1834 | Catherine “Kate” Furbish was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, first botanic artist in the “Garden of Maine” | ||
1861 | Maine vessel A. B. Thompson, built in Brunswick, is captured by Confederate raiders. |
1877 | Edward Kent of Bangor, Whig Governor (1838-1839), graduate of Harvard College, lawyer and judge, dies in Bangor. |
1946 | Author Booth Tarkington, who while not a native “Mainer,” had spent summers in the state since 1903 and wrote of Maine characters and places, dies. |