Oxford County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Buckfield 1883
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BUCKFIELD.

Eight miles E. of Paris. On Rumford Falls and Buckfield R. R. First improvement
made by Benj. Spaulding of Chelmsford, Mass., in 1776. Abijah Buck and Thos.
Allen, with their families, arrived in the town April 1, 1777, and Nathaniel and
John Buck with families,-all from New Gloucester, Me., later in the same month,
and were the four first families settling in the town. Named for the first
settlers. Former name, No. 5, or Bucktown. Incorporated the 81st town, March 16,
1793. Baptist church formed in 1821. First representative to general court,
Enoch Hall, 1807. Population-1860, 1659; 1860, 1705; 1870, 1494; 1880, 1379.
Valuation, 1860-Polls, 415; Estates, $504,794; 1870-Polls, 428; Estates,
$554,673; 1880-Polls, 369; Estates, $397,598.

  Postmasters-I. W. Shaw; North, A. F. Mason.

  Selectmen-A. P. Bonney, A. F. Mason, H. D. Irish.

  Town Clerk-Alfred Cole.

  Treasurer-A. P. Bonney.

  Constable and Collector-H. H. Hutchinson.

  School Committee-E. B. Austin, Alfred Cole, J. H. Decaster.

  Clergymen-J. M. Follett, Bap.; vacant, Univ.; supplies, Meth.; East, R. Scott,
F. Bap.

  Physicians-C. B. Bridgham, J. C. Caldwell, A. C. Whitman, C. D. Bradbury, All.

  School Supervisor-Moses B. Cobb.

  Clergymen-A. R. Sylvester (Bridgton), Meth.; vacant, Cong.; vacant, Univ.

  Physician-Sidney T. Brown, All.

  Lawyer-S. G. Davis.

  Justices-J. Bennett, Aug. 1, 1878; S. G. Davis, July 6, 1875, Quorum: D. G.
Tarbox, Aug. 15, 1882; G. R. Bean, Jan. 19, 1877, Trial.

  Merchants-L. A. Ingalls, general stores; James N. Smith, hardware; J. T.
Blake, groceries; C. I. Smith, confectionery and Yankee notions. East, C. E.
Whidden, general stores.

  Manufacturers-A. P. Merrill, wheelwright; John C. Hodge, Pendexter & Sanborn,
clothing; Potter & Ordway, doors, sash and blinds; Aug. Ingalls, Bean & Sanborn,
saw, stave, shook, and grist mill; D. P. Lord, Geo. P. Ames, smiths; Gilbert
Warren, painter; Jos. A. Holt, shingle, stave, shook and grist mill; A. P.
Merrill, Potter & Ordway, undertakers; Burnham & Morrill, corn packing; Mrs. E.
A. Loud, liniment; Denmark clothes pin manufactory, Sidney Tolman, manager;
East, Perley & Berry, stave and shingle mill; Theodore Lowell, painter; Eben
Blaisdell, smith.

  Assot'ns-Masons-Mt. Moriah, Wednesday on or before full moon; I. O. O.
F.-Denmark, Tues.; Rebecca, 2d and 4th Thursdays.


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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