Keywords: Bowdoin College
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… the last clerk of the company, Josiah Little, a Bowdoin College classmate. McKeen gifted them to MHS after his death."
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"… Court for twenty-five years & was a Trustee of Bowdoin College, where his son Josiah attended. He died on December 26, 1830 as a result of…"
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"… of English and American Studies at Amherst College. Known for her extensive archival research and place-based scholarship, Professor Brooks is the…"
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Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell
"Upon completing Bowdoin in 1937, he enrolled in the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design."
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3
"Born in Portland in 1807, he graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825 and taught modern languages there from 1829 to 1835."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott
"While at Bowdoin, he added the second T to the end of his name to avoid being called Jacob Abbot the third."
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Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3
"… (now Colby) College and a trustee and overseer of Bowdoin College. He died in 1852, just prior to the availability of the ambrotype process, which…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst
"Portland-born Longfellow, a Bowdoin College graduate, was world famous for his poetry. Though not an abuser of ardent spirits, Longfellow frowned on…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony
"… Widgery (known as "W.W.") Thomas graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1860 and was appointed by President Lincoln as one of the…"
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"and Robert Herring Sr. bought land from Bowdoin College. With this land they created what we know as Guilford."
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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest
"… graduated from the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1823 and practiced medicine in Portland with his father Stephen Cummings."
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Acknowledgements
"… Debra Verrier Barry Baxter Memorial Library Bowdoin College Library, Special Collections Burden Collection Joyce Butler The Herbert Cary Family…"
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"… Bull Moose Bull Moose Click to learn more Bowdoin College junior Brett Wickard founded Bull Moose Music in 1989."
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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows
"… Historic Preservation, the Maine Arts Festival at Bowdoin College, and the Maine Chapter of the American Institute of Architects."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4
"… (now Colby) College, a trustee and overseer of Bowdoin College, principal owner of Maine’s first cotton mill in Brunswick, and a founder and…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School
"… in preparation for his later enrollment in Bowdoin College, returned to Farmington in 1837 and purchased the Little Blue property across the street…"
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Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity
"… went to Hallowell Academy, all graduated from Bowdoin College, all studied theology at Andover, and all became ministers and teachers."
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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail
"… X After Myron Haliburton Avery graduated from Bowdoin College he attended Harvard Law school, then practiced Admiralty Law with the U.S. Navy."
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Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs
"… Coombs entered the office upon graduation from Bowdoin College in 1901. His older son Frederick Hamilton Coombs joined the firm in 1908 after…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes
"… Prohibition X The 18th Amendment, 1920 Bowdoin Bugle 1920 Collections of Maine Historical Society 378 B674Q-b Clearly many college students…"