BRUNSWICK, a village of Cumberland county, Maine, U.S.A., on the Androscoggin river and the Maine Central rail road, tom. N. E. of Portland. The population in 193o was Abundant water-power from the river is utilized by paper, pulp and cotton mills. On a 4oac. campus at the head of the principal street is Bowdoin college, which was incorporated in 1794, while Maine was still a part of Massachusetts, and was named after James Bowdoin, a distinguished governor of Massachusetts. The total number of resident students is limited to about Soo, and high academic standards are maintained. Among the 7,252 gradu ates have been many men of prominence in American letters and public life, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Franklin Pierce, Melville W. Fuller, Oliver Otis Howard, Thomas B. Reed and Robert Edwin Peary. Brunswick was settled by fishermen in 1628, and was at first called Pejepscot. A township was established under the present name in 1717, and the village was incorporated in 1836.