Old Town, Maine collection, 1847-1960

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Old Town, Maine collection, 1847-1960

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A collection relating to Old Town and Milford, Maine. Included are two letters written by Burnham Wardwell during the Civil War. In one he expresses his views on the hanging of John Brown. Included are house insurance policies with the Union Insurance Company of Bangor (1873) and the Bangor Insurance Company of Bangor, Maine (1873 and 1876) for Lewis Simpson of Milford, Maine. Also included is a letter to Kenneth W. Brown in 1960 from the State of Maine Office of the Adjutant General in Augusta providing information about the military service in the Civil War of Lewellyn G. Estes. Included also is a stock certificate for the Oldtown Mining Co. of Oldtown, Maine dated May 7, 1880; a membership certificate for James Richardson in the Sons of Temperance dated May 13, 1846; official appointment of Albert O. Brown of Old Town as Representative in the Fifty-sixth Legislature of the State of Maine, Nov. 24, 1876; a letter dated Jan. 4, 1857, in London from Ira W. Hinckley to his mother; Special Orders, Army of the Potomac, dated January 24, 1865, for leave of absence of twenty days for Captain S. J. Oakes..

1 folder (10 items)1 folio folder (3 items)

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7806423

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Estes, Lewellyn G. (Lewellyn Garrish), 1843-1905.

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Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Brown, Albert O., b. ca. 1828.

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Oldtown Mining Company of Oldtown, Me.

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Wardwell, Burnham.

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Richardson, James, 1810-1883

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Hinckley, Ira W., b. 1834.

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Simpson, Lewis Joshua, -1849

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Brown, Kenneth W., 1900-1971,

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Kenneth W. Brown, son of Albert H. and Lida Brown, was born in Old Town, Maine, in 1900 and died there in 1971. He was a publisher and collected Maine historical materials. His father was the managing editor of the Old Town Enterprise, a weekly newspaper. Albert H. Brown, son of Albert O. and Frances Hinckley Brown, was the father of Kenneth W. Brown. He was born in 1860 and died in 1937. Albert O. Brown was the father of Albert H. Brown and grandfather of Ke...