Wiscasset Bank History and Charter Details 1812
The article traces the Lincoln and Kennebec Bank and the creation of the Wiscasset Bank in 1812, noting petition signatures, charter terms, double liability for shareholders, state loan provisions, and initial capitalization. It recounts founders like Abiel Wood and Moses Carlton, early stockholders, and the bank’s rapid seizure by wartime losses in 1816 with notes and assets described. It also compares Maine bank growth with Bath Bank and Maine Bank, and includes local property valuations and ship assets in 1801.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln and Kennebec Bank of
Wiscasset
William
King of
Massachusetts
Abiel Wood
Senate
House. of Representatives
Commonwealth Ofchusetts
General Court
County of Lincoln
Lincoln and
Lincoln
Abiel Wood, Jr
Moses Carlton, Jr
Nathaniel Austin
Moses Carlton
William Carlton
William M. Bord
William Bowman
Moses Carlton Jr
Jonathan
Major Wood
Major Carlton
Henry Wood
Mary
William M. Boyd
Myra Carlton
Miles
Bath
David Payson
John Dole
Joseph T. Wood
Wiscasset Bank
Bath Bank
William King
Joshua Wingate, Jr
Jonathan Page
Lincoln and Kennebec
State Bank
Leginslature
Commonwealth
Maine
Henry Robycashier
Lincoln and Kennebec Bank
Isaac T. Hobson
John Greenleaf
John Babson
John Binney
Samuel Cony
Edmund Flagg
Erastus Foote
Silas Lee
Thomas McCrate
William Stacy & Co
Whitney, Sewall & Co
Wiscasset Female Asylum
President, Directors & Company
Perkins
Kennebec
Maine Bank
Portland
York
Eastport
John” Anderson
Thomas
Two Brothers
John Huse
Wavenock
Dole
Hope
Stoclke
Roby
Lee
Stetson
Birch Point
Bradbury
Appleton
Woodman
Wheelwright
Bennett House
Mount Vernon
Belisarius
America
Milford
Apollo
Hester
Local arrivals and visits noted around Bath area
Personal notes list Sunday passes in Belfast N H and visits by Mrs. Young Mr. Emmons and daughter Catherine in Bath. Irene Ingalls of New York to visit mother Mrs. Fannie Ingalls on Dike road this summer. Carnegie-Steel family from Newton Mass visited Bath on Saturday. Mrs. Raymond Rogers of New York returned after Capitol Island visit and a weekend on Western Avenue. Frank Arsenault returned to Cambridge after weekend with E J Arsenault family on Washington street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred P. Emmons
Catherine
Wilhelmina Gackenbach
Belfast
N. H. Young
Bingham
Young
Washington Street
Irene Ingalls
New York
Fannie D. Ingalls
Dike Road
Frank Carnegie-Steel
Keith
Dorothea
Newton
Mass
Bath
Raymond Rogers
Capitol Island
Western Avenue
Frank Arsenault
Cambridge
E. J. Arsenault
Local notices and social happenings in the village
Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Sherman High Street residents visited Beth before Mrs. Oliver’s sister travels to New York to join her husband, Bear Mountain’s chief engineer. Hewitt family weekend trips to Kittery. Capt. Hewitt to stay with them. Lillian Parks home from Lewiston for the weekend. Dances at Bridgehall drew large crowds with a night traffic officer guiding parking. Manson builds a concrete wall, Perry levels land for a lawn, High Street repairs by the city crew, Parker Rogers tours Boston with Burnham. Farmers baying when weather allows. blueberries picked for sale. Morse & Son mill crew rafting logs for processing.
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Chins
Frank Righ
Oliver
Sherman
Morse
New York
Bear Mountain
Hudson River
Charles E. Hewitt
Kittery
Richmond
Lillian Parks
Lewiston
Fred L. Parks
Beulah McIntire
John G. Morse
Bridgehall
William Thomson
Monmouth
Robert P. Manson
Omar R. Perry
City Street
Parker O. Rogers
Boston
J. C. Burnham
John G. Morse & Son
Doughty Survives Car Crash After Hill Upset
Ernest Doughty of Phippsburg was badly cut when his Ford touring car overturned at a hill’s foot near Leavitt's station. Lloyd Steeves of Bath stopped the bleeding with a tourniquet and aided the pair toward medical help as the 12-year-old relative, Charles Doughty, was trapped beneath. The elder Doughty freed them despite his own injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Doughty
Phippsburg
Bath
Leavitt
Lloyd Steeves
Doughty
Steeves
Charles Doughty
Mr. Steeves
Colby Vigue wed in Grace Church ceremony
Frnest Wendell Colby of Wiscasset and Miss Doris Louise Vigue of Hallo well were married at Grace church. Rev. Charles M. Tubs officiated. The altar held syringas. The couple will reside in Wiscasset with family from Wiscasset and Bath in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Colby
Wiscasset
Doris Louise Vigue
Hallowell
Grace Church
Charles M. Tubs
Henry v. B. Nash
Bath
Colby
Potter and Reed Family Visits Highlight Coastal Weekend
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lemont with Mrs. Abbie Potter and Miss Bessie Potter spend several days at the Potter cottage in Southport. Elbridge Reed, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Reed of Robbins Street, leaves Monday for Wiscasset to stay a week with Mr. and Mrs. George Mains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Lemont
Abbie Potter
Bessie Potter
Potter Cottage
Southport
Elbridge Reed
Clarence E. Reed
Robbins Street
Wiscasset
George Mains
Phippsburg Summer Scene Shows Social Guests and Open Homes
Sebasco hosts a season of visitors and residents as families from Bath Portland and New York greet neighbors. Rev Walker and family arrive, local cottages host guests, revival meetings begin, and roadside stands open near West Point.
Popham Beach Hotel Riverside Welcomes Notable Arrivals
Col. and Mrs. John Morgan and son Junior from Maplewood New Jersey visit the Riverside Hotel along with many others including Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garber and other New Jersey New York and Maine guests. A Wednesday dance starts the season and fireworks on the beach mark the Fourth as cottages reopen and Col. Henry W. Owen of Bath joins the Maine National Guard duty at Fort Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel
Riverside
John Morgan
Son
Maplewood
N. J
Col. Morgan
Frank Garber
E. Long
Hillsdale
Fred R. Lyons
Walton
N. Y
C. Murray
Col
Henry W. Owen
Bath
Fort Williams
Maine National Guard
Frank B Totman Dies. Paving Pioneer in Southern California
Frank Blaine Totman 44 a Bath native and asphalt paving expert died June 15 at his Altadena home after a week of illness from blood poisoning. He spent 19 years as a Griffith Company superintendent and invented the Totman portable asphalt mixing plant and the Totman tip over mixer. Survived by wife Alice and family, funeral held in Pasadena with burial in Baillie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Blaine Totman
Bath
Charles V. Totman
Front Street
Santa Rosa Avenue
Altadena
Calif
Pasadena
Totman
California
Griffith Company
Los Angeles
Frank B. Totman
United States
John R. Keane
Western Asphalt Association
New Brunswick
Canada
Alice M. Totman
Blaine Totman
Walter Sheehan
Emily E.totman
Ralph Totman
Portland
Maine
New England Tel. and
Tel. Co
Mrs Sarah Dunn Moore Dies After 62 Years of Marriage
Bath Box Co. manager Wellington A Moore returns from Bailie NB after the death of his wife Mrs Sarah Dunn Moore 84. She was born in St James Parish NB and married to Harris E Moore. Survived by husband and daughter Jennie L Moore. One of seven children four survive. A longtime Presbyterian member.
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Wellington A. Moore
Bath Box Co
Baillie
N. B
Sarah (Dunn) Moore
Harris E. Moore
St. James
Mr. Moore
Sarah Harris
Alexander Dunn
Dennisville
Scotland
Moore
Presbyterian Church
Jennie L. Moore
Bath man Joseph Muse dies after short illness
Joseph Muse 78 longtime Bath resident died Sunday in Georgetown after a brief illness. Born in Nova Scotia he was a teamster most of his life. He is survived by two sons Frank Muse Bath and Charles Muse and a daughter Mrs Mary Anderson Bath. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the church in Five Islands.
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Baillie
Wwelleaiog 2
Moore
Bath
Frank C. Moore
Kiam A. Moore
George L. Moore
St. Stephens
N. B
Mary Quaid
Clara Palmer
Harrison Dunn
Fred Dunn
Lemoine Station
McLellan
Scott
Armstrong
St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church
der Joseph Muse
Georgetown
Nova Scotia
Frank Muse
Charles
Muse
Mary Anderson
Five Islands
Old Time Schooner On Her Last Voyage
The dismasted schooner near Bishop dock was opposed by Mayor Cahill and city officials who sought her removal for over a year. Legal advice confirmed careful handling before the hulk would rest on Henry Totman’s Robinhood shore, ending a long nuisance to Bath and Southend residents alike.
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Pere
Cahill
Bishop Dock
Bishop
Whitney
Areea
Edward W. Bridgham
Henry Totman
Robinhood
Sheepscot
Bath Box Co
Hyde Windlass Co
Southend
Bath Party Guests and Local Visits Noted
Mrs Nat Howe and daughter Miss Jessie Eaton of Georgetown paagie Thursday in Bath. Mr and Mrs Earl B Collins and Bruce of Somerville Mass are two weeks at the Dunnels cottage ham Beach. Miss Florence Gustus of North on is passing two weeks with her aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Harold Safford Spring street. David Brown who has an executive position with Macy s in New York City is visiting his mother Mrs 114 Brown Pearl street. om ae
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F ‘Walker
Newbe
York City
Sebasco
Eine
York
Morace Ue
Wenhabe
Otto Rutin
Harold Cutting
Annette
Martha
Mildred
Bath
Rose Wyman
Pauline
Henry Minott
Portland
Phippsburg Centre
Silas Bates
Lester Bates
Beachmont
Mass
J. E. Perry
Eva Steves Davenport
Gordon
Berkeley
Cal
Co. V. Minott
Chester Oliver
Livermore Falls
Oliver
Allan Brown
Lewiston
James Driscoll
Brunswick
W. R. Bowker
K. L. Percival
James Harwood
Tracy Cottage
Meadowbrook
Herbert Moores
Ruth Skillings
Skillings Cottage
Holyoke
Harold Cushman
Lynn
Nathan Cushman
J. E. Blaisdell
J. E. Sawyer
Skillings Camp
Sevasco
Ernest Rogers
Benjamin Simpson
Frank Leavitt
van Zandt Wheeler
West Point
Wheeler
New York City
John Wilson
Raw
J. D. Rogers
Gardiner Rogers
Ernest Wallace
Ellen Victoria
Bath City Hospital
Mary Sewall
Arthur Sewall
Haskell
Clara Darling
Grace Hutchins
Hosmer
Small Point
Nat Howe
Jessie Eaton
Georgetown Paagie
Earl B. Collins and
Bruce
Somerville
Dunnels
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the Sheepscot
Bath Independent
William D. Patterson
Garth Burry
Ron Copper
Colby-Vigue
Popham Beach
Bath Savings Institution
Santa Rosa
Mrs
Sarah Dunn Moore
Joseph Muse