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Resolved, That we, the members and congregation of the church, wish to express our regret at parting with Mr. Payson and to certify to his prudence, diligence, and fidelity as a minister of the Gospel, his upright and very exemplary character as a Christian man, and his social, genial, helpful ways and qualities as a pastor.
Resolved, That we heartily commend Mr. Payson to any of our churches that may be seeking a good and competent pastor.
During 1892, the audience room of the church was renovated and improved.
In November, Rev. Myra Kingsbury accepted a call as pastor. She remained until December, 1895. She was born in Sheshequin, Pennsylvania, in 1847, graduated at the State Normal School, and afterwards studied for the ministry, being first settled in Williston, Vermont. After leaving Belfast, she returned to her native town, where, after a lingering illness, she died 11 June, 1898. Her pastorate was marked with prosperity. Auxiliary societies instituted through her influence, known as the Mission Circle and the Kingsbury Social Aid, were formed and con- tributed much in their respective lines for the parish.
Rev. Charles Henry Wells, a native of Woodbury, Vermont, and an alumnus of the Divinity School of Tufts College, in 1895, succeeded Miss Kingsbury, his pastorate commencing with her retirement. He resigned June 5, 1898.
Rev. Ashley Auburn Smith, the present pastor, born at Auburn, in 1871, and a classmate of Mr. Wells in the Tufts Divinity School, began his labors here November 1, 1898. Hc had previously been settled in Annisquam, Massachusetts.
CHAPTER X
NORTH CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY AT THE HEAD OF THE TIDE
No settled Minister since 1858 - Names of Supplies - Church Edifice repaired - New Bell - Statistics.
SINCE 1858, there has been no settled minister of the North Society at the Head of the Tide. During a portion of each year, students from the Bangor Theological Seminary, and others have supplied the pulpit, as follows: -
1875. Rev. John Alexander Ross, of Belfast (in summer). 1876. Same.
1877-80. Vacant.
1881. Rev. Wooster Parker (portion of year).
1882. Edward H. Hackett; and George M. Sanborn, licentiates. 1883. Vacant.
1884. James E. Aikin, licentiate.
1885 and 1886. Rev. John Alexander Ross.
1887. Vacant.
1888 and 1889. Rev. Edwin C. Brown, now of Brewer.
1890. Norman Mckinnon, licentiate.
1891. Samuel R. Smiley.
1892 and 1893. William W. Dornan.
1894. R. F. Chambers.
1895. R. H. Abercrombie.
1696. Merritt A. Farren.
1897 and 1898. Harry O. Worthley, of Brunswick.
1899. D. Frank Atherton
1900. C. S. Calhoun.
In the fall of 1884, the church edifice was repaired and painted.
In the night of July 4, 1888, the bell, which had rung for over forty years, was cracked, and was replaced by a new one the fol- lowing October. The church members in 1900 numbered forty- five, of whom twelve were males and thirty-three females.
CHAPTER XI
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND SOCIETY
Rev. James Peterson -Services in the Opera House- Rev. Richard N. Phelan - Old Masonic Hall used for Worship - Rev. Patrick J. Garrity - Church Edifice presented by William S. Brannagan - Dedication - Rectory - Rev. John E. Kealey - Biographical Sketch of William S. Brannagan.
R EV. JAMES PETERSON, of Rockland, had charge of the Roman Catholic parish in Belfast from 1875 to 1877. The place of worship was Johnson's Hall, on High Street. On the first Sabbath of October, in the last-named year, public services at the Opera House were largely attended. Mass was celebrated, with a discourse from the Rt. Rev. James A. Healey, Bishop of Portland, followed by the confirmation of about forty persons.
Rev. Richard N. Phelan, then of Winterport, officiated in 1882. In 1885, the old Masonic Hall, in the High School Building, was occupied for worship.
Ill-health compelled Father Peterson to seek a new field of labor, and he left Maine in 1888. A scholarly man, of pleasant social traits and varied information, he made many friends here, irrespective of religious denomination.
From 1888 to 1894, Rev. Patrick J. Garrity, of Winterport, held meetings on one Sunday in each month.
In 1891, Mr. William S. Brannagan, a native of Ireland, and a resident of Belfast since 1842, built and presented to the Catholics the church at the southern end of Court Street. It measures seventy by forty feet and the steeple is eighty-five feet high. In the rear is a vestry twenty-seven by fifteen feet, with entrances on each side of the altar. The cost of the whole struc- ture was about $5000. The church was dedicated on Thanks- giving Day, with the title of St. Francis, and under the pro- tection of Our Lady of Holy Hope, in honor of a church which stood nearly two and a half centuries ago where now is the town of Castine. Bishop Healey conducted the exercises, assisted by the Very Rev. Michael O'Brien, of Bangor; Rev. Jeremiah McCarthy, of Gardiner; Rev. Richard N. Phelan, of Rockland; Rev. John P. Nelligan, of Hallowell; and Rev. Patrick J. Garrity,
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the rector. A choir from Bangor rendered music. The dedicatory address was by the Bishop. Among the large audience no one seemed happier than Mr. Brannagan, who had lived to witness the fondest hope of his long and blameless life realized by the erection of a church of his faith in his adopted home. A memorial window, above the altar, given by the parish, and inscribed with his name, bears testimony to his memory.
In 1894, a priest's residence was built, on the next lot south of the church, principally through the efforts and pecuniary aid of Mr. Brannagan. It is twenty-seven by twenty-nine feet, with an ell, and contains ten large rooms.
The first regularly installed rector of the new church was Rev. Fr. Maurice J. O'Brien, whose appointment dated from May, 1894. Early in the following February he started for the South, to re- store his failing health, but was taken sick at his father's house in Lewiston, where he died on the 11th day of the month, aged twenty-eight years. Father O'Brien was a native of Lewiston. After graduating at the College of the Holy Cross in Worces- ter, he pursued theological studies in Montreal, and in Paris, and was ordained as a priest in 1890. During his short service in Belfast, he proved faithful and conscientious in his calling.
The successor of Father O'Brien was Rev. John E. Kealey, the present resident priest, under whom a steady increase in membership has taken place. One of the prominent events of his ministration was on October 14, 1895, when fifty candidates were confirmed by the Bishop.
On the 16th of January, 1901, William S. Brannagan was gathered to his fathers at the Parochial Residence of the Roman Catholic Church at Belfast, Maine, having attained the great age of ninety-one years. Born in County Meath, Ireland, 10 December, 1810, he emigrated to America when a young man, first landing in Philadelphia. In 1843, he came to Belfast and went into the dry-goods and boot-and-shoe business for himself on Phoenix Row. After a few years he sold out his stock there, and became a salesman for Horatio Huntington Johnson, with whom he remained for many years; leaving his employ in 1877 to enter the store of George W. Burkett where he spent two years. He next was with Thomas W. Pitcher for a few months, whose store was of the same general nature as those in which
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Mr. Brannagan had been employed during his whole business life. These were the days before our railroad. Then no traveling salesmen or gaudy catalogues from mail-order houses found their way to every cross-road, general store, or. remote farm, as now. Belfast was the trading centre for Waldo County. Farmers ar- rived before daylight anxious to exchange their country produce, make their purchases, and get started on the homeward journey before the heat of the day in summer, or before the noonday sun should have softened up the road-beds and made bad traveling in winter. The Belfast of those days had many of the character- isties of a frontier town. The inhabitants were hardy, enterpris- ing spirits, much in the nature of pioneers. Several large stores carried on a thriving and important business, and through ships built and owned in Belfast, and commanded by Belfast men, had connections in all parts of the world. In keenness, sagacity, and business acumen, and in their judgment of men and events, it is not improbable that some of the leading men of the town then, would to-day, could they be marshaled back to earth, take a place not far behind many of our modern captains of industry and finance.
Soon after leaving Mr. Pitcher, Mr. Brannagan decided to retire and for years lived happily and contented and at his ease on an ample property acquired by industry and frugality. He was a hard, conscientious worker, and an obliging, sagacious sales- man. From his early arrival in Belfast, he was, until his death, a devout Catholic, and took great interest in the local Roman Catholic Church, and it was mainly through his efforts and generosity that its first organization in Belfast was effected, and later the church edifice and the priest's house were both gifts from him. He was ever ready to spend his time and money freely for the cause, and when he felt old age coming upon him, with the foresight which had characterized his whole life, he made an arrangement with the church authorities, by means of which he was to enjoy a home with the priests in the parochial residence as long as he lived; and it was here, in the house that his generosity had erected, that he passed calmly on.
He was an honest, upright man, of pleasant and friendly dis- position and had a host of friends, who honored him as a good citizen. In his acquaintances and friendships, he knew no distinc- tion either of religion or politics, although he held decided
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views on both subjects. He is remembered by the present genera- tion as a bright, active, dapper little figure, full of energy, though over eighty, always elaborately courteous, and habitually at- tired in a quaint black coat and a tall beaver hat: - by his in- herent nature a true "gentleman of the old school." He had the quick wit and the sense of humor of his race, and was prepared to meet every comer with a ready answer. Always well supplied with the latest local news, he dearly loved a neighborly chat over a cheering "cup," and his none too frequent and ceremon- iously short calls are still missed in more than one household of the older residents. He never married, and at the time of his death was survived only by a sister, Mrs. Theresa Gunning, of County Meath, and by several nephews and nieces. We may appropriately terminate this brief sketch in the language of his church,“Requiescat in pace." His burial place is in Belfast, where he lies, closely surrounded by the graves of his friends.1
1 At Mr. Brannagan's funeral the Rev. Patrick J. Garrity read the Requiem Mass, and the Very Rev. Michael C. O'Brien, Vicar-General of the Diocese of Maine, long an intimate friend of the deceased, delivered a most touching eulogy on his charity and Christian life. His grave is marked by a handsome granite cross, which he himself selected with the aid of his lifelong friend, the late Edward Johnson, whose tomb is close at hand.
As stated above, from 1875 to 1877, the Rev. James Peterson, of Rockland, held services at Belfast. In 1877, Winterport was taken from the parish of Ells- worth and made a parish, with Belfast as one of its missions. Rev. Jeremiah McCarthy was the first pastor of Winterport. In 1879, Rev. John Duddy suc- ceeded Father McCarthy. (Father Peterson returned to Ireland and died there.) Father Phelan came after Father Duddy.
Prior to 1891, several attempts had been made to build a church by sub- scription, but failed. It was while the Rev. Patrick J. Garrity was in charge that Mr. Brannagan's plans were consummated. Father Garrity undertook to see that the church should be appropriately furnished; drew the plans for the edifice, and supervised its construction, thus saving a considerable sum for his people. In furnishing the church the Catholics were assisted most kindly by the Protestants of Belfast, whose generosity they have never forgotten.
The Rev. John E. Kealey, who took up his pastorate in 1895, continued until 1905. He was succeeded by the Rev. Herman H. Haymakers, who was in turn followed, in 1911, by the Rev. Dennis A. McCabe.
CHAPTER XII
MISCELLANEOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Maine Sabbath-School Convention - Deaf Mutes - Spiritualists - First So- ciety formed - Belfast Spiritualist Association - Salvation Army - Mis- sion School - Evangelist Preachers - Church Attendance in 1891 - Chris- tian Advent - Union Revival Meetings - Gospel Mission - Young Men's Christian Union - Young Men's Christian Association - Christian En- deavor Societies.
TN May, 1876, the Maine State Sabbath School Convention was held in Belfast, attended by many delegates. The pro- ceedings were published in a pamphlet of 31 pages.
In August, 1877, the deaf mutes held religious services con- ducted by Mr. Philo W. Packard, of Salem, Massachusetts.
In 1881, the Spiritualists leased the Angier Hall, in the north end of Phoenix Row, and held regular services there.
In 1883, the Maine Spiritual Temple purchased the Brown Farm near the Bluff, and established the camp-ground now known as Temple Heights.
On the 1st of March, 1886, the First Society of Spiritualists of Belfast, Maine, was formed. Its officers were: President, Frank- lin Hall Black; treasurer, Mrs. M. L. Cleaves; secretary, Mrs. Franklin Hall Black. It held meetings every Sunday.
In December, 1900, a society called the Belfast Spiritualist Association was organized with thirty members and the following officers: President, Andrew Euell Clark; vice-president, Mrs. Joseph A. Montefore; secretary, Orrin Joseph Dickey; treasurer, Mrs. George Washington Benson; trustees, Collins McCarty, Andrew Euell Clark, Mrs. Lydia A. Hatch.
The first appearance of the Salvation Army in Belfast was on February 13, 1887, when Captain Reuben Holme and wife opened barracks in the Coliseum. Subsequently meetings were held in Knowlton's Hall. Several street parades, with music, took place. The object of the institution was to reach a class of persons who never attended church, and particularly those who frequented saloons. The officers remained until the following April.
In December, 1886, Mrs. William B. Conant established a
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mission school, for children who did not attend any Sabbath School. She had thirty pupils, and held meetings every Sunday in a house on Cross Street.
In 1889, Rev. H. N. Harriman and Mr. Frank H. Clark, evangelists, held a series of union revival meetings in Belfast, which were largely attended. Rev. Sam Small, the Georgia evangelist, preached in December.
1891. An enumeration of those who attended the different churches during a beautiful day in December showed the follow- ing result: -
Unitarian
75
Baptist.
120
Methodist
153
Universalist.
193
Congregational.
250
Total 791
The Catholics then held their services on the fourth Sunday in each month only. Had they been included, the number would have been increased at least another hundred.
In 1893, Elder G. L. Young conducted Christian Advent services at Memorial Hall. The society leased Peirce's Hall in 1895, but abandoned it early the next year.
1894. January 1 to 21, a series of union revival meetings was held in the Methodist Church, under charge of Rev. C. L. Jack- son, an evangelist from Boston.
Rev. J. F. Hazel and wife opened a Gospel Mission, in 1896, in the Haraden Building, and afterwards at No. 58 High Street. A Sunday School was organized, and active work done by mis- sionary preachers. It still continues (1900).
BELFAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION
A society by this name was organized December 11, 1888. Its objects were: (1) to furnish the young men of Belfast and vicinity a place of pleasant resort, where they will meet agreeable companions and where the influence will be morally beneficial and intellectually elevating; (2) to provide them with opportuni- ties for self-improvement and healthful recreation at small ex- pense; (3) to interest and engage them in doing good by person-
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ally practising what is true, virtuous, and manly, aiding what is benevolent and charitable, and discouraging all that is profane, cruel, vulgar, intemperate, or morally false or impure either in conduct or conversation. The officers were as follows: Presi- dent, Charles Swan Bickford; vice-president, William P. Castle; secretary, Nathaniel J. Pottle; treasurer, Charles Luthers; trus- tees, Sherman G. Swift, George Priest, and Fred Hall. It had well-furnished rooms over Edwin P. Frost & Company's store on Main Street, but did not long exist.
BELFAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
This society, having for its object the improvement of the spiritual, mental, social, and physical condition of young men, was organized October 30, 1889, and was composed of persons connected with the Evangelical churches. The following were elected officers: Ami Cutter Sibley, president; George E. White, James Pattee, and William C. Tuttle, vice-presidents; Augustine Oliver Stoddard, secretary; Horatio Palmer Thompson, trea- surer; Alfred G. Ellis, Calvin A. Hubbard, Horatio Palmer Thomp- son, Dr. Samuel Worth Johnson, Nathaniel Emery Keen, and Charles H. Twombly, directors. Twenty signed the constitution.
The rooms in the Masonic Temple, later occupied by the Waldo Club, were renovated and supplied with newspapers and periodicals, and a gymnasium installed. They were first occupied December 22, 1889. From lack of support the association gave up these rooms, March 15, 1891. Its meetings have since been held with the churches (1900).
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETIES
An account of these organizations may be found in chapters relating to the Congregational and Baptist churches.
On the 27th of October, 1891, the Waldo County Christian Endeavor Union was organized, with Frank Wallace Chase as President, and Miss Lilian Pamelia Robbins, secretary and treasurer. In 1899, its annual convention was represented by sixty-four delegates from nineteen societies.
PHOENIX HOUSE. ERECTED 1816
PEIRCE BLOCK, CONTAINING PARLOR THEATRE AND AGE OFFICE, BURNED 1899
CHAPTER XIII
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY - LECTURES
Leetures at Methodist Vestry - Home Course, 1876-77 - Henry Ward Beccher - High-School Library Course - Methodist Course - Miss Fran- ces Elizabeth Willard - Lectures in 1885 - Before Scientific Association in 1888 and 1889 - Mrs. Mary Ashton Livermore - North Church Series of 1890-92 - Rev. Edward Everett Hale - Course by Baptist Christian En- deavor Society - Miss Charlotte Thorndike Sibley - People's Course - Before Teachers' Club, 1899 - High-School Course, 1900.
A LTHOUGH in 1873 the Belfast Lyceum, after an existence of over twenty years, suspended its organization, the pub- lic interest in lectures did not diminish, and a course was begun at the Methodist Vestry in December, 1874, and continued through the remainder of the winter with the following lectures: January 21, Rev. W. T. Jewell, on "An Evening with Edmund Burke"; January 29, Rev. Charles F. Allen, on "History of the English Language"; February 4, Rev. George Forsyth, on "Gen- uine Aristocracy"; February 11, Mrs. Lucy Stone, on "Political Equality of Women"; March 4, Rev. George R. Palmer, on "Unappreciated Forces."
During the season of 1876-77, a series of home lectures at $1.50 for the course was given at Peirce's Hall. The lecturers and subjects were as follows: Rev. Simon Goodenough, on "The Gospel of Discontent"; Rev. D. F. Estes, on "Our own Poets"; Dr. Elmer Small, on "The Modern Idea"; Hon. William Max- field Rust, on "What's the News"; William Henry Simpson, on "The Uses of Wit and Humor"; Dr. Lewis Warrington Pendle- ton, on "The Old People"; Rev. James Thompson Bixby, on "The Riddle of the Sphinx"; Rev. John Alexander Ross, on "Modern Superstitions"; Hon. William Colburn Marshall, on "Our Likes and Dislikes"; William Henry Fogler, on "Old Times"; Joseph Williamson, on "General Knox"; and Seth Llewellyn Milliken, on "The Penalties of Greatness." In Jan- uary, four illustrated lectures on architecture and sculpture were given by Rev. Arthur M. Knapp, of Bangor.
No course was maintained in 1878, but on the 16th of Janu- ary, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectured at the Opera House, on
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"The Wastes and Burdens of Society." The tickets were one dollar each. Two lectures were delivered in the High-School Library course in February, 1882, one by Hon. Seth Llewellyn Milliken, the subject being "The Crusades," and the other, by Rev. George Edward Tufts, on "More Worlds than Ours."
During the season of 1883-84, seven lectures were given at the Methodist Church. The lecturers and their subjects were as follows: By Professor Dorchester, on "Macaulay's Prophecy concerning the United States"; Chaplain Clark, on "Pompeii"; Readings by Mrs. Augusta Stetson; Rev. George R. Palmer, on "Manly Character"; General James A. Hall, on "The Camp- fires of '61"; Rev. A. J. Lockhart, on "A Visit to Longfellow"; Rev. John Alexander Ross, on "Italy." The price for the course was, for a family, three dollars; for one person, one dollar; single admission, twenty-five cents.
On August 29, 1884, Miss Frances Elizabeth Willard lectured on "Temperance," at the Unitarian Church.
In January, 1885, there were four lectures in Peirce's Parlor Theatre, by James K. Applebee, on "Thomas Hood"; by H. Bernard Carpenter, on "Daniel O'Connell"; Rev. Minot J. Sav- age, on "Laughter in Earnest"; and by Volney B. Cushing, on "The Lost Atlantis." Tickets for the course were one dollar; for a single lecture, thirty-five cents. The proceeds exceeded expenses by seventy-four dollars, which was turned over to one of the benevolent branches of the Unitarian Society.
In 1888, lectures took place before the Belfast Scientific Asso- ciation in the Unitarian Church Parlor, at one dollar for the course. The lecturers were Rev. John Arthur Savage, on "Modern Science"; Rev. George Edward Tufts, on "More Worlds than Ours"; Arthur Irving Brown, on "Geology"; Dr. Horatio Hunt- ington Johnson, on "What gives an Animal Precedence in Rank"; by Joseph Williamson, on "Prehistoric Maine." The annual address was by Rev. John Arthur Savage, on "Climate and its Effects." During the year, Rev. George Edward Tufts gave an address on "The Micmac Indians," and John Riley Dunton one on "Pebbles, Sand, and Mud."
The next year Arthur Irving Brown lectured on "Glaciers"; Frank Ross Woodcock, on "The Indian of North America"; Dr. Horatio Huntington Johnson, on "Glaciers"; and Rev. John Arthur Savage, on "The Rocks of Belfast and Vicinity."
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During the season of 1889-90, four lectures were delivered: By George Makepeace Towle, on "Beaconsfield"; by Rev. Sam Small, on "Is Civilization a Failure"; by Mrs. Mary Ashton Livermore, on "What shall we do with Our Girls"; and by Professor Ropes, of Bangor, on "Eight Weeks in Russia."
During 1889, John Riley Dunton and Arthur Irving Brown each lectured before the Scientific Association on "Geology"; Charles Swan Bickford, on "Chemistry"; and Charles M. Har- ris, on "Collecting and Preserving Specimens in Natural His- tory."
A series was given in the North Church during the season of 1890-91, as follows: By Rev. Edward Everett Hale, on "The High Court of Nations"; by George Makepeace Towle, on "Eu- génie, Empress of the French"; by President William De Witt Hyde, on "Qualities of Leadership"; by Melville D. Langdon (Eli Perkins), on "The Philosophy of Wit and Humor"; and by Rev. Rollin Thurman Hack, on "Rome; its Ancient Ruins and Modern Glories."
Among the lecturers provided by the North Church Club for 1891-92 were Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellesley College, who spoke on "Our College Girls"; Professor J. S. Sewall, of Bangor, on "The Japan Expedition," and Pro- fessor Leslie A. Lee, on "A Summer in Labrador."
Several lectures were given in 1893-94 under the auspices of the religious societies, the most prominent of which were: By Eli Perkins, on "China and Japan"; by Rev. W. C. Pond, D.D., of San Francisco, on "The Chinese"; by Rev. Rollin Thurman Hack, on "Reformers," and on his "Impressions of the World's Fair"; by Rev. George Edward Tufts, on his "European Trav- els," and by Rev. Edwin Pond Parker, on "The Gentler Aspects of Puritan Life and Character."
At the close of 1894, the Young Peoples' Society of Christian Endeavor of the Baptist Church gave a successful course, con- sisting of lectures by Rev. B. L. Whitman, of Colby University, on "The Revival of Patriotism"; by Rev. R. S. McArthur, on "Chips from Many Shops"; by Rev. George C. Lorimer, on "Laughter in Life and Literature"; and a concert by the Ariel Quartette Club, of Boston. The tickets for the course were one dollar. Watari Kitashima lectured on "The Chinese and Japan- ese War"; Professor Leon H. Vincent, on "Hawthorne," both
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