Keywords: Republic party
Item 77452
Request for G.F. Shepley speech, Skowhegan, 1868
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1868 Location: Portland; Skowhegan Media: Ink on paper
Item 59552
G.A.R. picnic, Strong, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Strong Media: Cabinet photograph
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The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
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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.
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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma
"… and Northern Slavery Politics in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 33, no. 4 (Winter 2013), pp."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4
"… to everyone else's conversations on those early "party lines," but Ella was the first one to know about fires."
