The Bethel Journals, Donald G. Bennett, PO Box 763, Bethel, Maine 04217

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Addison E. Herrick was born in Greenwood in 1847, the son of Benjamin and Maria (Garland) Herrick. He attended Gould Academy and Hebron Academy and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1873.  He studied law with Enoch Foster – 1877 admitted to Oxford County bar – then law partner with Foster.

He married Miss Mary Chase of Bluehill, Maine and they have two daughters, Mrs. Lyndell Converse Blanchard of Abington, Mass., and Miss Margaret C. Herrick, Director of Prevention of Communicable Diseases in the State of Maine.

  Judge Herrick served as Judge of the Oxford Probate Court from 1899 until 1920. He represented Oxford County in the State Legislature in 1891 and in the Senate in 1893. Since 1884 he has been treasurer of Bethel Savings Bank and was treasurer of the Bethel Water Company for many years.

For 16 years he was president of the Board of Trustees of Gould Academy and is a member of the Board of Examiners and a trustee of Bowdoin College.

He is a member of the Bethel Lodge F & AM.  The Herrick’s fine home on Broad Street is notable for its gardens, shrubs and stately trees.

The Bethel Journals

Bethel’s Legal Community and Town Pharmacist of 1931

Chapter 3, Page 2

 

 

 

Ellery C. Park was born in Mexico, Maine January 7, 1864. He was educated in the public schools, Farmington Normal School, Dixfield and Hebron Academies.

Mr. Park came to Bethel in 1887 and has been active in public interests since. He was admitted to the Oxford County Bar in 1890 and the same year married Miss Mary Stearns of Paris. They have one daughter, Mrs. Harry Mason of Boston.

Forty-one years ago Mr. Park became associated with Judge Herrick of this town and with his partner has been in the practice of law continuously and with no small measure of success since that time. This is the oldest legal firm in Oxford County.

Mr. Park has served two terms as county attorney. He has been cashier of the Bethel National Bank since 1905 when it was organized and sound financial judgment has done much to give this institution its present high rating.

In politics he is a Republican, was chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1898 and 1899 and chairman of the Republican town committee for six years.  For many years Mr. Park has been a member and treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Gould Academy. He is president of the Bethel Lions Club.

Years ago Mr. and Mrs. Park purchased the Pinckney Burnham place on Church Street and live here in their beautiful home filled with choice books and surrounded by well-kept gardens.

Hon. Henry H. Hastings was born in Bethel, March 25, 1865, the son of St. John and Elizabeth (Atherton) Hastings.  His education was received in the Bethel schools, Gould Academy and Bowdoin College. He married Miss Ethel Richardson in 1916 and they have one son Henry Harmon Jr., born October 13, 1918.

Mr. Hastings began the practice of law in 1899 in the Hon. Richard Frye’s former location, where he still holds office.

Mr. Hastings is active in state politics. He was a member of Governor Percival Baxter’s Council in 1921-22. He has served on the Prison Commission since 1923. He represented Oxford County as the Republican Representative to the legislature in 1905 and served two terms in the State Senate in 1907 -1909. He is presiding Judge at the Oxford Probate Court. Judge Hastings and his family occupy a fine residence on Church Street.

 

William E. Bosserman is Bethel’s popular druggist and on Main Street has a large and well equipped store.

His father was the Rev. Alexander Bosserman, Universalist minister, who preached in Bethel many years ago.

Mr. Bosserman was educate in the schools of Winthrop and Bethel and began his apprenticeship as a pharmacist in the store of G.R. Wiley, of which he is now proprietor.

He married Miss Jennie Perry of West Paris in September 1893 and they have one daughter, Mrs. E.L. Brown of Bethel.

Mr. Bosserman worked and studied in Boston and Norway, and after a special course of study in pharmacopoeia work at Bowdoin College, passed the State Board examination, became a registered druggist and has settled in Bethel where he has gained success, and what is of more importance, many friends. He is a member of the Bethel Lodge A & FM.

In his modern store he makes a specialty of his prescription department, and his chief clerk, Mr. Alton Carroll, is also a registered pharmacist.

Mr. and Mrs. Bosserman have a model home with perfectly kept lawns on Church Street, adjoining the Universalist Church.

The Bosserman home in 1931 on Church Street; it is now part of the Gould Academy campus.