1880s Autograph Album of Lois Lawler Ricker of Eastport, Maine

1870s/1880s/1890s autograph album of Lois Lawler Ricker (1879-1967) of Eastport, Maine.  

Reprinted with permission from the Heirlooms Reunited blog

The album, approximately 5-1/8" x 3-1/8", is missing its front cover and perhaps a front end paper or two; hopefully no pages at the back of the album are missing.   The back cover and spine are present and attached to each other, but unattached to the body.

The album contains 23 pages with signatures.  Lois herself signed three pages, her sister Carrie Maud Ricker signed two, and Linnie E. Mitchell of Eastport, Maine, signed two.

Surnames in the Album

• Bishop 
• Brooks 
• Garnett
• Higgins
• Lawler
• Lindsay
• Mitchell - 3 inscriptions from 2 individuals
• Murphy
• Patterson
• Rafter
• Reynolds
• Rice
• Ricker - 5 inscriptions from 2 individuals
• Roop
• Stanley
• Tenney
• Ward

Lois, "Loie", the album owner, signed the page after the title page.

                                                                        
She also signed a page in 1891.

                    
And a page in 1893.

Her older sister Carrie Maud Ricker signed two pages, the first in 1889,

and the second in 1892.

Lois Lawler Ricker (1879-1967), born 10 August 1879, and Carrie Maud Ricker (1877-1944), born 2 March 1877, both at Eastport, Maine, were the daughters of Eliphalet and Elizabeth "Lizzie" A. (Lawler) McCaffery Ricker, who were born at Eastport, Maine, and Campobello Island, New Brunswick, respectively.

The girls had an older sister, Mary, born about 1868.

I don't believe Lois or Carrie Maud ever married.  Lois died in 1867 at Lubec, Maine, a short hop across the bay from Eastport.  Carrie Maud had died in 1944 at Eastport.

Other signers in the album, not in alphabetical order.

Hattie A. Brooks of Eastport signed a page.

Nina M. Bishop of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1891.

Linnie E. Mitchell of Eastport, Maine, signed two pages; one undated, 

and one in 1891.

Frank Lawler of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1889.

Gertrude B. Patterson of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1893.

Mrs. Mary E. Murphy of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1889.

M. Janie Reynolds signed a page.

M. Eva Tenney of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1889.

Minnie Rafter of Clarence Ridge, New Brunswick, signed a page in 1890.

M. C. Roop of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1889.

Lilla M. Ward of Eastport, Maine, signed a page.

Lizzie Garnett signed a page in 1889.

Miss Grace A. Stanley of Eastport, Maine, signed a page.

Mrs. H. W. Rice of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1891.

Cora M. Mitchell of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1891.

Myra Higgins of Eastport, Maine, signed a page in 1891.

Josie A. Lindsay of North Monmouth, Maine, signed a page in 1878.

If you have corrections to the information above or information on any of the signers, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Eastport, Maine [Campobello Island is to the east.]

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1834, Lubec, Maine - Memorial of Inhabitants of Lubec re: Rechartering the Bank of the U.S. - Currency; 32 Names

1834 U.S. Government publication containing a request signed by 32 inhabitants, presumably merchants and professionals, of Lubec, Maine.  

Reprinted, with permission from the Heirlooms Reunited blog.

Appears in a publication from the 23rd Congress, First Session, 1833-4.

Memorial of Inhabitants of Lubec, Maine, in favor of rechartering the Bank of the United States

March 17, 1834

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means

The names, shown below, are not recorded in alphabetical order, but a list in alphabetical order follows the image.  If you have information to share on any of the men named, please leave a comment.

Names in Alphabetical Order - Note: There appears to be at least one error in a name - check the entire list if you are searching for someone you think should be here.

A	John Andrews	J	James Jordan	S	John Sampson
B	Elisha Broad	K	Ezra Knight		Ebenezer Scott
C	Levi Caswell	L	Samuel A. Lawrence		Joseph Sumner
	William Chace	M	Zenos Morton, Jr.	T	Stephen Thacher
	William Chaloner		Jabez Mowry	W	Joseph Whitney
D	Clement Dinsmore	P	William Phelps
	James Dinsmore	R	Andrew Ring
F	I. B. Flint		Charles L. Ring
G	Job Gibbs		Joseph Robinson
	Thomas O. Glover		Samuel Root
H	Jeremiah Hamilton		Daniel Rumery
	Clement Huckings		Stephen Rumery
	John R. Huckings		Thomas Rumery
	Sandford M. Hunt

Transcription

Memorial of Inhabitants of Lubec, Maine, in favor of rechartering the Bank of the United States

March 17, 1834

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means

The undersigned inhabitants of the town of Lubec, in the State of Maine, take leave, most respectfully, to request an audience of the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled.

They do not come forward to announce the actual existence of a state of things which cannot and will not be borne by the people of this country. This truth has already been proclaimed in every city and hamlet in the United States; it is seen in the wide-spread ruin which is marching over the land; it is heard in the cry of distress which rings from the remote West to the extreme East. Nor is it their purpose to proclaim the near approach of a fearful crisis, which must shake this confederacy of States to its centre; which already threatens the stability of the Government; which, indeed, menaces the country itself with convulsion and revolution. But their object in appearing before the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, is to state their own sufferings, their consternation, and despair. Confidence is prostrated, credit is at an end, there is no circulation. Business is in a manner suspended; we can see no end to the present state of things; there is no prospect of its termination; a dark cloud rests upon the future. There has been a sudden and terrible change, from a state of high prosperity to the calamities, the sufferings, the dismay, and desperation of the present moment. If there is any remedy for the evils which are now crushing the country in the dust, it must be in the voice of the people, in the power of Congress, and a fixed purpose to maintain the sanctity and the supremacy of the laws.

The undersigned must respectfully ask, that the public treasure be restored to the place where the Congress of the United States have decreed that it should be kept; and they desire that it may be surrounded with new guards. In common with their fellow-citizens, they ask for a currency such as the public necessities require, which shall be the same everywhere, and which can only be furnished by a national bank. Past experience has fully tested the necessity of such an institution.

The undersigned venture to express their opinion that the present Bank of the United States ought to be rechartered. If it had consulted its interests merely, instead of the duty which it owed to the public, it would scarcely have withstood the inducements which were held out to it to become the ally of a triumphant party. It has perhaps, indeed, saved the country from despotism, by refusing to yield the purse to the same hand which grasped the sword. They feel themselves compelled to add to that, they deem the assertion which has been promulgated from high places that the public distress is merely the wilful act of the Bank to be an insult on their understandings, and a mockery of their sufferings. It is a device which can never take with the intelligent people of the United States.

The undersigned, confidently appeal to the wisdom and patriotism, and firm determination of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled.

1834, Eastport, Maine - Memorial of Inhabitants of Eastport re: Currency; 97 Names

Reprinted with permission from the Heirlooms Reunited blog.

1834 U.S. Government publication containing a request signed by 97 inhabitants, presumably merchants and professionals, of Eastport, Maine.  

Appears in a publication from the 23rd Congress, First Session, 1833-4.

Memorial of Inhabitants of Eastport, Maine, In Relation to the Currency

March 17, 1834

Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means

To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled:

Your memorialists, inhabitants of Eastport, Maine.

The names, shown below, are not recorded in alphabetical order, but a list in alphabetical order follows the image.

Names in Alphabetical Order - Note: There's at least one error in a surname, if not more; if you don't see the name of someone you think should be on this list, check all of the names.

A	Israel D. Andrews	H	David Hatch	R	Isaac Ray
	James H. Andrews		Thomas Haycock		E. Richardson
B	Ed. Baker		Aaron Hayden		Bartlett Robbins
	Stephen Bartlet		Charles H. Hayden	S	E. Y. Sabine
	Henry Bates		Paoli Henry		F. M. Sabine
	Winslow Bates		William Herrington		Lorenzo Sabine
	J. Beech		A. Hill		W. A. Sabine
	John Beekford		John Hinkley		J. C. Shaw
	John L. Bowman		Joshua Hinkley		Leonard Shaw
	Stephen Boardman		Fred Hobbs		John Shun
	Anthony Brooks		George Hobbs		R. Smith
	C. A. Brooks		J. Hobbs		William H. C. Stearns
	Charles Brooks		Joseph Hone		Abel Stevens
	Nathan Bucknam		Partmon Houghton		Samuel Stevens
	Seward Bucknor		William Hume		John L. Storer
	Edward H. Burgin		Robert Hurton	T	S. Tinkham
	John Burgin		James Huson	W	Samuel B. Wadsworth
	John Burgin, Jr.	I	Edward Ilsley		Robert Walton
	Thomas Burnham	K	Daniel Kilby		W. B. Warriner
C	Edward Capen		Daniel Knox		John Webster
	George E. Card	L	Joseph Livermore		William N. Weston
	Jacob Clark		O. S. Livermore		Samuel Wetherell
	Thomas Colesworth	M	John Mason
D	James C. Dana		William Matthes
	Daniel Drew		G. William McLellan, per W. B. W.
	Francis H. Drew		Elias Merrill
	John C. Dutch		E. B. Morgon
F	Hiram S. Favor, rather than Pavor	N	John Norton
	George W. Folsom		Enoch Z. Noyes
G	N. T. Fosdick		Joseph C. Noyes
	Stephen F. Gale	P	Z. A. Paine
	Jesse Gleason		Thomas Parker
	Jonas Gleason		H. S. Pavor - more likely Hiram S. Favor
	John Goggins		George A. Peabody
	Daniel D. Granger		Darius Pearce
	Elijah D. Green		John R. Phelan
	Joseph Gunnison		John Pike
	W. Gustis
	Jacob Gutterson

Transcript:

Respectfully Represent:

That they are extensively engaged in the business of foreign and domestic trade, in the fisheries, in the manufacture of iron and salt, in shipbuilding, and in the mechanic arts; that, for the last seven years, they have been prosperous, beyond former example, in their various pursuits, until the close of the last season; that their proximity to the British provinces has afforded facilities for trade which few places enjoy in an equal degree, and this circumstance, among others, has necessarily caused their business to be very much extended. Their trade in bread-stuffs, American manufactures, and provisions, alone, may be estimated at one million of dollars per annum, for which they receive in return the produce of the provinces and British exchange to a large amount.

Such was their condition, when, from causes unforeseen and unlooked for, they suddenly find their affairs deranged, the current of foreign and domestic exchange turned back upon them, confidence destroyed, their properly exposed to sacrifice, and themselves threatened with bankruptcy. 

Of the several principal houses in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, who have done the business of our merchants, five have failed within two months, and they uniformly attribute their failures to the derangement of the currency consequent upon the unfriendly relation subsisting between the Executive and the Bank of the United States. But, whatever may be the cause of the present alarming and ruinous conditions of the country, your petitioners appeal to Congress for relief, and respectfully, but earnestly, request that no personal or party considerations may be permitted to outweigh the grave duty which Senators and Representatives owe to their constituents and their country.

EASTPORT, February 22, 1834