The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-10-10
VOL. II OF wILLIAMsoN's HISTORY.

Mr.. r.Alfred johnson left for his home in Bos.
ton on Wednesdays boat after spending /,
week in town looking up matters for the sec.
ond volume of Williamson's History of Belfast
The committee in charge of the publication
hope to have the book ready for the printe,
very soon. Miss Caroline w. Field, Mrs. James
G. Durham and Miss Margaret Hazeltine ali
former Wellesley college students, have kind.
ly consented to aid in collecting certain miss.
ing data relative to the vital records of the
city and schools and the college graduates and
students, and any help that can be given them
will be greatly appreciated by those having the
publication in hand, as well as by all the SUBJ
scribers to the History.
This is matter of public interest, and eyerv
one who has the welfare of Belfast at heart,
whether as present or former resident, should
be willing to lend hand in putting her record
in permanent FORM
on the shelves of the large library at
the New England Historic Genealopical
Society of Boston, the headquarters and
principal depository for such literature in
this country, the first volume of Williamson's q
History has held for third of century an
honored place and the officers of the society
consider it one of the very best books of its
kind in existence. 1t is hoped that the second
volume may soon take its place besides the
hrst in worthy form. The speedy accomplish
ment of this should be matter of civic
pride.
Mr.. Alfred johnson, in whose hands the
manuscript has been for the past two months,
and who will see it through the press and in
dex it, has worked in the archives of the New
England Historic Genealogical Society, from
time to time, looking up and arranging his
toric and genealogical data for years, and has
recently been elected life member of the
Society.
We repeat here the call for college graduates.
and would urge all those who can to send in
any information they have on the subject. The
greater part of the replies received have
come from distance, and few of those at
home have sent in their names. The exact
facts required are difficult to obtain from anv
but the persons the emselves, or their families.
So far as we know there is no printed list of
them anywhere, and it is easy to understand
from Williamson's precise habits, and his ac-
curate scholarship, that he should have put off
writing this chapter until he had collected all
the data; which he did not live to do.
Belfast has sent some bright students to our
nigh institutions of learning, and it would be
great pity to find after the book had been
printed that any name which ought to be on
the list had been left out simply because it
had not been brought to the attention of the
committee.
So we would again urge every person who
studied at any college or professional or tech
nical school to send his or her name to The
Journal office at once. Single names or lists of
college students sent in by relatives or friends
would be greatly appreciated, as then the ex-
act dates could be found by writing to the
persons themselves
What is wanted is the full name of the COL
lege graduate. year of graduation, full name
OF the institution and the nature of the de-
gree received.