Identifier: spraguesjournalo12spra (find matches)
Title: Sprague's journal of Maine history
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sprague, John Francis
Subjects: Local history -- Maine Maine -- History Periodicals
Publisher: (S.l.) : John Francis Sprague
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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William O. Ayer,Letter From Honorable Stanley Plummer,Agriculture of Sangerville, by Will E. Leland,The Woolen Industry of Sanger-ville, by Honorable Augus O. Campbell,Documentary History of the Town of Sangerville,List of Taxpayers Assessed in the Town of Sangerville for the Year 1819,Record of Births in Town of Sangerville, Page103 106 126 135 138 140 145 146152153 155 155 164 164 Early Marriages in Sangerville, Record of Deaths in Town ofSangerville, Town Officers, County Officers From Sanger-ville, Notes About Sangerville FromOld Maine Registers, ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece, Sir Hiram Maxim Dumbarton Woolen Mills, No.2, Sangerville, Maine, Enoch Leathers, John Francis Sprague, Honorable Willis Ellis Parsons, Honorable Stanley Plummer, Honorable William SmithKnowlton, William Pitt Oakes, Captain Abner Turner Wade, Moses Carr, David R. Campbell, Fred H. Carr, The Carr Woolen Mills, San-gerville, Maine, Walter Leland, Page 171 176179 181 182 105112 125134139 140144148154156158 161177
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SIR HIRAM MAXIM Spragues Journal of Maine History Vol. II JULY, 1914 No. 3 Sangerville Centennial 1814—1914 On June 13, 1914, in accordance with a vote of the town atits last annual town meeting the people of Sangerville commemo-rated the hundredth anniversary of its incorporation as a munici-pality. At 8.30 a. m. a parade of floats, antiques, etc., numberingin all about sixty, accompanied b) three bands of music from Guil-ford, Monson and Milo, headed by James Lynch who acted as chiefmarshal, marched through the principal streets of Sangerville andGuilford villages. It was an excellent representation of historicalfeatures of the town of both the past and present. At the headof the line was a small body of men attired to represent the RedMen as they would have appeared one hundred and thirteen yearsago when that territory was a primeval wilderness. The next wasa log cabin on which was inscribed The first house in Sangerville,built by Phineas Ames in 1801. Another interesting antique

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