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1894. Under the new law, a school committee was chosen at
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the municipal election for the first time, as follows: Ami Cutter Sibley, James Howard Howes, Elbridge Simmons Pitcher, Arthur Irving Brown, Horace Albert Perkins, Charles Franklin Ginn, Eli Carr Merriam, Walter Gilmore Hatch, Walter Basdwin Rankin, Elisha W. Ellis, who elected Osman C. Evans, of Cape Elizabeth, a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1876, superintend- ent at a salary of $1000. The number of scholars was 1355. A successful evening school was conducted in the winter by Herbert Elisha Ellis.
1895. The school census taken in May gave 1566 scholars; a gain of 212 over the number recorded for the previous year, and consequently an increase of $530 on the amount of money re- ceived from the State Mill Tax. The committee suspended several of the schools outside of the city proper, and for the first time provided for the conveyance of scholars to the Central schools. A report of the school board for the municipal year appeared in an octavo pamphlet of thirty-nine pages. This was the first publication of the kind.
Herbert Elisha Ellis and Miss Grace Agnes Lord were teachers of the Upper Grammar School for 1894-95.
1896. Mr. Evans having resigned as Superintendent, Francis S. Brick, of Bernardston, Massachusetts, was chosen in his place. Professor Brick graduated at the University of Maine in 1888, and had been a teacher for ten years.
1897. A full account of the schools appeared in the annual report of the committee. A nine-grade system was adopted with success. The cost of transporting scholars for the year was $730. Two flag-raisings occurred; at the Board Landing and Hayford Schools.
1898. This year, the bell on the High School building was transferred to the school-house at the Head of the Tide, and one of three hundred and ninety pounds weight was substituted. It was placed on the Grammar school-house. A bell was also hung on the brick school-house in East Belfast.
1899. Extensive repairs on the South Primary School (the old Academy) building were made. The Perkins and Hassell school-houses were sold. During the summer vacation a school for backward pupils in the lower grades was maintained. There was also a kindergarten under the instruction of Miss Weeks. This year the Belfast Teachers' Club, organized for mutual
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improvement, arranged a course of lectures in the High-School room. The sum of $3093 was received from the State Mill Fund, which, with $10,500 raised by taxation, made $13,593 expended for educational purposes.
Mrs. Dana (Mary Emeline Simpson) Southworth, who died in 1895, made a bequest to the Central School District, for the erection of a school-house. Before her decease, school districts were abolished. The Supreme Court decided, that the Central District having ceased to exist, her bequest lapsed, and de- scended to her heirs.
Another bequest for school purposes was made by the will of Mrs. Charles Woodbury (Emma Lena Peirce) Frederick, whose death took place October 14, 1890. It gave to the city Hayford Block, and the property adjoining the same, to take effect when her husband, Charles Woodbury Frederick, arrived at the age of fifty-five years, or at his decease, should he die before reaching that age; the property to be sold, and its proceeds used for the purpose of building a school-house; the legacy being in memory of her father and mother, and the building to be known as the Peirce School. In 1900, the interest of the city in this property was insured for $15,000.
The following account of the Schools and their buildings is taken from the "Republican Journal" of September 13, 1900, and is of interest as showing the condition of things at that date:
THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
The city schools opened Monday morning for the fall term, with the exception of the South Primary, which opened Tuesday. There was no afternoon session Monday, and Superintendent Dunton held a teachers' meeting. All the school-rooms were in fine order, showing a great amount of work done during the vacation by the janitor of the city schools, Mr. Henry W. Marriner. The cellars in the North and South Primary buildings have been cemented, and all the desks, tables, and chairs in these buildings varnished or shellacked and the woodwork painted. The school-rooms on the Common have been papered as well, and minor repairs made wherever needed. All this has been done at no cost to the city except for the material used. The High School is still crowded, and as there are not seats enough for all the pupils the senior class must be dismissed after recitation. Forty pupils are to be crowded into one room that cannot properly accommodate twenty, and twenty in another room that is hardly sufficient for ten. If the hall above could be utilized, as it might at small expense, the conditions would be greatly improved.
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There are several changes in the corps of teachers since last term. Following is the present list: -
High School, William Russell Howard, Misses Caroline Williams Field and Ellen Dutton Townsend.
Upper Grammar School, Herbert Elisha Ellis, Miss Grace Agnes Lord.
Lower Grammar School, Misses Mary A. Mason and Bertha I. Bird.
Central Intermediate School, Mrs. Lizzie S. Hall, Miss May Ella Folsom.
South Intermediate School, Miss Juliett A. Wiggin, Mrs. Ida Birdie Smalley.
South Primary School, Misses Alberta Wadsworth and Marian Hayford.
North Primary School, Misses Grace Ellen Walton, Annie Leila Chaples and Ida F. Roberts. (Miss Roberts is ill and her place is temporarily supplied by Miss Cordelia Hills.)
Head of Tide School, Grammar, Miss Edith M. Ladd; Primary, Miss Arline Burdeen Walton.
Brick School, Grammar, Augustus Daniel Hayes; Primary, Miss Clara Lillian Spinney.
White School, Miss Mamie Woodbury.
City Point School, Miss Harriet Kimball.
Poor's Mills School, Miss Carrie Sheldon.
Hayford School, Mrs. Abbie L. Moody.
Board Landing School, Mrs. Samuel Adams.
Pitcher School, Alphonso Wood.
Music Teacher, Mrs. Elbridge Simmons Pitcher.
Leonard L. Gentner is employed to transport scholars in the Waldo Avenue and Hartson Districts. He has a fine large barge of modern construction for the Waldo Avenue route, and good teams and harnesses and careful drivers for both routes.
CHAPTER XVI
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY - HIGII SCHOOL
Graduating Classes and their Public Exercises, 1877-1900 - Teachers - Sta- tistics of Attendance - New Bell - List of Graduates - Old Masonic Hall utilized for Recitations.
ITTHE teachers in the High School in 1875 were William Augustus Huston, principal, and Miss Fannie White, as- sistant.
In 1877, at the close of the school year, exercises were held in the North Church. The teachers this year were Augustus Hill Kelley, principal, and Miss Susan Catherine Starrett, assistant.
In 1878, the first regular public exercises of the graduating class took place June 28, at Hayford Hall.
In 1879, five graduates took diplomas - all young ladies. The Valedictory was by Miss Mary Emma Pierce, and the Class Ode was by Miss Emma Lena Peirce.
1880. The graduating class this year was composed of six young ladies, each of whom was dressed in dark silk, the class color, cardinal, being represented. Miss Arminta Jane Kittredge delivered the Salutatory, and Miss Hattie Bates, the Valedictory.
1881. Eight young ladies and four young men constituted the graduating class of this year. Four years before it numbered thirty. Miss Ellen Rosina Ross had the Salutatory Essay, and Miss Cora Frances Beckett, the Valedictory. The Class Ode was by Miss Susie Marie Partridge.
1882. The following statistics since 1874 showed that the High School was steadily gaining: -
Full Attendance
Average Attendance
1875-76
96
73
1876-77
81
64}
1877-78
74
63
1878-79
73
63}
1879-80
90
81
1880-81
98
743
1881-82
99
75
Average enrollment, 87 2-7; average attendance, 70 3-7.
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The graduating class this year numbered six, and its exercises took place at the school-room. The Salutatory was by Miss Cora Abigail Eames, the Valedictory by Miss Kate Laura Ran- kin, and the Ode by Miss Emily Frothingham Miller. The fol- lowing evening an address was given by Rev. George Warren Field.
With the fall term, William C. Curtis, of Winterport, a grad- uate of Boston University, took charge of the school, in the place of Mr. Augustus Hill Kelley, and remained until January. Dur- ing the seven years that the latter had charge, he had proved a most efficient teacher. The course of four years and public graduating exercises were inaugurated by him. In August, the mixed course of study was dropped; leaving three courses to be pursued, one each in English, Classical, and Business studies.
1883. The graduating class of this year numbered eleven. The exercises took place at the school-room, and a ball and reception were given in the evening at Peirce's Hall. William Rhodes Mar- shall was the Salutatorian, and Miss Alma Enna Cottrell gave the Valedictory. The teachers were John Frank Rich, principal, and Misses Susan Catherine Starrett and Mary Patten Beaman, assistants.
In 1884, the graduating exercises of the class of twelve took place at the Opera House. Joseph Williamson, Jr., had the Salutatory, and Miss Lilian Pamelia Robbins, the Valedictory. A little paper called "The Leviathan" was published by the school this year. There was no change in teachers.
1885. Six young ladies and two young men graduated this year. Miss Maud Eliza Mathews gave the Salutatory, and Miss Charlotte Thorndike Sibley, the Valedictory. The Ode was by Miss Sarah Withington Francis. Miss Susan Catherine Starrett resigned as assistant.
1886. Of twenty-seven who entered the class in 1882, only eight graduated this year. Ralph Holbrook Wight delivered the Salutatory Essay, and Miss Evelyn Antoinette Cottrell, the Valedictory. The Class Ode was by Miss Susie Durham Black. The teachers were John Frank Rich, principal, and Misses Mary Perry French and Elizabeth Maltby Pond, assistants.
1887. The graduating class of this year numbered nine, of whom eight were young ladies. The Salutatory Essay was by Albert Linwood Herrick, and the Valedictory by Miss Ellen
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Marie Harmon. Miss Lilian Pamelia Robbins succeeded Miss Elizabeth Maltby Pond as assistant teacher.
In 1888, although the graduating class commenced the year with ten members, but two continued to complete the course, Francis James Starrett, who gave the Salutatory, and Miss Marianna Robbins, the Valedictory. The exercises were at the school-room. In January, an organization of the class of 1884 was formed.
1889. Graduating exercises were held at the Opera House this year, and the class numbered seventeen. The Salutatory Essay was by Miss Harriet Ellen Robbins, and the Valedictory by Miss Caroline Williams Field.
1890. The graduates numbered but three this year. Miss Florida Burgess McKeen read the Salutatory Essay, and Miss Mabel Blanche Cushman, the Valedictory. In March, public exercises of a flag presentation took place.
In 1891, one of the largest classes for years graduated, con- sisting of twelve members. Exercises were given in the Opera House. Miss Bertha Fidelia Hadley was the Salutatorian, and Miss Gertrude Ferguson had the Valedietory Essay. The Odist was Maurice Evan Davidson.
1892. Eight members comprised the graduating class this year. The exercises were held at the Opera House. Miss Clara Lillian Spinney gave the Salutatory, and Miss Sara Arline Russ, the valedictory. The Ode was by Miss Sallie Burgess Durham.
1893. This graduating class consisted of nine members. Miss Sabina Caroline Morey gave the Salutatory Essay, and Miss Charlotte Benson Frost, the Valedictory. There were changes of teachers this year, Mr. Reuben Lowell Ilsley, Misses Jane An- geline MeLellan and Adeline May Wescott succeeding Mr. Frank Wallace Chase and Miss Lilian Pamelia Robbins.
1894. Eleven students graduated this year. The Latin Saluta- tory was delivered by Miss Annie Leonora Barr, and the Valedic- tory by Fred Wesley Bailey. Following the exercises at the Opera House was a reception at the Crosby Inn.
1895. The essays this year were not read in public. In their place was a concert, after which the diplomas were awarded. The teachers this year were Mr. Reuben Lowell Ilsley, principal, and Miss Jane Angeline Mclellan and Miss Caroline Williams Field, A.B. Wellesley, 1894, assistants.
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1896. Miss Mclellan, now Mrs. James Faulkner Preston, of Lowell, Massachusetts, left the Belfast High School to teach French in the Dorchester High School, Boston, in April, 1896, and remained there until May, 1907, at the head of the De- partment of French. She studied in Paris and Blois, France, during the summers of 1897 and 1904.
A class of four young ladies graduated this year. The Salu- tatory Essay was read by Miss Lena Peirce Ellis, and the Vale- dictory by Miss Jessica Josephine Haskell. The Class Ode was by Miss Delia Hatch Pendleton. Miss Ellen Dutton Townsend, of New Haven, a graduate of Wellesley, A.B. 1894, was chosen assistant teacher this year.
1897. The largest class in the history of the school graduated this year; twelve young ladies and eight young men. Miss Mar- garet Nickerson Hazeltine pronounced the Salutatory, and Miss Addie Stimpson Gordon, the Valedictory. The Class Poem and Ode were by Harold Thorndike Sibley.
1898. Eight young ladies and six young men graduated in this year's class. The Salutatory Essay was by Miss Arline Burdeen Walton, and the Valedictory by Miss Louise Whitney Richards. The teachers were Hugh Dean Mclellan, Miss Caro- line Williams Field, and Miss Ellen Dutton Townsend.
In March, the school bell was transferred to the Head of the Tide school-house. Its place was supplied by a new one of steel alloy, weighing three hundred and ninety pounds, which was placed upon the Upper Grammar School building on the common.
1899. Nineteen students graduated this year. Miss Edith Farrar Dunton gave the Salutatory Essay, and Miss Mary Helen Bird, the Valedictory. The words and music of the Class Ode were by Miss Cleora Rosa Haney. In August, Mr. Hugh Dean Mclellan having resigned as principal, Mr. William Rus- sell Howard was chosen his successor.
1900. This graduating class numbered seventeen. The Saluta- tory was by Miss Jane Brown, and the Valedictory by Miss Helen Brown. Harold Elmer Bailey wrote the Class Ode. At the close of the year, the teachers were William Russell Howard, principal; Misses Caroline Williams Field and Ellen Dutton Townsend, assistants. The crowded condition of the school- room, at the close of 1900, caused the utilization of the old Masonic Hall, in the third story of the building, for recitation
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purposes. This hall had been leased to the Masonic bodies for ninety-nine years; but after the erection of the Masonic Temple, it was relinquished to the city.
GRADUATES
From 1875 to 1878, the school may be considered as an ungraded High School. The following is an incomplete, un- classified list of students who attended it during that period: -
George Anderson
Maurice Campbell Hervey
Alice Bicknell
Nellie Horton Hopkins
John E. Bragdon
Emma Howard
Ida Burgess
William Russell Howard
Charles Burgess
Mary Frances Johnson
Mary Rice Caldwell
Annie Knowlton
Belle Carter
Edward Knowlton
Adelaide Chase
Hortense Littlefield
Elizabeth Chase
Lillie Belle Mathews
Fred Titcomb Chase
Hattie Mayo
Edward Clarke
Mary Maud Milliken
Charlotte White Colburn
Mary Ellen Owen
Emma Davis
Essie Lena Pierce
Elizabeth Emma Dodge
Bertha Pilsbury
Phœbe Elizabeth Dunbar
Ralph Emery
Annie Roberts Blanche Sanborn
Annie Laura Frost
Annie Shuman
Harriet Furbish
Mary Stewart
Elizabeth Gilbert
Pamelia Wadlin
Cora Gillum
Wellington Mayo White
Charles Harriman
Georgia Willey
Bertha Harris
Ida Wilson
1878 First Regular Graduating Class
William Campbell Crawford
Isabel French
Thomas Whittier Lothrop Kate Maud Russell Ernest Joseph Stone
Robie Gale Frye
John Charles Hervey
Frank Ross Woodcock
1879
Minnie Jane Kaler Nellie Maud Mitchell Emma Lena Peirce
Mary Emma Pierce Lily Sarah Stewart
Zubie Henderson
Isabella Gordon Poor
Charles Woodbury Frederick
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1880
Hattie Bates Mary Perry French Mary Olivia Harris
Arminta Jane Kittredge Cora Susan Mathews Ada Marden Young
1881
Ellen Maud Barker Cora Frances Beckett Estelle Black Edwin Fuller Boyle John Watson Doe Gertrude Harrison Frye
Frank Bowdoin Mathews Susie Marie Partridge Ellen Rosina Ross William Todd Ross
Annie Atherton Starrett
Hattie Adelaide Trussell
1882
Cora Abigail Eames Clinton George Ferguson Ralph Waldo Hersey
Emily Frothingham Miller Kate Laura Rankin Albert Wooster Thompson
1883
Walter Baymore Kelley Frank Adams Knowlton William Rhodes Marshall Elmer Irving Rankin Grace Ellen Walton
1884
Elizabeth Durham Moore Edward Conner Quimby Abby Eliza Poor Lilian Pamelia Robbins Agnes Lorena West Joseph Williamson, Jr.
1885
Lola Arvilla Ames Augusta Hicks Banks Mary Ella Folsom Sarah Withington Francis
Maud Eliza Mathews Charlotte Thorndike Sibley Joseph Brooks Pendleton William Veazie Pratt
1886
Susie Durham Black Evelyn Antoinette Cottrell Theresa Annie Davis Herbert Tobey Field
Edward Havener Kelley Grace Agnes Lord George Robert Poor Ralph Holbrook Wight
George Austin Bailey Kittie Forrest Conant Alma Enna Cottrell Charles Benjamin Eaton Frederick Clifford Gay Frank Albert Gilmore
Laura Isabel Collier Frances Linton Davis James Albert Gammans Nellie Frances Haney Edward Johnson Hersey Helen Imogene Lewis
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1887
Carrie Edith Bird Lelia Augusta Brown Ida Birdie Carter Eva Adelia Conant Ellen Marie Harmon
Albert Linwood Herrick Myrtle Warren Herrick Liella Maud Lewis Grace Savage
1888
Marianna Robbins
Francis James Starrett
1889
Edith Marion Black Helen Jane Condon Margaret Patterson Crosby Annie Dyer
Bertha Boardman Emery Maud Fernald Caroline Williams Field Robert Allen French Isabella Harris
Elizabeth Adah Kelley Ethel Winslow Knowlton Henry Austin Knowlton Harriet Ellen Robbins Melinda Emeline Shute Gertrude Deering Stearns Alberta Wadsworth Mabel Neta Wise
1890
Mabel Blanche Cushman Augustus Carman Knight
Florida Burgess MeKeen
1891
Maurice Evan Davidson Gertrude Ferguson Bertha Idelia Hadley Alice Winnifred Knight Georgia Geraldine Lord Hugh Dean MeLellan
Clifford James Pattee Lilla Rivers Rufus Frank Springer Annabel Swan Florence Turner Edward Ansel Wadsworth
1892
Mary Ellen Carr Sallie Burgess Durham Luther Smith Mason Edgar Gilman Pratt
Sara Arline Russ Clara Lillian Spinney Blanche Lillian Sullivan Sarah May Wight
Tyler Hanson Bird Charlotte Benson Frost Isabel Ginn Evelyn Grace Havener Cordelia Hills
1893
Adelbert Samuel Merrill Sabina Caroline Morey Serena Eliza Perkins Edith May Stoddard
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1894
Fred Wesley Bailey Annie Leonora Barr
Louise Bicknell
Susan Ethel Dinsmore Sarah Holmes Fletcher
Nellie Farris Gordon
Samuel Henry Lord
Ada May Mitchell Edith Walton Poor
Lewis Frank Poor
Nina Foster Poor
1895
Arthur Fred Brown
Edith Louise Burgess
Charles Hamlin Cunningham Maud Evelyn Ellis
Louisa Hemenway Ferguson
True Child Hayford Benjamin Prescott Hazeltine, Jr.
Louise Marian Knowlton Sumner Chadbourne Pattee
Charles Edward Paul
Louville James Pottle
Alma Robinson Isabel Mary Towle
1896
Edith Maud Ellingwood Lena Peirce Ellis
Jessica Josephine Haskell Della Hatch Pendleton
1897
Ethel Gertrude Barr Annie Leila Chaples
Grace Matilda Dodge Helen Mabel Dunton David Peirce Ellis Emeroy Ginn
Addie Stimpson Gordon Leila Abbie Hayes Margaret Nickerson Hazeltine George Winslow Holmes
Frank Palmer Wilson.
1898
Lucinda Cammett Edward Holmes Fletcher George Ulmer Hatch Isa Dinsmore McCabe Myrtle Elena Mitchell Sarah May Parker Louise Whitney Richards
Bernice Gertrude Rogers Fletcher Ulmer Russ Frank Rothus Russ
Essie May Sanborn
Harry Herbert Stimpson
Arline Burdeen Walton
Emery Frank White
Lulu Hilton Littlefield Ralph Gerrish Lombard
Ralph O'Connell
Josephinc Evelyn Patterson
Elizabeth Knowlton Robbins Viola Elsie Ryder Harold Thorndike Sibley Clara Luetta Smith Fred Davis Tucker
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1899
Mary Helen Bird
Flora Estelle Blake
Mary Louise Carter
Ralph Leonard Cooper Myra Lovell Dodge
Carrie Frances Kingsbury Ada Augusta Marriner Colby Alden Rackliffe
Edith Farrar Dunton
Frank Leroy Flanders
Blanche Rockwell
Cleora Rosa Haney Ralph Hayford Reginald Hazeltine
Elizabeth Henrietta Timm
Sarah Edith West
1900
Harold Elmer Bailey
Bessie Marguerite Knowlton
Helen Brown
Henry Benjamin Ladd
Jane Brown
Grace Amelia Monroe
Emma Lillian Frost
Frederick Rollo Poor
Herbert Thurlow Harmon
Carrie Eliza Seekins
Sadie Hassell
Carrie Merriam Sheldon
Mattie Inez Hills
Meda May Whitcomb
Maude Bell Holmes
Alphonso Wood
Pliny Earle Hussey
Emery Marden Heagan John Frank Holmes Margaret Louisa Keene
Clara Russell Steward and Maurice Walker Lord were prevented by illness from graduating.
CHAPTER XVII
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1875-1900
Publications by Resident and Native Authors - Publications relating to Bel- fast and its Citizens - Books and Pamphlets printed in Belfast.
TN this chapter will be found a list of books, pamphlets, etc., the authors of which were either natives of or resident in Bel- fast: also publications relating to Belfast and its citizens.
PUBLICATIONS BY RESIDENT AND NATIVE AUTHORS
Bixby, James Thompson, Ph.D., clergyman. Resident of Bel- fast, 1874-79.
Two More Parallels. Unitarian Review, 3:123. (1875.)
Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge. By James
Thompson Bixby. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1876, Svo, pp. 226.
Reviewed in the Catholic World, 24: 746. (1876.) Law and Providence. Unitarian Review, 6: 296. (1876.)
Science and Religion as Allies. Popular Science Monthly, 6: 690. (1876.)
The Apocalypse of Barak. Unitarian Review, 9: 585. (1878.) Motor Power of the Universe. Unitarian Review, 6: 621. (1876.)
Hermann Lotze on the Soul and Its Organism. Unitarian Re- view, 7: 172. (1877.)
Argument from Design in the Light of Modern Science. Uni- tarian Review, 8: 1. (1877.)
Cook's Biology. Unitarian Review, 9: 69. (1878.)
German Mystics of the Middle Ages. Unitarian Review, 9: 382. (1878.)
Bernardino Ochino of Siena. Unitarian Review, 10: 117. (1878.)
Biographical sketch of Mrs. Charlotte L. Smith, daughter of the late Hon. James Bowdoin Murch. The sketch is ac- companied by a portrait of Mrs. Smith, and by several of her poems. Magazine of American Poetry, October, 1892. Boardman, Emery, 1849-99. Lawyer of Belfast.
Winning Whist. A harmonious system of combined long-suit
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and short-suit play of the game of whist. By Emery Board- man. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896, 16mo, pp. 159.
Brackett, George Emerson. Born in Belfast, in 1838; resides in Belfast.
Farm Talk. A series of articles in the colloquial style, illus- trating various common farm topics. New series. Second edition. Belfast: Brackett & Co., publishers, 1881, 18mo, pp. 144. (With portrait and autograph.)
Illustrated Almanac for 1882.
Illustrated Almanac for 1883.
Biographical sketches of John H. Lynde, William W. Wheeler, and William Henry Simpson. Proceedings of the Maine Press Association, 1886.
Biographical sketch of William Maxfield Rust. Proceedings of the Maine Press Association, 1889.
Biographical sketch of Joseph B. Hall. Proceedings of the Maine Press Association, 1890.
Biographical sketch of Benjamin N. Burr. Proceedings of the Maine Press Association, 1892.
Biographical Sketches of James M. Chilcott and William B. Lapham. Proceedings of the Maine Press Association, 1894. Chase, Robert Patterson. Born in Belfast, 27 January, 1852. Merchant of Belfast.
The Masonic Temple Dedication March. 1879, 4to, pp. 4. Maine Capitol March. 1897, 4to, pp. 4.
The Penobscot March, Piano and Military Band.
St. Albans Commandery March.
U. R. K. of P. March.
Church, L. H.
Biographical sketch of Daniel F. Pike. Proceedings of the Maine Press Association, 1894.
Colley, Frank H.
"Lige Dodson's Pilgrimage." Poem read before the Maine Press Association, 1896. Proceedings, p. 29.
After removal to Portland, Mr. Colley read poems before the Maine Press Association; in 1897, "The Wayside Zephyr"; in 1898, "An Autumn Shade," and in 1890, "The Messenger from Home."
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Dyer, Russell Glover, journalist. Born in North Haven, 19 No- vember, 1844; resided in Belfast till 1889.
History of Corinthian Chapter, No. 7, of Royal Arch Masons, Belfast, Maine, from 1848 to 1880. By Russell Glover Dyer, secretary. Belfast: George W. Burgess, Printer, 1880, 8vo, pp. 80.
Masonic Temple, Belfast, Maine. (Engraving.) Freemason's Repository, 15: 253. (1886.)
Farrow, W. Milton, Newport, Rhode Island. Mr. Farrow was an expert rifleman and was in the employ of the Chase Jewelry Store for some years. He was born in Belfast, about 1849 or 1850.
How I became a Crack Shot, with Hints to Beginners. By W. Milton Farrow, winner of the Albert Prize, £100; the Wimbledon Cup, value, £100, England. Sèvres Vase, by President Grévy; Bronze Statue, "Victory," by M. le Compte Vendeuvre, France. The Champions' Match, 1878; the Wimbledon Cup Match, 1880; the Military Champions' Match, 1882; Creedmore. Newport: Davis & Pitman, Printers, 1882, 16mo, pp. 204 (2). (With por- trait illustration.)
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