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Hon. Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- Seated portrait of Thomas Brackett Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Published 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman, NY, sold by Underwood & Underwood.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Stereoview Photographs
Burial of the victims of the "Maine"
- Stereoview #10559 Burial of the victims of the "Maine" in their final resting place, Arlington Cemetery, VA, Dec. 28, 1899. Keystone View Company, Meadville, PA & St. Louis, MO.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Stereoview Photographs
Letter re Death of Rep Jonathan Cilley, 1838
- An undated letter discussing the death of United States Representative Jonathan Cilley from Thomaston. The author is unknown, but they may have been J.A. Chandler, the clerk of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Before his election to Congress, Cilley served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. He was the son-in-law of Hezekiah Prince, a merchant from Thomaston.Jonathan Cilley, an abolitionist, was challenged to a duel by James Watson Webb, a newspaper editor from New York, after Cilley accused him of corruption. William Graves, a legislator from Kentucky, served as Webb's stand-in and killed Cilley on February 24, 1838.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Letter Regarding the Death of U.S. Representative Jonathan Cilley