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Molly Stark (1737 – 1814)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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