{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4481", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Glass-\\nBook-", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "CELEBRATION\\nOF THE\\nONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY\\nOF THE\\nINCORPORATION\\nOF THE\\nTOWN OF BRUNSWICK\\nJUNE 13 1889", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2643", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CELEBRATION\\nOF THE\\nONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY\\nOF THE\\nINCORPORATION\\nOF THE\\nTOWN OF BRUNSWICK\\nJUNE 13 1889\\nBRUNSWICK MAINE\\nPUBLISHED BY THE PEJEPSCOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY\\n1889", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "This account is published by the Pejepscot Historical Society, aided\\nby a contribution from the General Committee of the town. The money\\nthus received has been expended in procuring illustrations, and the\\nprice of the pamphlet covers merely the cost of printing and binding.\\nEdward C. Guild,\\nGeorge T. Little,\\nHexry W. Wheeler,\\nCommittee on Publication.\\nPRINTED AT JOURNAL OFFICE, LEWISTON, ME.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nPreliminary Arrangements, 1\\nThe Celebration, 8\\nCommemorative Ode, 10\\nAddress of the President of the Day, 11\\nOration, 14\\nPoem, 40\\nThe Procession, 45\\nThe Dinner, 48\\nAppendix, 79\\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nTown Hall, Frontispiece.\\nCard of Invitation, 5\\nMain Street from the Tontine, 9\\nGlimpses of Brunswick, 17\\nAndroscoggin Eiver, 41\\nG-limpses of the Procession, 47\\nFac Simile of Act of Incorporation, 81", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS.\\nThe proposition for an observance of the one hundred and fiftieth\\nanniversary -of the incorporation of Brunswick originated with the\\nPejepscot Historical Society. At a meeting of that Society, held\\nJanuary 10, 1888, it was\\nVoted, That in the opinion of this Society there should he a public observance\\nof the one hundred, and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of Brunswick,\\nand on February 16, 1888, a vote was passed requesting the Execu-\\ntive Committee to lay the matter before the town at its next annual\\nmeeting. The Executive Committee accordingly procured the inser-\\ntion of the following article in the warrant for the annual town\\nmeeting\\nArt. 21. To see if the town will vote to celehrate with suitable public\\nexercises the oue hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its incorporation; and to\\nraise money for that purpose agreeable to the petition of B. Greene and others.\\nAt the annual meeting of the town, held March 5, 1888, the\\nfollowing votes were passed\\nVoted, That the town celebrate with appropriate public exercises the one\\nhundred and fiftieth anniversary of its incorporation, which falls on the sixth day\\nof February, 1889; and that the sum of five hundred dollars he added to the tax\\nlevy and appropriated to meet the expenses of such celebration.\\nVoted, That a General Committee of twelve citizens be appointed and author-\\nized to act for the town in making arrangements for such a celebration, to\\ndetermine the time, to prepare a programme for the occasion and see that it is\\nduly carried out, and to expend the money appropriated for that purpose.\\nVoted, That the following gentlemen be appointed and constituted the General\\nCommittee in charge of the celebration; and that they be authorized to fill vacan-\\ncies in their own number and to appoint other persons to act with them on sub-\\ncommittees, so far as may be expedient in order to secure the accomplishment of\\nthe object of the celebration.\\nChairman of the Board of Selectmen, Henry W. Wheeler,\\nCharles J. Gtlman, John Furbish,\\nDaniel H. Stone, Henry Johnson,\\nAlbert G-. Tenney, Sumner L. Holbrook,\\nLemuel H. Stover, William M. Pennell,\\nIra P. Booker, Isaac Hacker.\\nThis action of the town was supplemented at its annual meeting\\nin 1889. The General Committee, finding that the amount of money", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "2\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nat its disposal would be inadequate to meet the cost of such a cele-\\nbration as had been decided upon, procured the insertion of the\\nfollowing article in the warrant for the town meeting\\nArt. 17. To see if the town will vote any additional amount of money to\\nthat already voted for the purpose of celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth\\nanniversary of the incorporation of the town and raise money for the same,\\nagreeable to the petition of John Furbish and others.\\nAt the annual meeting of the town, held March 4, 1889, the fol-\\nlowing vote was passed\\nVoted, That the sum of five hundred dollars be raised by taxation and appro-\\npriated towards defraying the expense attending the celebration of the one\\nhundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town.\\nIn addition to the one thousand dollars appropriated by the town\\nthe General Committee received from Bowdoin College the sum of\\none hundred dollars which was voted in aid of the celebration at the\\nannual meeting of the Boards in 1888. Miss Salome H. Snow also,\\nwithout solicitation, sent her check for fifty dollars, and a consider-\\nable sum was raised by subscription for particular features of the\\ncelebration, as shown in the financial statement in the appendix.\\nThe committee had, therefore, abundant resources for the successful\\naccomplishment of their purposes.\\nThere were twenty meetings of the General Committee, the first\\noccurring March 26, 1888, and the last October 10, 1889. The first\\nmeeting of the General Committee was called to order by the Chair-\\nman of the Board of Selectmen, Mr. Frank E. Roberts, and he was\\nmade the permanent chairman of the committee. Mr. Henry W.\\nWheeler was elected Secretary, and Mr. Lemuel H. Stover, Treas-\\nurer. At this meeting a proposition that the celebration occur\\non the actual anniversary of the date of the incorporation was\\ntabled, and at the next meeting, held April 17, 1888, the date for\\nthe celebration was fixed for June 13, 1889, and Messrs. Henry W.\\nWheeler, Ira P. Booker, and Heniy Johnson were chosen a com-\\nmittee to arrange a complete programme for the celebration, to be\\nsubmitted to the General Committee for its consideration. At the\\nnext meeting, May 21, 1888, the committee chosen at the previous\\nmeeting reported a general programme for the celebration, with\\ndetails of its various features. The report was accepted and the\\nprogramme, in all its essential features, was adopted by the General\\nCommittee. One or two additions were made subsequently by the\\nGeneral Committee, but the programme as finally carried out was\\nsubstantially that which was first proposed. At this meeting Pro-", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n3\\nfessor Charles Carroll Everett, of Harvard University, a native of\\nBrunswick, was unanimously elected Orator for the occasion, and\\nProfessor Henry Leland Chapman, of Bowcloiu College, was unani-\\nmously elected Poet. No further action of importance was taken\\nby the General Committee until February 11, 1889, when it was\\nvoted to ask the town for a second appropriation of five hundred\\ndollars in aid of the celebration. At the next meeting, March 7,\\n1889, Dr. -Alfred Mitchell was unanimously elected President of the\\nDay, and various special committees were chosen, a full list of which\\nis given in the appendix. Dr. James W. Curtis was elected a\\nmember of the General Committee, vice Daniel H. Stone, deceased.\\nApril 11, 1889, Mr. Henry W. Wheeler asked to be excused from\\nserving longer as Secretary of the General Committee. His resigna-\\ntion was accepted and Professor Henry Johnson was elected Secre-\\ntary. At this meeting it was voted to invite the following-named\\npersons to attend the celebration as guests of the town\\nThe Governor of Maine and his Staff.\\nThe Congressional Delegation from Maine.\\nThe Selectmen of Topsham.\\nThe Selectmen of Harpswell.\\nDoctor George A. Wheeler of Castine, Me.\\n(Senior Historian of Brunswick).\\nOther meetings of the General Committee were held previous to the\\ncelebration, at which matters of detail not of sufficient permanent\\ninterest for publication in these pages were attended to.\\nAt a meeting held September 9, 1889. the Treasurer reported\\nthat all bills had been paid and that there was a balance of one\\nhundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-one cents in the treasury.\\nIt was thereupon\\nVoted, That the Treasurer of the General Committee is authorized to pay the\\nsum of one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-one cents to the Treasurer\\nof the Pejepscot Historical Society to aid in the publication of an account of the\\ncelebration to be printed under the auspices of that Society.\\nIt was also voted to deposit in the archives of the Pejepscot\\nHistorical Society, for preservation, the records and papers of the\\nGeneral Committee. The final meeting of the General Committee\\nwas held October 10, 1889, at which the Auditor s Report (which\\nwill be found in the appendix) was read and accepted, and the\\nfollowing resolutions were passed\\nResolved, That the General Committee for itself and in behalf of the citizens\\nof the town desires to express to Professor Charles Carroll Everett sincere thanks", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "4\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nfor his eloquent and scholarly oration; to Professor Henry Leland Chapman for\\nhis appropriate and beautiful poem, and to Dr. Alfred Mitchell for the able and\\ngraceful manner in which he performed his duty as President of the Day.\\nResolved, That the success of the celebration was largely due to the efficient\\nlabors of the various special committees, the members of which worked with an\\nenergy and zeal which entitle them to the warmest commendation, and that the\\nGeneral Committee acknowledges the cooperation and aid thus received.\\nSome time previous to tbe celebration cards of invitation were\\nsent, under the direction of the Committee on Printing, to all former\\nresidents of Brunswick whose addresses could be obtained and to\\nother persons who were supposed to take an interest in the town\\nand in the celebration. Four hundred and ninety-seven invitations\\nwere thus distributed by the committee and many more were sent\\nby individuals, over eight hundred invitations having been furnished\\nto citizens at a nominal price. The invitation was engraved on steel\\nand is reproduced on another page.\\nPosters, of which the following is a copy, were sent to all the\\nneighboring towns and to the principal places along the lines of the\\nvarious railroads in this section of the State.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "f-OR^ 6e\u00c2\u00b0F\\\\GE: )$UILT v\\nm w i 1 1 celebrate the\\n@ne j=[undped and p*iftie+h ^nniVersap|\\n0$ lj Y inco^pof^at ion\\n1719 .^Etms*,^my\\nserf?/ \u00c2\u00a3e/ /tf/w/?y/t/i^kz^", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n5\\nCELEBRATION\\nOF THE\\nONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY\\nOF THE INCORPORATION\\nOF THE\\nTOWN OF BRUNSWICK,\\nJune 13, 1889.\\nSalutes will be fired at sunrise, upon the arrival of the Governor, and at sunset, and the\\nbells of the Toavu -will be rung.\\nFantastic Parade at 7.30 a.m.\\nAn Oration will be delivered at the Congregational Church, by Professor C. C. Everett,\\nof Harvard University, and a Poem by Professor H. L. Chapman,\\nof Bowdoin College, at 9.30 a.m.\\nA GRAND PROCESSION\\nWill march through the principal streets of the town at 12 M.\\nA Public Dinner will be held at the Town Hall, at which Speeches will be made by\\nDistinguished Guests and Prominent Citizens, at 1.30 P.M.\\nTickets at $1.00 each may be had of Mr. E. A. Will. As the number is limited, applica-\\ntions should be made early.\\nBase-Ball Game\\nOn the Delta at 3.30 p.m.\\nBOWDOINS VS. PRESUMPSCOTS.\\nA RECEPTION will be held in the TOWN HALL in the evening at 8.\\nFireworks at 9.30 P.M.\\nA COLLECTION OF LOCAL ANTIQUITIES\\nWill be open to the Public at the Court Room, in Town Building, on Thursday, Friday,\\nand Saturday.\\nRailroad Fare.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 One Fare for the Round Trip on Maine Central, Knox Lincoln,\\nGrand Trunk, and Portland Rochester Railroads on the 12th and 13th; good to return on\\nthe 14th.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "6\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nA few days previous to the celebration various tablets were set\\nup by the committee having charge of that work. Upon the town\\nbuilding they placed a solid bronze tablet tastefully designed and\\nexecuted, bearing the following inscription\\nBRUNSWICK\\nFirst Settled in 1628;\\nIncorporated as a Township, 1717;\\nIncorporated as a town, Feb. 6, 1739;\\n(January 26, 1738, O. S.).\\nNeatly painted wooden tablets of ornamental design, and with\\nappropriate inscriptions, were placed upon the following historic\\nspots Site of Fort George, at the northern end of Main Street\\nsite of Fort Andros, on the store of F. C. Webb Co. site of\\nMcFarland s Block House, on Day s Block, corner of Main and\\nMason Streets site of Dunning s Block House, on the cottage\\nopposite the south entrance to the Town Building site of the First\\nTown House, on Main Street, south of the residence of Mrs. Charles\\nPackard and on the site of the First Meeting House, about a mile south\\nof the colleges. The material for these wooden tablets was donated\\nby Mr. D. A. Booker, and they were made without charge by\\nMr. Thomas S. Melcher. Temporary placards, with suitable inscrip-\\ntions, were placed upon the following buildings upon the residence\\nof Mrs. William G. Barrows to designate the residence of Henry\\nW. Longfellow when he was a Professor in Bowdoin College upon\\nthe residence of Mrs. Ellen F. Lincoln, the oldest house in the\\nvillage upon the residence of Mr. Samuel Whitmore, in which Mrs.\\nHarriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom s Cabin and upon\\nvarious old buildings to show the date of their erection.\\nOn the Sunday preceding the Celebration an Historical Observ-\\nance of the formation of The Church of Christ, in Brunswick,\\nwas held in the First Parish Church, at which the following was the\\norder of exercises\\nMORNING SERVICE.\\nOrgan Prelude. Gloria Patri.\\nInvocation. Scripture Reading.\\nPsalm 103. Anthem.\\nPrayer.\\nHymn 1019, Oh Where are Kings and Empires Now?\\nHistorical Discourse by the Pastor, William P. Fisher.\\nHymn 885, I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord.\\nPrayer with Benediction.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "IXCORPOB ATION OF 1 5 R CJNS WICK\\nEVENING SERVICE.\\nOrgan Prelude.\\nWelcome by the Pastor.\\nHymn 339, All Hail the Power of Jesus Name.\\nScripture Reading.\\nPrayer.\\nAnthem, And the Glory of the Lord. Handel.\\nAddress, by Professor William A. Packard.\\nAddress,, by Professor Egbert C. Smyth.\\nHymn, prepared for the occasion.\\nAddress, by the Reverend Ezra H. Byington.\\nAddress by the Reverend Aaron C. Adams.\\nHymn 248, O God Our Help in Ages Past.\\nPrayer with Benediction.\\nHYMN\\nBy the Reverend Samuel V. Cole.\\nTune Louvan, Page 65.\\nO thou to whom the mighty spheres\\nHave sung forever, guided well,\\nWe praise Thee for the signs that tell\\nThy guidance in our moving years:\\nThe peace that follows after strife,\\nAnd, in the shade, the growing light,\\nThe clearer vision of the right,\\nThe larger hope, the ampler life.\\nWe sing the old song still we sing\\nOf faith in one eternal plan,\\nWhich thou hast, written out for man\\nAnd the enfolding ages bring.\\nTo right nor left Thy purpose sways,\\nBut moves toward better things to be\\nFor thou art faithful. O that we\\nBe faithful in our works, and days.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "THE CELEBRATION.\\nThe day opened with ringing of bells and firing a national salute\\nof one hundred and fifty guns at sunrise. The salute was fired by\\na section of men from the Second Platoon of the First Maine\\nBattery, under command of Captain O. T. Despeaux, and occupied\\nfifty-three minutes.\\nA Parade of Fantastics, which was an unusually large and fine\\naffair of the kind, took place at 7.30. The procession formed at\\nWoodlawn and marched through the principal streets of the town,\\ndisbanding in front of the Tontine Hotel at 8.30. It was under the\\nsuperintendence of the Chief Marshal of the clay, C. E. Townsend,\\nand was accompanied by two bands. Numerous comic groups were\\npresented, and at the close two prizes were awarded ten dollars\\nin gold to the group entitled Is Marriage a Failure? and five\\ndollars to The Darktown Fire Company.\\nDuring the morning a trial of fire engines took place between\\nthe Niagara Company, No. 3, of Brunswick and the General Bates of\\nLisbon Falls. The prize, a silver pitcher, was won by the General\\nBates Company.\\nOn the arrival of the Governor and his Staff on the train from\\nAugusta a Governor s salute of seventeen guns was fired.\\nAt 9.30 the bell of the Congregational Church summoned citizens\\nand visitors to listen to the literary exercises of the day. The Gov-\\nernor and his Staff and other invited guests, together with some of\\nthe venerable citizens of Brunswick were seated on the. platform,\\nand the exercises were carried out in accordance with the following\\nprogramme", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2491", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n1739. EXERCISES 1889\\nIn Congregational Church, Brunsayick,\\nThursday, June 13, 1889,\\nAt 9.30 A.M.,\\nCELEBRATING\\nTHE\\nONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY\\nOf the Incorporation of the Town.\\nORDER OF EXERCISES.\\nPresident of the Day, Dr. Alfred Mitchell.\\nOrgan Voluntary, Miss M. W. Swett.\\nReading of Scripture and Prayer, Rev. W. P. Fisher.\\nCommemorative Ode, Chorus.\\nOration, Prof. C. C. Everett.\\nMusic, Chorus.\\nPoem, Prof. H. L. Chapman.\\nHymn Before Jehovah s Awful Throne,\\nLined out and sung by Congregation.\\nBenediction, Rev. G. P. Mathews.\\nBefore Jehovah s awful throne\\nYe nations how with sacred joy;\\nKnow that the Lord is God alone;\\nHe can create and He destroy.\\nHis sovereign power, without our aid,\\nMade us o f clay, and formed us men;\\nAnd when, like wandering sheep, we strayed,\\nHe brought us to His fold again.\\nWe ll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs,\\nHigh as the heavens our voices raise;\\nAnd earth, with all her thousand tongues,\\nShall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.\\nWide as the world is Thy command,\\nVast as eternity Thy love;\\nFirm as a rock Thy truth shall stand,\\nWhen rolling years shall cease to move.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0029.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "COMMEMORATIVE ODE.\\nMiss Charlotte Mellen Packard.\\nWe sing the years that pass\\nLike shadows o er the grass\\nAt summer s prime\\nWe sing of life s deep flow\\nOf men that come and go,\\nTheir deeds for weal or woe\\nHeld fast by time.\\nWe reap the harvest sown\\nBy faithful hands unknown,\\nEeap fruit or flower;\\nThey feared not fortune s frown\\nThe nameless ones whose crown\\nIs to have handed down\\nThis golden hour.\\nTheirs was the strain and stress\\nThrough thorny wilderness\\nA path to win;\\nBy many a stubborn foe\\nNobly at last laid low,\\nTheir labors high we know\\nWho enter in.\\nGuard we our sacred trust\\nPeace after battle dust\\nAnd learning free.\\nSecure in homes so fair,\\nWe breathe as common air\\nThe good they might not share,\\nWhose sons are we.\\nThou to whose boundless thought\\nThe ages are as naught,\\nThe soul is dear,\\nTeach us that wisdom true\\nIn which our fathers grew,\\nThe springs of faith renew,\\nTeach us Thy fear!", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0030.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE DAY.\\nDoctor Alfred Mitchell.\\nFellow -Townsmen, Ladies and Gentlemen:\\nThe custom of anniversary celebration has long been\\nregarded as one of peculiar and delightful interest. Not\\nonly does it serve to awaken the best feelings and emotions\\nof those who live in the place of such a commemoration, but\\nit also stirs the most sacred and tender sentiments of affection\\nin the hearts of those who have been long and far absent from\\nthe scenes and associations of youth and childhood.\\nEvidently the degree of interest, the depth of feeling, will\\nbe commensurate with the attractions and characteristics of\\nthe home of such an anniversary.\\nIt is not my province as the presiding officer of this\\nassembly even to attempt to bring before you in any clearer\\nlight than you now behold and know them, the natural\\nbeauties, the precious historical reminiscences, the unsurpassed\\nintellectual and social features which adorn and distinguish\\nour favored heritage.\\nThe loveliness of our outlying islands and headlands, the\\ngleam of our sunlit bay, the charm of our winding and falling\\nriver with its forest-crowned hills and grassy intervales, our\\nbroad avenues with their leafy verdure, will all appear before\\nyou clothed in new vestures of living light under the touch\\nand speech of those who are about to address you.\\nThe loyal deeds of former and recent wars, the struggles\\nwith various obstacles which have prevailed until the mere\\nsettlement has increased a hundred fold, the development of\\ntrade and manufacture, the building up of the institutions of", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0031.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "12\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nreligion and education will be so set before us as to renew and\\nrevive our pride and admiration and our college will be\\nrecognized as one which has represented itself and our dear\\nold town in all the countries under the sun, and has influenced\\nour social life, our educational system, our churches, and our\\nmunicipal affairs in numberless ways for our good and advance-\\nment.\\nWe ought to count ourselves fortunate that we live in a\\ntime when many lines of rapid conveyance have brought to\\nus our loyal townsmen and friends from far and near fortu-\\nnate also in this rare day in June, in this hallowed and\\nhistoric place of meeting whose walls and arches seem even\\nnow to echo the magnificent tone of Everett s tribute to our\\nimmortal Washington, the melodious cadences of Morituri\\nSalutamus, and to thunder with the applause which greeted\\nthe nation s great and silent general. We can almost seem to\\nsee and feel the venerated presence of those who so long sat\\nhere in their accustomed places, whose worship of God, service\\nto man, and love of this beautiful town ought to serve as a\\nperpetual example to us all for have we not all felt the last\\nliving touch and influence of the generations who all are\\ngone into the land of shadows through him of whom it can\\nno longer be said that living we salute\\nEspecially do we congratulate ourselves in the choice of\\nthose who are to address us. The one, the son of a former\\nvenerable and much-honored citizen, a graduate of our college\\nand afterwards associated in its instruction now Harvard\\nholds him in high repute, and everywhere he is known in the\\nworld of letters and among Christian scholars as a leader in\\nthe best fields of thought and culture. Of the other I have\\nsurely only to speak your own thoughts when I allude to him\\nas one whose warmth of affection for our town and interest in", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0032.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n13\\nits welfare, is not less than that of the noblest to the manner\\nborn of his long and loyal service to the college we are all\\nswift and ready witnesses; his facile pen and graceful speech\\nadorn all that they handle or utter.\\nIt remains for me, before your eager expectancy shall be\\nsatisfied by their words to express our grateful appreciation of\\nthe compliment afforded us in the distinguished presence of\\nthe Governor of our State and our representatives in the\\nnational Congress, and to assure them that our love and fealty\\nto State and country is not less strong and unswerving than\\nthat which we bear to our town also to extend to those who\\nhave come from abroad a most cordial welcome and greeting\\nnot only to our public festivities but to our hearts and homes,\\nand to make known to them our earnest desire that the\\nrenewal of old associations and the revisiting of former scenes\\nmay afford them unalloyed pleasure.\\nMeanwhile let those of us who have long dwelt in this\\nfortunate town and who will here continue to dwell, coming\\nfrom farm and study, from trade and manufacture enter with\\na glad and tender spirit into the true expression of this long\\nto be remembered and happy anniversary and while we\\nrejoice in the present let us seek for all the inspiration to\\nfuture high and noble endeavor for ourselves and our homes\\nwhich shall spring from the recital of the deeds and lives of\\nthe generations that have gone before us.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0033.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "ORATION.\\nProfessor Charles Carroll Everett.\\nWe gather to celebrate the birthday of a town. From\\ncertain points of view it might seem as if this were hardly\\nworth the celebrating. The world is full of towns. There\\nare hundreds of thousands which no man can number. Think\\nhow they have sprung up all over our country like the grass\\non the prairies. Think how they are springing up to-day,\\nspringing up in fluttering canvas that in a few months will\\nharden into wood, and in a year or two, perhaps, into brick or\\nstone. The first flower of the spring we greet with delight\\nbut when our fields and gardens are full of flowers, how little\\nwe notice or care for the opening of one or another.\\nA better comparison is suggested by the lives of men.\\nAmong the uncounted multitudes of men that throng the\\nearth, there are few whose birthday has not an interest for\\nsome. Each commemorates it for himself; and about each is\\n.a larger or smaller circle to whom it is in some degree sacred.\\nWhat is the birth of an individual to the birth of a town?\\nIt is the town that makes the life of the individual in any sense\\npossible. It is the town that brings a certain refining and\\nelevating element into life. If the town is in certain aspects\\ndegrading, it is in other and more essential aspects uplifting.\\nThe very word civilization is derived from a word meaning\\ncitizen, and the words urbane and urbanity, which have\\nsuch sweetness of significance, derive their meaning from the\\nidea of city life. Men, it is true, often live in the country\\nhappier and better lives than are common in the town but it\\nis the town that, to a very large extent, makes such life in the", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0034.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n15\\ncountry possible. It is the town that unites the scattered life\\nof the country into a sense of community. It is in the town\\nthat the books and newspapers are printed or purchased which\\nmake the quiet of the country alive with intellectual activity,\\nbooks which interpret to the dweller in the country the beauty\\nin the midst of which he lives, and newspapers which bring to\\nthe most retired door the stirring life of the whole world. It\\nis from the town that come the paintings and engravings which\\nornament the farm-house wall. It is the town that furnishes\\nthe market which makes possible the farm. The town is\\nthe ganglion that receives and dispenses the energy of the\\nworld. It receives from the country the material of living,\\nand sends back refinement and stimulus and the sense of a\\nlarger life.\\nThe town is the essential thing in a nation. The town is a\\nunit. It is the unit out of which nations consist. The organ-\\nization of the town is spontaneous and inevitable. The\\ngrouping of towns into larger relationships has something\\ncontrived and artificial about it. Let the nation become\\nbroken up let the central government be paralyzed so that its\\ninfluence will no longer thrill through the ramifications of\\nsociety let the state government be paralyzed and here in\\nthe town we might hardly know it. Our postal facilities would\\nbe disturbed, but all else might go on for the time undisturbed.\\nIn the town, the nation strikes its root into the soil. The\\nstate government and the national government are represen-\\ntative. They represent the town. In the town we take things\\nat first hand, and do our business for ourselves.\\nMuch of what I have said finds its best illustration in what\\nwe call distinctively the town in contrast with the city. In\\nthe town there is much of the beauty and the refining influ-\\nence of the city with little of its degradation. In the town is", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0035.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "16\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nfulfilled the ideal to which I referred, that of doing our own\\nbusiness at first hand. The city has itself become representa-\\ntive. There are the wards, which are merely artificial divis-\\nions. In these the voters gather to cast their suffrage for men\\nof whom perhaps they have never before heard. Possibly\\nsome question, such as the regulation or suppression of the\\nliquor traffic, is submitted to their votes, though not to their\\ndebate. There is no sense of unity, no common meeting.\\nMen drop in and cast their votes and go out, leaving their\\nplace for others. For the most part they vote as their party\\nleaders direct. How different from this is the town meeting.\\nIn the town meeting we come together and look into one\\nanother s faces and hear one another s voices. Here we do\\nour own business for ourselves. We discuss roads and bridges\\nand schools. We hear what is said for and against any\\nmeasure and decide for ourselves. This is the true and the\\nonly true democracy. In this there is the true dignity of\\ncitizenship. In this is the true education that is said so often\\nto spring from a republican government. Here every man\\nhas a sense of responsibility. The dullest wits are quickened.\\nThe most quiet man may be surprised to find himself an\\norator. The self-asserting man may find his conceit taken out\\nof him. I will not say that I hope that Brunswick will long\\nremain the most important town in the State, rather than take\\nits place among the smaller cities. This would be to put my\\nhope against that expansion of the life and business of the\\nplace which we all feel to be both inevitable and desirable.\\nDoubtless the time will come when even our town hall will be\\ntoo small for the thronging voters of Brunswick. At least I\\ncan hope without disloyalty to our faith and our pride in the\\ntown that we love, that the change from the dignity of the\\ntown meeting to the perfunctoriness of the ward room, and", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0036.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0037.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2716", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0038.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n17\\nthe indirect and often questionable methods of the common\\ncouncil, may be put off as long as possible.\\nWe have thus looked at the town merely in what may be\\ncalled its external relations. When we look at it from within,\\nthe significance of the anniversary is still more marked. For\\nhow many lives does it stand! Of how many tender experi-\\nences has it been the enfolder What gladness of childhood,\\nwhat enthusiasm of youth, what beauty of romance, what\\ndepths of sorrow, how many comedies, how many tragedies,\\nhave their place within it And all this is not for one gener-\\nation only, but for generation after generation. No sooner\\ndoes one company that has performed the tragedy or the farce\\nleave the stage than another takes its place. Or rather, the\\nnew press upon the old before their parts are played out.\\nThus does the procession move on uninterrupted and endless.\\nAnd for those who go forth from it to find a home elsewhere,\\nof what tender memories is it the centre By what shining\\nand elastic cords of association, invisible to all but themselves,\\nare they bound to it wherever they may go and whatever new\\nexperiences may await them If the birthday of an individual\\nshould be celebrated, how much more the birthday of a town,\\nwhich stands for such multitudes of individual lives.\\nThere are men not widely known, not leaders in peace or\\nwar, whose birthday excites within the circle of their acquaint-\\nance an interest which it would not always be easy to explain.\\nIt springs neither from their genius nor their accomplishments.\\nPerhaps it may be their sterling worth that gives rise to this\\ninterest. Perhaps it is a certain genial courtesy that marks\\nthem. Perhaps it is only that mysterious something which we\\ncall personality. Whatever it is, it adds a special charm\\nand interest to their anniversary. The same is true of towns.\\nThere are towns that have something of this unnameable yet\\nB", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0041.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "18\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nirresistible charm. Perhaps, to most men, their native town\\nseems thns exceptional. I cannot, however, believe that it is\\nmerely this subjective illusion which makes Brunswick seem to\\nus to have a character and an attractiveness of its own. This\\nconfidence perhaps it would not be easy to justify by words.\\nBrunswick has filled its place in the state and nation. It has\\nfurnished its share of men who have been prominent in the\\nstate and the army and the church. We are proud of them\\nto-day. But it is not this that gives to its name the special\\nsignificance of which I speak. Perhaps it is in part the charm\\nof its situation. It is, indeed, surrounded by no magnificent\\nscenery of which it is simply an added feature. The town is\\nthe centre to which the nature about it is tributary. There is\\nthe river which curves about it as if with a gentle caress.\\nThere are the falls in their beauty and the rocks that rise by\\ntheir side, while the noise and jar of mills and the pungent\\nodor of freshly-sawed boards add something to the charm\\nof the scene, so far as the practical mind is concerned, and\\nhardly lessen it for the lover of the picturesque. There are\\nthe pines that stand in their stateliness encircling the village;\\nand there is, not far off, the sea, whose breath comes softened\\nand strained through the pine forest. Within, there are the\\nbroad and shady streets and the pleasant mall. There is the\\nchurch in which we are gathered, somewhat shorn of its\\noriginal beauty, to be sure, but still a striking figure in its\\nprominent position and beyond the church there is the\\ncollege yard, sometimes so full of life; but in the vacation\\nseeming, shut in as it is by its hedge of lofty trees, with its\\nsmooth, unbroken beauty of grass, with its fair chapel and its\\nquiet halls, as if it might be the scene of a new story of some\\nsleeping beauty. Behind the college is the spot to which\\nmany hearts turn with the tenderest love; a peaceful, sunny", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0042.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n19\\nnook, about which stand the solemn pines, it and they together\\nsymbolizing the glad and the sorrowful memories that mingle\\nthere.\\nIt is very pleasant, early of a summer evening, to pass from\\nthe classic shades of the college to the lower end of the town,\\nin which one finds one s self as if in another world. The\\nbright faces and the lively jargon of the French create for the\\nmoment the illusion of being in some foreign land.\\nIf from this outward picture, we turn to the inner life of\\nthe place, we recognize a population that, to us at least, seems\\nmore intelligent and refined than that which belongs to most\\nvillages of its type. There have been generations of modest\\nand sterling citizens and quiet, pleasant homes. When I knew\\nthe town most intimately there was a society that for its charm\\ncould hardly be surpassed. Think for a moment what the\\ncollege has done for the town in this respect. Think what citi-\\nzens it has brought to us as presidents and as teachers. Bow-\\ndoin College, like Brunswick, has a character of its own. Here\\nagain it may be the result of personal interest and association,\\nbut I confess that it seems to stand out from among the colleges\\nof its class, if indeed there are any colleges precisely of its class.\\nThink, I say, of the men and of the families that it has brought\\nto us. There were the early presidents whose descendants\\nremained to add to the stability and the charm of the place.\\nTheir features are known to us by the familiar engravings.\\nMcKeen, whose face is marked by mingled sweetness and\\nstrength; while the thoughtful spirituality of Appleton makes\\nitself still felt by us in spite of the passing of the years. Not\\nto name the living or to go back beyond the memory of many\\nof us, what dignity and graciousness were added to the town\\nby the presence of Leonard Woods. Where could we find in\\nthese later generations a man precisely of his type? There", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0043.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "20\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nwas something of a mediaeval richness in his nature. Even his\\nvoice gave some hint of the quality of his mind. Of those\\nwhom the college has brought to us as teachers I dare not\\nbegin to speak. The personal characteristics of some of them\\nstand out, in memory or tradition, as sharply defined as those\\nof some strong work of fiction, and some are held to-day in\\ntender remembrance. The presence of the students, these\\nwaves of young men coming year after year, may be also reck-\\noned among the elements that have given to the town its dis-\\ntinctive quality. It is pleasant to think how many of those\\nwho were for a little while among us, will feel a special inter-\\nest in our celebration to-day. From how many widely sundered\\nregions of the earth the thoughts turn to as, of those who\\nremember Brunswick as we remember them.\\nI have thus attempted, in an imperfect way, to explain the\\ncharacteristics of our town which may justify our special feel-\\ning towards it. Whether it may be thus justified or not, the\\nfeeling is there, and it is this that inspires our gathering to-day.\\nThe feeling will not be satisfied on an occasion like this with-\\nout a glance backward at the history of the town we love.\\nI am not an historian or an antiquarian. Even if I were, the\\nlabors of John McKeen and of the brothers Wheeler, whose\\nadmirable history is, or should be, familiar to you all, and of\\nthose whose results our historical society has published, would\\nleave little opportunity for fresh discovery. I shall not attempt\\neven by their aid to present a formal history of the town.\\nBut to-day our thoughts turn backward, and we cannot do\\nbetter than to grant them a free range. I shall then recall a\\nfew of the most important epochs in the history of the place,\\nin a way rather to quicken the imagination than to inform the\\nmind. Indeed it is only by some strain upon the imagination\\nthat we can realize the changes which the spot where we", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0044.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n21\\nstand has known. In this superficial glance we will not go\\nbeyond that of which we can find some record specially\\npreserved.\\nThe first appearance of this place, so far as any record has\\nbeen preserved, is something which it is impossible for our\\nimagination worthily to reproduce. Where are now forests and\\ngardens and homes, was simply a vast area of ice. In which-\\never direction the gaze could turn, if the fancy can suggest the\\nfantastic notions of a gazer among these wastes, stretched the\\nmighty glacier as it crept along its sluggish way from the\\nmountains to the sea. We go to Switzerland and are awed by\\nthe glaciers there; but what is the sublimity even of the Mer\\nde Glace when compared with this glacier which covered a\\nlarge part of the continent. There was no plant, there was\\nno life of bird or beast. There was only this frozen solitude.\\nI said that we would not go back further than the records of\\nthe town would justify us, and of this strange experience in\\nthe past the records remain upon the enduring rocks, over\\nwhich the slow grinding movement passed. We look with\\nawe that is almost horror upon this scene, when our Brunswick\\nwas so different from what it is to-day. But this terrible\\nmonster that crawled over our plains was working for us, and\\nmaking possible fruitful fields and smiling gardens. Ages\\ncame and passed and the ice still stretched in its terrible deso-\\nlateness. Ages came and passed and at last the strange presence\\ndisappeared. After unnumbered centuries it was followed by\\na condition of things no less strange and no less foreign to our\\npresent experiences than it. By imperceptible degrees the\\nregion sank beneath the sea. Where our gardens are to-day\\nthe sea-weed was the only growth. Where is now the hum\\nof busy life moved only the silent inhabitants of the ocean\\ndepths. Of this baptism in the sea the record also remains", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0045.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "22\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nin the mussel-beds, which testify of long and undisturbed\\npossession.\\nBefore the curtain lifts again unnumbered ages had fled,\\nand the face of nature had undergone wonderful transforma-\\ntions. Instead of the death of the ice-fields and the swing of\\nthe tides, we can see, at last, life. There is the life of the for-\\nest, the majesty of trees not the pines which are so dear to us,\\nbut oaks and beeches and other hard wood trees. There was\\nthe life of animals, the bear, the wolf, and the moose. There\\nwas the life of man. Here the Indian lived and loved and\\nhunted and made war. We picture him moving through the\\nforest depths, almost as silently as his predecessors of the finny\\ntribes moved through the expanses of the sea. Here he buried\\nhis dead, and here, if tradition speaks the truth, the relics of\\nthese burials have been found. Who would think that this\\nforest wild, inhabited by savage beasts and savage men, was\\nour Brunswick with its comfort and its peace.\\nAt last the Anglo-Saxon appeared upon the scene. At last\\nwe pass out from the eternities and meet a date, which is as\\npleasant as the sight of the first headland after a long and tem-\\npestuous voyage. About the year 1628, some two hundred\\nand sixty years ago, came the first settlers. We will recall\\nto-day the name of Thomas Purchase. It is a pity that we\\ncould not have in some central place a statue to his memory,\\nlike that fictitious, but symbolic figure which commemorates\\nto Harvard College the spirit, if not the features, of its founder.\\nIn the case of Thomas Purchase it would be simply the\\npioneer that we should honor. What he was other than that\\nwe cannot say. Of his virtues or of his failings we have little\\nrecord. He probably had both in the full measure of the\\nfrontierman s life. The Indians, at least, believed that he had\\ncheated them in trade, both by exorbitant prices and the quality", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0046.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n23\\nof goods. I suppose we may safely assume that they were\\nnot wholly wrong. The Indians were in those days considered\\nfair game, and we cannot say, even in our time, that we have\\nwholly passed beyond the stage in which the weakness and the\\nignorance of the Indian furnish reason enough for outwitting\\nand oppressing him. But whatever may have been the virtues\\nor the vices of Thomas Purchase, his coming made an epoch\\nhardly less important than the changes in the physical world\\nat which we have just glanced. It was not he who came, it\\nwas the Anglo-Saxon race that came in him.\\nWhatever may have been his rudeness, his coming meant\\ncivilization. It meant schools and colleges and the unceasing\\nproductivity of the press. Whatever his faults, his coming\\nmeant Christianity. Whatever his loneliness, his coming\\nmeant this fair town. Whatever his hardships, his coming\\nmeant our comfort. But to the Indian it meant destruction.\\nHe seemed so weak among them They could sack his house,\\nthey could drive him away. What was he, the man with his\\nlittle family about him, alone in the wilderness, alone among\\nthe savage hordes? But his coming meant their destruction.\\nThe deadly work began at his first appearing. Its first instru-\\nment was rum. His coming meant, as I have said, the destruc-\\ntion of the Indian but before his destruction it meant his\\ndegradation. Thomas Purchase did something to lessen this\\nlatter doom, inasmuch as it would appear that the rum which\\nhe sold was largely watered. At least one Indian complained\\nthat he had paid a hundred pounds for water drawn out of\\nPurchase his well. I fear, however, that the water was not\\nadded till the liquor had begun to do its work. There is\\nsomething pathetic in the elaborate deed full of whereases\\nand af oresaids and other legal phraseology, in which the\\nIndian chiefs signed away much of their inheritance to later", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0047.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "24\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\ncomers, each affixing his seal, the figure of a bow and arrow,\\nor of a serpent, or some arbitrary device. For the coming of\\nThomas Purchase was like the first spicula of ice which is fol-\\nlowed by the solid mass. He was followed, after some changes\\nof less interest, by the Pejepscot Company, Anglo-Saxon\\nbusiness enterprise following close upon Anglo-Saxon pluck.\\nIn 1715 the Pejepscot Company became possessed of what\\nforms the site of eight towns, including Brunswick, Topsham,\\nand Lewiston, and a part of four more. For this they paid\\n\u00c2\u00a3140. That, in the depreciated currency of the time, may be\\nestimated at not far from $360. The first settlers bought lots\\nof one hundred acres each for \u00c2\u00a35, which in 1737 would amount\\nto about $4.30. Later this price was doubled for lots in Bruns-\\nwick, while \u00c2\u00a325, or about $17.50, were paid for lots in the\\nricher land of Topsham. This would seem pretty cheap for\\nour land to-day, but considering the price that the company\\npaid for it, we must judge that the speculation was a good one.\\nAnother element in the profits of the Pejepscot Company\\nis found in the fact that they were obliged to pay no taxes.\\nSo soon as land was occupied by a settler he had to pay his\\ntax, but the unappropriated land owned by non-residents was\\nnot taxed. Whether this distinction was based upon some\\naristocratic notion, like that which under the old regime in\\nFrance made the common people pay taxes from which the\\nnobles were exempt, taxes which being ground often out of the\\nlabor of the poor went largely into the pockets of the rich,\\nor whether it was based upon the notion that land should not\\nbe taxed until it became productive, in either case the distinc-\\ntion was an unfair one. The company was growing rich out\\nof the sale of its lands; the occupants were with difficulty sup-\\nporting themselves upon their several lots; yet the whole bur-\\nden of taxation would seem to have fallen upon them. We", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0048.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n25\\ncannot help sympathizing with the fathers of the town in their\\nrepeated protest against this, one might almost say, iniquitous\\narrangement. On the whole, however, we must be grateful to\\nthis company for bringing the land upon which our town\\nstands into the market of the world, and for their general\\nliberal arrangements. It was their wise and generous provision\\nthat laid out the twelve-rod road, from the river to the sea,\\nwhich, though unhappily shorn of its original proportions, still\\nadds so much to the beauty of the place. One of their first\\nthoughts was for the religious interests of the settlers. They\\nearly set apart land, both in Brunswick and Topsham, for a\\nchurch, and aided in the erection of a church building. There\\nwould seem to have been as much difficulty in settling a min-\\nister in those days as there is to-day. Perhaps the best preachers\\nor the best men in the ministry were not attracted to these\\neastern wilds. Sometimes objection is made to the character\\nof the preachers. Sometimes a simple dissatisfaction is ex-\\npressed. Now and then there was regular preaching for a few\\nyears, but on account of the too critical attitude of the town,\\nor from the fault of the minister, or his dissatisfaction with his\\nsurroundings, changes were frequent. The first preaching, so\\nfar as the towns-people were concerned, was incidental, being\\ngiven by missionaries sent by the General Court to the Indians.\\nIn 1718, however, the people voted in town meeting to raise\\nmoney for the support of a minister, and for the expense of his\\nremoval to the place. In 1719 the first meeting-house was\\nbegun. It was placed about a mile south of the colleges.\\nThe dates that I just gave are significant. In 1717 Bruns-\\nwick was constituted a township. One of the first acts of this\\nnew township was to provide for a minister, and to build a\\nchurch. In 1739 it was finally incorporated as a town, the\\neleventh in Maine. Thus, as the energy of the Anglo-Saxon", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0049.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "26\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\npioneer was followed by Anglo-Saxon business enterprise, this,\\nin its turn, was followed by Anglo-Saxon organization. This\\norganization was made imperative by the circumstances of the\\ncase.\\nThere was among the people a rude energy. The spirit\\nthat brought them here would tend to make each stand by his\\nown rights, or what he judged to be such. The Anglo-Saxon\\nrace is law abiding, but how can it be law abiding where there\\nare no laws The town of Topsham was incorporated some-\\nwhat later, and the turbulence that is recorded of that now so\\nquiet village, shows the importance of the legal organization\\nof a town. Indeed the organization was inevitable. The\\nAnglo-Saxon is law making as well as law abiding. Just as\\nsurely as the plasma of the blood organizes according to the\\nnature of the tissue with which it is in relation, so is there\\ninherent in the Anglo-Saxon race this necessity of organization.\\nEach group possesses also its plasma which tends to put on its\\nfitting shape. This organization could be nothing but demo-\\ncratic. The traditions of the past, by which in other lands\\nmen of the same race are still bound to the forms and to some\\nof the realities of a monarchical or aristocratic society, had no\\nforce or meaning here in the wilderness. To this statement\\nthere must, however, be made one exception. It is hard to\\nthink of our Brunswick as a slave-holding town, yet in its early\\nhistory, so late even as 1765, there were a few slaves in its\\npopulation. Thus was formed, as soon as there was need and\\nopportunity, an organization in which all, with the singular\\nexception just named, were alike law-makers, and obeyers of\\nthe laws. Thus after the chaos of the forces of nature, after\\nthe wilderness, the home of beast and savage, after the lone-\\nliness of the pioneer, we have at last a town, a member of a\\nvast system of towns, orderly itself, and a part of a general order", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0050.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n27\\nfar greater than itself, a town that is to perform its full share of\\nwork in the civilization and the higher culture of the world.\\nWho were the people who constituted this new town?\\nThis it would be hard to say, so far as all of them were con-\\ncerned. Some we are told, had for some reason or other given\\nup their old names when they left the old world. In the new\\nworld they not only entered upon a new life, but they entered\\nupon it as new men. Some were doubtless driven from their\\nearly home by stress of outward circumstances, the nature of\\nwhich we can only guess. More came inspired by that restless\\nenergy which stirs in the very fibre of our race. All doubtless\\ncame in the hope of building up a comfortable home, if not a\\nfortune, in this new land of promise. Whatever their history,\\nand whatever their motives, these settlers would seem to have\\nbeen, on the whole, sturdy and honorable men, men relying\\nupon themselves and such as others may rely upon. There\\nwas little record of crime, little of disorder, so far as these men\\nwere concerned.\\nIt is interesting to see in the early town meetings and\\nbusiness transactions of the place the names occurring which\\nhave had a place ever since in the annals of the town. Thus\\nin the petition for the incorporation of the town in 1735, occur\\nwith others the familiar names of Dunning, Stanwood, Giveen,\\nSpear, Larrabee, Woodside, and Dunlap.\\nIt is interesting to see one person after another lifted out of\\nthe obscurity of the past through some grave or trivial reason,\\nand held up to the gaze of the world, in a single attitude\\nsometimes, in which a moment has been made immortal. There\\nare those whom I have named and many others who are remem-\\nbered for their service to the town, who stand conspicuous in\\nits history because in every moment of need their fellow-\\ntownsmen turned to them for aid in its affairs or trusted- them", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0051.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "28\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nfor counsel. Other names stand out for very different reasons.\\nThus the name of Granny Mitchell figures with the rest, to\\nwhom the town voted the sum of three pounds three shillings\\nand eight pence. Less fortunately for her, figures Jeannie\\nEaton whose sole appearance in history is that she was sen-\\ntenced to be stretched in the public stocks, and to have rotten\\neggs thrown at her by the passers by. The magistrate thought\\nthat he was sentencing her to an hour or two of disgrace. He\\ndid not know that he was sentencing her for all time, that she\\nshould sit in the stocks forever to receive the contempt or the\\npity of the gazers at her.\\nIn certain respects one of the most interesting personages\\nthat stands forth from the obscurity of these early days, is the\\nRev. Robert Dunlap. He was invited by the town to preach\\nwith a view to settlement in 1746. The next year he entered\\nupon the regular duties of the minister of the town. He was\\npaid as it would appear according to the custom of the time\\nby money that was raised by a vote of the town, as a part of\\nthe regular tax. In 1760 there arose a difficulty between him\\nand the town. The nature of this and the rights of the matter\\nI do not know. As to Mr. Dunlap s claims upon our admira-\\ntion in general I have nothing to say. What interests me in\\nhim is a letter written in the month of June, 1760. In this he\\ninsists upon two things first, upon the payment of what he,\\nrightly or wrongly, claimed to be due him from the town and,\\nsecondly, he insists, to use his own words, That no man s\\nmonney or Rates Shall Ever Come Into my pocket or private\\nuse In aney shape: as ministerial taxes In this town; that Do s\\nnot adhere to my min ry It is the utterance of a sentiment\\nthat was far ahead of his time. It is a recognition, apparently\\nat his own cost, of the voluntary support of the ministry.\\nWhatever may have been the faults and failings of the man,", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0052.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n29\\nthis honor belongs to him of recognizing and proposing the\\nAmerican method of supporting the services of the church.\\nWhile a few names and personalities thus stand out among\\nthe rest, it is the life in general of the men and women who\\nwere the founders of our town that interests us the most.\\nThis life must have been a hard and wearisome one. It was\\nfull of anxiety, and must often have been full of hardship and\\nsuffering. After the days of Thomas Purchase, the settlement\\nwas nearly given up on account of the dread of the Indians,\\nso that when the Pejepscot company took possession of it, the\\nwork had practically to begin again. During the Indian wars\\nwhich followed, the number of settlers was again greatly\\nreduced. They must have lived a great part of the time in\\nconstant terror. They had the protection of Fort George, a\\nstructure of stone that stood where some of the factoiy board-\\ning houses now stand and within this in times of special peril,\\nthe greater part of the population was forced together. Some\\nof the houses were what were called block houses that is,\\nthey were practically forts. We with our mail service three\\ntimes a day, can hardly realize that there was a time when the\\nonly mail was carried by a dog that had been trained to the\\nbusiness. He carried his packet to Bath in about two hours,\\nand brought back the return mail. After he was killed in the\\nservice, he was for a time replaced by a young man who carried\\nthe mail by water; that is, he swam the greater part of the\\nway. It was not a cheerful thing to know that if the children\\nstrayed too far in their sport, they would be seized by the\\nIndians. It was not a cheerful thing for the men to feel that\\nwhile they were at work in the field, the Indians might at any\\nmoment come upon them. By a strange instinct, one would\\nlike to know how far inherited, the cattle would always flee in\\nterror as the Indians drew near thus they were placed between", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0053.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "so\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nthe workmen and the forest as scouts. Besides the Indians,\\nthere were wolves. As late as 1786 and 1792 parties were\\npursued by wolves, one near Middle bay, the other near Mere\\nbrook. Each escaped, only by throwing back, from time to\\ntime, the fish or the meat that he was carrying, by which the\\nwolves were for a moment stayed. Worse unquestionably than\\nthe real wolves, was the proverbial wolf. They came only\\noccasionally, but to keep the wolf from the door was an\\nunceasing and difficult task.\\nThe fathers of our town were very poor. Cry after cry\\nwent up from these manly hearts to the General Court for\\nremission of taxes that they found it impossible to pay. They\\nurged that they were a frontier town that they bore the brunt\\nof the peril. Others purchased their peace largely through\\ntheir exposure. This service could not be performed at no\\ncost of expenditure or loss. They held out the hope that with\\nthe encouragement which they seek they 44 in a few years may\\nbecome a useful part of the province. These cries would\\nseem to have been unheeded. It is not strange that they were\\nduring these times a serious and sad population. Poorly fed,\\npoorly clothed, in constant peril, this peril every now and then\\nfulfilling its threat in theft and murder, it was enough that\\nthey could hold their position. It was enough that they could\\nkeep up strong hearts glad hearts we could not expect. We\\nare grateful to them that they kept up their self-respect. We\\nare grateful that those who could afford it, kept up a certain\\nstate, and preserved on Sundays and other important occasions\\nthe dignity of dress that belonged to the elder days. We are\\ngrateful for t _\\n-The old three-cornered hat\\nAnd the breeches and all that,\\nfor the bush-wigs and the cues, and the shoe-buckles, and the\\npowder with which the women showed that they still held up", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0054.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n31\\ntheir heads in the social world. We are grateful for all this,\\nbecause it takes from the poverty of our fathers the element\\nof squalor. It shows that they kept up a good heart, that\\nthey respected themselves as they had a good right to do and\\nthat they expected the world to respect them. Doubtless those,\\nthe greater number, who were often shoeless and who were\\nmore or less rudely clad, had also their self-respect increased\\nby the dignity assumed by those who were able to support it\\nthough we cannot suppose that the quaint old-fashioned garb\\npossessed to them anything of the picturesqueness which it\\nhas for us.\\nThe dark days passed, however. The town stood the test\\nof hardship and suffering and the days of peace and prosperity\\nwere to come. The next great epoch in its history was the\\nfounding of Bowdoin College the bill establishing it having\\nbeen passed in 1794, and the college opening with the class of\\neight in 1802. It was a wonderful change which had taken\\nplace when into this region, so little while before the home of\\nsavage beasts and hardly less savage men, there came the fair\\nhumanities when the grace of classic thought and the lore of\\nthe best ages of the past, were united here with the promise of\\nthe future. The time had come when in these woods the\\nyoung poet was to receive his inspiration, whose songs were to\\ncharm the world and here was to wander that brooding spirit\\nwhose genius was to glorify the colonial age of which the town\\nhad borne so much of the burden. One who was to be the\\nnation s head was trained in the shadow of these pines and\\nmany another whose name was to become famous in war, in\\nstatesmanship, in poetry, or in thought, was to find his nurture\\nhere. And later, where the Indian medicine man had, so little\\nwhile before, rudely applied such healing as he could extract\\nfrom the few plants the virtue of which he knew, or guessed", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0055.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "32\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nat, was to be placed a school in which should be taught the\\nscience of healing, as it is known to the best thought and study\\nof the civilized world.\\nAfter the founding of the college there was one more step\\nwhich the town was to take to bring it into the circle of the\\nworld s activity. In 1809 was established a factory for the\\nmanufacture of cotton yarn. This was, however, only the\\nforerunner of more elaborate and more successful undertak-\\nings. It showed that the time had come when the town could\\nminister to the needs of the world, in a larger way than it\\nhad done before. The pressure of immediate need had fairly\\npassed; and it could select its own method of giving and\\nreceiving in the exchange that binds communities together.\\nThe publication of a newspaper in 1820 forms an interest-\\ning epoch in the history of the place, for by the presence of\\nsuch a paper a town first becomes conscious of itself. This\\npublication was short-lived but it has been followed by a suc-\\ncession of papers, sometimes very ably conducted, which have\\nplayed an important part in local affairs.\\nThe anti-climax which we have followed the church, the\\ncollege, the factory shows well the temper of the times, first\\nthe needs of spirit; then those of the intellect; and at last\\nthose of the outward life.\\nThus did the town fulfill the promise which it made when\\nit asked for a relief from the burden of taxation, although the\\nrelief for which it asked had not been granted. In its whole\\nhistory it has taken its part in all the great activities of the\\ntimes through which it has endured. If there was war, its\\nsons were ready to go forward to meet the foe. In the war of\\nthe Revolution the town, though then so weak, furnished at\\nleast 80 men. In the war of 1812, at least 331 Brunswick\\nmen took part. In the war of the Rebellion its roll of honor", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0056.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n33\\ncomprised some 358 and the quota of Brunswick added not\\nmerely so many brave and true men, but added also to the list\\nof names that the country honored. In peace the town has\\nalso done and is still doing its whole part. Thus we stand\\nhere to-day in the comfort and prosperity of the present, with\\nall those years of burden and privation behind us. We stand\\nhere and look forward to still greater achievement. We see\\nthe magnificent water-power which has yet hardly begun to\\nwork for us. It has done, and is doing much, it is true but\\nw r hat it has done and is doing is little more than its play, com-\\npared with what it might, and, as we believe, at some time\\nwill accomplish. With this power the town sits practically in\\nthe center of the railway system of the State, ready to receive\\nand to distribute. It has also its center of literary life so that\\nlet its enterprises expand as they will, it can never become that\\nmost intolerable of places, a town given over to mills and\\nfactories. It will unite enterprise and refinement. The homes\\nmade comfortable by business skill, will catch some beauty of\\ntaste and culture. What is this but to describe an ideal town?\\nWe have thus, with a rapid glance beheld mighty transfor-\\nmations. We have seen the chaos of physical forces supplanted\\nby life and barbarism supplanted by civilization. In this age\\nof questioning, can we avoid looking beneath the surface of\\nthings, and asking What has been the gain The first\\ncontrast suggests the question: Is life worth living? and if\\nso, wherein lies its worth The second contrast suggests the\\nquestion In what respect is civilization better than barbarism\\nThe first of these questions I will merely name, and leave\\nit as foreign to this occasion. Upon the second, which is more\\ndirectly forced upon us by the events that we commemorate,\\nwe will in conclusion dwell for a few moments. We have\\nsupplanted the rude life of the savage what that is better\\nc", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0057.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "34\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nhave we put into its place This may seem at first sight an\\nidle question. The gain, has it not been uttered in the story\\nthat has been told Do not the comforts and the elegancies of\\nour lives force upon us the reality of the gain Contrast with\\nthese the bare life of the savage, and what need we seek further\\nto illustrate the mighty gain which history has made? But\\nlet us look more closely, let us condescend to question the facts\\nmore narrowly. We have comforts and elegancies the savage\\nneither had them, nor wanted them how are we better off? I\\nwent once into the house of an Indian woman. It was fur-\\nnished with hair-cloth chairs, sofa, and a rocking-chair. My\\nhostess offered me a seat upon the sofa, then seated herself\\nupon the floor. She had the furniture of civilization but,\\nhaving it, she could afford so far as her own case was concerned,\\nto despise it. We have warm houses, but what if the savage\\ncould keep himself warm without these appliances? We can\\ngo to England in a week and to the Pacific coast in less than a\\nweek. But what if he did not care to go to England, or to the\\nPacific coast? We have our telegraph. But, what if, as\\nEmerson said\\nThe light out-speeding telegraph\\nBears nothing on its beam.\\nFurther, in comparing civilization with what we call the\\nbarbarism of the savage, it does not do to take merely the\\nbright side of civilization and the dark side of barbarism.\\nCivilization has also its dark side. It has hardships, sufferings,\\nand crimes of which the barbarian knows nothing. It stands\\nlike some magnificent tree, fair in the sunlight, while its roots\\nstretch deep and wide in the dark and noisome earth.\\nBut at least, you may say, we have our religion. Yes, we\\nhave our religion, so far as we do have it. This suggests what\\nis the real answer to the question as to the gain which the", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0058.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n35\\nAnolo-Saxon has brought into the laud where the Indian\\nroamed. There is the possibility of a larger life. There is an\\nideal which may manifest itself in all the varied ramifications\\nof our society. So far as the relationships of our life are\\nconcerned, this implies a fellowship which is bound by no limit\\nof high or low, or of near or far. It assumes as its form\\ndemocracy, or something that is practically equivalent to this;\\nand within this human interest, the interests of the whole and\\nof each individual, so far as the lesser do not conflict with the\\ngreater, are supreme. This is that for which civilization should\\nstand. According as it does or does not stand for this, so far it\\nhas or it does not have worth. Civilization, by itself considered,\\nis like a magnificent body. It is possible for this to be animated\\nby a soul, and when this soul is present there is a fullness, a\\nrichness, and a loftiness of living that may justify the cost at\\nwhich the triumph has been reached. The gain, it will thus\\nbe seen, is a possibility, not a necessity. One may be so\\nentangled in the details, may have so narrow an outlook, and\\nsuch narrow aims, even if his position be a fair one, that he\\nshall not reach the good which lies at the heart of this nine-\\nteenth century. At best the ideal is but vaguely and partially\\ndistinguished, and at best what is beheld is but partially made\\nreal.\\nConsider that form of the ideal which we might suppose to\\nbe most perfectly fulfilled in this America, the ideal of democ-\\nracy. How far is this from its fulfillment The fear was once\\nof the tyranny of the majority. That peril may exist at some\\ntime to come we have not reached it yet. The tyranny from\\nwhich we suffer is the tyranny of the minority. Look at one\\nor two examples. The strike is the working man s one weapon\\nof defense, as it is his inalienable right. When the oppression\\nof capital can be no longer borne, then a strike, honestly and", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0059.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "36\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nearnestly entered upon and carried out, may restore the social\\nequilibrium, as a thunderbolt restores the equilibrium of the\\natmosphere. How few strikes are of this nature How many\\nsimply obey the demand of a blatant and defiant minority,\\nwhile the man who under other circumstances would have died\\nto preserve his liberty, stands as if bound hand and foot, and\\nsees the fruits of a life-time vanish, and those whom he loves\\nbetter than himself suffer because he does not dare to come to\\ntheir relief Consider the spoils system in our politics. The\\ncountry does not need it. I never heard it urged that a rail-\\nroad would be better managed if its employes were changed\\nevery four years, or oftener, if a change in the management\\nhas taken place. Is the business of our country of less impor-\\ntance than that of a railway? You and I do not want this\\nsystem. We want our business done in the simplest and most\\nstraightforward way possible. The two great parties of our\\ncountry do not want it. They vie with one another in the\\nstrength of their condemnation. The Presidents selected by\\none or the other of the two great parties do not want it. They,\\ntoo, denounce it, and when they yield to its demands, as who\\nof them does not they claim that it is against their will. I\\ncannot believe that oar Heads of Departments and our Con-\\ngressmen in general want this system. It overburdens them\\nwith work which to most of them must be distasteful, and\\ndemands strength and time which could better be spent in the\\nlegitimate duties of their office though there may be some\\nwho are pleased to win in this manner an influence which they\\nfear whatever talent they possess might not otherwise obtain.\\nWho, then, does want it It is a minority to whom politics is\\na game, which, without this system of spoils, is as insipid as to\\nan old gambler is a game of cards without stakes. I think it\\nwas Charles James Fox who said that the greatest pleasure in", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0060.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n37\\nlife next to winning at cards is losing at cards. So these men\\nwould rather see the spoils distributed by a successful opponent\\naccording to the rules of the game, then enjoy a victory\\nwhich would be to them barren without this fruitage. More\\npowerful even than these is the smaller minority to whom\\npolitics in its lowest form is not a game but a business, who\\ngrow rich by the buying and selling of votes, who make\\nbargains and deals and who, whatever happens, find their\\ngain. It is these who bend parties and Presidents and Con-\\ngresses to their will. It is this minority that so far rules over\\nus.\\nI do not say this in any spirit of discouragement. We are\\ngathered to thank God and take courage. I refer to this\\ngreat burden which rests upon us because the occasion itself\\nsuggests a hopeful outlook. In its early days of weakness and\\nstruggle our patriotic little town took the name of Bruns-\\nwick, and it named its fort Fort George. It honored thus\\nin its simple loyalty what was in fact, alas that I must say it\\nhere to-day, the meanest dynasty that ever held the fate of\\nEngland in its hands. Because the occasion brings us face to\\nface with the reign of the Georges, I may speak of our own\\ncivil service with encouragement. Think of the state of the\\ncivil service of England then, a condition of things which\\nmakes our civil service of to-day seem clean. Think of Sir\\nRobert Walpole, at the time when our little town was begin-\\nning its corporate existence, as the representative of the\\ngovernment, meeting members of Parliament with open bribes,\\nand rarely if ever finding reason to doubt the truth of his\\noften repeated saying, Every one of these men has his price.\\nWe are told of bribery to-day, but it comes, let us be thankful\\nfor that, not from the government. Think of the time when\\nin England, without such open bribes, not even the most needed", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0061.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "38\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\ntreaty could be ratified. Think of George the Third, late even\\nin the eighteenth century, managing the affairs of a nation\\naccording to the methods of a ward politician. Remember,\\ntoo, that this political corruption did not stand alone. Church\\nlivings, even bishoprics were given on the same principles of\\npersonal or partisan service. All this went, at least so far as\\nthe upper stratum of society is concerned, with social corrup-\\ntion. Our political spoils system is a partial relapse into a\\nsingle phase of a condition of things, such as I have described.\\nThink what time and the resolute endeavor of earnest men\\nhave accomplished in England within the life-time of our town,\\nand take courage but remember that time alone, without such\\nendeavor, can do nothing.\\nThe great gain on an occasion like the present, is that we\\nstand for the moment in the focus of two great lights. We\\nsee ourselves in the light of the past and in that of the future.\\nWe judge the past, and we know as we judge the past, so the\\nfuture will judge us. We stand thus in the presence of an\\nideal partially fulfilled. It is the ideal of a democracy in which,\\nwhile the minority have their share in the direction of affairs,\\nthey shall not govern the majority either by their violence or\\ntheir cunning. We stand in the presence of a yet grander\\nideal, still more dimly seen that of a humanity in which is felt\\nthe power of common life in which man, as man, is felt to have\\nimmeasurable worth. It is this for which the arts of our\\ncivilization are preparing. It is this which our democracy\\nsymbolizes. It is this which, so far as the worldly life is\\nconcerned, is the meaning of Christianity. It is the presence\\nof this ideal and its partial fulfillment, which justifies our joy\\nin the triumph of civilization over barbarism. It is this which\\ncondemns us but it is this which fills our hearts with hope\\nand courage. That the future will judge us, is of itself a", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0062.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n39\\nprophecy of good for it means that the ideal will one day be\\nmore clearly seen, and have more power over the hearts and\\nlives of men.\\nWhen we turn from that which the town in its short history\\nhas seen, and that larger life in which in the future it will have\\nits part, to that which has been seen within the town, a differ-\\nent lesson comes to us. Whatever the world may have in store,\\nwhatever gain in the appliances of life and in life itself, there\\nis one thing in which the future can never outdo the past.\\nHeroism is always the same. The world will never have heroes\\nnobler than those which have already lived. Patience and\\ncourage and self-forgetful energy are alike precious under all\\nforms and circumstances of life. To-day we lift the heroism\\nof the fathers of our town up from the obscurity in which their\\nlives were passed, and honor it. Let it be an inspiration to our\\nown lives so that when the great light of the future is turned\\nback upon our memories, as we turn back the light of the present\\nupon theirs, we, in the peace and comfort of our homes, shall\\nbe seen to be no unworthy successors of those whose strong\\narms and brave hearts conquered for us the wilderness.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0063.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "POEM.\\nPkofessor Hekry Lelaxd Chapmax.\\nI.\\nIn the sweet tones of music breathes a spell\\nOf twofold power to touch the human heart,\\nA spell that Nature weaves, no less than Art,\\nHerself an instrument wherein cloth dwell\\nThe harmony of sounds that sink and swell\\nIn varying chords; now suited to impart\\nGladness to life, and now to soothe its smart\\nA harmony more rich than speech can tell.\\nA spell of twofold power, that leads the soul,\\nThro pleasant melodies, into the land\\nOf memory; or with notes more full and free\\nUnveils the realm of hope so is the whole\\nOf life by subtle concord sweetly spanned,\\nThe years that have been, and the years to be.\\nii.\\nThe river, flowing onward to the sea,\\nSings to itself, and sings to all that hear,\\nA pleasant song, alike at work or play\\nIts foamy fingers sweep, with careless skill,\\nThe wheel revolving neath the busy mill,\\nAnd straight it seems a harp of tuneful key,\\nWhose liquid melody beguiles the ear\\nThat listens to it on a summer s day.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0064.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0067.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0068.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK 41\\nThis is its work; and when its work is done\\nIt hurries forth to greet again the sun,\\nAnd gleams and sparkles on its winsome way,\\nIn all the rapture of unfettered play.\\nIt ripples o er the stones, and, like a brook,\\nTrills a clear strain of wanton merriment\\nIt rests a moment in some eddying nook,\\nCrooning an air of undisturbed content\\nWith deep-toned mirth it leaps the threatening fall,\\nHearing below the rich melodious call\\nOf the full current, in the tranquil pride\\nWith which it moves to meet the ocean tide.\\nBut in this changing music of its moods\\nWe catch the whispered accents of the woods\\nBending to parley with the siren stream\\nThat flashes by them like some transient dream\\nWe hear the singing birds that dip their bills\\nIn the cool current mong the quiet hills\\nWe hear the woodman s axe, in echo ring\\nThro the still air, and listen to the spring\\nWhose tiny voice begins the haunting theme\\nThat runs through all the music of the stream\\nA theme that still invites our feet to roam\\nBack with the river to its early home,\\nAnd gainst its current, in our thought, to glide\\nThro meadow, hamlet, wood, and mountain-side,\\nTo the clear rill, whose unforgotten note\\nSeems, like a wraith of Melody, to float\\nAdown the current, sweetly to compel\\nThe thoughts of men to yield to memory s spell.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0069.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "ANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nIII.\\nA solemn cadence thrills the patient shore\\nBeaten by tides, and by the waves that break\\nUpon it, while their low-voiced echoes wake\\nDesire to know the secret evermore\\nHeld by the sea, yet uttered o er and o er\\nA secret which the wayward clouds partake,\\nDrifting across the upper deeps that make\\nNo answer to the ocean s ceaseless roar.\\nIt is the secret of the vast Unseen,\\nStretching away beyond our feeble ken\\nAnd in the music of the waves we hear\\nHints of far shores, and shrines, and islands green,\\nWhere Hope the enchantress dwells, and beckon\\nmen\\nTo seek the riches of her unknown sphere.\\nIV.\\nO town beloved Mistress of our hearts\\nProud in the beauty that thine age imparts,\\nProud in the reverence that thy children pay\\nTo thee, in memory of thy natal day,\\nBending a look of recognition sweet\\nOn us who gather at thy gracious feet,\\nWhat shall we offer at thy festal shrine\\nWhat but the love that is already thine,\\nThe loyalty renewed that feeds its fires\\nWith the fond memories which this day inspires,\\nThe wishes, that our tongues but faintly frame,\\nFor added lustre to thine honored name?\\nThese be our offerings nor wilt thou refuse", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0070.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n43\\nTo take them at our hands, while thou dost muse,\\nWith eyes down-dropt, submissive to the spell,\\nIn which the past and future seem to dwell,\\nThe spell of music falling on thine ears,\\nWhere thou dost sit amid thy thronging years.\\nFor through the chorus of thy children s praise\\nSteals thy fair river s reminiscent song,\\nLeading thy thoughts, by sad and sunny ways,\\nBack to remembered scenes now vanished long;\\nThe present fades before thy dreaming eyes,\\nAnd the bright visions of the past arise.\\nThe pioneers, who tilled thy virgin soil,\\nSalute thee, pausing in their patient toil;\\nThe captains, from their homeward-speeding ships\\nShout a glad greeting through their bearded lips;\\nLight-hearted youths, in ever-changing throngs,\\nRepeat thy name in academic songs\\nAnd stalwart soldiers bid thee brave adieu\\nAs they go forth to join the boys in blue.\\nKindles thine eye with unaccustomed light\\nAs these fair visions pass before thy sight,\\nSummoned by that soft spell the river throws\\nAbout thee, as its constant current flows\\nClose by thy side, and chants a low refrain\\nThat calls the vanished centuries back again.\\nWhile thus thou sittest, wrapped in grateful thought\\nOf days departed long, yet not forgot,\\nThe. ocean, with its never-resting tide\\nAnd rhythmic passion, presses to thy side,\\nBreaks at thy feet, and thrills thy listening ear", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0071.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "ANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nLike the deep voice of some prophetic seer.\\nAnd lo thine eyes are lifted, and alight\\nWith hopes that rise upon thy quickened sight,\\nGilding with light the untold years that wait\\nTo add new beauties to thy queenly state.\\nFor like the babe that rode to Merlin s feet\\nOn a wild wave, the realm s great king to be,\\nFloats a fair promise to thy wave-washed seat,\\nBorne on the diapason of the sea\\nA promise of the grace, yet unrevealed,\\nThat coming years shall to thy presence yield\\nOf gifts more precious from the sunlit skies\\nThan those which charm thy backward-turning eyes\\nOf wealth, love, learning, and the happy pride\\nOf her whose sons in loyal faith abide.\\nSo listening to the river and the sea,\\nWhose voices blend in sweetest harmony\\nOf hope and memory, thou dost seem to greet\\nThine elder sons and future, as they meet\\nAnd join with us, who throng about thee now\\nTo crown with living love thy radiant brow.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0072.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE PROCESSION.\\nAt the close of the exercises in the church, the procession, which\\nhad been forming by sections in different parts of the town, was\\nbrought into line and began its march. The route pursued was down\\nMain Street to Mason Street, thence to Federal Street and up Fed-\\neral to Bath Street, through Bath and Potter Streets to Union Street,\\nthrough Lincoln Street to Main Street, up Main Street to the rail-\\nroad crossing at the head of the Mall, down Park Row and Main\\nStreet to Bank Street, thence to Federal Street, where the proces-\\nsion was dismissed. The length of the procession was estimated at\\nthree-quarters of a mile and it is said to have taken half an hour in\\npassing any given point. It was formed in seven divisions as\\nfollows\\nFIRST DIVISION.\\nDetachment of Police.\\nChief Marshal, Charles E. Townsend.\\nE. W. Johnson, Wm. M. Pennell, Geo. D. Parks, Aids.\\nMilitary Band of Portland.\\nChamberlain Guards of Brunswick Lieut. W. O. Peterson, Commanding.\\nVincent Mountfort Post, G. A. R. J. A. Fisher, Commanding.\\nIn Carriages. Governor and Staff, Orator and Poet, President of the Day,\\nInvited Guests, Town Officers, General Committee.\\nBrunswick Wheel Club.\\nSECOND DIVISION.\\nF. H. Wilson, Marshal; L. J. Bodge, O. W. Turner, E. A. Thompson, Aids.\\nBrunswick Cadet Band.\\nIn Carriages. Faculty of Bowdoin College and Maine Medical School.\\nStudents of Bowdoin College.\\nTHIRD DIVISION.\\nE. C. Day, Marshal; Edward Toothaker, Aid.\\nBoys Band.\\nSchool Committee.\\nTeachers and Pupils of the Public Schools.\\nFOURTH DIVISION.\\nFire Department.\\nSt. John s French Band.\\nS. B. Dunning, Chief Engineer.\\nT. S. Melcher, C. S. Stimpson, A. R. Nickerson, E. H. Woodside, Assistants.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0073.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "ANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nOld Fire Engine of 1838.\\nKennebec, No. 1 J. H. French, Foreman.\\nNiagara, No. 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Nickerson, Foreman.\\nGeneral Bates Company of Lisbon Falls.\\nPejepscot Hook and Ladder Company L. Litchfield, Foreman.\\nFIFTH DIVISION.\\nI. H. Danforth, Marshal; Geo. Knight, Frank Hicks, Aids.\\nDrum and Fife Corps.\\nFloats representing the Early History of Brunswick\\nPejepscot Canoe Club.\\nCapture of Molly Phinney.\\nThe Spinning-Wheel.\\nThe Loom.\\nThe Minute-Man.\\nThe Old Chaise.\\nParson Dunlap.\\nThe Stocks.\\nSIXTH AND SEVENTH DIVISIONS.\\nF. H. Adams, Marshal.\\nCharles S. Frazier, Woodbury Purinton, H. Mallett, Aids.\\nAgricultural Display and Trade Exhibits\\nA. T. Campbell.\\nHarvey Stetson.\\nDennison Manufacturing Company.\\nBowdoin Paper Company.\\nJohn D. Nagle.\\nF. H. Wilson.\\nJ. Furbish.\\nSilas Goddard Son.\\nHowland Colton.\\nJ. W. O. R. Pennell.\\nF. C. Webb.\\nWhitehouse Brothers.\\nTopsham Flour Mills.\\nW. O. Peterson.\\nL. D. Snow.\\nRobert Jordan.\\nAdams Ridley.\\nSpear Whitmore.\\nJ. A. M. Murray.\\nC. E. Townsend.\\nE. Hacker Son.\\nAndroscoggin Pulp Company.\\nA. W. Townsend.\\nS. R. Jackson.\\nE. S. Crawford.\\nC. H. Colby.\\nG. W. Crane.\\nF. M. Stetson.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0074.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0075.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0076.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n47\\nSome of the features of the procession deserve more than a mere\\nmention, and fairly call for full description. The Pejepscot Canoe\\nClub exhibited the advance made in boat-building by presenting\\ntogether an Indian birch-bark canoe and a modern one of the latest\\nfashion. The capture of Molly Phinney was set forth in a highly\\ndramatic manner by three men disguised as Indians, and a girl\\nwhom they captured and released again many times as the procession\\nmoved on. The spinning-wheel and loom were kept in operation by\\ncompetent and active women. The minute-man was shown at his\\nplough armed with an old musket of 1775 actually used at old Fort\\nGeorge. An old chaise bore its history inscribed upon it as follows\\nBuilt by Orrin Head, Exeter, N. H., 1819. Parson Dunlap was\\npresented riding on a saddle which belonged to old Parson Eaton of\\nHarpswell with a Bible of 1737 and a hymn-book of 1820. The\\nstocks were constructed in accurate imitation of the article in use in\\ncolonial days. An old chaise dating from 1785 was driven by a\\nman clad in a suit of clothes of 1789. The public schools received\\ngreat and well-deserved applause for their part in the procession.\\nThe floats were numerous and well arranged and added greatly to\\nthe bright and animating appearance of the whole. The trade\\nexhibits were numerous and elaborate and showed very favorably\\nthe variety and the vigor of the business life of the place. They\\nformed the largest element in the procession, and reflected great\\ncredit on the energy and public spirit of the men who presented\\nthem.\\nThe procession was dismissed about 2 o clock, amid general\\nexpressions of satisfaction. The success of it was very largely due\\nto the untiring efforts of Chief Marshal Charles E. Townsend who\\nspared no cost of time or pains in carrying out the programme. It\\nwas estimated that at this time there were from 10,000 to 12,000\\npeople in the town, including the citizens themselves.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0079.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "THE DINNER.\\nAfter the procession was dismissed, a dinner was given at the\\nTown Hall at which four hundred and fifty ladies and gentlemen\\nwere seated. At the long table in front of the stage sat Dr. Alfred\\nMitchell, President of the Day on his right the Governor and Staff\\nand Members of Congress on his left the Orator and Poet and\\nother invited guests. A blessing was asked by Rev. L. S. Crosley.\\nThe dinner was furnished by George E. Woodbury Son, and the\\nfollowing bill of fare was offered\\nBoned Turkey.\\nLarded Prairie Chicken.\\nCucumbers. Sliced Tomatoes.\\nPhiladelphia Capon. French Fried Potatoes.\\nSliced Ham. Sliced Tongue.\\nRadishes. Lettuce.\\nLobster Salad. Chicken Salad.\\nPhiladelphia Ice-Cream.\\nASSORTED SWEETS.\\nAngel Cake. Chocolate Cake. Pound Cake.\\nWalnut Cake. Marble Cake.\\nLady Fingers. Kisses. Macaroons.\\nStrawberries and Cream.\\nVienna Coffee.\\nFRUIT.\\nOranges. Bananas. Grapes.\\nAt 3 o clock, Doctor Mitchell called the company to order, and\\ngave the first regular toast of the day The Town of Brunswick,\\nto which Mr. Frank E. Roberts, Chairman of the Board of Select-\\nmen, responded as follows\\nREMARKS OF FRANK E. ROBERTS, CHAIRMAN OF\\nSELECTMEN.\\nMr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen, I regret to say that I\\nam one of those unfortunates who were born without the limits of\\nBrunswick. But soon after attaining the age of manhood and\\nlearning of the many good qualities of Brunswick and its inhabitants,\\nI immediately removed here and have been a Brunswicker for the", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0080.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n49\\nlast thirteen years. Since living here I have done what I could to\\nremedy nay misfortune. I have done that thing which is next best\\nto being born here. I married a Brunswick girl. Therefore I can\\ntruly say that the better half of me was born in Brunswick. I have\\nbeen recently studying genealogy, and I find that my maternal\\ngreat-grandmother was a Bruuswick woman. I am pleased to say\\nthat there is some Bruuswick blood flowing through my veins to-day.\\nFor this reason, and by virtue of my office, it is, perhaps, fitting\\nthat I respond for the old town to-day.\\nMr. President, I am glad and proud to speak for Bruuswick at\\nany and all times. We have listened to-day to the grand history of\\nthe old town, recouuted to us in eloquent words by one of her dis-\\ntinguished sons. He has told us of the trials and privations of the\\nearly settlers. He has told us of their success under great difficul-\\nties. He has told how, unaided and alone, the men of those times\\ndefended their homes and their families from the torch and the\\nscalping knife of the savage. We have read in the history of\\nBrunswick of the great number of men sent from here into other\\nparts of the state in the Indian Wars. We have read of the large\\nnumber of men who went from here into the Revolutionary Army\\nand fought for the independence of their country. I have seen it\\nrecently stated, on no less authority than that of Geueral Joshua\\nL. Chamberlain, that at the close of the War of the Revolution,\\nwhile General Washington was reviewing the troops, he rode up and\\ndown the lines, and, halting before the 3d Division of Massachusetts\\ntroops, exclaimed God bless Massachusetts. That division\\nbefore which he halted was composed of men from York and Cum-\\nberland Counties. Some of them were Brunswick men and they\\nhave many descendants in town to-da}^. We have read of the many\\nmen who served from Brunswick in the War of 1812. We know\\nthat in the War of the Rebellion Brunswick sent to the front nearly\\nhalf a regiment of men. We know, too, that over eighty of that\\nnumber never returned. Their bones are in the Sunny South to-day,\\nbut their names are inscribed in enduring marble on yonder tablet.\\nWhat is the lesson of all this We learn that true courage and love\\nof country have ever been prominent traits in the character of the\\nmen of Brunswick.\\nBrunswick was incorporated as the eleventh town in the Province\\nof Maine. At the time of the last census, in 1880, it enjoyed the\\ndistinction of being the largest and wealthiest town in the state. It\\nD", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0081.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "50\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nwas not only the largest town in the state, but was also larger than\\nfour of the cities and richer than five. Of the fifteen cities in the state\\nat that time, and the hundreds of towns, it was eleventh in popula-\\ntion and tenth in wealth. There is but little reason to doubt that it\\nretains the same relative rank to-day, for it contains within its borders\\nover 6,000 inhabitants, and has a valuation of nearly $3,500,000.\\nTo show you, sous and daughters of Brunswick, who have\\nreturned here to-da}?, that we, as a community, are alive to the\\nnecessities and conveniences of modern civilized life, I will say that\\nin the year 1883 we built this splendid Town Building, a building\\nerected not only for the convenience of the officers of the town- and\\nits inhabitants, but also as a memorial to those Brunswick heroes of\\nthe War of the Rebellion who died that their country might live. In\\n1885 there was built here, by the Pejepscot Water Company, a\\ncomplete system of water-works, and we have to-day upon our\\nstreets sixty hydrants for fire purposes, and in our homes the purest\\nof water. In 1887 there was established here an electric light\\nplant, and at night our streets are lighted by electricity. All this\\nhas been done within six years, and before two years more have\\nelapsed, we confidently expect to see the electric cars running up and\\ndown our streets, and before the end of the decade, we are going to\\nhave in Brunswick a complete system of sewers. We, the men of\\nBrunswick of to-day, believe that great changes are to take place\\nhere within a short period. We believe, among these changes, that\\nthe little cluster of summer residences at Mare Point is but the\\nadvance guard of many others that are to line our beautiful shores.\\nWe believe that the magnificent water-power here at the Falls, one\\nof the very best in New England, will soon be utilized for manu-\\nfacturing purposes to its fullest extent. We believe that the river\\nwill be dammed at Simpson s Rips, and that large power, by the\\naid of electricity, be brought to our very doors and also fully\\nutilized. We believe that Brunswick is soon to be what it was\\nintended to be by nature, the most beautiful, as well as one of the\\nlargest and most prosperous cities in the grand old State of Maine.\\nThe second regular toast was the. State of Maine, to which\\nGovernor Edwin C. Burleigh responded as follows\\nREMARKS OF GOVERNOR BURLEIGH.\\nMost sincerely I congratulate the citizens of Brunswick that they\\nare able to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth year of its incor-\\nporation under such auspicious circumstances, and that they have", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0082.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n51\\nreason to look upon the history of their beautiful town with so much\\ninterest and pride.\\nThe important relation which Brunswick has long sustained in\\nthe state is well understood by the public. The character of her\\ncitizens and public men for many years has been to her distinguished\\ncredit throughout New England and in other sections of the country.\\nThe large beneficial influence of Bowdoin College to Maine in\\nrearing so many of her sons for the professions and in maintaining\\nthe standing of our popular institutions of education proves its\\ninestimable value, not only to Brunswick, but to the entire state. I\\nmay be allowed to express my regret that it was not permitted me\\nto share the discipline and stimulating advantages of this institution,\\nwhich has been the nursery and classic home of so many distinguished\\nliterary and public men, but I have given my earnest appreciation\\nof its great importance in that I have sent to be taught by its honored\\nprofessors those in whom I have reason to cherish the dearest regard\\nof blood and affection.\\nBut you expect me, Mr. President, to say a word in response\\ndirectly to the toast The State of Maine. As a business man,\\nhaving had occasion to know in past years considerable of the\\nnatural resources of the state, I am happy to express the opinion\\nthat it is a good state in which to be born and in which to live. Of\\nthe large agricultural resources of Maine, yet only partially devel-\\noped, I need not remark. They are well known, though not\\nsufficiently appreciated by our own people. Recent opportunities of\\nseeing different sections of Maine have largely strengthened my\\nestimate of her resources for manufacturing and of her beautiful\\nsites and opportunities for summer residences of the thousands from\\nthe great cities of other states. Reviewing what we have and what\\nwe are likely to possess in the probable course of events, neither we\\nnor those who are to come after us will be likely to have occasion\\nto regret being citizens of Maine.\\nCongressman Dingley was called upon to answer to the toast\\nThe United States, and after a few introductory sentences,\\nspoke as follows\\nREMARKS OF HON. NELSON DINGLEY, JR.\\nI was thinking why it was that I should be set apart to respond\\nto the sentiment, The United States, and asked myself how it\\nhappened that the United States should be called upon to pay", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0083.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "52\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nobeisance to Brunswick here to-day, but when the distinguished\\ngentleman who set forth the glories of the town at the opening of the\\nentertainment, remarked that Brunswick was older than the United\\nStates, I thought I had the explanation it is the daughter come\\nhome to the mother, for Brunswick is older than the government of\\nthe United States. And we have great regard and great respect for\\nher age. That reminds me that when I got into the carriage to-day,\\nI heard two boys discussing what all this noise was about. One of\\nthem said, Joe, what are they all doing here to-day Why,\\nJim, responded the other boy, don t you know that Brunswick is\\none hundred and fifty years old to-day and you are only ten years?\\nThat shows the spirit that is running in the veins even of the ten-\\nyear-old boys of Brunswick to-day. Several years ago it was my\\ngood fortune to make a trip throughout the various countries of\\nEurope. One bright morning I found myself in a Swiss town.\\nHearing shouts going up as I rose in the morning, I inquired of a\\nby-stander as I went down stairs What is going on Why,\\nsaid he, we are celebrating the six hundredth anniversary of our\\ncity to-day. Now, six hundred T ears in a European town with all\\nits boasts of antiquity, is nothing compared with a one hundred and\\nfifty-year-old town in the United States, is it? Has not more been\\naccomplished here in the one hundred and fifty years in which many\\nof our towns have existed as incorporated municipalities, than in the\\nsix hundred years of many venerable cities of Europe? The truth\\nis that one hundred and fifty years with us means a great deal more\\nthat one hundred and fifty, or even two hundred years of Europe.\\nYou remember the poet well says: Better fifty }^ars of Europe\\nthan a cycle of Cathay. But better fifty years of a municipality\\nin the United States than a cycle in some parts of Europe.\\nAnd now, my friends, what connection is there between this\\nmunicipality, this town of Brunswick and the United States? Why\\nit seems to me that there is the connection that is always to be found\\nbetween the parent and the child. It is to the town system of\\ngovernment that we owe this government of the United States.\\nIf we had not had the town to start with, if our people had not been\\ntrained to govern themselves by their town meetings scattered\\nthroughout New England, we never could have had a government of\\nthe United States. I know the suggestion was made a few moments\\nago that Brunswick was the largest town in Maine and that in the\\nnear future she would become a city. Now I want to make this", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0084.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n53\\nsuggestion do not hurry to the city government until you are\\nactually compelled to. Why not? Because there is that in the\\ngovernment of a town which can never be gained from that of a city.\\nEvery individual may come together to discuss and listen to the\\nwords of wisdom of each other, receiving advice, giving advice.\\nThere is an education which cannot possibly exist in any other form\\nof municipal government. Though the day of municipal govern-\\nment will undoubtedly come, yet put that day off as far as possible.\\nBut, my friends, I did not come here to-day to make a speech. You\\nhave with you the distinguished representative of this district who\\ncame here expecting to make a speech. And now, thanking you\\nfor the invitation to be present, and hoping that at no distant day\\nwe may sit about your board and congratulate you upon your 200th\\nanniversary, I will give way to the gentleman who has come prepared\\nto address you.\\nAfter the remarks of Congressman Dingley, the President called\\nupon the Hon. Thomas B. Reed to respond for k All Creation. Mr.\\nReed said\\nREMARKS OF HON. THOMAS B. REED.\\nI am sorry, ladies and gentlemen, to be obliged to commence what\\nI have to say by an apology. I am sorry to be obliged to say to you\\nthat my presence here to-day was one of the reasons why Governor\\nDingley was not born in Brunswick. I remember, some little time\\nago, sitting in the rain for some fifteen minutes while the Governor\\npaid a beautiful, touching, and eloquent tribute to the town of his\\nbirth the town of Unity, in Waldo County. I found, to my aston-\\nishment, a few months ago, that the Governor was also born in the\\ntown of Durham, in Androscoggin County. And nothing but my\\npresence here, I say again, has prevented you from having, or rather\\nsharing, the honor of its being his birthplace. I felt, therefore, that\\nI ought to be apologetic, for in history it will be a great honor to\\nany town in this state to have even shared the reputation of being\\nthe birthplace of Governor Dingley.\\nI had prepared myself somewhat for personal reminiscences in\\nregard to Brunswick by getting up at half past four this morning,\\nbut to my astonishment I found that, contrary to what was the case\\nwhen I was in college, it is light at that early hour. My recollection\\nof the getting-up time in Brunswick is that it was always dark. But\\nwe seem to have changed that now, and I am unable, therefore, to\\ngo into the reminiscent vein.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0085.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "5-4 ANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nI am only going to trouble you with some general observations\\nwhich I regret to state I have not had the opportunity of preparing.\\nBut it seemed to me. as I was listening to the oration of Professor\\nEverett to-day, that even if you leave out of account the record of\\nthe rocks to which he referred, and take into account only written\\nhistory, that one hundred and fifty years, or even two hundred and\\nfifty years, is a small period of time to take much account of. If\\nit were antiquity alone that we were celebrating to-day, it would not\\nbe worth either the trouble or the expense, but these celebrations\\ntake deeper root upon the human heart than the mere lapse of years.\\nThey touch our souls because they are instinct not with years, but\\nwith humanity.\\nI suppose that it is the dream of every educated American who\\nhas not already done so, to travel beyond the seas in lands of\\nhistoric glory. We do not desire to go there simply because years\\nhave rolled over the mountains and the valleys and the great struct-\\nures of architecture. Our mountains are as old. our buildings are\\nas flue, and yet they have not to us that attraction which they have\\nabroad. With our mountains are not connected, as witli the Alps,\\nthe passage of Hannibal and the triumphal march of Napoleon.\\nOur capitol at Washington can take its place in grandeur and in\\nbeauty alongside any palaces of the past, but it is not yet thronging\\nwith associations of great men. of brave men. and of noble women.\\nThat is what gives the attraction to the human heart in those build-\\nings of the historic countries. What makes Westminster Abbey\\nbeloved of us all? It is not the grandeur of the stones piled upon\\neach other to the top of the pinnacle and the summit of the towers\\nit is not the beautiful tracery of the windows nor the rich light of\\nthe stained glass. It is because it is the home of England s noblest\\ndead. Wherever you have the touch of humanity, wherever you\\nconnect scenes with the deeds and doings of men who have lived\\nand fought and suffered as we are doing, the chain is beyond the\\npower of breaking to the human being. Hence it is that these cele-\\nbrations have such a hold upon our hearts. It brings before us the\\ndeeds and doings of those who have made life easier for us by their\\nsacrifice in the past. It is no discredit for a town to be a mere spot\\nupon the surface of the earth, when it is lighted up by some deed of\\nhuman heroism or human self-denial, and it adds to our strength as\\na people and as a nation to fill our minds with the associations of\\nnoble deeds connected with our towns and with all our localities.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0086.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n55\\nTherefore it is that I hail with pleasure any such scene as this.\\nI believe that the great deeds of the past are incitations to us\\nforever for noble deeds in the future, and the history of Brunswick\\nis full of the same. These celebrations also bring up to us the\\nassociations which make life pleasant and happy. There is to me no\\nmore pleasant thought than that I belong to the list of those who\\nwere graduated at the noble college on the hill. It is not so great\\nas many a university. It is not so famous as many a college but\\nfor the production of men of sense, of culture and of learning, it\\nhas almost no equal, and I venture to say, no superior.\\nOne sentence more and I am through. It ought to be the effort\\nof every citizen of Brunswick to do his best that the generation\\nwhich makes the next celebration will be able to speak as well of\\nyou as we who talk to-day can of those who are dead and buried\\nnow.\\nDr. Mitchell then called upon President Hyde to respond for\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Bowdoin College. President Hyde spoke substantially as fol-\\nlows\\nREMARKS OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM DeWITT HYDE.\\nOne hundred and one years ago, the justices of the peace and the\\nCongregational ministers of Cumberland County petitioned the Gen-\\neral Court of Massachusetts to establish a college in the District of\\nMaine and, out of many rivals for the hand of the dowerless insti-\\ntution, Brunswick, with the munificent offer of some two hundred\\nacres of sand-plain valued at two shillings per acre, was the suc-\\ncessful suitor. It has been fortunate for the college that it was\\nplaced here, beside your broad and quiet highway from the river to\\nthe sea, and surrounded by the warm hospitality of your pleasant\\nBrunswick homes.\\nFreely the college has received the encouragement, the sympathy,\\nthe support of Brunswick s best citizens in service upon the Boards\\nof Government, in the office of Treasurer, and in the less conspic-\\nuous, but to an institution depending so largely on public sympathy,\\nequally important lines of personal loyalty and friendly influence in\\nits behalf. Freely the college has given back an educational impulse\\nand a moral enthusiasm to the town. Many of the sons of Bruns-\\nwick have received a collegiate education who were unable to go to\\na distance to secure it and a goodly number of the fair daughters\\nof the town, though debarred from studying within its walls, yet", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0087.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "56\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nhave become daughters-in-law of the college and have it to thank\\nfor loving husbands and happy homes.\\nThe Prof essors have been from the first loyal and devoted citizens\\nof the town. What nobler type of the true citizen was ever given\\nto a town than Professor William Smyth Faithful to the college,\\nour Memorial Hall is the monument of his enthusiasm and energy.\\nFaithful to the church, the spacious edifice in which we were assem-\\nbled this morning bears witness to his faith and zeal. Faithful to\\nthe town, our school system is the fruit of his untiring perseverance,\\nand our high school is the crown of the victory he won after a long\\nand bitter fight against selfish prejudice and obstinate ignorance.\\nHe. with a colored man from Harris Hill. cast the first two votes\\nfor abolition that were cast in town. His house was the headquar-\\nters of anti-slavery lecturers and agitators, and the Brunswick\\nstation of the underground railway was at his home. Fidelity to\\nhis public duties carried him so far in this direction that the timid\\nconservatives, who constituted the governing Boards of the College,\\nappointed a committee whose verbal instructions were, u to investi-\\ngate the state of instruction in Bowdoin College. but whose animus\\nand object was to discover that Professor Smyth was engaging in\\npolitical agitation to the neglect of his college work. In some way\\nor other the scheme got wind, and the students, with that love of\\nfair play which is characteristic of them, resolved that the grand old\\nman should not go out by an} T such back-door as that. So they\\nstudied their mathematics as they never had studied before, and I\\nfear never have studied since, and when the committee came to\\nexamine the class they found to their confusion and dismay that\\napparently the state of mathematical instruction in Bowdoin College\\nwas all that could be desired. Such in greater or less degree has\\nbeen the character of the Professors which Bowdoin College has\\ncontributed to the citizenship of Brunswick.\\nThough the Presidents have been of all sorts, from the dreamy\\nscholar and mystic divine to the dashing General and brilliant Gov-\\nernor, yet there is one essential function they always have fulfilled.\\nThey are excellent scapegoats. For however far any of you may stray\\nfrom the path of virtue, you may always console yourselves with the\\nassurance that as long as there is a College President in town he\\nwill be accused of doing or permitting to be done something in-\\nfinitely worse. Only last Memorial Day, when some of the lawyers\\nand business men of the town got together and played a game of", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0088.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n57\\nball, I steadfastly refused repeated invitations to join the game, and\\ndid not even go to the grounds and witness it yet next morning while\\nthese gentlemen saw nothing in the morning papers to spoil their\\nbreakfast, I was held up to the people of the state as the chief\\ndesecrator of the day, because the college nine had played a game\\nof ball.\\nCollege and town have dwelt together for more than fourscore\\nyears and in spite of Yagger wars and friendly lawsuits the bond\\nbetween the two has been growing firmer with the increasing years.\\nAnd among the many causes for congratulation which this anni-\\nversary brings to mind, one of the foremost is the charter of Bow-\\ndoin College, granted June 24, 1794, which took the sterile sands of\\nyonder hill where only the pine and the blueberry could flourish, and\\nplanted there an institution which has sent forth more than two\\nthousand noble men for the service of the State and the heal-\\ning of the Nation, for the glory of G-od and the blessing of\\nmankind.\\nThe next speaker was William M. Sargent, Esq., of Portland, who\\nhad prepared for the occasion the following paper on Thomas Pur-\\nchase from which he read some extracts\\nTHOMAS PURCHASE BY WILLIAM M. SARGENT.\\nStemmata quid faciunt? Of what use are genealogies? satiri-\\ncally queried old Juvenal and at his time and before his audience\\nhe was doubtless justified for his taunting gibe at a very scholarly\\nand recondite pursuit, for his fellow-Romans were not over-addicted\\nto decorous centennial celebrations, and could have found but little\\nsatisfaction in tracing back through hundreds of years of obscurity\\nto a mythical origin and a ferine foster-mother.\\nTo make no mention on this auspicious occasion of the worthy\\nold gentleman who was your first settler would be leaving out from\\nthe play the principal dramatis persona and so upon the invitation\\nand assurance of your committee that such additional facts as have\\nnot before found their way into print concerning Thomas Purchase,\\nthe founder of your settlement here, would be especially grateful\\nand acceptable to Brunswick citizens, at this their sesqui-centennial,\\nthis paper is now brought forward.\\nAt first it seemed but supererogatory to attempt to add aught to\\nthe comprehensive sketch of his life, times, and character so admir-\\nably presented by the Messrs. Wheeler in their comprehensive", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0089.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "58\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nhistory of your town, 1 and which must be so well known to yon\\nthat a re-description of his life and deeds would be a trite and well-\\nworn theme but so fruitful are our only partially explored fields of\\nresearch that be a given tract never so thoroughly harvested, careful\\nsearch and comparison may bring to light overlooked gleanings that\\nwill round out and embellish the garnered sheaves. And your\\ncritical indulgence is craved for this, a hastily prepared paper from\\nnotes confessedly incomplete, produced rather in the hope of\\nstimulating further research than as a satisfactory offering to your\\nlaudable curiosity, or a complete tribute to the man whose memory\\nwe to-day in part commemorate.\\nBut upon the assurance that you will now for the first time learn\\nPurchase s last wife s name the names of all his five children, the\\nnames of the persons each one married, a part if not the whole of\\nhis grandchildren his relationship to his partner George Way\\nothers of his very respectable relatives the probable disposition of\\nthe Way and Purchase patent, or at least its whereabouts, as late as\\nA.D. 1737; and an extract that will further aid in locating the\\nexact place of his abode upon the fulfillment of this assurance, it\\nis hoped that this audience, unlike old Juvenal s, will admit that in\\nthis clay and generation the genealogist s is not a wholly thankless\\navocation.\\nIn attempting to straighten out the relationships of his family,\\nconfusion has been worse confounded by the facts that there wer\\nthree Thomas Purchases that two of them married women whose\\nChris tian names were Elizabeth that there were three Elizabeth\\nPurchases, two of whom married men each named John Blany and\\nthat two of Purchase s sons married sisters surnamed Williams.\\nFrom such a tangled snarl, small wonder that writers have so far\\nfailed to deduce straight lines. Ours, then, the pleasing task to\\nunravel this knotted skein.\\nThe first difficulty is easily resolved by a reference to the York\\nDeeds, published by the liberality of our State. The conveyance\\nto Richard Wharton in 1683 by Mrs. Elizabeth Blany, the late\\nrelict and administratrix of Thomas Purchase of Pejepscott, is also\\nsigned by Elizabeth Purchase, the relict of Thomas Purchase,\\nJunior, deceased. 2 There is a plain enough distinction, and\\n1 History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, by George A. Wheeler,.\\nM.D., and Henry W. Wheeler. Boston, 1878.\\n2York Deeds. IV., 16 and 17.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0090.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n59\\nthe Salem Records 3 also show that 11 Thomas Purchase and\\nElizabeth Williams were married 3d-10mo 79, or a year and a half\\nafter the death of the elder man, which will be hereafter shown to\\nhave occurred in May, 1678. This Elizabeth Williams is the woman\\nwho has been so often erroneously but persistently assigned to the elder\\nThomas. Thomas Purchase s first wife, or at any rate his first Amer-\\nican wife, Mary Gove, died in Boston, November 7, 1655. 4 It is\\ncertain that no children by her survived their father, for when he died\\nat Lynn, May 1, 1678, he left by his will, 5 dated May 2, 1677,\\nprobated June 4, 1678, one-third of his estate to his wife, Elizabeth,\\nand the other two-thirds to his five children. Of these, his son\\nThomas, in his petition for administration, refusing the executor-\\nship to which he had been appointed by his father, states that he\\nwas a young man. He was probably just at maturity, and certainly\\nunmarried, which occurred eighteen months later, as shown above.\\nThe widow, Elizabeth Purchase, having married in November,\\n1679, John Blauy of Lynn, 6 in 1683 conducted the negotiations\\nthat led to the transfer of Purchase s moiety of Brunswick and\\nadjacent tracts to Richard Wharton 7 for a consideration of \u00c2\u00a320\\npaid down, \u00c2\u00a3130 more to be paid upon production of a copy of the\\nPatent, 8 and several lots of land reserved. This she did as sur-\\nviving administratrix, her son Thomas having never been heard\\nfrom, and judicially determined to have been lost at sea. 9 In\\nthe conveyance is this significant reservation, viz. One hundred\\nand fifty pounds and seaven lotts and shares of land\\nreserved and secured by articles signed by the sd Wharton bearing\\ndate with these Presents. This conveyance is signed by those of\\nPurchase s children who were by law capable of contracting two in\\nnumber, Jane, the wife of Oliver Ellkines, and Elizabeth, the wife\\nof John Blany, Junior, by the legal representative of a third,\\nElizabeth, the widow of Thomas Purchase, Junior, and by the mother\\nin behalf of the other two who were minors, but not naming them.\\nAmong the files of our Maine Historical Society there is\\npreserved a fragment, half obliterated by accident and the corroding\\n3 Essex Inst. III., 15.\\n4 Boston Com. Rep. IX., 52.\\n5 Salem Probate Office. II., 348.\\n6 Lynn Records, Essex Inst. V., 173.\\n7 York Deeds. IV., 16 and 17, supra.\\n8 Pejepscot Records, 143 and foil.\\n9 Saiem Probate Office. III., 121.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0091.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "60\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\ntooth of time, of the counterpart 8 of these w articles signed by\\nthe sd Wharton, and by the greatest good fortune enough of it\\nstill remains to supply the names of the other two children they\\nwere Abraham Purchase, named therein, and Sarah Purchase, named\\nin the part that is missing, as the following receipt for a payment on\\naccount of her share, by her mother, conclusively proves\\nBoston, June 26, 1687.\\nRec d then Forty shillings in money of R. Wharton in behalf of my daughter\\nSarah Purchase within named. I say Rec d\\np Eliza. E Blany\\nher mark.\\nHaving thus enumerated all the five children mentioned by\\nThomas Purchase in his will, attention is immediately arrested by\\nan apparent discrepancy in the wording of the fifth paragraph of\\nsaid articles, viz. for each of ye seven shares before engaged\\nto be laid out to the said Eliza her six children. The only\\ninference that can be drawn from that is that this woman had\\nanother child either before or since her marriage with Purchase.\\nNow this fragment begins thus Pike Shall of the said Lands and\\neach of them have a share of one hundred acres laid Out in home\\nLotts out Lots in Proportion with others when a Plantation shall\\nBe Layd out, and is signed among others by one Samuel Pike;\\nand this Samuel Pike had also brought in an account of fifty pounds\\nagainst the estate for the diet of Mr. Purchase for seven months and\\nthe diet of the four younger children. He was a brave and exem-\\nplary young man, who afterwards was an Ensign in the Indian wars\\nfrom 1687, 10 and it was he, and not his father, who gave the first\\nwarning of the Indian outbreak of 1676, and was one of the deter-\\nmined band who held out until succor arrived in the fort they threw\\nup on the inner slope of Cushing s Island under the Rev. George\\nBurroughs. 11 And he it is who discloses who his mother was before\\nmarrying Purchase in a petition about 1688 he claimed that his\\nfather, Richard Pike, deceased, had been possessed of a tract of\\nland on the west side of Mussel Cove.\\nSo Mrs. Elizabeth Purchase, the second wife of Thomas Purchase\\nand his surviving widow, is abundantly proven to have been three\\ntimes married first to Richard Pike, second to Thomas Purchase,\\nand third to John Blany, Senior.\\nThomas Purchase, Junior, married Elizabeth Williams, December\\n10 Willis History of Portland, 268.\\n11 Sargent s Cushing s Island, 27, 29,", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0092.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n61\\n3, 1679, and hud a son Thomas, born January 29, 1680, and of him\\nthe following is the last record\\n25 Nov., 1684, Thomas Purchase having been on a voyage to sea 3 years\\nsince with Mr. Habbakkuk Turner no one of ye men on ye ship yet heard\\nof Administration granted to Elizabeth his widow.\\nThe appraisal of his estate embracing 100 acres of land at the\\neastward was returned June 30, 1685. 9\\nThe recital in the deed by this third Thomas Purchase to Samuel\\nWaldo, that his father, Thomas, was the eldest son of Thomas\\nPurchase of Pejepscot, leaves room for, and in so far corroborates\\nthe existence of the second son, Abraham, discovered above. 12\\nAbraham Purchase married Ruth, daughter of John Williams of\\nSalem, and had children: Ruth, born June 10, 1702; Benjamin,\\nborn March 2, 1706. 13\\nElizabeth Purchase, the younger, married John Blany, Junior,\\nand had seven children. 24\\nSarah Purchase married Gamaliel Phippen, and had one son and\\nseven daughters. 25\\nThough you have no Purchases now in your midst, it is more\\nthan probable that through the ramifications of the above numerous\\nfamilies the blood of your first settler has been transmitted to the\\nveins of some among you.\\nPurchase was of extremely respectable and even gentle extrac-\\ntion he stated himself that he had been a servant to King Charles I.\\nabout the beginning of his reign, 14 and it is a well known fact that\\nnone but gentlemen were chosen for positions so near royalty. This\\nstatement of his is elsewhere supported. 15 He names in his will 5 and\\ncalls cousins, i.e. nephews, Oliver Purchase, an active and con-\\nspicuous man of Lynn where he was honored with various offices,\\nand Edward Allyn, a Boston merchant of good standing he was a\\nblood relative of the Rev. Robert Jordan, our early Episcopal\\nclergyman, as John Winter writes, who must have informed himself\\nof the antecedents and connections of his future son-in-law; he was\\na brother-in-law to George Way of Dorchester, England, his\\npartner in the Patent, as is disclosed by the latter s will 16 and the\\n12 York Registry of Deeds, 16, 162.\\n13 Savage.\\n14 Francis Neale s deposition, Pejepscot Records, 495.\\n15 Mrs. Eunice Wharton s letter, Pejepscot Records, 338.\\n16 Gen. Reg. XLIIL, 152.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0093.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "62\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\npartial pedigree of the Rev. Samuel Purchas, of u Pilgrimage fame, 17\\nshows our Thomas was probably a nephew or cousin to that cele-\\nbrated divine. This pedigree also shows he may have had a double\\nrelationship to his nephew Oliver by blood or by marriage, since\\nMary (Perkins) Purchase, the second wife of Oliver, was also a\\nPurchase on her graud-maternal side.\\nThis extract may aid in locating the fair stone house of\\nPurchase below the falls: 18 Henry Boad writing from Wells,\\nSeptember 29, 1684, to his cousin, G-overnor John Winthrop, com-\\nplains of Cleeve s encroachment and claims that Wells fell within\\nhis forty miles along the sea-coast which Boad thought a second\\nsurvey might disprove if he begin to take his measure according to\\nhis patent roch. Is at Sakadohec river the southwest syd of yt\\nbut he began at Mr. Purchase s house at the river called Mengipscott\\nriver, and set one (Booth) to measure that hath neither art nor skill\\nbut was bribed to take in John Wadloe who dwelt at the\\nmiddle of our town. 19 Now remembering that Wells was about\\neight miles broad and allowing for this encroachment, you get\\napproximately the distance of Purchase s house from the old\\nriver of Sagadahoc or finding the exact location of Wadloe s house\\nin Wells by tracing down the titles and measuring along the coast\\nyou would come to the exact site of Purchase s house.\\nMuch doubt has at times been expressed about the existence of\\nthe patent from the council for New England, but the evidence of\\nits existence is overwhelming, and permits of no doubt or cavil.\\nJohn Cousins had seen it. 20 Richard Callicott deposed that\\nPurchase intended to go to England to get a new copy of it in 1677,\\nafter his own had been destroyed by fire in his house 20 all of Pur-\\nchase s neighbors knew more or less about it 20 and now more new\\nevidence can be adduced G-eorge Way devises his half to his son\\nEleazer in his will quoted above. 16 This Eleazer Way found that\\ncertain agreements made by his father and Purchase in 1633,\\noperated as an equitable bar to the execution he had obtained against\\nhis uncle and so released him, distinctly citing the Patent. 21 Why\\nthen did not Purchase place so important a Patent upon record? and\\n17 Id. XXXVIII., 319.\\n18 Pejepscot Records, 493.\\nWMass. Hist. Soc. Proc. 2 S. II., 157.\\n20 Pejepscot Records, 493 and foil.\\n2i Gen. Reg. XLII., 149.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0094.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n(33\\nthe statement by Edward Rishworth, the Recorder of the Province,\\nthat he could find no record yt giveth any person or persons any\\nTitle thereunto, 20 has been relied upon as disproving the existence of\\nany such Patent. The reason why it could not be found there by\\nhim, or by subsequent searchers was, because though properly\\nrecorded, it was not done in Yorkshire, but among the vanished\\nrecords, of which but scanty bits have ever been discovered, of the\\nRigby government, the evanescent General Assembly of the Province\\nof Ligonia, which dragged through a precarious and intermittent\\nexistence from 1643 to 1658, and of which Brunswick then formed\\na component part. Francis Neale, the second Recorder of that\\nProvince deposes to this in the most unmistakable manner Mr.\\nPurchase gave the Depon t a coppy of the Commission by which he\\nheld his place, which, that Depon t being then Recorder, put on\\nrecord. 20 These records had disappeared, doubtless destroyed\\nfrom interested motives, before the time of Purchase s fire, or else\\nhe could have gotten a certified copy without going to England.\\nIt is now certain that Wharton in his negotiations for this prop-\\nerty had insisted that a copy of the Patent should be produced, and\\nit was to obtain this that the younger Purchase sailed for England\\nhearing nothing from him and being impatient to consummate the\\nbargain, Wharton paid part of the purchase money down and\\nexecuted the above articles, the fourth paragraph of which reads\\nFourthly, John Blany and Elizabeth Blan} T covenant and promise\\nin case no Inrollment or record of said Patent can be found nor\\nother Confirmation be obtained in right of said Purchase Way,\\nfor the premises, and on said Wharton reconveying he shall be\\ndischarged from the said one hundred and thirty pounds. 8 Between\\nthe time of the Purchase- Wharton deed and that of the deed of the\\nIndian Sagamores, 22 Wharton either went or sent to England and\\nobtained the full copy of the Patent from which the description in the\\nlatter deed must have been taken so full and precise in its terms as\\ncompared with the earlier one, for which at the time of its execution\\nmaterial was not at hand, except for very general terms. Another\\nconfirmatory fact is that we find him in 1687 making payments on\\naccount of his purchase satisfied with the confirmation he had\\nobtained in right of said Purchase and Way for said Patent. 8\\nHaving gotten possession of the original Patent Wharton changed\\nits depositary, placing it with intimate friends as is shown by\\n22York Deeds- IV., 14 and 15.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0095.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "64\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS.\\nextracts from a letter from Mrs. Eunice Wharton, his son s widow,\\ndated London, November 1, 1737 I can make them a valid Title\\nnone Elce can do it, which is likewise recorded and pattented\\nhere in oald England the oridginal Pattent from the Council of\\nPlimoth is in the hands of the Duke of Hambleton the Exempli-\\nfication which Mr. Purchase had was believed to be burnt with his\\nHous but his title was sufficiently proved Mr. Winthrop have a\\ncopie of it, if you can get his Wife to shew it you. 23\\nThis last clause seems likely enough because of Winthrop s care\\nto protect the Bay title under the grant of 1639, and because of the\\nsecretiveness of interested Massachusetts claimants of the Kennebec\\ntract, who would hardly divulge all they had knowledge of about a\\nrival claim that they hoped some day to absorb.\\nThus have we traced your worthy founder s family, patiently\\nelaborating details that may seem trivial to some of you, but which\\nwill serve the historiographer of the future, who to cope with\\ncommunities, to generalize upon generations, and to popularize\\npeoples to posterity must first study personal peculiarities and\\nfamily transactions and traditions.\\nNow as we bid good-bye to Thomas Purchase, leaving estimates\\nof his character, praises of his virtues and censures of his faults to\\nthe enthusiastic imagery of rising generations, we reflect\\nNo epitaph can make\\nThe just man famed\\nThe good are praised\\nTVhen they are only named.\\nProfessor Everett was then called upon to respond to the toast\\nTown and College, which led him to give the audience many\\nbright and merry reminiscences, of which we can give but a frag-\\nment:\\nREMARKS OF PROFESSOR CHARLES C. EVERETT.\\nThe relations between the college and town, as I first remember\\nthem, were hardly creditable. There have been the French and\\nIndian wars and the war of 1812 but historians have not given suf-\\nficient attention to the Yagger war. I remember once, when a\\nsmall boy, my father was called upon one evening to assist President\\nWoods in quelling a 64 Yagger war, which were at that time rather\\n23 Pejepscot Records, 338.\\n24 Essex Inst. XVI., 90.\\n25Phippen Family and Gen. Reg. XXV., 88.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0096.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n65\\ndangerous and decidedly unpleasant. President Woods at one time\\nreprimanded a student for taking part in such a scrimmage, and for\\nthrowing rotten eggs. The student is reported to have disclaimed\\nthe epithet rotten and to have said the eggs were good ones.\\nBut the President said that he could answer for it that one egg at\\nleast was not good, as it came within dangerous proximity to his\\nnose.\\nProfessor Everett then related several amusing anecdotes and\\nclosed by alluding to the present pleasant relations between town\\nand college, which he hoped might always continue.\\nThe next toast was The Maine Medical School to which Dr.\\nIsrael T. Dana responded as follows\\nREMARKS OF DR. ISRAEL T. DANA.\\nMr. President, You have asked me to say a few words on this\\ninteresting memorial occasion, as representing the Medical School of\\nMaine. I am most happy to do so. This school, the medical\\ndepartment of Bowdoin College, has attained the ripe age of three-\\nscore years and ten, less one. It was founded in 1820. The dear\\nold mother has many sons, and they are all loyal to her. Some of\\nthem after leaving her, extend their studies in the great medical\\ncenters at home and abroad, but they never cease to think and speak\\nof her with filial respect and affection. Her children arise up and\\ncall her blessed.\\nThe school was founded by Professor Parker Cleaveland of\\nBrunswick, and Dr. Nathan Smith of New Haven. It was fortunate\\nin its founders. They were men of rare power and devotion. They\\nwere at first the only Professors, and each taught in several depart-\\nments of medical science. Indeed their individual chairs, as\\nwittily suggested by Dr. Holmes, in another connection, might more\\nappropriately have been termed settees. The quarters of the\\nschool at first, in the upper stories of old Massachusetts Hall, were\\ncramped and uncomfortable. The tall men would get the end seats,\\nand occasionally stand up, with as little noise as possible, and stretch\\nfirst one leg and then the other down the aisle for relief. Traditions\\nwere handed down of occasional rollicksome and boisterous freaks\\nof the medics in the early years of the school. I remember\\nhearing President Woods say, in an address to the class soon after\\nthe occupation of the new medical building, Time was when the\\ncoming of the medical class was a terror to the community. Now,\\nE", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0097.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "66\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\ngentlemen, you are an example to us all. Let me add to the names\\nof Cleaveland and Nathan Smith those of Drs. R. D. Mussey,\\nEdmund R. Peaslee, B. Fordyce Barker, and William Warren Greene,\\nand you have a group of five medical professors than whom it\\nwould be difficult to name five more distinguished in connection\\nwith any medical college in the land.\\nThe Medical School of Maine has rendered good service to the\\ncommonwealth. Seventy years ago there were comparatively few\\nwithin its borders, who had taken the degree of M.D. Men would\\nread medicine with some neighboring practitioner and then take\\nup practice for themselves. The establishment of the school marked\\na new era in medical education here. The standard was raised.\\nNot only were better educated doctors furnished to the villages and\\nsmall towns, but an examination of the records shows that for the\\nlast two generations, a very large percentage of the ablest and most\\ndistinguished physicians and surgeons of the larger towns and cities\\nof Maine have been graduates of this school.\\nThe Medical School of Maine deserves well of the State. Its\\npast record is assured and most creditable. No effort must be\\nspared to make its future yet more abundantly useful and honorable.\\nAt the close of Dr. Dana s remarks the President called upon\\nthe audience to rise and join in singing a hymn. The following\\nhymn was then sung to the tune of Duke Street\\nO God, beneath thy guiding hand,\\nOur exiled fathers ci ossed the sea;\\nAnd when they trod the wintry strand\\nWith prayer and psalm they worshiped Thee.\\nThou heard st, well pleased, the song, the prayer\\nThy blessing came; and still its power\\nShall onward through all ages bear\\nThe memory of that holy hour.\\nLaws, freedom, truth, and faith in God,\\nCame with these exiles o er the waves,\\nAnd where their pilgrim feet have trod\\nThe God they trusted guards their graves.\\nAnd here Thy name, O God of love,\\nTheir children s children shall adore,\\nTill these eternal hills remove\\nAnd spring adorns the earth no more.\\nThe President introduced Hon. Charles A. Boutelle as a hero of\\nthe Albemarle fight, a distinguished journalist and prominent leader\\nin Congress. Mr. Boutelle received an enthusiastic reception.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0098.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n67\\nREMARKS OF HON. CHARLES A. BOUTELLE.\\nMr. President, Neighbors, and Friends, I might say, in the\\nborrowed language of days gone by, I came not here to talk, but\\nI am afraid that John Furbish and Charlie Townsend would say\\nI was trenching too much on the speech of the past. I have come\\nhere simply and solely to rejoice with you on this occasion. While\\nI have not the honor to claim Brunswick as the place of my nativity\\nor of my present residence, I cannot forget that for nearly twenty\\nyears this village represented everything included in the word home.\\nGreat changes have taken place here, not only in one hundred\\nand fifty years, but in the short time since I have known the town.\\nAnd if you should wish to present a picture of the contrast, I do\\nnot think you could do better than bring that old town hall that I\\nknew and put it up here in a corner of this.\\nI was not a graduate of Bowdoin College, much as I should be\\npleased could I point to that honor, but I was not without a course\\nof study in this old town. Well I remember the school kept by\\nAunt Susy Owen down here in the old yellow house on the corner of\\nMain and O Brien Streets. And I remember how the task was\\ncarried on by her daughter. Then I remember well Susan Springer,\\nAmanda Knight, the sisters Hinckley, and Miss Owen, whom I see\\nhere to-day. I admire the spirit and work of those teachers who\\nwhipped into semblance of order the unterrified young cubs of that\\nday. There were Leonard Townsend, Charles Francis Adams, and\\nJonathan Adams, whom I am glad to have as a fellow-citizen in\\nBangor. I might also speak of the contrast of the school-houses\\nbetween that day and this, than which nothing could show better the\\nprogress of this town.\\nWhen I lived here the town was famed for its great ship-building\\nindustry, and the skill of Brunswick workmen was known wherever\\nour flag could be seen on the waters of the civilized globe. From\\nthese yards have been sent out as magnificent specimens of naval\\narchitecture as ever cleaved the waters of old ocean. From them\\nhave been set afloat by Pennells and Schofields and Humphreys\\nnearly seven hundred and fifty craft ships, barks, schooners, and\\nbrigs that have borne the influence of our civilization to the utter-\\nmost parts of the earth. I missed to-day the enormous piles of box\\nshooks which used to be piled here by thousands. This has been\\nrevolutionized by different processes of manufacturing sugar. But\\nthe splendid procession to-day shows how you have added other and", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0099.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "68\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nmore varied industries to your town. The building of new resi-\\ndences and streets all bespeaks the present prosperity and future\\nprogress of the beautiful town. May your advances exceed even\\nthose made in the past, is the wish of one who on this lovely plain,\\nsurrounded by these beautiful hills, spent his early and happiest\\ndays. I can close in no more fitting a manner than by telling you\\nthat one of the most beautiful expressions of Longfellow, The\\nBuilding of the Ship, found its inspiration from a Brunswick ship-\\nyard. I close by saying of our common state and our magnificent\\ncountry as he saw it\\nThou, too, sail on, O Ship of State\\nSail on, O Union strong and great\\nHumanity with all its fears,\\nWith all the hopes of future years,\\nIs hanging breathless on thy fate\\nSail on, nor fear to breast the sea\\nOur hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,\\nOur hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,\\nOur faith triumphant o er our fears,\\nAre all with thee, are all with thee.\\nPresident Mitchell then called upon Rev. Edward C. Guild to\\nrespond for The Clergymen of Brunswick. Mr. Guild said:\\nREMARKS OF REV. E. C. GUILD.\\nI have no reminiscences to offer of past times, for I have\\nbeen but a short time a resident of Brunswick. But it may\\ninterest you to know how Brunswick strikes a new-comer. My\\nfirst impression was that Brunswick people were rather hard to get\\nat. I found it difficult to make acquaintances. I found it rather\\nhard to get inside of people s doors. But the next thing I found out\\nwas that once inside you met a very hearty welcome. When you\\nhad once got in you never wanted to get out again. And when you\\nhad once found people out you found them always the same. I have\\nbeen much struck with the stability of good things here in Bruns-\\nwick. When a man .has won a warm place in the hearts of the\\nBrunswick people they are ready to stand by him. The memory of\\nthe good men who have lived here is so fresh and warm so vital a\\npart of the life of the community that it is difficult for me to\\nrealize that I have not personally known them. The names of such\\nmen as Professor Smyth and Professor Packard, Dr. Lincoln, Dr.\\nAdams, and Dr. Woods are such household words wherever I go,", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0100.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n69\\nthat I can hardly believe I have never seen their faces nor heard\\ntheir voices. I have been struck, too, with the difficulty of getting\\npeople to support a new movement or enter into a novel project.\\nBut here, too, the same quality of stability is manifested when\\nthey are once interested and engaged they do not let it drop till\\nit is well and thoroughly accomplished.\\nIn behalf of the clergy I desire to say, with glad and grateful\\nfeeling, that the day of Christian unity and good-will has dawned,\\nnever, I trust, to set the heartiest fellowship and mutual regard\\nexist to-day, and every one of the Christian societies here is ready\\nto rejoice at the prosperity of every other society.\\nWeston Thompson, Esq., who was to have spoken for the lawyers\\nof Brunswick, was unfortunately absent. President Mitchell then\\ncalled upon Dr. George A. Wheeler, of Castine, to respond for\\nThe Physicians of Brunswick. Dr. Wheeler spoke as follows\\nREMARKS OF DR. GEORGE A. WHEELER.\\nThe after-dinner pill I am called upon to administer may not\\nprove very palatable, but I hope may be beneficial. I will sugar-\\ncoat it all I can. In speaking a few words in behalf of the former\\nphysicians of this town I feel all the time that the duty ought to\\nfall upon a resident. The fact that I am not a citizen enables me,\\nhowever, to include the physicians of to-day in my general remarks.\\nThis town has been specially fortunate in the character and\\nstanding of its physicians. Charlatans have and doubtless will\\ncome here as elsewhere, but they don t find the atmosphere here an\\nagreeable one. From the earliest period of the town s settlement,\\nits physicians have been among its leading men and eminent either\\nfor their professional attainments, the civil or political positions they\\nhave filled, or for their literary and social qualifications.\\nThe earliest here of whom we have authentic record, Dr.\\nWilliam Spear, participated in the last Indian and in the Revolution-\\nary War and later served on the Board of Selectmen. Dr. Samuel\\nDuncan whose saddle-bags may be seen in the room below was\\na Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts. Dr.\\nEbenezer Goss, though addicted to rather too frequeut potations,\\nso much so that on one occasion when in his barn-yard he thought\\nthe road had been fenced in front and behind him was, neverthe-\\nless, esteemed as a physician and held in high repute as a citizen.\\nHe had a large practice and was chosen a Representative of the", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0101.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "70\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\ntown to the General Court. Dr. Jonathan Page was a man of mark.\\nHe was a Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature, a Representa-\\ntive to the Convention called for the formation of the new State of\\nMaine, and a Senator to the Legislature of Maine. He was one of\\nthe original members of the Maine Medical Association, a member\\nof the Medical Faculty of Bowdoin College and of the Board of\\nOverseers of the College. Drs. Isaac and John D. Lincoln are yet\\ntoo well remembered to need any extended mention at this time.\\nThey both were members of the Medical Faculty and of the Board\\nof Overseers of the College, and the son was on the Board of your\\nSuperintending School Committee. They were both ardent sup-\\nporters of every project they deemed essential to the welfare of the\\ntown, and it is in no small degree due to their efforts that Brunswick\\ncan boast to-day of being one of the most beautiful towns of our\\nstate.\\nWhen I consider the conditions of practice in this place fifty\\nyears and more ago the comparatively sparse population, the\\nextremely long drives that the doctors had to take, and the fact that\\nthey had to prepare their own medicines and carry quite a drug store\\naround with them, even here in the village, I am truly astonished\\nto find that they had, not the ability only, but the time to take the\\npositions, not only in their profession, but in society, which they\\nundoubtedly did.\\nI would gladly mention the names of others, perhaps equally\\ndeserving, but the time will not allow. I will only say that it is very\\nevident that this town of Brunswick still holds the medical profession\\nin high esteem. Could it be more markedly shown than in the choice\\nyou have made of your presiding officer for the day?\\nREMARKS OF MR. HOWARD OWEN.\\nMr. Howard Owen of Augusta, general editor of the Maine\\nFarmer, a native of Brunswick, responded to the toast Memories\\nof My Childhood Days. Of his entertaining speech we are able\\nto give only a summary. The burden of the speeches of many who\\nhad preceded him, was that Bowdoin College was the institution of\\nthe town. He should judge from remarks casually dropped that\\nthere was such an institution in Brunswick as Bowdoin College, If\\nhis memory served him right, the boys, natives of the town, were\\nentitled to some credit for the progress made. He saw at this board\\nsome of the original members of the Juvenile Temperance Watch-", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0102.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWLCK\\n71\\nman Club, that flourished here forty years ago, having for its grand\\nmotto. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Temperance aud Morality. Here are John Furbish, Henry\\nW. Wheeler, Charles A. Boutelle, Fessenden I. Day. Solon Lufkin,\\nGeorge F. Marriner, and others, whose lives had been successfully\\nshaped by the moral principles inculcated at the altar of the club.\\nHe was glad to know that the silk banner given by the ladies, on\\nwhich our motto was inscribed, was still preserved. Out from the\\nclub grew the Juvenile Temperance Watchman paper, which he had\\nthe honor to publish and edit, the first youth s temperance paper ever\\npublished in the state of Maine. He wondered if any present could\\nrepeat with him a portion of the beautiful ritual of the order You\\nhave seen the vine, how beautifully it adorns the cottage, how win-\\nningly it spreads its arms aud clings about it. It is beautiful but\\nif you will draw back the vine, you will see that the cottage is grad-\\nually going to decay beneath its embrace so intemperance often\\narrays itself in the garb of innocence and beauty, but before you\\nare aware of it, it destroys your best principles. He spoke of one\\nconspicuous member of the club, Fred Stowe, son of Harriet Beecher\\nStowe and from personal experience would testify that while his\\nmother s writings thrilled the world, she was the poorest cook he\\never met her pies and cakes were absolutely indigestible. A\\nliberal contributor to the Watchman was C. A. Boutelle, now of the\\nBangor W/iig. over the signature of Ramrod, and those who have\\npreserved the files of the paper, will find his articles stamped with\\nthe same mental vigor, pluck, moral tone, and earnestness that\\ncharacterize the leaders of the Wlikj.\\nMr. Owen next spoke of the influence of the country boys in the\\ntown, and the prejudice which early existed against them. He\\nscarcely ever came over Powder House Hill but he was set upon and\\nintimidated by a border ruffian who used to make his life miserable\\nbut one day he secured the services of Marsh Merryman, a Rocky\\nHill stalwart, and that was the last time he was ever assaulted by\\nthe Powder House Hill ruffian. He denounced those dudes of the\\nvillage or city who stand upon the corners of the streets and make\\nfun of the awkward appearance and ill-fitting clothes of the country\\nboy, who, nine times out of ten, came out the better in the race of\\nlife. He recalled the midnight raids of the turkey and turnip\\nclub, and of a shrill voice sounding out one night, the harsh notes\\nof There they go with the geese. George, run, hog, or die. In\\ntheir mad haste a brook was forded, loose garments were thrown", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0103.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "72\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\naside, hats were lost, and one member of the party had the satisfac-\\ntion the next Sunday of seeing George West wear his two-dollar-and-\\nhalf hat to church. He alluded to Squire Greenleaf. whose home\\nwas three miles in the country, and whose office was in the village,\\nbut who steadily ignored all means of transportation but those which\\nNature provided every man. Most people regarded it as against the\\nlaw to get married, unless Squire Greenleaf performed the ceremony.\\nSmykes was a well-known character in Brunswick, who found single\\nblessedness a miserable condition, and his heart went out in tender\\nemotions to one Olive Brown, an inhabitant of Shad Island. They\\nwere married by Squire Greenleaf and a village poet thus notices\\nthe event\\nSaid Smykes looked round, on fairy isle\\nHe found the blooming rose;\\nAnd now with various tints of love,\\nHis heaving bosom glows.\\nAs fastest colors often change\\nBy dyers of renown,\\nSo Smykes changed his by Greenleaf s aid.\\nAnd now sports Olive Brown.\\nMr. Owen indulged in many other pleasant reminiscences which\\nexcited great applause.\\nIn closing he referred to Brunswick as it was forty years ago,\\nand as it now is, with its magnificent Town Hall, fine residences,\\nelegant stores, live local newspaper, and all the appliances of a city.\\nWith the continuation of this progress and prosperity, who can tell\\nthe future of this goodly town, when the little boys and girls who\\nformed so beautiful a feature in the procession that day shall sit in\\nthis place to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the town.\\nREMARKS OF MR. SUMNER L. HOLBROOK.\\nMr. President, I was born in Brunswick and have always lived\\nhere. For nearly half a century the town has had to bear this\\nincumbrance. I occupy the same farm that has been connected with\\nthe family for a hundred years. Annually around the old hearth-\\nstone the different members of the family meet to renew associations.\\nThe old red cradle that rocked us all is still kept as a sacred relic of\\nthe past. I had not the honor nor the privilege of graduating from\\nBowdoin College. My Alma JIater was the old dilapidated school-\\nhouse that set upon that rocky hill-side from this I graduated at a\\ntender age. It brings no blush to my cheek to tell you that the\\naged lady that has been operating the old hand loom in the court-", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0104.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n73\\nroom below to-day, is no one else than my respected mother, who\\nxi half a century ago used to weave that same kind of cloth for\\nfrom three to five cents a yard to get a little money to help keep the\\nfamily machinery in motion and the wolf from the door.\\nIt has been my business for the last few years, as a member of\\nthe State Board of Agriculture, to go into different counties of the\\nstate and talk with the farmers in regard to their occupation. While\\nso doing I have had occasion to speak on all of the various ques-\\ntions that have come up for discussion during the last decade I\\nhave been called upon to speak in regard to our great stock interests\\nI have had occasion to speak in regard to the renovation of soils,\\nbut have dwelt more particularly upon the cultivation of the differ-\\nent crops that we grow on our New England farms. Your literary\\ncommittee have extended to me this mark of courtesy and ask me\\nto-day to speak in regard to another crop, a crop which I am not\\nmuch accustomed to talk about, a crop which was transplanted here,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a crop which it would appear was particularly adapted to the soil and\\nthe soil to the crop, if we may be allowed to judge by the rich ripe\\nfruit that from time to time has been harvested home, I mean the\\nintellectual crop, the grandest and noblest crop that ever grew on\\nany soil, the same kind of a crop that we grow all over the state of\\nMaine, that crop which is known, loved, honored, and respected,\\nwherever the English language is spoken. And I have this to say,\\nthat if you come up here to-day to this feast of tabernacles, to this\\njubilee after the gathering in of a hundred and fifty harvests, proud\\nof your record, proud of Brunswick because of the many things that\\nwe have to be proud of, proud of Brunswick, not because it is a high,\\nhaughty, dictatorial city, but proud because it is a lovely village of\\nthe plain, proud of Brunswick because, like the rest of New England,\\nthe town is bespangled with school-houses and churches, proud of\\nBrunswick because of the high moral atmosphere which pervades\\nthe whole town, is it not largely due to the noble ancestry of yeo-\\nmanry who came to Brunswick Not for pillage or plunder or con-\\nquest or honor, but to make themselves a home, did they come with\\ntheir families bringing their implements of husbandry, rude though\\nthey were, and settled along the banks of the New Meadows River,\\nalong the banks of the Androscoggin, along the shores of Casco\\nBay, and formed the nucleus out of which has grown refined,\\nliterary, Christian Brunswick of to-day.\\nThe farmers of Brunswick of to-day, count them, and the", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0105.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "74\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nnumber corresponds to that heroic band that stood in the mountain\\npass and defied the Persian hosts count them again and the number\\ncorresponds to the little army that followed that invincible leader\\ndown to that historic river and drank the water without breaking\\nranks. There are three hundred of them, with more than 20,000\\nacres of land under improvement. If you wish to know more about\\nthem, go to their homes, neat and attractive; if you wish to know\\nmore about them, enter those homes, and you will find refinement\\nand culture and domestic happiness.\\nMr. President, let me say this in conclusion. Our occupation is.\\na quiet one, as quiet as the brooks that wind across and through the\\nmeadows that we cultivate. Our mission is a peaceful one the\\nbattle-ax which our fathers used in defense of their homes and in\\nsubduing the forests has long since been laid away our spears have-\\nall been beaten into pruning hooks, and our implements of warfare\\nto-day are the plow and the reaper. Our battle field is not like that\\nof Shiloh, or those on which the armies of Europe are to-day ripen-\\ning for conflict. Our work is to raise the bread that shall feed the\\nhungry, and to see to it that the pitiful cry of only three grains of\\ncorn, mother, may never be heard in our land. But we stand with\\na solid front, ready, when we hear the bugle call, when we hear the\\ntocsin of alarm, when we hear the slogan pipe, to follow that All\\nConquering Leader who leads the grandest old brigade that ever\\nbuckled on the armor and went forth to battle. The farmers of\\nBrunswick are ready to fight under the true flag, in the great moral\\nconflict whose final battle is to be fought here, and whose ultimate\\ntriumph and crowning victory is to be won on American soil.\\nThe last speaker was Mr. Isaac Plummer, of Brunswick,\\nwhom the President introduced as the prophet appointed for the\\noccasion.\\nEEMARKS OF MR. ISAAC PLUMMER.\\nMr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen, Life and its surround-\\nings are full of mysteries. Questions are constantly arising in my\\nmind relating to the future which are unanswered and unanswerable.\\nNot the least of these has been the question, Why was I selected to\\nspeak on the future of Brunswick when so many of my fellow-\\ncitizens are both eloquent and prophetic? Not being a prophet or\\nthe son of a prophet, this has been one of the mysteries of life.\\nHad this selection been made by my good wife, it would not have-", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0106.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n75\\nbeen a mystery, for she often tells me my predictions are as correct\\nas are those of a last year s almanac, especially as to the weather.\\nIt is said that coming events cast their shadows before, conse-\\nquently what I may say must be as shadows or predictions. The\\npast lives in memory and history. The present only is ours.\\nInfinite Wisdom saw fit to suspend a dark curtain between us and\\nthe future, so far, most certainly, as worldly events are concerned,\\nand no human hand has power enough to raise it, and no eye is keen\\nenough to see beyond it. Many of our fondest hopes and anticipa-\\ntions, like the flowers of the night blooming cereus, send\\nforth their sweet fragrance for a brief period, then wither and\\ndie. How often we exclaim, Had we known thus and so, we would\\nhave done differently Nevertheless, it is our duty to speak, plan,\\nand act for the future as though it was ours, and, judging by the\\npast, are we not justified in predicting the future To-day we are\\nassembled in one of the most beautiful towns of which our entire\\ncountry can boast. Within the walls of our various churches we\\npredict that generations yet unborn will worship according to the\\ndictates of their consciences, with none to molest or make afraid, not\\nbeing fed, as at present, by Fish-er, Haddock, or Herring. For her\\nvarious institutions of learning, in which every good citizen feels a\\njust pride, we predict a glorious future. At the head of these stands\\nBowdoin College, and we predict that when her able and honored\\nPresident and Faculty shall cease to labor, others will be forthcoming\\nto fill their responsible positions, and that she will in the future, as\\nshe has in the past, send forth her honored sons, some to battle for\\njustice and the right at our nation s capital, and others, by precept\\nand example, to educate and Christianize those who are less\\nfavored than we. We also predict that should an invasion or\\ninsurrection again occur within our land that Brunswick would not be\\nfound wanting. Her heroic sons would rush to the rescue, and led\\non by another Chamberlain, would stand shoulder to shoulder, ready\\nto fight and die, till victory should perch upon her banners. Our\\nMedical College, although covetous hands have tried to remove her\\nfrom our borders, still remains, and we predict will long remain upon\\nBrunswick soil, and annually equip and send forth her scores of\\nM.D s. to either kill or cure suffering humanity. Her manufacturing\\nand industrial interests, we predict, are but in their infancy. Down,\\nor rather up, in the unknown future, we anticipate that every foot of\\nher majestic water-power will be harnessed to machinery, giving", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0107.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "76\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nemployment to thousands of honest hands. Last but not least, we\\nwish to speak of her rural districts. The farmers, God bless them\\nby the toil of their honest hands, our needs and wants are supplied.\\nWithin our borders, broad acres of rich and fertile soil abounds,\\nand we predict that in no far distant day our farmers sons will see\\nthat it is for their interest to remain upon the farm and pursue a\\ncalling of which none need feel ashamed.\\nFinally, are we not safe in predicting, not a mushroom growth,\\nmost certainly we would not desire it, but a steady, healthy, upward,\\nand onward career for our noble town New enterprises are being\\nconsidered, some of which are nearing maturity. In no far distant\\nday we expect to see the railway car driven by electricity upon our\\nstreets and varied and remunerative enterprises springing up within\\nour borders. In every community there are some to be found who\\ncry, Halt Go slow, boys, carefully weigh the matter. They are\\nlike a good maiden lady whom I well knew when a mere lad. Long\\nere the railroad was built east of Portland, she was visiting in\\nKennebunk, and never having seen the cars, she went out by the\\nroadside to see an incoming train. As it approached she became\\ntremendously excited, and with that curiosity which none but that\\ngood class possess, she jumped and shouted to the engineer Stop\\nyour horse Stop your horse But, said she, the horse did\\nnot stop. So we predict, my friends, that the train of progress\\nwill not stop despite the shouts and cries of the alarmists. Fellow-\\ncitizens, soon all of us who are here to-day, will have finished our\\nlabors and gone to our eternal home. Yet Brunswick will survive\\nand all her varied industries and institutions will be cared for by\\nthose who are to follow, and we shall not be missed. Let us strive\\nto commit to them a goodly heritage, and it may not be impossible\\nthat when another centennial celebration shall occur in Brunswick\\nyou and I may be unseen and unheard guests.\\nOwing to the lateness of the hour, the following toasts which\\nhad been arranged were necessarily omitted: The First Parish,\\nto be responded to by Mr. John Furbish Our Schools, by Mr.\\nAlbert G. Tenney The Merchants of Brunswick, by Mr. Ira P.\\nBooker; The Early Proprietors, by Hon. Charles J. Gilman.\\nIn the afternoon a game of base-ball was played on the Delta\\nbetween the Presumpscots of Cumberland Mills and the Bowdoins,\\nwhich attracted a large concourse of people. The score was Pre-", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0108.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF BRUNSWICK\\n77\\nsurnpscots, 11 Bowdoins, 10. At sunset a national salute was fired,\\nthe second platoon having been entertained at dinner in the armory\\nby Captain Despeaux.\\nAt eight o clock a reception was held at the Town Hall, at which\\nthe selectmen and the general committee of the town with their\\nwives received the Governor and Mrs. Burleigh with the members of\\nthe Governor s Staff and the other invited guests of the town and\\nthe citizens generally. Chandler s Orchestra and the Bowdoin Glee\\nClub furnished music for the occasion.\\nAt nine o clock there was an exhibition of fire-works at the north\\nend of the Mall.\\nFrom 10 to 12 the reception at the Town Hall was enlivened by\\ndancing, and thus closed the festivities of the day.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0109.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0110.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0111.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0112.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Anno Regni G E O R G I ),.Secund?, Regis, Duodecimo\\nAN ACT\\nPaft J- by /A* Great and General Court or Ajfembly of His MajeJI/s Provlnca\\nof the Maftachufetts-Bay i* New-England, begun and held at Bofton,\\non Wedpefday tbt Thirty-firfl Day of May i 7 8, And continued) bf\\nFrorogatiom unto Wednefday tbt z $tb Day of November following.\\nAn K fot ere itig a Tovmftiip m tke Couac^-of Tori\\nby the Name of Brunfoick\\nIJ/H ERF AS there j; competent Number of Inhabitants- already fettled upon a\\nTrait of Land lying within the- County of York, hitherto called and known ky\\nthe Name of Brunfwick, containing iht Quantity of about fix Miles fqnare and\\ning convenient far q, Toy/n$uf y and tubtreas [aid Inhabitants have humbly fettt Aid\\ntbit flourk tba%isi order to) provide a ffjfyble Maintenance for tbe Mi~ni[tet fete fid\\namong tbtm.jbejfmajbf ere fled into} a/Fown[hip, and vejied with tBs Powers and\\n4ut or1tio belonging to, tht otier Towns\\nTherefore for Encouragement -of faid Settlement\\nBe (t estacte .fcp cjereiletup tfte ^ofcemout,\\nCouncil ant ifcefniefctttatttes ta General Court\\naffembieo, ana tyt SUittioriip of tfje fame,\\n^ha^tb^ iaid Tra6t of Land oribtcJ$ in a Plat now seturajgd Co this\\n^ewP^^pSW S^MJSjBffll^ iS^fe Moiitlrof a Brooff or Rivufee catted\\n4ungatn*ng*noci f ruhajng 1 inco MacAo Bay, where it touches upon IvV(\u00c2\u00a3-\\nTaimoHtk Line, and front eHe Mouth of faid Brook to run upon a Courle\\nNorth.North- 4 Weft halt Wefterly five Miles into the Wildernefs, leaving a,\\nWedge or S\u00c2\u00bbnp of Land between (aid Line and North Yarmouth, and fiomf 1\\nthence upon a Courfe North Eaft four Mjfeflto the fecond Falls of Amaf-\\ne oggin alias Androfvggin River, fron thetfredown faid River. by Fort Gt,rge,\\nand. down Merry- Meeting- Bap fo far as Stephen s Carrying-Place, including\\nfeveral fmall Iflets lying infaid River above faid Carrying-Place, and over\\nfaid Carrying Place to the Head ot the Creek or River that runs up to the\\nother Side of the (aid Carrying Place, thence down (aid Creek or River to\\nthe Mouth thereof, including art 111 and therein, and from- the Mouth of (aid\\nRiver to run by the Water Side South Wefterly to the South Weft Point of\\na Place called the New Meadows, thence to ftrike Scrofs/ thaf Cove upon a\\nCourfe North North-Weft till ic meets and interfe s the upper End of\\nMerryconeeg Neck, four Rods above the farrows of faid Neck commonlv\\ncalled the Carrying- Klace-, tbenee io run along the Shore to aNeCk of Land\\ncalled Mare-Point, about 3 Mile and a Quarter down faid Neck, thence to\\ncrofs over faid Mare-Point and Maquoit Bay upon 2 Cowrie No--tt Weft till\\nif Comes to Fh Plaee-hrft above mentioned tie and henceforth frfal[ he a\\nTownfhip, to be called Brunfwick. and. the Inhabitants thereof fhal^pve\\nand enjoy all fuch Immunities, Privileges and Powers as generally Other\\nTowns in this Province* have and,do by Law enjoy.\\nTbit Ail was Publ ifh d, January 27. 1738,9.\\nBOSTON:\\nPrinted by 7*6* Drtftr, PrmtertoHUEjcceUcacy the GOVEKNOUR\\nand COUNOU", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0113.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0114.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "LETTERS OF REGRET.\\nA few of the letters received from those who were unable to\\nattend the anniversary exercises are given below\\nFROM HON. WILLIAM P. FRYE, LL.D.\\nRangeley, May 17, 1889.\\nMr. Frank E. Roberts, Chairman of Committee, etc.\\nDear Sir, Your invitation to me to be the guest of the town during the\\ncelebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of\\nBrunswick, is received. With thanks for your courtesy, I regret to say that I\\nhave an engagement out of the State for the entire month of June, and cannot\\nparticipate in the enjoyment of the occasion. I regret this the more because\\nyour beautiful town was my home for four happy, and, I hope, useful years, and\\nmy memories of it are all pleasant.\\nRespectfully,\\nWilliam P. Frye.\\nFROM GEN. JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN, LL.D.\\nNew York, June 10, 1889.\\nFrank E. Roberts, Esq.:\\nMy Dear Sir, I thank you for the courteous invitation, so handsomely\\nconveyed, to be present at the services of the celebration of the one hundred and\\nfiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Brunswick. You will see\\nby the enclosed card that my engagements on that day are imperative and will\\nprevent me from enjoying, as I certainly otherwise should, the exercises of your\\ninteresting occasion. With high regard,\\nYours truly,\\nJoshua L. Chamberlain.\\nFROM PROF. JOT HAM B. SEWALL, A.M.\\nThayer Academy, South Braintree, Mass., May 24, 1889.\\nMy Dear Professor Johnson:\\nI can but gratefully acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to the celebration\\nof the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the town of Brunswick. My long\\nresidence in Brunswick and the many warm friendships and pleasant acquain-\\ntances there made, bind me and mine to the dear old town with bonds of interest\\nand affection, which will be broken only with the severance of the thread of life.\\nThe exercises of the occasion would have an interest for me second to none, but\\nengagements here forbid my acceptance. Thanking the committee- for their\\ncourteous remembrance, I remain\\nSincerely yours,\\nJ. B. Sewall.\\nProf. Henry Johnson, Secretary of the Committee of Celebration, Brunswick,\\nMaine.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0115.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "84\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nFROM J. APPLETON MELCHER, A.M.\\nSan Francisco, June 1, 1889.\\nF. E. Roberts, Esq., Chairman of General Committee, Brunswick, Maine:\\nDear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of an invitation from\\nthe General Committee, of which you are chairman, to he present and partici-\\npate in the celebration, on the 13th inst., of the one hundred and fiftieth anni-\\nversary of the incorporation of the town of Brunswick. It is with deep and\\nunfeigned regret that I find matters of a business nature will compel me to forego\\nthe pleasure I should derive from a visit to the dear old home, a pleasure that\\nwould be increased, if possible, by participation in the proposed celebration.\\nAs a native of the town in which the first score of years of my life were\\npassed, I have ever cherished an affectionate regard for Brunswick and its inhab-\\nitants. It has been said and sung There is no place like home, and in my\\nwanderings for forty years, even with our delightfully pleasant home in central\\nAlabama, in ante-bellum days, and subsequently, in a no less pleasant residence\\nin far-distant California, with her incomparable climate, I have found no home\\nlike that of my earlier life, my own, native Brunswick, to which the words of\\nGoldsmith are peculiarly applicable: Sweet, smiling village, loveliest of the\\nplain. Brunswick, with its meandering Androscoggin, whose waters of a golden\\nhue fall gracefully over the upper and lower dams, passing onward to the sea, via\\nMerrymeeting Bay; Brunswick, with its many pleasant driveways, its ribbon\\nroads, its stately elms and its tall pines; Brunswick, with its environs, Oak\\nHill, Rocky Hill, Growstown with its Elder Lamb s Meeting-House, Bun-\\ngonungonock, Maquoit, Middle Bay, Mere Point, New Meadows, Gatchell s\\nMills, Cook s Corner, Negro Town, and Ham s Hill; Brunswick, with its friendly\\nneighbors, Topsham, Harpswell, Bath, Freeport, North Yarmouth, Durham, and\\nBowdoin, known in the days when general musters were in vogue as Cathance\\nBrunswick, as the home of men of sterling worth, who, after devoting the\\nstrength of their early manhood to a life upon the ocean wave have retired\\nfrom their labors to pass the evening of their days at home, as occupants of the\\ntastefully-arranged and attractive residences, which have tended so much to\\nbeautify the village and increase the wealth of the town; Brunswick, as the seat\\nof Bowdoin College, which for nearly a century has furnished to the land and\\nworld men eminently distinguished as scholars, poets, statesmen, jurists, theolo-\\ngians, physicians, and, in fact, in all the professions and business pursuits of life,\\nand which, under its model President, Rev. William DeWitt Hyde, and his able\\nassistants in the Faculty, still continues in the good work; the Medical School\\nof Maine, in connection with the College (may it never be removed to Port-\\nland or elsewhere, Brunswick being the proper place for the institution under\\nthe control of the College Boards); Brunswick, with its manufactures, its mer-\\ncantile interests, its Board of Trade, its invaluable water-power, as yet but\\npartially utilized, affording, when more fully developed, as it should be in the\\nnear future, the grandest possibilities for the town as well as for the State.\\nAbove all and beyond all, Brunswick in her men in general, and her matrons\\nand maidens in particular\u00e2\u0080\u0094 her sons and her daughters, quite a number of whom\\nhave accepted the advice of the late Hon. Horace Greeley and emigrated to these\\nWestern shores, finding new homes and filling new stations of usefulness and\\ninfluence with credit to themselves and with honor to their native State and\\ntown; never forgetting, however, the old New England home from whence they\\ncame. I will simply add that the Brunswickers who are now resident upon the\\nPacific slope send cordial and fraternal greetings to their former fellow-citizens", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0116.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\n85\\nat home, who have made arrangements to appropriately celehrato the one hun-\\ndred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, assuring them\\nthat though we may he absent in the hody, we shall he present in the spirit at the\\ncelebration on June 13th.\\nWith thanks for the invitation, and sincerely hoping that this new depart-\\nure in celebrating the anniversary of the incorporation of Brunswick will be\\neminently successful, proving substantially beneficial to the town and contrib-\\nuting to the increased happiness of its citizeus, I remain,\\nVery truly yours,\\nJ. Appleton Melcher.\\nFROM REV. EDWARD N. PACKARD, A.M.\\nSyracuse, N. Y., June 9, 1889.\\nTo the Committee of Arrangements, etc., Brunswick:\\nDear Friends, May I be counted among those who feel a genuine interest in\\nthe coming celebration of the town settlement and express my regrets at not\\nbeing able to be present to see and hear all the good things Although not a native\\nI came very near being so and had not my father, Charles, quitted 11 practicing\\nfor preaching, not long before my appearance on this planet, I should have been\\nborn under the law instead of the gospel, and a citizen of Maine rather\\nthan of Massachusetts. To make up for this loss, I hastened to show myself as a\\nFreshman on the college campus in the autumn of 1858, just before Professor\\nCleaveland went to his reward, and (with an interval of a year) was nine years a\\nresident of the town four as a student and five as an instructor in the college. I\\nvoted, paid taxes, and was chosen a deacon in Brunswick. Hence I claim a\\ntitle to a share of the celebration.\\nThose who have never left the quiet town can hardly understand the strong\\nattachment which we feel who once were residents and now are scattered about\\nthe earth. The chief characters that have figured in the town history since the\\nbeginning of the century have been familiar household names with me, through\\nthe long residence of some of our name in the town. I have an impression that,\\nwhatever may be said of the generation now living, there was a group of very\\nstrong men at the head of things during the first thirty years of this century.\\nMany of them have passed away since my recollection and were old men when I\\ncame upon the scene.\\nThese are days of centennials through the land and forgotten history will come\\nto light for our interest and instruction. To know the past, even of a local history\\nlike that of Brunswick, humanizes us and keeps us from absurd confidence in\\nourselves and our times. Improvements in the arts, in the courses of study in the\\nschools, increasing elegance in our homes, business enlargement and prosperity\\nare chiefly interesting as we find through them a way to better living. We may\\nlight our streets with electricity and ride at the rate of a mile a minute and speak\\nfive languages, but if we buy and sell votes, pass temperance laws that we intend\\nto break, have our picnics on Sunday so that we make more money on Monday,\\nwe have very little to boast of over our fathers who wore homespun and rode to\\nchurch on horse-back and drank too much rum. I believe that the former times\\nwere not better than these and still I believe that only personal character will\\nmake our times or any times worth living in. With thanks for your courteous\\ninvitation, I am,\\nYours truly,\\nEdward N. Packard.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0117.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "86\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nFROM GEORGE T. PACKARD, A.M.\\n120 High Street, New Haven, Conn., May 17, 1889.\\nMr. F. E. Roberts, Chairman:\\nMy Dear Sir, The invitation to join in the services of the commemoration,\\nfor which I would thank the committee, emphasizes for me the fact that one\\nneed not be town-born in order to be attached to the soil and the souls of a com-\\nmunity. Like a considerable portion of mankind, I am not so fortunate as to be\\nBrunswick-born, but from my earliest days I have had abundant reason to call\\nthe town my home.\\nMy father s love for the place in which he had lived as a student, and, later,\\nas a lawyer, made him eager to tell his children of her people and scenery. Thus\\nthe ship-yards (then busy), the plains, the woods, the river with its varied voices,\\nand the college halls were photographed on my mind.\\nOn my first visit to Brunswick, in 1855, I received a vivid impression of the\\ndignity and effectiveness of the New England town meeting, when I looked on as\\nthe voters gathered and deliberated in the Town House, which stood in what is\\nnow my mother s garden. The ceremonial of Commencement in that year,\\nfurthermore, gave my boyish eyes a view of pomp and circumstance, not exclud-\\ning the Commencement Dinner in the Commons Hall, whereat water-melon and\\ntea were pre-eminent.\\nIt is thus evident that my early education was not neglected, for I studied\\nBrunswick, in what may be called a Kindergarten course. My college life and a\\ntemporary residence subsequently confirmed my delightful impressions of the\\ntown, and I am thus fully qualified to enter into the spirit of the commemoration.\\nI desire especially to congratulate the committees. They have shown a zeal\\naccording to knowledge in their plans to afford the town an opportunity to\\nexpress adequately her pride of recollection. In particular, I felicitate the com-\\nmittee having the matter in charge, with the selection of the orator and poet.\\nThe gifts and graces of the speakers will insure their hearers against the untoward\\nfate of certain communities, on anniversary days, when, listening to a ponderous\\noration and to machine poetry, the citizens have sighed to be with their ances-\\ntors, or longed to be their own great-grandchildren.\\nI regret that I cannot be present at exercises which have a noble town and an\\nhonorable and fruitful history as the subject of thought and eulogy.\\nYours sincerely,\\nGeorge T. Packard.\\nFROM MISS ANNIE E. JOHNSON.\\nBradford Academy, Bradford, Mass., June 11, 1889.\\nTo the Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Celebration of the One Hun-\\ndred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Brunswick\\nWhen the invitation of your committee reached me, I was grateful to be\\nremembered in the festivities of the town which has been a home to me for so\\nmany years, and wished I might be with you, but the engagements of the closing\\ntime of the school year prevent me.\\nThe call has awakened a thousand remembrances of the dear old town, and\\nof the friends with whom I walked its streets, when life was fresh and bright.\\nWhere will yon find a pleasanter home for the spring-time of life, a town which\\nstretches into the sea by so many wooded and rock-bound points, and is bordered\\nby a river which seeks that sea in such beautiful undulations Its picturesque", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0118.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\n87\\nbeauty strikes one anew, each new year, as you see it from Humphrey s Steam-\\nmill Point, nestled in green fields, among the pines, through which, here and\\nthere, the spires point skyward (alas! that the most beautiful one should still be\\nlacking), with the river and its peaceful shores in the foreground. Where else on\\nearth does one still drink of Paradise Spring? In what place are the blueberries\\nfiner or more abundant, and where else can one find flowers of such various\\ncolors and forms, all through the blossoming time of the year, even to the last of\\nthe summer\\nWhat walks were those of the Pedestrian Club, in summer evenings of long\\nago, to the First Church, on whose steps they sat and listened to stories from lips\\nwhich have since charmed larger, but never more delighted audiences! Where do\\nthey walk to-day? They have all disappeared from those old walks as irrecover-\\nably as the frog pond on which they skated in the winter, and which the botan-\\nists watched in vain through the summer to find the blossom of the Brasenia,\\nwhose leaves floated on its surface.\\nWhen, fifty years to come, the two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of\\nthe town shall be celebrated, may those who are now rejoicing in their spring-\\ntime look back upon to-day with as much delight as we, who shall then be\\nsleeping under the murmuring pines, now recall the memories of the past.\\nCordially yours,\\nAnnie E. Johnson.\\nFROM REV. GEORGE J. VARNEY.\\nNo. 45 Pinckney Street, Boston, May 10, 1889.\\nTo Frank E. Roberts, Esq., Chairman of Anniversary Committee:\\nDear Sir, Your invitation to participate in the one hundred and fiftieth\\nanniversary of Brunswick came duly to hand. The card itself is admirable, sug-\\ngesting the ancient conditions by its picture of the old fort; while the general\\nform and detail of the announcement and invitation convey an impression of entire\\nappropriateness and elegance in the plan and conduct of the celebration.\\nThe occasion appeals very strongly to those natives of the town whose later\\nexperience of life has been in places more or less remote. Until a few days ago, I\\nhad hoped to be in Brunswick this week, but find I cannot spare the time.\\nThere were periods when the locality, whose corporate beginnings you now\\ncelebrate, had an importance second to none in Maine; and from first to last it has\\nbeen the seat of effective forces in the affairs of the state. It is therefore not only\\na worthy but a most desirable action to revive and perpetuate the memory of\\nthose events which have been so conveniently gathered into your excellent town\\nhistory, and which the reported collections of your town historical society will\\nimpressively illustrate.\\nI am, Sir, Very truly,\\nYour friend and servant,\\nGeorge J. Varney.\\nFROM MRS. H. M. ADAMS.\\nEast Orange, June 11, 1889.\\nMr. Frank E. Roberts, Chairman of Committee:\\nYour kind invitation to be present at the interesting festivities in Brunswick\\nthis week is received. We have hoped that a part, at least, of the family might\\nbe present, but at last are obliged to give it up. Our associations with Brunswick", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0119.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "88\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nas our old home are very warm and tender, and our thoughts and best wishes will\\nbe there, though we are not.\\nGratefully and truly,\\nH. M. Adams and Daughters.\\nFROM CHARLES W. PACKARD, M.D.\\n4A1 Park Avenue, New York, May 17, 1889.\\nFrank E. Roberts, Esq., Chairman, etc.:\\nMy Dear Sir,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I very much regret that it will be impossible for me to be\\npresent upon the anniversary occasion to which you kindly invite me. It would\\ngive me great pleasure to unite with you in celebrating the incorporation of my\\nnative town; but my engagements are such as to compel me to remain in New\\nYork, and to content myself with bespeaking for the day pleasant skies and all\\nother good things.\\nVery truly yours,\\nCharles W. Packard.\\nFROM WILLIAM W. EATON, M.D.\\nDanvers, Mass., June 12, 1889.\\nProfessor Johnson\\nDear Sir,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Please accept my sincere thanks for the kind invitation to be\\npresent and participate in the exercises commemorating the one hundred and\\nfiftieth anniversary of the town s incorporation. I am compelled to be absent in\\nthe body, but be assured I shall be present in spirit, rejoicing with you in the\\nwelfare and prosperity of the good old town, endeared to me by all the associa-\\ntions of youth and early manhood, and to whose schools and college I am\\nindebted for the education that has been so large a factor in the success and\\nhappiness of life. May God bless and prosper the dear old town through all\\ncoming years.\\nYours truly,\\nWilliam W. Eaton.\\nSimilar letters of regret were received from Prof. Samuel\\nHarris, D.D., of New Haven, Coon. Prof. Geo. L. Goodale of\\nCambridge, Mass. Prof. C. J. Eockwood, Jr., of Princeton, N. J.\\nHon. Josiah Crosby of Dexter, Maine Dr. C. S. D. Fessenden of\\nLouisville, Ky. Rev. Henry Farrar of Gilead, Maine Geo E. B.\\nJackson, Esq., of Portland, Maine; Mrs. C. F. Dole of Jamaica\\nPlain, Mass. Mr. O. T. Murray of Sioux Falls, Dak. Mr. Solon\\nB. Lufkin of South Portland, Maine Mr. William F. Stanwood of\\nEllsworth, Maine Mr. Charles A. Robbins of New York City\\nMr. Edwin Emery of New Bedford, Mass. Mr. George Earl Swift\\nof Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. L. S. Alexander of Bath, Maine and\\nMr. Fred O. Conant of Portland, Maine.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0120.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\n89\\nGENERAL COMMITTEE\\nFrank E. Roberts,\\nCharles J. Gilman,\\nAlbert G. Tenney,\\nLemuel H. Stover,\\nIra P. Booker,\\nHenry W. Wheeler,\\nOF ARRANGEMENTS.\\nJohn Furbish,\\nHenry Johnson,\\nSumner L. Holbrook,\\nWilliam M. Pennell,\\nIsaac Hacker,\\nJames W. Curtis.\\nSPECIAL COMMITTEES.\\nLITERARY EXERCISES.\\nF. C. Robinson, Weston Thompson,\\nC. H. Smith.\\nc. e. tovtnsend,\\nFrank Adams,\\nW. 0. Peterson,\\nF. H. Wilson,\\nPROCESSION.\\nChas. H. Nash.\\nF. E. Roberts,\\nS. L. Holbrook,\\nI. H. Danforth,\\nE. A. CrayvEORD,\\nF. C Webb,\\nJ. A. Whitmore,\\nA. F. Yarney,\\nH. W. Wheeler,\\nDINNER.\\nE. A. Will.\\nTABLETS.\\nH. L. Chapman.\\nH. V. Stackpole,\\nFred Stanwood,\\nLleyvEllyn Cobb,\\nI. P. Booker,\\nJ. W. Curtis,\\nT. H. Riley,\\nB. L. Dennison,\\nG. L. Thompson,\\nEVENING RECEPTION.\\nGeo. H. Coombs.\\nBarrett Potter,\\nG. D. Parks,\\n0. T. Newcomb,\\nD. D. Gilman,\\nAlonzo Day,\\nLyman E. Smith,\\nA. V. Metcalf,\\nChas. A. Rogers.\\nANTIQUITIES.\\nMilton Grows.\\nLorenzo Larrabee,\\nB. L. Pennell,\\nThos. E. Jones,\\nFred V. Gummer,", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0121.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "90\\nANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS\\nDECORATIONS.\\nF. M. Stetson, S. B. Dunning,\\nByron Stevens, J. Fred Will,\\nA. 0. Reed, I. H. Simpson,\\nBenj. L. Furbish.\\nRECEPTION OF INVITED GUESTS,\\nLeslie A. Lee, Isaac Plummer,\\nN. T. Palmer, P. C. Merryman,\\nW. M. Pennell.\\nPRINTING AND PUBLICATION.\\nGeo. T. Little, Henry Johnson,\\nEdw. C. Guild, Chas. Grant,\\nJ. W. Fisher.\\nSALUTES AND BELL RINGING.\\n0. T. Despeaux, Henry Stetson,\\nHarvey M. Doughty.\\nFIRE-WORKS.\\nW. M. Pennell, G. L. Bates,\\nJohn H. Dunning.\\nFANTASTICS.\\nChas. E. Townsend, E. M. Snow,\\nH. A. Stetson, H. J. Given,\\nEllery C. Day.\\nBASE-BALL.\\nW. M. Pennell, J. W. Curtis,\\nI. P. Booker.\\nAUDITORS.\\nH. A. Randall, Gardner Cram,\\nThomas H. Riley.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0122.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\n91\\nAUDITORS REPORT.\\nThe Auditors of the accounts of the celebration of the one\\nhundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of\\nBrunswick, having examined the receipts and expenditures of the\\nTreasurer, find them properly vouched and herewith make the\\nfollowing\\nFINANCIAL STATEMENT:\\nRECEIPTS.\\n$1,000\\n00\\n100\\n00\\nReceived bv Treasurer from individuals,\\n55\\n00\\n$100\\n00\\n67\\n84\\n41\\n29\\nEXPENDITURES.\\n$407\\n28\\nTablets,\\n89\\n86\\n97\\n28\\n25\\n100\\n00\\n48\\n38\\n108\\n29\\n117\\n84\\n100\\n00\\n00\\n00\\nMiscellaneous,\\n75\\nUnexpended balance appropriated in aid of a published\\n51\\n$1,155 00\\n$209 13\\n$1,364 13\\n$1,364 13\\nH. A. Randall,\\nT. H. Riley,\\nAuditors.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0123.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "ANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS.\\n92\\nEXHIBITION OF ANTIQUITIES.\\nDuring the day of the celebration and also on the following day,\\nthere was an exhibition of antiquities in the Court Room which attracted\\nlarge crowds. The exhibition was under the direction of the Committee\\non Antiquities, of which Mr. Alonzo Day was Chairman, and to many\\npersons it was one of the most interesting features of the anniversary.\\nIt comprised not only the entire collection belonging to the Pejepscot\\nHistorical Society, but also many articles which were loaned by individ-\\nuals for the occasion. There were between seven and eight hundred\\narticles on exhibition, of which about six hundred belong to the Pejep-\\nscot Historical Society. Antiquarians from other places pronounced the\\ncollection the largest and finest in the state. The following articles were\\namong those which attracted the most attention\\nAn ancient loom was operated at intervals during the day by Mrs.\\nMercy Holbrook, of New Meadows, who wove a number of yards of\\nlinen cloth, such as she was taught to weave in her youth. There\\nwere several spinning wheels, flax wheels, quill wheels, clock and click\\nreels, hatchels, flax crushers, tape looms all sorts of cooking apparatus,\\nsuch as tin kitchens, bakers, toasting irons, frying pans, and pewter and\\nchina dishes, some being over 200 years old; agricultural implements,\\nincluding a wooden plow 115 years old, wooden pitchfork 150 years old,\\nan iron pitchfork fully as old, ancient axes, spades, etc.; weapons of\\ndefense, including a large variety of flint lock muskets, swords, Indian\\narrows. One of the muskets shown is said to have been used in Fort\\nGeorge. An Indian birch-bark canoe over 100 years old attracted a\\ngood deal of attention. There was a hat box in which Captain William\\nWoodside, who came to Brunswick in 1719, kept his triangular hat.\\nHis spectacles were on exhibition, as were also the wedding corset of his\\nsecond wife, dating back to 1742. There were molds for making pewter\\nspoons and hand-made pins with twisted wire heads. Other antiquities\\nwere the first ballot box used by the Brunswick Masonic Fraternity,\\nperforated tin lanterus, cow-bell, hand wrought, over 100 years old, a\\npair of tongs which have been in the Dunning family since 1756, and\\nwere said to have been 100 years old then several saddle bags, one of\\nthem made of seal skin ladies bonnets of the last century.\\nMrs. Thomas Estabrook contributed the largest number of articles;\\nothers who contributed largely were William and Obed Merrill, Miss\\nSarah A. Thompson, Mrs. A. B. Pendleton, Abram York, Miss Caroline\\nPatten, T. S. McLellan, Miss Mary Thompson, John Furbish, Hiram K.\\nAlexander, Elder Hiram Campbell, Lorenzo Larrabee, and Mrs. William\\nAlexander, while those who gave or loaned each a few articles were too\\nnumerous to mention here.", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0124.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0125.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0126.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4010", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0127.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4428", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "celebrationofone00brun_0128.jp2"}}