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Secretary of State Correspondence Record: A petition recommending Jonas Burnham to be appointed to the office of Suprerintendent of Common Schools.

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Item Description:	A petition recommending Jonas Burnham to be appointed to the office of Suprerintendent of Common Schools.
Date Written:	Sept. 1859
Box and Folder:	22-6
Associated names:	A. H. Abbott; Jacob Abbott; John L. C. Abbott; John S. Abbott; Benjamin Adams; Jesse Aiken; John Allen; Samuel R. Allen; Sullivan C. Andrews; Thomas M. Andrews; Peter Atherton; George Baker; Joseph Baker; Charles P. Baldwin; Joseph Bartlett; Seth Bass; Emery N. Bean; I. M. Bedell; Hannibal Belcher; O. H. Berry; Scott Berry; J. G. Blaine; John L. Blaker; George W. Blanchard; Alvan Bolster; William W. Bolster; James W. Bradbury; C. H. Brett; Rufus Britt; Jonas Burnham; Edward K. Butler; Philander Butler; P. W. Butter; H. Q. Butterfield; James H. Chaffed; C. D. Chase; Charles Clapp, Jr.; James H. Cochran; H. G. Cole; Henry Cooper, Jr.; William Cothran; John P. Craig; Samuel Cram; Charles Crooker; Thomas Cunningham; O. L. Currier; Oren Currier; James Cutts; Charles Davis; L. D. Davis; A. G. Dole; E. G. Dole; John Dyar; Joseph Dyer; B. F. Eastman; William F. Farrington; A. B. Farwell; A. Fetch; John O. Fiske; G. Forbush; Phil B. Foster; Moses French; D. Furnel; George Gage; S. K. Gilman; John E. Godfrey; John Goodell, Jr.; Robert Goodenow; Nathan Goodridge; J. F. W. Gould; L. M. Gould; M. Gould; Oliver Gould; C. Gray; J. S. Greenwood; J. T. Haines; James N. Hall; Joseph B. Hall; M. F. Hallett; George W. Hathaway; Edward Hawes; John Hayden; Benjamin Hitchcock; E. Holmes; James Horne, Jr.; A. H. Howard; H. M. Howell; John Hubbard; William Hunt; William B. Hunt; George Hunter; William T. Johnson; John H. Kimball; Otis Kimball; John A. Knowlton; E. H. Lake; Samuel S. Lambert; S. Lancaster; James H. Leigh; J. K. Lincoln; James M. Lincoln; D. P. Livermore; John Lovell; S. H. Lowell; David Luce; W. C. Luce; D. W. Magon; Hiram Manter; B. F. Manwell; W. L. Marshall; William S. Marshall; Andrew Marters; Joseph McKenie; Mark Means; Joseph M. Meserve; Charles A. Miller; J. R. Milliken; Anni R. Mitchell; S. P. Morrill; John B. Morrison; William Morrison; W. E. Morse; Oliver Moses; James H. Nichols; Flavius V. Norcross; Leonard Norcross; Winthrop Norton; Ensign Otis; A. G. Page; Simon Page; Thomas Parker; George F. Patten; James F. Patten; John Patten; Aug Perley; John H. Perley; Samuel F. Perley; Howard Pettingill; Andrew C. Phillips; Charles F. Pillsbury; Charles V. Pinkham; Charles G. Porter; E. Powell; H. B. Prescott; J. D. Prescott; Lucien N. Prescott; Israel Putnam; William Randall; Jonathan Reap; M. C. Richardson; John H. Rogers; William Rogers; William M. Rogers; J. W. Royal; Edmund Russell; J. F. Russell; Charles W. Safford; Benjamin Sampson; A. Sanborn; C. D. Sewall; Fred D. Sewall; Oliver Sewall; R. B. Shepherd; A. K. P. Small; Charles E. Smith; Jacob Smith; Stevens Smith; J. S. Staples; A. H. Stewart; R. C. Stickney; William Stickney; T. S. Stockbridge; William H. Strickland; Philip M. Stubbs; J. B. Swanton; Henry Talesman; B. Tappan; M. H. Tarbox; B. F. Tefpt; Ira Thing; Stephen Thurston; John Titcomb; Samuel Titcomb; C. R. Vaughan; Fisher Viles; R. H. Vose; L. B. Walker; M. N. Walker; J. A. Waterhouse; E. B. Webb; John H. Webster; Henry L. Whitcomb; Benjamin G. Willey; C. J. Wingate; Enoch Winship; Elisha Winter; Samuel Wood; Manson Woodman; John A. Woods; Thomas Wright; Samuel Wyman
Associated subjects:	School superintendents—Maine; School management and organization—Maine; Maine—Officials and employees
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Source citation: "Secretary of State Correspondence, 1820-1914," database, Maine Genealogy (https://www.mainegenealogy.net/correspondence_record.asp?id=5872 : accessed 29 October 2025), entry for A petition recommending Jonas Burnham to be appointed to the office of Suprerintendent of Common Schools., Sept. 1859, citing Hancock County Court of Sessions database, Maine State Archives.

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