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A Woman of the Century:   A Crowdsourcing Project of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Maine

Augusta, ME

BROWN, Mrs. Harriet A.

February 20, 1844

inventor

In progress

p. 127

Augusta, ME

DANA, Miss Olive Eliza

December 24, 1859

litterateur

Available

p. 226

Bangor, ME

MERRILL, Miss Helen Maud

May 5, 1865

litterateur

Available

p. 500-501

Bangor, ME

VON TUEFFEL, Mrs. Blanche Willis Howard

July 21, 1847 (A Woman of the Century says 1851)

author

Available

p. 735

Bath, ME

CAYVAN, Miss Georgia

August 22, 1857

actor

Available

p. 163

Bath, ME

DOUGLAS, Miss Alice May

June 28, 1865

poet and author

In progress

p. 255-256

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Belfast, ME

SAWYER, Mrs. Lucy Sargent

April 3, 1840

missionary worker

In progress

p. 634

Bristol, ME

YATES, Miss Elizabeth U.

July 3, 1857

lecturer

Available

p. 807

Brooks, ME

PRATT, Miss Hannah T.

July 12 1854

evangelist

Available

p. 587-588

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Calais, ME

SPOFFORD, Mrs. Harriet Prescott

April 3, 1835,

author

In progress

p. 673-674

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Cape Elizabeth, ME

DYER, Mrs. Clara L. Brown

March 13, 1849

artist

In progress

p. 268

Chesterville, ME

GOODWIN, Mrs. H. E. B. (Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury)

March 16, 1827

novelist

Available

p. 325

Dover, ME

STEVENS, Mrs. Lillian M. N.

March 1, 1844

temperance lecturer and philanthropist

Available

p. 686-687

East Vassalboro, ME

BRADLEY, Miss Amy Morris

September 12, 1823

educator

Available

p. 113-114

Fairfield, ME

ATWOOD, Miss Ethel

September 12, 1870

musician

Available

p. 34

Fryeburgh, ME

ANDREWS, Mrs. Judith Walker

April 26, 1826

philanthropist

Available

p. 27-28

Gorham, ME

DOLE, Mrs. Phoebe Cobb Larry

November 28, 1835

poet

Available

p. 250-251

Gorham, ME

MARBLE, Mrs. Ella M. S.

August 10, 1850

journalist and educator

Available

p. 492-493

Hampden, ME

DIX, Miss Dorothea L.

April 4, 1802

philanthropist and army nurse

In progress

p. 245-246

Harmony, ME

HURD, Miss Helen Marr

February 2, 1839

poet

In progress

p. 407-408

Harrison, ME

CHURCHILL, Miss Lide A.

April 9, 1859

none listed (telegrapher. stenographer, and author)

Available

p. 174-175

Houlton, ME

WILKES, Mrs. Eliza Tupper

October 8, 1844

minister

Available

p. 774-775

New Limerick, ME

GEORGE, Mrs. Lydia A.

April 1, 1839

army nurse and philanthropist

Available

p. 316

Norridgewock, ME

CLARKE, Miss Rebecca Sophia 

February 22, 1833

author

Available

p. 178-179

North Bridgeton, ME

WEBB, Miss Bertha

1868

violinist

Available

p. 755

North Yarmouth, ME

SMITH, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Prince

August 12, 1806

author

Available

p. 660-661

Orono, ME

MACE, Mrs. Frances Laughton

January 15, 1836

poet

Available

p. 482-483

Paris, ME

BARRY, Mrs. Flora Elizabeth

September 19, 1836

concert and opera singer and musical educator

Available

p. 57-58

Portland, ME

BENTON, Mrs. Louisa Dow

March 23, 1831

linguist

Available

p. 77

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Portland, ME

BLANCHARD, Miss Helen Augusta

October 25, 1840.

inventor

In progress

p. 97

Portland, ME

CARTER, Mrs. Hannah Johnson

art educator

In progress

p. 156-157

Portland, ME

HUNT, Mrs. Augusta Merrill

June 6, 1842

philanthropist

Available

p. 404

Saccarappa, ME

KNOX, Mrs. Adeline Trafton

February 8, 1845

author

Available

p. 440-441

Sanford, ME

HERSOM, Mrs. Jane Lord

August 6, 1840

physician

In progress

p. 374-375

South Berwick, ME

JEWETT, Miss Sarah Orne

September 3, 1849

author

Available

p. 420

Standish, ME

WILDER, Mrs. S. Fanny Gerry

September 4, 1850

author

Available

p. 773-774

Strong, Franklin County, ME

ALLEN, Mrs. Elizabeth Akers

October 9, 1832

poet

In progress

p. 18-19

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Sullivan Harbor, ME

SMITH, Miss Helen Morton

December 12, 1859

journalist

In progress

p. 664

Sweden, ME

BIERCE, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth

1838

journalist

Available

p. 82

Unity, ME

SMITH, Mrs. Charlotte Louise

September 20, 1853

author and poet

Available

p. 659-660

Waldborough, ME

HASKELL, Miss Harriet Newell

January 14, 1835

educator

Available

p. 361

Westbrook, ME

MORTON, Miss Eliza Happy

July 15, 1852

author and educator

Available

p. 525

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Windham, ME

WOOLSON, Mrs. Abba Louise Goold

April 30 1838

author

In progress

p. 801