Isaac Wheeler, Esq., and his brother-in-law, John S. Haskell, planned a visit, with their wives, to relatives in Rutland, Mass., in the autumn of 1809. Their company included one little boy of tender age for each couple. There were at that time neither roads nor carriages in the township or vicinity. The only practical alternative was to make the journey partly on horseback. The pioneers of eastern Maine did not allow trifling obstacles to deter them from the execution of cherished plans. Each couple took its one small boy onto the horse with them, making a company of six to be carried on two horses. Thus mounted, they jogged leisurely along to Winthrop. a few miles along beyond Augusta. Here they hired a two-seated carriage to which they hitched the two horses, and performed the remainder of their journey in luxuriant ease.

The return journey was accomplished in the same manner. The two boys grew to the stature of men. One of them, Reuben Wheeler, died in early manhood, esteemed by all who were favored with his acquaintance. The other, Daniel Murray Haskell. lived to a good old age, a citizen whose personal qualities were worthy of imitation by the generations that followed him.