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Note: According to Emily Allen, Arthur left home at an early age. At age 16, he works for Alvin Morrison of Bridgton, ME as a farm laborer & wood cutter/\. He cut a cord of white birch with his buck saw, sawed up enough wood for four wood stoves, and took care of 15 milking cows every day. He got room and board plus $6.00 a month. He worked for several years in the woods. He worked in Bemis for 2 or 3 winters before buying "the old home place" where he raised pigs having many as 50 at one time. He moved to Tuelltown about 1917, living there for 26 years. (Tuelltown Rd. N. Paris)
From 1933-35 he ran a meat route. in N. Paris, W. Paris, Bryant Pond, and Locke Mills.
In 1943 he moved to West Sumner buying the Oscar Swift farm and farming there until it burned down om April of 1957. (Arthur Allen Rd, West Sumner)
He then bought the George Blake farm in North Paris Village and lived there until his death in 1974.
[Allen 1.FTW]
According to Emily Allen, Arthur left home at an early age. At age 16, he works for Alvin Morrison of Bridgton, ME as a farm laborer & wood cutter/\. He cut a cord of white birch with his buck saw, sawed up enough wood for four wood stoves, and took care of 15 milking cows every day. He got room and board plus $6.00 a month. He worked for several years in the woods. He worked in Bemis for 2 or 3 winters before buying "the old home place" where he raised pigs having many as 50 at one time. He moved to Tuelltown about 1917, living there for 26 years. (Tuelltown Rd. N. Paris)
From 1933-35 he ran a meat route. in N. Paris, W. Paris, Bryant Pond, and Locke Mills.
In 1943 he moved to West Sumner buying the Oscar Swift farm and farming there until it burned down om April of 1957. (Arthur Allen Rd, West Sumner)
He then bought the George Blake farm in North Paris Village and lived there until his death in 1974.
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