The Peters of Maine
- John A. Peters (1822–1904), Maine State Senator 1862-1863, Maine State Representative 1864, Attorney General of Maine 1864-1866, U.S. Representative from Maine 1867-1873, Judge of the Maine Supreme Court 1873-1883. Uncle of John A. Peters.
- John A. Peters (1864–1953), Judge of Ellsworth, Maine Municipal Court 1896-1908; Maine State Representative 1909 1911 1913; U.S. Representative from Maine 1913-1922; Judge of U.S. District Court of Maine 1922-1947; delegate to the Republican National Convention 1916. Nephew of John A. Peters.
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Famous quotes containing the words peters and/or maine:
“The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Those Maine woods differ essentially from ours. There you are never reminded that the wilderness which you are threading is, after all, some villager’s familiar wood-lot, some widow’s thirds, from which her ancestors have sledded fuel for generations, minutely described in some old deed which is recorded, of which the owner has got a plan, too, and old bound-marks may be found every forty rods, if you will search.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)