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| 14452 | Abbott - John William Abbott (1834-1897) |
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| 14453 | Abel - Henry Ransford Abel (1894-1980) |
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| 15243 | Adler - Peter Herman Adler (1899-1990) |
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| Peter Herman Adler (2 December 1899, Gablonz an der Neiße, Bohemia – 2 October 1990, Ridgefield, Connecticut) was an American conductor born in Austria–Hungary in Gablonz an der Neiße, which is now in the Czech Republic. While at the Prague Conservatory, Adler studied with Vítězslav Novák, Fidelio Finke, and Alexander von Zemlinsky.[1] He was the music and artistic director of the NBC Opera Theatre (1950–1964) and the National Educational Television. He was a pioneer of televised broadcast of opera, commissioning such works as Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Maria Golovin, Norman Dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, and Bohuslav Martinů's The Marriage; Jack Beeson's My Heart's in the Highlands, Thomas Pasatieri's The Trial of Mary Lincoln and Hans Werner Henze's La Cubana. He was also involved in the early career development of such singers as Leontyne Price, George London and Mario Lanza. He later conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1959 to 1968. He conducted the United States premiere of Ernst Bloch's opera MacBeth at the Juilliard School in May 1973.[2] He made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for "The Great Caruso" in 1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. | 
Description: Peter Herman Adler (2 December 1899, Gablonz an der Neiße, Bohemia – 2 October 1990, Ridgefield, Connecticut) was an American conductor born in Austria–Hungary in Gablonz an der Neiße, which is now in the Czech Republic. While at the Prague Conservatory, Adler studied with Vítězslav Novák, Fidelio Finke, and Alexander von Zemlinsky.[1] He was the music and artistic director of the NBC Opera Theatre (1950–1964) and the National Educational Television. He was a pioneer of televised broadcast of opera, commissioning such works as Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Maria Golovin, Norman Dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, and Bohuslav Martinů's The Marriage; Jack Beeson's My Heart's in the Highlands, Thomas Pasatieri's The Trial of Mary Lincoln and Hans Werner Henze's La Cubana. He was also involved in the early career development of such singers as Leontyne Price, George London and Mario Lanza. He later conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1959 to 1968. He conducted the United States premiere of Ernst Bloch's opera MacBeth at the Juilliard School in May 1973.[2] He made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for "The Great Caruso" in 1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. [show more] | |||||
| 14694 | Albee - Harry Gilbert Albee (1887-1970) |
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| 14535 | Alden - John Gale Alden (1884-1962) |
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| John Gale Alden was a Naval architect. | ||||||
| 14538 | Aldrich - Abigail Greene (Aldrich) Rockefeller (1874-1948) |
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| Also know as Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. | 
Description: Also know as Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. | |||||
| 15088 | Aljava Celestine (Carver) Norwood (1844-1917) |
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| 15608 | Allen - Arthur Allen |
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| Son of James and Octavia. Married Edith Marie Rumill. Live in Southwest Harbor, Maine in the 1930s and 1940s. Electrical engineer and building contractor. |
Description: Son of James and Octavia. Married Edith Marie Rumill. Live in Southwest Harbor, Maine in the 1930s and 1940s. Electrical engineer and building contractor. | ||||
| 3552 | Allen - Edward Lowe Allen (c. 1830-1914) |
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| Also known as Edward L. Allen or E.L. Allen | 
Description: Also known as Edward L. Allen or E.L. Allen | |||||
| 16558 | Allen - Frederick Allen (1813-1885) |
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| 14455 | Allen - Joseph Allen (1870-1946) |
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| 13514 | Allen - Lorraine (Allen) Saunders (1933-2018) |
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| Librarian at the Southwest Harbor Public Library | 
Description: Librarian at the Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||||
| 16562 | Allen - Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins (1848-1915) |
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| 14540 | Allen - Richard E. Allen |
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| 15812 | Allen - Warren P. Allen (1843-1905) |
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| 3553 | Allyn - Alice Carpenter Allyn (1849-1938) |
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| Alice C. Allyn was best known as one of the founders of the Old Cambridge Photographic Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | 
Description: Alice C. Allyn was best known as one of the founders of the Old Cambridge Photographic Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |||||
| 14438 | Anderson - George W. Anderson (1859-1916) |
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| George W. Anderson was born on March 10, 1859 to Moses Anderson and Lucy A. (Burns) Anderson in Trenton, Maine. George married Susie J. Wilbur (1847-1888) of Waltham, daughter of John Ford Wilbur and Phebe J. (Haslam) Wilbur, on February 27, 1881 at Bar Harbor, Maine. After Susie died in 1888 George married Bernice Hanson (1860-) of Machiasport on November 16, 1889 at Machias, Maine. Dr. Anderson built his house and office in Manset and practiced there for some time. By 1910 he is listed as a house painter in Bar Harbor. The fact is verified, but so far researchers have found no other details about his change of profession. George W. Anderson died on May 22, 1916 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. |
Description: George W. Anderson was born on March 10, 1859 to Moses Anderson and Lucy A. (Burns) Anderson in Trenton, Maine. George married Susie J. Wilbur (1847-1888) of Waltham, daughter of John Ford Wilbur and Phebe J. (Haslam) Wilbur, on February 27, 1881 at Bar Harbor, Maine. After Susie died in 1888 George married Bernice Hanson (1860-) of Machiasport on November 16, 1889 at Machias, Maine. Dr. Anderson built his house and office in Manset and practiced there for some time. By 1910 he is listed as a house painter in Bar Harbor. The fact is verified, but so far researchers have found no other details about his change of profession. George W. Anderson died on May 22, 1916 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. [show more] | |||||
| 13513 | Andrews - Caroline (Andrews) Allen |
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| Caroline Andrews was born February 9, 1945 in Middlebury, Vermont, the daughter of Elizabeth (Burditt) Parker and John (Thayer) Andrews. Her father was a professor of philosophy at Middlebury College and the family summered in Boothbay Harbor. Ms. Andrews graduated from Beloit College in 1967 with a bachelor of arts degree and received a Masters degree in Library Science from Clarion University in 1991. She came to live on Mount Desert Island in 1968 where she taught English at Mount Desert Island High School. She married Richard Allen of Southwest Harbor and the couple became the parents of two sons, James and Andrew Allen. In 1979 Southwest Harbor Public Library director Meredith Hutchins hired Ms. Andrews-Allen to be assistant librarian at the library. Ms. Hutchins has said that this was one of the best decisions she ever made and upon her retirement Ms. Andrews-Allen became director of the library and served in this position from 1986-1991. She then went on to become director of the Ellsworth Public Library (1988-1996) and during her tenure there an addition to the library that doubled the size of the building was built. In 1991 Ms. Andrews-Allen accepted a position as Library Media Specialist at Sumner Memorial High School where she served until she took a similiar position at Mount Desert Island High School in the fall of 1996. She retired in 2005 and lives in Ellsworth, Maine with her husband David Zuk. | 
Description: Caroline Andrews was born February 9, 1945 in Middlebury, Vermont, the daughter of Elizabeth (Burditt) Parker and John (Thayer) Andrews. Her father was a professor of philosophy at Middlebury College and the family summered in Boothbay Harbor. Ms. Andrews graduated from Beloit College in 1967 with a bachelor of arts degree and received a Masters degree in Library Science from Clarion University in 1991. She came to live on Mount Desert Island in 1968 where she taught English at Mount Desert Island High School. She married Richard Allen of Southwest Harbor and the couple became the parents of two sons, James and Andrew Allen. In 1979 Southwest Harbor Public Library director Meredith Hutchins hired Ms. Andrews-Allen to be assistant librarian at the library. Ms. Hutchins has said that this was one of the best decisions she ever made and upon her retirement Ms. Andrews-Allen became director of the library and served in this position from 1986-1991. She then went on to become director of the Ellsworth Public Library (1988-1996) and during her tenure there an addition to the library that doubled the size of the building was built. In 1991 Ms. Andrews-Allen accepted a position as Library Media Specialist at Sumner Memorial High School where she served until she took a similiar position at Mount Desert Island High School in the fall of 1996. She retired in 2005 and lives in Ellsworth, Maine with her husband David Zuk. [show more] | |||||
| 15849 | Andrews - Joseph Andrews (1806-1873) |
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| 14457 | Archibald - Isaac Edson Archibald (1860-1949) |
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| Isaac Edson Archibald was born to Isaac Archibald and Mary (Horton) Archibald on September 22, 1861 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia. Archibald married Hattie May (Sawyer) Garland (1865-?) on January 30,1895 in Bangor, Maine. Hattie was the daughter of William and Harriet Sawyer. Archibald was a fisherman and Captain, and was a Steamboat entrepreneur based in Rockland, Maine. He had a lumber business in Thomaston, Maine and had his own marine railway at Rockland by 1913. |
Description: Isaac Edson Archibald was born to Isaac Archibald and Mary (Horton) Archibald on September 22, 1861 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia. Archibald married Hattie May (Sawyer) Garland (1865-?) on January 30,1895 in Bangor, Maine. Hattie was the daughter of William and Harriet Sawyer. Archibald was a fisherman and Captain, and was a Steamboat entrepreneur based in Rockland, Maine. He had a lumber business in Thomaston, Maine and had his own marine railway at Rockland by 1913. [show more] | |||||
| 15850 | Arlt - Carl Theodore Arlt (1883-1958) |
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| 14458 | Arnold - Benjamin Walworth Arnold Jr. (1865-1932) |
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| 14359 | Artists of Mount Desert Island |
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| Mount Desert Island has inspired artists of all kinds for centuries. These are some of the painters, print makers, engravers and others who have created many of the wonderful images in the Digital Archive. |
Description: Mount Desert Island has inspired artists of all kinds for centuries. These are some of the painters, print makers, engravers and others who have created many of the wonderful images in the Digital Archive. | ||||
| 14541 | Ash - Ida Melinia (Ash) Richardson (1862-1923) |
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| 15070 | Atherton - Dorcas Foster (Atherton) Rich (1819-1898) |
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