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    Dr. Walter Benajah Chase, (USA) (1842 - 1920)
    Dr. Walter Benajah Chase
  • George R Jonelunas (1927 - 2013)
    Obituary Information : Name: George R. Jonelunas Age: 85 Date of Death: February 10, 2013 Place of Death: Atrium Assisted Living Facility, Agawam Date of Birth: April 2, 1927 Place of Birth: Greenfiel...
  • Judge William LeBaron Putnam (1835 - 1918)
    Judge William LeBaron Putnam He served as the Mayor of Portland, Maine, from 1869 to 1870. He also served as Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 1st District from 1892-1917.
  • Rev. John Cotton Smith (1826 - 1882)
    College: 1847 graduated Bowdoin College Rector of the Church of the Ascension, New York City, from 1860 to 1881.
  • Erik Rundlett Achorn (1895 - 1972)
    Erik Rundlett Achorn
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Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College /ˈboʊdɨn/ is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick. Founded in 1794, the college enrolls 1,839 students and has been coeducational since 1971. Bowdoin offers 33 majors and 4 additional minors, and has a student-faculty ratio of 9:1. Famous alumni include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Franklin Pierce, and Joshua Chamberlain. Bowdoin has an acceptance rate of 14.5% and was listed as the fourth-best liberal arts college in the U.S. in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Bowdoin is located on the shores of Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River, 12 miles (19 km) north of Freeport, Maine, and 28 miles (45 km) north of Portland, Maine. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin also owns a 118-acre (478,000 m²) coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a 200-acre (809,000 m²) scientific field station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy.

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