MAINE 



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MAINTENON 



fever, as the impetus towards western migra- 

 tion was called in 1815 and 1816. 



Statehood. In 1820 Maine was admitted as 

 an antislave state, offsetting the new slave 

 state, Missouri. The northern part of Maine, 

 which had been ceded to the United States by 

 Great Britain in 1783, at the close of the 



War of the Revo- 



lution, was trans- 

 ferred to the 

 state. The north 

 and northeastern 

 boundaries, how- 

 ever, were long 

 disputed, but were 

 settled by the 

 Webster -Ashbur- 

 ton Treaty in 

 1842, when Maine 

 definitely as- 

 sumed its present 

 limits (see WEB- 

 STER - ASHBURTON 

 TREATY) . 



In the War of 

 Secession Maine 

 furnished 75,000 

 troops to the 

 Union, incurring 



Kennebec 

 Penobscot 



Solid line, United 

 debt of $12,- claim . dotted 



THE NORTHEAST 

 BOUNDARY 



States 



line, British 



000,000 for their claim. The northern limits of 

 the area in solid black show 



equipment, $6,- the boundary as fixed by the 

 000,000 of which Webster-Ashburton Treaty. 



was later refunded by the national government. 

 Maine has never had any serious state troubles. 

 Since 1883 the state has been Republican, al- 

 though in 1910 and 1914 Democratic governors 

 were elected. R.J.A. 



Consult Hale's The State of Maine; Holmes' 

 Makers of Maine; Barrage's Beginnings of Colo- 

 nial Maine. 



Related Subjects. In connection with the 

 study of Maine, the reader is referred to the fol- 

 lowing articles in these volumes, which contain 

 much added information : 



Auburn 

 Augusta 

 Bangor 

 Bar Harbor 

 Bath 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Biddeford 



Lewiston 



Portland 



Sanford 



Waterville 



LEADING PRODUCTS AND INDUSTRIES 



Apple Hay 



Dairying Paper 



Fish Potato 



Forests and Forestry Tourmaline 

 Granite 



RIVERS 

 Saco 

 Saint John 



UNCLASSIFIED 



Mount Desert 



Katahdin 

 Moosehead Lake 



MAINE, UNIVERSITY OF, the state university 

 of Maine, was founded at Orono in 1865 under 

 the name State College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts. It was opened in 1868, and 

 received its present name in 1897. The Uni- 

 versity of Maine and that of Vermont are 

 strictly the only two state universities in New 

 England. The institution comprises the col- 

 leges of arts and sciences, agriculture and tech- 

 nology, and the college of law, at Bangor; the 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station is also 

 a university department. Degrees are conferred 

 in arts, philosophy, science, law, agriculture, 

 engineering, forestry, home economics and 

 pharmaceutical chemistry. Both men and 

 women students are admitted, the average en- 

 rolment exceeding 1,200. There are about 150 

 members on the faculty- The library contains 

 about 55,000 volumes, and the college property 

 is valued at over $818,400. R.J.A. 



MAINTENON, maNt'nawN', FRANSOISE 

 D'AUBIGNE, Marquise de (1635-1719), the sec- 

 ond wife of Louis XIV of France. Her father 

 and mother died while she was but a young 

 girl, and she was cared for by her aunts, who 

 had her educated in a convent. When she was 

 sixteen, Scarron, the poet and wit, made her 

 acquaintance, and was impressed with her help- 

 less state no less than with her beauty and 

 cleverness. At length he offered either to 

 marry her or to pay for her admission to a 

 nunnery, and she chose the former alternative. 

 He was deformed, and much older than she, 

 but he entertained in his home the most bril- 

 liant intellectual society of the day, to which 

 she was an added attraction. 



When Scarron died in 1660 she was again left 

 in poverty, but Madame de Montespan, the 

 king's mistress, procured for her a pension and 

 later the position of governess to the king's 

 children. She soon won the favor of the king, 

 and after the death of the queen he married 

 her, though she was never openly recognized as 

 his wife. Her influence over him was very 

 strong, and always exerted on the side of right, 

 though her political suggestions were not always 

 of the wisest. She had founded, soon after her 

 marriage with the king, a school for young 

 ladies at Saint Cyr, and to this she retired 

 after his death. It was for the pupils of this 



