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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bangor, Maine. == Architects and engineers == *Maine's first architect, Charles G. Bryant (1803–1858), lived and practiced in Bangor in the 1830s and designed Mt. Hope Cemetery, the second garden cemetery in the United States. Bryant later moved to Texas (Galveston) and became the first architect in that state, where, joining the Texas Rangers, he was eventually killed and scalped by Apache Indians.〔James H. Mundy and Earle G. Shettleworth, ''The Flight of the Grand Eagle: Charles G. Bryant, Architect and Adventurer'' (Augusta: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, 1977)〕 Other prominent Bangor architects, many of whose buildings survive in the city and nearby towns, included Calvin Ryder, Benjamin S. Deane, George W. Orff, C. Parker Crowell, and Wilfred E. Mansur.〔Deborah Thompson, ''Bangor, Maine, 1769–1914: An Architectural History'' (Orono: University of Maine Press, 1988)〕 *Edward Austin Kent (1854–1912) became a leading architect in Buffalo, New York and three-time president of the American Institute of Architects. He perished aboard the RMS ''Titanic'' when the ship struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912.〔(Edward Austin Kent in Buffalo New York ), by Bill Parke. Accessed Feb. 5, 2008〕 *Bangorian Charles Davis Jameson, an engineer who taught at MIT, subsequently went to China and became Chief Consulting Engineer and Architect to the Imperial Chinese Government (1895–1918). He planned important hydraulics projects and witnessed the Boxer Rebellion *Although not strictly an engineer, Bangor lawyer Francis Clergue, born in neighboring Brewer oversaw one of the most ambitious engineering projects in North America, the development of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Ontario as a major hydropower and industrial center in the 1890s–1900s. Before that Clergue had organized the Bangor Street Railway (the first electric railway in Maine) and the Bangor Waterworks, and had tried and failed to build a railroad across Persia and a waterworks in its capital, Tehran.〔(Francis Hector Clergue: The Personality ) Retrieved June 29, 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of people from Bangor, Maine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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