Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — How Godsend Luskin Got His Name [ARTICLE]

How Godsend Luskin Got His Name

Perhaps Godsend Lufkin, of Tilden, has the distinction of owning the queerest name in Maine. Godsend’s grandfather, old Peter Lufkin, owned about all the wild land in the town. When he died he left his property to his four boys in trust, the whole of it to go the first grandson who should come into the world. At that time none of the boys were married,, but they at once remedied this fault, every one taking a wife inside a year from the time the

wffl of their father was made. Si* years after his wedding the wife of George Lufkin presented to him a son, who was entitled to the great estate under the terms of the wilL It Was agreed that the boy’s mother should bestow the name, bat she neglected to tell the minister about it. before the party had assembled In the church. Then when the minister asked what same he should bestow the child’s father spoke up and saidr “I think better call him a godsend, because he has proved that to my family.” The words spoken In jest were taken In earnest by the clergyman, who proceeded to formally christen the boy as “A Godsend Lufkin,” a name which he bears to-day. As he got nearly SIOO,OOO along with his name, he is trying to stand It."