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2nd Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children of Maine
Get PDFThe plea for the Home recently sent out by the Executive Committee has made it unnecessary to say anything of the general purpose of our work, which indeed is, by this time, becoming quite well-known, and has left us free to give a simple account of the year\u27s doings, and to furnish some details which perhaps may make still clearer the object of the institution we represent.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1020/thumbnail.jp
1st Annual Report of the Temporary Home for Women and Children
Get PDFIn reviewing the work done by us, in this, the first year of our organization, it seems desirable to give a brief sketch of the causes which led to the establishment of the Home. Early last spring a few ladies met to incorporate a new charitable society, having as its object, \u27\u27to provide shelter for the women and children of the State, who might be found in the streets, or in bad homes, in police stations, or in public institutions, or discharged from imprisonment, or who are reduced to dependence on public charity and who are not elsewhere provided with a beneficent home influence.
lt had been for years the aim of the station committee of the Women\u27s Christian Temperance Union, to provide for women discharged from imprisonment, homes in some neighborhood, where the surroundings should be such as to encourage them to make a fresh start in life. But places are not found without searching, where a woman of wrong tendencies and a dark record in the past will be received, and the need was deeply felt of a temporary place of shelter, where a good influence could be exerted and the first impulses given towards a better life, while efforts were making towards procuring a more permanent home.
There was a desire to help another class of women also, whose weak moral natures had led them to yield to temptation, and who had been made to feel in consequence that they were outside the reach of sympathy, and that any effort to lead a virtuous life was hopeless. Many of these were in homes where all the influences were bad, and the only hope lay in removing them entirely from their former associations. In addition to those of openly immoral lives, there were others who needed to be shielded from temptation, especially children, who from unfortunate surroundings were almost sure to grow up into vicious and dangerous members of the community, should they have no restraining and ennobling influences thrown around them.
A consideration of all these facts, led to the meeting which has been referred to, for the incorporation of this society. This was held on April 6th, 1882. Later, the number of ladies was increased and constituted a board of managers, an advisory board of gentlemen and an auxiliary state committee were chosen, and the organization completed.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1021/thumbnail.jp
A Sketch of Bangor
Get PDFJacob Buswell came to Bangor in 1769, and settled on the banks of the Penobscot River, near the foot of what is now Newbury Street. Others from Massachusetts and elsewhere soon followed him.
The settlement was originally called and written Condeskeag. Later, when it became large enough to be incorporated, its name was Sunbury; but in 1791 an act of incorporation was obtained, and the town was named Bangor, from an old psalm-tune popular at that time.
For thirty years succeeding the advent of the first pioneer, few people came to this locality, -- there being but 277 inhabitants in 1800; in 1830 there were but 2,868.
In 1834 Bangor was incorporated a city. At present (1882) its population is about 20,000; but being the shire-town of Penobscot County, centrally located at the head of navigation on the Penobscot River, and the headquarters of a large lumber business, it gives the impression of being much more populous. Surrounded as it is by numerous small towns and a large agricultural district, it is a trade-centre of no little importance.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1271/thumbnail.jp
1882 Bangor City Directory
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Old Town and Milford Water Power
Get PDFA brief pamphlet seeking investors to buy land in Milford and Old Town, Maine, so that an public/industrial water power supply system may be constructed for use of those and surrounding towns.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1286/thumbnail.jp
The City of Bangor in 1883: Published by the Bangor Board of Trade
Get PDFPamphlet describes itself as : A condensed historical and descriptive review, together with a brief statement of facts relating to her commercial and manufacturing advantages, industries, and resources. Also her heading manufactures and exports for the year 1882https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1358/thumbnail.jp
History of the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company [Formerly Known as Sanford\u27s Independent Line (1823-1882)]
Get PDFThe Sanford Steamship Company was incorporated in 1875; the wharf properties at several landings on the Penobscot River, and the steamer Cambridge and Katahdin having been owned previous to that time by a private association or firm, formed in pursuance of the laws of the State of New York, under the style of the Sanford Company, the line being generally known as Sanford\u27s Independent Line.
In 1875, these properties were all transferred to a new corporation, and the Sanford Steamship Company was incorporated and organized under the laws of Massachusetts. In January, 1882, by an enactment of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the corporate name of the Sanford Steamship Company was changed to the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1284/thumbnail.jp
A Circular to Sea Captains and Other Seafaring Men
Get PDFPamplet serves as a plea to the seafaring public by the Portland Society of Natural History to help in gathering objects from the ocean and about the ocean to add to its collectionshttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1131/thumbnail.jp
City of Bangor: City Councils and Mayors from the Incorporation of the City, in 1834, to 1881
Get PDFA listing of the members of the city councils and common councils of Bangor, Maine, from 1834 to 1882, as well as a directory of Bangor Mayors for the same time period.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1196/thumbnail.jp
Report of the Commissoner Appointed by the Governor and Council of Maine to Locate and Survey Bridges Across the St. John and St. Francis Rivers, Connecting the United States with the Dominion of Canada
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The undersigned, Commissioner appointed to confer with the authorities of the Dominion of Canada or their representatives, upon the subject of bridges across the St. John and St. Francis rivers, and to report upon the importance, number, location, estimated cost, and any other fact, asks leave to report: That I proceeded to the Barker House in Fredericton, N. B., and by arrangement by telegraph, I met the Hon. Charles F. Perley, Chief Engineer of the Dominion from Ottawa, and after a full and free conference and inter-exchange of views, be directed George E. McLaughsan and Francis Lawler, his assistant civil engineers, to accompany me and fix upon the location and make the survey, estimates of costs, and all necessary information connected with this great national enterprise.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1181/thumbnail.jp