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Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907 3 1 Browse Search
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies. 2 0 Browse Search
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: headquarters Commandery of the State of Maine. (search)
e Chamberlain, late Major-General U. S. V. was adopted at A stated meeting of this Commandery, May 6, 1914. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a charter Companion of this Commandery, died at Portland, Maine, Tuesday, February 24, 1914. He was born in Brewer, September 8, 1828, the son of Joshua and Sarah Dupee (Brastow) Chamberlain. After a course in the public schools of Brewer he attended a military school in Ellsworth where he fitted for West Point. He entered Bowdoin in 1848 and graduated in 1852 with the highest honors. At his mother's instance he then took a three years course at the Bangor Theological Seminary, fitting himself for the ministry. The master's oration delivered by him at Bowdoin in 1855 on Law and liberty so impressed the officers of the college that they invited him to become an
treet, long before the land was made into a park. The present trees date front 1876, when, on the seventeenth of June, the park was dedicated and formally opened to the public. Many citizens, at the invitation of the city government, presented trees, which were set out and marked with the names of the donors. Only a very few of the names can be ascertained, as there was no official record kept, or if it was kept, it has been lost. Ex-Mayor Furber set out four for himself and family; ex-Mayor Brastow, Zadoc Bowman, N. E. Fitz, Aaron Sargent, and John C. Magoun each set out one. Jacob Glines set out a sycamore tree very near the flagstaff. Clark Bennett and Quincy A. Vinal, who was chairman of the committee for laying out the park, both furnished trees. Mather E. Hawes set out an English elm. Credit should be given to him as the originator of the scheme for celebrating the centennial year by setting out trees on Broadway Park. When the grounds in front of the Latin School were
Boston, 2. Boston Common, 2, 3. Boston Public Library, 2. Boston School Atlas, 98. Boston Slips, 52. Bowman, Francis, 49, 99. Bowman, Martha E., 53. Bowman, Selwyn Z., 89. Bowman, Zadoc, 90. Bow Street, 55. Boylston Chapel, 81. Bracket, Charlotte, 99. Brackett, George C., 53. Brackett, Samuel, 59. Brackett, Thomas, 59. Bradbury, Charles, 14. Bradbury, C., Jr., 14. Bradford, Alice I., 53. Bradley, Abigail, 49. Bradley, Wymond, 76. Bradshaw, Charles A., 91. Brastow, Ex-Mayor, 90. Brattle Street, Cambridge, 6. Bridgewater, Mass., 48. Broadway, 63, 85, 88, 89, 90. Broadway Park, 91. Bromfield Street, Boston, 4. Brooks, Peter C., 9. Brown, Ann, 21, 72. Brown, George W., 50. Brown, Hannah C., 53. Brown, Mary E., 92, 96, 99. Brown, Thomas, Jr., 49, 75, 92. Buckley, William, 12. Bulfinch, Henry, 71. Bunker Hill Aurora, 22. Bunker Hill District, 78, 83, 93. Bunker Hill School, 22, 78, 82. 94. Burckes, Jane M., 99. Burnham, Sarah