Eminent Mainers: Succinct Biographies of Thousands of Amazing Mainers, Mostly Dead, and a Few People from Away Who Have Done Something

by Arthur Douglas Stover

Book Overview

Maine is a rural backwater? Meet Hiram Abrams, born in Portland in 1878 the son of a Russian immigrant real estate broker, attended public schools, left school at age sixteen, sold newspapers, bought a cow and started a dairy -- and eventually became the founder and president of United Artists. Or Aurelia Gay Mace, born in 1835 in Strong, a Shaker from an early age, credited with the invention of the wire coat hanger. Aurelia achieved national fame...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884482855
• ISBN13: 9780884482857
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Tilbury House
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"