Photograph of two young women identified on the reverse as
Marguerite A. Mansfield and
Harriet Colton Wilson. Two women with these names lived in
Bangor, Maine.
Marguerite A. Mansfield was possibly the
Miss Marguerite A. Mansfield listed in the
1921 City Directory of
Bangor, Maine, as a maid living at
47 West Broadway, what is now the home of the
Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation.
Interestingly, the ball park in Bangor funded by the Kings is named Mansfield Stadium after Shawn Trevor Mansfield.
"Marguerite" is hard to find, but another possibility might have been the
Margaret A. Mansfield shown in a
record of marriage to
George E. Blakemore in
Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1908. "Margaret" was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1882, the daughter of Patrick Mansfield and Mary (Eagle) Mansfield.
Harriet Colton Wilson was born in
1877 in
Bangor, Maine, the daughter of attorney and judge
Joseph Colburn Wilson and
Mary Howe (Colton) Wilson. In
1898 Hattie married horticulturalist
Lucius Jerry Shepard, who would be farm superintendent at the University of Maine from 1899-1901.
They would live in Pennsylvania, then New Jersey, before settling in Princeton, Massachusetts. Hattie died in 1946 and Lucius a decade later.
If you have a theory as to the identity for Marguerite A. Mansfield and/or more information on Harriet Colson (Wilson) Shepard, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.