Ellsworth Historical Society

Luchini, Assunta (Rigali)

Born in 1875 as Eletta Assunta Giuseppina Rigali in Fornaci di Barga, Italy, Assunta emigrated to Ellsworth in 1901 with her young daughter, determined to build a life in America with her husband. Widowed and pregnant just a few years late…

Greely, Ann F. (Jarvis)

Ann Frances Greely (Jarvis) was born on 15 October 1831 in Ellsworth, the fifth child of Col. Charles Jarvis and Mary Ann Black. As such, she was the product of the two most prominent families in Ellsworth in the early 1800s. Her father, C…