Penobscot County ME Archives History - Businesses .....Exeter 1883
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EXETER.

Twenty miles N. W. of Bangor. Terminus of daily stage-line to Etna, and on line
from Bangor to Dexter. First settled by Lemuel Tozier, in 1801. Named by
settlers who removed from Exeter, N. H. Originally granted to Marblehead
Academy. Called, before incorporated, Blaisdeltown. Incorporated the 180th town,
Feb. 16, 1811. Population-1850, 1853; 1860, 1784; 1870, 1424; 1880, 1274.
Valuation, 1860-Polls, 375; Estates, $303,839; 1870-Polls, 348; Estates,
$377,007; 1880-Polls, 355; Estates, $426,151.

  Postmasters-M. H. Lufkin; South, J. W. Kent, East, L. D. Butters; Mills; C. A.
Fawsette.

  Selectmen-H. W. Brown, Charles Davis, John T. Brown.

  Town Clerk-L. D. Butters.

  Treasurer-L. D. Butters.

  Constable and Collector-John W. Pease.

  Constable-Alphonso Butters.

  School Committee-Frank Wiggin, W. G. Buswell, John W. Butters.

  Clergymen-Wilson Lermond, Meth.; C. C. Foster (Garland), F. Bap.; Thomas
Marsden (Dexter), Epis.

  Physicians-F. N. Wheeler, S. W. L. Chase, All.

  Justices-Noah Barker, Feb. 25, 1879; Nathaniel Barker, May 13, 1880; Horace V.
Messenger, April 21, 1880; L. D. Butters, June 25, 1878; Francis N. Wheeler,
March 17, 1880; John C. Hersey, Feb. 2, 1881, Quorum: John Whitney, Aug. 15,
1882; G. S. Hill, Dec. 12, 1870; F. W. Hill, Feb. 4, 1879, Trial.

  Merchants-G. S. Hill, John Whitney, general stores; Mills, C. A. Fawsette;
East, John Q. Adams, apothecary and general stores; South-J. W. Kent, general
stores.

  Manufacturers-M. H. Lufkin, harnesses; A. J. Ordway, Andrews & Tibbetts, steam
mill, staves and short lumber; S. J. French, lumber; A. J. Ordway, grist and
shingle mill; William H. White, B. T. Sewell, smiths; John Hersey, William H.
Bradbury, carriage builders and repairers; Wm. Bond, W. O. Amazine, lumber; I.
Chapman, boots and shoes; East, Joseph Shaw, smith; Cutler & Butters, saw, grist
and shingle mill.

  Asso'tns-Masons-Pacific, Wed. before full moon; I. O. G. T.-Holly; East-P. of
H.-Exeter, No. 86, C. J. Grinnell, Master.


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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