Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Plummer, Edward 1830 - 
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   EDWARD PLUMMER, son of Henry and Wealthy (Estes) Plummer, was born in Durham
4 Jan. 1830. He began his remarkable business career at the age of eighteen,
working one year in Bath. The next year, 1849, he was owner of a saw and grist
mill just below the present bridge at Lisbon Falls, which he operated till 1862.
Then he sold out to the Worumbo Co., of which he became a Director and Agent. He
superintended the building of the large woolen mill at Lisbon Falls. He was a
promoter and director of the Androscoggin Railroad, built in 1861. He organized
the Androscoggin Water Power Co. for lumbering in 1875 and has been its Agent
ever since. The company has paid five per cent, semi-annual dividends on its
capital of $100,000 every year since its organization. Its timber lands in the
northern part of Oxford County were sold last August to the Umbagog Pulp Co. of
Livermore Falls for $158,000. Mr. Plummer was a prime mover in the building of
the Rumford Falls Railroad and also of the pulp mill of Lisbon Falls Fiber Co.
He was Representative to the Legislature in 1870. He has a fine residence at
Lisbon Falls, Me.

   Mr. Plummer married (1) Augusta Taylor of Lisbon, (2) Sarah A. Shaw of
Durham. A son, Walter E. married Grace Douglas of Gardiner. Another son, Harry
E. married Mary Libby of Lisbon. Both are associated with their father in
business at Lisbon Falls. A daughter, Ida F. married Mayor Newell of Lewiston.


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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