CAMBRIDGE: Oldest Citizen, Telephone Co. Pine Tree Cemetery Assoc., Mill
The East Somerset County Register
1911-12
Compiled and Published by Chatto & Turner
Auburn, Maine
Clarence I. Chatto; Clair E. Turner
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The oldest man in Cambridge is Mr. Daniel Cole, who came
to town in 1846, when he was 17 years' of age. His father,
Daniel Cole, Sr., cleared the farm where he now lives. Mr.
Cole, Sr. m. Delphina Cox.
Another of the interesting old men in town is Joseph Ham,
who is about 80 years of age. He relates that of the men who
were present at the town meeting when be cast his first vote,
59 years ago, there are only three living at the present time,
Mr. Cole, mentioned above, and Mr. Augustus Brown.
CAMBRIDGE TELEPHONE CO.
The Cambridge Telephone Co. was incorporated in 1904,
shares being sold to the amount of about $5,000. This stock
is held by people in the towns reached by the line. The of-
ficers of the company are F. J. Hersey, President and General
Manager; D. B. Whitney, Treasurer; W. H. Wing, Clerk. The
directors are D. B. Whitney, Dr. J. H. Wilson, M. A. Randall,
W. H. Ring. The company owns about 150 miles of metallic
circuit line in Cambridge and the adjoining towns, about 125
phones being in operation. Connections made with The Har-
mony Telephone Co., Ripley Telephone Association, The
Hartland and St. Albans Telephone Co. and with the New
England Telephone Co. The company gives a guaranteed
service similar to that of the New England Tel. & Tel. Co., the
rate for this service being ninety cents a month.
PINE TREE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
The Pine Tree Cemetery Association of Cambridge was or-
ganized June 19, 1908, with F. J. Hersey as President; Walter
Ring, Treas.; 0. B. Quimby, Secretary. The directors are M.
W. Knowles, T. E. Ham, J. W. Cole, F.. J. Hersey and 0. B.
Quimby.
The purpose of the Association is to care for the cemetery
lots of those who belong as members, the membership fee being
one dollar a year. It also received money in trust from non-
residents and others, the interest to be applied to the care of
the cemetery lot.
MILL AT CAMBRIDGE VILLAGE.
Nathan Clark came to the town-when about twenty-one
years of age, and bought the mill privilege in the village. At
that time the dam was only a crude affair built of wooden poles.
He built a stone dam which stood for 70 years. The first mill
was a saw and grist mill combined, which was operated by
Nathan Clark and David Bailey. Later a division was made,
Clark taking the grist mill and Bailey the saw mill. About
1868 Mr. Clark bought out the saw mill, and operated it, as did
his sons William and Ned Clark; and still later his grandsons,
Dorion and Osman. Mr. Andrew Gilman finally purchased
the business, the grist mill first and later the saw mill. It is
now operated by Andrew Gilman and Albert Bailey, under the
name of Gilman & Bailey.
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