Description: Receipt from American MIssionary Society for $2.00 contribution from the King's Daughters Circle of Mount Desert, Mary Somes, President. Also includes envelope addressed to Miss Mary A. Somes. Enrollment form of Emma Richardson, Mt Desert, Maine in the International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons, NYC Mae Hill, Mt Desert, ME is the Leader of the Circle known as Somesville Silver Cross (n.d.) Note indicates that Mae Hill was married to Paul Ather? [show more]
Description: "Somesville Library," a handwritten history by Laura Richardson of Somesville, April 16, 1897 (4 pages); four-page handwritten letter and envelope with return address, written by Lucie Smallidge (daughter of Laura Richardson) to Mrs. Charles Lanpher (Juanita) and dated September 21, 1988;
Description: Letter from Emma L. Rich, New Haven, CT to her aunt, Jane Kitteridge, Mount Dessert, Maine, dated March 4, 1895, together with a burgundy ribbon.
Description: Olean High School Commencement exercises invitation, 1899, Mr. E. R. Kittridge, together with card of Rosswell D. Morse, State Armory, Olean NY,
Description: Details of mantel. Three drawings on linen with no name - assumed to be related. NB name of Brown on back of one linen drawing. The linens may be of a different project. One drawing on paper with builders instructions. These were all rolled together.
Description: Two cards: 1. For Somesville High School, winter term, 1896, showing grades in percentage for reading, spelling, grammar, geometry, algebra, rhetoric, and Latin. Signed on back by Lewis Somes. Teacher was E.W. Ober. 2. Other card does not give date or school, but lists subjects and is signed on back by Lewis Somes and Emma Somes. Teacher was B.H. Winslow. Cards in envelope addressed to Mr. Lewis Somes, Mt. Desert
Document, Correspondence, Letter, Recommendation Letter
Date:
4/18/1899
Description: Letter of recommendation for Capt. William S. Brown. Competent and Safe Navigator of the New England Coast. Sighned by J. H. Flitner of J. H. Flitner and Co. Ship Brokers.
Description: Application for membership in James M. Parker post, GAR, by Edmund Pendleton. He was a 2nd Lt. in Co. "E" 4th Regiment, New Jersey (?) Heavy Artillery. He resigned, because he had not received a promised commission in the regular artillery as promised by Secretary of War Stanton and was honorably discharged. He also served as aid [sic] de camp to General DeRussy.