Evidence in the Joseph H. Purington 1882 murder case

Bonus Material and References for “The Mystery of the Mangled Miser”

CRACKING HISTORY ONE FOOTNOTE AT A TIME

Bath City Marshal William H. Gilman in an undated photograph.

“Murder! Mr. Purington Dies Today at Noon,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, September 29, 1882.

“Mysterious: An Old Man Found Nearly Dead Lying in a Pool of Blood,” Bath Independent, September 30, 1882.

“Battered and Senseless,” Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, October 11, 1882.

Parker McCobb Reed, History of Bath and Environs, Sagadahoc County, Maine 1607-1894 (Lakeside Printers, Portland, Maine, 1894).

“Gilman vs. Bailey,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, March 17, 1882.

“Capt. James Bailey Dead,” The Bangor Daily News, October 8, 1906.

Margaret and Alvah Purington’s broken gravestone at Oak Grove Cemetery in Bath, Maine (photo George F. Snell III)

U.S. Census Records, 1840 through 1920.

“The Purington Sensation,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, September 30, 1882.

“The Purington Case: $500 Reward Offered by the City,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, October 3, 1882.

“Developments in the Purington Case,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, October 16, 1882.

“The Purington Case,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, October 3, 1882

1850 United States Federal Census, Bath, Lincoln, Maine.

1860 United States Federal Census, Bath, Lincoln, Maine.

The report of Joseph Emery Purington’s death, which turned out to be false, appeared in the Bath Daily Sentinel & Times, September 8, 1862.

The Third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry: Timeline with Historical Information, Compiled by Craig Young, 2001, https://www.thirdmaine.org/PDF/3rdMEshort-hist.pdf

Maine Adjutant General’s Reports, 1862-1866

“Purington Killed in Action,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, September 8, 1862.

“The Verdict,” The Bath Daily Times, Bath, Maine, October 3, 1882.

“Maine Soldiers,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, September 8, 1862.

“Joseph H. Purington vs. Michael J. Kelley,” Supreme Judicial Court, December Term I-77.

Joseph Emery Purington’s Civil War service card from the Third Maine Infantry Regiment (courtesy of Fold3).

William E.S. Whitman and Charles H. True, Maine in the War for the Union: A History of the Part Borne by Maine Troops in the Suppression of the American Rebellion (Lewiston, Maine: Nelson Dingley Jr. & Co., 1865).

Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-65, Vol. 1 (Raleigh, North Carolina: E.M. Uzzell Printer & Binder, 1901).

Charles F. Snell, Unpublished Civil War Diary (courtesy of George F. Snell III).

U.S., Civil War “Widows’ Pensions,” 1861-1910, The National Archives.

“The Riot at Bath, Maine—Church Burned in Open Daylight,” New York Times, New York, New York, July 11, 1854.

“The Late Riot,” Eastern Times, Bath, Maine, July 20, 1854.

Bath mayor and aldermen authorize a reward of $500 for information on the “Bath Mystery,” appearing in the Bath Daily Sentinel & Times, October 4, 1882.

Anthony Douin, “Augusta’s Jewish Civil War Hero,” Documenting Maine Jewry, http://mainejews.org/AugustaCivilWar3.php.

Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-65, Vol. 1 (Raleigh, North Carolina: E.M. Uzzell Printer & Binder, 1901).

U.S., Civil War “Widows’ Pensions,” 1861-1910, The National Archives.

U.S. Navy Survivors Originals (Disapproved), 1861-1910 (National Archives).

Public notice of Joseph H. Purington’s lawsuit against his son-in-law, Michael J. Kelley.

Leonard H. Smith Jr., Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, Volume 1 (Baltimore: Clearfield Company, 1992), 416.

Horace Purinton: A Tribute, Pete Daggett’s Website, http://www.rpmwin.com/user/padagge/obituary_of_horace.htm#i8621.

“Rev Humphrey Purinton,” FindAGrave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40960417.

Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-65, Vol. 1 (Raleigh, North Carolina: E.M. Uzzell Printer & Binder, 1901), 640.