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From: "Paula Stephens" <>
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Essex MA Query
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:47:38 -0500
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My family was friends with Gus Means when I was growing up in Essex, and my
father worked for him in the early-mid 60's when he owned a lumber yard (now
the site of the Essex Home Center). Gus retired to Florida, and I heard he
died a few years ago. My mom still sees one of his daughters now and then.

In the 1970's he owned a herd of buffalo (that's right, buffalo) which were
pastured (is that the right word for buffalo?) on a patch of his land next
to Rt. 22 just beyond County Road in Essex. It was really quite something
to drive by and see these huge creatures grazing behind a 12' high chain
link fence. The curiosity factor caused more than a few traffic accidents.
Every now and then, the local kids would open a gate in the middle of the
night, and the police would spend a couple of hours chasing stray buffalo
back into the paddock. The buffalo are long gone, and the pasture is all
grown in with trees, but the fence is still there.

Does anyone remember if there was ever a pig farm in Essex? If there was
one, it must have been in the earlier half of the 20th century.


----- Original Message -----
From: "dd" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:46 PM
Subject: RE: [MAESSEX] Essex MA Query


>
> Just did a Google search and found this entry:
>
> Augustus G. Means, of Essex, Essex County, Mass. Republican. Member of
> Massachusetts Governor's Council 5th District; elected 1958. Still living
> as
> of 1958.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:30 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Essex MA Query
>
>
> Paula,
> Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought I was told by someone that it
> was a pig farm, that was in Essex, but at any rate I am pretty sure Means
> or
> Hemenways lived in Essex, at least in the 1950's. Perhaps moving later to
> Milton
> Ma, though. So if you can simply check phone directory(if you can)for the
> name. I can''t recall given names of parents, but they had two daughters
> one
> being Roseanna.(today shes a doctor in greater Boston)
> Any help at all that would lead me to finding out more would be
> appreciated Paula, thank you for taking the time. They could have been
> wealthy,
> just don't know.
> Barbara
>
>
>


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