Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"He was the 11th of 12 children of Mary and Josiah Stinchfield. Jacob was an orphan at age 12 after his parents died from unknown events."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"The Strathglass residence children attended Chisholm School (the former high school). Those living in the Virginia section of town had the Virginia…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"She invited her many female friends and acquaintances – Catholic and Protestant – to assist her to educate young children and girls, visit the poor…"

Otisfield Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"Their children, including son John II in 1801, were born in Northeast Harbor. John Savage II married Climena Roberts, a member of the newly settled…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"Activities included: cooking, tending children, washing and mending clothes, skinning and stretching hides, braiding sweetgrass, preparing ash…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"… Jacob Abbott." The Baldwin Online Literature Children's Project. 2000. Yesterday's Classics, LLC. Retrieved 3 Dec."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village Schools

"… records show that in 1942 there were four Dyer children attending the Parsons School, Alfred, Bertrand, Norman and Bertice."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"… this be doing in the soil? It must have been some children playing here years ago. As she kept digging, she uncovered more and more."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"… in order to move his wife Lucy and his six living children to his newly constructed home, Montpelier, at the head of the St."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… River along with his wife, Lucy, and their five children. At the time they took up residence in Montpelier, Knox was 45 years and his wife 39."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a Community Institution

"The Children's Room was moved out of the basement of the original building into the new wing, as were all books and other materials."

McArthur Public Library

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Old York Historical Society

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Southwest Harbor Public Library

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South Portland Historical Society

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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

""The town can now continue educating it's children at home and have a community school where it ought to be", he said."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"… the general health and welfare of Surry's children. A filing by the nurse in the 1932 Town Report listed 64 of the 65 students defective, a…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Baird's Quarry history

"… Cruickshank Morris, and although they had no children; Dave and Laura lived the rest of their lives in Minturn, their house now being owned by her…"

Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 2 of 5

"The women and children provided hearty meals at the meetings. Waits, Whites, Newmans, Delanos, Tainters, Newtons, Fosters and Kenneys lived alongside…"

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"Lucretia Day Sewall and her children, ca. 1849Maine Historical Society The early Maine photographs at Maine Historical Society are loosely dived…"