History of Brunswick, (Cumberland County) Maine United States of America

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William Alfred Packard, educator, was born in Brunswick, Maine, Aug. 26, 1830; son of the Rev. Alpheus Spring and Francis E. (Appleton) Packard. He was graduated at Bowdoin, A.B., 1851; A.M., 1854; was teacher at Phillips Andover academy, 1852-53, and tutor at Bowdoin, 1853-54; was graduated at Andover Theological seminary in 1857, studied at the University of G?ttingen, Germany, 1857-58, and was instructor in modern languages at Bowdoin, 1859. He was married in 1861 to Susan Breese Gallagher of Bloomfield, N.J., who died in Princeton, N.J., Dec. 16, 1886. He was professor of modern languages at Dartmouth, 1859-63, and of Greek language and literature, 1863-70, and in 1870 was elected professor of Latin language and literature and of the science of language at the College of New Jersey, Princeton. He received the honorary degrees A.M. from Dartmouth, 1864, and Princeton, 1896, Ph.D. from Hamilton, 1868, and D.D. from Bowdoin, 1894. He revised with translations for later editions "Curtius's History of Greece," prepared memorial sketches of the lives of earlier presidents and professors of the College of New Jersey, and articles, including the reviews of books, in the Princeton Review and the Presbyterian Review.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

George Palmer Putnam, publisher, was born in Brunswick, Maine, Feb. 7, 1814; son of Henry (1778-1822) and Katherine Hunt (Palmer) Putnam (1791-1869); grandson of Joseph Pearce Palmer; great-grandson of Gen. Joseph Palmer of the Continental army (1742-1804), and a descendant of John Putnam, born at Aston Abbotts, Bucks county, England, 1580; settled at Salem, Mass., 1640. He attended school in Brunswick, Maine, two years, and when eight years old went to Boston, Mass., where he was helper in the carpet store of his uncle, John P. Gulliver, 1822-26. In 1826 his mother removed to New York, where he was a clerk in a book store of George W. Bleecker for a short time. He became clerk for Jonathan Leavitt in 1830, and in 1836 was made junior partner in tim firm of Wiley and Long, book importers, for whom he went to Europe in 1838 as buyer, forming the first American book agency in London. Soon after this the firm became Wiley and Putnam. He was in London, 1837-47, in charge of the English house, and in 1848 established the publishing and bookselling house of G. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway. He was married in June, 1841, to Victorine, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Tuttle) Haven of Boston, Mass. He published Irving's Works; Edgar Allen Poe's "Eureka;" James Russell Lowell's "A Fable for Critics;" Bayard Taylor's "Views Afoot," and the first books of Cooper and Bryant in 1848. He established Putnam's Monthly in 1853; organized the copyright league in 1851, and admitted as partner John W. Leslie in 1854, the firm becoming G. P. Putnam & Co. In 1861 he organized the Loyal Publication society, which had an important influence on public opinion at home and in Europe, and in 1862 he retired temporarily from the publishing business and accepted from President Lincoln the collectorship of internal revenues for the eighth district of New York, serving 1862-66. He resumed the publishing business in 1866 with his son, George Haven Putnam, and they established the house of G. P. Putnam & Son, which in 1868 admitted another son, John Bishop, and subsequently a third son, Irving, and became G. P. Putnam & Sons, with a house in Bedford St., London, England. He was secretary of the Publishers' association, a founder and honorary superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 1864 was appointed chairman of the American committee on art, Vienna exposition, 1873. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Bowdoin college in 1853. He is the author of: Chronology, An Introduction and Index to Universal History, Biography and Useful Knowledge (1833); Plea for International Copyright (1837); The Tourist in Europe (1838); American Pacts (1840); American Book Circular (1843); American Facts (1845); A Pocket Memorandum-Book in France, Italy and Germany in 1847 (1848); Ten Years of the World's Progress; Supplement 1850-1861 (1861). He died in New York city, Dec. 20, 1872.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Martin Brewer Anderson, educator, was born at Brunswick, Me., Feb. 12, 1815. His father was of Scotch-Irish descent and his mother of English origin, a woman of marked intellectual qualities. After being graduated from Waterville college in 1840, he studied for a year in the theological Seminary at Newton, Mass. In 1841 he became tutor of Latin, Greek, and mathematics at Waterville college, where he was later appointed professor of rhetoric and lecturer on modern history, remaining there until 1850, when he removed to New York city and assumed the editorship of the New York Recorder, a weekly Baptist Journal. He was president of the University of Rochester, 1853-'88; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy, 1853-'87, and of political economy, 1887-'90. He was president of the American Baptist home missionary society, 1864; of the missionary union, 1869-'72; trustee of Vassar college, 1864-'90; trustee of the University of Rochester, 1887-'90, and member of the New York board of charities, 1868-'81. He received the degree LL.D. from Colby, 1853, and from the University of the State of New York, 1883, and L.H.D. from. Columbia, 1887. He bequeathed his property to the University of Rochester. He married Elizabeth Gilbert, of New York. See his life by Asahel C. Kendrick (1895). His writings were edited by William C. Marcy (1895). He died at Lake Helen, Fla., Feb. 26, 1890.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Robert Pinckney Dunlap, governor of Maine, was born in Brunswick, Maine, Aug. 17, 1794; son of Capt. John and Mary (Tappan) Dunlap, and grandson of the Rev. Robert Dunlap, who was born in Banilla, County Antrim, Ireland, removed to America in 1736 and in 1747 became pastor of the church in Brunswick, Maine. Robert was graduated from Bowdoin in 1815 and was admitted to the bar in 1818, practising at Brunswick for a time, when he inherited a fortune, retired from business life, and devoted himself to politics. He was a state representative, 1821-22, and state senator, 1824-28 and 1829-33. In 1829 he was a member of the governor's council. In 1833 he was elected governor of Maine and was three times re-elected, serving 1834-38. He was a representative in the 28th and 29th congresses, 1843-47, and was collector of the port of Portland, 1848-49. He was an overseer of Bowdoin college, 1821-60. He was married in 1825 to Lydia Chapman of Beverly, Mass. He died in Brunswick, Maine, Oct. 20, 1859.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor