Blaine Graves at Bar Habor

I am visiting Maine this week, and I stopped by to see the graves of Harriet Blaine Beale, Trux’s first wife, her sister Margaret and her husband, Walter Damrosch. They are buried at Ledgelawn Cemetery, maybe about a half mile away from the downtown area. The graves are the first ones you will see once …

Margaret Blaine Damrosch and the Republican Party

I recently found and purchased an old book related to my research. Gretchen Blaine Damrosch Finletter was the daughter of Walter Damrosch, a famous composer, and Margaret Blaine Damrosch. Margaret was the daughter of James G. Blaine, former Secretary of State and Republican nominee for President in 1884, and also the sister of Harriet Blaine …