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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"He continued to play at the high school for over fifty years, accompanied by pianist Addie Kaler Vaill."

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Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… born in Cornish in 1871, grew up in Lewiston, and graduated from Lewiston High School. At the age of twenty in 1891, Wilkinson began working for…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"Frederick Tompson graduated from Portland High School in 1876 and immediately entered the office of Francis H. Fassett, the city’s leading architect."

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Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"Elmer Thomas graduated from Lewiston High School in 1882 and attended Wesleyan University for two years."

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Lincoln, Maine - Gary Gordon

"He graduated from Mattanawcook Academy in 1978. At the age of 18, Gordon joined the U.S. Army as a member of the First Special Forces Operation…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware

"… school at Union University at Albany, N.Y.; he graduated in 1875. After his law degree, he built his hardware and tin shop in the same building as…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"He then studied at Harvard’s School of Architecture. Between October 1912 and April 1913, he traveled in Europe, spending much of his time in Italy."

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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"Barrows graduated from Philips Exeter in 1929 and from Harvard in 1934. He then attended Harvard’s School of Architecture, leaving in 1936 to work in…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"… many certificates of honor and was a 1943 graduate of Mexico High School. His diplomas were found in the suitcase."

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Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"Upon graduating from Portland High School in 1873, he entered the office of Francis H. Fassett, the city’s leading architect."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"It held countless Morse graduations, benefits, and celebrations. It was once visited by nationally recognized actress Georgia Cayvan, who had been…"

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"Born in Portland, Samuel graduated from Harvard in 1839 and from its Divinity School in 1846. From 1848 to 1882 he served Unitarian churches in Fall…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… to raise money to give a wrist watch to each graduating high school senior. People also started going to the movies."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"Upon his graduation the town of Blue Hill offered him a permanent position with "the minister's lot" which was to include 5 acres of cleared land, a…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates

"Because they lost so many key players to graduation, 1958 was not a good season for the Indians. But it was a great one for the boys of Mount Desert…"

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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… yearbook photo X After Myron Haliburton Avery graduated from Bowdoin College he attended Harvard Law school, then practiced Admiralty Law with…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… Ruggles, Esq., another prominent lawyer, after graduating from Brown University moved to Thomaston in 1818, where he spent a long and successful…"

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Born in Waterford, Dr. Cummings graduated from the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1823 and practiced medicine in Portland with his…"

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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… John Sawyer entered Dartmouth College, graduating in 1786. Ordained in 1787, he preached in his native Oxford for the next nine years."

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"The graduates of Snow’s school found it easy to get teacher positions in Maine or Massachusetts. Maine would later establish normal schools in…"

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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"Graduating from Bowdoin in 1823, Fessenden became one of Maine’s most successful attorneys. Between 1831 and 1854 he served in the Maine Legislature…"

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Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"That year he began public school teaching, which was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army during World War II."

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"He graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966, and he is a graduate of the University of Maine."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace

"When we had graduation there were 32 other students in my class so there weren’t many kids going to school back then like there is now."