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History of Unity, (Waldo County) MaineOur database does not include an historic photo for Unity, (Waldo County) Maine, do you have one you would like to contribute? Contact Us! 15% - 35% off all Products ยป The Ready Store Biographies:Walter M. Brackett Biographical Sketch Walter M. Brackett, artist, was born at Unity, Me., in 1823, brother of Edward Augustas Brackett, sculptor. He began his professional work in Boston in 1843, where he was at first a portrait painter. He afterwards devoted his time wholly to the painting of game fish. An art critic in a leading journal said of him: "Walter M. Brackett is acknowledged by all to stand without an American peer at the head of his special department of painting. One artist only, Rolfe of England, is ever named as his rival as a painter of fish." He joined the Boston art club at its organization, serving as president for several years. A series of his paintings which portray the process of catching a salmon: "The Rise," "The Leap," "The Last Struggle," and "Landed," exhibited at the Crystal Palace of London, were purchased by Sir Richard Potter. A Short Biography of George Colby Chase George Colby Chase, educator, was born in Unity, Me., March 15, 1844; son of Joseph and Jane Chase (Dyer) Chase. He was prepared for college at the Maine state seminary and was graduated at Bates college with the class of 1868. He taught school at New Hampton, N. H., 1868-69; was tutor in Bates college and student at Bates theological school during 1870, when he took a graduate student's course at Harvard, and in 1871 became professor of rhetoric and English literature in Bates college. He was married June 12, 1872, to Emma Francette Millett. On June 27, 1894, he was elected president of Bates college, to succeed the Rev. Dr. Oren Burbank Cheney. A Biography of Nathan Allen Farwell Nathan Allen Farwell, senator, was born in Unity, Maine, Feb. 24, 1812. He attended the public schools, was admitted to the bar, and established himself for the practice of his profession in Rockland, Maine. He was a Republican state senator, 1853, 1854, 1861 and 1862, was president of that body in 1861, and was a member of the lower house of the state legislature, 1860, 1863 and 1864. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in Baltimore, 1864, and to the Loyalists' national convention in Philadelphia, 1866. He filled the vacancy in the U.S. senate caused by the resignation of William Pitt Fessenden, serving from Dec. 5, 1864, to March 3, 1867. At the expiration of his term as U.S. senator he retired from political life and afterward devoted his time to the shipping trade and to the marine insurance business. He died in Rockland, Maine, Dec. 9, 1893. |
Maine Facts: Waldo County Facts: Seat: BelfastEstablished: 1827 Formed from: Hancock, Kennebec and Lincoln
Unity is situated 67 meters above sea level. |