Allen Goodwin Papers
Scope and Contents
Collection contains papers collected by Allen Goodwin including historical and genealogical information about his home town of Palermo, Maine, as well as surrounding towns such as Montville and Liberty. Information on Hibbert's Gore and the towns of Montville, Hope, Palermo, Freedom, and China, as well Waldo County, Maine is included. Also includes data on the families Pearson, Cushman, Carr, Rowe, Soule, Nelson, Foster, Bradstreet, Bryant, Marden, Black, Webster, and Worthing. Also contains a history of the Palermo Baptist Church and the Coolidge murder case at Waterville, September 1847.
Dates
- Creation: 1768-1915
Creator
- Goodwin, Allen, 1851-1917 (Person)
Restrictions on Access
This collection is kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice is required for retrieval.
Use Restrictions
Information on literary rights available in the Library.
Biographical Note
The Goodwin and allied families were from Waldo, Lincoln, and Kennebec Counties
Extent
1 linear foot (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection contains papers collected by Allen Goodwin including historical and genealogical information about his home town of Palermo, Maine, as well as surrounding towns such as Montville and Liberty.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Goodwin Family, December 1970.
Subject
- Goodwin family (Family)
- Batchelor family (Family)
- Black family (Family)
- Bradstreet family (Family)
- Bryant family (Family)
- Carr family (Family)
- Cushman family (Family)
- Foster family (Family)
- Harding family (Family)
- Nelson family (Family)
- Pearson family (Family)
- Robinson family (Family)
- Rowe family (Family)
- Soule family (Family)
- Webster family (Family)
- Worthing family (Family)
- Baptist Church (Palermo, Me.) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Allen Goodwin Papers
- Status
- Box And Folder List Available
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for uncoded script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207-581-1686
