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The Concord (NH) Monitor, Friday, December 31, 1999That's all, folks
The Monitor staff spent 1999 profiling 100 people who helped shape New Hampshire in the 20th century. The stories began Jan. 1, 1999 and finish today.
Here is the complete list of the subjects.
1. Niels Nielsen, caretaker of the Old Man of the Mountain
2. Freda Smith, who helped shut down the Laconia State School for the retarded
3. Sherman Adams, New Hampshire governor and President Eisenhower's right-hand man
4. Amy Cheney Beach, pianist and composer
5. George Hause, a convicted murderer who escaped the hangman's noose.
6. Marilla Ricker, suffragist
7. Don Foudriat, who helped clean the rivers
8. Alexander McKenzie, recorder of the big wind
9. Lotte Jacobi, photographer
10. Willard Uphaus, victim of 1950s red-baiting
11. William Loeb, Union Leader publisher
12. Carlton Fisk, baseball hero
13. George Maynard, and the fight against Live Free or Die
14. Frank Chappell, Stark POW camp guard
15. Theophile Biron, Franco-American leader
16. Sam Tamposi and Gerald Nash, Southern Tier developers
17. Frank Streeter, public school reformer
18. Dr. Anna Philbrook, leader in children's mental health
19. Mary Louise Farnum and Jessie Doe, the state's first women lawmakers
20. Grace Metalious, author of Peyton Place
21. Robert Frost, poet
22. Lou Smith, founder of Rockingham Park
23. Frederic Dumaine, who shut down the Amoskeag mills
24. Arthur Walden, Antarctic explorer
25. Charles Pettee, who helped shape UNH
26. Jonathan Daniels, slain civil rights worker
27. Mary Hill Coolidge, A Cooper Ballentine and the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen
28. Jigger Johnson, North Country woodsman
29. William Butterfield, architect
30. John Weeks, Philip Ayres and the creation of the White Mountain National Forest
31. Tommie dePaola, children's artist and author
32. Dudley Dudley, Nancy Sandberg, Ron Lewis and the Durham oil refinery
33. Dorothy Vaughn and the revival of Portsmouth
34. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science Church
35. Ruel Colby and World War II
36. Robert Rines, founder of Franklin Pierce Law Center
37. Fritzie Baer, founder of Motorcycle Week
38. Maxfield Parrish, artist and illustrator
39. Mel Thomson, New Hampshire governor
40. Patricia Gallup, founder of PC Connection
41. Robert Bass, Winston Churchill and William Chandler, progressives
42. The McDonalds brothers
43. Bob Montana and Archie Comics
44. Augustus St. Gaudens, sculptor
45. Richard Upton, New Hampshire primary founder
46. Ken Burns, filmmaker
47. Lillian Streeter, VNA founder
48. Sandy Davis, Sylvia Greenfield and Nancy Clark, state hospital nurses
49. Virginia Colter, anti-Vietnam activist
50. John King, founder of the New Hampshire Lottery
51. Larry Gilpin, WMUR visionary
52. Bob Morrill, founder of Story Land
53. Elizabeth Titus Putnam, Student Conservation Corps founder
54. Francis Grover Cleveland, Barnstormers Theater founder
55. Judson Hale, editor of Yankee magazine
56. Joe Dodge, founder of AMC White Mountain hut system
57. Marian MacDowell, artists' colony founder
58. Guy Chichester, anti-nuclear protester
59. Derek Owen, stone wall builder
60. Annalee Thorndike, doll magnate
61. John Sloan Dickey, Dartmouth College leader
62. J.E. Henry, North Country lumber baron
63. The Hubbard brothers, poultry magnates
64. Red Rolfe, baseball hero
65. Stephen Laurent, Abenaki translator
66. Christa McAuliffe, teacher in space
67. Bob Bahre, New Hampshire International Speedway
68. Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
69. Tad Comstock, Paul Bofinger and the fight over Franconia Notch
70. Tara Mounsey, women's ice hockey champion
71. Arnold and Milton Graton, covered bridge builders
72. John Sununu, governor, chief of staff to President George Bush
73. David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court justice
74. Caroline Gardner Bartlett, World War I volunteer and accused spy
75. Alan Shepard, astronaut
76. Elizabeth Yates, children's author
77. Gertrude Soule, Bertha Lindsay and Ethel Hudson, the last Shakers
78. Pierre Hevey, founder of the nation's first credit union
79. J.D. Salinger, author
80. Warren Rudman, U.S. senator
81. Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon, poets
82. Adam Sandler, actor
83. Pam Smart and the courtroom media frenzy
84. Thornton Wilder, author of Our Town
85. Toni Matt, daredevil skier
86. Helenette Silver, wildlife guru
87. Bob McQuillen, contra dance composer
88. Thomas Williams, New Hampshire fiction writer
89. Lew Feldstein and the New Hampshire Charitable Fund
90. Hannes Schneider, ski pioneer
91. Andru Volinsky and the Claremont lawsuit.
92. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, labor leader
93. John Winant, Depression-era governor
94. Betty Hill, alien abductee
95. John Swenson, granite mogul
96. Dennis Terrio, Berlin paper mill worker
97. Aerosmith
98. Laura LeCain and the Spanish flu.
99. Gov. Jeanne Shaheen
100. Judge Hugh Bownes© Concord Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot
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