Canal Land and Wharf Company directors' and stockholders' minutes, 1886-1901.

Canal Land and Wharf Company

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Canal Land and Wharf Company of Portland, Me., was a read estate investment company organized by Philip Henry Brown, Horatio N. Jose, and Weston T. Milliken of Portland and by John Marshall Brown of Falmouth, Me. The company was dissolved in 1901 and its real estate holdings were sold to the Maine Central Railroad Company. From the description of Canal Land and Wharf Company directors' and stockholders' minutes, 1886-1901. (Maine Historical Society Library). ...

Milliken, Weston Freeman

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Brown, Philip Henry, 1831-1893

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Portland, Me., banker and bibliophile. From the description of Philip Henry Brown private manuscripts, ca. 1848-1856. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70979020 ...

Jose, Horatio Nelson, 1819-1892

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Maine Central Railroad Company

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In 1845 the Androscoggin & Kennebec Railroad was chartered to build a line from Danville Junction on the Atlantic & St. Lawrence (Grand Trunk) to Waterville, and the Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad was chartered to extend the Androscoggin & Kennebec line to Bangor. The former line was completed to Waterville in 1849, and the first train entered Bangor over the latter road in August, 1855. These railroads, forming a continuous line between Danville Junction and Bangor, were consolid...

Brown, John Marshall, 1838-1907

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Son of John Bundy Brown and Ann Matilda (Greely) Brown, of Portland, Me.; attended Gould Academy, Phillips Andover Academy, and Bowdoin College (class of 1860); studied law but after graduation became a U.S. Army officer, participating in various Civil War battles; returned to Portland in 1864 after being wounded and joined his father's business J.B. Brown & Sons, with his older brother Philip Henry Brown; also involved in the Portland Sugar Company and the management of a hotel; m. Alida Ca...