The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-18
UNION COUNTY ooNvnNqroN.

| ~~~~e~sS~S NANSuSeA OO@AtS-
ton for Cumberland County, assembled in the
reception room in the City Building, Portland,
Thursday, August II, and were called to or
der by Lewis B. Smith, Esq, Chairman OF the
County Committee, who nominated 1onn
Webb, ESQ.,, of Windham as President and
VIM. Fl. Fessendep Esq. of Portland and'
BENJAMIN Kurdish, Esq, of Brunswick as oecre-
taries, for the temporary organlzatlon OF the
Convention.
The Convention ratified the nominations
and the gentlemen named for officers took
their seats.
| On motion it was voted that the County
Committee be the committee on credentials
of delegates.
On motion of Col. j. r. Thompson of Port
land committee ON permanent organization
was raised-consistmg of j. R. Thompson, of
Portland, Seward M. Baker Of Windham,
David Torrey of Westbrook, N. A. Foster of
Portland and Luke Brown of Bridgton. Sub
sequently the committee on permanent or
ganization reported that the temporary organ
ization be the permanent one, with the sddi-
ton of Hon. Samuel F. Perley of Naples and
Charles Hannaford, Esq. of Cape Elizabeth as
Vice Presidents.
The report was accepted
!. Mr.. Smith from the County Committee re-
ported that all the towns in the County were
represented by 1870 delegates. The report was
accepted, 4 II
The following is the list of the delegates:
RoIdsp:n-rhri Stonhar n SAWYER. SvIyesfar 8
| Strout, Alfred s. Cousins.
| Bridgtoa-l4uke Brown, Daniel Mayberry, C. E.
| Gibbs, Il. q. Nelson, E. B. Staples.
| Br71nscick-C. j. Gilman, A. F. Cox, John L.
| Swift, Daniel Elliot, DIR. Isaac Lincoln, Benjamin
furnish, n. d. Toothaker
gins, Henry $. Jackson W. c. Pickett, F. r. Jordan,
! James W. Harmon
Casco-,John b. Winslow, George Walker.
Can1beTland-J. O.'Pearson, Horace Greedy, Will
F1imoath-Jeremiah Hobbs Alvin Hall, Smith
| Freeport-Charles Waite, Edward Reed, II. b.
| Means, Samuel Bliss, Gushing Mitchell, George b.
| Mitchell.
Gorhd,a--W William H. Murch, Andrew H. Files
Samuel S.. Warehouse. John L. Curtis, Stephen
Hinkey, Jr., Daniel Fogg, Jr.
GTdy-R. A. Allen, John Mayall, Daniel Berry.
Hups.oets-Thomas Pennell, Stephen Purrington
Hayrison-samuel Themes, Jonathan Il. Hesley,
.Naptes-samuel F. Pc ley, G. G. Cole, Lyman
| Hall, ss,s.a
/ .
| VIM. L. Shurtleif, Mildmore Watts.
North YG1qn0uth-D G. Loring Samuel Sklllin,
Otisdeld-Moors Hancock, Daniel Holden, Jacob
| Coburn. H itH W
Portllnd-At large--Edward Fox, Edward P.
| Ward 1-Wilam A. Winship, William A. Quincy,
| Spencer Rogers, Daniel Brown, Henry H. Bur
Ward 2-charles H. osgood, Stephen Whittemore,
William G. soule, Henry P. White, George A. Thorn
1 n d
/ William Huse, Francis o. Themes, John NJ Stew
Ward 4--Joseph H. Perley, M. A. Blanchard
Andrew P. Morgan, Charles A. ellison, John R.
/ Corey.
Ward 5-Aug. E. Stevens, N. j. Miller, VIM. H.
/ Smith, N. A. Foster, VIM. ii. Ayers.
Ward s-Joseph Z. Noyes, Thomas E. Twitchell,
| N. o. Cram, William III. Fessenden, VIM. III. Ste
| phenson. q a
1 Foster, Ambrose Giddings, Granville M. Chase.
Poacnat-Samuel L. 1Tyon, Asa L. Haskell, John
Raymond-Charles Davis, John Witham.
Sebdgo-Peter q. Young, Luther Fitch.
| Stdadish-Elisha b. Mitchell. VIM. Paine. VIM. ID,
| Scar1oro stephen L. Waterhouse, John Larrabee.
| John d. Faybean.
| Westbrook-Jabez True, Joseph Moulton, Chas. E.
Body, Alvin B. Rand, Albion P. Ayers, Andrew
dawess Joseph Chenery, David Torrey.
Rogers, Charles Jones, S. M. Baker. VIM. Smith.
| Yarmouth Giles Loring, Joel Brooks, Charles d.
| Brown, Jeremiah Buxton.
On motion of DIR. Osgood of Portland, a
committee consisting of Messrs. Osgood of
Portland, Torrey of Westbrook and Jackson
of Brunswick were appointed to receive, sort
and declare the vote for candidate for Coun-
ty Attorney.
| rs COUNTY ATTORNEY.
The several towns in the County were called,
and the delegates deposited their ballots for a
candidate as the towns were called. The
committee reported the following as the result
| of the ballot:
| Whole number of ballots 121
| Necessary to a choice 81
Nathan Webb of Portland had So
Warren II. Vinton of Portland, 81
NJ. M. Butler of Portland, 2.
The report was accepted, and Nathan Webb,
ESQ.,, of Portland was declared the nominee Of
che Convention for the Office of County At
torney.
| SENATORS. Sac
The old list of Senators, viz:
GEORGE w. WooDMAN of Portland
SAMUEL A. HoLBRooK, Freeport,
GEORGE PIERCE, Harrison,
| DANIEL L. RICHARDSON, Baldwin.
was nominated by reclamation, ON motion of
Mr. Garland of Windham.
COUNTY TREASURER.
Peter R. Hall, ESQ.,, of Windham was nomi-
mated by reclamation as the candidate for
| County Treasurer.
-. COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
The committee that collected the ballots for
County Attorney were appointed to receive,
| sort and declare the ballots for candidate for
County Commissioner.
Having attended to that duty, (the votes
being received in the same manner as those
for County Attorney the committee reported
as follows:
Whole number of ballots, 1874
Necessary to a choice, 60
| l James Pennell of Westbrook had 90
Oliver ID. Dyke of Sebago had 81.
| The report was accepted and James Pennell
was declared the candidate for County Com
missioner.
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
| Messrs. George F. Foster of Portland, Per-
| ley Of Naples, Paine of Standish, Gilman of
Brunswick and Hinkley of Gorham were APP
pointed committee to nominate and re-
port County committee for the ensuing year.
The committee subsequently reported the
following gentlemen to constitute the County
committee for the year 1866, viz:
Lewis B. Smith, Portland, Chairman,) Sam
uel R. Jackson, Brunswick, Charles Hum
pnrey, Yarmouth, Samuel Garland, Wind
ham, E. r. Staples, Dridgton, William Small,
Raymond, Horatio Hight, Scarboro.
The report was accepted, and the above
| gentlemen were declared the County commit
the for the ensuing year.
Mr.. Webb, the candidate for County Attor-
ney being present, was loudly called for. He