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MAI JOE’S THIRTY-SECOND#Annual Reunion Held at Lon? Island Wednesday.Next Reunion To Be Held at Bumford Falls—Oftlcors Klected—£ywe of TI10© Present-Tho annual rounion of tlio Thirty-Second Maine Regiment Association occurred Wednesday at the building of tho First-Tenth, Twonth-ninth association at Long island. There was a large attendance of veterans with their wives and children.The Thirty-second Maine was a remarkable regiment. It left Maine in tho spring of 1864, with 960 members. On tho 31st day of the noxt July only nineteen men answered tho rolL The regiment had loen literally smashed to pieces. It had plunged at once into tho Wilderness campaign, and at Spottsylvania, North Anna and Cold Harbor had tasted military life under Grant Finally, at the mine at Petersburg, it met its heaviest loss. Col. Mark F. Wentworth, now surveyor of Portland, was in command and was wounded.The business meeting was called to order by Prosident William M. Dow of Gray, who spoke briefly, greeting the comrades present Ho referred to the oldest man present, Captain A. F. Noyes of Norway, who was a venerable figure, in blue clothes still decorated with the army buttons. Captain Noyes went to the front throe times, with the Fourteenth, Twenty-third and Thirty-second.Secretary K. C. Milliken of Portland, read the records, and Treasurer J. B. Ham, of Lewiston gave a statement of the finances.Henry C. Ho uston of Portland, made his report as historian. But two deaths had come to his notice during tho year: Dr. Henry S. B. Smith of Middleboro, Mass., a native of Bridgton and graduato of Bowdoin and Joel H. Little of Bremen, Me., Seargeant. A history of the regiment is under way. James L. Meservo of Center Lovell, and Lorenzo D. Hobls of Norway, were reported additionally as having died during tho year.Comrade L. T. LCarleton of WInthrop brought up the question of tho next mooting, and presented an invitation from thp Rumford Falls Board of Trade asking the regiment to be the guests of the town in 1896. Mr. Carleton seconded the invitation in a speech highly eulogis-tio of Oxford county and her bears and promised an excursion into the Rangeley region.Comrade H. H. Burbank of Saco, seconded tho idea, and Comade Swasey of Ruumford Falls repeated the invitation of his town. Comrade Horace H. Sargent of Portland, was also in favor of itIt was voted almost unanimously to go to Rumford.The following officers were elected:President—Benjamin Swasoy of Rumford Falls.Vice President—Jerry C. Brackett of Lewiston, Charles F. Burr of Auburn.Secretary—E. C. Milliken of Portland.Treasurer—John Ham of Lewiston.Executive Committee — Winfield S. Howe of Hanover, Forest E. Bisbee of Auburn, Hiram Conant of Buckfleld, and the president and secretary ex-officio.Historian—Henry C. Houston of Portland.The following were present:George W. Richards, Portland; Lora H. Collins, Portland; Augustus Smith, Boston; Fred B. Jeffery, Lewiston; John L. Ham, Lewiston; Silas F. Harlow, Portland; John A. Keene, Norway; Charles K. Davis, Buxton; Marshall Martin, Gorham; Sewell Welch, Cumberland Mills; J. H. Hobbs, Etta M. Roberts, Nettie L. Hobbs, Villa Smith, B. Cobb, Gray; O. F. Burr, Auburn; J. C. Brackett, Auburn ; R. D. Foss, Cumberland Mills; Judson Pratt, C. H. Goodwin, Lewiston; M. H. Stevens, Waltham, Mass. J. N. Jones, Waterboro Centre; L. D. Randall, Hobron; E. R. Harmon, Salem, Mass. ; I Kallock, North Conway, N. H.; H. G Mitchell, J. J. Chase, J. B. Hammond, Intervale; A F. Noyes, Norway; N. G. Frost, Oxford; David Flood, Jr., Norway; J. M. Jackson, Lewiston; H. H. Burbank, Saco; Joseph L. Small and family, Bid-deford; S. B. Horr, Waterford; W. S. Howe, Benjamin A. Swasey, Rumford Falls; N. A. Herrick, Mechanic Falls; George H. Benson, Biddefora; John Anderson, Gray; T. P. Beals, Portland; L T. Carleton, Winthrop; James F. Prichstad, Westfield; W. H. Sargent,
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Portland Daily Press
Portland, Maine, US
Thu, Aug 22, 1895
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