page_title: Thomaston, Maine
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Thomaston, Maine / Notable people
context_page_description: Thomaston is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,781 at the 2010 census. Noted for its antique architecture, Thomaston is an old port popular with tourists. The town was named after Major General John Thomas.
context_section_description: Adelyn Bushnell, author
  Jonathan Cilley, US congressman
  Nathan A. Farwell, businessman, senator
  Samuel C. Fessenden, pastor, US congressman
  Charles Ranlett Flint, businessman, founder of IBM computer corporation
  Henry Knox, general, US Secretary of War
  Laura Koffman, actress
  Norman Wallace Lermond, political activist and naturalist
  Joshua A. Lowell, US congressman
  Charles Copeland Morse, businessman
  Chris Rector, Maine state congressman and senator
  Edward Robinson, US congressman
  Daniel Rose, 4th governor of Maine
  John Ruggles, US senator
  Henry K. Thatcher, Civil War-era admiral
  Peleg Wadsworth, Revolutionary War-era general
  Oliver Patterson Watts, educator
caption: Montpelier, the Gen. Henry Knox mansion (1793–1871) – replica built 1929.
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