Excerpt from History of Fort Fairfield and Biographical Sketches: With Illustrations Upon my return from the West, after an absence of more than a quarter ofa century, I found many of the old landmarks removed, and matters of in terest which had come under my personal observa tion radically changed, or entirely left out of the unwritten history ofaroostook. With the fact be fore me, that very soon important events, without which a history of our town would be both un satisfactory and incomplete, would be beyond the reach of the historian, I commenced preparing a series of articles for the jvoi'l/zem Leader, under the title history or fort fairfield, with the intention of subsequently publishing them in book form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.