Hancock County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Amherst 1883
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AMHERST.

Twenty-two miles N. N. E. of Ellsworth. On daily stage lines from Ellsworth and
Aurora to Bangor. Settled between 1805 and 1808. Set off from plantation of
Mariaville, 1822. Inc. Feb. 5, 1831. Population -1850, 323; 1860,384; 1870, 350;
1880, 400. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 83; Estates, $50,046; 1870-Polls, 89; Estates,
$57,276. 1880-Polls, 122; Estates, $72,524.

  Postmaster-E. E. Mills.

  Selectmen-James H. Nickerson, *A. W. Silsby, W. H. Silsby.

  Town Clerk-A. W. Silsby.

  Treasurer-O. H. Buzzell.

  Constable-Charles E. Dunham.

  School Committee-C. E. Wasgatt, David S. Hadley jr., O. H. Buzzell.

  Clergymen-William Haynes, Cong.; L. Marsh, Chris. Band.

  Physician-C E. Wasgatt, All.

  Justice-Frank H. Orcutt, Sept. 19, 1881, Quorum.

  Merchants-Mrs. S. E. Silsby, A. H. Buzzell & Son, E. E. Mills, general stores.

  Manufacturers-A. H. Buzzell & Son, sole-leather and saw-mill; Buzzell & White,
clapboards and shingles; A. N. Jewett, David Kimball, I. W. Herrick, smiths; S.
F. Buzzell, grist mill.

  I. O. G. T.-Acadia.


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.


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