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Fryeburg Historical Society

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Running the Town

"In 1977 Julie Kent became our first female law enforcement officer, Lois Anderson was elected to the planning board, and Priscilla Lunt became a…"

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… as a defiant gesture toward Maine’s prohibition laws, two young women with whiskey glasses in hand rest their elbows on a table displaying a liquor…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"… Bowdoin educated attorney, Kiah Sewall practiced law in Mobile for two decades before the Civil war."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"… in East Thomaston, Sagurs filed papers at the law office for the arrest of Atticus as a runaway slave and had D.N. Piper search Mr."

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… moved to Hampden as a young man to practice law. A Jacksonian Democrat, he began his political career in the Maine legislature, serving three terms…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"About the year 1823, the Legislature made a law requiring the taxing of real estate for the building of school houses, and repairing the same in…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… Seabury and Dunham with his wife’s brother-in-law Albion Seabury. The partnership was dissolved around 1848, whereupon Dunham partnered with…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"There was a special law on the books of the State of Maine entitled “an Act of aid of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad”."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… apprentice in the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, travel through Europe, and open his own landscape architecture business."

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"When not practicing law he found time to make improvements upon Franklin’s stove and to produce Morgan’s Grammar of the English Language, a highly…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… services – including the bakery, hardware store, law offices and bank. On June 17 & 18, 1966 townspeople chose to celebrate! It was Guilford’s…"

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"#4 In 1947 the Maine State Legislature passed a law intending to create regional high schools. Superintendent Frank Kent placed the wheels in motion…"

Lincoln, Maine - Civil War

"He practiced law in Lincoln from 1858 until the Civil War began. He joined the 11th Maine Regiment on November 2, 1861."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… medical practice after becoming interested in the law and being appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"In the late 1800s game laws were put into place that regulated how many deer you could tag. Moose hunting and caribou hunting were outlawed."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… homestead passed to her three children under the laws of intestacy. Phebe in Her Old Age Phebe wears a black coat in the only photograph we…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… the Supreme Court of the State of Maine opened a law office before 1905. Henry W. Park came to Mexico from Dixfield."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"His son had attended Yale in the Arts and Harvard Law School and had been brought up in a pulp and paper family."

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"For example, the state soon passed a law requiring all public schools to offer instruction in personal hygiene and community sanitation."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… to the bar in 1811, he started practicing law in Fryeburg, Maine in 1812, moving his office to Paris in 1819."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"However, the schools found it difficult to enforce the laws, as much as they tried. Truancy, tardiness and absences persisted."

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"On July 1, 1966, the Medicare Act was signed into law. As a result, hospitals were required to pass stringent inspections in order to receive…"