Named Entity Browser, Norridgewock (Maine, United States)

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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier)	22	0	Browse	Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Lydia Maria Child. (search)

d, to send this precocious daughter to Maine, to be under the care of her judicious sister, whose husband, the Hon. Warren Preston, was a lawyer of standing in Norridgewock, the shire town of Somerset county. The Kennebec region, as it was called, was largely settled by members of cultivated Massachusetts families, graduates of Harvard and other universities, and professional men seeking new fields of occupation and interest. The court convened in Norridgewock. This brought judges and lawyers with their families to the town, from various parts of the State, and formed a centre of intelligence and refinement, in which Judge Preston's home was prominent. d rivers, far beyond anything the young girl had ever seen before, could not fail to stimulate a temperament of such enthusiasm as hers. Soon after going to Norridgewock, when she was fifteen years old, she wrote to her brother Converse: I have been busily engaged in reading Paradise lost. Homer hurried me along with rapid

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