Gardiner Lyceum collection, 1822-1922.

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Gardiner Lyceum collection, 1822-1922.

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A collection of records concerning the Gardiner Lyceum in Gardiner, Maine. Included are correspondence sent to Ralph K. Jones, Librarian at the University of Maine, concerning his request for documents relating to the Gardiner Lyceum. Correstpondents include Samuel L. Boardman, George T. Little, Robert H. Gardiner, Moses Hale Douglass, and H.V. Partridge. Included also are notes on the Lyceum probably by Ralph K. Jones; a typescript of the Report of the Committee on Literary Institutions on the petition of the trustees of Gardiner Lyceum, printed in 1832 by I. Berry & Co. in Augusta, Maine; handwritten copy of an address at the anniversary of the Lyceum to the graduating class in 1826; handwritten copy of a speech delivered in 1827 at the Lyceum Baccalaureate; typescripts of records from 1822 to 1857 of the Lyceum including bylaws, laws, minutes of meetings of the trustees; a typescript from the unfinished autobiography of Robert Gardiner; a typescript of An Address to the public from the trustees of the Gardiner Lyceum printed by Goodale, Glazier & Co in Hallowell in 1822; a handwritten manuscript of the history of the Lyceum; a copy of a speech about the Gardiner Lyceum read by George M. Holmes at a library reception in 1898; and a printed sketch of the Lyceum done in 1922 by Henry Richards.

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Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915

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Douglass, Moses Hale.

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Boardman, Samuel Lane, 1836-1914

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Samuel Lane Boardman was born in Bloomfield, now the town of Skowhegan, Maine in 1836. He was assistant editor of the Country Gentleman, Albany, N.Y., in 1859; editor of the Maine Farmer from 1861 to 1878; editor of the American Cultivator, Boston, in 1873; editor and publisher of the Home Farm, Augusta from 1880 to 1886; agricultural editor of the Kennebec Journal for 1889-1892; secretary of the Maine State Agricultural Society from 1872-1874; trustee of the Maine State College of ...

Richards, Henry, 1848-1949

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Laura E. Richards (1850-1943) was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins School for the Blind, and Julia Ward Howe, social reformer and lyricist of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." In 1871 she married Henry Richards (1848-1949; Harvard College A.B. 1871), architect and industrialist. In 1876 they moved to Gardiner, Maine for Henry to manage the family paper mills. Laura Richards wrote more than ninety works, mostly in the fields of children's literature and biography. ...

Gardiner, Robert Hallowell, 1782-1864

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Agriculturalist, public benefactor, landowner, trustee of Bowdoin College, and president of Maine Historical Society; resident of Gardiner, Me. From the description of Robert Hallowell Gardiner papers, 1770-1907. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 82154320 ...

Gardiner Lyceum (Gardiner, Me.)

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Jones, Ralph Kneeland, 1866-1917.

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Ralph Kneeland Jones Jr. was born in Bangor, Maine, Aug. 8, 1866, the son of Dr. Ralph Kneeland and Octavia Norris Jones. He was educated in the public schools of Bangor, entered Maine State College in the fall of 1883, graduating in the class of 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Science from the course in chemistry. He was student assistant in the library for two years, one of the editors of the year book for two years, a founder and an editor of the Campus. After graduation he was for four ...

Holmes, George M.

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Gardiner, Robert Hallowell, 1882-

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Partridge, Henry V. (Henry Villiers), 1839-

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