Guide to the Dole Family Papers, 1804-1848
Dole Family Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Ebenezer Dole, Jr., a philosophical writer and poet, was born ca. 1815 in Hallowell, Maine, to Ebenezer, a merchant, and Hannah Balch Dole. Dole, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Peucinian Society, was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1835 and served as principal of Hebron Academy from 1835-1836. He studied for the ministry at Bangor Theological Seminary, but after being graduated from there in 1839, he was known to have preached only one sermon before deciding not to pursue the calling any further. Due to ill health, he retired to his father's home in Hallowell, where he died on June 7, 1846.
Family correspondence (1815-1848 and undated) between the Doles of Hallowell, Maine, and the Balches of Newburyport, Mass., most of which is addressed to Mrs. Hannah Dole, and also including letters and themes written by Ebenezer, Jr., while attending Bowdoin.
Chronological and Alphabetical Lists
Correspondence: 1815-1816
Correspondence: 1821-1823
Correspondence: 1824
Correspondence: 1825-1826
Correspondence: 1827
Correspondence: 1828-1831
Correspondence: 1832, March-May
Correspondence: 1832, June-December
Correspondence: 1833-1834
Correspondence: 1835, February-March
Correspondence: 1835, April-July
Correspondence: 1835, August-October
Correspondence: 1836
Correspondence: 1837
Correspondence: 1838
Correspondence: 1839, February-July
Correspondence: 1839, August-December
Correspondence: 1840
Correspondence: 1841
Correspondence: 1842-1843
Correspondence: 1844
Correspondence: 1845
Correspondence: 1846
Correspondence: 1848
Correspondence: n.d.
Correspondence: n.d.
Ebenezer Dole, Jr- College Themes (A)
Ebenezer Dole, Jr- College Themes (B)
Ebenezer Dole, Jr- College Themes (C)
Ebenezer Dole, Jr- College Themes (D)
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