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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…

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…

Mount Hope Cemetery is the American’s second landscape or garden cemetery following Mount Auburn in Cambridge Massachusetts by only three years. Its importance lies in its reflection of the mid-19th Century American disenchantment with the urban…

This unique gravestone was designed by Annie French and patented November 16, 1875 (U.S. Pat. No. 169,898).  The patent describes: "Fadeless Ornaments...flowers, fruits, or leaves which shall be fadeless, and which may be used to form ornamental…

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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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…