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Can you confirm the Mayhew?
Here's the best I can find.
Firstm the return address is from a Charles Hayward & Co., 114 Exchange Street, Bangor, ME. They were a food distributor in their day. Here's their blueberry label (their address is sideways in the center of the label):
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Charles Hayward was a native of Readfield, Maine, who began his career as a clerk in a Bangor grocery store in 1832. He rose to become a partner in several retail and wholesale concerns before establishing his own business in 1855. His firm was destroyed by fire in 1869 and was subsequently rebuilt on Exchange Street in Bangor.
As for the addressee, I believe it is Hosea B. Mayhew of East Dover, Maine:
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Birth: Oct. 28, 1836
Death: Apr. 11, 1903
According to the Ancestral File at familysearch.org, Hosea B Mayhew was born 28 Oct 1836 of East Dover, Piscataquis, Maine to William S Mayhew [& Christine Snow], married Maria Dow 17 Jul 1864, and died 11 Apr 1903. According to the IGI, Hosea B Mayhew married Maria A Dow 17 Jul 1864 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine (extracted marriage record).
Maine Marriages, 1771-1907: Hosea B Mayhew married Maria A Dow on 17 Jul 1864 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine.
Paralyzed as a young man.
1850 census of Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine p265: Hosey? Mayhew, age 12, born in Foxcroft, listed with parents, Wm S, 40 & Christina, also 40 and siblings, Harriet, 10, George, 7 and Orin, 4.
1870 census of Dover, Piscataquis, Maine p30-31: Hosea Mayhew, age 40, born in Foxcroft, farmer, listed with wife, Maria, 31.
1880 census of Dover, Piscataquis, Maine p33B: Hosea B Mayhew, age 42, farmer, he & parents born in Maine, listed with wife, Maria A, 41 and children, Fred A, 7 and Christania, 1.
1900 census of Dover, Piscataquis, Maine p15A: Hosea B Mayhew, age 62, born in Oct 1837 in Maine, parents born in Maine, proprietor of grist mill, listed with wife of 34 years, Maria A, 61 and children, Fred A, 27 and Annie C, 21 as well as a boarder, John Howe, 24.
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Parents:
Christianna Snow Mayhew (1810 - 1882)
Spouse:
Maria A Dow Mayhew (1840 - 1926)*
Children:
Fred A Mayhew (1873 - 1949)*
Annie Mayhew McClure (1879 - 1954)*
Burial:
East Dover Cemetery
Dover-Foxcroft
Piscataquis County
Maine, USA
Plot: North section
Here's his gravestone:
Posted 08/31/2011 12:32 am
