 Well anyway thank everybody for coming to this program that I've long awaited. Mary Foley is a part of the Friends of Evergreen and she's going to tell us about some of the illustrious members of Maine Charitable, some of whom are pictured on the wall here as presidents, that are now residing in Evergreen Cemetery. Or as Bob Riley says, guests at Evergreen. Thank you Mary. Welcome. So again, Mary Foley, I am also a Portland history docent. I just sort of went through the Maine Historical Society a few years ago and chose Evergreen to do my volunteer work and I absolutely totally enjoy it. As a friend of Evergreen, also our mission is to restore, protect and conserve the cemetery, which is also part of being a docent there and being there so much. And we've had a restoration there project where we had someone come up from Massachusetts and you know we surveyed stones and and try to. Right now there's a project going on because of because it's a Victorian garden cemetery world. There was the allay of trees and a lot of the trees now are 150 years old and it's you know some have had to come down but the board and with the help of us docent's we're trying to make sure that we keep that allay and that's just a couple of the things we do there. Our tours are free every Saturday at 10 30 a.m. They go through, I've brought the schedule, they go through the end of October. You can see the various tours that we have and read about them. They're every Saturday morning at 10 30 and every Sunday afternoon at 2. They include civil war, seafarers, highlights of the cemetery and a tour about suffragists, many others they're all there. Also we've just partnered with Ali the Osher Lifelong Institute at USM and actually that just started today and Carol one of the docent's has worked with them and she had 20 people sign up so that's like an eight week course that we'll be giving in the chapel there of and actually I'll be part of that. I'm we'll do the last section which I'll do my suffragist tour and what we do is basically what I'm doing here except we're not live at the cemetery and then we'll take everyone out and walk around on the tour but it's a great learning experience because there's there's a lot of history in Portland that you know you don't really think about and as a Portland native I'm always amazed at all the things I find out about people and what went on so I thought I just kind of show you this is how I do my tour there I have my notebook and in this case because of the main charitable mechanics I have the flags which we'll talk about and everybody knows about I'm sure but I do I did bring just kind of a little snapshot here of I'll pass it around handout of whatever green sort of used to look like to get the feel of the and when I do the tours I always show everyone what MCNA looked like in the beginning and and what it is now and of course everybody especially if they're from Portland they're just amazed that they've walked by that building all their life and never known it was here and you know as as a like I say a Portland native walking to high school every day for from West End Portland you know Porteous was over here and this was across the street and I never you know walked by a million times and even in this isn't a Dalton and and people are amazed when I tell them where it is and I'm always saying go there go there love it so this is this gives you a little perspective I like this picture because it kind of shows you what Congress Street was like you know back when so I show them that and then I also always show them I love the arm thing and I tell them go downtown Portland and look and look up and look in there like okay I have 24 members on my tour 24 past members on my tour I apologize if the some really prominent people that you you know think should be on it aren't on it but when you do these tools you have to do it also from a geographic perspective I mean I can't you know walk way down to the pond and then wait I mean I but I could give a tour I mean there's so many past members buried there that but whatever so in the cemetery was founded in 1857 it was designed by Charles how as a Victorian rural cemetery which was a popular movement in the 19th century cemeteries were built with the winding roads in the past because so when you're in there you don't you know if you go to some cemeteries it's like a grid you know you see the stones all lined up but in there it's the rural cemetery so it's winding in very very very beautiful really the cemeteries were kind of a precursor to parks that we have today it is the second largest cemetery in Maine it's on the National Registry of Historic Places since 1992 over 60,000 people the buried there and it's approximately 250 acres it's pretty big in Bangor and I don't know the name but I know that in bed is it Mount yeah I prefer that and evergreen is the second largest in 1815 Portland's manufacturers and mechanics architects masons furniture makers bakers tailors shipbuilders etc formed an organization for their mutual benefit and to provide educational opportunities for their apprentices the association still exists and is centered in its 1857 building at the corner of Casco in Congress Street the tour will focus on 19th century business and trade leaders who work together via the association to strengthen Portland's economy this is a signed stone by JR Thompson a past member of here the reason I like to highlight that is because you don't see many stones signed and when you do see one signed it's really great to document that because some of these stones are like very architecturally they're beautiful so it's nice to to know who did them now and mr. Thompson became a member in 1833 was a past president 45 and 46 he was located at the corner of federal and Pearl Street he lived on Oxford he has signed monuments at evergreen which is interesting because most are not signed and that sort of segues into mr. Emery who I really like to talk about here because we're just finding out so much more about some of the architects at the cemetery of the stone cutters or the sculptors so Joshua Emery his trade was stone cutter he became a member in 1855 was the past president did most of the family plot hedging in evergreen now the family plot edging as you can see in the Victorian world back that they'd buy a family plot in that they'd put hedging all around it a lot more I'd say probably 60 70% of the lots there do have the hedging around and we're finding that those were mostly done by mr. Emery also I found documentation that he was a also a stone cutter which there's a Willis stone in William Willis the stone Daniel Emery's stone that I have documentation that he did carve and then we have the tombs if you've been in in evergreen you probably walked down and seen the tombs that Emery did the tombs and then I told me he did the front side of this building it's like he just was everywhere it's quite the man but this this is a picture of him and these are just my papers with the documentation that he he did those stones so this is actually his says Emery this is actually his his family lot plot lot when you say edging you mean that hedging the hedging all around like that yes yes and then again this is this is his word before but I guess hedging because it's higher hedging hedging I could be logical so this this is Emery's family and this is one of one of these I believe it this is his stone and you can see it yeah yeah it's yes the bowl face lettering which is you know another kind of hot thing to do back in the 1850s 60s they didn't have all the equipment there but I'm always amazed at how these stone cutters well Thompson he wouldn't fit into that category but their stones are so plain you know it just thought that there'd be some elaborate but there wasn't so the next we come to will be Edward Elwell the stone is like right up in there it's got this it used to be you I looked for that for a good couple you know where is it where the had grown but finally they cut it down his stone is there but mr. Elwell he came in as a printer his member in 1855 he was the editor of Portland transcript which was the conservative newspaper here in Portland I always like to say about the newspapers in Portland that you had you had the the Portland transcript was the conservative I call that Fox News the Daily Eastern Argus was the moderate I call that MSNBC and then the Portland Daily Press was the liberal I call that no I CNN sorry CNN is the moderate MSNBC is the liberal yeah so but he was the proprietor of the conservative the Portland transcript he was the founder of the main press association also he wrote the book Portland in vicinity I have this I love this book it's just got some great great pictures and I just I'm always looking I never get sick of looking at that he gave many many lectures at the in here main charitable and a quote that I like from him is when he's referring to the main charitable mechanics is it is an organization for charitable and educational purposes office free evening school for instruction in industrial training this is mr. Charles Porter Kimble and you would ask me out about him mr. Kimble was a carriage maker well you know you don't think this man was so I mean he did so well he he was a president here from 1857 to 1868 his business was located on the corner of Congress in Preble he left for New York in 1876 then on to Chicago and became worldwide famous for his characters one was called the Portland Cutter that he died in 1891 in in Chicago but he the wealth that he accumulated it was just it's phenomenal and his he has a brother who's also buried at Evergreen that I will show but this was a picture of of his company on the corner there and these are his companies in New York in Chicago yeah he went on to in this is a picture of him he and these are some of his characters and in I think he won prizes for them at that one of the expos in France he was very very and that's picture of him and his brothers so he was quite the the prominent businessman that is J. R. Thompson's stone and you can see it's quite magnificent the cutting is beautiful and his stone is signed so I think he did his own or is his son's I mean it was a but that's about a picture you can see all the diamonds on there and this is Mr. Corey here Walter Corey who was a chairmaker but I wish I had some of his furniture because it's he was a chairmaker came in as a chairmaker he's a member in 1841 furniture maker on Portland an exchange street then moved to Free Street after the fire of 1866 he apprenticed with Thomas Beals who's also at Evergreen home and his furniture is mostly displayed at the Schofield Whittier House in Brunswick Maine I've never been there I've never seen it but this is just an example of a chair and a table and this is his signatures in case you're ever at an antique shop and you see that by it and this is actual stone right there Walter Corey yeah I think it was now this is an interesting stone this is Martin Gore he's a hatter he was a hatter here in Portland he made hats his member in 1826 he came from Jamaica Plains in Massachusetts where pudding stone is only found so this is made of pudding stone from Jamaica Plains in Massachusetts I don't know who did the stone because it's not solid I don't like it I know I'm not crazy over it to be quite honest that's a great picture I got of it though because most of its if you recall is covered by trees you can't really see it but the interest I mean he was a hatter but he dealt in the fur trade because the beaver you know rabbits all everything was made from from the first and he in 1829 the people in Ellsworth protested him and the others because they were destroying all the animals for fur it was kind of like pita back then I thought that was great when I read that I mean people did care he was born in 1797 and died in 1876 so he lived his boat in his late 70s that was pretty good age for back then so this is J. M. Kimball and this is the weeping woman's stone that I talked about there's only four of them at Evergreen they're really I mean these pictures are nice but they don't do it justice he was the brother of the other Kim CP Kimball the eldest brother he had a business a carriage making business also on Congress Street but he retired from it in 1871 with I've made enough money I'm gonna go live in Florida and retired but I that that's really pretty it's it's just a beautiful beautiful representation of the cemetery and then we have Neil Dowell Neil Dowell and his son Fred were both members of the main charitable mechanics they came in as tanners his family owned tanning down I want to say like beyond Spring Street down in that area I can't remember the exact street where they were but of course we know Neil Dowell was the father of prohibition and encouraged the main charitable mechanics to abstain from alcohol abuse he was a Civil War veteran he was traded for Lee's nephew he was captured he was in the Andersonville and back then when they would trade in Lee's nephew had been captured by the Union so they traded so that but have you ever gone to the Neil Dowell house up on Congress Street that is is a wonderful tour I mean I've been there several times we just had a tea there oh the beginning of the summer I can't yeah yeah it was really it it's pristine sort of like this you know his library his original books are still there it's a wonderful tour his son Fred as I had said was also a member of MCNA he was also a lawyer and he served he also served in the Civil War and he owned the Portland newspaper and he's the one who sold the guy Gannett but what his son Fred did was he willed the mansion the down mansion to the woman's Christian Temperance Union because that was the the big Neil Dowell the big push in in they had the daughter Cornelia who was who took over that but so the woman's Christian Temperance Union still owns that but they're much more deflated you know it's not as active of a I mean the woman's Christian Temperance Union was an extremely huge movement in the United States during that time and I mean they literally you know got well in Maine I mean the drinking they did acquire the abstinence of of drinking but there was also the rum riot and if you're ever really interested in this suit divine one of our docency it does a wonderful tour just about the rum riot about Nathan Clifford and Fesadin and who defended him and stuff it's very interesting so I do have some Neil Dowell pictures my next guy here Augustus Schlotterbeck I'd looked all over for a picture of him and everything and I kept saying I couldn't find anything about a picture of him and then the Masonic Temple opened and he was a big guy he literally paid for the whole Masonic Temple he was this guy was a he came in as a chemist here to MCMA he was a member in 1868 he paid for the Masonic Temple they were having trouble finishing it paying for it and he just footed the bill but what he did he started businesses in Portland as a prescription apothecary moved to medic medicines in flavoring extracts and I think this building might look familiar to you 15 Preble Street it's still there and it was a John Calvin Stevens architect but and they still sell his products online now I've heard and I didn't I haven't thought to really check into this that they were selling that building but if they're making it into apartments is that what's happening I yeah but if you drive pie you see a Schlotterbeck emboss but you can still go online he got into the the flavoring extracts and medicines of the debt you know I mean there was a lot of you know the snake oil stuff or whatever but he and then he also started making medical equipment it's a very very rich man but and then before then they had a big article that day about the Masonic Temple opening and but when I went in there you know just when I looked up and I went my God it's a gust of I know that I've been looking all over town for you and I finally found you I don't know oh this is mr. Cole's worthy he was a bookbinder down on exchange Street but he was also an abolitionist and he used to let the the abolitionist use his his his store for their work this is a picture of him but he came in as a bookbinder he also painted one of the the flags the printer flag he was the painter of it I think him in Cape no Capon did all the others but him in Hodgkins they were painters they kind of amateur but they you know were pretty good but Capon did all of them except for two when I have those names in my my book but he used to let the abolitionist use his printing equipment that was neat he was down on not exchange 4th Street he had his office down there his it's just interesting his grandfather was part of the Boston Tea Party and on his stone what it reads is for more than 40 years he kept a book store at 92 exchange Street pull in Maine so it's kind of neat when you find a stone that actually says something on it you know when you do this kind of research and stuff in the cemeteries it's important it's a good thing and this is his father's stone Samuel now this is an interesting this is ET borrows he was came in as a manufacturer in 1898 he was a son of Irish immigrants born here in Portland he patented screens in 1878 and became very successful with this you know I've read you know like he'd you know people if you think about it to have screens put in your house if you've never had screens people were like elated because they could open their windows and their doors and the flies wouldn't come in and the dust and so he also went on to make pool tables cedar chests crank phonograph cabinets and tools he was located right where the Holiday Inn is now on Spring Street that was where his business was let's see I have pictures of that that this is an actual picture of the his company there right where the Holiday Inn is when they remember when they took Fry Hall and then they went down does anybody remember I don't remember well I know that my brother-in-law had an aunt and my husband had an aunt who worked there so that they could have yeah yeah yeah yeah but I was surprised I couldn't I didn't remember it but I you know my brother-in-law's aunt remembered it she worked there but his if you look at this it's like a Greek Roman the and then the big urn in the center it's unique it's it's like the only one of its kind there in the cemetery well yeah the footstones and yeah yeah yeah it's very interesting stone and the next is Thomas Beals another furniture maker from Portland came in in 1887 and he he also is a Civil War veteran I believe he's on the Civil War tour also he was a captain during the Civil War and he fought at Cold Harbor in Petersburg but he built beautiful solid maple furniture his last location he'd been at Market Street Newberry Buzz last was out Morales Corner and I remember when they went out of business because I went there with a friend of mine because the furniture I mean it's comparable to Moosehead you you just can't buy furniture like that anymore he his stuff was wonderful it's another if you ever see it buy it and this is pictures of the chapel and mind you Frederick Thompson was the architect of this and he's on my tour I'll talk to him but I took these pictures of the chapel which are the chapel there is beautiful it's built in 1907 it was a donation from the wilds in memory of her husband it's non-denominational and anyone buried it evergreen can use this chapel but the next one is a better look at Luther Pin Green he was a patent maker of the sky he was amazing too he was a member in 1854 present in 1863 through 74 what most what it post-Civil War he kind of patented artificial legs that with movable joints that was his yeah you know and it was wonderful because in people from all over the country were sending to have you know to get one made because then they weren't just walking with the peg because there was so many after the Civil War so many amputees he was also an inventor and his skills were used to making steam engines carriages mills for manufacturing lumber and models for Patinoff's he also served four commissions in the old state militia and fought in the heuristic wars which I don't know much about but and the next person is Frederick Thompson he was quite the prolific architect this is a picture of him that I took from here but he this is the Walker but he's also the Western prom the West House up there on the Western prom and I happen whenever I see an article or anything I cut it out I'll leave my book here if anyone's interested in and looking at that but just a few words on him he was a member in 1880 89 and came in as an architect he designed the Wild Chapel as I mentioned he designed what the West House on the prom the Walker Memorial Library in Westbrook the former Children's Hospital on High Street the castle in the Park at Dearing Oaks which is now opening as a as a restaurant and the Portland Armory which is now the Regency those are among some of the and next is John Calvin Stevens who I'm sure we all know and I hit when I do the tour I had him in one time and he was just really want to see John Calvin Stevens and hear about him and like yeah we'll get to it you know and he got there and he's like well because it's so compared to when you're in there to all the architect and all the stones as I'm sure you've noticed in it it just seems so plain for somebody who who was so prolific in Portland and there's kind of like that picture of him it's a little fadey but I like it and there is the house he lived at up on Bowdoin Street and that's his I think his great-great grandson standing in front of the house he actually died on Craigie Street out in Libbytown he he didn't stay on Bowdoin Street so he was a member in 1885 he oh in October 8th is John Calvin Stevens day I don't know if anybody knows that in Portland only in Portland but I read that somewhere I thought I'll throw it out there he designed more than 300 buildings in Portland such as Nathan Clifford School in the State Street Church on High Street he taught here at the main charitable mechanics he was a brush-in brush-ins were kind of a group of artists who used to kind of go around painting different scenes mostly I think they went out to Cape Elizabeth his claim to fame is that he really mastered the shingles style cottage that has become the symbol of coastal New England life and he I mean he's he also he did Shlodrack's he did the post office to the Portland post office down on Forest Avenue and then he helped redesign the ballroom here I believe so this is this this says wish but I'll when you look at it it looks like that the reason was this man was not a member but his son was his son was Harold Wish came in as an architect but his father was a printer so when they lay out the printing so when he had his dad did that which I think is you know and then when I when I I looked up this man and he wasn't on the thing but then I saw and then I look for I go that was his son so I said well I can put this in the door I really like that a lot and then last but not least is Mr. facet Francis facet who was an architect came in in 1878 he became very busy after the fire of 1866 because of course everything had to be sort of rebuilt in Portland and he was that's a good picture of it he was a member in 1878 John Calvin Stevens apprentice apprentice with him apprentice with him he designed main medical center the Portland Public Library the base of the Longfellow statue hey and people bodies which I believe is still on sale for one point something million dollars hey and people at his funeral home up on Congress Street yeah and and over 400 homes and buildings throughout the state so this is the library and this is his house on Pine Street which is also for sale I think it's I think they want close to a million for that it's a duplex when he lived on one side his son was on the other and because he designed a medical center where I work so I thought that was kind of neat and the base of the statue so that kind of does it for this I do have members that I didn't like your TJ sparrow the architect he is buried at evergreen but he's he was the first Portland architect he's buried at evergreen but geographically not he's like kind of way down like up below the hill so but his stuff is in Brunswick his his works which are beautiful the one one I really want to mention this Mr. Mr. Griffin Edward Souther Griffin he this is a picture of his stone but he was a he started out as a wood cover painting and he did all the bows for Jacob bows on the ship for Jacob Winslow who was the big shipping magnet he and Portland at the time these are wooden ships so he did the all I can think of is like the Helen of Troy where you see the beautiful you know whatever and so he did all of those but unfortunately none are left because they were wood number one but they do have one of his and it's at the fire museum on Spring Street it's an eagle or whatever I guess they were quite but in his son his son also was a painter but he is also responsible for this is the Jacob Winslow statue at Evergreen Cemetery Jacob Winslow was a shipping magnet here in Portland and Mr. Griffin did like I said all those for his for his boats and it's kind of interesting when you're looking at Griffin's when you look up you can see over you can see Jacob Winslow but what happened was of course the wooden ships were taken over by when iron you know was produced so that business kind of went out so he so this Mr. Griffin started doing carving granted so he the fireman that's up on Conga Street he did this that and he also did the Jacob Winslow at at the cemetery so he's very productive man let's see if I missed anyone I think I oh Mr. Capen we do want to talk about him because of the the flags I don't have a picture of Mr. Capen but he I mean we know what he did with he did 15 of the flags he came in in 18 no I don't have the actual date oh 1826 he came in as a as a printer no as a painter and then he but he started out as a chairmaker and then he started painting and so he did do all of the my book with this the flag right in front of me the flags and the flags the banners you don't you haven't seen you know yeah well in in 18 I think it was 1841 they had a tricentennial kind of expo here in Portland and the old militias the revolutionary were the old militias you know they always carried a banner for everything so what they did here at MCMA is they made a banner for each of the professions that that that were here so and then they marched down Conga Street in the parade well how many years ago was it that you found those flags I can't remember the flag the banners so anyway the main historical society purchased them from from the society well I read the Smithsonian did not bid on them they were kind enough because they wanted them to stay here in Portland they were going to come in if the historical couldn't get it right right yeah the main state museum was involved I think yes well on my tour I also when I come to mr. capen I show the flags into in discuss in the banners I guess I call them flags they're the main historical society on display right now just one so they just have pictures but next year show all of them oh they are something like that I just have one more person that I'd I really like to talk about because he happens to be he's also on my suffragist tour which you know this was an all-male play association and but I did want to make note that they used to let the suffragists use this building for meetings Newell Foster was his trade was a printer he was the proprietor of the daily press which I touched upon about the newspapers his was the most liberal he was born in New Hampshire his father was a revolutionary soldier his brother was Stephen S. Foster who was a big abolitionist used to come around not the musical steam buzzard the abolitionist who used to go made his living actually touring the states giving anti-slavery lectures mr. Foster was in the state legislature in 1862 through 67 and he procured $11,000 to help pay off the forty thousand owed on this building he why he's on my suffragist tour was obviously women were never going to get the right to vote unless men participated because they could vote and you know we could get as many referendums going as we wanted but unless we had people there to vote it in so in the early now mr. Foster died I believe in 1868 so the he he died in Massachusetts while attending a suffragist meeting with his wife and daughter and he was actually voted vice president in Boston of one of the the suffrage associations one of the like in a particular church where they met or whatever he was voted as vice president because when the suffragists were first starting out you know a lot of men would act as president vice president for them so and so I sort of really you know give it to him for being being such a liberal and being so you know involved in the suffrage movement he died of a hot attack after attending that in Boston he died at his brother Stephen Buster's house and just another thing about women in the main charitable mechanics association during their expos and everything they did give give prizes to women which I thought was honorable so you know it's an all it was an all male thing but I don't believe it was sexist and I I like that so anyway that's how I'll end