Memoir of Hon Reuel Williams Prepared for the Maine Historical Society
Memoir of Hon Reuel Williams Prepared for the Maine Historical Society
John a John Alfred Poor
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This arrangement, on his part, was faithfully ob- served and kept ; the restriction on the right to ex- tend a line from Augusta up the Kennebec River 48 MEMOIR OF HON. REUEL WILLIAMS. was taken off, and the broad-gauge line was extend- ed from Waterville, in connection with the Andros- coo-gin and Kennebec Raih'oad, to Bangor. Mr. Williams took great interest in the project of the railway from Bangor to St. John and Halifax, attended the celebration at the breaking of ground on the European an...d North-American Railway, at St. John, was a director in the Maine corporation, and a party to the provisional contract for the con- struction of the line through Maine, by Jackson and Betts, which fell through from a failure to secure the necessary legislation in Maine, on account of the opposition of parties interested in the contract for building the line from Waterville to Bangor. The Crimean War soon after followed, and the people of Bangor discovered, when it was too late, their error in not allowing the granting of a charter, adequate to the requirements of the enterprise.
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