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Episode 09: Show Notes

Bonus Materials, Endnotes, and References for “The Intolerant Life of Josiah Temple”

HISTORY WORKS BETTER WITH FOOTNOTES

A black and white photograph of Josiah A. Temple, a Midrond Populist candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court, showing him in a formal suit.
Josiah A. Temple, age 62, as a candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Judicial Court.

CORRECTION: In the podcast, Josiah A. Temple is said to have been wounded at the Battle of Locust Grove. Temple was, was wounded at the Battle of Mine Run.

“Hannah Hilton in Domestic Dispute,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 11, 1873.

“ A Saloon Owner Explains Ladies Crusaders’ Targeting his Saloon,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, February 28, 1874.

“A Fall from Grace,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 27, 1874.

“Anonymous Letter Condemning J.A. Temple,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 27, 1874.

“Mrs. Hilton on Rampage,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 24, 1874.

Historic church building with two tall spires, surrounded by trees and pathways.
Bowdoin College Chapel in 1920 (Courtesy of Maine Memory Network).

“A Gallant Little Affair,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 3, 1874.

“A Slapping Affair,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 12, 1874.

“That Slapping Suit,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, August 14, 1874.

“Hilton Case,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 4, 1874.

“Hilton Case Represented by J.A. Temple,” Lincoln Star Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 4, 1874.

“Commencement Exercises at Bowdoin,” The Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine, August 7, 1862.

A weathered gravestone in a graveyard with the inscription 'Ivory Temple Died Sept. 9, 1852. Aged 45 years.' surrounded by trees and grass.
Ivory Temple’s gravestone in Bowdoin, Maine (photograph by George F. Snell III).

“Letter from Brunswick,” Lewiston Falls Journal, Lewiston, Maine, May 22. 1862.

“Graduating Class, Bowdoin College,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, August 2, 1862.

Nehemiah Cleaveland and Alpheus S. Packard, The History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates from 1806 to 1879, Inclusive (Cambridge, Massachusetts: J.R. Osgood & Company, 1882).

Charles Mattocks, Unspoiled Heart: The Journal of Charles Mattocks of the 17thMaine, Edited by Philip N. Racine (Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1994).

Frederick D. Sewell, Letter to Governor Washburn, July 28, 1862 (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

An old handwritten letter in cursive on lined paper, containing personal reflections and sentiments.
Josiah Temple’s 1912 letter of regret to a classmate (courtesy of Bowdoin College)

William H. Watson, Letter Requesting Promotion and Transfer, September 5, 1862 (Courtesy of Maine State Archives).

William H. Watson, Resignation Letter, September 5, 1862 (Courtesy of Maine State Archives).

“The Draft for Sagadahoc County,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, July 18, 1863.

“The 3rdMaine Regiment Letter,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, November 1862.

Julia Draper (Watson) Bemis and Alonzo Amas Bemis, History and Genealogy of the Watson Family, Descendants of Matthew Watson, Who Came to America in 1718 (Spencer, Mass, 1894).

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine For the Year Ending December 31, 1863 (Augusta, Maine: Stevens & Sayward, 1863).

Maine Genealogy Archives, Deaths in Norway, 1820-1852, https://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2007/01/deaths-in-norway-1820-1852.html

A vintage portrait of a man in a military uniform, featuring a double-breasted coat with decorative buttons and epaulets, standing beside a decorative pedestal with one hand on his chest and the other resting on the pedestal.
Major Charles Mattocks, Josiah Temple’s Bowdoin College classmate and his captain in the Seventeenth Maine (photo courtesy of Wikipedia).

“Deaths, Ivory Temple,” Eastern Times, Bath, Maine, September 16, 1852.

L. Parker Temple III, Genealogy of the Temple & Related Lines in North America, https://www.temple-genealogy.com.

1850 United States Federal Census, National Archives.

“Scarlet Fever Epidemics of the 19th Century: A Case of Evolved Pathogenic Virulence?” Human Biologists Archives, Cambridge University Press, August 12, 2009.

1860 United States Federal Census, National Archives.

Zac McDorr, “Coastal History: Jefferson Davis’s Maine Connection,” Portland Press-Herald, Portland, Maine, January 10, 2020.

Bowdoin College, Historical Sketch, https://www.bowdoin.edu/about/history-traditions/historical-sketch.html.

Bowdoin College Catalogue,1858 through 1862 (Courtesy of Bowdoin College Library).

Group photo of elderly men in formal attire, standing together outdoors in front of a grand building with ivy-covered walls.
The Bowdoin College class of 1862 reunion in 1912, to which Josiah A. Temple declined to attend (photo courtesy of Bowdoin College).

“Enrollment Act, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrollment_Act, 2024.

“Substitutes,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, August 25, 1863.

William B. Jordan Jr., Red Diamond Regiment: The 17th   Maine Infantry, 1862-1865 (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, 1996).

Edwin Emery, Civil War Diaries, 1863-1865 (Courtesy of Bowdoin College Library).

“List of Casualties 17 Maine—Official,” The Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine, December 9, 1863.

John Haley, “

“Josiah A. Temple, For County Attorney,” Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Bangor, Maine, September 6, 1866.

1870 United States Federal Census, National Archives.

“The Great Chicago Fire,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire, 2025.

A historical portrait of a soldier in uniform, standing in profile with arms crossed, wearing a long coat and a sword at his side.
Joshua Chamberlain, Josiah’s professor at Bowdoin College and commander of the Twentieth Maine Infantry Regiment (photo courtesy of Maine Memory Network).

1880 United States Federal Census, National Archives.

“Grand Jury Fail Indictment,” Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 24, 1874.

“Cold Water Politics,” The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 25, 1880.

“Minneapolis Politics,” The Saint Paul Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, March 29, 1882.

“Highly Moral Mid-Roaders,” The Saint Paul Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, October 28, 1898.

“A Word From Mr. Temple,” Minneapolis Daily Times, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 13, 1898.

Josiah A. Temple, Letter to George Little, April 8, 1912 (Courtesy of Bowdoin College).

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