Cornville:  Items of History.
The East Somerset County Register
1911-12
Compiled and Published by Chatto & Turner
Auburn, Maine
Clarence I. Chatto; Clair E. Turner
page 91-92


ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cornville has at its command the interest on a school fund
of $1800, which has been in the hand of a board of trustees
since the act authorizing the sale of ministerial and school
lands which was passed by the Massachusetts Legislature in 
1816.  The first trustees were Joshua Woodman, Henry Mor-
rell, James Folsom, Jonathan Collins, Chandler Dow, Joseph
Parson and Thomas Flanders.  The president of the board of 
trustees at present is L. L. Smith.

The oldest man in Cornville is Joseph Whittier, who was
born in Brighton January 6, 1813.  He moved to Cornville in 
1869 and is now strong and active ant the age of ninety-eight.

The last Indian family to live in the town was that of John 
Mitchell, who lived here for some time with his squaw, Molly,
and two children, Sally and Joe.

Cornville is rather proud of the fact that Benjamin F. But-
ler of Civil War fame was once a resident of the town and 
taught two or more terms of school there.

Mrs. Ira Page of Hartland has a letter written in 1842 to 
her grandfather, Mr. Samuel Folsom from Garland, Maine, the 
postage on which was ten cents.


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