Eminent Mainers: Succinct Biographies of Thousands of Amazing Mainers, Mostly Dead, and a Few People from Away Who Have Done Something
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 in 1890 when she mistook Charles Lewis Tiffany for a tramp, gave him lemonade, brushed his clothes, insisted that he sit down for the noon meal, and sent him off with a box lunch. Tiffany responded by…
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- ISBN: 978-0-88448-285-7
- EAN: 9780884482857
- Produktnummer: 2297029
- Verlag: Tilbury House Publ
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 531 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.8 cm 748 g
- Gewicht: 748
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