Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Child Labor

"Most other countries have laws against child labor too, but they are not always mandatory, and child labor is still a big issue everywhere."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"Frank Van Riper, photo X The words of a careful investigator, Ansley Hall, tell much about the process, even then, already practiced in Lubec for…"

Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… the progress of Passamaquoddy’s El Dorado very carefully throughout 1898 and, initially, very favorable articles appeared lauding the good…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2

"… Health, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Palliative Care, Patient and Family Centered Care, Patient Blood Management, Pediatric Services, Pelvic Floor…"

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… Housing of Maine for expansion into a new, child-appropriate fifteen-unit residence on 68 High Street."

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"Their only child was a boy named Orrin Horton who was born on June 20, 1863 in Somerville, MA. Orrin grew up in Blue Hill and became a builder."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"The prenatal clinic offered medical care and personal counseling to pregnant women who lacked a private physician or were unable to afford care…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… turned against the settlers at the death of his child, which had been caused by the intentional overturning of a canoe in the middle of the river…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… in a court decision to liberate or discharge the child. An apprentice or servant discharged due to ill treatment, or whose master died, could be…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"Brackett’s to take care of a sick child–diptheria. Little Carrie very sick indeed. Dr. Bartlett glad I came. Very sick and growing worse. Mrs."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"Timothy F. Belcher was born in Farmington, 6th child of Clifford and Deborah A Fuller Belcher. He was born into a prominent family, his grandfather…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… capably, tackled many tasks at home of farming, child rearing, cooking, and caring for the sick, elderly, and dead."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"Upon the birth of Donald and Marguerite’s second child in the early 1950s, they decided that it would be best if Donald worked closer to home."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… Stewart Family Daniel Stewart's Other Chair Child's SizeFarmington Historical Society Daniel Stewart's Chair Child's sizeFarmington…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"She was the first child of this new family to Charles Morris Blake and Charlotte Farmington Blake. After her birth there were three more children."

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"A child would have to hold up his fingers to say whether he was going “number one” or “number two” so that the teacher would know how long he was…"