Christopher Columbus COBURN, the diary began January
1, 1871, in Crystal, Maine , part three

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This is part three of my ggrandfather's transcribed
diary begun in 1871 in Crystal, Maine.

The diary starts again Sept. 27 (1880), when he
moved his wife to his wife's mother and step father,
John MCDONALD's.  Her own father had previously died
and her mother married again.

...On his brief stays at home he worked for
different people, including the family doctor,
Benjamin WOODBURY.

...Dec. 18th he moved his goods to the house of
William MITCHELL in North Patten.  Dec. 24 he moved
his wife from MCDONALD's at No. 5 to George
MCKENNEY's.

...April 25, 1881 he went on the drive for KELSO,
shifting over to Mr. WEBSTER on the Corporation
drive May 25 for a couple of days...

...May 10, 1882 to June 5th driving for JOY &
DUDLEY.  This June 9th he planted potatoes and then
went to peeling bark for WARREN & COFFIN, keeping at
that till about the middle of July.

...The wood business was carried on till April 19,
1883, when he was hired for driving for a Mr.
PARKS....Late in May his wife's brother Elmer MOORE
and brother-in-law William H. SCRIBNER appear on the
scene working with him a few days... Through the
month of Sept., 1883, it appears that he and
SCRIBNER joined forces and worked for each other and
other people together.

Oct. 12, COBURN moved into a house owned by Louis
HUNT, probably in upper Crystal. ......The month of
February, 1885, he worked in the lumber woods for a
Mr. LOVEJOY. ...May 12 he finished for WARREN &
COFFIN. June 22 to July 4 falling trees for Roscoe
ORDWAY.

Oct. 7 it snowed all day and the next day he
finsihed digging his potatoes and the following week
dug potatoes for Neighbor COFFIN.

...Most of Dec. he was exploring, same as cruising,
for Coolidge WHITE.

Jan., 1886, building a camp at the pond (probably
Peaked Mountain). He evidently did no farming that
summer but worked out by the day much of the time
falling trees most of the time for WHITE at $26 per
month. About the middle of Jan., 1887, he quit for
WHITE and went to work for a Mr. MITCHELL, in the
woods for nearly a month.

May 3 he went on drive for Coolidge WHITE until the
27th, when he went to Trout Brook Farm, where he
worked for Mr. PALMER.  June 9 he repaired his canoe
and went down the East Branch and out home.  He
worked around there until June 26 (Sunday) when he
went in to the HUNT place, a mile below the East
Branch House on that river.

...Sept, 1887 about a month here he was guiding a
Dr. MORRIS up and down the East Branch.

...Oct 23 he caught a lynx.  25th started a stone
wall under the barn. This wall was built of field
stone without cement and backed up with small stone
and was still in perfect shape when last seen many
years later by the compiler of this diary.  (Who by
the way, was his son, Ferdinad COBURN).