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
Brewer Memory Lane Bus Tour Stops: Brewer-Memory-Lane-Bus-Tour-Stops
Biography of John Brewer: document

Primary Sources

Alien Registrations Collection (1940): https://digitalmaine.com/do/search/?q=brewer&start=0&context=9052792&facet=
Brewer Register (1986): https://digitalmaine.com/brewer_register/
Digital Maine Repository: https://digitalmaine.com/do/search/?q=brewer&start=0&context=6692710&facet=
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
Joshua L. Chamberlain Correspondence: https://digitalmaine.com/chamberlain_corr/
The Journal of Margaret Oakes: https://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/journal-of-margaret-oakes/journal-margaret-oakes-introduction?fbclid=IwAR2Wp_EC9_cLdZvu0vSBuzjSXB7EZntaWcxwKLBY4k2os8_x38POp_hGyO8

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

Hatch, Louis Clinton, Maine: A History, Volume 4 (American Historical Society: 1919): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rH95AAAAMAAJ&rdid=book-rH95AAAAMAAJ&rdot=1
Monaghan, Joanne, Our Penobscot River Heritage (Bangor, Maine: Gordon Clapp Travel Services, 1981), Bangor Public Library Digital Commons: https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1253&context=books_pubs
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
Porter, Joseph W., The Maine Historical Magazine: Volume 6 (Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr Company & Printers, 1891): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Ifc7AAAAIAAJ&rdid=book-Ifc7AAAAIAAJ&rdot=1
Robinson, Harriet Augusta, Brewer Genealogy (1903): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t4jm29q1f
Thayer, Mildred N. and Mrs. Edward W. Ames, Brewer, Orrington, Holden, Eddington: History and Families: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89064043417;view=1up;seq=8
Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the State of Maine (New England Historical Society Publishing Company: 1903): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=XDQhAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-XDQhAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1
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

Record of Deaths in WWI: https://digitalmaine.com/wwI_personnel/1/
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
Agriculture of Maine, Forty-Third Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, For the Year 1899, Printed By Order of the Legislature (Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal Print, 1900): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Agriculture_of_Maine_Annual_Report_of_th/qjYHAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
American Investments Classified (New York City, New York: Curtis G. Harraman, 1900): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=AvIzAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-AvIzAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1
Annual Report of the Maine State College Agricultural Experiment Station, 1891 (Bangor, Maine: Chas. H. Glass & Co., Printers, 1892): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annual_Report/CwjOAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Annual Report of the University of Maine, for the Year 1897, Part 1 (Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal Print, 1898): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annual_Report_of_the_University_of_Maine/6I1HAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Annual Report of the University of Maine, for the Year 1903, Part 1 (Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal Print, 1904): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annual_Report/0C0iAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Bangor Daily News, A Day in the Life: Brewer, BDN Maine Special Section (February 28, 2013) Issuu.com, https://issuu.com/bdnsections/docs/daylifebrewerfinal_wmargin
Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the State of Maine (Boston, Massachusetts, New England Historical Publishing Company, 1903): https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XDQhAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA1.w.1.0.0.1
Cannon & Co, 1907 Directory of Bangor and Brewer (Bangor, Maine: Cannon & Co., 1907): https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn4hki
Cannon & Co, 1919 Directory of Bangor and Brewer (Bangor, Maine: Cannon & Co., 1919): https://archive.org/details/bangormainecityd00cann/page/31
Eighth Annual Report of Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, 1863 (Augusta, Maine: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Agriculture_of_Maine/foYYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Forty-First Annual Report of the Town Officers of the Town of Brewer, for the Year 1884-85 (Bangor, Maine: B.A. Burr, 1885), University of Maine Digital Commons: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2873&context=towndocs
Marquis, A.N., Who’s Who in New England, Volume 1 (Chicago, Illinois: A.N. Marquis, 1909): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8dDUv19AKv4C&rdid=book-8dDUv19AKv4C&rdot=1
The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer (Boston, Massachusetts: Sampson & Murdoch, 1856): https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_England_Business_Directory_and_G/bk7rIIhvXwQC?hl=en&gbpv=0
The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer (Boston, Massachusetts: Sampson & Murdoch, 1896): https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_England_Business_Directory_and_G/AOw1AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer (Boston, Massachusetts: Sampson & Murdoch, 1906): https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_England_Business_Directory_and_G/9_HUXvyguyMC?hl=en&gbpv=0
The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer (Boston, Massachusetts: Sampson & Murdoch, 1922): https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_England_Business_Directory_and_G/u3Q1AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Thirty-First Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Maine, 1916 (Orono, Maine: University of Maine, 1916): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bulletin/1jBsCOhN8qwC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Maine, 1918 (Orono, Maine: University of Maine, 1918): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annual_Report_of_the_Maine_Agricultural/N4Y5AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Maine, 1921 (Orono, Maine: University of Maine, 1921): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annual_Report_of_the_Maine_Agricultural/NmY6AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Penobscot County Registry of Deeds: https://penobscotdeeds.com/ALIS/WW400R.HTM?WSIQTP=SY00
Poor’s Manual of Railroads (1884): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Ncvsg65KThAC&rdid=book-Ncvsg65KThAC&rdot=1
Shepley, John, Maine Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, Volume 24 (Hallowell, Maine: Glaziers, Masters, & Smith, 1846): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ODAtAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-ODAtAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1
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 Commerce, Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1930 (Washington D.C.: Washington Printing Office, 1930): https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9iYpAQAAIAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP1
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
US Department of Transportation, I-395 Extension, Bangor to Brewer: Environmental Impact Statement (US Department of Transportation, 1981): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=EJ81AQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-EJ81AQAAMAAJ&rdot=1

Brewer Authors

Digital Maine Repository: https://digitalmaine.com/brewer_books/
Hardy Eckstorm, Fannie, The Penobscot Man (New York: Houghton MIfflin, 1904): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=lK5EAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-lK5EAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1
Hardy Eckstorm, Fannie, The Woodpeckers  (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1901): https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=AmcaAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-AmcaAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1

Maps

Map of Urbanized Area, Bangor, including Bangor-Bradley-Brewer-Eddington-Hampden-Milford-Old Town-Orono-Orrington-Stillwater-Veazie, Penobscot County, Maine (1983), University of Southern Maine Osher Map Library Sheet Map Collection: https://oshermaps.org/browse-maps?id=12937
Topographical map of the county of Penobscot, Maine, (1859), University of Southern Maine Osher Map Library Sheet Map Collection: https://oshermaps.org/browse-maps?id=104550
Sheet No. I Penobscot River, Maine. Map of Bangor Harbor, from survey made under the direction of Lieut.-Col., Jared A. Smith, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, In accordance with River and Harbor Act dated September 19th, 1890 By A.C. Roth, Assistant Engine (1890), University of Southern Maine Osher Map Library Sheet Map Collection: https://oshermaps.org/browse-maps?id=47168
Oak Hill Cemetery Map A (1941): https://archive.org/details/statedocs_maine_arc_wpa-cemetery-305
Oak Hill Cemetery Map B (1941): https://archive.org/details/statedocs_maine_arc_wpa-cemetery-304
Oak Hill Cemetery Map C (1941): https://archive.org/details/statedocs_maine_arc_wpa-cemetery-303

Photographs

Digital Maine Repository: https://digitalmaine.com/brewer_images/
Maine Memory Network: https://www.mainememory.net/search?keywords=brewer
Penobscot Marine Museum: http://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/collection/brewer-waterfront

Brewer Resources

Brewer Assessing Office: http://brewermaine.gov/assessing/
Brewer Public Library: http://brewermaine.gov/library/
Brewer Cemeteries: http://brewermaine.gov/parks-recreation/cemeteries/

Archives

Bates College Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Bowdoin College Library Special Collections and Archive
Colby College Special Collections
College of the Atlantic Archives and Special Collections
Maine State Archives
St. Joseph’s College of Maine Library and Archive
University of Maine Fogler Library Special Collections
University of Southern Maine Special Collections

Historical Societies

Maine Historical Society
Bangor Historical Society
Eddington Historical Society
Holden Historical Society
Orrington Historical Society

Museums

Brewer Public Safety Museum: http://brewermaine.gov/public-safety-museum/
Cole Land and Transportation Museum: https://www.colemuseum.org/
Curran Homestead Village: https://curranhomestead.org/