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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shepley, ether 1789- (search)
Shepley, ether 1789- Jurist; born in Groton, Mass., Nov. 2, 1789; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1811; practised law in Saco and Portland; was in the Massachusetts legislature in 1819; in the Maine constitutional convention in 1820; United States district attorney for Maine in 1821-23; United States Senator in 1833-36; became a justice of the Supreme Court of Maine in 1836; was chief-justice in 1848-55; and sole commissioner to prepare the Revised statutes of Maine. He died Jan. 15, 1877.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shepley, George Foster 1819- (search)
Shepley, George Foster 1819- Military officer; born in Saco, Me., Jan. 1, 1819; son of Chief-Justice Ether Shepley; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1837; studied at the Harvard Law School and at Portland; and began the practice of law at Bangor. President Polk appointed him United States district attorney, which post he held until 1861, when he became colonel of the 12th Maine Volunteers, and took part in General Butler's expedition against New Orleans. On the surrender of that city he was made its commandant. In July he became a brigadier-general, and was military governor of Louisiana from July 2, 1862, until 1864. On the surrender of Richmond (April, 1865), he was made military governor of that city. He resigned in July, and resumed the practice of law in Portland. In 1869 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the first circuit, and held the office till his death in Portland, Me., July 20, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thornton, John Wingate 1818-1878 (search)
Thornton, John Wingate 1818-1878 Historian; born in Saco, Me., Aug. 12, 1818; graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840; was admitted to the bar and practised in Boston; was one of the originators of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. His publications include Lives of Isaac Heath and John Bowles, and of Rev. John Eliot, Jr.; The Landing at Cape Anne, or the charter of the first permanent colony on the Territory of the Massachusetts Company, now discovered and first publishedrst permanent colony on the Territory of the Massachusetts Company, now discovered and first published from the original manuscript; Ancient Pemaquid and historic review; Peter Oliver's Puritan commonwealth reviewed; The pulpit of the American Revolution, or the political sermons of the period of 1776, with an introduction, notes, and illustrations; Colonial schemes of Popham and Gorges; The Historical relation of New England to the English commonwealth, etc. He died in Saco, Me., June 6, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
ement made at Monhegan......1622 Permanent settlement at Saco......1623 Gorges procures a patent from Plymouth council, 1640 First general court under the charter opened at Saco......June 25, 1640 Gorges founds in Agamenticus a city osions George Cleaves deputy president, who opens a court at Saco styled The General Assembly of the province of Lygonia, whiery, and Edward Rishworth, of York......May, 1653 Wells, Saco, and Cape Porpoise declared towns......1653 English, und and massacres in King Philip's War begin, Sept. 12; attack Saco, Sept. 18, and burn Scarborough......Sept. 20, 1675 King Indians under French leaders attack Wells, Cape Porpoise, Saco, Scarborough, Casco, Spurwink, and Purpooduck; the last twoion by the name of Georgetown......June 13, 1716 Name of Saco changed to Biddeford......Nov. 18, 1718 First violence oporated......April 26, 1771 Pepperellborough, afterwards Saco, incorporated......June 9, 1772 Belfast incorporated; fi
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 17: Florida, 1865-1869. (search)
ere with intense enthusiasm by the colored people, who, whenever they knew of her coming, thronged the railway stations in order to obtain a glimpse of her whom they venerated above all women. The return to her Mandarin home each succeeding winter was always a source of intense pleasure to this true lover of nature in its brightest and tenderest moods. Each recurring season was filled with new delights. In December, 1879, she writes to her son, now married and settled as a minister in Saco, Me.:-- Dear children,--Well, we have stepped from December to June, and this morning is sunny and dewy, with a fresh sea-breeze giving life to the air. I have just been out to cut a great bunch of roses and lilies, though the garden is grown into such a jungle that I could hardly get about in it. The cannas, and dwarf bananas, and roses are all tangled together, so that I can hardly thread my way among them. I never in my life saw anything range and run rampant over the ground as cannas
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 21: closing scenes, 1870-1889. (search)
and had one of the best frolics you could imagine. They had also for supper ice-cream, which they made themselves. That is the sort of thing I see going on around me. Let us never doubt. Everything that ought to happen is going to happen. Mrs. Stowe's public life ends with the garden party, and little more remains to be told. She had already, in 1880, begun the task of selection from the great accumulation of letters and papers relating to her life, and writes thus to her son in Saco, Maine, regarding the work:-- September 30, 1880. My dear Charley,--My mind has been with you a great deal lately. I have been looking over and arranging my papers with a view to sifting out those that are not worth keeping, and so filing and arranging those that are to be kept, that my heirs and assigns may with the less trouble know where and what they are. I cannot describe (to you) the peculiar feelings which this review occasions. Reading old letterswhen so many of the writers are gon
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Roster of Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
es H.,18Boston, Ma.Dec. 21, 1863Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Sanborn, Charles O.,24Medford, Ma.Feb. 1, 1862Jan. 31, 1865, expiration of service. Sanborn, Cutler D.,21Medford, Ma.July 31, 1861June 27, 1862, disability. Sargent, Russell B.,36Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of service. Schroder, Charles H.,18Boston, Ma.Dec. 31, 1863Jan. 4, 1864, rejected recruit. Scott, Rufus P.,24Hadley, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Seavy, Leonard C.,24Saco, Me.,July 31, 1861Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of service. Seaward, William,21Duxbury, Ma.Jan. 21, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Sebeane, Silas,32Hadley, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senter, Charles H.,28Lynn, Ma.July 31, 1861. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shaw, James,25Charlestown, Ma.Sept. 8, 1862. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Second Battery Light Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers—（three years.)—Continued. Name and Rank.Age.Residence orDa<
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
m Woburn in 1795, and purchased the estate long called the Farwell Store, corner of Brighton Street and Harvard Square. He prob. left about 1809, when his estate passed into the hands of A. Biglow, Esq. He afterwards resided in Portsmouth, N. H., Saco, and Boston, in which last place his sun went down in a cloud, 1827. He had no children. His taste was very singular. In Woburn he painted his house black, with white window-sashes and green doors. In Saco he built a house of round form, and pSaco he built a house of round form, and painted with fiery red. 4. Samuel, of Concord, a silversmith, was elected Register of Deeds in 1795, and soon removed here. He remained in office until his death, 29 Sept. 1821. The names of his children, recorded here, were Lydia, d. 25 Sept. 1796; Joanna, d. 21 Oct. 1837, a. 44; and Joseph, b. July 1799, and d. 2 Oct. 1799. Besides these, he had, Samuel; John, grad. H. C. 1805, minister at Marblehead, d. 3 Feb. 1849, a. 66; Benjamin Dixon, grad. H. C. 1810, a physician in Lowell, d. he
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, B. (search)
m Woburn in 1795, and purchased the estate long called the Farwell Store, corner of Brighton Street and Harvard Square. He prob. left about 1809, when his estate passed into the hands of A. Biglow, Esq. He afterwards resided in Portsmouth, N. H., Saco, and Boston, in which last place his sun went down in a cloud, 1827. He had no children. His taste was very singular. In Woburn he painted his house black, with white window-sashes and green doors. In Saco he built a house of round form, and pSaco he built a house of round form, and painted with fiery red. 4. Samuel, of Concord, a silversmith, was elected Register of Deeds in 1795, and soon removed here. He remained in office until his death, 29 Sept. 1821. The names of his children, recorded here, were Lydia, d. 25 Sept. 1796; Joanna, d. 21 Oct. 1837, a. 44; and Joseph, b. July 1799, and d. 2 Oct. 1799. Besides these, he had, Samuel; John, grad. H. C. 1805, minister at Marblehead, d. 3 Feb. 1849, a. 66; Benjamin Dixon, grad. H. C. 1810, a physician in Lowell, d. he
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1841. (search)
for a few months. Emerson says, Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp and luxury of emperors and kings ridiculous. For health, alas! I have not much to hope, and so trust it is not an indispensable ingredient. And I cling to the faith that I can enjoy a great many pleasant days yet, in rambling over the hills which look out on the blue Mediterranean, or walking the beaches by Nice, or Leghorn, or Genoa, and hearing the familiar murmur of the great waters so many leagues from Saco. He at last offered his resignation, which was accepted, to date from January 24, 1862. It was the heaviest disappointment he had ever met, and at first it seemed more than he could bear with equanimity; but when it became certain that he was fatally diseased, he grew more cheerful and more like himself, as if feeling that it would have been useless for him to remain in the service. He never had seemed more thoughtful for others, more patient himself, than during these last days. He
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