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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
853 Act passed by legislature appointing a superintendent of common schools......April 17, 1854 Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad leased to the Grand Trunk Railway for 999 years......1855 Whole system of legislation on liquor repealed, and license law drafted by Phineas Barnes, of Portland, enacted......1856 Joseph H. Williams, governor, to succeed Hannibal Hamlin, who was elected United States Senator......Feb. 26, 1857 Nathan Clifford, justice of the Supreme Court......Jan. 28, 1858 Maine liquor law in all its parts reenacted......1858 Bill passed granting the proceeds of 1,000,000 acres of land and the claims of Maine on the government of the United States, for the completion of the railroad from Portland to Halifax......1861 Hannibal Hamlin inaugurated Vice-President of the United States......March, 4, 1861 Extra three days session of the legislature, and provision made for ten regiments of volunteers for the Federal army, and a coast-guard if necessar
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1856. (search)
mely associations of which were to him pleasing, he particularly excelled; and there were few amusements he enjoyed more than coming in as a stranger upon a party of proficient players of that game at a country inn, or elsewhere, and putting to shame the champion of the village. After graduation he selected the profession of the law, and in April, 1857, entered the law office of Messrs. Griffin and Boardman in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in Boston, January 28, 1858, and soon afterwards went to the West to practise his profession. While looking for an opening, he visited Springfield, Illinois, where he made the acqaintance of Abraham Lincoln, and of his law-partner, Mr. Herndon; and after visits to St. Louis and elsewhere, he, at their suggestion, returned to Springfield and commenced practice in an office adjacent to theirs. He took part in the political contest of 1858 between Lincoln and Douglas, making various public speeches during the cam