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Porter Memorial Library

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… The GAR also had a number of auxiliaries: the Woman's Relief Corps (organized on a national basis in 1883); the Ladies of the Grand Army of the…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… and 1859 Rufus Adams made a portrait of a young woman, while A. M. McKenney took a picture of a young man in 1860."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"In 1659, “Jane alias Uphannum,” a woman from a powerful Wabanaki family, appeared before English officials to recount a land sale."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… involved was because of the movie “The Strange Woman”. The movie was set in Bangor, 1824. There were several pro-Temperance organizations with…"

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

"… stated, alongside the island girls, an Indian woman going to church “looked like a bird-of-paradise in a barn-yard.” From Bar Harbor Days, by Mrs."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Carolyn Stone

"… does not reflect the life and achievements of the woman, the professor, and the athlete. Carolyn A."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"… in the development of education for both men and woman in the town of Farmington. Jacob Abbott spent his life as a pastor and educator, dedicated…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"A woman of strong character, many stories are told of her sayings and doings. The brook which bears her name was once the water supply for the Town…"

Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"Young woman in straw hat, ca. 1900Maine Historical Society The MHS Early Photograph Compiled Collections are an amalgamation of daguerreotypes…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"Inez Matthews Pendleton, a local woman who attended Wellesley College, was Islesboro’s first woman superintendent in 1905. When Mrs."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Mary Snow was famous for being the first woman school superintendent in Maine. In Bangor she was a teacher, principal, school board member, and then…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"His wife, Mabelle Strout Savage, is the left-most woman standing on the porch with her right arm leaning on the porch post."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… filmmaking pioneer Maurice Tourneur's movie Woman (1918), John van den Broeck, a 23-year-old Dutch cinematographer, slipped and fell from a cliff…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"Vaughan quickly realized that Peabody was a woman of exceptional ability with strong intellectual aspirations."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"She was a very motivated woman and did many great things despite the lower amount of rights woman had back in the late 1800s."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"Shep married a woman named Margarite Littlefield. They were together when they had their first daughter, but divorced when she was five years old."

Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976

"People watch as a man swims to the woman trapped on the roof of her car. He was able to swim her to safety. Photo courtesy of the Bangor Daily News."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"Ira married a woman named Almeda and had at least two sons and one daughter. Ira Fish died in about 1870 at eighty years old."

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"… young age and was later adopted by a Penobscot woman from Greenbush. Growing up, she learned how to make baskets which she sold until she turned 96."

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

"It took the dedication of a Lincoln woman to bring the town together and create an organization to preserve its history."

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"… day and age! On March 28, 1830, Jeremy married a woman named Deborah Stevens, and a year later they had their first child, Eunice."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"1887Lincoln Historical Society He married a woman named Maria Hersey in 1837. They had four children together named Ira, George, Charles, and Mary."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… classroom teacher was usually an unmarried young woman, sometimes with students even older than herself."