Maine Memory Network

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"… anti-liquor cause, now led by both reformers and Republican and Democratic politicians, built a power base on temperance success."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"The G.A.R., Grand Army of the Republican, was a fraternal organization of union Civil War veterans. The youngest would have been 60 in 1911, assuming…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… but was never elected because the Democratic-Republicans were in the majority in the area and Crosby himself was a Federalist."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"She was a democrat and he was a republican. Did your mom like it when Roosevelt became president? She thought the world of Roosevelt cause things got…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"He was a popular Republican in Bath, serving three terms on Bath’s City Council, in 1887, ’88, and ’89."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"“Child Labor” was an issue among Republican and Democratic Progressives nationally at the time. However, the concept probably had little meaning in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"Senate as a Republican to fill the vacancy left when Bert M. Ferland passed away. He served in the U.S."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… had become a major issue for the newly formed Republican Party. Bangor's own Hannibal Hamlin was the vice presidential candidate along with the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… also educate his students in the benefits of republicanism, a school of thought that dominated the Northeast in the first half of the nineteenth…"