Margaret Chase Smith

Margaret Chase Smith

female, deceased (1995)
United States presidential candidate, ColbyCollegealumni, US Republican Party politician, United States Republican Party, Republican, from Maine…colby college
Margaret Chase Smith was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to...
Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor

male, 54 years old
from Maine, the new republic, ColbyCollegealumni, fellow, borderland, college of william and mary…Brandeis University alumni, colby college
Alan Taylor (born 1955) is an historian specializing in early American history. He is the author of a number of books about Colonial America, the...
E. Annie Proulx

E. Annie Proulx

female, 74 years old
brokeback mountain, E.A. Proulx, American of French Canadian descent, novelist, From Portland, Maine, ColbyCollegealumni…University of Vermont alumni
Edna Annie Proulx (pronounced) (born August 22, 1935) is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, "The Shipping News" (1993), won the...

Alvin Schwartz

male, deceased (1992)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, ColbyCollegealumni, Northwestern University alumni, United States Navy, Superman, harper collins…colby college
Alvin Schwartz (born April 25 1927, in Brooklyn, New York; died March 14, 1992) was the author of books dedicated to and dealing with topics such...
Benjamin Franklin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler

male, deceased (1893)
Union political leader, from Massachusetts, Massachusetts lawyer, ColbyCollegealumni, Bermuda Hundred Campaign, contraband
Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5 1818 - January 11, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United...
Dan Harris

Dan Harris

male
ColbyCollegealumni, Waterville, World News with Charles Gibson, World News, World News Now, colby college
Dan Harris is a correspondent for ABC News. He has been anchoring "World News Sunday" since November 2006 and frequently anchors "World News",...
Louise Helen Coburn

Louise Helen Coburn

female, deceased (1949)
ColbyCollegealumni, Sigma Kappa, American, from Maine
Louise Helen Coburn (1856-February 7, 1949) was one of the five founders of Sigma Kappa sorority, a pioneer for women's education at Colby College,...
Elizabeth Gorham Hoag

Elizabeth Gorham Hoag

female, deceased (1875)
ColbyCollegealumni, Sigma Kappa, from Maine, American, colby college, Tuberculosis
Elizabeth Gorham Hoag (1857-June 8, 1875) was one of the five founding members of Sigma Kappa sorority. Along with Mary Caffrey Low, Ida Fuller,...

Ida Fuller

female, deceased (1933)
ColbyCollegealumni, Sigma Kappa, from Maine, colby college, Bowdoin College, United States student societies
Ida Fuller (? - September 26, 1933) is one of the five founding members of Sigma Kappa sorority. Fuller served as one of the co-founders of the...
Jack Coombs

Jack Coombs

male, deceased (1957)
ColbyCollegealumni, Duke University, alma mater, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers…colby college
John Wesley "Jack" Coombs, nicknamed Colby Jack after his alma mater, was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Philadelphia...