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A Child Of The Atlantic: The Maine Years Of John Brown Russwurm, Carl Patrick Burrowes Jul 2013

A Child Of The Atlantic: The Maine Years Of John Brown Russwurm, Carl Patrick Burrowes

Maine History

Celebrated in life as co-founder of America’s first black newspaper, John Brown Russwurm was the embodiment of an Atlantic Creole. Born in Jamaica to a white American father and a black Jamaican mother, as a young man Russwurm moved to North America. Throughout his teens and twenties, his “home” was southern Maine, and he was given a good secondary education there. After finishing school, Russwurm taught in several black schools in Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston. It was in these cities that he came into contact with America’s free black leaders, some of whom supported the movement to colonize …


Early Architecture And Campus Planning At The Bangor Theological Seminary, Bryant F. Tolles Jr. Sep 1989

Early Architecture And Campus Planning At The Bangor Theological Seminary, Bryant F. Tolles Jr.

Maine History

This article describes the architecture of The Bangor Theological Seminary including influences on the architecture and craftspeople who contributed to it.


Chief Justice John Appleton, David M. Gold Apr 1979

Chief Justice John Appleton, David M. Gold

Maine History

The article is a biographic essay of John Appleton, Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.