{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3347", "width": "1953", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "55^?\\n^oV\\n^^-V.,\\n,0\\n^o.^-\\nA\\nO M O", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "x\\\\\\nA\\n-_v \u00e2\u0080\u00a2-^P\\n0\u00c2\u00b0 -i^:\\n1^ -.V- i\\nV\\nvJa 5X rvW ^ck vi vP T\\n.0^\\n0^^\\no V\\n,^0", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Piscataquis Biography\\nAND FRAGMENTS\\nBY\\nJOHN FRANCIS SPRAGUE\\nBANGOR\\nCHAS. H. GLAS.S CO., PRINTERS\\n1 890", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "T WO COPIES RECEIVED\\nLibrary of Geiigpets^\\nOffice of the\\n0- 5 iPQn\\nRegister of Copyrights,\\n49908\\n(,i tj)iilht. ISil .l\\nnil\\nJOII.X FliAXCIS SPBAGUE\\nSECOND COPY,", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "TO THE REV. GEORGE ALLEN MATTHEW.S, OF AUBURNDALE,\\nMASSACHl-SETTS, WHOSE KINDNESS TO ME WHILE\\nSTRUGGLING IN THE MIRE OF MISFORTUNE AND\\nGROPING IN THE DARKNESS OF UTTER DESPAIR\\nSAVED ME FROM A POSSIBLE FATE THAT I\\nDO NOT NOW DARE TO CONTEMPLATE,\\nTHIS UNASSUMING VOLUME IS\\nMOST AFFECTIONATELY AND\\nSINCERELY DEDICATED\\nBY THE AUTHOR.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Oy there are voices of the Past,\\nLhiks of a broken eliaiu\\nWi7igs that can bear nic back to times\\nWhich camiot come again\\nc God forbid that I should lose\\nThe echoes that retnai?i I", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "AUTHOR S NOTES.\\nThe rank is but the o-uiiiea s stamp\\nA inairs a man for a that.\\nTwiCE-TOivD Tale.s would be an appropriate title to\\nmuch that herein appears, some of it having previously been\\npublished in the publications of the Maine Historical Society,\\nin the Maine Sportsman and other journals, and some are\\nmemorial proceedings in our courts as they have appeared\\nfrom time to time in the Piscataquis Observer and other local\\npapers. It is a partial history of some who have been distin-\\nguished in public life in the Pine Tree State, and who have\\nabided in Piscataquis County and helped to make its historj^\\nduring a generation that is rapidly passing from earthly view.\\nThey were men of strong personalities and have made an\\nindelible impress upon the community. With the exception\\nof what is said of Hiram Stevens Maxim, the subjects of\\nthese sketches have all departed the scenes of this life and\\nentered upon that\\nSleep that no pahi shall wake.\\nTo prepare tlie.se brief stories of the.se men s lives for\\npreservation in a more permanent form has been the object\\nof the writer. They were nearly all my friends and as.sociates\\nwhen in earth life and this has been to me a pleasant though\\nsomewhat sad duty.\\nJ. F. S.\\nMoNSON, Maine.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "V\\n%j\\n(0NTENT8\\nL.Hi\\nW\\nAuthor s Notks iii\\nHenry Hudson 3\\nJames Stuart irouMES 7\\nFrank A. Hart i:^\\nAugustus Gardner Lebroke lit\\nCharles A. Everett 27\\nJames Sullivan Wiley 37\\nEphraim Flint 8ii\\nCyrus A. Packard 45\\nJoseph Darling Brown 41)\\nAlexander M. Roiunson 59\\nThomas Davee 67\\nLouis Annance 71\\nLeonard Hilton 77\\nAdams Huse Merp.ili 81\\nSumner A. Patten S3\\nHiram Stevens Maxim 85\\nCaptain Thomas Robinson 91\\nFragments\\nA Court House Dedication 93\\nChief Ju\u00c2\u00abitiee Appletoii as a Sel\u00c2\u00bbec r a\\\\vver 94\\nAlexander Greemvood 94\\nHannibal Hauilin as a Piscataquis Piscatof 95\\nPiscataiiuis in the Constitutional Convention 97\\nThe Million Acres 97\\n111 Memory of a Docj 99\\nOur Silent Wards 100", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "HENRY HUDSON.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "HENRY HUDSON.\\nHenry Hudson was born in Canaan, N. H., October 20,\\n1824, and died while on a visit to his native town, Jnne 24,\\n1877. He was admitted to membership in the Piscataquis\\nCounty Bar in June, 1849. Having previous!}- settled in\\nGuilford, he was in active practice there until within a short\\ntime of his decease. Guilford was then onl}- a small and\\nunimportant town. To-day it is one of the largest and most\\nactive business centers in the Piscataquis Valle}-, with large\\nmanufacturing interests, a National Bank, two newspapers,\\nand many other substantial evidences of thrift and progress.\\nThe first seeds of its prosperity were planted through the\\nenergy and determination of Mr. Hudson, for he was not\\nonly an able attorney, but a shrewd, far-seeing and broad-\\nminded business man as well. The advent of the Bangor and\\nPiscataquis Railroad, since absorbed in the Bangor and\\nAroostook System, was the beginning of Guilford s advance-\\nment, and it was almost entirely through the efforts of Mr.\\nHudson that Guilford obtained the excellent railway facili-\\nties which she has ever since enjoyed.\\nThe Biographical Review of Bo.ston, Vol. 29, page 158,\\nsays of him: For years he sustained the reputation of a\\nleading lawyer in this (Piscataquis) County. He was active\\nand industrious, displaying much energ}- and ambition. His\\nextensive practice made him a well-known figure in the\\ncourts of Piscataquis and Penobscot counties, where he\\nfought many hotly contested cases. The income of his busi-\\nness enal)led him to ac(|uire a large estate.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "4 PI.SCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nA Democrat of the most pronounced type, he sincerely\\nbelieved the fundamental principles of his party to be the\\nmost substantial basis of a liberal republic, and he made his\\ninfluence felt in both the county and state organizations.\\nHe was frequently chosen to attend district and state conven-\\ntions and was a delegate to the National Convention held in\\nNew York in 1868. The connnunity had the advantages of\\nhis services in the capacity of town agent for several years.\\nHe married Emily F. Martin, who was born in luilford,\\nMaine, May 13, 1831, daughter of the late Addi.son and\\nLydia (Otis) Martin. Her father, who was a pioneer mer-\\nchant and a prominent citizen of Guilford, died in 1876.\\nHer mother, who was a relative of General O. O. Howard of\\nthe United States Army, was killed by lightning July 5,\\n1842. The children of Henry Hudson, Sr., ami his wife\\nwere Henr}-, now an active business man and a leading\\nattorney of the county; Micajah and James, both of whom\\nare now and have for several years been in public life and\\nare merchants in Guilford.\\nAt the time of his death the writer of these lines, in one\\nof the local papers said of Mr. Hudson Many of his argu-\\nments in court were of such a character as to entitle him to a\\nhigh position among the ablest and most eloquent law3 ers in\\nMaine. His integrity was never doul)ted among his friends,\\nclients and associates. There are but few instances among\\nbusiness men where any one ever observed all verbal agree-\\nments more strictly and sacredly than Mr. Hudson. He was\\never the friend of the poor man, appreciated and realized his\\nwants and was noted throughout his life for his sympathy\\nand material assistance to mau}^ who were never able to\\nrepay him, and often tried causes in court for such without\\nhope of reward or remuneration. To a friend he was always\\ntrue. As a comi)anion he was genial, cordial and warm-\\nhearted, his manner always pleasing and attractive. His\\nwas one of those ])ositive, daring natures, which is certain to\\nmake its mark in any age of the world and upon any quarter\\nof the globe.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMKNTS. 5\\nAt the September Term (1877), of the vSupreme Court held\\nat Dover, the following resolutions, adopted by the members\\nof the bar, were read to the Court by Ephraim Flint, where-\\nupon the Court responded, and ordered the resolutions to be\\nplaced on the records of the court\\nL r.^n/red: That by the deatli of our lanieuted brother, Henry Hudson\\nEsq., the people of this county have lost an eneroetle and useful citizen,\\nand this bar a successful lawyer and wise counselor, distinouislicd for\\nhis devotion and zeal to the cause of Ins clients; and that this bar will\\ncliensh in tlieir remembrance his noble and generous qualities of heart.\\nll, sf IrM: That the .Secretary of this Bar, transmit a copy of these\\nresolutions to the family of the deceased, and that Bis Honor, the\\nJud.o-e. be requested to order them placed on the records of tliis court.\\nIn the convention of 18G8, above referred to, Mr. Hudson s\\ncolleague from the Fourth Congressional District was the late\\nMarcellus F:mery of Bangor. Richard D. Rice, Samuel J.\\nAnderson, David R. Hastings and James C. Madigan were the\\ndelegates-at-large from Maine in this convention.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "JAMES STUART HOLMES.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "JAMES STUART HOLMES,\\nTHK riONKKK r.AWVKK OF PISCATAQUIS COUNTY\\nJames Stuart Holmes was the second law^^er to com-\\nmence the practice of the profession in that part of Maine\\nthat is now Piscataquis county. Although one other lawyer,\\nDavid Aigrey, had preceded him by a few months at Sebec,\\nyet as Mr. Aigrey remained here but a short time before he\\nwent to a Western State, Mr. Hohnes may well be denomin-\\nated the pioneer of the profession in this (Piscataquis)\\ncount3^\\nHe was born November lo, in the year 1792, in what was\\nat that date the town of Hebron, now Oxford, in the county\\nof Oxford, that portion having been set of^ into a new town\\nin 1829. His father was Captain James Holmes, a native of\\nPlymouth, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who\\nmarried Miss Jerusha Rawson of Sutton, Massachusetts, and\\nsoon afterward moved to the district of Maine. James Stuart\\nwas the eldest of nine children, eight sons and one daughter.\\nThe Holmeses claim to have descended from the Stuart\\nroyal famil} of I{ngland. James bojdiood and early j-outh\\nwere passed on his father s farm among the hills of Oxford,\\nwhich have produced .so large an array of noted and talented\\nmen. He attended the town schools and Hebron Academy\\nuntil he was thoroughl} prepared for college. He graduated\\nfrom Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, in the\\nyear 1819. He was a classmate of Horace Mann, the dis-\\ntinguished educator, and for man} years he held correspond-\\nence with him. He immediately entered the law office of the", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "8 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY ANIJ FRAGMENTS.\\nHonorable Enoch lyincoln, afterward a Representative in\\nCongress and Governor of the State. Mr. lyincohi was then\\na practicing lawyer at Paris Hill. He remained here four\\n3-ears pursuing his legal .studies, varied only by occasional\\nvisits to Portland, where he was the guest and friend of\\nHonorable vStephen Longfellow, a distinguished lawyer and\\npolitician of that time, but now especially remembered as the\\nfather of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, America s eminent\\npoet. At this time he enjoyed the acquaintance and friend-\\nshi]i of the future author of Evangeline. In 1878,\\na little more than a year before his death, Mr. Holmes\\nvisited the poet at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts,\\nand then these old and long parted friends revived and lived\\nover again the recollections of by-gone days.\\nIn 1822, after admission to the Bar, he settled in the new\\ntown of Foxcroft, in what was then Penobscot County, on\\nthe northerl}^ bank of the Piscataquis River, where his two\\nIjrothers, vSalmon and Cyrus, had preceded him in 1818. He\\nhere opened a law office and commenced the practice of his\\nprofession. In the autumn of the same year he opened and\\ntaught a high school for one term, which was incorporated\\nthe next winter (1823) by the Legislature as Foxcroft\\nAcademy with a small grant of land. This is a successful\\nschool today and a monument of honor to its founder. He\\nwas a member of its original board of trustees and served\\nwithout interruption until his decease. He always took great\\ninterest in this institution of learning and never, until the\\nlast year of his life, when he had become too feeble from age\\nand disea.se, had he failed to attend an academical examina-\\ntion of the .students and seldom any meeting of the board of\\ntrustees.\\nFrom the time of his fir.st entering upon his profession\\nto about the years 1888 or 1839 he had an extensive\\nand lucrative practice, though directly in competition with\\nsuch men, eminent for legal learning as well as for forensic\\ntalent, as Honorable John Appleton, afterward Chief Justice,\\nGorham Parks, Jonathan P. Rogers, Jacob McGaw, Albert", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "PISCATAOUIvS HIOGKAPHY AN]:) FRAGMKNTS. 9\\nG. Jewett and others at that period who were all intellectual\\ngiants, 5-et he was regarded as the peer of the ablest. For a\\ntime he was a law partner with the Honorable James vS.\\nWiley, at one time a Representative in Congress from this\\ndistrict.\\nThe organization of the new county of Piscataquis pro-\\nduced radical changes in the legal business in this region\\nand the fraternit} as well. It introduced new men with new\\nmethods and narrowed the field of labor. From this time\\nonward his practice declined until he entirely disappeared\\nfrom the scenes of a former active life and his retirement\\nbecame permanent. The late Joseph D. Brown of Foxcroft,\\nand a former member of the Piscataquis Bar, was a contem-\\nporary with Mr. Holmes. During his lifetime I addressed\\na letter to Mr. Brown, asking him for information in regard to\\nMr. Holmes, and in his reply to me he says:\\nI well remember a remarkable scene in the year 18413, in\\nwhich he (Holmes) was an active participant. The Adven-\\nti.sts or followers of William Miller were numerous in the\\nneighboring town of Atkinson. Their preaching of the\\nsecond coming of Christ was deemed a heres}- by leading-\\ncitizens and members of other churches. Some of these\\ncitizens who opposed the Millerites went to Dover and insti-\\ntuted legal proceedings against Israel Damon and several\\nothers who were preachers and leaders in the Miller faith,\\nunder the vagrant act. In the old church on the hill they\\nwere arraigned before Moses Scott, a justice of the peace.\\nWithout pecuniar}^ compensation Mr. Holmes volunteered\\nhis services for the defen.se. For four days the court room\\nwas crowded with people. During the whole time there was\\na succession of pra^-ing, singing of hynuis, plaintive and\\nexhilarating, as only the old-style Millerites could sing,\\nshouting, jeers, groans and applause, but above all these,\\noccasional distracting sounds, could l)e heard Mr. Holmes\\neloquent argument for religious freedom and toleration, and\\nthe right of every person to worship God according to the\\ndictates of his own conscience, under his own vine and fig", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "10 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\ntree. At the close of the trial the prisoners were promptly\\ndivScharged.\\nAt that time he had lost none of his earh- vigor and the\\nfire of his oratory had not grown dim. I remember it as one\\nof the grandest defenses of religions toleration and freedom\\nthat it has ever been my pleasure to listen to or read of.\\nHe was also one of the earliest in this county to join the\\norder of Free Masons. Soon after he came to Foxcroft he\\nwas made a Mason by Penobscot Lodge, then of Garland,\\nnow of Dexter. At that time the highway s were impassable\\nfor carriages, and he, in compan}- with Honorable C. P.\\nChandler, used to make the journey, a distance of ten miles,\\non horseback, to attend the meetings of the lodge. This\\nwas before there was any lodge in this section. vSubsequently\\nhe was instrumental in starting Mosaic Lodge at Foxcroft,\\nin 1826, and was one of its charter members. He was its\\nfirst master after the reorganization of the same in 1845.\\nThe only civil office, other than municipal, that he ever\\nheld, was that of chairman of the board of county commis-\\nsioners for Piscataquis Count^^ to which he was appointed by\\nGovernor Edward Kent, in 18o8. He served on the board of\\nschool committee for many years, and was alvva^ S dee])ly\\ninterested in all things pertaining to education. Religiousl}\\nhe was a liberal, though he affiliated with the Universalists.\\nIn 1838 he united in marriage with Jane S. Patten, and a\\nfamily of six sons and one daughter were the fruits of this\\nunion. Three of his sons died in early manhood. Politi-\\ncally he was first a National Republican, then a Whig and\\nlater a Republican, with which party he always after voted.\\nAs a National Republican he sui)i)orted the administration of\\nJohn Ouincy Adams. He hated Andrew Jackson, and loved\\nHenry Cla3^ as the men of that day loved and hated these\\ngreat leaders. At the State election of 1879, although\\nfeeble and in a dying state, he insisted on being carried to\\nthe polls to cast, as he termed it, his last vote for freedom.\\nHe died peacefulh- at his home in Foxcroft, December oO,\\n1871). He was a natural scholar and continued to cultivate a", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 11\\nclassical taste, reading Latin and Greek to the close of his\\nlife. His books were his constant and loved companions,\\nand during- his later years he sought their compan}^ more\\nthan at any other part of his life, and was found among them\\noftener than among the haunts of men.\\nFor much of the data contained in this paper I am\\nindebted to the late Joseph D. Brown, Esq., of Foxcroft,\\nbefore mentioned. I also herewith append the following\\nextract from an article written by the late Honorable\\nAugustus G. Lebroke of Foxcroft, which was published in\\nthe Piscataquis Observer, January 15, 1880:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.Mr. Holmes was a lawyer of tlie old scliool, educated at a time\\nwlien special pleadings with all their exactions aud subtleties were in\\nfull vogue. (Quackery in active law practice was then next to impossible.\\nHe had at (tne time, and especially before 1888, up to which time this\\ncounty was a part of Penobscot, a larger aud more lucrative practice\\nthau any other lawyer ever had here.\\nlie was successful in the proper sense of the term, among such\\ndistinguished contemporaries as John Appleton, Edward Kent, Cutting,\\nKellej Orr, Longfellow, Greeuleaf, Fesseuden the elder and others,\\nwhose names make illustrious tlie pages of our jurisprudence. Mr.\\nHolmes legal knowledge was not the reflection from interior minds.\\nHe sought learning from the maxims of the civil law, IJoman jurispru-\\ndence and from the great masters of the profession on the continent as\\nwell as from those great moulders and architects of the English law,\\nLittleton, oke and l acon and, later, IJlackstone, Mansfield, Ellen-\\nborough and others. He sought for priuci])les and disliked empiricism.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "FRANK A. HART.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "FRANK A. HART.\\nAt the February Term (1888), of the Supreme Court at\\nDover, Charles A. Everett, President of the Piscataquis Bar,\\naddressed the Court, and in appropriate remarks alhided\\nto the death of one of its members, Frank A. Hart, who had\\ndeparted from this life since the last term of that Court. He\\nreferred feelingly to his past life and labors, and informed the\\nCourt that a committee selected by the Bar had prepared\\nresolutions in honor of his memory.\\nHenry Hudson of Guilford then spoke as follows:\\nMay it Pi^ease the Court: Since the last term of this\\nCourt, a sad bereavement has fallen upon us in the death of\\none of the youngest members of this Bar. Brother Frank A.\\nHart passed quietly away in November last, at the home of\\nhis parents in Willimantic. It was little thought at the last\\nterm of Court that our ranks were so soon to be thinned by\\ndeath and least of all was it thought that Brother Hart was\\nto be the one. At that time he was apparently in good\\nhealth. Although from birth he suffered from phj sical\\ninfirmities, yet he always enjoyed good bodily health. But a\\nfatal malady must have been insidiously undermining his\\nsystem.\\nBrother Hart was born in Willimantic. His father has\\nlong resided in that place. Although suffering from pln^si-\\ncal infirmities, such as would have deterred a less courageous\\nand energetic person, he earl} manifested a disposition and\\ndesire to obtain an education and make his mark in the\\nworld. His father s circumstances were such that he could\\nnot render that assistance that he would have wished. But\\nthis did not discourage or deter Brother Hart from his pur-\\npose. With that energy and zeal which ever characterized", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "14 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nhim, he set to work, and how well he accomplished the task,\\nhis life, although brief, well illustrated. He was always\\ncheerful, alwa3 s saw something to accomplish, and was never\\ndiscouraged even under adverse circumstances. He sup-\\nported all progressive enterprises, he was broad and liberal\\nin his views, and a strong advocate of all that would improve\\nthe advantages of the common people. Life is dear to all.\\nIt is hard for those who have accomplished life s work to die\\nbut it is still harder for those who are just entering upon the\\nstage of action and have their life work to perform, to be\\nstricken by death. This is especially true in the case of\\nBrother Hart. He had arrived at that point in liis life where\\nas he expressed it to me, only a few months before his death,\\nHe could see his way through. But whether we would or\\nnot, the inevitable nu:st be submitted to. Who can say that\\nthis life though brief was not worth living? Is it not worthy\\nof enuilation by those who with more favorable opportunities\\nbecome tlisheartened and fail to make the most of that with\\nwhich God has endowed them? At the request of my\\nBrothers Peaks and Sprague, who were appointed with me as\\na committee of the Bar to draft resolutions, I offer the\\nfollowing\\nWiiKitKAS The iiieiiihers of the lMse;it:iquis r ar (le^iire to record tlieh-\\nappreciatiou of the character and ability of oui- deceased brother-, Fraidv\\nA. Hart, who was a member of this Bar, and also express our deep\\nsense of the loss sustained by this I ar as well as by his relatives and\\nfriends. Therefore,\\nlitsiilri d: That in his death there has been taken from the Bar, one\\nwho was ever mindful for the interests of his clients, active in all pro-\\ns ressive enteri^rises, courteous and genial to all, zealous iu whatever he\\nundertook, amlntious to succeed iu life and a striking illustration of\\nwhat can t)e accomplished by will and perseverance; and tliat, his life\\nunder advei se circumstances, although brief, is worthy of emulation.\\nIh sdlri d That the members of this Bar extend to his parents their\\nsynipntliy in the loss of so worthy a sou.\\nJicsolrcd: That these resolutions be entered on the records of this\\ncourt and a copy be transmitted by tlie clerk to his parents.\\nIIenuv Hudson, Committee\\nJ. F. SruAGUE, I of\\nJ. H. Peaks. J the Bar.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 15\\nA. G. Lebroke of Foxcroft, moved to second the resolutions\\nand spoke briefly. He felt that the memorial services were\\nver} appropriate and was glad that the venerable President of\\nthe Bar Association, Hon. C. A. Everett, was present to pre-\\nside, and that the production of the resolutions had been com-\\nmitted to so able hands as Brother Hudson and his associates.\\nMr. L. said that it might seem sometimes on occasions of\\nthis kind that out of an abundance of charity and by guid-\\nance of the maxim that we should say nothing except good\\nconcerning the dead, the virtues of those departed might be\\nextolled while their faults might be lightly passed. But\\nwhile listening to the resolutions he thought all the words in\\nrelation to our deceased brother, Frank A. Hart, .so well\\nexpressed, were absolutely and in sacred truth, richl)^\\ndeserved.\\nMr. Hart in all things was most diligent and faithful. His\\nobservance of truth under all circumstances never deviated\\nnor faltered. His physical infirmity, the speaker had at first\\nthought, might be an objection to his stud}- and practice of\\nlaw. But during the two 3 ears study in the office of him-\\n.self and Mr. Parsons, Mr. Hart so patiently and gracefully\\nbore his own afflictions that nobody ever thought of being\\nannoyed therein He was enthusiastic in his support of\\nreligious and educational work. He had a keen appreciation\\nof the present and a full hope of the future. To him there\\nwas a reality in the expression\\nLife is real, life is earnest,\\nAnd the grave is not its goal\\nDnst thou art, to dust returnest,\\nWas not spoken of the soul.\\nMr. Hart was laudably ambitious and if Providence had\\nvouchsafed to him the allotted years of life, he would\\nundoubtedly have risen high in his chosen profession. He\\nloved life and for himself might say\\nFor who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,\\nThis pleasing, anxious being e er resigned\\nIjeft the warm precincts of the cheerful day,\\nNoi cast one longing, lingering l()()k behind.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "IT) PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nHis life was an honor to his name and a legac}^ of good\\nfame to our fraternity.\\nJ. Ij. Peaks of Dover then spoke as follows;\\nMay it Please the Court I was not .so well acquainted\\nwith Brother Hart as were some of the other members of the\\nBar, but he had one characteristic which alwaj s impressed\\nitself upon me with great force. I allude to his enthusiasm.\\nHe had great enthusiasm in everN-thing he did. He was an\\nenthusiastic student. He was enthusiastic in educational\\nmatters. He had great enthusiasm in his religious views.\\nIn fact, his whole soul seemed filled with enthusiasm, and I\\nhave often thought that had he been an able-bodied man, his\\nenthusiasm would have led him into the service of his\\ncountry. Because I believe that the bravest deeds of brave\\nmen were performed b\\\\^ the force of enthusiasm. As a\\nmember of the committee I have subscribed to the resolu-\\ntions. As a member of the Bar, I agree with the spirit of\\nthe resolutions, and what has been said by ni}^ brothers here.\\nJ. F. Sprague upon that occasion, among other things,\\nsaid: We who suffer from physical disability are too apt\\nto be imbued with the spirit which inspired lyord Byron, who\\nwas himself crippled and who in the Deformed Trans-\\nformed, from the bitterness of his heart exclaimed:\\n1 have no horae, no kin.\\nNo kind uot made like (jther creatures,\\nTo share their sports or pleasures.\\nIt is often so with such who are thus unfortunate.\\nFrankly I can say that I speak somewhat from personal\\nexperience, as well as from observation when I aver this.\\nThe strong have no conception of the dark world of misery\\nin which many of the weak continually dwell, yet such was\\nnot the case with our late brother; his misfortunes which\\nwould have embittered other lives and made other natures\\ngloomy and cynical did not affect him in this manner. It", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 17\\nwas never for a single moment a shadow .upon liis spirit.\\nHe loved the world and enjoj ed life, and believed in man-\\nkind just as easil} and just as naturally as though he had no\\nburden of this kind to carr\\\\- he never thought for a moment\\nwith Byron that\\nThe veiy waters mock mo,*\\nbut his views of life were philosophical and sensible and\\nentirely free from repinings and murmurings.\\nJudge Virgin presided and responded to the remarks made\\nby the members of the Bar appropriately and ordered the\\nresolutions spread upon the records of the court.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "AUGUSTUS GARDNER LEBROKE", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "AUGUSTUS GARDNER LEBROKE.\\nAugustus Gardner IvEbroke, for three decades, was a\\nprominent personage in the affairs of Piscataquis county, and\\nduring nearly all of the time was identified with the\\nhivStory of Maine, as a leading member of the dominant\\npolitical party, as an able lawyer, as a legislator and public\\nspeaker of wide fame, in state and national political\\ncampaigns.\\nHe was born in Paris, Maine, February 9, 1823. His\\nfather was Jacob lycbroke, who married Martha Foster, of\\nthe same famil} as is the Honorable Enoch Foster of Bethel,\\nformerly one of the justices of the Supreme Court of this\\n.state, and now a leading lawyer in the city of Portland.\\nJacob lycbroke was the son of James La Brook, who was a\\nnative of France and came to this country in the fleet of war\\nvessels sent here during the American Revolution b}^ the\\ngovernment of FVance. At the close of the war he settled in\\nPembroke, Massachusetts, and afterwards migrated to\\nHebron in the province of Maine, finally settling in Paris.\\nJames La Brook s wife was a Gardner, one of whose familj^\\nhas since been Governor of the Commonwealth of Massa-\\nchusetts. The family name was gradually changed to\\nLebroke the early records give it both as La Brook and\\nLebroke. About the year 1828 Jacob Lebroke with his\\nfamily moved to the new town of Foxcroft, in what is now\\nPiscataquis count}^ and was among its earliest settlers.\\nThe subject of this sketch began the battle of life when a\\nboy, with tlie same vigor and energy that characterized him\\nin all of his later years. His youth was subject to the hard-\\nships and privations which were a necessary part of the life", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "20 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nof all pioneers of eavStern Maine. He labored in the cedar\\nswamps, cutting trees and shaving shingles winters, and\\nworked in his father s fields summers, and yet he found time\\nto attend the common schools which are the nurser}^ of\\nMaine s intelligence and learning. He readil} became the\\nmaster of all that w^as then taught in his town school, and\\ngraduated with honors at the Foxcroft Academy. Before\\nattaining the age of maturity he entered upon a successful\\ncareer as a school teacher in his own and neighboring towns.\\nAt other times he served as clerk in stores. He commenced\\nthe study of law with the late Honorable James S. Holmes of\\nFoxcroft and completed his studies with two eminent lawyers\\nin Bangor, Honorable C. P. Chandler and Honorable Albert\\nW. Paine.\\nIn 1849, when the gold fever raged in the Eastern States,\\nhe went to California but remained there less than two years.\\nFebruary 20, 1857, he w^as admitted to the bar in Dover, to\\npractice in the courts of Maine, and inunediately entered\\nupon the practice of his profession in Foxcroft village, and\\nremained there until the grim messenger silenth^ summoned\\nhim from his labors in the twilight hours of the nineteenth\\nday of July, in the year 1889. He at once attained a high\\nposition as a counsellor; he was cautious and prudent. He\\nfully canvassed his opponent s position, while he readily\\ncomprehended all the difficulties of his clients. His profes-\\nsional zeal and industry were seldom if ever surpassed by\\nany in the profession. His client s cause was his own cause,\\nto the fullest degree. He loved the law, its intricacies, its\\nhistory, and its traditions captivated his mind. Nothing in\\nthis world fascinated him as nuich as a legal problem. While\\nhe was always deeply interested in all the political questions\\nof the day and discussed them with great ardor, while he\\nwas a devotee of literature and philosophy, while agricul-\\ntural subjects at times arrested his attention, and while he\\nwas ever active in promoting progress in his town and\\ncounty, all of these were subordinate to his devotion to the", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 21\\nlaw. As an advocate before juries and courts, his masterly\\neloquence made him eminently successful.\\nIn religious beliefs Mr. Lebroke was in the best and\\nhighest sense of the term a free thinker. Although as to the\\ninnumerable speculative creeds relating to the religions of\\nmen, he was an agnostic, yet his faith in God and in a future\\nlife was steadfast and unwavering.\\nPoliticall)^ Mr. Lebroke was a Republican. He made his\\ndebut in the political arena at a most important epoch in the\\nhistory of this nation. While incipient war in the new-made\\nterritories was shaking the ver}- foundations of our govern-\\nment, when the contest between freedom and slaver}^ was at its\\nheight he entered the conflict and soon became a power in the\\nstrife. During the excitements and intensity of the Kansas\\nperiod he very quickl}^ earned the fame for forensic ability\\nwhich remained his until the day of his death, which avowed\\nhim as the peer of the greatest orators that this State has\\nproduced, and which easily gave him an equal footing with\\nthe many public speakers of national fame of that remarka-\\nble time.\\nHe helped form the Republican party. His services as an\\nadvocate of its principles were ever sought after, and his\\nvoice has been heard in its behalf, not only in his own but in\\nmany other vStates of the Union. He was born an aboli-\\ntionist. His very nature made him hate slaverj-. He could\\nno more have espoused the cause of the slave-master than he\\ncould have defended the inquisition. He S3anpathized deeply\\nwith every living creature that was oppressed. Man s\\ninhumanity to man was no less abhorrent in his eyes than\\nhis cruelty to any other living thing of God s fair earth.\\nNone of his proniinent characteristics were more marked or\\nmore universally understood b} all his friends than this one.\\nThese sentiments were a part of his being it was, therefore,\\nl^ut natural that he should early battle for the rights of man.\\nOnly once did he deviate from the beaten course marked\\nout by the national leaders of this great political organiza-\\ntion. When the rupture in the party between President", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "22 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nGrant and Horace Greeley, Charles vSumner and others\\noccurred he voted for and supported Mr. Greeley for Presi-\\ndent he subsequently returned to his first affiliations and his\\nvalued services were properly recognized.\\nIn 1858, he was elected a member of the Maine Legisla-\\nture for the session of 1859. Although he had then been\\na member of the bar less than two years he was a member of\\nthe committee on legal affairs and took a prominent part in\\nthe labors and debates of this session he was associated\\nwith and met in public discussion such eminent men as James\\nG. Blaine, William H. McCrillis, Frederick A. Pike, Neal\\nDow and Ephraim K. vSmart. Again, in 1871, he was a\\nmember of the House, serving with marked ability, and\\nbeing a member of the judiciary committee. For ten con-\\nsecutive years he w^as county attorney, and unusually\\nsuccessful as such for twenty-five years, with the exception\\nof one year, he was the agent or law officer of the town of\\nhis residence. He had also done service as a member of the\\nRepublican, state and other political committees.\\nIn 1882 he was elected a member of the vState Senate and\\nre-elected in 1884, serving through the sessions of 1883 and\\n1885: he was a member of the judiciary connnittee at each\\nsession and its chairman in 1883. As a legislator he was no\\nless eminent than as a law3 er.\\nDuring his last term as vSenator it was the writer s good\\nfortune to enjoy the privilege of his daily association, his\\nintimacy and his counsels. His brilliant talents, his wonder-\\nful power in debate, his remarkable faculty in the use of\\nlanguage, his well-founded knowledge of legal principles,\\nhis practical knowledge of the world, his marked originality\\nand unique mode of expression, together with his genial and\\npleasant manners and forceful and impressive personality,\\nmade him an attractive feature in Maine s halls of legisla-\\ntion, and added materially to his influence and position while\\na member. Honorable Josiah Crosby of Dexter, in an article\\npublished in the Eastern State shortly after the decease of\\nMr. Lebroke, in speaking of him, said", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. J.)\\nSo great was his natural talent for extempore speaking,\\nand so much had he improved it by cultivation and practice,\\nthat it was reall}^ much easier for him to make a good oral\\nargument or speech upon any public occasion than to read a\\nwritten argument, though well prepared. In his last argu-\\nment delivered at the law court, he had a well-constructed\\nprinted argument in his hands but paid no attention to it iii\\nthe delivery, and really made a better argument than the\\npreviously printed one, though written with much care.\\nOn October 9, 1889, when the Supreme Court was con-\\nvened at Dover, Chief Justice John A. Peters presiding,\\nJoseph D. Brown, Alexander M. Robinson and Kphraim\\nFlint having been chosen as a committee of the Piscataquis\\nBar for the purpose, presented resolutions in respect of the\\nmemor} of Mr. Lebroke. I subjoin the following extracts\\nfrom the tributes offered by the members of the Bar on this\\noccasion.\\nMr. Joseph D. Brown said:\\nWhile he was a member of the Senate in 1883, the revis-\\nion of the .statutes was completed, and the book as now in\\nuse, bears the impress of his hand and mind. The vigilance\\nwith which the rights and interests of his constituents were\\nguarded and the favoring acts of the lyCgislature are known\\nand appeciated by all intelligent citizens of the county.\\nThe Honorable Alexander M. Robinson said\\nHe was emphatically a self-made man. Possessing more\\nof genius than of talent, I think he was generously endowed\\nby the hand of Nature with both these choicest of intellectual\\ngifts. The French blood in his veins, inherited from his father,\\npredominated, and he was born a polemic controversialist.\\nDuring his services as a legislator, he was uniformly placed\\non the judiciary committee, and at one session was its chair-\\nman, and there was probabl}^ no member of the profession in\\nthe state more familiar with its statutes than Mr. Lebroke.\\nHis official duties as County Attorne}^ were ably performed", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "24 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nand he was as clannislil}^ lo3 al to the rights and interests of\\nthe town of his adoption as was ever a Highlander to his\\nnative heath in the da^^s of Montrose or Tyochiel.\\nThe style of his advocacy was apt to be florid and rhetori-\\ncal but his cajDacions memory and masterl} command of the\\nEnglish tongue made him always an attractive speaker and\\noften an impressive and successful advocate.\\nHis arguments to the jury were often enlivened by wit and\\nsatire, weapons always ready at hand, which he wielded with\\nthe skill of a master. Like most men of his temperament,\\nhe jDlaced a high estimate on his own achievements, was fret-\\nfull}^ impatient of criticism, fond of flattery and covetous of\\npraise, characteristics not objectionable at all when held\\nwithin proper Ijounds. Kind hearted and largely sympa-\\nthetic, in his fitful moods he was easily moved to laughter or\\ntears.\\nThe writer of these lines at that time said\\nI was intimately and closel}- acquainted with the\\ndeceased since I was first admitted to the Bar, some fourteen\\nyears ago, but my earliest recollection of him dates back\\nyears before that. It was when I was a small boy and\\nduring the exciting Kansas episode in our national politics.\\nIn company with several men and boj-s, I went one\\nevening to the town house in Sangerville, and for\\nthe first time saw Mr. lycbroke and listened to one of\\nhis speeches. The scene is vividly impressed upon ni}\\nmind within the grim walls, dimly lighted by tlie old\\noil lamps, was a large crowd of people, man}- of them\\nopposed to the speaker in their political sentiments and\\nyet he swayed them as the wind sways the leaves upon\\nthe forest trees I saw strong men weep when he eloquently\\npainted the wrongs and oppressions of the colored men and\\nrecited the cruelties of border-ruffianism. I shall never\\nforget the scene.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "PIvSCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 25\\nHonorable Willis E. Parsons on this occasion said:\\nHe was always kind to the poor; many will miss the\\nbounties received at his hand; frequently have I known him\\nto espouse the cause of the lowly and right the wrongs of the\\nhumble, without recompense or even hope of reward, to his\\nown detriment and perhaps the loss of a more wealthy and\\ninfluential client.\\nIn speaking of his well known love for the l)rute creation\\nand the tenacity with which he pursued violaters of the laws\\nagainst cruelties to animals, Mr. Parsons also said\\nvSo noted had he become for his gratuitous protection to\\nthem that even the school children passing in the street, on\\nseeing a horse abused would sa}^ We will tell Mr. I^el)roke.\\nAnd tell him they did, and I have seen him follow the little\\nchild into the street to find the animal and then reprimand\\nthe cruel driver or, if necessary, compel him by prosecution\\nto properly care for his beast.\\nAmong other members of the Bar who spoke in eulogy of\\nthe deceased were Mr. Henry Hudson, Honorable James S.\\nWiley and Honorable Ephraim Flint, all of which were\\nresponded to in an approppriate manner by the Court.\\nDuring his life he became a mend^er of the great benevo-\\nlent order known as the Odd P ellows, and he loved its\\nprinciples with all the intensit} of his nature. His brethren\\nhonored him with the highest place within the gift of a\\nsubordinate lodge and his relations with this brotherhood\\nwere ever pleasant and beneficial, both to him and his\\na.ssociates.\\nNearly all of the lodges of the county were in attendance\\nat the time of his burial. His remains repose peacefully\\nwhere they were placed by the rites of this fraternit}^ in the\\nFoxcroft cemetery. On the l ank of the gentle river Piscata-\\nquis that he loved so well in life and often apostrophized in\\nspeaking, he sleeps the sleep that knows no waking.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "CHARLES A. EVERETT.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CHARLES A. EVERETT.\\nAt the September term of the vSupreme Judicial Court at\\nDover (1890) Henry Hudson addressed the court and offered\\nthe following resolutions\\ni s(i/r(_- l Tliut liy the death of oui- lamented lirdthcr. (liarles A.\\nEverett, the people of tliis eounty liave lofit an exeinplary aud useful\\neiti/eu and this Har a successful lawyer and wise counselor, distin-\\ntjuished for his devotion and zeal to liis clients; and that this I ar will\\ncherish in their reniend)rance liis true aud noble ([ualilies of heait.\\nJi t-sdlrcd That the secretary of this association transmit a copy of\\nthese resolutions to the fanuly of the deceased and that His Houor, tlie\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Fudn e, be rcipiested to order them spread upon the records of this court.\\nIIknky Hudson,\\nj. f. s prague,\\n.1. B. PlCAKS.\\nHenr\\\\ Hutlson said\\nMay it Please Your Honor: On the fourth day of\\nMarch, 1890, death removed from this Bar its oldest member,\\nCharles A. Kverett. Admitted to the Bar prior to the\\norganization of this county, his period of practice ante-dated\\nthe birth of nearh all the members of this Bar. He was\\nborn in Meredith, N. H., in 1815. His earl} j outh was\\nspent in New Hampshire. In 1831 he came with his father s\\nfamih to the town of Dover. Shortly after this he entered\\nWaterville College, where he remained nearly two 3 ears.\\nOn leaving college he entered upon the stud} of law and in\\n1887 was admitted to the Bar in Penobscot county.\\nHe was appointed the first County Attorney of this county.\\nIn 18. )4 he was a member of Governor Crosby s council. At\\nthe vSeptember election, LSfiT), he was elected Judge of Probate.\\nThis ofhce he resigned in 18G6, when he left this state and\\nwent vSouth, returning in IST J. In 187. he was again elected", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "28 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMKNTS.\\nCounty Attorney of this county. Always a firm V^eliever in\\nthe principles of the Republican party and when occasion\\nrequired ready to assert his views, yet he was not given to\\npolitics and cared but little for it his tastes and inclina-\\ntions moved in other channels than politics. He was not\\nendowed with the qualifications that make successful jioliti-\\ncians. I never knew Brother Everett until his return from\\nthe South in 1872. My first impressions of him were far\\nfrom favorable. I thought him cold, distant and austere.\\nWhen I went to Dover and opened an office in 187 I first\\ncanie to know him and found my first impressions of him\\nwere far from the truth. From that time until his death I\\nwas on most intimate terms with him. I was with liim to\\nquite an extent. I was with him in his office and his home\\nhe was frequentl}- at my home. When he was a friend, no\\none was ever a truer friend. Friendship with him meant\\nsomething. His friendship was lasting. Instead of being an\\naustere and distant person he was the oppo.site. He alwa3 s\\nhad a cheerful and pleasant word under adverse circum-\\nstances.\\nHe was a kind father and devoted husl:)and. In no place\\nwill he be more missed than in his own home. To the\\nyounger mendjers of the Bar he was ever read}- to give his\\nopinions on questions of law. No young man ever asked him\\na question but he found him ready and willing to answer.\\nHis rank as a lawyer is well known. Thoroughh versed\\nin the principles of the common law, he was ahvays well\\ne(j[uipped. In the trial of causes he could at one time be\\nhumorous and at another time be sarcastic. None had\\ngreater power to sa\\\\ so much in so few words. He was\\nincisive and forcible. He was frank and open in all things;\\nhe hated hypocrisy. But he is gone. His place is vacant.\\nWe feel his absence and mourn his loss.\\nWith the pernnssion of Your Honor, I now present the\\nresolutions, unanimously adoi)ted by the Bar, and move that\\nthe same be spread upon the records.\\nRemarks were also made bv FyX-Governor Davis.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "I ISCATAOIUS HIOCrRArilV AND I K AGINI KNTS. 29\\nColonel Peaks would have spoken in eulog}- but at the\\ntime was confined to his house sickness.\\nJ. F. Spragvie of Monson, said\\nMay it Pi,I :a.sk thi-: Court: In L,ord Byron s famous\\ninscription on a monument that he erected over the remains\\nof his favorite dog. Boatswain, occur these words:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2O. mail I tlinii teclilf tenant (it an lidiir.\\nDebased l)y slaxiM y oi cnirupt l)y iK)wer.\\nWlio knows tliee well, must (jiiit tliee witli (lisiiu-;t:\\nDegraded mass of animated dust.\\nTliy love is lust, tliy frieiidshiji all a tdieat.\\nI hy smile liyiioeiisy. tli wtirds deeeit.\\nvSuch sentiments as these may have caused the world to\\nlook upon Byron as a cynic, \\\\et ever\\\\- life has undoubtedly\\nhad its bitter experiences which have been only too convinc-\\ning that there is very much truth in these lines. Ever\\\\- life\\npathway is more or less marred with the ruins of hopes\\nstranded by broken pledges and frieiulships betrayed. When,\\ntherefore, we have had one whose life s history has been in\\nevery way, by its practices as well as its precepts, directly\\nopposed to this dark picture of one of the common weak-\\nnes.ses of humanitw it behooves us to give it more than\\ncasual notice.\\nThe life of our late Brother Kverett was an example of\\nfidelity and truth, the highest type of loyalty to friends, of\\nundimmed honor and uncompromising devotion to principle.\\nIt is oiiIn- the truth to add that he was also ecpially uncom-\\npromising to his foes. Living in a world of deceit and\\nhypocrisw he never knew how to decei\\\\e or betray or to\\npractice treason in an\\\\- form. No one who knew him well\\ncan possiljly conceive of his shrinking for an instant, from\\nperforming a duty of life, l)ecause to do so would lessen his\\n])opularity with the multitude. His devotion to the cau.se of\\na friend would not ]iermit him to e\\\\-en li.sten to his censure\\nwithout vigorousl\\\\- defending him, much less could he have\\never stab])ed him in the dark, 1 am utterh- tmable to imagine", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "30 PI.SCxVTAUUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FKAGMENTvS.\\nhim refraining from fulfilling an obligation or from serving a\\nfriend because his own interests might thereby be jeopardized.\\nWhatever else may be said of him, of his abilities, his\\npeculiarities, his strength and his weaknesses, in my judg-\\nment, his leading and controlling characteristic was his being\\nso remarkably free from guile, craft or dissembling. That\\nfamed sentiment of Talleyrand, that language is be.st used to\\nconceal thought, or words to that effect, could never have\\nbeen applied to him. He used plain, unand^iguous Saxon,\\nnot to deceive, but to express his real thoughts, his true\\nmeaning, his whole intention, and his entire conviction upon\\nthe subject or about aii}^ person in which he was interested,\\nand he had the courage to always express his actual .senti-\\nments under all circumstances. vSuch a man could not be\\nother than hone.st and upright in other matters. I believe\\nhim to have been thoroughly honest and sincere in all things.\\nNever called to positions in peace or in war that the world\\nhonors as exalted ones, he, in the battle of life, proved to be\\na hero for the highest courage is that which ever dares to\\ndo what is right and always fears to do what is wrong. His\\nsuccess as a lawyer will be referred to by those more compe-\\ntent than myself. That he was a peer of the ablest at our\\nBar is only the truth.\\nHe loved his profession and was always intensely interested\\nin the cause of his client, whose interests he shielded with an\\nunwavering fidelity. Kvery trust imposed upon him he held\\nas sacred. His word about a Inisine.ss or a professional\\ntran.saction was as good as his bond. No lawyer was ever\\nmore industrious than he. His life work has been an emi-\\nnently successful one, because he has made the world better\\nfor his having lived in it, and because he never surrendered\\nto the wrong. We are all rapidl\\\\- moving towards\\nI lic kiH ll, I lie .shroud, the muttock and the grave,\\nriic di damp vault, tlu dai kiiess :iiid the worm.\\nWe shall soon l)e beyond the mysteries of this life,\\nremoved from its friction and shadows. We are none of us\\nexempt from the faults which are so opposed to the virtues", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 31\\nand the man} traits which made our late brother s life an\\nexalted one. For the remainder of the brief time that we\\nhave on this side of the dark river, can we honor iiis memory\\nmore than to renew to-day our determination to cultivate\\nthose high qualities which his life so forcibly illustrated?\\nHonorable Josiah Crosby\\nI presume I had a longer accjuaintance with Brother\\nEverett than any other memlier of this Bar. I well\\nremember when he came to Dover in his father s famih^ in\\n1831. His father purchased land U]:)on the hill westerl} of\\nthis Court House, then occupied as a farm, now mainly\\ncovered with buildings.\\nBrother Everett and myself fitted for college together at\\nFoxcroft Academy and boarded in the same family, the\\nfamily of Mr. Richard D. Rice, and from that time to his\\ndeath I have intimately known him. He had some pecu-\\nliarities of character. His love of popularity was small.\\nHe was not made for a politician and I am not aware that he\\never manifested any aspiration in that direction. He was\\nat one time a member of the Governor s council, in the\\nadministration of Governor Crosby, but it was under peculiar\\ncircumstances. It was in the time when the old Whig party\\nwas undergoing the process of disintegration. I have\\nalways supposed the place to have come to him un.sought.\\nIn financial matters, though successful for a while, his career\\nin that direction could not be called prosperous.\\nAfter accumulating considerable property he went to Cali-\\nfornia, and by reason of sickness during all the time he was\\nunable to accomplish anything. Returning with fortune con-\\nsiderably impaired he was afterwards engaged in slate quarry\\nbusiness in Maryland, in which he was not successful. His\\nmanner was somewhat blunt and a stranger on first acquaint-\\nance might not receive a favorable impression. But this\\nI will say of him he was a man of the most scrupu-\\nlous integrity. As has Ijeen well said l)y Brother\\nSprague, his word was as good as his bond. Get his", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "32 PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nverbal promise and you might rely upon it with the utmost\\nconfidence. Now this is saying nuicli of any man. In the\\ngreat essential quality of manhood, integrity, he was a con-\\nspicuous example. He hated cant and hypocrisy of every\\ndescription and took no pains to conceal his aversion. No\\ndoubt this trait in liis character gave intensity to the blunt-\\nness of his manner, and yet he was an accommodating man.\\nI ever found him kind in all business intercourse, and I think\\nsuch is the unanimous experience of the Bar.\\nHis financial misfortune did not discourage him or unnerve\\nhim. He still persevered with laborious industry as long as\\nstrength lasted. He reared with success a large family to\\nwhom he was always kind and by whom he was much\\nbeloved. I never heard a word to their disparagement, and\\nhave heard much to their praise. Any man who brings up a\\nlarge family and ]:)oints them in the right direction, has made\\na success in life. He has left to them something infinitely\\nmore valual)le than riches, the precious odor of a good name.\\nI think that within the year preceding his death, he felt a\\nkeen premonition of his early departure, and was ready for\\nthe great change. I am told that on the death of Brother\\nLebroke, he said Well, it may l)e my turn to go next, and\\nI am willing that it should be so.\\nThe death of Brother Ivverett cannot be otherwise than a\\nsolemn reminder to us all, and especially to the members of\\nthe Piscataquis Bar, of our frail hold on this earthly existence.\\nA few years since we attended the funeral of Brother Hudson,\\nand recently of Brothers L,ebroke and Kverett all leading\\nmembers of this Bar, men of mark, who filled a large .space\\nin the profession. Whose turn may come next is known\\nonly to Omniscience, but of this we may be assured, that the\\nrelentless scythe of time will soon make harvest of us all.\\nM. L. Durgin, Jr.:\\nMay it Please Your Honor: I am full aware that\\nwhat I may say on this occasion will add but little to the\\nvery appropriate remarks which have already been made, but", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOC.RAPHV AND FK ACilNIl^NTS. V^\\nI should ])e derelict in my duty did I not offer a word in testi-\\nmony of the sincere regard I felt for our late brother. I had\\nknown Brother Everett from m\\\\ early boyhood but more\\nintimate!}^ since I became a member of this Bar, and since\\nthat time our relations have been of the pleasantest and most\\nintimate. To me he was always kind, cordial and obliging\\nand ever ready to render advice and assistance.\\nBrother Kverett was a man who was positive in his con-\\nvictions, true and loyal to his friends and uncompromising to\\nhis enemies. Toward him I felt more than a common regard\\nand when I learned that he was nearing his end I knew that\\nI was about to lose a friend, and when at last his jcnirneN- of\\nlife had ended I felt that I had, indeed, lost one who had\\nbeen to me a source of help and encouragement and there-\\nfore, at this time I wish to offer this slight tribute of esteem\\ntoward one whose memory I shall ever cherish, for he was\\nmy friend.\\nC. W. Brown said\\nYour Honor: xA.lthough one of the \\\\oungest members\\nof this Bar, I wish to speak a word in eulogy of our deceased\\nbrother. During a portion of the time when I was a student\\nwith Colonel Peaks and during all the time that I have been\\nin practice with him, Brother Everett, down to the time of\\nhis la.st sickness, occupied an adjoining office, and as my\\nBrother Peaks was much absent I hatl frequent occasion to\\n.seek the advice of Brother Everett. I invariably found him\\nwilling to answer my many questions, no matter how bus\\\\ he\\nwas at the time, and you all know his untiring industry he\\nwould lay aside his work and not only answer questions\\nbut go beyond them, and in that bluff way. so thoroughl\\\\- his\\nown, teach principles of law invaluable to a student and a\\nyoung practitioner. And I think I am not alone his debtor\\nin that regard. I know him to have been ever ready to give\\ncounsel and advice and words of encouragement to the young\\nmen of the Bar, in whom he alwavs manifested a sincere", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "34 PISCATAOriR HIOC.KAPHV AXl) KR AC. :\\\\t KXTS.\\ninterest, and \\\\vliale\\\\-ei Brother I{\\\\-erett manifested was sin-\\ncere, for if he had one virtne high al)ove liis others, it was\\nsincerit} There was nothing he so thoronghly disliked as\\nhypocrisy in any form. Qnick to resent real or fancied\\ninjnry, he never stabbed a man in the dark. If lie was a\\nman s enemy, that man knew it without a doubt. That he\\nhad his faults his best friends will not deny, and when one of\\nour number comes down toward eternity with such puritv of\\nlife, that in it his associates can find no fault, the burial ser-\\nvices of that one we shall hot attend for he will be translated\\nbodily to Paradise. With faults we have nothing to do on\\nsuch occasions as this. Those we leave to that other tribunal\\nthat knows their cause as well as existence. We have only\\nto do with virtues and we find them in am])le measure in our\\nbrother, truthful, temperate, honest, ujnight, open, true and\\nkind, almost worshipped by his own family circle. No man\\nneed fear to have his life stand before his fellows, when little\\nchildren love him. Brother Kverett seemed never so happy\\nas when, on riding, his carriage was .so filled with children\\nthat he could hardly be seen. I have often wondered which\\nwere happier at those times, he or thew\\nWe miss him from among us and we young men miss the\\ncounsels and advice he was so free to give. Many legal\\nmaxims of his teaching we shall never forget. It now hap-\\npens at this Bar that while we have so lately buried our\\nbrothers Lebroke and Kverett, at well advanced years, and\\nthere are others among us who are gra\\\\- with age, a number\\nof young men are just beginning their practice. Ma}- we\\nfind it a jileasure in the morning of our lives to make the\\nevening of theirs pleasant and happ} We are at the bottom\\nof the rugged hills of life, they have passed the summit of\\nthose hills and are nearing the quiet valleys, soon to be borne\\nby the still waters to join our brother who.se absence from us\\nwe mourn to-day. We shall soon be called to occupy their\\nplaces as we are being called to occupy the places of the as.so-\\nciates of their youth. May we fill those ]ilaces as well as", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. dO\\nthey have filled them, and when we come down to life s\\nsetting sun, may we have as many virtues to connnemorate\\nas we find in them, and as few vices.\\nJudge Peters here feelingh responded to the foregoing\\nspoke in high terms of the character of the decea.sed and said\\nhe full\\\\- and heartily concurred in what had been said. He\\nthei] ordered the resolutions to be spread upon the recortls of\\nthe court and as a further mark of respect to the memory of\\nthe deceased, ordered the court adjourned.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "JAMES SULLIVAN WILEY.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "JAMES SULLIVAN WILEY.\\nJames Sullivax Wiley was born in the town of Mercer,\\nSomerset County, January 22, 1808, and would have been\\neighty-four years of age, had he lived until his next birthday.\\nWhen ten years old, he removed with liis father to F^rve-\\nburg, Oxford County, where lie worked on a farm, helping\\nhis father clear land and make a home on what was known as\\nSmart s Hill.\\nIn 1826 he went to Bethel to learn the blacksmith s trade,\\nas an apprentice with John Hastings now of Fr\\\\eburg.\\nHere he worked three years and during the time attended\\nGould s Academy and also recited private lessons to William\\nFrye, Esq., Bethel s first lawyer and father of Judge Richard\\nA. Frye. With his brother, Enoch Wiley, in the .spring of\\n1829 he walked from Fr3 eburg to Bangor, where his brother\\nSamuel then resided. He afterwards attended school in the\\ncity, teaching in Brewer during the winter sea.sons. When\\nfully prepared by study, in 1882, he entered Waterville Col-\\nlege, now Colby Universit}^ graduating with honors in the\\nclass of 1836. General Benjamin F. Butler of Eowell, Mass.,\\nthe divStinguished lawyer and .statesman, was a fellow student\\nin college for two j-ears.\\nAfter leaving college, the same yeav he became principal of\\nFoxcroft Academ}-, a position he held for three 3ears, in the\\nmeantime reading law wnth James vS. Holmes, Esq., of Fox-\\ncroft, the senior lawyer and president of the PLscataquis\\nCounty Bar. On his admission to the Bar, he formed a\\nco-partnership with his legal tutor, which contituied until\\ndissolution, a few years later. He then opened an office on", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "38\\nPISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nUnion Scjuare, Dover, where he devoted himself with energy\\nto the practice of his profession. In 184(i, after a sharp can\\nva.ss, Mr. Wiley received the nomination of the Democratic\\nparty in convention as a candidate for the representative in\\nCongress from the district composed of Penob.scot and\\nPiscataquis counties. He was subsequently elected and took\\nhis seat in the Thirtieth Congress, on the first Monday in\\nDecember, 1847.\\nHis colleagues from his own vState in the House were:\\nE. K. vSmart of Camden, Franklin Clark of Wiscasset,\\nA. W. H. Clapp of Portland, Hiram Belcher of Farmington!\\nDavid Hammonsof I^ovell and Hezekiah Williams of Cas tine!\\nMr. Wiley was the la.st survivor of this large delegation.\\nAt the clo.se of his congressional term in 1849, he returned\\nto Dover and erected, for that day, a beautiful residence on\\nMain street, which still remains a monument of his archi-\\ntectural ta.ste, although it has passed to other hands. From\\nthat time he gave his undivided attention to business, devot-\\nlug his attention principally to claims again.st the United\\nStates Government for land and military pensions. In these\\nhe was eminently successful, and for man}- years enjoyed the\\nreputation at home and in Washington, of being one of\\nthe most efficient and reliable pen.sion attorneys in practice.\\nAbout the time he entered upon his professional career, he\\nmarried with Miss Ruth Parker of Brewer, a most accom-\\npli.shed lady, who died about 1871. He never contracted a\\nsecond marriage, but continued to occupy the hou.se built by\\nhimself, until 18S9, when he returned to Fryeburg, where\\n.some of his relatives re.side, to .spend the evening of life\\namong the familiar scenes of his youth.\\nMr. Wiley during his residence of more than half a century\\nin Piscataquis County, was always noted for his uprightness\\nof character, the .strength of his convictions and the integrity\\nof his purposes. He was always true to whatever com-\\nmended itself to him as right. His life was exemplary in\\nthe highest degree.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "EPHRAIM FLINT.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "EPHRAIM FLINT.\\nFor man\\\\- years Kphraiiii Flint of Dover, was a well known\\ncitizen of Piscataquis County and a public man of state repu-\\ntation. The following in relation to his life history is sub-\\nstantially an article that was published in the Piscataquis\\nObserver subsequent to his demise\\nAt quite an early hour vSunday morning, June 17th (1894),\\nthe people of this connnunity were suddenly startled by the\\nannouncement that their esteemed fellow citizen, Hon.\\nI{phraim Flint, had passed away, dying a few minutes after\\nfive o clock without a struggle. His death was evidently\\npainless. He had been ill for some two weeks previous, but\\nwas supposed to be improving, so much so that he visited the\\nCourt House on Friday, and vSaturday his son, H. B. Flint,\\nEsq., had taken him out in a carriage for a drive.\\nThe deceased was the son of Deacon Ephraim and Phebe\\nThompson Flint and born at Baldwin, Cumberland County,\\nMaine, March 10, 1819, and consequenth had passed the\\n75th year of his age. He was a lineal descendant in the\\nseventh generation of Thomas Flint, who came to Boston in\\n1635 from Matlock, Derbyshire, England, and settled in\\nConcord, Mass., two years later (1637).\\nIn his boyhood ^Ir. F lint attended the common schools of\\nhis native town and later pursued his studies at Westbrook\\nSeminary, Parsonsfield, Gorham, Bridgton and Fryeburg\\nAcademies and Norwich (Vt.) University, from which last\\nnamed institution he graduated in 1841 with honors. While\\nacquiring his education he had been for a portion of the time\\nengaged in teaching. After graduating he became a law", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "40 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nstudent in the office of Fessendeii Willis in Portland, then\\nregarded as the leading lawyers in Cunil)LM land Count\\\\\\nspending a part of the time at the Harvard Law vSchool in\\nCambridge, Mass.\\nIn 1843 he visited Piscataquis County and was admitted to\\nthe bar. The next year, 1844, in the month of May he\\nopened a law office in the town of Monson in this county and\\nin the following June married Miss I^aura Maria Riley, of\\nNorwich, Vt., who survives him.\\nMr. Flint continued in the jiractice of his profession at\\nMonson until January, 1851, when, having been elected Clerk\\nof the Courts for the county at the state election in the Sep-\\ntember previous, he removed with his family to Dover, to\\nenter upon his official duties; this position, by virtue of sub-\\nsequent elections he held to the close of 1S()2, a j)eriod of\\ntwelve years.\\nIn 1S()3, by appointment of the Governor of the state\\nAbner Coburn he served on the commission to locate the\\ntwo normal schools, resulting in the choice of Castine and\\nFarmington. He became a candidate for Secretary of vState\\nin the winter of I8()4 and was elected by the legislature of\\nthat year. This high and responsible office he held with\\nmarked distinction by annual legislative election lor four\\nconsecutive years when he was transferred to the Pvxeculive\\nCouncil for the year of 1868. The following year, 18(59, he\\nserved as chairman of the commission for the revision of the\\nstatutes of the state.\\nThe result of his labors is embodied in the Revised Statutes\\nof 1871. At the close of this service he resumed his practice\\nof law in Dover which he conducted with good degree of\\nvigor and success nearly up to the time of his decease, inter-\\nrupted only by an election to the state legislature in 1880 as\\na representative from the district, or class conq^osed of Dover,\\nSangerville and Parkman, where he served on the judiciary\\ncommittee during the session of 1881.\\nIn ])()litics, iqKju the tlissolution of the Whig party, Mr.\\nFlint became a Republican and the honoral)le i)Ositions held", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "PIvSCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 41\\nby him, covering so long a period, indicate his prominence\\nin that party organization.\\nReligiously, as in politics, his views were conservative and\\nliberal, always conceding to others the freedom of opinion.\\nThough affiliating with the Congregationalists, his convic-\\ntions led him to adopt the broader opinions of the Unitarians\\nand in that faith he lived and died. As a lawyer, he was not\\nof the class called brilliant, but all his arguments before the\\nlaw and other courts show soundness of position taken and\\nwere characterized by exhausted research and mental labor.\\nClients ever found in him a wise and safe counselor.\\nHis nature was congenial and gentle and he always had a\\npleasant greeting for every one, rich or poor, cultured and\\nignorant alike. His stately and erect figure so familiar for\\nmore than forty years upon the street will be seen no more,\\nbut his memory will long be kept green in the hearts of those\\nwho have shared his friendship in life. He never intention-\\nally inflicted an injur\\\\- upon others. His life was gentle and\\ngently he passed to his peaceful rest\\nSo fades a .summer cloud away.\\nSo siid^s the ii ale wiien storms are o er,\\nSo yeutl} shuts tlie eye of day.\\nSo dies tlie wave aloiii;- tlie sliore.\\nBesides the widow, Mr. Flint leaves a son, H. B. Flint,\\nEsq., our present Clerk of Courts, and a daughter, Mrs.\\nClara L,ouise Thomas, residing in Waltham, Mass., near\\nBoston, and several grandchildren to whom he was much\\nattached. A son, Edgar Thompson Flint, died in Savannah,\\nGa., in 187G.\\nFuneral services were held at his late residence on Main\\nstreet, under the auspices of Kineo Lodge, I. O. O. F., of\\nwhich he was an honored member of many years standing.\\nThe religious exercises were conducted by Rev. A. L. Chase,\\npastor of the Congregational church, and Rev. J. H.\\nGuerney, a former pastor. The floral tributes were elaborate\\nand beautiful.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "42 PISCATAQUIS BIOGKAPHY AND FKAGMENTS.\\nThe remains were interred in the village cemetery witli the\\nimpressive rites of the fraternal order in charge. A large\\nconcourse of friends and citizens were in attendance to pay\\ntheir last respects to their late associate, counselor and\\nneighbor.\\nAt the Fel^ruary Term of the vSu])reme Judicial Court\\n(1895) A. M. Robinson, President of the Piscataquis Bar\\nAssociation, arose and briefl} addressed the Court, Foster,\\nJustice presiding, speaking of the decease of Ephraim P lint,\\nlate a member of the Piscataquis Bar, and announcing that\\nthe customary resolutions of respect to the memory of the\\ndeceased lawyer had been prepared bj a committee, and\\nasked leave to present the same. He then requested Henr}\\nHudson of Guilford to read the resolutions. After a few\\nexplanatory and eulogistic remarks upon the life, character\\nand public services of his deceased professional brother, he\\nsubmitted the following resolutions:\\nJlcniilcfd That in tlie death of our late associate llu JIou. Ephi-aiiii\\nFlint, who died at his i-esidenee in this town on tlie seventeenth day of\\nJune, 1894, we are called to lanieut the loss of one who had oeeupied a\\nprominent position at the bar of this court, in the lialls of lc\u00c2\u00abiis]ation,\\nand in the state dei)artment as seeretai-y. and as a member of tlie execu-\\ntive council; tliat in liim we recoo nize the enulitc lawyer, wise and\\ncautious counselor, judicious statesman, and i ,euial i-ompanion.\\nBt soliy^il That we will continue to cherish tlie memoi y of our\\ndei)arted brother. keepin in lively remembi ance his many social vir-\\ntues, professional honor, his legal learnino and ability.\\nIlcnolrcil That His Honor, the Justice presidiiiii be ie(iuested to\\norder that these resolutions be spread unon the records of this court,\\nand that the secretary of the Bar Association present a co))y of tlie same\\nto tlie family of the deceased, with the expression of our sympathy in\\ntlieir deep alHiction and bereavement.\\nA. M. IJoBINSON,\\nM. L. UUKGIN,\\nHenry Huut^oN.\\nBrief addresses by M. L. Durgin, J. I). Ihown, C. \\\\W\\nBrown, C. W. Hayes, M. W. Mcintosh and J. B. Peaks, fol-\\nlowed the reading, each bearing testimoii}- of the high esteem", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 43\\nin which the deceased was held by his associates at the Bar,\\nin the common walks of life, and in the numerous official\\npositions he was called by his fellow citizens to fill.\\nThe response b} Judge Foster was a very happ}- one, elo-\\nquent and impressive. In his remarks the Judge related as\\nan incident that the first commission he ever held, and that\\nas an officer in the military service, bore the tests of Hphraim\\nFlint, Jr., Secretary- of State, now thirty-one ears ago. He\\nclosed his address b\\\\ ordering the clerk to spread the resolu-\\ntions upon the records of the court, and that the court\\nadjourn as a token of respect to the memory of the deceased.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "CYRUS A. PACKARD.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "CYRUS A. PACKARD.\\nFriday, the closing day of the Supreme Judicial Court at\\nDover (1897), was partly occupied by memorial services upon\\nthe late Honorable Cyrus A. Packard of Blanchard. J. F.\\nSprague of Monson, presented the following resolutions:\\nL csdlri fl That by the death ot (nir lamented brother, Cynis A.\\nPackard, this Bar loses a \\\\n]ue(l Tiieinber and tlie eoininuiiitj an exem-\\nplary and useful citizen and that this liar will eherish in its ]-emem-\\nbrauce his many sterhng and nohle qualities of ebanicter.\\nIiesolre l That the secretary of this association transnnt a copy of\\nthese resolutions to the family of the deceased and that his Honor, the\\njustice presiding be requested to order them spread upon the records of\\nthis court.\\nJ. F. Sfkaguk,\\nJ. ii. Peaks, (onuuittee.\\nM. L. DURGIX, J\\nMr. Sprague said\\nMay it Please Your Honor: The members of the\\nPiscataquis Bar have requested me to inform this court of the\\ndeath of one of our members, Cyrus A. Packard, at his\\nhome in Blanchard, December 7, 1896, at the age of seventy-\\nfour years. Brother Packard was bona in Hebron, in this\\nvState, and went to Blanchard with his parents when only\\nthree years of age. Hence, he has lived in our county since\\nchildhood and has always been closel} identified with its\\ninterests as a ptiblic man. He received a common school\\nand academical edtication. His famih with the Blanchards,\\nDavees and others, were among the first settlers of the town\\nof Blanchard and were among the founders of Piscataquis\\nCounty.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "46 PISCATAOUI.S BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nHis ancestr} was sturdy Pilgrim stock of Massachusetts.\\nIn October, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company G,\\nvSeventeeTith Maine Infantry, and was detailed for service in\\nthe provost marshal s office in Bangor, and also in the mili-\\ntary dei)artment in Washington, D. C. He was admitted to\\nthe Bar about 1872 and practiced law in Monson for several\\nyears. He was appointed land agent by Governor Davis in\\n1880, which office he filled in a ver} able manner for twelve\\nyears. He was elected count} commissioner for three con-\\nsecutive terms, and since he was land agent served as a\\nmember of the Maine Legislature. He had served on the\\nState committee of his political party and was a recognized\\nleader in political affairs in this section. He also filled many\\ntown offices, having been chairman of the l)oard of selectmen\\nof his town for twenty-two years. He was in ever\\\\- respect a\\nreliable and true man. Having strong likes and dislikes, he\\nwas a warm friend and could be a strong foe if the occasion\\ndemanded it. Yet he was invariably of a cheerful aifd\\npleasant nature and he took a philosophical view of men and\\nmatters as a general rule.\\nHe had the courage of his convictions at all times. He\\nwas well versed and remarkably well informed in historical\\nand political matters, especially those relating to his own state.\\nHe was always a student and to whatever subject he gave\\nattention he was thorough and profound. M\\\\ intercourse\\nwith him has been pleasant and valuable to me.\\nIn brief, your Honor, our late brother was, as a lawyer, a\\nwise and safe counselor; as a citizen, honorable, reliable and\\nupright in his daily life and true to every trust imposed\\nupon him of a public nature. He possessed many noble traits\\nof character which we may all do well to remember and\\nemulate. I move that the resolutions which I have offered be\\nspread upon the records of this court.\\nColonel J. B. Peaks of Dover followed Mr. Sprague. He said:\\nMay it Plkase the Court: My acquaintance with\\nBrother Cyrus Packard commenced more than twenty-five", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FKAGINIENTS. 4:7\\nyears ago, when I first settled in the town of Dover, and I\\nhave been more or less intimate with him in matters of busi-\\nness and politics since that time. I remember him particu-\\nlarly on account of my relations with him in political matters.\\nHe has held a great many offices of trust and has always\\nfilled the positions well. He had one peculiar characteristic.\\nI think he knew more of the political history of this state or\\nat least could state more without reference to books, than\\nany man I ever knew. Whenever any question arose in rela-\\ntion to the history of the state government, Mr. Packard\\ncould always decide it without reference to books, and would\\nalwaj S decide it right. As has been well said, he was an\\nencj clopedia of the political history of the state. My rela-\\ntions with him have almost always been cordial. At one\\ntime, however, as is often the case, he and I had some\\ndifference in the politics of the county, but I was never con-\\nscious of an}^ hard feeling toward me, because within a week\\nof his death he said to me that if he had ever done aught to\\nme which I felt was in any way wrong or unkind, he desired\\nme to forgive him, ami I was glad to assure him that he had\\nnever done anything which I thought required any forgive-\\nness on my part.\\nAbout a week before his death he sent for me to go to his\\nhome in Blanchard to make arrangements for his last will and\\nte-stament. I found him conscious that he was approaching\\nthe end, and he said to me that it was a great comfort to him\\nto feel that he should die respected by his townsmen and by\\nthe citizens of Piscataquis county, and he hoped by the citi-\\nzens of the whole state, and he seemed to be especially pleased\\nthat he was to die in his own home, surrounded by his friends\\nand all the associations of a lifetime. He felt, I think, as the\\npoet did when he said\\n111 Jill my wiinderinos round this world of care,\\nIn all my griefs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and God has given my share,\\nI still had hopes, my latest hours to erowu.\\nAmid these hunil)le bowers to lay me down,\\nTo husliand out life s tajier to its close,\\nAnd keej) the flame from wasting by repose.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "48 PIvSCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nWhen I left him I think he fek that he should never see\\nme again, for he said to me I ma\\\\ be here in a week from\\nnow, I ma}- be here three months from now, I do not know\\nwhen I shall go, but I am ready to go whenever I am called.\\nThe members of the Piscataquis Bar have parted with\\nBrother Packard with regret, and I cordially second the\\nmotion of Brother Sprague that these resolutions be spread\\nupon the records of the court.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH DARLING BROWN.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH DARLING BROWN.\\nAt the Febnian- term of the Supreme Judicial Court at\\nDover (1898) services in memory of ]\\\\Ir. Brown were held.\\nAt a meeting of the members of Piscataquis Bar Associa-\\ntion previously held, A. M. Robinson, J. F. Sprague and\\nM. L. Durgin were designated a committee to prepare and\\npresent to the court resoUitions regarding the deceased.\\n]\\\\Ir. Robinson being unable to attend the services on\\naccount of illness, W. E. Parsons was appointed to take his\\nplace on the committee. Saturday forenoon, February 28th,\\nafter the disposal of some routine business, Mr. Parsons\\naddressing the Court spoke substantially as follows:\\nMay it Please the Court: In the absence of Brother\\nRobinson, who is unfortunate!} confined to the house b}- ill-\\nness, I have been designated by my l^rothers at the Bar to\\nannounce to the court the death of one of our members.\\nHonorable Joseph D. Brown of Foxcroft, which occurred in\\nthe last vacation. And in. performing this sad duty I am\\nwell aware that I cannot speak of the deceased and his hfe-\\nwork as could Brother Robinson were he present, or as can\\nthe older mem])ers of the Bar who have known him much\\nlonger than I. Speaking wholly without preparation, I must\\nrefer to the deceased as I knew him, as he appeared to me,\\nwithout going into the details of his life history as will mv\\nBrother Sprague and other attorneys.\\nMy acquaintance with the deceased began some eighteen\\nyears ago when he returned from the West where he had\\nbeen sojourning for quite a period of time. I was then in", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "50 PISCATAQUIS BIOGKAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nco-partnership with our late Brother lyebroke. Shortly after\\nhis return from the West he received the appointment of trial\\njustice. I soon found that Mr. Brown was a man of firnniess\\naud an able law3 er. I think nearly all the minor cases of\\nLebroke Parsons were tried before him and later when\\nthat firm was dissolved and it l^ecame my duty to prosecute\\noffenders of the law as county attorney, I did not hesitate to\\nbring my criminal matters before him even when I knew that\\nBrother Lebroke was to defend. M3 confidence was not\\nmisplaced. For I think that never did the close and intimate\\nrelations between himself and Mr. L,ebroke or the latter s\\npersuasive power of eloquence swerve him from the path of\\ndut} As the first judge of Dover Municipal Court, his\\nduties were somewhat enlarged, but here, as elsewhere, he\\nwas firm, but kind and courteous to all and never favored that\\nstyle of practice now so rapidly disappearing, rarel} indulged\\nin by attorne3 S, of brow-beating witnesses or trying to over-\\nride in a discourteous manner opposing counsel.\\nHe had earlier in life served the citizens of Foxcroft as\\ntheir postmaster and of Piscataquis as one of their county\\ncommissioners, always discharging his official duties with\\nability and fidelity. Perhaps that part of his life-work\\nwhich in later years he enjoyed most was literary pursuits\\nand newspaper work. He was for several 3-ears connected\\nwith the Piscataquis Observer^ as associate editor and in\\naddition to that work was for some time the regular cor-\\nrespondent of several of our leading Maine papers and one\\nor more of the metropolitan papers of Boston. He was an\\nable editor and an interesting correspondent. As an obituary\\nwriter he was unexcelled and seemed to take pleasure in his\\nefforts along those lines. Upon any subject which he\\ntouched he wielded an able, vigorous, yet graceful ])en.\\nHe was a man of broad views, of versatile mind and\\nremarkably well informed, not only upon past events i)ut the\\nvarious topics of the day. For one of his years, being\\nnearly eight} when he died, he was a remarkable worker.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 51\\nM}- relations with him for maii}^ years have been friendly and\\nintimate, and rarely, if ever, have I stepped into his office\\nwithout finding him with pen or book in hand, improving his\\ntime l\\\\v imparting his information to others through the press\\nor seeking for further wisdom like a fresh student with the\\nrace of life still before him.\\nHe was of a genial, social disposition and kind hearted to\\nall. Frequently have I found school children in his office\\nengaged in pleasant conversation and his life, I have no\\ndoubt, was made brighter and wiser b}^ the as.sociation. He\\nwas obliging in all things, read} to assist others and in its\\nbest sense a good neighbor and true to his friends. All in\\nall, he is a man who will be missed; missed not only by the\\nmembers of this Bar but by his former townsmen and friends\\neverywhere whose confidence he enjo3 ed.\\nAt the close of his remarks, Mr. Parsons read the resolu-\\ntions, moving their adoption and that the same be ordered\\nspread upon the records of the court as follows:\\nIicsdlrcil That hi the death of our lamented bi other, Joseph D.\\nKrovvii, the Piscataquis IJar Association lias lost a valued, highly\\nesteemed member and the community a true, woithy and public spirited\\ncitizen, wliich loss we all deeply deplore; that we shall ever cherish iu\\nour memories his estimable traits of character, his genial and pleasant\\nnature and his kindly acts toward all.\\nlicsojrcil That the secretary of this association transmit a copy of\\nthese resokitions to tlie friends of the deceased, and his Honor, the\\njustice presiding, be requested to order the same spread upon the\\nI ci ords of this couit.\\nA. M. liOBIXSON,\\nM. L. DURGIN, V ommittee.\\nJ. F. Sprague, j\\nJ. F. vSprague of Monson, said:\\nMxVY IT Pi^EASE THE CouRT vSince the last nisi prius\\nterm of the Supreme Judicial Court in this county the inex-\\norable hand of death has again not only broken the ranks of\\nni}- personal friends, liiit has taken from our fraternit)- one\\nof our oldest and most respected members, Joseph Darling\\nBrown.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "52 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMRNTS.\\nBrother Brown was born in the town of Buxton in the\\nState of Maine, Januar}- 12, 1823, (his father, vSaniuel Brown,\\nhaving emigrated there from Hoj)kinton, N. H., in the year\\n1804) and died in Dover, January 31, 1898. His mother s\\nmaiden name was Darling and she was a relative of the\\nCilley family of Rockland, Maine, and also a connection of\\nthe late General Benjamin F. Butler of Lowell, Mass. His\\nparents moved from Buxton to Guilford in this county and\\nwere among the early settlers of that town.\\nJoseph and his brother, Wm. M. K. Brown, were educated\\nat the Foxcroft Acadeni}-, generally walking in their attend-\\nance to this school, a distance of four miles from their home.\\nAfter graduating at this school and while himself a school\\nteacher, he pursued the study of languages under a private\\ntutor and became a proficient French and Ivatin scholar,\\nreading Victor Hugo and other favorite authors in the\\noriginal as easily as in the English.\\nHe was admitted to the Bar in Piscataquis County, June\\n25, 1846, and immediateh- entered upon the practice of his\\nprofession in Foxcroft. In 1851-2-3 he was a member of the\\nboard of count} commi.ssioners, was for a time postmaster of\\nFoxcroft and also held other positions of trust in that town.\\nIn 1858 he formed a law partnership with his brother,\\nWm. M. K., in Skowhegan, Me., where the\\\\- continued\\nin the practice of law until the year 1868. About this\\ntime he went to the vState of Illinois where he was also\\nengaged in the law practice until his return to Maine about\\nthe year 1878. It is said that when he was in practice in\\nSkowhegan he was a successful jury lawyer and an interest-\\ning speaker. He was in this communit\\\\- in the earliest da3 S\\nof our county, was then an active ])artici]xint in its affairs,\\nhas witnessed its growth and development since and has been\\nmore or less identified with its history.\\nI did not Ijecome acquainted with Brother Brown until\\nsul)sequent to his return from the West, some two or three\\nyears after I was admitted to the Bar and while m\\\\- home was", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 53\\nin Abbot in this county. Since that time I was well and\\nintimately acquainted with him until his demise.\\nDuring this latter period of his life he was not in active\\npractice, although he preserved his connection with our Bar,\\nalways attended its meetings, and was ever deeply interested\\nin all matters pertaining to our association and in everything\\ntliat concerned its welfare. So he seemed to me as much an\\nactive member of the Bar as though he had at our terms of\\ncourt attended regularly to the business of the courts.\\nHis filling the position of Judge of the Dover Municipal\\nCourt for four years brought him in close contact with all of\\nthe members of the Bar in this county and in towns adjoining\\nthis count)-. In this way he also kept in touch with the Bar\\nand I think his relations with the attorneys were generall}\\npleasant and fraternal.\\nI knew Joseph D. Brown as a man of scholarl} attainments,\\nwell versed in the principles of the law and possessing a pro-\\nfound love for books and a literary taste of a high order.\\nHis connection with the press at various times demonstrated\\nthat he was a writer of much more than ortlinary al)ility. In\\nfact, but few in these parts were his equal in this respect.\\nHe was a thoughtful and sincere writer, viewing life\\nseriously, who sought for the truth, and had the courage to\\nexpress his convictions, believing with David Barker:\\nYe onijiiot send the simplest line\\nAbroad fiom otf your pen,\\nBut ye must meet in future hour.\\nThat very line aiiain.\\nHis accomplishments in this direction, while they were\\nperhaps never properh- rewarded, were well recognized and\\nappreciated ])y a very large constituency of readers in this\\nvicinit}\\nIt was my fortune at one time to edit a newspaper in this\\ncounty for several years, during which time he was a leading-\\ncorrespondent. I often refer to those files for information of\\na local nature. They would, if published in book form, make", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "54 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\na valuable chapter in the history of Piscataquis Count} not\\nonly for that period but for previous years, for they are\\nreplete with valuable historical facts pertaining to our count}\\nFor five years he was one of the editors of the Piscataquis\\nObserver and was also a writer for other Maine newspapers\\nand public journals. He was one of the most authentic local\\nhistorians that we have ever had, and he took great interest\\nin such subjects.\\nPolitically, his convictions were such that he was usually\\nidentified with minority organizations and was for many\\nyears prominent in the Democratic party. Yet at different\\ntimes in his life his abilities have been recognized and he has\\nreceived honors at the hands of his fellowmen, besides receiv-\\ning many nominations for office by the minority. He was\\nbroad-minded, catholic and independent in his views, and in\\nhis later years was not much of a partisan, realh belonging\\nto no political part} Naturally a reformer, he was perhaps\\ntoo often allured by new faiths pretending to reform.\\nHis nature was such that he viewed all political questions\\nfrom the standpoint of the common people. He svmpathized\\nwith them in their wrongs and was impatient at delays in\\nredressing them. Yet he was a philosopher and viewed the\\nproblems of life complacently, although always keenly appre-\\nciating their gravity and importance. If he felt disappoint-\\nments and adversity with bitterness, he had a most excellent\\nfaculty of concealing his feelings, for he was invariably\\ncheerful and seemed to be more of an optimLst than a pessi-\\nmist. In his religious views he was always of the liberal\\nfaith, was one of the founders of the present Universalist\\nChurch of Dover and Foxcroft, and a deacon of the church\\nat the time of his decease. He was highly esteemed by all\\nof his church associates for his sincerity and exemplary life.\\nI knew him as a pleasant, genial, kindly gentleman, under all\\ncircumstances. I knew him as a friend true and steadfast.\\nI believe he was a true man at heart with the best of inten-\\ntions, but he was not a perfect man, for he belonged to the", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAC.MP:XTS. 00\\nliunian family and like all of his kind, he had weaknesses\\nand failings common to all. The poet has well said\\nlu men wlioni men coiKleniu as ill,\\nI liud so inucli of g oodness still;\\nIn iiieu wliom men pronounce divine.\\nI find so niueh of sin and blot,\\nT hesitate to draw the line\\nBetween the two. when God has not.\\nHis life s horizon was not alwaN S clear and bright, .some-\\ntimes it was cloudy and stormy. The rich and influential\\nnever fawned upon him or lent him any ver}- essential aid in\\nfighting life s furious battle. He was not as fortunate as some\\nin acquiring worldly pelf.\\nAn American statesman, your Honor, in a memorial\\naddress upon the life of a deceased member of congress a few\\nyears ago, used this language: In the democracy of the\\ndead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor\\nstation nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. At this\\nfatal threshold the philosopher ceases to be wise, and the\\nsong of the poet is silent. Dives relinquishes his millions\\nand I^azarus his rags. The poor man is as rich as the richest\\nand the rich man is as poor as the pauper. The creditor\\nloses his usury and the debtor is acquitted of his obligation.\\nThere the proud man surrenders his dignities, the politician\\nhis honors, the worldling his pleasitres the invalid needs no\\nphysician, and the laborer rests from his unrequiting toil.\\nHere at la.st is nature s final decree in equity. The wrongs\\nof time are redressed. Injustice is expiated, the irony of fate\\nis refuted, the vmequal distrilnttion of wealth, honor, capacity,\\npleasure and opportunity, which make life such a cruel and\\ninexplicable traged} ceases in the realm of death. The\\nstrongest there has no supremacy and the weakest needs no\\ndefense. The mightiest captain succumbs to that invincible\\nadversary who disarms alike the victor and the vanquished.\\nI believe our late brother performed the cUities of life con-\\nscientiously and as he believed to be right. He was positive\\nin his likes and dislikes of men. As a friend he was devoted", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "56 PISCATAQUIS inOGRAPHY AND FRAGMKNTS.\\nand unwavering-; yet he could, if he believed his rights were\\ninfringed upon, be a foe of strength and endurance.\\nHe has vanished from life and gone out from our circle\\nnever more to return. He has joined that solenni and invisi-\\nble procession whose journey is hidden from our vision by the\\nshroud and the grave. He has left .some footprints upon the\\nsands of our time. May we all, when our turn shall come, be\\nable to leave l)ehind us as untarnished a name as has our late\\nfriend and brother. But death is the lot of all that is mortal.\\nFirst oui- pleasures die and then\\nOui- hopes, and then our fears and when\\n1 hese are dead, the debt is (hie.\\nDust claims dust, and we die, too.\\nM. Iv. Durgin of Milo, said:\\nMay it Please Your Honor: I do not rise for the\\npurpose of indulging in a vain repetition of words, but rather\\nto add ni} Ijrief but sincere tribute of respect to our deceased\\nbrother. Although my acquaintance with our late brother\\nhad been of nearly twelve years standing, yet it was not so\\nintimate in its character, b} reason of the fact that in the\\nlarger sense he was not a practitioner after his return to this\\ncounty the la.st time, as with those attorneys with whom I\\nmeet in this court .so frequently.\\nvSo far as my personal knowledge goes, and judging from\\nwhat I learn from those who knew him best, he was a man of\\ngood legal attainments, a great reader, an excellent scholar\\nand a graceful and forceful writer. In all the 3-ears I knew\\nhim, our relations were of a friendly character. In our\\nrelation.ship as attorneys of this court, we find ourselves oft-\\ntimes in the position of advocates who are obliged to give\\nand take, but there comes a time when the Great I^eveler\\nstills our contentions and in that hour we forget our differ-\\nences and think onl}- of the virtues of those who have\\npassed that bourne from whence no traveler returns.\\nBrother Brown was nearly the last of the older attorneys\\nwhom I knew when I was first admitted to the Bar. His", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS 15IOGKAPHY AND FKAG.MENTS. 57\\nmanner toward nie was always kindly and cordial, and I\\ndesire at this time to add these few words to those which\\nhave already been so eloquently spoken on this occasion b}\\nthe gentlemen who have preceded me.\\nHis Honor, Jndge vSavage, the justice presiding, then said\\nI did not have the pleasure of the acquaintance with our\\nlate Brother Brown in his lifetime, and therefore I cannot\\nadd from my knowledge or personal observation to the words\\nin commendation of his virtues by which the members of this\\nBar have so admirably expressed their kindly and tender\\nmemories of him. I think it must be ver}- agreeable to the\\nspirit of our departed brother if it be so that they who have\\ngone l)efore are permitted still to know what transpires\\namong those who still remain to know and appreciate the\\nsentiment of friends as uttered upon an occasion like this; it\\nmust be very gratif} ing to him to know how he was regarded\\nby those with whom he came in contact in all the varied\\naffairs of life, I)}- his friends and neighbors and especially bv\\nthe brethren of his chosen profession.\\nIt is, I think, especially suitable for lawyers and the court\\nto arrest for a time the business which calls them together,\\nand laying aside the cares, the responsibilities, the contests\\nof professional life, to place in permanent form their tribute\\nto the memory of one who has shared these cares and respon-\\nsibilities and has participated in the.se contests. The hush of\\nthe open grave, the silence of the lips that have spoken and\\nthe thoughtful eulogy, all knit into better brotherhood the\\nhearts of those who survive.\\nThe life of the lawyer is one of toil and drudgery and his\\nfame is evanescent. Occupying a place in business and\\nsocial affairs which is both prominent and striking while he\\nlives, the work of the lawyer is of such a nature, in the office\\nand at the forum, as to leave but little on permanent record.\\nAnd though they are and nuist be the great conservative\\nforce which moulds .society- and makes for better living, the\\nlegal attainments, the exhibitions of skill, the bursts of elo-", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "58 PISCATAQl IS BIOORAPIIY AXD FRAGIMKNTS.\\nquence, the triumphs of conflict of iiidixidual lawj ers^soon\\nfade from the memory, and to the next generation become\\nlargely traditional. Hence, it is peculiarly appropriate^^that\\nmendjers of the profession should engage in mournful services\\nsuch as these, in memory of those who have laid down the\\nwork of life, and should place on ])erpetual record their esti-\\nmate of the character and virtues of a deceased l)rotlier.\\nThe Court deeply sympathizes with this Bar in the loss\\nthe\\\\ have sustained.\\nIt is ordered that the resolutions of the Bar, which so\\nfatting!}- and eloquently pay tribute to the memory of our late\\nBrother Brown, be spread at length upon the records of the\\ncourt. It is also ordered, as a further mark of respect, that\\nthe proceedings of this court l)e suspentled until Monday\\nmorninu next.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "ALEXANDER M. ROBINSON.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "ALEXANDER MARTIN ROBINSON.\\nAlexander Martin Robinson was born in Bangor,\\nMaine, April 25, 1814, and died in Dover, Maine, October\\n14, 1898.\\nAttendance as a boy upon the schools of his native town,\\nnow a thriving- city, private study b} firelight, and one term\\nat Foxcroft Academy, made the sum of his advantages for an\\nacademic education.\\nSo faithful and quick was young Robinson at his studies\\nthat at the age of sixteen years he was regarded qualified to\\nteach, and at that earl}- age did teach his first school in the\\ntown of Glenljurn. His quality as an instructor and disci-\\nplinarian is attested by the fact that he was retained as\\nteacher in the same district for several consecutive terms.\\nIn 1834, when he was twenty ^-ears of age, he entered the\\nlaw office of Abram Sanborn, in Levant (now Kenduskeag)\\nvillage; and, while preparing for his professional career,\\nmaintained his reputation as a teacher in the schools of that\\nvillage. He was admitted to the Bar in 18-37, and com-\\nmenced practice in Sebec village, taking the olSce formerly\\noccupied by John Appleton, subsequenth Chief Justice of\\nMaine.\\nAfter a law practice in vSebec for seventeen }^ears, he\\nremoved in 1854 to Dover, where he maintained a large\\nand lucrative practice for more than fort3 -three ears. At\\nthe time of his death he was the senior member of the law\\nfirm of Robinson Cross, his partner l^eing Harvev J.\\nCross of Dover.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "60 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nAt the time of his death a writer in tlie Piscataquis Observer\\nsaid\\nMr. Robinson was married fift^ -five years ago to Miss\\nMar}- A. Chase, danghter of the late Joseph Chase of Sebec,\\nwho now survives him. Of their nine children, two died in\\ninfanc} and two, a son and a daughter, after arriving at\\nmaturity. Their five sons now remaining have gone forth\\nfrom the parental roof and established homes of their own,\\none in Foxcroft, three in Bangor and one in the vState of\\nCalifornia.- The patriotism of the family is shown by the\\nfact that two of the sons performed true and valued service\\nfor their country in the Union army at the time of the\\nCivil War.\\nThe funeral services of Mr. Robinson were held at his late\\nresidence in Dover, October 17, 189S, and were conducted by\\nRev. E. F. Pember, the eloquent Universalist divine of\\nBangor, who was assisted by the Rev. Norman McKinnon,\\nthe able pastor of the Congregational church of Foxcroft.\\nA large numl)er of prominent citizens of Eastern Maine\\nattended, among whom were Josiah Crosl:)y of Dexter, J. F.\\nSnow, Arthur Brown, E. B. Nealley, F. A. Cummings,\\nElewellyn Morse, H. W. Blood, Thomas White, A. E-\\nSimpson, John Cassidy, General Charles Hamlin and vS. F.\\nHumphrey of Bangor. The members of the Piscataquis Bar\\nA.ssociation, of which Mr. Robinson was its president, were\\nalso present.\\nAt the following February term of the vSupreme Judicial\\nCourt at Dover, Ju.stice Strout presiding. Colonel J. B. Peaks\\nof Dover, Henr\\\\- Hudson of Guilford, and Martin E. Durgin\\nof Milo, having been selected as a conunittee for the purpose,\\npresented to the court appropriate resolutions in memory of\\nthe deceased. P^loquent remarks were made b}- each member\\nof the committee and also b}- C. Brown, W. E. Parsons,\\nJosiah Crosby, C. W. Haj^es and others, who very feelingl}^\\nreferred to the life work of Mr. Robinson.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. Gl\\nAt this time J. F. Sprague made the following remarks:\\nMay it Please the Court Upon such an occasion\\nas this the voice of the poet is remembered\\nThere are no dead, we fall asleep\\nTo walscu wliere they never weep.\\nWe eloi^e our eyes ou pain and sin.\\nOur breath elihs out, but life flows in.\\nMy relations with our late Brother Robinson for nearly\\na quarter of a century were such that I should feel that I was\\nderelict in my dut}- if I allowed this occasion to pass without\\nadding my own lowly tribute to his memory.\\nA Presidential candidate of one of the great political\\nparties of our country, when himself a member of Congress,\\ndelivered a eulogy upon a deceased fellow-member wherein\\nhe t;sed these words: He was a well-rounded man, one of\\nthe most complete men I ever knew. Some are specialists\\nand excel in a particular line of work, or become famous\\nbecaii.se of some facult}- abnormally developed. Not so with\\nMr. He was not a one-sided man, not a man with\\none idea or one virtue. He so blended graces and good\\nqualities, so combined the traits and characteristics which\\ndistinguish men, as to be worthy of Antony s compliment of\\nBrutus\\nHis lite was gentle and the elements\\n80 mixed in him, that Nature miglit stand up\\nAnd say to all the world. This was a man.\\nHe found his inspiration at his fireside and approached the\\nideal in his domestic life. He and his faithful wife, who\\nwas both his helpmeet and companion, inherited as tenants\\nin common that sacred place called home, and needed no\\ncourt to define their relative rights and duties. The invisi-\\nble walls which shut in that home and shut out all else, had\\ntheir foundations upon the earth and their battlements in the\\nskies; no force could break them down, no poisoned arrows\\ncould cross their top, and at the gates thereof, love and confi-\\ndence stood ever upon guard. In my opinion, Your Honor,", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "62 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FKAG:MENTS.\\nthis sentiment from the pohtical leader and vivid word\\npainter, INIr. Bryan, describes correctly and beautifully the\\ndomestic life of our late brother and friend.\\nSome years before I was admitted to this Bar and when\\nreall}- only a boy, I had some business relations with Brother\\nRobinson and then as a Ia3 man and as a client I learned to\\nrespect him for his unwavering integrit}^ and high sense of\\nhonor. At that time there was quite a remarkable group of\\nlawyers in active practice in Piscataquis County The senior\\nHenry Hudson, Charles A. Everett, A. G. Lebroke and\\nAlexander M. Robinson, and while the} differed wideh in\\nall of their characteristics and personalities, each was an al)le\\nand well equipped law3 er. The}- were all active in public\\naffairs and made an indelible impress upon the communit}-.\\nThe history of Piscataquis County, of its material interests,\\nits progress in education and its advancement in any direc-\\ntion during the past forty years could not be accurately\\nwritten if the names and work of these men were omitted.\\nThey helped to make its history. But the last one has gone\\nand we pause in our labors to mourn his departure from\\namong us and to make up a brief record of some of his most\\nnoble qualities.\\nThe years while he was gliding down the westen slope of\\nlife and while he yet lingered in its mellow twilight, rested\\nlightly upon him, and he maintained wonderful mental vigor\\nto the last moment. Peacefully he vanished into life s mys-\\nterious sunset. And on that bright and beautiful October\\nday, typical of a fading life, friends from various parts of the\\nState assembled together to pay him their last respects and to\\nhonor his memory.\\nI knew Brother Robinson not only as an able and success-\\nful lawyer, eloquent advocate and safe and wise counselor\\nwho invariably advised and urged fair adjustments of litiga-\\ntion rather than the trial of causes, but also as a profound\\nstudent of literature. To read and keep in close touch with\\nall of the greatest authors and most advanced thinkers, was a\\npastime with him. He delved in the lore of the past ages", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 63\\nand eiijoN ed the companionship of Plato and Homer, Shakes-\\npeare, Sheridan and Bacon, as well as of Howells, Hawthorne\\nand lyongfellow. He was a logical, concise and polished\\nwriter, and would undoubtedh have been eminent in litera-\\nture had he chosen that as a life profession.\\nWhile he was conservative in his tendencies and exercised\\ncaution and discretion in forming an opinion regarding\\nquestions of a public nature, he was firm in his convictions,\\nwhen after mature deliberation he decided which was the\\nwisest and the best. He was liberal and broad minded and\\nprogressive, always favoring education, and all meritorious\\npublic enterprises found in him a firm friend and all} This\\nfact is forcibl} illustrated in the history of the Bangor\\nPiscataquis railroad, the first railway system to connect the\\npeople and the industries of the Piscataquis valle} with the\\ncommerce and activities of the outside world. For many\\n3 ears prior to its establishment. Brother Robinson was a per-\\nsistent advocate of this enterprise through the public journals,\\nat citizens meetings and by private intercourse. His efforts\\nwere untiring and I doubt if an}- one man in Eastern Maine\\nis entitled to any more if as much credit for its successful\\ntermination as he. He had able associates and co-laborers\\nin this agitation, such as the late Adams H. Merrill of Brown-\\nville and many in Bangor, among whom was Hannibal Ham-\\nlin. Yet his residence and interests being here in this\\ncounty, he was, with his abilities and his sincerity, the real\\nleader in the movement. His association with Senator Ham-\\nlin in this matter made their relations closer than ever before\\nand until the close of Mr. Hamlin s memorable life, these\\nmen were warm and intimate friends. From the time of its\\norganization until its absorption by the B. A. system, he\\nwas one one of its directors and attorne3S.\\nHe loved the life of the agriculturist, and while the law\\nwas his vocation, farming was always an avocation with him.\\nHe devoted much of his time to this and had a thorough\\nknowledge of the subject not only from a scientific and theo-\\nretical point of view but from a practical one as well. His", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "G4 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nservices for twenty years as president of the Piscataquis\\nCentral Agricultural Society and seven years as a member of\\nthe Trustees of the Agricultural College and three years a\\nmember of the Maine Board of i\\\\griculture, attest what a deep\\ninterest he took in this grand occupation which is the real\\nfoundation of our entire structure of industry and prosperity.\\nAs a citizen and as a student of political and economic\\nquestions he sympathized deeply with the farming classes in\\nwhatever seemed to be oppressive or burdensome to them\\nand in his later 3ears he often expressed himself as feeling\\nsad that evidence existed of the decline of this industry in\\nthis State.\\nHis long connection with a minority political party when\\nhis talents would have necessarily and as a matter of course,\\nreceived recognition by the majority, was evidence that he\\nw^as conscientious and true to his convictions whether we\\nmay agree or disagree with the political creed to which he\\nwas for a lifetime devoted and which he served with honor\\nand fidelity. His own party, when in the ascendancy,\\nbestowed upon him legislative honors when Maine was a\\nstorm center in National politics and he was an active parti-\\ncipant in some of the most stirring scenes ever enactetl in a\\nMaine legislature. The fortunes of political warfare kept\\nhim in an organization in his own county that was opposed to\\nman} of us who were his personal friends and who to-da}^\\ndelight in doing honor to his memory, yet it never inter-\\nrupted his friendly or personal relations, no matter how sharp\\nor bitter the contest might be.\\nBrother Robinson was a philosopher in his theories of life\\nhere and hereafter. Absolutely indifferent to everything\\nin religion of a dogmatic nature, sceptical about anything\\nthat partook in the remotest degree of superstition, hating\\nhypocrisy, despising cant, an adversai and censurer of\\npharisees and phariseeism, loving tolerance and the broadest\\nliberty of conscience and of thought, he may well be termed\\na free-thinker in the Ijest and highe.st acceptance of that\\nterm. An agnostic as to mi:ch, he was vet a 1)eliever. His", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAG^IENTS. 65\\nfaith was the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of all\\nmankind. Recognizing the value of church organization he\\nalhliated with the Universalists.\\nAlthough never what is known as a speculator and never\\npersonalh- engaged in great business enterprises, he was a\\nshrewd and careful financier, possessing most excellent and\\nsound judgment regarding investments and finance. The\\nbanks of this count}- sought his aid and services, and as an\\nofficer and adviser he was for many years connected with and\\nof much benefit to these institutions.\\nBut it is of Brother Robinson as a friend, always true\\nthough never effusive and fawning, always sympathetic and\\nappreciative of the efforts of others without ain* odor of\\nhollow flatter} in his praise, that fills the largest place in nn-\\nmemory of him and his strong personality. His kindness to\\nyoung attorncN-s and his desire to lend them aid and\\nencouragement was proverbial at this Bar, and he was\\nequally as kind to and thoughtful of any of the poor and\\nunfortunate ones in an)- walk of life.\\nP or honesty of purpose, devotion to principle and nobility\\nof character, the life of Alexander M. Robinson affords an\\nillustrious example to the members of this Bar and to the\\npeople of this count}-. Peace to his ashes! Honor to his\\nmemory\\nOur lives are albums, written throu^ h\\nWitli ijood or ill, with false or tnie\\nAud as the blessed augels tiini\\nThe pages of our years,\\nGod grant they read tlie good witii smiles,\\nAnd 1)less the ill with teai-s.\\nThe presiding justice responded in kind and appreciative\\nwords to the sentiments expressed by the speakers. The\\nresolutions as presented were ordered spread upon the records\\nof the court and as a further token of respect to the memory\\nof the departed, the court was adjourned.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THOMAS DAVEE.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THOMAS DAVEE.\\nIf the reader sliould indulge in the pleasure of a carriage\\ndrive through the pleasant and picturesque region of the\\nupper Piscataquis valley, he would find no portion that would\\nmore forcibly remind him of Longfellow s immortal vSud-\\nbur} Town, than the charming little town of Blanchard; for\\nmost certainly\\nA re*j,i()ii of repose it seeius,\\nA place of sluinl)er and of dieains,\\nRemote ainouii- the wooded hills.\\nIts fertile meadow farms through which the Piscataquis\\ngently winds its course in its journey oceanward, its prett}*\\nfarm cottages with their modest surroundings, its white\\nchurch on the sloping hillside, its schoolhouse. its country\\nmills, its blacksmith shop, store and post office, do not sug-\\ngest to the traveler a place of magnitude in the commercial\\nworld of to-da}-. x\\\\nd yet, when hardy pioneers and sturd}\\nsons of New England came hither to build a new county in\\nthe forests of eastern Maine, it was for a time an important\\ncenter for the lumberman, the tote teams, and the stages\\nof those primitive days.\\nvStnne of its citizens were prominent and active men of\\naffairs in this .section, in the beginning of Piscataquis Count}-,\\nand were of its founders and holders of office. Notably\\namong these men of prominence were the Packards, the\\nBlanchards and the Davees.\\nThomas Davee. the subject of this sketch, was a resident\\nof Blanchard while he was a member of the National Con-\\ngress, and when that town was a part of Somerset County.\\nHon. J. \\\\V. Porter, editor of the Maine Historical Magazine,", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "68 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nin a recent article regarding Mr. Davee, (vol. 9, page 90,\\nMaine Historical Magazine), sa3 s that he was the founder\\nof the town of Dover. He came from sturdy Pilgrim stock,\\nbeing the .son of Solomon and Jedidah (Sylvester) Davie of\\nPlymouth, Massachusetts, born there December 8, 1797.\\nAfter arriving at the age of twenty-one years he went to\\nHebron, Maine, and remained there until 1821, when he\\nremoved to what is now Dover. While in Hebron, he\\nmarried Ruth Barrows.\\nDoring s History of Piscataquis County, page 53, says:\\nIn 1821, Thomas Davee put up a store and potash factory\\nand commenced to trade in 1822. He was the finst merchant\\nin Dover. He was town clerk for the year 1823 and for\\nseveral 3 ears afterwards. XTndoubtedly he was a farmer\\nwith his other vocations, for among the sheep marks in these\\nrecords appears the following: Thomas Davee, mark of\\nsheep: a square crop off each ear and a hole in each ear.\\nRec. and recorded Mar. 7, 1828.\\nDover was then a part of Penobscot County and the first\\ndeed to him is recorded in Peno])scot records, vol. 9, page\\n437, from Stephen Young. It conveyed lot No. 13, R. 4.\\nHe was an extensive owner of real estate in the new town at\\none time and was for some 3 ears the largest land owner\\nexcept the proprietors. He also acquired large interests in\\nupper Piscataquis lands, owning considerable in common\\nwith the Vaughans and Charles Blanchard of Portland.\\nIn 1831, he and Charles Blanchard bought township No. 3,\\nrange 3, of the Bingham purchase. This was incorporated\\nas a town March 17, 1831, and was called I lanchard in lionor\\nof Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Davee s joint partner in this enter-\\nprise. This was then a pai t of Somerset County. It is\\nevident that his intention was immediately to unite his for-\\ntunes with the town where he was so large an owner, but his\\nbusiness interests at Dover were such that he did not move\\nhis famih and permaneiitlx locate there until April, 1833.\\nBlanchard antl Davee for a time carried on a large lumber\\nbusiness there, besides trading and operating mills.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTvS. 69\\nHe was interested in political affairs and while a resident\\nof Blanchard and until his death was ver} successful in this\\nrespect. He belonged to the Democratic part} and was said\\nto have been at one time the most influential and popular\\nman in the part}- in Kastern Maine. He was a niend:)er of\\nthe Maine House of Representatives in 1820-27 and of the\\nMaine Senate, 1880-32. In 1835 he was again elected to a\\nseat in the Maine lyCgislature and was chosen speaker of the\\nHouse of Representatives. He was appointed sheriff of\\nSomerset County by Governor Dunlap, February 24, 1835,\\nand resigned the speakership February 20, Jonathan Cilley\\nof Thoniaston being elected in his steatl. This was an\\nimportant move in his career as a public man, for the office\\nof sheriff was then of much local consequence and he thus\\nhad the appointment of a large nund)er of deputies. He\\nimmediately became a candidate in his party for Congress\\nand was nominated and elected and served in the National\\nHouse of Representatives in 1837-41. He served on the\\ncommittee of invalid pensions and on several important\\nspecial committees while a member of Congress. During the\\nsession of 1839 he presented man}- petitions from his constitu-\\nents in Somerset County, praying Congress not to admit\\nany new state into the Union, whose con.stitution tolerates\\nslavery. One of the largest of these petitions was from\\nCyrus Packard and others of Blanchard, which Mr. Davee\\npresented February 18, 1839.\\nFrom a perusal of the Congressional Records of that\\nperiod, it does not seem that Mr. Davee took an active part\\nin the debates, but his name appears with frequency in the\\npresentation of petitions, claims and resolves, affecting the\\nmaterial interests of his constituents, who were many of them\\npoor settlers in sparsely inhal)ited communities. It is evi-\\ndent that he was diligent in his labors for them and faithful\\nto every trust. One of these petitions was for reimbursement\\nfor injuries received at Madawaska and was presented to\\nCongress by Mr. Davee, January 7, 1839; it was from E. S.\\nGreeley of Dover (now in Piscataquis Count)) who states", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "70 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\ntherein that he was appointed b}- the commissioners of Penob-\\nscot Count3^ by authority of law, to take the census of Mada-\\nwaska, a portion of the disputed boundary between this\\ncountry and Great Britain; that he attempted to perform\\nthat service and in doing so was imprisoned b} the British\\nauthorities for a great length of time; that he suffered\\ngreatly in health and pecuniary resources, and therefore now\\nprays Congress to allow him such compensation as they may\\ndeem proper.\\nPiscataquis County was incorporated in ISoS and Blanchard\\nincluded therein. Having been elected to the National Con-\\ngress two terms he was not a candidate for re-election for the\\nnew county. In 1841 he was elected once more to a seat in\\nthe Senate of Maine. His death occurred on the anniversary\\nof his birthday, December 9, 1841.\\nThomas S. PuUen was elected to fill the vacancy caused by\\nhis death. In the Senate, January 19, 1842, Senator Pullen\\nintroduced resolves relating to the late senator-elect, Thomas\\nDavee, one of which says: He presented an eminent\\ninstance of the successful performance of high and diflficult\\ntrusts and never fell short of the hopes of his friends. He\\nwas courteous, affectionate and ])ure.\\nHe was not a public speaker in the common acceptance of\\nthe term, but it is said that he possessed executive ability to\\nan eminent degree, and had the tact, sagacity, sound judg-\\nment and magnetic qualities which are always essential in\\nthe leaders of men. All agree that he was of undoubted\\nintegrity and uprightness of character. He was favorably\\nmentioned by the part} leaders in the state as a candidate for\\ngovernor, and had he not been stricken down early in life he\\nwould undoubtedly have been elected to this high ofhce.\\nPrevious to his decease he acquired property in Monson and\\nwas interested in business enterprises there and intended to\\nchange his residence to that place. His remains lie in the\\nold Monson burying-ground near the Congregational church.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "LOUIS ANNANCE.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "LOUIS ANNANCE.\\nFor more than forty ears there lived at Greenville village,\\nat the foot of MoOvSehead Lake, in Piscatataquis County, an\\nIndian named Louis Annance, who, at one period of his life,\\nwas a chief of the St. Francis tribe of Indians, which tribe\\nwas once one of the most vigorous and powerful of the\\nAboriginal tribes of North America. During the time that\\nhis home was at this place, he was known throughout this\\nportion of Maine as a somewhat remarkable character.\\nHe was a man of marked natural ability and superior\\nintelligence and was noted for his kind and generous disposi-\\ntion, his genial and pleasant manners, unimpeachable integ-\\nrity and strict morality. While possessing all of these traits\\nof a noble and refined manhood, he, at the same time, always\\nretained the natural instincts and peculiarities of his race;\\nfor he loved the lone hunting-grounds of his fathers and\\ndevoted many autumns and winters to the adventurous hunt\\nand exciting chase.\\nHe was a trne child of nature, endowed with faculties that\\nenabled him to fully appreciate her mysteries, wonders and\\ngrandeur. His stern countenance and venerable and com-\\nmanding form became familiar to all wdio visited the lake\\nregions for many summers for he was a frequent habitue of\\nthe haunts of the sportsmen and tourists.\\nA century or more ago, the vSt. Francis Indians in the\\nCanadas were a poweful tribe, who were justly proud of their\\nlineage and valor. For a long series of years, Francis Joseph\\nAnnance was their chief, and while he was a daring and\\nvictorious chieftain in war, he was humane and benevolent in\\ntimes of peace.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "72 PISCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nHe had two sons Noel, and L,ouis who is the subject of\\nthis sketch.\\nIvouis was born August 25, 1794, where is now the town of\\nSt. Francis, Count} of Yaniaska, in the Province of Quebec.\\nHe received a Catholic tuition from the Jesuits in his neigh-\\nborhood, who subsequently procured his admission to a\\nschool in Hanover, New Hampshire, wliere he was prepared\\nfor a college course but as he was about to enter college,\\nthe war of 1812 was declared, and he was summoned to his\\nhome in Canada to serve with his tribe under the British\\ngovernment. He was engaged in that war three 3-ears.\\nHis brother Noel had command of all the Indian forces dur-\\ning that war and both were noted for their bravery and dar-\\ning in battle.\\nAt this time his people were all Catholics; but Louis, after\\ndevoting considerable thought to the subject, became con-\\nvinced that the priesthood and church were serious impedi-\\nments in the way of any intellectual or moral advancement\\nof his race, and about the year 1817 he publicly renounced\\nCatholicism, severed his connection with that body, became a\\nProtestant and joined the Congregationalists.\\nAt about this time he became by the laws or rules of his\\ntribe successor to his father as chief and ruler, but having\\nbecome an avowed Protestant and his religious convictions\\nsubjecting him to some persecution and annoyance, he, dur-\\ning the year 1818, removed to Hanover, New Hampshire.\\nHere he connected himself with the Methodists and was a\\nmember of one of their churches at the time of his death.\\nHe also united with the Masonic fraternity and was made a\\nmaster mason by North Star Lodge of Lancaster, New\\nHampshire, in the year 1834.\\nThe secretary of North Star Lodge, in a conununication to\\nAlbert P\\\\ Jackson, master of Doric Lodge of Monson, under\\ndate of November 3, 1876, writes that, some of our oldest\\nmasons recollect Brother Annance who was made a mason\\nhere, and say they have sat in a lodge with him. Not long\\nafter, and probably about the years 1835 and 1836, in some of", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGIMKNTS. 73\\nhis hunting expeditionvS, he wandered into Northern Maine\\nas far as INIoosehead Lake, and was charmed b}^ the solitude\\nof that wild and unbroken forestry, and ever afterward main-\\ntained habitation near its shadowy approaches.\\nHe died at his home in Greenville, December 25, 1875, and\\nthe funeral services were conducted b}- Masonic lodges. His\\nlast days were made pleasant and happy by the kind hand of\\nfraternal friendship. His remains repose in the Greenville\\ncemetery, under the shade of the maple and the cedar from\\nthe woodland which he loved so well, and a monument,\\nerected by his brothers of the mystic tie, marks his grave.\\nThis monument was placed there b}- Free Masons from the\\nvarious lodges in Piscataquis Count) with appropriate cere-\\nmonies, on the fourth da^^ of October, 1876, which were\\nparticipated in l)y Doric L,odge of Monson, under a dispensa-\\ntion granted by Albert Moore, Grand Master of the Grand\\nLodge of Maine, September 30, 1876. The late Honorable\\nSumner A. Patten, then of Monson and later of Skowhegan,\\ndelivered an oration upon this occasion which was an elo-\\nquent tribute to his memory.\\nI subjoin the following extracts from Mr. Patten s address:\\nAlthough belonging to a race for the most part wanting\\nin the grace and polish of education, he availed himself of\\nsome opportunity for mental culture thrown in his way in\\nearly life, and made considerable progress in the arts and\\nsciences Man}- of the characteristics of his race\\nexhibited themselves in his life, despite the influences of the\\nschools and early association with the whites, even down to\\nripe old age. He loved the comnuinion and solitude of the\\nwoods, and most of his time, after abandoning literary ur-\\nsuits, till the infirmities of age pressed heavily upon him,\\nwas spent in roaming the forests in pursuit of game.\\nFor the erection of this monument nuich was due to\\nthe efforts of the late Captain Abner T. Wade, formerly a\\nprominent member of this order, residing in vSangerville, in\\nPiscataquis County.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "74 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nIn the month of August, in the year 1874, when there was\\nO er tlie sky\\nThe silvei\\\\y haze of suniiner drawn,\\nthe writer, with a party of outers, camped for a few days\\non the shore, at the head of Moosehead Lake, near a primi-\\ntive abode which, for a few days, was the temporary home of\\nlyouis Annance.\\nAn interview with him was easily obtained. And there,\\nin a late hour of stilly twilight, under aged forest trees\\nand amid the\\nMusic of l)irds and rustling of Youiig boujihs,\\nAnd sound of swaying brandies, and the voice\\nOf distant waterfalls,\\nI enjoyed for an hour a connnunion with this venerable man\\nand heard his life history from his own lips and listened with\\ndeep interest to his views upon arious topics connected with\\nthe American Indians.\\nHe stated to me that his brother Noel at one time collected\\nrecords of all the various dialects of the numerous tribes east\\nof the Rocky Mountains. Louis devoted much time to the\\nstudy of these languages, which led him to the belief that\\nthey originally sprung from one source. His theory derived\\ntherefrom was that there once lived upon this continent a\\ndifferent and a more advanced race of people than those\\nwhom Columl)US discovered and that the arts once flourished\\namong his distant ancestors.\\nHis idea was that they Ijecame corrui)t and demoralized\\nand lo.st their power in much the same manner as have other\\nnations in other ages, and with a serious expression upon his\\ncountenance, he referred to this as a warning to the white\\nmen s governments on every shore. /\\\\nd it seemed to me\\nthat the spirit of this aged man was weighted with the errors,\\noppressions and sorrows of his race, and that the glimpses\\nwhich education had enabled him to obtain of tlie jjossibili-\\nties of a grander and higher life, had increased this soul\\nburtlen as his mintl became more potent to realize and appre-", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. ID\\nciate the true condition of his people. And I was impressed\\nwith the thought that as the smoke and flame of the old\\nchief s campfire were blended together in their ascension to\\nthe heavens, so in his mind were mingled the joys and griefs\\nof a once strong, proud and manly race, weak only because\\nof their inability to grasp the knowledge of a new and\\nstrange world. And a phantasm made me see in the weird\\ntreetops the spectral forms of departed warriors silenth\\nwatching over their former comrade, waiting only for the dis-\\nsolution of mortality to guide him to their eternal and peace-\\nful hunting grounds.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "LEONARD HILTON.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "LEONARD HILTON.\\nThe death of Honoral)le I^eoiiard Hilton of Greenville,\\nremoved from among us a highly esteemed citizen.\\nMr. Hilton was born in the town of Kingsbury, in this\\ncounty, about the year 1839. He was a man of superior\\nintelligence, a real lover of books, familiar with the best\\nauthors in English literature, possessing a discriminating\\ntaste in literary subjects which he continued to cultivate\\nthrough life.\\nHe was educated in the connnon schools and at Athens\\nand Anson academies in this state. For several years he was\\na successful teacher of schools. He served in the Union\\narni}^ in the late war for nearly four years, and at its close\\nre-enlisted in the Tenth United States Artiller} remaining\\nwith it for about three years, serving as lieutenant a part of\\nthe time, making in all some .seven years of military service.\\nThe Hiltons of Kingsbury have long been one of the lead-\\ning families of Western Piscataquis, well known as people of\\nintegrity and sterling qualities. They trace their genealog}\\nback to the early Pilgrims of New England. The ancestor\\nof the Kingsbury Hiltons settled in Cornville, in Somerset\\nCounty, when there were but twelve inhabitants in that\\ntownship. The late Judge Hilton of New York, once famous\\nfor his connection with the A. T. Stewart estate, and General\\nBenjamin F. Butler s mother, both belonged to the Cornville\\nbranch of the Hilton family.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "78 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nMr. Hilton was for manj^ years a familiar figure in Repub-\\nlican county and state conventions, always taking a lively\\ninterest in political issues and often engaging in local con-\\ntests. He served as count}- commissioner for three years and\\nwas a representative to the Maine Legislature in the session\\nof 1881. During all of the time that he resided in King.sbury\\nafter attaining to the years of manhood, he held important\\ntown offices, and later, while a resident of Greenville, was\\nalso prominent in the public affairs of that town. In all of\\nhis services as a county and town officer, his pu1)lic acts\\nreflect unblemished honor and faithfulness to every trust.\\nHe was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the\\nG. A. R.\\nWhen he moved from Kingsbury he went to Chesuncook\\nLake, where for several years he was engaged as manager of\\nMr. J. H. Eveleth s property in that wild and picturesque\\nsection of the Maine woods, afterwards locating at Greenville,\\nwhere he remained until his death. Although a close student\\nof books, he was equally as devoted to the great book of\\nnature, loved life in the woods, was well versed in forest lore,\\nand had a profound knowledge of the woods and all of the\\nfur, fin and feather kind, that was founded upon his own\\nobservations. He was quite a naturalist in his wa} and\\nenjoj-ed considering and discussing all questions pertaining\\nto our wild animals, their haunts and habits. While he did\\nnot agree with all that was done in the w-ay of game legisla-\\ntion, he was deepl\\\\- interested in these matters and was\\nespecially so when a member of the legislature. I have\\nmany times consulted him regarding the.se subjects and have\\noften relied upon his judgment and advice in endeavoring to\\narrive at conclusions about the many perplexing questions\\nwhich are continually arising regarding then).\\nHe was a man of strong convictions and of a positive\\nnature, and yet a genial, social comrade and ever a gentle-\\nman, whether in the backwoodsman s camp or in the more", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 79\\ncultured walks of life. In hip religious views he was of the\\nliberal order, believing that it was\\nXot well to prate of creeds,\\nBiit better to write one s life in noble deeds.\\nM3 relations with him were for years close and intimate\\nand our intercourse pleasant and fraternal. I long knew him\\nas a true man and a loyal friend, and I felt sad at his going\\nout from among us.\\nThe Angel of Death, whose wings have so oft shadowed\\nour count\\\\ in recent years, will not soon summon to the last\\naccounts a truer man than was mv friend, Leonard Hilton.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "ADAMS HUSE MERRILL.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "ADAMS HUSE MERRILL.\\nAdams Huse Merrill was born in Belfast, Maine, April\\n3, 1805, and died at his home in Williamsbnrg, Maine,\\nNovember 27, 1888. He was the pioneer in the roofing slate\\nbnsiness of Piscataquis, now recognized as one of Maine s\\nmost important industries. Although Mr. Merrill never\\nreceived au} but a public school education and did not\\nattend school after he was seventeen years of age, 5^et he was\\nof studious habits and became well informed by an extensive\\ncourse of reading and was in man}- respects a man of superior\\nintelligence and high character.\\nWhen sixteen years of age his father moved on to a farm\\nin Williamsburg. His finst business in life was that of a\\nfarmer. About 1840 he engaged in lumbering on the east\\nbranch of the Penobscot river and was successful in his\\nundertakings. He resided for a time at East Corinth and\\nbuilt there the fine residence now owned by Honorable John\\nMorrison.\\nIn 1852 he moved from Corinth to Williamsburg, where he\\nbought the land where his quarrj-ing operations have since\\nbeen carried on, of two Welshmen, William Hughs and\\nBenjamin Williams, and that year he commenced the business\\nof quarrying roofing slate. He also purchased other tracts\\nof land in that town and became an extensive land owner\\nthere.\\nWhen he entered upon the business of manufacturing\\nslate, there was no way of transporting it to market except\\nby drawing it to tide water at Bangor with mules and horses\\nand then shipping it to Boston by vessels. Almost any other", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "82 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nperson would have been discouraged from attempting to\\nbuild up a new enterprise under such circumstances. But\\nhis indomitable energy triumphed and he lived to reap a\\nbountiful harvest for his labors in those dark da^-s.\\nWhen the sul)ject of l)uilding the Bangor Piscataquis\\nrailroad into the Piscataquis valley was first agitated he was\\nforemost in his efforts to secure it. He was one of the very\\nfirst to call the attention of the pul^lic to the demands that\\nexisted for a raih oad. His letters to the newspapers at the\\ntime relative to this matter and to the resources of this\\ncounty, aided very materially in bringing about this result.\\nHe has represented his district in the Legislature of Maine\\nand held public offices in his town. For many years he was\\na prominent Republican personage in county, district and\\nstate conventions, and always took a lively interest in the\\nwelfare of that party. He was for many years an active and\\nworthy member of the Congregational church. He married\\nthe eldest daughter of Captain Ebenezer Greenlief, who was\\nin former years known all over Maine as a prominent land\\nsurveyor.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "SUMNER A. PATTER", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "SUMNER A. PATTEN.\\nFor main- years Sumner A Patten was a prominent and\\nwell known citizen of Piscataquis County, a leading physician\\nand active in public and political affairs. He was born in\\nSkowhegan, Maine, December G, 1820, and first settled as a\\nphysician in that part of the town of Shirley that was formerly\\na part of the old town of Wilson. He remained there but a\\nshort time when he moved into Mon.son in the year 1852,\\nwhere he resided until the year 1879, when he returned to his\\nnative town (Skowhegan), where he lived until his death,\\nwhich occurred December 19, 1898. He was prominent in\\nMasonic circles, having received all of the degrees of this\\norder. He was the first candidate who received the degrees\\nin Mariners Lodge of vSearsport, Maine, where he was made\\na Ma.son November 18, 1851. He was one of the charter\\nmembers of Kineo Lodge of Abbot, and later he was a charter\\nmember of Doric Lodge of Monson and its first Worshipful\\nMaster. He was a successfxil physician in Monson and\\nSkowhegan and during the Civil War was a member of the\\nBoard of Examining vSurgeons at Bangor. Besides holding\\ntown offices he served two terms in the Maine Senate with\\nmarked al)ility and was always one of the leaders in the\\nRepublican party in Piscataquis County. He was a familiar\\nfigure for many years in county, district and state conven-\\ntions and was a public speaker of more than ordinary ability.\\nHe has delivered Masonic, Memorial Day and literary\\naddresses in various parts of the State and his .services as\\nsuch were always sought after.\\nHe was a profound student of historical, literary and\\npolitical subjects, an interesting conversationalist and a\\ncompanionable and entertaining gentleman in all respects.\\nIn religious matters he affiliated with the Methodists but was\\nextremelv liberal in his own theoloo-ical views.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM.\\nIn the world s march of civilization the captains of science\\nand the great contrivers and inventors in mechanism and in\\nthe arts have ever been in the van. The inventors have been\\nhelpers in the elevation of mankind as much as have the dis-\\ncoverers of new continents or the leaders in literature or in\\npolitical and religious fields.\\nThat one of the world s greatest inventors, the peer of a\\nNewton, a Morse and a Franklin and a compeer of Edison,\\nwas born in Sangerville, in Piscataquis County in the State\\nof Maine, should be reason enough wh} those of us who are\\nnatives of the same borough may be pardoned for an indul-\\ngence in some pride that such is the fact.\\nNo white man ever settled in what is now the town of\\nSangerville until about the year 1800, and it was not incor-\\nporated as a town until June 13, 1814. Until recent years it\\nhas been only a town of thrifty farmers, an excellent type,\\nhowever, of New England s hard} intelligent agricultural\\ncommunities.\\nAlthough with perhaps the exception of the subject of this\\nsketch none have gone forth from Sangerville who have\\nacquired what is usually termed a national reputation, yet in\\nthe national armies, in the spheres of business and education\\nand in the professions many of her sons in various parts of\\nour nation have been successful and have attained to eminent\\nrank.\\nHiram vStevens Maxim was born in that part of Sangerville\\nknown as Brockway s Mills, in what was formerly called the\\nNickerson house, February 5, 1840. This is yet in exist-", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "S6 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGIMENTS.\\nence, being a small, weather-beaten frame house. For man}\\n3 ears after the Maxims moved out of it, it was owned and\\noccupied by one of the Brockway family.\\nAbout the \\\\-ear 1784 Samuel Maxim and his brother\\nEphraim Maxim emigrated from Wareham, Massachusetts,\\nto New Sandwich, in the Province of Maine, afterwards\\n(1798) incorporated as the town of Wayne. Sulisequently\\ntheir father, Nathan Maxim, moved from Wareham to Wayne\\nand resided with them nnU\\\\ his death.\\nIsaac Maxim, the father of Hiram, was the son of Samuel\\nand was born in the town of Strong in the vState of Maine,\\nOctober 16, 1814, and died in Wayne, April 29, 1883. He\\nmoved into what is now Piscataquis County before the county\\nwas incorporated. He married Harriet Boston Stevens in\\nBlanchard, Maine, October 14, 1888. Hiram was the eldest\\nson of a family of eight children.\\nIsaac Maxim resided with his family for many years in\\nseveral different towns in Piscataquis County before his\\ndeparture for Wayne. My own recollection of him is that of\\na man of full height, well proportioned, with keen black eyes,\\na ma.ssive forehead, with hair and a lengthy beard whitened\\nby the frosts of many winters, giving him a truly patriarchal\\nappearance. Although never having had Init a limited\\neducation he was, during his life, a profound student of such\\nsubjects as engaged his attention. His fa\\\\-orite themes of\\nthought were of matters that ]iertained to the mechanical arts\\nand inventions and also scientific and theological subjects.\\nAs his son Hiram said of him in after years in an interview\\npublished in the Pall Mall Gazette, he was a philosopher if\\nthere ever was one. Yet he was a dreamer more than he\\nwas a practical man of affairs. It was from him that Hiram\\nreceived the first impression of the principle in mechanism\\nupon which is founded the famous Maxim gun that has made\\nthe name of Hiram Stevens Maxim world renowned and has\\n])laced him in the ranks of the most eminent inventors. But\\nwhile the yerm came from the father, it was the .son s genius", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND PKAGMENTS. 87\\nthat developed and perfected it and made it of practical use\\nto the armies of Europe.\\nIsaac Maxim for many years l)efore his death l egan and\\npursued an investigation of what is known as spiritualism and\\nbecame a believer in and advocate of the so-called spiritual\\nphenomena. There is yet a tradition extant among some of\\nthe older residents of Sangerville that Isaac often referred to\\nhis invention of a gun that was revealed to him by occult\\nforces and that it woidd be so powerful anil deadly in its\\nworks that its practical effect would be to eventually abolish\\nwar and hasten the millennium.\\nHiram was, as a youth, overflowing with latent exuberance\\nand energy which oftimes found vent in pranks and boyish\\nschemes which annoyed and sometimes confounded the wiser\\nones around him. In the common schools which he attended\\nhe was more or less of a problem to the teachers in their\\nefforts to maintain the oldtime school government. He early\\ndisplayed that love for the arts and mechanical construction\\nwhich has developed within him so successfully in his later\\n3-ears.\\nOn the breaking out of the rebellion Hiram was living in\\nDexter, in the State of Maine, and joined the first company\\nthat was raised there, but that being when our statesmen\\nwere suppressing the rebellion in a few months time, it was\\nnot every company that was raised that was able to go to the\\nfront, as was the case a year later. His company was one of\\nthose not wanted in Washington and it was shorth after-\\nwards disbanded.\\nAbout this time he went to Fitchburg, Mass., being obliged\\nto borrow money to pay his railroad fare from Newport, Me.,\\nto Boston. Arriving there he began work in a shop where\\nscientific instruments were made and was afterwards employed\\nin a factorv where gas machines for illuminating residences\\nwere manufactured. It was while at work there that he per-\\nfected his first invention that was patented. It was a\\nmachine for illuminating with gas that was much more", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "ob PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nsimple and more valuable than any then known. He, how-\\never, had a lawsuit with liis employer regarding this patent,\\nwhich resulted in Mr. Maxim s favor.\\nFrom that time onward his career as an inventor has been\\none of unrivaled success. An English scientific publication,\\nthe Industries and Iron. in its issue of March 23, 1894,\\npublished an elaborate article in reference to Mr. Maxim.\\nIn 1881, he first went to England where he has since remained\\na large portion of the time. Again referring to the fact that\\nit was from his father that he first derived the idea of the\\nnow celebrated Maxim gun, I quote from an address which\\nhe delivered in London, December 11, 1896, before the Royal\\nUnited Service Institution in England upon The Automatic\\nSystem of Fire Arms: its History and Development.\\nIn this address he says: In 1854 I was living with my\\nparents in a little place known as Orneville in the State of\\nMaine. Orneville was one of the poorest townships to be\\nfound in the state, but there was an excellent water-power,\\nwhere my father had a grist mill and a wood-working shop\\nprovided with circular saws, lathes and other wood-working\\nmachinery. At that time my father conceived the idea of\\nworking a machine gun. At this time he made drawings\\nand models of such a gun as he and his father had contrived\\nand they were submitted to one Ramsdell, a gun maker in\\nBangor, Maine, but nothing came of the venture and it was\\nmany years after that Hiram fully developed the plan of the\\nautomatic gun.\\nMr. Maxim is now residing on a magnificent landed estate\\nnear London in luigland, and is a person well known in every\\nnation in the world. In a letter to the writer dated 18\\nQueens Gate Place, London, S. \\\\V., January 20, 1898, he\\nsays: The Maxim gun is being made at our own works in\\nEngland, vStockholm, vSweden and Placencia in vSpain. They\\nare also made by Krupp Ludwig of Berlin, Banquand of\\nParis and Armstrong in lingland, by the British government\\nin Ivngland, the American Ordnance Company of Bridge-", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 89\\nport, Conn., and the United States government at Washing-\\nton, D. C. The present name of the firm is Vickers Sons\\nMaxim, and we employ altogether at our various works about\\n14,000 hands. The total value of our works, working capi-\\ntal, etc., in all parts of the world is about forty millions of\\ndollars.\\nMr. Maxim has been decorated by the French government\\nand has also been decorated and received royal honors from\\nthe Portugese and vSpanisli governments, b}- the Sultan of\\nTurkey and the Emperor of China.\\nSome one has said that the people of this world are divided\\ninto two classes, viz. The men who have seen visions and\\nthe herd that has laughed at the visions and visionary.\\nIsaac Maxim saw visions and dreamed dreams, but I shall\\nalwaj^s remember him with reverence and respect, for he was\\nnot only a man of great intellect but thoroughly honest and\\nupright and gave inspiration to a family of inventors who are\\nnot dreamers but pre-eminentl} men of affairs. Hiram\\nMaxim is a resident of the world and not of any one common-\\nwealth, and tleals and makes contracts with governments,\\nsovereigns and potentates that are reckoned by millions.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "CAPTAIN THOMAS ROBINSON.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "CAPTAIN THOMAS ROBINSON.\\nThomas Robinson was born at Riviere du lyoup, in the\\nProvince of Onebec, October 31, 1830. He resided at Green-\\nville, Maine, at the foot of INIoosehead Lake, for many years,\\nand for a long time he was captain of varions steamboats\\nwhich ply that lake. He died December 30, 1886, and was\\nburied by Doric Lodge, F. A. M., January 2, 1887, the\\nRev. Charles Davison being the officiating clergyman.\\nCaptain Robinson was beloved and respected not only l)}-\\nhis brothers of the mj stic tie, but by all who enjo3 ed the\\npleasure of his acquaintance. He was born a true gentleman,\\nwith all that word implies. His genuine politeness, his faith-\\nfulness to his pu1)lic trust, his honesty and uprightness of\\ncharacter, his genial and pleasant manner and generous acts\\nto all, whether humble or high in life, were proverbial in this\\nentire region as well as among the thousands from distant\\nrealms and cities, who, when the woods are green, are annual\\nvisitors to the lake which knew him so well. He was a good\\ncitizen and neighbor, a kind and affectionate husband and\\nparent, and a friend to all.\\nThere were many sincere mourners among his neighbors\\nand friends when he was stricken down by the grim reaper.\\nAnd ever} member of Doric Lodge on that bleak Januar}- day\\nwhen we committed his remains to the mother earth, felt that\\nhe had lost a true brother and the order a worthy member.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "FRAGMENTS.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "FRAGMENTS.\\nA COURT HOU.SE DEDICATION.\\nThe Count} of Piscataquis was incorporated in 1838.\\nThe old court house was erected in 1844 by T. H. Chamber-\\nlain at a co,st of $2,900. In 1885-6, the County Commis-\\nsioners, Jesse Barber, Caleb J. Ford and Augustus W. Gil-\\nman, under a resolve of the legislature of 1885, obtained\\n$12,000 and expended this together with some $2,000 in addi-\\ntion, in enlarging this building, making it one of the most\\nconvenient and attractive court houses to be found in Maine.\\nOn Thursday, February 18, 1886, this new building was\\ndedicated by appropriate exerci.ses. A large attendance of\\ncitizens from various parts of the county were present and\\nmusic was furnished by Dj-er s Band.\\nAlexander M. Robinson presided and speeches were made\\nby Josiah Crosby of Dexter, Augustus G. Lebroke of Fox-\\ncroft, Charles A. Everett of Dover, Joseph D. Brown of Fox-\\ncroft, John F. Sprague of Monson and Joseph B. Peaks of\\nDover.\\nLetters were read from vSamuel F. Humphrey, Daniel F.\\nDavis and Albert W. Paine of Bangor and Thomas H. B.\\nPierce of Dexter. The speeches and letters pertained to\\nhi.storical reminiscences of the old court house, of the county\\nand of the Piscataquis Bar.\\nThe exercises were exceedingly interesting.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "94 I ISCATAOUIS BIOGKAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nCHIKF JUSTICK APPI.ETON AS A SEBEC LAWYER.\\nThe Honoral)le John Appleton who afterwards became one\\nof the eminent jurists of New England and who was for\\nthirty-one years a member of the vSuprenie Court of Maine\\nand for twenty-one years its able and honored Chief Justice,\\nmade his debut as a practicing lawyer in the little picturesque\\nvillage of Sebec, in Piscataquis County, that peacefully\\nnestles at the foot of beautiful Sebec Lake. He remained\\nthere and was an active participant in the affairs of the new\\ntown and attended to the litigation of the brave and hardy\\npioneers of that day and section for six years, when he\\nremoved to Bangor, which was ever afterwards his home.\\nIt was fated that he should hold his last nisi pTius term at\\nDover, in the same county where he commenced his memor-\\nable professional career. This was the September Term,\\n1888. As the moment approached when it would become his\\nduty to make the final adjournment of his last term of court,\\na feeling of sadness prevailed among the lawyers, the officers\\nof the court and the spectators assembled in the old Piscata-\\nquis court-room.\\nResolutions expressing the respect and esteem of the mem-\\nbers of the Piscataquis Bar A.ssociation had previously been\\nprepared and were presented to Judge Appleton at this time\\nin an eloquent manner by Augustus G. Lebroke who had\\nIjeen selected for this purpose by the members of the Bar.\\nThey were feelingly and beautifully responded to bv Judge\\nAppleton.\\nALEXANDER GREENWOOD.\\nThomas Greenwood, a weaver, was born in England and\\nsettled in Cambridge Village in Massachusetts, in 1667. He\\nmarried Hannah, daughter of John Ward. Their son John\\nmarried Elizabeth Jackson and settled in Newton, Mass.\\nJohn Greenwood, the son of John and Elizabeth Jackson", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHV AND FKACrMKXTS. 0\\nGreeiuvood, moxed into the Province of Maine ami settletl on\\nAlexander Shejdierd s land, now the town of Hebron.\\nTheir son Alexander Greenwood became a land surveyor\\nand a citizen of prominence in his day. He lotted the towns\\nof Woodstock and Greenwood in Oxford County, and the\\nlatter town was named for him. He represented the town of\\nHebron in the iL^eneral court of Massachusetts in the years\\n1S09-11-12-14, and was also a member of the Maine Consti-\\ntutional Convention. He moved into the town of Monson\\nin 1822 or 28, and lotted out Monson and other towns in this\\ncounty. Greenwood Pond and Greenwood Mountain in\\npicturesque P!lliottsville were both named for him. His name\\nis a prominent oiie on the early records of Monson.\\nIn 1S27 he was killed b\\\\- the falling of a tree near where\\nWilliams mills now are in the town of Willimantic. His\\nremains are buried in the old Monson village churchxard,\\nand strange to say, no stone of any kind marks his last\\nresting place.\\nH.\\\\XNIBAI. HAMI.IX AS A PISCATAQUIS PISCATOK.\\nHaxxib.vi. Hamlix was Maine s great commoner. He\\nwas loved by the people because he was one of them. When-\\never he appeared among them, it was always as an equal and\\nnever with any airs of superiority. He was everywhere\\nbeloved and honored for his qualities as a statesman and as\\nan honest, fearless and upright leader in public affairs. He\\nwas also famous in his own county and all through the upper\\nPiscataquis valley as a devoted di.sciple of Izaak Walton.\\nNature has had in all of the flood of years but few sincere\\nlovers who have not been anglers for fish in one way or another.\\nAngling develops the philosopher. Mr. Handin was one of\\nthe greatest of philosophers and was not an exception to this\\nrule for he was also an expert angler. He could cast a flv\\nwith skill, but was no more of an aristocrat in his affairs with\\nthe finnv kind than with mankind.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "on PTSCATAOnS KIOCKAPHV AND KKAGMKNTS.\\nHe sought for ])ractical results in both cases, and could\\nderive pleasure with the crude fishing gear borrowed from\\nthe barefooted boy as well as with the most costl} rod and\\nreel. He was familiar with the silent homes of the trout\\nthroughout this region. I doubt if there is a lake or pond\\nand but few brooks within the town of Monson where he\\ndid not at some time during his life tempt the wary trout with\\nfly or bait. He was also a frequent visitor to Elliottsville\\nand to Moosehead I^ake and other resorts in this vicinitw\\nI often hear dwellers on the borders of our great forests and\\nnear our lakes relate interesting reminiscences of these fish-\\ning trips of Mr. Hamlm, which is conclusive that he was a\\ntrue lover of the gentle art that has charmed so many of\\nthe sons of men of high and low degree all along through the\\ncenturies. An illustration of how the simplicity of Hannil^al\\nHamlin s life impressed itself upon all with whom he came in\\ncontact, inspiring all with a feeling of comradeship with him,\\nis found in the incident which I have oft heard related here,\\nof the uncouth Monson youth of nineteen years who was\\nonce fishing with others for trout in the winter time through\\nthe ice in Goodale Pond in Monson. Not many rods distant\\nwas the ex-Vice President with a part\\\\- of Bangor gentlemen\\nalso engaged in the same pastime. As is usual in winter\\nfishing, they were all using live ])ait which consisted of\\nsmall chubs and shiners carried to the fishing grounds in\\npails. Of a sudden the meditations of the statesman were\\ndisturbed by the high-pitched and harsh tones of the uncouth\\nMon.son youth, addressing him thus: vSay, Uncle Handin,\\ncan t you sell me some chubs. I m all out.\\nWhat would have disconcerted some gentlemen did not in\\nthe slightest degree affect him. Without so much as a\\nsmile, Mr. Hamlin in the most pleasant and natural tones\\nassented to his recpiest, divided chubs with him and politel\\ndeclined the proffered pay. Nothing in Mr. Hamlin s\\nmanner suggested to the uncouth xonth that he had done\\nanvthinu unconventional or unusual.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 97\\nPIvSCATAOIUS IN THE MAINp; CON.STITUTIONAE CONVENTION.\\nThe Articles of Separation, whereby Maine became a State,\\nwere passed b}^ the General Court of Massachusetts at the\\nsession of 1819 and were approved by the Governor of the\\nMother Commonwealth June 19, 1819.\\nThe Constitutional Convention, which convened and acted\\nunder and by virtue of these articles, met at Portland,\\nMonday, October 11, 1819. Those members who then\\nrepresented that part of Penobscot County which is now\\nPiscataquis, in this body were: Samuel Chamberlain of\\nFoxcroft, William I,owney of Sebec, Benjamin C. Goss of\\nSangerville, Joseph Kelsey of Guilford, and Eleazer W. Snow\\nof Atkinson.\\nx\\\\mong the other members who represented other counties\\nand who were identified with us were Sanford Kingsbury of\\nGardiner, who founded the town of Kingsbury; Joseph E.\\nFoxcroft of New Gloucester, and Alexander Greenwood of\\nHebron, subsequently a resident of Monson.\\nTHE MILLION ACRES.\\nIn old files of Maine newspapers and in old deeds and\\nrecords of lands in Eastern Maine reference is often made to\\nthe million acres or the million acre tract.\\nJuly 1st, 1791, Samuel Phillips, lyconard Jarvis and John\\nRead, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, contracted in\\nwriting to sell to Col. Henry Jackson of Boston, and Royal\\nFlint of New York, two million acres of land in the District\\nof Maine, at ten cents per acre. (Col. Jackson commanded\\na regiment of Massachusetts soldiers during the Revolution.)\\nJuly 25th, 1791, (same month) Jackson and Flint assigned\\ntheir contract to William Duer of New York, and Henry\\nKnox, Secretary of the Department of War to the United\\nStates of America.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "98 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGINIENTS.\\nIn December, 1792, Duer and Knox assigned the contract\\nto William Bingham of Philadelphia. January 28th, 1793,\\nthe above named Phillips, Jarvis and Read, (duly authorized\\nby resolves of General Court) conve^-ed by sixteen deeds the\\nabove named two million acres of land to said William Bing-\\nham. One million acres is in the counties of Hancock and\\nWashington except three to\\\\Ynships in Penobscot, and was\\ncalled Bingham s Penobscot Purchase, (B. P. P.) The\\nother million acres was on both sides of the Kennebec River\\nand all in Somerset County except six townships in Piscata-\\nquis and four and a half townships in Franklin, and was\\ncalled Bingham s Kennebec Purchase, (B. K. P.) The\\ntowns of Wellington, Kingsbur\\\\- (now dis-incorporated)\\nBlanchard, the original town of vShirley before part of Wilson\\nwas annexed, and two townships called Squaw Mountain\\ntownships are the Bingham towns in Piscataquis County.\\nThe road from vShirley corner, north, is supposed to be on\\nthe old Bingham line for some two miles.\\nIn 1804, Wm. Bingham by will devised all his estate, real,\\npersonal and mixed, to Alexander Baring, Henry Baring,\\nRobert Gilmore, Thomas Maine Willing and Charles Willing\\nHare. April 27th, 1807, the devisees gave a power of attor-\\nne} to certain parties to act for them, so that William Bing-\\nham probably died between 1804 (date of will) and 1807.\\nI learn that the two Barings, Alexander and Henry, married\\ndaughters of William Bingham. The name of Million\\nAcres was given to the settleuient in Blanchard before its\\nincorporation in 1831, as some of the oldest residents in\\nMonson and vicinity may recollect.\\nDate of sale of the townships comprising the towns in\\nPiscataquis County: Wellington, Kingsbur\\\\-, Blanchard,\\nShirley William Bingham, 1793; Milo Jonathan Ha.stings,\\n1795; x\\\\bbot, Guilford, Foxcroft, Sebec Bowdoin College,\\n179(5; Dover Hallowell Lowell, 1802; Sangerville John\\nS. Fazy, 1802; Atkinson U. Sigourney, 1804; Williams-\\nburg William Dodd, 1804; Parkman, Williinantic Sanuiel", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 99\\nParkmaii. 1804; Brownville, Brown Hills, 1805; Orne-\\nville J. F. Boyd, 1805; Monson Hebron Monson (Mass.)\\nAcadamies, 1811 Greenville Saco Acadenn- and Saco Free\\nBridge, 181h Medford\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. P. Boyd and R. Oilman et als.,\\n1820.\\nIN MEMORY OF A DOG.\\nDollar was the .somewhat unique name of my canine\\nfriend whose sudden death occurred at Monson, August 17,\\n1892. While he never 1)\\\\- an}- single act attempted to flatter\\nme with the idea that I was fir.st in his affections, he for\\nseveral 3-ears favored me with most kind attentions and in\\ninnumerable ways gave me pleasant a.ssurances that he was\\nmy friend and that his allegiance was true, steadfast and\\nunselfish. While human friends would .sometimes prove\\nfalse, his heart was always honest. I prized his friendship\\nhighly because it contained no atom of flattery or deception\\nof anj kind.\\nBeing only a dog he could not learn hypocrisv or dissem-\\nbling in any form and existed in a world of absolute .sincerit)^\\nwhich state of existence is utterly incomprehensible to the\\nhuman kind. As he was entirely sincere, his life was also\\none of perfect innocence. The world in which he lived had\\nnever undertaken to discriminate by comparison or otherwise\\nbetw-een good and evil. For this rea.son he knew no evil or\\nwrong.\\nPossessing an unusually affectionate and pleasant nature,\\nhe had numerous friends who miss his daily greetings and\\nmourn his untimely loss. Probably no dog ever lived in\\nMonson who had so large a circle of friends as Mr. Chapin s\\nDollar. His intelligence was of a superior order as compared\\nwith that of ordinary dogs. He was an original character\\nand was noted for many peculiarities. One of his prominent\\ncharacteristics was courage, which usuall}^ overbalanced his", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "100 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\ndiscretion. While experience taught him many lessons\\nwhich he remembered with profit, he never overcame this one\\nweakness, and it finally cost him his life.\\nHis indiscretions of this kind were generally forgiven b}-\\nthe dogs with whom he associated and he passed through\\nmany dangers unharmed but when he attacked the brutal\\nhedgehog in the Brazierville woods he paid the penalty by\\nhis death. He had many virtues and no vices. He loved\\neveryone, loved everything in the world, never hated anyone\\nor anything, and he made the world better for his having\\nlived in it, for he caused cheerfulness wherever he was. And\\nyet, although a dog and always living the pure, honest and\\nfaithful life of a dog, even he was not perfect but inherited a\\nfatal fault.\\nI imagine he never had a human enemy. If such an one\\never did exist, the person would be onl}^ an object of pity.\\nOne who could hate Dollar would have a bad heart. And\\nyet, curiously enough, the theology of my 3 outh informs us\\nthat such a person would have an immortal soul, and that a\\nheaven has been created for his reception, while the good\\ndog, the embodiment of kindness, of love and of honesty, is\\nrobbed of a soul and refused a heaven.\\nOUR SIUENT WARDS.\\nAnd God said let us iiiak man in our own iniaoe, after our li] eness;\\nand let them have dominion over tlie tisli of tlie sea, and over the fowl\\nof the air. and over the eattle, ami over ail the ^arth, and over every\\ncreei)iu i liiinLi that ci-eepeth upon the eartli. (ien. 1 2(5.\\nDuring the expiring days of the year last past (189G), I\\nattended a farmers institute, tinder the auspices of the Maine\\nBoard of Agriculture.\\nWhile it was primarily for the promotion of agricultural\\ninterests, yet the eminent speakers in urging from the most\\nlearned and scientific standpoints what course of treatment", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 101\\nfor domestic animals would be the most profitable for the\\nfarmer, demonstrated clearly that such treatment would also\\npromote the comfort of these animals, and make their lives,\\nw hile toiling as l^easts of burden for the husbandman, more\\npleasant and in closer harmony with the laws of nature.\\nIf this institute had occurred in the long, bright and\\ncharming da3 s of sununertide instead of during the short,\\ndismal and sad days of bleak December, the audience could\\nhave had from the windows of their audience room a vision\\nof one of the most glorious panoramic views ever painted by\\nthe hand of Nature a group of grand old mountains encir-\\ncling lyake Onawa, clad in the verdant and primeval gar-\\nments of Maine forestry.\\nThese mountains, Onawa and other adjacent lakes and the\\ncountry thereabouts, are the natural homes and permanent\\nabiding places of the moose, the deer, the caribou, the bear\\nand the salmon and trout. As I listened to these farming\\nsavants I thought, how strange, wonderful and awful a thing\\nis life We knew nothing of its source, much less an^-thing\\nof its course through eternity. The lights of inspiration and\\nscience, reflecting upon the impenetrable darkness and gloom\\nof the unknown, reveal to us, however, certain facts. One of\\nthe most discernible of these to the finite vision is, that every\\nspeechless creature, whether now in the wild state or domesti-\\ncated, is the ward of mankind under a decree of the Infinite\\nPower.\\nFinite law attempts to draw feeble and foolish distinctions.\\nIt makes a wolf of the dog, which is in fact the most domestic,\\nthe most faithful, the most lovable and tenderhearted animal\\non earth. The infinite laws are as Inroad as limitless space\\nand endless time. Under them every human being is one of\\nthe guardians during his human lifetime of all of the animal\\nkingdom, wliether confined and trained by man or roaming\\nthe wilds of nature. It matters not what it is, whether fur,\\nfin or feather, whether wild or tame, the condition of our\\nguardianship is the same.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "102 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS.\\nThe awful laws of the Infinite liave placed in our care\\nevery bird tliat flies heavenward and warbles to us in the\\ngloaming; every fish in all of earth s waters; every animal\\nof every kind and every reptile as w^ell. How faithfulh we\\nperform our duties toward these dumb wards can never be\\nadjudicated upon by human courts. We receive our appoint-\\nment from the Infinite Power. Our final account as guardians\\nmust sometime be rendered to that Power. No human edicts\\ncan ever affect this infinite arrangement. What the compen-\\nsation may be, how the rewards and penalties may be\\nadjusted, we are not in this existence to be informed. It is\\nonly for us to know what are our terribly solemn obligations.\\nThe more intelligent man becomes the more fully does he\\nrealize this fact. We are becoming more and more real\\nlovers of our silent wards. The love for greed may develop\\nthis love for animals. It would seem, however, that our good\\nconduct would be rewarded, even though we are forced to\\ntreat them better because we gradually learn that it is more\\nprofitable to do so.\\nIt is a matter for rejoicing in heaven and on earth that men\\nare becoming aware that their material interests are identical\\nwith the life, safety and happiness of their animal depend-\\nents. And men who are studying the problem of animal life\\nas connected with human advancement are coming to know\\nit more and more. Therefore a farmers institute and a\\n.sportsmen s convention are identical fundamentally. The\\nonly difference is that they are working on separate lines.\\nOne is devoloping the idea that the better we care for and\\nprotect the domesticated animals the more wealth they will\\nyield to the husbandman. The other is demonstrating that\\na preservation of the undomesticated animals continually\\nadds to the revenues of our State and that to wantonly des-\\ntroy them detracts therefrom. Both tend to bring us into\\nharmony with the higher law upon which rests our whole\\nrelationship as guardians and wards with these animals,\\nsome of which are in fact, and all of which are in theory\\nupon a lower plane of life than ourselves.", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "0^\\nV^^", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": ".y .*:r^%", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS", "height": "3135", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "piscataquisbiogr00spra_0152.jp2"}}