  "Words,  their  Use  and  Abuse,"  afterward  greatly 
enlarged,  of  which  25,000  copies  have  been  sold ;  "Hours  with 
iMen  and  Books;"  "Monday  Chats,"  translated  from  the  French 
of  C.  A.  Sainte-Beuve,  with  an  introductory  critical  sketch  of  his 
life  and  writings;  "Oratory  and  Orators."  republished  in  Lon- 
(|nj» ;  "Literary  Style,  and  other  Essays;"  "Men,  Places,  and 
'I'hiii^s  ;'■  "Wit  and  Humor,  their  L'se  and  Abuse;"  and  "Nngae 
Liltrrariae.  ov  WrWi  Lssays  on  Literary,  Social,  and  other 
'Hniiu-s  "  |)r.  Mathews  has  also  written  critical  introductions 
((>  (he  tu>vels  ot"  luilwer.  for  an  elegant  ed.ition  recently  published 
in  lloslon  ;  cvmUi  ilnited  tuimerous  articles  to  the  Xorth  American 
Ixn'inv.  Li^ndon  Ani;lo-Amt'rican,  and  otlier  periodicals:  and 
driivrud  lectures  on  Daniel  Webster.  William  Wirt,  and  The 
Battle  of  Waterloo,  etc..  etc.,  before  various  historical  and  other 
vM>cielies.  lli^  presettt  address  is  i^;o  EVmbroke  street.  Boston, 
Muss. 

John  lid{i\uJ  \iU'on,  son  ot  Kdwanl  and  Cdssan«.lni  W  orth- 
\\\\i;  NeNvM\.  was  bom  in  Chiiui.  Msiine.  July  ij.  1S74-  He  pre- 
prtrwl  Un  K:\Akx^'  At  the  Waterville  High  school  and  at  The 
iMietuU'  Scliool.  ruwtdetivw  R  I.  He  graduacieii  from  Colby 
ColV^e  n\  the  clvis.s  of  iSuCS.  In  Scptemb«;r  ot  t^iac  >-«ir  he 
t»v\\\Mie  i»uue4\\l  ot  the  WaterviUc  Hi^h  sdtool.  After  four 
wwt^  ot  svKWsstul  work  itt  this  swH^^vl.  h<;  hdci  giv^n  up  caching 
rtuvl  Iv^vtiv  the  stud\  of  Uw  H<i'  ij^  a  ttn;mN;r  ot  the  Masonic 
AUvl  /v'tA  kVi  jfi-Atvittvtwsi  AtKl  ot  thv^  ^"hr  bV'Ca  bCa^^v*^  socwcy.  He 
uU"\tuevl  Mv\t>iv-\t\'t  Hec^th  Cvv\<bv  ot  Wji^^rvtU*;.  July  17.  tgcw. 

(v4%v^«*  <.*"<^v^.  tvr  K»ur  vv><!ln^  r  WjLC«vtU^f  High 

xv^vNvl.  vvvi^t  tvMv  in   fcV\' -  '    "^  v  4-   iJ^>x     His 

^\u\^.nx  wvu^  VUK vUv  C    '.        '  H^  graduated 

t\\>*^^  <\^vnv  0^<A>«^^^^^  v  ^  t^>  ^nvt  t-xntt  CoJby  College 

vn  \^\     Uc  \\  t^  r»<vK^^>sfc^  v^t  th«  \VjL«x*r>suk^  H^  schoct  from 
^^^  tv^  \^<v  ^\Kha  Nf  x>;.ix  **>vjt.v^>  v^'l!tjs<tv^  tt  TV  Friends' 

5^^\<.  ^Nv^\KkHK\\  K    '      '  ^^^  ^  ;tt  ^^rw-v■'         -'"-  ct  dte  Rice 


^ns^^>K^    or   w  wi  k\  n  i  »:. 


.S«M 


to  Alice  \  .  Onnnmontl  nt  \\  .UiivilUv 

Kobfrt  I::rrt'tt  I^rJtisott,  Kmm  in  lUnstMi.  \  i  .  \\i^nst  d.  iS»x». 
graihiatcii  at  \nihorst  in  iS^^o.aftn  \\.it«l  a  t»M<>i  .»t  rohunlu.i.  .n».l 
came  tt>  \\  atcrvillc  in  iSjS  as  pr»>tisM»r  «>l  in.itluin.il us  .nul 
iialnral  jiliilost^ph) .  lit-  rcniainotl  t\vt>  years,  hnt  lonj;  eiutt>j;h 
to  show  the  qnahty  ol  his  manhiHHl.  In  iSv>  lu-  w.is  e.ill(<l  t<> 
the  presidaicy  oi  the  cnllei^e.  reniainifii;  nnlil  iS^).  wlu-n  the 
financial  c«m<liti«Mi  oi  the  collej;e  compelled  hiin  t.»  n-si^n  Ih 
afterward  he'd  im|x>rtant  paslt>rates  aiul  for  three  years  was 
home  secretary  (»f  t)ie  American  Baptist  Missionary  I'nitin.  h'or 
the  years  1S4S-1S54  he  was  professnr  of  s\stematic  theology  in 
Newton  Thcoloijical  Institntion.  in  1S54  f<»r  a  seconti  tinu'  he 
became  president  of  Colhy.  retnaininj^  until  1S57.  when  his  health 
failed.  Alter  a  j)cri«Hl  of  rest  he  became  professor  at  ShmtletT 
College  and  later  at  tlu-  I'ninn  l;ai)tist  Theoloj^ical  Seminary. 
Chicaj^o.  He  died  in  1S7.1.  A  man  of  strong  cttnyiclions.  ndhle 
character  an<l  devote<l  piety,  he  made  a  powerful  impression  f<»r 
gotKl  u|>on  his  stiu'.ents  thron^hont  his  |..ni;  and  y.iriid  educa- 
tional career. 

Ceorj^c  Dana  lioarihtnui  Pcf'f'rr.     >ee  chapter  on   "'Y\\r  \\\\\M 
of  W'aterville." 

Iliury  l.phnam  Robins,  president  <»f  I'nlhy  C'olle^H-  from  iS;^ 
to  i88j.  was  l>oni  in  Hartfnrd.  Conn.,  Sei)teml)er  .V).  iSj;.  1 1« 
parents  were  (lurdon  ami  Julia  Savage  Rohins.  Me  stn<Iitd  at 
the  Conneinicnt  Literary  Instituti««n.  and  ^^raduated  from  W  wtnn 
Theoloj;ical  Institution  in  lH/»i.  He  was  jiastnr  of  the  Central 
liaj)tist  church  of  \ewi»ort.  K.  I.,  from  iS^j  to  iS(.7.  and  <.f  the 
First  Uai.tist  church  from  iS^v  t<»  \^7.\-  -^^^^'^  "'"^'  .^^'•"'^  •''  ''>'' 
head  of  Colby  College  he  resit^Mie.i  tlu-  presidency  nf  the  enlic^rc 
to  become  professor  i^\  Christian  rihics  in  R(»che.ster  'ihenlnj^Mc  al 
Seminary,  lie  receiyed  the  «le^;ree  iA  D.  1  >.  ffnui  K(Klustcr 
I'niyersity  aiul  of  1. 1..  I),  from  Colby  Col!e;.:e.  .\inon^'  his  pub- 
lished writings  may  be  mentioned,  '"'rhe  Christian  Idea  of  I'.du 
cation  distini:ui.«=he('  from  the  Secular  Idea  of  I'.dncat ion"  and 
••Harmony  ui  Kthics  with  Theolo^ry/*  He  marri<-d  Martha  J. 
Bird  of  Hartford.  Conn.,  in  iHTq;  Margaret  Ri.hardson  (»f 
Rochester.   X.  V..  in    1S7J:  aiul    Cordelia    l'..   Notl    of    Boston. 


502  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Griggs,  Chicago,  111.  Since  1872  he  has  written  and  published 
the  following  books,  viz. :  "Getting  on  in  the  World ;  or,  Hints 
on  Success  in  Life,"  of  which  70,000  copies  have  been  sold  in 
this  country,  an  edition  published  in  Canada,  editions  issued  in 
London  by  three  publishers,  three  Scandinavian  translations  pub- 
lished, and  one  in  Alagyar,  at  Budapest,  Hungary ;  "The  Great 
Conversers ;"  "Word.s,  their  Use  and  Abuse,"  afterward  greatly 
enlarged,  of  which  25,000  copies  have  been  sold ;  "Hours  with 
Men  and  Books ;"  "3,Ionday  Chats,"  translated  from  the  French 
of  C.  A.  Sainte-Beuve,  with  an  introductory  critical  sketch  of  his 
life  and  writings ;  "Oratory  and  Orators,"  republished  in  Lon- 
don ;  "Literary  Style,  and  other  Essays ;"  "Men,  Places,  and 
Things  ;"  "Wit  and  Humor,  their  Use  and  Abuse ;"  and  "Nugae 
Litterariae,  or  Brief  Essays'  on  Literary,  Social,  and  other 
Themes."  Dr.  Mathews  has  also  written  critical  introductions 
to  the  novels  of  Bulwer,  for  an  elegant  edition  recently  published 
in  Boston;  contributed  numerous  articles  to  the  North  American 
Review,  London  Anglo-American,  and  other  periodicals ;  and 
delivered  lectures  on  Daniel  Webster,  William  Wirt,  and  The 
Battle  of  Waterloo,  etc.,  etc.,  before  various  historical  and  other 
societies.  His  prej^ent  address  is  130  Pembroke  street,  Boston, 
Mass. 

John  Edward  Nelson,  son  of  Edward  and  Cassandra  Worth- 
ing Nelson,  was  born  in  China,  Maine,  July  12,  1874.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  the  Waterville  High  school  and  at  The 
Friends'  School,  Providence,  R.  L  He  graduated  from  Colby 
College  in  the  class  of  1898.  In  September  of  that  year  he 
became  principal  of  the  Waterville  High  school.  Aftet  four 
years  of  successful  work  in  this  school,  he  has  given  up  teaching 
and  begun  the  study  of  law.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
and  Zeta  Psi  fraternities  and  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  society.  He 
married  Margaret  Heath  Crosby  of  Waterville,  July  17,  1900. 

Lincoln  Ozven,  for  four  years  principal  of  the  Waterville  High 
school,  was  born  in  Buxton,  Maine,  December  4,  i860.  His 
parents  were  Melville  C.  and  Martha  W.  Owen.  He  graduated 
from  Coburn  Classical  Institute  in  1885  and  from  Colby  College 
in  1889.  He  was  principal  of  the  Waterville  High  school  from 
1889  to  1893,  when  he  was  made  classical  master  in  The  Friends' 
School,  Providence,  R.  I.     He  is  at  present  master  of  the  Rice 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  503 

Training  School,  Boston.     He  was  married,  December  25,  1889, 
to  Alice  V.  Drummond  of  Waterville. 

Robert  Bz'ereft  Pattison,  born  in  Benson,  Vt.,  August  IQ,  1800, 
graduated  at  Amherst  in  1830,  afterward  a  tutor  at  Columbia,  and 
came  to  Waterville    in  1828  as    professor  of    mathematics  and 
natural  philosophy.     He  remained  two  years,  but  long  enough 
to  show  the  quality  of  his  manhood.     In  1836  he  was  called  to 
the  presidency  of  the  college,  remaining  until   1839,  when  the 
financial  condition  of  the  college  compelled  him  to  resign.     He 
afterward  held  important  pastorates  and  for  three  years  was 
home  secretary  of  the  American  Baptist  Missionary  Union.     For 
the  years  1848-1854  he  was  professor  of  systematic  theology  in 
Newton  Theological  Institution.     In  1854  for  a  second  time  he 
became  president  of  Colby,  remaining  until  1857,  when  his  health 
failed.     After  a  period  of  rest  he  became  professor  at  Shurtleff 
College  and  later  at  the  Union  Baptist  Theological  Seminary, 
Chicago.     He  died  in  1874.     A  man  of  strong  convictions,  noble 
character  and  devoted  piety,  he  made  a  powerful  impression  for 
good  upon  his  students  throughout  his  long  and  varied  educa- 
tional career. 

George  Dana  Boardman  Pepper.     See  chapter  on  "The  Pulpit 
of  Waterville." 

Henry  Ephriam  Robins,  president  of  Colby  College  from  1873 
to  1882;  was  bom  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  September  30,  1827.  He 
parents  were  Gurdon  and  Julia  Savage  Robins.  He  studied  at 
the  Connecticut  Literary  Institution,  and  graduated  from  Newton 
Theological  Institution  in  1861.  He  was  pastor  of  the  Central 
Baptist  church  of  Newport,  R.  L,  from  1862  to  1867,  and  of  the 
First  Baotist  church  from  1867  to  1873-  After  nme  years  at  the 
head  of  Colby  College  he  resigned  the  presidency  of  the  college 
to  become  professor  of  Christian  ethics  in  Rochester  Theological 
Seminary.  He  received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Rochester 
University  and  of  LL.  D.  from  Colby  College.  Among  his  pub- 
lished writings  mav  be  mentioned,  ''The  Christian  Idea  of  Edu- 
cation distinguished  from  the  Secular  Idea  of  Education  '  and 
"Harmony  of  Ethics  with  Theology."  He  married  Martha  J 
Bird  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1864;  ^largaret  Richardson  of 
Rochester    N.  Y.,  in  1872:  and    Corddia    E.  Nott   of    Boston, 


50b  HISTORY    OF    WATER\'ILLE:. 

Whitman.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Worcester  Academy,  and 
graduated  from  Brown  University  in  1897  and  from  New- 
ton Theological  Institution  in  1890.  From  1890  to  1892 
he  was  pastor  of  the  Free  Street  Baptist  church  at  Portland, 
Maine.  He  was  president  of  Colby  College  from  1892  to  1895 
and  of  Columbian  University  from  1895  to  1900.  Since  1900 
he  has  been  pastor  of  the  Fifth  Baptist  church  in  Philadelphia. 
He  married  Mary  Joelena  Scott  of  Newton,  Mass.  They  have 
three  children,  Lawrence,  Lucy  Belknap,  and  Mary  Delight 
W^hitman. 


CHAPTER  XXVI. 


SOME  OF  THE  BUSINESS   MEN  OF  WATERVILLE. 

By  Rev.  Asa  L.  Lane,  A.  Appleton  Plaisted,  and  Edwin  C. 

Whittemore. 

What  the  business  life  of  Waterville  has  been  in  the  past,  and  is 
today,  appears  very  clearly  in  other  chapters  of  this  volume. 
This  chapter  aims  only  to  give  biographical  data  concerning 
some  of  the  business  men.  In  the  space  available  it  is  manifestly 
impossible  to  mention  all  who  are  worthy  of  mention,  or  who 
would  receive  it  in  a  biographical  history  of  the  town.  The  list 
given  is  representative,  not  complete.  Many  there  are,  especially 
among  the  younger  business  men,  who  already  have  won  success 
m  business,  who  have  manifested  an  excellent  public  spirit,  and 
who  will  have  large  place  in  the  next  centennial  volume.  The 
editors  agree  fully  with  the  opinion  that  there  are  a  great  many 
more  men — such  is  Waterville's  wealth  in  men — whose  names 
should  have  been  included. 

Stephen  I.  Abbott,  the  successful  agent  of  the  Lockwood  ]\Iills 
through  their  entire  history,  was  born  in  Fryeburg,  Me.,  March 
31,  1822,  the  son  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  Abbott.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  in  Fryeburg  Academy.  March  5, 
1848,  he  married  Miss  Ruth  L.  Knight  of  Buxton,  Me.  Their 
children  are  Amos  F.,  Martha  A.,  Mary  E.,  and  William  H.  K., 
long  associated  with  his  father  in  the  management  of  the  Lock- 
wood  Mills.  Mr.  Abbott  has  given  his  entire  business  life  to 
cotton  manufacture,  in  which  he  has  attained  a  notable  success. 
He  was  alderman  in  the  first  city  government  of  Lewiston,  where 
he  then  resided,  and  served  as  selectman  of  W^aterville  for  three 


5o8  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

years.  Mr.  Abbott  went  to  Lewiston  in  1857,  and  became  master 
mechanic  of  the  Androscoggin  Mills,  and  was  afterward  agent  of 
the  Continental  Mills.  For  two  years  he  was  agent  of  the  River- 
point  Mills  at  Riverpoint,  R.  I.,  and  came  to  Waterville  in  1875. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  of  the  Masonic 
Order.  His  residence  for  many  years  has  been  at  No.  50 
Pleasant  St. 

William  H.  K.  Abbott  was  born  in  Lewiston,  Me.,  April  22, 
i860,  the  son  of  Stephen  I.  and  Ruth  (Knight)  Abbott.  He 
was  educated  in  the  city  schools,  and  while  quite  young  went  into 
the  cotton  mill  business,  with  which  his  father  had  been  so  long 
connected.  He  came  to  Waterville  on  the  opening  of  the  Lock- 
wood  Mills,  and  in  1890  became  superintendent,  which  responsi- 
ble position  he  has  since  held  with  conspicuous  ability  and 
success. 

Mr.  Abbott  is  a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M., 
of  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  and  of  the  St.  Omer  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar.  He  is  a  communicant  of  the  Episcopal 
church.  He  was  married,  Aug.  26,  1882,  to  Miss  Emma  D. 
Boothby,  daughter  of  L.  T.  and  Sophia  (Brett)  Boothby  of  this 
city.  Their  children  are  Ruth  Helen,  Margaret  Elsie,  and 
Stephen  Boothby.     The  family  residence  is  at  16  School  St. 

ArfJiur  Julius  Alden,  son  of  Julius  and  Elizabeth  (Nourse) 
Alden,  was  born  in  Waterville,  April  23,  1838,  in  the  eighth  gen- 
eration from  John  and  Priscilla  Alden.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  at  Waterville  Academy.  Mr.  Alden  was  mar- 
ried Nov.  19,  1866,  to  Miss  Ellen  Wentworth,  daughter  of 
George  and  Sophia  (Lovejoy)  Wentworth.  Three  sons  were 
born  to  them,  of  whom  Frank  Wentworth  Alden,  Colby,  '98,  Zeta 
Psi  Fraternity,  and  Arthur  Fred  Alden  are  living. 

Mr.  Alden  started  in  business  as  a  watchmaker  and  jeweler, 
in  June,  1854.  In  1867  his  brother,  Chas.  H.  Alden,  entered  into 
partnership  under  the  name  of  Alden  Brothers.  The  business 
has  been  conducted  in  the  same  place  since  1854,  the  firm  being 
the  oldest  in  the  city.  Mr.  Alden  was  member  of  the  city  coun- 
cil for  1895,  and  has  been  a  director  of  the  People's  Bank  since 
1893.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Fraternity,  which  he 
joined  in  1862,  and  of  the  Congregational  Church,  with  which  he 
united  in  1878.     The  family  residence  is  No.  15,  College  Ave. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  509 

Charles  Henry  Alden  was  born  in  Waterville,  April  13,  1836, 
the  son  of  Julius  and  Elizabeth  (Nourse)  Alden.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  at  Hebron  and  Waterville  acad- 
emies. He  engaged  in  business  as  a  printer  from  1854  to  i860 
at  which  date  he  entered  the  jewelry  and  watch  business.  In 
1867  the  firm  of  Alden  Bros,  was  formed,  which  continues  the 
business  to  the  present  (1902).  Mr.  Alden  has  been  prominent 
in  lodge  circles,  was  worshipful  master,  Waterville  Lodge,  No. 
33  F.  and  A.  AI.,  1870-71.  He  is  a  member  of  Teconnet  R.  A. 
Chapter  No.  52,  also  of  Lebanon  Counsel  R.  and  S.  AL,  No.  13, 
and  of  vSt.  Omer  Commandery  Knights  Templar,  No.  12. 

Samuel  Appleton,  oldest  son  of  Dr.  Aloses  Appleton,  was  born 
in  Waterville,  September  30,  1803.  His  mother  was  Theresa 
Clarke,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  Clarke.  His  education  was 
obtained  at  private  schools  and  such  public  schools  as  then 
existed.  In  1821  he  went  to  Boston  as  clerk  with  Henry  Rice, 
a  wholesale  merchant.  Returning  in  1824,  he  engaged  in  busi- 
ness with  William  Oilman,  a  son  of  Na.th.  Oilman.  The  part- 
nership continued  for  a  few  years  and  then,  after  two  years  of 
trade  on  his  own  account,  he  went  again  to  Rice's,  where  he 
stayed  till  1835.  ^^  1840  he  was  elected  a  selectman  and  was 
re-elected  for  seven  successive  years.  He  was  appointed  post- 
master 1841,  an  office  which  he  held  for  two  terms  of  four  years 
each.  In  1856  the  firm  of  Warren,  Appleton  &  Company  built  a 
mill  on  the  Messalonskee,  a  little  above  the  foundry,  for  the 
manufacture  of  cedar  bark  paper.  This  did  not  prove 
a  great  success  and  was  changed  to  making  newspaper  about 
i860,  the  proprietors  being  Mr.  Appleton  and  Zebulon  Sanger. 
This  was  the  last  active  business  in  which  he  was  engaged.  He 
was  president  of  Ticonic  National  Bank  from  1875  to  1884.  He 
was  never  married.     He  died  October  2,  1890. 

Willard  B.  Arnold  has  recently  received  the  congratulations 
of  his  friends  on  his  completion  of  a  half  century  of  business 
life  in  one  line  and  in  one  location.  As  the  iron  foundry  of 
Webber  &  Philbrick  is  the  oldest  of  the  manufacturing  industries 
of  Waterville,  so  the  hardware  business  into  which  Air.  Arnold 
entered  fifty  years  ago  had  even  then  been  long  established 
and  was  successful  according  to  the  standards  of  the  time.     Mr. 


510  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Arnold  was  born  in  Sidney,  Me.,  August  22,  1835,  the  son  of 
Jeremiah  andVesta( Bailey)  Arnold.  He  was  educated  at  the  pub- 
lic schools,  the  Waterville  Liberal  Institute  and  Westbrook  Sem- 
inary. April  5,  1852,  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  hardware  business 
of  Dunn,  Elden  &  Company.  September,  1863,  he  entered  into 
partnership  with  Jones  R.  Elden,  which  was  terminated  by  the 
death  of  Mr.  Elden  in  April,  1864.  From  1864  to  1876  Mr. 
Nathaniel  Meader  was  a  member  of  the  firm,  the  firm  name  being 
Arnold  and  jNIeader.  He  then  bought  out  Mr.  Meader  and  the 
firm  became  W.  B.  Arnold  and  Company.  Mr.  Arnold  has 
served  the  town  and  city  in  several  offices.  In  1877  he  was  on 
the  board  of  selectmen,  has  been  chief  engineer  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment, for  his  services  in  this  capacity  a  gold  medal  was  pre- 
sented him  by  members  and  friends  of  the  department.  For 
seventeen  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  committee  in  charge 
of  Pine  Grove  Cemetery.  Mr.  Arnold  has  been  master  of  Water- 
ville Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  is  a  member  of  St.  Omer  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  Templar.  He  is  an  attendant  at  the  Unitarian 
church.  In  1864  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Ellen 
Louise  Furbish.  They  have  one  son,  JNIr.  Frederick  J.  Arnold, 
who  was  born  in  1868,  was  educated  at  the  Institute,  at  Phillips 
xVcademy,  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  at  the  School  of  Technology,  Bos- 
ton. Since  graduation  Mr.  Arnold  has  given  his  attention  to  the 
hardware  business  with  his  father. 

Mr.  Oscar  G.  Springileld,  though  born  in  Castine,  Me.,  Nov- 
ember II,  1854,  has  spent  his  entire  business  life  in  Waterville. 
In  1 87 1  he  entered  the  store  of  Arnold  and  Meader  as  clerk, 
where  he  remained  vmtil  1888,  when  he  became  partner  in  the 
firm  ;  the  partnership  still  continues.  In  1888  Mr.  Springfield 
married  IMiss  Florence  A.  Worcester  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  a 
great-grand-daughter  of  Mayor  Bolcom,  who  was  prominent  in 
the  early  history  of  Waterville.  They  have  three  children.  Mr. 
Springfield  is  a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and 
is  president  of  the  Canibas  Club. 

Martin  Blaisdell,  son  of  Hosea  Blaisdell,  was  born  in 
Winthrop,  Me.,  March  29,  1845.  ^^e  was  educated  in  the  town 
schools  and  in  Waterville  Academy,  now  Coburn  Institute.  He 
was   married,    June   26,    1871,   to   Miss    Annie   A.    Hitchings, 


HISTORY    or    WATER\'ILLE.  5II 

daughter  of  Samuel  Hitchings  of  Waterville.  For  the  most  of 
his  hfe  ]\Ir,  Blaisdell  has  been  employed  in  farming,  having  a 
large  and  fine  farm  in  the  southern  part  of  the  town.  He  has 
been  interested,  also,  in  horse  and  stock  breeding  and  introduced 
the  first  Percheron  stallion  in  this  section  of  the  county.  In 
1872-3  he  was  associated  with  C.  H.  Redington  in  the  furniture 
business.  He  has  served  the  town  as  selectman  in  1876-7,  street 
commissioner  in  '94- '95,  was  member  of  the  city  counsel  for  the 
years  '96,  '97  and  '98,  and  in  1901  was  elected  on  an  independent 
ticket  without  any  opposition  as  mayor  of  the  city.  He  was 
re-elected  as  the  Republican  candidate  in  1902.  The  signal 
events  of  his  administration  have  been  the  erection  of  the  new 
City  Hall,  to  which  Mayor  Blaisdell  has  given  much  time,  care- 
ful oversight  and  valuable  judgment;  and  the  celebration  of  the 
Centennial.  Mr.  Blaisdell  is  a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge, 
No.  33,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  of  St.  Omer  Commandery,  No.  12, 
Knights  Templar. 

Levi  Thojv.pson  Boothby  was  born  in  Livermore,  Me.,  June 
21,  1818,  and  died  at  his  residence  in  Waterville,  corner  of 
Pleasant  and  Park  streets,  January  9,  1900.  He  was  the  son 
of  Ichabod  and  Charlotte  (Knight)  Boothby.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools.  He  married  Sophia  P.  Brett,  August  23, 
1843,  3-nd  Charlotte  Francis,  October  28,  1876.  He  learned  the 
blacksmith's  trade  in  his  youth  and  did  the  iron  work  on  scythe 
snaths.  He  was  station  agent  of  the  Somerset  and  Kennebec 
Railroad  at  the  Front  street  station,  from  1858  to  '68 ;  after- 
wards in  the  insurance  business,  the  agency  of  L.  T.  Boothby  and 
Son,  doing  a  business  among  the  very  largest  in  the  State.  He 
was  very  active  in  the  Sons  of  Temperance;  was  a  member  of 
the  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  of  the  Free  Baptist  church.  His  children 
are  Frederic  E.  Boothby,  mayor  of  Portland ;  Ellen  S.,  Mary 
Louisa,  Wm.  A.  R.,  Edward  D.,  and  Emma  D.  He  resided  in 
Norway,  1839-1846;  in  South  Paris,  1846-1857,  and  in  Water- 
ville, 1857-1900. 

Frederic  Bleaser  Boothby,  one  of  the  most  successful  of  those 
sons  of  Waterville  whose  business  life  has  led  them  elsewhere, 
was  bom  in  Norway,  IMe.,  December  3,  1845,  ^^^  son  of  Levi 
Thompson  and  Sophia  (Brett)  Boothby.     He  was  educated  in 


512  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

the  public  schools,  the  Normal  Institute  at  South  Paris  and  the 
Waterville  Classical  Institute.  He  began  his  business  life  as 
assistant  postmaster  of  Waterville  in  1861.  May  i,  1864  he  was 
made  master  of  transportation  of  the  M.  C.  R.  R.  with  office  at 
Waterville ;  shortly  after  the  office  of  general  ticket  agent  was 
assigned  to  him.  In  1871  he  became  paymaster  and  freight 
auditor  of  the  Maine  Central  with  office  at  Augusta.  In  1874 
he  was  again  appointed  general  ticket  agent  and  removed  to 
Portland,  and  in  1875  became  also,  general  passenger  agent  of 
the  Maine  Central  system,  which  position,  ever  growing  more 
important  under  his  able  management,  he  still  holds.  He  is  also 
general  passenger  agent  of  the  Phillips  &  Rangeley  R.  R.  and  of 
the  Portland,  Mt.  Desert  &  Machias  Steamboat  Company.  For 
five  years  ]Mr.  Boothby  was  president  of  the  Portland  Board  of 
Trade,  giving  to  it  a  very  successful  leadership.  He  is  a  trustee 
of  the  Union  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company,  president  of  the 
Forest  City  Loan  and  Building  Association,  treasurer  of  the 
IVJaine  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  trustee  of  Coburn  Classical 
Institute,  beside  other  important  and  responsible  positions.  Mr. 
Boothby  has  never  sought  public  office,  but  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Bodwell  a  member  of  his  staff.  Gov.  Marble  con- 
tinued the  appointment  and  Governor  Burleigh  made  him  com- 
missary-general of  his  staff,  with  rank  of  colonel.  Mr.  Boothby 
became  mayor  of  the  city  of  Portland  in  1901,  and  his  adminis- 
tration proved  so  business-like,  clean  and  popular,  that  he  was 
re-elected  mayor  for  1902  by  a  very  complimentary  vote.  Mr. 
Boothby  is  connected  with  but  one  fraternity,  being  a  memlDcr  of 
Portland  Commandery,  Knights  Templar.  October  25,  1871,  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Adelaide  E.  Smith,  daughter  of  Charles  H. 
and  Vesta  (Thayer)  Smith.  Mr.  Smith  is  remembered  by  many 
as  the  popular  proprietor  of  the  "Williams  House"  at  Waterville. 
A  graceful  indication  of  Mrs.  Boothby's  interest  in  Waterville, 
is  her  recent  gift  of  the  beautiful  vase  which  adorns  the  park  in 
front  of  the  new  City  Hall. 

Frank  Chase,  one  of  the  most  successful  of  Waterville  inven- 
tors and  business  men,  was  born  in  Waterville,  May  10,  1847, 
the  son  of  Franklin  S.  and  Dorothy  Annis  Chase.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  city  schools  but  at  seventeen  years  of  age  joined  the 


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HISTORY    O^    \VATE:RVILLK.  5I3 

navy.  On  the  close  of  the  war  he  became  a  machinist  and  inven- 
tor in  Boston,  where  he  resided  until  1894,  when  he  returned 
to  Waterville  and  bought  the  Herrick  place  on  Western  avenue. 
During  this  time  Mr.  Chase  invented  and  patented  the  Chase 
lasting  machine.  This  machine  was  very  successful,  came  into 
large  use  and  through  the  company  which  controls  it,  pays  ]\Ir. 
Chase  a  very  handsome  annual  revenue.  About  fifty  other 
patents  are  on  ]Mr.  Chase's  list.  After  coming  to  Waterville, 
Air.  Chase  built  the  stone  dam  on  the  Messalonskee  and  devel- 
oped the  business  which  he  sold  to  the  Union  Gas  and  Electric 
Company.  This  has  greatly  increased  Waterville's  electrical 
power.  In  1902  Mr.  Chase  formed  the  Chase  Manufacturing 
Company  and  is  erecting  a  woolen  mill  on  the  ]\Iessalonskee  on 
the  old  tannery  water  privilege.  November  19,  1865,  Mr.  Chase 
w^as  married  to  Aliss  Valora  A.  Whitney,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Hephzibah  Whitney  of  Etna,  Me.  They  have  no  children. 
?\Jr.  Chase  is  a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M. 

Cyrus  IVilliain  Da7is  was  born  in  Buxton  Center,  September 
25,  1856,  the  son  of  Cyrus  and  Harriet  (Pratt)  Davis.  He  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  Buxton  and  in  the  academy  at  Gorham, 
Me.  He  married,  December  25,  1879,  Aliss  Flora  E.  Philbrook, 
daughter  of  Mr.  Joseph  Philbrook  of  Lisbon  Falls.  They  have 
two  sons,  Harold  Philbrook  and  Russell  Wendell.  Mr.  Davis 
began  his  business  life  with  Hon.  E.  H.  Banks  of  Biddeford,  a 
dry  goods  merchant,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  engaged  in 
a  like  business  with  S.  Smith,  Jr.,  in  Waterville.  This  partner- 
ship lasted  for  five  years.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Davis  has  been 
engaged  in  general  investment  and  corporation  business,  since 
1890  under  the  firm  name  of  Davis  and  Soule,  with  offices  in 
New  York  City,  Boston,  St.  John,  N.  B.,  and  Waterville.  He 
is  in  the  directorate  of  many  corporations  and  has  given  much 
attention  to  mining  and  electric  railroads.  His  enterprise  and 
sound  judgment  have  made  him  especially  successful.  Mr. 
Davis  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  government  and  was  elected 
as  Waterville's  representative  in  the  Legislature,  a  position  which 
he  now  (1902)  holds.  He  was  the  Democratic  candidate  for 
speaker  of  the  House,  and  served  on  the  ways  and  means  an:! 
other  important  business  committees.  He  is  a  member  of  Water- 
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514  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

ville  Lodge,  No.  33,  F.  and  A.  j\I.,  Teconnet  Chapter,  No.  52,  R. 
A.  M.,  and  St.  Omer  Commandery  No.  12,  Knights  Templar. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  is  a  trustee  of  Coburn 
Classical  Institute.  He  was  re-elected  to  the  Legislature  in 
September,  1902. 

George  Watson  Dorr,  the  veteran  druggist,  was  born,  March 
24,  1842.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Augusta 
and  in  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary  at  Kents  Hill.  He  has 
been  (1902)  forty-four  years  in  the  drug  business.  After  an 
apprenticeship  of  four  years  in  Boston,  he  was  in  business  for 
nine  years  in  Augusta.  He  then  came  to  Waterville  and  was  in 
partnership  with  Ira  H.  Low  for  five  years  from  1870-1875. 
Mr.  Dorr  was  married,  August  8,  1867,  to  Miss  IMary  P.  Fol- 
lansbee.  They  have  one  daughter,  IMiss  Annie  G.  Dorr.  Mr. 
Dorr  is  a  member  of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Teconnet 
Chapter,  and  St.  Omer  Commandery,  K.  T.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  is  ex-president 
of  the  Maine  Pharmaceutical  Association. 

Reuben  B.  Dunn  was  born  in  Poland,  Me.,  December  23,  1802, 
and  was  the  son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Barnes)  Dunn.  He  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  academy.  He  married,  in 
1827,  Emeline  Davis,  who  died  in  1833;  in  1834  hejnarried  a 
sister  of  Emeline,  Eliza  Davis,  who  died  in  1837;  in  December, 
1838,  he  married  Lydia  R.  Ayer.  He  taught  school  in  1820; 
was  in  a  country  store  in  1821 ;  afterwards  bought  and  sold 
timber  land  and  lumber ;  sold  clocks  and  threshing  machines  all 
the  country  over  from  the  Penobscot  to  the  Hudson ;  general 
lumber  business  until  1857 ;  of  the  firm  Dunn,  Elden  and  Com- 
pany, hardware  dealers,  1850  to  1863;  manufacturing  scythes, 
axes  and  other  agricultural  tools  from  1841  until  his  death ;  pro- 
moting and  developing  railroads,  cotton  and  woolen  mills  from 
1847;  president  Maine  Central  Railroad  to  1870;  in  business 
life  seventy-four  years.  He  represented  the  town  in  the  State 
Legislature.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  and  a  very  large  contributor  to  the  erection  of  its  house 
of  worship  in  this  city.  His  children  were,  by  the  first  wife, 
Emeline,  Mary  Eliza ;  by  the  second,  Sarah  Barnes ;  by  the 
ihird,  Willard  M.,  Reuben  W.,  and  Cora  A.     He  lived  in  Poland, 


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Me.,  to  1841 ,  Readfield,  Me.,  to  August,   1850;  Waterville  to 
his  death  which  occurred,  September  9,  1889. 

Willard  M.  Dttnn,  son  of  Reuben  W.  and  Lydia  ( Ayer)  Dunn, 
was  born  in  Fayette,  ]Me.,  ]\Iay  11,  1845.  He  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Waterville  and  at  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary 
at  Kents  Hill.  He  began  his  business  career  as  a  salesman  in 
a  cloth  store  in  Boston  in  1866,  where  he  remained  three  years. 
Removing  to  Auburn,  he  engaged  in  shoe  manufacturing,  being 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Pulsifer,  Roak  and  Company.  In  1873 
he  became  treasurer  of  the  Ticonic  Water  Powder  and  Manu- 
facturing Company  at  Waterville.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  R.  B.  Dunn  and  Sons  and  shared  actively  in  the  building 
of  the  first  Lockwood  mill  and  in  the  formation  of  the  Lockwood 
Company  and  the  development  of  their  business,  in  which  he 
still  is  a  director.  ]\lr.  Dunn  is  interested  in  other  mills  and  is 
in  the  directorate  of  several  manufacturing  companies.  He  is 
the  president  of  the  Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company  of  Oakland.  In 
1879  he  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Waterville  and  has  been 
re-appointed  under  each  Republican  administration  to  the  present 
time.  He  has  managed  the  rapidly  increasing  volume  of  post- 
office  business  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  department  and  of  the 
patrons  of  the  ofiice.  The  system  has  been  greatly  extended  and 
improved  during  his  administration.  January  i,  1874  Mr.  Dunn 
married  Miss  Alma  B.  Lowell.  They  have  one  child,  Mabel  E., 
who  has  studied  at  Colby  and  in  Boston.  Mr.  Dunn  is  a  member 
of  Waterville  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Teconnet  R.  A.  Chapter,  Mt. 
Lebanon  Council,  St.  Omer  Commandery,  Knights  Templar, 
Kora  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  Havelock  Lodge,  No.  35, 
Knights  of  Pythias. 

Reuben  Wesley  Dunn,  son  of  Reuben  B.  and  Lydia  (Ayer) 
Dunn,  was  born  in  Fayette,  Me.,  February  8,  1847.  ^he  family 
moved  to  Waterville  in  1850.  He  studied  in  the  public  and  pri- 
vate schools  of  Waterville  and  at  the  Alaine  Wesleyan  Seminary 
at  Kents  Hill.  He  was  graduated  by  Colby  University  in  the 
class  of  1868  and  after  teaching  as  principal  of  Corinth  Academy 
for  two  years  gave  himself  wholly  to  a  business  life.  He  has 
been  connected  with  the  Lockwood  Company;  in  partnership 
with  Lorin  A.  Presby  was  in  the  department  store  business  from 
1884  to  1 89 1.  He  has  been  a  director  and  officer  in  several  cotton 


5l6  HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLE. 

and  woolen  mill  corporations  in  Waterville,  Oakland  and  Madi- 
son. Since  1897  he  has  been  president  of  the  Somerset  Railroad 
and  treasurer  and  manager  of  the  Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company  of 
Oakland.  September  2,  1873,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Martha 
Baker,  daughter  of  Judge  Baker  of  Hallowell.  Mrs.  Dunn  is  the 
author  of  "Memory  Street,"  ''Lias'  Wife"  and  other  books ;  also 
of  many  articles  in  the  leading  literary  magazines  which  have 
won  high  appreciation  and  approval.  Her  depth  of  insight, 
clearness  in  portraiture  and  true  feeling,  sometimes  veiled  in 
humor,  have  given  value  as  well  as  popularity  to  her  books, 
while  the  reading  of  her  unpublished  stories  for  the  benefit  of 
the  Woman's  Association  or  the  Woman's  Literary  Club  has 
been  a  delightful  feature  of  their  winter's  program.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Dunn  have  two  children,  Florence  E.  and  Henry  W.  The 
latter  was  graduated  at  Colby  in  '98  and  at  the  Harvard  Law 
School  with  high  honor  in  the  class  of  1902.  Mr.  Dunn  has 
been  on  the  board  of  education  six  years  and  a  trustee  of  Maine 
W^sleyan  Seminary  since  1877.  He  has  received  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  and  A.  M.  from  Colby,  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order, 
the  Zeta  Psi  fraternity  and  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

Moses  C.  Foster  was  born  in  Newry,  Oxford  county,  Me.  in 
July,  1827,  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Lovisa  Foster.  He  studied 
in  the  common  schools,  the  Rumford  High  school,  taught  at  the 
time  by  the  late  Judge  Virgin,  Gould's  Academy,  Bethel,  and 
Bridgton  Academy.  In  June,  1849,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Francina  Smith,  daughter  of  Peter  G.  and  Polly  Smith  of  Bethel. 
In  1846  Mr.  Foster  commenced  business  as  a  contractor  and 
builder  and  has  continued  in  the  same  business  for  fifty-six  years 
(1902).  During  the  Civil  War  he  served,  by  appointment,  as 
master  builder  in  the  quartermaster's  department,  U.  S.  A.,  at 
Washington,  D.  C.  The  most  of  Mr.  Foster's  work  has  been  on 
important  contracts  for  public  buildings  for  the  U.  S.  Govern- 
ment, the  State,  counties,  cities,  towns,  railroads,  churches,  etc. 
He  has,  to  the  present  time,  built  thirteen  churches.  In  1874  he 
moved  to  Waterville  and  in  1880  associated  with  him  in  business, 
his  only  son,  Herbert  G.  Foster  under  the  firm  name  of  M.  C. 
Foster  and  Son.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Herbert  Foster  the  firm 
name  was  continued.  Mr.  Foster  is  a  member  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F., 
and  has  long  been  a  prominent  and  helpful  member  of  the  Metho- 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  517 

dist  church.  His  children  are  Eva  E.,  wife  of  Dr.  E.  E.  Stevens, 
Ada  M.,  wife  of  Hon.  W.  C.  Philbrook;  Herbert  G.,  deceased; 
Carrie  M.,  wife  of  Frank  Redington ;  AUeen,  wife  of  Frederick 
J.  Arnold  ;  and  Angie,  wife  of  Dr.  J.  Frederick  Hill. 

Mark  Gallert  has  been  from  boyhood  in  business  in  Waterville. 
He  was  born  in  Germany,  October  2"/,  1847,  the  son  of  Moses 
Gallert.  In  1862  he  entered  the  store  of  his  brother,  David  Gal- 
lert, who  for  manv  years  was  a  prominent  and  much  respected 
merchant  of  this  city.  Since  1872  Mr.  Gallert  has  been  engaged 
in  the  boot  and  shoe  business,  in  this,  as  in  other  business  ven- 
tures, proving  successful.  October  27,  1872,  being  exactly 
twenty-five  years  old,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Rebecca  Peavy, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Peavy.  He  was  selectman  in  1877  ^"^  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  order.  His  children  are  D.  J.  Gallert, 
Sidney  M.,  Miriam  F.,  Aimer  P.,  and  Gordon.  In  1883  he  built 
the  fine  residence  on  Silver  street  which  has  since  been  his  home. 
He  has  large  holdings  in  city  real  estate. 

Blbridge  L.  Getchell  was  born  in  Waterville,  March  22,  1814. 
He  was  the  son  of  Nehemiah  Getchell,  Jr.,  who  in  turn  was  son 
of  the  Nehemiah  Getchell  who  acted  as  guide  for  Gen.  Benedict 
Arnold  in  his  expedition  against  Quebec.  Eldridge  Getchell  was 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1837,  Waterville  College.  He  was 
twice  married,  in  1839  ^'^  Mary  Shepherd,  whose  father  was  one 
of  the  first  trustees  of  the  college,  and  in  1850  to  Mrs.  Frances 
Ames.  He  read  law  two  years  with  Harrison  A.  Smith  and 
Isaac  Redingon  and  was  then  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  was  post- 
master from  1844- '48  and  from  i854-'6o;  from  1861  to  1879 
cashier  of  W^aterville  Bank.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  college 
from  1S50  to  1880,  and  served  as  treasurer  without  compensa- 
tion for  thirty  years,  from  185 1  to  1881.  He  died,  April  30, 
1899,  at  his  home  on  Getchell  street. 

]V alter  Beemcnt  Getchell  was  born  in  Winslow,  December  24, 
1809 ;  was  the  son  of  William  Getchell.  He  was  in  the  Winslow 
public  schools  and  in  the  Waterville  Institute.  In  1833  he  mar- 
ried Ann  Elisabeth  Balkcom ;  in  1847  Antionette  Colby.  In 
1830  he  was  partner  with  William  Getchell  in  a  grocery  store ; 
from  1 83 1  in  lumber  business,  saw  mills,  steamboat  building  and 
sea  faring ;  and  was  in  business  for  seventy  years.     He  has  long 


5l8  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

been  a  member  of  the  Universalist  church.  His  children  are  Ann 
E.  (Davis),  L.  AHce  (Burr),  Sanborn  P.,  Leslie  S.,  Eva  S., 
Albert  Colby.  His  residence  is  at  47  Silver  street,  Waterville. 
He  is  now  the  oldest  resident  of  the  city. 

Bliphalct  Gozv  was  the  son  of  Dea.  James  Gow,  a  Scotchman 
from  Glasgow,  settled  in  Hallowell.  Eliphalet  served  an  appren- 
ticeship as  a  tinman  until  twenty  years  of  age  when  he  bought 
the  remainder  of  his  time  for  $100,  and  with  ten  dollars  worth 
of  tin  and  a  few  tools  came  to  Waterville.  He  began  business 
in  a  shop  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  Silver  streets.  This  was  in 
1826  or  1827.  Industrious,  skilful  and  upright,  he  steadily  pros- 
pered until  1836  when  he  built  the  store  of  Boutelle  block,  now 
owned  and  occupied  by  W.  B.  Arnold  &  Co.  It  has  been  occu- 
pied continuously  as  a  hardware  store  till  the  present  day,  and  a 
profitable  business  has  been  carried  on  by  every  one  of  Mr.  Gow's 
successors — Chadbourne  &  Gilman,  Jones  R.  Elden,  Stephen 
Stark,  R.  B.  Dunn,  G.  A.  Phillips,  Nathl.  Meader  and  W.  B. 
Arnold  &  Co.  He  married  Serena  M.,  daughter  of  Dea.  Nath'l 
Russell,  in  whose  family  he  lived.  His  son,  Geo.  B.  Gow,  was 
educated  at  Waterville  Academy,  Waterville  College  and  New- 
ton Theological  Seminary.  He  was  settled  as  a  pastor  in 
Gloucester,  Mass.  and  Glens  Falls,  N.  Y.,  and  having  retired 
from  the  ministry  on  account  of  ill  health,  is  now  living  at 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.     Eliphalet  Gow  died  of  consumption,  1837. 

Joseph  Henry  Grondin,  born  in  St.  Victor,  Canada,  county  of 
Bauce,  April  3,  1851,  was  the  son  of  Narcisse  and  Marie 
(Bolduc)  Grondin;  married,  January  11,  1887,  Alphonsine 
Dufault,  born  in  Sherbrooke,  Canada.  Their  two  children  are 
Antionette  and  Gragiella.  He  came  to  Waterville  at  the  age  of 
two  and  one-half  years,  was  educated  in  our  public  schools,  and 
in  1889  bought  out  the  stove  and  furniture  business  of  Oscar 
Emerson,  with  whom  he  had  worked  for  fifteen  years.  He  was 
overseer  of  the  poor  for  two  years ;  was  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  of  the  Union  Lafayette,  of  the  United 
Workmen,  and  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus.  His  death  occurred 
December  30,  1900,  as  the  result  of  an  accident. 

Charles  Poster  Hathazvay,  born  in  Plymouth,  Mass.,  July  2, 
181 6,  was  the  son  of  Joshua  and  Rebecca  (Foster)  Hathaway.  He 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  519 

was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  but  began  work  when 
eleven  vears  of  age.  In  1840  he  married  Temperance  Black- 
well.  He  learned  the  printer's  trade  wnth  E.  Merriam  &  Co., 
West  Brookfield,  ^lass.,  and  worked  for  some  time  with  G.  &  C. 
^vlerriam,  Springfield,  ^Mass.  He  came  to  Waterville  in  1843, 
worked  as  a  printer  here  and  in  1847  started  "The  Waterville 
Union,"  which  he  soon  sold  to  Ephriam  Maxham,  who  changed 
its  name  to  "The  Eastern  Mail."  In  1850  he  built  a  shirt  factory 
in  Watertown,  Mass.,  and  in  1853  started  the  same  business  in 
Waterville,  which  he  continued  until  his  death.  He  was 
very  active  in  temperance  and  religious  work  and  his  efforts 
among  the  people  on  the  Plains,  begun  in  1857,  had  much  to  do 
in  starting  the  Baptist  interest  in  that  part  of  the  city.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  His  place  of  business  and 
residence  were  on  Applet  on  street.     He  died,  December  5,  1893. 

Frederick  P.  Haviland,  long  prominent  in  the  business  life  of 
the  city,  was  born  at  Danville,  Vt.,  December  24,  1808,  the  son 
of  Ebenezer  Haviland.  He  came  to  Waterville  in  1833  in  the 
employ  of  the  Fairbanks  Company  who,  fearing  that  the  scale 
business  would  be  overstocked,  started  the  manufacture  of  plows 
at  Waterville.  This  was  the  beginning  of  the  Waterville  Iron 
Works.  In  1843  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^  Webber  and  Haviland  was  formed 
and  continued  the  foundry  business  until  1873,  when  Webber 
and  Philbrick  became  their  successors.  Mr.  Haviland  was  mar- 
ried in  June,  1848,  to  Aliss  Abby  Chase  of  Fryeburg,  Me.  Mr. 
Haviland  had  two  sons,  Frederick,  who  spent  most  of  his  life 
in  the  West,  and  Charles  T.,  who  is  in  business  in  New  York. 
^Ir.  Haviland  had  represented  Waterville  in  the  Legislature, 
was  one  of  the  first  board  of  aldermen,  and  a  director  of  the 
Peoples  Bank.  He  was  an  active  and  influential  member  of  the 
Congregational  church.  He  was  prosperous  in  business,  helpful 
in  business  relations  and  charitable  to  the  needy.  He  died  in 
January,  1893,  his  wife  surviving  him  until  1902. 

Hon.  Josiah  Manchester  Haynes,  son  of  Josiah  M.  and  Bath- 
sheba  (Waugh)  Haynes,  was  born  in  Waterville,  May  12,  1839. 
He  studied  at  Waterville  Academy,  Coburn  Institute  and  was 
graduated  with  high  rank  at  Waterville  College  in  the  class  of 
i860.     He  then  became  principal  of  Lincoln  Academy,   New- 


520  HISTORY    OF    WAT^RVILLE. 

castle,  Me.,  where  he  taught  successfully  for  three  years.  After 
two  years'  study  of  the  law  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York 
bar  in  1865.  In  1866  he  returned  to  Maine  and  engaged  in  busi- 
ness enterprises  at  Augusta.  These  enterprises  have  been 
remarkably  successful.  He  has  been  president  of  the  Kennebec 
Land  and  Lumber  Company,  of  the  Haynes  and  DeWitt  Ice 
Company,  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Edwards  Manufac- 
turing Company,  and,  in  1894,  organized  the  Augusta  Trust 
Company,  of  which  he  is  president.  He  is  largely  interested 
and  is  a  director  in  the  Augusta  and  Gardiner  Street  Railway, 
the  Thomaston  and  Camden,  the  Bangor  and  Oldtown,  and  many 
other  similar  properties  in  the  West.  He  is  also  a  director  of 
the  Eastern  Steamboat  Company.  For  five  years  he  represented 
Augusta  in  the  Legislature,  for  four  of  which  he  was  speaker 
of  the  House.  He  has  had  two  terms  in  the  State  Senate  and  was 
president  of  that  body  during  the  critical  year  of  1879.  His 
ability  as  a  lawyer,  orator  and  statesman  was  of  great  value  to 
the  State  at  that  time  in  the  settlement  of  questions  which  threat- 
ened bloodshed.  Mr.  Haynes  was  married  in  1865  to  Miss  Eliza- 
beth S.  Sturgis.  Their  children  are  Marion  Douglass,  Hope 
Manchester,  Muriel  Sturgis.  The  family  residence  is  at 
Augusta. 

Perham  S.  HeaJd  was  born  in  Solon,  Maine,  December  20, 
1842,  the  son  of  Thomas  H.  Heald.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  that  stern  school,  the  Civil  War.  Mr. 
Heald  enlisted,  August  25,  1862,  in  the  19th  Maine,  one  of  the 
famed  fighting  regiments.  He  served  till  the  close  of  the  war, 
sharing  in  the  battles  of  Fredericksburg,  Gettysburg,  the  Wil- 
derness, Petersburg  and  many  minor  engagements.  For  nine 
months  he  was  a  prisoner  at  Libby  and  Andersonville.  At  the 
close  of  the  war  Mr.  Heald  commenced  business  in  Waterville 
as  a  clothing  merchant,  and  has  continued  in  the  same  business 
ever  since  (1902).  In  1868  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  E. 
\Vebb.  Mr.  Heald  has  had  an  active  part  in  politics,  was  city 
assessor  for  three  years,  member  of  the  Maine  Legislature  1887, 
1888,  1889.  Member  of  the  Senate,  1897,  1899.  Mr.  Heald  is 
a  member  of  W.  S.  Heath  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  he  has  been 
commander,  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  521 

He  has  one  son,  Mr.  Fred  P.  Heald,  who  is  engaged  in  business 
with  his  father. 

Sheriff  James  Preston  Hill  was  born  in  Waterville,  August 
2,  1827,  the  son  of  Purmot  and  Lydia  Smith  Hill.  Early  in 
Hfe  Mr.  Hill  learned  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith,  but  later  became 
proprietor  of  a  grocery  store  which  he  conducted  for  many  years. 
During  the  \\'ar  of  the  Rebellion  he  served  as  provost  marshal, 
and  for  the  last  thirty-five  years  has  been  deputy  sheriff  of  Ken- 
nebec county.  Mr.  Hill  has  been  deeply  interested  in  the  fire 
department,  was  an  original  member  of  the  famous  ''Waterville 
3"  company  and  served  for  some  time  as  chief  engineer  of  the 
department.  February  17,  1849,  ^'^^  married  INIiss  Emeline  B. 
Simpson.  Their  children  are  Annie  M.  (Cain),  Charles  A.,  Dr. 
J.  Frederick,  Edward  P.,  Blanche  F.  and  Wallace  A. 

George  Jezvell  was  born  in  Clinton,  Maine,  June  3,  1824,  and 
was  the  son  of  Sargent  Jewell.  His  education  was  received  in 
a  small  country  school.  He  was  married,  July  15,  1849,  to  Clara 
Foster  of  Clinton.  He  came  to  Waterville  in  1844  and  engaged 
in  steamboating  on  the  Kennebec,  first  as  a  deck  hand,  then  as  a 
mate,  finally  as  captain.  In  1857  he  purchased  the  Elmwood 
stables  of  Mr.  C.  E.  Gray,  and  a  few  years  later  the  Silver  street 
stables,  and  continued  the  livery  business  until  failing  health 
compelled  him  to  give  it  up  after  having  been,  for  fifty  years  in 
active  business  life.  He  was  for  several  years  one  of  the  select- 
men of  the  town.  He  gave  his  support  to  the  Unitarian  church. 
He  was  a  charter  member  of  Samaritan  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F,,  and 
belonged  to  all  the  Masonic  orders  in  the  city — Waterville  Lodge, 
No.  33,  St.  Omer  Commandery,  No.  12.  His  son,  Capt.  Frank 
A.  Jewell,  has  for  many  years  commanded  a  steamer  on  the 
Sacramento  river,  California,  and  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Annie  F. 
Cowan,  now  resides  with  her  mother  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  He 
died  at  the  Elmwood,  October  30,  1895,  ^^^  the  funeral  services, 
with  Masonic  ceremonies,  were  held  in  the  Unitarian  church,  and 
were  conducted  by  Rev.  J.  L.  Seward  and  Rev.  J.  T.  Volentine. 
Capt.  Jewell  was  for  fifty-one  years  a  resident  of  W^aterville. 

Edgar  L.  Jones,  son  of  Samuel  S.  Jones,  was  born  in  Dexter, 
Me.,  March  15,  1853;  was  educated  in  our  common  schools  and 
in  the  University  of  Michigan  ;  married  M.  Adelle  Curtis,  Octo- 


522  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLD. 

ber  20,  1875.  Located  as  a  dentist  in  Waterville  in  the  Savings 
Bank  block  in  1879.  ^^^^  elected  alderman  in  1888,  and  was 
mayor  of  Waterville  for  the  two  years  1891  and  1892.  Is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  His  two  sons  are  Charles  Leroy 
and  Carl  Curtis.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  build  in  Nudd  Field, 
at  the  corner  of  Nudd  and  Dalton  streets.  His  present  residence 
is  at  58  Elm  street. 

Simeon  Keith,  one  of  the  oldest  residents  of  Waterville,  was 
a  member  of  the  Centennial  Committee  of  one  hundred  and  had 
a  deep  interest  in  the  anniversary,  but  his  death  occurred  before 
the  time  of  the  celebration.  His  genial  face,  kindly  spirit,  interest 
in  others,  and  especially  all  that  concerned  Waterville,  made  him 
one  of  the  most  popular  of  the  citizens.  He  was  born  in  Winslow, 
Oct.  26,  1814,  the  son  of  Sidney,  son  of  Simeon  Keith.  For 
sixty-three  years  Mr.  Keith  was  engaged  in  the  carriage  trim- 
ming and  harness  making  business  in  Waterville.  For  fifty 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Waterville  Fire  Department, 
serving  it  in  every  capacity,  and  was  chief  engineer  for  many 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  from  its  organ- 
ization until  his  death  was  a  loyal  supporter  of  the  Unitarian 
church.  He  married,  Nov.  26,  1840,  Miss  Lydia  Frances  Hill  of 
Waterville.  Their  children  were  Sidney,  Willard,  Charles  F., 
Marian  and  Robert.  Charles  F.  has  been  connected  with  the 
railroad  nearly  all  his  life ;  w^as  for  twenty-one  years  engineer, 
and  has  held  the  position  of  traveling  engineer  on  the  M.  C.  R.  R. 
since  1893.  He  has  been  long  connected  with  the  city  govern- 
ment, serving  four  years  as  alderman.  He  is  married  and  has 
one  son,  Albert  R.  Keith. 

William  Kendall  was  born  in  Kendall's  Mills,  Fairfield,  Jan.  2, 
1784.  He  was  the  son  of  Gen.  Wm.  Kendall,  who  was  bom 
Sept.  IT,  1759,  and  died  Aug.  11,  1827.  He  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools.  He  married  Abigail  Chase,  by  whom  he  had 
six  children,  William,  Orra,  Mahaleth,  Emeline,  James  Madison 
and  Benjamin  Franklin.  He  married  a  second  time  Philadelphia 
Bowie  Maxwell,  and  had  one  child,  Juliette.  James  M.,  of  Bow- 
doinham,  is  the  onlv  child  now  living,  85  years  old. 

Mr.  Wm.  Kendall  ran  a  saw  mill  in  Waterville,  on  Ticonic 
dam,  near  where  the  factories  now  are,  six  or  eight  hundred  feet 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  523 

south  of  the  bridge.  He  invented  and  built  the  first  circular  saw. 
The  saw  was  six  feet  in  diameter,  built  of  boiler  plates  riveted 
together ;  and  the  steel  teeth,  about  three  by  four  inches,  were 
fastened  in  proportion  by  fifteen  or  twenty  rivets  for  each  tooth. 
The  saw  would  do  the  work  of  four  saws,  and  once  there  was 
made  from  a  single  pine  log  3310  feet  of  clear  boards.  A  cara- 
van came  to  the  town,  charging  twenty-five  cents  admission,  and 
on  the  next  day  they  came  to  the  mill  and  each  man  put  twenty- 
five  cents  into  the  hat  held  by  one  of  their  number,  saying  that  it 
was  more  of  a  show  to  see  the  saw  walk  through  a  log  than  it  was 
to  see  their  own  exhibition.  "Jan.  i,  1827,  the  fcitizens  of  Water- 
ville  presented  to  Capt.  William  Kendall,  then  townsman,  a  gold 
medal  in  approbation  of  the  improvement  he  has  made  in  the 
circular  saw.  The  money  to  purchase  the  medal  was  given  by 
subscribers,  at  one  dollar  each,  no  one  being  permitted  to  give 
more.  The  medal  in  form  resembled  the  circular  saw,  and  was 
made  by  Mayor  Bolcom  of  this  town.  At  three  o'clock  a  large 
number  of  people  had  assembled  at  Dow's  Hall,  which  was  neatly 
prepared  for  the  occasion.  The  medal  was  presented  by  Prof. 
Avery  Briggs  of  Waterville  College.  After  the  presentation  the 
company  partook  of  refreshments,  prepared  by  the  committee, 
consisting  of  Jediah  IMerrill,  Daniel  Cook  and  Lucius  Allen." 
— Waterville  Intelligencer,  Jan.  4,  1827. 

Mr.  Kendall  was  also  at  work  upon  revolvers,  and  had  one  all 
completed  as  far  as  setting  the  barrels,  and  others  under  way, 
when  one  night  the  greater  part  of  the  work  was  stolen.  He 
also  made  an  invention  pertaining  to  the  casing  of  water  wheels, 
which  he  patented  and  which  he  used  in  Waterville  and  in  Fair- 
field, His  residence  here  was  near  the  west  end  of  Ticonic 
bridge,  between  Moses  Dalton's  and  John  R.  Philbrick's.  He 
died  in  Fairfield,  Nov.  2^,  1872. 

Christian  Knaiiit'  was  born  in  Hersfeld,  Germany,  May  i,  1841, 
the  son  of  Heinrich  Knauff ;  was  educated  in  public  and  com- 
mercial schools  ;  married  Mathilde  Susskraut  in  Portland,  Jan.  16, 
1868,  and  Ida  Grimm  in  New  York,  Oct.  5,  1876.  He  came  to 
W^aterville  in  1863,  ^^^^  was  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business 
until  1895 ;  was  a  member  of  the  common  council  in  1891  and 
1892,  and  of  the  board  of  aldermen  in  1893 ;  was  mayor  of  the 


524  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

city  in  1894  and  1895,  and  is  now  acting  as  overseer  of  the  poor; 
is  a  director  of  the  People's  National  Bank  of  Waterville,  and 
president  of  Waterville  Savings  Bank ;  is  a  member  of  Samari- 
tan Lodge,  No.  39,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Ahiram  Encampment,  No.  22, 
and  Canton  Halifax,  No.  24.  His  children  are  Mrs.  Lizzie  M. 
Parsons,  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Emma  A.  Knaufif,  Waterville, 
Henry  W.  Knauff,  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Frederick  E.  Knauff, 
Minneapolis,  Minn.  His  residence  is  at  No.  29  Pleasant  street, 
Waterville. 

Isaac  C.  Libby  was  born  at  Exeter,  Maine,  June  2,  1837.  He 
was  the  son  of  James  and  Mary  Ann  (Boston)  Libby.  He  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Exeter  and  Troy,  Me.,  and 
fitted  for  college  at  Hampden  (Me.)  Academy.  He  married 
Helen  M.  Green  of  Troy,  Me.,  in  1859.  He  began  teaching 
school  at  the  age  of  sixteen ;  in  1858  engaged  in  farming  in 
Troy ;  in  i860  started  in  the  cattle  business,  shipping  live  stock  to 
the  Brighton  market,  and  his  extensive  business  gave  him  the 
title  of  "Cattle  King  of  Maine."  In  1892  he  moved  to  Water- 
ville ;  became  a  director  of  the  People's  National  Bank,  and  pres- 
ident of  Waterville  Trust  and  Safe  Deposit  Company.  In  1893, 
purchased  Waterville  and  Fairfield  Railway  and  Light  Company, 
and  became  president  of  same ;  first  president  of  the  Maine  Con- 
densed Milk  Co. ;  in  connection  with  A.  F.  Gerald,  constructed 
the  Calais  and  St.  Stephen,  the  Skowhegan  and  Norridgewock, 
the  Bangor,  Orono  and  Old  Town,  and  the  Portsmouth,*  Kittery 
and  York  Street  Railways,  and  was  treasurer  of  all  of  these 
companies.  In  company  with  Messrs.  Merrill,  Milliken  and 
C.  E.  Libby,  he  owned  and  operated  two  large  sheep  and  cattle 
ranches  in  INIontana.  In  1893  he  purchased  the  large  landed 
estate  known  as  the  "Waterville  Annex."  He  was  Republican 
representative  to  the  Maine  Legislature  in  1885- 1889,  member  of 
the  National  Convention  of  1888  that  nominated  Benjamin  Har- 
rison. He  was  a  Free  Mason  and  an  Odd  Fellow,  and  an  hon- 
orary member  of  several  temperance  societies.  His  children  are 
Arthur  Preston,  Charles  Everett,  Howard  Isaac,  Ernest  L., 
Frank  Leroy,  Pearl  Ashton,  Mrs.  Wm.  M.  Pulsifer,  and  Herbert 
Carlyle.  He  contributed  more  than  a  thousand  articles  to  New 
England  papers.  His  place  of  residence  was  on  Highwood  street, 
Waterville.     He  died  Oct.  12,  1899. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  S^S 

William  M.  Lincoln,  a  life-long  resident  and  business  man  of 
this  city,  was  born  in  Waterville  July  26,  1830,  the  son  of  George 
W.  Lincoln.  He  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  and 
the  Institute,  and  he  entered  business  as  a  grocer  in  1854.  This 
he  continued  with  marked  success  for  forty  years,  retiring  in 
1894  and  disposing  of  his  business  to  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  Geo. 
A.  Kennison,  and  his  son,  Frank  A.  Lincoln. 

Mr.  Lincoln  was  married  in  1856  to  IMiss  Delia  H.  Ireland. 
Their  children  are  Cora  B.,  Florence  M.  (Kennison),  Frank  A. 
and  Ralph  E.  Mr.  Lincoln  was  member  of  the  city  council  for 
two  years,  and  since  1854  has  been  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Order.  Since  his  retirement  from  business  Mr.  Lincoln  has 
given  his  attention  to  his  large  holdings  of  real  estate.  His  resi- 
dence since  1854  has  been  at  22  School  street. 

Charles  Edzvard  Matthews  is  not  an  old  man,  although  his  bus- 
iness trade  mark  is  "Old  Reliable."  He  was  born  in  Boston, 
Dec.  2,  1846,  the  son  of  George  F.  and  Louisa  Field  Alatthews. 
He  was  married  Dec.  24,  1876,  to  Miss  Clara  Snell,  daughter  of 
Mr  Ebenezer  Snell  of  St.  Albans.  Two  children  were  born  to 
them,  Louisa  Bates  and  Gertrude  Isabel.  Mr.  Matthews  has 
had  two  partners  in  business,  Mr.  Geo.  H.  Matthews  and  ^Ir. 
D.  H.  Swan.  He  has  served  the  city  as  councilman,  alderman 
and  chairman  of  the  board  of  registration.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  Order,  and  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters. 
He  has  been  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  since  1881. 

Charles  Kimball  Mathews  was  born  in  Waterville,  Nov.  19, 
1823.  He  was  the  son  of  John  and  Pamelia  Mathews.  He 
attended  the  town  schools,  Waterville  Liberal  Institute  and  Hal- 
lowell  Academv.  He  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Marston.  He 
taught  a  winter  term  of  school  in  Sidney,  taught  in  Waterville 
Grammar  school,  and  one  term  in  Hallowell.  In  April,  1846, 
he  entered  the  book  business  in  Waterville,  in  which  he  con- 
tinned  twenty-eight  years.  For  five  years  he  was  engaged  m 
introducing  school  books,  and  for  twenty-three  he  conducted 
an  insurance  agency,  a  total  of  fifty-six  years  of  active  business 
life.  He  was  a  director  in  the  old  Ticonic  Bank  and  in  the 
Ticonic  National  Bank  for  thirty-six  years,  and  president  of  the 
latter  for  eight  and  a  half  years.     He  was  a  trustee  of  Waterville 


526  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

Savings  Bank  for  about  twelve  years.  He  served  as  chair- 
man of  the  board  of  selectmen ;  was  a  Freemason,  in  religious 
preferences  a  Unitarian.  His  children  are  Florence,  George, 
Charles  W.  and  Lizzie  C.  Of  these,  all  are  deceased  except  the 
son,  Charles  W.,  who  for  several  }'ears  has  been  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  insurance  business.  Mr.  Mathews  was  one  of 
the  committee  of  one  hundred  and  took  deep  interest  in  the  Cen- 
tennial.    He  died,  August  4,  IQ02. 

Bphraim  Ma.vJiain  was  born  in  Middleboro,  Mass.,  in  1809. 
and  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Maxham.  He  married,  in  1838,  Eliza 
Anna  Naylor,  who  died  April  13,  1900.  He  came  to  Water- 
ville  from  Boston  in  1847,  ^^'^^  started  "The  Eastern  Mail,"  send- 
ing copies  of  this  new  paper  to  subscribers  of  "The  Waterville 
Union,"  a  paper  which  had  been  published  for  a  short  time,  by 
Charles  F.  Hathaway,  but  which  was  then  discontinued.  In 
July,  1849  Daniel  R.  \\'ing,  was  admitted  to  partnership  in  the 
"IMail,"  and  the  paper  was  published  by  Maxham  and  Wing 
until  the  death  of  Mr.  Wing  in  1885,  December  2nd.  Mr.  Mslx- 
ham  was  a  charter  member  of  Samaritan  Lodge,  L  O.  O.  F.,  and 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Waterville  Lodge  of  Freemasons.  He 
had  one  son,  George  Naylor,  who  served  his  country  honorably 
in  the  Civil  War.  Mr.  IMaxham  built  the  house  on  Temple 
street  next  west  of  the  Congregational  church,  and  occupied  this 
house  at  the  time  of  his  death.     He  died,  December  27,  1886. 

Charles  R.  McFadden  was  born  in  V'assalboro,  November  20, 
1820,  and  was  the  son  of  Charles  and  Temperance  (Blackwell) 
]\tcFadden.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  and  mar- 
ried Emma  H.  Butterfield,  February  11,  1849.  He  was  in  the 
dry  goods  business  in  Waterville  for  nine  years,  was  collector 
and  treasurer  of  the  town,  was  postmaster  from  1861  to  1879, 
sheriff  of  Kennebec  county  from  1884  to  1888.  He  belonged  to 
Waterville  Lodge,  No.  33,  F.  and  A.  Alasons  and  to  Teconnet 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Universalist  church. 
His  children  are  Andrew  L.,  sheriff  of  Kennebec  county,  Alice, 
and  Zaidee,  who  died  November  4,  1880.  Mr.  McFadden  died 
August  7,  1897. 

Bdzvard  G.  Mcader,  long  connected  with  the  business  interests 
of  Waterville,  was  bom  in  Farmington,  N.  H.,  in  1825,  the  son 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  527 

of  Nathaniel  INIeacler.  He  was  educated  in  the  Friends  School 
of  Providence,  R.  I.  lie  came  to  Waterville  in  1848  and 
engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business  with  Geo.  A.  Phillips  under 
the  firm  name  of  Meader  and  Phillips,  continuing  the  business 
until  1869.  November  14,  1854  he  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Helen  A.  Smith,  daughter  of  Gen.  Franklin  Smith.  Their 
children  are  Edward  L.,  Emily  P.,  who  was  graduated  at  Colby 
in  the  class  of  1878:  Helen  S.  and  Arthur  R.  In  1869  Mr. 
Meader  entered  into  partnership  with  Gen.  Franklin  Smith  and 
F.  A.  Smith  and  engaged  extensively  in  the  lumber  and  milling 
business  until  1880.  Mr.  Meader  retired  from  active  business 
several  years  ago. 

Nathaniel  Meader  was  born  at  Rochester,  Strafford  Co.,  N.  H., 
November  24,  1836;  the  son  of  Hanson  and  Susan  (Lewis 
Shaw)  ]\Ieader.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Waterville  College  of  the 
class  of  1863,  and  is  a  member  of  the  ^  B  K  fraternity.  From 
1864  to  1875  h^  "^v^s  in  the  hardware  business  of  Arnold  and 
Meader;  1876-1888,  Hubbard  and  Blake  Manufacturing 
Company;  1888- 1892,  Waterville  Electric  Light  and  Power 
Company;  1898-190T,  Union  Gas  and  Electric  Company. 
Member  Maine  House  of  Representatives,  i876-'77,  and 
1884;  selectman  1884;  mayor  1889  and  1890.  Past  master 
Waterville  Lodge  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  ;  member  Teconnet 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  past  commander  St.  Omer  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  Templar.  His  residence  is  at  No.  16,  Morrill 
avenue.  Mr.  Meader  has  always  been  deeply  interested  in  the 
welfare  of  the  town.  It  was  by  his  eff'orts  that  the  town  was  led 
to  provide  free  text-books  for  the  public  schools. 

James  L.  Merrick  was  born  in  Troy,  Me.,  March  24,  1845,  ^he 
son  of  Hall  C.  and  Hannah  Work  Merrick.  He  was  educated 
in  the  common  and  high  schools  but  at  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
left  home  for  the  sterner  discipline  of  the  camp  and  battlefield. 
He  enlisted  in  Company  C,  19th  Maine  Regiment  Volunteer 
Infantry,  July  22.  1862.  Totally  disabled,  he  was  discharged  in 
April,  1863.  In  December,  1863  he  re-enlisted  and  served  to 
the  close  of  1864.  Mr.  Merrick  has  held  many  ofiices  in  the  G. 
A.  R.,  has  been  commander  of  W.  S.  Heath  Post,  department 
inspector,  assistant  inspector-general,  assistant  adjutant-general, 


528  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

1894,  '98  and  1900.  With  remarkable  unanimity  he  was  chosen 
commander  Department  of  Maine  G.  A.  R  for  1902-3.  He  was 
made  a  Master  Mason  in  1866,  joined  the  Odd  Fellows  in  1877 
and  has  held  offices  in  all  three  branches  of  the  order.  At  present 
he  is  colonel  of  the  2nd  Regiment,  Patriarchs  Militant,  I.  O.  O.  F. 
For  twenty-four  years  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  nursery  stock 
business,  employing  a  large  number  of  agents.  He  was  married 
March  16,  1869,  to  Susan  Helen,  daughter  of  Nathan  and  Betsy 
Webb  Ward  of  Thorndike,  Me.  Their  children  are  Maude  M., 
Nella  M.,  Herbert  James,  Franklin  L.,  Bessie  A.  Mr.  Merrick 
served  as  superintendent  of  schools  in  Troy,  Me.,  for  three  years 
and  for  two  years  in  the  city  conncil  of  Waterville. 

George  Alpheus  Lyon  MerriHeld,  born  in  Waterville,  March  i, 
1839,  in  the  little  cottage  long  occupied  by  the  late  Rufus  Nason, 
(a  relative)  now  standing  on  upper  Main  street,  named  for  Hon. 
George  Evans,  a  noted  politician  of  his  day,  and  for  Hon. 
Alpheus  Lyon,  an  early  resident  of  the  town.  Mr.  Merrifield 
was  educated  at  the  Waterville  Liberal  Institute,  and  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  the  village ;  was  engaged  in  the  boot  and  shoe 
trade  in  1865,  when  appointed  to  a  government  position  in  Wash- 
ington, entering  the  pension  bureau  of  the  interior  department, 
on  June  fifth  of  that  year,  where  he  has  served  continuously 
since,  a  period  of  thirty-seven  years.  It  is  rare  that  a  man  fills 
a  government  position  in  the  same  bureau  for  so  long  a  period, 
and  Mr,  Merrifield  is  one  of  the  few  enjoying  that  distinction, 
being  promoted  in  class  and  salary  from  time  to  time  until  1882, 
when  appointed  a  ''principal  examiner"  under  an  act  of  Cbngress 
in  that  year  creating  the  position.  Though  a  resident  of  Vir- 
ginia for  the  last  twenty-eight  years  Mr.  Merrifield  has  a  warm 
love  for  his  native  village  and  the  old  neighbors  and  friends  and 
visits  the  old  home  at  frequent  intervals. 

Dennis  Libby  Milliken  was  born  at  Scarboro,  Maine,  February 
1st,  1804,  and  was  the  son  of  Allison  and  Jane  Libby  Milliken. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  Gorham  (Me.) 
Academy.  In  May,  1829,  he  was  married  to  Aliss  Jane  Larra- 
bee.  In  1830  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  with  Jacob 
Southwick  of  Vassalboro,  which  he  carried  on  successfully  for 
many  years.     He  was  largely  engaged  in  the  banking  business 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  529 

after  1853.  Mr.  Alilliken  was  a  member  of  the  Maine  House  of 
Representatives,  of  the  Maine  Senate,  member  of  the  Council 
under  Governors  Fairfield,  Kavanagh  and  Lot  M.  Morrill ; 
trustee  of  Waterville  College  (now  Colby  College),  from  1859 
during  life.  He  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  commissioners 
to  equalize  town  bounties  paid  during  the  Civil  War ;  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Androscoggin  and  Kennebec  Railroad ;  president  of 
the  Waterville  Bank  and  of  the  Waterville  National  Bank  from 
1855  until  his  death.  As  a  man  of  business  Mr.  Milliken  oc- 
cupied a  prominent  place  in  his  town,  county  and  state.  He 
brought  to  the  various  business  enterprises  in  which  he  was  en- 
gaged, the  soundest  and  most  penetrating  judgment;  and  this, 
joined  with  the  high  reputation  for  integrity  which  he  uniformly 
maintained  is  doubtless  very  largely  the  explanation  of  the  pros- 
perity and  success  which  are  understood  to  have  rewarded  his 
business  career.  He  was  a  member  and  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Unitarian  Society  in  Waterville.  His  children  are  George, 
Edward,  Hadassah  J.  (jNlrs.  Isaac  S.  Bangs)  and  Mary  E.  Mr. 
^[illiken  died  in  Waterville,  October  28th,  1879. 

Hon.  Joshua  Nye  was  born  at  Bucksport,  Me.,  December  25, 
1819.  He  worked  on  a  farm  until  he  was  sixteen  years  old^ 
studied  in  the  common  schools  and  in  academies  at  Waterville 
and  Kent's  Hill.  In  1846  he  engaged  in  trade  at  Fairfield  and 
Waterville  and  on  June  twenty-third  of  that  year  was  married 
to  Elizabeth  Wood  of  Groton,  Mass,  He  represented 
Waterville  in  the  Legislature  of  Maine.  He  became  treasurer 
of  the  Androscoggin  and  Kennebec  Railroad  in  1855  and  for 
seventeen  years  held  the  position  and  also  was  financial  agent  of 
the  Maine  Central  Railroad.  During  his  life  in  Waterville,  Mr. 
Nye  was  especially  active  in  temperance  work,  gathering  about 
him  every  week  the  young  people  for  instruction  in  temperance. 
They  were  called  the  Cadets  of  Temperance  and  included  many 
who  are  now  the  foremost  citizens.  He  was  also  a  faithful  mem- 
ber and  liberal  supporter  of  the  Congregational  church.  In 
1868  he  was  appointed  State  constable  for  enforcing  the  prohibi- 
tory law  and  refusing  the  salary  of  $2,000  per  year  which  ac- 
companied the  office,  so  zealously  did  he  fulfill  its  duties  that  his 
life  was  threatened  many  times.     His  life  work  has  been  in  the 

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530  HISTORY    OF    WAT^RVILLi:. 

line  of  temperance.  He  was  president  of  the  Maine  State  Tem- 
perance society  for  twelve  years,  has  been  a  member  of  the  Sons 
of  Temperance  for  fifty-eight  years ;  twice  has  been  grand  chief 
Templar  of  Maine  in  the  I.  O.  G.  T.  For  six  years  Mr.  Nye 
was  insurance  commissioner  of  Maine,  and  afterward  was  con- 
nected with  the  Equitable  Life  Insurance  Company.  From  1871 
to  1876  he  represented  Maine  as  Centennial  Commissioner  at 
Philadelphia.  In  1885  he  removed  to  Boston,  and  for  many 
years  has  been  connected  with  the  Boston  Custom  House.  His 
son  Frank  E.  Nye,  was  graduated  at  West  Point  in  1869,  and  is 
now  (1902)  colonel  in  the  Commissary  Department,  stationed  at 
Vancouver  Barracks,  Washington.  The  Nye  residence  in 
Waterviile  is  now  the  home  of  Mr.  J.  Frank  Elden  on  Main 
street. 

Augustus  Otten  was  born  in  Erkelenz,  Prussia,  December  18, 
1853,  the  son  of  H.  A.  Otten.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  land  and  came  when  a  boy  of  fifteen 
to  New  York,.  There  he  learned  the  business  of  baker.  Coming 
to  Waterviile  he  established  a  bakery  December  19,  1883,  which 
with  frequent  enlargement  and  increasing  success  he  has  con- 
tinued to  the  present  time  (1902).  Ocober  7,  1885,  he  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Delia  Richardson,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Silas  Richardson  of  Skowhegan,  Me.  Mr.  Otten  is  a  member 
of  Havelock  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias.  The  family  attend  the 
Baptist  church. 

Jacob  Peavy  was  born  in  the  village  of  Krotoshine,  Province  of 
Posen.  He  came  to  America  in  1848,  but  was  shipwrecked  and 
landed  after  much  hardship  possessed  only  of  his  life,  his  deter- 
mined purpose  and  his  signal  business  ability.  He  came  to 
Waterviile  in  1852  and  with  his  brothers  L.  H.  and  Isaac,  es- 
tablished the  house  of  J.  Peavy  and  Brothers,  Their  business 
was  the  cutting,  making  and  retailing  of  men's  clothing.  Steadily 
the  business  advanced  until  it  became  the  foundation  of  the  great 
houses  m  Boston  and  New  York  now  known  as  Peavy  Brothers. 
Mr.  Peavy  removed  to  Boston  in  1890,  where  he  died  in  1894. 
He  had  accumulated  a  large  fortune  and  had  firmly  established 
the  great  business  which  has  since  been  carried  on  by  his  sons. 
His  children  are  Rebecca  P.,  now  Mrs.  Mark  Gallert,  Gustavus  I„ 


HISTORY    OF    WATER\'ILLE.  531 

who  graduated  from  Colby  in  the  class  of  1875,  Silas,  Henry, 
Esther,  now  Mrs.  M.  H.  Goldschmidt  of  Boston,  and  Leo.  All 
the  sons  are  connected  with  the  business  which  they  inherited 
and  have  extended. 

Homer  Percival  was  the  son  of  William  Percival,  who  came 
to  Winslow  in  1804,  and  moved  to    Cross    Hill,  Vassalboro,  in 
1807.     Here    Homer   was    bom,    March    27th,  1816.     He  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools.     He  married  Mary  Crocker 
Percival,  November  15,  1840.     He  came  to  Waterville  when  a 
young  man  and  was  a  clerk  in    Mr.  Sanger's   store,  and   after- 
wards  was    in   partnership    with    his    broher,     Joseph.     After 
twenty-five  years  in  business  he  became  cashier  of  the  Peoples' 
Bank  and  of  the  Peoples'  National  Bank,  being  succeeded  after 
thirty-six  years  by  his  son,  J.  Foster  Percival.     He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Congregational    church    and  of  the  I.  O.  O.  P.     His 
children  were  J.  Foster,  Marshall  C,  Charles  H.,  Ellen  M.,  Susan 
J.,  Clara  E.     His  residence  in  Waterville  was  on  Pleasant  street, 
where  he  died  April  6,  1898. 

Joseph    Percival  was  born  in  Vassalboro.    January  31,  181 3. 
He  was  the  son  of  William  Percival  and  was  one  of  a  family  of 
eight  children.     About  1833  he  came  to  Waterville  and  taught 
several  terms  in  the  school  building  on  Front  street.     In  1835 
he  married  Emeline,  daughter  of  James  Gray  and  sister  of  Jonas 
and  C.  E.  Gray.     He  was  for  a  short    time    clerk    for  William 
Dow  in  a  store  near    where    Peavy  block  now    stands,  then  in 
business  for  himself  with  his  brother  Homer.     He  held  almost 
every  position  of  honor  the  town  could  give  him,  having  been  a 
teacher,  superintendent  of  schools,    town  clerk,    treasurer,  col- 
lector, first  selectman,  representative  to  the  Legislature.     He  was 
identified    with  the    Universalist    church.     His  children    were 
Annie  E.,  Henry  H.,  Frank  J.,  Albert  W.,  Willie  C,  and  Mor- 
rell.     His  wife  died  in  1895.     His  own  death  occurred  February 
7,  1898. 

John  White  Philbrick  was  born  in  Waterville,  March  8,  1821, 
the  son  of  John  Robinson  Philbrick.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  Waterville  Academy,  showing  even  then  so 
strong  a  bent  for  mathematical  and  mechanical  studies  that  Prof. 
Keely  coveted  him  for  his  department.     Thoroughly  to  learn  the 


532  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

trade  of  a  mechanic  was  to  him  no  unpleasant  task.  Having 
married  Miss  JuHa  Shepherd  Moore  he  went  to  Wisconsin,  in 
1843,  where  he  remained  about  four  years.  He  held  office  in 
the  territorial  government  of  Taychudah,  Wis.  Returning  to 
Waterville  he  serv^ed  as  engineer  on  some  of  the  river  steam- 
boats, but  came  to  the  great  work  of  his  life  when  the  Andro- 
scoggin and  Kennebec  Railroad  entered  Waterville.  He  rode  in 
on  the  first  locomotive  which  reached  this  place  in  1849.  Soon 
after  he  became  master  mechanic  of  the  A.  and  K.  Rail- 
road retaining  his  position  in  the  IMaine  Central  for  thirty-three 
years.  Of  great  ability  in  mechanical  constructions  and  of 
absolute  integrity  his  administration  of  the  railroad  shops  was 
eminently  sucessful  and  profitable  to  the  corporation.  En- 
gines made  from  his  designs  and  many  appliances  were  copied 
and  used  in  other  shops.  Mr.  Philbrick  was  for  several  years  a 
trustee  of  the  Merchants  Bank.  After  the  death  of  his  first  wife 
in  1859,  he  was  married  to  Mrs.  Mar\^  Shaw  Dauble  in  1863. 
She  died  in  1888.  Mr.  Philbrick  was  a  member  of  Waterville 
Lodge  F.  &  A.  AI.,  and  was  for  nearly  sixty  years  a  member  of 
the  Baptist  church.  For  forty  years  he  served  as  deacon,  to  the 
profit  and  satisfaction  of  the  church.  His  children  are  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  B.,  wife  of  Prof.  John  B.  Foster,  LL.  D. ;  Samuel  M., 
of  Portland,  Oregon ;  Frank  B.,  of  the  firm  of  Webber  &  Phil- 
brick of  the  Waterville  Iron  Works,  Mrs.  Frances  P.,  wife  of 
Charles  F.  Meser^'-e,  LL.  D.,  president  of  Shaw  University,  and 
the  late  Lieutenant  J.  Herbert  Philbrick,  U.  S.  A.,  who ,  died 
twelve  years  ago.  As  one  of  the  old  and  honored  citizens  of 
Waterville,  Mr.  Philbrick  greatly  enjoyed  the  centennial  exer- 
cises. He  died  at  his  summer  home  at  Squirrel  Island,  July  17, 
1902. 

Prank  B.  Philbrick,  son  of  John  W^  Philbrick,  was  born  in 
Waterville,  November  9,  1848.  He  was  educated  in  the  Water- 
ville schools,  Kent's  Hill  Seminary  and  the  Mt.  Kisco  Military 
Academy.  Mr.  Philbrick  early  showed  a  talent  for  mechanics 
and  mechanical  engineering.  July  i,  1873,  he  entered  the  firm  of 
Webber,  Haviland  &  Philbrick,  founders  and  manufacturers  of 
machinery.  November  i,  1882,  Mr.  Webber  and  Mr.  Philbrick 
bought  out  the  interest  of  Mr.  Haviland.     After  the  burning  of 


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532  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

trade  of  a  mechanic  was  to  him  no  unpleasant  task.  Having 
married  Miss  Julia  Shepherd  Moore  he  went  to  Wisconsin,  in 
1843,  where  he  remained  about  four  years.  He  held  office  in 
the  territorial  government  of  Taychudah,  Wis.  Returning  to 
Waterville  he  served  as  engineer  on  some  of  the  river  steam- 
boats, but  came  to  the  great  work  of  his  life  when  the  Andro- 
scoggin and  Kennebec  Railroad  entered  Waterville.  He  rode  in 
on  the  first  locomotive  which  reached  this  place  in  1849.  Soon 
after  he  became  master  mechanic  of  the  A.  and  K.  Rail- 
road retaining  his  position  in  the  Maine  Central  for  thirty-three 
years.  Of  great  ability  in  mechanical  constructions  and  of 
absolute  integrity  his  administration  of  the  railroad  shops  was 
eminently  sucessful  and  profitable  to  the  corporation.  En- 
gines made  from  his  designs  and  many  appliances  were  copied 
and  used  in  other  shops.  Mr.  Philbrick  was  for  several  years  a 
trustee  of  the  Merchants  Bank.  After  the  death  of  his  first  wife 
in  1859,  he  was  married  to  Mrs.  Mary  Shaw  Dauble  in  1863. 
She  died  in  1888.  Mr.  Philbrick  was  a  member  of  Waterville 
Lodge  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  was  for  nearly  sixty  years  a  member  of 
the  Baptist  church.  For  forty  years  he  served  as  deacon,  to  the 
profit  and  satisfaction  of  the  church.  His  children  are  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  B.,  wife  of  Prof.  John  B.  Foster,  LL.  D. ;  Samuel  M., 
of  Portland,  Oregon ;  Frank  B.,  of  the  firm  of  Webber  &  Phil- 
brick of  the  Waterville  Iron  Works,  Mrs.  Frances  P.,  wife  of 
Charles  F.  Meserve,  LL.  D.,  president  of  Shaw  University,  and 
the  late  Lieutenant  J.  Herbert  Philbrick,  U.  S.  A.,  who  ^  died 
twelve  years  ago.  As  one  of  the  old  and  honored  citizens  of 
Waterville,  Mr.  Philbrick  greatly  enjoyed  the  centennial  exer- 
cises. He  died  at  his  summer  home  at  Squirrel  Island,  July  17, 
1902. 

Prank  B.  Philbrick,  son  of  John  W.  Philbrick,  was  born  in 
Waterville,  November  9,  1848.  He  was  educated  in  the  Water- 
ville schools,  Kent's  Hill  Seminary  and  the  Mt.  Kisco  Military 
Academy.  Mr.  Philbrick  early  showed  a  talent  for  mechanics 
and  mechanical  engineering.  July  i,  1873,  he  entered  the'firm  of 
Webber,  Haviland  &  Philbrick,  founders  and  manufacturers  of 
machinery.  November  i,  1882,  Mr.  Webber  and  Mr.  Philbrick 
bought  out  the  interest  of  Mr.  Haviland.     After  the  burning  of 


GEORGE  ALFRED  PHILLIPS. 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLD.  533 

their  shops  and  foundn'  they  built  a  new,  larger  and  greatly  im- 
proved plant  at  the  head  of  the  falls,  known  as  the  Waterville 
Iron  Works,  (vid.  Manufacturing  Industries  Chapter  XV). 
Mr.  Philbrick  has  served  on  the  board  of  education,  is  a  deacon  of 
the  Baptist  church,  as  was  his  father  before  him,  is  the  treasurer 
of  the  Good  Will  Home  Association  which  conducts  the  great 
work  for  boys  and  girls  at  East  Fairfield,  founded  and  man- 
aged by  Rev.  G.  W.  Hinckley,  is  the  president  of  the  Waterville 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  to  which  he  has  given  not  only  money  but  time  and 
attention  in  conducting  classes  in  mechanical  draughting;  he  is 
also  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers. 
Mr.  Philbrick  was  married,  June  17,  1873,  to  Addie  Frances 
Shaw,  daughter  of  Rev.  B.  F.  Shaw,  D.  D.  After  her  death  he 
was  married,  January'  26,  1898,  to  Mary  L.,  daughter  of  Prof. 
S.  K.  Smith.  He  had  two  sons,  Herbert  Shaw,  who  after 
graduation  at  Colby  has  been  principal  of  the  Calais  High  school, 
and  Benjamin  Elden,  who  was  graduated  at  Colby,  in  1900,  and 
after  long  illness  borne  with  splendid  courage,  died  in  Raleigh, 
North  Carolina,  1902. 

George  Alfred  Phillips  was  born  in  Waterville,  April,  1826, 
and  was  the  son  of  William  and  Caroline  (Crommett)  Phillips. 
He  married  Marcia  Tucker  of  Fairfield.  He  commenced  busi- 
ness with  his  father  in  a  general  store.  In  December,  1848,  the 
firm  of  Meader  &  Phillips,  dry  goods  dealers,  was  formed  and 
continued  eighteen  years,  in  1850  building  the  block  now  oc- 
cupied by  Wardwell  Brothers.  In  April,  1866,  he  sold  out  to 
C.  R.  IMcFadden  &  Son,  and  he  was  then  in  the  "Ticonic  W^ater- 
power  Construction  Company,  and  later  purchasing  agent  of  the 
Maine  Central  Railroad  until  1876.  He  bought  out  the  hard- 
ware business  of  Arnold  &  Meader,  which  in  company  with  his 
oldest  son.  C.  M.  Phillips,  he  continued  until  he  sold  out  to  W. 
B.  Arnold  and  Company,  in  1881.  He  then  bought  one-half  in- 
terest in  Lawrence  Brothers  lumber  business  at  Shawmut,  which 
he  sold  in  1891  and  came  to  Fairfield  and  formed  the  lumber 
company  of  G.  A.  &  C.  ]\I.  Phillips.  When  the  mills  were 
burned  in  1895,  he  went  to  Farmingdale,  and  built  the  large 
sawmill  now  run  by  the  Burleigh  Mills  Company.  He  was 
largely  instrumental  in  starting  the  Ticonic  ^^"ater-power  Com- 
pany and  inducing  Air.  Lockwood  to  take  interest  in  the   enter- 


536  '  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

children  are  Alice  M.,  who  graduated  at  Colby  in  the  class  of 
1899,  and  Martha  B.  Mr.  Purinton  has  served  two  terms  as 
member  of  the  board  of  education,  belongs  to  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  and 
for  many  years  has  been  prominent  in  the  work  of  the  First 
Baptist  church,  of  which  he  is  a  deacon  and  superintendent  of 
the  Sunday-school.  He  is  treasurer  of  the  Christian  Civic 
League  of  Maine  and  has  done  much  for  the  enforcement  of  the 
prohibitory  law.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  Waterville  Safe 
Deposit  and  Trust  Company  and  is  a  trustee  and  the  treasurer 
of  Coburn  Classical  Institute. 

Charles  Harris  Redington,  born  in  Waterville,  January  24, 
1830,  was  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Nancy  Parker  Redington,  was 
educated  in  Waterville  Academy  and  in  Waterville  Liberal  Insti- 
tute; married  Sophronia  Day,  December  14,  1854.  In  his 
earlier  business  career  he  was  in  the  grocery  business  in  Ticonic 
Row  on  lower  Main  street.  In  1869  he  bought  out  the  William 
Caffrey  furniture  and  undertaking  business,  which  he  continued 
tmder  the  name  of  C.  H.  Redington  and  Company,  until  1872, 
when  he  associated  with  himself  Martin  Blaisdell,  under  the  title, 
Redington  and  Blaisdell.  After  a  year  or  two  Mr.  Blaisdell 
returned  to  his  farm  and  Mr.  Redington  continued  the  business 
in  his  own  name.  In  1880  the  house  furnishing  business  was 
sold  to  Frank  Redington  and  T.  W.  Kimball,  the  firm  name  being 
Redington  and  Kimball ;  but  after  one  year  C.  H.  Redington 
repurchased  Mr.  Kimball's  share  and  the  firm  became  Redington 
and  Company,  as  now.  From  1873  Mr.  Redington  served  sev- 
eral years  as  collector  and  treasurer,  and  he  was  chairman  of  the 
board  of  selectmen  the  last  year  before  Waterville  became  a  city, 
his  election  to  that  position  turning  upon  a  single  vote.  He  was 
afterwards  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen,  and  in  1896  was 
mayor.  He  is  a  member  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F. :  his  children  are 
Harry  Day,  Frank,  Annie  Myra,  Helen,  Charles  A.,  Mary  Emily. 

Frank  Redington,  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Sophronia  (Day) 
Redington,  was  born  in  Waterville,  December  19,  1858.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Waterville  and  at  Waterville 
Academy,  now  Coburn  Institute.  He  began  his  business  career 
as  a  clerk  in  his  father's  furniture  store  in  1875.  In  1880,  in 
partnership  with  Thomas  W.  Kimball,  he  bought  out  the  busi- 


HISTORY    OF    \VATER\'ILLE.  537 

ness,  but  after  one  year  'Sir.  Kimball,  on  account  of  failing  health, 
sold  his  interest  to  Charles  H.  Redington,  the  firm  becoming 
Redington  and  Company.  The  business  has  constantly  increased 
until  it  has  become  one  of  the  largest  in  its  line  in  the  State.  In 
1893  Mr.  Redington  built  the  fine  block  on  Silver  street,  from 
which  his  business  has  overflowed  into  an  adjoining  block.  Mr. 
Redington  has  been  active  in  all  general  business  interests  of  the 
City.  From  1895  to  1901  he  was  president  of  the  Waterville 
Board  of  Trade,  and  actively  forwarded  some  of  the  important 
business  matters  which  were  before  the  public  during  those  years, 
notably  the  securing  of  a  new  city  hall  and  the  building  of  the 
Wiscasset,  W^aterville  and  Farmington  Railroad.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  that  railroad  for  two  years  and  has  been  president  of  the 
Whittemore  Furniture  Company  since  its  organization.  For 
two  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  W^aterville  Trust  Company, 
and  is  a  trustee  of  the  Public  Library.  He  was  a  charter  member 
of  Havelock  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  which  he  has  served 
two  terms  as  chancellor  commander,  is  a  member  of  Waterville 
Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W. 
For  several  years  he  served  on  the  prudential  committee  of  the 
Unitarian  church,  and  since  1885  has  been  on  the  committee  in 
charge  of  Pine  Grove  Cemetery.  October  14,  1890,  he  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Carrie  ]\I.  Foster,  daughter  of  Hon. 
M.  C.  Foster  of  this  city.  Their  residence  is  at  No.  8  Park  Place. 

Nathaniel  Russell  a  useful  citizen,  and  for  many  years  a  prom- 
inent member  and  a  deacon  of  the  Baptist  church,  came  from 
Skowhegan  about  1817.  His  wife  was  Rebecca  Sawyer.  His 
first  employment  was  the  management  of  the  grist  mill  at  the 
Falls,  living  in  a  little  house  nearly  opposite.  In  the  early  days 
of  Waterville  College  the  students  were  boarded  in  common  by 
the  college,  the  first  dining  room  being  in  the  basement  of  North 
College.  Deacon  Russell  was  appointed  steward.  In  1830  he 
built  the  house  on  the  corner  of  College  and  Union  streets,  which 
in  1884  gave  place  to  the  residence  of  C.  A.  Hendrickson. 
The  raising  of  the  house  was  long  remembered  in  the  village,  as 
by  the  falling  of  a  timber  three  young  men,  William  Moor, 
Samuel  A])rjleton  and  Otis  Dunbar,  were  seriously  injured.  He 
owned  a  large  tract  of  land  west  of  the  present  Pleasant  St.  where 
he  had  an  extensive  hop  field,  a  branch  of  farming   which,  like 


538  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

the  raising  of  flax,  has  become  obsolete  in  this  vicinity.  The 
building  of  the  A.  &  K.  R.  R.  was  disastrous  to  him  financially. 
Pie  invested  largely  in  proportion  to  his  means,  and  did  not  live 
long  enough  to  see  it  valuable.  His  children  were  two  daugh- 
ters, Serena  and  Diantha.  The  former  married  Eliphalet  C  ,  ; 
the  latter,  Rev.  Mr.  Merriam.     Deacon  Russell  died  1850. 

George  £.  Shores.  The  honor  of  being  at  the  time  of  the 
centennial  the  oldest  citizen  who  was  a  native  of  Waterville, 
belongs  unquestionably  to  Mr.  Shores.  He  was  born  in  this 
town,  on  the  farm  now  occupied  by  his  son,  March  2y,  181 2. 
He  studied  in  the  public  schools  of  the  town,  and  from  boyhood 
has  been  engaged  in  the  occupation  of  farming.  This  he  has  car- 
ried on  on  a  large  scale,  combining  with  it  trading  in  cattle  and 
the  milk  business.  Twice  he  has  served  the  town  as  selectman, 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  government.  He  has  been 
twice  married  and  has  had  eight  children,  of  whom  only  one, 
Amasa  E.  Shores,  who  also  is  engaged  in  the  farm  and  milk  busi- 
ness, is  now  living.  The  most  of  the  land  between  College  and 
Main  streets,  from  the  railroad  station  to  the  top  of  Main  street 
hill,  once  belonged  to  Mr.  Shores. 

Franklin  Smith,  widely  known  as  Gen.  Franklin  Smith,  was 
born  March  4,1802,  in  Winslow,  Lincoln  County,  Massachu- 
setts, and  the  house  in  which  he  was  born  is  still  standing  in  this 
city,  on  Front  street,  near  Common  street.  He  was  the  son  of 
Abijah  Smith,  who  was  the  first  town  clerk  of  Waterville.  He 
was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  and  was  married  Dec.  18, 
1828,  to  Emily  Osmond  Steward.  He  was  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness for  sixty  years.  He  served  as  State  senator  and  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  governor's  council.  His  children  were  Clymena  S., 
Helen  A.,  Charles  E.,  George  F.,  Emily  S.,Jane  M.,  Franklin  A. 
He  resided  in  North  Anson  and  in  Waterville.  He  died  Sept. 
I,  1888. 

Luther  H.  Soper,  son  of  Luther  H.  and  Almira  H.  Soper,  was 
born  in  Old  Town,  Me,,  May  25,  1852.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  at  a  commercial  college.  In  1877  he  engaged 
in  the  dry  goods  business  in  Waterville,  which  has  steadily  in- 
creased to  its  present  large  proportions.  In  1890,  he  erected  the 
fine  block,  known  as  the   Soper   Block,  for  his   business.     For 


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several  years  Mr.  Soper  had  as  partner  Air.  Charles  J.  Clukey, 
who  retired  from  the  firm  in  1901  to  establish  the  Clukey-Libby 
Company.  Mr.  Soper  has  a  large  branch  house  at  Madison,  and 
has  been  extensively  engaged  in  lumbering  operations.  He  has 
been  for  several  years  a  director  and  vice-president  of  the  Mer- 
chants' Bank.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church 
and  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  September  26,  1887,  ^^^'  Soper  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Carrie  E.  Wiggin.  They  have  four  daughters, 
Lucile,  Helen,  Alice  and  Jeanette. 

George  Fred  Terry  was  born  in  Waterville  May  14,  1862,  the 
son  of  George  W.  and  Bertha  (Wentworth)  Terry.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Waterville  public  schools.  He  began  his  busi- 
ness life  by  working  for  the  Maine  Central  Railroad  Company, 
in  which  he  continued  for  ten  years.  In  January,  1892,  he  began 
a  publishing  business,  which  in  November,  1892,  became  tha 
vSawyer  Publishing  Co.  Mr.  Terry  has  been  the  treasurer  and 
manager  of  this  company  up  to  the  present  time.  The  business 
has  greatly  increased,  until  it  has  a  pay  roll  of  $60,000  annually. 
In  real  estate  Mr.  Terry  has  had  large  interests.  In  1901  he 
bought  and  opened  for  settlement  a  large  tract  of  land  in  the 
north  part  of  the  city  between  College  Ave.  and  the  M.  C.  R.  R. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order,  the  Lodge,  Chapter  and 
Commandery.  November  30,  1892,  Mr.  Terry  married  Miss 
Clara  F.  Lane,  daughter  of  Frank  B.  and  Clara  (Bacon)  Lane. 
They  have  three  children,  Martha  Best,  Bertha  Lane,  and  George 
Fred,  Jr. 

Frank  Lorenco  Thayer  was  born  in  Waterville  Feb.  15,  1855, 
the  son  of  Lorenzo  Eugene  and  Sarah  A.  (Chase)  Thayer.  He 
was  educated  in  Waterville  Academy,  and  married  Nora  N. 
Pulsifer,  Jan.  i,  1878.  He  was  in  the  clothing  business  with  his 
father  from  1874  to  1885 ;  in  insurance  and  real  estate  from  1892 
until  his  death.  In  1890  he  built  the  block  which  bears  his 
name,  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Silver  streets.  He  was  city 
treasurer  for  several  years  from  1889,  representative  to  the  Leg- 
islature in  1890,  post-master  under  President  Cleveland,  1885- 
1889  and  1893- 1897.  He  was  repeatedly  the  Democratic  candi- 
date for  mayor,  failing  of  election  by  narrow  margins.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Unitarian  church.  His  children  are  Nathan 
P.,  L.  Eugene  and  Frank  L.     He  died  April  6,  1900. 


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several  years  Air.  Soper  had  as  partner  Mr.  Charles  J.  Clukey, 
who  retired  from  the  firm  in  1901  to  establish  the  Clukey-Libby 
Company.  Mr.  Soper  has  a  large  branch  house  at  Madison,  and 
has  been  extensively  engaged  in  lumbering  operations.  He  has 
been  for  several  years  a  director  and  vice-president  of  the  Mer- 
chants' Bank.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church 
and  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  September  26,  1887,  :Mr.  Soper  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Carrie  E.  Wiggin.  They  have  four  daughters, 
Lucile,  Helen,  Alice  and  Jeanette. 

George  Fred  Terry  was  born  in  Waterville  May  14,  1862,  the 
son  of  George  W.  and  Bertha  (Wentworth)  Terry.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Waterville  public  schools.  He  began  his  busi- 
ness life  by  working  for  the  Maine  Central  Railroad  Company, 
in  which  he  continued  for  ten  years.  In  January,  1892,  he  began 
a  publishing  business,  which  in  November,  1892,  became  the 
Sawyer  Publishing  Co.  Mr.  Terry  has  been  the  treasurer  and 
manager  of  this  company  up  to  the  present  time.  The  business 
has  greatly  increased,  until  it  has  a  pay  roll  of  $60,000  annually. 
In  real  estate  Mr.  Terry  has  had  large  interests.  In  1901  he 
bought  and  opened  for  settlement  a  large  tract  of  land  in  the 
north  part  of  the  city  between  College  Ave.  and  the  M.  C.  R.  R. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Order,  the  Lodge,  Chapter  and 
Commandery.  November  30,  1892,  Mr.  Terry  married  Aliss 
Clara  F.  Lane,  daughter  of  Frank  B.  and  Clara  (Bacon)  Lane. 
They  have  three  children,  Martha  Best,  Bertha  Lane,  and  George 
Fred,  Jr. 

Frank  Lorenzo  Thayer  was  born  in  Waterville  Feb.  15,  1855, 
the  son  of  Lorenzo  Eugene  and  Sarah  A.  (Chase)  Thayer.  He 
was  educated  in  Waterville  Academy,  and  married  Nora  N. 
Pulsifer,  Jan.  i,  1878.  He  was  in  the  clothing  business  wath  his 
father  from  1874  to  1885 ;  in  insurance  and  real  estate  from  1892 
until  his  death.  In  1890  he  built  the  block  which  bears  his 
name,  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Silver  streets.  He  was  city 
treasurer  for  several  years  from  1889,  representative  to  the  Leg- 
islature in  1890,  post-master  under  President  Cleveland,  1885- 
1889  and  1 893- 1 897.  He  was  repeatedly  the  Democratic  candi- 
date for  mayor,  failing  of  election  by  narrow  margins.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Unitarian  church.  His  children  are  Nathan 
P.,  L.  Eugene  and  Frank  L.     He  died  April  6,  1900. 


542  HISTORY    OF    WATKRVILLE). 

ment  secured  the  financial  success  of  the  paper.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  First  Baptist  church  of  Waterville  in  1868.  His 
residence  on  College  avenue  is  now  the  chapter  house  of  a  col- 
lege fraternity.  He  had  nine  children,  Charles  Burleigh,  Fred- 
erick Burt,  Ann  Maria,  Mary  Caroline,  John  Burleigh,  Frank, 
Daniel  Frank,  Albert  Burleigh  and  Alice  Burleigh. 


CHAPTER  XXVII. 


COPIES  OF  DOCUMENTS,  AND  OTHER  HISTORICAL 

DATA. 

Province  op  the  Massachusetts   Bay  in   New  England. 

The  Submission  and  Agreement  of  the  Eastern  Indians  at  Fort 
William  Henry  in  Pemaqnid,  the  irth  day  of  August,  in  the  fifth 
year  of  the  reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lord  and  Lady,  William  and 
Mary,  by  the  grace  of  God,  of  England,  Scotland,  France  and 
Ireland,  King  and  Queen,  Defenders  of  the  Faith,  etc.,  i6p^. 

'Whereas  a  bloody  war  has  for  some  years  now  past  been  made 
*and  carried  on  by  the  Indians  within  the  eastern  parts  of  the 
'said  province,  against  their  Majesties'  subjects  the  Enghsh, 
'through  the  instigation  and  influence  of  the  French ;  and  being 
'sensible  of  the  miseries  which  we  and  our  people  are  reduced 
'unto,  by  adhering  to  their  ill  council :  We  whose  names  are 
'hereunto  subscribed,  being  Sagamores  and  chief  captains  of  all 
'the  Indians  belonging  to  the  several  rivers  of  Penobscote  and 
'Kennebeck,  Amarascogin  and  Saco,  parts  of  the  said  province 
'of  the  Massachusets  Bay  within  their  said  Majesties  soveraignty, 
'having  made  application  unto  his  Excellency  Sir  William  Phips, 
'Captain  General  and  Governor  in  Chief  in  and  over  the  said 
'province,  that  the  war  may  be  put  to  an  end,  do  lay  down  our 
'arms,  and  cast  our  selves  upon  their  said  Majesties  grace  and 
'favor.  And  each  of  us  respectively  for  our  selves, 
'and  in  the  name  and  with  the  free  consent  of  all  the 
'Indians  within  the  said  province  of  and  from  Merrimack 
'river,  unto  the  most  easterly  bounds  of  the  said  province ; 
'hereby  acknowledging  our  hearty  subjection  and  obedience 
'unto  the  crown  of  England;  and  do  solemnly  cove- 
'nant,  promise  and  agree,  to  and  with  the  said  Sir  William  Phips, 
'and  his  successors,  in  the  place  of  Captain  General  and  Governor 


54-1-  HISTORY    OV^    WATERVILLE. 

'ill  Chief  of  the  aforesaid  province  or  territory,  on  their  said 
'Majesties  behalf  in  manner  following*,  viz. 

'That  at  all  time  and  times  forever,  from  and  after  the  date  of 
•'these  presents,  we  will  cease  and  forbear  all  acts  of  hostility 
'toward  the  Subjects  of  the  crown  of  England,  and  not  offer  the 
'least  hurt  or  violence  to  them,  or  any  of  them,  in  their  persons 
'or  estate.  But  will  henceforward  hold  and  maintain  a  firm  and 
'constant  amity  and  friendship  with  all  the  English. 

'Item.  We  abandon  and  forsake  the  French  interest,  and  will 
'not  in  anv  wise  adhere  to  join  with,  aid  or  assist  them  in  their 
'wars  or  designs  against  the  English,  nor  countenance,  succour 
'or  conceal  any  of  the  enemy  Indians  of  Canada,  or  other  places, 
'that  shall  happen  to  come  to  any  of  our  plantations  within  the 
'English  territory,  but  secure  them,  if  in  our  power,  and  deliver 
'them  up  unto  the  English. 

'That  all  English  captives  in  the  hands  or  power  of  any  of  the 
'Indians  within  the  limits  aforesaid,  shall  with  all  possible  speed 
'be  set  at  liberty,  and  returned  home  without  any  ransom  or  pay- 
'ment  to  be  made  or  given  for  them,  or  any  of  them. 

'That  their  ^Majesties  subjects  the  English,  shall  and  may 
'peaceably  and  quietly  enter  upon,  improve,  and  for  ever  enjoy 
'all  and  singular  their  rights  of  lands,  and  former  settlements 
'and  possessions  within  the  eastern  parts  of  the  said  province  of 
'the  Alassachusetts  Bay,  without  any  pretensions  or  claims  by  us, 
'or  any  other  Indians,  and  be  in  no  wise  molested,  interrupted, 
'or  disturbed  therein. 

'That  all  trade  and  commerce,  which  hereafter  may  be  allowed 
'between  the  English  and  Indians,  shall  be  under  such  manage- 
'ment  and  regulation,  as  may  be  stated  by  an  act  of  the  General 
'Assembly,  or  as  Governor  of  the  said  province  for  the  time 
'being,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  shall  see  cause 
'to  direct  and  limit. 

'If  any  controversie  or  difference  at  any  time  hereafter  happen 
'to  arise  between  any  of  the  English  and  Indians,  for  any  real 
'or  supposed  wrong  or  injury  done  on  one  side  or  the  other,  no 
'private  revenge  shall  be  taken  by  the  Indians  for  the  same,  but 
'proper  application  be  made  to  their  Majesties  government  upon 
'the  place,  for  remedy  thereof,  in  a  due  course  of  justice;  we 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


545 


'hereby  submitting  our  selves  to  be  ruled  and  governed  by  their 
':Majesties  laws,  and  desire  to  have  the  benefit  of  the  same.' 

'For  the  more  full  manifestation  of  our  sincerity  and  integrity 
'in  all  that  which  we  have  herein  before  covenanted  and  promised, 
'we  do  deliver  unto  Sir  William  Phips.  their  :Maiestie5  Govemour 
'as  aforesaid,  -Vhassombarnett,  Mother  to  Edgeremett,  Wenouga- 
'hewirt,  cousin  to  Madockawando,  and  Edgeremett,  and  Bagata- 
Svawongon ;  also  Sheepscoat  John,  to  abide  and  remain  in  the 
'custody  of  the  English,  where  the  Governour  shall  direct,  as  hos- 
'tages  or  pledges  for  our  fidelity-,  and  true  performance  of  all  and 
•every  the  foregoing  articles,  reserA-ing  liberty  to  exchange  them 
'in  some  reasonable  time  for  a  like  number,  to  the  acceptance  of 
'the  Govemonr  and  Council  of  the  said  province,  so  thevbe  per- 
'sons  of  as  good  account  and  esteem  amongst  the  Indians  as  those 
'which  are  to  be  exchanged.  In  testimony  whereof,  we  have 
'hereunto  set  our  several  marks  and  seals,  the  day  and  vear  first 
'above- written. 

'The  above-written  instrument  was  deliberately  read  over,  and 
'the  several  articles  and  clauses  thereof  interpreted  unto  the 
'Indians,  who  said  they  all  understood  and  consented  thereunto, 
'and  was  then  signed,  sealed,  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of  us, 

Edgeremett 

Madockawando 

AA'assambomet  of  Xaridg^vock 

\\  enobson  of  Teconnet  in  behalf  of  Moxus. 

Ketterrainogis  of  Xorridgwock 

.-^Jcanquit  of  Penobscot 

Bomaseen 

^Nlitamemet 

A\'ebenes 

Awansomeck 

Robin  Dony 

Madaumbis 

Paquaharet,  alais  Xathaniel 

John  A\'ing 

Nicholas  ^Manning 

Benjamin  Jackson. 

John  Hom.ybrook  '  ") 

John  Bagatawawongo,  alias  Sheepscoat  John  -  Interpreters. 

Phill  Onnsakis,  Squaw.  j 

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HISTORY    OK    W  .\TKK\ll.l  K. 


Letter  oi'  William   LiTur.ow    to  Governor  Sihulkn. 

RKMM.oNn  1m>kt.  Jan.  ye  (.).  1755. 

May  it  f'lcas  your  F.vcrllcfux:  The  souKlory  of  Fort  Ilallitax 
is  in  a  most  deplorable  coiulition  tor  want  of  shoes.  hecKlini;".  and 
bodyly  cloathin^'.  etc..  as  1  have  siiimyfyed  in  my  letter  ye  20th 
Deer  and  it  is  with  ye  greatest  concerne  that  1  am  ohlii^ed  further 
to  acquainte  yonr  Excellency  that  we  have  scarce  thirty  men 
in  this  fort  that  are  capabell  of  cuttiiii;"  or  hailing'  wixxl  for  the 
suply  of  this  fort,  and  it  is  with  crate  difficulty  they  can  suply 
themselves  with  wix^d  from  day  to  dav.  the  snow  is  so  deep,  it 
is  three  foot  at  this  place,  and  haveir.i;'  no  snow-shoes,  and  our 
beini::  in  a  manner  nakcil.  it  is  out  of  our  power  were  we  in 
healthe.  to  keep  scoutes  abroad,  or  even  to  sende  a  £;narde  with 
those  men  who  halls  wix^d.  neither  can  they  carry  their  amies 
with  them,  beinc;  harde  put  to  it  to  wallow  throug'h  the  snow 
with  their  sled  loades  of  wood.  and.  it  is  harde  service  for  those 
men  to  suplv  themselves  and  ye  invalliils  with  tirriui;"  w  hich  takes 
up  the  intier  barricks. 

We  have  now  but  four  weeks"  allowance  of  bread  in  this  fort. 
one  barrel  of  ruuL  and  one  do.  of  molasses,  and  C  khI  knows  how 
or  where  we  shall  be  able  to  gitt  any  suplyes  from  Fort  Western. 
on  account  of  ve  snow  is  so  deep.  I  left  Fort  llallifax  on  ye 
4th  inst..  to  see  if  ve  river  was  passable  on  ye  ice.  with  one 
soldier  for  company,  and  also  to  try  if  I  coukl  collect  some  leather 
or  shoes  for  a  present  relief  till  more  shall  be  sent  which  I  liave 
grot,  and  I  have  imployed  two  shoamakers  to  work  it  ^ip.  W'e 
came  all  the  way  on  ye  ice.  which  we  found  to  be  very  weak 
between  Fort  Halifax  and  Fort  W'esteni.  on  accoimt  of  as  I  sup- 
pose of  ve  grate  body  of  snow  which  lyes  on  it.  which  hinders 
its  freezing,  ve  ice  there  is  sunk  with  snow  anil  water,  about  two 
foot  and  a  halfe  deep.  Ye  under  ice  was  so  weake  that  we  broke 
through  sundrye  times,  and  it  was  with  great  difhculty  and 
hazard  of  our  lives  that  we  got  to  Fort  Western,  where  we  was 
detained  by  a  storm  two  days.  Ye  8th  inst..  we  arrived  at  Rich- 
mond fort,  where  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  write  yr  Excellency 
this  letter.  1  think  it  was  a  very  bad  afi"air  that  ye  barricks  had 
not  been  left  in  better  order,  and  that  there  had  not  been  more 
suplyes  laid  up  in  this  fort,  whilst  the  river  was  open.     If  it  was 


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HISTORY    OF    ^^•ATERVILLE. 


547 


bad  carrying  up  ye  stores  there,  I  aver  its  ten  times  worse  now, 
and  I  fear  will  continue  so  this  winter,  for  I  doubt  ye  river  above 
Fort  Western  will  be  hard  to  freeze,  on  account  of  ye  strong 
currents  that  runs  there,  and  as  to  ye  cut  rodes  being  any  service, 
it  would  take  fifty  men  and  ten  yoke  of  oxen  two  days  to  brake, 
and  after  it  was  broaken,  it  would  choake  up  with  ye  first  wind 
that  blew.  Some  of  ye  gullyes  now  are  drifted  ten  or  fifteen 
foot  deep  with  snow,  that  I  think  it  will  never  be  of  much  ser- 
vice to  us  for  transporting  our  provisions,  till  such  times  as  ye 
countr}^  is  settled,  and  more  teems  frequents  that  rode  than  what 
may  be  allowed  for  Fort  Hallifax ;  but  these  dull  complaintes 
avail  us  but  little,  to  extracate  us  out  of  our  present  difiiculties, 
it  remains  now  to  think  of  the  best  way  by  which  that  garrison 
can  be  relieved  and  I  would  with  submission  offer  your  Excel- 
lency my  humble  oppinion  upon  the  matter,  which  is,  that  your 
Excellency  give  the  independent  companies  or  other  forces  that 
may  be  raised  as  succers  for  the  defence  of  the  river,  orders  to 
provide  or  im.press  oxen  or  other  cattel  with  provinder,  and  slades 
or  carrs,  and  those  cattel  to  be  imployed  in  hailing  stores  and 
other  suplyes  that  will  soon  be  landed  for  this  river  (for  the 
suplye  of  Fort  Hallifax)  up  to  Fort  Western,  for  farther,  I 
believe  cattel  will  be  of  no  service,  on  account  of  ye  river  being 
dangerous  for  cattel  to  travel  on,  as  I  have  already  observed, 
and  that  a  proper  number  of  good  men  with  snowshoes  m.ay  be 
imployed  in  carrying  up  provisions  from  Fort  Western  to  Fort 
Hallifax,  and  after  ye  road  is  beten  well  and  ye  invallids  that 
may  be  able  to  travel  after  being  shod,  for  them  to  march  down 
ye  river  and  tarry  with  ye  provisions  which  will  save  a  grate  deal 
of  fatigue  of  carrs'ing  of  ye  provisions  to  them,  and  that  there  be 
good  men  placed  at  Fort  Hallifax  in  their  rooms.  I  should  have 
now  dismissed  some  worthless  fellows,  who  dos  littel  other  duty 
than  eates  their  allowance,  could  they  ha^-e  travelled  home,  for 
they  will  never  do  any  service  here,  or  any  where  else.  This 
garrison  I  think  has  its  full  share  of  such  creatures,  that  resem- 
bels  men  in  nothing  but  ye  human  shape,  but  such  will  do  for 
forts  where  they  have  nothing  to  doe  but  eate  and  sleepe. 

We  want  ver\^  much  a  sortment  of  herbs  for  ye  sicke,  our 
doctor  has  left  us,  and  we  have  no  one  here  that  knows  ye  use 
of  our  medisons.     A  ^eat  manv  of  our  men  has  been  sick,  and 


546  history  of  waterville. 

Letter  oi-  William  Litiigow  to  Governor  Shirley. 

Richmond  Fort,  Jan.  ye  9,  1755. 

May  it  pleas  your  ExcpUency:  The  souldery  of  Fort  Hallifax 
is  in  a  most  deplorable  condition  for  want  of  shoes,  bedding,  and 
bodyly  cloathing,  etc.,  as  T  have  signyfyed  in  my  letter  ye  20th 
Deer  and  it  is  with  ye  greatest  concerne  that  I  am  obliged  further 
to  acquainte  your  Excellency  that  we  have  scarce  thirty  men 
in  this  fort  that  are  capabell  of  cutting  or  hailing  wood  for  the 
suply  of  this  fort,  and  it  is  with  grate  difficulty  they  can  suply 
themselves  with  wood  from  day  to  day,  the  snow  is  so  deep,  it 
is  three  foot  at  this  place,  and  haveing  no  snow-shoes,  and  our 
being  in  a  manner  naked,  it  is  out  of  our  power  were  we  in 
healthe,  to  keep  scoutes  abroad,  or  even  to  sende  a  guarde  with 
those  men  who  halls  wood,  neither  can  they  carry  their  armes 
with  them,  being  harde  put  to  it  to  wallow  through  the  snow 
with  their  sled  loades  of  wood,  and  it  is  harde  service  for  those 
men  to  suply  themselves  and  ye  invallids  with  firring  which  takes 
up  the  intier  barricks. 

We  have  now  but  four  weeks'  allowance  of  bread  in  this  fort, 
one  barrel  of  rum,  and  one  do.  of  molasses,  and  God  knows  how 
or  where  we  shall  be  able  to  gitt  any  suplyes  from  Fort  Western, 
on  account  of  ye  snow  is  so  deep.  I  left  Fort  Hallifax  on  ye 
4th  inst.,  to  see  if  ye  river  was  passable  on  ye  ice,  w^th  one 
soldier  for  company,  and  also  to  try  if  I  could  collect  some  leather 
or  shoes  for  a  present  relief  till  more  shall  be  sent  which  I  have 
got,  and  I  have  imployed  two  shoamakers  to  work  it  'up.  We 
came  all  the  way  on  ye  ice,  which  we  found  to  be  very  weak 
between  Fort  Halifax  and  Fort  Western,  on  account  of  as  I  sup- 
pose of  ye  grate  body  of  snow  which  lyes  on  it,  which  hinders 
its  freezing,  ye  ice  there  is  sunk  with  snow  and  water,  about  two 
foot  and  a  halfe  deep.  Ye  under  ice  was  so  weake  that  we  broke 
through  sundrye  times,  and  it  was  with  great  difficulty  and 
hazard  of  our  lives  that  we  got  to  Fort  Western,  where  we  was 
detained  by  a  storm  two  days.  Ye  8th  inst.,  we  arrived  at  Rich- 
mond fort,  where  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  write  yr  Excellency 
this  letter.  I  think  it  was  a  very  bad  affair  that  ye  barricks  had 
not  been  left  in  better  order,  and  that  there  had  not  been  more 
suplyes  laid  up  in  this  fort,  whilst  the  river  was  open.     If  it  was 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  547 

bad  carrying  up  ye  stores  there,  I  aver  its  ten  times  worse  now, 
and  I  fear  will  continue  so  this  winter,  for  I  doubt  ye  river  above 
Fort  Western  will  be  hard  to  freeze,  on  account  of  ye  strong 
currents  that  runs  there,  and  as  to  ye  cut  rodes  being  any  service, 
it  would  take  fifty  men  and  ten  yoke  of  oxen  two  days  to  brake, 
and  after  it  was  broaken,  it  would  choake  up  with  ye  first  wind 
that  blew.  Some  of  ye  guUyes  now  are  drifted  ten  or  fifteen 
foot  deep  with  snow,  that  I  think  it  will  never  be  of  much  ser- 
vice to  us  for  transporting  our  provisions,  till  such  times  as  ye 
country  is  settled,  and  more  teems  frequents  that  rode  than  what 
may  be  allowed  for  Fort  Hallifax ;  but  these  dull  complaintes 
avail  us  but  little,  to  extracate  us  out  of  our  present  dif^culties, 
it  remains  now  to  think  of  the  best  way  by  which  that  garrison 
can  be  relieved  and  I  would  with  submission  offer  your  Excel- 
lency my  humble  oppinion  upon  the  matter,  which  is,  that  your 
Excellency  give  the  independent  companies  or  other  forces  that 
may  be  raised  as  succers  for  the  defence  of  the  river,  orders  to 
provide  or  impress  oxen  or  other  cattel  with  provinder,  and  slades 
or  carrs,  and  those  cattel  to  be  imployed  in  hailing  stores  and 
other  suplyes  that  will  soon  be  landed  for  this  river  (for  the 
suplye  of  Fort  Hallifax)  up  to  Fort  Western,  for  farther,  I 
believe  cattel  will  be  of  no  service,  on  account  of  ye  river  being 
dangerous  for  cattel  to  travel  on,  as  I  have  already  observed, 
and  that  a  proper  number  of  good  men  with  snowshoes  may  be 
imployed  in  carrying  up  provisions  from  Fort  Western  to  Fort 
Hallifax,  and  after  ye  road  is  beten  well  and  ye  invallids  that 
may  be  able  to  travel  after  being  shod,  for  them  to  march  down 
ye  river  and  tarry  with  ye  provisions  which  will  save  a  grate  deal 
of  fatigue  of  carrying  of  ye  provisions  to  them,  and  that  there  be 
good  men  placed  at  Fort  Hallifax  in  their  rooms.  I  should  have 
now  dismissed  some  worthless  fellows,  who  dos  littel  other  duty 
than  eates  their  allowance,  could  they  have  travelled  home,  for 
they  will  never  do  any  service  here,  or  any  where  else.  This 
garrison  I  think  has  its  full  share  of  such  creatures,  that  resem- 
bels  men  in  nothing  but  ye  human  shape,  but  such  will  do  for 
forts  where  they  have  nothing  to  doe  but  ea.te  and  sleepe. 

We  want  very  much  a  sortment  of  herbs  for  ye  sicke,  our 
doctor  has  left  us,  and  we  have  no  one  here  that  knows  ye  use 
of  our  medisons.     A  great  many  of  our  men  has  been  sick,  and 


550  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

month  Company  and  others  to  be  laid  ont  when  it  is  most  com- 
modions.  Gamaliel  Bradford  was  sent  as  the  agent  of  the  pro- 
prietors, July  7,  1768,  it  was  voted  that  Ezekiel  Paty  have  liberty 
to  take  up  two  Lotts  of  fifty  acres  each.  On  the  same  date  it 
was  voted  "that  Timothy  Heald  and  Ezekiel  Paty  be  and  hereby 
are  Impowerd  in  our  behalf  jointly  and  severally  to  transact  any 
matters  relative  to  the  settlers  taking  up  their  Lotts  and  per- 
forming their  Duty,  and  Likewise  to  prevent  trespasses  for  the 
future."  In  1772  Gamaliel  Bradford,  under  direction  of  the  pro- 
prietors, visited  Winslow  and  laid  out  six  lots  of  five  hundred 
acres  each.  These  were  afterward  assigned  by  lot  to  the  several 
proprietors.  As  to  trespasses  he  could  get  no  definite  informa- 
tion except  that  some  persons  pretended  to  authority  to  cut  masts 
for  the  King. 

The  proprietors  did  not  take  any  very  deep  interest  in  the 
management  of  their  property  as  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  at  least 
three  out  of  every  four  of  the  meetings  called  by  the  company 
simply  met  and  adjourned  without  action. 

At  a  meeting  held  October  10,  1787,  of  which  Col.  Josiah  Hay- 
den  was  moderator,  it  was  voted  "to  proceed  to  the  drawing  of 
those  of  the  ninety-six  fifty-acre  lots  which  are  not  taken  by  set- 
tlers." Fifty-four  lots  were  thus  drawn.  In  1803  the  majority 
of  the  proprietors  being  residents  of  Winslow,  the  meetings  of  the 
company  were  transferred  to  that  place  and  Josiah  Hayden  was 
chosen  clerk  and  treasurer.  The  business  of  the  company  was 
wellnigh  complete.  Winslow  had  been  settled,  the  land  divided 
and  a  new  town,  Waterville,  had  been  incorporated  on  a  part  of 
its  territory.  The  final  entry  in  the  old  record  book  is  August  2, 
1806.  The  characteristic  entry  is  "Voted  to  adjourn  to  Saturday 
the  20th  day  of  September  next.  Zopha  Hayden,  Clerk."  The 
meeting  has  not  yet  assembled.  The  old  record  book  is  in  pos- 
session of  Air.  Joshua  Cushman  of  Winslow. 

The  first  English  child  born  in  Winslow  was  Betsey,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Parker,  born  March  16,  1759. 

An  old  diary,  without  name  but  probably  written  by  a  brother 
of  Abijah  Smith  has  several  interesting  items. 

"Oct.  2,  1795  worked  for  one  Dimond  setting  up  a  brick-kiln 
to  pay  him  for  help  setting  up  our  brick-kiln." 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  55 ^ 

The  monotony  of  the  winter  of  1796  was  reUeved  by  an  occas- 
sional ball  at  Fairfield  and  by  the  regular  singing  school  which 
was  ''kept  at  Col.  Hayden's." 

The  :\lilitia  Roll,  elsewhere  printed,  shows  that  Capt.  Stack- 
pole  had  resigned.  The  diary  states  that  ^larch  30,  1796  the 
Light  Infantry  met  at  the  home  of  Major  Sherwin,  chose  Wil- 
liam Heywood,  captain,  Wm.  Getchell,  lieut.,  Edward  Piper 
ensign.  "Capt.  H.  ordered  his  men  to  be  equipped  and  drapped 
in  uniform  by  the  4th  of  July  next." 

"Apr.  16,  1797,  I  was  to  meeting  at  the  meeting  house  on  the 
East  side  of  the  river.  This  is  the  first  time  that  they  have  met 
in  it." 

Grant  390,  To  Ja^ies  Pitts,  No.    104. 
To  all  to  zi'houi  these  Presents  shall  come,  Greeting. 

Whereas   his   late   Majesty   King  James   the   First,   for   the 
Advancement  of  a  Colony  and  Plantation  in  New-England,  in 
America,  by  his  Highness's  Letters  Patents  under  the  Great  Seal 
of   England,   bearing  date  at   Westminster,  the   Third  Day   of 
November,  in  the  Eighteenth  Year  of  his  Highness's  Reign  of 
England,  etc.,  did  grant  unto  the  Right  Honorable  Lodowick,  late 
Lord  Duke  of  Lenox,  George  late  Lord  Marquis  of  Buckingham, 
James  Marquis  of  Hamilton,  Thomas  Earl  of  Arundle,  Robert 
Earl   of    Warwick,  Sir    Ferdinando    Georges,  Knt.  and   divers 
others  whose  Names  arc  expressed  in  the  said  Letters  Patents, 
and  their  Successors,  that  they  should  be  one  Body  Politick  and 
Corporate,   perpetually  consisting  of  forty   Persons,   that  they 
should  have  perpetual  Succession,  and  our  Common  Seal  to  serve 
for  the  Said  Body,  and  that  they  and  their  Successors  should  be 
incorporated,  called  and  known    by  the    Name  of  the    Council 
established  at  Plymouth,  in  the  County  of  Devon,  for  the  plant- 
ing,   ruling,    ordering    and    governing    of    New    England,    ni 
America.     And  further  also  did  grant  unto  the  said  President 
and  Council,  and  their  Successors  forever,  under  the  Reserva- 
tions in  the  said  Letters  Patents  expressed ;  All  that  part  and 
Portion  of  the  said  country  called  New  England,  in  America, 
situate,  lying   and   being  in    Breadth    from    forty   Degrees    of 
Northerly  Latitude  from  the  Equinoctial  Line,  to  forty-eight 


552  HISTORY    OT^    WATERVILLE. 

Degrees  of  the  said  Northerly  Latitude  inclusively  and  in  Length 
of  and  in  all  the  Breadth  aforesaid,  throughout  the  Main  Lands 
from  Sea  to  Sea,  together  also,  with  all  the  firm  Lands,  Soils, 
Grounds,  Creeks,  Inlets,  Havens,  Ports,  Seas,  Rivers,  Islands, 
Waters,  Fishings,  Mines,  Minerals,  precious  stones.  Quarries,  and 
all  and  singular  the  Commodities  and  Jurisdictions,  both  within 
the  said  Tract  of  Lands  lying  upon  the  Main,  as  also  within  the 
said  Islands  and  Seas  adjoining:  To  have,  hold,  possess  and 
enjoy  the  same  unto  the  said  Council  and  their  Successors  and 
Assigns  forever,  to  be  holden  of  his  Majesty,  his  Heirs  and  Suc- 
cessors, as  of  his  Manor  of  East  Greenwich,  in  the  County  of 
Kent,  in  free  and  common  Succage,  yielding  and  paying  there- 
for to  the  said  late  King's  Majesty,  his  Heirs  and  Successors, 
the  fifth  Part  of  the  Ore  of  Gold  and  Silver,  as  in  and  by  the  said 
Letters  Patents,  amongst  other  Privileges  and  Matters  therein 
contained,  more  fully  and  at  large  it  doth  and  may  appear. 

And  whereas  the  said  Council  established  at  Plymouth  in  the 
County  of  Devon,  by  their  Charter  and  Deed  of  Affeofment 
bearing  Date  the  Sixteenth  Day  of  January,  A.  D.  One  Thousand 
Six  Hundred  and  Twenty-nine,  by  Virtue  and  Authority  of  his 
said  late  Majesty's  Letters  Patents,  and  for  and  in  Consideration, 
that  William  Bradford,  and  his  Associates  had  for  these  Nine 
Years  lived  in  New  England  aforesaid,  and  there  inhabited  and 
planted  a  Town  called  by  the  Name  of  New  Plymouth,  at  their 
own  proper  Cost  and  Charges ;  and  feeling  that  by  the  Special 
Providence  of  God,  and  their  extraordinary  Care  and  Industry, 
they  had  increased  their  Plantation  to  near  three  Hundred  Peo- 
ple, and  were  able  to  relieve  any  new  Planters  or  other  His 
Majesty's  Subjects  upon  that  Coast;  granted  and  assigned  unto 
the  Said  William  Bradford,  his  Heirs,  Associates  and  Assigns, 
all  that  Part  of  New  England  in  America  aforesaid,  and  Tract 
and  Tracts  of  Land  that  lie  in  within  or  between  a  certain  Rivulet 
or  Rundlet  there,  commonly  called  Coahasset,  alias  Conahassett, 
toward  the  North,  and  the  River  commonly  called  Narragansett 
River,  toward  the  South,  and  the  great  Western  Ocean  toward 

the  East  and the  Main  Land  toward   the 

West,  from  the  Mouth  of  the  said    River,  called    Narragansett 
River,  to  the  utmost  Limits  and  Bounds  of  a  Countrv  or  Place  in 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  553 

New-England  commonly  called  Pocanaciitt,  alias  Sawamset, 
Westward,  and  another  like  strait  Line  extending  itself  directly 
from  the  ^louth  of  the  said  River  called  Coahasset  alias  Cona- 
hassett,  to  the  West,  so  far  up  into  the  ]\Iain  Land  Westward,  as 
the  utmost  Limits  of  the  said  Place  or  Country  commonlv  called 
Pocanacutt  alias  Sawamset,  do  extend,  together  with  one-half  of 
the  said  River  called  Narragansett,  and  the  said  Rivulet  or 
Rundlet  called  Coahasset,  alias  Conahassett,  and  all  Lands, 
Rivers,  Waters,  Havens,  Creeks,  Ports,  Fishings,  Fowlings, 
w^hatsoever  situate,  lying  and  being,  or  arising  within  or  between 
the  said  Limits  and  Bounds,  or  any  of  them. 

And  For  As  ^Nluch  as  they  had  no  convenient  place  either  of 
Trading  or  Fishing  within  their  own  Precincts,  whereby  after 
so  longTravel  and  great  Pains  so  hopeful  a  Plantation  might  sub- 
sist, as  also  that  they  might  be  encouraged  the  better  to  proceed  in 
so  pious  a  Work,  which  might  especially  tend  to  the  Propagation 
of  Religion,  and  the  great  Increase  of  Trade  to  his  Majesty's 
Realms,  and  Advancement  of  the  public  Plantation ; 

The  said  Council  further  granted  and  assigned  unto  the  said 
William  Bradford,  his  Heirs,  Associates  and  Assigns,  all  that 
Tract  of  Land,  or  Part  of  New -England  in  America  aforesaid, 
which  lieth  within  or  between,  and  extendeth  itself  from  the 
utmost  Limit  of  Cobbiseconte,  alias  Comaseconte,  which  adjoin- 
eth  to  the  River  Kennebeck,  alias  Kenebekike,  toward  the 
Western  Ocean,  and  a  Place  called  the  Falls,  at  Neguamkike,  in 
America  aforesaid,  and  the  space  of  fifteen  English  miles  on  each 
side  of  the  said  River  commonly  called  Kennebeck  River,  and  all 
the  said  River  called  Kennebeck,  that  lies  within  said  Limits  and 
Bounds  eastward,  W^estward,  Northward  or  Southward  last 
abovementioned,  and  all  Lands,  Grounds,  Soils,  Rivers,  Waters, 
Fishings,  situate,  lying  and  being,  arising,  happening  or  accru- 
ing in  or  within  the  said  Limits  and  Bounds,  or  either  of  them, 
together  with  all  Rights  and  Jurisdictions  thereof,  the  admiralty 
Jurisdiction  excepted,  in  as  free,  large,  ample  and  beneficial 
Manner  to  all  Interests,  Constructions,  and  Purposes  whatsoever, 
as  the  said  Council  by  virtue  of  his  Majesty's  Letters  Patents 
might  or  could  grant. 

To  Have  and  to  Hold  the  said  Tract  and  Tracts  of  Lands,  and 
all  and  singular  the  Premises  above-mentioned  to  be  granted, 


554 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


with  their  and  every  of  their  Appurtenances  to  the  said  WiUiam 
Bradford,  his  Heirs,  Associates  and  Assigns  forever,  yielding  and 
paying  unto  our  said  Sovereign  Lord  the  King,  his  Heirs  and 
Successors  forever,  one  fifth  Part  of  the  Ore  of  the  Mines  of 
Gold  and  Silver  and  one  other  fifth  Part  thereof  to  the  President 
and  Council  which  shall  be  had,  profl:"ered  and  obtained  within 
the  Precincts  aforesaid,  for  all  services  whatsoever,  as  in  said 
Charter  may  more  fully  appear. 

And  whereas  the  said  \\^illiam  Bradford  and  his  Associates, 
afterward  assigned  over  and  surrendered  up  to  the  late  Colony  of 
New-Plymouth,  the  aforesaid  Tract  on  Kennebeck  River, 
together  with  other  Lands,  and  the  same  Colony  afterward,  viz, 
on  the  Twenty-seventh  Day  of  October,  A,  D.,  1661,  being  seized 
of  the  whole  Tract  aforesaid  on  Kennebeck  River,  and  also  the 
Lands  on  both  sides  the  said  River,  upwards  to  Wlsserunsent, 
alias  Wesserunskick,  by  their  Deed  of  Bargain  and  Sale  of  that 
date,  for  and  in  Consideration  of  the  Sum  of  Four  Hundred 
Pounds  sterling,  sold  all  the  said  Lands  on  said  River  to  Antipas 
Boyes,  Edward  Tyng,  Thomas  Brattle  and  John  Winslow,  their 
and  every  of  their  Heirs  and  Assigns  forever,  as  by  the  said 
Deed  registered  in  the  Records  of  said  Colony  may  more  fully 
appear.  And  the  Lands  last  mentioned  in  said  Deed  by  a  Releafe 
and  Confirmation  were  afterward  confirmed  to  the  said  John 
Winslow  and  his  Partners  aforesaid  their  Heirs  and  Assigns 
forever,  on  both  Sides  of  said  Kennebeck  River  as  far  up  as  the 
upper  or  most  Northern  Part  of  Wesserunskick  aforesaid 
KNOW  YE,  That  we,  the  Heirs  and  Assigns  of  the  said 
Autipas  Boyes,  Edward  Tyng,  Thomas  Brattle,  and  John  Wins- 
low, of  and  in  all  said  Lands  on  Kennebeck  River  aforesaid,  and 
legal  Proprietors  thereof,  at  our  Meeting  held  at  Boston,  this 
Twelfth    Day  of    December  A.  D.  1770  called    and    regulated 

according  to  Law,  have  voted,  granted  and  assigned  to 

(written) 
(to  James  Pitts  of  Boston  in  the  county  of  Suffolk  and  province 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  Esqr.,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  four 
hundred  acres  of  land,  in  two  divisions,  lying  on  the  west  side  of 
Kennebeck  River  butted  and  bounded  as  follows  viz :  beginning 
on  said  Kennebeck  River  and  at  the  easterly  end  of  the  northerly 


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HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 


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side  of  a  Road  lying-  between  lots  number  one  hundred  and  three 
and  one  hundred  and  four ;  thence  running  on  said  north  side  of 
said  Road,  west  north  west  three  hundred  and  twenty  poles  to 
another  road,  thence  running  northerly  on  said  road  fifty  poles, 
thence  running  east  south  east  about  three  hundred  and  twenty- 
poles  to  Kennebeck  River ;  thence  Southerly  down  said  river  to 
the  first  mentioned  bounds.  And  is  a   tract   of   land   fifty  poles 
wade,  and  about  three  hundred  and  twenty  poles  long  and  contains 
one  hundred  acres —  Then  to  begin  one  mile  and  eight  poles  from 
sd  Ken'k  river  on  a  road,  and  at  the  easterly  end  of  the  northerly 
line  of  the  three  hundred  acre  lot   No.   one   hundred   and   one ; 
thence  to  run  west  north  west  on  sd  northerly  line  about  three 
hundred  and  twenty  poles    to    another    road ;  thence    northerly 
on  sd  last  mentioned  road  one  hundred  and  fifty  poles ;  thence 
east  South  east  about  three  hundred  and  twenty  poles  to  a  road ; 
thence  Southerly  down  said  road  to  the  first  mentioned  bounds. 
And  is  a  tract  of  land  one  hundred  and  fifty  poles  wide,  and  about 
three  hundred  and  twenty  poles  long,  and  contains  about  Three 
Hundred  Acres —  Each  of  said  Divisions  being   numbered   one 
hundred  and  four — on  a  plan  made  by  John  ]\IcKecknie  surveyor 
dated  October,  1770,  as  said  Property  appears.     The  foregoing 
from  the  words  ''voted,  granted,  and  assigned  to   James    Pitts 
fsd,"  is  a  true  copy  of  the  said  Proprietors  vote  of  the  date  afore- 
said.    Examined  by  Henry  Alline  Jr.,  Propt.  Clerk. 

And  for  the  better  perpetuating  the  aforesaid  Vote  and  Grant 

of  said  Lands  to  (the   said   James   Pitts  his )  Heirs  and 

Assigns  forever,  We  the  said  Proprietors  at  our  said  ^Meeting 
have  further  Voted,  that  the  Clerk  of  this  Propriety  for  the  time 
being  be.  and  he  hereby  is  directed  and  authorized,  at  the  Request 
and  Cost  of  the  above-named  Grantee,  unto  our  said  Vote  and 
Grant  of  the  Lands  aforesaid,  to  afiix  the  common  Seal  of  said 
Propriety,  and  as  Clerk  of  the  aforesaid,  to  acknowledge  before 
any  of  his  ]\[ajesty's  Justices  in  said  Province  the  said  Vote  and 
Grant  to  be  the  Vote  and  Grant  of  said  Proprietors  for  the  Pur- 
pose above  mentioned  and  the  Seal  hereto  affixed,  to  be  the  com- 
mon seal  of  said  Propriety. 

(Signed)        Henry  Allixf,  Junr. 

Clerk  of  Said  Propriety, 


554  HISTORY    OF    WAT^RVILLE. 

with  their  and  every  of  their  Appurtenances  to  the  vSaid  Wihiam 
Bradford,  his  Heirs,  Associates  and  Assigns  forever,  yielding  and 
paying  unto  our  said  Sovereign  Lord  the  King,  his  Heirs  and 
Successors  forever,  one  fifth  Part  of  the  Ore  of  the  Mines  of 
Gold  and  Silver  and  one  other  fifth  Part  thereof  to  the  President 
and  Council  which  shall  be  had,  proflfered  and  obtained  within 
the  Precincts  aforesaid,  for  all  services  whatsoever,  as  in  said 
Charter  may  more  fully  appear. 

And  whereas  the  said  William  Bradford  and  his  Associates, 
afterward  assigned  over  and  surrendered  up  to  the  late  Colony  of 
New-Plymouth,  the  aforesaid  Tract  on  Kennebeck  River, 
together  with  other  Lands,  and  the  same  Colony  afterward,  viz. 
on  the  Twenty-seventh  Day  of  October,  A.  D.,  1661,  being  seized 
of  the  whole  Tract  aforesaid  on  Kennebeck  River,  and  also  the 
Lands  on  both  sides  the  said  River,  upwards  to  Wisserunsent, 
alias  Wesserunskick,  by  their  Deed  of  Bargain  and  Sale  of  that 
date,  for  and  in  Consideration  of  the  Sum  of  Four  Hundred 
Pounds  sterling,  sold  all  the  said  Lands  on  said  River  to  Antipas 
Boyes,  Edward  Tyng,  Thomas  Brattle  and  John  Winslow,  their 
and  every  of  their  Heirs  and  Assigns  forever,  as  by  the  said 
Deed  registered  in  the  Records  of  said  Colony  may  more  fully 
appear.  And  the  Lands  last  mentioned  in  said  Deed  by  a  Releafe 
and  Confirmation  were  afterward  confirmed  to  the  said  John 
Winslow  and  his  Partners  aforesaid  their  Heirs  and  Assigns 
forever,  on  both  Sides  of  said  Kennebeck  River  as  far  up  as  the 
upper  or  most  Northern  Part  of  Wesserunskick  aforesaid 
KNOW^  YE,  That  we,  the  Heirs  and  Assigns  of  the  said 
Autipas  Boyes,  Edward  Tyng,  Thomas  Brattle,  and  John  Wins- 
low, of  and  in  all  said  Lands  on  Kennebeck  River  aforesaid,  and 
legal  Proprietors  thereof,  at  our  Meeting  held  at  Boston,  this 
Twelfth  Day  of  December  A.  D.  1770  called  and  regulated 
according  to  Law,  have  voted,  granted  and  assigned  to 

(written) 
(to  James  Pitts  of  Boston  in  the  county  of  Suffolk  and  province 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  Esqr.,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  four 
hundred  acres  of  land,  in  two  divisions,  lying  on  the  west  side  of 
Kennebeck  River  butted  and  bounded  as  follows  viz :  beginning 
on  said  Kennebeck  River  and  at  the  easterly  end  of  the  northerly 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  555 

side  of  a  Road  lying  between  lots  number  one  hundred  and  three 
and  one  hundred  and  four ;  thence  running  on  said  north  side  of 
said  Road,  west  north  west  three  hundred  and  twenty  poles  to 
another  road,  thence  running  northerly  on  said  road  fifty  poles, 
thence  running  east  south  east  about  three  hundred  and  twenty 
poles  to  Kennebeck  River ;  thence  Southerly  down  said  river  to 
the  first  mentioned  bounds.  And  is  a   tract   of   land   fifty  poles 
wide,  and  about  three  hundred  and  twenty  poles  long  and  contains 
one  hundred  acres —  Then  to  begin  one  mile  and  eight  poles  from 
sd  Ken'k  river  on  a  road,  and  at  the  easterly  end  of  the  northerly 
line  of  the  three  hundred  acre  lot   No.   one   hundred   and   one; 
thence  to  run  west  north  west  on  sd  northerly  line  about  three 
hundred  and  twenty  poles    to    another    road ;  thence    northerly 
on  sd  last  mentioned  road  one  hundred  and  fifty  poles ;  thence 
east  South  east  about  three  hundred  and  twenty  poles  to  a  road ; 
thence  Southerly  down  said  road  to  the  first  mentioned  bounds. 
And  is  a  tract  of  land  one  hundred  and  fifty  poles  wide,  and  about 
three  hundred  and  twenty  poles  long,  and  contains  about  Three 
Hundred  Acres —  Each  of  said  Divisions  being   numbered   one 
hundred  and  four — on  a  plan  made  by  John  ]\IcKecknie  surveyor 
dated  October,  1770,  as  said  Property  appears.     The  foregoing 
from  the  words  "voted,  granted,  and  assigned  to   James    Pitts 
fsd,"  is  a  true  copy  of  the  said  Proprietors  vote  of  the  date  afore- 
said.    Examined  by  Henry  Alline  Jr.,  Propt.  Clerk. 

And  for  the  better  perpetuating  the  aforesaid  Vote  and  Grant 

of  said  Lands  to  (the   said   James   Pitts  his )  Heirs  and 

Assigns  forever,  We  the  said  Proprietors  at  our  said  ^Meeting 
have  further  Voted,  that  the  Clerk  of  this  Propriety  for  the  time 
being  be,  and  he  hereby  is  directed  and  authorized,  at  the  Request 
and  Cost  of  the  above-named  Grantee,  unto  our  said  Vote  and 
Grant  of  the  Lands  aforesaid,  to  afiix  the  common  Seal  of  said 
Propriety,  and  as  Clerk  of  the  aforesaid,  to  acknowledge  before 
any  of  his  IMajesty's  Justices  in  said  Province  the  said  \^ote  and 
Grant  to  be  the  Vote  and  Grant  of  said  Proprietors  for  the  Pur- 
pose above  mentioned  and  the  Seal  hereto  affixed,  to  be  the  com- 
mon seal  of  said  Propriety. 

(Signed)        Henry  Alline,  Juxr. 

Clerk  of  Said  Propriety. 


558  •  HISTORY    01^    WATERVILLE. 

that  are  necessary  to  be  believed,  and  all  the  religious  precepts 
that  are  necessary  to  be  practised,  in  order  to  eternal  salvation, 
we  adopt  them  as  the  rule  of  our  Faith  and  practice. 

Engagement. 

Sensible  that  the  happiness  of  man  in  this  life,  as  well  as  in 
that  which  is  to  come,  essentially  depends  upon  the  practice  of 
piety  and  virtue,  we  engage  to  discountenance  impiety;  to 
encourage  the  moral,  the  social  and  the  Christian  virtues  ;  to  pro- 
mote Friendship  and  brotherly  love  among  ourselves,  the  peace 
and  unity  of  the  Christian  Society  at  large,  and  endeavor  by  the 
Grace  of  God  to  let  our  Conversation  be  as  it  becometh  the  Gospel 
of  Christ. 

Conditions  upon  which  Mr.  Joshua  Cushman  is  ordained  as  a 
minister  of  the  Gospel  in  the  Town  of  Winslow.:  agreed  upon  by 
him  and  by  the  inhabitants  of  said  town. 

First,  agreed  by  the  parties  concerned,  that  Mr.  Cushman  shall 
be  entitled  to  his  salary  in  full  so  long  as  he  shall  continue  to  be 
the  minister  of  said  town. 

Second,  agreed  by  the  parties  concerned,  that  to  prevent  all 
disputes  that  may  arise  respecting  the  phrase  "so  long  as  he  shall 
continue  the  minister  of  said  town,"  he  shall  be  considered 
the  minister  of  said  town,  till  he  shall  be  dismissed  in  some  form 
that  shall  be  deemed  regular. 

Third,  agreed  by  the  parties  concerned,  that  if  any  misunder- 
standing or  difficulty  or  dispute  shall  arise  between  Mr.  Cushman 
and  the  inhabitants  of  said  town  who  support  him  as  their  min- 
ister, the  party  feeling  itself  aggrieved  shall  first  attempt  a  Com- 
promise or  reconciliation ;  that  if  a  Compromise  or  reconcilia- 
tion cannot  be  effected,  the  parties  concerned  shall  attempt 
mutually  to  agree  in  the  choice  of  some  person  or  persons, 
reputed  knowing  and  judicious,  and  not  interested  in  the  affair, 
to  whom  their  difficulty  or  dispute  whatever  it  be  shall  be  referred ; 
and  that  if  the  parties  concerned  cannot  mutually  agree  in  the 
choice  of  any  person  or  persons,  each  party  shall  independent  of 
the  other  choose  an  equal  number  of  the  foregoing  description 
and  that  the  judgment  of  the  referees  chosen  shall  in  either  case, 
after  an  impartial  hearing,  be  final  and  decisive  without  any  other 
formality  or  process  whatever.     It  is  understood,  however,  that 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  559 

if  the  referees  shall  consist  of  an  even  number  of  persons  and  be 
equally  divided  upon  any  question  upon  which  they  are  to  decide, 
they  shall  be  empowered  mutually  to  agree  in  the  choice  of 
another  person  to  sit  with  them  in  the  reference,  and  that  the 
result  of  the  majority  shall  be,  as  before,  a  final  decision  of  the 
cause. 

Fourth,  agreed  by  the  parties  concerned  that  as  the  reputation 
and  success  of  a  minister  when  dismissed  from  any  place,  must 
depend  upon  the  recommendation  of  his  brethren  in  the  ministry, 
in  cases  where  the  ministerial  character  shall  be  the  only  ques- 
tion, or  so  far  as  ministerial  character  shall  be  concerned,  the 
choice  of  both  parties  shall  be  restricted  to  ministers  of  the 
Gospel ;  and  that  in  all  other  cases  persons  reputed  knowing  and 
judicious,  and  not  interested  may  be  chosen  indiscriminately 
without  any  regard  to  any  order  or  description  of  men  what- 
ever. 

Fifth,  Agreed  by  the  parties  concerned  that  to  prevent  all 
religious  disputes  respecting  doctrines  which  never  can  be 
decided,  as  there  is  no  living  infallible  Judge,  or  tribunal  to  whom 
or  to  which  we  can  appeal  for  the  truth  of  religious  opinions,  and 
as  ever)^  Christian  Society  has  an  undoubted  right  to  put  their 
own  construction  upon  the  Scriptures,  a  point  of  orthodoxy 
before  any  council,  or  reference,  or  any  description  of  men  what- 
ever, 

Sixth,  Agreed  by  the  parties  concerned,  that  as  a  more  exped- 
itious way  of  settling  all  ministerial,  religious  or  civil  disputes 
that  may  arise,  whenever  two-thirds  of  the  inhabitants  of  said 
town,  who  support  Mr.  Cushman  as  their  minister,  shall  be  dis- 
satisfied with  him  on  account  of  his  doctrine,  conduct,  sickness, 
infirmities,  old  age,  or  any  other  reason  whatever,  and  judge 
upon  mature  deliberation,  without  being  influenced  by  any  sud- 
den start  of  passion,  caprice,  or  the  impulse  of  the  hour,  his  use- 
fulness as  their  religious  instructor  at  an  end ;  they  shall  request 
him  by  a  vote  of  the  town,  two-thirds  of  the  inhabitants  who 
support  him  concurring,  to  ask  a  dismission,  and  in  case  of  refusal 
on  his  part,  a  vote  of  the  town,  so  qualified,  shall  be  deemed  a 
regular  dismission,  always  subjected,  however,  to  the  third  and 
fourth  of  the  foregoing  conditions,  so  far  as  respects  the  terms 
on  which  he  shall  be  dismissed,  if  a  compromise  between  the 


560  HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE. 

parties  cannot  be  effected,  as  the  case  may  require,  notwithstand- 
ing anything  intimated  in  this  sixth  condition. 

Seventh,  Agreed  on  the  part  of  the  town,  that  if  Mr,  Cushman 
should  grow  old  in  the  work  of  the  ministry,  having  discharged 
the  duties  of  his  office  faithfully,  the  people  of  his  charge, 
although  they  should  judge  his  usefulness  at  an  end  and  him  not 
entitled  to  his  salary  in  full,  shall  make  such  grants,  should  he 
need  them,  as  will  make  his  old  age  comfortable. 

Eighth,  Agreed  on  the  part  of  the  town,  that  if  money  should 
become  materially  of  less  value  :  and  the  price  of  articles  of  living 
be  materially  increased ;  or  the  inhabitants  increase  in  wealth 
and  in  population ;  such  additions  to  the  salary  now  voted  to 
Mr.  Cushman  shall  from  time  to  time  be  made  as  shall  put  him 
above  servile  dependence,  and  enable  him  to  discharge  the  duties 
of  his  station  with  satisfaction  and  utility. 

Ninth,  Agreed  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Cushman ;  that  if  the  rela- 
tive value  of  money  should  materially  be  increased,  and  articles 
of  living  be  materially  diminished  in  their  price,  he  will  from 
time  to  time,  relinquish  a  reasonable  portion  of  his  salary  so  as 
not  to  be  burdensome  to  the  people. 

Tenth,  Agreed  by  the  parties  that  the  salary  voted  by  the  town 
to  Mr.  Cushman  shall  commence  at  his  ordination. 

(June  9th,  1795.  Agreed  to  by  me  in  witness  whereof  I 
hereto  subscribe  my  name 

Joshua   Cushman. 

Attest:  Josiah  Hayd-e^-n,  Tozvn  Clerk.) 

The  resolution  passed  by  the  town  at  the  termination  of  the 
above  agreement,  nineteen  years  later,  was  as  follows : 

"Whereas  the  town  of  \^^inslow,  owing  to  he  state  of  surround- 
ing societies,  to  its  own  reduced  numbers,  and  to  the  general 
embarrassmeiit  of  the  times,  feels  itself  unable  any  longer  to 
support  a  minister  of  the  Congregational  order;  and  whereas 
the  Rev.  Joshua  Cushman  has  served  the  town  for  nineteen  years 
in  this  capacity,  during  the  best  days  of  a  man's  natural  life,  it 
would  appear  unchristian,  contrary  to  the  common  principles  of 
equity,  to  discontinue  his  ministerial  services  at  his  age  without 
some  remuneration ;  therefore  the  town  of  Winslow,  willing  to 
make  the  Rev.  Mr.  Cushman,  as  far  as  can  be  done,  compensa- 


HISTORY    OF     \VATER\'ILLE.  561 

tion  for  the  injury  which  he  may  receive  to  the  means  of  his 
subsistence,  to  his  prospects,  and  to  his  sensibility,  engages  to 
give  him  the  sum  of  twelve  hundred  dollars  to  be  paid  within 
four  years/' 

"In  dissolving  the  religious  connection  with  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Cushman,  which  for  years  has  so  happily  subsisted,  the  Christian 
Society  in  Winslow  yield  to  necessity,  and  to  the  force  of  cir- 
cumstances over  which  they  can  have  no  control." 

In  reply  to  this  note  Mr.  Cushman  wrote  an  answer  gracefully 
accepting  the  situation  and  the  proposal.  He  says  it  would  have 
pleased  him  '"to  have  seen  all  the  good  people  in  town  continued 
united  in  the  form  of  worship  instituted  by  the  primitive  Chris- 
tians." "To  that  beneficent  Being,  who  giveth  unto  man  his 
food,  and  heareth  the  young  ravens  w^hen  they  cry,  I  commit  my 
family ;  and  believing  there  is  a  reward  for  the  righteous,  myself 
I  resign  to  the  hopes  of  the  future  world." 

MuSTER-ROLL    OF    THE    COMPANY    LaTE    StaCKPOLE'S,  JuLY  10, 

1795- 

Officers'  Names.  Captain,  vacant ;  lieutenant,  vacant ;  ensign, 
Wm.  Bradford. 

Sargeants.  Samuel  Stackpole,  Knock  Fuller,  James  Pettee, 
Thomas  S.  Farrington. 

Music.     John  Philbrook,  drum  ;  Samuel  Haywood,  fife. 

Names  of  Men,  Rank  and  File.  Benj.  Runnels,  Junr. ;  Timo- 
thy Wyman,  Francis  Dudley,  Junr. :  Thomas  Parker,  Junr. ; 
James  Bigalow,  Joseph  Brown,  John  Brown,  Joal  Bragg,  Abial 
Bragg,  David  Barney,  John  Collar,  Stephen  Crosby,  James 
Dudley,  John  Drew,  Edmund  Freeman,  Elijah  Hall,  Fred  Hall, 
Wm.  Haywood,  Zimri  Haywood,  Junr. ;  Josiah  Hayden,  Junr. ; 
Ambros  Howard,  Caleb  Leonard,  John  Leonard,  Isaac  Osborn, 
Ephm.  Osborn,  Benj.  Osborn,  Junr. ;  Benj.  Pettee,  Wm.  Pettee, 
Ezekiel  Pettee,  Junr. :  Samuel  Parker,  Phineas  Parker,  Samuel 
Parker,  Junr.;  Eleazer  Parker,  Zachariah  Parker,  John  Run- 
nels, Stephen  Runnels,  John  Simson,  Reuben  Simson,  Israel 
Smith,  Willard  Spalding,  Junr.;  John  Spaulding,  Junr.;  Ray- 
mond Smith,  George  Stilson,  James  Stackpole,  Junr.,  Daniel 
Spring,  Junr.,  Robert  Spear,  Thomas  Tripp,  Silas  Tripp,  John 
36 


562  HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLE. 

Tripp,  Wm.  West,  Moses  Hastings,  Moses  Wyman,  Joseph 
Woods,  Phineas  Warren,  Asa  Warren,  Thomas  Gilpatrick,  Silas 
Foss,  John  M.  Harvey,  Wm.  Wyman,  Ephrem.  Roberts,  Ehsha 
Allen.     Total,  rank  and  file,  61. 

Attest:  William  Bradford,  Ensign. 

Number  of  musquets,  39;  bayonets,  13;  cartridge  boxes,  7; 
iron  rods,  23 ;  bayonet  belts,  6 ;  flints,  68 ;  wires  and  brushes,  17 ; 
knapsacks,  4;  balls,  155;  pounds  of  powder,  492. 

A  letter  from  Reuben  Kidder  dated  HaUozvell,  August,  i/'P4, 
describes  a  visit  to  Winslow.  He  says,  "there  is  an  excellent  road, 
plain  and  level,  only  eighteen  miles  from  Fort  Western  to  Fort 
Halifax.  The  town  occupies  a  most  excellent  tract  of  land  and 
contains  more  than  100  families.  A  house  lot  of  one-quarter 
acre  sells  for  fifty  dollars."  A  house  lot  of  one-quarter 
whom  he  found  very  hospitable  and  to  whom  two  Penobscot 
Indians  brought  each  a  fine,  large,  fresh  salmon  taken  the  night 
before  in  the  river  before  his  door.  He  says,  "I  made  two 
excellent  meals  of  them.  I  spent  the  Sabbath  and  attended  pub- 
lic worship  in  the  chamber  of  the  old  Fort  where  I  saw  among 
a  large  concourse  of  people,  six  Penobscot  Indians  dressed  up 
hideously  fine."  He  calls  Winslow  the  head  of  boatable  navi- 
gation, for  canoes  only  can  conveniently  go  above  that  place. 
The  country  above  Winslow  for  thirty  or  forty  miles  is  a  fine 
tract  of  land  but  mostly  a  wilderness  except  about  four  miles 
from  the  river  on  each  side,  which  is  well  cultivated.  He  speaks 
of  the  fort,  then  forty  years  old,  as  a  "large,  ancient  pile  of  build- 
ings, distinguished  by  the  occasion  on  which  it  was  erected." 

Inscriptions  on  Corner  Stones  oe  Fort  Halifax. 
"This  corner  stone  laid  by  direction  of  Governor  Shirley, 
1754."  The  stone  is  preserved  in  the  State  House  at  Augusta. 
Another  inscription  fuller  and  more  formal  is  on  a  tablet  still 
preserved  at  Plymouth,  Mass.  It  was  in  Latin  and  plainly  tells 
how  the  fort  took  its  name.  A  translation  is  as  follows :  "For 
the  benefit  of  the  Massachusetts  Province,  William  Shirley  her 
Governor,  under  the  auspices  of  the  most  noble  George  Mon- 
tague Duck,  Earl  of  Halifax,  the  highly  distinguished  friend 


HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLK.  563 

and  patron  of  the  British  Provinces  throughout  North  America, 
has  reared  this  fortress.'' 
The  original  is  as  follows : 

"Quod  felix  faustum  quesit 

Provinciae  Alassachusetensi  : 

Hunc  Lapidem  posuit 

Gulielmus  Shirley,  Gubernator, 

Sub  auspiciis 

Nobilissimi,  Georgii  ]\lontague  Duck ; 

Comitis  de  Halifax 

Provinciarum, 

Ouotquot  sunt  ditionis  Brittanicae  ; 

Per  American!  utramque 

Prefecti  atque  Patroni  illustrissimi, 

Die  3,  Septembris,  A.  D.  1754." 

The  epitaph  prepared  by  Richard  Thomas  for  his  own  tomb- 
stone and  now  appearing  on  that  stone  in  the  old  Winslow 
burying  ground. 

"Here  lies  the  body  of  Richard  Thomas 
An  inglishman  b}'  birth, 

A  whig  of  '76, 

By  occupation  a  cooper 

Now  food  for  worms, 

Like  an  old  rumpuncheon 

marked,  numbered  and  shooked, 

He  will  be  raised  again 

and  finished  by  his  creator, 

he  died  sept,  28,  1824,  aged  75. 

America  my  adopted  country,  my  best  advice  to  you  is  to  take 

care  of  your  liberty." 


That  considerable  state  was  observed  at  the  old  East  meeting- 
house may  be  inferred  from  the  following  entry  in  Capt.  James 
Stackpole's  diary : 

"Gave  Rollins  a  pt.  cherry  rum  for  opening  my  pew  door." 


564 


HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLK. 


Arthur  Lithgow. 
Geo.  Warren. 

Arthur  Lithgow. 

No  representative. 

Elnathan  Sherwin. 


WiNSLOW  AND   WaTKRVILLK  REPRESENTATIVES   IN   TllE     LEGIS- 
LATURE OF   Massachusetts. 

1782.  Zimri  Haywood. 

1783.  Ezekiel  Pattee. 
1784. 

1785.  No  representative. 

1786.  E.  Pattee. 

1787.  "  '' 
1789. 
1791. 
1792. 

1795- 
1796. 

1797. 
1798. 
1799. 
1800. 
1801. 
1802. 

1803. 

1804. 

1805. 

1806. 

1807. 

1808. 

1809. 

1810.     Eleazer  W.  Ripley. 

1811. 

1812.  Elnathan  Sherwin. 

1813. 

1814. 

1815. 

1816.  Dr.  Cook. 

1817.  " 


HISTORY     OF     WATERVILLE.  565 


Items  Coxcerxixg  the  State  AIilitia. — 1821-34. 

The  Waterville  men  belonged  to  2nd  Brigade,  2nd  Division, 
1st  Regiment  AFaine  ^lilitia.  Among  the  regimental  officers  for 
1821  Benj.  Foster  was  adjutant,  Elisha  Hallet,  Jr.,  quarter-mas- 
ter ;  David  Wheeler,  paymaster ;  Hall  Chase,  surgeon ;  John 
Wright,  surgeon's  mate ;  Zedekiah  Belknap,  chaplain.  Wil- 
liam Pullen  and  James  Adams  were  Captains,  William  Lewis 
and  Josiah  Crosby  were  ensigns. 

In  1822  Daniel  Cook  was  division  quarter-master.  In  the  ist 
Regiment  Johnson  Williams  was  major;  Benj.  Foster,  adju- 
tant ;  Hallet,  Wheeler  Chase  and  Belknap  retained  their  positions 
while  Simeon  Mathews  became  surgeon's  mate. 

In  1823,  Daniel  Cook  continued  division  quarter  master.  Major 
Johnson  Williams  was  promoted  to  be  lieutenant-colonel,  Alpheus 
Lyon  became  adjutant.     The  same  officers  served  in  1824-5. 

In  1825  the  militia  of  the  State  included,  infantry,  35,212; 
cavalry,  1,168;  artillery,  1,865.  Total,  38,245  men  in  seven 
divisions. 

Other  \\'aterville  men  who  held  rank  in  the  militia,  were  M.  P. 
Norton,  Clark  Lillybridge,  Joshua  Davis,  Avery  Briggs,  Samuel 
Plaisted,  Sanford  Pullen,  William  Dorr,  Jeptha  Crowell,  Gailen 
Soule,  Harrison  A.  Smith  and  Joseph  ]\Iarston. 

Sunday  School. 
"Being  desirous  of  having  a  well  organized  Sunday  School  in 
Waterville  village,  the  subscribers  agree  to  meet  at  the  old  meet- 
ing house  on  Sunday,  the  12th  day  of  August  instant,  at  6  o'clock 
afternoon  to  deliberate  on  the  measures  expedient  to  be  taken 
for  carrying  a  Sunday  School  into  effect" — Daniel  Cook 
August  1827.  Hall  Chase 

George  W.  Osborne 
Thos.  Kimball 
Moses  Appleton  John  C.  Jewett  . 

Jas.  Stackpole,  Jr.  M.  P.  Norton 

George  vStickney  T.  Boutelle 

Shubal  Marston 
Asa  Redington,  Jr. 
J.  M.  Hanes  James  Burleigh 


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566  HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLE. 

S.  Scammon  Nath.  Russell 

Isaac  Dodge  Lemuel  Stilson 

Wm.  Hastings  J.  Alden 

Jos.  M.  Moon  David  Paine 

William  I.oring  James  Barney 

Russell  Ellis 
Wm.  Pearson. 

Waterville   Incorporation   Act,  June   23,  1802. 
''Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts. 

In  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  two." 
"An  Act  to  divide  the  Town  of  Winslow  in  the  County  of  Ken- 
nebec, and  to  incorporate  the  westerly  part  thereof  into  a  sep- 
arate Town  by  the  name  of  Waterville." 

vSection  ist.  Re  it  Enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  General  Court  assembled,  and  by  the  authority  of 
the  same,  that  all  that  part  of  the  town  of  Winslow  which  lies  on 
the  west  side  of  Kennebec  River :  as  known  by  its  present 
bounds,  and  by  a  line  drawn  on  the  middle  of  Kennebec  River 
as  its  future  eastern  boundary,  be  and  hereby  is  incorporated  into 
a  separate  Town  by  the  name  of  Waterville.  And  the  inhabi- 
tants of  ye  said  town  are  hereby  invested  with  all  the  powers, 
privileges,  rights  and  immunities,  with  which  other  Towns  are 
invested  by  the  Constitution  and  Laws  of  this  Commonwealth. 

Section  2d.  And  be  it  further  Enacted,  that  the  said  Town  of 
Waterville  shall  pay  all  arrears  of  taxes,  which  have  been 
assessed  upon  them,  together  with  their  proportion  of  all  clebts 
owed  by  the  said  Town  of  Winslow  prior  to  the  date  of  this  Act, 
excepting  such  debts  as  concern  the  building  of  their  Meeting 
Houses,  which  shall  be  due  from  the  said  Town  when  divided, 
or  damages  the  Town  may  then  be  liable  to  pay,  shall  be  appor- 
tioned and  paid  by  each  Town  in  proportion  according  to  the 
present  valuation,  and  all  dues  and  demands,  other  than  those 
which  include  the  expenses  of  Meeting  Houses,  belonging  to  the 
Town  when  divided,  shall  hereafter  be  adjusted,  divided  and  paid 
to  each  of  the  said  Towns  in  proportions  according  to  the  present 
valuation.  And  the  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  all  Pews  on  the 
lower  floors  in  the  two  Meeting  Houses  standing  on  the  banks 
of  the  Kennebec,  as  also  the  Monies  voted  to  complete  the  same, 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  567 

shall  be  equally  divided  between  the  said  Towns  after  a  division ; 
and  the  monies  assessed  for  building  a  meeting  house  in  the  west 
pond  settlement,  shall  be  paid  and  exclusively  appropriated  to 
that  purpose,  and  subject  to  no  demand  of  said  Town  of  Wins- 
low.  And  the  deficiencies  of  monies  which  may  be  due  to  the 
several  school  districts,  in  the  said  Town  when  divided,  shall  be 
paid  out  of  the  common  treasury  of  the  present  Town  of  Winslow. 

Section  3d.  And  be  it  further  Enacted,  that  all  future  State 
taxes  which  may  be  levied  on  the  two  Towns  aforesaid,  previous 
to  a  new  valuation,  shall  be  assessed  and  paid  in  the  proportion 
of  two-fifths  by  the  Town  of  Winslow  and  three-fifths  by  the 
Town  of  W^aterville. 

Section  4th.  And  be  it  further  Enacted,  that  all  property  now 
belonging  to  the  said  Town  of  Winslow,  not  mentioned  in  the 
foregoing  section,  shall  be  divided  between  the  said  Towns  in  the 
proportions  as  mentioned  in  the  second  section  of  this  Act. 

Section  5th.  And  be  it  further  Enacted,  that  any  Justice  of 
the  Peace  of  said  County  of  Kennebec,  be  and  he  is  hereby 
authorized  upon  application  thereof,  to  issue  a  Warrant  directed 
to  some  suitable  person,  an  inhabitant  of  the  said  Town  of  Water- 
ville,  requiring  him  to  notify  and  warn  the  Inhabitants  thereof 
qualified  to  vote  in  Town  affairs,  to  assemble  at  such  convenient 
time  and  place  as  shall  be  expressed  in  the  said  Warrant,  to 
choose  such  officers  as  Towns  are  by  law  empowered  to  choose  in 
the  months  of  March  or  April  annually. 

In  the  House  of  Representatives,  June  23rd,  1802.  This  Bill 
having  had  three  several  readings  passed  to  be  Enacted. 

John  C.  Jones,  Speaker. 

In  Senate,  June  23rd,  1802.     This  Bill  having  had  two  several 

readings  passed  to  be  Enacted. 

Da\'id  Cobb^  President. 

June  23rd,  1802.     By  the  Governor  approved. 

Caleb  Strong. 
A  true  Copy 

Attest : 

John  Avery,  Secretary. 
A  true  Copy  of  the  Original 

Attest : 

Abijah  Smith^  Town  Clerk. 


568  HISTORY    O^    WATERVILLK. 

Letter  of  Asa  Redington. 

WatervillS,  Mk.,  June  21,  1844. 

Dear  Sir : — My  son  recently  informed  me  that  you  would  like 
to  have  a  copy  of  the  company  roll  of  Washington's  Life  Guards. 
Agreeably  to  your  request,  I  hereby  send  you  one,  under  date  of 
Oct.  22,  1783.     The  original  is  in  my  possession. 

The  company  was  then  stationed  at  Rocky  Hill,  in  Princeton, 
N.  Jersey,  and  went  by  the  name  of  Washington's  Guards.  It 
consisted  of  a  Captain,  three  Sergeants,  three  Corporals,  two 
Musicians,  and  twenty-eight  Privates.  I  remember  most  of 
them. 

The  preliminary  treaty  of  peace  was  made  in  Nov.,  1782. 
After  the  information  reached  America,  there  was  but  little 
fighting.  The  army,  however,  was  not  disbanded  until  the 
arrival  of  the  definitive  treaty,  signed  at  Paris,  3d  Sept.,  1783. 
It  was  in  the  spring  of  1783  that  Washington  retired  from  New- 
burg,  and  established  his  headquarters  at  Princeton.  This  com- 
pany was  detached  at  that  time  to  attend  upon  his  person.  They 
remained  with  him  at  Princeton  till  the  last  of  November,  when 
he  withdrew,  and  after  again  visiting  West  Point  and  New 
York  City,  he  returned  to  his  home  at  Mount  Vernon.  A  part  of 
our  company  went  to  that  place  to  guard  his  baggage.  I  had 
then  to  walk  to  West  Point  (where  I  was  discharged  23d  Dec. 
1783),  and  from  thence  to  New  Hampshire,  where  my  friends 
resided.  I  had  been  in  the  war  five  years,  and  my  health  had 
become  impared.  Being  desirous  to  retain  my  trusty  musket, 
but  unable  to  bring  it  so  far  on  my  shoulders,  I  made  a  bargain 
with  one  of  my  fellow  soldiers  to  carry  it  home,  for  which  I  was 
to  give  him  a  hard  dollar,  or  let  him  retain  the  gun.  I  made  out 
to  procure,  and  give  him  a  hard  dollar,  and  took  the  piece,  which 
I  still  keep. 

Gen.  Washington  had  the  condescention  to  speak  to  me  several 
times.  Once  in  the  Philadelphia  hospital,  when  sick  with  the 
smallpox  : — "You  appear  to  have  been  very  sick ;  what  corps  do 
you  belong  to?"  I  replied,  "New  Hampshire,"  and  he  passed 
along.  Once  at  Princeton,  when  I  and  another  man  were  carry- 
ing up  some  heavy  trunks  into  his  chamber : — "Be  careful  and 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  569 

not  let  them  fall  on  your  feet,  as  they  might  cripple  you."  And 
again  at  the  same  place.  He  called  me  to  his  window  and  said, 
"I  wish  you  would  let  your  men  procure  some  bush  brooms  and 
sweep  the  door  3^ard,  and  I  will  try  to  get  you  something  to 
drink." 

We  complied  with  the  General's  request,  and  he  sent  us  out,  by 
his  steward,  a  bottle  of  excellent  spirit,  which  was  quite  accept- 
able. The  General's  lady  was  with  him  (I  believe)  all  the  time 
he  was  at  Princeton.  I  was  for  several  weeks  quite  sick  there 
with  the  fever  and  ague,  and  went  to  a  small  farm  house  near 
by  the  General's  quarters.  His  family  physician  called  often, 
and  gave  me  medicines  many  times.  Lady  Washington  was  also 
very  kind  to  me,  and  at  one  time  sent  me  an  excellent  pie,  and  at 
another  time  an  orange,  and  other  things. 

My  veneration  for  the  great  and  good  Gen.  Washington  com- 
menced early.  It  has  never  suffered  diminution.  Of  his  person 
and  character  it  is  unnecessary  to  speak;  but  I  cannot  forbear 
alluding  to  that  majestic  and  serene  dignity  of  appearance  and 
of  manner,  which  at  once  inspired  both  reverence  and  love. 
When  on  horse-back  he  made  a  most  noble  appearance.  If  walk- 
ing (alone  or  in  company  with  thousands),  he  must  have  been 
instantly  marked  for  an  extraordinary  being.  He  had  with  him 
at  Princeton  about  a  dozen  cavalry,  well  mounted.  They  made 
a  fine  appearance.  They  generally  escorted  him  when  he  rode 
out,  and  acted  as  expresses,  etc. 

Of  the  Guards,  Sergeant  Stratton  died  last  fall,  at  Albion,  in 
this  State.  It  is  possible  that  several  others  may  be  yet  living, 
but  I  know  of  know  one. 

I  trust  I  did  my  duty  faithfully  as  a  soldier  in  that  mighty 
struggle  for  our  National  Independence.  I  saw  and  felt  a  great 
deal  of  hard  service  in  that  war,  in  a  number  of  actions.  I  was  at 
the  siege  of  Yorktown,  and  had  the  pleasure  (for  I  was  tired  of 
fighting)  of  seeing  the  British  army  under  Lord  Cornwallis  march 
out  of  Yorktown,  ground  their  arms,  and  surrender  themselves 
prisoners  of  war. 

I  am  no  friend  to  war,  and  pray  that  it  may  cease  to  the  ends 
of  the  earth.  I  am  fast  verging  to  the  age  of  eighty-three,  and 
am  hoping  soon  to  find  a  dwelling  place  in  that  promised  land 
where  wars  can  never  come. 


572  HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLE. 

city  solicitor,  and  said  court  is  empowered  to  enforce  payment 
of  said  fines  and  costs  of  prosecution  by  imprisonment  in  the 
county  jail  not  exceeding  thirty  days. 

Sect.  2.  The  administration  of  all  fiscal,  prudential  and 
municipal  afifairs  of  said  city,  with  the  government  thereof,  shall 
be  vested  in  one  principal  magistrate,  to  be  styled  the  mayor,  and 
a  board  of  seven  aldermen,  designated  as  the  board  of  aldermen, 
and  a  board  of  fourteen  councilmen,  denominated  the  common 
council,  all  of  whom  shall  be  inhabitants  of  said  city  and  legal 
voters  therein.  Said  mayor,  board  of  aldermen,  and  common 
council,  shall  constitute  the  city  council.  All  shall  be  sworn  to 
a  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  their  respective  offices. 

Sect.  3.  The  mayor  of  said  city  shall  be  the  chief  executive 
magistrate  thereof.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  be  vigilant  and  active 
in  causing  the  laws  and  regulations  of  the  city  to  be  executed 
and  enforced,  to  exercise  a  general  supervision  over  the  conduct 
of  all  subordinate  officers,  and  to  cause  their  violations  or  neglect 
of  duty  to  be  punished.  He  may  call  special  meetings  of  the 
board  of  aldermen  and  common  council,  when,  in  his  opinion, 
the  interest  of  the  city  requires  it,  by  a  notice  in  one  or  more  of 
the  papers  printed  in  the  city,  or  by  causing  a  summons  or 
notification  to  be  given  in  hand,  or  left  at  the  usual  dwelling 
place  of  each  member  of  the  board  to  be  convened.  He  shall, 
from  time  to  time,  communicate  to  the  city  council,  such  informa- 
tion and  recommend  such  measures  as  the  business  and  interests 
of  the  city  may,  in  his  opinion,  require.  He  shall  preside  in  the 
board  of  aldermen  and  joint  meetings  of  the  two  boards,  but 
shall  have  only  a  casting  vote.  The  salary  and  compensation 
of  the  mayor  shall  be  two  hundred  dollars  per  year,  which  shall 
not  be  increased  or  diminished  during  his  continuance  in  office, 
unless  by  the  vote  of  the  qualified  electors  in  ward  meetings 
called  for  that  purpose,  nor  shall  he  receive  from  the  city  any 
other  compensation  for  any  services  by  him  rendered  in  any 
other  capacity  or  agency;  provided,  however,  that  the  city 
council  may  elect  the  mayor  to  any  city  office,  and  allow  him 
a  reasonable  compensation  for  services  rendered  in  such  office. 

Sect.  4.  Every  law,  act,  ordinance,  resolve  or  order, 
requiring  the  consent  of  both  branches  of  the  city  council, 
excepting  rules  and  orders  of  a  parliamentary    character,  shall 


HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLE.  573 

be  presented  to  the  mayor  for  approval.  If  not  approved  by 
him,  he  shall  return  it  with  his  objections,  at  the  next  session 
of  the  city  council,  to  that  branch  in  which  it  originated,  which 
shall  enter  the  objections  at  large  on  its  journal  and  proceed  to 
reconsider  the  same.  If,  upon  such  reconsideration,  it  shall  be 
passed  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  of  that 
branch,  it  shall  be  sent  together  with  the  objections  to  the  other 
branch,  by  which  it  shall  be  reconsidered,  and  if  passed  by  a  two- 
thirds  vote  of  that  branch,  it  shall  have  the  same  effect  as  if 
signed  bv  the  mayor.  In  case  of  vacancy  in  the  office  of  mayor, 
when  said  law,  act,  ordinance,  resolve  or  order  be  finally  passed, 
the  same  shall  be  voted  without  approval. 

Se:ct.   5.     The  executive  powers  of  said  city  generally,  and 

the  administration  of  police  and  health  departments,  with    all 

the  powers  of  selectmen  and  overseers  of  the    poor,  except    as 

modified  by  this  act,  shall  be  vested  in  the  mayor  and  aldermen. 

All  the  powers  of  establishing  w^atch  and  ward,  now  vested  by 

the  laws  of  the  state  in  the  justices  of  the  peace  and  municipal 

officers  or  inhabitants  of  towns,  are  vested  in  the    mayor    and 

aldermen,  so  far  as  relates  to  said  city,  and  they  are  authorized 

to  unite  the  watch  and  police  departments  into  one  department, 

and  establish  suitable  regulations  for  the  government  of  the  same. 

The   officers  of   police  shall   be  one  chief,  to  be  styled   the  city 

marshal,  so  many  deputy  marshals  as  the  city   council   may  by 

ordinance  prescribe,  and  so  many  watchmen  and  police  as  the 

mayor  and  aldermen  may,  from  time  to  time,  appoint.     All  other 

powers  now  or  hereafter  vested  in  the  inhabitants  of  said  city, 

and  all  powers  granted  by  this  act,  as  well  as  all  powers  relating 

to  the  fire  department,  shall  be  vested  in  the  mayor  and  aldermen 

and  common  council  of  said  city,  to  be  exercised  by  concurrent 

vote,  each  board  to  have  a  negative  upon  the  other.     Each  board 

shall  keep  a  record  of  its  proceedings,  and  judge  of  the  election  of 

its  own  members,  and  in  case  of  vacancies,  new  elections  shall 

be  ordered  by  the  mayor  and  aldermen. 

Sect.  6.  '  The  compensation  of  all  subordinate  city  officers 
whatsoever  shall  be  fixed  by  the  city  council.  All  officers  of  the 
police  and  health  departments  shall  be  appointed  by  nomination  by 
the  mayor  and  confirmation  by  the  aldermen,  and  may  be  removed 
by  them  for  good  cause.     All  other  subordinate  officers  shall  be 


574  HISTORY     OF    WATDRVILLD. 

elected  by  joint  convention  of  the  city  council,  and  such  officers 
may  be  removed  for  good  cause,  by  concurrent  vote  passed  in 
each  branch  by  the  assent  of  two  thirds  of  all  the  members 
thereof.  Except  as  otherwise  specially  provided  in  this  act,  all 
subordinate  officers  shall  be  elected  annually  on  the  second  Mon- 
day in  March,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  may  be,  and  their  term 
of  office  shall  be  for  one  year,  and  until  others  are  qualified  in 
their  place.  All  vacancies  may  be  filled  by  the  board  having 
authority  to  elect. 

SkcT.  7.  No  money  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  city  treasury 
except  on  orders  drawn  and  signed  by  the  mayor,  designating 
the  fund  or  appropriation  from  which  said  orders  are  to  be  paid, 
nor  unless  the  same  shall  be  first  granted  or  appropriated  therefor 
by  the  city  council,  and  the  city  council  shall  secure  a  prompt 
and  just  accountability  by  requiring  bonds  with  sufficient  penalty 
and  surety  or  sureties,  from  all  persons  trusted  with  the  receipt^ 
custody  or  disbursement  of  money ;  they  shall  have  the  care  and 
superintendence  of  the  city  buildings  and  the  custody  and  man- 
agement of  all  city  property,  with  power  to  let  or  sell  what  may 
be  legally  let  or  sold,  and  to  purchase  and  take,  in  the  name  of 
the  city,  real  and  personal  property  for  municipal  purposes  to  an 
amount  not  exceeding  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  addition 
to  that  now  held  bv  the  town,  and  shall,  as  often  as  once  a  year, 
cause  to  be  published  for  the  information  of  the  inhabitants,  a 
particular  account  of  receipts  and  expenditures,  and  a  schedule 
of  city  property. 

Sect.  8.  The  assessors  shall  be  elected  on  the  second  Mon- 
day in  March.  At  the  first  election  thereof  under  this  act,  three 
persons  shall  be  elected  assessors,  one  of  whom- shall  be  elected 
for  one  year,  one  for  two  vears,  and  one  for  three  years,  and  at 
each  subsequent  election,  one  assessor  shall  be  elected  for  three 
years,  each  of  whom  shall  continue  in  office  until  some  other  per- 
son shall  have  been  elected  and  qualified  in  his  place.  The  city 
council  shall  elect  an  assistant  assessor  in  each  ward,  whose  duty 
it  shall  be  to  furnish  the  assessors  with  all  the  necessary  informa- 
tion relative  to  persons  and  property  taxable  in  his  ward ;  he  shall 
be  sworn  or  affirnted  to  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duty. 
All  taxes  shall  be  assessed,  apportioned  and  collected  in  the  man- 
ner prescribed  by  the  laws  of  this  state  relative  to  town  taxes, 


HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLE.  575 

except  as  herein  modified,  and  the  city  council  may  establish 
further  or  additional  provisions  for  the  collection  thereof,  and 
of  interest  thereon. 

Sect.  9.  The  city  council  shall  have  exclusive  authority  to  lay 
out,  widen  or  otherwise  alter,  or  discontinue  any  and  all  streets  or 
public  ways  in  the  city  of  Waterville,  without  petition  therefor, 
and  to  estimate  all  damage  sustained  by  the  owners  of  land  taken 
for  that  purpose.  A  joint  standing  committee  of  the  two  boards 
shall  be  appointed,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  lay  out,  alter,  widen 
or  discontinue  any  street  or  way  in  said  city,  first  giving  notice 
of  the  time  and  place  of  their  proceedings  to  all  parties  interested, 
as  now  required  by  law  in  case  of  town  ways.  The  committee 
shall  first  hear  all  parties  interested,  and  then  determine  and 
adjudge  whether  the  public  convenience  requires  such  street  or 
way  to  be  laid  out,  altered  or  discontinued,  and  shall  make  a 
written  return  of  their  proceedings,  signed  by  a  majority  of  them, 
containing  the  bounds  and  descriptions  of  the  street  or  way,  if 
laid  out  or  altered,  and  the  names  of  the  owners  of  the  land 
taken,  when  known,  and  the  damages  allowed  therefor;  the 
return  shall  be  filed  in  the  city  clerk's  office,  at  least  seven  days 
previous  to  its  acceptance  by  the  city  council.  The  street  or 
way  shall  not  be  altered  or  established  until  the  report  is  accepted 
by  the  city  council,  and  the  report  shall  not  be  altered  or  amended 
before  its  acceptance.  A  street  or  way  shall  not  be  discontinued 
by  the  city  council,  excepting  upon  the  report  of  said  committee. 
The  committee  shall  estimate  and  report  the  damages  sustained 
by  the  owners  of  the  lands  adjoining  that  portion  of  the  street  or 
way  which  is  so  discontinued ;  their  report  shall  be  filed  with 
the  city  clerk,  seven  days  at  least  before  its  acceptance.  Any 
person  aggrieved  by  the  decision  or  judgment  of  the  city  council 
in  establishing,  altering  or  discontinuing  streets,  may,  so  far  as 
relates  to  damages,  appeal  therefrom  as  in  case  of  town  ways.  If 
a  street  or  way  is  discontinued  before  the  damages  are  paid  or 
recovered  for  the  land  taken,  the  land  owner  shall  not  be  entitled 
to  recover  such  damages,  but  the  committee  in  their  report  dis- 
continuing the  same,  shall  estimate  and  include  all  the  damages 
sustained  by  the  land  owner,  including  those  caused  by  the 
original  location  of  the  streets,  and  in  such  case,  if  an  appeal  has 
been  regularly  taken,  the  appellant  shall  recover  his  costs.     The 


5/6  HISTORY    OF    \\ATKR\-ir.Lr:. 

city  shall  not  be  compelled  to  construct  or  open  anv  street  or 
way  thns  hereafter  established,  nntil  in  the  opinion  of  the  city 
council,  the  public  good  requires  it  to  be  done ;  nor  shall  the  city 
interfere  with  possession  of  the  land  so  taken,  by  removing  there- 
from materials,  or  otherwise,  until  they  decide  to  open  and  con- 
struct said  street.  The  city  council  may  regiilate  the  height  and 
width  of  sidewalks  in  any  public  square,  places,  streets,  lanes  or 
alleys  in  said  city,  and  may  authorize  posts  and  trees  to  be  placed 
along  the  edge  of  said  sidewalks.  Nor  shall  the  city  be  answer- 
able for  damages  occasioned  by  telegraph  poles  and  wires  erected 
in  its  streets.  .: 

\Mienever  said  city  council  shall  determine  to  lay  out,  widen 
or  otherwise  alter  any  public  street  or  road,  said  city  council  is 
authorized  to  levy  an  assessment  upon  the  real  estate  fronting 
upon  the  line  of  said  street  and  upon  other  land  near  said  street 
and  benefited  thereby  in  proportion  to  the  valuation  and  the  bene- 
fits to  be  derived.  The  amount  of  said  assessment  shall  be  fixed 
by  the  committee  of  the  city  council  authorized  to  lay  out,  widen 
or  alter  said  road,  and  in  their  report  to  the  city  council  said  com- 
mittee shall  state  definitely  what  amount  they  have  assessed  on 
each  parcel  of  land  or  real  estate,  giving  a  description  of  the  same. 
In  proceeding  to  lay  out,  widen  or  alter  such  streets,  such  com- 
mittee shall  proceed  in  the  same  manner  and  give  the  same  notices 
as  are  required  by  law  in  laying  out  other  roads.  The  report  of 
such  committee  shall  be  filed  with  the  city  clerk  at  least  seven 
days  before  action  thereon  by  the  city  council.  The  action  of 
such  committee  shall  be  subject  to  revision  and  change  by  the  city 
council.  The  city  clerk  shall  give  to  the  person  owning  or  in 
possession  of  said  real  estate,  at  least  five  days'  notice  that  such 
assessment  has  been  made,  stating  the  amount  of  the  same,  before 
the  action  of  the  city  council  upon  the  same,  and  a  fair  oppor- 
tunity shall  be  given  to  all  the  parties  interested  to  be  heard  on 
said  assessment  before  the  city  council,  before  action  shall  be 
taken  thereon,  and  any  person  aggrieved  by  the  action  of  the  city 
council  shall  have  the  right  to  appeal  and  be  heard  in  court  in 
the  same  manner  as  provided  by  law  for  appeals  and  hearings 
in  cases  of  damages  for  land  taken  for  highways ;  said  assess- 
ment shall  constitute  a  lien  on  said  real  estate,  which  shall  con- 
tinue in  force  for  one  year  after  final  action  on  said  assessment, 


HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLE.  577 

either  by  said  city  council  or  by  way  of  proceedings  on  appeal. 
The  assessment  so  made  shall,  within  three  months  after  said 
final  action  thereon,  be  committed  to  the  collector  of  taxes,  and 
he  shall  proceed  to  collect  the  same  in  the  same  manner,  and  by 
the  same  means,  as  now  provided  by  law  for  collection  of  taxes 
on  real  estate. 

Sect.  io.  The  mayor  may,  on  such  terms  and  conditions  as 
he  may  think  proper,  authorize  and  empower  any  person  or  cor- 
poration to  place  in  any  street,  for  such  time  as  may  be  necessary, 
any  materials  for  making  or  repairing  any  street,  sidewalk,  cross- 
walk, bridge,  watercourse  or  drain,  or  for  erecting,  repairing  or 
finishing  any  building  or  fences,  or  for  laying  or  repairing  gas 
or  water  pipes,  provided,  that  not  more  than  one-half  of  the 
width  of  the  street  shall  be  so  occupied.  And  such  materials  so 
placed  by  virtue  of  any  license  obtained  as  aforesaid,  shall  not  be 
considered  an  incumbrance  or  nuisance  in  such  street,  and  the  city 
shall  not  be  liable  to  any  person  for  any  damages  occasioned  by 
such  materials. 

Sect.    II.     For  the  purpose  of    holding  elections,  said    city 
shall,  after  the  first  election,  be  divided  into  seven  wards,  to  con- 
tain as  near  as  conveniently  may  be,  an  equal  number  of  legal 
voters,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  council,  once   in   ten 
vears  and  not  oftener  than  five  vears,  to  review,  and  if  it  be  need- 
ful  to  alter  said  wards,  in  such  manner  as  to  preserve,  as  nearly  as 
may  be,  an  equal  number  of  legal  voters  in  each  ward.     The 
wardens  shall  preside  at  all  the  ward  meetings,  with  the  powers 
of  moderator  of  town  meetings,  and  if  at  any  meeting  the  warden 
shall  not  be  present,  the  clerk  of  the  ward  shall  call  the  meeting 
to  order  and  preside  till  a  warden,  pro  tempore,  shall  be  chosen. 
If  neither  the  warden  or  the  clerk  shall  be  present,  any  legal  voter 
in  the  ward  may  preside  till  a  clerk,  pro  tempore,  shall  be  chosen 
and  qualified.     The  clerk  shall  record  all  the  proceedings  and 
certify  the  votes  given  and  deliver  over  to  his  successor  in  office 
all  such  records  and  journals,  together  with  all  other  documents 
and  papers  held  by  him  in  said  capacity.     The  inhabitants  of  each 
ward  may  choose  two  persons  to  assist  the  warden  in  receiving, 
sorting  and  counting  the  votes.     All  regular  ward  meetings  shall 
be  notified  and  called  by  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen  in  the 
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578  HISTORY    OF     WATERVILLE. 

manner  provided  in  the  laws  of  this  state,  for  notifying  and  call- 
ing town  meetings  by  the  selectmen  of  the  several  towns,  except- 
ing that  ward  meetings  for  the  election  of  mayor,  after  the  first 
trial,  may  be  called  within  the  time  provided  in  such  cases  in  this 
act. 

Sect,    12.     The  mayor  shall  be  elected  by  the  inhabitants  of 
the  city,  voting  in  their  respective  wards.     One  alderman,  two 
common  councilmen,  a  warden,  a  clerk,  one  jnember  of  the  board 
of  education  and  one  constable,  shall  be  elected  by  each  ward, 
being  residents  in  the  ward  where  elected.     All  said  officers  shall 
be  elected  by  ballot  by  a  plurality  of  the  votes  given,  and  shall 
hold  their  offices  one  year  from  the  second  Monday  in  March, 
and  until  others  shall  be  elected  and  qualified  in  their  places.     All 
city  and  ward  officers  shall  be  held  to  discharge  the  duties  of  the 
offices  to  which  they  have  been  respectively  elected,  notwithstand- 
ing their  removal  after  their  election  out  of  their  respective  wards 
into  any  other  wards  in  the  city,  but  they  shall  not  be  so  held 
after  they  have  taken  up  their  permanent  residence  out  of  the  city. 
Sect.   13.     On  the  fi.rst  Monday  in  March,  annually,  the  quali- 
fied electors  of  each  ward  shall  ballot  for  mayor,  one  alderman, 
two  common  councilmen,  a  warden  and  a  clerk,  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education  and  one  constable,  on  one  ballot.     The  ward 
clerk,  within  twenty- four  hours  after  such  election,  shall  deliver 
to  the  persons  elected,  certificates  of  their  election,  and  shall 
forthwith  deliver  to  the  city  clerk  a  certified  copy  of  the  record 
of  such  election,  a  plain  and  intelligent  abstract  of  which  shall 
be  entered  by  the  city  clerk  on  the  city  records.     If  the  choice  of 
any  ward  officer  is  not  effected  on  that  day,  the  meeting  shall  be 
adjourned  to  another  day,  not  more  than  two  days  thereafter,  to 
complete  such  election,  and  may  S9  adjourn,  from  time  to  time, 
until  the  election  is  complete.     The  board  of  aldermen  shall,  as 
soon  as  conveniently  may  be,  examine  the  copies  of  the  records 
of  the  several  wards,  certified  as  aforesaid,  and  shall  cause  the 
person  who  shall  have  been  elected  mayor  by  a  plurality  of  the 
votes  given  in  all  the  wards,  to  be  notified  in  writing  of  his  elec- 
tion.    But  if  it  shall  appear  that  no  person  shall  have  been  so 
elected,  or  if  the  person  elected  shall  refuse  to  accept  the  office, 
the  said  board  shall  issue  their  w^arrants  for  another  election; 
and  in  case  the  citizens  shall  fail  on  a  second  ballot  to  elect  a 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILL^.  579 

mayor,  the  city  council  in  convention  shall,  from  the  four  highest 
candidates  voted  for  at  the  second  election  and  returned,  elect  a 
mayor  for  the  ensuing  year ;  and  in  case  of  a  vacancy  in  the  office 
of  mayor  by  death,  resignation  or  otherwise,  it  shall  be  filled  for 
the  rem.ainder  of  the  term  by  a  new  election  in  the  manner  herein- 
before  provided    for  the  choice  of  said    officer.     The   oath   or 
affirmation  prescribed   by  this  act  shall   be  administered   to  the 
mayor  by  the  city  clerk  or  any  justice  of  the  peace  in  said  city, 
and  a  certificate  thereof  filed  with  the  clerk  and  recorded.     The 
aldermen  and  common  councilmen  elect,   shall,  on  the  second 
Monday  in  March,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  meet  in  con- 
vention, when  the  oath  or  affirmation  required  by  the  second 
section  of  this  act,  shall  be  administered  to  the  members  of  the 
two  boards  present,  by  the  mayor  or  any  justice  of  the  peace, 
after  which  the  board  of  common  council  shall  be  organized  by 
the  election  of  a  president  and  clerk.     The  city  council  shall,  by 
ordinance,  determine  the  time  of  holding  stated  or  regular  meet- 
ings of  the  boards  and  shall  also,  in  like  manner,  determine  the 
manner  of  calling  special  meetings  and  the  persons  by  whom  the 
same  shall  be  called,  but  until  otherwise  provided  by  ordinance, 
special  meetings  shall  be  called  by  the  m.ayor,  by  causing  a  noti- 
fication to  be  left  at  the  usual  residence  or  place  of  business  of 
each  member  of  the  board  or  boards  to  be  convened. 

Sect.  14.  After  the  organization  of  a  city  government  and 
the  qualification  of  a  m.ayor,  and  when  a  quorum  of  the  board 
of  aldermen  shall  be  present,  said  board,  the  mayor  presiding, 
shall  proceed  to  choose  a  permanent  chairman,  who,  in  the 
absence  of  the  mayor,  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  board, 
or  at  conventions  of  the  two  boards,  and  in  case  of  any  vacancy 
in  the  office  of  mayor,  he  shall  exercise  all  the  powers  and  per- 
form all  the  duties  of  the  office  so  long  as  such  vacancy 
shall  remain;  he  shall  continue  to  have  a  vote  in  the  board,  but 
shall  not  have  the  veto  power.  The  board  of  aldermen,  in  the 
absence  of  the  mayor  and  permanent  chairman,  shall  choose  a 
president,  pro  tempore,  who  shall  exercise  the  powers  of  a  per- 
manent chairman. 

Sec.  15.  The  city  clerk  shall  be  clerk  of  the  board  of  alder- 
men. He  shall  perform  such  duties  as  shall  be  prescribed  by 
the  mayor  and  aldermen  or  the  city  council,  and  shall  also  per- 


580  HISTORY    OF     WATKRVILLE. 

form  all  the  duties  and  exercise  all  the  powers  now  incumbent 
on  him  by  law.  He  shall  give  notice  in  one  or  more  of  the  papers 
printed  in  said  city,  of  the  time  and  place  of  regular  ward  meet- 
ings ;  the  time  of  such  meetings,  when  not  fixed  by  law,  shall 
be  determined  by  the  board  of  aldermen.  In  case  of  the  tem- 
porary absence  of  the  city  clerk,  the  mayor  and  aldermen  may 
appoint  a  city  clerk  pro  tempore. 

vSect.  16.  The  board  of  education,  elected  as  hereinbefore 
provided,  shall  take  the  place  of  the  superintending  school  com- 
mittee, and  perform  all  its  duties  and  be  invested  with  all  its 
rights  and  powers.  The  board  shall  elect  a  chairman  annually, 
and  appoint  some  suitable  person,  not  a  member  of  the  board, 
superintendent  of  schools,  and  may  adopt  such  rules  and  regu- 
lations for  the  management  of  the  schools  as  are  not  inconsistent 
with  the  laws  of  the  state.  The  superintendent  shall  be  the  sec- 
retary and  executive  agent  of  the  board,  which  shall  fix  his 
salary,  to  be  paid  from  the  city  treasury  as  salaries  of  teachers 
are  paid,  and  may  remove  him  for  good  cause  and  appoint  a 
successor.  The  members  of  the  board  shall  receive  no  compen- 
sation for  their  services  as  such. 

Sec.  17.  The  aldermen  and  common  councilmen  shall  not 
be  entitled  to  receive  any  salary  or  other  compensation  during 
the  year  for  which  they  are  elected,  nor  be  eligible  to  any  office 
of  profit  or  emolument,  the  salary  of  which  is  payable  by  the  city, 
and  all  departments,  boards,  ofificers  and  committees,  acting  under 
the  authority  of  the  city,  and  entrusted  with  the  expenditure  of 
public  money,  shall  expend  the  same  for  no  other  purpose  than 
that  for  which  it  is  appropriated,  and  shall  be  accountable  there- 
for to  the  city  in  such  manner  as  the  city  council  may  direct. 

Sec.  18.  All  the  laws  and  regulations  now  in  force  in  said 
town  shall,  notwithstanding  this  act,  be  and  remain  in  force  until 
they  expire  by  their  own  limitations,  or  be  revised  or  repealed 
by  the  city  council,  and  prosecutions  and  suits  may  be  commenced 
and  proceeded  thereon  in  the  name  of  the  city,  by  officers  or 
other  persons  thereby  empowered  or  directed  to  prosecute  and 
sue,  and  the  fines  and  penalties  shall  go  to  the  uses  in  such  laws 
or  regulations  named  according  to  law. 

Sect.  19.  General  meetings  of  the  citizens  qualified  to  vote 
in  city  afifairs,  may  from  time  to  time  be  held  to  consult  upon 


HISTORY    OF    WATERVILLE.  581 

the  public  good,  to  instnict  their  representatives,  and  to  take  all 
lawful  measures  to  obtain  redress  of  any  grievance  according  to 
the  right  secured  to  the  people  by  the  constitution  of  this  state, 
and  such  meetings  shall  be  duly  warned  by  the  mayor  and  alder- 
men, upon  requisition  of  sixty  qualified  voters.  The  city  clerk 
shall  act  as  clerk  of  such  meetings,  and  record  the  proceedings 
upon  the  city  records. 

Sect.  20.  For  the  purpose  of  organizing  the  system  of  gov- 
ernment hereby  established  and  putting  the  same  in  operation  in 
the  first  instance,  the  selectmen  of  the  town  for  the  time  being, 
shall  seasonably  before  the  third  jNTonday  of  March,  after  the 
acceptance  of  this  charter,  issue  their  warrant  for  calling  a  meet- 
ing of  the  legal  voters  at  such  place  and  hour  of  the  day  as  they 
shall  choose,  for  the  purpose  of  choosing  a  mayor,  seven  alder- 
men, fourteen  counciimen,  one  city  clerk  and  seven  members  of 
a  board  of  education,  and  seven  constables,  to  be  taken  from  the 
city  at  large;  said  officers  shall  be  elected  by  a  plurality  vote. 
The  town  clerk  shall  notify  the  several  officers  elect  of  their  elec- 
tion, in  writing,  within  twenty-four  hours.  Their  powers  and 
duties  shall  be  as  hereinbefore  provided.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  city  council,  as  soon  as  may  be  after  their  election,  to  cause 
a  division  of  the  citv  into  seven  wards  in  such  manner  as  to 
include  as  nearly  as  may  be,  consistently  with  well  defined  limits, 
an  equal  number  of  legal  voters  in  each  ward.  At  said  first  meet- 
ing after  such  division  into  wards,  the  w^ard  meetings  shall  be 
called  to  order  and  presided  over  by  some  person  appointed  by 
the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen,  and  the  records  of  said  first 
meetings  in  the  several  wards  shall  be  made  by  some  person 
designated  by  the  board  of  mayor  and  aldermen,  and  at  said 
first  meeting,  lists  of  voters  corrected  by  the  aldermen,  shall  be 
delivered  to  the  persons  designated  to  act  as  recording  officers 
in  the  several  wards,  to  be  used  as  provided  by  law  in  town  meet- 
ings. Said  recording  officers  shall  perform  the  duties  of  ward 
clerks  as  before  herein  provided,  relative  to  making  a  record  of 
the  election  and  returning  a  copy  of  the  records  to  the  city 
council. 

Sect.  21.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  full  force  when 
the  same  shall  have  been  accepted  by  the  inhabitants  of  said  town 
qualified  to  vote  in  town  affairs,  at  a  legal  meeting  called  for 


584  HISTORY    OF    WATE:rVILLE. 

I  Lendrum's  American  Revolution   (Rem'd  out    of 

print)     ,  .^ 2  GO 

I  Hon.  Adams'  Hist.  N.  England 2  25 

I  Beggar  Girl — 3  Vols 3  00 

I  Jefferson's  Notes  on  Virginia   2  00 

I  Pelew  Islands 75 

I   Cars^er's  Travels   i  00 

I  Goldsmith's  Rom.  Hist,  abrid 87^ 

I  Eves'    Captivity 75 

I  Adam's  Flowers  of  Mod.  Travels — 2  Vols 2  00 

I  Coquette,  or  Hist.  Eliza  Wharton i  00 

I  Franklin's  Works i  00 

I  Fool  of  Quality — 3  Vols 2  50 

I  Newton  on  Prophesies — 2  Vols 2  50 

I  Fordyce's   Addresses i  00 

I    Bennet's   Letters    75 

I  William's  Hist.  Vermont   2  00 

I  Trumbull's  do.  Connecticut   2  37^ 

I  Pleasures  of  Hope 75 

I  Farmer's  Boy 75 

I  Belknap's  Biography — 2  Vols 3  50 

I  Eulogies  and  Orations  on  Washington i  75 

I  Mental  Improvement 75 

I  Millot's  Ancient  and  Modern  Hist. — 5  V^ols 9  00 


162  25 
Deduct  TO  per  cent 16  22 


146  03 
Rec'd  in   Cash 65  00 


By  note  to  balance 81  03 


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N.  B. — It  devolved  upon  me  to  add  a  considerable  number  of 
volumes  at  my  own  discretion.  I  have  done  my  best.  If,  how- 
ever, I  have  inserted  any  in  the  bill  which  shall  not  prove  satis- 
factory, I  hereby  engage  to  exchange  them  for  any  others  of 
equal  value,  provided  they  are  returned  in  good  order. 

Caleb    Bingham. 


Rec'd  Winslow,  28  Nov.,  j8oi,  of  Abijah  Smith,  Elnathan 
Sherwin,  William  Phillips  and  James  McKim  their  note  of 
hand  in  behalf  of  the  Proprietors  of  said  Library  (they 
being  a  Committee  chosen  for  that  purpose)  for  the  sum 
of  eighty-one  dollars  and  three  cents,  which,  together 
with  sixty-five  dollars  already  received,  is  in  full  for  the 
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INDEX 


Abbott,  Dr.  Carroll  W.,  biog.  sketch,  474. 
Abbott,  Stephen  I.,  SO;  biog.  sketch,  508. 
Abbott,  W.  H.  K.,  80;  biog.  sketch,  508. 
Adams,  Rev.  Thomas,  242;  biog.  sketch, 

441. 
Aclventists,  history  of,  264. 
Advocate,  Zion's,  62. 
Ahiram  Encampment,  312. 
Alden,  Charles  H.,  biog.  sketch,  509. 
Alden,  Julius,  156;  biog.  sketch,  508. 
Allen,  Lorenzo  B.,  2S2. 
American  Benefit  Society,  314;  VTater- 

ville  Lodge,  314;  Richelieu  Lodge, 

314. 
American  Express  Co.,  425. 
"American  Nation,  The,"  402. 
Anderson,  M.  B.,  96;  biog.  sketch,  494. 
A.  &  K.  Railroad  opened,  69. 
Anti-Slaverv  Societv  formed,  65. 
Applelon,  Moses,  5.5-89-97-321-363 ;  biog. 

sketch,  125  and  462. 
Appletou,     Samuel,     89-156-256;     biog. 

sketch,  509.  • 
Arnold,  expedition  of,  47;  49. 
Arnold,  Willard  B.,  90,  71;  biog.  sketch, 

509. 
Arnold,  Mrs.  Willard  B.,  390. 
Arnold,  William  H.,  bequest  for  cem- 
etery, 71;  bequest  for  library,  387. 
Aroostook  War,  215. 
Aroostook  War  Roster,  216. 
Austin,  Dr.  Lewis  K.,  biog.  sketch,  477. 
Ayer,  William  M.,  345. 

B. 

Babb,  Dr.  L.  P.,  467. 

Babeock,  Rev.  Rufus,  300. 

Bacon,  Ebenezer,  114. 

Bacon,  Soldiers,  165. 

Bangs,  Capt.  Dean,  199. 

Bangs,  Gen.  Isaac  8.,  76-94-193-287-411; 

militarv     chapter    by,    153;    biog. 

sketch, "223. 
Bangs,  Dennis  M.,  411. 
Baptists,  histoi-y  of,  226. 
Baptist    Church,    organization   of,  61; 

meeting-house  of,  228;  remodeled, 

234. 
Barnes,  Thomas,  235. 
Bates,  David,  164. 
Bates,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  D.,  381. 
Bates,  Horatio  D.,  85;  chapter  by,  357; 

biog.  sketch,  373. 
Bates.  Thomas,  199. 
Bayley,  Dr.  W.  S.,  303. 
Bav  View  Hotel,  428. 
Bee  Culture,  4-j4. 
Beef  Company,  425. 
Benson,  Dr.  John,  467. 
Berrv,    Rev.     Wilbur     F.,    259;     biog. 

sketch,  442. 
Bessey,  Dr.  Alden  E.,  biog.  sketch,  472. 
Bessey,  Mrs.  Clara  E.,  384. 
Bessey,  Dr.  Merton  W.,  biog.  sketch, 

475. 
Beta  Phi,  316. 
Biard,  Jesuit,  32. 
Bicvcle  Club,  328-413. 


Bigelow,  Dr.,  462. 

Blaisdell,  Martin,  6-92-100;  biog.  sketch, 

510;  address,  17. 
Blaisdell,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S.,  382. 
Blanchard,  B.  F.,  355. 
Black,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  384. 
Bliss  Business  College,  409. 
"Bloomer,"  58. 
Board  of  Trade,  1-89-99;  sketch  of,  433; 

objects  aided  by,  434. 
Boardman,  George  Dana,  299. 
Bomaseeu,  41;  death  of,  43. 
Bonney,  Hon.  Percival,  303. 
Boot  Manufactory,  355. 
Boothby,    Frederic     E.,    75-78;     biog. 

sketch,  511. 
Booth  Dy,  Mrs.  Frederic  E.,  390. 
Boothbv,  Levi  T.,  biog.  sketch,  511. 
Boothbv,  L.  T.  &  Son,  433. 
Boothbv,  Mrs.  L.  T.,  381. 
Boutelle,  Geo.  K.,  90-135;  biog.  sketch, 

479. 
Boutelle,  Dr.  Nathaniel    R.,  89;    biog. 

sketch,  464. 
Boutelle,  Hon.  Timothv,  56-61-69-73-89- 

298-321-334;  bioff.  sketch,  134  and 478. 
Boutelle  Library,  291. 
Bounties,  77-187.' 

Boyer,  Dr.  Edward  W.,  biog.  sketch,  475. 
Bradford,  Gamaliel,  550. 
Brick  Making,  353. 
Brick-makers.  353. 
Bridge,  Ticonic,  62. 
Briggs,  Kev.  Avery,  299. 
Brown,   Hon.   Sirnon    S.,    address,  16; 

chapter  by,  478;  biog.  sketch,  479-1- 

388. 
Brown,  Frank  E.,  biog.  sketch,  480. 
Bunker,  "Ben,"  401. 
Bunker,  Dr.  Luther,  biog.  sketch,  474. 
Burleigh,  John,  394-395. 
Burleigh,  Samuel  A.,  400. 
Burns,  Case,  72. 
Burr,  Aaron,  320. 
Burrage,  Henry  S.,  233;    biog.  sketch, 

443. 
Business  blocks,  428. 
Butler,  Nathaniel,  Sr.,  283. 
Butler,  Nathaniel,  60-90-92-94-95-293-304- 

305-434;  biog.  sketch,  495. 
By-laws  of  town,  86. 

C. 

Cabot,  expedition,  30. 

Caffrev,  William  A.,  192. 

Cain,  Prof.  Llewellvn  B.,  410. 

Cain,  Mrs.  E.  E.,  408. 

Campbell,  Dr.  Geo.  R.,  biog.  sketch,  475. 

Campbell,  Dr.  Henry  H.,  biog.  sketch, 

468. 
Campbell,  Mrs.  Lillian  H.,  388. 
Canibas  Club,  317-328. 
Canibas  Indians,  35-34. 
Canton,  Halifax,  312. 
Car  and  Locomotive  Shops,  87. 
Car  Shops  of  Maine  Central  R.  R.,  351; 

men  employed  in,  421. 
Carnegie,  Hon.  Andrew,  gift  of,  91-96- 

391. 


586 


INDKX. 


Carpet  Factory,  342. 

Carriage  and  Sleigh  Manufactory,  355. 

Cartier,  Jaques,  30. 

Carver.  Leonard  D.,  biog.  sketch,  480. 

Cascade  Woolen  Mill,  345. 

Casco  Treaty  of  Peace,  40. 

Catholics,  history  of,  247. 

Catholic  church  dedicated,  84. 

Cayer,  Rev.  Paul  N.,  81-234. 

Cecilia  Club,  410;  officers,  410-411. 

Cemeterj'  Committee,  71. 

Cemetery,  earliest,  71. 

Cemetery,  Fort  Hill.  49. 

Cemetery,  Monument  Park,  71. 

Centennial,  literary  exercises  of,  18; 
parade,  22;  sports  of,  28;  visitors,  28. 

Champlain,  Samuel,  30. 

Champ] in.  Dr.  James  T.,  74-82-96-156- 
301-302. 

Champlin  Hall,  300. 

Chaplin,  Dr.  Jeremiah,  59-61-96-148-227- 
298-299;  biog.  sketch,  495. 

Chaplin  Hall.  299. 

Charland,  Rev.  Father  Narcisse,  81-95- 
97-250;  biog.  sketch,  444. 

Chase,  Frank,  90-424;  biog.  sketch,  512. 

Chase  Manufacturing  Co.,  423. 

Chase,  Dr.  Hall,  138;  biog.  sketch,  463. 

Chemical  Hall,  305 

Choules,  Rev.  John  O.,  300. 

Christian  Civic  League,  92. 
'Christian  Civic  League  Record,  The," 
404-442. 

Circulating  Library,  63-147. 

City  Hall,  new,  91-95-432;  building  com- 
mittee, 91-92;  dedication  of,  13. 

Clair,  Frederic  W.,  1;  address  of,  16: 
biog.  sketch,  4S1. 

Clarke,  Capt.  John,  biog.  sketch,  129. 

"Clifton  Monthly,  The,"  404. 

Cobb,  Sylvanus,  152,  236;  biog.  sketch, 
444. 

Coburn,  Abner,  74-82-84-86-2  86;  gift  of 
287;  bequest  of,  803. 

Coburn  Classical  Institute,  100-2,s8;  his- 
tory of,  281-295;  act  to  incorporate 
trustees,  292;  students  of,  293. 

"Coburn  Clarion,  The,"  405. 

Coburn  Hall,  302. 

Codman,  Bishop,  invitation  to,  6. 

Colbv  College,  historv  of,  296-305-6-100- 
296-302;  location  of,  59-297;  gymna- 
sium of,  303;  library  of,  302;  com- 
mencement, first,  60;  assists,  7; 
Greek  Letter  Fraternities,  316; 
opened  to  women,  83. 

Colbv  Club,  328. 

"Colbv  Echo,  The,"  405. 

"Colby  Oracle,  The,"  405. 

Colby,  Gardner,  78-86-302;  bequest  of, 
303. 

College  Press,  300. 

Cornforth  Mill,  341. 

Commissioned  officers,  162. 

Committees  of  Correspondence,  50;  of 
Safety,  49. 

Committees  for  centennial  celebra- 
tion, 1. 

Committee  of  one  hundred,  appoint- 
ment and  list,  1;  meetings  of,  2. 

Committee,  invitation,  4. 

Committee,  church,  4. 

Committee,  entertainment,  4. 

Committee,  literary,  4. 

Committee,  decoration,  4. 

Committee,  finance,  4. 

Committee,  school,  4. 

Committee,  transportation  and  mili- 
tary, 4. 

Committee,  horses,  carriages  and 
equipment,  4. 


Committee,  reception,  4. 

Committee,  trades  display,  4. 

Committee,  parade.  4. 

Committee,  fireworks  and  illumina- 
tion, 5. 

Committee,  advertising  and  printing,  5 

Committee,  badges  and  emblems,  5. 

Committee,  fire  department,  5. 

Committee,  music. 

Committee,  sports  and  athletics,  5. 

Committee,  executive,  5. 

Committee,  official  program,  6. 

Commons  House,  300. 

Company  A,  165. 

Company  G,  157-165. 

Company  H,  National  Guard,  412. 

Company  H,  1.57-165;  officers  of  1902,  418. 

Congregationalists,  history  of,  241. 

Congregational  church  dedicated,  66. 

Convent,  250. 

Cook.  Dr.  Daniel,  138-564;  biog.  sketch, 
462. 

Cook,  Harold  E.,  biog.  sketch,  481. 

Coolidge,  Dr.  V.  P.,  68;  biog.  sketch,464. 

Coombs,  Jonathan,  340. 

Council  Plymouth,  33. 

Crane,  Rev.  C.  D.,  244. 

Crane,  Rev.  A.  R.,  286. 

Crawford,  William  C,  279. 

Crommett  saw  mill,  341-416. 

Crosby,  Dr.  Atwood,  biog.  sketch,  468. 

Crosby,  Jonah,  51. 

Crosby,  Mrs.  Sarah  Girard,  408-382. 

Cushman,  Rev.  Joshua,  52-226-251-320; 
settlement  of,  556;  engagement, 
558;  biog.  sketch,  441. 

D. 

Dalton,  Asa,  394. 

Dalton,  Moses,  136-346. 

Dam,  first  on  Kennebec,  56. 

Danforth,  Thomas,  38. 

Daughters  of  Revolution,  330;    Silence 

Howard  Hay  den  Chapter,  330. 
Davis,  Cyrus  W.,  90-409;  biog.  sketch, 

513. 
Davis,  Charles  B.,  399. 
Davis,  Dr.  Robert  T.,  biog.  sketch,  465. 
Davies,  George  F.,  433. 
Davies,  Mrs.  George  F.,  410. 
Day,  .John  R.,  157. 
Dearborn  Plantation,    annexation  of, 

67.  ' 

Deeds,  secured  by  English,  36. 
Degree  of  Honor,  312. 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  316. 
Delta  Upsilon,  316. 
DeMont's  expedition,  30. 
Dingley,  Nelson,  287-293. 
Dodge,  Rev.  A.  D.,  266;    biog.  sketch, 

445. 
Dorcas  Rebecca  Lodge,  312. 
Dorr,  George  W.,  biog.  sketch,  514. 
Drinking  habit,  147. 
Drinkwater,  Mrs.  R.  M.,  281. 
Druillette,  Father,  36. 
Drummond,  Everett  R.,  biog.  sketch, 

481. 
Drummond,  John  W.,  287. 
Drummond,  Hon.  Josiah  H.,  74-78-69-84- 

98;  biog.  sketch,  482. 
Dunbar,  A.  M.,  406. 
Dunbar,  Lemuel,  biog.  sketch,  138. 
Dunbar,  Frances  F.,  383-384. 
Dunn,  Rev.  Albert  T.,  biog.  sketch,  445. 
Dunn  Edge  Tool  Company,  345. 
Dunn,  Martha  Baker,  chapter  by,  318. 
Dunn,   Reuben    B.,   79-88-98-156-259-348; 

biog.  sketch,  514. 
Dunn,  Mrs.  R.  B.,  408. 


INDEX. 


587 


Dunn.  Reuben  W.,  345;  chapter  by,  339; 

biog.  sketch,  515. 
Dunn,    Willard  M.,    345-348-427;     biog. 

sketch,  515. 
Dutton.  Rev.  N.  T.,  305. 
Dwinell,  Dr.  Maurice  K.,  biog.  sketch, 

474. 

E. 

'•Eastern  Farmer,  The,"  402. 

"Eastern  Mail,  The,"  first  number,  67; 

name  changed,  397. 
East  Meeting-house,  148-226. 
Eaton,  Harvey  D.,  90-95;    biog.  sketch 

482. 
Eaton.  Estelle  Foster,  chapter  bv,  386. 
Elden,  -lones  R.,  192. 
Elder,  William,  biog.  sketch,  496. 
Elmwood  Hotel,  428;  opened,  70. 
Embargo  Act,  57. 
Emerson,  Asa,  340. 
Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo,  visit  of,  67. 
Emerson     &    Stevens,    Manufacturing 

Company,  345. 
Emery,  A.  P.,  354-423. 
Enlistment  for  original  companies,  163. 
Episcopal  Church,  opened,  85. 
Episcopalians,  history  of,  261. 
Epitaph,  Richard  Thomas,  563. 


Fairbanks,  Joseph  P.,  342. 

FalmouthjConference,  45. 

Farr,  Otho  W.  B.,  biog.  sketch,  222. 

Fatiraa  Club,  255. 

Faunce,  Capt.  Asa,  138. 

Faunce,  Pres.,  abstract  of  address,  11. 

Fay,  Eliphaz,  301. 

Fire  Alarm  8j'stem,  90. 

Fire  Department,  433;  organization  of, 

57-100. 
Fire  Engine,  "Waterville  3,"  73. 
Fire  Insurance,  433. 
Fire  of  1849,  70. 
Fire  of  1859,  74. 
"Fireside  Gem,"  402. 
Fisheries,  56-146. 
Fittz,  Hervey,  229. 
Fitzgerald,  vVesley,  423. 
Foresters,  Court  Sebasticook,  314. 
Foresters  of  America,  315;  Court  Can- 
ada, 315;  Court  America,  315. 
Fortier,  Dr.  John  L.,  biog.  sketch,  471. 
Fort  Halifax,  building  of,  45;  garrison 

at,  47-.046;  inscriptions,  562. 
Fort  William  Henry,  destruction  of,  42. 
Foster,  Dana  P.,  biog.  sketch,  483. 
Foster,  Edmund  W.,  407. 
Foster,  John   B.,  74-85-96-281-287;  biog. 

sketch   496. 
Foster,  Hc'n.  Reuben,  83-84-88-93;  biog. 

sketch,  483. 
Foster,     Moses     C,      84-89-434;      biog. 

sketch,  516. 
Foster.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  B.,  382. 
Foster,  Dr.  Thomas  A.,  biog.  sketch, 

467. 
Foundry,  Iron.  80-416. 
Free  Baptists,  history  of,  265;  church 

organized,  266. 
Freeman,  Russell,  151. 
Freshet  of  1832,  64. 
Freshet  of  1901,  95. 
Fuller,  Leo.  C,  404. 
Fuller,  Norman  K.,  chapter  by,  306. 
Furbush  Sash  and  Blind  Factory,  416. 


Gallert,  Mark,  biog.  sketch,  517. 
Gardner,    Rev.    Calvin,    239-274,    biog. 
sketch,  445. 


Garrison,  Wm.  Lloyd,  visit  of,  65. 

Gerald,  Amos  F.,  423. 

Getchell,  Albert  C,  biog.  sketch,  476. 

Getchel),  Dr.  F.  H.,  7. 

Getchell,  Eldrldge,  281;    biog.  sketch, 

517. 
Getchell,  George  C,  165. 
Getchell,    Nehemiah,  49-115-345;     biog. 

sketch,  133. 
Getchell.  Nehemiah,  Jr.,  133. 
Getchell,     Walter     B.,     156-238;     biog. 

sketch,  517. 
Getchell,  William.  156. 
Gilbreth  Knox,  337. 
Gilman,     Nathaniel,   151-324-360;    biog. 

sketch,  126. 
Goodrich,  Dr.  Edson  E.,  biog.  sketch, 

476. 
Goodrich,  Dr.  Matthew  S.,  biog.  sketch, 

472. 
Golden  Cross,  order  of,  313. 
Good  Templars,  312. 
Gorges,  Gov.,  33. 
Gorges,  William,  34. 
Gow,  Eliphalet,  biog.  sketch,  518. 
Gow,  Rev.  Geo.  B.,  287. 
Grammar  School,  North,  88. 
Graves,  F.  F.,  35-424. 
Gray,  Edgar  H.,  395. 
Greenhouses,  Citj',  426. 
Grondin,  Joseph  Henry,  biog.  sketch, 

518. 
Gun  Club,  414. 
Gymnasium,  155. 

H. 
Haines,   Hon.    W.    T.,    18-90-95-353-391; 

biog.  sketch,  484. 
Halde,  Rev.  D.  J.,  249. 
"Halifax,"  accident  to,  119. 
Halifax,  Fort,  45;  dismantled,  47;  hard- 
ships at,  46. 
Hall.  Edward   W.,  77-84-393;  chap,  by, 

296;  biog.  sketch,  497. 
Hall,  Hascall  S.,  367. 
Hall,  Oliver  G.,  biog.  sketch,  484. 
Hall,  R.  B.,  409. 
Hall's  Military  Band,  409. 
Hall's  Orchestra,  409. 
Hallock,  Leavitt  H.,  244. 
Hamblen,  Isaac  S.,  284-287. 
Hamlin,  Charles  E.,  92-302;  biog.  sketch, 

497. 
Hamlin,  Hannibal,  82. 
Hammond,  Richard,  40-114. 
Hanscom,  Nathaniel,  157. 
Hanson  Cottage,  291. 
Hanson,  James  H.,  78-90-96-284;    biog. 

sketch.  289  and  498. 
Hanson,  Mrs.  James  H.,  408;  chap,  by, 

381. 
Harmon,  Capt.,  expedition  of,  43. 
Hastings,  William,  387-393-394. 
Hathaway,  Charles    F.,  397-416;    biog. 

sketch,  518. 
Hathaway,  Rev.  James  W.,  259. 
Hathaway  Shirt  Factory,  80-350-416-422. 
Haviland,  Chas.  T.,  343. 
Haviland,  F.  D.,  156. 
Hawes,  Rev.  Edward,  243;  biog.  sketch, 

446. 
Hayden,  Col.  Josiah,  550-551. 
Haynes,  Hon.  J.  M.,6;  biog.  sketch,  519. 
Haywood,  Jonathan,  137. 
Haywood,  Zimri,  50-268-564. 
Headley.  Rev.  P.  C,  243. 
Heald,  Ebenezer,  549. 
Heald,  Perham  S.,  biog.  sketch,  520. 
Heald,  Timothy,  549. 
Heath,  Lieut.  Francis  E., -75-93-1 56-157. 
Heath,  Sidney  M.,  biog.  sketch,  485. 


588 


INDEX. 


Heath,  Solyraan,  biog.  sketch,  485. 
Heath,  William  S.,  75;  biog.  sketch,  485. 
Heath,  W.  S.,  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  85-156-157- 

164-195. 
Hebron  Academy,  286. 
Helping  Hand  Association,  312. 
Henrickson,  Charles  A.,  156. 
Herrick,  Thomas  W.,  biog.  sketch,  486. 
Hesseltine,  Capt.  F.  S.,  75-157. 
Heywood,   Major-Gen.    Charles,    biog. 

sketch,  221. 
High  School,  72-85-277-289. 
Hill,    Dr.    James     F.,     1-89-434;];  biog. 

sketch,  471. 
Hill,  Gov.  and  Mrs.  18;     response  to 

address,  20. 
Hill,  Purmot,  355. 

Hill,  Sheriff  James  P.,  biog.  sketch,  521. 
Hilton,  Col.,  expedition  of,  42. 
Hitchcock,  Roswell  D.,  biog.   sketch, 

447. 
Hitchings,  Joseph,  340. 
Hitchings,  Samuel,  340. 
Holbrook  &  Richardson,  341. 
Hollingsworth  &  Whitney  Co.,  89-3.56- 

417;    officers,  417;   product  of,    418; 

Taconnet  club  house,  418. 
Holn.es,  Harrj^  Lewis,  376. 
"Home  Treasury,  The,"  402. 
Horn,  John,  guide,  49. 
Hotels,  70-428. 
Hotels  in  1837,  143. 

Howard,  Dr.  Geo.  B.,  biog.  sketch,  470. 
Hovt's  Express  Co.,  425. 
Hubbard  &  Blake  M'f'g  Co.,  344. 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Jessie  Smith,  382-410. 


"Iconoclast,  The,"  405. 

Illumination  of  City,  21. 

Indians,  543;  agreement  with,  693;  last 
skirmish,  47;  relics,  35;  of  Kenne- 
bec, 34;  wars,  32. 

Iron  Bridge,  87. 

Iron  Works,  342-422. 


Jaynes  Creamery  Company,  423. 
Jaynes,  R.  F.,  423. 

Jewell,  Capt.  Geo.,  65;  biog.  sketch,  521. 
Johnson,  Charles  F.,  88-95;  address,  18; 

biog.  sketch,  487. 
Johnson,   Franklin   W.,   chap,  by,    282- 

biog.  sketch,  498. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Franklin  W.,  410. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Agnes  M.,  389. 
Jones,  Edgar  L.,  biog.  sketch,  521. 
Jones,  Rev.  Henry,  261. 
Judkins,  Henry  E.,  428. 

K. 
Keely.     Prof.    George,    156-301;     biog. 

sketch,  498. 
Keith,  Simeon,  84;  biog.  sketch,  522. 
Kendall,  William,  bios;,  sketch,  522. 
Kennebec  County,  orglinization  of,  53. 
♦'Kennebec  Democrat,  The,"  401. 
Kennebec  Patent,  33. 
Kiest  Business  College,  408. 
Kiest,  Mr.,  409. 
Kidder,  Reuben,  56-116-479;  biog.  sketch, 

121;  letter  to  Appleton,  116;    letter 

from,  562. 
Kingfield,  plantation  called,  48. 
King  Philip's  War,  38. 
King  William's  War,  41. 
King,  William  Gov.,  61. 
Knauff,  Christian,  biog.  sketch,  523. 
Knights  of  Columbus,  315. 
Knights  of  Pythias,  98-312. 
Knox,  Dr.  Joseph,  473. 


L. 

Laconia,  Province  of,  38. 

Ladd,  Rev.  A.  S.,  259;  biog.  sketch,  447. 

Ladd,  W.  M.,  400. 

Ladd,  W.  M.  Company,  400-426;  publica- 
tions of,  400. 

Lane  Museum,  291. 

Lane,  Rev.  Asa  L.,  85-291-508;  biog. 
sketch,  499. 

Lang,  Col.  Thomas  S.,  333. 

Larcell,  Rev.  E.  E.,  265. 

Larrabee,  J.  F.,  427. 

Leighton,  C.  A.,  350-416. 

Leonard,  Rev.  Henry  C,  239;  biog. 
sketch,  448. 

Letourneau,  J.  Alfred,  biog.  sketch,  486. 

Lewis,  Albert  A.,  259;  biog.  sketch, 448. 

Libby,  I.  C,  90;  biog.  sketch,  524. 

Liberal  Institute,  63-240-283. 

Liquor  Licenses,  61. 

Lillybridge,  Dr.  Clark,  biog.  sketch,  463. 

Lincoln  County,  division  of,  53. 

Lincoln,  William  M.,  biog.  sketch,  525. 

Lindsay,  Rev.  Geo.  D.,  95-259;  biog. 
sketch,  448. 

Literature  Class,  329. 

Lithgow,  Arthur,  564. 

Lithgow,  Col.  William,  46-320. 

Lithgow,  letter  to  Gov.  Shirley,  .545. 

Loan  &  Building  Association,  357;  di- 
rectors, 377;  statement,  377-378. 

Loan  &  Trust  Co.,  375;  officers,  375; 
statement,  376;  trustee  for,  375. 

Lockwood,  Amos  D.,  80-348. 

Lockwood  Company,  80-347-348-416; 
capital  stock,  349;  dividends  of, 
350;  mill  No.  2,  .349-416;  officers,  350. 

Lockwood  Dam,  79. 

Long  boats,  115. 

Loomis,  Justin  R.,  96;  biog.  sketch,  499. 

Lovejoy,  E.  P.,  murder  of,  66. 

Lumber  manufacturers,  346. 

Lunch  room,  383. 

L'Union  Lafayette,  313. 

Lyford,  Hon.  Edwin  F.,  288. 

Lyford,  Mary  D.,  288. 

Lyford,  Moses,  96-288;  biog.  sketch,  500. 

Lyon,  Alpheus,  biog.  sketch,  486. 


M. 

Maccabees,    316;     Ticonic    Tent,'  316; 

Hope  Tent,  316. 
Mail  Publishing  Co.,  The,  .399-426. 
Maine  Central  R.  R.,  98-419;  passenger 

and  freight  business,  420. 
Maine  Literary  and  Theological  Insti- 
tution, 59. 
Maine,  losses  in  war,  187;  province  of, 

34;    pi'ovincial  government  of,  38; 

separation  from  Massachusetts,  50; 

troops,  164. 
Marsh,    Rev;    Edward    L.,    244;    biog. 

sketch,  449. 
Martha  Washington  Chapter,  O.  E.  S., 

310. 
Masonic  Lodge,  97-164-307;  Temple,  308- 

430. 
Massachusetts,  purchased  rights,  38. 
Masse  .Jesuit,  32. 
Match  Factory,  416. 
Mathews,  Chas.  K.,  131-387;  biog.  sketch, 

525. 
Mathews,  C.  K.  Co.,  433. 
Mathews,  Col.  Jabez,  biog.  sketch,  130. 
Mathews,  Edward,  387-396;  murder  of, 

68. 
Mathews  Shailer,  biog.  sketch,  500. 
Mathews,  Simeon,  biog.  sketch,  131-238. 
Mathews,  John,  130. 


INDEX. 


589 


Mathews,  William,  65-86-131-281-287; 
biog.  sketch,  501;  recollections  hy, 
140. 

Matthews,  Charles  E.,  biog.  sketch,  525. 

Matthieu,  Jean,  80. 

Maxham,  Ephraim,  397;  biog.  sketch, 
526. 

Maxim,  Prof.  George  P.,  410. 

Mayo,  E.  P.,  403;  chapter  by,  331. 

McCone,  J.  H.,  94-405. 

McFadden,  Chas.  R.,  biog.  sketch,  526. 

McKecknie,  John,  49-71-98-114-340;  biog. 
sketch,  12U-461. 

McKinley  memorial  service,  95. 

McLain,  Miss  L.  E.  382. 

McLaughlin,  Rev.  Melville,  262. 

Meader,  Cdward  G.,  192-326;  biog. 
sketch,  526. 

Meader,  Mrs.  Peace,  325. 

Meader,  Nathaniel,  89-196-433;  biog. 
sketch,  .-j27. 

Mechanics'  Debating  Club,  73. 

Meeting  house,  voted  to  build,  51. 

Memorial  day,  first  observed,  82. 

Memorial  Hall,  302;  dedicated,  82. 

Mercantile  business,  statement  of,  437. 

Merchants'  National  Bank,  357-373;  of- 
ficers, 373;  organization  of,  85;  state- 
ment, 374. 

Merrick,  Jas.  L.,  98;  biog.  sketch,  527. 

Merrifield,  Geo.  A.  L.,  biog.  sketch,  528. 

Merrill,  A.  F.,  347. 

Merrill,  Dr.  Percy  S.,  biog.  sketch,  477. 

Merrill  prizes,  294. 

Merrill,  Rev.  Samuel  P.,  233. 

Meserve,  Chas.  F.,  293. 

Messalonskee  Electric  Co.,  90-425. 

Messalonskee,  water  power  of,  340. 

Messer,  soldiers,  165. 

Methodist  Church,  built,  83. 

Methodists,  history,  257. 

Mexican  war,  217. 

Military  companies,  146;  muster  of,  14fi. 

Militia,  state,  items  concerning,  565. 

Milliken  Block,  429. 

Milliken,  Hon.  D.  L.,  156;  biog.  sketch, 
528. 

Mission  of  Assumption  among  Abena- 
kis,  36. 

Mitchell,  H.  R.  &  Son,  426. 

Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  316. 

Moor,  Daniel,  119-347;  biog.  sketch,  131. 

Moor,  Henry,  biog.  sketch,  132. 

Moor,  W.  and  D.,  132. 

Moor,  William,  347. 

Moor,  Wyman  B.  S.,  biog.  sketch,  487. 

Morrill,  Jediah,  238;  biog.  sketch,  129. 

Morrill,  Llewellyn,  347. 

Morrill,  Rev.  Jonathan  C.,  274. 

Morse,  C.  M.,  192. 

Mountain  Farm,  338. 

Murder  of  E.  Mathews,  68. 

Murray,  Rev.  John,  49. 

Muster  roll,  1795,  561. 

N. 
National  Guard,  Co.  H,  94. 
"Nautilus,  The,"  405. 
"Nelson,"  336. 

Nelson,  John  E.,  279;  biog.  sketch,  502. 
New  England  charter,  32. 
New  England  Order  of  Protection,  314. 
New  England  Telephone  &  Telegraph 

Co.,  425. 
Newspaper,  first,  61. 
New  Somersetshire,  province  of,  33. 
Nicholson,    Rev.    Geo.    B.,    263;    biog. 

sketch,  450. 
Nicolyn,  Father,  249. 
Norrldgewock,  destruction  of,  44. 
"North  American  Galaxy,  The,"  65-395. 


North  College,  299-302. 

North  Kennebec  Agricultural  Society, 

332-337;  library  of,  332. 
Noyes,     Edwin,     88-155-193-351;     biog. 

sketch,  487. 
Noyes,  Dr.  J.  F.,  biog.  sketch,  465. 
Noyes,  Lieut.  Boutelle,  87;  biog.  sketch, 

220. 
Noyes  Stove  Company,  351. 
Nye,  Francis  Edward,  biog.  sketch,  221. 
Nye,     Joshua,     74-75-84-246-287;     biog. 

sketch,  529. 

O. 
Oakland,  84-101;  invitation  given,  6. 
O'Connell,  W.  H.,  invitation  to,  6. 
Odd  Fellows,  Samaritan  Lodge,  311. 
Oldest  house,  116. 
Osborne,  Samuel,  78. 
Otten,  Augustus,  biog.  sketch,  530. 
Owen,  Lincoln,  279;  biog.  sketch,  502 
Owen,  Rev.  C.  E.,  305. 


P.  &  K.  R.  R.  opened,  73. 

Paine,  Henry  W.,  282-287. 

Paper  credit,  184. 

Paper  mill,  344. 

Parker,  Thomas,  550. 

Park  Hotel,  428. 

Parochial  school,  88-250. 

Pattee,  Ensign  Ezekiel,  48-320-550-564. 

Pattison,  Rev.  Robert  E.,  300-301;  biog. 

sketch,  503. 
Pay  rolls,  439. 

Pearson,  Capt.  William,  139. 
Peavy,  Jacob,  biog.  sketch,  530. 
Penny,  Salathiel,  138-205. 
Penney,  soldiers,  165. 
People's  Bank,  370. 
People's  National  Bank,  357-370;    capi- 

tal,  371;  location  of,  370;  officers,  370, 

statement,  372. 
Pepper,  George  D.  B.,  74-86-95-96-232-303- 

440;  biog.  sketch,  450;  chap,  by,  225. 
Pepper,  Mrs.  Annie  G.  3S3-388. 
Percival,  Homer,  160;  biog.  sketch,  531. 
Percival,  Joseph,  334;  biog.  sketch,  531. 
Petition  for  division  of  town,  54. 
Pettingill,     Rev.    A.   G.,    95-257;    biog. 

sketch,  451. 
Phi  Delta  Theta,  316. 
Philbrick,   Frank  B.  343-407-422;    biog. 

sketch,  532. 
Philbrick,  John  Herbert,  biog.  sketch, 

220. 
Philbrick,  J.  W.,  82;  biog.  sketch,  531. 
Philbrick,  Mrs.  Mary  Smith,  384. 
Philbrook,     Warren      C, 98-102;     hiog. 

sketch,  489;  appointed  orator,  6. 
Philippine  War,  219;  soldiers  of  219. 
Phillips,  Charles  Leonard,  biog.  sketch, 

222. 
Philhps,  George  Alfred,  79-98-192;  biog. 

sketch  533. 
Pike,  Arra,  385. 

Pineau,  Dr.  Joseph  A.,  biog.  sketch,  477. 
Pine  Grove  Cemetery  dedicated,  70. 
Pitts,  James,  grant  to,  551. 
Plains,  the,  431. 
Plalsted,  Aaron,  Appleton,  113-326-366; 

biog.  sketch  534. 
Plaisted,  A.  H.,  433. 
Plaisted  Block,  429. 

Plaisted,  Dr.  Samuel,  biog.  sketch,  463^ 
Plaisted,  J.  H.,  156-193. 
Plaisted,  Miss  Florence,  384. 
Plymouth  Patent,  33. 
Political  Contests,  150, 
Pooler,  Frederick,  biog.  sketch,  534. 
Poorhouse,  establishment  of,  70. 


590 


INDEX. 


Popham  Colony,  31. 

Porter,  Dr.  Byron,  biog.  sketch,  467. 

Post-office,  427. 

Potter,  Dr.  Joseph  F.,  biog.  sketch,  464. 

Pottery,  354. 

Powers,  Llewellyn,  293. 

President's  call  for  troops,  185. 

President's  reception,  323. 

Prince,  Henry  C,  398;  chap,  by,  393. 

Pring  Expedition,  30. 

Proctor  &  Bowie  Co.,  354. 

Proctor  &  Flood,  354. 

Proctor,  Robert  L.,  biog.  sketch,  535. 

Programme,  official,  9. 

Prohibitory  law,  first,  37;  amendment, 

vote  on,  87. 
Promotions,  162;  in  1861,  158. 
Public  Library,  91-387. 
Pulsifer,    Dr.     Nathan    G.    H.,     biog. 

sketch  466. 
Pulsifer,  Dr.  Ralph  H.,biog.  sketch,  473. 
Pulsifer,    Dr.    William    Moor,     biog. 

sketch,  473. 
Purinton,   Horace,  84-92;    address,  16; 

biog.  sketch,  535. 
Purinton,  Horace  &  Co.,  354. 

Q. 

Quinebequi,  Kennebec  river  called,  31. 

R. 

Rale,  Father  Sebastian,  42-247;  charac- 
ter and  work,  44. 

Rancourt,  Dr.  Charles  G.,  biog.  sketch, 
474. 

Railroad  bridge  built,  73-85. 

Rebellion,  action  concerning,  75. 

Reception  at  City  Hall,  21. 

Recruiting  office,  156. 

Redington,  Asa,  55-115-116-150-207-345; 
letter  of,  568;  biog.  sketch,  122. 

Redington,  Charles  H.,  84;  biog.  sketch, 
536. 

Redington,  Frank,  1-89-90-353-434;  ad- 
dress, 14;  chap,  by,  415;  biog. 
sketch,  536. 

Redington,  Isaac,  biog.  sketch,  489. 

Reform  Club,  84. 

Regiment,  mustered  in,  157. 

Religious  mass  meeting,  9. 

Resolutions  of  sympathy  with  Greeks, 
63. 

Resolutions  to  support  President's 
policy,  94. 

Review  by  Gen.  Grant,  154. 

Revolutionary  War,  197;  soldiers  in,  199. 

Ricker  Classical  Institute,  286. 

Ripley,  Eleazer  W.,  5S-150-564. 

Riverview  Worsted  Mills,  90-94-352-422. 

Rhoades,  Rev.  J.  F.,  biog.  sketch,  451, 

Roberts,  Arthur  J.,  chap,  by  493. 

Roberts,  Dr.  Francis  A.,  biog.  sketch, 
471. 

Robbins,  R.  O.,  399. 

Robins,  Rev.  Henry  E.,  84-96-303;  biog. 
sketch,  503. 

Roll  of  Honor,  166. 

Roundabout  Club,  327. 

Russell,  Nathaniel,  biog.  sketch,  537. 


Salmagundi  Club,  329-391. 
Sampson,  Thomas,  90-422. 
Saturday  Club,  329-391. 
Saw  Mill,  erection  of,  67-144. 
Sawyer  Publishing  Co.,  402-422-90. 
Scammon,  Capt.  Geo.  S.,  76. 
School-house,  148. 
School-house,  North  Grammar,  278. 
School-house,  Myrtle  St.,  93-278-431 


School  in  1796,  269;  agents,  270;  com- 
mittee 1821,  272-278;  districts,  270-56; 
pupils  of  1803,  274;  reports,  273-278; 
salaries  paid,  275;  supporters  of  1808, 
271. 

School  on  Plains,  276. 

School  attendance,  1902,  279;  expendi- 
tures for,  280;  population  of  1902, 
279. 

Seward,  Rev.  Josiah  L.,  254;  biog. 
sketch,  4.52. 

Shakesperean  Club,  325. 

Shannon,  Hon.  Richard  C,  77-803;  ob- 
servatory, 303;  physical  laboratory, 
303. 

Shaw,  Rev.  Benjamin  F.,  9-2-233;  biog. 
sketch,  452. 

Shaw,  Frank  K.,  biog.  sketch,  490. 

Sheldon,  Dr.  David  N.,  88-156-231-251- 
301;  biog.  sketch,  453. 

Sherwin,  Col.  Elnathan,  55-137-564. 

Ship  building,  117-145. 

Shipping  list,  118. 

Shipyards,  ,56. 

Shores,  George  E.,335;  biog.  sketch,  538. 

Shorey,  Chas.  R.,  76. 

Shurte,  Abraham,  magistrate,  38. 

Shurtleff,  Capt.  A.  T.,  94-412. 

Sigma  Kappa,  316. 

Sillery,  35. 

Skinner,  Rev.  Joseph  O.,  239;  biog. 
sketch,  454. 

Small,  Prof.  Albion  W.,  88-96-304;  biog. 
sketch,  504. 

Small,  Charles  P.,  biog.  sketch,  473. 

Small,  Frank  J.,  biog.  sketch,  490. 

Smiley,  Edward  H.,  279. 

Smith,  Abijah,  55-88-269;  biog.  sketch, 
124. 

Smith,  Rev.  Ezra  N.,  244. 

Smith,  Gen.  Franklin,  346-88-156;  biog. 
sketch,  538. 

Smith,  Frank  W.,  351. 

Smith,  Capt.  John,  32. 

Smith,  Rev.  Samuel  F.,  65-230-274-303; 
biog.  sketch,  504-454. 

Smith,  William  A.,  504;  author  of 
Chapter  I.,  8. 

Social  ball,  1819,  322. 

Society,  for  purpose  of  promoting 
piety,  556. 

Soldiers'  Aid  Association, 77;  furnished, 
183;  furnished  by  Maine,  186;  monu- 
ment association,  191-195;  monu- 
ment, 77-194;  monument,  <roll  of 
honor  on,  194. 

Sons  of  Temperance,  Ticonic  Division, 
310. 

Sons  of  Veterans,  Gai-field  Camp,  No.  I., 
411;  captains  of,  411;  Ladies'  Aid  So- 
ciety, No.  10,  411. 

Soper  Block,  429. 

Soper,  Luther  H.,  biog.  sketch,  538. 

Sorosis,  2.55. 

South  College,  299-303. 

Soule,  Jonathan  G.,  biog.  sketch,  490. 

Sparks,  Rev.  James  W.,  262. 

Spear,  Albert  M.,  293. 

Spencer,  Wm.  H.,  86-94-234;  biog. 
sketch,  456. 

Sprague,  Richard  W.,  279. 

Springfield,  Oscar  G.,  biog.  sketch,  510. 

Stackpole,  James,  345-563;  biog.  sketch, 
127. 

Stackpole.James,  2nd,  128-395. 

Stackpole,  James,  3rd,  128. 

Stage  coach,  62-142. 

Stage  line,  57. 

Standard  Oil  Co.,  426. 

Stark,  Amos  J.,  426-491. 

Stark,  Stephen,  biog.  sketch,  490. 


INDEX. 


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state  Constitution,  formation  of,  61. 

Steamboat,  first,  64, 

Steamboats,  owned  at  Waterville,  64. 

Stetson,  Prof.  Carlton  B.,  410. 

Stevens  Hospital,  407. 

Stevens,  Mrs.  Anna  W.,  407. 

Stevens,  Major  Edwin  L.,  76-77. 

Stevens,  Capt.  VVm.  A.,  76. 

Stevens,  Isaac,  13S. 

Stewart,  Horace  W.,  biog.  sketch,  491. 

Stilson,  Samuel,  355. 

St.    Omer    Commandery    of     Knights 

Templar,  310. 
Stove  Foundry,  423. 

Stowell,  Dr.  David  P.,  biog.  sketch,  470. 
Streets,  140;  in  1802,  119. 
Street  Lamps  introduced,  85. 
Strout,  Kev.  VV.  M.,  265. 
Sunday  School,  call  for,  1827,  565. 
Sunnyside  Farm,  338. 

T. 

Tannery,  354;  Pearson's,  342;  Kicker's, 

342-416. 
Tappan,  Henry  L.,  407. 
Tax  list  1S09,  57. 
Taylor,  Jefferson,  279. 
Taylor,  Julian  D.,  biog.  sketch,  505. 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Julian  D.,  111. 
Tea-parties,  321. 
Teconnet,29;  council  at,  39;  fort  at,  44; 

name,  113;  settlement  burned,  41; 

station  for  captives,  41. 
Teconnet  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 

310. 
Telegraphic     communication      estab- 
lished, 73. 
Telephone  connection  established,  S5. 
Terry,  Geo.  F.,  90-402;  biog.  sketch,  539. 
Thayer  Block,  429. 

Thayer,  Frank  L.,427;  biog.  sketch,  539. 
Thayer,  Dr.    Fredex'ic  C,    address,  19; 

elected    marshal     of   parade,    684; 

chapter  by,  459;    biog.  sketch,   469. 
Thayer,  Dr.  Stephen,  biog.  sketch,  463. 
Thomas,  Dr.  Austin,  biog.  sketch,  475. 
Ticonic  Bank,  61-357-364;    board,    365; 

location,  365;  officers,  366. 
Ticonic  bridge,  82— carried  away. 
Ticonic  National  Bank,  366. 
Ticonic,  No.  1,  purchased,  66. 
Ticonic  Village  Corporation,  66. 
Ticonic  Water  Power  &  Manufacturing 

Co.,  79-347. 
Ticonick  Debating  Society,  62. 
Tozier,  Dea.  John,  136. 
Tozier,  Henry  E.,  76. 
Town,  division  of,  53. 
Towne,  Dr.  John  G.,  biog.  sketch,  476. 
Town  Hall,  enlargement  of,  85. 
Town  meeting,  49. 
Town,  representatives  from,  50. 
Trade  in  early  days,  144. 
Trade  leased,  37. 
Treaty  of  Peace,  Pemaquid,  41. 
Tripp,  Bartlett,  293. 
Tripp,  Ephraim,  299. 
True,  Dr.  Latham,  410. 
"Turf,  Farm  and  Home,  The,"  403. 

U. 

Union  Gas  &  Electric  Company,  90-344- 

424. 
Union  Lafayette,  L',  313. 
Union,  R.  H.,  338. 

Unitarian  church  dedicated,  78-256. 
Unitarians,  history  of,  251. 
United  American  Mechanics,  315. 
United  Workmen,  312. 
Universalist  church  built,  65. 
Universalists,  history  of,  235. 


Village  corporation,  64. 
Volunteer,  first  from  Waterville,  156; 
trustee, 160. 

W. 

Waldron,     Frederick     A.,     92;     biog. 

sketch,  491. 
War,  Eastern  Indians,  43. 
Ware,  Hon.  John,  8.=)-]56;  biog.  sketch, 

540. 
Ware,  John,  85;  biog.  sketch,  540. 
Ware,  George  H.,  373. 
Ware,  Mrs.  Sarah  S.,  256-381. 
Ware  Parlors,  256. 
War  of  Rebellion,  175. 
War  of  1812,  211;  rosters,  211. 
War  with  Spain,  217;  list  of  soldiers  in, 

412-218. 
Warren,  George.  51-564. 
Warren,  Prof.  Laban  E.,  biog.  sketch, 

505. 
Washington,    George,  body  guard  of, 

570. 
Waterville  Academy,  64-281-288;  act  of 

incorporation,  283. 
Waterville  as  summer  resort,  435. 
Waterville  as  a  market,  436. 
Waterville  Bank,  357-369;   old,  360;  di- 
rectors of,  360;    capital,  363;    state- 
ment of,  362;  chartered,  61. 
Waterville  became  city,  88. 
Waterville  Business  College,  409. 
Waterville  city  charter,  1888,  571. 
Waterville  Classical  Institute,  285;  en- 
dowment of,  286;    semi  centennial 
celebration,  287;  Ladies'  Collegiate 
Departmeni,  285. 
Waterville  College,  299-322;  commence- 
ment, 149;  in  the  war,  158-164;  man- 
ual labor  department  of,  300;  name 
changed,  302;    Theological  Depart- 
ment, 299. 
Waterville,  contributors  for  war,  159. 
Waterville,  division  of,  84. 
"Waterville  Evening  Mail,"  403. 
W.  &  F.  R.  R.  &  L.  Company,  89-424. 
W.  &  F.  electric  railway,  424-431. 
Waterville  Free  Library,  389;    circula- 
tion, 390. 
Waterville's  gift  to  Portland,  78. 
Waterville  Horse  Association,  333. 
Waterville,  incorporated,  55. 
Waterville  incorporation  act,  566. 
Waterville  Intelligencer,  393. 
"Waterville  Journal,  The,"  395. 
Waterville  Library  Association,  73-387 
organization  of,  388;    first   contrib 
utors,  388-389;     officers,    389-390-391 
purchasing  committee,  389. 
Waterville  Lyceum,  62. 
Waterville  made  railroad  center,  69. 
"Waterville  Mail,  The,"  67,  397. 
Waterville   military  band,  409;    incor- 
porators, 409. 
Waterville     National     Bank,     359-369; 

directors, 369. 
"Watervlllonian,"  66-396. 
Waterville,  population  of,  114. 
Waterville  Printing  Co.,  338-399-435. 
Waterville  soils,  diversity  of,  331. 
Waterville     savings    bank,    82-357-378; 

statement  of,  380;  trustees,  379. 
"Waterville  Sentinel,  The,"  86-399. 
Waterville  social  library,  56-386. 
Watervill3   valuation,    debt    and    tax 

1*9.  tjf^     PjjJO 

Waterville'tax  rate  1902,  432. 
Waterville  trust  company,  357. 
"Waterville  Union,  The,"  397. 
Waterville  valuation  in  1902,  338-432. 


592 


INDEX. 


Waterville  water  company,  88. 
"Watchman,  The."  394. 
Waymouth,  Capt.  G.,  expedition  of,  31. 
Webb,    Hon.     Edmund     F.,     84-93-373; 

biog.  sketch,  491. 
Webber,  Frank  B.,  343-422;  biog.  sketch, 

541. 
Webber,  John,  156;  biog.  sketch,  540. 
Webber,  John  N.,  541. 
Wells,  Daniel,  152-340. 
Wells,  F.  B.,  395. 

Wells,  Samuel,  150;  biog.  sketch,  492. 
West  Waterville  scythe  and  axe  fac- 
tories, 344. 
White,  Charles  L.,  95-305;  biog.  sketch, 

505. 
Whitehouse,  William  P.,  293. 
Whitman,    Rev.    Benaiah     L.,     96-304; 

biog.  sketch,  505. 
Whittemore,  Rev.  Edwin  C,  29-95-235- 

507;  historical  address  by,  29;  biosr. 

sketch,  456. 
Whittemore  Furniture  Company,  90-94- 

353-423;  capital  stock,  353. 
Whittemore,  W.  E.,  353. 
William  and  Mary,  charter  of,  38. 
Williams,  Clifford,  124. 
Williams,  Johnson,  124. 
Williams,  Dr.  Obadiah,  53-88-97-113-210- 

461;  biog.  sketch,  123. 
Wilson,  Rev.  Adam,  394. 
AVUson,  Dr.  Frederick  M.,  biog.  sketch, 

470. 
Wing,  Charles  G.,  398. 
Wing,     Daniel     R.,     192-281-395-396-398; 

biog.  sketch,  541. 
Winslow,  101;  first  child  born  in,  550; 

incorporated,  113;  invitation  given, 

6. 
Winslow  library,  386;  books  of,  386. 


Winslow,  "Mr.,"  33;  population  of.  114; 
proprietors,  records  of,  548;  separa- 
tion of,  51;  settlement  of,  48;  town 
named,  48. 

Winslow  and  Waterville  representa- 
tives to  Mass.,  564. 

Wlscasset,  Waterville  &  Farmington 
R.  R.,  99-421;  officers  of,  421. 

Woman's  Aid  Association,  159. 

Woman's  Association,  328-387;  employ- 
ment bureau,  383;  evening  school, 
383;  library,  384;  lunch  room,  383; 
mothers'  meetings,  384;  sewing 
school,  383;  object,  381;  Woman's 
Exchange,  383. 

Woman 's  Christian  Temperance  Union, 
327-408;  officers,  408. 

Woman's  Literary  Club,  328-384-391. 

Woman's  Temperance  League,  327. 

Wood,  Rev.  N.  M.,  232-326;  biog.  sketch, 
457. 

Wright,  Dr.,  462. 

Wyman,  El  wood  T.,  96-391-399;  chapter 
by,  268. 

Wyman,  William  W.,  86. 


"Yankee  Blade,  The,"  396. 

Yates,  Alexander  F.  H.,  biog.  sketch, 
223. 

Y.  M.  C.  A.,  327-407-406;  organization 
of,  406;  oflScers,  408:  Ladies'  Aux- 
iliary, 407. 

Y.  W.  C.  A.,  327. 


Zeta  Psi,  316. 

Zion's  Advocate,  394-443. 

"Zuarrow,"  337. 


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