Maine Women in History Rediscovering Their Lives and Legacies

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About the series

Editor: Julie Murchison Harris

Designer: Eric Zelz

Copy editor: James Emple

We extend a special thank-you

to Kathy Amoroso of the Maine Historical Society’s Maine Memory Network and Pauleena McDougal of the Maine FolkLife Center in Orono for collaborating with us and helping us obtain the images necessary for this look at Maine’s notable historic women. We also thank the many smaller historical societies and private collectors for their contributions.

Additional women to be featured

Sarah Sampson, who helped care for Civil War wounded and later became director of the Maine Military and Naval Children’s Home.

Maxine Elliott, actress, businesswoman.

Rachel Carson, scientist and author.

Lillian Stevens, reformer.

Marion Martin, mother of Republican Women who formed National Federation of Republican Women.

Lillian Nordica (a.k.a. Norton, or Dome), opera singer.

Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator, politician, leader.

Dorothea Dix, health care reformer.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet.

Molly Mollasses, prominent Wabanaki.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith, first recorded woman to climb Mount Katahdin.

Florence Brooks Whitehouse, author and Women’s Suffrage figure.

Mary Snow, influential Bangor educator.

Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby, journalist, promoter, guide.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author.

Abbie Burgess Grant, famous lighthouse keeper.

Sarah Orne Jewett, author.

Louise Nevelson, sculptor.

Fannie Hardy Eckstrom, author, historian, folklorist.

Kate Furbish, botanist.

And more!