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Enoch Foster, Jr.
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Collection: Bethel Journals Collection
Enoch Foster, Jr.: Third Owner of the O'Neil Robinson House
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Enoch Foster, Jr.: Third Owner of the O'Neil Robinson House by Stanley R. Howe Sarah W. Foster and Enoch Foster, Jr. Photos from Maine: A History (1919) Enoch Foster, the third owner of the Society’s O’Neil Robinson House, was born in…
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
Ernest M. Skinner
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Ernest M. Skinner by Stanley Russell Howe Ernest Martin Skinner 1866-1960 In Bethel’s Woodland Cemetery, not far from the Gothic Revival tomb, is the grave of Ernest M. Skinner, one of America’s leading organ makers whose fame spread across…
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
Eva M. Bean and East Bethel Road
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Eva M. Bean and East Bethel Road A Fifty Year Perspective By Stanley R. Howe Eva Marion Bean (1895-1969) Editor’s Note: A version of this essay was delivered during a Society program held on 14 May 2009. It has been edited and expanded for…
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Farming and Bethel
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Farming and Bethel Text adapted from The Family Farm, a 1975 Bethel Historical Society exhibit guidecompiled and written by Stanley R. Howe Bethel's Agricultural Heritage Earliest Days The potential for making maple sugar from the numerous…
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Collection: Miscellaneous Texts
Fragments of Local History. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 1. / By a Sudbury Native.
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FRAGMENTS OF LOCAL HISTORY. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 1.—By a Sudbury Native. It is an every day saying that persons, objects or things which drift into our environment for a long, unbroken period, often sink to the level of the common…
Collection: Oxford County Citizen Collection
Fragments of Local History. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 2. / By a Sudbury Native.
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FRAGMENTS OF LOCAL HISTORY. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 2.—By a Sudbury Native. In the previous number we have endeavored to outline in a crude, unpolished manner, an upward growth in our Common’s physical condition; from an uncleared…
Collection: Oxford County Citizen Collection
General Oliver Otis Howard Speaks at Bethel
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General Oliver Otis Howard Speaks at Bethel by Stanley R. Howe Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909), ca. 1865 Courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard spoke at Bethel on the afternoon of 15 July…
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Gilead Memories
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Gilead Memories by Emeline V. Heath Old and New Androscoggin River Bridges at Gilead, 1920s Editor's Note: The following sketch was written by a Gilead native and Society member whose roots were deep within the town. Miss Heath, a former…
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Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
Gilead's Centennial To-Day
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Gilead's Centennial To-Day This Oxford County Town Fittingly Celebrates Her 100th BirthdayHer Sons and Daughters ReturnThe Parade Led by Indian Rangers - The Dinner - The Formal Program - Field SportsFull Story of the Day Gilead, Me. July 14…
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Collection: Miscellaneous Articles
Graduation exercises of the class of '97, Gould's Academy
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Collection: Alumni Association Scrapbook
Grafton, Maine: A Historical Sketch
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Grafton, Maine: A Historical Sketch by Margaret Joy Tibbetts Grafton, from the 1880 Atlas of Oxford County, Maine The Town of Grafton surrendered its charter in 1919, the year in which I was born. The only buildings in Grafton which I can…
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Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
Guy Coffin and His Family
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Guy Coffin and His Family by Blaine Mills Guy Coffin (1880-1942)Courtesy of the Greenwood Historical Society The photographer Guy Coffin was born 5 June 1880 at Locke's Mills village in the town of Greenwood, Maine, the son of Jacob Gilbert…
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Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
Harriet Beecher Stowe Finds "Intellectual Activity" in Western Maine
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Finds "Intellectual Activity" in Western Maine Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), circa 1865Photo courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission Editor’s Note: The letter quoted below was apparently written by…
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Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
History of Gilead by Dea. George W. Chapman
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History of Gilead by Dea. George W. Chapman George Whitefield Chapman (1780-1875)Photo from William B. Lapham's History of Bethel (1891) George Whitefield Chapman's "History of Gilead" was originally published in 1859 in the Bethel Courier…
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In His Home: Memories of Dr. N. T. True
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In His Home: Memories of Dr. N. T. True by Marian True Gehring Entrance hall, Dr. Nathaniel Tuckerman True residenceBethel, Maine, circa 1885 Many appreciative words have kept my father’s memory green, coming from many sources, and gratefully…
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Indians of the Androscoggin Valley
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Indians of the Androscoggin Valley The Indians of the Androscoggin River Valley were members of the Anasigunticook tribe, a sub-group of the Abenakis, the major tribal grouping which encompassed the Indians from the Pennacooks in New Hampshire to…
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John Howell Crosby (1867-1936)
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John Howell Crosby (1867-1936) By Donald G. Bennett J. Howell Crosby in 1909. Courtesy of Donald G. Bennett Editor’s note: This is the second “Grandfather’s Theme” to be published in The Courier since the request for such manuscripts went out…
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Lafayette Grover: Would-Be President Maker
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Lafayette Grover: Would-Be President Maker by Stanley Russell Howe Lafayette Grover1823-1911 Born in Bethel, Maine, on 29 November 1823, the third son of Dr. John and Fanny Lary Grover, Lafayette Grover was educated at Gould Academy and…
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Life on the Home Front: Bethel During the Civil War
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Life on the Home Front: Bethel During the Civil War by Stanley Russell Howe Major Gideon A. Hastings (1821-1905), 12th Maine Battalion Editor's note: Few events in American history have received more attention than the Civil War. A neglected…
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Lost in the Woods of Shadagee
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Lost in the Woods of Shadagee by Larry Glatz The “Shadagee” section of Norway was later known as Noble’s Corner, shown above (center). From Caldwell & Halfpenny, Atlas of Oxford County, Maine (Philadelphia, 1880). Practically every county…
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Lucy Larcom's Bethel
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Lucy Larcom's Bethel by Stanley R. Howe Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) Observing nature was a major focus of the life of Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), who spent much time in the White Mountain region and especially in the western Maine town of Bethel.…
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Maine estate schedules from Revolutionar War pensions / by Paul R. White, Jr.
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Maine Music Festival Note
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Maine Music Festival Note William Rogers Chapman (1855-1935), founder of the Maine Music Festivals Editor's Note: This first short essay, entitled "The Influence of the Festival," appeared in the 1925 Maine Music Festival Program. Although…
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Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier