Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-13
PARIS CENTENNIAL.

| lth. Great preparations were made for the
event. There was parade in the morning,
after which all repaired to the Park, where
| interesting exercises were held. Hon. Sid.
ney Perham was President of the day. The
address for the occasion was prepared and
delivered hv ex-Postmaster General lIoratio
King.
Mr.. Kings address opened with narration
of facts concerning the early history of Maine,
and especially of the town of Paris. The
following concerning some Of the more prom
inent Of the early citizens of the town is es-
pecially interesting:
The first representative to the legislature
from Paris was Isaiah Disco, and DIR. Barnet
the first physician. Dr. Cyprian Stevens
was the first to settle in town. Daniel Stow
ell was the first justice Of the peace. and the
first lawyer to open an Office was f. Soue
The old Baptist meeting house on Paris Hill
was built in 1903, and up to 1880 there had
been only two ordained ministers, whose la
bors were confined to the town. James Hoop
or and Joseph Wallace, the latter having
been ordained in 1921.
The first printing press in town was estab-
lished by Asa Barton in 1924, the name of
which was removed to Norway in 1926; and
in March, 1927, '.The Jctiersonian" was
started Soon after the removal of the JEFF
fersonan to Portland, in May. 1888, the
oxford Democrat took Its place. From
the 4th of May, 1880. to the Goth of Novem-
Der, of that year. when became its sole pro-
prietor, the publishers of the Jefiersonan
were Hannibal Hamlin and Horatio King.
The first person killed in Paris was Oliver
Hubbard, by the fall of a tree. One man
named Snow was killed by the Indians and
the place where the deed was done is named
Shows Falls.
The first settlers of Paris. were principally
from the counties of Plymouth and Worces-
ter, Mass. Oxford county was formed out of
the northern parts of York and Cumberland
counties, was incorporated in 1905, with Paris
as its county seat. The first post Office was
established at Paris, April LIST. 1901. with
Caleb Prentiss as postmaster. Extracts from
the diary of Rev. Paul Coffin were read, Civ
ing an account of his tours through various
parts of the State in l796-ls00
1t would be pleasant, had we time, to
sketch. briefly. the lives of many Of our cti-
zens. who have gone before us, but ! shall
name only few Of the most prominent.
Among the first Of those who was iionored BY
high Office was Levi Hubbard, who was
General Court in 1906 1907, 1911 and 1916.
He served one term as Representative in
Congress, from 1913 to 1915. In 1919 he
was a State Councillor, and In 1920 and 1928
a Presidential Elector.
Albion X. Paris. born in Hebron on the
18th of January, l77s, graduated at Dart
mouth college in 1903, studied law with the
late Chief Justice Whitman, and was adj
mitted to practice in 1909, when he at once
established himself on Paris Hill. In 1911
he was appointed county Attorney for Oxford;
in 1913 elected a Representative to the Gen
cral Court in Massachusetts: in 1874 he was
chosen Senator for the counties of Oxford
and Somerset. In the same year, 1914. he
was elected to Congress for lsl5-l7, and
while holding this Office he was appointed
Judge of the District Court of the United
States for Maine. Removing to Portland in
| 1918. he was chosen. in 1919, member of
| the convention to form State constitution.
On admission of the State into the Union, in
| 1920. he was appointed Judge of Probate for
Cumberland county. The immediate sue
cesser of William King, our first Governor.
he filled the Office five consecutive terms.
| He was elected to the United State Senate
which position he resigned for the place Of
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in
June 1928. In 1886. he was appointed Sec
ury. and held that Office till 1919. when he
returned to Portland, and was chosen Mayor
| of that city in 1852. He died. universally
| respected. on the !.h of February. 1857.
| Enoch Lincoln was another of our distin-
guished townsmen. He was born in Worces
ter, Mass. Dec. %, l77s; entered Harvard
in 1906. but did not graduates studied law in
the office of his brother Levi, and was adj
mtted to the bar in 1911. lie soon after opened
an office in Fryeburg, and in 1918 he was
elected 10 Congress to succeed Judge Paris
In 1919 he settled in this town taking the lit
tie one-story Office, which still stands here on
Paris Hill, an interesting monument of the
past He was twice reelected to Congress,
and in the last term was chosen Governor of
the State with little opposition. He was re-
elected the two succeeding years. 1927 and
1928. and died in his third term, Oct. 8, 1929.
About this time, l think, Joseph G. Cole
came from Worcester. Mass, and en-
gagged in the practice of the law many years
on Paris IIill occupying the same office
which Gov Paris and Lincoln had occupied
before him-the same also in which our dis
tinguished townsman, Hannibal llamln,
studied law, and from which he has risen to
fill successfully with marked ability almost
every elective office (the one highest except
ed in the gift of the state and nation. In the
carrier years Vi HIS pr"CtiCc HeTes iioHi io@'
or 1928, until Nov. 1882, Mr.. Cole edited the
Jeffersonian newspaper. He was elected to
the Legislature one or more terms. and in
the latter part of his life was an associate
Justice of the district court. He died on the
18th of Nov. 1851. OF him at his death, it
was truly said: "When friends die, we re-
member best their good qualities. But of
Judge Cole there is nothing else to remem.
ber.''
Stephen Emery, so many years Judge OF
Probate for Oxford County, and during one
year Attorney General of the State, was con-
| .c..ro--.r with Judge Cole, and on account
Of his official position and genial disposition
was one of our best known citizens.
Closely associated with Judges Cole and
Emery was Rufus X. Goodenough. long Clerk
of the Courts and afterward Representative
to Congress from the Oxford district.
Another of the we'll known county officers
was Adamson Mellen who was many years
Register of Deeds.
Timothy ]. Carter came later and engaged
here in the practice of law for few years,