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Military Operations On The White Oak Road, Virginia, March 31, 1865, Joshua L. Chamberlain

Maine History Documents

The reminiscences of events at White Oak Road, Virginia, during the Civil War, by Brevet Major-General Joshua L. Chamberlain, Commander of the First Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac.

Burrowes Wire Screens For Windows And Doors, 1897, E. T. Burrowes Co.

Maine History Documents

A promotional piece explaining the benefits of screening doors and windows and providing information about the products of the E. T. Burrowes Company in Portland, Maine in 1897.

Falmouth Neck In The Revolution, Nathan Goold

Maine History Documents

A history of Falmouth Neck (now Portland), Maine during the Revolutionary War, prepared by the Historian of the Maine Sons of the American Revolution.

Story Of The Girls' High School Of Portland, Maine, 1850-1863, Elizabeth Mcl. Gould Rowland

Maine History Documents

A detailed account of daily life for the students at the girl's high school in Portland, Maine, as overseen by Moses Woolson. Includes lists of graduates, librarians, scholars, and a diagram of the schoolroom.

Biographical Review : This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches Of Leading Citizens Of Oxford And Franklin Counties, Maine, Biographical Review Publishing Company

Maine History Documents

In all this wide earth there is nothing else so interesting and important as human life; and the history of individual lives is recognized as, at its best, one of the most attractive and valuable forms of literature. It behooves every generation to write its own records, to leave behind its own memorials. The present volume of local biographies, carefully prepared from materials furnished by the patrons of the work, is issued by the publishers in the confident hope that it will prove satisfactory as the fulfilment of' promise and a work of permanent value. These pages treat of earnest …

Northern New England Sunday-School Assembly And Maine Chautauqua Union, Maine Chautauqua Union

Maine History Documents

The program for the Northern New England Sunday School Assembly and Maine Chautauqua Union at the "Gateway of the White Mountains," Fryeburg, Maine, August 3 - 21, 1897.

Charter And By-Laws Of The Penobscot East Branch Log Driving Company, Penobscot East Branch Log Driving Company

Maine History Documents

From the first section of the document:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Philo A. Strickland, John Morison, Cornelius Murphy, C. N. White, James F. Campbell, J. Fred Webster, Walter E. Palmer, N. C. McClausland, John Ross, Frederick H. Strickland, E. W. Conant, M. L. Jordan, I. A. Terrill, Ira B. Gardner, John Finch, J. Warren Leslie, George T. Merrill, Charles H. Dudley, Charles C. Perry and W. S. Kellogg, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby incorporated under the name of the Penobscot East Branch Log Driving Company, for the …

Biographical Review : Containing Life Sketches Of Leading Citizens Of Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, And Waldo Counties, Maine, Biographical Review Publishing Company

Maine History Documents

As its name implies, the present volume, the twentieth in our Atlantic States Series of Reviews, is made up of biographical sketches of representative citizens of Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, and Waldo Counties, its subjects being found in the ranks of the now living, or among those who have but recently passed from the scenes of their struggles and successes. Earnest workers in various fields of useful toil and high endeavor, the persons here commemorated, loyal sons and daughters of the State of Maine, have done their part, most of them being still active in furthering, each according to his several …

History Of Amity Lodge, No. 6: Free And Accepted Masons, Camden, Maine, Reuel Robinson

Maine History Documents

Believing that the interesting history of Old Amity Lodge ought, in some, way to be preserved in print, lest sometime it be lost altogether, I have ventured upon the undertaking of compiling from the Lodge records and other sources, the following history of the Lodge from the first meeting of the founders in 1799, down to the present time.

Already the records of the Lodge have passed through two terrible fires, that each time destroyed almost everything else that the Lodge possessed. They were in both instances almost miraculously saved from destruction and the Lodge still has them all intact. …