Author: David Colby Young
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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This collection of abstracts, including birth, death and other miscellaneous news items, will be useful to both professional and amateur genealogists, not only for the information the abstracts contain, but also for the clues they give to finding further information. For ease of use, the abstracts are arranged alphabetically by surname. Y0599HB - $40.00
Author: David M. Gold
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739172735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Historians have paid surprisingly little attention to state-level political leaders and judges. Edward Kent (1802–77) was both. He served three terms as a state legislator, two as mayor of Bangor, two as governor, and two as a judge of the state supreme court. He represented Maine in the negotiations that resolved the long-running northeastern border dispute between the United States and Great Britain and served for four years as the American consul in Rio de Janeiro. The foremost Whig in Maine state politics and later a Republican judge, Kent articulated classic Whig political views and carried them forward into his Whig-Republican jurisprudence. In examining Kent's career as Maine's quintessential Whig, An Exemplary Whig reveals his characteristically conservative Whig outlook, including an aversion toward disorder and a deep respect for law, for existing institutions, and for the wisdom of experience. Kent brought his conservative disposition into the Republican Party. He had no use for radical abolitionism, preferring moderation and compromise to measures that endangered social order or the integrity of the Union. Kent saw the "slave power," not abolitionism, as the disrupter of the Union, and he urged the “fusion” of all antislavery elements into a new Republican party. In 1859, Maine's Republican governor appointed Kent to the state supreme court. During his fourteen-year tenure, Kent adopted a Whiggish jurisprudence, pragmatic and commonsensical, and displayed a reverence for the common law and a distrust of “theoretic speculation.” After his retirement, he chaired a constitutional revision commission, admonishing his fellow commissioners to bear in mind the “practical wisdom” that kept dangerous innovation in check. As a politician during the Jacksonian era, Kent exemplified Whig leadership at the local and state levels. In his jurisprudence, he carried the Whig persuasion into the Republican ascendancy and the beginnings of the Gilded Age.
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: Maureen Alice Taylor
Publisher: New England Historic Genealogical Society(NEHGS)
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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"This book is divided into eight sections: a general introduction to the library, articles on genealogies and manuscripts, regional studies--Ne England, beyond the Northeast, Canada, and the British Isles and Ireland--and methodological articles on diverse topics" -- Introduction, p. ix.
Author: Joan Parsons Wang
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Jotham Parsons was born 2 April 1783 in Westport, Massachusetts. His parents were Josiah Parsons and Sarah Sewall. He married Olive Greenleaf (1786-1876), daughter of Stephen Greenleaf and Mary Knight, 11 September 1808. They had eleven children. He died in 1860 in Wicasset, Massachusetts. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England and Massachusetts.
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
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Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3054
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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