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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., Medford's Namesakes. (search)
,000 in county), an $85,000 court house, $65,000 high school, four ward schools, eight churches, a Carnegie library coming, and two weekly newspapers (one German). The soil is a clay loam, highly productive and well watered by the various streams, in which are plenty of game fish. This Medford got its name by the loyalty to New England of the Wisconsin Central Railroad manager in 1873. He was Charles R. Colby from Boston, and gave the various stations names of Massachusetts towns—Medford, Chelsea, Auburndale, and others. Another Medford is, as Clerk Bigelow writes, back in the Maine woods; was incorporated in 1824 as Kilmarnock (the birthplace in Scotland of an early settler's father), and changed, by petition of citizens, to Medford in 1856. Water power is abundant (more than is utilized), lumbering and farming the chief occupation of its 300 people. It has one church, Free — will Baptist, is on the Piscataquis river, and reached from Bangor. Mr. Bigelow sent an excellent his