Fenelon G. Barker
Residence Augusta ME;
Enlisted on 6/4/1861 as a Leader.
On 6/4/1861 he mustered into Band ME 3rd Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 8/14/1862
GAR,
b. 16 Apr 1837
d. 20 Apr 1918
"In 1858, Alvan D. Brock took over the publishing reins of the Maine Rural, a new publication created in September 1857 when R.B. Caldwell merged his Kennebec Transcript and his newly purchased Drew's Rural Intelligencer. The Maine Rural was published from the upper floor of Maxcy building in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, on the site of the town's old stone gristmill. It was said that the press, the first power press in Gardiner, was run by water on machinery that could be heard all over the city. In 1859, Alvan partnered with William Henry Chaney and changed the paper's form from folio to quarto. They issued a daily for a few months that year, the first daily paper ever published in Gardiner. [1]
The Spiritual Age also came to Gardiner in 1858 and was printed by Brock & Chaney, with Chaney as its editor. Brock was a spiritualist by conviction; Chaney because it was financially advantageous at the time.
After Chaney left the partnership in 1860, reportedly run out of town for inciting a religious riot, Alvan continued to publish the Maine Rural, partnering with friend Fenelon Greeley Barker. A fire later that year destroyed their offices, dissolving both the partnership and the paper.
In 1861, Fenelon G. Barker enlisted as a musician in the Company Band, Third Infantry Regiment Maine during the Civil War and died in Colorado on April 20, 1918. William Henry Chaney would meet the much younger Flora Wellman in San Francisco and spend the rest of his life denying the paternity of author, Jack London."
Residence Augusta ME;
Enlisted on 6/4/1861 as a Leader.
On 6/4/1861 he mustered into Band ME 3rd Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 8/14/1862
GAR,
b. 16 Apr 1837
d. 20 Apr 1918
"In 1858, Alvan D. Brock took over the publishing reins of the Maine Rural, a new publication created in September 1857 when R.B. Caldwell merged his Kennebec Transcript and his newly purchased Drew's Rural Intelligencer. The Maine Rural was published from the upper floor of Maxcy building in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, on the site of the town's old stone gristmill. It was said that the press, the first power press in Gardiner, was run by water on machinery that could be heard all over the city. In 1859, Alvan partnered with William Henry Chaney and changed the paper's form from folio to quarto. They issued a daily for a few months that year, the first daily paper ever published in Gardiner. [1]
The Spiritual Age also came to Gardiner in 1858 and was printed by Brock & Chaney, with Chaney as its editor. Brock was a spiritualist by conviction; Chaney because it was financially advantageous at the time.
After Chaney left the partnership in 1860, reportedly run out of town for inciting a religious riot, Alvan continued to publish the Maine Rural, partnering with friend Fenelon Greeley Barker. A fire later that year destroyed their offices, dissolving both the partnership and the paper.
In 1861, Fenelon G. Barker enlisted as a musician in the Company Band, Third Infantry Regiment Maine during the Civil War and died in Colorado on April 20, 1918. William Henry Chaney would meet the much younger Flora Wellman in San Francisco and spend the rest of his life denying the paternity of author, Jack London."
Fenelon G. Barker
Residence Augusta ME;
Enlisted on 6/4/1861 as a Leader.
On 6/4/1861 he mustered into Band ME 3rd Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 8/14/1862
GAR,
b. 16 Apr 1837
d. 20 Apr 1918
"In 1858, Alvan D. Brock took over the publishing reins of the Maine Rural, a new publication created in September 1857 when R.B. Caldwell merged his Kennebec Transcript and his newly purchased Drew's Rural Intelligencer. The Maine Rural was published from the upper floor of Maxcy building in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, on the site of the town's old stone gristmill. It was said that the press, the first power press in Gardiner, was run by water on machinery that could be heard all over the city. In 1859, Alvan partnered with William Henry Chaney and changed the paper's form from folio to quarto. They issued a daily for a few months that year, the first daily paper ever published in Gardiner. [1]
The Spiritual Age also came to Gardiner in 1858 and was printed by Brock & Chaney, with Chaney as its editor. Brock was a spiritualist by conviction; Chaney because it was financially advantageous at the time.
After Chaney left the partnership in 1860, reportedly run out of town for inciting a religious riot, Alvan continued to publish the Maine Rural, partnering with friend Fenelon Greeley Barker. A fire later that year destroyed their offices, dissolving both the partnership and the paper.
In 1861, Fenelon G. Barker enlisted as a musician in the Company Band, Third Infantry Regiment Maine during the Civil War and died in Colorado on April 20, 1918. William Henry Chaney would meet the much younger Flora Wellman in San Francisco and spend the rest of his life denying the paternity of author, Jack London."
Residence Augusta ME;
Enlisted on 6/4/1861 as a Leader.
On 6/4/1861 he mustered into Band ME 3rd Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 8/14/1862
GAR,
b. 16 Apr 1837
d. 20 Apr 1918
"In 1858, Alvan D. Brock took over the publishing reins of the Maine Rural, a new publication created in September 1857 when R.B. Caldwell merged his Kennebec Transcript and his newly purchased Drew's Rural Intelligencer. The Maine Rural was published from the upper floor of Maxcy building in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, on the site of the town's old stone gristmill. It was said that the press, the first power press in Gardiner, was run by water on machinery that could be heard all over the city. In 1859, Alvan partnered with William Henry Chaney and changed the paper's form from folio to quarto. They issued a daily for a few months that year, the first daily paper ever published in Gardiner. [1]
The Spiritual Age also came to Gardiner in 1858 and was printed by Brock & Chaney, with Chaney as its editor. Brock was a spiritualist by conviction; Chaney because it was financially advantageous at the time.
After Chaney left the partnership in 1860, reportedly run out of town for inciting a religious riot, Alvan continued to publish the Maine Rural, partnering with friend Fenelon Greeley Barker. A fire later that year destroyed their offices, dissolving both the partnership and the paper.
In 1861, Fenelon G. Barker enlisted as a musician in the Company Band, Third Infantry Regiment Maine during the Civil War and died in Colorado on April 20, 1918. William Henry Chaney would meet the much younger Flora Wellman in San Francisco and spend the rest of his life denying the paternity of author, Jack London."
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