Original burial site. Age 75 years. Buried July 20, 1903. Remains removed to Blaine Memorial Park in Augusta, Maine on June 10, 1920.
The Boston Herald Thursday, July 16, 1903
Mrs. Blaine Is Dead
Widow of Distinguished Maine Statesman
Summons Came After Long Illness at Augusta
Her Three Surviving Children Were at Her Bedside
[Special Dispatch to the Boston Herald.]
Augusta, Maine, July 15, 1903. Mrs. James G. Blaine died at 6 o’clock this morning at the old family residence on State Street. She came her from Washington six weeks ago in a feeble condition and for the greater part of the time was confined to the bed. At periods she did not recognize her children. She was 73 years old. Her children, Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mrs. Harriett Blaine Beale and James G. Blaine, were at her bedside.
It was announced tonight that Mrs. Blaine would be buried beside her husband at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington. The funeral will be at the old Blaine residence at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The officiating clergyman will be the Rev. Dr. Harris, assisted by the Rev. Norman McKinnon, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Augusta, of which the late Mr. Blaine was a member and constant attendant. The service at the house will be simple and the remains will at once be sent to Washington for interment.
Harriet B. Stanwood Blaine was born in 1830 at Augusta, Maine, whither her parents had removed from Ipswich, Massachusetts.
She received her education at home, under the care of private teachers. In the spring of 1848 she went to Kentucky to join her sisters, Caroline and Sarah, who were teaching in the Female Collegiate Institute at Georgetown. The sisters were women of high standing and good education and much respected by all who knew them.
The principal of the Female Collegiate Institute of Georgetown, where the Misses Stanwood were teaching – Thornton F. Johnson – organized in that city in 1847 the Western Military Institute, to which, in October of that year, James Gillespie Blaine, a young Pennsylvanian, came to assume the position of assistant professor of languages, Latin and Greek.
Young Blaine, a graduate of Washington College, but 19 years of age, came with high recommendations for scholarship and ability and the following year, upon the removal of the senior professor to Knoxville, Tennessee, Mr. Blaine succeeded to the chair of languages.
In the latter part of 1850 the Female Collegiate Institute, with its staff of teachers, was moved from Georgetown to Millersburg, the county seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky and about the same time the Western Military Institute was removed to Blue Lick, also in the same state.
During the two years of he institute’s location in Georgetown Mr. Blaine and Miss Stanwood became close friends, their similarity of ages, dispositions and pursuits forming a strong bond of attachment. The resultant engagement was followed, after the separation of the two colleges, by their marriage in the parlor of the seminary at Millersburg.
The Boston Herald Thursday, July 16, 1903
Mrs. Blaine Is Dead
Widow of Distinguished Maine Statesman
Summons Came After Long Illness at Augusta
Her Three Surviving Children Were at Her Bedside
[Special Dispatch to the Boston Herald.]
Augusta, Maine, July 15, 1903. Mrs. James G. Blaine died at 6 o’clock this morning at the old family residence on State Street. She came her from Washington six weeks ago in a feeble condition and for the greater part of the time was confined to the bed. At periods she did not recognize her children. She was 73 years old. Her children, Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mrs. Harriett Blaine Beale and James G. Blaine, were at her bedside.
It was announced tonight that Mrs. Blaine would be buried beside her husband at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington. The funeral will be at the old Blaine residence at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The officiating clergyman will be the Rev. Dr. Harris, assisted by the Rev. Norman McKinnon, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Augusta, of which the late Mr. Blaine was a member and constant attendant. The service at the house will be simple and the remains will at once be sent to Washington for interment.
Harriet B. Stanwood Blaine was born in 1830 at Augusta, Maine, whither her parents had removed from Ipswich, Massachusetts.
She received her education at home, under the care of private teachers. In the spring of 1848 she went to Kentucky to join her sisters, Caroline and Sarah, who were teaching in the Female Collegiate Institute at Georgetown. The sisters were women of high standing and good education and much respected by all who knew them.
The principal of the Female Collegiate Institute of Georgetown, where the Misses Stanwood were teaching – Thornton F. Johnson – organized in that city in 1847 the Western Military Institute, to which, in October of that year, James Gillespie Blaine, a young Pennsylvanian, came to assume the position of assistant professor of languages, Latin and Greek.
Young Blaine, a graduate of Washington College, but 19 years of age, came with high recommendations for scholarship and ability and the following year, upon the removal of the senior professor to Knoxville, Tennessee, Mr. Blaine succeeded to the chair of languages.
In the latter part of 1850 the Female Collegiate Institute, with its staff of teachers, was moved from Georgetown to Millersburg, the county seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky and about the same time the Western Military Institute was removed to Blue Lick, also in the same state.
During the two years of he institute’s location in Georgetown Mr. Blaine and Miss Stanwood became close friends, their similarity of ages, dispositions and pursuits forming a strong bond of attachment. The resultant engagement was followed, after the separation of the two colleges, by their marriage in the parlor of the seminary at Millersburg.
Original burial site. Age 75 years. Buried July 20, 1903. Remains removed to Blaine Memorial Park in Augusta, Maine on June 10, 1920.
The Boston Herald Thursday, July 16, 1903
Mrs. Blaine Is Dead
Widow of Distinguished Maine Statesman
Summons Came After Long Illness at Augusta
Her Three Surviving Children Were at Her Bedside
[Special Dispatch to the Boston Herald.]
Augusta, Maine, July 15, 1903. Mrs. James G. Blaine died at 6 o’clock this morning at the old family residence on State Street. She came her from Washington six weeks ago in a feeble condition and for the greater part of the time was confined to the bed. At periods she did not recognize her children. She was 73 years old. Her children, Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mrs. Harriett Blaine Beale and James G. Blaine, were at her bedside.
It was announced tonight that Mrs. Blaine would be buried beside her husband at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington. The funeral will be at the old Blaine residence at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The officiating clergyman will be the Rev. Dr. Harris, assisted by the Rev. Norman McKinnon, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Augusta, of which the late Mr. Blaine was a member and constant attendant. The service at the house will be simple and the remains will at once be sent to Washington for interment.
Harriet B. Stanwood Blaine was born in 1830 at Augusta, Maine, whither her parents had removed from Ipswich, Massachusetts.
She received her education at home, under the care of private teachers. In the spring of 1848 she went to Kentucky to join her sisters, Caroline and Sarah, who were teaching in the Female Collegiate Institute at Georgetown. The sisters were women of high standing and good education and much respected by all who knew them.
The principal of the Female Collegiate Institute of Georgetown, where the Misses Stanwood were teaching – Thornton F. Johnson – organized in that city in 1847 the Western Military Institute, to which, in October of that year, James Gillespie Blaine, a young Pennsylvanian, came to assume the position of assistant professor of languages, Latin and Greek.
Young Blaine, a graduate of Washington College, but 19 years of age, came with high recommendations for scholarship and ability and the following year, upon the removal of the senior professor to Knoxville, Tennessee, Mr. Blaine succeeded to the chair of languages.
In the latter part of 1850 the Female Collegiate Institute, with its staff of teachers, was moved from Georgetown to Millersburg, the county seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky and about the same time the Western Military Institute was removed to Blue Lick, also in the same state.
During the two years of he institute’s location in Georgetown Mr. Blaine and Miss Stanwood became close friends, their similarity of ages, dispositions and pursuits forming a strong bond of attachment. The resultant engagement was followed, after the separation of the two colleges, by their marriage in the parlor of the seminary at Millersburg.
The Boston Herald Thursday, July 16, 1903
Mrs. Blaine Is Dead
Widow of Distinguished Maine Statesman
Summons Came After Long Illness at Augusta
Her Three Surviving Children Were at Her Bedside
[Special Dispatch to the Boston Herald.]
Augusta, Maine, July 15, 1903. Mrs. James G. Blaine died at 6 o’clock this morning at the old family residence on State Street. She came her from Washington six weeks ago in a feeble condition and for the greater part of the time was confined to the bed. At periods she did not recognize her children. She was 73 years old. Her children, Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Mrs. Harriett Blaine Beale and James G. Blaine, were at her bedside.
It was announced tonight that Mrs. Blaine would be buried beside her husband at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington. The funeral will be at the old Blaine residence at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The officiating clergyman will be the Rev. Dr. Harris, assisted by the Rev. Norman McKinnon, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Augusta, of which the late Mr. Blaine was a member and constant attendant. The service at the house will be simple and the remains will at once be sent to Washington for interment.
Harriet B. Stanwood Blaine was born in 1830 at Augusta, Maine, whither her parents had removed from Ipswich, Massachusetts.
She received her education at home, under the care of private teachers. In the spring of 1848 she went to Kentucky to join her sisters, Caroline and Sarah, who were teaching in the Female Collegiate Institute at Georgetown. The sisters were women of high standing and good education and much respected by all who knew them.
The principal of the Female Collegiate Institute of Georgetown, where the Misses Stanwood were teaching – Thornton F. Johnson – organized in that city in 1847 the Western Military Institute, to which, in October of that year, James Gillespie Blaine, a young Pennsylvanian, came to assume the position of assistant professor of languages, Latin and Greek.
Young Blaine, a graduate of Washington College, but 19 years of age, came with high recommendations for scholarship and ability and the following year, upon the removal of the senior professor to Knoxville, Tennessee, Mr. Blaine succeeded to the chair of languages.
In the latter part of 1850 the Female Collegiate Institute, with its staff of teachers, was moved from Georgetown to Millersburg, the county seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky and about the same time the Western Military Institute was removed to Blue Lick, also in the same state.
During the two years of he institute’s location in Georgetown Mr. Blaine and Miss Stanwood became close friends, their similarity of ages, dispositions and pursuits forming a strong bond of attachment. The resultant engagement was followed, after the separation of the two colleges, by their marriage in the parlor of the seminary at Millersburg.
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