Oxford County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Newry 1883
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NEWRY.

Thirty miles N. W. of Paris on Grand Trunk Railroad. On stage-line from Bethel
Hill to Lake Umbagog. Formerly plantation of Sudbury Canada; also once called
Bostwick. Settled, 1781, by Benjamin Barker and Brothers, from Methuen, Mass.,
and Ithiel Smith, of Cape Elizabeth. Incorporated June 15, 1805.
Population-1850, 450; 1860, 474; 1870, 416; 1880,337. Valuation, 1860 Polls,
108; Estates, $87,638; 1870-Polls, 105; Estates, $116,894; 1880-Polls, 119;
Estates, $90,663.

  Postmasters-Jacob A. Thurston; North, M. J. Bartlett.

  Selectmen-J. B. Littlehale, jr., J. S. Brown, A. W. Powers.

  Town Clerk and Treasurer-Orrin Foster.

  Constable and Collector-S. E. Widber.

  School Supervisor-John S. Brown.

  Clergyman-A. H. Witham, Meth.

  Justice-Orrin Foster, March 3, 1880.
  Merchant-Jacob A. Thurston, general stores.

  Manufacturers-E. B. Knapp, J. D. Kilgore, smiths; C. H. L. Powers, contractor
and mason; North, M. L. Thurston, spool stock.

  Motels-Bartlett Motel, Charles R. Bartlett.


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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