No Ordinary Woman

Authors

Gwen Thompson

Source

Portland Monthly

Date

12-2022

Pages

17-19, 98-99

Abstract

The story of Susan Blanchard Russwurm Hawes, the Maine woman who adopted her husband's illegitimate son - and how he, John Brown Russwurm, grew up to become the first African-American graduate of Bowdoin (1826) and, later, the governor of Maryland in Liberia.

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