Editing Bethel, Maine (section)

== Notable people ==
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* [[Henry J. Bean]], judge and state representative in Oregon
* [[Matt Bevin]] (born 1967), Gould Academy student, businessman and Governor of Kentucky (2015–2019)
* [[Richard Blanco]], 2013 U.S. presidential inaugural poet
* [[Timothy J. Carter]], ME Representative for the 25th Congress and [[Luther C. Carter]], NY Representative for the 36th Congress, both sons of Dr. Timothy Carter, the first physician to settle in the town
* [[Simon Dumont]], Freeskier
* [[Cuvier Grover]], Civil War era general
* [[Edwin Osgood Grover]], Professor of Books at Rollins College
* [[Frederick Grover]], Professor of Botany at Oberlin College
* [[La Fayette Grover]], [[List of Governors of Oregon|fourth]] [[Governor of Oregon]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] and member of the [[United States Senate]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/render/live/en/sites/NGA/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_oregon/col2-content/main-content-list/title_grover_lafayette.html|title= Oregon Governor Lafayette Grover|publisher= National Governors Association|access-date=August 24, 2012}}</ref> 
* [[Thomas Holt (American architect)|Thomas Holt]], architect
* [[Moses Mason]], physician, congressman
* [[Edward Sylvester Morse]] (1838–1925), Gould Academy student and director of a predecessor to the [[Peabody Essex Museum]] in Salem, Massachusetts
* [[Mary Ann Frost Stearns Pratt]], wife of Mormon leader [[Parley Pratt]]
* [[Patty Bartlett Sessions]], midwife and [[List of Joseph Smith's wives|plural wife]] of [[Joseph Smith]]
* [[Marshall Stedman]], actor/director, playwright, author and drama teacher
* [[Philip Hunter Timberlake]], entomologist
* [[James S. Wiley]], congressman