Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Aroostook County 1883
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AROOSTOOK COUNTY.

Originally a part of Penobscot and Washington. Incorporated March 16, 1839.
Enlarged March 21, 1843, by additions from Penobscot, and March 12, 1814, by
additions from Piscataquis and Somerset Counties. Area, 6800 square miles.
Houlton, shire town. Population-1830, 3399: 1840, 9413; 1850, 12,529; 1860,
22,479; 1870, 29,609; 1880, 41,700. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 2098; Estates,
$1,105,796; 1870-Polls, 5212; Estates, $4,995,-6S5; 1880-Polls, 7,734; Estates,
$7,564,932.

  Commissioners-Joseph D. Emery, Caribou, Chairman; John Burnham, Sherman; M. V.
B. Hall, Van Buren.

  Treasurer-Charles D. Merritt, Houlton.

  Clerk or Courts-Ransom Norton, Houlton.

  County Attorney-Charles P. Allen. Presque Isle.

  Judge of Probate-Lyman S. Strickland, Houlton.

  Register of Probate-Wm. T. Spear, Houlton.

  Registers or Deeds-Henry H. Ward, Houlton; Northern Registry, James Keegan,
Madawaska.

  Sheriff-Lewis B. Johnson, Houlton. Deputies - Alvarez G. Putnam (jailer), J.
K. Osgood, Houlton; Arthur V. Goud, Caribou; Silas Niles, Fort Kent; Harvey L.
Barto, Presque Isle; Frank W. Burns, Fort Fairfield; Benj. H. Towle, Sherman;
Hiram Davis, Winn (Penobscot County); Marcus S. Huson, Easton; James D.
Clifford, Reed Plantation; Jedediah Estabrook, Amity; Simon N. Hammond, Hamlin
Plantation; H. Sirois, Madawaska.

  Coroner-W. H. Estabrook, Fort Fairfield.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

MAINE STATE YEAR-BOOK,
AND
LEGISLATIVE MANUAL,
FOR THE YEAR
1883-84,
FROM APRIL 1, 1883, TO APRIL 1, 1884,

BY EDMUND S. HOYT.
PREPARED PURSUANT TO ORDERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

PORTLAND: HOYT, FOGG &  DONHAM,
193 MIDDLE STREET.


Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1883, by HOYT, FOGG & DONHAM,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.


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