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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Historical Society - Page 1 of 2

"At the time, Gertrude Mills was the secretary and Addie Pinkham was the Treasurer. Some of the charter members are as follows: Sadie Adams, Mary…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… class distinctions were meticulously maintained, Secretary of the Bangor Board of Trade Edward Mitchell Blanding assured the public that Riverside…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"He kept track of all the records and files of the town. He was later elected to become a state legislator. Even then, he still logged."

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"During both the Jefferson and Madison administrations, Dolly Madison conducted the social life of the White House."

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… led President Abraham Lincoln to appoint him as Secretary of the Treasury, a post he held for a year before returning to the Senate for the balance…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"Men and women have corresponding titles of address in each of the first four degrees: Faith - laborer and maid; Hope -- cultivator and shepherdess…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle

"… County,” in Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture for the Year 1892."

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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 2 of 2

"Captain Mattie Pinette, Eisenhower's secretary, Washington, D.C., 1944Guilford Historical Society To say that Mattie had a distinguished career in…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"The final treaty process was led by US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and his British counterpart Lord Ashburton, himself a former land speculator…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"The secretary for the board was to write Mr. Andrew Carnegie a letter asking for a grant to build the new library in Guilford."

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

"Cyrus studied law and then served as private secretary to his half-brother Rufus when he was United States Minister to Great Britain in 1796."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 3 of 3

"… as store clerks, telephonists, office clerks, secretaries, and typists were opening up (by now typewriters were common in business use)."

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Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 2 of 2

"… Nena Schultz, GHS Curator Cindy Woodworth, GHS Secretary/Treasurer Piscataquis Community Middle School – The six-town school district “supplied”…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"Croix Island, 1797 Used by the British Secretary Ward Chapman of the St. Croix Commission (1796-1798) to help settle the dispute over the Northeast…"

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

"Noyes is responsible for the creation of the majority of proprietor records within the Pejepscot collection."

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Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 1 of 2

"… Society As one would expect it was the secretary of Guilford Historical Society who was alerted to the MCHP grant and in connection with the…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin, Bangor, ca. 1868

"Martin was the group's founding secretary and prepared a book about the group, with details about each member."

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Guilford, Maine - CONTACT US

"… President/MCHP Member - 876-4501 Cindy Woodworth, Secretary/Treasurer MCHP Site Administrator - 217-0963 Email contact: Guilford History Project or…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"The President was introduced by Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior. President Eisenhower lit the tree at 5:15 p.m."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"Several biographies deal with these parts of his life in detail. Montpelier, Home of General Henry KnoxThe General Henry Knox Museum…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Sources

": Picton Press, c2003 Puls, Mark Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"Housed primarily in Montpelier, an elegant reconstruction of the nineteen room mansion Knox built as a retirement home in Thomaston, the museum…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… other settlers, who, in his absence while he was Secretary of War, had settled and improved parts of the Waldo Patent, considering it their just…"