Maine Memory Network

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Biddeford's Movers & Shakers

"… their prominent citizens, their town fathers and mothers. Though the people may be lost to time, their names live on in fable if not fact."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 195-277

"… freshet of 1846, a trip to Ellsworth with his mother, business failures, property transactions, Prince business accounts, an eventful excursion to…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 362-451

"… Ada, and their move to a portion of Clara's mother's house. He described other houses he owned, and ones he lived in, especially the Soule house…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Elmer Ellsworth Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… fever, is shown at age 4 at top telling his mother, Clara Cary Martin (1836-1902), stories; climbing a tree at center, and showing his father, John…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lunt House, Cumberland at Center streets, Bangor, ca. 1852

"Cary to whom he referred was his mother-in-law. She sold the family home and bought this house, but put it in her son Luther's name."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Sr. home, Ellsworth, 1823

"… Martin visited Ellsworth as an adult, with his mother, and re-created the home that she lost after her husband died."

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"Although Mother McAuley lived only 10 years after becoming a Sister, she opened fourteen other missions and oversaw 100 women take vows."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… dressed and artistically posed around their mother, Anna Margaret Holwell Deering. The daughter of Major John Z."

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3

"… 1800, young Eliza Southgate wrote home urging her mother to “please send my spotted muslin.” And, as the book Agreeable Situations (Brick Store…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"My mother liked to have enough money to help the family and she came back to Thomaston after her mother died to help out How did you get medication…"

Wilson Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"1880Strong Historical Society Fly Rod's mother was a Porter, and through her she was connected to some of the earliest settlers in Strong."

Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"Following in the footsteps of Mother McAuley, Miss Marion Weeks, the daughter of a distinguished surgeon in town, donated a portion of her property…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The First 51 Settlers

"… Jons Person - Lot 116, New Sweden Wife: Anna Mother: Elsa Sister: Hanna Truls Persson, New Sweden, ca."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"After a couple of years her mother remarried to Mr. Lund. When Annie got married to Hjelmer Landeen she was 18 and he was 28."

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

"… Sam Savage McGee inherited the Old Ell from his mother Marcia in 2003 and continued to rent the Old Ell out seasonally as his mother had done."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase

"Her mother died when she was an infant, and her father moved the family to Farmington, where she attended Farmington Academy."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 3 of 3

"… of daycare centers so that able-bodied mothers could work even part time to produce for the war effort was groundbreaking."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"Martin wrote that the girl's mother was ill and became an invalid and, "this little girl assumed the house work cooked nice bread, meats, pies, cakes…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 1 of 4

"… in the late 1950s to early 1960s, the custom of girls and young women dressing or wearing hair and make-up like their mothers, faded away."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… of “a bushel of corn,” alongside her mother, from the Alger brothers in Owascoag, or Scarborough."

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"S: Yes, when my mother worked she used to ride on the back of a truck that would come and pick her up."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"… and young Charles, together with his vivacious mother and later his outgoing wife Katharine Larchar Savage (1905- 2001), was at the center of the…"

Dixfield Historical Society

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