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Excerpt from In Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Hannibal Hamlin: Paris, Maine, August 27, 1909
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, held in Portland on March 3, 1909, Brevet major-general Joshua L. Chamberlain read a paper on Abraham Lincoln, in commemora tion of the one hundredth anniversary of President Lincoln's birth, February 12, 1809. It was the same paper that he had read in the Academy of Music in Philadelphia before the Com mandery of the State of Pennsylvania on the day of the Lincoln Centennial, and a most eloquent and impressive delineation of the character and services of the martyr president. At the close of the reading of the paper, and after expression had been given to the profound impression which the paper had made upon all present, the recorder called attention to the fact that on August 27, 1909, would occur the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hannibal Hamlin, vice-president with Lincoln, a Third Class Companion of the Loyal Legion, and at the time of his death a member of the Maine Commandery; and sug gested that the annual meeting of the Commandery, May 5, 1909, be made a Hamlin commemorative meeting. The sug gestion was favorably received, and General Selden Connor was requested to prepare a paper for the May meeting on the life and services of Mr. Hamlin. This paper, when read at the annual meeting, awakened the deepest interest in the members of the Commandery and their invited guests, and it was at once suggested that the Commandery take into consideration the erection on Paris Hill of a suitable memorial of Maine's distin guished son. This suggestion, also, was favorably received, and Brevet major-general Joshua L. Chamberlain, brigadier-gen eral Selden Connor and Brevet Major Henry S. Burrage wererequested to confer with the citizens of Paris and make arrange ments for the erection of such a memorial and for its dedication on August 2 7, 1909, the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Mr. Hamlin.
Soon after, by request of the committee, General Charles Hamlin and Major Burrage visited Paris, and conferred with Mr. George M. Atwood and other citizens of the town with ref erence to the memorial and its unveiling August 27, 1909. The citizens entered heartily into the plans for the proposed under taking. They at once agreed to place on the Common in front of the house in which Mr. Hamlin was born a memorial boulder, and the Maine Commandery of the Loyal Legion agreed to affix to it a bronze tablet with a suitable inscription. It was also agreed that the citizens of Paris should have charge of the local arrangements connected with the celebration under the direction of appropriate committees, while the Loyal Legion should select the speakers, and take charge of the public exer cises on centennial day.
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