Libraries -- Maine -- Bangor -- History
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of papers relating to the bequest of Samuel F. Hersey to the City of Bangor
Manuscript record book containing an extract from Samuel F. Hersey's will and transcriptions of municipal actions related to the Hersey Fund. Also newspaper clippings, annual reports, and financial records related to the Hersey Fund.
Notes for a history of the Bangor Public Library
Penobscot Bar Library Association records
Annual meeting minutes, reports of the librarian and treasurer, and correspondence.
Philander Gould letter to John E. Godfrey
Letter containing "an account of the proceedings of the library members."
William D. Williamson letter to Jedediah Morse
Letter written in 1814 by William D. Williamson, then postmaster in Bangor, to Rev. Jedediah Morse, preacher, pamphleteer, and geographer, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. This letter contains the earliest known reference to a library in Bangor. The library, when opened, was called the Bangor Athenaeum. It was one of the six libraries operating in Bangor in various times between 1814 and 1883 which merged into the Bangor Public Library, founded in 1883.