Baseball first baseman, manager, and coach Aaron S. Daggett, last surviving general of the American Civil War Daniel F. Davis, 37th Governor of Maine Hudson Maxim, inventor of smokeless gunpowder Charles Deering, American businessman and philanthropist James R. Day, Chancellor of Syracuse University Dorothy Donnell Calhoun, author, scriptwriter, and editor of Motion Picture Magazine and Motion Picture Classic Charles Collins, President of Dickinson College Joseph Cummings Chase (1878-1965), American portraitist Joseph Cummings, President of Genesee College (now Syracuse University), Wesleyan University, and Northwestern University Annie Hamilton Donnell, American author Ray Eliot, American football and baseball player, former football coach of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Charles H. Fernald, entomologist, naturalist, first professor of economic entomology Ethel Bailey Higgins, botanist, author, and former curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum John Huard, National Football League player and Canadian Football League coach Blair Lent, illustrator and author of children's books; wrote often under the name 'Ernest Small' Emma Huntington Nason (1845–1921), poet, author, and musical composer John Orville Newton, principal Ephraim K. Smart, United States Representative from Maine Mary Richardson Walker, missionary and one of first six white women to cross the Rocky Mountains References All other information is taken from the school's website and publications External links Kents Hill School website Private high schools in Maine Schools in Kennebec County, Maine Boarding schools in Maine Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine National Register of Historic Places in Kennebec County, Maine Educational institutions established in 1824 1824 establishments in Maine