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times, discharging the duties of that important office with great 

 ability and to the entire satisfaction of all, from Jannar}-, IH.jT, to 

 January, 1881, a period of twenty-four years. He was President 

 of the Bangor Histoiical Society and a member and contributor of 

 the Maine Historical Society. He also took a deep interest in music, 

 and for a number of years was President of the Penobscot Musical 

 Association and also of other local musical organizations. He was 

 always an anti-slavery man, and was one of the formers of the 

 Republican party, and always an earnest advocate of its princi[)les. 

 He contributed to Griffin's " Press of Maine." a history of the press 

 of Penobscot County. He was also a poet of considerable al)ility. 

 He leaves a wife and a little daughter ; also two sons by a former 

 marriage. 



Judge Godfre}' was a man of great culture and fine tastes, and 

 his late home is a lasting monument to his love and appreciation of 

 the beautiful. He took a deep interest in horticultural affairs, and 

 was for many years an active member and an officer of the Bangor 

 Horticultural Society. He became a life member of this Society in 

 1873, and at the first annual exhibition, at Bangor, delivered an 

 able and interesting address, which was published in full in the 

 transactions of that year. 



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Alfred Smith, one of the life members of this Society, was a 

 son of Isaac Smith, who, with his father, Capt. Nathaniel Smith, 

 moved to Winthrop, Maine, from Middleboro', Mass., about the 

 year 1795. He was born July 18, 1807, on the farm where his 

 father died at the age of ninety, and where he had lived for about sixty 

 years. His early education was only what the district school 

 affor(ied at that early date, with a few terms at an academy in an 

 adjoining town ; but he made such good use of his opportunities 

 that he began teaching at the age of eighteen, and followed it closely 

 during the winter season, working upon the farm in summer, until 

 he was twentj'-five ^-ears of age. During this period he taught two 

 years in Massachusetts, meeting with so much success that he was 

 several times invited to take permanent situations as a teacher in 

 private educational institutions, which he declined. This he did 

 because he began to tire of teaching and to turn his mind more to 



