Oxford County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Sumner 1883
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SUMNER.

Ten miles N. E. of Paris. On Rumford Falls & Buckfield R. R. Originally united
with Hartford and called Butterfield, First settled, 1783, by Charles Bisbee
from Pembroke, Mass. Incorporated June 13, 1798, and named in honor of Gov.
Increase Sumner. Population-1850, 1151; 1860, 1154; 1870, 1170; 1880, 1014.
Valuation, 1860-Polls, 246; Estates, $251,329; 1870-Polls, 295; Estates,
$382,463; 1880-Polls, 283; Estates, $310,985.

  Postmasters-Columbus Heald; East, Roswell Briggs; West, H. B. Chandler.

  Selectmen-Eliphater Merrill, East, John H. Robinson, West, Gilbert M. Small.

  Town Clerk-West, George A. Chandler.

  Treasurer- West, H. B. Chandler.

  Constable and Collector-East, C. B. Heald.

  School Committee-West, C. M. Bisbee; East, Sharon Robinson jr.; West, Fred A.
Robinson.

  Clergymen-Gilman Rice, Cong.; vacant, F. Bap.; West, vacant. Bap., vacant,
Univ.; East, vacant, Bap.

  Physician-West. Charles M. Bisbee.

  Justices-John M. Lane; W. H. Eastman, Quorum: H, S. Coburn, Nov. 17, 1879;
Walter F. Robinson, Trial.

  Merchants-C. Heald; West, H. B. Chandler; H. S. Coburn; East, J. Hodgdon &
Son, dry goods and groceries.

  Manufacturers-E. P. Sturtevant, wheelwright; B. R. Davenport, cooper; West,
George Bisbee, J. Lothrop, boots and shoes; L. Gilman, Wm. H. Colby, smith;
William L. Chase, grist mill; E. W. Chandler, Amasa B. Robbins, shingle mill; W.
Ryerson, preserved eggs; Wm. L. Chase, Africa Farrar, saw mill; East, J. L.
Hodgdon, boots and shoes; R. Briggs, wheelwright and brush handles; Charles
Gammon, saw and shingle mill; S. C. Heald, grist mill; William Foye & Son, smiths.

  Boarding-houses-West, J. J. Abbott.

  Asso'tns-East-I. O. G. T.-Invincible, Friday; P. of H.-Union, No. 80, C. H.
Dunham, Master, 2d and 4th Sat.; West, G. A. R.-4th Sat.


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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