Captain George Prince scrapbook, 1847-1913.

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Cilley, Jonathan Prince, 1835-1920. Captain George Prince scrapbook, 1847-1913.

Captain George Prince scrapbook, 1847-1913.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192021675

The scrapbook, compiled by Jonathan Prince Cilley of Rockland, Maine, was created from an existing book with the materials pasted in over the content, and consists of newspaper clippings of articles written by George Prince and his diaries, cash accounts, sketches, maps, and letters. All items are either pasted into the book or enclosed in an envelope. Also included is Prince's obituary. George Prince (1817-1907), born in Thomaston, Maine, began as a merchant in that town but, enticed by the sea, ran off to serve on a whaling ship in the Pacific. He proceeded to serve in the Chilean army and navy and, upon his return stateside, accepted an appointment as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy. After some years working in marine insurance in Bath, he served as a captain in Company K, the first Maine cavalry, in the Civil War from 1861-62, until injury brought his war career to an end. He became a second-class clerk in the pension office in Washington, D.C., where he stayed until his move to Boston in 1879 and finally back to Thomaston, where he lived until his death. In his later years Prince wrote several stories and articles about his region of Maine, most notably a piece in which he proved that George Waymouth discovered the Georges River.

.25 linear ft.

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