Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Weeks, Howe 1812 - 1895
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   HOWE WEEKS, son of Benjamin, was born in Gorham 28 April 1812, and moved to
Durham when six years old. He served his apprenticeship with John A. Briggs, a
dam and bridge contractor. He helped build the old toll bridge between Lewiston
and Auburn, also the first log dam on the Androscoggin River at Lewiston, and
the Lincoln Mill. In 1840-6 he was in partnership with Daniel Wood in a general
store on lower Main St., Lewiston. In 1858 he moved to Auburn and was for
several years engaged in the manufacture of shoes with A. C. Pray. He served on
the Board of Selectmen of Lewiston, and was tax-collector in Auburn several
years. He was a Director of the Lewiston Falls Bank and one of the promoters of
the Lewiston and Auburn Railroad, connecting with the Grand Trunk.

   He was a lifelong Democrat and never missed casting his ballot at election
till the one preceding his death, which occurred in Auburn, Me., 1 Mch. 1895.

   He married (1) 1839 Sarah Daggett; (2) May 1850 Pamelia H. Stetson. Their
children were Flora L., b. 4 April 1852, d. Feb. 1869, and William H. b. 19 Aug.
1858.


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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