Mary Bidwell

Mary Electa Bidwell née Nobel (May 19, 1881– April 25, 1996) was an American supercentenarian. She died at age 114 years 342 days on April 25, 1996, twenty-four days before her 115th birthday. She is currently the 33rd oldest verified person ever. She was also the oldest person ever to die in Connecticut.

Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel. She was a descendant of John Bidwell, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Bidwell worked as a teacher in a one-room school house for six years. She married Charles Hubbell Bidwell, a distant cousin, in 1906.

Bidwell lived on her own in North Haven, Connecticut, until she was 110. Bidwell died at the Arden House, a nursing home in Hamden, Connecticut. She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1881.