Growing up in Maine : research papers collection, 1990-1993.

Sargent, Dudley Allen, 1849-1924

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Sargent taught physical training at Harvard and was director of Hemenway Gymnasium from 1879 to 1919. From the description of Papers of Dudley Allen Sargent, 1879-1925 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972875 Dudley Allen Sargent (1849-1924) was an early innovator in physical education. His long association with Harvard included his years as Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard from 1879 to 1919. During this time, he also establis...

Wentworth, Barbara Copeland, 1811-1890

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Leighton, Levi, 1818-1912

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Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973

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Smith College, Professor, English, 1926-1955. University of Maine, A.B., 1909. University of Minnesota, M.A., 1918; Ph. D., 1922. From the description of Mary Ellen Chase papers, 1893-1995. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51183526 Maine-born American regional novelist, critic, and memoirist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Northampton, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, [no year] Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863385 Mary Ell...

Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram), 1892-1955

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Robert Peter Tristram Coffin grew up in Maine and attended Bowdoin College, Princeton University, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Wells College in Aurora, New York, and was Pierce Professor of English at Bowdoin College from 1935 until his death. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer prize in poetry, Coffin authored more than forty books of prose and verse. He was a founder and a faculty member of the Towle Writers' Conference at the University of New Hampshire. ...

Spear, Pearl S.

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York, Charlie, 1887-1962

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Hall, Hazel V.

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Pride, Fleetwood, 1864-1960

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Smith, Margaret Philbrook, 1913-

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Norton, Lemuel, 1785-

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Standish, Burt L., 1866-1945

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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell was a juvenile adventure radio program based on the novels by Gilbert S. Patten, written under the name Burt L. Standish. It was broadcast from March 26, 1934 until June 22, 1934, and again from Oct. 5, 1946 until June 4, 1949 on NBC. The later series (of which this collection is comprised) consisted of complete thirty minute episodes whose featured character was Frank Merriwell, Yale University athlete. The cast of the later series included: Lawson Zerbe as Fra...

Webster, Benjamin

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Epithet: actor, d 1947 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x000109 Epithet: the younger writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000623.0x00003a ...

Colcord, Lincoln, 1883-1947

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Lincoln Colcord was a notable Maine author and translator of stories about the sea. Like his sister, Joanna Colcord, he was born at sea during a voyage of his father, ship's master Lincoln A. Colcord, undertaken after his marriage to Joanna French Sweetser. Ship's masters were allowed to bring their families with them on voyages. Joanna and Lincoln, Jr., were schooled at sea by their mother and others during their father's ocean voyages. Always listing Searsport, Me., as their official residence...

Sperry, Willard Learoyd, 1882-1954

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Congregational minister, dean of Harvard Divinity School. B.A. Olivet College, 1903; B.A. Oxford, 1907; M.A. Yale, 1909. Ordained a Congregational minister, 1908, serving churches in Fall River and Boston, Mass. (1908-1922). Dean, Harvard Divinity School (1922-1953), Plummer Professor of Christian Morals (1928-1953). See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Five. From the description of Papers, 1902-1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). Wo...

Rowe, Alberta Poole, 1910-

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Chase, Virginia, 1902-1987

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Born in 1902 and raised in Blue Hill, Maine, the younger sister of Mary Ellen Chase, Virginia Chase attended the University of Maine in 1919 to 1920 and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1924. She received her M.A. from Wayne State University and did graduate work at the University of Michigan in 1938 to 1940. She and her husband (Wallace Perkins) lived for a while in Connecticut, where she taught at Hartford College. In 1940, Chase won the Avery Hopwood Award for fiction. Her works ...

Hamlin, Cyrus, 1811-1900

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Cyrus Hamlin was a Congregational clergyman and missionary to Turkey for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was founder and president of Robert College, Constantinople (1860-1877). George Washburn was a Congregational clergyman, missionary to Turkey, professor, and president of Robert College (1878-1903). He was married to Henrietta Hamlin, daughter of Cyrus Hamlin. From the description of Additional family correspondence, 1850-1915. (Harvard University). Wo...

Allen, Ardelle

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Shain, Samuella

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Shain, Charles E.

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English professor and president of Connecticut College (1962-1974), retiring to Maine in 1976; with wife, Samuella Shain, freelance writer and photographer, completed and edited two anthologies: The Maine Reader (Houghton Mifflin) and Growing up in Maine (Down East Books), both published in 1991. Charles and Samuella Shain's combined backgrounds - Charles in American literature and Samuella in library science - enabled them to be the ideal editorial duo to compile these anthologies. ...

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a notably intelligent, talented, and accomplished 19th century American author. She first published poems in her husband's newspapers, began to write in earnest to alleviate financial concerns, and produced a remarkably capable and diverse body of work including poetry, essays, children's stories, novels, and non-fiction. She became one of the first women lecturers, speaking on women's rights and abolition. She was well-connected and well-respected by her peers, and mai...

Libby, Thomas E.

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Gabriel, Mary

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Gould, John, 1908-2003

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Down East Books (Firm)

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Wood, Esther, of Hampstead

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Chase, Ethan Allen, 1832-1921

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Averill, Gerald, 1896-

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Nash, Elizabeth A.

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Noble, Samuel H., 1838-

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Brunswick High School (Brunswick, Me.)

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Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923

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American author and educator. From the description of Papers of Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, 1887-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31083790 Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Robert N. Smith and Helen E. Dyer. Her father died when she was three. She and her mother then moved to Maine, the setting of most of her future books. Three years later, her mother married Albion Bradbury. At 17, she moved with her family to Santa Barbara (Calif.). There ...