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Bowdoin College

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    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
  • Edgar Oakes Achorn, LLD (1859 - 1931)
    Edgar Oakes Achorn, LLD We learn with regret of the death at Orlando, Florida on February 13th, of one of our Maine authors, Dr. Edgar Oakes Achorn, a native of Newcastle, Maine, a resident of Bru...
  • Arthur F Williams (1926 - 2013)
    Arthur F Williams Williams, 87, of Fayston, died December 28, 2013, at Copley Woodlands in Stowe, surrounded by his family and caregiver. He was a longtime civic leader, polo enthusiast, skier, s...
  • Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott, (USA) (1838 - 1932)
    Dr. Henry Pickman Walcott DR. HENRY P. WALCOTT PASSES ON AT AGE OF 93 Renowned Physician Gave Lone and Varied Public Service — Civil War Surgeon Dr. Henry P. Walcott, honorary president of t...
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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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