Reviewed by Doug Leonard (Duke University)Įmpire, it seems, is everywhere, an important topic of historical scholarship since the late 1990s. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Here are three rooms which will be used for the exhibition of pictures, historical relics and other articles of interest.Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper. The second floor is reached by two stairways from the delivery room. On the same floor are also rooms for the trustees and librarian. From the vestibule one enters the delivery room, to the right of which is the general reading-room on the left is a reading-room for children and a room for books of reference. The vestibules have mosaic floors of special design, marble bases with paneled oak walls. The entrance is into an outer vestibule opening into an inner hall. The stack room extends northerly from the center of the main building forty feet, with a width of twenty-seven and one-half feet. The main building has a frontage on the park of seventy feet and a depth of thirty feet.
The roof is slated with Vermont green slate, with copper gutters and trimmings. The outside walls are of gray speckled bricks laid in light mortar. The base is of Deer Isle granite, the cornices, belts and trimmings of entrances and windows, are of Indiana lime stone. The exterior of the building is classical in design. Frost's proposition was brought before the town at the annual meeting in March, 1898 the town unanimously voted $10,000 toward the building, and also purchased a lot of land on which to erect the same ground was broken for this purpose Aug. Efforts to raise by subscription the amount needed to make the gift available proving unsuccessful, Mrs. Frost of Winthrop offered $10,000 toward the erection of a library building, to cost at least $20,000, and to be called the Frost Public Library, in memory of her husband, the late Morrill Frost. Anne was the daughter of Oliver and Dorcas Varnum Stearns…sister of Charles Oliver Stearns.įrances Ann Huggins Burbank, first cousin of Joseph Oliver Stearns and niece of Charles Oliver Stearns. Frances was the daughter of Anne Dorcas Stearns Huggins and Freeman Huggins. Leonard Freeman Burbank was the son of Frances Anne Huggins and Leonard E. According to, Ada died in Amesbury in 1965, married to William Grieve Carter. Worthen died three years later and Lorana remarried to Charles Kennard and had a son named Charles Kennard.Īlice Dennett married Milton Kendall, and had five children, including Ada Kendall. Worthen Dennett married Lorana Congdon, child Alice Louisa Dennett born in 1868. Ida was the only child of six of John and Louisa who survived her parents.
They had a child, Ida Sawyer, born around 1861 or so, and they all visit the Dennett’s in the 1880’s per Joseph Oliver Stearns diary entries (since he lives with the Dennett’s) The Swayer's lived in Beverly. John Dennett and Louisa Frost-oldest child was Ann May Dennett who married Elbridge Cushing Sawyer. Louisa had a brother, Morrill Frost married Eliza Wadsworth. Helen Louise Dennett Stearns’ parents were John Dennett and Louisa Frost Dennett. He is second cousin of William Dennett Stearns. The Stearns genealogy references Oliver Stearns and Dorcas Varnum (parents Charles Oliver Stearns), and their oldest child Anne Dorcas Stearns who married Freeman Huggins of Saco, ME, daughter Frances Anne Huggins, born July 19, 1833, who married Leonard E. Joseph Oliver Stearns and Hellen Louise "Nell" Dennett A Share from Ruth Stearns Another link to
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