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The Paris area was settled beginning about 1780, and the town was incorporated in 1793. Oxford County was established in 1805, and Paris was chosen as its county seat. As Paris Hill was then the civic center of the town, the county infrastructure was built there, as were the Baptist Church and the Paris Hill Academy (the latter in 1856). [2]
The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
Paris is a town in and the county seat of Oxford County, Maine, United States. Paris is included in the Lewiston-Auburn , Maine metropolitan New England City and town area. [ 2 ] The population was 5,179 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
1870 – Wickford Bank Fire, Rhode Island, destroyed 160 years of town records kept in bank vault [3] (records for what are multiple towns today such as Narragansett, North Kingstown, etc.). 1874 – Olympic Theatre destroyed by fire, killing two firefighters. Suspected arson.
However, for reasons unknown, the Advertiser officially dates itself from 1826, when Barton moved the newspaper from Paris Hill to neighboring Norway, Maine. Barton was a supporter of John Quincy Adams for president, a move which reportedly put him out of step with his Paris Hill neighbors, and even, seemingly, his own editorial staff. It is ...
Hamlin married Sarah Jane Emery of Paris Hill in 1833. Her father was Stephen Emery, who was appointed as Maine's Attorney General from 1839 to 1840. [7] Hamlin and Sarah had four children: George, Charles, Cyrus, and Sarah. [8] His wife died in 1855. The next year, Hamlin married Sarah's half-sister, Ellen Vesta Emery.