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oai:mainememory.net:101432
2017-07-05T18:11:17Z
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F. Shaw & Bros. tannery in Grand Lake Stream advertised in 1879 for hemlock bark, which it used in the tanning process.
Shaw & Bros. operated the world's largest tannery beginning in 1870. In 1883, the tannery failed when a boot maker in Boston, to whom the company sold its leather, failed. Shaw & Bros. kept operating until 1898, however, when it declared bankruptcy.
John Martin of Bangor (1823-1904), an accountant, worked at Shaw Tannery from about 1880 to at least 1882. This "Notice" was among his effects. He painted and annotated in great detail a large watercolor of the tannery. It is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Ink on paper
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Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
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Advertisements
Leather industry--Maine--Houlton
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Shaw & Bros. ad for bark, Houlton, 1879
Text
1879-05-16
22.5 cm x 30.7 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Houlton, Aroostook County, ME, USA
1879-05-16
oai:mainememory.net:101436
2017-07-05T18:11:17Z
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The unaddressed invitation if for a "Sheet and Pillow Case" masquerade ball at Wasgatt & Peakes' Hall in Bangor on March 22, 1970.
The invitation was loose inside John Martin's Scrapbook no. 3, which he began writing and compiling in 1867. Martin (1823-1904) was an accountant and shopkeeper. He was passionate about dancing and was part of a group called the Dancing Fraternity or Model Assembly.
Martin led and managed many dances.
Ink on paper
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Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Dance parties--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Invitations--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Masquerades--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Invitation to masquerade dance, Bangor, 1870
Text
1870-03-22
20 cm x 13 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1870-03-22
oai:mainememory.net:101441
2017-07-05T18:11:17Z
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National Insurance Co.
An order signed by Hiram Ruggles, president of the National Insurance Co. in Bangor, directs agents to stop selling policies due to losses caused by the "Great Fire" in Boston.
The fire, November 9 and 10, 1872, destroyed 776 buildings, 65 acres, and caused property losses of $13.5 million dollars. Personal property losses totaled $60 million.
National Insurance was incorporated in 1869.
The order was among the papers of John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper who worked for the National Insurance Co. for a time, possibly in the 1870s.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101441
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Disasters--Massachusetts--Boston
Fires--Massachusetts--Boston
Insurance companies--Maine--Bangor
Insurance companies--Massachusetts--Boston
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Ruggles, Hiram
Order to stop selling insurance, Bangor, 1872
Text
1872-11-12
21.5 cm x 14 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Boston, MA, USA
1872-11-12
oai:mainememory.net:101443
2017-07-05T18:11:17Z
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Dancing Fraternity
An "Honorary and Diploma Member" card for the Bangor Dancing Fraternity is printed with the statement, "For 30 years' services as a Benefactor, please Admit John Martin and Lady." It is dated April 1868.
John Martin (1823-1904) was an avid dancer and one of the founders of the Dancing Fraternity, also known as the Model Assembly.
He participated in and led dances such as waltzes, polkas, schottisches, and other new forms of dance in the 19th century. Martin was introduced to dancing when he was about 12 and serving as an apprentice to an apothecary who also ran the Hampden House.
Lithograph
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101443
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Dance parties--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
John Martin Dancing Fraternity card, Bangor 1868
Text
1868
7.5 cm x 12.6 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1868
oai:mainememory.net:101437
2017-07-05T18:11:19Z
contributor:mhs-msm
The advertising blotter for the Bangor Insurance Co. was among the written and illustrated volumes belonging to John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper.
The card contains an illustration os a woman and a locked cabinet. The text reads "Bangor Insurance Co. of Bangor, Maine. M. Lincoln, Prest. J.S. Chadwick, Secy. W. A. Dolliver, Asst.Secy." Under the illustration is "The Kellog & Bulkeley Co., Hartford. Conn."
Lithograph
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101437
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Accounting--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Insurance--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Bangor Insurance Co. advertising blotter, ca. 1870
Text and Image
circa 1870
10 cm x 23.5 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1870
oai:mainememory.net:100769
2022-06-29T05:49:12Z
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) and his family moved into this house at 130 Center St. in Bangor in about 1852. Martin, an accountant, shopkeeper, dance enthusiast, and gardener, drew this detailed illustration of the house and grounds -- showing the improvements he made.
A commentary that accompanies the drawing in "John Martin's Journal," which he began writing in 1864, provides details of each planting and other elements, all numbered on the drawing.
It appears on page 477 of the journal.
Watercolor and ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100769
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
John Martin homestead, Bangor, ca. 1864
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100769.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
oai:mainememory.net:100771
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin of Bangor, who lived in Hampden as a child, drew this illustration -- and provided explanations -- of the neighborhood in Hampden where he lived with his mother and stepfather, Anna and Solomon Raynes.
Martin (1823-1904) drew the neighborhood, detailing inhabitants of all the properties, as it was between 1833 and 1835 and included it as page 63 of his journal. He began writing the journal about his life in 1864.
Martin worked as an accountant and shopkeeper. His journal details his interests in nearly everything around him: architecture, gardening, business, transportation, fashion, and dance, among other topics.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100771
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine--Bangor
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Neighborhoods--Maine--Hampden
Martin, John
Raynes, Anna
Raynes, Solomon
Reed Hardings neighborhood, Hampden, ca. 1833
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100771.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1833
oai:mainememory.net:100772
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor began writing a journal to record his life experiences in 1864. He included a number of detailed illustrations, including this one of the Upper and Lower corners of Hampden, where he lived while he was a child.
The illustration appears on page 94 of his journal. On the following two pages, he detailed the shop, church, or other business, or resident of each building on his map. The area is as it existed in the 1830s.
Martin described himself as an "expert accountant." He wrote the journal, three scrapbooks, and an account of his activities as a dance student and dance master for his wife and children, so they would know more about his life and activities.
Ink and watercolor on paper
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Neighborhoods--Maine--Hampden
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Hampden, Upper and Lower corners, 1835
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100772.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1835
oai:mainememory.net:100773
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
The illustration, which John Martin (1823-1904) created in 1864, shows the bar at the Hampden House as it appeared in 1837.
Martin was apprenticed to Dr. Increase S. Sanger to learn the apothecary business. Sanger bought the Hampden House and young Martin worked there until Sanger sold the business. It was at the Hampden House that Martin, who lived most of his adult life in Bangor, learned to dance, which became one of his passions.
The illustration is on page 105 of "John Martin's Journal," in which he described his life and his observations of the world around him. He wrote that he had not intended to illustrate the journal, but did so because it was important to representing the past.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100773
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bars--Maine--Hampden
Hampden (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Sanger, I. S.
Hampden House Bar, 1837
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100773.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1837
oai:mainememory.net:100776
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew an illustration of Elizabeth Blowers as she appeared in 1844. Blowers, also known as Elizabeth Sayward, was a friend of Clara Cary, the woman Martin married in 1850.
The illustration appears on page 187 of John Martin's "Journal" that he wrote beginning in 1864 about his life and experiences. He frequently included illustrations.
He wrote that Blowers is shown "In a Habit with no Bonnet & with high comb." Fashion -- for both men and women -- was one of Martin's interests.
Blowers may have been known as "Elizabeth Sayers" because she lived with John and Elizabeth Sayers, although their relationship is unclear.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100776
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Blowers, Elizabeth
Cary, Clara
Martin, John
Elizabeth Blowers, Bangor, ca. 1864
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100776.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1844
oai:mainememory.net:100777
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
In 1864, John Martin drew this "Plan of the North End as it was from the Rail Road Bridge to Nath Harlows March 11th 1844."
Martin (1823-1904), an accountant, shopkeeper, and keen observer of all around him, began in 1864 writing a journal about his life and activities and the communities in which he lived. He included hand-drawn illustrations.
Since this map has a specific date, he may have recopied into the journal from earlier notes. He provided details about each building and feature included on the plan. It appears on page 190 of the journal.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100777
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Neighborhoods--Maine--Bangor
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Plan of North End of Bangor, 1844
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100777.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1844-03-11
oai:mainememory.net:100792
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) drew an illustration of himself doing a backbend against a wall. In a journal he wrote in 1864, he reminisced about his life and experiences.
Martin, who was born in Ellsworth, but grew up in Hampden and Bangor, wrote that because he was lame, he could not carry out some of the feats other boys could -- and others sometimes took advantage of his lameness.
He therefore came up with the feat -- shown in the illustration, taken from page 194 of his journal. He wrote: "I then took a corn Broom and put one hand snug to the floor the right hand at the blade then put my head under the left hand & come up. see outline.
"Keep your left hand snug down to the floor and lets see you do it. Put your head under the left arm and not between them because you can’t come up at all if you do."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100792
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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People with disabilities--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
John Martin backbend, Bangor, 1844
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100792.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1844
oai:mainememory.net:100793
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
The Millerites, a religious group who believed that Jesus would reappear on earth between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, held a camp meeting at Mill Creek in Orrington in 1844.
John Martin (1823-1904) learned about the meeting and went to the campground to observe. He drew the picture in 1864 and included it on page 199 of the Journal he wrote about his life and experiences. He returned to the site in 1864 before making his sketch.
He wrote that the pulpit was on the western slope of a hill and that there was space to seat "ten thousand" people. He later said there were "ten hundred" people singing hymns. In his journal, Martin describes the tents, lights, pulpit, and other activities in great detail.
He wrote, "This ever remembered occasion was about the last days of Miller doctrine in this part of the county."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100793
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Millerite movement
Orrington (Me.)
Martin, John
Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100793.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Orrington, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1844
oai:mainememory.net:100814
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
In a journal he wrote in 1864, John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor reminisced about his life and experiences. To accompany his written descriptions, Martin illustrated portions of the text.
One of his interests was fashion. This illustration, from page 212 in the journal, shows Martin in a new outfit he bought in 1845-1846. He wrote of the Spanish cloak, "These cloaks were cut full circle and I bought a nice German blueblack broad cloth one of Davis & Gilligin in the circular block for 15$ which was as nice a one as I could see and it came to my boot tops perhaps below & as I was some deformed it was a very appropriate garment for me."
In the spring of 1846, he bought the stove pipe hat, which had just come into fashion. He called it a silk, round topped fur hat. He also described the rest of his outfit, including where he purchased the items.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100814
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Capes (Clothing)
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Martin, John
John Martin in Spanish cloak, Bangor, 1846
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100814.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1846
oai:mainememory.net:100820
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) wrote a journal beginning in 1864 recounting his life and experiences in the Bangor area. Martin recalled that he and his mother and sister were returning in June 1846 from a visit to Ellsworth where his mother had grown up and where Martin was born, when they ran into bad weather.
They borrowed Rufus Prince's horse, Old Bill, and chaise for the trip. When they got to Brewer, they realized the ferry crossing to Bangor would be difficult due to the storm. Martin devised a way to get Old Bill on a ferry gundalow by "making the horses head fast and shocking the wheels." The illustration is on page 234 of the journal.
He described the challenging trip across the river.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100820
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Boats--Maine--Brewer
Diaries
Hose carriages--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Penobscot River (Me.)
Martin, John
Prince, Rufus
Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100820.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Brewer, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Ellsworth, Hancock County, ME, USA
1846
oai:mainememory.net:100822
2022-06-29T05:49:13Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin of Bangor drew and described the Hampden Town House as it appeared in 1849.
Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and dance enthusiast, conducted a dancing school in the building in 1849 and drew the illustration in a journal about his life and activities that he began in 1864.
He wrote, "The Old Town House in Hampden has to this day a quantity of powder & balls which were deposited there by the fathers of this section which were on the ground in rear of the academy at the time the british soldiers were on the banks of the River ready for action when our Soldiers receivd orders that the first Man that fired a round should have his head cut off."
He added later that the building was torn down in 1872.
The illustration is on page 275 of his journal.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100822
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Hampden (Me. : Town)
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Dance parties--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Martin, John
Hampden Town House, 1849
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100822.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1849
oai:mainememory.net:100910
2022-06-29T05:49:15Z
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John Martin
When John Martin (1823-1904) was a child, his stepfather, Solomon Raynes, moved the family to a farm on Ball Hill Cove in Hampden.
Martin, in a journal he wrote beginning in 1864 about his life and experiences, recalled the spring the year of 1832 or 1833 being early and described and drew this illustration of the fish weir that residents constructed on the Penobscot River.
The illustration appears on page 47 of the journal and Martin describes the process of installing it and of fishing. He wrote that alewives ran first and as the weather warmed enough for pear trees to bloom, shad began running in the river.
Martin, who worked as an accountant and store keeper, wrote the journal and three scrapbooks so his wife and children would know more about his life and the times in which he lived.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100910
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Fishing weirs--Maine--Hampden
Hampden (Me.)--History
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Fishing--Maine
Penobscot River (Me.)
Martin, John
Raynes, Solomon
Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100910.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1832
oai:mainememory.net:100912
2022-06-29T05:49:15Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) was about 10 years old when he built his own plow and had his own garden on the land his family rented in Hampden.
Martin, who became an accountant, shopkeeper, and dance enthusiast, illustrated and explained the plow on page 66 of a journal he began writing in 1864 as he reflected on and documented his life and experiences.
He wrote of the plow that he "went into the woods and found a pine tree with a root running out like a plough shear and I made a plough and covered the moulboard with hoop iron taken from iron hooped barrels the two prongs which I made the handles of started from the maine stump about a foot from the bottom of the root."
From the time he was 10, he was proud of his gardening and farming prowess and often wrote in his journal and other accounts about his gardens and plantings.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100912
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Diaries
Farming--Maine--Hampden
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Hampden (Me.)--History
Martin, John
John Martin's plow, Hampden, ca. 1833
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100912.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1833
oai:mainememory.net:100913
2022-06-29T05:49:15Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
At a young age, John Martin (1823-1904) prided himself on his accomplishments as an inventor, a gardener/farmer, and a worker.
In a journal he began writing in 1864, Martin described a cart he invented in about 1833 -- and provided a detailed illustration.
On page 73 of the journal, he wrote, "During this summer I became a quite a mechanic I made me a cart with hub and spoke wheels and the idea started from an instance of a crooked limb which I found while gunning in the woods that I invented a cart tongue such as are in general use for boy and baby carriages now I made a perfect cart with stake rings side boards Snibells to lip up and all the acoutrements for both a tight body and a sloven hay racks were knot known then but came in use soon after."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100913
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Hampden (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Farming--Maine--Hampden
Inventors
Diaries
Martin, John
John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100913.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1833
oai:mainememory.net:100925
2022-06-29T05:49:15Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
The plans for this store were drawn in about 1835, but Rufus Prince's financial problems in 1836 delayed construction of it for 17 years. Prince was a soap and tallow chandler in Bangor. The store also included dry goods.
When he was about 21, John Martin (1823-1904) began working for Prince as a bookkeeper and store tender. Martin, who began writing and illustrating a journal reflecting on his life and activities, drew this illustration of the south and eastern end Prince's brick store and factory.
He made the drawing, which appears on page 379 of the journal, on July 21, 1864 and wrote that the illustration shows the wooden store as it was in 1850 and the old factory before it was rebuilt and the brick store as it was rebuilt and as it appeared in 1864.
The journal provides detailed descriptions of the buildings and business.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100925
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Dry goods stores--Maine--Bangor
Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Factories--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Prince, Rufus
Rufus Prince's factory and store, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864-07-21
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100925.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-07-21
oai:mainememory.net:100926
2022-06-29T05:49:15Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
The Atkins house was on the south side of Jefferson Street in Bangor. John Martin (1823-1907) purchased the house sometime in the 1840s from merchant Rufus Prince, for whom Martin worked as an accountant.
Martin drew the illustration of the west side and north end of the house as it appeared on September 25, 1851.
The drawing appears on page 387 of Martin's journal, which he wrote and illustrated in 1864 to recount his life and activities for his children. The journal describes what Martin did to improve the property after someone built on the next lot, right against his house.
Martin noted in the journal that the house is at it appeared on September 25, 1851. He probably copied an earlier drawing into his 1864 journal.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Houses--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Prince, Rufus
Atkins House, Jefferson Street, Bangor, 1851
Image
1851
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1851-09-25
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John Martin
The south side and eastern end of the F.A. Soule House at 130 Center Street, Bangor, are shown as the buildings and grounds appeared on September 25, 1852.
John Martin (1823-1907), an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor, bought the house in 1852. He and wife and child and his parents moved into it.
Martin made a sketch of the house, which he probably recopied onto page 391 of a journal he wrote and illustrated in 1864. The journal recounts his life and experiences. He made numerous improvements to the house and grounds, which he details in other portions of the journal.
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Houses--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Soule, F. A.
F. A. Soule House, 130 Center Street, Bangor, 1852
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1852-09-25
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew an illustration of the Pendleton & Ross stand, formerly known as the Tainter Block, in Bangor.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, worked for Pendleton & Ross ship chandlers beginning in 1854. Martin wrote that Pendleton & Ross was "the largest and finest business ever done in the city up to this time in the way of selling goods running boats shipping & other incidents connected with it."
The drawing is on page 418 of a journal Martin wrote and illustrated in 1864 as he reflected on his life and activities up to that point. He wrote that the front of the building, which contained three stores, was built about 1832. He wrote, "During those days they were the largest stores in the city built of wood and were filled with dry goods groceries Rum hard ware fish salt &c."
He noted that in November 1865, the building was raised five or six feet above the grade of the new Strickland Block and a new front added.
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Dry goods stores--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Pendleton & Ross stand, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100929.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1854
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of 130 Center St., Bangor, designed and built this swing in his yard "for the comport" of his children.
Martin, an accountant, shopkeeper, architecture, gardening, and dance enthusiast, drew the illustration of the swing in a journal he began writing in 1864 to document his life and activities.
He wrote of that it was "the easiest swing I ever sit in," adding, "we have had gent & Ladies swing in it from New York
Indianna Massachusets & many other states & all the children in the neighbourhood have had from one to 20 swings in it."
The illustration on page 481 of the journal is surrounded by a detailed description of the swing and its construction.
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Swings--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John
Martin swing, Center Street, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100930.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1864
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) was a meticulous bookkeeper, gardener, and architecture and dancing enthusiast. In 1864, he wrote and illustrated a journal about his life and activities in and around Bangor.
On page 508 of the journal, he drew this illustration of the woodpile at his home at 130 Center Street, Bangor. He bought the house in 1854 and immediately began renovating it and re-landscaping the grounds. A few pages earlier in the journal, he had drawn the house and grounds.
Accompanying this illustration, he wrote, "In drawing the house & L had I been artist enough to show a Jog I might & wished to represent this wood pile but in giving the L on a line with the front of the house it diminished the width of the Jog so I left it out and have given this detailed description, wood Pile 20 feet long 10 feet wide 7 feet high with row of Sweet Peas."
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Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Woodcutting--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100931.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1864
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant, opened his own store on Center Street in Bangor in about 1862. The illustration of the store appears on page 559 of a journal Martin wrote about his life and experiences.
He wrote, "In giving the previous outline I have coppied a sketch made by a lovesick man who came along July 20 1862
dressed in dirty ragged clothes sitting on the high ways by the fences and sketching churches and various buildings on a roll of paper laid across his knees I found on examining his samples that they were remarkably correct and his only instrument was a pencil and for the fun of it I gave him 10 cents a piece to draw my house & store and I have both coppies before me now."
The store was by the Rail Road Bridge.
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Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John
John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1862
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100935.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1862
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant, had long worked for other businesses in Hampden and Bangor. In 1862, he opened his own store on Center Street near the Rail Road Bridge.
Martin, who began in 1864 writing a detailed account of his life and activities, drew the inside of the shop and provided descriptions of all of the items in the illustration, starting on page 561 of the 650-page journal.
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Interior, John Martin Store, Bangor, 1862
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100936.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1862
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) drew several images of the inside of the shop he kept on Center Street in Bangor for several years starting in 1862.
Martin, an accountant, had worked for various other businesses in Hampden and Bangor since he was a boy. He obtained funds from Edwin B. Patten to stock the store, essentially selling items on commission to repay Patten. Due to various economic downturns and the start of the Civil War, Martin thought being in business for himself was safer than working for someone else.
In 1864, Martin began writing and illustrating a detailed journal about his family, life, and experiences. This illustration appears on page 565 and is followed by explanations of each item pictured.
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Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Patten, Edwin B.
John Martin store interior, Bangor, 1862
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100937.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1862
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John Martin
On page 567 of a journal he was writing reflecting on his family, life, and activities, John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew an illustration of the north side of the interior of the store he operated for several years on Center Street in Bangor.
Martin, an accountant, had worked for numerous other businesses before decided to operate his own store.
In his journal, he also included a sketch of the exterior and several other views of the interior of the shop.
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Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Interior, John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100938.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1864
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John Martin
Two kerosene lamps were hung in John Martin's store on Center Street in Bangor -- 15 feet apart. The store also had "the best fashion stove to infuse heat over a large room that ever was invented."
Martin opened the store in 1862 after many years of working as an accountant and shopkeeper for other businesses. He hoped to avoid economic ups and downs by operating his own business.
Detail oriented and interested in architecture, business, gardening, dancing, and many other topics, Martin wrote and illustrated a journal and several scrapbooks recounting his life, family, and various experiences.
This is one of several illustrations of the store. It appears on page 572 of the journal and is accompanied by explanations of all of the items illustrated.
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Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Lamps and stove, John Martin store, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100939.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
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John Martin
Fred Ryder was an orphan who lived with his uncle in Bangor. He sold candy on the streets. In cold weather, he visited John Martin's store on Center Street and asked for work.
Martin (1823-1904) hired Ryder to deliver goods for him. Martin provided the boy with some clothes and boots and employed him for 16 months until April 1864 when he found him work on a farm and a chance to go to school.
The illustrations, on page 596 of the Martin's "Journal" that he wrote and illustrated beginning in 1864 reflecting on his life and activities, show Ryder, at left, as he looked when he began working for Martin and the boy, at right, after he had been on the farm for six months.
Martin wrote, "I claim the change in this boy which I wrought wholly by my advice and kind usage, and he is the third boy which I have influenced and started in the same way."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Orphans--Maine--Bangor
Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Ryder, Fred
Fred Ryder, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100940.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1864
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor, a shopkeeper on Center Street, found business especially slow in the winter of 1865. He reported that he "employed my vacant hours in making a rustick armed chair, a Gothic oval chair a Sofa and Grape trellis."
Martin, an accountant, gardener, and architecture and dancing enthusiast, also spent his time in 1864 and 1865 writing and illustrating a journal in which he recalled his family, his business and pleasurable activities, and other events. On page 606 of the 650-page journal, he drew illustrations of his rustic furniture.
He had found "some curiosities in cedar crooks" in the woods, cut them and found someone hauling a load of wood to carry the cedar out of the woods for him.
He wrote, "These chairs are wholly built of cedar with the bark on and the crooks are more symetrical and handsome than I have drawn them from the reason that I drew them in the evening in my store among the bustle & noise of a few loafers and furthermore black ink or water paint does not represent their natural color."
He wrote that it took him 6 days to create the arm chair, 5 days for the oval chair, 8 days for the sofa and 5 days for the trellis.
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Furniture
Martin, John
Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865-03-09
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865
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John Martin
Noted Bangor architect Benjamin Deane (1790-1867) designed the high school building, at right, which was built in 1852 on what was known as the Bruce Lot.
John Martin (1823-1904), in an account of his life and activities that he began writing and illustrating in 1864, included this drawing on page 619.
The building at left is the girls' school. It was built in 1849.
Martin wrote of the schools, "it was the intention to not be out done by any buildings in the State for convenience and comfort as well as elegance in structure outside and the laying out of the grounds."
His journal describes the school exteriors and interiors in detail.
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Schools--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Deane, Benjamin
Martin, John
Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865
Image
1865
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100944.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
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John Martin
The plans of the vestry, main floor, and gallery vestibule of the Third Parish Church on French Street in Bangor are part of a journal that John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor wrote and illustrated in 1864-1865 recalling his life and experiences in the Bangor area.
The church, built in 1852-1853 and designed by John Towle of Boston, also was known as Central Congregational Church.
The plans appear on page 631 of his Journal and the descriptions of each numbered item on the illustration are on page 632.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Churches--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Towle, John
Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper who was interested in fashion, dance, architecture, gardening, and other pursuits, drew this illustration of a "society lady" as she might have appeared in 1889 in Bangor.
He pasted the illustration onto page 65 of a scrapbook he began writing and illustrating in 1888 while he was working at Katahdin Iron Works near Brownville.
Martin wrote, "The above Lady shows what constitutes a Society lady of the present day. The material for dress in this case is not costly but shows that the wearer is a person of fine taste which a poor person has the priviledge to enjoy if they make a study of the changes and clothes themselves in colors and fashions that at once makes their society agreable with to other persons who train themselves & their persons to the best advantage."
Ink and watercolor on paper
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Coll. 1972; 1997.16.3
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Clothing & dress----Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Katahdin Iron Works (Me.)
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
"A Society Lady of 1889," Bangor
Image
1889
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100951.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1889
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John Martin
The first electric railroad -- or trolley -- began operating in Bangor in 1889. John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper, first saw the electric railroad in operation on July 4, 1889 and drew this illustration of it.
Martin was working at Katahdin Iron Works near Brownville when the trolley began operating early in the year, and wrote, "when I was in Bangor July the 4th I had the pleasure of seeing the 4 cars which was run on that day I was told from day break until 12 midnight of the sights I have seen I count this as one of the finest, to see a car literally packed as they were all day & evening chiefly by strangers riding for fun and sake of saying they had – had a ride in a car propeled by no visible power."
His description and the illustration are on page 28 of a scrapbook he wrote in 1888-1889. He went on to describe how the trolley operated.
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Katahdin Iron Works (Me.)
Street railroads--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Electric railroads--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889
Image
1889
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1889-07-04
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew his self portrait in 1889 as part of a scrapbook in which he pasted newspaper clippings and he wrote and illustrated various aspects of his life.
The scrapbook focuses on his experiences working at Katahdin Iron Works, in a "wild land township" near Brownville, starting in 1888. The illustration is on page 57 of the book and accompanies a written description of himself: "General business man, Expert Accountant, Landscape Gardener, Rustic designer, Origin of Martins perfect Waltz & March."
He had worked most of his life as an accountant and shopkeeper, but also was interested in gardening, fashion, architecture, and, especially, dance.
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Accounting--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Katahdin Iron Works (Me.)
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Self portraits--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
John Martin self portrait, 1889
Image
1889
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1889
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) drew an illustration of the casket his daughter, Annie Martin Snow, as it appeared at her gravesite at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Bangor in 1889.
Annie Martin Snow (1855-1889) was the third of John and Clara Martin's six children to die. She was the second oldest child. In 1880, she had married G. Fred Snow, and the couple moved to New Brunswick, Canada, where he worked.
She died while visiting her parents in Bangor.
Her father, an accountant and shopkeeper, included the illustration on page 85 of a scrapbook he wrote and illustrated starting in 1888, while he was away from home working as an accountant at Katahdin Iron Works, near Brownville. Martin also wrote a journal detailing many of his experiences and two other scrapbooks. The scrapbooks also contain numerous newspaper clippings.
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Family members--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Daughters----Maine--Bangor
Flower arrangements
Coffins
Death--Maine--Bangor
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Snow, Annie Martin
Snow, G. Fred
Annie Martin Snow casket at grave, Bangor, 1889
Image
1889
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1889
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John Martin
John Martin (1832-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor, also was a devoted gardener, proud of his landscape designs, and the fruit trees and vegetables he grew.
In a journal and scrapbooks he began writing and illustrating in 1864 to recount his life and experiences, he often drew trees, gardens, and fruit from his trees.
The "Ladies Blush apple" appears on page 107 of Scrapbook 1, which he wrote in 1885-1889. He wrote that the Belles Early was their favorite apple, then added, "Our next favorite tree was the Ladies blush a small red & green apple a prolific bearer & resembled the snow or Famouse apple this tree bore every year a loaded crop and in a few years ceased bearing and died, my children feasted on this tree all the days it bore."
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Apples--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Fruit--Maine--Bangor
Gardens--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Ladies Blush apple, Bangor, 1889
Image
1889
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100956.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1889
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), who was working as an accountant at Katahdin Iron Works in Piscataquis County, drew this illustration of an 11-year-old girl, whose name he could not remember, who was the step-daughter Alex Morrison, of one of the workers at the Iron Works.
Martin wrote that the girl's mother was ill and became an invalid and, "this little girl assumed the house work cooked nice bread, meats, pies, cakes &co & found time to attend school, also washed & done up the family clothing. Her younger brother often came to my chamber to see me draw & paint the Iron works & I soon found he had a natural tact for drawing."
Martin was writing and illustrating a "scrapbook" in which he recounted his experiences at the Iron Works and looked back at various episodes in his life. It was one of three scrapbooks and a journal he wrote about his life and surroundings. "Daisy" is on page 112 of the scrapbook he wrote beginning in 1888.
Martin, who had three daughters, wrote, "She managed to save money & bought her a nice album & wanted me to draw her home in it & write a poem which I did. & In the course of time She made a beautiful hanging ornament of tisue paper of various colors ... & put her name in it & with some other little girls came to my room when I was gone
& hung it up over my sink in my room."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Girls--Maine--Brownville Junction
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Katahdin Iron Works (Me.)
Martin, John
Morrison, Alex
"A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890
Image
1890
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100957.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Katahdin Iron Works, Piscataquis County, ME, USA
circa 1890
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John Martin
On the first page of "John Martin's Scrap & Sketch Book, Commenced June 14th 1864," Martin drew this Belles Early apple and wrote, "ripens the last of august flavour spicy and rich."
He also wrote, "Sept 2 1866 Adas Tree had 125 apples of this color and average size, some were larger and a few smaller."
Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper who lived most of his adult life in Bangor, began in 1864 recording and illustrating reminiscences of his life, work, and events. He began with a "journal," then wrote three scrapbooks, which include newspaper clippings as well as his own writing and illustrations.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101064
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Accounting--Maine--Bangor
Apples--Maine--Bangor
Apple trees--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Belles Early apple, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864-06-14
9 cm x 17 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-06-14
oai:mainememory.net:101066
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contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
The Bangor Soldiers' Monument at Mount Hope Cemetery was consecrated on June 17, 1864.
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor, drew this illustration of the monument and wrote in the Scrap and Sketch Book he began in 1864 that subscriptions paid for the monument, which had been planned for Central Park.
Martin wrote, "its dimentions are inferior to many which supposed it would be much larger & higher." He noted that the cemetery wanted the monument there to "increase the value & quicken the sale of these lots which were a slow sale."
The illustration, which appears on page 21 of the scrapbook, is accompanied by his detailed description of the monument and the consecration program.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101066
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Monuments & memorials--Maine--Bangor
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Me.)
Martin, John
Soldiers' Monument, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
21.5 cm x 14 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101066.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
oai:mainememory.net:101067
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contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor, wrote a detailed description, including illustrations, of the June 18, 1864 consecration of the Soldiers' Monument at Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor.
The Bangor Cornet Band was part of the procession into the cemetery and performed during the ceremonies.
Martin wrote that the band uniforms were "blue broadcloth long frock coat & pants cap about way between a navy and a fighting man pants trimmed with gold cordon the seems The coat of arms on the front of the cap a circle with two instruments crossed."
The illustration of the band member is on page 25 of Martin's 1864 scrap and sketch book. Martin began in 1864 writing recollections of his life and activities. He also listed the members of the band and their occupations.
He created portions of the 1864 scrapbook contemporaneously with the events.
Ink on paper
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Band uniforms--Maine--Bangor
Bands--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Monuments & memorials--Maine--Bangor
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Me.)
Martin, John
Bangor Cornet Band member, 1864
Image
1864
6 cm x 2 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101067.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-06-17
oai:mainememory.net:101068
2022-06-29T05:49:19Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
Co. B of the Maine State Guard participated in the consecration of the Soldiers' Monument at Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor on June 17, 1864.
John Martin (1823-1904) attended the ceremonies and drew this illustration of a guard uniform, which is on page 12 of his 1864 Scrap and Sketch Book. Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor, began in 1864 to write and illustrate reminiscences of his life and experiences.
Martin wrote, "Co B State guard black pants blue Broad cloth frock coat & a United States cap J R Richr Capt R L Morrison Lieut."
Ink on paper
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Me.)
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Monuments & memorials--Maine--Bangor
Soldiers--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Co. B, Maine State Guard member, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
9 cm x 2 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101068.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-06-17
oai:mainememory.net:101070
2022-06-29T05:49:19Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
"The Knight Templars were the most magnificent body I ever saw," John Martin of Bangor wrote in his account of their appearance at the consecration of the Soldiers' Monument at Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor on June 17, 1864.
Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper who wrote and illustrated detailed remembrances of his life and activities, added, "Their uniform was black broad cloth of the finest quality & their caps beaver plush their arms swords and every member wore a scarlet sash."
The illustration and details appear on page 25 of his 1864 "Scrap and Sketch Book."
Ink and watercolor on paper
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Monuments & memorials--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Freemasonry.
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Me.)
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Soldiers--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Knights Templar member, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
8 cm x 2.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101070.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-06-17
oai:mainememory.net:101073
2022-06-29T05:49:19Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, drew the revenue gunboat <em>Mahoning</em> as it appeared on August 14, 1864 in Bangor.
Martin included the illustration on page 49 of a "Scrap and Sketch Book" he began writing in 1864. He wrote that it was the first gunboat in the Penobscot River. He said it brought a group of Congressmen on an excursion to Bangor and the Maine coast.
Martin described the boat and its guns. He wrote, "I took my son Junior & crossed to Brewer & sketched her from the Brick Wharf oposite Steam Boat wharf. I then went on board & examined her machinery guns & work generally which was all plain and of the very best material and painted & varnished and clean as a penny."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101073
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Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Gunboats--United States--Maine--Bangor
Accounting--Maine--Bangor
Boats--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
10.5 cm x 21 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101073.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-08-14
oai:mainememory.net:101074
2022-06-29T05:49:19Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, entitled this drawing that appears on page 52 of his 1864 "Scrap and Sketch Book," "Ball Hill Cove as it should be."
In the explanation of the drawing, which is the first page of text in the scrapbook, Martin wrote that he made the sketch on August 15, 1866, of a residence he would build if he had "two thousand dollars in money and a small portion of time each growing season for ten years."
The site he chose for his ideal house was 9 miles south of Bangor on the east side of the Penobscot River in an area known as Ball Hill. He indicated on the drawing where the Bangor & Bucksport Railroad line was located starting in 1873.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101074
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Scrapbooks
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Houses--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
John Martin dream house, Bangor, 1866
Image
1864-08-15
30.5 cm x 22 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-08-15
oai:mainememory.net:101076
2022-06-29T05:49:19Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Union man, drew an illustration of Marcellus Emery, a Confederate supporter and Democrat, who published a newspaper in Bangor during the Civil War.
Union supporters destroyed Emery's press, but he continued publishing.
Martin quotes Emery as writing in his newspaper in 1861, "52 thousand dead bodies will be traveled over before a democrat can be compeled to go and defend the Capital at Washington." There were 52,000 Democrats in Maine in 1860 and Emery determined that none would support a war or join Union forces.
Martin's illustration is on page 85 of his 1864 "Scrap & Sketch Book." He related some of Emery's history and the events in Bangor during the war -- as well as Emery's pledge at the end of the war of his support for the Union.
Martin was an accountant and shopkeeper who wrote about his life and events in Bangor and surrounding areas in a journal, three scrapbooks, and an record of a dancing organization he helped found.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101076
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Scrapbooks
Newspapers--Maine--Bangor
Portraits--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Marcellus Emery, Bangor, ca. 1864
Image
1864
8 cm x 3 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
oai:mainememory.net:101107
2022-06-29T05:49:19Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, was interested in fashion, and in the various reflections that he wrote and illustrated about his life, he often included comments about -- and drawings of -- fashion.
He accompanied this illustration of "Fashion in Bangor, 1865," with a discussion of what his mother wore when he was 4 years old and commented on what had changed, especially in bonnets, in 37 years.
Martin wrote, on page 88 of the "Scrap & Sketch Book" that he began on June 14, 1864, "manufacturers made a clean sweep to kill pressing over so as to sell new stock and established a fashion as above to take off the rim entire and leave nothing but the crown and a visor."
He suggested that women's fashions changed when men went off to the Civil War.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101107
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Scrapbooks
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Fashion in Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101107.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
oai:mainememory.net:101108
2022-06-29T05:49:20Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, drew an illustration of Joseph Mitchell, operator of the Mutual Store in Bangor in 1865.
Martin, in his "Scrap & Sketch Book," which he began in 1864, railed against the "mutual" idea as "one of the greatest humbugs that the merchants and citizens of Bangor have had to contend with since it was incorporated to this date 1865."
At the time Martin wrote the remarks, he was operating his own small store. He wrote that merchants paid into a fund that was used to buy goods in order to control prices. Martin wrote that some items were sold below what anyone else could sell them for, thereby convincing customers that all goods would be available at a low price.
Martin described Joseph Mitchell as "a cabinet maker & joiner who had worked for Shaw & Merrill & then was at work for F Muzzy & co on patterns in their foundry a great bawling rough haram scaram man who was poor and went to the baptist meeting the poorest clod of any body in the house had much to do with this store."
He further explained the workings of the group and its effects and wrote of the Mutual Store, "This store has been a curse to me ever since the day it was established it has made no difference what article I have offered for sale the first and last question has ever been aint yose higher than the Mutual Store."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101108
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.1
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Scrapbooks
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Mitchell, Joseph
Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
9 cm x 19 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865
oai:mainememory.net:101110
2022-06-29T05:49:20Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote about a parade in Bangor on July 4, 1865 that celebrated the end of the Civil War. As part of his description he drew illustrations of two schoolboys to show the outfits they wore in the parade.
This boy is one of the age 11-14 group who "were uniformed in Zouave, red, picken red caps, white waists, red cambrick pants white cotton stockings lace up kip boots." He added that the boys had been drilled several days before marching in the parade.
Martin's descriptions and illustrations are on page 105 of his "Scrap & Sketch Book" that he began in 1864, and which is one of 5 journals and scrapbooks he wrote reflecting on his life and experiences and commenting on current activities.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101110
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Scrapbooks
Fourth of July celebrations--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Celebrations--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Parades & processions--Maine--Bangor
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Boy at Bangor post Civil War parade, 1865
Image
1865
5.5 cm x 2 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101110.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865-07-04
oai:mainememory.net:101111
2022-06-29T05:49:20Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
In the evening after the July 4, 1865 parade and observances in Bangor, ten Penobscot Indians in five birchbark canoes engaged in a race on the Kenduskeag Stream.
John Martin (1823-1904), a shopkeeper and accountant in Bangor, wrote in detail about the July 4 events -- observing the end of the Civil War -- in his "Scrap & Sketch Book" that he began writing in 1864. On page 106, he drew the illustration of a corn and flour elevator with all available space packed with spectators watching to race. The illustration, which includes the five canoes, has north at the bottom.
Martin wrote, "Every available place on the bridges custom house wharves tops of store houses vessels boats rafts vessels masts were litterally jamed."
The canoes were labeled on each side with names Civil War-related names. He wrote that they paddled to Brewer and back "in 8 minutes a mile and a third or ten mile an hour."
Stephen Stanislaus and Sebattis Saul paddled the General Grant, Sebattis Solomon and J. M. Sockalexis the General Sherman, John Fransoway and Mitchel Peopl Susup the General Sheridan, Sappiel Sockalexis and Louis Sockabasin the Sharpshooter, and Newel Nicola and Horace Francis the Penobscot Boy.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101111
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Canoes--Maine--Bangor
Crowds--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Indigenous peoples--Maine
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Regattas--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
10 cm x 20 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101111.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865-07-04
oai:mainememory.net:101118
2022-06-29T05:49:20Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
Liz, about 20, and widow Clark from Castine, about 25, appeared in Bangor in the winter of 1848. Both were "handsome in the extreme" and "were first seen promernading Kenduskeag bridge dressed in two suits made of red Thibot dress brown sock and red hoods."
"They created a sensation all over the city," according to an account John Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote in his "Scrap & Sketchbook" that he began in 1864. Starting on page 108, Martin wrote about the changes in Bangor between 1844 and 1864 and discussed women "who bore a bad name."
He wrote that Liz and Clark rented a house and "In a short time the young men who cared but little about Character visited the house in dozens and some disgracefull and noisy transactions were committed..."
He described them as "respectably educated" and said they "could as the lady as fine as the finest," as well as "swear and be more profane than any sailer." He wrote, "Manners, dress, and the excitment which they created while here was never equled by any number of females."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101118
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Scrapbooks
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John
Liz, widow Clark, Bangor, 1848
Image
1864
10 cm x 8 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101118.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1848
oai:mainememory.net:101131
2022-06-29T05:49:20Z
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, who began in 1864 writing and illustrating journals and scrapbooks about his life and experiences, drew this solider -- as people thought of soldiers "in the free states" before 1861 when the Civil War began.
Martin, on page 114 of the "Scrap & Sketch Book" that he began in 1864, described the soldier as wearing "a bear skin cap a fine red broad cloth coat a pair of fine black broad cloth pants a fine cotton shirt with linen dickey a knapsack empty and a pair of fine calf boots with either white silk or white cotton gloves with red stripes on the pants."
Below that on the page, he drew a soldier as "a million of men" discovered one to look like from 1861 to 1866.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101131
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Military personnel--United States--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Bangor (Me.)--History
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Uniforms--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John
Soldier, Bangor, ca. 1860
Image
circa 1866
10.5 cm x 3 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101131.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1860
oai:mainememory.net:101132
2022-06-29T05:49:20Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
In a "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began writing in 1864, John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, compared what people thought a soldier might look like before the Civil War with this illustration of "What a million of men found constituted a soldier from 1861-1866."
Starting on page 114 of the book, Martin described in detail the soldier's uniform and gear. He followed the page of illustration with a "Chapter on Soldiers."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101132
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Military personnel--United States--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Uniforms--Maine--Bangor
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Martin, John
Civil War era soldier's garb, ca. 1866
Image
circa 1866
12 cm x 19 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101132.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1866
oai:mainememory.net:101153
2022-06-29T05:49:21Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin's illustration on page 133 of his "Scrap & Sketch Book" that he began in 1864 is labeled, "Mother in a Polka round. Father introducing a Gent."
Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote a number of journals and scrapbooks looking back at his life and experiences and commenting on current affairs in and around Bangor.
Martin had a passion for dancing -- one of his volumes is about a dancing group he helped found. He wrote under the illustration, "Of all the amusements in the world Dancing properly conducted is the most innocent, civil, cheapest, and respectable."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101153
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Dance parties--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Dancing, Bangor, ca. 1865
Image
circa 1865
8.5 cm x 13 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101153.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
oai:mainememory.net:101169
2022-06-29T05:49:21Z
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), along with many other Bangor residents, awaited the arrival of returning Civil War soldiers in September 1865.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper who wrote and illustrated five volumes recalling his life and experiences and some current events, wrote that the crowds awaited several transport ships on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday September 15, 16, and 17, 1865.
His illustrations show the <em>Charles Thomas</em> and the <em>John Rice</em>, which had members of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery aboard. They finally arrived at 2:30 p.m. on September 17.
Martin noted that residents had prepared a meal for the returning soldiers and that banners describing their battles were at the entrance to the high school. About 800 soldiers marched in formation to Abbot Square.
Martin's illustration and remarks begin on page 135 of the "Sketch & Scrap Book" he began writing in 1864.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101169
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Scrapbooks
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
United States. Army. Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st (1863-1865)
Sailing ships--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Soldier transport ships, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
18 cm x 12.5 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865-09-17
oai:mainememory.net:101170
2022-06-29T05:49:21Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, a Civil War regiment organized as the 18th Maine Infantry, returned to Bangor in September 1865, greeted by a large crowd.
John Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote about their return and drew this illustration on Page 138 of the "Scrap & Sketchbook" that he began writing in 1864. The illustration shows how the regiment appeared as it marched through Main Street in Bangor on its return. At center are a captain and a private, drawn to show their uniforms.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101170
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United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Scrapbooks
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Soldiers--Maine--Bangor
United States. Army. Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st (1863-1865)
Bangor (Me.)--History
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 18th (1862)
Martin, John
1st Maine Heavy Artillery, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
16 cm x 22 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101170.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865-09-17
oai:mainememory.net:101172
2022-06-29T05:49:21Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
A man and a woman show off the fashions of 1866 in Bangor. Around them are hat and shoe styles.
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper who was interested in fashion, landscaping and gardening, business practices, architecture, and numerous other topics, wrote and illustrated five volumes in which he reflected on his life and times.
This illustration appears on page 149 of the "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began in 1864. The illustration is followed by a discussion of the fashion and comments on how politics, social life, and fashion had changed by the end of the Civil War.
He wrote under the illustration, "Fashions August 1866, Bangor."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101172
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Fashions in Bangor, 1866
Image
1866
10 cm x 18 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1866
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper who was interested in landscaping, architecture, fashion, business practices and most other subjects of his day, drew this illustration of a cone cedar tree he transplanted to his yard on October 25, 1866.
The illustration is on page 5 of Martin's "Scrap Book No. 3," one of five volumes he wrote and illustrated reflecting on his life and experiences and commenting on contemporary events. In his description of the tree, he referred to a drawing on page 490 of his "Journal" where he wrote about a "magnificeient blackheart cherry tree."
Martin cut down the cherry on October 22, 1866, and went in search of a replacement. Finding nothing, he decided to search for a cone cedar. When he found one on someone's pasture, he had the 15-year-old, 12-foot-tall tree dug up and planted it in his yard.
He saved it from a gale, but later a cow came into his yard and damaged the tree.
He wrote under the illustration, "My cone cedar tree transplanted Oct 25 1866."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101174
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine
Scrapbooks
Trees--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
John Martin cone cedar tree, Bangor, 1866
Image
1867
15 cm x 9 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1867
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John Martin
In one of five volumes he wrote recalling his life and experiences and commenting on contemporary events in the Bangor area, John Martin (1823-1904) drew a number of illustrations of what he saw as the ideal gates and fences for different locales and purposes.
This is "Gate No 1 and two patterns for rustic fence." Martin wrote, "Of all the thing beautifull and convenient a mans house barn and gates should constitute three, well the fourth, his cellar the fifth his grounds the sixth, the passage to a house barn garden field or pasture is one continual pleasure or source of vexation."
It appears on page 7 of Scrap Book no. 3.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, also was interested in architecture, gardening and landscaping, dancing, his family, politics, education, and numerous other topics. His five volumes contain narrative details and illustrations, many of them in color.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101193
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Fences--Maine--Bangor
Gates--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Design for rustic fence, gate, Bangor, 1867
Image
1867
5 cm x 16 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1867
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John Martin
John Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor, drew a series of gate and fence designs in his "Scrap Book No 3" that he began writing and illustrating in 1867.
Martin wrote five volumes of recollections of his life and of events and people in the Bangor area, beginning in 1864.
Of this gate, which appears on page 9 of Scrap Book No 3, he wrote, "Rustic built of pine or cedar posts." The center of each side of the gate would be "filled with small round cedar crooks and straight poles as convenience may occur and hung on iron grudgeons set in the centre of the posts so as to swing out or in as the case may require..."
Pencil on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101194
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Fences--Maine--Bangor
Gates--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Gate no 2 design, Bangor, 1867
Image
1867
5 cm x 21 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1867
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) designed this barnyard gate -- one of a number of gates he designed for different uses.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor, who was interested in architecture, landscape design, gardening, dancing, and numerous other topics, drew the series of gate designs in his "Scrap Book 3," one of five volumes he wrote and illustrated about his life and experiences in the Bangor area. This illustration is on page 10.
His description noted, "I have represented a 5 foot tight bound fence for a yard this is convenient for fowles but is unhealthy for cattle and more so for sheep. All animals should have air but this style of fence might be used with the best advantage on the north and up of the west side of the yard then follow around the rest of the yard."
Pencil on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101195
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine
Scrapbooks
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Fences--Maine--Bangor
Gates--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Barnyard gate design, Bangor, 1867
Image
1867
11 cm x 21 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1867
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor designed a series of gates and fences appropriate for different uses. Gate no 6, he wrote on page 13 of his "Scrap Book No 3," "is designed not to be located too near a house and is made for service and show."
Martin was an accountant and shopkeeper who was interested in architecture, landscape design, gardening, dancing, and other topics and wrote and illustrated five volumes of recollections about his family and his life. He often commented on contemporary events as well.
Pencil on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101196
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Diaries
Gates--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Scrapbooks
Fences--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine
Martin, John
John Martin gate design, Bangor, 1867
Image
1867
13.5 cm x 21.5 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1867
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John Martin
George Francis Train, a businessman who organized of the Union Pacific Railroad, spoke at the Democratic Convention in Bangor in August 1866.
John Martin, a committed Republican, attended the convention at Davenport Square and made illustrations of some of the speakers. On page 21 of his "Scrap Book 3," Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote, "This gentleman has been noted for several years and cherished by the Democrats as the hero of incendiary remarks and discourses in his language and principles throwing away the principles of a gentleman ..."
Martin added, "This gentleman was invited to come up and fire up the Irish and get them on a fever heat for the coming election ..."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101199
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Political conventions--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Train, George Francis, 1829-1904
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Martin, John
Train, George Francis
George Francis Train, Bangor, 1866
Image
1866
10.5 cm x 8 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1866
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John Martin
James Dunning of Bangor operated a seed and grocery store and was involved in efforts to build a rail line from Bangor to Waterville. That project included stock sales on which most investors lost money.
Dunning is shown here in a sketch John Martin of Bangor made on page 51 of his "Scrap Book no 3," a series of recollections on his life and commentary on contemporary events.
Martin (1823-1904) devoted a section of the "Scrap Book" to politics around 1866. He described Dunning, a former Democrat who became active in the Republican Party, as "always to be seen on public occasions." He described a number of Democrat "rascals" and included Dunning in the "rascal" category, recounting a number of Dunning's schemes.
A text "bubble" coming out of Dunning's mouth in the illustration quotes Dunning in response to a question about whether he could support President Andrew Johnson's policies as asking the questioner, "if he thought I was a d -- med fool."
The quote is from a speech he gave at Bangor City Hall September 16, 1866.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101216
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Politics--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Dunning, James
Martin, John
James Dunning, Bangor, ca. 1867
Image
circa 1867
11 cm x 7 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1866-09-10
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) drew this illustration of Arvida Hayford, a Bangor lumber dealer, on page 57 of "Scrap Book no 3," which Martin began writing in 1857.
He wrote of Hayford, "The gentleman below has been noted as the hero of profligacy in Bangor for 25 years. I have given his person & expression almost exact representing him carrying his pitcher of water to his office on maine st ..."
Martin wrote that Hayford was a staunch Democrat and was the Indian agent for the Penobscot Indians in the 1840s for several years.
Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, temperance man, and Republican, also wrote that during temperance years, Hayford imported alcohol and provided it to "Irish men & women in open defiance of the Maine law." He further charged that Hayford provided housing for "bad women."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101217
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Indian agents--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Politics--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Hayford, Arvida
Martin, John
Arvida Hayford, Bangor, ca. 1867
Image
1867
11 cm x 7 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1866
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor, was an enthusiastic landscaper and gardener. He also wrote and illustrated five volumes, reflecting on his life, experiences, and the communities in which he lived.
On page 63 of his "Scrap Book no 3," which he began in 1867, Martin pasted a sheet labeled "Curiosity 1866." He drew an apple tree and an individual apple.
Below the tree Martin wrote, "1866 This tree produced ten apples, color & size as below, the trunk of the tree as large as a mans fore finger the branches which had the fruit as large as a common pipe stem."
Below the apple, he wrote, "4 ft 8 1/2 inches high, Lowest branch 7 inches from the ground, apple & stems just 3 inches the fruit 4 inches from the ground."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101219
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Apple trees--Maine--Bangor
Apples--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Duchess Anjoulene apple, Bangor, 1866
Image
1866
20.5 cm x 12.5 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1866
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John Martin
The Bangor Skating Rink opened on December 25, 1868 and Bangor accountant, shopkeeper, and recorder of historical and contemporary events John Martin (1823-1904) drew an illustration of it, replete with skaters, some of whom he named.
A newspaper clipping he included on page 95 of his "Scrap Book no 3," one of five volumes he wrote and illustrated, noted that the skating surface was 100-by-200 feet. Admission was 10 cents or $2 for a season ticket.
Martin's illustration includes the surrounding area: two steamer wharfs and Broad Street behind them.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101222
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Scrapbooks
Ice skating rinks--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Bangor Skating Rink, 1868
Image
1868
31 cm x 22 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1868
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John Martin
Bangor skater Charles Perry is shown in four different positions and a young man from Canada in four positions while skating at the new Bangor Skating Rink in 1868.
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper in Bangor who wrote and illustrated five volumes reflecting on his life and time and commenting on contemporary events, drew the skaters on page 96 of his "Scrap Book no 3," which he began in 1867.
Martin described the skaters and skating at the rink in detail in the Scrap Book.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101223
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Ice skating--Maine--Bangor
Ice skating rinks--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Perry, Charles
Two star skaters, Bangor, 1868
Image
1868
32 cm x 21 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1868
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John Martin
John Martin Jr. (1857-1929) was one of a group of boys in the Select School in Bangor and a few from the grammar school who formed a cadet company and began in December 1871 drilling with the Jameson Guards, a state militia group.
Junior Martin's father, John Martin (1823-1904) drew three illustrations of his son as a cadet, and wrote, "Junior was 14 years ... old when he commenced his social life and also when he commenced to perform business which occured in July last in the national Insurance office in which he stayed his school vacation of 8 weeks."
Martin drew the illustrations of his son on page 104 of his "Scrap Book no 3," showing Junior "attention, order arms," in his dress coat, and going to drill.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101224
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Scrapbooks
Cadets--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Martin, John
Martin, Junior
Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871
Image
1871
12 cm x 20 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1871
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John Martin
In August 1872, John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant, shopkeeper, and Republican supporter, drew the "Republican Wigwam," a temporary building that was located at the corner of Hammond and Columbia streets in Bangor.
The building was constructed for campaign purposes to hold 1,200 people, standing.
The illustration, which includes the headquarters of the Young Mens Grant & Wilson Club and four men marching and singing, is on page 115 of Martin's "Scrap Book no 3," one of five volumes he wrote and illustrated reflecting on his life and times and commenting on events in the Bangor area.
Martin wrote on the top left of the illustration, "taken down and removed nov 16th, 17, 18, 19, 20 1872 by A. H. Beckmore the joiner."
The marchers song is "Hurrah!! Hurrah!!
Whora, Whora, we will sing the jubilee.
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!
Whora Whora the flag that makes us free,
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the Sea
While were were marching through Georgia."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101225
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Scrapbooks
Politics--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Political elections--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Republican Wigwam, Bangor, 1872
Image
1872
32 cm x 21 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1872
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John Martin
John Martin drew this illustration of a fashionable woman wearing a dress with a bustle and carrying a parasol. Martin (1823-1904) wrote and illustrated five volumes about his life and events in the greater Bangor area.
While this illustration is not labeled and was loose inside one of his volumes, it is similar to an illustration he entitled, "A Society Lady of 1889," which appears on page 65 of his "Scrapbook No. 1, Katahdin Iron Works and Silver Lake Hotel."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101435
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.3; loose
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Katahdin Iron Works (Me.)
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Portraits
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Woman with bustle, ca. 1889
Image
circa 1889
8.2 cm x 5.3 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Piscataquis County, ME, USA
circa 1889
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John Martin
John Martin (1832-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, made this sketch on Sunday, July 16, 1865. He wrote "moved there June 1832" and "These premises were burned house barn and out buildings in the fall of 1865."
It most likely is the Skinner Farm in Brewer where his stepfather and mother, Solomon and Anna Stratton Martin Raynes moved in June 1832.
The illustration was loose among Martin's four volumes of writings and illustrations about his life and surroundings.
Ink and pencil on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101440
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Brewer (Me.)--History
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Houses--Maine--Brewer
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine--Brewer
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Me.)
Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Raynes, Anna Martin
Raynes, Solomon
Skinner Farm, Brewer, 1865
Text and Image
1865-07-16
24.5 cm x 19 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Brewer, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865
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John Martin
John Martin (18223-1907), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper who wrote and illustrated five volumes of reflections and commentary on his life and the Bangor area, drew this barn plan on page 7 of his "Scrap Book No 3" that he began in 1867.
Martin wrote, "When I build my barn it will be like this if it comes under the head of a possibility. Model for a barn supposing the site is an elevation on a main thoroughfare or connected with a house where room can be obtained on lots conspicuous."
Pencil on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101175
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Barns--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Scrapbooks
Architectural drawing
Martin, John
John Martin barn plan, Bangor, 1867
Image
circa 1867
11 cm x 13 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1867
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John Martin
The James Emery home in Bucksport was located at the head of the ferry on the northeast corner of Main Street.
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote and illustrated five volumes reflecting on his life and environment and commenting on events in the greater Bangor area. This illustration appears on page 75 of his "Scrap Book no 3." He drew it on another piece of paper on Sept. 8, 1867, and pasted it into the Scrap Book.
On an excursion to Bucksport, Martin wrote, "I halted at the head of the ferry and viewed the village and located behind a number of large elms & butternut trees & surrounded by a high buck thorn hedge I observed the building I have given on Page 75 and the more I viewed it the more curious things I saw about it."
He asked who owned the building and then proceeded to sketch it on a bill he had in his pocket book. He wrote, "When I had a full view of this building I gave in once that it was the handsomist building I ever saw made of wood, although I have examined buildings that cost ten times as much yet the ingenuity and take directly in the building without attaching the grounds this excells all I have ever seen."
He described the building in detail in his Scrap Book.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101221
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Architectural drawing
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Houses--Maine--Bucksport
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Scrapbooks
Emerson, James
Martin, John
James Emery cottage, Bucksport, 1867
Image
1867-09-08
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bucksport, Hancock County, ME, USA
1867
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew this illustration of his parents' home in Ellsworth as it probably looked in 1823. Martin's father, also named "John," was born in Cromwell, England, and came to Maine as a young man.
The senior Martin worked as a tailor. He married Anna Stratton in 1822 and they settled in Ellsworth. The senior Martin died in February 1824 when his only son was 11 months old.
The younger John Martin visited Ellsworth as an adult, with his mother, and re-created the home that she lost after her husband died.
The illustration appears at the beginning of "John Martin's Journal," which he wrote beginning in 1864. He identified a number of details in the drawing, including Card's Cove, Cards Brook, Squaw Point, Cards Mill, Austin's Cove, the Union River, and his father's tailor shop.
Watercolor and ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100770
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine--Ellsworth
Diaries
Martin, Anna Stratton
Martin, John
Martin, Sr. , John
John Martin Sr. home, Ellsworth, 1823
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Ellsworth, Hancock County, ME, USA
circa 1823
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John Martin
John Martin of Bangor (1823-1904) began writing and illustrating a journal in 1864 to provide details of his life and activities for his wife, children, and descendants.
This illustration, on page 130 of the 650-page journal, show the home of Ezekiel Hopkins as it appears in 1840. Martin wrote, "The above premices presents the only instance that I know of where God and man had formed a copartnership to plan a residence for man and beast where every convenience both natural and mechanical were combined."
When he was a teenager, Martin worked for Hopkins on his farm and in his store.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100774
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Hopkins, Ezekiel,--Homes and haunts--Maine--Ellsworth
Farms--Maine--Hampden
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Hampden (Me.)--History
Hopkins, Ezekiel
Martin, John
Ezekiel Hopkins house and grounds, Hampden, 1840
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1840
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John Martin
In the journal about his life that John Martin of Bangor began writing in 1864, he drew illustrations of himself, his friend Rinaldo B. Wiggin and his future wife, Clara Cary, as they were in 1844. The illustration is on page 186 of the journal.
Martin (1823-1904), an accountant who was interested also in architecture, gardening, fashion, dancing, and almost everything that happened around him, married Clara Cary (1836-1902) in 1850. They had six children, only two of whom survived their parents.
Beneath the illustration, that includes a piece of cedar from Wiggin's grave, Martin wrote: "Clara Cary was large around in proportion to her height but from this time untill she was 19 years old she grew slim and a little taller. her dress was a blue & red spotted Delane with a small plaided shawl blue white & Red a wide stripe of blue a narrow stripe of Red and the ground work white with a red fringe. This shawl for some three or four years was her constant companion."
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Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Hampden (Me.)--History
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Cary, Clara
Martin, John
Wiggin, Rinaldo B
Clara Cary, Rinaldo Wiggin, John Martin, Bangor, 1844
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1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1844
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John Martin
In 1864, John Martin of Bangor drew, from recollection, the First Penobscot Bridge from Steam Boat wharf in Bangor. He labeled the toll house, Skinner's Store, and the Draw.
Martin (1823-1864) began in 1864 writing a Journal about his life and experiences. The illustration of the bridge appeared on page 220 in a section he wrote about the Freshet of March 29, 1846, which destroyed the bridge.
Martin wrote that a corporation in which Asa Davis was a stockholder built the bridge for $50,000. It was built in 1832.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Bridges--Maine--Bangor
Covered bridges--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Davis, Asa
Martin, John
First Penobscot Bridge, Bangor, ca. 1846
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1846
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew his recollection of these buildings along Kenduskeag Stream in Bangor. Construction of the Market Hall began in 1836. The foundation was completed, but the economic downturn of 1837 ended construction on the building.
The market and public hall shown in Martin's drawing was built on part of the foundation -- and lasted until the Freshet of March 1846.
Martin drew the illustration of the three buildings and the shops they held as part of his journal that he began in 1864 to record events of his life and surroundings. The illustration appears on page 226 of the journal, as part of his discussion of the Freshet of 1846.
Martin said he drew the Market Hall from recollection in part because he had never seen an image of it reproduced and because he and his wife, Clara, had attended church in that building, as well as lectures, concerts, and other events.
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Markets--Maine--Bangor
Floods--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, Clara
Martin, John
Market Hall, Bangor, 1846
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1846
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) drew this facsimile of the four members of the Quartette Club as they appeared in 1849, "about the height of their notoriety."
The illustration is from Martin's journal, which he began in 1864, writing about his life and experiences in the Bangor area. He wanted his wife and children to know more about him and how things worked and looked at the time he was growing up and was first in business. Martin worked as an accountant and shopkeeper.
The members of the group are, from left, Rufus Wiggin, bass; Alonzo E. Raynes, treble; Rinaldo B. Wiggin, tenor; and Robert B. Cram, suprema.
At the time Martin made the drawing, Rufus Wiggin was about 22, Raynes, Martin's half-brother, was 17; Rinaldo Wiggin was 18, and Robert Cram was 22. Martin described their outfits as "a buff vest, a buff set of Nankeen pants & each
a thin hat shaped ... with a black band and long ends to the bands. ... Their first collars were turn down all uniform but
a stand up dickey came in fashion and they made their debut on them at the Town house Hampden which has been in fashion to this day & I have one of them on now while writing this description."
The drawing is one of two Martin made of the group. This one appears on page 264 of the journal.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Musicians--Maine--Bangor
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Cram, Robert B.
Martin, John
Raynes, Alonzo E.
Wiggin, Rinaldo B.
Wiggin, Rufus
Bangor Quartette Club, 1849
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1849
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John Martin
The members of the Bangor Quartette Club as they appeared at the old Town House in Hampden, are, from left, Rufus Wiggin, Alonzo Raynes, Rinaldo Wiggin, and Robert Cram.
John Martin (1823-1904), the half-brother of Alonzo Raynes, drew them in their buff vests and pants, black frock coats, and straw hats. Martin began writing about his own life and activities in 1864 and included two drawings of the members of this group. This drawing appears on page 277 of Martin's journal.
On January 31, 1850, Alonzo Wiggin and Robert Cram sailed from Bangor on the bark Suliote for the California gold fields. Rufus Wiggin sailed on February 13, 1850 on the schooner Eudorus for the same destination.
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Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Musicians--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Cram, Robert
Martin, John
Raynes, Alonzo
Wiggin, Rinaldo
Wiggin, Rufus
Bangor Quartette Club, old Hampden Town House, 1849
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1849
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John Martin
Alonzo E. Raynes (1830-1916) of Brewer, the son of Anna and Solomon Raynes, is shown wearing a red velvet cap and checked plaid cotton apron in this drawing by his half-brother John Martin.
Martin (1823-1904) drew the image from recollections of how Alonzo appeared when he began to work in the fields at Reed Hardings farm in Brewer.
Martin wrote, "This style of cap was in fashion when I was 4 years old they had no visor and were wadded with cotton batting and sometimes trimed with fur. From his infancy to this date he was always watching my labours when he began to want to be in the fields and with me where ever I went."
The image appears on page 283 of the journal Martin began in 1864, recalling his life and activities he observed or in which he was involved.
Raynes went to California in early 1850 during the Gold Rush fever. He lived in the Yreka, California, area the rest of his life.
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Raynes, Alonzo E.
Raynes, Anna
Raynes, Solomon
Alonzo E. Raynes, Brewer, ca. 1838
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Brewer, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1838
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John Martin
Alonzo E. Raynes (1830-1918) of Brewer often dove off a pile of boards on Covaly's wharf in Hampden in order to retrieve an egg that his friends dropped in the river.
Raynes' half-brother, John Martin (1823-1904) drew an illustration of Raynes diving. It appears on page 286 of the journal Martin began writing in 1864 to record details of his life and activities in the Bangor area.
Martin wrote that Raynes dove about 20 feet to grab the egg.
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Diaries
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Games--Maine--Hampden
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diving--Maine--Hampden
Hampden (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Raynes, Alonzo E.
Alonzo E. Raynes diving off wharf, Hampden, ca. 1840
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Hampden, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1840
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John Martin
An illustration of Alonzo E. Raynes (1830-1918) pictures him as he is about to board the bark Suliote on January 24, 1849, sailing from Bangor to California and the Gold Rush.
Raynes' half-brother, John Martin, included the illustration on page 304 of a journal he wrote in 1864 reflecting on his life and activities in the Bangor area.
Martin wrote that Raynes wore a "red squirrel colored fur cap, Pilot cloth over coat, hunting boots, and rifle. The form of the cap is exact, the outlines of the coat and boots very near. his rifile was encased to the lock his valise I carried to the exchange for he took his Guitar which was a valuable article to him for many years as will be seen in my account."
Raynes lived in California for the rest of his life.
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Gold rushes
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John
Raynes, Alonzo E.
Alonzo E. Raynes, Bangor, 1849
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1849-01-24
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) married Clara Cary (1836-1902) on March 27, 1850 in Bangor. Martin drew this illustration of the hack that transported them on their wedding day.
He wrote, "This hack cost a thousand dollars and was owned by Mess Shaw & Billings and was perfectly black of the nicest polish and silver mounted in every particular even the hook on the end of the pole and all the window trimmings the glass lamps on the side of the drivers seat were cut the windows were one pane of clear thick German glass and also the window to the door the straps were plated."
The horses were black geldings that cost $500. The inside of the hack, he wrote, was trimmed in German broadcloth.
He included the illustration on page 335 of a journal he began writing and illustrating in 1864, reflecting on details of his life and activities so his children would know what Bangor, business, homes, and various activities were like during their father's life.
The Martins had six children, only two of whom survived their parents.
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Bangor
Weddings--Maine--Bangor
Animal teams--Maine--Bangor
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
John and Clara Martin wedding hack, Bangor, 1850
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1850-03-27
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor made this drawing of Rufus Prince's brick house in Bangor where Martin and his wife, Clara Cary, began their married life.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper who worked for Prince for some time, wrote, "In order to start my married life
and give my children a thorough history I propose to give an outline of Rufus Prince's brick dwelling on the next page although it is a very difficult building to show as the front & face is east & north and the portion ocupied & used south & west I shall have to leave off the representations of two jogs one where the L joins the maine house the other when the shed joins the stable."
Martin made the drawing on July 7, 1864 as part of his Journal he wrote recollecting his life's experiences. The illustration is on page 341.
The house and brick tenements and brick store were built in 1832-1833. The house was at 176 Center Street.
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Apartment houses--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Prince, Rufus
Rufus Prince residence, Bangor, 1850
Image
1864-07-07
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1850-03-27
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John Martin
John Martin of Bangor, in writing and illustrating a journal in 1864 that recounted his life's experiences, drew the First Baptist Church on Center Street in Bangor where he and his wife, Clara Cary Martin, attended church together after they were married in 1850.
Martin wrote, "My wife of course went to my church so called although it was my church from circumstances and not from my persuasion in religions sentiments."
He wrote in the journal that he went to the market to buy potatoes on July 9, 1864, and took a sheet of paper with him so he could sketch the church. The temperature was about 100, he wrote, so he sat under a tree and marked the shape and size of all parts of the building, then went home and made the sketch in ink. It is on page 349 of the journal.
He wrote that it was "one of the most venerable as well as modern buildings in this city."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Churches--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
First Baptist Church, Bangor, ca. 1850
Image
1864-07-09
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-07-09
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) drew this illustration of the Harris House in Bangor, where he and his wife, Clara, moved a few months after they were married in 1850. They had lived in Martin's former quarters in the Rufus Prince house.
Martin described this as his first "real home" since he left his parents house in 1835 when he began several apprenticeships and lived in the homes of his employers.
He wrote that the house, later known as the Veazie House, was where "Clara cooked her fist meal" and was the birthplace of their first child, Ada.
The illustration is on page 369 of a journal Martin wrote and illustrated in 1864 recollecting his life's experiences. The illustration shows the south side and eastern front end of the house. He wrote that it was located at the "Bangor Olde Town & Millford Switch and crossing on Market Street."
He drew the house as it looked before Samuel Veazie added a shed and made other changes when he began using it as his winter residence in about 1861. Martin noted that Reuben Bagley built the house in 1836.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Bagley, Reuben
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Prince, Rufus
Veazie, Samuel
Harris House, Bangor, ca. 1850
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1850
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) drew this illustration of the Lunt House at the corner of Cumberland and Center streets in Bangor as it appeared in the early 1850s when his brother-in-law Luther Cary bought it.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, wrote and illustrated a journal in 1864 that recounted his experiences and activities. He included this illustration on page 402.
Martin wrote of the house's history, "This building was ocupied a number of years by Horatio Beale Painter & glazer then by Mr Samuel Lunt thereby Wm S Persons then by J S Stodard then Mrs Cary sold her premises for about nine hundred dollars and purchased this and ocupied it between one & two years when it was sold to Enoch Tebbetts for twelve hundred dollars and he sold it to Arvida Hayford who is its present owner." (1864)
He added a note in 1871, "Sold by J Robinson to an Irishman and moved to McGaws Brick yard April 6th 1871."
The Mrs. Cary to whom he referred was his mother-in-law. She sold the family home and bought this house, but put it in her son Luther's name.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Houses--Maine--Bangor
Cary, Luther--Homes and haunts--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Beale, Horatio
Cary, Luther
Hayford, Arvida
Lunt, Samuel
Martin, John
Persons , William
Stodard, J. S.
Tebbetts, Enoch
Lunt House, Cumberland at Center streets, Bangor, ca. 1852
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1853
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor undertook in 1864 creating a detailed account of his life and activities so his children would have a record about their family.
Martin and his wife, Clara Cary, bought a house at 130 Center Street in Bangor in 1854. Five of their six children were born there. Besides drawing and explaining the exterior of the house, Martin included a floor plan on page 514 of his journal.
He wrote, "Having described the premises outside for the benefit of my children I give a simple outline & location of the ground floor inside and locate some of the furniture which will be familiar to them perhaps as long as they live." Only two of the Martin children, Ada and John Jr. survived their parents.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Houses--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Architectural drawing
Martin, Ada
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Martin, Jr. , John
John Martin house floor plan, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew this illustration of the Fiske Block on Broad Street in Bangor as part of a journal he wrote and illustrated in 1864 to document his life and activities for his children.
Martin included the drawing of the Fiske Block on page 517 as part of going to work as an accountant for I W Patten's store, which was located at the Doctor James B. Fiske Block. He wrote that Patten had just purchased the store and hired the wharf opposite and could use Martin's help.
Martin added later to his description of the building that, "Saturday night may 12 1866 John Womans' Barn was set on fire E H Tebbets horse shed and 4 stores commencing at I W Pattens and running north Cyras Goss were entirely consumed so the walls tumbled in and floors fell in enbracing the engine planing mills &c ."
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Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Piers & wharves--Maine--Bangor
Goss, Cyrus
Martin, John
Tebbets , E. H.
Womans, John
Fiske Block, Broad Street, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
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John Martin
Thomas A. White's Dry Goods Emporium adjoined the Penobscot Exchange on Exchange Street in Bangor. White was one of the first shops in Bangor to specialize in dry goods -- rather than carrying a variety of groceries and other items as well. The store pictured in the middle was a wholesale business. The north and south stores were for retail sales.
The brick building is captured in a drawing done by John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper who wrote and illustrated a journal reflecting on his life and experiences in the Bangor area. The illustration appears on page 545.
Martin noted in his account that accompanies the drawing that when the Civil War broke out in 1861, Daniel Chaplin, a clerk for Thurston & Metcalf used part of the building pictured to recruit volunteers. He reportedly signed up 110 men in two days for the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, in which he became a captain.
Martin worked for Thomas White from July to the end of November 1861, even though the pay was quite low. White had a reputation of being difficult to work for, Martin wrote, "His presence was a perfect hell in his store or house."
The man in the drawing is White. The items on the sidewalk are a bale of soldiers' blankets and a bale of cotton warp.
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Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Bangor (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1862-1865--Recruiting and enlistment
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Dry goods stores--Maine--Bangor
Commercial streets--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
United States--History--Civil War, 1862-1865--Recruiting and enlistment
Recruiting and enlistment
Soldiers--Maine
United States. Army. Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st (1863-1865)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Chaplin, Daniel
Martin, John
White, Thomas A.
Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864
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1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
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The primary and intermediate school shown here was on the east side of Center Street opposite the intersection with Jefferson Street in Bangor.
John Martin (1823-1904) included this illustration of the school and a floor plan on page 609 of the Journal he began writing and illustrating in 1864 to record his experiences for his children.
He noted that the color he used was correct when he made the illustration. Then, on Nov. 1, 1865, the school superintending committee had the building painted a light yellow.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, and his wife, Clara Cary Martin, had six children. Their daughter, Annie, he noted, graduated from the intermediate school "under Miss Berniece Morse" on Saturday, Feb. 17, 1866.
He wrote that the school was built in the summer of 1855 after residents of the area repeatedly petitioned for a school in the neighborhood. His eldest daughter, Ada, began going to the school on Dec. 17, 1855.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Schools--Maine--Bangor
Stores & shops--Maine--Bangor
Martin, Ada
Martin, Annie
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Morse, Bernice
Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865
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1865
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant, shopkeeper, and author and illustrator of a journal recounting his life and experiences in the Bangor area, drew this illustration of the Division Street School, which he included on page 618 of his journal.
Martin wrote that until the Center Street school was built in 1855, his eldest daughter, Ada, attended the Division Street School. He wrote, "In 1844 when I came to Bangor last Miss Norcross taught an exelent school in the yellow school house she was very much endeared to all her schollars."
The area became largely Irish and Martin reported that his wife, Clara, and other parents complained about the condition of the school. It was cleaned up and a new teacher installed.
Martin wrote under the illustration, "South End and eastern side of Division Street school House situated on the north side of the street in the rear of the Resivoir, House painted chrome yellow with yellow curtains The wood shed & out house fence Rough boards no paint Resivoir scuttles cast iron set in granit square blocks."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Schools--Maine--Bangor
Martin, Ada
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Division Street School, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
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John Martin
The south side and west end of Third Parish Church, also known as Central Congregational Church, in Bangor are shown in this illustration by John Martin (1823-1904), who included it on page 630 of the Journal he began in 1864 to recount his life and experiences and events in the Bangor area.
The church was on French Street, opposite the Hammatt Block. John D. Towle of Boston designed the Italianate structure.
Martin wrote of the building of the church, "Land being high and the society being in majority poor it was difficult to purchase a desirable lot but a mud hole or run containing just room enough to build the building on and give a space sufficient to hitch and turn horses was vacant on French Street and the Committee purchased this lot so as to convene in a central point of view the people who worshiped in this church which belonged on the other side of the stream."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Churches--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John
Towle, John D.
Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew these illustrations of his daughter, Ada, in three positions on page 545 of a journal he began writing in 1864 to recount his life, work, and experiences.
Ada (1851-1923) was the eldest child of John and Clara Cary Martin. She and her brother John Jr. were the only two of the six Martin children to survive their parents.
At left is Ada as she was dressed from ages 4 to 6 at left, reading a book. Martin wrote, "reading picture books and primmers and giving the names of a 150 pictures before she could read a word as early as from 3 to 4 years old she made books her friend & has never yet departed from them.'
In the center, she is shown as she appeared in her dancing debut at age 5, in one position of the Highland Fling. At right, she is in "her ever favoured hobby sitting by a window all alone in a rocking chair her foot on another chair reading."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Daughters--Maine--Bangor
Martin, Ada
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Martin, Jr. , John
Ada Martin, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
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John Martin
Annie Martin (1855-1889), the second child of John and Clara Martin of Bangor, is shown in four positions from ages 3 to 10 in an illustration her father drew and included on page 646 of his "Journal" in which he recounted his life's activities and experiences.
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant, was interested in fashion, among many other topics, and generally tried to depict people in his drawings in the costumes they wore.
He wrote that in the illustrated numbered "2," she was making a dress for her doll, telling the cat she could not pick it up because she was busy. He wrote, "even now 1864 she has a very large doll nicely dressed she learned her lessons but was not inclined to read further and she was always very feeling."
Her father wrote of her, "She is always very particular and neat about her best clothes and dotes on them."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Daughters--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, Annie
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Annie Martin, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1864
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John Martin
John Martin Jr. (1857-1929) was the third child and first son of John and Clara Cary Martin of Bangor.
His father, John Martin (1823-1904), drew him "in his favorite inclinations" on page 647 of his "Journal" that he wrote and illustrated beginning in 1864 to recount his life and experiences so his children could better understand their father and their own childhoods.
He is shown "haulling his pas dinner on his red sled Tiger in 1862," "mutilating his apple tree," with David Towle, wading in the mud in 1865; and with Fred Wood playing horse in 1864.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Sons----Maine--Bangor
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Martin, Jr., John
Towle, David
Wood, Fred
John Martin Jr., Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
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John Martin
The illustrations of Elmer Ellsworth Martin (1860-1870) are included on page 648 of the "Journal" his father wrote starting in 1864 to recount his experiences for his children.
Elmer, who died of scarlet fever, is shown at age 4 at top telling his mother, Clara Cary Martin (1836-1902), stories; climbing a tree at center, and showing his father, John Martin (1823-1904), "what he and Junior learned to do on the soft ground in the garden in the fall of 1864."
Martin described Elmer, his fourth child and second son, "his body is large his legs and arms are large his feet and hands are very small. he has no fear. will stand on a table and jump without scringing off on a hard floor will jump from the top of the shed about 8 feet his element is to be up in the air."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Children----Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Sons----Maine--Bangor
Sons--Maine--Bangor
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, Elmer Ellsworth
Martin, John
Elmer Ellsworth Martin, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1865
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John Martin
Annie Martin Snow (1855-1889) died on August 30, 1889, while visiting the home of her parents, Clara and John Martin, in Bangor. She had been ill for several years.
She and her husband of nine years, G. Fred Snow, had been living in New Brunswick, Canada, where he worked.
Her father, John Martin (1823-1904) drew the illustration of her casket on page 80 of a scrapbook he wrote beginning in 1888. Under the illustration, he wrote:
"At the head of the casket were immence Boquets No 1 & 2 also a Splendid Square tablet with heavy border similar to a deep gilt frame inscribed in black letters / Annie (which is marked 3) this and the Salver of white Lillies were the richest & handsomest collection of flowers. No 4 was a wreath interspersed with roses and the choicest flowers, No 5 was I might say a mound of flowers presented by neighbours, friends from a broad."
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Coffins
Daughters----Maine--Bangor
Death--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Flower arrangements
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
Snow, Annie Martin
Snow, G. Fred
Annie Martin Snow casket, Bangor, 1889
Image
1889
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1889
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), an account and architecture enthusiast, called this house "the most & best house I ever see for $1000."
The house belonged to Alden Merry and was built in 1891 in Brownville Junction. Martin was working as an accountant at Katahdin Iron Works, about 10 miles away.
Martin frequently made detailed illustrations of houses and other buildings in and around Bangor where he lived. This illustration is on page 127 of a "scrapbook" he wrote and illustrated starting in 1888.
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Houses--Maine--Brownville Junction
Diaries
Brownville Junction (Me.)
Bangor (Me.)--History
Architectural drawing
Katahdin Iron Works (Me.)
Martin, John
Merry, Alden
Plan of Alden Merry's house, Brownville Junction, 1893
Image
1893-01-31
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Brownville Junction, Piscataquis County, ME, USA
1893
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John Martin
Mabelle Martin (1866-1899), the third daughter and youngest child of John and Clara Martin of Bangor, died of typhoid fever on March 25, 1899.
Her brother Frank died shortly after birth in 1862, brother Elmer died in 1870, and sister Annie Martin Snow died in 1889. Only two children, Ada (1851-1923) and John Jr. (1857-1929) outlived their parents.
John Martin drew this illustration of the scene of Mabelle's coffin in the parlor of the family home and included it in the Scrap and Sketch Book he wrote starting in 1888 in which he recounted his activities and recalled some of his history. The illustration is on page 154.
Mabelle Martin had been a teacher and her father reported that teachers arranged the flowers for the casket and funeral.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Coffins
Daughters----Maine--Bangor
Death--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Flower arrangements
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Teachers--Maine--Bangor
Martin, Ada
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, Elmer
Martin, Frank
Martin, John
Martin, Mabelle
Martin, Jr., John
Snow, Annie Martin
Mabelle Martin's casket, Bangor, 1899
Image
1899
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1899
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John Martin
Bands and supporters from Portland, Bangor, and Augusta met at the Augusta train depot on September 6, 1872 in a political rally.
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor illustrated the event as part of his "Scrap Book no 3" that he wrote and illustrated starting in 1876. In it, he recounted current events and recalled past ones.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, and fellow supporters of the Republican ticket to re-elect U.S. Grant and his running mate, Henry Wilson, took a train from Bangor to the rally, then returned home on the train.
Some of the signs in the illustration read, "Democrat House no illumination," "Three cheers for illumination on the left," and "Grant and Wilson." The illustration appears on page 132 of the scrapbook.
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Political parades & rallies--Maine--Augusta
Augusta (Me.)
Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
Political campaigns
Grant, Ulysses S.
Martin, John
Wilson, Henry
Grant-Wilson political rally, Augusta Depot, 1872
Image
1872-09-06
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Augusta, Kennebec County, ME, USA
1872
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John Martin
Capt. L. J. Morse was commander of Co. A, Light Infantry, of the Maine State Guard, which participated in the consecration of the Soldiers' Monument at Mount Hope Cemetery on June 17, 1864.
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, drew the illustration of Morse on page 25 in his 1864 "Scrap and Sketch Book."
He wrote, "The state guards wore a bear skin cap as represented. their coats most wholly red."
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Me.)
Diaries
Monuments & memorials--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Soldiers--Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Morse, L. J.
Capt. L. J. Morse, Co. A, Maine State Guard, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
9 cm x 3 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864-06-17
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor, an accountant, shopkeeper, and garden and landscape enthusiast, drew this illustration of an apple tree on page 42 of a "Scrap and Sketch Book" he started in 1864.
Martin entitled the drawing "The Tree I Lost." He wrote that he planted the tree, which came from Nath Harlow's nursery in Bangor, in 1856 "on the very best soil I had." He wrote, "Samuel C Harlow supposed it to be a Hubbard none such which is represented in the agricultural books as being the king apple as to quality, size, durability, and soundness."
Martin found it "a specie of greening with a red cheek the flesh when ripe a juicy tender tart very sharp."
In 1862, the tree was heavily laden with apples when a September tornado split the tree and "laid the largest half on the ground."
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Diaries
Apple trees--Maine--Bangor
Apples--Maine--Bangor
Accounting--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Harlow, Nath
Harlow, Samuel C.
Martin, John
John Martin apple tree, Bangor, ca. 1862
Image
1864
14 cm x 21 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1862
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John Martin
Ada Martin (1851-1923), the eldest child of John and Clara Martin of Bangor, participated in what her father called "one of the most novel sights ever exhibited in this city" -- a gymnastics demonstration.
John Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and shopkeeper, drew the illustration of his daughter in her gymnastic costume as she appeared in the performance at Solon Wilders Floral Concert at Norombega Hall in Bangor on July 9, 1864.
Martin wrote that in other years, the performance had been mostly singing, but in 1864, 26 of his 400 students performed the gymnastics they had practiced. Martin wrote a detailed description of the event, along with the illustration, on page 43-44 of his 1864 "Scrap and Sketch Book."
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Acrobats--Maine--Bangor
Gymnastics--Maine--Bangor
Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Martin, Ada
Martin, Clara
Martin, John
Ada Martin gymnastic costume, Bangor, 1864
Image
1864
8 cm x 4.5 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
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John Martin
John Martin (18232-1904) on page 54 in his 1864 "Scrap & Sketch Book" drew an illustration of two slave whips and a slave being whipped.
Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote that he read "many hundred pages on southern life and examined cuts of southern life." He also talked to a former slave, Frank Davis, who "followed the 26th Maine Regt from Vicksburg to Bangor" and who worked for Nath Harlow, a nurseryman.
Martin talked to Davis about his experiences and asked him about being whipped, then drew the illustration. He said the young former slave made a whip to show Martin and others what it was like.
Martin's narrative describes the whip and the story the young man told.
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Freedmen--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Punishment devices--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Slavery
Slaves
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 26th (1862-1863)
Whips
Davis, Frank
Harlow, Nath
Martin, John
Slave whip, 1864
Image
1864
5 cm x 21 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1864
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John Martin
On Thursday, Oct. 1, 1857, thousands gathered on the circus grounds Summer Street in Bangor to watch the ascension of a yellow silk balloon named "Young America." It was the first balloon ascension in Bangor.
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, attended. He wrote, "This was one of the most magnificient sights I ever witnessed in all my day. I had read and heard of men going above the clouds, I now had the reality before me and I made a vow that from that day out I would never dispute any science projected by man untill it was fully demonstrated that it was a failure or an impossibility..."
In a "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began in 1864 in which he recalled past events and wrote about current ones, Martin wrote starting on page 112 that Jim Dunning and others and Mr. Wise of Boston arranged the event. He said the balloon was about 30 feet tall when inflated.
When the balloon went up, he wrote, "the sight was so sudden and so grand that hardly a person could express even their amazement every one of all the thousands were as it were dumb for a moment when at this moment the balloon struck an upper current and began to sail off bearing easterly."
His 6-year-old daughter, Ada, commented, while the balloon was at its highest point about "poor man one mile high in the air all alone sustained by a cloth bag filled with gas."
The journals and scrapbooks Martin wrote from 1864 to about 1898 comment on his life, architecture, landscaping and gardening, education, business, inventions, family life, neighborhoods, and almost all other aspects of 19th century in the Bangor area.
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Scrapbooks
Balloons (Aircraft)--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Dunning, Jim
Martin, Ada
Martin, John
First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857
Image
1864
14 cm x 8 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1857
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John Martin
On page 122 of a "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began in 1864, Bangor accountant and shopkeeper John Martin (1823-1904) drew a full-page illustration of Excursion Wharf, Fort Pownal, Fort Point Light in Stockton Springs, and a picnic that he and his wife and children had.
Members of the Third Parish Church in Bangor, joined by the First Parish, made the excursion down the Penobscot River on August 10, 1865. Martin wrote, "My family as a whole had never been down river before and I concluded to give the day to the whole family so we prepared eatables & other articles and all started accompanied by Howard L Sampson who was paying us a visit from Harrison Maine we had no band of Music as is usual on such occasions ..."
Martin, his wife, Clara, and their children, Ada, Annie, Junior, and Elmer went on the excursion on <em>Fairy of the Wave,</em> a vessel Hugh Ross had built with a dance floor on each deck. He ran regular excursions to Fort Point Light from Bangor.
He wrote on the illustration that on July 22, 1873, the Third Parish, accompanied by many Unitarians and Episcopalians made the same excursion. At that time, Martin, his wife, Clara, and children Ada and Annie were on the trip.
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Boats--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Fort Pownall (Me.)
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Picnics--Maine--Stockton Springs
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, Ada
Martin, Annie
Martin, Clara
Martin, Elmer
Martin, John
Martin, Junior
Ross, Hugh
Sampson, Howard L.
Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865
Image
1865
30.5 cm x 22 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Stockton Springs, Waldo County, ME, USA
1865-08-10
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John Martin
John Martin (18223-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper who detailed his life and experiences and the communities in which he lived in a series of journals and scrapbooks, drew his son Elmer (1860-1870) in the family's back yard in Bangor in August 1865.
The illustration is on page 124 of Martin's "Scrap & Sketch Book" that he began in 1864. In the corner of the illustration, Martin wrote that Elmer went out to play in the yard and discovered a hammock in his mother's apple tree."
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Children--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Sons--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Martin, Elmer
Martin, John
Elmer Martin, Bangor, 1865
Image
1865
12.5 cm x 22 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, on page 127 of a "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began in 1864, drew "a series of individuals and implement which cost me during thirteen months of the rebelion nearly six hundred dollars and who was the immediate cause of thousands of dollars worth of robberies in Bangor which still exist without restraint."
Martin provides details of each person pictured. No. 2 is John Thomas, No. 3 is Thomas McAloon, No. 4 is Bill Stevens, No. 5 is a companion of John Thomas (also an Irish Yankee), No. 6 is Cornelius Driskill, "a dirty ragged full blooded Irish scoundral;" No. 7 is Thomas' dog, No 12 is Nellie Chapman, and No. 13 is Cornelius Sullivan, "the most daring and desperate shaved head ever in Bangor."
Martin often made disparaging remarks about Irish immigrants. His comments are among those in several sections of the Scrap & Sketch Book that discuss the "demoralization" of Bangor, including the arrival of prostitutes.
The shop he operated was robbed a number of times.
The other numbered illustrations are implements used in break-ins.
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Scrapbooks
Race discrimination-Maine--Bangor
Robberies-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Criminals-Maine--Bangor
Crime-Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Chapman, Nellie
Driskill, Cornelius
Martin, John
McAloon, Thomas
Stevens, Bill
Sullivan, Cornelius
Thomas, John
Thieves in Bangor, ca. 1865
Image
1865
25 cm x 22 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101152.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865
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John Martin
Annie Martin (1855-1889) was part of a group of 26 girls who participated in Solon Wilder's floral concert on Monday, July 2, 1866. They sang a song that began "Pretty little zephyrs we, Swiftly through the air we bound, Throwing blossoms all around," as they threw flower petals into the air.
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, drew the illustration of his daughter on page 147 of a "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began writing and illustrating in 1864. Martin created five volumes that recall businesses in which he was involved, his family, his activities, and life in the Bangor area.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101171
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Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Performances
Wilder, Solon, 1830-1874
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, Annie
Martin, John
Annie Martin as zephyr, Bangor, 1866
Image
1866
8 cm x 6 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1866-07-02
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contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
Dr. Charles Snell of Bangor was the son of a doctor. The Charles Snell pictured practiced in Bangor and his father in Oxford County.
John Martin (1823-1907) drew this sketch of the son "to show how near I can draw or represent when I undertake it in good earnest." Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper, beginning in 1864 wrote and illustrated five volumes of recollections and commentary on his life and on various people and events in the Bangor area.
Snell, he wrote, was his family's physician, delivered all six of the Martin children, and treated Clara Martin through several serious illnesses.
The sketch of the younger Dr. Snell appears on page 4 of Martin's "Scrap Book No. 3," which he began in 1867. Martin wrote, "I have given his general appearance both in form and expression although I have not represented his figure so large as he should be for he is a large man."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101173
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Scrapbooks
Bangor (Me.)--History
Physicians--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Martin, Clara
Martin, John
Snell, Charles
Dr. Charles Snell, Bangor, ca. 1867
Image
1867
12.5 cm x 10 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1867
oai:mainememory.net:101198
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contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
Senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin was among the speakers at the Bangor Democratic Convention in August 1866. John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper and a Republican, attended the convention at Davenport Square and drew illustrations of some of the speakers and of the scene.
This illustration, on page 20 of Martin's "Scrap Book No 3," is accompanied by the Martin's comment that Doolittle, a "bosom friend of Andrew Johnson and no doubt advised & concreted the shamefull betrayal of our republican party."
The Bangor convention preceded the Democrats' Philadelphia convention, held before the 1866 mid-year elections with the hope of forming a new political party to help President Andrew Johnson, who was heavily criticized for his policies.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101198
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Political conventions--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Doolittle, James
Martin, John
Senator James Doolittle, Bangor, 1866
Image
1866
9 cm x 5.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101198.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1866
oai:mainememory.net:101212
2023-03-12T08:35:44Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, drew an illustration of Gorham L. Boynton, a Bangor lumber merchant, whom he described as "among a class of risky and reckless men."
Martin, who wrote and illustrated five volumes of recollections about his life and events in the Bangor area and commentaries on contemporary topics, wrote that Boynton "appears as I have given him very large not very tall wears usually a low crowned straw hat drab or yellow pants & vest sometimes a black coat & sometimes dark or brown most generally cut frock coat and as a rule smokes a cigar while in the streets."
He also wrote, "Mr Boynton is a man of his word about his business and has a handsome property has a fine modern shaped house on Ohio st and grounds to correspond he is a man who always bows his head to every body he knows whether he is democrat or republican and why or how he is so tangled up in the principles of reducing our enterprising yankees to a serfdom is more than any man can solve. he is determined, Square outright in the belief that southern principles must & shall rule ..."
The illustration is on page 24 of his "Scrap Book no 3," which he began in 1867.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101212
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Diaries
Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Merchants--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Boynton, Gorham L.
Martin, John
Gorham L. Boynton, Bangor, ca. 1867
Image
circa 1867
11 cm x 11 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101212.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1867
oai:mainememory.net:101213
2023-03-12T08:35:44Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
Dr. George W. Ladd (1818-1892) of Bangor was an apothecary and involved in the lumber business. He also was a Democrat and Greenback Party member of Congress from 1879-1883.
Here he appears as drawn by John Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, who drew a series of prominent Bangor Democrats on page 26 of his "Scrap Book no 3," which he wrote and illustrated beginning in 1867. Martin, a Republican, described the activities of the post Civil War Democrats in Bangor.
Martin wrote about a speech Ladd gave on Sept. 20, 1866 when he returned from the Republican mid-term convention in Philadelphia. He wrote that the event was known as the "padlock convention," because it was held behind closed doors and no proceedings were printed.
Martin wrote that Ladd supported Andrew Johnson and that Ladd said, "if the radicals refuse to admit our representatives to Congress" Johnson would "place them there by arms."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101213
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Martin, John, 1823-1904
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Scrapbooks
Politics--Maine--Bangor
Ladd, George W.
Martin, John
Dr. George W. Ladd, Bangor, ca. 1866
Image
circa 1867
8.5 cm x 6 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1866
oai:mainememory.net:101214
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John Martin
In one of a series of illustrations and narrative about post Civil War Democrats in Bangor, John Martin drew this illustration of George Melvin Weston. It appears on page 30 of Martin's "Scrap Book no 3." Martin spelled his name "Western."
The text bubble above Western reads, "The radicals must be put down or we go into another civil war. The southern States have conformed to the requirements of the constitution & should be admitted."
Martin, a Bangor accountant, shopkeeper, and Republican, wrote that Weston was the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Bangor area in 1866, challenging Republican John A. Peters, who was elected.
Martin wrote about various business schemes and scandals in which Weston was involved.
He drew Weston as he appeared at a speech before the 1866 election.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101214
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Politics--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Peters, John A.
Weston, George Melvin
George Melvin Weston, Bangor, ca. 1867
Image
circa 1867
14.5 cm x 13.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101214.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1866
oai:mainememory.net:101215
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John
On Sept. 8, 1866, during the mid-term election campaign, former Vice President Hannibal Hamlin spoke at Norumbega Hall in Bangor on behalf of Republican candidates.
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant, shopkeeper, and ardent Republican, drew the illustration of Hamlin and quoted some of his speech on page 39 of his "Scrap Book no 3," one of five volumes he wrote and illustrated reflecting and commenting on his life, events in the Bangor area, and contemporary activities.
Martin quotes Hamlin as saying, "We cannot afford after enduring 4 years war in which we gave up three hundred thousand young good and true men to their distant & mournfull graves, and three thousand Millions in treasure to admit our govenment to pass into the hands of those yet red and dripping with the best blood of the nation without a sufficient guarantee to secure in future our civil, moral, and religious rights."
Hamlin was a lawyer in Hampden before the Civil War. He had served in the Maine House of Representatives and the U.S. House and Senate.
Martin wrote under the illustration, "Hannibal Hamlin in Norombega Sept 8th 1866." The remainder of the writing that can be seen to the right of the drawing is part of a longer narrative that appears in full in "Scrap Book no. 3."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101215
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Hamlin, Hannibal
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Politics--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Hamlin, Hannibal
Martin, John
Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor, 1866
Image
circa 1867
13 cm x 8.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101215.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1866-09-08
oai:mainememory.net:101218
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contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
Benjamin Kimball, a Bangor lawyer, served in Co. B of the 22nd Maine Infantry from October 1862 to August 1863.
John Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, wrote of Kimball, "When the 22 Regiment left Bangor for Ship Island he was the tallest & handsomest man in the regiment." Martin's illustration of Kimball and commentary about him is on page 58 of "Scrap Book no 3" that Martin wrote about his life and events in the Bangor area.
He wrote that on September 28, 1866, Kimball and Arvida Hayford, whose offices were in the same building met on a stairway. Hayford reportedly insulted Kimball and Kimball struck Hayford across the nose. Kimball was arrested and Martin speculated that he lost most of his business as a result of the incident.
Kimball and Martin were both Republicans; Hayford was a Democrat. Kimball took out a newspaper ad attempting to get back business and suggest that Hayford had set out to destroy his reputation.
Martin wrote, "This shows the spirit of democracy as it is which is to howl down every man who advocates right and is sincere in what he preaches."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101218
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Lawyers--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Politics--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 22nd (1862-1863)
Hayford, Arvida
Kimball, Benjamin
Martin, John
Benjamin Kimball, Bangor, ca. 1867
Image
circa 1867
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101218.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1867
oai:mainememory.net:101220
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John Martin
Under his drawing of a Gravenstein apple and a tree that appear on page 64 of his "Scrap Book no 3," John Martin of Bangor wrote:
Curiosity and a strange freak. In the fall of 1864 I set this tree in location No 4 history page 477 (his "Journal") and in 1866 it bore 6 apples the size & color below I shew them to some 20 persons while in full size one time S T Chase & his brother & Nath Harlow Esq Sept 8th I drew & measured the tree, it was 6 ft 2 inches high and 5 feet 1/2 inch to the lower branches. In the spring of 1866 the was no part of it larger than my finger but during the season it thickened up a little from the ground up 2 feet but when the fruit grew it would have bent to the ground but I took a brush pole I had shoved & tied it up as drawn."
Martin wrote "this tree Duchese Anjeolene" and then he or someone crossed out the name and wrote "Gravenstein" over it and crossed that out as well. The sentence continued, "and a dwarf belles early were the admiration of all visitors."
Along the right side he wrote, "I trimmed this tree in 1865 so I could stand under the branches which threw the strength to the sap in the top & made it bear prematurely."
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101220
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Apple trees--Maine--Bangor
Apples--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Chase, S. T.
Harlow, Nath
Martin, John
Gravenstein apple, Bangor, 1866
Image
1866
20.5 cm x 12.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101220.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1866
oai:mainememory.net:101431
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contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
A sketch made August 13, 1869 shows the William Stevens home in South Windham.
In front of the house is Annie A. Z. Stevens, with the notation, "4 yrs old last May 1869."
Annie Stevens (1865-1883) was the daughter of William (1825-1892) and Rebecca Raynes (1854-1907) Stevens of South Windham. It is not clear who made the drawing.
Rebecca Raynes Stevens was the eldest half-sibling of John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor, who wrote and illustrated five volumes documenting his life and times. He often drew houses and the drawing of Annie, whose head appears unfinished), is reminiscent of some of his drawings.
The drawing was found tucked into Martin's "Scrapbook no. 3," which he began writing in 1867.
Annie's older sister, Fannie Stevens (1861-1931) was an artist. She and a younger sister, Ella (1869-1945) inherited Martin's writings and his house in Bangor.
Pencil on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101431
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2
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Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Stevens, William--Homes and haunts--Maine--South Windham
Windham (Me.)--History
Martin, John
Stevens, Annie Raynes
Stevens, Ella Jessie
Stevens, Fannie Ellen
Stevens, Rebecca Raynes
Stevens, William
William Stevens residence, South Windham, 1869
Text and Image
1869-08-13
23 cm x 28.3 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
South Windham, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1869-08-13
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2023-03-12T08:35:46Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) sent a telegram from Portland to "Mess. Wood.Bishop and Co." in Bangor on April 23, 1870 reporting that he had his "discharge and pay" and was returning to Bangor.
Martin, an accountant, began working for Wood Bishop & Co., a foundry, in 1867. He probably was on business for the firm in Portland. He asked that they inform his wife, Clara Cary Martin, of his impending return.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101434
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Correspondence
Telegrams
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, John
John Martin telegram on returning home, Portland, 1870
Text
1870-04-23
20.5 cm x 13.6 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101434.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Portland, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1870-04-23
oai:mainememory.net:101438
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contributor:mhs-msm
The National Insurance Co.'s advertising blotter claimed $200,000 in cash capital and $312,641.61 in assets as of July 1, 1871.
This blotter was among the written and illustrated volumes of John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper.
Martin wrote that his son John Martin Jr., then age 14, began working at the National Insurance Co. office on July 21, 1871. He worked there for his eight-week school vacation.
Martin himself worked at the National Insurance Co., probably in the 1870s or 1880s, as "maine regester."
On the back of the card is a list of eight names: Sara C. Shaw, Sara Harrell Shaw, Frances Hilliard Ingersoll, Laura Emma Lander, Isabel Redington Thurston, Maria Louise Wing, Lucy Elizabeth Gallupe, and Mary Jane Stubbs.
Lithograph
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101438
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.2; loose
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Accounting-Maine--Bangor
Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Gallupe, Lucy Elizabeth
Ingersoll, Frances Hilliard
Lander, Laura Emma
Martin, John
Shaw, Sara C.
Shaw, Sara Harrell
Stubbs, Mary Jane
Thurston, Isabel Redington
Wing, Maria Louise
National Insurance Co. advertising blotter, Bangor, ca. 1871
Text
circa 1871
10 cm x 23.5 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1871
oai:mainememory.net:101439
2023-03-12T08:35:46Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, used a sheet of lined paper to record the birth and death dates and exact ages at death of his four children who predeceased him.
The calculations around the page are his figures on the number of years and, in one case, months, and days each of the children lived.
The text reads: Annie from July 1 1855 to Aug 30 1889 is 34 years; Elmer Ellsworth from May 25 1860 to Oct 15 1870 is 10 years; Frank Martin Born July 6th 1862 died a babe; Mabelle Martin from May 15 1866 to March 25 1899 is 33 years li 32 years 10 mos 10 days.
Martin and his wife, Clara Cary Martin, (1836-1902) were survived by two children, Ada (1851-1923) and John Martin Jr. (1857-1929)
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101439
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4; loose
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Daughters--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Family members--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Me.)
Scrapbooks
Sons--Maine--Bangor
Martin, Ada
Martin, Annie
Martin, Clara Cary
Martin, Elmer Ellsworth
Martin, Frank
Martin, John
Martin, Mabelle
Martin, Jr. , John
John Martin note on children's deaths, Bangor, ca. 1899
Text
circa 1899
17.6 cm x 17.9 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
circa 1899
oai:mainememory.net:101442
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John Martin
John Martin (1880-1824), a tailor, and Anna Stratton (1799- ) lived in this home in Ellsworth from the time of their marriage in 1822 until sometime shortly after Martin died in 1824.
Their son, also named John Martin, drew and annotated this scene at the homestead, probably in about 1846 when he and his mother visited Ellsworth and the old homestead.
Anna Stratton Martin was remarried to Solomon Raynes in 1826. A few years later, the couple, her son, John, and their daughter, Rebecca Raynes, had moved to the Bangor area.
Martin wrote in his journal of the visit to the homestead, "We found my fathers house moved on another lot and various changes Squaw Point cleared and every thing so changed that I saw tears glisten in my mothers eyes."
The drawing was among the effects of John Martin (1823-1904) and is on paper similar to that in his Journal, which he began writing in 1864. The drawing was not included in that volume of reminiscences and illustrations, but another version, with more details and more watercolor added, appears at the beginning the the Journal.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101442
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4; loose
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Diaries
Ellsworth (Me.)--History
Indigenous peoples--Maine--Ellsworth
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Martin, John, 1823-1904--Homes and haunts--Maine--Ellsworth
Wabanaki Indians
Martin, Anna Stratton
Martin, John
Martin, John
Martin homestead, Ellsworth, ca. 1846
Text and Image
circa 1846
34 cm x 20.5 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Ellsworth, Hancock County, ME, USA
1823
oai:mainememory.net:101109
2023-05-11T08:33:42Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
A boy in the post Civil War July 4 parade in Bangor in 1865 is dressed in "white waste and fashionable felt & straw hat" as depicted by John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper who reflected on and recorded details of his life and activities in the Bangor area in a series of journals and scrap and sketch books.
On page 105 of the "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began in 1864, Martin wrote, "Another splendid feature in the procession was the boys schools being each school in separate companies with a regular set of captains Lieut sargents &c all boys and their music being boys with tenore drums."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101109
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.1
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Celebrations--Maine--Bangor
Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
Diaries
Fourth of July celebrations--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Parades & processions--Maine--Bangor
Scrapbooks
Martin, John
Boy at Bangor parade, July 4, 1865
Image
1865
4.2 cm x 1.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/101109.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
1865-07-04
oai:mainememory.net:14660
2023-08-05T08:28:12Z
contributor:mhs-msm
Anna Bucknam
When Maine achieved statehood in 1820, the first state capitol was at Portland. The original or "old" state house, located at the corner of Congress and Myrtle Streets, was built that same year. The Senate Chamber, seen on the right side of the painting, served as Maine Historical Society's first location from February to December of 1822. In 1827, Maine's legislature voted to move the capitol to Augusta, with state business officially moving by 1832. The old state house burned in the Great Fire of 1866. At right is the Cumberland County Court House, built in 1816, and at center, the spire of the old First Parish Church. At left is the Portland Academy.
This watercolor was attributed to an artist by the name Anna Bucknam or Anna M. Bucknam when it came up for auction in 1998. However, the work is unsigned and the source of this attribution is unknown. The work was said to be from a house in the Yarmouth (then North Yarmouth) area. Research, as of 2023, is unable to match the artist to a specific Anna Bucknam.
An alternate title is "Maine State House as it looked in 1820" or "Watercolor of Congress Street, Portland."
Watercolor
http://www.mainememory.net/item/14660
1998.30.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Capitols--Maine--Portland
Government facilities--Maine--Portland
The First Maine State House, Portland, ca. 1832
Image
circa 1832
36.83 cm x 49.53 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Portland, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1820
oai:mainememory.net:100821
2023-11-14T09:36:59Z
contributor:mhs-msm
John Martin
In 1847, John Martin (1823-1904) was among a group of Bangor area residents who went on a one-day excursion aboard the new iron bottom propeller steamer <em>Bangor</em> from Bangor to Belfast.
Martin, who wrote a journal in 1864 reflecting on his life and experiences, recounted the adventure -- and misadventure -- and drew this illustration of the steamer. It appears on page 252 of the journal.
He reported that when they arrived at Belfast, the owners decided to try to vessel at sea and headed for Rockland. They had not considered the tide -- and the bottom propeller prevented the vessel from getting into Rockland harbor at low tide. They made it back to Belfast but ran into low water and fog, delaying their return to Bangor.
The steamer was intended as a freight vessel, so there were no sleeping accommodations -- and insufficient food. The beleaguered party, tired and hungry, arrived back in Bangor at 4:15 p.m. the next day.
Ink and watercolor on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100821
Coll. 1972; 1997.16.4
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Steamboats--United States--Maine--Bangor
Martin, John
Steamer "Bangor," 1847
Image
1864
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100821.JPG
Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Bangor, Penobscot County, ME, USA
Belfast, Waldo County, ME, USA
1847
oai:mainememory.net:11781
2024-01-08T09:27:28Z
contributor:mhs-msm
George H. Bailey
Portland landscape artist George H. Bailey painted this scene of a Portland Light Infantry muster. The lively scene includes a small military encampment, soldiers, musicians, civilians, and animals.
Although painted around 1846, the number of stars (17) on the large American flag and clothing styles date the subject to between 1803 and 1812. Ohio became the 17th state in 1803, with Louisiana the 18th state in 1812. The flag also includes a "P.L.I." for Portland Light Infantry.
The Portland Light Infantry formed in 1803, perhaps its founding date served as the artist's inspiration.
Oil on canvas
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1998.30.2
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Maine. Volunteer Militia. Portland Light Infantry
Maine. Volunteer Militia. Portland Light Infantry--Paintings
Military -- History -- Maine -- Portland
View of Portland Light Infantry Muster, ca. 1803
Image
circa 1846
44 cm x 54 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
ME, USA
circa 1803
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John Martin
John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor wrote about and illustrated his recollections of a circus he attended at the Boston Commons on July 4, 1853.
Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper who kept meticulous records and, probably, notes, wrote a journal and three scrapbooks reflecting on his life and experiences. This illustration of the circus swing is from page 14 of his Scrap and Sketch Book that he began writing on June 14, 1864.
Of the circus swing, he wrote, "The introduction of swing exercises on a rope as below commenced in this Circus which was as wonderful as any feats were conducted with taste and pride. In this exercise a boy hung one leg over the lower cross piece at figure 2 and another jumped down from figure 1 and come astride of the boys leg at 2 say 7 feet the boy at 2 sustaining him without breaking his leg."
Ink on paper
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Coll. 1972; 1997.16.1
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Bangor (Me.)--History
Circus performers
Circuses & shows--Massachusetts--Boston
Diaries
Martin, John, 1823-1904
Swings--Massachusetts--Boston
Martin, John
Circus swing, Boston, 1853
Image
1864
9 cm x 12 cm
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Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum
Boston Commons, Boston, Suffolk County, MA, USA
1853