William Willis (Maine politician) explained

William Willis
Birth Date:	31 August 1794
Birth Place:	Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States
Death Date:	^[1]
Death Place:	Portland, Maine, United States
Known For:	Mayor of Portland, Maine (1857)
Education:	Harvard College^[2]
Occupation:	Lawyer Historian Politician

William Willis (1794–1870) was a Portland, Maine lawyer, historian, and politician, and was the partner of William Pitt Fessenden. He was member of the Maine State Senate in 1855 and Mayor of Portland, Maine in 1857, president of the Maine Historical Society (1856–1865), and president of the Maine Central Railroad.^{[3] [4]} In 1864 he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.^[5]

Bowdoin College, which granted him an honorary degree in 1867, has a small collection of his correspondence, drafts of his writing, and estate information.

Selected bibliography

• Book: Willis, William . The History of Portland from its First Settlement . Day, Fraser & Co. . Portland, Maine . 1833.
• Book: Willis, William . A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine, from Its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century . Bailey & Noyes . Portland, Maine . 1863.

External links

• Shade Trees — an exert from History of Portland, By William Willis written in 1864
• Mayors of Portland, Maine
• www.geocities.com

Notes and References

1. Book: Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 541 . William Willis portland maine 1794. . Gale Research Company . Wilson. James Grant. Fiske. John. 1889.
2. Web site: General Catalogue of Bowdoin College, 1794-1916. 1912.
3. http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/wwg.shtml Bowdoin Library
4. Web site: The Portland Room . 2008-05-11 . 2013-02-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130208162250/http://www.portlandlibrary.com/locations/portlandroom.htm . dead .
5. http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistw American Antiquarian Society Members Directory