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Notable Summer and Year Round People - Stephen Smallidge and his wife Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Stephen Smallidge and his wife Northeast Harbor Library Description: Stephen Smallidge and his wife. He was for many years postmaster at Northeast Harbor. They were in all respects fine people and worthy citizens. They are sitting in one of the old pews which had once been in use in the log church, St. Mary's-by-the-Sea, and afterwards discarded when chairs were substituted. | ||
Notable Summer and Year Round People Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People Northeast Harbor Library Description: 1. Stephen Smallidge and wife 2. Mrs. Joy 3. Old Captain Jordan 4. Young Captain Jordan 5. Mr. Frazier 6. Mr. Soulis 7. Abram Gilpatrick 8. Mrs. Caspar Wistar (somestimes misspelled Wister) 9. Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane 10. Rev. Dr. Charles C. Tiffany, Rev. Dr. George Park Fisher and Hon. Andrew D. White 11. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Coit Gilman 12. Hon. and Mrs. Seth Low 13. Rev. William R. Huntington 14, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mrs. Caspar Wister Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mrs. Caspar Wister Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mrs. Caspar Wister (actual spelling is Wistar) at her Harborside cottage. Every afternoon she poured tea for the many visitors who came to call. She was a sister of Dr. Horace Howard Furness. | ||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Rev. Dr. Charles C. Tiffany, Rev. Dr. George Park Fisher and Hon. Andrew D. White Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Rev. Dr. Charles C. Tiffany, Rev. Dr. George Park Fisher and Hon. Andrew D. White Northeast Harbor Library Description: Rev. Dr. Charles C. Tiffany, Rev. Dr. George Park Fisher and Hon. Andrew D. White. Dr. Tiffany was Archdeacon of the Diocese of New York. Dr. Fisher was Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University, and Dr. White (who had been president of Cornell) was an American Ambassador in Germany and in Russia. These three men were boyhood friends. The picture was taken at the time of a "house party" which Mrs. Pepper gave them in the cottage on School House Ledge. Others who were members of the "party" were Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson. [show more] | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Coit Gilman Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Coit Gilman Northeast Harbor Library Description: Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Coit Gilman. He was President of Johns Hopkins. Her maiden name was Woolsey, a daughter (as I recall it) of old President Woolsey of Yale, and a sister of Miss Sarah Woolsey, whose pen name was Susan Coolidge. They all spent many summers at Clifton House. | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Hon. and Mrs. Seth Low Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Hon. and Mrs. Seth Low Northeast Harbor Library Description: The Hon. and Mrs. Seth Low. He was Mayor of New York and President of Columbia University. She was a daughter of Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, of the Supreme Court of the United States. | ||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Rev. William R. Huntington Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Rev. William R. Huntington Northeast Harbor Library Description: The Rev. William R. Huntington, D.D., Rector of Grace Church, New York. A man of saintly character, exquisite literary taste and of wide influence in the Episcopal Church. For some years. when he was a widower, he and his sister-in-law, Miss Miriam Reynolds, occupied the cottage "Bishops-gate-Within". Later he occupied a cottage back of the Clifton House overlooking the harbor. This picture was taken on Mrs. Pepper's piazza. | ||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp. He was a member of the Boston Bar and a true sportsman. In college he had been a member of the celebrated Harvard Baseball team, which made a notable record in games played against professional Nine's. He was a fine tennis player and in a national gold tournament was beaten only on the last green by MacDonald who won the championship. Mrs. Thorp was a daughter of the poet Longfellow and one of the most delightful and charming of women. She was a graduate of Newnham College, Oxford, and was the "laughing Allegra" in "The Children's Hour". Their home was on Greening's Island, but this picture was taken on Mrs. Pepper's piazza. [show more] | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mrs. Joy Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mrs. Joy Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mrs. Joy who, when we first came to Northeast in 1889, kept the only dry-goods store in the village. It was called a "Trimming Store" for the sale of what the British would call "oddments". | ||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Old Captain Jordan Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Old Captain Jordan Northeast Harbor Library Description: Old Captain Jordan, Keeper of the Bear Island Light. This picture was taken when he paid a courtesy call on Mrs. Pepper when we first moved into the (then) new cottage on School House Ledge. He evidently felt a bit foolish at being photographed. | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Young Captain Jordan Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Young Captain Jordan Northeast Harbor Library Description: Young Captain Jordan (son of the old Captain) who sailed a large sloop, much used by the Misses Irwin and other ladies for "safe" sailing parties. | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. Frazier Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. Frazier Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mr. Frazier, keeper of a buck-board stable. With Mr. Smallidge, Mr. Frazier regularly took up the collection at the Sunday morning service. | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. Soulis Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Mr. Soulis Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mr. Soulis, the contractor: a fine man and a skillful workman. His shop was on the margin of Gilpatrick Cove at the place where the bridge across the cove begins. He built our cottage on School House Ledge and our camp on Goosemarsh Point. | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Abram Gilpatrick Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Abram Gilpatrick Northeast Harbor Library Description: Abram Gilpatrick, a fine citizen and a good neighbor. | |||
Notable Summer and Year Round People - Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Notable Summer and Year Round People - Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane Northeast Harbor Library Description: The Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane, Bishop of Albany, a notable figure and a lovable character. |