Research on the Joshua Chamberlain house in Brewer, Maine, ca. 1818-2007.

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Research on the Joshua Chamberlain house in Brewer, Maine, ca. 1818-2007.

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Research, by Moellentin, on the Chamberlain house at 350 North Main Street, Brewer, Me., the birthplace of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, including photocopies of deeds, maps, and correspondence between Joshua L. Chamberlain and Fanny Hardy Eckstorm. The deeds date back to when Col. Joshua Chamberlain, grandfather of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, bought the land. The letters from Joshua L. Chamberlain to Eckstorm state that he was born in this house. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, born in Brewer, was a U.S. Army officer, the governor of Maine (1867-1871), and president of Bowdoin College.

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Chamberlain family

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Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946

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Historian, of Brewer, Me. From the description of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm correspondence, 1941-1943. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978327 Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, naturalist, historian, folklorist, and writer, was born on June 18, 1865, in Brewer, Maine. She attended Bangor High School, Abbott Academy in Andover, Mass., and graduated from Smith College in 1888. In 1893 she married Rev. Jacob A. Eckstorm of Chicago and they had two childre...

Moellentin, Dan

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Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914

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Chamberlain was born in Brewer, Maine, the son of Sarah Dupee (née Brastow) and Joshua Chamberlain, on September 8, 1828. Chamberlain was of English ancestry and could trace his family line back to twelfth-century England, during the reign of King Stephen. Chamberlain's great-grandfather Ebenezer, was a New Hampshire soldier in the French and Indian War, and the American Revolutionary War. Chamberlain's grandfather Joshua, was a ship builder, and colonel during the War of 1812, before moving his...

Chamberlain, Joshua, 1770-1857

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