Summary
In the 1900 census for Oxbow Plantation in Aroostook County, Canadian-born William Atkins, 42, is listed as a taxidermist. The census enumerator could have gone on and on - hunter, trapper, guide and founder of sporting camps at the Millinocket Lake above what is now Baxter State Park, and at Munsungan.
Wife Susan had died a few months earlier, but their young daughter, Eldora, resided with Atkins in 1900, as did boarders Samuel and Abiah Sargent.See the full content of this document
Extract
Munsungan Book Rounds Up Early Families
For a photo of Will Atkins, hand-in-hand with his little girl, standing before a row of log cabins on Millinocket Lake, turn to Page 58 of Jack Ahern's "Bound for Munsungan: The History of the Early Sporting Camps of Northern Maine."
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