- Dorothy Shepherd Hopkins, née Mabel Lucie Brigham, was born at Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 5 February 1890, daughter of William Frederick Brigham, market farmer, and his wife Lucie Sarah (Cole) Brigham, also adopted.
Dorothy celebrated her birthday on Washington's birthday, Feb.22, but she was born the 5th.
After her mother died, Mabel was surrendered by her sick father to the New England Home for Little Wanderers where she lived for one year. After her father's death, Mabel was adopted by Franklin Weeks Hopkins and his wife Arvilla Hannah Noyes Hopkins of Somerville, Massachusetts, and her name was changed to Dorothy Shepherd Hopkins. Her sister Florence was adopted by the Sturdevant family in Somerville, and the sisters went to school together and always knew they were birth sisters.
Leland Winchenbach attended school in Maine, and then moved to Somerville, Massachusetts, where he was a bookkeeper and lived in a boarding house across the street from his future wife. They met and married in Somerville, 1 May 1911, and had two daughters born in Massachusetts, before moving to Waldoboro, Maine.
After her husband's death, Dorothy lived with her daughter Arvilla Bowers and family in Damariscotta, Maine.
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