Resources
From Brewer Historical Society
Hanna, David, A History of Brewer, Maine (Brewer Historical Society, 2019): Brewerhistory Book REVISED PDF
Beatham St. Clair, Barbara, The Brewer Public Library in the 1950s: library
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Information: document
Biography of John Brewer: document
Primary Sources
Eighteenth Annual Meeting and the Fortieth State Meeting of Maine Teachers Held at Bangor, Maine on October Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty: https://www.heirloomsreunited.com/2016/11/1920-program-booklet-for-18th-annual.html
Hardy, Manly, 1832-1910, “Hardy, Manly, Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-05-02).”, AW23 Ward (Henry Augustus) Papers (Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester), Ward Project, accessed August 6th, 2020, https://wardproject.org/items/show/14978
Research
MacMillan, Thomas R., “A ‘Real Social & Political Revolution’: Nativism, Class Conflict, and Urban Reform in Portland, Maine (1840-1923)”, MA Thesis (University of Maine, 2018): https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2978/
Histories
Porter, Joseph W., The Maine Historical Magazine: Volume 1 (Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr Company & Printers, 1885): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101013778970
Porter, Joseph W., The Maine Historical Magazine: Volume 2 (Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr Company & Printers, 1886): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072332214
Porter, Joseph W., The Maine Historical Magazine: Volume 3 (Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr Company & Printers, 1887): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3499051
History of Penobscot County Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland, Ohio: William, Chase, & Co., 1882): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t6m04pn1t
Military
United States Department of State, A Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval in the Service of the United States, on the Thirtieth Day of September, 1816; Together with the Names, Force, and Condition of All the Ships and Vessels Belonging to the United States and When and Where Built (Washington D.C.: Jonathan Elliot, 1816): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=1A9AAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-1A9AAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1
Legal, Businesses, and Transportation
Adams, George, The Maine Register and Business Directory for the Year 1856: Embracing the State and County Officers and the Titles of Law and Resolves of 1855; Together with the Mercantile, Professional, Manufacturing, and Mechanical Departments, Accurately Compiled and Alphabetically Arranged Under their Respective Headings, With a Variety of Useful Information (Boston, Massachusetts, South Berwick, Maine: George Adams, Edward C. Adams, 1856): https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Maine_Register_and_Business_Director/IJQoAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Cannon & Co, 1907 Directory of Bangor and Brewer (Bangor, Maine: Cannon & Co., 1907): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn4hki
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, “Brewer Brick Co. v. Inhabitants of Brewer” in the American Law Register, Volume 22 (1851-1891): https://archive.org/details/jstor-3303848
US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Flood Insurance Study: Brewer, Maine (US Department of Housing and Urban Development,1977): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/txa.ark:/81423/m3f03w
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