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Schooner on Penobscot Bay (July 2007)

Schooner on Penobscot Bay (July 2007)

1837 Elijah P. Lovejoy, a Maine-born anti-slavery editor in Illinois, writes an editorial that inflames local citizens who destroy his press.
1853
Jeremiah Bailey, a Whig member of Congress from Wiscasset 1835-1837, dies in that town
1876
Birth date of Louis J. Brann, elected Maine’s first Democratic governor in two decades n 1932
1935
Concord surrenders its status as a town, unable to raise taxes necessary to function during the Great Depression




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