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Maine Militia Flag: 4th Regiment Of Infantry, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Maine Adjutant General
Maine Militia Flag: 4th Regiment Of Infantry, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Maine Adjutant General
Maine Bicentennial
Following Maine's separation from Massachusetts in 1820, state officials were required to return all militia flags and other ceremonial paraphernalia to Massachusetts. As a result, Maine's Adjutant General and Acting Quarter Master Samuel Cony was required to provide new flags to approximately 100 civilian militia companies across the state.
Cony devised the first-known mass production of militia flags by ordering the moose and pine tree design, originally painted by John Ritto Penniman of Boston, engraved onto a copper plate for the four-color lithographic process. The State Arms was printed twice on white silk for each flag and one print was …
Female Education, A Discourse, Delivered At The Dedication Of The Seminary Hall In Saugus, Jan. 15, 1822, To Which Is Added The Little Reckoner, Consisting Principally Of Arithmatical Questions For Infant Minds, Joseph Emerson
Maine Bicentennial
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. --Psalm 144:12 (King James Version)
The literal import of this prayer, is, that our daughters may be qualified to till with dignity, propriety and usefulness, the important stations, which they may be called to occupy. But prayer, without corresponding exertion, is presumption. We are not to expect miracles. Something must be done, in order that females may attain that dignified and elevated rank in society, for which the God of nature, as well …