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During the latter part of his life he became interested in timber 

 lands in Maine and invested a large share of his means in them. 

 He was always interested in gardening and horticulture, at both of 

 which he was very successful. 



He was a member of the Common Council of Bangor for the 

 years 1852 and 1853, and of the Board of Aldermen for the years 

 1870, 1871, 1872 and 1874. 



In religion he was a liberal Unitarian. In politics, originall}- a 

 Whig, afterwards a Republican. 



Mason J. Metcalf of Monmouth, died in that town June 23, 

 1883, aged 76 3ears. His familj' was of Massachusetts origin, and 

 in his youth he experienced the vicissitudes which appear to have 

 been a heritage of the period. While yet a boy his father removed 

 to Ohio, spending several j^ears in what was tlien considered a far- 

 off wilderness. The mutations of life, however, brought him again 

 to the East, and he settled in the town of Litclifield, Mass. The 

 subject of this notice meantime had grown to manhood's estate, 

 already having given promise of a future of activity and usefulness. 

 Attaining his majority, he became a resident of Monmouth, which 

 town, notwithstanding several years spent in Boston, where he was 

 engaged at intervals in active business, he ever "considered as his 

 home. He was possessed of a remarkabh- fine mental as well as of 

 a most robust plwsical organization, and was the originator of sev- 

 eral valuable mechanical ideas, among them a certain method of 

 building fences that has become of great utility, particularly in the 

 West, and he was the first to manufacture letter stencils by the use 

 of dies. In later years his inclinations led him to seek the retire- 

 ment of his country home, where he had acquired valuable mill 

 properties, to which he devoted much attention. His busy tenden- 

 cies made him a marked man locally, and he was particularh' active 

 in matters pertaining to the educational, moral and religious welfare 

 of the communit}'. He was an early promoter and for years the 

 most generous contributor to the support of the Congregational 

 church in Monmouth. In politics he was a pronounced Republican 

 and an influential local factor, distinguished for an inflexible adher- 

 ence to what he believed to be right. He was a member of the State 

 Legislature in 18G9, and repeatedly was called b}- his fellow towns- 

 men to positions of trust and responsibility. 



Dr. Eliphalet Clark died at Woodford's, near Portland, June 

 8, 1883, after a protracted illness. He was born in Strong, May 

 12, 1801, and was 82 years of age at the time of his decease. His 



