Wife: Sybil Bishop (Davis) (10 Mar 1839 - 17 Aug 1907)
married 27 Jan 1862 in Limestone
Father: Moses Noyes III (8 Sep 1802 - 22 May 1868)
married 19 Nov 1829 in Pownal
Mother: Rhoda G. (Merrill) (11 May 1805 - 3 Apr 1877)
Josiah Merrill Noyes moved from Freeport to Limestone, Maine. In politics, he was a Prohibitionist. He was tax collector and selectman of the town of Freeport. He was a member of the Grange and the Knights of Pythias and a Free Mason.
In his early life he worked at ship building in his native town and in Bath and other towns where that business once flourished. He also followed a sea-faring life for several years.
In 1858 he moved to Aroostook County and took up a State lot in the present town of Limestone, Maine. He was a pioneer without capital except what existed in industrious habits and a pair of strong arms. He underwent all the privations and hardships that any of the early pioneers did but his indomitable yankee grit carried him through them all. In the course of years he evolved from the wilderness one of the finest farms in the county, a farm that attracted the attention of all who had occasion to drive over the beautiful roads on which he lived. He had 600 acres of land at the home place and his crops of hay, oats and potatoes assumed very large figures. In one year he raised, from 30 acres of land, 9,700 bushels of potatoes, a crop that would average 323 bushels to the acre. He had as many as 50 acres in potatoes in a single year. His other crops were as proportionally large.
He built a starch factory near his farm and in one year he manufactured 140 tons of starch.
When Mr. Noyes first came to Aroostook County there was probably not one apple tree north of Houlton. Mr. Noyes set out about 3000 apple and plum trees, which made as beautiful an orchard as could be found in the State.
Mr. Noyes owned considerable timber land and manufactured lumber to some extent. He purchased the upper mill on the Limestone Stream and had a perfectly equipped modern mill with steam power to apply when the water was low. This mill had all the machinery usually found in a first class plant of its kind and its average daily output was 12,000 feet of lumber.
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married 27 Jan 1862 in Limestone
Father: Moses Noyes III (8 Sep 1802 - 22 May 1868)
married 19 Nov 1829 in Pownal
Mother: Rhoda G. (Merrill) (11 May 1805 - 3 Apr 1877)
Josiah Merrill Noyes moved from Freeport to Limestone, Maine. In politics, he was a Prohibitionist. He was tax collector and selectman of the town of Freeport. He was a member of the Grange and the Knights of Pythias and a Free Mason.
In his early life he worked at ship building in his native town and in Bath and other towns where that business once flourished. He also followed a sea-faring life for several years.
In 1858 he moved to Aroostook County and took up a State lot in the present town of Limestone, Maine. He was a pioneer without capital except what existed in industrious habits and a pair of strong arms. He underwent all the privations and hardships that any of the early pioneers did but his indomitable yankee grit carried him through them all. In the course of years he evolved from the wilderness one of the finest farms in the county, a farm that attracted the attention of all who had occasion to drive over the beautiful roads on which he lived. He had 600 acres of land at the home place and his crops of hay, oats and potatoes assumed very large figures. In one year he raised, from 30 acres of land, 9,700 bushels of potatoes, a crop that would average 323 bushels to the acre. He had as many as 50 acres in potatoes in a single year. His other crops were as proportionally large.
He built a starch factory near his farm and in one year he manufactured 140 tons of starch.
When Mr. Noyes first came to Aroostook County there was probably not one apple tree north of Houlton. Mr. Noyes set out about 3000 apple and plum trees, which made as beautiful an orchard as could be found in the State.
Mr. Noyes owned considerable timber land and manufactured lumber to some extent. He purchased the upper mill on the Limestone Stream and had a perfectly equipped modern mill with steam power to apply when the water was low. This mill had all the machinery usually found in a first class plant of its kind and its average daily output was 12,000 feet of lumber.
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Wife: Sybil Bishop (Davis) (10 Mar 1839 - 17 Aug 1907)
married 27 Jan 1862 in Limestone
Father: Moses Noyes III (8 Sep 1802 - 22 May 1868)
married 19 Nov 1829 in Pownal
Mother: Rhoda G. (Merrill) (11 May 1805 - 3 Apr 1877)
Josiah Merrill Noyes moved from Freeport to Limestone, Maine. In politics, he was a Prohibitionist. He was tax collector and selectman of the town of Freeport. He was a member of the Grange and the Knights of Pythias and a Free Mason.
In his early life he worked at ship building in his native town and in Bath and other towns where that business once flourished. He also followed a sea-faring life for several years.
In 1858 he moved to Aroostook County and took up a State lot in the present town of Limestone, Maine. He was a pioneer without capital except what existed in industrious habits and a pair of strong arms. He underwent all the privations and hardships that any of the early pioneers did but his indomitable yankee grit carried him through them all. In the course of years he evolved from the wilderness one of the finest farms in the county, a farm that attracted the attention of all who had occasion to drive over the beautiful roads on which he lived. He had 600 acres of land at the home place and his crops of hay, oats and potatoes assumed very large figures. In one year he raised, from 30 acres of land, 9,700 bushels of potatoes, a crop that would average 323 bushels to the acre. He had as many as 50 acres in potatoes in a single year. His other crops were as proportionally large.
He built a starch factory near his farm and in one year he manufactured 140 tons of starch.
When Mr. Noyes first came to Aroostook County there was probably not one apple tree north of Houlton. Mr. Noyes set out about 3000 apple and plum trees, which made as beautiful an orchard as could be found in the State.
Mr. Noyes owned considerable timber land and manufactured lumber to some extent. He purchased the upper mill on the Limestone Stream and had a perfectly equipped modern mill with steam power to apply when the water was low. This mill had all the machinery usually found in a first class plant of its kind and its average daily output was 12,000 feet of lumber.
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married 27 Jan 1862 in Limestone
Father: Moses Noyes III (8 Sep 1802 - 22 May 1868)
married 19 Nov 1829 in Pownal
Mother: Rhoda G. (Merrill) (11 May 1805 - 3 Apr 1877)
Josiah Merrill Noyes moved from Freeport to Limestone, Maine. In politics, he was a Prohibitionist. He was tax collector and selectman of the town of Freeport. He was a member of the Grange and the Knights of Pythias and a Free Mason.
In his early life he worked at ship building in his native town and in Bath and other towns where that business once flourished. He also followed a sea-faring life for several years.
In 1858 he moved to Aroostook County and took up a State lot in the present town of Limestone, Maine. He was a pioneer without capital except what existed in industrious habits and a pair of strong arms. He underwent all the privations and hardships that any of the early pioneers did but his indomitable yankee grit carried him through them all. In the course of years he evolved from the wilderness one of the finest farms in the county, a farm that attracted the attention of all who had occasion to drive over the beautiful roads on which he lived. He had 600 acres of land at the home place and his crops of hay, oats and potatoes assumed very large figures. In one year he raised, from 30 acres of land, 9,700 bushels of potatoes, a crop that would average 323 bushels to the acre. He had as many as 50 acres in potatoes in a single year. His other crops were as proportionally large.
He built a starch factory near his farm and in one year he manufactured 140 tons of starch.
When Mr. Noyes first came to Aroostook County there was probably not one apple tree north of Houlton. Mr. Noyes set out about 3000 apple and plum trees, which made as beautiful an orchard as could be found in the State.
Mr. Noyes owned considerable timber land and manufactured lumber to some extent. He purchased the upper mill on the Limestone Stream and had a perfectly equipped modern mill with steam power to apply when the water was low. This mill had all the machinery usually found in a first class plant of its kind and its average daily output was 12,000 feet of lumber.
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