People of the 19th Century
After South Berwick became a separate town in 1814 and Maine became a state six years later, the community saw its population center shift to the location of the village today. Five railroad lines crossed the town, and a variety of merchants, professionals and investors vied for business along the chief transportation corridors, Main and Portland Streets. At the falls of the Great Works and Salmon Falls Rivers, textile manufacturing replaced sawmilling as an economic mainstay.
Meet some the 19th century people of old Berwick.
Susan Allen Hayes, courtesy Berwick Academy
- John Haggens (1742-1822), merchant; Capt. Theodore F. Jewett (c 1788-1860), sea captain and merchant; Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), author
- Dr. Theodore Herman Jewett (1815-1878), physician; Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), author; Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1879-1931), physician
- Olive Branch Lodge, No. 28, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- South Berwick Volunteer Fire Fighters
- Micajah Currier (1774-1818), postmaster and merchant; Hannah Brown, shopkeeper
- Capt. Theodore F. Jewett (c 1788-1860) and Thomas Jewett (1789-1864), merchants
- John Frost (b. 1794), postmaster and store keeper
- Sarah Bartlett Frost (1776-1848) and Josiah Paul (1813-1892), innkeepers
- Sarah Norton (c. 1767-1862) , Elisabeth Norton (c. 1775-1848), and Nathaniel Adams (1793-1861), shopkeepers
- William Allen Tompson (c. 1786-1835), Berwick Academy preceptor; Dr. Caleb Sanborn (1814-1871), physician; and Madison C. (Mattson) Sanborn (1844-1872), soldier
- Dr. Charles T. Trafton (1822-1888), physician; St, Michael's School; South Berwick Town Hall
- First Parish Congregational Church and Methodist Episcopal Church
- Edmund Haggens (1759-1829), West Indies merchant; Isaac Hersom (1825-1911), grain merchant
- Henry G. Harvey (1832-1888), Civil War veteran, builder
- Walter Burleigh (d. 1930), textile mill operator, and Charles H. Burleigh (d. 1921), inventor
- George Campbell Yeaton (1836-1918), Smuttynose murder prosecutor and Sprague murder defense attorney
- Capt. Isaac P. Fall (1830-1909), Civil War veteran, brick mason
- Charles Keays (1812-1879), brick mason; George W. Keays (1818-1884)
- Abner Oakes (1820-1899), justice of the peace; Marcia Oakes Woodbury (1865-1913), artist
- William P. Atkinson (c. 1836-1896), physician
- First Baptist Church
- Ebenezer S. Hanson (1825-1905) and Nicholas Hanson, Jr. (1831-1904), pharmacists
- Capt. Samuel W. Rice (1784-1858), sea captain
- Dr. Christopher P. Gerrish (1829-1909), town physician and surgeon
- Charles Northend Cogswell (1797-1846), attorney and legislator; Hon. John B. Nealley (1810-1886), state senator
- John G. Tompson (b. 1799), bookbinder and retailer
- Samuel Parks (1784-1865) and Thomas Boylston Parks (1789-1861), merchants
- Business Block Entrepreneurs
- James Scott (c. 1802-1860)
- St. John Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Masons; and Simeon P. Huntress (1844-1923), liveryman
- John Noble Goodwin (1824-1887), Maine congressman and Arizona governor
- John Perkins Lord, Esq. (1786-1877), author and lawyer
- St. Michael Catholic Church
- William H. Fogg (1817-1884), China trader
- Will of Micajah Currier, Esquire, of South Berwick
- Micajah Currier Burleigh (1818 -1881), sea captain, industrialist, NH legislator, from History of Strafford County
- Ichabod Goodwin (1819-1869) and John W. Goodwin (1825-1911), brothers on opposite sides of the Civil War
- Dudley Hubbard (1763-1816); Hayes Family: judge, writer, tariff commissioner, Civil War general, editors
- Rev. John Tompson (1740-1828) and the First Parish Parsonage
- George H Muzzey (1842-1905), Civil War soldier, cotton factory paymaster - from the Salmon Falls Independent
- Archibald MacPhaedris' Up-River Investment: A Rollinsford/South Berwick sawmill, from the Warner House Newsletter, fall 2007
- Revolutionary War Soldiers of Berwick, by W. D. Spencer, 1898
- Tilley Higgins 1771 Tax Valuation
- Simeon P. Huntress (1844-1923), liveryman
- Isaac Joy, house joiner
- Hon. William Burleigh (1785-1827) and John Holmes Burleigh (1822-1877), congressmen
- Otis E. Moulton (1851-1914), builder
- Charles E. Hobbs, grocer
- Timothy Ferguson (c. 1788-1839), merchant and cotton mill founder; Benjamin Nason (1788-1875), merchant; and John Francis Walker (1844-1890), banker
- Francis Raynes, shoemaker; Olive Raynes (b. 1833), teacher
- Henry C. Willard (1842-1920), dry goods retailer
- Jedediah Jenkins (1767-1852) and Jerusha Parks (1763-1855), farmers
- John Francis Walker (1844-1890), banker
- Olive Raynes (b. 1833), teacher c. 1875
- Lewis B. Hanson, blacksmith
- Mark Libby (1822-1907) bicycle dealer; Mark Addison Libbey (1855-1940), inventor
- John Samuel Thomas Cushing (1801-1873), manufacturer
- Capt. Benjamin Franklin Goodwin (1817-1891)
- Elizabeth W. Tobey (c.1839-1922)
- Joseph Darville (c. 1855-1936) baker, Ella Tebbetts Darville, and Emily Hill Darville
- Joshua E. L. Bradeen (1846-1907), machinist, and Lydia Stiles Bradeen (1845-1932)
- Charles W. Murphy (c. 1834-1899) and Rosetta Durgin Murphy (c. 1833-1922)
- Thomas Dearborn Jewett (1790-1864), merchant, and Betsey Lord Jewett (1791-1867)
- Herbert G. Drew (1855-1923), millwright
- George H. Yeaton (1852-1942), cattle breeder
- Elisha H. Jewett (c. 1816-1883), state senator; Sarah Orne "Sally" Jewett (1820-1864)
- Thomas Boylston Parks (1789-1861), merchant; Samuel Harding (c. 1780-1844), sea captain; Dennis Ferguson (1815-1900), tanner
- Joshua Gilpatrick Goodwin (1805-1897), dairy farmer; Israel W. Goodwin (b. 1823), tanner
- Schoolhouse No. 5
- Civil War Veterans
- Robert Hodsdon; John S. Pike (1815 -1888), retail merchant; Abby S. Pike (1814-1896)
- Samuel Hale and Francis Hale, agents, Portsmouth Manufacturing Company
- Quamphegan Landing and Portsmouth Manufacturing Company
- 28 Middle Street
- Andrew J. Nealley (1815-1887), shop keeper; Albert Maddox (1873-1954), grocer
- Methodist Episcopal Church
- Eben Nealley (1807-1888), tavern keeper
- John Plumer (1800-1873), baker and Methodist deacon
- George Goodwin (1796-1861), mill paymaster; John Henry Plumer (b. 1829-1894), livery stable owner
- Dr. Charles A. Trafton (c. 1787-1855), physician; Hon. John B. Nealley (1810-1886), state senator
- Joseph Hutchings, boat builder
- Bartholomew Nason (1756-1822), merchant; Benjamin Nason (1788-1875), businessman; Elizabeth Plumer Bailey (d. 1897)
- Charles H. Burleigh, woolen mill foreman, and Sarah Burleigh
- Charles Wentworth
- J. Bailey
- Capt. William Lowell Foote, woolen mill owner
- House at 349 Main Street
- H. Harvey
- M. C. Grant
- H. Sweat
- Dr. Christopher P. Gerrish (1829-1909), town physician and surgeon; Walter Flynn, grocer
- McIntire Shingle Mill
- Capt. Gooch Cheney (1836-1895), South Berwick Gundalow Man
- Ira Gilpatric (1802-1878) and Richard Davis (1801-1895), tinsmiths
- Captain Hypie Philpot, Rollinsford Gundalow Man
- David Cummings (b. 1827) and William I. “Willie” Cummings (1869-1946), shoe manufacturers
- Boarding House
- Abner Oakes (1820-1899), justice of the peace
- Rebecca O. Young (1847-1927), banker
- Walter H. Downs (b. 1853), attorney
- Charles Edward Norton (1795 - 1873), justice of the peace, town clerk, church deacon;Charles E. Whitehead (c. 1817 – 1878), tailor
- Thomas J. Goodwin (1833-1912), selectman
- Freewill Baptist Church
- Andrew J. Nealley (1815-1887), shop keeper; Albert Maddox (1873-1954), grocer; Willis Salley, World War I veteran
- N. Hanson, Druggist
- E. R. McIntire Hardware Store
- J. P. Davis Stores & Tinware
- Union Store
- C. C. Merrill Shoe Store
- S. W. Ricker Fancy Goods
- Rebecca Smith Millinery Store
- Chas. E. Hobbs, Grocer
- Chas. Malloy, Boots and Shoes
- Tyler Jeweler and Brookings Photo
- Chas. E. Whitehead Tailor
- N. W. Kendall Stationer
- Mary Ann Wentworth Hart (1820-1891), Freewill Baptist preacher; Alfred W. Hart (1843-1863), Civil War soldier
- Business Block Businesses
- Horatio Nelson Twombly, China trader
- Newichawannock Hall
- The Browns, Farmers of Tatnic
- 1825 letter from New Orleans by Capt Theodore F Jewett
- South Berwick Civil War Veterans
- Deborah Brock, mill worker
- Eliza Ann Barker, choir leader
- Benjamin Franklin Davis, Civil War soldier
- Mattson Sanborn
- Benjamin Stillings, liquor dealer
- Francis Brown Hayes (1819-1884), railroad executive
- Isaac L. Moore (1826-1886), shopkeeper
- Joseph Murphy (1796-1872), carpenter and cabinetmaker