WEST LINCOLN SOCIETY. ITS FORMATION, INCORPORATION, BY-LAWS AND OFFICERS. By request of many farmers in this vicinity, a meeting was called in Garcelon's Building, Lewiston Falls, September 13, 1851, to take into consideration the propriety of forming an Agricultural Society in this vicinity. At this meeting it was voted to choose a committee to petition the Legislature for an act of incorporation; which act was obtained at the Legislature of 1852, and the following gentlemen were incorporated as the West Lincoln Agricultural and Horticultural Society: James Lowell, Esq., Lewiston; Dr. A. Garcelon, do.; John M. Frye, do.; Ebenezer Ham, do.; A. Wakefield, do.; William R. Wright, do.; Jesse Davis, Webster; Sewell Moody, do.; Daniel Cary, do.; Samuel Pickard, Danville; Elisha Stetson, Auburn; E. Barrell, Greene; Samuel Moody, Lisbon; Jno. Lombard, Wales. Under the charter, the society organized by adoping a code of by-laws. The society then made choice of the following officers for 1852: |