HISTORY OF LIVERMORE (ANdroscoggin Co, Maine) Chapter 4 page 43 to 56 CHAPTER IV. INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS. BUSINESS. COURSE OF POPULATION. Tim leading interest of this town, as of the great majority of the country towns in the State, is agriculture. There are in it many good farms and relatively few poor ones; yet there are no great farms, none of extraordinary extent or productiveness, and no farmers of large wealth. There are, however, many farmers who are 11 well-to-do," and who, in earlier times, would have been called rich. If there is not great wealth, there is but little poverty. The valuation of the town in 1870 was $524,260.00. This, in a population of less than 1,500, whenthe basis of such valuation is understood, and when it is remembered that this aggregate includes no overgrown estates, indicates a thriving and independent community-such a community as is the strength and hope of a country like ours. Of the facilities that have been provided, and the trades and occupations that have been supplied, for the wants and convenience of the town, a brief account will now be given, with notices of some of the more prominent individuals who have been connected with them, so far as the space that can be spared for the purpose will permit. MILLS. The first mills in town were a saw-mill and grist-mill, erected by Dea. Livermore, as early, probably, as 1782 or 1783, near the outlet of Long Pond. The mills were afterwards known as Gibbs' mills. He sold them to Otis Robinson; Robinson sold one-half to Henry Bond, who reconveyed to Robinson; Robinson then sold the whole to Lieut. Samuel Benjamin; Benjamin sold to Nathaniel Dailey; Dailey to James Parker; Parker to Eli Putnam; Putnam to Thomas Rich, and Rich to Jacob Gibbs, by whose name they have been known for half a century. Mills at the Falls, on the east side of the river, were erected two 44 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. years afterwards by Dea. Livermore and sold to Thomas Davis; Davis sold them to William Chenery and Dwight Stone. A sawmill, fulling-mill, and carding-mill were erected by John Fuller, above the Intervale, on the Gibbs' mills stream, in 1812, and subsequently a grist-mill. A saw-mill was built by Gen. Learned, over seventy years ago, at the outlet of Bartlett's Pond. A fulling-mill and saw-mill were erected in 1804, by Joseph Horsley, on Bog Brook, a mile front its entrance into the stream that issues from. Brettun's Pond. This mill attracted custom from a great distance. Mills were built by Dea. Livermore at the outlet of this pond. He sold them to Capt. Henry Sawtelle; Sawtelle sold them to Nezer Dailey, and Dailey to William H. Brettun, who owned them for many years. At this place, now known as Livermore Village, but formerly called "Brettun's Mills," are two saw-mills, a grist-mill, and other machinery moved by water power; and a large mill with steam power, which is used in various manufactures, has recently been built by Theodore Russell, a gentleman of enterprise and business activity. About 1830 there was considerable excitement in this neighborhood on the subject of hemp growing, and a large mill for the preparation of hemp for the market was built at the Falls, on the west side of the river, by F. F. Haines, Esq., and others. But owing to the exhausting effect of the crop upon the land, and the want of remunerative sales, the business was continued but It few years, and the mill was converted to other uses. There was, many years ago, a saw-mill in the north-west corner of the town, near the Canton line. CARPENTERS. DAVID MORSE was a carpenter and house joiner, but did several kinds of work beside. He was from Sherburne, Mass., and was among the early settlers in Livermore. He moved to Lexington, Somerset County, many years ago, where lie was a justice of the He was a man of great ingenuity. His terms were peace. six shillings a day for joiner work, seven shillings for mason work, and eight shillings for mill work." Jonathan Morse, the blacksmith, was his brother. His residence was in the south part of the town, on the old main road, Dear his brother. Col. Elias Morse, also a carpenter, was his son. The place is now owned by Ira A Thompson and Lysander Fernald. There were carpenters and joiners in town HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 45 before Mr. Morse, as there were several during his time, and have been many since. Before him were THOMAS WING, who was, also, a mill-wright, and ISAIAH KEITH. EBENEZER HINDS, JR., came after him and did a good deal of work here in the early part of the century. Ile was from Freetown, Mass., where lie was born Oct. 14,1775, and arrived in Livermore in July, 1801. He had twelve children, viz.: Ebenezer, Salome, Gilbert, Amy, Maria, Hannah, -Leonard, Clarissa, Albert, Elbridge P., and Elbridge C., all of whom except Elbridge P., who died in infancy, are now (1873) living. Ile gave the first Republican vote cast in the town. NATHANIEL SOPER, ABNER HOLMAN, and SAMUEL P. HOLMAN were much employed as carpenters and joiners, as was OBRDEDOM BROWN, who possessed Something of the humor of Artemus Ward, to whom he was uncle. In face, and particularly in expression, Ile bore a strong resemblance to Charles Dickens, the novelist. SAMUEL BOOTHBY, from Woolwich, and ALFRED PARKER, Who was born in Minot in 1788, were carpenters. Mr. Parker married Ruth Pray and had several children. He came to Livermore with his father, who remained in town but a few years, in 1800. His residence is in the Gibbs' neighborhood. His son, Publius, was an artist of considerable repute. ZEBEDEE ROSE;, from Dighton, Mass., who had at one period of his life followed the seas, was a carpenter. Ile was an early settler, and his home was in the neighborhood of Gibbs' Mills. He married the widow of Henry Bond and had five children, of whom Zebedee, George, and Charles are now residents of Livermore. APOLLOS JONES, from Taunton, who married a sister of Thomas Chase, the elder, and had a family of fifteen children, was a carpenter and lived on the northerly slope of the Fuller Hill. SAMUEL HERSEY, whose wife was a sister of Mrs. Isaac Livermore, was a carpenter. He moved from Roxbury. Several of his sons are living in this State. Simeon is a trader in Hallowell; Isaac resides in Livermore, and his son, Artemus, who married a daughter of the late Hon. Jairus S. Keith, of Oxford, is a physician of good repute in that town. 46 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. MASONS. It has already been stated that David Morse worked sometimes as a mason, but this was not his trade or leading employment. PETER HUMPHREY, a native of Oxford, Mass., was the first mason by trade who resided in the town. Be came about 1800 and died in a few years. He was a good workman, and first settled on "Butter Hill," and next cleared up the farm where George Chandler lived for many years. His son, Tohn. HAMPHREY, a very intelligent and promising A young man, who after his father's death went to live with his uncle, Jesse Kidder, was killed by the falling of a tree while at work in the woods about the year 1828. His widow long survived him. There have been quite a number of masons living in town since the death of Mr. Humphrey. BLACKSMITHS. OTIS ROBINSON was the first blacksmith in town. He became owner of the mills as before related. He sold them, was ordained a Baptist clergyman, and moved to Shapleigh, York County, and from Shapleigh to Salisbury, N. H. Rev. Paul Coffin refers to him in his "missionary tour " in 1800. CAPT. JONATHAN MORSE was among the earliest blacksmiths who came to Livermore. He seems to have been an old settler when Mr. Coffin first visited the town. Ile preached at his house and em- ployed him in the line of his trade; be speaks of him as "my friend Morse, the excellent blacksmith." Ile had great celebrity as a A shoer of horses and oxen. His first wife was killed by the fall of his brother's house Aug. 15, 1799. In the summer of 1824 be was thrown from his wagon, near the store of Mr. Washburn, and both his legs were broken. Ile came from Sherburne, Mass., and died Oct. 30, 1848. DAVID I READ, of Attleborougb, Mass., was in Livermore in 1793, and in that year assisted in the organization of the first Baptist Church. He was a blacksmith and bad a shop at the Corner. He died in Livermore in April, 1870, at the age of ninety-four. Mr. Read, soon after Dr. Hamlin came to Livermore, pursued, under his instruction, for some time, the study of medicine; but, notwithstanding a strong predilection for this profession, be finally aban- doned the purpose of making this profession his life employment, and returned to his trade as a blacksmith, which he followed until the HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 47 infirmities of age compelled him to give it up. Stillman -Read, a much respected citizen, and recently a trader at the Falls, is his son. DEA. WILLIAM SANDERS had a blacksmith's shop in the southerly part of the town, but he moved to Gibbs' Mills and worked at his trade there for many years. NATHAN BARTLETT, son of Asa, has been engaged in the trade of a blacksmith, at his shop near Sander's Corner, for half a century. JEREMIAH BEAN was a well-known blacksmith at the Corner forty years ago. JAMES ff. PUTNAM was a blacksmith, largely employed by Sarson Chase, jr., the carriage and sleigh maker, whose shop was near the old Learned mansion. EBENEZER PRAY, a brother of Capt. Otis Pray, carried on this trade for a few years in the shop that had been occupied by Putnam. He removed to Worcester, Mass., a quarter of a century ago. TANNERS. COL. JESSE STONE was very early in Livermore and carried on the business of tanning at North Livermore, where also be kept for many years a tavern. He came from Ward, Mass.; was born Nov. 11, 1765, and died Feb. 28, 1857. He was a selectman as early as 1802 and frequently afterwards; was a justice of the peace and postmaster at the North Livermore office. Of his sons, Dwight, William, and Matthew Merry are living. William was a graduate of Bowdoin College and studied law in Hallowell with the Hon. Peleg Sprague, commenced business at West Prospect (DOW Searsport), and then moved to the State of Mississippi. Dwight resides in Massachusetts, and Matthew M. at Livermore Falls, CAPTAIN ALPHEUS KENDALL (recently deceased at Dexter, Me.,) built the second tannery in town. It was Dear the outlet of Bartlett's Pond. He was an excellent workman, and a high-toned man. surviving son, Stedman, lives in Dexter. He was captain of the Livermore company of cavalry. His only JOHN SMITH moved from Brentwood, N. H., in 1816, and established himself on the west side of the river, near the Falls, as a tanner. The business has been large and profitable. Mr. Smith's wife, Mary Sanborn, died in November, 1869. He is a man of enterprise and was greatly instrumental in effecting the construction of the Androscoggin Railroad. 48 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. CALEB SMITH, Son of the former, carries on the tanning business in the old yard of his father, and like his father is a useful and enterprising citizen. He is the present representative of Livermore in the State legislature. SADDLER. CAPT. SIMEON WATERS, a native of Sutton, Mass., was by trade a saddler. He settled in Livermore March 16, 1802, and commenced work at his trade. Ile soon became a farmer also, and provided himself with one of the largest and best farms in the town, situated on the southerly side of the hill which has been known sometimes as Lovewell's, sometimes as Waters', Hill. He was the second captain of the Livermore company of cavalry; was elected a representative from Livermore in the legislature of Massachusetts in 1806, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1812, 1814, 1815, 1816, and 1818. He served frequently as a town officer. He survived his wife (Betsey Marble) many years, dying March 27, 1866, aged ninety-four years and ten months. His surviving children are Clarendon, who lives on the old farm; Brooksa and Almira, who reside in Livermore, on the old Learned place; Cordelia, who married Rev. Peter Hassinger, and is settled in Abington, Illinois; Abigail, wife of Bela T. Bicknell, of Bath, Me.; Simeon, who lives in Kansas, and Emeretta, a teacher in St. Louis, Mo. SHOEMAKERS. SYLVESTER NORTON and DEA. SARSON CHASE were among the first shoemakers in town. Norton's shop was near the Corner, and Chase had a shop on his farm, on the northerly slope of Lovewell's Hill. Mr. Chase's children were Jane, who married Isaac Haskell, of New Gloucester; Mayhew,* who was a shoemaker and now lives at the Falls; Sarson, now employed at the navy yard in Charlestown, and Mary, who married Charles Howard. JOHN SANDERS, whose shop was near Monroe's, was a man of great capacity for doing work. Of his children now living John is a prosperous farmer and owns the large farm formerly held by Capt.. Daniel Coolidge; Emeline married William Poole and lives on the Capt. Baker farm in Livermore. IRA TOWLE worked. with Sanders. *Mr. Chase died February, 1874. HISTORY OF LIVERMORE 49 SAMUEL HARMON and THOMAS LORD, a pensioner of the war of 1812, were in this business. It is now carried on quite extensively for the trade at the village. SUMNER SOULE & Co. employ it) it (1878) one hundred hands, and S. V. YOUNG twenty. MILL-WRIGHTS. THOMAS WING was the first mill-wright in town and lived at Brettun's Mills. EPHRAIM and OTIS PRAY came from Oxford, Mass., in 1810, and were extensively engaged as mill-wrights in Livermore and the neighboring towns, and were superior workmen. Their brother, Publius R. R., was an apprentice with them a short time. Otis was a captain of the Livermore cavalry company, and became a farmer. lie is now living at a ripe old age on the farm which be has cccupied foi- more than sixty years.* Ile married Bethia Weeks, of Wayne, and after her decease, her sister, Eliza Weeks, who survives him. His son, Albert C. Pray, who was in the civil war and has been a representative to the State legislature, lives on the same farm. Another son, Otis Arkwright, is a successful business man in Minneapolis. His brother, Ephraim, died many years ago. A daughter, Rosetta, married Chandler, and lives in Bridgwater, Me. Drusilla, the second daughter, married Getehell, and lives in Minnesota, and Bethia, the youngest, is the wife of Hiram Briggs, of Livermore. CABINET MAKERS. The earliest cabinet makers were probably T1103TAS CHASE and SAMUEL BOOTHBY who, however, were carpenters and farmers also. CHARLES BENJAMIN was a cabinet maker early in the present century, doing excellent work at his shop on the, Intervale. CARRIAGE AND SLEIGH MAKERS. SARSON CHASE, JR., was engaged for many years previous to 1810 in the carriage and sleigh making business, Ile had fine taste, and his carriages and sleighs were among the best that were made in his time in the State. His sleighs Were in demand from Portland to Bangor. He is now employed at the navy yard in Charlestown, Mass. BELA T. BICKNELL, DOW of Bath, carried on the business successfully for several years at the shop previously occupied by Mr. Chase. #Capt. Pray died March 6,1874, aged eighty-five years and twelve days. 50 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. SCYTHE AND SNEATH MAKERS. 'Before the division of the town, SAMUEL PARK carried on the business of scythe making for several years at the Falls. HENRY ALDRICH, at Brettun's Mills, was engaged in the manufacture of scythe sneaths. Mr. Aldrich came from Uxbridge, Mass., in 1808. lie died on Long Island, N. Y., in 1846. His wife, Nancy Stanley, of swansey, N. H., died in Mobile in 1865. His children were Elias T, b. in 1809, d. at Memphis, Tenn., October, 1860; Abner AS., b. in 1811, d. in New York, 1848; Angela, who married Barzillai Latham, b. in 1813, d. in 1864; Elizabeth, who married William Cutts, d. in 1844; -Daniel, b. in 1817, now living in New Orleans, and Nancy, b. in 1819, d. in New York, 1843. Elias T. was a merchant in Bangor, where lie erected the fine residence which, after lie removed from that city, was owned by the late John Barker, Esq. Ile died suddenly at Memphis, Tenn., some twentyfive years ago. His friend and companion, Charles H. Pierpont, died at the same time. SETH BALLOU, a relative of Mr. Aldrich, was much in his employment. CLOCK MAKER. KILAH HALL, who worked at the trade of clock making, lived in the southerly part of the town. He was a native of' Raynham. His son, Amasa, was a watch maker and jeweller in the South and ;it Lewiston. CLOTHIERS AND CARDERS. The first probably to do business as a clothier or carder in town Was JOSEPH HORSLEY. Y. It was about the opening of the century that lie built mills for these. trades. They were on Boo, Brook, near the residence of his brother, James Horsley, Mr. H. married a daughter of Benjamin Parks, and had Christopher Columbus, the prince of fiddlers in all the country side; Leonora, a beautiful girl, who married John A. Pitts, of Winthrop, who afterwards moved to Chicago, and Myrtilla, who died unmarried. John FULLER and JOHN A. KIMBALL, at Fuller's Mills, were engaged in this trade for several years. JAMES HANNA, an excellent workman and intelligent man, a native of the north of Ireland, was in this business at the 'Village for a considerable period. But before him was OZIAS BARTLETT, who moved to Harmony, Somerset County, nearly fifty years ago. HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. There was a fulling mill and carding machine at the Falls from an early day. TRADERS. GEN. LEARNED, as has been already stated, was the first trader, or storekeeper, in town. After him was ARTEMAS LEONARD, Who occupied the Learned store, having removed it to the lot purchased of' Dr. Hamlin. Leonard was a native of Raynham, Mass., and opened his store in Livermore in 1805. he married Betsey daughter of' Thomas Coolidge, by whom be had three children. lie did a large business for a new town in the country. In 1809 lie sold his farm and store to Israel Washburn and moved to Hallowell. William H. BRETTUN, born in Raynham, Mass., March 21, 1773, moved to Livermore in 1804, and owned and occupied a large fram on the main road, about a mile from the north line of Turner, where lie had a productive orchard and a store. About the year 1810 lie purchased the mills and water power at the village (for a long time known as 11 "Brettun's Mills") and there carried on for many years grist and saw-mills, shingle and clapboard machines, carding and fulling-mills, and a pot-ash. Ile also had a store from which were sold large quantities of goods. Ile was successful in accumulating property. In 1835 be sold his estates in Livermore and moved soon afterwards to Bangor, where be died Sept. 10, 1837. In the early part of the century be was a good deal in town office, and several times a representative in the legislature of Massachusetts. His wife (,to whom he was married May 15, 1796,) was Anna Sarah Leonard, a sister of Artemas Leonard. She died Sept. 22, 1847. William 11 Brettun, jr., his eldest son, married, October, 1824, Elizabeth A. IV, Williams, of Taunton, and settled in Livermore and continued in trade there after his fathers removal. He married for his second wife Deborah Washburn, widow of Davis Washburn, and sister of his first wife. He died Feb. 19, 1864. Another son, Seranus L., resides in Hampton, Illinois. His eldest daughter, Clarinda, married Maj. Hastings Strickland, formerly of Livermore, but now of Bangor. Hannah, the second daughter, married Hon. James T. Leavitt, of Skowhegan, and has been dead many years. Amanda, the youngest daughter, died unmarried. ISRAEL WASHBURN was born in Raynham, Mass., Nov. 18, 1784, Ile came to Maine in 1806, visiting Bangor, Eddington, Mariaville, Trenton, and Livermore. lie remained some months at the latter HISTORY OF LIVERMORE place, and then went to the County of Lincoln, where be was em- ployed for a year or more as a school teacher, and after this engaged in trade and ship building with Barzillai White, at White's Lauding, now Richmond, on the Kennebec River. In 1809, having purchased of Artemas Leonard his farm, store, and goods in Livermore, lie commenced business here as a trader, in which lie remained until 1829. His subsequent years have been passed upon his farm, known as the 11 "Norlands," where lie now lives (1873) at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. During the earlier part of his residence in this town lie was much of the time in office as town clerk and selectman and was a representative in the legislature of Massachusetts in 1815, 1816, 1818, and 1819. He married Martha Benjamin, of Livermore, March 80, 1812. She died May 6, 1861. They had eleven children, of' whom nine are now living Israel (LL. D.) was educated for the bar, and settled at Orono, Penobscot County, December, 1834. Ile continued in the practice of his profession, so far as the discharge of official duties would permit, until about 1860. Ile was a member of the-State legislature in 1842, and a representative from the Penobscot District in the thirty-second, thirty-third, thirtyfourth, thirty-fifth, and tbirty-sixth congresses of the United States. 1-10 resigned his seat in Congress January 1, 1861, to enter upon the duties of the office of governor of the State, having been elected thereto the previous autumn. He was re-elected in September, 1861, and declined a subsequent election. In November, 1863, lie was appointed by President Lincoln collector of the port of -Portland, and has held that office to the present time (1873). He is president of the board of trustees of Tufts College. Algernon 8. -was a merchant in Boston, and ,Afterwards a banker in .Hallowell, where lie now lives. Elihu B. studied law in Boston and at the Harvard Law School; went to Illinois in 1840 and commenced practice with Charles S. Hempstead, Esq., at Galena. In 1852 he was elected representative in congress and was continued in this office, by subsequent elections, till March, 1869, being at the time of his retirement the oldest member by consecutive elections, or, in congressional parlance, "the Father of the House." In March, 1869, lie was appointed by President Grant Secretary of State, but soon afterwards resigned that position to accept the office of Minister Pleniipotentiary to France. He was in Paris as Minister during the seige by the Prussians and the reign of the Commune. Cad HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. walader C. (LL. D.) was a lawyer, and settled in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, about 1841. He now lives in Madison in that State. Ile was a member of the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth congresses; was a major-general of volunteers in the late civil war, serving principally in the valley of the lower Mississippi and in Texas. In November, 1871, lie was elected Governor of Wisconsin. Martha married Col. Charles L. StephenSOD, a native of Gorham, Me., and lives in Galena, 111. Charles A. was in Washington, D. C., a short time after leaving college (Bowdoin) in 1848, and went to California where he became a newspaper publisher and editor. He was an elector at large from that State in 1860; and in 1861 was appointed Minister Resident to Paraguay. He was recalled at his own request in 1869, and is now a resident of Oakland, Cal. He is author of a History of Paraguay, an elaborate work in two large volumes, and of several other works. Samuel B. was a shipmaster in the merchant marine, and afterwards was in the lumber trade in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was a captain in the volunteer force in the navy in the late civil war. Ile now resides at the Norlands, Mary -B. (deceased) married Gustavus A. Buffum, of Clinton, Iowa. William D. graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854, studied law and was admitted to the bar, but is now extensively interested in timber lands and mill property in Minnesota. He has represented the city of Minneapolis in the State legislature, and from 1861 to 1865 was surveyor-general of the State. Caroline A.. married Dr. Freeland S. Holmes, who was a surgeon in the Sixth Regiment Maine Volunteers, and died while in the service in September, 1863. Her home is in Minneapolis. DAVIS WASHBURN, a native of Raynham (and cousin of Israel), commenced trade at North Livermore about 1819. He bad previously been in business in Hallowell with Asa Barton. After removing to Livermore he was interested in a store at Dixfield, his brother-in-law, James M. Williams, of Taunton, being a partner in the business at both places. Their trade was quite large. He died in 1832, at the age of forty. His widow, several years afterwards, married William Henry Brettun, jr. His surviving children are George W. C. Washburn, of Needham, Mass., and John M. Washburn, of Boston, Treasurer of the Old Colony Railroad Company. Nehemiah, his youngest son, died in Washington in 1873. CHARLES BARRELL was for a time a partner with Mr. Washburn, HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 54 and afterwards had a store opon the Intervale. Ile was a member of the legislature from Livermore in 1831 ; was proprietor of the Elm House in Portland for many years, and owned and sold the valuable property on which is now situated the prosperous village of Ligonia, in Cape Elizabeth. C. X. Barrell, the well-known conductor on the railroad from Waterville to Danville Junction for nearly a quarter of a century, is his son. JEFFERSON and MERRITT COOLIDGE were traders at North Livermore for several years, transac ting an extensive country trade. Jefferson sold out and went to Buckfield, and Merritt moved to Hallowell. Afterwards both settled in Portland and became wholesale grocers. Merritt died in 1866. Among the other traders in town were SIMEON HERSEY, PALMER ELLIOT, OTIS THOMPSON, at the Corner, and SAMUEL B. HOLT, ABNER S. ALDRICH, BARZILLAI LA THAM, ISAAC and LEE STRICKLAND, DORILLUS MORISON, and G. W. C. WASHBURN, at the village. Within the last half century there have been many traders in the town, but further notices cannot be given within the limits to which these sketches must be confined. In that part of the town which is now East Livermore there were several traders at an early day, among whom were ELISHA PETTINGILL and LOT P. NELSON at the Falls. SAMUEL MORISON, who had been an officer in the militia and a deputy sheriff for many years, living on the west side of the river, previous to 1830 opened a store on the east side, at Haines' Corner. Ile was born in Falmouth, Me., May, 1788, and settled in 'Livermore as early as 1810. He moved to Bangor in 1835, where he was deputy sheriff and recorder of the municipal court. His wife (a daughter of Lieut. Samuel Benjamin) -died Dec. 9, 1860, and he survived her until September, 1867. They had five children: Samuel Benjamin (M. D. Bowdoin College, 1837), who practised his profession first in Livermore (which town he represented in the legislature in 1842 and 1844), and afterwards in Bangor, where he has resided for many years. He was a surgeon in the Second Regiment Maine Volunteers, and is now pension agent for the eastern district in Maine; Dorillus, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Minneapolis, Minn., and for two years its mayor; Marrison G. 0., a lawyer in Sebec, Piscataquis County, and representing that class in the legislature of Maine for 1841, now a citizen of Minneapolis, and now or HISTORY OF LIVERMORE 55 recently, an officer of the internal revenue; -Russell S., a merchant in Bangor; - Betsey, wife of Samuel F. Fuller, formerly a trader in East Livermore, and now a farmer in Bangor, arid Dorcas, wife Of Nelson Jordan, a trader at Lincoln, Me. FRANCIS F. HAINES, Son of Capt. Peter Haines, was about 1830 in trade at East Livermore Corner and at the Falls, having a partner and doing a large business, for the time, under the firm of Haines & Page. At a subsequent time Job Haskell was his partner in trade. He has been an active justice of the peace for many years, has frequently been in town office, and has been a member of the legislature. He married Linda Bates, sister of Hon. James and Rev. George Bates, in 1812. His children were Emeline, wife of Earl S. Goodrich, Esq., of St. Paul, Minn.'; Linda Ann, wife of Hon. Timothy 0. Howe,U. S. Senator from Wisconsin; -Mary, widow or the late Dr. E. P. Eastman, of Platteville, Wis.; Francis F. (deceased), who was an artist; Silas B., a lawyer in Colorado; Marshall, deceased; Sophia, wife of Joseph Lee, of St. Paul, and Frederic, a physician in Skowhegan. Mr. Haines' first wife died in 1861, and be married in 1862 the widow of the late Hon. Stephen H. Read, of Lewiston. Mr. Haines was born in February, 1793. Williamson, in his History of Maine, places the population of 11 Livermore and Richardson," in 1790, at 400. Livermore, alone, in 1795, the (,late of its incorporation, had probably not over that number. In 1798, Rev. Paul Coffin (vide Missionary Tour in Maine) says it contained 130 families. From the time of its incorporation until 1820 there was a large immigration, principally from Massachusetts; nor was the increase of population, if we are to believe Mr. Coffin, to be wholly accounted for in this way. In his journal of the tour made in 1798 be writes: "There were in this place six pairs of twins under five years." Thus, with these liberal and wholesome sources Of increase, the progress of the good town seemed to be assured, and so it was for a season. But, at legth, owing in part to a policy of the State, about forty years ago, owing unfriendly to the introduction or increase of manufactures, and in part to the opening of the boundless and promising regions of the West; and in a less degree to other causes, a period of rest, followed by one of retrogression, set in. The course of population since the commencement of the present 56 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. century has been as follows: 1800, 863; 1810, 1,560; 1820, 2,174; 1830, 2,445; 1840, 2,745. After the division of the town (1843), 1850, 1,764; 1860, 1,596; 1870, 1,467. As will be seen, there has been a steady decrease of population since 1850. There is some reason to believe, however, that there has been a turn in the tide. Manufactures of wood, and of boots and shoes, and of some other articles have been introduced and established; population seems to be flowing in rather than out of the town, and altogether there appears to be promise of a healthy growth in the future, especially if the "Valley Railroad" shall be built. (c) 1998 Courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society ************************************************* * * * * NOTICE: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. 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