May 30
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1850 Jeremiah O’Brien, member of the Maine House of Representatives, the Maine Senate, and the U.S. Congress, dies 1900 The Eden (Bar Harbor)…
May 29
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1775 Nathan Cutler was born in Lexington, Massachusetts at the outbreak of the Revolution. He served as Governor in 1830 upon the death…
May 28
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1913 Forrest Goodwin, clerk (1889-1891) to U.S. Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed, and U. S. Congress member in 1913, dies in…
May 27
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1797 Birth date of Gorham Parks, Jacksonian member of Congress and later United States marshal for the district of Maine 1846 William D.…
May 26
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1818 Birth date of Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, a member of the Maine State Senate and the U.S. Congress 1861 Bath-built vessel American…
May 25
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1832 First publication of the newspaper the Eastern Democrat by John Bent. 1965 In a World Heavyweight boxing rematch staged in Lewiston, Cassius…
May 24
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1607 Jamestown colony in Virginia founded as first permanent English settlement in North America. 1897 First lighting of Spring Point Ledge Light in…
May 23
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1759 Samuel Waldo, landowner and proprietor of the Waldo Patent, or Muscongus Grant, which covered much of midcoast Maine, dies.
May 22
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Maine Merchant Marine Day. The annual Governor’s “proclamation shall invite and urge the people of the State to observe the day in schools…
May 21
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1847 First publication date of the Lewiston Falls Journal newspaper, published by Wm. H. Waldron & Company. 1853 First issues of the Brunswick…
May 20
May 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1816 Voters support statehood for Maine 10,391 to 6,501, but the low turnout mutes the impact on Massachusetts. 1848 Meteorite falls near…
May 19
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1834 Catherine “Kate” Furbish was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, first botanic artist in the “Garden of Maine” 1861 Maine vessel A. B.…