Penobscot County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Eddington 1883
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EDDINGTON.

Five miles E. N. E. of Bangor. On Air Line stage-route from Bangor to Aurora.
Incor. Peb. 22, 1811, and named from Jonathan Eddy, one of the first settlers.
Population-1850, 696; 1860, 856; 1870, 776; 1880, 746. Valuation, 1860-Polls,
194; Estates, $123,704; 1870-Polls, 220; Estates, $165,235; 1880-Polls, 214;
Estates, $128,767.

  Postmasters-S. O. Day; East, A. P. Merrill.

  Selectmen-Festus P. Merrill, L. D. Knowlton, Jerome H. Comins.

  Town Clerk-Boyden Bearce.

  Treasurer-A. F. Merrill.

  Constables-A. W. McMahon; East, J. T. Hammond, W. S. McFarland.

  School Committee-Boyden Bearce, J. H. Comins, Oscar P. Knowlton.

  Clergymen-C. A. Plumer (Brewer) Meth.; East, S. S. Davis, Univ.

  Justices-Asahel W. McMahon, Nov. 16, 1880; A. P. Bradbury, Sept. 19, 1881; E.
G. Morse, Feb. 1, 1877; Albion F. Merrill, Dec. 5, 1877; Wm. H. Cook, Dec. 29,
1881, Quorum; *John J. Temple, Jan. 22, 1879, Trial.

  Merchants-S. O. Day, general stores; East, A. F. Merrill & Co., H. W. Clewley,
general stores; Mrs. M. A. Parks, Mrs. N. V. Byther, millinery and fancy goods.

  Manufacturers-George Marsh, boots and shoes; Robert E. Jones, smith; James
McKeen, carriages; Elijah Orcutt, carpenter; East, A. F. Merrill & Co., spools,
long and short lumber; George D. Stockwell, grist mill; R. D. Byther, carriages;
S. N. Billings, George W. Taylor, smiths; John J. Temple, D. Spinney,
carpenters; Boyden Bearce, butcher; H. W. Clewley, boots and shoes.

  Civil Engineer and Land Surveyor-East, John J. Temple.

  Asso'tns-I. O. G. T.-Pine Tree.   P. of H.-Union Star.


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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