Keywords: General Court
Item 101444
Eastern lands broadside, ca. 1820
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: Ink on paper
Item 18742
Frederick Alton Powers, Houlton, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Oil painting
Item 116393
Emery house, Ellsworth, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Ellsworth; Hancock Client: L. A. Emery Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.
Exhibit
George Henry Preble of Portland, nephew of Edward Preble who was known as the father of the U.S. Navy, temporarily lost his command during the Civil War when he was charged with failing to stop a Confederate ship from getting through the Union blockade at Mobile.
Site Page
"But in 1808, the Massachusetts General Court passed the Betterment Act, finding that the speculators would have to compensate residents for the value…"
Site Page
"… a grant of Mount Desert Island from the General Court in 1762, was unable to get his grant confirmed until he had already been run out of the…"
Story
The Equal Freedom to Marry
by Mary L Bonauto
Marriage Equality, Maine, and the U.S. Supreme Court