Diary, 1857-1862 (inclusive).

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Diary, 1857-1862 (inclusive).

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Diary includes extensive entries concerning Beach's social life, teaching, and her relationships with her aunt and uncle. She writes about her 20th birthday (July 31, 1857), the prospect of marriage, the death of her uncle, her depression following the birth of her child, and the early days of her marriage.

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Beach, Phebe F., 1837-

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Phebe F. Beach was the niece of Phebe Perkins Beech (the spelling of the family name varied) and Joseph Palmer Fessenden, who was a Congregationalist clergyman in Kennebunkport (1820-1829) and South Bridgton, Maine (1829-1861). Phebe was adopted by her aunt and uncle and lived with them in Bridgton. In 1858 she taught school in New Gloucester, Maine. In August 1860 she married a man named Arthur [Jordan?]; a child was born in January 1862 and died two months later. Her husband enlisted in April ...

Fessenden, Joseph P. (Joseph Palmer), 1792-1861

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Fessenden, Phebe Beech, 1796-1870.

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