Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Plummer, Joseph 1834 - 
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   JOSEPH PLUMMER, son of Henry and Wealthy (Estes) Plummer, was born in Durham
7 Sept. 1834. He lived as a farmer in Durham till 1883. Since that time he has
been a miller at Lisbon Falls. He married Marcia Foss of Lisbon and has one
daughter, Clara A., who married 13 June 1892 Walter Douglas of Windham.

   An episode in his life caused a good deal of newspaper comment. At midnight
of Aug. 6, 1879, he was awakened, at his home in Durham, by a noise like the
slamming of a door. He hastened out and saw two men about ten rods away running
across the field. With no clothing but a night-dress and without any weapon he
gave chase, shouting to a neighbor for assistance. They pursued the two burglars
some distance and finally captured both, finding them armed with revolvers.
Frightened by threats of being shot the thieves surrendered. It was found that
they had pillaged a number of houses. To burglarize houses in Durham is not half
as easy as it once was to stab horses and burn buildings by night. The thieves
got their due reward in Auburn jail.


Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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