John Andrew Peters Letters and Portrait
Scope and Contents
Two handwritten letters and a portrait of a Maine lawyer and Supreme Judicial Court judge. One letter has a letterhead of the House of Representatives, Washington and date 186-. It is addressed to Bro. Prentiss and asks him to inform Peters if he made any inaccuracies in a speech he sent him. The second letter is addressed to E. A. Dana, Jr. and dated Bangor 23 Nov. 1861. In it he discusses some court issues. The portrait is one that has been removed from a printed publication.
Dates
- Creation: 1861-1873
Creator
- Peters, John Andrew, 1822-1904 (Person)
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access.
Use Restrictions
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Biographical Note
John Andrew Peters was born in Ellsworth in 1822, son of Andrew and Sally (Jordan) Peters. He studied at Gorham Academy and graduated from Yale College, New Haven, in 1842. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Bar in Bangor, Maine in 1844. He became a member of the Senate of Maine in 1862. He became a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1864 and was Attorney-General during the years 1864, 1865, and 1866. He was elected to the U.S. Congress from 1867 to 1873. In 1873 he was appointed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and served 27 years. He retired in 1900 and died in 1904.
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Two handwritten letters and a portrait of a Maine lawyer and Supreme Judicial Court judge. One letter has a letterhead of the House of Representatives, Washington and date 186-. It is addressed to Bro. Prentiss and asks him to inform Peters if he made any inaccuracies in a speech he sent him. The second letter is addressed to E. A. Dana, Jr. and dated Bangor 23 Nov. 1861. In it he discusses some court issues. The portrait is one that has been removed from a printed publication.
General
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Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the John Andrew Peters Letters and Portrait
- Status
- No Additional Box Or Folder List For This Small Collection
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- 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
