The Republican journal., 1903-12-24
IoIp-r1lrn L1NooLNv1LLE INDUSTRY.
The Lincolnville SoapstOne. Coal and
Marble Company, Incorporated I'm 1885.

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| ing to the business of the Lincolnville Soap
stone, Coal and Marble Co., which was in
corporated by act of Legislature March "a,
1886, and which as the records show did
business continuously up to April 25, 1870,
at which time the record ends abruptly.
The incorporators were Daniel Lunt,
Thomas NJ Howard, Daniel Hale and
Stephen Haynes. The purposes of the cor
poration were quarrying and vending soap
stone, coal and marble, and the corporation
was empowered to hold any estate, real and
personal, not exceeding $4,000, necessary
to effectuate the purposes of said corpora
ton. The original price of the shares was
/ $500 each.
| A meeting of the stockholders was held
in Concert Hall. Boston, April u, 1886, at
which eleven members, representing "a
shares, were present, as follows: Daniel
Lunt, Thomas NJ. Howard, Jonathan Davis.
John Allen, James Hunt, Louis Dennis,
Thomas HaviIand, Slade Luther, Henry
Atkins, S. B. Morse and Charles Cum
mings. It was voted to accept the act of
incorporation Messrs. Haviland, Howard,
Lunt, Atkins, Allen and Dennis were
chosen committee to prepare code OF
bylaws. This committee was instructed
to divide the property into 200 shares at
800 each.
At a meeting held in Concert Hall May
5th the following officers and directors
were chosen: President, Thomas Havl-
| land; Secretary, Daniel Lunt; Treasurer,
Thomas NJ. Howard, Directors, Louis
Dennis, Sidney B. Morse, Elias Kingsley,
Henry Atkins, James Hunt, John Nichols,
Daniel Hale, Lewis Batchelder, Stephen
| Haynes and John Allen. The committee
reported code of bylaws which was
| adopted.
| At meeting of the directors held the
| same day, Daniel Lunt was chosen general
agent; James Mcfarland sub agent at
Brooklyn; Daniel Hale sub agent at Provi-
| dence; E. Chamberlain sub agent at New
York The general agent was instructed to
build two or more lime kilns and to hire
sum of money not exceeding $500, on the
company's account. 1t was voted that the
company's brand be SIS. c. and NJ. Co."
Records of subsequent meetings show
that the company manufactured and sold
lime at Lincolnville, under the direction OF
Daniel Lunt, who also kept store on his
own account in a building owned by him
but located on the company's land. His
compensation, in 1874, was u per cent. OF
the lime rock sold.
In 1915 a dividend of S1.5O per share
was declared. The officers and directors
elected that year were: President, Thomas
Haviland, Boston; treasurer, Slade Luther,
Boston; secretary, VIM. S. Perry, Boston;
directors, Thomas Haviland, Louis Dennis,
VIM. S. Perry, Elias Kingsley, Jonathan
Davis and Charles W. Cummings of Bos-
ton, Albion Drake, Rufus Drake and John
NJ. Hahn of Lincolnville; Cyrus Fisher
and Samuel Lewis of Providence, and John
Nichols of New York. Samuel Drake was
chosen agent.
In 1916 majority of the directors lived
in Lincolnville. The list was as follows:
Albion Drake, John M. Hahn, Austin d.
Knight, Rufus Drake, Francis A. Hahn,
Gardiner Hahn, Lincolnville; Jonathan
Davis, Charles Kingsley, Isaiah Rogers,
Slade Luther, Boston; NJ. Suydam, Brook
lyn S. B. Morse was chosen secretary.
In 1S47 John NJ. Hahn was chosen agent,
and Jonathan Davis, treasurer.
In 1850 Albion Drake was chosen presi-
dent in place of Thomas Haviland, who had
held the position since the company was Or
ganized The number of the directors was
reduced to three and the following were
elected: Rufus Drake, John NJ. Hahn, NJ.
Suydam.
In 1855, the annual meeting was held in
the Commercial House, Rockland. Albion
Drake was chosen president; Emery A.
Parker, secretary; Louis Dennis, treasurer;
Albion Drake, E. A. Parker and Rufus
Drake, directors 1t was voted to sell a
part of the quarries to W. Z. Tower, to
raise money to pay the company's debts.
The sale was made according to the above
vote, the price being S4O0.
The annual meeting in 1856 was held at
the company's premises in Lincolnville.
The records for several years after this
show only annual meetings with elections
of directors and officers and the fact that
the agents accounts were audited.
April 25, 1870. a meeting was called at the
house of Albion Drake, to see if the cOrpor
alton may be dissolved and its real and
personal estate vested in the individuals
who were at the time shareholders, as ten
ants in common, according to their inter-
ests. 10 see if the corpor alton will vote to
sell its property; and also to elect officers.
The following were elected: President, Ru-
fus Drake; directors, Rufus Drake, Albion
Drake, Emery A. Parker treasurer, Emery
A. Parker; secretary, Albion Drake. 1t
was voted to pass the first article in the
warrant.
Here the record stops, without even the
certificate and signature of the secretary,
and the remainder of book is blank.
Among the memoranda on loose slips of
paper in the book is the following. "Next
meeting held April "a, II, at brakes house,
O'Clock p. m. Same officers. Sec. sworn
by J. w." and on the opposite side OF the
same sheet, without date, "Voted that AL
bion Drake be an agent to dispose, on such
terms as he may think proper. of all the
real and personal property of the corpora
tion and he be authorized to give all neces-
sary deeds for the same.
The Lone Star State.