Description:Excerpt from Biographical Review, 1896: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine As was the case with most of the active young men of his time, he was connected with the volunteer fire company, rapidly rising to be its chief. Under his charge the Portland Fire Department became famous for discipline and efficiency. It is undoubtedly true that the confidence and respect which he won in that capacity attached to him a corps of earnest, active young men who materially aided him in the contests in which he was afterward in volved. His first temperance speech resulted from his connection with this department. He was twenty - three years of age and clerk of the Deluge Engine Company, which voted to fur nish liquors on an anniversary occasion. Upon the declaration of the vote young Dow took the oor, and following his Speech the com pany reversed the vote and established a prece dent which it always followed during its existence, and which soon became the rule throughout the Portland Fire Department. Thus in 1827 the majestic moral victor was born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Biographical Review, 1896: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Biographical Review, 1896: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Biographical Review, 1896: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine (Classic Reprint)
Description: Excerpt from Biographical Review, 1896: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine As was the case with most of the active young men of his time, he was connected with the volunteer fire company, rapidly rising to be its chief. Under his charge the Portland Fire Department became famous for discipline and efficiency. It is undoubtedly true that the confidence and respect which he won in that capacity attached to him a corps of earnest, active young men who materially aided him in the contests in which he was afterward in volved. His first temperance speech resulted from his connection with this department. He was twenty - three years of age and clerk of the Deluge Engine Company, which voted to fur nish liquors on an anniversary occasion. Upon the declaration of the vote young Dow took the oor, and following his Speech the com pany reversed the vote and established a prece dent which it always followed during its existence, and which soon became the rule throughout the Portland Fire Department. Thus in 1827 the majestic moral victor was born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Biographical Review, 1896: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Biographical Review, 1896: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.