The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-07-12
MAINE IN 1929.
That is the Year III Which The Republi-
can Journal was First Issued.

|
can Journal was First Issued.
L. II. Mosher, Esq, Of Unity has
maine Register" for the year 1929,
and the editor of the Waldo county
Advocate, who has looked it over, says:
1t is an Interesting record OF official
| Maine Of nearly eighty years ago. IL
gives the list of state officials; the
members OF the legislature; the SIT
| tings of the courts and the judiciary;
| the county officers and the justices OF
! the peace III each town; but, unlike the
present day register, does not give
the town officers and business men.
| Enoch Lincoln was then governor;
| Nathan Cutler, president of the senate;
and George Evans, Esq, speaker OF the
! house. The representa- YES from " al
/ do county were: Jacob Iratton from
| the Camden class Nathan Allen, the
! Hope class: Benjamin White, Mont
vile class: William stevens, Belfast;
! Samuel Merrill. Frankfort; Charles
| Atherton, Prospect; JOSIAH farrar,
Northport: Paul H. Stevens, Lincoln
Vile; Josiah Staples, Belmont; no
choice in the Brooks class; Daniel
| Kicker Freedom: William McGray,
| Unity. And Palermo was classed With
! Dresden in Lincoln county, about 70
miles away At that time Waldo
| county had only been organized two
years and through some arrangement
| it was classed with Hancock county IN
electing the State senators, and is
recorded this way: Hancock and wal,
| do. Senators: Aaron IIolbrOok and
Andrew Witham.
The S. j. Court sat in Belfast only
once a year, on the 9th Tuesday next
after the 4th Tuesday in May. The
! Court of Common Pleas sat in Belfast
on the 4th Tuesdays of March, July
and November. The Court of Sessions
on the 3rd Tuesdays of April, August
and November. The Probate Court
sat in Belfast on tie lst Monday OF
each month, at Camden on the thlrd
| Monday of June; at Frankfort on the
! eth Monday of June; and at Freedom
on the Bird Monday of August.
| The judges of the 5. }. Court were
! Hon. PIentiss NJ ellen of Portland, T..
! j.. Hon. Albion X. Paris of Portland
and Hon. Nathan Weston, Jr OF Au-
gusta, Associate Justices. The judges
/ Of the Court of Common Pleas were:
! Hon. Ezekiel Whitman of Portland, Z.
/ j. Hon. Samuel L. Smith of Wiscasset
!
| Associate Justices The judges of the
| Waldo County Court of Sessions were:
! Bohan z. Field of Belfast, {. D.,
/ Joseph Shaw of Thorndike and Thomas
I Eastman of Palermo, Associates.
| The Waldo county officials were
| Judge of Probate, Alfred johnson;
/ Register Of Probate, Nathaniel NJ.
! Lovejoy; Register of Deeds and County
Treasurer, Ralph c. Johnson; County
! Attorney, Joseph Williamson; Clerk OF
/ Courts, Hugh J. Anders0n; Sheriff,
! Joseph Hail of Camden: Deputies:
! Nathan Haywood and Benjamin j..
| Porter of Belfast; Noah SparhaWk,
Bucksport; Jacob Trafton, Camden;
John Page and Amos Weston, Frank
! fort: Portius johnson, Jackson; Josiah
= Stetson, Lincolnville; Elijah c. Wood
man and Richard McAllister Mont
! vile; Jonathan Nelson, Palermo;
| Thomas \. Heating, Searsmont; James
II. Haynes, Troy; Benz. z. Keen,
| Appleton.
The lawyers in the county were Of
two grades, Counsellors at Law and
/ Attorney at the Court OF Common
! Pleas The Counsellors were: W VILLAIN
Crosby, John Wilson, Bohan I: Field,
Alfred johnson, .Jr., William White,
Rufus b. Allyne, Joseph williamson
and James White of Belfast; Phlneas
Ashmun of Brooks; Jonathan Ihayer
and Charles Il. Porter, Camden, and
Archibald Jones of Frankfort. The
Attorneys of Common Pleas were:
William Stevens, Hiram o. Alden and
Nathaniel NJ Lowney of Belfast; AL
bert L. Kelley, Frankfort; John Elmer
son. Freedom, and William \. Stone OF
Prospect.
The local justices were:
BrOokS-PhineaS Ashmun; samuel
Whitney; Timothy Thorndlke; W llllam
Huxford } oshua Perry; Jacob Roberts;
Thomas Sawyer; Cryus Sherman; ana
Hugh NJ. Boynton.
! Observation-Disclosures Johnson: Thorn
as Norton; Ezra Abbott; Sllas Warren;
Isaac Abbott and Luther Fogg.
Among the postmasters III the county
then were: Belfast, Joseph William
son: Brooks, PhineaS Ashmun; Jackson,
Boardman Johnson; Monroe, Joseph
Nealley; Montville, Seth Mllllken, ia
miIiar name, Unity, Daniel Whltmore;
Knox, Alfred Sawyer.
In those days the public officials re-
ceived the following salaries:
Governor, $1,000, Chief Justice ). j.
Court, $500, Associate Justices, $1,000,
Attorney General, $1,000, Treasurer OF
State, 5000; Secretary of State, 5000
Adjutant General, 500, Warden of the
State Prison, 500. The Judge OF Pro
bate of Waldo County, $50, and the
Register, $3.50
Before receiving their commissions
the county officers were required to pay
duty to the State as follows: Sheriff
S25 Clerk Of Courts, S25, County At
torney, So, Judge of Probate, 81, Regis
ter of Probate, SO.