 My name is Mary Foley, and I'm a Portland history docent here at Evergreen. I'm also a member of Evergreen Cemetery Friends of Evergreen Cemetery, which is an organization to help preserve and protect the cemetery The membership is $25 a year. It's non-profit We just recently had a restoration Project out here We hired an expert from Massachusetts to try to teach us how to restore some of the markers How to clean them most of all what we do is we give tours and our tours are theme-based. They're historical events that Have happened in Portland our historical people are like today the main charitable mechanics Association We're going to I think I have about 20 Past members that I will highlight and we'll discuss the organization But a few words about Evergreen Cemetery Evergreen Cemetery was purchased by the city of Portland in 1852 it was then part of Westbrook. It was Stevens Plains the whole area was flat. They felt this is a great area for a cemetery 55 acres were initially purchased and then as the years went by they've Right now. I think it is 269 acres are owned. This is The cemetery, you know, we're kind of flat But then you slope down and there's ponds in the back and then the trails from the city of Portland also have hitched on there It was created as a what I think of as a Victorian garden cemetery Being that was sort of in the mid 1850s the new trend For cemeteries versus cemeteries that were in churchyards or the western and eastern cemeteries as the cities became more populated People were a little leery about having so many I Guess graves or whatever they felt that this could cause disease or vapors from the whatever So they tended to want more rural areas for the cemetery. So this is I believe the second rural Victorian garden cemetery in Maine the other being in Bangor That being said unless anyone has any questions, but as we go along I'll discuss more about the cemetery anything I've forgotten. I certainly mentioned the next thing this tour is about the main charitable mechanics association And I'm a native of Portland. I grew up in Portland I think I walked past that hall all my life never even knew it was there and and this as Pat Who's the present-day library in there? She can Bouch for that. She says everyone who comes in there says well, where is this place then you know and to me a Place that Portland's rucking ball hasn't gotten yet is Just such an important historic piece of this city the main mechanics Association was started in 1815 without the building that wasn't there yet. They used to meet at City Hall or different places throughout the city and They were it was started the founding fathers were tradesmen themselves one being a baker one being a shoemaker So they were tradesmen who kind of wanted to come together to better themselves if If The the way I think of it. It's sort of the precursor to vocational education the industrial art These were all tradesmen Mechanics shipbuilders printers Etc. And as we go along I will discuss that more so they in 1820 an important piece was started was a library and of course this was to to to better them Educationally and because at that time, you know a lot of Tradesmen couldn't read or write and so part of their apprenticing which was Really brought through the the mechanical association was to teach them to read and write so it's always been an Institute of learning especially for trades people Eventually they purchased land on the corner of corner in Casco and built what today still still stands as Mechanics Hall and I have Just a little this is sort of before This is a picture. I think from 1870s and Carter's jewel jewelers if you're from Portland This building was right across the street from porches. And yeah, exactly when you say when I say that people go That building and this is sorry. This is sort of what it it what it looks like today present day Not much change not much change, but one thing that I really like to show is this I love the arm of labor which is right above, you know, and in these pictures You can't really know you can't see it, but I just think this is just Fabulous and another picture I have here is just to kind of give you an idea exactly how old that building is because That's Congress Street, and that's the building right when it had gone up And I mean you can see they weren't you know, they're just little On the stores there So all that being said I think that we should start and like I say I will get into more about the mechanics And what they do as we go along so This is Edward Souther Griffin Edward became a member in 1859 under the trade of a carver. Now he was what they called a He carved that the heads on the wooden ships before they would sail it was said that No Worthy ship would ever leave Portland without you know a carved head. This was before iron So he was he started out with his father down on I think it was India Street his father had a Shop his father carved piano casings real and you have to remember this is the Victorian era where everything was extremely ornate and At 17 he kind of left that and it kind of went opened up his own business of the ship and he worked for a Shipbuilder named Jacob Winslow who if you look through those trees, you'll see that tall monument and we will look at that further I have further specifications about that He carved in pine. So unfortunately all his work which Articles I've read it was just magnificent. His carving was stupendous Went down with the ships You know because it was pine. There's one item that we know of that sloughed and it's at the Portland Fire Station Museum and its eagles. It's an eagle head like a carving of an eagle So if you're ever in there, you can say, oh, I know that He Then got into sculpting I guess in granite So the thing that I I do feel that you will all when I show you this Kind of he is the sculptor Of the fireman Yeah, and I mean that's pretty pretty great Then also he sculpted Mr. Winslow over there which like I say we will go to see and I have some stuff on him So I think he's pretty noteworthy member of the main charitable mechanics Um Yeah Yes, and that Exactly. Yes, you're right. This was it was initially at the western promenade And I think in about 1910 they brought it out here And I would say this is a picture of it when it was here Because it certainly isn't where it is now up on congress street in front of the So it left here in 1987 and went up to congress street So yeah, I had that on my notes, but Yeah Artist that yeah, that Yes, that was his son Yes, and his father I believe is buried here too. Yeah, this guy was uh an impressionist artist But he wasn't a member so I couldn't concentrate I I've got a lot. There's a lot a lot. I can't tell you How many people buried here belong to the main charitable mechanics. It's just amazing, you know And and I kind of like think of this place as an outdoor museum I mean there is so much when we get into the end of the tour and we get into some of the big It's just beautiful And and you can see like the the grass paths this grass gravel You know, and if you look at those you'll see how they they start wrapping around and that was the whole um this Charles Howe who was a civil engineer the he was the architect of this cemetery and I guess they they had put it up as a A contest and he won the contest for but he wanted it to be You know there at one time were fountains and gardens and like the pond had a bridge that went across It was just I mean it still is beautiful But and I read an article in 1862 The superintendent out here in the month of august kept track of how many people came here over 5,000 people because from portland they could take the trolley out here And a lot came in horse and carriage But a lot could take the trolley because the trolley went up to the riverton casino which is Why the cmp built the trolley so that so that they could get transport people back and forth to the casino It was it was a convenient route This is our next stop this man is J.T. Emery and He's sort of one of our favorites out here because he was a member In 1855 and his train was stone cutter Now he is responsible for a lot of the family plot Hedging the curbing he also I should have mentioned But when we were first coming down western to the left used to be the city tombs and he built those Because in that in those days when if you had died in the winter or whatever they'd have to store the body So that's where and it was new I think he built it probably like in the 18 mid 1860s or whatever it went in out here Because the western prom and eastern proms were getting so old that that that they needed to replace stuff like so that being said this man did um He was a past president of the main jarid of mechanical association is uh he Did this which I think is you know the edging is is just beautiful But the unfortunate thing about this cemetery is that nothing is signed So you never really know who did what And you know some of the stuff out here is so gorgeous I just feel that that's important that he did some important stuff out here And they'll always say oh joshua emory, you know did this or whatever But to me I like to have documentation of exactly I don't have clear documentation that he even did this But you know, I think we could assume however I have found two sides three sides that I know that he did So as we go along, I just kind of want us to sort of all remember this man and I will point out some of his artwork as I because I call it artwork. I mean, I think this Some of what is out here is just beautiful. But as we go along I I have definite Sources that tell me what he did This is edward h. Alwell. He became a member in 1855 as a printer He's also was the editor of the Portland transcript and founder of the main press association So he he was big into newspaper. He was editor of a newspaper and we'll see another editor Well owner proprietor Also on this. Um, he also wrote history books about Portland. Um, one of them being Portland and vicinity boys of 35 the story about his childhood in Portland and he is He gave free lectures at mechanics hall, which a lot of the prominent citizens did do during that time or Educated because again, like I had said, it was an establishment for the betterment of tradespeople He said about the charitable mechanics association, which I think is a really nice quote An organization formed for charitable and educational purposes Offers free evening school for instruction in industrial training and gives free lectures by resident citizens And and that's sort of what it was all about. And if you think back then there was no welfare. There was no Uh pensions. There was no, um life insurance so If one of the members family passed If a member passed away his family was Sometimes just basically left destitute and this is where the charitable mechanics would step in and they would help the family so Like I say it sometimes I think of it too as kind of a precursor to To unions I would say are just in people being treated better as Employees treating employees better. It was sort of a Kind of like a wake-up call like, you know, these people work hard and and we should try to do more But at least these trades people these members had this association that would help them out and I think it's that's a neat thing and this is just a little um advertisement that was in the paper how they would advertise um About the hall the edward el rel Will was will be speaking on the poetry in humor of dialect and It was the tradesmen of that time for a wider Civilization more knowledge they they were seeking and it was a great great thing for them Now over there you'll see that gate. That's hh booty who was a past member too and he's the one and we'll see it I'll show it to you. It's You can see it right there, but when we go to we're going to take a turn here And you get get a better view about of that He was a former member and he's the one who left the money for the for the trust There's a still to this day is the booty trust at the booty fund. Yeah Yep This is uh, um, mr. Mg woodman who was not a member But I found an article where he sued jt emory for the work. He did he is so Because so I so I was really happy to find that because then I'm like well now I know for sure something that he did it's documented So you can see he used what they call the block letters and what um the The man was so upset about was he wanted to have the edging to go around For you know all the way around but emory said well you've got stones, but you know, you can't do that blah blah blah so anyway, they went to court and But that's irrelevant to me. I was just happy to to know exactly what he you know his work out here um And that like I said right there. That's hh booty with that ion And then when you see that ion trial us remember we had spoken about the older part of the cemetery That would be the entrance To the older part and this is william willis. He was not a member But I know for sure from I have the documentation That jt emory did this work plus did the monument So I think that's quite Quite lovely the that work. I think it was Very very nice And then so like now that I've seen that now when I go through I'm starting to see others that look like that and think oh, it must have been jt emory who did that so So the this next man is charles p kimball He was a member and past president. He came in and he was past president from 1857 to 1868 and he came in as a carriage maker Oh, well, you know, we don't think think much of you know, the horse and buggy age anymore and the Slays and stuff like that. So this was a uh, he was he lived up in norway He was one of 10 children. There were six boys in the family and they are all The the father had been into this business. It's been like 300 years in the family They were blacksmiths slaymakers blah blah blah So he came to portland and opened up a little retail shop This is like on the corner of congress in preble. I think again mid 1850s before congress is not so Reading is like so much this man. So then he goes on to open up Businesses in chicago in new york factories of making these characters He was an extremely wealthy man and his brothers also followed in his footsteps and you if you were to google him There's so much information about his carriages. He even went he had one call the portland Strutter which was it looked to me like a singular carriage like one two people would be in and he went to paris to the expo exposition in paris with it, but these were like some of the ideas of what he did and he just um fascinates me when you know, we don't think Back on on that era that often and uh, there there was just in these men And oh and when his wife mrs. Kimball According to the the book I read there from from the organization. She taught Drawing at the Main charitable I was trying to bring in anything female. I mean females are allowed now, but you know back then but It they and the association also used to let the suffragists come in and have their meetings there So I'm very I'm all over that. I think that's a great thing. So, you know, you have to it wasn't all male Organization but that was the time but I think that they were Were not anti-woman And this is just a picture of him and his brothers and I and we'll see his other brother over On the other side and that's a beautiful monument You can see how the middle class is emerging. I mean you look at 1820 It's all the capitalist and well not really after the 1812 Embargo or something these a lot of these capitalists lost their money or whatever So in 18 it's kind of the emergence of the middle class and you can see The you know, how much the association Helped make the middle class and and this was the main mechanic. There were other Mechanical charitable mechanic associations in other states. I'm Massachusetts, New York, etc So it wasn't this just isn't a singular just in this state So they were helping throughout the country To to build the middle class. I I think it's great This is Newell Foster Newell a foster he was uh past president from 1860 to 1861 Newell went in In 1853 became a member his trade was a printer He was the owner proprietor of the daily press which he started in 1862 He was uh bought in new Hampshire in 1815 he um His brother was the steven foster, which you probably don't but he steven foster was a big time abolitionist and This new foster he was rather um To me he was sort of like a liberal minded reforming kind of man. Um, when you When we talk about the newspapers back then to remember there was no phones no tv No, you know the newspapers were it. So you had your real conservative newspapers and you had your liberal newspapers and Elwell tended to be a little bit more conservative in my opinion than this man did um This guy also what he did for the association. He was in the state legislature I think between 1860 and 67 and he was able to procure $11,000 from the state to help pay off the bonds and loans for the building The the mechanics hall which cost $40,000 when they did it Um, and they had to borrow money and they had bonds Well, he was able to get $11,000 from the state because they were talking about Um, you know agricultural education or more education for trade. He's like look we got the place, you know Let's just show me the money and we'll make it statewide. You can all come down So he did so that's I mean he was responsible for paying off a quarter of that debt Which I think is pretty big But the real reason why I'm partial to this man is well, unfortunately he passed away in boston While attending an anti-suffer just I mean a suffragist anti Suffer just meeting with his wife and daughter So he he was I mean that's 1868. He's extremely liberal minded Because that that's when the suffragist it was post-civil war and they were just getting going again So he was with his wife and daughter He was actually nominated as a vice president of this new chapter and he accepted it and but unfortunately He died and was brought back to Maine to be buried. It was quite sad, but I To any man Well, I don't like to say that but I know and I know I know that L well was an anti-suffer Just and that's you know what I'm saying You know, I think there were some not that I'm saying suffragist anti-suffer Just is what makes you conservative and non-conservative But I do know from reading that that L Wells paper was more conservative than this means he he was a more liberal minded kind of reformer type This is the Jacob Winslow statue that edward Suffer griffin the first man that we saw in the tour Sculpted this man was a shipping Shipbuilder in Portland as I said before where griffin did his things, but what I really wanted to talk about this is 18 feet high Um Framed of eight pieces of granite the weight of the cuts 22 tons I like wow 22 tons The the flag with the w on it, which is on one of the sides there Is um the flag of the firm that he was the head of and Winslow himself is seven and a half feet tall The figure is cut from a piece of granite weighing six tons in the rough And his left arm holds a spyglass And I believe it's made let's see 22 made almost entirely from hollow well granite, which I assume was hollow well made so So this is william capin now a lot of the members of the association already know this i'll take that um book But in 1841 The association held the first fair the first exposition um Held in main actually and they held it in portland conga street chandler's band was there It was a big thing. I think over 24 000 people had come to this Um, and it was an exhibit to show their work and what they would do is they would present um gold bronze Gold silver and bronze medals to the to the um best projects submitted etc but what william capin did was um he They had a flag for each um trade for each trade group This happens to be one of my favorites. This would be the uh, obviously the shoemakers He that will not pay the shoemaker is not worthy of a soul So I kind of really like that and what they would do these banners were about 35 by 40 I think pat and I figured out and I did read that they would Present them either with a wooden arm board or whatever and they'd march down conga street and all the trades would march together and uh Well, they were the amazing about this is that The mechanics association has kept these for over 150 years the library. I wherever they put them But obviously that's not a controlled Climate like in a museum or whatever. So so they did um sell them in 2010 And I think there's over like a hundred thousand dollars Which was good for the association and and good to preserve these because they are really really You know and and when we go to the chapel afterwards I'll just kind of leave this book on a table if people want to just take a look at them 15 of them were made by this man who started out as a chairmaker by the way and uh, then he just um He became a member in 1826. So it was even before the the building And he was a chairmaker and then became the painter of signs And by 1830s, he was best known for a sign meeting So it was kind of like, you know, you have to think you know in that he's meeting with people and They're saying well, you know, you paint good. Why don't you start painting or something like that? So it was a progression um And the reason for the banners was like it's during the revolutionary war the main militias always had each militia had their own banner So in 1840s that was still kind of fresh in everyone's mind where the militias all marched under the same banner So I think they got it in the heads for their trades to march under the Same and the banners were oil on linen approximate size 38 by 35 inches about the size of the map And from this means obituary it's kind of sad, but For many years, mr. Capen has been deprived of the use of his legs by the disease known as painter's colic So sad, you know nowadays you wouldn't really see that that would be disability. I think but uh Yeah, so he was a hard-working man and he did a lot he Played wore a lot of hats. Also. He was like I think secretary for a number of years here but he was very very much involved with the the mechanics and It's just amazes me how these flags have I mean it's like 170 years Old in there and and when I read that when they went up They were going to go up for auction, but all the museums and main and even the simpsonian Kind of said no, we need to keep these together and So I guess they I'm not sure they let the Historical society bid or whatever, but anyway, they got them and so now they really are in a safe place in a controlled environment so that You know no damage, but I mean you've I've never seen them. I mean you and I probably saw them Are they in good condition? They're all restored now. They are. Oh, they had to be Oh, so I was wondering yeah, we thought we're here with some sort of Celebration with them and they're hoping maybe they reproduce them actually because they don't really Want to show them too much. So they're in the yeah, I don't know how that's going. So All the pictures are available on main memory on main memory. Yeah, that's where I got all these pictures of them So this next man is joseph r. Thompson and he was a member in 1833 His trade. He was a stone cutter. He was president of the mechanics from 1845 to 1846 In 1850 his business was located at the corner of federal and pearl and he lived at 121 oxford street. He This is I kind of like this picture that his father was enic m. Thompson who was also in the same business And if you look closely, it's kind of hard to see. I know from a distance, but that would be his father's Shop where he made the monuments and this was um Down on prebble street, so I thought that was kind of interesting. Um Um This I had told you about metals and stuff this mr. Thompson um Got the civil medal for marble work of superior quality. Um I think he did a mantle His uh, yeah his business was located, uh federal and pearl and uh Bob can speak more to the The actual architect drew whatever the cutting of that stone. I he does a much better job than than I would do Oh, that's not true. No it is Plus I'm very interested in marble columns throughout the cemetery And art knows a lot about this too is that the the the thompson shop made some of the most exquisite renaissance revival marble columns as the as the you know, the family stone in the middle of the of the extended loss and This is sort of remarkable in that it's both it's both relief Meaning the the text was was was cut out of the stone rather than inscribed into the stone And so you can read the generations of family by sort of the the the technique of Of writing the letters of writing the memorial around the stone But what is so nice about them to me is that they they they're renaissance revival. They're not gothic The cemetery is full of gothic monuments and of course full of you know, the egyptian obelisk because those date from the opening of the sues canal where the engineers and architects of england and america saw for the first time the The ornamentation and the sculpture of egypt and because they were cutting a canal through they thought egypt was a dead society So these were great symbols of death Funny thing about colonial thinking But this is so lovely in that it's it's kind of medieval and it's sort of renaissance that it has that great cap At the top and the caps on the monument actually serve to protect the letters Because it stops the stops the the rain and the weather from eroding the the actual inscriptions One of the worst things to happen here is if a stone slants backwards and and it's writing faces the faces the elements Constantly being being worn down by the weather and the wind and the rain and the snow and the ice But those caps actually have a function to preserve the memory of the people that are buried there and It's full of it's full of of granite cutting In relief and then this the the the monument itself that the marvel monument sits on a granite base and we've just learned of course that all these monuments are upright and and perfect After being here for 150 years because that chunk of granite sits on another chunk of granite It then sits on another foundation that was made for that goes down to the frost line, which is 50 inches in may Wow So that it's so that these so that they're preserved they're upright. They're they're architectural It's really kind of phenomenal and this was a double. This was a double stacked Curb here you see the first stack is kind of falling falling away a little bit That's what happens when a foundation At the frost line is not made for it and we've all shoveled the stuff. We know that snow is really heavy So when there's no mass in it and a and a melt at the same time the stones keep Sinking and just so you know granite is 200 pounds of square foot Wow, so what's heavy? Heavy heavy heavy material This is um, steven berry now. He he was a member in 1853 came in as a printer I won't say but the one thing I wanted he was also a mason if you look at that's the sign of the Masons and you see them everywhere in the cemetery But his is rather interesting because it has kind of like Quills on it because he was a secretary a secretary With the masons. So just a little bit, but you'll see that sign all over the On a lot of the stones out here and that that means that they were A mason this is walter quarry now. He was a member in 1841. He came in as a chair maker He was a pretty Big furniture maker in portland made extremely nice furniture Um, he started on exchange street, but during the big fire of 1866 he got burnt out and moved to free street Um, thomas p. Beals Apprentice with him who we'll we'll visit later, but A lot of his work can be seen in the skullfield wittier house in brunswick It's um, oh it's on their historic site They do tours, but it's I guess it's pretty much the same as it was in the day something like the victoria mentioned And a lot of his furniture is in there So and this is just an example of a chair that he made But i've seen other stop that was certainly more ornate, but I mean it was just made So nicely this was a table that was recently on ebay if you go on ebay You see a lot of of his stop if you you know have the money and that was his Trademark, but I'll have this book in the chapel if anybody really wants to to take a look This man was um, he was a member in 1826 And he was a hatter importantly. He made hats And um, the funny things when you look at the banners the ones for the hatters. There's a beaver on there Why is there a beaver on that beaver hat? Yeah He in the what lin told me is that he grew up in jinn makea planes in massachusetts And I guess this pudding stone is the only place where that's Comes from I haven't read this myself. This was told to me And so they imported it I guess from that's what he wanted for his his mark He had a hat store in middle street and he and he was a very philanthropic character. He belonged to the benevolent society Widows helped widows One interesting thing I read in 1829. There were people in alwell who were protesting Against him and others for killing animals for the fur. So I thought that was rather pertinent. That was 1829 We still don't you don't know it's come a long way since then this next one. This man was not a a mechanic but I know for a fact that this is jt emory's work um Is the most striking of any in the coping is an oblong square of handsome granite with rounded bastion like corn is Below the step is um, tessellated tiles And then they in Unfortunately, I mean this without those trees probably look just absolutely gorgeous But the trees have Uprooted what they call the tessellated tiles But if you look at the work the the the edging and stuff It's a much more sophisticated than the first stuff that we had seen by emory. So I I think That it it's beautiful And I don't know if this I just I had found this article the other night and yesterday We were walking through and I just checked and I went oh wow that is this guy So I don't know he probably was somehow related to jt emory, but I know that this is his work and I it's just I'm sure it's just too bad that this has been so uprooted but the the edging and stuff has has stayed nice and kind of like I don't know how to describe the architect stuff that well, but it just looks much Much more involved than the first work that we saw on the other side. So I was glad to find it So this is one of the four weeping women in the cemetery And this man was jm kimble. He was the brother of charles p kimble also a carriage maker and was a member in 1854 But it's too bad that son. This is just a beautiful Beautiful Monument He also was quite the carriage maker two winning medals at the the fair and It said that he must have made A good amount of money in his life because he summered he wintered in florida and summered in maize But I think that is just striking. I love the angels out here Neil doll who was right over here and Neil doll did everything in Portland He was an ex-mayor. He was the father of prohibition He was a civil war veteran was captured and christened in this Anderson Was traded out brought back. He was In the rum riots Because he was the father of prohibition and he in 18 He came in in 1826 and when he came into the association. He also brought in temperance. There was no drinking Which is a good thing But in his son fred was also A member of the mechanics. I don't have the ear he came in but he was also a civil war veteran um They came in under the trade of tanner and I believe it was down Somewhere they were all down in the old port areas where they where the jail is is where and it was neil doll's father Who started that tannery and then they sort of all went through but he uh, actually He drove him and fred Neil and that's his son fred You know it's hard to it's not like you've got a computer with a powerpoint presentation going on help me So it's a little difficult and I and I really like this, you know, because everyone says oh father of prohibition But I think this is a really the home Versus the saloon. I mean it was so awful In portland the drinking I mean they rang bells at 11 o'clock in four o'clock for the men to stop work and go get a drink And I mean neil doll was really Neal doll was really um quite responsible for obviously ending all of that and uh There's a lot to be said. I mean women were the men would get paid and go drink the whole page You know and then women were being beaten children abused because of alcohol. So You know, we kind of laughed at that old prohibition blah blah blah, but there was a big side It was an important thing. I think that he did for the city And uh, I just thought that spoke volumes from That was a common theme with all the early members Yeah, no 1515 on that was a common thing. No alcohol. Well, you know, look at how I mean We're really emerging. We're moving on up here in the middle class. I mean if you see these stones, you know These people were very very well, you know smart men and And made a lot of money for themselves and their families and I have to believe that you know, a lot of it was from the help of of being in association like that It's certainly because the the uh, the hall used to let these men do business there too because a lot of them Didn't have offices or anything so they could go and conduct their business sign contracts Whatever about using them? Now this next man Augustus g schladerbeck. I'm like, who was he he was a chemist. He came in in 1868 as a chemist. I'm like, you know big too, but then I don't know if I told you about the masonic temple in the article that was in the newspaper last week So I went down there and I'm up in this beautiful Corinthian room and I'm like, oh, isn't this pretty, you know And I look and there's these beautiful stained glass windows up there and in between us this big Big huge like god a portrait of this man and I go up and I go Oh, there you are Augustus g schladerbeck. I've been looking everywhere with stuff. He paid for the masonic temple He paid for it. I mean this guy he so then I go I delve more into him Well come to find out down on temple street There's a building called schladerbeck's well lo and behold built architect John Calvin Stevens There he was he started out as a chemist. He had a drug store at 501 congas street Kind of like this open all night. I mean this man was a worker You know, he was going to get some some some money and But then he got into Making instruments for physicians with another partner. He made a fortune in that Improving stethoscopes forceps that type of thing then he got into Flavorings food making vanilla and that with a guy named boss and they still are in existence today There's no stores in name, but if you go online, they're in massachusetts and um That's his little logo sign schladerbeck and fuss and you can still buy the product And he was a chemist This man was also an abolitionist. He used to let the The abolitionists use his printing stuff. He was a he came in as a book binder in 1841 But he I've read that he he would let them Use his equipment for the abolitionist movement And I also read that I guess his grandfather was part of the boston tea party So I thought that was a little interesting and there's just a a little I didn't couldn't find many pictures or anything on him, but just an advertisement for his His shop which was I don't think they number three prebble row But I thought his the The fact that he was a member but the abolitionist thing really there was a lot of abolitionists in portland. It's amazing Um, he would let them use all his printing equipment. So he was a great person. I think So this I find to be extremely unique This is the Area of et boroughs. He was a communism member in 1898 as a manufacturer Well come to find out this man patented screens That you're using your you know rust proof screening He was born in portland the son of irish immigrants He patented the screens in 1878 made a fortune Um, his company also made pool tables cedar chest crank photograph cabinets and made a lot of tools now the the Better photograph he was located down on spring street one through One to 31 spring street, but it's not there anymore. It's gone. It's kind of like probably with a holiday in and All of that down in that area and I've talked with people who remember it I actually my husband's aunt used to work there. I'd never heard of the place, but He uh, then you know, he'd advertise. He was all over the country with his screens did an extreme extremely good business and I just when I found his um I don't know what you want to call this a monument or I just think it's so unique and beautiful It's just it's great Really really nice And I don't know Bob might know some symbolism of it. I don't but uh, it's just neat Yes grecian is is exactly Yeah, but you know the son of irish immigrants and You know He did very well for himself Right here, um This one back here with the urn is um Captain thomas beals thomas p. Beals. He was the uh apprentice with walter quarry He was a member in 1887. He was a furniture maker, but he also Was a civil war veteran who fought at colt hopper and was wounded at petersburg He did very well for himself. Um, he started I thought I could remember. Yeah, kenna back street is where he was And he also sold what they called adjustable spring beds. He'd sell about 5 000 a year So I think it was probably when the spring beds were just the spring like what we'd call a box spring now But they're the spring probably in the old mattresses that went on top. So he was um But he was a he was a captain during the civil war and uh Fought in I think they said seven battles two of them that colt hopper and petersburg So he and he was wounded at petersburg. I don't know what the wounding was but he he was um Quite the man daniel chandler um the chandler's bands and he was also a member of The the mechanics he came in as a musician. I don't know the year, but I just noticed that yesterday and uh Janet had gotten me a picture of him But he was uh, he would uh play at all like at that fair and what they would say about him is you know Before the bands and the marching bands, whatever they do the the fives there like the revolutionary you see them with And so it was kind of like a musical progression when these bands came along and he was just famous And uh would play at functions all over me and I is it still in existence today chandler's band? Yes, I thought so like I said, I just noticed him yesterday when I was walking and I went oh, that's him. Yeah So he he was quite the member himself He was also uh head of the 10th regiment band And there that was a very special band because it was all uh drums and they had about 20 drums They were very well known for um their drum band This is um Luther Pingry Pingry Pingry Luther Pingry, and this is where I played her out Look, um, he was born in Norway, Maine came Portland in 1844 in 1854. He was a member Joined as a patent maker Now he um was also past president of the mechanics. He invented the artificial leg now He patented the artificial leg. Yeah, he patented. Yeah, he crept But you know, the civil war soldiers actually are coming home and they I guess what you call the magnet and the peg legs Well, he just kind of looked and he came up with his own Pat and his own leg which had the sockets in it so that they could have movement and stuff at the meeting which was quite a quite a thing The south was georgia especially Was ordering from him um He also In his inventing skills were used in making steam engines, carriages, mills for manufacturing lumber and models for the patent office. He also served in the um militia for the aroustic wars Rustics, which I don't really know much about but um that was part of his history But I thought he was that that's his patent right there and you can see the I thought he was certainly worth Worth mentioning. I think he helped a lot of people with his um With his invention his patent So the next person is frederick thompson And he became a member in 1889 And he came in as an architect and he is the person who designed the chapel that we will be seeing after this tour The wild chapel here in the cemetery He also designed the um, oh, this is a picture of him. I don't know if you can see it very well But like I say, I'll have this book But he designed also the western um under the west house on the western promenade Yeah, it's a beautiful beautiful home. Um And yeah, that's he did the um the west house. He did the walk of memorial uh library in westbrook He the former children's hospital at 66 high street Um, he's best known for his colonial revival. That is what he worked in and he also designed the castle in deering oaks park The little castle down there. Yeah, and he designed the portland armory, which is now the regency So he was a quite a prolific architect And then I'm John calvin stevens John calvin stevens He obviously left an indelible mark on portland designed more than 300 buildings in portland and dozens more in surrounding Areas and islands. He's the master of the shingle style cottage that has come to symbolize the coastal line of new england He also mastered the georgianian style colonial brick house. He lived at 52 boden street for over 30 years He um, I have a picture actually That's his home on boden street And they say if you want to see any work by john calvin stevens just drive Down boden street because every house there practically is was designed by him That is the house that he lived in. This is that um, kind of Revival that they're talking that's also up on 22 boden street and that's the last of the stevens his great great great Whatever grandson. This was in one of the local papers but um I person I love that house. I know which house that is it's just beautiful And I mean you could go on and on about everything that he was responsible for But I think the best way of expressing it is if you're interested just take a ride Boden street and practically every house on boden street was designed by him this is of Not a member but his son who was also here was a member who came in as As an architect, but this guy's this guy was a printer So when you look at the top here and bob you can explain it better than me. Why don't you do that? Oh that his name is in relief on the top of the stone only backwards because when when dies were set for printing Of course you had to write all the the the words backwards and so it's um It's a reverse process And it's it's it is just kind of a monument to his great work as a printer Yeah, it's really neat. It's it's unique and and there's something on the back here It's kind of a thing like it's almost like if you lift it up turned it over to stamp it His name would be there So this is um Francis Francis H. Fassett Um, he became a member in 1878 as an architect. This man, um is responsible for quite a few buildings in Maine He he was very prolific after the fire of 1866 One of the places um, if you remember Hay and Peabody's on congress street, which is up for sale Or was for like a million and something dollars was was one of his buildings Um, he was an american architect in Maine who built as many as 400 homes and buildings throughout the state Worked in the victorian high gothic and queenie in styles He especially influenced the look of portland and he's responsible for the portland public library Um, this was his house on pine street and if you're familiar with portland, it's up the west end pine You've probably seen it. He built that for him and his son. It's a duplex. It's beautiful. I I know it It's kind of a cross from butler school in that area Um, and of course this place where I work he he was the main medical center the the old main general He was the architect of that And he was the architect for the base of longfellow so and that concludes My tour but like I say the um, remember that the chapel was Frederick thompson one of the architects that we Saw here today was the architect for this chapel and the story behind that is the chapel is that um, it was Dedicated to samuel wild whose wife mary lunt while After he died had it it built in his honor And to this day, it's still and what was the year it was built the 19 Oh The year of the chapel was built. I can't remember off the top of my head 1906 and it's still functioning today Um, it was built for anyone who's buried here can have use of that chapel free And um, they there've been um marriages functions go on there you can rent it from the it call the office