Sumner, Maine
Oxford county. This town is well watered by a branch of Androscoggin river; it has a fine soil, and produced in 1837, 7,144 bushels of wheat. It lies 44 miles W. from Augusta and 8 N. from Paris. Population, 1837, 1,190.
This town derived its name from Increase Sumner, who was governor of Massachusetts in 1798, when the town was incorporated. Gov. Sumner was a native of Roxbury, Mass. He died in 1799, aged 52 years.
