Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1877 — A Noble Pair of Brothers. [ARTICLE]

A Noble Pair of Brothers.

In the Town of Wells, Me., there are two brothers, one seventy-seven, the other seventy-two years of age, weighing nearly SUO pounds and measuring in height about twelve feet six inches combined, living about four miles from North Berwick, in the vicinity of Bragdon & West’s mill. What is remarkable about these two men is that they were born in the house they now live in, and never went away from home. Both are married and have families. They have always lived on this place, and never divided any property, never kept any accounts, never quarreled, never had any hard words or disagreements. The farm contains upward of 500 acres of land, over. 350 of which are heavily timbered. Tteir timber and wood tract is nearly a mile square, extending from their house, which sets isolated and In from the main road, back to the Boston and Maine track. There are hundreds of trees upward of a hundred feet high, and somfe of which measure from four to five feet in diameter at the butt. There are no such trees in this section of Maine as are owned by “ Jack & Oliver,” as they are known far and near. Their children, when they go to the store fqr goods, say to the merchant: “Charge to father/’ " Well, who Is father?” “ Why, Jack & Oliver —boston Globe. New Yore is still exercised about swill milk. Why don’t she try the udder kind?