Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-11-23
ORR GARDEN COUNTY.


OR GARDEN COUNTY.
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rad runnias sloes he sou'h bank Of the
Mss1xusnkesg 70 the Bancroft ferrS.
Near The c,ensx II The farm and feesdenca
Of As. John a. Brown. already described
Next comes Mr.. b H. Brown Who has
| good farm and ectd huildings Beyond
Ihis 10 Mr. Isaiah Barton sho hss smsI
| farm. and .. shors Distance below. on The
opp ssits side, Is the farm Of Mr. James
Bryscn. . very good farmer Of sS,us sixty
acres. viih . good sss Of beii6iass. Next
eouss the old Jcsah GesIsfscn fNm row
owned By Mr. Charles Anderson. 0r.
Geliesson moved . this farm fron Ban
croft in 1916 He vas sxfens:reiy ergsged
| in fssnies. t,sdioe spd iumbefies and vss
the p iucipA basieess man OF the Town Tor
many yesss. Ia 1867 be vent 70 Pennsyi-
vsnia and wss there engaged in luz bes,rg
for three years, when be removed 10
Washington and continued in the same
| business for two years, when be vas fatal
~ shos while trying to arrange dispute De-
| tween some parties 10 relation TO building
dam His son, Mr.. BsrjXmia Geliefson.
vas for soma year. engaged IN trade II
Hay melville and after safds removed TO
Fort Fairfield. where be nov feeides. Be
| yond Mr.. Andefson's 10 the farm Of Mr.. O.
,. Col, err, which Vas originally . part OF
! the Gelisrson farm
Over the Horseback.
From here the road runs upon the horse
| back for nearly tso miles Ard then de-
sceads to lover ground. Beyoad Mr.. Cot
yer's Mr.. p. O'Niel hiss 4 good farm. vi b
| good buildings and nsx. Is the Jadse Tuck
farm, now occupied By Mr.. Albert Mitchell
Nd Mr.. joseph Wiers. For the remainder
Of the distance TO the ferry the rosd runs
through q handsome forest srosth ard is
unsettled. Ga soe east side Of the Malta
vamksae is what /, known as the No. Nine
road. ruaring from The covered bridge in .
southssstsfly direction, crossing the 5csgg
rock ssresm and continuing eastward uattl
| il iatersecss the CxlSis road. Mr.. G. W.
Parent, Mr.. James Duncsn ard MI
Chsrles Mitchell have farms en- this rasa
Betw the east and west branches of the
Malta vamkeag. for a considerable distance
above the FORKS, 10 = strip OF excellent
farming land. Mr.. ". Ellis, Mr.. fhos.
KesYns, Mr. j. C. Patcheli and Mr.. j. II.
Il DKUEu nave hJIu lHfh. oa hAh7 hesN W.
the public lot, which extends norrhusrd
from the Military road. mile souh OF the
river, 10 some very good land And there are
| some five or six settlers on the block.
| There are Also few settlers on some very
good land in the public lot 10 The north part
Of the town. With the exception Of the
localities described the territory Nciuded
| in the town is still covered 18th forest and
10 owned by nonresident proprietofs. The
town vas Incorporated in 1876. The VII
isge OF Hay neville is neat and pleasant
village with . number OF very handsome
residences and is very pre.tily loeated near
the bark of the Mattswamkesg The trans
fer Of the large carrying trace and eIiep-
sive travel from the Milisr7 rosd to the
rsilfosd has very much interfered with the
business Of the town.
| GienwoOd.
| Continuing on down the Military road,
sffer passing through Hsynesville. we come
| to the plantation Of Glenwood. the south
| east corner of which 10 crossed by this road.
The first settler up n this township was MI.
Seth Spsuldipg, who came from Dover and
| IN 1888 settled on the lot on which Mr..
Charles II. jenkins Dow lives 1t the mouth
| Of the rosd which now lesds to the mill on
Wytopitlock stream. Mr.. Spsulding pre-
viously made . choppirg on the lot at
Happy Corner, in Reed plantation, but did
| not remain upon The lot. He cleared
the farm in Glenwood and lived on ii
until his death in 1874. At the
time Of Mr.. Spsulding's settlement
bis home was in the midst Of dense forest.
his nearest neigbbors being Messrs. Hall
md Leighton wh1 had just completed the
hotel in Hsynesville on the hill t$o miles
below the Forks. ATE, Mr.. Spsuldine' 3
death Mr.. samuel Tobiu, who came from
Blanchard in 1916. bought the possession
| M. Tobin lived on the place 3 number OF
years and then moved TO Lee, where he died
| The farm then passed through . number of
bands AID about 1860 was purchased BY Mr..
| N. Twombly who we'd on il until his death
| scme ten years ago. HIS son, Mr.. Hofsce
| Twombiy, nov owns the farm. Mr.. Jont -
| than L. Plummef came from the town OF
Wales in 1885 and built log house opposite
Mr.. Spsuldlng's ard took up lot mile
vest of the Military road. Here he clears
farm and built 4 frame house and barn
and in 1914 moved with his family to the
| lot. He lived upon this farm scms six years
and then removed to Levant IN order to
secure for his children she privileges Of an
education Which were denied them in their
wilderness home
| Mr.. Asa Straw came from Nexfield about
! 1886 and settled on q lot vest OF Mr..
spsuldiug's, where he made clearing and
bull, a log house in which be | we'd 4 few
years ard then moved to ths Clifford set
tiement In Reed plantation. He lived
there q plumber of years and then moved to
Lincoln Centre where he ed come twenty
e ve years ago. Mr.. Joseph Lane settled on
the shore Of Wytopitlock lake in 1887. He
cleared farm ard lived upon ii until his
death about 8 year sRo. Mr.. Lane was
unmarried ard devoted much Of his time to
bunting Mr.. Gardner Lane, an adopted
son Of Mr.. Seth Spsuldipg. cleared . small
farm adjoining Mr.. Jopsthsn Plummers.
He afterwards removed TO ArkAnsas, where
be now resides.
Early Days In Glenseod.
At the time Of the first settlement large
amount OF numbering was Carried on in the
vicinity and The early settlers raised little
hay to sell TO the lambermen. which was
about the extent Of their farming operations,
Hun,ing vas the msil deper deDce for sup
pui Jog The meat barrel and working 10 the
woods in winter was the principal source
| lrOUl muuSf Nbs Oot1ibCu' Az Aoco
Mr.. Lafayette Tuck and Mr.. Peter Moulton
built mill on thu Wytopitlock stream in
the southwest corner of the town, about two
miles and hslf west Of the Military road.
Mr.. Elisha G Ipstrick Of Daoforth after
wares bought this mill. II eontsips
rotary, two .hingle machines, = clspboard
machine and lath machine. Mr.. Robert
jenkins. who lives on the Military road a
| IL - n.
milf road, came from Wales to Molunkus
in 1886 and worked At his trade Of shoe
msking number OF years. In 1861 he
moved to perhsm and from there enlisted
in the 18th Me. Regt. He was taken pris-
ores near Cent.eviiie, but Was paroied and
afterwards discharged. He then enlisted
in the 3lst Me. Regs. srd ,erved until the
close Of the war. In 1865 he came n Glen
wood srd settled on the lot formerly occu-
pied by James Oliver, where be now lives.
be has 100 acres of land with about 30
acres cleared. His son, Mr.. Cuafles
II. Jenkins, in 1879 built house
and store &C the noun Of the mill road,
where he 10 now engaged 10 trade and also
keeps ths post office. Mr.. Orville jenkins
hss store opposite.
| On the read from the post office to the
mill the seftlers are Adoiphas jenkins,
Aaron Austin, john CAT Frank Reed.
James Hewey, Frank Brown, Sim1 Gaff /,
Aiorzo Prouty, Melvin Prouy, Frank
Prouty and WIN. ih,yer, ali Of whom
have fsrms. Mr.. Frank Brown also has
. blacksmith shop. There are two
schooinouses on this rosd. one near Mr.
John G h's snd the other rear Mr.. William
| Thsyer's. Half q mile west of the post
office, near Nc. CATS, road turns due
north and run. in that direction one mile,
when it tprns to the sest and runs n Wy