Description: Photos taken around the Carter home at 27 Forest Avenue in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Above - Robert Malcolm Carter (1905-1975) and one of his cocker spaniels – all named Polly. The house had a wood furnace until c. 1963. March 1941 1 - William “Bill” Carter (1941-) next to a fish trap. 2 - Mildred G. Norwood Carter, Mrs. Robert Malcolm Carter (1910-1988), next to a Bleeding Heart plant – the photograph shows the location of the back door before the milk room was built. 3 - William “Bill” Carter next to the pen built to keep him safe from cars. Bill would get out and drag the pen around the yard. 4 - Elizabeth “Betty” Jane Carter (1944-) – Mrs. Albert M. Chipman, on back steps. 5 - Mildred Norwood Carter, Mrs. Robert Malcolm Carter, and child on back steps. 6 - William R. Carter – house in background is his uncle’s house Jasper Chamberlain Hutchins, 22 Forest Avenue. 7 - William Robert Carter and Robert Malcolm Carter on back porch with milk bottles. [show more]
Description: On April 19, 1893 the Cooper's son, Joseph Walter Cooper, married Nellie Sue Inman, daughter of Samuel Andrew Martin Inman and his first wife, Nancy Jane Dick. Nellie's father, Samuel Andrew Martin Inman was the owner of S.M. Inman & Co., one of the largest dealers in cotton in the world, with several branch offices in different parts of the South. He was one of the organizers and a director of the Southern Railway, the yards of which in Atlanta are named for him and was a major Georgian philanthropist. Nellie's brother, Henry Arthur Inman (1869-after 1920) and his wife, Roberta Sutherland Crew built their cottage, "Sutherland" now "Heeltap" at 16 Kinfolk Lane, Southwest Harbor, in 1901. Their son, Arthur Crew Inman (1895-1963) is notorious for having written the "Inman Diaries." On March 28, 1894 Samuel Andrew Martin Inman and his recently acquired second wife, Mildred (McPheeters) Inman (1867-1946), gave a lavish reception at their home in Atlanta, Georgia, for their daughter Nellie and her mother in law, Emma Jane Cooper. This fulsome description of the party, published in "The Atlanta Constitution" on March 29, 1894 illustrates the world inhabited by the Cooper and Inman families. [show more]
Description: Two people standing in back – Left to Right: Nelson Herrick (1900-2001) Andrew Harmon Herrick (1897-1992) Nine people sitting in middle – Left to Right: William E. “Billy Hot” Norwood (1860-1933) – Driver Woodrow Wilson Herrick (1914-2002) on Mr. Simmons lap Mr. Joseph Irving Simmons (1883-1940) Antoinette Alma Herrick (1898-1967) – Mrs. James Emerson Herrick Mary Magdelene (Rutzier) Simmons (1842-) – Mrs. John S. Simmons Luther Carnes Herrick (1915-1998) in Fannie Herrick’s lap Fannie Carnes (Harmon) Herrick (1871-1962) – Mrs. William Edgar Herrick Marjorie Emily Herrick (1904-1943) or Florence Margaret Herrick (1904-1956) – twins Elizabeth Marlowe Herrick (1903-1957) – later Mrs. John R. Pitman Four people in front on step – Left to Right: Kenneth Louis Herrick (1907-1996) Horace Perry Herrick (1901-1992) Millard Joseph Herrick (1905-1969) Lovina Ethel Herrick (1911-2004) – later Mrs. Francis Arey [show more]
Description: The only known photograph of Jacob and Rebecca Carroll and their family. "July 18, 1888…Pepper came up here [to the Mountain House] Sunday and took a picture of our family group…" - The Gertrude Whitmore Carroll Journal, Researched and Compiled by Ralph W. Stanley, p. 11 - 1888-1917. Left to right: Sarah Tenney Carroll (1880-1960) - later Mrs. Wilford Howard Kittredge Nell Rebecca Carroll (1871-1958) - later Mrs. Seth Sprague Thornton Father - Jacob William Carroll - seated (1830-1899) William Lloyd Carroll - on Jacob's lap (1884-1971) - later married Margaret Ellen McManus Grace Clark Carroll (1882-1949) - later Mrs. Roderick Pepper Clark Gertrude Whitmore Carroll (1873-1917) John Carroll (1875-1964) - later married Viola Benson Tracy Fannie "Fan" Edith Carroll (1874-1890) Alice Carroll (1879-1964) - later Mrs. Fred Eaton Young Katherine "Kate" Carroll (1877-?) - later Mrs. George Edwin Bacon Mother - Rebecca Whitmore Lurvey Carroll - seated (1844-1916) Anna Beatrice Carroll - on Rebecca's lap (1887-1974) - later Mrs. Carl Edward Kelley Enoch "Ene" Edwin Lurvey - seated (1868-1929) - later married Lena E. Bridges Enoch Edwin Lurvey was the son of Rebecca Whitmore Lurvey Carroll and her first husband, Enoch Lurvey Jr. [show more]
Description: Back Row - Standing Left to Right: Mary Ann (Carroll) Minctons Mae (Sabonis) Carroll, Mrs. Charles Bradley Carroll James Richard Carroll (1939-) John Harriman Carroll (1937-) Rachel (Carroll) Phalen Richard Thornton Carroll Seated - Left to Right: Ruth C. (Kittredge) Dolliver, Mrs. Morris A. Dolliver (1907-2004) Mary (Harriman) Carroll, Mrs. Richard Thornton Carroll Rebecca Carroll (Clark) Foote, Mrs. Arthur C. Foote (1912-1993) Arthur C. Foote (1911-1999) Melissa (Farnham) Carroll, Mrs. Philip Tracy Carroll [show more]
Description: Many of the children shown in the photograph are wearing sweaters and all of the sweaters are knitted entirely by using the garter stitch. The teacher is Doris Nathalia Trask (1898-1975) - later Mrs. Henry Otis Gilley. Woodrow Wilson Herrick (1914-2002) is in the class.
Description: Joseph Walter Cooper's children were: Samuel Inman Cooper (1894-1974) Jennie Inman Cooper (1986-1922) Joseph Walter Cooper II (1899-) Mildred McPheeters Cooper (1903-) It is unknown with two children are shown here.
Description: Nellie Sue (Inman) Cooper, Mrs. Joseph Walter Cooper, probably brought servants with her from Atlanta, Georgia, when she married. Left to Right: Unknown woman Fraulein? Unknown woman Sam Ward sitting in front?