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SKETCHES 
 
 TOWN OF OLD TOWN, 
 
 rEXOi!:s(;oT <:(_»UNxr, maixe. 
 
 FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT, TO 1819; 
 
 BIOGR2VPIIIOAL SKETCHES ; 
 
 DAVID NORTON, ESQ. 
 
 BAKGOR : 
 
 S. r;. RoBiNSOX, Printer. 
 ]SST. 
 
SKETCHES OF OLD TOWK. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 PREFATORY— AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR. 
 
 The author and compiler of these Sketches deems it proper, 
 *^not from any positive motive of egotism, although self is a 
 very permeating sentiment, hut more particularly to show the 
 circumstances under which these reminiscences have been 
 compiled, and further the opportunity he may have had for 
 becoming acquainted with facts and information in regard to 
 Old Town history. 
 
 Born in Livermore, Maine, May 25th, 1812, he was brought 
 up on a farm as good as the town affords ; he lost his mother 
 before he was four years old, and well remembers, the next 
 season, of going to school with a buff and white checked 
 handkerchief of home manufacture from domestic linen, tied 
 over his head, bare-footed — and he continued to go shoeless 
 in summer until twelve years old ; his chance for an education, 
 a district school six mouths each year from four to twelve 
 years of age, and three months each winter, until his 
 twentieth year. The only book ever furnished him, was a 
 common Speller ; all other school books he either borrowed 
 
4 SKETCHES OE' OLD TOWN. 
 
 or procured by his own industry. He was always fond of 
 reading, and gathered a fund of information by poring over 
 the books in the old circulating library, kept in his neighbor- 
 hood. During his boyhood, and between the age of twelve 
 and fifteen, he read the Old Testament through in regular 
 course, and the general events of its history have ever since 
 been retained in his memory ; always required to work on the 
 farm, his opportunity for social amusement was very limited. 
 
 He left the paternal roof in September after he was twenty 
 years old, launching out into the world without one dollar to 
 help himself with, although an elder brother, a few days 
 after, gave him thirteen dollars for a prospective interest in 
 some sheep which would come to him upon reaching his 
 majority, the accumulating product of a lamb given to him 
 ])j his grandfather. With the thirteen dollars safely stowed 
 in his pocket, he started for Guilford, in company with 
 Elbridge Gr. Thompson, now Sheriff, of Dover. His first 
 employment was sapping clapboard cuts, with an axe, at 
 thirteen dollars per month, and in two weeks the six dollars he 
 had earned was paid him in one silver dollar and a pair 
 of calf boots- — the first he was ever the owner of. He then 
 engaged as clerk in a store at Guilford for six months, working 
 for his board. 
 
 In March, 1833, he went to Bangor, and clerked for 
 Aldrich & Hale for a year and a half, at very small wages, 
 and on the last day of 1834 made his advent in Old Town 
 village, having been engaged by Daniel W. Bradley, as clerk 
 for James Purinton & Co., of which firm he was a member. 
 About this time he fell into company which had a tendency 
 to develope in his mind some slight infidel notions, but which 
 ater years have wholly dispelled. In 183G, engaged in 
 
AUTOBIOGKAPHY. 5 
 
 grocery business, at which he was completely unsuccessful, 
 trusting out goods to be lost, but managing in course of time 
 to liquidate all his liabilities in full, although it took five 
 years to accomplish it. In 1807, went to the boom, as clerk 
 for General Veazie, and was with him eleven years, until he 
 sold the boom — and the General remarked to one of his 
 neighbors that he had been in his employ eleven years, and 
 although he had unreservedly talked business or politics in 
 his presence, he had never had a syllable come back as tattled 
 or divulged by him. He continued to work at the boom, 
 making in all a period of twenty-six years. In all that time 
 there was a constant excitement and controversy between the 
 lumbermen and boom owners — now in court, and anon before 
 tlie legislature — and his attention was so called to the matter 
 that he became a perfect epitome of all facts, matters and dates 
 connected with that corporation. General Veazie being a 
 large property owner in town, was in his employ much of the 
 time when not engaged at the boom. His connection with a 
 man of so much business gave him some jprominence in the 
 community, and in 1847 he was chosen Town Clerk, serving 
 two years ; and in 1849 was elected Selectman, holding the 
 office four 3'ears ; since that time lie has been Collector of 
 Taxes thirteen years, the nature of the business leading him 
 into contact and acquaintance with everybody in town, and 
 obliging him to learn and know the history and ownership of 
 all the property ; and it is probable that his knowledge in 
 tiiat direction exceeds that of any individual in the town. 
 
 In 1843, he became connected with the Universalist parish, 
 and has ever since been an active appendage of that society. 
 He was in early life an Adams Republican, and slid naturally 
 into the Whig party, and subsequently into the Republican 
 
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 party — and although his ambition has been rudely stepped 
 upon, and what might seem to be his rights entirely ignored, 
 he has never been known to waver from what he consci- 
 entiously believed to be right and just politically. 
 
 In 1847, without his previous knowledge, he was appointed 
 a Justice of the Peace and Quorum, and held a commission 
 until the Trial Justice act was passed, under which he was one 
 of the appointees, and by renewed appointments still holds 
 that ofGce — and in all these thirty-two j'ears, his Justice bills 
 returned to the County Commissioners, have been allowed 
 without an exception, and commended for correctness and 
 neatness ; during the thirteen years in which he was Collector, 
 there has been committed to him to collect the sura of f|259,- 
 666 9-3, all of which, down to less than fourteen hundred 
 dollars now uncollected, has been satisfactorily accounted for. 
 
 In the summer of 1879, the Ladies' "Temperance Crusade," 
 of Old Town, started a Fourth of July entertainment, and he 
 was invited to respond to the sentiment, "Reminiscences of 
 Old Town." In compliance with the request, he at once set 
 about the labor of preparing himself to properly comply with 
 the demand, and as he progressed in the effort, it soon became 
 apparent that his work embraced substantially a complete 
 history of the town. So much labor and research had to be 
 made, that the act of throwing it away looked like criminal 
 waste — hence the idea of compiling a fuller and more complete 
 history of the town suggested itself, and since that time he 
 has been making additions and corrections until this volume 
 is the result of his humble efforts — and he ventures with some 
 apprehension to offer it to the public, not as a perfect produc- 
 tion, but the best attainable with the limited means and 
 opportunity at his command. 
 
CPIAPTER II. 
 
 OLD TOWN— SITUATIOlSr— SOIL— CIIAEACTER—AVEALTH. 
 
 The town of Old Town is situated upon the west bank of 
 the Penobscot river, and bordered on the west by Pushaw 
 lake, a sheet of water seven miles long by two miles wide ; 
 twelve miles north of Bangor, and nine miles above the head 
 of tide water. There is a fall from the head of Old Town 
 falls to the bridge at Bangor, at low water, of one hundred 
 and thirteen feet. The surface of the town is but slightly 
 diversified by hills and valleys ; and the soil, although it has 
 spots of great fertility, is on the whole below the average of 
 the state ; and yet the tillers of the soil, by care and diligence 
 raise remunerative crops of all kinds ; there are several- large 
 orchards which yield fair crops. The population is composed 
 largely of native born Americans, with quite a sprinkling of 
 Canadian, French, and Irish emigration, and who for order 
 and morality will. compare favorably with any community of 
 equal size in the state. It is true that in former years a 
 character for roughness and rowdyism had gone abroad, in 
 relation to the inhabitants of the town, but which, to a great 
 extent did injustice to the resident people of Old Town. 
 In those times ifc was the headquarters of most of the lumber- 
 ing business on the river ; from here most of the teams and 
 crews after a longer or shorter sojourn, started for the woods, 
 
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 and like sailors before starting on a voyage, must have a 
 jolly tinae — and it would lose its most prominent feature 
 without a black eye or a scarred face. In the spring large 
 numbers of the woods crew would congregate here, waiting 
 for employment in the mills or on the river, and some of the 
 men would ply their orgies while idle, and who worked only 
 part of the year for the purpose of earning money to be 
 spent in drunkenness and rowdjasm, and going to work again 
 when want should compel them to ; this class of men were 
 largely composed of non-residents, and the places where they 
 were brought up and left without proper education or moral 
 culture, are much more to blame for their misdemeanors 
 than Old Town. This place is not now since the railroads 
 have been constructed, so much the headquarters as formerly. 
 In early times the only method of getting supplies up river 
 'was by batteau or scow, starting from Old Town — the teams, 
 then mostly oxen, waiting until the ice formed of sufficient 
 thickness and strengtli to bear them and their loads. In later 
 years, after roads were constructed, many of the teams took 
 their supplies upon wagons — more especially if the snow 
 was late in coming; now good roads are opened to the imme- 
 diate vicinity of the lumber region, obviating the necessity of 
 congregating here waiting for a fall of snow before starting 
 for the woods. 
 
 In wealth and capital the town is not what it ought to be 
 — its unfortunate position tending to draw away the earnino-s 
 of the persons and property of the inhabitants. The largest 
 portion of the productive property of the town, is owned by 
 non-resident proprietors, who are constantly, year by year, 
 carrying away large sums in the shape of rents and profits, 
 adding nothing to, but depreciating the capital left. Another 
 
WEALTH. 9 
 
 evil, closely connected witli the latter, and largely due to it, 
 is the circumstance that a host of persons have come here to 
 and have done a successful business, and when, having 
 acquired by their industry and enterprise some capital, which 
 it is natural they would desire to invest in some permanent 
 and profitable security, when seeking for such opportunity it 
 is at once seen that the foundation of all productive invest- 
 ment is in the hands of non-resident holders, who desire to, 
 and do almost exclude the resident capitalists from participa- 
 tion — and as a consequence such small capital is obliged to 
 seek elsewhere for opportunities to employ their means which 
 are denied them here ; from these two causes, the abstraction 
 of rents and profits, and the removal from town of small 
 capitalists, one can easily compute a loss to the town, during 
 the last fifty years, of a sum exceeding in the aggregate three 
 millions of dollars, which amount, if invested on these water 
 privileges, in the form of manufacturing establishments, 
 would have drawn other capital, and to-day the town might 
 have been as populous and thriving as the city of Lewiston 
 — the hum of busy looms and spindles would supply the mur- 
 mur of the water-fall as it now goes unfettered on its way 
 to the bosom of old ocean, its natural rest. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 OLD TOWN— EARLY HISTORY— THEORY— TEADITION. 
 
 Some persons, as well as some people, are fond of tracing 
 their genealogies or their histories back into the uncertainties 
 of the mythical past, and claiming much of antiquity, that 
 may look, and in truth is, fabulous, but which no one has 
 the means of disproving, any more than they have the 
 material to substantiate. One Irish gentleman claimed to 
 have a continuous genealogical chain, without break or 
 missing link, extending back some million of years anterior 
 to that of the Chinese history. 
 
 I shall attempt to make no such claim, absurd and unsup- 
 ported as it would be, but confine myself to such plain and 
 simple facts of history and theory, as are susceptible of proof 
 or possess in themselves evidence of their own genuineness. 
 
 The honest man born in this nineteenth century is as much 
 to be respected, and is entitled to God's care and protection 
 (and I beUeve wiU receive and enjoy it) as will the rogue 
 who may have been born thousands of years ago. 
 
 In making my modest claim to antiquity, I shall begin just 
 where the first authentic and reliable history shall authorize 
 me to — and looking back through all the musty tomes 
 which one must carefully scan, in order to discern the true 
 from the false, I find the first reliable evidence of our 
 
THEORY. 11 
 
 antiquity in the first chapter of Genesis, first and second 
 verses, in the words following: "In the beginning, God 
 created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was with- 
 out form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the 
 deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the 
 waters." 
 
 Now when God created the earth, as aforesaid, he neces- 
 sarily at the same time and by the same energy, created this 
 very spot upon which we are to-day,(July 4, 1879,) celebrat- 
 ing our Nation's birthday. It was at that time somewhat 
 deeply immersed in the dark waters which covered the whole 
 surface of the globe. 
 
 I wish nest to call attention to the theory of Agassiz, that 
 the first land to appear above the surface of the waters which 
 covered the whole face of the earth, was the elevated land 
 between here and Canada — the highlands which divide the 
 waters that flow into the Gulf of St. Lawrence from those 
 which flow into the Atlantic Ocean. 
 
 If this theory be correct, it follows, then, that this spot of 
 earth, being so near and so intimately connected with that 
 first dry land, must have received quite a hoist towards 
 bringing it to the surface of the water ; and yet must have 
 left it submerged long enough* and deep enough for the ice- 
 bergs which had accumulated in the frozen regions of the 
 polar sea, and were floating to the more genial and melting 
 clime of the torrid zone, to have left their abrading marks 
 upon every ledge that protruded sufiiciently to interfere with 
 their resistless transit, and to allow them to deposit from 
 their melting sides so plentifully, the thousands of granite 
 boulders which dot the surface of this part of the globe, and 
 are so useful for building purposes. 
 
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 In time this very ground rose above the surface of the 
 water, and beheld the light of day, ultimately to become 
 inhabited by man and animals. 
 
 The next fact, a traditional one, which I find, is, that for 
 a long period before the Europeans visited this section of the 
 globe, it was inhabited by the red man, whose occupation, no 
 doubt, extended as far back in the history of the race, as to 
 the time and place when and where the space is found, which 
 Darwin has so industriously sought the "missing link" to fill, 
 but has thus far sought in vain. 
 
 Anciently the Tarratines owned aU the territory watered 
 by the Penobscot river and its tributaries, and tradition has 
 handed down some heroic exploits of the tribe in defending 
 their domain from the incursions of their enemies. One spot, 
 remembered until within a few years past, was annually 
 visited by the braves of the tribe, for the purpose of celebrat- 
 ing a victory once gained over a war party of Mohawks, in a 
 battle fought near the Passadumkeag river. 
 
 In 1669, the Mohawks subdued the Tarratines, since which 
 time, the tribe has yearly sent delegates to the great council 
 fire at Caughnawanga, with presents as a tribute ; this 
 practice has been discontinued since 1850, or thereabouts. 
 
 In 1625, the population of the tribe was said by what 
 seemed to be competent authority, to have been eight thou- 
 sand souls. They were a numerous, powerful, and warlike 
 people, more hardy than their western enemies, whom they 
 often plundered and killed ; since that time the tribe has 
 been constantly decreasing, until now the population is re- 
 duced to about five hundred persons. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 FEENCn JESUITS AND MISSIONS— TXDIAN HISTORY. 
 
 The French Jesuits early in their missionary labors amongst 
 the natives, established in 1608 a post at Mt. Desert, and 
 soon after a mission here, and erected a church on Old Town 
 island. ' 
 
 In 1710, Castine, the younger, whose mother was the 
 daughter of Madocawando, went up the river in company 
 with Major Livingston, on a mission to Canada. We can 
 seem to see his fellow voyageurs toiling up the river from 
 the head of the tide, carrying by the rapids where the 
 current was too swift to navigate, until they arrive at the 
 Old Town ounegan (carry) ; here their hearts are cheered 
 by the sight of the mission upon Old Town island. Being 
 an ardent Catholic, he pays his devoirs at the shrine of the 
 virgin, and is hospitably entertained until the morning sun 
 admonishes him to renew his toilsome journey. 
 
 About the year 172-3, Col. Westbrook, with a force of 
 English marines, came up the river in boats, went up the 
 west side around the head of Marsh island, and came down 
 the back way, drove the Indians away, burnt the church and 
 all the wigwams upon the island, wantonly and needlessly 
 making hundreds of helpless natives houseless. 
 
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 No wonder that the Indian inherits a hatred of the white 
 man, and when he thinks of his circumscribed situation, and 
 that his brethren have been gradually swept from the land by 
 the advance of the strange invader, this feeling must kindle 
 in his bosom with redoubled force. 
 
 He looks abroad upon the wide extent of this fair conti- 
 nent, and says to himself, "Once my ancestors possessed this 
 goodly land. On that spot, made beautiful by nature's 
 plastic hand, he reared his birchen wigwam ; there, shaded 
 by the venerable trees of the forest, he smoked his calumet in 
 peace, and listened to the innocent prattle of his offspring 
 around him. 
 
 Upon that alluvial acre formed by the changing currents of 
 the river, he planted the maize, which was to supply the 
 demands of appetite, left unsatisfied by want of success in 
 procuring game. 
 
 Upon yon placid stream he launched his birchen canoe, 
 paddling leisurely along, or in meditation floating calmly and 
 silently down the current of life. 
 
 By that murmuring waterfall he sat for many hours watch- 
 ing the finny tribe, and the well filled basket by his side 
 gave evidence of his skill in the use of the spear. 
 
 In that limitless forest whose towering and leafless trunks 
 ever opened their broad and distant vistas, not inappropriate 
 emblems of the converging lines of futurity, he chased the 
 moose and the caribou, then unscared by the rifle of the 
 paleface." 
 
 These and a thousand other visions of greatness and happi- 
 ness, are associated in the minds of the unhappy race, and 
 we seem to hear him further exclaim, "The footstep of civiliza- 
 
INDIAiT HISTORY. 15 
 
 tion has blotted out the warpath of our fathers ; the axe of 
 the pioneer has felled the forest and scared the' game away ; 
 the march of improvement has dammed up the waterfall — 
 and the salmon, frightened by the clatter of machinery, have 
 ceased to frequent our rivers ; the scythe of time has mowed 
 a wide swath in our ranks, cutting down its victims of all 
 ages and conditions, leaving but a remnant of once countless 
 hosts." 
 
 In 1726, a treaty was ratified between the colonists and 
 the Tarratines, known as the Dummer treaty, which was the 
 most lasting one ever made with the tribe — every subsequent 
 one having renewed some of its principal provisions. 
 
 The territory of the tribe, during the last century and a 
 half, has been constantly encroached upon by the white 
 population, until all that now remains to them are the islands 
 in the Penobscot river, including Old Town island and all 
 above it in theTenobscot river. 
 
 In 1775, a strip of land was set apart for them six miles 
 wide, upon both sides of the Penobscot river, as far up as the 
 Indians claimed. 
 
 During the American Revolution these Indians were friend- 
 ly to the colonists, and several of them served in Washing- 
 ton's army, as soldiers or scouts ; and at one time, (1781,) 
 Orono, a chief of the tribe, fitted out at his own expense an 
 express to Machias, to give notice to the inhabitants that a 
 British fleet was upon the coast — five brigs and five schooners. 
 Afterwards the expense incurrred by him in fitting out and 
 carrying through the expedition, was refunded to him by the 
 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
 
 Orono lived to the great age of one hundred and thirteen 
 
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 years, and the grateful memory of his virtues is perpetuated 
 
 in the name of a neighboring town. 
 
 In 1796, a treaty was negotiated with the Tarratines, and 
 the tribe gave up all claim to land upon both sides of the 
 river, from Nichols' rock, in Eddington, the head of the tide, 
 thirty miles up, reserving the islands before mentioned. 
 
 In 1818, another treaty was entered into, and the tribe 
 conveyed to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts all the 
 remainder of their lands, except the islands and four town- 
 ships, the consideration being a yearly annuity in goods 
 specifically enumerated, worth about fifteen hundred dollars. 
 
 Upon the separation from Massachusetts, the State of 
 Maine agreed to fulfil the obligations of the treaty. 
 
 In 1833, Amos M. Roberts, and Thomas Bartlett, Esqs., 
 were appointed by the State commissioners to purchase of 
 the tribe the four remaining townships of land, which object 
 they accomplished — the compensation for which was a fund 
 invested in the State, of fifty thousand dollars, to remain as a 
 permanent fund, the interest, at six per cent., to be paid to 
 the tribe annually in the month of April. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 JOHN MAUSH -INB MILL PROPERTY— OLD TOWN VILLAGE. 
 
 Some time in the latter 'part of the eighteenth century, 
 John Marsh appeared here, or, as some authorities say, in 
 1774, and made a settlement at the foot of Marsh Island, and 
 lived for some years in intimate and friendly relations with 
 the Indians, learning their language, and frequently acting 
 as an interpreter for them. His deportment was such as to 
 win their unbounded confidence, and for favors bestowed, 
 and services rendered to them, they proposed to make him a 
 liberal compensation, and affixed their marks to an instru- 
 ment, which was represented to them as being a petition to 
 the General Court of Massachusetts, to grant to Marsh, a lot 
 of land upon this island^ — but when the document reached its 
 destination, it was ascertained to be a petition in the form of 
 a deed, for the grant of the whole of the island. In compli- 
 ance with the terms of the petition, the State made the grant, 
 and from that time [forth the island has obtained, and still 
 bears the name of Marsh Island. 
 
 When the Indians discovered the imposition that had been 
 practiced upon them, they made an effort to be revenged 
 upon Marsh, and made an attempt upon his life, and he was 
 
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 obliged to keep out of their way for some time, in order to 
 avoid the consequences of their just indignation. 
 
 But treachery, in time, sooner or later, is sure to meet its 
 reward ; all of this great inheritance so fraudulently obtained, 
 the most of it slipped out of his hands during his lifetime, 
 and but a smaU lot, if anything, now remains in the posses- 
 sion of his descendants. 
 
 About the year 1798, Richard Winslow built a double saw 
 mill, upon the privilege near the Old Town ounegan (carry,) 
 afterwards conveyed to N. L. & S. Williams. 
 
 Jackson Davis, in 1806, bought of Richard Winslow, the 
 mill property here, including lots No. 16 and 17, and all the 
 water privileges in front of those lots, except four sold to 
 WiUiams. 
 
 Daniel Davis bought lot No. 18, and he and Jackson built 
 the second double mill. 
 
 N. L. & S. WiUiams built the third double mill, in 1824, 
 which from some unexplained cause obtained the soubriquet 
 of "Tide Mill." 
 
 Samuel Veazie bought, in 1826, all of Jackson Davis' 
 interest in lands and mills in Old Town, and all Daniel 
 Davis' interest in lot No. 18, and his half of the second 
 double mill, thus acquiring all the privileges upon the falls 
 adjacent to Marsh Island, except one belonging to Wadleigh, 
 and four owned by Williams. 
 
 Veazie and Wadleigh rebuilt the second miU in 1828, 
 Wadleigh having previously bought one-half of the mill of 
 Jackson Davis. 
 
 In 1829, General Veazie dug the canal and built one 
 
MILL PEOPBETY. 19 
 
 double saw mill upon it, and a grist miU, and the same year 
 built a double mill outside of the Williams mill; and in the 
 next year or two, (1833) built two more mills outside of that, 
 and another double mill on the canal, making at the time six- 
 teen saws upon the falls. Gang saws had not then come into 
 use. 
 
 The three shore mills were burned in December, 1835. 
 
 Wadleigh and Purinton purchased of the Indians in 1834, 
 their interest in Shad and Pine Islands, and the next year 
 erected a block of mills, containing six saws, next outside of 
 the Veazie miUs, and claiming that Veazie had encroached 
 upon their Pine Island privilege, took forcible possession of 
 the three outside mills erected by him — and out of this pro- 
 ceeding issued a law suit which lasted some fifteen years, and 
 caused the expenditure of large sums of money. 
 
 The retaining fee of Daniel Webster, retained by one of 
 the parties to the suit, was one thousand dollars, and paid by 
 sending him a cargo of lumber for his estate at Marshfield. 
 
 There was a hearing in the case before the United States 
 Court, then held at Wiscasset. John Neptune was taken 
 there as a witness, and was examined in chief by Webster ; 
 on cross examination, Jere. Mason, who was counsel for 
 Veazie, undertook to break down John's testimony, so he 
 asked him, "Who brought you here ?" In answer John says, 
 "Wadleigh, Purinton." "Did they tell you what to say," 
 was the next query. John answered, "Yes." By this time 
 it begun to look as though Neptune's testimony would not 
 be worth the expense of his travel. Wadleigh begun to 
 ha-a-m and spit, and Purinton gave an extra twist to the lock 
 upon his right temple, and squirmed in his seat as though he 
 
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 was sitting upon nettles. "What did they tell you to say," 
 next asked Mason, with all the suavity of an assured victory. 
 "They told me to say what you know about it," was the 
 reply of John, with the true dignity which sat so naturally 
 and gracefully upon him. The Court smiled, Wadleigh and 
 Purinton recovered their breaths, and Mason expressed a 
 willingness to examine another witness. 
 
 Previous to 1840, the "Williams privileges were advertised 
 for sale at auction, and there was a good deal of competition 
 for their purchase, as the ownership might give the holder a 
 controling interest upon the falls. 
 
 Veazie owned seven privileges, and Wadleigh owned seven, 
 and the four now offered for sale, if owned by either party, 
 would give him the majority interest. 
 
 At the auction, the bidding was both brisk and determined. 
 Wadleigh bid near up to thirty thousand dollars and stopped ; 
 but the auctioneer kept on, as though he was receiving con- 
 tinuous bids, until the sum of forty thousand dollars was 
 reached, at which sum they were struck off to General 
 Veazie, who afterwards learned the fact that he had been 
 run up by the auctioneer on fictitious bids, and when he had 
 paid twenty-seven thousand dollars, that being his next bid 
 after all others had ceased bidding, he refused to pay any 
 more. 
 
 Williams sued him for the balance ; a hearing was had at 
 Augusta, when the Court shadowed the opinion that Veazie 
 could not be held, unless at the time of sale, the auctioneer 
 was acting as an agent for Williams, in making the bids. 
 
 Now arose a sharp contest to see who should first find 
 Henry A. Head, who was the auctioneer — Williams, to 
 induce him to say that he was acting as agent for him, and 
 
MILL PROPEKTY. 21 
 
 Veazie knowing full well that if he first saw Head, that he 
 would deny being such agent. Both parties procured express 
 teanas, and started for Bangor. That was in the days before 
 the telegraph was erected on that route. When Veazie 
 arrived at Unity, the hostler gave him a horse, and told him 
 to be careful, as he would sometimes run away ; and as he 
 was driving along, the General would, as he touched up the 
 horse, enliven the way with this refrain, "Run away will you, 
 that is just what I should like." They arrived in Bangor 
 nearly at the same time, but Veazie being acquainted, went 
 directly to Head's house, while Williams was obliged to hunt 
 up Mr. Bright to attend to the business for him. Head was 
 not the agent of Williams. 
 
 The Wadleigh block of mills was burned in April, 1847, 
 and in two or three years thereafter, an arrangement was 
 made between the parties, by which Veazie became sole 
 owner of all the privileges upon the falls ; and in 1852 re- 
 built the Wadleigh block. That year the six middle saws 
 were burned, and in 1853, Veazie commenced at the Wad- 
 leigh block, and run a continuous block to the shore — the 
 whole block covering sixteen saws. This whole block was 
 burned in June, 1878, together with the Canal block — and 
 now, (1879,) the falls present an unseemly show of black- 
 ened ruins awaiting the fiat of enterprise to be rebuilt, or to 
 give place to some other business activity. 
 
 The road on the shore from here to Orono, was built in 
 1826 ; before that time there was but a bridle path, and travel 
 and transportation was a difficult operation, except in the 
 winter. 
 
 The Bennoch road was built in 1828. 
 
 The toll bridge to Milford was built in 1830. 
 
22 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWK. 
 
 The Upper Stillwater toll bridge was built iu 1835. It was 
 an X work bridge, strengthened by circular braces, which 
 were too long to allow the bridge to settle into its proper po- 
 sition ; the consequence was it toppled over sidewise, and 
 fell down. It was rebuilt in 1836, and was maintained as a 
 toll bridge until 1870, when it was purchased by the town 
 for the sum of two thousand dollars, and made a free bridge. 
 
 The Veazie block, three stores, was built in 1832. 
 
 The Richardson & Kennedy block, four stores, was built 
 in 1833. 
 
 The J. C. Bradbury block, five stores, was built in 1855. 
 
 The T. M. Chapman block, five stores, was built in 1858. 
 
 The Folsom block, seven stores, Avas built in 1869. 
 
 The Ounegan block, five stores, was built in 1870. 
 
 The Rines block, six tenements, was built in 1837 ; and 
 was burned in the great fire of April 19, 1865. 
 
 The Pushaw bridge was built in 1847. 
 
 The Kirkland road was built in 1849. 
 
 The road to Argyle was built in 1853. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE BOOM— LINCOLN FIEE— EARLY EECOEDS. 
 
 Some of the lumbermen, in 1825, having obtained a char- 
 ter from the legislature, erected a boom, for stopping their 
 lumber, at Argyle. Before that time they had to go through 
 the slow process of picking up their lumber, being obliged to 
 keep crews and boats out day and night, building large fires 
 upon the shore to make light upon the water, to enable them 
 to see the logs as they went floating by in the darkness. 
 
 Rufus Dwinel, in 1827, purchased the franchise of the Ar- 
 gyle boom, and in 1832, under a new charter, erected the 
 boom at Pea Cove, where it now exists — and truly the situa- 
 tion seems to have been designed for the very pnrpose. Gen- 
 eral Veazie gave him twenty thousand dollars for half of his 
 interest, and the next year, after helping to erect the boom, 
 gave him a like sum for the balance of his interest — thus be- 
 coming sole owner, remaining as such until 1847, when he 
 sold out to David Pingree and others, for ninety thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 In 1842, by direction of the legislature, there was a careful 
 survey made of the boom and all its fixtures, and an estimate 
 made of the cost of construction, by William P. Parrott, se- 
 lected by the lumbermen, and Lore Alford, designated by the 
 
24 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN 
 
 Boom Corporation — and the structure was found to contain : 
 
 54 buoys, 
 
 pine timber. 
 
 15,635 feet. 
 
 357 boom sticks, 
 
 pine timber, 
 
 322,056 " 
 
 37 large piers. 
 
 pine timber, 
 
 51,988 " 
 
 
 oak timber, 
 
 120,202 » 
 
 
 hemlock timber, 
 
 253,547 " 
 
 
 mixed timber. 
 
 495,595 " 
 
 36 sunken piers. 
 
 hemlock timber, 
 
 141,651 " 
 
 1,400,674 " 
 Irons for boom, 102,895^ pounds. 
 Rocks for piers, 1,613 15-16 cords. 
 Length of boom, 3 1-10 miles. 
 Estimated cost of material and construction, $65,573 77. 
 
 From 1842 to 1854, large additions had to be made to the 
 boom, to accommodate the increasing amount of lumber, of 
 which a more careful account was kept, which, added to the 
 cost of the original structure, broi^ght the whole value up to 
 the large sum of $100,504 27. 
 
 The charter of 1832, was for a period of thirty years, fix- 
 ing the price of boomage at thirty -eight cents per thousand 
 leet, board measure, but the price might be changed after ten 
 years ; accordingly, in 1842, the lumbermen petitioned the 
 legislature for a reduction of the rate of boomage, and the 
 Corporation petitioned for an increase of rate. The matter 
 was in violent agitation for two j'ears, and in 1844 the rate 
 of boomage was established at thirty-six and one-half cents 
 per thousand feet, for ten years. 
 
 Pingree and others continued to carry on the boom until 
 1854, when the rate of boomage, like Banquo's ghost, again 
 arose to disturb the harmony existing between the parties. 
 
THE BOOM. 25 
 
 and the controversy was finally ended by a legislative enact- 
 ment authorizing an association of lumbermen to lease the 
 boom for a period of fifteen years, by keeping the erections 
 in repair, making all necessary additions, paying all accruing 
 expenses and taxes connected with the boom, in carrying it 
 on, and paying the owners a royalty of ten cents upon each 
 and every thousand feet of lumber which might come through 
 the boom, as interest on the capital invested. The same act 
 extended the boom charter twenty years. 
 
 The Association carried on the boom until 1869, when a 
 new lease was made for an additional fifteen years, with a 
 roj^alty of nine cents, and the boom charter extended fifteen 
 years. In case the Association refused or neglected to carry 
 on the boom, the Corporation was to resume its management, 
 with the rate of boomage fixed at fifty-three cents ; and un- 
 der the second lease, at sixty-five cents. 
 
 Although it has cost the lumbermen more to raft the ]um- 
 ber than the established price, they are disposed to carry on 
 the boom, as they escape what to them seemed an unjust au- 
 thority or supervision over their property — the boom owners 
 rafting or neglecting to raft the logs, without regard to the 
 interests of the lumber owners. 
 
 Appended is the amount of lumber rafted from the boom 
 yearly, for the first twenty-five years after its construction in 
 its present locality, showing the increase of business, and the 
 decrease in the size of lumber cut : 
 
 Tear. 
 
 Feet Rafted. 
 
 Per Log. 
 
 Tear. 
 
 Feet Rafted. 
 
 Per Log. 
 
 1833, 
 
 25,906,000 
 
 343 
 
 1837, 
 
 54,345,000 
 
 330 
 
 1834, 
 
 10,242,000 
 
 320 
 
 1838, 
 
 55,813,000 
 
 298 
 
 1835, 
 
 81,820,000 
 
 354 
 
 1839, 
 
 53,449,000 
 
 329 
 
 1836, 
 
 44,527,000 
 
 373 
 
 1840, 
 
 35,04-2,000 
 
 354' 
 
 Average per log, fpr eight ;7ears, 337 f§?ti 
 
26 
 
 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 Year. 
 
 Feet Rafted. 
 
 Per Log. 
 
 Year. 
 
 Feet Rafted. 
 
 Per Log 
 
 1841, 
 
 48,223,000 
 
 355 
 
 1845, 
 
 98,557,000 
 
 281 
 
 1842, 
 
 74,215,000 
 
 348 
 
 1846, 
 
 88,128,000 
 
 236 
 
 1843, 
 
 70,896,000 
 
 304 
 
 1847, 
 
 146,880,000 
 
 261 
 
 1844, 
 
 57,417,000 
 
 284 
 
 1848, 
 
 176,968,000 
 
 277 
 
 
 Average per 
 
 log, for 
 
 eight years, 293 feet. 
 
 
 Year. 
 
 Feet Rafted. 
 
 Per Log. 
 
 Year. 
 
 Feet Rafted. 
 
 Per Log. 
 
 1849, 
 
 73,693,000 
 
 260 
 
 1854, 
 
 125,874,000 
 
 180 
 
 1850, 
 
 169,159,000 
 
 216 
 
 1855, 
 
 181,809,000 
 
 168 
 
 1851, 
 
 158,121,000 
 
 223 
 
 1856, 
 
 143,271,000 
 
 169 
 
 1852, 
 
 129,192,000 
 
 184 
 
 1857, 
 
 62,416,000 
 
 192 
 
 1853, 
 
 161,564,000 
 
 167 
 
 
 
 
 Average per log, for nine years, 196 feet. 
 
 On the nineteenth day of April, 1865, the people of the 
 town assembled to pay the last sad tribute of respect and 
 veneration to the memory of their late President, Abraham 
 Lincoln, who had fallen, in the zenith of his glory, by the 
 assassin's murderous hand, and listen to a discourse suited to 
 the occasion, by Rev. Professor Shepard, and had hardly re- 
 turned to their domicils, when a fire alarm roused them to 
 the knowledge that the most extensive fire, (which had caught 
 in the Rines block,) that had ever visited the town, was in 
 progress, and which, aided by a high wind, continued its de- 
 structive career until two churches, two school houses, one 
 block of mills containing six saws, a door and blind factory, 
 one railroad depot, and twenty-two dwellings were destroyed, 
 in value more than one hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 Naturally, some curiosity exists in the minds of many to 
 know who was the first child born on the territory of Old 
 Town. Unfortunately, both the record and the evidence is 
 'involved in a great deal of obscurity. 
 
EARLY EECORDS. 27 
 
 The foUowiugJs found upon the records of the town : 
 Hannah Lunt, born February 23, 1800. 
 Adah Tucker, born February 21, 1801. 
 Rebecca Tucker, born March 13, 1801. 
 Seth Orcut, born May 25, 1802. 
 Robert Averill, born August 7, 1805. 
 Harriet Averill, born December 12, 1806. 
 Jane Averill, born February 19, 1808. 
 Seth Averill, born November 14, 1808. 
 Betsey Averill, born November 14, 1809. 
 During the same period, there must have been a great ma- 
 ny other children born, of whom no public record has been 
 made. 
 
CHAPTER Vir. 
 
 CRADLE OF LIBEETY. 
 
 No history of Old Town would be complete that failed to 
 give, at least a passing notice to the old school house, famil- 
 iarly and universally known as the "Old Cradle of Liberty." 
 
 It was situated on Water street, next south of the Col. 
 Hoskins homestead, and well and worthily was the name 
 earned and bestowed. It was there, that under the inspir- 
 ing or depressing influence of the pedagogue, who, for the 
 time being wielded the sceptre of authority, that the young 
 ideas had the "liberty" to burst forth in all the brilliancy of 
 budding g^enius, or to lay dormant in all the pertinacity of 
 listless or idle stupidit}'. It was there, that the jack-knife 
 joiner had, or took the "liberty" of plying his trade in all its 
 branches, from the carved dog, lion, or jackall, up to the 
 noble elephant, or in more mechanical operations, as displayed 
 in more practical diagram of curved or parallel lines, the 
 desk forming a convenient easel, and the lumber of which 
 it was composed furnishing the material, without cost to the 
 artist. It was there, the pedagogue had "liberty" to instil 
 ideas into the opening mind of the pupil by any process, 
 which he deemed most likely in the end to prove successful, 
 whether it were by coaxing or by threatening, by flattery or 
 
CllADLE OlP LIBERTY. 29 
 
 blows, or by ridicale or denunciation. It was there, that 
 justices, in trials of note and of interest to the public, took 
 "liberty" to hold the scales of justice in attitude of menace 
 to the rogue, or in position of protection to innocence. It 
 was there, the inhabitants of the town, took the "liberty" to 
 hold their meetings for the discussii n and action upon 
 municipal affairs. 
 
 It was there, that lyceums took the " liberty " to discuss 
 and settle the great questions of the age, upon which hung 
 the fate and interest of succeeding generations for all com- 
 ing time. One of the questions discussed was of such over- 
 whelming importance, that it has entirely passed from mem- 
 ory. J. C. Bradbury was appointed disputant on one side, 
 and D. Norton on the other ; it is impossible to remember 
 which one was on the affirmative or negative, and judging 
 by the arguments, it may be doubtful if the disputants did. 
 Norton had been holding forth with such soaring eloquence, 
 that the eagle's flight, when compared with it, was but the 
 skip of the grasshopper. Bradbur}', instead of attempting 
 to reply to the arguments, sought to break their force by 
 ridicule, saying the gentleman put him in mind of a story, 
 which he begged the privilege of relating. " A hungry fox, 
 wiro was prowling about the country in search of food to 
 appease the gnawings of hunger, heard in the distance a cow 
 bell's tinkle ; it was new music to him, and wondering if 
 danger lurked in its merry jingle, his apprehension and 
 cariosity both conspired to urge him to investigate the matter; 
 and so traveling around in ever decreasing circles, as the 
 jackall approaches its intended victims, he in time came near 
 enough to enable him to look up into the bell ; quite sur- 
 prised at the simple contrivance, he turned away in disgust, 
 
30 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 mentally remarking to the bell, ' You have a noisy tongue, 
 but a very hollow head. ' " 
 
 Of course Norton was bound to have the last word — and 
 an episode in the doctor's life gave him the desired opportu- 
 nity, and for which he had been waiting the chance to venti- 
 late. The Misses Dalton had a dress making shop in the 
 front room, over the Hellenbrand store. The doctor had an 
 office in the same block, and went up the same stairway ; the 
 ladies being agreeable and chatty, it was natural that the 
 doctor should drop into their room occasionally for a social 
 chat. One day one of the sisters was absent, but there was 
 an old, decrepid, and rather homelj^ looking squaw in the 
 room, when Miss Dalton, hearing the doctor coming up the 
 stairs, and being in a sportive mood, thought to have some 
 fun at his expense, and placing the squaw on a chair in the 
 darkest corner of the room, covered her over with a cloak. 
 The doctor came in beaming all over with his usual fascinat- 
 ing smile, and seeing only Miss Dalton present, and she not 
 the enticing one, he asked where her sister was. Miss Dal- 
 ton said never a word, but nodded her head significantly to- 
 wards the corner. The doctor, perceiving that some one was 
 concealed there, took it as a challenge for a romp, and nothing 
 loth, supposing the hidden one to be the pretty Miss Dalton, 
 he dodged under the cloak, and at once proceeded to take 
 pay for his trouble by bestowing a buss upon the lips of the 
 unknown one that might outrival the report of a bursting 
 beer bottle. One can in some measure imagine the doctor \s 
 chagrin when the squaw threw off the cloak, with the re- 
 mark, "You kiss em squaw — think he Miss Dalton." Nor- 
 ton's application was in this wise : He remarked that if one 
 of the aborigines was present he would lend her his cloak, 
 
CRADLE OF LIBERTY. 31 
 
 aud he bad no doubt but the gentleman would play a farce 
 that would amuse them as much as the one he had just gone 
 through, and quite as much to his credit. It took the doctor 
 six months to get over the seeming affront. 
 
 It was here, that itinerant preachers took the "liberty" 
 to hold forth to listening crowds, the glorious truths of the 
 gospeh 
 
 It was a " liberty " that politicians took to gather there to 
 concoct schemes for personal aggrandizement and preferment, 
 or the furtherance of party interest. It was there that the 
 singing master had the " liberty " to teach the initiates their 
 do ra mi, and taught them the rise and fall of the scale, from 
 B flat to C sharp. 
 
 It was there the writing master taught the young pupils 
 the science of chirography, from pot hooks and trammels to 
 German text. 
 
 Dear old school house ! around thy memory yet lingers the 
 aroma of some of the happiest days of our early manhood, 
 when hope was most ardent, and young ambition looked 
 through the kaleidoscope of a bright and promising future. 
 It is most fitting that some token of thy remembrance should 
 be placed upon record, to carry the fact of j'our existence 
 down the lapse of time to generations yet unborn. 
 
 The last use made of the old house, was to hold the Sep- 
 tember election, in 1849 ; then for two or three years it was 
 a shelter for "lowing kine and groveling swine," and well 
 might one exclaim, "To what base uses ! " 
 
 Apropos of schools in Old Town village — in 1847 a new 
 school house was built on the lower side of Brunswick street. 
 
32 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 on a lot in exchange for the old lot, at an expense of twelve 
 hundred dollars, containing three rooms, two below and one 
 above. 
 
 From this time the schools were graded into four classes — 
 Primary, Intermediate, Grammar, and High schools. The 
 rapid increase in the number of scholars made more room 
 necessary, and in 1850 a second house was built in the south- 
 erly part of the village, with rooms for a Primary and an In- 
 termediate school ; and in 1852, a third house v> as erected on 
 Fourth street, near Asa DeWitt's, with a room in the lower 
 story for an Intermediate, and for a Grammar school above. 
 The scholars in the district now numbered over six hundred, 
 and a fourth house was erected on Treat & Webster's island, 
 chiefly to accommodate the French population. 
 
 In April, 1865, the Grammar school house was burned in 
 the great Lincoln fire, and has not been rebuilt. 
 
 In 1873, under the act creating free high schools, the 
 trustees of Union Academy transferred their property in Old 
 Town to School District No. 2, and the building was remod- 
 eled and repaired, at an expense of 12,300, and from that 
 time to 1879, when the free high school act was suspended, 
 the district raised annually the sum of #500, and received 
 from the state a like sum for the maintenance of such school. 
 
 The school so far has been very fortunate in its instructors, 
 many of its graduates entering the various colleges of the 
 state ; and in no instance has it come to my knowledge that 
 an applicant has been denied admission, or had conditions 
 precedent imposed upon his entry ; showing a verv thorough 
 and intelligent drill in the course of study. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 MILL PKOPEETY. 
 
 Shoes Mill — Upper Stillwater. 
 
 In the latter part of the eighteenth centurj^, General 
 Joseph Treat, who was the owner of large tracts of land in 
 the Ticinity, built a single saw mill on the west side of the 
 river at Upper Stillwater, on the site where the present mill 
 now stands. Like most mills built in those times, it was 
 slightly constructed, and soon went out of repair, and out of 
 use before 1808. 
 
 In 1833, the Orono Company built, on the same spot, a 
 block of mills containing five saws, beiug the first block on 
 the river under one roof. This mill passed through various 
 hands after 1841, as Hersey & Co., William Jameson, Gul- 
 lifer & Co., Moses Buck, Arthur B. Sutton, and others, until 
 in 1863, it met the common fate of mills, of being burnt, 
 after which it was rebuilt by Moses Buck and A. B. Sutton. 
 It finally went into the hands of William B. Hayford, who is 
 (1879,) the present proprietor. 
 East Side Mill — Upper Stillwater. 
 
 Before 1800, Joshua Fall built a single saw mill on the 
 west side of Marsh Island, at Upper Stillwater, on the front 
 of original lot No. 8j which afterwards went into the hands 
 
34 SKETCHES OP OLD TOWN. 
 
 of Mark Trafton, and John Bright. C. & S. Ramsdell, 
 about 1825, built two and a half more saws, and Thomas- A. 
 Hill built half a saw. The four saws were burned in 1832. 
 W. Jameson and others rebuilt in 1833-'34, extending the 
 mill to eight saws. There were various owners until 1835, 
 when the Orono Company bought the whole, except half a 
 saw owned by William McLellan, and held the property until 
 1842, when it was again burned. After that the saws were 
 gradually rebuilt, and in 1847, the whole eight saws had 
 been resurrected, passing through the hands of Hersey & 
 Co., Moses Buck, Dudley Hall, Hunt & Jameson, Chas. D. 
 Jameson, and George P. Sewall, to be destroyed by fire in 
 1864. The four outside saws were rebuilt in 1866 ; and two 
 years after, Joseph S. Smith became the owner, and in 
 that season, in connection with William T. Pearson, the four 
 shore saws were rebuilt, and kept partly in operation, but to 
 meet the old fate, destruction by fire, in 1878 ; and it is not 
 probable that they will ever be built over, as the decreased 
 extent of the lumber business, does not require so many 
 mills as formerly. 
 
 LowEE, Old Town Mills. 
 
 Early in the nineteenth century, William Dall built a dou- 
 ble saw miU at lower Old Town village, which soon after 
 went into the hands of Col. Eben Webster and his brother ; 
 and in 1817 they built another mill outside, and continued to 
 operate these mills until 1823, when they sold out and moved 
 to Lower Stillwater. These mills were burned in 1824, and 
 two or three years after were rebuilt by William Dall and 
 Thomas A. Hill. 
 
 In 1832, Edward Smith was the owner; Thayer, Jewett 
 & Dunlap held them from 1833 to 1835 ; and Richard Libbey 
 
MILL PEOPEBTY. 35 
 
 was proprietor from 1836 to 1839. They then went into the 
 hands of Lincoln, Foster & Co., who carried them on a cou- 
 ple of years, and in 1841 they were burned. 
 
 In 1845, Rufus Dwinel bought the privilege and erected 
 four saws, and in 1861 added a gang of saws outside, and 
 built an extensive door, sash and blind factory, and continued 
 to keep the whole in operation until the whole was burned 
 on Lincoln's funeral day, April 19, 1865. Dwinel rebuilt the 
 mills in 1866, and after his death in 1870, the Veazie heirs 
 bought the property for the purpose of putting an end to 
 vexatious law suits for damage on account of their mills 
 above. This mill, containing one gang and four single saws, 
 was burned again in 1877, and has not been rebuilt. 
 
 Treat & Webstee Island Mill. 
 
 Previous to 1824, John Roberts and William Ingalls built 
 a double saw mill at lower Old Town, on the island side. In 
 years after the mill was built, the water wore out a wide 
 channel between the mill and the island. John Roberts car- 
 ried on the mill several years. In 1833, one-half the mill 
 went into the ownership of Samuel Veazie — and his heirs 
 still own the privilege. The other half went into the hands 
 of Edward Blake, and its ownership since is to the writer 
 unknown. This mill did no business after 1832, and was 
 burned, with the shore mill, in 1841. 
 
 Great Works. 
 
 Dwinel, Sawyer & Co., erected a double mill at Great 
 Works, in 1833, and in 1834 built five more mills, in all cov- 
 ering twelve saws. These mills were carried on mostly by 
 Rufus Dwinel for over twenty years, until they were burned 
 in 1856. They were rebuilt under one roof, one-half in 1857, 
 and the rest in 1859, and contained ten saws, some being left 
 
86 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 out to make room for gang saws — and Dwinel continued to 
 carry them on until 1866, when they were again burned. 
 The privilege was then sold to other parties, and the mills 
 were rebuilt the same year. The property has passed through 
 several hands since, but now (1879) is owned wholly by Wil- 
 liam T. Pearson, Esq., of Bangor. 
 
 Washbtjen Block. 
 
 In 1833, a company for milling and manufacturing lumber, 
 was organized under the title of Orono Company, and it be- 
 came the owner of all the mill privileges and water power on 
 both sides of the river at Upper Stillwater, except the privi- 
 lege for half a saw, owned by William McLellan. The Com- 
 pany erected several blocks of mills, and among others, the 
 "Washburn Block," so called, in honor of the individual 
 who superintended its construction ; it contained six saws, 
 although two of them, after a few years, were taken out, to 
 be replaced by machinery for the manufacture of short lum- 
 ber. The Company occupied the mills in the manufacture of 
 lumber until 1841, since which time various parties have been 
 more or less interested in their ownership, viz : Samuel F. 
 Hersey, Moses Buck, Dudley Hall, Joseph Milliken, D. & R. 
 8. Morrison, Thomas Harlow, William Cousens, and others. 
 The mill was usually employed when there was sufficient 
 water in the river, but on account of the want of water it 
 was obliged to lay idle so much of the year as to detract very 
 much from its value ; and when, in 1863, it was destroyed by 
 fire, it was not thought worth while to rebuild. At that time 
 lumber manufacturers were turning their attention to and 
 putting their capital into steam mills farther down river. 
 This block of mills was on the west side of the river, outside 
 of the " Shore Block," so called. 
 
MILL PKOPEETY. o7 
 
 Godfrey Block:, 
 
 This Was another block of mills built by the Orono Com- 
 pany in 1834, outside of the Washburn Block, and obtained 
 its name from the architect who built it. It contained six 
 saws under one roof. The privilege was not a favorable one, 
 and from that cause, was the first mill upon the river to go 
 out of use. 
 
 The Company carried on this mill until 1841, when there 
 was a change of ownership, since which time, there has been 
 frequent changes of proprietorship, and amongst them, will 
 be found Hersey & Co., GuUifer & Co., Moses Buck, Ayer & 
 Dyer, William H. Smith, Timothy Walker, R. B. Austin, 
 P. B. & J. M. Davis, W. T. & H. Pierce, William Cousens, and 
 others, who carried on the mill up to 1866, when it became 
 so dilapidated as to be unfit for use. I<fc laid idle for several 
 years, some of its timbers furnishing fire-wood for the neigh- 
 borhood, until it was consumed by fire in 1875, thus putting 
 an end to the depredations. 
 
 Cooper Mills. 
 
 J. N. & A. Cooper erected a block of saw mills at Pushaw 
 village, in 1835, containing one gang and three single saws, 
 with machinery for the manufacture of the vaiious kinds of 
 short lumber. This company continued to run the mills until 
 1852, then sold to Spencer, Gilmau & Co., who carried them 
 on until 1858, when the property passed into the hands of 
 Geoi'ge K. Jewett, who, in 1861, sold the property to 
 Samuel B. Gilman, the present owner (1879.) The erection 
 of these mills started up a smart little village of some dozen 
 houses, and for many j^ears its precincts were merry with the 
 busy hum of industry and enterprise ; but of late years, with 
 the depression in the lumber business, there has not been 
 
38 SKETCHES OP OLD TOWjr. 
 
 sufficient inducement, in the shape of profits from the invest- 
 ment, to keep up the repairs upon the mill and dam ; and in 
 1877, the whole of the main dam was carried away, and the 
 expense of repairing the mill, and rebuilding the dam, would 
 be more than the property is worth, more especially as the 
 canal by the falls at Upper Stillwater, through which the 
 lumber was run to market, has been closed up for want of 
 support. 
 Steam Mill. 
 
 In 1836, Samuel Godfrey built a steam mill on the front of 
 lot No. 21, just below Grass Island, and the spot has ever 
 since retained the name of " Steam Mill Point. " It had 
 the capacity of two saws, and from its location had the 
 promise of doing a good business, but in the fall of 1837, it 
 was burned down, so crippling the owner's capital, that it 
 was not rebuilt. 
 Shad Rips. 
 
 In 1839, Edward and Samuel Smith, erected a mill at 
 Shad Rips, on the east side of Treat & Webster's Island, 
 with three saws. One peculiarity of its construction, was 
 the method taken to obtain power, which was by a water 
 wheel, extended across a sluice, outside of the mill, so con- 
 structed that it could be raised or lowered, to accommodate 
 any pitch of water, and was turned by the current, as it 
 flowed under the wheel. It was a novelty, and never did 
 much business. In 1842, it went into the ownership of 
 Samuel L. Hunt, and in that year it was destroyed by fire. 
 Poetee's Mill. 
 
 In 1843, Cyrus Moore, having an interest in a large tract 
 of land in the north part of the town, with intent to enhance 
 its value, built a mill on Pushaw stream, near the north line 
 
MILL PKOPEKTY. 39 
 
 of the town, containing two saws, and continued to operate 
 the mill until 1846, when it went into the hands of the Mar- 
 ket Bank, which, in 1848, sold to Pierson, Fletcher & Co., 
 who carried it on some five years, and in 1853 sold to Richard 
 S. Porter, who (1879) is the present owner. 
 
 There were large quantities of lumber of various kinds, 
 on the stream above the mill, and about Pushaw lake, but it 
 has been mostly cut off, and on that account, and the great 
 length of the dam to be kept in repair, the tendency alto- 
 gether is to make the property of little value. 
 
 Steasi Mill — Upper Stillwatee. 
 
 C. F. Hamblen, Geo. Lancaster, and others, in 1870-'71, 
 erected an extensive steam mill at Upper Stillwater, costing 
 more than sixty thousand dollars, containing one gang and 
 three single saws, with other machinery for the manufacture 
 of various kinds of short lumber. It was constructed with a 
 great deal of care, and for a saw mill is a model of architect- 
 ure ; it was run but a few weeks, and since that time has laid 
 idle. 
 
 The ownership is now in the hands of the Hinckley & 
 Egery Iron Company, and they have been 'in expectation of 
 taking it down, and reconstructing it in some more favorable 
 locality. 
 
 The E. & N. A. R'y Company ran a branch track to the 
 mill, to take the lumber to market, but as the mill has done 
 nothing, the track has been taken up. 
 
 Chapman Steam Mill. 
 
 Thomas M. Chapman, in 1865, erected a steam mill which 
 is still in existence and under his management. It is supplied 
 with machinery for doing all kinds of iron work except some 
 
40 SKETCHES OE OLD TOWN. 
 
 of the heavier pieces. There is connected with the mill a 
 shingle machine, planer, stave dressing machine, and all the 
 appliances of a machine shop. Mr. Chapman has invented 
 several machines which are worthy of notice. His saw filing 
 machine, patented in 1872, is yet without a successful rival, 
 and the hundreds of them manufactured by him, are not only 
 in use in all the states of the Union, but also in Canada, 
 South America, England, and in far off Australia ; and the 
 demand for them is without limit, except by the number of 
 mills which need them. His stave dressing machine is a 
 wonderful production of mechanical skill and inventive gen- 
 ius, and meets a want long labored under, but heretofore un- 
 satisfied. It consists of simple machinery so arranged as to 
 make the bevel upon the edge of the stave, whether wide or 
 narrow, an exact radius from the centre of the barrel ; and 
 the middle and ends of the stave are so varied as to conform 
 with the necessary radius, and do not require planing, but 
 make a perfect joint from end to end of the stave when set 
 up. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 RIVER STEAMERS— TAIWERY— UNION ACADEMY. 
 
 RrvEE Steamees. 
 
 One of the most interesting reminiscences is connected 
 with the little stern wheel steamers which used to ply so bus- 
 ily between Old Town and Winn, adding so much to the 
 convenience of doing business upon the river, taking up or 
 landing passengers at any point along the shores where busi- 
 ness or pleasure called them ; and it really seemed some- 
 times, as though they put themselves in the most inaccessible 
 out of the way places, on purpose to try the skill of the 
 pUot, or the patience of the captain. No method of trans- 
 portation has been so much missed by the Penobscot people 
 as this ; it was so completely suited to the lumbering business, 
 putting men and freight just when and where they were 
 wanted. The first steamer was built in the winter of 1847-'8, 
 and the author had the pleasure of coming on her from the 
 boom, on her trial trip, and well remembers that John God- 
 dard was aboard, and claimed the privilege, and was allowed 
 to exhibit his skill as pilot part of the way. She was named 
 the " Gov. Neptune," in honor of John Neptune, governor 
 of the Penobscot tribe of Indians. Some little Indians, 
 desiring to take a pleasure trip up the river, when called 
 6 
 
42 SKETCHES OF OUD TOWN, 
 
 upon to pay their fare, pointing to the name upon the steamer, 
 replied, " He my grandfather." This boat was built under 
 a charter from the legislature of the State of Maine, to 
 Wyman B. S. Moore, and William Moore, giving them the 
 exclusiYB right of navigating the Penobscot river, between 
 Old Town and Mattawamkeag, for twenty-five years, condi- 
 tioned and requiring certain improvements to be made upon 
 the river, to facilitate the navigation. 
 
 In 1849, General Veazie, under the impression that the 
 corporators had forfeited their' exclusive privilege, by not 
 making the required improvements, built a steamer of larger 
 size, and more power, and put her on the river in opposition. 
 She was named the " Gov. Dana," in honor of the Governor 
 of the state. She ran through the season. The corporators 
 sued Veazie for an infringement of their charter, and the 
 court held that the charter was valid, and that the Company 
 had twenty-five years in which to make the required improve- 
 ments. 
 
 The " Gov. Dana " was taken into pieces, put on board the 
 barque " Rio Grande," sent around Cape Horn to California, 
 rebuilt at San Francisco, adding twenty feet to the length, 
 and run for years upon the Sacramento river, and continued 
 to run, until, like the boy's jack-knife, from continual changes 
 and repairs, not a particle of the original structure remained. 
 Perhaps the sign board should be excepted, and that had 
 been repainted several times, and the cylinders. 
 
 The Moores built, as the increasing business and natural 
 decay of the older boats required, three other boats, named 
 respectively in the order of structure, the " Mattanawcook," 
 " Sam Houston," and " Wm. N. Ray," and continued to run 
 their boats until 1858, when they sold their property and 
 
TANNERY — UNION ACADEMY. 43 
 
 franchise to William H. Smith and others. The new owners 
 in course of time, built two more boats, the "John A. 
 Peters," and the " Lizzie Smith." The latter being a boat 
 of smaller dimension. 
 
 In 1867, the European and North American Railway Com- 
 pany bought out the interest of the Steamboat Company, to 
 save the opposition to their road, and took the steamers oif 
 from the route below the Mattawamteag. Since that time 
 some of the tanneries above that point have continued to run 
 a boat part of each season, for the purpose of transporting 
 bark and other supplies. 
 
 Tannery. 
 
 William Jameson came here in 1825, and bought a tannery 
 previously erected by Abner Dearborn, on Brunswick street, 
 opposite the Wadleigh House. He carried it on some seven 
 years, and sold out to Jacob Merrill, who kept it for a few 
 years, when it went down for want of support or the right 
 kind of energy. The building up of large tanneries has been 
 the death blow to the small tanneries which used to dot the 
 land in almost every town of the state. For several years the 
 building stood unoccupied, when about 1845, the people of 
 the village pretending to be apprehensive of fire, took it up- 
 on themselves, in the form of a lawless mob, to tear it down, 
 and thus ended the only tannery enterprise in Old Town. 
 
 Union Academy. 
 
 In 1849, Samuel Pratt, Silas Stowe, Solomon Moulton, 
 Samuel H. Merrill, Lorenzo Leadbetter, Rufus D. Folsom, E. 
 B. Pierce, William H. Smith, and others, were incorporated 
 under the name of " Union Academy, Old Town," and erect- 
 ed the buildings as seen upon "Science Hill." The corpora- 
 
 A 
 
44 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 tion received a grant of half a township of land from the 
 State, which sold for four thousand dollars, as an endowment 
 fund. The school was kept going about three years. Thomas 
 Tash was the principal, and although a finished scholar and a 
 successful teacher, was not able to keep the school up to a 
 prosperous condition. Although the price of tuition was as 
 low as at other academies, the price of board here was neces- 
 sarily so much higher than in the country, that persons out 
 of the town could not afford to come here, and the school 
 was thus limited to students residing in the vicinity, who 
 were not sufficiently numerous to sustain it. After Mr. Tash, 
 Mr. Ludden kept a private school about two years, since 
 which time the building has been used by District No. 2, for 
 an Intermediate school. In 1873, the property was trans- 
 ferred to School District No. 2, by the trustees, under the 
 free high school act. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 OROXO — MUXICIPAL— FINANCIAL— POLITICAL— 1806 TO 1839. 
 
 Orono was incorporated March. 12, 1806, the act of incor- 
 poration being approved by Caleb Strong, then Governor of 
 Massachusetts. Richard Winslow, a Justice of the Peace, 
 living at Old Town village, issued a warrant for the meeting 
 to organize the new town, to be held at the house of Capt. 
 David Reed, in Stillwater village, on the 7th day of April, 
 A. D. 1806. 
 
 There is no record of any vote by the town accepting the 
 act of incorporation, but the action of the town was equiva- 
 lent to such a vote. The limits of the town were as follows : 
 "Beginning at the north-east corner of Bangor, on the Pe- 
 nopscot river — thence by the north-east line of Bangor, until 
 it meets the south-east corner of township number one, on the 
 second range ; then north, on the east line of township num- 
 ber one, on Pushaw pond, to the north-east corner of said 
 number one ; thence north, to the north-west corner of the 
 second quarter of township four; thence east to Penopscot 
 river, at the north-east corner of the second quarter of town- 
 ship number four ; thence by a line drawn on the middle of 
 the eastern channel of Penopscot river, so as to include the 
 whole of the island called Marsh's Island, to the bound first 
 mentioned." 
 
46 SKKTCHES OP OLD TOWN. 
 
 The inhabitants of Orono claimed the east line of the 
 town was in the deepest channel, over the Old Town falls, 
 and that it was east of the small islands near the Milford 
 shore, and the assessors of Orono taxed those islands, in 
 their tax bills of 1831, and after the eight saws were erected 
 in 1833, on the west side of the sluice, taxed them also. 
 
 This led to .a controversy about the town line, and the 
 inhabitants of Milford, at the October term of the Supreme 
 Judicial Court, 1835, presented a petition, asking the Court 
 to establish the line between the towns. 
 
 The Court appointed Thornton McGaw, Jedediah Herrick, 
 and Levi Bradley, as a board of commissioners, to examine 
 and report upon the matter, and their report, so far as the 
 point in controversy, was as follows : " Beginning at the 
 north-easterly corner of Orono, (south-east corner of Ar- 
 gyle,) in the middle of the Penobscot rivtr, thence down 
 the middle of said river, over Jo Pease Falls, to near the foot 
 of Old Town Island; thence down the river, between Shad 
 Island and Johnson Rock, and between Island No. 2, (Goat 
 Island,) and Island No. 3, and down the middle of the river 
 to the south line of Milford." 
 
 The report was accepted by the Court, and thus established 
 the line between the towns of Orono (now Old Town,) and 
 Milford. 
 
 In these sketches are noticed only those persons elected to 
 office, whose residence was within the present limits of Old 
 Town. 
 
 1806. Richard Winslow and Moses Averill were upon 
 the first board of Selectmen. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $75 ; for schools, nothing ; 
 for highways, f 1,000, to be paid in labor. 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTOET. 47 
 
 The vote for Governor vras — for James Sullivan, 40 ; Caleb 
 Strong, 5, William Heath, 1 — those names representing the 
 Republican and Federalist parties — Maine always being Re- 
 publican in politics. 
 
 1807. April 6. Raised for contingent expenses, |200 ; 
 schools, 1200 ; minister $50 ; roads, in labor, $1,000. 
 
 Accepted Richard Winslow's bill for services, $16.33. 
 Accepted a road from Old Town falls, (Blagden's ferry,) to 
 Andrew "Webster's ferry. Accepted a road from Pushaw 
 stream, to the bridge near Francis Wyman. 
 
 On the question of separation from Massachusetts — yeas, 
 37 ; nay, 1. 
 
 For Governor — James Sullivan, 45; Caleb Strong, 5. 
 
 1808. April 4. Chose Moses Averill, Clerk. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $100 ; schools, $50 ; roads, 
 to be paid in labor, $750. 
 
 For Governor — James Sullivan, 39 ; Christopher Gore, 12. 
 
 1809. April 3. Chose Moses Averill, Clerk and Select- 
 man. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $150 ; schools, $200 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $1,500. 
 
 For Governor — Levi Lincoln, 22 ; Christopher Gore, 22. 
 
 1810. AprU 2. Chose Moses Averill, Clerk ; Moses 
 AveriU and Jackson Davis, Selectmen. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $150; for schools, $200; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $1,500. 
 
 For Governor — Elbridge Gerry, 26 ; Christopher Gore, 20. 
 Population, 351. 
 
 1811. April 1. Chose Moses Averill, Clerk; Jackson 
 Davis and Moses Averill, Selectmen. 
 
48 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, flOO; schools, nothing; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, |1,000. 
 
 For Governor — Elbridge Gerry, 27 ; Christopher Gore, 21. 
 
 1812. March 17. Chose Moses AveriU, Clerk ; Moses 
 Averill and Jackson Davis, Selectmen. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, 1150 ; for schools, $-300 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $1,000. 
 
 For Governor — Elbridge Gerry, 27 ; Caleb Strong, 17. 
 
 1813. April 5. Chose Moses Averill, Clerk and Select- 
 man. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $350 ; for schools, $150 ; 
 roads, to be expended in labor, $1,000. 
 
 For Governor — Caleb Strong, 24 ; Joseph B. Varnum, 23. 
 
 1814. April 4. Chose Moses Averill, Clerk and Select- 
 man. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $150 ; for schools, $150 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $800. 
 
 For Governor— Caleb Strong, 14; Samuel Dexter, 21. 
 
 Accepted road from Carr Averill's up to the town line. 
 
 At this time the British were in possession of the town of 
 Bangor, and had required the citizens to give up their arms 
 and be paroled under the rules of war. A town meeting was 
 held to consider the situation, and it was voted, " That we 
 choose a committee to make enquiry and to find out the in- 
 tentions of the British towards the inhabitants of this town, 
 and if it appears to them that they intend to invade this town, 
 to report the same to the inhabitants, and also to have author- 
 ity to call the inhabitants together at the shortest notice pos- 
 sible, to determine what method shall be taken for the pres- 
 ervation of the persons and property of said town." Chose 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 49 
 
 Capt. Eben Webster, William Coburn, Jr., and Samuel White, 
 Esq., committee. There is no record that the committee ever 
 made any report. 
 
 For Governor — Caleb Strong, 12 ; Samuel Dexter, 27. 
 
 1815. April 3. Chose Moses Averill, Clerk and Select- 
 man. 
 
 Raised for contingent .expenses, |150; for schools, $150; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $1,000. 
 
 Voted, that Jackson Davis and Eben Webster draw what 
 school money they pay, and appropriate it in a school for 
 their own children. 
 
 For Governor — Caleb Strong, 12 ; Samuel Dexter, 27. 
 
 1816. April 1. Raised for contingent expenses, $150; 
 schools, $600 ; school house, $150 ; roads, to be paid in labor, 
 
 - $700. 
 
 Voted a discount of H per cent, on taxes paid within thirty 
 days. 
 
 On the question of separation from Massachusetts — in May, 
 yea, 16 ; nay, 4. Another vote, in August — yea, 8 ; nay, 5. 
 
 For Governor — Samuel Dexter, 24 ; John Brooks, 15. 
 
 1817. April 7. Raised for contingent expenses, $200; 
 schools, $300 ; roads, to be paid in labor, $750. 
 
 For Governor — William Philips, 19 ; William King, 18. 
 
 1818. April 9. Raised for contingent expenses, $400 ; 
 schools, $300; roads, to be paid in labor, $1,000. 
 
 Voted a bounty on crows, 25 cents. 
 
 For Governor — John Brooks, 12; Benjamin W. Crowning- 
 shield, 19. 
 
 7 
 
50 SKETCHES OP OLD TOAYN". 
 
 1819. April 5. Chose Moses Averill, Selectman. 
 Raised for coutingent expenses, $200 ; for schools, fSOO ; 
 
 roads, to be paid in labor, fl,000. 
 
 For Governor — John Brooks, 12 ; B. W. Crowningshield, 
 23. 
 
 On the question of separation from Massachusetts — yea,, 4 ; 
 nay, 19. For delegate to frame constitution, Jackson Davis 
 had 25, all the votes cast. On the question of adopting the 
 constitution — yea, 25; nay, none. 
 
 1820. April 3. For the first time, the Constable who 
 posted notices for the annual meeting, is directed "In the 
 name of the State of Maine," to warn, &c. 
 
 Chose Moses Averill, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, #300 ; for schools, '$300 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, 1750. 
 
 For Governor — William King, 15 ; scattering, 3. 
 Population, 415. 
 
 1821. April 2. Chose Moses Averill, Selectman. 
 Raised for contingent expenses, f 400 ; for schools, $250; 
 
 roads, to be paid in labor, -¥650. 
 
 For Governor — Albion K. Parris, 38 ; Joshua Wingate, 
 13; Ezekiel Whitman, 6. 
 
 1822. April 1. Chose Moses Averill, Selectman. 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $300 ; for schools, 1250 ; 
 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $1,000. 
 
 For Governor — Albion K. Parris, 18; Ezekiel Whitman, 
 24. 
 
 1823.. April 7. Chose J\Ioses Averill, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $325 ; for schools, $170 ; 
 breaking roads last two winters, $200 ; roads, to be paid in 
 labor, $1,000. 
 
MUXlCirAL HISTOUY. 51 
 
 For Governor— A. K. Parris, 38; E. Whitman, 12; D. 
 Wilbins, 1. 
 
 1824. March 8. Chose Dar.iel Davis, Seiectmau. 
 Raised for contingent expenses, #375; schools, #200; 
 
 pound, #50; road doomed by court, #350; roads, to be paid 
 in labor, #1,000. 
 
 Accepted road from Daniel White's to Fall's mill. 
 
 Voted to build a town house, but raised no mone^'. 
 
 For Governor — William King, 74; Albion K. Parris, 20. 
 
 1825. April 4. Chose Moses Averill, Clerk; Thomas 
 Bartlett and Moses Averill, Selectmen. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, #500 ; schools, #200 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, #2,000. 
 
 For Governor — James Irish, 41 ; Enoch Lincoln, 7 ; Joshua 
 Cushman, 9; scattering, 5. Three meetings to choose Rep- 
 resentative. 
 
 1826. April 3. Chose Moses Aveiill, Clerk; Thomas 
 Bartlett, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, #500 ; schools, #300 ; 
 hearse, #120 ; roads, to be paid in labor ; #2,000. 
 
 For Governor — Enoch Lincoln, 87 ; Allen Gilman, 1. 
 
 1827. Chose Thomas Bartlett, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, #800 ; for schools, #200 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, #2,000. 
 
 For Governor — Enoch Lincoln, 73; scattering, 1. Three 
 meetings were held to choose Representative. 
 
 1828. Chose Moses Averill and Thomas Bartlett, Select- 
 men. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, #500 ; for schools, #700 ; 
 cemetery, #100 ; roads, to be paid in labor, #1,500 ; road from 
 Upper Stillwater to Old Town, #400. 
 
52 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 For Governor — Enoch Lincoln, 64 ; John Holmes, 17 ; 
 scattering, 5. For President — John Q. Adams, 107 ; Andrew- 
 Jackson, 44. For Representative — Edward Kent, 107; scat- 
 tering, 1. 
 
 1829. Chose Thomas Bartlett, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, f500 ; for schools, $700 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $1,500. 
 
 Bounds of school districts rearranged. 
 
 For Governor — J. G. Hunton, 107 ; Samuel E. Smith, 77 ; 
 scattering, 1. There were two meetings to choose Repre- 
 sentative. 
 
 1830. Chose Thomas Bartlett, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $1,650 ; for schools, $400 ; 
 cemetery at Old Town, $100 ; roads, to be paid in labor, 
 $1,500. 
 
 Voted, that the license board be authorized to grant licenses 
 to retailers of wine, rum, and other spirituous liquors, to be 
 drank in their shops. 
 
 A meeting was called in regard to a division of the town. 
 A committee of three was chosen to recommend apian of di- 
 vision. Being all Stillwater men, they reported : — Begin at 
 the south-east corner of lot No. 6 ; thence west to the middle 
 of Stillwater river ; thence up the river to the north line of 
 the Barker tract; thence west to the town line. 
 
 For Governor — Samuel E. Smith, 183; J. G. Hunton, 
 103. 
 
 Population, 1,473. 
 
 1831. Chose Thomas Bartlett, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $700 ; for schools, $600 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $2,000. 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 5-3 
 
 Laid out and accepted a road from the old County road to 
 the Milford bridge, the bridge corporation giving a bond to 
 build and keep said road in repair, and pay all damages on 
 account of it. 
 
 Voted, that the license board grant licenses to retail spirit- 
 uous liquor, same as in 1830. 
 
 For Governor — Samuel E. Smith, 228 ; Daniel Goodenow, 
 101 ; scattering, 1. 
 
 1832. Chose Thomas Bartlett, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $700 ; schools, .$600 ; road 
 from Old Town to Upper Stillwater, $600 ; bridge at Pushaw, 
 $500; roads, to be paid in labor, $2,500. 
 
 Accepted a road from Old Town to Upper Stillwater. 
 
 Voted, not to grant licenses to sell liquor. 
 
 For Governor — Samuel E. Smith, 229: Daniel Goodenow, 
 133 ; scattering, 2. 
 
 For President — no record. 
 
 1833. Chose Moses Averill, Selectman, 
 
 Raised for, contingent expenses, $700 ; for schools, $1,000; 
 road from Old Town to Upper Stillwater, $300 ; roads, to be 
 paid in labor, $1500. 
 
 Voted, not to raise money to build the road from Old 
 Town to Stillwater bridge, (new County road, so called,) as 
 laid out by the County Commissioners in 1832. Subsequent- 
 ly the Court appointed Ira Wadleigh, agent, who let out the 
 work to one McDonald, and the work not being satisfactorjs 
 was not accepted. The town, thinking to mend the matter, 
 took some action in 1836, and thus became liable to the con- 
 tractor, and had to pay him. The matter was not settled 
 until after the division of the town. 
 
54 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 For Governor— Robert P. Dunlap, 226; Daniel Goodenow, 
 107; scattering, 22. 
 
 1834. Chose Moses Averill and Henry Richardson, Se- 
 lectmen. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, 1900 ; for schools, |1,600 ; 
 cemetery at Old Town, 1100; roads, to be paid in labor, 
 $2,000. 
 
 Support of poor, put up at auction, and bid off at |400. 
 
 Voted, that the license board grant licenses to retail rum, 
 brandy, and other spirituous liquors, in their shops. 
 
 For Governor — Robert P. Dunlap, 423; Peleg Sprague, 
 147. 
 
 1835. Chose Ira Wadleigh, Selectman. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, f 1,600; for schools, 
 •i=2,000 ; roads, to be paid in labor, $2,500. 
 
 Voted not to raise money for the new County road, or the 
 Birch Stream road. To accept the road from Eben Webster's 
 to Upper Stillwater. To accept a free bridge across the river 
 at Lower Stillwater. 
 
 For Governor— Robert P. Dunlap, 334 ; William King, 201. 
 
 1836. Chose H. Richardson, A. W. Ivennedj^ and Benj. 
 Sliaw, Selectmen. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, §1,200; schools, 11,000; 
 hearse and hearse house at Oldtown, f-300. 
 
 Voted to hire $10,000 for making and repairing highways. 
 Accepted road from Old Town to Pashaw village. Chose a 
 committee to procure a town farm. Accepted road from A. 
 Jones' to new County road. Great Works. 
 
 For Governor — R. P. Dunlap, 436 ; Edward Kent, 284. 
 For Representative — Eli Hoskins, 316; J. Sinclair, 294; John 
 Shaw, 103 ; scattering, 14. The second trial resulted — for 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 55 
 
 Hoskias, 347; Sinclair, 60; Shaw, 457; scatteiiog, 7. For 
 President— Martin Van Buren, 144 ; Henry Clay, 81. 
 
 1837. Chose W. T. Hilliard, T. J. Washburn, J. Hatch- 
 ings, Jr., Selectmen. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses and poor, 13,500 : schools, 
 $2,000 ; roads, to be paid in labor, |4,000. 
 
 Voted to receive the surplus revenue. Accepted road at 
 Old Town. Accepted road from old to new County road, by 
 the burying ground. Voted to build a poor house. To di- 
 vide the surplus revenue per capita. 
 
 For Governor — Edward Kent, 41 L; Gorham Parks, 309. 
 For Representative — E. Webster, 4-34; S. Cony, 139; scat- 
 tering, 204. 
 
 The period from 1830 to 1837, was rife with the mania for 
 land speculation ; and doubtless more persons in Old Town 
 village, in proportion to the population, engaged in it than in 
 any other portion of the countr}'. The excitement ran high, 
 and many made fortunes out of the opportunitj^ Some of 
 them, however, in the panic of 1837, dissolved into thin air. 
 The hard times prevented many from meeting their engage- 
 ments, much of the business being done by paper, on time — 
 and the whole fabric, like a row of bricks, came tumbline 
 back one upon another, ruining every one who had taken pa- 
 per in lieu of cash payment in their speculating transactions. 
 
 1838. Chose John Hutchings, Jr., Francis Carr, Jeffer- 
 son Sinclair, and George 0. Brastow, Selectmen. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses and poor, $5,000 ; schools, 
 $2,500 ; roads, to be paid in labor, $1,000. 
 
 Accepted road — (see book 2, page 152, town records.) 
 
56 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 For Governor— J. Fairfield, 383 ; E. Kent, 353 ; F. O. J. 
 Smith, 18. For Representative, R. W. Freese, 385 ; E. Web- 
 ster, 346 ; scattering, 20. 
 
 1839. Cliose A. W. Kennedy, Selectman. 
 Raised for contingent expenses and poor, $10,000 ; schools, 
 •11,000 ; roads, to be paid in labor, $2,000. 
 
 Accepted the free bridge at Lower Stillwater. 
 
 For Governor — J. Fairfield, 376 ; Edward Kent, 302. For 
 Representative — A. W. Kenned}^ 372 ; M. Averill, 275 ; 
 scattering, 27. 
 
 Chose a committee to agree upon a line of division of the 
 town — Benj. Shaw, Levi Hamblen, John B. Smith, Nathan! 
 Treat, I. Washburn, Jr., I. Wadleigh, Joshua Lunt, Jr. — 
 who subsequently reported the line which was embodied into 
 the act of separation. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 OLD TOWN— MUNICIP.AX— FINANCIAL— POLITICAL— 
 1840 TO 1859. 
 
 1840. For several years there had been a growing feeling 
 of jealousy and rivalry, between the inhabitants of the vil- 
 lages of Old Town and Stillwater, as there is apt to be in 
 different villages in one town. Until 1836, the preponder- 
 ance of population and property had been with Stillwater 
 village, and although several attempts had been made to 
 divide the town, having the power in their own hands, no 
 eq^uitable division of the town could be had; but now, when 
 the controlling power had passed from their grasp, and they 
 wished to escape from the domination of Old Town village, 
 they were ready to, and did agree to a fair and proper divis- 
 ion of the territory of the town — and the following was 
 adopted as the division line : 
 
 Beginning at the Penobscot river, on the south line of lot 
 No. 1, according to Park Holland's survey, thence west to 
 the centre of Marsh Island ; thence north, by the centre line, 
 to the north line of lot No. 5 ; thence west to Stillwater 
 river; thence across said river to the north line of Ard 
 Godfrey's lot, (settlers' lot No. 23) ; thence west, by the 
 north line of said Godfrey lot, and continued to the south 
 line of the Barker tract; thence west by the south line 
 
58 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 of said tract, to Pushaw late ; thence across the lake to lot 
 letter A ; thence by the shore of the lake to the west line of 
 Orono — all north of said line to compose the territory of 
 Old Town, which was incorporated March 16, 1840. 
 
 The meeting to organize the town, was called, and met 
 March 26, 1840, which was within the thirty days required 
 by law, for a statute to take effect, and of course the pro- 
 ceedings of the meeting were null and void ; but the next 
 winter, the legislature passed a healing act to make valid 
 the doings of the town. 
 
 Chose Niran Bates, Moderator ; John H. Hilliard, Clerk ; 
 Samuel Cony, Joshua Wood, Samuel Pratt, Selectmen ; Asa 
 Smith, Treasurer; John B. Smith, Collector — li per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, f 1,200 ; schools, $400 ; 
 poor, $750 ; debt, $4,000 ; roads, to be paid in labor, $500. 
 
 Wm. Ramsdell, Representative. 
 
 For Governor — John Fairfield, 195 ; Edward Kent, 196. 
 For President — Van Buren, 183 ; Harrison, 161. 
 
 Population, 2,345. 
 
 1841. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator; Chas. Blanch- 
 ard, Clerk; Samuel Cony, Joshua Wood, Samuel Pratt, Se- 
 lectmen; Benj. Cushman, Treasurer; Lore Alford, Collector 
 — i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $1,600 ; schools, $950 ; 
 poor, $700; Orson Island road, $1,300 ; roads, to be paid in 
 labor, $600. 
 
 Voted to license persons to sell ardent spirits, and chose a 
 committee to see that those licensed kept within the law. 
 
 For Governor— J. Fairfield, 265 ; E. Kent, 78 ; John Otis, 
 53 ; scattering, 2. Upon the sixth trial, George P. Sewall 
 was chosen Representative, 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. , 59 
 
 This year arrangement was made with Devereux & Mer- 
 rill for an extension of time on this town's proportion of the 
 Orouo debt, it being $6,600. 
 
 1842. Chose David Norton, Moderator; C. Blanchard, 
 Clerk ; Sam'l D. Hasty, Jos. H. Reed, Luther Stone, Select- 
 men ; John Ptigby, Treasurer; Lore Alford, Collector— 3 per 
 cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, .|800 ; schools, $950 ; poor, 
 $500; Orson Island road, $200 ; roads, to be paid in labor, 
 *1,200. 
 
 Accepted Brunswick street, from Upper Stillwater road to 
 Brown street. Voted to build a plank sidewalk from the 
 Wadleigh House to Brown street ; and on Brown street, to 
 Brunswick street. Voted not to admit Moor tract from Ar- 
 gyle — and yet, notwithstanding the opposition of the inhab- 
 itants to the measure, the legislature annexed the tract to 
 Old Town. And looking back through the lapse of thirty- 
 six years, one can easily perceive that the tract, containing 
 two thousand acres or more, has been a source of profit, ra- 
 ther than an expense — the taxes paid upon the land more 
 than paying all expenditures on account of it. 
 
 For Governor — J. Fairfield, 254; E. Robinson, 121 ; Jas. 
 Appleton, 33. Ira Wadleigh, Representative. 
 
 1843. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator; C. Blanchard, 
 Clerk ; Sam'l D. Hasty, Jos. TI. Reed, Luther Stone, Select- 
 men ; John Rigby Treasurer; Lore Alford, Collector — 1 per 
 cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $1,200; for schools, $950; 
 poor, $500 ; Orson Island road, $250 ; roads, $950 ; new 
 County road, $360. 
 
 Voted to license one person to sell spirituous liquors for 
 
60 SKETCHES OE OLD TOWN. 
 
 medical and mechanical purposes. Accepted Brown, Centre, 
 and Wood streets. Mill street, at Upper Stillwater, and 
 street running south from Mill street. Street from Church 
 street to Benj. Rideout's. Church street, and Third street, 
 by H. R. Soper's. Brunswick street, from Brown street to 
 Hollis Broad's. Middle street, from river to Church street. 
 
 For Governor — Edward Robinson, 93; Edward Kavanagh, 
 18; James Appleton, 41; Hugh J. Anderson, 181. On the 
 seventh trial, chose Isaac F. Buzzell, Representative. 
 
 1844. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator; C. Blanchard, 
 Clerk; J. H. Hilliard, Samuel McLellan, N. Godfrey, Select- 
 men ; John Rigby, Treasurer ; Sam'l Pratt, Collector — 2 per 
 cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, |1,500 ; for schools, |950 ; 
 poor, $600 ; roads, to be paid in labor, $1,000. 
 
 Voted to build Pushaw bridge. 
 
 For Governor — H. J. Anderson, 302 ; E. Robinson, 172 ; 
 J. Appleton, 35. On the third trial, chose Jacob Merrill, 
 Representative. For President — Polk, 232 ; Clay, 114 ; Bir- 
 ney, 26. 
 
 1845. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator ; C. Blanchard, 
 
 Clerk ; John Rigby, Samuel Cony, Nathan Oakes, Select- 
 men ; Silas Stowe, Treasurer; Henry Morgan, Collector — 3 
 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $1,500 ; for schools, $950 ; 
 poor, $600 ; Kirkland road, $400 ; roads, to be paid in labor, 
 $1,200. 
 
 For Governor— PI. J. Anderson, 162 ; F. H. Morse, 90 ; S. 
 Fessenden, 34. For Representative — Wm. Heald, 160 ; D. 
 Norton, 91 ; A. B. Weed, 34. 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTOEf. 61 
 
 1846. Chose H. Richardsou, Moderator ; C. Blanchard, 
 Clerk ; John Rigby, Nathan Cakes, R. D. Folsoro, Selectmen ; 
 Silas Stowe, Treasurer ; Jos. Y. Bakeman, Collector — 2 per 
 cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, 11,500 ; for schools, $950 ; 
 poor, 1550 ; debt, 5^2,000 ; Kirkland road, 1500 ; roads, to be 
 paid in labor, $1,500. 
 
 Accepted road across river at Pnshaw village. Fourth 
 street, from Centre to Aliddle street. Gray road, to south 
 line of lot No. 20. 
 
 For Governor— J. W. Dana, 202; D. Bronson, 122; S. 
 Fessenden, 44. For Representative, W. J. Thomas, 179 ; 0. 
 Fuller, 120; A. B. Weed, 44; scattering, 17. 
 
 About the 20th of March, in this year, commenced a heavy 
 rain storm, which rose the water in the river to such a height 
 as to break up the solid blue ice, which was two and a half to 
 three feet or more in thickness. The ice in the tide water 
 started, but jammed again at the narrows, some three miles 
 below the city of Bangor. The floating ice filled up the chan- 
 nel of the river, causing the water to rise so high as to over- 
 flow the lower part of the city, coming into the stores near 
 City Point, to the depth of seven or eight feet. 
 
 In some of the stores the extreme height is marked 
 with the legend, " High water, March 29, 1846." The jam 
 of ice rose so high as to move the toll bridge between Bangor 
 and Brewer, (a structure costing some #30,000) bodily from 
 its foundation, completely destroying it. The river continued 
 to fill up, the jam backing up over Treat's and Corporation 
 falls, moving the Corporation block of mills, in which were 
 sixteen saws, with other machinery, bodily down into tide 
 water. The jam soon backed up over Ayer's falls, and the 
 
62 SKETCHES OF OI^D TOWN. 
 
 Basia block, of twelve saws, went down the river and brought 
 up in the jam within a few hundred rods of the Corporation 
 block, but considerably more broken up. The river contin- 
 ued to fill up over the Great Works and Old Town falls, and 
 on over the Quoik and Sunkhaze rips. The last important 
 object of destruction was the Old Town and Milford toll- 
 bridge, which was taken from its foundation in the same man- 
 ner of the Bangor bridge, and took up its march down the 
 river. The height of the water and the destruction of 
 property was so great as to mark the event as an epoch, and 
 is often referred to as the " freshet of '46." 
 
 1847. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator ; David Norton, 
 Clerk ; John Rlgby, Lore Alford, John McDonald, Select- 
 men ; W. R. Young, Treasurer ; J. Y. Bakeman, Collector — 
 1 i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $1,200; for schools, $950; 
 poor, $500 ; debt, $2,500 ; roads, to be paid in labor, |1,200 ; 
 Pushaw bridge, $2,600. 
 
 Accepted Brunswick street, from Brown street to south 
 line, lot 15. Third street, from H. R. Soper's, north 12^ 
 rods. Street from Hiram Smith's to Third street. Street at 
 Upper Stillwater, by J. B. Gary's. Street from W. McLol- 
 lan's to the mill lot. Road from north line lot 12, north to 
 brick store, (old County road.) Road from E. B. Pierce lot, 
 north by the Wadleigh House. Road from Pushaw bridge 
 to Bennoch road. 
 
 For Governor— J. W. Dana, 232; D. Bronson, 1-30; S. 
 Fessenden, 34. On the second trial chose G. P. Sewall, 
 Representative. 
 
 1848. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator; David'Norton, 
 Clerk; Newell Blake, Rufus D. Folsom, Robert Averill, 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTOEY. 63 
 
 Selectmen ; Lorenzo Leadbetter, Benj. Dyer, Foster Wood, 
 Assessors; W. R. Young, Treasurer; J. Y. Bakeman, Col- 
 lector — i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $1,500 ; for schools, $950 ; 
 poor, 1600; debt, #2,500; Pushaw bridge, 1300; roads, 
 $600 ; Kirkland road, |1,400. 
 
 For Governor— J. W. Dana, 265; E. L. Hamlin, 148; S. 
 Fessenden, 57; scattering, 2. For Representative — G. P. 
 Sewall, 247 ; D. Norton, 143 ; A. B. Weed, 58. For Presi- 
 dent—Taylor, 185 ; Cass, 241 ; Birney, 40. 
 
 1849. Chose G. P. Sewall, Moderator; R. D. Folsom, 
 Clerk; David Norton, Robert Averill, R. M. Woodman, 
 Selectmen; Hiram Smith, Treasurer; Nahum Godfrey, Col- 
 lector — 3 per cent. y^<*. .-7^ 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $1,200 ; schools, $1,500 ; 
 poor, $500; cemetery, $350 ; Kirkland road, $1,000; roads, 
 to be paid in labor, $1,200 ; hearse house, $200. 
 
 Discontinued old County road from Geo. Fogg's to Dwinel 
 mill. Accepted Portland street. School street, and street by 
 D. M. Hall's. Also, road beginning south of Great Works 
 village, near the river, and ending near the house of Benja- 
 min Shaw. Discontinued road from old to new County road 
 by the cemetery. Chose a committee to see about a town 
 house. 
 
 For Governor — E. L. Hamlin, 95; J. Hubbard, 160; G. 
 F. Talbot, 18. For Representative — D. Norton, 85 ; G. P. 
 Sewall, 147 ; A. B. Weed, 22 ; scattering, 8. 
 
 1850. Chose G. P. Sewall, Moderator; Rufus D. Folsom, 
 Clerk; David Norton, Robert Averill, R. M. Woodman, Se- 
 lectmen ; Hiram Smith, Treasurer ; Nahum Godfrey, Collector 
 — 3 per cent. 
 
64 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $3,000; schools, $1,500; 
 poor, $800 ; Kirkland road, $1,400 ; roads, to be paid in la- 
 bor, $1,000. 
 
 Voted, to build a town bouse, by contract to the lowest 
 bidder. Accepted road from old to new County 'road, by N. 
 H. Sawtelle's. 
 
 For Governor— J. Hubbard, 324 ; W. G. Crosby, 150 ; G. 
 F. Talbot, 18. For Representative— G. P. Sewall, 32T ; Or- 
 in Fuller, 146. 
 
 Population, 3,087. 
 
 1851. Chose G. P. Sewall, Moderator ; R. D. Folsom, 
 Clerk ; Asa Smith, Jr., Robert Averill, David Norton, Select- 
 men ; Hiram Smith, Treasurer ; David Norton, Collector — 
 H per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, #1,300 ; schools, $1,500; 
 poor, $800 ; Argyle road, by boom, $800 ; Bennoch road, 
 round Gray hill, $100 ; poor-house, (burnt in 1850) $1,200 ; 
 roads, to be paid in labor, $1,000. 
 
 Accepted road from Pushaw village to Upper Stillwater ; 
 road near David Oakes', at Upper Stillwater. 
 
 The amendment of the constitution, changing the sessions 
 of the Legislature from summer back to winter, obviated the 
 necessity, and there was no election for State officers tliis 
 year, either executive or legislative. 
 
 1852. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator; S. W. Hoskins, 
 Clerk ; David Norton, Asa Smith, Jr., Robert Averill, Select- 
 men ; Sam'l W. Hoskins, Treasurer ; J. Y. Bakeman, Col- 
 lector — IJ per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $2,000 ; schools, $1,000 ; 
 poor, $600 ; Pushaw road, $350 ; cemetery, Upper Stillwater, 
 $75 ; roads, to be paid in labor, $1,200.. 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTOEY. 65 
 
 Accepted road from Bridge street to Wellmaa Bosworth's. 
 Road from Centre street, by S. Hanson, to Samuel J. Page. 
 Spring street, at Upper Stillwater, to the depot. Street from 
 Portland street to Parsilla Heald's. Road from Mill street 
 to Bridge street, from south-east corner lot K, at Upper Still- 
 water> 
 
 For Governor— J. Hubbard, ooT ; W. G. Crosby, 180; A. 
 G. Chandler, 41 ; E. Holmes, 11. For Representative — G. 
 P. Sewall, 324; M. Woodman, 24-3 ; scattering, 5. For Pres- 
 ident — Scott, 156 ; Pierce, 243 ; Birney, 54. Samuel W. 
 Hoskins having resigned as Clerk and Treasurer, chose J. A. 
 Purinton, Clerk ; Eph. B. Pierce, Treasurer. 
 
 1853. Chose John H. Hdliard, Moderator; James A. 
 Purinton, Clerk; Albert G. Burton, Robert AverJll, Alden 
 B. Weed, Selectmen ; Ephraim B. Pierce, Treasurer; J. Y. 
 Bakeman, Collector — 2 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, .|1,500 ; schools, #2,500 ; 
 poor, ®800 ; Kirkland road, |500 ;' Argyle road, $700 ; cem- 
 etery, Upper Stillwater, $200 ; roads, $1,500. 
 
 For Governor— A. Pillsbury, 296 ; W. G. Crosby, 145 ; A. 
 P. Morrill, 117 ; E. Holmes, 51. For Representative — J. H. 
 Hilliard, 296 ; A. B. Weed, 262 ; M. Woodman, 64. 
 
 1854. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator ; J. A. Purinton, 
 Clerk and Treasurer ; A. G. Burton, W. A. Ellis, W. N. 
 Soper, Selectmen ; N. Godfrey, Collector — 2 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses $2,000 ; for schools, $2,500; 
 poor, $1,200; roads, $1,500; Kirkland road, $500; Birch 
 stream bridge, $1,500 ; Orson Island road, $200 ; cemetery, 
 Upper Stillwater, $200; cemetery. Old Town, $500. 
 
 Accepted road from Annis Bridges' to Pushaw road. Road 
 from R. M. Woodman's to Grass island. 
 9 
 
66 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 For Governor— A. K. Parris, 322; Anson P. Morrill, 253 ; 
 Isaac Reed, 111; scattericg, 1. For Representative— J, H. 
 Burgess, 407; S. W. Hoskins, 268; scattering, 2. 
 
 1855. Chose Newell Blake, Moderator; J. A. Purinton, 
 Clerk; Charles Blanchard, Samuel Pratt, Luther H. Averill, 
 Selectmen; Ephraim B. Pierce, Treasurer; Nahum Godfrey, 
 Collector — 3 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, |1,500 ; schools, $2,500 ; 
 poor, 11,200; roads, $1,500; Kirkland road, $300; Spring 
 street, at Upper Stillwater, $150 ; cemetery. Old Town, $400. 
 
 Accepted road front of Bradbury Block, old to new County 
 road. Road from J. R. Weaver's to the Kirkland road. Road 
 from H. W. Wallis', south and east to new County road. 
 Road from Baptist meeting house to Elm street. Elm street, 
 from Centre street to Upper Stillwater road. 
 
 For Governor— A. P. Morrill, 351 ; Samuel Wells, 236 ; 
 Isaac Reed, 90. For Representative — A. B. Weed, 349 ; M. 
 Woodman, 331. 
 
 1856. Chose Newell Blake, Moderator; James A. Purin- 
 ton, Clerk ; Samuel Pratt, Charles Blanchard, Albert Plum- 
 mer, Selectmen; Ephraim B. Pierce, Treasurer; Nahum 
 Godfrey, Collector — 2i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $2,500 ; schools, $3,000 ; 
 poor, $1,200; roads, $1,500; cemetery at Old Town, $400; 
 cemetery at Upper Stillwater, $200 ; fire engines, $1,000. 
 
 Accepted Middle street, from river to Church street. Road 
 from O. Rogers' store, north, to the river. 
 
 For Governor— H. Hamlin, 432 ; Sam'l Wells, 195 ; G. F. 
 Patten, 37. For Representative— A. B. Weed, 428; T. 
 Michaels, 231 ; scattering, 2. 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTORY'. G7 
 
 1857. Chose Newell Blake, Moderator ; John A. Blanch- 
 ard, Clerk; Samuel Pratt, Wiloby Smith, Samuel W. 
 Hoskins, Selectmen; Ephraim B. Pierce, Treasurer; Lore 
 Alford, Collector— 2i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $2,000 ; schools, ^2,000 ; 
 poor, 11,200 ; Gray road, $200 ; McPhetres road, 1200 ; fire 
 engines, ^2,000; fire bell at Upper Stillwater, ilOO ; innocu- 
 lation, $50; firemen, $1,000 ; roads, in labor, $l,.500. 
 
 Accepted road from Bennoch road, to Moses McPhetres. 
 Discontinued Gray road across school lot. District No. 7. 
 
 For Governor— Lot M. Morrill, 289 ; M. H. Smith, 135 ; 
 G. F. Patten, 6. For Representative— Moses Buck, 292; T. 
 Michaels, 138 ; scattering, 2. 
 
 1858. Ezra C. Brett, Moderator; John A. Blanchard, 
 Clerk; Samuel Pratt, Wiloby Smith, Sam'l W. Hoskins, 
 Selectmen; Ephraim B. Pierce, Treasurer; David Norton, 
 Collector — 2i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $5,500 ; scliools, $2,000 ; 
 poor, $1,200 ; engine houses, $500 ; firemen, $1,000 ; roads, 
 $800; pound, $25; Gray road, $100 ; Pushaw bridge, $275; 
 McPhetres road, $200 ; Kirkland road, $700 ; fire bell, Upper 
 Stillwater, $100. 
 
 Vote on the prohibitory law — yeas, 00 ; na,js, 8. 
 
 For Governor — Lot M. Morrill, 283; Manassah H. Smith, 
 136. For Representative— R. M. Woodman, 285 ; S. Braley, 
 135. 
 
 1859. Chose Henry Ricliardson, Moderator ; J. A. 
 Blanchard, Clerk; Samuel Pratt, Wiloby Smith, Samuel W. 
 Hoskins, Selectmen ; George F. Dillingham, Treasurer; D. 
 Norton, Collector — 2J per cent. 
 
68 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $7000 ; schools, $2,000 ; 
 poor, f 1,000 ; roads, $800; McPhetres road, $300; cemeteries, 
 *150 ; Kirkland road, $500. 
 
 Accepted McPhetres road. 
 
 Voted to pay D. Norton, $75, costs in action R. F. Kinsel 
 vs. him. To assist Aroostook Raih'oad — yea, 516 ; nay, 21. 
 Connty Commissioners laid out road from H. W. Hiues, to 
 McPhetres road. 
 
 For Governor— Lot M. Morrill, 261 ; Manassah H. Smith, 
 166. For Representative— R. M. Woodman, 271 ; J. H. 
 Hilliard, 161. 
 
CHAPTER Xrl. 
 
 OLD TOATX—MUXICIPAL—FINANCIAI,— POLITICAL— 
 
 1860 TO 1879. 
 
 1860. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator ; J. A. Blanchard, 
 Clerk; Nahum Godfrey, Moses Buck, Joseph L. Srtiith, Se- 
 lectmen ; Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer: David Norton, 
 Collector — -J per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, §7,600 ; schools, |2,000 ; 
 poor, $1,100; roads, fl,200 ; Harmon (McPhetres) road, 
 #450 ; H. W. Hines road, $150 ; Kirkland road, |500 ; hearse. 
 Old Town, 165 ; cemetery. Old Town, .$85 ; engine hose, 
 $450. 
 
 Population, 3,860. 
 
 For Governor — I. Washburn, Jr., 480 ; E. K. Smart, 165 ; 
 P. Barnes, 6. For Representative — J. L. Smith, 886; D. N. 
 Estabrook, 301; scattering, 30. For President— Lincoln, 
 295; Douglass, 86; Breckenridge, 35; Bell, 5. 
 
 1861. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator; J. A. Blanch- 
 ard, Clerk ; Nahum Godfrey, Daniel Lunt, Alden B. Weed, 
 Selectmen ; George F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; David Nor- 
 ton, Collector — i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $4,500 ; schools, $2,500 ; 
 poor, $1,200 ; to grade Lancaster hill, $100 ; roads, to be paid 
 
70 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 in labor, 11,200. Accepted road from Great Works to Upper 
 Stillwater. Road from Bennoch road to J. M. Gilman's. 
 
 At a meeting called May 2, 1861, the town adopted the 
 following resolutions : 
 
 " That it is the duty of the inhabitants of this town, in 
 their corporate capacity, to do whatever is in their power to 
 aid the Chief Magistrate of the United States in the full en- 
 forcement of the laws, and the Chief Magistrate of this State 
 in complying with such requisitions as may from time to time 
 be made upon him, for forces to repel invasion or suppress in- 
 surrection in any State of the Union." 
 
 "That the sum of 15,000 is hereby appropriated out of any 
 money ia our treasury, to provide for the support of the fam- 
 ilies of citizens of this town enlisting in the service of the 
 United States under the act of April 25, 1861, and to aid in 
 support of soldiers thus enlisting, who have no families in 
 this town, before they are called into said service." 
 
 For Governor^I. Washburn, Jr., 306 ; C. D. Jameson, 
 109; J. W. Dana, .31. For Representative— G. P. Sewall, 
 381 ; scattering, 17. 
 
 1862. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator; Sam'l J. Cakes, 
 Clerk ; Nahum Godfrey, Daniel Lunt, N. M. Hartwell, Se- 
 lectmen; Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; Hiram Smith, Col- 
 lector — i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $7,000 ; schools, 12,825 ; 
 poor, $1,400; roads, to be paid in labor, $600 ; volunteers, by 
 loan, $2,000. 
 
 Discontinued west end of road from Great Works to Up- 
 per Stillwater. Accepted road from Hines road to north line 
 lot No. 25. Voted to pay a bounty of |30 to each volunteer 
 when mustered into the service. July 28, voted to pay a 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTOKY. 71 
 
 bounty of $100, and that the Selectmen hire 14,000 for that 
 purpose. August 30, voted to pay the next twenty recruits 
 the sum of $20 each. Voted to hire 12,000 to aid the fami- 
 lies of volunteers. 
 
 For Governor — A. Coburn, 184; Bion Bradbury, 62; C. 
 D. Jameson, 20. For Representative — J. H. Burgess, 195; 
 Joshua Buck, 57 ; scattering, 1. ^^/ 
 
 1863. Chose Newell Blake, Moderator ; Edwin R. Al- 
 ford, Clerk ; N. M. Hartwell, Robert Averill, D. G. Sawyer, 
 Selectmen ; Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; Hiram Smith, 
 Collector — i per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, |7,000 ; schools, $2,325 ; 
 poor, $1,600 ; roads, $650 ; families of volunteers, $3,500 ; 
 J. M. Gilman road, $50 ; Hines road, $150 ; debt for boun- 
 ties, $4,700. 
 
 Accepted road from Kirkland road to J. Buck's house. 
 Nov. 23d, voted to give a bounty of $200 to each one of fifty 
 volunteers to fill quota, and that Selectmen hire the money. 
 Dec. 15th, voted $50 additional to volunteers. 
 
 For Governor — Samuel Cony, 397 ; Bion Bradbury, 150. 
 For Representative, J. H. Burgess, 397 ; Henry Moor, 150. 
 18^64. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator ; J. A. Blauch- 
 ard. Clerk; N. M. Hartwell, R. Averill, D. G. Sawyer, 
 Selectmen; Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer; Nahum Godfrey, 
 Collector— 2 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $7,500 ; schools, $2,340 : 
 poor, $1,200; roads, $1,000; debt, $7,000; hearse. Old 
 Town, $300; Buck road, $200 ; engine hose, $600 ; Agricul- 
 tural College, to be hired, $3,000. 
 
 Voted to hire $1,300, to aid in enlisting volunteers. To 
 hire $10,000, to pay bounties to volunteers. To pay a bounty 
 
72 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 of 1400, to each volunteer. To hire |3,000, for paying 
 bounties. January 5, 1865, a bounty of $300 to volunteers 
 and drafted men. To pay agents, |25 for each volunteer 
 furnished. 
 
 For Governor — Samuel Cony, 342 ; Joseph Howard, 161. 
 For Representative— D. N. Estabrook, 340; C. Noyes, 156. 
 For President— Lincoln, 348; McClellan, 151. 
 
 1865. Chose H. Richardson, Moderator ; J. A. Blanch- 
 ard. Clerk; J. H. Hilliard. Rob't Ellis, D. G. Sawyer, Select- 
 men ; Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; L. Alford, Collector — 
 li per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, 118,000; schools, #2,800 ; 
 poor, 11,500 ; roads, $1,500 ; debt, $24,000 ; aid of families, 
 $1,200; Buck road, $100; Smart road, $100; recruiting, 
 1800. 
 
 Accepted Oak street, from Brunswick street west. Voted 
 to hire money to build three reservoirs. Accepted road from 
 Spring street to the river, Upper Stillwater. 
 
 For Governor — Samuel Cony, 200 ; Joseph Howard, 42. 
 For Representative — D. N. Estabrook, 198; C. Noyes, 42. 
 
 1866. S. W. Hoskins, Moderator; Richard V. Moore, 
 Clerk ; D. G. Sawyer, Daniel Lunt, N. M. Hartwell, Select- 
 men ; G. F. Dillingham, Treasurer; H. Lancaster, Collector 
 — 2 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $5,000 ; schools, $3,000 ; 
 poor, $1,500; hearse, $400; Buck road, $200; reservoirs, 
 $100 ; roads, in labor, $3,000. 
 
 Accepted road from Bridge street to Loren Dexter's. 
 
 For Governor — J. L. Chamberlain, 446 ; E. F. PilLsbury, 
 174. For Representative— N. M. Hartwell, 433 ; Robert El- 
 lis, 173. 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTOKY. 73 
 
 1867. Chose S. W. Hoskins, Moderator; Albert H. 
 Norris, Clerk ; D. G. Sawyer, N. M. Hartwell, C. H. Miller, 
 Selectmen ; G.. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; H. Lancaster, 
 Collector — 1 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, 114,544 ; schools, |4,000 ; 
 poor, f 2,500 ; roads, $3,000 ; College, $1,060 ; Lunt road, at 
 Pea Cove, f275. 
 
 Accepted road from Hines road to land of John Eastman. 
 Road from south line, lot 23, to south line, lot 25. Road 
 leading from W. Bosworth's, south to Pratt land. Road 
 from Oak street, south by N. C. Gross. Road across Pratt & 
 Wallace land, laid out last May. Road on Treat & Webster 
 Island, from road accepted last May, to the 14 acre lot ; and 
 road from same, west 16 rods. Discontinued road across 
 Pratt & Wallace land, laid out last fall. Voted to allow the 
 E. & N". A. R'y Co., to lay their track along the river road as 
 located. 
 
 For Governor — J. L. Chamberlain, 301 ; E. F. Pillsbury, 
 183. For Representative— N. M. Hartwell, 266; R. Ellis, 
 179 ; J. A. Cousens, 22. 
 
 1868. Chose E. C. Brett, Moderator ; E. A. Pond, Clerk ; 
 Jos. L. Smith, Orimel Rogers, D. N. Estabrook, Selectmen ; 
 Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; David Norton, Collector— 2 
 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $8,600; schools, $3,800; 
 poor, $2,500; roads, $1,500; College, $1,160; road from 
 Spring street to river, $150 ; road from Great Works to Up- 
 per Stillwater, $125. 
 
 For Governor— J. L. Chamberlain, 469; E. F. Pillsbury, 
 197. For Representative— Henry Brawn, 439 ; F. Hamblen, 
 202. For President— Grant, 390; Seymour, 121. 
 10 
 
74 SKETCHES OE OLD TOWN. 
 
 1869. Chose E. C. Brett, Moderator ; E. A. Pond, Clerk ; 
 D. G. Sawyer, Orimel Rogers, C. H. Miller, Selectmen ; G. 
 F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; David Norton, Collector — 2 per 
 cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $10,000 ; schools, |3,860 ; 
 poor, $3,000 ; roads, |3,000 ; College, $1,180 ; Great Works 
 and Upper Stillwater road, $300. 
 
 For Governor — J. L. Chamberlain, 226 ; Franklin Smith, 
 109 ; N. G. Hichborn, 35. For Representative — H. Brawn, 
 233 ; F. Hamblen, 122 ; scattering, 1, 
 
 1870. Chose Ezra C. Brett, Moderator; Edward A. 
 Pond, Clerk ; Henry Brawn, Orimel Rogers, Chas. A. Bailey, 
 Selectmen; Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer; Benj. F. Poor, 
 Collector — 2 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $10,000 ; schools, $5,000 ; 
 poor, $3,000 ; roads, $3,000 ; cemeter}^ Old Town, $100 ,; 
 road Great Works to Upper Stillwater, $300. 
 
 Voted to build a town hall, on the corner of Brunswick 
 and Middle street, cost not to exceed $12,000, to be raised by 
 sale of bonds received from the State for equalizing boun- 
 ties. 
 
 The line between Old Town, Argyle, and Alton, was run, 
 
 Population, 4,070. 
 
 For Governor — Sidney Perham, 326; Chas. W. Roberts, 
 274 ; scattering, 2. For Representative — M. M. Folsom, 
 299 ; G. P. Sewall, 300. 
 
 1871. Chose D. N. Estabrook, Moderator; Edward A. 
 Pond, Clerk; Henry Brawn, Jas. Andrews, J. A. Blanchard, 
 Selectmen; G. F. Dillingham, Treasurer; David Norton, 
 Oollector — 2 per cent. 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 75 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, f 9,800 ; scliools, .?4,100 ; 
 poor, $3,000; roads, $1,000; debt, $2,000 ; Hoskins & Wal- 
 lace road, $200. 
 
 Accepted road from Middle street to Pushaw road, near 
 R. M. Woodman's. Veazle street from Z. Gilbert's to Push- 
 aw road. Spring street, westerly to Veazie street. Pushaw, 
 Birch stream, Lancaster, Meadow brook, and Irving bridges, 
 had all to be repaired, or rebuilt this year, at an expense of 
 $8,461.. 
 
 For Governor — Sidney Perham, 431 ; Chas. P. Kimball, 
 202. For Representative— M. M. Folsom, 432 ; G. P. Sew- 
 all, 200. 
 
 1872. Chose D. N. Estabrook, Moderator ; E. A. Pond, 
 Clerk; Henry Brawn, Jas. Andrews, J. A. Blanchard, Se- 
 lectmen ; G. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; Jas. H. Gould, Col- 
 lector, 1.9 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $9,000 ; schools, $4,100 ; 
 poor, $8,000; roads, $2,800 ; Catholic cemetery, $75 ; ceme- 
 tery. Porter's mills, $200 ; debt, $2,000. 
 
 Accepted Hoskins street. Accepted street from Spring 
 street to Union meeting house. Voted that the E. & N. A. 
 Railway Co. may lay their track on the street from the depot 
 to the engine house. 
 
 For Governor— S. Peiham, 441 ; C. P. Kimball, 313. For 
 Representative— M. M. Folsom, 441 ; H. Brawn, 308. For 
 President— Grant, 362; Greely, 106. 
 
 1873. Chose C. A. Bailey, Moderator ; Charles H. Gray, 
 Clerk ; Albert 0. Brown, Eli Rigby, J. A. Blanchard, Select- 
 men ; G. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; David Norton, Collector 
 — 2 per cent. 
 
76 SKETCHES OP OLD TOWN. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $10,500 ; schools, $4,100 ; 
 poor, 13,000 ; roads, #3,300 ; cemetery fence. Old Town, $300. 
 
 Voted to exempt the shoe factory at Upper Stillwater from 
 taxation for ten years. 
 
 For Governor — N. Dingley, Jr., 317; Jos. Titcomb, 256. 
 For Representative— S. Bradbury, 280; H. Brawn, 277; 
 scattering, 5. 
 
 1874. Chose C. A. Bailey, Moderator ; Chas. H. Gray, 
 Clerk ; Albert O. Brown, Eli Rigby, J. A. Blanchard, Select- 
 men ; Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; David Norton, Col- 
 lector — 2 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, |9,500 ; schools, $3,600 ; 
 poor, $3,000; roads, $1,500; two reservoirs at Upper Still- 
 water, $400. 
 
 Accepted Oak street, as laid out in 1856. Accepted a con- 
 tinuance of Fourth street, south. Voted to purchase three 
 " Little Giant " engines. 
 
 For Governor— Jos. Titcomb, 334 ; N. Dingley, Jr., 283. 
 For Representative — H. Brawn, 363 ; A. 0. Brown, 260. 
 
 1875. Chose C. A. Bailey, Moderator; Geo. T. Sewall, 
 Clerk ; A. O. Brown, Otis Reed, J. A. Blanchard, Selectmen ; 
 G. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; David Norton, Collector — 2 
 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $7,500 ; schools, $3,256; 
 poor, $3,000 ; roads, $2,000. 
 
 For Governor — Selden Connor, 324; Chas. W. Roberts, 
 292. For Representative— A. O. Brown, 323 ; H. Brawn, 
 293. 
 
 1876. Chose G. P. Sewall, Moderator ; Edward A. Pond, 
 Clerk; A. O. Brown, Otis Reed, J. A. Blanchard, Selectmen ; 
 C. E. Rogers, Treasurer ; D. Norton, Collector — 2 per cent. 
 
MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 77 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $4,000 ; schools, |3,256 ; 
 
 poor, $3,500; roads, |2,000; cemetery at Old Town, $400; 
 
 town house, 1200 ; Torrent engine, |150 ; cemetery at Upper 
 
 Stillwater, $75 ; poor house, $100. 
 
 For Goverflor— Selden Connor, 400; J. C. Talbot, 240. 
 
 For Representative— A. 0. Brown, 351; G. P. Sewall, 293. 
 
 For President— R. B. Hayes, 331; S. J. Tilden, 181. 
 
 1877. Chose C. A. Bailey, Moderator; Edward A. 
 Pond, Clerk; Geo. T. Sewall, Jas. W. Button, J. A. Blaneh- 
 ard. Selectmen ; Geo. F. Dillingham, Treasurer ; David 
 Norton, Collector — 2 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $4,000 ; schools, $3,256 ; 
 poor, $3,500 ; roads, $1,000 ; reservoir on Treat and Web- 
 ster's Island, $200. Accepted road from the north end of 
 Smart road, to the north line of the town. 
 
 For Governor— S. Connor, 307; J. H. Williams, 151; J. 
 C. Talbot, 33. For Representative— J. Weymouth, 303 ; F. 
 Hamblen, 192. 
 
 1878. Chose C. A. Bailey, Moderator; Edward A. Pond, 
 Clerk; Geo. T. Sewall, Jas. W. Button, Geo. W. Garland, 
 Selectmen; G. F. Dillingham, Treasurer; Henry A. Pratt, 
 Collector — 3 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $3,000 ; schools, $3,256 ; 
 poor, $3,500 ; Dirigo engine $200 ; watering trough, $150 ; 
 roads, in labor, $2,000. Voted not to license any one to sell 
 spirituous liquor. 
 
 For Governor — J. L. Smith, 443; S. Connor, 214; A. 
 Garcelon, 9. For Representative — J. M. Robinson, 427; J. 
 Weymouth, 239. 
 
 1879. Chose C. A. Bailey, Moderator ; Edward A. 
 Pond, Clerk; George T. Sewall, Frank Hamblen, D. G. 
 
78 SKETCHES or OLD TOWN. 
 
 Sawyer, Selectmen ; James W. Waldron, Treasurer ; E. R. 
 Alford, Collector — IJ per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, |3,000 ; schools, |3,256 ; 
 poor, $3,000; roads, -$1,000 ; sidewalk on Portland street, 
 •$25 ; poor house, 1400. » 
 
 For Governor— J. L. Smith, 381 ; D. F. Davis, 263 ; A. 
 Garcelon, 18. For Representative — J. 1\I. Robinson, 888; 
 G. L. Godfrey, 270. 
 
 1880. Chose Frank Hamblen, Moderator ; James W- 
 Waldron, Clerk; Geo. T. Sewall, Frank Hamblen, Daniel G. 
 Sawyer, Selectmen ; James W. "Waldron, Treasurer ; E. R. 
 Alford, Collector — 2 per cent. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $3,000 ; schools, $3,256 ; 
 poor, $2,500; roads, $1,200 ; sidewalks, $100 ; bridges, $300 ; 
 Hudson road, $500 ; reservoirs, $200. 
 
 For Governor— H. M. Plaisted, 431 ; Daniel F. Davis, 291. 
 Frank W. Folsom, Representative. 
 
 1881. Chose Frank Hamblen, Moderator; James W. 
 Waldron, Clerk; George T. Sewall, Frank Hamblen, Daniel 
 G. Sawyer, .Selectmen ; James W. Waldron, Treasurer. 
 
 Raised for contingent expenses, $3,500; schools, $2,456; 
 poor, $3,000 ; roads, $2,100 ; sidewalk, $200. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 RELIGIOUS MATTERS. 
 
 Catholic. 
 
 A mission of this denomination has existed here since early 
 in the seventeenth century. Williamson, in his History of 
 Maine, states that Col. Westbrook, with a party of British 
 marines, destroyed the church on Old Town Island, in 1723. 
 
 The labors of the mission were confined to the Indian tribe 
 previous to the nineteenth century; and after the whites set- 
 tled here, the place of worship was in the church on the 
 island ; but in time the membership had so increased as to 
 overcrowd the small house ; this, together with the incon- 
 venience of crossing the river, induced the society to build 
 another house, which they did in 1852, near the cemetery at 
 Great Works, where their meetings were held for several 
 years ; but time showed, and the deep snows of winter con- 
 vinced them, that the church was not in the right place, and 
 in 1870 it was removed to lower Old Town, where the society 
 at present worships. In 1877, an addition was made to.it, 
 and the whole building remodeled and fitted up in excellent 
 style and neatne.ss, and is now the largest church edifice in 
 
80 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 town. The author is indebted to Father O'Brien for the 
 following items of church history : 
 
 The Indians appear to have been without a missionary, ex- 
 cept, perhaps, an occasional visit from the Canadian clergy, 
 for about fifty years, previous to the visits of Rev. John Louis 
 DeCheverus, first Catholic Bishop of Boston, where he ar- 
 rived in 1796, and soon after commenced to pay annual visits 
 to the Penobscots, which he appears to have continued at 
 least until 1810. Of his first visit, a very interesting narra- 
 tive is given in his Life, translated from the French, of which 
 Father O'Brien has a copy. 
 
 The services of Bishop DeCheverus, afterwards Cardinal 
 Archbishop of Bordeaux, in France, were followed by the 
 attendance of Father Romagne, of whom Williamson makes 
 mention. He was succeeded by Rev. Ed. Demilier. In all 
 cases these clergymen also visited the Passamaquoddies. 
 
 Father Demilier appears to have been succeeded by Rev. 
 Virgil Barber, S. J., who erected the present chapel on the 
 island about 1834. A chapel appears to have been erected 
 previously^ by Bishop Cheverus — the second it would appear, 
 that had been built on the Island. Cheverus' first services 
 were held in an enclosure of trees and branches. The suc- 
 cession of clergy in Old Town, after Barber, is included in 
 the names of Ratigan, Armstrong, Conway, Murphj% SuUi- 
 livan, Bapst, (with whom were associated, Force, Moore, 
 and Vetromile) Nycolin, McFaul, Duddy, and O'Brien — the 
 latter being (1879,) the present officiating clergyman, who is 
 making strenuous efforts for reformation among the Indians, 
 especially in reference to the matter of marriage and temper- 
 ance, and is at present engaged in constructing a grammar of 
 the Tarratine language. 
 
RELIGIOUS MATTERS. 81 
 
 CONGREGATIONALIST. 
 
 There had been some missionary work clone here by this 
 denomination, between 1820 and 1832. The Rev. Pindar 
 Field, who afterwards married the widow Mary Cony, had 
 been here one season, more especially as an envoy amongst 
 the Indians. Rev. Mr. Ingraham labored here for a while. 
 
 In time interest was sufficiently excited that resulted in 
 the erection of a large church edifice upon "Mount Carmel." 
 Itwas commenced in 1832, and completed the next year, when 
 the control of the house went into the hands of the Congre- 
 gationalists, although individuals of other persuasions aided 
 in its construction. 
 
 In 1833, a church was organized, with William S. Pritch- 
 ard, Lucius Hyde, Nivau Bates, and Timothy Barnard, as 
 original members, while many other citizens were connected 
 with the parish, and contributed to the support of the church. 
 
 In 1835, Rev. Joseph C. Lovejoy was settled as pas- 
 tor, and held the position eight years, when for several years, 
 individuals occupied the pulpit for short periods each ; among 
 them H. T. Chever, Andrew Dunning, Joseph Smith, and 
 others. In 1849, Rev. Samuel H. Merrill was installed as 
 pastor, and officiated six years, giving general satisfaction by 
 his genial, pleasant zeal, quietly carried into almost every 
 household. Ebenezer Douglass followed the next four years ; 
 Charles F. Boynton, two years. Benjamin A. Chase was pas- 
 tor from 1863 to 1865; during this year the church edifice 
 was burned in the Lincoln fire — and somewhat unexpectedly 
 to the public, the society possessed sufficient vitality, aided 
 by the untiring and persistent efforts of James Y. Richardson, 
 in soliciting and collecting funds for the purpose, to rebuild 
 the house in 1866 — less in size, but more elegant in stj^e and 
 11 
 
ii-2 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 graceful in finish than the old one ; crowning the height of a 
 gentle eminence, it is an object of beauty to the country 
 around, to stranger as well as citizen. Since the erection of 
 the new edifice — Henry A. Shorey, for two years ; S. H. 
 Merrill, six months ; and William H. Rand — have officiated 
 as pastors. Since 1872, the society has existed as best it 
 could, upon transient preaching — being somewhat favored in 
 that matter by the near vicinity of the Theological School at 
 Bangor, the students of which find here an opportunity to 
 try their unfledged wings in flights of oratory preparatory to 
 migration to larger fields and greater usefulness. 
 
 Baptist. 
 
 In 1835, sufficient interest was excited which resulted in 
 the organization of a church, with John Rigby, Mj-rick Em- 
 erson, Affiah Pettengill, Rachel Rigby, and Hannah Shaw, 
 as original members ; and from the small nucleus, has grown 
 up a large society, embracing many men of note in the 
 community, and exerting a larger influence on society than 
 any other church organization in town — teaching a lesson of 
 the advantages to be derived from unity of action, that is 
 worthy of imitation. The first pastor of the church, was 
 Rev. E. Freeman, ordained February, 18-37 ; Rev. Charles 
 Blanchard followed, in May, 1839, remaining ten years; 
 during his pastorate the Lovejoj'- school house was purchased, 
 and enlarged into a meeting house. After him, T. Bailey, 
 J. R. Greenough, Alvira Jones, and Jacob Tuck, were 
 pastors. In Sept., 1852, James Belcher was installed, and 
 during his charge, the membership of the church had enlarged 
 to such an extent as to require more room than the old house 
 afforded, and the society erected a more commodious and ele- 
 gant house of worship, on the corner of Church and Middle 
 
RELIGIOUS MATTERS. 83 
 
 Streets, in 1854. Charles Blanclmrd was pastor in 1856 ; D. 
 C. Litchfield from December, 1857, to 1804 ; and James M. 
 Follett, from June, 18G4, to Nov., 1867; daring his term the 
 church was burned April 19, 1805, and rebuilt the same year. 
 The pastors since, were James Williams and George M. 
 Preston ; some others have officiated at short periods, whose 
 names are not mentioned. At present, like every other 
 protestant society in town, (1879,) the church is without a 
 pastor. [Since writing the above, an invitation has been ex- 
 tended to Rev. H. B. Marshall, to assume the position of 
 pastor, who has accepted the charge.] 
 
 ^Methodist. 
 
 There had been in this town, occasional itinerant preaching, 
 by followers of John Wesley, and in 1837, a class was formed, 
 consisting of Joanna Davis, Betsey Stiuson, Maria Marsh, 
 Louisa Emery, Mary Snow, Catherine Palmer, Sarah John- 
 ston, and Ruth Sterling, as members — and in 1843, Benjamin 
 Bryant was appointed to this circuit, residing in this village. 
 During his ministry a church was organized, and interest 
 enough excited to result in building a small house of worship. 
 It was in the second story of a building on the old County 
 road, a few rods south of Bridge street. Those appointed 
 upon the circuit since that time, so far as can be gathered 
 from the record, are as follows : William McDonald, in 
 1844 ; D. H. Mansfield, in 1846 ; Mr. Scammon, in 1847 ; 
 Phineas Higgins, in 1848; Mark R. Hopkins, in 1849; E. 
 A. Helmershausen, in 1851 ; Leonard P. French in 1852 ; 
 and Daniel Clark, in 1853 ; during Clark's ministry, through 
 his efforts, a lot was procured, and a new church edifice 
 erected on Brunswick street. 
 
 Since that time, there has been stationed here, R. B. Curtis, 
 
84 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 Joseph C. French, J. 0. Knowles, and some others, not now 
 recalled ; H. P. Blood, in 1869 ; R. L. Mathison, in 1870 ; H. 
 W. Bolton, in 1871 ; S. S. Goss, in 1872 ; and J. H. Crom- 
 well, in 1873 — since Avhich time there has been no preacher 
 stationed here, and the society has had to live upon occasional 
 preaching, like scattered crumbs dropped here by other cir- 
 cuits — and for this j^ear (1879,) with no preaching at all. 
 
 Universalist. 
 
 In this vicinity, this denomination had an occasional sermon 
 by some itinerant preacher whom business or pleasure led in- 
 to the neighborhood ; amongst others, Moses McFarland and 
 Job Chase; the latter illustrated his idea of the word " ever 
 lasting," by saying that " if one should put his finger in the 
 blaze of the lamp by his side, and be obliged to hold it there 
 only for the space of, a minute, he would be likely to think it 
 was an everlasting while." And so of the rich man, praying 
 for Lazarus to put a drop of water upon his parched tongue. 
 " Why," said he, " if Lazarus had started with a five-pail 
 kettle full of water, with a junk of ice in it as big as a pail, 
 it would have been boiling hot before he could reach the suf- 
 fering man." Whenever, in those early days, a preacher of 
 this denomination happened along, uncle Asa Smith would 
 pass around the neighborhood from door to door, giving peo- 
 ple notice of the fact, and asking them to appear at the "Old 
 Cradle of Liberty." Asa Smith, David Elkins, Solomon 
 and Joseph Moulton, were the most prominent men of that 
 persuasion in town at that time. 
 
 In 1843, a parish was organized — the members being Fos- 
 ter Wood, Joseph Moulton, Thomas Hunt, Jeremiah Lebal- 
 lister, Solomon Moulton, Caleb Page, Newell Blake, David 
 Hanson, William C. Whitmore, James S. Tozer, Robert G. 
 
RELIGIOUS MATTERS. 85 
 
 Gatchell, Ansel Smith, Moses Haskell, Asa DeWitt, Charles 
 Fisk, John O. Porter, Denny M. Hall, Jere. A. Swan, Zimri 
 Gilbert, and Thomas Weeks, who organized under a code of 
 bj'-laws, and made arrangements for preaching. L. P. Rand 
 was engaged for that season, and meetings were held in the 
 old school house. The next two j^ears, Otis H.° Johnson was 
 pastor, and held meetings in the Wadleigh school house, sit- 
 uated on the south-east corner of D. N. Estabrook's lot. In 
 184G, the society erected the church edifice, which they now 
 own, at a cost of $2,500. Samuel Pratt, Newell Blake, and 
 Foster Wood, were a building committee, and at the sale of 
 pews the bonus bid for choice was sufficient to buy a carpet 
 for the house. Otis H. Johnson continued as pastor, complet- 
 ing five years. Giles Bailey succeeded him five 3'ears ; and 
 after a year or two vacation, Isaac C. Knowlton preached for 
 six 3'ears, up to 1860, after which the society had a rest for 
 some years, having services part of the time in connection 
 with the Orouo society — Messrs. Barstow and Lovejoy being 
 the pastors. In 1873, Alfred Day was pastor. The next 
 four years, the society depended upon Orono for a minister, 
 and Rev. Henry Shepherd was here part of the time. For 
 1878, J. M. H. Smith was pastor ; and now, (1879) the soci- 
 ety is without a minister. 
 
 Episcopalian. 
 
 The first services of this denomination, in Old Town, were 
 held in the early part of 184.5, by the Rev. John West, of 
 Bano-or, in the Wadleigh school house, which had been en- 
 larged and fitted up for the purpose. In April, 1847, Rev. 
 Samuel Durborow, visited Old Town, and held services here 
 some five weeks, and then changed to Milford, which at that 
 time seemed a more promising field for missionary labor. 
 
86 SKETCHES OP OLD TOWN. 
 
 The parish of " St. James' Church, Milford," was organized 
 in the autumn of 1847, and included members from Old Town, 
 whose names are not now obtainable, but among them were 
 Edward W. Murry, Solomon Hopkins, Rufus D. Folsom, Ira 
 Wadleigh, and Jeremiah Norris. 
 
 It may not be out of place here, to draw attention to the 
 memory of Mrs. Catherine M. Wadleigh, whose personal in- 
 fluence and unceasing labor had much to do with the estab- 
 lishment of the church here ; in season and out of season she 
 was always doing something to build up the church, and in 
 1847 organized a Sunday school, which held its sessions in the 
 Wadleigh school house ; the school is still kept up by the 
 church. 
 
 In 1849, circumstances had so changed, that it was thought 
 best to change the location of the parish to Old Town, and 
 the present parish was organized Nov. 6, 1849, under the 
 style of "St. James Church, Old Town." The persons 
 present at the organization, were Amos Eastman, Geo. C. V. ~ 
 Eastman, David Spaulding, David Elkins, James McB. Cal- 
 pin, Francis Milton, Samuel Durborow, David Winslow, 
 Fred Roberts, and Ira Wadleigh. 
 
 In 1849, the parish bought a lot, and commenced the work 
 of building the church, as it now stands, upon the corner of 
 Brown street and the new County road, which was completed 
 the first of January, 1852, and was consecrated by the Rt. 
 Rev. George Burgess, Bishop of the diocese, on the second 
 day of February, 1853. It is an imposing structure, costing 
 near |8,000. 
 
 The officiating clergymen have been the Rev. John West, 
 1845 ; Samuel Durborow, 1847 ; George C. V. Eastman, - 
 1849 ; W. H. C. Robertson, 1851 ; Daniel C. Weston, 1852 ; 
 
RELIGIOUS MATTERS. 87 
 
 lluel H. Tuttle, 1853; Mr. Hodges, 1854; Robert Paul, 
 1855 ; John F. Spaulding, (now Bishop of Colorado,) 1857 ; 
 William M. Willian, 1860 ; Thomas Atkins, 18G3 ; Daniel 
 Goodwin, 18G4 ; Nath'l L. Briggs, 1866; Richard W. B. 
 Webster, 1868 ; James Davies, 1870 ; William B. Bolmer, 
 1871; Alex. F. Samuels, 1872; Robert Wylie, 1877; Fred- 
 erick Pember, 1879. 
 Union Church. 
 
 In 1858, the Baptist and Universalist people at Upper Still- 
 water, united their energies and erected a fair sized meeting 
 house, sufficiently large to accommodate all the wants of the 
 village. The Congregationalists and Methodists were invited 
 to join in building the house, but for reasons that-were satis- 
 factory to themselves, they declined to do so, but since that 
 time, those societies have bought into the building, and now 
 occupy the house the largest part of the time. It is now 
 in reality a union house. There was no other place of 
 worship in the village, and the erection of the house was 
 required for the accommodation of the people of the neigh- 
 borhood, and it has kept up more interest in religious mat- 
 ters, than would have been, without so convenient a place of 
 meeting. 
 
CHAPTER XrV. 
 
 KAILKOADH. 
 
 It is proposed to speak of those roads only whose route 
 touched the limits of this town. As early as 1832, Ira Wad- 
 leigh, Charles Ramsdell, Isaac Damons, Ford Whitman, Amos 
 M. Roberts, Eben'r French and others, procured a charter for 
 a road from Bangor village to Old Town village, under the 
 style of "Old Town Railway Company," and graded the road 
 bed part of the way to Orono, and built piers for bridges to 
 and from Ayer's Island, and then sold out to the B. & P- C. 
 and R. R. Co., for the sum of 150,000. Speaking of the 
 matter to Mr. Wadleigh, a few years ago, he said the money 
 was never paid. 
 
 In 1833, Moses Greenleaf, Henry W. Fuller, Beujamiu P. 
 Oilman, and others, procured a "cliarter for a canal and rail- 
 road from Bangor to the Piscataquis river and the slate quar- 
 ries in Piscataquis county, and the construction of the road 
 to Old Town commenced in 1835. At once a violent oppo- 
 sition arose between the rival roads, which resulted in the 
 purchase of the shore road by the owners of the back route. 
 The latter road was completed to Old Town, and the cars 
 commenced to run in November, 183G. The first track was 
 laid with wooden rails, with an iron rail three-fourtlis of an 
 inch thick on the top. The first two engines were of English 
 
EAILKOADS. ■ 89 
 
 build, weighing six or eight tons each. In time heavier rails 
 ■were laid, and larger engines used. It was the second rail- 
 road completed in the United States — the Boston & Lowell 
 being the first. The road at first ended at Brown street, 
 where a large depot was erected. In 1849, the name of the 
 road was changed to "Bangor, Old Town and Milford Rail 
 Road," with the right to cross the river to Milford; and it 
 was extended to the wharf to connect with the up river steam- 
 ers, and one span of the Milford bridge built. In 1854, the 
 franchise passed into the hands of Gen. Samuel Veazie, who 
 completed the bridge to Milford, looking to an extension of 
 the road up the river. Veazie continued to operate the road 
 until 1869, after which the E. & N. A. R'y Company bought 
 the road to escape competition, took down the bridge, and 
 took up the rails. Thus ended an enterprise which cost in 
 the construction more than .|500,000. The first train was 
 run Thanksgiving day, Nov., 1836, and the last train June, 
 1870. 
 
 In 1836, Deodat Brastow, Joseph R. Folsom, Henry Dar- 
 ling, and others, procured a charter, under the title of ''' Pe- 
 nobscot River Rail Road Company," authorizing them to 
 construct a road from Bucksport to Milford, with branches 
 across the river at Bangor, Stillwater, Great Works, and Old 
 Town villages — a very proper and feasible route — but the 
 road was never built — not the first great measure issuing from 
 man's fertile brain that failed of success. 
 
 In 1847, Daniel White, I. Washburn, Jr., Eben Webster, 
 and others, were incorporated by the name of the " Bangor 
 and Orono Railroad Company," and were authorized to build 
 a road from some point in Bangor to the village of Stillwater, 
 in Orono. The town of Orono, under the act of 1849, aided 
 12 
 
90 SKETCHES or OLD TOWN". 
 
 the road to tlie amount of $25,000 ; and individuals sub- 
 scribed largely to the stock. The town in time received back 
 the principal, but lost an equal amount paid in interest ; the 
 individual subscription was an entire loss. The limits of the 
 road were extended in 1850, to Old Town, Bradley and Mil- 
 ford, and the name changed to the " Penobscot Railroad 
 Company. " The Company expended large sums in grading 
 the road bed, and building bridges across the Stillwater river, 
 and the main river at Old Town ; the latter was demolished 
 by the ice, in the spring of 1856. 
 
 In 1850, E. L. Hamlin, A. G. Chandler, John A. Poor, 
 and others were incorporated by the name of " European & 
 North American Railway Company, " and authorized to con- 
 struct a road from Bangor to the City of St. John. It was 
 at first expected that the road would be built from Old 
 Town to Calais, but it was in time thought best to locate it 
 further up the river. In 1863, this Company bought the 
 franchise of the Penobscot Railroad. The road was com- 
 pleted to Old Town, and the first train run in August, 1868, 
 and completed to Mattawamkeag in 1869. Extensive repair 
 and construction shops were erected in Old Town near the 
 depot, which were burned in 1876. The bridge across the 
 main river was blown down in 1873, and in the darkness an 
 engine and tender plunged into the river, having four men 
 on board ; the engineer was killed, but wonderful to relate, 
 the other three escaped with slight bruises. 
 
 In 1852, S. Veazie, A. M. Roberts, E. L. Hamlin, and others, 
 were incorporated as the " Old Town and Lincoln Railroad 
 Company," to extend from Old Town to Mattawamkeag; 
 afterwards, the franchise passed into the hands of the E, & 
 K- A. Railway Company. 
 
KAILKOADS. 91 
 
 In 1858, G. K. Jewett, S. F. Hersey, G. L. Boyuton, E. 
 S. Coe, and others, were incorporated by the narcie of "Aroos- 
 took Railroad Company, " to extend a road from Old Town 
 or Milford to some point in Aroostook county, and was 
 authorized in 1860, to take an assignment of the B., 0. &M. 
 Rail Road, the Penobscot Railroad, or the Old Town and 
 Lincoln Railroad. The route to Mattawamkeag was ulti- 
 mately appropriated by the European & North American 
 Railway Company. 
 
 In 1861, Ira Crocker, James Dunning, and others, were 
 incorporated by the name of the " Bangor and Piscataquis 
 Railroad Company, " and authorized to build a road from 
 Bangor to Katahdin Iron Works, with a branch up the 
 Piscataquis river. The road was completed to Dover, in 
 1869, since which time several sections have been added, and 
 the cars now run to Blanuhard, a point within thirteen miles 
 of Moosehead Lake. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 MILITAEY— MASONS— ODD FELLOWS— TEMPERANCE. 
 
 Military. 
 
 Marsh Island, ia 1824, was assigned as the limits of a 
 militia company, and an election for company officers held at 
 the dwelling-house of Abram Smith, in Orono, June 20, 1824. 
 Richard H. Bartlett was elected Captain ; Andrew Griffin, 
 Lieutenant ; and Thomas G. Clark, Ensign. There were 
 the usual trainings and musters, and in 1882, Andrew Griffin 
 was chosen Captain, and the limits of the company changed 
 so as to include only that part of Marsh Island north of the 
 south line of lot No. 1. In 1834, Nathan Oakes was elected 
 Captain ; his competitor for the position was Aaron Smith, 
 who was the candidate of those persons who wished to cast 
 ridicule and discredit upon the military system ; and it was 
 the belief of many that he received the most votes — but the 
 presiding officer declared Oakes elected. The people, how- 
 ever, were not to be deprived of their rights, and having pro- 
 cured an old Major's commission, signed by John Brooks, 
 Governor of Massachusetts, the original name was erased, and 
 that of Aaron Smith substituted, whereupon he was duly 
 sworn and installed into office, and then training began. If 
 the Major was not able to stand treat, some other did, and 
 
MILITARY. 93 
 
 that Fourth of July, 1834, saw a large military display. Ira 
 Wadleigh was standard bearer, and the Hue in double file, 
 marching order, extended nearly from the Wadleigh House 
 to the lower tavern, or nearly one hundred rods in length. 
 
 There was not much attention paid to military duty for 
 several years, and Capt. Oakes was court-martialed and dis- 
 charged for neglect. The company limits, in 1837, were ex- 
 tended across Stillwater river to the west line of the town. 
 Stover Rines was elected Captain, who, having the irieans to 
 do so, succeeded in infusing some spirit, if not the true mili- 
 tary one, into the people, and large trainings were had for 
 several years — the company at one time appearing upon the 
 muster-field more than one hundred strong, dressed in red 
 shirt uniforms. In 1841, James H. Burgess, was chosen Cap- 
 tain, and after his retirement, Isaac Staples was his successor, 
 and he was the last official survivor of the Old Town militia. 
 During Captain Staples' term of service. Major Aaron Smith 
 appeared once more upon the stage of action ; on one of the 
 training days, he came upon the ground mounted upon a 
 horse, with a sash around his waist, and decked out with all 
 the toggery that rougish genious could invent. He issued 
 various orders, which, instead of being obeyed, served but to 
 rouse the ire of the soldiery, and various attempts were made 
 to arrest him for disturbance, which he, being mounted, man- 
 ao-ed to evade for some time. At length a team loaded with 
 hay came along, and the Major thoughtlessly rode in between 
 that and the company as it was marching along, when by an 
 adroit movement. Captain Staples threw out a skirmish line 
 from right and left flank, enclosing the Major against the load 
 of hay, when he was taken prisoner, and ignominiously put 
 under guard until the company was dismissed ; while in dur- 
 
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 ance vile, the Major expressed regret that he did not think to 
 leave his horse, and escape by climbing over the load of hay. 
 
 In 1834, the Old Town Light Infantry v^as organized, vs'ith 
 George W. Cummings as Captain, who, after serving six 
 years, was promoted to Colonel. His successor as Captain, 
 was Ephraim B. Pierce, who held the office until the military 
 spirit died out, when the company disbanded. 
 
 Under the act of 1848, a rifle company was raised here, 
 and furnished with good serviceable rifles by the State, and 
 some of them were found to be very accurate. N. H. Saw- 
 telle Avas the Captain elected at the organization. The 
 company did duty several years. Winslow Staples was the 
 next Captain, and since that time the company has not been 
 heard of — nor the rifles either. 
 
 Under the act of 1869, designating ten companies of uni- 
 formed militia to be selected, armed and uniformed by the 
 State, a company, in 1871, was enrolled here, and upon being 
 organized, Melville M. Folsom was chosen Captain. The 
 company was made up of hardy material, selected from our 
 lumbermen mostly, and upon the muster field ranked with 
 the best companies in the line. Upon the promotion of Capt. 
 Folsom to the rank of Major, Henry A. Pratt succeeded him 
 as Captain, serving two j'ears, when he resigned, and Oscar 
 E. W. Hinckley was promoted to Captain ; in 1879 he re- 
 signed, and Edgar A. B. Weeks was chosen Captain, and is 
 now serving in that position. 
 
 In case of an emergency, this uniformed and trained militia 
 must be the dependence of the proper authorities for preserv- 
 ing the peace from mobs, insurrection or invasion ; and it is 
 weU. that the State, in its paternal care, should keep this 
 right arm of its safety in good temper and working order. 
 
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 One thing is true, and remarkable as true, that in any emer- 
 gency which has arisen in the state, where it became neces- 
 sary to call upon the military for aid, it has never failed to 
 sustain the officers of the law — a proud record for the much 
 reviled mOitary organizations of the state. 
 
 Masons and Odd Fellows. 
 
 In summing up the memories of Old Town, one would 
 hardly be justified in omitting some notice of these charitable 
 organizations. To those who have watched their progress, 
 there is evidence that many a want has been supplied, many 
 a pain soothed, many a despondent mind cheered, by the 
 ministrations of these brotherhoods. It may be urged that 
 such aid is but enforced charity, and so is the support of in- 
 digent persons, obhged to be maintained at the public expense; 
 yet while the latter bears the opprobrious name of pauper, the 
 former is saved from that ignominy, as he receives only what 
 is justly his due, and what he is under obligation to render 
 to others who may be placed in like circumstances. If it be 
 involuntary charity, it has this redeeming feature — it is 
 rendered just where and at the precise time when needed, 
 and imposes no dishonor or humiliation upon the recipient. 
 
 "Star in the East" Lodge of Masons, was organized in 
 1840, and has maintained a prosperous existence through the 
 past years, and now numbers one hundred and fifty-eight 
 members. 
 
 " Tarratine " Lodge of Odd Fellows was organized in 1845, 
 and has always been one of the most prompt lodges in the 
 jurisdiction — and now numbers eighty members in good 
 standing. 
 
96 sketches op old town. 
 
 Temperance. 
 
 This is a subject which is entitled to some notice in these 
 sketches, and although this locality may to many be an un- 
 promising field of harvest in that direction, yet Old Town has 
 a temperance history that might do credit even to larger and 
 more pretentious localities. The Indian, being the original 
 occupant of the land, first claims our attention. It is a well 
 known fact in history that the red man has a natural taste 
 for, and quickly acquires an appetite for intoxicating bever- 
 age, and when able to procure it will indulge its use, regard- 
 less of time, place or consequences — and' when under the in- 
 fluence of the "fire water," displays all the evil propensities, 
 passions and vengeance of his brutal uncultivated nature. 
 Up to a period within some thirty years, a teetotaller was 
 scarcely known amongst theiii, although there was occasion- 
 ally an honorable exception. This appetite and its unbridled 
 license, led to frequent accidents, contentions and bloodshed. 
 Quite a list might be made up of those who' have died from 
 the effects of exposure, or have frozen to death while under 
 its baleful influence. Some funny incidents have taken place 
 as well, one of which is worth relating. 
 
 One stalwart, able bodied Indian, slightly past the middle 
 age, had been indulging his appetite pretty freely during the 
 day, and late in the evening started in his canoe from Old 
 Town village, to paddle over to the island. The next seen 
 of him was the following morning, lying in the bottom of his 
 canoe, fast asleep, circling around in Shad Rips eddy, having 
 safely navigated Old Town falls in that unconscious state. • 
 Imagination only, can depict the wonderful voyage. Guided 
 by instinct, he paddles across the river, and safely anchors 
 his bark upon the sandy beach at the foot of the island ; too 
 
TEMPEBANCE. 97 
 
 much intoxicated and helpless to attempt to reach his cabin, 
 he stretches himself down in the bottom of the canoe and 
 falls asleep, and while he dreams " of some safe retreat in 
 depths of wood embraced, or some happier island in the wa- 
 tery waste, "the rising of the water or the action of the wind 
 loosens the bark from the shore, and it is caught up and car- 
 ried by the current into the vortex of the roaring cataract ; 
 onward it goes, with constantly increasing speed as it ap- 
 proaches the fatal declivity; one moment it trembles upon 
 the brink, as if indued with instinct, and conscious of the 
 watery ordeal through which it must pass ; it lingers but an 
 instant, and with a fearful plunge is engulphed in the foam- 
 ing boiling cauldron, to be forever obscured from human 
 vision! But no ! its buoyant nature and nicely adjusted bal- 
 last of unconscious human existence causes it to rise upon the 
 towering wave and shoot away upon the current to a haven 
 of safety in the eddy below, where during the long and si- 
 lent watches of the night, the starry sentinels obscured by 
 thickening vapors, it goes in eddying circles round and round 
 on miniature wavelets gently rocked till morn, when its on- 
 ward progress is arrested by some friendly hand, and the 
 poor inebriate, half unconscious still, is rescued from his peril- 
 ous situation. 
 
 Occasional attempts have been made to effect individual 
 reformation. Two instances may be mentioned, which were 
 entirely successful. In one case the individual, when under 
 the influence of liquor, developed a very ungovernable tem- 
 per, which was dangerous and annoying. At one time being 
 in Old Town village, and pretty drunk, he got into a high 
 passion, and out of spite he dashed into the river and attempt- 
 ed to swim over to the island, but before reaching the shore 
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 sunk from exhaustion ; some of his neighbors, seeing his situa- 
 tion, went in a canoe to his rescue, and seeing him lying upon 
 the bottom of the river, some of the more sensitive ones de- 
 sired to make an immediate effort to rescue him, but one 
 older and more prudent head suggested that they should wait 
 until he was " done bubbling ; " the others, perceiving the 
 propriety of the suggestion, assented to it, and when they 
 took him ashore it was necessary to bury him — and he never 
 hankered for " fire water " afterwards. 
 
 Another method, adopted by one of the priests, was quite 
 as effectual. It was known as the " sweating cure ; " the pro- 
 cess was to dig a hole in the ground, and with boughs to 
 build an arbor over it ; then to heat a lot of rocks and put 
 into the hole, seating the victim in the arbor, close up the en- 
 trance and let him sweat for a longer or shorter time, accord- 
 ing to the turpitude of the offence. One old chap, who had 
 been punished quite a number of times without effecting a 
 reformation, came again under the notice ojF the priest, who 
 determined to give him a dose that he would remember ; so 
 heating a larger lot of rocks than usual, and making the arbor 
 thicker and closer, let the victim remain so long that when 
 taken out life was extinct, and the cure was certainly effect- 
 ual. The idea of the reformer no doubt was, to impress upon 
 the mind of the culprit the horrors of a purgatory hereafter, 
 and thus effect a moral reformation which would deter him 
 from the evil of his ways. From that time, this method of 
 discipline seems to have been discontinued. 
 
 For some thirty years past, about half of the tribe have 
 been and are strict temperance people. At the present time, 
 one is obliged to admit that intemperance is on the increase, 
 especially amongst the younger members of the tribe. 
 
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 The subject of temperance does not assume a much more 
 attractive phase when we turn to the white inhabitants of the 
 town. In the days of the first settlement of the town, and 
 to as late a period as 1840, the congregation of people here, 
 to find employment in the lumber business, brought together 
 in large numbers men of rough habits, Avho to a great extent, 
 were in the habit of using intoxicating liquor in just such 
 quantities as the appetite demanded, and no one was thought 
 the less of for drinking, even to excess ; in fact, one was likely 
 to be ostracised unless he drank occasionally in order to de- 
 monstrate his boon companionship. 
 
 From year to year, the town was in the habit of passing a 
 vote to allow retailers to sell rum, brandy, and gin, to be 
 drank in their shops. In 1832, the town, mainly through the 
 efforts and influence of Jeremiah Perley, Esq., then a prac- 
 ticing lawyer in the town, voted not to license any one to 
 sell ardent spirits — and occasionally since that time the town 
 has passed a similar vote. 
 
 About the year 1840, a Washingtonian Society was formed 
 here. John B. Smith was one of the leaders in the move- 
 ment. The cause progressed with wonderful rapidity, and 
 in 1842 a board of temperance men were elected Selectmen 
 upon that issue ; and since that time, whenever the question 
 of temperance has been the issue, the town has uniformly voted 
 on that side ; and it remained for the year 1880 to witness the 
 spectacle of the town refusing to elect men as Constables on 
 the ground that they would enforce, so far as they could, the 
 prohibitory liquor law. Various instrumentalities have been 
 used by its advocates in aid of the temperance reformation, 
 each in its turn doing something of good, but ultimately dy- 
 ing out when excitement and novelty had worn off. First in 
 order, was the attempt to enforce the prohibitory law en- 
 
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 acted during the administration of John Hubbard, but the 
 methods taken to procure evidence and insure conviction 
 retarded rather than advanced the temperance cause, and 
 disgusted many of its warmest advocates. 
 
 The next effort was the organization of a division of the 
 " Sons of Temperance," and in connection therewith a club 
 of Kechabites ; these orders flourished five or six years, and 
 died of enui. In time the "Good Templars" took the field, 
 and have gone into decay, and have been revived twice, and 
 are now living in a semi-conscious state. In 1869, a "Temple 
 of Honor" was instituted here, flourishing a few years, and 
 had nearly expired ; but in 1874 a revival took place, to be 
 at the present time plunged in a deathlike stupor. 
 
 In 1874, a Reform Club was started up, and for a season, 
 while the excitement lasted, was a very efficient power in 
 winning the votaries of strong drink from the error of their 
 ways. Alas ! that some of the most active and efficient work- 
 ers in the Club should have gone back upon their bright and 
 proud record, and have returned to the slime, filth, and deg- 
 radation of the drunkard's career. 
 
 About the same time, some of the noble ladies of the vicin- 
 ity, organized a "Union Temperance Crusade," led to the ef- 
 fort by the example and success of the Ladies Temperance 
 Crusade in some of the western states. This order was for a 
 time very effective in its work, and much good was done ; but 
 when its novelty had been dimmed, some left from jealousy, 
 some from indifference, and others from the necessity of em- 
 ploying their time in useful labor, until now the Crusade has 
 been obliged to suspend its weekly meetings for want of the 
 necessary support and encouragement. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
 
 Samuel H. Meeeill. 
 
 Was a Congregationalist pastor, a man of distinguished 
 ability, personally attractive, of the greatest suavity of man- 
 ner and address, winning his way into the good graces and 
 opinions of all classes of society — and especially careful not 
 to mar one's feelings by noticing any personal defect or mis- 
 fortune. In conversation with a friend, one day, apparently 
 oblivious of the fact that he had but one hand, he asked him 
 if he played the bass viol. He was of that kind of temper- 
 ament which required a good deal of exercise, and he was 
 fond of getting away into the forest and spending a week or 
 so in hunting and fishing — and even this did not prevent him 
 from pursuing his theological studies. What man with a true 
 heart can be abroad in the boundless forest, and not worship 
 the Creator ? It is Nature's vast cathedral. Once he related 
 to the author a circumstance which gave an insight into hia 
 inner nature. He had been out on a hunting cruise in the 
 vicinity of Lowell, and to get home had to travel alone, over 
 a rough road, a distance of seven miles ; he had engaged to 
 deliver a discourse at some future day, and as he trudged 
 along the devious way, he was conning over in his mind the 
 subject of his lecture, and he became so absorbed in his med- 
 itations that he forgot all about the passage of time, and ar- 
 rived at his destination all unconscious that he had been trav- 
 
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 elling at all. He once owned and occupied the house now 
 owned by James Y. Eichardson ; and his memory is still cher- 
 ished by the neighbors, who were intimate with him. 
 
 He once visited the logging camp of Isaac Staples, situated 
 on the Passadumkeag stream. The party rode in a double 
 sleigh — the parson on the front seat with the driver. Staples 
 had taken something warming along in a bottle with him, and 
 occasionally he and his companion on the back seat would 
 resort slily to its cheering solace, not intending to let the 
 parson into the secret, knowing him to be a strict teetotaller 
 — and they were greatly taken aback, after arriving at the 
 camp, when the parson very innocently remarked that as they 
 came along, he " heard something go guggle, guggle," and 
 inquired if they knew what it was. Their surprise and cha- 
 grin was something to behold. He was very fond of children. 
 Fannie Norton, being of about the same age, was a constant 
 companion of Susan and Marion— and the parson was ever 
 ready to unbend himself and " become a boy again," and was 
 as much interested as they were in a game of romp or hide 
 and seek ; and in case of a marriage ceremony, the girls must 
 be hunted up to witness the happy nuptials. 
 
 Charles Blai^chakd. 
 
 Was a Baptist minister, and was in some sort the builder 
 of the Baptist society here, over which he faithfully served 
 as pastor for ten j-ears. He superintended the enlargement 
 and change of the Lovejoy school house, into a meeting 
 house, which served the society for many years, and until the 
 erection of a more elegant church a few rods to the north of 
 it, in 1854. Both the old and new church were consumed 
 by fire on the day of Lincoln's funeral, in 1865. He was one 
 of the most busy and industrious of men, always toiling at 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 103 
 
 some kind of employment, as imbued with a vision of want 
 or poverty against which he must provide. Meeting him one 
 day returning from his Pushaw farm, where he had been 
 working, covered with dust and soil from the land, we hailed 
 him cheerfully, and made the inquiry if it was not about time 
 for him to cease from manual labor — adding that he had 
 enough of worldly goods to carry him through the few re- 
 maining years allotted to man. His reply was, " I want to 
 get a little more." As was his habit of toiling, so the bent 
 of his mind was to look upon the toilsome, laborious, and 
 burdensome side of life ; and yet the old gentleman had a 
 spice of mirth about him, and could tell a funny story with 
 a good deal of zest. And so theologically, he thought more 
 of, and put more stress upon, the toilsome wanderings of the 
 children of Israel in the wilderness, and the unhappy banish- 
 ment of St. John upon the Isle of Patmos, than he did upon 
 the more pleasing and happy incidents of life in their com- 
 plete fulfillment. One Sabbath Norton and his wife attended 
 church, and listened to one of his occasional happy discourses, 
 in which he sometimes rose above his ordinary depression. 
 On the way borne, Mrs. Norton remarked that she was never 
 going to hear Mr. Blanchard preach again, and when asked 
 the reason why, replied that in that discourse he had got the 
 children of Israel into the promised land, and she was afraid 
 if she went again, he might dissolve the charm and get them 
 back into the wilderness. 
 
 William McDonald. 
 
 Was a Methodist preacher, and was stationed here a couple 
 of years. He was a young man of considerable talent, and 
 has since risen to some eminence in his profession. He used 
 to hold forth in the old meeting house on Front street. At 
 
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 one of ,his eveuing meetings, he invited any one present to 
 join in the exercises. Aaron H. Johnson, improving the op- 
 portunity, made some talk in his usual muddy style. McDon- 
 ald did not approve the sentiment advanced, nor did he an- 
 swer the arguments, or thought them unworthy of reply, and 
 to close the controversy dropped upon his knees and began 
 to pray, and amongst the fervent petitions sent up to the 
 throne of grace, was one " that the Lord would make John- 
 son's heart as soft as his head. " The boys then and there 
 gave McDonald an encore. 
 
 Daniel H. Mansfield. 
 
 Was a Methodist minister, and was stationed here for two 
 years. He was very much imbued with the spirit of his di- 
 vine mission, and not only carried it out in his action, but he 
 talked it and sung it. He was a fine singer, and accompanied 
 his voice with the violin, which he was inordinately fond of, 
 and played with a great deal of skill and intelligent science. 
 Many a good sing we have had together, and the aroma of its 
 spirit still lingers around its memories. And yet, under all 
 his honest piety, he had a natural temper, which would some- 
 times flash out beyond his control. He lived in one part of 
 the Moses Brown house, and Norton lived in the other part. 
 One day in the month of February, Mrs. Mansfield and Mrs. 
 Norton passed the day with Mrs. Hiram Smith, and in the 
 evening Mansfield and Norton joined the group ; it was the 
 season of the February thaw, and it begun to rain in the af- 
 ternoon, and rained powerfully all the evening ; there was a 
 great depth of snow upon the ground. About ten o'clock, 
 the party began to talk about goiug home, but on account of 
 the storm, Mrs. Smith urged the party to stay all night, and 
 especially the ladies ; but Mrs. Mansfield demurred, and the 
 
BIOGKAPHICAL. 105 
 
 persuasions of the whole company had no effect to change 
 her determination. So they started for home ; the wind blew 
 so hard that no one could carry an umbrella, and thus they 
 had to brave the whole force of the storm, sinking into the 
 snow nearly a foot at every step ; arriving near home they 
 found the ditch which they must cross, on the side of the road, 
 filled with water, and in the attempt to cross it Mrs. Mans- 
 field managed to slip and fall at full length upon her back 
 right in the deepest of the puddle, which was deep enough to 
 half cover her person. Mansfield took no notice of her, nor 
 offered to help her, but trudged along into the house and left 
 her to get out of the trouble as best she could, which she, 
 being very nimble, and urged in her efforts by the chilling 
 water, readily did. Norton aided his wife along to the gate, 
 and the path being narrow, allowed her to go from there by 
 herself to the door. The house had settled in the centre, 
 and all the water from the roof was pouring in a deluge from 
 the gutter directly upon the door-steps. When Mrs. Norton 
 arrived there her strength was so much exhausted that she 
 was unable to step up into the house, and stood there in a 
 dazed condition, with that flood pouring upon her until her 
 husband arrived and helped her into the house. It is unnec- 
 essary to add that the party was somewhat damp. 
 
 Leonakd p. Feench. 
 
 A very worthy preacher of the Methodist persuasion, sta- 
 tioned here several years, making by his open, genial and 
 true manly disposition, a host of friends wherever his lot 
 might happen to cast him. In after years he very deservedly 
 rose to the position of presiding elder in his denomination. 
 
 Joseph C. Feench. 
 
 Brother of L. P. French, and likewise a Methodist minis- 
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 ter. When rebellion stalked forth in the land, his patriotic 
 spirit would not allow him to sit idly by and see the govern- 
 ment he so much respected, ruthlessly destroyed by rebel 
 hands — and following out the injunction to " be obedient to 
 the powers that be," he enlisted in company E, fourteenth 
 regiment Maine volunteers, and went with it to New Orleans. 
 He was promoted to Captain, and wounded at the battle of 
 Baton Rouge ; was afterwards put on board of a transport 
 to be sent to the hospital at New Orleans. The steamer was 
 sunk on the passage, and Capt. French was lost, with others, 
 in the unfortunate wreck. 
 
 Nathaniel Haynes. 
 
 Lawyer ; born and brought up in Livermore ; his father was 
 a Baptist clergyman ; came here in 1825 ; stayed here about 
 two years, and then moved to Bangor. Was interested in 
 the publication of the Eastern Republican ; married the 
 daughter of William D. Williamson, the historian of Maine. 
 Jeremiah Peklet. 
 
 Lawyer; commenced the practice of law in this place in 
 1829, and remained three years. He compiled a legal work 
 which was known as " Perley's Justice," which was a guide 
 and text book for Justices of the Peace, until the revision of 
 the Statutes in 1842. He was a thorough out-spoken tem- 
 perance man, and had no hesitation in boldly avowing his 
 sentiments — a wonder, considering the locality and age in 
 which he lived. I have had no opportunity to inquire what 
 became of him. 
 Geoege W. Ingersoll. 
 
 Lawyer; settled here in 1832; was a whig in politics, 
 was an attentive counsel, and careful of the interest of his 
 clients, and was Collector of the port of Bangor under John 
 
BIOGKAPHICAL. 107 
 
 Tyler. He was to some extent eDgaged in land speculation 
 with J. C. Bradbury. From the time he came into the town 
 until the division of the town in 1840, there was a good deal 
 of rivalry between this village and Lower Stillwater. In 
 1838, the annual spring meeting was called at the " Cradle 
 of Liberty. " There being a good deal of excitement in re- 
 gard to which village should carry the day, caused a general 
 turnout of the voters. 
 
 IngersoU was chosen Moderator, and the school house not 
 being large enough to hold the crowd, the meeting was ad- 
 journed to the depot, and an open box car served as a stand 
 for the Moderator. When twelve o'clock came, a motion was 
 made to adjourn for dinner; the Orono folks objected, as they 
 were so far from home they would have to stay so much 
 longer without food ; the Moderator put the motion, and de- 
 clared it a vote, and before a doubt could be heard, as many 
 hands as could get around the car, started out of the depot, 
 carrying the Moderator with it, and the meeting was of course 
 adjourned. The business could not be finished in one day, 
 and the meeting was adjourned one week, to meet at Upper 
 Stillwater. On assembling there, the school house was too 
 small, and the meeting was adjourned to the toll bridge. Ex- 
 Governor Washburn was very active, and somewhat noisy ; 
 and in order to get the attention of the Moderator, climbed 
 up into the X-work of the bridge, and kept calling out, " Mr. 
 Moderator ! " At length IngersoU got out of patience, and 
 remarked, " If I had a squirt gun I would bring you down.'' 
 The meeting was divided on the question at issue. Old Town 
 taking one side of the bridge, and Orono the other; Old 
 Town came out twenty-five ahead. One old gentleman who 
 had favored the Orono side, when he found out how it was 
 
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 comiug out, crawled through the X-worlc, on to the Old 
 Town side of the bridge. The result of this meeting led to 
 a division of the town. 
 
 William T. Hilliaed. 
 
 Lawyer; came here in 1833 ; was quite popular with the 
 masses, and was chosen Clerk of Courts in 1847, against the 
 regular nominee of the democratic party — this town giving 
 him almost a unanimous vote. He then moved to Bangor, 
 and held the office some twelve years. 
 John H. Hilliaed. 
 
 Lawyer; many years a partner with his brother, Wm. T., 
 in law business, and still resides here — but most unfortunately, 
 on account of rheumatic difficulty in his lower limbs, he is 
 deprived of the power of locomotion, and is obliged to remain 
 in doors. He has held the office of Town Clerk, Superin- 
 tending School Committee, Selectman, Representative to the 
 Legislature, and County Attorney, all of which positions he 
 filled with honor and ability'; came here in January, 1834. 
 
 Samuel Cony. 
 
 Lawyer ; came to Old Town in 1833 ; was a good counsel- 
 lor, but not a brilliant advocate. He early took a prominent 
 position in the town, and in the second year of his residence 
 here, was elected to the Legislature ; was on the first board 
 of Selectmen after the town was incorporated ; in time was 
 appointed Judge of Probate, and moved to Bangor; after- 
 wards removed to Augusta ; he served several years as State 
 Treasurer, and was afterwards elected Governor, and served 
 three years ; constituting one of the galaxy of war Governors, 
 whose names are written upon the scroll of fame, to be handed 
 down the pathway of honored remembrance for all coming 
 time. I lived his neighbor for several years, and ever hold in 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 109 
 
 pleasant remembrance that honored marital companion of his, 
 beautiful in personal charms, yet more lovely in all the graces 
 and virtues which adorn womanhood. 
 
 Ezra C. Brett. 
 
 Lawyer ; succeeded H. P. A. Smith, in 1847, and took his 
 business and law library ; was for several years Secretary of 
 the Senate of Maine, which position he left on being elected 
 Clerk of Courts. In 1871, he removed to Bangor. He held 
 the office of Clerk twelve years — and performed its duties 
 to the acceptance of Court and attornies. 
 John B. Morgan. 
 
 Emigrated here in 1824 ; was a blacksmith, and worked at 
 the business occasionally ; but he preferred to work upon the 
 water, and had the reputation of being one of the smartest 
 watermen upon the river. In the stirring times from 1832 to 
 1838, he entered largely into land speculation, and was lucky 
 enough to make a fortune out of it. He, with others, got up 
 the stock of the Bank of Old Town, and he was elected as 
 president. A suitable building had to be erected, and he was 
 appointed agent to superintend its erection. The bank build- 
 ing stands to-day the solitary monument of the labor per- 
 formed. One day Morgan and one of his Boston acquaint- 
 ances were looking on the progress of the work ; among the 
 workmen was a loud-voiced, active, and energetic teamster ; 
 the Bostonian remarked that he was the most industrious 
 Irishman he ever saw. It hardly needs to be added that Mor- 
 gan did not inform his speculating friend that the supposed 
 son of Erin was his brother Henry. 
 
 When the Orthodox church wanted a bell, it was suggested 
 to Morgan that he and Rines should together buy one, but to 
 this Morgan demurred, saying he did not want a bell which 
 
110 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 " rang Stover Rines half of the time, and John B. Morgan 
 half of the time "—so he paid the full price, five hundred 
 dollars, and the church got a bell which " rang John B. Mor- 
 gan " all the time, until it was melted in the funeral pyre of 
 Abraham Lincoln, in April, 1865. 
 
 On one of his speculating trips, he stopped at one of the 
 crack hotels in the city of New York. In order to make an 
 impression upon those with whom he was trying to negotiate, 
 he had to treat pretty liberally ; he was there a couple of days, 
 and when about to depart, called for his bill, supposing that 
 it might be twenty or twenty-five dollars — but when present- 
 ed it amounted to over ninety dollars ; he was surprised, but 
 equal to the occasion, and threw down a hundred dollar bill, 
 with the remark, "Make it an even hundred — no matter 
 about any change back." 
 
 Jefferson St. Clair. 
 
 Came herein connection with Rufus Dwinel; was boom 
 master some five years ; was quite extensively engaged in 
 lumbering business ; was an energetic and enterprising man, 
 and was the successor to John B. Morgan as president of the 
 Bank of Old Town. During his administration of the bank 
 affairs, the financial crisis of 1837 reached its culmination, 
 and this bank, with many others, succumbed to the force of 
 the storm. His style of doing business was like this : He 
 and Purinton had rented some shore to lay logs upon ; some 
 one had hitched logs there, and Purinton had posted a notice 
 requesting the owners to remove them. After the notice 
 was up, St. Clair added the words, " or they will all be moved 
 at once." He afterwards emigrated to Wisconsin, became in- 
 sane, and put an end to his own life. 
 
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 William H. Smith. 
 
 Came to Old Town in 1828. His first business was batteau 
 making, but soon engaged in the lumber business, and was 
 one of the very few who drew a prize in that lottery. He 
 cut a lot of logs on the Passadumkeag, which was the second 
 lot upon the river, that brought so high a price as ten dollars 
 per M. He was the principal stockholder in the Lumber- 
 man's Bank, of which he was the president. By close atten- 
 tion to business, vigor, and good financial ability, his capital 
 has largely expanded, and he is now reckoned as one of the 
 solid capitalists. He removed to Bangor — and is now a citi- 
 zen of Brooklyn, N". Y., and has the pleasure of sitting under 
 the preaching of Henry Ward Beecher. 
 
 Edward Smith. 
 
 Was here for a few years before 1830. He bought town- 
 ship No. 6, range 10, on the East Branch, for the small price 
 of five cents an acre — the township yielding to the State the 
 trifling sum of eleven hundred dollars. The number of the 
 township, on account of the circumstances of the trade, ad- 
 hered to him ever after, and he was known by the sobriquet 
 of " No. 6 Smith." He was associated with his brother Sam- 
 uel in business ; Samuel was a reckless sort of business man, 
 and one time he undertook some trade with Massachusetts, 
 about timber lands, but not succeeding according to his wish, 
 he flew into a passion, and rushing into the office of Jona- 
 than P. Rogers, demanded to know what he could do to ruin 
 the States of Maine and Massachusetts. " Go into partner- 
 ship with them," was the calm but curt reply of Rogers. 
 The No. 6 town in time fell into the hands of I. & J. Wad- 
 leigh, who lumbered from it several years, and then sold it 
 for 120,000. I have been so situated as to know about the 
 
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 quantity of lumber cut on the town since that time, and after 
 a careful estimate am satisfied that the stumpage amounts to 
 more than $300,000. If the Wadleighs had retained the 
 town, and done nothing but grant permits and collect the 
 stumpage, they might have left a larger fortune to their heirs 
 than they did. 
 
 Robert Wyman. 
 
 Was a hanger-on about Old Town, and was found of go- 
 ing to court as a witness, and in almost every case he would 
 make it appear, that he knew enough about it, to induce one 
 party or the other to summon him. Coming up from court 
 one cold day in January, he landed^from the stage at the 
 Wadleigh House ; the warm bar room fire, and the hotter 
 fire behind the bar, soon thawed him out, and as he sat toast- 
 ing his shins, first the right and then the left, he declared 
 with a good deal of bombast, that " he had been down to the 
 court, and was a witness in fourteen cases, and did not lose 
 but one of them." 
 
 David Oene. 
 
 Kept a rum shop, and is not worth our notice, except for 
 a little circumstance that took place, and which was some- 
 what damaging to his wallet. One day business made it 
 necessary for him to go to Bangor, and he left his brother 
 Benjamin in charge of the shop, with full diplomatic authori- 
 ty to dispense the needful to any and all customers that 
 might happen along. Now Ben liked a drop of the fluid 
 himself, and his situation, combined with his appetite, made 
 him the most frequent customer at the tap; he soon became 
 so confused as to somewhat unfit him for the proper manage- 
 ment of the business ; in this state of affairs, a loafer called 
 for a drink, and after swallowing it, he told Ben to mark it 
 
BIOGBAPHICAL. 118 
 
 down, which he at once did by making a straight mark with 
 chalk upon the partition, without the formality of appending 
 the name of the debtor. Very soon another loafer happened 
 along, and not only took a drink, but treated his friend, and 
 Ben was told to mark them down, which Ben did by putting 
 two more chalk marks alongside of the first one. Of course 
 such a state of things was too good to keep, and customers 
 became numerous and greedy, and Ben found his hands full 
 in passing the decanters and chalking down the drinks. But 
 longest day and darkest night must have an end — and it is 
 easy to perceive that with such a run of custom, the stock of 
 liquor would in a short time be entirely exhausted, which 
 really happened long before David returned. When he did 
 return, he came into the shop with a beaming smile, and, see- 
 ing the decanters empty, asked Ben why he did not fill them 
 up. "Nothing to fill them with," says Ben. "What, all out 
 of the keg?" asks David, giving one of them a shake, and 
 finding it empty. " Have been pretty busy to-day," says 
 David, in imagination seeing a full till of real chink, and go- 
 ing along, he hauled the money drawer out, but only to find 
 it empty. In great surprise, he exclaims, " Where is all th e 
 money ? " " Havn't taken any," says Ben. "Where is all the 
 liquor?" " Up there, " says Ben, pointing to the chalk marks 
 on the partition. " Where ? " asks David, in evident confu- 
 sion, seeing nothing but a long line of straight chalk marks 
 upon the side of the room. " I tell you it is up there," says 
 Ben, beginning to feel his temper rise at the obtuseness of 
 his brother. David never collected anything of that account. 
 
 Timothy Barnaed. 
 
 Was a good christian man in outward seeming, and of a 
 kind neighborly disposition. He was in company with Wm. 
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114 SKETCHES OP OLD TOWN. 
 
 A. Cheaver at one time, in the manufacture of the various 
 kinds of short lumber, which was holden to one of the Bangor 
 dealers for supplies advanced to carry on the business. As 
 the season drew on towards its close, it became evident to 
 them that they were doing a losing business, and not liking 
 the idea of working all summer for nothing, with not a dollar 
 laid by for winter's necessities, they managed to run six hun- 
 dred dollars worth of the lumber to Bangor, in the name of 
 James Purinton, who pocketed the whole of the proceeds, and 
 when the deacon intimated to him aftewards that he would 
 like to have the amount paid over to him, Purinton didn't 
 know anything about it, and the company saved nothing 
 by the operation. Barnard related the facts of the case one 
 time, and wound up the recital with the query in his lisping 
 style, " Wan't Purinton a drefful rascal ? " not thinking that 
 others might believe that they were all in one boat. The 
 deacon, one day, looking at the grove on Academy hill, which 
 is noticed from every hill top in the vicinity as an oasis 
 which has afforded a pleasant shade to so many, and a nice 
 play-ground for the children, remarked to neighbor Sewall 
 "he should think Norton would cut down that grove of his, 
 and plant potatoes, it would be more profit," forgetting, no 
 doubt, for the time being, the question "What shall it profit 
 a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul, or 
 what will a man give in exchange for his soul." 
 
 Thomas Gullifer. 
 
 Was early here, and was one of the landmarks in our social 
 history, and when we take into consideration his want of ed- 
 ucation, and the influences which surrounded him, his life, 
 though a rough one, will compare favorably with that of ma- 
 ny who claim to be ranked in the higher walks of life and so- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 115 
 
 ciety. He left a numerous progeny, who make a large figure 
 in the census statistics. He delighted to tell the story of his 
 early exploits, how he used "to run rafts of lumber up and 
 down the Kennebec, and used always to sell to one man, Bart 
 & Nason, and when he did not sell to them he sold to some- 
 one else." He was upon the wharf one day, looking at one 
 of those stern wheel steamers as it started up the river. Af- 
 ter gazing at it for a while as it went plowing its way on 
 through the water, he pensively remarked, " That wheel is 
 great sarvice to that boat ! " 
 
 Eli Hoskins. 
 
 Came here before 1830 ; was in trade for a while with Aus- 
 tin Russ, in the dry goods line. He spent a portion of his 
 time in New Brunswick ; was fond of riding on horseback, 
 and in one of his trips home brought with him a willow twig, 
 which he used as a riding stick ; he set it out in the comer of 
 his lot, next to the street, and it has since grown into a tree 
 more than four feet in diameter, and is the original stock of 
 all that class of willows in this village. He prepared the land 
 and set the trees of the orchard now owned by Ezra Perkins, 
 Esq., and was fond of saying that in after years, when he and 
 his cotemporaries should be laid at rest, it would be known 
 as " the orchard." The Colonel was fond of telling stories, 
 and some of them were so Munchausen like, that many people 
 believed that sometimes he drew largely upon his imagina- 
 tion. He owned years ago the original lot No. 13, tipon 
 which the orchard now is, which run up a mile into the 
 woods, and one Stevens, of Massachusetts, owned a lot along- 
 side. Hoskins wanted some cedar posts, and so did George 
 P. Sewall — and they conferred together about the best method 
 of procuring some. Finally, Sewall said to him one day, " I 
 
116 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 know where there is some cedar we can get, and it is not far 
 away." So they agreed upon a time, and started to look at 
 it. As they were going along, Sewall said, " Do you think it 
 would be much out of the way to cut a few sticks of cedar 
 on old Stevens' ? he is a non-resident, and don't care any- 
 thing about Old Town." The Colonel did not say "yes" or 
 " no," but still went on, assenting by action, if not by word. 
 They went into the woods just beyond the Academy hill, and 
 after traveling awhile, Sewall said, pointing around at the 
 growth, "What do you think of that?" "Why, it is a 
 splendid growth of cedar," replied the Colonel. So they en- 
 tered into an arrangement that the Colonel was to do the 
 cutting, and Sewall's team to haul the cedar, one-half to Hos- 
 kins and one-half to himself. They got out a splendid lot of 
 posts, some of which are still standing in Sewall's front fence. 
 After they had procured what posts they wanted, Sewall 
 said, " You see that pine ; I want twenty feet of the but of 
 it, and if you will take it down, I will haul the rest to you." 
 Down came the pine, and part of it went into rails for the 
 Colonel's front yard fence. They got through without being 
 disturbed, and the Colonel breathed more freely. As for 
 Sewall, he had no difficulty of respiration during the opera- 
 tion. In the spring following, the Colonel had occasion to 
 trace the lines of his lot. As he went along on the line, he 
 came to a place where some one had been trespassing upon 
 his side of the boundary ; he began to look around, and it 
 seemed to him that the place had a strangely familiar look. 
 " Why, yes ! that pine stump, and those cedar stnmps — they 
 have got the very nick marks of the axe I have been using." 
 All at once it dawned upon the Colonel's mind that he and 
 Sewall, instead of trespassing upon old Stevens, had been 
 cutting his own trees. The Colonel said nothing, but in af- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 117 
 
 ter years the sell was so good he had to tell the story. The 
 
 house in which the Colonel lived of late years, was originally 
 
 built on the lot where Mrs. Varney now lives, on Oak street, 
 
 and was moved by the Colonel from there down to its present 
 
 locality. 
 
 Samuel Sterling. 
 
 One of the early way marks that dot the history of our 
 town, and whom it is just as necessary to notice, as it is one 
 who might have been noted for more shining virtues. Sam 
 was a rollicking, speculating, jockeying sort of a fellow, and a 
 little more inclined to help a rogue than an honest man ; not 
 that he would countenance or encourage crime openly, but 
 more especially because he liked to show his smartness, and 
 ventilate his ability for successful intrigue ; one of his success- 
 ful stratagems brilliantly executed, was in this wise : Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Chapman, of Calais, took a fancy to one Whitney, 
 a hostler, forgetting the allegiance due her rightful lord and 
 master, and Whitney reciprocating the affection, and they, 
 taking the notion into their heads to unite their loving for-' 
 tunes, left Calais in company, and came to Old Town. After 
 they came here, she went to work in a family where she 
 was thrown into the company of a good looking young man, 
 who was nothing loth to flirt a little with a good looking 
 woman, and this being reciprocated by her, it in time became 
 so notorious as to arouse a burning jealousy in the breast of 
 Whitney ; he remonstrated, and she promised to be more cir- 
 cumspect ; but alas ! the promise of a woman who would 
 leave her husband and elope with another man, was but a 
 slender reed to lean upon, and easily broken. At length 
 Whitney's feelings became so outraged as to fairly make him 
 insane, and he determined to be revenged. One day she was 
 out at the door for some wood ; Whitney approached her and 
 
118 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 began to upbraid her for infidelity to himself, to which she re- 
 plied in a taunting tone, which so exasperated him that he drew 
 a pistol from his pocket, and fired directly at her ; he was so 
 near that some of the powder was blown into her neck and 
 face, but as luck would have it, the bullet struck upon the hem 
 of her dress just upon her collar bone> inflicting but a slight 
 wound. Some man hearing the fracas, came to the rescue and 
 arrested Whitney upon the spot ; Cony issued a warrant ; he 
 was examined, bound over to a higher court and put into 
 Sheriff Morgan's custody, to be taken to jail. Morgan took 
 the prisoner to his house, until he should be ready to other- 
 wise dispose of him. Now Sterling, thinking more of justice 
 than of law, did not believe that Whitney should be sent to 
 jail on account of so fickle a woman, and he concocted a 
 plan for his release. So he drove up to the blacksmith shop, 
 opposite to Morgan's house,- and proceeded to take his horse 
 from the wagon, which he said needed some repairs ; he was 
 very particular to tie the reins and tugs up carefully. In the 
 meantime, Morgan, desirous to see what was going on, was 
 strutting around with his charge, as proud as an old hen 
 with a brood of young chickens. Sterling, in the mean time, 
 was apparently doing something to the wagon, and he called 
 upon Morgan to come around and help cant it up. Morgan, 
 good kind-hearted neighbor, complied at once, and while his 
 back was turned to go around the wagon, Whitney Was quite 
 as actively employed mounting the horse, and without the 
 formality of taking leave, dashed up the hill towards Upper 
 Stillwater, and after going abotlt a mile, left the horse in the 
 road, and took to the woods. That night he passed in the 
 barn of Denny M. Hall at Great Works village, and the next 
 day left privately for the Provinces, leaving Elizabeth to en- 
 
BIOGEAPHICAL. 119 
 
 joy her flirtations unmolested. Morgan lost his prisoner, and 
 Sterling, in looking up his horse, forgot that his wagon needed 
 mending. 
 
 Samuel Wadleigh. 
 
 One of the land marks, and a perfect monument of labor ; 
 no one ever toiled more industriously or continuously ; quaint 
 in speech, and rough in manner, one would at once recog- 
 nize his burly form clad in uncouth costume, as he went 
 trudging along through the world, alike indifferent to its 
 jeers or its commendations. In winter he wrought in the 
 woods, and in the summer season rafted lumber at the mills. 
 One August day, with the thermometer at ninety degrees 
 in the shade, he was at his usual employment, in company 
 with Thomas Mitchell, who enquired what the weather was 
 to be on the morrow. " Wal," says Sam, casting a scrutiniz- 
 ing glance around the sky, " to-morrow is Friday; it will be 
 fair or foul — elsewhere it will rain." Thomas was entirely 
 satisfied. 
 D. H. Faiebanks. 
 
 Doctor, came here about 1820, as a laboring man ; was a 
 self-taught physician, and used roots and herbs extensively 
 in his practice, and yet he is said to have effected some won- 
 derful cures. Ira Wadleigh was sick at the Penobscot Ex- 
 change, and was given up by his attending physician. As a 
 forlorn hope. Dr. Fairbanks was called in, and his first mo- 
 tion was to put the patient into a warm bath ; it worked like 
 a charm, and the patient rapidly recovered. Wadleigh ever 
 after held the conviction, and maintained that Fairbanks saved 
 his life. 
 
 He was the first Jackson man in town, and was fond of 
 spouting politics, at which he had quite a gift. Getting into 
 
120 SKETCHES OP OLD TOWN. 
 
 a controversy with Isaac Smith, he wound up a tirade of de- 
 nunciation with the following exordium : " Shrink back into 
 your original nothingness you d — d tortoise, and swear that 
 you never was ! " 
 
 Daniel J. Perley. 
 
 Physician ; made his advent here in 1824, and was held to 
 be a learned man and an able practitioner. There was con- 
 siderable of the belligerent in his composition, and he lost a 
 large amount of property in law suits with Dwinel and oth- 
 ers. He was considered at one time to be worth $50,000. 
 Says the doctor, one day, "Mrs. Weed, when disease in all 
 its multifarious forms and phases, comes in contact with Dan- 
 iel J. Perley, it encounters an all-powerful, all-conquering 
 antagonist." 
 
 James C. Beadbuey. 
 
 Doctor; became a citizen of Old Town in 1825 ; had large 
 practice, and gained a wide reputation for skill as a surgeon. 
 During the rebellion he was one of the State board to exam- 
 ine candidates for admission into the service as surgeons. He 
 was engaged in a small way in local land speculation. 
 
 Lamos used to tell this story of him : At one time in per- 
 forming a surgical operation, he had occasion to lay down his 
 knife, and seeing no convenient place, stuck it into the fleshy 
 part of the man's leg; the pain of the cut caused the man to 
 wince, and he protested against that rough kind of usage. 
 •The doctor looked at the matter thoughtfully for a moment, 
 and then, as if roused from a reverie, said, " That was rather 
 rough," but added in a consoling tone, " Never mind, it will 
 get well bfefore the other wound." 
 
 A surgical operation upon the arm of Joseph Inman, ob- 
 tained a wide celebrity. The large bone was sawed off just 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 121 
 
 below the elbow, and was so fractured as to be shortened 
 about three inches, leaving the small bone protruding above 
 the elbow ; this bone had to be cut off to make it correspond 
 in length with the other, and a new socket formed; the oper- 
 ation proved successful, and the arm got well, but with a 
 stiff joint. The doctor reported the case for the Medical 
 Journal. A lecturer in Philadelphia, upon the power of 
 nature to restore itself, quoted the report, accompanying it 
 with the remark, that he understood that the gentleman wlio 
 performed the operation was present in the audience. 
 
 James Temple. 
 
 Doctor; a Scotchman, and a learned man, with a bright 
 prospect of future usefulness ; he was here about 1830, and 
 after a few years stay, laid him down to rest in yon church- 
 yard. 
 
 John Temple. 
 
 Doctor ; came here to settle up his brother's estate,' and re- 
 mained here some fifteen j^ears in the successful practice of 
 medicine ; fell a victim to consumption, and was laid beside 
 his brother by the ministering hands of the Odd Fellow fra- 
 ternity. 
 
 NiKAN Bates. 
 
 Was a practicing phj'sician ; came here about 1835, and re- 
 mained some dozen years ; had a fair amount of practice ; he 
 was too conscientious to kill a patient by experimenting in 
 doubtful theories ; was engaged to a limited extent in local 
 land speculation in connection with J. C. Lovejoy. In his 
 medical practice, he was a very strong advocate of careful di- 
 et, claiming that a great many of the ills of life owed their 
 origin to a want of care in the kind and quantity of food that 
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122 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 people used. He wound up an argument upon the subject : 
 " Of all the heterogeneous masses of indigestible compounds, 
 O, mince pie, thou art the cap sheaf ! " 
 
 Chakles Fortiek. 
 
 Was a Canada Frenchman; came here about 1845, and died 
 here. He had a large medical practice, and although he stud- 
 ied in a medical academy in Canada, he was to a great extent 
 ostracised by regular physicians as not being a regular grad- 
 uate ; notwithstanding, he was a very successful practitioner, 
 and had the confidence of his patients, by his habit of telling 
 them the properties of the medicine he gave ; and no doubt 
 many of his cures resulted from that fact, by keeping the 
 mind of the patient engaged watching the effect of the med- 
 icine, and drawing it away from brooding over the aches and 
 pains of the physical system. Would that we had more doc- 
 tors of like practice. 
 
 Amos M. Roberts. 
 
 Was here in 1825, and engaged in trade to some extent in 
 the firm of Bartlett & Roberts. He was one of the commis- 
 sion to purchase of the Indians, their four remaining town- 
 ships upon the West Branch. He lived in the house next 
 south of Hiram Smith. There are several large elms upon 
 the front of the lot, some of them more than two feet in di- 
 ameter; in 1829 he brought them all at one time upon his 
 shoulder from Grass Island, and set them out there. He 
 moved to Bangor in 1832, and afterwards became president 
 of the Eastern Bank, which position he held to the day of 
 his decease, in 1879. He was extensively engaged in the 
 lumber business, and was one of the few successful ones. 
 Henet Richaedson. 
 
 Made his advent in the town about 1830; kept a small 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 123 
 
 shop on the lower side of the road, opposite D. McCulloch. 
 In 1833, in connection with A. W. Kennedy, erected the 
 Richardson & Kennedy block, where he traded for many 
 years; was Selectman, Indian Agent, Senator, and a member 
 of the Governor's Council. Before his decease he had accu- 
 mulated a respectable competency. 
 
 Geoege 0. Brastow. 
 
 Came to Old Town in 1838, and traded for a time in the 
 Richardson & Kennedy block. He erected a fine dwelling 
 on the spot now occupied by D. N. Estabrook, Esq. He 
 had a young clerk to help him fix up the store, in anticipa- 
 tion of the arrival of his stock, and sent him to see if the 
 goods had arrived on the train. The clerk looked around 
 the depot, until he was satisfied in his mind, being too proud 
 and self reliant to enquire ; he returned to the store, and re- 
 ported that " there was nothing there for Mr. Brastow, but 
 there was a large lot of freight marked ' gob,' " (G. O. B.) 
 not once dreaming that those letters were the initials of his 
 employer's name. Becoming in time embarassed in his busi- 
 ness, some of the Boston creditors sent their demands down 
 here, and a young Milford attorney made a wiit upon them, 
 and shut up his store. Brastow was a genial, open-hearted 
 boon companion, and all the boys liked him, and they at 
 once took the notion that the proceedings were an insult to 
 them ; so they brought out the coffee-mill fire engine, and 
 gave that attorney a shower bath that saturated him from 
 head to foot, and which he no doubt remembered as long as 
 he lived. That attorney died in a bath room. Brastow af- 
 terwards moved to Massachusetts ; was in the legislature, 
 and for several years held the office of Mayor of Somerville. 
 
124 sketches of old town. 
 
 Levi Young. 
 
 Came here about 1830 ; was boom master while Veazie 
 owned the boom, and had one of the most happy faculties for 
 managing a crew of men — never at a loss, or hesitating — and 
 if he had any doubt as' to how a thing should be done, his 
 appearance did not indicate it, and no one was aware of it. 
 He was in trade and lumbering business for many years, and 
 could pull the strongest oar of any man with whom I was ac- 
 quainted ; how many a race have we had in going to or re- 
 turning from the boom. He went to Ottawa, Canada, where 
 he engaged in the manufacture of lumber, sending it into the 
 States by the way of Lake Champlain. His friends now es- 
 timate him to be worth half a million. 
 
 RiCHAED H. BAETLETT. 
 
 Was a merchant, in company with Daniel Davis, and was 
 largely engaged in lumbering, mostly in company with An- 
 drew Griffin. He was a genial but somewhat reckless sort of 
 man ; one time, at the tavern at Sunkhaze, he ti'eated the 
 company to cigars, and lighted his own with a two dollar bill. 
 He moved from here to Brewer, and in after life became a 
 teetotaller. In his last sickness, his medical attendant pre- 
 scribed brandy, knowing his constitution had been broken 
 down by his former intemperate habits — but he refused to use 
 the stimulant, saying he had been a drunkard long enough in 
 his life-time, and was bound to die a sober man — and he did 
 so, maintaining his pledge to the end of his daj's. 
 
 Daniel Davis. 
 
 Was a brother of Jackson Davis, and came here soon after 
 him. Went into trade with R. H. Bartlett, and did some 
 lumbering. One large operation in pine lumber was manu- 
 factured and sent to Boston, and brought but f4.50 per M., 
 
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 which hopelessl}' failed the operators. Being of a very sen- 
 sitive nature, it broke him down, so that he never went into 
 mercantile business again. He was an excellent explorer in 
 the woods, and found frequent employment in that line. One 
 time, up in Aroostook county, on a dark and cloudy day, he 
 and his companion became satisfied that their compass was 
 wrong ; supposing it might have become disarranged by local 
 or metallic causes, " they took the way that pleased them- 
 selves," and after traveling for a long time, came out at a 
 place twenty miles from their destination, and found, too 
 late, that the compass was right. Uncle Daniel, in telling 
 the story, remarked that he never after that undertook to 
 hold a controversy with a compass, but took what it said with 
 implicit faith. One time he and another man were propelling 
 a batteau up the Mattawamkeag stream ; they came across a 
 tree leaning down near the water ; uncle Daniel dodged un- 
 der the tree, and was pulling the boat along, when he heard 
 some one halloo behind, and looking back, saw his companion 
 hanwinof to the leaning: tree, which he had seized hold of, in- 
 stead of dodging under. The last years of his life he was 
 employed about the boom, as a scaler. His venerable widow 
 still survives, apparently cheerful and contented, although to- 
 tally blind, waiting with patience for the summons hence, 
 where she may join her old time companion. 
 
 Isaac Smith. 
 
 Acted for a time as mill agent for Dwinel ; he was a very 
 large, well formed man, active and athletic, and at times 
 liked to exhibit his personal prowess. At one time he got 
 into a fight with John Neptune, in the Dillingham store, but 
 John, with the Indian power of endurance, was too much for 
 him, and had not uncle Daniel interfered and so effectually 
 
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 as to break two or three of John's ribs, Smith would have 
 fared badly. He was extensively engaged in lambering, and 
 was fond of entering the political arena, where he liked to 
 ventilate his windy eloquence. On one occasion, in a polit- 
 ical discussion, he accused his opponent of misstating a his- 
 torical fact, and wound up a well rounded period with this 
 climax, " When he well knew that Mahlon Dickenson was 
 Vice President of the Senate, pro tern." As may be sup- 
 posed, his opponent was literally squelched. He was some- 
 what noted for his brilliant orthography ; one of his corres- 
 pondents he addressed as, Jepbphertion Cinqueleigh, and the 
 letter went direct. 
 
 James Pueinton. 
 
 Was here as early as 1825 ; he was a stone mason by trade ; 
 he erected the house now owned by Mrs. Annie McCrj'stle, 
 in 1828 ; the wall on the south side of the lot, still stands, 
 showing that it must have been built by a workman. After 
 a few years, he went into teaming, and subsequently into 
 lumbering, and traded and speculated some. He had a power- 
 ful physical organization, with uncommon strength in l^is 
 arms and hands, and was very fond of amusing himself at 
 the game of pinch, and the men were scattering that he 
 could not vanquish at that kind of exercise — but one day he 
 got more than he bargained for; he fell afoul of James Dra- 
 per, who happened to have in his hand a bullet mould, which 
 he used upon Purinton's arms most unmercifully, and for 
 once Purinton had to yield, but not until his arms were 
 black and blue from the jaws of the bullet mould, he being 
 all the time ignorant of the powerful aid enjoyed by his an- 
 tagonist. 
 
biographical. 127 
 
 Jackson Davis. 
 
 Was the first commissioned Justice in this place ; he pur- 
 chased the land and mill property of Mr. Winslow, and came 
 here to dwell in 1806. There was no carriage road between 
 here and Lower Stillwater, and his wife came from Bangor 
 on horseback, bringing John Tabor, then an infant, a little 
 more than a j'ear old, in her arms. He was theologically 
 a Quaker ; and there are a few of the older inhabitants who 
 remember his Quaker garb and language. He was a gener- 
 ous, kind, and liberal man, ready to assist any man that he 
 believed worthy of his confidence, but, withall, a strict disci- 
 plinarian, as illustrated by his method of punishing John Ta- 
 bor, who had the misfortune one day to dull the old gent's 
 axe upon the ledge near the Veazie block. He made a circu- 
 lar chalk mark upon the edge of the ledge, and directed Tabor 
 to cut out all of the ledge enclosed in the circle — remarking 
 as an admonition, that "if thee wants to cut the ledge, thee 
 shall have enough of it to make thee remember." John Ta- 
 bor showed me the place where he cut out the ledge, which 
 distinctly remains at this time, although one side has been 
 partly broken down. He was very kind hearted to the indi- 
 gent and unfortunate, and especially so in visiting the sick 
 and cheering them with words of hope and encouragement. 
 Thomas Hunt delights to tell of his ministrations, when lying 
 upon a bed of sickness, so much reduced by fever as to be 
 unable to move hand or foot ; looking at Thomas, he said in 
 his kindly and confident way, " Thomas, they say thee is go- 
 ing to die — but I say thee is not going to die." The encour- 
 a'T-ement did Thomas more good than all the doctor's medi- 
 
 cs "- 
 
 cine, and he did get well. When John Neptune was nearly 
 killed in his fight with Isaac Smith, and was carried over to 
 
128 SKETCHES OP OLD TOAVN. 
 
 the island in an insensible condition, then near night-fall, 
 Davis went over to see about him. He was met on the shore 
 by some of the natives, who in their excited condition said he 
 must not come upon the island, but he said in his firm, kindly 
 way, " I shall go " — and he did go, and worked upon Nep- 
 tune the most of the night, when his labors were rewarded 
 by the returning consciousness of his friend. Toward morn- 
 ing Neptune opened his eyes, and in a short time regained 
 his faculties, and seeing Davis said, " You here ? Suppose 
 you no come, me dead man." By good treatment and such 
 acts of kindness he won the good opinion of the tribe, and 
 in 1821 was very properly appointed one of the agents of the 
 tribe. He sold his land and mill property, and it has been 
 claimed by some that there were appearances of improper in- 
 fluence in the transaction. From that time he began to de- 
 cline, and lived but a short time. 
 
 Thomas Bartlett. 
 
 Was a Justice, and did considerable business in that line, 
 being bj' his judicial turn of mind eminently fitted for the po- 
 sition. He was one of the Selectmen of Orono for eight 
 years, and was commissioner with Roberts, for the purchase 
 of the last four townships of land from the Penobscot In- 
 dians. He was somewhat indolent in his habits, and in his 
 latter days became quite misanthropic, and to a great extent 
 shunned active intercourse with society. He was a Democrat 
 in political affiliation ; attending a caucus, some of the pro- 
 ceedings of which did not meet his approbation, he remarked 
 "that. such action did violence to the Democratic party." He 
 erected the dwelling on Water street, now owned by his son, 
 Geo. H. Bartlett. 
 
biogeaphical. 129 
 
 Aabon Bkown. 
 
 Did a large amount of Justice business, and yet did not 
 have much of the public confidence. In a trial before him, 
 Henry Morgan -was a witness, and swore loud and long ; the 
 judgment, however, went against his testimony. Speaking 
 about it afterwards, be asked the Justice what he did with his 
 testimony. Brown replied, "The truth is I did not believe a 
 word you said." He was quite proud of and quite a stickler 
 for the honors of his official title. He was once solicited by 
 Albert Smith to subscribe for a paper, which he concluded to 
 do, and told Albert to write down his name ; Albert proceed- 
 ed to do so ; Brown, looking on, nudged his elbow, with the 
 remark, " Put on the title." A man by the name of Bowman 
 got into a fighting scape, and was arrested for assault and 
 battery; he posted off in company with the officer to see 
 Brown, and asked him if it was necessary for him to have 
 counsel. Brown replied — no, he should fine him only two 
 dollars, and counsel would do him no good. Two dollars was 
 the usual fine imposed by him, which he seemed to consider 
 as a perquisite, as none of it was ever known to reach the 
 hands of the County Treasurer. 
 
 He at one time had a warrant returned before him, against 
 a man for taking by force a younger sister from a house where 
 he thought she ought not to be. The circumstances were 
 such as to arouse a considerable feeling in the community, 
 and when the lime for the trial arrived, the " Old Cradle of 
 Liberty " was filled to overflowing. The proceedings com- 
 menced ; Cony appearing for the defence. Brown, seeing 
 the excited state of the people, did not feel like taking the 
 responsibility of conducting the examination alone, so rising 
 fj-om his seat, and assuming his most extra official ^ir, says, 
 IT 
 
130 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWK. 
 
 " Mr. Officer, search diligently, and bring hither George P. 
 Sewall or John H. Hilliard, to act as counsel for the State." 
 In accordance with the order, " Uncle Asa's " specks disap- 
 peared from the scene, leaving no one to keep order, and no- 
 thing to entertain the audience. Cony took the warrant and 
 carefully looked it over, and was about to return it to the 
 Court, when Asa Rowe said, "Let me look at that warrant." 
 Taking it in his hand, the contents seemed to be more than 
 he could comprehend, and after looking it over for a while, 
 he thought he would take a smoke to clear his faculties ; so 
 producing a long nine cigar, he took up the candle from the 
 desk of the Court, to light it by, but by some curious freak, 
 his breath, instead of inhaling, went out, and out went the 
 candle, and in one second of time every candle in the room 
 went out ; like Burns' dance of witches, " In an instant all 
 was dark." Pat, pat, pat, went something against the wall 
 in the immediate vicinity of the Court, hearing which the 
 Court squatted down behind the desk, to avoid being hit. 
 The Court was adjourned, " nolens volens," and the warrant 
 was consigned to "the tomb of the Capulets," never more to 
 be seen. The crowd dispersed, and as the Justice was wend- 
 ing his way homeward, in no enviable state of mind, and had 
 got as far down as the " Codman House," where his friend 
 Albert Smith, commiserating his unfortunate " contretemps," 
 asked him to step into the bar room and imbibe somethinc', 
 which proposition he very gladly complied with. While the 
 beverage was in process of concoction. Smith noticed some 
 yellow stuff upon the Justice's coat, and says, " What is this 
 upon your coat. Squire ?" Afler a due examination into the 
 matter, they came to the conclusion that it was the remains 
 of some eggs that had been maliciously and disrespectfully 
 aimed at the dignity of the Court ; but the Justice, under 
 
BIOGEAPHICAL. 131 
 
 the soothing influence of the liberal potion which he had im- 
 bibed, remarked, " that inasmuch as the eggs were not rot- 
 ten, he should not take it as an insult." 
 
 William Jameson. 
 
 Was here as early as 1828 ; he bought and run a tannery 
 for several years. In 1832, engaged in mill business at Up- 
 per Stillwater, and went extensively into the lumbering busi- 
 ness, both hauling and manufacturing. Upper Stillwater 
 owes much of its growth and prosperity to his labors and in- 
 vestments, although he was the target upon which constant 
 attacks were made by his neighboring villagers. He was a 
 man of the most unflagging energy and persistent determina- 
 tion. When once he had made up his mind to attain an ob- 
 ject, he pursued it with never j'ielding pertinacity, and in 
 the end he always won. No matter how often or overwhelm- 
 ingly he was defeated, he made no ado about it, but in si- 
 lence began again his work with the same hopefulness, that 
 in time met its reward. An illustration of his character is 
 found in his successful efforts to have roads built from Up- 
 per Stillwater to Bangor and Hudson, accomplished only af- 
 ter years of hard labor, and against the most violent and de- 
 termined opposition. He erected the commodious dwelling 
 now owned by Joshua Buck. At one town meeting there 
 was an article in the warrant for at least the tenth time, to 
 see if the town would raise money to build the Kirkland 
 road, and there was a fair prospect that it would be adopted. 
 At this juncture in the proceedings, Thomas Mitchell, in his 
 quaint style, said " he started to go through on the route 
 with the engineer ; that the party lost their way, but finally 
 came out to the Pushaw stream, where he constructed a raft, 
 and came floating down the stream." And of course the ar- 
 
132 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN, 
 
 tide was passed over at that time; and yet, ia time, the road 
 was built, and the first year thereafter the town was more 
 than paid for the outlay by the reduced price of produce 
 brought to this market. 
 
 Chaeles D. Jameson. 
 
 Born in Old Town ; son of Wm. Jameson, whom he suc- 
 ceeded in business, and exhibited uncommon faculty therein. 
 Delighting in military matters, he rose to the command of a 
 regiment which volunteered as an organization in the late 
 rebellion, and was known as the " Second Maine." He re- 
 mained in the service after the two years term of enlistment 
 of the regiment expired, and was promoted to the rank of 
 Brigadier General. At the battle of Fair Oaks he was in 
 command of a brigade, and his command went nigher to the 
 city of Richmond than any other portion of McClellan's ar- 
 my — and he declared that he would have been in Richmond 
 in less than two hours had his command not been recalled ; 
 as it was, he had the satisfaction of being so near the rebel 
 capital that he had a full view of its church spires and tur- 
 rets. He was the Douglass candidate for Governor of Maine 
 several years, and was a prominent actor in the Charleston, 
 S. C, convention, which nominated Mr. Douglass for the 
 Presidency. His slender constitution was not competent to 
 withstand all the demands made upon it by his active ener- 
 getic life, and his remains now lie in the cemetery at Mount 
 Hope. 
 
 Ira "Wadleigh. 
 
 Came here in 1816, with his brother Jesse, and they were 
 partners in all business transactions up to about 1855 ; and 
 what is said of Ira will apply to the firm. His first business 
 here was blacksmithing, at which he was very expert, and 
 
BIOGKAPHICAL. 133 
 
 followed it for several years. He opened a hotel, which he 
 kept in a building on the south-east corner of the Roberts 
 acre, and the cellar remains there yet. He built a more com- 
 modious house in 1823, (burned in 1874,) which became 
 known as far as lumbermen and land speculators were scat- 
 tered ; he remained the landlord until 1834, when he leased 
 the stand to one Rogers. He was extensively engaged in 
 lumber business, and somewhat in land speculation and mill 
 business. He was the first Postmaster in this village, and 
 retained the office until he leased the tavern to Rogers. He 
 moved to Massachusetts in order to carry the suits with Vea- 
 zie into the United States Court, when Richard Dearborn 
 was appointed Postmaster. He accumulated a large property 
 by his various employments. He furnished most of the 
 means to build the Episcopal Church, to an amount exceeding 
 $5,000, and afterwards sold his claim to the Bishop for $500, 
 reserving only two of the most eligible pews ; he was some- 
 times hasty in his remarks ; at one time he had a crew of 
 men up river, upon a drive of logs, and by some neglect or 
 mismanagement hung it up, and when he heard of it, he re- 
 marked " men who would act in that way, ought to work for a 
 sheep's head and pluck a day, and be cheated out of their 
 pay at night. " Some person seized upon the story, and for 
 selfish ends made a great ado about it. He was once offered 
 17,500, for his boom privilege in front of lots No. 19 and 20, 
 which has since passed out of the hands of his successors 
 for less than two thousand dollars. He married for his first 
 wife, Theodosia Grant, who was just the woman for a land- 
 lady in those times ; possessing courage and physique of a 
 man, she was imbued with all the gentle and lady like virtues 
 which constitute the true woman. Jesse Wadleigh married 
 
134 SKETCHES OE OLD TOWN. 
 
 her sister Susan. Every body called Mrs. Ira Wadleigh, 
 " Aunt Dosia. " On one occasion, Gen. Veazie and No. 6 
 Smith, got into a dispute in the bar-room of the Wadleigh 
 House, and were apparently about coming to blows. Aunt 
 Dosia, from the other part of the house, hearing the row, 
 came into the bar-room, and without flinching, stepped in 
 between the angry belligerents, and with a significant de- 
 termined wave of the hand, said with a calm voice, and man- 
 ner, that carried conviction with them, " You can have no 
 fighting here. " That quarrel was adjourned for the time 
 being. Many a poor person missed her charities when she 
 resigned her place as landlady. 
 
 Epheaim R. Lamos. 
 
 Was landlord of the Wadleigh House several j'ears; set a 
 good table ; was a jolly landlord, and was in his glory when 
 he could get a crowd around him, listening to some of his 
 story recitals, and thought it no hardship if he was allowed 
 to talk more than half of the time. He was very sick one 
 time, and his attending physician told him there was not 
 more than one chance in a hundrefl for him to recover : said 
 Lamos, " I will take that chance." He did take it, and got 
 well. He stated to the doctor on one of his visits, that he 
 had a curious dream the night before, and that he went to 
 hell, and in describing the result of his experience, said "it 
 was a little worse than Old Town, but not so bad as Sunk- 
 haze." His story of Bradbury's surgical operation will be 
 found in another place. 
 John Rollins. 
 
 Lumberman ; did business with Daniel Libbey ; was a smart 
 active man, and was especially fond of playing off practical 
 jokes upon somebody, no matter who. One of the profes- 
 
BIOGKAPHICAL. 135 
 
 sional men iu the town, had a field of potatoes on a strip of 
 land opposite the Temple place, and some of the neighbors 
 seemed disposed to make free with the growing crop ; of 
 course this raised the owner's ire, who called upon John, and 
 said, " Want you to watch to-night." " Oh ! " says John, "who 
 is sick, doctor? " The reply was " no one — steal my potatoes." 
 So John agreed to watch, and during the day made the nec- 
 essaiy arrangements to have a successful one. Towards 
 night the doctor went down to John's house to make prepa- 
 ration for the night's duty. John brought out his old queens 
 arm, and proceeded to charge it. Says the doctor, " load her 
 up well — four fingers of powder and four fingers of salt, and 
 be sure you ram her home." Having prepared themselves 
 with what was necessary for safety and comfort, they started 
 for the potato field; arrived within its precincts, they en- 
 sconced themselves in some nook, out of sight, and in pa- 
 tience waited for the expected game. The doctor carried the 
 armament, well charged as we have seen ; after waiting un- 
 til they began to think their vigil for that night would come 
 to naught, they were aroused from their despondency by the 
 sound of approaching footsteps, and the rattle of fence rails 
 as the intruders scaled the palisade surrounding the potato 
 field. The intruders seemed to be in force, sufScient when 
 deployed to extend across the whole field ; the force, as was 
 apparent, was composed of various nationalities ; on the one 
 flank might be heard the rich Irish brogue, on the other, the 
 Acadian dialect was in the ascendant, and from the centre, 
 rang out the sweet German accent. The marauders advanced 
 along the field in search of plunder, and soon came into the 
 vicinity of the hidden sentinels, when suddenly up rose the 
 stalwart form of the doctor, and in thunder tones rang out 
 upon the night air, the startling command, " Stand, or I will 
 
136 SKETCHES OP OLD TOWK. 
 
 shoot you ! " snapping his fusee, but it missed fire. Then 
 commenced a fusilade of musketry from the robber band — 
 from right to centre, and from centre to left — one continuous 
 rattle of firearms. The doctor, on finding himself in a sort 
 unarmed, and the enemy outnumbering him and better pro- 
 vided, adopted the cautionary tactics of beating a hasty re- 
 treat, which was successfully accomplished by crossing a sort 
 of Chicbahominy swamp in the rear, wading in mud knee 
 deep, and the loss of one pair of unmentionables, torn to tat- 
 ters by the brambles encountered, and which could not be 
 avoided in the darkness and haste of the flight. It was no- 
 ticed by some of the good citizens, the next day, that John 
 and Capt. Burgess held frequent confabs, and seemed to be 
 particularly pleased about something. 
 William S. Peitchaed. 
 
 Was a pedagogue several terms in the "Old Cradle of 
 Liberty." Was fond of singing, and led in the Orthodox 
 choir some 3'ears, and was sexton for a while. Kept shoe- 
 maker's shop, and had several apprentices, amongst them 
 .Jere A. Swan. One day, while he was out of the shop, the 
 boj's set his watch ahead an hour, and when eleven o'clock 
 came, by the watch, he started for "Mount Carmel," and 
 rung out a jolly dinner peal ; everybody was startled, think- 
 ing it was a fire alarm, knowing it to be but twelve o'clock. 
 When he came down from the mount, every person he met, 
 pulling out their watches, would enquire what he rung the 
 bell that time of day for. After being confronted by so ma- 
 ny, he became satisfied that his watch was wrong, but he 
 turned the joke upon his assailants, by remarking that when 
 he came around for his pay they could not say they did not 
 hear the bell ring. 
 
biogkaphical. 137 
 
 Stover Rines. 
 
 Was a laboring man, and rather deficient in education. A 
 man of splendid physique, weighing two hundred and forty 
 pounds, or more ; engaged in lumbering, and afterwards went 
 into land speculation, from which he reaped a large fortune. 
 In his flush days, he caused to be erected on Mount Carmel, 
 the six tenement block which always bore his name until it 
 was destroyed in the great fire, April 19, 1865 ; the fire orig- 
 inated in this block. He manufactured lumber for market 
 quite extensively. The practice in those times obtained very 
 generally for night sawyers to work up the handiest logs 
 they could find, more especially if they were good ones. As 
 an inducement to his workmen to be on the alert, he offered 
 them so much per thousand feet, for all the good logs they 
 should chance to work up from stray logs, and each morn- 
 ing would find a good stock or more piled up in the mill, for 
 which they were paid the stipulated price, which went 
 as spending money during the day. But the joke of the thing 
 was in the fact that the largest portion of the boards, so 
 piled out, were from the best of his own logs. He married 
 for a second wife, a Portland young lady, a very queen of 
 beauty, tall and graceful, but made partially insane by her 
 sudden rise from a state of almost abject poverty, to great 
 wealth — her extravagant notions, stimulated and fostered 
 by her husband, who assured her that she could not expend 
 his income, and that he was as proud of her dashing extrava- 
 gance, as she was of exhibiting her brilliant and varied cos- 
 tume. In a short time her vapid ignorance and stupidity 
 palled upon his matured judgment, and he became disgusted 
 with her frivolity ; but what the real cause was will remain 
 a secret — and to get rid of her, he entered into a conspiracy 
 18 
 
138 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 with two or three reckless fellows, to concoct a plan to black- 
 en her character, and give him sufficient evidence to obtain a 
 divorce. This led to litigation, and after several years of 
 law suits, he succeeded in effecting a separation by bribing 
 her to silence. He has married two wives since — one of 
 which survives him. He died during the rebellion, at Wash- 
 ington, where he was employed in the commissary department. 
 The militia company in this place chose him Captain, sup- 
 posing that he would be liberal in providing refreshments, 
 and they were not disappointed in their expectations. The 
 company went upon the muster field, more than one hun- 
 dred strong, dressed in a red shirt uniform. They adopted 
 the name of " Racaribos," from a specimen of animated na- 
 ture, discovered by Sewall, Lamos, and others, in the upper 
 part of the state, in some spot, the nearer to which you ap- 
 proach, the farther it was from you. A naturalist describes 
 the specimen, as a cross between the serpent and kangaroo, 
 having the upright appearance of the latter, with the gilding 
 locomotive movement of the former, making use of its tail 
 as a rudder to guide its course. The company in its red shirt 
 uniform and its unique name, attracted a good deal of atten- 
 tion. 
 
 RiCHAKD WiNSLOW. 
 
 Was the pioneer settler of Old Town village, and built 
 the first double saw mill at the Ounegan (carry.) The town 
 was incorporated in 1806, under the name of Orono, and he 
 was the first one of the board of Selectmen, elected when 
 the town was organized. That year he sold out his interest 
 here to Jackson Davis, and went away, and his name ap- 
 pears after 1808, no more upon the records of the town. 
 
biogeaphical. 139 
 
 Charles H. DeWolf. 
 
 Merchant tailor. A very pious young man, very fond of 
 preaching, but quite averse to practicing vrhat he taught. 
 He attempted to seduce a young female, but did not succeed, 
 and when called to an account, by the church of which he 
 was a member, did not deny the charge, but gave as an ex- 
 planation, that the attempt was only for proving the strength 
 of her virtue, and when he found she was chaste, he gave 
 her the best advice he was capable of. He was apt to cany 
 his animosities to extremes, and getting put out with Ezra 
 C. Brett, published an outrageous libel against him. Brett 
 sued him, and recovered a judgment for #1,200, and costs. 
 He paid attention to Elizabeth Green for a long time, and 
 succeeded at length in overcoming her virtue, as she said, 
 upon the most solemn promise of matrimony, but when the 
 consequences of her indiscretion became apparent, he 
 abandoned her, and she resorted to a suit for breach of 
 promise, and employed a young attorney who had suffered 
 some injustice at the hands of DeWolf, and felt interest 
 enough in the matter to follow up the suit until she recovered 
 a judgment for ¥l,600. The execution would not have been 
 worth much, but luckily the attorney discovered the fact that 
 the deed conveying the lot and store now owned by Jaman 
 Perry, was acknowledged on Sunday, and the execution was 
 levied upon it, and the Court sustained the set off, on the 
 o-round that the deed being executed on the Sabbath, was 
 not a notice to third parties. 
 
 After he went away from here, he wandered into the State 
 of Ore"-on, and there indulged in the precept and practice of 
 free love, and entered into a written contract with a woman 
 to become man and wife, without the usual legal formalities^ 
 
140 SKETCHES OE OLD TOWN. 
 
 the contract specifying that either party might annul it at 
 pleasure. He was prosecuted for the crime of adultery, and 
 on the trial, he maintained his right of contracting marriage 
 as he had done. It was a difficult case to dispose of, but the 
 Justice was equal to the emergency. The paramour was 
 present, and the Court, to carry out the idea of the contract 
 of marriage, asked him if he acknowledged that woman to 
 be his wife. " I do," was the response. The Court then 
 asked the woman if she acknowledged him to be her husband. 
 " Yes, sir," she replied. The Justice then remarked, " By 
 authority vested in me by the Governor, I hereby, in accord- 
 ance with your acknowledgment, pronounce you man and 
 wife — married according to the law of the State of Oregon 
 — and as a man cannot be tried for adultery with his wife, 
 the case is dismissed." 
 
 Francis Miltok. 
 
 Born in Bristol, England, about 1789, and went to sea at a 
 very early age, and when about fourteen, made a voyage to 
 America, and landed at St. Andrews, from an unseaworthy 
 old hulk, was transferred to a new vessel, from which he run 
 away, and came to Calais, where he remained a short time — 
 then went to Eastport. There he shipped on board of a small 
 coaster of twenty tons, whose voyages extended as far as the 
 Kennebec river ; the captain and himself making the whole 
 crew. In the year 1812, a boat's crew of fourteen, from a 
 British war vessel, were sent up the Machias river; they 
 captured a number of prisoners, young Milton among them; 
 but upon reflection, instead of returning to their ship, desert- 
 ed in a body with their prisoners, and landed at Machias; be- 
 ing good gunners, they were a valuable acquisition to the 
 garrison, helping to fix up and man the guns of the fort. He 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 141 
 
 here enlisted in the United States service, in Captain Nash's 
 company of volunteers, and served fourteen months, when 
 the company was relieved by regular troops. While doing 
 sentry duty at Eastport, he had the grit and good fortune to 
 capture a smuggler's boat and crew, who did not yield until 
 he had fired two shots at them, the last going through the 
 upper streak of the boat near the boatswain's seat. Besides 
 the boat, the cargo was valued at three thousand dollars, by 
 the custom house officers. He now draws a pension of nine- 
 ty-sis dollars a year, as one of the few veterans yet remaining 
 of the 1812 war. 
 
 RUFUS DWINEL. 
 
 Came here from Lisbon, in 1837, but did not reside here 
 long, and yet did so much business in town, as to entitle him 
 to recognition in these sketches. He had the faculty of do- 
 ing more business successfully with a given amount of capi- 
 tal, than almost any other man of his time. As has been be- 
 fore stated, he purchased the franchise of the Argyle boom, 
 in 1827, procured a new charter and erected the present Pea 
 Cove boom, in 1832, which he sold to General Veazie in 1833, 
 after which time, he turned his attention to lumbering and 
 manufacturing the same. In 1833-4, he, in connection with 
 other parties, he being the only one known to the public, 
 built the mills at West Great Works, containing twelve saws, 
 in six separate buildings. These mills was burned in 1856, 
 and he rebuilt them under one roof, and they were again 
 burned in 1864 ; after this he sold the privilege to other par- 
 ties, who rebuilt the mills. The whole property ultimately 
 went into the hands of William T. Tearson, Esq., who is now 
 the sole owner. The agents employed by D win el from time 
 to time, to manage and superintend his property in town. 
 
142 SKETCHES OP OLD TOWN. 
 
 where Jefferson St. Clair, Isaac Smith, Samuel G. Oakes, 
 David N. Estabrook, David Gatchel, Thomas McDonald, and 
 perhaps some others. 
 
 Samuel Veazie. 
 
 Came here from Topsham, in 1826, and bought the Jack- 
 son Davis land and mill property — but did not live long here 
 — and subsequently moved to Bangor. He was in trade some 
 years at Topsham. When he first opened a store there, he 
 had to transport his goods from Bath, and across the river at 
 Brunswick. He hired a saddle horse, to go and see about 
 getting his goods along ; the bridge across the Androscoggin 
 was then being built, and in order to get his teams across, 
 had to lay down some loose planks. Pie hitched the horse to 
 a fence, and went to the assistance of the teamsters ; they 
 had some difficulty in getting over, and actually dumped part 
 of a load of salt into the river. Finally he succeeded in get- 
 ting his stock into the store, and in two or three days got 
 regulated and felt like breathing freely — but almost lost his 
 breath when a man came into the shop and asked where his ■ 
 horse was. After thinking profoundly for a few moments, he 
 roused up and said, " I left your horse hitched to a fence, on 
 the other side of the river ; if you will go and find him, I 
 will pay the bills." The owner, after a short search, found 
 the horse quietly grazing on the side of the road, with the 
 saddle on, having managed to get his liberty by slipping the 
 bridle. The owner was rewarded to his entire satisfaction. 
 
 His ownership of property in town, has been heretofore 
 stated. It soon became apparent that the Pea Cove boom 
 was not of sufficient capacity to properly take care of the 
 vast and increasing lumber business upon the river, and in the 
 winter of 1836-'7, he erected the Argyle boom, where it now 
 
BIOGEAFHICAL. 143 
 
 exists. In the summer of 1837, a large quantity of pine logs 
 belonging to Lincoln & Foster, were rafted there, and the 
 water remained so low that they could not be run over Sunk- 
 haze rips, and as a consequence, the next spring many of them 
 went down river with the ice. 
 
 The question of the right of the Corporation to raft logs at 
 Argyle, came before the Court, and it was decided that the 
 logs, by the requiremenis of the charter, must be delivered 
 below the main boom. Taking advantage of this ruling of the 
 Court, Lincoln & Foster sued Veazie, or what was the same 
 thing, the Corporation, for the value of their logs lost. They 
 not being able to furnish the necessary funds to carry on the 
 suit, sold their interest to Waldo T. Pierce and others, who 
 took into their partnership every lumberman they could find, 
 who was enemy enough of Veazie's to induce them to help 
 fio-ht the battle. The action came on for trial at Bangor, 
 Judge Tenney holding the court ; the case had been going 
 on for several days, with a good deal of crimination between 
 the parties, who had their feelings wrought up to a high 
 pitch of excitement. Just in this state of affairs, the court 
 was adjourned at the close of the day, and the persons in the 
 court room rose up preparatory to departure from the place , 
 there were so many of the interested parties and their attor- 
 nies as to completely pack the space within the area, and in 
 passing through the crowd to procure their hats and over- 
 coats Veazie and Pierce came in contact — and Veazie, in a 
 scornful manner brushed past him, and, as Pierce thought, 
 elbowed him rather roughly, when, turning round, he struck 
 the General in the back of the neck. Veazie, turning to 
 confront him says, "Do you strike me ? " Justat this instant, 
 John W. Veazie, who had stepped up on the desks which 
 
144 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWK. 
 
 surround the area, jumped over the heads of two or three 
 persons, alighting directly upon Pierce, and both of them 
 came in a heap upon the floor. Thereupon ensued a scene 
 of confusion, such as that old court house never saw before 
 or since, and is easier to be conceived than described — the 
 friends of both parties, rushing to the aid of their respective 
 friends, or to help still the commotion. In the rush, the . 
 General's hat was knocked off, having in its capacious recess, 
 several valuable papei's, and he made a dive to recover them. 
 Judge Kent, seeing the movement, supposed he was pitching 
 into the fight, and exclaiming, " What ! What ! " seized hold 
 of Veazie behind, for the purpose of hauling him back. Just 
 as Kent was exerting his strength, Veazie, having recovered 
 his papers, rose up, leaving nothing for Kent to support him- 
 self by, and as a matter of course, over he went backwards, 
 dragging the General on top of him. In their descent they 
 pounced upon one of the court house chairs, which, not be- 
 ing made strong enough to support five hundred pounds 
 dumped upon it in that rough manner, yielded to the pres- 
 sure, and was crushed to the floor. By this time, the friends 
 of order had succeeded in a measure in quieting the excite- 
 ment. Perhaps the most striking feature in the picture, 
 was the appearance of Judge Tenney, who had not at tliat 
 time, risen from his seat, as he sat there, with astonish- 
 ment, disgust, anger, and shame depicted upon his expressive 
 countenance. That action never came into court again. Af- 
 ter the adjournment, Jones P. Veazie settled the matter 
 with the plaintiffs, by the payment of seven hundred dol- 
 lars — a sum just about large enough to pay the accrued 
 costs — at -which performance the General was very much 
 grieved, declaring, as the tears rolled down his cheeks, that 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 145 
 
 he should have licked them, an opinion that was confirmed 
 by Judge Tenney when speaking of the incident, many years 
 later. 
 
 Col. Eben Webster. 
 
 Came here about the time or soon after Jackson Davis, and 
 bought the Dall mill at Lower Old Town. He built a house 
 that stood where Jos. R. Sawyer's cooper shop now stands, 
 and when married, brought his wife there, and commenced 
 keeping house in it. He was quite largely engaged in lum- 
 bering, which he manufactured himself. In 1817, he rebuilt 
 the dam, which for years went by the name of "Webster 
 dam," and built a double mill outside of the shore mill, and 
 carried on these mills until 1823, when he removed to Stillr 
 water, where his father had previously settled. In 1815, 
 there was no school in this part of the town ; it was voted 
 that Jackson Davis and Eben Webster draw their share of 
 the school money and expend it themselves. He was a man 
 of considerable military taste and genius, and was elevated 
 to the rank of Captain of militia, before the war of 1812, af- 
 terwards elected Colonel, and was in command of a portion 
 of the forces under General Blake, at the battle of Hamp- 
 den. After a slight resistance, the Americans abandoned 
 the field, and fled in all directions, that promised personal 
 safety. Captain Valentine, who was in command of a com- 
 pany at the time, told this story, of which he was an eye 
 witness in part. " A bullet from the British, struck the 
 hook of the drum of one- of the musicians, causing it to fall 
 to the ground. The owner had hardly got it secured again 
 in place, when another bullet struck the hoop of the drum, 
 cutting it in two, and causing the drum again to fall to pieces 
 upon the ground. The man began to think the position 
 19 
 
146 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 rather dangerous, and not stopping for the fragments, started 
 in full retreat, fright giving him great agUity. The first ob- 
 stacle he encounted was a six rail fence, which he scaled, 
 touching nothing but his hands ; the next seen of him was at 
 Sunkhaze, a safe distance from British bullets." The Cap- 
 tain, being mounted, was obliged to retreat by the highway, 
 which he did in bull-dog style, keeping just out of harm's 
 way. The British followed up the river, with their ileet, and 
 one barge, with a four pound carronade aboard, came up as 
 far as Treat's falls. As the Captain came wending his way 
 along, "solitary and alone," chewing the cud of bitter regret 
 at the cowardice of his countrymen, in fleeing before the 
 enemy, and the want of patriotism in others, who refused to 
 turn out and assist in the work of protecting their homes, 
 just in this frame of mind, he came opposite a house a short 
 distance north of Treat's falls, the occupant of which was 
 one of the stay at homes. At that instant, a happy thought 
 struck him, and seeing the barge approaching, he rode back 
 and forth in front of the house, for the purpose of drawing 
 the fire from the barge upon it. The owner, seeing the pre- 
 dicament, hastily gathered a pillow case of provisions and 
 fled for the woods. The captain continued his picket duty, 
 until a ball came so near as to make him dodge, throwing off 
 his military hat, which he dismounted to recover, and then 
 prudently left on his way homeward. The owner of the 
 farm within a few years, dug up a four pound ball, which he 
 presented to Colonel Webster's son, Eben, who still keeps it, 
 in the belief that it is the very one that came so near his 
 father's head. 
 
 David C. Mebrick. 
 
 Came here about 1849, and for a time engaged in the man- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 147 
 
 ufacture of ladies' shoes. Married the widow of Thomas G. 
 Clark; afterwards lived for several years upon the Indian 
 farm, upon Orson Island. There being no bridge, his meth- 
 od of getting to the main land, was by ferrying in a batteau, 
 and he kept one for that purpose. For convenience as well 
 as pleasure, he fitted up a sail to his boat, and passed many a 
 pleasant hour in company with his helpmeet, in sailing over 
 the pellucid waters of the Penobscot. On one occasion Mrs. 
 Merrick desired to visit the main land ; Merrick, good obedi- 
 ent husband, at once took the proper measures to ferry her 
 over. Having got her safely on board — no easy task, her 
 usual weight being something over two hundred pounds, he 
 loosed from the shore, hoisted the sail, and with the aid of a 
 gentle breeze, commenced the fateful voyage. The wind not 
 being in the proper direction, in order to make his landing, 
 he was obliged to beat to windward, and in doing so it was 
 necessary to go about, and as the sail jibed over, to avoid be- 
 ing hit, Mrs. Merrick dodged her head down to let the sail 
 pass over it, the boat careening at the same time, she lost her 
 balance and plunged head foremost into the water. She soon 
 rose to the surface, and in thrilling, frightened tones, called 
 out, " Save me, Merrick ! save me, Merrick ! " to which ap- 
 peal the reply in encouraging tones promptly came, " By the 
 Gods, I will, wife, or perish in the attempt ! " She being so 
 heavy, it was impracticable to get her into the boat, and so 
 encourac^ing her to hold on to the side of the batteau, he 
 towed her safely ashore— and for that day the trip to the main 
 land had to be given up. In April, 1861, Merrick enlisted 
 in the famous sixth regiment of Maine volunteers, and was 
 one of the platoon that elicited so much notice on account of 
 the heio-ht and size of the men ; his age was such that he was 
 
148 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 unable to endure the fatigue of campaigning, and after serv- . 
 ing about two years, he was honorably discharged — and the 
 last known of him, he was making a home somewhere down 
 south — I think, in Virginia. 
 
 William Smith. 
 
 Brother of Asa ; came here about the same time. He had 
 a good deal of martial spirit, and rose to the rank of Colonel 
 in the militia. He built the lower tavern in 1830, near the 
 bridge to Milford, now known as the "Codman House," and 
 kept it as a public house some twenty years. One day Capt. 
 Stover Rines, being in the tavern, boasted that he had the 
 most competent and best qualified book keeper there was in 
 town, and offered to bet a treat for the company, that upon 
 examination he could prove it. The Colonel, willing to hu- 
 mor his propensity for betting, and moreover, willing to risk 
 losing the treat, rather than be brow-beaten, said he would 
 take that bet, relying upon the shrewdness and wit of his 
 own clerk, a long, gawky, slab-sided, green specimen yan- 
 kee, to get him out of the dilemma. The terms were ar- 
 ranged, and a committee agreed upon to act as referees, to 
 examine any candidates presented, and upon examination to 
 report who was the successful competitor. Rines' clerk, 
 Charles H. Ellis, first presented himself, explained his meth- 
 od of book keeping, and exhibited his books, which were in- 
 deed kept iu most excellent style and order, and showed 
 some splendid samples of penmanship. William S. Marshall, 
 Smith's clerk, then brought out his books ; he had just pur- 
 chased a nice new set, upon which no entries had yet been 
 made, and said that his system of book keeping "was to keep 
 them clean.' Thismethod was so apposite to the times, when 
 to charge an item upon one's books was about equivalent to 
 
BIOGEAPHICAL. 149 
 
 giving it away, that it struck Rines with so much force that 
 he at once exclaimed, "I give it up, and will not ask the com- 
 mittee to make any report," and ordered drinks for the com- 
 pany. In later years, Col. Smith moved to Newport. 
 
 Moses Averill. 
 
 Came to Upper Stillwater, with his father in 1817, and 
 took up a lot under the betterment act, and made improve- 
 ments and built a house. The soil then belonged to General 
 Joseph Treat. When the land was run out, it turned 
 out to be settler's lot number twenty-six. He built a single 
 saw mill on the outside of the dry way, on the head of the 
 island, and the mud sills remain there still ; it went out of 
 use before 1825. He brought up a large family of children 
 to mature age, consisting of five sons, and four daughters. 
 He was town Clerk of Orono ten years, and on the board of 
 Selectmen sixteen years ; being one of the first board after 
 the town was incorporated. In later years, he purchased the 
 soil of the lot upon which he first settled. He was one of 
 the first Justices of the Peace in the town. 
 
 Asa Smith. 
 
 Came here from Palmyra, in 1828 ; was a carpenter and 
 joiner, and erected the buildings now owned by Daniel Mc- 
 Culloch, and occupied them until his death. He was the 
 master builder of the first Congregationalist house, on Mount 
 Carmel, as the site is called. He served for many years as 
 Constable of the town — and his spectacles, which he was 
 obliged to wear constantly, in time came to be a terror to evil 
 doers. His sons, Stephen, William H., Thomas, Asa, Jr., 
 and Joseph L., were all successful business men, and some of 
 them became wealthy. 
 
150 sketches of old town. 
 
 Moses Brown. 
 
 Was one of the pioneers of the town, and at one time was 
 possessed of considerable property, but unlucky lumber op- 
 erations took the most of it from him. He once owned orig- 
 inal lot No. 15, the centre line of which, run by mistake of 
 the surveyor, has made so much trouble to subsequent own- 
 ers. He built the house on Brunswick street, next north of 
 the Folsom house ; his heirs, now resident in California, still 
 own it. One of the prominent features of remembrance of 
 him was his annual custom of fitting out for a haying voyage 
 to Sunkhaze meadow. In those times. Old Town village was 
 largely dependent on the meadow for fodder for their stock 
 in the winter. About haying time, the owners used to stake 
 it off into lots, give public notice, and sell the stumpage at 
 auction. This was for years a noted epoch. The purchaser 
 could cut the grass at his leisure— and some people made 
 their time late in the season. In connection therewith, one 
 Spencer gave an exhibition of submission to circumstances 
 worthy of imitation, putting to shame many Christian pro- 
 fessions. He was there in September, camping out, with no 
 tent to cover his head ; one night there came six inches of 
 snow, and when the old gent awoke in the morning, and 
 shook the snow from his unkempt locks, looking around upon 
 the whitened landscape, he very quietly remarked that it was 
 not as though he was not prepared for it — and the state of 
 preparation was that he had neither stockings or shoes to his 
 feet, and had down four acres of grass in the swath which he 
 had mown the day before. Brown, at the battle of Hampden, 
 was the last man to leave the field, and fired one shot at the 
 enemy after they had begun to cross the bridge in Hampden 
 village, on their route to Bangor, which they occupied soon 
 after 
 
INDEX 
 
 A. 
 
 Autobiograpli}' ;> 
 
 Agassiz's theory 11 
 
 Argyle Koad 22 
 
 Averill, Moses 149 
 
 B. 
 
 Bennoch Road 21 
 
 Bradbury Block 22 
 
 Boom 23 
 
 Births — first In town 20 
 
 Baptists 82 
 
 BUmchard, Charles 102 
 
 Brett, Ezra C 109 
 
 Barnard, Timothy 113 
 
 Bradbury, James C 120 
 
 Bates, Niran 121 
 
 Brastow, George O 123 
 
 Bartlett, Richard H 124 
 
 Bartlett, Thomas 1 28 
 
 Brown, Aaron 129 
 
 Brown, Moses 150 
 
 C. 
 
 Castine — the younger 13 
 
 Chapman Block 22 
 
 Cooper's Mills 37 
 
 Cradle of Liberty 28 
 
 Chapman Steam Mill 39 
 
 Catholics 79 
 
 Congregationalists 81 
 
 Coney, Samuel 108 
 
 D. 
 
 Davis, Jackson 18-127 
 
 Davis, Daniel 18-124 
 
 DeAVolf , Charles H 139 
 
 Dwinel,Rufus 141 
 
 E. 
 East Side Mill, Up. Stillwater. . 33 
 Episcopalians 85 
 
 F. 
 
 French Jesuits 13 
 
 Folsom Block 22 
 
 French, Leonard P 105 
 
 French, Joseph C 105 
 
 Fairbanks, D. H 119 
 
 Fortier, Charles 122 
 
 G. 
 
 Great Works Mill 35 
 
 Godfrey Block 37 
 
 Gnllifer. Thomas 114 
 
 H. 
 
 llaynes, Nathaniel 10(j 
 
 Hilliard, "William T IDS 
 
 Hilliard, John H 108 
 
 Iloskins, Eli 115 
 
 I. 
 
 Indian population, lC2o 12 
 
 Indian hatred 14 
 
 Indian treaties 15 
 
 Ingersoll, George W 100 
 
 J. 
 
 Jameson, William 131 
 
 Jameson, Charles D 132 
 
 K. 
 
 Kirkland Road 22 
 
 L. 
 
 Livingston, Major 13 
 
 Lincoln fire, 1865 20 
 
 I,ower Old Town Mill 34 
 
 Lamos, Ephraim R 134 
 
152 
 
 SKETCHES OF OLD TOWN. 
 
 M. 
 
 Mohawks, 1GG9 12 
 
 Marsh, John 17 
 
 Milford Bridge 21 
 
 Methodists 83 
 
 Mlitary 92 
 
 Masons and Odd Fellows 95 
 
 Merrill, Samuel H 101 
 
 McDonald, William 103 
 
 Mansfield, D. H 104 
 
 Morgan, John B 109 
 
 Milton, Francis 140 
 
 Merrick, David C 146 
 
 N. 
 Xeptune, Jolin 19 
 
 Old Town — situated 7 
 
 Old Town — wealth 8 
 
 Old Town — eai'ly history 10 
 
 Old Town — incorporated 57 
 
 Orono, Chief, 1781 15 
 
 Orono incorporated 45 
 
 Ounegan Block 22 
 
 Orne, David 112 
 
 P. 
 
 Piisha w Bridge 22 
 
 Porter's Mill 38 
 
 Perley, Daniel J 120 
 
 Perley, Jere lOG 
 
 Puriaton, James 19-126 
 
 Pritchard, William S 136 
 
 B. 
 
 Itoad to Orono 21 
 
 Kines Block 22 
 
 Richardson & Kennedj' Block . . 22 
 
 River Steamers 41 
 
 Bail Koads 88 
 
 Roberts, Amos M 122 
 
 Richardson, Ilenry 122 
 
 Rollins, John 134 
 
 Rines, Stover 137 
 
 S. 
 
 Schools 32 
 
 Shore Mill, Upper Stillwater. . . 33 
 
 Shad Eips Mill 38 
 
 Steam MiU, Old Town 38 
 
 Steam Mill, Upper Stillwater. . . 39 
 
 St. Clair, Jefferson 110 
 
 Smith, William H Ill 
 
 Smith, Edward (No. 6) Ill 
 
 Sterling, Samuel 117 
 
 Smith, Isaac 125 
 
 Smith, William 148 
 
 Smith, Asa 149 
 
 T. 
 
 Tradition 12 
 
 Tarratines 12 
 
 Treat & Webster.Island Mills. . . 35 
 
 Tannery 43 
 
 Temperance 9() 
 
 Temple, James 121 
 
 Temple, John 121 
 
 XJ. 
 
 Upper Stillwater Bridge 22 
 
 Union Academy 43 
 
 Universalists 84 
 
 Union Church 87 
 
 Veazie Block 22 
 
 Veazie, Samuel 18-142 
 
 W. 
 
 Westbrook, Col 13 
 
 Winslo w, Richard 18-138 
 
 AVilliams, N. L. & S IS 
 
 Washburn's Block 36 
 
 Wadleigh, I. & J 19-132 
 
 Wadleigh, Samuel 119 
 
 AVyman, Robert 112 
 
 Webster, Col. Eben 145 
 
 YouiisT- l^evi. . 
 
 ..124