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4 GEORGE W. HAINES
The first son of J. Wingate and Mary Haines to make his livelihood as a farmer was George W. Haines. He was born on November 29, 1833, in Hallowell, Maine. After spending his first 14 years in this relatively civilized community on the Kennebec River, he joined his family as a pioneer in the northern Maine community referred to formally as Letter D Plantation and informally as Fort Fairfield in the Aroostook Valley that had fewer than 400 settlers. After working for his father on his farm in this pioneering settlement for a few years, he purchased 50 acres of land from his father and became an independent farmer.