Aaron Appleton Plaisted was born in Waterville, at the Asa Faunce house, foot of Main street, March 25, 1831. He is the son of Dr. Samuel and Mary (Appleton) Plaisted, his mother being a daughter of Dr. Moses Appleton. He was educated at Waterville Academy and Waterville College and was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank, in the class of 1851. He taught in Bloomfield Academy, 1851. At Shelburne Falls, (Mass.) Academy, 1852. After studying law at Harvard Law School, he became partner of Hon. Samuel Wells at Portland. From 1856 to 1858 he practiced law in Dubuque, Iowa. Returning to the East he became cashier of Ticonic Bank, continued in the same office with the Ticonic National Bank and gave to the in­stitution thirty-eight years of able and successful service. Dur­ing a part of the war period Mr. Plaisted was Assistant Collector of Internal Revenue; he has been a member of the prudential and other important committees of the College. September 23, 1856, Mr. Plaisted was united in marriage with Miss Emily Carleton Heath, daughter of Hon. Solyman Heath. Their children are, Appleton Heath, who succeeded his father as cashier of Ticonic Bank; Philip H., who has kept up the honorable record of the Plaisted drug store until 1902, when he sold out the business; Helen Florence, a successful teacher in Coburn and Waterville High school; Sheridan, who was graduated at Colby in 1886 and Emily Redington. Mr. Plaisted's long residence in Water­ville and his connection with many of the old families has enabled him to render very valuable aid to the editors of this volume. The chapter on "Early Settlers and Their Work" is from his pen.

(Source: The Centennial history of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine: including the oration, the historical address and the poem presented at the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the incorporation of the town, June 23d, 1902, Waterville: Executive Committee of the Centennial Celebration, 1902, p. 534.)