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Colby College Special Collections

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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"After receiving his degree from Harvard in 1955, Barrows joined the firm of Alonzo J. Harriman in Auburn, where he worked as a designer from 1956 to…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… Byfield, Massachusetts, Cleaveland graduated from Harvard in 1799 and taught mathematics there until he joined the Bowdoin College faculty in 1805."

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… enrolled in the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. That year the noted German architect Walter Gropius joined the…"

Historic Hallowell - Thomas Bond House

"Thomas Bond graduated from Harvard College in 1801 and was the first graduate of Hallowell Academy to do so."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"… Massachusetts (1730-1741.) Noyes graduated from Harvard College and also studied medicine after graduation."

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… and intellectual capacity, offered to send him to Harvard college. The offer, which Jonathan accepted, was conditional on an agreement that he…"

Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"… volumes, second in size at the time only to Harvard College. His library included many medical and other scientific texts."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… of land were to be set aside for a school, for Harvard College, for a church and for a learned protestant minister and his family."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… attending Dummer Academy, Rufus graduated from Harvard College in 1777. In 1778, he served in the Continental Army in the Rhode Island campaign as…"

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… Avery graduated from Bowdoin College he attended Harvard Law school, then practiced Admiralty Law with the U.S. Navy."

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… the firm in 1908 after studying architecture at Harvard and working as a structural and bridge engineer in New York. George M."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… Mary’s College, the oldest in the US, excepting Harvard. The village is nearly as large as Thomaston and very pleasantly situated on a tributary to…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… and went on to Colleges such as Bowdoin and Harvard. Farmington Academy Catalog 1838Farmington Historical Society The Academy was located on…"