1817 | Birth date of Henry David Thoreau, who traveled to Maine, climbed Mount Katahdin, and wrote of his travels in the state |
1872 |
Birth date of John G. Utterback, councilman, alderman, and mayor of Bangor, then a member of Congress in the 1930’s |
1886 | Edwin Flye, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of James G. Blaine, dies |
1913 |
Incorporation of the Town of Connor, now a township in Aroostook County |
1915 | Alden J. Blethen, a media baron in the early years of the 20th century, dies |
1975 |
The Katahdin hauls 6,000 cords of pulpwood in the “Last Log Drive” on Moosehead Lake. |