Aroostook County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Mars Hill 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/me/mefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 29, 2007, 4:52 pm MARS HILL. Thirty miles N. of Houlton, on stage-line to Fort Fairfield. Organized as a plantation in 1866. Incorporated February 21, 1867. Population-1850, 29; 1860, 201; 1870, 399; 1880, 716. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 53; Estates, $25,000; 1870-Polls, 78; Estates, $45,811; 1880-Polls, 143; Estates, $71,577. Postmaster-S. N. Pierce. Selectmen-C. F. Towle, J. M. Ramsey, H. W. Safford. Town Clerk-John M. Ramsey. Treasurer-P. T. Blanchard. Constable and Collector-Robert Irving (Blaine P. O.) Constables-H. W. Safford, Edward York (Blaine P. O.) School Supervisor-B. Frank Pierce (Blaine P. O.) Clergyman-Vacant, F. Bap. Physician-J. H. Syphers (Blaine P. O.) Justices-H. Wilson; Thos. S. Perkins, Mar, 3, 1880; John M. Ramsey, July 1, 1881, Quorum. Merchants-Bedford Hume, ______ Stewart (Blaine P. O.), groceries and lumbering; Mrs. Mary A. McCormick, millinery (Blaine P. O.) Manufacturers-H. Wilson, long and short lumber; ____ McGlauflin, smith. Blaine P. O., B. F. Jones, long and short lumber; G. W. Collins, B. Hume, starch factories; Richard Keith, smith; Robert Gustin, plasterer and mason. I. O. G. T. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/aroostook/directories/business/1883/marshill183gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mefiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb