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
Academic 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
Misc.
Bennett, John D., A Brewer Childhood Sixty Years Ago: Brewer-Childhood
Carlow, Robert D., Mainly Maine Milk Bottles (New Sweden/Caribou, Maine: Sonja Sjogerg, February 1987): https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/230323449.pdf
Gardiner, H.N., “Investigation of Clairvoyance in a Drowning Accident at Brewer, Maine,” in Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, Volume IV (New York: American Society for Psychical Research, 1910), pp. 456-464: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_American_Society_for_Psyc/zHMYAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
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
Maine Register, State Year-book and Legislative Manual, No. 44- July 1913. Published Annually. Stanard Time Adotped for Calendar Pages. Prepared Pursuant to Order of the Legislature. (Portland, Maine: Grenville M. Donham, 1913), Google Books: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Maine_Register_State_Year_book_and_Legis/xfdWAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
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
US Department of Transportation, US Coast Guard, Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1989 (Including Recreational Vehicles), Volume II (Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, March 31, 1989), https://www.google.com/books/edition/Merchant_Vessels_of_the_United_States/JnqIq8LbNuoC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Brewer Authors
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
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