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Source:
A History
of the
Town of Unity, Maine
by
James Berry Vickery, III
Member of the Maine Historical Society
and Essex Institute
Publ. by
Falmouth Publishing House
Manchester Maine.

NOTE:  As this is copyrighted 1956, I cannot transcribe the book
However you can find information via the internet at Google Books
or contact a library in Waldo County, Maine.
If you contact me, I would be happy to help you

PREFACE  
  PAGE
CHAPTER I. - The Beginning 3
CHAPTER II. - The Coming of the Settlers 10
CHAPTER III. - The Conflict Between the Settlers and Proprietors 37
CHAPTER IV. - Life, Times and Incorporation 44
CHAPTER V - Church History 54
 - The Methodist - 63
 - Unity Union Church - 68
 - Free-will Baptist Church - 72
 - The Friends' Church
74
CHAPTER VI - Schools in Unity 80
CHAPTER VII - Military History 101
CHAPTER VIII - Temperance Movement 118
CHAPTER IX - Industries of Unity 126
CHAPTER X - The North Waldo Agriculture Society 146
 - Unity Park Association - 155  
CHAPTER XI - Taverns, Hotels and Innkeepers 158
CHAPTER XII - Windemere Park 162
CHAPTER XIII - Fires 168
CHAPTER XIV - The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad 172
CHAPTER XV - The Call of the West 177
CHAPTER XVI - Social Clubs, Organizations and Lodges 186
CHAPTER XVII - Unity Since 1900 195
BIBLIOGAPHY 211
APPENDIX A - Names of settlers who moved to Unity, Maine 216
APPENDIX B - Census of 1800
 - Twenty-five Mile Pond
 - Other families of Twenty-Five Mile Pond living in what is now the Town of Burnham.
217
APPENDIX C - Incorporation Papers of the Town of Unity
 - Commonwealth of Massachusetts
218
APPENDIX D - Town Officials of the Town of Unity
 - Selectmen
 - Treasurer
 - Town Clerk
219
APPENDIX E - Ministers of the Town of Unity 222
APPENDIX F - Population of Towns in North Waldo County 1790-1940 227
APPENDIX G - Principals of Unity High School 228
APPENDIX H - Officers of North Waldo Agricultural Society 228
APPENDIX I
 - List of Unity Men Who Served in The Civil War
 - Civil War Veterans Buried in Unity Other Than Those Listed Previously
229
APPENDIX J - World War I Veterans 232
APPENDIX K
 - The Federal Trust Company
 - The Unity Telephone Co.
234
APPENDIX L -
 - Postmasters, Rural Mail Carriers, The Mail
 - Merchants & Storekeepers
 - Trades
     - Shoemakers
     - Blacksmiths
     - Cabinet Makers & Casket Makers
     - Saddlers and Harness Makers
     - Carriage Makers
     - Station Agents
     - Druggists
     - Restauranteurs

 - Maplewood Lumber Company
 - J. H. Farwell & Son and the Waldo County Farmers' Union

235
APPENDIX M - Unity Doctors 239
INDEX 251
   
LIST OF SURNAMES IN BOOK (There may be a few more as I scanned it pretty fast. ~ Sharon Wick  
Adams
Albion
Alexander
Allen
Ames
Anderson
Appleton
Asbury
Atkins
Attwood
Atwell
Austen
Ayer
Bacon
Bagley
Baker
Ballard
Bangs
Banks
Banton
Bara
Barker
Barstow
Bartholomew
Bartlett
Batchelder
Beale
Bean
Bellows
Bennett
Benson
Berry
Bickmore
Billings
Bither
Black
Blair
Blake
Blanchard
Blethen
Blood
Boody
Boothby
Boudreau
Boulter
Bowdoin
Bowen
Boulier
Bowerman
Boynton
Brackett
Bradeen
Bradstreet
Brainerd
Bray
Bridges
Britt
Broad
Brophy
Brooks
Brown
Bryan
Bryant
Burgess
Burgiss
Burk
Burnham
Burrage
Burrill
Burton
Butman
Call
Carll
Carruthers
Carter
Cates
Chaina
Chadbourne
Chadwick
Chalmers
Chandler
Chapman
Chase
Cheney
Chick
Childs
Chism
Choate
Clement
Clough
Clark
Clay
Clifford
Cobb
Coburn
Cochran
Coffin
Collar
Colson
Comstock
Conant
Condon
Connor
Constable
Coogan
Cook
Cookson
Coombs
Cornforth
Croxford
Cookson
Craig
Cram
Crie
Crockett
Crosby
Cunningham
Curtis
Cyrway
Daforge
Damon
Danford
Daniels
Day
Dean
Decrow
Deets
Dilahay
Dingley
Dixon
Dobson
Dodge
Dolloff
Douglas
Dow
Drake
Dressler
Dutton
Dyer
Eaton
Eckstrom
Edgerley
Edgerly
Edwards
Elder
Eliot
Emerson
Emery
Fairbanks
Farnham
Farrow
Farwell
Fernald
Field
Files
Fish
Fisher
Fletcher
Flint
Flye
Fogg
Folsom
Foote
Forbes
Ford
Fortier
Foss
Fought (Foot)
Fowler
Fox
Franz
Frost
Fuller
Furbish
Furrow
Gardiner
Gerrish
Gerry
Getchell
Giles
Gilkey
Gilman
Gilpatrick
Gish
Glidden
Godfrey
Goodwin
Gould
Graffam
Grafton
Grant
Greenleaf
Glines
Grant
Gray
Greenleaf
Guston
Hacker
Hadley
Haines
Hale
Hall
Ham
Hambleton
Hamilton
Hamlin
Hanaman
Hanson
Harden
Hardin
Harding
Harmon
Harriaman
Haskell
Hasty
Hatch
Hawks
Hayden
Hayes
Higgins
Hillman
Hobbie
Hobby
Hockey
Hollis
Hood
Hinckley
Hinman
Hopkins
Howland
Hubbard
Hudson
Hunt
Hurd
Hussey
Hustus
Hutchinson
Irish
Jackson
Jacques
Jenkins
Jewett
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Judd
Judson
Keaton
Keene
Kelley
Kellogg
Kennedy
Kenney
Kimball
Kingsbury
Knickerbocker
Knights
Knowles
Knowleton
Knox
Krout
LaBree
Lafayette
Lamb
Lamson
Lang
Larabee
Larrabee
Lassell
Leadbetter
Leavitt
Lee
Legg
Lermond
Libbly
Libby
Linkfield
Littlefield
Lock
Locke
Longley
Lovejoy
Lowell
Luce
Lutz
Lydecker
Macdonald
Madden
Maddocks
Main
Maines
Manley
Marden
Marsh
Marshall
Marx
Mason
Mayhew
McAllister
McCausland
McCormick
McCurdy
McGray
McKechnie
McKeen
McKenney
McKinley
McLaughlin
McLellan
McManus
Means
Mears
Melvin
Merrill
Meservey
Miliken
Miller
Millet
Millett
Milliken
Mitchell
Mix
Monroe
Moody
Moore
Morgan
Morelen
Mosher
Moulton
Mueller
Munsell
Murch
Murray
Mussey
Myrick
Nason
Negri
Neil
Nettels
Newell
Newhall
Nickerson
Nickless
Norwood
Nutt
O'Brien
Ordway
Otis
Owen
Packard
Paine
Palmer
Parkhurst
Parkman
Parish
Parsons
Patrick
Pattee
Patterson
Peabody
Pearle
Pearson
Pearsons
Pease
Pelletier
Pendleton
Penney
Penny
Percy
Perkina
Perley
Perrin
Perry
Peterson
Philbrook
Phinney
Pickford
Pierce
Pilley
Pillsbury
Pingree
Pinkham
Plaisted
Plummer
Pollard
Powell
Pratt
Prescott
Price
Pulns
Pushor
Quimby
Rackliff
Rand
Randlett
Ranlett
Reed
Reynolds
Revere
Rice
Rich
Rigby
Rines
Roberts
Robinson
Rogers
Rolfe
Rollins
Roosevelt
Roundy
Royal
Rumery
Runnels
Sayward
Scammon
Scribner
Sears
Seavey
Segar
Sewall
Shanahan
Shaw
Shephard
Sherman
Shibles
Shipton
Shirley
Shorey
Simons
Simonton
Simpson
Sinclair
Small
Smart
Smedbury
Smith
Snell
Snyder
Soule
Spaulding
Sparrow
Spinney
Stackpole
Starbirt
Starkey
Steel
Stetson
Stevens
Stiles
Stone
Stover
Strout
Sturgis
Taber
Tasker
Taylor
Tebbetts
Temple
Terry
Thatcher
Thomas
Thompson
Tilton
Towle
Tozier
Tripp
True
Trull
Truworthy
Tucker
Tufts
Tunnicliffe
Tweedie
Twitchell
Twombly
Valentino
Varney
Vickery
Vose
Walker
Walton
Waning
Wanning
Ward
Ware
Warren
Waterman
Watson
Watts
Webb
Webster
Weed
Weeks
Wellington
Wells
Wentworth
Weymouth
Wheaton
Whitcomb
White
Whitehouse
Whitney
Whitman
Whitmore
Whittaker
Whitten
Wiggin
Willey
Williamson
Wilson
Wing
Winship
Winslow
Winters
Wiswall
Woods
Woodsum
Woodward
Woodworth
Work
Works
Worthen
Wright
York
Young

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