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Excerpt from Exercises at the Unveiling of the Statue of Thomas Brackett Reed: At Portland, Maine, August Thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Ten On April 4, 1905, a resolution looking to the erection in Portland of a monument to the memory of Thomas Brackett Reed was introduced into the Common Council of the city by Mr. Luther B. Roberts, then one of its members, and was at once adopted by both boards of the city government and approved by the Mayor. A committee, consisting of William L. Cobb, George A. Dow and Charles Carr on the part of the Aldermen, and John W. Turner, Jr., Luther B. Roberts, Frank D. Marshall, George W. Beyer, Arthur E. Craig, on the part of the Common Council, was appointed to carry into execution the terms of the resolution. On the nineteenth of May, 1905, a meeting of citizens to form the Thomas Brackett Reed Memorial Association was held in the Common Council Rooms and the following gentlemen, John Marshall Brown, Augustus G. Paine, George M. Seiders, Henry Deering, George E. Bird, Charles F. Flagg, George H. Weeks, John C. Small, were joined as associates with the special committee of the city council, and it was voted that all present be made members of this general committee. Thereupon a voluntary organization was formed with Joseph W. Symonds as President. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.