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Published by the Society on the first of March, June, September and December 



Vol. XIII SEPTEMBER, 1911 No. 3 



James Wood Brackett. 



Hon. James W. Brackett, chairman of the State Commission 

 of Inland Fisheries and Game, died at his home in Phillips, on the 

 morning of June 24th, of heart failure, as a consequence of acci- 

 dental poisoning by aconite. 



Mr. Brackett, the son of Nathan Cook and Louisa Wood Brack- 

 ett, was born in Phillips, Maine, June 30, 1867. A part of his youth 

 was spent at Phillips, and part at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 

 where his father had moved. Owing to trouble with his eyes, he 

 was obliged to abandon the college course which had been planned 

 for him. Both at Phillips and at Harper's Ferry he became a leader 

 in various diversions, including horsemanship and athletics. 



In the early eighties, while very young, he became owner of 

 the Phillips Phonograph. In this paper he gave an increasing 

 amount of space to matters pertaining to fish and game, and the 

 paper, which finally went forth under the name of the Maine Woods, 

 came to devote fully half of its space to these interests, and became 

 a recognized medium of publication by sportsmen and fishermen. 



