Kennebec County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Albion 1883
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ALBION.

Twenty-seven miles N. E. of Augusta. On stage-line from Fairfield to Belfast.
Organized a plantation in 1802, and named Freetown. Incor. the 152d town, March
9, 1804, under the name of Fairfax. Name afterward changed to Lygonia, and
lastly to Albion, Feb. 25, 1824. Population- 1850, 1604; 1860, 1554; 1870, 1356;
1880, 1191. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 342; Estates, $304,850; 1870-Polls, 323;
Estates, 376,791; 1880-Polls, 345; Estates, $370,501.

  Postmasters-Charles A. Drake; South, G. A. Rider.

  Selectmen-Dennis G. Mndgett [sic], John G. Parmeter, Jas. W. Stratton.

  Town Clerk-Benjamin F. Abbott. 

  Treasurer, Collector and Constable-Benjamin F. Abbott.

  School Supervisor-Lillian V. Dilling.

  Clergymen-Charles Drake, Disciples; vacant, Chris.; vacant, Univ.

  Physicians-George H. Wilson, Carroll W. Abbott, All.

  Justices-Charles W. Hussey, March 6, 1878; Marshall B. Hammond, Feb. 9, 1882;
Mark Rollins jr., Dec. 16, 1881; James Whittaker, Jan. 13, 1882, Quorum; Charles
W. Hussey, Jan. 22, 1879; Otis Meader, March 9, 1882, Trial.

  Merchants-Drake & Brown, S. Chalmers & Sons, Hussey Bros. & Co.,general
stores; Hussey Bros. & Co., clothing; Kate Donoho, millinery. South, George B.
Rider, general stores.

  Manufacturers-Frank U.[?, type broken] Besse, leather; S. Chalmers & Sons,
lumber; Crosby & 'Smiley, lumber; Charles W. Jackson, Everett G. Wing,
carriages; Daniel T. Jones, harnesses: Franklin B. Judkins, L. Wesley Drake,
Benjamin F. Abbott, smiths; Mrs. S. Hussey, Mrs. J. W. Stratton, Mrs. C. A.
Drake, Mrs. Florence Whitcomb, dressmakers; C. W. Jackson, George M. Jackson,
painters; A. B. Danforth, Almon Shorey, boots and shoes; Joseph E. Thompson &
Son, J. Harding jr., A. C. French, Otis B. Chase, carpenters; Thomas Donoho,
stone-cutter; Robert C. Brann (China P. O.), machinist; Hussey Bros, & Co.,
clothing; Charles Goings, carpenter; Wm. W. Haskell, Elijah Tozier, millwrights.
South, Ed. E. Hall, Smiley & Shorey, lumber; Lorenzo Shorey, Seneca Shorey, Wm.
H. Wing, carpenters.

  Surveyors of Land-Mark Rollins, Ora O. Crosby.

  High School-Wallace W. Andrews, A. B., principal.

  Asso'tns-South, P. of H.-Albion, No. 181, R. L. Baker, Master, M. B. Hammond,
secretary, Friday.

  Hotel-Charles B. Wellington.


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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