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Myron Holley PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE MAINE WOODS: MYRON HOLLY 1 “HE TRUSTED IN GOD AND LOVED HIS NEIGHBOR.” “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY 1. This was part of the eulogy delivered by Gerrit Smith of the Liberty Party before 6,000 mourners in Section G of the Mt. Hope Cemetery, on June 13, 1844. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY THE MAINE WOODS: We filed into the rude logger’s camp at this place, such as I have described, without ceremony, and the cook, at that moment the sole occupant, at once set about preparing tea for his visitors. His fireplace, which the rain had converted into a mud-puddle, was soon blazing again, and we sat down on the log benches around it to dry us. On the well-flattened and somewhat faded beds of arbor-vitae leaves, which stretched on either hand under the eaves behind us, lay an odd leaf of the Bible, some genealogical chapter out of the Old Testament; and, half buried by the leaves, we found Emerson’s Address on West India EMERSON Emancipation, which had been left here formerly by one of our company, and had made two converts to the Liberty party here, as I was told; also, an odd number of the Westminster Review, for 1834, and a pamphlet entitled History of the Erection of the Monument on the grave of Myron Holly. This was the readable, or HOLLEY reading matter, in a lumberer’s camp in the Maine woods, thirty miles from a road, which would be given up to the bears in a fortnight. These things were well thumbed and soiled. This gang was headed by one John Morrison, a good specimen of a Yankee; and was necessarily composed of men not bred to the business of dam- building, but who were Jacks-at-all-trades, handy with the axe, and other simple implements, and well skilled in wood and water craft. We had hot cakes for our supper even here, white as snow- balls, but without butter, and the never-failing sweet cakes, with which we filled our pockets, foreseeing that we should not soon meet with the like again. Such delicate puff-balls seemed a singular diet for back-woodsmen. There was also tea without milk, sweetened with molasses. And so, exchanging a word with John Morrison and his gang when we had returned to the shore, and also exchanging our batteau for a better still, we made haste to improve the little daylight that remained. This camp, exactly twenty-nine miles from Mattawamkeag Point, by the way we had come, and about one hundred from Bangor by the river, was the last human habitation of any kind in this direction. Beyond, there was no trail; and the river and lakes, by batteaux and canoes, was considered the only practicable route. We were about thirty miles by the river from the summit of Ktaadn, which was in sight, though not more than twenty, perhaps, in a straight line. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1779 April 28, Wednesday: Myron Holley was born in Salisbury, Connecticut in the Housatonic Valley, great-grandson of one of Salisbury's 1st settlers. By family tradition one of his British ancestors had been Sir Edmond Halley, but we have no idea whether that was actually the case. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Maine Woods: Myron Holley HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1799 At the age of 20, Myron Holley graduated from Williams College. He would attend the law school of New Haven and study law in Cooperstown, New York. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Maine Woods: Myron Holley HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1800 Myron Holley began the study of law. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Maine Woods: Myron Holley HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1802 Myron Holley was admitted to the New Haven County Bar. Noah Webster, Jr. served on the New Haven Health Council. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Maine Woods: Myron Holley HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1803 At the age of 24, trained in the law, Myron Holley moved to Canandaigua, New York. His legal career would end with his first case, in which he found it repulsive to provide a defense for a man whom, he was persuaded, had been guilty of murder. Rather than engage in the practice of the law, he purchased the stock of a merchant of Canandaigua and became the region’s bookseller. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Maine Woods: Myron Holley HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1804 December 4, Tuesday: Myron Holley got married with Sally House. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 3 day 4 of 12 M 1804 / I am sometimes fearful that there will be more writing in my journal than will tend to proffit, but am at this moment comforted with remembering that if it is faithfully kept, it may serve to remind me of the good or bad of my life, or what progress I make in my religious journey. — Oh! saith my very soul may this allimportant work go on in earnest. My heart hath this afternoon been drawn into fervant breathings unto the Lord Almighty for Streangth to abide in storms, & preservation from every hurtful thing. Oh! The number of tryals both from within & without that I have to endure, & it will be a great favor if I can pass thro’ all, in that pure & innocent disposition which is nessary [sic] to keep in, to insure peace & happiness here & hereafter. — —————————————————————————————————————————— RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1810 Myron Holley’s public career began when he was elected to be the Clerk of Ontario County. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Maine Woods: Myron Holley HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1816 April 17, Wednesday: The New York General Assembly passed a canal law. ERIE CANAL Myron Holley had been elected to the New York General Assembly and had helped Senator DeWitt Clinton get this Erie Canal project underway. He, Stephen Van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Joseph Ellicott, and Samuel Young were designated as commissioners in parallel with their service respectively in the Assembly and in the Senate. Nathan Roberts would assist Benjamin Wright on the portion of the canal between Rome and Montezuma. Canvass White was hired to assist on the final survey. Holley and Young were to be acting commissioners, with actual duties, on salary. Holley would be appointed Treasurer of the canal commission and would purchase a home in Lyons, New York in order to be near the canal. For eight years he would be traveling by horse from place to place, using his saddle bags as his office, sleeping in shacks and in backwoods inns and working on his accounts by candlelight. In handling $2,500,000 in public funds, at the end he would be discovered with a $30,000 deficit at least half of which was in notes he had put his signature to in order to keep the canal project moving forward. For this, he would need to make over his Lyons property to the state. CANALS Josef von Spaun wrote to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, enclosing manuscript copies of settings of his poems by “a 19-year-old composer by the name of Franz Schubert.” He asked whether Schubert might dedicate an edition of his German songs to the poet (these manuscripts would arrive back at the sender without comment). WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project People of Maine Woods: Myron Holley HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1818 February 17, Tuesday: Arianna a Nasso, a cantata by Johann Simon Mayr, was performed for the initial time, possibly in Naples. Sallie Holley was born as the 9th of the dozen children of Myron Holley and Sally House Holley. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1820 Myron Holley was reelected to the New York General Assembly. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1821 Myron Holley was reelected to the New York General Assembly. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1828 An investigation of the accounts of the Erie Canal construction project having cleared his name, the property of Myron Holley was restored to him by the State of New York. HDT WHAT? INDEX THE PEOPLE OF MAINE WOODS MYRON HOLLEY 1829 Myron Holley became an Anti-Mason and, when the party assembled in Albany, drafted its platform. Public distrust of Masonry was such that the Masons of Ipswich indefinitely discontinued meetings. As to this cessation they are not chargeable with imprudence. Though aware that there have been gross misrepresentations of Masonic obligations and transactions, yet they have not thought it well to convene, lest it should fan the flame of party animosity, which already preys upon the vitals of the body politic.
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