HISTORY OF SUCCESS, COOS COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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History of Coös County, New Hampshire by George Drew Merrill; Syracuse 
N.Y.: W.A. Fergusson & Co., 1888, 1018 pgs.
 
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SUCCESS

Success is a cold, rugged township, bounded on the north by Cambridge,
east by Maine, south by Shelburne, west by Berlin and Milan.
Area, 30,000 acres.  

It was granted February 12, 1773, to BENJAMIN MACKAY and others.
The township is owned by R.C. Pingree & Co., of Lewiston, Me.

About 1823 five families resided here in the only house, a log cabin
on Page Hill.  These were those of BENJAMIN, ABIATHAR, and LOWELL
BEAN, JOHN MESSER and ELIJAH GRIFFIN.  They were only here for a short
time, and for nearly half a century there have been scarcely any
inhabitants.  It was a great timber section, with an immense growth
of pine and spruce.  Page hill takes its name from "Yager" Page,
a hunter, who made a large clearing there in the early part of the
century.  The Narmarcungawuck and Live rivers rise here and pass
westerly into the Androscoggin.

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