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Robert Dunning Chellis Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0097
Scope and Contents

The family papers of a civil engineer. Included are medical papers, personal records, household bills, and receipts. There are a few papers relating to Robert Dunning Chellis' son Robert Dana Chellis.

Dates: 1936-1968

Charles J. Dunn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0150
Scope and Contents

The collection covers his entire legal career, his term as Treasurer of the University of Maine, and his term as Maine Supreme Court Judge. Included are correspondence, letters, bills, and receipts. The legal papers include records of cases involving assaults, divorce, estates, collections, bankruptcies, and pensions. Also included are records of the University of Maine (1896-1936), the draft board (WWI), and the town of Orono (1833-1914).

Dates: 1833-1986

East Branch Dam Company and East Branch Improvement Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1015-sc
Abstract

Records of a company and its successor which owned a share of the power rights of the Penobscot River in Maine.

Dates: 1862-1966

Albert S. Eells Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0161
Abstract

The collection contains records from Albert Eells's grocery business in Camden, Maine and his shipyard in Rockport, Maine.

Dates: 1830-1911; Majority of material found within 1840-1880

Leonard G. Freeman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0188
Scope and Contents

The Freeman collection consists of personal papers mostly from the end of his life. Includes letters from his daughter, receipts and bills from his home, and papers dealing with his Civil War pension, and the reunions of the 14th Maine volunteers.

Dates: 1868-1930

Fred Alliston Gilbert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0202
Abstract

Papers relating to the logging industry in Maine and the Great Northern Paper Company.

Dates: 1900-1973

George W. Ingersoll Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0770-sc
Abstract

The papers of a lawyer, businessman, and Collector of the Port of Bangor, Maine. Included are letters, bills, receipts, and agreements, mostly pertaining to logging in Maine. Also included are typed transcripts of many of the bills and letters. Also included is a copy of the pamphlet A tribute to the dead: Robert Ingersoll's matchless eulogy of Roscoe Conkling. Also included is An Act to incorporate the Bangor Boom Company (approved March 22, 1843)

Dates: 1835-1888; Majority of material found within ( 1835-1856)

Charles Rogers Ireland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0260
Abstract

Collection contains personal papers and business records of Charles R. Ireland as well as a few papers of other members of the Ireland family. The majority of the collection contains business ledgers and invoices to Wm. B. Ireland and Son and C.R. Ireland for goods purchased for their dry goods and grocery business in Stetson. Records (1874-1887) of the Stetson Post Office are also found in the collection

Dates: 1835-1925

Kilby Family Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SpC MS 0276
Scope and Contents

Records of a Dennysville, Maine family and allied families. Includes letters, deeds, family histories, and town records of Dennysville.

Dates: 1800-1950

Edwin F. Littlefield Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0301
Abstract

Business and personal papers of Edwin F. Littlefield, a ship captain from Winterport, Maine. Very little biographical information is available about Littlefield, but it appears that he was a ship owner, captain and agent between 1854 and 1897, the year of his death.

Dates: 1814-1922; Majority of material found within 1859-1897

Maine Home Economics Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0317
Scope and Contents

The records of the Association include the Constitution and by-laws, membership materials and information about the activities of the organization from 1925 on, though most the materials date from 1949 on. Also information about the Association's affliation with the American Home Economics Association is included.

Dates: 1925-2022

Maine Times Newspaper Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0323
Scope and Contents

The records of the Maine Times include correspondence, corporate business documents, and other records of a Maine newspaper from its founding. The collection does not include manuscripts of articles or photos.

Dates: 1968-1987

Gideon Mayo Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0331
Abstract

Records from Mayo's involvement in various businesses in the Orono, Maine area and as an agent for several sawmills on the Stillwater River, including the Basin Mills, the Island Mills, and the Orono Manufacturing Company.

Dates: 1827-1920; Majority of material found within 1846-1876

Peirce Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0396
Abstract

Papers of several generations of the Peirce family of Bangor, Maine centered on materials of Waldo Treat Peirce and his son, Mellen Chamberlain Peirce. Also included are papers of Mellen Peirce's father-in-law, William B. Hayford.

Dates: 1812-1940; Majority of material found within 1850-1930

Allen B. Pierce Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0408
Abstract

The collection contains papers reflecting Allen Pierce's service as master on various vessels, 1850-1881. A small group of personal papers is also included.

Dates: 1848-1884

Prentiss and Carlisle Co., Inc. Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0423
Scope and Contents

The business records of the estate of Henry E. Prentiss, as administered by Henry M. Prentiss, concerning timberland holdings. Includes stumpage bills, records of checks received and sent, and correspondence. Also includes the Aroostook Land Company records.

Dates: 1874-1938

Daniel T. Richardson Business and Personal Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SpC MS 0435
Scope and Contents

The Daniel T. Richardson papers cover the period during and after the Civil War in East Baldwin, Maine. Included are records of Richardson's retail store, his town service, his political involvement, his postal service, and papers pertaining to his pension claims service.

Dates: 1841-1887

John Richardson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0932-sc
Abstract

The papers of a resident of Belgrade, Maine.

Dates: 1814-1945; Majority of material found within 1814-1878

Ruggles and Gould Legal and Business Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0442
Scope and Contents

The papers of the law partnership of Ruggles and Gould of Thomaston, Maine. Includes correspondence, depositions, briefs, and other legal documents that pertain to their practice and clients, mostly in the then Lincoln County, now Knox County, Maine during the 1830's-1860's predominently.

Dates: 1805-1864

Thomas W. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0469
Abstract

Records of Thomas W. Smith, principal partner in various firms selling dry-goods, groceries, and hardware between Augusta, Maine and Boston. Arranged in two series: Business Records and Augusta Bank Records.

Dates: 1809-1853; Majority of material found within 1811-1840

Telos Canal Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1064-sc
Abstract The records of a logging company in Maine. Included are copies of the incorporation papers of 1846, financial papers of the company from 1903 to 1919, statements of tolls, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and tax papers. Included also are two copies of a document Telos Lake, from Report of Land Agent of Maine of 1841, printed by order of Senate of January 14, 1840. Included also is a map of the Upper St. John River; two copies of a newspaper clipping from the Bangor Daily News (Aug. 22,...
Dates: 1846-1966; Majority of material found within 1846-1920

Thomas Laughlin Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0290
Scope and Contents

The records of a marine hardware firm. Included are catalogs, correspondence, employee records, bills, receipts, and medical records of employee accidents.

Dates: 1903-1978

Town of Detroit (Me.) Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0453
Scope and Contents

The financial records of the school districts and schools in the Detroit, Maine area including Pittsfield and Newport, Maine. Records also include some town records, and some overseer of the poor records.

Dates: 1834-1909

Clement P. Wight Socialist Party of Maine Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0627
Abstract

Papers and records of the Socialist Party of Maine connected with Clement P. Wight of Old Orchard Beach. Included are some personal papers and the labor organization called the Boston and Maine Railroad Towerman's Brotherhood.

Dates: 1896-1915