Kennebec County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Pittston 1883
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PITTSTON.

Six miles S. S. E. of Augusta. Near Gardiner on Me. Cent. Railroad, and on
stage-line to Alna. First permanent settlement made about 1759. Incorporated,
Feb. 4, 1779; originally embraced the present town of Gardiner, and named from
Sir William Pitt. First represented in general court in 1799, by Henry Dearborn.
  First Congregational church gathered in 1812. Population-1850, 2823; 1860,
2619; 1870, 2353; 1880, 2458. Valuation, 1860-Polls; 566; Estates, $619,711;
1870-Polls, 531; Estates, $648,353; 1880-Polls, 650; Estates, $669,688.

  Postmasters-L. W. Goodspeed; East, L. S. Clark; North, Jesse Gould.

  Selectmen-Daniel Glidden, H. H. Cary, B. F. Fuller.

  Town Clerk-William H. Dudley.

  Treasurer-John F. Brookings.

  Collector-East, Geo. E. Moody.

  Constable-Henry M. McCurdy.

  School Supervisor-Miss Clara L. Clark.

  Clergymen-Vacant, Cong.; J. T. Crosby, Meth.; East, J. T. Crosby, Meth.

  Physician-East, C. C. Libby, All.

  Justices-James M. Carpenter, July 2, 1879; D. C. Knight, Dec. 21, 1880; Albion
C. Clark, October 3, 1877; L. A. Wheeler, Quorum: D. H. Moody, April 10, 1882;
L. W. Goodspeed, Trial.

  Merchants-A. H. Clark & Son, Edward M. Morton,  Benj. Lawrence, Frank T.
Yeaton, R. C. Moody, L. W. Goodspeed, J. R. Goodwin, Wm. Grant, A. E. Lewis, D.
W. Hennessey, general stores;  H, S. Winslow, boots and shoes; Mrs. R. C. Moody,
dry and fancy goods; John Frost, E. S. Lawrence, Brookings & Son, Bradford
Abbott, butchers; G. P. H. Jewett, cattle broker; Benj. Clark, hay; Charles R.
Moore, John Scott, milk; Samuel Ayer, hay. East, L. S. Clark, W. S. Cleaves,
general stores.

  Manufacturers-Lawrence, Putnam & Co., Oliver Moulton, lumber; Knickerbocker
Ice Co., Pittston Ice Co., G. E. Weeks & Co., Washington Ice Co., Centennial Ice
Co., Independent Ice Co., Oakland Ice Co., A. M. Powers, Bodwell, Allen &
Bodwell, ice; Thomas E. Webber, harnesses; H. M. McCurdy, stoves and tinware; H.
S. Winslow, John Kersey, David Bangs, Williom [sic] B. Winslow, boots and shoes;
E. Leeman & Son, S. W. Whitney, A. White, Colby W. York, painters; N. Mitchell,
O. V. Rowe, carriages; Marcellus Dunton, J. A. Hoyt, smiths; J. F. Brookings, F.
G. Sherman, coopers; Daniel Black, oars and pick poles. East, Henry Knight,
lumber; W. F. Mansur, C. C. Stilphen, carriages; J. B. Fowler, harnesses.

  Barber-O. A. Powers.

  Livery Stables-I. F. Russell, A. White, D. R. Marston.

  School-East, East Pittston Academy, Chas. S. Estes, principal.

  Asso'tn-P. of H.-Pittston, No. 214, John B. Ripley, Master.


Additional Comments:

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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