Nearly all the immigrants to the township during the first two or three years were farmers, who could build rude cabins and perform other necessary work without the aid of skilled labor. With prudent foresight they brought with them wearing apparel and other articles of prime necessity to meet immediate wants. But as time passed and numbers increased and wants multiplied, there was a demand for mechanics, and mechanics came. Two or three of this useful class of citizens came at an early date. These were followed by others in 1805. In those early days of the township the mechanic could not depend upon early constant employment at his trade. It was, therefore, the common practice for this class of men to provide themselves with land so that they might resort to the source that supplies, directly or indirectly, universal humanity with food.

John Hayes came into the township in 1805 to do the carpentry upon the house of Edward Fifield, whose daughter he subsequently married. He purchased lot ten in range two and in 1806 built a house upon it, where he lived until his death. The place where he lived is now owned and occupied by S. M. Paul.

In March of 1805, the first shoemaker made his appearance in the township in the person of Enoch Jackman, who emigrated from Salisbury, Mass. Mr. Jackman established his family upon lot eight, range six, where Landeras Grant had made a beginning two years earlier. The place was afterwards known as the Henry Calef place. No family lives there at the present time. Mr. Jackman was a faithful and accomplished workman and was regarded as a valuable acquisition to the township. Like other men of his trade he went from house to house for the families who furnished the stock, carrying his tools with him. He charged seventy-five cents for his services per dayÕs work. He was of a kindly and social disposition and his narrations of the experiences of life in the new township gathered from his lips of his patrons, ranging from the ludicrous to the pathetic, were listened to with great interest. Moreover the click of his hammer upon the old-fashioned lap[-stone was prophetic of comfort in the wintry days coming. While on a visit to the township previous to his immigration he humorously boasted that he would bring with him a shoemaker, a schoolmaster and a schoolmistress. The promised shoemaker was embraced in his own personality. Two of his daughters taught school in the old school house that stood in the corner nearly opposite the present school house in district number eight. Both were women of great physical strength, and it was venturesome youth who dared invoke their displeasure. The promised schoolmaster never appeared. Mr. Jackman had been favored with a good education for the times and possessed a remarkable memory. Tradition says of him that after listening to a sermon, although appearing to have been asleep during its delivery, he would repeat nearly the whole of it without apparent effort. Mr. Jackman lived on the Calef place only a few years. His second residence in the township was on lot nine, range ten, now owned by Henry Merrill, a carpenter and a spinning-wheel maker, moved into the township and established a home on the easterly part of lot six, range two, opposite the present residence of Glen Morgan.

To the present generation it may seen almost incredible that during the opening years of the present century, and within the memory of many now living, the yarn that entered into the clothing of the inhabitants of the Province of Maine, whether woolen, cotton or flaxen, was spun by hand on an old-fashion spinning wheel. Spinning was a widely diffused industry and the monotonous hum of the spinning-wheel was heard in every well-ordered household. The manufacturer of a spinning wheel, was, therefore, regarded as a useful citizen.

John Knight, who two years earlier had married into the Grant family, located and built upon the westerly part of lot six, range two, in 1805. The site of his house is marked by the old cellar that may still be seen a short distance east of the present residence of Albert Grinnell.

Enoch Clough, for many years a well-known citizen of Garland, came to the township in 1805.

Simon French also came the same year.