Charles F. Maw, born in Nettleham, Lincolnshire, England in 1883, emigrated to Canada in 1905 with only an 8th grade education. After briefly working on farms and in forestry, he began work with the Grand Trunk Railroad in 1910 in Richmond, Quebec, and then in Coteau Junction, Quebec. Promoted to Gtr. Locomotive Foreman in 1923, he moved with his wife Ada and daughters Dorothy and Mildred to Island Pond, Vermont; their first daughter, Winnifred, who lived from 1909 to 1918, is buried in Richmond, Quebec, and a fourth daughter, Muriel Maw O'Gorman, was born in Island Pond. Maw remained locomotive foreman there until his retirement in 1953. In Brighton he held numerous civic roles, serving on the Select Board for 37 years from 1933 to 1970 and also as president of the local YMCA board, town health officer, cemetery commissioner, lay minister of the Episcopal Christ Church, Grand Master of the local Oddfellows Lodge, judge, Civic Defense chairman, president of the Island Pond Board of Trade, and a participant in many community programs and activities. He was also the primary driving force behind creating the road around the lake now known as Lakeshore Drive. Maw died in Brighton in 1970 and is buried at Lakeside Cemetery.