Women in Gardiner's History
taken from the book
"History of Gardiner, Pittston, and West Gardiner
pub. 1852
by. J. W. Hanson
except where noted
Mrs. James Winslow - is often mentioned as having been very serviceable to the sick, particulary to parturient women; indeed she was the only individual devoted to the practice of medicine, prior to 1769.
Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850 - 1943) author of childrens books
Mrs. Allen (g dau. of Sylvester Gardiner) "She was a woman of rare endowments of mind, and of superior culture and attainments.....She found many rare relics of other eras, and attracted the attention and applause of the most scientific men of the age...Her correspondents included the most scientific men in Europe and America". Author of "A Poetical Geognosy"
"There was a wild, insane creature who lived on the banks of the Cabbassa-contee, and also formerly, in the family of Jedediah Jewett, who called herself the Queen of Sheba, but whose name was Richardson. Rarely has the world seen a happier person. She fancied the whole world her own, and wherever her temporary abiding place was, she deemed herself "monarch of all she surveyed. On one occasion, when the Supreme Court held a session in Hallowell, in 1794, the Queen of Sheba entered, her head was uncovered, and her face haggard and bronzed by exposure. Her eyes were wild, but piercing, beaming with conscious majesty and high command. She advanced rapidly to the Judges' seat, and had actually got in among them. The presiding Judge, alarmed and amazed, called for the interference of the sheriff, while she, nothing daunted, insisted that she was only taking her proper place"
Delia Tudor (1787-1860) a sister of Robert Hallowell Gardiner I's wife, married Commodore Charles Stewart of the U.S. Navy - she smuggled the desposed president of Peru in her husband's ship (unknow to him). He divorced her after his court martial for the international crisis, and she fled to Oaklands for refuge with the Gardiners.
taken from - Gardiner on the Kennebec by D.Smith and E. Shettleworth Jr.
Dr. Gertrude E. Heath (1859-1935) graduated from Hahnemann College in Chicago, returned to Gardiner to practice as a homeopathic physician from 1884-1918.
taken from - Gardiner on the Kennebec by D.Smith and E. Shettleworth Jr.
Kate Vannah - born in Gardiner 1855 - composer and poet.
taken from - Gardiner on the Kennebec by D.Smith and E. Shettleworth Jr.
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