Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-12-25

| umes, printed AT fhliadelphla and bound IN
boards. In 1910, the library Of Bowdoin
college hardly numbered thousand vol
umes, While the only private collections Of
books Of any magnitude in the district we're
those made By Dr. Benjamin Vaughan and
General Knox.
Between 1910 and lS20. he most import
ant books originated or published IN Maine
were Professor Cleyeland's Treatise on
| Mineralogy. Moses Greenleafs Statistical
view cf Maine A History Of Acadia, by
Joseph Whipple, portions Of which first ap-
peared in the Bangor Register, and the Rev
Daniel Mprrill's Letters 10 Baptist> In
1916, was published ne first regular work
in verse. 1t was poem Of more than two
thousand lines in heroic measure, by Enoch
/ Lincoln, afterwards Governor of the State
The title is 1.-The Village" being descrip-
tive Of Fryebury. the village where he re-
sided.
When the separation from Massachusetts,
took place il was founi that we numbered
nearly 300 900 inhabitants, two thirds of
I whom had been acquired since 1890. With
I this unprecedented increase of population,
/ came also an increase of agricultural, manu-
| featuring and CONNER, al wealth. All the
I institutions os education, religion, phian-
| thropy and general culture rapidly multiplied.
I ~" Ni,a'hN VI ihiaou ih'o itetafl PIT
/ su"s i"e "uiioei \, s,uurh'' II uur Sy'h
iiaies "l ieafl'hS U lN-', NJ upuoie WA
\ vas zen Years oe'oF+. ihefe was dt-
| mand for Libraries, foI teachers. FIR schools
/ ,ohParau'e.N ie" nlos' we're pun'lshfH
! oe'"eeh 10 anu le'o' 'of as mas oteh
! sa'u' our I'etd'u'e WIS JUST peg'hhIhs l"
/ er!''a'1e-
The appearance Of our first volume Of
/ Collections q 1881, lsetaced y, an es,ay
I from the classic ptE 4 Judge Ware. gave
[ an increased interest % historical intertst,
| already aroused by tha accurate and learned
( work, Of Willis AMI Of Folsom. What al
taInn'en's have been nee made IN tins DE-
T plrtment oi literature are a't.'ted by the
subsequent volume" OF boz series b. thr-
/ t! town histories man OF which are elah-
orate and exhaustive; hN biographies AMI
genealo-ie-, ahd ~ anniversary address
memoril d'nconr'eN lhl pr'aeea'n7s ai
without numhcr- !" lnnI aN We taAe pleas
ufe ~ ealing " Efhtef9. recollection the a.
hnr' ami characters Of our ancestors. so
long vii tie con'r buttons Of EIwarl
Ballard, E!"ard T.. Browne. Nehemiah
Cleveland, Charies 'lea"e, John War;
Dean. Cyrus Eaton. George Fol~'rl. Robert
i. Gardiner, Joan r. G'ifrrr. William /.
Goodwin. William LpN.!. Jonathan ani
Moses Grcenicli. Iohn Johnston. Nt.iam
X Iapuam. AphenS :. IA kard, | ,hrr
Parsons. John \. Poor, Joseph W. Porter.
George H. Preble. Johu IL. Sheppard. John
J.. Sih.ey, Jame> sullivan, ltI;ls h. Seward,
). Nngite thornton, Charles ". Futile,
Israel NasGburn, Jr. William y. William
,nm, William Wills. Cyrl> WnodmAn auI
Leonard Woods M reu, nherei anil ap-
nrcciated.
In other branches. y'-i, during the IAN
,tNty Wears, Mime ha> betn equl.lv for
tuuiic. not only By the productions of our
citizens. bat II those whom We proudly clam
- natives.
DARN, th.. las, c.ur,y. Mann. ,rag.r.I
an honorable. renl.ation In rb-.l,,y fot
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