Oxford County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Gilead 1883
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GILEAD.

Thirty-five miles W. N. W. of Paris. On Grand Trunk Railroad. Settlement
commenced in 1780. Formerly called Peabody's Patent. Named from Balm Gilead
trees in the center of the town. Incorporated June 23, 1804. Population-1850,
359; 1860, 347; 1870, 329; 1880, 293. Valuation, 1860-Polls, 76; Estates,
$63,484; 1870-Polls, 76; Estates, $74,940; 1880-Polls, 94; Estates, $72,364.

  Postmaster-*J. W. Kimball.

  Selectmen-H. P. Wheeler, George I. Bnrnham, T. G. Lary.

  Town Clerk-J. W. Kimball.

  Treasurer-T. G. Lary.

  Constable--J. W. Kimball.

  School Committee-T. G. Lary, H. V. Wheeler, Miss Edith C. Lary.

  Clergyman-T. P. Williams, Cong.

  Justice-D. L. Austin, March 3, 1880; Samuel W. Potter, Sept. 19, 1881, Quorum,.

  Merchants-J. W. Kimball, J. W. Bennett, general stores.

  Manufacturers-J. W. Bennett, Caleb Wight, spool stock, salt-boxes and staves,
also grist mill; W. E. Skillings & Co., spools, bobbins and spool lumber.


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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