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Month: August 2018

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Molly Stark (1737 – 1814)

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Elizabeth “Molly” Page was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, the daughter of the first Postmaster of New Hampshire. She married John

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Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978)

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Illustrator, born in New York City. He studied at the Chase School of Art, theNational Academy of Design (1909), and

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Samuel Herrick

2695 Views Bennington, Rangers, Samuel Herrick

Revolutionary War leader who came to Bennington in 1768 and relocated to Springfield, New York after the Revolution. Little else is known

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Paul P. Harris (1868 – 1947)

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Lawyer, born in Racine, Wisconsin. He grew up in Vermont, received his law degree in Iowa in 1891, later settling

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Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)

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Poet and teacher, born in San Francisco. He studied at Dartmouth and Harvard but never took a degree. He was

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Edwin L. Drake (1819 – 1880)

1900 Views Castleton Corners, Edwin L. Drake, Pennsylvania

“Father” of the petroleum industry, born in Greenville, New York; he spent his boyhood in Castleton Corners and attended local schools. Drake

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Brigham Young (1801 – 1877)

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Born in Whitingham. Converted from Methodism to Mormonism in 1832, two years after Joseph Smith’s brother passed through Mendon, New York,

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Caroline Ardelia Yale (1848-1933)

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Educator of the deaf, born in Charlotte. After briefly attending Mount Holyoke (the only New England College open to women) shestarted

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William G. Wilson (1895 – 1971)

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Born in East Dorset. An excessive drinker on the verge of ruin, “Bill” in 1934 experienced a spiritual conviction that he

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Rudy Vallee Hubert Prior Vallee (1901 – 1986)

1191 Views Brighton, Hubert Prior Vallee, Rudy Vallee

Band leader and singer, born in Island Pond (Brighton). Originally intending to become a pharmacist, he took up the saxophone,

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