The English'- 19 Church Street, Belfast, Maine

The English'- 19 Church Street, Belfast, Maine

The English's - 19 Church Street, Belfast, Maine 1948 The Hiram O. Alden residence, designed by architect Calvin Ryder was constructed in 1840. The house is Greek Revival with Italianate side porch and bay windows, shiplap facade and clapboard on the sides, portico with Doric columns supporting a classic entablature that originally had an iron railing. Hiram Alden was a lawyer and president of the Telegraph Company and the Belfast Lyceum. HIRAM ORLANDO ALDEN was born in Claremont, N. H., Feb. 9, 1800; entered Dartmouth College in 1819, but went to Union College two years after, and graduated there in 1823. He read law at the Litchfield Law School, Litchfield, Conn., 1823-24, and was admitted to the Bar at Huntsville, Ala., in 1824, and at Castine in 1826. During the last year, lie commenced practice here, having formed a co-partnership with Hon. William Crosby. From 1836 to 1849, when he retired, he was in partnership with Hon. William G. Crosby. He edited the "Waldo Democrat," and the "Republican Journal " which succeeded it, from 1827 to 1830 ; and was postmaster of Belfast from 1830 to 1841. He was the first cashier of the Waldo Bank, stablished in 1834; first President of the Bank of Commerce, in 1854; and of the Belfast Gas Company, which was organized in 1858. He is one of the Vice-Presidents of the American Telegraph Company, and for twenty years has been President of the Maine Telegraph company, whose first lines were built by James Eddy and himself. Illinois. When the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Corporation was organized on July 3, 1867, Hiram Alden was among the directors. The home was owned by Sherman English from the mid 1900s until his death in 1976. Sherman "Sherm" English (1904-1976), the son of George & Lillian English was born in Winterport. He attended Norfolk Agricultural College and Massachusetts State Agricultural College. He married Ruth Boardman in 1925 (d. 1962) and remarried in 1963 to Mary Kroesser. He operated a farm in Monroe for 20 years. He was a member of the Purebred Ayrshires Association of the State of Maine. He also served as President of the New England Poultryman's Association. he worked with the Waldo County Extension Service and was a member of the Monroe Grange. He founded Central Maine Livestock Auction in Randolph. He served as Mayor of Belfast 1948-1952.