Chaisson, Irene (Muskie) and Paradis, Lucy (Muskie) oral history interview, 1985

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Identifier: MOH 003

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Chaisson, Irene (Muskie) and Paradis, Lucy (Muskie) oral history interview

Scope and Contents

Interview includes discussions of: their life throughout high school; family recollections and traditions; social relations in Maine; Rumford; and the Great Depression.

Dates

1985

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Biographical / Historical

Edmund S. Muskie’s sisters, Irene and Lucy were born in Rumford, Maine on January 26, 1912 and April 5, 1916 respectively. Their father, Stephen Muskie, was a tailor who emigrated from Poland. Their mother was a homemaker originally from Buffalo, New York. Both sisters went to St. Stephen’s High School and attended a Catholic church. Irene married a Chaisson at the age of twenty-three. She worked in a mill as a lab technician for eleven years. At the time of the interview, she resided in Rumford. Lucy married a Paradis at the age of twenty-eight. She went to hairdressing school and worked in a salon in Rumford. At the time of the interview, she lived in West Brewer, Maine.