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Item 10978
Title: Benjamin Bubar, China, 1980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1980-10-31
Location: China
Media: Photographic print
Item 14939
Title: Socket chisel, China
Contributed by: Davistown Museum
Location: China
Media: cast steel, wooden handle
Item 31637
Title: McArthur Public Library commemorative tea cup, Biddeford, ca. 1905
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library
Date: circa 1905
Location: Biddeford
Media: china
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Toy Len Goon: Mother of the Year
Toy Len Goon of Portland, an immigrant from China, was a widow with six children when she was selected in 1952 as America's Mother of the Year.
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In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.