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A local historian hit gold earlier this month when she came across an Eastport midwife’s diaries dating back to 1898. 
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Harry Lewis Jr., of Eastport, left, 90, and his nephew, Albert Speaks, of Annapolis, 83, look on as historian Ginger Doyel goes through the diaries kept from 1898 to 1908 by Eastport midwife Annie Hanson Christensen. Find Us On Facebook
The diaries, or registries, listed 406 children that Annie Hanson Christensen, an immigrant from Denmark, delivered between August 1898 and August 1908. Historian Ginger Doyel, who is including some of the material in a pending book about Eastport, said Christensen went out at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather, to deliver babies.
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What a wonderful genealogical find. Thank you for preserving this for the future.
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