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Amanda Melvina Harris Gilpatrick Skofield was born February 9, 1837 in Weston, Maine, in Aroostook County.Between December 1859 and July 1882, Amanda give birth to 13 children: Martha Ella, Thomas J., Charles R., and George H. Gilpatrick by her first…

Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was the 15th Vice President of the United States (1861-1865), serving under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. He was the first Vice President from the Republican Party.

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Lieutenant Charles A. Thatcher, son of George A. and Rebecca Billings Thatcher of Bangor, Maine, commander of the Union gunboat U.S.S. Gazelle, a side-wheel steamers, on the Red River, Mississippi, when he was attacked and killed by two Confederate…

Erected in 1909 and is used for the Mount Hope Cemetery Corporation for their place of business, information and a resting place for visitors. The building is a typical turn of the century structure in the then popular English half-timbered style.…

Joseph H. Marie Junin was the first European settler murdered in Bangor, Maine.  Junin was a French merchant, trapper, and trader who was suspected of acting as a British agent in 1777, using his influence with Native American tribes to generate…

Fanny (Fan) Jones was born Nancy W. Jones in 1824 in West Brooksville, Maine. According to research conducted by Wayne Reilly and Richard Shaw, in 1858, Nancy adopted the name Fanny and is charged with operating "a house of ill-fame" in Bangor. Her…

As industrialization and urban centers expanded in the 19th Century, the traditional extended family infrastructure degraded. In urban settings, family units became fractured and de-centralized, leaving sick and elderly family members without family…

Job Collett was born on May 26, 1825, a native of Melksham, Wiltshire, England; the son of Thomas and Jane (Marks) Collett. The Collett family moved to Bangor, Maine around 1845. The Collett name first appears in the Bangor Maine City Directory in…

Charles A. Peavey and James H. Peavey were the grandsons of Joseph Peavey, inventor of the peavey logging tool that combined a solid socket cant hook with a pike to create a reliable, versatile tool used by workers in the logging industry.Demand for…

The husband of Rebecca Jane Billings Thatcher, a cousin to Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau referred to George Thatcher as "the relative" who accompanied him on his trips in the word, The Maine Woods.