History of Penobscot County, Maine; with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 49

Author: Williams, Chase & Co., Cleveland (Ohio)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Williams, Chase & Co.
Number of Pages: 1100


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From the items given, with an allowance of a few dollars a year for necessary text-books, quite an accurate estimate of needful expenses can be made.


The college term-bills are payable, one-half at the commencement and the remainder at or before the close of each term.


MEANS OF DEFRAYING EXPENSES.


The terms are so arranged that the long vacation occurs in the winter, that students may have an opportunity to teach during that time. The summer vacation is in the haying season, when farm labor is most profitable. By availing themselves of the opportunities thus afforded, together with the allowance for labor on the college farm, industrious and economical students can cancel the greater part of their college expenses.


Among the organizations attached to the college is the battalion of Coburn Cadets, in two infantry companies, and one artillery company, commanded by Major A. E. Rogers, with W. R. Howard as Adjutant. F. I. Kimball is Captain of Company A, H. A. Kieth of Company B, and G. W. Sturtevant of the artillery. The battalion is named from ex-Governor Coburn, who has been a steady benefactor of the College. Among other benefits con- ferred by him, is the formation of the "Coburn prize for best sophomore declamation," which was taken last year by Mr. C. S. Blackford; and for the "Coburn prize for best junior essay," awarded in 1880 to Mr. F. S. Wade.


THE ALUMNI


are not yet so numerous as to make the publication of the entire list in any way burdensome. It will, we are confident, be examined with interest by the readers of this volume, and prove a record of permanent interest. It is also extracted from the last number of the College Catalogue:


CLASS OF 1872.


Benjamin F. Gould, C. E., farmer, San Juan, California; George E. Hammond, C. E., civil engineer, Elliott; Edwin J. Haskell, B. S., silk manufacturer, Saccarappa; Heddle Hilliard, C. E., civil engineer, Grand Southern Railroad, New Brunswick; Eber D. Thomas, B. S., civil engineer, Grand Rapids, Michigan; George O. Weston. B. S., farmer, Norridgewock.


CLASS OF 1873.


Russell W. Eaton, C. E., cotton-mill engineer, Providence, Rhode Island; George H. Hamlin, C. E., professor, State College, Orono; Fred W. Holt, C. E., civil engineer, G. S. R. R., St. George, New Brunswick; John M. Oak, B. S., merchant, Garland; Charles E. Reed, C. E., business manager Free Press, Detroit, Michigan; Frank Lamp- som Scribner, B. S., tutor, Girard College, Philadelphia; Harvey B. Thayer, B. S., druggist, Monson.


CLASS OF 1874.


William A. Allen, C. E., civil engineer, M. C. R. R., Portland; Wal- ter Balentine, B. S., instructor in agriculture, State College, Orono;


William H. Gerrish, B. S., M. D., physician, Merrimac, Massachu- setts; John I. Gurney, B. S., farmer, Dorchester, Massachusetts; David R. Hunter, B. S., police officer, Oakland, California; Louise H. Rams. dell, B. S. (Mrs. Milton D. Noyes), Atkinson.


CLASS OF 1875.


Solomon W. Bates, C. E., civil engineer, Waterville; Wilbur A. Bumps, C. E., M. D., physician, Dexter; Samuel H. Clapp, C. E .. teach- er, Newton, Massachusetts; Lewis F. Coburn, C. E., teacher, Crescent City, California; Charles W. Colesworthy, B. S., California; Charles F. Durham, C. E., teacher, Crescent City, California; Alfred M. Goodale, B. S., superintendent Newton Mills, Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts; Edson F. Hitchins, C. E., draughtsman, Waterville; Whitman H. Jor- dan, B. S., professor agricultural chemistry, State College, Pennsylvania; Edward D. Mayo, M. E., draughtsman and instructor in drawing, Min- neapolis, Minnesota; Albert E. Mitchell, M. E., mechanical engineer, Altoona, Pennsylvania; Allen G. Mitchell, C. E., civil engineer, Madi- son; Fred W. Moore, B. S., teacher (deceased), California; Luther W. Rogers, B. S., merchant, Waterville; Minott W. Sewall, M. E., me- chanical engineer, Wilmington, Delaware; George M. Shaw, C. E., principal of schools, Oraville, California; Wesley Webb, B. S., farmer, South Freeport; Edgar A. Work, C. E., (deceased) United States Mil- itary Academy.


CLASS OF 1876.


Edmund Abbott, B. S., M. D., physician, Winterport; Charles P. Allen, B. S., lawyer, Presque Isle; Eldridge H. Beckler, C. E., civil en- gineer, N. P. R. R., St. Paul, Minnesota; Fred M. Bisbee, C. E., civil engineer, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Edward M. Blanding, B. S., editor Maine Mining Journal, Bangor; Charles M. Brainard, B. S., lumber- man, Skowhegan; George H. Buker, B. S., apothecary, Presque Isle; Florence H. Cowan, B. S., Orono; Oliver Crosby, M. E., foreman of machine shop, St. Paul, Minnesota; Vetal Cyr, B. S., Principal of Madawaska Training School, Fort Kent; James E. Dike, C. E., sur- veyor, Fargo, Dakota Territory; Willis O. Dyke, B. S. (deceased), Gorham; Horace M. Estabrooke, B. S., teacher, Pembroke; Arthur M. Farrington, B. S., veterinary surgeon, 33 West Twenty-seventh street, New York; George O. Foss, C. E., United States engineer, St. Paul, Minnesota; William T. Haines, B. S., lawyer, Waterville; Henry F. Hamilton, B. S., D. D. S., dentist, 124 Commonwealth Avenue, Bos- ton; Newall P. Haskell, B. S., New Gloucester; Edward S. How, M. E., bookkeeper, Portland; Philip W. Hubbard, B. S., apothecary, Farmington; Samuel M. Jones, M. E., engineer, Corliss Engine Works, Providence, Rhode Island; Albert M. Lewis, B. S., clergyman, Sebec; Herbert A. Long, M. E., farmer, Bluehill; Luther R. Lothrop, C. E., civil engineer N. P. R. R., St. Paul, Minnesota; Nelson H. Martin, B. S., teacher, Fort Fairfield; Charles E. Oak, M. E., surveyor, Caribou; George D. Parks, C. E., lawyer, Brunswick; Hayward Pierce, B. S., West Waldo Granite Works, Frankfort; Frank R. Reed, C. E., carpenter, Roxbury; Henry J. Reynolds, B. S., druggist, Ma- chias; Charles W. Rogers, M. E., machinist, Charlestown, Massachu- setts; William L. Stevens, M. E., agent_of flouring mills, Minneapo- lis, Minnesota; John H. Williams, B. S., teacher, Milo.


CLASS OF 1877.


Alvah D. Blackington, C. E., city engineer, Rockland; Robert B. Burns, B. C. E., superintendent of schools, Fort Fairfield; Eugene H. Dakin, B. S., apothecary, Bangor; Edward F. Danforth, B. S., lawyer, Skowhegan; Augustus J. Elkins, B. M. E., draughtsman and scaler, Oldtown; Alica T. Emery, B. S., teacher, Orono; Samuel W. Gould, B. S., lawyer, Skowhegan; Joseph C. Lunt, B. C. E., merchant, Fort Fairfield; Fred F. Phillips, B. S., law student, Bangor; Samuel Shaw, B. M. E., architectural draughtsman, Boston, Massachusetts; Frank P. Stone, B. S., farmer, Livermore Falls; Thomas J. Stephens, B. M. E., apothecary, Auburn; George E. Sturgis, B. C. E., apothecary, Oregon; Charles E. Towne, B. C. E., government surveyor, Helena, Montana; James W. Weeks, B. M. E., draughtsman, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Nel- lie E. Weeks, B. S., (Mrs. Llewellyn Spencer), Orono; Ivan E. Web- ster, B. S., lumberman, Orono.


CLASS OF 1878.


Emma Brown, B. S., teacher, Orono; Andrew J. Caldwell, B. M. E., draughtsman, Brooklyn, New York; Cecil C. Chamberlain, B. S., clerk in lumber business, Geneseo, Illinois; George Fernald, B. C. E., mer- chant, Waterloo, Iowa; James Heald, B. S., M. & St. P. R. R., Min- neapolis, Minnesota; John Locke, B. S., Maine Central R. R., Port- land; Frank J. Oakes, B. C. E., assistant city engineer, Lowell, Mas- sachusetts; John C. Patterson, B. C. E., civil engineer, St. Paul & Manitoba R. R., Norman, Dakota Territory; Winfield E. Tripp, B.


amount, they have endeavored to avoid two extremes -the one, a tuition so high as to be in disregard of the fact that a large percentage of the students work their own way, either wholly or in part; the other, a tuition so low as seemingly to indicate an undervaluing of the advantages offered." The trustees, however, make provision for the establishing of free scholarships, by the following action : " Voted, That any individual or society paying to the Treasurer a sum not less than seven hundred and fifty dollars, shall be entitled to one perpetual free scholarship in the College."


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C. E., law student, Albany, New York; Edward C. Walker, B. S., lawyer, Lovel; Otis C. Webster, B. S., druggist, Augusta.


CLASS OF 1879.


Harry P. Bean, B. C. E., civil engineer C., M. & St. Paul R. R., Par- ker, Dakota Territory; Edward J. Blake, B. C. E., assistant engineer W., St. L. & P. R. R., Peoria, Illinois; Simon P. Crosby, B. S., law student, Dexter; John D. Cutter. B. S., medical student, University of the City of New York; Wilbur F. Decker, B. M. E., instructor in vise work and forge work, State college, Orono; David A. Decrow, B. C. E., draughts- man, Lockport, New York; Willis E. Ferguson, B. S., farmer, Bangor; Charles W. Gibbs, B. C. E., Abington, Illinois; Annie M. Gould, B. S., teacher, Stillwater; Nellie M. Holt, B. S., teacher, Orono; Frank E. Kidder, B. C. E., student of architecture, institute of technology, Boston, Massachusetts; Mark D. Libby, B. C. E., stock breeder, Bel- mont, Kansas; Charles S. Loring, B. M. E., machinist, Winthrop; George P. Merrill, B. S., U. S. fish commission, Washington, District of Columbia; Arthur L. Morse, farmer, Limerick; Charles A. Morse, B. C. E., draughtsman, C., B. & Q.R. R., Burlington, Iowa; Fred D. Potter, B. M. E., draughtsman, Providence, Rhode Island; Alton J. Shaw, B. M. E., mechanical engineer, Auburn; Percia A. Vinal, B. S., teacher, Orono; George O. Warren, B. S., farmer, Fryeburg; Herbert Webster, B. S., lumberman, Orono.


CLASS OF 1880.


Horace W. Atwood, B. S., student in veterinary science, New York City ; James M. Bartlett, B. S., assistant in chemistry, Wesleyan Uni- versity, Middletown, Connecticut ; Albert H. Brown, B. S., Oldtown ; Marcia Davis, B. S., teacher, Stillwater; Fied B. Elliott, B. S., far- mer, Bowdoin ; Sarah P. Farrington, B. S., teacher, State reform school, Cape Elizabeth ; Charles W. Fernald, B. S., clerk, Waterloo, Iowa; Fred W. Fickett, B. S., teacher, Etna ; George W. Lufkin, B. C. E., teacher, North Yarmouth ; Frank A. Mansfield, B. S., teacher, Cam- den; Annie A. Matthews, B. S., teacher, Stillwater ; Henry W. Murray, B. C. E., teacher, Farmington, California ; Franklin R. Patten, B. C. E., civil engineer, Newport, Rhode Island ; Charles T. Pease, B. S., civil engineer, P., W. & B. R. R., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; James F. Purrington, B. S., farmer, Bowdoin.


A society of "Associate Alumni" has been formed, which has at present the following named officers :


President, Edward M. Blanding, Bangor; Secretary, Professor W. H. Jordan, State College, Pennsylvania; Treasurer, Phillip W. Hub- bard, Farmington ; Class Secretaries, 1872, E. J. Haskell, Saccarappa; 1873, J. M. Oak, Garland ; 1874, W. A. Allen, Portland; 1875, W. H. Jordan, State College, Pennsylvania ; 1876, N. P. Haskell, New Gloucester ; 1877, S. W. Gould, Skowhegan ; 1878, C. E. Walker, Lovell ; 1879, F. E. Kidder, Institute of technology, Massachusetts.


THE STATE BOARD AND THE COLLEGE.


March 1, 1869, an act of the Legislature was ap- proved entitled "An Act to secure harmony of action between the Board of Agriculture and the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," in which it was provided that five members, appointed from the State at large, should be added to the Board, of whom two should be appointed from the Faculty of the College; that the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture should be ex officio a member of the Board of Trustees of the College, and that the former Board should hold one of its two annual sessions "within such convenient distance of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts as will enable the attendance of the students and Faculty of said College, so that they may have the ad- vantage of the addresses and discussions before the Board." The first of the sessions under this act began at the College in Orono, October 19, 1869. The report of the meeting says:


It was gratifying to find a recent accession to the number of stu- dents, enlarged means of imparting instruction, an additional professor at work, and abundant evidence of ability and determination on the part of all connected with the Institution to succeed. The forenoon was chiefly devoted to the usual recitations of the classes and


to remarks by those present, all of whom expressed the highest degree of satisfaction at the thoroughness of the instruction, the progress of the students, and the happy results of the union of labor with study.


Professor Hamlin, of Colby University, one of the newly appointed members at large, said that, in all his experience as a teacher in differ- ent institutions, he had never heard better recitations or witnessed greater evidence of thorough, careful work on the part of both pupils and instructors. He alluded to the sympathy and co-operation which should exist between pupils and teachers as necessary to the best re- sults, and believed it existed in the present Institution.


Professor Fernald, in reply to an inquiry whether the bodily labor interfered with intellectual progress, replied that so far as he could judge from the working of the system for something more than a year, it did not, but, on the contrary, they were better fitted for study by reason of having engaged in physical labor, and he regarded it as really a benefit. He also stated that those pupils who exhibited the most aptitude at work were also those most ready at their several studies.


Mr. Johnson, the Farm Superintendent, said that the pupils were always ready and willing to work, and to put their hands to whatever they were told to do.


Professor Peckham stated that he came to this Institution with some prejudice against the system of manual labor, but he was every day gaining confidence in its expediency and usefulness.


A year or two afterwards, when the College had had further opportunity to demonstrate its usefulness, or the contrary, while the school was under discussion in the State Board of Agriculture, Governor Perham took oc- casion to speak as follows :


Having been one of the official visitors of the State College, it may be proper for me to say a word in regard to the appearance of the stu- dents and the progress which they have made; and I may be excused for some enthusiasm in the matter. I have had the privilege of visiting that Institution three times-once last winter, last spring, and again in the fall; and I can say here, without making an extended speech, that I think President Allen and Professor Fernald (who has been in the Institution longer than President Allen) need have no fear in putting the students of that College beside students in any other institution in the State or anywhere else, who have been en- gaged in their studies the same length of time.


I am confident that the three hours' labor every day is of very great value. It seems to relieve them of any inclination to cut up capers, as many college boys are wont to do. President Allen will not find the trouble in his discipline that is found in other colleges. Those boys are employed; they are given something useful to do; they feel that they are learning something useful all the time, something they are go- ing to practice, and he will not be obliged to discipline them for bad conduct.


I have had an opportunity during the past year of witnessing the ex- ercises in a great many institutions of learning, some of them of high standing, and the students have all acquitted themselves well; but I hesitate not to say that the boys in the college at Orono, considering the time they have been there, taking into consideration their physical and mental powers and everything that goes to make up the elements of success in life, are equal, if not superior, to any class I have ever seen. I believe that every man who has heard the recitations of those boys, and witnessed their mental and physical improvement, will be ready to attest to the correctness of this statement.


The next year the autumn session of the Board was held at the villages of Foxcroft and Dover, in Piscataquis county, with a large delegation present from the Agricul- tural College, and in September, 1871, the regular meet- ing of the fall was held at Lincoln village, in this county. The acfulty of the College attended, and a larger num- ber of students than at either of the previous sessions. The class which had just entered the school was larger than any class before matriculated. It was already be- coming a problem how any further increase of students was to be accommodated.


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CHAPTER XII. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY .*


Roman Catholic Missionaries and Churches-Other Early Religion in the Penobscot Valley-Congregationalism-Methodism-The Bap- tists-The Free Baptists-Universalism-The Unitarians, Sweden- borgians, "Christians," and Free Adventists-The Penobscot Bible Society-The Bangor Young Men's Bible Society.


ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES


came with the French in their early visits to the Penob- scot, and mingled with the Indians, and they became Catholics. Jesuit missionaries were with them in 1611, and for several years after. In 1614 four missionaries from France disembarked with twenty-five others, design- ing to found a mission at Kadesquit (Kenduskeag), now Bangor; but they decided to relinquish the Penobscot, and went to Mount Desert. About the year 1700, in the reign of Louis XIV., a French architect erected for the Indians a place of worship, in Indian Oldtown. The church was burned about the year 1757. The governor of the tribe has now in his possession a medal, with the likeness of Louis XIV.


In 1797 the tribe was visited by Right Reverend Bishop Cheverus, of Boston, and two years after the Rev. James R. Romaigne, a French friar, had pastoral charge, in connection with the Passamaquoddy tribe, in Wash- ington county. He returned to France in 1819. Rev. Stephen Crilleaux, born and educated in Paris, was his successor, and was with them for several years.


The Irish and American Catholics began to gather in considerable numbers at Bangor, in 1833, and now there are two churches in that city, one each in Orono, Oldtown, and Winn, and that on Indian Oldtown island. There are now five priests, and about 8,000 connected with the churches. The convent of the Sisters of Mercy was founded in Bangor in 1865.


OTHER EARLY RELIGION.


Public worship and religious addresses were sustained by the colonists, and chaplains were stationed generally at the forts. A reason given, in 1768, for having one at a fort on the river (Fort Pownall), was that he was needed to preach to the settlers, in the audience of the Indians, and to ensure peace with them; and also "be- cause there was no minister of the Gospel within a circle of 100 miles diameter, now generally peopled, though but thinly." From 1774 to 1779, John Herbert, the first physician in Bangor, was an exhorter at religious meet- ings, and in the winter taught schools. The first minis- ter that preached statedly was the Rev. Mr. Knowles, from Cape Cod, who, about 1780-83, was with the peo- ple scattered along the banks of the river from Frankfort to Bangor.


CONGREGATIONALISM.


The Rev. Seth Noble, a Congregational minister, a native of Westfield, Massachusetts, who had done patriot service in Nova Scotia, and was compelled to flee from thence because of his sympathy with New England in the Revolutionary struggle, and was afterwards at Machias, came to Bangor in 1786, and was engaged by


the people as a settled religious teacher and preacher, at £100 per year. He was installed September 10, 1786, under some ancient oaks, near the corner of Clate and Washington streets, Bangor. Rev. Daniel Little, of Wells, who had performed missionary work in Bangor and vicinity at different times, was deputed by the church in Wells, "without the great trouble and expense of con- vening a council," to induct him into office. He gave him the charge and the right hand of fellowship. Mr. Noble preached the sermon. He remained five years, and died in Ohio in 1807.


The first Congregational church organized was at Bangor, September 9, 1800. The Rev. James Boyd was pastor, and died two years after. The first deacons were William Boyd and Isaac Robinson.


In 1825, when the Penobscot Congregational Con- ference was organized at Brownville, then in Penobscot county, there were three ministers, eight churches, and 400 members. In 1879 there were fourteen ministers, fifteen churches, and 1,786 members.


The Maine Missionary Society, organized in 1807, employed missionaries, who labored in various parts of the county. Fathers Jotham Sewall and John Sawyer were among the pioneers. The former was at Bangor and Orrington in 1811, and in other parts of the county in 1828, 1834, and 1840-45; the latter in Garland and vicinity in 1811-19, and in that neighborhood chiefly 1824-30. The Theological Seminary in Bangor has provided many missionaries and ministers to the county, who have labored in churches of different denominations.


METHODISM.


In 1793, Rev. Jesse Lee, from Virginia, the Methodist apostle of England, came to Maine, and on September 9th, of that year, spent a month in missionary work along the Penobscot river, and went to Lynn, Massachusetts. In January, 1794, he came again as far as Orono, hold- ing meetings along the route, and returned by way of the Kennebec to Portland. In 1795 Rev. Joshua Hall, of the New London Conference, Connecticut, organized societies in the county. In 1799 Rev. Timothy Merrill was on the Hampden Circuit, and preached in Bangor. In 1878 the number of local preachers was twenty ; itin- erant ministers, thirteen; members, 1,700; probationers, 500.


THE BAPTISTS.


The first Baptist church in the county was organized at Etna, in 1807, with thirteen members, by Rev. John Chadbourne, of Shapleigh, Maine, who was the first mis- sionary of the denomination in the county, and labored in the new settlements of Etna and Carmel. Paul Rug- gles was elected deacon, afterwards ordained as a minis- ter, and labored in the county. The Rev. Jason Liver- more, then preaching in Mount Ephraim (now Swanville and Prospect), came as an associate with Mt. Chad- bourne, and they extended their labors into Hermon and Hampden. A church in Hampden was organized in 1809, with thirty-six members; Daniel Vose, deacon. The Baptist Missionary Convention have sustained mis- sionaries in some fields, from 1804. The number of


* By Elnathan F. Duren, Esq., of Bangor.


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members in the churches at their organization was 250. In 1821 there were six local preachers and six travelling preachers. In 1878 there were twenty-four churches, thirteen ministers, and 1,766 members.


THE FREE BAPTISTS.


The first efforts of the Free Baptist denomination were made in Dixmont about 1809. A church was or- ganized at Garland in 1824; Dixmont and Newburg in 1825; Bradford, 1827; Corinna, 1828; Bangor, 1835. There are now (1878) twenty-five churches, twenty min- isters, and 1,070 members.


EPISCOPACY.


The first Episcopal church in the county was or- ganized at Bangor in 1834. A church in Winn was formed in 1869; in Dexter and Exeter, 1872; in Old- town and Milford in 1873.


UNIVERSALISM.


The Universalist denomination have a church at Hampden, organized in 1825, and one in Bangor, dating from 1838. They have societies also in Dexter, Edding- ton, Hermon, Kenduskeag, Orono, and Oldtown.


OTHER CHURCHES.


The Unitarian church at Bangor was formed March 25, 1818.


The new church, Swedenborgian, was organized in 1840. The Christian denomination formed their first churches in Exeter and Newport, in 1815. In the county are sixteen churches, thirteen ministers, and 700 members.


The Second Advent denomination had its beginning in this county about 1842-43. Ministers, twelve; mem- bers, 300.


The Penobscot Bible Society was organized in 1828. The work of distribution of the Bible was continued in the county by the Bangor Young Men's Bible Society, organized in December, 1843.


CHAPTER XIII.


THE BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.1


The Beginnings-The Maine Charity School-Established at Hamp- den-Fuller Organization-Removal to Bangor-The Early Professors -The Seminary Buildings-First Anniversary-Embarrassments- Changes of Plan -Dr. Pond and other New Professors-Financial Affairs-An Additional Professor - More Changes-Dr. Talcott Comes -The Seminary Saved - The Seminary Chapel-Another Professor Added-Hopes and Trials-Acknowledgments to Bene- factors-The Work of the Seminary-Donors to Furnished Rooms -- Professors from the First -- The Trustees-Distinguished Graduates.


BEGINNINGS.


The year 1820 was, on several accounts, a remarkable year. This was the two-hundredth anniversary of the


landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. It was the year when Maine from being a Territory became a State. It was the year when the great Sandwich Islands Mission was sent forth, which has resulted in transforming a heathen and savage people into a civilized and Christian nation. This was the year when Colby University in this State was instituted, and when the first anniversary of the Bangor Theological Seminary was celebrated.




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