Harry R. Hichborn wedding invitation collection

Collection

Identifier: Coll. 286

Staff Only

Scope and Content note

Chiefly wedding announcements, arranged alphabetically, but also includes calling cards, engagement, and birth announcements, collected by Harry R. Hichborn and his family.

Dates

Creation: 1874 - 1943

Creator

Hichborn, Harry R. (Collector, Person)

Access

Unrestricted

Copyright

Access to collections at Maine Historical Society is not an authorization to publish. Rights and reproduction requests may be submitted in writing to the MHS Image Services Coordinator or Research & Administrative Librarian, subject to format.

Biographical note

Harry R. Hichborn family of Stockton Springs, Maine.

Harry Revere Hichborn was born in Stockton Springs, Maine, in 1871, to Wilson and Adella Hichborn. He married Alice May Crocker in 1899 and died in Belfast, Maine, in 1842. Harry and Alice had at least two daughters, Mary and Babaline. Harry Hichborn was a farmer and president of the Stockton Springs Trust Company; he was one of the people who got the bank established in town. Hichborn was also a director in the Water Company and, with Herbert Hopkins, an owner of the Stockton Springs Telephone Company. He was appointed postmaster by President McKinley in 1898.

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