Cumberland County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Harpswell 1883
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HARPSWELL

Fourteen miles N. E. of Portland by water and forty by land. Terminus of daily
stage-line from Brunswick, and Tuesday and tri-weekly line to East Harpswell and
Orr's Island. Formerly called Merryconeag. First settled, 1720. Incorporated the
13th town Jan. 15, 1758. Named at the pleasure of the legislature. Embraces
numerous islands in Casco Bay. Set off from North Yarmouth as a precinct in
1750. First settled minister, Rev. Elisha Eaton. Population-1850, 1534; 1860,
1603; 1870, 1749; 1880, 1773. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 401; Estates, $446,288;
1870-Polls, 430; Estates, $454,601; 1880-Polls, 430; Estates, $499,621. 

  Postmasters-Center, Elisha A. Clark; North, Isaac Merriman 2d; East, W. H.
Doughty; West, Mrs. Elnora Webber; Orr's Island, S. E. Smullen; Cundy's Harbor,
Sidney Watson; South, E. C. Simpson.

  Selectmen-T. E. Skolfield, Paul C. Randall, George R. Hersey.

  Town Clerk-Center, Elisha S. Stover.

  Treasurer-Wm. C. Eaton.

  Constable and Collector-North, William S. Alexander. 

  Constables-Orr's Island, Robert G. Wilson; East, Walter S. Totman; West, Paul
S. Merriman. 

  School Supervisor-North, T. E. Skolfield.

  Fish Warden-West, Rufus D. Merriman.

  Clergymen-Center, Supplies, Cong.; West, D. R. Ford, Meth.; vacant, Bap.,
Union church; Orr's Island, vacant, F. Bap.; D. R. Ford, Meth.; North, vacant,
Univ.; East, vacant, F. Bap.

  Physician- West, G. A. Harlow, All.

  Justices-Chas. Johnson, Jan. 29, 1878; F. J. Orr, Jan. 26, 1881; Stephen
Purinton, May 13, 1880; S. E. Smullen, April 27,1882; J. F. Lawson, Mar. 15,
1876; David Pennell, May 13, 1880; T. E. Skolfield, March 14, 1883, Quorum.

  Merchants-Center, J. C. & E. A. Clark; North, Isaac Merriman, 2d, East, John
Power, William Coffin, general stores; Great Island Ice Co., Samuel Jordon,
supt.; Dingley's Island Ice Co., Frank A. Goddard, supt.; Gun Point Ice Co., Wm.
Getchell, supt.; Cundy's Harbor, Sidney Watson, A. T. Trufant, general stores
and fish; West, J. F. Lawson, Moses Bailey, general stores; H. C. Merriman,
confectionery; West Harpswell Ice Co., J. E. Farr, supt.; Orr's Island, Smullen
& Prince, Hiram C Orr, general stores and fish; South. W. C. Bailey, dry goods
and groceries; Bailey's Island, D. P. Sinnett, general stores and fish.

  Manufacturers-Center, E. K. Hodgkins, boats; Allen Bros., Merriman & Co.,
Sylvester Stover, ship builders; North, James E. Alexander, smith; Geo. R.
Skolfield, ship builder; West, P. A. Durgan, boat builder; Paul C. Merriman,
shipbuilder; East, Wm. Doughty, boat-builder; Cundy's Harbor, David Harrington,
dories; South, George A. Marsh, canned goods; West, John Merriman, William
Randall, house joiners; Casco Bay Mills, George W. True & Co., proprietors, meal.

  Band-North, North Harpswell Cornet Band, I. L. Dunning, leader.

  Hotels-South-Mansion House, G. H. Dearborn;  Merriconeag Hotel, E. A. Pinkham;
Alexander's Boarding House, Eli Alexander; Johnson's Boarding House, G. R.
Johnson; Bonanza House, Baxter Marr; Cundy's Harbor, Union Hotel, Jas. Jewell.


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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