Thank you to our donors!

We are deeply grateful to the following donors whose generosity makes the library’s work possible. Your contributions help preserve and grow the Hubbard Free Library in service of our entire community. 

We are also deeply grateful to the many donors who have chosen to give anonymously. 

General Thomas Hubbard Society ($1,000+)

General Thomas Hubbard was a Hallowell native and Civil War Colonel, lawyer, railroad executive, financier, businessman and philanthropist. He funded the library's first major addition in 1893, creating the section that now includes the circulation desk and loft.

  • Patricia Ankers
  • Mary Lou Dyer
  • Jon Caroline Karnes
  • Stephen & Jeanne Langsdorf
  • Jon Lund
  • James McKenna & Jane Orbiton
  • Millicent & Jason Rauch
  • Linda Sadoff
  • Ken & Anne Young

Eliza Clark Lowell Society ($500-$999)

Eliza Clark Lowell was a Hallowell philanthropist who donated the library's second addition in 1897, which now serves as the Children's Room.

  • Donald & Barbara Alexander
  • Wendy Claveau
  • Ellen Gibson
  • Paul Kuehnert & Judith Graber
  • Kevin & Mary Kane
  • Jill Lectka
  • Barbara Mayer
  • Dan & Juliet Shagoury
  • Jim & Karen Simpson
  • Martha Thornton

Governor Joseph R. Bodwell Society ($100-$499)

Governor Joseph R. Bodwell served as Hallowell’s mayor in 1869, before going on to be Maine’s 40th governor in 1887. He owned the Hallowell Granite Company and donated the granite used to construct the original library building in 1880.

  • Miriam Asch
  • Chris & Erica Asch
  • John & Marion Barr
  • Chris & Jen Cart
  • Wendy Claveau
  • Devin Cook
  • John Cook
  • Rick & Sue Cote
  • Roderick Cumming
  • Patrick Cunningham
  • Larry Davis
  • Clinton & Pamela Delashaw
  • Pamela Eckstein
  • Judith Feinstein
  • Michael Frett
  • Maria Fuentes
  • Beverly Golish
  • Ryan Gordon
  • Margaret Greenwald
  • Philip & Katherine Johnston
  • Sharon Kenny
  • Phil Lindley
  • Bruce Livingston
  • Michaela Loisel
  • Pamela Lombard
  • Susan MacPherson
  • Michelle McKenna
  • Stacey Mondschein
  • Hilary Neckles
  • Susan O'Keefe
  • Rosemary Presnar
  • Mary Radsky
  • Tracy Scopel
  • Deb & Syd Sewall
  • Alice Smith
  • Robert & Sandy Stubbs
  • Michele Theriault
  • Leanne Timberlake
  • Ann L. Twombly
  • Ted & Carolyn Vaughan
  • Mark Walker
  • Wendy Wingate
  • Jean & Jon Youde

Martha Ballard Society ($1-$99)

Martha Ballard was an 18th-century midwife and diarist from Hallowell whose detailed journal offers a rare first-hand account of daily life, medicine, and women's experiences in early America, later brought to wide recognition in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale.

  • John L. Bastey
  • Nancy Blethen
  • Donald & Monique Caron
  • Virginia G. Clark
  • Robert & Kristy Creamer
  • Victoria Dexter
  • Steve & Penny Doore
  • Fredrick & Linda Gay
  • Amy & Jonathan Ives
  • Bruce & Linda Johnson
  • Elizabeth Koopman
  • Amy Kopple
  • Erin Lloyd
  • Ryan Martin
  • Jean McWilliams
  • Stacey Mondschein
  • Anna Perkins
  • Timothy Richardson
  • Robert Rocheleau
  • Rani & Jeremy Sheaffer
  • Robert & Sandy Stubbs
  • Sharon Treat