Reflections on Past Historians

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Harry Wentworth.

Later, Mr. Marshall Cram moved to North Bridgton, that his sons might have a better opportunity to attend Bridgton Academy. While living at North Bridgton, he occupied the house later owned by Byron Kimball, now the home of Alpheus Holden. (I think he built this house but am not sure.)

While living there, he prepared and delivered at the dedication of the Town House, on Jan. 8, 1852, an address — consisting of a very complete and instructive history of Bridgton. At the annual town meeting, held on March 16, that same year, a committee was appointed to procure the printing of this address. One each was to be delivered to every legal voter of the town. It would be interesting to know how many copies of this address are in existence now — eighty-two years later. Certainly, his accomplishment is a lasting memorial to the ability and painstaking effort of Mr. Cram to leave a correct and authentic record of the early history of his town.

Some years later, with the higher education of his boys in mind, he moved from North Bridgton to Brunswick. Near the Bowdoin campus on Federal Street, he built a fine residence, which by Prof. Cram’s will, becomes the property of

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