Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — MAINE’S GOVERNOR-ELECT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAINE’S GOVERNOR-ELECT.

Joseph E. Bodwell, who has been elected Governor of Maine, was born in 1818 in what is now part of Lawrence, Mass. In those days they called it by the oldfashioned name of Methuen. His father was so poor that the boy went to live with an uncle. The Governor-elect of Maine has been a farm laborer, shoemaker, farmer, teamster, quanyman and granite works proprietor. The latter he still on a very large scale. He it was who opened tne granite quarries of Maine, thus giving his fellow citizens a new industry. He began to work the

quarries at Fox Haven in 1852. So small was the beginning that he used to haul the granite out himself with one yoke of oxen. He learned shoemaking evenings, while he was going to school in the daytime. He has, besides his quarry interests, a fine farm, and is known as a large importer of blooded stock. Mr. Bodwell became a resident of Maine in 1852, in the town of Hallowell, where he previously discovered a desirable quality of granite. He has been an active politician, having represented the town of Hallowell in the Maine Legislature, and has served as Mayor for ten terms, and was a delegate at large to the Benublican National Conventions of 1880 and 1884., . __