Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"1920Mexico Historical Society His baby shoes, birth certificate, his mother's picture, and his high school athletic letter were found in the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They helped babies come into the world, and they laid the dead to rest. Women's lives were hard and they often died young."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"… Abenakis, the way doctors and people delivered babies was very different from today. Giving birth meant young women going into the forest alone for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… nurse for almost 10 years at North Shore Baby Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… to the first child born in the settlement, a baby girl which she names Esther. Then in December Mrs. Robert Low Jr."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… Betsey, her brother, a small son and a newborn baby, whose birth had delayed their departure. They were stopped in Readfield by a tremendous…"