Keywords: Virginia Porter
Item 68908
Virginia Porter, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1907 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 65849
Virginia Porter, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1917 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic
"Mary’s Church in Virginia. He died on October 6, 1864, in Andersonville Prison of scorbutus. He is buried at the Andersonville National Cemetery."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women
"… After several years of living in Richmond, Virginia, Elizabeth returned to Portland in 1874. For seven years she was the literary editor of the…"
