List of people from Bath, Maine

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bath, Maine.

Authors and academics

• McDonald Clarke, poet
• George F. Magoun, first president of Iowa College (now Grinnell College)
• Edward Page Mitchell, editorial and short story writer
• William Maxwell Reed, author of children's science books
• Geoffrey Wolff, novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer; lives in Bath

Business

• Charles W. Morse, businessman

Media and arts

• Georgia Cayvan, stage actress
• Claude Demetrius, songwriter
• Emma Eames, singer
• John Adams Jackson, sculptor
• William Zorach, sculptor

Military

• Charles Frederick Hughes, US Navy admiral
• William Smith, US Army private; Medal of Honor recipient.^[1]
• Silas Soule, abolitionist and Civil War era soldier

Politics

• Nathaniel S. Berry, 28th governor of New Hampshire
• Samuel Davis, US congressman
• Thomas W. Hyde, US senator; Union Army general and Metal of Honor recipient; founder of Bath Iron Works
• William King, first governor of Maine
• Arthur Mayo, state legislator
• Freeman H. Morse, US congressman and mayor
• Amos Nourse, physician and US senator
• William LeBaron Putnam, lawyer and politician
• Harold M. Sewall, last United States Minister to Hawaii
• Sumner Sewall, 58th governor of Maine
• Mary Small, politician
• Francis B. Stockbridge, US senator
• Peleg Tallman, US congressman

Science and engineering

• Edward Davis, buccaneer and engineer
• Francis H. Fassett, architect
• Henry Gannett, geographer
• Robert Jaffe, physicist

References

1. "Medal of Honor recipients". United States Army. Retrieved 2010-11-19.