Dr. Elijah Dix, a substantial landowner in the area, bought the town (and Dixmont) which bears his name. He allegedly promised to establish a library if the town were named after him. Afterwards, he sent a set of old medical books and some dictionaries, to the consternation of the towns people.

His son, Joseph, lived in Hampden where his daughter, the future social reformer, Dorothea Lynde Dix was born in 1802.

From Maine: An Encyclopedia (www.themaineencyclopedia.com)