History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . By reason of ill health spentthat winter South, since whichtime he has had no law office,and done but little in Lebanon, for a numberof years held various municipaloffices, and represented thetowns of Lebanon and Sanfordin the Legislature of 1854. Illhealth compelling him to retirefrom active business, he re-moved to Alfred in May, for five years been one ofthe municipal officers of thetown, and is now county attor-ney. In politics a Democrat;an earnest support
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . By reason of ill health spentthat winter South, since whichtime he has had no law office,and done but little in Lebanon, for a numberof years held various municipaloffices, and represented thetowns of Lebanon and Sanfordin the Legislature of 1854. Illhealth compelling him to retirefrom active business, he re-moved to Alfred in May, for five years been one ofthe municipal officers of thetown, and is now county attor-ney. In politics a Democrat;an earnest supporter of the re-form measures of 1878, andamong the foremost in advo-cating a reduction of salariesin York County, and in the ex-penses of State and a view solely of promotingthese objects, and only thenat the earnest solicitation of hisfellow-citizens, Mr. Emery con-sented again to accept an officialposition. by Conaut, ALFRED, YORK COUNTY, MAINE. A L F K E D. SITUATION AND TITLE TO LAND. The town of Alfred is situated nearly in the centre ofthe county of York, of which it is the principal is an oblong portion of territory, lying iu a southeast andnorthwest direction, about twelve miles in length and aboutfour in breadth in its widest part, tapering nearly to a pointat each end, and bounded north by a portion of Waterbo-rough, east by Waterborough and Lyman, south by Kenne-bunk, southwest by Sanford, and west by Shapleigh. Itwas originally included in Sanford, but in 1791- was incor-porated in a separate district, and in 1808 received an iu-coi-poration as a town. The first civilized men who penetrated the forests of San-ford and Alfred were trappers and hunters. Beaver wereabundant, and left many marks of their labors in the bedsof streams and shores of ponds that are visible to thisday. Truck-houses were early established on the Saco andPiscataqua Rivers and at Salmon Falls, from whic
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