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Note    N2464         Index
While they lived in Otisfield, Russell worked as a clerk in a local store. He, Ruth and Ralph moved first to Knox County, Tennessee, then, by 1920, to Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, where they spent the rest of their lives. He worked there in a mill.

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Note    N2466         Index
Benjamin owned a very successful export business in Brooklyn.

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Note    N2472         Index
Alfred was a farmer in Charleston.

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Note    N2489         Index
Naphtali and Mehitable were one of the first families to settle in Harrison, about 1797. He was a Captain in the 5th Maine Regiment during the War of 1812. He was also a blacksmith,farmer and lumberman,and was very active in the incorporation of Harrison.

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Note    N2494         Index
REUBEN'S PARENTS: Morrill Hobbs, Jr., and his wife Betty (Carsley) Hobbs were both life-long residents of Harrison. He was born 8 February 1794; she was born 7 November 1797. They were married 25 April 1824. He died 31 July 1829; she died 13 December 1872 (Moulton, CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF HARRISON [op. cit.], 498; Ridlon, EARLY SETTLERS OF HARRISON [op. cit.], 47).

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Note    N2496         Index
Jordan was a farmer in Otisfield.
 Hannah suffered from reheumatism for several years. Eva was their adopted daughter, according to information stated in the 1880 Census of Otisfield [op. cit.].

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Note    N2501         Index
Edwin farmed in Harrison for a few years. They moved to Springfield, Maine, in the 1850's.

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Note    N2506         Index
Catherine's death was caused by acute bronchitis.

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Nathaniel was a drygoods merchant in Ridgway in the 1880's. He and Eleanor had two daughters, Caroline (b. 1866) and Lucy (b. 1868).

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Enoch was a manufacturer of wool and flax wheels.

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Living with Francis and Abbie in Lewiston in 1880 were Abbie's mother, Betsey, and sister-in-law, Mary (Cyrus' wife, who didn't go with him to No. Dakota), Mary's son, Ernest Varian, and a 14-year-old niece, Belle (1880 Census of Lewiston, NARA Microcopy T-9, Roll 475, page 304A)

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Note    N2517         Index
Samuel was a successful market gardener in Lewiston, and was well-known and highly respected. His home was "The Pines" on the Lisbon Road.
 His first wife, Mary, was a schoolteacher. She taught at Peru, in District No. 2, prior to her marriage to Samuel. As a teacher in 1862, she earned $1.25 per week and her board. She died in 1866 from Bright's disease (THE HISTORY OF PERU [op. cit.], 69).

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Note    N2520         Index
Francis was a skilled wire maker at the first Harrison wire factory before 1850. Later, he became a watch and jewelry store owner in Bethel and Bridgton, Maine. In 1873, he and his first wife, Eunice, moved to Lewiston. He was in the jewelry business in the neighboring city of Auburn.

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Note    N2538         Index
Ebenezer moved to Ridgway with his mother and other members of the family in 1856. He remained there for a few years, then returned to Maine and, in 1863, married Harriet in Lewiston. They lived in Maine a few years, began their family and, sometime before 1869, moved back to Ridgway where they both died within a few months of one another in 1869.