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Monday, April 14, 2014

A Business Directory of the Subscribers of the New Map of Maine -- 1862 -- Published by J. Chace, Jr. & Company -- Portland, Maine


Towns and Cities in Kennebec County: Augusta, Albion, Benton, Belgrade, China, Chelsea, Clinton, Farmingdale, Fayette, West Gardiner, Gardiner, Hallowell, Litchfield, Monmouth, Manchester, Mount Vernon, Pittston, Readfield, Rome, Sidney, Vassalboro, Vienna, Waterville, Winslow, Winthrop, Wayne, and Windsor


Farmers from Augusta: O.H. Chase, Hiram Mariner, Hiram Craig, Samuel Scribner, Edward Leighton, Samuel O. Burnes, Moses, Merrill, Edmund Black, Harvey A. Hovey, Charles Estes, John A. Perkins, C.K. Emerson, E. Rockwood, Samuel Cummings, John Coney, L.W. Churchill

Farmers from Albion: G.F. Hopkins, O.F. Stinson, A.T. Libby, James Whitaker, S.B. Crosby, E. Pray, H. Jaquith, A.H. Hammond, E.P. Taylor, Issac H. Libby, M. Rollins, Daniel Kidder, J.A. Rider, J.W. Stratton, Joseph Lake, William D. Doe, Samuel Ingraham, D.T. Weymouth, S.H. Webb

Farmers from Benton: J.B. Clifford, E.B. Piper, W.B. Cole, N.S. Paul, O.W. Wilson, Hiram Webber, James Fitzgerald, William Spearin, Frankllin Cole, BB. McNelley, J.C. Smiley, J.H. Walker, David Richards, J.B. Tarbell, L. Foss, P.C. Hodsdon 

Farmers from Belgrade: A. Rockwood, David Rockwood, John W. Penny, N. Penny, Z. Yeaton, Matthew Farnham, B. Farnham, J.S. Cummings, Lemmuel Yeaton, John Tibbets, Richard Yeaton, Andrew Yeaton, Paul Eaton, Leander Yeaton, Issac Goodbridge, Isaiah Rollins, John Taylor, John W. Greeley, Edward Smith, Warren Allen, William Trask, David Tompson, William F. Mills, Stephen Richardson, Charles B. Crowell, George D. Wadley, Curtis Wyman, Timothy Staples, John Partridge, Charles L. Hutchins, Jonathan Reynolds, David Farnham


Farmers from China: Lorenzo Grow, Franklin Jepson, S.B. Clark, H.G. Tilton, A.H. Jones, J.S. Randall, Noah Jones, Thomas Ward, John Jones, Robert Goddard, Stephen Babcock, Philip Dinsmore, William Dutton, J.H. Estes, Danforth Parmeter, Eli H. Webber, Thomas Rogers, A.H. Clark, F.H. Crowell, Edmund Ward, Ebijah Ward, Charles L. Robbins, E.G. Robinson, Edward Breck, H.O. Ward, George Bassett, Jeremiah Mitchell, S. Erskin, Noah S. Rice, John Northrupt, Amasa Taylor, Jr., T. Snell, B. Harrington

Farmers from Chelsea: N.R. Winslow, Thomas Searls, Stephen Cobb, Thomas Winter, Edward H. Blanchard, Josiah A. Carter, Jonathan Laiten, Eben Freeman, Joseph White, John Yeaton, Alonzo Tenney, Almon Carson, George A.W. Booker, Timothy Page, Abner Towns, Freeman White, George Brown, John Davenport, Addison G. Davis, William Partridge, A.H. Davis, William H. Blake, Mrs. Mahala Tasker, Harriet Emma Blanchard, William White, G.K. Hayes, John Bermyham, R. Blanchard, William H. Collins, A.S. Pinkham, Thomas Farnham, Samuel W. Barket, J.F. Morrill, Alfred Peaslee, Rufus Clark

Farmers from Clinton: N. Jaquith, J. Baker, J. Nelson, Foster Brown, A. Eldridge, S. Putnam, E.L. McNelley, Alonzo Richardson, George Morrision, George H. Kinsley, David Hunter, 2nd, Daniel Whitten, J.M. Winn, R.R. Williams, D.T. Hobbs, R. Flagg, Daniel E. Greeley, Freeman Luce

Farmers from Farmingdale: Joshua Lowell, B.F. Sandford, Smner Smiley, Jr., Isaiah Stevens, Peter Grant, G.C. McCausland, Reuben Seavey, Alden Rice, Hiram B. Colcord, A. Rich, John Graves, Greenleaf Rice, Thomas Gilpatrick, Daniel A. Horn, John Curtis, A. Brewer, Thomas J. Davis, Dennis S. Patridge, John Libby, 2nd, James Collins, L. Ballard, A. B. McCausland, Levi M. Nelson, Norton Walbridge, Harvey Scribner, Isiah Stevens

Farmers from Fayette: Moses Hubbard, Lewis Chase, F.A. Chase,  J.W.C. Jones, A.J. Sturtevant, Cyrus Brown, J.F. Stevens, Asa Hutchinson, Nathan P. Fellows, Elijah Sanderson, John Fellows, Alden Lane, Levi Cochren, John Hubbard, P.F. Pike, W.L. Small, Marshall Lane, Oliver Billings, James Smith, M.H. Kent, William F. Hilton, James A. Berry, Gilman B. French, James Jones, Samuel Tuck, David Anderson, T.A. Sturtevant, L.c. Lothrop, J.W. Lane, David Batchelder, Sidney Crane, G.B. Marston, Benjamin H. Merrill, Benjamin Fellows, Sumner Folsom, Joseph Gile, Osbert Lothrop.

Farmers from West Gardiner: S. Woodbury, J.L. Spear, Henry L. Spear, Henry L. Parks, G.A. Marston, Alvin Merrill, Charles Owen, Peter Clark, Oscar F. Hayes, John W. Herrick, Joseph Cole, George Wakefield, Charles Roberts, Gardner Roberts, George W. Fogg, Ellakim Norton, John Stevens, Nancy Ware

Farmers from Gardiner: L.C. Mitchell, Michael Hildreth, Daniel Larrabee, Cyus Smith, Joseph C. Atkins, Daniel Webster, Joseph Williams, Freeman Williams, Shirley Libby, D.M. Stevens, Luther Smith, Zina Standish, George F. Church, J.T. Smith, Samuel Hopkins, James Capen, Jr., Bernard Esmond, Joseph Booker, Peter Waitt, B. Williams

Farmers from Hallowell: James Atkins

Farmers from Litchfield: Benjamin J. Berry, John Woodbury, C.F. Dunn, Josiah True, Joseph Sawyer, D.W. Berry, C.H. Robinson, D.W. Dinforth, W.M. Hattin

Farmers from Monmouth: George W. King, John G. Judkins, E. Freeman, J.P. Robinson, Joseph Pettengill, S.O. King, O.W. Blaisdell, Robert B. Moore


Farmers from Manchester: Enoch Wood, H.G. Cole, D. Daggett, Charles Wing, E.J. Brainerd, A.A. Brainerd, Rowland Freeman, Reuben Packard, J.B. Thomas, Virgil Scribner, William, Fifield, J.M. Allen, David Cummings, Benjamin H. Davenport, John Hewins, Caleb Packard, John Goldthwait, William Morgridge, Lorenzo Whitten, George Snell, John Shedd, Asa Knowles, Carpenter Winslow, Hiram Fifield, Eliab L. Eaton, Benjamin Hill, Eliab Lyon, M. Wingate, Jonathan Kempton, Jr., Charles H. Collins, T.H. Fairbanks, Augustus Persons, Amasa Douglas

Farmers from Mount Vernon: John Haynes, Edward French, N.T. Smith, Q.L. Smith, Gilbert Taggot, E.E. Tuttle, J. Scribner, Benjamin Philbrick, Samuel S. Greeley, Benjamin S. Philbrick, Daniel A. Thing, A.S. Lyford, C.B. Pullen, Alfred Weston, Homer S. Bean, Benjamin F. Philbrick, J. Towle, Andrew Brown, James Carson, Andrew Brainard, Oliver Trask, S.S. Robinson, Henry Greely, Jr., Albion Stevens, Alfred Ladd, J.R. Marston, David Dolloff, John G. Dunn, William T. Reed, Harvey Cram, Henry C. Cough, Joseph Hopkins, J.E. Trask

Farmers from Pittston: G.W. Lyon, Issac Lapham, Thomas Palmer, William Rollins, Winslow Hunt, William F. Abbott, A.V. Goodwin, Leonard Cooper, J. Abbott, Benjamin F. Fuller, Henry Dearborn, William Gould, John Warren, S.S. Ayer, James Marson, L. Marson

Farmers from Readfield: S. Allen, F.A. Robinson, Jedediah Bourne, Samuel M. Gove, C.K. Titus, W.H. Holmes, Edmund Mears, B.H. Thomas, Samuel Nesbitt, Samuel G. Fogg, O.H. White, J.B. Mayhew, J.B. Swanton, William Gordon, J. Sherburne, Seth Taylor, David Elliot, Reuben Russell, Lewis Armstrong, Alton Sdegley, Daniel B. Palmer, A. Gordon, I.S. Chapman, Charles A. Mace, Benjamin Brown, G.W. Handy, Gustavus Clark, Charles Judkins, Charles B. Haskell, Alden Packard, Benjamin Davis, Hiram Gilman

Farmers from Rome: Otis Goodwin, Nathan P. Martin, R. Wentworth

Farmers from Sidney: Uriah S. Colwell, Albert Drummond, W.J Smiley, Greenleaf Barton, Paul T. Stevens, Nathaniel Chase, Lauriston Guild, Edwin Reynold, H.R. Smiley, John Sawtelle, E.G. Sawtelle, George Field, J.S. Grant, Joseph Field, J.H. Linscott, E.A. Field, B.F. Jewett, Nathaniel Taylor, J.S. Sargent, James Shaw, J.C. Reynolds, Charles T. Blaisdell, C.T. Morse, John Merrill, Asa Robbins, Lyman Abbott, D. Townsend, L.C. Edgerly, William F. Purrington, F.R. Sherman, Issac Curtis, Paul Wing, Charles H. Lovejoy, H.G. Williams, Howard Wyman, Paul Hammond, Asa Trask, M.N. Cowan, Dean Swift, N. Sawtelle, C.W. Longley, E. Swift, Abner Hammond, Bradford Sawtelle, D.E. Mantor, D.P. Tiffany, Jonas Butterfield


Farmers from Vassalboro: Abram Stickney, L.G. Worth, B. Bran, Reuben Weeks, Jr., H. Burgess, John Homans, E. Burgess, George Nowell, William Weeks, Edwin Weeks, Gilbert Aldrich, Henry Taber, M.F. Whetern, Samuel Foster, Daniel Denaco, E. Bragg, G. Strout, George Hussey, J.D. Low, A.K. Smiley, Paul W. Whitehouse, Frank Tabor, H.C. Dickey, Charles A. Taylor, Andrew B. Smiley, Rufus G. Brown, George L. Randall, John Hamilton, Levi B. Doe, G.N. Taylor, A.P. Taylor, Columbus Davis, Joseph H. Allen, Stephen Allen, N. Meigs, O. Warren, Nathan Hall, Charles Austin, William Hinkley, A.B. Worth, Benjamin White, Daniel M. Wyer, Albert Randall, William Merrill, O.A. Webber, Otis Hawes, Samuel K. Bailey, J. Gardner, Edwin S. Prescott, Warren Percival, Albert G. Hawes, Alvin Stone, J.C. Chadbourn, J.P. Arey, Josiah Fairfield, T. Snell, J. Bennett, H.M. Sawtelle, J.G. Hall, J.E. Wing, S. Gilson, G. Low, H. Dudley, William Redington, G.W. Pierce, James W. White, H. Gardner

Farmers from Vienna: Appleton Moore, Sewell Eaton, H.F. Wood, Freeman Brown, Obadiah Whittier, Cyrus S. Whittier, John B. Brown, Lyman Whittier, Oren Brown, Jonathan D. Maddox, John Neal, N.P. Moores, Nathaniel Graves, Henry Dowest, J. Gilman, John B. Braley, Sewell Prescott, James Sanborn, Nathaniel P. Ryen, Samuel Brown, James H. Cummer, Joshua Little, Moses Brown, Reuel W. Smart, Joseph L. Dow, Josiah M. Fellows

Farmers from Waterville: C.B. Marston,  H.M. Blackwell, T.S. Small, Sanford Pullen, Samuel Blaisdell, J. Hersom & Son, George W. Pressey, L.N. Bates, Levi Ricker, John Earl, G. Ricker, John Earl, B. Mitchell, Samuel Hawes, Nathan Perry, J.W. Hersom, G. Ricker, Josiah James, Crowell Bickford, Stephen Thayer, Oliver Marston, John Garland, W.L. Tozier, William Marston, Winthrop Morrill, Josiah Marston, George McCausling, William Balentine, Henry Perry, S.A. Wheeler, E.O.W. McKechnie

Farmers from Winslow: Albert R. Smiley, Alfred M. Flagg, O.G. Pinkham, John A. Jenkins, Levi Varney, W.B. Robinson, James Morrill, T.J. Hinds, Charles S. Cain, Moses Nelson, J..Garland, C.N. Gowen, L.H.Wardwell, Daniel Taylor, Ira E. Getchell, George Brown, Charles Stewart, James H. Chaffee, Clark Drummond, Read Morrill

Farmers from Winthrop: G.A. Benson, J.S. Thompson, M.R. Wentworth, Samuel White, Francis Fuller, Alfred Smith, Charles F. Whiting, Horace Parlin, S.W. Parlin, William H. Parlin, Alonzo Wood, Amos Wheeler, M.H. Metcalf, Nathan Kimball, William Lowell, John O. Wing, A.H. Lord, T.W. Stevens, J.R. Nelson

Farmers from Wayne: T.B. Read, Alvin Palmer, Reuel Nason, Sears Frost, William Lewis, E.S. Smith, J.W. Boyle, G.M. True, George W. Fairbanks, S.B. Norris, B. Sylvester, Joshua Burgess, J.P. Jordan, A.K.P. Burgess, H.J. Ridley, Emery Foss, Squire Bishop, John Stevens, H.L. Besse, Cyrus F. Tapley, C.F. Spear, Mrs. M.B. Lamson, J. Wesley True

Farmers from Windsor: Robert Thompson, Watson Hallowell, Horace Coburn, R.J. Barton,  W.C. & J. Barton, Isaiah Pierce, N. Thompson, S.F. Pierce, Samuel Wheeler, Joseph F. Wingate, George Jameson, James Given, Gideon Barton, Bartlett Gould, A.S. Coombs


Horses Count in Kennebec County by Town
Albion 287

Augusta 526
Belgrade 244
Benton 185
Chelsea 108
China 405
Clinton 263
Farmingdale 101
Fayette 106
Gardiner 185
Hallowell 54
Litchfield 289
Manchester 145
Monmouth 284
Mount Vernon 232
Pittston 282
Readfield 218
Rome 116
Sidney 402
Vassalboro 506
Vienna 171
Waterville 270
Wayne 128
West Gardiner 257
Windsor 234
Winthrop 265
Clinton Gore 17
Unity Plantation 8


The Blacksmiths of Kennebec County
Albion -- E.H. Prescott, 2nd
Belgrade -- William H. Huskins
China -- H.R. King
Chelsea -- John L. French
Clinton -- Charles Jaquith, Freeman Luce
Gardiner -- Alfred Smith, W.R. Wharff
Hallowell -- W.C. Fuller
Manchester -- Voranous Kimball
Sidney -- S.L. Wait, O.C. Smiley
Vassalboro -- Edward Fossett


Carriage, Saddle & Harness Manufacturers of Kennebec County (Wheelwright & Livery Stables)

Augusta -- Gardiner Phillips (C)
Clinton -- C.P. Bremner (C)
Gardiner -- J.D. Gardiner (S & H), Augustus Bailey, (C), A.E. Wing (C)
Hallowell -- C.A. Page (H & S), A.D. Niles (Livery Stable)
Litchfield -- George E. Mitchell, (C), True Woodbury (Wheelwright)
Pittston -- H.T. Clark (Livery Stable), John Boynton (C)
Sidney -- Seth Robinson (C)
Waterville -- B.C. Benson (C)
Winthrop -- Morrill Stanley, (C) H.A. Stanley (C)
Wayne -- William Folsom

Hotels and Restaurants of Kennebec County

Augusta -- Stanley House, Prop. G.W. Ricker -- Augusta House, Harrison Baker -- Mansion House, Holmes & Scruton -- Kennebec Hotel, W.M. Thayer -- Franklin House, A.G. Longfellow -- Cushnoc House, E. Ballard -- Bathing House, Samuel Stevens

Albion -- Albion Hotel, J.F. Stinson
Belgrade -- Railroad House, A. M. Mantor
China -- Hotel and P.M, William Coombs -- China Hotel, John Hussey
Chelsea -- Hotel, Mrs. B.F. Runnels -- Togus Hotel, N.H. Beales
Clinton -- Hotel, E. Whitten -- Hotel, Prop. William Weymouth
Gardiner -- Gardiner Hotel, Osgood & Pease -- Johnson House, Benjamin Johnson -- Kennebec Hotel, Samuel Lane
Hallowell -- Hallowell House, Prop. Nathaniel Tead -- Oyster Saloon, George S. Ricker
Monmouth (So. Monmouth) Hotel, W.H. Hall
Manchester -- Mansion House, S.G. Mason
Readfield -- Hotel, J.J. Hutchinson
Vienna -- Hotel, Prop. Ira Neal
Waterville -- Elmwood Hotel, J.L. Seavey -- Waterville House, Edward Rounds -- West Waterville Hotel, J.M. Libby -- Oyster Saloon, Edwin Tibbetts
Winthrop -- Winthrop House, Prop. F.P. Crowell