Famous Maine People

Alternate sites for some of the listed names exist at the bottom of the page.

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James Blaine

Britannica.com: http://www.britannica.com/seo/j/james-g-blaine/

Milton Bradley
A history of the Milton Bradely company http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.corporate_history_mb/dn/default.cfm

William F. Carrigan
http://www.wiscasset.k12.me.us/wms/grade7/Project/Maine/Period%205/carrigan.htm

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson.org: http://www.rachelcarson.org/
Women in History: http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cars-rac.htm
Pennsylvania Department of Environment Protection: http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/Rachel_Carson/Rachel_Carson.htm

Joshua L. Chamberlain

Joshua Chamberlain Museum: http://www.curtislibrary.com/chamberlain.htm
Official Home Page of Joshua L. Chamberlain: http://www.joshuachamberlain.com/
PHS's Joshua L Chamberlain Area: http://www.curtislibrary.com/pejepscot/joshbiog.htm

Margaret Chase Smith

Encarta Reference: http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=0142C000
National Women's Hall of Fame: http://www.greatwomen.org/smithm.htm

Maxine Elliot
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an22946099
http://www.wiscasset.k12.me.us/wms/grade7/Project/Maine/Period%205/maine_elliot.htm

Hannibal Garland

Golier presents The American Presidency: http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/vp/vphamlin.html

Angus King

Welcome to my online office: http://www.state.me.us/governor/index.html

Stephen King

Encarta Reference: http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761557203
Stephen King's web site: http://www.stephenking.com/

Governor William King

Students Writing: http://wms.wiscasset-ms.wiscasset.k12.me.us/wms/grade7/Project/Maine/Period%205/william_king.htm
Art in the U.S. Capitol: http://www.aoc.gov/art/nshpages/king_w.htm

Henry Knox

http://kids.infoplease.lycos.com/ce6/people/A0827948.html
http://www.generalknoxmuseum.org/
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=04384000
http://www.troop100.org/Knoxbio.htm

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Encarta Reference: http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=03239000
Portland Museum of Art: http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus12g.htm
Sharon Kepner: http://www.kutztown.edu/faculty/reagan/longfellow.html

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Greene Communications: http://www.millaycolony.org/ednabio.html
Encarta Reference: http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=01604000

Edmund Muskie

The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/menu/stories/41580.htm
Arlington National Cemetery Website: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/muskie.htm
Ed Muskie, Downcast Yankee: http://www.goodbyemag.com/mar/muskie.htm

John Knowles Paine

Student Writing: http://wms.wiscasset-ms.wiscasset.k12.me.us/wms/grade7/Project/Maine/Period%205/john_knowles_paine.htm
US Opera: http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/paine/
The Harvard University Gazette: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/05.04/paine.html

Robert Edwin Peary

Arlington National Cemetery Website: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/roberted.htm
Naval Museum Site www.nbvc.navy.mil/museum/peary/peary.htm
North Pole site www.northpole1909.com
An excellent site history of the North Pole Expecition www.matthewhenson.com/1911.htm

Joan Benoit Samuelson

Women in Sports: http://www.makeithappen.com/wis/track/benoitj.htm
WBZ News 4 100th.com: http://www.100th.com/people/benoit.html
Encarta Reference: http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=0B358000 University of Maine Libraryhttp://www.uma.maine.edu/libraries/MWHOF_Website/alibjbsamuelson.html

Real People Helping Real People: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/history_for_children/17086

Olympia Snowe

Senator Snowe's Home Page: http://www.senate.gov/~snowe/
Olympia Snowe U.S. Senator for Maine: http://www.senate.gov/~snowe/bio.htm
Women in Maine Hall of Fame: http://www.uma.maine.edu/libraries/MWHOF_Website/alibojsnowe.html
Student Writing: http://wms.wiscasset-ms.wiscasset.k12.me.us/wms/grade7/Project/Maine/Period%205/olympia.htm

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Junior ThinkQuest: http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3776/Harriet_Beacher_Stowe.html
American Civil War Women: http://www.americancivilwar.com/women/hbs.html
Books and Writers: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hbstowe.htm

E.B.White

Books and Writers: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebwhite.htm
Encarta Reference: http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=02860000

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Britannica.com: http://www.britannica.com/seo/k/kate-douglas-wiggin/
FunkandWagnalls.com: http://www.fwkc.com/encyclopedia/low/articles/w/w028000729f.html
Women in American History: http://women.eb.com/women/articles/Wiggin_Kate_Douglas_Smith.html

Information on the following famous Maine people can be found at Lance Libby's site: http://www.col.k12.me.us/bhm/maine/history.htm

Information on the following famous Maine people can be found at Molly Ockett Library site: http://www.ockett-ms.sad72.k12.me.us/mesites.html

Information on the following famous Maine people can be found at Secretary of State's Famous People site:

http://www.state.me.us/sos/kids/allabout/people/people.htm